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Friday, March 26, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Death Notice burn Charles ‘Sam’ Black- Charles ‘Sam’ Black- burn, a lifelong resident of Tehama County, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif.. He was 86. Memorial services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 30, at First Baptist Church in Corning, Calif.. Private burial will be in the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Corning. Hall Bros. Corning Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. Published Friday, March 26, 2010 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. SHOW Continued from page 1A Desiree Bassett handed out coloring books and crayons for them to take home. The bank spon- sored the performance. “I think it’s great that we have the State Theatre who gives so much to the community and it’s great to be apart of events like this,” Noftz said. Noftz said she espe- cially wanted to thank Venita Philbrick for her dedication and all the time she volunteered to see events like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory put on. “It’s an excellent situa- tion for hearing people to see sign language and it gives deaf students total access to what’s going on on stage because when they go to the movies they have to divide their atten- tion between what’s going on and reading the closed caption,” said Jeanie Swanson, Tehama County Department of Education deaf and hard of hearing specialist. Karen Skelton, s third grade teacher at Gerber Elementary School, said she and her class have been to several of the Signstage on Tour produc- tions. “It’s wonderful for the children to see the differ- ent ways kids learn and communicate,” Skelton said. The company itself is based out of Akron, Ohio and tours take place all across the country. The goal of Signstage is to create extraordinary theater that brings deaf and hearing audiences together and its motto is “You’ll see things you’ve never heard.” If Thursday’s perfor- mance was any indication, the company is a success. The moment the first actress appeared on stage the audience, both hearing and hearing impaired, fell into almost complete silence and became com- pletely enraptured with the show that unfolded before them. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. RACING Continued from page 1A “You had to make do with what you had,” he said. “Treat the people and get them out. We were really short on what we could do.” Displaced people lived in tent cities that went on for miles. Within one tent city there were 20,000 to 30,000 people, Engler said. There were times when instead of having patients come to it, the team went out to the tent cities. Escorted by military per- MERGE Continued from page 1A That salary would be more than what some of the department heads make, Mayor Jeff Moyer said. Carrel said that bothered him, too. The department heads are tak- ing a 7 percent reduction in their contracted salaries and benefits. Still, having only one supervi- sor salary to pay for both depart- ments would save the city about $17,900 this fiscal year and $71,000 next fiscal year. HEALTH Continued from page 1A and no changes to hospital care, emergency room traffic or case load are expected in the immedi- ate future, she said. The Cons Individual doctors were less enthusiastic, describing the bill as a prescription for an underfunded, overworked and understaffed pro- fession, one already facing a shortage. “I think it’s a disaster,” said Dr. William Gentry, a Red Bluff gen- eral surgeon. The key to the bill is the num- ber of uninsured it puts into Med- iCal, a program that already underpays doctors and delays payments for up to 18 months, he said. MediCal receives generous money, yet the funding seems to get lost in the bureaucracy. By requiring states to expand their government medical pro- grams, the federal government is writing off about half the cost and pushing it onto states, Gentry said. He also faulted what he said were California’s lenient policies toward health care. Patients with enough disposable income to afford two packs of cigarettes a day already come into the office, with more services made avail- able to them than were available to Gentry 15 years ago. “It’s a very abused system,” he said. Gentry went so far as to accuse the federal government of deliber- ately straining the existing system to the point of breaking. “I think a lot of this stuff was done to hasten the decline of pri- vate health care in this country, and force a crisis where this all becomes nationalized,” he said. “I don’t think that was in our inter- est.” Opthimologist Dr. James Tysinger, also of Red Bluff, was more reserved in his criticism, though he agreed the bill would increase the number of retiring doctors. “I think we’re ultimately going to be paid less, but you know, that’s been happening for years,” he said. Tysinger said he would have liked to see a cap on malpractice sonnel, the medical team went from tent to tent looking for people who needed medical assis- tance. Team members helped those who could be treated on the spot. Stretchers were called for those who needed further medical assistance. Beyond the tent cities was the rubble of homes and buildings that had crumbled in the quake. There were people who were trapped in some of the fallen structures. “It was all you could do to not run away from the smell,” he said. “You just knew there were people in lawsuits, as proposed by Republi- cans. Yet the bill is unlikely to spell demise for the health indus- try. “Yeah, I wasn’t for it, but we’ll live,” he said. If the bill has benefits, they may yet be seen in time, Tysinger said. The Maybes Insurance brokers all came somewhere down the middle, agreeing the bill’s effects were too early to predict. As a complex series of reforms, the impacts would be both positive and negative, said Kurt Strachanowski, a Futurity First Insurance Associates employee active in Tehama Coun- ty. Closing the Medicare donut hole will make the lives of diabet- ics and