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Obituary WILLIAM CONNELL "BILL" DALE Memorial Services will be held on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM at the Oak Hill Cemetery for Mr. Wil- liam Connell "Bill" Dale, who passed away in Red Bluff on January 4, 2011. A reception will follow the memorial service at the Red Bluff Masonic Lodge # 84. Bill was born at home in Red Bluff on July 7, 1922. He was preceded in death by his brother, Kenneth Dale and sisters, Meredith Fox and Joyce Brown. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Marjorie; his son Douglas, daughters, Janet Shaw and Connie Dolan, grandchildren Matt Dolan and Cate Dolan and one great grandson, Dashel Dolan. In preteen years, he liked to visit by bicycle maternal grandparents, MD and Anna Gaddis in the Red Bank area, and grandparents, Creath and Anna Dale at Dale’s Station- some summers helping at the service station and with farm chores. In his early teens he helped at local drug stores and de- livering special delivery letters twice daily at the post of- fice. Bill graduated from Red Bluff High School with the class of 1939. At that time, he was working part time for Pete and Dan Ehorn at Brooks Drug and part time at the post office. When the US entered WWII, he was working full time as a substitute carrier for the post office for .65 cents an hour. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 training to be a radioman and aerial gunner on B-24 Liberator Bombers. He and his crew were sent to Italy with a new B-24 by way of Trinidad, Brazil, Dakar, Africa and finally to Spinazzola, Italy. There they joined the 460th Bomb Group of the 15th Air Force. Targets were in France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Ploesti and the Balkans. One of his early missions was to an aircraft factory at Weiner Neustadt, Austria where the flack was so intense that sev- eral planes were shot down over the target. The pilot and engineer were wounded and his bomber so badly crippled that they couldn’t keep up with the returning group and were forced to crash-land on the allied held is- land off the coast of Yugoslavia. Bill married Marjorie Barney in September of 1945 and TALK Continued from page 1A statewide agritourism coordinator for the UC Small Farm Program. “But the challenge is agri- tourism puts farmers and ranchers in a whole new business — the hospitality business — with a whole new set of skills to learn and a new network of col- leagues to work with.” Findings from a 2009 survey of California agri- tourism operators con- firmed that agritourism can indeed be a profitable venture for farmers and ranchers. But when it BROWN Continued from page 1A was discharged from the service in October. He immedi- ately joined his father and brother in the insurance and real estate business. He was an active Free Mason for over 60 years, including K.Y.C.H., Royal Order of Scot- land and other concordant bodies. He was a 50 year member of the American Legion, a member of the Elks Lodge, an AMVET, Past President of the Bidwell PTA, a director of Tehama County Friends of the Library, was a 20 year trustee of the Red Bluff Cemetery District, a 50 year member of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Bill was an avid fly fisherman and enjoyed tying his pose extending a variety of tempo- rary tax hikes that are set to expire by July, a politically risky move just a year after voters rejected another measure to extend the taxes. The Bee also reported that Brown will propose cutting an additional $10 billion from state government in exchange for the extensions. California had temporarily raised the state income tax rate by 0.25 percent, increased the fee for licens- ing vehicles from 0.65 percent to 1.15 percent and hiked the sales tax by 1 percent as part of a February 2009 budget deal. The new governor could also ask own flies. He also was a lifelong hunter of local game as well as hunting in Canada for moose and elk for over 30 years. Donations can be made to the William and Marjor- ie Dale Red Bluff High School Scholarship Fund in c/o Red Bluff High School. Arrangements under the direction of the Neptune Society of No CA, Chico Branch. DANCE Continued from page 1A sents that idea, he said. Dancing is a way to be free from the troubles of life and many find a way to express their passions. Five Red Bluff teens swayed through a modern dance class Saturday afternoon. “If dancing didn’t exist, I don’t know what I would do,” said Zolika Ashby, 14, of Red Bluff. Ashby and her friend Ali Schuetz, 15, were students at the Dewsnup’s former school for four years and helped win some 20 first place trophies with the school’s dance team. “Trent and Nicole are like family to us,” Ashby said. Schuetz, who is also a member of her high school show choir, said that dancing is her life, and the Dews- nups helped her along the way. “They made my dancing way better and I thank them for it,” she said. During the grand opening event, the Dewsnups taught free classes all day while local vendors Danny Dogs and Heavenly Meats sold food outside. Heavenly Meats businessman Justin Maxwell, 28, of Gerber, was keeping warm next to a barbecue and wanted to support the new arts venue. “There’s not a lot of fun activities for kids to partic- ipate in here in Red Bluff,” Maxwell said. “Having the chance to take part in dance classes gives them some- thing productive to do with their lives.” The studio, with thousands of square feet to dance in, is awaiting 35 feet of mirror and a dance floor to be installed, Trent said. He and is wife, along with their children, want to do things bigger and better this time around, Trent said. When Breakaway School of Dance closed three years ago, it was with some sadness and bitterness. Some were angry. Jannis Hone, 54, of Red Bluff, took her daughter Ashley to the Breakaway school, and was shocked to hear the Dewsnups were re-opening a dance school, she said. Although she thinks Nicole is “adorable,” when they closed down, Hone said she and other families were out hundreds of dollars they’d spent on costumes that they never received, and the children who’d