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Saturday, November 19, 2011 – Daily News 7A Obituaries DROP Continued from page 1A It helped the agencies discover what deficiencies they each have so they can MAN Continued from page 1A Dan Hartley passed away on March 1, 2011 in Red Bluff, CA. at age 99. Born November 19, 1911 in Bandon, OR. Dan was a unique individual with many talents, a true renaissance man. He was an avid vintage car buff, an au- thority on the restoration of antique cars and steam en- gines. He loved hunting and fishing in earlier days. He had many careers, beginning as a cab driver at age from daughters Ann Hughes and Ruth McKee. Today would of been Dan's 100th birthday. He really wanted to make it to 100. 17, a truck driver, a fur trapper, land surveyor, during the war time, a ship yard heavy crane operator building ships, later in Northern California, he had a long career in the logging industry working all over Northern California. Thanks to Pat Rahm, Tom and Frances McVay for being good friends and caregivers during his later years, and up till his passing. GRANTS Continued from page 1A to house 24 women and children for up to two years, she said. "They can use this as a launching pad for a new life," Spurr said. For many of the partic- ipants, there are obstacles to overcome because someone else controlled their finances, they either have bad or no credit or they have not been employed. The group provides wrap-around services for participants, which include case management, financial empowerment classes, legal advocacy, parenting classes using Mommy and Me and Nur- turing Parents, and sup- port such as restraining orders. From July 2010 to July 2011, the 581 clients served included 302 chil- dren protected by a restraining order and 131 women and children housed. There is also a 24-hour hotline, 1-800-324-6473, available for domestic vio- lence victims to call for help or for those who sus- pect a friend or loved one may be in danger, Spurr said. "Domestic Violence is a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviors used to gain power and control over another, which may include verbal, financial, emotional, sexual and physical abuse," Spurr said. "Studies suggest 10 million children witness domestic violence each year. It truly is a pattern." One of the biggest things to look for is people who become cut off from friends and family, espe- cially if there is a change in frequency of contact. "We're really here for the community," Spurr said. "We would love to talk to people. Our staff has at least 40 hours of training." For more information call ATV at 528-0226 or visit alternatives2vio- lence.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Intruder killed in robbery was likely seeking pot COVELO (AP) — Mendocino County authorities say a man appeared to be justified in fatally shooting an intruder who likely broke into his home in search of marijuana. Investigators say another suspect fled when 22-year- old Joey Long opened fire early Thursday. The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa reports that deputies seized about 100 pounds of processed mari- juana at the home outside Covelo. Sheriff's Capt. Kurt Smallcomb says Long had a medical marijuana recom- mendation. Authorities say the suspect still at large will likely be charged with murder under a state law that says a per- son involved in a crime that results in death can be charged with murder. DANIEL FRANK HARTLEY Happy Birthday Dad brown hair and brown eyes and is 48. He was last seen at his sister's house in Pleasant Hill on Oct. 31. Brunell was depressed about being out of work for several months and has financial issues. His ERROR Continued from page 1A and Tehama County for that matter," Murphy said. Progress is being made on plans for turning the former fire hall into a community center. At Thursday's meeting, board members Tom Humphreys and Larry Long, who sit on the Com- munity Center Committee with Bruce Johnston, spoke of the need to bring the building up to date before it's opened to pub- California unemployment rate falls to 11.7 SACRAMENTO (AP) — Cali- fornia's unemployment rate fell slightly in October, to 11.7 percent, from 11.9 percent a month earlier, as the state added jobs in construc- tion, education, health services and leisure and hospitality, the state Employment Development Depart- ment said Friday. The rate has hovered above 12 percent for months and has been stuck above 11 percent since 2009. California's is the second highest in the nation, behind Nevada, which had a rate of 13.4 percent in Sep- tember, the most recent data avail- able. Still, the October numbers are an improvement from a year ago, when its unemployment rate was 12.5 percent. EDD said the state added 25,700 jobs in October — a large number considering the United States added a total of 80,000 jobs in the same period. Calif. water projections high after wet winter FRESNO (AP) — California water officials say unusually wet winter