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isalegalburndaypriorto starting any burn. Campfires will be al- lowed in designated camp- grounds with permission of the jurisdictional au- thority and a valid camp- fire permit. Experience has shown that suspending burning is an effective way of pre- venting wildfire escapes, especially as Tehama and Glenn counties en- ter a period of hotter and drier weather. Although all fires cannot be pre- vented through a burn- ing suspension, the num- ber of fires can be Cal Fire reminds homeown- ers that this is the time they can help protect their homes and families, as well as firefighters, by providing 100 feet of de- fensible space around all structures. To ensure res- idents are ready to evacu- ate early and safely when wildfire strikes visit www. fire.ca.gov or www.Ready- ForWildfire.org. Burn FROMPAGE1 would be in excess of about $70,000 per year," Harrop wrote. "Clearly that would be imprudent." The high school district estimates deficit spending in its next fiscal year to to- tal about $1.2 million, and the Our Little House facil- ity on Garden Avenue also faced maintenance costs that would have totaled about $30,000 to $60,000 to bring the building up to standard. The board of trustees on Wednesday, and in the past, had wrestled with finding a solution to the facility's budget woes — such as per- haps raising the fees for employee and community child care — before voting 3-2 to shut down the day care facility. Trustees Elsa Marti- nez, Lida Chase and board President Barbara McIver voted in favor of the clos- ing the facility. Jack Han- sen and Marianne Willard voted no. Hansen and Wil- lard voted in favor of send- ing a letter to families ex- plaining a projected fee rate increase to gauge in- terest, but that idea failed in a 3-2 vote. Willard, who provided her vote and comments via telephone Wednesday, told the board it was choosing to destroy a program rather than looking at the long- term viability of the day care center that was started two decades ago. "I just think you're kill- ing a program that has value and has potential for more value at a later time," Willard said. McIver said, "I think what we heard tonight is there just isn't any funding solution, and I don't think anybody is choosing to kill a program." According to Harrop's letter, the facility expected to at least care for four em- ployee children and seven children of non-employ- ees. The facility's full ca- pacity is 19 children, but it hadn't been at full capacity for years. Willard noted that two to three people could lose their jobs because of the clo- sure. Our Little House em- ployees, it was said, have "bumping" rights, so they wouldn't necessarily be the first to go. A letter explaining the closure of Our Little House was sent to families last week. Child FROM PAGE 1 Agee:VelmaMaeAgee, 97, of Vina died Tuesday, June 17at her home. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Ambrose: Louie Ross Ambrose, 68, of Red Bluff died Saturday, June 21at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Bloxham: Willliam Bloxham, 78, of Red Bluff, died Friday June 20at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Boehm: Frank Louis Boehm, 66, of Red Bluff died Sat- urday, June 21at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. King: Laurel Sue King, 74, of Red Bluff died Sun- day, June 22at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Locke: Marvin Elliott Locke, 79, of Red Bluff died Sat- urday, June 21at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Tiner: Avis Roena Tiner, 85, of Corning died Saturday, June 21at her home. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Unger: Carl Unger, 60, of Red Bluff, died Friday June 20at his home. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, June 24, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbepro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obitu- aries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publi- cation linked to the news- paper's website. Paid obit- uaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide lati- tude of content, including photos. Death notices By Julie Watson The Associated Press EL CAJON, CALIFORNIA A California judge sentenced an Iraqi immigrant Monday to 26 years-to-life in prison for his wife's fatal beating — an attack that initially drew international condem- nation when authorities be- lieved it was a hate crime. Kassim Alhimidi, 50, en- tered the courtroom bound and surrounded by deputies because of his previous out- bursts that repeatedly dis- rupted his emotional trial in San Diego County Supe- rior Court. On Monday, he yelled out in English "I swear I am not guilty!" and then shouted in Arabic to his son, before the judge ordered the defen- dant to be briefly removed from courtroom. When Alhimidi returned minutes later, he blew