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Friday, July 19, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries JENNIFER LYNETTE THOMAS March 2, 1970 - July 2, 2013 Jennifer passed away at her home in Red Bluff on the 2nd of July, 2013 due to health complications brought on by diabetes. She is loved, missed and survived by her fiance, Michael Mann, their 3 year old daughter Shayla, her son Allan, her two daughters Sarah and Summer; as well as her siblings Gwenie, Donny and Gary and their spouses. We all loved her deeply and will miss her terribly. Graveside services will be held at 10:00 am on July 20, 2013 at Saint Marys Cemetery on Hook Road in Red Bluff. Immediately following the services will be a memorial picnic at Cone Grove Park. The picnic will be a potluck event (so bring a dish if you can!). JUNE COX June 19, 1922 - July 9, 2013 June Cox passed away July 9, 2013, in Sacramento, California. She was born June 19, 1922, in Red Bluff to parents Julia and Henry Eaton. She is survived by sons Rick Cox and Dale (Marti) Cox, and daughter JoLynn Alexander and by grandchildren Jennifer Cox and Adam and Amber Alexander. She is also survived by sister Joye Whitten and brother Jack Eaton. Brothers Arnold and Duffy Eaton and sister Marie Hablitzel preceded her in death. She graduated from Sacramento State University in 1972 with a degree in Math. June was employed in Sacramento by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 pm, July 29, 2013, at Oak Hill Cemetery in Red Bluff. RUTH ROSLYN SORENSEN March 3, 1926 - July 11, 2013 Ruth Roslyn Sorensen passed away peacefully on July 11, 2013 in Red Bluff. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin on March 3, 1926 to Henry and Selma Lund. Ruth attended the University of Wisconsin for one year and eventually moved to San Francisco where she met George Lawrence Sorensen at Ocean Beach after he asked to borrow her bottle opener. They started dating and eventually married in Santa Cruz on June 12, 1948. After moving to San Francisco, Ruth worked for Burgermeister and later as a medical assistant in the Bay Area. She loved people, had many friends and loved to travel. Later in life, she took up painting and became very proficient after taking art classes. She dedicated her life to raising her children, the youngest of which had Down Syndrome. She became very involved in activities promoting the independence of children with disabilities and attended all the school activities for her son, Jeff. For the last nine years she lived at Tehama Estates, where she was well liked and involved in many activities. Survivors include her daughters, Christine Sorensen Fish (Garry) of Red Bluff, Sandra Sorensen (Richard) of Sun River, Oregon and son, Gary Sorensen of Truckee, California and four grandchildren. In addition, she leaves her sister, Dorothy Lund Greninger of Rohnert Park, brothers Don Lund and Jim Lund of Madison, Wisconsin and long time best friend Jane Birch of Red Bluff. Her husband, George Sorensen and son, Jeffrey Sorensen, predeceased her. Internment and a family memorial will take place at Sunset Memory Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin in early fall. 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. Anita Hibbs Anita Hibbs, of Red Bluff, died Thursday, July 18, 2013 at Mercy Medical Center. She was 70. 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However those thoughts changed when the committee received overwhelming public support and empathy since high winds canceled the originally scheduled show. "It's the first time I've seen such community spirit," one committee member said. Committee members said while reports gave credit to a small group of volunteers, it was truly a county-wide effort to bring fireworks back to Red Bluff with support coming from not just Red Bluff, but Corning, Los develop in your job search the better." She added that the job market is two-sided as well. One one side, she said, employers may feel they are not receiving the right talent. On the other, employers may feel they can't find the right person for a job. The job center facilitates that matchmaking process, Clark said, and the Elevations workshop is seen as the first phase of the job search The third is filling any gaps in process, which is assessing skills skills needed and finding out how to and determining value. The second, she said, is finding a get there, which could be through business that needs those skills. more education, or not. Continued from page 1A Prices bouncing back for California housing market SAN DIEGO (AP) — California's home prices are bouncing back at a record pace. The median price paid for a home in California last month soared to $352,000. That's up from $274,000 in June 2012 — a 28 percent increase and the biggest year-overyear jump since records began in the late 1980s, according to the latest figures from the real estate tracking firm DataQuick released Thursday. San Diego-based DataQuick attributed the rise in prices across the state to disappearing distress sales, an improving economy and still low mortgage rates. But many strapped homeowners — and investors — are still holding off, keeping inventory stubbornly low: Last month's sales statewide were about 17 percent below the average of 49,277 sales for all the months of May since 1988, when DataQuick's statistics begin. ''We're still bouncing off the bottom. This next part of the cycle should be fairly self-adjusting,'' said John Walsh, DataQuick president. An estimated 41,027 new and resale houses and condos sold statewide last month. That was down about 7 percent from 44,087 in May, and down more than 3 percent from 42,513 sales in June 2012, according to DataQuick. The drop is atypical for the California market, when housing sales tend to increase between those two months. ''As prices go up, more homes will come on the market. Price pressures will ease,'' Walsh said. ''The only element we don't know much about right now is how much pent-up demand there really is out there.'' June marked the 16th straight month in which the state's median sale price rose year-over-year. The median home price in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area reached $550,000 in June — the highest since December 2007. In Southern California, the median price surged to a five-year high, hitting $385,000. Of last month's sales, only 10 percent were properties that had been foreclosed on during the past year — the lowest level since August 2007. Short sales also dipped slightly. What: Elevations Career Transitions Workshop When: 8 a.m. to noon July 27 Where: Hampton Inn & Suites, 520 Adobe Rd., Red Bluff Cost: $40 Greg Stevens said. The visual flow of features was designed to draw visitors down the pages and deeper into the site to find focused content. The design allows for optional larger online display ad sizes, animation, video and broadcast advertisements and the ability to click-through to advertiser's own websites. Some of the features include: • Local news — both breaking news and stories from today's newspaper — displayed prominently at the top of the page. • Top navigation that shows the depth of the site's content when a reader "mouses over" each category — news, sports, entertainment, opinion and so forth. • The best of visual journalism, with photos and videos displayed and cataloged in a "Media Center." • A breaking news feed called "Happening Around Red Bluff" shares highlights from Twitter, YouTube, RSS feeds and north state news organizations and newsmakers. rate was 8.4 percent. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Summer hours for visiting are 12:30-3:30 pm Monday through Saturday. From 8 a.m. to noon starting Monday and running through through Friday the center is providing Life in the Pacific! summer camp. Learn about the creatures that live in Earth's largest ocean, which covers a third of the planet and is bigger than all of the world's continents combined. The camp is for 6to 12-year-olds. For more information, visit srdc.tehama.k12.ca.us or e-mail bhughe1@tehamaed.org or teacherwhitten@yahoo.com. enhance future fundraising efforts. The group is working towards getting involved with school programs as well as creating opportunities for Internet donations and expanding its public outreach. "The problem we had this year was everything was last minute," Nason said. Still, the group had raised enough funds for what would have been a 22-minute show. Nason said in the future the committee will work a makeup date into its contract with the pyrotechnician so the public will know immediately when a rescheduled event will be If you go Continued from page 1A Traffic stop leads LOOK to large pot bust A traffic stop resulted in 12.4 pounds of marijuana being found early Thursday morning. About 12:40 a.m. Tehama County Sheriff's deputies conducted a traffic stop on Highway 36W at North Main Street. A search of the vehicle found 11 bags of processed marijuana, weighing a total of 12.4 pounds. The driver, Natalie Mariana Morett, 25, San Diego, was arrested for possession of marijuana for sale and transportation of marijuana. She was booked in Tehama County Jail on $30,000 bail. green plan that has been in place since 2005. The new Walmart Supercenter to be built in Red Bluff next year will be engineered with the most recent energy efficient technologies thanks to the partnership between the company and the engineering department of UC Davis. The Discovery Center hopes to offer a program on Aug. 16 — sharing the plans for beautification of the East Sand Slough Fire Zone. The center is within the Mendocino National Forest's Red Bluff Recreation Area at 1000 Sale Lane. Molinos and everywhere in between. Committee founder Shannon Nason said there was a strong belief from some in the community that the fireworks group would not be successful, but despite not having an actual show the group was able to prove them wrong. Many committee members noted the number of people who had gathered and the uptick in local businesses as people chose to stay in Tehama County for the Fourth of July instead of attend shows in other communities. Nason said the positive encouragement received by the community and year of experience should JOB percent to 8.8 percent from May to June. It was 10.7 percent a year ago. Across the nation unemployment rose from 7.3 to 7.8 percent in the past month. A year ago the national unemployment 7A held. The group is considering purchasing event insurance to cover funds lost from a canceled event. The Tehama County Fireworks Committee meets the third Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. at Lariat Bowl in Red Bluff. The public is welcome to attend the meetings as well as join the committee. In August the committee will create and assign officer positions for 2014 fundraising efforts. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Clark said people may just need to get better at verbalizing what they have to offer an employer. It's the first time the Elevations workshop will be featured in the region, Clark said. In addition to the workshop, the center will be sponsoring what's called the "Job Club," a service that takes clients through resume revisions, cover letter writing, job searching and learning how to leads on a job, Clark said. To register for the Elevations workshop, visit the Tehama County Job Center at 718 Main St. in Red Bluff. The deadline for those seeking to apply for a full scholarship, which includes follow-up coaching, is July 22. The event is limited to 25 people. • An area in the top navigation called "Tools," where readers can manage their digital subscription, print subscription and sign up for cellphone and tablet news alerts. A new area at the bottom of each page called "The Bottom Line," featuring a mix of lighter national stories, including entertainment news, weird news and other quirky content from the Digital First Media network. The Daily News will be making small changes to the site as it fine tunes the redesign in coming days. "The new design is a vast improvement over the outdated previous site, but there have been some issues having to do with how stories are prioritized on the home page and we are working to resolve them," Editor Chip Thompson said. "After readers get used to the new look and feel, the site will be much easier to navigate." The Daily News has been serving Tehama County since 1885. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Napolitano approved as UC president SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California's governing board voted Thursday to appoint Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as the first female president of the 10-campus system despite objections to her record on immigration. Napolitano said her leadership experience as a cabinet secretary and governor of Arizona had prepared her for leading the university system with 240,000 students. ''Let me acknowledge that I am not a traditional candidate for this position,'' the 55-year-old Napolitano told the regents. ''I have not spent a career in academia. But that said, I have spent 20 years in public service advocating for it.'' Student regent Cinthia Flores was the only board member to cast a vote against Napolitano, echoing heated remarks from protesters inside and outside the meeting concerned about deportations and other elements of Napolitano's policies as head of homeland security. ''I grew up in an immigrant household, in an immigrant community,'' Flores told the regents. ''I can tell you the fear is real.'' Napolitano defended her track record on immigration, saying she has been an advocate for the federal 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 DREAM Act and immigration reform. She is expected to start the new job in late September and will make a base salary of $570,000, about $20,000 less than her predecessor. Chairman of the board of regents Bruce Varner said Napolitano was offered the same compensation as Mark Yudof, but her representatives said she would take the lower salary. Napolitano did not directly address why she decided to take less pay. 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