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Martinson:MarcellaMary Martinson, 93, of Red Bluff died Sunday, Aug. 16 at Brookdale in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Deathnoticesmustbe 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 newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be any length, may run multiple days and offer latitude of content, including photos. Deathnotice Overall in 2015, farmers have nearly 9 million fewer acre feet of surface water for irrigation, out of the 28 million acre feet that state water officials say Califor- nia agriculture uses in an average year. An acre foot is the amount an average California household uses in a year, and it is one of the standard units of mea- surement for water. To make up for that, farmers and ranchers are pumping an additional 6 million acre feet of wa- ter for irrigation out of the state's underground wa- ter aquifers this year, Tues- day's study said. The study adds to findings — from sources ranging from over- booked drillers of water wells to groundwater stud- ies by NASA scientists — that California, in drought, is pumping up its ground- water at an alarming rate. The study calls the rate of pumping of groundwa- ter in the drought unprec- edented. While California lawmakers in 2014 passed the state's first legislation to try to protect key aquifers from getting pumped dry of useable water, the state's 27- year timeline for bringing groundwater pumping un- der regulation is likely too long, the University of Cal- ifornia at Davis research- ers said. The drought will hit farm workers as well as farm owners in 2015, costing 10,100 seasonal farm jobs, the study said. Agriculture overall employs more than 400,000 workers in Califor- nia. The study noted one area of agriculture that is boom- ing despite the drought. The state's acreage of almonds and walnuts has grown by 200,000 since 2010, despite constraints on water, the study said. Economists say growing demand from con- sumers in China for nuts as snack food is driving the al- mond-orchard boom here. Agriculture consumes about 80 percent of all wa- ter from rivers, lakes and other sources that Califor- nians use, and it accounts for about 2 percent of the state's economy. Drought FROM PAGE 1 "These are just prelim- inary ideas developed in the investment plan of the green house gas auction," Hall-Stein said. "It could bring about a big decrease in the effects from wood smoke in Tehama County." There are about 4,000 residences in the county that use a wood stove as their primary source of heat, which is about 19.4 percent of the county, Hall- Stein said. Many of the stoves are older, outdated and uncertified devices that are inefficient. This program would allow fami- lies to replace them with ei- ther the most efficient, low- est polluting wood stoves or with natural gas or electric heating devices. "This program would have major benefits in terms of decreased climate pollutants, lower levels of toxic air pollutants and an overall increase in public health," Hall-Stein said. Resident Tom Moller spoke against the item, mostly because it was not public-driven, he said. Moller said his concern was that the fires burning in the state are doing way more harm than any of the tractors, trucks and wood stoves put out. "It's all tax payers' money," Moller said. "The forests burning are putting off green house gases more than 10 years of cars will. Eventually wood stoves will be restricted. Why don't we address the fires in green house gases?" Supervisor Bob Williams said that was something that the Rural County Rep- resentatives of California, of which he is a part, is dis- cussing in the form of for- est management and bio- mass projects. Supervisor Steve Cham- blin said he was in favor of the letter being sent, as it could mean tax money coming back into Tehama County. Signed by the governor in 2006, the multi-year plan is to reduce green- house gases to levels of 1990 by the year 2020. As a result of the plan, the Air Resources Board does a quarterly auction of state-owned allowances for greenhouse gases. Those proceeds are then invested into the green- house gas reduction fund and are available for ap- propriation, which lead to the first investment plan. The wood stove program is part of a second invest- ment plan. The final draft of the sec- ond investment plan is due before the legislature by January 2016. Information on the plan and how to sub- mit comments is available on http:www.arb.ca.gov/in- vestmentplan . Program FROM PAGE 1 "This program would have major benefits in terms of decreased climate pollutants, lower levels of toxic air pollutants and an overall increase in public health." — Air Pollution Control Officer Kristin Hall-Steinhere 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 T E C O N E & B E L D I N G CLIFFORD OTO — THE RECORD Paul Singh announces the filing of a lawsuit against the Stockton Police Department in the death of his wife Misty Holt-Singh. Holt-Singh was shot and killed by police a er being taken hostage during a bank robbery in July 2014. By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press SANFRANCISCO Police who shot and killed a bank rob- bery hostage in a hail of gunfire had been told to hold their fire before they shot indiscriminately, with no line of sight on the sus- pects or hostage, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the slain hostage's family. Stockton police officers used unreasonable force when they fired more than 600 times at the vehicle containing the suspects and hostage Misty Holt- Singh, the lawsuit against the police department and city claims. Holt-Singh, 41, was struck