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Tuesday, August 27, 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. 5A Car hits pole, one arrested Donald Emery Braggins Donald Emery Braggins, of Red Bluff, died Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 at Lassen House. He was 85. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Nancy Clark Nancy Clark, of Red Bluff, died Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. She was 72. Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial Service in Redding is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. BREW Continued from page 1A The vendors get underway at 4 p.m. Beef appetizer tasting begins and 5p.m. In addition to the delicious beef appetizers prepared by downtown merchants and local beef ranchers the event will feature some of the finest restaurants in Tehama and Shasta counties participating. Chad Bushnell begins at 6 p.m., the Cottonwood Band from 7-10 p.m. at the Cone & Kimball Plaza. Presale tickets are available at the Gold Exchange, Plum Crazy, The Loft and online at: w w w. s t a t e t h e a t r e r e d bluff.com/event/beef-nbrew/. More information is available at 530-8339961. Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.co m / p a g e s / R e d - B l u ff s Annual-Beef-nBrew/187398317984867. FIRE Continued from page 1A 7 p.m. and were able to confine the blaze to one room and the attic, according to the release. Considerable structural and water damage to the second floor was sustained by firefighting efforts. The four apartments were evacuated as smoke from the fire had extended to other units and electrical wiring became threatened, according to the release. Power was secured. The blaze started in a bedroom of one of the units after "smoking materials" caused bedding to catch fire, the release states. A resident was transported to a hospital after suffering smoke inhalation and was later released. The Red Cross reported that its Disaster Action Team helped 18 people who were displaced by the fire. Fire personnel remained on scene for 3 1/2 hours as they assisted investigators and overhauled the burned areas, according to the release. CalFire and the Tehama County Fire Department assisted the Red Bluff Fire Department. Bill mandates 3-foot buffer between cars, bikes SACRAMENTO (AP) — The state Senate approved a bill on Monday that would require drivers to stay at least three feet away from bicyclists when they are passing in the same direction, despite Gov. Jerry Brown's previous vetoes of similar legislation. Lawmakers approved AB1371 by Assemblyman Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, on a 31-7 vote. It aims to protect bicyclists from harassment by drivers who deliberately travel close to bikes in an effort to intimidate riders. The legislation would require a driver to pass a bicycle at a distance of at least three feet, but when drivers cannot leave that much room due to road conditions they must slow to ''a reasonable and prudent speed'' and pass only if doing so would not endanger the cyclist's safety. A violation would be punishable by fines starting at $35. The bill is nearly identical to one Brown vetoed last year, citing concerns about the possibility of increased crashes if drivers cross the center line or slow down too much to pass cyclists. He said then that the state could be held liable for those crashes if drivers are legally allowed to cross a double-yellow line to make room for a cyclist. Bradford's bill added new language to address those concerns. Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, who carried the bill in the Senate, said California is one of 32 states that have socalled safe distance laws. However, California law does not currently specify a safe distance. He said the law is needed until California has more infrastructure making it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, said it is difficult to estimate a three-foot distance while driving and noted that sometimes cyclists must swerve into vehicle traffic to avoid road hazards. ''It's just impossible to gauge what three feet is and so I don't think it really accomplishes what you want,'' Huff said. He said the state should instead focus on educating people about sharing the road with non-motorized vehicles when they renew their driver's licenses. ''To create outlaws of everybody because you can't judge the distance is nuts,'' he said. AB1371 returns to the state Assembly for a final vote. Legislature allows refilling of beer 'growlers' SACRAMENTO (AP) — Beer lovers would be able to refill their own containers at breweries under legislation approved by the state Senate. Lawmakers unanimously approved AB647 by Democratic Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro of Arcata on Monday. Sen. Steve Knight, a Republican from Palmdale who carried the bill in the Senate, said it clarifies labeling requirements ''so that consumers can use their growlers to purchase craft beer from any microbrewery,'' regardless of where they bought it. Growlers are glass canisters that typically hold a half-gallon of beer. Current law only allows breweries to sell growlers that have a label from that brewery. Chesbro's bill would let consumers return the growlers to other breweries or bring their own. Courtesy photo by Ross Palubeski Firefighters were dispatched around 7:20 p.m. Friday to a reported vehicle on fire in the Arby's drive thru on South Main Street in Red Bluff. The first unit reported a vehicle into a light pole with no fire and no electrical issues. One person was arrested in the Raley's parking lot. No further information was available. OLIVE Continued from page 1A In the men's division, the team from Harvest Christian Center just beat out NAPA Auto Parts, and for an encore won the coed division as well. A litany of attractions coupled with cooperative weather Saturday at Woodson City Park again attracted large crowds as residents and visitors were able to get a taste of the city's selection of olives and olive oils from area companies such as Lucero Olive Oil, Corning Olive Co., Olive Pit and BellCarter Foods, Inc. Classic rock tunes, including more than a few Beatles songs, could be enjoyed as the 613 Main St. Band out of Red Bluff occupied the stage while festivalgoers perused arts, crafts and food booths. Compared to last year's festival, councilman Tony Cardenas said, foot traffic grew. He attributed more planning and festival additions as part of the festival's success. "This year because the weather is so good and the music's good, there's just a lot of people," Cardenas said and added, "Everybody seems to be enjoying themselves and the tours that we put together — we didn't know how those were going to do — but they worked out really well. We had good turnout." The Historic Olive Tours, which took busloads of people on a tour of Corning's olive offerings, filled its two sched- ABORTION Continued from page 1A Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, who carried the measure in the Senate. She said about half of California counties lack abortion providers. ''All women deserve access to care in their local