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Friday, March 16, 2012 – Daily News 9A Obituaries GARY LEE ANDERSON Red Bluff, CA to return to his Heavenly Father on Tues- day, March 13, 2012. He was born in Red Bluff on Janu- ary 5, 1939. He had resided in Red Bluff since 1970. Gary leaves behind his wife Paula and daughter, Becky, and sons Spencer (Norriko) of Tokyo, Japan, their three sons, Boone, Hal, Joe, and his son Stuart (Jenni) and their two children Rylie and Owen of Battle Ground, WA. and siblings Ervin, Robert, and Lori. Gary was preceded in death by his parents, Earl and Elsie, his brother Dick, and his daughter Stephanie. Gary taught elementary school for thirty-seven years, thirty-three of the years were in Red Bluff. He was honored with the Best Teacher of the Year in Tehama County in 1999. He has influenced and touched many lives of family members, friends, and stu- dents. He will be greatly missed and loved for eternity. He also served on the Red Bluff City Council for four years. Gary was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and served as a Bishop, High Councilor, faithful Home Teacher, Father, and Husband. Funeral Service will be held Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 545 Berrendos Ave, Red Bluff, CA. A viewing and visitation will be held preceding the serv- ice from 10:00- 11:00 a.m. When such a life touches ours, we are never the same again. EYE Continued from page 1A community is going to change and we want what will make it the most live- able." The study looks at attractors, what will make someone want to live in a specific place, discourage- ment, such as being near an airport or flood zone, and masks, such as a steep slope that makes a piece of land a difficult place to build, Hansen said. Deputy Director of the Tehama County Trans- portation Commission Barbara O'Keeffe said she wanted to make sure it was understood was that the county wants to pre- serve its agricultural land. A meeting is planned STAR Continued from page 1A question" of what he wanted to do in his life. For four years following high school, he worked as a firefighter and took classes. "The panic from the counseling appointment changed my ways," Hendricks said. "I sat in the front and was the one who asked all the questions." Hendricks encouraged the students to start sitting in front of the class, start listening and start dreaming. He also encouraged them to look at four items in their own "invisible bag." "Find your achievement — that's the knowledge you've built," Hendricks said. "Find your gifts — what's special about you —- and put them to good use. The third thing is honor and it's the most important thing in your bag. The fourth is humility. Never take yourself too seriously." Students also should fill their bag with a sense of humor because that is what will get them through the bad days, he said. The 2012 Tehama County ACSA All Stars alphabet- ically by school include: Antelope School, Lindsay Harrison; Berrendos Middle School, Grant Cottier; Bidwell Elementary School, Brittany Lawley; Centen- nial High School, Vincent Caputo; Corning High School, Mayra Diera; Red Bluff Union High School District Educational Outreach Academy, Andrew Free- man; Gerber School, Kobe Kehoe; Jackson Heights Elementary School, Johanna Wiltse; Kirkwood Ele- mentary School, Daisy Hytonen Alston; Lassen View School, Clayton Croman; Lincoln Street Independent School, Corinne Longchamps; Los Molinos Elemen- tary School, Gillian Coelho; Los Molinos High School, Trevor Morton; Maywood Middle School, Alexander Davila; Metteer Elementary School, Tanner Tweedt; Olive View Elementary School, Lesly Orozco; Rancho Tehama Elementary School, Veronica Zavala; Red Bluff High School, Devin Gall; Reeds Creek School, Brittany Bottell; Richfield Elementary School, Whit- ney Armstrong; Salisbury High School; Forest Leon; Vista Middle School, Maggie Huang; West Street School, Nathan Fletcher; Woodson Elementary School, Shannon Jones. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. for sometime next week, with a date yet to be deter- mined, for Lake Califor- nia. Outreach meetings will be held in Red Bluff and any smaller, unincor- porated area of Tehama County that wishes to host one. There will be a final outreach meeting for the county overall, to be held in Red Bluff, toward the end of the outreach period. For more information or to schedule a presenta- tion, call Hansen or Har- rasser at 385-1462, ext. 3044 or send an e-mail to sharrasser@tcpw.ca.gov. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Gary Lee Anderson passed peacefully from his home in POT Continued from page 1A shouldn't get to walk at the eighth grade gradua- tion." Green was upset that the boy was suspended despite openly admitting to distrib- uting a drug and ques- tioned why the boy was not expelled instead, when a girl at the same school was expelled two weeks prior for possession of less than an ounce, he said. "The ed code has no distinction between pos- session and distribution," Reimer said. According to the dis- trict's education code, a student found in posses- sion of less than an ounce of marijuana, if a first offense, is suspended and expulsion would most likely happen if it were a second offense. Reimer declined to comment on a specific student discipline as it is confidential infor- mation, she said. "The kid brought an illegal drug to school," Green said. "Isn't that ille- gal?" Board Member Helen Pitkin questioned Green's reason for coming before the board. "The policy is what it is and that's what we went by," Pitkin said. "We can't go through and search their things. We can only do what we can by the ed code. I don't think you'd be standing before the board if it wasn't a student that's a board member's CITY Continued from page 1A The report is maintained by HdL Companies, a consultant hired by the city. Sales activity increased in electron- ics and sporting goods, the report states. Restaurants rose 5.1 percent. FAIR Continued from page 1A unteered to participate in the new committee. "We need to save the fair," Garton said. Garton suggested the fairground needs to be considered an events cen- ter, not just as an annual fair. Supervisor Gregg Avil- child. All of a sudden it's an issue because of this." While the police were not called in to investigate, there was an information report taken by Corning Police and there was an investigation into the inci- dent started immediately by the school's adminis- trators, Reimer said. Reimer asked Tony Cardenas, who retired as Corning Police Chief effective Feb. 29, to speak on the issue from a law enforcement standpoint. "Our relationship with the school, which hasn't changed, encourages the schools to address issues within the internal system when possible," Cardenas said. In a case like this, espe- cially where there was no evidence of the possession of marijuana, the only thing the police could do would be to take state- ments from the students, as the school did, Carde- nas said. From there, the only difference would be the submission of the report to probation. Green questioned why they could not move for- ward with an admission of guilt. Cardenas said it is difficult to use an admis- sion in court without evi- dence to support it. Trisha Williams, a par- ent of two daughters, said she understood the policy of a first offense, but what she didn't understand was why the police weren't involved. She said she was upset over the behavior of the mother of the boy, which she called unprofessional. "She called twice and assumed that I had called the news, but I didn't," Williams said. "They called me." Williams also said she wanted the boy's mother, whom she had never met, to know face to face that she did not put up the posts the mother thought she did on a local televi- sion station's website. "She left a voice mail in which she assumed I post- ed something on the Chan- nel 12 website and told me not to post or write facts that are wrong, ending the voice mail by calling me a bitch," Williams said. "I'm appalled at how she han- dled this and that the police were not called to protect the kids. It's sad to have to go through this, but chil- dren learn from mistakes and she is not a child." The mother admitted to her that the brownies came from her 27-year-old daughter, Williams said. Had it been her child who had brought the brownies, or anyone else's, Child Protective Services would have been on her door step a month ago when the incident happened, Williams said. While the brownie situ- ation is over with, Williams is more con- cerned that the mother, who is supposed to be an upstanding citizen that helps the school become what it is, handled the sit- uation so unprofessional- ly, she said. All of Tehama County showed an 11.2 percent increase in the same time period, the report states. The overall picture is that things are positive in the economy, but not entirely promising. "Although 2011-12 is shaping up to be a period of strong sales tax recovery, most analysts believe that the pace of growth will slow in 2012- la told the board he was glad they were moving forward on the issue. "I can't even fathom what it would be like if we lose all those events out there," he said. The fair board will face some difficult decisions in the near future. "Time is of the essence," Goodwin said. In the meantime, the fair- ground will "limp along" until decisions are made. SAN DIEGO (AP) — Home sales rose sharply in Cal- ifornia last month as investors snapped up the lowest- priced properties, often