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JC FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 VISALIA TIMES-DELTA Cesar Chavez Monument IN BRIEF News service reports Kern County must pay lawyers in waste case BAKERSFIELD Kern County must pay $1 million to Southern California attorneys who successfully sued to overturn the county's voter-approved ban on the spreading of treated human waste on farm fields. U.S. District Count Judge Gary Feess of Los Angeles says the county owes the money to the lawyers for private haulers who teamed with Los Angeles and Orange counties to sue after the measure passed in 2006. In 2007, Feess ruled against Kern County's ban, saying it conflicted with state laws aimed at reducing waste in landfills. The county is appealing that decision.

Stockton considers farloughs for deficit STOCKTON Work furloughs and buyouts are two of many options city officials are considering as they struggle to reduce Stockton's $16 million budget deficit. City officials told labor leaders this week that closing City Hall and other offices for 10 days this year would save $2.7 million. Stockton is facing lower tax revenues for its $204 mil lion general fund. Police and fire account for 75 percent of that spending. Dave Macedo, president of Stockton Professional Firefighters Local 456, said another city proposal to close a fire station prompted the firefighters union to consider foregoing a pay raise instead.

Thousands of fish rescued from lake KIRKWOOD More than 6,300 fish have been rescued from a Sierra Nevada lake that is scheduled to be drained for emergency dam repairs this month. Brown, rainbow and lake trout accounted for two-thirds of the fish captured and were released into nearby Silver Lake. The rest were brook trout taken to Red Lake. The El Dorado Irrigation District spent $150,000 on the rescue operation. It plans to spend another $235,000 to restock Caples Lake once the dam is repaired.

Sacramento plans rail yard redevelopment SACRAMENTO Sacramento is planning for 15,000 homes north of its downtown, most of them on the site of a former railyard. The homes, condominiums and townhouses will be built in anticipation of future housing needs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A members of the Calpulli Tonalehqueh tribe perform during a dedication of the Cesar Chavez Monument Thursday on the San Jose State University campus in San Jose. r. ft OBITUARIES on Camble, Las Vegas, NV; two sons, Conney Crook, St.

Louis, MO. and Mike Keeler, Las Vegas, NV; one brother, Roy Norris, Live Oak, CA; two sisters, Ruby Routon, Farmersville and Laverne Lamb, Exeter. Numerous loved grandchildren and great grandchildren and many adored nephews and nieces. Preceding her in death are 22 brothers and sisters. Celebration of life service will be held 11 a.m.

Saturday, September 13, at Presbyterian Church of Exeter, 200 S. E. St, Exeter. Arrangements by Smith Family Chapel, Exeter. Online condolences: www.smithfamily chapel.com.

Macky is survived by her husband Ted of 33 years. Her sons, Donald Swift of Bakers-field, Gary Swift and wife Cathy of Bakersfield, and daughter, Rhonda McMillan and husband Larry of Visalia. Her grandchildren, Shelley Isaak and husband Will, Michelle Sartin, Matthew McMillan and his girlfriend Summer, Mandee McMillan, Carly Rhodes and husband Chad, and Dustin Swift. Greatgrandchildren, Mckenzie and Shaye Sartin, and baby Isaak to be. Her brothers, Charles Alexander and wife Edna, Don Alexander and wife Gwen, and her sister Lois and husband Dennis.

Her sister-in-laws Shirley Alexander and Linda Alexander, and many nieces and nephews she cherished and knew as "Aunt Macky." Macky is also survived by her extended family Dale and Kathy Hampton of Santa Ynez. Grandchildren, Michelle Newberry and husband Jeff, and Wendy Sippel and husband Gregory. Great-grandchildren, Haley, Tawny, Wyatt, and Cutter. Services to be held at Hill-crest Park and Mortuary, Bakersfield, CA. Tuesday, September 9, at 10 a.m.

Graveside only. DEATHS Auddie Maxine Bennett, of Visalia, passed away on Sept 2, 2008. Funeral Service will be 10 a.m. on Sept. 9, at Hillcrest Memorial Park.

Frank F. Rocha 85, of Tulare passed away on Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Visitation will be 12-6 p.m. on Sept. 11, at Peers Lorentzen Funeral Chapel.

Rosary will be at 6 p.m. on Thursday, also at the funeral chapel. Rosary Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. on i Sept. 12, at St.

Aloysius Catho-! lie Church, 125 E. Pleasant. Burial will be at Tulare District Cemetery. 5 Juan L. Cota, 77, a Farm Laborer of Visalia, passed away on Sept.

