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Magri:IrisAdrienneMagri, 95, of Cottonwood died Friday, July 3at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service. Published Saturday, July 4, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Shima: Dean Saburo Shima, 75, of Cottonwood died Friday, July 3at Enloe Medical Center in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service. Published Saturday, July 4, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. 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. Deathnotices Thetwodiedasaresult of gunshot wounds in an incident just after 4 p.m. in the area of the Country Store in the Lake Califor- nia community in Cotton- wood. A third man, Anthony Maitias Baugher, 25, of Cottonwood, was treated and released for a non- life threatening shot to his back. Homicide FROM PAGE 1 Deputies detained Noonkester at 4:25 p.m., ac- cording to scanner reports, andan officer informed dis- patch he had the weapon. The gun was a large cal- iber rifle consistent with shell casings found near the bodies, according to the press release. During the response to the incident, an officer on the scanner said he had en- countered Noonkester ear- lier Thursday near Klam- ath River Place in the gated community. At that time, Noonkester was extremely irate and appeared unsta- ble, the officer said. Tehama County Superior Court records show a disso- lutionofmarriagewithchil- dren was filed Jan. 5, with a temporary restraining or- der filed on Jan. 26. The dis- solution was approved June 29 and a request for the or- der involving visitation to be amended was filed Wednesday. Noonkester was booked into jail Thursday after giv- ingabriefstatement.TheTe- hamaCountyJailwebsitein- dicatedhewasbeingheldon $2 million bail, however the press release said he is being held without bail. Anyone with informa- tion regarding the incident is asked to call the sheriff's department at 529-7920 or in person at 22840 Antelope Blvd. in Red Bluff. Shooting FROM PAGE 1 However, there was a tree next to the power lines that had branches headed into the lines and the tree was showing some signs of starting to catch fire, the officer said. The grass fire was put out using a fire extin- guisher prior to the ar- rival of Cal Fire and Te- hama County Fire. The ve- hicle, a passenger van, was still burning. The vehicle fire was con- tained at 10:25 a.m., a Cal Fire spokesman said. The cause of the fire is under investigation. The department knows the van started the grass fire but doesn't yet know what caused the vehicle to catch fire, the spokesman said. No injuries were re- ported and nothing was damaged besides the van. Fire FROM PAGE 1 Sponsorships could range from a drinking fountain to an entire park, she said. "I'm excited about the ideas, but cautious on how to proceed," Supervi- sor Steve Chamblin said. "Then again, every day we don't have a plan we're missing out." Chamblin said he was concernedaboutmajorcom- panies, such as Coca-Cola, wanting to donate a car to the Sheriff's Department, but requiring it have a car wrap with its logo on it. Goodwin said any sig- nificant donation would be brought before the board. Retirementincentive To help the county deal with a shortfall in the road fund, an agreement was reached to offer an early retirement incentive to employees meeting a cer- tain set of requirements in order to avoid or reduce layoffs. The cost would be about $15,000. To be eligible, an em- ployee has to have worked for the county for 15 contin- uous years, be eligible for CalPERS and be planning a retirement in the next six months. Donation Jeanie Garton and Shellie McCullough pre- sented checks to several Tehama County organi- zations. The money was raised during the Ron- nie Lee King ride, held in honor of McCullough's son and Garton's grandson, or- ganized by the Lassen Rid- ers Gold Wing Touring As- sociation. Donations were as fol- lows: $1,000 to Ante- lope Volunteer Fire Com- pany; $500 each to Te- hama County Chaplains Program, Tehama County Sheriff's Explorer Post #120, Tehama County Young Marines and Red Bluff California Highway Patrol Explorer Program. Canceled The July 7 meeting of the Board of Supervisors has been canceled due to the July 4 holiday. Plans FROM PAGE 1 COURTESY PHOTO BY ROSS PALUBESKI Firefighters work to extinguish a vehicle fire involving a passenger van reported at 10:03a.m. Friday on Oak Hollow Drive, cross of Hooker Creek Road. The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A lawyer for San Francisco's sheriff's office says it had no author- ity to honor an immigration detainer on a suspect in the shooting death of a woman at a popular tourist desti- nation. Francisco Sanchez has seven felony convictions and has been deported five times, most recently in 2009, a federal agency said Friday. He was ar- rested about an hour af- ter Wednesday's seemingly random slaying of Kathryn Steinle at Pier 14 — one of the busiest attractions in the city. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had turned Sanchez over to San Francisco police March 26 on an outstand- ing drug warrant, said agency spokeswoman Vir- ginia Kice. Kice said ICE issued a detainer for Sanchez in March. She said the de- tainer was not honored. Freya Horne, counsel for the sheriff's office, said Fri- day that federal detention orders are not a "legal ba- sis" to hold someone, so Sanchez was released April 15. San Francisco is a sanc- tuary city and local money cannot be spent to cooper- ate with federal immigra- tion law. The city does not turn over people who are in the country illegally unless there's an active warrant for their arrest, she said. Horne said they checked and found none. ICE could have issued an active war- rant if they wanted the city to keep him, she said. "It's not legal to hold someone on a request to detain. This is not just us. This is a widely adopted po- sition," she said. Steinle was gunned down while out for an eve- ning stroll with her father along the waterfront. Police said witnesses heard no ar- gument or dispute before the shooting, suggesting it was a random attack. Liz Sullivan told the San Francisco Chronicle the killing of her daughter was unbelievable and surreal. "I don't think I've totally grasped it," Sullivan said. Police Sgt. Michael