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Tuesday, December 4, 2012 ��� Daily News Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, 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 newspaper���s website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. 7A Santa visits hundreds at Saturday event James Donald Adams James Donald Adams died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 78. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Mary Alcala Mary Alcala of Red Bluff died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. She was 67. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Raymond H. Barber Raymond H. Barber died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at his residence in Red Bluff. He was 82. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Daily News photo by Chip Thompson Tonya Fields Tonya Fields of Tehama died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, at Red Bluff Health Care. She was 50. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CITY Continued from page 1A jail already. Lampron was found guilty Oct. 19 following a jury trial. The city of Red Bluff became aware of the embezzled money while performing a routine annual audit in July 2009. The final restitution Lampron will pay the city is still being negotiated by the Tehama County District Attorney���s Office and Lampron���s attorney. Tehama County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Skillman said at Monday���s sentencing that Lampron continues to deny the theft as evidenced in her inter- Santa visits with one of hundreds of local children who stopped by the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center Saturday morning for the annual Red Bluff Kiwanis Christmas Festival. In addition to visits with Santa, the free event offered several games, cookies and juice and a free Christmas gift for every child. Kiwanians and area high school students involved in Key Clubs hosted the event. view with the probation department. Skillman said he took Lampron���s lack of remorse into consideration for the sentence along with the fact she had no prior convictions. In the end, though, public trust has been violated, he said. Lampron could have faced three years in state yelling and entered the apartment to find Crannell holding a knife. The neighbor eventually struck Continued from page 1A Crannell with a small table and was able to restrain him until officers help during the struggle. arrived. A neighbor heard the woman The woman sustained minor MURDER STORM Continued from page 1A Corning Police Sgt. Jeremiah Fears responded at 6:08 a.m. to the area where he used his SUV to push the vehicle out of the ditch to safety. The man was given a ride home. Cone Grove Road in the Dairyville area was closed for a portion of the weekend due to flooding, Tehama County Public Works Director Gary Antone said. Various locations throughout the county faced damage from the storm from trees and limbs down on Manton Road and in the Corning area due to a downed powerline and a significant amount of debris washing onto the roads, Antone said. ���Many of the creeks and tributaries to the Sacramento River experienced high flows, however, overall, there���s been minimal amounts of problems,��� Antone said. According to Corning Police logs, flooding was reported at the Palm Mobile Home Park and Olive Grove Trailer Park in the areas of Mission Drive and Marguerite Avenue, on Sixth Avenue and Stanmar Drive at Divisadero Drive. Corning experienced road hazards in the form of downed trees at Toomes and Grant avenues where a tree blocked 90 percent of the road, and at Toomes Avenue and North Street a partially-downed tree was leaning toward the power line. Power lines were reported as downed about 6 a.m. Sunday in the Corning Police logs at Prune and Marin streets. A second report at 10:22 a.m. COUNCIL Continued from page 1A filled. Reno flood dangers pass; Sierra rain turned snow RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� Residents of northern Nevada and the Sierra were relieved to be gathering up sand bags instead of flood debris Monday after a sudden shift in the weekend weather turned rain into snow, keeping rivers and streams largely within their banks in Reno, Sparks and Truckee, Calif. Rescue crews searched for a homeless man in Reno who reportedly fell into the Truckee River off a limb Sunday night. They had no confirmed reports of any injuries or serious property damage. More rain was forecast to move into the Sierra on Tuesday night and Wednesday, but precipitation on the eastern side of the Sierra front was expected to total only a few inches, significantly less than last week���s storm that brought more than 6 inches to Truckee and nearly 4 inches in south Reno. Businesses owners had braced for the worst and piled hundreds of sand bags along the Truckee River in anticipation of flooding over the weekend, especially in the industrial areas of east Reno and Sparks that were hardest hit by 1997 flood. ������We were lucky,������ Sparks Assistant City Manager Steve Driscoll said. ������We dodged a bullet,������ added Gary Barbato, a National Weather Service hydrologist in Reno. The danger passed Sunday afternoon as the colder weather brought the snow level down in the mountains and river flows peaked well below flood level in east Sparks. ������Just when we were expecting the heaviest rain, it turned to snow,������ Squaw Valley Fire Chief Peter Bansen said. injuries during the incident. Crannell was taken to an out of the area hospital for treatment and is listed in stable condition. The case is still under investigation. reported the wires, which were active and arcing, were down in the street. The wind played havoc with signs as well as a banner at Solano and East streets, which had fallen. Nearly 1,800 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers experienced as many as 28 outages throughout the county, including Red Bluff, Gerber, Los Molinos, Dairyville, Vina, Manton, Mineral and the Mill Creek area, PG&E Spokesman Paul Moreno said. The largest started Friday morning in Corning, where 1,075 customers were without power until Friday afternoon, Moreno said. Close