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Blankenbaker:Claire Blankenbaker, 85, of Cot- tonwood died Tuesday, Dec. 27at Welcome Home Manor. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Friday, Dec. 30, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Darrah: Christine Dar- rah, 66, of Corning died Thursday, Dec. 22at her residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Friday, Dec. 30, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Donlin: Michael Don- lin, 68, of Cottonwood died Monday, Dec. 26at Shasta Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Friday, Dec. 30, 2016in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Williams: Barry Williams, 61, of Red Bluff died Sat- urday, Dec. 10in Tehama County. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Friday, Dec. 30, 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. Death notices and Marin counties in the North Bay could see temperatures drop into the 20s on Monday and Tuesday. In the San Joaquin Val- ley, citrus growers might startturningontheirwind machines to keep their or- anges and lemons from freezingnextweek,Fresno County Farm Bureau Ex- ecutive Director Ryan Ja- cobsensaid.Temperatures overnight Wednesday cold dip to 25 degrees, he said. "These could be some of the coldest tempera- tures we've seen this sea- son,"Jacobsensaid."There is no doubt that when you seetemperaturesdroplike this, farmers will be out taking some precautions." Southern California basked in balmy weather approaching 80 degrees Thursday under the warm influence of Santa Ana winds, but forecasters say the year would end wet and cold. Two weather distur- bances headed toward the region were expected to bring rain and mountain snow starting Friday, with daytime highs falling as much as 18 degrees from earlier in the week. The second system roll- ing down the coast Satur- day was predicted to be very cold for Southern Cal- ifornia. Forecasters said people planning to travel to or through mountains should stay aware of road conditions. A ridge of high pres- sure will keep the region dry on New Year's Day, but it won't warm things up much, leaving highs in the 50s, the NWS said. People camping out Sunday night on Pasa- dena sidewalks for Mon- day's 128th Rose Parade willhaveovernightlowsin the lower 40s. The parade, which is normally held on New Year's Day, is being held on Jan. 2 because of a never-on-Sundaytradition. If the forecast holds, the parade will main- tain its other tradition of rarely experiencing rain, but expected cloudy skies may mar the Chamber-of- Commerce vistas usually presented to the huge TV audience. Weather FROM PAGE 1 By Jake Coyle The Associated Press NEW YORK Carrie Fisher played a supporting role at her own birth. In her 2008 mem- oir, "Wishful Drinking," she described the scene. Doctors were running to see her mother, Deb- bie Reynolds ("At 24 she looked like a Christmas morning," wrote Fisher). Nurses, meanwhile, were rushing to glimpse her father, the crooner Eddie Fisher. "So when I arrived I was virtually unat- tended," wrote Fisher. "And I have been trying to make up for that ever since." Thus began one of the more complicated, thor- oughly documented and ultimately tender mother- daughter relationships in Hollywood, one both strained by celebrity and deepened through fiction. (Fisher's father, who ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, was soon out of the pic- ture.) As stars from different eras, they could hardly have been more differ- ent. Reynolds, the whole- some MGM star of "Sin- gin' in the Rain," was the sunny, all-American icon of the 1950s. Fisher, the "Star Wars" princess who comically rebelled against conventional stardom, was the can- did, drug-using symbol of Baby Boomers. Their relationship underwent dramatic swings, much of it chronicled in Fish- er's books, and in their big-screen alter-egos: Su- zanne Vale (Meryl Streep) and Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine) in "Postcards From the Edge," the adap- tation of Fisher's semi-au- tobiographical novel. But Reynolds and Fisher had this in com- mon: They were both show-business survivors. Reynolds, three-times divorced, weathered cheating men and swin- dlers who bilked her for millions. Fisher persisted through bipolar disor- der and drug addiction. When the two appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011 to celebrate their relationship, Fisher said: "I'm not afraid of al- most anything. And that's a lot because of your ex- ample." That Reynolds, 84, and Fisher, 60, died a day apart — Reynolds on Wednesday, Fisher on Tuesday — is the fi- nal heartbreak in a year full of them. Both passed away in the same hospi- tal, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles — a tragic if not poetic end for a mother and daugh- ter who bridged the gulf that was once between them. "She said, 'I want to be with Carrie,'" Todd Fisher, Reynolds' son, told The Associated Press. "And then she was gone." Such a poignant last sentiment was once un- fathomable. The