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Obituary STORAGE Continued from page 1A Yet the same funeral home has changed hands several times over the past five years, and the coun- ty, drawing its belt ever tighter, needs to think about expenses a decade from now, Goodwin said. In exchange for an $18,400 MICHAEL PATRICK MURPHY A Celebration of Life in memory of Mike Murphy will be held on Saturday,May 8th from 11:30am to 3:00pm at Carlinos Event Center at Rolling Hills Casino SOLAR Continued from page 1A enough for Sierra Pacific, on whose land the project would be built, to justify buying it, Planner II Bob Halpin said. With no access to the adjacent Highway 99W, building the project on Sierra Pacific Land, just south of Reading Road, is not expected to create any traffic issues. The project owes its existence in part to the stimulus bill, as American Reinvestment and Recov- ery Act bonds will pay for part of the project’s instal- lation, Knight said. The Tehama County Planning Commission meets at 9 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month in the Board of Supervisors chambers at 727 Oak St. More infor- mation is available by calling 527-2200 or visit- ing co.tehama.ca.us. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. investment, the county is slated to receive more than $52,600, enough to pay for the remaining cost of the morgue. “We had the opportunity to create our own morgue at this time for a very, very small invest- ment,” Goodwin said. In a 2008 conversation between the Hoyt-Cole owner and the county’s deputy-coroner, the owner suggested a fee schedule, Goodwin said. POT Continued from page 1A recommendations and a notarized letter from the property owner if the applicants rent. County documents indi- cate the fee would just fall CAMP Continued from page 1A money raised during the pancake breakfast. On Saturday, at the Elks Lodge, as Kiwanis members rushed pancakes and syrup to hungry visitors, a projector dis- played a slide show of past camp The proposal was the facility could charge as much as $55 a day for body storage, $200 for autopsies and $200 to remove bodies, according to a recent memo prepared by Capt. Paul Hosler. At no time did the owner put the figures in writing, Goodwin said. The morgue has since changed ownership, but he figures were cited April 6 as the Board of Supervisors considered putting the morgue, to be built at the sher- iff’s department on Antelope Boulevard, out to bid. The motion was approved 4-1. Hoyt-Cole General Manager Nick Bermudez called the 2008 figures “astronomical.” His mor- tuary has offered to continue serv- ing the county free up through at least December 2012, continuing short of covering the cost of staff processing regis- tration, which is estimated to be $40.37 per garden. As a complaint-driven policy, the ordinance is only supposed to come into play if someone con- tacts the county, and will be enforced at the discre- weeks. If the slides offered encourage- ment to volunteers, Kiwanis members could use it. Members were readying the Elks Lodge by 5 a.m. and would continue past 11 a.m., even as the rest of Red Bluff gathered downtown for the Red Bluff Round-Up Parade, Chair- woman Lisa Hansen said. Hansen has headed the break- fast for four years, but just how a decades-long tradition. Supervisors stood by their Monday, April 19, 2010 – Daily News – 7A future.” vote, even if the 2008 figures cited did not reflect the current ownership. “I don’t think the numbers were all that important,” Supervi- sor Ron Warner said. “As I remember, we could never get a definite figure from the owners.” Key to Warner’s vote was that the money would come from the sheriff’s budget instead of the county’s general fund, he said. Supervisor George Russell said the project would save money, even if the 2008 figures do not apply. Like Goodwin, he cited changing ownership of funeral homes as a concern. “We have the facility, we have the need,” Russell said. “There’s no guarantee (what) will happen relative to mortuaries in the tion of responding sher- iff’s deputies. When enforced, grow- ers will have two weeks to either appeal to supervi- sors or comply. At the end of those 14 days, the coun- ty could enter the property, destroy the garden and charge the owner for the removal. Medical marijuana advocates have fought the measure, though meetings have been roughly divided between speakers in favor of the measure and those against it. Supervisors meet at 10 a.m. Tuesdays at 727 Oak long Red Bluff has been pouring on the maple syrup is uncertain. Club members can trace the event back to at least 1962, she said. It may continue on half a cen- tury more — the club has young help to draw on. Reeds Creek Superintendent and Principal Jake Hosler, work- ing with 14 of his students, was as active as any Kiwanis member. But in between serving as a Hosler, who prepared the report considered by supervisors, said law enforcement’s desire for a morgue had less to do with sav- ing money and more to do with the preservation of evidence. “(Mortuaries) don’t know how to control evidence,” Hosler said. “That’s not their job.” The department has never had reason to suspect bodies at the morgue have been improperly cared for, or that keeping them at Hoyt-Cole has affected evidence. But the threat is one the depart- ment has been concerned about for around 20 years, Hosler said. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.co m. St. More information is available by calling 527- 4655 or visiting co.tehama.ca.us. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. traffic controller for the event’s volunteer waiters and waitresses, Hosler cradled his three-week-old daughter in his arms. She is the group’s latest helper, he said. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.co m. Corning lays out priorities for projects CORNING — The City Council is looking at extending city water and sewer to the west side of Interstate 5 at South Avenue and later Solano Street and improvements at Solano Street, Highway 99W and Edith Avenue inter- section, including widening Solano Street to I-5. Improvements to Highway 99W north of South Avenue including turn lanes, curb and gut- ter and under grounding utilities for commercial and light industrial development rounded out the list of the city’s top priorities. Next steps include rehabilitating and reopening Rodgers The- atre and extending city water and sewer to air- port property for com- mercial and industrial park creation along with improvements to Mar- guerite Avenue north of Removal of yard waste changes By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The City Coun- cil approved its new public works policy on removal of curbside prunings, clippings and bulky items at Tuesday’s meet- ing. The new policy will be mailed out, in both English and Spanish, in a letter with the annual water report before July 1, when it goes into effect, said Public Works Director John Brewer. The new policy says green waste and bulky items left in the street will be regarded as litter and those determined to be responsible may be cited. Exceptions to the policies include leaves deposited for city removal during the fall season and bulky items left no more than three days prior to a bulky goods removal event scheduled by the Corning Disposal Compa- ny. For more information on the policies visit www.corning.org or call 824-7029. Blackburn. Lowest priority items include identifying opportunities for reuse and infill development for vacant downtown buildings, improving and expanding the municipal water system and seek- ing funding to extend Fig Lane from Toomes Avenue to Houghton Avenue. In other business: The third annual Westside American Legion Fundraiser, a men’s softball tourna- ment, is set to be held May 15 and 16. For more information, call Troy McIntyre at 824-0608. Sacramento court rules in favor of atheist parolee SACRAMENTO (AP) — A Sacramento federal court judge has ruled in favor of a Red- ding parolee who sued the state after he was sent back to prison because he refused to take part in an inpatient treatment program with a strong religious overtone. The man, Barry Hazle Jr., served a year in prison on a drug charge. After being released in 2007 he was ordered to take part in the pro- gram, but refused because he claims to be an atheist. When Hazle asked to be transferred to a non-religious program, his parole agent arrest- ed him on parole violation for failing to partic- ipate in the program to which he had been assigned. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Mayor Gary Strack presents Police Chief Tony Cardenas and Fire Chief Martin Spannaus with a proclamation honoring their dispatchers at Tuesday’s Corning City Council meeting. STATE ROUND-UP Series of small quakes keep rattling Calif. desert SAN DIEGO (AP) — A series of small earthquakes shook the California desert near the US-Mexico border along a fault where a mag- nitude-7.2 quake slammed cities on both sides two weeks earlier. Preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey say a magnitude-3.8 tem- blor was the biggest of about a dozen small quakes Sunday in the area near Calexico. A dispatcher with the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department says there have been no reports of any dam- ages or injuries. The powerful quake on April 4 killed two people in Mexico and damage esti- mates for California approach $100 million. Four jailed after trying to evade police in U-Haul SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say four burglary sus- pects didn’t get very far when they tried to evade officers by driving away in a U-Haul rental truck. A police spokesman says officers responding to a report of a burglary in the city’s Ingleside neighbor- hood around 1:30 p.m. Sat- urday tried to pull over the truck as it left the scene. Officer Boaz Mariles says the truck crashed into a car within a few blocks. The driver of the car suffered minor injuries. Police arrested four sus- pects inside the U-Haul. Mariles did not have any details about the suspects. New road after sinkhole in Richmond RICHMOND (AP) — Crews were working on building a new road after a massive sinkhole in Rich- mond cut off a neighbor- hood of about 100 homes. The sinkhole swal- lowed up two parked cars when it opened up Thurs- day evening. A Richmond fire offi- cial says the hole, estimat- ed to be about 60 feet long, 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep, cut off vehicle access for hundreds of people in the neighborhood. A temporary road being built was expected to be completed after the two cars were hauled of the sinkhole. Crews rescue woman ORINDA (AP) — Fire officials say emergency crews had to set up a rope and pulley system to res- cue a woman whose car ran off a Contra Costa County road around 3:15 p.m. Saturday and crashed 150 feet down a hill. Moraga-Orinda Fire District Battalion Chief Darrell Lee says after crews were able to get the driver back up to the road- way, she was taken to a local hospital for treat- ment of cuts and other non-life threatening injuries. Independently owned Telephone: (530) 824-3792 Over 50 years of serving Tehama County After serving three more months, Hazle sued the state corrections department. Last week, U.S. District Judge Garland Bur- rell Jr. ruled that forced participation in a reli- gious program had violated Hazle’s constitu- tional rights.