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Theauthorofanopinion column in Saturday's edi- tion titled "Brain leaks af- ter a couple of weeks away" was misidentified. The col- umn was written by regu- lar Saturday columnist Joe Harrop of Red Bluff. The Daily News regrets the error. ItisthepolicyoftheDaily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been pub- lished in the newspaper. If you believe a factual er- ror has been made in a news story, call 527-2151, Ext. 112. CORRECTION Sa turday column mislabeled Rodriguez:SergioRodri- guez, 31, of Red Bluff, died Friday, Oct. 24, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Crema- tion & Burial. Published Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be pro- 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 semble an impressionist ar- tistic style, something that she said came from know- ing she didn't want to cre- ate photo-realistic pieces. "You kind of gradually get your own style, and I knew I didn't want to paint photographically, that I wanted to be interpretive," she said. "And the idea of trying to express the idea, the mood, rather than just a photographic image of something." Chrasta, who has re- cently come off a showing period, said she paints two to three days per week, and has no plans to stop. "I'm cutting back on do- ing shows, though I don't plan to retire from paint- ing," she said, adding that she has family members who live in the area and expects to visit more often. "The good thing about being an artist is you can just cut back," Chrasta said, "and not retire." Arts FROM PAGE 5 The evidence-based program will offer first time offending juveniles with a range of resources such as counseling, ed- ucational support, and other community-based services," according to the proposed agreement. "The project will serve at least 40 juvenile offenders annually." Under the proposed agreement, the city of Corning would imple- ment the program in co- ordination with the Sher- iff's Department, which would provide $40,000 annually to the city start- ing in 2015, according to the proposed agreement. Corning City Council member Tony Cardenas would oversee the pro- gram's implementation. The City Council also will take on a recommen- dation to stripe a tennis court at Northside Park to accommodate the sport of pickleball, a paddle sport that combined elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong, according to city documents. The sport is played with a Wiffle Ball, and the court is about the size of a badminton court. The cost to the city would be $1,250 to stripe a portion of a tennis court and purchase a pickleball set, which would be man- aged by city staff through a check-out system, ac- cording to a staff report. The Corning Recre- ation Commission ap- proved a recommenda- tion on Oct. 7 to send the plan to the City Council for approval. Proponents of the plan said it would be the only public pickleball court be- tween Redding and Dur- ham. The plan would not eliminate a tennis court at the park. The City Council also will take on a proposed agreement with Tehama County to install a push pad and door opener on the exterior glass door that leads to the City Council Chambers. The plan, which would be funded by the county, would improve accessibil- ity to City Hall, which is used as a polling place. "The County Clerk has funds to improve accessi- bility to polling places for disabled persons," accord- ing to a staff report. "With the agreement, they will pay for the in- stallation of an automatic door opener, similar to the one we installed at the Finance Department in May of 2013." The Corning City Coun- cil is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at 794 Third St. Program FROM PAGE 1 Ginn's daughter was taken to the police de- partment, where she was eventually released to her mother. The girl had been in Ginn's custody at the ap- proval of the mother, de- spite a domestic violence restraining order against Ginn to protect the mother and child. Ginn was taken to Te- hama County Jail where he was booked on charges of child endangerment, carry- ing a concealed firearm, vi- olating a domestic violence restraining order, obstruc- tion of a police offer and a warrant arrest. Ginn's outstanding charges include felony car- rying a loaded firearm in public and misdemeanor charges of vandalism, four counts of probation viola- tion, battery of a spouse, use of tear gas, driving on a suspended license and two counts of failure to appear. His bail was $90,500. RBPD FROM PAGE 1 COURTESY PHOTO BY ROSS PALUBESKI Red Bluff Fire, CalFire and the Tehama County Fire Deprtment were dispatched around 3:30p.m. Monday to a reported vehicle versus a motorcycle collision on Baker Road near Dalby Lane in west Red Bluff. The first unit at scene reported both lanes blocked with one major injury requiring an air ambulance. The patient was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and life flighted to Enloe Medical Center in Chico. COLLISION MOTORCYCLIST HIT BY CAR, FLOWN TO CHICO The Associated Press SANTA ANA Conservation- ists are turning their atten- tion to the restoration of the Santa Ana River in South- ern California after recently approved legislation estab- lished a program to create a network of trails and river- bottom parks that could eventually connect scenic spots from Big Bear Lake to Huntington Beach. The measure, sponsored by state Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, takes its lead from a 17-year-old Coastal Conservancy program fo- cused on bettering public access to open spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. Correa ultimately wants to build 30 miles of trail that would complete a 110- mile hiking and biking path to link the parks and bring new visitors to restaurants and shops in nearby down- towns. "People want their streams back — all of them, including the Santa Ana," said Stephen Mitchell, a sci- ence librarian and co-coor- dinator of the nonprofit Uni- versity of California, River- side Friends of the Santa Ana River. The Santa Ana River be- gins with snow melt and natural springs near Big Bear Lake and flows for 96 miles to reach the Pacific Ocean. Twenty-six of those miles traverse heavily populated Orange County, but much of the riverbed is encased in concrete for use as a flood control channel and flows through commercial and industrial zones with little green space. The river is part of the largest stream system in the region that covers about 2,700 square miles in parts of four fast-growing, urban counties: Orange, San Ber- nardino, Riverside and Los Angeles. RESTORATION New legislation will help clean Santa Ana River The Associated Press BAKERSFIELD The U.S. at- torney's office said Mon- day it will not file criminal charges in the case of a Ba- kersfield man who died in police custody after a pro- tracted struggle with dep- uties who used a police dog and struck the man with ba- tons. Deputies responding to a report of an intoxicated man said David Silva put up a fierce struggle when they tried to take him into cus- tody on May 7, 2013. They said he tried to choke the police dog that bit him and struggled with several dep- uties before he was finally restrained. Soon afterward, Silva, 33, complained of difficulty breathing and died. The coroner found alco- hol, amphetamine, meth- amphetamine and a mus- cle relaxant in his system. BAKERSFIELD US attorney: No charges in death of man in custody By Linda Deutsch The Associated Press LOS ANGELES A man who was recorded confessing to the killings of two Chinese graduate students near the University of Southern Cal- ifornia was convicted Mon- day of first-degree murder. Javier Bolden, 22, was found guilty of shooting Ming Qu and Ying Wu as they sat in a double-parked car about a mile from cam- pus on April 11, 2012. The killings drew in- ternational interest and fueled concerns in China about the safety of stu- dents abroad. The crime spurred USC to provide more protection around campus. Parents of the students have filed a lawsuit accus- ing USC of misrepresent- ing security at the cam- pus, where nearly one-fifth of the 38,000 students are from overseas, including 2,500 from China. USC says it has more interna- tional students than any other U.S. university. Concerns surfaced again this summer when another Chinese student was killed. The murder charges against Bolden carry spe- cial circumstances but prosecutors didn't seek the death penalty, so he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced on Nov. 17. Bolden, who was in a white shirt, vest and glasses, showed no emo- tion. His mother, seated in a front row of the court- room, doubled over in her seat and sobbed. He also was convicted of attempted murder and assault with a firearm in separate shootings that oc- curred months earlier that wounded two men and a woman. Authorities said Bolden told a cellmate that he shot the 23-year-old engineer- ing students. The cellmate was a police informant and secretly recorded Bolden discussing how he and a friend had planned to steal the couple's BMW. Defense attorney An- drew Goldman said his cli- ent lied to the informant to appear tough. In February, Bolden's friend, Bryan Barnes, who also shot into the locked car, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree mur- der. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. Fathers of the two vic- tims came from China to speak at the Barnes sen- tencing, saying their son and daughter were in love and had planned to be married. CRIME Man guilty of murder in attack on Chinese students The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The winner of the Funniest Person in the World com- petition is a brown-haired, slightly rotund stand-up comic from Finland who boasts he has hit on the perfect solution to the planet's international monetary woes. "Countries don't owe money to each other, countries owe money to banks," says Ismo Leikola. "If the countries owe money to banks how stupid are the countries to pay. Like the country has an army. The bank has four cashiers and a clean- ing lady." When Leikola told that joke in the semifinal round of the competition last week at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood it got the biggest laugh of the night. From there the Finnish comedian bankrolled himself to victory at Fri- day night's final round, a five-comic showdown at the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas. The competition was streamed over the Internet. When the votes were counted Monday, Leikola had 158,945. In sec- ond place was Saad Haroon of Pak- istan with 59,213. Mustapha El Atrassi of France was third, Nitin Mirani of United Arab Emirates was fourth and Ar- chie Bezos of Spain was fifth. Leikola wins $10,000 and a na- tional comedy tour. The competition was the brain- child of Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who plans to make it an an- nual event. HUMOR Finland comic win's world's funniest person competition EMILY HIGGIN — THE LAUGH FACTORY The five finalists and one alternate pose with Laugh factory impresario Jamie Masada, front kneeling, a er being selected following an online competition in Los Angeles. Standing from le are Saad Haroon of Pakistan, Mustapha El Atrassi of France, Archie Bezos of Spain, Nitin Mirani of the United Arab Emirates, Lioz Shem Tov of Israel, and Ismo Leikola of Finland. pork sliders and cocoa- roasted salmon, to name a few. Treats included choco- late-covered pretzels, black forest trifles and chocolate and peanut butter buck- eyes, among a long list of others. "Everybody loves choco- late," Shilts said. Soroptimist Interna- tional of Red Bluff started in 1939, said Becky Eu- sted, co-chairwoman of the Chocolate Fantasia event. And the Red Bluff group comprises 37 members. "The first club was started in 1921 in Oak- land, California," Eusted said. "Other clubs quickly formed as women discov- ered the potential to help themselves by helping other women reach their potential. We are now in 125 countries with approx- imately 100,000 members." Soroptimist Interna- tional of Red Bluff also makes contributions to the Poor and the Home- less Tehama County Coali- tion, Alternatives to Vio- lence and Tehama Reads, Eusted said. Guests at the event en- joyed the voices of the Cal- ifornia Heat Chorus of Red Bluff, as well as a chocolate fountain that was used for dipping snack foods and fruits. Fantasia FROM PAGE 1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A