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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Pages 1B-4B Breaking news at: Fair Section Fair Opens Today RED BLUFF Week 5 Preview SPORTS 1B Sunny 95/59 Weather forecast 6C 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 Class of '44 gathers By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Only a few of the orig- inal 100 classmates from the Red Bluff Union High School Class of 1944 remain, but that doesn't stop them from getting together. A group consisting of classmates, spouses and other family members gathered Wednesday at the M&M Ranch House Restaurant to reminisce about the old days and catch-up on each others' lives. room was a list, published in The Bluffer in 1944 titled "We the Class of '44 Do Will Unto," in which the classmates wrote down what they left, tongue in cheek, to the underclassmen, Don Supan said. Floating around the Supervisor George Russell passes away George Russell died at his Red Bluff residence Wednesday. He was 80. Tehama County Supervisor Tehama County Board of Super- visors since replacing recalled Supervisor Shirley Marelli in 1996. Russell had served on the which covers west and just south of Red Bluff, Ridgeway Park, the first part of Highway 99W and the Reeds Creek and Red Bank areas. He represented District 2, Russell See RUSSELL, page 5A Restoration begins in Reading Fire area Supan bequeathed his A in Algebra to his little brother Ed while class- mate Elwood Tedrick, seated to Supan's right, left his great supply of patience to his algebra teacher Miss Jeckell and his muscular physique to Jack South. Supan, who with his wife Rosemary from Red Bluff High's class of 1949 has four children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, now lives in Santa Clara. He became an English teacher, he said. "We had excellent teachers at Red Bluff High," Supan said. "Very conscientious and quite a bit above the standards they have now (for teach- ing)." Supan remembers well that his class did not have a yearbook his senior year and that the school was very small, with about 500 students at the time, Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Alta Hart cuts the cake Wednesday at a reunion of the Red Bluff Union High School Class of 1944 held at M&M Ranch House Restaurant, while Gwen Shults looks on. he said. "It's a bigger school now," Supan said. "It also seems like the big stores like Walmart have crowd- ed the other businesses out. Montgomery Wards, Minch's Meat Market are both gone. The Chinese Restaurant on Main Street, the Peking, is still here. That's been a main- Brown signs bill that prohibits hunting with dogs SACRAMENTO (AP) — Hunters in California will no longer be able to use dogs to hunt bears and bobcats under one of sev- eral bills Gov. Jerry Brown announced signing Wednesday that relate to the state Department of Fish and Game. Another changes the composition of the Cali- fornia Fish and Game Commission in the wake of a controversy over the former commission presi- dent's killing of a moun- tain lion in Idaho. A third bill lets the department contract with nonprofit conservation groups to manage state-owned lands. Sen. Ted Lieu of Tor- rance, which takes effect Jan. 1, allows the use of dogs to track nuisance animals, for research or if a wild animal enters a dog owner's property. But the general hunting of bears and bobcats with hounds will be prohibited. ''There is nothing SB1221 by Democratic sporting in shooting an exhausted bear clinging to a tree limb or a cornered bobcat,'' Lieu said in a statement noting that hound hunting of bears is illegal in two-thirds of the United States. The bill was backed by the Humane Society of the United States but opposed by most hunting and shooting associations, as well as Republican lawmakers. Brown did not issue a statement saying why he decided to sign the bill, nor did he take questions from reporters Wednes- day afternoon after he spoke at a forum at a Jew- ish temple in Los Ange- les. Between 1,500 and 1,800 black bears are killed by hunters each year in California, with less than half tracked with dogs, according to state wildlife officials. The state's black bear popula- tion is estimated at about 30,000, up from about 10,000 in the 1980s. California has an esti- mated 70,000 bobcats and issued about 4,500 tags to 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See HUNTING, page 5A stay. It's where the high school kids liked to hand out. The great loss was the Chicken Shack. They had fantastic pies." Kenny Kennedy, who has owned Tips Bar in Red Bluff for more than 40 years, moved to Red Bluff in 1936. The biggest change he has seen is in the size of Antelope Boulevard and Red Bluff, Kennedy said. "When I moved here in 1936, you could stand on the corner of Main and Antelope Boulevard and all you could see was water," Kennedy said. Anne Ballard Krause said she was amazed at the number of classmates See CLASS, page 5A An interagency team of specialists recently con- ducted field operations and gathered information to determine how to best reduce the impacts of the Reading Fire within Lassen National Forest and Lassen Volcanic National Park. The team, including hydrologists, soil scientists, archaeolo- gists, foresters, and biolo- gists among others, was comprised of resource specialists from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and National Park Service (NPS). This team, known as a Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team, generates a plan for both immediate and emergency actions needed to address risks to people, property, cultural and natural resources and for long- term recovery of the burned forest ecosystem, which includes ongoing monitoring of the area and other activities. Wildfire The Reading Fire burned about 28,079 See FIRE, page 5A Van opens school up to out-of-towners By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Mercy High School is trying to remove all the roadblocks it can for those seeking alternate routes to education. drew students from neigh- boring communities including Chico, said Principal Paul Weber. "This school has a tra- dition of students coming from Redding and Chico," Weber said. "We do wel- come kids from out of the area, both Catholic and non-Catholic. There has been interest from Chico, but there's a challenge with transportation." In August, the school purchased a Ford van from George Growney Motors, which Weber uses to drive two students from Chico, where he lives, and four from the Corning area to school, he said. At one time Mercy may increase the risk of flooding, erosion and sed- imentation, debris flow, reduced water quality, invasive plants, and falling trees and rocks. The BAER team will produce one plan under NPS standards and guide- lines and one plan under USFS standards and guidelines. The plans summarize watershed information, areas of con- cern, values at risk and proposed short-term emergency treatments, as well as identify long-term needs for post-fire reha- bilitation on NPS lands and Forest Service lands that were burned in the Reading Fire. The USFS is responsible for address- ing concerns on Lassen National Forest and the NPS is responsible for addressing those on Lassen Volcanic National Park. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb "We hope to grow this idea and get more stu- dents (from out of the area)," Weber said. "We would like to get two more vans eventually and make transportation easi- er. It was a nice partner- ship with Growney Motors. It's good for us, and good for them." With more students from out of the area attending the school, it will bring more families Mercy High School students pose for a picture with the new van purchased by the school in August. Pictured back row, from left, are Principal Paul Weber,Wyatt Bronner, Nate Bennett, Mike Growney of George Growney Motors and Ying He. Front row, from left are:Tasha Pimentel, Caitlyn Safford, Jocelyn Chen Curry and Chris Growney. By carpooling, the school is doing its part for to the area as families come to watch there stu- dents in school activities, Weber said. the environment. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews .com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Customer Service Workshop Thursday, October 4th at Rolling Hills Casino 7:30am to 9am Just $20 per person / TCEAC Members Free Continental Breakfast Provided To reserve your spot, call Skye Lown at 529-7000