conditions have given the state an early outlook for a high water supply next year. The Department of Water Resources announced Friday that last winter's near-record snowpack and rainfall filled the state's main storage reservoir to a record 80 per- cent of capacity. lic use. "The bathrooms need to be brought up to ADA compliance," Humphreys said. "We've also dis- cussed taking a six-foot window out to make dou- ble doors that would give better access for people with disabilities and a slid- ing door that would allow people to drive into the building and unload things from a pickup truck." For now, the focus is on the bathrooms, he said. "We've decided to do one step at a time," Humphreys said. The board plans to use be better prepared to over- come them at a crucial time, he said. The exercise is part of an annual training, Daugh- erty said. In the past, responders have commit- ted to a bus rollover and an airplane crash reenact- ment. "We like to have differ- ent scenarios to test every year," he said. The training was the second half of a table top exercise that the depart- car was found abandoned by park staff at the Boulder Creek Falls Trailhead about a mile from the Carr Powerhouse. More than 25 people were involved in the search. An incident Command Center was established at the Carr Powerhouse to coordinate the search efforts on Wednesday and Thursday. It is believed Brunell's car had ments did about a month before. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. been at the Boulder Creek Trailhead for several days. No evidence of Brunell was found beyond his car, and the search will be scaled back to an ongoing search by Park Rangers. If anyone has any information to assist law enforcement in locating Brunell, call Shasta County Sher- iff's Office at 530 245-6540 or the National Park Service 24-hour dis- patch at 530 242-3431. the $18,000 received from selling the Gerber Com- munity Hall down the street and money previ- ously donated by the for- mer Gerber Fire Depart- ment Women's Auxiliary. The new Community Center would be available for rentals, receptions or other family events and the monies received would be used for maintenance, insurance costs and PG&E bills, Long said. "The building would also be used at no fee for town meetings and Ger- ber-Las Flores CSD meet- ings," Long said. "It STATE BRIEFING Based on that stock, the depart- ment says state contractors will receive an initial water allocation of 60 percent of requested deliveries in 2012. Officials say initial water deliv- ery estimates are conservative because they're made before winter storms replenish reservoir storage. Even average precipitation this coming winter should significantly increase supplies, water managers say. During the current water deliv- ery period, the initial allocation of 25 percent jumped to 80 percent by the end of the year. The State Water Project delivers water to more than 25 million Cali- fornians and 750,000 acres of farm- land. UC Davis police arrest 10 in Occupy camp DAVIS (AP) — Police at the University of California, Davis have dismantled an Occupy encampment on campus and arrested 10 protesters. UC Davis officials say eight men and two women were taken into custody Friday afternoon. Nine of them were students. Student activists pitched more than a dozen tents on the UC Davis Quad on Thursday in defi- ance of a campus ban on camp- ing. Graduate student A.J. Morgan says dozens of police officers in riot gear used pepper spray on students who tried to protect the ''Occupy UC Davis'' camp. Morgan says several hundred students protested Friday's police action, shouting ''Shame on you! Shame on you!'' Cal State rules out new vote on hike LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Cal- ifornia State University chancellor has ruled out a new vote on a bitterly con- tested tuition increase, despite pres- sure to reconsider it because it might have sidestepped open-government laws. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the president of the school employees union wanted the CSU board of trustees to schedule a new vote on the 9 percent boost, but Chancellor Charles Reed said in a letter released Friday evening that there is ''not good reason'' to revisit the board's action. Trustees meeting in Long Beach Wednesday retreated behind closed doors to vote on the tuition jump, after a chaotic meeting in which police clashed with demonstrators. School officials say the vote was conducted legally. Rattlesnakes force closure of school GUSTINE (AP) — A Central California high school has shut down after five rattlesnakes were spotted on campus in less than three weeks. Gustine High School in Merced County closed its doors for two days on Wednesday over concerns about student safety. Rattlesnakes are ven- omous, and their bites can be fatal. District Superintendent Gail McWilliams tells the Merced Sun- Star that the source of the infestation is not known. Police speculate that someone may have left a pregnant rattlesnake on the school grounds. All of the snakes that have been spotted are thought to be babies because they were less than a foot long. They were all killed. Gay soldier shares reaction to GOP debate boos SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Army Capt. Stephen Hill says he was- n't trying to score politi- cal points when he asked the Republican presiden- tial candidates if they would reinstate the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military. He wasn't worried that his debate question, posed via a YouTube video recorded in Iraq, would generate boos or reveal his sexual orientation to millions of people, including his superiors and fellow troops. All Hill was thinking about in September was his husband of four-and- a-half months, Joshua Snyder, in Columbus, Ohio. Now that ''don't ask, don't tell'' has been lifted, he needed to know if the military would take the next step and recognize his marriage, or if a new president would try to force soldiers like him back into the closet. ''I was looking for- ward to the future and hoping everybody would realize we are soldiers first, always,'' said Hill, 41, an Army reservist who returned last week from his yearlong deploy- ment. ''I was hoping 'don't ask, don't tell' would be a distant memo- ry for everybody.'' In an interview with The Associated Press, Hill reflected publicly for the first time on his rea- sons for submitting the pre-recorded question for the Sept. 22 debate, as well as his reaction to the heckles heard around the world; the answer that former Sen. Rick Santo- rum gave to thunderous applause; and the outrage expressed on his behalf by, among others, his commander in chief. With Snyder on the telephone, Hill watched the debate live from Iraq at 4 a.m. And this is what he asked: ''In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was because I'm a gay soldier and I didn't want to lose my job. My question is, under one of your presi- dencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?'' Santorum replied that he would reinstitute the ban on open service by gay troops because ''any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.'' ''What we are doing is playing social experimen- tation with our military right now. That's tragic,'' he continued. ''Leave it alone. Keep it to yourself whether you are hetero- sexual or homosexual.'' Hill says the fact that he just outed himself on national television had barely registered when he absorbed the boos and Santorum's answer fol- lowed by applause. ''When the actual boo- ing occurred, my gut dropped out, because my first inclination was, did I just do something wrong?'' he said. ''The answer, obviously, wasn't very supportive of gay people, and there was a lot of fear of how the Army would take the question.'' He did not have to wait long to find out. At break- fast later that morning, the segment was playing on the chow hall television. Hill immediately tracked down his commander, who told him she had no problem with what he'd done but that she would need to run it up the chain of command. She later relayed the response. ''She said, 'What the military's most concerned with is that you are OK, because it's a lot of pres- sure on you and we want to make sure if there is anything we can do to help,''' he recalled. President Barack Obama, about a week later, chided the Republi- can contenders for staying silent when several people booed an American sol- dier. Santorum said he had not heard the booing but condemned the audi- ence members who did it. What Hill remembers most was that a presiden- tial candidate defined his marriage and military ser- vice in terms of sex. He holds that up against the times he hid Snyder's photograph because Army buddies were com- ing over to play video games, introduced his husband as his roommate or brother, and the legal vows they exchanged at the grave of Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, who was discharged in 1975 after becoming the first gay service member to challenge the U.S. mil- itary's ban on gay troops. Snyder and Hill last month joined other same- sex military couples in suing the government for the same benefits as straight military couples, which the Pentagon denies them on grounds that federal law defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ''This is not about sex,'' Hill said. ''A special privilege is not hiding pic- tures in my house or God forbid, taking mortar fire again and not knowing if Josh will be recognized. I'm fighting every day to protect everyone's rights as human beings, and it seems counterintuitive for me to be fighting for those rights and not have them.'' would be made available for elections or any other events which benefit the Gerber community." The Gerber-Las Flores Community Service Dis- trict meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at its office next to the former fire hall on San Benito Avenue. The office can be reached at 385- 1904. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com.