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It's important for the community to see the suc- cess we have here and the women are excited to tell their stories." Bowen's story is one that people who have known her from her past can hardly believe when they see her now, she said. "Out of 100 people, I would have been the last one to get it and get things turned around," Bowen said. "I spent 23 years in prison and I left some terri- ble wreckage in the past. If this program can help me, there's no one that it can't help. I have three years clean and sober for the first time since I was 12 years old. Becoming a house mom at this place was a miracle." In addition to being a house mother, Bowen spends time at the PATH shelter where she works as a shift supervisor ensuring that people have a hot meal. "Jen (Ragsdale) took a chance on me," Bowen said. "It's a good feeling having the same people who once put cuffs on you now shake hands with you and tell you how proud they are of you." Karla Bonzani is another success story and is on the verge of moving out and having her own place by February. "It's by no means a free ride," Bonzani said. "You have to work for it, but it truly is transitional housing to help you get on your feet. This house brought me back to what I was." Watching others and their success was conta- gious and helped with mak- ing her want to be success- ful too, Bonzani said. "My problem is I couldn't quit drinking," Bonzani said. "Nothing stopped me, but I got saved and I haven't thought about (drinking) since I stepped in this door." She's also been able to have two of her three chil- dren, ages 10, 6 and 5, back living with her. "In a couple of months I'll be back in my house," Bonzani said. "This place has done wonders for me. I have that accountability and all these people who helped me come this far. I've gone from drinking to my rock bottom to this feel- ing that I can do anything. I won't forget where I was, but I don't ever want to go back there again. The more I do good, the more good things that happen. It's get- ting that second chance and having people who have faith in you when you can't see it. Being able to transi- tion back to being a normal part of society is amazing." For more information on the program, call 727-7191. House FROM PAGE 1 Fire Chief Martin Span- naus said it has been proven time and time again that combined dispatches are overwhelmed. City Councilman Dave Linnet concurred with Spannaus and said all the experts he has spoken to have said you can't com- bine the two dispatch cen- ters, it just can't work. The recommendation was that the dispatchers would be cross-trained in order to provide more flexibility and perhaps ca- reer movement between agencies, according to the agenda report. Cross training also could facil- itate consolidation of the two dispatch centers into a single agency. The committee provided a preliminary draft plan for the consolidation of the dispatch services that would be implemented over time. The Police Department Dispatch Center has con- siderably more turnover than the Fire Dispatch Cen- ter, said City Manager John Brewer. Those police dis- patch vacancies could be used to facilitate the tran- sition to a single consoli- dated dispatch center. If the plan is approved, the new dispatch position would be called an Emer- gency Services Dispatcher, once dispatchers have been cross-trained. A major goal of the plan is to ensure that no one would have to be laid off in the process of saving the city money. The projected savings for this consolidation plan could amount to about $320,000 annually, accord- ing to the report. At the June 9 council meeting, members of the volunteer fire department announced their intent to resign en masse if the fire dispatch was eliminated, according to the report. The city manager sought a proposal from Cal Fire for contract fire protection services, just in case, and the estimation was about $700,000 a year for that service. Another option would be a 7 percent cut in gen- eral fund spending across all departments. This op- tion could generate up to $341,000 of savings in the $4.88 million general fund expenditures, according to the report. Another option was to increase sales tax, which was one of the more favored options at the meeting but a report by Lisa Linnet, city clerk, stated otherwise. In general, voters in Tehama County have not been sup- portive of additional tax measures, with the excep- tion of a half cent increase in sales tax approved re- cently in Red Bluff. Other options could eliminate positions, some- thing Mayor Gary Strack said he wants to avoid if at all possible. The council plans to go over all recommendations to obtain general fund savings before the special meeting and hopes to gain some direction as to what option will work best for the city, Strack said. No date has been set for that