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Obituaries Deborah Anne Penne was born in Red Bluff, CA., on December 18, 1962 to Jeanette Penne. She passed away on October 22, 2012 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, CA., after courageously battling Leukemia. Deborah was a lifelong resident of Red Bluff, CA. and loved spending time with family. She especially loved watching her boys play baseball, basketball, and soccer, she enjoyed deco- rating her house at Halloween and Christmas, and loved collecting mystical figurines and also loved spending time at the coast. She loved her job at Red Bluff Health Care Center where she was loved by co-workers and residents. Deborah will be greatly missed by family, friends, and co- workers. Her light will shine for years to come. Deborah was predeaced by mother Jeanette Rowell. She DEBORAH ANNE PENNE December 18, 1962 - October 22, 2012 is survived by her husband; Rance Nichols, sons; Joshua Penne, Richard Penne, and Michael Nichols, brothers; Dave Penne, Otis Rowell, Brian Rowell, and sister; Bar- bara Davis, Aunt; Patricia Funk, and numerous cousins and loved ones. Services are at Vineyard Church Satur- day, October 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.(reception following). In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Vineyard Church Hume Lake Youth Fund. Death Notices 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 news- paper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, Dorothy M. Kirton Dorothy M. Kirton, of Red Bluff, died Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at Brentwood Skilled Nursing. She was 91. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. PATH meeting tonight PATH is holding an dessert orientation meeting from 7-9 tonight at North Valley Baptist Church. Anyone wishing to volunteer should attend. For more information call 527-3073. Couple charged in killing retired teacher of SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A husband and wife accused of killing a retired Northern California school teacher and wanted in a series of crimes in Southern Cali- fornia, including the shooting of a deputy, are a step closer to being returned to California from Washington to face charges, authorities said. Warrants were filed Wednesday in Contra Costa County Superior Court charging Darnell Washington, 24, and his wife, Tanya Washington, 25, with the murder of Suzie Ko, said Hercules police spokeswoman Connie Van Putten. Several other charges were also filed against the couple, including robbery, carjacking and burglary. Darnell Wash- ington was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, Van Putten said. An extradition warrant was also filed Wednesday seeking to have the couple returned to California. The Washingtons were being held in King County, Wash. They were arrested outside of Seattle less than a week after neighbors found Ko, 55, dead on the floor of her home Oct. 5. An autopsy report showed that she died of stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head. The Washingtons were arrested Oct. 10 in SeaTac while SUIT Continued from page 1A release. "The EEOC showed me that laws pro- tect workers from discrim- ination." In its own press release, Sierra Pacific said it stood by its decision to fire Elshenawy, who enlisted in the U.S. Army follow- ing his termination. "Sadly, the Federal FIDDLE Continued from page 1A $30 for the concert and dinner or $15 for just the concert. The contest, which is supported by the Califor- nia State Old-Time Fiddle Association, is one that draws people of all ages and from across the nation, Ash said. Thursday, October 25, 2012 – Daily News 7A Equal Employment Opportunity Commission intervened on behalf of Mr. Elshenawy and alleged that SPI fired him because he is Egyptian," the company's release says. "SPI vehemently denied that allegation from the very beginning and cited sexual harass- ment as the reason for the termination." was not found to be at fault in the case and only Sierra Pacific said it agreed to the settlement to stop spending money on litigation and free the courts of what they called a "meritless case." "It is truly a sad day when a government agency accuses a company of something that is totally false and unsubstantiated," said Vice President of Millwork and Window Divisions Kendall Pierson. "SPI did not discriminate against Mr. Elshenawy due to his national origin Schedule THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25TH 5:00 PM Kick-off Dinner at the fair- grounds 7:00 PM Kick-off Concert Billy Hill and the Hillbillies 9-10:00 PM Registration Opens "In 2002 and 2003 we had 3-year-old Lindsey Ferguson and a 93-year- old contestant from Seat- tle," Ash said. "We have people coming to town from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and a judge coming from West Virginia and paying his own airfare to