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Thursday, September 5, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries MARJORIE (GUMBLE-WEEKS) RINDAHL November 7, 1921 - August 27, 2013 Marjorie (Gumble-Weeks) Rindahl passed away peacefully August 27, 2013 at the age of 91. Born in Corning, November 7, 1921 to Henry and Nora Gumble, she was raised in the community and remained a lifelong Corning resident. Marjorie graduated from Corning High School and married Hubert Weeks; they had two sons, Bill and Richard Weeks. Hubert, Bill and Richard all preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by her late husband Jerry Rindahl, and her 2 sisters Evelyn and Myrna, and a brother Delbert Gumble. As a local business owner for more than 30 years, Marge was known by most as a "no-nonsense" business woman. In her free time she was an avid reader and enjoyed watching Giants Baseball in her later years. Marjorie is survived by her daughters-in-law, Kara Weeks-Lockie, and husband Bob, Maria Weeks, five grandchildren, Wendy, Julie, Lisa, Estephanie, and Richie along with 4 great-grandchildren. At Marjorie's request there will be no funeral service. 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. Juan A. Perez Juan A. Perez, of Red Bluff, died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 Mercy Medical Center. He was 70. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Today's coronation dinner starts with a social hour from 6-7 p.m., a barContinued from page 1A becue at 7 p.m. and the coronation of royalty and nifer Marinelli, the queen court about 7:30 p.m. at director since 2007. The the Kerstiens Entertaincontest also included a ment Center at the fairwritten exam portion. grounds. The senior and junior In 2012, Jenna Brink, queens will represent the Junior Round-Up, and of Redding, held the title will be committed to of Senior Queen, and being a face for the associ- Brooke Delaney Bey held ation. Responsibilities the title for Junior Queen. include showings at The Red Bluff Junior parades, rodeos and com- Round-Up starts with munity events, said track and arena events at 9 Marinelli, who will be a.m., and follow with making way for new afternoon performances at queen director, Patience 1 p.m. Saturday and SunWestphal. day at the outdoor arena. QUEEN GUIDE Continued from page 1A requests for tour guides than the group has guides, it has to turn some groups away. Additional volunteers to help out with this local environmental education opportunity are needed. The hatchery is at 24411 Coleman Fish Hatchery Road in Anderson. For more information, call the hatchery at 365-8622 or send an email to FriendsofColeman@gmail.com. Orange sacks nicked SYRIA Continued from page 1A against Syria last weekend and instead asked lawmakers to unite first behind such a plan. In Stockholm, Sweden, where Obama was traveling on Wednesday, the White House praised the vote, and said it would continue to seek support for ''a military response that is narrowly tailored to enforce the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons, and sufficient to protect the national security interests of the United States of America.'' Earlier, at a news conference Obama said, ''I always preserve the right and responsibility to act on behalf of America's national security.'' In a challenge to lawmakers back home, he said Congress' credibility was on the line, not his own, despite saying a year ago that the use of chemical weapons would cross a ''red line.'' Secretary of State John Kerry said he believes Obama will address the nation on Syria in the next few days. The president returns home from overseas Friday night. Obama's request also received its first hearing in the House during the day, and Kerry responded heatedly when Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said that the secretary of state, Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden all had advocated for caution in past conflicts. ''Is the power of the executive branch so intoxicating that you have abandoned past caution in favor of pulling the trigger on a military response so quickly?'' Duncan asked. Kerry, who fought in Vietnam in the 1960s and voted to authorize the war against Iraq a decade ago, shot back angrily: ''I volunteered to fight for my coun- COUNTY Continued from page 1A Northern California and Southern Oregon to join them in the creation of a new state called the State of Jefferson. ''Many proposed laws are unconstitutional and deny us our Godgiven rights,'' Gabe Garrison of Happy Camp said at the meeting. ''We need our own state so we can make laws that fit our way of life.'' Garrison was among more than 100 people who attended the meeting, and most were in support of the declaration, according to the Record Searchlight. The declaration does not launch any type of formal process toward secession, but only reflects the county's support, said Tom Odom, the county's administrative officer. The idea to create the separate TESTS Continued from page 1A The Glenn County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of 436,000 produce packing bags for oranges from the Orange Blossom Packing Co. in Orland. The burglary occurred sometime during the weekend of Aug. 30. Valued at $51,000 were 340,000 bags in 10-, 8- and 5pound capacities. These bags are labeled "Orange Blossom