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FRIDAY Students Seek Gingerbread Man DECEMBER 14, 2012 Classic Results Education Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 7A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Partly cloudy 51/34 TEHAMA COUNTY DAILY 50�� T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Weather forecast 12B Modest growth sends California population to 37.8M Tehama County up 1.7 percent SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� California���s population grew at the same modest pace during the year that ended in July as it did during the previous 12 months, sending the population to 37.8 million, according to a state population estimate released Thursday. The report by the Department of Finance indicated Tehama County grew 1.7 percent to 63,351. The report by the Depart- ment of Finance also found the state lost 14,000 people due to net migration, meaning more people left California than moved in. While the state gained about 96,000 immigrants from other countries, it lost nearly 110,000 people to other states. That marked the smallest net migration loss for California in recent years, suggesting a slowdown in the flow of people who are relocating. However, due to the birth rate, California added 256,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012 for a growth rate of 0.7 College Fair DN Staff Writer See FAIR, page 11A See GROWTH, page 11A Man falls while fleeing police A 37-year-old man on was arrested after he fell trying to flee from Red Bluff police officers Thursday morning. Around 2:30 a.m. police officers saw a group of men standing in front of Baskin-Robbins. As an officer made contact with the group, one of the men, later identified as Aaron Matthew Perry, ran away. Officers pursued the man in their vehicles while he ran on foot toward the Crystal Apartments. The man was taken into custody when he slipped and fell down an embankment. Perry is on Post Release Community Supervision and had a warrant for his arrest. He was booked into Tehama County Jail without bail. By JULIE ZEEB Maywood Middle School added more colleges, both in the number of schools present and sessions, to its College and Career Fair held Wednesday. ���I���ve already been hearing the students say ���this is great��� and that they���re learning,��� Maywood Principal David Cory said as the event drew to a conclusion. For its fourth annual event, there was an extra session of college presenters for the eighth graders and the addition of UC Davis and the Institute of Technology. Other colleges present included Butte Community College, California State University, Chico, Shasta College and Simpson University. In one classroom, Army Reserve Specialist Josh Wagner, who attended Maywood while growing up in Corning, talked about the military. The 24-year-old, who was the honor grad in his boot camp, served four years active duty in the Army, including a tour in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said. While the military will take people with a high school diploma, college is strongly recommended, he said. ���You���ll make about $2,400 a month if you don���t go to school, but with a college degree it���ll be double to triple that,��� Wagner said. percent. During the past year, the state logged more than a half-million births compared with 234,000 deaths. In recent decades, California routinely grew from births and from incoming migration. How- County joins dispute with PG&E By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Jill Pierre of Mill Creek Restaurant in Los Molinos puts sprinkles on a chocolate covered marshmallow during a demonstration Wednesday at Maywood Middle School���s Fourth Annual College and Career Fair. Tehama County is joining with public agencies including the cities of San Jose and Oakland to call for a meeting with Pacific Gas & Electric President Christopher Johns to discuss the company���s recent changes to an underground utility conversion program. The Board of Supervisors authorized Public Works Director Gary Antone to add his name to a letter addressed to Johns Tuesday that includes representatives from the cities of Cupertino, Hayward, Oakland and San Jose. The letter addresses the public agencies��� concerns over a lack of negotiations regarding a change to the Rule 20A Underground Utility Program. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) program was created in 1968 to convert overhead utilities to underground systems. The program is funded by PG&E through tariffs. In December 2010, PG&E initiated a new agreement to perform tariff schedule related work, which was approved by the CPUC a month later. Under the new agreement, many of the costs associated with future Rule 20A projects are shifted to the public agencies. Those costs include any associated with potential contaminated soils and cultural resource findings that may arise regardless of whether the public agency has financial or legal responsibility to begin with. The agreement also calls for public agencies to provide free-of-charge See PG&E, page 11A Logue: North State Firefighters deliver donations to Salvation Army meeting with Gov. Brown rescheduled again By LAURA URSENY MediaNews Group SACRAMENTO ��� The date for an upcoming discussion about California labor law e n f o r c e m e n t Logue has been rescheduled again. Last week, Assembly Dan Logue (R-Loma Rica) announced that Gov. Jerry Brown had set the date for a follow-up discussion to California Labor Commissioner Julie Su's visit to Chico. That meeting's date was Jan. 7. On Monday, Logue aid Cliff Wagner called to say the governor's office had changed the date to Jan. 8. The meeting will still be in Sacramento. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Logue said he was contacting north state businesses with issues over labor law enforcement to meet with Brown. Companies are anxious to participate, he said, indicating this area of regulation needs reform. Businesses during the Su meeting in Chico voiced a number of concerns, including standards that injured businesses, double standards on enforcement, and improper behavior by field investigators. Soon after Su's visit to Chico, which was marked by a standing-room only gathering in the city council chambers, Logue said he got a call from Brown, asking to speak to some of those businesses. Set for Sacramento, the meeting has been rescheduled several times by the See LOGUE, page 11A Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Tehama County Fire Dibble Creek Volunteer Brandyn Sousa and CalFire Public Information Officer Kevin Colburn unload a pickup truck full of donations Tuesday at the ���Tis the Season Food Drive benefiting the Red Bluff Salvation Army held in the Raley���s parking lot. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. Unemployed due to Closure or Layoff? Start the new year in training or at a new job! Visit the Job Training Center 718 Main Street ��� Red Bluff Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm. Financial Assistance Available.