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TUESDAY Block It for Better Stretch DECEMBER 18, 2012 Classic Wrap Vitality Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 49/30 Weather forecast 8B 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 2 sought in attempted murder at Dog Island Red Bluff Police are looking for two men suspected of armed robbery and attempted murder after an incident early Saturday in Dog Island Park. Officers responded to the Classic Inn around 1:20 a.m. Saturday for a report of a 46-yearold victim of an assault, according to a press release from the Red Bluff Police Department. The victim, a man with visi- ble injuries to he lower back and face, told officers he had been sleeping at a transient camp in the park when two men wearing ski masks assaulted him and took property belonging to him and other occupants of the camp. Staff members at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital reported finding bullet fragments in the victim's lower back and he was Revelers brave weather taken to Mercy Medical Center in Redding for surgery. The injuries were not life threatening. The case is under investigation and nothing further was released. Manton man goes missing The son of a 55-year-old Manton man reported his father missing around 2:25 p.m. Sunday at the Red Bluff Police Department. Tyjal Folsom said a car belonging to his father, Robert Lee Folsom, was found in the parking lot of Casa Ramos Restaurant on North Main Street in Red Bluff around 9 p.m. Saturday along with his father's dog, but he was unable to find his father, according to a press release from the department. Folsom See MANTON, page 7A Gray wolf strays back into county By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Despite wind, rain and threat of snow, 64 people showed up Saturday to learn how early California celebrated the holidays at the 35th annual Pioneer Christmas Party at William B. Ide Adobe State Historical Park. Volunteers helped children and adults with a variety of craft projects from wool batting angels and snowflakes to hand sewn Christmas ornaments and tin punch ornaments. Hot wassail and coffee kept the crowd warm and the figgy pudding, which failed to light the year before, was successfully lit. The park continues its endeavors through the Ide Adobe Interpretive Association to provide the Life In the 1850s school program and three big events a year to teach Tehama County residents and visitors about the past. For more information call the park at 529-8599 or e-mail IdeAdobe@gmail.com. Pictured here Ide Adobe Interpretive Association President Judy Fessenden serves the figgy pudding. One of California's most famous recent visitors strolled back onto the radar Monday in northern Tehama County after several days of no satellite reading. OR-7, the gray wolf that left Oregon and became the first and only wolf to have been sighted in California since 1924, first visited Tehama County for a few days in July. His last known whereabouts prior to showing up in Tehama County Mon- day was Plumas County where all of his satellite readings appeared, amongst several no days of no reading, according to the California Department of Fish and Game blog: http://californiagraywolf.wordpress.com/. Since leaving his pack, the Oregon native has traveled back and forth across the California-Oregon border at least four times, roaming more than 2,500 air miles since leaving his Oregon pack with 1,500 of those in California. See WOLF, page 7A City to mull well Donors adopt 55 families in community repairs, report By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff City Council is scheduled to hear a pair of financial reports as well as consider a $42,000 contract to repair a city well pump when it meets tonight at 7. The city has often contracted with Commercial Pump & Mechanical (CPM) in the past to design and install the city's water wells. In October the council authorized the company for design and repair work to Pump 4, one of 12 maintained by the city. While the repairs were in progress, Pump 12 suffered a mechanical failure and was completely shut down. Tuesday's agenda item asks for the council to authorize a contract for design, pump repair and water lube conversion with CPM to get Pump 12 back on line as soon as possible. The city's fiscal year budget had provided allowances for three or four well repairs. The money comes from the city's Water Enterprise Fund. The council will hear the annual financial report for the fiscal year that 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 ended June 30. Among the financial highlights listed in the report are the city's assets exceeding its liabilities by $64,220,806 at the close of the fiscal year and the city's total net assets decreasing by $665,931 from the previous year. A separate agenda item will be a presentation of the city's sales tax report from the April to June 2012 reporting period. Receipts for sales were 8.1 percent higher than the same period a year ago. Higher fuel prices and a rise in the city's share of the countywide use tax allocation pool sparked the increase. The council will be asked to set a public hearing date for the a resolution of intention to levy a fiscal year assessment for the Downtown Red Bluff Parking and Business Improvement Area. Staff is asking for the public hearing to be scheduled for Jan. 15, 2013. Boundaries would remain the same according to an annual report the council accepted from the Downtown Red Bluff Business Association earlier this month. Assessments for Zone A would be $250 for retail and $175 for non retail and in Zone B $125 for retail and $100 for non-retail. Throughout the week of Dec. 10-14, elves in the form of Northern Valley Catholic Social Services employees and volunteers wrapped packages destined for the 55 families adopted in Tehama County. Tehama County Northern Valley Catholic Social Services (NVCSS) has been participating in the annual Adopt-A-Family program, which is in six northstate counties, for 10 years, Director Camilla Delsid said. The packages were given out during the same week they were wrapped, she said. "I wish that our donors could see the joy in the faces of the recipients," Delsid said. "That view is absolutely priceless. It's a true blessing not just to the families getting Christmas like this, but for us at NVCSS and the donors as well because the true spirit of Christmas comes through." The donors are always so selfless and she can tell a lot of love and thought has gone into the gifts, Delsid said. The families are selected and screened by other agencies in October and referrals are made to them, Delsid said. The group is seeing Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Northern Valley Catholic Social Services employees and volunteers wrap presents at the Red Bluff headquarters on Sycamore Street. The Daily News office will be closed for the Christmas Holiday, Monday, Dec. 24, Tuesday Dec. 25 & for New Years Holiday Monday, Dec. 31, Tuesday, Jan. 1 Advertising deadline for Tuesday editions is noon the previous Friday. Classified line ads will be accepted by telephone on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve until 3 PM. 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