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Thursday, May 23, 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. Wilma Lucille Martin Wilma Lucille Martin of Los Molinos died Monday, May 13, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, in Red Bluff. She was 96. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 23, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. MAYOR Continued from page 1A even though it can be hard work, the annual Parade & PlayDay In the Park are worth it. His owners Ron and Jeannie Gallagher of Los Molinos are Los Molinos Chamber members and business owners here in town and invite everyone to wave when you see them around town. Jeff Southard has the spirit this year and has jumped into the race. His sponsor this year is The Red Barn just north of Los Molinos on the highway. Jeff works in town and can be seen attending the Chamber meetings, helping out with the annual Christmas Tree sales lot as well as participating work days put on by the Los Molinos Chamber. Jeff believes in the Parade & PlayDay In the Park and wants to ensure our annual tradition continues for the kids. Bryan Fox has been in town for three years and is employed at Bell Carter in Corning. He says that Los Molinos is a perfect small town and just what he was looking for. He can't believe he's running for Mayor and thinks living here is the best. The Hayloft Tavern is Bryan's sponsor. Trish Carnes just loves her town. Her entire efforts are for the community and to ensure the Parade & PlayDay In the Park continue on. Trish works at Nu-Way Market and they are her sponsor this year. She knows everyone and everyone knows Trish. Drop by the market and drop some money in her jars. Rick Singer is a past Mayor and truly enjoys the community and raising money for the Parade & PlayDay In the Park. Rick is famous for his annual "Best of the West" Poker Run held each year as part of the fund raising activities. Each year, Rick's prizes are bigger and better. This year, the best hand gets a choice of four grand prizes: a dinner cruise on Lake Shasta, a 2 night stay on the Russian River, a 32" flat screen TV or a 2 night stay at Timber Cove Resort with ocean view. Rick's slogan this year is "Keeping traditions alive for generations to follow." Sign up at The Lassen Steak House, just 9 miles south of Los Molinos. 6 hurt in Cottonwood crash Six people, including three children were injured Tuesday afternoon in a three-car collision at 2:29 p.m. at the intersection of Bowman and Draper roads in Cottonwood. Shannon Price, 32, of Cottonwood was taken to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with minor injuries. Her three passengers, a 6-year-old boy, a 9-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl, all of Cottonwood, had minor injuries. The girls were taken to Mercy while the boy went to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Jonathan Roosier, 26, of North Highlands was taken to Mercy with moderate injuries. Christie Bottoms, 39, of Cottonwood was taken to St. Elizabeth with minor injuries. Roosier was driving south on Draper Road as Price was approaching the intersection going west on Bowman. Bottoms was eastbound on Bowman. For unknown reasons, Roosier failed to stop at the stop sign and pulled into the intersection directly in front of Price's 2000 Chevy Suburban, resulting in a collision, a CHP spokesman said. The impact caused Price to loose control of her vehicle, which went south and hit a fence. Roosier's Toyota Matrix continued into the eastbound lane of Bowman where it hit Bottom's Toyota Camry. RBFD Continued from page 1A sometimes at the doughnut shop less than a block from the station, and the answers he receives are that the engine must be fully staffed and available at all times in case a call comes in and employees drive it around town for training purposes. Schmid suggested the department use another, smaller vehicle to get doughnuts and if a call did come they could meet the truck at the location. After Schmid finished expressing his opinion, Fire Chief Jon Bennett asked, "was that a question" and said his department tries to walk for doughnuts when they can. Bennett said the truck does not require a $3,000 alternator every month, before agreeing a fire truck is costly to maintain especially with rising fuel prices. However Bennett defended the department's usage of the truck by saying he could never over emphasize how important training was for his employees by driving around town. Bennett said employees INMATE Continued from page 1A shelters that reflects 95 percent of the heat, he said. "It's heavier and extra weight, but it's more than worth the extra weight," Drummond said. The final part of the exercise is a three-mile hike into an area where they cut a fire line for a specific distance. That hike must be finished within 70 minutes, Colburn said. Most fire crews are made up of the non-violent offenders, often those serving time for drug-related charges or something such as car theft, Colburn said. With the passing of AB-109, which shifted some state level prisoners with lower level's of offense to county jails rather