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Obituaries Louise Angela Stovich passed away on July 10, 2012 at Mercy Hospital in Redding, CA. She was born the oldest of three children to James and Rose Palumbo on February 2, 1931 in Bradenville, PA. After high school she attend- ed Latrobe Hospital School of Nursing, and graduated at the age of 21. She had a long and dedicated nursing ca- reer. Louise and her husband moved to Swartz Creek, Michigan in 1969, where they raised their two children. She belonged to Latrobe Hospital Nursing Alumni Associ- ation, Church choirs, the Sweet Adeline's, and the Dutch Club. She was a very loving and caring person with a good sense of humor. She enjoyed playing piano, singing, attending musicals, and entertaining at dinner parties. Af- ter 40 years of nursing, the last 33 of which were in the operating room, she retired in 1992. Ten years ago she and her husband moved from Michigan to Redding, Cali- fornia to be close to the grandchildren she cherished and loved. Louise is survived by her husband, Michael Stovich (married for 57 years); son, Michael Stovich, Jr.; daughter, Lisa Gentry (and husband William H. Gentry, MD) and her two grandchildren, Jennifer and William Gentry, Jr. On Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at 9:00 am. a rosary will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff. Following the rosary will be a 10:00 mass. Reception will be held 11:00-1:00, at Dr. Gentry's office, LOUISE ANGELA STOVICH 430 Rio St., Red Bluff. Then at 2:00 the graveside services will be held at the Veteran's cemetery near Igo. Car show set for Sunday p.m. Raffles and 50/50 drawing will be done. Hot dogs and hamburgers will be for sale. Cost is $5 per registrant not per car or $10 per space to sell car related items. All proceeds go to Christmas 4 Kids. For more information call 527-0749. The Christmas 4 Kids Car Show, sponsored by the Friday Knights Car Club, will be Sunday, July 15, at the Tractor Supply parking lot. Registration is 7:30-10:30 a.m. and awards are at 3 Surfing goats ride waves SAN ONOFRE STATE BEACH (AP) — Two goats named Goatee and Pismo are wowing California beachgoers with their surfing skills. The goats' owner, Dana McGregor, says he taught his goats to surf because he loves to ride the waves and thought they would like it, too. water Wednesday at San Onofre State Beach, as bystanders watched in amazement. Goatee, a nanny goat, and her billy goat, Pismo, The goats stood on surfboards and cruised along the even rode waves together. But after a few rides, Goatee swam to shore. McGregor says he got Goatee originally to eat eventually putting her on a surfboard. McGregor says he started putting Pismo on a board shortly after he was born in March. Mill Fire up to 17,300 acres By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Mill Fire acreage jumped drastically overnight, going from 17,300 Thursday evening to 23,414 Mon- day morning. The fire, which start- ed about midnight on July 7 in the Mendocino National Forest in Colusa County, is 45 percent contained, according to the NorCal Interagency Manage- ment Team press release. The cause of the fire, which has brought about three injuries and destroyed five outbuild- ings, is under investiga- tion. There are 1,624 peo- ple committed to the fire with costs estimated at $6.1 million. The fire is expected to be contained by July 20. the fire burned actively in steep rugged terrain overnight Thursday through early Friday morning. Difficult terrain and The southern flank of deer hunting opens today, however a closure order remains in effect for the fire area. The Grindstone Ranger District has unique recreation oppor- tunities including a pop- ular off-highway vehicle trail system. The fire has impacted 90 miles or two-thirds of this sys- tem. The Bureau of Recla- mation announced Fri- day that East Park Reser- voir in Colusa County, about 100 miles north- west of Sacramento, has been closed to recre- ational activities due to safety concerns which include air quality and emergency vehicles operating in the area. A list of closures and Hunters who visit the recreation area on the south central portion of the Grindstone Ranger District, will be affected, however, the Snow Mountain Wilderness Area is still open and accessible from northern trailheads, including West Crockett. unwanted plants on his property. He began taking the goat to the beach with him, LAYOFFS Continued from page 1A association combined with district efforts should mitigate the need for certificated layoffs to be finalized next month." approve the layoffs Friday, however, it is expected that, if the timing works out, the board will have the opportunity to rescind the layoffs before they go into affect, McCoy said. The board was expected to The board was to receive details on the agreement during a closed session at Friday's meeting. From there, the agreement would have to be ratified by both the board and the FAIR Continued from page 1A County, Silver Awards went to Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Hum- WOLF Continued from page 1A At Humboldt Summit northeast of Butte