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Deathnotices for a community garden that will be then turned over to the community," Muench said. "Senior Nu- trition will be out here so they will be able to use the food in their program. It is a pleasure to be able to do this entire thing with very little money. AB 109 crews did all the rehabilitation for the building and all the groups collaborating with the community meant it is being done without addi- tional costs to the budget (for staff time)." While there are offices for the probation depart- ment and health services agency in Corning there are no specific plans to host a centralized site in Corning at this time, Muench said. If someone could come up with a site the county could use for minimal cost, it could be considered for the future. Vicki Nagos Shadd and her brother Tom Nagos at- tended the open house and said they were pleased to see the building they and their siblings, Tim Na- gos and Pat Berger, inher- ited from their parents. The family connection to the Los Molinos Shopping Center started with the NB Cafe, which stood for the Nagos Brothers, estab- lished in 1949. "A lot of people in this community walk to the pharmacy and other places so sometimes the lack of transportation kept some of them from getting to places like vet- erans services," Tom Na- gos said. Tom Nagos said he has heard nothing but posi- tive from community res- idents about the satellite office, especially the vet- erans who are "extremely happy" about the center. "We're very happy to see the county services available here in Los Mo- linos," said Nagos-Shadd. "We grew up here and it's great to see the people in the community have ac- cess to such a variety of services. This was our par- ents' place and all four of us wanted something they would be proud of in this building. They were very civic minded and I'm sure they're just smiling down on us tonight." Center FROM PAGE 1 stored to all homes by 8:20 a.m., however, a specific cause for the blown fuse had not been determined, Moreno said. It is unknown whether the two incidents were re- lated. No other outages were reported in Tehama County. Outage FROM PAGE 1 By Rich Pedroncelli and Scott Smith The Associated Press PHILLIPS STATION As big snowflakes fell high in California's Sierra Nevada on Thursday, surveyors on snowshoes measured the deepest springtime snowpack in years and said it boosted concerns about destructive floods when all that snow melts. Snow in the Sierra Nevada begins melting this time of year as the weather warms, and Cal- ifornia is already wa- terlogged after storms slammed the state in Jan- uary and February, flood- ing communities and washing out roads. If more stormy weather hits the state and its mountains soon, snow- melt could speed up, put- ting pressure on reser- voirs, some already brim- ming full and spilling over, officials said. "It's something that we pay very close atten- tion to," said Frank Geh- rke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Sur- veys Program, who led a small crew of survey- ors into a snowy meadow surrounded by pine trees. "It's going to depend on how the spring plays out." The Sierra snowpack's overall water content measured 164 percent of normal Wednesday, ac- cording to the state's elec- tronic monitors through- out the mountain range. WEATHER Ca li fo rn ia 's r ob us t mountain snowpack boosts flood concerns Mark Twain look-alike crowd? McL: Where Hal Hol- brook and Val Kilmer are consummate actors in their portrayal of our mutual friend, I consider myself an educator in a costume. My message in the schools is, "The man who does not read good books has no ad- vantage over the man who cannot read them." MTJ: Not only have you donned the Mark Twain white suit for thirty years and have given over 4,000 live performances and many Skype presentations, you have also read 18,000 published pages of Twain's works over ten years. What has this done for you? McL: Made me a better man is the short answer. I try to live by the maxim, "Always do right, this will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Twain's humor also helps me get through airports. MTJ: What kinds of groups have you have ad- dressed? The Left-handed Lady Golfers of California was an interesting group. Mensa asked the most ques- tions. At the end of a day of touring Virginia City with Mensa I had to ask, "Okay, my turn, what exactly is that Pythagorean Theorem any- ways?" Averaging 200 pro- grams a year I've met some interesting people, and like to tell folks who ask about how being a Mark Twain ed- ucator pays the bills, "I'm prospering just enough to please my friends and dis- tress my enemies." MTJ: What are some of your favorite passages? McL: I record a differ- ent Twain quote on my an- swering machine each day. People call to get the quote and then hang-up, which makes me so mad. My fa- vorite Twain passages I've cobbled into six 90-minute theater programs and two 45-minute school programs, but my all-time very favor- ite paraphrase has its ori- gins in the Diary of Adam & Eve. I was born reserved as to endearments of speech and caresses, so hers broke upon me like the summer waves break upon Gibraltar. She had a heart that was trop- ically warm. It is in the heart that the riches lie. A loving heart is riches, riches enough; without it, intel- lect is poverty. And Livy possessed a heart of finer metal than any gold that was ever mined or minted. Whoever fell within the fa- tal influence of her beau- tiful nature was her will- ing slave forever more. If ever there was a man who had reason to be thankful for divine providence, it is I. I'll say this about Olivia: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden. MTJ: What does an audi- ence expect of Mark Twain? McL: A humorous look at the human condition is what most audiences ex- pect, with some social com- mentary and a little dis- criminating irreverence shoveled in at no extra cost. I've never had anybody ask for their money back. MTJ: Which of Twain's writing resonates with dif- ferent audiences? McL: The most wonder- ful thing about Twain's writings is that there is something for everyone. In San Francisco they want to hear about General Fun- ston and anti-imperialism; in Heidelberg, The Awful German Language; at Len- ingrad University they want to "see your gun." MTJ: Are you instantly recognized as Mark Twain when you perform? McL: When I visit small towns with active librar- ies in a white suit as Mark Twain, they hail me