3, 2008. Visita- tion will be at Miller Memorial Chapel on Sept. 8, from I p.m. Rosary will be at Miller Memorial Chapel on Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m.

The funeral service will be Sept. 9, at 11 a.m. at Miller Memorial Chapel. Marian Frances Blaydes, 1 .73, of Springville, passed away Ion Sept. 3, 2008.

Memorial -service will be at Springville Church of Christ, 35356 Tennis on Sept. 6, 1 p.m. Following cremation at Myers Funeral Service Crematory, in- terment to be private. Ralph Richard Thompson, 81, Railroad Executive, passed away on Sept. 1, 2008.

Private services will be held at a later Arrangements by Peers Funeral Chapel. OBITUARIES ter, Keren Tzionah Friedman and his son-in-law, 'whom he loved as a son, Kenny Gene Ray, Visalia; his daughter, Ednah Beth Friedman, Berkeley, his grandson, Noah J. Friedman-Biglin, Berkeley; and his beloved nieces and nephews, Don Minkoff and Sheila Mann, Nancy Friedman, David, Stacey, and Joshua Friedman, Michael Friedman, Jay Morse, Deanne, Trent and Eliana Meyer and his beloved friend Christine Burnett. He worked in olive processing first in Lindsay and then in Woodlake from 1946-1978. His specialty was curing Spanish and Greek-style olives.

He also served as a consultant to Israeli representatives when that country was beginning to develop olive processing. Funeral and burial will take place Friday, September 5, at 11 a.m. at the Visalia Community Cemetery. In accord with Jewish tradidtion, the family requests no flowers. Contributions to honor Mr.

Friedman's memory may be made to Congregation B'nai David Education Building Fund, P.O. Box 3822, Visalia, CA 93279 and Food Link of Tulare County, P.O. Box 1544, Visalia, CA 93279. Mr. Friedman loved folk, square and social dancing.

He was a prodigious gardener and hiker-walker and devoted to the teaching of the Hebrew language. He will be greatly missed by his family, many students, and friends. Services Friday Clarence Spier, 64, passed away on Aug. 30, 2008. Graveside services will be on Sept.

5, 10 a.m. at Smith Mt. Cemetery. Dopkins Funeral Chapel, Dinuba. Hilda Madruga passed away on August 30, 2008.

Rosary will be Sept. 4, 6:30 p.m. at Salser Dillard Funeral Chapel. Mass will be Sept. 5, 9 a.m.

at St. Mary's Catholic Church. Visitation will be Sept. 4, from 4-7 p.m. at Salser Dillard Funeral Chapel.

Joseph Y. Friedman, 95, passed away on Sept. 2, 2008. Funeral Services will be Sept. 5, 1 1 a.m.

at the Heritage Cemetery Chapel with interment following in the Visalia Cemetery. Miller Memorial Chapel, Visalia, CA. served as Foreman Pro-tem from 1998-99. Don had a lifelong passion for travel, the family cabin at Huntington Lake, and tending to his avocado trees. He was preceded in death by his parents, Louis Britton Bowker and Nina Richardson Bowker Culbertson, his brother George Britton Bowker and wife June Chiles Bowker, and nephew Richard Britton Bowker of Santa Paula.

He is survived by his wife and daughter; his sister Lydia Katherine Bowker; his first wife Joanne and their three children, Leigh Bowker Bashor Garcia, Stevan Britton Bowker, and Nancy Joanne Bowker; nieces, Pam Bowker Legan and Donna Dee Bowker, grandchildren, Eric Franklin Bashor, Neal Douglas Bashor, Sara Britton Bashor, Christopher Don Bowker Katherine Britton Bowker, and greatgrandchildren Elsa Leigh Bashor Elias Rush Bashor. A private celebration of life will be held and donations will be gratefully received by the Central California Blood Center. Obituary Policy The Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register report deaths and funeral information at no charge. For a fee, obituaries can include additional information and one photo in print and online at VisaliaTimesDelta.com and TulareAdvanceRegister.com. For color or multiple photos, ask about an In Memorium Celebration.

Jolene Keeler Interior Decorator Born in Spiro, Oklahoma to Mace and Frances Norris on March 9th, 1930. She passed away in Visalia, CA on August 30, 2008 at the age of 78. Jolene and her husband Fred of 28 years came to the Exeter area in August 2003. Her baby sister, Laverne Lamb moved to Exeter in 2004 and they have been next-door neighbors ever since. Jolene was happy and loved "her She enjoyed being with family, cooking, and sewing.

