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resultsweretalliedandthe awards prepared, Hughes said. In the Primary Division, ages 6-9, the winning per- formers were Frankie Fer- reira in first place and Rose Kinner in second place. In the Junior Division, ages 10-14, the winning per- formers were Madison Mc- Caffrey in first place, Lind- sey Pho in second place and MadisonandThomasMoore in third place. In the Senior Division, ages 15-18, the winners were the duo of Ellie Fletcher and Ashtin Lopeman in first place, Brianna Chase in sec- ondplaceandNatalieBrown in third place. Ferreira, McCaffrey, Fletcher and Lopeman will beinvitedtotraveltoFeather Falls Casino in Oroville June 3tocompeteintheExchange Club District competition, Hughes said. This competi- tion will include contestants who have won their local events in Northern Califor- nia and Nevada. In the past years Tehama County young people regu- larlywonorplacedatthedis- trict level, Hughes said. The Exchange Club and Soroptimists thanked their sponsors — Dignity Health, GoldenStateFarmCredit,the Sacramento River Discovery CenterandtheDailyNews— and the businesses who sup- ported the young people of Tehama County by advertis- ing in the event program. Talent FROMPAGE1 Tehama County's commit- ment to cooperate with fed- eral laws on immigration to the extent resources allow. Tehama County had been put on a list of sanctuary places and there had been some concern about fund- ing, with the threat of fed- eral funding being removed from cities or counties that shield undocumented immi- grants, said Tehama County CounselArthurWylene said. Due to AB109, the jail had become full and some Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees had to be released. However, Te- hama County policy and laws followed "do not meet the definition of sanctuary city," Wylene said. Tehama FROM PAGE 1 sources said it would look for fish stranded in the low- flow section of the Feather River that runs through Oroville, capture those fish if necessary, then take themtohigherwaterdown- stream. Hughan said data on the number of fish saved was not compiled yet but he personally saw a couple hundred fish saved in one boat. Crews will continue with fish rescues until it rains, he said. In a press release issued Tuesday, DWR maintained that adult salmon are not likely to be in the river this time of year and that young salmon likely moved down- stream because of higher flows, but the Golden Gate Salmon Association raised concerns that many baby salmon were not able to get back to the river's main channel. The association issued a press release Tuesday stat- ing those fish trapped in pools were easy prey for birds and other wildlife. Though acknowledging the workofcrewsoutsavingthe fish, the association raised concern about the ceased flows's threat to Chinook salmon, on which local fish- ermen rely, and to now-dry steelhead trout nests. "GGSA calls on DWR to conduct its repair and re- sponse operations in ways that minimize loss of wild baby salmon downstream," said John McManus, the as- sociation's executive direc- tor. "Those small two-inch salmon will be two to three feet long in 2019 and 2020 and represent our future in- come." The association said it was "quick, creative work" to save salmon at the Feather River Hatch- ery from being drowned in mud. Finally, after address- ingimmediateemergencies, the association called to the state to address structural design flaws at the Ther- malito Afterbay Complex, which makes the Feather Riverlethallyhotforspawn- ingsalmon,accordingtothe press release. Contractors also contin- ued to remove debris from the Diversion Pool Tuesday. DWRandassistingagencies are clearing out rocks, dirt, mud and concrete that tum- bled down from the dam- aged spillway and filled the DiversionPool.Thedebrisis beingmovedtositesaround the dam or to state-owned property, said Lauren Bis- nett, a DWR public infor- mation officer. Thereareplanstorecycle some of the material, using it to fill erosion spots, but restorationworkhasnotbe- gun yet, Bisnett said. The amount of concrete, dirt, mud and rocks in the pool is enough to fill a football field, stacked 470 feet high, she said Monday. The lake level has risen about three feet in the last 24hours,upto841.43feetof elevation as of 5 p.m. Tues- day.That'sstillabout60feet from the level that's consid- ered full. In a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, DWR said the lake was not