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Community Weekend COMMOTION sports digest entertainment Special section .......................................Inside ..........Page A-8 ............Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Cloudy with occasional rain 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY March 30, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 40 pages, Volume 147 Number 355 email: [email protected] BROWN-FORMAN SHUTTING DOWN FETZER TASTING ROOM, HOSPITALITY CENTER HORSE ABUSE CASE DeNoyer Valley Oaks to close pleads innocent Appeals court overturns judge’s ruling barring publication of exhibits from pretrial hearing The Daily Journal Fort Bragg resident James DeNoyer pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the Mendocino County courthouse in Ukiah, during his arraignment on charges of animal abuse. DeNoyer waived his right to a trial within 60 days of arraign- ment. His attorney, Donald Lipmanson, said he believed the trial would take between two and three weeks to complete. DeNoyer is on trial for 36 counts of felony animal abuse in connection with Animal Control raids on two pieces of property in December 2005. According to the testimony of veterinarian Paul Michelsen, See HORSE, Page A-12 SHERIFF’S OFFICE Officers hired for Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Fetzer Vineyards announced the closure of the Valley Oaks Hospitality site in Hopland on Wednesday. Brown-Forman Wines will jail, patrol continue to farm grapes at the site, although the tasting room along with the marketplace, inn and gift shop are being closed. By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Three new officers have been hired by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office. The two correc- Fetzer to focus on marketing tions officers and one deputy sheriff were sworn in at 8:30 were part-time or on-call employ- a.m. Monday with friends and 76 employees ees. family in attendance. Brown-Forman will continue to Joshua Van Fleet and Thomas lose their jobs farm grapes on the 105 acres of Davis have been hired as depu- vineyards, which produce an esti- Former owners not ties in the corrections depart- By SETH FREEDLAND mated 3 million cases of Fetzer ment. Both men are already The Daily Journal wine per year, but the ranch -- assigned to work in the county Once home to some of the which saw about 60,000 visitors per surprised by decision jail, guarding inmates and some- largest wine-tasting crowds in year -- will no longer be open to the times aiding in their transporta- Mendocino County, the Fetzer public. ‘It’s a sign of the times,’ well spent for Brown-Forman to tion. Raymond Henry was hired Vineyards corporate parent shut- On Fetzer’s campus, tearful one Fetzer brother says keep Valley Oaks,” John Fetzer, the on as a deputy sheriff and will be tered the tasting room and hospital- faces broke the news to friends and oldest of 11 Fetzer children, said working as a patrol officer. ity center on Wednesday in order to family via cellphone in between By LAURA CLARK Wednesday. Staffing has long been a prob- “I think it’s a sign of the times. redirect marketing resources in the exchanging hugs of sorrow and The Daily Journal lem at the Sheriff’s Office. A hyper-competitive wine industry. farewell. Once a final inventory is Anytime you have a business grow- grand jury report from April The closure of Valley Oaks ing as fast as the whole wine thing I During an early-morning meet- completed, these workers -- some Hospitality Center in Hopland does- 2005 found that the office was of whom have worked at Fetzer for think you have a lot of changes, and operating with 68 officers, the ing many described as emotional, n’t come as a surprise to two of the I think change is good. ... It kind of Brown-Forman Wines officials told decades -- will be unemployed, facility’s founders. same level of staffing it had in with May 29 serving as the inn’s spurs excitement. It’s sad to see it the 1970s. staffers the Valley Oaks Hospitality “I am not surprised. I think these go, but that’s life and it breeds other site in Hopland would close. A total official stop-date. Brown-Forman “Naturally when we have will provide all employees with kinds of companies are always excitement in the future. open positions it puts pressure of 76 employees received pink growing and looking for new oppor- “Brown-Forman is a company slips, including 28 full-time work- job-transition training. on the rest of the staff,” interim tunities. Fetzer is such a large brand; that is doing super well. Any compa- Sheriff Kevin Broin said. ers of the tasting room, inn and it’s almost like Budweiser. marketplace/gift