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Tuesday, June 11, 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. Barbara Meeker Barbara Meeker, of Red Bluff, died Monday, June 10, 2013, in Chico. She was 91. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Thieves swipe kayaks from RB driveway A 54-year-old man visiting Red Bluff from southern California turned his back for 30 minutes and had a pair of kayaks stolen from his cousin's driveway Sunday morning. Later that night Tehama County Sheriff's deputies were able to locate the stolen kayaks and make a trio of arrests. Phil Zamudio, of Victorville, told deputies he was visiting his cousin in Red Bluff when he removed two kayaks from his pickup and placed them in his cousin's driveway on Sunny Ridge Drive around 6 a.m. Sunday. He then headed into the residence for a bit. When he opened the garage door at 6:30 a.m. the two kayaks, valued at $1,700, were missing. Shortly before 10 p.m. deputies made contact with three Red Bluff men Baker Road near Jack's Wholesale Meats as a result of the theft investigation. The three men were arrested for grand theft and the kayaks found and returned to Zamudio. Jake Dana Evans, 21, Jamie Dale Howell, 27 and Anthony Terance Dain Novach, 23 were each booked at Tehama County Jail on $15,000 bail. • A 22-year-old man reported someone in the past week broke into a Cottonwood residence he was in the process of moving out of while he was out of the area. The suspect pried open a rear sliding door to gain entry to the residence on the 17000 block of Auction Yard Road. Someone had also entered the garage through a side window. A DVD player, 20 DVDs, Sony Playstation, stereo system, speakers, HP laptop, Motorola Droid, $100 in change and other items totaling about $2,000 were taken. The case is under investigation. Klamath Tribes and feds exercise water rights GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Tens of thousands of acres in Oregon's drought-stricken Klamath Basin will have to go without irrigation water this summer after the Klamath Tribes and the federal government exercised newly confirmed powers that put the tribes in the driver's seat over water use — a move that area ranchers have said could have disastrous effects. Klamath Tribes Chairman Don Gentry and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor said Monday they were making what is known as a ''call'' on their water rights for rivers flowing into Upper Klamath Lake in Southern Oregon. The tribes are maintaining river flows for fish, while the bureau is using its water for the Klamath Reclamation Project, a federal irrigation project covering 225,000 acres along the Oregon-California border south of Klamath Falls. Wildlife refuges fed from the project are an important nesting and feeding area for migrating waterfowl. ''Our water rights are essential to the protection of our treaty resources,'' Gentry said in a statement. ''I think everyone knows the tribes are committed to protecting our treaty fisheries, and this is an important step in that direction.'' The new powers were made possible by a March ruling of an administrative law judge confirming the tribes have the oldest water rights in the upper basin — and therefore have first say over controlling it. The calls authorized the local water master, who works for the Oregon Department of Water Resources, to start checking river flows and telling ranchers with junior rights to turn off pumps and shut headgates on diversion dams until enough water remains in the rivers to meet the bureau and tribes' rights. That process is likely to take several weeks. The action plays into a continuing political battle over removing three hydroelectric dams owned by Pacificorp on the Klamath River to allow salmon to return to the upper basin to spawn. Ranchers in the upper basin are split between those who support a companion settlement that would have eased water tensions, and those who bet on the legal process to give them senior water rights. Klamath County Commissioner Tom Mallams, himself an irrigator, has warned there could be violence. Cattle rancher Roger Nicholson has said shutting off irrigation would be an economic disaster, because ranchers will have nowhere else to feed their herds. Gentry and Connor both said the calls highlighted the value of negotiated settlements that would make it unnecessary to go through the water rights process. The upper basin covers 138,000 acres around the communities of Fort Klamath, Chiloquin and Sprague River in the area of the tribes' former reservation, most of it irrigated pasture that feeds more than 100,000 head of cattle. Though the federal government took away the reservation in the 1950s, courts have determined the tribes retained their hunting, fishing and water rights, dating to time immemorial. The bureau's rights date to 1905, when the Klamath Reclamation Project started drawing water from the lake. The refuge water rights date between 1928 and 1964. The bureau has estimated the combined calls would require irrigation shutoffs to 58,000 acres. The region is struggling with drought after a dry winter left little snow in the mountains, which feeds the basin's rivers and the lake. The tribes are using their water to maintain flows in the Wood, Williamson, Sprague and Sycan rivers for fish. They include endangered suckers held sacred by the tribes, redband tout, and ultimately salmon, if dams on the Klamath River are removed. Even with the water resulting from the call, the bureau will have only two-thirds of the water it needs from the Klamath Project, leading to some cutbacks there. The actions reverse the roles from 2001, when the bureau had to shut off irrigation to most of the project to protect fish, but cattle ranchers in the upper basin still had water to irrigate their pastures. 