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FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A Breaking news at: Education Berrendos Gears Up RED BLUFF Week 9 Previews SPORTS 1B Weather forecast 10A Mostly sunny 76/47 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 Shots, pot, chase and lockdowns in curious case woman's attempt to collect pay- ment she claimed was owed for her help processing marijuana led to gun shots, a police chase and school lockdowns Wednes- day morning. COTTONWOOD — A Day on the farm Around 5:40 a.m. Tehama County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the area of Long- cor Road in the Bowman area regarding a possible shooting victim, according to a depart- ment press release. Logs show a 60-year-old Longcor Road resident was retrieving his newspaper when he saw a man walking by. The bald white man wearing a black hoodie told the resident he thought a man had just shot a woman down the roadway. The bald man then continued walk- ing towards Bowman Road. Deputies arrived in the area and found Lidia Maria Hardy, 32, Red Bluff, who was identi- fied as the possible victim to the reported shooting. However Hardy had not been shot nor even injured. Hardy told deputies she went to Michael Alan Bruce's resi- See SHOTS, page 9A Dog walk turns violent tion Tuesday afternoon in Red Bluff. Shortly before 3:30 p.m. officers responded to the 1600 block of South Ridge Drive for a report of a bat- tery. The victim said he had been walking his small-breed dog on a leash when a leashless large-breed dog attacked his dog. A spat over dog walking led to a battery investiga- The victim said he was able to prevent his dog from being injured and commented to the owner of the larg- See DOG, page 9A LaMalfa balks at abortion question By LARRY MITCHELL MediaNews Group RICHVALE — Con- gressional candidate Doug LaMalfa, a Repub- lican from Richvale, refused this week to spell out his position on abor- tion. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Tyler Christensen talks about different size screens used to separate plums being made into prunes at Mill Race Dryer Thursday during the annual Farm Bureau Tour. By JULIE ZEEB ty Farm Bureau Bus Tour kicked off Farm-City Week Thursday with a trip down Highway 99E to give communi- ty members a glimpse into eastern Tehama County agriculture. "That's what this is all about," Farm Bureau President Sam Mudd said. "It's a brief tour of this portion of Tehama County and what it offers." The tour, which visited the Bend area and Cottonwood in 2011, rotates to a different section of the county each year, Farm Bureau Manager Kari Dodd said. "It's part of a two-week communi- ty outreach that starts with Farm Day and goes through Farm-City Night," DN Staff Writer The seventh annual Tehama Coun- Dodd said. "It's really just about bring- ing the farm and city together." Tehama County Farm Advisor Rich Buchner and Marcie Skelton of the Tehama County Agriculture Com- missioner's Office were on hand to answer questions during the bus ride between stops. First up was Gracey's Tortilla Fac- tory where Chip Gracey and Francisco Cardozo talked about the process of making fresh corn tortillas. The factory has been in the process of setting up for a while and hopes to go into production within the next two months, Gracey said. Talks are in the works once the fac- tory is up and running to sell it at places like A&R Meats and he hopes to be able to sell them in local restau- rants, he said. Groups seek reform of legislative vote-changing SACRAMENTO (AP) — Good-government groups and policy advocates are calling for reform of a state Assembly rule that lets lawmakers amend their votes once a bill has passed or failed, saying changing the system is necessary for the public to maintain trust in the Legislature. An Associated Press analysis published Wednes- day found that lawmakers in the 80-member Assembly changed their votes more than 5,000 times during this year's legislative session, a practice that allows law- makers to obscure how they act when votes actually mat- ter. The state Senate allows vote changes only for the two party leaders. ''It's one of those simple practices that start to erode confidence in the Legisla- ture,'' said Jim Mayer, exec- utive director of the govern- ment-reform group Califor- nia Forward. ''Our institu- tions have to become squeaky clean because pub- lic confidence is needed for democracy to work.'' Philip Ung, a spokesman for the government watch- dog group Common Cause, said allowing lawmakers to add or revise their votes after the fate of a bill has been decided feeds the per- ception that lawmakers are looking out for their own interests over those of their constituents. ''We would like to see the practice either eliminat- ed or limited,'' he said, adding that Common Cause might target the practice in a package of proposed leg- islative reforms it aims to roll out for the 2013 ses- sion. Mayer, whose organiza- tion is sponsoring a budget- reform initiative on the November ballot, said a bal- lot measure probably would be necessary to ban the practice. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See GROUPS, page 9A The process, which can make 1,000 pounds at a time, starts with field corn. "It looks like corn gone wrong, but this is what the Aztecs used to make their tortillas, which were cooked in wood ash," Gracey said. LaMalfa called himself "pro-life" in an interview with this newspaper Tues- day. The corn is put through a grinder, which converts it to a masa mix that is placed into a mixer before it goes into a sheeter head roller where the tortillas are cut out. veyor belt through a oven and onto another conveyor belt while the left- over dough is recycled and run through the roller again. "We're doing it from scratch so we get a better tortilla," Cardozo said. While it may cost a bit more to The tortillas then head down a con- See FARM, page 9A specifics — such as whether he thought abor- tion should be allowable in cases of rape or incest or to save a woman's life — he would not answer. His responses would only be used as ammuni- tion against him, he said. Abortion has been a However, pressed for volatile issue in this year's political campaigns at the national, state and local levels. ed, "Now, LaMalfa has taken the most extremist position on abortion that even in cases of rape, incest, and even when the mother would die carry- ing a pregnancy to term, a woman should be forced by the government to have a baby." LaMalfa told the Chico Enterprise-Record Tues- day. "I didn't say that," spokesman Jim Dyar acknowledged LaMalfa hadn't said that. And in fact, Reed At the debate, Dyar said, the moderator asked LaMalfa if there were any cases where he would condone abortion, such as rape, incest or to protect the woman's life. Last week, LaMalfa's Democratic opponent, Jim Reed, sent out a news release criticizing LaMal- fa for comments he made on the abortion issue dur- ing a debate recorded and shown by KIXE-Channel 9. The news release stat- In a recording of the debate, Dyar said, LaMal- fa stated, "being a person that believes again that life begins at conception, (I think) that should really be something we all strive He said LaMalfa "dodged the question" by apparently saying no abortions whatsoever was the ideal. See BALKS, page 9A Millie opens tonight at the State Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Eighth-graders Mitchell Sauve, who plays Jimmy Smith, and Leslie Soto, who plays Millie Dillmount, practice their duet "I Turned The Corner"for the Red Bluff Elementary School District play "Thoroughly Modern Millie. "The show tells the story of a girl who moves from Kansas to New York City and is described by co- directors Ryan Heimlich and Phil Anker as "country girl meets city. "The play, which is $8 for adults and $6 for children, will be at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday at the State Theatre.