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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries FERN LOVETTE HERRINGTON August 28, 1932 - July 5, 2013 Fern Lovette Herrington, 80, passed away July 5, 2013, in Redding, CA. Fern was born to Gerald (Cap) and Florence Whitlock. Fern married George Herrington April 7, 1951. Fern worked as a caretaker. Fern attended the 1st Baptist Church, Corning, CA. Fern enjoyed being a friend and loved caring for others. Fern was preceeded in death by husband George. Fern is survived by siblings, Dovetta (Dovey) Stocks (Dale), Kelly Ross (Lou) Gerald Herrington, wife Beverly Theys; Joni Davis (Dave Headley); Sister, Diane Kane. 11 grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren. Services will be held July 27, 10:30 am at PaskentaFlournoy Cemetery. Donations may be made to the charity of your choice or 1st Baptist Church of Corning, CA FEE Continued from page 1A in house. The Agency had proposed it could run the landfill for a tipping fee of $48.14. That price included the construction of a new scalehouse. In March when the board chose Waste Connections over the in-house operation, the company proposed a tipping fee of $51.47. The Agency's legal team said the fee escalated to $54.26 through the bewildered homeowners water into the hillsides,'' began to wonder if their Green said. land might be haunted. He said even the ownContinued from page 1A Eventually, tests ers of homes not damaged As home after home revealed leaks ''dumping by the sinking earth are sank into the hillside, substantial amounts of suffering damages CLAIM negotiation process with Waste Connections. The Agency will not be required to construct a new scalehouse, but must operate a second scale by Aug. 1, 2015. Neither city, county nor agency staff offered a recommendation on the contract, insisting the board needed to approach the tipping increase as a policy decision and decide whether removing liability was worth the cost. Red Bluff Mayor Wayne Brown said it was the first agenda item he remembered seeing that because they will be unable to sell their property. Gonzalez has been jailed since authorities say he was found hiding in a car on the downtown campus of the University of San Francisco in the days after the shooting. He told campus officers he was terrified someone was after him. For the first time since his arrest, Gonzalez appeared in court Monday in a dark blue suit and tie instead of a jail jumpsuit. He entered his plea after the judge accepted Villagrana's plea deal. ''Definitely not guilty,'' Gonzalez told the judge. David Houston, Gonzalez's lead attorney, said Villagrana's guilty plea was an ''appropriate development.'' ''We're not pleading, because our client is innocent,'' Houston told The Associated Press. Karl Hall, Washoe County's chief deputy district attorney, declined to comment in detail on Villagrana's plea agreement but told the AP, ''I wouldn't have done it if I didn't think it was fair.'' Villagrana was accompanying Pettigrew at an annual motorcycle rally in Reno-Sparks that attracted both gangs to the hotel-casino where the melee broke out. Prosecutors said they have security video of Villagrana shooting a Vagos member in the leg. David Chesnoff, Villagrana's lead lawyer, told reporters after the judge accepted the plea deal that Villagrana was ''sorry things turned out the way they did.'' ''He wasn't intending having these events occur,'' Chesnoff told KRNV-TV. ''He lost his best friend, and that's a big deal to him.'' Another Vagos member who police blamed for starting the fight that led to the killing pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder. Sentencing is set for Aug. 22 for Gary Rudnick, former vice president of the Vagos' chapter in Los Angeles. In court Monday, 65 five jurors were called only to be told they had to fill out an additional questionnaire regarding their background and opinions on certain things. Additional jurors later went through the same procedure and were told to return Tuesday when the lawyers would get a chance to question them in detail. The judge earlier granted the prosecution's request to keep secret the names and other information about all potential jurors, referring to them only by their juror number. Hall said the extra precaution was needed because the suspects allegedly are members of ''outlaw motorcycle gangs consisting of thousands of members worldwide.'' ''The potential for placing a juror or witness in danger is great,'' he said. White satin moth infestation concerns NV, UT, CA RENO, Nev. (AP) — Agriculture and forestry experts in Nevada, Utah and California are concerned about a potential infestation of a small white moth that can destroy entire groves of aspen, cottonwood and willow trees, especially in mountainous areas. The white satin moth numbers are up 100-fold this year in some parts of Nevada, and no one is sure why. The good news is experts from the three states who studied the moths near Lake Tahoe this month found signs their natural predators are making a rebound and should help keep the invaders in check. A cousin of the infamous gypsy moth that has seriously damaged forests in the northeastern U.S. and Upper Midwest, the white satin moth is found across most of the northern half of North America. It likely