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7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY Dec. 13, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 248 email: [email protected] Cutbacks a threat to Lake Mendocino Feds announce plans Lake Mendocino and damage agri- “That’s a huge amount of water Gas and Electric. culture in Potter Valley, according to ‘That’s a huge amount of water that that is missing from the system,” she David Eisenhaur, spokesman for to reduce water diverted Mendocino County Inland Valley is missing from the system.’ said. PG&E, said PG&E misinterpreted from Eel by up to 33% Water Commission Chairwoman Water flows into the Eel River and models put together by the Federal Janet Pauli. is diverted into the Potter Valley Energy Regulatory Commission By BEN BROWN The federal agency that controls JANET PAULI Project, a hydroelectric installation, when FERC granted PG&E the The Daily Journal the flow of water into the project has which in turn diverts the water into license for the Potter Valley Project. A reduction in flows through the announced plans to reduce the as opposed to the 15 percent origi- the east branch of the Russian River, Eisenhaur said PG&E has been mis- Potter Valley Project could drastical- amount of water diverted from the nally proposed, in order to protect which carries it to Lake Mendocino. ly reduce the amount of water in Eel River by as much as 33 percent, Eel River fisheries, Pauli said. The project is managed by Pacific See LAKE, Page 16 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 4-H DOG TRAINING PROJECT Wagenet weighs in on CEO ordinance Communication that the CEO is to act subject to board approval, also adding that and chemistry the “CEO shall have demon- between CEO and strated interpersonal communications skills and ability to supervisors stressed work well with supervisors and By KATIE MINTZ subordinates.” The Daily Journal “Let me remind us all that On Tuesday, the Mendocino the basic ingredient in a County Board of Supervisors board/executive manager considered a revised chief exec- (recipe) is mutual confidence utive officer ordinance, allow- and respect, and the best written ing Supervisor Hal Wagenet to plan doesn’t make up for the give his input before being need for a compatible mix replaced by 3rd District Super- between the board and the visor-elect John Pinches. executive,” Beltrami said. “The Interim Chief Executive crucial element is the selection Officer Al Beltrami, who was process, much more crucial, I appointed following the dis- think, than the actual wording missal of CEO John Ball in of the ordinance.” June, made minor changes to Wagenet weighed in on the document, primarily to these remarks, also focusing on ‘Learning facilitate better communication the importance of the selection between the board and its exec- process. He advised the board utive officer. to create an ad hoc committee “I think a lot of the concerns comprised of two board mem- dogs from that have arisen relate to the bers with opposing points of method of formal and informal view to participate in the communication between the recruitment and selection of the board members and the CEO,” CEO. ...inside out’ “The selection process with Beltrami said. Prior to Ball’s short-lived the person, and the chemistry Ben Brown/The Daily Journal tenure as CEO, top county offi- that there is between the board Students at the 4-H dog obedience class stand with their animals at the end of Monday’s class. cials served under the title of and the executive officer -- or chief administrative officer, a the captain of the ship, however By BEN BROWN project. ed to dog care and training,” Boesel position with slightly less you want to describe it -- is really the key element. That ele- The Daily Journal Using small handheld clickers, said. authority. According to Beltra- In a warehouse behind the voice and hand commands and treat “The kids do book work as well as mi, the primary difference ment perhaps was missing or Mendocino Farm Supply, among bags rewards, the young handlers work to obedience,” said Kathleen Forbes. between the positions has to do perhaps was destroyed with the of feed and boxes of horseshoes, teach their dogs basic skills. “They get a well-rounded education.” with the ability to directly hire previous CEO,” Wagenet said. close to a dozen young dog owners But dog obedience isn’t all the kids Forbes has been bringing her son and fire department heads and Regarding Ball’s service, are learning how to better care for and learn. Boesel also teaches the children and his dog, Bobo, to work in the pro- make organizational changes. Wagenet said he most took control the animals they love. about grooming, proper diet and how ject for four years. Her daughter His suggested changes to the issue with a lack of communi- “They’re learning dogs from the to recognize and deal with parasites Hannah and her dog have become ordinance merely emphasize See CEO, Page 2 inside out,” said Kelly Boesel, the and disease. project leader for the 4-H dog training She teaches “anything that’s relat- See DOGS, Page 2 UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL HOLIDAY Ukiah High removes several FOOD BANK FUND DRIVE The Daily Journal Eleanor K. Nagel; $30, pay phones due to vandalism The latest donations to the Anonymous; $25, Mimine & UDJ Holiday Food Bank Jean Ambrois; $25, Dolores By LAURA MCCUTCHEON ‘Should we keep them here?’” Fund Drive include: $250, C. Barnard; $25, Jessica Fet- The Daily Journal Garcia said Tuesday, noting that that Kathy Brigham & J.P. Lohr; zer; $25, John & Deborah While pay phones have been los- very day at lunch, for example, sev- $250, Anonymous; $200, Vau; $20, Rhea R. Pitchard; ing ground to cell phones for awhile eral 911 prank calls were made from Holly & Scott Cratty; $100, $15, Mrs. Alma now, vandalism more so than cellu- the phone left intact in front of the Valley Paving; $100, In Mem- Hollingsworth; $15, Fred lar proliferation was behind the gym. ory of Steve Benassini; $100, Allen; totaling $2,220. The removal of two pay phones Tuesday “We’ve had people put food on the In Memory of Larry Kinney; Fund Drive total now stands at Ukiah High School, according to telephones, we’ve had the phones $100, Architectural Metal, at $50,641.84.The goal for Assistant Principal Jerry Garcia. torn off the cords, we’ve had (people Inc.; $100, Jim & Trelanie this year’s drive is $85,000. “Two phones up here in front (by try) to break into the coin boxes ... Hill; $100, John & Juanona To give to the Food Bank the Attendance Office) get vandal- and they might get mad and slam the Todd; $100, Peter R. Arm- this year, write your check or ized ... so many times I can’t count strong; $100, Anonymous; money order to: UCC Food them, so the question came about, See PHONES, Page 16 $100, Anonymous; $50, Joyce Bank and bring it to the Daily Greiman; $50, Jane McMa- Journal at 590 S. School St. or hon; $50, Gina Campbell & mail it to us at P.O. Box 749, Photo by UHS ROP photo student Mary Slinkert A representative from AT&T removes a pay phone at Ukiah High Billy Jamison; $50, Dorothy Ukiah, 95482 and we’ll be on Tuesday. Two pay phones will remain, according to Assistant A. Hudson; $50, Noreen & sure to get it to the Food Principal Jerry Garcia, who said ongoing problems with vandal- Robert Carnahan; $50, Bank. You can also send your ism and an increase in cell phone use were the determining fac- Anonymous; $50, Elmac check directly to the Ukiah tors for doing away with two of the four pay phones on campus. Industries, Inc.; $50, Patrick Community Center at 888 N. & Jayne Benninger; $40, State St., Ukiah, 95482. Catch the Christmas Spirit in Historic Downtown Ukiah! Thursdays - Shops open late • FREE Trolley Rides 3 - 8 P.M. • SANTA 3 - 7 P.M. Conference Center Create cherished memories to last a lifetime at HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Santa • Candy Canes • Gift Wrapping • For more information call 463-6729 2 – WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected]

FUNERAL NOTICES Dogs CEO [\ daughter Michelle Nor- Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 DIANE MARIE COOK man, daughter Robin Diane Marie Cook died Teeter, grandchildren involved more recently. cation. While the board had 12/05/2006 after a Ian, Dillon, and Madison, Forbes said she thinks the discussed the merging of the two year battle with cancer. brother Tom, and project is a great opportunity General Services Department She was 53. sister Sue. We are having for kids to learn about their and Information Services Preceded in death by her an open house animals. Department to form the Gener- father Daniel Hill, memorial on Sunday, “They’ll be smarter dog al Services Agency, he had not Diane is survived by her 12/17/2006 from 1pm- owners when they’re older,” expected an immediate change. mother Margie Hill, 5pm at 7454 Mercedes Way she said. Then one morning, he said, he husband Roger Cook, in Rohnert Park. “I’m just a chauffeur and received a call from Ball I’ve learned a lot,” she said. reporting that the two depart- Forbes said the training has ment heads would be dismissed Please sign the guest book at www.ukiahdailyjournal.com. already got Daisy jumping up that day and their departments Funeral notices are paid announcements. For information on less. Others still have more combined. how to place a paid funeral notice or make corrections to funeral notices please call our classified department at 468- work to do. Rhett Pardini had “That should not be repeat- 3529. some trouble Monday getting ed,” Wagenet said, suggesting his dog, Bandit, to pay atten- that the word “only” be added tion to him. to a section of the ordinance so “She’ll get better,” said that it reads departmental reor- Rhett’s mother, Gina Pardini, ganizations be initiated “only DEATH NOTICE of the dog. “She’s smart and with prior board approval.” she learns really fast. She’s In addition, he said the board • Carmela Balazs, 89, of Ukiah, died Saturday, Dec. 9, just high energy.” should create a mechanism by 2006. Arrangements are under the direction of Eversole By the end of the night, which it can more frequently Mortuary. Rhett had Bandit focusing on evaluate the performance of the him for a count of 30. CEO’s office. Death notices are free for Mendocino County residents. Death Every year, the students Pinches, speaking during notices are limited to name of deceased, hometown, age, date can take their dogs to compete public comment, agreed that of death, date, time, and place of services and the funeral at the Mendocino County Fair. performance evaluations home handling the arrangements. For information on how to The competition takes place should be regular for all depart- place a free death notice please call our editorial department ment heads. at 468-3500. under American Kennel Club rules but does not have the “It gives the board members purebred requirements AKC (an opportunity) to maybe kind does. “It’s AKC rules with 4- Ben Brown/The Daily Journal of vent a little steam without CHP REPORTS way due to speed and crossed H qualifications,” Boesel said. Daisy awaits commands from Hannah Forbes at maybe getting to the point over the northbound lanes into The kids were also training Monday evening’s 4-H dog obedience class. where three of them get togeth- The following were the southbound lanes. their dogs for the caroling er and say ‘Hey, you know, compiled from reports Kristy Holly, 42, of Rio planned for Alex Thomas that they needed to get their might otherwise spook them. we’re just going to go ahead prepared by the Califor- Dell, was southbound on Plaza at 2 p.m. on Saturday. animals used to things like Ben Brown can be reached at and fire this guy,’” Pinches nia Highway Patrol: Highway 101 in a 1993 Boesel cautioned the kids umbrellas and raincoats that [email protected]. said. ACCIDENT UPDATE -- Mercury Cougar when Blanco The ordinance will return to A woman, identified by the lost control of his vehicle and the board for approval in Janu- Mendocino County Coroner’s swerved into her lane. ary after Pinches is seated. Office as Elizabeth Ann Holly applied the brakes Once an ordinance is adopted, Pappas, 29, of Pleasanton, and collided with the right the county will commence its died in a traffic accident at rear of Blanco’s vehicle caus- RALEY’S DONATES TO FOOD BANK search for a permanent CEO to 9:04 a.m. Saturday, when her ing it to overturn on its top. relieve Beltrami. vehicle went off Highway 101 Holly suffered major Katie Mintz can be reached at south of Underpass Road. injuries and was transported [email protected]. According to reports from to Redwood Memorial hospi- the California Highway tal for treatment. Blanco suf- Patrol, Pappas was driving a fered minor injuries and was Remember 2000 Volkswagen north on transported to Phelps Highway 101 when, for Community Hospital. Christmas past unknown reasons, she made Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proven guilty. To our readers: an unsafe turning movement Those who feel the information is in The Daily Journal would to the left and lost control of error should contact the appropriate like our readers’ stories about the vehicle. agency. their most memorable The Volkswagen ran off the Christmases. west edge of the roadway and CORRECTIONS You don’t have to be a pro down an embankment, where An article in Sunday’s at writing. And it doesn’t have it collided with a boulder, paper incorrectly named Noel to be long. Just put pen to overturned and came to rest O’Neill as the director of the paper, or fingers to keyboard, against a tree. Public Health Department. and write what you remember According to CHP reports, O’Neill is the director of the - tell it as you would tell a Pappas was ejected from the Mendocino County Mental friend over coffee. If you car out the passenger-side Health Department. have a photo of yourself on window and suffered fatal The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this the day you’re recalling, injuries. She was not wearing space to correct errors or make clarifications please include it. We will a seat belt at the time of the to news articles. Errors may be reported to the editor, 468-3526. return it if you give us a self- accident, according to CHP addressed envelope -- we’ll reports. pay the postage. The cause of the crash LOTTERY NUMBERS Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Be sure to include your remains under investigation. Raley’s store director Andy Nelson loads a palette of turkeys, chickens and hams name and phone number and COLLISION -- The dri- DAILY 3: night: 4, 5, 2. afternoon: 8, 8, 8. into a Food Bank truck on Tuesday as Food Bank warehouse manager Burton then send it to us in any form vers in a two-vehicle collision FANTASY 5: 09, 10, 11, Hackett and Raley’s head meat cutter Craig Cutler stand by. Raley’s donated that’s easiest for you: on Highway 101 south of 28, 31. $1000, or about 1,400 pounds worth of turkeys, to the Food Bank. In addition to Mail it to UDJ/Christmas Salmon Creek Road that DAILY DERBY: 1st the turkeys, Raley’s has been sponsoring the Food For Families program, where story, P.O. Box 749, Ukiah occurred at 3:37 p.m. Monday Place: 07, Eureka. 