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Thursday, July 7, 2011 – Daily News 5A Obituaries MAXINE OWENS A Memorial Service for Maxine Owens will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, July 7, 2011 at Oak Hill Cemetery. Reception following at 11:00 AM at the Elks Lodge. ROSE J. GRIMES 10-12-1915 to 7-4-2011 and Frances Arceri, raised in San Jose, Ca. Spent her mar- ried life with Dean Grimes in San Jose, Santa Clara and Los Molinos, Ca. Survived by son, Patrick (Grace), grand- daughter Kim Viduya of Colfax, Ca., grandson Robert Predosa of Portland Oregon, nephew Robert Stout of Los Molinas, Ca, goddaughter Angela Sposito of San Francisco Ca. great nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by her parents, sister Josephine, brother Joseph, daughter Claire and husband Dean Grimes, WWII Veteran. Rosary Thursday July 7th at 5pm at Chapel of The Flow- ers in Red Bluff. Burial Mass will be Friday July 8th at Sacred Heart Cath- Born in Omaha, Nebraska of Sicilian heritage, to Alfio CITY Continued from page 1A the shelter would violate their safety, peace, morals, comfort and general wel- fare, Schmid said. Councilmen Wayne olic Church, Red Bluff at 10am. Burial to follow at St. Mary’s cemetery. Arrangements being handled by Chapel of the Flowers, Red Bluff, Ca. Death Notices Lottie Belflower Lottie Belflower of Los Molinos died Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at Red Bluff Healthcare Center in Red Bluff. She was 87. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, July 7, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. SWEEP Continued from page 1A it overturned as he tried to regain control. Sanchez-Reyes, who had a blood alcohol concentra- tion three times the legal limit, was taken to St. Eliza- beth Community Hospital for minor injuries. After being medically cleared, he was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charge of DUI. Alexander Mendez Talley, 19, of Corning was the second arrest following a collision at 4:59 a.m. Monday with a parked car on Toomes Avenue, about 100 feet north of Dolla Court. Talley had been driving south on Toomes when the collision occurred, causing moderate damage to both vehicles. There were no reports of injuries. Talley left the area following the crash and he and the vehicle were later located in an apartment complex at 250 Toomes Ave, said Corning Police Chief Tony Cardenas. Talley admitted to being the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle at the time of the collision, Cardenas said. Talley was determined to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs and was arrested by Corning Police for DUI. The case has been submitted to the Tehama Coun- ty District Attorney for further action on the DUI and the hit and run, Cardenas said. The first arrest was Donald Mowrey, 53, of Chico, who was arrested by the California Highway Patrol on the first day of the campaign, which kicked off at 12:01 a.m. Friday. Red Bluff Police arrested Lauren Blair Kaith, 28, of Red Bluff between 6 a.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday. Also arrested during that period were Barron Saloman, 43, of Chester, Lucius Long, 30, of Red Bluff and Jose M. Valdovinos, 24, of Red Bluff, all arrested by CHP. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Brown and Forrest Flynn sided with Schmid for the majority vote. Brown said he agreed with the compassionate side of the argument, but the council is charged with making a decision that is best for the entire commu- nity. The views of the property and business owners are just as valid as those of the proponents of the shelter. During the first reading of the ordinance in Febru- ary, Flynn was the first councilman to approve the resolution supporting the ordinance. “Since then I have done a lot of research and soul searching and lost a lot of sleep thinking about what is best for the community and best for the majority,” he said. He initially supported the rezone thinking any addition would improve the site, but since February things have changed, including work on the Tehama County Branding Project and improvements at Samuel Ayer Park. “We don’t want to go backwards from where we’re at,” Flynn said. Mayor Bob Carrel said the shelter would have been an improvement to the area that has always been a blight. He did not agree with opponents’ views that the shelter would degrade the neigh- borhood. “I’ll be quite frank,” Carrel said. “I’m in sup- port of this project.” The majority of those in attendance supported the project as well. Through a show of AG Continued from page 1A exported to 51 different countries. Exports are increasing with the growth of the glob- al market, Gurrola said. County supervisors, sev- eral of whom have experi- ence with farming, expressed interest in the report. State to control health insurance rates SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Cali- fornia legislative committee on Wednesday narrowly approved a bill that would give state officials the power to reject proposed health insur- ance rate increases, but even some supporters say it will need major changes if it is to survive. The Senate Health Committee voted 5-3 along party lines to advance the bill, AB52, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed. It will go before another committee before coming to the full Senate. The debate has implications across the United States. California regula- tions have national influence and the state, home to one in eight Ameri- cans, makes up 11 percent of the national market for those with health insurance through an employer and 15 percent of those with individual cov- erage. Groups representing insurers, doc- tors and hospitals oppose the bill. Backers include organized labor, advocates for low-income Californi- ans and state Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, a Democrat. Jones’ office would gain new leverage over health insurance rates if the bill passes and Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat, signs it. The bill faced an end-of-the-week deadline for committee approval, but its fate is uncertain. It has drawn no substantive Repub- lican support and Democratic backing K W I K K U T S Family Hair Salon $200 REGULAR HAIRCUT off with coupon Not good with other offers 1064 South Main St., Red Bluff • 529-3540 Reg. $13.95 Expires 7/31/11 is wobbly amid strong lobbying by the politically influential opponents. The committee’s chairman, Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Baldwin Park, pushed