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Cathy was pre- deceased by her son Bryce Norgard and parents Melvin and Mavis Wright and moth- er Kathryn Desmond. Services will be held on Sat. Feb 20, 2010 at 12 o'clock at the Manton Grange Hall and burial will follow at the Manton Cemetery. Sheila Larae Sol Sheila Larae Sol of Gerber died Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, at Enloe Medical Center in Chico. She was 63. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Eidman said. "If we are going to do an upgrade, we might as well look ahead 10 years." The extra power would allow more vendors against the Mulberry Avenue fence during Red Bluff Round-Up, an area that could also be used as extra RV spaces during other times of the year, he said. Eidman said 10 of the 20 stalls in the new horse barn, provided by a grant from the Shasta Regional Community Foundation, have been completed and Board President Bob Ker- stiens reminded directors that the March 16 meeting will include a tour of the fairground. The 2010 fair has yet to fill in entertainment for Friday or Saturday, Eid- man said. Eidman said he is working to create an area that has a mar- ket with a local a g r i c u l t u r e theme that would offer prunes, walnuts and other local produce and one item showcased. This year's featured crop will be olives, he said, and the section will include a wine tasting area. D i r e c t o r Tonya Reda- monti men- tioned the possibility of a adding a logging com- petition. She had been con- tacted by the group earlier Tuesday and is exploring the possibility as a member of the Her- itage Days Festival Com- mittee. Redamonti said if it worked to bring a logging competition to the July 4 event, perhaps it could return during the fair. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Continued from page 1A FAIR Dave Gowan a variety of ministries to the Hait- ian people. It operates 14 schools throughout the country educating some 15,000 students and provide a nutrition program for infants and toddlers. Churches are estab- lished at each school site. A full medical clinic on site at the mission campus allows patients to be treated for most common medical, dental and vision needs. Lifeline sponsors a child support ministry encourag- ing families to assist in the finan- cial support of individual students in the school program. The earthquake that Haiti experienced has left the Haitian people without homes and fami- lies devastated and hungry. A great deal of support has been donated to the relief effort. The team will take as much as possible on the airplane. Mone- tary donations are being received through Community Baptist Church through March and will be directed to the ministry of Lifeline. For more information, call Pastor Mark Franklin at 527- 4203. Continued from page 1A HAITI which formerly served as a law office but had been vacant for awhile, and lends his fatherly support where he can. "Our plan has always been to have a bricks and mortar place, and now we do," he said. "Really, the building is made out of bricks." The business first started as a mobile vending unit out of which it sold coffee at various events throughout the county, including the monster truck show and other events at the Tehama District Fairground. Now that they have a permanent location, the owners are looking forward to getting to know their cus- tomers, Pierce said. It will be a nice change to be able to recognize people in the morning, know their names and what kind of drink they want. Hours are 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e- mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Continued from page 1A BREWS in the Inspector General's report for missing opportunities to apprehend Garrido earlier. The report noted that parole agents neglected to interview Garri- do's neighbors, misclassified Garri- do as a low-risk offender and failed to adequately investigate the rela- tionship between Garrido and a young girl seen by an agent during a home visit. Cate's testimony Tuesday was an opportunity to update lawmakers on the lessons learned from the Garrido case, and to let them know where things stand on improving the sys- tem. Cate said the department also now requires agents to press for more information from out-of-state agencies when a parolee is trans- ferred to its supervision. Cate again acknowledged mis- steps in Garrido's supervision. Questioned by state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier about an agent not fol- lowing up after seeing a young girl at the house, Cate said, ''It is frus- trating.'' The agent ''got an explanation from a particularly smooth operator and made a judgment mistake,'' Cate said. He added there is not one day the agent doesn't regret that error. Cate wouldn't comment on whether any parole agents were being disciplined because of their actions on the Garrido case. Continued from page 1A CHANGES SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The law that bars the University of California from considering race in student admissions vio- lates the civil rights of black, Latino and Native American stu- dents who are underrepresented at the state's most prestigious campuses and blocked from seek- ing redress through the school's governing board, a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges. The federal court suit was brought by the Michigan-based, pro-affirmative action group By Any Means Necessary. It chal- lenges the constitutionality of Proposition 209, a ballot measure approved by California voters in 1996 that prohibited racial or gen- der preferences in public contract- ing, education and employment. A federal appeals court and the California Supreme Court have rebuffed earlier efforts to overturn the 13-year-old law. But Shanta Driver, the group's lead counsel, said a renewed federal challenge is timely because the U.S. Supreme Court has since issued a pair of rulings upholding some school desegregation pro- grams. The gap between Latino and black high school graduation rates and UC enrollment has grown since Proposition 209 was enacted. ''Thirteen years of a ban on affirmative action in the state of California has left, in particular UCLA and Berkeley, with just pitiably low numbers of black and Latino students,'' Driver said. At the heart of the complaint is the claim that minority students and their parents are being uniquely disadvantaged in viola- tion of their due process rights because Proposition 209 prevent- ed the university's governing Board of Regents from setting admissions policies that include race, gender and ethnicity, but not other characteristics, as fac- tors. ''You can't have a white majority create a situation in which the only people who are barred from going to their regents and saying, 'Adjust the admissions system so more of our sons and daughters can get in' are black, Latino and Native American,'' Driver said. UC spokesman Ricardo Vasquez said university lawyers were examining the lawsuit but that it was too soon for officials to comment on it. President Mark Yudof has criticized Proposition 209 in the past. According to the suit, Latino, black and Native American stu- dents make up one-quarter of the freshmen enrolled at UC's nine undergraduate campuses this year — a higher percentage than in 1996. But because underrepre- sented minorities also comprise a bigger share of all public high school graduates — 48 percent compared with 39 percent in 1996 — their presence at UC schools has not kept pace in the absence of affirmative action, the complaint claims. Driver said that while a trial judge must first decide whether to hear or dismiss the case, her aim is to get the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at Proposition 209. In 1997, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit ruled unanimously to uphold the measure, which was passed by 54 percent of Califor- nia voters. Voters in Washington, Michi- gan and Nebraska have passed laws similar to Proposition 209. A 1996 court order in Texas and a 2000 vote by the Florida Legis- lature banned the use of race in school admissions in those states. Race-based admissions law challenged anew 'Thirteen years of a ban on affirmative action in the state of California has left, in particular UCLA and Berkeley, with just pitiably low numbers of black and Latino students' Shanta Driver, Any Means Necessary Privacy group files FTC complaint on Google Buzz WASHINGTON (AP) — A privacy watchdog group complained to federal regulators on Tuesday about Google's new Buzz social networking service, saying it violates federal consumer protection law. The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed its complaint with the Federal Trade Commission just days after Google Inc. altered the service to address mounting privacy concerns. Since launching Google Buzz as part of Gmail a week ago, the search company has come under fire for automatically creating public circles of friends for users based on their most frequent Gmail con- tacts. Over the weekend, Google altered the service to merely suggest contacts for its users' social net- works. Despite the changes, EPIC argues that privacy violations remain because Google automatically signs up Gmail users for Buzz, rather than waiting for them to do so themselves, or ''opt in'' for the ser- vice. EPIC wants the FTC to require Google to make Buzz a ''fully opt-in'' service. It also wants the com- pany barred from using Gmail address book contacts to compile social networking lists. ''This is a significant breach of consumers' expectations of privacy,'' EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg said in a statement. ''Google should not be allowed to push users' personal information into a social network they never requested.'' But Google insists that it gives users control because, even though it adds a ''Buzz'' link to all Gmail accounts, users must click on the link and agree to activate the service. Google also gives users the option to disable Buzz. In response to the EPIC complaint, Google said it has already made some changes to Buzz based on user feedback and has ''more improvements in the works.'' ''We look forward to hearing more suggestions and will continue to improve the Buzz experience with user transparency and control top of mind,'' the company said. STATE BRIEFING Gov resubmits lt. gov bid SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg- ger Tuesday asked the California Legislature to recon- sider his failed nominee for lieutenant governor, chastis- ing Democrats for derailing his choice over partisan pol- itics. Schwarzenegger resubmitted the name of Republican state Sen. Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria, less than a week after the Assembly rejected him. The Senate con- firmed Maldonado's nomination on a bipartisan vote. Schwarzenegger told reporters at a Capitol news con- ference that he hopes the outcome will be different this time. He called on Assembly Democrats to set aside par- tisan politics and give Maldonado the job. ''I'm a big believer that sequels can be even better than the original,'' Schwarzenegger told reporters when asked why lawmakers would change their vote. The governor's decision to re-nominate Maldonado is a shift in strategy. Schwarzenegger had intended to override the Assembly and put Maldonado into the posi- tion because lawmakers failed to garner an absolute majority of 41 votes against him. He was voted down 37-35. Schwarzenegger was immediately challenged by the Assembly Speaker's office and backed down, saying he didn't want to spend taxpayer money on a legal battle against the Legislature. The Legislature has 90 days to act. If it takes no action, Maldonado will automatically assume the post. Maldonado, who is running for the lieutenant gover- nor's seat in this year's election, urged Democrats to act quickly on his nomination. ''The question by the Legislature isn't whether I'm a qualified candidate in November,'' Maldonado said. ''The question is pretty simple: Am I fit to serve?'' Judo expert faces jail time MENLO PARK (AP) — A martial arts master faces jail time for beating up another man after some horse play turned violent at a Menlo Park train station. San Mateo County prosecutors say 25-year-old Matthew Walker of Tacoma, Wash., pleaded no contest earlier this month to felony assault. The judo champion was sentenced to six months in county jail and placed on three years of probation. A co-defendant, 22-year-old Robert Davis of Redwood City, pleaded no contest to the same charge and faces up to three months in jail when he is sentenced next month. The incident occurred in September when the 25-year- old victim and his friend struck up a conversation with Walker and Davis about judo. Authorities say the encounter began playfully but ended with Walker and Davis beating up the other men severely. W. Hollywood bans pet sales WEST HOLLYWOOD (AP) — The city of West Hollywood has decided to put a leash on dog and cat sales. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban stores from selling cats and dogs in a move aimed at curbing puppy mills and kitty factories. Pet shops will be permitted, however, to offer ani- mals from shelters. City officials acknowledged the new ordinance would have little bite — no pet stores in the city cur- rently sell animals — but they're hoping it will have a lot of bark and other municipalities will follow suit. A socially liberal enclave surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, West Hollywood has long held a reputa- tion as a trailblazer in animal welfare rights.