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Saturday, January 22, 2011 – Daily News – 7A Obituaries ERNEST JOSEPH SANDBERG 1919 - 2011 Ernest Joseph Sandberg was born November 7, 1919 in Northome, Minnesota to William and Elmira Sandberg. He passed away on January 19, 2011 at the age of 91 in Red Bluff, CA. Ernest worked in the Timber and Lumber industry his entire working career, retiring as Division Maintenance Manager for Louisiana Pacific Sierra Division. He has resided in Red Bluff, CA with now deceased wife Bonnie Belle for 63 years. They were married for 60 years. Ernie spent his retirement years enjoying time in his workshop making ornamental windmills, birdhouses, and planters for his family and friends. He also enjoyed traveling back to Minnesota to visit family and go fishing and play cards. Ernie is survived by his four children Ernest Sandberg, Jr. and wife Virginia, Maureen and husband Siegmund Gonczeruk, Michelle and husband Jeff Drummond, all of Red Bluff, James Sandberg of Chester, CA. He was predeceased by his son Joseph Sandberg in 1972. He is also survived by ten grandchildren, David Sandberg and wife Gina of Albany, OR., Lisa and hus- band Damon Pound of Durham, Debbie and husband Brian Olsen of Corning, Eric Gonczeruk and wife Jenn of Austin, Texas, Kristy and husband Mike Rich of Aurora, Indiana, Alan, Anna and Gregory Sandberg of Red Bluff, Bryce Drummond and wife Suzanne, and Derek Drum- mond, all of Red Bluff. He is also survived by twelve great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers Raymond and Bill Sandberg of Klamath Falls, OR., and Bob Sandberg of Redding, CA., and a sister Lorraine Connell of Pioneer, CA. STATE BRIEFING CAreceives shipment of drug needed Visitation will be at Chapel of the Flowers on Monday, January 24th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. A Rosary will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the Chapel of the Flowers. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, Jan- uary 25th at 10:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 515 Main Street, Red Bluff, CA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Red Bluff. Arrangements are in the care of Chapel of the Flowers, 816 Walnut Street, Red Bluff (530) 527-1174 SEA (Continued from page 1A) beach-goers to exercise cau- tion along the shore through the weekend. Surf is expect- ed to be in the 20-foot range. “It definitely causes a RELAY (Continued from page 1A) Award. Top teams were announced with first place going to the Presbyterian Church, second to Red Bluff Volunteer Fire Department and third to Lassen Medical Group. Top three youth teams were Sacred Heart School followed by Red Bluff High School and Bend Elemen- tary School. Ride For Life, organized by local youth, was recog- nized for its achievement of raising $30,483.68. Walmart Transportation received the top national award and the Post- Fundraiser award. Cancer survivors Herb Peterson, who is the 2011 Honorary Survivor chair- man, and Janet Lemere, the 2011 Hero of Hope, gave the American Cancer Society credit for providing funding for research that saved their lives. “I feel everyone in this room is a hero,” Lemere said. “We are all working hard, taking time and mak- ing sacrifices (to make it pos- sible to cure cancer). We are PLAN (Continued from page 1A) changed to give the BLM the authority to reimburse a pri- vate party for grazing wild horses, he said. Under Pickens’ latest proposal, a nonprofit foun- dation would care for the animals with a government stipend of $500 a head, per year. Abbey said that exceeds the BLM’s existing long-term holding cost of $475 a head, per year, in Midwest pastures. ‘‘Her prospectus, as pre- sented, does not demonstrate an obvious cost savings to the American taxpayer,’’ he said. But Pickens said her pro- posal would result in ‘‘huge savings’’ because it would involve the government ini- tially turning over 1,000 wild horses in short-term holding facilities where costs run $2,500 a head, per year. Eventually, Pickens wants to return all horses in government-funded holding facilities to natural habitat elsewhere after purchasing more property. ‘‘I don’t think the BLM quite grasps that our country is in a financial emergency,’’ she said. ‘‘You can’t keep spending the money they do hazard with a lot of people heading to the water,” Clark said. “We would advise everyone to keep their dis- tance and not turn their back on the ocean.” Matt Drange is a reporter with