two were estranged for nearly a de- cade in Fisher's 20s. "I didn't want to be around her," Fisher once said. "I did not want to be Debbie Reynolds' daughter." "She was so beautiful, and I dreamed of looking like her one day," Fisher wrote in her memoir. "I think it was when I was ten that I realized with profound certainty that I would not be, and was in no way now, the beauty that my mother was. I was a clumsy-looking and intensely awkward, inse- cure girl. I decided then that I'd better develop something else — if I wasn't going to be pretty, maybe I could be funny or smart." It wasn't only the con- siderable shadow of her mother that Fisher re- coiled from. It was, she often said, being forced to share her with the wider public. (A documentary on their relationship is to air in the new year on HBO.) "It took like 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me," Reynolds told People magazine in 1988. "I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it. I've al- ways been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home." CELEBRITIES CHRIS PIZZELLO — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Debbie Reynolds, le , and Carrie Fisher arrive at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in 2011. The Associated Press OAKLAND A man who urged an end to violence in Oakland after gunfire killed his son and grand- son as they slept three years ago became a victim him- self this week as he drove near a street memorial for his slain family. Melvin Johnson, 39, was shot and killed Tuesday on the east side of the San Francisco Bay Area city, not far from the shrine for his 16-month-old grandson and 20-year-old son, who were fatally shot in August 2013, The East Bay Times reported Thursday. Police have made no ar- rests and released no mo- tive for Johnson's killing. They have not said if the shooting was random or if Johnson was targeted. He died at a hospital. "In three years and four months, three generations of one family has been lost to gun violence in the streets of Oakland," com- munity activist Sherri-Lyn Miller, a friend of John- son's, told The Associated Press. "Melvin Johnson was a giant teddy bear, and the loss has not only devastated the Johnson family, but all that knew him." Johnson had moved his son, Andrew "Drew" Thomas, and grandson, Drew Leon Deon Jackson, to the central California city of Fresno to get them away from Oakland's street violence, but they were slain while in town for a birthday party. A shooter fired into a relative's home in the mid- dle of the night, killing the sleeping pair. The slayings are still unsolved. Johnson's mother, Caro- lyn Smith, spoke of her late son Wednesday as a good person who was committed to his family following a se- ries of tragedies. Another of his sons, 8-year-old Jahmel Johnson, died last month after a bat- tle with lymphoma. "(Melvin) helped every- body, he loved everybody," Smith told the newspa- per. "He didn't mess with nobody; he was like a big teddy bear. I'm not say- ing that because I was his mother, but because I know." Smith said his business, Drewski Designs, which made T-shirts and cloth- ing for picnics, anniversa- ries, funerals and special events, helped people in the community. "A lot of people called him, wanting him to make them this and that," Smith said. "He was changing his life, helping others." Authorities are offering up to $10,000 for tips on who killed Johnson. A re- ward of up to $30,000 for information leading to an arrest in his son and grand- son's killings is still being offered. In past years, Oakland has seen triple-digit an- nual homicide rates and been on the FBI's list of the 10 most dangerous cities in the country. Poverty is ram- pant in some areas, with gangs and drugs linked to as much as 90 percent of the killings. This year, the mayor said Oakland has seen a double- digit drop in overall shoot- ings. Violent crime also has dipped. But the blue-collar city of about 410,000 that has yet to see the economic boom underway in neigh- boring San Francisco. OAKLAND St re et v io le nc e cl ai ms 3 generations 3 years apart SHERRI LYN MILLER By Mary Esch and Jason Dearen The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. Two weeks after officials in two dozen states asked Republican President-elect Donald Trump to kill one of Dem- ocratic President Barack Obama's signature plans to curb global warming, an- other group of state officials is urging Trump to save it. Democratic attorneys general in 15 states plus four cities and counties sent a letter to Trump asking him to preserve Obama's Clean Power Plan, New York Attorney Gen- eral Eric Schneiderman, the lead author, announced Thursday. The letter was a rebuttal to one sent this month by Republican officials from West Virginia and 21 other states and Democrats from the coal-producing states of Kentucky and Missouri urg- ing Trump to issue a Day 1 executive order declaring the Clean Power Plan un- lawful and prohibiting the U.S. Environmental Protec- tion Agency from enforcing