7A Man crashes bike while fleeing CalFire A 42-year-old Cottonwood man was arrested Sunday on McCann Road on suspicion of DUI after a motorcycle crash at 9:14 p.m. following a short pursuit by CalFire law enforcement. Alan Weaver was driving east on McCann Road, south of Broadhurst Road, at a high rate of speed with a CalFire law enforcement officer behind. The officer had tried stopping Weaver for a traffic violation on Bowman Road, but Weaver took off, turning onto McCann Road, where he lost control of the 2001 Harley Davidson, causing it to roll over. Weaver, who was transported by California Highway Patrol to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for minor injuries and medical clearance, was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of failure to yield and suspicion of DUI. — Julie Zeeb Cops use stun gun in grocery story fracas Red Bluff police officers used a stun gun late Saturday night on a 43year-old man who was creating a disturbance at Food Maxx. Officers responded to the grocery store around 11:15 p.m. for the report of a disturbance, a Red Bluff Police Department press release said. Employees said Lance Elton Ward was inside the business with- out any apparent purpose and had been asked to leave. Ward became angry and verbally abusive, although employees were able to get Ward outside the business before calling the police, according to the release. Officers arrived and attempted to detain Ward in the parking lot for the purpose of their investigation. The release said Ward refused all commands and warnings given by officers and attempted to walk away. When one officer placed his hands on Ward to gain his compliance, Ward attempted to hit the officer, the release said. A second officer deployed a Taser as Ward continued to resist arrest. The Taser was activated three times before officers were able to get Ward into handcuffs. Ward suffered minor injuries during the incident and was evaluated at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital before being booked into the Tehama County Jail. He was charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest and battery on a police officer. Woman arrested in stabbing over breakup A 25-year-old Corning woman was arrested Monday afternoon on Solano Street after reportedly stabbing her boyfriend during an argument and injuring his teenage brother. Corning Police responded at 12:48 p.m. Monday to the 1900 block of Solano Street where Angelina Castaneda had been arguing with her 22-year-old FIRES Continued from page 1A residence on Kansas Avenue off of 99E in the Dairyville area. It was a small electrical fire in the kitchen that had been caused by a lightning strike, Colburn said. There was also some smoke damage. The first two spot fires occurred on Altube Avenue, off 99W just south of Red Bluff. Both were contained by 8:52 a.m., Colburn said. A two-acre grass fire flared up on Riverside Avenue near Rawson Road. It was contained by 9:05 a.m., he said. The pumphouse fire in boyfriend over their separation. During the argument, Castaneda reportedly stabbed the boyfriend in his left bicep and again on his shoulder, according to a Corning Police press release. The boyfriend's 16-year-old brother tried to intervene and received a cut on his right ankle. The injuries received were not life-threatening, according to the the 20400 block of Stoll Road was out upon arrival of the first fire unit at 9 a.m. The final vegetation fire reported about 9:45 a.m. burned a 20- by 20foot spot. Nothing further was available at this time. There were two larger outages out of the Gerber substation and one in the Corning substation that impacted an area from Corning to Gerber, said Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswoman Jana Morris. The Corning substation outage, which has been repaired, affected 84 customers. Close to 300 customers in Tehama County were without power between 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with 185 coming from an outage in the Gerber substation that has been repaired, but began about 9:42 a.m. as a result of a wire down. The cause is still under investigation, Morris said. "Considering the weather pattern in the north valley, weather played a role in each of the outages," Morris said. As of 5 p.m. Monday, there were 115 customers without power throughout the north valley, which includes Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Colusa and Shasta counties, Morris said. Most of the Tehama County residences have been