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Tuesday, August 20, 2013 – Daily News 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. Richard Coon Richard Coon, of Los Molinos, died Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in Orland. He was 19. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary in Corning. Published Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Dolores Nemecio, of Corning, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 at Enloe Medical Center in Chico. She was 83. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary in Corning. Published Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. TIME covered, the remained open. Man arrested outside PD with knife A Red Bluff man was arrested Sunday night after following a female city employee to her car while carrying a large knife. The employee left work at the police and fire departments building around 10 p.m. Sunday and feared for her safety after being fol- CITY Continued from page 1A Dolores Nemecio park However, should the park close, it would be a after millions of dollars of loss to the community and state park funds were dis- travelers, Fessenden said. Continued from page 1A SALAD Continued from page 1A that we need the public's help. Let's move Salad Bars to Schools has set up a donation page for the school. With the community's help the school can raise the $2,625 needed to bring in a new salad bar. The new salad bar would allow the staff a chance to serve more students in the time allotted for lunch. To donate to this local cause, visit saladbars2schools.org/school_finder and type Red Bluff in the search window. It is easy to donate with your credit card on the secure website. Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and as such donations made are fully tax deductible. If you'd like more information about the food service program at Red Bluff Union High School, call Principal Ron Fisher at 529-8700. BEER "All the breweries are poured by local businesses that sponsored the event," Continued from page 1A Bachman said. "Our food ed the Lagunitas Brewing is all from local farms, our Co., Sierra Nevada Brew- cheese, all the vegetables, ing Co. and Fall River all the beef is local. Local Brewing Co. serving local." Bill would increase penalties for fake 911 calls SACRAMENTO (AP) — People who make fake 911 calls would be subject to paying the costs of mobilizing emergency responders under a bill that is close to passing the state Legislature. The Assembly on Monday approved SB333 by Sen. Ted Lieu, which would add a fine of up to $10,000 to cover the costs of the emergency mobilization. Under current law, the misdemeanor penalty for making a false 911 call is $1,000 and up to a year in county jail. The crime becomes a felony if someone is injured. The problem has been especially acute in the Los Angeles area, where fake 911 calls to the homes of celebrities have become common. The practice is referred to as ''swatting'' because SWAT units sometimes have to be called. The bill returns to the Senate for concurrence before being sent to the governor. Calif. mail voters would learn if ballot counted SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill headed to the governor's desk will allow voters to find out if their mail-in ballots are actually counted. SB589 by Democratic state Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo would require county officials to establish a system allowing vote-by-mail voters to learn if their ballot was counted and, if it was not, why that is. Democratic Assemblyman Kevin Mullin of San Mateo told his colleagues that the bill he co-sponsored would require registrars to notify voters ''so they can address the problem'' in future elections. About half those who voted in California's 2012 general election, 6.7 million people, did so by mail. SB589 received unanimous support in the Assembly on Monday and will be sent to Gov. Jerry Brown. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. 7A ment Department. City staff estimated the reorganization of the departments would save the General Fund about $80,000 in the first year. A department head would be eliminated under the proposal and the new Community Development Director would be paid out of enterprise funds. Councilmembers Daniele Jackson and Rob Schmid opposed the plan. Jackson said she believed the job description was written for a single person in mind, while Schmid said he believed the reorganization leaned too heavily toward the planning aspect. lowed to her car by 57-year-old David White, according to a Red Bluff Police Department press release. Police found White in possession of a large, fixed blade knife, which he dropped when told to do so by officers. But he resisted arrest Since that meeting the education and experience requirements for the Community Development Director have been clarified to show a preference for either a planning or building background. Public Works Director Bruce Henz is requesting the hire of a full-time maintenance worker for