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Guests were able to get a free copy of The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande, which is the book featured this year for the Red Bluff High School Book In Com- mon program. Grande will be in Red Bluff to speak at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Red Bluff High School caf- eteria. RSVP by writing to mackley@rbhsd.org by Jan. 10. Visitors were able to get information on the Tehama County Employer Advisory Council, which holds workshops on labor law changes on the first Thursday of each month at the Tehama County De- partment of Education, 1135 Lincoln St. in Red Bluff. Businesses can join for $35 a year and send as many employees as they want to attend workshops on a variety of topics in- cluding sick leave, insur- ance and workman's com- pensation, said coordina- tor Amber Yearton. Suggestions of topics for the workshops are al- ways welcome and non- members can attend for $20 per workshop. The next topic sched- uled for Thursday, Jan. 5, is I-9 updates and keeping your business safe from criminal and civil penal- ties, featuring Lisa Han- sen and Michelle Clem- ent. For more information on the council or upcom- ing events, call 225-2190 or write to tehamacount- yeac@gmail.com. Social FROMPAGE1 "It was just kind of a roller," he said. "Nothing was thrown off the shelves or anything like that." In January 2010, a 6.5 magnitude quake in the Pacific caused about $34 million in property losses in and around the nearby city of Eureka, including partial damage to at least nine buildings. The area experienced a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in 1992 that left 95 people injured and caused mil- lions of dollars in damage, according to the USGS. That earthquake was felt as far south as San Francisco. It was followed by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake about 12 hours later and a magnitude-6.7 earthquake a few hours after that, both of which caused additional damage. Earthquake FROM PAGE 1 job these last two years. I hope to be able to serve the citizens of Red Bluff well and am excited for the opportunity." Daniele Jackson was se- lected as mayor pro tem. City Treasurer Donna Gordy ran unopposed and has retained her spot on the staff for a full term of four years. The city clerk position for 2017 has not been filled, as there was no paperwork filed for the elected posi- tion. Council FROM PAGE 1 Agroupofladiesposeforapictureatthephotoboothon Thursday at the annual Holiday Dessert Social. PHOTOS BY JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Attendees enjoy socializing Thursday at the annual Holiday Dessert Social hosted by the Job Training Center and Tehama County Employer Advisory Council. By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to or- bit the Earth made him an all-American hero and pro- pelled him to a long ca- reer in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 as- tronauts was 95. Glenn died at the James Cancer Hospital in Colum- bus, Ohio, where he was hospitalized for more than a week, said Hank Wilson, communications director for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. John Herschel Glenn Jr. had two major career paths that often intersected: flying and politics, and he soared in both of them. Before he gained fame orbiting the world, he was a fighterpilotintwowars,and as a test pilot, he set a trans- continentalspeedrecord.He later served 24 years in the SenatefromOhio.Arareset- back was a failed 1984 run for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination. His long political ca- reer enabled him to return to space in the shuttle Dis- covery at age 77 in 1998, a cosmic victory lap that he relished and turned into a teachable moment about growing old. He holds the record for the oldest person in space. More than anything, Glenn was the ultimate and uniquely American space hero: a combat veteran with an easy smile, a strong mar- riage of 70 years and nerves of steel. Schools, a space cen- ter and the Columbus air- port were named after him. So were children. The Soviet Union leaped ahead in space exploration by putting the Sputnik 1 sat- ellite in orbit in 1957, and then launched the first man in space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in a 108-minute or- bital flight on April 12, 1961. After two suborbital flights by Alan Shepard Jr. and Gus Grissom, it was up to Glenn to be the first American to orbit the Earth. "Godspeed, John Glenn," fellow astronaut Scott Car- penter radioed just before Glenn thundered off a Cape Canaveral launch pad, now a National Historic Land- mark, to a place America had never been. At the time of that Feb. 20, 1962, flight, Glenn was 40 years old. During the four-hour, 55-minute flight, Glenn ut- tered a phrase that he would repeat frequently through- out life: "Zero G, and I feel fine." "It still seems so vivid to me," Glenn said in a 2012 in- terview with The Associated Press on the 50th anniver- sary of the flight. "I still can sort of pseudo feel some of those same sensations I had back in those days during launch and all." Glenn's ride in the cramped Friendship 7 cap- sule had its scary moments. Sensors showed his heat shield was loose after three orbits, and Mission Control worried he might burn up during re-entry when tem- peratures reached 3,000 degrees. But the heat shield held. Glenn was born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio, and grew up in New Con- cord, Ohio. His love of flight was lifelong; John Glenn Sr. spoke of the many summer evenings he arrived home to find his son running around the yard with outstretched arms, pretending he was pi- loting a plane. Glenn's goal of becom- ing a commercial pilot was changed by World War II. He left Muskingum