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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 – Daily News – 7A Obituaries JAMES C. ELLIS James C. Ellis, Jr. 87 of Los Molinos, went home to be with the Lord on April 22, 2010. Jim was born on Au- gust 25, 1922 on the family ranch at Blue Ridge on Black Bear Mountain near the Forks of Salmon in Sis- kiyou County. The youngest of seven children born to Le- roy and Sadie Godfrey. Jim was predeceased by all of his siblings; Charlie, Mary, Robert, August, Earnest and Earl. At a very young age Jim was adopted by his grand- parents, James C. Ellis and Elizabeth Reece Brazile. His grandmother belonged to the Karuk Indian Wayne and Anna Oliver Graveside services for Wayne and Anna Oliver will be held April 30, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. at Oak Hill Cemetery in Red Bluff, CA. Wayne died October 10, 2009, and Anna died December 9, 2009. After the service, a gathering will be held at 510 West Avenue, Red Bluff, CA. PETER FRANKLIN MORWAY Peter Franklin Morway, born September 15, 1934 passed away April 26, Tribe. It wasn’t until recent years that Jim began the journey to learn about his native herit- age and the history of the Karuk Indians. Jim attended elementary school in Etna and Yreka. While he lived with the Fiock family who became like his second family and has stayed very close to them his entire life. Around the time of high school, Jim moved to Los Molinos. He graduated from LMUHS in 1941. After high school, Jim joined the Coast Guard. In 1945 he married Elva Johnston and they settled in Ceres, Cali- fornia. Elva went home to be with the Lord in 2001. Jim is survived by two children from his first marriage; Rob- ert Ellis, of Modesto, and Di- ane Ellis, of Santa Rosa. In 2002, Jim married his high school sweetheart, Phyllis Emerson Fox. He is survived by four step chil- dren; Jerry & Kathy Fox of San Jose, Teddy & Penny Fox of Los Molinos. Lester & Rhonda Fox of Los Molinos and Ken & Robin Thompson of Red Bluff. The last years have been an adventure for both of them. From taking an Alaskan cruise to visiting friends at Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands; many trips to the coast, Blue Grass activities, and Yreka, taking pictures and enjoying music with family and friends was something Jim loved. A memorial service will be held this Saturday, May 1st at 1 PM at Cone Grove park. Please join us afterwards for a pot luck picnic. There are tables and benches but if you have comfortable lawn chairs you might want to bring them. In case of rain this will be moved to the Los Molinos Methodist Church PG&E Continued from page 1A holds, primarily in the valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, according to PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno. It will be expanded to about 9.8 million cus- tomers in 2012, he said. PG&E said 99 percent of the meters have performed without problems and that bill estimates are a relative- ly rare occurrence. Since the program rolled out in September 2007, only 0.2 percent of smart-meter bills have been esti- mates, compared to 0.7 percent of traditional meter bills, said Helen Burt, PG&E senior vice president and chief customer officer, who testified Monday. ‘‘Our billing estimate rate is getting better, and our actual estimates are getting more accurate,’’ Burt said. ‘‘Smart-meter technology is actually saving people money.’’ PG&E reports its smart-meter data monthly to the California Public Utilities Commission, which has assigned an independent audit of the program. The report is scheduled to be completed in August. The commission’s director, Paul Clanon, said the audit was necessary to address the almost 1,000 com- plaints he and his colleagues have received from smart- meter customers. All but about two dozen of the com- plaints were from PG&E customers, he said, and main- ly from people in the valley. ‘‘One thousand complaints might be a relatively small number,’’ he said Monday. ‘‘But one bad meter, one bad bill is one too many.’’ Some smart-meter opponents have called for a sus- pension of the smart-meter program until the audit is complete. One of those critics, Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, said the con- sumer advocacy group receives 30 to 40 calls per week from frustrated smart-meter customers. Clanon said, however, a moratorium was unneces- sary at this stage. Representatives from smaller utilities say their smart-meter rollouts have gone smoothly. ‘‘Customer response has been very good,’’ said Genevieve Shiroma, board president of the customer- owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which installed 52,000 smart meters so far and plans to extend them to all customers by the end of the year. For now, SMUD is requiring meter readers to check smart-meter readings in order to boost public confi- dence in the results, Shiroma said. 2010. Pete was a long time resident of Tehama, CA. He was a loving father and survived by his children Bobby Morway and his grandson Trenton Morway of Red Bluff. His Son Billy Morway of Red Bluff. His stepchildren Kenneth Cass from Oregon, John Cass from L.A., and Janet Cass from Grass Valley. Graveside services will be held at the Tehama Ceme- tery in Tehama, CA at 1:00 PM on Friday, April 30, 2010, reception will imme- diately follow. A special thanks to his sisters Elizabeth, Edith, and Mary for helping Pete through the final days of his life. Death Notices Arnold Huff Arnold Huff, a 32-year Tehama County resident, died Thursday April 22, 2010, at Red Bluff Health Care Center in Red Bluff. He was 73. Per his request, no ser- vices were scheduled. Hoyt- Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrange- ments. Published Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. John Richard Valasek, Jr. John Richard Valasek, Jr. died Friday, April 23, 2010, in Red Bluff. He was 71. Services will be held at a later date. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. COUNTY Continued from page 1A may cite in refusing a permit, six of which cite public safety and four of which deal with traffic. Will previously said WHEE 2010 will be peaceful and generate income the county has lost since the Nitro Nationals Boat Drag Race ceased in 2009. She also said she will tolerate marijuana smoking at the event, but not alcohol. More information is available at whee2010.com. Sun up on Sun City The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to reconvene at 1:30 p.m. WOES Continued from page 1A Dispatchers. One option mentioned in the staff report is raising rates for the dispatch con- tract with Capay and Orland. Another was retaining one dispatcher for daytime during the week and mov- ing night time dispatch to police dispatch. The remaining three fire dis- patchers would be offered to discuss Sun City Tehama, a development years in the waiting. The project was first delayed by the housing crisis, before it was the subject of a lawsuit from the Cali- fornia Oak Foundation. Neither a local judge nor the Third Appellate District of the Cali- fornia Court of Appeal backed most of the suit, which focused on the damage to nearby oak trees. But the appellate court did side with the foundation when it accused the county of failing to disclose a series of e-mails concerning a theory on how much the developers could afford to spend on Interstate 5 expansion. The county has since been ordered to undo all the paperwork one of the vacant public works positions. The idea was raised of putting a special tax before voters. If approved at $60 annually, or $5 a month, multiplied by the 2,950 residential units and 245 commercial business- es it would take in $191,700 a year. The city would need $74,000 to save the job of Recreation Supervisor Kimberly Beck. To save recreation, the council can use just less STATIONS Continued from page 1A or injuries, but it only rained two out of 23 hours.” A support vehicle was driven by friends and family members and was never more than two to three miles out, which helped break up the trip, Puckett said. BITE Continued from page 1A report a dead bird or request a check on standing water, can call the district at 527- 1676. The district has mos- quito fishes available free for backyard ponds. In 2009, West Nile virus resulted in four deaths in 9/11 flag presented Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Future Red Bluff Moose Lodge Governor Paul Reardon, left, and Treasurer Dave Crosby meet CalFire Firefighter Paul Kordzikowski and Engineer Andrew Emerick. On Saturday, Moose Lodge members presented CalFire firefighters with an American flag embedded with the names of all emergency personnel who lost their lives responding to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. approved for the project, and could renew it as long as copies of the e- mails are included. Supervisors were scheduled to take a vote on the matter April 6, but a last-minute memo from founda- tion attorney Tom Lippe deterred supervisors. Acting on the advice of County Counsel, supervisors opted to hold off on the matter until today. The Tehama County Board of Supervisors meets at 10 a.m. Tues- days at 727 Oak St. More informa- tion is available by calling 527-4655 or visiting co.tehama.ca.us. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.com. than $16,000 left in the Park Volunteer Fund, leav- ing $23,600 needed for a half-time position, or $57,700 for full-time. The city is working on negotiations with staff for a continued 10 percent furlough across the board, which would save $284,000 for the 2010- 2011 fiscal year. In addition to cuts men- tioned at the April 13 meeting, the council will be discussing whether to accept the possibility of Each night, the support vehicles picked Puckett and Homesley up to take them home, returning them to the location by 8 a.m. the next day to continue. Puckett said he and Homesley are glad the challenge is done and that it was successful, but they are not sure whether they will do it again next year. For those who missed hearing California and 112 reported human cases of the virus. The following safety precautions are recom- mended by the California Department of Health Ser- vices: • Avoid spending time outside when mosquitoes are most active, especially at dawn and the first two hours after sunset. Assembly modifies law seeking to cure gays — A vote in the California Assembly on Monday to modify a 60-year-old law that classified gays as sexu- al deviants reopened a little known chapter of social his- tory in a state long known as a leader for gay rights. In 1950, the state Legis- lature directed the Depart- ment of Mental Health (then known as the Department of Mental Hygiene) to conduct research into the causes and potential cures of homosex- uality. The law was part of a larger investigation into sex- ual deviance. It classified gays as sexu- SACRAMENTO (AP) al deviants and required the state to conduct research to find the causes of sex crimes against children. One research paper from the era completed as a result of the law noted that gays might ‘‘engage in criminal aggres- sive behavior’’ as they strive to ‘‘overcome strong homo- sexual drives.’’ bly voted 62-0 to modify the law, removing all references to homosexuals in the provi- sion that calls for research. It now goes to the state Sen- ate. The 80-member Assem- phony cure off the books,’’ said Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francis- co, who is gay. ‘‘It’s time to get this the City Attorney revert- ing back to being an inde- pendent contractor at the rate he charged five years ago. The agreement would be $910 a month to attend two city council meetings a month plus hourly com- pensation of $120 an hour. The agenda is available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. about the event, there is still time to donate. Checks can be made payable to “Tehama Firefighters” and mailed to Tehama Firefighter’s Burn and Benevolent Fund, 859 Washington St., PMB 189, Red Bluff, 96080. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. • When outdoors, wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts. • Apply insect repellent containing DEET accord- ing to label instructions. • Make sure doors and windows have tight-fitting screens. Repair or replace screens that have tears or holes. • Eliminate all sources of standing water, which can support mosquito breeding. • Contact the mosquito and vector control agency if there is a significant mos- quito problem where you live or work. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext.110 or by e- mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. Is cremation your choice? 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