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them how much we appreci- ate their fight that they go through everyday." Purple ribbons are set to line Solano Street and First Street to the high school, so cancer survivors know their fight is noticed, Beck - ley said. At 9 a.m. Saturday, those affected by cancer will walk around Corning High School's track for a lap in honor of those survivors, and then continue walking through the day, into the night, and to 8:30 a.m. Sun - day, when closing ceremo- nies are scheduled. Each team registered at the event will have at least one person walking the track at all times. At 9 p.m. Saturday, the lights at the track dim for an emotional lap to honor and reflect on those lost to can - cer during a luminaria cer- emony that will spell words of hope on and around the track, Beckley said. Last year, Beckley said, the event raised about $13,000. As of Wednesday, more than 20 teams have registered to participate in the event, and more than $8,000 has been raised, ac - cording to the event's web- site. More than 200 people are expected to join the re- lay, and anyone is encour- aged to join. "I don't think there's any- body in the room who hasn't been touched by cancer in some way," Mayor Strack said during the meeting. Beckley said her team name is "Pops," in honor of her father. More than 47 peo - ple will join her to walk in his honor. For more information on Corning's Relay for Life visit http://goo.gl/wYfZEQ. Red Bluff's Relay for Life event is set for May 17 at Vista Middle School. Relay From Page 1 daily news file The Relay for life in Corning is set to start at 9 a.m. saturday at Corning Union High school, where opening ceremonies will include a lap to honor cancer survivors. The event is in its third year. Care Center ad hoc commit- tees, the California State As- sociation of Counties Gov- ernment Finance and Oper- ations Policy Committee. Bruce said she is proud to serve on the First 5 Commis- sion because amongst her top priorities are children and educational opportuni- ties. "I am running because I want to continue serv- ing the residents of Dis- trict 2 and all of Tehama County," Bruce said. "I be- lieve I have a unique set of skills through my experi- ence working with govern- ment budgets and opera- tions and being innovative with county resources to make sure we are able to get the most for our money." Bruce describes herself as a fiscal conservative. "I believe we need to be frugal with these dollars and the finances of a pro - posal are always one of the first things I consider when making a decision," she said. Bruce has lived in Tehama County 36 years and is mar - ried with two daughters. Carlson As Chairwoman of Te- hama Together Carleson helped launch 2-1-1 Tehama, the county's 24-7 informa- tion referral phone service, on Feb. 11. Professionally she is a small business owner who fo - cuses on financial services, including real estate lend- ing and educating individu- als and professionals in the areas of saving their home, credit, budgeting and other money matters. "We need to do every - thing possible to funnel dol- lars back to Tehama County, while being proactive in finding alternative funding sources," she said. "The peo - ple of Tehama County have brilliant minds and ideas, let's tap into that. We need to collaborate with our exist- ing organizations in order to solve today's problems while ensuring our children's fu- ture." Carlson is a US Air Force veteran and graduated from Sonoma State University with degrees in business ad - ministration and psychology. She spent 15 years man- aging recreation programs with the Department of De- fense, municipalities and the private sector. She has served as a union representative and as a hu - man resource manager. She has volunteered with Red Cross for more than 22 years and as a youth was ac - tive with 4-H. "I will focus on the needs of all people in the county by actively encouraging job creation; focusing on re - sources, including water, for agricultural needs; in- creasing collaboration with local and state groups; sup- porting the coordination of veteran services and more," Carlson said. Carlson has two children and three grandchildren. Drury Drury manages and co- owns CD Bullseye Bullets, a business that sells reloaded and factory ammunition. "As a loca l business owner, I am aware of the great task it is to maintain a profitable business and of the regulations and laws that are in place that need - lessly make that task even greater," Drury said. Drury said he hopes to one day represent Tehama County at the state or fed - eral level. "I wish to help my com- munity as well as help to im- prove it," he said. Drury quotes John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugura- tion address, "...ask what you can do for your coun- try," as the mentality and policy he would serve un- der if elected. He graduated from Red Bluff High School in 2010. Term From Page 1 Duarte's attorneys say the Corps issued a cease and de- sist letter to Duarte in Feb- ruary 2013, alleging he was plowing in federally pro- tected wetlands on property the family owns on Paskenta Road. They claim Duarte had hired a consultant to iden - tify the areas protected by the Clean Water Act and had avoided plowing them. As a result of the Corps' actions Duarte lost a wheat crop, valued at around $50,000, and the ability to farm the land. However the lawsuit does not focus on the dispute over which areas of property were farmed, but instead ac - cused the Corps of violating Duarte's 5th Amendment due process rights by not al- lowing him to answer to the accusation before ordering the shutdown of