as "Mr. Twain," or "Samuel Clem- ens." When I visit small towns without active librar- ies they customarily ask if I'm there to fry them up some chicken. MTJ: Can you tell us more about how you spent ten years reading 18,000 published pages of Twain's works? McL: I do not regret the lost sleep. I had to make a rule for myself that I obey even today. Every other book I read has to be a non- Twain book, the latest be- ing, Saving Lake Tahoe by Michael Makley. The latest Twain book I have feasted upon is Ben Tarnoff's The Bohemians. For more in- formation about Layne, visit www.ghostoftwain.com. Twain FROM PAGE 1 CONTRIBUTED Professional Mark Twain educator and impressionist McAvoy Layne is pictured. By Gary D. Robertson And Emery P. Dalesio The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. North Car- olina rolled back its "bath- room bill" Thursday in a bid to end the yearlong backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects, conven- tions and basketball tourna- ments. The compromise plan, an- nounced Wednesday night by the state's Democratic governor and leaders of the Republican-controlled legis- lature, was worked out un- der mounting pressure from theNCAA,whichthreatened to take away more sporting events from the basketball- obsessed state as long as the law,alsoknownasHouseBill 2, remained on the books. The new measure cleared the House and Senate and was signed by Gov. Roy Coo- per in a matter of hours. Among other things, it re- peals the best-known sec- tion of HB2: a requirement that transgender people use thepublicrestroomsthatcor- respond to the sex on their birth certificate. "Today's law immediately removes that restriction. It's gone," Cooper said. The American Civil Lib- erties Union and gay and transgender activists com- plained that the new bill still denies them certain protec- tions from discrimination, and they demanded nothing less than full repeal. As a result, it was unclear whethertheretreatfromHB2 would stop the boycotts or satisfy the NCAA. An NCAA spokeswoman didn't imme- diately respond to a message seeking reaction. Republican Rep. Scott Stone,wholivesinCharlotte, urged his colleagues to vote for the new bill. It passed the House 70-48. "We are impeding the growth in our revenue, in our ability to do more things for tourism, for teacher pay, while we have this stigma hanging over," Stone said. "The time has come for us to get out from under the national spotlight for nega- tive things. You can't go any- where on this planet without somebody knowing what is HB2 and having some per- ception about it." Conservatives,meanwhile, staunchlydefendedHB2and bitterly denounced the new measure."Thisbillisatbesta punt. At worst it is a betrayal ofprinciple,"RepublicanSen. Dan Bishop, a primary spon- sor of HB2, said on the Sen- ate floor as the rollback was approved 32-16, with nine of 15 Democrats among the yes votes. While the new mea- sure eliminates the rule on transgender bathroom use, it also makes clear that state legislators — not local gov- ernment or school officials — are in charge of policy on public restrooms. HB2 had also restricted local governments' ability to enact nondiscrimination or- dinances on behalf of gay or transgender people. Under the new measure, local gov- ernments can't pass any new protections for workplaces, hotels and restaurants until December 2020. That moratorium, accord- ingtoGOPleaders,wouldal- low time for pending federal litigation over transgender rights to play out. "This is a significant com- promise from all sides on an issuethathasbeendiscussed and discussed and discussed in North Carolina for a long periodoftime,"Senateleader Phil Berger said. "It is some- thing that I think satisfies some people, dissatisfies some people, but I think it's a good thing for North Car- olina." Gayrightsactivistsblasted the proposal, saying it was not a true repeal. "It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Repub- lican, if you vote for this bill, you are not a friend of the LGBT community," Equality North Carolina executive di- rector Chris Sgro said. "You are not standing on the right side of the moral arc of his- tory or with the civil rights community." James Esseks, director of the ACLU LGBT Project, said lawmakers "should be ashamed of this backroom deal." "This is not a repeal of HB2. Instead, they're re- inforcing the worst aspects of the law," he said in a state- ment. The governor said he would have preferred a bill that extended LGBT protec- tions even further, but that wasn't possible while the GOP holds veto-proof major- itiesinbothlegislativecham- bers. "This is not a perfect deal, and this is not my pre- ferred solution," he said. Cooper was elected in No- vember on a platform that called for repeal of HB2, which enacted under the man he defeated, Republi- can Gov. Pat McCrory. The deal came together after the NCAA warned that North Carolina wouldn't be consideredforchampionship events from 2018 to 2022 un- less HB2 was changed. The sports governing body said it wouldstartmakingdecisions on host cities this week and announce them in April. RepublicanHouseSpeaker Tim Moore said that he hadn't spoken directly to the NCAA but that he had been told by business leaders who servedasintermediariesthat the bill should prove accept- able to the NCAA. LEGISLATION North Carolina rolls back 'bathroom bill' despite criticism CHRIS SEWARD — THE NEWS & OBSERVER Speaker of the House Rep. Tim Moore, center, flanked by fellow Republicans, speaks at a press conference a er HB 142passed in the General Assembly in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday. FLORENCEG.MICKE 7/12/1919 ~ 3/7/2017 Our dearest Florence is once again with her beloved husband, Andrew Micke. Florence loved needle work, knitting, sewing and catering for her friends special events. She had a wickedly wry sense of humor that we loved and will forever miss. She spent her married life of 62 years as a ranch wife. She is survived by her son, Gerald and Dixie Micke, and her daughter, Linda Micke. She will be missed by her 3 Grandchildren, 4 Great Grandchildren, Great Great Grandson, nieces and nephews, and her beloved cat, Ms. Kitty. Services will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, April 3, 2017. A reception at the Elks Lodge will follow internment at Oak Hill Cem- etery. Flowers may be sent to the church or a donation to the animal shelter in Red Bluff may be made in lieu of flowers. Obituaries FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A