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Friday, August 16, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries Gene and Betty Colgate This is the story of my parents.... Gene Clinton Colgate, was born August 19, 1926, in San Francisco, CA. Died January 9, 2001 in Red Bluff, CA. Betty Jean Moore, was born June 5,1928, in Konneewa, Oklahoma. Died May 23, 2013 in Red Bluff, CA. They were married on August 23, 1947, in Reno, Nevada They have 7 pretty terrific children. Joyce Louise Colgate- Catching Carol Jean Colgate - Harris Judy Ann Colgate - Danosky Donna Lynn Colgate - Barry Donald Gene Colgate Terry Lee Colgate - Shaw Thomas William Colgate 21 grandchildren and 24 Great grandchildren We have been so fortunate to have been able to grant our parents their lifetime wish. That we outlived them. Well.....Dad and Mom, we are doing another wish for you and that's to scatter your ashes together at Noyo Harbor, in Fort Bragg, CA. We will do this on your 66th wedding anniversary, August 23, 2013. We can only tell you when we meet again, how very much we love and miss you both, and how lucky we were to grow up in our crazy Colgate Family. 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. Sydney C. Barsanti Sydney C. Barsanti died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2013 at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 57. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Ronald Leaf Ronald Leaf died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 67. Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial Service in Redding is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Leone S. Slane Leone S. Slane died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 at her residence in Redding. She was 93. Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial Service in Redding is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Warrants fuel questions in teen's disappearance SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California man who abducted a teenage family friend and tortured her mother and 8year-old brother before killing them exchanged more than a dozen calls with the 16-year-old girl in the hours before the slaying. Exactly how James Lee DiMaggio tortured them or why he and Hannah Anderson exchanged about 13 calls wasn't immediately clear, but the new details in court papers fueled questions about how and why he targeted his best friend's family and fled with a girl who has said she felt uncomfortable around him. Firefighters found the body of Christina Anderson, 44, near a crowbar and what appeared to be blood next to her head. DiMaggio is believed to have shot and killed their family dog, found under a sleeping bag in the garage with blood close to its head. Investigators found 8-year-old Ethan's body as they sifted through rubble. DiMaggio ''tortured and killed'' the mother and son, San Diego County Sheriff's Detective Darren Perata wrote, offering no elaboration, in the warrants released Wednesday. Hannah was rescued days later in the Idaho wilderness, where authorities killed DiMaggio in a shootout. The warrants do not indicate the time, duration or content of the calls that DiMaggio and Hannah exchanged before she was picked up at cheerleading practice Aug. 4, hours before firefighters found DiMaggio's burning garage in Boulevard, a rural town 65 miles east of San Diego. Jan Caldwell, a San Diego County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman, said they may have been discussing pick-up times. DiMaggio was extraordinarily close to both children, driving Hannah to gymnastics meets and Ethan to football practice. The warrants say the former telecommunications technician took Hannah on multi-day trips, most recently to Malibu and Hollywood. Hannah acknowledged being uncomfortable around DiMaggio before the ordeal, saying on a social-media site earlier this week that he once told her that he was drawn to her. ''He said it was more like a family crush like he had feelings as in he wanted nothing bad to happen to me,'' she wrote on the ask.fm site. Hannah said she didn't tell her parents because DiMaggio was his father's best friend ''and I didn't want to ruin anything between them.'' She said she didn't learn that her mother and brother had died until authorities told her in the hospital after she was rescued. She said she cried all night. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore has been adamant that Hannah was an unwilling victim from start to finish. ''I can't make it any clearer,'' he said at a news conference Monday. Brett Anderson, Hannah's father, didn't respond to a text message Thursday. Caldwell said investigators may offer a more detailed account in the future but that some questions may never be answered. DiMaggio was shot at least five times in the head and chest, according to the Valley County, Idaho, coroner, who was unable to determine a precise number of gunshot wounds. His body was cremated Tuesday near Los Angeles. 9A Climate research targets Western wildfire smoke PASCO, Wash. (AP) — Researchers are flying over Western wildfires to sample the thick smoke they emit and study its role in cloud formation and climate. The data-gathering campaign is intended to help scientists flesh out one of the least understood areas of climate: the role of aerosols, or particles given off by wildfires, and how they evolve over time. Biomass burning, such as forest fires and agricultural fires when farmers burn off their farm fields, has long been known to release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, but less is known about how smoke plumes evolve over time and affect climate. The researchers already have flown over fires in Washington and Oregon. This week, they traveled to central Idaho, where a complex of fires has scorched some 400 square miles (256,000 acres) of grass and forest land. So far, they're finding that the thick, black smoke emitted when a wildfire is burning hottest tends to have a warm- ing effect on the climate, said Larry Kleinman, one of two principal investigators from Brookhaven National Laboratory. However, as winds push them away from the fire, the particles gather a coating of reflective organic matter that has a cooling effect on the Earth, he said. Think of the white smoke you see over a smoldering fire. That change can happen in just a couple of hours as the particles travel through the atmosphere, said Arthur Sedlacek, the other Brookhaven investigator. Both stressed that they are still early in their research, though they hope to provide information that could be factored into large-scale climate models. A tour of the research aircraft Wednesday showed a wall of instruments designed to measure, among other things, the size and chemical composition of particles, their light absorption and scattering effects, and the gases in the air. All of that is sucked in through small tubes outside the airplane. Much like flying through thunderclouds, the bumpy flight is not often a friendly environment for sensitive measurements. In addition, Kleinman said, flight restrictions sometimes limit how close they can fly to allow air tankers and helicopters to fight the fires. The researchers also