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5A UnitedHealthcare to stop selling individual plans Wednesday, July 3, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries SACRAMENTO (AP) — A second health insurer has notified state regulators that it will stop selling individual policies in California. UnitedHealthcare says it will no longer offer individual insurance plans at the end of the year. It will focus instead on its core business of group plans for large and small employers. The insurer says ''it has become more difficult to administer these plans in a cost-effective way.'' It has less than 8,000 individual insurance customers in California. The announcement comes two weeks after Aetna Inc. said it also plans to exit California's individual insurance market. Both insurers avoided participating in the state exchange that is being established as part of the Affordable Care Act. Redding priest accused in molestation testifies HELEN MABEL CHEW July 14, 1924 - June 22, 2013 Helen Mabel Chew, age 88, passed away on Saturday, June 22, 2013 in Sacramento, CA. She was born on July 14, 1924 in Phoenix, AZ. Helen was preceded in death by her father S. Lung Yee and mother Mar Shee, brothers Tom Yee, George Yee and Jack Yee. She is survived by her beloved husband Joe Chew You of 48 years, daughter Diane Chew and granddaughter Jessica Casas. Helen worked for State of California, Water Resources, Northern District for 30 years and was a Treasure for CSEA Chapter 13 for 9 years. Among her many passions in life, Helen attended Community Baptist Church in Red Bluff on a regular basis, bowling, traveling, exercising, and spending time with her family. Helen was dearly loved by her family and friends, and will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of knowing her. Visitation will be held on Saturday, July 6, 2013 at Harry A. Nauman & Son 4041 Freeport Blvd, in Sacramento, CA from 4-8 p.m. Funeral Service will be at 1:30 p.m. at Harry A. Nauman & Son on Sunday, followed by reception at 3:30pm on July 7, 2013 at Rice Bowl Restaurant 2378 Florin Road, Sacramento CA. Graveside service will be held on July 8, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at Oak Hill Cemetery in Red Bluff, CA. 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. Avajean Frances Branson Avajean Frances Branson died July 2, 2013 at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 58. Red Bluff Simple Creations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, July 3, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Ruth Miriam Pitman Ruth Miriam Pitman died June 25, 2013 at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 83. Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel in Anderson is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, July 3, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. 4-H Continued from page 1A church. She has also attended multiple missions trips and leadership conferences, Severson said. "The California 4-H State Ambassador Program is a working honor that provides 4-H members expanded opportunities to serve the University of California 4-H Youth Development Program," Severson said. "The position is one of the highest service opportunities and recognition attainable in the 4-H program. They are youth who have excelled in all areas of leadership and community service who are selected to serve the program in roles that promote leadership through education and service." Spangler will be the first delegate under the new title, previously California 4-H Diamond Star. That position was last held in 2000-2001 by Shannon Davis. It has also been held by Jaime Martin, 1997-1998; John Andrew Johnson, 19801981; Merna Jean Borror, 1954; and William Borror, 1950. For more information on the Tehama County program, call 527-3101 or visit: cetehama.ucanr.edu. For information on the state program, visit www.ca4h.org. The California 4-H club is preparing to celebrate its 100th year in 2013. It will be holding a state gather, 2013 Friends and Family Night, from 59 p.m. July 25 at UC Davis as part of the State Leadership Conference. More information on the centennial is available a t : http://www.ca4h.org/Programs/Conferences/SLC/. Tehama County is a few years behind, having started in the early 1920s, but will be holding a county-wide celebration in recognition of the statewide-centennial, Severson said. The annual 4-H Open House, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Cone and Kimball Plaza in Red Bluff, will have centennial aspects added to it, she said. More information will be available soon on the open house centennial celebration at the Tehama County 4-H website. The Tehama County 4H office is looking for historical photos, addresses of alumni and short stories from the early days to present. Anyone interested in contributing to the celebration can call Severson at the office or send an email to slseverson@ucanr.edu. Suspicious deaths of cats probed in Yolo County WOODLAND (AP) — Authorities are investigating a rash of cat deaths at a Yolo County apartment complex in recent weeks. The Sacramento Bee reports a resident of Woodland reported Friday that a cat appeared to have been poisoned. The resident said at least five cats in the complex had suffered similar symptoms recently. A second resident told investigators that five kittens disappeared from his back patio. He said that in the past week, he had discovered at least five other dead kittens stacked next to a trash bin. A week earlier animal control officers said they had recovered a cat from the same apartment complex that had died of poisoning from anti-freeze. Police said anyone involved in animal cruelty and poisoning could face felony charges. SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Northern California priest charged with molesting a young girl has spoken for the first time since his 2011 arrest. The Sacramento Bee reports 33-year-old Rev. Uriel Ojeda testified Monday at a hearing to determine if prosecutors can use in trial the statements he allegedly made to a church secretary and a private investigator. Ojeda said it never crossed his mind that his discussions about his LIQUOR Continued from page 1A business getting a license was either public convenience or necessity, in which case a license would be issued. "This fits in with the downtown branding project as long as we make sure they abide by the rules," Mayor Gary Strack said. The council listened to a presentation by Job Training Center Chief Executive Officer and Tehama County Branding Project Leadership Team member Kathy Sarmiento. In her presentation, an update of the product development plan, which focuses on delivering on the promises in Tehama County's brands, Sarmiento encouraged a development of downtown businesses open after 6 p.m. at least four alleged misconduct might be turned over to police. No details emerged on exactly what Ojeda said to the two men. Defense attorneys want the statements excluded on grounds they were a confidential cler- times a week. Approving the license was a necessity, Councilwoman Darlene Dickison said. "If we don't approve the license, this business won't exist," Dickison said. Councilman Dave Linnet, who previously opposed a similar license to a truck stop, was in favor of the license. He was against the truckstop having one because he didn't want the truckers to have easy access to beer, Linnet said. This license is different because it is at the same location as Miner's Inn, which had a license forever, he said. "I don't see this as issuing a new license," Linnet