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Deathnotices Staff Reports @redbluffnews on Twitter CORNING A two-vehicle collision that required ex- trication resulted in mod- erate to major injuries for both drivers and a passen- ger just before 2 p.m. Fri- day at the intersection of South Avenue and Rowles Road. The name of the passen- ger who was injured was corrected by authorities to Raynante Robinson Jr. Samantha Bobadilla, 23, of Corning was headed east on South Avenue about 55 mph as she en- tered the intersection of Rowles Road. Roman Lo- zano, 19, of Corning was driving north on Rowles Road at an unknown speed when he failed to stop for the stop sign, the Califor- nia Highway Patrol said in an accident report released Saturday, resulting in the collision between the ve- hicles. Both drivers were trapped in their vehicles. Bobadilla sustained moderate injuries and had major lacerations to her left and right knees. Her passenger, Robinson, 20, of Yuba City, suffered major injuries including a possible fractured left shoulder. Lozano had ma- jor injuries including com- pound fractures to his left and right ankles. All three were transported to Enloe Medical Center in Chico. South Avenue was closed for about an hour while emergency person- nel worked to extricate the patients and clean up debris at the scene. Drugs and alcohol do not appear to have contrib- uted to the collision, the CHP said. Anyone with informa- tion is asked to contact the Red Bluff CHP at 527-2034. TWO VEHICLES MajorinjuriesinSouth Avenue collision Friday This week's most wanted subject is Shannah Renee Gomez, 22, from Red Bluff. Gomez has two no-bail felony warrants for drug- related offenses. Gomez is described as a white female adult, 5 feet 4 inches, 130 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Anyone with informa- tion regarding Gomez's whereabouts can all any lo- cal law enforcement agency at any time or during busi- ness hours can call the Te- hama County District At- torney's Bureau of Investi- gations Office at 529-3590. All callers will remain con- fidential. TEHAMA COUNTY Most wanted: Shannah Renee Gomez of Red Bluff have a good time. I'm sure there's something (at the si- lent auction) your husband or wife would like." Scholarships are given out to local high school students based upon civil work in the community in addition to academics, Holtsclaw said. The organi- zation typically gives out be- tween three and six scholar- ships depending upon fund- ing. The deadline for 2017 is April 15. For more infor- mation visit www.tehama- gop.org. The Red Bluff Califor- nia Highway Patrol Explor- ers posted the colors while Miss Tehama County Jenni- fer Silvera sang the national anthem and Bernie Buehler lit the fallen veterans me- morial candle. Silvera was joined by Miss Tehama County Sec- ond Alternate Ellie Fletcher and Third Alternate and Miss Congeniality Dalani Hall in entertaining the au- dience during dinner. The first of two awards presented, for which Con- gressman Doug LaMalfa and state Sen. Jim Nielsen presented plaques, was given to 87-year-old Clair Morey, who was given the Chairman's Award For Life- long Service. Morey, who spent many hours during the election at the head- quarters, has served in a number of places in the community over the years including in the announc- er's booth at the Tehama District Fair and he con- tinues to keep busy work- ing for Mt. Lassen Motor Transit. The second award was the 2016 Tehama County Republican of the Year, which was given to Gil and Linda Alston. Linda Alston serves as the committee's treasurer. Following the awards, Shobash gave a presenta- tion talking about changes in the department over the years since he first joined in 1998. "I'm proud to be a part of the Red Bluff Fire De- partment, which has been serving you since 1876," Shobash said. "Thank you to all the men and women who respond to calls, of- ten at inconvenient times. Even tonight, during din- ner some of our firefighters were called out. Most im- portantly, I want to thank the spouses and significant others who deal with calls that turn into hours, days or even weeks away. They keep everything together." Shobash talked about going from the eager fire- fighter awaiting calls back when he first started, fill- ing up his time with study- ing and preparing for calls, to this last year when the department ran about 4,000 calls and there were days where he was pray- ing the alarm didn't go off, hoping to find time to get other parts of the job such as investigations and plan checks done. "Our calls have changed in both amount and com- plexity," Shobash said. "They've also changed in the attitude toward those in uniform." Types of calls change quickly from when they are dispatched to the arrival of the unit and a recent call went from a medical aid to a hazmat to a structure fire after firefighters arrived to discover a man had been making honey oil in his basement. There is also a differ- ence in how they approach incidents and things like lightweight cars that save on gas and are better for the environment are at the same time more dangerous when someone has to be extracted as the vehicle re- quires more skill when us- ing the jaws of life. "It takes more skill and everything in the job is about timing," Shobash said. Shobash talked about the staffing and the rule that in order for firefighters to en- ter a residence to fight the fire there needed to be five firefighters present with two outside — the only dif- ference being if there was need of a rescue. With the quarter cent sales tax, the department has been able to have five firefighters on a shift, mean- ing they don't have to wait for someone to respond to the fire from their house. The next project the depart- ment hopes to accomplish with the additional funding from the tax is a second fire station on Kimball Road to help with coverage of the south side of the city. Honored FROM PAGE 1 night to respond to the lo- cation and retrieve some of the stolen items. The CHP assisted in the identification and recovery of the vehicles. Some of the items be- lieved to be stolen and re- covered include chain saws, tree climbing equipment, laptops, various lawn care tools, hand tools and a fold- ing ladder. The victims include Phil's Towing, Corning Lumber at both the Corning and Or- land location, Bambauer Towing, Linnet's Tire Shop, Orland Saw