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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A Breaking news at: Pastimes Seniors Get Creative RED BLUFF Football Previews SPORTS 1B Sunny 92/57 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 Woman killed in solo Cottonwood crash p.m. Tuesday on Bowman Road, east of Benson left a 33- year-old Cottonwood woman dead. A solo vehicle crash at 7:40 Out with the old The driver was identified as Schulte had been driving west on Bowman Road at an unknown speed when for The front of the 1998 two- door Saturn sedan ran into a Donna Schulte, said Tehama County Sheriff's Deputy Coro- ner Chris Sharp. unknown reasons she drifted off the left side of the road, accord- ing to a California Highway Patrol press release. large oak tree, causing major damage and trapping Schulte inside. Schulte was extricated from the Saturn by emergency per- sonnel and pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. site, traffic was shut down on Bowman Road for at least an hour. —Julie Zeeb According to the CHP web- Girl, father spot suspect in pot deal gone wrong her father called the Red Bluff Police Department Tues- day afternoon after they located the drug dealer who reportedly ripped her off. A 13-year-old girl, who had a drug deal go bad, and innie. The call led to arrest of 25-year-old Anthony McK- See GIRL, page 7A 19 to life for triple fatal DUI Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Demolition of the former Red Bluff Powersports building at 455 S. Main St., across from the USA minimart and Shell Gas Station, began Tuesday and continued Wednesday with construction workers from Eleven Western Builders, Inc. starting at the back of the building. The site will be used for CVS pharmacy, which will be moving from its location in the Belle Mill Shopping Center. Plans, which include setting the building farther back from the road and adding a parking lot, have been approved by the city, which means construction on the new building can start as soon as the old building has been torn down and removed, Building Director J.D. Ellison said.The new location is expected to open in the spring. City approves contracts, raises By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff City Council adopted new con- tracts that included raises for two of the city's employ- ee unions Tuesday as well as expanding a certification- based salary program to a pair of mid-level manage- ment positions. New Memoranda of Understanding with the city's Miscellaneous Unit and Police Mid-Manage- ment Association include no salary changes in the first year, but raises in the second and third years of three-year contracts. employees will receive a 2 percent increase on July 1, 2013 and an increase between 2 and 4.5 percent tied to the city's tax revenue in the final year of the con- tract. Miscellaneous Unit employees were allowed to cash out not only their unused vacation time, but unused sick leave. In some cases the city had cut checks in the tens of thousands of dollars. employee portion of their pension system under the contracts. Employees will pay the Both contracts were adopted unanimously, although Councilman Rob Schmid did mutter the word "reluctantly" as he voted aye. "I'd like to thank both groups for negotiating in a good fashion," Mayor For- rest Flynn said. since Richard Crabtree took over as city manager. Previously departing Butte County Superior Court Judge Steven How- ell handed down the sen- tence today for Robert Edward Barnes for the Nov. 14, 2010 crash on 99 near Broyles Road, just south of the Butte- Tehama county line. The sentence includes 15 years to life for sec- ond-degree murder for the deaths of Rogelio Her- year-old Corning man was sentenced to 19 years to life in state prison for a 2010 crash on Highway 99 north of Chico that killed three. By RYAN OLSON MediaNews Group OROVILLE — A 26- rera, 29, Sarai Alvarez, 31, and one of Alvarez's children, Cristian Zaizar. Howell also ordered that Barnes serve an upper-term sentence of four years for felony drunken driving causing injury with priors for injuring Emanuel Zaizar Alvarez. The victims were in a southbound GMC Sono- ma pickup that was struck by Barnes' northbound Dodge pickup. The incident began when Barnes and two pas- sengers were returning to Corning after tending a medical marijuana grow See TRIPLE, page 7A Deadline Friday for some fair exhibits By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The countdown to the 92nd annual Tehama Dis- trict Fair is winding down and while the main dead- line has passed, there's still time to enter Agricul- ture: Horticulture and Floriculture. The Police Mid-Man- agement Association will have both of its raises tied to the tax revenue, being between 2 and 4.5 percent. The city's prior contract with the Miscellaneous Unit had expired on June 30. Both contracts transition employees' leave time from combined sick and vacation leave to separate systems — a staple of new contracts approved by the council negotiations of those con- tracts played out in closed sessions over the previous months, the council took a second open session to approve expanding certifi- cation pay to its new water and wastewater division supervisors. Public Works Director Bruce Henz had asked the council to modify the job descriptions for the new positions to include a 10 percent professional incen- tive pay employees receive when becoming certificat- ed. While the majority of the Henz said not including the incentive pay would result in employees receiv- ing what would amount to a 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See CITY, page 7A was down, but has started to pick up during the last week of August, Fair Office Assistant Jacque Brown said. The fair, Sept. 27-30, will be bringing back a division that was new last year, and very popular, Brown said. "Every year we try to bring something new and last year we tried the Daily Contest," Brown said. "It was great fun and the competition was bru- tal." The number of entries Food Contest are limited to Tehama County resi- dents and must be brought to the Home Arts Build- ing on the appointed day between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Entries for the Daily Entries for that divi- sion are due to the office by 5 p.m. Friday. Sunday will conclude the Daily Contest compe- tition with the home churned ice cream divi- sion. all about cake pops and Saturday is Barbecue Meat using any sauce or dry rub. The Out of the Box and More class will kick things off Thursday with participants bringing their own concoction of the tra- ditional cake mix box or brownies. Entries should be accompanied by a 3x5 card with the recipe and entrants are encouraged to "add their own flair to it," Brown said. Friday's competition is have some very creative male bakers in the county, so we decided to give them their very own divi- sion in the baked foods division," Brown said. "We can't wait to see their entries. We are also hop- ing they will donate a few items to the Tehama Mar- ketplace Bake Sale." The bake sale helps support the fair, Brown said. There will be a spe- categories, one of which is for men only. "We understand we New this year are two cial section for items donated by blue ribbon winners. The other new kid on the block is Beef Jerky in the Preserved Foods cate- gory. Plans are in full-swing for the fair, including Education Day, which is a chance to expose local students to engineering, math, science and local agriculture, said Event Coordinator April Farmer, of the Tehama County Department of Education. The Miss Tehama County contest has seven girls competing for the title, but so far has only The group is seeking about 100 volunteers to assist as leaders and helpers for the event, Farmer said. one candidate for the Tehama County Ambas- sador, Contest Coordina- tor Sonja Akers said. The contest will be held on the Thursday of fair. Other events scheduled include Outlaw Karts and the California Cowboys Professional Rodeo Asso- ciation (CCPRA) Rodeo set for Friday, Tractor and Truck Pulls Saturday and the Destruction Derby Sunday. For more information ter @TehamaFair. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews .com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. on the fair, call 527-5920 or follow the fair on Twit-