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WEDNESDAY MARCH 17, 2010 Breaking news at: Cuts to hurt area seniors Adult ed dropped www.redbluffdailynews.com See Below RED BLUFF Mercy Twinbill SPORTS 1B Sunny 75/47 Weather forecast 8A 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 One dead in Cottonwood house fire COTTONWOOD — An early morning fire claimed the life of one person Tuesday in the Bowman Road area of Cotton- wood. As of late Tuesday afternoon, the victim had not yet been identified, a Tehama County Coroner’s spokesperson said. Results from the investiga- tion into the incident, including the cause of the fire, were still pending, he said. The fire at the Whippletree Road residence was reported at 2:36 a.m. and the first unit at scene reported the double wide mobile home was fully involved with exposures threatened, said CalFire Capt. Dan Todd. The fire was contained by 3:28 a.m. at which point there was one person unaccounted for, he said. That person was found around 3:43 a.m. inside the burned out structure and a request for the Tehama County Pot war rages on Coroner was made, Todd said. The structure was a total loss with damage estimated at $120,000. released. No further information was — Julie Zeeb Corning woman badly battered CORNING — A child’s 911 call saved the life of a domestic violence victim Sunday morning. A Corning woman, 29, suffered a fractured arm, skull and facial bones and a ruptured spleen on Valley Vista Drive after she was severely beaten, according to a press release from the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department. She was in stable condition in a local hospital Tues- day. The release did not name the hospital. See WOMAN, page 7A Who owns Round-Up Museum property? By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff Round- Up Association made a request for support from the Tehama District Fair board over a land transfer, but was surprised to learn the state thinks it owns its building. According to a letter Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Medical marijuana advocate Jason Browne has become a regular at Tehama County’s public meetings, appearing whenever municipalities seek to limit medical cannabis. On Tuesday, he played down fears of child injuries stemming from medical marijuana growth, and accused the supporters of a proposed ordinance of using their children as an alarmist tactic in the fight against medical cannabis. By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer Tehama County Supervisors made a minor concession to med- ical marijuana advocates Tuesday, but the nod is unlikely to settle debate as the board moves toward an April 6 vote on medical marijua- na regulation. In its weekly meeting, the board gave the first reading to a medical marijuana ordinance that would link medical marijuana growth to property size. At one end, owners of 20 acres or fewer would be limited to grow- ing 12 mature or 24 immature Suspected electricity thief is charged with meth possession A Red Bluff man was arrested Monday night on suspicion of methamphetamine pos- session after he attached jumper cables to an electrical box. Tehama County Sher- iff ’s deputies were checking out reports of a suspicious person tam- pering with an electrical box when they found Roger Lee Hayden, 39, at the box, according to a press release issued Tuesday. Further investigation revealed Hayden to be in possession of what appeared to be metham- phetamine. Hayden was arrested and booked at Tehama County Jail, where bail was set at $10,000. There did not appear to be any damage to the electrical equipment, according to the release. PG&E has since been notified. —Staff Report 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT NOTICES/EVICTIONS PROCESS SERVING Business Connections Located in the Pine Street Plaza 332 Pine Street, Red Bluff 527-6229 Since 1979 POWER PRODUCTS DOLMAR Red Bluff Outdoor Power Green Barn $699 The St. Patty’s Day 11:30-2pm Sandwich Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner 4pm-close Reuben $899 5 CHESTNUT AVE., RED BLUFF 527-3161 plants. At the other end, someone with 160 acres could have as many as 99 plants. As a complaint-driven ordi- nance, the policy is not supposed to be enforced unless someone reports a violation. Even then, Tehama County Sher- See POT, page 7A received recently by Fair CEO Mark Eidman, the Department of General Services, a state agency, has the building housing the Round-Up Museum and Round-Up ticket office, built in 1998, on a list of state-owned build- ings. “This is a shocker that they’re assuming they own it,” said Association Director Mike Dudley. The issue the Round- Up Directors had come to address was an old deal made with a previous fair board regarding a swap of five acres of land for one. In 1994, in what asso- ciation members refer to as a hand shake deal with the former fair board, five acres of land, now the Trinity Avenue parking lot, was bought and trans- ferred to the county to swap for the one-acre piece that houses the asso- ciation’s museum. “We’d probably do it a lot differently today,” said Association President Dave Ramelli. “We’re just asking you to make it right.” The one-acre parcel was not deeded to the association at the time because the group was told it had to wait until the lease between the county and the fairground was up, Dudley said. A new lease was sup- posed to be up for discus- sion at the Tehama Coun- ty Board of Supervisors this month, but Eidman said he wanted to wait until after Tuesday’s See MUSEUM, page 7A Adult ed cuts to hinder seniors By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Adult students learning how to use the Internet and e-mail in a computer class say they will have nowhere to go now that the class will not be offered again. The computer class is just one of several adult programs in the Red Bluff Union High School Dis- trict that will not be offered next school year. Students in the com- puter class, who range from 40 to 90 years old, say they need the class to keep up with the rest of the world. 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