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Today’s web bonus » See more photos and videos at chicoer.com INSIDE BASKETBALL SWEET BASIL STORMS PV downs Getting Heavy rain Sac for 1st the tender prompts round CIF braising on evacuation Dedicated to the betterment of playoff win this spring warnings the community Sports » B1 Food » C1 News » A2 since 1947 Bit of rain H:57 L: 46 PAGE B4 Wednesday, February 27, 2019 $1.00 FACEBOOK.COM/CHICOER TWITTER.COM/CHICOER » chicoer.com CAMP FIRE Disaster centers to close Friday Until Friday, their hours will the center to meet with business People get replacement By Chico Enterprise-Record identification cards at the [email protected] be: Chico 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon- owners and residents to explain day through Friday; and Paradise, SBA’s disaster loan programs. DMV table set up on Nov. CHICO » The Disaster Recovery 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through The center’s toll-free number is 16, 2018, in the Federal Centers in Chico and Paradise Friday. 1-800-659-2955. Emergency Management will close at the end of Friday. After Friday, the Chico location SBA representative Chelsea Ir- Agency Local Assistance The centers were opened to will transition into a U.S. Small vine noted updated SBA loan ap- Center in the Chico Mall. help Camp Fire victims. The Business Administration disas- proval data. She said there have The disaster assistance Chico center is in the old Sears ter loan outreach center, and will been 2,746 home loans approved, centers in Chico and location, 1982 E. 20th St. at the reopen March 5. The new hours at a total value of $313,526,481. Paradise are set to close Chico Mall, and in Paradise at will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday In the business category, there on Friday. 1080 Ewald Court at the Creative through Saturday. SBA customer have been 159 business loans ap- BIANCA QUILANTAN — Learning Center. service representatives will be at CENTERS » PAGE 4 ENTERPRISE-RECORD BUTTE COUNTY CHICO AIRPORT Panel decides STORM DRENCHES THE on new lease for longtime REGION, FLOODS ROADS airport tenant By Laura Urseny [email protected] @LauraUrseny on Twitter CHICO » Faced with an expiring lease for a longtime tenant, the Chico Airport Commission chose to end the lease for Schooler Fly- ing Co. and renegotiate a new one. Airport Manager Sherry Miller offered two options to the com- mission Tuesday night during a special meeting called to discuss the Schooler lease. Previously explaining that the Federal Aviation Administration frowned on long leases, Miller suggested renegotiating the lease, which had three more extensions of 10 years each. The Airport Commission agreed unanimously on a 5-0 vote to extend for 60 days the current lease, which was to ex- pire Thursday, and to bring back a new agreement at the April 30 regular meeting. Earlier, Harold Schooler told this publication he preferred to have his existing lease extended. AIRPORT » PAGE 4 BUTTE COUNTY MATT BATES — ENTERPRISE RECORD Online: See more photos Supervisors of the storm at CHICOER.COM Drivers try to navigate a flooded portion of Highway 99 just north of Chico on Tuesday. agree to more zoning changes, OROVILLE two festivals Dam staying low to provide room for wet weather By Robin Epley [email protected] With the heavy rains fore- By Robin Epley [email protected] casted for the area, that level is OROVILLE » The Butte County expected to rise, she said. Board of Supervisors got an up- OROVILLE » Oroville Dam is cur- “We are monitoring it very date on debris removal progress rently the only reservoir in the closely, staying very vigilant,” and said yes to two festivals that state that’s below average eleva- Mellon said. will take place later this year. tion — but that’s on purpose, said Both the main spillway and the They also re-addressed the coun- the state’s Department of Water emergency spillway are recon- ty’s urgent housing ordinance. Resources. structed and able to handle flows, The urgency ordinance, which “If the lake begins to rise very the press release said. “You may has been under several revisions quickly in the coming weeks due see activity on the main spillway since it’s initial adoption in De- to large storms and increased in- in the coming days as crews re- cember, further relaxes zoning flows, then