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Thursday, February 21, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries LOUISE ELLA GERRODETTE February 22, 1935 - February 13, 2013 Louise Ella Gerrodette passed from this world to be with Jesus on Wednesday evening , Feb 13, 2013 at Saint Elizabeth Hospital from injuries sustained in a kitchen fire at her home. Born Feb 22nd, 1935 in Corvallis Oregon to parents Guy and Martha Morrow, she would have celebrated her 78th birthday this week. A lifelong Catholic, she was a devoted member of the Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff beginning in 1974. For the past fifteen years she lived at the Villa Columba on Main Street , where she developed many friendships. She enjoyed volunteering with St. Elizabeth���s Auxiliary and was recognized for more than 5200 hours of service. For decades, a sanctuary close to her heart was Lassen National Park, where she hiked and snow-shoed as often as she was able. She took pride in being a political activist, often visible representing her views. For several years she was a staple presence driving her classic blue 1968 VW Beetle. Her family enjoyed her visits to see her granddaughters and family in Ohio, Washington, and Hawaii. A natural artist, she received a four year scholarship to Portland���s Museum School of Art and became a talented oil painter. After that she experienced many adventures, among them hitchhiking and travelling Europe on her own. She met her husband in Seattle in 1961, had two children, and prioritized her time as a homemaker while nurturing creativity, education, and an appreciation for nature. She applied herself to be educated in Geriatrics, working as a home-health aid for at least 10 years. She is preceded in death by her husband William Gerrodette (1976), sister Edna Mary Morrow , and granddaughter Kimberly Alynn. She is survived by her brother Joseph Morrow, son Peter Gerrodette, daughter Anna (and Richard) Honda, and grandchildren Kristin and Michelle Sliger and Natalie and Brennan Gerrodette. Everyone is welcome to her service, a Catholic Mass by Father Joyle Martinez at Sacred Heart Church, Main Street Red Bluff at 1:00 pm on Saturday, Feb 23. A reception at 2:30 will follow at Villa Columba (across the street) with light refreshments in the Community room at Villa Columba. Flowers can be sent to Villa Columba, 460 Main Street Red Bluff, 96080. In Lieu of flowers, a donation can be sent to Catholic Women���s Guild (Beverly- 530 384-2684) or St Elizabeth Volunteer Auxiliary (Eileen- 530529-8037). 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. Lucie (Ramona) DiDio Lucie (Ramona) DiDio died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 84. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Keith B. Meents Keith B. Meents of Corning died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at Oak River Rehab in Anderson. He was 87. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Tommie Leon Phillips Tommie Leon Phillips died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 60. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jean M. Shearman Jean M. Shearman died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 90. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Stephen Spencer Stephen Spencer died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, in Red Bluff. He was 64. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Obama rises, tea party dives SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� A new Field Poll finds that 62 percent of California voters approve of President Barack Obama���s job performance, a level not seen since his first year in office. The survey released Wednesday also finds that voters are relatively optimistic about the future, with 48 percent saying the country is headed in the right direction. That���s down from a Field survey in September but is higher than any other year since 2002. Support for the tea party, meanwhile, is waning. Just 5 percent now say they identify ������a lot������ with the conservative movement. That���s down from 14 percent in September 2010, the movement���s zenith. Field interviewed 834 registered voters by telephone from Feb. 5-17. Analyst recommends audit SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� The state legislative analyst wants California auditors to investigate whether regulators are properly managing consumer-funded accounts for utility projects totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst���s Office raises questions about how the California Public Utilities Commission oversees and audits ������balancing accounts������ for the state���s three largest utilities. Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric set up the accounts to track revenues and spending on projects such as procuring electricity or energy conservation. They are designed to ensure ratepayers pay only the amount the CPUC authorizes so the companies can carry out particular projects. POOL Continued from page 1A Eric Balken, a parent affiliated with Sun Oaks Aquatic Racing, told the council they would be dealing with shortfalls every year unless they took a proactive approach to how the pool operates. Balken said SOAR���s Tehama County-based swimmers had interest in leasing large amounts of pool time from the city. The swimmers currently travel to Redding to practice. Councilman Robert Sheppard, Jr., who is on the Red Bluff Tritons swim team board, said his team has expressed interest in returning to McGlynn. The Tritons currently pay for time at the Red Bluff Union High School swimming pool. Balken said from his experience the only way a pool such as McGlynn could break even or turn a profit is to establish a year-round morning to evening schedule that reaches out to local swim teams. Councilman Clay Parker said from his calculations the city was spending about $1,000 a day to keep the pool open during its abbreviated summer season. He said it amounted to about $11.44 per person to use the pool during that time. Among Balken���s ideas for the pool are creating something similar to the Chico Area Recreation and Park District to manage the pool, hiring a fulltime pool manager and working with Blues for the Pool to pay for a heater. ���What you have there is something really special even in the North State,��� Balken said of the pool. In previous years Blues for the Pool has donated money for the operational costs of the pool, but after the pool was resurfaced last summer the non-profit has told the city it wishes to return to its original mission of paying solely for improvement and enhancement projects. Councilwoman Daniele Jackson, who is a member of Blues for the Pool, said the group has given the city more than $120,000 over the years, but now finds itself with limited funds. Larry Stevens asked the council if they had considered creating a spray park at the facility to generate further revenue outside the pool season, he also suggested raising admission prices in the future. over many stayed around and chatted with the contestants. The show was a success for Red Continued from page 1A Bluff and Tehama County, as the contestants ranged the county from clapping and cheering for all the Los Molinos and Corning to Cottoncontestants, and when the show was wood. TALENT FIRES Continued from page 1A fire department could arrive,��� Fire Chief Jon Bennett said. ���Keeping an extinguisher in your home or business is wise and can protect your property, but be careful not to endanger yourself fighting a fire.��� If the smoke is thick enough to make a person cough or they can feel the heat burning their skin, they should back out and wait for the fire department to arrive, he said. ���Your property is not worth risking serious injury,��� Bennett said. At 12:24 p.m. Tuesday, the department sent two engines and a ladder truck to an apartment in the 100 block of Washington Street for report of a fire in a garage. The fire was partially contained prior to firefighters��� arrival by occupants and a passer-by who used a garden hose and fire extinguisher to limit the damage, Bennett said. Firefighters extinguished the fire and did overhauls. The fire was started from smoking materials BROWN Continued from page 1A would rise from $7,509 this year to $11,993 once the governor���s proposal is fully implemented. At Beverly Hills Unified ��� where 6 percent of students qualify for free and reduced meals, and 6 percent are English learners ��� the Public Works Director Bruce Henz said the spray park and raising fees were both under consideration. The supplemental budget appropriation covered an $8,300 fund deficit, an estimated $8,000 created in extra chemical costs following the resurfacing project and an anticipated shortfall of $12,900 in the current fiscal year budget. Earlier this month the city approved a program seeking pool donations from the community through monthly water bills. Those donations would be applied to the 2013-14 fiscal year budget. Costs for that year are expected to exceed $55,000. Connect with Rich Greene at rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com, through Twitter @richgreenenews or 5272151, ext. 109. The Exchange Cub of Red Bluff thanks the members of the Soroptimist International of Red Bluff for their support and all of the businesses and individuals who supported or took part in this year's 7th Annual Search for Talent. falling onto a sofa, Bennett said. Damage was confined to the garage and its contents. A commercial structure fire alarm sounded at 12:34 p.m. and firefighters were dispatched to the Hands of Hope Mission, 333 S. Main St., Suite Q. Red Bluff Fire, CalFire and Tehama County Fire responded, finding the building full of smoke from a ceiling light fixture fire, Bennett said. The fire was extinguished prior to fire department arrival with damage limited to the light district���s per pupil allotment would rise from $7,838 this year to just $8,523. According to the Department of Finance, the ������vast majority of school districts and charter schools (approximately 1,700) will receive moderate to significant funding increases.