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Friday, March 1, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries FRANK C RYBERG, SR. August 12, 1929 - February 23, 2013 Frank C Ryberg, Sr., 83, of Red Bluff passed away on February 23rd after a long illness. Frank was born on August 12, 1929 in Everett, MA. He joined the military at age 17 and served for 20 years. After retiring and relocating to Florida, he worked for GE under a Dept of Defense program for 13 more years. After an early retirement from GE, Frank moved with his wife and children to Red Bluff. Frank is survived by his wife of 56 years, Jean; two sons, Frank, Jr. of Red Bluff and Carl of Atlanta, GA; daughter and son-in-law, Kimberly and Frank Gann of Corning and sister, Marion Simmons of Santa Cruz. There are also three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held at Chapel of the Flowers on March 6th at 3 pm. A reception will be held at the Chapel immediately following the service. In lieu of flowers, family would request donations be made to the Wounded Warrior organization. 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. Lorna Heilman Lorna Heilman died Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, at her residence in Corning. She was 63. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, March 1, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Virginia Kaer Virginia Kaer died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. She was 82. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, March 1, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Nancy Romer Nancy Romer died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at Red Bluff Healthcare. She was 66. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, March 1, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jack Wayne Westfall Jack Wayne Westfall died Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his residence in Gerber. He was 67. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, March 1, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CHINA creative writing contest. 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Greene at 527-2151, At first he didn���t know ext. 109, if he was any good, but his rgreene@redbluffdailyn confidence began to grow, ews.com or on Twitter he said, when he won a @richgreenenews. RULES Continued from page 1A to California law so state agencies have the power to enforce and regulate new individual insurance rules. ������If you have a child who gets diagnosed with autism or born prematurely, you can get health insurance.������ Pan told lawmakers in the Assembly. Republicans opposed the bills, saying more restrictions will drive up health insurance costs rather than make it more affordable. They also say the state should reconsider its decision to prevent health insurance companies from charging smokers up to 50 percent more on their policies. Assemblyman Don Wagner, R-Irvine, worried that the insurance industry has never had to account for the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions. ������Put them in there and there���s an inevitable increase in price,������ Wagner said. Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, said the insured are currently subsidizing the uninsured in the state. As a child, he said, he developed pneumonia and eventually had to spend a week in the hospital because his family was unable to afford health coverage and preventative care. ������This will actually pre- vent those situations because it will allow people to take care of their loved ones as soon as they get sick and help drop the cost for all of us,������ Gomez said of the new bills. Brown, a Democrat, has committed to expanding Medicaid, known as MediCal in California, for people who make up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $15,400 a year for an individual. The expansion is estimated to bring 1.2 million new enrollees by 2017. The program already serves about 8 million adults and children, nearly one of every five California residents. Sen. Bill Emmerson, RRedlands, and Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, said they���re concerned that expansion costs could soar out of control, particularly once the federal government reduces support to states for Medicaid expansion. The federal government will pay the full cost of expanding the low-income health program for the first three years then gradually reduce payments to 90 percent starting in 2020, putting the rest of the cost on the state. Emmerson had urged the state Senate to hold off on Thursday���s vote until the state receives more direction from the federal government on insurance regulations. 7A Man reports $59K stolen by woman A 30-year-old Red Bluff man reported Wednesday morning that $59,000 in cash was stolen from him. Tehama County Sheriff ���s deputies responded to the 15000 block of Marietta Lane shortly TEEN Continued from page 1A School last week. A call to Red Bluff High School���s front office confirmed that the school remained in session despite its proximity to the crime scene. A message from Red Bluff Union High School District Superintendent Lisa Escobar to Red Bluff community members was posted on the school���s website: ���I wanted to let you know a body was found this morning behind Red Bluff High School,��� Escobar said. Escobar said at the time of the posting, the Continued from page 1A Edward Barnes, was sentenced in September to 19 years to life for second-degree murder and DUI causing injury. After striking Smith, Hodge drove north to the other crash scene south of the Butte-Tehama county line, where he was stopped and arrested. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.20 percent ��� more than twice the legal limit. Today, Smith's widow, Sue Stryker-Smith, recalled hugging and kissing her husband as he had been called to work. She was awakened by a call at 2:10 a.m. to go to her Continued from page 1A Reynolds said. "We just massage it out into a formal report and make it a readable, usable format that you as a council or the public can read. I���m happy to report again that I believe this fairly presents the financial condition of Corning." The single year audit was due to the $600,000 well project at Clark Park, he said. Any time more than $500,000 in federal money is spent in a single year an audit is required, Reynolds said. Mayor Gary Strack said he was pleased that the staff had only overspent by $90,000 in a $4 million investigating the incident and arrests are hopeful. Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact the Tehama County Sheriff���s Investigations Office at 529-7920. closely with law enforcement and providing support for our students,��� Escobar said. ���We are also doing everything we can to ensure the safety of our students. Counseling staff is available if your student feels the need to talk with someone.