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Collins:NealCollins,79,of Los Molinos died Sunday, June 15in Los Molinos. Arrangements are under the direction of Afford- able Mortuary. Published Thursday, June 19, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuar- ies to the news depart- ment, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic informa- tion about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Clas- sified advertising depart- ment. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortu- aries 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 content, including photos. Deathnotices pear to be a "silver bullet" solution to the problem. He added that the city is pre- paring to use a product to deodorize sewage lines, and that commercially available products such as odor con- trol filters could be added to house vents by residents to mitigate the smell. "But there's no real way to make a sewer not smell like a sewer," Henz said. "They kind of do and always have. We've tried to put in various means of sanitizing portions of the sewer. The two (products) that we used turned out to be not partic- ularly effective, and the one that we are now trying we want to be able to get the appropriate application to it, so we've been doing that over the last couple weeks and we're monitoring it." Also in the report was a take on how a group of homes and a private pump station located on a Green- ville Rancheria Native American Development within city limits at Baker Road and Monrovia Street could occasionally add to the smell. Henz said sewage from the eight homes in the Greenville development empties into a manhole on Walbridge Street, but the pump station isn't de- signed for recurring flush- ing, and the pumps are programmed to operate on slowly recurring cycle be- cause of the limited sewage produced from the homes. It's likely, the report states, "that a significant amount of pumped sewerage could remain within the force main between pumping cy- cles." Henz added, however, that he and city staff are convinced that the source of the smell does not originate from private force main. The Greenville pump sta- tion, according to the re- port, became operational in 2010. Walbridge Street neighborhood residents told city staff and council members that is when the smell started, and they dis- missed the idea that add- ing filters to or extending the length of vent pipes on homes could solve the prob- lem. Kathy Nelson, a Wal- bridge Street resident, told the City Council that the re- port produced by city staff was mostly "lies." "When I got a licensed plumber, he said it was not the vents," Nelson said. "The vents aren't large enough, nor does the house produce enough to make such a stench in as big of an area, and anybody that tells you that it's from the vents and you can fix the prob- lem by fixing the vents, ei- ther extending them or re- placing them, it is not go- ing to work." Nelson chided Henz, who objected to her calling the report lies, and she said she promised to take the city to court over the issue. Council members di- rected staff to work with the owners of the pump sta- tion to find a potential so- lution to the stench. Coun- cilman Clay Parker said the city could ask the owners of the pump station to install cleanouts to its 2,250-foot force main. "You would hope they would want to be good neighbors," Parker said. City Manager Richard Crabtree also said he would order monthly flushing of sewer lines the city has con- trol over. Council FROM PAGE 1 gic plan that identifies new events, markets and ways to use our local facility." O'Sullivan said the meet- ing is open to the public, and it will be used as a starting point that could eventually result in splin- tering committees as well as a permanent committee that could serve a similar function. Fair board members on Tuesday were presented with a bleak budget out- look, which noted that the Fair District has been spending more than it has taken in since at least 2009, according to a staff docu- ment. The budget report notes that the big loss in reve- nue has been the cut in fair funding from state start- ing in 2012. For the Te- hama District Fairground, that amounted to about a $165,000 loss per year, which equaled about 28 percent of the Fair District's annual income. The July 16 meeting is meant to bring members of the community together to discuss the long term plan for the fairgrounds, which has seen competing ven- ues, such as Rolling Hills Casino and equestrian cen- ter, poach events that previ- ously rented space and held events at the Tehama Dis- trict Fairground. Some of those who at- tended Tuesday's Fair board meeting broke into an im- promptu brainstorming session to figure out ways in the short term to make the fairgrounds an attrac- tive facility to bring in new events, and how to bring back events, such as the California High School Ro- deo Association