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Obituaries LILLIAN A. REMUND Lillian A Remund, of Red Bluff, CA. died Saturday Feb- ruary 25, 2012 at home surrounded by her family, at the age of 82. She was born in Marysville, CA., September 26, 1929 to Henry and May Lassen. After graduating from Los Molinos High School, she met CROPS Continued from page 1A Tehama County has been lucky in the lack of serious accidents, unlike Shasta County which had at least one fatality due to a weather related crash Wednesday morning. "We've mostly had minor fender benders and CRASH Continued from page 1A and married Lorren H. Remund, September 26, 1947. They had four children together. She worked at Tenneco, the pulp mill for 30 years. After retiring she enjoyed trav- eling and spending time with her family and friends. She was a very giving person and had a heart of gold. She is proceeded in death by her parents, husband Lorren, February 26, 1997, daughter Cheryl, February 28, 1949, and grandson Nathan Ohm Blair, July 9, 1986. She is survived by sisters Rhea (John) Gillett, Litchfield, CA., Bernice Shadwick, Grants Pass, OR., daughters Lor- ene (Bob) Blair, Red Bluff, Wendy (Don) Gobin, Crescent City, CA., son Brian (Cheryl) Remund, North Carolina, adopted daughter Mary (Jerry) Enos, Red Bluff, 7 Grand- children, 16 great grandchildren and numberous neices and nephews. A private family service is going to be held at Oak Hill Cemetary on Friday, March 9, 2012 at 11:00 am. A celebration of life will be announced at a later date. 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. Jacqueline Sue Smith Jacqueline Sue Smith of Independence, Ore. died Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. She was 60. Farnstrom Mortu- ary, Independence, Ore. is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 1, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Randy Vansickle Randy Vansickle of Los Molinos died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, in Chico. He was 48. Affordable Mortu- ary is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 1, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Alice Yeager Alice Yeager of Anniston Ala. died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at Golden Living in Oxford, Ala. She was 83. Chapel Hill Funeral Home in Anniston, Ala. will han- dle the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 1, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. BILL Continued from page 1A bill, saying it would guar- antee adequate water deliveries. Nunes, the bill's sponsor, said envi- ronmental regulations meant to protect fish took water away from farms and harmed the Central Valley's agriculture. ''This bill provides the ultimate protections,'' Nunes said, adding Cali- fornia would not need to build a new peripheral canal if the bill became law. ''People in our nation's breadbasket are standing in food lines, and they're getting carrots that have been imported from China. Their sacrifices have done nothing to improve the environment. Fish populations have declined.'' Most Democrats spent the day arguing against the bill — it passed with the vote of just 10 Democrats — saying it's disastrous for the delta estuary and would disrupt California's complex network of water-sharing agreements. ''It's a water grab,'' said Rep. John Garamen- di, D-Walnut Grove. ''This legislation... takes 800,000 acre feet away from the environment of Eureka yurt yields more than 3,880 pot plants EUREKA (AP) — State and local drug agents say they found 3,881 marijuana plants and 110 one-pound bags of dried pot inside a Eureka yurt and seized $420,000 in cash from the structure and a nearby home. Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, said state agents obtained a search warrant for the two properties a week ago and served them Wednesday with help from the Humboldt County Sheriff's department. The yurt's owners, 45-year-old John Eaton Cromwell and 42-year-old Elisabeth Nergaard Olsen, were cited for cultivation of marijuana, possession for sale of marijuana and maintaining a drug house, but weren't arrested because they are the parents of four young children, according to the sheriff's department. Shasta County man arrested in deadly ax rampage MOUNTAIN GATE (AP) — Authorities say a Shasta County man who apparently became upset when he thought someone was stealing his medication went on a violent ram- page, killing two innocent people. Thirty-five-year-old Thomas McDonald is being without bail after Tuesday's attacks. Sheriff's Det. Sgt. Steve Grashoff says a fight broke out at a home in the town of Mountain Gate, as McDonald's roommate tried to calm him down. McDonald allegedly stabbed the roommate and another man in the face with a fork. Grashoff says McDonald then left the home and used an ax to attack two men nearby. One was 84-year-old Ralph Torberg, a neighbor who was working in his yard, and the other was 54-year-old Karl Bradshaw, who was sitting in his truck nearby. from all over the state," Galvan said. Ratledge, CHP Officer Jason Dotzenrod, 41, and Luis Cordova were transported to Mercy Medical Center in Redding, where Ratledge died from his injuries, according to a CHP release. Dotzenrod and Cordova were treated and released for minor CHIEF Continued from page 1A brough said. Atkins would not be as familiar with the budget, which is why the city will keep Cardenas around for a four-month training peri- od, Kimbrough said. "Sgt. Atkins has the support of the supervisors and the entire depart- ment," Cardenas said. "I see this as a smooth transi- tion." While Atkins had con- sidered, prior to the pro- motion, retiring in four years, but said he would be glad to stay on longer. COUNTY Continued from page 1A opposed to the new system, Garton said. "I'm the first to talk about going paperless, but with this program you take away personal involvement," he said. Garton encouraged the other super- visors to follow his lead when he deter- mined to go paperless at supervisors meetings at the beginning of the year. the delta and delivers it to south-of-delta water con- tractors. This theft will have a profound and nega- tive effect on the water for protection of species, for smelt and salmon.'' California water offi- cials and Gov. Jerry Brown also opposed the bill, as did officials from more than a dozen other states, from Oregon to Nevada to Texas. They said the bill would over- turn states' water rights and determine who receives water within a state, a precedent that could threaten water agreements across the West. (AP) — Late winter storms forced school and road closures from Seattle to upstate New York, but the snow was welcomed in California as it suffers through one of the driest winters in history. The blast from the Gulf of Alaska was expected to bring up to 5 feet of snow at the highest elevations of the northern Sierra Neva- da, delighting skiers and the 28 million Californians who depend on snowmelt to meet their water needs. ''It's a pretty typical storm, it's just not typical this year,'' said Johnnie Powell, a forecaster with the National Weather Ser- vice in Sacramento. Officials issued avalanche warnings Wednesday in the high Sierra as the storm that began in earnest just after midnight was supposed to keep hammering the Lake Tahoe area well into Thursday. High winds, intense snowfall and a weak snow- pack combined to create dangerous conditions, the Sierra Avalanche Center spinouts with cars going into ditches," said Califor- nia Highway Patrol Offi- cer Ken Reineman. At least two incidents of power lines being knocked down were reported. Rainfall is expected over the next few days with wind shifting to north and northeast gusts of between 5 and 9 mph today. injuries. The crash that claimed Ratledge's life took place at 6:14 a.m. on southbound I-5, north of Gas Point Road in Cottonwood, where Ratledge and Dotzenrod were at the scene of two earlier collisions. Between 5 and 6 a.m., two inde- pendent single-vehicle crashes took place on southbound I-5 where road conditions were wet and icy. As Dotzenrod, Ratledge and Cor- dova were standing on the west The sergeant position Atkins vacates will remain open, allowing a savings even with the $18,000 cost, at 80 hours per month for $4,500 per month, for Cardenas' con- tract as a consultant. Cost for Cardenas as part-time chief is $52,800 and the sergeant's position is $128,700 for total cost of $181,533 or an annual savings of $106,000. With Atkins receiving an 11.6 percent raise by moving to chief, his salary would be $141,800, which combined with the $18,000 through June 30 for Cardenas, would be $127,700 annual savings to the city. Thursday, March 1, 2012 – Daily News 5A Friday night. A partly sunny sky is expected today, but there is a 70 percent chance of rain, with new rainfall amounts expected to be less than 0.1 of an inch. North and northwest winds of about 9 mph are expected to continue through tonight, growing to about 10 mph on Friday with the weather shifting from sunny Friday to part- ly cloudy with lows of 38 Saturday and Sunday are expected to be sunny with highs of 69 on Sun- day. Sunday evening looks to have partly cloudy weather. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. shoulder, Jered Shumaker, 31, of Redding lost control of a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup, which went off the road and onto the west shoul- der between a parked CHP patrol vehicle and a Cottonwood Fire Dis- trict vehicle, directly impacting all three. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. The open sergeant posi- tion means Corning will now have just three sergeants, but that has been the normal number off and on for the last 20 years, Kimbrough said. "One of the problems is we have grown in size, but not in the number of offi- cers," Kimbrough said. Filling the sergeant position is third on the list of five positions listed in the mid-year budget review that the city needs to fill to be back at full- capacity. The top two are Public Works positions. "Our main objective (in all the changes in depart- ment heads) has been to save money and move up He has all of his agendas and packets sent to him electronically. Fillmer and Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin defended the proposal. The contract will be paid for through employee negotiations funds that weren't used, Goodwin said. Fillmer was adamant that it would save the county money overall. It could reduce time for recruitment up to 40 percent, she said. The program also generates automatic rejection let- ters or requests for face-to-face inter- views, saving staff time of having to generate those letters to mail. Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Bar- bara Boxer vowed to fight the bill in the Senate. ''Put simply, this bill is a recipe for disaster. It is slanted and dangerously short-sighted,'' Sen. Fein- stein said in a statement. ''It promises water deliv- eries to certain areas while neglecting to identify where that water will come from or how its diversion will affect other regions. It destroys any chance to achieve a bal- anced solution to Bay Delta restoration and undermines state and local efforts to assure long-term water deliveries.'' advisory said. It urged skiers to stay out of avalanche terrain and off some steep slopes. In Shasta County, a truck slid off a hail-cov- ered highway early Wednesday, killing a fire- fighter and injuring an officer responding to pre- vious accidents. Nowhere was the del- uge more fast and furious than the mountains of Northern California, where falling snow and drifts blown by gusting winds cut visibility to a quarter-mile or less on Interstate 80, the main highway from San Fran- cisco to Nevada. The California Depart- ment of Transportation required chains for 4- wheel drive vehicles with- out snow tires and imposed a 30 mph speed limit through the state's main northern mountain pass. The National Weather Service said the snow level dropped to 3,000 feet in the northern Sierra Neva- da. An inch of snow was falling each hour, and fore- our local people and get employees off furloughs," Kimbrough said. "If the budget we proposed works we should be done by the end of the year." The Corning City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Supervisor Bob Williams asked if staff were certain that savings would exceed the recurring cost of more than $10,000 per year and if the new pro- gram would make job vacancies avail- able to more people. Answering yes to both questions, Fillmer said the program will also make recruiting time faster. The board voted 4 to 1, with Garton opposed. The new application process should be operating within four to six months, Fillmer said. FOCUS Continued from page 1A beginning. Los Molinos Elementary School kindergarten teacher Claudia Trout, who also teaches at KinderCamps during the summer, spoke about the transformations she has seen in many children in just the first few weeks of the program. Trout supported the commission's choice to keep the school readiness programs as a signature focus. "We can never let KinderCamp go away," she said. "I believe that." Helping children start strong in school changes their whole lives and educational careers, Trout said. "We must not lose sight of what's important," she said. To view the First 5 Tehama Strategic Plan, go online to http://first5tehama.com/Resources.html or look for First 5 Tehama on Facebook. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. Calif walloped as snow falls across northern US casters expected at least eight more inches into Thursday. Sunny skies were expected through the weekend. Strong winds and heavy rain made for difficult dri- ving conditions on San Francisco Bay area roads. At least two bridges — the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge and the San Fran- cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — were under a high-wind advisory. Caltrans said travel wasn't recommend- ed for big-rigs, motorhomes and drivers pulling trailers. The Northern Califor- nia storm could ease fears among the 29 agencies James W. Tysinger, Jr. M.D. Eye Physician & Surgeon Fellow American Academy of Ophthalmology We accept Medical, Medicare & most Insurances Office Hours: Tues-Wed-Thurs 8am-4:30pm Mon & Fri 1pm-4:30pm For Emergencies, After Hours, Week-ends, Call 530-567-5001 345 Hickory St. Red Bluff Tel: (530) 529-4733 Fax: (530) 529-1114 that depend on snowmelt delivered through the State Water Project. Some farm- ers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley already have been told to expect just half of the water they requested for the spring and summer growing seasons.