Tough day Chip makers DOWNTOWN DESIGN for Eagles lawsuit dismissed Team’s work continues .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ..................................Page 1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Clearing, windy and cool 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY April 11, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 149 Number 2 email: [email protected] UPD identifies officers in fatal shooting By BEN BROWN ended with the death of Cesar Heitkamp is a patrol watch com- years of experience and Baarts is the leading up to the shooting. The Daily Journal Mendez, 20, of Ukiah. mander at UPD with 26 years of UPD school resource officer with According to the statement, On Tuesday, the Ukiah Police The officers have been identified experience in law enforcement, nine years of experience. Heitkamp, Wyatt, Stark and Baarts Department released the names of as: Sgt. Greg Heitkamp, Sgt. Justin Wyatt is a UPD training coordinator In a written statement, UPD Capt. were participating in an inter-agency the four UPD officers involved in a Wyatt, Detective Glenn Stark and with 18 years experience, Stark is a Chris Dewey also released a more shootout on South Dora Street that Cpl. Eric Baarts. detective and investigator with 11 thorough time line of the incidents See OFFICERS, Page 16 DA results ’Biscuit headed home finalized By BRANDON GRIGGS by county The Salt Lake Tribune KEARNS, Utah -- On a blustery Tuesday in an industrial park, several men loaded Lintott officially DA racehorse Seabiscuit onto a vintage truck By BEN BROWN bound for Northern California. No, not the The Daily Journal actual horse -- he died in 1947 -- but a life- Final results released by the Mendoci- size bronze statue, cast in a Kearns foundry no County Clerk-Recorders Office Tues- and destined for a ranch in Willits, where day show that Meredith Lintott will be Seabiscuit trained and is buried. Mendocino County’s next district attor- Utah motorists may have done double ney. In the final tally, Lintott earned 46.1 takes upon seeing the horse peering from the percent of the vote, down slightly from rear of the red-and-brown 1948 truck, the unofficial tally of 47 percent reported emblazoned with “Ridgewood Ranch: Home April 3. of Seabiscuit.” Ranch manager Tracy Assistant District Attorney Keith Faul- Livingston arrived in Utah with the colorful der gained a little ground, up to 40.23 per- truck Monday, proving that some 70 years cent from his election night finish of after his heyday, the famed Seabiscuit still 39.23 percent. Alternate Defender Bert can draw a crowd. Schlosser finished a distant third, with “I got a lot of looks, a lot of thumbs up 13.48 percent of the vote. and a lot of honking,” said Livingston, Although no candidate earned more president of the Seabiscuit Heritage than 50 percent of the vote, Mendocino Foundation, which seeks to preserve the County Clerk-Recorder Marsha Wharff ranch as a historic site. “Everywhere I has said this is a winner-take-all election, stopped, people were taking pictures. And meaning the candidate with the highest that was without the statue (in the truck).” vote count, Lintott, is the winner. Livingston and his bronzed cargo left At the beginning of the canvass last Kearns on Tuesday afternoon bound for Las week, more than 2,000 ballots remained Vegas, the first stop on a weeklong tour uncounted. That number of votes repre- designed to mimic Seabiscuit’s whistle-stop sented nearly 11 percent of the total bal- train tours at the height of his popularity in lots, enough to tip the balance in Faul- the 1930s. He and the statue will visit Los der’s favor if they had all been for him. Angeles’ Santa Anita racetrack -- site of This race for district attorney has had some of Seabiscuit’s greatest triumphs -- an unusual number of twists and turns, and San Francisco before finishing at the starting when incumbent two-term Dis- trict Attorney Norman Vroman died Sept. See SEABISCUIT, Page 16 21 2006, from complications due to a heart attack. Because Vroman died within 68 days Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune of the election, California election law A life-size bronze casting of the said his name remained on the ballot. famous racehorse Seabiscuit is pre- In October of 2006, Faulder, then act- pared for transport by Tracy ing as interim district attorney, filed a writ Livingston, left, and artist and creator with the California First District Appel- Stan Watts at Atlas Bronze Castings late Court, asking the court to call for a in Kearns on Tuesday, aboard a his- special election. Faulder maintained that toric, fully restored