practiced for months for an end-of-the-year recital never got to per- form. Because the Dewsnups gave only a three-day notice to families that the school was closing, there was no time to try to work something out, Hone said. “The parents would have come up with a way for the kids to perform,” she said. Trent had already received a few calls by Saturday from parents whose children he had taught, he said. “It’s been something that’s haunted us for three years,” he said. Although he wanted to make things right with the families, the company that made the costumes would not refund the money they had already sent in, he said. “It was out of our hands,” he said. Before the school closed, there were only 50 stu- dents, down from 200, Trent said. People at that point weren’t able to support it, as the economy plummeted. Now, he hopes things have changed, he said. “What we’re doing now is a lot more,” Trent said. “We’re still a dance school base but we want to reach out and do other things.” The Dewsnups are working on a fitness room and a hobby store at the back of the center, at 780 Antelope Blvd. Trent Dewsnup wants to bring in professionals he’s worked with such as Michael Jackson’s trainer and Twitch, a contestant on the show So You Think You Can Dance? “Just because we’re small town people, it doesn’t mean we can’t do big things,” Trent said. For more information, contact the Beatseekers Dance Center at 366-2781. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. voters to approve moving funds appropriated for special education and mental health care to pay for other programs — another idea vot- ers rejected in the May 2009 special election. Last November, voters also rejected an $18-a-year increase in the vehicle license fee to fund state parks, even though passage would have allowed free park admission for all vehicles with a state license plate. Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a Sacramento-based nonprofit that advocates for lower- and middle- income families, said the May 2009 AG Continued from page 1A rehabilitate inmates as a way to decrease the chances that they will return to the nation’s most overburdened criminal justice system. Her emergence onto the national stage as the chief law enforcer in the most populous state, her friend- ship with President Barack Obama and other political connections and her stage presence has some speculat- ing that she will eventually seek higher office. For now, she has more pressing challenges. The state’s prison system is overflowing, as is the red ink at the state capitol, where legislators are trying to close an estimated $28 billion budget deficit through June 2012. The crime rate has been dropping, yet the pris- ons remain full. Harris said the combina- tion may help spur support for one of her key goals, pro- moting alternative — and cheaper — punishments for nonviolent offenders and trying to break a cycle where 70 percent of parolees quickly return to prison. ‘‘We must demand that our correctional system do less collecting and more cor- recting of prisoners,’’ Harris told supporters after she was sworn into office last week. Moving from leading the district attorney’s office in San Francisco and its 200 employees to heading the California Department of Justice with its 5,300 staff, she embarks on her work carrying the lessons she learned from her immigrant parents. They met during gradu- ate studies at the University of California Berkeley, and instilled in Harris and her sister, Maya, a sense of fair- ness, the merits of defending an opinion, the self-confi- dence to admit error and the courage to change. She grew up listening to the stories of her maternal grandparents demonstrating in India’s independence movement. And Harris was still in the stroller when she saw the civil rights marches came to the topic of per- mits and regulations, near- ly 70 percent of the com- ments mentioned slow, complicated processes or high fees and regulatory restrictions as major barri- ers to new operations. The workshop will address challenges related to permits, regulations, planning, marketing and risk management. The pri- mary goal of the work- shops is professional development for people involved in agritourism and building a stronger infrastructure for success- ful agritourism in the region. The workshop will include: Monday, January 10, 2011 – Daily News – 5A nas. • Presentations from agritourism operators and other regional experts about the benefits, possi- bilities and challenges of California agritourism • Resources and tools for marketing, agritourism association development and effective collaboration •Facilitated discus- sions among local govern- ment staff members, agri- cultural professionals, tourism professionals and agritourism operators to share perspectives and help build regional net- works Other workshops focusing on different top- ics will be held in Merced, Rio Vista, Ukiah and Sali- measures voters rejected were too convoluted and required too many tradeoffs. ‘‘Over and over again, (in polls) voters express fairly strong willing- ness to pay more for quality ser- vices,’’ Ross said. ‘‘Voters say that they’re willing to spend more to avoid cuts to health, avoid cuts to education.’’ Placing a tax measure on a spe- cial election ballot in 2011 will require a two-thirds vote of the Leg- islature and thus will need some support from Republicans who have vowed to oppose any tax increases and are already being pressured by national anti-tax groups not to coop- erate. Brown refused to discuss whether he’ll propose a tax exten- sion last week, saying Californians will have to wait until Monday for all the budget details, but some of the state’s top Democrats are already signaling what to expect. Senate President Pro Tem Darrel Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said now that the temporary fixes are gone, the Democratic lawmakers who control the state Legislature are more likely to give a fair hearing to deep cuts, even those previously floated by Gov. Arnold Scwharzenegger and rejected. ‘‘This governor will not just pro- pose cuts. He’s going to propose ... a complete plan to put the fiscal crisis behind us. He’s going to propose and heard the calls for jus- tice that were hallmarks of the era. ‘‘What they were march- ing and shouting about is this thing we call justice,’’ she said. One of her heroes was Thurgood Marshall, who she said were ‘‘translating the passions of the streets to the courtrooms of our coun- try.’’ Marshall successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that racially segregated schools could never be truly equal, and later became the first black justice on the high court. Little did she know that she was preparing at her mother’s dinner table for her career as an attorney. Harris recalled listening to and par- ticipating in spirited debates among the many frequent adult guests there. ‘‘If we spoke, we were expected to defend our posi- tion,’’ she said. Another lesson she learned from her late moth- er, who had divorced and was a well-known breast cancer researcher at UC Berkeley and other universi- ties: It’s OK to have experi- ments go awry, as long as you learn from them. Harris said that while most politicians feel bound to defend their ideas even when they don’t work, she tries to be flexible to encour- age innovation. ‘‘You test it, and you then tweak it,’’ she said. She went on to graduate from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and got her law degree from the Uni- versity of California, Hast- ings College of the Law. Her first job was at the Alameda County district attorney’s office. Harris then moved across San Francisco Bay to work in the district attorney’s there, and then left to work at the city attorney’s office. While there, Harris unseated two-term Democratic San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan in 2003. During her tenure, she had some successes, includ- ing setting up a program to pressure parents whose chil- dren miss too much school, a trend she said can dramati- The workshops are sponsored by the UC small farm program, UC Cooperative Extension and local partners, includ- ing the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Valley Land Alliance. Major funding to support the workshops is from West- ern Sustainable Agricul- ture Research and Educa- tion. Registration is now available online for each of the five regional work- shops, at http://ucanr.org/2011agtou r. Everyone involved in California agritourism is invited. raising revenue, but it’s going to be revenue coupled with restructur- ing,’’ Steinberg said. Steinberg said the measure needs to be on the ballot this spring ‘‘to put the fiscal crisis behind us before the start of the next fiscal year. I think that makes a lot of sense.’’ The state’s unemployment rate has been stuck at 12 percent or high- er since August 2009. The recession has led to a steep drop in tax rev- enue, with general fund spending in this year’s fiscal spending plan about $16 billion less than it was just three years ago. Brown is hoping to reach consen- sus with lawmakers in quick order: 60 days, a short window for modern budgetmaking in California. Several political changes make this year’s dynamic less certain. Budget passage was theoretically made easier last November when voters approved a ballot initiative lowering the threshold to pass a budget from a two-thirds vote to simple majority, but a two-thirds vote is still required to raise taxes and fees, potentially negating that advantage. Voters also approved Proposition 22, which restricts the state’s ability to borrow money from local govern- ments, and legislators have their eye on a redistricting commission that could redraw many of their seats, putting them in jeopardy. cally increase children’s chances of becoming a crim- inal or victim. She pushed for a new statewide law that took effect Jan. 1 that lets prosecutors charge parents with misdemeanors if their children are chronically tru- ant. She was also encountered programs that tested her belief that you admit when something is not working, and then try to fix it. Harris changed policies after a diversion program for first-time nonviolent offend- ers was found in 2009 to include illegal immigrants who couldn’t hold the jobs for which they were being trained. Harris also had to dismiss hundreds of criminal cases last year because of a taint- ed-evidence scandal at the San Francisco police drug laboratory, and after a San Francisco Superior Court judge scorched the district attorney’s office in a May 2010 court ruling for failing to disclose police officers’ criminal or disciplinary his- tories to defense attorneys. ‘‘To her credit, once I think she realized the seri- ousness of the problems, they immediately put new policies in place,’’ said San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who has sharply criticized Harris for taking too long to act and who has known Harris since she was in law school. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, when he was state attorney general, investigat- ed whether Harris abused her discretion shortly after she became district attorney when she decided against seeking the death penalty for the killer of an undercover city police officer in 2004. Harris personally oppos- es executions, but said she will follow state law. Locky- er said she convinced him she had listened to a team within her office that had evaluated the case. David Jung, who directs the Center for State and Local Government Law at Hastings College of the Law, sent students to work with Harris’ office on gun poli- cies after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Washing- ton, D.C.’s ban on handguns two years ago. Gun rights proponents quickly challenged other cities’ gun control laws. Community Resource Guide Community Resource Guide 2011 2011 Corning Annual Coming soon in the Red Bluff Daily News Friday, January 28, 2011 Corning 2011 Deadline to place an ad is Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Red Bluff Annual Coming soon in the Red Bluff Daily News Saturday, February 26, 2011 Red Bluff 2011 Deadline to place an ad is Friday, February 4, 2011 To place your ad Call (530) 527-2151 Today! 10% off your ad in each section when you buy an ad in Corning Today & Red Bluff Today