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Iamexcitedtoan- nounce Andrew Nor- wood as our new part- time Vet- eran Service Represen- tative. An- drew has exten- sive Army Scout com- bat expe- rience in Afghanistan. He began work on Jan. 3 and he will be in VSR training in the office and at CalVet for the next few months to obtain his VA accreditation. A special thank you to Bill Goodwin and Te- hama County Board of Supervisors for your funding support to our veteran community. Kersti Hemming has been diligently updating our VSO website. Thank you all for your patience with the web page the past two years. The VSO website is http://www. co.tehama.ca.us/veter- ans-services. A special thank you to Kersti and Tehama County Trea- surer-Tax Collector Dana Hollmer for their web- site training and exper- tise in developing our Veteran Services web page. Michele Alexander from the Redding Veter- ans Resource Center will be at the Red Bluff VSO office 1:30-4 p.m. Thurs- day, Jan. 12 and 19. The VRC assists qualified homeless veterans with transitional housing. Please contact the VRC directly at 223-3211. Free yearly TRAX bus passes are available for qualified Veterans at the VSO offices. We will is- sue the bus passes at the Red Bluff office and at our satellite office in Corning. This wonder- ful opportunity will be available until the end of June. Please see the VSO office schedules be- low. Dependent College Fee Waivers can be submit- ted to or make an ap- pointment with Beverly Holden at our office af- ter April 15. Documenta- tion necessary prior to the appointment are the Veteran's DD-214 and VA rating disability let- ter and IRS or Franchise Tax Board 2016 income verification for the de- pendent. The College Fee Waiver packages will be reviewed by the VSO on administrative Fri- days. Please plan ahead on these packages as the VSO will not be able to approve these packages on the same day as the appointment. Thank you for your support. There are many state and federal benefits and programs available to veterans and their de- pendents. To find out if you are eligible for any of these benefits, call the Tehama County Vet- erans Service Office at 529-3664. The VSO address is the Bank of America Building, 955 Main St., Ste. C, in Red Bluff. Of- fice appointment hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thurs- day, closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. The Red Bluff office VSO is by ap- pointment only. Corn- ing VSO walk-ins are at the Veterans Memorial Hall 9-11 a.m. the every Tuesday of the month. Los Molinos walk-ins are at the Public Li- brary 9:30-11:30 a.m. Mondays. DMV forms for "Veteran" desig- nated on your driver's li- cense are available at all VSO offices. The Tehama County ID card is availa- ble in the Red Bluff VSO office. Incarcerated and Probation Veteran ap- pointments are Thurs- day mornings. Friday's we are closed for admin- istration and outreach. We are looking forward to meeting you or seeing you again on your re- turn visit. KellyOsborne,retired U.S. Coast Guard, is the Veterans Service Officer for Tehama County. VSONEWS Update on the Veterans Services team With a series of wet storms heading toward Northern and Central Cal- ifornia this weekend, Pa- cific Gas & Electric Co. re- minds its customers that power outages might oc- cur due to significant rain- fall, potential flooding and high winds. PG&E is implementing its emergency prepared- ness plans and utilizing advanced technology to be ready to restore service to impacted customers safely and as quickly as possible. Meteorologists forecast that much of the energy company's service area will be impacted by storms from Saturday through Monday with additional storms on the horizon. In some places, several inches of rain could fall, creating the potential for flooding and landslides. Anyone recreating near rivers and streams should be aware of the higher flows and take precautions. Crews restored storm- caused outages earlier this week, and remain prepared and ready to respond to ad- ditional power outages as soon as weather conditions permit the safe restoration of power. The company also is pre-positioning vegeta- tion management crews. Customers are urged to stay safe during storms and remember the follow- ing safety tips: Always treat low hang- ing and downed power lines as if they are ener- gized and extremely dan- gerous. Keep yourself and others away from them. Be aware that trees, pools of water and other objects that may be in contact with power lines. If you see dam- aged power lines or electri- cal equipment, call 911 im- mediately and then notify PG&E at 1-800-743-5002. During a power out- age, use battery-operated flashlights, and not can- dles, due to the risk of fire. If you must use candles, please keep them away from drapes, lampshades and small children. Do not leave candles unattended. Customers with genera- tors should make sure they are properly installed by a licensed electrician in a well-ventilated area. Im- properly installed gener- ators pose a significant danger to crews working on power lines. If you experience an out- age, unplug or turn off all electrical appliances to avoid overloading circuits and to prevent fire hazards when power is restored. Simply leave a single lamp on to alert you when power returns. Turn your appli- ances back on one at a time when conditions return to normal. Other tips can be found at pge.com/beprepared. Customers can sign up for outage alerts or by checking the outage map on www.pge.com. SAFETY Tips to prepare for storm, power outages Caltrans District 2, along with contractor Steve Man- ning, Inc., are making good progress on the State Route 299W emergency project to construct a temporary de- tour at Big French Creek Road. Wet weather has kept crews from getting on top of the hill to bring down fur- ther fill for the detour, ac- cording to a release issued Friday by Caltrans. Instead, they have been transport- ing material from three lo- cal quarries. Thesecondoperationcon- sists of building the detour embankment. It is about 10 feet above the existing road. Barriers are expected to be placed later this weekend. Caltrans believes the tempo- rary detour is still on sched- uleforopeningmid-January. When the detour opens, there will be one-way con- trolled traffic and motorists can expect delays of 15-30 minutes. Caltrans is recom- mendingmotoristsuseState Routes 36, 20 or Interstate 5 as alternate routes. Call the Road Construc- tion hotline for the very lat- est information at (530) 225- 3452. You can also check our District 2 website at www. caltrans2.info. CALTRANS CONTRIBUTED Update on SR 299W detour progress Kelly Osborne Work underway to build a detour on State Route 299W. BAREROOT SEASON IS HERE! 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