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AstoryinTuesday'sedi- tion about the Red Bluff American Legion Bulls baseball team had part of the last paragraph cut off. The final paragraph is reprinted here in its en- tirety. In the third game, the Bulls faced the North- state Wolfpack of Red- ding. Once again the Bulls had to come from behind to win the semifinal game before moving on to the championship. Down 2-0 in the top of the seventh, Will Nelson led off the in- ning with a single and scored when Poni sin- gled to center. Consecu- tive walks to Johnson and Stacy were followed by singles from Zepeda, Ian Skjegstad and Coates, scoring both Stacy and Johnson. Gipson came in and shutdown the Wolf- pack in order to seal the win and put the Bulls into the championship. ••• An item in Tuesday's edition about a vehicle collision on North Main Street Monday contained an error. The female driver involved pulled out of a parking lot and hit the pickup truck be- ing driven southbound on North Main Street. The Daily News regrets the errors. Itisthepolicyofthe Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you believe a factual error has been made in a news story, call 737-5042. Corrections Since 2001, groups of college students have un- dertaken journeys across America with the goal of offering hope, inspira- tion and support to can- cer communities along the way, the 4K for Cancer mission statement states. The 4K for Cancer event started as a bike ride from Baltimore to San Francisco and has now grown to six teams, four biking across the country and two teams running. "Everyone is connected to the cancer community and I am no exception," Valentine said. "Cancer truly doesn't discriminate and has touched my life very personally more than once and the lives of my friends and their families as well." . Johnny Dragon, of Chesapeaka, Virginia, is a senior at Villanova Uni- versity near Philadelphia and is running in the 4K run for the first time. He has experienced loss in his life due to cancer, he said. Dragon took this op- portunity to show his sup- port to those family mem- bers he's lost, including his grandfather who died of lung cancer and his grand- mother who died from melanoma, but he also is doing the run to show sup- port to the survivors, like his aunt. The New York team, as these 23 athletes are called, was scheduled to head through Lassen Vol- canic National Park Tues- day, stopping in Burney for the night. Throughout the 49-day trip the team will make stops at such places as Boise, Idaho, Jackson, Wyoming, Omaha, Ne- braska and Columbus, Ohio. For more information, to show your support or join the 2017 bike ride or run, visit 4kforcancer.org. 4K FROM PAGE 1 Thankyou! PLEASERECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO California lawmakers moved Tues- day to fix a flawed voter- approved initiative that re- quired registered sex of- fenders to disclose their email addresses, screen names and other electronic information to authorities. Proposition 35 was ap- proved by an overwhelm- ing 81 percent of the vote in 2012, making it the most popular initiative in Califor- nia's history. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2014 that the measure vio- lated the free speech rights of about 73,000 sex offend- ers who have served their prison terms. The court gave lawmak- ers time to correct the con- stitutional problems, and the Assembly Public Safety Committee advanced SB448 to the full Assembly on a 7-0 vote Tuesday. In keeping with the court's ruling, the bill by Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Di- ego, would limit the report- ing requirements to sex of- fenders convicted of a felony after Jan. 1, 2017. It would apply only if the offender used the internet to collect private information onthe victimofthecrime,to traffic the victim, or collect or distribute obscene mate- rial or child pornography. Law enforcement could only use the information to investigate sex-related crimes, kidnappings, or hu- man trafficking. The identi- fying information would be kept private except under a court order. The bill still violates free speech protections, includ- ing the right to anonymous speech, said Janice Bellucci, an attorney and president of California Reform Sex Of- fender Laws. She also ob- jected that the bill includes juveniles, a provision she said may ensnare curious teenagers. Sacramento County Dep- uty District Attorney Sonia Satchell testified that the measure would help law enforcement officials track human trafficking, from the stalking of victims on social media to the marketing of prostitutes online. "The entire industry is run digitally," she said. "We live in a world of emails, Snapchats, Facebooks, Twit- ters, Instagram and clouds." Hueso said the bill finds a balance between protect- ing free speech and protect- ing public safety and voters' desires. The American Civil Lib- erties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation sued to block the original measure but dropped their opposi- tion after Hueso made vio- lations misdemeanors pun- ishable by no more than six months in jail. A previous version of the bill would have made vi- olations felonies that had the potential to send third- strike sex offenders to prison for life, said Nata- sha Minsker, director of the ACLU of California Center for Advocacy & Policy in Sacramento. "Given that what we're talking about is failing to hand over an email address, a much more appropriate consequence," she said. INITIATIVE State seeks fix on sex-offender report requirement By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press The rooftop panels and churning turbines of boom- ing solar and wind energy are helping make