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Buntain:LoisMayBun- tain, 89, of Red Bluff died Monday, April 10at St. Eliz- abeth Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, April 13, 2017in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Isidro: Madrigal Isidro, 72, of Red Bluff died Tues- day, April 4at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, April 13, 2017in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Nichols: Richard Dale Nichols, 82, of Red Bluff died Saturday, April 8at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, April 13, 2017in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Reid: Dewayne Reid, 77, of Red Bluff died Satur- day, April 8at his home. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Thursday, April 13, 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 Threeofthefourgradu- ates were unable to attend but their mentors were there to show support for Stoecklein. The juveniles in the program are "one healthy adult away from being a success story," Schoon said. It makes such an impact to have a children mentored by that adult who is there for them whenever they are needed. "In the context of Re- store, honestly, we don't want to define people from what they've done because most of us here would need a mentor...but we want to help people be defined by truly who they are and what potential is there," Schoon said. Mentors, who are vol- unteers, put in much time, commitment and effort and have travelled far to be there for the those in- volved in the program, Schoon said. Stoecklein said he ap- preciates everything the program and his mentor has done for him. Mayor Douglas Hatley Jr. congratulated Stoeck- lein and said he would like to see more success stories in the future. City Manager Kristina Miller told Stoecklein she was proud of him and said if he ever needed anything he could come to her for advice. The program was recently at risk as fund- ing was drying up. The Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians stepped in to pro- vide grant funding to con- tinue the program. The tribe received grant funding to implement the Everett Freeman Promise Neighborhood Initiative in December of 2016 and will apply $200,000 toward the program. The tribe was awarded the grant of more than $14.6 million to be dis- persed over the span of five years from the US Department of Education to serve the Corning Ele- mentary and High School districts and youth pro- grams. The grant funds allow the continuation of the Restore program through June 30, 2018, Miller said at a previous meeting. Grads FROM PAGE 1 HEATHER HOELSCHER — DAILY NEWS Restore Program Coordinator Ric Schoon, le , and Mayor Douglas Hatley Jr., right, recognizes recent RESTORE program graduate Josh Stoecklein for his hard work and dedication to the program. Dickison said the re- paving of Divisidero was promised years ago by pre- vious city staff and coun- cil members, but has been skipped over every year. Councilman Robert Snow asked whether all of El Verano Avenue needed to be repaved. He said one side of the street appeared to have been repaved more re- cently than the other. Grine said the more recent stretch is not part of the proposed project. Grine said she hopes to get the list approved soon so the project can begin in the summer. Corning FROM PAGE 1 Aviles talked about the rov- ing jail, which starts in full- swing Saturday at the Chili Cook-off. People can buy warrants for arrests and get out of jail free cards to stay out of the roving jail, which raises funds for local orga- nizations during Round- Up week. Beneficiaries are the CHP Explorers on Tues- day, the Corning Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday and the Tehama County Li- brary on Thursday. The Chili Cook-Off, with 25 people's choice booths signed up, starts with tast- ing at 11:30 a.m. Saturday on Washington Street be- tween Oak and Walnut streets. Tasting bracelets can be purchased for $5 per person. Vendors will be on-site as early as 9 a.m., which is when the car show takes place on Pine Street from Main to Washington streets. Music starts at 10 a.m. The Tough Enough To Wear Pink luncheon has been moved to the Tehama District Fairground cafete- ria at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday. Cost is $15. An auction will be held with proceeds bene- fiting St. Elizabeth Commu- nity Hospital. Rodeo slack starts Wednesday and continues Thursday at the Tehama District Fairground start- ing as early as 9 a.m. due to the number of contes- tants, Miller said. It is free to watch for the public and goes until about 1-2 p.m. A Blood Source com- munity blood drive will take place 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the fair- ground cafeteria. Partic- ipants can get a ticket for the rodeo and a special T- shirt. The fun on Wednes- day continues with the Bi- kini Barrel Race that starts at 4 p.m. in the Pauline Da- vis Pavilion. The Reynolds Ranch and Farm