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Saturday, March 23, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries EMMITT HAROLD (BOB) HAYES December 9, 1933 - March 22, 2013 Emmitt Harold (Bob) Hayes born December 9, 1933 in Antlers, Oklahoma entered his eternal rest March 22, 2013 in his Red Bluff home surrounded by his family. A celebration of his life will be held at Bethel Assembly on Luther Road in Red Bluff Monday, March 25 at 11am. 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. Raymond Lee Conger Raymond Lee Conger died Friday, March 22, 2013, at his residence in Corning. He was 72. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, March 23, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Jean Cowley Jean Cowley died Monday, March 18, 2013. She was 88. Lowest Cost Cremation and Burial Inc. in Sacramento is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, March 23, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. HOOPS (Continued from page 1A) Antelope School District Superintendent Todd Brose��� alma mater Humboldt State University and as far away as Cal State Northridge and Cal Berkeley were also on the list. ���It���s our pleasure to host such a wonderful event and to be able to see the smiles on their faces as they get to participate on the teams,��� Brose said. ���We���ve expanded to include more of the programs like Expect More Tehama at our school and we want to prepare all our kids for a higher level of education. That���s our responsibility as educators. We talk to them about careers and higher education. It���s about all of our kids and creating a culture of universal achievement and the idea that all kids can learn.��� New aspects this year included new jerseys that specifically had High Hoops Basketball printed on them and the integration of not just the basketball tournament, but the cheerleading through the Berrendos Middle School Cheerleading team as well. ���It just keeps getting better every year,��� Johnson said. ���It���s a great opportunity for our kids and its something unique to Tehama County.��� Middle schoolers from Berrendos and sometimes community members are paired up with players to assist them in playing the game. ���We do a training with the student peers to help them understand their jobs and how to work with students with disabilities,��� Johnson said. Tehama County Department of Education Assistant Superintendent of Schools Heidi Schueller said she enjoys ISHI (Continued from page 1A) gathered up by anthropologists from the University of California, who gave him the name Ishi (Yahi for "man"), and took him to their museum in San Francisco. Except for a trip in the summer of 1914 back into his homeland, he lived the rest of his life in the museum, working as a janitor and providing information about his culture and lifestyle. He died March 25, 1916, of pneumonia. His brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The rest of his body was cremated and placed in an urn in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Colma, south of San Francisco. watching the two groups of students and how well they interact with one another. ���I am so appreciative of the students, staff, volunteers and community supporters of this event,��� Schueller said. ���It is the spirit of acceptance in Red Bluff that makes this town a great place to live and learn.��� Karen Messler, a retired teacher, has been participating as a volunteer for several years. ���This is the most organized and well run event ever,��� Messler said. ���It���s awesome to see the general education peers be so responsible.��� It���s nice that they jump in and help without being asked to and she likes that the parents are welcome to come and are very supportive of the event, she said. ���Everyone seems to have fun whether they���re a volunteer or playing on a team,��� Messler said. Dale Stroud, who came for the first time to watch his son Austin play, said he thought the event was a lot of fun and it���s a great chance for the students to participate in competition, which is something they probably wouldn���t be able to get otherwise. ���As a mom of a child with special needs, this event is so awesome,��� Jessica Quintana said. ���I just want to cry to be able to see these kids cheer my son on.��� Quintana���s nine-yearold son Pete, who has Cerebral Palsy, loves being the center of attention, she said. ���He���s so sweet,��� Quintana said. ���He thinks he���s a typical kid and to see him be treated that way by kids makes a parent feel so good.��� ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynew s.com. The brain���s destination was largely lost from history. Then in 1997, the four Butte County tribes ��� Enterprise, Mooretown, Berry Creek and Mechoopda ��� formed the Butte County Native American Cultural Committee, and began pressing for repatriation of Ishi's remains. The brain was discovered a couple of years later. The Smithsonian determined Ishi���s closest relations were the Redding Rancheria and Pit River Tribe, and the ashes and brain were returned to them. In April 2000, Ishi was buried at an undisclosed location in his homeland. Reach Steve Schoonover at 8967750, sschoonover@chic oer.com, or on Twitter @ER_sschoonover. Conveyance first, then storage, state's biggest water district leader says in Richvale By HEATHER HACKING Staff Writer RICHVALE ��� A handful of issues are creating a bottleneck for improvements to the state's water supply, the top official of Metropolitan Water District said Thursday in Richvale. The gathering was the annual landowner meeting for Western Canal and Richvale Irrigation districts. Metropolitan provides water to 19 million people, about half the population of California. The goal for his agency, said General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger, is to ���solidify��� water supplies to sustain the economy of Southern California in the future. The proposed twin tunnels to bypass the San Francisco-San Joaquin Delta have included $200 million spent on studies, Kightlinger said. ���We have taken a long, hard look at this. Hopefully there will be a decision point, rather than paying more money to study it.��� Kightlinger said it almost sounds fictional, but Gov. Jerry Brown was the same man in charge when the Peripheral Canal was on the table in 1982. And here we are 30 years later with a similar proposal, he commented. But before that, the idea was discussed in 1930 and again in the 1960s, Kightlinger said. In the 1960s, Metropolitan Water District lobbied against the canal proposal, Kightlinger said, believing it could be put off for a few MediaNews Group file photo Cattle graze on property in the Sites Reservoir valley in this photo taken in March of 2002. decades while other water remedies were sought. In Metropolitan���s view, climate change is real. ���We will get more rain than snow,��� and snowpack will become less available as a water storage system for the state, Kightlinger said, which means more storage is essential. ���But right now we can���t even use the storage we have��� without a way to transfer it from one place to another. Also, restrictions for fish have meant that 800,000 acre-feet of water was not delivered this year, he continued. This year, he predicts, the federal Central Valley Project will deliver 20-25 percent of water deliveries, and 35 percent in the State Water Project. Lack of water will ���wreak havoc on farms,��� he said. Kightlinger said issues need to come in their proper sequence ��� fix conveyance, and then work on storage. After the meeting, Kightlinger was asked about Sites Reservoir, which is a proposal to build storage near Maxwell to be filled with water from the Sacramento River. That plan has been on paper for more than a decade, and a Joint Powers Association in Northern California will release environmental documents on the plans this summer. Kightlinger said Sites is one of many ideas in the works for several water storage concepts. The project, he said, is very similar to Diamond Valley Lake, near Hemet in Riverside County. Like the Sites proposal, Diamond Lake was built between the saddles of two mountains, and does not dam a river. Kightlinger said there is also the option of building more storage in other areas of the state, but none of the options are viable without a way to move water. Ag scholarships available for students Agriculture continues to play a major role in the economy of Tehama County. It is for this reason that the Dairyville Community Club, Inc. has made a commitment to assist college students who are majoring in the field of agriculture. In keeping with this commitment, the Dairyville Community Club, Inc. is pleased to announce $15,000 has been allotted for scholarships this year, and all qualified students are encouraged to apply. The Agricultural Studies Scholarships are divided into two categories, Upper-division and Graduate. Upper-division scholarships will be awarded to students who will be a col- lege junior or senior at the beginning of the 2013/2014 academic school year. The scholarship program has been expanded to include students pursuing a graduate degree in agriculture. To be eligible for either of these scholarship programs, the applicants must be a past graduate of a Tehama County high school. All scholarship funds that are awarded will be made available for use during the 2013/2014 academic school year. The motto of the Dairyville Community Club, Inc. is ���When Our Small Community Works Together, Big Things Happen���. In keeping with that theme, the Club has allo- cated a total of $141,000 in scholarships since 1998. The funds for these scholarships are derived from the success of the Annual Dairyville Orchard Festival, private and business donations and gifts made directly to the Dairyville Memorial Fund. Please share this information with anyone you know that may be eligible for one of these scholarships. Applications (including detailed instructions) for these Agricultural Studies Scholarships are available at the Dairyville Community Club, Inc. website: www.dairyvillefestival.org. Applications must be postmarked on or before March 30. FAILS in Alamo when CHP Officer Carlton pulled Lacy over for an obstructed license plate. Youngstrom, who was parked directly in front of Carlton, walked over to Lacy's car to assist in the traffic stop. As Youngstrom approached the