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Gravance:AssuntaGloria Gravance, 80, of Los Molinos died Thursday, July 24at Enloe Medical Center in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Neptune Society. Published Saturday, July 26, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obitu- aries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituar- ies may be placed by mor- tuaries 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. DeathNotices A6,500-poundlimbthat fell on the adobe was re- moved with the assistance of a crane last week. The historic area of the park is closed to the public and officials are scheduled to further evaluate struc- ture damage in the com- ing days. Monday's meeting will likely take place at the park's picnic area, Cha- karun said. The park is at 21659 Adobe Road. Trees FROM PAGE 1 Volunteers included those just looking to help out. Gary Crain, a 51-year- old from Red Bluff who has donated his time at similar events, said he's looking for a job but can still find time to give back to the commu- nity. "It's a good program. I'm glad they run it," he said before he rolled a dolly stacked with boxes of food away. About 10 organizations, including the Tehama County Back to School Project, Cal Fresh, Tehama County Health Services, Te- hama County Child Support Services and the Tehama County Job Training Cen- ter, participated in the Day of Service event. Food was provided by North State Food Bank, Hands of Hope Mission and the Food for the Hungry program out of Los Molinos. Tehama County Gleaners Foodbank also provided drought relief food boxes filled with non- perishable goods that could feed a family of four for five days. When asked why she chooses to serve, Sharp said it's a question she's of- ten asked. "Because it's the right thing to do," she said. The next Tailgate Food Giveaway event is sched- uled from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 5 at New Life Assem- bly of God in Corning. Agencies FROM PAGE 1 funded. Tehama County Chief Administrator Bill Good- win is recommending the county reject the partial funding, in hopes it would garner favor for a full re- ward when a new round of funding becomes avail- able. A prepared letter to the Board of State and Com- munity Corrections ex- plaining the county's pro- posed action is included in a staff report. "Unfortunately, the award amount is less than one-third of the proposed project costs. The partial award amount is not suf- ficient to develop a proj- ect that meets the essen- tial goals of the originally proposed project and the county has been unable to identify additional fund- ing," the letter reads. The letter proceeds to state that the county is continuing the environ- mental process for the originally proposed facil- ity. Goodwin told the Red Bluff City Council earlier this month that the county will move forward with its new library project re- gardless of what happens with the jail funding, as moving the library is es- sential for the latter re- gardless. SocialServices Tabled items from last week's agenda regarding the acceptance of a grant fund to provide housing assistance for low-income residents will be back be- fore the board. Some board members had taken issue with whether the grant pro- moted dependence on gov- ernment and gave Social Services Director Char- lene Reid an extra week to bring back more informa- tion about the program. Reid's own contract with the county is also set as an agenda item. It is set to expire Sept. 30. Goodwin is requesting the contract be extended through the end of 2014, at which time Reid plans to retire. Water The board will consider adopting an urgency ordi- nance related to ground- water in connection with action taken by the Corn- ing City Council and scheduled before the Red Bluff City Council. The ordinance would streamline the process for issuance of temporary emergency permits for off- parcel groundwater use. It would allow for the cities of Red Bluff and Corning to provide relief for communities such as Paskenta and Lowrey. Grant FROM PAGE 1 Water Management Board April 14 and submitted to the Department of Water Resources. Tehama County Public Works Director Gary An- tone said the completed document does not pro- vide dollars or approved funding, but it captures information regarding where the area is when it comes to water resources and what its future goals are. There were 113 projects considered as part of the project. Antone said the docu- ment will open the door to future funding opportuni- ties that may come from the state or federal level. The plan is broken up into six chapters: Intro- duction and description, objectives, plan develop- ment process, resource management strategies, potential projects and pri- oritization and finally an implementation strategy. The plan has been met by heavy opposition. At a January 2012 pub- lic input meeting held in Red Bluff more than 100 people showed up. At one point police offi- cers had to be called as a precaution as some at the meeting threatened to get physical. Those opposed charac- terized the plan as an at- tempt by southern Cal- ifornia to control water resources. Water Management Board members have rou- tinely said the opposite is true and the plan was meant to protect the fu- ture water rights of the six counties. Water FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press DENVER Pot may be le- gal in some states — but the neighbors don't have to like it. Marijuana and hemp have joined wacky paint colors and unsightly fences as common neighborhood disputes facing homeown- ers' associations. Though a few HOAs have willingly changed their rules to ac- commodate for legal mar- ijuana use or home-grow- ing, many more are ban- ning home pot smoking. Homeowners' associa- tions can't ban members from using marijuana in their homes when it's le- gal. But if neighbors can see or smell weed, the law is clear — HOAs have every right to regulate the drug as a nuisance, or a threat to children along the lines of a swimming pool with no fence. "The fact that people may be legally entitled to smoke doesn't mean they can do it wherever they want, any more than they could walk into a restaurant and light up a cigarette," said Rich- ard Thompson, who owns a management consulting company that specializes in condominium and home- owner associations. Thompson said his home condo development in Port- land, Oregon, is a prime ex- ample of how marijuana's growing acceptance has