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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 – Daily News – 7A Obituary MICHAEL (MIKE) BRUCE MYERS ary 29, 2011. Mike was born in Corning, CA. on May 18, 1948. He grew up in the El Camino district and went to Gerber Elementary School. He graduated from Red Bluff High School in 1966 and from the Gunsmithing Program at Lassen Jr. College in Susanville in 1968. In 1969 he en- tered the Army and served in Vietnam. Upon his release, he returned to Corning, where he met Susan Peterson, from the Squaw Hill district. They were married on June 19, 1971. He began his apprenticeship as a machinist at Mare Island Naval Shipyard during the fall of 1971 and worked there until the shipyard closed in 1995. Relocat- ing to Boise, ID., he worked at Micron, Boise Locomotive, Micro 100 and Woodgrain Millwork until 2009. He volun- teered and did his last machine shop work for Mission Aviation Fellowship. Mike was an avid hunter, fisherman and marksman all his life and even fished and went deer hunting from his wheelchair. Mike is survived by his wife Susan, children Christine, Valerie (Lorin) Thompson and Michael. He also leaves his mother, Marguerite Myers, a sister Helen (Phil) Raglin and brother, Robert (Colleen) Myers, as well as numerous un- cles, aunts, nieces, nephews and cousins. A Memorial Service will be held at Gerber Bible Fellow- ship at the corner of Samson and Ventura in Gerber on Saturday, February 19th at 11:00 am. A reception will be held immediately following in the activity room. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mission Aviation Fellowship at 112 North Pilatus Lane, Nampa, Idaho, 83653 or a charity of your choice. RB woman threatened REDDING — A Redding man was arrested after allegedly threatening people, including a Red Bluff woman. Kenneth Wade Weems, 55, of Redding was allegedly arguing with his girlfriend, her 17-year-old son and Kristie Marie Schults, 18, of Red Bluff Sunday evening at a resi- dence on Cedarwood Drive. While all three were in the res- idence, Weem and the 17-year-old got into a physical fight. The boy and Schults tried to leave the residence when Weems allegedly brandished two knives at them. Weems went back inside the residence then came outside armed with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. He threatened to kill Schults and the boy while he was loading the hand- gun, and was later seen pointing the handgun at the pair. The boy and Schults were able to leave, fleeing in a car. When officers arrived Weems was no longer armed with the handgun but refused repeated lawful orders made by offi- cers. He was subdued with pepper spray. Weems was arrest- ed and booked into Shasta County Jail for suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a deadly weapon, making terrorist threats, willful harm or cruelty to a child and obstructing, resisting or delaying a peace officer. STAB Continued from page 1A The man suspected of doing the stabbing is described as Hispanic, about 20 years old, with a heavy build. He was wearing a white T-shirt and a bandana that wasn’t described. Police suspect the inci- dent is gang-related. “We believe the victim was target- ed,” said Sgt. Rob Merri- field. The victim remained in stable condition Monday at WASTE Continued from page 1A hazardous wastes. “It’s a very scientific con- struction project,” Miller said. Miller, who took the management role in 2008, has been implementing pro- jects to make waste collec- tion more effective. “We try to keep all the programs convenient and free,” Miller said. The thought is that people will more willingly discard their waste in an environ- mentally-friendly way if it is affordable and easy to do, she said. Some of the programs include the collections of old batteries, used motor oil and fluorescent lights. Batteries are collected in orange bags, which are avail- able free at nine locations in the county. Residents can put the bags inside their curbside recycling bins, Miller said. The landfill collects about 18 containers of old batter- ies, at 55 gallons each, every six months, she said. Each drum weighs about 700 pounds. This is more than many urban areas collect because of the availability and convenience of the orange bags, Miller said. For each kind of recy- clable item, there is a place at the landfill it is collected and stored or taken to facilities to be recycled. Mattresses are trucked off three trailers at a time by St. Enloe Medical Center. Police are investigating a number of gang-related attacks, at least one which was fatal, that have taken place in the Chico area since the start of the year. Police don’t believe the attack is related to a suspect- ed gang-connected, drive-by shooting which took place Wednesday night on East 16th Street in Chico. Anyone with information about the attack Sunday morning is asked to call Chico police at 897-4900. Vincent De Paul to be refur- bished. Electronic items are baled and loaded on a tractor trailer in pallets to be hauled to a dismantling facility. Medical waste — needles, lancets and medical sharps — are collected separately as well to avoid injuring waste management employees on the job and to keep dirty nee- dles out of the hands of ille- gal drug users. Feb. 14 through Feb. 28, farmers and ranchers can get rid of up to six agricultural tires each during a collection event. Farmers and ranchers save up to $200 disposal fees on each tire, depending on the grade of tires, Miller said. The Agricultural Tire Collection event is funded by a grant from CalRecycle, and participants must obtain a voucher from either the landfill office, Tehama County Farm Bureau, the Agriculture Commissioner’s office, Bull & Gelding Sale office or Corning City Hall. The event is one of a few tire collection events this year. Dumped tires are a blight to the community and harbor mosquitoes, Miller said. Miller announced the event to the Board of Super- visors Tuesday. It is more effective to give people the right choices to make than to force them to do these things, Miller said. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, exten- sion 114 or awagner@red- bluffdailynews.com. Mike went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Janu- Chase ends in orchard By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Two Red Bluff transients were arrested early Friday morning on Orland Avenue in connection with a stolen vehicle after leading several agencies on a chase. California Highway Patrol Officers Ken Baldwin and Shaun Hoover were asked to assist Tehama County Sher- iff’s Deputy Eric Patterson in checking on a possible stolen vehicle at 18750 Executive Drive, near Freeman School House Road. Someone had reported at 1:16 a.m. that a red 1992 Honda Accord was in front of his residence and a man and woman had a screwdriver in the igni- tion. The man reported that he had con- tacted the man and woman who first said they were visiting friends and their vehicle broke down. As the CHP officers were enroute, Patterson was arriving in the area and noticed a red Honda going east on Corning Road. CORNING — The name of the Corning man killed in a collision at 4:40 p.m. Friday on South Avenue, just west of Mary Avenue, has been released as 64-year-old Gary Jack- son. Patterson activated his emergency lights in an attempt to stop the vehicle, but the driver didn’t yield, accelerating from the area instead, a CHP press release said. The vehicle, which had no tail lights according to sheriff’s logs, turned onto Tenth Avenue and then turned east onto Samson Avenue, approaching Rawson Road at speeds of 80 mph. The vehicle failed to stop before going north on Lobinger Avenue where it pulled into a residence and turned north into an orchard off of Samson. CHP, Corning Police and Tehama County Sheriff’s Department were all in pursuit of the vehicle, but ended the pursuit after the Honda entered the orchard. The driver, identified as Jason Mark Gray, 36, got the vehicle stuck in a drainage culvert on Orland Avenue, north of Samson Avenue, and exited the vehicle, fleeing north through an orchard. He was located hiding under a tree in the orchard, north of the Honda and before hitting the BMW ahead of him. Jackson and the other driver, Joylynn Aanenson, 51, of Chico had slowed for a big rig that was pulling into a driveway. Jackson was killed Fri- day when an 18-year-old driver traveling in the east- bound lane slammed into Jackson’s motorcycle A 75-year-old Corn- ing man was arrested on suspicion of DUI after crashing into a Califor- nia Highway Patrol car at 7:37 p.m. Saturday on South Avenue, east of Million Road. Billy George was dri- ving west on South Avenue when CHP Offi- cer James Keffer initiat- ed a traffic stop. As Keffer closed in on Curtis Guzman of Corn- ing did not notice the vehi- cles slowing ahead until he was bout to hit Jackson’s motorcycle, a California Highway Patrol release George, he pulled into an access point of an orchard behind George. As Keffer exited the vehicle, George began to back up and hit the right front of the patrol car. After realizing he had hit a vehicle, George drove north a short distance and pulled over to await contact with Keffer. was taken into custody without inci- dent. The passenger, Amanda Marie Shoffner, 18, stayed in the right front passenger seat. Inside the Honda, officers found a backpack with a scanner, burglary tools and narcotic paraphernalia. Both Gray and Shoffner were booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and buying or receiv- ing known stolen property. Gray was also booked on the charges of intercepting or divulging police information, evading a peace officer, obstructing or resisting arrest and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia. Bail was set at $50,000. Shoffner was also booked on the charge of bringing a controlled sub- stance into prison. Her bail was set at $30,000. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527- 2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Name released in South Avenue fatal said. Jackson was thrown off the road and into a ditch on the right side of the road, CHP Officer James Keffer said. Jackson was pro- nounced dead on scene, he said. Guzman and Aanenson were uninjured. Alcohol or drugs were not a factor in the accident, Keffer said. —Julie Zeeb Corning man gets DUI after hitting patrol car George was deter- mined to be under influ- ence and arrested suspi- cion of DUI, having a blood alcohol over .08 percent and violating a court order, said CHP Officer Phillip Mackin- tosh. George’s 1999 Chevy Silverado had no dam- age. The patrol car received minor damage. — Staff report Red Bluff council to mull rezoning of proposed homeless shelter site By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Rezoning for property on Breckenridge Street that could potentially become the site of Red Bluff’s first permanent homeless shelter will come before the Red Bluff City Council today. The Poor and the Homeless is proposing to build a permanent, year-round shelter that would provide 40 beds at 320 Breckenridge Street if rezoning is approved. The rezone has the support of the Planning Commission, which dis- cussed the issue during its Jan. 25 meeting. Despite a letter to the commission signed by 18 neighbors opposing the homeless shelter at this particular site, only one person spoke against the shelter during the commission meeting. The council will not be deciding if a home- less shelter will be built at the site, City Manager Martin Nichols said. Approval of the rezone does not guarantee a homeless shelter will go there, only that the shel- ter would become an allowable use. Other agenda items • Red Bluff Rebound group will update the council on recommenda- tions that were previous- ly made to the council with the intent to create jobs and boost the local economy. • The council will decide on how to pro- ceed with a billboard project. The recommen- dation is to work with company Allvision to see what the options are available for putting a billboard along Inter- state 5. The billboard is one of the original ideas proposed by Rebound. • The Budget Com- mittee will introduce a proposal to suspend development impact fees. If the council accepts the proposal a formal resolution will be drawn up. Once adopted, the resolution would be in effect for 365 days. Suspension of the fees is one of the original ideas proposed by Rebound. • Staff will ask for authorization to search for and fill a pending vacancy and an already vacant position in the public works depart- ment. A department head will be sought to fill Director Mark Barthel’s position. Barthel is set to retire in June. The lead worker for the wastewater col- lection will have to be filled. The last person to hold that position retired in January. • Police Chief Paul Nanfito has three items on the agenda. He will ask for authorization to apply for a state grant Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned & Operated Honor and Dignity 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 that would fund a traffic officer, buy two new patrol cars from using funds from the police protection impact fees and support of AB168. 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