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Obituaries her family by her side, on the morning of November 19, 2012, she was 83. She was born in Fresno, CA on June 27, 1929. Ruth was raised in Rusk, Texas and her family moved to Susanville CA, where Ruth met the love of her life, James William Ramey, Sr., "Dub". They married Au- gust 23, 1946, and celebrated their 66th Wedding Anniver- sary this past August with a trip to Eureka. They moved to Eureka in 1954, before moving to Red Bluff, in 1966. Ruth was always generous to all who knew her. She was a strong, kind hearted and loving woman. She loved gar- dening, crocheting, collecting antiques and collectibles, cooking, and most of all she loved her family. She was known throughout the family for her Thanksgiving Day spread, especially her famous rolls and her pies, all from scratch. She bought herself a Pontiac Solstice sports car for her 80th birthday, which she enjoyed driving to visit various friends and family each Sunday. Ruth never missed a San Francisco Giants baseball game. If it wasn't broadcasted on television she had her radio tuned in. She was so proud to see them win the World Series once again, and enjoyed watching the celebration parade on television. "Ruth, Mom, Grammy, you will be deeply missed and forever in our hearts." Ruth Ramey passed away at her home in Red Bluff with June 27, 1929 ~ November 19, 2012 RUTH RAMEY Ruth is survived by her husband, James W. Ramey, Sr. "Dub", her children; Jim Jr. and Barbara Ramey, Don Ramey, Joy and Greg Greene, Twylla and Jim Alford, her grandchildren; Shawn and Dana Guibergia, Clint and Nicole Guibergia, Josh and Danielle Ramey, Jason and Jami Ramey, Mathew Ramey, Carrie Adams, Alysha and Chris Hahn, and Alan Adams, as well as 12 great- grandchildren. Ruth was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Earl Daniels, Sr., mother Bessie Daniels, brothers; Joseph Daniels Jr., Floyd Daniels, her twin brother Ralph Daniels, Jack Daniels, and daughter, Judy Gail Guibergia. at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of Flowers, visitation is scheduled for 9:00am-12:30pm, followed by memorial service at 1:00 pm, and graveside service immediately following. Please visit www.chapeloftheflowers.net Services are scheduled for Monday, November 26, 2012 The Red Bluff Presbyterian Church, at 838 Jefferson St. in Red Bluff, will be serving the 19th Annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner today. This special holiday dinner is for all those in the community who are BAKER Continued from page 1A A family member even became ill during a recent visit with her parents, she told the board. Public Works Director Bruce Henz said he has been receiving similar NIELSEN Continued from page 1A rington, who has 27.8 percent of the vote, will be held Jan. 8. That runoff will cost Tehama County about $100,000, said Elec- tions Department Assistant Regis- trar Jennifer Vise. Coming after the county passed STALK Continued from page 1A Herrera are passing the three-day wait with elec- tronics, their smart- phones and playing foot- ball in the parking lot. And they don't scrimp on food. With the help of a camping stove, breakfast Wednesday was bacon, eggs and toast, and they Thanksgiving dinner offered in Red Bluff volunteers. alone or may not have anywhere else to go. A complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings, including pump- kin pie and good fellowship, will be served between noon and 1 p.m. by church members and community complaints in the past year, but has done every- thing he can think of to address the problem. "We haven't been able to discern where the odors are coming from, we admit they're there," he said. Henz said the city has done extensive smoke Thursday, November 22, 2012 – Daily News 7A The dinner is sponsored by the Stewardship and Mission Commit- tee with a large portion of the food donated by the Presbyterian congre- gation. tests through the city's sewage system in the area, done seal checks on their own infrastructure as well as private homes and explored their pump sta- tion. Still there's been no luck in finding the root source. Mayor Forrest Flynn the budget, the elections department would have to go back to the Board of Supervisors to allocate the $100,000. urged residents in the area to keep providing informa- tion to the Public Works Department so workers can pinpoint the problem and fix it. The department can be reached at 527-2605. publicly dropping out before the election. Grubbs said the runoff will cost Butte County $400,000. Two candidates dropped out of the senate race, but their names still appeared on the ballot. Dan Logue won 11.3 percent of the vote and Benjamin Emery got 1.9 percent of the vote, despite both planned pancakes for today. The biggest chal- lenge is bathrooms. walk into the woods," Becerra said. "It's not like you can But by Wednesday, much to everyone's relief, portable toilets had been set up in the parking lot. Despite looks from passersby, the campers are not shamed by their stake- out. "People call us sick, Turkeys: Main course or animal companion? Turkeys: Some people eat them, some feed them LOS ANGELES (AP) — OK, so it isn't even close. According to the industry group National Turkey Federation, more