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Meza:Ignacio"Nacho" Meza, 58, of Corning died Friday, Jan. 30at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary. Published Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, in the Daily News, Calif. Nunez: Reynaldo Nunez Jr., 39, of Red Bluff died Monday, Feb. 2, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cre- mation & Burial. Published Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, in the Daily News, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuar- ies to the news depart- ment, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic informa- tion about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Clas- sified advertising depart- ment. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortu- aries or by families of the deceased and include on- line 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 It was an afternoon filled with smiles and tears, bringing a local connection to what has become the biggest day of college foot- ball's offseason — the first day high schools seniors can commit in writing to a college football team. "It's obviously a huge day for these guys as individ- uals, for our community, for our football program," Spartans head coach Co- rey Hein said. "We're just really proud of them. It couldn't happen to better guys. They're good football players, but they're good human beings. We're just happy for them. We hope some of the young guys in the stands they see what hard work and good work in the classroom does." Nunez and Clement spent their summer not only working on their games, but traveling the west coast to garner atten- tion from college scouts with the assistance of the Martinez family. Nunez played offensive and defensive line for the Spartans, earning first team All-Northern Section and All-Eastern Athletic League honors. In the fall he recorded 69 tackles for the second con- secutive season, including five tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks. He scored on a fum- ble return and also earned a spot on the honor roll. Nunez received interest from Oregon, Washington State and Ohio State. In the end he chose the Fort Collins, Colo. school. "Everybody there seems like they're involved with college. It's not just an ed- ucational base, it's about everything there," Nunez said. He plans to study con- struction management or accounting. Along with conference games against Boise State and Fresno State, Nunez will have the opportunity to play some big-time oppo- nents during his years with the Rams. Colorado State plays Col- orado in an annual rivalry game at Sports Author- ity Field at Mile High, the home of the Denver Bron- cos. Colorado State has a home-and-home sched- uled with Minnesota the next two seasons. A road game at Alabama is scheduled for 2017 as is a game with Florida some- time between 2017-2020. "All I want to do is get out there," Nunez said. Nunez will be joined by a fellow North State star. En- terprise High School's Izzy Matthews also signed with Colorado State. Clement is headed to Hastings, Neb. to play for a college that has a strong history of football. Leg- endary Nebraska coach Tom Osborne played at the school and the NFL Hall of Famer had his first coach- ing job at the school. "It's a small town great atmosphere and the coaches make me feel like I'm going to fit in really well with the offense and the school and everything," Clement said of Hastings College. The Broncos play in the Great Plains Athletic Con- ference. "It's 1,500 miles away, but it's football. Football's football," Clement said. Clement's smile didn't appear to go away through- out the signing ceremony. "No one in my family has ever gone on to college or anything, so the feeling is incredible. There's nothing else like this," he said. Clement said he plans on studying construction management. Nunez had some sim- ple advice for young foot- ball players in the area, who want to achieve the level of success he's already reached. "Don't mess around. Buckle down and get to work," he said. Dreams FROM PAGE 1 candidate to the council, the cost of a special elec- tion would hurt the city. "We're trying real hard to build our reserves to try to come up with some kind of a usable budget," Schmid said. "Spending 15 to 20 thousand, I'm not sure that that's what we really want to deal with." Over the last 19 months, three council members have resigned from the City Council, including Knox. The City Council previously opted to appoint people to the vacant seats. The most recent ap- pointment to the City Council was Suren Patel, who filled a vacant seat on Dec. 16. "We should never, ever appoint an elected offi- cial," Mayor Clay Parker said. "I think it's wrong. But when it's going to cost the city 15,000 to 20,000 dollars, our hands are basically tied." Because the seat's term would be filled through November 2018, the City Council also signaled that it wants to give the public a chance to hear from applicants and ask them questions. City Manager Richard Crabtree said that could be possible, adding that a Q and A session could be held during the City Council's regular March 3 meeting. City staff proposed a Feb. 24 deadline for ap- plicants seeking appoint- ment. From there, the City Council could ap- point an applicant at its March 3 or March 17 reg- ular meetings. If an appointment is not made by March 25, according to city staff, a special election would automatically be called. Council FROM PAGE 1 IT only T A K E S A S P A R K . O N L Y Y O U C A N P R E V E N T W I L D F I R E S . s m o k e y b e a r . c o m Please By Ricardo Alonso- Zaldivar The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Su- preme Court is taking an- other look at President Barack Obama's health care law, and this time it's not just the White House that should be worried. Republican lawmakers and governors, too, will feel the backlash if the court in- validates insurance subsi- dies worth billions of dol- lars to people in more than 30 states. Obama's law offers subsi- dized private insurance to people who don't have ac- cess to it on the job. With- out financial assistance with their premiums, mil- lions of those consumers would drop coverage. Disruptions in the af- fected states wouldn't end there. If droves of healthy people bail out of Health- Care.gov, residents buy- ing individual policies out- side the government mar- ket could be next. Self-pay customers would face a jump in premiums be- cause they're in the same insurance pool as the sub- sidized ones. Health insurers spent millions to defeat the law as it was being debated. But the industry told the court last month that the subsidies are a key to mak- ing the overhaul work. Withdrawing them would "make the situation worse than it was before" Con- gress passed the Afford- able Care Act. The debate over "Obam- acare" was