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Giants say ‘So Your health: FORUM long’ to Alou Ask Dr. Gott Voters beware .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy and cool 7 58551 69301 0 TUESDAY Oct. 3, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 177 email: [email protected] Hunter shot at near illegal pot garden By BEN BROWN hunter was shot at after he told Forest Service officers he County discovered a PVC of the National Forest and can a very popular hunting loca- The Daily Journal stumbled on a marijuana gar- was confronted by four men waterline, commonly used for stumble upon illegal marijua- tion,” Contreras said. Mendocino National Forest den. who pointed rifles in his direc- watering illegal marijuana na grows which are some- With as much as a month Supervisor Thomas Contreras The man was hunting deer tion and began firing. gardens, and reported it to law times tended by armed guards. left in harvest season law is encouraging hunters and near Telephone Camp on The man escaped without enforcement, according to “This is a particular con- enforcement officials working other recreators to avoid the Pinto Ridge, Saturday, when injury. Forest Service reports. cern now since deer hunting with local sheriff’s offices and area around Pinto and he wandered into the edge of a A second hunter on nearby Hunters often spend their season is underway and the Honkey-Pokey ridge after a marijuana garden. The hunter Hokey-Pokey Ridge in Glenn time in the more remote areas Mendocino National Forest is See HUNTER, Page 16 UKIAH HIGH HOMECOMING WEEK Man killed in ATV accident cers that the victim had left a Lays injured family gathering on the ATV until found by in search of cell-phone service so he could make a call. The friends but dies nearest service was on before rescue Registered Guest Road. After he had been gone for The Daily Journal more than an hour, the vic- A 49-year-old Hoopa man tim’s friends became worried died in an all terrain vehicle and went looking for him. The accident Saturday on victim was found at the bot- Registered Guest Road, near tom of a steep ravine with the Spyrock Road in Laytonville. ATV lying on top of his lower According to reports from half. the California Highway It appears that the man Patrol, the man, whose name failed to negotiate a turn and was not being released, was drove off the edge of the road found pinned under a 2000 and into the ravine. Honda Recon ATV at 9:30 The cause of the crash is p.m. Saturday. He does not appear to have been wearing a under investigation and a pre- helmet. liminary investigation indi- The victim was alive and in cates that alcohol might have obvious pain when witnesses been a factor, according to James Arens/The Daily Journal CHP reports. From left, Spirit Commissioners Josh Cooper, Hayley Milovina and Jessica Kim all give a small arrived, but soon after the man stopped breathing. Witnesses The body was transferred speech to the students that showed up at the first lunchtime rally this week to explain what will be to the Anker-Lucier Mortuary, going on during Homecoming Week. performed CPR, but the man succumbed to his injuries and the Mendocino County died at scene. Sheriff’s Office is conducting Witnesses told CHP offi- a Coroner’s investigation. Students in charge Nobel fire contained The Daily Journal Highway 101 and the fire, by Take on planning The Nobel fire, which has the Bureau of Land been burning in heavy timber- Management was lifted at 5 of a major event land east of Piercy, was 100 p.m. Sunday By JAMES ARENS percent contained Saturday The Mendocino County The Daily Journal morning. unit of the California Imagine organizing a huge week-long activity The fire, which started on Department of Forestry and where you and a couple of people are in charge of Sept. 24 in an inaccessible Fire Protection fought this over 1,900 rowdy teenagers, that are screaming, location off of Red Mountain fire, managed by CDF yelling and running around. Road, spread to 1014 acres Incident Command Team Sounds overwhelming doesn’t it? before it was contained. Three. At it’s peak, there were Well, Josh Cooper, Hayley Milovina and Jessica There was some difficulty 1,400 personnel assigned to Kim are the Spirit Commissioners in charge of in fighting the fire because it fight the fire. Homecoming Week at Ukiah High School and they was burning in a remote area The total cost of fighting were chosen because of exactly what their title with steep hills and heavy the fire had reached $6.8 mil- states ... spirit. timber. lion as of Sunday. The cause “We do homecoming,” said Senior Spirit The closure of Red of the fire is still under inves- Commissioner Josh Cooper. “We have been doing Mountain