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Wednesday, November 10, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Obituary MARVA JACKSON At 51 years of age, Marva Jackson of Red Bluff, CA passed away Wednesday, October 27, 2010. She was born to Marvin and Climite Jackson on January 6, 1959 in Harvre, Montana. She moved to Red Bluff, CA at the age of 5 and graduated high school from Red Bluff High in 1977. DMV Continued from page 1A The five-week closure Marva worked for the Tehama County Sheriff’s Depart- ment for 17 years. She considered her co-workers as her extended family. She will be missed and loved by all who knew her. Marva touched many lives. She is survived by her son, Dominique Alexander; father, Marvin Jackson of Red Bluff, CA; sisters and brothers-in-law; Sheila and Ike Wardley of El Sobrante, Twalla and Jim McCarthy of Yuba City, Pamela Pennington and Shell Wheaton of Long Beach, Patsy and Andy Hall of Red Bluff; nieces and nephews, Amber Hall, Ashley Claxton, Alaysia Emile, Collin Chandler, Brandon Emile and Keontea Jackson. Marva was preceded in death by her mother, Climite Jackson and nephew Tyrone Jackson. A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 13th at 11am at the Calvary Chapel on Paskenta Road, Red Bluff. In lieu of flowers, please make donations by calling the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 CELTIC Continued from page 1A Chieftains and Pogues; rock, and Australian indigenous music. It's an amazingly seductive marriage, one that never fails to turn new faces into fans, an audience that continues to grow with Craicmore's aggressive touring and the release of its second critically acclaimed CD, “Too bad for heaven, too good for hell.” Craicmore doesn't do rebel songs and it doesn't do drinking songs. What Craicmore does do is sing "Cunla" in Irish, in three-part harmony, deliver “Mairi's Wedding” complete with electric bass solo, and feature conga drum in their show-stopping jig and reel combi- nation, “Cliffs of Moher” and “Sally gardens.” The concert is included for the 475 Community Concert Series members, but single tickets will be sold while they last for $20 adults, $15 for students 18 and younger. Tickets can be purchased at the door by cash or check. Membership, which includes admission to the remaining three concerts of the season, is $50 for adults, $15 for students 18 and younger and $115 for families. Presented by Tehama County Community Concert Association. For more information, call 727-8727 or visit http://tehamacommunityconcerts.org/. GOP candidate maintains lead in state’s AG contest SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican Steve Cooley is keeping his lead over his Democratic oppo- nent in the too-close-to-call attorney general’s race. Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, was leading San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris by 36,000 votes on Tuesday. The gap represents a difference of just half a percentage point. The secretary of state says nearly 8 million ballots have been tallied, with 1.3 million left to count before Nov. 30. Democrats swept the other statewide offices. PG&E executive snoops on SmartMeter critics SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. executive admits he secretly snooped on SmartMeter critics by posing online as a utility foe. SmartMeter program senior director William Devereaux told the San Jose Mercury News on Monday that he used a false name to try to join an online group opposed to the meters and secretly monitoring other online forums critical of PG&E. Activists discovered the subterfuge last week when Dev- ereaux tried to join the California EMF Coalition, which maintains an online discussion group for those concerned about electromagnetic radiation. Devereaux’s e-mail address was the 45-year-old utility executive’s undoing. He says monitoring Internet activity is part of under- standing what PG&E customers are thinking. Cal State committee votes for tuition hike LONG BEACH (AP) — California State University is expected to hike tuition 15.5 percent by next fall after finance committee trustees voted for the increase to offset state funding cuts. Trustees on the board’s finance committee voted Tues- day to raise tuition for undergraduate, graduate and creden- tial programs by 5 percent in the winter and spring terms and another 10 percent starting next fall. That means a resident undergraduate now paying $4,230 annually would pay $4,884 in the 2011-2012 school year. The full board of trustees will vote on the plan Wednes- day. CSU has raised tuition four times since 2007 as it strug- gles with a drop in state funding. The new tuition hikes would raise about an additional $175 million annually for the 23-campus CSU. Lawsuit seeks protections for the