expected to rise over 860 feet while spillway flows are halted up to the next seven days. If the Hyatt Power- plant is not fully restored within seven days, the de- partment will use the spill- way again, according to the press release. In preparation to operate the plant, the department is moving a power line to con- nect the second of three linesneededinordertorun the entire plant, the press release reads. Fully oper- ational, the plant can dis- charge 13,000-15,000 cfs. The maximum number has fluctuated in past reports by department officials. The gaping hole in the spillway was first discov- ered on Feb. 7, resulting in the department decid- ing to halt flows. But with LakeOrovillenearcapacity at the time and more rain on the way, the department continued to run the spill- way.Thathascausedexten- sive damage to the struc- ture, now clearly visible with the absence of water flow and a massive debris build-up in the Diversion Pool, rendering the Hyatt Powerplantunabletosafely operate. In an effort to get the plant up and running, the departmentdecreasedflows from 50,000 cubic-feet per second to zero cfs by Mon- day afternoon. Flows from the Thermalito Diversion Dam and the Theralito Af- terbayremainat2,500cfsto meet fishery requirements, according to a press release issued Tuesday morning. Spillway FROM PAGE 1 By Amy Taxin TheAssociatedPress RIVERSIDE JuanCortesand his son were installing fenc- ing when they saw a low-fly- ing plane make an awkward tilt and go straight down into a quiet Southern Cali- fornia neighborhood of sin- gle-family homes. Moments later they and others were confronted with a horrify- ing inferno. "I saw the smoke, the black smoke," said Cortes, 42, who raced to the scene in a truck with 19-year-old son Jonathan and tried to help. People were screaming in the street, and he saw a woman pulled away from the flames. "She was alive because she was screaming, 'Mydaughter!Mydaughter!" he recalled Tuesday. Traci Zamora, 38, rushed out of her home and around a corner to find a house en- gulfed in flames and then saw a victim emerge. "She just came crawling right out of it onto the front lawn," she said. "Her lower body was on fire." The crash of the twin-en- gine Cessna 310 late Mon- day afternoon killed a man, a woman and a teenager, and two other women were ejected when it hit the cor- ner of a house, authorities said.Thewomenwerehospi- talized with critical injuries. Despite the inferno, no one on the ground was hurt, but two houses were de- stroyed. Two others had mi- nor damage. No identities were re- leased, but Riverside Fire Chief Michael Moore said the plane had just taken off from Riverside Munici- pal Airport, less than a mile away, bound for San Jose af- ter a weekend cheerleading competition staged at the Disney California Adven- ture Park. Weather in the area 60 miles east of Los Angeles had included rain, but there were no immediate indi- cations of what caused the crash. Investigators with the National Transporta- tion Safety Board were ex- pected to hold a briefing at thesceneTuesdayafternoon. 3 DEAD Plane crash ignites inferno in California neighborhood WATCHARAPHOMICINDA—THEPRESS-ENTERPRISE Smoke rises from a fire a er a plane crashed in Riverside. By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Los Ange- les County is suing over a new state law it says dis- criminates against more than 1 million voters while taking away the power of the Board of Supervisors to draw its own political boundaries. The lawsuit aims to block the 2016 law that creates a 14-member com- mission to draw boundar- ies for county supervisor districts after the 2020 census. Commission members would be chosen from po- litical parties, the lawsuit says, unfairly excluding about a quarter of county voters who register with no party preference and comprise the fastest- growing portion of newly registered voters. Aides to state Sen. Ri- cardo Lara, D-Los Ange- les, who wrote the law, said Tuesday that the in- tent of SB958 is to include those independent voters on the commission. "If the citizens redis- tricting commission is good enough for the state Legislature and Con- gress, it should be good enough for the Los Ange- les County Board of Su- pervisors," Lara said in a statement. The lawsuit filed Mon- day in Los Angeles County Superior Court says the law illegally takes away local control, unfairly ap- plies only to Los Ange- les County and makes the process more political. Based on current