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ByFenitNirappil TheAssociatedPress SACRAMENTO California appears to be on track for another low-turnout elec- tion as county clerks and analysts report that mail ballots are trickling in slowly compared with pre- vious election cycles. Many political observers expected low voter interest thisyearinacyclewithagov- ernor's race devoid of drama and no U.S. Senate race or high-interestballotinitiative. Primary turnout already hit a record low this year when just one in four registered voters cast ballots in June. "We are not seeing the same call volume in 2010, the same Web hits and the same number of questions — and that's matching re- turns," said Neal Kelley, the Orange County registrar of voters and president of Cali- fornia Association of Clerks and Election Officials. In 2010, the last non-pres- idential statewide election, 2.9 million vote-by-mail ballots had been returned by this point, according to an analysis by the firm Po- litical Data Inc. This year, that number is just 2.2 mil- lion, even though the num- ber of absentee voters has grown by 3 million. From 2010 to 2014, the number of Los Angeles County voters requesting mail ballots nearly doubled to 1.5 million. About one in six voters have returned their ballots this year com- pared with more than half in the last election. These aren't necessarily signsofwidespreadvoterap- athy, according to some offi- cialswhoexpectmoreabsen- tee voters to drop their bal- lots off at polling stations instead of mailing them. Ballots must be received by Election Day to be counted. "More and more voters are getting the message that the mail is taking lon- ger," said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. California's lowest gen- eral election turnout in the past century was in 2002, when half of registered vot- ers cast ballots. "Whether (this year) is going to go below that, it's hard to say, but it's not go- ing to be much higher," said Eric McGhee, a research fel- low with the Public Policy Institute of California. ELECTION Mailedballotssuggest low turnout in California By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Voters in three coastal California counties vote Tuesday on whether to ban fracking and other intensive oil pro- duction, even as slumping prices globally are leading companies to start to scale back on production. Chevron, ExxonMo- bil and other oil compa- nies have donated about $7 million to try to defeat the fracking bans in Santa Bar- bara, San Benito and Mon- terey counties. In Santa Barbara and San Benito counties, the ballot mea- sures would ban not only fracking — a method of in- jecting water and chemi- cals into rock at high pres- sure to force out oil — but one of the most commonly used drilling methods in the state, steam injection. None of the three coun- ties currently are known to host onshore fracking. That has led some opponents of the fracking bans to argue the vote is no more nec- essary than banning ice- fishing in the temperate, coastal counties. However, all three coun- ties lie on the Monterey Shale, a vast petroleum de- posit earlier estimated to hold more than 10 billion barrels of oil. Interest in the formation faded earlier this year when the federal government slashed its es- timate of the formation's re- coverable oil to 600 million barrels, acknowledging the region's mangled geology made extracting the rest of the oil financially unfeasi- ble, at least for now. Nationally and interna- tionally, increasing pro- duction of North Ameri- ca's shale oil has driven oil prices down to about $80 a barrel, a one-quarter drop since mid-summer. Cam- paigners for the Califor- nia fracking bans argue oil companies will want to use fracking and other stepped- up methods to go after the area's shale deposits when- ever oil prices rise again. Campaigners for the bans on fracking and other inten- sive new drilling methods also cite the risk to drink- ing-water aquifers, fears aboutincreasedearthquakes and an overarching desire to move society toward renew- able forms of energy. Opponents say the local initiatives are portrayed as frackingbans,butwouldbar many other forms of oil and gas drilling as well. "This is a group that wants to shut down fossil fuel production for the sake of global cli- mate change," said Jim By- rne, spokesman for the co- alitions of oil producers and othersopposingthemeasure in Santa Barbara County. ELECTION Three California counties voting on fracking bans are catching national attention By Brian Melley The Associated Press MOJAVE A winged space- ship designed to take tour- ists on excursions beyond Earth's atmosphere ex- ploded during a test flight Friday over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot in the second fiery setback for commercial space travel in less than a week. Virgin Galactic's Space- ShipTwo blew apart af- ter being released from a carrier aircraft at high al- titude, according to Ken Brown, a photographer who witnessed the explosion. One pilot was found dead inside the space- craft, which fell from the sky about 120 miles north of downtown Los Ange- les. Another pilot para- chuted out and was flown by helicopter to a hospital, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood. Their names were not released. The crash area is in the desert north of Mojave Air and Space Port, where the test flight originated. British billionaire Rich- ard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, has been the front-runner in the fledgling race to send large numbers of paying civilians beyond the at- mosphere to give them the feeling of weightlessness and a spectacular view of Earth below. Branson was flying to Mojave and ex- pected to arrive Saturday, as were investigators with the National Transporta- tion Safety Board. "Space is hard, and to- day was a tough day," Vir- gin Galactic CEO President George Whitesides said. "The future rests in many ways, on