������ A district���s overall per pupil spending could be more because of federal support. Brown���s overall budget plan calls 7A unit and a cardboard box of combustible items sitting below it at the time of the fire, he said. Bennett said he would like to remind people to be very careful when smoking indoors or near combustible items. ���Hot residue from smoking materials can fall unseen and create a fire minutes after you���ve left the area,��� Bennett said. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. for $2.7 billion more for elementary and secondary education and community colleges for the next fiscal year. Much of the funding will come from recent voter-approved hikes in the state sales tax and income taxes on the wealthy. ��������� Online: Finance Department���s funding estimates: http://bit.ly/YHwj31 50,000 juvenile salmon released in flooded field SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� Researchers released 50,000 salmon into a flooded rice field in the Sacramento Valley on Tuesday in an effort to understand whether such fields, flooded between harvests, can stand in for the wetlands that once filled the area and served as a massive nursery for juvenile salmon. The fish were released into a 20-acre rice field north of Woodland by researchers from University of California, Davis, the California Department of Water Resources and a nonprofit group, the Sacramento Bee reported (http://bit.ly/VKkJsP). The fish were released in an area known as the Yolo Bypass, which was created to divert floodwaters from Sacramento. When it floods, insects thrive in the area, providing a good food source for growing salmon. Biologist Jacob Katz of Cal Trout, the nonprofit involved in the effort, said it is a large lab experiment. ������What we���re really trying to demonstrate is you can have both fishery benefits and agriculture on the same parcel,������ Katz told the Bee. The bypass is known as a haven for salmon when it floods, not only because of the insects but because it shields the creatures from larger predators. Still, the bypass is not typically flooded long enough to benefit salmon numbers, and if it stays deluged for too long it could affect rice planting season. This new program will seek to find the balance between bypass flooding and rice planting, and feature a mixture of hatchery born fish with natives to see if either adapts better to the habitat. The fish would be released back into the Sacramento River. For farmers, the program provides the possibility that their land could be valuable during the offseason and help improve the plight of fish and access to water. ������Everybody who is dependent on water should be making some strides toward trying to solve some of these fish issues,������ said John Brennan, manager of Knaggs Ranch, one of the participating farms. Trial begins in case of fatal Ore. hunting mistake SALEM, Ore. (AP) ��� Lawyers for an Oregon hunter who killed a man he mistook for a bear say they concede their client shot the Marine reservist, but they maintain the death in a field near Silver Falls State Park was an accident. The defense says 68-year-old Eugene Irvin Collier was ������100 percent sure it was a bear������ he was firing at while hunting with his 12-year-old grandson on private land in October 2011. But the prosecution argues Collier recklessly killed the 20-yearold California man who had crossed the property on what he thought was a shortcut to the state park. Collier���s trial on a manslaughter charge began Tuesday, and lawyers say it will center on whether the shot that killed Christopher Ochoa was reckless or accidental. ������It���s conceded that Eugene Collier caused the death of Christopher Ochoa,������ defense lawyer Jeff Jones said. Collier, from nearby Turner, was hunting with his grandson on land owned by Collier���s brother. Prosecutor Toby Tingleaf said Ochoa had come to Oregon from French Camp, Calif., to help a friend. The two decided to take a shortcut to Silver Falls State Park. They crossed a road and entered a 100acre field of grass, Tingleaf said. ������One sign said no hunting,������ Tingleaf said. ������They didn���t realize they weren���t on state property.������ Collier fired his rifle at what he thought was a bear, Tingleaf said, but he didn���t have a state tag to hunt bears. ������This case is about Christopher Ochoa,������ the prosecutor said. ������His death is not accidental. It should have and could have been avoided.������ Jones said the property had a bear problem, and Collier���s family rarely saw trespassers. Collier and his grandson had put up two hunting stands on the property and set deer bait earlier in the day, Jones said. Collier saw ������something on all fours������ and shot to kill what he thought was a bear, Jones said. ������He was 100 percent sure it was a bear,������ he said. There were eight ������no-trespassing, no-hunting������ signs about 100 yards apart, the attorney said. There will be an informal gathering of Robert (Rob) Rupe���s family and friends on Saturday, February 23rd at The Elks Lodge on Gilmore Road in Red Bluff. This celebration of Rob���s life will begin at 2:00pm, and the family requests that you bring a favorite dish to share, instead of flowers. Those who knew Rob, knew that he loved to eat, and we can think of no better way to honor his passing than to break bread and spend some time together sharing our memories.