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McKenna:PhilipWalter McKenna, 102, of Red Bluff died Sunday, Jan. 1 at Brookdale Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017in 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 Staff Reports RED BLUFF Avehiclewas reported stolen about 6:30 a.m. Sunday while in the area of the 300 block of South Main Street, but later recovered. The vehicle was equipped with a LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recov- ery Unit and was found parked near 760 Givens Road seven hours after it was reported, according to a press release issued by the Red Bluff Police De- partment Sunday. The vehicle's scanner ac- tivated when the vehicle was reported stolen. At about 1:29 p.m., Red Bluff Police's LoJack scan- ner activated, display- ing the information about the stolen vehicle and its whereabouts. Utilizing the scanner of- ficers were able to follow the signal to the rear park- ing area on Givens Road, where the vehicle was parked, according to the release. CRIME Po li ce u se v eh ic le r ec ov er y system to find stolen vehicle to the incident along with multiple county resources. The first unit on scene re- ported the north wall al- ready fully involved, but while the fire was kept to the second story of the building, it was deemed un- safe to be left standing. Corning-based Walberg Inc. was called in to be- gin the demolition pro- cess the same day, fenc- ing off the area following a street closure of Solano Street from Fifth to Sixth streets prompted by safety concerns and rubble in the streets. The building, which in- cluded the addresses 1302- 1310 Solano St., dated back to at least the early 1900s. The fire was deemed suspicious in part due to a missing lock on the back door. Videos of the removal are available at https:// youtu.be/1aMHnDggpA4, https://youtu.be/VAwFul- HeyQs and https://youtu. be/gt9GLeDQ3LM. TehamaCounty Superior Courthouse The grand opening of the Tehama County Supe- rior Courthouse's new Wal- nut Street location was held on Oct. 13, 2016. A mural of the former courthouse is seen as you enter the new building to pay tribute to the historic building that was built in 1920. The new court- house officially opened for business Oct. 17 and fea- tures five courtrooms, in- cluding a mobile room that could be turned into an ad- dition courtroom if needed, in a 62,033-square-foot building. The $56 million proj- ect was funded by the Sen- ate Bill 1407, which was en- acted in 2008 to provide bond funding for new and renovated courthouses us- ing court fees, penalties and assessments rather than taxpayer revenue from the General Fund. The main goals of the project were to consolidate court services and address overcrowding, security and accessibility is- sues. Those goals were ac- complished with a separate jury assembly room to ad- dress the overcrowding and an added metal detector at the front of the building to increase the security. B Beyond the extra security for the building are more enhanced holding cells for the inmates who are await- ing their court hearing. Wal-Mart Supercenter The new Wal-Mart Su- percenter, on Luther Road in Red Bluff, opened its doors on March 30, 2016 — 10 years in the making. The super-sized store added 150 new jobs to the city and is open 24 hours a day. Then Mayor Clay Parker commented at the ribbon cutting stating that the city sees the new store as a positive with the addi- tion of jobs, internal pro- motions and the sales tax revenue that will help the city provide services to res- idents. "I can tell you Wal-Mart is definitely part of the com- munity," Parker said. "They give back and they also will allow residents to shop here rather than going to Ander- son or Chico, which means the money stays here." The original Red Bluff Wal-Mart was built in 1991. Nine members of that orig- inal staff who remained with the company were at the ceremony to cut the rib- bon for the new store. Those employees were honored for their 25 years of service in Red Bluff. Jellys Ferry Bridge collapse A Cal Fire engine plum- meted, but did not result in any additional fatalities, on July 10 when a weak- ened section of the Jel- lys Ferry Bridge collapsed due to damage from a fatal crash at 2:40 a.m. that re- sulted in the death of Mat- thew James, 18, of Red Bluff and major injuries to his passenger, Charles Sorrell, 19, of Red Bluff. During the initial crash, the vehicle became air- borne and hit a metal sup- port pillar of the 1949 one- lane bridge, knocking it off the concrete footing. A first engine responding to the crash crossed, but did not have time to convey that the structure of the bridge had been compromised from damage sustained in the ac- cident to the secondary en- gine responding. Three men, Jason Long, 35, Josh Chastaia, 34, and Fernando Vergar, 21, all of Red Bluff, were injured in the crash when the truck they were in fell with the bridge. The bridge was reopened Sept. 1 with a project for bridge replacement already in the works prior to the collision. Construction for the three-year replacement project is expected to start late winter or early spring of 2017. Solano Street The Solano Street Im- provement Project began in the Spring of 2016 with a portion of the street com- pletely renovated. The project was a long stime coming, with plan- ning starting in 1998. Through the years changes were made to the plans as American's with Disabil- ity Act requirements con- tinued to change. Now with the new street and decorated stamped con- crete from Third to West streets the city is in com- pliance with ADA require- ments. Some didn't like the out- come of the project and the new curb extensions meant to moderated traf- fic near pedestrian cross- ings, while other residents liked the design and said it will just take time to get use to the extensions. The project was fully funded by a Community Development Block Grant from the State Department of Housing and Commu- nity Development and the last payments have been submitted to the contrac- tors. Now Corning's main thoroughfare is smooth and the sidewalks are dec- orated, bringing a new look to the downtown. Lassen centennial Lassen Volcanic National Park celebrated 100 years on Aug. 6, 2016. Hundreds of cars lined the highway through the park during the park's centennial cele- bration that included the re- turn of the Day in the Park Festival outside the Loomis Museum in the Manzanita Lake area. Visitors from as far as Carson City, Nevada and the Bay Area attended the event, many with life-long memories of the park — Cathy Betts Sapunor, of Sac- ramento, said her husband proposed to her on Lassen Peak in 1995. Tracy Salcedo Chourre was on hand to sign her hik- ingguides.Shehasbeenwrit- ing guides for about 25 years and Lassen was the subject ofherfirsthikingguidebook written after she moved to