communities,'' she said. The procedure is safest when performed early, yet women in rural areas often have difficulty arranging for and traveling to a provider, she said. Several Republicans objected to the expansion, saying it would increase medical risks for patients. ''Abortion is a serious medical procedure with vast complications, uled trips, organizers said. The new additions like the tours and spitting contest, came about because organizers wanted to become more olive centric, event organizer Valanne Cardenas said. "That's why we did the tour," she said. "We took them around to all of the different places in Corning that do olives or olive oil. We're very proud. BellCarter is the largest table olive processor (in the U.S.), so we have a long heritage. Our mayor took the tour and showed them some of the 100-year-old or more olive trees and now the new ones that they're using for olive oil." Valanne Cardenas added that the new highdensity trees can be harvested machines, akin to almonds. and I would argue that only the besttrained should conduct such an operation,'' said Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber. ''It has direct and profound impact on lives: the mother and the baby — and there is a baby.'' Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine, said legalized abortion was supposed to end the days when women's lives were put at risk. Yet he said Atkins' bill would allow the procedures by providers who have less training and in clinics without sufficient backup if there are complications. Jackson responded that the medical professionals covered by the bill have been performing the procedure for six years without significant problems. The bill requires them to get specialized training and follow "But the table olives, you have to hand pick them," she said. For the Olive Pit Spitting Contest, the rules were simple. A contestant spits an olive pit onto a long sheet of paper, and that spit would be measured. Fourteen-year-old Alec Hunt, knowing his friend Cody Lequia was holding the record distance at 25 feet, leaned back and fired a shot that reached 25 feet, 3 inches. The distance was enough to win the ages 1318 division and proved to be the record distance on the day for any age group. Festivities concluded with the Corning Rotary Olive Drop. "It's all about the olives," Tony Cardenas said. standard procedures. Under a state pilot program created in 2007, 8,000 aspiration abortions have been provided by nondoctors. Data from the program showed both doctors and non-doctors performing the procedures with error rates below 2 percent, Jackson said. Oregon, Montana, Vermont and New Hampshire already allow nurse practitioners to perform these abortions. Under California law, nurse practitioners can administer medicine to induce an abortion. Sen. Lou Correa, D-Anaheim, joined Republicans in voting against the bill, while three senators did not vote: Republicans Bill Emmerson of Redlands and Mark Wyland of Escondido; and Democrat Ben Hueso of San Diego. Wildfire closing in on SF Bay area's water source TUOLUMNE CITY (AP) — A raging wildfire in Yosemite National Park rained ash on the reservoir that is the chief source of San Francisco's famously pure drinking water, and utility officials Monday scrambled to send more water toward the metropolitan area before it becomes tainted. Nearly 3,700 firefighters battled the approximately 250-square-mile blaze. They reported modest progress, saying the fire was 15 percent contained. Utility officials monitored the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir for clarity and used a massive new $4.6 billion gravity-operated pipeline system to move water quickly to reservoirs closer to San Francisco. The Hetch Hetchy supplies water to 2.6 million people in the Bay area, 150 miles away. ''We're taking advantage that the water we're receiving is still of good quality,'' said Harlan Kelly Jr., general manager of the city's Public Utilities Commission. ''We're bringing down as much water as possible and replenishing all of the local reservoirs.'' At the same time, utility officials gave assurances that they have a six-month supply of water in reservoirs near the Bay area. So far the ash that has been raining onto the Hetch Hetchy has not sunk as far as the intake valves, which are about halfway down the 300-foot O'Shaughnessy Dam. Utility officials said that the ash is non-toxic but that the city will begin filtering water for customers if problems are detected. That could cost more. On Monday the fire was still several miles away from the steep granite canyon where the reservoir is nestled, but several spot fires were burning closer, and firefighters were protecting hydroelectric transmission lines and other utility facilities. ''Obviously we're paying close attention to the city's water supply,'' said Glen Stratton, an operations chief on the fire suppression team. Power generation at the reservoir was shut down last week so that firefighters would not be imperiled by live wires. San Francisco is buying replacement power from other sources to run City Hall and other municipal buildings. It has been at least 17 years since fire ravaged the northernmost stretch of Yosemite that is under siege. Park officials cleared brush and set sprinklers on two groves of giant sequoias that were seven to 10 miles away from the fire's front lines, said park spokesman Scott Gediman. While sequoias have a chemical in their bark to help them resist fire, they can be damaged when flames move through slowly. The fire has swept through steep Sierra Nevada river canyons and stands of thick oak and pine, closing in on Tuolumne City and other mountain communities. It has confounded ground crews with its 300foot walls of flame and the way it has jumped from treetop to treetop. Crews bulldozed two huge firebreaks to try to protect Tuolumne City, five miles from the fire's edge. ''We've got hundreds of firefighters staged in town to do structure protection,'' Stratton said. ''If the fire does come to town, we're ready.'' Meanwhile, biologists with the U.S. Forest Service are studying the effect on wildlife. Much of the area that has burned is part of the state's winter-range deer habitat. Biologist Crispin Holland said most of the large deer herds would still be well above the fire danger. Biologists discovered stranded Western pond turtles on national forest land near the edge of Yosemite. Their marshy meadow had burned, and the surviving creatures were huddled in the middle of the expanse in what little water remained. ''We're hoping to deliver some water to those turtles,'' Holland said. ''We might also drag some brush in to give them cover.'' Wildlife officials were also trying to monitor at least four bald eagle nests in the fire-stricken area. While it has put a stop to some backcountry hiking, the fire has not threatened the Yosemite Valley, where such sights as the Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and Yosemite Falls draw throngs of tourists. Most of the park remained open to visitors. The U.S. Forest Service said the fire was threatening about 4,500 structures and destroyed at least 23.