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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries LARRY KENNETH SAUNDERS December 1, 1943 - July 4, 2013 Larry Kenneth Saunders was born December 1, 1943 to Kenneth and Elizabeth Saunders in Bishop, CA. He passed into eternal life on July 4, 2013 in Yreka, CA after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Larry is survived by his wife of 40 years, Sharon, his beloved daughter Charity, son-in-law Stephen, grandchildren Wren, 9, Garrison, 6, and his namesake, Lara, 7 weeks. He is also survived by 'the son I never had' Lance Bickford and his family, his mother Elizabeth Saunders, mother-in-law Vivian Crader, nephews Brad Saunders, Jeff Grossen and Sean Davis, nieces Stacy Harrison, Cara Bibee, Heide Enos, Heather Davis, Heath Havlick, Jeri Sue Barnett, and their families and sisters-in-law Sandy EilerTrost and Susan Winters. Larry's greatest desires, in the last months of his life, were to meet his new granddaughter Lara and to see Alaska. The family is grateful that God granted him those wishes. Larry loved life, and above all, his family. His daughter Charity was truly 'the apple of his eye'. He loved to cook, hunt, fish, work on old cars and his old Victorian home as well as trips with the Serendipity Corvette Club. He was able to travel to all fifty states, Canada and Mexico. He taught his great niece Morgan to drive his 1976 Corvette and held her responsible for many whiplashes. Larry enjoyed working in the lumber industry and driving truck for Aggressive, but his passion was working with people affected by mental disease. Larry co-owned a residential treatment facility with his wife and enjoyed the many years they worked there. His compassion was unfailing; his goal was to help improve the quality of life for anyone he could assist-he never passed a street person without opening his wallet. The family is comforted knowing Larry was a born-again Christian, has left pain and suffering behind, and now resides with his Heavenly Father, his dad Ken, sister Helen and father-in-law Frank. Services will be held at Girdner Funeral Chapel in Yreka, CA on Thursday, July 11th at 11:00am. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Enloe Oncology Lymphedema Clinic at 251 Cohasset Road #105, Chico, CA 95926 Attn: Karen Fleming WILLIAM FLOYD HUFFMAN JR. William Floyd Huffman Jr., 68, passed away peacefully with his family at his side on Friday, June 21, 2013. Formally of Butler and Ford City, PA. Bill made his home in Los Molinos, CA for the past 21 years. Beloved husband of Juanita for 26 years, loving father of Brenda Zangas (Dan), Billy Dean Huffman (Connie), Tanya Haynes, Shawn Huffman (Sherry), Jamie Huffman, Ronald Davidson, Patty Zabicki, Raymond Groves, Chuck Groves, Laura Crane (Steve); son of Clyda and the late Willima F. Huffman Sr.; brother of Richard Huffman (Victoria), Neil Huffman (Raylene). Brother-in-law, Dusty Gonzales (Larry), Arlene Wilson, Jane Weir, Rosanne Murray (Jimmy), and the late Donald Alberts; grandfather to 28 grandchildren and great-grandfather to one great-grand-daughter. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Bill graduated from Mars Senior High School in 1962. From 1962 to 1968 he served in the U.S. Army with the 1st Battalion, 73rd Armored division, in both the United States and Korea, attaining the rank of Specialist 5. Bill loved his pet Chihuahuas, Skeeter, Minnie, Cricket and Cocoa. He was a avid motorcyclist and enjoyed riding his motorcycle with his dog, Skeeter. He was a member of the Tehama Shooters and Clear Creek Trap Range, spending many hours trapshooting and ammunition reloading. Bill could often be found working on home improvement projects at his home, he loved tending to his beautiful cactus garden. Bill's life will be celebrated at a memorial service to be held at the Northern California Veteran's Cemetery, Igo, CA, on September 6, 2013 at 2:00pm. Interment will follow the service. His family is deeply grateful to everyone at St. Elizabeth Hospice, Red Bluff, CA, for their care, compassion and support during Bill's illness. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations be made to St. Elizabeth's Hospice, 2550 SR. Mary Columba Dr., Red Bluff, CA 96080. Condolonces may be sent to the family by visiting www.welchfh.com METH Continued from page 1A Knight's K-9 partner, Streiter, alerted to the vehicle. The interior was subsequently search and 179.3 grams of methamphetamine were located in a backpack. Ammunition and scales were found in the vehicle. Fackrell was arrested for felon in possession of ammunition, possession of methamphetamine, transportation of a controlled substance and possession for sales of a controlled substance. Bail was $130,000. Fackrell was on Post Release Community Supervision through the Tehama County Probation Department. — Rich Greene Thousands of Calif inmates refuse meals in protest SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than 30,000 of the 133,000 inmates in California prisons have refused at least one meal in support of inmates held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, corrections officials said Tuesday. The meals were refused on Monday as inmates announced what they said would be the third extended hunger strike in two years protesting conditions for the more than 4,500 gang members, gang associates and serious offenders held in the security housing units. The isolation units are at Pelican Bay near the Oregon border and at three other maximum security prisons around the state. Inmates refused breakfast at two-thirds of the state's 33 prisons and at all four private prisons that hold California inmates in other states, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. She did not have updated information about how many inmates skipped subsequent meals. About 2,300 inmates statewide also refused to go to their jobs or classes on Monday. The initial day of the protest eclipsed two hunger strikes two years ago. Nearly 12,000 inmates missed at least some meals in October 2011, and nearly 7,000 declined meals in July 2011, though officials said most began eating again after several days. Pelican Bay inmates said through advocacy groups that the protest