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Friday, April 19, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries 9A Fundraiser for Relay for Life, volunteer fire JEFF CAUGHEY 1950-2013 A Memorial service will be held Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Rancho Tehama Community Church. 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. Perry J. Smith Perry J. Smith of Red Bluff died Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. He was 54. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, April 19, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. DOG Continued from page 1A several businesses for further private donations to complete the park's fencing. Public Works Director Bruce Henz told the commission at this point it should focus less on details and more about drumming up support. "The more it gets real, the easier it will get to put everything together," Henz said. Nancy and Rich Henley told the commission in March that eight years ago, when they attempted to spearhead a dog park, it was shot down over concerns from the police department. Commissioner Ray- mond Eliggi said he spoke to Police Chief Paul Nanfito since the last meeting. Eliggi said Nanfito told him he had some reservations about the possible park, but he also had those for the skate park and end those concerns have gone away. Henz said groups that have more active residents involved tend to police themselves. They also garner favor from the City Council for their projects, such as the skate park or Blues for the Pool. Martin and the Henleys said they planned to create a Facebook page and have a picnic at the proposed site to drum up support. Martin said it is important that the park plans remain feasible and reasonable. Cops seek suspects in Corning stabbing An investigation is on-going for a stabbing that took place early Thursday in the 1100 block of Toomes Avenue. Corning Police were sent to Toomes Avenue at 1:33 a.m. for a possible stabbing. They located Sergio Zepeda Bobadilla Meza, 27. Meza had two visible stab wounds, one on his right forearm and another on his upper left leg, a Corning Police press release said. Meza told officers he had been walking north on Toomes Avenue when he was contacted by two men near Scott Avenue. An argument ensued and one of the men, who was brandishing a knife, began chasing Meza south on Toomes and stabbed him twice, the release said. Medical personnel treated Meza on scene before he was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for further treatment. Anyone with information is encouraged to call Corning Police at 824-7000. Calif. Assembly OKs money for gun-seizure program SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's one-of-a-kind program to seize guns from felons, the mentally unstable and others prohibited from owning them is close to receiving more money after an Assembly vote Thursday. A bill from state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was approved on a vote of 57-10, with all the opposition votes coming from Republican lawmakers. It authorizes $24 million over three years for the Armed and Prohibited Persons program to hire more agents to seize weapons. The vote comes a day after the U.S. Senate rejected a gun control package, including a proposal to expand background checks. The state program checks databases to identify people who bought guns legally but are no longer permitted to own them because of a felony conviction, a violent misdemeanor, a determination that they are mentally unstable or a domestic violence restraining order. Supporters say 20,000 people in California have been identified as possessing weapons illegally. Collectively, they are believed to own more than 39,000 handguns and 1,670 assault weapons. After the vote, Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement that the measure will allow her department ''to double efforts to enforce the law and reduce the number of guns illegally possessed by violent and dangerous individuals.'' Harris wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden in January promoting the program as a model for the nation. The Department of Justice plans to hire six supervisors, 30 special agents and support staff, who will make up six teams to reduce the investigation backlog. ''This bill is not anti-gun,'' said Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Woodland Hills. ''This bill is about enforcing current law.'' The National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups opposed the measure. Republican lawmakers speaking against the bill objected to using surplus fees from firearm purchases or transfers to pay for the additional enforcement. The $19 Dealer Record of Sale fee pays for background checks. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff City Councilwoman Daniele Jackson, right, makes the first contribution to the 2013 Red Bluff Fire Department Boot Drive on Tuesday. Pictured accepting are Red Bluff Fire ROP student Chelcie Zabbo, Capt. John Campbell and Reserve Engineer Casey Hickok. EARTH Continued from page 1A when they grow up and introduced them to a few green careers. "We've had a lot of students interested in the biological sciences, particularly in marine biology," Garrett said. Garrett often hears students say they want to be a veterinarian because they love animals and she likes to show them there are other routes, she said. "I show them that there are other careers where they can work with animals and to protect the animals and Earth," Garrett said. "It's nice to be able to open their eyes to the different careers available." Students also got to take a look at some rare heirloom tomato donated