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Obituaries Richard Dean Tobin was a beloved husband, father, brother and son. He was born on April 8, 1963 to Chris and Newt Tobin and grew up in Ventura, California. He moved to the North State in the early eighties and there he met his wife Colleen. They married in Red Bluff in 1998 and together have been raising their four daugh- ters Katelyn, Claire, Kristina and Cathleen. Rich was an avid Nascar fan who also enjoyed fishing, snow and water skiing, golfing, quad riding with family and friends, and going to car shows with his dad. He loved animals, nature and the ocean. He was gener- ous with his time, talents and laughter. Rich passed away June 18th and is survived by his wife Colleen, daughters Katelyn, Claire, Kristina and Cathleen; mother Chris, father Newt, brother Danny, nephews An- drew and Wyatt, nieces Meghan and Danielle, great grandma Cecile, aunt Sandy, cousins Connie and Jim, and numerous loving friends and family. Services will be held at the Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers on Friday, June 29th at 10 am. A celebration of life directly following at the Red Bluff Community Center. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Tobin Girls' College Fund at Edward Jones, Suzy Mustaine in Red Bluff 527-4729. RICHARD DEADN TOBIN RICHARD DEAN TOBIN Angelo Mendonca passed away on June 25, 2012 at Northern California Rehab Hospital in Redding. He was born on September 16, 1930 in New Bedford, MA. to Mary Lourdes Alvares and Joseph Mendonca. He lived in Red Bluff, Lovelock, NV., and returned to Red Bluff in 1944. He graduated from RBHS in 1948. Went into the Navy, December 1950 during the Korean War. He served almost 4 years. He and Phyllis White were married on September 27, 1953. They were married for 58 years. He is survived by wife Phyllis, brother Tony and wife ANGELO MENDONCA Lois, and brother James, sister Evelyn Henderson, step- sister Evelyn Machado Russo, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Margaret Spooner, god children Mathew Mendonca and Susan Mendonca. He was a Grader and Land leveler for many years, until Corning SWAT incident ends with no injuries officer found the motorhome in the northwest truck parking lot of Love's about 3 p.m. and rec- ognized it as being reported by Cheryle Wilson as having been stolen from her residence in the El Camino area, Corning Police Chief Don Atkins said. The vehicle had been reported as having been taken, by her ex- husband who was possibly armed with a .22-caliber rifle, on June 16, he said. The Corning Police Depart- he became part owner of Al-Bon Corp. Paving Contrac- tors until his retirement. He was secretary of the Red Bluff Elks Lodge for 34 years and served as Local Chairman of the Elks National Foundation. Angelo and his friends (The KP Crew) cooked for local Cattlemen Association, Sheep growers, Elks Lodge, and other Local events. Please join the family for a celebration of his life at 12 noon, Friday, June 29th at the Elks Lodge, with lunch to follow. c/o Red Bluff Elks Lodge, P. O. Box 417, Red Bluff, CA 96080, or to your favorite charity. Donations may be made to the Elks National Foundation 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, Evelyn May Hunt Evelyn May Hunt died Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at the Golden Living Care Home in Redding. She was 85. Hall Brothers Corning Mortuary is handling the arrangements. BUDGET Continued from page 1A the position is expected to be created in July as a way to ensure the department could retain or hire an employee that would be privy to inter- nal affairs information. At the heart of the new deal with police officers and management was the separa- tion of sick and vacation pay accruals. Also at Tuesday's meet- ing the council adopted a supplemental budget appro- priation for the ending fiscal year that included comp leave payouts of $57,381 STATE hikes would be temporary but include constitutional changes to local government funding. would help the governor's initiative stand out on what will be a crowded ballot. So far, 12 measures have quali- fied. A water bond proposal is currently first but is expected to be delayed by the Legislature. Brown, a Democrat, has delayed taking action on the main budget bill that law- makers sent him 12 days ago. It would enact a rough- ly $92 billion state spending plan for the fiscal year start- ing July 1. Being atop the ballot Continued from page 1A Brown's proposed tax Finance Director Sandy Ryan said the previous sys- tem had allowed one individ- ual to cash out 25 weeks of unused sick and vacation time when they left city employment. The new system, which separates the two accruals would only allow a maxi- mum of a 7-week cashout. Ryan said the change should save the city close to $1 mil- lion over the next few years. City staff and the council took the time to praise Ryan for her work getting a com- pleted budget done before the fiscal year starts July 1. from the city