Mead- owsWednesday, Rachelle Garcia of Red Bluff said she thinks "it's sort of cool" that a wolf is in the area. Scouts use the buddy sys- tem and don't leave out food to keep predators and scavengers away. lone wolf is a threat and said she hopes someone doesn't kill him. She doesn't think the "Let nature be at its best without interfering with it," Garcia said. "I just think we can all live in harmony." Wolves typically die Red Bluff Elementary Education Association and be approved by the county in order to finalize the agree- ment. "We still have detailed fiscal analysis to do, but I am confident that the agreement gets us much closer to covering the potential gap left by the potential massive cuts to schools if the November tax mea- sure does not pass," McCoy said. " The tentative agreement puts us very close to that number. The team, teachers and the district, have pulled together to keep the district afloat against the challenges the state con- tinues to throw our way financially." If the initiative does not pass, Red Bluff would take a loss of about $935,000 and is asking the teachers association to cover $757,000, he boldt, Inyo, Lake, Modoc, Nevada, San Francisco/Alameda/Marin counties, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus and Yolo. Yuba County earned a Bronze Award. "He clearly has endeared himself to the public in California." OR7 has fed from a wild horse, a mule deer, squirrels and a pile of old livestock bones, Kovacs said. Saturday, July 14, 2012 – Daily News 9A said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Cal Expo is at 1600 Exposition Blvd. in Sacra- mento. Fair hours are 11 a.m.to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m.to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Admis- The DFG has no evi- dence OR7 harmed any people or livestock in Cal- ifornia, Kovacs said Also at Humboldt Sum- mit, Adam Yarnes and Julie Bielewicz of Portola said Wednesday they would be amazed to see the wolf they have been tracking since it came into California. Yarnes thinks wolves from fighting with each other, being kicked or stomped by bison or elk, starvation, disease and being killed by humans or run over, Kovacs said. The federal Endangered Species Act protects any wolf that enters Califor- nia. find a female to repro- duce," Kovacs said. "How long he can survive on his own? He seems to be rela- tively healthy, he's finding food, it's hard to say. "He may not survive to Proposition 29 might swing the other way. Unofficial ballot results show the $1-per- pack cigarette tax initia- tive to fund cancer research lost in June by fewer than 30,000 votes out of more than 5 million cast statewide. are a keystone species that should be reintroduced to the state, he said. He said he would be "all about" bringing in a female wolf to California to mate with OR7. DFG, however, differs. "It's easy for people to say, 'Just give him a female.'" Kovacs said. But the likelihood of having two wolves that travel about 20 miles a day cross paths in the large unenclosed area of North- ern California is remote, Kovacs said. Wolf reloca- tion would also be subject to U.S. Fish and Wildlife authority and public review. forecaster Joe Kunches at the government's Space Weather Prediction Cen- ter in Boulder, Colo. ''We don't see any ill effects to any systems.'' Kovacs said no such plan is in the works or has been approved. "For wildlife, the pub- lic needs to have an under- standing it's not Disney- landish like Bambi where everybody goes off into the hills singing," Kovacs said. have seen the wolf or his tracks in California. "The odds of seeing a A handful of people There are few docu- mented wolf attacks on humans, Kovacs said. "Like most wildlife species not habituated to being around humans, they don't like us very much," Kovacs said. The DFG is not advis- ing people to avoid the areas where the wolf is tracked, Kovacs said. Kovacs recommended using common sense in the outdoors: don't go into remote areas alone, make sure someone knows where you are and when you'll be back, bring water, maps and a first aid kit, she said. Jose Vela said Wednes- day at a Cherry Hill camp site with his wife, Pat, said if he saw a wolf, "I would wolf, the odds of being attacked by a wolf, are incredibly remote," Kovacs said. STATE BRIEFING the United States-Canada border and northern Europe this weekend, Kunches said. The Sacramento Bee says San Francisco sur- geon John Maa, a member of the American Heart Association, requested a recount Monday. He asked the California secretary of state's office to recount 190 precincts in the Los Angeles County areas of Sherman Oaks and North Hollywood. Those precincts accounted for about 48,000 votes cast June 5. Los Angeles registrar Dean Logan says the recount begins Monday with an electronic tally before a manual count at midweek. evacuation information is available at: www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/ mendocino/alerts- notices. fire behavior made it dangerous for firefight- ers to attack the fire directly along the uncon- tained fire edge. Firing operations are being employed to strengthen containment lines and consume unburned