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WEDNESDAY JULY 25, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A Breaking news at: Six Ways To Sundae County Fare RED BLUFF Swim Results SPORTS 1B Sunny 96/62 Weather forecast 8B 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 Ag report shows second record year in a row year Tehama County agricultur- al production set a new record as total gross value reached $245,670,000 in 2011. DN Staff Report For the second consecutive Signs of the times County comes The recently released 2011 Tehama County Crop Report lists the total gross value as a 7.9 increase from 2010. Tehama County exported almonds, walnuts, walnut shells, walnut logs, olives, strawberry plants, prunes and figs to 56 different countries. Walnuts, prunes and almonds accounted for almost 60 percent of the county's total agricultural production value. Walnut total values increased 16.4 percent due to acreage and Freezing events resulted in an 84.9 percent decrease in out against wolf listing By RICH GREENE but the Board of Supervisors wants that to be the only time. DN Staff Writer A gray wolf has recently visited Tehama County, gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act and stated it doesn't want the animal reintroduced in Tehama County Tuesday in a letter being sent to the state Department of Fish and Game. Supervisor Bob Williams was authorized to sign the letter in response to a March petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, Big Wildlife, Klamath-Siskiy- The board formally opposed a petition to list the See WOLF, page 7A City creates law enforcement panel By RICH GREENE Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Planning Director Scot Timboe and Building Inspector Ed Greigo discuss what to do with the 111 yard sale signs brought in Monday afternoon by resident Linda Clawson. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer tive to city staff to take down yard sale signs that are in illegal places has at least one resident upset. Lynn Chase, a resident since the 1950s, holds just one yard sale a year. On Friday she put up a few signs and a box advertising her sale, but hours later they were taken A Corning City Council direc- down, she said. "They even took the box on the dirt vacant lot," Chase said. "It's a right of passage to have a yard sale. I take signs down when I'm done. Why can't they take them down Monday morning instead? I'm los- ing money." Chase said she makes about $180-200 each time she holds a sale and sometimes she and her daugh- ter-in-law and her daughter-in-law's Foreclosure rate for California homes eases SAN DIEGO (AP) — Home foreclosure activity in California has fallen to five-year lows, easing concerns there might be a flood of distressed sales to slow or even reverse the housing market's recov- ery. default notices filed on houses and condomini- ums from April through June, down 3.6 percent from 56,633 during the second quarter of last year, according to research firm DataQuick. It was the lowest tally since the second quarter of 2007 and down 60 per- cent from the peak of 135,431 in the first quar- ter of 2009. An improved housing There were 54,615 market and a ''burning off'' of loans from the peak of the housing bub- ble between 2005 and 2007 has contributed to the drop, DataQuick said. Also, more homeowners with troubled mortgages are turning to ''short sales'' — transactions in which the sales price is below the amount owed on the property. more evidence that Cali- fornia's housing market is The numbers provide on the mend even as doubts persist that fore- closures may rise again. ''The big caveat is there are still a lot of peo- ple in trouble and it's not clear how many will be foreclosed upon,'' DataQuick analyst Andrew LePage said Tuesday. Foreclosures may mother hold sales together. The issue of yard sale signs was brought up at the July 10 City Council meeting when Mayor Gary Strack asked about a clean-up of signs, especially along Solano Street. "It's getting unsightly," Strack said. "If anyone has a solution I'd love to hear it. We need a perma- See SIGNS, page 7A DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff City Council created a law enforcement subcommit- tee July 17 and future sub- committees for other city departments could be in the works. fito asked the city to con- sider forming the subcom- mittee. Police Chief Paul Nan- In a staff report, Nanfi- to wrote the subcommit- tee was needed because of law enforcement's com- plexity as well as its size within the city's scope. "The formation of this subcommittee will pro- vide an opportunity to open dialogue between the police administration and the City Council beyond just those issues that are discussed on an agenda report presented during City Council meet- ings," he wrote. Council w oman Daniele Jackson said she believed subcommittees See CITY, page 7A Washington DC visits Red Bluff Special to the DN Eric Sussman, an accounting and real estate lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles' Anderson School of Man- agement, said banks were unlikely to unleash a new wave of foreclosures, partly because they would face political backlash in an election year. spike for six to nine months if lenders got ''really aggressive about flushing all the distress through the system,'' LeP- age said. Bureau of Reclama- tion, Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority and the Sacramento River Discov- ery Center played host Friday to Anne Castle, assistant secretary of the Interior for Water and Sci- ence as she toured Cali- fornia's designated model project for the America's Great Outdoors Rivers Initiative. Passage Improvement Project on Diamond Avenue and Red Bluff Terrestrial Mitigation Pro- ject in East Sand Slough, next to Sale Lane and the Mendocino National For- est's Red Bluff Recreation Area. The project is the Fish were Pablo Arroyave, Mid-Pacific deputy regional director and the Vice Chairman of the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority. Accompanying Castle In foreclosure-battered inland stretches of South- ern California, the gov- ernments of San Bernardi- no County and two of its cities are considering a plan to condemn proper- ties with troubled mort- gages, which would pre- vent banks from forcing defaults. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Buyers are finding slim pickings throughout Cali- fornia, leading many ana- lysts to believe California can absorb an uptick in foreclosures. price increases. Prune values increased 25.7 percent due to production and price increases. Almonds decreased 6.7 percent in value. olive values. Field crops fared much bet- ter. Alfalfa tonnage values increased 90.1 percent and grain hay increased 98.6 per- See AG, page 7A Courtesy photo Castle has special interest in this type of pro- ject because of her involvement with Col- orado River projects in her native state before joining the Department of the Interior in 2009. From a vantage point at the RBRA, Castle was able to see landmarks on both the west side of the river and the activity in East Sand Slough. Aerial photographs and artist conceptual drawings were used to explain the two Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science Anne Castle watches as Sacramento River Discovery Center camp participants plant native plants along the Sacramento River Friday. parts of the projects. 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