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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Obituary Death Notices Thurman ‘T.W.’ Brackett OLLIE LOUISE DARROW passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Ol- lie was the youngest child of Joe and Eula Darrow’s 9 children. She was a ray of sunshine for the whole family. She was born in Sleeper, Missouri on Octo- ber 18, 1940. Her and her family moved to Vina when she was just 4 years old and she remained in this area for the rest of her life. Since her mother’s passing in 1998, Ollie has been cared for by her loving sis- ter Katie Darrow of Orland. Ollie found joy in being with her family, playing the piano, and spending hours looking at her favorite mag- azines. She always found time to let you know how special you were to her. She is survived by her brothers Earle Darrow (Vicki) of Tule Lake, Robert Darrow (Pat) of Chico, JB Darrow (Doris) and Richard Darrow (Janet) of Corning, Clay Darrow (Joanna) of San Diego; sisters Kate Darrow of Orland and Pau- line Brummet of Willows; and many, many nieces and nephews. She was pre- ceded in death by her pa- rents Joe and Eula Darrow af Corning and her brother Glenn Darrow of Tule Lake. Her loving personality will be missed by all. Graveside services will be Ollie Louise Darrow Thurman “T.W.” Brack- ett, a 33-year resident of Tehama County, died Fri- day, June 4, 2010, in Red Bluff. He was 85. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jack Morrison Jack Morrison of Red Bluff died, Monday, June 7, 2010, at Canyonwood Nursing and Rehab Center, in Redding. He was 83. McDonald’s Chapel is handling the arrange- ments. Publish Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. VOTE Continued from page 1A Tuesdays of each month, but moved the meeting due to City Hall being used as a polling place for today’s primary election. Wednesday’s meeting will include a report on closed session negotia- CODE Continued from page 1A said. Bob Grace, the only board member who voted to not approve the handbook, said he agrees with Wheeler. The entire process was flawed, Grace said. The other board mem- bers chose to write the handbook themselves and in doing so insulted the staff and parents by having an arrogant atti- tude that pervaded the entire process. “In the 16 years I’ve been on the board I’ve never seen a board say, ‘we’ll do it ourselves,’” Grace said. “It’s insult- ing to our staff because it says, ‘we can’t trust you, so we’ll do it our- selves.’” He said the board has not taken it upon itself to rewrite the math stan- dards, so why should it do so for athletics. While he thinks ath- letics is important, his tions with the employee bargaining units and adop- tion of a resolution of a letter to accept the fur- lough plans for each bar- gaining unit. Also up for approval will be the part-time con- tracts for Police Chief Tony Cardenas and City Manager Steve Kim- brough. colleagues seem to be too concerned about ath- letics and have created so much of a focus on it that it has impaired their judgment, Grace said. The board has over- reached and is micro- managing down to a level where it should not be. “I feel we have an excellent staff, and I trust them to do their job,” he said. “We also have excellent parents, and I trust them to make the right judgments in raising their children. I have no desire to tell parents how to raise their children or tell our staff how to do their jobs.” Board member Matt Etzler said he is not aware of any dissatisfac- tion with the handbook or the process of creat- ing it. The process took way too long for the product that resulted from it, but he disagrees with the notion coaches were left out of the process, Etzler said. Coaches had At previous council meetings, the savings for the city was mentioned to be about $93,000 for Kim- brough and $97,500 for Cardenas. The planning director position has been made a part-time contract posi- tion, which is expected to save the city about $65,000. numerous opportunities to be a part of the dis- cussion, and the board meeting minutes will reflect that. If there are coaches or administrators who are upset about the hand- book, they need to come forward and address the board during its meet- ings like all members of the public are encour- aged to do, Etzler said. But Wheeler said she stopped going to board meetings because she was not being listened to. “They’re (the meet- ings) ridiculous,” Wheeler said. “No one has been going because it’s been a joke. As soon as they started focusing on athletics instead of other more important things, like the budget, people stopped showing up.” Wheeler said there are other coaches and athlet- ic administrators who share similar dissatisfac- tion with the process and the policy. None of them have Planning Director John Stoufer will be taking early retirement with an $8,000 per year hit and is not guaranteed to get the part-time position, which must be put out to bid. The contract has been set for September to allow Stoufer to apply for the position. Because he is taking early retirement, he been willing to go on the record. Boys basketball coach Stan Twitchell said the way the board handled the process is something the public should be made aware of, but he declined to comment on how he felt about the process or the specifics of the handbook, as he has not seen the latest version. When contacted by phone, Athletic Director Rich Hassay said he pre- ferred to meet in person, where Athletic Adminis- trator Miguel Barriga could join the conversa- tion. He would be more comfortable if questions were addressed to Barri- ga, Hassay said. Calls to Barriga were not returned and a meet- ing with the Daily News was not set. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews. com. cannot contract with the city for 60 days after he retires. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. held at the Corning Ceme- tery on Wednesday, June 9 at 2pm with a dinner recep- tion to follow. DAVID KENNETH HOLDER 81, passed away Wednes- day, June 2, 2010 at his home in Red Bluff. Born March 2, 1929. David came from Ken- tucky in September 1934 with his family. He served in the Korean War in the 187 Regimental Combat Air- borne Division as a para- trooper from 1949 until 1953. David worked as a logger most of his life, including being rewarded with "Log- ger of the Year" in 1999 by the California Loggers Asso- ciation. He worked for John Wheeler from 1964 until 1988 at which time he be- came the President of John Wheeler Logging, Inc. until June 2009. David was a very gifted David Kenneth Holder, GOLF Racial slurs again tag Gerber Market Continued from page 1A The class is an oppor- tunity for people to learn the game, and Schlom does a good job, Oak Creek Assistant Manager Bud Kyler said. “There are people out there that need help with golf,” Kyler said. “This is something for those peo- ple.” There is a $40 fee for and loving man who would help anyone in their time of need. He supported many youth activities and donated to many charities. He was a life member of the NRA and a member of the Elks Lodge for many years. He was well respected and loved by many, as his 80th Birthday party reflected with a full house at the Elks Lodge. He enjoyed flying his Birmingham Roller pi- geons, fishing, taking care of his yard, and most of all, his family. David will be forever missed by all his loved ones. Surviving David are his wife, Cheryl Holder of Red Bluff, sons; Jeffrey Holder, Jeremy Webb and Jasen Webb all of Red Bluff, daughters Diane Walton of Walnut Creek, CA, and Donna Faulkner of Redd- ing, CA, brothers Christo- pher Holder of Red Bluff and Jon Holder of Reno, NV, mother-in-law Iola Per- kins of Red Bluff, 2 sister- in-laws, 1 brother-in-law, 8 grandchildren, 3 great- grandchildren and numer- ous nieces and nephews. Services will be held on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM at Hoyt-Cole Chap- el of the Flowers with Rev. Scott Camp officiating, In- terment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Hospice or Cancer Society. the five-week course. Classes will be 6-7:15 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Oak Creek. The start date will be set once participants start signing up. Students need to have their own clubs and balls, but rentals are available from the facility. For information or to sign up, call the golf course at 529-0674 or Schlom at 528-8635. Schlom can be reached by email at dschlom@tehamaed.org. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.c om. Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Racial graffiti once again has hit the Gerber Market in what was at least the second time in six months. The store manager, who asked that his name not be used, shrugged off the vandalism when approached by the Daily News. LAhaze begins to clear as pot dispensaries close LOS ANGELES (AP) — The haze is lifting in Los Angeles. Not the city’s infamous smog or the morning fog that rolls in from the Pacif- ic Ocean. The haze was stoked by the hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that proliferated in recent years, flooding the fledgling industry with cash and high-grade pot known as ‘‘kush.’’ Many of those pot shops Have a news tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 began closing Monday, as a new ordinance took effect to help the city keep track of the businesses while pushing them toward industrial areas and away from schools and other public gathering places. Across the city, disgrun- tled dispensary owners were shutting their doors in fear that they could face civil fines or criminal charges. City officials believe the new law will slash the number of collectives to somewhere between 70 and 130 while providing stricter guidelines for the ones that remain. Dan Halbert, who runs Rainforest Collective west of downtown, put a large sign outside his storefront that read, ‘‘Hundreds of jobs lost, millions of tax revenues lost, another vacant building in Los Angeles. Drugs back on the street.’’ Halbert is part of an ongoing lawsuit to overturn the ordinance. Still, he thought it would be best to shut down until the case gets resolved. ‘‘I didn’t come here to break any laws,’’ Halbert, 45, said. ‘‘We have several thousand patients, who are all very distraught. They don’t know where they are going to go.’’ It wasn’t immediately known how many pot shops had closed. Authori- ties intended to take a tally then regroup to determine what enforcement action should be taken. The count could take several weeks. ‘‘We continue to work with the city attorney’s office on establishing an enforcement strategy,’’ police Capt. Kevin McCarthy said. ‘‘The issue at hand is whether to pro- ceed using a criminal, civil or a combined process on the dispensaries that violate the ordinance.’’ The doors were locked at American Eagle Collec- tive in the Eagle Rock area. During a 15 minute span, 10 cars pulled into the mini-mall where it’s locat- ed. Several people tried to enter the dispensary, with one throwing up his arms in disgust. They all declined comment. A mile away at the House of Kush, a sign informed clients the busi- ness was no longer open. A man wearing a black secu- rity shirt said the collective was closed. registered before a 2007 moratorium have A number of shops that six months to prove they meet the new guidelines, which include staying more than 1,000 feet from schools, parks and other public sites and paying an administra- tive fee of more than $1,000. ‘‘All of us who chose to play by the rules as laid down by the city have been waiting years for this day,’’ marijuana collective owner Joao Silverstein said. Pot shop owner Frank Sheftel walked out of the city clerk’s office, grinning and waving his paperwork in victory as he shook hands with another collec- tive operator. ‘‘There’s a lot of excite- ment,’’ he said. ‘‘The city is finally putting us in the position that we don’t have to look over our shoulder in fear that the city is going to come close us down.’’ There was little dis- agreement that local gov- ernment was to blame for the explosion of pot clin- ics. The City Council struggled for years to devise a law that would provide accessible, afford- able medicine for patients while addressing concerns from residents that the clinics were a blight on neighborhoods. Without a law in place, the number of dispensaries grew from a mere four in 2005 to several hundreds last year. 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