by 10 of the bullets officers fired in the July 2014 shootout. Police have said she was used as a hu- man shield by the sole sur- viving suspect. The suit by Holt-Singh's husband, Paul Singh, and their two kids, Paul Singh Jr. and Mia Singh, seeks unspecified damages. It ac- cuses officers of violating Holt-Singh's civil rights and committing battery. Stockton City Attorney John Luebberke said the city had not reviewed the lawsuit but doesn't com- ment on litigation outside court. The lawsuit comes a day after the release of a report commissioned by the Stock- ton Police Department that found the 600 shots police fired at the end of the bank robbery were excessive and unnecessary, with some of- ficers only firing their weap- ons because other officers were shooting. The report by the non- profit Police Foundation said a lack of planning was partly to blame for the un- necessary shooting and contributed to a "level of chaos that was difficult to manage and overcome." "You don't create this chaos, because ultimately bad things happen," Greg- ory Bentley, an attorney for the Singh family, said at a news conference announc- ing the lawsuit. He cited the Police Foundation re- port, saying it bolstered the family's case. "They could not overcome their failures at the expense of the life of Misty." Paul Singh made a brief statement, saying per- haps the foundation report would lead to a resolution. Police Chief Eric Jones has said the robbers posed a risk to officers and the community and had to be stopped. In his statement, Lueb- berke said the city knew when Jones commissioned the Police Foundation re- port that attorneys suing the city would likely portray it as bolstering their cases. But the city believed it had an obligation to study and learn from the events. Family of slain bank robbery hostage sues city STOCKTON By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO Teens who use e-cigarettes are more likely than others to later smoke conventional ciga- rettes and other tobacco products, a study at 10 Los Angeles high schools sug- gests. The study doesn't prove that electronic cigarettes are a "gateway drug" but some doctors say it bol- sters arguments that the devices should be strictly regulated as proposed by the Food and Drug Admin- istration. Whether teens had tried just one e-cigarette or were habitual users isn't known, nor is whether they became heavy smokers or just had a few puffs. That informa- tion would be needed to help determine whether nicotine from e-cigarettes predisposed users to seek out other sources. Despite those limita- tions, the study "is the strongest evidence to date that e-cigarettes might pose a health hazard by encouraging adolescents to start smoking conven- tional tobacco products," said Dr. Nancy Rigotti, director of a tobacco re- search and treatment cen- ter at Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital. Her com- mentary and the study were both published in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Asso- ciation. E-cigarettes haven't been extensively studied and there's no scientific consensus on any poten- tial benefits or harms, in- cluding whether they lead kids to become regular smokers. The new, government- funded study involved about 2,500 14-year-olds who had never used con- ventional tobacco prod- ucts including cigarettes. Students were first sur- veyed in fall 2013. The Los Angeles study population was diverse but whether the same results would be found nationwide is uncer- tain. At the start, about 9 per- cent — 222 kids — said they had used e-cigarettes at least once, similar to rates seen in a recent national survey. Almost one-third of them tried cigarettes, ci- gars or water pipes within the following six months, versus just 8 percent of the kids who'd never tried e- cigarettes. The gap per- sisted when students were surveyed again, a year af- ter the study began. Hookahs and cigars were more popular than regular cigarettes in both groups. The researchers con- sidered traits that might make teens more likely to use tobacco, including im- pulsiveness, delinquent be- havior and parents' smok- ing habits. Their analysis showed those traits played a role but didn't fully ex- plain the link between e- cigarettes and later to- bacco use. University of South- ern California researcher Adam Leventhal, the study's lead author, noted that e-cigarettes were ini- tially introduced as a po- tentially safer alternative to tobacco for smokers who were trying to cut down, but they have evolved into a recreational product for some users. Available for nearly a de- cade, e-cigarettes are bat- tery-powered devices that turn nicotine-contain- ing liquid into vapor that is inhaled. Though nico- tine can be addictive, e- cigarettes lack the chem- icals and tars of burning tobacco. National data show e- cigarettes have become more popular among teens than regular cigarettes. Leventhal said his study "does little to dispel con- cerns that recreational e- cigarette use might be as- sociated with moving on to these very harmful tobacco products." But he said more research is needed to deter- mine if e-cigarettes are re- ally the culprit. University of Rochester tobacco researcher Deb- orah Ossip said because teens' brains are still de- veloping, they're more sen- sitive to the effects of nic- otine, and that using just a few e-cigarettes could make them vulnerable to using nicotine in other forms. She had no role in the research. The FDA in 2014 pro- posed rules that would ban the sale of electronic ciga- rettes to minors and would add the devices to the list of tobacco products it reg- ulates. STUDY Te en s wh o us e e-cigs more likely to smoke later JacquolineLewisBarrett February 9, 1931 ~ July 29, 2015 Jackie is at peace and in Heaven as of Wednesday, July 29th, 2015. We will celebrate her life at a memorial serv- ice on August 22nd at 4:00 p.m. at SL2 Church in Mil- waukie, Oregon. She was born in Eugene, Oregon on February 9, 1931 to Jack and Juanita Lewis. The family lived on site at the Lewis Lumber Company that her Granddad and Father owned and operated in Dexter, be- fore moving into Eugene in 1943. After graduation from high school, Jackie attended the University of Oregon, pledging Pi Beta Phi sorority and majoring in business. After two years of college, she moved to Eureka, CA where her family was living. It was there in 1952 that she met Bob Barrett and they were married 6 weeks later. Bob was also in the lumber business and they remained in Eureka for 18 years, raised 3 children and made dear and lifetime friends. Bob and Jackie both would tell you those were the best years of their lives. Bob's business took the family back to Eugene in 1968 and then to Red Bluff, CA in 1975. Bob predeceased Jackie in 1995. They both loved playing golf, entertaining and socializing with family and friends and spent many hours volunteering in the community in various ways and organizations. Attend- ing the Episcopal Church nearly every Sunday was a fam- ily activity throughout the years. Jackie taught Sunday school early on and was a key planner in the women's social activities of the church in later years. She served St. Elizabeth Hospital's auxiliary for over 20 years and was president for 3 of those years. She participated in the many community activities of Red Bluff Rotary with her husband. Jackie was known as Grandma to children who were not her own as well as having strong influences as a Mother figure to many. She loved to laugh and her friend- ly and welcoming spirit continued to bring life to those around her in the memory care facility where Alzheimer's took her these last few years. She and her husband both loved and lived life fully with no one being a stranger to either of them for very long. Their children knew the door to The Barrett house was always open to anyone. Their legacy of giving lives on in the lives of their 3 chil- dren and their grandchildren as well. Jackie is survived by her two daughters Pam Jacob (Kip), Amy Hawes (Rich), her son Robert Barrett, her brother Richard Lewis (Gayle) 5 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, 5 nieces and one nephew. Private burial will take place at Willam- ette National Cemetery in Portland with her husband Bob. Memorial contributions can be made to Alzheimer's Re- search in care of Gable Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services in Portland, Oregon. Obituaries ThePassingParadeisbroughttoyoubyMinchPropertyManagement, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527-5514 THE PASSING PARADE (FrommyISaycolumnofSeptember1966) William F. Buckley's syndicated column has suddenly appeared on this page and the quality of the editorials has risen sharply. Has editor McGiffin returned from exile? … Uncle Stan Minch retires today.As our General Manager for many years, he has carried quite a load. He started here at the plant in 1937…and should now welcome a change of pace. However, he has only one pace and that is full speed ahead. He has saved his money and a full head of hair. Who could ask for anything more? … The ice cream social at the Jarvis Estate proved a whopping success. The moon, the clouds, the Tehama County Band and Jack Hendricks ice cream attracted a large crowd for the Kelly-Griggs HouseAffair. Just goes to show you can raise money for any cause if you just use a little imagination. … Many veterans (I was one in WW 2.3) that have Cal Vet loans on their homes, received an interesting little slip in the mail last week. It came in an official State of California franked envelope. Therein was announced that State Treasurer Bert Betts has just sold another series of veteran's bonds "that will enable the Department to continue its lending activity." So what, you may ask? Read on. "Although the 'tight money situation' has caused a high interest rate on this sale, it will not cause an increase on your loan because of the favorable rates obtained by Mr. Betts on previous veteran bond sales". Signed, Department of VeteransAffairs. Shouldn't this fascinating self-serving information have been better included in Mr. Betts campaign speeches …or in those gaudy posters he has nailed to the oak trees along the highway? … We lined up for our first company photo in 23 years, and managed to get only 67 employees together for the occasion…less than half. Would we have gotten a better turn out if we had scheduled the photo shoot during working hours? Will the sun rise tomorrow? … I face Dr. Martin across the net. I am resplendent in regulation white tennis shirt, shorts, white socks and Tretorn tennis shoes. He is decked out in his Las Vegas gambling shorts, scrub shirt, green army socks and scruffy multiple purpose gardening and tennis shoes. I lose the match. How embarrassing! … Here is a quote from Minch Market NEWS dated 1 July, 1930: "On June 1, we entered into the meat business by buying the interest of George Strong in the meat department situated in our Main Street Grocery Market, and in his slaughter house 2 mile west of town. We believe by handling the very best of meat we can build a successful business. It will be run as a separate department and will be built on quality. When we tell you the meat you are buying is steer, it will be steer." And that's how we got into the meat business. Robert Minch WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A