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Friday, June 28, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries ELVIN ERNST LAFRENTZ September 19, 1950 - June 5, 2013 Elvin Ernst LaFrentz born September 19, 1950 passed away peacefully June 5, 2013 from lung disease. He is survived by his wife, Sondra, four daughters, Marcie, Denise, Brittney, Nichole, two grandchildren, three sisters and two brothers. Elvin had a talent and passion for reworking furniture; spending more than forty years as an Upholster. Ten of these years were spent as a small business owner of an upholstery shop in Red Bluff. He loved to be outdoors, fishing and spending time with his family. He was a very loving and caring father, grandfather, husband, brother and friend with a silly sense of humor. He will be greatly missed but never forgotten. A celebration of his life will be held with family and friends. 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. Max Raymond Hurlburt Max Raymond Hurlburt died Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at his residence in Corning. He was 69. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, June 28, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Myron Dean Windsheimer Myron Dean Windsheimer died Thursday, June 27, 2013, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 74. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, June 28, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. BROWN (Continued from page 1A) public school students and those who have no health insurance or inadequate coverage. The budget for the coming fiscal year adopts a new funding formula for public schools that will send more money to districts with disadvantaged students. It also expands Medicaid so the health care program for lowincome residents could grow over the next few years to cover 9.8 million Californians, roughly a quarter of the state's population. Democratic lawmakers said the move will save lives, keep workers healthy and bring billions of dollars from the federal government into the state. California Secretary of Health and Human Services Diana Dooley said the Medicaid expansion was a piece of legislation that ''the president made possible but we have to make real in California.'' Republican lawmakers raised concerns about whether the state can afford the expansion over the long run, especially once the federal government reduces its commitment. It will pay 100 percent of the cost for the new enrollees initially, but that eventually will drop to 90 percent. Democrats included a provision in the legislation that allows for future lawmakers to reconsider the expansion if the federal government's share drops below 70 percent. The centerpiece of this year's budget is Brown's priority to reshape California's funding formula for K-12 schools as a way to help close the achievement gap for poor and minority students. The budget allocates $2.1 billion to begin moving the state to a new formula that gives proportionately more money to school districts with high levels of lowincome students, those with limited English proficiency and foster children. School districts also will get more control over how to spend state aid. Democrats say districts will be held accountable for how they spend the money, such as requiring them to create master plans to track the success of English learners. But Republican lawmakers have said the budget package lacks a requirement that the money be used on services and program that have proved effective. Overall, the budget boosts K-12 and community college funding to $55.3 billion. The governor's budget says that represents an increase of more than $8 billion over the 2011-12 fiscal year. The budget for the coming year also gives the University of California and California State University systems an additional $125 million each, while restoring $63 million to the state court system. Democratic lawmakers were able to restore some of the programs that were slashed during the recession for mental health treatment, health care for the poor and higher education — a move criticized by Republicans. ''We need to pay our existing bills before we make new spending commitments. That's just common sense,'' Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, said when Democrats passed the main budget bill two weeks ago. Brown made no line item vetoes in the general fund, the first time a governor has done that since 1982, when Brown did it during his previous time in the governor's office. However, he removed nearly two dozen appropriations as a way to reduce state mandates that could saddle the state with future obligations. Even after Brown signed the main budget bills, some details remained outstanding. Lawmakers were still tackling a few budget-related issues, including the governor's proposal to revamp a local economic development program known as enterprise zones. Assembly Speaker John Perez, who joined Brown and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg at the budget signing, said the spending plan reflects fiscal responsibility, policies to help the middle class and providing services for the needy. He championed a program in the budget that will provide scholarships to middle income Californians as a way to reduce the costs of higher education. Beginning in the 2014 academic year, California will establish a Middle Class Scholarship program that reduces student fees on a sliding scale based on income. MURDER (Continued from page 1A) borhood," Donnie's wife Lily Granfield said. When Granfield came outside the two men were on the front porch before turning toward his house with both men asking him to call 911, he said. It was his porch on which Forseth was found, Granfield said. "They were both in the military," Granfield said. "Chris called him his brother