and Mower, Terry Carlisi, Garen Wimer, Kenneth Randles, Virginia Barrett and the Chico Police Department. Anyone who may have in- formation regarding his lo- cation or is a victim of theft out of the Corning area is encouraged to contact Te- hama sheriff's detective Chad Dada at cdada@teha- maso.org. If you have been a victim of theft in the Orland area contact officer Manny Carrillo at the Orland Police Department 865-1616. Burglaries FROM PAGE 1 IWantToBeRecycled.org JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Congressman Doug LaMalfa congratulates Clair Morey who was honored with the Chairman's Award for lifelong service on Saturday at the Tehama County Republican Central Committee dinner. thanks to creative engineer- ing by employees at Oro- ville's Feather River Hatch- ery, which is the largest in the state. Debris was crum- bling down the damaged spillway at the dam into the river, threatening the young fish there. In the quickly escalat- ing situation, the depart- ment first scooped up and trucked about 5 million spring-run chinook salmon babies to the auxiliary hatchery in Thermalito, leaving behind 1.9 million fall-run salmon and a mil- lion steelhead eggs, accord- ing to a previous article in this newspaper. Fall-run salmon were saved by filtration pumps in the hatchery's raceways and crews at the hatchery con- structed an unorthodox fil- tration system for steelhead eggs using a fire hydrant. Water was filtered through six-foot tall cylinders filled with charcoal before be- ing pumped into egg trays full of incubating steelhead trout babies. "I call it Apollo 13 en- gineering," Hughan said. "They put this together in one morning." On Monday, the fish were transported in three trucks, two with 400,000 fish and one with 200,000 fish. With the opening of a latch and crank of a lever, a black floppy mass gushed out of pipes in the back of the trucks. Not all headed straight for the fast cur- rent, but Hughan said he didn't anticipate any com- plications in the fish find- ing their way, which should be instinctual. Every single one should be tagged so the depart- ment will be able to track them, with readers all the way down to the ocean, to see how many made the course. And this is not an unusual journey for the fish. They are usually trans- ported from the hatchery or annex to the Boyd's Pump Boating Dock in Yuba City or one in Gridley, Hughan said. This is only the begin- ning of this year's releases — 9 million more fish will be released, he said. Christina Durham, communications special- ist for the National Oce- anic and Atmospheric Ad- ministration, said skipping the stretch from Oroville to Yuba City circumvents predators and also keeps more fish from straying. While most salmon sur- vived their evacuation, the department lost 300,000 steelhead trout, likely be- cause water coming from the fire hydrant shocked them, Hughan said. "It's still 700,000 more than we would have had if we did nothing," he said. "It's unfortunate but we budget for loss, so it's not catastrophic." "The annexation hatch- ery was a lifeboat for 5 mil- lion fish because they would have died," he said. "What's important is the Feather River Hatchery is the only hatchery that raises the spring-run chinook, so we can't just say, 'Oh, we had a bad year.' We couldn't just take a year off and let them die." Also, California's salmon industry is valued at $1.4 billion, with over 50 per- cent of the state's fall-run salmon raised by the De- partment of Fish and Wild- life, Hughan said. Amy Edwards' third- and fourth-grade class got a bonus lesson in the im- portance of steelhead trout on Monday as incidentally they took a field trip to the Boyd's Pump Boating Dock at just the right time. Edwards, a teacher at the Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy, raised 35 steelhead trout in her classroom and taught the children about the spe- cies' unique life cycle. She came to the dock with her students to release the fish babies, giving the kids more of a show than they bar- gained for. "It was perfect. It just happened to be they were doing this at the same time," Edwards said. For third-grader Audrey Benevento, it was a bitter- sweet day. While she had grown fond of the fish, she was happy to see them set free. "They looked happy when they got released, be- cause they were jumping," she said. Reach reporter Risa Johnson at 895-7763. Salmon FROM PAGE 1 BILL HUSA — CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD Department of Fish and Wildlife public information officer Andrew Hughan shoots video as roughly one million endangered baby spring-run chinook salmon are released Monday into the Feather River near Yuba City a er being saved by Department of Fish and Wildlife technicians at the Feather River Fish Hatchery during the Oroville Dam spillway failure. ALICIACAROLEGRIFFITH July 12, 1942 ~ March 3, 2017 Alicia Carole Griffith of Cottonwood, CA died in her home surrounded by her family on March 3, 2017. She was 74 years old. Alicia is survived by her husband of 53 years, R.L. "Griff" Griffith, and by daughters Launi Griffith of Graeagle, CA, and Dena Regan along with her son-in-law, Jerry Regan of Santa Rosa, CA. She is also survived by her beloved nieces and nephews and was touched to be considered the honorary matriarch to their children. Alicia was born on July 12, 1942 in San Francisco, CA to Hall and Blanche Stebbins. She had many fond memories growing up in Santa Cruz with her horse Sharoni and her Great Dane, King. She later met and married Griff mov- ing to her favorite place, Chester, CA where they raised their family. Her family continued to include her cherish- ed pets. Alicia received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Chico State University and was a professional graphic artist. She also spent many years as a medical transcriptionist for both Seneca Hospital and Lassen Medical Group. She loved nature and knew the name of every single flower she walked by. Alicia will be remembered as a loving mother, wife and friend that taught all of us to care for our world and the creatures that reside in it. A memorial service is scheduled for March 25 at 1:00 PM at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 4075 Riverside Ave, Anderson, CA. In lieu of flowers please make your donations to the humane society of your choice. 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