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MAY 19-20, 2012 WEEKEND Chalkboard projects See 3B Country Life Weather forecast 10A Sunny with deputy By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Man scrapes A Paradise man tan- gled with a Tehama Coun- ty Sheriff's deputy at about 1 p.m. Thursday in Los Molinos. At least six law enforcement agents rushed to the scene when a deputy called for emer- gency back-up after a traf- fic stop of a white 2000 Ford Escort on Aramayo Way at Highway 99E, logs said. was down and that the suspect was trying to get the deputy's gun, said Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston. However, Reports said an officer deputy said that wasn't the case and he was just wrestling the man, Michael Patrick Van- gundy, 49, of Paradise to try to get handcuffs on him. the The deputy saw Van- gundy try to hide some- thing from his pants, Johnston said. The deputy ordered the man out of the car, but the suspect refused. An extensive struggle 89/57 DAILYNEWS Dam replacement RED BLUFF 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 Flashlight beating leads to man's arrest By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer A 31-year-old man bleeding from his head was seen running into traffic just before 3 p.m. Wednesday on north Main Street. 26-year-old transient, was arrested Thursday after- noon. Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com His alleged attacker, a Red Bluff Police offi- cers found the victim Wednesday near the Napa Auto Parts store, logs said. victim several times in the head with a large metal flashlight while at the Classic Inn, according to a police press release. The suspect knocked the man to the ground and left immediately, the release said. A suspect had hit the The victim was treated See MAN, page 9A followed when the deputy tried to stop the man from hiding what was found later to be methampheta- mine, Johnston said. A few minutes later the man was cuffed and the deputy retrieved the drugs that Vangundy had tried to hide. jured, but Vangundy was treated for a minor scrape to his cheek from the fight, Johnston said. Vangundy was arrested The officer was unin- $190m project nears completion By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer on charges of possession of a controlled substance, transportation of a con- trolled substance and obstructing or resisting a public officer. Bail was set at $33,000. The vehicle was towed.˚ Blasting scheduled Blasting along State Route 299 and 36 will take place next week at the following location: Wednesday, May 23: blasting will take place at the vista point on SR 36 west of Mineral (post mile 72.6), with traffic control with 10 minute delays and stopped traffic. takes place to eliminate loose rocks that could potentially fall to the roadway on there own. Mobile message signs and radio messages on 1610 a.m. will alert drivers to the blasting operations taking place. This blasting operation massive fish screen structures of the Red Bluff Diversion Dam Fish Pas- sage Improvement Project Thurs- day afternoon for a tour of the near- ly complete facilities. The Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority could be delivering water into the canal from the Sacramento River as early as next week, said Bill Vanderwaal, the project manag- er for the Bureau of Reclamation, who helped lead the tour. About 20 people walked atop the finish the whole project, coming in under $190 million, in September, he said. The contractor is scheduled to The joint project between the Bureau of Reclamation and the canal authority began more than three years ago after a federal deci- sion ordered the end of lowering the dam gates and the end of Lake Red Bluff. Improvement Project, in its final stages, is coming in on schedule and under the original budget esti- mates of $230 million. The new pumping facility is meant to screen the water, which will be pumped into the canal while allowing threatened and endan- gered salmon, steelhead, green stur- geon and other fish species to pass through to spawning grounds with- out disruption. The tour was a part of the Sacra- mento River Discovery Center's Thursday Evening program series. Bobie Hughes, the center's execu- tive director began the evening with visual displays illustrating the his- tory of the Diversion Dam and a photo album of pictures of the pro- ject since 2009. The tour began with a glance at the pumping station and electrical switchyard before attendees traipsed across the construction site The Diversion Dam Fish Passage Daily News photos by Andrea Wagner (Top) People tour the Red Bluff Diversion Dam Fish Passage Improvement Project,Thursday afternoon. (Below) A close look at the fish screen panels being used in the project. in hardhats and neon vests. They walked across the top of the fish screens as Vanderwaal explained their construction. Workers were testing one of the nine Florida-made pumps as the tour group passed nearby. Some of the group commented that the steady hum of the pump was a wel- come change to the sounds of con- struction heard in the past few years. were able to get an up close look at three fish screen panels that will be stored for spares. In all, 63 panels, 10-foot by 15-foot, span some 1,200 feet through the river's edge. Hughes also explained about a mitigation segment of the project that will occur on the center's side of the river in the sand slough. Some 23 acres, currently sec- The pumps will be able to pump at 2,000 cubic feet of water per sec- ond and can expand up to 2,500 cubic feet per second. At the end of the tour, guests tioned off by orange plastic fencing, will be set up to fill with water and planted with native vegetation to make up for vegetation uprooted and displaced for the new construc- tion. See DAM, page 9A ple involved in the Dec. 6, 2010 stabbing of a 31- year-old man outside of Elmore's Pharmacy on Washington Street was sentenced Monday to seven years and eight months in state prison. The seven years was for the attempted murder without premeditation charge and the eight months was for the charge of special allegations: street terrorism and 16- year-old minor, Tehama County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Skillman said. stabbing case By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The second of two peo- Teenager sentenced in Marc Anthony Cabr- era, 18, entered a guilty plea at a trial readiness conference on April 2. He originally entered a plea of not guilty on Dec. 28, 2010, which changed to not guilty by reason of insanity on Feb. 15, 2011. That was changed to not guilty on April 18, 2011. Cabrera originally faced additional charges of assault with deadly weapon: great bodily injury likely and battery with serious, but those charges were dismissed, according to the Tehama County Jail inmate web- site. The first person to be sentenced was Luis Alber- to Garcia, 20, who on May 14 was sentenced by Skillman to 14 years in state prison on the charges of battery with serious bodily injury and special allegation of street terror- ism/violent felony. Garcia entered a guilty plea on Jan. 30. The stabbing incident came about when the vic- tim honked at the car See CASE, page 9A