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totheamendedordinance. Watering would be lim- ited between the hours of 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. Those found in viola- tion could first receive an "advisory letter" of the vi- olation, and every subse- quent violation within a 12-month period could be met with a $50 fine, ac- cording to the ordinance. The restrictions would not apply to vegetable gar- dens, Burgess said. Other limits include re- strictions on new water service connections, and water service for construc- tion projects "will be han- dled on a case-by-case ba- sis," according to the ordi- nance. The City Council will consider the ordinance for adoption at a later meet- ing, and the city's water customers should receive notice of any adopted reg- ulations on their water bills. To view the ordinance, visit http://goo.gl/lD0v0H. Water FROMPAGE1 COURTESYPHOTOBYROSSPALUBESKI Cal Fire and Tehama County Fire were dispatched around 5 p.m. Tuesday to a reported vegetation fire on Shetland Way near Pinto Court in the Dibble Creek area. The first unit at scene reported about 5-10 acres with a moderate rate of spread in grass with one structure threatened. The fire was contained in about an hour, with extinguish- ment taking about five hours. A total of 14 acres were reportedly burned. Units responded from Redding Air At- tack, Vina Helitack, Antelope, Baker, Bowman, Red Bank, Paynes Creek and Ishi stations. FIRE STRUCTURE THREATENED IN DIBBLE CREEK TUESDAY Snell: Larry Snell, 53, of Red Bluff died Tuesday, May 26. Arrangements are under the direction of Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel in Redding. Published Thursday, May 28, 2015in 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 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. DEATH NOTICES JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS McConnell Foundation Representative Carmel Growney, center, congratulates Red Bluff Union High School Band student Alexandra Pomazal and Band Director Gabriel Sakuma for receiving a $50,000grant May 20at a Red Bluff Joint Union High School District Board meeting, where the news was announced. for her band by approach- ing the board and request- ing help, said Brownfield, associate principal. The grant proposal re- quests funding for 100 new uniforms at the cost of $52,640. In addition to having uniforms that are irrepa- rable, the proposal points out that the band has nearly doubled in size in the past four years. With an anticipated move to a seven-period day it is likely to have even more participants. The band uniforms were put on the back burner due to a need to repair and replace band instruments first. Grant FROM PAGE 1 by James A. Lennox and Addie Lennox, according to a Lennox family history posted on the city's website. The Lennoxes, in 1915, pur- chased a 10-acre parcel from the Maywood Colony at the corner of Houghton Avenue and Fig Lane. "Mr. Lennox also owned farmland in Alberta, Can- ada and spent most plant- ing and harvest seasons at those properties in Canada," according to the family his- tory. "In Corning he was very active in civic affairs and in the Rotary Club, and was a Deacon in the Pres- byterian Church for many years until his passing in 1953." Addie Lennox also was active in civic affairs in Corning, according to the family history. "She was one of the founders of the Maywood Women's Club, a contribu- tor to the Corning Library, (and) a Deacon in the Pres- byterian Church where she also taught Sunday school for over 40 years," accord- ing to the family history. Addie Lennox died in 1970. "It was the vision of Mr. and Mrs. Lennox, their daughters Dorothy and Bar- bara, and Barbara's sons to preserve this 10 acre parcel to one day be made into a park for the City of Corn- ing," according to the fam- ily history. To view a program for the dedication ceremony and a history of the Len- nox family, visit http://goo. gl/mq5NMg. Lennox FROM PAGE 1 DAILY NEWS FILE The city of Corning's dedication ceremony Lennox Fields, which has also been known as the second phase of the Corning Community Park, is scheduled to begin at the park at 10a.m. Saturday. The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Pacific Gas & Electric will be look- ing for a new director as the man who led the com- pany through a deadly 2010 pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area is retiring. Christopher P. Johns has announced plans to retire at the end of the year. In announcing the re- tirement of Johns in a statement Tuesday, the utility praised his leader- ship and service. PG&E Chairman and CEO Tony Earley said the board of directors is likely to discuss a replacement plan before Johns' last day, December 31. Johns joined PG&E in 1996 as vice president and controller, becoming pres- ident of the state's largest utility in August 2009. In 2010, a natural gas pipeline explosion rocked San Bruno, a suburb of