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Adams:MyrtleAnnAd- ams, 77, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Dec. 14at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Arcieri: Eleanor Maria Arcieri, 101, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Dec. 7at Red Bluff Healthcare. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Cunningham: Jeanne Rae Cunningham, 76, of Red Bluff died Thursday, Dec. 15at her home. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Gottschalk: Mary Louise Gottschalk, 98, of Carmi- chael died Monday, Dec. 19 at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thurs- day, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Hendrix: Harry Emerson Hendrix, Sr., 81, of Chico died Tuesday, Dec. 13at Prestige Assisted Living. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Jonsson: Astridur "Asta" Jonsson, 81, of Red Bluff died Saturday, Dec. 17at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Mills: Hubert Lynn Mills, 90, of Red Bluff died Monday, Dec. 12at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Nelson: Anna Myrtle Nelson, 82, of Red Bluff died Wednesday, Dec. 14 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Smothers: John Anthony Smothers, 49, of Proberta died Thursday, Dec. 15at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Van Veghel: Dolores Jean Van Veghel, 90, of Red Bluff died Thursday, Dec. 8at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuaries to the news department, 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 newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Deathnotices lanesofsouthboundI-5. Two CHP officers ren- dered medical aid to For- rest at which time they ob- served signs of alcohol in- toxication. He was placed under arrest on charges of driving under the influence, evading a peace officer with wanton disregard for safety and driving without a li- cense before being flown to EnloeMedicalCenter,where he was released to the hospi- tal for treatment. White and his passen- gers, Brandie Delong, 36, a 16-year-old boy, 2-year- old girl and 6-year-old boy, all of Corning, were not in- jured. Arrest FROM PAGE 1 vestment earnings of 7 per- centperyear,downfrom7.5 percent over the next three years. The move gets closer to CalPERS'actualexperience in the market, but it comes with serious financial con- sequences for government agencies and the workers they employ. Money that the pension fund doesn't expect to earn from investments must come from other sources, which will consume tax dollars that would other- wise go to education, pub- lic safety, social services and other government pro- grams. Even7percentisoptimis- tic. CalPERS advisers proj- ect the fund will earn on average just 6.2 percent per year over the next decade. CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension sys- tem with more than $300 billion in assets and 1.8 mil- lion members, faces a se- ries of financial pressures. More workers are retiring and living longer once they do,raisingbenefitcostsand leaving fewer people to pay into the system. The fund has not recov- ered from massive invest- ment losses during the Great Recession, which wiped out a quarter of the pension fund's value. And investment returns have fallen far short of the earn- ings target — 0.61 percent inthelastfiscalyearand2.4 percent the year before. CalPERS now pays out more each month in bene- fits to its retired members than it earns from cash and investment earnings. The fund has only enough assets to pay for about 68 percent of promised ben- efits, and each year of be- low-target earnings creates a bigger chasm between as- sets and liabilities. "Today's action by the CalPERS Board is more re- flective of the financial re- turnstheycanexpectinthe future," Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown said in a state- ment. "This will make for a more sustainable system." Brown has long warned about the precarious fi- nancesinthestate'spension system and urged CalPERS to adopt more realistic as- sumptions. The decision will strain the budgets of local gov- ernments and require their workerstocontributemore, but failing to react to the pension system's growing unfundedliabilitywouldbe even worse, said Faith Con- ley, legislative advocate for the California State Associ- ation of Counties. "It's better now than later," Conley said. "The next 10 years don't look that great. So if we don't do it now, we could suffer a much bigger hit later, and thatwouldbebadforusand employees." Pension FROM PAGE 1 An item in Tuesday's po- lice logs regarding a vehicle stolen from Hawes Ranch andFarmSupplycontained an error. Anemployeewasdriving by Hawes Sunday around 9:20 p.m. and noticed the rear gate to the business had been removed from the hinges. The employee checked the lot and discov- ered a company truck was missing. The truck was described as a gray 1995 Dodge 3500 dually pick- up. The license plate