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Obituaries Don R Stone Don R. Stone was born January 15th, 1940. He passed away on June 11th, 2012. Don was preceded in death by his parents Arthur and Naomi Stone, first wife Mary Stone, and second wife Shirley Stone. He is survived by his sister Norma (Henry) Bethel, two daughters Shirley (Jim) Adams and Barbara (Joe) Byrd and numerous grandchil- dren, nieces and nephews. Don was in the Navy and later worked and retired from the railroad. Don loved the out- doors, where he would fish and hunt. Don was a loving husband, father, brother and son. Hoyt will be handling the arrangements. The viewing will be on June 20th from 4pm to 8pm. Services will be held on June 21st at 2pm, followed by graveside services at Oak Hill Cemetery. We will always love and miss him. 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, William A. Barton William A. Barton died Monday, June 18, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 82. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Bluff. He was 50. Affordable Mortuary is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Ricky Elliott Ricky Elliott died Monday, June 18, 2012, in Red Neil Arthur Hacker Neil Arthur Hacker died Saturday, June 16, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 62. Red Bluff Sim- ple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. at Woodland Skilled Nursing in Woodland. She was 79. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Carol Chamblin-Rowan Carol Chamblin-Rowan died Friday, June 15, 2012, Mom charged in toddler's charged with child abuse and neglect after an autopsy showed her 2-year-old daughter died from malnutrition and alcohol poisoning. alcohol poisoning death AUBURN (AP) — A Placer County woman has been Roseville, in connection with the April 4 death of McKin- ley Wilder, whose father told The Sacramento Bee had been dead for at least several hours when paramedics found her body at her grandparent's home. Wilder, who is 37, was arrested on suspicion of murder Prosecutors on Monday charged Denise Wilder, of STRIKE Continued from page 1A strike. union's website the strike was supported by more than 90 percent of its members. According to the newsletter updating the contract negotiations says the union's goals are to protect benefits, job secu- rity and fair pay and have resolution of workplace issues resolved in 90 days. An SEIU-UHW SEARCH Continued from page 1A they realized it had been 45 minutes since they saw him they began to check the area, but were not able to locate him." During the two days of search- ing, resources were called from the California Rescue Dog Association (CARDA). CARDA is a state-wide rescue dog team that is not typically requested, but in this case it was an unusual circumstance, he said. "From talks with the family, we know he was a 40-year-old man in great shape and he was an outdoors- man who hunted and fished," CITY ee's sick leave and vaca- tion allotment were banked together and the unused hours would be paid out when an employ- Continued from page 1A Previously an employ- The newsletter says Dignity has offered cuts to benefits and no across-the- board raises for two years. The union says that would leave 5,000 workers still below what they believe is the proper wage scale. Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – Daily News 7A increases in the future. costs," Helfenstein said. "We are asking the union to join us in trying to reach an agreement that works for our employees, our patients and our organiza- tion." In its own press release, Dignity said it cannot sus- tain the increases SEIU- UHW continues to demand. "To ensure that Dignity Health and its 40 member hospitals are able to con- tinue their healing mis- sion, we must control our Dignity says it is not seeking to reduce wages and has offered to contin- ue providing full employ- er-paid benefits for both full- and part-time employees and their fami- lies. The health system is asking for the union to help slow down the rate for salary and benefit Daugherty said. "There's no reason he shouldn't have walked out." The area the men were hiking is close to Manton and has homes on both sides of Highway 36E that should be visible at night time to the south. Forward Road, one of the main roads in the area, is to the north, Daugherty said. Over the past four years, Dignity has provid- ed raises totaling 28 per- cent to the 14,000 employ- ees in California who are represented by SEIU- UHW, the release said. The costs for providing employee health care cov- erage have increased by 32 percent during the past four years, and Dignity has paid the full cost of these increases rather than shifting the cost to employees, as many employers have done. now," Daugherty said. "We are not speculating (what happened) at this time. We have filed a missing per- sons report and turned it over to our detectives for further investigation." The areas to the east and west are both fenced in and there are main roads to travel between the fences that a healthy person should have been able to walk out. The area is close to Manton Creek, which if followed would have led to a trout farm or a power- house, he said. "We are following up on some leads, but with no further evidence we have suspended the search for ee left employment. Under the new contract employees would only be entitled to their unused vacation pay after employ- ment ended. City Manager Richard Crabtree said he hopes to separate sick and vacation banks in negotiations with the city's other unionized Other resources brought in for the search included ground searchers from Tehama County and Shasta County search and rescue teams, the California Highway Patrol helicopter, which spent five hours flying the area Saturday and a few on Sunday, Shasta County Sher- iff's dirt bike team, quad team and man tracker teams. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. of bargaining with its mis- cellaneous unit and will start negotiating with its firefighters in a few months. workers going forward. The city is in the midst have a new boss, as Jon Bennett will take over the position of fire chief on Those firefighters will July 7. Bennett had been serv- ing as interim fire chief since Mike Bachmeyer left the department in May. Bennett has spent 33 years with the Red Bluff Fire Department, begin- ning as a reserve and ris- ing through the ranks. Dems resist Brown's welfare plans fornia legislators may have passed a budget, but Democratic leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown are fighting to a standoff over his proposal to restruc- ture the state's welfare program. Brown is pressuring the Legisla- ture for deeper cuts amid a projected $15.7 billion shortfall. Negotiations continued Monday with Democratic lawmakers resisting Brown's pro- posal to reduce welfare spending, one of many issues still to be resolved before the state's spending plan can take effect. Brown, a Democrat, wants to emphasize getting people back to work, while reducing aid for parents who aren't meeting requirements under CalWORKS, the state's wel- fare-to-work program. The gover- nor's office says his plan would save $880 million. SACRAMENTO (AP) — Cali- in April but released pending the completion of an autopsy. She was rearrested on Friday and remains jailed without bail. Her arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday. Law enforcement officials have not elaborated on the Man convicted in shooting CLEARLAKE (AP) — One of two men tried in a shoot- ing at a backyard barbecue in Northern California that killed a 4-year-old boy and wounded five others has been convict- ed. A jury found 24-year-old Orlando Lopez guilty Friday of one count of murder, five counts of attempted murder and other charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 7. Authorities say Lopez and 22-year-old Paul Braden fired shotguns at people attending the barbecue in Clearlake last June. Four-year-old Skyler Rapp died. Five adults, includ- ing the boy's mother, were wounded. The shooting was apparently the culmination of a feud between two families. Lopez's attorney, Stephen Carter, tells the Lake County Record-Bee his client intends to appeal. Jury deliberations in Braden's case are expected to start Tuesday. lion poor people — 1 million of whom are children. According to the state Department of Social Services, the average family on state aid in January received $465 a month, but parents can qualify for work train- ing, child care and other services. Brown wants permanent structur- al changes to shrink the $5.4 billion program, which amounts to about 5 percent of the state's general fund. He is proposing to redesign the state's welfare program by creating three tiers of eligibility. would introduce CalWORKS Plus to give adults extra cash when they meet work requirements. Most families would qualify for Under his proposal, the state ber of CalWORKS families who have become homeless doubling from about 5,500 in 2006 to about 11,500 last year. ''The governor is asking for some more cuts, and he's also asking, if you will, to make the rules tighter for people to be able to participate in the job training programs and to be able to receive their very small grant, which is barely enough to subsist on for an individual and his or her fam- ily,'' said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, talking to reporters outside the Sen- ate chamber after Monday's session. He added, ''It is an assistance-to- But Democrats say it's foolish to pay for job training when there aren't enough jobs to go around. They would rather preserve cash grants. ''It is inefficient and, quite coroner's finding that the toddler had fatal levels of alcohol in her system when she died. frankly, foolish, to invest in training for jobs that don't exist,'' Assembly Speaker John Perez said last week before passing the initial budget plan. Democrats want to extend exist- ing cuts on county work training and child care assistance programs, but the move would save $428 million — less than half of Brown's propos- al. CalWORKS Basic, which would be a continuation of the current pro- gram. Brown, however, wants to restrict the length of time those fam- ilies can collect cash aid from four years to two years if they fail to meet