shop. The rest See FETZER, Page A-12 Basically, I don’t think it’s money See REACTION, Page A-12 See OFFICERS, Page A-12 ‘Running Bare’ sign exposes plumber’s humor By FRANK HARTZELL Road and became the object of con- Bare” nudist condos were coming 555 is not a working number. The “I never even tried to dial it. I did- Fort Bragg Advocate-News stant curiosity about his land, espe- soon. prefix 555 is often used on TV shows n’t think 555 numbers were working cially when he started doing a bit of “The sign is what gets people. It for that reason, he mentioned. numbers,” he said. FORT BRAGG – A sign advertis- cleanup. looks authentic,” Smith said. While this is true for regular area The recorded “operator” on the ing “nudist condos coming soon” on “Everybody wanted to know what The sign included the double- codes like 707, it is not true for 800 sex line tries to extract a credit card Boice Lane was intended as a joke I was going to do with the property,” entendre name and a heart logo that numbers. The number Smith thought number from the caller and the ser- by the property owner, but like many he said. looks like expensive advertising, not he made up as a joke is actually a real vice clearly has nothing to do with pranks the joke came back down the Smith decided to befuddle those a joke. He even came up with a fake number connected to a recorded sex social nudity. pipe at Cas Smith. intent on prying into his business, he 800 number, that included the prefix talk line. Smith said he has had other unex- Smith purchased 48 acres on the said. He paid $500 to prepare a sign 555. Smith believed that any number Smith admitted that now the joke corner of Boice Lane and Old Trail advertising the notion that “Running where the area code is followed by was on him. See BARE, Page A-12 A-2 – THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] said the United States is looking for ways to get southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing an humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, but “we American and a Canadian soldier and sparking FUNERAL The world briefly are not going to provide funds to a terrorist organi- fierce U.S.-led retaliation that left 32 insurgents dead NOTICES zation. And we are not going to provide U.S. funds in the bloodiest fighting in months. to a Hamas-led government.” The attack came a day after at least 10 people With Hamas now at the helm, the Palestinian gov- were killed in two separate roadside bombings and [\ Another attack on a Baghdad ernment faces a crippling international economic reflected a growing intensity of militant assaults EDWARD VANDEUTEKOM business; politicians nix meeting boycott, and may run into immediate difficulties after the Taliban warned of a renewed offensive this Edward VanDeutekom next week when March salaries are to be paid for year. died Monday, March 20, BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — For the third time in as some 140,000 government employees. “Over the last five or six weeks there have been 2006 at his home in many days, gunmen stormed a Baghdad business The Palestinian Authority gets a large part of its various proven attacks mainly at night by the Taliban Modesto. Ed was born Wednesday, this time lining 14 employees against approximately $1.9 billion annual budget from over- on that base, but I think it is fair to say this is the July 21, 1969 in San Jose. the wall and shooting them all. Eight were killed, seas sources. Without money from the Arab world, largest we have seen thus far,” British spokesman He and his family moved and at least 26 others were reported dead in violence Europe and the United States, a Hamas-led govern- Col. Chris Vernon told reporters in Kandahar. to Ukiah in 1994 where he elsewhere. ment would be nearly broke. The battle began hours after Taliban insurgents worked at Masonite until Politicians working to form a new government, ambushed an Afghan supply convoy as it returned to it closed. They then meanwhile, canceled their multiparty talks for the Liberia’s Charles Taylor behind the remote forward operating base late Tuesday, moved to Merced. Ed day, saying they needed time to consult with their killing eight Afghan soldiers, Vernon said. leaves behind his ex-wife, political blocs over the critical issue of what powers bars at Sierra Leone tribunal Jennifer Blocher, and his the next prime minister would have over security two daughters, Melissa issues. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A handcuffed Thousands gather in temple of Charles Taylor was flown to Sierra Leone and Genevieve (Minnie) It was the second time this week political leaders sun god to witness global eclipse VanDeutekom.