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Community Forum sports digest Ask Dr. Gott Our readers write .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Windy with rain 7 58551 69301 0 TUESDAY Feb. 20, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 317 email: [email protected] Municipal service review to be 101st Colonial Tea discussed at next City Council meeting The Daily Journal and working to ensure that On Wednesday, the Ukiah high quality public services City Council will receive a are provided to all status report on the prepara- Californians in the most effi- cient and effective manner,” tion of the city’s municipal according to the preliminary service review, a prerequisite draft MSR. to amending the city’s sphere Each LAFCO is comprised of influence and any future of two city council members, annexations. two county supervisor mem- The nearly 100-page pre- bers, two special district liminary draft MSR up for members and one public discussion reports on services member, and is required to provided by the city’s depart- update the each of its jurisdic- ments, including parks and tions’ spheres of influence recreation, law enforcement every five years, for which it and dispatch, community needs an MSR. planning and development, Ukiah’s current sphere of roads and circulation, water, influence -- defined by solid waste disposal and elec- California government code tric, among others. as “a plan for the probable According to the docu- physical boundaries and ser- ment, an MSR is a “compre- vice area of a local agency” -- hensive study designed to bet- covers nearly all of the valley, ter inform Local Agency running ridgetop to ridgetop Formation Commission, local and Highway 20 to Burke Hill agencies and the community Road. It was approved by the about the provision of munic- city and ratified by LAFCO in Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal ipal service.” 1982. Above, Margaret Sweeley, left, and Mary Farney sit with the quilt they made as they converse about it. Legislation passed in 1963 In 1995, a proposed sphere Farney used a Swinger sewing machine from 1942 to sew the quilt which will be raffled off at this year’s requires each of California’s would have reduced the cur- Colonial Tea at the First Presbyterian Church this Saturday. Below, the blocks of the quilt, which date counties to have a LAFCO, rent sphere from 60 square back to the 1930’s, were made by Mrs. Edith Elsbree The completed quilt will be raffled tea. which is responsible for “pro- miles to approximately 10 moting orderly growth and square miles, but was never development, preserving the adopted. Now, in conjunction Hand-crafted state’s finite open space and quilt to be agricultural land resources, See MSR, Page 2 auctioned off Chapman tells during this year’s Colonial Tea Brooktrails audience By LAURA MCCUTCHEON The Daily Journal how it’s going to be It’s tea time, well almost. By Mike A’Dair Saturday, ladies will again put on The Willits News their finest colonial dresses to serve BROOKTRAILS -- Brooktrails General Manager Mike an estimated 200-plus guests tea, of Chapman outlined the parameters of the township’s water- course, and sandwiches, coffee and rationing program to an audience of about 30 residents last cookies at the 101st Colonial Tea week. And although the audience occasionally grumbled, no celebration. one screamed bloody murder, and one Brooktrails resident said The Colonial Tea was created over everybody in Brooktrails supported the project. a hundred years ago by the women of “Everybody is behind this thing,” said Dan Hutchinson, who the First Presbyterian Church who described himself as a Brooktrails resident with seven people felt the need for some social activity living in his household. “I don’t know anybody who doesn’t that would give pleasure to their think this is a good idea.” friends, as well as themselves. But he added, “It’s gonna be tough. I’ve been trying real hard The afternoon tea developed into a (to get my household’s water use down to 5,000 gallons) and patriotic party on Washington’s we haven’t even come close. I just hope my house sells.” birthday. Over the years the tea has The main point of interest to the audience was the question grown. Ladies of the church have of what a 5,000 gallon a month per household water-rationing added cooked foods and fancy work limitation is going to mean. Chapman noted almost two-thirds of Brooktrails’ households currently are using less than 5,000 for sale and various other things, gallons a month, so concluded cutting back is an attainable such as this year’s quilt -- to be raf- goal. But, he emphasized, it’s winter. During a typical summer, fled off at the event --made with water use goes up to 8,000 or 9,000 gallons a month on average blocks from the early 1930s. and that will not be permitted during the rationing period, slat- Ukiah resident Margaret Sweeley ed to extend from August 1 until the rains come. donated the blocks for the quilt, and That means people are not going to be able to water outside Mary Farney pieced them together. plants or gardens, at least, not in the usual manner. However, “They’re my blocks,” Sweeley board Chairman George Skezas emphasized Brooktrails per- explained of the squares depicting sonnel will not be prowling around to see if water-users are multiple colored baskets, set in a watering flowers or trees. “You have an allocation. How you pink and green checkered back- use it is up to you.” ground. Chapman told the public some of the programs Brooktrails “And I got the sewing machine,” had put in place, or is considering putting in place to ease the Farney said, as the two women con- pain of water-rationing, not going to happen. For example, he versed over the quilt, or more pre- noted Brooktrails had passed a resolution that allowing tempo- cisely, the coverlet, which fits a dou- rary pads to be built near homes so water tanks can be installed. ble bed. she was 6-years-old. Her most recent The 101st Colonial Tea will be But Chapman said he had researched that option, and because “I was looking through an old -- the one for the Colonial Tea using held Saturday at the First of various regulations imposed by the state installing temporary trunk that belonged to Mrs. (Edith) Elsbree’s blocks -- took her about a Presbyterian Church, 514 West large water tanks probably would be prohibitively expensive. “I Elsbree,” Sweeley said, noting she month, she said, noting she did not Church Street, Ukiah. Doors open at was going to try to do that in my own house,” he said. “But it was a longtime friend of the family. sew the coverlet by hand, but on her 1:30 p.m. and the musical program was too much.” “These (blocks) were there. I had 1942 sewing machine. begins at 2 p.m. Skezas said Brooktrails already allows residents to store up “One day she said, ‘I have to have Tickets cost $8 and can be pur- to 250 gallons in a tank without requiring a permit. (And there them for quite awhile and then we is no limit on how much water can be stored by other means, needed to have a special fund-raiser a project’ and the Lord walked in chased in advance by calling such as 55-gallon barrels.) Tony Orth recommended perhaps in for the Colonial Tea ...” she said. with this quilt and we needed some- Myrinda Head at 463-2862. jest that residents consider filling up 1,000 one-gallon milk jugs Farney, 93, said she starting thing for the Colonial Tea,” Sweeley Tickets may also be available at with water. sewing on quilts about 80 years ago. said, when asked why Farney was the door, but there’s no guarantee as And it looks like the “water bank” idea has gone by the “I used to make quilts for my dolls the one to put the quilt together. they are selling fast. boards. This would have permitted people who used less than when I was a girl,” she said, noting “And it was raining and I had to Laura McCutcheon can be reached at their monthly allotment to assign their “unused water” to some- she made her first quilt by the time stay home ... ” Farney said. [email protected]. See BROOKTRAILS, Page 16 2 – TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Richard Rosier, 468-3520 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] car and collided head-on ing been arrested may contact the POLICE REPORTS Daily Journal once their case has with a pick up truck. been concluded so the results can be The world briefly reported. Those who feel the informa- The following were According to the tion is in error should contact the compiled from reports California Highway Patrol, appropriate agency. 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