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BOOK Continued from page 1A "In my mind, I can see police officers reading this book to kids in the class- room, opening their eyes to what officers do and that they really can be their friends." Mobilio-Keeling has provided Red Bluff police with a courtesy copy of the book. It is his hope the book will be read to students when officers are invited to classrooms during Read Across America, Police Chief Paul Nanfito said. "I believe it is a great tribute to Officer Mobilio," Nanfito said. "I think she did a great job in creating the book and working with the illustra- tor to capture the essence of Dave and his young son Luke." Mobilio-Keeling, a for- mer elementary school teacher, said the idea of writing an education resource book for the classroom has been her goal since seeing Mobilio working in classrooms. When she came up with the idea she initially want- ed the book to be part of the DARE program. But it was not until years after Mobilio's death when all the details came together. "It's been in my head for more than a decade, and I just really wanted to see the project to the end," she said. She worked with the book's illustrator to create JUBILEE Continued from page 1A the Tehama County Community Band and the Califor- nia Heat Sweet Adelines International group of singers, filled the air with song. Chair massages at $1 a minute were offered by Christine Mata of Corning. Supervisor Ron Warner, a former Tehama mayor, baked and donated six plum pies to the Los Molinos Club and visited guests throughout the day. Crafter Clarissa Ortner of Los Molinos found that her plants were the biggest seller of the day, along with handmade metal and glass bugs and a DVD she com- piled of the Los Molinos 4th of July parade. Coming to the Jubilee was a natural thing for her to do, she said. "We're crafters and when we find a place to share our wares, we do," she said. The Jubilee is an annual day to promote awareness of the history of Tehama County and other information available at the Tehama County Museum. The museum was open free to guests through the event, showing local historic artifacts as well as special exhibits about native birds and Ishi, a famous local native American. For more information about the Jubilee or the Tehama County Museum, contact the museum directly at 384-2595, or visit 275 C St., in Tehama. Events across California as state remembers 9/11 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — At dawn, a crowd of about 40 residents wit- nessed the unveiling of a 9/11 memorial made of World Trade Center steel at the Beverly Hills Fire Department. In San Francisco, fire- fighters stood at attention Sunday morning in front of the flag poles of 43 fire sta- tions. And in San Bernardi- no, hundreds gathered as officials placed a wreath at a monument honoring two women, who were local residents and lost their lives in the attacks 10 years ago. ''Even though we're on the West Coast, there were 50 people who died in the attacks from California,'' Calfire spokesman Daniel Berlant said at a separate ceremony in Sacramento. ''It really hits home to us.'' Californians on Sunday commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with memorials events held across the state. The ceremony in Sacra- mento drew about 200 fire- fighters, police officers and members of the military to the state Capitol early Sun- day. After a moment of silence the crowd split up and went to one of three memorial sites on the Capi- tol grounds for a reading of the names of those lost in the attacks. Police and fire officials in San Francisco began not- ing the anniversary Satur- day with an event at the city's Civic Center Plaza, where 200 people gathered to honor their colleagues in New York who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, police Chief Greg Suhr, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi were among the dig- nitaries in attendance. ''Nobody could imagine the evil that would perpe- trate such a tragedy. But now we're better pre- pared,'' Pelosi said after the event. In San Diego, a bronze surfer statue that's often dressed up by anonymous late-night pranksters was transformed into a makeshift 9/11 tribute. The roadside statue in Cardiff- by-the-Sea was discovered Sunday morning dressed as a New York City firefighter — complete with an oxy- gen tank and an NYFD hel- met. With the background of an American flag, a placard says ''never for- get.'' The San Bernardino cer- emony on the steps of City Hall drew city officials and hundreds of residents. A police honor guard marched along with a drum corps made up of cadets from the Public Safety Academy. the likeness of Mobilio in the police officer charac- ter. She decided against calling the officer Dave but used Mobilio's middle name, Frank. While the boy in the book is not based on their son, he does share the same name as their 10-year-old son Luke, she said. Her ties to education and law enforcement remain strong, she said. Mobilio-Keeling, who was a teacher at Evergreen Union School District, now works at California State University, Chico as an adjunct faculty member teaching education cours- es to students preparing to become teachers and supervising student teach- ing candidates. She lives in Chico and is married to a Butte County sheriff's deputy. She will host a book signing 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 8 at the Chico Barnes & Noble. The book will be available in Chico at Barnes & Noble, Lyon Books, Made in Chico, Bird in Hand and online at Barnes & Noble, Ama- zon.com and through the publisher's website www.mascotbooks.com. The book can be bought from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund website, where a portion of the sale will go to the non-profit organization. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Monday, September 12, 2011 – Daily News 7A Striking gold Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Gold miners Tom "Lefty" Leftwich, and his wife Fran, of Southern Cali- fornia gave river gold panning demonstrations Saturday outside The Gold Exchange on Wal- nut Street. The event celebrated the store's 17th Anniversary and included activities in which children panned for gold flakes and used a metal detector to find valuable coins in a pool of sand. 9/11 Continued from page 1A Washington especially, authorities were on alert. Ahead of the anniversary, the federal government warned those cities of a tip about a possible car-bomb plot. Police searched trucks in New York, and streets near the trade cen- ter were blocked. To walk within blocks of the site, people had to go through checkpoints. The names of the fallen — 2,983 of them, includ- ing all the victims from the three Sept. 11 attack sites and six people who died when terrorists set off a truck bomb under the towers in 1993 — echoed across a place utterly transformed. In the exact footprints of the two towers was a stately memorial, two great, weeping waterfalls, unveiled for the first time and, at least on the first day, open only to the rela- tives of the victims. Around the square perime- ter of each were bronze parapets, etched with names. Some of the relatives were dressed in funereal suits and others in fire department T-shirts. They traced the names with pen- cils and paper, and some left pictures or flowers, fit- ting the stems into the recessed lettering. At the south tower pool, an acre in area and 30 feet deep, Mary Dwyer, of Brooklyn, remembered her sister, Lucy Fishman, who worked for Aon Corp., an insurance com- pany that occupied seven floors near the very top. ''It's the closest I'll ever get to her again,'' she said. One Sept. 11 relative pronounced the memorial breathtaking. An under- ground section and a museum won't open until next year, but for many of the families, the names were enough. ''It breaks me up,'' said David Martinez, who watched the attacks hap- pen from his office in Manhattan, and later learned that he had lost a cousin and a brother, one in each tower. At memorial services, people talked of grief and loss and war and justice. But they also talked of moving forward. ''Every year it becomes more significant,'' Barbara Gorman said at a service for the Port Authority dead, which included 37 police officers, one of them her husband, Thomas. ''My kids are 25, 21, 18. They understand now. It's not so much a tragedy anymore as histo- ry, the history of our coun- try.'' In the decade between then and now, children have grown. The second- graders who were with Bush on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, will gradu- ate high school next spring. And children who were in the cradle or the womb on that day are old enough to read names at the anniversary, old enough to bear the full burden of their grief. ''You will always be my hero,'' Patricia Smith, 12, said of her mother. Nicholas Gorki remem- bered his father, ''who I never met because I was in my mother's belly. I love you, Father. You gave me the gift of life, and I wish you could be here to enjoy it with me.'' Alex Zangrilli said: ''Dad, I wish you were here with me to give me advice, to be on the side- lines when I play sports like all the other dads. ... I wish we had more time together.'' Madeline Hoffman smiled as she said to her father: ''Everyone always tells me I look and act just like you.'' And Caitlin Roy, whose father was a firefighter, said: ''I want to thank you for the nine years you spent as my dad. They were short but not without their benefits. We're taken care of now. We're happy.'' Obama, standing behind bulletproof glass and in front of the white oak trees of the memorial, read a Bible passage after a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., when the first jetliner slammed into the north tower 10 years ago. The president, quoting Psalm 46, invoked the presence of God as an inspiration to endure: ''Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.'' Obama and Bush, joined by their wives, walked up to one of the pools and put their hands to some of the names. Bush later read from a let- ter that President Abraham Lincoln wrote to a mother believed to have lost five sons in the Civil War: ''I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereave- ment.'' In a ceremony at the Pentagon, Biden paid trib- ute to ''the 9/11 genera- tion of warriors.'' ''Never before in our history has America asked so much over such a sus- tained period of an all-vol- unteer force,'' he said. ''So I can say without fear of contradiction or being accused of exaggeration, the 9/11 generation ranks among the greatest our nation has ever produced, and