College to join the Naval Air Corps and soon after, the Marines. He became a success- ful fighter pilot who ran 59 hazardous missions, often as a volunteer or as the re- quested backup of assigned pilots. A war later, in Korea, he earned the nickname "MiG-Mad Marine." Glenn's public life began when he broke the trans- continental airspeed record, bursting from Los Angeles to New York City in three hours, 23 minutes and eight seconds. With his Crusader averaging 725 mph, the 1957 flight proved the jet could endure stress when pushed to maximum speeds over long distances. OBITUARY John Glenn, 1st American to orbit Earth, dies at 95 By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK A decades- long trend of rising life ex- pectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago. In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up, thanks to medi- cal advances, public health campaigns and better nu- trition and education. But last year it slipped, an exceedingly rare event in a year that did not in- clude a major disease out- break. Other one-year de- clines occurred in 1993, when the nation was in the throes of the AIDS ep- idemic, and 1980, the re- sult of an especially nasty flu season. In 2015, rates for 8 of the 10 leading causes of death rose. Even more troubling to health experts: the U.S. seems to be settling into a trend of no improvement at all. "With four years, you're starting to see some indi- cation of something a little more ominous," said S. Jay Olshansky, a University of Illinois-Chicago public health researcher. An American born in 2015 is expected to live 78 years and 9½ months, on average, according to pre- liminary data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An American born in 2014 could expect to live about month lon- ger, and even an Ameri- can born in 2012 would have been expected to live slightly longer. In 1950, life expectancy was just over 68 years. The United States ranks below dozens of other high-income countries in life expectancy, according to the World Bank. It is highest in Japan, at nearly 84 years. The CDC report is based mainly on 2015 death cer- tificates. There were more than 2.7 million deaths, or about 86,000 more than the previous year. The in- crease in raw numbers partly reflects the nation's growing and aging popu- lation. It was led by an un- usual upturn in the death rate from the nation's leading killer, heart dis- ease. Death rates also in- creased for chronic lower lung disease, accidental injuries, stroke, Alzheim- er's disease, diabetes, kid- ney disease and suicide. The only clear drop was in cancer, the nation's No. 2 killer. Experts aren't sure what's behind the stall. Some, like Olshansky, sus- pect obesity, an underly- ing factor in some of the largest causes of death, particularly heart disease. But there's also the im- pact of rising drug over- doses and suicides, he noted. "There are a lot of things happening at the same time," he said. HEALTH US life expectancy falls, as many kinds of death increase By Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press NEW YORK In the midst of his Cabinet deliber- ations, President-elect Donald Trump flew to Ohio Thursday to meet with victims and families after the latest U.S. out- break of violence, a som- ber duty that became all too familiar to his prede- cessor. In Columbus, he also had words of tribute for astronaut and senator John Glenn of Ohio — "in- deed an American hero" — who died Thursday at 95. Then he was off to Iowa for the latest stop on his victory tour to states that helped him win the pres- idency. In the middle of it all, Trump also made his lat- est Cabinet announce- ment, picking fast-food executive Andrew Puz- der to lead the Labor De- partment. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Hold- ings, the parent of Carl's Jr., Hardee's and other chains. The Californian was one of Trump's ear- liest campaign financiers, and his selection brings yet another wealthy busi- ness person and elite do- nor into his administra- tion-in-the-making. Trump flew to Colum- bus to meet with several people who were slashed by Ohio State student Ab- dul Razak Ali Artan. Ar- tan, 18, first rammed a campus crowd with his car before getting out with a knife and stabbing stu- dents before being fatally shot by police. The presi- dent-elect spent about 30 minutes with some of the victims and their families. "These are great peo- ple, amazing people," said Trump, who also paid trib- ute to the first respond- ers who tended to the vic- tims and shot the attacker. "The families have come through this so well." Trump met with the families privately and aides did not immedi- ately provide an account- ing of what was discussed. But, in his brief statement to reporters, he took on the role of comforter-in- chief, avoiding the inflam- matory rhetoric that has marked his response to other attacks. Following the Ohio inci- dent, Trump had tweeted that Artan, a legal Somali immigrant, should not have been in the country. And last week, in nearby Cincinnati, Trump said lax immigration policies enacted by "stupid politi- cians" led to the "violent atrocity." PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump meets with Ohio State victims, taking on somber duty JAY LAPRETE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE U.S. Sen. John Glenn talks with astronauts on the International Space Station via satellite before a discussion titled "Learning from the Past to Innovate for the Future" in Columbus, Ohio. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Astronaut John Glenn sits next to the Friendship 7space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., during preparations for his flight which made him the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 7 A