2nd customers can donate $10 to buy a $20 bag of food that will be given to the Food 95482.; suffered minor and major Place: 06, Whirl Win. 3rd Bank. Eight thousand pounds of food has been donated already, with the program injuries. Place: 08, Gorgeous running through Dec. 24. See CHRISTMAS, Page 16 According to reports from George. the California Highway Race time: 1:49.06. Patrol, a 2002 Ford F-250 MEGA MILLIONS: 01- pickup driven by German 15-29-32-45. Meganum- Blanco, 36, of Hayward, ber: 08. Jackpot: $22 mil- hydroplaned on the wet road- lion. 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Meadows By EMILY FREDRIX By Associated Press COLBY, Wis. -- Wisconsin, which proudly calls itself “America’s Dairyland” and embraces all things cheese as a whey of life, is not yet ready to First, this is likely the last Commerce become a second-rate cheese File for the year since I will be out of the power. office starting Friday through Dec. 28. So I California is poised to take want to say Merry Christmas to all you busi- over the crown -- or the cheese- ness owners out there and here’s hoping you head? -- as the nation’s top have a great holiday season and a prosperous cheese producer as early as next New Year. I also want to thank you all for your year, but Wisconsin cheese generosity during the year. I know it’s tough lovers say quality is more impor- keeping a business open and I know you are tant than quantity. bombarded all year with requests from good “We still have the best causes for money or merchandise. And you cheese,” says Mary Deheck, a always come through. Whether it’s a big tick- suburban Milwaukee resident et item like a new recreation center or one who often makes a special trip to child’s school project, the business communi- this central Wisconsin cheese ty in this Valley has a huge heart. For what it’s mecca to stock up. She buys 100 worth, I thank you. pounds of cheese per year, typi- Kudos to Redwood Empire Title Company cally colby or cheddar, for her- of Mendocino County, which is sponsoring self and her daughter, and for it’s second annual “Round Robin Challenge” gifts. among real estate professionals to help the Last year, California made 2.1 Ukiah Food Bank. By the real estate commu- billion pounds of cheese, while nity challenging each other to fill a bag with Wisconsin produced 2.4 billion, non-perishable food items, Redwood Empire according to U.S. Department of Title is able to fill many barrels for the Food Agriculture statistics. Given the some of the best cheese in the “and I am committed to making capital of the entertainment Bank. Through the generosity of realtors, production trend, it is only a lenders, title companies, and county offices, matter of time before California world,” Geoghegan says. “We sure we are.” industry, the center of the don’t take a back seat to anybody Cheese is about a $3.5 billion- nation’s wine industry, the land last year’s challenge brought in 10 barrels of becomes the big cheese of food! Redwood Empire Title is striving to cheesemaking. when it comes to making a-year industry in Wisconsin. It of fun in the sun, and so on and cheese.” is such a big deal that Wisconsin so on. Wisconsin, for its part, has double that number this year. If you would When the subject of the title like to help, you can drop off your non-perish- change comes up, Wisconsin Tourism Department residents and fans of the Green cheese, beer, bratwursts, the spokesman Jerry Huffman says Bay Packers, in particular, call Packers and ... and ... able food items to Redwood Empire Title at Milk Marketing Board 376 East Gobbi. spokesman Patrick Geoghegan there are no plans to back down themselves “cheeseheads.” George T. Haley, professor of turns up his nose faster than a 5- from billing Wisconsin as THE Thousands of Packers fans wear marketing at the University of cheese state. After all, he says, foam hats that look like big New Haven in Connecticut, says Those of you who live in Hopland or trav- year-old offered his first slice of el through regualrly have noticed that the old Limburger (a pungent cheese “You put a pound of cheddar wedges of cheddar. Wisconsin should consider coun- made in the U.S. only at a facto- from Wisconsin next to a pound California’s cheese industry is teracting California’s successful beer garden at the Hopland Brewery is gone. ry in Wisconsin). of cheddar from California and not exactly beating its chest “Happy Cows” ad campaign, The fences came down in the last few days Geoghegan says there are ours is going to taste better, and about its accomplishments, or which depicts sunny, carefree and the heavy equipment has gone in and much more important numbers that’s what it’s all about.” putting down Wisconsin cheese. cows in the state’s rolling hills. taken out all the deckng, the picnic tables, the than tonnage. For one thing, Nevertheless, Wisconsin’s big “We appreciate what’s pro- One idea is to play up the way kids’ sandbox and the vines and shrubbery. Wisconsin has about 600 vari- cheese, Gov. Jim Doyle, has duced there, but we’re also very many of Wisconsin’s dairy farms The backhoes reminded me of the beer keg eties of cheese, compared with asked the state’s commerce and proud of what’s produced here are family-owned, whereas many that the original owners buried in the garden California’s 250. agriculture secretaries to look for and the way we produce it,” says of California’s dairy farms are oh I’d say 10 years back when the Mendocino Or these: Wisconsin 57, ways to help bolster cheese pro- Stephanie Smith, spokeswoman larger and owned by corporate Brewing Company went public and their attor- California 7. That’s the tally of duction. Doyle said Wisconsin for Cantare Foods, a San Diego entities. neys told them they had too much money now prizes from the 2006 World has to look for new directions producer of Italian cheeses like “I think maybe California to be doing foolish things like hosting keg toss Championship Cheese Contest and go after niche markets such mozzarella and mascarpone. would be the evil empire and contests in the garden at the annual anniver- which was held -- where else? -- as organic and specialty cheeses. It could be that the title of No. Wisconsin would be the good sary bash. They might get sued. I guess maybe in Wisconsin. “It’s about whether we are a 1 cheese state means a whole lot guys,” he says. “That’s some- that was the moment the fun went out of own- “We make the best cheese in leader in a big dairy and cheese more to Wisconsin that it does to thing that would go over very ing a brewery. (They buried the keg that day the United States and we make industry in this country,” he says, California, which is already the well.” but it was dug up later. But I’d like to think it was still there for some backhoe to find). There were some serious good times had in that garden. Many a really good blues band hung out there during Saturday night breaks, lots of great summer partying. Smokers -- of a Greater Ukiah Localization Project variety of things -- hung out there, especially after the anti smoking laws went into effect in the county. And believe it or not it was a great focuses on city repair at meeting place to take toddlers for lunch. The long sand box had a few toys in it. You and friends could have a leisurely lunch at a picnic table nearby, “To be surrounded by a million of community spaces, City Repair GULP is showing a film pre- and your kids could enjoy themselves too. other people, but feel alone like a was formed in Portland Oregon in sentation by Mark Lakeman, tree in the desert.” Michael 1996. Born out of a successful founder of City Repair in I hear that John Fetzer -- the property Franti. grassroots neighborhood initia- Portland, on Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. in owner -- plans to put up a building on that How well do you know your tive that converted a residential the NCO meeting room, 413 N. corner, possibly a tasting room for his own neighbors? Would you feel com- street intersection into a neigh- State Street. Then, on Dece.19 at Saracina wine label. fortable calling on them in times borhood public square, City 7 p.m. also in the NCO meeting of need? Do you feel a strong per- Repair began its work with the room, Kat Steele, founder of the When I drive past the highway parcel in sonal connection to the neighbor- idea that localization (of culture, Urban Permaculture Guild in Ukiah just south of the Ken Fowler Motors hood you live in? Would you like of economy, of decision-making) Oakland California, will give a lot, someone is clearing land and moving dirt to improve those relationships is a necessary foundation of sus- presentation on City Repair pro- around there. I called the city to see if anyone with people and connection to tainability. jects in the East Bay Area and will knew what was happening -- like maybe a place? If so, read on. Community gathering places help facilitate a brainstorming Costco? I was told that while they believed We live in an increasingly are critical because sharing time and planning session for projects Costco was in serious negotiations, there had urbanized world. A greater per- and space with each other is the here in the Ukiah area. GULP is been no application to the city for anythng to centage of people live in cities starting point of community. By hoping to engage members of the go on that parcel. than ever in human history. One GULP Focus on . . reclaiming urban spaces to create Wagonseller neighborhood and would think that because we live By Cliff Paulin community-oriented places, seeds ultimately all neighborhood For all you wordsmiths and book worms closer together our connections are planted for greater neighbor- groups in creating public spaces out there, the Mendocino LitFest has been with our community would be hood communication, empower for meaningful human interac- allowed to grow organically pub- launched and is coming to Ukiah in June, stronger and more prolific. our communities and nurture our tion. 2007. The event has been organized by Dot However, studies have shown that lic spaces and piazzas occur natu- local culture. Come be a part of strengthen- rally at the intersection of path- Brovarny with a grant from the Mendocino people feel increasingly isolated, City Repair has grown from its ing your local community and Community Foundation and will be a week- despite our. Why is this so? ways. The National Land roots in Portland to include learning how we can make Ukiah Ordinance pre-empted the natural end event highlighting author sessions, work- Modern American cities were groups in Seattle, Oakland, an even better place to live. If you shops, poetry contests and lots more, to be designed to maximize ease of development of such places and Minneapolis/St. Paul, and would like more information failed to provide for them within held on the campus of Mendocino College. transportation, not to facilitate Ottawa, Canada. Building off the please contact Cliff Paulin at 463- Right now they’re looking for sponsors human scale interaction. In 1785, the mandated grid. Neighborhood success of these cities the Greater 0413 or spaces for communication and among local businesses. There are several the Continental Congress passed Ukiah Localization Project aims [email protected]. You tiers in which to sponsor and those come with the National Land Ordinance, gathering, which develop natural- to empower Ukiah area neighbor- can also learn more at the GULP ly in non-grid cities, must be a variety of benefits. So if you want you busi- which laid a grid over all land hood groups to undertake City Web site, ness name linked with the inauguration of a west of the Ohio River. This specifically planned for in grid Repair projects in an effort to www.cloudforest.org/GULP or on cities. grand local literary event, get in touch with included all future cities and reestablish public gathering and the City Repair Web site, the Community Foundation at 468-9882. towns. When communities are In an effort to address the lack communication spaces. www.cityrepair.org There’s a new business out there called “We Help Sell For You” located at Raley’s shopping center in a related business called Berkeley to be first city to regulate nanotechnology Discount Depot. The folks at We Help will By PAUL ELIAS materials by changing or creating materials at nanomaterials and the Lawrence Berkeley help you make a little extra money by selling The Associated Press the atomic and molecular level. But much of Laboratory, which launched an ambitious your excess stuff for you on Ebay. The owner, SAN FRANCISCO -- The use of subatom- the impacts from those developments remains nanotechnology department in March, is Bryan Cetani, will work with you to get the ic materials as microscopic building blocks unknown, particularly with regard to possible exempt from local regulations because it is best price for your personal things, or an for thousands of consumer products has environmental and health problems. part of the federal Department of Energy. estate sale, or fundraiser or surplus retail mer- turned into a big business so quickly that few “The ordinance is quite important, and I Lab officials said they intend to work with chandise. Call him at 367-4164 or drop by at are monitoring the so-called nanotechnolo- think it will be given worldwide attention,” the city and are confident their own regula- 1396 N. State St., Suite C. Check his web site gy’s effects on health and the environment. said David Rejeski, director of the Project on tions are stringent enough to ensure safety. at ww.wehelpsellforyou.com. So Berkeley intends to be the first city to Emerging Nanotechnologies, which is funded These are very complex issues because the step into the breach and attempt to regulate by the Woodrow Wilson International Center science being done is very complex and there Lots of local businesses help sponsor the the nascent but fast-growing industry. for Scholars and the Pew Charitable Trusts. are a lot of unknowns,” said Mark Alpers, Miss Mendocino County Scholarship The City Council is expected Tuesday to “This is a new industry, and there is a lack of deputy director of the lab’s nanotech effort Program each year. This coming January the amend its hazardous materials law to compel federal and state regulations.” known as the Molecular Foundry. “It’s essen- program will expand to host an Open researchers and manufacturers to report what Rejeski said thousands of products, from tial that proper precautions are taken while at Competition Program in Mendocino County nanotechnology materials they are working cosmetics to detergents, are manufactured the same time allowing important research to in conjunction with the Miss Mendocino with and how they are handling the tiny parti- using material constructed Lego-like from proceed.” County contest. An Open Competition gives cles. particles measuring as small as one-millionth City officials said the new regulation is the opportunity for young women in The aim of nanotechnology, in the com- the width of a head of a pin. mostly aimed at monitoring nanotechnology California who have already held two struc- mercial world, is to develop new products and There are no known businesses within Berkeley city limits working directly with See REGULATE, Page 5 See COMMERCE, Page 6 4 – WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 2006 FORUM Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Letters from our readers Sweet land of liberty Wal-Mart still a ‘good place to work?’ To the Editor: NAT HENTOFF Sometime back, the Daily Journal had printed an article titled “A Great Place to Work,” referring to interviews done of two local workers at the Ukiah Wal-Mart. It may be time to revisit this issue as Wal- Mart is now being publicly challenged by several of its’ own courageous employees Bringing back from around the U.S. Last month in Florida, nearly the entire staff of one Wal-Mart store walked out the Constitution? during a shift in protest of Wal-Marts’ Now that the Republican one-party rule of Congress nationwide imposed: salary caps forced is about to end for at least two years, there are signs upon its’ associates (a term used by Wal- that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 -- which Mart to define their many non-managerial further expanded the unilateral executive powers that employees), a reduction of full-time hour the president prizes -- may be subject to revisions shifts from 40 hours to 32-hour part-time more in line with the Constitution's separation of pow- shifts a week for many of these associates ers, which have been an endangered species for the (resulting in loss of health benefits), as past six years. well as punitive attendance policies now Connecticut's Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd in place that punish employees for not has authored the Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act - being available to work any shift at a - which he will reintroduce in the new Congress -- that moments’ notice. These employees are amends the rampant constitutional defects in the also now being punished for leaving for Military Commissions Act that the president was very emergency illnesses of themselves or to pleased to sign in October. Since global homicidal ter- tend to family emergencies. It sounds like rorism is far from abating, Dodd makes the obligatory working at Wal-Mart is getting much point: worst for the non-managerial worker (if it "It's clear that the people who perpetrated these hor- hadn’t been already). rendous crimes against our people have no moral com- To add to this underlying worker dis- Other opinions pass and deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of content, an unprecedented TV ad featuring the law (but) at the same time protecting what it means three current Wal-Mart employees is now From around the nation to be America ... if we are to uphold the values of equal showing during the holiday season to justice that are codified in our Constitution." challenge Wal-Mart to publicly change its’ Naples (Fla.) Daily New Accordingly, his legislation would restore to unfair employment practices. Hope that On John Bolton’s resignation detainees suspected of terrorism their rights to habeas this update provides some encouragement corpus -- the core of American due process -- stripped for a follow-up article from the Daily In the end, John Bolton on the fast track to passage is But even as he was out of the 2006 Military Commissions Act, even Journal. jumped before he was an extension of a provision engaging in a post-election though the Supreme Court in 2004 and 2006 ruled that Steve Menicucci pushed. His temporary that allows Tennesseans to make-nice session with these prisoners are entitled to meaningfully petition our federal courts, including their conditions of con- Ukiah appointment as U.N. ambas- deduct state sales taxes from House Speaker-to-be Nance sador would have expired their federal income tax Pelosi, the president was finement. with the current Congress, returns. This isn’t a matter of The Dodd bill would also amend the startlingly sending the same old, tired expanded definition of "unlawful enemy combatant" What happened and even though President partisan politics. This is a list of rightwing judicial Bush renominated him last matter of simple fairness. in the MCA law that allows the president to hold to ‘never again’? appointments to the Senate detainees, so designated by him, indefinitely -- includ- month the Democrats made ... This deduction is for confirmations they ing those loosely accused of "purposely and material- To the Editor: it clear that he would not be important because it levels couldn’t get from a GOP-led ly supporting" the enemy. (Permanent legal aliens in approved once they take the playing field when it As a mother, wife, sister and daughter; Senate. ... the United States could also be swept up as enemy over the Senate. comes to taxation. Without But perhaps the most combatants for contributing to charities they didn't as a woman, teacher, and a Jew; as a That’s too bad because member of the human race; I can no it, Tennesseans are unfairly egregious appointment Bush know were linked to terrorists.) longer stand silently. After World War II Bolton accurately and too taxed twice — once because made recently came before Dodd would narrow this definition of enemy com- forcefully for his critics rep- we said, “Never again.” Yet, it has hap- of our sky-high 9.75 percent the election, when Karl batants "to individuals who directly participate in hos- resented the views of the pened in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Croatia, sales tax and once because Rove desperately tried to tilities against the United States." Bush White House to the Bosnia and now in Darfur of the Sudan: of the federal income tax. hold together a religious- Under the 2006 MCA, trials of enemy combatants genocide. My 8-year-old son asked me United Nations. And he was ... The other important can include evidence obtained from "coercive" inter- credited with engineering right coalition that had got- rogations, a term proved in the past to sometimes be a why our troops are in Iraq. If the people reason for renewing this ten nothing but rhetoric from that sent the troops there can’t answer, the U.N. resolution on North deduction is that it addresses euphemism for torture. The Dodd bill excludes such how can I? Then he asked why our troops Korea’s nuclear weapons the White House during the evidence as well as unreliable hearsay evidence -- the same glaring inequity past six years. are not in Darfur. He knows what geno- activities and holding inherent to every other sales from sources the defendants are not able to confront. cide is and he knows that one is happen- together a consensus on That appointment was of The bill the president signed into law last October tax-only state. Specifically, Eric Keroack to head fami- also gives him, and his successors, the authority to ing. He was part of the human chain Iran’s nuclear program. without this deduction, the across the Golden Gate Bridge as we tried ... Bolton was a special ly-planning programs at the interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva to raise the awareness about what is hap- poorest citizens are hit the Department of Health and Conventions on the treatment of prisoners. This coun- case and his nomination, like hardest. If this deduction is pening in Sudan. He hears the news and some of Bush’s judicial can- Human Services, a position try is a signatory to those conventions, and the allowed to expire, Tennessee he listens when I cry out to my husband in didates, was an in-your-face in which he would be in Supreme Court -- in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2006) -- and the six other states who frustration. To a child it seams so clear, political challenge to the charge of 4,600 family-plan- mandated that we adhere to the Geneva Conventions. “One group of people killing another Democrats. Bush knew he have no state income tax will ning clinics across the coun- Rather than allowing the president the power to decide the spirit and letter of the Geneva Conventions, group.” In school and at home we teach was asking for a fight when revert to the way things were try and a $283 million bud- our children that this is not right. We teach before, with the poorest citi- Dodd's amendments would clearly subject that inter- he nominated Bolton. get. pretation by the president to congressional and judicial them to help those less fortunate. Aren’t His choice for Bolton’s zens having their pockets Keroack is quite a piece we, The United States of America, the picked to help finance those oversight. successor and how the of work. ... And, the Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act, if great defenders of democracy? We are the Senate Democrats handle who are wealthy. ... self-proclaimed police of the world Keroack is not only passed by the new Congress, would call for "expedit- shouldn’t we be protecting those who that nomination should against abortion under any ed judicial review of the Military Commissions Act of need it the most? Genocides exist today, demonstrate how much the The Tuscaloosa circumstances, he also is 2006 to determine the constitutionality of its provi- right now in Darfur. We see it, hear about spirit of cooperation and (Ala.) News anticontraception, even for sions." it, but our government turns a deaf ear and compromise will really pre- married women. ... A good many members of Congress who voted for a blind eye. I refuse not to hear and not to vail during the next two On Eric Keroack’s Everyone is entitled to his that act, very much including those who did so reluc- see the atrocities that are going on. In the years. appointment or her kooky opinions, but to tantly, did expect the Supreme Court to have the final past I have felt lost, useless and unable to nominate a zealot to a post word on its constitutionality. The High Court, of After the self-described course, will decide for itself how expeditiously it will speak out about what I have learned but The Jackson Sun, that finances birth control, because of my son’s unanswered questions “thumping” his Republican review MCA 2006. Tenn. Party took in the Nov. 7 gen- pregnancy testing, breast In speaking against MCA 2006, Dodd struck a pow- that eat away at my heart I can not be cancer screening and other silent any longer. I must speak out in my On taxes eral elections, President erful personal note: "My father, Thomas Dodd, own way. The writing on the back of my Bush said he got the mes- health services for five mil- worked alongside Justice Robert Jackson in prosecut- family car and the sign I hold on the street With less than a month to sage and was willing to work lion poor women a year, is ing (the war crimes) trials at Nuremberg. He viewed corner were inspired by my son. Please, go in the GOP’s lame-duck in a more bipartisan manner beyond the pale. Nuremberg as one of the most pivotal moments in our make some noise and help save the people session of Congress, one with the Democrats on Keroack’s appointment history -- where America chose to uphold the rule of of Darfur. Never again... never again.. item that deserves to be put Capitol Hill. should be withdrawn. Now. law rather than succumb to the rule of the mob." never again... Then Christopher Dodd made a pivotal constitu- Sara Rachel Esserman Melville tional point that eluded the president and Congressional supporters of MCA 2006: Hopland WHERE TO WRITE "These (Nazi) enemies of the United States (on trial at Nuremberg) were not given the opportunity to walk President George Bush: The White Sacramento, 95814. (916) 319-2001; Santa LETTER POLICY away from their crimes. Rather, they were given the House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washing- Rosa, 576-2526; FAX, Santa Rosa, 576- right to face their accuser, the right to confront evi- The Daily Journal welcomes letters to ton, D.C. 20500; (202) 456-1111, FAX 2297. Berg's field representative in Ukiah dence against them and the right to a fair trial." the editor. All letters must include a (202)456-2461. office located at 104 W. Church St, Ukiah, Those rights that define our rule of law have been clear name, signature, return address Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: 95482, 463-5770. The office’s fax number is emasculated in MCA 2006 -- dishonoring who we are and phone number. Letters chosen for State Capitol, Sacramento, 95814. (916) 463-5773. E-mail to: as Americans. publication are generally published in 445-2841; FAX (916)445-4633 [email protected] "Underlying (America's role at Nuremberg)," Dodd the order they are received, but shorter, Sen. Barbara Boxer: 112 Hart Senate Senator Wes Chesbro: State Senate continued, "was the conviction that this nation must concise letters are given preference.We Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510; District 2, Capitol Building, Room 5100, not tailor its most fundamental principles to the con- publish most of the letters we receive, (202)224-3553; San Francisco, (415) 403- Sacramento, 95814. (916) 445-3375; FAX flict of the moment -- and the recognition that, if we but we cannot guarantee publication. 0100 FAX (415) 956-6701 (916) 323-6958. Ukiah office is P.O. Box did, we would be walking in the very footsteps of the Names will not be withheld for any rea- Sen. Dianne Feinstein: 331 Hart Sen- 785, Ukiah, 95482, 468-8914, FAX 468- enemy we despised." son. If we are aware that you are con- ate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510. 8931. District offices at 1040 Main St., Suite I hope other warriors for the Constitution will sign nected to a local organization or are an (202)224-3841 FAX (202) 228-3954; San 205, Napa, 94559, 224-1990, 50 D St., Suite on to Dodd's Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act to elected official writing about the organi- Francisco (415) 393-0707; senator@fein- show we can be safe without forgetting who we are. zation or body on which you serve, that 120A, Santa Rosa, 95404, 576-2771, and stein.senate.gov 317 3rd St., Suite 6, Eureka, 95501, 445- Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on will be included in your signature. 