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By Walt Caldwell Mountain Echo editor Perseverance and guts have started to pay off for former State of California employee, Kim Young. Barbara Hockman applied for a license to operate the Riverview Residential Care Facility in Fall River Mills in May of 2008. The application was incomplete and Kim Young, a program analyst for Community Care Licensing, an agency of the State Department of Health Services, turned it down because it was incomplete. Hockman continued to operate the Riverview facility illegally. Young had a number of contacts with Hockman. She tried to issue a citation which would force Hockman to pay a $20,000 fine. Her superiors didn’t sign it. There was an unusual death