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Motor vehicle thefts rose from 38 in 2012 to 77 a year ago. Aggravated assaults rose from 84 to 115. There were nine rapes reported in the calendar year. The department made 1,838 arrests in the year, up from 1,439 in 2012. Of those arrests 184 were juveniles, which was a 9.3 percent decrease. The department received an increase of domestic vio - lence calls, handling 313 in the year. However domestic vio- lence arrests were down as there were dramatic de- creases in the calls handled with weapons involved. Traffic program The total number of traf- fic citations and arrests rose by 36 percent in the year. However that change is largely attributed to a grant reward, which provided the department with the ability to staff extra personnel de - voted to traffic safety issues. That grant, totalling $131,825, provides funding for one full-time police of - ficer, overtime, equipment and training. Police Chief Paul Nanfito pointed to the overall de - crease in traffic accidents within the same time pe- riod. There were 389 accidents reported in 2010. That fig - ure fell to 257 in 2013. Volunteer program Nanfito has had huge praise for the department's Volunteers in Police Ser- vice program, which came to fruition in 2013. The inaug ura l V IPS Academy graduated eight volunteers in late 2012. In 2013 those eight vol - unteered a total of 2,803 hours, of which more than 100 hours were volunteered to assist in the Marysa Nich - ols homicide investigation. The report credits the VIPS program for reducing special event overtime costs by 33 percent when compar - ing 2013 to 2010. " The V IPS prog ra m proved to be even more beneficial than ever antici - pated," the report said. "The inaugural year of the pro- gram demonstrated what a small cadre of committed individuals can do to help their community." Three more volunteers are going through the 2014 VIPS Academy. Highlights Amongst the other high- lights the annual report touches on are the depart- ment's K-9 unit and school At Vista Preparatory Acad- emy Officer Sean Baxter started a gang resistance program in December 2012. Baxter is scheduled to train 190 seventh grade students on how to avoid gangs and other develop - ment skills such as anger management and effective resolution. Combined Murray and Baxter have identified 55 students with gang affilia - tions as well as several gang hangout locations. Arrests From Page 1 Diewold: Verna Diewold, 85, of Corning died Tues- day, April 1 at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. Arrangements are un- der the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, April 3 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Vestal: Della Margaret Vestal, 98, of Red Bluff died Tuesday, April 1 at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Pub - lished Thursday, April 3 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be pro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are pub- lished at no charge, and fea- ture only specific basic infor- mation about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified adver- tising department. Paid obit- uaries may be placed by mor- tuaries or by families of the deceased and include on- line publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of con - tent, including photos. Death notices 1,838 Arrests made by RBPD in 2013 1,417 Part I crimes committed in 2013 4 Homicides 9 Rapes 19 Robberies 332 Simple assaults 115 Aggravated assaults 291 Burglaries 570 Thes 77 Motor vehicle thes By the numBers but they suspected a rela- tionship between the two started in October. Police said they learned of the relationship after a different student brought concerns to school officials, who in turn contacted po - lice. Joe Harrop, interim su- perintendent at Red Bluff Joint Union High School District, in February said law enforcement conducted interviews with the fe- male student, the student's mother, Binder and the stu- dent who brought concerns to school officials. earned Binder had sent inappro- priate text messages to the female student. Binder, a ca- reer and technical educa- tion teacher who has been employed at the school for more than two years, is on paid administrative leave. Texts From Page 1 on its website: • Mow or disk space around all buildings 30 feet wide at minimum. • Mow or disk space 50 feet wide minimum com - pletely around the perim- eter of the property to the street or sidewalk. Mow or disk 30 feet wide mini- mum crossbreaks every 50 feet maximum. Property can be completely mowed or disked in lieu of cross - breaking. • Mow or disk space ex- tending 30 feet minimum beyond the foliage of any group of trees. • A ll rubbish, trash, trimmings, rubble or litter shall be removed from the property. • All woods, fuel, or lum - ber shall be neatly stacked or removed from the prop- erty. • All weeds, grass, or other combustible growth shall be cleared at least 