Issue link: https://www.epageflip.net/i/9348
TUESDAY APRIL 20, 2010 Breaking news at: Highways and Buy-Ways Multistate yard sales www.redbluffdailynews.com See American Profile RED BLUFF Heavy Lifting SPORTS 1B Showers 60/43 Weather forecast 10B By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Lassen View Elementary School has been named as a 2010 California Distinguished School. The award, which comes from the California Department of Education, is an honor given to high performing schools that have succeeded in narrowing 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 Lassen View among top schools in state the achievement gap between higher-performing and lower- performing students. “We’re very excited to receive this honor,” said Lassen View Superintendent and Prin- cipal Mancill Tiss. “Our staff works hard to help students.” Part of the criteria is that schools must have two signa- ture practices that contribute to academic achievement. The staff focused on strategies assessment to help the students ‘These schools have persevered despite state budget cutbacks that have cut deeply into the budgets of local school districts’ State Superintendent Jack O’Connell Pair arrested in embezzlement case at RB Food Maxx An anonymous tip led to the arrest of two Red Bluff men about noon Saturday for their involve- ment in a $195,000 embezzlement from Food Maxx in Red Bluff. According to a Red Bluff Police press release, officers were sent to Food Maxx to meet with the business’ loss prevention officers, who were con- ducting an investigation based on a tip. During the investigation, the business’ personnel See PAIR, page 9A Ishi escapee captured Saturday in Stockton P aynes Creek – Prison Inmate Phillip Guthmiller, a minimum secu- rity inmate who escaped April 8 from the Ishi Conservation Camp in Paynes Creek, was apprehended on Saturday morn- ing in Stockton. Guthmiller was taken into custody by correc- tions agents and Rancho Cordova Fugitive Appre- hension Team officials at a Stockton home, accord- ing to a press release issued Monday by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabili- tation. Guthmiller Inmate Guthmiller had escaped the Tehama County camp sometime during the early morning hours. At around 7 a.m. Satur- day, Guth- miller was captured, arrested and taken into custody. He was medical- ly cleared and trans- ported to Deuel Voca- tional Institu- tion in Tracy pending transfer back to the Cali- fornia Correctional Cen- ter in Susanville. This matter will be referred to the Tehama County District Attor- ney’s Office for prosecu- tion, the release said. Of all offenders who have escaped from an adult institution, adult camp, or adult communi- ty-based program since 1977, 99.1 percent have been apprehended. Courtesy photo North State WWII veterans and others visit the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. through Operation Greatest Gift. Group treats vets to memorial visit By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Hundreds of WWII veterans will get the chance to visit the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. thanks to the efforts of Masons throughout the state. Each year, the Masonic Grand Lodge of California tries to do something special for a charity or cause. This year, Grand Master Ken- neth Nagel decided the mission would be Operation Greatest Gift, a project that would send WWII vet- erans on an all-expense paid, three- day trip to Washington D.C. to see the WWII Memorial. The first of several trips took place on April 15. A group of 38 veterans from throughout the state and 12 guardians attended. The once in a lifetime gift from the Masons was like a homecoming 113 students try out for show By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The stands in the Vista Middle School gym were nearly full Monday as parents, sib- lings and others showed up to watch 113 stu- dents ages kindergarten to 12th grade audition for Missoula Children’s Theatre’s The Princess and the Pea. “This is a fabulous turnout,” said Beth Maxey, one of the Tehama County Arts Council’s board mem- bers. “I’ve been involved with most of the productions in one way or another. If this turnout isn’t the best it’s certainly one of the best I’ve seen.” The Tehama County Arts Council is one of several sponsors for the week-long residency, which include the State Theatre, US Bank, Sier- ra Pacific Foundation, Tehama County Educa- after a very long time, said Navy veteran Sam Spencer of Red Bluff. “Every moment was just so enjoyable,” he said. “It brought back lots of old memories. At one point or another each of us had tears in our eyes and it was hard to speak.” The most shocking thing about the experience was the number of young people who thanked the vet- erans. All the other visitors to the memorial must have been younger See VETS, page 9A City to vote on disc golf course tonight The final decision to approve a disc golf course at Dog Island Park will be made tonight at the Red Bluff City Council meeting. The council will hear a presentation from resident Brandon Grissom about the proposed course. Grissom presented the proposal to the Parks and Recreation Commission on Wednesday, at which time the commission voted unanimously to support the course. The city’s Technical Advisory Committee has given the project a favorable recommendation. Other items • The council will finalize its wish list of priority projects that will be submitted to 3 CORE, a non-prof- it corporation that helps with economic development in Tehama, Butte and Glenn counties. • Police Chief Paul Nanfito will present the council Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Students third grade and up belt out a line followed by a goofy, exaggerated laugh Monday at the auditions for the Missoula Children’s Theatre production The Princess and the Pea tion Foundation, Exchange Club of Red Bluff and Walmart Foundation. “One of the big pur- poses of the Arts Coun- cil is to provide arts opportunities for the students,” Maxey said. “For many kids in Tehama County this is one of the only opportu- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See SHOW, page 9A COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR Smog Inspection $ 2995 + cert. (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) Pass or FREE retest 195 S. Main St. Red Bluff 530 527-9841 ARTHRITIS, AND POST SURGERY. DR. SWAIM’S PAIN CREAM NOW AVAILABLE IN OUR OFFICE AT 2530 SR MARY COLUMBA DR. RED BLUFF, CA 96080 (530) 527-7584 STOP THE PAIN FROM NEUROPATHY, SHINGLES, with two reports. The first about the police overtime budget, and the second the department’s annual report. The council meets 7 p.m. at City Hall, 555 Wash- ington St. improve and worked with stu- dents in the SERRF after school program, Tiss said. He was excited when State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell called on Friday to congratulate the staff on closing the achieve- ment gap, Tiss said. The Distinguished Schools See LASSEN, page 9A Vets thanked in D.C.