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Heitman-McKenna: VirginiaHeitman-McKenna, 67, of Red Bluff died Thursday, March 30at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Saturday, April 1, 2017in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. May: Thresa Myrtle May, 85, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, March 29at Red Bluff Healthcare Cen- ter. Arrangements are un- der the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, April 1, 2017in 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 HEATHER HOELSCHER — DAILY NEWS Corning Mayor Doug Hately Jr., pictured right, proclaims April as Child Abuse Prevention Month Tuesday at the council meeting. There to accept the proclamation was Tehama County Child Abuse Prevention Council Vice- Chair Mike Lindsey, pictured le , and member Maria Curiel. In the last year the council has done a child abuse reporter train- ing with 178 participants throughout the county. Lindsay said he would like to continue to work in the south county and do as much as the coun- cil has done for the north county. Having a successful training was the first step. April FROM PAGE 1 agency must determine how the funds are to be utilized, Corning Police Chief Jeremiah Fears said. The funds are intended to be used in one or more of seven categories including homeless outreach teams, crisis intervention train- ing, Gang Resistance Ed- ucation and Training, re- sources for drug endan- gered children, outreach to high-risk youth, gang and violence prevention programs and youth diver- sion programs. The council voted unanimously in favor of accepting the grant. Grant FROM PAGE 1 lutions. The entire commu- nity is invited. The meetings will in- clude a panel discussion with state and local ex- perts in law enforcement, medicine and prevention, student presentations, and a period for question and answer. Panelists will include Lynne Brown from the Sac- ramento Office of MADD, Red Bluff High School Re- source Officer Lela Mar- tinez, Drug and Alcohol Counselor John Gehrung with the Tehama County Health Services Agency, Corning Police Depart- ment Chief Jeremiah Fears and Officer Matthew Hewitt. Alcohol continues to be the drug of choice among youth, with 33 percent of high school seniors report- ing having used alcohol in the past 30 days, according to the national 2016 Mon- itoring the Future Survey. According to the 2015-16 California Healthy Kids Survey, 28 percent of ju- niors in Tehama County reported having had at least one drink in the last 30 days. Fifty-two percent had consumed more than a few sips during their life- time. R esearch shows that youth who begin drinking before age 15 are five times more likely to develop alco- hol dependence than those who begin drinking at 21. The estimated annual economic cost of under- age drinking in the United States is 24.6 billion. This figure includes health care costs and other im- pacts, such as crime, vehi- cle crashes and loss of pro- ductivity. After alcohol and mar- ijuana, prescription drugs are the third most com- monly abused substance by teens. Local data show that in 2015, 19 percent of juniors had used prescrip- tion painkillers, diet pills or other prescription stim- ulants. Like illegal drugs, pre- scription drugs can be ad- dictive and can lead to se- rious health problems and even death. In Tehama County alone, there have been 24 deaths from over- doses from prescription of drugs since October 2016. For more information, visit http://www.stopal- coholabuse.gov/townhall- meetings. Meetings FROM PAGE 1 throughout the year, in- cluding Farm-City Week in October, during which a bustouroflocalfarmsisof- fered. The week culminates in a dinner hosted to honor local community members. The organization holds a number of classroom vis- its and educational events such as Farm Day and Na- tional Ag Day celebrations that help local children learn what types of agricul- turearefoundinthecounty and where food and other agriculture-related items come from. The centennial event, which will be in the cafeteria and auditorium area, kicks off with chil- dren's activities 4-6 p.m. with a social hour start- ing at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. Tickets are free for farm bureau members and $15 for non-members, but are nearly sold out. For more information on the event, call Dodd at 527- 7882. Celebrate FROM PAGE 1 SPRING GREGORY BULL — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Zoey Speer, of Temecula clamors among rocks and blooming desert shrubs in Borrego Springs. Rain-fed wildflowers have been sprouting from California's desert sands a er lying dormant for years — producing a spectacular display that has been drawing record crowds and traffic jams in area desert towns. By Julie Watson The Associated Press BORREGO SPRINGS An ex- plosion of wildflowers in California's desert sands is drawing record crowds to see the rare abundance of color called a "super bloom." The natural wonder is thanks to a wet winter fol- lowed by warm tempera- tures in the Anza-Borrego State Park, northeast of San Diego. Wildflower seeds that have been dormant for years in the drought-plagued re- gion have sprouted in mass, producing a spectacular dis- play not seen in 20 years. An estimated 150,000 people in the past month have converged on Borrego Springs, a town of about 3,500 that abuts the park. Rain-fed wildflowers are springing up in different landscapes across the state and the western United States. In the Antelope Val- ley, an arid plateau north- east of Los Angeles, blazing orange poppies are lighting up the ground. But the "super bloom" — mass amounts of desert plants blooming at once — hasbeenconcentratedinthe 640,000-acre (1,000-square- mile) Anza-Borrego State Park. In California, super blooms happen about once in a decade in a given area. They have been occurring less frequently with the drought. Last year, the right amountofrainfallandwarm temperatures produced car- pets of flowers in Death Val- ley. ThenaturalshowatAnza- Borrego is expected to roll along through May, with different species blooming at different elevations and in different areas. The state park is California's largest, with hundreds of species of plantsincludingdesertlilies, blazing stars and the flam- ing tall, spiny Ocotillo. Deputies were brought in to handle the traffic jams as Borrego Springs saw its pop- ulation triple in a single day. On one particularly packed weekend in mid- March, motorists were stuck in traffic for five hours, res- taurants ranout offood, and some visitors relieved them- selves in the fields. Officials