It is with a heavy heart that I regret to inform you of our father Terry Andrews’ death.
 
Dad passed away after a thirteen week struggle with lung cancer. Each of us not only grieves at the passing of such a tremendous individual to so many great friends but also for the loss our entire family suffers. Mom has expressed her desire to have contributions made to American Cancer Society (donate3.cancer.org) or Sutter Medical Foundation Cancer Support (sutterhealth.org) in lieu of flowers.
 
We will be holding a private family burial this Friday 1/18/19 at 9am followed by a tribute to dad with a lap of InterState trucks from the local three branches around 11:30am.
 
The trucks will go down Power Inn Road and down Howe Avenue and make a right at fair oaks blvd, then right lane down to watt Ave, right then there then right turn onto US Hwy 50 tomorrow (Friday) at 11:30am. The Andrews family will be out on the sidewalk at Zinfandel Grille waving at the trucks while they sound their horns from the shell station past Zinfandel Grille. People from Piatti and Ruth Chris over by Pavilions are going to go out and wave at the convoy I am hearing. Please spread the word if anyone would like to join this tribute to Terry Andrews.
 
The Celebration of Terry’s Life will be held on 2/1/19 at Del Paso Country Club at 3333 Marconi Ave, Sacramento from 2:00-4:30pm. It is recommended to consider using Uber or Lyft as parking will be limited.
 
On behalf of Mom, Greg, Todd and Ashley, Melanie and myself, we would like to say Thank You for all of your tremendous support during this difficult loss. We are continually overwhelmed for all of the kind messages and love from all of you towards our family since last Wednesday morning.
 
Dad had an infectious smile that affected so many.
 
-Brent Andrews

We are sad to inform you that Glenn Alton Beck, owner of Beck Oil, Inc passed away Tuesday evening, January 8th, 2018.

 

Glenn founded Beck Oil August 1, 1967, and grew it to a successful business with 60 employees. It continues to operate today with offices in Victorville and Coachella, California.

 

Glenn was born and raised in Aspen Colorado. Graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1952 and then immediately went off to the Korean War as a Navy officer. Upon his return he attended the Thunderbird School of Foreign Trade. While at Thunderbird he was hired by ARMCO Steel who sent him to Venezuela to operating a steel fabrication plant. He then took the job of ARMCO’s national sales manager of Venezuela. Returning to the USA in 1962 he took a job with Shell Oil Company in San Francisco, later moving to San Bernardino to oversee Shell’s relationship with Kiser Steel. In 1967 he left Shell and took over a Shell distribution facility in Victorville Ca.

 

Glenn is survived by his wife Betty, three children; Corey Beck, Wendy Beck  and Laurie Debello and many grandchildren. Glenn was 88 and lived in Redlands, California.

 

There will be a Celebration of his Life Wednesday January 30 at the Redlands Country Club, Redlands Calif. Starting at 2pm.

Running a successful business involves calculated risks, but the best leaders know exactly how to protect themselves and their businesses from the unexpected. The experts at Federated Insurance know exactly how to confront the risks facing business owners in our industry every day, and they want to pass that information on to you. 

 

As a small way of saying thank you to our members, CFCA is putting on a raffle giving you a chance to attend at no cost.  All current members with dues in good standing by February 1st will be automatically entered to win. The selected member company will be given the chance to send a representative to this can't miss event, all expenses paid! 

 

If you have any questions regarding dues payment, or the status of your 2019 dues, please contact James Allison at james@cfca.energy, or by calling (916) 646-5999. 

The CFCA Memorial Scholarship Fund provides scholarship awards to deserving students attending college or vocational programs at any accredited postsecondary institution. It is publicly supported by generous contributions from CFCA members and their communities.

 

The CFCA Memorial Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to help children and employees of CFCA members further their education and professional development.

 

You can help send a deserving student to college by donating to the Fund. It's easy and every dollar makes a difference. 

NACS has announced a new member benefit that helps the employees of its retailer and supplier member companies pay down student loan debt and save for their future.

 

Today, seven in 10 people graduating from college have student loan debt, and total student loan debt has climbed to more than $1.5 trillion.1 With Gradifi, NACS members have access to a powerful tool that can help them gain a competitive advantage in the hiring marketplace by helping their employees reduce student loan debt, as well as bolster efforts to recruit and retain top talent. NACS has been offering student loan contributions to its own employees through the Gradifi SLP Plan since May 2018.

 

“Attracting and retaining high-caliber college graduates is a key part of our strategic growth plan at NACS, as well as for many retailer and suppler member companies,” said Brian Kimmel, senior vice president and chief financial officer at NACS. “A student loan repayment benefit will help our industry become more widely recognized an employer of choice.”

 

David Chang, CEO of Gradifi added: “Employee benefits that make student loan debt more manageable translate into real advantage in a highly competitive labor market. Gradifi’s solution will help NACS members attract and retain talent by helping their employees reduce the financial burden and emotional stress of student loan debt.”

As with last year, efforts to reduce Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions is prompting several bills as part of Governor Jay Inslee’s “green energy” proposal – and the topic took up much of his State of the State speech. One of those proposals seeks to reduce carbon intensity in transportation fuels through a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), though trucking industry and business group leaders say the standard would increase gas prices significantly in a state that already has the second-highest gas tax.

 

Sponsored by Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon (D-36), House Bill 1110 (HB1110) seeks to reduce fuel carbon intensity by 10 percent below 2017 levels by 2028 and 20 percent below 2017 levels by 2035. The bill is a modified version of a similar proposal made last year, but failed to clear the House floor.

State agencies are reminding food stamp recipients that their early February benefits payment will need to last a lot longer, Politico reports. With the partial government shutdown stretching on, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had to release the Februarybenefits for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients this week. This means, there will be no benefit payment loaded on SNAP cards in February. USDA is asking that retailers help spread the word with SNAP customers who may not receive notification of the early issuance or know that the February benefits have been uploaded early.

Pacific Gas and Electric said on Monday that it would seek bankruptcy protection as “the only viable option” as the giant California utility faces billions of dollars in liability claims from two years of deadly wildfires.

 

The company’s troubles pose a challenge to the state’s elected officials and regulators, who will ultimately decide whether part of the solution will be raising already high electricity rates. The problems could also make it harder to achieve California’s ambitious goals for renewable energy.

The partial government shutdown, heading into its third week, has shuttered the federal E-Verify website, Nation’s Restaurant News reports. As of press time, there had been no movement on the funding impasse between President Donald Trump and Congress.

 

The federal E-Verify electronic verification employment system website had been shut down. The system, which verifies the info on a worker’s Form I-9 with Social Security Administration records, is run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had been partially hobbled by the lack of a funding bill.

 

If retailers were “using E-Verify before the shutdown, they can go back to the existing rules for hiring documents that the majority of employers in the U.S. still use,” said David T. Denney of the Dallas-based Denney Law Group.