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Schmidt:GeraldineJ. Smith, 93, of Red Bluff died Thursday, Oct. 29 at Red Bluff Health Care. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Friday, Oct. 30, 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 of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. DEATHNOTICES maybe, the second stron- gest El Niño on record, just behind the 1997/1998 El Niño." The last two El Niños brought very heavy rain- fall to this area but a strong El Niño doesn't nec- essarily bring enough rain- fall to break the drought, Elvington said. Discussed in the last three parts of the series were drought tolerant landscaping and defensi- ble spaces presented by Lemoine Waite of Shasta College and Mark Fripps of Cal Fire, Water Conser- vation in the home by Brin Greer, ambassador for En- ergy Upgrade CA and Jos- lyn Hudson of Pacific Gas and Electric. The Job Training Cen- ter participated in the Drought Busters effort by providing the event with interns who have been working on drought re- lated projects. Drought FROM PAGE 1 There will be door prizes and silent and live auctions. Tickets are $25 in ad- vance and $30 at the door. Awards to be pre- sented will include Busi- ness of the Year — Te- hama County Farm Bu- reau; Farmer of the Year — Red Bluff Kiwanis; Woman of the Year — Te- hama County Exchange Club; Senior Citizen of the Year — Soroptimist Inter- national of Red Bluff; Vol- unteer of the Year — Red Bluff Sunrise Rotary; Board Member of the Year — Central Tehama Ki- wanis; Young Farmer of the Year — Red Bluff Ro- tary; Teacher of the Year — Tehama County Educa- tion Foundation and Out- standing Public Service — Red Bluff Lions Club. Call Kari Dodd at the Tehama County Farm Bu- reau office for more infor- mation, 527-7882. Farm FROM PAGE 1 From there, the product is dumped into a cracker before going up a conveyor and across a grate that sorts the pieces into four sizes of small, medium large and half pieces. Machines pull out shells and foreign mat- ter such as the membrane of the walnut and if too much shell is left it is rejected and sent back. Next it goes through an- other machine to get things like sticks and other for- eign debris out before go- ing through two different levels of laser sorters where if the meat is too dark it ise sent into the rejection bin. It is then hand sorted with four people to a conveyor belt. Each belt has three areas to keep metal out of products. Lastly, it goes through a scale to be weighed be- fore being dropped into a box, checked by someone and then the box is taped along with a code assigned for the day and time it was packed as well as the lot number. The plant packages items from September through April or May with about eight million pounds of their own product package this year, she said. At the third stop on the tour, Sierra Pacific Indus- tries' window and door making facility, Plant Man- ager James Nevers and Mike Zenda, of quality con- trol, gave a tour of the win- dow making process. The plant puts out about 650 windows a day and all the windows are sold before they are ever made, Nevers said. The business' primary focus was lumber, but in 1990 it started making win- dows. The 40-acre facility in Red Bluff has about 370 crew members. In addition to making the windows, the company installs them and can even make a custom color or shape for a customer, Ze- nda said. "If you can think it, we can make it," Zenda said. All the metal comes in bulk length, but thanks to a special machine the op- erator programs the size needed and the machine cuts, routes and drills the metal, Zenda said. "Years ago, it was all hand cut and drilled," Ze- nda said. "With this we can program different sizes and do multiple units at a time, which saves us time." Sierra Pacific is in 13 western states and recently acquired two new plants in Wisconsin, which allows it to expand its territory, Ze- nda said. The company's product is shipped world- wide. On average, the plant makes about 500 window sashes a day. The last two stops, Lindauer River Ranch and Cumpton Trucking, were tied hand in hand, Dodd said. At the ranch, Vasey, who is also president of the ranch, talked about the prune crop, how the irri- gation works and then the drying process. Ryan Cumpton spoke about the trucking indus- try and how items get from point A to point B. To ur FR OM P AG E 1 JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Attendees on the Tehama County Farm Bureau Bus Tour watch catfish swim on Thursday at Mt. Lassen Trout Farm just south of Red Bluff. has with unwavering ded- ication, honorably served the city of Corning and its citizens as a police service dog." Oso was a dedicated partner to his handler, Sgt. Jeremiah Fears, since he came on with the depart- ment, Linnet said. "I would like to thank the city and (former) Chief Cardenas for sponsoring the K-9 program and al- lowing him to be part of my family," Fears said. Oso has assisted with the apprehension of numerous criminals, including sus- pects wanted for drug re- lated crimes, robbery, bur- glary, violent assaults and has assisted in numerous multi-agency police actions, according to the proclama- tion. "Oso has promoted pos- itive city and police de- partment public relations through visits and par- ticipation in various local community agencies and schools events," the procla- mation reads. The city commends the outstanding public service Oso has provided as well as the appreciation of the citizens of this community upon his retirement, Mayor Gary Strack said. K-9 FROM PAGE 1 HEATHER HOELSCHER - DAILY NEWS Mayor Gary Strack presents a proclamation honoring Corning Police K-9Oso, who is retiring Sunday. Oso is pictured with his handler, incoming Chief Jeremiah Fears and Chief Don Atkins. By Kristin J. Bender The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A Cali- fornia deputy was being investigated Thursday af- ter sending away a mur- der suspect who was trying to surrender — the latest black mark for the troubled jail in Santa Clara County that will be reviewed by a new commission over an in-custody death. Sheriff Laurie Smith said suspect Hugo Er- nesto Castro, 28, tried to turn himself in Monday at the jail by passing a note through a glass window to a civilian employee stating that he knew the location of a dead body in San Jose. The civilian employee, whose name has not been released, checked for a court-ordered surrender and arrest warrant and found none. "At no time did Mr. Cas- tro say he was responsi- ble for the dead body or had any involvement