repaired with the largest remaining outage being 17 customers on Reno Avenue, west of requests. Fire Chief Jon Bennett estimates switching to in-house dispatching would cost the city between Continued from page 1A $250,000 and $300,000 yearly. June 2014. • The council waived reservation A year ago the Red Bluff Fire and banner fees totaling $161 for Department responded to a city Blues for the Pool for its annual record 3,468 emergency service wine tasting event, scheduled for 7 COLLEGE ORLAND Continued from page 1A the SUV, the man he had given a ride to was now seated on the passenger side. Embrey said one of the men in the SUV asked him if he had some money for them, he told them he didn't. Embrey said the man on the passenger's side then leaned across the front of the SUV and there was a loud bang. Not realizing he had been shot, Embrey ran back to his truck, drove back to his home and ran inside. Embrey said he had his wife dial 9-1-1 as he loaded a shotgun. Embrey did not see which way the suspects went. Embrey was stabilized at the seen by medical and Orland Fire Department personnel and was then taken to a local area hospital by air ambulance. He is release. Castaneda was arrested without further incident and taken to Tehama County Jail where she was booked on the charges of assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. No bail had been set at the time of the release. — Julie Zeeb Highway 99W, in Gerber, Morris said. Initially there were 114 customers without power from the Reno Avenue outage. PG&E personnel were on scene working to solve the outage and those customers were expected to have their power restored by midnight, Morris said. There was another outage, aside from the 114 customer outage, at the Gerber substation that affected 185 people. It was repaired by 3:30 p.m. Monday. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. p.m. Saturday. The event is a fundriaser for city pool improvements. • The council authorized the closure of City Hall for Friday, July 5. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. in stable to fair condition. He is expected to recover from the injury. Sheriff's detectives went to the hospital to interview Embrey, who described the man at his door as a younger Hispanic man, black hair, well kept, no facial hair, wearing red shorts, unknown colored shirt, black tennis shoes and an unknown colored cap on backwards. Tattoos were visible low on the suspect's neck. The second suspect could only be described as a Hispanic man. The SUV color was described as burgundy; make and model are unknown. While robbery is a possibility, a motive for the shooting is yet to be established. Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to call the Glenn County Sheriff's Office at 934-6431. You may remain anonymous. Legislative leader says state budget deal is near SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature's Democratic leaders are close to a state budget deal that maintains fiscal balance, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and other lawmakers said Monday ahead of a budget committee vote on many of the outstanding issues. Steinberg emerged from a meeting with Brown and Assembly Speaker John Perez at the state Capitol and said no significant sticking points remain just days ahead of the budget's legislative deadline. ''It's almost there, but not yet,'' he said. He described the talks as positive and productive, and said he expected no problem hitting the Saturday deadline for the Legislature to send its budget for the coming fiscal year to the governor's office. ''We are well on our way. A few details left,'' Steinberg said. One of the main points of contention had been which revenue estimates to adopt — the one the Democratic governor used in proposing his $96.4 billion revised budget in May or the one from the independent Legislative Analyst's Office, which was $3.2 billion higher. Lawmakers settled on Brown's more conservative projection, said Sen. Mark Leno, who is co-chairman of the Joint Legislative Budget Conference Committee. He said Democrats and the governor would revisit some of the lawmakers' spending priorities in the new year, when he hoped higher tax revenue would materialize. ''It doesn't close the door on anything,'' Leno said of the lower revenue estimates as he opened the committee's hear- ing Monday. The committee was expected to meet through the night and vote on key aspects of the budget plan. Democratic lawmakers want to restore dental care for the poor, welfare assistance and other programs cut during the recession. They also had been negotiating with Brown over his proposal to change the education funding formula. Lawmakers have until the end of the week for a full vote to finish out their version of California's annual spending plan for the governor to sign. Unlike in recent years, the budget plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 contains a surplus. That has emboldened Democrats to try to restore past cuts at the same time Brown is trying to keep a lid on spending. The governor has resisted using the higher revenue projection, saying it relied too much on volatile capital gains.