An- draychak said witnesses snapped photos of San- chez immediately after the shooting, and the images helped police make the ar- rest while he was walking on a sidewalk a few blocks away. Police were still waiting for fingerprint identifica- tion on Sanchez, who is be- lieved to be a 45-year-old whose last address was in Texas. Authorities said he does not yet have a lawyer who could be reached for comment. Sullivan told the Chron- icle that her 32-year-old daughter turned to her fa- ther after she was shot and said she didn't feel well be- fore collapsing. "She just kept saying, 'Dad, help me, help me,'" Sullivan said. Her father immediately began CPR before paramed- ics rushed the woman to the hospital. "She fought for her life," Sullivan said. Steinle went to high school and previously lived about 40 miles east of San Francisco, the newspaper said. She recently moved just blocks from the water- front and worked for a med- ical technology company. This story has been corrected to show the shooting happened Wednesday instead of Thursday. PIER SHOOTING San Francisco: No 'legal' basis to hold suspect LEA SUZUKI — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE VIA AP Liz Sullivan, le , and Jim Steinle, right, parents of Kathryn Steinle, talk to members of the media outside their home on Thursday in Pleasanton. Kathryn Steinle was shot to death while walking with her father Jim and a friend along a popular pedestrian pier on the San Francisco waterfront. By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Opponents of California's new law to boost vaccination rates among schoolchildren by strictly limiting exemptions are continuing to fight the legislationonlineandinpub- lic protests, even after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law this week. Critics of the legislation are rallying around an ef- fort by former state Assem- blyman Tim Donnelly, who has filed paperwork for a bal- lot initiative asking voters to repeal the vaccine man- date, continuing their out- spoken criticism on Twitter and other social media plat- forms, and holding rallies around the state. Opponentsplannedevents to protest the law Friday in San Francisco, Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. Four women remained outside the Capitol on Thurs- day as part of what they called a silent vigil against SB277, which prompted the most heated legislative de- bate of the year as thousands of parents converged on the Capitol for numerous hear- ings on the bill. A woman who declined to speak to a reporter stood si- lently onthestepsof theCap- itol holding a sign that said "#HearUs Repeal #SB277 #WeAreNotGoingAway." "We're going to be fight- ing it in all the avenues that we have available to us as citizens," said Kimberly Gibbs-Egan, 34, a mother of four who also was out- side the Capitol. CALIFORNIA Vaccine opponents continue efforts against new law By Janie Har The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Most res- idential customers in Cal- ifornia will see their elec- tricity bills increase under a new rate structure passed Friday by state regulators. The Public Utilities Com- mission unanimously ap- proved a plan that raises rates on more efficient us- ers while giving a break to big energy users. It is the first overhaul of the rate system since brownouts roiled Califor- nia 15 years ago. Legisla- tors at the time expanded rate-paying tiers from two to four and froze lowest- tier rates to protect house- holds from huge swings in energy bills. The new proposal calls for a return to two tiers, plus a surcharge for the highest electricity us- ers. The rate structure would impact 75 percent of California's residen- tial customers, or more than 10 million electric- ity accounts held through Southern California Edi- son, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Utilities have long com- plained that the steeply- tiered system means higher-use households have unfairly subsidized low-use households for years. They say that the gap has only increased, with low-use households not even pay- ing for the cost of supply- ing electricity. "We're trying to make things more affordable for those upper-use customers because they are paying far more than their share," said Russ Garwacki, director of pricing design and research at Southern California Ed- ison, which serves 14 mil- lion people through 5 mil- lion accounts. "It's a matter of fairness." Environmental and con- sumer advocates disagree, saying that the current tier structure promotes energy conservation. They criti- cized the PUC for present- ing a revised proposal late Wednesday and voting Fri- day, which is a federal hol- iday, although not a state holiday. "This is really the utili- ties versus everybody else," said Evan Gillespie, a cam- paign director for Sierra Club California, said ear- lier in the week. "There was a very, very clear choice on which way to go." In 2000, California's en- ergy crisis prompted law- makers to put in protec- tions. In 2013, state law- makers lifted many of those restrictions, allowing utili- ties to propose new rates. Ratepayer groups have been lobbying for a three- tier rate system proposed by PUC Commissioner Mike Florio. That item was on Friday's agenda, but Florio publicly supported a revised version of a two- tier system preferred by utilities and PUC Presi- dent Michael Picker. Mike Campbell, pro- gram director of the Of- fice of Ratepayer Advo- cates, said he did not have an analysis of the new pro- posal, but he expected the majority of customers will see their bills increase. The compromise plan called for a 25 percent price differential between the two tiers by 2019. The alternate called for a 33 percent difference among three tiers. The original plan by Picker called for a 20 percent difference. CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS Hi gh er e le ct ri ci ty r at es fo r mo st r es id en ts p as se d RICH PEDRONCELLI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Opponents of a measure requiring nearly all California school children to be vaccinated gathered on the west steps of the Capitol a er lawmakers approved the bill in Sacramento on Thursday. R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Burials - Monuments - Preneed 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 9 A