prescription medicine users, some of whom wrestle with crippling costs, easier. “It’s a small group of people, but it still hurts them,” he said. But with those benefits will come an increase in taxes. “That’s just dollars and cents,” Strachanowski said. Danny Day, who works for the Andy Houghton Insurance there.” For those who did sur- vive the quake, there were few who could leave the country. Those who want- ed to, had to charter pri- vate flights. People gath- ered around aircraft beg- ging to be taken to refuge. Haiti already had such poor living conditions and the quake gave many Haitians an excuse to leave, Engler said. The airport was pretty much taken over by the US Air Force, which allowed it to monitor the supplies that came into the country. It was impressive to see The council voted Tuesday to reallocate the savings to the roads fund. Councilman Wayne Brown is concerned the position is being designed specifically for Jen- nings, making it tough to fill it in the future if Jennings leaves, he said. On March 2, Barthel said hav- ing a combined road and street department is fairly common in other municipalities and the posi- tion could easily be advertised. At Tuesday’s meeting, Brown again asked how easy the position could be filled if it became vacant in the future. Byrne was the only council- Agency in Red Bluff, said he looked forward to signing up clients whose preexisting condi- tions would have barred them from insurance before the bill. But Day feared the provision requiring employers to buy health insurance, a move that he said could cost jobs. “That kind of thing bothers me, if it’s going to come to some- thing like that,” he said. At Truman Christ Insurance in Red Bluff, Andrew Christ said the opposite, as employers are imme- diately slated to receive a tax credit for purchasing group insur- ance. But with so many provi- sions scheduled to take effect in the coming years, it remains unclear just which will survive future congressional sessions. “I would rather say, as an agent, we represent both the com- pany and the customer side,” Christ said. “I just hope we end up giving more people access to quality coverage.” ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.com. how many supplies came in and how quickly they were unloaded and the planes were on their way again, Engler said. Displaced people came in masses to the gates near the embassy for food. Water and meals ready to eat — MREs — were given to them. There were a few people who would hide their share and ask for more. Later on, they sold their extra meals to others. It is unfortunate that despite the devastation people still have the men- tality to make money and profit, Engler said. man who voted against the pro- motion saying it seemed like a Band-Aid solution for reorganiz- ing the public works department and a waste of time to create a job that could be rescinded in a few weeks. “There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians,” he said. The department should be reorganized, starting with hiring a new public works director that is a certified engineer, he said. Hav- ing a certified director would keep the city from having to hire “municipal prostitutes” every time the city has a project to do. A certified director is some- thing that Byrne has for years One of the things that amazed Engler was the way the Haitians moved on with their lives as if nothing had happened, he said. Within seven days they were back to doing their normal thing. They sat outside their makeshift homes and lined the streets trying to sell their goods. “It was like when you have nothing, you really have nothing to lose,” Engler said. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. been pushing for, to no avail. “We need to quit talking about it and do something about it,” Byrne said. When Byrne mentioned the reorganization at the March 2 meeting, Councilman Forrest Flynn said it was a legitimate concern that should not be ignored. The council requested City Manager Martin Nichols to bring the subject back as an agenda item for an April meeting. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527- 2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. Cattlemen’s Spring Field Day Saturday Have a news tip? Call 527-2151, Ext. 112 Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson From left:Tehama County Cattlemen’s Director Martin Mattia,President Chris Marenco and directors Arlo Stroing, Jeff White and Nathan Owens show off the buckles winners will take home from Saturday’s Spring Field Day. Events include a stock dog trial and a three-man calf branding competition, and will start at 9 a.m. at the Foor Ranch, the first left on Lassen Road, just off of Highway 99E, about nine miles south of Los Molinos. More information is available by calling 527- 3101 or visit tehamacountycattlemen.org. Woman treated for gunshot wound A Corning resident was treated and released from the hospital after acciden- tally shooting herself in the leg. Bonnie Gochenover, 29, knocked over her rifle when she opened her vehi- cle door Tuesday afternoon on Pope Road in Red Bluff, causing the rifle to fall to the ground, setting it off and putting a bullet in her lower left leg, according to a release from the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department. Gochenover was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle, treated and released for her injury. Deputies responding to the scene found no evidence to contradict Gochen- over’s story, according to the release. —Staff report Sarah Palin scheduled to make Calif. visit TURLOCK (AP) — Officials at California State University, Stanis- laus say former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be their guest of honor at the university’s 50th anniversary celebration. The former vice pres- idential candidate is scheduled to speak on June 25 at the public university in Turlock, a city located about halfway between Sacra- mento and Fresno. Palin was in her first term as governor when Republican Sen. 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