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Saturday, November 9, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries NORA LEE WILLIAMS Our Mama, Nora Lee Williams went to heaven November 4, 2013. She was 90 years old. She is survived by her husband Jackson, three sister-in-laws, and 134 children and grandchildren.he has unnumbered nieces and nephews, and beloved friends. She was preceded in death by one grandchild, Ruthy. Come celebrate her life with us on Saturday, November 9th at 1pm at Trinity Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in Red Bluff. God Bless. 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. CENTER Continued from page 1A existing Red Bluff branch of the Tehama County Library. If not awarded the grant, county officials have discussed moving the Day Reporting Center to the library site anyway. Either way a temporary site for the Day Reporting Center would be needed and that was the focus of Tuesday's agenda item. Supervisors were pre- sented with at least a half dozen options from an airport hanger to construction of a new building on county-owned property. The Community Corrections Partnership has around $500,000 earmarked for property acquisition and site development. In the end the supervisors agreed with Sheriff Dave Hencratt and Chief Probation Officer Richard Muench that a site in the Antelope area and near other county-related prop- VETERANS Continued from page 1A John Goff John Goff, of Redding, died Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Mercy Medical Center. He was 57 Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Alice Hinson Alice Hinson, of Redding, died Friday, Nov. 8, at Oak River Rehab in Anderson. She was 77. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Alvin Lewis Alvin Lewis died Friday, Nov. 8, at his Proberta home. He was 80. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Charlotte Phillips Charlotte Phillips died Friday, Nov. 8, at her Red Bluff home. She was 74. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Study: County approaches differ on prison reforms SACRAMENTO (AP) — A university study released Friday showing how California counties are spending $4.4 billion to implement Gov. Jerry Brown's prison realignment law found that nearly 20 percent have fundamentally changed how they approach criminal justice. The subsidies to counties are guaranteed as part of the 2-year-old law that is sending lower-level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons. The law also leaves it to county probation departments, instead of state parole agents, to supervise those released from prison. In passing the law, state lawmakers urged county officials to increase rehabilitation and treatment programs that could keep more criminals out of prisons and jails, although the local governments were given broad discretion in spending the grants. The study by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, compared, among other indicators, incarceration rates, county budgets and first-year plans for spending the $4.4 billion allocated to local governments by the state expected through the 2016-17 fiscal year. It offers the first statistical analysis of how the state's 58 counties are responding to the governor's criminal justice realignment plan. Researchers identified five counties they called ''the poster counties'' for realignment: Monterey, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara and Shasta. Before realignment, those counties largely emphasized ''a more punitive approach,'' defined as ''sentencing a higher proportion of convicted felons to incarceration.'' Now their plans call for spending more of their state-provided money on treatment programs. Five other counties went in the opposite direction, the study found. They are Alpine, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Imperial and Marin counties. They previously had fewer offenders in custody but planned to use the state money to increase their spending on law enforcement. ''If crime is going up ... then it makes sense what they did, because they're allocating these funds to deal with the problems that realignment is going to cause them, or that they anticipate is going to cause them,'' said study co-author Jeffrey Lin, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Denver. Those counties might be spending heavily now on new deputies and jail cells, but intend to spend more on probation and rehabilitation programs in future years, he said. ''Some of these counties might then start to fall in line with what realignment intended. Not surprisingly, counties are taking care of their most pressing business first,'' he said. Researchers did not try to learn why officials in each county made their spending decisions. Twenty-five of California's 58 counties showed no significant change in their approach to criminal justice, according to the 16-month, $200,000 study. It was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Justice. In fiscal 2011-12, allocations to counties ranged from less than $77,000 for thinly populated Alpine County to nearly $113 million for Los Angeles County. "Wake Island. The Battle (of) Guadalcanal. Iwo Jima," he said, adding, "Hiroshima. Nagasaki. The Enola Gay. Big Boy." Boles said: "For some of you those are very vivid images. Some of you, like me, who think about where we were when we heard those words, we know what we were doing at that time." Metteer School has been hosting its event commemorating Veterans Day, which falls on Monday, for about nine years, said Claudia Threlkeld, a first grade teacher at the school. She said each class, from pre-K to fifth grade, prepared decorated care packages for troops overseas. Among the items included were magazines, videos, pencils, spider rings, seashells and a San Francisco Giants folder. "It's moving," Threlkeld said. Kevin Hernandez, a 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran, said the event means a lot to him as students hugged him and others thanked him for his service. Hernandez, in his second year attending the event, said he appreciates the acknowledgment people give him, but also respects those who served before him, such as in Vietnam, Korea and World War II. final site. A staff report said an even shorter-term location at the Tehama District Fairground may be considered, although that would require periodic closures of the Day Reporting Center and may not accommodate all of its services. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. The Tehama County Young Marines opened the event with the presentation of the color guard, and Metteer School alumna Hope Wilson, now in high school, provided sign language interpretation. A slate of videos were played during the hour and a half event, including those on Veterans Day and the Arlington Cemetery. The Metteer School student body sang "This Land is Your Land," "My Country 'Tis of Thee," and "God Bless the USA." Boles said the event is emotional for him, and it's done for the children. "What they have is because of the vets," he said, adding, "Every school should do this." SHOP Continued from page 1A $45,000 was paid through the county's allotted AB109 funding. The Sheriff's Department estimates in the first year alone the shop saved the department around $98,000 in maintenance costs. Among the success stories was an inmate incarcerated in November 2012 for a non-violent offense. He applied to the program and was accepted as a tire technician. During the next five months he worked through Daily News photo by Rich Greene the program and was hired part time at a local tire California State Association of Counties Senior Legislative dealership. In March 2013 he Representative Elizabeth Howard Espinosa presents Tehama County graduated from the auto Chairman Dennis Garton and Sheriff Dave Hencratt with a 2013 shop program and was Challenge Award Tuesday. hired full-time by the Rich Greene can be ing," Howard-Espinosa program at CSAC's business. upcoming annual confer- reached at 527-2151, ext. "I think what's so said. 109 or rgreene@redbluffHencratt has been invit- ence. important is that it's a prodailynews.com. gram that keeps on giv- ed to present about the PHOTOS Continued from page 1A entire state and she's made it to Tehama County. Hoehn has collected some photos from Tehama County, but still needs a photo or contact with someone who knew Darrel B. Ricker, born 1937 and died 1970, of Corning. Hoehn is asking any friends or relatives of Tehama County veterans whose names appear on the wall to contact her. Those who don't have photos but do know the names of the schools these veterans attended should also get in touch. There are 58,286 on the wall and, to date, the group has collected more than 32,000 photos. Hoehn is also looking for an individual that would like to volunteer to do some footwork if organizers are not able to find all the photos. Write to Hoehn at mauifloralelegance@gmail.com or visit www.vvmf.org/thewall for more information. Health care union seeks nonprofit hospital limits SACRAMENTO (AP) — A union representing health care workers is seeking to put two initiatives on next year's November ballot that would restrict salaries at nonprofit hospitals and limit how much those hospitals can charge patients. The proposed petitions were filed Friday with the state attorney general's office. One would prohibit hospitals from charging more than 25 percent above their cost of providing patient care. The union, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, says state hospitals charge an average of 320 percent more than their actual cost, driving up costs throughout the health care system. The second initiative would cap annual salaries for nonprofit hospital executives at $450,000, the amount paid to the president of the United States. The union says the annual pay for the 10 highest paid nonprofit hospital executives in California averaged $2.6 million in 2011, with one executive drawing more than $7.8 million. Jan Emerson-Shea, a spokeswoman for the California Hospital Association, said the association is disappointed that the initiatives were filed. ''They put a cloud over the accomplishments that have been mutually beneficial to health care workers, hospitals and patients,'' she said in an emailed statement. The union contends the two initiatives, if approved by voters, would reduce hospital prices in California by at least $2.5 billion a year. Union spokesman Simple Cremations 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. erties would be the best fit. Muench cited the routs those reporting to the center take and said it would be preferable if they walked through a business district rather than residential areas. A number of sites were quickly dismissed for being to close to schools, a situation the Day Reporting Center deals with due to its proximity to Bidwell Elementary. There was also a consensus that TRAX access should be considered in a 9A starting at $ .00 929 5530 Mountain View Drive, Redding CA 96033. Call 530-241-3400 to prearrange your wishes • www.BlairsCremation.com FD2153 Sean Wherley said the initiatives target nonprofits, and not all hospitals, because the nonprofits have an obligation to serve their communities. ''In return, they don't have to pay taxes, and yet they're acting with little regard for the communities they're supposed to serve,'' Wherley said. The proposed petitions will receive a title and summary from the attorney general's office before they are submitted to the secretary of state's office and the unions can begin gathering signatures. SEIU is acting after another union-driven attempt to restrict charges by nonprofit hospitals fizzled this year in the state Legislature. AB 975, sponsored by the California Nurses Association, would have required a nonprofit hospital to show why it should keep its nonprofit status if its revenue exceeded spending by more than 10 percent. The bill by Democratic Assemblymen Rob Bonta of Oakland and Bob Wieckowski of Fremont fell short in a 2838 Assembly vote in May. Nonprofits can be granted an exemption from paying state corporate income tax and local property taxes based on factors that include how its earnings are distributed. Private nonprofit hospitals are required to review their community's needs every three years and report annually on how they attempt to meet those needs. But a state audit last year found that nearly 7 percent did not submit the required annual report.