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Friday, January 11, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries BILLY ROY PRICE March 16, 1925 - January 1, 2013 Billy Roy Price was born in Horton, Kansas on March 26, 1925, and surrounded by his family, died at home in Corning, California on January 1, 2013. Bill was married to Martha Scott Price for 64 years. She predeceased him a short four months ago. His father and mother, Roy and Rosa Price, also predeceased him. Bill is survived by his three daughters; Linda (Ron) Coleman, Tacoma, Washington, Karen (Rick) Jones, Corning, California, and Sara (Lynn) Woolery, El Dorado Hills, California, as well as seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Bill graduated from high school in Napa, California in 1942 and from Vallejo Junior College in June 1948. Bill then graduated from the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy in 1951. After high school Bill served in World War II for three years in the United States Army Air Corps. Bill and Martha moved to Corning in 1953 when they acquired Price's Pharmacy, which they owned and operated until 1988. They were members of the Corning United Methodist Church where Bill served in many different capacities whenever needed or asked. Bill was very active in the Corning community in many different organizations. Here are several: Corning Rotary Club, July 1, 1953 to January 1, 2013, president 1964; Masons of California Olivet Lodge # 205, 1958 - 2012, Master 1967; Board of Trustees Corning Union High School District, 1973 - 1981, Corning Cemetery District Board; and The Tehama County Shriners Club. Bill also for many years sponsored and pitched on the Price's Pharmacy slowpitch team. He and Martha also enjoyed many years of travelling with their friends in the Mt. Lassen unit of the Airstream Trailer Wally Byam Caravan Club. When you think of Bill be reminded of his sense of humor, his eagerness to meet and greet anyone anywhere anytime, his loyalty to the St. Louis Cardinals, his tremendous generosity, much of which was never known to anyone other than Bill and Martha, and above all, his love for Martha and his entire family. Remembrances in Bill's name may be made to the Corning Rotary Club Leadership Scholarship Fund, PO Box 764, Corning, CA 96021. A celebration of Bill's life will be held at the Corning First Presbyterian Church, 471 Marguerite Ave, in Corning at 2:00 pm Saturday, January 12, 2013. A reception will follow at the church. 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. Gladys M. Abston Gladys M. Abston died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. She was 87. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Yolanda C. Castaneda Yolanda C. Castaneda died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at her residence in Los Molinos. She was 46. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Calif. budget aims to change education funding LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday proposed a sweeping overhaul of K-12 education financing that would provide more money for low-income schools and give districts more control over how they can spend state funds. Fresh off voter-approved hikes in the state sales tax and income taxes on the wealthy, the Democratic governor's newly unveiled budget plan allocates $2.7 billion more for elementary and secondary education and community colleges for the next fiscal year. Spending on K-12 and two-year colleges would total $56.2 billion for 2013-14. That figure would return the state to nearly prerecession funding after a series of spending cuts. Of the additional amount allocated for the fiscal year starting July 1, the governor wants to use $1.8 billion to pay school districts what the state already owes them in late payments for previous years. Besides restoring funds, Brown wants to drastically change the way the state distributes money to schools. The proposal retains the current system's feature of awarding money based on attendance, but it would add up to 35 percent more based on the proportion of English learners, foster children and low-income students in each district. Districts with more than half of their student population classifying as low-income, as measured by free or reduced price lunch participants, would receive additional funds in a poverty ''concentration'' grant. The shift is sure to cause an outcry among wealthier school districts, but Brown framed it as an obligation to provide more help to low-income districts. ''Growing up in Compton or Richmond is not like it is to grow up in Los Gatos or Beverly Hills or Piedmont,'' he said. ''It is controversial, but it is right and it's fair.'' Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, a Republican from Diamond Bar, said Brown's proposal was generally sound, but he wanted to ensure that suburban districts would not lose funding. ''If the money is going more to the inner cities, which is where you have the higher English-language learners, where you have the higher poverty where the governor's formula will send it, what does that do? What is the effect of that then in the suburban areas? So that's certainly a discussion we have to have — to see the winners and the losers, and is there a way to mitigate that?'' Huff said. Many education watchers applauded the plan. Free movie night tonight Flournoy School invites the public to its very first Family Movie Night at 6:30 tonight. This free movie night will feature the third installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series titled "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days." Admission is open to everyone. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring the entire family to enjoy this movie together. Pizza will be available for $1 a slice, as well as soda, juice boxes, popcorn and candy for $1 or less. Chairs will be available for seating, but families are encouraged to bring pillows and blankets or personal chairs, to make themselves more comfortable. All proceeds from this event will support Flournoy Elementary School. WELLS Continued from page 1A access the water in the area. "Historically, domestic (users) keep costs down. (They) find good water and stop drilling," he said. Meanwhile agriculture users go down further looking for volume. With no grant money in place to help residential users, Lawrence said the best advice he could give is to make sure wells are dug deep enough even if it WASTE Continued from page 1A into effect on April 1. While there was no one who stepped forward during the public comment section to protest the increase, the city did receive two letters from property owners. One North Street woman cited being a senior citizen as her reason for protest. A woman owning property on Cassandra Circle cited loss of employment in Tehama County, low income residents and others who are FLAP Continued from page 1A nothing to do with it. LaMalfa said he didn't either. "I didn't draw it up or sanction it," he said. Aanestad sued Spannagel for defamation of character. The suit was dropped last month after Spannagel made a public, written apology. At the time of the incident, LaMalfa and Spannagel wouldn't talk about the episode. That was necessary because of the law- Continued from page 1A "I will continue my efforts to stop the crime wave created by AB 109," Nielsen said. Nielsen will represent the residents of the Fourth Senate District, which includes the counties of Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, SPAY Continued from page 1A be able to afford it, the chance to have their animals spayed or neutered." There will be about 25 spots available per day, but there are limits on size and income qualifications, he only home a few times a month due to having to go out of county for work as her reasons. "All of this fits within the contract and the procedures gone through before," Mayor Gary Strack said of the increase. "There are only two lower prices when compared to other cities and those don't include things like sweeping." Waste Management Representative Matt Fryer said his company does not pass increases in salary on to customers. "I know that price increases are always difficult and I know this is a difficult time," Fryer said. "This one suit, the congressman said Wednesday. Spannagel has worked for him for eight years — two in the state Senate and six in the Assembly, LaMalfa said. He also was on the staff of State Sen. Jim Nielsen for two years. "He's a good kid. He works well with people," the congressman said. "One error in judgment should not completely displace the good body of work he's done for the people of the district for 10 years." Asked if Spannagel is known as a prankster, NIELSEN Continued from page 1A League Division Series, he lost some hope. "When we were down to the Reds, I didn't think that we were going to come back because the Reds are a very difficult team to play," he said. "We always have trouble with them." When the Giants came back to win the series 3-2, Lonsberry said his faith was restored. And not even a tough championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals dampened his belief that the Giants would again make the World Series. "The plays that were made, whether it was on defense or offense, you just knew something good's gotta happen," he said. About 4 p.m., when the line of fans started to snake indoors, where San Francisco World Series Trophy Tour crews were set up to snap and sell photos, Red Bluff resident Geri Mitchell, 62, was contently waiting near the end. the changing water levels benefiting or harming the nitrate rates. Nor does it see a drop off in 2013 as severe as the latest round. "(It) won't continue to decline at the rate it did last year, once it reaches and stabilizes with river levels," Lawrence said. is a mild one, but in the past 18 months our employees have had no increase (in salary). We hope to increase the hourly employees, but don't pass increases on to customers. We do stuff on our end to try and keep the costs down." The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are posted at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. LaMalfa said he "likes making a joke as much as anybody." But in this case, "something that probably seemed like a little jab, something funny, was suddenly up on a website instead of a doodle pad," he said. As well as issuing a written apology, Spannagel apologized personally to Aanestad and Dacquisto, LaMalfa said. "It's been an embarrassment to me and to him. He feels really bad. He apologized to me." A message was left ask- ing Spannagel to call the Enterprise-Record, but he hadn't returned the call by the time this story was filed. As LaMalfa's chief of staff, Spannagel works in the congressman's Washington office and supervises the staff in that office and the district offices. Chico EnterpriseRecord staff writer Larry Mitchell can be reached at 8 9 6 - 7 7 5 9 , lmitchell@chicoer.com, or followed on Twitter @LarryMitchell7. Nevada, Placer, Shasta, Siskiyou, sentatives. Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba Following the administration of counties. the oath of office, Nielsen thanked The Republican rancher and for- his constituents for their vote of mer vice chairman of the Assembly confidence and assured them that he Budget Committee received will work hard to protect their hard66.7percent of the vote in Tuesday's earned tax dollars. special run-off election to complete "I am humbled by the confidence the term of former State Senator voters have placed in me, and as Doug LaMalfa, who was elected to always, I will strive to be their voice the United States House of Repre- in the state capitol," Nielsen said. said. Interested persons can call the shelter for information on qualification or to reserve a spot starting at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16. The shelter has another special going on through Saturday in which PETS is sponsoring spay/neuter fees for pit bulls adopted TROPHIES costs more to go down further. Because of their age many pumps are in need of mechanical upgrades. Another problem that has often plagued Antelope area water users is nitrate levels. Lawrence said the department does not see 7A or rescued. "We are extremely full right now," Storrey said. Part of the problem being an influx of strays came in over the holidays. Quite a few of the dogs at the shelter are pit bulls, which is why PETS is holding a special, which drops their adoption fee to $45, said Ronnie Casey of Mitchell, who has been a Giants fan since 1962, said it was exciting to get a chance to see the World Series trophies in person for the first time, an experience that would rank up very high in her all-time favorite Giants memories. One that may surpass it? Watching Ed Halicki pitch a nohitter in 1975 — in person, she said. It was Kathy Hausman, commissioner of the Los Molinos Junior Giants program, who sent in an application late last year to be considered for the Trophy Tour. In a previous interview, Hausman said that Red Bluff's community center was the best location in Tehama County to hold up to 1,000 fans. On Thursday, attendees could donate $1 to benefit Tehama County's Junior Giants programs, with the money going toward baseball equipment, school supplies and upkeep of ballfields. Janet Clark, 56 and a longtime Giants fan from Paradise who attended the trophy stop in Chico on Wednesday and Red Bluff on Thursday, was first in line — again. PETS. For more information on the clinic or pit bull adoptions call 527-3439. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Clark, who arrived at the community center at 11 a.m. donned in an oversized orange hat that was draped with Giants pins, has become somewhat of a Trophy Tour media star. In between interviews with radio and newspaper reporters, Clark said she saw the Giants' World Series trophy seven times in 2010. "And every time my heart pounded just as much as the first," she said. "Just as memories and excitement and honor. Honor. I get to stand next to a World Series trophy. I know how hard my team worked for it." It was Clark's third time seeing the 2012 trophy after also attending San Francisco's parade, and she said she'd have to skip the stop in Redding today but hopes to catch up with the tour in Mt. Shasta on Saturday. ——— Sports Editor Andre Byik can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 111 or at spor ts@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TehamaSports Student shot at rural California high school TAFT (AP) — A 16year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into class in a rural California high school on Thursday and shot one student, fired at another and missed, and then was talked into surrendering by a teacher and another staff member, officials said. The teen victim was in critical but stable condition, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference. The sheriff said the teacher at Taft Union High School suffered a minor pellet wound to the head and declined treatment. The gunman had as many as 20 rounds of ammunition in his pocket, the sheriff said. When the shots were fired, the teacher tried to get the more than two dozen students out a back door and also engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, Youngblood said. A campus supervisor responding to a call of shots fired also began talking to the gunman. ''They talked him into putting that shotgun down. He in fact told the teacher, 'I don't want to shoot you,' and named the person that he wanted to shoot,'' Youngblood said. ''The heroics of these two people goes without saying. ... They could have just as easily ... tried to get out of the classroom and left students, and they didn't,'' the sheriff said. ''They knew not to let him leave the classroom with that shotgun.'' The shooter didn't show up for first period, then interrupted the class of 28 students. Investigators had not yet had a chance to interview the student and so had no immediate word on a motive or whether the attacker had a previous disciplinary record. Nor did they know where he got the shotgun.