in a crime," Smith said in a statement. Rather than question Castro or arrest him, a deputy on duty at the time directed Castro to leave and turn himself in at the San Jose Police Depart- ment instead. "If the initial findings are true, then the custody deputy failed to meet the expectations of the depart- ment and we'll take appro- priate action to deal with the deputy," Smith said, noting the deputy has been reassigned. The name of the deputy was not released. Castro went to the po- lice department, turned over the written note and was arrested. Police say they later found the body of Allesan- dra Alaine Barlas, 27, on a bed in a downtown San Jose loft apartment, ex- actly where Castro said it would be. SANTA CLARA COUNTY Sh er iff : Mu rd er s us pe ct sent away while trying to s ur re nd er By Lisa Leff The Associated Press Schools can't prevent transgender students from using the restrooms that correspond with their gen- deridentitieswithoutviolat- ing federal law, the Obama administration says. The U.S. Department of Education and the Depart- ment of Justice made that argument in a friend-of-the- court brief submitted late Wednesday in support of a Virginia teenager who is su- ingforaccesstotheboys're- strooms at his high school. The government's filing says a Gloucester County School Board policy that requires 16-year-old junior Gavin Grimm to use either the girls' restrooms or a uni- sex bathroom constitutes unlawful bias under Title IX, the 1972 law that pro- hibits sex discrimination in education. The policy denies Grimm "a benefit that every other studentatthisschoolenjoys: access to restrooms that are consistent with his or her gender identity," lawyers for the two departments wrote. "Treating a student differ- ently from other students because his birth-assigned sex diverges from his gen- der identity constitutes dif- ferential treatment on the basis of sex under Title IX." Theadministration'sposi- tion in Grimm's case repre- sents its clearest statement to date on a modern civil rights issue that has roiled some communities as more children identify as trans- gender at younger ages. While not legally bind- ing, it signals to school dis- tricts that may be wrestling with how to accommodate transgender students while addressing privacy con- cerns raised by classmates and parents which side of the debate they should take if they want to avoid a fed- eral investigation. The brief "sends a crucial message to schools across the country — transgender youtharevaluablemembers of our community who are entitled to full protection of the law," Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said. "No one should be humiliated or marginal- ized by the adults respon- sible for helping them to achieve." VIRGINIA CASE Feds back transgender teenager in school restroom dispute By Christopher Weber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES As a cardi- ologist in Los Angeles dur- ing the 1960s, Dr. Walter S. Graf became alarmed by the number of heart attack sufferers who died while en route to hospitals. Inspired by an Irish phy- sician who sent hospital doctors and nurses out into Belfast to treat cardiac pa- tients, Graf in 1969 con- verted a white Chevy van into a "mobile critical care unit." He went on to outfit ambulances with defibril- lators and technicians who knew how to use them, be- coming one of a handful of doctors who created the modern paramedic emer- gency system. Graf died Oct. 18 while under home hospice care in Los Angeles, according to Dr. Baxter Larmon, a pro- fessor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at Uni- versityofCalifornia,LosAn- geles. He was 98. "He was a pioneer," said Larmon, who knew Graf for 40 years and delivered a eulogy at a memorial last week. "Today ambulances do trauma care, they do re- spiratory care, they provide all kinds of care. And it's all based on Graf's original model." A procession of ambu- lances and fire trucks were driven to Graf's memorial, which was attended by 100 firefighters, Larmon said Thursday. Graf was chief of staff for Daniel Freeman Hospi- tal when he founded his pi- oneering paramedic train- ing program. It was later expanded to include fire- fighters and emergency medical technicians, who Graf found performed just as well as nurses at treating cardiacpatients.In1999,the hospital merged with the UCLA Center for Prehospi- tal Care. "It's easy to take for granted the incredibly elab- orate, sophisticated EMS system that we have today, but just 50 years ago, it did not exist," Dr. Clayton Ka- zan,themedicaldirectorfor theLosAngelesCountyFire Department, said in a state- ment. "While ambulance transportation existed, vir- tually no medical care was provided until the patient arrived at the hospital." Graf's so-called "Heart Car" helped jump start "a movement that has been re- sponsible for saving innu- merable lives worldwide," Kazan said. In 2010, Graf and three other physicians were hon- ored by the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum as "pioneers in paramedicine." OBITUARY Doctor who helped launch modern paramedic system dies STEVE HELBER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE The administration's position in Grimm's case represents its clearest statement to date on a modern civil rights issue that has roiled some communities as more children identify as transgender at younger ages. PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. WILLOWDEANMASON August 4, 1932 ~ October 14, 2015 Willow Dean Mason died October 14, 2015at the age of 83, in Red Bluff, California. His primary resident was in Corning, California. Services will be held at Northern California Veteran's Cemetery, 11800 Gas Point Road, Igo, California; at 2:00pm in the Shelter Area on November 5, 2015. Willow was known to many as "Cotton", and as "Rocky" to his military friends. Willow was born in Colgate, Oklahoma on August 4, 1932, to Landon and Nora Mason. Willow married Ruth Marlene Husa-Humann in the sixties who had three chil- dren from her previous marriage. Survivors are those three children step son Carl Martan Humann – Sandee; step daughter Vicky Marlene Cox –Larry; and step daughter Dorothea Joyleeann Humann – Zacharias. Willow was skilled pipefitter and served in the Korean War in the Army National Guard; a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars; was a life member to the Escondido Moose Lodge 1874; member of the Moline Star Chapter #83 Order of the Eastern Star; and to the Masonic Olivet Lodge No. 205. Obituaries FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A