to 200 people remained without power as of late Monday afternoon with the largest being two outages in Mineral affecting 160 cus- Streets division salaries are funded by the transportation fund. The new position would require a supplemental budget appropriation from that fund, but would not impact the city���s general fund. prison. The California Penal Code states embezzlement from public funds ���is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison,��� but does not specify it as necessary. The code states Lampron is ineligible to hold any office of honor, trust or profit in California following her conviction. tomers, Moreno said. Of those, 38 were expected to have power restored sometime Monday evening along with 26 customers without power in Los Molinos, where crews were working to get power back on after a pole broke, Moreno said. Power in Los Molinos was expected to be restored by Monday evening. Most of the 11 remaining outages about 5:30 p.m. Monday were single customer outages in remote areas such as the summer cabins found in the Mineral and Lyonsville areas, Moreno said. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Public Works Director Bruce Henz wrote in the staff report that the department has been challenged by medical leave requirements and hopes to shuffle employees to fill a void in electrical expertise. SUV rolls after 99E chase A 59-yearold Red Bluff man was arrested for domestic violence Friday night, but not before leading law enforcement on a highspeed chase that ended with him rolling his Rogers SUV. The Tehama County Sheriff���s Department and California Highway Patrol received a report of a man and woman fighting inside a white 2003 Ford Explorer pulling out of the Del Taco parking lot in Red Bluff. The woman was found in the parking lot and she reported a domestic battery had occurred inside the vehicle. Deputies spotted the vehicle driving south on Highway 99 East approaching Los Molinos. When deputies attempted the pull over the vehicle, the driver, later identified as Eugene Lee Rogers, accelerated to more than 90 mph and began weaving along the road. Rogers struck a highway guard rail and eventually crossed the double yellow lines into oncoming traffic before crashing into an empty field and rolling over twice. Rogers was transported by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital with minor injuries. Following an interview, Rogers was arrested for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse and evading peace officers with disregard to safety and booked into Tehama County Jail. Bail was $75,000, according to the jail website. ��� Rich Greene CLOTHING Continued from page 1A on one of the woman���s flannel shirts. Cranfill had taken miscellaneous clothing from the woman. Cranfill provided a false name to the arresting deputies, but was positively identified by his California identification card found in his pocket. He was booked into Tehama County Jail for felony burglary and a misdemeanor charge of providing false information. Bail was $53,000. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. More heavy rain expected to hit drenched Calif. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Northern California residents recovering Monday from a series of wet, windy storms likely won���t get much of a break as another system is expected to drench the area. Up to 5 more inches of rain could fall in the region beginning Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. The rain could be especially heavy at times in areas north of Redding and across the Sierra Nevada, meteorologist Dan Keeton said. Still, it should be nothing like the downpours that left between 15 to 20 inches of rain in some areas over the five-day period that ended Sunday. Forecasters said the latest storm left the area faster than expected. ������It���s going to be significant, but less impactful,������ Keeton said of the coming rain. ������There will be some isolated impact in certain areas, but nothing as widespread compared to what we saw late last week. This was a down payment on our winter water supply accumulation.������ Pacific Gas & Electric crews continued to work on restoring power to about 8,000 users, a figure that was down from 57,000 on Sunday in areas stretching from Santa Cruz to Eureka and parts of the San Francisco Bay area. Three powerful storms drenched the region within a week. In the high Sierra, more than 5 feet of snow during the stretch forced the closures of a major road and a secondary roadway through Yosemite National Park, officials said Monday. Both roads typically close in the late fall when heavy snows arrive and reopen when weather conditions allow in the spring. Sunday���s storm dropped as much as an inch of rain an hour in some areas while toppling trees, bringing flash flooding to roadways and knocking out electrical service. ������I think everybody got nervous last week,������ Keeton said. ������These storms came with plenty of warnings, but it rained so hard at times that many were still left surprised by what Mother Nature can do.������ Rivers across Northern California swelled from the deluge but did not flood as much as expected. Flood warnings had been issued for the Napa and Russian rivers north of San Francisco, and for the Truckee River near Lake Tahoe. In Napa, officials had handed out more than 8,000 sandbags and about 150 tons of sand, but the city appeared to avoid any major damage. In Nevada, rescue crews searched for a homeless man in Reno who reportedly fell into the Truckee River from a limb Sunday night. A sudden shift in the weekend weather turned rain into snow, keeping rivers and streams largely within their banks in Reno and Sparks, Nev., and Truckee, Calif. In southern Oregon, the Coquille and Rogue rivers were both about 2 feet above flood stage as a result of storms. The weather service said more rivers along the coast and inland in the Willamette Valley could be flooded amid heavy rains. A Southern Oregon man was being held on $40,000 bail after being charged with disorderly conduct and recklessly endangering rescuers after a disagreement on whether to save his three boats that went downstream, authorities said.