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JUNIORSPARTANS CONTRIBUTEDPHOTO Red Bluff Junior Spartans cheerleaders pose for a photo at Lariat Bowl. The Red Bluff Junior Spartans cheerleaders will be hosting a spaghetti feed starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Lariat Bowl to raise money to compete at Jamz Nationals on Jan. 22, 2017, in Las Vegas. The team qualified af- ter winning the Nor Cal Fed Cheer Competition in Corning hosted by Foot- hill Youth Football & Cheer. Tickets, which can be purchased at the door, are $8 each and include spa- ghetti, garlic bread and salad. Carry out is avail- able. There will be raffle bas- kets available as well as raffle tickets for a Playsta- tion. Tickets for the Play- station raffle are $5 each and the drawing will take place on Nov. 20. The team represent- ing the Red Bluff Junior Spartan Pewees includes Jordyn Armstrong, Zoey Brundage, Nevaeh Chaf- fin, Ximena Chavez, Milan Daniels, Natalie Dawson, Adalyn Grames, Cheyann Hogan, Anayah Magana, Baylee Middleton, Denise Mojarro-Estrella, Elina Petit, Lacey Rocha, Justice Sorrells, Milyssa Vargas, Myliah Wagner, Sierra Warren, Emma Doughty, Lauren Terrell and Yaneli Chavez. Cheerleaders to travel to national competition By Ellen Knickmeyer and Amy Taxin The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Among the changing red and yel- low fall leaves of Yosemite National Park, nature artist PennyOtwellismarvelingat thefullestrushingwaterfalls and rivers she's ever painted there in autumn. But down in the dry Southern Califor- nia suburbs, David Cantuna laments the same dead and dying grass in his backyard. California's historic drought finally is easing in parts of the north, thanks to October rains that were three or more times the norm. "I've been here 53 years and I've never seen it like this," said Otwell, busy in recent weeks capturing on canvas Yosemite's flooded meadows, brimming rivers and gushing waterfalls that more typically are dry this time of year. The Merced River "is just bank to bank, which is un- usual, and the waterfalls are just — after the rains, they were fabulous," Otwell said Friday as she headed to her studio. But the five-year drought only is deepening in parts of Central and Southern Cali- fornia, including the 21 per- centofthestatethatremains stuckinthedeepestcategory of drought. In the Orange County city of Santa Ana, Cantuna, a 52-year-old ma- chinist, doesn't even think about turning on his back- yard sprinklers anymore. "The damage is already there," Cantuna says of his forlornfrontandbacklawns. "There's no reason to use my water right now because ev- erything is dry." The drought divide leaves California's water managers and experts striving to fi- nesseconservationmessages for two wildly differing situ- ations in the state. In Southern California, the results have been be wildly differing as well. This fall, the water district in one city,CostaMesa,hungaban- ner on its building telling residentstheycouldnowwa- ter their lawns any day they chose, even as another city, SantaBarbara,bannedlawn- watering. "There's always a balance in managing the drought message," said Jay Lund, di- rector of the Center for Wa- tershed Sciences at the Uni- versity of California at Da- vis. "Play up the drought too much, and then they see it rain, they think...'Why are they just crying wolf?'" All of California remains under a state-declared drought emergency. That follows what was the dri- est four-year span in his- tory in the state. At peak, 100 percent of the state was in drought, and Gov. Jerry Brown ordered 25 percent conservation for cities and towns. Many farms saw water allotments cut, leading to a rate of groundwater pump- ing that caused countless rural drinking-water wells to run dry and made the land sink more than 1 foot inpartsoftheCentralValley. The drought has further im- periled dozens of native fish and other species. Last month brought a much wetter start to the state's winter rainy season than usual, after near-nor- mal rain and snowfall in 2015. Officials lifted man- datory statewide conser- vation earlier this year, but stressed they could clamp down again if the rainy sea- son fails or water use shoots up. On Thursday, the U.S. Drought Monitor's weekly report said nearly one- fourth of the state was out ofdrought.ThatwasCalifor- nia's best showing in three years. California has the big- gest share of its 39 million people in the south, but gets most of its water from the north. That made the past month's rain good news for agencies like the Metropoli- tan Water District of South- ern California, the country's largest supplier of treated water, serving Los Angeles and 25 other cities and dis- tricts. But Metropolitan's other big water source is the Southwest's Colorado River, which remains in drought, spokesman Bob Muir said. Thanks to stepped-up conservation under the drought-emergency declara- tion,Metropolitanexpectsto deliver about three-fourths of the usual water supply for households and others this year, Muir said. The rest will go into storage, in case the drought persists, and into the ground to replenish de- pleted underground reser- voirs. WATER NEEDS St at e' s dr ou gh t di vi de — rainy north, dry south PAUL CHINN — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, FILE Water officials who oversaw mandatory water conservation by cities and towns emphasized three-fourths of the state remains in the five-year drought. 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