must pore over detailed weather forecasts to map their flights, delaying their response. Still, they've managed to fly into big plumes to collect large particles of black carbon soot and continue their travels downwind to gather smaller particles. ''It's surreal to go through the plume. You're in blues skies, then you hit a wall of white haze, then it's orange. And there's a lot of turbulence,'' Sedlacek said. The researchers hope the field study will contribute to a better understanding of how particles emitted from different types of fires may contribute to climate change. The study continues in the Northwest through mid-September. CENTER (Continued from page 1A) make (the center) as interactive for people as best that we can. We think that will be fun and grow attention to the county." The Tehama Country Visitors Center, while a high-tech information hotspot that highlights what the county and surrounding area has to offer, is owned by North Valley Services, a nonprofit corporation with a concise mission statement: "Providing opportunities for persons with disabilities in the environment of their choice." For some of the about 20 staff members at the center, working there is their first job, Bullock said, and could be a launchpad to other opportunities. North Valley Services provides programs in Tehama, Lassen and Glenn counties. "This was another vessel for the disabled clients to learn a vocation," Bullock said. The visitor center at 250 Antelope Blvd. in Red HEALTH (Continued from page 1A) their programs as the law established. ''When the responsible state entities do not provide guidance to counties for effective program evaluation, the public cannot be sure that MHSA programs are achieving their intended purposes,'' the auditor's report said. A separate accountabil- JURY (Continued from page 1A) implement them. The Grand Jury also made recommendations regarding how the Air Pollution Control District deals with violations. It found documentation related to potential illegal agricultural burns in the past three years were sometimes signed only by district employees and not the Air Pollution Control Officer. The Grand Jury said it was unclear to them if all WATER (Continued from page 1A) al habitat. But officials with The Nature Conservancy said moving the tunnels to the island could have dire impacts on the cranes. ''Because of Staten Island's unique habitat values, it is with serious concern that we contemplate ... the proposed use of the Island as the location of its water export tunnels,'' Wendy Pulling, director of conservation programs at The Nature Conservancy in California, said in a statement. ''Construction and opera- Daily News photo by Andre Byik Visitors can test their agricultural knowledge of Tehama County by answering trivia questions about the Tehama Trail at the Tehama Country Visitor Center on Antelope Boulevard in Red Bluff. Bluff will hold its grand of a chapter house of the opening celebration from Cistercian monastery in 4-8 p.m. Wednesday. Ovila, Spain and is being rebuilt at the Abbey of Informational exhibits New Clairvaux in Vina. at the center include video The Sacred Stone exhibtour guides and maps of it at the center is a partial Lassen Volcanic National Park, a guide through a reconstruction itself commotorcycle ride on High- plete with featured stone. way 36 and a glimpse into "I know that North Valthe Sacred Stones project, ley Services had been which is a reconstruction wanting another facility and this just all seemed to fit in with the community and how we can enhance the community and how we can promote Tehama County and Tehama Country and still have that wonderful place for vocational training for our disabled clients," Bullock said. "It's just a real win-win for everybody." ity commission established as part of the ballot initiative did not adopt a plan for evaluating the programs until March 2013, more than eight years after voters approved the tax and just months after AP's report. A new agency, Health Care Services, took oversight of the state mental health funding last year. Howle recommended it set up on-site reviews of counties and write perfor- mance contracts with counties that set program goals, including measurable performance data. Health Care Services said it has already adopted some of Howle's recommendations and is in the process of implementing others. As part of the audit, Howle reviewed county mental health programs in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Bernardino and Santa Clara, finding wide dis- crepancies in how they assessed and reported on mental health spending. All of them had set general goals for their programs, but some counties did not communicate those goals to the contractors who were actually providing services. Howle said. correspondence issued by the Air Pollution Control District was therefore reviewed and authorized by the control officer. The Grand Jury recommends that the control officer or a designee sign all correspondence addressing alleged violations. "This would ensure consistency with both the professional quality of correspondence issued and provide an authority source for response by the recipient," the Grand Jury's report reads. The Grand Jury also found inconsistencies between the fines paid by different violators. Fines not determined by the California Health and Safety Code are set by the air pollution control officer. Those fines are often based on the ability to pay based on income status as stated by the violator or other factors such as degree of violation or intent of the burn. "Fine amounts seem to be based on negotiating abilities between APCD and the alleged violator, rather than a consistent and predictable table of fines," the Grand Jury's report reads. The Grand Jury recommends the Air Pollution Control District establish and document its level of fines, possibly still taking into account discretionary procedures such as infractions, degree of burning and intent. However the document would eliminate the appearance of arbitrariness, favoritism or bias. ——— Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. tion of the tunnels could have significant negative impacts on crane habitat.'' Pulling said the organization will ''vigorously pursue all options available in order to ensure that the sandhill cranes are not harmed.'' And while local farmers and other delta activists who have long opposed tunnel construction applauded the diminished impact to their land, they said the tunnel project was still unacceptable to them. ''We're pleased they're finally looking to improve some of the impacts on residents. But fundamen- tally, it's still the same flawed project,'' said Osha Meserve, an attorney who represents water districts in the delta. ''It still will turn our area into a war zone for 10 years, and then it will take the same amount of water, impact our water quality and our local economy ... all for a plan that would not save the fish.'' Tunnel construction, which does not have to be approved by voters or the Legislature, would take from 10 to 15 years once the planning process is complete. The auditor recommended revisions to the mental health services contracts in all the counties except Los Angeles.