Road, between tigation. this since the first day of school started.” The Spirit Commissioners are students that orga- nize the activities throughout Homecoming week. They help students and classes understand what the Coast municipal rules and regulations are for the week, what to do and where to do it. councils inch forward “We put leadership classes into committees,” said Senior Spirit Commissioner Jessica Kim. By CONNIE KORBEL and member of the Little Mendocino Beacon River Airport Advisory See HOMECOMING, Page 7 “There are obviously tons Committee, has made it his English teacher and sophomore adviser of things (for municipal advi- mission to see several coast Brad McClanahan jumps for joy after eating sory councils) to do,” Trey municipal advisory councils a string of doughnuts, most of which fell on Loy reported Pamela for land use planning and his face. Townsend, county planning development get off the department, told him. ground. Loy, a Little River resident See COUNCILS, Page 16 Berg releases blueprint for state’s aging population By LAURA MCCUTCHEON various representatives -- from, lation surge. The children of World matter of months, but the surge of the state level “to put an end to the frag- The Daily Journal among other agencies, the local War II. ... The Baby Boom will soon elderly will last for decades. mentation, confusion and waste.” “It wasn’t that long ago that Department of Social Services, be the retirement boom. And then the There are now 3.2 million people The report also calls for the California was leading the nation in North Coast Opportunities, the aging boom. And all those booms over the age of 65 in California, she recruitment and retention of a work innovative policy and programs for Senior Center, and the Area Agency may lead to a bust in California’s said. In the next 15 years that number force that’s able to serve an aging older adults. However, we’ve fallen on Aging -- about the challenges of pell-mell system of aging services,” will double, according to Berg. And population, Berg said. “We already behind,” Assemblywoman Patty the graying population. she said. “Let me tell you, this aging by 2050, it is expected to triple to have a shortage of geriatricians, Berg said Monday during a visit to “Building an Aging Agenda for boom may very well put so much nearly 11 million seniors, she said. nurses, and social workers -- it’s only Ukiah. the 21st Century” is the name of the strain on our state’s resources that “The sad truth is, we’re hardly going to get worse if we fail to act “We’ve been complacent, we’ve 26-page report, released last week, the energy crisis could seem like the meeting the needs of our existing 3.2 now.” been hit by unbelievable budget which Berg referred to as a road map good old days. We may one day find million,” she said. Recommendations regarding uni- shortfalls, and we’ve been compet- for the nation’s aging baby boomers ourselves looking at rolling black- Hence, the Aging Agenda for the versal health care, nursing homes, ing with other priorities,” Berg con- (those born between 1946 and 1964). outs in social services,” she said, not- 21st Century, which calls for coordi- tinued, as she spoke to a group of “This is America’s greatest popu- ing, the energy crisis peaked in just a nated programs and services at the See AGING, Page 16 2 – TUESDAY, OCT. 3, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ [\ sadena, California. In 1975 Chester is survived by her family moved his wife of 52 years to Ukiah, California where Joyce Thornquist of Ukiah, Milk-truck driver Rice can’t recall Julie graduated daughters Linda opens fire being warned from Ukiah High School in Thornquist-Stumpf of Fort 1984. She went on Bragg, Ca. Kristin NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) SHANNON, Ireland (AP) to earn a Bachelor of Arts Thornquist of Santa Clara, — A milk-truck driver carry- — Secretary of State in Liberal Studies Ca. son Richard ing two guns and a grudge Condoleezza Rice said she at Chico State University in CHESTER Mehtlan of Ukiah, grand- stormed a one-room Amish cannot recall then-CIA chief 1988. in 1989 she ELWIN THORNQUIST children Christopher schoolhouse Monday, sent the George Tenet warning her of married David Richard Chester Elwin M. Keiffer of Ukiah, boys and adults outside, barri- an impending al-Qaida attack and soon following, Thornquist, 78, of Ukiah Sherlynn and Steven caded the doors with two-by- in the United States, as a new the couple dedicated their passed away at his home on Mehtlan of Ukiah, Lauren fours, and then opened fire on book claims he did two lives to loving and Sunday, Sep- Thornquist-Stumpf a dozen girls, killing three of months before the attacks on following Jesus Christ.