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Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Obituary Senate campaigns enter sprint to finish LOS ANGELES (AP) — Creating an aura of Willie Joe McBrayer, Sr. Heaven became a little brighter today, and the world a little lonelier for the Family of Willie Joe McBrayer of Corning, as he passed through an angel’s arms into the cradle of heaven on October 28th, 2010 at his home. He re- united in Heaven with loved ones who went be- fore him, his mother Ida Arterbury McBrayer, and his father Clarence Tillman McBrayer. Willie will be remembered as a loving Husband, Fa- ther, Brother and Grandfa - ther. Willie was an avid fisherman, hunter and gar- dener. He was always hap- py and willing to teach anyone who showed an in- terest in his passions. He will also be remembered for the hours he spent with family and friends on the local diamonds of the Little League fields. He was born in Hope Ar- kansas on December 16th 1932, the first child of Clar- ence and Ida McBrayer. He shared 53 years of his life with his wife Mary. He served in the United States Air Force from 1950- 1952 at Camp Hahn in Riv- erside California. He was also a dedicated worker who after leaving the Air Force drove truck for forty five years prior to retiring from T-5 Trucking. Willie is survived by his wife Mary Moore McBrayer, his four children Joi Gonza- lez and partner Alton Thur- ston of Riverside Ca. Joe McBrayer and wife Kori of Corning, Melissa Gove and husband Randy of Eldorado Hills, Ca. Angel Mason and husband Laine of Corning. He also leaves nine grand- children. Chancey, Jason, Bo, Alecia, Breanna, Josh- ua, Morgan, Adam, and Hunter. He is further survived by siblings, Richard his victory was the strategy Monday for Democrat- ic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican chal- lenger Carly Fiorina, as the two sought to ener- gize their campaigns for one last day before vot- ers go to the polls. With Fiorina trying to pull off one of the biggest upsets in the country, both candidates are treating the race as close. They said the outcome could depend on which side does the best job getting supporters to cast ballots. ‘‘When you look at all the polls, we’re doing well. Some we’re winning by a little. Some we’re winning by a lot,’’ Boxer said outside a diner near Hollywood. ‘‘The truth is, the people have to vote. If we have a decent turnout, I’ll be back in the Senate fighting for Californians.’’ Fiorina’s campaign was hoping undecided voters would flock to her side Tuesday. She appealed to those upset with the direction of the state and nation, saying Boxer had her chance to fix things, and it was time to put someone else in charge. ‘‘We can’t make things right by doing the same things over and over again,’’ Fiorina told the crowd of about 75 supporters at a campaign stop in Elk Grove near Sacramento. Boxer was teaming up with gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown on Monday, while Fiori- na had three scheduled stops around the state. Boxer joined Brown in speaking to hundreds of potential voters in a courtyard outside the public library in downtown Los Angeles. ‘‘Tomorrow, the future of our state is on the ballot, and if we work our hearts out over the next 32 hours, we will win and Californians will win,’’ Boxer said. Boxer also said Fiorina’s political philosophy doesn’t fit California. ‘‘She’s for Sarah Palin’s values. Sarah Palin endorsed her. I’m for California values, and I’ve AWARD Continued from page 1A ing one that was arson in the 1950s, much of what had been shipped to California was destroyed. Sometime after World McBrayer of Richfield, Do- ris Branham of Corning and Mary Ruth Hall of Paradise. Services will be held graveside 1pm Saturday November 6th at the Paskenta Cemetery. Donations in Willie’s memory may be made to the American Heart Associ- ation. Death Notices Laura M. Chamblin Laura M. Chamblin of Red Bluff died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. She was 52. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. James Morris James Morris of Corn- ing died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 in Los Molinos. He was 35. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Rudolph L. Turner Rudolph L. Turner died Monday, Nov. 1, 2010 in Red Bluff. He was 80. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Community Clip? e-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com War II when monks were on their way to start the Cister- cian monastery in Vina the monks took a tour of the city of San Francisco where they learned of the stones from the Spanish monastery. One of the young monks, who 15 years later would become the abbey’s superior and eventually the abbot, began to dream of having the stones returned to Cistercian soil. In 1994 funding was found for the stones to be transported to Vina and nine years later the reconstruction in Vina, which is still going on today, began. “This is something that will have tremendous impact on your community,” McMullin said. “It will become a religious, historic and artistic pilgrimage.” There are only three monastic reconstructions in the United States, he said. What makes the recon- struction remarkable is this is the only one that is authenti- cally rebuilt just as it was in Spain, with all the stones from a single building and will be used for its original purpose. The chapter house is a place where the commu- nity can come together to lis- ten to the abbot read a chap- ter from the rule of Saint Benedict, of which there are 70 chapters with at least 20 rules in each chapter, he said. “I welcome you all to POLLS Continued from page 1A dates seeking three seats on the Red Bluff City Council. Six people are vying for two open seats on the Corning City Council, and one candidate is challenging the incumbent in the mayoral race. 99 Continued from page 1A the scene, the CHP ini- tially said two people from the Honda were killed in the crash. Inves- tigators later said they couldn’t find any evi- dence of a second vic- tim, but haven’t com- pletely ruled it out. A second crash occurred as a Ford Expe- dition northbound on 99 braked to avoid hitting the Honda and was rear- ended by a Toyota van carrying six men. The Expedition left the area, and no one was injured in the van, the CHP said. Flying debris likely hit several other vehi- cles, but the CHP said got news: Sarah Palin does not speak for Cali- fornia,’’ Boxer said. ‘‘My oppo- nent wants tax breaks for mil- lionaires and billionaires. I want tax breaks for hardworking middle-class families and small business- es.’’ Fiorina has pushed to retain the tax breaks of 2001 and 2003 for all taxpayers regardless of income. She has said that increasing taxes would punish the very people who are needed to revive the economy — small business owners and entrepreneurs. Fiorina also stopped at the Pasadena Repub- lican Club, where she greeted campaign volun- teers. She said she will win Tuesday because Californians were dissatisfied with the status quo. ‘‘When 70-plus percent of the people believe our nation is headed in the wrong direction, you don’t vote for someone who has been in Wash- ington, D.C., for 28 years,’’ Fiorina said. ‘‘You vote for someone who has created jobs. You vote for someone who has cut spending.’’ The race also was playing out on the air- Boxer waves, where the two sides were hammering each other. One Boxer ad saturating the Los Angeles market focused on Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett- Packard and portrays her as someone who laid off some 30,000 workers and outsourced many come visit,” McMullin said. “I’d be very pleased to enter- tain you and your guests if you come to the abbey.” The building, one of sev- eral projects the abbey is undergoing, will be about 1,500 square feet, he said. Other projects include a wel- come center, an atrium, a parking lot, a gift shop, a cloister walk, an archive and museum, a church and a courtyard complete with a fountain. The Outstanding Public Service Award kicked off the awards ceremony with Patrick Scott of the Red Bluff Lions Club presenting the award to Deborah O’Connor. Vici Miranda of the Soroptimists Internation- al of Red Bluff presented Marilyn Long with Senior Citizen of the Year and Exchange Club President Ben Hughes presented Irene Fuller with Woman of the Year. Val Lucero of Rotary Club presented Bryer J. Whetstone with Young Farmer of the Year and Jeff Moyer, president of Sunrise Rotary presented William Hill with Volunteer of the Year. Jill Botts was presented Board Member of the Year by Burt Bundy of Central Tehama Kiwanis and Lynette Faulkner was pre- sented Teacher of the Year by Tehama County Superin- tendent of Schools Larry Champion. Cornerstone Community Bank was pre- sented Business of the Year by Tehama County Farm Bureau President Richard Edsall and Bill and Jean Bar- ton were presented Farmer of the Year by John Gentry of Red Bluff Kiwanis. FINAL Continued from page 1A After shaking hands and taking pictures with volunteers, Whitman sat down with four women in a cubicle and made five phone calls asking for support. She rang a cow bell after hanging up one call, signaling one more vote. The former CEO was also meeting with volun- teers in Costa Mesa, San