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Stueart:PaulaStueart,57, of Red Bluff died Saturday, March 4at her residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Blair's Cre- mation & Burial. Published Thursday, March 9, 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 provide more funding for projects and better expo- sure for a local business. As of February, the com- mittee has garnered 15-17 new signs in the pavilion as part of the project. Tonya Redamonti-Wil- liams, a member of the committee who spoke on the projects at Feb. 28 meeting, said the goal of the sign project is to have both sides of the pavilion completely redone with all new signs. Businesses may be asked to redo some of the older signs to go with the new look. Signs are $300 per year, which runs July 1 to June 30, and those interested in sponsoring a sign can call the fair office at 527- 5920. Other projects include covering the back wall with a material and then attaching news signs to improve the look of that wall and putting up a "Welcome to the Tehama District Fair" sign under- neath the score board. The committee is hop- ing upgrade the office in the pavilion. Donations and money from the sign sponsorships will fund a more presentable and professional office, Reda- monti-Williams said. Of- fice furniture in good con- dition may be donated to the pavilion office. "The end goal is to paint the exterior, update the restrooms, update the kitchen and bar area, stain the floor and install closed circuit TVs in the foyer area," Collins said. "We also want to enclose the back of the bleachers and in general just want to make it more appealing to make it easier for Mandy Staley and fair staff to at- tract more events to not only keep the fairgrounds open, but to help the town." In addition to hosting events, Tehama County benefits from those attend- ing who stay, eat and buy things like gas and grocer- ies, Collins said. The committee has pur- chased two large fans that are expected to keep the facility about 20 percent cooler as the fair moves to the summer, scheduled for July 13-16, and installed them in January. The Red Bluff Round-Up and the Bull & Gelding Sale were two of the major sponsors for the purchase of the fans. The Friends of the Fair and Appreciation Dinner date was set for March 24. Pavilion FROM PAGE 1 IWantToBeRecycled.org chestra and may be encour- aged to play music them- selves, sing in a chorus or become involved with mu- sic in another way," Locke said. Evergreen teacher Al- bert Estrada said his stu- dents were very excited about the opportunity to come and the group had already been discussing music. "Most of them have never heard a lot of classi- cal music, but they have all heard of Mozart," Estrada said. "They were excited to hear one of the pieces was Mozart and I've been tell- ing them you hear more classical music than you know. It's in the movies. This event means we get to give them a good expe- rience and a chance to hear classical music without it costing a lot to the budget." Corbin led the sym- phony through a number of space-themed selections with Blake Fisher serving as narrator through the event helping tell the sto- ries of some of the songs. Pieces included "Blast Off" by Daniel Dorff, excerpts from Mars, Mercury and Jupiter Gustav Holst, Lu- nar Ballet from Act II of "Il Mondo della Luna" by Franz Joseph Haydn, Pi- ano Conerto #20 by Wolf- gang Amadeus Mozart fea- turing local pianist Diego Bustamante and John Wil- liams Star Wars Epic Part II. A special visitor made an appearance for a light saber battle during the fi- nal number. Fisher reminded the au- dience that those in the world outside the con- cert once thought humans would never reach a planet, which they did with the landing on the moon. "Look how far we have come," Fisher said. "Look at what we can accomplish if you just reach for the stars." Concert FROM PAGE 1 JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS The North State Symphony performs for the second annual Marvin Locke Memorial Youth Concert held for fi h-graders on Tuesday at the State Theatre. its potential medical bene- fits for humans or animals. Veterinarians in Califor- nia and other states are le- gally barred from prescrib- ing or recommending can- nabis. They risk losing their veterinary licenses if they do. "Our hands really are tied," said Ken Pawlowski, president of the California Veterinary Medical Associ- ation. "Definitely we're get- ting more questions from clients asking about it for their pets, but unfortu- nately we don't have any answers for them." Karl Jandrey, a veterinar- ian who teaches at the Uni- versity of California, Davis, said he tells his clients they "use them at their own risk with the potential to spend money for no improvement, or a risk of adverse side ef- fects." Despite the lack of sci- entific data or veterinary guidance, many pet own- ers are convinced canna- bis has improved their ani- mals' health and well-being, based on their own obser- vations. Lynne Tingle, who runs a pet adoption center and animal sanctuary, regularly gives cannabis edibles and topical ointments to older dogs with health or behav- ior issues, including her own elderly dogs Chorizo and Alice. "You just see a real dif- ference in their spirit. They're just not in pain, so they're happier and they're moving better," said Tin- gle, who founded the Rich- mond-based Milo Founda- tion. "They just get a new lease on life." San Francisco-based TreatWell Health is one of a growing number of com- panies marketing cannabis products for pets despite questions over their legality. TreatWell sells cannabis tinctures — extracted from marijuana plants in Hum- boldt County — that can be added to food or dropped directly into an animal's mouth. Co-founder Alison Ettel works directly with cli- ents and their pets, recom- mending different formula- tions based on the animals' ailments. TreatWell pet tinctures can help treat anxiety, poor appetite, pain, inflamma- tion and seizures, as well as kidney and liver problems, cancer and glaucoma, ac- cording to its website. They also are used in end-of-life care. "What we find is a lot of the animals are coming to us when there are no other options and pharmaceu- ticals haven't worked for that animal," Ettel said. "They're at that last re- sort, and cannabis is really good for those types of sit- uations." Barbara Stein is one of TreatWell's most enthusias- tic customers. She said the cannabis tinctures helped treat anxiety and digestive problems in her 13-year-old cat, Willie. And she believes the drug helped Willie's sis- ter Prudence maintain her weight and stay comfort- able when she was battling cancer. Stein, a retiree who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Concord, said she got a medical marijuana card so she could buy can- nabis for her cats. She has since recommended canna- bis to many friends with ag- ing and sick pets. "All I know is that none of the traditional medications she got from the vet worked, but the cannabis did," Stein said. "I swear by the stuff." Pets FROM PAGE 1 PHOTOS BY ERIC RISBERG — ASSOCIATED PRESS Michael Fasman poses with his dog Hudson at his home in San Francisco Feb. 15. Michael Fasman adds a cannabis tincture to his dog's yogurt at his home in San Francisco. The Associated Press SAN DIEGO The Border Pa- trol's parent agency would exempt many veterans and law enforcement officers from a hiring requirement to take a lie-detector test under a proposal to satisfy President Donald Trump's order to add 5,000 agents, according to a memo re- leased by the agents' union. The memo by Kevin McAleenan, acting Cus- toms and Border Protec- tion commissioner, calls the polygraph a "significant de- terrent and point of failure" for applicants and a recruit- ing disadvantage against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a separate agency that is responsible for deporting people set- tled in the U.S. ICE is un- der Trump's orders to hire 10,000 people, and it does not require lie detectors. The Associated Press reported in January that about two-thirds of job ap- plicants fail CBP's poly- graph, more than double the average rate of law enforce- ment agencies that provided data under open-records re- quests. Those failures are a major reason why the Bor- der Patrol recently fell be- low 20,000 agents for the first time since 2009. Many applicants have complained about being subjected to un- usually long and hostile in- terrogations. The undated memo lays out a plan for the agency to build a force of 26,370 agents in five years, which would deprive Trump of hit- ting his target during his current term. An official who played a key role introducing the polygraph said Wednesday that the hiring plan was "a roadmap to further compro- mise the current and future integrity of CBP." James Tomsheck, who was the agency's internal affairs chief from 2006 to 2014, said McAleenan "is at- tempting to degrade the vet- ting" to accommodate a po- litical mandate. "Ultimately this data-de- prived decision will greatly reduce security at our bor- ders," Tomsheck wrote in an email. Any waiver of the lie-de- tector mandate may require congressional approval due to a 2010 law that intro- duced the requirement to root out corruption and mis- conduct after an earlier hir- ing surge doubled the size of the Border Patrol in eight years. McAleenan's memo is addressed to the Homeland Security Department dep- uty secretary for approval, suggesting that the Trump administration may not yet back the plan. CBP officials did not im- mediately respond to a re- quest for comment on Wednesday. Homeland Se- curity Secretary John Kelly, who oversees both CBP and ICE, told reporters Tuesday in Dallas that he still thinks the polygraph is "a good idea," while acknowledging that it has hindered hiring. The National Border Pa- trol Council, which repre- sents Border Patrol agents, received the memo Tues- day and has been working closely with the agency on hiring plans, said Shawn Moran, a union vice presi- dent. He called the changes to the polygraph "a more commonsense approach" and said current failure rates are "ridiculous." HIRING REQUIREMENT Border Patrol may loosen lie-detector hiring JEANKATHLEENBITTEL ROBERT JOSEPH BITTEL It doesn't feel real. On January 8, 2017 our amazing, wonderful, and always there for us mom passed away. 22 days later, on January 30, our extraordinary, and larger than life dad lost his battle with cancer. They are togeth- er however they are both greatly missed here. Jean Kathleen Bittel, known to many as Kathy, Mom, or Nana, was born June 25, 1946. Kathy grew up in Meridi- an, Mississippi and moved to California in 1977. She touched the lives of everyone she came in contact with. Always the life of the party, full of wit and wisdom, Kathy never missed an opportunity to enhance the lives of those around her. Robert Joseph Bittel, also known as Bob, Dad, Pops, and Grandpa, was born on November 15, 1944 in Ohio and moved with his parents to Lancaster, California in 1950 where he grew into the man we know today. Bob was a surveyor, an athlete, a rancher, an avid outdoors- man, an adventurer, and most of all a mentor. Rarely did anyone leave his presence lesser than when they arrived. Bob and Kathy married in July 1987. They shared a love for family and together nurtured their 5 children. We wouldn't be the same without the influence of them together. Hand in hand they traveled the world, support- ed one another's dreams, and were truly there for better or for worse. In 1994, Bob and Kathy moved to Red Bluff, California where they would each tell you they spent some of the happiest times of their lives. Not knowing a thing about agriculture they decided to purchase a 150 acre walnut orchard and give the farm life a try. They not only excel- led in their venture they truly loved it. So did all of us. They stayed in Red Bluff until summer 2016 when they moved to Tehachapi, California. It was bittersweet leav- ing the area that they loved. We are left with the many memories they created with each of us along with their words of wisdom. Be kind, be respectful, do that which is right, keep the hate out of your hearts, and party on! 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