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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 – Daily News Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Leslie Hewitt Leslie Hewitt died Saturday, Dec. 7 at his Red Bluff home. He was 59. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial in Redding. Published Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Pauline B. Jackson Pauline B. Jackson, of Melissa, Texas, died Sunday, Dec. 8, in McKinney, Texas. She was 86. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Lois Pitts Lois Pitts died Monday, Dec. 9 at her Red Bluff home. She was 85. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial in Redding. Published Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jenith Stodolski Jenith Stodolski, of Red Bluff, died Tuesday, Dec. 10 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. She was 74. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Irma Ruth Turner Irma Ruth Turner, of Red Bluff, died Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Valley West Care Center in Williams. She was 97. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Schools fear losing funds for lowincome students LOS ANGELES (AP) — New state income-verification rules could cost California schools millions in funding for low-income students, some district officials say. Hundreds of families have yet to turn in income verification forms in Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno and elsewhere, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Many districts are urging the state to guarantee them all funding due this year, based on last year's count of lowincome students. Under the new rules, districts are receiving extra money for students who are low-income, learning English or in foster care. The additional funding amounts to about $2,800 per pupil in the Los Angeles Unified School District. State officials say the rules are necessary to ensure the extra dollars go to those who actually qualify for them. Districts argue verifying incomes every year is too time-consuming. Los Angeles Unified School District faces losing $200 million, and San Diego could miss out on $6 million, the newspaper reported. ''We have to make sure that the (new system) is being driven by real students and their needs,'' said Erin Gabel, director of government affairs for the California Department of Education. Districts already verify students' family income every four years for a federally subsidized meal program. Officials say the notifications about the new rules went out late and some parents balk at divulging personal information. In the Fresno Unified School District, hundreds of families have refused to fill out the income forms — possibly because of fears the information will land in the hands of immigration authorities, according to Ruth Quinto, the district's chief financial officer. Others might be confusing the new state forms with the federal meals documents they've already completed, some community organizers said. ''The whole thing is outrageous,'' Los Angeles Unified schools Superintendent John Deasy told the newspaper. ''Give our kids their fair share.'' In his district, only about 40 percent of 138,000 verification forms distributed to 380 schools with high poverty rates had been returned as of Friday, the initial deadline. Deasy said the state should simply accept the federal data. In San Diego, only three of 68 such schools had turned in their forms as of last week, said Martha Alvarez, the district's director of government relations. To assist districts this year, the state has extended the deadline to March. Judge removed from case of accused Calif. teen DAVIS (AP) — The judge presiding over the case of a 16-year-old Northern California boy charged with stabbing a couple to death at their home has been removed after the teen's attorney alleged bias. The Sacramento Bee reports attorney Ronald Johnson said his client, Daniel William Marsh, cannot have a fair and impartial hearing in front of Judge Timothy Fall. Johnson's single-page declaration filed last week provided no details. In recent weeks Fall denied a motion by Johnson to close the proceedings to the public. Marsh faces two counts of murder in the April stabbings of 87-year-old Oliver Northup and his 76-yearold wife, Claudia Maupin, in Davis. Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. 7A Man arrested for shooting at home A 36-year-old Red Bluff man was arrested Sunday night for shooting at an occupied trailer, according to a press release issued Tuesday by Tehama County Sheriff's Department. Felix Martinez fired a .22 caliber pellet rifle at a tenant's trailer GIRLS Continued from page 1A er's purchase of a highly expensive horse is the opening catalyst of jealousy amongst the cast. Marvel and Barb West, perhaps the most down to Earth of the women, both have the skills to be LaPier, just not the finances. The rest of the cast is rounded out by up-andcomers Megan Etcheberry and Jessica Holmberg. A&E's press information about the show makes little effort to disguise what "Rodeo Girls" is ROAD Continued from page 1A ing a fair rating have slowly decreased in the past decade. In 2005 92.74 percent of roads were fair or better and 90.11 percent of bridges. Antone said that trend would likely continue as the dollars needed to do routine maintenance have not been available. Antone said the department was trying to be clever with the dollars it FARM Continued from page 1A documents. The survey, which was completed ahead of schedule and under budget, showed the forest population of wild horses is five times what grazing land in the national forest can sustain. The Lake County Farm on Blackberrry Avenue, the release said, striking the rear door window where the victim was standing and a second victim was seated. A 2inch hole was made in the outer window pane and deputies found the firearm near where Martinez was sitting. about — a woman clad in a bikini with a horsewhip clenched between her teeth, riding a horse adorns the material. "Rodeo Girls" will find a nice home on the DVR's of those who like watching stereotypical drama unfold in other people's lives. did have and would try to attach as much road maintenance as it could when it bids out other improvement projects. The public works department also spent the year upgrading a significant amount of road from fair to good in an effort to keep above the 75 percent mark. Around 60 percent of roads received a good or excellent rating, up from 36 percent in 2012. The annual report also grades county maintained signage on a pass-fail scale. Bureau was judged County of the Year among Farm Bureaus with 650 or fewer members. The County of the Year award for Farm Bureaus with 1,001 to 1,999 members was presented to the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau. Eight other county Farm Bureaus earned President's Awards for Martinez is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm or ammunition. He was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and felon in possession of a firearm and booked into Tehama County Jail with bail set at $55,000. Everyone else will cling to the show's tag line "Pretty tough." As in pretty tough to watch. "Rodeo Girls" premiers on A&E Wednesday at 8 p.m. PST and Thursday at 7 p.m. PST. Times may vary based on television provider. All 3,467 street name signs received a passing grade, although just 84.69 percent of traffic signs passed. Antone said vandalism affected those numbers. The county expanded $14,993,500 in the 2012-13 fiscal year for maintenance, but Antone said that figure was ballooned because of bridge replacement some major collector road projects. