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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 – Daily News – 7A Death Notices Patrick J. Kish Patrick J. Kish died Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Keizer, Ore. He was 68. Arrangements are being han- dled by Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service. Published Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Sherrell Irene Lloyd Sherrell Irene Lloyd died Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, in Red Bluff. She was 71. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flow- ers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Red Bluff man faints during police search A Red Bluff man fainted during a traffic stop by Tehama County Sheriff’s Deputies early Saturday morning on Antelope Boulevard at Gilmore Road in Red Bluff. Deputies had stopped Donald Dawayne Pickard, 45, at 4:42 a.m. for defective lighting equipment and received consent to search his vehicle. For unknown reasons while deputies were searching the vehicle Pickard fainted, a Tehama County Sheriff’s Department release said. During the vehicle search, deputies had located 10 separate packages with more than five pounds of marijuana each, 25 grams of concentrated cannabis and a glass methamphetamine smoking pipe. Pickard was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for treatment and later interviewed at the hospital where he provided deputies with a medical recommendation for marijuana. Pickard told deputies he had been involved in selling marijuana for about a year, the release said. Due to Pickard’s medical condition he was not arrested and remained at the hospital for continued medical treatment. A complaint will be filed with the Tehama County District Attorney’s Office seeking an arrest warrant regarding this investigation. Charges listed on the press release include pos- session of marijuana for sale, transportation of marijuana, possession of concentrated cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia. — Staff report STATE Continued from page 1A about public employee pension reform and potential cuts to other state programs, but none has appeared in Brown’s budget plans. “Don’t just tell me, ’I’m willing to work on those things if they’re reasonable.’ I want to see those reforms. I want to see what that looks like” in Brown’s plan, Con- way said. “And maybe the dance has just begun. Maybe we’ve been talk- ing and talking and now we will get to more specifics.” Conway and other Republican leaders noted that voters had already rejected exten- sions of the same taxes in a 2009 special elec- tion. “Voters said in 2009, ’No, we don’t want to give you two more years of taxes beyond what you’ve already asked for. ’The voters said this last November, ’No, we don’t want to pay you an extra $18 surcharge for parks.’ I mean, I don’t know how many times the voters got to tell you ’no,’ until you figure out the right way to try to sell it,” said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cuca- monga. “Is that what we’re doing here?” While Californians LAND Continued from page 1A stability for his family. The cattle industry has just gotten rougher and rougher, he said. The returns in the cattle industry have increased by three times, yet costs have increased by about 10 times. “It’s just not feasible to make a living off of cattle anymore,” he said. Burrows plans to use some of the income to fix up the ranch. Look at any of the ranch- es throughout the county, and the most noticeable things are broken fences and buildings in need of repair, he said. Ranchers just don’t have the money to fix it up. “Hopefully this will get us some cash flow so we can get our fences back in place and our building repaired,” he said. have rejected calls for higher taxes in the past, a survey by the Califor- nia Public Policy Insti- tute last week found that two-thirds of likely vot- ers say they support Brown’s proposal for a special election. Voters said they were willing to pay more for public schools but do not sup- port increased spending if it goes to pay for pris- ons, according to the poll. Brown’s administra- tion has so far shied away from spelling out the anticipated conse- quences if the tax exten- sions do not go through, but public schools that get the largest share of funding in the state bud- get likely would be hit hardest. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Stein- berg, D-Sacramento, said Democrats will lay out the harsh choices over the next few weeks. “People have a right to determine whether or not they want $25 billion worth of cuts,” Steinberg said. “And over the next several weeks, you know, we’ll begin to dis- cuss in some detail what that second $12.5 billion of cuts would mean to classrooms, to the length of the school year, to any services for the elderly or the disabled, to higher education, where the fees are already too high.” Under the easement con- tract, the ranch must be pre- served as a whole, meaning the land can’t be subleased or broken up for individual sale. For Burrows that is a good thing, he said. He intends to leave the whole ranch intact for his grand- children and great grandchil- dren. “I want my great grand kids to experience the ranch- ing environment and the lessons you can learn from a ranch,” Burrows said. “Being on a ranch helps you develop a really good work ethic, respect for the land and animals and dedication to go through from beginning to end in what you do.” ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e- mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Cuts to elder care could cost state dollars and lives GLENDALE (AP) — The grooves in Jose Lanz’s gold college ring have been worn smooth by time, just as age and illness have eroded the 71-year-old Cuban’s mind and body. Without supervision, he often for- gets to swallow his food. He can’t get out of his wheelchair unassisted, and on bad days he reels from drooling laughter to angry outbursts, lost in memories of fights long past. His wife of nearly half a century is his primary caregiver, but she has relied on publicly funded adult day care during rough patches over the last eight years for help in his care. That benefit could come to an end if pro- posed budget cuts are carried out to help reverse the state’s $28 billion deficit. Lanz is one of about 37,000 frail or disabled seniors on Medi-Cal who use adult day health care centers every month, on average. Without funding, the centers are expected to close, meaning that families would have to shoulder the burden of caring for their sick alone or put them in a nursing home, where their care would be more expensive for the state. According to the National Confer- ence of State Legislatures, in a median year adult day health care services cost $15,600 while a semi-private room in a nursing room costs $67,525. Like 95 percent of the other seniors at Glendale Gardens, Lanz is depen- dent on Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for the poor, to pay for the care because he’s deemed med- ically fragile. Centers like Glendale Gardens provide transportation to and from a facility staffed with medical professionals who help rehabilitate stroke victims, monitor medications for the senile and care for the inconti- nent. ‘‘Our people come here because they have multiple serious issues, they are people who cannot manage and treat their conditions on their own,’’ said Armine Oroudjian, a registered nurse and owner of Glendale Gardens, which cares for 75 to 80 seniors a day. The state program for adult day health care centers is a boon to fami- lies, allowing them to leave their loved ones in the care of medical profession- als while taking much-needed respite to run errands or go to work. Lanz’ wife of 46 years, Vilma, says she’s grateful for the help in dealing with his Alzheimer’s disease, Parkin- son’s disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, incontinence and emotional mood swings, if only to have some time to buy groceries or clean the house. Caring for her husband and keeping his spirits up is a full time job, she said. ‘‘I bathe him, I dress him, I cook for him, I check his sugar, I give him his medicine and we watch soap operas,’’ she said through a translator. ‘‘It’s diffi- cult but it’s been 22 years, I’m used to it and I’m a woman of my house. This is my life.’’ The $419 million cost of Califor- nia’s program in fiscal year 2010 was split evenly between state funds and Redding teen’s dad pleads not guilty to sex abuse REDDING (AP) — A Northern California man who appealed for his miss- ing teenage daughter’s return on national television has pleaded not guilty to molesting her. The Redding Searchlight reports that 33-year-old Jacob Berlinghoff of Red- ding entered not guilty pleas Monday to a felony count of lewd and lascivious behav- ior with a child under 14 and misdemeanor counts of annoying a child and sexual battery. He is free on $50,000 bail. The newspaper reports that shortly after the 15- year-old girl returned from a 31-day disappearance with her uncle last year, she accused her father of fondling her. She said the 2008 inci- dent was one of the reasons she fled. Her uncle, 44-year-old Charles Berlinghoff, is fac- ing nearly 100 sex abuse charges involving the teen. He remains jailed on $1.6 million bail. ‘‘We’re so small they feel they can touch this and no one will say anything. We’re going to defend ourselves legally because these people deserve it.’’ Berdj Karapetian, owner of Victory Adult Day Health Care in Glendale. federal matching dollars. Cuts to care for the vulnerable in Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget don’t end there. The state wants to reduce in-home support services for 440,000 low-income seniors and dis- abled people, to save $500 million. The state also is proposing to cap Medi-Cal benefits, such as hearing aids, medical equipment and doctors’ visits. Medi-Cal recipients would be limited to 10 doctors’ visits a year, with a $5 office visit co-pay and a $50 emer- gency room co-pay. The state’s director of health care services Toby Douglas said the day care program allows seniors to remain in their communities, but it is optional under Medicaid — known as Medi- Cal in California — and only eight other states pay for the benefit. ‘‘Within the context of the fiscal cri- sis we’re proposing to eliminate a valu- able program,’’ said Douglas. In a state Senate hearing last week on cuts to adult day health care and other programs, Sens. Mark De Saulnier, D-Concord, and Elaine Alquist, D-Santa Clara, voiced support for the program but said they are forced to consider cuts because of serious budget problems. ‘‘As a senior, I’m 66 years old now, and in taking care of my late, great hus- band Al Alquist I administered the medications and gave the showers, I understand what it’s really like,’’ said Alquist, urging advocates and local officials to help find budget solutions. ‘‘There is no long term savings by eliminating (adult day health care), there will be additional costs down the line. There will be great costs.’’ Cuts to the program were proposed twice before by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the budget has gone mostly unscathed over the past three years because the Legislature rejected the cuts. Opponents call cuts short-sighted because their patient conditions will only deteriorate and treatment will become more expensive if they’re neglected. Last year, a study on behalf of the Congress of California Seniors found that it would cost the state more money to get rid of the program than to keep it, with $51 million in losses in the first year of implementation, and $72 mil- lion in the second. The cut would also result in the loss of 7,600 jobs, accord- ing to the study by the Lewin Group, a Virginia-based health consulting firm Douglas’ office said they had not reviewed the study, adding that it’s dif- ficult to project the outcomes the study found. The cut would force closure of Whitman spent $178.5M on failed race SACRAMENTO (AP) — New campaign finance reports show Jerry Brown spent about $36.5 million in his successful bid to become governor of Cali- fornia, a fraction of that spent by his Republican opponent, billionaire Meg Whitman. In reports filed Monday with the secretary of state’s office, Brown’s campaign reported spending $29 mil- lion on TV and radio ads placed by a Georgia-based Democratic advertising firm, LUC Media. Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, spent $178.5 million in her losing bid. Whitman’s campaign report shows she tapped $144 million from her personal fortune and raised the rest from donors. The 2010 California governor’s race was the highest-spending cam- paign for statewide office in the nation’s history. Brown was aided by at least $26 million in spend- ing by outside groups, mostly labor unions. most, if not all, of the state’s 309 adult day health care centers, which are deeply reliant on Medi-Cal funds, said Lydia Missaelides executive director of the trade group California Association for Adult Day Services. ‘‘These seniors are already on Medi-Cal, they have complex medical situations and need skilled nursing and intervention or else their conditions can deteriorate,’’ said Missaelides. Center owners say they plan to sue the state for allegedly violating federal disability rights if the cut goes through. ‘‘We’re so small they feel they can touch this and no one will say any- thing. We’re going to defend ourselves legally because these people deserve it,’’ said Berdj Karapetian, owner of Victory Adult Day Health Care in Glendale. Like a revolving door, the program ushers out those who are well enough to leave it and re-enrolls those whose conditions decline by checking to make sure participants medically require the care. The centers provide patient progress reports to the state every three months. The hardest hit county would be Los Angeles, where the benefit was used 34,246 times in fiscal 2009. That’s nearly 10 times the second- highest number of uses, at 3,472 in San Diego County. In all, the program’s benefits were used more than 53,000 times by programs in 31 counties. The program is not paid for by pri- vate insurance or Medicare, and few families pay for it out of pocket. At Glendale Gardens, Sourob Megerdichian Sengerdi wears a navy suit jacket and a far-off smile on his face. Born half-blind in Iran where he was raised by his Armenian family, he took on a line of work that only required him to have one eye open: photographer. ‘‘Weddings, parties, birthdays — I would go to all kinds of parties, take pictures and have a lovely time, so much happiness and joy,’’ he said in Farsi. His son Vigen, 50, says that his father was the life of the party until he lost his only good eye two years ago. He has also struggled with his blood pressure, diabetes and weakness in his limbs that has made him clumsy at times. When he crosses a room at the adult day health care facility, a young nurse guides him in a gentle hug, whispering directions in his ear in Armenian as he takes shuffling half-steps. ‘‘I couldn’t leave him alone,’’ said Vigen. ‘‘I have peace of mind that he is here and I can go to work.’’ STATE BRIEFING 2 plead not guilty to turtle smuggling LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Japanese men have pleaded not guilty to charges that they smuggled more than 50 live turtles and tor- toises into the U.S. by hiding them in snack food boxes in a suitcase. Federal prosecutors say Atsushi Yamagami and Norihide Ushirozako (nohr- ih-HEE’-day USHEE’-row- zah-koh) entered their pleas Monday on counts of ani- mal smuggling, conspiracy and wildlife trafficking. If convicted each could get 26 years in prison. The men are being held without bail until trial March 8. The Osaka residents were arrested this month at Los Angeles International Airport as part of an under- cover investigation called Operation Flying Turtle. Agents purchased pro- tected turtles from someone allegedly linked to the defendants. Later they arrested a man at Honolulu International Airport with 42 animals hidden in his checked bags. Tribe moves ahead with casino plan FRESNO (AP) — An American Indian tribe is moving forward with plans to build a $250 million casi- no in northeast Fresno County. The Big Sandy Rancheria Band of Western Mono Indians is seeking public comment on its report detailing how the pro- ject will affect travel, land use and other environmental factors. The proposed casino would be located on a 48- acre site near Friant. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned & Operated Honor and Dignity 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931