on the pick-up is 5B39484. All of the keys to the truck are ac- counted for. The Daily News regrets the error. It is the policy of the 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. Correction By Josh Boak The Associated Press WASHINGTON He was a first-term senator-turned- president, a former law pro- fessor with little experience in economics or manage- ment. When he entered the White House he had one es- sential task: piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy. It wasn't smooth and it wasn't fast. But President Barack Obama will leave behind, by most measures, an economy far stronger than the one he inherited. Unemployment is 4.6 per- cent, a nine-year low. Stocks keep setting highs. An ad- ditional 20 million Ameri- cans have health insurance coverage. The nation has shifted toward cleaner en- ergy sources: natural gas, wind and solar. Yet it's also an economy that left many people feel- ing neglected. Polling af- ter the November elec- tion found that nearly two- thirds of voters described the economy as "not so good" or "poor." The costs of housing, col- lege and prescription drugs kept outpacing paychecks. Job options had been dwin- dling for workers with only high school diplomas even before Obama took office, but the downturn and slow recovery magnified the pain of that trend. Many people gave up looking for work. Struggling rural towns never enjoyed the uplift that benefited major cities. Fueled in part by such challenges, voters chose to pass the presidency to Donald Trump, a Republi- can who had railed against a weak economy and promised to undo many of Obama's policies. The gap between the economy's overall health and Americans' lingering anxieties cuts to the heart of Obama's legacy. The pres- ident and his team took historic actions to pull the economy back from the brink. But those very steps failed to help swaths of America and turned many people against his poli- cies, setting the stage for Trump's nationalist plat- form. "We saved the economy from a failing financial system, though we lost the country doing it," Obama's first treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, concluded in his 2014 memoirs. Economic problems that had been simmering for de- cades started to boil with the Great Recession of 2007-2009. It suddenly be- came Obama's responsibil- ity to address problems that were both immediate and generations in the making. Building on measures taken by George W. Bush's administration, Obama pumped $412 billion into teetering banks, troubled fi- nancial firms and the strug- gling automakers General Motors and Chrysler. The infusion was stigmatized for being a government bailout, though the money was ultimately repaid. Then there was the Re- covery Act, known as the "stimulus," enacted less than a month after Obama took the oath of office in 2009. Administration es- timates initially suggested that the $836 billion stimu- lus — a mix of tax cuts, pub- lic investments and direct aid — would prevent unem- ployment from rising above 8 percent. Those projections were faulty, based on economic figures that were later downgraded. The 8 percent unemployment projection ultimately became a polit- ical albatross as the rate peaked at 10 percent that October — proof to some Republicans that the stim- ulus had failed. But there's little doubt the bill made an impact. The U.S. recovery was, and continues to be, stronger than in economies in Eu- rope and Japan. Adminis- tration officials note that until the full force of the stimulus arrived, key U.S. economic measures were on the same trajectory as in the Great Depression. Even more polarizing was the 2010 Patient Pro- tection and Affordable Care Act, a major extension of the federal social safety net. It expanded Medicaid while imposing new regu- lations designed to support the middle class that al- lowed young adults to stay on parents' plans and cre- ated marketplaces for pur- chasing health insurance. Just 8.9 percent of Amer- icans now lack health insur- ance — a historic low, ac- cording to the National Center for Health Statis- tics. But critics complain that Obama's health care law brought bureaucratic headaches and burdensome costs. The average premium for plans under the health care law next year jumped 22 percent, an increase that will be offset somewhat by federal subsidies. The combination of all these acts fueled a conser- vative backlash that would propel dozens of Republi- cans into Congress, costing Democrats control of the House in 2010 and bringing Obama's economic agenda to a halt. LEGACY Economy healed under Obama, but unhappy voters chose Trump By Philip Marcelo The Associated Press BOSTON A novel drug ad- diction program developed in a small Massachusetts fishing town and since replicated in dozens of cit- ies nationwide was able to place almost 400 addicts into treatment nearly each time they sought it during the first year of operation, researchers say in a report