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Saturday, September 21, 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. Darrel Duane Cook Darrel Duane Cook, of Red Bluff, died Wednesday, Sept. 18 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. He was 62. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Lloyd Edward Smead III Lloyd Edward Smead III died Thursday, Sept. 19 at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 53. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Melissa Halverson Melissa Halverson, of Redding, died Wednesday, Sept. 18. She was 45. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial. Published Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Donna L. Walberg Donna L. Walberg, of Corning, died Thursday, Sept. 19 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. She was 70. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Setting it straight LaMalfa to visit CSU, Chico Monday California's District 1 Congressional Representative Doug LaMalfa will visit California State University, Chico on Monday, Sept. 23 to talk with students in the College of Agriculture. LaMalfa will be the guest speaker in two senior-level capstone classes, Agricultural Policy (ABUS 451) and Agricultural Issues (AGRI 482), at 10 a.m. in Bell Memorial Union 210. The freshman congressman, a farmer and businessman from Richvale, will take students' questions on issues of federal food and agricul- "Phase two is to think about future problems and what we can do in the community," she said, adding, "The thought process is we're going Continued from page 1A to go in and do this project. Then urge volunteers to wear appropriate we're going to have a specialist clothing and to bring gloves. come back out and look at what is Springstead said the initial fire still there that we didn't treat." cleanup is the first phase of a twoThe Sale Lane fire burned 102 phase plan. acres in an area between Interstate 5 JOBS Continued from page 1A However even the added farm jobs can't account for the decreased unemployment rate seen in the year-to-year numbers. In August 2012 Tehama County's unem- ployment rate sat at 13.8 percent. The EDD estimates the county having just 10 more farm jobs in August 2013 than the same time year in the year prior. The number of unemployed in Tehama County had deceased from an estimated 3,440 in August 2012 to 2,750 in 2013, a HONOR Continued from page 1A WATER tect water quality. Farms deemed most susceptible to problems will undergo additional monitoring, have to craft a management plan and take steps to address the pollution. Growers in low vulnerability areas and farms of less than 60 acres will be given more time to comply. Farmers say the new rules are expensive and bureaucratic, though state water regulators estimate implementation will cost less than $2 per acre. Farmers also say they have worked to change their Continued from page 1A ing water for more than 1 million Californians in the Salinas Valley and parts of the Central Valley. Chemical fertilizers and livestock manure are the main source of nitrate contamination. And nitrate leaching from agricultural land is responsible for 96 percent of current groundwater contamination, according to the study. And while fertilizer use me," Sain is quoted in the release. "Just being nominated by the University was enough. To find out that I won the top award, that was farming practices to address the problem, by using new technologies that measure how much fertilizer, if any, the soil needs. Environmental groups say the proposed regulations are too weak, because they don't hold individual farmers responsible and the board has no regulatory authority over the coalitions. ——— Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com man of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Wyden ''agrees it's time get the (timber) harvest up, to create more jobs in the woods and make forests healthier.'' Wyden plans to introduce a forest bill this fall, Chu said, but added: ''It's clear that bills that undermine bedrock environmental laws or turn large swaths of federal land over to private ownership cannot pass the Senate or be signed into law by the president.'' The House bill's sponsor, Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash, said wildfires burned 9.3 million acres last year, while the Forest Service only harvested timber from about 200,000 acres. ''We burned 44 times more acres than we've managed,'' Hastings said. ''Imagine the carbon imprint'' of those wildfires, which are fed in part by overstocked forests. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said many rural counties in Oregon and other states ''are literally on the brink of bankruptcy sitting next to national forests'' where increased timber sales could provide a lifeline. ''They're choked with smoke, and their economies are choked'' by policies that prevent logging, Walden said. Environmental groups criticized the bill. ''They're viewing our national forests as big ATM machines that they can just level out to fill county coffers,'' said Noah Matson, vice president of Defenders of Wildlife, an environmental Simple Cremations starting at $ .00 929 5530 Mountain View Drive, Redding CA 96033. Call 530-241-3400 to prearrange your wishes • www.BlairsCremation.com FD2153 group. Increased logging ''is not a sustainable, long-term solution'' to economic problems in the rural West, Matson said, adding that an increase in logging jobs could be offset by a decrease in outdoor recreation jobs that have increasingly come to dominate rural Western economies. The bill includes a provision developed by members of the Oregon delegation to turn over half of federally controlled lands in western Oregon to a stateappointed trust that would manage them for timber production. The other half would be managed for fish and wildlife habitat, including creation of new wilderness areas. The measure also includes a federal subsidy for timber-dependent counties until the logging revenues start to come in. The bill makes logging a requirement on some public forestland, speeding up the timber sales process and making it more difficult for legal challenges to be filed. If enacted, the bill could again result in clearcutting of national forests, Matson said, calling that a return to misguided policies that harmed wildlife and the environment for generations. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would increase revenue from timber sales by about $2 billion over the next 10 years, with a net gain to the government of about $269 million over that period. nities, and to promote the leadership, organizational and communication skills of its members. During his visit to CSU, Chico, LaMalfa will tour the University Farm and meet with members of the College of Agriculture's advisory board. and Sale Lane on both sides of East Sand Slough bridge on Antelope Boulevard on June 3. The blaze damaged several units at Red Bluff Apartments and was caused by children playing with a lighter. No serious injuries were reported. Thursday's fire cleanup talk was hosted by the Sacramento River Discovery Center. decrease of 20 percent. Goods, manufacturing, service providing, transportation, education and health services and government sectors saw modest job growth in the past month. By county, Tehama's employment rate ranked 45th out of 58 counties. Shasta County's unem- something else." Sain earned an associate's degree in child development from Shasta College and a bachelor's in liberal studies, according to Inside Chico State. He maintained a 3.98 GPA as an undergraduate. Sain, a father of three, will travel with his wife, Christina, to House backs bill to boost logging in nat'l forests WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House Friday approved a bill to sharply increase logging in national forests — a measure the GOP said would create jobs in rural communities and help reduce wildfires that have devastated the West. The bill also would add hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from new timber sales while reviving an industry that has shed tens of thousands of jobs in the past three decades. Opponents called the bill a giveaway to the timber industry and said it would harm water quality and habitat for fish and wildlife and jeopardize recreation areas that have become a major source of jobs in national forests. The White House has threatened to veto the bill, which was approved on a 244-173 vote. Seventeen Democrats joined 227 Republicans to back the bill. Just one Republican, Rep. Chris Gibson of New York, opposed the bill. The Obama administration says the measure would jeopardize habitat for endangered species, increase lawsuits and limit the president's ability to create national monuments. The bill as passed has little chance of approval in the Democratic-controlled Senate, although senators have not ruled out adoption of a forest management bill. Keith Chu, a spokesman for Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chair- tural policy, including the 2013 Farm Bill. LaMalfa's visit is hosted by the Society of Agricultural Managers, a student organization whose purpose is to provide agricultural students at CSU, Chico with career information and networking opportu- SLOUGH –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. has leveled off in recent years, the amount of dairy manure has increased, making for a net increase over the past decade in nitrates loaded into the ground. At least 3 million acres of agricultural land have potential problems with nitrates in groundwater, water officials said. Under the new rules, existing farmer-run coalitions will do the monitoring and reporting of ground and surface water. Each farmer will go through an evaluation and identify practices to pro- 9A ployment rate was 10.2 percent. Butte County had an unemployment rate of 10 percent, while unemployment in Glenn County was 11.9 percent. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. the CSU Chancellor's Office in Long Beach on Tuesday to accept award, according to the report. The CSU system's 23 campuses each nominated a student to receive a scholarship of at least $3,000, according to the release. Thirteen students were awarded scholarships of $4,000 to $6,000. Calif. governor signs state's first fracking rules SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that will establish California's first rules detailing how oil drillers use a technique known as fracking. The bill from Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, requires drillers to disclose the chemicals used and acquire permits before they use hydraulic fracturing. That process involves injecting water, sand and chemicals into deep rock formations to release oil or natural gas. Drilling companies have been exploring whether fracking could help them access oil in California's Monterey Shale. Pavley's bill passed the Legislature last week amid concerns from some conservation groups over lastminute changes affecting environmental reviews. Several groups urged Brown instead to temporarily halt fracking until officials can evaluate whether there are risks to public health. Brown said in his signing message that SB4 ''establishes strong environmental protections and transparency requirements,'' but that he will seek some additional changes next year to clarify the new requirements. His spokesman, Evan Westrup, declined to elaborate on what those amendments will attempt to address. The governor added in his message that he will direct the state Department of Conservation to group drilling permits based on factors such as geologic conditions and environmental impacts when possible as a way to boost efficiency. He also said the department's permit-review system should allow for ''more particularized review'' of permit applications when necessary. Other provisions of the legislation, which will take effect in January, will require oil companies to test groundwater and notify neighboring landowners before drilling. State officials will have to complete a study by January 2015 evaluating risks of fracking and other well-stimulation techniques, such as using acid to break apart oil-rich rocks. All California oil wells have been subject to the same regulations, with no specific rules for those using hydraulic fracturing. The Department of Conservation also has been crafting fracking regulations that officials hope to finalize next year. Tupper Hull, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, said Friday that the legislation will give the industry a framework for energy exploration in the Monterey Shale. ''There's no question that there is a great deal more reporting and permitting that will be required,'' Hull said. ''This will add cost and time to bringing energy to market, and the industry will have to adapt to those regulations.'' Brown also signed a bill from state Sen. 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