sparked neighbor conflicts. "As soon as spring and summer come around, we hear complaints about mar- ijuana smoke because peo- ple are out on their patios and they have the windows down," he said. It's not clear how many homeowners' associations have confronted marijuana conflicts in the 23 states with some form of legal marijuana. But lawyers who specialize in HOA disputes, as well as a Colorado regu- latory agency that advises HOAs, say there are grow- ing conflicts among neigh- bors who want to smoke pot and others who don't want to see it or smell it. "What we're really seeing more now is regulating the associations' common ar- eas," such as smoke wafting onto playgrounds or others' porches, said Erin McMa- nis, an attorney in Phoenix whose firm represents hun- dreds of Arizona HOAs. The Carrillo Ranch homeowners association in Chandler, Arizona, earlier this year took the rare step of withdrawing a proposed ban on residents smoking medical marijuana in their front and backyards and on their patios. The HOA planned a meeting on the topic in March, but withdrew the proposal after many resi- dents opposed the ban as too harsh. "This is a personal-free- dom issue where people were going to dictate how other people should live," Carrillo Ranch resident Tom LaBonte told The Ari- zona Republic in February, when the HOA dropped its proposal. HOA lawyers say the Car- rillo Ranch case illustrates the value of HOAs when the law changes, as with mar- ijuana. "Coming together and working on issues is some- thing associations have been doing for a long time," McManis said. "We're hope- ful that's how it's going to go forward now with med- ical marijuana." Smoke isn't the only neighbor complaint posed by loosening marijuana laws. Growing pot and hemp is prompting neigh- bor disputes, too. A suburban Denver re- tiree learned the hard way this spring that he needed neighbors' permission be- fore growing hemp. Jim Denny, of Brighton, Colo- rado, learned about mar- ijuana's non-intoxicating cousin and decided to try the crop on a 75-by-100-foot plot in his yard. But Denny's hemp plot ran afoul of his homeown- ers' association, which ruled the hemp experiment unacceptable. "As soon as they heard about it, they said, 'We're not going to let anyone grow marijuana here,'" Denny said. "I explained to them that hemp is not mar- ijuana, but they were dead- set against it." MARIJUANA Pot may be legal, but homeowner agreements ED ANDRIESKI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jim Denny of Brighton, Colo., inspects the growth of a field of hemp on his property on July 3. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A female "Hexagenia limbata" mayfly is seen. By M.l. Johnson The Associated Press MILWAUKEE Mayflies have begun emerging from the Mississippi River in swarms that show up on radar like thunderstorms, coat roads and leave be- hind slimy messes. They've already been blamed for at least one car crash this week in Wisconsin. The flies hatch and then spend a year burrowed into the sediment on the bottom of the river that serves as a border between Wisconsin and Minnesota. They emerge the next sum- mer to mate, lay eggs and die, all in less than 48 hours. Mayflies, sensitive to ox- ygen levels and pollutants in the river, serve as "sen- tinels" for scientists and others concerned about water quality, said Mark Steingraeber, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biolo- gist. Mayflies disappeared from a 70-mile area south of the Twin Cities in the 1920s and didn't reappear in significant numbers again until 1978, when wastewater treatment and others actions taken under the Clean Water Act began to have an impact. The National Weather Service captured a mas- sive swarm on radar Sun- day night as the flies came out of the river and drifted north on the wind. The ra- dar system picks up energy reflected off the flies, with the image's intensity re- flecting the density of the bugs. A loop recorded Sunday shows yellow patches di- rectly over the river that morph into a green band as the flies drift north. The bugs become blue dots as they disperse. A second, smaller swarm recorded Thurs- day night starts as a green band before exploding like fireworks into blue dots. "Almost every night in the summer, there's some sense on the radar that there's something com- ing off the river," said Dan Baumgardt, science and operations officer for the National Weather Service in La Crosse. "We don't know what kind of bug it is ... until we have people calling or saying, 'Oh my gosh, there's mayflies all in the La Crosse area.' " The weather service typically records several swarms each year from June through August. Air and water temperatures have been usually cool this year, helping explain why Sunday's emergence was the first big one this sum- mer, Steingraeber said. WILDLIFE Radar captures mayfly swarm on Mississippi River The Associated Press MIAMI A Florida judge on Friday overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage in a ruling that applies to Miami-Dade County, agreeing with a judge in another county who made a similar ruling last week. Still, no marriage licenses will be issued for gay couples in either county any time soon to allow for appeals. The ruling by Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel mir- rors the decision made ear- lier by Monroe County Cir- cuit Judge Luis Garcia. Both found the constitutional amendment approved by Florida voters in 2008 dis- criminates against gay peo- ple. They said it violates their right to equal protec- tion under the law guaran- teed by the U.S. Constitu- tion's 14th Amendment. "Preventing couples from marrying solely on the ba- sis of their sexual orienta- tion serves no governmen- tal interest," Zabel wrote. "It serves only to hurt, to dis- criminate, to deprive same- sex couples and their fami- lies of equal dignity, to label and treat them as second- class citizens, and to deem them unworthy of partici- pation in one of the funda- mental institutions of our society." The effect of Garcia's rul- ing was put on hold when Republican Attorney Gen- eral Pam Bondi filed notice of appeal. Zabel also stayed the effect of her ruling in- definitely to allow time for appeals, which could take months, and Bondi promptly followed up Fri- day by filing an appeal no- tice in the Miami-Dade case. Both judges were ap- pointed by former Republi- can Gov. Jeb Bush and have been re-elected. 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