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Wednesday, March 27, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries Murlene Engebretsen Murlene Lois Engebretsen, age 85, passed away Friday, March 22, 2013 in Paradise, CA. A Memorial Service will be held at the First Assembly of God in Paradise, CA on Friday, March 29, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. View obit online at NBCFH.com 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. Frances Dorothy Garcia Frances Dorothy Garcia died Monday, March 25, 2013, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 87. Neptune Society of Northern California is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Dorothy Lopez Dorothy Lopez of Red Bluff died Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. She was 55. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. William Piper William Piper died Monday, March 25, 2013, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 83. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, March 27 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Benard Veich Benard Veich of Red Bluff died Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. He was 88. Allen and Dahl Funeral Chapel in Redding is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. JAIL (Continued from page 1A) munity-Senior Center. Goodwin, in responding to an audience question, confirmed the county has window shopped private buildings as well, namely the former Holiday Market on Monroe Street. The library project would not be funded by SB-1022. Goodwin said the county would have to look elsewhere. ���I hope as we move forward should we look at this plan that we look at a library equal the size we have now and that we look at the good citizens of Tehama County having a building that is at least as nice as a AB-109 building,��� Supervisor Steve Chamblin said. Acting Librarian Sally Ainsworth said she had been considering retirement, but wanted to stay on the job now to see the project through. She said she had a positive outlook about the plan, adding with a leaking roof and poor air conditioning it was time for a new library. Supervisor Burt Bundy said the former Safeway building that has housed the library served the county well, but it was time to move on. He joked the roof was already leaking when the county moved in. Campbell said it would take between four to five years to have the additional jail facility built. That timeline could lead to another dilemma as the state���s scheduled timeframe to relocate the Tehama County Courthouse to Walnut Street and Hook Road is scheduled for 2016. That would force an earlier move of the Day Reporting Center, currently located at Wetter Hall. Goodwin said the complexity of the process because operational facilities were involved may mean there could be interim locations along the way. The county���s main adult detention facility is 36 years old and has a state-rated custody bed capacity for 191 inmates and 227 total custody beds. Since the state���s prison realignment started, about one out of every four prisoners in the jail are AB109 offenders or parole violators. The state has projected within 15 months that number will grow to a population of 154 inmates, with 60 serving sentences greater than three years. Campbell said the expanded facility would simplify the overall management and security at the jail. However, Campbell said his group was still working on a final estimate for the overall operational and management costs of the expanded facility. Garton urged the community to come forward with input and help the county form the plan, not just for the jail but for its children���s future. ���This is not something that���s going to occur in the next two to three months. It���s a long-term plan,��� he said. All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check $ starting at + 25958 $ 25 certificate (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) Study: Health care law to increase costs in Calif. SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� Medical claims costs filed by individual policy holders could rise as much as 62 percent over the next four years in California under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study released Tuesday by the nation���s leading group of financial risk analysts. The costs are the biggest driver of health insurance premiums and that could mean prices for residents who will buy individual policies through California���s health benefit exchange. The study by the Society of Actuaries stated that the increase will be in large part because sicker people will join the individual insurance pool. The report does not project medical claim costs for employer-sponsored plans, which cover the majority of workers. In California, the study estimated medical claim costs will rise 62 percent by 2017. If the state had not accepted an expansion of Medicaid, the cost increase would be smaller, about 55 percent. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration questioned the design of the study, saying it ignores tax credits to help people pay premiums and special payments to insurers who attract more of the sick. Sebelius said that it���s difficult to compare catastrophic plans being sold today to the comprehensive coverage that individuals will get under the law starting next year. Officials at Covered California, the state���s health exchange, echoed that sentiment Tuesday. ������The study is misleading because it does not consider the impact of the federal subsidies, which we believe will reduce overall costs by as much as 60 to 90 percent for millions of California residents,������ said Oscar Hidalgo, spokesman for Covered California. ������In addition, having a health plan marketplace with considerable purchasing power such as Covered California has a positive impact on rates that is not factored into this report.������ About 5.6 million Californians under age 65 are uninsured, according to a model of insurance markets known as the California Simulation of Insurance Markets. COURT (Continued from page 1A) With both liberal and conservative justices particularly worried about a broader ruling that might apply to all states, 37 of which now ban gay marriage, the court pressed lawyers on both sides about how far they should go. ���Is there any way to decide this case in a principled manner that is limited to California?��� Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Theodore Olson, who argued the case for samesex couples. The court has another opportunity Wednesday to deal with the gay marriage issue in a way that could continue to allow the political debate to unfold in the states. The justices are hearing arguments in a challenge to the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal benefits to same-sex couples. Among other questions, the court must resolve whether the government can deny benefits to gay and lesbian couples married in states where same-sex marriage is legal ��� and they can decide that without granting broader marriage rights nationwide. But on Tuesday, the justices' questioning cast doubt on Proposition 8's future, with some justices clearly concerned it may trample on the rights of gay and lesbian couples. Kennedy, while acknowledging gay marriage is a new concept in a tradition that stretches back thousands of years, said there is an ���immediate legal injury��� to same- sex couples in California who are raising children but unable to marry legally. How does the law affect the roughly 40,000 children of those same-sex couples? Kennedy asked Proposition 8 lawyer Charles Cooper, who argued that preserving traditional marriage would protect children. ���The voice of those children is important in this case, isn���t it?��� Kennedy asked. Other justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, were skeptical of a court decision finding same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional. ���Samesex couples (in California) have every other right, it���s just about the label (of marriage),��� he told Olson. ���All you���re interested in is the label, and you insist on changing the definition of the label.��� Justice Samuel Alito, considered a likely conservative vote against gay marriage, pressed U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli about pushing for same-sex marriage rights in the states on behalf of the Obama administration. ���You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of (gay marriage) which is newer than cellphones or Good News Lawns & More *Lawn Care (Weekly/Monthly) *Yard Clean-Up *Weed Abatement * Lite Handyman ***and more FREE ESTIMATES 530-526-9789 LIC#11349 Spring is here... Time to clear!! 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We expect handled the program. minor changes, but hope They did a great job. This the service will be as is really about stabilizing seamless as possible.��� the administration through Reid said she met with streamlining it.��� current staff and has encouraged them to apply On Tuesday, the for any positions for Tehama County Board of which they are qualified. Supervisors approved ���There is a dedicated applying for grant funding program staff who have a through the Area Three passion for working with Agency on Aging in the the seniors and that pro- amount of $134, 470 vides a nice atmosphere through the Older Ameriand a nice touch when we can Act Title 3C Nutrition do the home deliveries,��� and Transportation SerReid said. ���We do expect vices for Senior Nutrition group meals and home to provide meals to deliveries will continue.��� seniors through June 30, The one area the 2014. change from city to coun��������� ty control will help with is that it will help streamline Julie Zeeb can be the administrative side of reached at 527-2153, things with the money extension 115 or coming directly to the j z e e b @ r e d b l u f f d a i county, she said. lynews.com. Follow her Funding comes from on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. GOAL the Internet," he said. Some justices wondered whether Proposition 8's sponsors have the legal authority to defend the law for the state in place of the governor and attorney general, who consider it unconstitutional. A finding that the sponsors lacked such authority would result in enforcement of the lower court decision that the gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. That outcome would allow gay marriage in California. Even there, however, the justices were splintered. Several indicated they were troubled by the possibility the governor and attorney general could trump a ballot measure they oppose simply by refusing to defend it in court. The Supreme Court is reviewing a federal appeals court ruling last year finding Proposition 8 unconstitutional because it stripped away a previous right for same-sex couples to marry in California. In that ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took a narrow approach that, if adopted by the Supreme Court, would limit the legal impact to California. Tuesday's courtroom drama began in early 2009, when same-sex couples challenged Proposition 8. The lawsuit prompted the nation's first full-blown trial over gay marriage rights, and in 2010 former San Francisco Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker declared the ban unconstitutional. The Supreme Court's review of Proposition 8 is a milestone in the battle over same-sex marriage, particularly in California, where the state Supreme Court in 2008 struck down the state's previous laws forbidding gay nuptials. That decision allowed more than 18,000 couples to marry legally ��� marriages that remain intact ��� but also triggered a political backlash that led to voters passing Proposition 8. Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz. THE PASSING PARADE (Continuing from Dave Minch���s letter to his employees in the service, 9 May 1944) ���Walnut trees are coming out in leaf in Dairyvile and I sold Stan Fish our first cutting of alfalfa. Heard around town that Gay Shuler had gotten married over in New Guinea, but do not believe it. We still haven���t any movies in town since the theatre burned down, but they are supposed to start showing at the Veterans Hall soon. The papers are full of how the invasion of Europe will start. I hope it won���t be until we are good and ready. All meat was taken off rationing except some beef, so about the only thing scarce now is whiskey, and from the number of people we see drunk, I guess there is still enough of it to go around. George Talley says he is in the north Atlantic and included his mailing address. Saw Gay Shuler���s girlfriend on Main Street a few days ago; told her that Gay said she did not write often enough, but she said he owed her a letter. Her brother Chet Handley is about to be inducted, and the older Handley boy who ran the Shell station is about to become a father. There seems to be a lot of births even if most of the men are overseas. We had an employee���s party a month ago. Didn���t have any outside entertainment this year. Pauline Freemeyers sang a solo, Art Gerring and his wife sang a duet. Then my wife Evelyn, Art, Roy Bennett and his wife, sang a quartette. You would be surprised how well it went off. When they finished, I read to the group a list of where our employees were and their addresses. Dave Roberts at our farm implement store has all three of his sons in the service. Have several letters from Carl Shultz, our truck driver, as you recall, before he went into the service. He is in Africa and sent photographs of some of the natives. If they all look like the pictures, I hope none of you guys bring back African wives with you. I guess you got my card saying that Skeet Flournoy was decorated for bravery. I got a letter from him that he was on the Anzio Beach looking for Germans. He said he has been scared some of the time, but was, for the most part, getting along alright and was looking forward to the day when he could come home again. Got a letter from Gay Shuler in New Guinea dated March 28. He���s back in the fighting again. Says he wrote to my brother Everett but did not get an answer. He���s in a better camp than he had before and it has a radio that can receive U.S. broadcasts. He has been overseas nearly two years! 527-9841 ��� 195 S. Main St. The staff at Red Bluff Simple Cremations would like to thank all of the families who trust us with their loved ones needs. 5A (800) 843-4271 Well, that���s all the news for now. Hope to see you all home one of these days. Dave Minch 1900-1964 The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514