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Thursday, January 31, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries M.A. PETE PEARCE M.A. Pete Pearce passed January 21st in New Mexico at the age of 99. He was a World War II Vet and was captured on Batan he took the death march and was a prisoner of war in Japan for four years. Closed Casket Services will be held at Hoyt-Cole in Red Bluff, CA on Saturday, February 2. Graveside services will follow in Los Molinos, CA. 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. Manley Drake Manley Drake died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 70. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Michael Alan Hoznour Michael Alan Hoznour of Red Bluff died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 at St Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. He was 68. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. TRAILS Continued from page 1A Abbs is working on placing trails information on the county website, but for now information can be accessed on Facebook at "Tehama County Trails" or by contacting Alan at the Air District office. The future will hold trails maps of all county trails both in print and electronic format. This summer Tehama County will be revising the Trails and Bikeways Plan, which will be the April 18 Thursday Evening Program topic. Sherry Tune, Mendocino National Forest supervisor, talked about the 200 miles of trails within the forest boundaries that includes trails in the Yolla-Bolly Wilderness Area. Partnerships were suggested between the USFS, the public and other trail oriented groups such as the Pacific Crest Trail Association. The PCTA offers training on using traditional tools for trails maintenance. These partnerships could help obtain funding to make achievement possible. For more information about the trails of the Red Bluff Recreation Area contact the Discovery Center, 1000 Sale Lane, 530-527-1196 or bhughe1@tehamaed.org. The center is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vehicles burglarized A 32-year-old Gerber man reported to the Tehama County Sheriff's Department that about $739 in items were taken from his locked vehicle on Samson Avenue. Vladimir Shishkin reported his vehicle had been locked prior to being burglarized sometime the night of Jan. 23 or early the morning of Jan. 24. The vehicle was found locked after it was burglarized. A wallet containing miscellaneous cards and cash, a Makita trim saw, two LED Makita flashlights, three 18volt Makita batteries and a 1-half-inch drive Makita battery were taken. State workers have second jobs in same department SACRAMENTO (AP) — Many full-time state workers are moonlighting with second jobs in the same department, California jobs records show. January state jobs data revealed that nearly a dozen state departments have allowed hundreds of employees to hold more than one job, according to the Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/Vv8JuN ) . Some 571 nonunion employees held more than one position this month. Many of them are salaried managers and supervisors ineligible for overtime. The data confirm claims by CalPERS pension officials that the practice is widespread. CalPERS faced criticism earlier this month for paying hourly wages to salaried employees who did extra work with computer systems and customer service. Officials said the practice wasn't unique to the retirement system fund, and saved CalPERS an estimated $1.6 million. The Brown administration said it is taking steps to end the little-known moonlighting practice. California's Department of Human Resources said it is conducting a ''full review'' of the practice and has banned any additional appointments without agency approval. The Bee found that around 75 lieutenants in the state corrections system also hold lower-level jobs as sergeants or correctional officers; another 55 sergeants held second jobs as correctional officers or sponsors of self-help programs. All of those jobs pay an hourly wage. COUNTY Continued from page 1A 23.7 percent. Sutter County at 17.6 percent, Merced at 17.2 percent and Siskiyou at 15.9 percent round out the top five highest unemployment rates. Unemployment continues to drop in both the state and national rates with a 0.1 percent drop between revised November numbers for Cal- WOLVES Continued from page 1A coordinate the wants of conservation, agriculture and sportsmen groups. In July the board formally opposed a petition that would list the gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act and publicly stated it doesn't want the animal reintroduced in Tehama County. Gray wolves are listed under the federal act, but the state designation would add an extra level of protection. The State Department is in the process of considering the petition, while the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering delisting the animal in some areas as it moves forward with reintroduction projects across the country. Kovacs said no matter what results from those decisions it is important for the agencies to coordinate their information and get a head start by devel- oping a management plan to deal with wolves in California. Supervisor Burt Bundy praised the department for getting in front of the issue, including the Farm Bureau during its discussions, and said the wolf issue was already being handled better than mountain lions were. "The wolf can be a big impact here to us in Tehama County and I am concerned about that," Bundy said. Journey first entered California in December 2011. At first he spent most of his time in Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen and Shasta counties. But in recent months he has moved further south to Plumas, Butte and Tehama counties. Journey has been exclusively in Tehama since Jan. 9. Kovacs said Journey has the capability of moving 25 air miles in a single day. The wolf is outfitted with a GPS radio collar from when he was part of a reintroduction study in CORNING Continued from page 1A whole new level. It's not something you'd normally have in a small community." In addition to stepping up to another level of performing arts, it also adds to the education of the kids, especially those who struggle with self esteem and self image, he said. "Our kids have bought into this ROPES Continued from page 1A City Manager Richard Crabtree said the city decided to hold its own orientation to save the costs ifornia and a 0.2 percent drop nationally. Nondurable goods, at a 2 percent increase, and professional business services, at a 1.1 percent increase, saw the only positive change in the number of jobs for the year. The biggest decrease for the year was a 6.7 percent drop in jobs in the transportation and warehousing utilities category. Mining and logging took the biggest hit, and is the only category higher than 5 percent, with a 12.5 percent drop in jobs from November to December. Retail trade and educational health services, both with a 0.6 percent increase in jobs, saw the only positive change from November to December. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Oregon. Trail cameras have been set up in several locations, but so far none have gotten a glimpse of the wolf. Wildlife experts have been able to visit where Journey has been and have determined since entering California he has lived on a diet of deer, gray squirrel and deceased wild horses. Kovacs said he has traveled across every type of habitat Northern California has to offer and across a multitude of land ownerships. There have been no signs of any other wolf in California, although Kovacs said the department has received several reports from landowners. She said in every case either a coyote or domestic dog was mistaken as a wolf. Wolf-hybrids, which are easy to obtain in California, may have led to some confusion. Wildlife officials told the board it is unknown how large a wolf population California could even support. dance and area able to move past the discomfort," Cory said. "They find it very freeing to participate." It is especially neat since middle school students are at an age where self consciousness and body image are developing, he said. The finale of the program is a performance that will be open to the community, which each school planning one of their own. "We have 370 students and every single one of them is invited to participate," Cory said. "It's full lights, Continued from page 1A Brown has been riding high since voters in November passed his Proposition 30, increasing the statewide sales tax for four years and raising income taxes on highearners for seven years. The higher taxes are projected to generate an additional $6 billion a year. The revenue enabled Brown to declare an end to the state's multibillion-dollar deficits, assuming lawmakers approve his budget proposal later this year. His proposed 2013-14 spending plan does not restore money to some of the social service programs that have endured deep cuts in recent years, instead increasing funding for K-12 public schools by $2.7 billion and overhauling how that money is spent. It also dedicates $4.2 billion to pay down state debt and creates a $1 billion reserve. Nearly 70 percent of poll respondents said they support the governor's approach to the budget, including 51 percent of Republicans. Nearly four in 10 said they would prefer to restore some funding to social service programs. The Public Policy Institute interviewed 1,704 California adults by landline and cellphone from January 15-22. The poll has a sampling error rate of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all adults, and higher for subgroups. It also found: — Two-thirds of Californians said they do not believe the government does enough to regulate access to guns, while a third said the government goes too far in restricting gun ownership. Twothirds support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons. — A record-high 55 percent of Californians support President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul, up from 47 percent support last March, while 37 percent remain opposed. There home in the community of Woodside that changed hands for $117.5 million in November. Public records identify SV Projects LLC as the buyer of the 8,930-square-foot, four-bedroom home that sits on nearly nine acres. The Los Angeles Times has identified the seller as Tully Friedman, chief executive of Friedman, Fleischer and Lowe, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. The Woodside home eclipsed the 2011 purchase of a property in nearby Los Altos Hills for $100 million as the highestpriced sale in California public records, said DataQuick analyst Andrew LePage. There were 26,993 houses and condominiums sold for at least $1 million last year, up 26.9 percent from 21,267 in 2011 and the highest since 42,502 sold in 2007, DataQuick said. The all-time high was 2005, when 54,773 homes sold for at least $1 million. The increase far outpaced an 8.2 increase in all sales of California homes. Janice Lee, director of luxury properties for California Prudential Realty, said she has seen an influx of Chinese buyers who are disenchanted with their government seeking to raise families in Southern California. ''There is a huge foreign buyer pool in Southern California,'' said Lee, who is based in Pasadena. The Silicon Valley community of Hillsborough registered the most million-dollar sales, fol- California's population is much greater than other states where gray wolves have been successfully reintroduced. In May the U.S. and California wildlife services issued a FederalState Coordination Plan to deal with gray wolf activity within the state. The plan details how the agencies will share information in the wake of a variety of events from a wolf being captured or killed to notifying landowners of their presence. A gray wolf stakeholders meeting presented by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is scheduled for Feb. 5 at UC Davis. Kovacs said she did not expect a decision regarding the petition to list the gray wolf on the state level until the end of the year. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. course. The meeting was open to the public. After Tuesday's cram session the hope was Parker and Sheppard could explain why it had to be open to the public. remains a strong partisan split on the issue, with 76 percent of Democrats and 44 percent of independents supporting it, compared to just 19 percent of Republicans. — The most important issues for the governor and Legislature to work on this year were jobs and the economy (31 percent), the state budget (17 percent) and education (17 percent). More than six in 10 still say the state budget situation is a major problem. — A record-high 76 percent say illegal immigrants who already are in the United States should be given a chance to keep their jobs and eventually apply for legal status, with only 21 percent saying they should be deported to their native countries. — Seven in 10 Californians said they support a cigarette tax increase, although voters rejected an initiative to raise the tax in November; 54 percent favor raising corporate taxes and only 32 percent would back a proposal to expand sales taxes to services. Sales of million-dollar homes soar in California SAN DIEGO (AP) — Sales of million-dollar homes in California hit a five-year high in 2012, with sales of multimilliondollar homes showing even bigger gains, a research firm said Wednesday. There were 697 homes sold for more than $5 million last year, up 42 percent from 2011 and the highest since DataQuick began tracking sales in 1988. There were 460 homes sold between $4 million and $5 million, up 34 percent from the previous year and also the highest on record. The most expensive sale was a Silicon Valley Wolves in other states have a diet that mainly consists of elk, a species that is 10 times more abundant elsewhere. fog machine and the works. The kids get to see what it's like to be a part of a professional production. Maywood's is the first and is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8. The remainder are scheduled as follows: Woodson School, March 7; Olive View April 11; West Street, May 9. that would have been asso- and municipal corporation ciated from sending Parker general law. and Sheppard to a similar A few city employees event hosted by the League attended the orientation as of California Cities. well as Mayor Wayne Instead Crabtree gave Brown and Councilman what he called a 35,000- Rob Schmid, who used the foot overview of ethics evening as a refresher PLAN 7A lowed by Manhattan Beach, Menlo Park, Saratoga and Newport Beach. Rounding out the top 10 were San Diego's La Jolla area, Los Angeles' Brentwood section, Beverly Hills, Los Altos and Laguna Beach.