Survivors include her loving husband, Fred Keeler, Exeter, CA; two daughters, Barbara Harper, Eureka, CA. and Shar- Lily Anne Cr is well, 6 months old, passed away on August 25, 2008. Visitation will be held Friday a.m. at Salser Dillard Funeral Chapel, followed by a graveside service at 12 p.m. at Visalia District Cemetery.

Velma "Mama Len" Garcia, 100 passed away on Aug. 31, 2008. Visitation will be Sept. 5, 1-2 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Delano.

Mass will follow at 2 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Delano. Salser Dillard Funeral Home. Virginia Zamudio, 90, passed away Aug. 31, 2008.

Viewing will be 12-8 p.m. Sept. 4, at Peers Lorentzen Funeral Chapel, Tulare. Rosary and Mass will be 10 a.m. Sept.

5, at St. Rita's Catholic Church, Tulare. Services Saturday Betty Dyer Sorensen, passed away on July 26, 2008. Mass will be celebrated in her memory at St. Mary's Church in Visalia on Sept.

6 at 8:30 a.m. Carol Jean (Adams) Lemus, passed away on August 29, 2008. Memorial service will be at First Lutheran Church at 525 E. Kern Tulare, 2 p.m. on Sept.

6. Louise B. Pearson, 85, passed away on Aug. 29, 2008. Memorial Service will be at Myers Chapel, Porterville, on Sept.

6, at 1 1 a.m. Manford "Mac" Claud McCown, 94, passed away on Sept. 2, 2008. Visitation will be at Yost and Webb Chapel, Fresno on Sept. 5, from 6-8 p.m.

followed by a graveside service at' Smith Mt. Cemetery in Dinuba, Sept. 6, at 10 a.m. Marian Frances Blaydes, 73, passed away on Sept. 3, 2008.

Memorial service will be at Springville Church of Christ, on Sept. 6, 1 p.m. Arrangements are made under the direction of Myers Funeral Service Crematory. Niel F. Kiehn, 76, passed away on Aug.

31, 2008. Memorial service will be Sept. 6, 10 a.m. Exeter Church of God. Smith Family Chapel, Exeter.

Terumi "Terri" Nii, 81, passed away on Aug. 26, 2008. Memorial Service will be Sept. 6, at Dinuba Buddhist Church at 10 a.m. Arrangements are made by Dopkins Funeral Chapel.

ft, rv- jjMWMiliJ Willi Irfiililliiiih lil'iiiii iilBi' ITEM Joseph "Yos" Friedman Joseph "Yos" Friedman was born March 8, 1913 in Jerusalem to Rabbi Moses A. Friedman and Hadassah Friedman. He was the third of four children. After he graduated from Tachkemony High School in Tel Aviv, he immigrated to the United States in December 1932. He spent some time in Los Angeles and then moved to Berkeley to attend the University of California.

At the same time, he worked at the Sutro Library in San Francisco cataloguing the Hebrew language documents that were found in the Geniza in Cairo, Egypt. While he was in San Francisco he met his future wife, Pauline Vera Morse, the daughter of Harry and Jenny Morse, and in June 1940 they were married. During World War II he worked at Bethlehem Steel Company at Hunter's Point San Francisco, helping convert submarines into more modem, streamlined vessels. At the end of the war he and his wife moved to Tulare County where they were founders of a Jewish Congregation, Congregation B'nai David, Visalia. For more than 50 years he helped conduct services and was the Torah reader.

He is survived by his daugh illardM Site Cremation Don Neville Bowker Mr. Don Neville Bowker, who was born in Santa Paula, CA on February 12, 1923, passed away in his home in Visalia, CA on August 20, 2008, surrounded by his loving family. After attending Naval Officer School at Harvard, Don was a Naval Supply Officer during WWII attached to the 38th Naval Construction Battalion serving in the Pacific from Tinian to Japan. He received a degree in Business Administration from UCLA after his discharge where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and also met his first wife, Joanne Van Matre. Don began his career with Calavo in San Diego County, eventually returning to Ventura County as the first manager of the Calavo packing house in Santa Paula.

He settled in Ventura with his wife and two children where their third child was born. He became a stock broker whjch led him to having his own investment counseling firm for over 40 years. In 1989, he married Katherine Jane Mathias and settled in Visalia where their daughter, Nina Katherine, was born. He was named to the Tulare County Grand Jury and 1 Pre-arrangements provide peace of mind, call today. alser I4J FUNERAL CHAPEL ro-i78i 505 E.

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