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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 – Daily News 7A LIBRARY Continued from page 1A library open. They needed time, they said. Supervisor Ron Warner, who rep- resents the Los Molinos district, withdrew his motion to send the let- ter and proposed that the board wait until after a public meeting about the closure scheduled July 20. The board agreed with Warner and voted to put off voting for a week. Warner and County Librarian Jessica Hudson met with more than 20 people at the Los Molinos Library July 20 for an informal informational meeting about the closure and the proposed bookmo- bile that is in the works. The meeting, deemed a success by both Hudson and Warner, brought up passionate objections to closing the branch and several ideas about how to save it. Revisiting the issue Tuesday, the supervisors heard comments from more than 15 people at the meeting and received almost a dozen letters urging the county to keep the library open. After more than an hour of dis- cussion, supervisors voted Tuesday to keep the branch open, at least temporarily, by rejecting the plan to send notice to the landlord. “I think we have gotten an earful here,” Chairman Gregg Avilla said after listening to the discussion. The library was scheduled to be closed and empty by Aug. 31, but because of the action Tuesday, it could stay open at least through budget negotiations. Sue Gallagher, a patron of libraries for 44 years, spoke for many of the advocates. She argued CUTS Continued from page 1A missioner who handles state collected child sup- port. There are only the judges, the clerks and the local administration on which the court depends in order to operate. Over the last few years position were left unfilled as they became vacant through retirement or other departures. There are five clerks and one court reporter fewer than three years ago. However, even a court that has cut every possible expense, cannot balance its budget under the circum- stances, Scheuler said. WOMAN Continued from page 1A While being transported Wednes- day to the Glenn County Jail by Sher- iff Larry Jones, Galindo appeared to suffer a seizure in the back seat of his vehicle. She was transferred to an ambu- lance, and reportedly became combat- ive. She allegedly pulled an IV from her arm, spraying blood around the ambulance, Jones said. She also HALL Continued from page 1A dards, Murphy said. “It’s a good idea and it would be something to get the kids involved and keep them out of trouble, but they would like the Community Services District to give them the community hall for $1-2,” Murphy said. “Her point was that her husband would have to put a lot of time and money into the building to get it up to code.” Murphy said the couple was offered the chance to pay $250 a month for 10 years with no money down, but rejected that offer due to the amount of work that had to go into the building. “It’s not in the best inter- est of the board to give it away,” Board Member Tom Humphreys said. Carol Johnston agreed, saying she was not in favor of the deal. The board voted to not accept the proposal and move forward with the sale for $30,000. The board’s other item for sale, the 1928 fire truck from the former Gerber Vol- unteer Fire Department, was picked up July 2 after being sold to a Washington man for $3,500. The fire truck was the last of the items left from the that the people of Los Molinos were not included in the decision to close the library and decried the addition of a bookmobile to replace services in the area. “We weren’t part of the ‘we’ who decided, but we are the ones who are going to suffer the most,” Gallagher said. She spoke about five other coun- ty libraries that were closed decades ago with a promise to reopen that was never fulfilled. “Don’t cut us off at the knees,” she said. Representatives of the Los Moli- nos Women’s Club, including Bar- bara Whitten, spoke against the pro- posed closure. Whitten brought along letters from seven Los Molinos businesses that support keeping the library open. Others spoke about what mes- sage and effect closing a library has on the children. School libraries have been cut- ting back, said Cheryl Palmer, a vol- unteer at the Vina Elementary School library. “What are we teaching our chil- dren about literacy?,” she said. “That it’s only available to people who can afford it?” The only libraries available to children in the Los Molinos area are at the Vina and Los Molinos ele- mentary schools, she said. “Something’s wrong here,” she said. Still more people stood up to speak. Some shed tears. Growing up in Los Molinos, Betty Morales was saddened by the thought of losing the library, she said. She requested that the board consider keeping it open for at least a couple more months. The library will remain open, at “We did not even know exactly what our budget would be until nearly a month after the beginning of the fiscal year,” Scheuler said. “Now that we know that figure, we are certain that we will experience