for significant changes to the bill before he would support it, but he voted for the measure Wednesday to keep it alive while negotiations over amendments continue. ‘‘While I have had some concerns on your bill, I do support regulation,’’ Hernandez said. He said he wants amendments to address concerns about political influ- ence in decision making, whether out- side parties could intervene in a rate case, identifying the medical costs that are built into insurance rates, and other matters before he will fully sup- port the bill. Sen. Tony Strickland, a Thousand Oaks Republican, called the bill deeply flawed and rattled off a list of concerns he had with the claims of backers. He said insurers have been accused of gouging the public with high rates, but that they have relatively low prof- it rates compared to pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Those medical cost drivers, he said, made a purely regulatory approach misguided. ‘‘The author and sponsor have said much about this bill, but reality does not square with some of the rhetoric,’’ Strickland said. hands, 262 supporters and 63 opponents were count- ed among the hundreds who attended what some said was the largest turnout they have ever seen at a council meeting. The meeting was held in the auditorium at the Community and Senior Center. Proponents of the shel- ter wore white T-shirts asking people to “be part of the solution” and hand- ed out a number of shirts prior to the meeting and at the door. In a presentation to the council, proponents addressed the short term and long term effects of not having a shelter. Resident John Elko who has been vocal at sev- eral council meetings on various issues, decided not to sport a white tee, but spoke in support of the shelter. “Everybody needs to get real,” Elko said. “The homeless are already here. They’re in your neighbor- hood.” When the old Manahan Court operated out of that “Agriculture seems to be a bright spot in our econo- my,” said Chairman Gregg Avilla. The report also gave his- toric comparisons to 1960 values and detailed informa- tion about vegetable crops, nursery products, timber production, apiary produc- tion and seed and field crops. The report ends with a narrative by Marcie Skelton, agricultural biologist and 4 acres burn in Tuesday afternoon field blaze Several emergency calls reported a fire that sizzled through nearly four acres of annual grasses in a field north of Walbridge Street Tues- day evening. No properties were damaged in the blaze that was reported just before 7 p.m. The acreage burned was in a field east of Baker Road and was contained by about 7:30 p.m. The cause of the fire is undetermined, said Fire Chief Michael Bachmeyer. Red Bluff Police assisted the fire depart- ment in handling the incident. Crews cleared the scene by about 9 p.m. -Andrea Wagner location years ago, the people who often stayed there were just a step above the homeless, but there was no outcry to shut them down, he said. “There’s no so-called perfect location,” Elko said. “Let’s just bite the bullet and get it built.” Location was the main argument against the pro- posed shelter. Several speakers men- tioned the improvements at Samuel Ayer and Dog Island parks since the addition of a disc golf course. Anne Crowder-Read said her grandfather, Samuel Ayer, gave a lot to the community, and she would like to think he left a footprint. Brandon Gris- som and Shane Emde improved that footprint when they built the disc golf course and restored the park. She knows PATH is try- ing to make an impact, too, but perhaps its foot- print is too large, she said. She suggested PATH house the homeless in smaller homes instead of a weights and measures spe- cialist with the department. Skelton discussed the new orchard put in within the last year on the east end of Ante- lope Boulevard, describing the land being transformed from alfalfa production into a walnut orchard. “Since this land is so close to the city limits, this walnut orchard makes a bold statement about our county’s legacy of agriculture contin- uing for generations to Daily News photo by Tang Lor Opponents of a rezone ordinance that would have potentially allowed for a homeless shelter to be built on Breckenridge Street raise their hands to be counted during the City Council meeting Tuesday. warehouse. When the issue first became public at a Plan- ning Commission meeting in January, Kathy Patter- son was the only one to speak in opposition. Since then she has done a lot of research, including going out to speak to the homeless and calling 27 cities that have homeless shelters to ask if the home- less population in their cities increased after the shelters were built. They all said yes, she said. Through her research, she concluded shelters were only successful when they were not in residen- tial and commercial areas, Patterson said. The city has already designated industrial areas as the zone in which homeless shelters can be built so that it did not have to deal with the issue of having a shelter in a residential and commer- cial zone, she said. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.co m. come,” Skelton said. Walnut production repre- sents 56 percent of the nut and fruit production in Tehama County. The 2010 Crop Report and reports from each of the last 50 years are available online at www.co.tehama.ca.us. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, exten- sion 114 or awagner@red- bluffdailynews.com. Drug arrest in Corning A Corning man was arrested on drug charges after sheriff’s deputies pulled him over for a traffic violation Saturday. Emmanuel Luevano Chavez, 24, of Corning was pulled over while driving a black 2003 Chevrolet truck on Flournoy Avenue at Foster Road near Corning. Showing signs of intoxication, Chavez was evaluat- ed while deputies searched his vehicle, a sheriff’s release said. Deputies found a small amount of concentrated cannabis and four generic Vicodin pills inside the pick- up, the release said. Chavez didn’t have a prescription for the medication. Chavez was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, possession of concentrated cannabis and transportation and possession of a con- trolled substance. He was held in lieu of $60,000 bail. -Andrea Wagner ARE YOU AT RISK? ....FIND OUT! Affordable Ultrasound Health Screenings • Safe non-invasive testing Immediate written results Friendly professional staff • 25 years of non-profit service with over 100,000 tests provided! 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