manager fund and $88,524 out of the pub- lic safety fund. any Republican votes. Democratic leaders agreed to Brown's request to phase in a two-year time limit for new welfare recipi- ents to find work under the state's welfare-to-work pro- gram known as Cal- WORKS. The two sides also agreed to eliminate Healthy Fami- lies, a children's health insur- ance program for low- income working families, by slowly moving 880,000 chil- dren into Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid. would reduce funding for child care assistance while college aid under the Cal Grants program would be reduced beginning in the 2013-14 school year. In addition, the state Democratic leaders have agreed to deeper cuts to sat- isfy the governor's demands, including restructuring the state's welfare program, streamlining health insur- ance for low-income chil- dren, and reducing child care coverage and college aid. Since then, Democrats who control the Legislature have been scrambling to draft companion legislation needed to implement the budget. Democrats have majorities in both the Assembly and Senate and can pass the budget without legislation that would appro- priate more money for Cali- fornia's public universities if the University of California and California State Univer- sity agreed to freeze tuition rates. The funding is contin- gent upon voter approval of Brown's tax hike measure. Democrats also included would get $50 million more as well. Community colleges allow Brown to furlough state workers without an agreement with their unions for a 5 percent reduction in wages. Other legislation would Published Thursday, June 28, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said he was encouraged by the results, which put Cali- fornia's graduation rate at 76.3 percent, up 1.5 percent from 2010, and dropout rate at 14.4 per- cent, down by 2.2 per- cent, from 2010, but noted there was still much room for improvement. ''It's going in the right direction, but it's not where we want it to be,'' he said during a teleconference with reporters. ''We want to be at 85-90 percent.'' The difference between graduation and dropout rates is students who are taking longer than four years to earn a diploma, special educa- tion students, and stu- dents working on equiv- alency diplomas. LOS ANGELES (AP) — More Califor- nia high school students graduated in 2011 and fewer dropped out, with the biggest gains posted by Hispanic, black and English learner stu- dents, the state Depart- ment of Education said Wednesday. Results for Hispanic, black, English learner TOUR Continued from page 1A ering spot in the commu- nity. A jewel of the city that I recall with fond- ness the role it has played in my life." marveling at the marble, tile and overall opulence of the place in addition to the murals, Cornelius said. In 1955, he remembers many of his first dates and has served as an entertainment center for the entire community, having a 20 cent admis- sion price back in the day that "opened up an excit- ing world," Cornelius said. It was the place for mas overall changed drastically with the intro- duction of multiplexes, the State Theatre owners tried to keep up and in the 1980s they tried to make it into a trifold the- ater, he said. It was largely unused in the 1990s and at one point there was talk of using it for a market place or a parking lot, however, it was bought and saved in the early 2000s by local residents. In 2010, the non-profit group State Theatre for the Arts began working on plans to acquire the building and it entered escrow in early 2011, closing in October. "A place with about 15,000 residents and in 15 months, we've had over $370,000 con- tributed to our capital In the 1970s, as cine- year-old man holed up inside a stolen motorhome Friday at the Love's truck stop in Corning came to an end without a single bullet being fired. A California Highway Patrol By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A 6-hour standoff with a 51- ment and Tehama County Sher- iff's Department assisted CHP in the process of trying to get Wil- son to give himself up. Tehama County Interagency SWAT team was called in later Friday after Larry Wilson refused several attempts to get him to come out. A SWAT negotiator made an unsuccessful attempt to get Wil- son to give himself up and after about six hours the SWAT team approached the motorhome and fired two gas cartridges into the rear of the motorhome, Atkins said. A few minutes later, Wilson opened the side door and stepped out with his hands raised over his head. Thursday, June 28, 2012 – Daily News 7A He was taken into custody, checked by medical personnel, Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on @DN_Zeeb. Twitter State sees progress in graduation, dropout rates "At the rate California is going, it will take us 13 years to close the graduation gap between Latino and African-American students and their white peers.'' —Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust-West and poor students were higher