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Bangerter:RonaldEugene Bangerter, 78, of Manton died Monday, Dec. 1at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbe provided 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 web- site. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Deathnotices Themarketisaboutfive miles north of Corning. Lucio Madera, Gabino Madera and Poly Due- nas Sanchez have been charged with murder stemming from Dani's shooting death. Additionally, they each face a charge of conspir- acy to commit a crime and special allegations of dis- charge of a firearm caus- ing great bodily injury. The three defendants were 19 at the time they were arrested for their sus- pected roles in the shoot- ing, and they have pleaded not guilty. Preliminary hearings also scheduled Tuesday for Sanchez and Gabino Madera were vacated, ac- cording to online court re- cords. The three defendants re- main in custody at Tehama County Jail with bail set at roughly $1 million for each. Hearing FROM PAGE 1 No current union mem- bers will come forward, Sherman said, but they are willing to meet with coun- cil members to speak of the "mistreatment" they have received under Nanfito. Sherman asked council members to extend "pro- tection" for those officers, and urged the City Council to form a committee to take on the union's concerns. He said the union would supportcurrentRedBluffpo- lice Capt. Kyle Sanders or Lt. Dan Flowerdew as potential replacements for Nanfito. The City Council took no action Tuesday night as the issue was not on the coun- cil's agenda. Council member Clay Parker said he would have preferred that the Peace Of- ficers Association had taken a different route to deliver its discontent rather than during the public comment period at the City Council meeting. Chief FROM PAGE 1 Some of the public main- tained the library should stay where it is while oth- ers, including an educator and librarian, asked for the public's concerns over the project to not interfere with constructing the ap- proved $4 million library facility. The closure of Madison Street, which had prompted Mayor Daniele Jackson to oppose the project at a re- cent Red Bluff City Council meeting, became almost an afterthought in the discus- sion. Goodwin said county staff had originally wanted to close a portion of the street to utilize for staff parking and law enforce- ment storage. However he said the county was willing to re- consider its plans because of the public outcry. At a minimum Goodwin said the road would need to be closed three times a day for 15 minutes at a time. Goodwin said plans to build a bridge or tunnel were not be financially fea- sible. Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said the county staff was trying to do two things: protect the commu- nity and be fiscally respon- sible. Carlson and some of the public said the proposed jail was being too fiscally short- sighted. Jail FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Three years of drought have taken a heavy toll on Cal- ifornia groundwater sup- plies, with hundreds more wells being dug this year, one of the driest on record, a state report released Tuesday said. Over 350 new wells were dug in both of the agricul- turally rich Fresno and Tu- lare counties, more than any other part the state, the California Depart- ment of Water Resources reported. Hundreds more wells were drilled in Mer- ced, Butte, Kern, Kings, Shasta and Stanislaus counties, the report says. Gov. Jerry Brown this year initiated new laws to start managing under- ground water in Califor- nia, the last Western state to take such steps. But the plans could take years to be developed, officials said. "If we fail to manage our groundwater basins sustainably, we risk losing the water supply savings account that can help cit- ies, farms and businesses surviving drought with minimal disruption," said Mark Cowin, director of the Water Resources de- partment. California risks over- draft, which Cowin said could permanently dam- age the naturally occur- ring underground water for future generations. In years of normal rain and snowfall, groundwater ac- counts for 40 percent of supplies for farmers and communities, and the re- port says that in times of drought that increases to 60 percent. Yet the report says that about one-fourth of the state's 127 most heavily used underground water basins are not adequately monitored. Basins with notable decreases are in the Sacramento River, San Joaquin River, Tulare Lake, San Francisco Bay, Central and South Coast regions, the report says. Excessive ground-water pumping, the report says, will continue to cause the ground levels to drop, a phenomenon called land subsidence. HUNDREDS MORE WELLS Report: California drought threatens groundwater By Christopher Weber and Gillian Flaccus The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Heavy rain from a powerful Pa- cific storm swept through parched California on Tues- day, providing relief from a three-year drought but prompting evacuations in wildfire-scarred commu- nities threatened by mud- slides and flooding. The rain began falling overnight Monday in North- ern California, but the heaviest downpours were in Southern California, where recent burns have de- nuded slopes of the vegeta- tion that helps hold soil in place. Traffic was snarled, and some flights at Los An- geles and San Francisco air- ports were delayed. The National Weather Service said up to 6 inches of rain was possible in parts of Southern California by the time the storm ends Wednesday. In Camarillo Springs, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, gushing wa- ter and muddy debris be- gan pouring from adjacent hillsides before noon Tues- day, prompting the manda- tory evacuation of about 75 homes. A mudslide in the same Ventura County com- munity on Halloween bur- ied one home in mud 3 feet deep, the result of a wildfire that burned the area more than a year ago. Residents huddled at a nearby church as they waited to learn the fate of their homes and bemoaned a string of bad luck that be- gan with the 2013 blaze. "It'll be the locusts next," evacuee Rose Martin told the Ventura County Star. "It's that mountain. You never know what it's going to do." In Orange County, roughly 100 miles to the southeast, about 60 homes in rural Silverado Can- yon were under a volun- tary evacuation notice. The area burned over the sum- mer and has been the site of previous mudslides, includ- ing one that killed a girl in 2005 and another in 1969 that killed six people who sought shelter in the fire station. Residents worked to- gether to evacuate large an- imals, and those who chose not to evacuate were gath- ering in the tiny town's lone cafe to wait out the rain and keep warm. "We have to take this se- riously