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the Sacramento River and its tributaries. In addition and to the de- light of visitors, crowd-fa- vorite black powder weap- onry demonstrations will take place each day. The popular Mobile Living History program started in 1983 when a few volunteers from Sut- ter's Fort became enam- ored with the lives of the 19th century trappers and aspired to see how closely they could live like real trappers. The resulting mobile unit turned out to be a way to bring the ed- ucational programming of Sutter's Fort to schools and families outside of the Sac- ramento region. In addition to a large number of school groups that have already signed up to visit the camps, lo- cal individuals, families and home schooled stu- dents are invited to attend a two-hour afternoon ses- sion at 12:30 p.m. that is open to the public each day except Fridays for a nominal fee of $4 per per- son. Everyone who visits the trapping camps will be rewarded with a free me- mento, while supplies last. For more information about the Mobile Living History program, call 916- 323-8112 or visit www.sut- tersfort.org. Sutter's Fort State His- toric Park is operated by California State Parks with financial assistance from the nonprofit Friends of Sutter's Fort. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in midtown Sacramento on L Street between 26th and 28th streets. The Fort offers monthly Hands on History activities and special events through- out the year. Established in 1839 by Swiss immigrant John Au- gustus Sutter, Sutter's Fort was at the center of a flour- ishing agricultural empire named New Helvetia — New Switzerland. This em- pire established Sacramen- to's earliest settlement and the first European settle- ment in California's Cen- tral Valley. History FROMPAGE1 The election was a prod- uct of a mediation agree- ment between the two fac- tions that was announced in July. Per the agree- ment, all tribal members enrolled after Jan. 1, 1999 enjoyed voting rights and full tribal benefits, and an agreed upon third party was tasked to oversee the vote. Rico said the election "was the voice of the peo- ple," and hopes that it will prompt the Bureau of In- dian Affairs to recognize the tribe's new governing council as legitimate. ThefederalagencyinJune sent a letter to the tribe that stated it recognized Chair- man Freeman and ousted members David Swearinger, Leslie Lohse, GeraldineFree- man and Allen Swearinger as the legitimate members of the tribe's governing body — its Tribal Council. Under BIA procedure, in the case of internal tribal disputes the BIA recog- nizes the last uncontested, tribally elected council, the letter said. The election also came on the heels of a finan- cial audit prepared by the Washington D.C. law firm, WilmerHale. The audit's findings, the Sacramento Bee reported earlier this month, found that council leaders "have fallen far short of their le- gal and ethical obligations to the tribe." Among the audit's find- ings, the Bee reported, were millions of dollars in pri- vate jet travel, about $90 million in questionable in- vestments, poor bookkeep- ing and trips by Lohse to watch her son, Kyle Lohse, pitch in the World Series, among other findings. The audit was conducted as part of the mediation agreement. Rolling Hills Casino off Interstate 5 has remained open throughout the dis- pute. Tribe FROM PAGE 1 Kruger:RobertaKruger,66, of Manton, died Monday, Sept. 15, at her home. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial. Pub- lished Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Ogden: Betty Jean Ogden, 91, of Cottonwood, died Saturday, Sept. 13, at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Owens: Frankey L. Owens, 79, of Orland, died Monday, Sept. 15, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, Sept. 16, 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 obituar- ies may be placed by mor- tuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run mul- tiple days and offer wide latitude of content, includ- ing photos. DEATH NOTICES By Judy Lin The Associated Press SACRAMENTO State Sen. Rod Wright submitted his resignation Monday after he was sentenced last week to three months in jail for lying about where he lived when he ran for office. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg ac- cepted Wright's one-sen- tence letter, which stated his resignation is effective Sept. 22. Jennifer Hanson, a spokeswoman for Wright, confirmed the senator sub- mitted his resignation let- ter. A telephone message left for Wright's attorney, Win- ston Kevin McKesson, was not immediately returned. To replace Wright, Gov. Jerry Brown must call for a special election. Stein- berg's office said the pri- mary is likely to be in De- cember with a runoff in February. The Democratic senator from Los Angeles County was convicted of perjury in January for lying about his residence and later was suspended with pay from the Senate. Wright's was the first of three unrelated cases against Democratic lawmakers who were sus- pended and cost the party its supermajority in the Senate. Wright said he listed an Inglewood property as his residence so he could run in 2008 to represent the 25th Senate District, but jurors found he actually lived outside the district. Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento, had called on Wright to resign immediately after his sen- tencing. Wright was ordered to surrender to law enforce- ment on Oct. 31. McKes- son said he would file an appeal. During the sentencing in Los Angeles last week, Su- perior Court Judge Kath- leen Kennedy said Wright is no longer eligible to hold public office. The sentence came after defense lawyers stressed that Wright was re-elected by a landslide, even af- ter he was charged in the case, and that voters who want Wright to continue serving would be hurt by a stiff penalty. Kennedy called the case a byproduct of term limits that send career politicians scrambling to seek new of- fices in different districts. SACRAMENTO State Sen. Wright resigns a er voter fraud case By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Four se- nior officials with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the state commission regulat- ing it were removed or re- signed over emails released Monday showing the util- ity and state regulators ap- peared to negotiate which judge would be assigned to hear one of the utility's rate cases. The emails show the commission ultimately as- signed to the case a judge for whom PG&E had ex- pressed a preference, rather than another judge who PG&E said "has a his- tory of being very hard on us." Also Monday, Califor- nia Public Utilities Com- mission president Michael Peevey, who was included in part of the January email exchange, removed himself from involvement in that rate case and in an- other, bigger case pending before the utility commis- sion involving PG&E, Cali- fornia's largest utility. The developments deepen the growing con- troversy surrounding the state utilities commis- sion's oversight of the util- ity in the aftermath of a 2010 explosion of a PG&E natural-gas pipeline that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno. In July, earlier emails re- leased at the request of San Bruno city officials showed Peevey and his staffers con- sulting with the utility on matters including how big PG&E's fine should be in the blast. The commis- sion's decision on that fine is pending. On Monday, PG&E re- leased a January email ex- change featuring Brian Cherry, PG&E's vice pres- ident for regulatory rela- tions, asking repeatedly for Peevey's chief of staff, Carol A. Brown, to change the administrative law judge who was assigned to hear an unrelated rate case in- volving PG&E. "Let's just say she has a history of being very hard on us," Cherry said, re- ferring to the judge that PG&E wanted removed from the case. "I can see if anything can be done," Brown an- swers at one point. "Take a deep breath — I am work- ing on it," she wrote in an- other. Cherr y separately emailed Peevey, the com- mission's chief, on PG&E's desire for a change of judges in the rate case. "This is a problem. Hope Carol can fix it," Cherry wrote. There was no record of a response from Peevey to that email. Utilities commissioner Michael Florio also was involved in the email ex- change over the assign- ment of judges. Asked in an interview why neither he nor Peevey nor Peevey's chief of staff appeared to report the email exchange at the time, Florio said he had not known of a com- mission rule forbidding that kind of unofficial dis- cussion on the selection of state administrative law judges to decide utility cases. "We're all going to take a refresher course on the rules," Florio said. Asked how the public should take the latest ex- change, Florio said, "It re- ally looks bad at the imme- diate sense but I think in the long term it will be bet- ter and more transparent." PG&E released the emails following what it said was an internal in- vestigation of communi- cations between the utility and state regulators. PG&E said Monday that Cherry and two other se- nior officials ended their employment with the util- ity as a result of the emails released Monday. The util- ity also has engaged for- mer U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar to advise it on developing a best- practices model for regu- latory compliance, PG&E said in its statement. "As a company, we must be committed to comply- ing with both the letter and the spirit of the law and PG&E's own code of conduct at all times." PG&E President Chris Johns and parent company CEO Tony Earley wrote in a joint let- ter to employees Monday, according to a statement released by the utility. Brown, Peevey's chief of staff, resigned, the utility commission said in a sep- arate statement. Attempts to reach the departed PG&E and util- ities commission officials were not immediately suc- cessful Monday. The utility and the utilities commis- sion also did not immedi- ately respond to requests for current contacts for the four. The Utilities Reform Network, a consumer group pushing for action against PG&E in the wake of the 2010 blast in San Bruno, called on Peevey to resign, saying the emails showed "PG&E was calling the shots in Peevey's office." There was no immediate comment from Gov. Jerry Brown. The state attorney general's office would not comment, spokesman Nick Pacilio said. The PG&E pipeline ex- plosion in San Bruno was in the worst utilities acci- dent in California in de- cades. A National Trans- portation Safety Board in- vestigation faulted what