than the overall average, which showed that progress was being made in closing the so- called ''achievement gap'' in which Asian and white students con- sistently outperform their counterparts from other ethnic groups, Torlakson said. Asian students post- ed the top graduation rate with 90 percent, while black students fared the least well, with 63 percent. English learners reported the biggest gains — 3.8 percent more graduated, while 4 percent fewer dropped out. show an uptick, some said they show that more attention and resources are needed to graduate more black and Hispanic students. ''At the rate Califor- nia is going, it will take us 13 years to close the graduation gap between Latino and African- American students and their white peers,'' said Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust- West, an Oakland-based education advocacy group. efforts, including pursu- ing truants, online learning, motivational events and extra coun- seling. The state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, posted a 4.2 percent drop in its dropout rate, to 20.6 percent, and less than 1 percent decline in its graduation rate, to 61.6 percent. then transported to Tehama County Jail were he was booked for possession of a stolen vehi- cle, Atkins said. During negotiations, Wilson said he was concerned about going to prison and the safety of his dog who was also in the motorhome, making several sui- cidal statements that he was going to kill himself, Atkins said. Neither Wilson or his dog received any injuries. CHP officers did locate a loaded .22- caliber rifle inside the motorhome following the stand-off. ——— Hispanic students scored a 2.2 percent jump in graduation and 3 percent fewer left school, while 2.3 per- cent more black stu- dents earned a diploma and 2 percent fewer dropped out. Although the results campaign," Cornelius said. "It is a arts and cul- tural anchor, largely still volunteers and we have at least one event per week." The group was also welcomed by a famous local, none other than actor Tom Hanks, who spoke to the group in a video about the impor- tance of the State to him as a former resident. "My mom used to bring me down," said Hanks, who recalls see- ing movies such as Plan- et of the Apes, Bonnie and Clyde and even Adventures of Tigger. "The State Theatre is a magnificent gem in the Tehama County crown and it needs to stay right here. When I come back to Red Bluff, if there's something planned I know I'll buy my ticket." Cornelius said the State Theatre is proud to have a relationship with Hanks, who has gener- ously donated in the past toward the work of reno- vating the building. "This theater is in great shape," THS Publi- cations Director and Board Member Ken Bloom said. "They have A number of districts graduate more than 90 percent of Hispanic and black students, showing that it can be done, Ramanathan said. San Diego Unified Superintendent Bill Kowba attributed his district's gains of approximately 4 percent in the graduation of black and Hispanic stu- dents to increased dropout prevention a blueprint of what to do and are just touching it up instead of reconstruct- ing it. It really is a won- derful theater." The dropout numbers are only for high school students. Education officials said a signifi- cant number of middle school students never make it to high school, but they do not have those figures. The report is the sec- ond year that the state has tracked a high school class from ninth through 12th grade in an effort to obtain more accurate data on who makes it to graduation and who does not. turn to them for help, Parks said. Parks of Sunnyvale coor- dinated the tours for the 2012 visit in California. "We chose the State Theatre because of a tour we took two years ago," Parks said. "My mother, wife and I were on a trip coming back from Ore- gon. We got off the free- way and stopped here. While we were standing outside, State Theatre Board Member Christy Forward happened to be in the alley and asked if she could help us." After getting a tour of the place, he decided to add it to the list for 2012 since trips are planned about two years out. "We have the largest THS member Gary archive for historic the- aters around," Parks said. "We have photos of what theaters looked like back when, who decorated and when they opened." While headquarters for the group, founded in 1969, are in Elmhurst, Ill., near Chicago, there are a lot of groups from around the country that The group has been touring during its board meeting since 1970, he said. The State Theatre in Red Bluff is a larger part of the tour than just being a stop on the bus, he said. "I actually designed the logo for our t-shirts this year," Parks said. "I was inspired by the mural in Red Bluff's State The- atre and it heavily influ- enced the logo." For more information on the group visit his- torictheatres.org. For information on the State Theatre visit www.statetheatrered- bluff.com or call 529- 2787. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb.