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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Largest Selection In Tri-County • Herbal Medicines • Edibles (Foods) • Clones 1317 Solano St. (530) 824-4811 www.tehamaherbalcollective.vpweb.com Corning Calif. $ Money $ 2 Lend Cash 4 Notes McKinley Mortgage Co. CA DRE # 01773837 Call 530-241-0977 800-909-1977 Obituaries PANSY LOU DUNCAN Pansy Lou Duncan, 76, of Corning passed away with her family by her side on January 28, 2010 after a long illness. Pansy was born on December 8, 1933 to Or- vel and Bertha Jennings in Neosho, Missouri. She mar- ried Lyman (Joe) Duncan, Jr. on May 31, 1952 in Re- no, Nevada. Together they had 2 children. She was a kind and loving wife, mother and grandma. She loved spending time with her fami- ly and her dog, Bubbas. She was an avid crafter master- ing beautiful crocheting and knitting which she shared with many family and friends. She enjoyed camp- ing, gardening and was al- ways ready to ride along with Joe to deliver heavy equipment wherever that would take them. She worked in Retail in Corning for most of her working years. Pansy is survived by her husband Joe, her daughter Vanessa and spouse Billy Waters of Red Bluff, California, her grand- sons Adam C. Jones of Blanchard, Oklahoma, Nick and spouse Brandie Jones of Eureka, California, great grandchildren, Adam C. Jones, Jr. of Blanchard, Oklahoma, and Ava Marie Jones of Eureka, California, sisters Jessie McAllister of Tempanalie, South Carolina, Fleta Ellis of Yreka, Califor- nia, and Mary Dempster of Puyallup, Washington, and numerous nieces and neph- ews. She was preceded in death by her father Orvel, mother Bertha, her sisters Wilma Dean Jennings and Ruby Brand, and her son Freddie Lee Duncan. She will be greatly missed and always kept in our lov- ing memories. Graveside services will be held on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm at Sunset Hills Cemetery, 4470 Oren Avenue, Corning, California. Arrangements are being handled by Hall Brothers Mortuary in Corning, CA. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Butte Home Health & Hospice, 10 Constitution Drive, Chico, CA 95973 DONALD N. GRIFFIN Donald N. Griffin, 86, died January 28, 2010, with fami- ly by his side in Chico, Cali- fornia. A memorial service will be held Saturday, February 6th at 2 p.m. at the Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary, 902 Fifth Street, Corning, CA. Mr. Griffin was born June 2, 1923, in Needham, Massa- chusetts, to Roger and Mari- on Neilson Griffin. He gradu- ated from Needham High School in 1941 and later graduated from Wesleyan in 1944. Don served in the United States Navy enjoying nearly 2 years on the USS PCS-1423 including 6 months as Commander. Af- ter his military service Mr. Griffin began his career in the aerospace industry in- cluding time spent at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corpo- ration, Quantic Industries and Zeta Laboratories. In 1975 he retired from the "Rat Race" and purchased a 1,000 acre ranch in Corning, CA and began farming and raising cattle. As an involved member of the community he founded the Kirkwood Water District. Don spent his remaining years enjoying the serenity and beauty of ranch life. Mr. Griffin is survived by his five children, one step-son, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. "Our idea has always been to bring theater to the community at a reasonable price," Gambetta said, "We enjoy bringing the plays to the community." Gambetta had high praise for her cast, which includes several stu- dents who are among the school's top academic seniors. "This is just a fabulous cast and crew," Gambetta said. "They are very smart and talented." As the cast gathered for rehearsal Tuesday it was the beginning of what performers often call hell week, also known as tech week. "It's going to be a long week," said Sara Thomas, a senior who will make her debut performance in the play as Margaret, a young woman 1910 and growing to the 1950s. Despite all the hours yet to be put into the play, Thomas and fellow actors Jessica Rabalais and Matt Mueller said they were excited for the performances. "I start as this and go to a flapper dress so it's kind of funny," Rabalais said pointing to a green dress that was every inch the prim and proper clothing of her initial scene of 1908. Rabalais has been in four other plays during her time at the school, including A Christmas Carol, Steel Magnolias, Bus Stop and a series of one act plays as a freshman. Asked for a description of the play, Mueller, who made his debut in the play Harvey earlier this school year, said it is about family. "It's about how all the families are different, yet the same," Mueller said. Rabalais said the play is about how every family has its nuances and good moments and bad moments, but, in the end, it is still family. "We've been working long and hard so come, we hope everyone will come," Rabalais said. Tickets can be purchased at the door. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Continued from page 1A MEMORY health habits to protect their teeth for a lifetime: • Prevent painful baby bottle tooth decay by not letting your baby fall asleep with a bottle in her mouth. • Don't share your toothbrush or utensils with your baby. The bacteria in your mouth can cause tooth decay in your child. • Wipe or brush your baby's teeth daily, espe- cially after eating, with a clean washcloth or a moist, soft child's toothbrush, without toothpaste. When your child is about 2 years old, help her brush with a small amount of fluoride toothpaste twice a day. • Check your baby's teeth and gums for early tooth decay. Look for white spots on the teeth, swelling, bleeding or pim- ples on the gums. • Give your child water rather than juice. After 6 months of age, one small serving of juice a day is sufficient. • Encourage your child to use training cups at 6 months. • Once your baby is eat- ing solid foods, limit the number of sweet and sticky foods. • Schedule a visit to the dentist when your child gets a first tooth or begin- ning at 1 year and every 6 months thereafter. • Ask your dentist about fluoride or fluoridated drinking water and other ways to protect your child's teeth. • Supervise your chil- dren while they brush their teeth, making sure they use a small amount of tooth- paste and brush thorough- ly. Young children need help brushing their teeth until they are about 7 years old. • Show your child how to floss, and help until the child develops the skills to do it alone. For information about local oral health programs, v i s i t www.first5tehama.com or call the School Readiness program, First Steps Cen- ter in Los Molinos, 384- 7833. Continued from page 1A TEETH phy cases at schools were he didn't even go," Hosler said. "That will keep his memory alive." Eight teams from four different elementary schools will participate in the tournament. The first game of the two-day tournament starts at 4 p.m. Friday. Games resume 8 a.m. Satur- day. The tournament will be held at Bethel Assembly of God, 625 Luther Road. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for children. Several food vendors including Del Taco, Baskin-Robbins and the school's booster club will be there, with all proceeds going to the Botell family. So far, $150 in cash donations have been received from the families of former classmates and the Lassen Mineral Lodge. For information or to make a donation, contact Hosler at 527- 6006. Continued from page 1A BOTELL If you go... What: Tommy Botell Memorial Tournament When: 4 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday Where: Bethel Assembly of God How much: $3 adults, $1 children The air board spent about $400,000 on the devices and software mod- eling to analyze the data. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration, NASA, academic research scientists and other countries have deployed similar monitors in the last two years to track greenhouse gases around the globe. California's approach, scientists say, is the most extensive effort to gauge local emissions. The infor- mation gleaned from the monitoring system is expected to inform state regulators who are charged with implementing the state's landmark global warming law, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed in 2006. The monitors are con- sidered the most precise method scientists have to monitor methane and car- bon dioxide in the atmos- phere. The first data is expected to be ready for analysis in summer 2011. Pieter Tans, a senior sci- entist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laborato- ry in Boulder, Colo., said the information provided by the monitors should fill an information gap. ''Even though we can measure global increases precisely, we cannot say what the causes are, so we need more local measure- ments for that,'' he said. California's global warming law, known as AB32, requires the state to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by about 25 per- cent over the next 10 years. Methane, which is 21 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, is the most prevalent green- house gas behind carbon dioxide. State regulators current- ly rely on power plants, oil refineries and others to report their own emissions. That information is used to compile California's green- house gas registries and will determine which pol- luters must buy emission permits under a state cap- and-trade system now being crafted. Under such a system, companies that cannot cut their emissions because of cost or technical hurdles can buy pollution credits from companies that have achieved cleaner emissions. Data from the air board's seven monitors will be combined with measure- ments taken from other monitors along California's coast run by NASA, NOAA and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab to provide a more complete picture of methane emis- sions throughout the state. The electronic monitors are designed to verify how much methane is in Cali- fornia's air. Providing a more accurate accounting of emissions should build confidence in carbon-trad- ing markets, said Michael Woelk, Picarro's chief executive. ''Inventories can be widely wrong. These devices will tell real time, minute to minute, what your emissions are,'' Woelk said. ''The free market has to know whether this stuff is working in real time, or the credibility is pulled out from under it.'' One of the state's moni- tors will be placed atop the Sutter Buttes, about 60 miles north of the state cap- ital, to measure methane in the Sacramento Valley. Continued from page 1A STATE Stocks climb as manufacturing, spending increase NEW YORK (AP) — Encouraging economic reports lifted stocks Monday and bolstered hopes that the recovery is in better shape than many had believed. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 118 points after falling for the last two days. Energy stocks led the market higher following a strong earnings report from Exxon Mobil Corp. Gains in manufacturing and personal incomes gave the market a strong start to February after rising doubts about the economy led to three weeks of losses. Investors were already becoming more optimistic thanks to news on Friday that the economy grew at the fastest pace in six years in the last three months of 2009. "The market exhaled today," said Mike Shea, man- aging partner at Direct Access Partners LLC in New York. "This has been a very skittish market for the last three to four weeks." The strongest piece of eco- nomic news came from the Institute for Supply Manage- ment, which said its index of U.S. manufacturing activity grew for a sixth straight month in January to the strongest level since August 2004. The trade group said factories increased produc- tion as customers replenished inventories. The ISM's manufacturing index jumped to 58.4 in Janu- ary from 54.9 in December, well above the 55.5 that ana- lysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected. Any reading above 50 signals growth. Surveys released Monday in Europe and China showed that factories are going strong overseas too, which helped send shares of industrial com- panies higher. Meanwhile the Commerce Department said consumer spending increased by 0.2 percent in December, its third straight monthly gain. The government also said person- al income increased more than expected in December. "The economy and the recovery seem to be on track," said Kevin Shacknof- sky, portfolio manager of the Alpine Dynamic Dividend Fund in Purchase, N.Y. The government reported last Friday that the U.S. econ- omy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the final three months of 2009, a pace far stronger than economists had forecast. The positive signals lent support to a market that fell sharply in late January, mark- ing its worst monthly perfor- mance since major stock indexes hit 12-year lows early last year. The Dow reached a 15-month high of 10,725 on Jan. 19 and it is still down 5 percent since then. It lost 3.5 percent in January. The Dow rose 118.20, or 1.2 percent, to 10,185.53, its biggest gain since Jan. 4. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 15.32, or 1.4 percent, to 1,089.19. The Nasdaq composite index rose 23.85, or 1.1 percent, to 2,171.20. Bond prices fell, pushing yields higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Trea- sury note rose to 3.66 percent from 3.60 percent late Friday. The dollar mostly fell against other major curren- cies, while gold rose. Crude oil rose $1.54 to $74.43 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 7.21, or 1.2 percent, to 609.25. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.1 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.8 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 0.6 percent. Earlier, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.1 percent. Wall Street Judge hears arguments in case over Calif. salmon FRESNO (AP) — A federal judge is weighing whether to relax pump- ing limits that are in place to protect salmon as they migrate through Cali- fornia's freshwater estuary. Water districts representing some of the country's largest farms are ask- ing for a temporary restraining order that would suspend through mid- June protections designed to safe- guard the winter run of Chinook salmon as they breed and swim out to the Pacific Ocean. Water districts are seeking the order so they can boost irrigation supplies for the state's farmers. The persistent drought has caused major pain for farms and fisheries alike. Even with the recent storms, pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is restricted under the federal government's salmon protec- tion plan. U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger said he would make a decision by Tuesday of next week.