arrived from Europe in the 1920s, scientists say. Previous outbreaks were reported in the early 2000s in Wyoming and Colorado, but the moth had been flying largely under the radar in the Great Basin region until recently, according to Jeff Knight, state entomologist at the Nevada Department of Agriculture. ''I've been doing this 35 years and I was here when the first one was found (in Nevada) and I've never seen it as an issue before,'' Knight said Wednesday ''It has been more of a curiosity when somebody brings in a nice big white moth into your lab for identification,'' he told The Associated Press. ''It's probably been held in check by natural predators and parasites out there, so with this infestation in the past year or so, things have gotten out of balance.'' ''I think everybody is kind of concerned now in this area,'' Knight said. The estimated 300 acres of trees impacted in Nevada a year ago has grown to tens of thousands of acres in the most recent surveys, state officials said. Increased damage also has been reported in eastern California and the Sierra. ''There's an explosion of them,'' said Gail Durham, forestry special- ist with the Nevada Division of Forestry. ''We are seeing 100fold what we saw last year,'' she told KRNV-TV in Reno earlier this week. ''We really want people to watch for them. If you see the eggs, the cocoons or the moths please call and report it so we can continue to map where they are showing up.'' Knight said it's not clear whether such things as drought, wildfires, climate change or any other number of factors have contributed to the infestation. ''You could probably point to all those things to get into an argument. But we don't know enough about the population dynamics of this, at least from what I can find,'' he said. The biggest populations have been reported around Lake Tahoe, but also around Fallon and Battle Mountain and as far east as Elko, Knight said. A group of entomologists and forest experts from Utah, California and Nevada toured the Spooner State Park above Tahoe's east shore recently and collect samples of caterpillars, cocoons, moths and the known parasites that generally keep them in check, including wasps and certain types of flies. The leaf-eating moths have caused noticeable damage there where lower leaves are laden with nesting larvae and leaves in the tree tops are lacy and eaten. ''Their much preferred host is the aspen. That's what they really like to feed on and that is where you see their populations develop. But they also attack other poplars. They defoliate the leaves,'' Knight said. The scientists were encouraged by their findings in the Tahoe surveys, he said. ''We looked at stuff yesterday and were seeing parasites actually in the field. You usually have to collect them in bunches of stuff and then root them out,'' Knight said Wednesday. ''So that means their populations are probably pretty healthy, and that is a good thing,'' he said. ''They may not be able to take care of it this year or next spring. But at least we know they are functioning.'' CA man gets prison for tainted enhancement pills LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for illegally importing thousands of counterfeit male-enhancement pills that contained hazardous lead levels. Prosecutors said Monday that Shem Michahdavid Weissman intended to sell the Chinese-made pills online. The 24-year-old Weissman pleaded guilty in February to one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods after admitting he ordered thousands of the tablets from a Chinabased manufacturer and had them shipped them to a Los Angeles mailbox. Authorities seized more than 22,000 pills. Testing found the pills contained an ingredient in prescription erectile dysfunction medication but also SANDY Continued from page 1A ''We're just trying to get these folks reasonable compensation,'' he said. Hells Angel member pleads guilty in Reno shooting RENO, Nev. (AP) — A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang accepted a plea deal Monday, just as he and a member of a rival gang were about to go on trial for murder charges stemming from a 2011 shootout at a northern Nevada casino. Cesar Villagrana, 38, of Gilroy, Calif., pleaded guilty in Washoe District Court to one count of battery with a deadly weapon and one count of challenge to fight with a deadly weapon resulting in death. He faces up to 15 years in prison and a $15,000 fine at sentencing, which Judge Connie Steinheimer set for Sept. 4. Villagrana originally faced up to life in prison on second-degree murder and other charges for shooting a Vagos member in the leg. The surprise plea deal postponed court proceedings, but jury selection began Monday afternoon for Ernesto Gonzalez of San Francisco, the lone suspected gunman still facing charges in the Sept. 23, 2011, shooting on a busy casino floor at John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks. Gonzalez, 55, former president of the Vagos' Nicaraguan chapter, is accused of killing Jeffrey ''Jethro'' Pettigrew, who was the president of the Hells Angels' chapter in San Jose, Calif. He faces murder, conspiracy and other charges. did not include a staff recommendation and that made him nervous. He voted for the contract. City Councilmen Clay Parker and Rob Schmid pushed the board to approve the contract, both stating staff had done what had been asked of them during negotiations. Schmid said if operations were done in-house, some governmental body somewhere else could control their decisions and that the increase was a few pennies. Bundy took issue with both of those points, say- more than 140 percent of allowable lead levels. 