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. outstanding programs within their membership categories: Kern, Kings, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, Tulare and Yuba-Sutter. In addition to those county Farm Bureaus, 14 others earned County Activities of Excellence Awards: Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Imperial, Mendocino, Riverside, San Diego, Shasta, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Ventura and Yolo. The California Farm Bureau Federation works to protect family farms and ranches on behalf of nearly 78,000 members statewide and as part of a nationwide network of more than 6.2 million Farm Bureau members. Ore. wandering wolf OR-7 takes day trip to Calif. GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's wandering wolf, OR-7, took a day-trip into Northern California over the weekend, but came right back to the southern Cascades territory he has favored of late. Karen Kovacs of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife says OR-7's GPS tracking collar showed he made a trip into northern Siskiyou County on Saturday, but went right back to Oregon. His border-crossing travels are similar to those he made the last two winters. Kovacs says it appears OR-7 is following migrating deer and elk. This spring, OR-7 will be 4 years old. He lit out from northeast Oregon in September 2011 on a quest for a mate that has taken him more than 3,000 miles, with no sign of success. He is the first known wolf in Northern California since 1924. California man faces revenge porn charges SACRAMENTO (AP) — A San Diego man was charged Tuesday with operating a website that let people anonymously post explicit photographs of others so that he could extort hundreds of dollars from the victims. Kevin Christopher Bollaert, 27, was arrested by California Department of Justice agents on 31 felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion. Bollaert created the so-called ''revenge porn'' website ugotposted.com a year ago, according to court documents. The site let people anonymously post more than 10,000 nude and explicit photographs of others without their permission, investigators said. Unlike most such sites, investigators said ugotposted.com required that the victim be identified by name, age and other information, leading to the identity theft allegations. He is charged with obtaining identifying information with the intent to annoy or harass. Bollaert's attorney, Alexander Landon, did not return a telephone message seeking comment. The documents say Bollaert charged victims a fee ranging from $249.99 to $350 to remove the images, using emails sent through a second website, changemyreputation.com. That led to the extortion charges. Both websites were inactive as of Tuesday. His activities ''turned 7th woman accuses Calif. officer of sexual assault WOODLAND (AP) — A seventh woman is alleging she was sexually assaulted by a West Sacramento police officer while he was on duty. The Sacramento Bee reports the 30-year-old woman has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Sergio Alvarez of forced copulation and sodomy during two separate attacks between May and September of last year. The suit declares that Alvarez engaged in ''sexually predatory conduct.'' The officer's attorney declined to comment Monday. In March Alvarez entered not guilty pleas to 35 counts including rape, sodomy, oral copulation and kidnapping. The 38-year-old Alvarez is accused of assaulting the six other women after stopping them late at night or early in the morning while on patrol between October 2011 and September 2012. their public humiliation and betrayal into a commodity with the potential to devastate lives,'' Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement. Bollaert was being held in San Diego County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. The department says he told investigators during a six-month investigation that he received about $900 each month from online advertising. However, the department said records from his changemyreputation.com PayPal account show that he received tens of thousands of dollars. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say circa 1941) Christmas used to be a big occasion when we were kids back east. Of course we did not pay $1.50 for a Christmas tree like they do nowadays. We cut the best Cedar tree we could find and put it on a box with cotton all around it to represent snow. The tree wasn't trimmed with electric lights like they are now. We used to string popcorn on long strands and wind it around the tree. Then we hung tinsel which was different than todays…and finally we had miniature horses, reindeer, ships and locomotives that were hung from the tips of the limbs. Christmas was the one time of the year when we had California oranges and Brazil nuts. Christmas presents meant more to us because we did not have toys year around like kids do today. * One of my fondest memories was buying my mother a 10 cent toy horse when I was about 6 years old. I bought it with my own chicken money and was very proud of the gift. Mother let on that it was the one thing she wanted above all else. My father had consumption and was not able to work the farm back in New Jersey, but mother proved to be the guiding light for her family of 5 boys and one girl. Christmas today seems to be much more commercialized than it used to be. Take the Christmas cards that we all exchange. Instead of taking a few moments to write a few sincere words to a friend that we haven't seen for a long time, we buy a preprinted card, sign our name and off it goes. Ninety percent I would think will go into the trash container with the thought that, "Gee, I better remember to send them one next year because they sent me one. However, it is still the greatest holiday of all although I think that many have forgotten that it is a celebration in memory of the birth of Christ, who taught us that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Dave Minch 1900- 1964 *I can never remember my father buying me a gift. Those I received were always from my mother. However, when he learned that I could get a job playing drums at the old Blue Ribbon night club behind the restaurant, he bought me a snazzy Slingerland Radio King set like Gene Krupa used. That gift meant more to me than any other including buying me a car years later. Maybe it truly is the idea behind the gift that counts….and his idea was that I could make money doing something I really enjoyed. RM The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514