regis- tration, 70 percent of com- missioners would be Dem- ocrats, 25 percent Repub- licans and 5 percent from smaller political parties, the lawsuit states. "I think that's a valid concern, but it's also a valid concern that politi- cians shouldn't be draw- ing their own district lines. So there are com- peting benefits on both sides," said Kim Alexan- der, president of the non- profit California Voter Foundation. She was not involved in passing the law. The law calls for a dif- ferent makeup than the 14-member statewide commission that drew the current legislative maps. The statewide panel in- cludes five members rep- resenting each major po- litical party and four rep- resenting smaller parties and voters with no party preference. Lara said the law is structured so that it "rec- ognizes Los Angeles's di- versity and promotes transparency in a county whose population is larger than that of 40 states." The office of state At- torney General Xavier Becerra, who is named in the lawsuit and would represent the state, did not immediately respond to telephone and email re- quests for comment. REDISTRICTING Los Angeles County sues state over boundaries law PHOTOS BY BILL HUSA — ENTERPRISE-RECORD As the water recedes, damage and debris become visible Tuesday at Riverbend Park in Oroville. People can be seen working on and around the Lake Oroville spillway while trucks and heavy equipment remove debris. KELLYELIZABETHJOINER August 8, 1953 ~ February 16, 2017 Kelly Elizabeth Joiner, born August 8th,1953, Passed away on February 16th 2017. Kelly was a longtime resi- dent of Oroville and Los Molinos CA. Beloved Mother, Daughter, Sister and Grandmother. Kelly will be remem- bered for her kindness, love for her family and funny sense of humor. She will be deeply missed by many. Graveside services will be held Saturday, March 4th, 2017 at 11 am, at The Los Molinos Cemetery, family and friends will gather for a celebration of life at The Lassen Steakhouse- Hwy 99 in Vina following the burial service. "Services entrusted to the Neptune Society of Northern California, Chico Branch". 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The rain is a welcome relief from the burning sun, of course the opposite is true...Some of my friends wear cowboy boots and say they are more comfortable than conventional footwear. But they can't kid me...the boots make them look taller...If good ever triumphs over evil, there will be a lot of hair shirts and sandals on the market...our son has some of the faults that I had when a boy, without my saving grace of being not handsome...two peacocks have mysteriously appeared down in our grove and now roost up in the tallest tree.Actually, they are not peacocks, they are female and known as peahens. However, in this day of women's lib, they are probably referred to as pea persons...Liza Minelli has inherited the great talent of her mother Judy Garland, but the looks of her father Vin- cent Minelli. However, talent will prevail over looks every time. I have �irst hand knowledge of the subject...Daughter Melod y's room mate at college in Oregon has a large plastic frog that might have answered to the name of Toad Mix, or maybe Buck Toad, but doesn't...Dentist Don Young has such pretty assistants that I may eventually forget the late Dr. Godbolt.I just completed a 5 day dental hygiene course with them that was so elementary that �irst we learned the alphabet. (From August 1972) Parents have many more children than they realize. Through the magic of �ilm we arrest their growth at differ- ent times and they become many different people. We have treasured �ilms taken over the years that depict a ragtag group of kids trying to play golf in the pasture with sticks and oak balls, and trying to drop kick footballs with little success and falling on their little butts. They are in the process of growing up...but on �ilm they never quite do. We replay some sequences again and again, never tir- ing of seeing those happy faces. The backgrounds seem to be full of animals often replaced with fat puppies that fall down a lot. When my editing gets out of sequence a friend jumps in from the past such as an old dog with a grey muz- zle and yellow eyes huddled up in a corner of the house out of the wind catching the last warm rays of a short winter's day. This visage can tug at one's heart strings if one is sus- ceptible to such tugs. Robert Minch WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 5 A