come." Registration for the contest opens from 9-10 p.m. following the kickoff concert and again at 7 a.m. Friday. Each contestant plays a hoe down, a waltz and a tune of choice. Competition kick off Friday at 8:45 a.m. with the senior class from ages 55-69 and on Saturday at 9 a.m. with adults ages 37- 54. Tickets for one day of the contest are $8 for gen- eral admission and $7 for seniors or both days for LIFT (Continued from page 1A) the grand scheme of things it is a bit of a delay," Rapp said. The $188,000 hoisting system is one of 10 pur- chased by the state and the second to go to a heli- tack unit in the North State, Rapp said. "The real benefit is increased safety to rescuers and victims and there's less personnel needed," Rapp said. "It's increased our capability and it's a great tool." Personnel at the Vina Helitack took a 40-hour class in April and did additional training over the last three weeks at Vina, Rapp said. The helicopter stationed at Vina is one made in the 1970s and used in Vietnam that CalFire acquired in 1992 as it was phased out, pilot Brent RIP driving the Subaru station wagon that was taken from Ko's home after she was killed, police said. The pair led officers on a brief pursuit. After they were arrested, officers found a shotgun in the car, police said. The husband and wife were also wanted in a Southern California crime spree that authorities say included Darnell Washington's escape from San Bernardino County jail in August, the shooting of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy in El Monte, and a series of carjackings. The deputy was treated at a hospital and released. ADOPTS (Continued from page 1A) 2009 sets the framework policies for the county's zoning, subdivision and public works actions. Tuesday's adopted changes eliminate the Agricultural Preserve and Farmland Security, com- bining districts due to what staff called adminis- tration difficulties. The designations typically deal with Williamson Act land. Those areas will now be zoned into one of the four agricultural zoning districts. However the land will stay in its original designation for the remainder of its Williamson Act contract. are divided into the dis- tricts of Upland, Valley, El Camino and Capay. The agricultural zones Planning Director Jim Hamilton said the regula- tions keep in the spirit of minimum lot sizes for the El Camino and Capay areas. The amended ordi- nance gives the Planning Director more power when it comes to issuing stop orders for code viola- tions and interpreting uncertainties. resumption of widespread logging. He said clear- cutting can have the same effect as fires that leave behind a ''moonscape'' of devastation, though he later said he is not advo- cating clear-cutting. Mas- sive wildfires cause air pollution, environmental damage and threaten peo- ple and wildlife, McClin- tock said. ''Any squirrel fleeing a (Continued from page 1A) Another change deal- ing with the code's previ- ous ambiguity is an updat- ed Glossary of Terms and Definitions including the county's descriptions of ecotourism and glamping — upscale campgrounds. Those terms are used in a new chapter added to the code on administrative permit that agriculture tourism uses, which sets the process for agricul- ture, natural resource lands and recreation dis- tricts. regards Agricultural Buffer Combining Dis- tricts. According to the staff report, those districts, which were used to buffer between agricultural and nonagricultural land, were only used twice since 1983. One removed chapter fire knows this,'' he said, ''which leads me to the unflattering but inescapable conclusion that today our forest man- agement policy is in the hands of people who lack the simple common sense that God gave a squirrel.'' McClintock said the current policy is that ''we have to destroy the forest in order to save it,'' a notion that he described as ''New Age nonsense.'' Bill Kaage, the park official to testify. ''Fire is a very high- risk, high consequence endeavor,'' he said. ''With that high risk, there are successful out- comes and outcomes that are less than successful.'' Park Service officials' decision conflicted with the U.S. Forest Service's practice last summer of quickly putting out fires because of extraordinari- ly dry conditions across the West, testified Joe Millar, the agency's Fire and Aviation Manage- ment director for the region that covers Cali- fornia. The two federal agencies differ over their approaches to fighting wildfires and have had previous conflicts over the matter throughout the West. service's Wildland Fire Branch chief, generally defended the decisions but said park officials intend to learn from the fire. Park officials should have done a better job of coordinating with other federal, state and local agencies and area resi- dents, he acknowledged, and other lessons may come from an internal review due to be complet- ed next month. Staff