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Dobson:RonaldEdward Dobson, 70, of Red Bluff died Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015at his home. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Ludwig: Vivian Ludwig, 101, of Oroville died Tues- day, Jan. 5in Oroville. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Brusie Funeral Home. Published Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016in 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 cause," CHP Trooper Jeff Billings told the Sierra Sun, "just that he ended up off the roadway and into the river." The Nevada Highway Patrol responded to 10 crashes in the Reno-Sparks area alone during the Wednesday morning com- mute, including one with a minor injury near the intersection of Interstate 80 and U.S. 395. Trooper Duncan Dauber said there were 15 crashes on I-80 east of Sparks between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. "The biggest problem was the fog overnight and cold weather that froze the ice and caused slick roads," Reno police Officer Tim Broadway told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "Luckily, people are slowing down." A winter weather ad- visory remained in effect through Thursday morn- ing along the Sierra's east- ern front. The National Weather Service predicts 4 to 8 inches of snow at lower elevations and as much as 16 inches above 7,000 feet. Snowfall totals by noon Wednesday included 13 inches at the Squaw Valley ski resort near Truckee, California, 10 inches at the Mount Rose ski area southwest of Reno and 2 inches at National Weather Service head- quarters in Reno. Mostly rain was ex- pected Wednesday after- noon and evening around Las Vegas and parts of southern Nevada. But a half foot of snow or more was possible by Thursday in the upper elevations of Mt. Charleston about 35 miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip. The weather service issued a winter weather advisory effective from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 4 p.m. Thursday for that area, stretching east from Red Rock Canyon to Cali- ente, Pioche, Panaca and Alamo. Snow FROM PAGE 1 Beef 'N Brew, Halloween Treat Street, Art Walk and Christmas activities, ac- cording to the annual busi- nessimprovementreportin the Dec. 1, 2106 agenda re- port. The association has also had continuous sup- port for the downtown re- vitalization effort. Accord- ing to that report, the as- sessments for 2016 against each business within the Downtown Red Bluff Park- ing and Business Improve- ment District will remain the same as last year. Re- tail businesses in Zone A, which includes all busi- nesses on Main Street from Cedar Street to Oak Street and down Walnut Street to Madison Street, will be re- quiredtopay$250peryear. Non retail businesses in ZoneAwillbe charged$175 per year. Retail businesses in Zone B, which surrounds Zone A, will pay $125 per year and non retail will pay $100 per year for the busi- ness's assessment fees. Andrew Christ, business owner and planning com- mission member, asked the council for the extension on the vote to allow time for business owners to express their concerns on the mat- ter after the association's has the annual meeting at the end of January. Downtown Red Bluff Business Association Pres- ident Ivan Petrzelka ex- pressed his support for the resolution but said he was completely fine with delay- ing and coming back to the council after the meeting. The association has not received many complaints from the nearly 170 busi- nesses in the association as of the beginning of the meeting, Petrzelka said. The question of whether the assessment is worth paying for is something Christ felt has not been brought up in a while. Council member Rob- ert Schmid thought the vote should be delayed. The businesses have one gen- eral meeting to discuss this and come to a resolution, Schmid said. If the associa- tion does not come to a res- olution, he said, then the association can move from there and take it back to the council. Council mem- ber Daniele Jackson agreed and said she would want to postpone voting on the is- sue to allow time to make theresolutionmoreclearfor businesses to understand. Schmid and Jackson voted no on adopting resolution 1-2016.Sincenowrittenpro- testwasturnedinorthat50 percent of business owners did not show up to protest, the issue was passed with a three to two vote. Report FROM PAGE 1 made from his camera tri- pod and then came an- other problem. A large train of fifty mules traveling in the opposite direction on a trail too narrow for pass- ing. A dangerous solu- tion was worked out. He told his men to lay him on his stretcher across the narrow track. Then, one by one, the fifty mules stepped over him. After that nervous experience the coolies carried him on a three-day forced march to the nearest mission- ary post. Carried at an en- ergetic speed over rough tracks in a primitive chair was another experience and then he was told that gangrene had set in and his leg would have to be amputated. He didn't ac- cept that and kept his leg even though the muscle at- rophied somewhat giving him what he called his lily limp. That sort of dedication is not longer required of plant collectors, thanks be. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with the Cascade District Garden Club; California Garden Clubs, Inc.; Pacific Region Garden Clubs; and National Garden Clubs, Inc. Garden FROM PAGE 3 curred as well in the county as a result of marijuana use or growing and processing. City Manager brought this up at the planning com- mission meeting as well to recommend that this would be the best thing for the city. Council member Robert Schmid moved to accepted the ordinance with the as- surance that if it needs to be amended because of sit- uations where someone needs the product for med- ical uses it can be. The council voted four to one, with council member Daniele Jackson voting no on the issue because of the delivery aspect of the ordi- nance. Pot FROM PAGE 1 and three were above aver- age." Looking at the three- month outlooks provided by the National Weather Service, the outlook called for average rain, however, the longer the ocean tem- peratures remained warm in an El Nino situation, the more likely above average precipitation was likely, Teubert said. "So far, it's been colder than normal temperatures, but above average rainfall for November and Decem- ber across the state." The best chance for above average rainfall ap- peared to be between Feb- ruary and April, he said. Water levels have been dropping throughout the county with the area west of Corning seeing one of the more significant changes, Teubert said. There has been a 20-30 foot drop in the area between 2004 and 2015. Both the area west of Corning and wells closer to Corning have seen a 15- 20 feet of the drop in water level in the last four years, he said. "Not much has changed (for wells below 200 feet) between 2014-2015 with the exception of the Ante- lope area," Teubert said. One thing about the wells west of Corning is that a lot of them rely on surface water, he said. Information on wells is available on the website: www.tcpublicworks.ca.us/ flood/wells.html. Potanovich presented on the number of wells of which 15 were replacement wells for wells gone dry be- cause of drought. It was notable that the average well replaced were about 50-60 feet, he said. There were 455 permits pulled for a well of which 109 were agricultural wells that have more source ca- pacity than the residential wells. Taking a look at the sus- tainability of water sources for wells is one of the things that will be worked on under the groundwa- ter sustainability agency, which the county is seeking to form, Teubert said. The idea is to take a look at how much can safely be taken out and replaced through natural recharge over five years. "You don't want to draw down past what you can re- charge," Teubert said. Sandbags FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Los An- geles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sex- ually abusing two teenag- ers in 1965 and 2008, cit- ing time limits and a lack of evidence. The decision comes about a week after Cosby, 78, was charged with drug- ging and sexually assault- ing a woman in 2004 in- side his home near Phila- delphia — the first criminal case brought against him out of the torrent of alle- gations that destroyed his good-guy image as Ameri- ca's Dad. His lawyers have called the charges in that case unjustified and said they expected Cosby to be exonerated. "We are satisfied that the Los Angeles DA's of- fice fully and fairly evalu- ated all the facts and ev- idence, and came to the right conclusion in declin- ing to file charges against Mr. Cosby," his attorney, Monique Pressley, said in a statement. Dozens of women have accused Cosby of sex as- saults or attempted mo- lestations in incidents dat- ing back more than four decades. In Los Angeles County, the district attor- ney's office investigated al- legations by a woman who said that in 1965, when she was 17 years old, Cosby took her to a jazz club in Holly- wood, bought her alcoholic drinks, and took her to a home in the Hollywood Hills where he forced her to have sex. "Filing the crime of forc- ible rape is barred by the statute of limitations and as such, any consideration of a criminal filing is pro- hibited by law," said com- ments on a DA's charge evaluation worksheet. Charges also were de- clined in the case of a woman who claimed she at- tended a party at the Play- boy Mansion in the summer of 2008, when she was 18, during which Cosby gave drinks to her and a friend. The woman claimed she felt dizzy and sick and Cosby offered to take her to lie down in a room where she blacked out. The woman said she awoke naked. Au- thorities investigated af- ter model Chloe Goins met with Los Angeles police de- tectives in January to detail her allegations. Cosby's at- torney at the time released a statement denying the ac- cusation and saying Cosby was not in Los Angeles at the time. Investigators found Cosby wasn't listed as a guest at any 2008 summer events at the mansion and a woman that the alleged victim said was a poten- tial witness denied know- ing her or being at the man- sion, according to the DA's worksheet. The worksheet also in- dicated that the statute of limitations had expired to charge Cosby with misde- meanor sexual battery and indecent exposure in the case and there was little or no evidence to back felony sex charges. Goins, who has sued Cosby, was the sec- ond woman to meet with Los Angeles police detec- tives to make accusations against the comedian. Prosecutors earlier re- jected filing charges against him based on alle- gations by Judy Huth, who alleges in a lawsuit that he abused her at the Playboy Mansion in the early 1970s when she was 15. The comedian gave a de- position in the case in Oc- tober. A judge has also or- dered Cosby to be deposed in a defamation case filed by model Janice Dickinson, who accuses Cosby of drug- ging and raping her in 1982 in Lake Tahoe, California. However on Wednesday, a California appellate court put the deposition on hold until a challenge to the case by Cosby's attorneys is de- cided. A hearing is set for next month. 2 TEENAGERS Los Angeles prosecutors reject Bill Cosby sex charges PHOTO BY VICTORIA WILL — INVISION FILE Actor-comedian Bill Cosby poses for a portrait in New York. By Ellen Knickmeyer and Brian Melley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Wednes- day over a massive natu- ral-gas leak that has been spewing fumes into a Los Angeles neighborhood for months. In a statement, Brown said he acted based on the requests of local residents in the community of Porter Ranch and the "prolonged and continuing" nature of the gas blowout at the un- derground storage facility. Thewell,ownedbySouth- ern California Gas Co., has been gushing up to 1,200 tons of methane daily, along with other gases. The leak was first reported in Octo- ber. The utility is paying to relocate thousands of house- holds after residents com- plained that the gases were making them sick. They say they have suffered nose- bleeds, nausea, headaches and other ailments. Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles school board already have de- clared the crisis an emer- gency, moving students out of two schools in the neigh- borhood. Resident Matt Pakucko, the head of a community group that has been push- ing for the state declaration, said he cried when he heard about the governor's order. Pakucko, speaking from a hotelwherethegascompany had moved him and his girl- friend, said he faced some doubts from his community about pressing the governor to declare an emergency. He said he had his own con- cerns that Brown might not take strong enough action but was pleased in the end. "I'm not worried about being validated or vindi- cated, but that people get what they need," he said. "And that's what we've been pushing for." The governor's move, among other measures, di- rects efforts by Califor- nia agencies in stopping the leak, and it orders emergency regulations for other gas-storage facilities throughout the state. BLOWOUT Brown declares gas leak a state of emergency Edith"Arlene"StarkeyCarrTudor July 31, 1947 ~ December 19, 2015 In the early morning of December 19, 2015, Arlene passed away peacefully in her sleep at her daughter's home in Redding, CA after a long struggle with cancer. Arlene was born in Redding, Calif. on July 31, 1947, to Milford and Mildred Starkey. She attended Enterprise High School. She moved to Red Bluff, CA in the late 1980's where she became a care provider for the elderly and the disabled until she retired. Arlene was preceded in death by her Husband Gary, mother, father and 5 brothers. Arlene is survived by daughter and son in law Stacey and Erin Christensen and grandson Cody. Her stepsons Todd (Suzie), Tim(Kerri) and Bryan Carr (Marilyn). Her sister Karen Hope and brother in law Carlos. When Arlene wasn't working she could be found at her favorite fishing hole, in the Casino at her special slot ma- chines or shopping for a new pair of earrings. The family would like to thank Mercy Hospice (Connie & Sandy) and her friend Rosie for all the care they gave her. A memorial service is planned for Arlene at the North- ern California Veterans Cemetery at 11800 Gas Point Rd. in Igo, CA. On January 8th at 11:00 am. Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Burials - Monuments - Preneed 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. www.affordablemortuary.net•529-3655 FD1538 LocatedinChico,CA THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A