the wheat growing operation. The Army Corps had moved to dismiss the case for lack of federal jurisdic - tion and a failure to state a claim. Its attorneys argued that the Cease and Desist Order was merely a mechanism to notify an alleged violator of the legal obligations imposed by the Clean Water Act and the potential consequences of such violations. Karlton wrote in his rul - ing that if Duarte was free to ignore such unconditional commands by the US gov- ernment then it should have said so. "In essence," Karlton wrote in a footnote, "The Government argues that al - though it (figuratively) held a gun to plaintiff's head and ordered him to stop farm- ing, plaintiff should have re- lied on the unstated fact that the gun could not be fired." Karlton later called the Corps' mechanisms for chal - lenging actions inadequate. "Forcing plaintiffs to wait idly about while the Corps decides whether to bring an enforcement action has the effect of continuing to de - prive plaintiffs of the use of their property, without end," he wrote. As for dismissing the case against the individual state board members, Karlton ruled that according to the plaintiff's own assertions the wheat farming was stopped because of the federally is - sued Cease and Desist Or- der and not from state cor- respondence. Karlton ruled that the state correspondence only commanded Duarte to sub - mit a mitigation plan and did not list any consequences for failure to comply. "If the Army Corps had complied with the Consti - tution and provided Duarte a hearing, the Army Corps would have discovered that it was in error as to the facts in the case, and likely would not have shut down the farm," the Pacific Legal Foundation said in a press release issued after Wednesday's ruling. "We have always been careful to conserve and pro - tect the land, and the Corps is wrong to suggest we've harmed any wetlands," Du- arte said in a press release issued at the time of the law- suit being filed. "But beyond that, the Corps is wrong to deny us our constitutional right to answer their alle - gations in a hearing prior to enforcement. We're stand- ing up for everyone's right to due process of law, and we're very grateful that Pacific Le- gal Foundation is standing with us." Duar te Nurser y is a fa m i ly- ow ne d bu s i ne s s headquartered outside of Modesto, founded by Jim and Anita Duarte and their sons John and Jeff. The suit is filed as Duarte Nursery, Inc., and John Du - arte v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Suit From Page 1 K r ueger: John Noel Krueger, 72, of Red Bluff died Tuesday, April 22 at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cre - mations & Burial Service. Published Thursday, April 24, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be pro - vided by mortuaries to the news department, are pub- lished at no charge, and fea- ture only specific basic infor- mation about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified ad- vertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include on - line 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. Death notices By Justin Pritchard The Associated Press san Jose » For all the tens of billions of dollars the na- tion has spent on screening passengers and their bags, few airports made a compa- rable investment to secure the airplanes. As the case of the San Jose stowaway shows, it did not take a sophisticated plan for a 15-year-old boy to spend about seven hours in what is supposed to be a se - cure area of Silicon Valley's main airport — much of it in a wheel well of the jet that took the teen to Hawaii. "No system is foolproof," San Jose International Air - port aviation director Kim Aguirre said Wednesday. "Certainly as we learn more, if we see any gaping holes, we will work to fill them." Aguirre said a perime - ter search found no holes in the barbed wire fence sur- rounding their 1,050 acre facility, and officials were waiting to finish their inves- tigation before implement- ing any additional security measures. Aviation security experts say the San Jose airport is hardly alone when it comes to weaknesses in securing its airfield. While some larger airports have invested heav - ily in technology that can de- tect intruders, others have systems that sound too many false alarms — or don't pro- vide enough useful informa- tion in the first place. "I don't think San Jose is different than 80 percent of the airports around the country" in how secure its perimeter is, said Rafi Ron, former head of security at the closely guarded airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Like other major air - ports, San Jose has dozens of security cameras that survey its restricted areas. Indeed, the FBI says cam - eras actually recorded the boy on the tarmac, but no one noticed until hours later — after he had survived the 5 ½-hour flight and clam - bered onto the tarmac on the island of Maui. "What happened in San Jose can happen as we speak at other airports, because nobody can watch all these moni - tors" that feed video from around the airport, said Ron. san Jose Airport security issues not uncommon By Juliet Williams The Associated Press sacramento » Nearly 20 years after California be- came the first state to ban the use of race and ethnic- ity in college admissions, a proposal to reinstate affir- mative action has sparked a backlash that is forging a new divide in the state's powerful Democratic Party and creating opportunity for conservatives. The debate is unfolding in the nation's most popu - lous and most ethnically di- verse state as an unrelated U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholds voters' rights