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Saturday, June 15, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries 9A Home spared in Penner Drive fire BRUCE C. HAWLEY 1917-2013 Long time Corning resident, passed away at his home, June 12, 2013, at 96 years old. Born in Guthrie Center, Iowa in 1917. Bruce was preceeded in death by his wife of 63 years, Margaret Hawley. His mother, father, 3 brothers and 1 granddaughter. Bruce is survived by 3 children; Jan Hawley, Oregon, Barbara Azevedo, Corning and Loren Hawley, Corning. 9 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Graveside services will be at Sunset Cemetery, Corning, June 17, 2013 at 10:00am. House burglarized while residents slept A Red Bluff residence on Homestead Drive was visited by a burglar sometime Thursday morning while the occupants slept. Red Bluff Police were sent to the residence Thursday afternoon where a woman reported the incident occurred sometime between 6 and 11 a.m. while she and another family member slept, Sgt. Michael Graham said. The suspect took a Play Station game console, a bicycle tire and a watch. Those items are valued at $700. The suspect is unknown at this time, Graham said. — Julie Zeeb COIF Continued from page 1A effort. Nevarez said he meant to have his hair cut at a recent Relay For Life event, but showed up too late take advantage of a free service being offered at the fundraiser. He was told he could make an appointment and for $20 have his hair cut. That's when he remembered Karen Groves, who always offers to do the haircut free of charge for those donating their hair. Nevarez said, while he wants to raise awareness for Locks For Love, he also thinks people like Groves who donate in their own way deserve recognition. Sometimes people are doing kind things without anyone even noticing. It's a belief Nevarez shares with his wife and Groves. "Everyone does every thing they can to help one another in this life," Groves said as she waited for Nevarez to show up in the waiting room of her home business. Groves said it's more common for women to donate their hair to Locks of Love, but she's found some men who do. She's always willing to cut the hair and mail it out herself so long as people make an appointment with her first. The charity accepts clean and dry ponytails or braids at least 10 inches long free of bleach. It uses the donations to make hair pieces for children who suffer from long-term medical hair loss. The charity's mission is to "return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children." After Groves lopped off his ponytail, Nevarez spoke about how cancer has affected his own life and the day his wife Christina and his own life changed. It was 1993, Christina's birthday, and the couple found out she had cancer. Kenn said the old him probably would have went out and thrown himself a BUDGET Continued from page 1A tion,'' said Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento. Republican lawmakers in both houses of the Legislature were less enthusiastic. They said the spending plan contained accounting gimmicks and failed to address some of the state's most pressing fiscal time bombs, including tens of billions of dollars in unfunded public employee pension liabilities. Republican Assemblyman Jeff Gorell also said it contains additional spending that will come back to hurt the state once the higher sales and income taxes passed by voters last fall expire. ''We will have to make cuts again,'' said Gorell, of Camarillo. ''With this budget, we have positioned ourselves perfectly to repeat the mistakes of the past.'' Thanks to a recent voterapproved initiative, Democrats could pass the budget on a simple majority vote and did not need Republicans' support. Democrats noted the budget maintains a roughly $1 billion reserve and will not restore all the programs cut during the recession. It also funnels significantly more money to K-12 schools and alters the education funding formula so more money will flow to districts with high levels of students who come from low-income families, who are not proficient in English or who are foster children. The funding shift was one of Brown's top legisla- Photo courtesy of Ross Palubeski The cause of a vegetation fire reported at 12:35 p.m. Thursday on Penner Drive, cross of Frantz Drive, in the Jellys Ferry area is under investigation. The fire burned one acre. It was contained at 1:01 p.m. There was no damage, but there was a $250,000 save to a nearby residence. pity party, getting drunk for a few days. But he didn't. "That's when she needed me the most," he said. Instead Kenn said he took strength in his faith as the pair have continued to do the past 20 years as Christina has successfully fought breast, lung and brain cancer. "Being with the Lord has given us the strength through this whole thing," Kenn said. Kenn has shown support for Christina in a variety of ways over the years, often times with his head. During Christina's first cancer treatment he shaved his own head, braving bitter winters in Washington at the time. Over the years he learned about Locks For Love and decided it was a worthy cause to help out. "I really appreciate it," Christina said. "If you don't have long hair as a guy you don't know how much maintenance you have to do." Kenn said he has been troubled with the amount of men he has seen over the years turn their backs on their own wives as they tive priorities of the year. The governor has said providing more money to help students who are disadvantaged is the right thing to do, and it was a part of the budget that drew rare bipartisan support in both houses. Republican Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, of Modesto, said the state's current method for distributing money to schools has created ''historic inequities'' in lowerincome areas such as the San Joaquin Valley. The governor's formula, she said, ''seeks to give all kids, regardless of their socio-economic background, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of their geography, equal access to a top-quality education so they can be successful in life.'' The budget also provides more money for welfare programs, mental health treatment, health care for the poor, the court system and higher education, although Democratic lawmakers said they did not get all the spending restorations they sought. That's because the leadership agreed to go with the governor's more conservative estimates of tax revenue in the coming fiscal year. Many rank-and-file Democrats favor a revenue estimate offered by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, which was $3.2 billion higher. They hope to reopen the budget after the first of the year if revenue does indeed come in ahead of the governor's estimate, but Brown has said he agreed to no such thing. Among the objections raised by Republicans and even some Democ- The staff at Red Bluff Simple Cremations would like to thank all of the families who trust us with their loved ones needs. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 battle the disease, especially when it ends up changing their physical appearance, such as breast cancer. The Nevarezes have shared as many laughs as they have tears through the changes Christina has seen, with stories that could be the plot of sitcoms. At times she's been told she only has a few months to live, but Christina still ends the telling of each one of her more humorous stories with a laugh. "Whether God takes me or leaves me here it's a win-win situation," she said. "Either I stay with (Kenn) or I go home to heaven." Kenn said the couple has seen big leaps in the field of cancer awareness and treatment since 1993, but hopes people don't forget it still looms out there, touching everyone's life. "We have to keep after it," he said. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. ratic lawmakers was a funding shift agreed to by the governor that transferred $500 million from an account funded by industry fines that is supposed to pay for the state's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The money instead is being lent to the state's general fund. Similar internal transfers from years past have left the state owing billions of dollars from its general fund to a variety of state accounts. Republicans said this budget makes too little headway in repaying that money and in addressing the state's longer-term debts, primarily pensions and retiree health care obligations. Republican Sen. Ted Gaines, of Rocklin, also noted that the state will be challenged to pay for the governor's high-speed rail and water-delivery projects, which have a combined price tag approaching $100 billion. Several Republicans noted that the budget was balanced largely because of temporary tax increases and that the Legislature will face the prospect of spending cuts once those expire. The quarter-cent sales tax increase will last for four years, while the income tax hike on those making more than $250,000 a year will last for seven. ''I can prophetically tell you (the budget) will grow into unsupportable spending down the road because it's built on the backs of high-income earners, and when you have that, you have a wildly fluctuating revenue source,'' said Sen. Bob Huff, a Republican from Diamond Bar. CHURCH Continued from page 1A gang and the graffiti was determined to be gang-related, Ferrin said. Dyer was arrested and a found to be in possession of concentrated cannabis. He was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of two counts of vandalizing a place of worship, participating in a criminal street gang and possession of concentrated cannabis. Bail was set at $130,000. Additional misdemeanor charges of vandalism are expected to be filed with the Tehama County District Attorney's Office, Graham said. Anyone who witnessed the vandalism or has information is encouraged to call Red Bluff Police 5273131. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. VOTE Continued from page 1A cy, according to the staff report. The Community Development Department was split in May 2003 into Planning and Building departments. Each department has a department head. The Planning Department head supervises only himself, while the Building Department head supervised two employees. Under the proposed merger there would be one department head — a Community Development Director. The estimated cost savings is $80,000. Customer service is expected to improve because customers would no longer need approval from both Building and Planning departments. All applications would be jointly reviewed. • Under a proposed agreement with Greenwaste of Tehama County, street sweeping would move from summer to winter, with streets being swept from mid-October to mid-May. Other services would remain as they are. • The council will vote whether to approve the 2013-2014 fiscal year budget, which begins with an estimated general fund balance of $663,826 and finishes with an estimated $377,093 balance. Highlights of the proposed budget include an estimated $80,000 savings from combining the Building and Planning departments, continued funding of the Red BluffTehama County Chamber of Commerce for $70,000 and Tehama Economic Development Corporation for $10,000, Tehama County Library for $1,500, elimination of funding for 3Core and a general fund savings of $3,500. The budget estimates that sales tax revenue will increase 4.5 percent to allow for a 4.5 percent increase in police and fire salaries. Management and mid-management employees are expected to see a 3 percent salary increase to bring them up to 2008 salary levels and implementation of a city-wide computer replacement program over a four-year period. • The Financed Department will be seeking approval for an additional $44,200 for composite leave for Senior Nutrition employees, $25,000 for comp leave for Fire employees and an additional $78,945 for Fire personnel reimbursement revenue and expense. These items will be decided as part of the consent agenda. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away.