Issue link: https://www.epageflip.net/i/397780
Akins:RonaldAkins,74, of Red Bluff died Saturday, Oct. 11at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Anton: Charles R. Anton Jr., 84, of Red Bluff died Saturday, Oct. 11at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Castaneda: Adilene Lucero Castaneda, 17, of Gerber died Thursday, Oct. 9in Gerber. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Korito: Ursel Inga Korito, 76, of Corning died Friday, Oct. 10at Red Bluff Health Care. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Spangle: Evelyn Edity Spangle, 95, of Red Bluff died Friday, Oct. 10at Brent- wood Skilled Nursing in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Tuesday, Oct. 14, 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. DEATHNOTICES ANDRE BYIK — DAILY NEWS David Freeman, right, demonstrates how donkeys can be used in the wilderness at the Wilderness Treasures Rendezvous event on Saturday at the Tehama District Fairground. ifornia,"saidJeffFontana, public affairs officer for the Bureau of Land Manage- ment. "It's there forever. It's got a lot of value for peo- ple in both measured val- ues and non-measured val- ues. The kind of good for the soul kinds of values." Scott Chandler, of the Tehama Wilderness Team, which provides free back- packing trips through Las- sen Volcanic National Park for children ages 13-16, was providing information on his group at the event on Saturday. Chandler said he tells his kids that wilderness areas need to be protected, so when their grandchildren visit, it will be exactly the same. "That's the point," Chan- dler said. He added that he be- lieves there's an emerging interest in experiencing the wilderness, pointing to the popularity of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and the upcoming film based on the Cheryl Strayed book "Wild." Chandler said there's "something about being able to carry your entire house on your back and be- ing able to go anywhere..." Wilderness FROM PAGE 7 over spending. I'm a firm believer that ev- eryone who works hard needs to be paid for what they do. However in government employment there are so many automatic raises just because the clock has ticked another second. Raises should be based on merit not just on how much time spent. That's not to say that there's not a lot of time spent here that needs to be acknowl- edged. The budget issues are the biggest ones to me. I think there's a lot to go yet and I think I can have an affect on it. ORVILLE KNOX First I seen was there was only two people for three seats. My wife and I were talking and I said "why I don't try it." My main thing is our kids. Any- body whose driven down Jackson at three o'clock in the afternoon on a school day, seeing kids trying to cross the road, peo- ple trying to get out of the school. Same thing's at Vista, Metteer and everywhere. That's my main thing, to try and alleviate some of the traffic control. If we can get volunteers to be crosswalk guards that would be a great thing. That's what my main step is. DANIELE JACKSON I think it's civic re- sponsibility. I look out here and while there are so many people here tonight, there are only 70 of us here tonight. If you come to a City Council meeting on a good night, you might have 15. The ma- jority of the time there are four or five and it's the same four or five people that are there each week. Unless there's an is- sue on the Chamber of Commerce and their contract or the homeless shelter or something in that nature, we just rarely get a lot of people. I just think it's my responsibility to be out there and give a voice for the people, the ones who have been born and raised here and Red Bluff is your home. As I looked out in the au- dience earlier and I heard Mr. Stevens speaking and I was getting really frus- trated with what he was saying I looked at a gentleman who mouthed the words to me to "be nice." He apparently knows me very well. To refute what Mr. Stevens said we had our initial budget, it came out just over $500,000 and called for a $35,000 re- duction in what the Chamber is used to, so they were only getting $35,000. I let Mr. (Dave) Gowan and most of members of the Chamber of Commerce know that when we got a budget update, which I thought August and it came in September, that if we had anything over $500,000 - if we had $535,000 - that would be my agenda item. That's what came on our agenda. Never did it have to do with my name being on the ballot. IstheresomethingthecityofRed Bluff is not presently doing that you believe would significantly improve the quality of life and strengthen the local economy, what is that and why do you believe it be desirable? SCHMID I can search in the dark for things that could be kind of good an- swers, but I don't have an answer to that. I think we should do more community involvement in community issues like homeless and derelict populations. The community needs to get together on that. This is our community. It does not belong to your government it belongs to you the people. I don't know what to do about that. That's the one thing I see that could be something the city could kind of get behind and rally with. STEVENS You said there's not a lot of people out there here tonight, there's not a lot of people at City Council meetings. It's a hard working community when peo- ple get off the work the last thing they want to do is leave their family and go sit in a meeting and try to find out what's going on. We approved the Charter ca- ble company's service in the city of Red Bluff. It would seem to me at some point, at some time, we through a public service channel could live stream the City Coun- cil meeting also record it for playback at another time and also have it on the city's website for a connection. Other cities do it with their cable companies. I think we should do it. Then at least someone sit- ting at home in their pajamas and play- ing with their kids, and they want to see what's going on at City Hall, cause they can certainly see the agenda now, they then could tune it in. They would know what's going on and wouldn't have to wait for it to be reported on after the fact. They would know right up front, who voted for what, why and how come. KNOX There's little things like home- less. There's other people who need ser- vices that can't get around. We do have some good bussing from our county to get to doctors. That's something that's re- ally needed and I think we probably need more of. The homeless people, I've seen in other places where they have groups that go around and feed them and hand out more meals. Something like that. Some of them are homeless by choice, the vast ma- jority of them are not homeless by choice, they're homeless by circumstance. We have a little bit more, we should give it to them. Give them more. Open up a soup kitchen, more soup kitchens. Somewhere to feed them and to house them. All I can do is run around town and see if someone has a vacant building that's not occupied. JACKSON Pass the sales tax. I walked into the public work director's office last week and he said "wouldn't your decisions be so much easier if all the streets, sewer and water - if you had another $1.3 mil- lion to work with?" My response was "yes, yes it would." That is the serious prob- lem is facing us. It is the economy. Our personnel department, our parks and rec department, our community center, our police department, our fire department. They do phenomenal with the amount of money they are given and I think how much more they could with the sales tax. Do you commit barring a disaster to put that money from the quarter-cent sales tax where it is stated it will go? KNOX To the very best of my ability. It's not just up to me. I can only speak for my- self. I can't speak for the entire council. But I would do everything in my power to make it go to the police department, the fire department and parks and recreation. JACKSON Yes, barring an unfortunately circumstance such as City Hall implod- ing, that is Council's intent at this mo- ment. That is why we put it on the ballot the way we have. That is why there is a six-year sunset in it. We want everybody's confidence in the fact that this money is intended to go to our police department, our fire department, our parks and rec. Chamber of Commerce is in the general fund to. We need this money to help the city of Red Bluff. We need to be able to survive and we've barely been staying alive these last few years. At the City Council meetings Chief Paul Nanfito has shown us that in 2006, eight years ago, staffing levels were what they are now. This is unacceptable with everything that has happened with AB 109, all these other issues that we've had in the city. We need this money to help us, help the city grow and flourish and become the town we want it to be. SCHMID Absolutely. We decided to think about things in this six-term, about fire apparatus. We have aging equipment out there that's going to need to be replaced at fairly high dollar amount. We have va- cancies in police officer positions that we would really like to fill to help kind of squash some of the crime around town. Some of our parks could use some work with that 15 percent. It'd be nice to have a new lawn mower. Absolutely. If that tax issue goes, I would do my part to see that it goes toward things on the ground as op- posed to things in the pocket. STEVENS I will support the will of the voters on Measure D and Advisory E if they pass them. I have personal concerns. We have a council that will be elected and take office in December this year. You'll have two candidates who will be elected in 2016 and then three candidates in 2018 and then two more candidates in 2020 that will finish off the balance of 2021 when this expires. Nobody knows what councils are going to do in the future and nobody knows what the circumstances are going to be. I'm concerned that the 85 percent is fairly distributed between the police and fire departments. I'm con- cerned that parks and recreation actually sees that 15 percent and that the other doesn't grow to exceed the 15 percent or into the other part and only time will tell if this council or other councils will stand by the vote of the people. CLOSING STATEMENT JACKSON I would like to thank every- body who came here tonight, the Cham- ber for hosting tonight. I would just like to remind everybody that I've gone to sev- eral meeting and I've always had the same response when it comes to the quarter- cent sales tax. You have four members who are standing up here, three of us will be elected and the most important thing that is going to happen in that No- vember election needs to be the quarter- cent sales tax. I have sat through I don't know how many meetings and said "If I could choose one thing, to be elected or to have this quarter-cent sales tax passed, I would want the quarter-cent sales tax." While I believe I am one of the best can- didates for the city of Red Bluff, the best thing for this town is the sales tax. I need everyone to remember that. KNOX I wasn't born in Red Bluff. I've been here since 1985, brought my family up here and we just fell in love. We have a little place in town and a little place up in the mountains right on the ridge. That's where we live, Red Bluff and that's where we will protect, Red Bluff. I will do anything and everything I can to help the city of Red Bluff financially make it. SCHMID I'm jumping on the bandwagon. I was born here in the (old ) hospital. My dad was wandering the hallways wonder- ing if his first born would live through the experience. I am here to support the people of this community in their com- munity. This community needs leaders not followers. I will be here to lead, not to follow. There's so many times in our meetings we'll get a group of a