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Thursday, June 17, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Obituaries RAYMOND (RAY) F. OLIVER ta on April 28, 1927 to James & Hazel Oliver. Ray passed away on June 10, 2010 at the age of 83 at his home. Ray lived the majori- ty of his life in the El Cami- no District of Gerber. Ray enjoyed fishing and making wood products which he sold from Tehama County to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. His beloved wife of 58 years, Elise helped by man- ning the glue gun while he cut and decorated wooded trucks, windmills and wag- ons, and made other wood creations. He was devout in his ministry as one of Jeho- vah’s Witness where he served as an Elder for many faithful years. He treasured his family and the many Sunday dinners they shared. He was preceded in death by his wife Elise Oliver, who passed away July 8, 2008. He had two children, David W. Oliver and Debra A. Durham (hus- band Bill Durham). He also has 7 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. He will be missed by all who knew him. A Memorial Service is planned for June 19, 2010 at 2:00 pm at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness, located at 755 Reeds Ave- nue, Red Bluff, CA., with a reception to follow at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Los Molinos. Ray was born in Minneso- ROADS Continued from page 1A Bringing all of Tehama County’s roads up to high levels would cost some $365 million over the next 10 years, Wood said. The roads, ranked on an HOMES Continued from page 1A will pay for the salary and bene- fits of one police officer position for three years. The stimulus fund was due the department, but because of a calculation mistake BOOST Continued from page 1A one of his success stories. When Kessler began, he was facing a saturated flower market in Chico. Johnson and his crew thought Kessler would be better off selling his flow- ers across the state and over the Internet, but the Kessler was old fashioned. “When he began, he didn’t own a computer and never used the Web,” Johnson said. So Johnson’s company set up a website for Elks rib results Results of the 4th Annual Elks Rib Cook-off and Emblem Craft Fair, held Saturday, June 12, as reported by Ron Yancy, Rib Cook-off chairman, are as follows: GRETTA (MARGARET) DINSDALE McGOVERN Gretta (Margaret) Dinsdale McGovern passed away Tuesday June 15, 2010. She was born on May 21, 1934 in St. Helens, England. She is survived by her husband of 54 years Francis McGovern and her chil- dren, Kerry and Joe Pere’, Julie McGovern, Carolyn and Dan Colgate, and Chris and Yvette McGovern, her grandchildren David, Shan- non and Michael Pere’, Duncan and Heather Col- gate, Sean, Bridget and Mi- chael Leddy, her great- grandchildren Charlotte and Sophia Leddy, and her sis- ter Eleanor Taylor. She was predeceased by her pa- rents, Samuel and Olive Dinsdale and brother Mi- chael Dinsdale. Gretta loved swimming, water polo and performing as a pianist, violinist, and soprana soloist. She and her husband immigrated to the United States in 1959. She found her most joy as a mother and homemaker and McGovern’s various busi- nesses, including building contracting and for over 30 years, and the McGovern’s Christmas Trees. In the past she served as a Girl Scout leader and cook for 4-H and Norwegian summer camps. She was also a member of the Daughters of the British Empire. She especially loved her years of involvement with the Novato Community Players, now known as the Navato Theatre Company. She served with them as treas- urer, costumer, pianist, per- former, and singer. She and Francis also enjoyed many years of cruising and travel- ing together. Services will be held on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 10:30am at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Novato, CA. In lieu of flowers, we would ask for donations to be made to Hospice by the Bay. Death Notice John L. Warnke John L. Warnke, a 21- year Tehama County resi- dent, died Monday, June 14, 2010, in Manton. He was 65. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, June 17, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. running the Judge's Choice - "The Other White Meat" team of Ken Mc Connell, Cory Fox and Todd Ross. People's Choice - "Be Mo Better BBQ" team of Tim Benton and Paul Mohler. The rib cook-off is held the second Saturday of June each year at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge. PAY Continued from page 1A vey this year by the com- pensation commission. Florida, which has the fourth-largest population, pays its lawmakers just $31,000 per year. The commission could reconsider adjusting bene- fits over the next two weeks, before the June 30 deadline for enacting a state budget. Until last year, the 20- year-old commission had frozen salaries five times but had never cut officials’ pay. Those reductions affected the Legislature, the eight statewide consti- tutional officers and four members of the state Board of Equalization. The governor’s salary dropped from $212,000 to just under $174,000, although Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger does not take a salary. Superintendent of Pub- lic Education Jack O’Con- nell, who saw his pay reduced by $33,000 last year, said Wednesday that times of economic crisis are exactly when the state needs to make sure it isn’t driving away the people it needs to help restore sta- bility. ‘‘A further salary cut would be another blow to our ability to find effective, highly qualified policy