Supply Store, 502 Madison St., will host the Red Bluff Round-Up Mixer with the Tehama County Cattlemen's Asso- ciation 5:30-10 p.m. Thurs- day. Badges to get in can be purchased ahead of time for $10 each at the Loft or Pal- omino Room. The Tehama County CattleWomen will be serving fajitas. Earlier in the afternoon, Brookdale Assisted Living will be hosting a commu- nity barbecue from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with Chad Bushnell performing at 1 p.m. Cost is $7 each for a hot dog or hamburger meal with proceeds benefitting the Red Bluff FFA. Red Bluff City Council- men Clay Parker talked about the Provide A Ride service he and his wife, Lilly, provide for the cow- boys and their families to have rides, including get- ting their trucks to the fair- grounds, if they need as- sistance during the rodeo weekend. What started with one vehicle has turned into three ten-passenger vans staffed by two people each with a woman in every group. The team has given about 4,000 rides since the program began. The Cowboy Golf Tour- nament at Wilcox Oaks Golf Club Friday is sold out, but there are a few spaces for those who have their own cart or are willing to walk. Rodeo performances are 7 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. Sat- urday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday following Cowboy Church which is at 10 a.m. in the south grandstands. Saturday is the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast 7-10 a.m. at the Elks Lodge for cost of $5 each prior to the Round- Up Parade, which is set for 10 a.m. in downtown Red Bluff. Clay and Lilly Parker will be the Grand Marshals and the theme is This Ain't My First Rodeo. Cowboy FROM PAGE 1 By Matthew Lee The Associated Press WASHINGTON It's a famil- iar refrain: A new Amer- ican president seeks im- proved relations with Russia. And like his pre- decessors, Donald Trump is running into a thicket of obstacles, new and old, to even maintaining a func- tioning relationship with Moscow. For Trump, the griev- ances inherited from Pres- idents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have been compounded by Russian- backed Syria's chemical weapons attacks, retalia- tory U.S. missile strikes, election meddling allega- tions and Ukraine's un- solved crisis. At the center of each problem is an ener- gized and uncompromising force: Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia," Trump neverthe- less tweeted Thursday, as his top diplomat departed Moscow empty-handed af- ter discussions with Putin and other Russian officials. "At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!" Trump's optimistic prognosis followed his dec- laration Wednesday that U.S.-Russia relations "may be at an all-time low," and that "right now we're not getting along with Russia at all." The sudden U-turn underscored long-stand- ing difficulties that have plagued the two nations' attempts at greater under- standing since the days of their World War II alliance. The Cold War may be over, but from Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Washing- ton and Moscow don't see the world the same way. "The Trump adminis- tration came in with a set of problems and a level of disagreement that are more difficult to just put aside in the way the Bush and Obama administra- tions had been able to do," said Stephen Sestanovich, a Council on Foreign Rela- tions expert who was U.S. ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union from 1997 to 2001. "The ob- stacles in the way of a reset now are more serious than you had at the outset of any other administration since the end of the Cold War." The list of complaints is long, particularly on the Russian side. They range from NATO's expansion and European missile de- fense systems to a fear the U.S. is promoting opposi- tion to pro-Russian lead- ers and even Putin himself. Trump's order last week to fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian government- controlled air base adds to Moscow's overriding sus- picion that Washington is willing to use force to pro- mote regime change, re- gardless of who is in the White House. America's anger is no less palpable. It sees Rus- sia attempting to under- mine NATO and European Union unity, supporting violent separatist insur- gencies in Georgia and Ukraine, and propping up a leader in Syrian Presi- dent Bashar Assad who is responsible for a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. The accusation that the Krem- lin tampered with the U.S. democratic process only buttresses those who see Russia as America's great- est geopolitical foe. As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after emerg- ing from a nearly two-hour meeting with Putin, "there is a low level of trust be- tween our two countries." He added ominously, "The world's two foremost nu- clear powers cannot have this kind of relationship." For Trump, it's a dra- matic reversal from his re- peated campaign pledges to forge a new U.S.