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02-03-20 News ! SERVING EASTERN SHASTA, NORTHERN LASSEN, WESTERN MODOC & EASTERN SISKIYOU COUNTIES 70 Cents Per Copy Vol. 44 No. 1 Burney, California Telephone (530) 335-4533 FAX (530) 335-5335 Internet: www.im-news.com E-mail: [email protected] MARCH 20, 2002 What’s Happening Search on Locally This Week for Burney Bye Bye Birdie Fall River High School will be fi re chief presenting their spring musi- BY MEG FOX cal Bye Bye Birdie Thursday, The Burney Fire Department will Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. begin advertising April 18 for the each night, in the multipur- new fi re chief they hope to hire by pose room at the high school July. in McArthur. The play revolves Fire Chief Larry Sullivan is retir- around the turmoil created for ing in May and until then is taking his vacation time. a music company and a small The department’s hiring and country town when a national fi nance committees met and estab- teen singing idol enters the lished a hiring time line and salary army in the 1950s. Telephone range, which Commissioner Lynn 336-5515 for more informa- Miller presented for approval at the tion. March 13 board meeting. The position is being offered at $3,455 to $4,000 per month, Not My Cup of Tea (or $41,460 to $48,000 annually), Mountain Community Theater depending on experience and quali- will present Not My Cup of Tea fi cations, plus benefi ts. at the Mountain Community Mike Moishe, a Burney volunteer Center in Round Mountain Sat- fi refi ghter, asked the commission- urday, 7 p.m. A dinner will be -Please See Page 2 served at 6 p.m. and includes Mexican Fare, salad, dessert and beverage. Dinner and PG&E outage show for adults is $7, $3.50 for children; show only adults $3.50, and $2 for children. affects 2,332 Telephone 337-6651 or 337- 6367 for more information. customers The cause of a power outage Fire signups lasting more than four hours and The California Department of Cedar Creek Elementary School’s third-fourth-grade teacher Toni Owens lends a hand while affecting 2,332 Pacifi c Gas and Forestry and Fire Protection her students Christian Dyer and Leonard Thomas, both 9, participate in the March 14 tree Electric customers Saturday has will be renewing or initiating planting project next to the Round Mountain Post Offi ce. yet to be determined. new emergency equipment Lisa Randle, spokesperson for rental agreements for the PG&E, said there is “no defi nite 2002-2005 agreement term cause,” but that workers had deter- Saturday at the Burney CDF R.M. community mined a wire was down about three station in Johnson Park. All miles from Burney leading to a transmission failure. vendors are uged to attend the comes together The outage began at 11:13 a.m. scheduled signup as there will and power wasn’t restored to all be no mid-season signups this customers until 3:32 p.m. year. Vendors should not bring to build park In Burney, 1,816 customers were their equipment to the signup. BY MEG FOX affected, another 416 in Johnson Equipment inspections will be What began as cleanup in the dale next Park, 97 in Cassel, two in Montgom- scheduled at a later date. Tele- to the Round Mountain Post Offi ce has ery Creek, and one in McArthur. phone 225-2409 or 225-2411 brought together community members, for more information. young and old, to build a little park. It hasn’t taken too much to pull off – the desire of Postmaster Christine Bjorklund to Airport Horse health do some spring cleaning, the nonstop enthu- Dr. Ken Evans is sponsor- siasm and leadership of Round Mountain ing an equine health meeting resident Lee Hottel, and some agreeable, plans aired March 27, 7 p.m. at Ingram hardworking community members. Hall at the Intermountain fair- “You don’t need grants, you just need grounds in McArthur. The topic some people willing to do a little work,” said at meeting is West Nile Virus and other resident Bob Newman, a member of the About 32 pilots and residents park’s birdhouse builders crew. caccinal diseases. Those who attended a public meeting on the “We were trying to bring the community proposed runway extension at the plan on attending are urged to together on something,” said Hottel. telephone 336-5053 before the Stan Tonkin Airfi eld in Fall River Third and fourth grade students from Mills. event. the Cedar Creek Elementary School have With a $1.2 million grant from the planted native trees among the sprouting Federal Aviation Administration, the daffodils. Lee Hottle explains to Cedar Creek Elementary School DPW plans to replace runway light- WEATHER “The children will