meeting. Fund FROM PAGE 1 One week into its inves- tigation, the FBI now be- lieves that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tash- feen Malik, embraced rad- ical Islamic ideology even before they had begun their online relationship and that Malik held ex- tremist views before she arrived in the U.S. last year, Comey told the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee. Though the FBI believes the pair was inspired in part by Islamic State ide- ology — Malik pledged alle- giance to the group's leader in a Facebook post around the time of last week's mas- sacre — agents are still looking for other motiva- tions and sources of rad- icalization, especially be- cause the couple's interest in extremism predates the terror group's emergence as a household name. "ISIL inspiration may well have been part of this, but these two killers were staring to radicalize to- wards martyrdom and ji- had as early as 2013," said Comey, using an acronym for the Islamic State. "And so that's really before ISIL became the global jihad leader that it is." The latest disclosure also suggests that the gov- ernment's vetting pro- cess failed to detect Ma- lik's radicalization when she applied for the visa, though Comey said he didn't know enough to say whether weaknesses in the visa process enabled her to enter the U.S. "After this hearing to- day, every American will be asking the question, how did this woman come in on a fiancée visa?" said Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and mem- ber of the committee. Malik came to the United States in July 2014 from Pakistan after being approved for a K-1, or fian- cée visa, and married Fa- rook the following month. Homeland Security Secre- tary Jeh Johnson has said the Obama administration is now reviewing the pro- gram. He did not say what changes were being consid- ered. Malik's father, reached in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, condemned his daughter's actions and said he is "very, very sad. ... I am in such pain that I cannot even de- scribe it." The father, Gulzar Ahmed Malik, has been a resident in the kingdom since the early 1980s, the Saudi Interior Ministry says. His daughter was from Pakistan but traveled to Saudi Arabia. A former classmate, Afsheen Butt, said Malik showed dras- tic changes after a trip to Saudi Arabia in late 2008 or early 2009. Last week's shooting attack at a holiday party killed 14 people and left 21 injured. Former neighbor Enrique Marquez bought the two rifles used in the attack, officials say. One law enforcement of- ficial briefed on the inves- tigation says Marquez has told investigators that he and Farook planned an at- tack in the United States in 2012 but abandoned the idea. Marquez is a relative of Farook's through mar- riage. The official says it's unclear what spooked them into cancelling the appar- ent plot. Comey described the couple as an example of homegrown violent ex- tremists who appear to have radicalized "in place," drawing a distinction be- tween the San Bernardino attack and the one last month in Paris that offi- cials suspect involved plan- ning and training in Syria. He said the FBI did not yet know if the marriage was arranged by a foreign ter- rorist organization. The FBI has revealed lit- tle else of what it's learned about Farook and Malik and their planning, ex- cept for details about the weaponry they had, ma- terials they had to make more pipe bombs and that both had been taking tar- get practice. A U.S. official said Tues- day authorities are look- ing into a deposit made to Farook's bank account be- fore the attack. The offi- cial, who had been briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to dis- cuss it by name and spoke on condition of anonymity, would not characterize fur- ther the nature of the de- posit or why it had caught the attention of investiga- tors. A second official con- firmed that the deposit was for $28,500. Though Comey declined to answer questions about whether encrypted com- munication had been used before the attack, he did use the appearance to reit- erate his longstanding con- cerns that criminals, ter- rorists and spies can use encryption applications on their smartphones to evade detection from law enforce- ment. "Increasingly, we are un- able to see what they say, which gives them a tremen- dous advantage," he said. He said one of the gun- men in last May's shoot- ing outside a Prophet Mo- hammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, had ex- changed more than 100 messages with an overseas suspected terrorist prior to the attack that investi- gators still had been un- able to access. Investiga- tors were concerned that the location might be tar- geted, and ensured that law enforcement officers were ready. The two gunmen were shot dead by police. "We have no idea what he said because those mes- sages were encrypted," Comey