Woods rolling RELIGION at British Saturday Faith community news ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 July 22, 2006 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Mostly sunny and continued hot 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Sunny; near-record heat 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 148 Number 104 email: [email protected] ‘It’s just weird.’ Animal Control Officer UKIAH UNIFIED SUMMER PROJECTS Brien Jones on the gruesome discovery School work goes on Deer’s By LAURA MCCUTCHEON carcass The Daily Journal School’s out, but Ukiah Unified School District is busier than ever right now with summer projects. found “We have over $12 million of construction going on right now,” Steve Turner, UUSD director of maintenance, grounds, operations at UHS and transportation said Tuesday. By BEN BROWN • Eagle Peak Middle School The Daily Journal “Eagle Peak Middle School is Janitors working at the finally receiving its long-awaited Ukiah High School were in for shade structure; it is being assem- a rude shock Thursday, when bled as we speak,” Turner said, they discovered a small deer noting it’s been over two years carcass hanging from the flag- coming. The 1,200-foot shade pole. structure was initiated by the PTA, “It was skinned, gutted and which did a lot of fund-raising to hung from the flagpole,” said help pay for the purchase of the Ukiah Animal Control Officer canopy. The canopy itself cost Brien Jones. about $30,000, Turner said. The animal was found by However, by the time it’s assem- janitors about 6 a.m. Thurs-day bled and the concrete slab is hung approximately 7 feet up poured under it, total cost of the on the flagpole. They took shade structure will reach over down the carcass and placed it $90,000, he said. in a garbage bag to be retrieved Currently, Eagle Peak doesn’t by Animal Control, which dis- have enough covered eating areas, posed of it. Jones said he didn’t so the new structure will provide know how long the deer might more coverage for the students dur- have been dead. ing the rain and the hot weather. Jones said he had never seen Eagle Peak is also getting a fresh anything like this before coat of paint, and new floors in 27 Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal because he most commonly classrooms, where vinyl tile will deals with domesticated ani- soon replace carpet. Sam Fernandez, a foreman with Dunn-Right Painting, works on a painting project at Eagle Peak Elementary School on Friday. Dunn-Right Painting has also been doing projects at Oak Manor, mals. He said he didn’t know • Redwood Valley Elementary Redwood Elementary and Hopland School this summer. why someone would do such a School Painters just finished painting entirely gutted on the inside and See DEER, Page 2 the exterior building known as new walls are being installed, as Redwood Elementary School. The well as all new electrical and roof over the school cafeteria was plumbing, new accessible bath- also replaced and minor improve- rooms, new air conditioning, roof- Berg ments were made to the play- ing, etc.,” he said. ground, according to Turner. Turner said the boys locker • Calpella School room -- along with some of the Flooring in the administration coaches offices -- has also been details building and in some of the class- completely gutted. During the rooms at Calpella School is also course of renovation, the locker being replaced during the summer room will be divided in half to pro- areas of months. vide boys and girls a locker room • Preschool Village in the same building. The girls’ old Preschool Village is getting a locker room, a modular from the new roof and gutter system. ’60s, will be demolished, Turner interest • Pomolita Middle School said. Rules out run for Pomolita Middle School is one About $3.2 million is budgeted of the larger projects currently for Pomolita’s renovation. Funds to Senate to focus under way by the UUSD. pay for what is considered the sec- on her agenda Major remodeling is going on in ond largest (current) project in the Pomolita School. • South Valley High School the old shop wing along Hazel district will come from a mix of The projects at the other schools New floors will be installed in By KATIE MINTZ Avenue and also in the locker local bond funding and state bond -- with the exception of Ukiah half of the classrooms at South The Daily Journal rooms and bathrooms of the gym- funding, Turner said. High School -- are being paid for Valley High School, which com- On Aug. 7, the California nasium, Turner said. Cupples and Sons, of Hopland, with local maintenance