DWR may consider us- move equipment from the chute restrictions following the hous- ing outflow mechanisms,” the de- to prepare for potential use.” ing crisis in the aftermath of the partment said in a press release. Lake Oroville is expected to Camp Fire. That could include using the main reach an elevation of approxi- The new revisions will allow spillway for the first time since it mately 825 feet by early March; private, temporary recreational was rebuilt. DWR’s target elevation is closer to vehicle parks in Agricultural The reservoir is currently at 835 feet, and could rise as high as STEVE SCHOONOVER — ENTERPRISE-RECORD Zones provided they are located 55 percent of total capacity, said 848 feet by the end of that month. After launch, a boater pulls his trailer out of Lake Oroville at the within a city or town, are on a DWR’s assistant director of pub- The department will allow the Lime Saddle boat ramp in January. The reservoir is currently at parcel totaling at least 20 acres, lic communications, Erin Mellon. lake to continue rising past 848 55 percent of total capacity, said DWR’s assistant director of and are currently classified as That’s about 80 percent of what feet, to build up water storage and public communications, Erin Mellon. That’s about 80 percent of grazing or other lands. it’s at on average. DAM » PAGE 4 what it is on average. BOARD » PAGE 4 WASHINGTON CHICO CRIME BUSINESS GOOD MORNING! 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Ket- clumsy proposal tering demonstrated Katy Perry gave details strandings his electric automobile on how Orlando Bloom starter in Detroit by pulled off his clumsy increase starting a Cadillac’s mo- Valentine’s Day proposal. tor with just the press It involved a helicopter, of a switch, instead of a ripped coat and spilled along coast hand-cranking. champagne. The singer said she The Associated Press thought their Valentine’s 1922 Day date was going to LAGUNA BEACH » Experts The Supreme Court, were working Tuesday to in Leser v. Garnett, end with art viewing, but instead Bloom brought her determine the cause of an unanimously upheld the increase in dolphin strand- 19th Amendment to to a helicopter, according to People. ings along the Southern the Constitution, which California coast. guaranteed the right of “So I’m reading this note The Pacific Marine Mam- women to vote. he handed me but I’m mal Center said it has re- hearing the champagne sponded to six beached dol- is broken, the bottle’s ev- phins this month and re- 1933 erywhere, he’s pulling out ceived reports of two others. Germany’s parliament this box that rips his coat ANDY BARRON — RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Necropsies have been per- building, the Reichstag, pocket and his elbow goes An unidentified man uses a rolled over high profile vehicle to shield himself from the formed on all the dolphins to was gutted by fire; into the champagne.” wind on the Interstate 580 south of Reno, Nev., on Monday. Winds gusting up to 80 try to determine the cause of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Perry said yes despite the mph toppled trucks, downed power lines and temporarily closed part of a highway south the strandings. blaming the Communists, mess that Bloom made. of Reno on Monday as another big winter storm started blowing into the Sierra Nevada The center’s veterinarian, used the fire to justify — Cicero Estrella, Bay Area where as much as 8 feet of snow is possible in the upper elevations above Lake Tahoe. Kristen Sakamaki, said in a suspending civil liberties. News Group statement there were a vari- ety of potential reasons, in- cluding viral infections, bac- 1951 Rain prompts evacuation terial infections and toxins. The 22nd Amendment to LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS “We may not always get the Constitution, limiting a definitive answer, but we a president to two terms Daily 3 Afternoon: warning for California town consider our research with of office, was ratified. 3, 8, 4 these dolphins to be a very Daily 3 Evening: Sgt. Spencer Crum. “We’re stay open until its normal important piece to the puz- 3, 1, 5 By Olga R. Rodriguez The Associated Press bringing our boats out here 10 p.m. closing time. zle in providing clues as to 1960 and we’re letting the pub- The National Weather what is going on in our near- The U.S.