have since set up an army of Port-A-Pottys, and eateries have stocked up. The craze has been dubbed "Flow- ergeddon." Tourgroupsfromasfaras Japan and Hong Kong have flown in to catch the display before it fades away with the rising temperatures. Wildflower enthusiasts worldwide track the blooms online and arrive for rare sightings like this year's Bi- gelow'sMonkeyflower,some of which have grown to 8 inches (203 millimeters) in height. The National Park Service has even pitched in with a 24-hour wildflower hotline to find the best spots at the state park. "We've seen everything from people in normal hik- ing attire to people in de- signer flip-flops to women in sundressesandstrappyheels hike out there to get their picture. When I saw that, I thought, 'Oh no. Please don't goouttherewiththoseshoes on,'" laughed Linda Had- dock, head of the Borrego Springs Chamber of Com- merce. On a recent day, a young womansatamongknee-high desert sunflowers and shot selfies against the backdrop of yellow blooms that looked almost neon in contrast to the brown landscape. A mother jumped in the air as her daughter snapped her photo among yellow brittle- bushes. The blooms are attracting hungry sphinx moth cater- pillars that munch through acres. The caterpillars in turn are attracting droves of Swainson hawks on their annual 6,000-mile (9,656-ki- lometer) migration from Ar- gentina. "It's an amazing burst in the cycle of life in the desert that has come because of a freakish event like a super bloom," Haddock said. "It's exciting. This is going to be so huge for our economy." This year's display has been especially stunning, experts say. The region re- ceived 6½ inches (165 milli- meters) of rain from Decem- ber to February, followed by almost two weeks of 90-de- gree temperatures, setting the conditions for the super bloom. Five years of drought madetheseedsreadytopop. Humansalsohelped.Park staff, volunteers and female prisoners have been remov- ing the Sahara Mustard plant,aninvasivespeciesbe- lieved brought to California in the 1920s with another plant, the date palm. Sa- hara Mustard had been cov- ering popular wildflower ar- eas, said Jim Dice, research manager at the Anza-Bor- regoDesertResearchCenter. Sandra Reel and her hus- band drove hundreds of miles out of their way when they heard about this year's super bloom. Ca li fo rn ia 's d es er t wi ld fl ow er explosion draws record crowds By Sophia Bollag The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secre- tary John Kelly have de- fended federal agents who make immigration arrests at courthouses after Cal- ifornia's top judge asked them to stop, according to a letter released Friday. Sessions and Kelly sent the letter Wednesday to California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil- Sakauye, saying state and city policies barring local law enforcement from turn- ing over suspects for depor- tation have compelled fed- eral agents to arrest immi- grants at courthouses and other public places. Courthouses are a safe place for federal agents to make the arrests be- cause visitors are typically screened for weapons, the letter says. "While these law en- forcement personnel will remain mindful of con- cerns by the public and gov- ernmental stakeholders re- garding enforcement activ- ities, they will continue to take prudent and reason- able actions within their lawful authority to achieve that mission," it says. The response comes amid a feverish debate na- tionwide over the relation- ship between local law en- forcement and immigra- tion officials. Many counties and cities have refused to collaborate with immigration author- ities after President Don- ald Trump signed execu- tive orders to step up de- portations. In response, the admin- istration has warned that those jurisdictions run the risk of losing federal fund- ing. LAW ENFORCEMENT Federal officials defend immigration arrests in courthouses CONSTANCECAROLYNCALLAHAN 3-4-1941 ~ 3-3-17 Constance Carolyn Callahan passed away 3-3-2017, after a long illness surrounded by loved ones and just one day before her 76 birthday. She is survived by her loving part- ner Mary Tomasini, brothers: Victor Callahan, Richard Callahan, and Donald Callahan, nephews Richard Calla- han and Joseph Callahan, nieces Teresa Snook, Rhonda Beatty and Sheila Buchler. She was born in Watseka, Ill, 3-4-1941. The major portion of her childhood was spent on the family farm in Sheldon, Ill. It was in her early years that she developed alove of cooking, gardening and playing basketball. After high school, she attended East- ern Illinois University where she earned a bachelor's de- gree in physical education. After graduation, she taught at Julliard, a girls school in Illinois, before moving to San Francisco. In S.F., she attended the San Francisco State University and earned her master's degree in Marriage Family Counseling while working in the physical educa- tion department. She was among the early licensees in the state of California, #1918. She co-authored the first MFT study manual for the board certification. Connie was very fortunate to join her past husband on a 6-month sabbatical in Europe in the 60's. She went back many times but her highlight was Ireland. She founded Theraplay to teach and provide products to enhance the practice of Sand Tray Therapy. She loved to travel and sell her unique products at professional confer- ences. She moved to Napa and worked for CPS for 8 years and ran her private practice. She left Napa and moved to Redding in 1999. She worked in agencies and established thriving therapy practices in Napa, Klammath Falls, Redding, and Red Bluff. She was loved by her many patients for whom she had deep understanding and love. She touched many lives in her 50 years and will be missed by all. She loved life, adventure, travel, boating, cooking and always left room in her garden for angels to play. Her celebration of life will be Sunday April 9, 2017, 1:00pm at the TBS Ranch in Palo Cedro, CA. Please send donations to One Safe Place, 2250 Benton Dr., Redding, CA 96003 Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Now open longer hours 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff RUNNINGS ROOFING and CONSTRUCTION SheetMetalRoofing ResidentialCommercial • Composition • Shingle • Single Ply Membrane ServingTehamaCounty 530-527-5789 530-209-5367 NoMoney Down! "NoJobTooSteep" " No Job Too Flat" FREE ESTIMATES CA.Lic#829089B&C39 Patrick's Pumping SepticPumpingServices Red Bluff, CA Garet Patrick Owner/Operator 530-366-6899 4patricks@att.net Available 24/7 SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A