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Thursday, October 10, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries 7A Trailer burns outside Red Bluff pharmacy SAMUEL FAZIO October 10, 1926 - September 28, 2013 SAMUEL FAZIO, 86, passed away on Saturday, September 28, 2013 at his residence in Red Bluff, California. He was born on October 10, 1926 in Buffalo, New York. His parents were James Nick and Frances Mildred Fazio. Samuel served in the United States Navy during World War II. He worked for McDonnell Douglas for thirty years and then retired to Northern California to work on his prune farm. Samuel attended the Sacred Heart Church and belonged to the Moose, Elks, Sons of Italy and the Rod and Gun Club. He loved dancing, hunting, fishing, camping, and having his family together. He leaves behind his children; Nancy Spencer of Galena, Francis Fazio of Los Molinos and Nick Fazio of Southern California; his six grandchildren, Richard Lakin, Jaysen Kitchens, Shelly Mayberry, Amanda Fazio, Nichole Felder, and Jimmy Fazio; twelve great-grandchildren, Richie Lakin, Sammy Lakin, Kylee Lakin, Damien Mayberry, Taycie Mayberry, Audrey Felder, Abigail Felder, Allison Felder, Geneive Clark, Trinity Clark, Carter Fazio, Parker Fazio and good friend Jacqueline Haseltine. His wife Irma Fazio preceded him in death. A graveside service will be held at the Los Molinos Cemetery, Friday, October 11, 2013 at 1:00pm. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Donna Juanita (Steven) Piltz Donna joined her beloved Raymond on Friday, October 4, 2013. She was born on August 21, 1919 in Kevin, Montana on the US/Alberta border. At the age of seven, she travelled with her parents and siblings to Red Bluff, CA, where her father found work with the Division of Highways (now Caltrans). Her mother stayed home and cared for the growing brood of Steven children. Donna attended Our Lady of Mercy Academy and Mercy High School in Red Bluff along with her two sisters. After graduation, she was employed by the Red Bluff Daily News. She also contributed to the "war effort" when she spent several years living in Berkeley and working at the Richmond Naval Shipyards. Donna met Raymond Piltz in 1946 and they were married on May 3, 1947 in the Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff. They moved to McCloud, CA, where Ray was employed and where they raised their three children. She passed away at the age of ninety four while visiting her sister, Verna, in Red Bluff. She and Ray will now lie side by side in Saint Mary's cemetery in Red Bluff. Awaiting Donna in Heaven are her dear Raymond, and her mother and father, Alice Dionne and John Glen Steven. Also preceding her in death are her four brothers, Clarence, Harold, Gerald, and Glen, and a sister, Cleo. She will also be overjoyed to give her recently departed grandson, Tyler Glen, a big kiss and a hug. Donna is survived and missed by her three children: Patricia Piltz Dionne (Leonard Seitz), John Steven Piltz (Paula), and Robert Raymond Piltz (Sandra). Also surviving are her sister, Verna Schmitz of Red Bluff, grandchildren Richard (Shanti), John Jr. (Gilian), Sandi Lake, David Sotelo (Ngoc) and Eric Piltz. She has six great grandchildren: Raymi and Eliana Piltz, Hannah Matthews, Cheyanne and Jack Piltz, Jacob Sotelo and many nieces and nephews throughout the country. The funeral Mass will be said at Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff on Thursday, October 10 at 2PM. Burial in Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Red Bluff, CA will follow the funeral. A memorial service in McCloud will be scheduled for a later date. Special thanks to Aunt Verna, cousins Mary Agundes, Kathy Schmitz-Sarmiento and Barbara Boggio for their support and unending love and kindness for Mom. Thanks to Mount Shasta and Red Bluff (St. E's) Hospices for their compassionate assistance and to caregiver Hannah Cathey for her expert and loving attention during Mom's last days. We love and miss you, Mom. May you fly swiftly, like the angels, 'til you reach your Heavenly home. Godspeed! Changes sought in state prison isolation policies SACRAMENTO (AP) — Democratic lawmakers on key policy committees said Wednesday that they want to limit California's practice of keeping hundreds of inmates in solitary confinement for years, sometimes decades, as a way of controlling violent prison gangs. They held the first in a planned series of hearings in response to an inmate hunger strike this summer that at one point involved more than 30,000 of the 133,000 inmates in state prisons. The inmates were protesting conditions for gang leaders held in isolation at Pelican Bay and three other prisons. More than 4,000 inmates are currently in the isolation units. Nearly 1,000 have been there for more than five years. Of those, nearly 200 have spent more than 10 years in the unit, and more than 100 have been there at least 15 years. Eighty-four gang leaders have been in isolation for at least two decades, and 23 have served more than a quarter-century in the units. They spend as many as 22 hours of each day alone in tiny cells, are fed through slots in the doors, exercise in fenced enclosures and are confined in cages the size of telephone booths while they receive treatment outside the units. ''There's just so many comparisons to a zoo,'' said Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco. ''We've got to do something about that.'' He and fellow Democrat Sen. Loni Hancock of Berkeley said they will seek to make unspecified changes to state policy or law to restrict their use. They head the Assembly and Senate public safety committees and convened the four-hour hearing. Prison officials emphasized that they already have changed the rules to limit use of the isolation units and let gang members earn their way out through good behavior. Of 528 gang leaders reviewed through last month, 343 were cleared to return to the general prison population. Gang leaders' social contact has been restricted because prison officials and federal prosecutors allege that they have often been able to run violent street gangs from behind prison walls despite officials' best efforts. The lawmakers and advocates acknowledged that some inmates merit solitary confinement for public safety reasons, but said the isolation should be brief and should not preclude indirect social contact like letters and phone calls. ''To be in a sterile hell where it's not only that you are shut off from other people, you are shut off from bird song, a blade of grass — that's profoundly dehumanizing. You don't recover from that,'' said Margaret Winter, associate director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Daily news photo by Andre Byik The Red Bluff Fire Department responded to a car fire about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday outside CVS at 455 S. Main St. in Red Bluff. The fire appeared to be contained to equipment hitched to a pickup truck, which was associated with work being done on the store's roof. 