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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 – Daily News – 9A Obituaries Tehama unemployment rate sees slight decrease The February unemployment rate in Tehama County decreased only slightly from the prior month, according to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Department. At 16.3 percent, the February unemployment rate hovered closely to January’s 16.4 percent. Farm jobs had the steepest decline with about 11.8 percent RIFT JACK WESLEY GREENING March 11, 1919 ~ February 28, 2011 1919. Growing up in Long Beach and Whittier, California, he attended USC, graduating just as WWII began. He then attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and served on a sea-going tug in the South Pacific after receiving his commission. Jack was an entrepreneur with many interests. He raised cattle in Chino and in Cottonwood, California and devel- oped prune, walnut and almond orchards in Shasta and Tehama counties. He was President of the Pomona Valley Water Company and helped establish the Southwest Chi- no Mutual Water Company. Jack was an ardent defender of water rights in California. He continued his own fa- ther’s support of the Casa Colina Rehabilitation Center through the years, and Jack and his wife have also con- tributed generously to education. Jack loved deep sea fishing, boating and flying his own airplane, a Navion and later a Cessna 310. He and his wife, June made many boat and plane excursions to Mex- ico through the late 1940’s and 1950’s and later navigated the Inland Passage to Alaskan waters annually for over 15 years. Jack was an adventurer, traveling with his wife around the world, making long lasting friendships wher- ever they went. Jack and June enjoyed 71 years of a very happy mar- riage. He is survived by his wife, June Greening, and sons Jack (Jay) Greening Jr., Jeffrey Greening and daughter, Paula Heye, and four grandchildren. Death Notices Lillie C. Case Lillie C. Case of Los Molinos died Wednesday, March 23, 2011, in Chico. She was 91. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Paul E. Cederburg Paul E. Cederburg of Yreka died Friday, March 25, 2011, in Yreka. He was 85. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Betty Chase Betty Chase of Los Molinos died Sunday, March 27, 2011, in Chico. She was 75. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Onssee Kennedy Onssee Kennedy of Orland died Sunday, March 27, 2011, in Red Bluff. She was 101. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. William Henry Porter William Henry Porter of Red Bluff died Thursday, March 24, 2011, in Redding. He was 82. Lawncrest Chapel, of Redding, is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Leslie Vice-Clark Leslie Vice-Clark, a former Red Bluff resident, died Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Redding. She was 42. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. TIDE arrests 4 By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer At least four arrests were made and a dog was shot as the Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement task force made a sweep through four residences Thursday morning. Jason Henry Montsdeoca, 29, of Red Bluff and one other man were arrested in the 22800 block of Jorgenson Lane. Montsdeoca was charged with possession of stolen property worth more than $400. Bail was set at $10,000. Lori Dionne Eldridge, 37, of Red Bluff, also known as Lori Dionne Wells, was arrested in the 700 block of East Street. She was arrested on mul- tiple felony warrants in five district attorney cases. Her bail was set at $140,000. Kenneth Royce Potter, 39, of Red Bluff was arrested in the 21100 block of Luther Road. He was charged with possession of a controlled sub- stance and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia. Potter’s bail was set at $12,500. A fourth location was investigated on Oak Street, but no arrests are known at this time. All four residences were contacted between 8:49 and 9:52 a.m. Thursday, according to police logs. A dog was reportedly shot and killed at the Luther Road residence just before 9 a.m., the logs said. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. Jack Greening was born in Los Angeles, California in (Continued from page 1A) sified employees is at 50 percent of state average, Ramey said. Sharon Barrett, presi- dent of the Red Bluff Elementary Educators Association, said the classified staff is misun- derstanding the contract. It simply reinforces a change that was made two years. Regardless of the classified staff’s disap- proval, the contract is fair for teachers. “We do not negotiate for any other unit than our own,” Barrett said. Subjective language About 40 classified staff picketed outside Metteer Elementary School last Tuesday where the teachers’ association met to pro- vide its members with an opportunity to dis- cuss and vote on the contract. The picketing was inappropriate and, in fact, illegal, Barrett said. The Educational Employment Relations Act does not allow one unit to interfere with another unit’s contract ratification process. Ramey said there was no intention to stop any teachers from voting that day. Classified staff only wanted to raise awareness and commu- nicate that they had a problem with the lan- guage of the contract. “It’s perfectly legiti- mate to express an opin- ion,” Ramey said. Barrett said she has not considered whether or not to pursue legal BOOK (Continued from page 1A) While painting her bedroom one day, Shae- fer got a message that she was asked to put the book together for publi- cation, she said. She was so excited that she jumped backward and stepped into a half-gal- lon bucket of white paint. It took her three hours to clean it up before she could respond, she said. “I never had a book,” she said. “ I never thought I would have a book.” Having worked as a co-editor, proofreading and designing a cover for another book, The Heart’s Content, two years ago, led to her being asked to edit Fog & Woodsmoke, she said. Shaefer once had her artwork featured in a show, operated a day care, worked on a print- ing press and been an occupational therapist, among other jobs. She retired and moved to Los Molinos in 2005. In her retirement, she started to write and sub- mit works for publica- tion. Combining photogra- phy and writing, Fog & Woodsmoke was born. Online, Shaefer asked some early responders to vote and choose among some dozen pho- tographs, she said. They were to choose photos that they felt most prompted a response. Unknowingly the less jobs than the previously reported. Other industries that lost jobs were manufacturing, private ser- vice production, financial activi- ties and education and health ser- vices. The only increase was in government jobs with a slight jump of 1 percent. The rest of the industries were stagnant. There are 8.4 percent fewer people without jobs in Tehama prosecution. More than anything, she is unhappy with the unprofessional behavior. Despite the classified staff ’s display of