Finals, that left in previous years. "If we have that kind of excitement and energy," O'Sullivan said after the meeting, "we're going to succeed." Board President Linda Durrer stressed during the meeting that there will be fair in September. Fair FROM PAGE 1 Leno, chairman of the Senate budget committee, said he'd intended that the extension go through the normal budget process, but he created a separate bill at the last minute after a regu- lar budget committee failed to take up the tax exemp- tion. He said the existing ex- emption has created tens of thousands of jobs, helped the state with its goal of having a million solar roof- tops, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and lim- ited increases on property taxes for residential prop- erty owners. Other alternative energy groups, including the Cali- fornia Wind Energy Asso- ciation, Geothermal Energy Association and California Biomass Energy Alliance, said the tax break unfairly benefits one renewable en- ergy technology. The so- lar industry is doing well, they said, while alterna- tives flounder. The measure was backed by solar and building in- dustry associations includ- ing the Solar Energy In- dustries Association and Large-Scale Solar Associa- tion, both of which include representatives from solar installer SolarCity. SolarCity chairman Elon Musk is also a founder and CEO of the electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors, which is planning to build a $5 billion factory to supply batteries for its cars. California is among sev- eral states seeking to land the factory, but Leno said the solar bill was not in- tended to court Musk's fa- vor. "That would be a very clever idea, but that was not in my mind at all," Leno said. Solar FROM PAGE 1 By Terrence Petty The Associated Press PORTLAND, ORE. In what truly epitomized the title of his TV show, "My Cat From Hell," feline behavior- ist Jackson Galaxy is call- ing his attempt to tame the Portland cat notorious for attacking a baby and box- ing his panicked owners into a bedroom "the hardest case I have ever worked." It got more difficult after the happy ending for the cat named Lux soon unraveled. In the reality show that aired last weekend, Galaxy persuades another Portland couple to take Lux while the cat is treated with antide- pressants and anti-seizure medication. A veterinarian diagnosed Lux with feline hyperesthesia syndrome, which can trigger violent behavior. But after the episode's taping, Lux attacked his new guardians and they gave him up for their own safety. "It was the worst let- down," Galaxy told The As- sociated Press on Tuesday. "I don't think I've ever had a bigger shock. This is the hardest case I have ever worked." But take heart, Lux sup- porters. The 4-year-old cat has become Galaxy's buddy, and the reality star says he hasn't given up. He's placed Lux in a veterinary clinic where the cat receives medication while undergo- ing treatment to try to iden- tify what turns this feline Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde. Lux became one of the most notorious cats in pet history after his owner called 911 on March 9 as the cat terrorized his family. Lee Palmer told dispatch- ers Lux had scratched his son's head and was out of control. The family barri- caded themselves in a bed- room, and Lux could be heard screeching menac- ingly in the background. Galaxy set up a series of meetings with Lux and his owners, who did not re- turn messages seeking com- ment. The episode shown Saturday demonstrated the difficulty in solving the puz- zle that is Lux. In their first encounter, Galaxy walks into a bed- room where the cat's fear- ful owners have seques- tered him. Galaxy sees Lux peeking out from behind a box. The cat's eyes are di- lated, a sign of distress. He growls. After making eye contact at the cat's level and offer- ing treats, Galaxy is able to pick up Lux and put him on his lap. The cat returns Gal- axy's affection as the tat- tooed TV host pets him. "I do not see a vicious cat," Galaxy says. "I do not see a killer." In the show, Galaxy tem- porarily puts Lux in the care of another couple to see whether the cat would be violent in a different home. Lux attacked one of its new owners. A Port- land veterinarian suggests Lux be medicated, and the new owners agree to take Lux back. At first, it went well. But after the show wrapped, the couple called Galaxy to say the cat had several violent episodes. Galaxy said the cat was a danger to them and he un- derstands why they couldn't keep him. Despite the outbursts, everyone seems to fall for Lux, a long-haired cat with a sweet face. That's the case for Galaxy, who has dealt with thousands of difficult cats. "I fell in love with him the second I met him," Gal- axy said. "He's the sweetest boy in the world." The reality star has made saving Lux from euthanasia his personal crusade. The cat is at a clinic — Galaxy won't divulge the location — where special- ists are trying to better un- derstand the complicated feline. Galaxy works with them on treatment, and it's going well so far. The medication is start- ing to work. Staff members at the clinic put Lux in dif- ferent social situations to see how he responds. Gal- axy hopes they can modify Lux's behavior so the cat can someday find a home. "I'm going to keep work- ing with this cat," Galaxy said. "I've got to be sure I give him the best shot." PETS 'Cat from Hell' finally stumps television host Lux known for attacking toddler, boxing with owners ANIMAL PLANET Jackson Galaxy, host of Animal Planet's "My Cat From Hell," sits with a cat named Lux, in Portland, Ore. "I don't think I've ever had a bigger shock. This is the hardest case I have ever worked on." — Jackson Galaxy, host of Animal Planet's "My Cat From Hell." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Smithsonian ornithologist Brian Schmidt poses for a photo with Martha, an extinct passenger pigeon, once the most plentiful bird on the planet, who went extinct in September 1914when Martha died in public at the Cincinnati zoo. By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awe- some power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in the scien- tific equivalent of a blink of an eye: The passenger pigeon went from billions of birds to extinct before our very eyes. It was one bird's death after many. But a century ago, Martha, a red-eyed, grey and brown bird fa- mous as the last surviving passenger pigeon, keeled over, marking an extinc- tion that shook science and the public. Now, a century later, Martha's back, in a way. She is being taken out of the file cabinets of his- tory in a new Smithso- nian Institution exhibit this month, reminding the public of her death, and of other species that have gone extinct because of man. A new scientific study this week shows how pigeon populations fluctu- ated wildly, but how peo- ple ultimately killed off the species. And some geneticists are even working on the longshot hope of reviving the passenger pigeon from leftover DNA in stuffed birds. "Here was a bird like the robin that everybody knew and within a generation or two it was gone — and we were its cause, " Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm said. In the 18th and 19th centuries the passen- ger pigeon was the most abundant bird species on Earth. In 1866 in On- tario, just one flock of bil- lions of birds, 300 miles long and one mile wide, darkened the skies for 14 hours as they flew by over- head. Unlike the domesti- cated carrier pigeon used for messages, these were wild birds. They were easy to catch because they stayed to- gether. They were consid- ered a poor man's food; domestic workers com- plained about eating too much passenger pigeon. "Nobody ever dreamed that a bird that common could be brought into ex- tinction that quickly," said University of Minne- sota evolutionary biologist Bob Zink. Examination of the pas- senger pigeon's genetic code shows that their pop- ulation ping-ponged reg- ularly from as much as 5 billion to as few as tens of millions, said a study co- authored by Zink in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released Mon- day. Still, the chief causes of the extinction — cutting down Eastern U.S. forests and hunting — were man- made, Zink said. "Passenger pigeons al- ways reached lows like this, it's just this time their luck ran out because we were around," Zink said. By 1900, there we no passenger pigeons left in the wild. By 1914, there was just 29-year-old Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. People lined up to see her. She was a star. Then on Sept. 1, 1914, Martha was found lying on the bottom of her cage. The passenger pigeon was now extinct. It had gone from billions of birds to zero in about one century, probably less. It was the first public ex- tinction, something people used to think happened only to relics of the past like dinosaurs, or critters stuck on islands like do- dos, Pimm and other sci- entists said. "This was a real wake- up call for the public and frankly for scientists too," said Helen James, cura- tor of birds at the Smith- sonian Natural History Museum. "Ornithologists studied birds and they didn't really think of spe- cies becoming extinct." But they did. And Mar- tha, the last of her kind, was put in a 300-pound block of ice and shipped to Washington D.C. and the Smithsonian.She was stuffed and mounted, con- tinuing as a star. When she traveled back to Cincinnati or to San Diego for a big conservation conference, she flew in a first class seat. But her star faded. For the last 15 years, she has been in a drab metal fil- ing cabinet in the bowels of the Smithsonian, stuck on the same stick with an older stuffed unrelated pi- geon named George. All gone: How erasing billions of birds shocked us EXTINCT SPECIES THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A