10 feet from around any com - bustible storage. • Greenbelt, pastures, and environmentally-sensi- tive areas shall be assessed on an individual basis. Con- tact the fire department if you believe that this applies to your property. • Mow or disk space may be required to be larger if a potential fire hazard ex - ists. "If your proper ty or properties, meet or exceed current weed abatement standards as set forth by the City of Red Bluff Mu - nicipal Code, consider this a 'thank you' for doing your part to safeguard our com- munity from the risk of the summer fire dangers," Fire Chief Jon Bennett's release stated. Weed From Page 1 By Paul J. Weber The Associated Press Fort hooD, texas » A gun- man opened fire Wednes- day at the Fort Hood mili- tary base in an attack that left four people dead, in- cluding the shooter, at the same post where more than a dozen people were killed in a 2009 mass shooting, law enforcement officials said. One of the officials, cit - ing internal U.S. Justice Department updates, said 14 others were hurt. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to re - lease information by name. A U.S. law enforcement off icial said the shooter died of what appeared to be a self-inf licted wound. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity be - cause the investigation is ongoing. The injured were taken to Darnall Army Commu - nity Hospital at Fort Hood and other local hospitals. Dr. Glen Couchman, chief medical officer at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, said the first four people admitted there had gun - shots to chest, abdomen, neck and extremities and that their conditions range from stable to "quite crit - ical." Thir teen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in the 2009 as - sault, which was the dead- liest attack on a domestic military installation in U.S. history. The military offered few details. After the shoot - ing began, the Army's of- ficial Twitter feed said the post had been locked down. Hours later, all-clear sirens sounded. On Wednesday evening, a fatigue-clad soldier and a militar y police off icer stood about a quarter-mile from the main gate waving away traffic. Other lanes were blocked by a police car and van. Meanwhile, relatives of soldiers waited for news about their loved ones. Tayra DeHart, 33, said she had last heard from her husband, a soldier at the post, that he was safe, but that was several hours earlier. "The last two hours have been the most nerve-racking I've ever felt. I know God is here protecting me and all the soldiers, but I have my phone in my hand just hop - ing it will ring and it will be my husband," DeHart said. Brooke Conover, whose husband was on base at the time of the shooting, said she found out about it while checking Facebook. She said she called her husband, Staff Sgt. Sean Conover, immediately to make sure he was OK, but he could not even tell her exactly what was going on, only that the base was locked down. "I'm still hearing con - flicting stories about what happened and where the sho oti n g wa s ex ac tly," Conover said in a telephone interview, explaining that she still did not know how close the incident was to her husband. "I just want him to come home," said Conover, who moved to Fort Hood with her husba nd a nd three daughters two years ago. President Barack Obama vowed that investigators would get to the bottom of the shooting. In a hastily arranged s t at ement i n Ch ic a go, Obama said he was follow - ing the situation closely but that details about what happened at the sprawling Army post were still fluid. He sa id the shooting brought back painful mem - ories of the 2009 attack. Obama reflected on the sacrifices that troops sta- tioned at Fort Hood have made — including endur- ing multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. "They serve with valor. They serve with distinc - tion, a nd when they 're at their home base, they need to feel safe," Obama said. "We don't yet know what happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again." The president spoke without notes or prepared remarks in the same room of a steakhouse where he had just met with about 25 donors at a previously scheduled fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. W hite House off icials quickly pushed tables to the side of the room to make room for Obama to speak to the nation. The November 2009 at - tack happened inside a crowded building where soldiers were waiting to get vaccines and routine pa - perwork after recently re- turning from deployments or preparing to go to Af- ghanistan and Iraq. Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death last year in that mass shoot - ing. He said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American ag- gression. According to testimony during Hasan's trial last August, Hasan walked in - side carrying two weapons and several loaded maga- zines, shouted "Allahu Ak- bar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" — and opened fire with a handgun. Witnesses said he tar - geted soldiers as he walked through the building, leav- ing pools of blood, spent casings and dying soldiers on the floor. Photos of the scene were shown to the 13 officers on the military jury. T he r a mp a ge ende d when Hasan was shot in the back by Fort Hood police officers outside the build - ing. He was paralyzed from the waist down and is now on death row at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. After that shooting, the military tightened security at bases nationwide. Those measures included issuing security personnel lon g-ba r reled weapons , adding an insider-attack scenario to their training and strengthening ties to local law enforcement, ac - cording to Peter Daly, a vice admiral who retired from the Navy in 2011. The military also joined an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identify - ing terror threats. In September, a former Navy man opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, leaving 13 people dead, in - cluding the gunman. After that shooting, De- fense Secretary Chuck Ha- gel ordered the Pentagon to review security at all U.S. defense installations worldwide and examine the granting of security clear - ances that allow access to them. Asked Wednesday about security improvements in the wake of other shootings at U.S. military bases, Ha - gel said, "Obviously when we have these kinds of trag- edies on our bases, some- thing's not working." Associated Press writers Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston; Eric Tucker and Alicia Caldwell in Washing - ton; Lolita C. Baldor in Ho- nolulu; and Nedra Pickler in Chicago contributed to this report. Four dead at Fort Hood, including gunman shooting Eric Gay — ThE associaTEd PrEss soldiers listen in the wings as Lt. Gen. Mark Milley address the media during a news conference at the main gate to Fort hood on Wednesday. a soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide, authorities said. LILIAN KENYON Lilian Kenyon, 88, died at home on October 23, follow- ing a brief battel with cancer. She was born in Birken- head, England, in 1926, and moved to the United Sttes at age 16. She attended Humbolt University and graduated with a Business Degree. Lilian and husband settled in the Red Bluff area where she worked for several local businesses until her retire- ment. She was preceeded in death by her huband Bart, and by both of her beloved brothers who died in WWII. Lilian will be remembered as an active advocate for ani- mals and volunteered for many years at the local animal shelter, also rescuing up to four dogs and two cats at a time, loving them dearly. Lilian had the love and support of her many neighbors and friends. She will be greatly missed. Thank you to St. Elizabeth Hospice for their loving care. No memorial service will be held per Lilian's request. ERNEST EBENEZER WHITE August 5, 1917 ~ April 1, 2014 Ernest Ebenezer White 58 year resident of Coming died April 1, 2014, at his home in Corning. He was born Au- gust 5,1917 on a ranch seven miles up the Rogue River in Oregon. His official birth place was Gold Beach, Oregon. Born to Claude White and Golden Dutcher. The family moved to Serardino, California in 1919 where his father worked for the railroad. In 1924 the family moved to Eureka in a wagon with four horses. The family moved to a ranch his dad bought at Crows Landing, California. Er- nie graduated from Pine Street Grammar School and Redding High School in 1936. In 1939 he married Lois Stram in Oroville and in 1941 they had a son Gary. He worked construction on Shasta Dam and building airbases in Alaska. He served in WW2 as a B-29 flight engineer. In the fifties he owned a Union Oil service station at First and Main in Chico. In 1956 he bought a ranch in Corning and went to work for Minch Wholesale Meats until their closer, after that he worked for Alien and Sons in Stock- ton, retiring in 1978 to the ranch raising hay. In 1988 his wife Lois of 49 years died. Since he has married Mary Starnes who has preceded him in death. He was very active in many organizations regarding wa- ter and conservation issues Past President of California Association of Conservation Districts and represented Cal- ifornia in the National Association of Conservation Dis- tricts. Past director of Corning Water District. Past Deputy State Master of the California State Grange and Corning Independent Grange. Member board of directors Tehama County Taxpayers Association. He is survived by son Gary and wife Pamela White of Corning and Grandchil- dren, Great-grandchildren, Great-Great-Grandchildren and many Nieces and Nephews. Funeral Services will held at Hall Bros. Corning Mortu- ary. Viewing 9AM to 11am service at 11am Graveside service at Noon, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Obituaries Thursday, aPriL 3, 2014 rEdBLuFFdaiLyNEWs.coM | NEWS | 7 a