than state prisons, some wondered if there would be an effect on fire crews. "It has impacted the camps, but we are working with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on it," Ishi Camp Assistant Chief Dave Russell said. "We are able to maintain the camp numbers in terms of crew strength, but it's not what it used to be. It definitely has impacted us. We are struggling with special skills from mechanics to cooks." Ishi Camp is a 100-person capacity facility, which houses 95 at this TRIO Continued from page 1A County. The girl came to the area of the arrest and told deputies the subject was not a match to any of the suspects that burglarized her residence. A 42-inch flat screen television, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Polaroid 7-inch tablet, jewelry box with miscellaneous costume jewelry and a Mercer Longboard skateboard with white wheels were taken. The estimated loss was $1,315. time, he said. The loss of inmates, while less than what it was, is forecasted to not be enough to shut down any camps, Russell said. According to a story by the Associated Press, the state expects to have nearly as many inmates available to help during the 2013 firefighting season as it did before the 2-year-old law began sending lowerlevel felons to county jails instead of state prisons. There are about 3,820 inmates in training in the state's 44 fire camps, state corrections department spokeswoman Dana Simas said. The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a five-year contract sending up to 200 of its offenders to the state-run camps as an alternative to keeping them in jail, according to the AP article. That will cost their county $46 a day per inmate and will boost the camp population to more than 4,000 inmate firefighters, about the same as before the law enforcement realignment law took effect in October 2011. California relies heavily on inmate firefighters to dig fire lines and cut brush to halt the spread of wildfires. In a typical year, the inmates work more than 2.5 million hours fighting fires and responding to floods, earthquakes and other disas- • A residential burglary was reported on the 14000 block of Trinity Avenue Sunday. The victim said sometime in the past week someone had entered his unlocked garage and residence while he was in the process of moving away from home. He believed the suspects made access through an unlocked rear garage door. The suspects took a man's style gray and silver Diamond Back mountain bike, a women's green Diamond Back mountain bike, a blue child's Huffy Brown defends state's business climate SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown acted Wednesday as California's c h e e r l e a d e r- i n - c h i e f , countering the state's antibusiness reputation in an address to hundreds of business, agriculture and education leaders. ''We've solved a lot of problems. We've got a lot of problems. We're living in a great state. Republican, Democrats, we're all Californians,'' the Democratic governor told an annual gathering in the state capital hosted by the California Chamber of Commerce. Brown credited the sales and income tax hikes voters approved last fall and an improving economy for helping to end a decade of state budget deficits. He acknowledged that California is often criticized for having an unfriendly business climate but said the state also fosters a creative and entrepreneurial spirit that has helped produce a $2 trillion-a-year economy. Brown recalled that one survey had concluded that California had the worst business climate in the nation before he served as governor the first time in 1975. ''At that time, the collective income was about $350 billion. Now it's almost $2 trillion,'' he 'It's hard for me to believe a state this rich was rated by S&P and Moody's as the 50th worst state' — Gov. Jerry Brown said. ''So just think if we had a good business climate, how rich we'd be.'' He added, ''It's bad, but it also gets good.'' Brown said under his watch, California no longer has the worst credit rating of any state from Standard & Poor's or Moody's Investor Services. The state has reduced its structural deficit from $20 billion to $8 billion, and the new budget expected to be passed this summer should be balanced as long as revenue projections hold, he said. ''It's hard for me to believe a state this rich was rated by S&P and Moody's as the 50th worst state,'' he said. ''Well, after a lot of hard work, we got an upgrade. We are 49th. We're on our way. We're going up. We'll be 48th before you know it, and pretty soon we'll be back in contention, as long as I'm governor.'' While Brown has not committed to a re-election bid, he said the perspective gained from his first turn in the governor's office has made his current tenure more fulfilling. ''I guess I'll just have to stay and do the work of being governor, which I actually enjoy,'' he said. Looking forward, Brown pledged to limit spending and continue to make good on his campaign pledge to bring government closer to the people by pushing more services to the county level. He also said he will focus on longstanding issues such as education