because we don't know what's going to hap- pen," longtime resident Con- nie Nelson said. "We'll just deal with it as it comes. We take care of people up here." Three years of devastat- ing drought has left the Si- erra Nevada snowpack — which counts for most of the state's water supply — at just 24 percent of normal for this time of year. Los An- geles, like many communi- ties, has had less than half of the usual rain in 2014. Gov. Jerry Brown de- clared a drought emer- gency in January and called on residents to reduce con- sumption by 20 percent. As the storm blew in, new state data was released showing Californians aren't meet- ing his goal: Statewide wa- ter usage was down just 6.7 percent in October. In communities rebound- ing from recent wildfires, however, the most immedi- ate concern wasn't drought, but mud. In the foothill city of Glendora northeast of Los Angeles, residents packed sandbags along their property lines and lined the streets with con- crete barriers to keep mud- flows out. Los Angeles County Fire Department Acting Chief Steve Martin warned resi- dents to heed any evacua- tion orders that are issued, noting that a mild rain two weeks ago caused mudflows that damaged four homes. "We know it's an inconve- nience, we know it's hard to leave your homes behind," Martin said. "But the fact of the matter is, when the mountain does cut loose, it happens so fast you're al- ready behind ... and it's go- ing to be very difficult to get to you." In Northern California, officials have been scram- bling to control erosion fol- lowing the King Fire, which burned 153 square miles in the mountains east of Sac- ramento last summer, as well as the Rim Fire, which burned more than 400 square miles in and around Yosemite National Park a year ago. Neither area reported problems from the latest storm. Meantime, another po- tential problem awaited Southern California coastal residents: A thick tan- gle of garbage that gets washed from city streets into storm drains and then onto beaches following ma- jor storms. PACIFIC STORM Ca li fo rn ia r ai n br in gs mudslide fears, evacuations JEFF CHIU — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Students carry an umbrellas Tuesday as they walk at the University of California Berkeley. The City Council is con- sidering four candidates who applied for appoint- ment to the vacant seat, in- cluding Shannon Hatfield, Greg Latourell, Suren Patel and Amy Schutter. Hatfield is a speech- language pathologist and business owner who was born and raised in Red Bluff. Latourell is an engineer- ing technician at the Te- hama County Public Works Department and has been a member of the community for the past 27 years. Patel is a hotel manager who has served on the city's Parks and Recreation De- partment Advisory Com- mission. Schutter is grant devel- opment director at Shasta College and has lived in Red Bluff for 21 years. The four candidates pre- sented short statements to the City Council. The vacant seat's term expires in 2016. Eliggi had been appointed to the seat in August 2013 after for- mer council member Rob- ert Sheppard Jr. resigned earlier that year. The City Council's vote to push its appointment was taken after council members Daniele Jack- son, Rob Schmid and Knox were sworn in to four-year terms won in the Nov. 4 election. Council member Clay Parker was unanimously elected as Red Bluff's mayor by the City Council on Tues- day. Jackson was unani- mously elected mayor pro tem by the City Council on Tuesday. Jackson had previously been mayor. Council FROM PAGE 1 MINDY SCHAUE — THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Don Panza looks up as the rain starts coming down at his Silverado Canyon home as a powerful Pacific storm swept through California on Tuesday. The Associated Press BERKELEY A rally protest- ing a series of tuition in- creases planned for the Uni- versity of California drew a small crowd at UC Berkeley on the 50th anniversary of a pivotal event in the school's storied campus activism. About 75 people crowded intothelobbyofaclassroom building to listen to speak- ers Tuesday after rain had organizers to move the rally away from Sproul Plaza. That is where an earlier generation of Berkeley stu- dents held a massive dem- onstration on Dec. 2, 1964 and occupied an adminis- tration building to protest a campus ban on political advocacy. ACTIVISM ANNIVERSARY Berkeley students hold small anti-tuition rally NeptuneSociety ofNorthernCaliforniahas provided trusted experience & service to our community for over 40 years. 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The magazine also suggests that the children should take a one hour nap during the day.As one who has tried to get a 15 year old boy and 15 year old girl to go to bed, I would like to report that the effort is wasted. I have usually succeeded in getting myself so worn out that I finally went to bed and left them up. … That new company, Shasta Foods, which bought out Farmer's Market in Redding , will commence construction of their big Red Bluff Supermarket within 45 to 90 days. It will be situated on Madison and will be of the very latest of market design and, with parking lot will use the entire space of the former Harry Willard Flour Mill. … An employee of ours suffered a severe heart attack two weeks ago and lies in a hospital bed in Red Bluff secure in the knowledge that his hospital and doctor bills will be paid for. In addition he will receive $50.00 per week for 6 months. His good fortune is the result of our Union's continuing fight for more security for its members.Although we approve of such policies, they cost a lot of money, and we just would not carry them unless it was made necessary under the terms of the contracts with the Unions. … An editorial in one of our county papers last week said, in part, "It is becoming more and more apparent that we should have a County Building Inspector so that as Red Bluff grows, and annexes these areas. First of all, Red Bluff will probably not annex all of the county for quite a while, and in the meantime, I don't believe farmers and ranchers would appreciate having to get permission from a building inspector to put a door on a carport or change the roof of a chicken house.And the first time the inspector said the farmer he could not build a building the way he wished, there would be a considerable hassle. I believe strongly that a man's ranch is his castle and the less interference from any representative of any kind of government, the better. … Minch Farms finished planting 43 acres of Cling Peaches last week. I believe this is the first sizable peach planting hereabouts in years* *Until we had to remove them many years later because of split pits. RM DAVE MINCH 1900-1964 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A