Pacific fisher SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two environmental groups are suing California wildlife officials seeking stronger pro- beginning Friday is for repairs and upgrades, which include installing new flooring, interior painting and other con- struction work. The easiest way to accommodate this project is to close the office com- pletely for the duration of the repairs, DMV officials said. The 21-year-old office, at 675 Monroe St., has not had any substantial work done on it since it opened in 1989. The office is scheduled to reopen at 8 a.m., Dec. 20. Customers are being directed to other field offices. The next closest DMV is 30 miles away in Redding at 2135 Civic Center Drive. Other nearby offices are in Chico, 40 miles away, at 500 Cohasset Road, and Willows, 47 miles away, at 815 N. Humboldt Ave. A live wait-time for each field office is avail- able online to help cus- tomers determine which location is most conve- nient for them during the time they plan to go, DMV spokesperson Jan Men- doza said. Customer flow to the surrounding offices will be closely monitored and technicians will be ABOUND Continued from page 1A American Legion Commander Jessie Neff said he hopes the public will stop by and talk with veterans to help celebrate the day. A salute to fallen comrades begins at 11 a.m. Other opportunities for Tehama County residents include a trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park, which will have free admission for all visitors Thursday in honor of America’s service men and women. Visitors are welcome to stop by the Kohm Yah-Mah-Nee Visitors Center, which is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or visit ww.nps.gov for infor- mation on activities available at the TOYS Continued from page 1A A similar ordinance has already been approved in California’s Santa Clara County, where it affected about a dozen restaurants. Newsom, meanwhile, said he plans to veto the ordinance, which he called an ‘‘unwise and unprece- dented governmental intru- sion into parental responsi- bilities and private choices.’’ The mayor issued a state- ment after Tuesday’s vote saying the city must contin- ue to combat childhood obe- sity but the ordinance takes the wrong approach. ‘‘Parents, not politicians, should decide what their children eat, especially when it comes to spending their own money,’’ Newsom said. The industry, which favors self-regulation, says there is no evidence that San Francisco’s law will halt the expanse of children’s waist- lines and the diseases associ- ated with obesity, such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. moved as needed to pro- vide the best customer ser- vice possible during the renovation process. The Red Bluff office has five full-time employees and one part-time employ- ee who handle some 69,000 transactions each year. Those employees will be shifted to other field offices, Mendoza said. Customers are encour- aged to forgo office visits and complete transactions online or by telephone. Online services include setting appointments for written and driving tests, vehicle registration and driver license renewals, selection of personalized license plates, changes of address and payment of park. Information is available at 595-4480. Shasta College will be holding a celebration at 1 p.m. at the Veterans Grove on its Redding campus next to the campus quad. Shasta College Veterans Certify- ing Officer Julie Reynolds will act as mistress of ceremonies. Speakers will be Shasta College President Gary Lewis, Jim Crooks, Jonathan Edwards Shuler and Jim Barton. Shasta College Chamber Choir will perform with soloist Robert Waterbury, trumpet solo by Briar Segal and a reading by Diana Hamar. The Cascade Theatre in Redding, along with Redding Radio and Anselmo Vineyards, is hosting a fundraiser Friday for a chapel being McDonald’s and Burger King Corp. are among 17 major food and beverage marketers who have signed on to the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, a self-regulation effort run by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. McDonald’s says its meals advertised to children meet government nutrition- al standards, limiting total calories to 600 per meal and capping fats and sugars. The company also agreed to curtail advertising in schools and promote healthy lifestyles in all mar- keting efforts directed at children. ‘‘McDonald’s remains committed to responsible marketing practices, includ- ing advertising and promo- tional campaigns for our youngest customers,’’ McDonald’s senior vice president for marketing, Neil Golden, said in a statement to The Associated Press. McDonald’s sent several senior executives and others to San Francisco to oppose the measure in person. As it was being drafted, amended and discussed