hard, hard days like this." The accident occurred just as it seemed space flights were near, after a period of development that lasted far longer than hun- dreds of prospective pas- sengers had expected. When Virgin Group li- censed the technology from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen,whofundedabout$26 million for SpaceShipOne, Branson envisioned operat- ing flights by 2007. In inter- views last month, he talked about the first flight being next spring with his son. "It's a real setback to the idea that lots of peo- ple are going to be taking joyrides into the fringes of outer space any time soon," said John Logsdon, retired space policy director at George Washington Uni- versity. "There were a lot of people who believed that the technology to carry people is safely at hand." Friday's flight marked the 55th for SpaceShipTwo, which was intended to be the first of a line of craft. But this was only the fourth flight to be pow- ered by a rocket. During the other flights, the craft was either not released from its mother ship or it functioned as a glider. SpaceShipTwo was de- signed to provide a subor- bital thrill ride into space before returning to Earth as a glider. At 60 feet long, it featured two large win- dows for each of up to six passengers, one on the side and one overhead. The cause of the acci- dent was not immediately known. 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If you have, or know of any, sur- face supplied domestic water use intakes from Paynes Creek, Plum Creek, Carter Creek, Judd Creek, North Fork Antelope Creek, Deadhorse Creek, Middle Fork Antelope Creek, or South Fork Antelope Creek, or any trib- utary watercourses inside or within 1,000 feet downstream from the THP areas listed above; please contact the THP Submit- ter below with details of such use within 10 days of this publi- cation. Clayton Code; Sierra Pacific In- dustries; P.O. Box 496014; Redd- ing, CA 96049-6014; (530) 378- 8000. Publish: November 1, 2014 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS # CA-13-2850-CS Order # 130180407-CA-API Loan # 9800949860 [PURSUANT TO CIV- IL CODE Section 2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION RE- FERRED TO BELOW IS NOT AT- TACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR.] NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFOR- MATION IN THIS DOCUMENT AT- TACHED YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/20/2008. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings as- sociation, or savings bank speci- fied in Section 5102 to the Finan- cial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but with- out covenant or warranty, ex- pressed or implied, regarding ti- tle, possession, or encumbran- ces, to pay the remaining princi- pal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with inter- est and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advan- ces, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale ) reasonably i d b f h b l ) y estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): JOSE DE JESUS GARCIANO, AN UNMARRIED MAN Recorded: 6/27/2008 as Instru- ment No. 2008009018 in book xxx, page xxx of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of TEHAMA County, California; Date of Sale: 11/20/2014 at 2:00 PM Place of Sale: At the main entrance to the Tehama County Courthouse, 633 Washington Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $137,639.34 The purported property address is: 23135 RENO AVENUE GERBER, CA 96035 Assessor's Parcel No. 063- 090-201 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bid- ding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bid- der at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien be- ing auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priori- ty, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county re- corder's office or a title insur- ance company, either of which ma y charge you a fee for this in- f i f l i h y g y f ormation. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mort- gage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be post- poned one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that in- formation about trustee sale postponements be made availa- ble to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.lpsa sap.com, using the file number assigned to this case CA-13- 2850-CS. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be re- flected in the telephone infor- mation or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify post- ponement information is to at- tend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrect- ness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common desig- nation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a writ- ten request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to conve y title for any reason, the f l bidd l d y y , successful bidder's sole and ex- clusive remedy shall be the re- turn of monies paid to the Trust- ee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any rea- son, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Pur- chaser shall have no further re- course against the Mortgagor the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee's Attorney. Date 10/15/2014 SUMMIT MANAGE- MENT COMPANY, LLC 16745 W Bernardo Dr., Ste. 100 San Diego CA 92127 (866) 248-2679 (For NON SALE information only) Sale Line: 714-730-2727 or Login to: w ww.lpsasap.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 248-2679 CECILIA STEWART, Trustee Sale Officer If you have previously been dis- charged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intend- ed to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR- POSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a nega- tive credit report reflecting on your credit record may be sub- mitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. 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