by a local family, Samay said. Among the plants was a Green Zebra that originates from Russia and a Hawaiian Pineapple vari- ety that grows to be about one pound and is orange inside, she said. "It's a good way to show students the different varieties there are and it is another way to introduce them to different countries," Samay said. Samay and Wylie, who are school garden advocates, gained national recognition for the success at Vista Middle School's garden. That led to the two women being invited to a White House garden social in October. With the help from Walmart Distribution Center, the garden program has blossomed and allowed the school to promote healthy nutrition, hands on garden-to-table instruction and collaboration on ways to provide sustainable gardens, Samay said. Students were able to take tours of the garden to help bring awareness of what the club has been doing. As part of spreading Earth Day and healthy eating to more than just one POT Continued from page 1A managers helped protect and isolate Espindola from possible law enforcement contact. After 300 pounds of his marijuana was seized by investigators in Chicago, Espindola separated himself from the undercover agents by putting Ramirez-Cardinez in charge. According to court documents, Espindola was "one of the largest marijuana traffickers in Northern California." He, his lieutenants, and his workers used firearms to further that operation. In addition to the weapons found in the El Dorado County grow site and a shotgun day a year, CNAP is involved in garden projects at several Tehama County schools, Wylie said. Every Wednesday afternoon two of the CNAP student staff members, who are Chico State students, go to Olive View Elementary in Corning and lead garden education with John Howard's fourth grade class. At Antelope Elementary CNAP visits every other week to work with SERRF students to continue the bountiful garden started in the 2011-2012 school year by parents Tom and Emily Hyatt. Another parent and Nutrition Sciences student at Chico State, Heidi Thomason, works with the second grade classrooms at Antelope in the garden during the school day. The students look forward to tasting several different varieties of tomatoes, herbs, zucchini and lots of strawberries, Wylie said. At Los Molinos a student staffer has worked found at Espindola's home, RamirezCardinez, told one of the undercover officers that he brought a .22-caliber rifle to the Placer County grow site. Investigators ultimately found five other firearms at Ramirez-Cardinez' house when he was arrested. Earlier, Ramirez-Cardinez gave one of the undercover officers an AK-47 rifle. The officer was supposed to pay for the weapon later. During an evidentiary hearing related to sentencing, a special agent with the California Department of Justice testified that investigators also found an additional three handguns, three AK-47 rifles, two M16/M-4 rifles, four shotguns, and one rifle at an address on Rowland Lane in Corning. This was a resi- with teacher Claudia Trout and her first-graders to completely fill in the garden plots. After school students in Bill Hardwick's SERRF group have been busy tackling the weeds and turning the soil. The students at Los Molinos are looking forward to pumpkins, sunflowers and herbs spilling out of the garden beds come fall, she said. Rancho Tehama has started a garden and students are excited to get to go out and see the garden daily, Wylie said. For more information on Vista's Garden Club, call Samay at 527-7840. For more information about CNAP or garden projects in the county, call Wylie at 898-5442. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. dence at which one of Espindola's lieutenants loaded a truck in connection with one of the cross-country shipments. Contrary to defense claims, Judge Shubb noted, "This was his operation," and held Espindola accountable for the weapons his partners and workers used in furtherance of the operation. This case was the product of an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, Placer County Sheriff's Office, the California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, and the Mountain and Valley Marijuana Investigation Team. Assistant United States Attorney Michael Beckwith prosecuted the case. LaMalfa amendment on surveillance passes MediaNews Report WASHINGTON — An amendment concerning "cyber security" by Rep. Doug LaMalfa, RRichvale, passed the House unanimously this morning. Amendment 9, by LaMalfa, relates to House Resolution 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. HR 624 allows telecommunications and other companies hit by foreign cyber-attacks to share attack information with each other and the government to help pre- vent economic and military secrets from being stolen. LaMalfa got involved with the bill after hearing concerns about possible encroachments on the privacy of individual Americans. Amendment 9 ensure that HR 624 will not allow the federal government to conduct surveillance on Americans, a news release from LaMalfa's office stated. "We recognize that America faces serious cyber threats from malicious hackers in China and elsewhere, but our fundamental principles of civil liberty and individual privacy require that our personal information be protected from our own government, too," LaMalfa was quoted as saying in the news release. After the passage of Amendment 9, HR 624 was passed by the House with overwhelming bipartisan support. Have a news tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 Memorial Services for Susan Wiggett Will be Sunday, April 21st 10am at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers, 816 Walnut Street, Red Bluff