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Saturday, January 8, 2011 – Daily News – 7A Obituary BENJAMIN ANDREW SULLIVAN The happiest baby most had ever known, Benjamin An- drew Sullivan, died in his sleep on December 28, 2010, pronounced on the morning of the 29th. He was born at Saint Elizabeth Community Hospital on June 16 of 2010 at approximately 3 a.m. His survivors present at birth were parents Jozzelle Commerford (mother) and Ned Sullivan (father, Red Bluff), Anne Sullivan (aunt, Red Bluff), Dina (grandmother) and Lorin Short (aunt, both of Lincoln.) Other survivor’s include Cassidy Commerford Mortensen (sister, Chico), Mark and Kathy Sullivan (great-uncle and - aunt, Santa Monica), Kathy Freeman (great-grandmother, also of Lincoln), Joan Commerford (grandmother) and Stephenie Rodwell (aunt, both of Marysville.) Services will be held Monday, January 10, 2011 at 2 p.m. at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers, 816 Walnut Street, Red Bluff, Ca. and will follow at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 565 Berrendos Avenue, Red Bluff, Ca. (handled with care and generosity by the Erick- son family.) Death Notices Doris E. Shoemake Doris E. Shoemake of died Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 in Red Bluff. She was 90. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday Jan. 8, 2011 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. GRAD Continued from page 1A School, who fueled her love for journalism, Threlkeld said. “He really made it alive for me,” she said. Threlkeld, the daughter of Tom and Claudia Threlkeld of Red Bluff, both teachers, is a 2005 Red Bluff Union High School graduate. She will graduate from the Univer- sity of Oregon with an electronic media journal- ism degree in June. Threlkeld said she hopes to go into documen- tary journalism, and would like to work on comedies and maybe even have her own talk show someday. Monday’s National Championship game is scheduled to air at 6 p.m. Monday on ESPN. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. HOME Continued from page 1A with a suspected drunken driver, said resident man- ager Dawn Hansell. Hansell, 59, confirmed that Herrera was the man who was killed in a head- on collision, Nov. 14, 2010, on Highway 99 near Broyles Road, between Corning and Chico. The driver of the car that hit Herrera’s, Robert Barnes, 25, of Corning is facing charges in relation to the crash, according to a Chico Enterprise-Record report. In the collision, Alverez’ sons, Cristian Zaizar, 7, and Emanuel Zaizar Alvarez, 6, were I-5 Continued from page 1A said. “We’ll work as long as we can on having the lane closures for four-lane sec- tions at night, but there will be some day closures in the six-lane section,” Yergenson said. The project, which started in August 2009, is a $35.5 million American Recovery and Reinvest- ment Act project. For more information on recovery projects, visit www.recovery.ca.gov. For more information on the Red Bluff Rehabil- itation Project, call the District 2 Caltrans Public Information Office at 225- 3260. injured and taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The 7-year- old boy later died from his injuries, the article stated. Reports about the Highway 99 accident list- ed Herrera’s residence as Chico, but it may be because that is where his fiance lived, Hansell said. Sheriff’s deputies responded Wednesday when Herrera’s sister Rosaura Sanchez reported the burglary. Investiga- tions led them to Smith’s arrest the following day, two spaces away from Herrera’s vacant mobile home. This it wasn’t the first time Herrara’s home was burglarized. After a wind- whipped fire destroyed nine other homes in the park, Dec. 28, 2009, and burned the door and side of his home, Herrera reported that some unknown person stole eight bottles of cologne, worth $240, as well as a stereo, CDs and a twin- tank air compressor. This week, less than two months after Herrera’s death, deputies found items that were stolen from Herrera’s home, including jewelry, tools and assorted household items inside Smith’s resi- dence, as well as several hypodermic syringes, a sheriff’s press release said. Smith was booked and later released on a $12,500 bond. Considering all the trauma Herrera and his family experienced, Hansell commented on the arrest. “I can’t figure out how someone can be like that,” Hansell said. “It doesn’t make sense.” Hansell, who had talked to Herrera the day before the fatal collision, said Herrera’s mother planned to move into his mobile home. The home, patched and repaired since the 2009 fire, remains vacant. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. BROWN Continued from page 1A would serve as an unpaid adviser. He already announced he would STATE BRIEFING Redding man accused of baseball bat attack on son REDDING (AP) — The father of an 8-year-old boy who police found bloodied and beaten with a baseball bat is under arrest on suspicion of attempted murder. Redding police say 53-year-old Geoffrey Kelly flew into a rage on Thursday morning and struck his son multiple times with an aluminum baseball bat. The Record Searchlight of Redding reports that the child was taken to a Sacramento hospital, he remained in critical condition Friday. The boy’s mother told police she was stirred from sleep by the attack and found Kelly standing near the boy’s bed. Police say Kelly has a criminal history, and in Feb- ruary he was arrested after threatening officers with a hammer and stabbing himself with a knife. Kelly is being held in Shasta County jail on $500,000 bail. NorCal couple killed in Plumas County plane crash CHESTER (AP) — Authorities say a Northern Cal- ifornia man and his wife were killed in a plane crash near a rural airport. The Plumas County Sheriff’s Department identified the pilot Friday as 76-year-old Ronald Gilmore of Chester. Sheriff’s Cmdr. Gerry Hendrick says the impact of Thursday night’s crash was so severe that investigators still can’t positively confirm that the passenger’s body was that of Gilmore’s wife, Janet. However, he says he believes she was the other victim. The wreckage of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza was found about a quarter-mile from Rogers Field Airport. It’s unclear whether Gilmore was attempting to land or take off. for potential flooding MANTECA (AP) — Crews are making emergency repairs to an eroding levee south of the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta in case a heavy mountain snowpack cause flooding problems this spring. Ron Baldwin, director of San Joaquin County’s Office of Emergency