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ot her d i n ner/auc t ion ," Berry said. "So I went online and just started searching for some - thing different and I found an adult spelling bee and I thought we could put a twist on it." Perhaps surprising no one, a team composed of teachers prevailed after three rounds, followed by a group of students from Mercy High School. In third, the California Wal - nut Company, which pre- sented Berry with an over- sized check in the amount of $5,000. "I just think spelling is so much fun," Berry said. "And this event, I hope, is going to bring the fun back into spelling." Berry, who says she spells well in two languages, Eng - lish and Spanish, said the spelling bee feeds into the values of the Back to School Project. "It ties into education," she said. "What we do with providing clothes and back - packs, it's to get the kids prepared for school. So, this whole thing just ties in with education and kids and lit - eracy." Students from Red Bluff High School, Lassen View, Vista Preparatory Acad - emy, Sacred Heart, and Mercy High School made up half of the teams that com- peted. Bee From Page 1 Andre byik — dAily news The inaugural Ultimate spelling bee Challenge held at red bluff High school on saturday was expected to raise thousands of dollars to benefit the Tehama County back to school Project. Burruss: Timothy bryon burruss, 48, of red bluff died Monday, March 17 at st. elizabeth Community Hospital in red bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of red bluff simple Cre- mations and burial service. Published Tuesday, March 25 in the daily news, red bluff, Calif. Chamberlain: Janice Chamberlain, age 75, of red bluff, died Friday, March 21, at her residence. Arrange- ments are under the direction of blair's Cremation & burial. Published Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in the daily news, red bluff, Calif. Kenyon: lilian kenyon, 88, of red bluff died sunday, March 23 at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, March 25 in the daily news, red bluff, Calif. Mathews: Virgnia May Mathews, 89, of Chico died saturday, March 22 at Country Village in Chico. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, March 25 in the daily news, red bluff, Calif. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and fea- ture only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified ad- vertising department. Paid obituar- ies may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and in- clude online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multi- ple days and offer wide latitude of con- tent, including photos. Death notices being sought for several fel- onies committed in Corning and that he had an extensive history of running from law enforcement and was known to carry weapons. Following a four-hour search law enforcement closed in on Lewis' location after he was discovered by a homeowner drinking from a garden hose inside of an outbuilding near the Corn - ing city limits. Lewis fled from the out- building into an orchard, where he was tracked to the far south end and, following a brief struggle, arrested. He was booked at Tehama County Jail on $54,000 bail. Thes From Page 1 ernment and Public Admin- istration. Amongst his work his- tory Morehouse has been a facilitator for the Parent In- stitute for Quality Educa- tion, a teaching associate at Chico State, a business con- sultant at the Job Training Center, a department super- visor for The Home Depot , manager at Starbucks Cof- fee Company and youth di- rector at the Presbyterian Church or Red Bluff. Morehouse lists his com- munity involvement be- sides his position on the Board of Education as in- cluding E Scholar Gover- nance Committee chairman, Sacramento River Discov- ery Charter School Board of Education board mem- ber, Expect More Tehama Leadership Council mem- ber, Tehama County Educa- tion Foundation president, youth soccer coach, McCon- nell Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee for Te- hama County member, Red Bluff Parks and Recreation Commission former chair- man, Civic Pioneers Insti- tute former president and consultant and moderator for Chico State's Chico Town Hall Meeting. Morehouse is married and has two children. Vise Vise has lived in Tehama County for 14 years. She has been employed with the Clerk and Record - er's Office since 2004 start- ing as an office assistant. She was promoted to Re- cording Clerk and then Se- nior Recording Clerk in Sep- tember 2006 and eventually promoted to her position as Assistant Registrar of Vot- ers in July 2008. "I feel my experience, ded- ication and knowledge of all three divisions of the depart- ment makes me the most qualified candidate for the position," Vise said. Vise lists her commu - nity involvement as being a Girl Scout leader for the past seven years, a member of the Boy Scout Troop 154 committee, Red Bluff Triton Swim Team board member, Antelope Berrendos Booster Club board member, and is a member of the Tehama County Farm Bureau and