the Times- Standard. making a difference and we will find a cure.” Lemere said people are never too young nor too old to get check-ups. While many have heard the phrase “creating a world with more birthdays” at Relay For Life events, it is more than just that, Peterson said. “The best part of survival isn’t just birthdays, but everything I would have missed like holding my sixth grandchild and the 1,825 new sunrises,” Peterson said. Honorary Junior Sur- vivors will be Landon Tou- vell and Valentine Crane. Team Captain Coordina- tor Denise Gamboa encour- aged audience members to register teams. “We are here to walk you through the steps,” Gamboa said. “All it takes to be a cap- tain is picking up a packet, registering online and attending the meetings.” Captains’ meetings are 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at Hampton Inn and Suites in Red Bluff with the next one on Feb. 17. Relay For Life dates are May 21-22. To register visit www.relayforlife.org/red- bluffca or call 567-5946. to put horses in holding. They have a program that doesn’t work, and they’re trying to save face.’’ Last year, Pickens pur- chased the 14,000-acre Spruce Ranch and the adjoining 4,000-acre Warm Creek Ranch to serve as a horse sanctuary. The Elko County ranches, which she renamed the Mustang Mon- ument preserve, come with grazing rights on roughly 564,000 acres of public land. Abbey also criticized Pickens’ media campaign supporting the sanctuary, saying some of the informa- tion requires clarification and context, and that other information is ‘‘just plain false.’’ Pickens defended her statements. The BLM rounds up wild horses to limit their numbers, saying it is done to protect the herds, rangelands and wildlife. Activists maintain they are being conducted to appease ranchers and make room for cows. About 33,700 wild horses roam freely in 10 Western states, about half in Nevada. The BLM set a target level of 26,600 horses and burros in the wild, and removed 10,637 of the animals from the range in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. for executions SAN FRANCISCO(AP) — California was desperate for a drug needed to carry out its first execution in nearly five years and called on a flush Texas for help. The Lone Star state turned down California, which was forced to scrub a scheduled Sept. 30 execution partly because of its drug shortage. In e-mails exchanges with colleagues in Arizona discussing its shortage, there were predictions that Texas’ decision would come back to haunt it. On Friday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in court papers that it received slightly more than 500 grams of sodium thiopental, enough to execute nearly 100 inmates. The once- ample stockpile in Texas, meanwhile, expires in March and the state will be able to carry out only two more executions with its current supplies. Other states that use sodi- um thiopental in lethal injec- tions are also running short, causing execution delays. The problem was exacerbat- ed by the sole U.S. manu- facture’s announcement Fri- day that it would stop mak- ing the drug. After scouring the globe for a supply of sodium thiopental, the first of three drugs administered to the condemned inmate, Califor- nia prison officials found a supplier in Great Britain and paid $36,415 for its latest supply. Still, California is again racing against the clock. California’s latest shipment expires sometime in 2014 and government officials have agreed to forego sched- uling any more executions until the resolution of a fed- eral lawsuit alleging the state’s lethal injection process represents unconsti- tutionally cruel and unusual punishment. There are slightly more than 700 inmates on Califor- nia’s Death Row at San Quentin prison. The state has executed 13 inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court authorized capital punishment in 1976. BUDGET (Continued from page 1A) $350 per ADA or about $3.6 million. The county has seen a 20 percent cut to basic revenues over the past three years, and this year by far is the worse, Lane said. Education has taken cuts over and over again. “You can only run your schools on limited sources for so long before they start to fray at the edges,” she said. Yet, Lane remains optimistic that things will get better. It may be four or five years out, but the economy will sta- bilize and turn around, she said. Tehama County Superintendent of Schools Larry Champion said local school districts have done very well in