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Publisher: Kevin McConnell Editor: K.C. Meadows a write-in campaign will not be pub- Assembly District 1, Capitol, Rm. 2137, [email protected] lished. You may drop letters off at our Circulation director: Cornell Turner Office manager: Yvonne Bell office at 590 S. School St., or fax letters to 468-3544, mail to Letters to the Visit our web site at ukiahdailyjournal.com Group systems director: Sue Whitman Editor, P.O. Box 749, Ukiah, 95482 or Member Member California e-mail them to [email protected]. Audit Bureau Newspaper Publishers email us at [email protected] Of Circulations Association THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL COMMERCE WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 2006 – 5 With few exceptions, Western Financial questions you need to answer December is the month going into a nursing home. when tax-planning profes- Will this affect him qualifying real estate expected to stagnate sionals tell their clients to for Medicaid?” maximize their deductions 6. “The nursing home told By RACHEL KONRAD year. The number of houses King County, the median price and minimize income as much me that since my father was AP Business Writer and condos sold next year is surged 14 percent to $432,600. as possible in order to reduce no longer making progress, ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Donald expected to drop 7 percent to The dot-com bust of 2000 their income taxes. This they would have to stop thera- Anthony slashed the asking 447,500. hammered the region, which means making contributions py services. Is there anything I price on his four-bedroom, That’s slightly ahead of the shed a disproportionate number to churches, other charities can do to make sure he gets two-bathroom house by almost nationwide forecast by of manufacturing and technolo- and IRAs. continued therapy? “ $80,000 -- and added $40,000 Moody’s Economy.com. The gy jobs in the following half- And for those who have 7. “After we filed a worth of improvements, private research firm projected decade. Homeowners there taxable estates (now anything Next steps Medicaid application for our including a new kitchen and that the national median sales haven’t enjoyed the same run- more than $2 million per per- mother, the nursing home told leafy landscaping. price for an existing home up as investors elsewhere, said son), tax professionals sug- By Jan Warner and Jan Collins us they were going to dis- He’s used three different would decline in 2007 by 3.6 Glenn Crellin, director of the gest, among other more com- some of the repetitively asked charge her because they do agents. He listed the 1,800- percent -- the first yearly WCRER at Washington State plicated strategies to reduce questions we receive: not accept pending Medicaid square-foot home -- an immac- decline in U.S. home prices University. estate taxes, making gifts of 1. “Why do I need to plan? applications as payment. Can ulate ranch on a quiet cul-de- since the Great Depression of “Our real estate market the annual exclusion (now Won’t Medicare pay for my they do this?” sac -- on for-sale-by-owner the 1930s. essentially came to the party a $12,000 per person). In this nursing-home care?” 8. “I heard that there was sites, in newspapers, on cable Reasons for the slump vary. little late. As a result, we’re way, for example, an individ- 2. “The nursing home told little we could do to plan for television and the community In historically hot markets, going to be able to have a soft- ual can give away $12,000 to us that once Mom’s money is the potential of a nursing site Craigslist. He or his agents economists say, median home er landing than many of the as many people as he or she gone, she will qualify for home stay until my husband have spent at least 50 idle after- prices simply hit an affordabil- other communities nation- desires without affecting Medicaid. Is this true?” and I become incapacitated. Is noons hosting open houses. ity wall. wide,” Crellin said. his/her lifetime gifting limit. 3. “My second husband and that true?” But the 74-year-old retired San Francisco and other Another advantage: And, by using gift splitting, a 9. “Everything my parents I have a premarital agreement. acquired is in my father’s physicist cannot unload the expensive coastal cities, Washington is one of the top 10 husband and wife can give Doesn’t this mean that I won’t house, now listed at $489,950 - including Monterey and Santa states for what the U.S. Census away $24,000 to as many name. He had a stroke and be responsible for the cost of will be in a nursing home. - well below the price of com- Barbara -- where investors calls net domestic migration -- individuals as they desire. his nursing home care or his parable homes in the fast-grow- cashed in on scorching appreci- the number of people who However, the vast majority Does this mean that all the medical bills?” property he and Mom accu- ing region between San ation in the late 1990s and the move there from other states. of those who read NextSteps 4. “If I let Medicaid pay for Francisco and Sacramento. first half of this decade -- have California recorded a net are not among the 1 percent or mulated will have to be paid my wife’s nursing-home care, to the facility before he will be “Buyers have vanished,” become unaffordable for the domestic loss of about 29,000 so of our population who are will she receive the same Anthony shrugged in front of middle class. people last year -- the first neg- able to qualify for Medicaid concerned with estate taxes. quality of care she receives as and that she will have noth- new Shaker maple cabinets and The number of Californians ative flow since the mid-1990s, Our readers seldom ask about a private pay patient?” who could comfortably pay the according to March statistics ing?” never-used appliances. “If this strategies to reduce income 5. “I hold my Dad’s power If you are not able answer doesn’t sell post haste, I’m mortgage on an entry-level from the California and estate taxes but, instead, of attorney. After he got sick, I these questions, you should going to bite the bullet and pull home fell to 24 percent in the Department of Finance. are concerned with how to used it to make gifts of all of consult a qualified attorney it off the market.” third quarter -- down from 28 About 97,000 Californians meet increasing prescription, his property to myself, my who can help you make plans Although few experts pre- percent last year and 44 percent moved to Washington in 2005, medical, insurance and living brother and my sister. He is appropriate to your situation. dict home values will fall dra- in 2003, according to CAR. making it the fourth most pop- costs on fixed incomes; how matically in 2007, many econo- The median price statewide last ular destination for to make sure that if one of mists say prices throughout the quarter was $563,190. Californians after Texas, them requires long-term care, West -- particularly California “I don’t see how the econo- Arizona and Nevada. Oregon the other won’t become desti- storage containers, air fresh- and the Southwest -- won’t my can continue with these was fifth, with more than tute; and how, in the final Regulate eners, washing machines and improve for 12 to 18 months. prices,” said Stephen Levy, 83,000 ex-Californians, the analysis, to make sure each is other products. It was the first The Pacific Northwest, where senior economist of the Center department reported. provided the best quality of Continued from Page 3 move by the federal govern- home prices are enjoying dou- for Continuing Study of the California’s departing life available. ment to regulate the industry, startups and small businesses, ble-digit appreciation, is a rare California Economy. homeowners typically use their Based on our reader but most materials won’t fall rather than the national lab’s exception. In Sun Belt havens such as substantial equity to fund their responses, we are seeing less under EPA oversight. Building booms in many San Diego, Las Vegas and next real estate investment. concern about passing assets efforts. In November, the “This actually is a ground- markets over the past half- Phoenix, overzealous construc- Although some Seattle and to children and gifting, and breaking ordinance,” decade, combined with mort- tion resulted in a glut of new Portland residents grumble more about whether they will Environmental Protection Agency said it was changing Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates gage interest rates that have homes and condos. Real estate about “Californication,” the outlive their money. This type said during the city’s Dec. 5 of thinking is a paradigm shift federal policy to require that increased about 1 percent in the experts say sellers there will trend has helped keep home meeting when the issue past year, have resulted in resi- struggle in 2007 -- particularly prices there rising, said Brian from the way your parents and nanotechnology manufactur- ours planned for retirement, ers provide scientific evidence received unanimous support dential real estate stagnation in short-term investors who pur- Kreick, broker for Lynnwood, during its preliminary intro- chased property with the intent Wash.-based Kreick Realty trying to make sure that they that their use of so-called most markets. The gridlock duction to the City Council. defies conventional wisdom, of “flipping” it quickly. Group. passed something on to their “nanosilver” won’t harm stubbornly remaining neither a “We have to work off the “I have clients from south- children. 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Only four other Opens local contenders and helped will be named the Young Mattel Inc. is recalling is recalling Children’s parka TAINS LEAD are held in the state, in educate literally hundreds of Entrepreneur of the Year and Polly Pocket dolls and acces- jackets, with drawstrings The Land of Nod® is Hollywood, Gilroy, Los young women in the past 30 will be awarded an addition- sories with magnets sold sold by Dollar Days recalling Antique White Angeles and Merced areas years and the Miss al $5,000 for a total scholar- nationwide from May 2003 International Stores from Furniture from the Cottage and the state has been look- Mendocino County ship award of $10,000. to September 2006. Tiny December 2005 to Collection sold nationwide ing for a host county in the Scholarship Committee sin- The program made its magnets inside the dolls and November 2006. The gar- from September 2003 to north part of the state. cerely hopes this support debut in 2003 when it award- accessories can fall out ments have a drawstring August 2006. Some of the Young women like Melissa will continue as they accept ed a total of 110 scholarships undetected by parents and through the hood, posing a recalled furniture contains Chaty, a hometown girl who the Miss California nationwide. In 2006 the caregivers. The magnets can strangulation hazard to chil- paint with high levels of lead became 4th runner up to Organization’s offer to help NFIB Young Entrepreneur be swallowed, aspirated by dren. Miss California last year as further educate young Foundation awarded a total young children or placed by AIR RIFLES POSE well as any former title women in northern of 408 scholarships, thanks a child in their nose or ears. 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The chain saw’s plas- commercially installed units a serious injury hazard to Mendocino County has the out California,” Verna said. years and look forward to tic front handle can break can become displaced and, if consumers. most successful pageant of The three-title new learning about the innovative during operation. If this it contacts metal, could short the 1,400 local pageants pageant is scheduled for ideas that this year’s students occurs, the saw would be dif- circuit. If the electric heater CHILDREN’S NECK- nationwide in terms of schol- January 20, 2007 at the will produce,” said Hank ficult to control and poses a on one of those units short- LACES CONTAIN LEAD arship dollars raised. That Ukiah High School Kopcial, executive director risk for lacerations. circuits, wiring problems on Really Useful Products says a lot about our local Cafetorium. If you’d like to of NFIB’s Young 265 volt models could allow Inc., of Darien, Ill. is recall- business community. 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Niners put CBs Davis, Strickland on LOCAL Justice Department to examine injured reserve list after Sunday’s game CALENDAR The Associated Press SANTA CLARA — The San Francisco 49ers placed TODAY Duke lacrosse case backup cornerbacks Sammy Davis and Donald Strickland JC Men’s Basketball vs. Napa The Associated Press months, many of my con- ed to start until spring. Valley College 7 p.m. on injured reserve Tuesday. Girls’ Basketball vs. Windsor DURHAM, N.C. — A con- stituents and a growing number There was no immediate at home 4:30, 6 and 7 p.m. gressman asked the Justice of mainstream media outlets response to a call to Nifong’s Cornerback B.J. Tucker and linebacker Renauld Williams were signed from the practice squad to replace THURSDAY DEC. 14 Department on Tuesday to have raised serious questions office seeking comment. In an them. JC Women’s Basketball vs. investigate whether the district about the accuser’s allegations interview with The Associated Couro Casa College 7 p.m. attorney prosecuting three and Mr. Nifong’s prosecution,” Press in October, Nifong said The 49ers acquired Davis in a trade with San Diego JC Men’s Basketball vs. he and the city’s police depart- Duke University lacrosse play- wrote Jones, R-N.C. before the season. He made 30 tackles while playing exten- Santa Rosa TBA ment have not mishandled the sively as a backup, but injured his quadriceps in San Logger’s Classic: Varsity ers charged with rape has vio- Jones’ complaints to case and that his only regret Eureeka TBA lated the athletes’ civil rights. Gonzales repeat criticisms that Francisco’s loss to Green Bay last week. was granting so many inter- Strickland signed with the 49ers on Oct. 31 and played FRIDAY DEC. 15 In a letter to Attorney defense attorneys and others views to reporters during the JC Women’s Basketball: General Alberto Gonzales, have raised about Nifong’s investigation’s early days. mostly on special teams in four games, making four tack- College of the Redwoods Tour handling of the case. les. The former Indianapolis starter strained his left knee of Eureeka TBA Rep. Walter Jones also asked Three years ago, Jones the Justice Department to A grand jury indicted three helped lead an effort to make against the Packers. MONDAY DEC. 19 review Durham County lacrosse players on charges sure Capitol Hill cafeterias Tucker, a fourth-year pro who spent much of the season Boy’s Basketball vs. Willits they raped a stripper at a team 7:30 p.m. District Attorney Mike revised their menus to list on the practice squad, made two tackles in one appearance Nifong’s actions for possible party in March. All three have “freedom fries” instead of earlier in the season. Williams hasn’t appeared in a game strongly proclaimed their inno- french fries to protest France’s prosecutorial misconduct. opposition to the war in Iraq. for San Francisco this season after playing in two games in COMMUNITY “Over the past several cence, and a trial is not expect- 2005. DIGEST BAM Wrestling Club RAIDERS UPDATE Practices will begin Dec. 13 and 14. Practices run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday. The cost is $40. Counting down the days Hopland basketball league Dec.-Feb. The Hopland band of Pomo Indians is starting a basketball league. Games will start Dec. 19 and will go through February. There are eight games guarantee and all teams will make the playoffs. There is a $375 team fee and a player fee of $10. There is a mandato- ry manager’s meeting Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. for more information contact Armando Madrigal at 744-1647 ext. 1500, fax info to 744-1506 or email him at [email protected].

SAL boxing classes The Sheriff’s Activity League has expanded its hours and coach Cris Fischer is back. It now offers classes Thursday at 6:45 p.m., Friday and Sunday at 5 p.m. and Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. SAL boxing classes are held at the Redwood Health Club. All ages and experience levels welcome. The cost is only $5 a year. Questions? call Cris at 463-1229.

UHS baseball clinic The City of Ukiah and the Ukiah High Wildcats would like to announce the beginning of registration for a high school baseball clinic supervised by the Ukiah High School baseball coaching staff. Come join the fun and learn about every aspect of the game: hitting, slid- ing, fielding, and much more. This clinic will be held every Monday through Thursday from 3:30pm till 5:00pm. Clinics will run weekly through February 1st, 2007. The clinic is open to boys ages 14 to 18 and is located at the Ukiah High School baseball field. There is NO charge for this clinic, however pre-registration is required and can be done at the City of Ukiah. 411 W. Clay St. Please call the City of Ukiah Community Services Department for more information call 463-6201.