San Francisco, killing eight people and destroy- ing more than three dozen homes. The explosion resulted in a record $1.6 billion state penalty against the company earlier this year, which PG&E accepted without appeal. A federal investigation after the blast faulted both PG&E and lax over- sight by the state utilities commission in the explo- sion. PG&E is under state and federal criminal investiga- tion related to backroom dealings between state regulators and company officials. The company's state- ment did not give a rea- son for the retirement, and a company spokes- woman had no immedi- ate comment. MOVING ON PG&E president announces retirement By Mesfin Fekadu The Associated Press NEW YORK Dennis Shee- han, U2's longtime tour manager, has died at a Southern California hotel, a day after the band kicked off a five-night stint in the Los Angeles area. U2 frontman Bono posted a statement Wednesday on the band's website about Sheehan's death. "We've lost a family member, we're still tak- ing it in," Bono wrote. "He wasn't just a legend in the music business, he was a legend in our band. He is irreplaceable." Sheehan died at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood. He has managed U2's tours for more than three decades. Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Chris Reade said first respond- ers were called around 5:30 a.m. to reports of a man in cardiac arrest. Sheehan was pronounced dead at the scene. Coro- ner's investigators are at the hotel. The Irish quartet brought its "Innocence & Experience" tour to the Fo- rum in Inglewood on Tues- day, the first of five nights in the Los Angeles area. OBITUARY U2's longtime tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, found dead The Associated Press OAKLAND The U.S. Su- preme Court is letting a Northern California coun- ty's drug disposal law stand, paving the way for similar ordinances elsewhere. The court refused to hear the pharmaceutical indus- try's challenge to an Alam- eda County program that requires drug companies to pay for the disposal of un- used medicines. The law was passed to prevent unused drugs from getting in the San Fran- cisco Bay, groundwater and the hands of abusers, the San Jose Mercury News reported Wednesday. San Francisco County passed a similar law but was waiting to enact it un- til the court case was re- solved. San Mateo County is close to launching a sim- ilar program, and Santa Clara County is consider- ing one. Washington state's King County enacted an or- dinance in 2013. Drug companies esti- mate they will spend $1.2 million annually comply- ing with the Alameda or- dinance. The county esti- mated a far smaller cost of $330,000 a year. The law was modeled on legislation governing the disposal of batteries, tires and other potentially harm- ful goods. Drug companies cannot charge fees to pass the costs to consumers. People often hold on to expired pills, unsure of what to do with them, said Alameda County Su- pervisor Nate Miley, who authored the law. Alam- eda County District Attor- ney Nancy O'Malley said a drug take-back event last year collected 799 pounds of pills in one day. Plaintiffs, including the Pharmaceutical Re- search and Manufacturers of America, issued a joint statement Tuesday saying the industry would "con- tinue to actively work to educate consumers on the appropriate use of medi- cines," including safeguard- ing at home and promoting safe disposal. The compa- nies had argued the law in- terfered with the free flow of goods guaranteed in the Constitution's interstate commerce clause. Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews. com. EXPIRED PILLS Hi gh c ou rt : St at e co un ty d ru g di sp osa l la w st an ds The Associated Press POINT REYES STATION An- other dead whale washed ashore in Northern Cali- fornia, the 12th carcass that has appeared in the past few months and marks a higher-than-normal num- ber of deaths but not a re- cord. The dozen whales have been found along nearly 300 miles of coastline and are of different species and various ages. In a typical year, one or two gray whales wash ashore, said Frances Gulland, the senior scien- tist for the Marine Mam- mal Center. The most recent ani- mal appeared Tuesday on a beach along the Point Reyes National Seashore, officials said. It's badly decomposed and headless, making iden- tifying the species and its age difficult, said Mary Jane Schramm, spokes- woman for the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. "(The condition) suggests it could be a killer whale at- tack," she said. Scientists are trying to determine if there is a connection between the beached whales, The San Francisco Chronicle re- ported. They are consid- ering factors such as envi- ronmental changes, food distribution, shipping and predator behavior. "We are seeing them coming from so many different species and various causes of death," Schramm said. 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