work requirements. Also, Brown wants to give less aid to families where for various rea- sons only children qualify. A family of three in which only the child is eligible for benefits would be cut from a $516 a month benefit to $375 a month, an amount equal to 24 per- cent of the federal poverty level. Critics say the governor's propos- Their differences on welfare remain a major sticking point as Democratic leaders seek the gover- nor's approval this week on bills that must be resolved before the budget can take effect. The spending plan approved last week assumes voters will approve a tax increase in November, otherwise several auto- matic cuts will trigger, drastically reducing public school support. CalWORKS serves about 1.4 mil- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The cost of pen- sions and retiree health benefits are soaring at the University of California, increasing pressure to raise tuition and cut acade- mic programs at one of the nation's leading public college systems. national laboratories, is scrambling to shore up its pension fund as it prepares for a wave of retirements and tackles a roughly $10 billion unfunded liability. The UC Retirement The 10-campus system is confronting mounting bills for employee retire- ment benefits even as it grapples with unprece- dented cuts in state fund- ing that have led to sharp tuition hikes, staff reduc- tions and angry student protests. The UC system, includ- ing medical centers and Plan's huge deficit was created by investment losses during the global economic crisis — and the nearly two decades when campuses, employees and the state did not contribute any money toward pen- sions. ''The regents made a serious error and the Leg- islature made a serious error by not putting money aside for 19 years while accumulating an obliga- tion,'' said Bob Anderson, a UC Berkeley economist who chairs the system's Academic Senate. ''Now we have to pay for it.'' The UC system faces spiraling pension costs for 56,000 current retirees and another 116,000 employ- ees nearing retirement. As of May, there were 2,129 UC retirees drawing annual pensions over $100,000, 57 with pen- sions over $200,000 and 3 with pensions over $300,000, according to data obtained by The Associated Press through a Public Records Act request. The number of UC al wouldn't give parents enough time to earn their GED or college degree, and it doesn't acknowledge family nuances, such as disabled parents or grandparents who care for their grandchildren. ''His approach has just been one size fits all, and that size is just cut them,'' said Mike Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, which advocates for low- income families. would drive families into homeless- ness at a time when unemployment remains high at 10.8 percent. Los Angeles County reported the num- retirees collecting six-fig- ure pensions has increased by 30 percent over the past two years, according Cali- fornians for Fiscal Responsibility, an advoca- cy group that has analyzed UC pension data. Topping the list is Mar- cus Marvin, a retired pro- fessor of dentistry and public health at UCLA, who receives an annual pension of $337,000. If UC President Mark Yudof, 67, serves for a total of seven years, he would receive an annual pension of $350,000 — in addition to regular benefits he accrues through the UC Retirement Plan, accord- work program. It's not welfare.'' Brown offered his rationale last week for reducing dependency on state aid, saying ''we need addition- al structural reforms to cut spending on an ongoing basis, including wel- fare reform that's built on President Clinton's framework and focused on getting people back to work.'' Clinton supported an overhaul of the nation's traditional welfare sys- tem in 1996 by giving states more control over the money that came from the federal government, which had been used to fund cash pay- ments. States used the new flexibili- ty to begin funding child care ser- vices and job-assistance programs. But for the past three years, Cali- fornia has saved money by exempt- ing work requirements in certain cases and keeping parents, saving the cost of child care and work train- ing. H.D. Palmer, said exempting work doesn't save the state enough money and further changes are needed. The governor's plan ''is not just a Democratic leaders fear the move Brown's finance spokesman, fiscally driven proposal,'' Palmer said. ''It's to refocus the emphasis of this program back on to its original intent, which is to help individuals move from public assistance to self- sufficiency.'' University of California faces mounting pension costs ing to UC documents. The university caps benefits. employee pensions at the IRS limit of $250,000, but that ceiling does not apply to the ''supplemental retirement benefits'' promised to Yudof. In the coming year, the university is expected to contribute about $240 mil- lion to its retirement fund from a roughly $6 billion core operating budget. That amount is expected to more than double to about $500 million annually by 2015-2016, according to UC officials. The university also faces skyrocketing costs for its retiree health care