-Rus- sian relationship. Likewise, Obama's first secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, offi- cially offered Russia a sym- bolic "reset" button. After his first meeting with Pu- tin, Bush said he "looked the man in the eye" and "found him very straight- forward and trustworthy," getting a "sense of his soul." While Bush and Putin shared sentiments about cracking down on terror- ism, they soon clashed. Pu- tin chafed over Bush's sup- port for popular revolu- tions against pro-Moscow leaders on Russia's bor- ders, and strongly opposed America's 2003 Iraq inva- sion. Bush became trou- bled by Putin's increased authoritarianism and as- sertiveness, culminating in Russia's 2008 war with Georgia. Obama had some initial successes, deal- ing with President Dmi- try Medvedev, while Putin spent four years as prime minister. But once Putin re- turned to the presidency, Obama's reset crumbled speedily, especially after Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea re- gion and support for pro- Russian separatists in east- ern Ukraine. DIPLOMACY Russia reset redux? Trump tries where predecessors failed ANDREW HARNIK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday. By Catherine Lucey The Associated Press WASHINGTON The photo frominsideDonaldTrump's makeshiftsituationroomat Mar-a-Lago affirmed what White House insiders have recognizedforsometime— that Dina Powell has qui- etly established herself as a White House power. Though sandwiched be- tween other administra- tion officials, the deputy national security adviser for strategy stands out as the only woman among 13 staffers in the room on the night the president ordered the missile attack in Syria. And in a White House that is split between out- sider ideologues and more traditional operators, Pow- ell is viewed as a steady force in the growing influ- ence of the latter. Her West Wing experience, conserva- tive background and pol- icy chops have won over Trump's daughter and son- in-law. Now, Powell is at the table as the president turns more of his attention to in- ternationalaffairs,attempt- ing to craft a foreign policy out of a self-described "flex- ible" approach to the world. "No one should ever un- derestimate Dina Powell." says Brian Gunderson, a former State Department chiefofstaff.Hehiredherto work in former House Ma- jority Leader Dick Armey's office early in her career and later worked with her in George W. Bush's White House. Powell,43,declinedcom- ment for this story. She is a rare Bush vet- eran in a White House that has largely shunned its Re- publican predecessor's leg- acy. She came via Gold- man Sachs — decidedly not a rarity for the new presi- dent — originally to work on economic development at the behest of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kush- ner. An Egyptian-Ameri- can with international ex- perience and fluency in Ar- abic,shewassoonmovedto theNationalSecurityCoun- cil, though she retains her economic title. Powell's ties to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kush- ner, who recruited her, and to economic adviser Gary Cohn, a fellow Gold- man alumnus, mean she has been labeled by some as part of a more moderate group at the White House. But GOP leaders describe her as a longtime conser- vative thinker. WHITE HOUSE POWER Wh o' s Di na P ow el l? A rising Trump national security figure LoisMayMillarBuntain October 31, 1927 ~ April 10, 2017 Lois May Millar Buntain passed away April 10, 2017 with her family by herside. Lois was born on Oct. 31, 1927 in Glenrock, Wyoming to Duncan & Fanny Millar. She grew up in Big Bar California. She married her childhood sweetheart Bill Buntain on August 20, 1947. Bill and Lois first met in kindergarten in 1935 in Big Bar, Trinity County in a one room school house and shared the last 65 plus years together. They moved with their family to Red Bluff in 1959. Moms passion was gardening and her yard is full of beautiful flowers, sewing and designing her own clothes and making her own patterns. She also spent many hours doing various crafts. She was a very driven and accom- plished many things in her life, most importantly She raised five children, "rug rats" as Mom and Dad affection- ately referred to us, blessing us all with so many fond memories. Lois is survived by her brother David Millar of Washing- ton, son David Buntain, daughters Kathy Brown, Patsy Brown, JoAnn Crow and numerous grandchildren and too many to count great grandchildren and great great grand- children and nieces and nephews, and Moms constant companion was her little dog, Abby. Lois was preceeded in death by her parents, husband Bill, son Ronald, granddaughter NaCole, grandsons Chad and Jeremiah and daughter-in-law Kathy. Graveside services will be held at Oak Hill Cemetary in Red Bluff on April 18,2017 at l:00pm. Reception will fol- low at the Buntains Family home at 22080 Riverside Ave. Red Bluff, CA. Obituaries FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 7 A