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 humid summer months, but there has been an outpouring of volunteer support for residents whose lives were forever changed by Sandy," according to the release. The trip will be Engler's fourth with International Relief Teams, a San Diego-based nonprofit organization that assists victims of disaster, pover- 7A ing the county would have better control if it operated the landfill itself. He also said the increase was more than just a few cents and his constituents deserved better than paying $6 more for a tipping fee. Midway through the 2hour meeting Bundy moved to have staff renegotiate the in-house proposal, but the motion failed 5-4. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. ty and neglect, according to the release. In 2010, Engler traveled to Haiti as part of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team 6 after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake left the country in shambles. In 2011, Engler traveled to Mississippi to assist with damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The IRT plans to send relief teams to New Jersey every other month for at least two years, according to the release. FEDORA Continued from page 1A Osborne confessed to the seven armed robberies and admitted that he had robbed a Bank of the West branch in Carson City. This case was the product of an investigation by the FBI with the assistance from police departments in Grass Valley, South Lake Tahoe, Gridley, and Paradise; the Sheriff's Offices in Placer and Sacramento Counties; and the Carson City Sheriff's Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Rodriguez prosecuted the case. Gore returns to Nevada for Lake Tahoe Summit CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who orchestrated the first presidential summit focused on Lake Tahoe's environmental challenges, on Monday announced that former Vice President Al Gore will return to Tahoe's shores for the 17th annual forum highlighting the Sierra's crown jewel. ''The thing that I thought would be a photo-op ... turned out to be a two-day story around the world,'' Reid, reflecting on the first presidential forum, said in a conference call with reporters. Gore and President Bill Clinton came to the alpine lake 1997 to host the forum focusing on the environmental challenges within the Tahoe Basin. It capped weeks of visits by cabinet members, town hall meetings and gatherings of scientific researchers, academics, transportation officials and businesses leaders who brainstormed on the importance of Lake Tahoe and how its survival was tied to myriad factors — from development and snow runoff to forest health and air pollution. Since then, more than $1.55 billion in combined funding from private, federal, state and local government sources have financed long-rage environmental improvement programs within the Tahoe Basin. Much of the federal money has come from land sales in southern Nevada, as authorized under the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act. Under that law, $300 million has been funneled specifically to the Tahoe Basin for environmental projects. But federal funds dried up in recent years as Nevada's economy tanked and the housing market imploded under the weight of the Great Recession. Reid said he hopes the auction last week of Bureau of Land Management property that netted $21.4 million is an indication that the southern Nevada economy and an interest by homebuilders is starting to turn around. He cautioned future land sales won't bring ''huge amounts of money'' for a long time — not like the boom years in the Las Vegas Valley when such sales fetched prices of more than $600,000 per acre. ''But there is some money coming in and we'll try to get as much money for the lake as we can,'' Reid said. The theme of this year's summit is ''A Clean Lake Legacy: Preserving Tahoe and the Environment for Future Generations.'' It will be held Aug. 19 at Sand Harbor State Park on the east shore of Tahoe. California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to attend. Republican Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has been invited, the senator said. Tensions between the two states have eased with the passage by the 2013 Nevada Legislature of a bill repealing Nevada's threat to leave the decades-old Tahoe Compact, which was enacted by Congress in 1969 to protect the lake's fragile ecology and famously clear waters. Companion legislation is pending in the California Legislature. Nevada blamed California for favoring strict environmental controls that critics said were used to block development and cripple the economy of a state and region hard hit by the recession. Both states have since repledged to work together and acknowledge that economic factors are to be considered when land use decisions are made. The agreement also gives local government agencies more oversight to approve smaller projects within their boundaries.