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Thursday, April 4, 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. Joseph Roy Kigar Joseph Roy Kigar of Red Bluff died Monday, April 1, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. He was 31. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, April 4, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. MUSEUM Continued from page 1A open house. Anyone who wants to support both the Red Bluff Round-Up and the Tehama County Museum by purchasing raffle tickets can reach the museum at 3842595 or visit it during regular weekend hours of 1-4 p.m. CITY Continued from page 1A One woman said the murder of Marysa Nichols had hit home with the community and it had prompted the action. Nichols' accused murderer was not homeless. "We're owed an explanation to what you're going to do," a woman said. She proceeded to question the money spent on the county's branding project and quipped '"what's our brand, 'don't go out after dark?'" Another woman said the work done on the new visitors center on Antelope Boulevard would be wasted, as people pulling off the freeway would get a glimpse of a homeless camp as they drove to the center. Several people asked for the city to create an ordinance to solve the problem. City Manager Richard Crabtree said city staff shared the residents' concerns. He referred to them to a joint-workshop with the county on Antelopearea issues scheduled for 6 p.m. May 2. FISH Continued from page 1A The experiment took place in the Yolo Bypass northwest of Sacramento, a flood plain now home to thousands of acres of rice fields. In wet years, the bypass is a natural haven for salmon because the fish have a steady supply of insects and are shielded from larger predators. But most of the time, it's not flooded long enough to benefit the salmon, so researchers worked with farmers for the past two years to find the right balance. The participants include California Trout, a nonprofit devoted to protecting cold-water fish species; University of California, Davis; the Califor- Crabtree said it was a complicated issue involving city, county, federal and private property and enforcing ordinances would be tough. "Camping is a non-violent crime,"' he said, referring to AB-109 realignment and the likelihood of the jail releasing anyone arrested for such a crime. Councilman Rob Schmid said government agencies' hands are often tied and urged the residents to take action. "You're the citizens of the community, take what action you can take," he said. Mayor Wayne Brown said the concerns were shared by others. "You can't talk to any of us up here who don't hear about this every day," Brown said. Brown added that it does appear as if government action can be a slow process sometimes. "When it's in your backyard it really seems like grinds slowly," he said. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, Ext. 109 or by email at rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. nia Department of Water Resources; and John Brennan of the Knaggs Ranch, one of the participating farms. The researchers found that over six weeks, the test fish fattened seven times faster and had superior survival rates than their kin left to mature in the harsher deep river channel. The marshland fish grew from 55 millimeters to an average of 90 millimeters in that time. In comparison, fish in the river grew from 38 millimeters to 44 millimeters over the same length of time. Part of that difference was from the fish's calorie-burning movement as they avoid predators and fight the current. The river fish also are washed out to sea at an earlier stage. DELAYS Continued from page 1A very frustrating, he said. "I know no more now than when they found her other than what is on the death certificate," Nichols said. "I've traveled five to six hours for nothing. I have a lot of questions and I need answers. They won't let me go to where her body was found. This whole thing has been a nightmare." According to the working death certificate, Marysa died of asphyxiation from having something wrapped multiple times around her neck and she died within minutes, Nichols said. "There's never going to be closure for me," Nichols said. "This may ease up, but right now I'm about ready to scream (from frustration)." Wearing a T-shirt that read "In Loving Memory of Marysa Marie Nichols," Crone asked that the community remember Bealer's family in prayer. "Their family needs prayer as much as we do," Crone said. "They didn't do anything. Let's come together as a community." Northam said after speaking with Tehama County District Attorney Gregg Cohen he has yet to see the reports from various law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation. "I'd ask that we put this over one more week and, if not, I will ask for a formal discovery motion at that time," Northam said. While he has received the initial report shortly after taking over the case, Northam has not received anything new, he said. "I understand the reports have to be written and the detectives are working hard," Northam said. "I understand the process and that they have to undergo administrative review. I understand the police department and that they have a job to do, but it's frustrating because I have a responsibility to my client." Northam has been a criminal defense attorney in the Sacramento area since 2006 and previously worked as a Deputy District Attorney for Cohen in 2000. CAMPING Continued from page 1A per car are collected at Buckhorn, Orland Buttes and Eagle Pass recreation areas. Day- use fees are not charged in undeveloped areas, such as Grizzly Flat, Angler's Cove, Burris Creek or TREE Observation Point. A Corps annual day-use pass can be purchased for $30 and allows access to all Corps recreation areas for 12 months. These annual passes are available at the Buckhorn recreation area entrance station. For additional information call 530-865-4781 or stop by the waste buckets at the officers. The officers persevered, eventually confining the two sitters into one tree. A small black cat was removed from one of the platforms by officers. The kitten was handed off to one of the protesters. The officers gave the two tree-sitters several opportunities to surrender. Once it became clear they were not interested in leaving the tree voluntarily, one of the CHP officers went into the top of the tree and began climbing down to capture them. The other officers remained in the boom trucks, holding shotguns containing rubber bullets. After a game of cat and mouse, officers caught up with "Rain," who had tied himself onto the tree. As "Rain" continued to struggle, refusing to get into the man-lift buck- ''Historically, those small fish would have been swept into flood plains and would have spent a month or two getting large and robust,'' Katz said. Generally about 5 percent of river salmon make it to the ocean, but these researchers are betting that larger, healthier juveniles will more easily avoid predators, thrive in the ocean and return to spawn. About 60 from the experiment were tagged to track progress and to compare their success to a control group released from hatcheries. Federal and state governments have built hatcheries and gravel beds to encourage spawning, but research shows that an important part of the process has been missing. ''Everyone used to think that the key to salmon success was sparkling water and gravel beds in