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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries BOYD ROYSTER HOOFARD April 21, 1927 - October 17, 2013 Boyd Royster Hoofard, born April 21, 1927 in Trousdale, Oklahoma, passed away Thursday, October 17, 2013 at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Red Bluff, California, at the age of 86, surrounded by his family. Boyd was born to Walter and Ester Hoofard. He was the seventh of eight children, raised on and around the family homestead in Oklahoma. He enlisted in the US Navy in 1945. On March 3, 1949 he married Vivian Coleen Sanders. They moved back and forth from Oklahoma and California many times. Boyd is survived by his wife, Vivian; his older brother, Woody; his eight children: Walt, Terry, Kathy, Deanna, Marty, Randy, Mark, and John; his 27 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Boyd loved working with his hands, hunting with his brothers, and telling stories. He was a beloved husband and father and a loyal neighbor. He loved, and was loved by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He will be greatly missed. We, his family, invite all who knew and loved him to share in a celebration of Boyd's life. A service will be held on Saturday, October 26, 2013, at 2pm at the Chapel of Flowers on Walnut Street in Red Bluff, California, followed shortly after by a graveside service. A reception will be held at Vina Community Church in Vina, California at approximately 5pm. Anyone who would like to provide food for the reception can drop it off at Boyd and Vivian's house in Red Bluff. Boyd's life was full of family and love. Grandpa will be forever in our hearts. 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. Leonard Capparelli Leonard Capparelli, of Redding, died Wednesday, Oct. 16, at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento. He was 69. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Barbara English Barbara English, of Redding, died Monday, Oct. 21, at Golden Living Center. She was 75. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Bobby Hunt Bobby Hunt died Saturday, Oct. 19, at his Red Bluff home. He was 61. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. John Soto John Soto died Monday, Oct. 21, at his Redding home. He was 89. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Carole Ann Spurgeon Carole Ann Spurgeon died Sunday, Oct. 20, at her Red Bluff home. She was 70. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Helen Whitechat Helen Whitechat, of Red Bluff, died Saturday, Oct. 19. She was 94. Arrangements are under the direction of Affordable Mortuary. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Mary Worth Mary Worth died Friday, Oct. 18, at her Anderson home. She was 57. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Northern Calif. beachgoers warned of sneaker waves SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Forecasters are warning beachgoers along the Northern California coast to be careful of sneaker waves, large surf and strong currents. The National Weather Service has issued a beach hazards statement through Tuesday afternoon for Sonoma County through southern Monterey County. Beach warnings were also issued further north around Fort Bragg in Mendocino County and Crescent City in Del Norte County. Beachgoers are advised to always keep their eyes on the ocean. Fishermen are being told not to fish from rocks and jetties. 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. BIRD Continued from page 1A be given a citation so he could challenge it in court. Carlson said he told Bird at the time it would be in his best interest if Bird spent his energy on something else. On Aug. 14 Carlson did give Bird a citation after Bird threw a fishing line containing a rubber worm on a spinning rod in to the Sacramento River near the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. When it came time for Bird to offer testimony for his defense, Bird said he objected to the entire case because he had not been afforded his constitutional right to have a jury trial Tehama County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Skillman overruled the objection, citing California Penal Code 19.6. "An infraction is not punishable by imprisonment. A person charged with an infraction shall not be entitled to a trial by jury." Bird said he had nothing else to say — although that would not turn out to be the case. When Skillman handed down his ruling explaining Bird could pay the $460 fine within the next month or obtain a fishing license and have the fine reduced, Bird said he had no intention of paying. Skillman said if that happened, the case would be referred to collections where a $300 civil assessment fee would be added to what Bird owed. HARVEST Continued from page 1A $142,000 over the years for agriculture and higher education scholarships. Gilles said on the warm and sunny Saturday organizers could easily expect about $15,000 to come in. She added that the festival has grown from its humble beginnings, when organizers were ecstatic after PARK Continued from page 1A out there think it took a little while to get this done," Mayor Gary Strack said at the ceremony. "When you talk about the fact that we didn't find out until 2010 that we had the grant … I raising about $1,000 in its first year. "The event just kept growing and growing and growing," Gilles said. First-time festival-goer Britney Sousa, of Red Bluff, said she was coming into town from Chico and had decided to stop by. Sousa was with her 7-year-old son Trevor, and said the festival was very educational in respect to local agriculture. Sousa also got a taste of the product at the organizers' booth, and said, "Anything odd or different, we like to try." For the first time the Orchard think three years to get something like this is great." Council members and city staff had a large audience of area youngsters throughout the morning, patiently waiting to flood the skate park when the ceremony finished. "Most of you skaters and bikers will have some- PRISON Continued from page 1A Brown and state lawmakers want a three-year delay to give proposed rehabilitation programs time to work. Under a new state law, the alternative is to spend $315 million "What happens if I don't pay at all," Bird asked. "I'm not your legal counselor," Skillman responded. It won't be the first time Bird, deemed a vexatious litigant by the court, doesn't pay his courtordered fees. A lawsuit against nowSen. Jim Nielsen, resulted in Bird being ordered to pay $7,497 in attorney fees. Bird never paid those and the fees were eventually dropped when he agreed to abide by a restraining order. Bird, who had made plans in case he was arrested to have his car moved, apologized to the handful of friends who had come to support him for not providing a more entertaining morning. "Free as a bird," he crowed as he left the historic Tehama County Courthouse Wednesday morning. That he was, and likely to be back in court at some point in the future, attempting to hook someone into giving him a chance to challenge the right to a jury trial, the right to fish without a license or whatever else fancies his cause in the future. "I'm going to go fishing again," he said. "I'll go to Glenn County next time." Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Festival hosted the Giant Pumpkin Contest, which usually was held at the Tehama District Fairground. The large pumpkins, which weighed upward of 500 pounds, were moved to reach an even larger audience. The heaviest pumpkin, weighing in at 569 pounds, was entered by Eddie Boyd. "We had an audience of thousands," said Gilles, whose own submission weighed in at 123 pounds. "So that worked." thing to remember the park when you take your first spill," Strack said before gifting some staff members with skateboards of their own. The Corning Skate and Bike Association was credited with successfully lobbying for the skateboard and bike facilities at this fiscal year to house thousands of inmates in private prisons and county jails. If the judges grant the delay, part of the money that would have gone to lease cells would instead go to fund programs designed to keep criminals out of prisons. Under the court order, the state must reduce the population of its 7A the park. "For 10 years people have been working hard for this skate park to get here," consultant Blaine Smith said. "Let's respect it, let's respect the city and everybody that worked hard to make this park become a reality. And today, let's enjoy it." major prisons to about 110,000 inmates by the end of February. It has taken steps to comply but still is about 4,400 inmates above the population cap set by the courts. Meanwhile, a state Assembly committee on Monday had the first of a planned series of hearings on problems with the state prisons system that led to the judges' orders. New talks raise hopes for end to SF transit strike OAKLAND (AP) — Representatives of the San Francisco Bay Area's transit rail system and its striking unions returned to the bargaining table Monday, raising hopes among the region's frustrated commuters that a four-day work stoppage that has gridlocked highways and doubled travel times is about to end. Bay Area Rapid Transit officials hoped to have an agreement in place by Monday evening so trains could begin running on the system's 104 miles of track by Tuesday, BART spokesman Rick Rice said. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 President Antonette Bryant confirmed the talks but declined to comment further. ATU represents station agents, train operators and clerical workers who walked off the job early Friday along with mechanics and maintenance workers represented by the Service Employees International Union. Contract negotiations had broken down over work rules for scheduled hours and overtime. Area residents who endured long lines for crowded buses and ferries into San Francisco on Monday offered differing opinions on which side bore more blame for the impasse, but they were unanimous in the view that the public was being unfairly hurt and that the strike had to end. ''We need BART to be running right now,'' Karen Wormley said as she waited for a bus at a BART station in the East Bay city of Walnut Creek, where the line was at least hundred-people deep before dawn. ''I need to get to work.'' Federal investigators, meanwhile, were searching for clues to a weekend train accident that killed a BART worker and a contractor who were struck by an outof-service train while inspecting an above-ground section of track in Walnut Creek. National Transportation Safety Board investigator James Southworth said Monday that the BART employee who was operating the train was a trainee. Southworth said the trainee had held other positions with BART, but he would not say whether the operator was a manager learning to operate the train to provide service during the strike. The train was carrying six BART employees who were on maintenance and training duties and was going 60 to 70 mph during Saturday's accident, he said. The Contra Costa County coroner's office identified the victims as Laurence Daniels, 66, of Fair Oaks and Christopher Sheppard, 58, of Hayward. The four-car train was not carrying any passengers due to the strike. BART has said it had dropped off some vandalized cars to be cleaned and was returning to a train yard under computer control Saturday when it hit the two men. They are the sixth and seventh BART workers to die on the job in the system's 41-year history. It could take several weeks to determine if the work stoppage or the way BART management deployed non-striking workers played a role in the fatalities, Southworth said earlier. The ongoing investigation at the collision site could delay the resumption of service there if the strike's end is imminent, he said. Oklahoma State University transportation engineering professor Samir Ahmed, who has studied rail transit safety, said he would be surprised if the strike did not somehow factor into the accident. ''When you have a strike like what is happening at BART now, communications are poor in general,'' he said. ''The strike environment causes confusion.'' That the two inspectors were hit by a train shows that critical information was not relayed either to the workers on the track or the people operating the train, Ahmed said. Calif. high-speed rail begins search for artifacts SACRAMENTO (AP) — Backhoes began digging up a parking lot in downtown Fresno on Monday in search of underground tunnels and artifacts from an 1880s-era Chinatown neighborhood that lies in the path of California's planned high-speed rail network. An archaeological report prepared by the High-Speed Rail Authority indicates crews could find decades-old artifacts on several properties in the area. It also casts doubt on the existence of the tunnels, which it says are ''questioned by scholars, cultural resource specialists, and the general public alike.'' However, it does not totally rule them out. Community groups say the tunnels that linked businesses, residences, gambling halls and houses of prostitution are critical pieces of history for the nearly dozen ethnic communities that helped found Fresno in the 1870s and 1880s. The Associated Press photographed the tunnels in 2007. ''It's our history, it's Fresno's history, it's valuable history,'' said Kathy Omachi, founder of the group Chinatown Revitalization Inc. ''It's something you can actually put your hand on to say this is our history, and they're going to throw it away.'' The rail authority's plan says it will work with the Fresno Historic Preservation Society to ensure any relevant artifacts are collected, transported and properly stored. The once robust 17-block Chinatown is now just a few streets of rundown buildings. Archaeological reports indicate that by 1885, the area had grown to include homes, stores, a gambling hall and Chinese ''shanties.'' The area was home to Chinese, Japanese, Armenians, Mexican-Americans, Portuguese, Basque, Italians, African-Americans, Germans from Volga, Russians and Greeks. The rail authority plans to buy or seize dozens of area properties through eminent domain to make way for the downtown Fresno high-speed rail station and to shift the current freight railroad tracks to accommodate the first 30-mile stretch of the high-speed rail line. The rail authority's 2011-12 construction plan review said officials had identified no archaeological resources of concern, despite a 2007 excavation that the archaeological review said had found ''an intact artifact deposit consisting of 19th century Chinese artifacts directly beneath'' a layer of burned soil that could have ''historic deposits with integrity and research potential.''