it was born — it was born — it was born right here on 9/11.'' Defense Secretary Leon Panetta paid tribute to 6,200 members of the U.S. military who have died in the Iraq and Afghan wars. One hun- dred eighty-four people died at the Pentagon. In Shanksville, Pa., a choir sang at the Flight 93 National Memorial, and a crowd of 5,000 listened to a reading of the names of 40 passengers and crew killed aboard the fourth jetliner hijacked that day a decade ago. Obama and his wife traveled to the Pennsylvania town after their visit to New York and placed a wreath at the memorial. During the president's visit, members of the crowd chanted, ''USA! USA!'' One man called out: ''Thanks for getting bin Laden!'' It was the first anniversary obser- vance since al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan in May. In a brief scare, two military aircraft escorted a New York-bound Ameri- can Airlines flight from Los Angeles. Three pas- sengers made repeated trips to the bathroom and some people thought they were using hand signals to communicate, but the men were cleared and sent on their way, said a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymi- ty. The official said earlier reports that the men had locked themselves in the bathroom were incorrect. Fighter jets also shad- owed a Denver-to-Detroit Frontier Airlines flight after the crew reported that two people were spending an unusual amount of time in the bathroom. The FBI said a search of the plane turned up nothing and three pas- sengers were questioned. For the most part, in New York, away from the trade center, it was a pleas- ant September Sunday. People had brunch out- doors. Bicycles crowded the paths along the Hud- son River. Families strolled around. Sailboats caught a river breeze and drifted past the dock where emergency vessels evacuated trade center sur- vivors. Elsewhere in the nation, it was a day not to bring life to a stop, as it was 10 years ago, but to pause and reflect. Outside FedEx Field in Landover, Md., fans got ready for the first Sunday of the NFL season, the Redskins and Giants, Washington and New York. There was extra security at the stadium. Scott Millar, a Redskins season ticket-holder, used the logic of post-Sept. 11 America in deciding to go to the game. ''You've got to trust the security. You've got to trust the people who are here to protect you,'' he said. ''We're here to have a good time.'' In southwest Missouri, where 160 people died in May in the nation's dead- liest tornado in six decades, New York fire- fighters and ground zero construction workers joined survivors in a trib- ute to the victims of Sept. 11. The New York contin- gent brought a 20-by-30- foot American flag recov- ered a decade ago from a building near the trade center. Survivors of a Greensburg, Kan., tornado began repairing the flag in 2008, using remnants of flags from their town. The final stitches are being made in Joplin, Mo., and then the flag will go to the National 9/11 Memorial Museum. Missouri is the last stop on a 50-state tour to promote national unity and volunteerism. ''We're so far away from the World Trade Center,'' said Miller, who brought her mother and two children to the Joplin tribute. ''But it doesn't matter how far away you are.'' Some observed the day as a time to serve. Thou- sands cleaned parks, reno- vated community centers and gave blood as they did in the days after the 2001 attacks. Some said they were trying to reclaim good will that they said has been lost amid politi- cal rancor and economic fear. ''As unfortunate as it was, it seemed like it put us all back into the frame of mind that life wasn't just about me,'' said Yvette Windham, who joined 200 people to build seven new homes in a Nashville, Tenn., neigh- borhood. The world offered ges- tures large and small. The Colosseum in Rome, rarely lit up, glowed in solidarity. Pope Benedict XVI encouraged people to resist ''temptation toward hatred'' and focus on jus- tice and peace. Taps sounded in Belgium and in Bagram, Afghanistan. In Madrid, they planted 10 American oak trees in a park, led by a prince. And in Malaysia, Path- mawathy Navaratnam woke up Sunday in her suburban Kuala Lumpur home and did what she's done every day for the past decade — say ''good morning'' to her son, V ijayashank er Paramsothy, who was killed in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. ''He is my sunshine. He has lived life to the fullest, but I can't accept that he is not here anymore,'' Navaratnam said. ''I am still living, but I am dead inside.'' The Taliban marked the anniversary by vowing to keep fighting against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, insisting that they had no role in the Sept. 11 attacks. They railed against ''American colo- nialism'' and said Afghans have ''endless stamina'' for war. Hours later, a Taliban suicide bomber blew up a large truck at the gate of a Combat Outpost Sayed Abad in Afghanistan's eastern Wardak province, killing two civilians and injuring 77 U.S. troops. ''Some back home have asked why we are still here,'' U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker said at a 9/11 memorial at the embassy in Kabul. ''It's been a long fight and peo- ple are tired.'' ''We're here,'' he said, ''so that there is never again another 9/11 coming from Afghan soil.''