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Death Notice Madelyn Leffen Madelyn Leffen of Red Bluff died Friday, May 13, 2011, in Red Bluff. She was 86. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Saturday, May 14, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. ADOBE Continued from page 1A resources, maintaining public access and revenue generation as much as possible and protect closed parks so that they remain attractive and usable for potential partners. “We will put in a caretaker status and have park rangers and mainte- nance people check on the parks regularly to ensure they are OK,” Stearns said. The department is hopeful volun- teers will offer to help keep an eye on the facilities, he said. POT Continued from page 1A Wednesday at his home in the 10400 block of Ryan Hill Road in Redding, where agents reco v ered some $14,000 in cash. Acord was booked into the Tehama County Jail on charges of possession of marijuana for sale, con- spiracy to commit a crime and evading a peace offi- cer. Bail was set at $251,000. Evans, who had been making arrangements to ship the marijuana to Ohio, had rented a hotel room in the area, although no other evidence was Evans LEG Continued from page 1A north of Mt. Shasta near Abrams Lake Road in Siskiyou County, at 5:21 a.m. Followed by sirens and red lights, the man refused to stop and drove around a spike strip put in the road near central Mt. Shasta. CHP officers pursued “With this announcement (of clo- sures), we can begin to see addition- al partnership agreements to keep open as many parks as possible,” Coleman said. “We already have 32 operating agreements with our part- ners, including cities, counties and nonprofits, to operate state parks and we will be working statewide to expand that successful template.” While closures would not happen until 2012, measures will be taken to ease into that step starting with the cutting of $11 million from the department’s budget in the 2011- 2012 fiscal year and a permanent $22 million cut each fiscal year recovered from the room, Thulin said. Evans was arrested near the Bowman Country Store, at 18371 Bowman Road, in Cottonwood. He was charged with possession of marijuana for sale and con- spiracy to com- mit a crime. Bail was set at $250,000. Both sus- pects have prior convictions, Thulin said. Acord had served prison terms for similar offenses in the past while Evans had prior arrests in Ohio. Evans had no ties to the Red Bluff area and came just for the drug deal, Thulin said. With Califor- nia’s medical marijuana laws, the state is becom- Brown’s budget to eliminate unemployment board SACRAMENTO (AP) — As part of his revised budget, Gov. Jerry Brown will propose eliminating a state board that has been criticized for providing a highly paid landing spot for termed-out lawmakers looking for work. The elimination of the California Unemployment Insur- ance Appeals Board is part of Brown’s revised budget to help close the state’s remaining $15.4 billion deficit. The Democratic governor will release the full plan Monday. Administration spokesman Gil Duran said Friday the move will save $1.2 million a year, but that the cut was also symbolic. Six of the board’s seven members are former lawmakers. They each make $128,109 a year, even though the board meets once — and occasionally twice — a month. Duran said it did not seem efficient for the state to have such a board at a time when deep cuts are being made to ser- vices for the poor, elderly and disabled, and cuts to schools and public safety are being considered. “Although state revenues have improved because of the underlying strength of California’s business climate, we’re not out of the woods yet — not even close. Cutbacks in boards, commissions and other state services will continue as we work towards a truly balanced budget,” Brown told The Associated Press in a statement. The six former lawmakers who would lose their jobs on the board under Brown’s plan are Republicans Roy Ash- burn, Bonnie Garcia, Dennis Hollingsworth and George Plescia, and Democrats Denise Ducheny and Alberto Torri- co. The board, which grants or denies unemployment insur- ance benefit appeals, has been criticized in recent years for backlogs and decisions that some critics said were delayed deliberately. Thousands turn out to protest Calif. school cuts SACRAMENTO (AP) — Thousands of California teachers rallied in cities throughout the state Friday to demonstrate against the threat of deep education cuts and to appeal to Republican lawmakers to raise tax rev- enue for public schools. There were major demonstrations at the state Capi- tol, where more than two dozen teachers were arrested Thursday night, and in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino. “Education can’t take these cuts anymore,” said Joyce Medeiros, 48, one of at least 1,000 teachers, stu- dents and supporters who filled Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco. The sixth-grade teacher at San Juan School in San Juan Bautista, where K-3 classes now have 32 students, used to be a PE teacher before the district cut physical education, art and music programs. him south toward Redding reaching speeds of more than 100 mph. Saturday, May 14, 2011 – Daily News 7A Gustafson was taken to tires were slowly deflating. Gustafson drove onto the road shoulder and around a parked CHP vehicle to avoid a second spike strip set out north of Redding. Then, near the Mountain Gate overpass, Gustafson drove through two spike strips but continued to drive at high speeds while his thereafter, Stearns said. “That will reduce our general fund from the $121 million now to $99 million then,” Stearns said. Paid staff at the parks will not automatically lose their jobs even though they will no longer be at the same parks, he said. “We have enough vacancies so that we hope to not lay off any employees, but people will have to move from the parks that would be closing,” Stearns said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. ing a “source area” for criminal marijuana traf- ficking. Drug enforcement agents are learning more and more that people are bro- kering deals to buy pot in Cal- ifornia to sell else where, Thulin said. Marijuana, relati v ely cheap and abundant in California, is bought and taken to other states where it is sold for higher prices, he said. For example, dealers could spend $1,500 in Califor- nia and take it to another state to sell it for $4,000. “It brings criminal ele- ments to our area,” Thulin said. “Clearly this is not medical marijuana. There’s nothing medicinal Acord SHOW Continued from page 1A skills. When asked about her love for hand work, Charlene quotes the Bible, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.” “I always try to do the best I can with my pro- jects and I think that verse from Ecclesiastes, along with the talents God has given me, is how I approach things,” she said. Along with her hus- band, Jim, they have been avid square dancers for many years, traveling and quilting across the west in their RV, which has been known to carry home up to 60 yards of fabric on a single trip. As when she was a young girl growing up in a square dancing family where they made match- ing outfits, Charlene also outfitted her own family in dancing clothes and continued dancing until recent years. Known for her per- about it. It’s for profit.” Using shipping services such as FedEx or UPS, marijuana dealers are able to get marijua- na overnight or very quickly all over the country, he said. “It’s dan- gerous, ” Thulin said. “People think it’s going to sick folks.” The task force is still looking into the origin of the marijuana left behind by Acord and Evans. The investigation is ongoing, Thulin said. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. fectly even hand quilting stitches, one special honor for Charlene was being asked to help hand quilt the California Sesquicentennial quilt for the California State Museum and to serve as a docent with the quilt at the state fair. If you have attended the annual fid- dler’s festival at the fair- grounds, you have already been lucky to have had a glimpse of Charlene’s quilts that help beautify, insulate and improve acoustics in the old fairgrounds build- ing. The fiddlers’ also have Charlene to thank for a special 25 year commemorative quilt that Charlene made for a scholarship benefit for one lucky young music student. Just as her mother passed on the family craft of tatting to Char- lene so many years ago, now this very talented grandmother enjoys pass- ing on her special talents to her own grandchil- dren. From making a Barbie quilt with a granddaughter to helping Lawyers: Gay judge fit to rule on gay marriage SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Claims by the group that sponsored California’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban that the federal judge who overturned the law was biased because he is in a relationship with another man are “factually groundless and legally insupportable,” lawyers for two same-sex couples said Friday. The legal team that successfully challenged the ban in Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s court last year argued in legal papers that the now-retired jurist had no obligation to reveal his sexual orientation or relationship status before he ruled that Proposition 8 violated the civil rights of gay Californians. The ban’s backers “lack any factual basis to assume that Judge Walker wishes to marry...and instead rely on nothing more than the fact that he is gay, in a relation- ship with a person of the same sex, and recognizes in his decision the importance of marriage in American society,” the attorneys wrote. “Such unvarnished specu- lation does not come close to meeting the statutory requirements for compelling a judge’s recusal.” The religious coalition that sponsored Proposition 8 moved last month to have Walker’s historic ruling invalidated on the grounds that he stood to personally benefit from it. The group’s lawyers asked Walker’s successor as chief federal trial judge in San Francisco to rule that Walker should have disqualified himself from hearing the case or at least disclosed his same-sex relationship. Giant Pumpkin Contest Kickoff Sunday, May 15th @ 1pm Come learn how to grow a giant pumpkin Contest will beheld October 29, 2001 Red Bluff Garden Center 766 Antelope Blvd. (next to the fairgrounds) 527-0886 Eventually, he swerved across the freeway lanes, onto the right shoulder and drove directly into a con- crete bridge wall over Churn Creek. Then he slid out of control on the right shoulder where he was ejected out of the vehicle. The truck kept going off the freeway and slammed into a tree. PAIR Continued from page 1A The case filed with the county, and initiated by a CalFire inves- tigation, states that on or about April 17, the two set fire to a residence in the 7600 block of Tehama Vina Road. This is the same address where the two were arrested. The allega- tions state that on or about April 18 or 19, the Harveys kno wingly filed a fraudu- lent insurance claim for com- pensation for the fire dam- ages. Mercy Medical Center for treatment of moderate injuries. He was later arrest- ed for vehicle theft, evading police officers and driving under the influence of alco- hol or drugs. The prosthetic leg was turned into the Redding CHP office later Friday afternoon. -Andrea Wagner Phillip Harvey had pre- existing charges for tres- passing on railroad prop- erty and failure to appear after a written promise. Listed in the case are past Butte County charges of petty theft with a prior conviction in Feb. 2006 and using a false identity in Dec. 2002. Phillip Harvey The Har- veys are scheduled to enter a plea in court May 17, in Department 3. Krystin Harvey Both were charged with arson of an inhabited structure with aggravating factors, possession of flammable materials and insurance fraud. Both sus- pects are being held at the Tehama County Jail — Phillip Harvey on $407,500 bail, Krystin Harvey on $365,000 bail. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. hand quilt a "Family Tree" quilt with her seven year old grandson, Charlene has enjoyed this opportunity to share her time, patience and skills with the next gen- eration. A special lady needs a special place to create and this dream was real- ized when one day Char- lene’s husband said that she needed a bigger sewing room. “He started walking into the backyard and I couldn’t believe how far out he walked,” she said. In the end, they had a contractor add on 384 square feet to the back of their house, allowing Charlene plenty of room to design and to create her quilts. She generous- ly shares this space once a month with a small group of guild members who spent a year making last year’s profitable Opportunity Quilt for the guild. Charlene has come so far from her first "ugly quilt" made from heavy, polyester double knit and now takes time to docu- ment each of her pro- jects, including pictures, actual pieces of fabric used, the story about why the quilt was made, and a photo copy of the label on the quilt. In a time of life when machine made products are abound, Charlene specializes in hand quilting soft beauti- ful works of art that bring a cozy comfort to those lucky enough to receive one. “If you wrap a machine quilted quilt around your shoulders it feels stiff, but if it’s hand quilted it feels so cozy,” she said. If you long for com- fort and enjoy seeing a true artist and her work, please join the guild for this special showing of Charlene Brians with her best work from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day of the “Quilting Around the World” Quilt Show today and Sunday. Charlene will be on hand each day along with the scrap- books of her projects and her special smile of wel- come to this very special show.