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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A Breaking news at: Business Business of the Month RED BLUFF Athletes of the Week Showers likely 62/42 Weather forecast 8B DAILYNEWS SPORTS 1B 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 Corning seat comes down to 8 votes By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Willette Smith appears to have edged out incumbent John Leach by eight votes in the Corning City Council election. officials released a vote count Monday evening that included all mail-in, precinct, provisional and damaged ballots. Two 4-year terms were up for grabs in the council election. Tehama County election Tony Cardenas ran away with the first seat with 1,009 votes. Smith has 793 votes and Leach 785. There were five write-in votes out of the 2,592 cast. Tehama County Elections Former Corning Police Chief Department Assistant Registrar Jennifer Vise said, while every vote has been counted once, the tally is not final. The department must still do a hand count on 1 percent of the ballots in each race to verify the numbers before sending the results to the Board of Supervi- sors to certify. Vise said there would not be a recount unless a candidate asked Sprucing up downtown Hidden agenda? Tea Party members allege UN conspiracy By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The new city park in Corning, the creation of a coun- ty trails coordinator, and the appointment of two mem- bers to a non-profit economic planning agency were all fodder for Tea Party members Tuesday to accuse the Tehama County Board of Supervisors of pushing for- ward a 20-year-old non-binding United Nations sus- tainability plan. Tom Mohler, a regular attendee of the board meet- ings, said Agenda 21 has been pushed in America for decades, but few people see it. "We're seeing it, the ones who read through the Internet, what the government puts out in documents," Mohler said. During public comment, Mohler described a future See AGENDA, page 7A Card thieves get jail time By JULIE ZEEB Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Street Department workers and DPM Landscaping personnel put in a permanent living Christmas tree at the corner of Pine and Main streets Tuesday. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A 12-foot tall blue spruce Christmas tree arrived in town Tuesday morning to herald Santa's coming to town and everything else the holi- day entails. The tree, which arrives in time for the Christmas parade at 5:30 p.m. Satur- day, replaces the former living Christmas tree at the corner of Pine and Main Streets since 1980. Prior to the permanent location, trees were put in manholes at various inter- sections on main street, however, community arrested in 1997 disappearance Man and son KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — A man and his son have been arrest- ed in the 1997 disap- pearance of a 15-year- old girl in the far North- ern California commu- nity of McCloud. year-old Edward Ray Henline, Sr., of McCloud was arrested last week on suspicion of murder and conspira- cy in the disappearance of Hannah Zaccaglini. Authorities say 57- He is being held in Yreka, Calif. Edward Henline, Jr., of Klamath Falls, Ore., was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of conspiracy and being an accessory. He was being held in Klamath Falls pending extradition. His son, 35-year-old Sheriff 's Department has not said exactly what led them to Hen- line, Jr. and Henline, Sr. They say Zaccaglini The Siskiyou County 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 was last seen walking with the elder Henline near his house in McCloud. leader Orville Jacobs pushed for a permanent tree that was donated by residents and sponsored by the Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Com- merce. According to a plaque at the site, the permanent tree was put in on May 15, 1980. Welding students create artwork Welding program recently participated in the Red Bluff Art Assn Art Walk in downtown Red Bluff. Students in the welding program showed of their welding skills along with their artistic side; the work comprised of sculp- ture and functionality. Materials for the pro- jects were all metal, including scrap metal, sheet metal and horse shoes. Some projects were designed with CAD (com- puter aided drafting) then cut out with a plasma Red Bluff High School See WELDING, page 7A Smog Inspection $ COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) +$ 825 certificate 195 S. Main St. Red Bluff 530 527-9841 2595 PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-888-628-1948 Courtesy photo The Daily News office will be CLOSED Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 22 & Friday, Nov. 23 Retail advertising deadlines EDITION DEADLINE Thur. 11/22: Tues. 11/ 20, 10am Fri. 11/23: Tues. 11/ 20, 3pm Sat. 11/24: Wed. 11/ 21, 10am Tues. 11/27 Wed. 11/21, 3pm DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY Classified deadlines: EDITION DEADLINE Thur. 11/22: Wed. 11/ 21, noon Fri. 11/23: Wed. 11/21, noon Sat. 11/24: Wed. 11/ 21, noon Tues. 11/27 SEE BELOW Friday, November 23 for placement of classified ads to start Tuesday, 11/27 dial 1-855-667-2255 527-2151 • FAX 527-3719 545 DIAMOND AVE., RED BLUFF The previous tree was topped so it grew out instead of up and had become a hazard for city maintenance workers to put lights on, said Down- town Red Bluff Business Association Past Presi- dent Linda Bullock. See SPRUCE, page 7A Torres and Tabitha Marie Fischer were sentenced Tuesday in the Tehama County Superior Court in connection with credit card identity theft. Torres, 32, of Ana- heim, and Fischer, 19, of Orangevale, were arrested Sept. 21 in the Corning area after an officer found Torres outside a gas sta- tion with several prepaid credit cards. DN Staff Writer Salvador Cruz Valle From there, the investi- gation led to a Super 8 motel room in Corning where Torres had been staying. A consent search of the room was made and officers found Fischer and stacks of blank credit cards, prepaid credit cards and equipment used to make fake credit cards. Torres' attorney, Diane Martin Logan, asked that her client be given the midterm for the sentenc- ing guidelines due to his early admission of guilt and that he be given cred- it for time served. The District Attorney's See JAIL, page 7A See VOTES, page 7A