U.S. nu- clear power plants, with all the safety fears and rising costs they bring, obsolete, some experts say. So much so that California's largest utility and environmental groups struck a deal Tues- day to shutter the last facil- ity in the state. The move marks the end of California's era of nuclear-power plants and comes as the operators of the country's aging nuclear facilities confront rising re- pair bills at a time when sources of clean, safer en- ergy cost less. Competition from a glut of natural gas and surging solar and wind production also has dampened enthu- siasm in Europe for nuclear power. So did the 2011 di- saster in Fukushima, Ja- pan, when an earthquake and tsunami led to melt- downs and radioactive re- leases at a nuclear plant. But China is among the countries still building nu- clear power plants, and a U.S. industry group says nuclear remains a vital power source despite Cal- ifornia's deal. The 31-year-old Diablo Canyon plant between Los Angeles and San Francisco will shut down by 2025, de- cades after its location near seismic faults on ocean bluffs helped spark the en- vironmental movement against nuclear power. Pa- cific Gas & Electric Co. an- nounced plans for the facil- ity in the 1960s. Conservationists said the success of the Diablo Can- yon deal could show the way forward for the coun- try's 60 other commercially operating nuclear plants, most of them more than 30 years old. They said it demonstrates the choice was not between nuclear power and climate-chang- ing fossil fuels. "For years, we heard you can't fight climate change without nuclear power. That's wrong, of course," said Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the environmental groups that negotiated the accord with PG&E. "We're clearly on our way." The agreement will mean the end of nuclear power generated within the nation's most populous state, an energy source once called essential to meeting its growing needs. However, Southern Califor- nia still receives some of its electricity from a nuclear plant across the border in Arizona. With more efficient en- ergy use and an empha- sis on renewable energy in California, "there's just not going to be enough need to have to run your nuclear plant," PG&E President Tony Earley told reporters Tuesday. The utility will save more money closing Dia- blo Canyon than running it through 2044 as planned, Earley said. The plant sup- plies 9 percent of the state's power. END OF AN ERA Last California plant to close as nuclear power struggles By Scott Smith The Associated Press FRESNO It could take Cal- ifornia four years to re- cover from the most severe drought on record, even if the next several winters bring above-normal snow- fall to the Sierra Nevada, re- searchers said Tuesday re- leasing a study. One winter of El Nino storms that delivered a near-normal snowfall wasn't enough to make up for the deficit from four con- secutive dry years in the Si- erra, a critical water supply statewide, the study says. The lack of snow forces water suppliers and farm- ers to draw heavily on res- ervoirs, groundwater and other sources, said Steve Margulis, a civil and envi- ronmental engineering pro- fessor at the University of California, Los Angeles who led the study. "The deficit we have is so large it is very, very unlikely to recover in one year," he said. Snow typically falls each winter in the Sierra and melts during the warm months, rushing down streams and rivers into res- ervoirs. It provides critical water supplies to millions of residents and vast farmland in the nation's leading agri- cultural state. Consecutive dry years are common in California, but this drought — now en- tering a fifth year — is the most severe in the last 1,200 years, according to studies cited in the research. California recovered in as little as one year from past droughts, such as one in 1977, but this one is exceptional, said Mar- gulis, publishing the find- ings in the Geophysical Re- search Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. In the study, researchers combined three decades of NASA satellite imagery taken of the Sierra snow- pack with state snowpack measurements collected since 1951. Today, California's snow- pack is at 8 percent of nor- mal for this time of year, ac- cording to the state Depart- ment of Water Resources figures. The study is designed to help leaders chart water policy. Last year, state regu- lators imposed historic cut- backs on farms and cities. Restrictions on residents were recently relaxed, al- lowing local water districts to set their own conserva- tion efforts. "It is critical for regions like California, that rely on their regional snowpack for water supply, to under- stand the dynamics of the system," Margulis said. SIERRA NEVADA Re se ar ch : Ca lif or ni a years away from making re co ve ry f ro m dr ou gh t THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant is seen in Avila Beach. SHIRLEYA.ALLEN Shirley Allen, age 80, from Gerber, California, passed away on Saturday June 18, 2016. Shirley was the loving wife to Ray Allen for 63 years and mother to Lori Piper- Nickerson (Rick Nickerson), Mindy Van Buskirk (Scott Van Buskirk), Jeff Allen, and Jon Allen. She adored her 5 grandchildren, Jessica Howells, Ashleigh Karnilowicz (Jeff Karnilowicz), Peter Piper (Jaime McKibben-Piper), Hay- den Allen, and Sawyer Allen and her 5 great grandchil- dren, Madeline Howells, Kate Howells, Jonah Howells, Anna Karnilowicz and Claire Karnilowicz. Shirley and Ray were married Sept 5, 1935, in Carson City, Nevada, and began their lives together in Los Banos, California. They have lived in Gerber, California, since 1994. For many years while living in Gerber, Shirley worked at the Corning Florist. In