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Less church for Marin residents 

SAN RAFAEL — Marin County residents are below the national average in church attendance, but are far from being spiritually disenfranchised, according to a study by a San Francisco-based religious think tank. 

The study, “Religious and Spiritual Change in America: the Experience of Marin County, California” was done by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research’s Gary Tobin and Patricia Lin. 

“I think it’s a great laboratory at looking at the ways religious identity and belief and practice are changing,” Tobin said. 

Second of two protesters dead 

SAN FRANCISCO — The second of two North Bay protesters died Sunday from massive head trauma received while standing through the skylight of a double-decker bus passing through Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco Saturday Oct. 26. 

According to San Francisco General Hospital nursing supervisor Gloria Rodriguez, Sebastopol resident Diana Canning died at 2 p.m. Sunday in the intensive care unit. Marin resident Tony Hernandez died Oct. 30, he too was housed in the intensive care unit.