fuel between indirect line and the fire's edge. Fire activity along the southern flank was expected to increase Friday. Archery season for California tobacco tax supporters call for this weekend LOS ANGELES (AP) — The space weather forecast for Earth looks a bit stormy this weekend, but scientists said not to worry. Solar storm barreling toward Earth — Tobacco tax supporters want a recount of ballots in parts of Los Angeles County to see if Califor- nia's barely-defeated recount SACRAMENTO (AP) to arrive Saturday morn- ing and last through Sun- day, slamming into Earth's magnetic field. Scientists said it will be a minor event and they have notified power grid opera- tors, airlines and other potentially affected par- ties. ''This isn't the mother of all anything,'' said A solar storm was due The storm began Thursday when the sun unleashed a massive flare that hurled a cloud of highly charged particles racing toward Earth at 3 million mph. It was the sixth time this year that such a powerful solar out- burst has occurred; none of the previous storms caused major problems. In severe cases, solar storms can cause power blackouts, damage satel- lites and disrupt GPS sig- nals and high-frequency radio communications. Airlines are sometimes forced to reroute flights to avoid the extra radiation around the north and south poles brought on by solar storms. In 1989, a strong solar storm knocked out the power grid in Quebec, causing 6 million people to lose electricity. Brown signs law raising cockfighting pushed for increasing fines rather than penalties. Pain doctor duped by dog X-ray — The fine for staging a cockfight will double in California under a law signed by Gov. Brown. fines SACRAMENTO (AP) Jerry The governor announced Friday that he signed SB1145 by Hemet Republican Sen. Bill Emmerson. The bill raises the fine for anyone con- victed of cockfighting from a maximum of $5,000 to $10,000. Juha-Pekka Luntama, a space weather expert at the European Space Agency, said utility and navigation operators ''will certainly see some- thing but they will proba- bly find ways to deal with any problems'' from the incoming storm. sun's normal 11-year cycle of solar activity, which is supposed to reach peak storminess next year. There's a bright side to stormy space weather: It tends to spawn colorful northern lights as the charged particles bom- bard Earth's outer mag- netic field. Shimmering auroras may be visible at The storm is part of the fines on other animal fighting, such as bears and dogs. Spectators could face as many as six months in jail and a fine of $5,000, up from $1,000. The fines will be raised starting next year. California charges The bill also increases Investigators say a South- ern California doctor saw enough from an X-ray to prescribe pain killers to an undercover cop but missed the tail showing it was an image of a dog. Police and Los Ange- les County deputies on Thursday raided the Glen- dora urgent care clinic of 69-year-old Dr. Rolando Lodevico Atiga after a two-month investigation that included three under- cover deputies posing as patients. GLENDORA (AP) — One of the undercover deputies showed Atiga an X-ray to prove she needed pain killers. The scan of her German shepherd clearly shows the dog's tail. first-time offenders with a misdemeanor and some advocates say the punish- ment should be raised to a felony. But since the state is looking to reduce prison costs, supporters Times reports Atiga examined the X-ray and asked if she wanted Vicodin, oxycodone, Vali- um or Xanax. The Los Angeles Timothy Staab says Atiga is well known among drug addicts and was con- sidered the doctor to go to. Glendora police Capt. approve a resolution of declaration of district fiscal emergency. "The reason behind the declara- tion is to bring attention to the November tax measure and the dev- astating impact that is has on our local schools," McCoy said. "The risk is still there on the November ballot, so the resolution is expected to be considered by the board. As a team, Red Bluff Elementary is building a response to a program we didn't create, but are forced to solve." The board was expected to sion is $12 general, $10 ages 62 and older, $8 chil- dren 5-12 and free for children 4 and younger. Parking is $10. For more information, visit www.bigfun.org. jump in the truck and roll up the windows and say, 'Enjoy yourself'," Vela said. owns the Outpost in Butte Meadows, and Donna Kociemba of the Tank House Store said no cus- tomers have claimed to see the wolf. Both Bill Prichard, who Robert "Pace" Cald- well of Boring, Ore. stopped along the Pacific Crest Trail Wednesday at Humboldt Summit and said he had been following the wolf's movements before he left in April to start the about five-month trek. any signs of the wolf. But if he did, instead of being worried, he would try to take a picture of him, he said. Caldwell has not seen "He's got plenty of other things to do than attack me," Caldwell said. the wolf has a good time in Butte County. The hiker said he hopes "I think he should go home, back to Oregon," Caldwell said. "We need him there." Katy Sweeny writes for the Chico Enterprise- Record.