California from Colorado. The day was a celebration of both the park's centennial on Aug. 9 and the National Park Service on Aug. 25. In celebration of the centennial a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the new Vol- canoAdventureYouthGroup Campground. Lassen Park's start began with the May 22, 1915 erup- tion of Lassen Peak that led to it being designated as a park on Aug. 9, 1916. There was a petition to then Pres- ident Theodore Roosevelt by Lassen and Plumas coun- ties to make Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone a national monument as early as May 6, 1906. The eruption drew na- tional attention and helped stimulate local efforts to ex- pand the monument that turned into the 150-square- milenationalparkitistoday. It was with the help of Rep. JohnRakerthattheparkwas officiallyestablished,saidSu- perintendent Steve Gibbons. Adobe oak A 350- to 400-year-old valley oak at the William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park was brought down Oct. 7, after being deemed a hazard due failing health during an inspection of the property conducted every two years. The tree had previously suffered a catastrophic loss of all limbs but one on July 13, 2014, heavily damaging the historic Ide Adobe at the park. It took about four hours just to bring the main trunk down due to crews running into several pieces of metal inside the tree, including an old hitching post they cut around to try to preserve. In October, Superin- tendent Aaron Wright an- nounced funding had be- come available for the resto- ration of the adobe roof and walls. It is hoped that only the top 12 inches will be taken down. The schematic design is done and the con- struction documents are in the works, which will be fol- lowed by the CEQA process. Construction is tenta- tively planned for August 2017 to February 2018, but funding will still be avail- able until June 2018. For video of the removal of the tree, visit https:// youtu.be/qxHCOxm8zmk. New library The Red Bluff Daily News moved out of its Diamond Avenue office, built in 1979, to 728 Main St. on March 16, to make room for the fu- tureTehamaCountyLibrary main branch. The existing Tehama County Library will be displaced by the Tehama County Jail expansion proj- ect that will see Madison Street potentially rerouted. The Diamond Avenue property was purchased for $500,000 and an addi- tional $6.3 million is being budgeted for the renovation with the county putting up $4 million. Plans were preliminarily approved at a March 1 Te- hama County Board of Su- pervisors meeting, when JK Architecture Partner- ship presented a video of the new design, which can be viewed online at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=80b6704O4Kk. A fundraising effort is un- derway with the hope that the community will help fill in the remaining gap of just more than $2 million. Construction is expected to be finished with occu- pancy to take place in July 2017. News FROM PAGE 1 Angeles Democrat who will lead the state budget com- mittee next year. "We're dealing with hungry peo- ple, which we cannot ig- nore." Graves noted that be- fore the election, he hoped the Legislature would take a serious look at boosting subsidized child care and Supplemental Security In- come payments for seniors and people with disabili- ties. That seems less likely now. Congressional Republi- cans also are eager to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, which provides $20 billion for the Medi-Cal program and pri- vate insurance subsidies. Preserving that coverage, much less expanding it to cover more people, would be extremely expensive. The California Endow- ment has provided millions of dollars for an advocacy campaign called Health4All to expand Medi-Cal cover- age for immigrants who can't prove they're legally in the United States. In De- cember, it announced a new initiative: Fight4All. The $25 million effort reflects a shift in focus from creating new rights to defending ex- isting ones. "A whole host of areas where significant progress has been made in California in the last five or six years or so, we feel that work is now in jeopardy," said Dr. Tony Iton, the endowment's senior vice president. Still, conservatives in the state aren't optimistic that Trump's presidency will give them a reprieve from lawmakers' persistent push to the left. California's Legislature is "sort of like its own na- tion-state," said Tom Scott, California director of the National Federation of In- dependent Business, a small-business advocacy or- ganization that often is at odds with legislative prior- ities including labor and en- vironmental mandates. "Quite frankly, whatever the Trump administration does, it will not stop Gov. Brown and the state Legis- lature from moving forward on their political agenda," Scott said. "So I'm on one level expecting sort of busi- ness — or un-business — as usual, and I don't see that changing." Defense FROM PAGE 1 DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTOS Following a decline in health that caused the tree to become a hazard, the 350-400year old valley oak at William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park was brought down Oct. 7. The tree had lost all limbs but one on damaging the adobe roof. A er a long wait to build a new Wal-Mart Supercenter, the associates cut the ribbon to the new building on March 30. The Associated Press PASADENA The color- ful and lively Rose Parade marched safely Monday under cloudy skies and the watchful presence of more than 1,000 law enforcement officers. No major problems were reported after security and other safety measures were beefed up for the 128th an- nual parade as a response to several terror attacks in Europe in the past year. There were no known threatstowardPasadena,of- ficialssaid,butinadditionto uniformed and plainclothes officers, additional security measuresweretaken.Sturdy barricades were erected at more than 50 intersections to prevent a terrorist attack like ones that happened in Berlin and Nice, France, last year when trucks bar- reled into crowds of people. A large law enforcement presencewasalsoseenatthe nearbyRoseBowl,wherethe University of Southern Cali- forniawastoplayPennState. As fans tailgated hours be- fore the game, several truck- loads of FBI SWAT officers arrived at the stadium. They were joined by Los Angeles sheriff's deputies, the Cali- fornia Highway Patrol, Pas- adena police, bomb-sniffing dogsandHomelandSecurity officers. The 5½-mile parade fea- tured marching bands, horseback riders and doz- ens of ornately decorated flower-covered floats. High- lights included a Hawaii- themed float with a volcano and several waterfalls, an- other with surfing dogs and one honoring the 49 people killed in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 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