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FRIDAY AUGUST 17, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com Breaking news at: Vista garden Sunny 104/69 Weather forecast 8A DAILYNEWS See Page 2A Community RED BLUFF Sports 1B 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 Back in time Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb A docent teaches school at the last school program of the 2011-2012 school year in May. Schooling from the 1850s time period is just one of many activities available at Adobe Days from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park on Adobe Road. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer While the donor agreement between the state and the Ide Adobe Interpretive Association remains unsigned, Tehama County residents will still have a chance to see 1850s life on Saturday. If you go... The agreement has been submit- ted by the interpretive association and was sent to the state level, but is still in the process of being approved, California State Parks Sector Superintendent Denise Rist said. The 33rd annual Adobe Day is coming to the park from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday with the help of for- mer docents, staff and volunteers who serve as costumed hosts to life in the 1850s. The theme will be Ide Adobe Homecoming. "We're sending out invitations to What: 33rd annual Adobe Day When: Saturday, Noon to 4 p.m. Where: William B. Ide Adobe State Historical Park How much: Adults $5, Students 12-to 18 $3, Kids 4-to 11 $2, 4-and under Free anyone who has ever been involved with the park from docents and vol- unteers to students," State Park Inter- preter Debbie Chakarun said. "Everyone is encouraged to come and reminisce with others about how Ide Adobe Park has been a part of their lives." The event will have its usual plethora of activities for attendees to try their hand at including making adobe bricks, candles, and cornhusk dolls. Children are encouraged to attend 1850s schooling sessions. Girls can get a rag curl in their hair and boys can visit the tonsorial for a shave. Members of the public are also welcome to watch Brad Hudson and his blacksmith appren- tices who will be busy at the forge, Chakarun said. Shopkeepers, carpenters, seam- stresses and even gamblers will give the crowd plenty of things to watch The Ide Adobe Kitchen will be going full bore providing breads with freshly churned butter, iced mint water, sarsaparilla, lemonade and ice cream. and the Ide Adobe Players will be providing a sampling of 1850s music for the public's listening pleasure. Pioneer games will be available for entertainment along with perfor- mances by Freddy Herrera and his Traveling Puppet Theater. next to the visitor's center the inter- pretive association will offer hot Just the other side of the 1850s See TIME, page 7A Group wants to clean up Red Bluff By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A group of local residents and business owners are embarking on a rather large endeavor — they're going to attempt to clean up Red Bluff. Jennifer Walker, Troy Lalaguna, Carmel Growney, Vicki Stroud, Tiffany Gunsauls, Richard Muench and Brandon Grissom have formed Cleaner, Greener Red Bluff, which will host a citywide cleanup day Aug. 25. "It's drastically important," Walker said. "This city needs some love and needs some attention." The group is asking volunteers to join them at Red Cup win Bluff River Park at 8 a.m. that day. Participants will meet to get assignments to help spruce up River Park as well as sections of Antelope Boulevard and Main Street. Organizers plan to clear brush, pick up trash, paint over graffiti and replant several downtown planters. "I am a regular visitor to the park, and I believe more people will visit it if we clean it up, and make it safer and easier to get to the river bank," Grissom said. Participants will receive a T-shirt and wrist band and enjoy live entertainment and a barbecue lunch from noon to 1 p.m. Walker said community cleanup was one of the main issues brought up during recent Tehama County Brand- ing Project task force meetings. She said the group hopes the clean-up day doesn't just become an annual day, but something that happens multiple times throughout the year. "We don't want this to be a one hit wonder," Walker said. "We'd love to see this be the first event and plan again in April." See CLEAN, page 7A Russell promoted at Ishi Conservation Camp Special to the DN Dave Russell was promoted to Assistant Chief of Ishi Conservation Camp in Paynes Creek. Russell began his new position on Monday. CalFire Battalion Chief Russell started with Cal- Fire, then CDF, in 1989 as a Firefighter I in the Hum- boldt-Del Norte Unit. In 1991 he transferred to the Shasta-Trinity Unit, still working as a Firefighter I. He left CDF in 1994 and went to work for the Mon- tana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation in Olney, Montana as a Fire- fighter until he came back to CDF in 1997 as a Fire Appa- ratus Engineer in the Lassen-Modoc Unit. Russell Russell transferred from the Lassen-Modoc Unit to the Tehama-Glenn Unit in 2001 as a Fire Apparatus Engineer. He promoted the See ISHI, page 7A Fires continue to cause problems; fundraiser cancelled Aggressive air attack Starry Starry Night cancelled DN Staff Report Forecasted weather and the 25,242-acre Reading Fire forced committee members of Starry Starry Night Thursday to cancel the upcoming fundraiser at Mount Lassen. fires burning in Lassen Vol- canic National Park and the weather forecasting thunder storms, coupled with the humidity locking in smoke, causing poor air quality, the unfortunate decision has been made to cancel the Starry Starry Night event scheduled for this Saturday," the committee announced in a press release. Previously sold tickets to "The uncertainty of the the event are scheduled to be refunded in the next five to seven days. will move forward in plan- ning for the event to debut sometime in 2013. The committee said it The fundraiser to benefit 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 the Tehama County Eco- nomic Prosperity Project was to feature stargazing, champagne and gourmet deserts at the Kohm Yah- mah-nee Visitor Center inside the national park. The Lassen Park Foun- dation's "A Passion for Lassen" event is still sched- uled for Aug. 25. The Reading Fire was 25 percent contained as of Thursday morning as fire- fighters were continuing their efforts to protect struc- tures and future growth. Several roads and camp- grounds within the park remained closed as firefight- ers were waiting to see whether the weekend's weather would be coopera- tive or further the problem. of Mill fire underway BUTTE MEADOWS — With the Wye Fire in Colusa County posing less and less of a threat, additional resources are being directed to fight the Mill Fire in eastern Tehama County. That includes air tankers and helicopters that are actively attacking the fire today. Bulldozers are continuing to strengthen firelines where they can, but the fire is in Mill Creek Canyon, which is too steep for anything but crews on foot. Cal Fire-Butte County Capt. Scott A. McLean explained that up until late Wednesday dense smoke made it impossible to get aircraft over the fire. As things have cleared up aircraft have been able to make more accurate maps using global positioning systems. In a telephone interview this morning, McLean said he awakened today to a "beautiful sunrise," with functionally smoke-free skies. "We are going to be able to get aircraft on it today," to attack the blaze, McLean explained. Mapping problems has shrunk an earlier esti- mate of the size of the Mill Fire from 1,400 to 1,025 acres. The fire is about 10 miles northwest of Butte Meadows. A report released at 7 a.m. today says the blaze is 15 percent contained. fire with the help of 60 fire engines, three heli- copters, 12 bulldozers and 14 water tankers. As of 1 p.m., fire radio traffic indicated numerous air tankers were also attacking the fire. This morning there are 722 people fighting the