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THURSDAY APRIL 29, 2010 Breaking news at: Cinco de Mayo Celebration Pastimes www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A RED BLUFF Tehama Thunder SPORTS 1B Partly cloudy 64/45 Weather forecast 6B 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 Museum burgled Corning spares fire dispatch By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — One of the two most hotly debated items in recent budget discussions was solved Tuesday at the City Council meeting, with the jobs of four Corn- ing fire dispatchers saved. There had been talk of retaining one dispatcher for day time and shifting dispatch to police dispatchers for the evening. After much support from the community, it was decided unanimously to apply $192,600 from the oper- ating reserve to the general fund to keep the dispatch- ers. Several members of the fire department spoke, including First Assistant Fire Chief Bob Hall and Fire Chief Martin Spannaus. “We have concerns because they are our lifeline,” Hall said of the dispatchers. “We have never questioned the police dispatch. We want a seamless change.” Hall likened the change from fire dispatchers to police dispatch within a 65-day period to being like get- ting a new plan on a cell phone. “It’s a huge change,” Hall said. “We don’t want pub- See FIRE, page 5A Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson The plexiglass on the donation box at the Red Bluff Round-Up Museum was shattered sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning in a burglary. A pair of belt buckles and revolvers also were taken. By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer Jim Froome did not live long enough to see his idea for a Red Bluff Round-Up Museum through, but 10 years ago, his brother George Froome saddled up and helped make it a reality. On Monday, a few minutes past 9 a.m., George Froome, now the museum president, came into work like any other day and was greeted by shattered plexiglass and wood, dollar bills and a bro- ken flagstaff, thrown to the ground and missing its eagle but still holding the American flag, he said. A week after the Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo finished, the Round-Up Museum was the tar- get of a burglary of nearly $4,500 ‘It’s pretty low- life when you break into a museum,’ Round -Up President Dave Ramelli in cash and goods, some which are irreplaceable. Museum exhibits, including a pair of revolvers and a pair of championship belt buckles, were taken in what Froome said he thinks was a messy, hasty bur- glary, the kind so frantic some- one left money behind. Sheriff’s deputies listed cash, letter openers, money clips and alcohol among the stolen goods the from the museum. It looked as though someone grabbed the flagpole and used it to break into the donation box, snapping off the eagle on the top in the process, Froome said. Deputies put the time of the crime somewhere between 5 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday, when someone reportedly snuck in through a window screen. The main offices, a donation box and the museum’s display cabinets were raided over the course of the burglary. In the process the window was damaged beyond repair and the burglars, making their way from room to room, kicked in the wood doors separat- ing offices from the main room. The revolvers date back about See MUSEUM, page 5A Farm Bureau, DN candidates night The Tehama County Farm Bureau and the Daily News will host a Candidates Forum to be held at 6:30 p.m. Mon- day, May 3, at the Red Bluff Veterans Memori- al Hall — corner of Oak and Jackson streets. The forum is open to candidates for Tehama County offices and for United States Represen- tative District 2, Cali- fornia Assembly Dis- trict 2 and California Senate District 4. Greg Stevens, pub- lisher of the Daily News, will serve as moderator for the forum. After introductions, each candidate will be given three minutes to make opening remarks. Following that, pre- screened written ques- tions will be taken from the floor and directed to individuals or groups of candidates. The screen- ers will reserve the right to determine whether a question is appropriate, and all questions per- taining to one office will be directed to all candi- dates for that office. Screeners will select questions at their discre- tion. The final portion of the forum will be a two- minute concluding remark from each candi- date. Uncontested candi- dates will have a maxi- mum of two questions. Contested candidates will have a maximum of four questions. Answers See NIGHT, page 5A Hail pelts Lake California Kindergartners are bee students By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Kindergartners at Ante- lope Elementary School got a sweet and fuzzy up close lesson Wednesday to finish their study on bees. In show-and-tell style, Ashtyn Arrowsmith and her father, Clint Arrow- smith, taught Ashtyn’s classmates all they ever needed and wanted to know about bees. Courtesy photo A hail storm moved through Lake California Wednesday, dropping a large amount of the pellets on the community. Growing worry over Calif. school cuts SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Californians are increasingly worried about how state budget cuts are affecting public schools, and they are unhappy with how their political leaders are han- dling education, accord- ing to a survey released late Wednesday. The Public Policy Institute of California’s sixth annual K-12 educa- tion survey found that 62 percent of residents believe there isn’t enough state funding going to their public schools, a 12 percent increase over last year. The survey found that 43 percent of public school parents say spend- ing cuts have See CUTS, page 5A 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 POWER PRODUCTS DOLMAR Red Bluff Outdoor Power affected their children’s schools a lot — a 15 percent jump — and another 38 percent Students were abuzz with questions from how bees make honey and how long it takes to why a bee- keeper’s suit is white? Bees make honey by sucking nectar from flow- ers and plants and taking it back to the hive, Ashtyn said. A frame can fill with- in a day if there is a big honey flow. Beekeepers wear white suits because certain colors make bees mad, Clint said. Bees like the color white and beekeepers do, too, because it keeps them cool while working outside. Each hive has about 40,000 working bees, but only one queen bee. While the queen bee can live up to 5 years, worker bees only live a few months. Students were reassured that queen bees are harm- less in that they do not sting. Ashtyn played with a queen bee and showed it off to her classmates offering Daily News photo by Tang Lor Kindergartners look at a display beehive during a presentation by Clint Arrowsmith. to let them hold it. Bees are important because they play a crucial role in creating food for humans. “Without bees there would be no food,” Clint said. Bees also make honey, which is food for humans and bees alike. Each stu- dent was given a bottled honey bear to take home. Arrowsmith is a second generation apiarist who manages about 9,000 bee- hives, which he provides to farmers and ranchers. This is his fifth year of bringing bees to school when the kindergartners learn about them.