City of Ukiah youth referees JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO/Contra Costa Times/ZUMA Press needed! Raider tackle Barry Sims grabs Jerry Porter after Porter's 1st quarter touchdown reception during the AFC Championship between Youth basketball referees, $8 per game; High school refer- the Oakland Raiders and the Tennessee Titans at Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland January 19, 2003. ees, $10; Gym supervisors, $10. Most games played on Saturdays. Average of 10 games per day. Season runs described as a sports hernia), why would the team hold back a player once January through March. The Raiders’ Barry Sims fears thought to be close to Pro Bowl level? Previous experience preferred. Coach Art Shell has said he was reluctant to rush Sims back given the Min. age 16 for referee. Min. age 18 for Supervisor & H.S. his playing days in Oakland nature of the injury. But last week, Sims practiced all week and felt fit. Referee. Applications available “I was ready to go,” Sims said. “They wanted to see the young guy at City of Ukiah, 411 Seminary play, so ... there's not much I can do about that.” Ave, Ukiah, CA 95482, Deadline: December 27, 2006. may be numbered So, what gives? Why wouldn't a team that has struggled with its block- For more information, please By Bill Soliday ing all year want a player who, before he was injured, had started 68 call (707) 463-6714. ANG News straight games? LAMEDA -- For the first time in six weeks, Oakland guard Barry “You've been around,” Sims said dryly. “You know. It's part of the Want to play rugby? Sims was active for Sunday's Raider game in Cincinnati. business. It definitely clears things up for me about my future here.” Mendocino Steam Donkeys A Which is to say Sims doesn't think he has one. And it doesn't take a are looking for players to join You may have wondered why he never got to play even one offensive their team. Practice is held master sleuth to figure out why. every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. down. You wouldn't be alone. Barry Sims would like to know, too. It's business -- or to be more specific, money. When Sims re-worked his at the softball complex just And yet, deep down, he thinks he knows. He believes his days as a contract last season, the terms called for a base salary of $4.45 million in north of Ukiah off of Highway 101. All ages welcome and for Raider may be numbered and next spring he'll be moving on. It's difficult 2006 but only $1 million in 2007. To make up for it, the agreement called more information contact Liam to think otherwise, given the circumstances. for Sims to receive a $4.533 million bonus if he was still on the roster this at 743-9986 or visit www.men- In Sunday's game, rookie Paul McQuistan was at left guard for the dorugby.com. coming March. injured Corey Hulsey and Chad Slaughter was at left tackle for the injured All possible bonuses counted, the salary cap hit for Sims is $7.209 mil- Robert Gallery. lion this year, $7.584 million next year. Meanwhile, the estimated cost to High school Sims, a regular at left tackle since 2001 and now in his first season as the club by cutting him this spring is a more affordable $4 million in sign- basketball the starting left guard, was injured in the Raiders' last victory against ing bonus acceleration. officials needed Pittsburgh on Oct. 29. Sims hasn't been back other than to block on special Which amounts to virtual handwriting on the wall. Basketball Officials Needed teams against Cincinnati. for High School and Junior High School. Interested? Contact Now that he says he's healthy from his abdominal strain (it has also been See COUNTING, Page 9 462-8450.

HEY LOCAL COACHES! MLB OFFSEASON NOTES Please report your game results! Phone (707) 468-3518 or make submissions to: The Ukiah Daily Journal Sports Matsuzaka talks near deadline; Jennings deal to Astros; Department, 590 S. School Street, Ukiah, CA 95482. Fax (707) 468-3544 or visit www.ukiahdailyjournal.com Gagne agrees with Rangers; White Sox trade falls through click on “Sports”, then click on the “Report Game Scores” ban- By RONALD BLUM came apart, Houston acquired Andy Pettitte, who left his tract worth about $6 million. “He’s a guy who wants to ner. AP Baseball Writer Jason Jennings and pitcher hometown team Friday after The agreement was con- win as well, so I think with Editor’s note: The Ukiah Daily NEW YORK — As Boston Miguel Asencio from the three seasons to go back to the firmed by a person familiar him deciding to come here Journal welcomes submissions officials tried to work out a Colorado Rockies on Tuesday New York Yankees. with the negotiations who knowing what they’re trying from local youth sports teams. contract with Daisuke for outfielder Willy Taveras “This gives us a solid No. 2 spoke on condition of to do here, I think he also You can e-mail results to udjs- [email protected] or visit The Matsuzaka before Thursday’s and pitchers Taylor Buchholz starter and some depth in the anonymity because no wants to be part of a winner,” Daily Journal Web site deadline, the Houston Astros and Jason Hirsh — who all bullpen,” Purpura said. “It’s announcement had been said Gagne’s former Los (www.ukiahdailyjournal.com), and Texas Rangers found would have been sent to an exciting day for us.” made. The deal would allow Angeles Dodgers teammate, and click on “Sports.” pitching help of their own. Chicago for Jon Garland. Eric Gagne and the Texas Gagne to earn about $5 mil- Kenny Lofton, who finalized Five days after a potential Astros general manager Rangers reached a preliminary lion more in performance trade with the White Sox Tim Purpura needed to replace agreement on a one-year con- bonuses. See DEAL, Page 9 8 – WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 2006 SPORTS THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL

Fassel to be National synchronized SCOREBOARD swim team decided Wednesday, Jan. 3 2006-07 BOWL GLANCE Sugar Bowl NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION considered for The Associated Press At New Orleans By The Associated Press Payout: $17 million At A Glance COLUMBUS , Ohio — Eleven synchro- Tuesday, Dec. 19 LSU (10-2) vs. Notre Dame (10-2), 8 p.m. (FOX) By The Associated Press Poinsettia Bowl ——— EASTERN CONFERENCE nized swimmers were selected Tuesday to At San Diego Saturday, Jan. 6 Atlantic Division Stanford job Payout: $750,000 International Bowl W L Pct GB the team that will represent the U.S. at the TCU (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (7-5), 8 p.m. At Toronto New Jersey 8 12.400 — (ESPN2) Payout: $750,000 Boston 7 13.350 1 World Aquatic Championships in March in ——— Cincinnati (7-5) vs. Western Michigan (8-4), Noon New York 8 15.3481 1/2 By DARREN SABEDRA Thursday, Dec. 21 (ESPN2) Toronto 7 14.3331 1/2 San Jose Mercury News Melbourne, Australia. Las Vegas Bowl ——— Philadelphia 5 15.250 3 Selected for the team that will compete Payout: $1 million Sunday, Jan. 7 Southeast Division PALO ALTO -- Jim Fassel has official- BYU (10-2) vs. Oregon (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) GMAC Bowl W L Pct GB March 17-24 were: Brooke Abel (Fallbrook, ——— Mobile, Ala. Orlando 15 8.652 — ly joined the list of candidates vying to Friday, Dec. 22 Payout: $750,000 Miami 9 11.4504 1/2 Calif.); Poppy Carlig (Richmond, Calif.); New Orleans Bowl Southern Miss (8-5) vs. Ohio (9-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Washington 9 11.4504 1/2 become Stanford's next football coach. Payout: $325,000 ——— Atlanta 8 11.421 5 Janet Culp (Littleton, Colo.); Jennie Culp Troy (7-5) vs. Rice (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN2) Monday, Jan. 8 Charlotte 5 15.2508 1/2 Three days after a source told the ——— BCS National Championship Central Division Mercury News that the former New York (Littleton, Colo.); Kate Hooven Saturday, Dec. 23 At Glendale, Ariz. W L Pct GB (Pleasanton, Calif.); Christina Jones PapaJohn’s Bowl Payout: $17 million Detroit 13 7.650 — Giants coach could be someone Athletic At Birmingham, Ala. Ohio State (12-0) vs. Florida (12-1), 8 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland 12 8.600 1 (Fremont, Calif.); Becky Kim (Walnut Payout: $300,000 ——— Chicago 11 10.5242 1/2 Director Bob Bowlsby has in mind, Fassel South Florida (8-4) vs. East Carolina (7-5), 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14 Indiana 11 12.4783 1/2 Creek, Calif.); Andrea Nott (San Jose, (ESPN2) New Mexico Bowl Hula Bowl Milwaukee 8 12.400 5 interviewed for the position in Chicago on At Albuquerque At Honolulu WESTERN CONFERENCE Calif.); Annabelle Orme (Walnut Creek, Payout: $750,000 East vs. West, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Southwest Division Monday, the New York Times reported, cit- New Mexico (6-6) vs. San Jose State (8-4), 4:30 ——— W L Pct GB Calif.); Jillian Penner (Seattle, Wash.); and p.m. (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl Monday, Jan. 15 San Antonio 16 6.727 — ing a source with knowledge of the situa- At Fort Worth, Texas Las Vegas All-American Classic Houston 14 6.700 1 tion. Kim Probst (Troy, N.Y.).Jones and Nott Payout: $750,000 East vs. West, 4 p.m., (NFL) Dallas 14 7.6671 1/2 were announced Sunday as the duet on the Tulsa (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) ——— New Orleans 10 10.500 5 Fassel, 57, served an assistant at ——— Saturday, Jan. 20 Memphis 5 16.23810 1/2 2008 Olympic team. The remaining mem- Sunday, Dec. 24 East-West Shrine Classic Northwest Division Stanford in 1979-83, recruiting John Elway Hawaii Bowl At Houston W L Pct GB bers of the team will be named in At Honolulu East vs. West, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Utah 16 5.762 — to the Farm. He later coached the Giants for Payout: $750,000 ——— Denver 11 7.6113 1/2 Indianapolis at the national championships. Arizona State (7-5) vs. Hawaii (10-3), 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 Minnesota 10 9.526 5 seven seasons, leading them to the Super (ESPN) Senior Bowl Seattle 10 11.476 6 ——— At Mobile, Ala. Portland 9 14.391 8 Bowl in January 2001. Fassel was fired as Tuesday, Dec. 26 North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFL) Pacific Division Motor City Bowl W L Pct GB the Baltimore Ravens' offensive coordinator At Detroit L.A. Lakers 14 6.700 — Payout: $750,000 Phoenix 14 6.700 — in October. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Central Michigan (9-4) vs. Middle Tennessee (7- NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE L.A. Clippers 10 10.500 4 Steve Rosner, Fassel's agent, has not 5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) At A Glance Golden State 10 11.4764 1/2 UPDATE: CAL ——— By The Associated Press Sacramento 9 10.4744 1/2 returned repeated calls to his office. Wednesday, Dec. 27 Emerald Bowl AMERICAN CONFERENCE ——— In addition to Fassel, Stanford has had At San Francisco Former California Payout: $750,000 Sunday’s Games contact with University of San Diego Coach Florida State (6-6) vs. UCLA (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) East Portland 93, Toronto 83 ——— W L T Pct PF PA Phoenix 114, Charlotte 84 Jim Harbaugh, San Diego Chargers assis- Thursday, Dec. 28 Independence Bowl New England 9 4 0 .692 281 186 Sacramento 117, Atlanta 92 state player of the At Shreveport, La. N.Y. Jets 7 6 0 .538 254 269 Seattle 117, Golden State 115 tant James Lofton, Auburn offensive coordi- Payout: $1.1 million Buffalo 6 7 0 .462 243 262 L.A. Lakers 106, San Antonio 99 nator Al Borges, Oregon defensive coordi- Oklahoma State (6-6) vs. Alabama (6-6), 4:30 Miami 6 7 0 .462 228 222 Monday’s Games p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl South Phoenix 103, Orlando 89 nator Nick Aliotti and, according to the year to visit At San Diego W L T Pct PF PA Portland 81, Philadelphia 79 Payout: $2.2 million Indianapolis 10 3 0 .769 342 295 Miami 99, Toronto 77 Times, Montana Coach Bobby Hauck. California (9-3) vs. Texas A&M (9-3), 8 p.m. Jacksonville 8 5 0 .615 303 191 Boston 97, New York 90 (ESPN) Texas Bowl Tennessee 6 7 0 .462 247 314 New Jersey 105, Memphis 92 Lofton is scheduled to interview this Berkeley campus At Houston Houston 4 9 0 .308 219 296 New Orleans 95, Cleveland 89 Payout: $750,000 North Chicago 106, Indiana 91 week, the San Diego Union-Tribune, citing W L T Pct PF PA By JEFF FARAUDO Rutgers (10-2) vs. Kansas State (7-5), 8 p.m. Utah 101, Dallas 79 sources, reports. (NFL) Baltimore 10 3 0 .769 276 170 San Antonio 103, L.A. Clippers 81 ANG News ——— Cincinnati 8 5 0 .615 317 250 Tuesday’s Games Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach is anoth- Friday, Dec. 29 Pittsburgh 6 7 0 .462 286 264 Denver at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Jamal Boykin said he will visit Cal's Music City Bowl Cleveland 4 9 0 .308 208 293 Seattle at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. er name being bandied about, but his agent At Nashville, Tenn. West L.A. Lakers at Houston, 5:30 p.m. campus this week, and it's our guess he'll Payout: $1.6 million W L T Pct PF PA Sacramento at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. said Monday that he has not had any contact Clemson (8-4) vs. Kentucky (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN) x-San Diego 11 2 0 .846 425 257 Wednesday’s Games stay. Sun Bowl Kansas City 7 6 0 .538 267 256 Toronto at Orlando, 4 p.m. with Stanford. That hasn't stopped the At El Paso, Texas Denver 7 6 0 .538 235 236 Phoenix at Miami, 4 p.m. The 2005 Gatorade state player of the Payout: $1.9 million Oakland 2 11 0 .154 156 269 Detroit at Indiana, 4 p.m. rumor mill from churning. Leach has been Missouri (8-4) vs. Oregon State (9-4), 2 p.m. Denver at Washington, 4 p.m. mentioned on various Internet boards as a year for California got his release from (CBS) NATIONAL CONFERENCE Boston at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Duke last Friday and all indications suggest Liberty Bowl Charlotte at Cleveland, 4 p.m. candidate to become the Cardinal's next At Memphis, Tenn. East Atlanta at New York, 4:30 p.m. he will enroll at Berkeley. Payout: $1.7 million W L T Pct PF PA Milwaukee at New Jersey, 4:30 p.m. coach. South Carolina (7-5) vs. Houston (10-3), 4:30 Dallas 8 5 0 .615 349 260 Portland at Memphis, 5 p.m. If the Bears sign Boykin, he won't be p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl N.Y. Giants 7 6 0 .538 292 268 Minnesota at San Antonio, 5 p.m. Leach, 55-33 in seven seasons at Texas At Tempe, Ariz. Philadelphia 7 6 0 .538 315 282 Seattle at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. eligible to play until second semester a year Payout: $1.2 million Washington 4 9 0 .308 232 295 L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Tech, was most recently linked to the Miami Minnesota (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 7:30 p.m. South Utah at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m. opening. But he played down his involve- from now. But he's just the type of player (NFL) Champs Sports Bowl W L T Pct PF PA this year's team is missing: A 6-foot-7, 230- At Orlando, Fla. New Orleans 9 4 0 .692 352 268 ment in that process, telling one newspaper Payout: $2.25 million Atlanta 7 6 0 .538 244 256 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE pound forward who can rebound and play Maryland (8-4) vs. Purdue (8-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Carolina 6 7 0 .462 226 244 that his two-hour meeting with Miami ——— Tampa Bay 3 10 0 .231 151 289 At A Glance uptempo ball. Saturday, Dec. 30 North By The Associated Press Athletic Director Paul Dee was unofficial. Meineke Bowl W L T Pct PF PA Boykin played AAU summer-league At Charlotte, N.C. x-Chicago 11 2 0 .846 360 177 EASTERN CONFERENCE The school last week hired Randy Shannon. Payout: $750,000 Minnesota 6 7 0 .462 241 251 ball with Cal sophomore Jordan Wilkes and Navy (9-3) vs. Boston College (9-3), 1 p.m. Green Bay 5 8 0 .385 249 343 What is Leach's connection to (ESPN) Alamo Bowl Detroit 2 11 0 .154 236 324 Atlantic Division was teammates with UCLA's Josh Shipp on At San Antonio West W L OT Pts GF GA Stanford? Apparently there isn't much of Payout: $2.225 million W L T Pct PF PA New Jersey 17 9 2 36 71 68 one, other than he loves the West Coast, the 2004 Fairfax High team that won the Iowa (6-6) vs. Texas (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Seattle 8 5 0 .615 281 290 N.Y. Rangers 16 10 4 36 96 91 Chick-fil-A Bowl San Francisco 5 8 0 .385 228 349 N.Y. Islanders 15 11 3 33 88 83 runs a sophisticated passing offense and California state title. At Atlanta St. Louis 5 8 0 .385 269 329 Pittsburgh 13 11 5 31 88 93 Payout: $2.825 million Arizona 4 9 0 .308 248 305 Philadelphia 8 17 4 20 71 109 went to law school in Southern California. As a senior in 2005, Boykin averaged Virginia Tech (10-2) vs. Georgia (8-4), 8 p.m. Northeast Division (ESPN) x-clinched division W L OT Pts GF GA He also makes a lot more money than 22 points and 12 rebounds for the Los ——— ——— Buffalo 22 5 2 46 121 87 Sunday, Dec. 31 Montreal 16 8 5 37 87 81 Stanford paid Walt Harris, who was Angeles city-league powerhouse. He was a MPC Computers Bowl Thursday’s Games Ottawa 15 15 1 31 105 90 At Boise, Idaho Pittsburgh 27, Cleveland 7 Toronto 13 13 5 31 95 105 believed to be making about $600,000 per third-team Parade All-America pick. Payout: $750,000 Sunday’s Games Boston 14 11 2 30 78 94 Nevada (8-4) vs. Miami (6-6), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Minnesota 30, Detroit 20 Southeast Division season. According to the Dallas Morning Boykin played in just three games for ——— Tennessee 26, Houston 20, OT W L OT Pts GF GA Monday, Jan. 1 Miami 21, New England 0 Atlanta 18 8 5 41 104 93 News, Leach has four years remaining on a Duke this season before contracting Outback Bowl Cincinnati 27, Oakland 10 Carolina 15 13 4 34 99 103 At Tampa, Fla. Philadelphia 21, Washington 19 Washington 13 10 7 33 95 105 five-year contract that guarantees him $10 mononucleosis. He totaled two points and Payout: $3 million Baltimore 20, Kansas City 10 Tampa Bay 14 14 2 30 97 95 Penn State (8-4) vs. Tennessee (9-3), 11 a.m. Atlanta 17, Tampa Bay 6 Florida 10 16 6 26 80 106 million. He also has a $500,000 buyout. 12 rebounds in 30 minutes, after playing (ESPN) Cotton Bowl N.Y. Giants 27, Carolina 13 At Dallas Jacksonville 44, Indianapolis 17 WESTERN CONFERENCE sparingly as a freshman in 2005-06. Payout: $3 million Green Bay 30, San Francisco 19 Auburn (10-2) vs. Nebraska (9-4), 11:30 a.m. Arizona 27, Seattle 21 Central Division (FOX) Capital One Bowl Buffalo 31, N.Y. Jets 13 W L OT Pts GF GA At Orlando, Fla. San Diego 48, Denver 20 Nashville 18 8 3 39 96 80 GIANTS UPDATE Payout: $4.25 million New Orleans 42, Dallas 17 Detroit 17 7 4 38 79 63 Wisconsin (11-1) vs. Arkansas (10-3), 1 p.m. Monday’s Game Chicago 11 12 5 27 71 84 (ABC) Gator Bowl Chicago 42, St. Louis 27 Columbus 10 16 2 22 69 77 At Jacksonville, Fla. Thursday, Dec. 14 St. Louis 7 17 4 18 65 100 Payout: $2.5 million San Francisco at Seattle, 5 p.m. Northwest Division Georgia Tech (9-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2), 1 Saturday’s Games W L OT Pts GF GA Bonds comes to terms p.m. (CBS) Rose Bowl Dallas at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Edmonton 16 11 2 34 81 75 At Pasadena, Calif. Sunday, Dec. 17 Minnesota 16 11 2 34 85 78 Payout: $17 million Miami at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Calgary 14 10 3 31 76 63 Southern Cal (10-2) vs. Michigan (11-1), 5 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Colorado 14 14 2 30 95 87 (ABC) Fiesta Bowl Detroit at Green Bay, 10 a.m. Vancouver 14 15 1 29 66 81 At Glendale, Ariz. Tampa Bay at Chicago, 10 a.m. Pacific Division with San Francisco, signs Payout: $17 million Jacksonville at Tennessee, 10 a.m. W L OT Pts GF GA Boise State (12-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-2), 8:30 p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 10 a.m. Anaheim 23 3 6 52 116 76 (FOX) Washington at New Orleans, 10 a.m. San Jose 22 9 0 44 94 65 By ANDREW BAGGARLY ——— Houston at New England, 10 a.m. Dallas 20 10 0 40 82 63 Tuesday, Jan. 2 Pittsburgh at Carolina, 10 a.m. Los Angeles 11 16 4 26 87 107 Mercury News Orange Bowl Denver at Arizona, 1:05 p.m. Phoenix 11 17 1 23 71 106 At Miami Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1:15 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO -- Payout: $17 million St. Louis at Oakland, 1:15 p.m. Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss Wake Forest (11-2) vs. Louisville (11-1), 8 p.m. Kansas City at San Diego, 5:15 p.m. or shootout loss. Barry Bonds agreed to re-sign (FOX) Monday, Dec. 18 with the Giants and defer ——— Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 5:30 p.m. money only after the club assured him that it would continue to pursue other high- profile free agents, his agent said Tuesday. “Because of his desire to win, the Giants made repre- sentations to Barry that they're WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! still out aggressively pursuing other frontline free agents to Nader Khouri/Contra Costa Times/ZUMA Press put a winning club on the Barry Bonds walks onto the field at the beginning of field,” Jeff Borris said. “Barry a game against the L.A. Dodgers. 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Matsuzaka to have a physical Diego Padres. most balanced team together.” NBA UPDATE: LAKERS Deal the team says is necessary Teams also faced a mid- Injured pitcher Victor before a deal could be final- night EST deadline Tuesday Zambrano was cut by the Continued from Page 7 ized. to offer 2007 contracts to Mets, who planned to contin- Boston bid $51.11 million unsigned players on their 40- ue negotiations with him. A Lamar Odom his own $6 million deal with for the right to negotiate with man rosters. right-hander acquired from the Rangers. Matsuzaka, and the money Atlanta cut ties to Marcus Tampa Bay on July 30, 2004, Gagne, like Matsuzaka, is only goes to his Japanese Giles, deciding it could no for Scott Kazmir, Zambrano sprains right represented by agent Scott club, the Seibu Lions, if he longer afford the second base- was 1-2 with a 6.75 ERA in Boras. As the midnight reaches an agreement. If he man under an ever-tightening five starts this year. He was Thursday EST deadline for doesn’t, Boston keeps the budget. Giles made $3.85 mil- hurt May 6, when he took knee during game Matsuzaka to sign money and Matsuzaka can’t lion in 2006 and likely would himself out of a game against approached, Red Sox presi- be offered to major league have commanded over $5 mil- the Atlanta Braves after strik- dent Larry Lucchino and gen- teams again until next lion for next season in arbitra- ing out Andruw Jones, and The Lakers’ star was taken to a eral manager Theo Epstein November. He is not eligible tion. He could join his older was diagnosed with a torn nearby hospital for an MRI Tuesday traveled to California and for free agency until after the brother, outfielder Brian flexor muscle. The Associated Press planned a day of talks 2008 season. Giles, on their hometown During surgery on HOUSTON — Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Tuesday with Boras at the In addition to Lofton, Padres. 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Canadian outfielder Matt manager John Schuerholz said arbitration, Colorado catcher game for another 90 seconds, but the Lakers called a time “We’re on Scott Boras’ Stairs agreed to a minor of the 2003 All-Star. “But it’s Yorvit Torrealba agreed to a out so Odom could come out with 8:31 left. doorstep because he hasn’t league contract with the a fact of the matter with the $1,075,000, one-year contract The Lakers said Odom was taken to a hospital for an negotiated with us thus far and Toronto Blue Jays and would economics of this business. 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DIRECTIONS: A. Using each "Chaos Grid" number with its letter one time, arrange the numbers with their letters for the "Order Grid" so each vertical column, horizontal row, and two diagonals each ADD to numbers inside thick lined cells. B. Some correct numbers with their letters have been put into the "Order Grid" to get you started. Also, above the "Order Grid" is a "Decoded Message" clue. C. After you have solved the "Order Grid" doing as direction "A" says, put the letters from horizontal rows, from left to right, under "Decoded Message" and make words to form the answer.

CHAOS GRID THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME 10 8 9 3 by Henri Arnold and Mike Argirion EANE 2415 Unscramble these four Jumbles, ARLN one letter to each square, 68315 to form four ordinary words. UDGT 18211 GBEY PUURS

8 24 B SUYFS 3524 GN 10 24 E 24 24 24 24 24 12/13/2006 DECODED MESSAGE: SAILEY

ANSWERS IN NEXT EDITION © 2006 Robert Barnett www.jumble.com CASTUC Answers to Previous Now arrange the circled letters Learning Challenger to form the surprise answer, as ACAPULCO & DURANGO suggested by the above cartoon.

-1 23 32 1 ACAP Answer: 27 6 0 22 ULCO (Answers tomorrow) 126235 Jumbles: CIVIL KHAKI CODGER BIKINI &DUR Yesterday’s 28 0 0 27 Answer: Recruits are always doing this at boot ANGO camp — KICKING 12/12/2006 Disgruntled wife has major anger management issues Dear Annie: I don’t know if I’m the victim or things that are causing you pain, and to stop hurt- Dear Virginia: Parents often wonder what the perpetrator, but I know what I’m doing is ing yourself and others in the process. Your hus- gifts would be most appreciated by their chil- really bad. After 33 years of a lousy marriage, I band sounds like a bully, and you sound abusive, dren’s teachers. Thanks for your wonderful sug- am in so much emotional pain that I’ve been ANNIE’S MAILBOX but you are smart enough to understand the gestions. breaking things and throwing them at my hus- By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar underlying motivations, which means you can Dear Annie: I have read with interest the let- band, as well as punching, kicking and biting out work on this. Ask your doctor to refer you to a ters about a wife’s excuses for avoiding intima- of sheer frustration. good therapist. You need help. cy. Over the years, I responded to my wife’s I am 55 years old and a size 4. In order to stay ous and controlling. Dear Annie: At Christmas, students often excuses by adjusting my behavior. Showers, that small, I have to eat fewer than 1,200 calories It would never occur to my husband to help give cute little gifts to teachers. As a teacher, I mouthwashes, freshly shaved, not too late, no a day. When I eat normally, I gain weight quick- with dinner or run an errand. He comes home would like to let parents know what gifts would lights, etc. I didn’t want a divorce. I wanted a ly -- sometimes as much as a pound a day. I’ve when he feels like it, yet expects dinner to be be truly appreciated: happy sex life with the woman I loved. been to the doctor and have been told I’m fine. waiting for him. He totally ignores me. I’m so 1. Monetary donations to help cover field trip I got counseling, which helped me see that my Of course, if I reach a size 6, my husband will unhappy, I’ve developed many health problems. costs for students who lack funds. wife could never face the reality that she had no say, “You could lose a few pounds.” I can’t leave because I don’t have a good job 2. Notebook paper, index cards, construction sex drive, which could have then led to some I do feel better thin, but I think it’s psycholog- or benefits. Most of the time, I want to die, but paper, pencils, pens and glue sticks. medical or therapeutic intervention. 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829-06 857-06 839-06 HELP 11-28,12-8,13/06 840-06 12-6,13,16/06 PUBLIC NOTICE 11-29,12-6,13/06 WANTED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER 11-29,12-6,13,20/06 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER 120 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE 841-06 ESTATE MENDOCINO CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso) ESTATE CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB ’06 24923 11-29,12-6,13,20/06 CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB ’06-24946 COUNTY SCUK ‘CVG 06-96515 CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB ’06 24939 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin- FICTITIOUS To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin- DEPARTMENT NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (Aviso Al Deman- To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may other- BUSINESS NAME gent creditors, and persons who may other- OF SOCIAL dado) JAMES THOMSEN, an individual, gent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or STATEMENT wise be interested in the will or estate, or SERVICES MARY LOU OSTER, an individual, JOHN L. wise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: EVELYN JUNE HERMAN AKA File No.: 2006-F0769 both, of: HENRY I SMITH aka HENRY Currently recruiting BERNERT, an individual, and DOES 1 TO SMITH aka HENRY IRVING SMITH both, of: ROY LEE BUTLER, aka Roy L. EVELYN J. HERMAN AKA EVELYN THE FOLLOWING for: 25, inclusive. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed Butler HERMAN PERSON(S) IS ■Office assistant III YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (Lo by: CHARLENE THOMPSON in the Superior AN AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed ■Senior Nurse (ARE) DOING BUSI- Esta Demandando El Demandante): ROB- has been filed by: THOMAS M. HERMAN Court of California, County of Mendocino. by: Roy L. Butler in the Superior Court of Case Manager NESS AS: ERT A. PALAFOX, an individual. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests and GARY F. HERMAN in the Superior Court California, County of Mendocino. ■Senior Program ELAINES NAILS You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this of California, County of Mendocino. that: CHARLENE THOMPSON be appointed Specialist AND SPA summons is served on you to file a written re- THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests THE AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE as personal representative to administer the For further 1252 Airport Park sponse at this court and have a copy served that: Roy L. Butler be appointed as personal requests that: THOMAS M. HERMAN and estate of the decedent. info go to: Blvd. #D2 on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not representative to administer the estate of the GARY F. HERMAN be appointed as personal X THE PETITION requests the decedent's will www.mss.ca.gov protect you. Your written response must be in decedent. representative to administer the estate of the Ukiah, CA 95482 and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. to: “Career proper legal form if you want the court to hear X THE PETITION requests authority to ad- decedent. Thomas Norton The will and any codicils are available for ex- Opportunities” your case. There may be a court form that minister the estate under the Independent Ad- THE PETITION requests the decedent's will 18600 Bullivant Rd. amination in the file kept by the court. Or call the you can use for your response. You can find and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. Willits, CA 95490 X THE PETITION requests authority to administration of Estates Act. (This authority will MCDSS Jobline: thse court forms and more information at the The will and any codicils are available for ex- Nicole Norton minister the estate under the Independent Ad- allow the personal representative to take 77-467-5866. All California Courts Online Self-Help Center amination in the file kept by the court. 18600 Bullivant Rd. ministration of Estates Act. (This authority will many actions without obtaining court appro- close 12/29/06 (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county THE PETITION requests authority to adminis- Willits, CA 95490 allow the personal representative to take val. Before taking certain very important ac- law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If ter the estate under the Independent Adminis- This business is con- many actions without obtaining court appro- tions, however, the personal representative ACCOUNTING you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court tration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow val. Before taking certain very important ac- MANAGER ducted by Husband clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file will be required to give notice to interested the personal representative to take many actions, however, the personal representative Under the direction of & Wife. The regis- your response on time, you may lose the persons unless they have waived notice or tions without obtaining court approval. Before will be required to give notice to interested the Fiscal Services trants commenced to case by default, and your wages, money and consented to the proposed action). The inde- taking certain very important actions, howev- persons unless they have waived notice or Director; Plans, transact business un- property may be taken without further warning pendent administration authority will be grant- er, the personal representative will be re- consented to the proposed action). The inde- organizes, develops, der the fictitious busi- from the court. ed unless an interested person files an objec- quired to give notice to interested persons un- pendent administration authority will be grant- monitors, analyzes ness name or names There are other legal requirements. You may less they have waived notice or consented to ed unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause the District budget. listed above on want to call an attorney right away. If you do the proposed action). The independent ad- tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. Desired: 5 yrs. expe- not know an attorney, you may call an attor- ministration authority will be granted unless December 1, 2006. why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on rience, 2 yrs. college. ney referral service. If you cannot afford an an interested person files an objection to the Endorsed-Filed on A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 12, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, Info. & App.: attorney, you may be eligible for free legal petition and shows good cause why the court November 27, 2006 December 22, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, located at: COURTHOUSE, 100 N. State Ukiah Unified School services from a nonprofit legal services pro- should not grant the authority. at the Mendocino located at: COURTHOUSE, 100 N. State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 District Personnel gram. You can locate these nonprofit groups A HEARING on the petition will be held on County Clerks Office. Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti- Commission at the California Legal services Web site 12/22/06, at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, located at: /s/Thomas Norton IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti- 1056 N. Bush St., (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California tion, you should appear at the hearing and COURTHOUSE, 100 N. State Street, Ukiah, THOMAS NORTON tion, you should appear at the hearing and Ukiah, CA 95482, Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtin- state your objections or file written objections CA 95482 state your objections or file written objections 463-5205. Job 843-06 fo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local with the court before the hearing. Your ap- IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti- with the court before the hearing. Your ap- description available 11-29,12-6,13,20/06 court or county bar association. pearance may be in person or by your attor- tion, you should appear at the hearing and pearance may be in person or by your attor- at: www.edjoin.org FICTITIOUS Tien 30 DIES DE CALENDARIO después state your objections or file written objections ney. ney. E.O.E. BUSINESS NAME que le entreguen esta citación y papeles le- with the court before the hearing. Your ap- IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent Closes: 12/20/06 gales para presentar una respuesta por escri- pearance may be in person or by your attor- STATEMENT creditor of the deceased, you must file your creditor of the deceased, you must file your Accounting Clerk to en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una ney. File No.: 2006-F0765 claim with the court and mail a copy to the claim with the court and mail a copy to the 2+ yrs exp. For job copia al demandante. Una carta o una llama- IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent THE FOLLOWING personal representative appointed by the personal representative appointed by the desc. & app. call da telefÓnica no la protegen. Su respuesta creditor of the deceased, you must file your PERSON(S) IS court within four months from the date of first court within four months from the date of first 707-744-1647 por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal claim with the court and mail a copy to the (ARE) DOING BUSI- issuance of letters as provided in section issuance of letters as provided in section ext.1342 or email: correcto si desea que procesan su caso en la personal representative appointed by the NESS AS: 9100 of the California Probate Code. The 9100 of the California Probate Code. The [email protected] court within four months from the date of first COAST NOTE corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que time for filing claims will not expire before four usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puada time for filing claims will not expire before four ACCOUNTING issuance of letters as provided in section SERVICES months from the hearing date noticed above. encontrar estos formularios de la court y más months from the hearing date noticed above. MANAGER 9100 of the California Probate Code. The 3900 Ocean Dr. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the informatión en el Centro de ayuda de las YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the RCHDC, a well es- time for filing claims will not expire before four Gualala, CA 95445 court. If you are a person interested in the established Non Profit months from the hearing date noticed above. cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov tate, you may file with the court a Request for court. If you are a person interested in the es- P.O. Box 1695 /selfhelp/espanol/), en la bibloteca de leyes tate, you may file with the court a Request for Housing Corp YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the Gualala, CA 95445 Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of REQUIRES: Supervi- de su condado o en la corte que la quede an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of court. If you are a person interested in the es- JOSEPH GREGORY sory and fund ac- más cerca. Si no qpeda pagar la cuota de of any petition or account as provided in Pro- an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or tate, you may file with the court a Request for OLIVER counting experience, Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of presentración, pida al sacretario de la corte bate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe- of any petition or account as provided in Pro- 3900 Ocean Dr. CA drivers license an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or que le dé cuotas. si no presenta su respuesta cial Notice form is available from the court bate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe- Gualala, CA 95445 a tiempo, puedo perder el caso por incumpli- and insurance. Sal- of any petition or account as provided in Pro- clerk. cial Notice form is available from the court This business is con- miento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, ary Range $3,762 - bate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe- ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: clerk. ducted by an Individ- dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. $4, 572 per mo. DOE cial Notice form is available from the court David E. Shell, Attorney at Law ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: Application required - ual. The registrant Hay ostros requisitos legales. Es recomedaa- 206 South Oak Street clerk. Joel S. Yachzel, Esq. SBN 073497 call 707-463-1975 ext commenced to trans- ble que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Ukiah, CA 95482 ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: 10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1400 0, or download from Law Offices of Mannon, King & Johnson act business under Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a (707) 462-1896 Los Angeles, California 90024 www.RCHDC.org P.O. Box 419 the fictitious business un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no /s/David E. Shell puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que (310) 443-8560 Apply by 12-22-06. Ukiah, CA 95482 name or names listed DAVID E. SHELL Send both application cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servi- /s/Joel S. Yachzel, Esq. 707-468-9151 above on November & resume to RCHDC /s/James F. King 22, 2006. Endorsed- dioslegales gratuitos de un programa de ser- JOEL S. YACHZEL, ESQ. vicias legales sin fines de lucro. Pueda en- 499 Leslie St. Ukiah, JAMES F. KING Filed on November contrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el CA 95482 EOE 22, 2006 at the Men- 874-06 sitio web de California Legal Services, LOST & LOST & All Shifts FT & PT docino County Clerks 12-13,17/06 (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de LOST & 30 FOUND 30 FOUND Available!!! NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT Office. Ayuda de las cortes de California., 10 NOTICES 30 FOUND No experience TRIBAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT /s/ Joseph Gregory (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/espanol/) o ADOPTIONS & Found Large needed. Higher wage REPORT Oliver poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el co- FOSTER CARE orange cat. In Red- with experience. COYOTE VALLEY BAND OF POMO JOSEPH GREGORY legio de abogados locales. True to Life Children's wood Valley West This year’s seniors INDIANS OLIVER Services seeks families. MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA The name and address of the court is: Rd. 485-7755 welcome. Full train- Reimbursement, training The Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians 858-06 (El nombre y dirección de la corte es) ing provided. Drug SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, & professional support testing required, can- (Tribe) proposes to develop a casino and ho- 12-6,13,20,/06 provided. 