reported they found establishing setback standards to be more effective. Though the fire jumped the park's bound- ary and blazed out of con- trol, no structures were damaged and there was just one minor injury, said Kaage, the only park Andy McMurry, deputy director for fire protection for the Califor- nia Department of Forestry and Fire Protec- tion, said the decision to treat the lightning-caused fire as a timber manage- ment tool came ''at an inopportune time'' and ran counter to his agency's policy of quick- ly stamping out every fire before it could spread. Kaage said park offi- cials followed the same FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26TH Division Preliminaries 7:00 AM Registration Opens 8:30 AM Fiddle Judges' Meeting 8:45 AM Senior (55-69) 9:30 AM Senior Senior (70 and older) 9:45 AM Picking Judges' Meeting 10:00 AM Junior Picking (17 and under) 10:30 AM Open Picking (any age) 11:30 PM LUNCH 12:30 PM Peewee (8 and under) 2:30 PM ENTERTAINMENT 2:45 PM Junior Junior (12 and under) 4:45 PM DINNER 5:30 PM Colors,Flag Salute & Invocation 5:45 PM Judges Play 6:00 PM ENTERTAINMENT Division Finals 6:15 PM Senior 6:40 PM Senior Senior 7:05 PM Peewee 7:30 PM Junior Junior 7:55 PM ENTERTAINMENT 8:10 PM Junior Picking 8:20 PM Open Picking 8:30 PM ENTERTAINMENT $15 general admission and $12 seniors. For more information 8:45 PM Junior Jukebox (17 and under) 9:35 PM AWARDS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27TH Division Preliminaries 7:30 AM Registration Opens 8:30 AM Fiddle Judges' Meeting 9:00 PM Adult (37-54) 9:30 AM Young Adult (18-36) 9:45 AM ENTERTAINMENT 10:00 AM NOVICE DIVISION 11:00 AM Junior Twin Fiddle (<18) 11:30 AM Adult Twin Fiddle (18+) 12:00 PM LUNCH 1:00 PM Junior (17 and under) 3:00 PM ENTERTAINMENT 3:15 PM Open (any age) 4:30 PM DINNER 5:30 PM Colors, Flag Salute & Invocation 5:45 PM Judges Play 6:00 PM ENTERTAINMENT Division Finals 6:15 PM Adult 6:40 PM Young Adult 7:05 PM ENTERTAINMENT 7:20 PM Junior 7:45 PM Open 8:10 PM Junior Twin Fiddle 8:25 PM Adult Twin Fiddle 8:40 PM ENTERTAINMENT 8:55 PM Open Jukebox (any age) DOOR PRIZE DRAWING 9:55 PM AWARDS on the contest, call 527- 6127 or visit http://www.westernopen- Starr said. The aircraft has been highly modified and is completely inspected often, Starr said. It can carry up to 10,500 pounds and seats 11 people with nine in the back, Starr said. Its water bucket carries 324 gallons or 2,600 pounds of water and it has enough fuel to fly, aver- age speed of 110-120 knots, for about two and a half hours, he said. The Vina helicopter has flown about 405 hours this fire season and dropped about 780,000 gallons of water. The air rescue program was designed originally to remove injured firefighters from the fireline, but CalFire does do public rescues, Rapp said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. federal wildfire policy used by the Forest Ser- vice and other federal agencies and stuck to their own fire manage- ment plan when they decided to monitor what began as a remote, low level, half-acre fire. The only difference is that the Forest Service makes fire management decisions at the regional level, while the Parks Service leaves those decisions to local officials, he said in sup- porting that local control. Similar managed fires burned uneventfully this summer in Yosemite and Rocky Mountain national parks, Kaage said, and even seemingly devastat- ed areas recover in time from fires that are a nat- ural and inescapable part of the Western landscape. The fire jumped its perimeter a week after it began. At one point it threatened nearly 150 homes and 50 commer- cial properties. It burned through part of the Pacific Crest Trail north of Lower Twin Lake, much of the popu- lar 10-mile Twin Lakes Loop Trail, and the less heavily used Nobles Emi- grant Trail, said Lassen park spokeswoman Karen Haner. However, none of the park's popular hydrothermal areas were affected. was requested by angry Shasta County supervi- sors. Wednesday's hearing The park is surrounded by generally poor com- munities that used to rely on the timber industry but now survive on the brief summer tourist season, testified Pam Giacomini, a business owner who has been elected to the Shasta County Board of Supervi- sors. The fire ''cost them dearly,'' she said, sug- gesting that park officials be required to compen- sate local businesses for their economic losses. saw no economic benefit from the fire but would from a resurgent timber industry, said Giacomini and others. Those communities fiddle.com/, which has a schedule of the contest. — we fired him because he violated federal and state laws and our compa- ny policy against sexual harassment." Regional Attorney William Tamayo com- mended Sierra Pacific for its cooperation in resolv- ing the case. "We also thank Mr. EEOC San Francisco Elshenawy for having the courage to report this dis- crimination," Tamayo said.