Packing." Valued at $30,720 were 96,000 25-pound bags labeled "Sanchez Farms." The total loss in the burglary is $81,720. Anyone with information is urged to call the Glenn County Sheriff's Office at 530 934-6431. Bill allows discretion in charging drug offenses SACRAMENTO (AP) — The state Assembly has approved a bill that gives county prosecutors the option of charging lower-level, non-violent drug offenses as misdemeanors instead of felonies. The bill from Democratic Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco cleared the Assembly Wednesday on a 41-30 vote. Leno says his bill will reduce incarceration costs by allowing flexibility in how prosecutors and judges handle some drug cases. Anyone involved in selling or manufacturing drugs would not be eligible for the lesser charges. Supporters include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Drug Policy Alliance and the California Public Defenders Association. Republicans opposing the bill said lessening penalties would send the wrong message. Assemblyman Brian Jones of Santee said drug users need ''tough love,'' not coddling. SB649 returns to the Senate for a final vote. try, and that wasn't a cautious thing to do when I did it.'' When Duncan interrupted, the secretary of state said,'' I'm going to finish, congressman,'' and cited his support as senator for past U.S. military action in Panama and elsewhere. The Senate committee's vote capped a hectic few days in which lawmakers first narrowed the scope of Obama's request — limiting it to 90 days and banning combat operations on the ground — and then widened it. Sen. John McCain, RAriz., a proponent of aggressive U.S. military action in Syria, joined forces with Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware to add a provision calling for ''decisive changes to the present military balance of power on the ground in Syria.'' At their urging, the measure was also changed to state that the policy of the United States is ''to change the momentum on the battlefield in Syria so as to create favorable conditions for a negotiated settlement that ends the conflict and leads to a democratic government in Syria.'' McCain, who has long accused Obama of timidity in Syria, argued that Assad will be willing to participate in diplomatic negotiations only if he believes he is going to lose the civil war he has been fighting for over two years. The changes were enough to attract bipartisan support, but political fault lines were clear on a military action that polls show a war-weary public opposes. Seven Democrats and three Republicans supported the measure, while two Democrats and five Republicans opposed. Among Republicans, opposition came from lawmakers with the closest ties to tea party activists, including Paul say emphasize analytical skills over rote memorization. ''It sends a message that we think is very important to the field, that we're serious about this, that we want you to have the time and the space to be able to make this work,'' Sigman said. The proposal requires approval from the California Legislature and the U.S. Department of Education. Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, who earlier introduced legislation authorizing the more limited spring trial of the new test, said the idea of phasing out the old tests a year early came from Gov. Jerry Brown. State teachers' and superintendents' unions took part in crafting the amendments that would permit every district to participate while freeing them from the demands of preparing students for the soon-to-be outmoded STAR tests, she said. ''It's very hard for a teacher to say, 'They want me to do this Common Core, but at the end of the and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, both presidential aspirants. Among Democrats, Kerry's replacement in the Senate, Sen. Ed Markey, DMass., voted ''present'' after expressing misgivings. In his comments in Sweden, the president sought to shift the onus for responding to Assad to Congress and the world at large. ''I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line'' with a treaty banning the use of chemical weapons. He added that ''Congress set a red line'' when it passed legislation a decade ago demanding Syria stop production of weapons of mass destruction. His comments drew a disbelieving response from one Republican back home. ''He needs to go back and read his quote,'' Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said, referring to a comment the president made slightly more than a year ago. On Aug. 20, 2012, Obama said, ''We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. ... ''That would change my calculus'' about military action, he added at the time. Elsewhere on Wednesday: — In Syria, al-Qaidalinked rebels were said to have launched an assault on a government-held Christian mountain village in the densely populated western part of the country, and there was new fighting near Damascus as well. — In Rome, Pope Francis underscored Vatican opposition to threatened military strikes against Syria, urging Catholics and non-Catholics alike to take part in a day of fasting and prayer for peace on Satur- state of Jefferson goes back decades. It gained momentum in 1941, when the mayor of a southern Oregon town called on counties in the region and their neighbors in California to form a new state. The goal was to raise