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Obituaries Herman Marion Gray passed away May 22nd at the age of 90. He is survived by his wife Jeanne of 69 years; sons Wil- HERMAN MARION GRAY liam Gray and Mark Gray; brother Don Gray and sister Helen Hands; three grandchildren Simon Gray, Jeremy Gray, & Sydney Gray-Manning; "grandson" Nathan Antho- ny; also "darling guard dog" Zach. He was a Veteran of World War II, member of local VFW Color Guard; and a Past Master of Siskiyou Masonic Lodge. After 30 years, Herman retired from Southern Pacific Railroad as a Station Agent in Redding. Services will be held at Chapel Of The Flowers in Red Bluff on Sunday, May 27th at 2pm. Joseph Stanley Durrer was born June 14, 1962 in Red Bluff, California. He attended local schools and graduated from Oroville High School. After high school he joined the U. S. Army where he served as an Atomic Demolitions Specialist. Following the military, he worked on his father's ranch Donations may be sent to St. Elizabeth Hospice. JOSEPH STANLEY DURRER in Oregon where he honed his skills as a cowboy. Three years on the ranch was enough to convince Joe that he should pursue a different career. He worked as a Retail Clerk and a Motivational Trainer before he settled on a career in Real Estate. Joe was a very active member of our community. He Teen girl held in attempted murder of her mother STATE BRIEFING occurred. Authorities have not released the names of the mother or the teens. Pros- ecutors declined to comment about the possible filing of charges. HESPERIA (AP) — Chris Stalins- ki heard screams and couldn't imagine what was happening in the mobile home next door, where a mother lived with her teen daughter. When Stalinski learned what law enforcement officials unraveled, it was hard to comprehend: The mother's 13- year-old daughter and two friends allegedly tried to kill her in her bed. Law enforcement officials now sus- pect it was the third time in a matter of hours the teens — two girls and a boy — had tried to kill the mother, possibly because she was strict with a curfew and critical of the girl's friends. ''It was just because of problems at sheriff's Deputy Osvaldo home,'' was past president of Red Bluff Rotary Sunrise; Board Member of the Tehama County Board of Realtors; an offi- cer of the Odd Fellows Lodge; and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Ducks Unlimited. His civic in- volvement paled in comparison to his volunteer work. Joe was the happiest when cooking for a crowd. He is known far and wide for his smoked chicken, delicious ribs, tortellini salad, and secret recipe tri-tip. Joe is survived by four parents: Sallie and Dan Dutton of Pelayes said. The mother did not seek medical attention after the other attacks, said San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Rose, who declined to elaborate. ''I don't know what to say. I just Las Vegas, Nevada, and Tony and Linda Durrer of Red Bluff; one brother, Tony Durrer; two sisters, Tami Pratt (Gordon Pratt) and Annmarie Golovin (Joshua Golovin); two beautiful, talented nieces, Paris and Sunny Pratt, one almost perfect nephew, Tony Durrer, hundreds of other relatives, thousands of friends, and his hunting dog, Jack. A celebration of Joe's life will be held June 2, 2012 at 6pm at the Durrer Ranch, 12090 Craig Avenue, Red Bluff, CA 96080. Everyone is invited. In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to Red Bluff Rotary Sunrise, P. O. Box 81, Red Bluff, CA 96080 for the Joseph S. Durrer Rotary Endow- ment Fund. Suzanne Maree Sagan, 49, died unexpectedly at her home on May 11, 2012. Suzanne was known for her beautiful smile, infectious laughter, and the mischievous twinkle in her eye. Suzanne is survived by her parents Richard and Carlotta SUZANNE MAREE SAGAN Wixon; brother Donald; sons Cody Sagan and Sgt. Heath Sagan of the U.S. Army; and her fiancé Tom Fausone. Services will be held at the Chapel of the Flowers Satur- day, May 26, 2012 at 1:00 p.m., and a celebration of her life will be held 2:00 p.m. at her home at 8390 Highway 99E, Los Molinos. In lieu of flowers, donations would be greatly appreci- Death Notices 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 news- paper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, Herman M. Gray Herman M. Gray died Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 90. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 24, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. MULLS Attorney Michael Fitz- patrick had given them an opinion that it could be discussed in closed session, however, there were a decision it would have been agen- dized. if "The big thing first is do we accept (the retire- ment)," Strack said. "I agree every decision should be open to the public for comment." Council approved the annual agreement with 3Core Economic Devel- opment District despite a $1,500 increase over last year. never used the group, which develops and updates a comprehensive economic development strategy and helps iden- tify funding sources, several of the cities busi- nesses have, Strack said. Another deciding fac- While council has tor was the 50 percent penalty plus back pay that the contract would require if they were to quit and rejoin the same year, he said. Council approved the spending of $5,550 for building maintenance News tip? Call 527-2151, ext. 112 (Continued from page 1A) Strack said that City and $5,000 for the pur- chase of new books from the Ridell Trust Fund, established for mainte- nance of the Corning Library. Books being replaced are those that have not been checked out in 20 years, according to the staff report. Maintenance includes repainting the inside walls and pressure wash- ing, applying sealant and one coat of anti- graffiti solution to the outside walls. New computers were requested. However, since the initial report, the Red Bluff Friends of the Library has autho- rized a $30,000 expendi- ture that includes new computers for Red Bluff and Corning. The Corning City Council meets the sec- ond and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. to get more water FRESNO (AP) — Water agencies that supply millions of California resi- dents and farmers will be getting more water this year, thanks to April rains. The state Department of Water Resources said Wednesday that State Water Project contractors can expect to get 65 percent of their requested water this year, five percent more than earlier estimates. The contractors supply more than 25 million Californians and near- ly a million acres of irrigated farmland. Officials said the increase is due to Farmers, residents can't believe it,'' the mother told the Los Angeles Times in an interview at her mobile home. She acknowledged having a trou- bled relationship with her daughter. She said she called the police just over a month ago, fearing her daughter was using drugs, the Times reported. Her daughter denied it and ran away but returned a short time later. improved when her daughter gave her a hand-drawn Mother's Day card with pleas for forgiveness and understand- ing just nine days before the attack. ''Mom, I know that we don't get along well and I shout at you. Please forgive me for what I did to you, that I yell and tell you that I don't love you, but yes I love you,'' the daughter said in the card, according to the Times. ''I hope you can forgive me. I promise that I will behave well. Happy Moth- er's Day.'' She thought their relationship had No one answered the door Wednes- day at the white and tan mobile home where Stalinski said the incident ated for the Wounded Warriors Project or to the Willits Ridgewood T.R.A.I.L. Riders Association. MUM (Continued from page 1A) interviewed by Marc Albert, who does local news reporting on Chico radio station KZFR. Albert told the Enterprise- Record he asked Aanestad about the Obama-Muslim comment and whether he thought Obama was a 99 (Continued from page 1A) tion between Caltrans and CHP in this has been unprecedented in my 22 years in law enforcement," Garr said. "They've been user-friendly, service-friend- ly and made it happen. Sometimes it takes years and they did this virtually overnight." Future improvements being discussed include tak- ing out the 25 mph speed sign at Lassen View Elemen- tary in Dairyville and putting up flashing beacons that would be on when school is starting and ending, Lamkin said. There has also been dis- cussion of adding turnouts in the same location in the north and southbound lanes to make it easier to add passing lanes as funding becomes available, Lamkin said. "We're looking to add turnouts for ag equipment because there's a lot of driver frustration when there isn't an opportunity to pass," Lamkin said. and recovery zones for those who do get off the road has also been discussed, he said. Working on shoulders an Office of Traffic Safety grant, but was glad they were turned down due to the reduction in collisions including the 18 month peri- The task force applied for Located in Chico, CA Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net Muslim. April's wetter-than-usual weather and high reservoir storage. Rainfall in April was 167 percent of normal in the mountainous area that produces much of California's water supply. Higher water allocations are diffi- cult to achieve even in wet years due to pumping restrictions to protect threat- ened and endangered fish. The last 100 percent allocation was in 2006. Calif. sues Army Corps over Thursday, May 24, 2012 – Daily News 7A The state estimates it would cost up to $7.5 billion to remove the vegeta- tion. About 1,600 miles of federal lev- ees along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and tributaries could be affected. Corps officials did not return calls seeking comment. Franciscan files tell abuse story Van Handel was a 15-year-old semi- narian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a decade later, Van Handel himself was molesting children while working as a Franciscan priest at the same Santa Barbara boarding school. Van Handel formed a boys' choir for local children and chose his victims from among its ranks for eight years. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert agency is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its policy requiring the removal of vegetation on federal levees, claiming it harms fish and wildlife. Game's lawsuit, filed Wednesday, claims that the Corps' policy would eliminate the Central Valley's remain- ing riparian habitat, which is essential for several endangered species. The Corps developed the new policy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. State officials say the Corps once encouraged the planting of trees and shrubs on California levees and that studies have shown native vegetation to be compatible with flood control. The Department of Fish and Albert said he provided Allen with some recorded excerpts from the radio interview. Allen emailed those to the Enterprise- Record. In one of the radio clips, Aanestad says, "I was asked (at the tea party meeting), do I think he (Obama) is a Muslim. Do I think he is a Muslim? And the answer is yes. That is od with no fatalities, Lamkin said. Numbers were reduced from 89 in 2010 to 56 colli- sions in 2011, which is a 37 percent reduction, Lamkin said. were down 30 percent and there was not a single fatal collision in 2011, Gillingwa- ter said. The primary factor in collisions on Highway 99 is speed, he said. Of those, injury collisions Gillingwater has driven the corridor many times in his personal vehicle and is routinely passed by com- muters who are in a big hurry, he said. "It never fails; I always catch back up to them in a few miles when they are once again slowed down by the next car in front of them," Gillingwater said. "My point is, when it is all said and done, it doesn't matter how many cars you pass or how fast you drive, odds are those cars you passed will only be a few seconds behind when you get to where you are going. Our slogan is "Safety Never Takes a Holiday" so just take your time and enjoy the ride, because if you get stopped by us, we guarantee you will be 20 minutes late." Karl Holland, father of vegetation rule FRESNO (AP) — A California The sexual abuse at St. Anthony's, including Van Handel's own account of his crimes, is included in more than 4,000 pages from the confidential files of nine Franciscan religious brothers who were accused of abuse. The inter- nal files, coupled with an additional 4,000 pages of sworn testimony obtained by The Associated Press, are the largest release of a religious order's files to date and paint one of the fullest pictures yet of a pervasive culture of abuse that affected generations of stu- dents at the seminary dedicated to training future Franciscans. The religious order settled for $28 million in 2006 with plaintiffs who alleged abuse by the nine Franciscans, but Van Handel and other defendants fought the release of their private files for six years in a legal battle that reached the California Supreme Court. There are 18 other Franciscans who have been accused of sexual abuse or named in lawsuits, many of them also from St. Anthony's, but their docu- ments remain private, plaintiff attorney Tim Hale said Wednesday at a Santa Barbara news conference. his background. That is his beginning. today. There's no way you or I can tell that. But his background, his upbring- ing, his tradition, his holi- day observances — all from the Muslim back- ground. Does he practice Islam, the religion of the Muslims? I don't think so." "He may be a Christian Ashlee Holland who died in a collision on Highway 99 in 2010, spoke on behalf of those who have lost a loved one. lose a loved one and it's one of the most unimaginable experiences," Holland said. improvements by the task force may have helped save his daughter's life, he said. Either way, he hopes that others will be affected by his daughter's story. The decisions and urgent you can't be a few minutes late," Holland said. "You have people at home waiting for you to arrive. Remember Ashlee. What happened to her could hap- pen to you." "Remember nothing is so On the enforcement side, CHP has already been work- ing to change things with "I know what it's like to In 2010, ABC did a news report claiming many Americans wrongly believe Obama is a Mus- lim. The report said Obama has written that by the time he was born, his father had become an athe- ist, that his father divorced his mother when he was 2, and that he rarely saw his father when he was a child. select days during the month designated as safety corridor days where officers will tar- get speeding violations in the Highway 99 corridor from Chico to Red Bluff. a.m. Wednesday, for the kickoff of the campaign, offi- cers made enforcement con- tacts with 21 people for speeding or following too closely, according to a CHP release. Between 7 a.m. and 10 improvements or to make a suggestion call the Caltrans District 2 office in Redding at 225-3260. 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