increasing state requirements of monitoring and reporting in the Wastewater Collections Maintenance Division. The hire would require a budget appropriation of $54,000. The full salary would be paid out of enterprise funds and have no affect on the general fund. Police Chief Paul Nanfito is scheduled to ask the council to fund the 3-year leases of three new police FIRE Continued from page 1A smoldering fires. The latest update issued by Cal Fire puts the Swedes Fire steady at 1,995 acres, with one residence, one garage and three outbuilding destroyed. Firefighters have contained 45 percent of the blaze. Firefighters are strengthening lines today to try and rein the fire in. The goal is to have the fire fully contained by Thursday. The fire broke out about 4:30 p.m. Friday. There are 90 engines, 11 bulldozers, six water trucks and 27 fire crews assigned to the fire. Eight air- for a short time and sustained minor injuries. White was booked into Tehama County Jail charged with misdemeanor possession of a dangerous weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia and being under the influence of a controlled substance. SUVs for $44,619 from the general fund. For 20 years the department purchased two new vehicles per year to cycle its fleet, but in the past four years that rate has been slowed to about one new purchase a year. The most recent three purchases were all made through Police Protection Impact Fees. Nanfito's report to the council suggests a 5-year replacement plan that uses leasing and eventually the full purchases to replace seven of the department's vehicles. Nanfito says new vehicles are important for the safety of employees and residents. The leases would be paid out of the General Fund. Before any of those tankers and two helicopters are working the blaze too. All told 900 personnel are fighting the fire. Evacuation warnings — meaning people should be ready to leave their homes — are still in effect for Miners Ranch Road from Oro Bangor Highway to Oro Quincy Highway (Highway 162), Oro Quincy Highway to Forbestown Road, Hurleton Swedes Flat Road to Swedes Flat Road, Forbestown Road from Lumpkin Road to Old Olive Highway, Hurles Circle, Mackey Court, Mather Lane, Hershel Lane, Roosa Way, Romelt Lane, Angel Way, Nice Place, Finlayson Court, Stringtown Road, Diamond Bar Court, requests are heard the City Council will hear some positive news regarding the General Fund. Final audits on the previous fiscal year have shown the General Fund is about $75,000 larger than previously expected. Estimates suggest the June 30, 2014 ending balance will increase from $377,093 to $452,631. That would still be below the 2-month minimum Finance Director Sandy Ryan has said the Government Finance Officers Association recommends municipalities keep in reserve. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Gold View Court, Gloriana Road, Harry Lane, Old Post Drive, Kim Drive, Mountain Oak Road, Empire Point Drive, Lothrop Lane, Maidu Run, Dancing Wind Drive, Summer View Drive, Rebel Lane, Elams Ranch Road, Wicks Way, Lakeview Ridge Road, Forbestown Circle, and Hideaway Place. An incident management team was called in Sunday and took charge of the firefighting operations and the personnel involved at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico. From there, firefighters from around the state can help fight the fire, while some local firefighters can return to their regular day-today operations in areas they know. US judge approves force-feeding California inmates SACRAMENTO (AP) — A federal judge approved a request from California and federal officials on Monday to force-feed inmates if necessary as a statewide prison hunger strike entered its seventh week. Officials say they fear for the welfare of nearly 70 inmates who have refused all prison-issued meals since the strike began July 8 over the holding of gang leaders and other violent inmates in solitary confinement that can last for decades. They are among nearly 130 inmates in six prisons who were refusing meals. When the strike began it included nearly 30,000 of the 133,000 inmates in California prisons. Prison policy is to let inmates starve to death if they have signed legally binding do-not-resuscitate (DNR) requests. But state corrections officials and a federal receiver who controls inmate medical care received blanket authority from U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco to feed inmates who may be in failing health. The order includes those who recently signed requests that they not be revived. Henderson oversees the ongoing lawsuit over inmates' medical care. The filing Monday came as prison officials and inmates' attorneys argued over whether strikers should be allowed to voluntarily begin a liquid diet. ''Patients have a right to refuse medical treatment. They also have a right to refuse food,'' said Joyce Hayhoe, a spokeswoman for the receiver's office. However, ''If an inmate gets to the point where he can't tell us what his wishes are, for instance if he's found unresponsive in his