said. "And to this day, I can't tell you what he said with that terror- ist 109 times the morning of that attack. That is a big problem. We have to grap- ple with it." Shooting FROM PAGE 1 U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION Tashfeen Malik, le , and Syed Farook, are seen as they passed through O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. By Asif Shahzad and Asim Tanveer The Associated Press ISLAMABAD The father of a woman who helped carry out the California mass shooting said Wednesday that he condemns and re- grets his daughter's action and the deaths of 14 people. Gulzar Ahmad Malik spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from Jid- dah, Saudi Arabia, saying he is "very, very sad. "I am in such pain that I cannot even describe it," he said. His daughter, Tash- feen Malik, and her hus- band, Syed Rizwan Farook, opened fire on Farook's co- workers a week ago in San Bernardino, California, kill- ing 14 and injuring several others. The couple later died in a gunbattle with police. "Whatever God does only he knows better, and only God knows why did it hap- pen," Gulzar Ahmad Malik said. He said he gave a state- ment to Saudi intelligence and would not comment further. The shooters rad- icalized at least two years ago and discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday. Tashfeen Malik, 29, held extremist views before she arrived in the U.S. on a fiancée visa last year, he said. Malik married Farook, an Ameri- can citizen, in July 2014. She was from Pakistan but traveled to Saudi Ara- bia, where her father has been a resident since the early 1980s, the Saudi Inte- rior Ministry said. A Pakistani counterter- rorism official said the fa- ther works as an engineer, as do his two sons. The of- ficial spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. 'VERY, VERY SAD' Father of California shooter condemns daughter's action By Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press Backlash over the im- ages of protesters in Fer- guson, Missouri, clashing with officers in combat gear drove an ongoing na- tional push to scale back the militarization of po- lice — an effort that has mostly steamrolled over concerns among law en- forcement that they're los- ing equipment they need. In the span of six days, police suddenly have a pair of poster cases for the use of military-style equipment: In San Ber- nardino, California last week, police officers de- ployed armored vehicles at the scene of a shootout with a married couple who had killed 14 people at a holiday party. Just days before the Cal- ifornia attack, officers in Colorado Springs, Colo- rado, used armored vehi- cles to rescue people from the area around a Planned Parenthood clinic where a gunman killed three peo- ple, including an officer. It's too soon to say whether the California and Colorado cases will be enough to quiet calls for demilitarization, but they have brought back the essential question: How much is too much for officers to use in policing American streets? The scene in San Ber- nardino, captured live on television, showed officers in tactical gear using two armored trucks and an ar- mored tractor equipped with a shield to box in the SUV carrying Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, after the shootout ended. The couple had fired 76 rounds but were countered by 380 rounds fired by officers, authori- ties said. "This type of equip- ment is critical for us to protect our officers," San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon told The Associated Press. Colorado Springs re- lied on their armored per- sonnel carrier and a sec- ond, bigger one belong- ing to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office to rescue the wounded and others in the line of fire during the Nov. 27 mass shooting there, Police Chief Pete Carey told council mem- bers Monday. The vehicles "both sus- tained pretty severe dam- age as a result of that," Carey said. "They took a lot of rounds." POSTER CASES Fo r po li ce , sh oo ti ng s re in fo rc e need for military-style gear ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Protesters raise their hands in front of police atop an armored vehicle in Ferguson, Mo. KEVINLEESTAPLETON 1968 ~ 2015 Kevin Lee Stapleton (1968-2015) of Corning, CA passed away from a brain aneurysm on Sunday, December 6, 2015. He is survived by his mother and step-father, Bar- bara and Dennis Peterson, his siblings Bobby Stapleton, David Stapleton, Ellen Thuemler, Michael Stapleton and Roxane Mammano and his partner Eddie Taylor. His fa- ther, Charles Stapleton preceded him in death. Kevin was a devoted son and loving brother who gave with his whole heart. He will be missed but never forgotten. A memorial will be held on what would have been his 48th birthday, January 25th, location to be determined. 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