the Tehama County Educa - tion Foundation. Vise said as County Clerk she would watch for new ways to ensure the commu - nity receives efficient ser- vice and continue to ensure a transparent election pro- cess. "I will carry on my predecessor's footsteps in improving the technologi- cal advancements that have been made in all three de- partments, while continu- ing to preserve and restore the records of the past," Vise said. Vise is married with two children. Election From Page 1 By Ken thomas The Associated Press irVing, texas » Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush, potential foes in the 2016 presidential contest, said Monday that higher education has the power to transform lives and be a force for democracy around the globe. Clinton and Bush spoke separately at the Global - ization of Higher Educa- tion conference, but chatted briefly offstage. The event, co-organized by Bush, of- fered a bipartisan twist for the nation's two dominant political families, both of whom could return to the pre sidenti a l ca mpa i g n trail next year. Bush, a for - mer Florida governor, is the brother and son of Re- publican presidents. Clin- ton's husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms in the White House before she re- turned to political life as a senator from New York and President Barack Obama's first secretary of state. Onstage in solo perfor - mances, Clinton and Bush each focused on education policy and the need to make higher education affordable and accessible across the globe. "When people around the world have access to this kind of American model of education it illustrates ... that we believe in spreading opportunity to more people, in more places, so that they too have the chance to live up to their own God-given potential," Clinton said at the Dallas event. She's worried, she added, "that we're closing the doors to higher education in our own country so this great model that we've had that has meant so much to so many is becoming fur - ther and further away from too many.". Bush spoke briefly at the start of the conference. "Higher education in America has a growing af - fordability problem while billions in the developing world struggle with ac- cessibility. Exporting U.S. post- second a r y educa- tion and global consumers at scale can help really re- solve both issues simultane- ously," Bush said. "Expand- ing access through tech- nology can bring down the cost of delivery at home and abroad." Bush, the former Florida governor, has been a vocal supporter of the politically divisive Common Core stan - dards, which specify what math and reading skills stu- dents should achieve in each grade. Some conservatives have criticized the stan- dards as a federal intrusion into local classrooms. Bush said then that while he and the former first lady "come from different politi - cal parties, and we disagree about a lot of things," they agreed on the wisdom of the American people, "espe - cially those in Iowa and New Hampshire and South Car- olina," traditionally the first contests in the presidential primaries. Clinton told the Philadel - phia audience that her hus- band had recently returned from one of his "annual play dates" in Kennebunkport, Maine, at the Bush family compound. In her speech on Monday, Clinton recalled her work on behalf of education reform as first lady of Arkansas in the 1980s and her advocacy for the education of women and girls around the globe as secretary of state. eDucation Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton promote higher-ed initiatives Two potential 2016 presidential rivals speak at global conference Andy JACobsoHn — GeTTy iMAGes Former Florida Gov. Jeb bush said education has a growing affordability problem in the United states. By David B. caruso The Associated Press neW YorK » There's no easy fix for the National Flood Insurance Program, now drowning in a $24 billion sea of red ink. But experts and advo - cates say Congress does have some options that could make the troubled program financially stable, more af - fordable and more effective at motivating change in com- munities built too close to the water. Lawmakers this month tweaked the troubled pro - gram for the second time in two years after acknowledg- ing that a previous overhaul in 2012 had socked too many policyholders with rate hikes they couldn't afford. At least 1.1 million policyholders are still likely to see insurance premiums rise substantially in the next few years as the government whittles down rate subsidies for people in the riskiest flood zones. Yet, if premiums stay as low as they are now, those same communities could cost taxpayers billions of dollars when they do eventu - ally flood, thanks to decades of low premiums that have given homeowners few in- centives to flood-proof their properties. The law gives FEMA 18 months to complete an al - ready-overdue study on flood insurance affordability and up to 36 months to find a way to offer targeted assistance to policyholders who can't af - ford high premiums. It