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Thursday, April 25, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries 5A Student dance recital starts tonight Alma Lina Woodard Alma Lina Woodard of Red Bluff, 102, passed peacefully into the Lord's hands on April 21, 2013 at the Red Bluff Health Care Center. She leaves her only son, Bruce and his fiancée, Nancy, of Windsor Locks, CT. She also leaves 4 grandsons, Bruce Jr., Robert, Anthony, and Jerry, their respective wives, and 7 grandchildren. She also leaves many dear relatives in Germany and Switzerland and many good, kind-hearted friends. She was a seamstress and a homemaker and loved to write stories about her life. She enjoyed making beautiful Christmas stockings. Several times she hosted yodelers from Germany and Switzerland and would take the "show on the road." We invite those who knew and loved her to attend a memorial service for her on Sunday, May 12, at 1:00 pm at the Red Bluff Veterans Hall, 735 Oak Street. 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. Patsy Ruth Connely Patsy Ruth Connely died Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 84. HoytCole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, April 25, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. James Howard Wigley James Howard Wigley died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 55. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, April 25, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Lo Rayne Luella Winston Lo Rayne Luella Winston, of Mt. Shasta, died Monday, April 22, 2013, at Linda Vista Nursing and Rehab in Ashland, Ore.. She was 83. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, April 25, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. SHOW "Engine Show" signs to Ridgeway Park. For more information, call 527-3650, 736all ages and free to the 7723, 347-1802 or 524public. Follow the 7614. Continued from page 1A Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Students from Dance 2 perform a choreographed number to "The Lonely" in preparation for the Red Bluff Union High School Dance Show at 7 tonight and Friday in the Performing Arts Center, under the direction of Dance Instructor Lee Shilts. Several levels of dancers are coming together to express themselves in specially choreographed routines, some of which were prepared by Shilts and others by the students. Cost is $5. Tickets are available at the door. DUI Continued from page 1A where between because the next thing he remembered was going off the road, Bushey said. The 2004 Peterbilt, which was loaded with 9,600 pounds of propane, tipped over as a result of the driver failing to negotiate the curve on the ramp, Bushey said. Caltrans workers killed FIRST near Happy Camp "He made it down a little ways, but as it starts to turn he went straight instead," Bushey said. Anthony, who had to be extricated from the smoking cab, was hauling the propane for Nick Barbierie Trucking out of Ukiah, he said. The ramp to Bowman Road was closed at 8:36 a.m. with a hard closure at Gas Point Road requested at 8:58 a.m. and further Continued from page 1A REDDING – Two Caltrans District 2 employees were killed around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday during a rock scaling operation on State Route 96 near Happy Camp. Joseph "Robert" Jones, 40, from Montague and Shawn Baker, 50, from Weed, both Caltrans equipment operators, were killed. Kevin Skillen, 50, also an equipment operator, was injured and flown to a Medford hospital. He is in stable condition. Jones had been with Caltrans for seven years. He leaves behind a wife, 19-year-old stepson, 15-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter. Baker had been with Caltrans for 12 years and leaves behind a wife, two daughters, ages 25 and 21 and two sons, ages 19 and 16. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Jones and Baker families," said District 2 Director John Bulinski. "We are doing everything we can to support them and the Skillen family at this very difficult time. We are a very close family here at Caltrans and when an incident like this happens, it affects us all." Caltrans' first priority is the safety of its employees and the public. We are working closely with investigators to determine the exact causes of death. LaMalfa endorses Gallagher Assembly candidate James Gallagher picked up his second high-profile Republican endorsement Wednesday. The Sutter County Supervisor, who announced his candidacy Monday for the 2014 3rd District seat, added U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa to his list of endorsements. Former Congressman Wally Herger has already endorsed Gallagher. "With his family farming background, his proven record as a Supervisor and his professional commitment to helping farmers and our ag economy, James Gallagher is an outstanding choice for Assembly," LaMalfa said in a press release. "We are already partnering on flood protection and other important issues and he will be able to do even more as the 3rd district's next Assemblyman." Gallagher said he was humbled to have LaMalfa's support, and hoped to be the same type of representative for the North State. Gallagher is one of two candidates to announce his candidacy for the seat currently held by Dan Logue. Earlier this month farmer and former Butte County Farm Bureau President Ryan Schohr declared for the race. 