it said was negligence by PG&E and lax oversight by the utilities commission. The utilities commis- sion currently is weighing financial penalties against PG&E in the blast, includ- ing a proposed fine of $950 million. Federal prose- cutors separately have charged PG&E with ob- struction of justice over al- leged misstatements made to the NTSB in that inves- tigation. PG&E denies that charge. PIPELINE EXPLOSION PG&E officials removed for improper communications By John Rogers The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The Univer- sity of Southern California broke out the Trojan March- ing Band on Monday to beat the drum for a $650 mil- lion expansion that school officials say will not only transform the campus but also the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood surround- ing it. When completed in 2017, officials say the project will replace what was once a seedy old shopping cen- ter adjacent to USC with a bucolic, village-like set- ting of walkways, plazas and green space that will be dotted with retail out- lets such as a grocery store, salons, boutiques, coffee shops, restaurants, a bank, a 30,000-square foot fitness center and on-campus hous- ing for 2,700 students. Officials say it is the most ambitious expansion under- taken in the prestigious pri- vate university's 134-year history and perhaps the largest in south Los Ange- les as well. Although Mon- day marked the project's of- ficial groundbreaking, the shopping center has already been torn down. To formally kick the proj- ect off, a cannon blasted confetti into the air as the band played and several people wielded shovels. When the city of Los An- geles approved the develop- ment last year, university officials said they expected the project would bring as many as 8,000 permanent new jobs to the community and about 4,000 temporary ones. University officials say they plan to fill at least 30 percent of the jobs with lo- cal residents. Officials also stressed that USC is footing the bill for the development, which will also include a commu- nity room and other educa- tional and community fa- cilities. "It's a $650 million in- vestment in our commu- nity," said Sayles, who him- self grew up in the neighbor- hood. "There is no taxpayer support, and there are no subsidies." While many of the 15-acre village's amenities will be open to the public, for secu- rity reasons it will be closed to all but students, faculty and approved visitors be- tween 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Although much of the neighborhood surrounding USC has gentrified in recent years, there are still pockets of poverty, crime and gang violence in the area south of downtown. In July, an engineering student from China was beaten to death by a group of attackers as he walked to his apartment from cam- pus following a study-group meeting. In 2012, two stu- dents from China were shot to death during a robbery near campus. "We do a lot to ensure the safety of our students, and we'll continue to do that," Sayles said. EDUCATION US C br ea ks g ro un d on $650 million campus village By Sandy Cohen The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Police said Monday they followed proper protocol when they demanded identification from an actress and her boyfriend while investigat- ing a 911 call alleging lewd conduct in a parked car. Actress Daniele Watts, who appeared in "Django Unchained," says she was unjustly handcuffed and detained Thursday after refusing to provide identi- fication and walking away from officers responding to a report of lewd conduct in a car along Ventura Boule- vard. Watts said in an inter- view Monday that she and her boyfriend, Brian Lucas, were kissing in the car and fully clothed, with nothing improper going on. She and Lucas wrote about the incident on Face- book and posted photos of a crying Watts in handcuffs. Lucas said he suspects that onlookers assumed Watts to be a prostitute and him a client because she is black and he is white. Los Angeles police Lt. Andrew Neiman said citi- zens are required to iden- tify themselves if requested to do so by an officer who has reasonable suspicion to believe an offense may have been committed. Celebrity website TMZ posted audio of the ex- change between Watts and police. Neiman and Bill Mc- Coy, a spokesman for the couple, say the audio is au- thentic, though its origin is unknown. On the recording, a po- lice sergeant is heard tell- ing Watts, "Somebody called, which gives me the right to be here, so it gives me the right to identify you by law." Watts can be heard re- sponding in frustration. She was detained until po- lice determined no crime was committed. Neiman said it is un- likely that a recording of the 911 call will be made public. The results of the LAPD's internal investiga- tion of the matter, which could take several months, are also unlikely to be re- leased, he said. But she did feel as though she was singled out even though she hadn't done anything wrong. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Police: Protocol followed in detention of actress KABC-TV — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Actress Daniele Watts and Brian Lucas speak during an interview with KABC-TV in Los Angeles on Sunday. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A