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Friday, February 22, 2013 – Daily News 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. Jack Gassel Jack Gassel of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at Brentwood Skilled Nursing. He was 88. HoytCole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. DANCE (Continued from page 1A) "We're checking into grants, scholarships and so far it's looking good," Upton said. "We hope to get through without loans. The field he's going into is an unreliable field (financially). Dancers don't make a lot of money." Already people from the community, including those at Dance Red Bluff and the family's church, North Valley Baptist, have been chipping in. Dance Red Bluff is planning several fundraisers, including the first which is a rummage sale scheduled for March 8-10 at the studio, which is located at the corner of Walnut Street and Baker Road. The studio is very proud of its student, Julian-Anker said. "He will go far because he works hard," JulianAnker said. "He takes correction and pushes past exhaustion and frustration with fierce determination." Even though Howarth's labor is key to his family's farm-life, he manages to take 9.5 hours of dance classes a week and main- CITY (Continued from page 1A) change from a street sweeping schedule of mid-April to mid-November to one that would run from mid-October to midMay. Residential streets are swept monthly under the contract and commercial areas are swept weekly. Councilwoman Daniele Jackson directed city staff to negotiate a change in times during which the street sweeping is done. She said the company sweeps at times when there are too many cars in residential and commercial areas to make it effective. The council passed on an option that would have provided uniform 96-gallon yard waste carts to all customers at a monthly charge. Elsewhere on the agenda • The council authorized the purchase of a new Trailer Mounted Asphalt Pothole Patcher for $87,000. The funds come from a LOCAL (Continued from page 1A) Sherryl Arend; Red Bluff Police Heather Vance and Jane Hoover; Tehama County District Attorney Walt Rhodes Tehama County Fire Walt Williams; Tehama County Sheriff's Christine Farmer and Tehama County Sherrif's Team of Active and Retired Seniors (STARS). Tickets, at $15 each for the event and prime rib dinner, can be reserved by calling: Ray Rogers 5860159, Delores May 8245910 or Ardis Smith 8241040. tain As in college-prep classes, she said. The family raises goats and has five of them, Upton said. "He helps milk them every morning before he goes to school and feeds them and trims their hooves," Upton said. While he will miss his senior year at Red Bluff High, he will finish it online, attending dance classes during the day, Howarth said. The sacrifice is worth it and Howarth feels he will not have much time to miss his family, he said. "I dance and that's about it," Howarth said. "It's my life." Donations of items for the rummage sale are being accepted at the studio during class times. For more information or to arrange for dropping off items call 527-4877. A fund has also been set up for monetary donations at Chase bank under the name Joseph Howarth. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. fiscal year budget allocation of $35,000 and a $52,000 supplemental appropriation from the transportation fund. The vehicle provides a 4.25-cubic-yard and 6-ton capacity ability to deliver "Hot Mix" asphalt for pothole repairs. Public Works Director Bruce Henz said the patcher will allow the department to do pothole patching with fewer employees. • The council accepted a $700,000 funding award from the California State Department of Housing and Community Development HOME program. The grant will be split between $341,250 going toward the first-time homebuyer program and $341,250 towards the owner-occupied rehabilitation program. The remaining $17,500 is for administration costs. • The council appointed Councilmen Clay Parker and Robert Sheppard, Jr. to serve on a joint city of Red Bluff-Tehama County AB 109 Implementation Public Safety Ad Hoc Committee. A silent auction and an opportunity raffle will be held, with all proceeds going to the Exchange Club's donations fund for youth groups and other worthy causes. Prizes include, but are not limited to, a pig hunt, valued at $600; a truck and trailer load of delivered gravel; a large battery charger; two .22-caliber rifles; and a number of overnight stays at the Casino and other hotels. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. 9A State to receive larger share of mortgage deal SACRAMENTO (AP) — California should receive at least $20.6 billion from a settlement with the nation's major mortgage lenders, the largest share of any state and about $2 billion more than expected when the agreement to assist homeowners was announced last year, according to a report released Thursday. The money from five banks will help an estimated 175,000 California homeowners struggling with their mortgages. The $42 billion national settlement covers every state except Oklahoma, which struck its own agreement with the lenders. The national Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight announced the state-by-state breakdown. ''We're going to definitely overshoot what we thought we would get at the national level,'' said Katherine Porter, a University of California, Irvine, law professor who is overseeing how the settlement is being implemented in the state. ''I think that's great news for the state's entire economy.'' She predicted the benefit to the state ultimately could reach $22 billion, based on her analysis of the national report. Nearly 100,000 California borrowers are getting reductions in the amount they owe on their home loans or an outright forgiveness of their loans, at a cost to banks of about $11 billion. Most of the rest of the money is going to about a third of the borrowers who completed short sales, in which the lender agrees to a sale price lower than what is owed on the property, or to deeds in lieu of foreclosure, in which the lender accepts ownership of the property instead of foreclosing. Only a fraction is aiding borrowers who are current on their payments but owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth. About 8,300 of those homeowners have been able to refinance their mortgages at a lower rate, saving a total of about $445 million. Programs benefiting that group of underwater homeowners are still being rolled out and will receive more emphasis in coming months, Porter said. The settlement will not help California homeowners who played by the rules and are making monthly pay- ''We're going to definitely overshoot what we thought we would get at the national level. I think that's great news for the state's entire economy.'' — University of California, Irvine Law Professor Katherine Porter ments yet unable to refinance at today's low interest rates because their homes have lost too much value. Even when those homeowners are not underwater on their loans, banks will charge thousands of dollars in refinancing fees or require costly private mortgage insurance if their home has lost too much value. Porter acknowledged that the emphasis to date has concentrated on more desperate borrowers who were on the verge of losing their homes, although she plans a second report on areas where more work needs to be done. ''It's only a slice of the market, and I think we need to keep growing that slice of pie,'' she said of the settlement. Porter said principal reductions on first liens are coming in higher than expected, particularly from the three banks that negotiated agreements with California Attorney General Kamala Harris in addition to participating in the national settlement. Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Wells Fargo & Co. all had principal reductions several times greater than anticipated. For instance, about 10 percent of Wells Fargo's home loans were in California, but about 60 percent of its relief efforts are benefiting its California borrowers. That contrasts with Florida, which according to the national report was receiving principal reductions at about the same rate as each bank's exposure in that state. The other banks involved are Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. Bank of America said in a statement responding to the national report that it ''continues to reflect significant progress'' in complying with the national agreement and expects to meet all its financial obligations by the end of March. In California, Bank of America has provided about $11 billion worth of relief to nearly 92,000 borrowers, the most of any of the five major lenders involved in the settlement. Nationwide, the bank has provided nearly $27 billion in aid to more than 318,000 customers. The figures do not include trial mortgage modification programs that still are in progress. Porter credited California's monitoring of lenders, along with a package of bills approved last year that writes the national settlement into California law and broadens it to include all lenders, not just those who signed the national agreement. The penalties written into California's settlement and laws also helped, she said. ''Our office has really kept on the banks to make sure they got it done quickly, they got it done effectively,'' Porter said. However, the number of borrowers who have been helped is far fewer than what had been projected in several areas when Harris announced the settlement a year ago. Banks are exceeding the $12 billion that is dedicated to reducing the amount owed on loans or offering short sales. However, Porter expects the number of those assisted to be far fewer than the estimated 250,000 homeowners who are behind on their payments. That's because the banks are helping fewer borrowers, but providing those borrowers with significantly more relief than had been expected. That can be beneficial because those borrowers are getting significant assistance, Porter said, enough to ensure that ''they're not back in foreclosure again six months from now.'' The 8,300 homeowners who have been able to refinance is fewer than the 28,000 that had been projected a year ago, but Porter said many refinancings are still in progress and the number will grow. RB man arrested twice in a month By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Jerry Lee Billingsley, 23, of Red Bluff was arrested Wednesday in Corning, his second arrest in Tehama County within a few weeks. Billingsley was arrested during a traffic stop at 9:38 p.m. Wednesday while a passenger in a vehicle stopped for a vehicle code violation. According to a Corning Police Department press release, CRASH (Continued from page 1A) tree, a California Highway Patrol Spokesman said. The pickup had moderate damage. Both men fled the scene, however, the passenger was located a short distance away, the CHP spokesman said. According to Sheriff's logs, one person ran east from Tehama Avenue, west of C Street while the other ran toward Gerber near the railroad tracks. Scanner reports indicated a Tehama woman reported about 4:36 p.m. in the area of Fourth Street that a man who seemed out of breath asked if he could hide in her yard. The CHP helicopter was called in for assis- Billingsley, who is on probation, admitted to owning the five methadone pills packaged in a bundle that were found during a search of the vehicle. He was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of obstructing an peace officer, possession of a controlled narcotic, bringing a controlled substance into a jail and probation violation. Bail was $33,000. Billingsley and his wife, Vanessa, 19, were arrested Monday, Feb. 11, by Red Bluff Police after guns, tance in the search. Logs show one of the men was arrested for resisting or obstructing a peace officer and possession of a controlled substance. A Tehama County Jail booking sheet shows an arrest for Christopher James Hensley, 25, of Red Bluff at 4:36 p.m. on Fourth Street at C Street in Tehama. He was booked on the charges of obstructing a public officer, possession of a controlled substance, bringing a controlled substance into a jail and parole violation. Bail was $33,000. Nothing further was available. ammunition and drugs were found in a search of their Lakeside Drive residence in Red Bluff. According to Corning Police logs, William Robert Moen, 21, of Red Bluff was also arrested and booked into jail on a Tehama County Sheriff's Department warrant. Bail was $3,000. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Field Poll: Approval for governor, Legislature rises SACRAMENTO (AP) — A new Field Poll finds that Jerry Brown is enjoying his highest job-performance ratings since returning to the governor's office two years ago. The survey released Thursday shows that 57 percent of registered voters approve of the job the Democratic governor is doing, with 31 percent disapproving. It is the first time Brown's rating has been above 50 percent since he began his latest term in January 2011. The Legislature also is doing relatively well, with 36 percent of voters approving of its job performance. That is the highest rating since 2008. Voters also like the two-thirds majorities in the Assembly and Senate. Field interviewed 834 registered voters by telephone from Feb. 5-17. The poll has a sampling margin error rate up to plus or minus 5 percentage points. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynew s.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. 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. Celebration of Life Jean Wagoner Dec. 16, 1936 Dec. 14, 2012 Saturday, February 23rd @ 2pm Red Bluff Community/Senior Center 1500 S. Jackson St. "When I go I don't want anyone wearing black and crying. Have a party for me! I've lived my life very well" - Jean Please bring your stories & pictures to share