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Obituary ARABELLE H. MAITIA Born in Corning, CA. on March 9, 1925, she grew up in Flournoy, CA. She married Mike Maitia on November 23, 1944, and they lived at the Mitchel Ranch north east of Paskenta for a short time before moving to Fort Klamath, OR., later they moved back to Flournoy to raise their fam- ily. Arabelle is survived by her husband Mike, daughter Smoky Hutchens, sons Doug Maitia and Ross Maitia, 6 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Private services will be held at a later date. Death Notice Mary A. Partsch Mary A. Partsch died Friday, Dec. 24, 2010, in Anderson. She was 69. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. AUTHOR Continued from page 1A group who hung out at a local coffee shop in down- town Salem, Ore. “I learned to love and connect to people despite my mother telling me I wasn’t worthy of friend- ship and love,” Kuts said. At 14, Kuts’ mother abandoned her with those friends and returned to Southern California. Kuts no longer has any connec- tions with her mother, nor does she want to speak to her, Kuts said. She has since done research about children who are in similar abusive environments, and accord- ing to the research those who are able to transcend are those who believe their parents are the prob- lem and not them, Kuts said. “My mother was the problem,” Kuts said. “I knew that, and that was the saving grace.” Children who have an outlet, such as drawing or writing, are more likely to survive the abuse, she said. Kuts has both. SACRAMENTO (AP) — The Department of Water Resources conducted its first snow survey of the season Tuesday and found the snowpack in California’s mountains is holding nearly twice as much water than average for this time of year. The heavy snowpack across the 400-mile-long Sierra Nevada range means the state will likely be able to boost water deliveries next year to cities and farms coping with a recent drought. The agency previously projected the state will deliver half of the water requested next year. The lat- est results mean the allocation is almost certain to rise, providing some relief to the state’s water shortage. ‘‘This boosts our hopes that we will have an adequate water supply for our cities and farms as we con- tinue to shake off effects of the 2007-09 drought,’’ Mark Cowin, the department’s director, said in a statement. Arabelle H. Maitia, 85, passed away December 1, 2010. OPEN Continued from page 1A Chico store in 1989, after partnerships in three furni- ture stores in Utah, Maxwell said. For right now, the two stores are sharing employ- DUI Continued from page 1A started in the middle of the road multiple times. Smith was arrested on suspi- cion of DUI, driving with a blood alcohol content of more than .08 percent, hit and run and driving on a suspended license. She was booked into Tehama County Jail for the second day in a row. Bail She is an accomplished artist whose drawings have been showcased in galleries and has several published comic books and a children’s book. Most people think of her as an artist and are sur- prised to find out she is a writer, too, she said. The memoir is a compi- lation of journal entries told in story form. “Reading through my journal, the ones that you think weren’t going to be that difficult were the hardest ones to read” she said. “It was a healing experience turning the The final amount of water that can be delivered to 25 million Cali- fornians and nearly 1 million acres of farmland will largely depend on how the weather develops into spring. Tuesday’s snow survey was the first of five that will be conduct- ed for the season. The state delivered 35 percent of the water requested in 2008, 40 per- cent in 2009 and 50 percent this year. The last time the state was able to deliver 100 percent of allo- cation was in 1996. Even in wet years, allocations are hard to achieve because of pumping restrictions in the Sacra- mento San Joaquin Delta to protect a threatened fish. Frank Gehrke, the department’s snow survey section chief, warned that while the initial results look great, it’s too soon to tell how the season will end because of the cli- mate phenomenon known as La Nina. La Nina usually brings drier months later in the season. ‘‘We don’t know if this is a wrin- — It was the kind of over- the-top pledge Californians had come to expect from the Hollywood action star they had elevated to the gover- nor’s office in their unprece- dented political revolt: Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldn’t just rearrange the boxes of a bloated state bureaucracy, he would ‘‘blow them up.’’ The ‘‘Governator,’’ who rode voter discontent into office during the 2003 recall election, said he would streamline a wasteful gov- ernment to trim its cost, consolidate departments with overlapping responsi- bilities and eliminate unneeded boards and com- missions. As Schwarzenegger pre- pares to leave office in Jan- uary, most of the boxes sur- vive. Some have been rearranged, some have expanded, and at least one restructuring has been criti- cized for causing more harm than good. ‘‘Every governor pro- poses moving boxes around to reorganize government. I don’t want to move the boxes around; I want to blow them up,’’ he said in his first State of the State address in January 2004. ‘‘We have multiple depart- ments with overlapping responsibilities. I say con- solidate them. We have boards and commissions that serve no pressing public need. I say abolish them.’’ He ordered a study — later named the California Performance Review — which issued recommenda- tions in August 2004 that would have been the largest reorganization of state gov- ernment since the 1960s. The performance review proposed consolidating 11 agencies and 79 depart- ments into 11 major depart- ments while eliminating 12,000 state jobs. It said 117 of the 339 boards and com- missions it examined should be eliminated to save $34 million and 1,153 jobs, many paying more than $100,000 a year. ‘‘No one paid by the state should make $100,000 a year for only meeting twice a month,’’ Schwarzenegger said in his January 2005 State of the State address. Yet he contin- ued appointing members to many of those same boards, using the appointments as every governor before him had — to reward termed- out lawmakers who had supported his proposals. Schwarzenegger target- ed 88 of the boards and commissions in a January 2005 report. Yet by the time the report was issued, Schwarzenegger was already moving on to other priorities and into a phase of confrontation with lawmak- ers. ees. However, the business is looking for at least one delivery driver locally, Clift said. “We’d like to support the community in any way we can,” Clift said. In the next few months, the Walnut Street store will be expanding. Plans Wednesday, December 29, 2010 – Daily News – 5A said. include taking over a retail space next door. By the time it is complete, the Red Bluff store will be roughly half the size of the Chico store, Maxwell said. The store offers mat- tresses, sofas, dressers and table sets. It is a good fit for Red Bluff, Maxwell was set at $5,540. On Sunday, Smith was arrested in the 100 block of Gilmore Road and booked into jail on the misde- meanor charge of disorderly con- duct: alcohol. A DUI/drivers license check- point was held 6-11 p.m. Monday in Corning and 375 vehicles were screened. One field sobriety test, which was failed, was administered and James Hernandez, 36, of Corning, journal entries into a book.” The book was released earlier this month and can be found at amazon.com. Kuts has made arrange- ments to speak to students at Red Bluff Union High School when they return from winter break. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.co m. California snowpack holding twice the water kle in the pattern, or if we’re going to get lower storm activity later on in the winter,’’ Gehrke said. Most of the state’s major reser- voirs are near or above normal levels for this time of year. Lake Oroville, the State Water Project’s principal reservoir in Butte Coun- ty, is at 95 percent of normal, holding 2.1 million acre-feet of water. The lake last filled to its 3.5 million acre-foot capacity in 2003. The latest survey found water content in the overall snowpack at 198 percent of normal. Electronic readings showed northern moun- tains at 169 percent of normal for this time of year, central mountains at 180 percent and southern moun- tains at 261 percent. A manual survey conducted near Lake Tahoe at Philips Station regis- tered 158 percent of normal water content in 56 inches of snow. The statewide snowpack was 85 percent of normal this time last year. Schwarzenegger promise to blow up boxes fizzled SACRAMENTO (AP) A month later, he for- mally withdrew his reorga- nization plan, saying in a letter that ‘‘I have concluded that this proposal will bene- fit from further review.’’ His office counts 34 boards and commissions that were eliminated or consolidated during his administration, though not all were as a result of his efforts. Schwarzenegger could have used ‘‘the power of the bully pulpit and his her- culean appeal’’ to push through reforms that had widespread voter support, said George Passantino, who helped guide the per- formance review as a con- sultant with the Reason Foundation, a Republican- oriented think tank. ‘‘Only the governor can say whether this was a sin- cere effort or more show- manship,’’ said Passantino, now managing partner of a public affairs firm in Palm- dale. ‘‘At the time, I believed it was very, very sincere. The enthusiasm was palpable.’’ Schwarzenegger never resubmitted the reorganiza- tion plan, concentrating instead on an end-run around the Legislature with a hodgepodge of ballot ini- tiatives for a 2005 special election. Voters rejected all four of his proposed reforms, which would have extended the time it took teachers to gain tenure, made it harder for public employee unions to collect dues, limited state spending and implemented redistrict- ing reform. ‘‘He comes into office as an outsider saying ’I’m going to blow up the boxes,’ and he gets to Sacramento and he realizes that the Leg- islature is the biggest box. The process itself is the box. So to get anything done, he had to blow up the political process,’’ said Susan Kennedy, a Democrat who Schwarzenegger hired as his chief of staff after he was trounced in the special election. ‘‘He turned his attention to big reform and changing that.’’ His biggest change was consolidating the adult and juvenile prison systems in 2005. The administration had hoped the streamlined agency would reduce the number of parolees who quickly return to prison, rein in its runaway budget, improve inmate medical care and end abuses of juve- nile offenders. Yet critics say the deci- sion backfired by creating a behemoth too big to man- age. The Little Hoover Com- mission, which investigates government operations, said ongoing problems with adult prisons quickly over- shadowed the juvenile insti- tutions. It has recommend- ed separating oversight of juvenile offenders, who are housed in a combination of county and state lockups, from what became the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Her message to them and all children is to stay in school and value educa- tion. “This town is geared toward what we do,” he said. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. was arrested on suspicion of DUI. The campaign, which started Dec. 17, continues through mid- night on Sunday, Jan. 2. For more information on the campaign or updated statistics visit www.californiaavoid.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. STORM Continued from page 1A we can handle up to what happened last week,’’ Peters said. About 50 homes remained evacuated Tuesday. The California Department of Transportation, mean- while, worked on extensive storm damage to routes in the inland counties east of Los Angeles. Among the worst damage sites was a section of State Route 330 that slid down a mountain, leaving a huge gap in the road that leads to resorts at Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. There was no estimate of how long it would take to restore the route, Caltrans said. The storm was expected to renew the potential for debris flows and mudslides in areas denuded by wild- fires, including the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles’ foothill suburbs. Those communities escaped trouble last week as flood control basins captured debris. Forecasters said most of the rain would fall in a four to six hour period and would be followed by wide- spread, potentially damaging winds and with very cold temperatures Wednesday night through Thursday night. Gusts up to 70 mph were possible in the mountains of Southern California, and the combination of strong winds on top of saturated soil conditions could lead to toppled trees and downed power lines. Supreme Court denies governor’s office sale SACRAMENTO (AP) — The California Supreme Court has denied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request to let him complete the sale of state office properties before he leaves office next week. Acting Justice Patricia Benke issued a one-line ruling on Tuesday denying the governor’s petition to allow the transaction to go through before Jan. 3. The ruling means the decision to sell the build- ings will fall to Gov.-elect Jerry Brown. Three former members of the state building authority had sued to stop the sale, saying it amounts to an unlawful gift of public funds. An appeals court temporarily halted the sale. Benke and six other judges were appointed to the case after the entire Supreme Court recused itself. The high court is housed in one of the state properties that would be sold. WE SAID in November of 1965 Both Mrs. Minch of Red Bluff and Mrs. Jones of London attempted to enter the Hilton Hotel in San Francisco at noon last Friday. It was just about a draw. The missus had dropped me off in the financial district for a business luncheon and had proceeded to the Hilton with our four children in the Ford station wagon. As she neared the hotel, she saw the police, the press and the gawkers. The first cop said, “Move on, lady.” The missus said, “I want to register at the hotel.” The cop repeated his order to move on. She went around the block once, twice, three times. On the next go around, she parked at the main entrance to the garage. Cops swarmed over the little Ford with fixed bayonets or something. The missus gets a little incoherent at this point when retelling the story. Police Chief Cahill shouted, “Lady…you can’t park here!” The missus replied, “I’ve driven 200 miles with these four kids and I am not driving around the block one more time!” Chief Cahill protested, “But lady, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden are due any minute for a charity luncheon!” The missus said, “Not one more time. I’ve had it!” As the press photographers closed in and started adjusting their camera lens, the Chief gave in. “Awright, lady, awright…just drive down the ramp to the garage entrance and register there.” So, the Minch station wagon arrived at the garage just as a Rolls Royce sneaked in the back entrance, and the kids jumped out of the Ford and helped welcome Mr. and Mrs. Jones to the San Francisco Hilton. * * * * * * When a childless couple separate and divorce, I say “sera, sera”, but could not care less. It is a rare marriage that produces perfect harmony and a lot of people can’t give and take enough to make it work. So, better luck next time. But when there is a child or two involved, that’s something else. I’ve known some families that have split up, and it is just awful. The parents lose dignity and respect and the children lose what they never get enough of anyhow…tender loving care and someone to look up to…and to set an example. So when executives like Thomas J. Watson of IBM, Pierre DuPont, Stanley Allyn of NCR, James Linen of TIME and so forth endorse the Family Service Agency as one of the best ways to help troubled families, then so do I, most whole heartedly. Besides, my mother is on the local Agency Board of Directors. Robert Minch, 1929 - WE SAID is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514