a massive deficit without even further spending cuts.” Employees will be asked to make further con- cessions, and layoffs have not been ruled out, he said. Labor negotiations will open in August, and after they are completed the court will have a better idea of the necessary changes that need to be made to meet the budget crisis. If concessions are not achieved, the plans for least until the issue is considered again in the final budget, which would take effect in September. Chief Administrative Officer Bill Goodwin, who recommended at the start of discussion to discontinue the lease and possibly store the books until another facility could be found at a later date, suggested that it would be difficult to find the money in the general fund to pay for the library’s shortfall. However, contributions by mem- bers of the Los Molinos community could help, he said. “If the community steps up and meets us halfway, it would go a long way,” Goodwin said. There will need to be a perma- nent solution because the issue will come up every year, he said. Supervisors were optimistic. “I think within this budget, we can find a way to keep this open,” Supervisor George Russell said. Apologizing for getting emotion- al, Russell spoke about the direction that our country is headed. “All libraries are going to be gone at the rate we are going,” he said. Russell was glad to see that peo- ple were starting to realize what is happening, he said. Supervisor Bob Williams agreed that the library should remain open. He suggested the county approach the landlord to renegotiate the lease. The lease continues through July 2012, but the county can opt out of it if the supervisors decide to with- draw the funds for it. For now, the library will continue to operate three days a week in Los Molinos. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. court closures will be implemented. “We will do our part, and we believe that even this recent disastrous cut can be handled if we all pull together,” Scheuler said. “Our main goal is, and will continue to be, serving the public.” Meanwhile, plans for construction of a new cour- thouse may be in limbo. County officials have been negotiating with rep- resentatives from the Administrative Offices of the Court over property on Walnut Street that has been slated to be the site of a new courthouse. Tehama County Chief Administrative Officer Bill Goodwin said he had not appeared to suffer another seizure in the ambulance. She was taken to jail after being medically cleared. Immediately after release Galindo reportedly went back to the home on County Road M, at about 4 a.m., and created another disturbance. Deputies responded, but rather than taking her to jail they convinced her to self-admit herself to Glenn Medical Center for a mental health evaluation. She was quickly released and went back to the home on County Road M. department’s closure that started in March 2009. The department is closed as far as Tehama County is concerned having complet- ed the Local Agency Forma- tion Commission (LAFCO) requirements. The hang-up is with the state, which is requiring that heard directly from the state court offices on how the recently announced cuts will affect the local court or plans for the new Tehama County court- house. No decisions will be made at the local level until more information is known. “At this point we’re assuming they will go for- ward with the purchase of our property there at Wal- nut Street, but that can change, and we’re still waiting for a definitive answer,” Goodwin said. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. She was arrested again, this time on suspicion of trespassing, and booked into the Glenn County Jail. There she appeared to suffer a third seizure, but reportedly was treated there and remained incarcerated. Her arraignment was set for Mon- day. Jones said it’s likely she will remain in Glenn County, either jailed on out on bail, until his office can fig- ure a way to get her transported to her home in Shasta County. She reportedly remained in custody Monday. a new legal description of the boundary line the district serves be completed, Mur- phy said. The problem is there are four legal descrip- tions instead of just one. Tom Wulfert, an engineer and land surveyor out of Redding, is in the process of completing it and announced Thursday there is no survey required. Instead, the district can use an electronic map that is Geographic Information System (GIS) based, he said. The board approved the preliminary Gerber-Las Flo- res Community Service Dis- trict Exterior Boundary. THE PASSING PARADE (More writings of Dave Minch’s I Say column of July 1958) There is a new midget golf course down the highway 4 miles, and another being built across from the Drive- In theatre by Kenneth Eggleston. Many years ago there was a craze for the game all over the west. Some of the towns had extremely expensive and fancy layouts. I remember two that Red Bluff had. The first was built just south of the old river bridge by Harry Jack. It was on