said. This would make two sports bars in that area, Councilman Tony Cardenas said before asking whether the license could be revoked if there providers and negotiating with the software provider. It is anticipated that after Continued from page 1A three years of planning, the system will be availservice data has already able to community membeen entered, remaining bers sometime by the end major steps include con- of the year. tracting with the Sacramento call center, negotiAlso last week, Susan ating with telephone Wilson was appointed to HELP gy-penitent communication under the state Evidence Code. Ojeda — former parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mercy parish in Redding — is facing seven counts of molesting a girl under the age of 14. were problems. "It's difficult to do, but it can be done," Stoufer said. "Typically, issues are handed over to ABC because they're more regulatory than the city." Grounds for revoking the license would be if the business did not meet the rules ABC set forth in issuing the permit, such as someone taking alcohol off-site for consumption or selling to minors, City Attorney Jody Burgess said. Rules for ABC licenses include following all ABC regulations, complying with the city sign regulations and complying with local agencies such as occupancy requirements enforced by the building or fire departments, Stoufer said. The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. the 2-1-1California governing board. Wilson, 2-11Tehama's major consultant in helping to get the local program established, will now be in a position to keep local efforts in the loop with statewide planning. they could not over emphasize the importance of and appreciation for the local support that has been afforded to Tehama Together and United Way in reaching these critical milestones in bringing this much needed service to Local organizers said Tehama County. agencies from 12 to 10, putting Government Operations Agency departments with related functions will centralize contracting, technoltogether. ogy and human resource functions. BROWN Continued from page 1A changes will streamline government and could save money in the long run. He appointed three new secretaries last week as the state prepared to reduce the number of government For example, the reconfigured Transportation Agency now will include the Department of Motor Vehicles, California Highway Patrol, CalTrans and the California High-Speed Rail Authority. A new Businesses and professionals licensed by the state will be overseen by the new Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, which consolidates two current agencies. California to move inmates over illness SACRAMENTO (AP) — State corrections officials said Tuesday they will comply with a federal court order to move thousands of inmates out of two Central Valley prisons where an airborne fungus has led to widespread illnesses. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation does not yet know where it will put the 2,600 displaced inmates as it juggles the population within California's 33 adult prisons, department spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman told The Associated Press. Officials could seek an extension if they cannot completely comply within the 90-day deadline set last week by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in San Francisco. Officials had said they might appeal Henderson's order but then decided to comply. The judge's order requires corrections officials to transfer most black, Filipino and medically at-risk inmates from Avenal and Pleasant Valley state prisons because they are more vulnerable to health problems from Valley fever, a fungal infection that is not contagious and originates in the soil of the San Joaquin Valley. About half of the infections produce no symptoms, while most of the rest can bring mild to severe flu-like symptoms. In a few cases, the infection can spread from the lungs to the brain, bones, skin or eyes, causing blindness, skin abscesses, lung failure and occasionally death. The two prisons, which house a combined 8,100 inmates, are about 10 miles apart and 175 miles southeast of San Francisco. ''Transferring thousands of inmates is an extremely complex process. It will take time,'' Hoffman said. ''We must identify where to send individual inmates and which inmates from other facilities can be transferred into Avenal and Pleasant Valley.'' Transferring less vulnerable inmates into the two prisons could create an additional problem if those inmates object. ''This is a hard question. We are concerned about the risk to other prisoners,'' said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office and lead attorney in the lawsuit involving Valley fever. ''The question is, 'How great is the risk?''' THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say column circa 1941) The Dies Committee can never unearth anything whether communism or some other ism that will undermine our government like the disgust that comes over all of us at the continued exposure of graft in public offices. We are led to wonder if a democracy is the best form of government when we read about the corruption that goes on continually. Democratic or Republican administration, state or county, it goes on everywhere. Looking for a cause, we find that very few men with enough money of their own to pay the cost of being elected would have the job at any price. The result is that someone has to put up the campaign expenses for each candidate, and the odds are about one to three that they will be backing the successful candidate. To advance money on such odds means that it is a gamble and the man advancing it expects to have his investment repaid many times over by illegitimate grafting. Candidates cannot come to men like you and me for this money. They must go to some interest that is contra to public welfare, whether it be gambling, horse race betting or some other interest group that wishes special concessions which they cannot get through regular legal channels. Let's take our own Tehama County Supervisors for example. We have been blessed with some unselfish men who practically donate their entire time to the welfare of the County. We have, and will continue to have, others who are not so public minded. We pay our Supervisors janitorial type salaries and expect them to live on a scale befitting the office of an important county. It just does not work out. The one cure to do away with grafting is to pay enough salaries for all officials so that the office will attract efficient men*, and grafting will become unnecessary. (* Father may have used the term "men" meaning both genders. Then again, back in the 30's and 40's, elected office such as that of Supervisor was a man's game.) *** We read a lot about the fast pace of today's living and I am inclined believe it is true. Most of us are spending our lives fighting time, a battle we can't win. We get up in the morning and drive as fast as we can whether there is need for it or not. We eat in a hurry and hurry back to work. We hurry through the days and years and do not get half the enjoyment of living like we should. I believe that hurrying is not the best way to make money. Those who have migrated from Europe are used to a slower pace. Many work methodically at one pace and live the same way. Many are successful and have as much pleasure of living as those who run around at a high rate of speed. (Not that father ever slowed down for a moment) Dave Minch 1900-1964 The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514