kisses to his 17-year-old son, Mohammed, and then sobbed as the teen told the court: "I just basically lost both my parents." The couple's oldest daughter, Fatima, found Shaima Alawadi, 32, in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor of their home in 2012 in El Cajon, a San Diego suburb that is home to the second-largest Iraqi popu- lation in the United States. She died at a hospital two days later after suffer- ing multiple fractures to her skull. Investigators initially believed the killing was a hate crime because of a note found after the beat- ing near the devout Muslim mother of five who wore a hijab. It read: "This is my country, go back to yours, you terrorist." The victim and her Shi- ite Muslim family left Iraq in the early 1990s after a failed Shiite uprising, liv- ing in Saudi Arabian refu- gee camps before coming to the United States. The slaying was con- demned by Muslim commu- nity leaders in the United States and Iraq before lab- oratory tests determined the note was a photocopy of one found earlier outside the home, indicating it was planted. Prosecutors said Alhimidi lied to police about the state of his marriage and hid the fact that his wife was seek- ing a divorce and planned to move to Texas. His wife's relative also overheard Alhi- midi apologize to his wife as she lay dying in a hospital, accordingtotheprosecution. Alhimidi's daughter, Fatima, did not attend the sentencing but sent a state- ment that was read in court in which she told her father: "What I saw scarred me for life." She added: "It disgusts me that you made this look like a hate crime." The 18-year-old is now taking care of her two younger sisters in El Cajon, while the two sons are liv- ing in Texas, her brother, Mohammed, said after the hearing. After being sentenced, Alhimidi yelled out that he would prefer to be sen- tenced to death and donate his organs. Alhimidi's outbursts stopped the proceedings sev- eraltimesduringhistrial.He shook his head and wagged his finger as jurors delivered the guilty verdict in April. His sons shouted in his defense, with one yelling obscenities before several deputies wrestled him out of the courtroom. His son, Mohammed, who tattooed a drawing of a woman in a hijab on his arm in honor of his mother, told reporters Monday that he struggled at the time to believe his father had killed his mother. Mohammed told the court he wakes up at night thinking of her and breaks down when he remembers "the man I looked up to all my life is the reason why she is gone." Defense lawyers said there was no forensic evi- dence against Alhimidi and that he loved his wife and was not a violent man. They say he also returned from Iraq after burying his wife there when he could have stayed in his homeland to avoid prosecution. Alhimidi will have to serve 26 years actual time before he is eligible for a pa- role hearing. LEGAL Hu sb an d of s la in I ra qi woman gets 26 years THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kassim Alhimidi, is seen on trial in El Cajon Superior Court for the 2012murder of his wife, Shaima Alawadi, in El Cajon, Calif. Alhimidi was handed a 26-year sentence Monday, but he will be eligible for parole. By Terry Collins The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco's city attorney issued a cease-and-desist demand Monday to a mo- bile app called Monkey Parking, which allows peo- ple to auction public park- ing spaces that they're us- ing to other nearby driv- ers. In a letter to Paolo Do- browolny, the CEO of the Rome, Italy-based tech startup, city attorney Dennis Herrera cited a provision in San Francis- co's police code that pro- hibits people and compa- nies from buying, selling or leasing public on-street parking and mandates fees of up to $300 for drivers who violate the law. The warning is the latest attempt by city government officials and state lawmak- ers nationwide trying to figure out how to regulate Web-based businesses that offer shared parking, trans- portation and housing ser- vices using mobile appli- cations. Among the more popular ridesharing ser- vices are Uber and Lyft, and popular housing apps include Airbnb. Herrera has given Mon- key Parking until July 11 to shut down its operations in San Francisco or possibly face a lawsuit under Cal- ifornia's Unfair Competi- tion Law. Herrera added that besides the viola- tions, Monkey Parking's app encourages drivers to unsafely use their mobile devices and engage in on- line parking bidding wars while behind the wheel. Dobrowolny said in an email Monday that he is talking with his legal staff and didn't immediately have a specific comment about the letter. "As a general princi- ple, we believe that a new company providing value to people should be regu- lated and not banned," Do- browolny wrote. "This ap- plies also to companies like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft that are continuously facing difficulties while deliver- ing something that makes users happy. Regulation is fundamental in driving in- novation, while banning is just stopping it." The city attorney's warning to Monkey comes about a month after his of- fice started investigating the startup, which began its San Francisco opera- tions in April. "Technology has given rise to many laudable in- novations in how we live and work — and Monkey Parking is not one of them. It's illegal, it puts drivers on the hook for $300 fines, and it creates a predatory private market for public parking spaces that San Franciscans will not tol- erate," Herrera said in a written statement. "Peo- ple are free to rent out their own private drive- ways and garage spaces should they choose to do so. But we will not abide businesses that hold hos- tage on-street public park- ing spots for their own pri- vate profit." Parking in San Fran- cisco has long been known as a driver's worst night- mare. A recent San Fran- cisco Municipal Trans- portation Agency parking census reported that the city has 440,000 parking spots available — but only 275,000 of those are street parking. Herrera's letter to Mon- key also asked Apple Inc. to immediately remove Monkey's application from its app store. MOBILE City tells app to stop auctions of parking spaces The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Authorities say fumes from an illegal drug lab briefly sent five Los Angeles police officers to the hospital. City News Service says officers answering a dis- turbance report at a Van Nuys apartment late Sun- day night found a naked, screaming man who ap- peared to be on drugs. Authorities say five offi- cers became light-headed. They were taken to hospi- tals, treated and released. Thirty-seven-year-old Ga- gan Saini also was treated and arrested on suspicion of manufacturing drugs. He remains jailed Monday. KNBC-TV says the home contained extract of mi- mosa root bark and other items that are used to make the psychedelic drug DMT. The station says the drug is known as "businessman's LSD" because its hallucino- genic effects are brief. LOS ANGELES 5 officers treated a er exposure to drug lab still need to be made regard- ing fencing and site access. Moore said the Planning Department takes a neutral position on all projects and avoids advocating. Its role is just to provide all relevant information to the county's decision makers in to how a project would comply with the county's zoning code and general plan. The EIR will cost around $236,000. Moore said that will require another $116,000 deposit from the Tembo Preserve. He said he has had bi- monthly calls from the ap- plicant since the proposal was pitched in December. Roger McNamee the founding member of Tembo, said in December he antici- pated it would take at least three years of planning and construction before the re- serve was ready to house its first elephant. The reserve would then begin with a handful of ele- phants before expanding out in what has been described as a project that would take 50-100 years to complete. The reserve would in- clude a large barn, hous- ing quarters for research and security personnel, out buildings, specialized fenc- ing, feed storage areas, vet- erinary services and inter- nal and external education and research facilities. Organizers believe the re- serve would provide educa- tional and economic bene- fits for Tehama County. The reserve would be built to mimic the elephants' natural environment. Preserve FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO With $76 million in funding in place, officials said Monday they will consider a long-delayed proposal to build a suicide- prevention system on the Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transporta- tion District announced that its board of directors is set to vote Friday on the plan that has faced oppo- sition for years because of the expense, engineering difficulty and public re- sistance to the notion of changing the look of the iconic bridge. Dennis Mulligan, the district's general manager, told KCBS-TV that 46 peo- ple committed suicide on the bridge in 2013. The bridge has been the site of more than 1,400 confirmed deaths since it opened in 1937. "On average about once a week we stop some- one from jumping off the bridge," Mulligan said. "On average, twice a month people die by jumping off the bridge." The agency said it has found funding to cover the $76 million price tag of the project. It said $27 mil- lion would come from the federal Surface Transpor- tation Program; $22 mil- lion from the federal Local Highway Bridge Program; $20 million from its own reserves; and $7 million from California Mental Health Service Act money. SAN FRANCISCO $7 6 mi ll io n fo un d to b ui ld Golden Gate suicide barrier TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A