protest, considerably more than a simple majority of the approxi- mately 115 teachers in the district voted in favor of the contract. The only change the contract makes is how the district will use the teacher’s portion of the MAA money, Barrett said. In the previous two years, employees had agreed to return their 75 percent share of MAA money to the district’s general fund because of the district’s budget concerns. Now that money will go back to employees. Interpretative language The language that changed the way MAA money was distributed among employees was actually made two years ago, Barrett said. Because no one got the money the last two years, the classified unit did not notice the change until now. It begs the question, did they not know what they were signing two years ago, she said. “It comes down to personal responsibility,” Barrett said. “You need to know what it is that you’re signing.” Classified staff and teachers interpret the language from previous contracts differently. Classified staff believe they are entitled to a portion regardless of which unit generated the money. Teachers believe writers chose all three photos from that New Year’s morning. All five photos picked were taken around Los Moli- nos. Then, Shaefer sent out calls for submissions asking authors to write poetry and short prose in response to the images. “I had no idea what the book would be,” Shaefer said. Asking authors to get rid of seeing the photo- graph in a frame, she encouraged them to step into the image, pretend to be on the road and write what they see, she said. After reading and choosing through hun- dreds of submissions, she was pleased with how widely different the responses could be, she said. Authors included in the book include 18 from California, six being local authors. Rob Davidson, an associate professor of literature and writing at California State Univer- sity, Chico, is one of the authors whose work is included in the collec- tion. Davidson heard about the book project after meeting Shaefer at a teaching workshop in Red Bluff, he said. “Once I got started on it, I was really excited about it,” Davidson said. His work in the book includes five short prose pieces that connect the photographs to a fiction story about a guy named Walter, he said. “I tried to connect them into one, hopefully County compared to this time last year. In surrounding counties, Butte’s unemployment rate was 14.3 percent, Shasta’s was 16.7 percent and Glenn’s was 18 per- cent. The state’s unemployment is at about 12.3 percent, which is higher than the national unem- ployment rate of 9.5 percent. — Staff report members of each unit only receive money gen- erated by its members. The 2009-2010 clas- sified staff contract says “the classified portion of the revenues generat- ed” by the MAA Pro- gram will go to the clas- sified staff. Barrett interprets the language as the portion of revenue generated by the classified unit will go to that unit. Similar- ly, the revenues generat- ed by the certified, or teachers unit, will go to teachers. That is the same lan- guage teachers agreed to in the new contract, “... the Certificated Bar- gaining Unit will have all monies earned by that unit through MAA claims...”. Nothing has changed from the contract signed two years ago, Barrett said. “I understand the pas- sion. I really do,” Bar- rett said. “But I don’t understand why they are surprised now.” Ramey said there was no change until now. The district has never put forth an offer to change MAA money distribution. “They (teachers) interpreted the language to change it and we did not interpret it to change,” Ramey said. “Two years ago, teach- ers believed they negoti- ated a change, but the teachers or the board never told us that and the language simply doesn’t say that.” Objective language The classified unit and the district will have a bargaining session coherent, narrative,” he said. He is slotted to be one of the readers at book release events in Red Bluff and Chico, sched- uled for April and May, Shaefer said. During the readings, a projector will show the photos that go along with the written works, Shaefer said. The first book release event will be at 7 p.m., April 19, at the 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St. in Chico. Some of the authors from the anthology, Rob Davidson, Stephani Schaefer, Sally Allen McNall, Lara Gularte, Patricia Wellingham- Jones and Tazuo Basho Yamaguchi will be read- ing selections from the book. For more information about the event contact the gallery at 343-1973. A second event is scheduled as part of an Art, Dance & Jazz Night sponsored by the Red Bluff Art Gallery, at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21 at the Veterans Memori- al Hall, Davidson said. Copies of Fog & Woodsmoke are avail- able at the Red Bluff Art Gallery and at Lions today to continue nego- tiations toward a new contract for the classi- fied unit. As negotiations con- tinue, Ramey fears the district will end up bal- ancing the budget on the backs of the classified staff in an effort to make up for the greater share being given to teachers. The board has been unresponsive to the clas- sified staff ’s position, and it seems the board does not know it is giv- ing the MAA money away twice, Ramey said. She expects to get answers from the district on how it will resolve the issue of giving away more MAA money than it has. Retrospective language Meanwhile, both units will have to work past the frenemy rela- tionship that has devel- oped. Barrett said the clas- sified staff’s anger has been misdirected at teachers when the staff really should be mad at the board. Ramsey said it is hurtful that teachers would try to garner a larger share of the MAA money that every employee is entitled to and should share. “We have had a mutu- al relationship,” Ramey said. “We feel like we had a break in trust with the teachers even though we’ve been very sup- portive.” ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.co m. Books in Chico. Only 200 copies of the book were printed and they may be purchased, for $14.95, at either loca- tion. In the future, the book will be marketed to creative writing classes and groups, she said. The publisher has creat- ed a list of discussion questions to be used alongside the book. The book is meant to be a writing prompt, she said. In the same way the authors used the photographs to inspire them, she hopes readers will use either the pho- tographs, the writings or both to stir up new works or creativity with- in them. Being a visual person, writing is only part of what she does, she said. “When writing gets too hard, I have photog- raphy and pen and pen- cil drawing to make me happy,” she said. For more informa- tion, contact the pub- lisher at www.losthills- bks.com. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527- 2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdaily news.com. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned & Operated Honor and Dignity 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931