than 46 million of the big birds will be served as Thanksgiving dinner this year. Just a few hundred will get to experience the holiday as a pet, said turkey rescue Farm Sanctuary. ''I believe they make amazing companions, but they are different than cats or dogs,'' said Susie Cos- ton of Watkins Glen, N.Y. For one thing, turkeys get too hot and are too messy to come indoors, said Coston, the national shelter director for the Farm Sanctuary. Taking the large bird on as a companion requires more responsi- bilities than owning a dog or a cat, experts say. ''If people are adopting domesticated turkeys, they should be aware that it's not a simple endeavor and would take a consider- able amount of work,'' said NTF spokeswoman Kimmon Williams. ''Turkeys as pets is a complicated need affection, attention, security, they always need you to do some- thing for them. With the turkeys, I don't feel guilty because I didn't take them to the park and throw the Frisbee,'' said the Ben Lomond, Calif., resident. Despite their differences, turkeys and traditional pets share traits such as the ability to love unconditional- ly, loyalty and intelligence, owners said. Dr. Drucilla Roberts, a pathol- ogist from Millis, Mass., pointed out a bonus: ''They give us manure and eggs.'' ''I was always told that turkeys were the dumbest of farm animals. But that's not true. They know us and protect us. If a stranger comes, the turkey is right in his face and clucking and raising its feathers. They make great noises,'' Roberts said. the ones that get adopted as pets: Coston said most turkeys rescued by the Farm Sanctuary come from factory farms and have been debeaked, detoed and fattened. Many arrive as victims of neglect, cruelty or hoarding; they fall off farm trucks; or they mysteriously show up in boxes on doorsteps, she said. Two other candidates, Jann Reed and Dan Levine, combined for another 9.3 percent of the vote. There are two years remaining on the senate term. Chico Enterprise-Record Staff writer Larry Mitchell contributed to this report. and it's like, 'Why? Because you are too lazy to come out?'" Herrera said. Chico State kinesiolo- gy major Jackie Munoz, 22, said she was dragged to Best Buy on Tuesday by a friend. She was not planing to go home to Orange County to be with her family for Thanksgiving anyway, so for a Starbucks drink a day for the duration of the stakeout, she agreed to bring her pitbull Rocky, and hang out. Novices to camping, Munoz and her friend had to borrow all the gear but were having fun, she said. She spends her day painting her nails, reading and study- ing for upcoming exams. "Everyone should try it just once," she said "People might say we are crazy but oh well." GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The last building block of the Obama administration's strategy unveiled Wednesday to keep the northern spotted owl from extinc- tion nearly doubles the amount of Northwest national forest land dedicated to protecting the bird by the Bush administration four years ago. Still, conservation groups that went to court to force Feds aim to double habitat for spotted owl question,'' she added. Like other animals that serve as companions to humans, turkeys come in different breeds, with some weighing as much as 60 pounds, Williams said. Every turkey has its own personality — and some can be aggressive, she said. Most pet turkey owners agree the birds aren't the kind of pets that can be walked on a leash or dressed for the Christmas family photo. Coston said, for instance, that she Like dogs, some turkeys grow attached to their owners. Oeh recounted how her last turkey, Ari- ala, followed her around the garden. ''She would stay by my right leg. When I was picking vegetables, she ate out of my hand. She let me pet her and kiss her,'' Oeh said, adding that petting turkeys can put them into a trance-like state. ''She was so immersed in the moment that if you got tired of petting her and moved away, she'd wake up and look around as if to say 'What's going on?''' wouldn't sleep with her turkey ''like I do my dogs and cats. But I don't love dogs more than I do pigs or dogs and cats more than chickens and turkeys. I have a different rela- tionship with each of them.'' ''Turkeys are inherently nervous and do not tend to be warm and cud- dly. Turkeys also need plenty of space to run around in and be fed the appropriate diet,'' Williams noted. Still, Karen Oeh, who will be get- ting four pet turkeys just before Thanksgiving, said she preferred them over dogs. ''Dogs are needy to me. They The part-time teacher and student services coordinator had to put Ari- ala to sleep last year due to her health problems, for which Oeh dis- covered a lack of available informa- tion. Through trial and error, she learned that it's hard to give a turkey a pill or take them on trips, because crating them requires giving them bear hugs to keep their wings from flapping. are aware of at least one problem: owing to their large breasts, com- mercial turkeys have little balance and can fall easily. One of Roberts' turkeys, Turks, had to be put down after its weight caused a split ster- num, she said. Experts and owners, however, Commercial turkeys are usually maker of the controversial pesticide methyl iodide, used