dollars and State Assembly and Senate “The old shop building was was hired to do the construction at state matching funds, he said. See SCHOOL, Page 14 will reconvene after more than a month away from ses- sion. On Friday, The Ukiah Daily Journal sat down with Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Eureka, to discuss some of the big-issue bills the Rollover closes northbound Hwy. 101 lane Legislature will face. Berg has represented the By BEN BROWN the road and overturned in the 1st Assembly District -- geo- The Daily Journal right lane. The name of the graphically the largest in the A two-car rollover in the Acura driver was not released state encompassing Mendo- northbound lanes of Highway because she is a minor. cino, Del Norte, Humboldt, 101 near the Orr Springs over- No injuries were reported Lake and Trinity counties as pass at 2:43 p.m. Friday in connection with this acci- well as parts of Sonoma resulted in no injuries but dent, although one woman County -- since 2002. She’s closed the right lane of the was loaded into an ambu- up for re-election in highway for more than an lance. November for what could be hour. CHP officers instituted a her final term as an Assembly California Highway Patrol traffic control on Highway member. While she said she Officer Rob Smith said Luis 101 and closed the right lane was lobbied by many to run Benites, 20, of Ukiah, was at the North State Street on- for a seat on the Senate, her northbound on Highway 101 ramp. Police expected to have plans, which include some of in a brown Plymouth Sun- the road closed until at least 4 the hot issues coming up in dance. He lost control of his p.m. Friday. August, were too important. vehicle and drove into the Officials from the Ukiah “I wasn’t willing to risk grassy median, then he cor- Valley Fire District and the putting things I’d worked on rected, drove back onto the Ukiah Police Department also so hard aside so I could spend road and struck a white Acura. responded to this call. a year campaigning (for Smith said witnesses Ben Brown can be reached at Senate) and then risk losing reported that Benites was trav- [email protected]. my last two years (in eling at approximately 80 mph Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Assembly) because my agen- at the time of the accident. Two cars were damaged da is too important to me,” Both cars drove up onto a in a Hwy. 101 traffic colli- high bank on the east side of sion Friday afternoon. See BERG, Page 2 2 – SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES AIR CONDITIONING UNIT CATCHES FIRE [\ Graveside services Keith Lyly; 11 grandchil- [\ will be held on Monday, dren, Leslie Phillip “J.P.” MOCK July 24, 2006, at Garzini Jr., and wife Lisa, 8/3/1950-7/14/2006 2:00PM at the Ukiah Aaron Alexis Garzi- James “J.P.” Mock died Cemetery in Ukiah, Cali- ni, Brandi Leigh Valette of a pulmonary em- fornia. “Toney” was retired Klintworth and hus- bolism Friday, July 14th, from the United band Gary, Dustin Robert while recovering States Army and the United Valette, Angell Ra- from a stroke he suffered States Post Of- chelle Toney Pittman, May 13th, 2006. He fice. Dad traveled around Loralin Moriah Toney, was a resident of Ukiah for the world with his Levi Issac Toney and wife most of the last 42 late wife (our beloved Tammy, Jordan years. James is survived by Mother), Faye Bell Makala Sokoloff Toney, his mother, Eu- Poole Toney and children Evo Nicholai Sokoloff nice Knutson; his sister, during his Army de- Toney, Jasmine Amber Diane Knutson, ployment and settled in Lyly, Alexandra Sage Aveeda Rada, and Heidi Santa Rosa until he Lyly; 8 great grandchil- Knutson; his neph- retired from the USPO. dren, Paige Leigh Gar- ews, James and John Dad moved to Potter zini, Jacob Francisco Foster, his nieces, Valley, CA in about 1998 Garzini, Marissa Kay Megan and Annastazia and resided there Garzini, Grace Denise Llewllyn-Rada, and until his passing. Garzini, Jessica Ra- his grand niece, Ivy Surviving are his sisters, chelle Pittman, Sarah Llewellyn-Perrit. His Robert Joseph Toney Hazel Lipps and Noelle Pittman, Daniel ashes will be interned in February 11, 1922 Elizabeth Lumps from Shayne Pittman, Elizabeth the San Joaquin Na- To July 17, 2006 Virginia; sons Lindon Faye Pittman. tional Cemetery with his Entered into Eternal Rest Keith Toney and Joseph Dad (Granddaddy) you father, James Mock, Monday, July 17, 2006 Shane Toney; will be in our hearts II. A memorial campout at Santa Rosa, CA daughter-in-law, Roberta forever. We love you and Williams Grove in Robert J Toney passed Gail Camden To- miss you.