Diego and Temecula. In San Diego, hun- dreds of supporters packed an outdoor Mex- ican restaurant in a his- toric area of the city for a morning rally for Brown, who watched tortillas being made as music played across the street. He said California faces a multibillion-dol- lar budget deficit that will require compromise to reduce. Brown, who is now the state attorney gener- al, often tangled with lawmakers during his first tenure as governor from 1975 to 1983. ‘‘I just try to tell it like it is. And when I’m up there in Sacramento, I’ll tell it straight,’’ Brown said. ‘‘To get through the difficulty and get Republican and Democrat working together, you’ve got to be honest, you’ve got to be inclusive and you’ve got to be fair.’’ Later in the day, Brown left Los Angeles A number of school board races will be decided, including three seats on the Red Bluff Union High School Board of Trustees. There are seven candidates in the race. Of the 17,502 vote-by-mail bal- lots sent out, 9,500 have been returned, which is slightly more than half. For those who have not returned those motorists were gone by the time they got to the crash site, about two miles north of the Butte-Tehama county line. Munson, of Medford, Ore., drives for RB Brown Trucking of Cen- tral Point, Ore. He said he was delivering a load of timber to Oroville to of those jobs overseas while receiving a huge financial wind- fall herself. It’s a theme Boxer has repeated for months, and one the Fiorina cam- paign calls hyp- ocritical because the sen- ator had accept- ed contributions from scores of companies using overseas work forces. Fiorina Fiorina and groups such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee were sending a message akin to ‘‘throw the bums out.’’ ‘‘If we re-elect Barbara Boxer, nothing will change,’’ says the Republican committee’s ad. At Boxer’s first campaign stop of the day near Hollywood, she talked with diners at Patys Restaurant, a spot popular with movie crews. Bob Neches, an independent voter, said he supports Boxer because he’s disturbed by what he views as an overreaction by tea partiers regarding steps taken by President Barack Obama to help the economy. ‘‘I think it takes time,’’ said Neches, a North Hills resident. ‘‘This was more than a recession. The country was in a mess and he did what he could to bring it back.’’ While Boxer has insisted that congressional measures helped avert a depression, Fiorina has pointed to the state’s 12.4 percent unemploy- ment rate as proof that the policies Democrats enacted during the past two years have failed. for Salinas then planned to wrap up his campaign with a fireworks show in his hometown of Oak- land, the city where he once served as mayor. Both candidates delivered their closing arguments to voters in what has become Cali- fornia’s most expensive gubernatorial race in history. Public opinion polls have shown Brown is leading Whitman, a bil- lionaire former chief executive of eBay Inc. who has spent nearly $142 million of her per- sonal fortune on her first run for political office. A Field Poll last week showed Brown with a double-digit lead — 49 percent to 39 percent — over Whitman among likely voters. But Whit- man and her supporters say they believe the same energy behind Republicans nationwide will result in a GOP sweep in California and overcome a 13 percent- age point Democratic voter registration advan- tage. When asked about those polls, Whitman said she believes the race was closer than those surveys indicated. ‘‘The only poll that matters is tomorrow,’’ she said Monday in Woodland Hills. ‘‘Our polls look great. We’re going to battle it out to the end. I feel great about where we are.’’ Whitman made a brief stop at her Orange their vote-by-mail ballots, it is too late to send it in the mail. But ballots can be dropped off at any polling location throughout the county, the Tehama County Elections Depart- ment at 444 Oak St., Room C or the drop off box at the Tehama County Library, 645 Madison St. All ballots have to be returned by 8 p.m., which is also when the polls be made into pencils. 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Whitman has tried to cast herself as a ‘‘proven job creator’’ who would be ready to tackle the state’s deficit with deep cuts to public payroll and entitlement pro- grams, while boosting the economy with the classic GOP approach of deregulation and tax cuts. Brown said voters only need to look at his track record as governor to see that he will bring an inclusive approach to governing. ‘‘Everybody’s got something to contribute and we want a govern- ment that’s made up of all of us,’’ Brown said.