Seabiscuit-era California election code 8026 called for a truck and van once used by the ranch. special election in any nonpartisan elec- The casting of the famous horse will tion in which one candidate dies within take off on Seabiscuit’s old 68 days of the vote taking place. whistlestop tours across the country, The Mendocino County Board of visiting key sites in Las Vegas, Los Supervisors felt a different part of the Angeles and the San Francisco Bay elections code applied to the election and area before a police-escorted arrival opposed Faulder in court. On Nov. 21, in Willits eight days later for its final 2006, the court ruled in favor of Faulder “whistlestop.” and annulled the Nov. 7 2006 district attorney race results, having sealed them prior to the election. The board appealed the decision to the California State Supreme Court, which denied the appeal. Team working to finish downtown-Perkins St. design Completed documents for the downtown and Perkins Street cor- Planner Pamela Townsend said staff will ridor and in the charrette process, met do an internal review. By June, will be returned to city with a legion of the community, includ- Townsend said, the SmartCode will for review, public hearings ing elected officials, boards, commis- hopefully be presented to the public fol- sions, committees, city staff, emergency lowed by Planning Commission hear- By KATIE MINTZ personnel, merchants, property owners, ings in August before the code goes The Daily Journal builders, architects, developers, Nuestra before the City Council for adoption. Two weeks ago, not many in Ukiah Casa staff, seniors and youth. had heard the terms “form-based zon- “It’s wonderful working for a small See DESIGN, Page 16 ing,” defined as zoning for development town, but especially a small town like by form rather than use, or “charrette,” this where everybody cares so much,” defined as an intensive series of work- Project Director Laura Hall said Illustration by Dede Christopher shops, but Fisher & Hall Urban Design Saturday evening at the closing session An illustration of State Street to Inc. changed that. in the Ukiah Valley Conference Center. come out of the charrette process The Santa Rosa-based firm, hired by Hall said she and business partner shows taller buildings, a two-lane the city of Ukiah, was in town to gather Lois Fisher will finalize the documents road, a smaller courthouse with a input for Ukiah’s own SmartCode -- in the next month and return them to the larger plaza and vibrant communi- another word for form-based zoning -- city. Once in the city’s hands, Senior ty life. 2 – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ cial occasion. She Ukiah at the home Ed served his April 13, 2007 at 2:30 She is survived by her had many talents… garden- of Russell and Mary Ball. country in the Philippines PM at the Russian River daughters Ruth Han- ing, baking, can- She was surround- in WWII. Ed and his Cemetery Chapel, son (Dave) of Santa Rosa ning, and her general ed by loved ones when she brother Henry C. Knotts Ukiah, California. Cheryl and Judith D. know-how of how to died. established The passed away on Schmidt (Willard) of Orick, survive richly off what Fern was born in San Music Box, a Piano Saturday, December 9, California. Grand- could be grown from Francisco on February Lounge in Santa Rosa. 2006 with her son children Greg (Cindy) the Earth. She was a tiny 15, 1910 and moved to Ed started in the grocery and his wife by her side. Hanson, Randy (Lorrie) lady with a large Ukiah in 1936 with business in Santa After battling a lengthy spirit. her husband L. G. “Von” Rosa as “Ed’s Little illness, Cheryl is now Hanson of Santa Rosa, Sylvia was preceded in who predeceased Super”, then moved to at peace with our Lord in Mark Hanson of San death by her husband her in 1994. She and Von Old Hopland as “Ed’s”. Heaven. Her ashes Francisco and Judith Reuben Stubberfield and were married for 58 From there he worked will be placed with her Wampole (Steve) of her brother Vane years. She was a life mem- into Real Estate. His last father, Harry Warn. Waxahachie, Texas; also Colebank. She is survived ber and past presi- job was at Gateway She will be remembered eight great-grand- SYLVIA FAY STUBBERFIELD by her son May- dent of the VFW Women’s Realty in Willits. He was for many things, children and three great- Sylvia Fay Stubberfield nard Stubberfield of Auxiliary, and a admired by many for such as; her beautiful great-grandchildren. passed away peace- Ukiah, granddaughter member of the Ukiah his honesty, singing and smile, her playful spirit, She was preceded in fully on Friday, April 6, Dawn Banks of Ukiah, Senior Center.