it. The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon di- oxide emissions at existing power plants, the nation's largest source of the pollu- tion, by about one-third by 2030. Opponents say the Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority to implement the rules. The plan is already the subject of a legal fight. Trump has called the science showing climate change a hoax. His choice to head the EPA, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has sued the EPA re- peatedly to stop its climate agenda including Obama's sweeping power plant rules. And his nominee to run the Department of Energy, for- mer Texas Gov. Rick Perry, has questioned climate sci- ence while working to pro- mote coal-fired power in Texas. But in a television in- terview this month Trump said he was "still open- minded" about the science of climate change. Schneiderman said states like New York are "on the front lines of climate change" and have demon- strated how to cut pollu- tion and emissions while protecting affordable and reliable electricity, creat- ing jobs and growing the economy. "The Clean Power Plan builds on that successful work and is a blueprint for the critical action needed to fight climate change's dev- astating environmental, economic and public health impacts," he said. Under Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Clean En- ergy Standard, established this year, 50 percent of New York state's electricity must come from renewable en- ergy sources like wind and solar by 2030. New York and eight other states are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and- trade program that has re- duced carbon dioxide emis- sions from electrical gener- ation in the region by 40 percent from 2005 levels. In California, the nation's most populous state, which also signed the letter, the goal is also to have half of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 and a 40 percent reduction of green- house gases. The letter to Trump lists local impacts of cli- mate change from fos- sil fuel emissions, includ- ing drought in California, catastrophic storm surge in New York City, a record deluge on Colorado's Front Range, high-tide flooding in Virginia and South Flor- ida and diminished shell- fish harvest in Oregon and Washington state. The legal challenge, filed by 27 states that oppose the Clean Power Plan, is before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. A deci- sion on the plan could come at any time, but the U.S. Su- preme Court has temporar- ily blocked implementation of the rule until the court challenge is resolved. Still, even if Trump wants to scrap the plan, it would be a large, time-con- suming task. David Doniger, a cli- mate policy expert with the Natural Resources De- fense Council who served on Democratic President Bill Clinton's White House Council of Environmen- tal Quality, said the Trump administration "can't make it go away unless they go through rulemaking pro- cess and unwind it." "And that's a public pro- cess, so they'll have to hear from supporters of the plan," he said. If Trump were to issue the executive order being asked for by the plan's op- ponents, since the plan has gone through a formal pro- cess to become a regulation it would still require a long, public process to undo, Do- niger said. POLITICS States face off over future of Obama global warming plan SETH WENIG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks in New York. Two weeks a er officials in two dozen states asked Donald Trump to kill one of President Barack Obama's plans to curb global warming, Schneiderman was lead author on a rebuttal letter signed by Democratic attorneys general in 15states, plus four cities and counties, asking the president-elect to save it. Melvin Johnson was shot and killed Tuesday on the east side of the San Francisco Bay Area city. Reynolds and Fisher up and down in life, together in death The Associated Press LEWISTON Family and friends of a Northern California woman who's been missing since Octo- ber will release balloons and hold a candlelight vigil Thursday. The Record Search- light reports (http://bit. ly/2ilykqy ) the search for 52-year-old Stacey Smart continues and loved ones want to get the word out about her disappearance. Trinity County sheriff's spokeswoman Lynn Ward says investigators have found no sign of what may have happened to Smart. Sm a r t reg u la rly checked in with relatives before disappearing. Vol- unteers have searched the area at least four times since Smart's disappear- ance. The family also hired a private investigator to aid in the search. That investigator was also involved in the search for Sherri Pap- ini. Papini said she was seized Nov. 2 while jog- ging near her home out- side Redding. She turned up three weeks later on a California freeway. Police do not believe the cases are linked. Information from: Record Searchlight, http:// redding.com SEARCH CONTINUES Candlelight vigil planned for missing California woman FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A