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Friday, July 8, 2011 – Daily News 9A Obituaries PEGGY BANES Peggy Banes went to the Lord on June 5, 2011. A Memorial Service will be held at the Church in Rancho Tehama at noon on July 14, 2011. CARL KREISLER 7-26-1930 TO 12-6-2008 Born in Lincoln, MO., he was a 30 year resident of Tehama County. He is survived by Oleta Wilson. Funeral will be Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 11am at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery. 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 Lawmakers advance bill to end death penalty SACRAMENTO (AP) — A bill that seeks to abolish California’s death penalty advanced Thursday after its first legislative hearing with support from the author of the state’s death penalty and a former warden who presided over execu- tions. Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she introduced the bill because California can no longer afford a capital punishment system that is both expensive and ineffective as it battles persistent multibillion-dollar budget deficits. If eventually signed into law, the bill would put the question before voters in 2012. The Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 5-2 along party lines in favor of SB490 after hearing testimony from Sacramento attor- ney and former prosecutor Donald Heller and former San Quentin State Prison warden Jeanne Woodford. Heller wrote the proposition 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. GAYLE WOOD Gayle Leanne Wood, age 56, died July 5, 2011 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding of a brain aneurysm. She was born February 25, 1955 in Red Bluff to Clifton and Ruth Carlson. She worked 30 years in the title insur- ance industry, most recently with Northern California Ti- tle. Gayle had an easy smile, giving heart and loving arms. She will be deeply missed by everyone. Gayle is survived by her husband of 37 years, Paul. Sons, Brandon and Curtis. Dad, Clifton Carlson; broth- ers, Gregg (Gwen) Carlson and Bryan Carlson; sisters, Glenda (Mark) Duncan and Geri (Dan) Ochs. Her niece, Jennifer (Dino) Landingham. Her nephews, Chad (Chelsey) Ochs, Tucker (Rachel) Ochs, Derek (Leah) Duncan, and Clifton (Danielle) Duncan. Numerous great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mom, Ruth Carlson; father and mother-in-law, Jack and Deannie Wood; and brother-in-law, Mark Wood. No services will be held. Donations in her memory may be made to Valley Veterinary Hospital to support their an- imal adoption program as her pets were precious to her. PATH (Continued from page 1A) The Minch Road site was the original site for which PATH had created plans and received the state grant a year ago. The plans for that site was abandoned because it was too costly to extend city water and sewer services to the property. Although the site plans are made, returning to Minch Road is not a given, as the property owner still would have to be interested in selling the property and PATH still has to deal with the water and sewer issue, Dering said. “The only way to go back to that site is if someone gave us $500,000,” Dering said. “We would need a fairy godmother for that to happen, and I just don’t know any fairy godmothers out there.” PATH would not be in this predicament had the Red Bluff City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday to rezone a site on Breckenridge Street, which would have potentially allowed for the shelter to be built at the site. The rejection is especially tough considering the council had already voted in favor of the rezone ordinance in Jan- uary, Dering said. “I’m still mad, not as depressed as I was after the meeting, but still mad,” she said. Mayor Pro Tem Forrest Flynn, who had voted in favor of the project in January, joined councilmen Wayne Brown and Rob Schmid in opposing the rezone on Tues- day. Flynn said in that time he did more research, including visiting the Good News Rescue Mission in Redding and the site at Breckenridge Street. “If you make a mistake, you don’t want to continue making that mistake — if in fact it was a mistake. I have no guarantee that it was a mistake,” Flynn said. His objection to the rezone was about location, not the shelter or PATH, he said. “What they’re trying to do is admirable,” Flynn said. “I just feel that location wasn’t good. If the location is right I would support it.” The Hess Road location sounds as though it would be a more suitable site, he said. Based on what he has heard so far, he would be in favor of having the shelter at that site. “It really is about location and picking the right place,” Flynn said. The right place would be one that is already in an industrial zone. In compliance with SB 2, the City Council in 2007 designated the industrial zone as the zone in which home- less shelters are to be built. Flynn and Brown were both on the council at the time. “The state told us to pick a zone,” Brown said. “If they went to that zone they would be in business already. I don’t know why they chose to go to a place that’s not in the zone. We already made a zone.” In spite of the decision he made, Brown said he real- izes the problem of homelessness is still there and judg- ing by the number of people who attended the Tuesday council meeting, the community does care about the problem. He has been listening and continues to listen, but he does not know how he can personally help PATH, Brown said. “I don’t know if there is anything I can do,” he said. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. News tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 approved by state voters in 1978 that restored the death penalty. Wood- ford oversaw four executions but now heads Death Penalty Focus, which opposes them. ‘‘After each execution, someone on my staff would say, ‘Is the world safer because we did our jobs tonight?’ We all knew the answer was no,’’ Woodford said. ‘‘Life without possibility of parole is the solution for addressing what opponents and proponents of the death penalty recognize is a bro- ken, costly, failed system that does not provide meaningful public safe- ty or justice to our families despite the billions of dollars spent by the state of California,’’ she said. She and Heller cited a recent study by a federal appellate judge and a university law professor that found California taxpayers spend $184 million annually to try death penalty cases, defend the state through appeals and incarcerate condemned inmates. Most of the 714 condemned inmates on the nation’s most populous Death Row are more likely to die of old age than lethal injection, the study found. ‘‘I fervently believe that capital punishment should be abolished,’’ ‘‘The cost of justice should not be something we weigh and evaluate based on the amount of resources we have.” — Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, Heller said. ‘‘It’s costing the state a huge amount of money.’’ The researchers, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Arthur L. Alarcon and Loyola Law School Professor Paula M. Mitchell, calcu- lated that capital punishment has cost California $4 billion since it was reinstated 34 years ago, yet just 13 inmates have been executed — none in the past five years. Hancock’s bill would amend state law to require life in prison without parole for those convicted of what are now capital crimes, including people currently on death row. It would put the question before voters on the November 2012 ballot. Hancock’s bill was opposed by prosecutors, victims’ rights groups and associations representing police and sheriffs. It now goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. In March, Illinois became the 16th state to abolish the death penal- ty. Hancock argued California should become the 17th. ‘‘At a time when there is no money to meet the basic needs of our people, we can’t afford a pun- ishment that Judge Alarcon calls a punishment in theory only,’’ Han- cock said. ‘‘It is not helping to pro- tect our people — it is helping to bankrupt us.’’ California sent four murderers to death row in the first six months of this year, compared with 13 in the same period last year and 21 in the second half of 2010, according to state attorney general’s office, which handles death penalty appeals. In an average year, 30 peo- ple are sentenced to die. ‘‘We cannot put a price on jus- tice,’’ said Cory Salzillo, legislative director for the California District Attorneys Association. He said retroactively commuting con- demned inmates sentences to life would probably violate the constitu- tional separation of powers between the Legislature and judiciary that imposed the sentences. He also called it ‘‘extremely unfair to com- munities that expect justice and to victims’ families that have been promised ultimate closure.’’ The system is unquestionably expensive and unwieldy, he said, yet lawmakers have consistently reject- ed reforms that would speed execu- tions and thereby cut their cost. Dawn Koepke, lobbyist for Crime Victims United of California, said ending death sentences retroac- tively would be ‘‘an insult’’ to vic- tims whose killers are on death row. She said such a bill would tell vic- tims’ that ‘‘the cost of their life is not as sufficient and important as the cost to the state.’’ She listed prominent murder vic- tims whose families have been awaiting the closure provided by executions. ‘‘How do we go to them and say ... ‘Sorry, we’re going to take that away now. We’re going to make it a life-without-parole sentence?’’’ Koepke said. ‘‘I have a problem with saying that taking away this punishment will not do anything,’’ said Assem- blyman Steve Knight, R-Lancaster, a former police officer who voted against the bill. ‘‘The death penalty is a deterrent. It is. And it does have that effect on some people.’’ ‘‘The cost of justice should not be something we weigh and evalu- ate based on the amount of resources we have,’’ said Assembly- man Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, who still voted to move the bill from committee. ‘‘We can’t put a factor on what the moral costs are.’’ SACRAMENTO (AP) — One of the nation’s lead- ing bond-rating agencies upgraded its outlook for California’s finances Thurs- day after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a rare on-time bud- get in time for the start of the new fiscal year. Standard & Poor’s revised California’s long- term ratings outlook from negative to stable. The agency said most of the provisions of the new bud- get are largely realistic, although it says California’s longer-term financial prospects depend on a con- tinuing rise in tax revenue, primarily from the wealthy. MARKET (Continued from page 1A) including pies, jams, organic cookies and iced teas to name a few of her items, Rowe said she is grateful for a way to help support her family. The items, including her number one seller Jas- mine Lavender Mint Tea, are all nicely displayed in a small-scale replica of a cottage built by her hus- band Alvin, she said. The market still has several people including Saucedo, Julia’s Fruit Stand, Burlisons, R&K Orchards, Jack the Ribber and Ron Whites Kettle Corn who are long-time, well-known vendors, Bur- kett said. “It’s exciting for me when the vendors do well and people come just to see them,” Burkett said. “It’s nice to have that blend of traditional ven- dors the know and the ele- ment of new vendors.” A manager’s booth and donation basket have been Ratings agency says California bond outlook stable California currently has the lowest credit rating among the 50 states. S&P affirmed the state’s general obligation bonds rating at ‘‘A-’’, which is six notches below the best possible rat- ing, but hinted that the rat- ing could improve if rev- enues continue to climb. ‘‘In addition to the revised outlook, the fiscal 2012 budget introduces the possibility of a higher rating if certain features of the budget perform as the state plans and lead to proce- dures that could reduce the state’s vulnerabilities to its revenue volatility,’’ the agency wrote. added to the Wednesday night event that runs 5-8 p.m. through Sept. 28. “The manager’s booth is located directly in front of the band and it’s a place for people to ask ques- tions, give comments and get flyers for upcoming events,” Burkett said. “It’s about connecting the com- munity.” The booth is shared with WIC who will be handing out vouchers and non-profits are welcome to come give out flyers and introduce themselves to the community, she said. The booth will also be the site for a dot survey that will be used to evalu- ate all of the activities at Farmer’s Market from food, crafts and other booths to the live music. “I’ve got a lot of ideas (for the market), but it’s not going to be willy nilly guessing,” Burkett said. “I need concrete proof and the more feedback we get the better we can make changes. We are here to serve the community and make the market grow.” A stable outlook should help the state get better interest rates when it bor- rows about $5 billion in short-term loans next month. ‘‘S&P’s action confirms our view that this budget takes a significant step for- ward in putting California’s fiscal house back in order,’’ said Tom Dresslar, spokesman for state Trea- surer Bill Lockyer. On June 30, Brown, a Democrat, signed an $86 billion state budget that enacted service cuts but assumed optimistic revenue projections. Majority Democrats passed the bud- The donation bin is for both vendors and the pub- lic and items collected will go to local food pantries, she said. “My farmers have been really generous,” Burkett said, adding that every week the bin has been full. “We encourage the com- munity to let us know when they have something they can donate. There’s nothing more discourag- ing than seeing fruit fall on the ground and go unused.” The bin is at the manag- er’s booth at both Wednes- day’s market, which is 5 to 8 p.m. at the corner of Pine and Washington Streets, and Saturday’s farmer’s market, which is 7 to 11 a.m. next to the Red Bluff- Tehama County Chamber of Commerce on Main Street. “If you have extra zuc- chini, bring it,” Burkett said. “It’s another way for the community to help our food pantries besides the canned food drives in November and December. We need to remember Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned & Operated Honor and Dignity 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 $ get alone after negotiations with Republicans for tem- porary tax extensions failed. S&P noted that the state failed to achieve meaning- ful fiscal reform and instead delayed payments for schools. ‘‘Instead of chipping away at the state’s large, $34.7 billion in budget obligations as the governor had proposed in the May revised budget, the enacted budget proceeds with the earlier plans to defer to fis- cal 2013 $2.2 billion in edu- cation payments attribut- able to fiscal 2012,’’ the report stated. those food pantries are year round.” Another thing in the works is plans to get an EBT card machine, Bur- kett said. “We should know by August,” Burkett said about being able to use EBT cards. “With this social economic climate we’re in, more and more people are in need of financial aid, but that doesn’t mean they need to sacrifice nutrition.” For donations to the bin outside of the times avail- able at Farmer’s Market or more information call 527-6220. Information is also available at www.red- bluffchamber.com. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Computer Classes • Beginning Computers • Intro to Digital Photos • Email and Internet Class Sessions begin Tuesday, July 12th 45 for 3 week session (nine classes each) Intro to Digital Photos 2:00-3:30 (T-W-Th) Beginning Computers 3:30-5:00 (T-W-Th) Email and Internet 6:00-7:30 (T-W-Th) * eScholar Academy * 715 Jackson St. Suite B, Red Bluff Space is limited, early registration is suggested. Questions? Call or text Christy Vail 200-2661