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4B – Daily News – Thursday, January 14, 2010 LEGAL NOTICE Notice Re: Seizure of Property and Initiation of Forfeiture Proceedings, Health and Safety Code Sections 11470 et. seq. and 11488.4. To: All persons claiming any right, ti- tle, or legal interest in the following seized property (appraised values ap- pear in parentheses): NINE THOU- SAND FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY- ONE dollars ($9,591.00); 60 Sun Sys- tem Cool Sun XL Reflectors (Est. value $9,480.00); 60 Heat shields (Est. value $60.00 each with total $3,600.00); 21 Lumatek Electronic Ballasts model LK6240D (Est. value $466.00 with total $9,786.00); 16 Sunlight Supply Harvest Pro Elite 1000 with HPS (Est. value at $203.00 ea. with total $3,248.00); 4 Galaxy 100 Watt Ballasts (Est. value at $390.00 ea. with total $1,560.00); 17 Wall Mounted Fans (Est. value $35.00 ea. with total $595.00); 2 Vortex Power Fans VTX1200 blowers (Est. value at $325.00 ea. with total $650.00); 1 Can- fan RSH Blower (Est. value $279.00); 3 Sunlight Supply 8" Blowers (Est. value at $279.00 ea. with total $837.00); 2 Fil- ets 60 inch (Est. value $290.00 ea. with total $580.00); 1 Filter 30 inch (Est. val- ue $180.00); 1 Filter 18 inch (Est. value $47.00); 1 General Shelters Port-A- Cool (Est. value $3,995.00); 2 Ladders 8 foot (Est. value $100.00 ea. with total $200.00); 1 RL ProFlo Backpack Spray- er (Est. value $120.00); 1 Sunlight Sup- ply Sunblaze 48 (Est. value $260.00); 1 Sunlight Supply Sunblaze 44 (Est. val- ue $160.00); 2 Sunlight Supply Sun- blaze 24 (Est. value $122.00 ea. with total $244.00); 1 Rigid Pro1 4 gal. Shop Vac. (Est. value $100.00); 1 Master Flow Power Attic Ventilator (Est. value $100.00); 1 MGM Transformer Compa- ny 30KVA (Est. value $1,000.00); 2 Air Conditioning Systems (Est. value $6,000.00 ea. with total $12,000.00); Misc. power tools, hand tools and tool boxes (Est. value $1,000.00); Total esti- mated value for all is $60,162.00 valued in terms of United States Currency, seized from or about the person or property of Joseph Froome and Daniel Ludwig. Notice is hereby given that the above described property was seized on Octo- ber 21, 2009 at 14440 Paynes Creek Road and 13705 Baker Road of Red Bluff, CA by T.I.D.E. for alleged viola- tions of California Health and Safety Code section(s) of 11359. On October 21, 2009, judicial forfei- ture proceedings were commenced by the Tehama County District Attorney in Action #AS09-422. Please use this case number on all documents and cor- respondence. You have thirty (30) days from the date of the first publication of this notice to file a verified claim, unless you have received actual notice. The claim must state the nature an extent of any inter- est you hold in the property, must be verified, and must be filed with the Su- perior Court Clerk, 633 Washington St., Red Bluff, CA 96080, or the property will be forfeited to the State. An en- dorsed copy of the claim must be served on the District Attorney, 444 Oak St., #L, Red Bluff, CA 96080 within thirty (30) days of the filing of your claim. Claim forms can be obtained from the Asset Forfeiture Clerk, District Attorney's Office. Dated: January 11, 2010 Greg Cohen, District Attorney By: MATTHEW D. ROGERS, Deputy District Attorney Publish: January 14, 21 & 28, 2010 LEGAL NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CORN- ING HEALTHCARE DISTRICT, of the County of Tehama, State of California, will receive up to and no later than 3:00 p.m., Monday February 22 at 6 pm sealed bids for the award and contract for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation and services required for the replacement of carpets, tile and some countertops at 155 Solano. Bids will be received at 145 Solano St., Corning, CA. 96021, and shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the regularly scheduled Board meeting on February 22, 2010 at 6 pm. All bidders are required to attend a pre- bid meeting to be held at 3 pm. Thurs- day February 4th, at the office of the Corning Healthcare District, 145 Solano Street, Corning, CA. 96021. All bonds for this project must be issued by an Admitted Surety, an insurance or- ganization authorized by the Insurance Commissioner to transact business of Insurance in the State of California dur- ing this business year, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the max- imum amount of the Bid. The check or bid bond shall be given as guarantee that the bidder shall execute the con- tract if it be awarded to him in conformi- ty with the Contract Documents and shall provide the surety bond as speci- fied therein within five (5) days after no- tification of the award of the contract to bidder. It shall be mandatory upon the Contrac- tor to whom a contract is awarded, and