began after talks with prison officials broke down last month over inmates' demands that the department end long-term solitary confinement than can last for decades. SEEKS Continued from page 1A That election produced three of the current councilmembers, the reelection of Wayne Brown and the first terms for Rob Schmid and Daniele Jackson. Daily News: How concerned are you about the city of Red Bluff's General Fund reserve? What steps can be taken to strengthen the reserve? Stevens: Really the only way that we can come up with resources that can be dispersed is either through the growth of business, jobs, people's ability to make purchases of things and the sales tax resources that come in. There's a limited ability with grant funding especially now as everything starts to shrink. New grants are hard to come by and old grants are shrinking in their amount. When I was on City Council before we had a grant administrator. The grant administrator was responsible for the followup work and the compliance work of any grant opportunities. The salary of that was subsidized by the grants that provided monies within them for administration. So essentially if we got the grant then we had some funding to administer it and between all the various grants it covered a good share of what the cost of that grant writer and administrator was. At one point it became a combination between the grant administrator becoming the city manager and then the city manager of course took care of all that in addition to the city manager's duties — much the same way as it today that the city attorney that the city manager and of course wearing the personnel manager's hat is today with the current city manager. It's really important because we have such a limited ability in terms of shifting money around from various areas to other areas where we may need them. Where one area might look stronger than another and you'd say 'well why can't we just take money from there and put it over here' it's not as easy to do. There are so many strict regulations in government as to how you can apply funds. That's the reason I think we have to do everything we can. My concern is we need to be back on track, working closely with the cities in our county, which of course this is Red Bluff and Corning. We need to be working closely with the county and we need to be closely working with the Chamber of Commerce. Our Chamber of Commerce, I can tell you from a history of attending their very first beginnings of Good Morning Red Bluff, they've improved dramatically. There's much better attendance, there's more enthusiasm by local business operators and there seems in general the support of the chamber is far better than it was in my early years on City Council. That's a good thing. I give Dave (Gowan) a lot of credit for helping turn that around. The city's a partner in that. The things we do with the chamber and the cities and the county we can do things smarter, we can do things better, but we have to be willing to partner. Various programs require that. We do the partnership on the landfill, we do the partnership on the Community Center. But we need to look and investigate what other areas can we do things together that make the quality of life better for the citizens of Red Bluff and the county as a whole since we are the county seat as a city it's our responsibility to kind of let the wave flow out and yes we're there primarily to do the best work we can for Red Bluff, but the people that live in Red Bluff and shop here are limited. It's our county residents that are supporting our local merchants and supporting our events and activities. We have to be mindful that we need those people to want to come to Red Bluff. We have to give them the reason why they should want to come to Red Bluff and spend their money, because without them a lot of the things we are able to do even with limited resources wouldn't happen if they weren't shopping here. DN: What should the City Council be prioritizing that it currently isn't? Stevens: I think in terms of what it needs to be looking at is we need to try to find ways to do more street rehabilitation. For instance at the north end of Washington Street we have a lot of businesses that have taken over Victorians, we have some bed and breakfasts and we have some other buildings that are being used for offices — dental and lawyers and different things. Some of the street paving needs to be taken care of. Of course the initial grant funding and all that allowed us to do parts of the side streets to Walnut only went so far. We have to figure out some of these other streets to rehabilitate them so that the people that have businesses and homes and things in that area have good usable, passable streets. You get down to Crittenden and some of that area and there's some real needs there. I was once told early in my first turn on City Council that when a business wants to locate in a community one of the first things they do in scouting a community if they're going to bring in a sizable amount of people to it – ask people to move there, live and work there, if they can't hire enough people locally to do the job — is they look at the environmental issues of the city. Is it a good family community? Are their parks system up to snuff? Do they offer good shopping in the community? Are there activities? Do the people in the community pull together? They look at all these amenities to see if it's going to be a good fit not only for their company but if it's going to be worthwhile and the people will want to relocate with their company to that community because it has something to offer. If we don't pay attention to our parks and our Community Center and our pool and our streets and our public service, police and fire, if we start to back away from any of that in terms of support then we are jeopardizing the opinion of anyone who wants to bring a business in. That's why I said it's imperative that we have a strong working relationship with the chamber. It doesn't mean we give away the candy store and we give everything to the chamber, but we need to support them as much as we can as an investment for the future of our community. DN: When you ran for City Council in 2010 you told the