being published Thursday in the New England Jour- nal of Medicine. The team from the Bos- ton Medical Center and Boston University say 376 addicts sought assistance 429 times from the Glouces- ter Police Department's An- gel program from June 2015 to May 2016. They received the help they needed nearly 95 percent of the time, re- searchers say. Davida Schiff, a Boston Medical Center doctor and lead author of the report, said that rate is far higher than the 50 to 60 percent for similar, hospital-based initiatives. Part of the reason, she said, is that Gloucester's addicts were voluntarily coming to police seek- ing help. "They were mo- tivated individuals that came to the station ready to engage in care," Schiff said. The report also notes that Gloucester police es- tablished a relationship with a local treatment cen- ter to make placement eas- ier. Its officers were work- ing round-the-clock to se- cure the placements. And Massachusetts mandates health coverage for drug detoxification. The Angel program has been replicated in some form by more than 150 police departments in 28 states since it was launched in June 2015. It gained no- toriety after the then-po- lice chief promised heroin addicts they could turn in their drugs at the police station without fear of ar- rest, so long as they agreed to start treatment. As part of the program, officers personally reach out to treatment centers on behalf of addicts, arrange their transportation to the facilities and, if needed, pair them with a volunteer "angel" for emotional sup- port. David Rosenbloom, a Boston University profes- sor who helped write the report, suggested the pro- gram's success underscores the difficulty of accessing drug treatment services. Roughly half of the partic- ipants in the program had prior drug-related arrests, he noted. "When you've been ar- rested, it's hard to have re- ally good feelings about the cops," said Rosenbloom, a founding board member of the Police Assisted Ad- diction and Recovery Ini- tiative, a Massachusetts- based nonprofit that sup- ports the Angel program and partly financed the re- search. "It says something when addicts are going to the police station for treat- ment. It's a real condemna- tion of how the whole treat- ment system faces the pub- lic." The next step for re- searchers is following up with first-year participants to see how they fared in treatment and beyond, he said. The researchers also hope to study similar pro- grams nationally. Follow Philip Marcelo at twitter.com/philmarcelo. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/ journalist/philip-marcelo PROGRAM Researchers: Drug addicts helped in police effort "This contest gives stu- dents the opportunity to ex- plore the world of agricul- ture," Clubertson said. The contest aims to help students develop narrative and informative writing skills, according to a Dec. 9 release from the foun- dation. Stories are writ- ten about real or imagined events, based on accurate information about Califor- nia agriculture. Awards will be mailed to the schools in January 2017. State winners will be announced on Jan. 1, 2017. State-winning stories will be published in the 2016 edition of "Imagine this... Stories Inspired by Agri- culture," which features il- lustrations created by high school art students. With more than 400 agricultural commodi- ties produced in the state, there are endless opportu- nities for students to de- velop their knowledge of agriculture and their cre- ative story-writing skills, the release said. Students are challenged to research the agricultural topics fea- tured in their story. The contest aligns with current California Edu- cation Standards, inspir- ing creativity and critical thinking, while connect- ing students to the world around them. The pro- gram is designed to help students make a personal connection to California agriculture, a $47 billion industry. Teachers are encour- aged to use the founda- tion's free teaching re- sources to introduce stu- dents to agriculture. The new book will debut during California Agricul- ture Day on March 22, 2017 in Sacramento. For more information about the contest, visit LearnAboutAg.org/imag- inethis. Students FROM PAGE 1 CHARLES DHARAPAK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE In this file photo, President Barack Obama puts his hand to his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance at the 102nd Abraham Lincoln Association banquet in Springfield, Ill. He was a first-term senator-turned-president. A former law professor with little experience in economics or management. When he walked into the White House he had one, clear job: Piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy. Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. www.affordablemortuary.net•529-3655 FD1538 LocatedinChico,CA R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Now open longer hours 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 5 A