463-1100 I am so lost. I wan- tel to replace the existing gaming facility on FICTITIOUS COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, 100 N. State dered into someone’s nabis not tested for #236800809 I was beating the reservation lands in Mendocino County, Cali- BUSINESS NAME Street, ROOM 108, Ukiah, CA 95482 yard on Daniel Way hire. Assist disabled fornia. The site is located within the existing bushes Wed. 12/6 on STATEMENT The name, address and telephone number of in Redwood Valley. I in their home and on Coyote Valley Reservation, approximately Brush Street looking File No.: 06-F0790 plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attor- am confused and outings. Call for seven (7) miles north of the City of Ukiah, in ney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número for my owner when I interview. 485-5168 Mendocino County, adjacent to the U.S. 101 THE FOLLOWING lonely and want to de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o was picked up and bridge crossing at Forsythe Creek. The proj- cuddle next to my BANKING PERSON(S) IS brought to the Ukiah Savings Bank of ect site encompasses approximately 11 acres del demandante que no tiene abogado, es) Tickets on Sale now people. Where are (ARE) DOING BUSI- Shelter. In my kennel Mendocino County of land east of U.S. 101 and North State BRIAN S. CARTER, SBN 139456 for the UFC 66 Fight they? I am a female NESS AS: Hello I am Kate. I am there is not a bush to is accepting applica- Street; it is situated within the Redwood Val- 169 MASON STREET, SUITE 300 on Dec. 30th at 7pm young, brown Boxer NORTH COAST a 1 year old female be found and certain- tions for a full-time ley, California 7.5-minute Quadrangle: town- UKIAH, CA 95482 Liddell vs. Ortiz to be mix. I am now at the COMMERCIAL SANDBLASTING and have been at the ly I did not find my ship 16 North, Range 12 West, unmarked (707) 462-6694 played on our big Ukiah Shelter 298 LOAN section. The Tribe has prepared a Draft Tribal 1050 N. Pine St. shelter since Aug human companion DATE: (Fecha) OCTOBER 3, 2006 screen. Plant Road. Please SECRETARY. Environmental Impact Report (TEIR) for the Ukiah, CA 95482 18th! Haven’t I here. i am surround- We are looking for a /s/SHARON STONE, We also now have come by or call project consistent with the Tribal-State Gam- Noe Elias Jacinto Interm Clerk of the Court served enough time ed by other lost dogs. detail-oriented, or- ing Compact and the Tribe’s Environmental the Golden State 468-6453. ganized, self-starter 1050 N. Pine St. yet? I really would Can my people Protection Ordinance. This Draft TEIR as- /s/CHRISTY RECENDIZ, Deputy Warriors and Sharks to work in multi-task, like to go home for please come and find sesses the potential for off-reservation envi- Ukiah, CA 95482 games on satellite. deadline environ- the holidays. I am a me! I am a male ronmental impacts as a result of the casino Linda Edith Jacinto Sports Attic Pale Ale LOST Trumpet, mid- ment. MS Office and large dog with a heart Chow about 2 years spreadsheets with and hotel development. 1050 N. Pine St. only $5.00/pitch. dur- November, on MTA to match. Please old. I am at 298 Plan excellent English As part of the Tribe’s environmental review Ukiah, CA 95482 ing these games only bus, in brwn case. process this document is available for review come and meet me Road come or call and grammar skills This business is con- 707-463-1706 462-7941 required. Accurate and comment by members of the public, reg- Sell It Fast at 298 Plant Rd. or 467-6453. If not ducted by Husband typing at 50 WPM ulatory agencies, and other interested parties call Sage at found I will be up for & Wife. The regis- With required. Requires a for the following time period: December 12, 20 PERSONALS 467-6453. adoption on 12/12. minimum of two 2006 to January 26, 2007. Comments should trants commenced to FIND Ukiah Nice guy looking for years experience in be addressed to: transact business un- WHAT YOU HELP a secretarial or ad- Attn: Chairman John Feliz, Jr. der the fictitious busi- Daily a nice lady. Caucasi- NEED IN 120 WANTED ministrative position; P.O. Box 39 ness name or names an, 48-62 yrs old. Lost black Female experience and/or Redwood Valley, CA 95470-0039 Front Desk Person education in bank- listed above on mini poodle. Illinoise THE Copies of the Draft TEIR are available for re- Journal Weight 100-130 lbs. tags. Willits on Bear C pt/ft & housekeepers. ing or finance pre- December 5, 2006. view at the Mendocino County Board of Su- 530-701-3382 Canyon Rd. near Phone: 462-1514 Fax ferred. Apply in per- pervisors office, 501 Low Gap Road, Ukiah, Endorsed-Filed on Classifieds L son at 200 North Rwd V.530-798-0073 resumes: 462-1237 CA 95482, and the Ukiah Library, 105 North December 5, 2006 at A School Street, THANK YOU! Calvin Ukiah, CA by Fri- Main Street, Ukiah, CA 95482. All comments the Mendocino Coun- Lost Golden Retriev- S COOK made during the public review period will be Turnwell for returning day, December 22, ty Clerks Office. er, on 11-28, female S Senior assisted 2006 at 4:00 p.m. considered by the Tribe in determining how to bank deposit. Merry living. Apply at proceed with the proposed project.a /s/Noe Jacinto on Hwy 128 out of IFIEDS! EOE/AA m/f/v/d. NOE JACINTO Christmas!!! Cloverdale. 894-3732 1343 S. Dora St. THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 2006 -13

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP BUSINESSES APARTMENTS 4X4'S 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 215 FOR SALE 300 UNFURNISHED 460 APPLIANCES 650 FOR SALE BANKING Community Catalysts Frank R. Howard Software Nursing The Hopland Band of Net $60k working 3 USED 4x4 Toyota, 1990 Savings Bank of seeks Skills Coaches Memorial Hospital Ukiah Unified Pomo Indians is days/wk. Ukiah car- APPLIANCES Truck. Best offer Mendocino County to work in the Come join our caring Developer School Dist. accepting app’s for pet clng. biz. Quick & FURNITURE. 743-1952 PLUM HOUSE. & growing team. Part-time LVN Surveillance sale price $90k Guaranteed. 485-1216 is accepting applica- Mendocino County Chevy ‘90 PU short tions for a full-time Fun Working •RN: Med/Surg PT, Information Services Clinical Instructor for Observer. Drug test (25k under-value) 40 Hrs./ppd, days. bed. New V8 engine Electronic Banking Environment! is seeking qualified Ukiah Adult School & gaming license 707-228-9693 UKIAH •RN: ICU; FT, 64 hrs/ ANTIQUES & parts . $5,000. Working with individ- LVN Program. Cur- required. Applicants 140 Zinfandel 470 Department Utility. ppd,, nights. eqp. req. applicants. 462-2120 Provides coverage uals with develop- $3841-$4667/Mo. rent RN lic. req. must be at least 21 BUSINESS 1bd1ba. $660 ANTIQUE •PSR (Unite Secretary) Ford Bronco ‘87 within the departmental disabilities in Design and create Competitive salary years of age. app’s 250 RENTALS Hud OK. SIDEBOARD/ Contingent Runs great. Must sell ment including but their home. All posi- •RN: Med/Surg FT, software applica- offered. Contact Barb accepted through A Quiet Off. Dntn BUFFET (2) tions avail. Wage @ 707-463-5210 or dec. 26. For more $1,200 OBO not limited to: Wire Nights tions including work 359 N. 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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs Today Thu. Today Thu. TODAY and tonight’s lows. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Anaheim 72/50/s 71/49/s Napa 59/50/r 60/46/sh Antioch 56/50/r 60/46/sh Needles 70/43/s 73/44/s 59° Arroyo Grande 68/49/pc 68/44/s Oakland 58/50/r 58/49/sh Sunrise today ...... 7:23 a.m. Atascadero 67/45/pc 66/44/pc Ontario 73/46/s 70/46/s Sunset tonight ...... 4:50 p.m. Rockport 55/50 Auburn 59/48/r 61/44/sh Orange 72/49/s 71/44/s Moonrise today ...... 12:43 a.m. Barstow 64/40/s 64/41/s Oxnard 66/50/pc 66/49/s Occasional rain Moonset today ...... 12:49 p.m. Laytonville Big Sur 63/47/pc 64/46/pc Palm Springs 76/50/s 78/50/s Covelo 54/43 Bishop 59/27/pc 60/29/pc Pasadena 71/51/s 70/51/s 55/45 Blythe 70/40/s 74/41/s Pomona 74/49/s 71/42/s MOON PHASES Burbank 72/49/s 69/48/s Potter Valley 57/47/r 56/42/r TONIGHT Westport California City 63/42/s 67/42/s Redding 59/50/r 58/44/r New First Full Last 56/50 Carpinteria 64/53/pc 63/48/s Riverside 74/42/s 71/44/s Catalina 65/54/pc 64/52/s Sacramento 57/51/r 58/49/sh 52° Chico 59/49/r 60/47/sh Salinas 62/50/s 62/48/pc Fort Bragg Willows Crescent City 56/49/r 58/46/r San Bernardino 74/46/s 72/45/s Death Valley 63/39/s 65/40/s San Diego 69/53/s 64/52/s Dec. 20 Dec. 27 Jan. 3 Jan. 11 56/49 59/48 Periods of rain Downey 72/51/s 71/50/s San Fernando 70/50/pc 70/49/s Encinitas 70/49/s 67/49/s San Francisco 59/52/r 59/51/sh ALMANAC Elk Willits Escondido 74/44/s 71/45/s San Jose 61/53/pc 60/49/sh 54/44 Eureka 60/51/r 59/45/r San Luis Obispo 69/48/pc 65/48/s Ukiah through 2 p.m. Tuesday 55/51 Redwood Valley Fort Bragg 56/49/r 56/46/r San Rafael 58/53/r 58/48/sh THURSDAY 57/47 Temperature Fresno 58/47/pc 60/49/pc Santa Ana 72/51/s 69/49/s 60° High ...... 57° UKIAH Gilroy 64/48/pc 63/47/pc Santa Barbara 68/45/pc 66/45/s Low ...... 50° 59/52 Indio 75/44/s 76/43/s Santa Cruz 62/51/pc 62/48/pc 45° Normal high ...... 56° Lakeport Irvine 72/51/s 69/49/s Santa Monica 68/51/s 67/53/s Normal low ...... 36° 58/48 Hollywood 71/52/s 70/51/s Santa Rosa 59/48/r 58/45/sh Philo Record high ...... 72° in 1958 Lucerne Lake Arrowhead 67/38/s 65/30/s S. Lake Tahoe 47/31/c 50/28/sh 58/50 Boonville Lodi 58/48/r 60/47/sh Stockton 58/49/c 58/48/sh Rain Record low ...... 13° in 1932 57/51 57/47 Precipitation Lompoc 66/49/pc 65/47/s Tahoe Valley 47/34/sh 49/28/sh Long Beach 70/49/s 69/49/s Torrance 68/54/s 67/52/s 24 hrs to 2 p.m. Tue...... 0.82” Gualala Los Angeles 76/52/s 76/52/s Vacaville 57/49/r 60/49/sh FRIDAY Month to date ...... 2.31” Mammoth 46/27/pc 47/24/pc Vallejo 59/51/r 60/47/sh Normal month to date ...... 2.21” 58/54 Clearlake 59/47 Marysville 58/50/r 60/46/sh Van Nuys 73/48/pc 71/48/s 53° Season to date ...... 6.71” Modesto 58/49/c 60/47/c Visalia 54/44/pc 56/43/pc Last season to date ...... 7.69” Monrovia 72/50/s 71/49/s Willits 54/44/r 54/39/r Normal season to date ...... 10.54” Cloverdale 34° Monterey 63/48/s 64/48/pc Yosemite Valley 51/33/pc 51/29/pc 59/50 Morro Bay 67/48/pc 67/48/s Yreka 53/38/r 56/36/r Mostly cloudy with rain Forecasts and graphics provided by possible AccuWeather, Inc. ©2006 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r- rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Lake Mendocino – Lake level: 724.79 feet; Storage: 48,335 acre-feet (Maximum storage 122,500 acre-feet) Inflow: 254 cfs Outflow: 149 cfs Air quality – Ozone: .020 ppm (State standard .090 ppm) Carbon monoxide: .58 ppm (20.0 ppm) Nitrogen dioxide: .013 ppm (.25 ppm)

NOTE TO READERS: the majority of the kids here ing that coaches also allow stu- The Daily Journal is compiling a list of local organizations Phones after hours are usually coming dent athletes to use the phones Christmas collecting donations for those in need this holiday season. To from the gym facility, and that in their facilities to call parents have your organization included on the list, which will be pay phone is still in existence, and so forth. Continued from Page 2 printed Dec. 20, please contact Katie Mintz at udjkm@pacif- Continued from Page 1 just outside the gym door,” he Furthermore, Garcia said, ic.net or 468-3523 with contact information, what you are said. “We also have the influx Email to udjkcm@pacif- collecting and where donations are accepted. phone against the base, and it “60 to 70 percent of our stu- breaks the head of the phone,” of cell phones ... everyone dents have cells.” He, too, has ic.net and put “Christmas he said, yet the school is seems to have one, so we story” in the subject line.; or the flow of water down that decided to help eliminate some a cell phone and during school charged for having the pay Bring it to our offices at Lake branch is reduced, it could phones on campus. Hence, of the vandalism,” he said, not- dances lets students use it to reduce the contents of the lake when the phone company ing that one other pay phone -- call home, he said. 590 S. School St. in Ukiah at by 25,000 acre-feet of water, a The cell phone policy on the Continued from Page 1 asked the administration if it located behind the stadium -- the corner of Mill and School figure Pauli said she got from wanted to keep the pay phones, was spared as well. Ukiah High campus allows streets. PG&E. takenly diverting more water the answer, apparently, was no, Students will continue to be students to use cell phones dur- We will publish as many as than the license called for Eisenhaur said he had not at least not all of them. allowed to use the phones in ing their lunch break. from the Eel River into the heard that figure, but said the “We looked at the overall the office for rides and things Laura McCutcheon can be we can during the Christmas project. lowered diversion would rep- picture of the school and found of that nature, Garcia said, not- reached at [email protected]. season. Eisenhaur said PG&E did resent a loss on the east not know why the amount of branch of the Russian River of water diverted into the Potter 15,000 acre-feet on a below Valley Project was so high or average year and 40,000 acre- why it took two years to feet on an above-average rain- notice. fall year. One reason might be Pauli said the reduced because the last several years flows through the project have been fairly wet, so no would also harm the irrigation one noticed the missing water. that makes summer farming Also, the Potter Valley Project possible in Potter Valley as does not have real-time well as reducing the amount gauges that show how the of water available for spring dam is being operated. Such a frost protection. monitoring system won’t be Farmers use irrigation to in place until December of keep the buds of fruit trees 2007. from dying in an early frost. Eisenhaur said PG&E will Pauli said a lack of frost pro- be meeting with the National tection could virtually wipe Oceanographic and out the crop. Atmospheric Association and “It’s not a huge volume of the United States Fish and water, but it’s critical in tim- Wildlife Department soon to ing,” she said. determine what effect chang- PG&E representatives will ing the diversion would have. be meeting with the water Pauli said she knows what commission and members of the effect will be. the community at 7 p.m. The east branch of the Thursday at the Ukiah City Russian River is the major Council Chambers. source of water for Lake Ben Brown can be reached at Mendocino. Pauli said that, if [email protected].

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