Daily News among your achievements during your first tenure were helping split Building and Planning into separate departments and creating the Human Resources Department. Now it seems the council is going in the opposite direction consolidating everything. What are your feelings on that? Stevens: You have to be fluid in making decisions and what worked in the past may not be working now. There was a time when our employment opportunities had grown to where HR was becoming very difficult to do. With rules and regulations, state and federally, you have to make sure you're up on all stuff so you're in compliance and there's a lot of work involved. It used to be handled initially by Cheryl Smith and the finance director at the time and then the city manager kind of looked in on things. Well it grew out of that possibility. It grew into a need to have someone in that position, which is why we created the department. As far as splitting building and planning, there were more permits being pulled and there was more things that were being done. We started hitting the financial crunch and people were not buying as many homes, businesses were not expanding, things weren't happening, renovations weren't really getting done as much. I can understand in a way to save money that they want to be fiscally responsible. If that's where we need to go that's where we need to go. We can't always say that one size fits all, all the time, we have to be fluid enough to make changes to keep us fiscally responsible. DN: There's a sign welcoming people to the city that reads "Red Bluff: A Great Place to Live." Is that sign still true? Stevens: I do. I do. We have challenges no question. We have people that come from outside our 7A community inside our community to do bad things whether it's graffiti or other forms of crime. You have a certain element of gangs, you have unfortunately a homeless situation that's really difficult to deal with. People see those things, but for the most part you come to Red Bluff people know who their neighbors are. If you're in a larger community that's not necessarily the case. You come here and someone needs something in the community due to something having happened to their family or somebody everyone steps up the plate and rally around that person's problem and helps them. That's demonstrating a sense of community, so yeah it is a great place to live. DN: Why should you be appointed to the City Council? Stevens: I have worked with Wayne Brown in previous years when I was on the council. I worked with Clay Parker on numerous activities when he was on the (Tehama County) Sheriff's Department and even when he was a Red Bluff police officer. As far as Daniele (Jackson), I've known Daniele from her involvement with the pool and activities and things she's done at the Community Center. I know that this seat is a seat of five people, not of one person. I know that it takes three voices to do something. I'm aware of the value and counsel of the city manager and department heads. I have the ability to listen. I have the ability to understand situations. I'm not afraid to ask questions. I can hit the ground running. I just need to be brought up to speed because obviously its been seven years since I've been there. The numbers have changed. The policies and procedures have perhaps changed a little. Essentially the difference between then and now is we're doing everything with a tighter belt. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynew s.com. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say column circa 1942) I see where the English have appointed their General Wavell as Supreme Commander of our forces opposing Japan. I hope he has a higher regard for our men then was shared by the English generals in World War I. They should have considered a Russian general as they are the ones that have proven their ability to fight. *** It seems difficult for the average American to be alarmed over the war. In a vague way they believe that our country will win without inconvenience to them. We have been used to extravagances and non-essentials which we consider a part of our high standard of living. This war is not going to be won by people in this frame of mind. We are not going to win and still keep our high standard of living. It is going to be one or the other. One of things necessary in the near future will be the discontinuance of unnecessary driving of automobiles. This will save gasoline, rubber and lots of lives. Also the discontinuances of the wasting of food and the rationing of more important food stuffs, educating women to do many of the defense jobs in order to release men to fight, making clothes go as far as possible to conserve material for uniforms… and saving as much as possible of our income and investing it in defense bonds. I don't want to be under the domination of an Oriental government. I'm going right out now and buy some defense bonds. How about you? *** In San Francisco Monday morning I watched thousands going to work. Nobody was smiling or even looking pleasant. I wonder why it is so hard to smile or be friendly when one first gets up. I imagine a lot of family arguments start at the breakfast table when people are grouchy. In Berkeley a soldier driving a jeep turned a corner where a girl was standing waiting for the traffic light to change. She did not flirt or wave but she did smile and he smiled at her and I bet it made him happy for hours. Next time you see a soldier or sailor, smile or speak to him. He may be hundreds of miles from home and it may mean a lot to him. *** The government has issued information on how to prepare for a possible bomb attack. For protection from bomb fragments you will need either 30 inches of earth, 12 inches of brick wall, one and half inches of steel plate or one foot of reinforced concrete. Your safest place is in the center of your home flat on the floor away from windows. *** The British appear to be running backward again, this time in the Singapore area. It may be because they have underestimated the fighting skills of the enemy. One hears the often stated boast of the British that one Englishman is the equivalent of 10 Japs. 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