cell, and we don't have a DNR, we're going to get nourishment into him. That's what doctors do. They're going to follow their medical ethics,'' Hayhoe said. ''We'd take any and all measures to sustain their life.'' The process, which prison officials call ''refeeding,'' could include starting intravenous fluids or snaking feeding tubes through inmates' noses and into their stomachs. Prison officials already can seek a court order forcing an individual inmate to take food, though they have not done so. Now they and the receiver's office are jointly asking for blanket permission to take that step without seeking orders on a case-by-case basis. The federal and state officials were joined in the request by the Prison Law Office, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that represents inmates' welfare in ongoing lawsuits that led to a federal takeover of the prison health care system and a requirement that the state sharply reduce its inmate population to improve conditions. They want Henderson to let the chief medical executive at each prison act if a hunger striker is at risk of ''near-term death or great bodily injury'' or is no longer deemed competent to give consent or make medical decisions. Moreover, do-notresuscitate directives would not be honored if the medical executive reasonably believes the inmate was coerced into signing the request or if an attorney representing the inmate revokes the request. Do-not-resuscitate orders signed by a hunger striker at or near the beginning of the strike or during the hunger strike would automatically be deemed invalid. ''Force-feeding violates international law to the extent that it involves somebody who doesn't give their consent,'' said Jules Lobel, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He said prison officials should look for alternatives, including providing the inmates with a liquid diet of fruit and vegetable drinks as they have requested, or negotiating with inmates over their demands. However, Lobel said he will not seek to overturn Henderson's order. Prison officials said Monday that inmates are free to consume a liquid diet, but will be counted as having ended their hunger strike if they consume anything more than water, vitamins and electrolytes. California incarcerates about 3,600 inmates in what are known as Security Housing Units, some because of crimes they committed in prison and others for indefinite terms if they are validated as leaders of prison gangs. Four prisons have the units: Pelican Bay in Crescent City, Corcoran, California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi and California State PrisonSacramento. The highest-ranking gang leaders are held in what is known as the ''short corridor'' at Pelican Bay. Four leaders of rival white supremacist, black and enemy Latino gangs have formed an alliance to promote the hunger strike in a bid to force an end to the isolation units. Kidnap suspect leaves money to victim's family SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who died in a shootout with FBI agents after kidnapping a 16year-old girl and killing her mother and brother named a member of the victims' family as his life insurance beneficiary, a spokesman for the man's family said Monday. James Lee DiMaggio left $112,000 to Hannah Anderson's paternal grandmother, said Andrew Spanswick. He didn't know why but believes it was for the benefit of Hannah, the girl abducted by DiMaggio. Hannah was rescued in the FBI shootout on Aug. 10 in the Idaho wilderness and returned home to San Diego. DiMaggio, 40, had been like an uncle to the Anderson children and the father's best friend. DiMaggio named Bernice Anderson as the sole beneficiary of his employer-issued life insurance policy in 2011, substituting her for his sister Lora Robinson, the lone survivor of his immediate family, Spanswick said. DiMaggio lived with Bernice Anderson for about two years before buying a house in 2009 in Boulevard, about 65 miles east of San Diego, Spanswick said. Authorities found the remains of Christina Anderson, 44, and Ethan Anderson, 8, in the Boulevard house after it was set on fire. DiMaggio's sister called Hannah's father, Brett Anderson, on Friday to tell him about the life insurance payment. ''They had a long conversation about their mutual loss, trying to make sense of what hap- pened, and neither of them had an explanation,'' Spanswick said. ''Brett seemed to recognize that Lora was as much a victim in this as everyone else. He wished her the best.'' A request for comment from Brett Anderson, made through family spokeswoman Stacy Hess, was not immediately answered. DiMaggio worked as a telecommunications technician at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. Spokeswoman Jan Coury declined to comment. Steven Weisbart, chief economist at the industrybacked Insurance Information Institute, said insurers generally won't challenge a claim unless the benefi- ciary is suspected of involvement in the death. Investigators have given no indication that DiMaggio had any accomplices.