BOMB (Continued from page 1A) just after 4 p.m. to investigate and dispose of the destruc- tive device, a police press release said. The device, described as a metal pipe with metal caps on both ends with a gooey substance wrapped around it, RATE (Continued from page 1A) not boost employment. Rather, there was a 1.8 percent decline in the retail trade industry. The past two years saw a decline in retail trade, as well. Traditionally, retail trade is not a sector that adds jobs during that time of the year, unlike in Red- ding or Chico where there are shopping mall staples, such as Macy’s or Sears, Nonetheless, the ship- ment represents a change of fortunes for California. Cali- fornia was forced to cancel the Sept. 30 scheduled exe- cution of convicted rapist and murderer Albert Green- wood Brown after it failed to obtain a fresh batch of sodi- um thiopental by his Sept. 30 execution date. Internal e-mail obtained by the American Civil Lib- erties Union showed Cali- fornia prison officials calling hundreds of U.S. hospitals, considering a Pakistan sup- plier, and asking several states for a loan of sodium thiopental in the weeks before Brown’s scheduled execution. Arizona ended up send- ing several grams of the drug to California, but not in time to execute Brown. In the e-mails obtained by the ACLU, California officials complain about the Texas prison system — described in a local newspa- per story as ‘‘well stocked’’ — apparently refusing to loan any sodium thiopental anywhere. ‘‘It is unfortunate that Texas would not share some of its ’well stocked’ supply to help sister states but down the road they may need help in some other way and this position does not help their image,’’ an unknown Ari- zona prison officials writes to CDCR undersecretary Scott Kernan states. ‘‘Never- theless, in the prison busi- ness things are always changing and Texas is no exception.’’ Hit-and-run ends with man beaten by mob HAWTHORNE (AP) — A man crossing a busy Los Angeles-area boulevard was twice struck by hit-and-run drivers, a woman who tried to help him was hit by yet another car, and the driver who tried to help her was beaten and robbed by a mob, police said Friday. The bizarre chain of events left one man dead, another arrested and had detectives stunned. ‘‘This one had us scratch- ing our heads,’’ Capt. Mike Ishi told the Los Angeles Times. ‘‘It’s in a league of its own.’’ It began when a minivan hit a man Wednesday night as he crossed Crenshaw Boulevard in a spot without a crosswalk, Hawthorne Police Lt. Gary Tomatoni said in a statement. The dri- ver fled the scene. The man was then run over by a second vehicle, Tomatoni said. That driver also failed to stop. One of several people who ran to help the man and tried to stop oncoming traf- fic was hit by a car herself. That driver stopped to help the woman, but he was attacked by others who had run into the street, who beat him and stole his cell phone, Tomatoni said. The man escaped from the crowd and fled in his car, but returned after police arrived and pointed out one of his assailants. Police arrested Tran Moore Lewis, 32, of Long Beach, on suspicion of rob- bery. Detectives were amazed at the strange set of acci- dents and even stranger behavior. ‘‘I’ve never seen any- thing like this in all my years in Hawthorne,’’ Ishi said. The initial hit-and-run victim was declared dead at a hospital, police said. The woman who was hit was taken to a hospital but her injuries were not life- threatening, police said. Their names have not been released. Police were still looking for the gray or white mini- van that first hit the man. After talking to witnesses police were able to locate the second driver and impounded his vehicle, the statement said. Police were weighing whether to arrest that man. Shriver remembered for idealism WASHINGTON (AP) — R. Sargent Shriver, the ever-upbeat Kennedy in-law who served as the nation’s first Peace Corps director and later led a national assault on poverty, was remembered Friday evening as an energetic idealist who left a legacy of public ser- vice. ‘‘Sargent Shriver was the kindest, most cheerful, most optimistic person I knew in 50 years of public life,’’ said former South Dakota Sen. their efforts to keep the districts solvent during this period of many unknowns. Out of the county’s 18 school dis- tricts, only one district, Reeds Creek, has reported potential fiscal distress, but the county office is already working with Reeds Creek to keep the district