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. Faith E. Bennett Faith E. Bennett died Friday, Oct. 4 at her residence in Gerber. She was 74. Arrangements are under the direction of NewtonBracewell Funeral Home in Chico. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Maribeth Busby Maribeth Busby died Monday, Oct. 7 at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 58. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Dennis Green Dennis Green, of Redding, died Wednesday, Oct. 9 at Marqui Care at Shasta. He was 63. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation and Burial. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Caroline Hall Caroline Hall died Wednesday, Oct. 9 at her Redding home. She was 86. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation and Burial. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Craig R. Lashley Craig R. Lashley, of Redding, died Wednesday, Oct. 9 at Copper Ridge. He was 66. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation and Burial. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Bert Wayne Rau Bert Wayne Rau died Saturday, Oct. 5 at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 88. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Viola Swanson Viola Swanson, of Anderson, died Tuesday, Oct. 8 at Mercy Medical Center. She was 88. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation and Burial. Published Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. New Calif. law expands who can perform abortions SACRAMENTO (AP) — Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants in California will be allowed to perform a type of early abortion under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown. The bill by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, would let those professionals perform what are known as aspiration abortions during the first trimester. The method involves inserting a tube and using suction to terminate a pregnancy. Oregon, Montana, Vermont and New Hampshire already allow nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform those abortions. Previous California law allowed those medical professionals to administer medicine to induce an abortion. Supporters, including Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said expanding who can perform early abortions would provide better health care for women. ''Timely access to reproductive health services is critical to women's health,'' Atkins said in a statement Wednesday. ''AB154 will ensure that no woman has to travel excessively long distances or wait for long periods in order to obtain an early abortion.'' Setting it straight –––––––– 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. PARK Continued from page 1A skate park. That fencing, which has been installed, is meant to deter children from wandering from the play area into the skate park, according to a staff report. Additionally, council members approved a $4,000 appropriation from FEST Continued from page 1A just one of many projects parents have taken on, Principal Claudia Salvestrin said. The group was responsible for a much-needed makeover in the staff room and work on the playground including the installation of playground lights for safety, she said. The parents have done some landscape work as the beginning of a campus-wide beautification that included new benches out front, and was able to send fourth grade students on a field trip to Sacramento, Salvestrin said. Students on honor roll get a root beer float compliments of the group and at Christmas time the group runs a store with inexpensive items for students to buy for Christmas CREEK Continued from page 1A reaches of the creek, he said. After chopping thousands of dead fish with machetes, it might be six months before the human crew is interested in eating salmon, Garman said. Nobody knows how things could have turned out. In July, the fish got a big boost from PG&E when extra cool water was released during a hot spell. A decade earlier, similar hot weather contributed to the Parkland Development Fund to the Street Projects fund to apply a slurry seal coat on Toomes Avenue from Fig Lane to the south side of Jewett Creek Bridge, which will extend the life of the asphalt near the Corning Community Park and also give the appearance of new asphalt in the area. presents, Shults said. It also runs a fundraiser selling cookie dough to pay for some of what it does and helps out wherever else it's needed, Salvestrin said. "We do things at Back To School Night like add a dinner to make it more convenient for parents and a lot of other events you think of as typical school events," Shults said. "We add the extras to the events and help out where the school needs it." The group, about a dozen parents meets, with others pitching in at the events, twice a week from the beginning of school up to the festival. It switches to once a month at 6 p.m. on the first Monday after that. For more information on the carnival, how to donate raffle prizes or the VIBES group, call 5277171. the spread of disease and the spring salmon run died off in large numbers. This summer, biologist Garman said the cold water made a big difference in the fish population. The water releases are part of a new program by PG&E where weather temperatures are monitored, and cool water is increased when harmful heat is expected. Reach Heather Hacking at 8967758, hhacking@chicoer. com, or on Twitter @HeatherHacking. Have a news tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112