��� To watch video of Thursday���s press conference, visit redbluffdailynews.com CALTRANS TAX before 8 a.m. regarding a theft. Santana Gonzalez told deputies he believed a 20-yearold woman had stolen $59,000 from him, car keys and a cell phone. Sheriff���s deputies are actively district was not sure whether the body was Nichols, but staff were working to support the students. ���I would like you to know we are working door where Caltrans officials told her what happened. ���Because of Russell Hodge's reckless and illegal behavior, none of us will ever see Gary again in this lifetime,��� she said. Stryker-Smith asked the court to impose the maximum sentence. Her husband wouldn't have died if the defendant hadn't been on the road, she said. Hodge's attorney, Tracy Davis, read a statement from the defendant to Stryker-Smith. He wrote that he hoped she could find peace in her heart. ���Not a moment goes by that I don't express true remorse for your lost and what I have done to you and your family,��� Hodge wrote. Before handing down the sen- budget. Councilman Tony Cardenas said he was pleased to see the highest priority was street rehabilitation. "I think they showed the right kind of restraint in this economy," Reynolds said. "This audit is a powerful management tool and is not just something you throw in the drawer. It���s an opportunity to look on an item by item basis at every department and every fund in the city." Planning Consultant John Stoufer brought an item to the council seeking permission to apply for a Caltrans grant he said he recently became aware of, using Diaz and Associates to assist in the application process. Corning is eligible for a Community-Based Trans- ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. tence, Judge James Reilley acknowledged that everyone in the full courtroom was affected by what happened. Hodge was eligible for parole, but the judge denied it and imposed the sentence because of the plea agreement and the defendant's prior record. The judge ordered that Hodge pay restitution to Styrker-Smith and to the state victim compensation board. Hodge had earned 2.3 years of custody credits, but he waived his right to them as part of the plea change. A probation officer told the judge that Hodge could earn 2.25 years of custody credits in prison. Hodge could be eligible for parole in 12.75 years. portation Planning and Environmental Justice Grant, which could be up to $300,000, Stoufer said. The grant requires a 10 percent match from the city, of which 7.5 percent is in cash and 2.5 percent may be in-kind, such as staff time, Stoufer said. "One (grant) that we may benefit from in the future is one for the bicycle plans and pathways as well as a pedestrian movement plan, such as the area by the railroad tracks, within the community," Stoufer said. Approving the application for a planning grant means that the city could be eligible for more money in the future and have projects that are shovel ready sitting on the shelf that can be ready to go right away, Stoufer said. The grants focus on projects that cut back on people���s carbon footprints, which a bicycle path connecting areas of town would help to do, Stoufer said. "That���s the unique thing about Corning," Stoufer said. "It���s small enough that you can get to the whole city by bike." The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Snow survey confirms driest Jan., Feb. on record ECHO SUMMIT (AP) ��� It���s official, and it���s not good news for thirsty Californians: January and February have been the driest on record. The monthly snow survey, anticipated by farmers and municipalities who depend on snowmelt to supplement water supplies, showed Thursday what everyone has known: despite a few good dumps the state hasn���t received the kind of major storms needed to ease water managers��� worries. ������It���s disappointing, but not really a surprise,������ said Frank Gehrke, who as head of California���s cooperative snow survey program takes manual measurements once a month near Echo Summit in El Dorado County to supplement electronic monitoring. Gehrke measured 29 inches of snow with a water content of 13.4 inches. The dismal numbers still are twice as much as what was on the ground at this time last year, he said. There is potentially good news coming by the middle of next week when the National Weather Service forecasts a sizeable storm that could bring more than two-feet of snow across the northern and southern Sierra and up to three-quarters of an inch of rain to the valley. ������The system we���re tracking looks fairly potent,������ said meteorologist Drew Peterson. ������It will really help the snowpack and help alleviate the dry start to the calendar year.������ Historically about 15 percent of the state���s annual precipitation falls in March. Gehrke measured the moisture content of the snowpack at 57 percent of average for the season that ends April 1. California���s Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about one-third of the water used in the state as it melts to fill reservoirs and rivers and replenish aquifers. Water is then delivered from the water-rich north through a system of state and federal canals that have turned arid southern deserts into thriving cities and rich farmland. Southern California water users have been told to expect 40 percent of their allocation based on current measurements. Already some of the state���s most prolific Central California farmers have been told they���re on target to receive just one quarter of their standard allotment, in part because of the lack of precipitation and in part because siphoning water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has become more challenging to protect a protected smelt. Thursday���s bad news comes as Gov. Jerry Brown���s administration pushes a $23-billion plan they say would improve water deliveries to the south by sending it through tunnels under the Delta. Environmentalists argue the only way to save the ecosystem of the Delta, a vast freshwater marshland where rivers from the Cascades, Sierra Nevada and Coast ranges converge and empty into the San Francisco Bay, is to pump less water from it. Rain storms in November and December created muddy water through the Delta, pushing smelt into the interior, said Maury Roos, chief hydrologist with the state Department of Water Resources. Those early storms left state���s northern reservoirs in better shape: Lake Shasta, the largest in the federal Central Valley Water Project system, and Lake Oroville in Butte County, the State Water Project���s largest, are at roughly 80 percent capacity. While the pending storm will improve conditions somewhat, the snow so far has been dry and the water content of the snowpack is just 68 percent of normal, records show. Much of that snow fell in December, and precipitation in the first two months of the year was barely over two inches, or about 13 percent of what is average. Reuse Facility What?: REAP the benefits of Reuse at the REAP (Reuse of Available Products) Facility. How much? All items are Free! What can I get? ��� Paints ��� Cleaning Supplies ��� Polishes ��� Stains ��� Automotive Fluids ��� and much more Where? At the Tehama County/Red Bluff Landfill: 19995 Plymire Rd., RB When? Monday-Friday 9am - 4pm. For more information, please contact: 528-1103 or visit www.tehamacountylandfill.com