the mountains,'' said Carson Jeffries of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. ''But this is where they packed their lunch for the trip out to sea.'' The state's rice paddies, which produce much of the sushi rice consumed in the U.S., take up more than a half million acres in the Sacramento Valley. As Katz watched flood plain-fattened fish begin the months-long swim that will take them out of the Golden Gate, he considered whether salmon raised in the paddies might end up inside a seaweed wrap with the rice grown there. ''Wait three years and ask me again,'' he said. Continued from page 1A Report outlines abuses by California prison staff SACRAMENTO (AP) — A California parole agent was accused of soliciting one of his parolees to kill another. Numerous corrections department employees allegedly had sex with inmates, including juveniles. And a prison guard was suspected of carousing regularly with prisoners, even joining them as they drank a form of booze the inmates manufactured themselves. The incidents are among 278 cases of alleged employee misconduct detailed in the latest report by the independent inspector general of the state corrections department. The abuses highlighted in the reports produced every six months raise questions about how effectively the state prison system hires and polices its sworn peace officers. The Department of Cor- rections and Rehabilitation has promised to better follow existing policies and procedures. But a top prison official said no dramatic policy or training changes are planned as a result of the reports. ''We're pretty comfortable or satisfied with the level of screening or prevention that we do already in the department. We have a pretty high bar as it is,'' said Martin Hoshino, acting undersecretary for operations. The department has improved since the days when officers were found to have encouraged inmates to engage in what were known as ''gladiator fights'' or developed a code of silence to protect officers who broke the rules, he said. ''Do we have examples of misconduct? Sure, but I think that's true for any large organization,'' Hoshino said. The union representing prisons guards did not respond to a request for Northam said at the March 13 arraignment that his client is aware of his working relationship with the District Attorney's officer and that he knows Red Bluff Police Chief Paul Nanfito and has some knowledge of Tehama County law enforcement. Bealer has expressed to him that he is comfortable with and wants Northam to represent him, Northam said. At one point during the March 13 proceeding, Northam said he was prepared to enter a not guilty plea on Bealer's behalf, however, that was changed to give Northam adequate time to familiarize himself with the case. Northam will be taking on all other cases pending at the Tehama County Superior Court, totaling eight cases, with charges including possession of a methamphetamine smoking device, second degree burglary, receiving stolen property and possession of a controlled substance. Bealer was arrested Saturday, March 2, in connection with the death of Nichols, who had gone missing Feb. 26. comment Wednesday on the report, which details cases that were closed during the second half of 2012. In his previous report in October, the inspector general criticized the corrections department's Southern California internal affairs office for doing a particularly poor job of investigating and prosecuting such complaints. That region still has the worst record, with nearly a third of allegations handled improperly. 5A Nichols' body was found Feb. 28, about a half mile from the campus, toward Baker Road. Bealer was arraigned on the charge of one count of open murder, which means Cohen's office can proceed on several different theories, and that is the direction his office is still taking with the case, Cohen has said. An open count of murder can be charged as felony murder, which carries a sentence of 25 years to life with the option of a special circumstance request for death penalty, Cohen said. The other options are first degree murder, which carries a sentence of 25 to life and second degree murder, which carries a sentence of 15 years to life, he said. The case will be continued at 8 a.m. April 9. Bealer is being held at Tehama County Jail without bail. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Black Butte Lake office, located eight miles west of Orland on County Road 200. Business hours are 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday - closed during lunch. For more information, visit spk.usace.army.mil/Locations/Sa cramentoDistrictParks/BlackButteLake.aspx. line to watch the antics, at first believed the officers had used lethal force to secure Rain. They swarmed under and over the fence and it took several minutes for officers to push them back. Once "Rain" had been taken into custody, John willingly got into the manlift bucket and surrendered. The crowd of officers A large crowd of wit- began to shift towards the nesses on the ground, who other two tree-sit locations had gathered at the fence Tuesday evening. et with the officers, an officer in the other bucket shot several times at Rain's lower extremities with rubber bullets. Officers took him into custody and were transporting him to a local hospital as of press time before taking him to Mendocino County Jail. "Rain" told witnesses on the ground he was okay, but had been shot in each leg and in the "gut." Feinstein: NRA intimidation weakens weapons reform SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers are to blame for the ''disconnect'' between the broad public support for gun control and the reluctance among many of her colleagues to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines in response to the December massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday. Speaking to a hometown audience of about 500 people in San Francisco, the California Democrat said the NRA has successfully intimidated senators with threats that the gun lobby would spend heavily to unseat them if they support the restrictions Feinstein is championing. She did not mention any senators by name, but ticked off a long list of southern and western states, from Montana and Wyoming to Tennessee and Florida. ''A fear has set in that if they vote for the bill they won't be re-elected. It's that plain, it's that simple,'' Feinstein said during an appearance before the Commonwealth Club. ''My view is they shouldn't go up to the Senate if they are unwilling to stand up and vote.'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last month stripped the assault weapons and ammunition bans from the gun-control legislation that Democrats plan to bring to the Senate floor in coming weeks. Reid said he was worried those provisions would doom any reforms, such as expanded background checks for gun sales, but assured Feinstein he would allow them to be voted on as amendments. Feinstein said she would press for a chance to speak on the Senate floor, where she plans to once more make the case that while military-style weapons are involved in a small percentage of gun deaths, the massacres and damage to individual bodies they can inflict ''are antithetical to our values.'' She disputed the NRA's position, based on several studies, that the assault weapons ban she sponsored in 1994 did not reduce gun violence during the decade before it was allowed to expire.