attention to the region's poor roads. The movement became popular, especially in Siskiyou County, where residents have long felt that their concerns are overshadowed by more populated parts of California. It was shelved after the attack at Pearl Harbor, though its spirit lives on today. Another proposal that came up two years ago in Riverside County called on more than a dozen mostly conservative counties to break off and form the state of South California. Residents of the majority-Republican Siskiyou County lobbied the board in August to consider secession, according to the Record year I'll still have to get my students ready for the STAR tests,''' Bonilla said. ''This is an opportunity for teachers to say, 'Oh, now for the rest of the year I know what I'm doing. I'm dong Common Core.' There is no mixed message.'' California has been giving the STAR tests to all students in grades 2-11 since 1999. Under the plan outlined Wednesday, only the science portion of the test would be given to fifth-, eighth- and 10thgraders next spring before being dropped altogether a year later. In place of the old tests, students would take either the English language arts or math part of the new Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress tests this spring and the entire test in the spring of 2015, Sigman said. No individual student scores, school performance reports or statewide results would be generated from this spring's debut, she said. ''It's a test of the test,'' she said. ''This is really about getting used to what this looks like.'' As part of the transition to the Common Core standards, Gov. Jerry Brown 5A day. — In France, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told parliament that failure to take action would allow Assad to launch more chemical attacks. By his country's intelligence, the Syrian has an abundance of material. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., citing a French estimate, said at the Senate meeting that Assad has an estimated 1,000 tons of chemical weapons material and ''may be in the chemical weapons world a superpower.'' Kerry said Assad had used chemical weapons 11 times but until the most recent attack the president did not have a ''compelling'' enough case to push for a U.S. military response. Few if any members of Congress dispute the administration's claim that Assad was responsible for the attack, and lawmakers in both parties appear far more focused on determining how they should respond. Gaveling the House committee hearing to order, Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said that while it would be important to deter the use of chemical weapons by Assad and others, there remained many unanswered questions, including what the U.S. would do if Assad retaliated. ''The administration's Syria policy doesn't build confidence,'' he said. In a letter to her rank and file, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said she had received suggestions for legislation in the House ''to add language to prevent boots on the ground, to tie the authorization more closely to the use of chemical weapons and to address concerns about an open-ended timetable.'' Searchlight. In addition to a lack of representation in Sacramento, they cited concerns about water rights and a rural fire prevention fee. The $150 annual fee was approved by the Legislature in 2011 to offset the costs of providing fire service to people who live far from services. It affects more than 825,000 homeowners who were billed for the first time between August and December of last year. ''I haven't had one contact in regard to this issue that's in opposition,'' Supervisor Michael Kobseff said about the secession declaration. The lone vote in opposition was cast by Board Chair Ed Valenzuela. Valenzuela said he took an oath to uphold the state Constitution and was elected to solve problems within the existing system. Voters in some Colorado counties are also considering secession. The issue is on the ballot in at least three counties. and the California Legislature earmarked $1.25 billion in additional K-12 funding this year to help school districts train teachers, acquire materials and upgrade their computer systems. Sigman said the money the state will save by not giving the STAR tests would be used to subsidize the roll-out of the new tests. Several speakers at Wednesday's meeting expressed concern at the speed with which education officials want to switch to new tests. Some said they thought that abandoning the STAR tests before the Common Core assessments are fully implemented would deprive the public of a tool for measuring student achievement and school performance. Others worried that school districts, schools and teachers were being left without adequate warning or preparation. ''This is a significant change in what they entered the school year thinking they would do,'' Debra Brown of the nonprofit advocacy group Children First said. California Teachers Association President Dean Vogel predicted that few teachers, students or parents would mourn the passing of the old tests, which often were criticized for taking up too much class time and stifling teacher creativity. While school districts still would have the option of giving the STAR tests at their own expense next spring, ''I don't see very many people jumping at that chance,'' Vogel said.