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Obituaries GARY FULTZ August 17, 1936 ~ January 17, 2012 Gary Fultz was born in Walhalla, North Dakota and later grew up in Minnesota. He joined the Army and was sta- tioned in Germany before making his way to California and settling in Corning in 1970. He worked in road con- struction then at Lindsey Olive Company, and then later retired from Premdor Mill where he worked for 27 years. Even though he was retired he stayed active repairing anything that broke down from cars to washing machines, along with cutting and delivering firewood to people in the community. He was an avid sports fan and was at al- most every event his grandchildren participated in loudly cheering them on. He had a huge heart and loved help- ing others. He will be greatly missed not only by his fami- ly, but also by those that knew him well. He is survived by his wife Helen Fultz, his two children and their fami- lies, Cris and Lisa Fultz and Sherry (Fultz) and Chris Fissori. Grandchildren Lanie and Nathan Fultz, Nichole Fissori, John and Danielle (Fissori) Geer, Adam and Breanne Fissori, and Drew Fissori. Great Grandchildren Danica and Parker Hellmer and Emmalin Geer. Siblings Shirley Saue of Minnesota, Francis (Bud) Fultz of Durham, and Jerri Alvis of Georgia, along with numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be Saturday, January 21st at 11:00 am at First Baptist Church. MICHAEL KEVIN PRINZ CA, passed away January 11, 2012 in Chico, CA. Preced- ed in death by parents Barbara and Norman "Bud" Prinz. He leaves behind his loving and devoted wife, Cathy Wysocki. He is also survived by his son, Jason Prinz of Sacramento, CA. Mike was the oldest of seven kids and had all the adventures and stories of growing up with so many siblings. He is survived by brothers Steve (Deb- bie), John, Greg, Phil, and Paul, and his sister, Patty. He will be dearly missed by his mother-in-law Doreen Wysocki, brothers-in-law Jim Wysocki and daughter Mikah; Steve Wysocki and sons Ryan and Cameron; Bob (Jen) Wysocki and sons Max and Jack; and sister-in-law Julie (Brian) Charter and their son and daughter, Beau and Lauren. Mike is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins and many, many friends, including his life-long friend, Marty Marshall. Mike attended local schools and was a 1975 graduate of Red Bluff High. Until Mike suffered a severe stroke in 2003, he was an Michael Kevin Prinz born May 26, 1957 in Sacramento, WAR Continued from page 1A granted for the Northern Sacramento Valley region, which includes Tehama, Butte, Sutter, Colusa, Glenn and Shasta coun- ties. The 18 members of the governing board oversee- ing the plan, who meet every three months, were appointed by the boards of supervisors from each of the six counties. They are advised by a 17-member technical advisory board that meets monthly. Tehama County Super- visor Bob Williams, Corn- ing Public Works Director John Brewer and Tehama County Resource Conser- vation District farmer Ryan Sale are the board- appointed members repre- senting the county on the plan's governing board. Sale and Brewer were among those who tried to speak at the public out- reach meeting, which was one of three meetings held Wednesday and Thursday in Oroville, Red Bluff and Colusa. It was the first outreach in phase one of the plan timeline, which points to a SCHOOL avid bowler and enjoyed riding his motorcycle and work- ing outdoors. He especially loved helping his mother-in- law with management of the family orchards. He enjoyed taking pictures of family, friends, and anything else that caught his eye. He amassed a collection of thimbles that his friends and relatives contributed to from all over the world. He was a 12-year employee of North Valley Services and truly valued his "crew" he worked with and helped train at the I-5 southbound rest stop north of Red Bluff. He al- so was a basketball coach for several years for the Tehama County Special Olympics. Graveside services were held January 16, 2012 at St. Mary's Cemetery in Red Bluff, CA. Contributions may be made in Mike's memory to Tehama County Special Olympics, P.O. Box 8591, Red Bluff, CA 96080. 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. Mary Dunlap Mary Dunlap of Red Bluff died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 at Lassen House. She was 75. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Wilma D. Leveski Wilma D. Leveski died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, at Brentwood Skilled Nursing in Red Bluff. She was 92. Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Timothy Norbury Former Corning resident Timothy Norbury died Thurs- day, Jan. 12, 2012, in Louisville, Ky. He was 41. Bidwell Chapel in Chico is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Evelyn Richardson Evelyn Richardson died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at Red Bluff Health Care Center. She was 67. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling that arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Ann G. Ruhland Ann G. Ruhland died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, at her res- idence in Red Bluff. She was 69. Neptune Society is han- dling that arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Charles Grignon Thompson Charles Grignon Thompson died Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, at his residence in Gerber. He was 75. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. SACRAMENTO, (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Thursday failed to over- ride Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of a bill that would have allowed local govern- ments to take over the oper- ations of state parks forced to close this summer because of budget cuts. Had the attempt suc- ceeded, it would have been the first override of a veto in California since Brown was first governor in the 1970s. As many as 70 of the state's 278 parks, beaches and historic sites had been scheduled to close July 1 to save $33 million over two years. During the past few months, however, a variety of arrangements have been worked out that will allow nine of those to remain open, said Roy Stearns, a spokesman for the Califor- nia Department of Parks and Recreation. The bill by Sen. Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo, would have allowed cities or counties to operate state parks that are threatened with closure. It passed last year with near- unanimous support, with just a single ''no'' vote in the Assembly. Brown, a Democrat, Continued from page 1A guage learners and special education populations, she said. "When we say all children; all children should be included," Miller said. District employee Willy Rodriguez said the timing is bad with the state budget in flux. He was concerned requirements for parent participation would exclude students whose parents are migrant workers. Phillip Mackintosh does not have children in the district but has one child who would like to attend the charter school if it is approved. He asked the board to allow parents to have a choice. Mackintosh disagreed with those who said the parent involvement would limit migrant families from attending. LIMO Continued from page 1A library stay open and have a bookmobile, Ainsworth said. The vehicle has been moved to the landfill, where it will be reborn into a teaching tool. The landfill agency has a grant already in place that gives it the funds to do the project, Miller said. It requires that the project have an emphasis on com- munity recycling educa- TEENS Continued from page 1A as a way of teaching how to cre- atively communicate. A few years ago, he picked up the guitar after not playing since he was a teen and began writing songs. It wasn't until he visited his son's second grade class, where he played a few songs and had discussions about them, that he first started thinking about making the program a regular thing, he said. Since the beginning of the school year, Kordzikowski has been going into three schools in Red Bluff. During class, Kordzikowski per- forms songs and uses them as tools to talk to the teens. He visits the younger students at Bidwell, where vetoed SB356 but signed a separate bill by Democrats that allows nonprofits to help with some park opera- tions. He said in his veto mes- sage that Blakeslee's bill tion. Although the landfill offers educational tours of the landfill and recycling plant, many schools don't have enough funding to bus students out to the site, she said. Since 2008, only about 10 student groups have made the trip, and many had parent volun- teers drive them. The new bus will pro- vide a way to bring the experience to the schools instead. Miller envisions a pos- sible pull-out exhibit final plan in September 2013. Friday, January 20, 2012 – Daily News 9A have guns." said. Midway through the outreach meeting, about a dozen guests left to anoth- er room of the community center to discuss the plan. Leading the discussion were Tehama County Pub- lic Works Director Gary Antone and Sale. Antone is a member of the plan's technical advi- sory committee while Sale is one of the plan's Tehama County governing board members. The project is not to create water regulations or monitor private wells, Sale said. The plan is a cohe- sive study discussing goals and impacts of water needs and concerns in the area. "In a perfect world, the plan gives us sovereignty over our water," Sale said. "We're going to get as close as we can to it." Ultimately, the plan is intended to be a resource for governmental bodies and organizations in pur- suing grants and other funding. The plan will give information on what water issues exist and what developments may be needed or avoided, Antone "It is a representative sample of what we see as important, for our protec- tion," Antone said. As for the Wednesday meeting, although Antone did expect people to show up with concerns, he also expected them to be respectful, he said. Back in the larger group meeting, many were still riled up. The bottom line was that people didn't want another government entity spending taxpayer dollars on a plan that would fur- ther siphon water from the North State to Southern California. "Let's have the war. Let them come up here and try to take our water," said one man sitting at a table near the front of the room. Earlier, when landown- er Walt Mansell of Red Bluff stood to speak as a member of the plan's tech- nical advisory committee, he was interrupted. The plan is a way to have a voice, he said. Tehama County doesn't have money to legally fight people transferring water south. A man from the audi- ence shouted, "But we "Usually if a parent wants to be there for their child, they'll be there," Mackintosh said. "If you care about your kids you'll make time for them." Superintendent Catherine Reimer pointed at several issues with the petition, including a vague curricu- lum, having no administrative employee, class size and financial sustainability. "A lot of things are included that would make it a great school but there's no financial backing," she said. Reimer had concerns the require- ment to interview parents before their children are admitted would be too restrictive. "At a public school we can't screen that way," Reimer said. "We serve them all." Deveraux said the interview is simply to make sure parents share the same values as the staff. Mansell stepped into the hallway after speaking. To stand here and "raise hell" when the goal is try- ing to get people's input puts the county back where it was before, with- out a cohesive plan and with nothing that will hold up in court, he said. The public was invited to fill out a comment card at the meeting or go online to www.nsvwaterplan.org to complete an input sur- vey. "The more response we get, the better job we're going to do," Sale said. The next scheduled governing board meeting regarding the management plan will be on March 5 in Willows. Meeting information and more is available on the website. Questions may be directed to the Tehama County outreach representative, Gary Antone, by calling 385- 1462 or sending an email to gantone@tcpw.ca.gov. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. The board has 30 days to make a final decision to approve or deny the charter. The district has been looking at several options of how to reconfig- ure the district, with a charter school being one. Prior to the meeting, staff from the Tehama County Office of Education presented some ideas. The board is planning a retreat to discuss the ideas presented by the county staff and the charter petition, Board President Helen Pitkin said. The board will make a final deci- sion at its next meeting. If the peti- tion is denied the petitioners can appeal to the County Office of Edu- cation, then at the state level. Deveraux has said she would appeal if necessary. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527- 2153, Ext. 110 or tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @TangLor. where kids could crawl inside a tunnel to see what makes up a landfill. Other ideas include exhibits to show examples of what can be created from recycled plastic bot- tles, such as sweatshirts, and to help children understand problems with littering. "If they can visually see the effects of litter, it helps them become better stew- ards," Miller said. Learning about recy- cling and litter prevention at a younger age makes it he uses music to teach listening skills. "With the younger kids, they lis- ten and draw pictures of what they see," Kordzikowski said. "It exercis- es their brain activity and creativity along with their listening skills." An art contest is scheduled for 6:30 tonight on Red Bluff radio sta- tion 90.7 FM. At the end of the pro- gram, Kordzikowski will play a song and members of the public of all ages will be invited to draw pic- tures relating to what they hear. Pictures can be dropped off at Montana Morrison Gallery, 625 Walnut St. in Red Bluff, and other locations to be revealed at the end of the 30-minute program. "It's a chance to pull the kids away from the computer or Xbox and the adults from the TV to pro- was not needed because the state parks department already had signed con- tracts with cities and coun- ties that were willing to operate parks within their jurisdictions. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service You DO have a choice in the Red Bluff area. Caring & Compassionate Service Full traditional burial service or cremation 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 seem like less of a hassle when they are older, she said. Since the project was announced, Miller has gotten calls from people interested in seeing the bus, she said. She hopes to have the project put together as soon as possi- ble, but no time frame has been established yet. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. mote listening to radio programs," Kordzikowski said. Pictures will be divided by age group and rated based on artistic ability and representation of details from the song. Age groups are kindergarten through second, third through fifth, sixth through eighth, high school and adults. The winner of each group will receive an enlargement of their pic- ture, which will be part of a portfo- lio to be on display, youngest to old- est, at Montana Morrison Art Gallery. Teachers interested in having Kordzikowski visit their classroom can call him at 527-5508. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Legislature stops GOP override of state parks bill Stearns said the city of Colusa, for instance, has agreed to operate one near- by state recreation area, while the National Park Service will take over oper- ation of three parks. A donor gave the state $300,000 to continue oper- ating a fifth park among the nine that will remain open because of similar arrange- ments with donors or other governments.