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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 – Daily News 7A Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the news- paper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Sharon Lee Smith-Mutchie Sharon Lee Smith-Mutchie of Red Bluff died Mon- day, Dec. 12, 2011, in Redding. She was 69. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. GREEN Continued from page 1A Booze & Jazz, Chico; Branches Wood Fired Chop House, Ukiah; CAMPS Restaurant at Greenhorn Creek, Angels Camp; Charlie's Restau- rant, Los Alamos; Davis Creek Mercantile, Davis Creek; Gino's Steakhouse, Colusa; Grizzly Grill, Blairsden; Hindquarter Bar & Grill, Santa Cruz; Hotel Ivanhoe Restaurant, Ferndale; Jack's Grill, Redding; Lumberyard Café & Brew, La Grange; McNally's Fairview Lodge, Kernville; Musso & Frank Grill, Holly- AREA Continued from page 1A Meeting attendees came up with these ideas for the Red Bluff Recreation Area: • fishing hole • second disc golf course • kite flying area • fitness trail that includes an obstacle course on existing trails • Native American village: replica homes, basket making lessons and plant or herb garden • garden railroad, a small scale ridable model rail- road • regular or motorized bike course • baseball field complex • concert amphitheater To submit an idea email bhughe1@tehamaed.org. retaining and managing it has a negative impact on its budget, Olmedo said. After meeting with the Lake Red Bluff Mitigation committee, city Planning Director Scot Timboe was challenged to create a map that would incorporate ideas from other California loca- tions that would increase the amount of land use on the property. The concept behind these ideas is that the city would have an opportu- nity to charge fees for use of the features. Some of the ideas would have a larger opportunity for income. Developing a series of off highway vehicle (OHV) trails was one of the major ideas. There is state funding available for enhancement of OHV facilities. This has been created by fees paid to license OHVs that could help develop this feature. A second necessity to accompany this feature would be a full service RV park that would accommo- date the living quarters and trailers of the OHV trail users. These are usually high-end units. These sites would be located adjacent to East Sand Slough very close to the actual trails, to reduce damage to surrounding areas. Along the same train of thought was developing a horse trail or even a dressage course similar in scope. There is no existing sources of money available to devel- op this idea, but it has some real possibilities. People who enjoy and train horses are aware of the expenses asso- ciated with these animals. Another idea was devel- oping a dog walking and training area. California Park Services has offered to become the concessionaire, if their ser- vices are needed. This would take the management of fea- tures into the hands of the private sector. The city or county, most likely city, would be the lead agency. Ideas were suggested to make the Sacramento River the central focus of any new developments. Ideas included holding fishing tournaments along the river, developing a com- petition kayaking course or developing a series of river rides on a variety of types of boats up to a steamboat with restaurant. After the success of the Lucero event this weekend, perhaps more food oriented events would bring in out of area visitors. Bobie Hughes, volunteer executive director of the Sacramento River Discovery Center is looking for other ideas and people to help make the plans. "We know it is going to happen sometime, so we should be prepared with our priorities before the bill has been passed by Congress," Hughes said. Contact Hughes at bhughe1@tehamaed.org or send a letter to 1000 Sale Lane, Red Bluff, CA 96080. Comments and suggestions should be made in writing, so responses can be kept on record. wood; Oney's Bar-B-Q- Bills, Bishop; Roxy Restaurant and Bar, Sacra- mento; Seasons Restau- rant, Lone Pine; The Dutch Frontier, Ducor; The Inn at Tres Pinos, Tres Pinos; The Riata Diner & Tavern, Liver- more; and The Whaling Station, Monterey. For more information about the California Beef Backer Award program, visit www.calbeef.org. The California Beef Council (CBC) was estab- lished in 1954 to serve as the promotion, research, and education arm of the California beef industry, and is mandated by the California Food and Agri- cultural Code. BLACK Continued from page 1A he gave me a project to do," Reinhard said of his start. In 1962, Reinhard was chosen to speak at the Northern California Jr. Sci- ence Symposium in 1962 in Berkeley presenting a 20-minute speech on bugs, using 8 mm and 16 mm films. From there, he got into photography and while at Humboldt State was a part of the Humboldt State Photography Program, competing in a double-juried contest at CalExpo against students and instructors with about 3,000 to 4,000 images entered. He was surprised to find that he came in first in the two categories he entered, beating out his own instructor, Reinhard said. Reinhard put his photography on hold for years, only becoming serious about it five years ago. Much of his equipment found in his 8-by-8-foot dark room, formerly a walk-in closet at his house, came from a dark room he worked in with his dad when he was younger, Reinhard said. Reinhard also has a large collection of cameras, some of which he uses and others that are only for display. The col- lection includes everything from a 1897 Detective Special wooden camera to a 1980s model Minolta. "I don't do color," Reinhard said, adding that he sticks to film cameras, using Nikons and Minoltas both. "I love the images of water and window and water reflections. My latest I'm trying to capture is door patterns. One thing Reinhard loves about his Winter Solstice photo is that the light coming through is at it's longest he said. "I like to present an image in such a way as you feel like you are walking into it and look around," Reinhard said. While the photo has no permanent place yet, Reinhard said he does plan to include the piece amongst those he takes to local shows. Portrait by Stephanie Luke Joel Reinhard, pictured here in a portrait by Stephanie Luke, placed in the top 10 percent of an international competition by Black and White magazine with his film black and white photo "Winter Solstice at the Chapter House"taken at Abbey New Clairvaux. STATE CUTS Continued from page 1A which are pulled today, are part of that fiscal discipline,'' he said in a news conference at the state Capitol. ''This is not the way we'd like to run California. But we have to live within our means,'' he said. Brown also warned of further cuts when he releases his proposed 2012-13 budget in January, but he declined to say how deep they would be. The budget included automatic midyear spending reduc- tions — known as ''trigger cuts'' — if revenue projections didn't pan out. Brown has said the move was necessary to prevent the state's credit rating from deteriorating further. The cuts include up to $100 million each to the Universi- ty of California, California State University, developmental services and in-home support for seniors and the disabled. Community college fees would increase $10 per unit, and reductions would be made for child care assistance, library grants and prisons, among other programs. School advocates warned that an estimated 1 million stu- dents — many of them with special needs or from low- income and rural areas — will be affected by the loss of $248 million in home-to-school transportation funding. In addi- tion, school districts will lose another $79.6 million under the trigger cuts. ''The cut to transportation is absolutely devastating,'' said Steve Henderson, a lobbyist for the California School Employees Association, which represents school bus drivers among other school workers. ''Essentially what the governor is doing is he's eliminating funding for transportation. What that means is a lot of low income and rural kids will not have the ability to get to school. Many of these families have no other means for their children to get to school except for the school bus.'' Advocates estimated that cuts to schools amounts to $55 per student in California and could result in additional lay- offs. Patty Siegel, executive director of the California Child Care Resource & Referral Network, said thousands of work- ing parents will be hit by a new round of child care cuts to save the state $23 million. The state announced it would reduce 7,500 slots for child care assistance on top of 32,000 slots cut last summer. ''When you look at that against the 187,000 fully eligible children on the waiting list for child care, you have a perfect storm for unemployment, for return to welfare, and for a lack of opportunity for children to get the best start they need,'' Siegel said. California currently faces a $3 billion shortfall and is expected to face a $10 billion deficit for 2012-13, resulting in a $13 billion gap over the next 18 months. California's general fund, its main checkbook for paying most state expenses, has dropped from $103 billion at the start of the recession in 2007 to $86 billion this year, a decline of more than 16 percent. Lawmakers have been making bil- lions of dollars in cuts each year to cope with plunging tax revenue. After GOP lawmakers opposed Brown's proposal to place a question on taxes before voters, he has introduced his own tax initiative he hopes to bring before voters next November. Brown said he wants to temporarily increase taxes on the rich, starting with individuals making more than $250,000, and raise the statewide sales tax by half a cent, to 7.75 per- cent. The proposal would raise about $7 billion a year for five years. Republicans accused the governor of using the mid-year cuts to his advantage as he pushes his tax proposal. THE PASSING PARADE " In 1908, Red Bluff was a far less sophisticated town; otherwise its activities were somewhat similar to ours today. Automobiles were still a luxury; roads were terrible and horses the main method of transportation. The road to Redding was so bad that Elias Gardner, while driving his new car 15 miles per hour just south of Cottonwood, hit a chuck hole so deep that it flipped his car upside down and fatally injured. Driving your own car in those days was called 'travelling by private conveyance.' Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Dobrowski went to Willows to hunt and returned with 80 ducks and 200 geese. The State was talking about letting loose wild turkeys in Tehama County. Mr. Garner released 30 pheasants on his ranch and prophesied that they would increase. A raccoon, killed west of town, weighed 75 pounds. The 325,000 sheep in the county were the main source of livestock income. Antone Avilla, father of Percy and Bud, hauled yellow corn shipped from Missouri to his sheep west of town. A new state law requiring all sheep to be dipped was running into a lot of difficulties. The California Woolgrowers were organized. Our own Judge Ellison wrote the by-laws and T.H. Ramsey and L. L. McCoy were elected among the first officers. A new team of horses was requested by the fire department but turned down by the City Trustees as there was only $119.00 in the treasury and no new taxes in sight for a long time. Only 3 business firms that advertized back then are still in business today (1958). G.C. Wilkens Jewelry Store, Lyon & Garrett…and only W.C. Fickert is still operated by the same family. * * * * ** Back in the 1930's Depression, we rented 632 Main for our grocery store. Our rent was nearly $5,000 per year which was a lot of money in those days. Senator Jack Metzger, our landlord, did everything he could to throw business our way. He was a born optimist and never stopped coming up with new ideas. He came up with a "Deer Derby", the idea being that every deer hunter who came through town could buy a $1.00 ticket, and the man who brought in the largest buck could win $1,000.00, and we would weigh them on the scale that hung on the sidewalk in front of our grocery store. All went well until Fish and Game condemned the sale of tickets and only 500 were sold. Most of the deer came in between 10pm and 4 am and I had to get out of bed during the night after a hard day's work and weigh them…and of course the hunters thought their buck should have weighed more and that our scales were crooked. I had to listen to a lot of abuse. I was glad when that promotion came to an end." 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