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WEDNESDAY MAY 23, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com Breaking news at: Grad party recipes Sunny 81/52 Weather forecast 8A DAILYNEWS See Page 5A County Fare RED BLUFF Sports 1B TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ 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 Doing the public's work Corning teens get in By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Two Corning teenagers were arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with a theft of beer from Love's Travel Center A Corning Police officer saw a 17-year-old boy and regards to a burglary investigation earlier at the Love's Travel Center, Corning Police Chief Don Atkins said. The subjects were identified through surveillance video from the business and it was found the 17-year- old was also wanted for probation violation, Atkins said. Sergio Samanigo Rodriguez, 18, about 2 p.m. in the area of Yolo Street and Houghton Avenue. The officer was looking for the two subjects in year-old to place his hands on the trunk of the patrol car. The Officer contacted the teenagers and told the 17- The boy started to comply but then took off running and a short foot pursuit occurred before the boy was caught on Houghton Avenue and taken into custody after a brief struggle, Atkins said. Sergio Rodriguez was recontacted at Yolo Street and Courtesy photo Supervisors proclaimed Public Works Week Tuesday as officials moved forward with the Bowman Road bridge project over Cottonwood Creek. The photo above shows public works employees dur- ing a road grading project east of Corning. ject over Cottonwood Creek topped discussion Tuesday as Supervisors proclaimed National Public Works Week, May 20 to 26. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer The Bowman Road Bridge Pro- everyone to become more familiar with public works issues and to rec- ognize the contributions that the department makes to every day health, safety, comfort and quality of life. Tehama County Public Works Chief Deputy Director Tim Wood and Senior Civil Engineer Radley Ott gave an overview of the county public works departments, districts and duties. The proclamation encourages With the theme "Public Works: Creating a lasting impression," Wood outlined that public works maintains roughly 1,100 miles of roads and more than 400 bridges in the county. Public works also oversees more than 20 groundwater monitoring wells. From flood and storm damage repairs to removing graffiti on road signs to maintaining a large fleet of equipment to helping operate the public bus system, public works covers a "broad spectrum," Wood said. Just before the presentation about the department, Public Works Director Gary Antone brought to the board a request to approve the next phase of the federally-funded Bowman Road South Fork Cotton- wood Creek Bridge Project. Located 11 miles west of Cotton- taken into custody without incident and the two boys were taken to the Corning Police Department and inter- viewed. The 17-year-old was taken to juvenile hall and arrested and booked into Tehama County Juvenile Jus- tice Center on the charges of burglary, conspiracy to commit a crime, resisting or obstructing a peace officer causing injury and obstructing or resisting a peace offi- cer. wood and about four miles north of Highway 36W, the bridge will cost roughly $9.1 million in federal grant funds, with just over $7.1 mil- lion for construction. in the works since it was first pro- posed in 1998 when the crossing was deemed seismically unfit. The project has hit snag after snag as landowners surrounding the bridge fought giving up about seven acres of land split among five parcels. The bridge replacement has been The county invoked eminent domain in 2011 and acquired the SeeWORK, page 7A Golfer raises Parkinsons awareness By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer making his way down the west coast to raise money and awareness of Parkin- sons and other brain dis- eases. A London golfer is A week ago he stopped at Sevillano Links in Corning. and booked on the charges of burglary and conspiracy to commit a crime. Bail was $30,000. today at Diamond Park Special to the DN Emergency training The Tehama County Sheriff's Office, in cooperation with the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) is conducting a county-wide Emergency Operations Section Training and Full Scale Exercise on through Thursday, at the Red Bluff Community Center. The purpose of this training is to familiarize agency and department staff with the SEMS (Standardized Emergency Management System) functional sections in an Emergency Operations Center. This will enable staff to more effectively understand individual roles during an actual activation in the event of an emergency. The scope of this training is oriented for personnel desig- nated to staff the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) dur- ing an activation and is designed to focus on the responsibil- ities and tasks associated with the overall EOC as well as each functional section. The training is formatted to provide a focused approach to each section. The County-Wide Emergency Operations Section Train- ing will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednes- day and 8:30 a.m. to noon on Thursday at the Red Bluff Community Center on South Jackson Street. ' In 2009, just four weeks after burying his friend best friend and golfing partner, Bill Waite, 58, had a shock of his own. Palsy (PSP), he was told it would kill him in two to four years and he would need serious care within two, Waite said. Waite, a mathematics teacher for 32 years and a life-long avid athlete who played soccer, rugby football, hockey cricket and tennis before taking up golf in 2002, had to retire from The John Lyon School in Harrow. Facing a loss of simple motor skills and bodily functions as his body shut down, just as his friend's had, Waite decid- ed not to let life just stop. Taking several over- seas trips, participating in speech therapy and phys- iotherapy was just the beginning. In 2009, he was rediagnosed as hav- ing Parkinsons instead, which is at least treatable and controllable with drugs, unlike PSP, Waite gressive Diagnosed with Pro- Supranuclear The Full Scale Exercise will take place from 1 to 4 pm at Diamond Park on Diamond Avenue in Red Bluff and will involve a staged event that will require the agency partici- pants, in a mock setting, to activate and operate an actual EOC. For more information call Sgt. Rod Daugherty at the Tehama County Sheriffs Office at 529-7988. Rodriguez was transported to Tehama County Jail At it again trouble over stolen beer While the exercise is taking place at Diamond Park the EOC will be established at the Red Bluff Community Cen- ter. Wednesday in public comment session Wednesday with the state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. The second of only two special public comment meetings in the state will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers in Red- ding. Fire fee meeting in Redding Fire Prevention Fees regulation will be the hot topic The first was held in San Diego on May 16. The special meeting is to get public input on the draft permanent regulation on the State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Benefit Fee created by Assembly Bill 29. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Bill Waite of London, left, and his brother-in-law, Paul Crawford of Norwich, England, play a hole of golf at Sevillano Links on Wednesday, May 16, to raise awareness and funds for Parkinsons, which Waite was diagnosed with in 2009 and other brain diseases. said. "Without a future, I determined to live life for the now, to do all I could whilst I could," Waite said. "I determined to play golf as long as I could." 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Waite, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Paul Crawford of Norwich, England, is working his One of the reasons way down the coast is to raise awareness of the disease in hopes that those with it will not be as ashamed of having it, he said. Waite's other purpose is to raise money for the San Diego based Parkin- sons Wellness Fund for the care of those with Parkinsons and the Lon- don-based National Brain Appeal, a charity raising funds for the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London. Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynew s.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. ——— sentatives will speak as well. Tehama County Supervisor Bob Williams Tuesday encouraged anyone to join in at the meeting. Williams, current Board Chairman, has been vocal in opposition to the fire fee regulation. He and the board authored a letter in December to the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection criticizing the fee plan. - Andrea Wagner Shasta County supervisors and public agency repre- PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-800-990-9971