previous years while living in Fresno, California, Shirley was the co-owner of the House of Flowers. Shirley loved arranging flowers and working in her garden. Shirley was a member of High Point Assembly of God church in Red Bluff, California, for many years and taught many Sunday school classes, children's churches, vaca- tion bible schools and bible studies, all of which she thor- oughly enjoyed. Shirley will always be remembered by being so kind, loving, encouraging, her love of laughter, and her love of her Lord Jesus Christ. While she will be painfully missed here on earth, she is now peacefully at home with her Heavenly Father. A memorial service will be held at High Point Assembly of God church, 625 Luther Road, Red Bluff, California, on Thursday, June 23rd at 11:00am. All are welcome. A family burial will take place at a later date. SUZAN M. BRASCH (EHORN) Suzan M. Brasch (Ehorn) went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 20th at the age of 64 after a long battle with cancer. Suzan is survived by her husband of 43 years, Lloyd Brasch of Red Bluff; Son Jeremy Brasch (daughter in law Jackeline) of Forth Worth TX; Daughters Amy Dawson (son in law Gabriel) of Durham CA and Emily Mitchell (son in law Joshua) of Talent OR; sisters Janet Peterson (brother in law Bill Peterson) and Marian Ehorn of Red Bluff; five grandchildren: Micah, Lily Anna, Adalyne, Gracelyn and Kayliegh. She will be greatly missed by family and friends, but her joy in seeing her Lord is something we can only imagine. Her greatest love in this life was her Lord. Her greatest achievements were being a devoted wife and mother, in which the Lord will say "Well done, good and faithful servant." She trusted in Jesus for her salvation and can now see Him face to face. Volumes could be written about her life on how she wanted to please the Lord, but she did not like to draw attention to herself. Any atten- tion drawn would be quickly turned to Christ her Re- deemer to give Him the glory and praise alone. Her mes- sage to those still living would be to seek the Lord while you can, for the next breath may very well be your last. Her prayer, written during a cancer treatment, was: 'I trust in you Jesus! Help me to see you in every situation, acknowledging your sovereign control over all the uni- verse. I pray that fear will lose its grip on me. I want ad- verse circumstances to become growth opportunities for me. Help me to receive your blessings gratefully, realiz- ing they flow directly from your hand of grace. No storm of life is outside the control of God, who is without exception true to His Word. Don't let the circum- stances of your life rob you of faith and hope.' 'This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.' 1 John 4:9-10 If you would like to make any contribution, please send it to: Life Outreach International PO Box 982000 Forth Worth Tx. 76182-8000 Suzan Brasch Memorial Obituaries ThePassingParadeisbroughttoyoubyMinchPropertyManagement, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527-5514 THEPASSINGPARADE (FrommyISayofAugust1966) Strange how parents struggle to get the right name for a child…and then aid and abet a nick- name that hangs over the child's head for life. The nickname obviously starts as a term of affection or lazy behavior with a 3 syllable first name. Next thing you know it has stuck and the recipient has reached middle age or worse. Hence Jackie Kennedy, Billy Casper, Chuck Sharpe, Skeet Flournoy, Jack Wood, Skip McDonald, Spike Hunter, Jim Russell, Dick Tracy, Billy Taber, Buzz Sawyer and so on. My long suffering nickname was Bobby which harkens back to the time when I was playing drums in the Old Blue Ribbon Café and had "BM" painted on my bass drums as did Buddy Rich with "BR" on his. I did not realize at the time that wags would have associated BM with "bowel move- ment". But one day about 10 years ago, our head cattle buyer "Hank" Kerber said., "You gotta choke off your nickname before it's too late. I know men that are 60 and 70 years old who still go by the name of Bobby or Billy. It's ridiculous. From now on you are going to be 'Bob' instead of 'Bobby' " Well, of course that was just another nickname. But finally, with so many "Bob's" at the meat plant, the receptionist had to ask. "Are you are calling for Bob Shirley, Bob Clemson, Bob Mower, Bob Mayfield, Bob Jensen, BobWierzbicki, Bob Rist, Bob Giomi…or Robert Minch?" and Robert I became. It sounds little more dignified, don't you think? As though I know what I am doing…taking charge and so-forth? Are you listening? … Several weeks ago I heard that Jim Froome, Sr. was on his way out. And then I saw him last week and he looked as fit as a fiddle! I wish to hell all old timers could do just that… look fragile, and they get a stay of execution, so to speak. Have one more time around. It would be like those dreams many of us have had after someone has passed. You see them clearly and for a few moments are able to tell them the things you should have said while they were alive. Sure! That's the way it should be! A person is dying…on his deathbed…and then the doctor gets him up for one last bow. We can shake hands or even hold hands. However, perhaps there is a better way. Just get squared around with your old friends while they are still about*…and then there would be no need for Act Four. *2016: With this in mind, I know of two brothers, from a well-known local family, who have not spoken to each other for many years because of a falling out over a family owned property sale. All attempts at reconciliation have failed. They will probably go to their graves in this manner despite warnings that life is short. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A