Volume XV Issue 10 | Friday, August 12th, 2022
US Marshals Arrest PA Murder
Suspect in Downtown Susanville
US Marshals staked out a downtown motel Tuesday, arresting a Pennsylvania man facing homicide charges in connection with a May 29th shooting that occurred near Pottstown, PA.

Marshals from the agency were set up near the Super 8 Motel, located at 2975 Johnstonville Road, and observed the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Tyshaun Harvey, walking into the Walgreens Parking lot across the intersection.

At around 4:00p.m., the Susanville Police Department was contacted by the Marshals’ Fugitive Task Force, for assistance, as they prepared to take the suspect into custody.
“Agents converged on Mr. Harvey, he was taken into custody without incident,” explains SPD Captain Michael Bengoa-Bollinger.

“Officers assisted Agents with contacting Mr. Harvey’s acquaintances in the Hotel and seized a firearm located inside the hotel room.”

“It was said, Mr. Harvey has been in the Susanville area for the past week staying with an unidentified female, who has been working locally as a contracted nurse.”

Authorities from Pennsylvania say that on May 29th, police responded to a reported shooting in Pottstown, where investigators learned a Chrysler 300, owned and driven by Harvey, had been following a vehicle through the streets of Pottstown for 40 minutes before an exchange of gunfire began between the two cars, resulting in a death.

Harvey was taken to the Lassen County Jail where he was booked on his warrant and to begin extradition proceedings back to Pennsylvania.
Herlong Public Utility District Recognized as “District of Distinction”
The Herlong Public Utility District received the “District of Distinction – GOLD” accreditation by the Special District Leadership Foundation for its sound fiscal management policies and practices in district operations.

There are over 2,200 Special Districts in California, only forty-one have applied and received their Recognition for “District of Distinction” and only three including Herlong PUD have reached the gold accreditation.
“SDLF provides an independent audit review of the last three years of the district’s operations to ensure prudent fiscal practices,” said Neil McCormick, SDLF Chief Executive Officer. The committee members who review the audits are volunteers from the special district community, including district controllers, directors of finance and certified general managers.

In addition, the district’s board of directors and executive staff must also show proof of educational training in public governance, as well as compliance with ethics and harassment prevention training.

Furthermore, to receive the recognition, the district’s website must include posting of transparency requirements, including posted board meeting schedule and agendas, current district budget, most recent financial audit, and a list of compensation of board members and staff or a link to the State Controller’s webpage with the data.

HPUD is also 1 of 161 districts that have received their accreditation for Transparency Certificate of Excellence. HPUD is striving to make a difference in their community.
Lassen Family Services CASA Superhero Fun Run Scheduled for August 20th
Lassen Family Services CASA Program will be holding a Superhero themed 5K fun run and one mile walk on Saturday, August 20th, to help support programs for abused and neglected children in Lassen County.

The event, which starts at the Senior Center on Sunkist Drive, will be family friendly with the walk and run, fire and police equipment, a costume contest and more.

Registration is $20 and All Proceeds Benefit the CASA Program and don’t forget to wear your favorite superhero or villain costume.
You can pre-register at eventbrite.com, mail-in or walk-in to Lassen Family Services’ office at 1306 Riverside Drive in Susanville.

On-site registration, for those who haven’t registered online, starts at 7:00 and runners will start at 8:00 with walkers following.
BLM Offering New Opportunity for Wild Horse and Burro Partnerships
The Bureau of Land Management is announcing new grants available to public and private partners to help support the agency’s mission to manage and protect wild horses and burros. The funding opportunity is open to local and state governments, tribes, other federal agencies and non-profit organizations.

“The BLM is excited to continue our efforts at working collaboratively with institutions of education, non-profit organizations and other government agencies to manage and protect wild horses and burros on public lands,” said Holle’ Waddell, BLM Wild Horse and Burro Division Chief.
“Whether it’s to help improve habitat quality, find good homes for our living legends, or apply birth control on the range, I encourage the broader wild horse and burro community to seriously consider this opportunity to partner with the BLM on these important actions.”

This is the second year that the BLM has invited proposals for wild horse and burro projects through a new streamlined and centralized funding opportunity. Grant sizes will range from $1,000 to $50,000.

An example of an on-going project awarded through the previous funding opportunity can be found in Oregon, where a public-private partnership helps dart difficult-to-reach wild horses with a birth-control vaccine.

Thanks to the collaboration with local non-profit partner High Desert Strategies, 150 wild horses have been treated on public lands in eastern Oregon, which is slowing herd growth and reducing the need to remove animals to address overpopulation.

Partnerships formed through this funding opportunity will support critical activities important to the management of wild horses and burros. Proposed off-range projects will be accepted until October 31st, 2022 and could include activities such as facilitating the placement of excess animals into private care or providing educational opportunities to the public.

Projects to support on-range activities, such as building habitat improvements or applying fertility control to wild horses and burros, can be submitted November 1st, 2022 to January 31st, 2023.

Proposals to care for excess wild horses and burros in off-range facilities and proposals to fund research are not eligible under this funding opportunity.

Applicants may propose to partner with BLM field, district state and national offices. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact the relevant BLM subject matter expert identified in the funding opportunity notice to discuss the type of projects that may be possible, and whether they would meet the requirements under this funding opportunity.

To learn more or for instructions on how to submit an application, visit the Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov.
A section of the wagon road exploration map from 1857
showing the Nobles Trail through the Honey Lake Valley.
From Kirk’s Wagon Road Expedition
August 12, 1857

The northern part of Honey Lake Valley is a fine piece of country, and is fast being settled; there is already quite a number of families here. The Valley runs north 45 degrees west, and on the western and southern side has plenty of fine timber. The lake is from fifteen to twenty miles long and about ten wide. The water at the most southern end is rather brackish, but at the most northern end it is good, from the fact that Susan river, (named after Mrs. Susan Noble,) and a large number of fine springs empty into this part of the lake.

The PahutahIndians live in this Valley, and are generally a fine looking and intelligent set of Indians, and unlike the Diggers, are industrious and not afraid to work.

The entire appearance of the country east of the Sierra Mountains is somewhat broken, but the mountains are detached and valleys intervening so that there is a little or no difficulty in passing from one point to another in any direction.

The Valley is generally good, and capable of being cultivated, and, in the course of time, will be settled. It is true that the valleys are generally small, but they are numerous and will produce almost anything that will grow in California, and it is of vital importance to the central portion of the State that the great thoroughfare should go into the State by the Johnson route, which is the most central.

Now is the golden moment, and if the people of Sacramento and Placerville, and the counties surrounding, but do their duty now, they can take the trade and travel that way for all time to come. Let them look to it well.

Mr. Kirk, myself and five or six more, will start out tomorrow to explore the country around Pyramid Lake, and consequently will not probably, leave this camp for at least a week. Men and animals all well and got along finely so far, not having had a serious accident of any kind as yet. Our party now numbers sixty-seven, all told, and all in fine spirits.

I must endeavor to write you again before we leave this place. Respectfully yours, &c., Frank Denver.
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