messy enough when just politics and ide- ology were involved. It gets really dicey with the well- being of millions of people in the balance. "It is not simply a func- tion of law or ideology; there are practical im- pacts on high numbers of people," said Republican Mike Leavitt, a former fed- eral health secretary now heading a health care con- sulting firm. The legal issues in- volve the leeway federal agencies have in applying complex legislation. Oppo- nents argue that the pre- cise wording of the law only allows subsidies in states that set up their own insurance markets, or exchanges. That would leave out most beneficia- ries, who live in states where the federal govern- ment runs the exchanges. The administration and the law's Democratic au- thors say Congress clearly intended to provide subsi- dies in every state. POSSIBLE DISRUPTIONS Su pr eme C ou rt 's n ew h ea lt h la w ca se c ut s bo th w ay s By Kiley Armstrong and Jim Fitzgerald The Associated Press VALHALLA, N.Y. The baf- fling behavior of a woman whose SUV stopped be- tween the crossing gates on a railroad track came under scrutiny Wednesday as in- vestigators sought clues to a fiery commuter train crash that killed six people. National Transportation Safety Board officials were looking at the Metro-North train's black-box-style re- corders, seeking to learn its speed, whether brakes were applied and whether it sounded its horn as it approached the suburban New York crossing where it slammed into the SUV, NTSB vice chairman Rob- ert Sumwalt said. "We intend to find out not only what happened, but we want to find out why it happened," he said at the site of Tuesday evening's rush-hour collision in Val- halla, about 20 miles north of New York City. Investigators also planned to look at the track signals' recording devices, interview the train's oper- ators, peer into the wreck- age with laser-scanning de- vices and seek aerial foot- age, he said. Meanwhile, officials were using dental records to identify the badly burned victims — five men on the train and the SUV driver, officials said. Several oth- ers remained hospitalized, at least two with critical or serious injuries. Tuesday's crash was the deadliest accident in the 22- year history of one of the nation's busiest commuter railroads — one that has come under a harsh spot- light over a series of acci- dents in recent years. "It's really inexplicable, based on the facts we have now," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on WCBS-AM radio. The wreck happened in an area where the tracks are straight but car traffic can be tricky, as drivers ex- iting or entering a parkway turn and cross the tracks near a wooded area and a cemetery. The driver had gotten out of her Mercedes SUV mo- mentarily after the cross- ing's safety gates came down around her and hit her car, according to the driver behind her, Rick Hope. "I said to myself, 'The clock is ticking here, the gate is down, the bells are ringing — what are you go- ing to do here?'" he told WNYW-TV. "She looked a little confused, gets back in the car and pulls forward" on the tracks. Traffic was moving slowly, choked with drivers seeking to avoid the Taconic Parkway because of an acci- dent, he noted. "It looks like she stopped where she stopped because she didn't want to go on the tracks," Hope added. "It was dark, so maybe she didn't know she was in front of the gate." Railroad grade cross- ings typically have gate arms designed to lift auto- matically if they hit a car or other object on the way down, railroad safety con- sultant Grady Cothen said. The wooden arms are de- signed to be easily broken if a car trapped between them moves forward or backward, he said. SIX PEOPLE KILLED Investigators examine burned-wreckage in deadly train crash ALAN DIAZ — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell speaks in Miami. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas accused Burwell of being "contemptuous" of Congress on Wednesday by sidestepping about the Obama administration's preparations for a Supreme Court challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law. MARK LENNIHAN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A police officer looks at a SUV that was crushed and burned at the front of a Metro-North Railroad train Wednesday in Valhalla, N.Y. VERONICA(Bonnie)A.O'BRYAN September 13, 1929 ~ January 27, 2015 Bonnie was born September 13, 1929 in Spalding, Neb. to Frank and Rosalia Krick. She married Richard O'Bryan September 25, 1948, they were high school sweethearts. They had 3 children, Deborah, Richard & Timothy. Bon- nie worked for the Credit Bureau for 13 years, then for Diamond International for 30 years. She was a member of Sacred Heart Women's Guild, sang in the choir and did all the mending for the rummage sales. She loved to sew, knit and paint china, but most of all she loved to dance. Bonnie is preceded in death by her parents, husband, and sister Anna Marie Kennedy, and brother James Krick. Bonnie is survived by sister Rita Sims, daughter Debbie Gibbs, son, Tim O'Bryan and long time companion Ken Hill. Services will be held at Sacred Heart Church, February 10 at 10:00 am, with a memorial to follow at the Parish Hall. Charley Bert "C.B." FULTZ July 12, 1924 ~ January 30, 2015 Charley Bert (C.B.) Fultz was born in Alpena Pass, Ar- kansas on July 12, 1924. He passed away peacefully in his sleep on the evening of January 30, 2015 at the age of 90 in Red Bluff, California. He was the sixth of eleven chil- dren born to Stephen and Jenny Fultz. He was raised in Arkansas and moved to Red Bluff, California in the early 1940's. He served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army during World War II. He is survived by his wife, Gertie, of 68 years. She was the love of his life. Gertie blessed C.B. with two daugh- ters, Lena Cantrell and Patricia Dudley, both of Red Bluff. C.B. enjoyed time with his grandsons to Lena (Kevin Cantrell and Stace Cantrell) and granddaughters to Patricia (Tiffani Dudley and Bailey Dudley). He also enjoyed his seven great-grandchildren: Larissa Cantrell, Kelsey Cantrell, Kody Cantrell, Kaden Cantrell, Emilie Alderson, Michael Alderson and Addyson Alderson. C.B. loved and was proud of each and every one of his loved ones. They will all deeply miss him. The viewing for C.B. Fultz will be held at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers in Red Bluff, California on Wednes- day, February 4, 2015 from 5:00pm-8:00pm. A Celebration of Life to honor C.B. will also be held at Hoyt-Cole Chap- el of the Flowers on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 11:00am. Anyone who was impacted by C.B.'s love and compassion is welcomed. Obituaries We Don'tThink Cremation Should Cost So much. www.affordablemortuary.net•529-3655 FD1538 LocatedinChico,CA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A