to de- cide whether racial consider- ations should factor into uni- versity selections. The California proposal would allow voters to re- scind their state's affirma- tive action ban, but unex- pected pushback from fam- ilies of Asian descent who mobilized through Chinese- language media, staged ral- lies and organized letter- writing campaigns has all but killed the measure this year. "I was surprised," said Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Co - vina, the author of the bill. "I didn't expect it." Asian-American students are enrolled at many of Cal - ifornia's top schools in num- bers far greater than their proportion of the state's population. Critics of Her- nandez's plan worry that qualified students would be dismissed simply because of their ethnicity. The ensuing debate has reopened an old fissure over the role of race in college admissions, divided Demo - crats along racial lines and created an opportunity for the California GOP. California voters were the first in the nation to ban the use of affirmative action in university admissions in 1996. Hernandez's proposal was his fourth attempt to undo that action, which he says harms black and Latino students. A similar voter-approved ban in Michigan was up - held by the nation's highest court Tuesday, but that rul- ing is not expected to change the discussion in Califor- nia, where the prohibition is likely to remain in place in- dependent of the court deci- sion. Hernandez's proposal sailed through the state Sen- ate in January on a Demo- cratic Party-line vote. Leg- islative leaders, however, pulled the bill before it could be debated in the Assembly after the harsh reaction. The controversy high - lights the complexity of ra- cial politics in California, where the public school sys- tem has struggled for de- cades to improve achieve- ment. Critics of the affirmative action ban say it's part of a school system that fails black and Latino students. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to attend the state's lowest-performing schools than their white or Asian counterparts, affect - ing their ability to be ac- cepted into four-year univer- sities, where they are under- represented. Rather than debate Her- nandez's proposal, lawmak- ers now plan to hold hear- ings about affirmative ac- tion and other aspects of campus equality. Politics Legislation reignites affirmative action fight RiCH PedRonCelli — THe assoCiaTed PRess sen. ed Hernandez, d-Covina. right, talks with sen. Kevin de leon, d-los angeles on Monday at the Capitol in sacramento. By Jason Dearen The Associated Press san Francisco » The first images of the newly discov- ered wreckage of a steam- ship that sank in San Fran- cisco Bay in 1888, killing 16 people, were released Wednesday by federal ocean scientists. The iron and wood steam - ship City of Chester went down on Aug. 22, 1888, after it was struck in dense fog by a larger ship. The collision came soon after family members bid their loved ones safe passage and the Chester departed with 106 passengers for Eu - reka, and Portland, Ore. Moments later, it was split in two by the Oceanic, a ship more than twice its size, kill - ing 13 passengers, including two children, and three crew members. More than 125 years later, a National Oceanic and At - mospheric Administration team found the shipwreck in 217 feet of water just inside the Golden Gate Bridge while the scientists were charting shipping channels. A display featuring the images and history of the shipwreck is planned at San Francisco's Chrissy Field, which looks out over the spot where the Chester sank, just in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Laura Pagano, a mem - ber of the NOA A team, said she became emotional while learning they had found the wreckage. "It was sad in a way because of the loss of life," she said, with the Golden Gate loom - ing behind her. "But to be able to connect with mari- time history from a wreck found ... more than 100 years ago was immensely fulfilling." Wreckage Images released of shipwreck in S.F. Bay RICHARD "RICK" KEEN June 12, 1956 ~ April 19, 2014 Richard "Rick" Keen, 57, passed suddenly Saturday, April 19, 2014. Born to Lloyd Keen and Oralene Johnson on June 12, 1956. Rick is preceded in death by his mother Oralene. A long time respected member of our community, em- ployed for several years by PJ Helicopters of Red Bluff as a valued leader of the Ground Support Crew. Rick also served for the Bowman Volunteer Fire Department of Cottonwood, CA and a beloved member of Red Bluff Elk's Lodge #1250, as well as Red Bluff Moose Lodge #2002. A Ford truck enthusiast , Rick manifested his passion in- to rebuilding top notch classic pick-ups. However, Rick was most known for his work ethic and giving of his time and energy to help friends and family, regardless of his own needs. He was always willing to help with anything, anytime for anybody. He is survived by his greatest love and passion in life, his wife of 34 years, Sandy Keen of Red Bluff. Also among the cherished are his father Lloyd Keen (Lorrie Jones) of Red Bluff, brothers Ray (Diana) Keen of Maricopa, AZ, Michael (Sue) Keen of Kalseyville, children Angela Fish of Hilmar, CA, Travis (Ann) Keen of Palm Desert, CA, Heidi (Lee) Hazelwood of Plainfield, IL and Jeremy Keen of Red Bluff, CA, seven grandchildren, a host of cousins and very special friends Lloyd and Denise Grossman, Ken Mapstead, Sandy Shepard, and Marv and Patty Bagwell. Memorial services will be held Friday, April 25, 2014 at 1:00pm at the Red Bluff Elk's Lodge #1250, 355 Gilmore Rd., Red Bluff, CA Obituaries THURsday, aPRil 24, 2014 RedBlUffdailynews.CoM | NEWS | 7 a