Services, said Friday that an unusually rainy December has caused water to rise high enough that it could start to damage the levee. A December survey found that snowpack along the Sierra Nevada is holding nearly twice as much water than usual for this time of year. Officials are starting to worry that when the snow melts, the flow of water will place more pressure on the San Joaquin River’s flood control system. The river has a far smaller channel capacity than the Sacramento River and no large flood bypasses to capture overflows. Calif AG calls for better access to generic drugs LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s top prosecu- tor is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to bar drug companies from making agreements with competitors to keep quiet about generic versions of their brand name drugs. California Attorney General Kamala Harris says the practice, called ‘‘pay-for-delay,’’ artificially boosts drug prices. Harris is joined by 31 other attorney gen- erals in the amicus brief filed Friday. The Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments in the case against Bayer Corporation next week. The drugmaker allegedly paid competitors $400 million in an agreement not to market generic versions of the pop- ular antibiotic, Cipro. Harris’ brief supports a private antitrust lawsuit filed by drug wholesalers, pharmacies and other direct pur- chasers of Cipro. Calif man admits bomb threat to federal office SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Sacramento man has pleaded guilty to making a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of a federal office. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Sacramento says William Berumen entered his plea Friday. The threat charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Prosecutors say the 40-year-old Berumen left three threatening telephone messages with the federal defender’s Sacramento office in October 2009. He left two more messages in January 2010. The building was evacuated on both days. The defender’s office represents those charged with federal crimes who can’t afford their own attorney. Prosecutors say Berumen was not a client of the office but was generally angry at the criminal justice system. He’s set to be sentenced on March 25. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Vote delayed on Calif air Crews fix Calif levee, prep pollution program LOS ANGELES (AP) — After more than two hours of public comment, the governing board of Southern California’s anti-smog agency postponed voting Friday on a controversial plan that would allow companies to pollute by purchasing emission credits. The South Coast Air Quality Management District board instead decided to vote on the issue at its February meeting. The Clean Air Act allows for the creation of a mar- ket where a company that reduces pollution can sell the credits to other facilities that produce emissions. It’s the third time since 2006 the board has taken up the issue. Previous efforts resulted in lawsuits from environmental groups that continue to raise concerns about the way the agency develops its pollution credits. In 2009, a court imposed a moratorium on trading credits. The state Legislature later lifted the moratori- um but that decision will lose effect in 2012. ‘‘The strategy of the plaintiffs is to draw this out as long as they can,’’ district executive officer Barry Wallerstein told The Associated Press. ‘‘We have spent a great deal of time on a new environmental report.’’ Supporters urged the board Friday to move forward with the plan, saying they needed to preserve a balance between the struggling economy and public health. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Caltrans workers, shown working on paving near the closed southbound Interstate 5 off-ramp to Diamond Avenue, were still picking up cones Thursday morning, which caused traffic to back-up. cut the inspector general’s office overseeing stimulus funding. The administration estimated it will save another $1.9 million by eliminating the education secre- tary’s office. The secretary acted as the gover- nor’s chief liaison to the appointed state Board of Education but the position was a revolving door under the Schwarzenegger administration, partly because the office had limit- ed authority over schools and edu- cation policy. Man arrested after being found with minor A woman reported finding someone in bed with her niece around 1:45 p.m. Thursday, which led to the arrest of a 23-year-old man, Red Bluff Police officers said. Trey Ryan Forsythe, a transient from the San Luis Obispo area, was booked into the Tehama County Jail on charges of being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was arrested in the 200 block of Wash- ington Street and initially gave officers a false name, police said. Red Bluff Police confirmed that Forsythe was a sus- pect in the incident, but were unable to provide any fur- ther information due to a minor being involved. - Andrea Wagner Calif funeral planned for Hmong leader Vang Pao FRESNO (AP) — Vang Pao, a fabled military hero and beloved father figure among the international Hmong refugee community, will be honored with a massive funer- al ‘‘fit for a king’’ in central California, the general’s son said Friday. Vang Pao led Hmong guerrillas in their CIA-backed bat- tle against communists during the Vietnam War. He died Thursday night in a hospital near Fresno after battling pneu- monia he caught while presiding over two Hmong New Year celebrations in California’s agricultural belt. He was 81. Since immigrating to the United States once the com- munists seized power in Laos in 1975, Vang Pao has been venerated by his transplanted countrymen who settled mainly in California’s Central Valley, Minneapolis and cities in Wisconsin. Chi Vang, the general’s 46-year-old son, said family elders decided to honor Vang Pao with a dayslong memor- ial service in Fresno, but said there may also be an opportu- nity for mourners to pay their respects at a viewing in Min- nesota. ‘‘When he traveled here the family was already talking to him about his health and the need to stay at home to relax, but his whole life was geared toward the Hmong communi- ty,’’ said Chi Vang, one of the general’s 32 children. ‘‘We are planning an enormous international event fit for a king.’’ The general had been hospitalized for about 10 days at Clovis Community Medical Center, where a crowd gath- ered Thursday night following the news of his death. Many sobbed and knelt on the ground as his body emerged to be transported to a nearby funeral home.