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Thursday, December 27, 2012 ��� Daily News Obituaries ���Addison Grace Stocks��� Addison Grace Stocks was born into the arms of the angels at 10:18 a.m. on December 9, 2012. Addison���s parents are: Colleen and Brady Stocks of Spring Creek, NV, Grandparents: Dale and Dovey Stocks of Red Bluff, CA; Larry and Charleen Crump of Lizella, GA; & Bill and Marily Ramsey of Rancho Murieta, CA. Mama Colleen & Daddy BradyTwinkle, twinkle little star, How we���ll wonder who you are. Up above the world so high, You���ll be your parents��� diamond, in every night���s sky. Love from your Daddy���s sisters and their families, Aunt Monica & Uncle Galo Pleitez, Aunt Candee Querantes & Cousin Keely Renee, and Aunt Kaci Blake & Uncle Jonathan, Cousins Elly Marie Lyn & Emmy Elaine Hope Death Notices Death notices must be 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. Evangeline Garduno Evangeline Garduno died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. She was 83. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Iola Perkins Iola Perkins died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at Oak River Rehab in Anderson. She was 98. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. BID Continued from page 1A say. Last year, the Obama administration agreed to issue a two-year waiver for states that meet three main criteria: adoption of rigorous academic achievement standards, a program to focus on turning around low performing schools, and the most contentious proviso ��� an accountability system that would involve using test scores to evaluate teachers and principals. But Torlakson said waivers should be granted without strings attached and said the requirements were too costly for a state mired in fiscal problems. State education officials estimated it would cost $2 BEER Continued from page 1A hundreds of years is finally erect again. Still, Father Paul Mark Schwan said another $2 million is needed to finish the project: the building is billion to $2.7 billion to meet the waiver criteria. The state has already committed to the first requirement through the adoption of the national curriculum known as the Common Core State Standards, but the state���s main teachers��� union, the California Teachers Association, has steadfastly refused to agree to incorporate test scores as a measure of classroom performance. Instead, California based its waiver application on its current measure of school achievement, called the Academic Performance Index, and several initiatives under way to boost teacher effectiveness. ������Taken together, these initiatives will provide California the opportunity to redesign the system of school accountability to ensure still without the proper window glass, floors and electricity needed to finish it. ������Will it take another 12 years?������ Schwan told the paper. ������I prefer it not.������ ��������� Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com Missing California couple found safe in Oregon SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� A couple reported missing after failing to arrive at their daughter���s Redding home for Christmas Eve dinner were found safe about 400 miles away in Oregon. The Oregon State Police says the 85-year-old man and 83-year-old woman were found late Christmas night in their car, which ran out of gas on Interstate 5 near Woodburn. Police say the two seemed confused and were taken to Salem Hospital for medical evaluations. The daughter who was hosting the Christmas Eve dinner told police her stepfather was picking up her mother at a care facility, and the drive to her home should have taken about 10 minutes. Crews make progress in clearing Big Sur rock slide BIG SUR (AP) ��� Officials say work crews are making some progress in clearing debris from a rock slide that forced the closure of Highway 1 through the Big Sur area of the California coast. State transportation officials say after closing the highway Monday at Partington Ridge Road near the community of Big Sur, crews will open one lane of the highway to let traffic through at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. on Thursday. Caltrans spokesman Colin Jones says because the section of roadway is near an active slide area, the flow of traffic will be controlled when the highway is open. Jones says drivers approaching the area will have a chance to turn around a few miles south and north of where the road work is being done. A separate rock slide on Highway 1 near Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County was cleared Monday. RAINY Continued from page 1A p.m. Sunday, when an underground cable near Rio Alto Drive and Old River Road was impacted, Moreno said. After water subsided, crews were able to make All power was restored by repairs and restore all 1:45 p.m., Moreno said. power by 8 p.m. ChristThere were four other mas Eve. outages, all weather relatA power outage affect- ed, in Tehama County that ed some of the buildings at took place between SaturLassen Volcanic National day and Sunday with a Park, starting about 11 total of 141 customers in a.m. Christmas day, when Mill Creek, Mineral and a tree branch fell on a line. Vina affected. Visitors traveling to the park should be prepared for winter weather and driving conditions. Carry tire chains in your vehicle Continued from page 1A along with extra food, water, and Visitor Center may be closed for blankets. short time periods during lingering For the latest information regardsnowstorms.��� ing ranger-led snowshoe walks, LASSEN PLAN by 2015. In Tehama County the highest download speed available is 100 megabits per second, but only offered by Charter Communications in the Red Bluff and Lake California areas. Almost half of Tehama County households are classified as underserved for their broadband speeds. At the heart of the plan is the Northern California Regional Middle-Mile Infrastructure (NCRMMI) plan which would cover 2,000 miles across the 16 counties. The infrastructure will use interlocking fiber rings to provide redundancy and infrastructure between Sacramento and the Oregon border. In Tehama County the NCRMMI would have two routes going north and south of Red Bluff through Tehama County. The most western route will have connection points in Red Bluff and Corning. The other route will go southeast from Red Bluff to Chico. Both routes converge in Sacramento. The plan would link the Tehama County Office of Education, Tehama County Library and St. Elizabeth Community Hospital to the NCRMMI directly with fiber connections. New and existing wireless towers will be used to connect eight miles out from the system to rural customers. The project is estimated to cost at least $120 million. Golden Bear Broadband, that it is more meaningful and more inclusive than the current federal accountability system,������ Torlakson wrote in a letter Friday to district superintendents. School reformers said the waiver rejection shows that California is increasingly out of step with educational progress nationwide. If the state had submitted an adequate application, low-income schools would also have gained flexibility in how they can use federal money, noted Erin Shaw, spokeswoman for Students First, a Sacramento-based reform group. ������This unfortunately comes at a time when school budgets remain tight and the ���fiscal cliff��� looms,������ Shaw said in a statement. ������California has already left millions of badly needed federal dollars on the table by failing to submit competitive applications for ���Race to the Top��� funding. It���s time to change the system that rejects accountability and continually risks classroom resources that rightfully belong to students.