upon all subcontractors under him, to pay not less than the general prevailing rates of per diem wages to all workmen in the execution of the contract. Pur- suant to the provisions of the California State Labor Code, and Local Laws thereto applicable, the said Board of Di- rectors has ascertained the prevailing rate of wages in the locality where this work is to be performed, for each craft and/or type of workman or mechanic needed to perform the work of this con- tract. General Prevailing Wage Rates shall be those rates pertaining to Teha- ma County as published by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to Cali- fornia Labor Code, Part 7, Chapter 1, Article 2, Sections 1770, 1773, and 1773.1. Copies of the Prevailing Wage Sched- ules may be obtained from the Division of Labor Statistics and Research, P.O. Box 603, San Francisco, CA. 94101, (415) 972-8628. The bidder awarded this contract may elect to receive one hundred percent (100%) of payments due under the con- tract from time to time without retention of any portion of the payment by the public agency, by depositing securities of equivalent value with the public agency in accordance with the provi- sions of Section 4590 of the Govern- ment Code. The Corning Healthcare District re- serves the right to reject any or all bids or waive any defect or irregularity in bidding. Call 824-5451 for more information. Publish: January 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 28, February 1, 4 & 8, 2010 LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS TCDSS Proposal Number: 10- TCDSS04 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of Tehama, Department of So- cial Services, announces its intention to contract for the provision of the devel- opment and operation of a Family Visi- tation Center. The Family Visitation Center will be utilized by parents refer- red by Tehama County Department of Social Services, Child Welfare Serv- ices, (CWS) who need supervised visi- tation privileges with their children. The Center needs to be in a convenient location in Red Bluff. At least three visi- tation rooms, two reception areas (one for biological parents and on for foster parents), a kitchen area, bathroom, and a conference room are needed and ap- propriate staff to manage it. The rooms will be spacious enough to accommo- date families of various sizes. The rooms will be furnished to meet the needs of children of different ages, in- cluding, infants, toddlers, school age and teenage children. Visits will be scheduled and monitored in accord- ance with guidelines established by the court. Staff will work closely with CWS staff to ensure that all privileges and protections are allowed for each family. One to two days each week the Center will have extended visitation hours in the evening, until 7 p.m. The contract will be for a three-year term, starting Ju- ly 1, 2010. Qualified parties will be asked to partici- pate in a Request for Proposal (RFP) process. If only one party is qualified, negotiations with that party will be made to determine the ability to perform the service and cost, and a formal RFP will not be completed. Private and public agencies or individu- als interested in providing the Family Visitation Center services must submit a letter stating such interest to Abbi Henderson, Tehama County Depart- ment of Social Services, PO Box 1515, Red Bluff, CA 96080, or by hand deliv- ery at 310 S. Main St., Red Bluff, CA. The letter must contain a brief descrip- tion of the party's experience in and/or qualifications for providing the Family Visitation Center services. Letters must be received by 5:00 P.M. on Friday, January 29, 2010, at the address listed above. Postmarks will not be accepted as meeting the required submission date. Letters and statements received after that deadline will not be consid- ered. Request for Proposal packets will be mailed to all agencies and individuals who are determined (based on the con- tents of their letter) to be qualified to provide the service. Additional informa- tion concerning the service to be pro- vided can be obtained by contacting Abbi Henderson at the address listed above, or by phone at (530) 528-4020. Publish; January 14, 18 & 22, 2010 Haitians pile bodies along roads with thousands feared dead PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have per- ished but there was no firm count. Death was everywhere in Port-au-Prince. Bodies of tiny children were piled next to schools. Corpses of women lay on the street with stunned expressions frozen on their faces as flies began to gather. Bodies of men were covered with plastic tarps or cotton sheets. President Rene Preval said he believes thou- sands were killed in Tuesday afternoon's mag- nitude-7.0 quake, and the scope of the destruc- tion prompted other officials