funding, prison overcrowding and protecting the water supply. He also recently concluded a trade mission to China that was intended to promote California businesses in that country while encouraging Chinese investment here. Last week, Brown projected California's general fund revenue to be about needed to remain with the truck not just in case of fire calls, but for medical emergencies because it holds the department's lifesaving equipment. Bennett then went for a touch of humor and noted how his department spends less on fuel than the police department. Police Chief Paul Nanfito countered that his department has more vehicles. Schmid eventually turned his attention to the Public Works Department and a series of expenditures totaling $480 for a television and DVD player. $97 billion for the fiscal year that starts in July, but the Legislature's nonpartisan budget analyst predicted the state will take in $3.2 billion more in tax revenue. Brown dismissed the discrepancy on Wednesday, saying it only accounts for roughly 1 percent of the general fund. He said there are larger differences in revenue projections most years, so ''that's not money you can spend.'' Also Wednesday, Moody's issued a statement encouraging lawmakers to use the governor's more conservative revenue forecast. The rating service said California ''has frequently used overly optimistic revenue projections in its budget, resulting in mid-year budgetary shortfalls that needed to be solved using triggered spending cuts or mid-year legislated spending cuts.'' 7A Public Works Director Bruce Henz said the purchase was a replacement used for training videos and for workers to view footage taken from cameras placed inside pipes. Henz said his employees seemed to be enjoying the purchase. Schmid muttered, "I bet." Schmid motioned for the warrant list to be approved and it was, unanimously. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. ters. The state projects that it saves more than $80 million annually over what it would cost to hire employees to do the same work, the AP article said. Officials had feared the program would be endangered by the state law, which was enacted in response to federal court orders to reduce prison crowding. The population of California's 33 adult prisons has dropped by about 25,000 inmates, but a sufficient number of camp-eligible inmates are still serving lengthy prison sentences that were imposed before the new law took effect, Simas said. Moreover, the department reevaluated its security classifications, so more lower-security offenders are now eligible for the camps. By 2015, a projected 7,000 additional inmates will be at the lower security level required of inmate firefighters. Inmates who are convicted of arson, violent or sexual crimes are ineligible. The state had more than 4,500 inmate firefighters when the prison population was at its peak in 2006. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 5272153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. The Associated Press contributed to this story. bike and a Lacota black knife display case with 11 miscellaneous collectible knifes. The estimated loss was $800. During a neighborhood check, one resident reported seeing a white man with a dark complexion, dark short hair, facial hair and a sleeveless shirt ride away from the residence on a bike about 6:30 p.m. May 12. • A residential burglary was reported Sunday on the 100 block of Ventura in Gerber. The victim said someone had entered her locked and alarmed residence sometime in the past few days. There were no signs of forced entry. Six gold rings with various precious stones were taken from a table inside the residence. The loss was estimated at $8,300. Nothing else was missing. Anyone with information on any of the cases is asked to call the Tehama County Sheriff's Department at 529-7900. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Republican wins Central Valley state Senate race SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a runoff. The special election victory by Hanford cherry farmer Andy Vidak will have no practical effect on the state Senate, where Democrats retain a supermajority, but serves as a psychological boost for the party after massive GOP losses in recent election cycles. Democratic Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez, of Bakersfield, and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, both ceded the 16th Senate District race to Vidak. Adding another Republican senator increases the hurdle for Democrats to reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass tax hikes and puts the GOP in a stronger position heading into next year's elections, said Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar. ''It's a big shot in the arm,'' he said. ''The district just sent a pretty conservative salvo across the bow of the Democratic majority.'' Vidak's campaign did not immediately return multiple telephone calls seeking comment. Democrats won twothirds majorities in both legislative chambers in November, the first time since 1933 that one party has held simultaneous supermajorities in the Assembly and Senate.