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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries 7A FIRE Continued from page 1A MARK D. RILEY workers to the Red Bluff apartments to meet with affected residents and as of 1 p.m. Tuesday had given assistance with clothing and medication for residents of three DOUGLAS STEWART McCANDLESS apartments out of four that Douglas Stewart McCandless Resident of Branson, MO had been damaged by Son of Lenora (Lee) Donnel died on May 6th, 2013, the day after his 51st birthday in Branson, MO where he lived smoke and fire, Kiltz said. Of the four units, one the past four years near his daughters and grandchildren. He is survived by his mother Lee, daughters Heather and had major damage and the Brittany, and grandchildren Zachary, Evan, and Aubree. remaining had minor His brother Michael predeceased him. Doug attended smoke damage. All resiShasta College where he received his AA degree. Burial dents did have a place to occurred on May 15, 2013 in Saratoga, CA. stay, but were assisted with food and clothes, Kiltz said. For information on donating to or volunteering with Red Cross visit redcross.org. About 3:30 p.m. Monday 1,900 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers lost power due to the fires, which damaged three poles, spokesman Paul Moreno said. Most of the BONNIE SUTTER-WILSON power was restored by 4 Bonnie Sutter-Wilson - 75, succumbed to kidney cancer May p.m. with more restored 29th at her home, while surrounded by her family. Living in Red by 5:05 p.m. Monday. Bluff since 1971, she waitressed at Denny's for 37 years. Bonnie Early Tuesday morn8/1/1959 - 5/18/2013 Son, husband, brother, grandfather and more. Loved, respected and now missed eternally. Memorial service June 15, 2013 at 10:00 am, Bethel Assembly of God in Red Bluff. Online remembrances at www.greenvalleymortuary.com is survived by her husband Robert Wilson, children Steven Cook of Arkansas, Della Sharpe of Arizona, Rick Fimea of Red Bluff, sister Jimmie Leon of Granite Bay, five grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren and best friend Clifford Wilson of Red Bluff. Per her request, there will be no services. Donations may be made in her memory to the American Cancer Society. 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. John Clifton Cramp John Clifton Cramp, of Red Bluff, died Saturday, May 25, 2013, in Red Bluff. He was 29. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Tommy Ray Dalton Tommy Ray Dalton, of Corning, died Thursday, May 30, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. He was 45. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Nicholas Joseph Prather Nicholas Joseph Prather died Monday, June 3, 2013, at his residence in Corning. He was 64. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Rosemarie Smith Rosemarie Smith, of Red Bluff, died Sunday, June 2, 2013, in Red Bluff. She was 73. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, June 5, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Fire burned right up Bureau Monday. ing, the National Weather Service issued a severe weather warning regarding very hot weather arriving in interior Northern California later this week. Strong high pressure will be building across the area, including Red Bluff, which will result in record SOLAR Continued from page 1A and agreed to pay fire protection development impact fees. Only Supervisor Steve Chamblin voted against the project. He said the county had no way to recover its public safety costs through the project and did not want to subsidize a private business. Supervisor Burt Bundy led the voice of support for the project. As a Williamson Act landowner himself he said he has great respect for those properties, but believed the county would benefit from more productive orchard land and substantial condi- FEE Continued from page 1A The Police Grant Funds were sent to Tehama County in care of Red Bluff Police, who serve as Continued from page 1A gently used shoes you would like to donate, you can drop them off at the shelter during adoption hours, which are noon to 3 p.m. Friday; and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Other appointment times are available be Medi-Cal patients, she said, a figure that would drop to three or four under the cuts. Her office already turns away at least two Medi-Cal patients each day. ''I can only take so many, and then I gotta say, sorry, I gotta keep my lights on,'' Haskins said. The 10 percent rate reduction for Medi-Cal providers was adopted two years ago to deal with the state deficit. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved the cut, but a court battle prevented it from going into effect in June 2011. The state prevailed in a federal appeals court ruling issued last month. Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown will soon have the authority to begin implementing the cuts retroactively. Sharon Spurgeon, CEO and administrator for Coalinga Regional Medical Center, said in an interview during Tuesday's rally that the center would owe in excess of $5 million if the state enacts retroactive cuts. The cost would force the facility, located about 70 miles southwest of Fresno, to shut down. ''If this is not rescinded, we won't be in operation,'' Spurgeon said. H.D. Palmer, the governor's finance spokesman, said Tuesday that the state will save $459 million in the fiscal year that starts July 1. He said the state will only be able to balance its budget this year by continuing past spending reductions. ''We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past and commit the state to an ongoing higher level of spending than the state can sustain,'' Palmer said. The Assembly and Senate have not proposed restoring the 10 percent provider rate cut in their versions of the new state budget. The Senate is pushing to restore an earlier cut to provide adult dental care to Medi-Cal recipients. A bill to address the cuts did advance from the Assembly, but only after the restoration was limited to hospital-based skilled nursing facilities. The state has and will continue to monitor access for Medi-Cal recipients, said Norman Williams, a spokesman for the state Department of Health Care Services. ''It will help ensure that the rate reductions will not unacceptably impact member access, and that if problems occur, we will quickly address them,'' Williams said in a statement. Besides doctors, the coalition urging restorations includes the California Hospital Association, SEIU-UHW, American Medical Response, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, California Association of Physicians Groups, California Dental Association, California Primary Care Association, Dignity Health, Health Net, Kaiser Permanente and Molina Healthcare. elderly and small children limit their exposure to the heat. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. gation system installed in June or July 2014 with the tree planting to follow. Several nearby residents of the proposal spoke against the project during public hearings that began April 23 and were continued through Tuesday. There concerns ranged from decreasing property values resulting from declining aesthetics to not aligning with Williamson Act compatibility. The solar array will cost around $2.5 million to install and be leased though a 20-year contract. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. fund the purchase of a 2013-2014 budget discusTehama Interagency Drug sions, he said. ——— Enforcement (TIDE) Task Julie Zeeb can be Force vehicle with the extra money, Brewer said. reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or Remaining Prop. 30 jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. funds will be decided com. Follow her on Twitter upon at the time of the @DN_Zeeb. by calling the shelter. The Corning Finance Department collects used printer ink cartridges for Second Chance, which then turns them in for cash. SHARES cards are another way Second Chance receives funds. The cards are free for the asking. Use the card at participating grocery stores including FoodMax, Save More Supermarkets, Lucky's and Smart Foods. Medi-Cal cuts will limit health access SACRAMENTO (AP) — Health care providers rallying at the Capitol on Tuesday warned that a Central Valley medical center could shut down and doctors throughout California could stop accepting Medicaid patients if a state funding cut is not reversed. Thousands of people representing doctors, hospitals and unionized health care workers filled the Capitol grounds to rally against a 10 percent reduction in the amount the state pays for Medicaid reimbursements. The reduction would jeopardize care for the low-income patients who depend on the program, known as Medi-Cal, according to the California Medical Association, one of the leaders of the ''We Care for California'' coalition. The association says ongoing cuts have left doctors with little option but to stop taking qualified patients because the reimbursements do not meet the cost of overhead and supplies to treat them. Without restorations, Dr. Ruth Haskins, an OBGYN in the Sacramento suburb of Folsom, said she'll have to cut back on the number of Medi-Cal patients she accepts. Haskins takes on 18 to 20 women due to give birth nine months later. Reimbursement rates mean no more than five of those can high temperatures between 100 and 115 on Friday and Saturday, which is about 15-25 degrees hotter than normal, the release said. The National Weather Service advised that care should be taken to ensure sensitive groups such as tions were in place for the project. Bundy said he still preferred solar projects to not be placed on Williamson Act land, but found no problem with farmers finding ways to supplement their income. He said Williamson Act land is used for other non-agricultural activities such as hunting and recreation as its benefit is to keep land open and enjoyed by everyone not just the landowners. Supervisor Sandra Bruce said she believed the project would bring improvement to the land. The land is classified as nonprime land. Under the mitigation terms a 12inch agricultural well will be drilled in the autumn with an orchard irri- the fiscal agent for disbursing the money. Corning's share of the allotted $91,500 for the county is about $45,750, City Manager John Brewer said. Corning has agreed to SHOES to the area next to the Tehama County Farm Every time you swipe your card, 3 percent goes to Second Chance. Other services offered by Second Chance Pet Rescue are low cost micro chipping, basic dog obedience classes and low cost spay and neuter. For information on the programs and fundraisers listed above, or if you would like to make a cash donation, call the shelter at 824-7054. THE PASSING PARADE Those familiar with the Minch Slaughter Plant, 2 miles west of Red Bluff, and in business from 1930 until 1975, might be interested in knowing that it nearly did not survive after my father's decision, for reasons of health, to sell the business and property back in 1953. Some old Daily News clippings brought back memories of that time. "Dave Minch Plans Meat Plant Sale. Negotiations for the disposal of the Minch Slaughter House in Red Bluff and the feedlot at Gerber are being considered, Dave Minch, owner, revealed today. 'Just what the future negotiations will result in I do not know' Minch said, 'but I do expect to make a definite deal before May 31st. Yesterday I notified my employees of my intentions. I thought they should be the first to know I might sell the business.' "Minch's decision to sell is reportedly influenced by health considerations. Minch announced at the same time that his plans to step out of the meat business did not in any way affect his other enterprises which include an electrical appliance store, a farm implement store and other firms bearing his name. He entered the slaughter and feed business in 1930 and since then has built it up to one of the largest operations of its kind in Northern California. " About that time, another DN story announced "the arrival of Lt. and Mrs. Robert D. Minch and seven-week-old daughter Melody Lisa from Whittier, Alaska to visit with the parents of Mr. and Mrs. David Minch and Mrs. John E. Miller. Lt. Minch who is a medical officer in the Air force (s.b. Army) has been stationed at the Whittier Air Field (Whittier had no airfield and was landlocked on the Gulf of Alaska with only train access through a tunnel to Anchorage 60 miles away)" Soon thereafter, I received a telegram from father reading, "Clack did not buy the plant. We open June 15th. We know this is good news to you. All is well. Love, Dad." And then a final DN article proclaiming "Minch Will Reopen Local Meat Plant on a Smaller Scale" which went on to say that he and his wife were planning a leisurely trip back east to visit relatives and so forth. All of this was true and the plant did open and operate at an ever larger scale another 22 years eventually achieving sales in excess of one million dollars a month. This came to a crashing halt, however, in December of 1975. But, while in operation, the business was a substantial factor in generating income for, at one time, nearly 150 employees…and revenue for the county. Dave Minch eventually succumbed to a fatal heart attack in September of 1964, but was able to enjoy the fruits of his labor for 11 more years after his idea to sell, and to take what years he had left at a more leisurely pace. Robert Minch The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514