primarily to fumigate strawberries, has agreed to remove all of its products from the U.S. market and end sales permanently. The U.S. EPA announced Wednesday that Arysta had requested volun- tarily cancellation of all of the company's product reg- istrations, which means that the suspected carcinogen will no longer be used in this country by the end of the year. Arysta said at the time that the decision was based on the product's lack of eco- nomic viability. ''This is the final nail in The company's decision ends more than five years of legal battles by environmen- tal groups and farmworkers who had fought initial approval of the product dur- ing the Bush administration. It comes after an announce- ment in March that the Japanese company would voluntarily pull methyl iodine from the U.S. mar- ket. The sanctuary, which has loca- tions in Orland and in New York, places about 50 turkeys a year and has found homes for more than 1,500 birds since it started 26 years ago, Coston said. Hundreds of other birds, including the weakest or those with special needs are not adopted out because the rescues can deal with their problems easier than adopters can, Coston said. Such sanctuaries are the final stop for the most well-known turkeys to escape the dinner table: the annual National Thanksgiving Turkey (and an understudy), who are pardoned the night before the holiday. After much fanfare and a White House ceremony, this year's turkeys will live on George Wash- ington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, with last year's birds, Liberty and Peace. Karen Dawn, an author from Los Angeles, gets two turkeys every year and socializes them before they move on. This year's birds are going to live in Malibu. They arrive stinky, so she gives them a bath and blow dry. ''They relax like this is the best day they have had so far,'' said Dawn, who wrote ''Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Ani- mals.'' Turkeys make great outdoor pets and ''make better pets than other birds that you have to keep in a cage indoors,'' she said. Dawn said her two 20-pound the overhaul said key gaps remain, such as an exemption for private forest lands and most state forests. The full critical habitat plan will not be published until next week, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that 9.6 million acres of Oregon, Washington and Northern California will come under its provisions, almost all of it federal lands. The amount is down from nearly 14 million acres pro- posed last February but still exceeds the 5.3 million acres proposed in 2008. The biggest cut came in private tim- berlands — 1.3 million acres. State forests covering 271,000 acres remain. Following a directive last February from the White House, officials revised the latest plan to make room for thinning and logging inside critical habitat to reduce the danger of wildfire and improve the health of forests. Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversi- ty said it appeared the critical habitat plan and the previ- ously adopted owl recovery strategy were back in line with the Northwest Forest Plan adopted in 1994 to pro- tect owls and salmon. ''In restoring extensive protections on federal lands, today's decision ... marks the end of a dark chapter in the Endangered Species Act's implementation when politics were allowed to blot out science,'' he said. ''The owl has continued to decline since its protection under the Endangered Species Act. Part of the reason for that is the loss of habitat on private and state lands.'' Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist for the GEOS Institute and a former member of the spotted owl recov- ery team, objected to plans to log and thin forests inside the critical habitat area, saying no studies have been done on how that may harm owls, which favor old growth. He added that one study shows it reduces the amount of prey available. turkeys will be at her Thanksgiv- ing dinner — but as guests. Rosie and Martha will greet two dozen human guests in the garden and watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, while Dawn serves up Wild Turkey bourbon — and tofurkey. Maker of methyl iodide ends US EPAregistration FRESNO (AP) — The the coffin,'' said Greg Loarie of the nonprofit envi- ronmental law firm Earth- justice, which represented a dozen groups in California, Oregon and Florida. Studies have shown that the fumigant, also known as idomethane, poses acute public health risks because tests on rats and rabbits showed that exposure caus- es thyroid cancer, miscar- riages and damage to the nervous system. Scientists also found it can pollute air and water. Since it was approved in 2007 by the Environmental Protection Agency, methyl iodide had seen little use across the nation. The federal government has been trying to balance logging and fish and wildlife habitat since the late 1980s. The designation of the spotted owl as a threatened species in 1990 triggered a 90 percent cutback in logging on national forests in the northwest, and similar reduc- tions spread around the nation. Even so, the spotted owl has seen a 40 percent decline during the past 25 years, Fish and Wildlife officials said. Community Clip? e-mail: clerk@red- bluffdailynews.com or Fax: 527-9251