makers,’’ he told the com- mission. ‘‘You need to make sure legislators’ salaries are commensurate with the awesome respon- sibilities they have.’’ index out of 100, are at 69. By the time the remaining $2.5 million in Prop 1B funding is spent, the roads will be up to 70 or 72 at the most, still close to the “at risk” category. As road quality decreases, the cost for repair exponentially increases and the rate of deterioration increases. At 58, roads could cost near- ly three times as much to repair as they would at current levels, eventually reaching more than six times the cost if allowed to deteriorate long enough. by the US Department of Justice, Red Bluff Police and 34 other agencies throughout the state did not receive their share until now. • Public Works Director Mark Barthel gave a presentation on the public works department. Recently completed projects in the department include finding a new Fixed Base Operator for the Kessler — a professional one to rival big corpora- tions. Within six months, he was making four times the money he had made in the past six months. Within two years, the business was generating $750,000 a year and employing a dozen workers, Johnson said. The company has since gone national, and delivers flowers anywhere within the continental United States. Not all businesses have been as successful as Kessler’s, but the program gives its participants the VOTE Continued from page 1A racks containing collection jars for each candidate with a photo of the candidate and a slit in the top to deposit money. The candidate who collects the most money will be named Hon- orary Mayor of Los Molinos at the end of the race at noon June 30. “We do appreciate all donations as the proceeds from our Honorary SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for sup- porters of California’s gay marriage ban argued Wednesday in a landmark federal trial that Proposition 8 was constitutional because limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples ensures children have the benefits of being raised by biological parents. Attorney Charles Coop- er delivered his closing argument as the case chal- lenging the voter-approved measure resumed after a months-long break. Cooper said societies around the world have always seen marriage as a way to keep children from being born out of wedlock. ‘‘The historical record leaves no doubt, your honor, none whatsoever, that the central purpose of marriage in all societies at virtually all times is to channel procreative rela- tionships into stable rela- tionships to ensure that off- spring that result from those relationships are raised in those stable relationships,’’ Cooper said. Even as he tried to elab- orate, Cooper’s statement drew a series of challenges from Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker, who is pre- siding over the lawsuit filed by two same-sex couples who claim the ban is a vio- lation of their civil rights. Walker asked if people get married to benefit their communities or them- selves. Weren’t similar arguments once used to keep interracial couples from marrying? And if pro- creation is so central to marriage, why doesn’t the state refuse to sanction mar- riage by infertile couples or couples who choose to remain childless? ‘‘It is Orwellian, but isn’t that the logic that flows from the premise that marriage is about procre- A recent report spon- sored by the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities sug- gested roads across the state are in a similar con- dition, at about 68, and will be at 48 by 2033 if funding does not increase. airport and privatizing the opera- tions of the Waste Water Treat- ment Plant. The department is still working on its Urban Water Management Plan, the Antelope Area Sewer Project, which is being done in partnership with the county, and a number of airport, street and street lighting projects. The loss or lack of funding for kind of resources they need to compete on a higher playing field. In addition to a Web presence, chosen business- es may receive free mar- keting, sales strategies, customer service training, legal advice, accounting and general business coaching. “We will actually go and sell people’s products on their behalf,” Johnson said. The services are tempo- rary, and are not meant to provide a constant cushion for struggling enterprises. Instead, the idea is to help The study recommended about $70 billion in spend- ing over the next 10 years on roadwork. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. road maintenance and airport operation continues to be the greatest challenge for the depart- ment as well as being short staffed. There are seven vacant positions. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527- 2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. recovering, beginning or struggling businesses find ways to succeed and move them up to the next level, Johnson said. Back at the Job Train- ing Center, Schmitz said she was uncertain just how long the application process will take. Schmitz, however, said her center, which has taken over the responsibil- ities of the Tehama Eco- nomic Development Cor- poration, can still offer services for businesses not picked up by the Business Incubation Program. “We’re going to try to Mayor's Race support our Indepen- dence Day Parade PlayDay In The Park,” said chamber President Betty Morales. “We are very proud of our annual Independence Day activities. For 43 years now, we close down the state highway, which runs through town, and we hold a parade.” The parade is followed by a trip to the county park for PlayDay In The Park, where there are activities for young and old alike. Classic all American food, barbe- make sure everybody gets a little bit of assistance,” she said. More information on how to apply and qualify for the program is avail- able by calling the Job Training Center at 529- 7000. More information on the services provided by The Chico Project is avail- able at thechicoproject.com. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. cue, sodas and ice cream. The singing of the National Anthem opens the event and at the closing trophies and ribbons for the “Best Of” categories in the parade are given out. For information or upcoming fundraisers visit www.losmocham- ber.com or call Morales at 384- 1706. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Lawyer: Children benefit from gay marriage ban ‘‘We have always done it that way’ is a corollary to ‘because I say so.’ It’s not a reason’ US Solicitor General Theodore Olson ation?’’ Walker asked. With respect to laws that banned interracial mar- riage, Cooper said, ‘‘those racist sentiments and poli- cies had no foundation in the historical purpose of marriage, and in fact they were at war with it.’’ Earlier in the day, former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who rep- resents the plaintiffs, argued that supporters of the ban were trying to deprive same-sex couples of a relationship the U.S. Supreme Court has recog- nized as a fundamental right. Olson said the U.S. Supreme Court has repeat- edly recognized marriage as a fundamental right — one afforded to prisoners serving life sentences and child support scofflaws — while refusing to make pro- creation a precondition of marriage, as evidenced by laws allowing divorces and contraception. ‘‘It is the right of indi- viduals, not an indulgence to be dispensed by the state,’’ Olson said. ‘‘The right to marry, to choose to marry, has never been tied to procreation.’’ Judge Walker pressed Olson on that point, noting Proposition 8 supporters have gone to some lengths to argue that gays and les- bians only can have chil- dren with help from a third party, unlike opposite-sex couples. ‘‘That is a difference,’’ Walker said. ‘‘And why is that difference not one the Legislature or voters could city of Lake Forest is returning to court to force the closure of eight medical marijuana dispensaries operating within city limits. A state judge last month ordered 11 dispensaries in the city to close after Lake Forest filed a civil lawsuit against the business- es, but city officials said Wednes- day that eight of them are still open. Deputy city manager Debra Rose says Lake Forest had set a deadline of 5 p.m. Tuesday for the dispensaries to close. rationally take into account in setting the marriage laws in California?’’ Olson answered that sponsors of the 2008 ballot measure could not cite tra- dition or speculation that allowing gays to wed would harm the institution of marriage as valid reasons to discriminate. ‘‘’We have always done it that way’ is a corollary to ’because I say so.’ It’s not a reason,’’ Olson told the judge. The judge asked whether he must find that Proposition 8 was unconsti- tutional if it was based on ‘‘discriminatory motive on the part of voters to impose some private morality through the initiative process?’’ Olson said the law would be unconstitutional in that case. ‘‘I’m willing to admit there are plenty of good people in California who voted for Proposition 8 because they are uncom- fortable with gay people, and they are uncomfortable with the idea that gay peo- ple are just like us,’’ he said. But just as with laws that banned interracial mar- riage, ‘‘they are not permit- ted under the Constitution to put that view into the law, to put that view into the Constitution of their state to discriminate against other people,’’ he said. Walker is being asked to overturn the ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriages five months after the California Supreme Court legalized it and after SoCal city seeks to close pot dispensaries LAKE FOREST (AP) — The Jeffrey Dunn, the city’s special legal counsel, says he is seeking a Friday court hearing and will ask the judge to hold the dispensaries in contempt of court. The city says the dispensaries are illegal under the city’s zoning codes. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net an estimated 18,000 cou- ples from around the nation had tied the knot. The judge heard 12 days of testimony in January and could hand down his deci- sion to uphold or strike down the voter-approved ban in a matter of weeks. Plaintiff Jeffrey Zarrillo is suing to overturn Proposi- tion 8 with his partner, Paul Katami, and a lesbian cou- ple from Berkeley, Kristin Perry and Sandy Stier. Closing arguments were previously delayed to give Walker time to review the evidence and because of a skirmish between lawyers over evidence. ‘‘The period of time from the presentation is not anything that I would have wished or hoped for,’’ Walker said Wednesday. ‘‘But it may be appropriate that the case is coming to closing argument right now. June is after all the month for ... weddings.’’ The judge beamed as the remark was greeted with laughter. Last week, Walker gave lawyers on both sides a list of 39 questions he expects them to address during the hearing. Walker also heard from lawyers for the city of San Francisco, which joined the case to argue that denying gays the right to wed has negative economic conse- quences for local govern- ment. Located in Chico, CA