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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A Breaking news at: Tasty Breakfast To-Go Recipes County Fare RED BLUFF Playoff Openers SPORTS 1B Partly Cloudy 72/42 Weather forecast 8B 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 Raley's, union settle 9-day strike No details of the deal are being made public, pending its ratification by union members. Raley's Family of Fine Stores and the United Food and Commercial Workers have reached a tentative agreement to end the 9-day-old strike, the grocer and union announced Tuesday morning. Although the union did say in a statement the plan retains and funds its health care benefit similar to a deal reached with Save Mart and Safeway earlier in the week. Farm to folios By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A Corning journalist turned children's author is bringing the farm to the classroom and along the way learning about the emerging world of online self-publishing. Kathy Coatney has launched a children's non-fiction series giving kids a glimpse into the ins-and-outs of the agri- culture industry. Each book in the series is based on a Northern California agriculture event or farmer. The 52-year-old said she enrolled in a creative writing class 15 years ago when her son entered kindergarten and has been involved in the field ever since. Since then Coatney has worked as a freelance photojournalist and spent time in the fields of par- enting magazines and fly fishing before settling into covering agriculture. Her work can be read in Ag Alert, California Farmer, Beef Producer and TimberWest. But it wasn't until December when all-girl quadruplet calves were born on an Orland dairy farm that Coatney real- ized the story would work for a children's audience as it did a news story. Coatney began work on her first book, "Four Quarts Makes a Gallon," "This is an important accom- plishment for our members and retirees," Union Presidents Ron Lind and Jacques Loveall joint- ly said in a press release. "Because of the resolve and sol- '...it will be great to have every- one back working again' — Mike Tee, Raley's president idarity exhibited by our mem- bers and allies in the labor movement, along with the extraordinary support of our customers, we were able to address Raley's competitive concerns while protecting our membership in a very challeng- See STRIKE, page 7A Teens lead cops on 3-county chase By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Two Susanville girls were arrested Monday after leading several law enforcement agencies on a late night, three-county pursuit down southbound Interstate 5 in a stolen vehicle, ending in Glenn County. The pursuit began in Shasta County at 10:25 p.m., when a 15-year-old driver failed to yield to a Shasta County Sheriff's Deputy attempting to stop the vehicle for speeding, Willows California Highway Patrol Pub- See CHASE, page 7A County to begin streaming meetings online By RICH GREENE Daily News photo by Rich Greene Kathy Coatney poses with the first three books of her children's non- fiction series The Farmer Guy/Gal Series. in January. It was pub- lished in June. Since then "Beekeeper Pat and the Amazing Dancing Bees" and "Pizza, Tacos and the Olive-Fingered Kid" have followed. A fourth book based on a Tulelake pota- to grower is set for release in early 2013. "I felt there's a discon- nect with kids under- standing how their food is Governor names military leader to oversee parks — Gov. Jerry Brown appointed a retired Marine Corps general on Tuesday to oversee Cali- fornia parks in the wake of a scandal that uncov- ered $54 million kept hid- den from the Legislature. After 30 years in the SACRAMENTO (AP) beaches, forests, estuar- ies, dunes and wetlands is in good hands and that the confidence and trust of Californians in our parks department will be restored,'' Brown said in a news release. military, Maj. General Anthony L. Jackson, 63, will take the job left vacant when the former director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation resigned last summer amid the finan- cial scandal. Jackson most recently commanded installations throughout the Southwest, overseeing fiscal, military, construction, energy and administration programs involving 13,000 employ- ees and more than 60,000 Marines and sailors. ''Under Maj. General Jackson's leadership, I am confident that the stew- ardship of California's would be $150,112, and his appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate. Former parks director Ruth Coleman resigned and a senior official was terminated when it was revealed that employees kept $54 million hidden from the Legislature in two separate funds for more than a decade, even as budget cuts threatened to close dozens of parks. Californians helped raise millions of dollars to keep the parks open. Before serving as a commanding general, Jackson oversaw the U.S. Jackson did not imme- diately return a telephone message left at his home in the San Diego County community of Fallbrook, near Camp Pendleton. His annual salary 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See PARKS, page 7A made," said Coatney, who grew up as a fourth-gener- ation dairy farmer and still grows table olives with her husband. Coatney has worked with reading specialists, editors, teachers and, of course, children to perfect her books aimed at sec- ond- and third-graders. The books include highlighted vocabulary words for the age group with a list at the end as well as colorful photos on each page, most of which Coatney snapped herself. While her journalistic background causes her to make sure each book is as fact-filled as it possibly can be, Coatney said she is learning that's not what See FARM, page 7A DN Staff Writer Tehama County Board of Supervisors meetings will soon be available to listen to through audio streaming on the Inter- net. The board approved an agreement Nov. 6 with IQM2 for meeting man- agement software that will include the ability to audio stream and possibly video stream meetings in the future. the new software to be fully functional in either January or February 2013. The software also will allow the public to search County staff expects county agendas and meet- ing minutes. According to a staff report, the county's exist- ing Questys management software is not user friendly and staff was not in favor of exploring enhancements due to the lack of the company's sta- bility. vides offsite storage of documentation. The IQM2 system pro- expand the software to other commissions and committees, including planning, sanitary landfill and transportation. The county plans to The 5-year contract with IQM2 was approved in the amount of $86,300. Adams named to Hall of Fame, again By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Honored in January for his achievements in high school football, Red Bluff resident Clarence "Bud" Adams, 83, was recently named to his high school Hall of Fame for track and field. Adams was born in Red Bluff in 1929 and moved to Klamath Falls, Ore. in his sophomore year of high school, where he attended and graduated from Henley High School. "We were just a small Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Bud Adams displays his award for being inducted into the Henley High School Hall of Fame for being on the 1946-1948 track and field teams that won state champions three years in a row. school, but we were state champs for three years," Adams said. He was inducted on Sept. 28 and 29 along with his teammates for the years 1946-1948, Adams said. was very proud of his team's accomplishments, moved back to Red Bluff in 1955, where he worked for Southern Pacific as a train engi- neer. Adams, who said he He also was employed at one time as a fork lift operator for Louisiana Pacific, where he worked until retirement. In retirement, Adams continues to be actively involved in the communi- ty and has volunteered for the Tehama County Sheriff's Departments Sheriff's Team of Active and Retired Seniors (STARS) unit for about 15 years, he said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynew s.com. 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