to give even high- er estimates. Leading Sen. Youri Latortue told The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead, although he acknowledged that nobody really knows. ''Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospi- tals have collapsed,'' Preval told the Miami Herald. ''There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.'' Even the main prison in the capital fell down, ''and there are reports of escaped inmates,'' U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva. Obama promises all-out effort after Haiti quake WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials laid out a massive military response to the Haiti earthquake Wednesday, saying that ships, heli- copters, transport planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit were either on the way or likely to begin moving soon. A State Department official said the U.S. was checking into reports of at least three pos- sible deaths of Americans in Haiti. Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley added that only 100 of the estimated 45,000 Americans living in Haiti had been able to communicate with U.S. offi- cials and verify they were safe and sound. Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of U.S. Southern Command, said one of the U.S. Navy's large amphibious ships was likely to head to Haiti with a Marine expeditionary unit aboard. Fras- er said other U.S. military forces were on alert, including a brigade, which includes about 3,500 troops. Fraser said during a news conference with other U.S. officials that the Pentagon was ''seri- ously looking at'' sending thousands of Marines to assist with disaster relief efforts and security in Haiti. President Barack Obama promised to mount an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort to help the people of Haiti overcome a ''cruel and incomprehensible'' tragedy.'' Obama, top Democrats hold lengthy talks WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushed by Presi- dent Barack Obama, senior Democratic law- makers plunged into marathon talks at the White House on Wednesday in a hurry-up bid for agreement on overdue health care legisla- tion. ''I don't want to put any parameters on time but we're making progress,'' said House Major- ity Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., during a brief trip to the Capitol at midafternoon. Other offi- cials said no deal appeared imminent. The House and Senate have passed different versions of the measure, which Obama wants to expand health coverage to millions who lack it, end insurance company practices such as deny- ing coverage on the basis of pre-existing med- ical conditions and slow the rate of growth of medical costs overall. Hoyer and others said the day's talks ranged widely over numerous areas of disagreement between the House and Senate. A key point was Obama's demand for a tax on high-cost insur- ance plans, a proposal designed to slow the inexorable rise in health care costs. House Democrats oppose the idea. So, too, does orga- nized labor, and some union leaders were also at the White House during the day, although it was not clear whether they met with lawmak- ers. The unusually long meeting of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Major- ity Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other senior lawmakers — it began at midmorning and was still going at sunset — underscored the urgency they and Obama felt about completing legisla- tion on which they have staked so much. Big bankers apologize for risky behavior WASHINGTON (AP) — Challenged by a skeptical special commission, top Wall Street bankers apologized Wednesday for risky behavior that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But they still declared it seemed appropriate at the time. The bankers — whose companies collective- ly received more than $100 billion in taxpayer assistance to weather the crisis — offered no regrets for executive pay that is now likely to increase as a result of their survival. They did say they are correcting some compensation practices that could lead to excessive risk-tak- ing. The tension at the first hearing of the Finan- cial Crisis Inquiry Commission was evident from the outset. ''People are angry,'' commission Chairman Phil Angelides said. Reports of ''record profits and bonuses in the wake of receiving trillions of dollars in government assistance while so many families are struggling to stay afloat has only heightened the sense of confusion,'' he said. Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, took the brunt of the ques- tions, especially on his firm's practice of selling mortgage-backed securities and then betting against them. Taliban attacks cause Afghan deaths to soar to highest level of war KABUL (AP) — Taliban suicide bombings and other attacks caused Afghan civilian deaths to soar last year to the highest annual level of the war, a U.N. report found Wednesday, while deaths attributed to allied troops dropped near- ly 30 percent. Many Afghans now blame the violence on the Taliban rather than foreign forces. A decline in NATO killings of civilians has become a key U.S. goal for winning over the Afghan people. Public outrage over rising death tolls prompted the top commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal last year to tighten the rules on the use of airstrikes and other weaponry if civilians are at risk.type:bold,italic; The United Nations said 2,412 civilians were killed in 2009 — a 14 percent increase over the 2,118 who died in 2008. Nearly 70 percent of civilian deaths last year, or 1,630, were caused by the insurgents, the report found. NATO and allied Afghan forces were responsible for 25 percent of the deaths, or 596, the U.N. said, down from 39 percent, or 828, in 2008. The remainder could not be attributed to either side: civilians caught in the crossfire or killed by unexploded ordnance, according to the report. Democrats could delay filling Kennedy seat to ensure health bill passes BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' top elec- tion official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul even if the Republican who has vowed to kill it wins Democrat Edward M. Kennedy's former seat. Secretary of State William F. Galvin, citing state law, says city and town clerks must wait at least 10 days for absentee ballots to arrive before they certify the results of the Jan. 19 election. They then have five more days to file the returns with his office. Galvin bypassed the provision in 2007 so his fellow Democrats could gain a House vote they needed to override a veto of then-Republican President George W. Bush, but the secretary says U.S. Senate rules would preclude a similar rush today. The potential delay has become a rallying point for the GOP, which argues Democrats have been twisting the rules to pass the health care bill despite public opposition. It's also prompted criticism from government watch- dogs. ''We believe that elections should be by the people and for the people, and when the people have spoken, the system ought not be politi- cized,'' said Common Cause President Bob Edgar, a former member of Congress. ''If the Republican wins, the person should be seated immediately. If the Democrat wins, the person should be seated immediately.'' House probe subpoenas New York Fed Bank WASHINGTON (AP) — A House commit- tee probing bailout deals has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for corre- spondence from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other officials. The House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee is examining New York Fed decisions that funneled billions of dollars to big banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley. Geithner was president of the New York Fed at the time. He approved decisions involving the money from the bailout of failed insurer American International Group Inc., according to an earlier watchdog audit. In a statement Wednesday, committee chairman Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., said he had subpoenaed the New York Fed for documents about the decision to pay off AIG's business partners and keep their names secret. The subpoena demands e-mails, phone logs and meeting notes from Geithner; Stephen Friedman, who succeeded him as New York Fed president; New York Fed general counsel Thomas Baxter; and Sarah Dahlgren, the New York Fed's top manager on AIG. WORLD BRIEFING Belgian doctors give woman a new windpipe LONDON (AP) — For more than 2 1/2 years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implant- ed the windpipe from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new tissue before being transplanted into her throat. The way doctors trained her body to accept donor tissue could yield new methods of growing or nur- turing organs within patients, experts say. The technique sounds like science fiction, but De Croock says it has trans- formed her life. She no longer takes anti-rejection drugs. ''Life before my trans- plant was becoming less livable all the time, with continual pain and jabbing and pricking in my throat and windpipe,'' the 54- year-old Belgian told The Associated Press in a tele- phone interview. Doctors at Belgium's University Hospital Leu- ven implanted the donor windpipe in De Croock's arm as a first step in get- ting her body to accept the organ and to restart its blood supply. About 10 months later, when enough tissue had grown around it to let her stop taking the drugs, the windpipe was transferred to its proper place. Details of the case are in Thurs- day's New England Journal of Medicine.