even though he wasn't. He'd pick him up from the bar or other places. He'd stay with him sometimes." Granfield said three children around the age of 10 were at the residence during the incident. "(Hougland) said it was self- defense," Granfield said. "He asked me to call 911 while he tried to stop the bleeding." Granfield said Hougland had told him that Forseth was dealing with a break-up and was suicidal, which is how he had ended up at the house. Red Bluff Police pulled in a former detective who had been promoted within the department to bring an additional person on-board for the investigation, Sanders said. "We believe they were friends and acquaintances, but we don't know how well acquainted," Sanders said. "All we know at this point is that some type of altercation occurred inside and ended up across the street. We know he was wounded before it came outside because there's blood inside, but we don't know if the altercation continued once they were outside." 7A The department is trying to piece together what happened from the evidence and talking with neighbors, he said. "Right now we have limited evidence, but the information we have leads us to believe we're not looking for other subjects," Sanders said. "At this point, there is no reason for the public to be worried about safety. We believe we have the person that is responsible." At this point, there is a lot of homework and research to be done, Sanders said. Anyone who has information on the incident is asked to contact Red Bluff Police at 527-3131. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. STATE BRIEFING Brown says he's worried about cost of transparency SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that he is committed to keeping government transparent but wants to do so without costing the state money. Brown made his first public comments about the California Public Records Act after lawmakers backtracked on a bill that would have made it optional, instead of mandatory, for local governments to comply with document requests. The Democratic governor, who pushed for the bill, was asked if he felt he had made a mistake. ''I don't know that I want to further fuel your fire there,'' he said during a news conference after signing the state budget. ''But I'm very strongly committed to open records. I'm also committed to localities shouldering their share of their burden, particularly one they have had for many, many decades.'' Coincidentally, his comment came the same day he deleted transparency language from the state budget. Brown eliminated a provision that would have required the Judicial Council, which administers the state court system, to adopt open meeting rules. Instead, the governor urged court administrators to provide ''greater public access'' to the judicial branch without using state funding. The change was contained among nearly two dozen appropriations he struck from the budget as a way to reduce mandates that could saddle the state with future spending obligations. Brown's finance director, Ana Matosantos, said the requirement for the Judicial Council was ''not warranted at this time.'' The governor on Thursday signed the main budget bill, AB110, ensuring the state has a spending plan in place for the new fiscal year starting next week. But lawmakers had to rework at least one budget-related bill following a media outcry. The Assembly and Senate passed SB71 to replace AB76, which would have loosened requirements on how local governments handle requests for public information. The changes were initially approved as part of the state budget to save millions of dollars in reimbursement payments to those agencies for complying with the Public Records Act. Brown has yet to sign SB71. Lawmakers also proposed a constitutional amendment, SCA3, in the wake of the public records backlash. The amendment would affirm the pub- DREAM (Continued from page 1A) prunes, she said. "I was always the orchardist and he was always the teacher," Anne said. "That was unusual then. Often I was the only woman at meetings about prunes with 105 men." The family found their place by asking the mail carrier about where to find places to rent and were able to get it for $125 a month, eventually buying the place when the owners got a divorce, she said. "We wanted to live in northern California somewhere where we could raise our kids in the country and it wouldn't be changing quickly," Annie said. The family moved to Los Molinos in 1976 when Ray Bianchi began a 31-year career at Los Molinos High School teaching agriculture, economics and woodshop and all five children were involved in the orchard while growing up, she said. "There's a balance when you raise children with an lic's right to inspect documents held by local governments and clarify that those agencies — not the state — should pay for making their records available. The amendment could save state government millions of dollars a year and is pending before the Senate. It needs two-thirds support from both houses before being placed on a statewide ballot next year. The California Newspaper Publishers Association, California Common Cause and the state chapter of the League of Women Voters support the amendment, saying it would clarify the right to access public documents already contained in the state constitution. California readies to rejoin gay marriage states SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Palm Springs Tourism Bureau was ready when the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California. Within an hour of the high court handing down its decision Wednesday, the bureau launched a wedding web site featuring photographs of same-sex couples and spotlighting the desert city's gay and lesbian resorts. ''We just saw this as a great opportunity. LGBT people planning to get married need a