paying cash, a research firm reported Thursday. Prices continued to fall. There were 29,630 new and existing homes and con- dominiums sold in the state during February, up 8.5 per- cent from the same period last year, DataQuick reported. It was the highest February tally in five years, boosted by an extra day of sales because of leap year. The median price in February was $239,000, down 2 percent from a year earlier. It is the 17th straight month that home prices registered a year-over-year decline. ''Distressed sales'' continued to account for more than half of transactions for existing homes, DataQuick said. Properties that were foreclosed upon in the previous year made up more than one of every three existing-home sales. Short sales — in which the price was less than what the seller owed on the mortgage — accounted for more than one of every five. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the number of homes sold for less than $500,000 jumped 14.9 percent from last year, while sales of homes costing more grew only 1.8 percent. The median sales price in the nine-county region was $325,500, down 3.6 percent from a year earlier. Buyers who paid all cash — meaning no purchase loans were found in public records — accounted for 32 percent of Bay Area sales in February, the biggest portion since San Diego-based DataQuick began keeping track in 1988. Cash buyers paid a median price of $247,000. Figures for Southern California, released Wednesday, mirrored the trend. Sales of homes less than $300,000 soared 9.5 percent from last year, accounting for the entire increase in the six-county region. Sales of homes between $300,000 and $800,000 slipped 0.8 percent, while transactions for more than $800,000 tumbled 12.6 percent. Jason Hernandez, 32, paid $268,800 for a 1,600- square-foot home in San Diego's University Heights Independently owned 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 Telephone: (530) 824-3792 Board Member Marty Mathisen responded to the situation as a whole. "My only comment is that the most disturbing issue in my nearly 30 years (with schools) is that information on student discipline that is confiden- tial information was put out into the public sphere in such an irresponsible manner," Mathisen said. Student discipline files are not accessible even to board members unless an incident deals with an expulsion or another appropriate situation, and the mother is entitled to the same reasonable right of privacy that other par- ents in the district have, Mathisen said. Pitkin said, although the incident happened a month ago, she did not receive one call about it except for from the mother. "It is unfortunate that it happened," Pitkin said. "We should be concerned about marijuana, alcohol or other illegal things being brought, but I don't think it is fair to attack someone for their child's action." While there has been no increase in the number of instances over the last year, Pitkin suggested that perhaps the board ought to address the issue in its pol- icy. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. 13 with the only disagreement being over the degree of slowdown," the report states. Copies of the Sales Tax Update are available through City Hall, 555 Washington St., Red Bluff. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. Recent commercial branding efforts could be tied into promoting the fair as well, he said. Calling the fairground the heart of the communi- ty, Supervisor George Russell expressed that the board is "wholeheartedly in support of the fair." "The message to the community is we'll do whatever we can to make it a stable operation," Rus- sell said. Along with approving the creation of the com- mittee, board members asked for regular updates on the fairground budget status and what the com- mittee does about the issue. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. State home sales jump in February area. He said competition from other buyers grew signif- icantly since he paid $130,000 for a San Diego condo- minium in 2010. This time, he lost bids on several other homes. Hernandez plans to rent his condominium and move into his new home with his girlfriend. ''My new home has almost doubled in size and it's just where I'll be for the next five or 10 years,'' he said. Roston Thomas, who paid $280,000 in cash for a home in Los Angeles' Mid-City area, is also looking to pad his income. He will rent the Los Angeles home that he purchased in 2006 and hopes to add another rental property within a year. ''The timing is definitely right for income properties,'' said Thomas, 40. The state had 5.3 months' worth of unsold homes in February, down from 7.5 months a year earlier, according to the California Association of Realtors. Over 50 years of serving Tehama County