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Gil Calac, right, a former Susanville resident who is now the leader of the Yakima Warriors Association and a Vietnam veteran, and Representative Norm Johnson, left, watch as Washington Governor Jay Inslee signs House Bill 1319 into law.	Representative Norm Johnson stands at the inscribed wall of the Washington State Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Capitol campus in Olympia, looking for the name of his cousin, who died during the Vietnam War. House Bill 1319, recently signed into law, designates March 30 as “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.” Photos by the Washington House of Representatives

April 9, 2013 — A former Susanville resident stood beside Washington Governor Jay Inslee as he signed a bill designating March 30 each year as ‘Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans’ to honor Vietnam veterans in the state of Washington.

April 9, 2013 — Kathleen Williams, the Sacramento-based attorney representing Lassen County in the case of Tom Stone, the former county administrative officer who alleges the county wrongly terminated him in 2011, filed a notice of demurrer to plaintiff’s complaint and a lengthy memorandum of points and authorities in support in Lassen County Superior Court on March 18.

Should Stone prevail in the lawsuit, he asks the court to award him at least $1 million in damages and costs.

April 9, 2013 — Tom Hammond, the south county proponent seeking to force the Lassen County Clerk to move forward with the effort to recall Lassen County District 5 Supervisor Jack Hanson, will finally have his day in court.

“This very important dispute is the exact type of matter our founders considered when setting up our government,” wrote Stephen King, Hammond’s attorney. “We have three co-equal branches of government. Petitioner is asking the judicial branch to limit the power of the executive branch to disenfranchise its citizens. It’s as simple as that.”

Monday, April 8 — Federal prison officials seek an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security camp in Herlong on Friday, April 5.

Inmate Roderick Earl Vanga, of Seattle, Wash., was discovered missing during a routine check Friday. He is 5 feet, 11 inches tall, weighs 155 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. He is serving an 84-month sentence for conspiracy to import N-Bezylpiperazine (BZP).