over tections for a forest dwelling mammal called the Pacific fisher. Lawyers for the Center for Biological Diversity and Earthjustice say the fisher, related to the mink and wolver- ine, are almost extinct in Washington and Oregon, and that two small populations in California deserve state endan- gered species protection. A spokeswoman for the California Fish and Game Com- mission, which has denied endangered species protections for the fisher, declined to comment. Fishers once thrived in the old-growth forests of the west, but they’ve been killed as logging and development have shrunk their habitat. The center originally filed a petition in January 2008 to protect the fisher. Electricity for marijuana causes NorCal house fire SANTA ROSA (AP) — Fire authorities say electrical wiring for an indoor marijuana nursery ignited a house fire in Santa Rosa. Battalion Chief Jack Piccinini says Monday’s fire was reported by a neighbor who saw flames coming from the garage of a single-story home. Piccinini said the blaze caused about $20,000 in damage to the garage where firefighters found marijuana plants and various pot growing equipment. Piccinini said the electrical wiring wasn’t upgraded to support the operation. He said fires related to marijuana growing operations have become increasingly common. Police were trying to determine if the marijuana was being legally grown. Woman convicted in murder of Sacramento artist SACRAMENTO (AP) — A woman accused of setting up a robbery that turned into a brutal stabbing of a Sacra- mento artist has been convicted of murder. Nadine Klein faces up to life in prison after being found guilty Monday for the June 2009 killing of James Arthur. The verdict came in her retrial after jurors could not reach a unanimous decision earlier this year. Witnesses testified in the two trials that the 21-year-old Klein helped two men, Johnathan Baker and Jeremy Ack- fees via secure debit trans- actions. The DMV website is www.dmv.ca.gov. Cus- tomer service is available at (800) 777-0133. The Red Bluff facility is one of several offices slated for maintenance or repair projects during the year. DMV usually sched- ules about a dozen office closures each year for varying lengths of time to make infrastructure improvements or for equipment installation. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.co m. built at the Northern California Vet- erans Cemetery in Igo. The event, which costs $20, includes the showing of the movie Taking Chance, which is the true story of a 19-year-old Marine who was killed in action in Iraq. The movie follows the Lt. Col. who escorts the remains to Wyoming. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the movie begins at 7:30 p.m. Several offices will be closed for the day Thursday, including all Tehama County offices, Red Bluff City Hall and local schools. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. several months, Corporate Accountability ran a local newspaper advertisement signed by physicians, com- munity activists and small restaurants that called on Board of Supervisors swing voter Bevan Dufty to sup- port the measure. Dufty eventually did so, saying San Francisco should not wait for the federal gov- ernment to act and should serve as an example to other cities. ‘‘I don’t care how much they say, ’It’s San Francisco, they’re whacked out there, it doesn’t matter,’ the reality is they’re taking notice,’’ Dufty said. Scott Rodrick, who owns 10 McDonald’s restaurants in San Francisco, is worried the new ordinance could hurt his business because families account for many of his customers and they could drive a mile away to another city to buy Happy Meals. ‘‘I think this legislation on the margin is a lot of mis- placed energy,’’ Rodrick said. ‘‘For the government to step in and tell me where I feed my kids and how I feed my kids is not a good day for STATE BRIEFING erman, enter Arthur’s house. Prosecutors said that during the course of the robbery, Baker stabbed Arthur when he learned that the victim was gay. They said Ackerman joined in, resulting in Arthur being stabbed 176 times. The two men were convicted of robbery and murder and sentenced to life in prison. Ex-Marines arrested in weapons scheme LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials say they have arrested three former Marines for selling illegal assault weapons to a Los Angeles street gang. 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San Francis- co’s law ‘‘is making the restaurants practice what they preach.’’ The lure of such items is all too familiar to parents like Carmen Sanchez, who was at a San Francisco McDonald’s on a recent evening and said she some- times hears children beg for Happy Meals. ‘‘If the babies don’t get what they want, then they won’t stop crying,’’ Sanchez said.