solvent. “I’m very proud of our districts’ efforts to balance their budgets and still provide an excellent education,” Cham- pion said. “This county should be real- ly proud of itself.” Champion credits much of the work to school board members, who he said are like pioneers in this new era of edu- cation in which schools are given fewer resources but are expected to provide the same or better level of education. Board members are the ones on the front line, elected by thee community, was later deemed inert because it had no ignition source, police said. Ioannis Litsis, the apart- ments’ owner, told police officers when they arrived that a cleaning crew found the object while preparing the apartment for new ten- ants. The former tenants, Jesse and Kristionna Quaid, had been evicted and are now Stock said. The biggest retail employer in Tehama County would be a store such as Walmart. But the numbers do not track spe- cific employers due to confidentiality issues. “Tehama County does- n’t have a lot of big stores, and lots of mom ’n’ pop stores don’t necessarily hire for the holiday,” she said. In surrounding coun- ties, Butte’s unemploy- ment rate was 13.8 per- cent, Shasta’s was 16 per- George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presiden- tial nominee, referring to his running mate that year. ‘‘It’s remarkable that those virtues could all be com- bined in one person. I don’t ever recall seeing him down in the dumps. He must have had days like that, but nobody ever saw them if he did.’’ Hundreds filled Holy Trinity Catholic church in Washington to pay their respects at a wake to Shriv- er, the brother-in-law of President John Kennedy and the late Sens. Robert and Edward Kennedy. He died Tuesday at a Maryland hos- pital at 95, eight years after announcing that he had Alzheimer’s disease. Vice President Joe Biden and for- mer President Bill Clinton were scheduled to speak at a funeral Mass on Saturday at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Potomac, Md. First lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey will also attend On Friday, some of Washing- ton’s most prominent fig- ures filed past the casket and photos from Shriver’s life to extend condolences to fami- ly members including his daughter, former NBC reporter Maria Shriver; her husband, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Shriver’s four sons. Some of those who attended the wake had met Shriver through his work and others only knew him by his reputation. ‘‘He was the finest man I think I ever met in my life,’’ said Gene Theroux, 72, of Loudoun County, Va., who worked at the Office of Eco- nomic Advancement where Shriver served as director in the 1960s. ‘‘He was full of positive energy.’’ ‘‘He took a thankless job at President Johnson’s request to run the poverty program,’’ Theroux said. And though many of the programs were unpopular, Shriver was able to bring people together to get them off the ground, he said. The outpouring of praise for Shriver and support for his family since his death on Tuesday was extraordinary because he had not been in the public eye for years, said Bill Moyers, a journalist and former Johnson aide who wrote the foreword to a Shriver biography and worked with him at the Peace Corps. and tasked with making the decisions. Teachers and local school adminis- trators have done their part, too. Maywood Middle School Principal Jeff Harris and a group of sixth grade teachers were at the Department of Education office Thursday to select a new set of texts for language arts cur- riculum. Despite everything going on with the budget, schooling boils down to what students are learning and the qual- ity of their education, he said. “It’s not about doing more with less,” Harris said. “It’s about doing things differently.” ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. wanted for questioning about the incident. The bomb squad detonat- ed the device inside the apartment, while Red Bluff Police officers kept the area secure until 9:22 p.m., police said. This was the second device found within two days in Tehama County. A CalFire Ishi brush-clearing crew found a suspected pipe cent and Glenn’s was 17 percent. The state’s unemploy- ment sits at about 12.3 bomb Wednesday 10 miles west of Red Bluff on High- way 36W. Bomb squad members detonated and dis- posed of the device. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynew s.com. percent, which is higher than the national unem- ployment rate of 9.1 per- cent.