low ground between the bridge and the Riverside Auto Court. Postmaster Max Stewart was the champion of this course. This was in about 1930 when Clifford and Don O’Connor were in the contracting business. They noticed how successful Harry Jack was in his course, so they decided to try it themselves. They rented the lot where Courtemanche’s Service Station is now (Ed. Note: East across the street from Bob’s Tire Shop today). They constructed a reasonable priced course. It started out with a bang and many nights ran until 3 or 4 in the morning. Cliff and Don decided that maybe this had a greater future than their contracting business as it was clearing about $800.00 per month, which I mean was real money in those days. They thought that if an inexpensive course could make this kind of money, what would a real good course do? They toured the state to get ideas from other courses. When they came back, they built a very fancy one costing them $3,000.00, the equivalent of at least $10,000.00 today…but the rest of the story is sad. The craze died as quickly as it began. It wasn’t even sick, it just died, and from then on nobody would play midget golf if you paid them. As of this writing, that was 30 years ago and it may be that the cycle is now complete and the craze will hit again (Ed. Note: Perhaps the owners of the course on South Main, now referred to as Miniature Golf, could tell us). * * * ** I mentioned a few weeks ago the sale of land on South Main had made a record price here. The part of an acre where the Birdsong Second Hand Car Lot is, was sold for in excess of $40,000.00. When we built our Case Implement and G.E. building south of the Crystal Motel in the early 1940’s (Ed: Site today of the former Ford Agency at 455 South Main) all the land from the Crystal north was valued at $3.000.00. I was talking to a well known business man about this sale. He told me that when the Bank of Tehama liquidated in the early 30’s, he had been offered all the bank’s unsold assets for $40,000.00 with nothing down. This included a ranch that later sold for $600,000.00 (Ed: Possibly the Walton Dairy which became Riverside Plaza). I replied there were probably just as good buys today if we only knew which were to become future bargain. The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514 Dave Minch 1900-1964 Obituaries ALTON EVERETT ELLIS age of 75. He was born in North Kingsville, Ohio to Fred and Mildred Ellis, second of four children. His family moved to California when he was a child. Al served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1955 until honorably dis- charged in 1963. In 1960, Al married Patricia Fischer of Wichita, Kansas. They moved to Napa, had three daugh- ters, Shawna, Darlene and Joanne. Al worked at Allen and Benedict for 25 years before retiring at 50 in Red Bluff where he delivered meals in the Tehama County Se- nior Nutrition Program. Alton is survived by his wife, three daughters, eight grandchildren, great grandson Everett, a brother, two sis- ters, five nieces and one nephew. A memorial will be held on Saturday, July 30th, 2011 at 11:00 am at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 545 Berrendos, Red Bluff, California. Alton Everett Ellis passed away July 25th, 2011, at the SUELLEN WILLIAMS Suellen Williams, age 70, passed away July 16, 2011 af- ter her battle with cancer. She was born in Red Bluff, CA. on November 21, 1940 to parents Lyle and Mildred Williams. She is survived by her mother, Mildred Williams, and sister Jill Smith, chil- dren Lisa Benefield, Mindi Horne (of Red Bluff), and Shelli Vogt (husband Rich Vogt of Wichita, KS.), grand- children Brittany Benefield, Megan Benefield, Stephen Vogt (wife Jennifer Vogt), Courtney Arnce (husband James Arnce), and Emma Horne, great grandchildren Av- ery Vogt, Mason Vogt, and Colby Arnce. Suellen lived in Red Bluff most of her life. She worked many years as a buyer for Zuckweiller’s Department Store, and later employed by the Tehama County Asses- sor’s Office, and retired from Redding Oil. She was a kind, generous person with a great love for animals, es- pecially her cats. She never went looking for stray cats, they just seemed to find her. If she had her wish in life there would never be a stray cat looking for a home. Suellen especially loved spending time with her family. She enjoyed attending all of her grandchildren’s athletic events, dance recitals, and school programs. She was deeply loved and will be forever missed. Back in the old days, The Williams family would load up and take a Sunday drive, almost every Sunday. The usual destination was back roads, and many times ended up in Lowry, Paskenta and Corning to visit relatives. Sue and Jill sat in the back seat and would continually ask "Are we there yet?". It was a part of their life that left fond memories. Private family services will be held on Friday, July 29th at 1pm at Oak Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers we ask that a donation be made in Suellen’s name to PAWS, P. O. Box 8908, Red Bluff, CA 96080