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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. Merton Anderson Merton Anderson died Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 89. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CHAMBER Continued from page 1A "This person has been so valuable to the town of Los Molinos and beyond, has provided a wealth of support for the community and been involved with the chamber, Kiwanis, Salvation Army, Food for the Hungry, Los Molinos Schools and Boosters Clubs," Wallan said. The honoree was newly retired Shelley Patchen, who many in the community have come to know from Nu-Way Market. Wallan took time to recognize Morales, who is an invaluable part of the chamber's team, she said. "She gave it her all and then some," Wallan said. "Thankfully she has agreed to stay with us in a differ- ent capacity. We appreciate all that she has given of herself to this community." A teary-eyed Morales, who said she had told herself she was not going to cry, accepted her certificates from Sen. Doug LaMalfa and Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, who presented a certificate to each honoree on behalf of Rep. Wally Herger. "Thank you," Morales said. "Los Molinos is my pas- sion. It's been a great five years. I started with the chamber as Terri's right hand and now I'm happy to be Donna's right hand. It's all about supporting the com- munity and staying local." Newly sworn-in Chamber Vice President Jeannie Gallagher was honored as owner of Business of the Year Antelope Creek Farm, while Tom Jones of Food for the Hungry was honored as Volunteer of the Year. "Your good work for the needy is exemplary," LaMalfa said. LaMalfa ended his presentation by offering to donate 100 pounds of rice to the Food for the Hungry program. Nielsen added that Jones' work is a gift and some- thing that is honoring to the Lord. "Thank you to all of you," Jones said. "Without you, it wouldn't be possible. This award really belongs to the community." Jones gave a presentation on the Food For the Hun- gry program, which started as an outreach ministry of Los Molinos Community United Methodist Church. From there, with community support, it has grown to cover southeastern Tehama County, where there are voids in services, Jones said. In 2003, the program added its sister church Cone Community Methodist Church and in 2004 the group began to purchase all its food locally and began work- ing with Patchen and Nu-Way Market. At the end of the presentation, Wallan announced the chamber had a check for Jones and would be adding proceeds from a raffle basket to Food for the Hungry. A second check presentation for $1,020 was made by Gallagher to Barbara Whitten on behalf of the Los Molinos Friends of the Library. The money was from a quilt made by Gallagher and donated to the group to help with efforts to keep the Los Molinos library open. "These funds will be used in Los Molinos," Whitten said. "In addition to what was raised by the Los Moli- nos Women's Club at the pie auction, others have come forward with generous donations. At the last Tehama County Friends of the Library meeting there was $3,500 (for the Los Molinos Library) and this will put us over $4,500 so we're well on the way. I'm really proud of what we have done." The evening included Los Molinos FFA Chapter President Shirlyn Robley and Vice President Bridget Cosio, who spoke about the high school's program. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. APNewsBreak: Judges rule for wild horse advocate RENO, Nev. (AP) — A photographer and leading wild horse protection advocate who says her First Amendment rights were violated when she was denied access to mustang roundups in Nevada has scored a victory in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel in San Francisco overturned a lower court ruling Tuesday and sent the case back to a federal judge in Reno to determine if the government restrictions on access to roundups are constitutional. Appellate Judge Milan Smith Jr. said in an 18-page opin- ion the court must balance the ''vital public interest in pre- serving the media's ability to monitor government activities against the government's need to impose restrictions if nec- essary for safety or other legitimate reasons.'' ''When the government announces it is excluding the press for reasons such as administrative convenience, preservation of evidence, or protection of reporters' safety, its real motive may be to prevent the gathering of informa- tion about government abuses or incompetence,'' he wrote. Laura Leigh, a photojournalist for Horseback Magazine, also is a writer, artist and coordinator for The Cloud Foun- dation based in Colorado. She filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the summer of 2010 seeking to halt the roundup of about 500 mustangs in east- ern Nevada's Lincoln County. Among other things, she said the BLM's closure of 27,000 acres of public lands where the roundup was taking place amounted to censorship in violation of the First Amendment, and prevented her from observing the gather in a watchdog role. Gordon Cowan, her Reno lawyer, said Tuesday's ruling was a major victory for free speech. He said the appellate judges demonstrated ''true heroism in standing guard for the First Amendment freedoms.'' ''They give press members like Ms. Laura Leigh hope that someone is looking out for them,'' he said. The BLM argued that Leigh had been granted no less access than any other member of the public and that the restrictions were necessary for the safety of the horses and the observers. LIST Continued from page 1A Wayne Brown said of the three city managers he has worked with, Nichols is the one who has had the most stones tossed at him, yet he continues to do a great job. Councilman Bob Carrel said Nichols is really a nice person and has become a good friend. "He's not like what a lot of people in the public per- ceive him as," Carrel said. "He's actually a very, very nice and giving man." Nichols said the bad public image is something that comes with being city manager. "The city manager is the messenger of bad news," he said. "Most of the time when I get my name in the paper there are problems, problems that I have to solve." Being the city manager is a lot of responsibility. Not only is he responsible for the day-to-day opera- tion of the city but he has ethical decisions to make and has to deliver the good news and the bad news. In all of this, one lesson MOBILE Continued from page 1A Meanwhile, Hickerson was test- ing out the backup radio operations inside the command center unit. Since 1991, the amateur radio operator have been used for emer- gency services under the control of NEXT Continued from page 1A area, spoke to a gathering of business owners, gov- ernment officials and area residents through a confer- ence call presentation inside the Department of Education library. By the end of the meet- ing, participants were beaming and excited. Red Bluff business owner Ali Abbassi, who said he came into the meeting with a tone of dis- appointment and feeling out of touch with the effort, was pleased after hearing Brooks' presenta- tion. said. "I am excited again," he The branding commit- tee was given a peek into Brooks' "final direction" after his staff analyzed some 500 responses dur- ing the community out- reach and survey portion of the project. Narrowing down a con- cept and brand logo for Manton, Red Bluff and Tehama County, with a brief mention of Corning, Brooks revealed what his GERBER Continued from page 1A A plan of action will be discussed at the Feb. 16 meeting. One option is filling in the holes along the 1.6-mile levee with grout during the week of Feb. 27, weather permit- ting, Murphy said. The Feb. 16 meeting will include a decision on a contractor for the update to the former fire hall, next to the Community Service District office, which will be available for communi- ty events and meetings. The remodel, to make the restroom ADA compli- BOND Continued from page 1A positive outlook was June 2007, when it had an A- plus rating. It now has a rating of A-minus. Cali- fornia's outlook improved from negative to stable last July after the last bud- get was passed. Revenues, however, remain a concern. Last week, the state con- troller's office released its latest monthly report he's learn is "mistakes will be made, but you just have to own up to them. Not doing so could be chaos." He's made plenty of mistakes, he said. The situ- ation with Finance Director Margaret Van Warmerdam that eventually led to her termination should have been dealt with sooner, and the city should have moved more dramatically and rapidly in reacting to the recession. Councilman Rob Schmid said Nichols is very well informed in the way the government works and has been willing to lis- ten to the council's direc- tions. "I think Lassen County is getting a good manager," Schmid said. Nichols will leave Red Bluff to become the chief administrative officer in Lassen County. It's a position he is familiar with and is look- ing forward to returning. Nichols worked as the chief administrative officer in Butte County in the '80s, and later held similar roles in Marin County. He was head of a private firm, Government Solutions, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – Daily News 7A issues. that held joint powers authorities in Marin before he came to Red Bluff. Brown said five years ago when the council was choosing a city manager, Nichols was not his first choice. He thought Nichols was too focused on region- al issues, but Nichols being regionally minded has been to Red Bluff's advantage as the city continues to grow. Nichols said in going back to county administra- tion he hopes to work more closely with the Legisla- ture in returning some of the policy making deci- sions back to local govern- ment. The state has been mak- ing a lot of changes, from prisoner realignment to social services, that will trickle down to counties and cities, he said. "It's a period of signifi- cant change, and I want to be a part of that," Nichols said. He'll continue to work with Tehama County Chief Administrator Bill Good- win, as Tehama and Lassen counties already share some resources and with their regional proximity they often deal with similar Homeland Security, Hickerson said. The radios work when fiber optics fail and other lines of communica- tion don't work. The training exercise is part of several trainings throughout the year that lead up to a full-scale exercise, a mock disaster, at the end of the year, Daugherty said. Daugherty is one of the main coordinators of the sheriff's office team had decided was the most feasible, or income generating, ideas for the area. The new brand, which centers on Lassen Vol- canic National Park, Man- ton wineries and outdoor activities, will be revealed to the public when Brooks comes back to the area March 6. In the meantime, the local committee will be selecting "brand leader- ship champions" to mar- ket, distribute and promote the effort from now on. The committee Friday was asked to write down names of people who each person thought should be considered to be a brand champion. Recalling a time when all the big decisions for Tehama County events happened through people meeting in town and writ- ing plans on napkins over a meal, Red Bluff's John Growney said the brand- ing effort reminded him of how everybody used to work together. "Everything is in line to make something perfect happen," Growney said. Red Bluff city officials, Councilman Bob Carrel, ant, will be paid for out of the $18,000 received from selling the Gerber Commu- nity Hall and money previ- ously donated by the for- mer Gerber Fire Depart- ment Women's Auxiliary. Only one bid has been received so far and that is from Gerber contractor Dave Helmericks, Murphy said. The district meets the third Thursday of each month at its office, 331 San Benito Ave. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. showing tax collections came in $528 million below the January projec- tions in the governor's proposed budget. ''Our rating is still near the bottom when com- pared to other states,'' Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, said in a statement. ''While this is movement in the right direction, Cal- ifornians should delay cel- ebration until we're closer to the top than the bot- tom.'' Nichols will have about 2 1/2 weeks off before he starts his new job, and he'll be spending that time with his grandchildren as well as searching for a place to live. He plans to keep his home in Paradise but will live in Susanville during the week. He and wife Sharon have already start- ed looking for a place. At 65, Nichols said he is not ready to retire from local government anytime soon. "I like having the ability to be engaged in important things," he said. But when he does think about retirement he thinks he would like to serve on a city council or be on the other side of things. "My other fantasy is I could move to some obscure town where nobody knows who I am, stand up in the middle of a city council meeting and demand the council to point out the indemnity clause in that contract," he said. "It would have to be some regular item on the consent agenda, and the council will think, who is this guy?" of emergency services and puts together the training exercises. He and his staff will be working on another training beginning Feb. 21 that will consider logistics, plan- ning, finances and administration in a disaster scenario. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. Mayor Forrest Flynn and Planning Director Scot Timboe were happy with the presentation, as well. "I'm 100 percent behind it as a business man," Carrel said. Businesses have to sup- port it because that is where the money for the project is primarily going to come from, he said. Timboe wanted to start incorporating the new logos into city plans for pole banners. The city will support the branding effort howev- er it can, Timboe said. Corning was represent- ed at the meeting by Chamber of Commerce President Marti Syed and was only briefly men- tioned during Brooks' pre- sentation. The city of Corning has developed its own accept- able branding project, Brooks said. Representing the Tehama County Arts Council and the county Mentoring Program, Melissa Mendonca was supportive of Brooks' con- cepts. "The concept feels very honest about who we are," she said. There is room within the concept to reach for more, Mendonca said. The meeting marked the end of Phase One, or the brand development phase, of the project. Phase Two will be carried out through the Brand Leadership Committee, the group of brand cham- pions, who will be putting the brand to use. For updated information and a look at the latest pre- sentation from Brooks, visit destinationtehama.word- press.com. THE PASSING PARADE They don't write obituaries as they did in the old days. I became aware of this while perusing a book by L. Brooks. She is now L. Rasmussen, but in the old days, as a student in RBUHS she was Louise and the daughter of English and History teacher Mary Heron Brooks. Louise and I once acted in a student body play, and her older brother, John, operated Brooks' Drug Store at 728 Main, phone 321. The book in question is titled "Ancestors of Mary Heron 1890-1981" as compiled by the aforementioned brother and sister team plus Louise's husband John. The book is not everyone's cup of tea because it is composed of marriages and begatings stretching back 11 generations! Therefore I suspect this little tome will not make the bestseller list. However, therein can be found a fine obituary of Mary's husband, whose first name was Phipps, a name not easily forgotten and seldom bestowed. Take note of the lyrical flow of this notice of his passing: "Due to an illness against which he had fought bravely and uncomplainingly for more than a year, Phipps I. Brooks, 45, prominent Red Bluff druggist, passed away last night at his home, 1110 Madison Street, after having been stricken seriously a few days earlier. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. R.S. Eastman will officiate. Masonic services will be conducted at the grave in Oak Hill cemetery. The remains will be taken to the church at 12 o'clock. Brooks was stricken last Sunday and yesterday the family physician, Dr. James L. Faulkner, warned that the end was near. At the bedside when the end came were the wife and mother, two children, John and Louise, and Mr. and Mrs. George L. Campbell, intimate friends of the family. Few men in Red Bluff can boast of a wider circle of friends than were held by Phipps Brooks. He was a supporter of all worthwhile causes for the advancement of his home city and Northern California. He took great pride in his business and one of his greatest pleasures was in meeting the public. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Red Bluff Rotary Club." Additional excerpt from the book: "The ten years of her marriage to Phipps were happy years, indeed. It was the decade of the 20's and the outlook seemed rosy for most people. This changed in 1930 when, at the age of 45, Phipps Brooks died. Mary was left with two children, debts, and a business to run in the depths of the great Depression. She returned to teaching and for the next nearly 25 years taught in addition to managing the drug store. She was an advisor for the school newspaper in the 1930's and 40's when the Bluffer received national recognition for excellence in high school journalism. The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514 Robert Minch, 1929- (Bluf years.) f er staf fer during its golden