half dozen people that will be ranting about one is- sue or another, which is generally the vo- cal minority and the silent majority never gets heard. I will stand for the silent ma- jority to help with a common sense de- cision to get us to where we need to go. Decisions are tough. When I took the of- fice I told everybody I wasn't in it for the friends and believe me I've lost more than I've gained. I'm trying to make the tough decisions to do the right thing. STEVENS Let's say I think constituents go to council as a last resort. Most people complain rather than praise and that's something they show up for is to com- plain. If you're getting complaints it's be- cause something is not working. I will tell you that I will support a minority, I will support a majority and I will make sure both sides are heard and that my decision is weighed on facts and that I will protect one of those groups from the other and vice versa. My job is to serve you, not me. I will be your voice, pardon the pun, I will be your eyes and I will be your ears. If I don't like something and if I don't vote a certain way, you're going to know why. Candidates FROM PAGE 1 Stewart, who was mar- ried under the oak tree at the park, said families come back to Adobe Day year after year "because this is their park and their home." He added: "It's their oak, it's their adobe. And so they really have a commu- nity interest." Back in the park chil- dren learned how to make rope, chopped wood, par- ticipated in classroom les- sons from the 1850s, pur- chased lots in Red Bluff and listened to the tunes performed by the Ide Adobe Players, to name a few ac- tivities. "We're able to combine all five of the senses into one interpretive event, which is pretty amazing," Coon said. "There's just not something you can do out here that you won't learn something from." Proceeds from sales, ad- missions and donations from Adobe Day support the Ide Adobe Interpretive Association and programs at the park. Adobe FROM PAGE 1 who has been critical of the agency's marketing spend- ing. An Associated Press report Sunday revealed that Covered California awarded dozens of con- tracts without compet- itive bidding from late 2010 through July. Several of those contracts worth a total of $4.2 million went to a consulting firm, The Tori Group, whose founder has strong professional ties to Lee. A consumer advocacy group, Consumer Watch- dog, called on the state at- torney general to investi- gate whether taxpayer dol- lars were misused in the deal. The group, which is behind a ballot proposition to increase the state insur- ance commissioner's power in setting health coverage rates, said a probe should determine if Covered Cal- ifornia consultants hired under the no-bid deals used their positions to ad- vance insurance industry interests. Attorney General Ka- mala Harris' office was aware of the request but had not made a decision on whether to launch a re- view. Awarding no-bid con- tracts is unusual in state government, where rules promote "open and fair competition" to give tax- payers the best deal and avoid ethical conflicts. The practice is generally reserved for emergencies or when no known compe- tition exists. The Legislature gave Covered California broad authority to award no-bid contracts to meet federal deadlines to get the agency running. The agency emphasized in a statement Friday to AP that Covered Califor- nia was under pressure to move fast and needed specialized skills, and the deals were executed under guidelines it modeled after state contracting rules. The fledgling exchange "needed experienced indi- viduals who could go toe- to-toe with health plans and bring to our consum- ers the best possible in- surance value. Contrac- tors like The Tori Group possess unique and deep health care experience to help make that happen and get the job done on a tight deadline," Lee said in the statement. Leesa Tori, who founded the Tori Group, told AP that professional creden- tials qualified her company for the contracts. In a telephone interview, Gaines said the rules per- mitting broad use of no- bid contracting at the ex- change must change and called the contracts "out- rageous." A pair of Covered Cali- fornia bills intended to in- crease accountability and oversight at the agency stalled this year in the Democratic-controlled As- sembly Health Committee. GOP lawmakers pro- posed the changes, which would have barred the ex- change from increasing charges on health plans without lawmakers enact- ing the increase into law, and required a more rigor- ous review of Covered Cali- fornia's annual budget. Probe FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The na- tion's second-largest chain of rent-to-own furniture and appliance stores has agreed to pay $28.4 million to settle a case in which it allegedly violated Califor- nia's consumer protection and privacy laws, attorney general Kamala Harris an- nounced Monday. Aaron's Inc. overcharged customers, omitted impor- tant contract disclosures and installed software that could track the keystrokes of people who rented com- puters and even activate webcams or microphones to record users, according to a complaint filed by Har- ris' office. Last year, Aar- on's settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission over spyware installed on computers. The Atlanta-based busi- ness operates approxi- mately 75 stores in Califor- nia. Its rents couches, ap- pliances, electronics and other household merchan- dise. "Aaron's concealed its il- legal privacy and business practices from customers in a deceptive attempt to avoid California's robust consumer protection laws and increase its profits," Harris said. Those practices included charging a 10 percent "ser- vice plus" fee and improper late fees, according to the complaint. CONSUMERS Rent-to-own business to pay $28 million TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A