location, and Palm Springs is a favorite destination,'' Hillary Angel, a bureau spokeswoman, said. ''You can get married at Frank Sinatra's estate.'' The nation's most populous state was a trailblazer the last time it opened the door to gay marriages five years ago. Back then, California was only the second state —after Massachusetts— to do so, a position it lost when voters slammed the door shut after only a few months by amending the state constitution to outlaw same-sex unions. Now, as state officials prepare once again to issue marriage licenses on an equal opportunity basis, jewelers, hotels and event planners are playing catch-up up with a dozen other states and the District of Columbia. Couples, meanwhile, are making wedding plans against a political and social landscape that looks much different from the one that existed in 2008, when an estimated 18,000 couples hurried to tie the knot before the ban's passage and spent months not knowing if their unions would be invalidated. ''Today is the first day of an entirely new reality for same-sex couples and for LGBT people in this state,'' said National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell, who orchard," Anne said. "We wanted them to love being around us and the orchard so we balanced work and play by making games out of it like races with prunes on a spoon or having the kids act like monkeys while shaking the tree to get walnuts." Her daughters are very artistic and creative and even created a T-shirt with the characters to sell out of the store, Anne said. "We are the home of Wonder Walnut and Super Prune," Anne said. While walnut growing has been a family thing for a while, it wasn't until 2010 that they began selling them, she said. "Becky came home from college and told me 'our walnuts are better than any I've had in my life' and that we should sell them," Anne said. The business started out with visits to local farmers markets and eventually ended in people coming to their house in between when they would run out, Katie said. On any given day one of several beloved farm-friendly vehicles inherited from Ray Bianchi's family is got married during the brief window that year. ''No one else in the history of this nation faced the sort of uncertainty, the stutter step of forward progress and backward sliding to the extent the LGBT community has, and now, at least in California, we are done.'' Opponents of same-sex marriage have said they are exploring various legal options for making one last-ditch effort to stop it. The Supreme Court's 5-4 opinion legalized gay marriage in California on a technicality, holding that the sponsors of the voter-backed amendment, known as Proposition 8, lacked authority to represent the state after Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris refused to defend the measure in court. Lawyers for the ban's backers still have 24 days to ask the Supreme Court to rehear their case. Most legal analysts think Proposition 8 supporters have slim-to-zero chance of preventing same-sex marriages from resuming, which would happen once the Supreme Court's ruling becomes official and frees the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to remove the hold it placed on such weddings while the ban's constitutionality was being debated. Without a firm date, the Los Angeles County clerk's office told same-sex couples who called for information Thursday that it could not process their marriage license applications or take their appointments for marriage ceremonies, office spokeswoman Regina Ip said. ''We have received calls, but the response has been that couples can only make an appointment for a ceremony if they have a license, but we won't be issuing licenses to same-sex couples until the (appeals) court lifts the stay,'' Ip said. The Williams Institute, a think tank based at UCLA that estimated the number of couples who wed in 2008, is predicting that 37,000 of the 100,000 same-sex couples now living together in California will get married over the next three years, creating $492 million in new business from wedding spending and tourism dollars from out-ofstate guests and another $46 million in tax and fee revenue for the state. Brad Sears, the institute's executive director, said the assumptions on which he derived those estimates, which came from the early experience of Massachusetts, may be conservative. Not only is California known as ''a destination wedding state in its own right,'' but gay Californians making wedding plans now have the luxury of time and a sense of security that did not exist five years ago, which could persuade couples to spend more on their celebrations, Sears said. ''There is no dark cloud hanging over their marriages'' he said. parked out by the entrance to their shop, alerting visitors its time to turn. Their family was the only one to go into ranching, Anne said. The vehicles were not running so for Ray's 60th birthday Anne had the vehicles, including a 1951 Willys Jeep, two older pickups affectionately known as Happy and Big Blue, and her favorite, a Jeep named Guido, restored, she said. Plans are to have lavender by the house and to plant a vineyard out front of the house for making their own wine in addition to having walnuts, Anne said. "We have a few improvements planned for down the road, but thought this would be a good time to kick things off," Katie said. The public is invited to enjoy appetizers and entertainment, including pianist Laurie Dana. "After college, I asked the kids if they wanted to be involved if I planted a new orchard and they all said yes," Anne said. "Now they all get to follow their dreams. The girls with designing and being creative and the boys in the orchard." ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.co m. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb.