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Thursday, March 7, 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. Derek M. Bowman Derek M. Bowman of Red Bluff died Monday, March 4, 2013, in Red Bluff. He was 48. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 7, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jocelyn Lynette Holmgren Jocelyn Lynette Holmgren died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 61. HoytCole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 7, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Kurt Urban Kurt Urban of Red Bluff died Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center. He was 83. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 7, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Stolen truck recovered A pickup stolen out of Corning was recovered Saturday morning in the Red Bluff area. On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Pete Dagorret reported his brown 1995 Ford Ranger pickup with the Olive City Auto Parts logo on the door had been stolen from his NAPA Auto Parts store on Solano Street. The pickup was believed to have been stolen sometime Tuesday night and the keys were accounted for, according to the Corning Police logs. On Saturday morning, a NAPA employee reported receiving information on the pickup being located in the area of Jellys Ferry Road and Vintage Oaks Drive north of Red Bluff. The Tehama County Sheriff's Department conducted a check of the area and located the vehicle about 10:30 a.m. on Autumn Leaf, cross of Vintage Oaks. The vehicle was to be recovered by the California Highway Patrol. — Julie Zeeb Antelope meeting set Tehama County Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin said a public meeting to discuss concerns with the Antelope Area will be held sometime in April. Goodwin said the meeting will likely be held at the Board Chambers, but would be a collaborative meeting between the county, city of Red Bluff and the Tehama County Community Action Agency. The meeting will take an all-encompassing look at problems surrounding the area from the loss of Lake Red Bluff and its impact on wells to FEMA flood maps. Social Services Director Charlene Reid said a panel on homlessness is also being scheduled by the Community Action Agency for sometime in April. — Rich Greene Founder: Worker killed by lion was female intern DUNLAP (AP) — A female intern-volunteer was killed Wednesday by a lion at a private wild animal park in Central California, and state and local authorities were trying to determine what might have caused the fatal attack. Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the exotic animal zoo he has operated since 1993. The 26-year-old intern was attacked and killed when she entered the lion's enclosure, Anderson said, but he refused to answer questions or provide more details. Sheriff's deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven, in the Sierra Nevada foothills about 45 miles east of Fresno, found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Bob Miller said. Another park worker had unsuccessfully tried luring the lion away and into a separate pen, so deputies shot and killed it so they could reach the wounded woman, who died at the scene, Miller said. Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff's Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, Collins said. The male African lion, a 4-year-old male named Couscous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the animal park. Osegueda did not know how the park acquired the cub. Cat Haven is a 100-acre facility just west of Kings Canyon National Park. Since the property opened in 1993, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Results of the last 13 inspections by the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4, USDA records show. Despite state regulations that require annual inspections, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife most recently inspected the facility in January 2011. ''We have to do the best we can with the resources we're provided,'' said department spokeswoman Jordan Traverso. The inspector's written comments were ''facility in good condition.'' The inspector checked gates, enclosures, water supplies, drainage, cleanliness, ventilation and the general health of the animals. Department spokeswoman Janice Mackey said she was unaware if any state regulations would prohibit an employee from entering an exotic animal's enclosure. She said each species is identified on the permit, and the animals must be used for scientific or educational purposes only. ''We don't allow them to be used as pets,'' Mackey said. Actress Tippi Hedren, who founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California, home to 53 seized or abandoned exotic pets, expressed dismay over the killing of the lion. ''It wasn't the lion's fault. It's the human's fault always. I've got 40 years behind me. I know what I'm talking about,'' Hedren said. BEALER Continued from page 1A said. Public defender Ken Miller was assigned as Bealer's attorney for his next appearance in court, which will be at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Efforts of the community to support the Nichols family have continued, including a fundraiser Wednesday at McDonald's in Red Bluff put on by Bidwell Elementary School staff. The school was invited by management to participate in the McTeacher Night fundraiser in which 20 percent of the proceeds, but no less than $200 will be donat- ed to the school, said Principal Claudia Salvestrin. "We decided after the recent tragedy to donate it to the memorial fund," Salvestrin said. "She was a former student of our school and one of her siblings currently attends our school site." Volunteers Investing in Bidwell Elementary School (VIBES) President David Ferreira brought his family to the event. "It's ironic that teachers are doing the job they use as an example of where they don't want students to end up, but it's still great because they are coming out to support a good cause," said Ferreira, a father of three boys. "This hit us hard. We live by the high school a couple of est Service recognizes there are still problems with the new maps. With Continued from page 1A 2.1 million acres of land checker-boarded with pritrail or area if they truly vate ownership, not all made a mistake. rights of way are properly Fines for unauthorized marked. motor use in the forest can range up to $5,000 and 6 The service plans to months in incarceration. create a system for users Wilkinson said the For- to recommend map MAPS BUDGET Continued from page 1A grow since the recession. "Despite the number of employees remaining fairly static, the result is that expenditures for salary and benefits are increasing faster than revenue collection," the report said. Goodwin said while employee salaries may remain constant, the CITY 5A blocks from where the search was and our oldest, a freshman in high school, does stuff out at the school farm." In addition to Bidwell's fundraiser and a carwash held Saturday at Home Depot, the Marysa Nichols Benefit Memorial Fund is set up at Wells Fargo Bank to help the family. Donations can be made at any Wells Fargo branch. A memorial service for family and friends will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Calvary Chapel Red Bluff, 12375 Paskenta Road. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. The maps can be downchanges and new maps may be issued annually in loaded and printed from fs.usda.gov.stnf. the future. Free paper copies of the maps are available at Shasta-Trinity National Forest offices in Redding, Hayfork, Harrison Gulch, Weaverville, Big Bar, Shasta Lake, Mt. Shasta City and McCloud. amount the county spends on one because of benefits has continued to increase. Projected figures show the county may end the fiscal year with a structural deficit of about 2 percent. "Should this structural deficit be projected to persist into future fiscal years, it may be necessary to take further action to more closely align revenues and expenditures in the General Fund," the report said. Goodwin said it may be worth- Full size prints of the map cannot be printed on conventional home printers, so the forest service is advising people to use Adobe Reader and print standard letter size sections of the map. while for the board to consider forming two ad hoc committees to examine existing agreements with the city of Red Bluff. The city has recently expressed interest in reexamining its agreement with the county for the Animal Care Center. The second agreement is for the operation of the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center that has been in place since 1995. One was for design of a sewer replacement project near St. Elizabeth ComContinued from page 1A munity Hospital, the other for construction of ADA Washington St. The code was last A pair of public works compliance renovations at With little discussion amended by ordinance in the council adopted a reso- projects were approved for Red Bluff Municipal Air1981. lution accepting the City bid. port. Tuesday's council meeting was light on current business and began with a moment of silence for Marysa Nichols. of Red Bluff Greenhouse Gas Inventor and CEQA Greenhouse Gas Threshold of Significance Performance Standards. More sex offenders go missing under new law SACRAMENTO (AP) — The number of paroled sex offenders who are fugitives in California is 15 percent higher today than before Gov. Jerry Brown's sweeping law enforcement realignment law took effect 17 months ago, according to figures released Wednesday by the state corrections department. The increase amounts to 360 more sex offenders whose whereabouts were unknown and who were not reporting to their parole officers last year. An Associated Press analysis of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation data shows that 2,706 paroled sex offenders dropped out of sight in the 15 months since the new law took effect in October 2011, compared to 2,346 in the 15 months before realignment. The numbers were obtained by the AP before their public release. That's an average of 180 sex offender fugitives each month, up from 156 before realignment. Attention has focused on parolees who cut off or disable their GPS-linked ankle bracelets, meaning that parole agents are unable to track their movements by satellite. Sex offender parolees are required to wear the tracking devices under Jessica's Law, approved by state voters in 2006. The governor's realignment law sends lower-level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons and was enacted in part to conform to a federal court order to reduce the inmate population. Before the law took effect in 2011, those who violated their parole by tampering with the devices could have been returned to state prison for up to a year. Now they can be sentenced to up to six months in county jails, but many are released within days because local jails are overcrowded. Some county jails refuse to accept the parole violators at all. The problem varies greatly by county. Many saw no significant change, while some saw decreases in the number of sex offenders who could no longer be located. But the number nearly doubled in Fresno County, from 62 before realignment to 116 through the end of last year. The number jumped from 685 to 847 in Los Angeles County, which produces about a third of the state's criminals. Among other large counties in Southern California, Orange County saw an increase from 91 to 119; Riverside County from 131 to 151; and San Bernardino County from 154 to 195. The number dropped slightly in San Diego County, from 141 to 140. In the Central Valley, Kern County saw an increase in the number of fugitive sex offenders from 51 to 67, Sacramento County from 170 to 191 and San Joaquin County from 74 to 94. San Francisco increased from 72 to 84. The majority of fugitives are quickly recaptured, the figures show. In Alameda County, for instance, just eight of 106 parolees eluded capture last year. There were four parolees still missing in Fresno County, 71 in Los Angeles County, 11 in Orange County, seven in Riverside County, nine in Sacramento County, 18 in San Bernardino County, and four in San Diego County. ''Criminals have been removing their GPS devices for as long as they've been using them. It's a crime we take very seriously. We aggressively track and arrest convicts who commit it,'' said state corrections spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman. Parolees are recaptured in an average of 12 days, she said. It's the punishment after they are back in custody that has changed, with overcrowding in many county jails creating a revolving door that often allows criminals to go free within days. The problem has prompted state Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, to introduce SB57, which would make disabling the tracking device a felony and send parolees back to state prison for up to three years if they cut off their GPS monitors. His bill would apply not only to state parolees, but to offenders who are ordered to wear the tracking devices as a condition of their county probation. If passed by two-thirds of lawmakers and signed by Brown, his bill would take effect immediately instead of Jan. 1. Lieu cited last month's arrest of Sidney Jerome DeAvila, a parolee charged with killing his grandmother in Stockton. DeAvila disabled his ankle bracelet at least seven times, according to records, but served little time behind bars. Most recently, he was sentenced to 30 days in the San Joaquin County jail for tampering with his bracelet and failing to register as a sex offender. A judge ordered his release a week later because of overcrowding, and within a week he was arrested for robbing, raping and killing his 76-year-old grandmother in her home. Reinstating stronger punishments for removing the tracking devices could help the state reduce the prison population in the long run, Lieu said. He pointed to a study last year for the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice that sex offenders whose movements were not being tracked were more than twice as likely to be re-arrested and nearly three times as likely to commit new sex crimes that could result in long prison sentences. He said the department's figures may undercount the problem, in part because county jails remove offenders' tracking devices when they are incarcerated and the devices often are not immediately reattached when the inmates are released. The corrections department could not explain why its numbers differed from a report last month by the Los Angeles Times that said more than 3,400 arrest warrants had been issued for parolees tampering with the devices since the realignment law took effect. The Times calculated a 28 percent increase in such arrest warrants last year over 2011. The Times story included gang members and may have counted parolees who had repeated violations, while the department's figures included individual sex offenders who were considered parolees at large.