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TUESDAY JUNE 5, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A Breaking news at: RED BLUFF Meat Shop Re-opens Charity game SPORTS 1B Mostly sunny 71/51 Weather forecast 8B By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Those who haven't already voted by mail, will have the opportunity to hit the polls from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. today for the DAILYNEWS 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 Polls open today for Primary Election Road round-up Presidential Primary Election. While the national race is theoretically set, the election will also determine a pair of Tehama County Board of Supervisors meetings, a pair of state-wide ballot initiatives and give voters their first look at the Top 2 Primary system approved by Proposition 14 in June 2010. Voters can choose a nonpar- tisan ballot, which would not have an option to vote for a presidential candidate or choose a party ballot from the follow- ing options: American Inde- pendent Party, Democratic Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party, Peace and Freedom Party and Republican Party. Locally three Tehama Coun- ty Supervisor positions are on the ballot. In District 1 Steven Cham- blin, Roger Cox and Greg Latourell are all competing for See POLLS, page 7A Power outage on S. Main St. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Stormy weather caused a power outage about 9:15 a.m. Monday, leaving 86 PG&E customers in the South Main Street area of Red Bluff without power for about 45 minutes. The loss was due to a damaged cross arm on a wooden utility pole, PG&E Spokesman Paul Moreno said. The affected area included the 300 to 500 block of South Main Street, Diamond Avenue, Wernmark Drive and Walton Drive with 69 customers restored See POWER, page 7A City to vote to blend departments By RICH GREENE Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb John Growney, local rancher and owner of the cattle, rides down Diamond Avenue in pursuit of one of six cattle that got loose from his ranch on 99W, south of St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Law enforcement spent sever- al hours trying to help round-up cattle after six of them got loose at 12:14 p.m. Monday near Main Street in Red Bluff. Three of the cows, which belong to John Growney, headed toward the area by Highway 99W while the other three headed across the street toward Diamond Avenue near Shasta College, Red Bluff Police Sgt. Kevin Busekist said. While John Growney and sev- eral others tried to round up the cattle riding horses, Red Bluff Police officers, Tehama County Sheriff 's deputies, California Highway Patrol and Tehama County District Attorney Investi- gators attempted to keep them off the road. Growney, the only injury dur- ing the incident, broke his foot after his horse slipped while he followed a cow that was crossing back toward 99W, Busekist said. Grapevine quarantine partially lifted invasive species that led to vineyard quarantines across Northern California and threatened the state's wine industry has been eradicated in four of the affected coun- ties, federal officials say. Two years of testing and trapping have shown the European grapevine moth no longer is present in Fres- no, Mendocino, Merced and San Joaquin counties, mean- ing the quarantines in those areas can be lifted, the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to announce Tuesday. ''That's obviously very FRESNO (AP) — An good news for the folks here in the Central Valley,'' said Barry Bedwell, president of the California Grape and Tree Fruit League. ''Our focus now is on that core area in Napa where it still exists.'' The department's Ani- mal and Plant Health Inspection Service says removing the quarantines means exports of host com- modities such as grapes and stone fruit from those coun- ties can resume to Mexico without additional inspec- tions, treatments or special packaging markings that have cost growers an esti- mated $10 million a year. ''It means we no longer nia's top five export markets for table grapes and the third largest importer of stone fruit. Mexico is one of Califor- effect in Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Nevada counties. The bug managed to Quarantines remain in have to jump those regulato- ry hoops to ship,'' Bedwell said. The horse received minor scrapes and cuts as well, he said. All of the cows were secured Monday afternoon by 3:30 p.m. and are now home on the range at the Growney Ranch on Highway 99W, south of St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Busekist said. Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on @DN_Zeeb. ——— Twitter DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff City Council will consider a fur- ther consolidation of the city's management team at its meeting tonight at 7. This time the consolida- tion doesn't involve City Manager-Attorney-Human Resources Director Richard Crabtree taking on yet another role, but will instead focus on another step of folding Parks and Recreation into the Public Works Department. er building on work they did in August 2011 that set the stage for the Parks and Recreation Department to be replaced by a new Recreation Department and responsibility transferred to Public Works. The council will consid- At the August meeting, the council had approved eliminating the Parks and Recreation Director posi- tion with a new role at a lower salary titled "Recre- ation Director." That change was set to take place July 1, when Parks and Recreation Director Debbie Carlisi's employment agreement was set to expire. According to a staff report for tonight's meeting, the city's budget committee has requested the Recre- ation Director position be scrapped before it's imple- mented for an even less expensive Lead Recreation Coordinator. The responsibility for recreation services and Red Bluff Senior-Community Center operations would be transferred to public works as well. See CITY, page 7A Metteer celebrates 25th anniversary By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Bluff celebrated a mile- stone Friday with the tak- ing of an aerial photo- graph for its silver anniversary. Metteer School in Red 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 destroy an entire Napa County vineyard's crop at peak harvest time before anyone recognized the new invader in September 2009. Detection of the moth — one of the grape industry's most feared pests — trig- gered an aggressive state and federal eradication cam- paign to keep it from taking hold. Intensive spraying and a quarantine that restricted movement of fruit and equipment failed to contain the voracious eater, which quickly spread into neigh- boring Sonoma County. A year later the moth spread to the southern Central Valley, before spreading out to the coast and a small area of the Sierra foothills. Gaskin's brother, Greg Gaskin, flew up from the Bay Area to do a flyover and take the picture, in which students, staff, par- ents and former staff formed a 25. Founded May 18, 1987, the school included staff who split off from Jackson Heights because there were too many stu- dents, said first grade teacher Pam Purcell, one of the original staff mem- bers. The first principal was Ray Morris. Other original faculty still at Metteer include secretary Barbara Ramey, who started as a health assistant, teacher Debbie Ramirez, Instructional Assistant Frances Bon- ham, Resource Special Education Assistant Pixie Blaser and Library Tech- nician Georgia Scott. "I wasn't slated to Principal Barbara come over, but I asked the other assistant if she wanted to go and she did- n't," Blaser said. The school did not Courtesy photo by Greg Gaskin Students at Metteer School Friday celebrated the school's 25th anniversary by spelling out the number for an aerial photo by Principal Barbara Gaskin's brother, Greg Gaskin. have any of the trees, portable classrooms, shade structure with pic- nic tables or even a cafete- ria when it started, Purcell said. 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