grow in the community student Kayla Schmidt, 9, that young trees have to be ing and extend the existing 3,600- -Please See Page 8 treated as carefully as small babies. foot-long runway by 1,000 feet. FORECAST “The number one driver for this Today, increasing high clouds project is safety,” said Thomas with highs in the lower 60s. Hays, accountant-auditor for the Tonight, partly cloudy with lows Shasta County Department of in the mid to upper 20s. Thurs- Public Works (DPW). day, partly cloudy with highs “The existing runway is too short in the mid 50s to 60. Friday Fall River student’s artwork for the larger and faster aircraft. We also need to bring the airport up through Sunday, cooler with a to current FAA specifi cations,” he chance of showers. Lows in the said. upper 20s to low 30s. Highs in chosen for Ducks Unlimited With the exception of runway the 40s. Monday, dry with lows overlay, this will be the fi rst major in the mid 20s to lower 30s. BY MEG FOX 22-26 in New Orleans. improvement to the airport since it Highs 50-55. A current forecast Ashley Nielsen, a second The contest was started by was built in the 1940s as a training is updated about 4 a.m. and 4 grade student at Fall River Brown 10 years ago and is spon- site for pilots in World War II, said p.m. daily on The News web Elementary School, created sored by the California Green- Dan Kovacich, deputy director of site at www.im-news.com. the design that will be used for wing Program of Ducks Unlim- the DPW. California’s 2002 Ducks Unlim- ited for youth ages 11 to 17. The Fall River Valley Chamber TEMPERATURES ited pin. “I thought it would be fun to get of Commerce hosted the meeting Hi Low Rain “This is a really big deal,” more young people involved,” March 11 to provide the county with March 12 57 38 .05 said Leslie Ann Brown, state Brown said. public input on the proposal and March 13 50 25 Trace publicity chairperson for Ducks Pam Perkins, a volunteer art the two options for extending the Unlimited, of Stockton. teacher at Fall River Elementary, runway. March 14 50 16 .05 Ashley, 8, and her parents heard about the art contest and The runway could extend by 400 March 15 51 17 .03 Mike and Carol Nielsen of entered 120 drawings done by feet at the north end and 600 feet March 16 45 27 Trace McArthur will be honored at the her students. at the south end or by the full 1,000 March 17 44 28 Trace Ducks Unlimited State Conven- “We had the most entries in feet at the south end only. March 18 54 15 .02 tion June 13-16 at Lake Tahoe. the state and they were very Some residents, such as Doug Trace of snow fell on March 14, 17 & 18. During the Saturday night impressed with our artwork,” Ontano, had concerns about air- One inch of snow fell on March 16. banquet, Ashley will receive a Perkins said. craft fl ying too close to Fall River Courtesy of Darryl Jones in Burney framed print of her design, a Students could use only four Elementary School if the southern pin, and a $50 savings bond. colors to do a drawing about extension is selected. The Intermountain News Brown also had 2,000 of waterfowl or conservation. Hays and Mike Shutt, an airport P.O. Box 1030 Ashley’s pins made for trading Ashley’s drawing depicts a consultant with Shutt Moen Associ- 36965 Main Street at the Ducks Unlimited National mallard on water with Mt. Shasta ates, the engineering fi rm for the Burney, California 96013 Convention taking place May ASHLEY NIELSEN in the background. project, said bank angles could be Open: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm -Please See Page 8 HAVE YOUR COMMUNITY DELIVERED TO YOUR MAIL BOX. CALL 335-4533 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY! PAGE 2 • MARCH 20, 2002 • THE INTERMOUNTAIN NEWS BREAKFAST SHERIFF’S LOG BOOK LUNCH Vandalism to the gate at going to Big Bend Spring her son had been assaulted telephone from the Burney on warrants. DINNER the Burney swimming pool the day before and hadn’t by three other juveniles. area. Cocktails, Beer & Wine and the cemetery gate on returned. The subjects were Margaret Truan reported a CHINESE & Bailey Avenue were reported later located by deputies. Dispatchers received Deputies arrested Tommy burglary to a business in Fall AMERICAN CUISINE Orders to Take Out Sunday morning. an incomplete call from a Watkins in Burney Thursday River Mills Thursday. 592 Market St. Deputies who were Johnson Park residence on Redding 241-9747 A dispute among neigh- attempting to serve a war- Garden Lane Saturday at 12: bors was reported Sunday rant on Mike Hackett Sunday 37 p.m.
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