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Many schools have done closures at Sunset Hills, resulting in traffic backing up significantly. A Caltrans unit assisted in turning around vehicles at Main Street and Lake California Drive, which were temporarily closed. Southbound I-5 was reopened about 9:15 a.m. from Gas Point Road and Bowman with Lake California Drive remaining closed a bit longer. Northbound I-5 was away with extra curricular programs due to budgets cuts, but Red Bluff has thriving programs, he said. It was skills from those programs that helped Fisher be prepared for life, which wasn't always spent in the academics. Fisher spent time in the construction industry remodeling buildings and building cabinets prior to his career as a teacher. Fisher's No. 1 priority is a motto of "students first" and what is best reopened at 9:51 a.m. and the Bowman off-ramp was reopened sometime Tuesday afternoon. CalFire crews were on standby during the incident to mitigate any issues from off-loading the propane. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. for them, he said. "School was not my first love," Fisher said. "The reality is to prepare for life there's more than math, English and science. There's a big world out there and I want students to experience it and give them the opportunities to explore." ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Brown rallies support for school-funding changes SACRAMENTO (AP) — Standing with school leaders from San Diego County to Shasta County, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called his education funding plan a civil rights ''cause for the children of California'' as he tries to persuade reluctant members of his own party to include his proposal in the upcoming state budget. The Democratic governor wants to give school districts more control of the money they receive from the state and provide poorer districts with a larger share of state aid. Brown is running into resistance from his own party, including lawmakers who represent affluent areas that would not gain as much under his plan. Democrats in the state Senate plan to propose an alternative that does not include extra money for districts where more than half of students are low-income. ''This is a matter of equity and civil rights,'' Brown said at a news conference. ''If people want to fight it, they're going to get the battle of their lives because I'm not going to give up until the last hour.'' Brown is expected to update his budget proposal in mid-May and lawmakers have until June 15 to adopt a balanced budget. Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, said she agrees with the governor's aims to provide more local control and more financial aid to English language learners, students from poor families and foster children. But the lawmaker, who represents prosperous San Francisco Bay area communities such as Walnut Creek and Orinda, said the governor is wrong to pit rich suburbs against poor communities. She said she would like to raise the base grant amount to every school district for essential items such as textbooks and maintain some existing funding rules. ''It looks like the governor is taking the gloves off, and we're still here working on a solution,'' she said. Brown's budget plan includes an increase of $2.7 billion for elementary and secondary education and community colleges for the fiscal year starting July 1. Spending on K-12 and two-year colleges would total $56.2 billion for 201314 — a figure that would return the state to near-prerecession levels. Brown's proposal retains the current system of awarding money based on attendance, but it could add up to 35 percent more funding for a district based on the proportion of English learners, foster children and lowincome students. Districts with more than half of their student population classifying as lowincome, as measured by free or reduced price lunch participants, could receive a total of $2.5 billion in additional funds once the formula is implemented over several years. Brown said the state has an obligation to provide more help to low-income districts — a move he argues will have a more powerful effect than spreading money to all districts. The governor noted that nearly 60 percent of students are either from families that make less than $23,000 a year or speak a language other than English. ''You've seen the scores,'' he said. ''Why is California so much at the bottom? Because we have so many poor kids and we have so many kids who don't speak English.'' Santa Ana Unified School District Superintendent Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana said the state's sixth-largest district in Orange County would be able to provide summer school programming under the governor's proposal. Among the district's 56,000 students, 87 percent participate in free and reduced priced meal programs and 82 percent are current or former English learners, she said. ''It is not uncommon for some of our students to live in unstable living conditions where basic items such as food, shelter and clothing are not readily available,'' she said. Melendez de Santa Ana gave the example of a 14year-old girl living in a garage and a high school junior who lives in a ganginfested neighborhood and wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to take a bus to school. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, DSacramento, said Tuesday that Senate Democrats agree with the fundamental goals and concepts in Brown's proposal but plan to propose a bill that would take a ''lift all boats'' approach by providing extra grants to disadvantaged students no matter where they live.