also said FEMA should set a goal of limiting annual premiums to no more than $2,500 per year for $250,000 in cover - age, but didn't offer any sug- gestions on how to do that without bankrupting a pro- gram that already charges far more than that for many policies. That affordability pro - posal would be due just be- fore the flood insurance pro- gram is up for congressional reauthorization in 2017. One potentia l option would be to make low-inter - est loans available to help people elevate their homes above the high-water mark. In several papers last year, Carolyn Kousky, a re - searcher at the environmen- tal science group Resources for the Future, and Howard Kunreuther, co - director of the Wharton Risk Man - agement and Decision Pro- cesses Center at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, pro- posed a system in which property owners could get vouchers offering relief from high premiums in exchange for raising their homes up on pilings, a high foundation or other supports. The amount of the voucher, which could also cover a slice of the loan payments, would be tied to the owner's income. Elevating homes can be costly, with prices ranging anywhere from $40,000 to well over $100,000, but do - ing so could actually save money in the long run for both the homeowner and the government, they argued. Loan payments for the build - ing owners would be signif- icantly less than what they would otherwise have to pay in exorbitant insurance pre- miums. The government would, in the long run, avoid paying costly insurance claims that can often exceed the cost of elevation. After Superstorm Sandy, the National Flood Insurance Program wound up shelling out $7.9 billion in claims payments, with an average payout of just under $55,000. The Association of State Floodplain Managers has also advocated for an in - come-based voucher system, as well as rate reductions for mitigation that stops short of full elevation of a home, like moving home heating and electrical equipment to less vulnerable parts of a house or installing water-tight doors and windows. FEMA already has some mitigation grant programs available, but they often have their greatest impact in ar - eas already rebuilding from a catastrophic flood. Some politicians and pol- icymakers in f lood-prone states have proposed leg- islation that would give tax incentives to property own- ers who created catastrophic savings accounts, where property owners could put money aside to cover ex - pected damage from future natural disasters, and also for the purpose of reinforc- ing a house against poten- tial damage in a flood, earth- quake, fire or tornado. G e o r g e K a s i m o s , a founder of the advocacy group Stop FEMA Now, said Congress should be given credit for responding to constituent concerns and passing this month's rate re - lief bill, but he said greater reforms are needed to avoid a crisis in the long run. The new law is "the best deal we can get, basically," he said. "All that's really be - ing done is it's being kicked down the road." FlooDing No easy fix on flood insurance, but options exist At least 1.1 million policyholders may see premiums spike amid national program's debt problem By Juan a. lozano The Associated Press galVeston, texas » The Coast Guard aimed to re- open one of the nation's busiest seaports Monday, two days after a collision between a barge and a ship spilled as much as 170,000 gallons of tar-like oil into the waters south of Hous - ton. Officials believe most of the oil that spilled Saturday is drifting out of the Hous - ton Ship Channel into the Gulf of Mexico, which should limit the impact on bird hab- itats around Galveston Bay as well as beaches and fish- eries important to tourists. "This spill — I think if we keep our fingers crossed — is not going to have the neg - ative impact that it could have had," said Jerry Pat- terson, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, the lead state agency on the response to the spill. The best-case scenario is for most of the slick to re - main in the Gulf for several days or longer and congeal into small "tar balls" that wash up further south on the Texas coast, where they could be picked up and re - moved, Patterson said. enVironment Oil spill off Texas coast leaks around 170,000 gallons BILLY W. McCLAIN April 21, 1935 ~ March 18, 2014 "Honest" Bill McClain was a cowboy who enjoyed fish- ing, hunting was an avid reader, loved telling his jokes. Bill is preceded by his wife Betty, his parents, 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Bill is survived by 4 siblings, 4 daughters; Billie Moskal of Red Bluff, Sandy Fisher of Bakersfield, Shirlie McLean of Red Bluff and Shellie Jones of Medford, Oregon, 9 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Services will be held at 1500 S. Jackson at the Senior Center on Thursday March 27th at 12:00. A gathering will follow at the Hayes familly home at 20019 Red Bank Rd Red Bluff. Donations would be appreciated. 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