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MAY 12-13 2012 WEEKEND PROGRAM FINDS LOST DOGS PAGE 6A RED BLUFF Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Weather forecast 10B Sunny 93/58 By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Funds are slowly trickling in through a membership drive and various donations aiming to keep William B. Ide Adobe State Historical Park open, as the Ide DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY $1.00 T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Group scrambles to keep Ide Adobe open Plugging Lassen Adobe Interpretive Association keeps up the fight to raise funds. The park is one of 70 out of 278 in California slated to close June 1 if an agreement is not reached with the state. It was one of several visited the week of May 7-11 by California State what would need to be done to close the park, such as boarding up windows and putting up chain-link fences, and estimate costs for potential closures, said State Park Interpreter Debbie Parks Department employees. The visit was to determine Chakarun. The non-profit association has supported the interpretive programs at Ide Adobe since 1979. It kicked off fundraising efforts during the 11 days of Round-Up, starting with the chili cook-off. "Between events, the mem- bership drive and donations we've raised between $2,000 and $3,000," President Judy Fes- senden said. "We've also applied for a grant that we hope to hear See ADOBE, page 9A Man arrested after fight, fire A woman called to report a man and woman in a heated argument in front of a residence in the 7600 block of Green Oak Road in Rancho Tehama. A second woman caller reported she went into the same address to get her daughter away from the man. The man broke the window of her blue 2001 Chrysler and was driving around in a green Jeep. The suspect was then seen driving the Jeep on the nearby airstrip. Prop. 29 doctor Brown boots Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Lassen Volcanic National Park's Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center played host to the Lassen Gateway Coalition's third annual meeting, where members of organizations and governments of neighboring communities discussed promoting tourism to the area. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer way Coalition Wednesday in an ongoing discussion on how to promote the region. A think-tank of some 25 people met as the Lassen Gate- The meeting, hosted by the visitor center at Lassen Vol- canic National Park, gathered together representatives from non-profit organizations, chambers of commerce, govern- ments and businesses from the communities surrounding Mt. Lassen. Amid the discussion, keynote speaker John Poimiroo, executive director of the National Parks Promotion Council, gave a broader look at the history and ideas behind promo- tion of National Parks in general. The National Parks system was founded on the idea of the federal government partnering with private business owners to promote and protect America's best natural assets, Poimiroo said. "It was founded on the idea of promotion," he said. Along the way, park rangers became more like police officers than interpreters of the parks, reacting to problems See LASSEN, page 9A SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown abruptly booted a doctor from a state advisory panel after she appeared in industry-funded television ads slamming a proposed tobacco tax to fund cancer research. Elk Grove physician La Donna Porter starred in a recent spot for the No on Proposition 29 campaign. In it, she warned viewers that the anti-smoking mea- sure would create a huge new bureaucracy that could send tax dollars out of state. The June ballot measure championed by cycling legend and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong would add a $1 tax on each pack of cigarette to raise money for cancer research pro- jects, smoking-reduction programs and tobacco law enforcement. It also could mean major losses for tobacco companies, which are bankrolling the campaign against Proposition 29. The Democratic gover- nor decided Thursday to remove Porter and five other appointees to the committee that identifies toxicants, all of whom were appointed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg- ger, a Republican. Health advocates had raised concerns about Porter's position on a panel meant to identify chemi- cals known to cause devel- opmental or reproductive harm, given that she also appeared in anti-tobacco tax campaign ads in 2006, and in ads opposing regu- lation of the water pollu- tant perchlorate. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom See BROWN, page 9A RB's oldest mothers receive quilts for Mother's Day painter. The woman next to her used to play in the All-American Girls Pro- fessional Baseball League in the 1950s. Across town, another woman who recently turned 100, used to work in a pharma- cy. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer One woman was a Bluff mothers could tell about their lives make every stitch the quilts donated by the Sun Coun- try Quilters Guild worth the effort. To celebrate Mother's The stories some Red Day, the group annually donates dozens of stitched quilts gathered through- out the year to the eldest mothers who are residents at Brentwood Skilled Nursing & Rehab on Wal- nut Street and Red Bluff Health Care Center on Luther Road. facility, Montie Shoope, 93, used to play baseball, tennis and other sports, until she got married when she was 21, she said. At the Brentwood Her four older brothers taught her how to play, Shoope said. She was a hairdresser after that. Born in Texas, she moved to California when she was 5 years old. After she was married, she had three daughters and two sons. children take turns visit- ing her at Brentwood nearly every day. Nellie Shaw, 99, is a life," she said. native-born Californian. "I've lived here all my Her three surviving She raised six children and helped others with child care, she said. She paints as well. As the women sat admiring their new quilts at the care facility, one of the women said she couldn't wait to go to sleep that night with the new quilt. Nearby, a resident told another that the quilts were a gift from God. Across town, the Sun Country Quilters contin- ued their mission, donat- ing to the oldest women at Red Bluff Health Care. Elsie Hughes, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, was the oldest "lady of residence." When asked how old she is, Hughes said, "I'm old enough to vote." Hughes was born in Watsonville, but lived in Corning for many years before she moved to the Red Bluff home just two years ago. Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner The Sun Country Quilters Guild made its annual visit to donate quilts to some of Red Bluff's oldest moth- ers Thursday in honor of Mother's Day. Pictured above are Nellie Shaw, 99, and Montie Shoope, 93. men at each facility. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyn ews.com. very well, said Georgina Tacconi of the guild. Other members who joined in the event were Kathy Miller, Janyce Mathis and Patricia Brink. The group will return again on Father's Day to give quilts to the oldest The presentations went Another 10 minutes later, at about 8:40 p.m., a See FIRE, page 9A