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Friday, April 26, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries ROAD A second curve realignment project received full support from the board. Continued from page 1A A $388,825 contract was awarded to Tullis and potentially lead to Incorporated of Redding more injuries. for the Rancho Tehama PARK Continued from page 1A CAMDON CALVIN SUDDUTH January 19, 1923 - April 13, 2013 Camdon Sudduth, 90 of Red Bluff, CA, passed away of natural causes on April 13, 2013. Cam was born January 19, 1923, in Temple, OK. to Alma and Jefferson Sudduth. He was the sixth of seven children, with three brothers and three sisters. In 1936 Cam and the rest of the family packed up, followed in the footsteps of the older brothers, and made their way to the Imperial Valley, settling in Holtville, CA. During WWII, from 1941 to 1945, Cam joined the United States Air force and served his country in the Pacific Campaign. In 1947 he met his beloved wife, Thelma Brown, and they were married in the Gretna Green Wedding Chapel in Yuma, AZ. They moved from Imperial Valley in 1950 and lived in the Salinas Valley area while raising their two children. Cam worked in the farming industry and was then employeed by the County of Monterey, were he retired. Cam and Thelma lived in Oregon for a time before settling in Red Bluff near their daughter. He enjoyed life and was a devoted husband, father and grandfather, and a friend to many. He was preceded in death by his wife Thelma; son, Larry; brothers J.T and Avon, and sisters Nora Lee Lovas, Theona Gayle and Pauline Jessee. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Peggy and Terry Cullligan of Red Bluff, CA; his grandchildren Jennifer (Manny) Goulart and Patrick (Lydia) Culligan of Red Bluff; Jeremiah (Leanne) Sudduth of Sacramento, CA; Michelle Sudduth of Leander, TX, and Debra (Todd) Jordon of San Antiono, TX.; James & Jamie Carpenter of Spokane, WA; 15 great-grandchildren; his brother Leon (Dorothy) Sudduth of Holtville, CA and many nieces and nephews. A private memorial service will be held in Red Bluff. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity of your choice. of two of his children inviting friends over who then invited more friends and his inability to get his work done from home, which was solved by having a nearby park to send them to. "On behalf of parents and Dan Logue I thank the city for giving kids a place to go play that gives moms and dads a break," Thompson said. Designing a park around things like elderberry bushes was just one of the challenges the city faced, Stoufer said. "Everyone within the staff is excited," Stoufer said. "It was quite the process with lots of hur- FREE Continued from page 1A want is a bunch of people running out there to shoot them or photograph them." Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Center Executive Director Cheryl Millham said the survival rate for Road Curve Realignment. The bid was one of eight received by the county and came in 36 percent below the engineer's estimate. The project is about 1.5 miles west of Paskenta Road. Construction is expected to begin in June and be completed by September. dles, but it was a great team effort from everyone in the community that was involved, especially John Richards and the Corning Skate and Bike Park Association. I owe them a lot. They did a fantastic job and they deserve a great amount of the credit for this." The large majestic oaks make for a more natural setting, which is one of the things that gave Corning an upper hand in the selection process in which it was chosen from 500 applicants, Stoufer said. Trent construction out of Gerber was awarded the first phase of the construction, which includes the 1,800-square-foot bike and skate park which has been created to integrate bicycles with an area designed for people to sit and watch. It is hoped that the uniqueness of the skate and bike park will make it a place where competitions are held, he said. The park is being funded by a $4.2 million Prop. 84 grant that was applied for in 2008 and received in 2010. The rest of phase one includes a gazebo, a basketball court, and a playground while phase two includes a soccer park with one big regulation size field with room for four youth regulation size lots within that area. The park will also include a half-mile walking trail that goes across Jewett Creek. "Our goal is to be done by 2015," Stoufer said. "Phase two will be out to bid toward the end of the year and we hope to start construction in summer 2014." In January, the city council approved pursuing and was later awarded a $150,000 CalRecycle Grant, which is geared toward promoting the markets of recycled content products derived from California generated waste tires. The CalRecycle Grant frees up some of the funding already dedicated to the park for other items, Stoufer said. The city has until 2017 to use the park grant. animals rehabilitated at her center -- where Chips was first treated and for the Sierra Rescue Center - are excellent. cessful rehabilitation centers. The animals are not released until the skills they need are in place." Powers said the Sierra Rescue Center doesn't track or collar animals released back into the wild, making it difficult to know the actual success rate. Powers said she is "We teach them hunting skills, so they know how to hunt when they are released and what food to find in the wild," she said. "That is one job of suc- Antelope issues meeting scheduled A multiagency meeting regarding issues and problems in the Antelope area will be held May 2. The meeting will be held 6-8 p.m. at the Tehama County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 727 Oak St. Topics to be discussed include water quality, ground water depth changes, abandoned wells, flood evaluation studies, homeless encampments and related issues and recreational and trail opportunities. Members of the public, including local residents and business owners, are encouraged to attend and participate. State, county and Red Bluff agencies will provide information. The Tehama County Sheriff, Public Works, Building and Environmental Health and Community Action Agency are among the departments scheduled to be at the meeting. Representatives from the city of Red Bluff will include the police chief and planning department. The state Department of Water Resources will also participate. Bill would let non-citizens serve on juries SACRAMENTO (AP) — The California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the first in the nation to allow non-citizens who are in the country legally to serve on jury duty. Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, AB1401, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community. It does not change other criteria for being eligible to serve on a jury, such as being at least 18, living in the county that is making the summons, and being proficient in English. The bill passed 45-25 largely on a party-line vote in the Democraticcontrolled Assembly and will move on to the Senate. One Democrat — Assemblyman Adam Gray, of Merced — voted no, while some other Democrats did not vote. Democratic lawmakers who voted for the bill said there is no correlation between being a citizen and a juror, and they noted that there is no citizenship requirement to be an attorney or a judge. Republican lawmakers who opposed Wieckowski's bill called it misguided and premature. Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, said there is no shortage of jurors. ''Jury selection is not the problem. The problem is trial court funding,'' Harkey said before the vote. ''I hope we can focus on that. Let's not break something; it's not broken now. Let's not whittle away at what is reserved for U.S. citizens. There's a reason for it.'' Wieckowski's office said the bill is the first of its kind in the nation and suggested that courts regularly struggle to find enough prospective jurors because jury duty is often seen as an inconvenience, if not a burden. His office did not cite any statistics but pointed to a 2003 legislative report that said numerous articles have noted high rates of nonparticipation. A 2007 survey by the Center for Jury Studies said 20 percent of courts across the country reported a failure to respond or failure to appear rate of 15 percent or higher. The center is run by the National Center for State Courts, a Virginia-based nonprofit dedicated to improving court systems. It's not clear, however, if that rate translates to a shortage of jurors in California. Noting that women were once kept off juries, Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said the judicial system should be changed to 7A allow a person to be judged by their peers. ''This isn't about affording someone who would come in as a juror something,'' Perez said. ''But rather understanding that the importance of the jury selection process of affording justice to the person in that courtroom.'' An estimated 10 million Californians are summoned for jury duty each year and about 4 million are eligible and available to serve, according to the Judicial Council, which administers the state's court system. About 3.2 million complete the service, meaning they waited in a courthouse assembly room or were placed on call. In 2010-2011, the most recent year available, only about 165,000 people were sworn in as jurors. The judicial branch has not taken a position on AB 1401. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. confident in the rehabilitation process and optimistic about the future of both bobcats. "The whole idea is to get the animals back into the wild and leave them alone," Powers said. "We want to let them be wild. That's what the rehabilitation process is all about." LaMalfa and Democrat Vargas team up on sex-trafficking bill WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, and Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Calif., have introduced a bill they wrote together to eliminate a loophole in sextrafficking laws. Under their bill, the loophole will be closed in laws against sex-trafficking of a minor by eliminating a "knowledge-of-age" requirement. While other criminal laws against exploitation of children do not have this requirement, sex traffickers have received shorter sentences after arguing that they did not know how old their victims were. The measure introduced by LaMalfa and Vargas is House Resolution 1690, "Hazel's Law." In a news release, Vargas was quoted as saying, "Hazel, a San Diego child sex-trafficking survivor, showed immense courage by working with authorities to gather evidence against her trafficker." Yellow frog, Yosemite toad close to ESA protection SACRAMENTO (AP) — The Yosemite toad and the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog share some critical mountain habitat and now an unenviable distinction: both are being proposed for federal Endangered Species Act protection. Yellow-legged frogs, which live throughout the Sierra Nevada, have declined in numbers in recent years due to habitat destruction, predation by non-native trout in mountain waterways, the drifting of pesticides to the mountains from farm fields and climate change. Yosemite toads are threatened primarily by livestock grazing, climate change and pesticides, according to the Center for Biological Diversity, which has pushed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to speed up protection decisions. ''Not too long ago, yellow-legged frogs and Yosemite toads were a common and popular sight in the high Sierras,'' said the center's Jeff Miller in a release. ''Their declines are a warning of the failing health of our high Sierra ecosystems, which are being hurt by habitat loss, rapid climate change, introduced species, pesticide contamination and an amphibian disease epidemic.'' The proposal, announced Wednesday, includes designating 2 million acres of critical habitat for the amphibians. Senators to speed business filings SACRAMENTO (AP) — A bill intended to end a two-month backlog in processing business filings in California was approved by the state Senate on Thursday. The Secretary of State's Office blamed state budget cuts for creating the conditions that caused the backlog of 122,000 applications. The office must process the forms before businesses can hire employees. The $1.6 million granted through AB113 would let the office hire temporary employees and pay for overtime to process thousands of business applications. Senators amended the bill to reduce it from the $2 million that was orig- inally appropriated by the Assembly. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said the bill will reduce the 55 days it currently takes to process the filings to less than 10 days by November. Senators sent the bill back the Assembly on a 25-10 vote, over Republican objections. Sen. Bill Emmerson, R-Redlands, the budget committee's vice chairman, objected to majority Democrats' use of a budget bill to pass the measure with a simple majority instead of the two-thirds support that would usually be required. Sen. Jim Nielsen, RGerber, noted that lawmakers have repeatedly reallocated millions of dollars from fees the state collects from businesses to help close the state's budget gaps, ''violating the trust of all those business owners who paid that fee.'' Surpluses in those funds show the state is collecting too much from businesses to feed other state programs, while not delivering the services that employers require, he said. 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