driver's side window, Lacy pulled out a handgun without warning and shot Youngstrom in the neck. Carlton immediately drew his gun and shot Lacy, hitting him several times and killing him. Sheriff's investigators said Lacy was increasingly a ���loner��� in the year leading to the shooting. He worked temporary jobs in the Silicon Valley and split time between a trailer west of Corning and a rented room in Sunnyvale. Investigators also said they found a large number of documents on Lacy's computer about the sovereign citizen movement. Though Lacy never declared himself a sovereign citizen, officials believe he subscribed to their viewpoints, Beltran said in the summary of the report. A 2010 FBI report describes the sovereign citizen movement as ���extremist,��� a domestic terror threat group whose members are responsible for a variety of violent and financial crimes. Adherents believe that though they live in the United States, they are separate or ���sovereign,��� and they do not answer to any government, according to the FBI. When a police officer in Sausalito stopped Lacy in 2006 on suspicion of driving under the influence, Lacy handed the officer a ���bill of rights��� card and refused to answer any questions. Though Lacy was arrested, no charges were filed. Other items found on Lacy's computer, when it was decrypted, included a ���wish-list��� that including having ���mud on a license plate,��� and an obstructed (Continued from page 1A) stop, Lacy, 36, began to withdraw, becoming distant from family and friends. Lacy's computer showed that he had researched the sovereign citizen movement, a loose coalition of people who reject federal, state and local laws. ���Although we can develop a better picture of Lacy, in the end, we will never know exactly why he killed Officer Youngstrom,��� said sheriff's Sgt. Jose Beltran. CHP Sgt. Diana McDermott, speaking on behalf of the Youngstrom family, expressed ���deep appreciation��� to the sheriff's office and District Attorney's Office for putting in extra hours in the six months investigating the case since Youngstrom was killed. On Sept. 4, Youngstrom was removing a dead deer on the shoulder of Interstate 680 A Celebration of Life honoring the late Linda Elsner will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 11am to 3pm at the Kelly-Griggs House Museum, located at 311 Washington Street in Red Bluff. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Kelly-Griggs House Museum. 9A Music festival Wednesday The Masonic Lodges of Tehama County are sponsoring the 34th annual Warren Barker Public Schools Music Festival featuring music groups from Antelope, Vista and Red Bluff High schools at the Performing Arts Center at Red Bluff High School at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27. There is no charge for admission. The faculty jazz band featuring local music teachers will also perform. Pre-program music will be the vocal jazz stylings of The Pennerettes, Brianna and Elisa Penner. When Warren Barker was master of Vesper Lodge in Red Bluff, one of his projects was to start the music festival. Barker was certainly interested in music. At the age of 24 he was appointed chief arranger for The Railroad Hour, the prime musical program of NBC. He was also associated with the 20th Century Fox, Columbia and Metro-Goldyn-Mayer studios as composer, conductor and arranger for motion pictures and television. Barker had composed and conducted music for more than 30 different television series, including seven years as composer and conductor of the highly rated comedy series Bewitched. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored Barker in 1970 for his original music written for the award winning series, My World and Welcome To It. He also was an arranger for the oscar winning motion picture Hello Dolly. Barker���s compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by a variety of musical artists from Frank Sinatra to the Hollywood Bowl and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras. Barker received commissions from many outstanding music organizations including the U.S. Air Force Band, the Royal Australian Navy, the North Shore Concert Band and the Norwegian Army Staff Band. Come and honor this great musician and help the Masons honor local youth musicians by supporting the Warren Barker Public Schools Music Festival with your attendance. plate is what led to the traffic stop the day Youngstrom was shot. Investigators also reported that the handgun Lacy used in the shooting was legally purchased in 2010 and registered to him, though he did not hold a concealedweapons permit. Registration for Lacy's Jeep Wrangler had expired in 2011. ���There was no indication before the shooting that Christopher Lacy was going to kill or assault law enforcement officials,��� Beltran said in the report. Youngstrom, a seven-year CHP veteran, died Sept. 5 after he was taken off life support at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek. His liver, pancreas, heart and kidneys were donated to four patients. A Cordelia resident, Youngstrom was the 223rd CHP officer to be killed in the line of duty since 1929. 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