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ByJulieZeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter CORNING Woodson Elementary School had special guests Thurs- day for a Veterans Day assembly and Brian Southers, who served in the Coast Guard's port secu- rity unit in San Francisco for four years, was the main speaker. Southers was joined by Dave Swearingen representing the Army, Jeff Peek representing the Air Force, Brian Kaps represent- ing the Marines, Kenny Baird rep- resenting the Army and Ken Kaps representing the Navy. Students entered to the playing of My Country 'Tis of Thee and were greeted by fellow students Elijah Edwards and Riley Lequia, who dressed as the Statue of Lib- erty and Uncle Sam. Three Boy Scouts from Wood- son, Scott Green, Xander Houston VETERANS DAY Woodsonschool celebrates with special assembly By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A voter-ap- proved ballot measure that re- duced penalties for certain drug and property crimes applies to prisoners convicted under plea deals, the California Supreme Court said Thursday. A unanimous court overruled a lower court decision that could have limited the number of in- mates eligible for Proposition 47's benefits. The 2014 proposition re- quires misdemeanor rather than felony sentencingfor certain prop- erty and drug crimes and permits inmates previously sentenced for these reclassified crimes to peti- tion for resentencing. The Supreme Court said Prop- osition 47 does not create an ex- ception for prisoners whose sen- tences are based on plea deals with prosecutors that included the dismissal of more serious charges. CALIFORNIA Sentencing measure applies to plea deals By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1929, Red Bluff resident Bob Davis has a love for planes and education, both of which led him to the military and service in four different branches. This wide variety of experi- ence gained over a 23-year ca- reer, which started in 1946 with the Marines at the age of 17, was a good one and one of the most important things that helped him out was his pursuit of edu- cation that was encouraged by his brother, who was a B-17 pilot in the Army and a mentor, Davis said. His first two years in the Ma- rines was spent on Midway Island during which time he completed his high school education through a correspondence course. Educa- tion wasn't something he cared for as a child, but it was his love of planes and information from his oldest brother who saw a flyer that there was a need for pilots that led to his first career change to the Air Force in 1954. Pilot training required a college edu- cation, which led to him enroll- ing in Drake University. "I talked to my brotherandhesaid you can't become a pilot without a col- lege education so I went right over to Drake University and took the en- trance exams and passed," Davis said. "I came home from Midway and they had started the session, but they let me in. I then went and talked to the Air Force and they said as soon as you have your college education we'll take you if you can pass the mental and phys- ical. I passed and I began to check out on as many aircraft types as I could." By far his favorite was the F-86 in part because it could break the speed of sound, he said. Due to the awful weather conditions in Iowa, Davis and his wife Stella decided they wanted to move to California. "We had rough winters with lots of ice and snow so that you RED BLUFF ManinterviewedforLibraryofCongress By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews. com @DN_Heather on Twitter REDBLUFF TheTehamaCounty Sexual Assault Response Team, orSART,heldatwo-daytraining program Tuesday and Wednes- day, when local health care pro- fessionals learned to conduct sexual assault exams on vic- tims and become certified fo- rensic examiners. The training program was spearheaded by Tehama SART coordinators Michelle Nasise, a Tehama County deputy district attorney, and Carolyn Walker, the legal program manager with Alternatives to Violence. Twenty-two volunteer health care professionals participated in the training and those who receive the certification will be on-call examiners to do the exam at St. Elizabeth Com- munity Hospital's designated SART room. Due to the lack of people trained to do the exam in the county, victims would often have to travel to Sacramento or Enloe Medical Center in Chico, sometimes in the clothes they were assaulted in, to get the exam. SART saw a need for the training to come to Tehama County so it teamed with Family Nurse Practitioners Malinda Wheeler and Elaine Green, Dr. William Green and Dr. Norman Nasise to conduct the training locally, put on by California Clinical Forensic Medical Training Center. The exam consist of collec- tion of evidence from the vic- tim by a forensic examiner. The exam is very intensive, Walker said. It is a three- to five-hour process where the ex- aminer will take pictures and collect all evidence including DNA samples. Tehama County Sheriff's Lt. Dave Greer said not just any- one can do the exam kit, it has to be a nurse or doctor who has the training. "That exam is sometimes the make-or-break for the case," Greer said. "You'll have a sus- pect and a victim and without physical evidence it's a he said, she said kind of thing. We have, in the last several years, had to reach out to Enloe Medical Center in Chico or Mercy Medi- cal Hospital in Redding and for the last couple of years Mercy has told us no." PUBLIC SAFETY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEIVE SEXUAL ASSAULT EXAM TRAINING PHOTOSBYHEATHERHOELSCHER—DAILYNEWS Tehama County Sheriff Dave Hencratt speaks to the health care professionals about how important this is for the community and thanks them for volunteering their time to become certified examiners for sexual assault victims. Dr. William Green, of the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Training, discusses the two-day schedule of the sexual assault medical training the volunteer health care professionals will do to become certified to perform the exam. Community.....A3 Education........A4 Lifestyles........A5 Opinion............A6 Sports.............. 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