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JUNE 30-JULY 1 2012 WEEKEND Fairy gardens — Country Life 5B RED BLUFF Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Sunny 90/61 Weather forecast 6A 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 Restoring history By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Corning Museum, located inside the same building as the Corning Chamber of Commerce, 1110 Solano St., is getting some tender loving care. For her senior project, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo History Major Jenessa Geer-Lowden is doing some organizational clean-up — moving things around to put togeth- er some exhibits. The goal is to have the first one up and ready by Aug. 24 for the Olive Festival, she said. "It's going to be on the history of local businesses and olives from growing them to producing them and everything in between," Geer- Lowden said. As curator of the museum, she's already spent 55 hours in two weeks getting things up and running including organizing records on a computer and the beginning of a replica of a hotel room at the May- wood Hotel. Between now and August when she returns to school, she will get things up and running with plans to visit often to help get at least six more exhibits going before June 2013, she said. "I want to have them be educa- tion and inspirational so the kids understand the history and that at one time part of this was the May- wood Colony," Geer-Lowden said. There will also be a display for Corning alumni with everything from graduation outfits to old uni- forms. The museum also has a col- lection of old Corning Observers starting with the first in 1888, she said. large stamp used to make maps of Corning for when people picked out parcels of land that was then record- ed in the assessors rolls, some of which the museum has, she said. "There are a lot of rare items and Among her favorite items is a I want to show the community and the county what we have and share it with them," Geer-Lowden said. One of the rarest is a wreath made of human hair that is one of the largest she has ever seen, she said. Teenager arrested for March stabbing Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement Task Force in the 600 block of Cowles Avenue in Red Bluff on a war- rant for attempted homicide. Tide was conducting a follow-up investigation and found the boy, who had been staying at the residence, had a felony warrant for attempted homicide and pro- bation violation. The warrant was in regards to a March Red Bluff Police Department investigation of a gang-related stab- bing at McDonald's in Red Bluff. Upon agents arrival, the boy was taken into custody without further incident and booked into Tehama Coun- ty Juvenile Justice Center. Tehama County Sheriff's Department and California A 17-year-old boy was arrested Thursday by Highway Patrol assisted in the incident. —Staff Report Sheriff speaks on AB109 at fairboard By JULIE ZEEB Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Jenessa Geer-Lowden sorts through items and straightens things up at the Corning Museum, 1110 Solano St. Geer-Lowden has taken on the role of Museum Curator for her senior project. Roy and Debbie Geer of Richfield and granddaughter of Gene and Alice Geer, hopes to return to Corn- ing after graduation in 2013, she said. Geer-Lowden, the daughter of She chose her project because it is hands-on and is something that allows her to invest time in the com- munity, Geer-Lowden said. The former 2005-2006 Miss Corning and 2007 Miss Tehama County contestant is hoping to get some help from the community, she said. time to help whether its filing things, moving items to paint or as members." Memberships are between $5 and $50 and donations of anything pertinent to Corning from informa- tion on teachers and schools to the hospital is welcome, she said. Volunteers are needed on July 14 to help move some of the items around for painting, which will be done on Aug. 4. For more information or to get "We're looking for financial donations," Geer-Lowden said. "We're a low budget non-profit and there is painting, carpeting and other things needed for the exhibits. We can take everybody who has involved in the museum call Geer- Lowden at 519-9298 or send an e- mail to corningmuseum@digital- path.net. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Tuesday's Tehama District Fairboard meeting to address the board's AB109 related concerns. At the May meeting, Fair CEO Mark Eidman on all the work being completed by the inmate work program, which is mutually beneficial to the fair- ground and Sheriff's Department, he said. During the report, the question was raised over the type of person brought to work at the fair- ground now that the AB 109 realignment has creat- ed an influx of people. Eidman said he asked Hencratt to come address the concerns. "There's really no difference between who is DN Staff Writer Tehama County Sheriff Dave Hencratt attended here now and who was here before," Hencratt said. "There are just more in numbers as a result of the governor's plan through AB 109 that went into affect Oct. 1, 2011." The Sheriff's Department has about 80 people who are in custody, but outside of the jail through alternative programs, all of whom are carefully screened prior to being considered for a work release program, Hencratt said. "It's people like the car thief who used to go to prison before AB 109, but are now at the county level," Hencratt said. fairground who give them the opportunity to have the work program and assured the fairboard that anyone who was not in compliance would not last in the program. Rancho Tehama man pitching solar powered oven By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Rancho Tehama's Dan Ochs and his decades-old buddy William Rowling have an invention they believe may be a winner. The pair have come up with a solar-powered bak- ing oven they proclaim works quickly and quietly as well as pollution- and chemical-free. ton, runs a solar business and one day found out he could slide a hot dog into an evacuated tube and cook it. perature all day and the tubes have a 15-year war- ranty. Shading the oven cools it down. No electricity or gas needed, the SunFireOven runs on 100 percent solar power. "It's brand new, there is no other market, it's brand spanking new," Ochs said. "No one's ever seen any- thing like this." Rowling, who is an entrepreneur in Washing- From there the pair searched around for a mas- ter glass blower, who could produce a larger version of the same type of glass. "It takes a special tech- nique to do all of it and pro- duce a vacuum between it," Ochs said. of marketing and sales, is running a Facebook page and blog about the cooking experiments he's done with the oven. The oven can be used Ochs, who is president More recently the duo found a private manufactur- er that could produce the tubes and the business was off and running. The oven works with a pair of tubes inside each other. The internal tube is coated with a high tech heat absorbing material and a vacuum seal is used between the tubes. The oven easily heats up to 400 degrees when in the sun and can get to as hot as 600 degrees according to the company's website. It will hold a 200-degree tem- work as it would in a con- ventional kitchen oven. "We get bored eating, you can only eat so much," he said. The ovens have a 5 1/4- by-30-inch cooking ser- vice, which slides in and out. The whole thing is self cleaned by solar power and can be carried around like a suitcase. next to a window that gets sunlight, in a car and of course outdoors. He cooks eggs and bacon, bread, popcorn and even full roasts. Everything tends to Besides obvious market- ing to environmentalists, Hencratt said he is thankful for places like the See AB109, page 5A Courtesy photo The SunFireOven cooks food completely using solar power. campers and survivalists, Ochs said he believes the oven would be useful for millions across the world with access to sun, but not to other forms of energy. Ochs said the plan now is to keep spreading the word about the oven, because as of now, "I'm just a poor schmuck living here in Rancho Tehama." To find out more about the oven visit sunfireoven.com.