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Friday, November 22, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries RUBY L. McHENRY Ruby L. McHenry, beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother, went to be with her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, on November 14, 2013. Services will be held at 1:00 p.m., November 26, 2013, at Neighborhood Full Gospel Church in Corning, located at 901 South Street. Pastor Ken Killinger will be officiating, with interment following at Sunset Hills Cemetery in Corning. RAYMOND JOHN RENSTROM 1945-2013 Raymond John Renstrom passed away peacefully in Los Molinos, California on November 3, 2013 following a long battle with cancer. Raymond was born in Palo Alto, California on August 3, 1945 to John and Peggy Renstrom. He graduated from Red Bluff High School in 1963 and was a veteran of the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. Raymond was married to the love of his life Sandra Jean (Renstrom)for 32 years before her death in 2006. He is survived by his two children, Timmy and Will Renstrom both of Los Molinos, California. His sisters Dona (Pete) Olson from Manton, California and Susan (Greg) Althoff from Fairbanks, Alaska and brother Tim (Dottie) Renstrom from Dairyville, California. Cremation has been accorded and a memorial service is planned November 22, 2013 at Northern California Veteran's Cemetery in Igo, California. Local services entrusted to Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service Red Bluff, California. 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. Ralph Edward Aderhold Ralph Edward Aderhold died Wednesday, Nov. 20, at his Redding home. He was 82. Arrangements are under the direction of McDonald's Chapel. Published Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Richard Wendley Richard Wendley, of Chico, died Thursday, Nov. 21, at Twin Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Chico. He was 93. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. TEACHERS Continued from page 1A the public comment segment set aside for the no confidence vote. Not being on the formal agenda the trustees used their own Board Reports time to comment on the issue even before Piffero gave the union's statement. Trustee Jack Hansen, who previous to Escobar's hire held the superintendent position in an interim status, said given the climate of change he wasn't surprised the teachers would have concerns. He said he believed some of those concerns would prove to be legitimate, while others would turn out to be a difference of opinion. Hansen then took umbrage with the process the teachers used leading up to their vote, including informing the media of the vote CITY Continued from page 1A The General Fund ended the 2012-13 fiscal year June 30 with a balance of $739,159. The City Council adopted a 2013-14 budget that dipped into the reserves. Those reserves were tapped into again with supplemental budget appropriations to lease new police vehicles and expand the city's Internet service. Another cause for the dwindling reserve is locked-in raises over the next two years with the city's employee unions. Sales tax While the news on the spending side wasn't positive Tuesday, on the revenue side their was optimism. The actual final sales tax for the 2012-13 fiscal year was a 6.4 percent increase over the previous year, according to a report from the city's consultant HdL Companies. Crabtree said that jump could likely be attributed to the addition of several new businesses within the past year. Ryan said staff was projecting a more conservative 2 percent growth over the next two years. For the second quarter of 2013, HdL reported once accounting adjustments and anomalies were factored out net sales in TRUCKERS Continued from page 1A BLADE Continued from page 1A paid off the building's $475,000 mortgage and held a mortgage burning gala. That night PJ Helicopters donated $25,000, which will be used for further restoration efforts. Cornelius said in the past few years $500,000 has been donated. "It's been amazing in the past three years the amount of support we've gotten from the community," he said. Originally constructed in 1946, the blade fell into a state of disrepair in the 1980s, Cornelius said. He believes that's the last time the neon functioned properly. The design is being handled by Fernando Duarte. Some of Duarte's theater work includes Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Ore., Vision Theatre in Los Angeles, The Guild Theatre in Sacramento and Brava Theatre in San Francisco, according to his website. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. New Calif. chemical flame retardant rules adopted SACRAMENTO (AP) — California on Thursday adopted new flammability standards for furniture and other products that would allow manufacturers to stop using chemical flame retardants. Gov. Jerry Brown said the new standards were a badly needed update to nearly 40-year-old rules that led to the widespread use of chemicals known as PBDEs to treat the foam found inside furniture. Current rules require furniture filling to withstand exposure to an open flame, like a candle, for 12 seconds. This is no longer a requirement under the new rules. Instead, manufacturers will reduce fire danger by focusing flammability protection on ignition sources that are more common fire starters, like cigarettes, radiant heaters, extension cords and fireplace embers. Brown said the new standards will keep furniture in homes fire-safe while limiting chemical exposure. ''Today, California is curbing toxic chemicals found in everything from high chairs to sofas,'' Brown said in a statement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says animal studies show PBDEs — polybrominated diphenyl ethers — can affect brain development, but human health effects from low exposure levels are still unknown. California is the only state with a mandatory residential furniture flammability standard, a rule that has become the de facto standard for the rest of the nation. Environmental advocates urged regulators to make changes, saying many of the products containing the chemicals are marketed to children, who are a higherrisk population. ''Today's announcement is a culmination of our long drive to urge the state to update a so-called 'safety' standard that was actually harmful to our health,'' said Michael Green of the Center for Environmental Health, said. The rules require manufacturers to be in compliance by Jan. 1, 2015. 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. fits or emissions reductions that this vitally important regulation will achieve over its lifetime." Funds for fleet upgrades are available to qualified applicants, including $30 million in Prop 1B grants targeted for use by small fleet owners with three or fewer trucks. In addition, state-sponsored loans through the Truck Loan Assistance Program, which recently received $20 million to help small businesses comply with the regulation, are also available. Owners of logging trucks may also be eligible for $3 million in grant monies. For more on funding opportunities, visit: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/truck stop/azregs/fa_resources.htm. In December, Air Resources Board staff will conduct workshops throughout the state to hear comments from local elected officials, industry representatives and stakeholders on staff's planned regulatory changes. A Redding workshop will be held 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Redding City Council Chambers, 777 Cypress Ave. Proposed amendments to the regulation, which are still under development, are expected to provide additional time for owners in specified regions to complete their cleanup efforts. Also, owners of loweruse vehicles throughout the state are POLICY Continued from page 1A older policies has been mixed, with many states that run their own health care exchanges saying they will not follow the president's advice and will let the older policies expire. So far, the Affordable Care Act has fallen far short of expectations on a national scale, in large part because of crippling technical problems with the federally run online marketplaces operating in 36 states. The first set of nationwide data revealed that just 106,000 people had signed up for coverage during the before forwarding the complaints on to Escobar. "Where's the fairness in this situation," he asked. Hansen said the teachers should have made every effort to resolve their complaints at the earliest stage and directly with Escobar. He suggested the board may need to seek a third party arbitrator to investigate the union's claims — a move he said could be timely and expensive. Trustee Barbara McIver asked for everyone involved with the school to remember to preserve the integrity of others as the process moves forward. "We're not going to jump into making rash, fast decisions. We're going to really look into this," Board President Elsa Martinez said. The union gave each trustee a binder of documents to support its complaints and a list expanding on first month of enrollment, fewer than the roughly 500,000 initial sign-ups the Obama administration had expected. Some states that operate their own marketplaces are succeeding at getting people enrolled in new policies. Covered California released its first detailed look at enrollment data on Thursday. Its report said that initial enrollees in California's online health insurance marketplace are trending older. About 56 percent of the 30,830 people who enrolled in October were in the 45- to 64-year-old category. Just 23 percent were age 18 to 34, a younger and typ- Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Now Offering Eco-Friendly urns at economy friendly prices. 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 the generalized complaints handed out to the media. The complaints range from positions not being filled to an accusation Escobar plagiarized large portions of the Entry Plan she wrote in April 2012. The union also claims Escobar asked certain union members to run for offices for her own personal gain, airs in public that the staff is resistant to change and has ignored safety issues despite the death of a student. The union says more than 40 teachers are teaching classes this year that they have never taught before. Escobar began her employment as the district's superintendent July 1, 2012. She declined to comment for this story. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. Tehama County increased 13.3 percent and in Red Bluff 7.2 percent compared to the same time period a year ago. Autos and transportation, building and construction and general consumer good categories showed exceptional growth, according to the report. "Various business types in the building and construction group provided further evidence that the building industry is recovering," the report said. Property tax HdL Companies' report on the city's property tax revenue was also largely positive. The city's final taxable property value is expected expected to gain flexibility options as well. For more information on the specified regions, what constitutes a good faith effort to comply with the Truck and Bus Regulation, or which fleets are being afforded with additional time to comply, truck owners are urged to visit http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/mail outs/msc1328/msc1328.pdf. Anyone with questions on regulatory requirements can visit http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/truck stop/truckstop.htm, call 8666DIESEL, or email 8666Diesel@arb.ca.gov. Call volumes are extremely high as the Jan. 1 deadline draws nearer. Fast Facts: • Diesel exhaust contains a variety of harmful gases and more than 40 other known cancer-causing compounds. In 1998, California identified diesel particulate matter as a toxic air contaminant based on its potential to cause cancer, premature death and other health problems. • The Truck and Bus Regulation was adopted in 2008 to clean up harmful emissions from nearly all heavy-duty diesel trucks operating in California. The Regulation was amended in 2010 to provide economic relief to truckers affected by the recession, particularly small fleets, by delaying the first compliance requirements by one year and extending the time the truck could be operated before needing to be replaced. • The Regulation requires most 9A to show an increase from the prior year for the first time since 2008-09. The median sales price of single family homes sold in Red Bluff through July was up 26.51 percent from the 2012. If it holds it would be the second consecutive year the median price showed an increase from the prior year. The median price declined from a peak of $216,000 in 2006 to a low of $75,000 in 2011. Through July 80 homes have been sold in Red Bluff at a median price of $105,000. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. heavy trucks in California to install soot filters or upgrade to newer models with filters by Jan. 1, 2014, and that nearly all trucks have them installed by Jan. 1, 2016. • Out of the 260,000 trucks registered in California that need a soot filter, about 140,000 are already compliant, with another approximately 100,000 using regulatory flexibility to delay their compliance date. • About 20,000 still need filters by the end of 2013, with 5,000 of these being in large fleets. • For small fleets (three or fewer vehicles), Jan. 1, 2014, is a critical compliance milestone because for the first time at least one vehicle in each fleet will need to comply. ARB estimates that about 15,000 vehicles in small fleets still need to retrofit or upgrade to meet this compliance deadline. • At its October Hearing, the Board heard an update on the Regulation and agreed with staff's proposal to move forward with a number of near-term strategies to provide flexibility while not compromising the overall reduction and health benefits to be achieved by the Regulation. • In 2000, the ARB adopted its Diesel Risk Reduction Plan, a blueprint for developing regulations to address diesel emissions from all sources including garbage trucks, urban buses, construction equipment, port trucks and fuels. For more information, visit http://www.arb.ca.gov/diesel/documents/rrpapp.htm. ically healthier demographic that insurers say they need to make the policies financially viable. Insurers have warned that they need a wide range of people signing up for coverage because premiums paid by adults in the younger and healthier group are needed to offset the cost of carrying older and sicker customers, who typically generate far more in medical bills than they contribute in premiums. Lee, the exchange's executive director, said he expected older people to sign up in greater numbers during the early days of the exchange, as people with pre-existing conditions who had no previous insurance flocked to the site. The proportion of those ages 45 to 64 who signed up on the exchange in the first month far outweighs their representation in California's total population, which is 25 percent. The percentage of younger people who enrolled was roughly proportional to their total population. Enrollees are defined as those who have selected an insurance policy but might not have actually paid for it yet. Overall, the number of people who have chosen an insurance policy had risen to nearly 80,000 as of Tuesday, although the Covered California report did not provide a demographic breakdown for that larger group.