������ The teachers association and Torlakson have said they are in favor of Congress rewriting the Elementary and Secondary Act to incorporate state policy differences and to give more flexibility. ������������������������ Contact the reporter a t http://twitter.com/Christ inaHoag ��������� Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com Continued from page 1A 7A All were caused by downed wires due to ice or wind or transformer failures, Moreno said. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. weather and road conditions visit the park website at www.nps.gov/lavo, follow LassenNPS on Twitter or Facebook, or call Park Headquarters at (530) 5956102, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. LLC, which would implement, own, manage and operate the NCRMMI has stated their intentions to match 10 percent funding if 90 percent is found through grants. Infrastructure in Tehama County along will run at least $11.2 million. Three fiber optic routes are being built at a cost of between $45,000 and $80,000 per mile. As much as possible the routes will take place along existing railroads and highways. However in certain places optics will need to be aerial connected to power poles. The first route in Tehama County starts in Red bluff and goes east to the highway junction of 33 and 99, then travels to Highway 36 and Manton Road. The Highway 36-Man- ton Road junction also travels to Paynes Creek to Mineral to the Plumas County Boundary to connect with that county���s backbone system. The rest of the route links Los Molinos to Gerber to Proberta to Red Bluff and Cottonwood to Lake California and eventually Bend. The second route follows Interstate 5. A third route heads West from Corning on A9 to the Glenn County boundary to Flournoy and eventually to the Rancho Tehama Reserve. The route connects Flournoy to Paskenta and onto Newville in Glenn County. Much of the work in Tehama County could be completed by the summer of 2014 if grant funding is found on schedule. Stores in Sacramento mall open again after food court fight SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� Officials say all the stores of Sacramento���s Arden Fair Mall shopping center are open again after a lockdown during a fight in the mall���s in the food court. Mall security director Steve Reed says several stores were locked down for up to 45 minutes when a fight involving about 20 people broke out a little before 5 p.m. Wednesday. Reed says four people were arrested in the incident. KCRA-3 reported the incident based on the accounts of one of its newscasters, who was inside the mall at the time. Sacramento police did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages, but Reed says there were no injuries in the fight. Sacramento County Sheriff���s spokesman Jason Ramos says deputies were called to the mall because of initial reports of shots being fired, but says those reports turned out to be unfounded. Ailing nuke plant faces questions on restart LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Federal regulators Wednesday pressed the operator of the San Onofre nuclear power plant for more analysis on its damaged steam generators, as the government considers when, or if, one of the seaside reactors can be restarted safely. San Onofre, located between Los Angeles and San Diego, hasn���t produced electricity since January, after a tiny radiation leak led to the discovery of excessive wear on hundreds of generator tubes that carry radioactive water. Southern California Edison asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in early October for permission to rekindle one of the twin reactors, Unit 2, and then run it at reduced power. Company officials believe that operating at up to 70 percent power will end vibration and friction that prematurely eroded generator tubing. In a letter to Edison, NRC officials raised a potentially thorny question for the company. Under technical operating rules, the plant is required to ensure that generator tubes retain ������structural integrity������ during ������the full range of normal operating conditions,������ including if the plant is running at full power. NRC said it wanted the company to demonstrate that Unit 2 could meet that threshold, or explain how generator tubes would interact with each other if the plant is operating at maximum capacity. Any change in those technical rules could trigger a longer, more complex review by the NRC. Agency spokesman Victor Dricks declined comment when asked if meeting the full-power threshold could be a condition of restarting the Unit 2 reactor. Edison spokeswoman Jennifer Manfre said in a statement that the utility would provide additional information to the federal agency, as requested. A thorough review of the restart plan ������is important to both the public and Southern California Edison,������ she added. The problems at San Onofre center on steam generators that were installed during a $670 million overhaul in 2009 and 2010. After the plant was shut down, tests found some generator tubes were so badly corroded that they could fail and possibly release radiation, a stun- ning finding inside the nearly new equipment. Friends of the Earth, a group critical of the nuclear power industry, is among several environmental groups pushing the NRC to require Edison to seek an amendment to its operating license to restart the plant, a process that could take up to two years. Spokeswoman Kendra Ulrich said in a statement the group is ������encouraged that the NRC is asking hard questions������ about the restart and its implications, including on the operating license. The ability of San Onofre to run safely at lower power ��� and whether that limit would require an amendment to its operating license ��� came up earlier this month at a hearing of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an arm of the NRC. Administrative Judge Gary Arnold asked an Edison attorney, Steve Frantz, if he was confident that the plant could operate at 99 percent power with its ailing generators. ������I do not say that,������ Franz responded. He argued that running at 70 percent power would fall within San Onofre���s license and operating rules. The generators, which resemble massive steel fire hydrants, control heat in the reactors and operate something like a car radiator. At San Onofre, each one stands 65 feet high, weighs 1.3 million pounds and has with 9,727 Ushaped tubes inside, each three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Company executives have left open the possibility that the heavily damaged generators in Unit 3 might be scrapped.