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Community RELIGION sports digest Saturday Faith community news ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 Dec. 20, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Rain H 52º L 43º 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Cloudy, may rain; H 48º L 33º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 12 pages, Volume 150 Number 255 email: [email protected] UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL HOLIDAY Local FOOD BANK FUND DRIVE Making a list businesses Donations at holding Ukiah High Leadership class adopts 27 families for Christmas their own $54,521.72 By ZACK CINEK The Daily Journal The Daily Journal The Ukiah Daily Journal Holiday Food What looks to be a slow Bank Fund Drive is continuing. Donations year on the books has so far recorded on Wednesday, Dec. 17 include: yielded a mildly subdued yet Hawkes Construction, $500; Dr. Stephen upbeat Christmas shopping and Lisabeth Pasternak, $500; Leonard and season for some Ukiah busi- Joanne LaCasse, $500; In Memory of Maria nesses. I. Hernandez, $400; Tom and J. Durga On Friday afternoon, local Fuller, $150; John and Jane Widler, $100; business owners said they Thomas and Martha Kilkenny, $100; Cathy anticipated a healthy final and David Frey, $100; Connie and Stephen week of shopping before Dec. Oberlatz, $100; John and Juanona Todd, 25, traditionally one of the $100; Susan Kerr, $50; Christine Feller, $50; best weeks for stores. Sandy O’Ferrall, $50; Borges Transfer It is not doom and gloom, Service, $50; Valerie Warda, $50; David Ann Kilkenny, Mendocino Dickey and Pamela Rones, $50; Allyn and Book Company owner said. Elizabeth Thompson, $50; Carol and Charlie “We are OK,” Kilkenny said, Stump, $50; Inez Cake, $30; Mr. and Mrs. although sales are “not as Roy D. Tingley, $25; Anonymous, $25; In much as other years.” Honor of Yoli and Eagle Rose, $25; Bob and The Ukiah Main Street Lila Milender, $20; Anonymous, $20; Eddie Program works to facilitate Bollig, $20; Kevin Leonard, $20; Gary and prosperity for businesses Jane Leonard, $20, totaling $3,155 for the spanning from Gobbi to day. Norton and Main to Oak The donations for Thursday, Dec. 18 streets. include: Ukiah Sons of Italy Lodge, number “I see a lot of people walk- 2104, $400; Boilermakers Union and Black ing around shops,” Joy Beeler of the Ukiah Main Street pro- Rock Rangers, $300; Duane Wells, $100; gram said. Moir’s, $100; Eileen Mitro and Joel Levine, Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal Shoefly & Sox is a store $100; Andy Coren, M.D., $100; Lee and Pat Leadership class members (from left) Jane Khoury, Ashley Lower and Hillary Ruddick, all looking to the week before Enemark, $50; Marian and Bill Thormahlen, seniors at Ukiah High, display some of the items they and their classmates purchased to Christmas and the unknown $50; Tim O’Brien, $50; Jim and Bonnie brighten the Christmases of 27 local families.The gifts will be donated to the Ukiah Christmas of January 2009. Dougherty, $50; Ronald and Anne Barnes, Effort, which will make sure they reach their intended recipients. “We have had a really good $50; Blanche Clary, $50; Dennis and Celia season since Thanksgiving,” Huey, $50; Lois Cook In Memory of Betty By CAROLE BRODSKY Shannon Riley of Shoefly and Thompson, $50; Ted and Jessica Kimball, for The Daily Journal Sox said. Riley said it will be $50; Gina Campbell and Billy Jamison, $50; interesting to see how the sea- Selima Shapiro, $50; Byron and Eulene or the past 15 years, the son pans out. Bishop, $50; Shoshanah Devorah, $36; Ukiah High School She said she sees some Anonymous, $25; Steve and Carol Park, Leadership class has changes in the habits of shop- $25, totaling $1,786 for the day. been the moving force pers. Shoefly and Sox now The Fund Drive total now stands at behind a unique way to has 20 pairs of boots on lay- $54,521.72. This year, the goal is once again Fhelp local families celebrate the away, Riley said, something $85,000. holidays. the store has never had Donations can be made by sending checks When Leadership instructor before. She said more people or money orders (made out to the UCC Food Bob Dieffenbach came to Ukiah, also ask about return policies. Bank) to UDJ Food Bank Fund Drive, Ukiah he wanted to encourage his Community Center, 888 N. State St., Ukiah students to experience the real- See BUSINESS, Page 12 CA 95482. time joys of holiday giving. He recognized the need for a system that would streamline the efforts Main street says: of organizations that donate toys, From a survey of 261 Main Ukiah man jailed volunteers and money for those Street groups by Washington who need it the most. D.C.-based National Trust in alleged road rage The Leadership students work Main Street Center. in tandem with the Ukiah Seniors Zachary Hedges, left, and Caleb Broschat count change that was collected by one of the classrooms at Ukiah 33 percent-have lower in Lake County Christmas Effort, collecting cash sales from last year at and gift items from participating High to help raise money to purchase toys and other items The Daily Journal requested by the selected families. time of survey. Ukiah High clubs and classrooms. 27 percent-development A 36-year-old Ukiah man was arrested and Each class adopts an anonymous later released from jail after he allegedly fired per month. meal. projects have stalled. family provided to them by the 24 percent-one or more a .22 revolver into the sky during a bout of road Christmas Effort. The number of The classrooms collect cash Dieffenbach feels that this rage in Lake County about 2:30 p.m. donations from students, and the approach engages students in a stores have closed. family members, ages of the 21 percent-no significant Wednesday. children and other information is money is used by the Leadership deeper way. “When the students That afternoon, the CHP received a cell class to purchase toys and other adopt a family, they feel a sense business closings, sales collected though application reductions or major phone call reporting shots had been fired dur- forms distributed by the Ukiah items requested by the selected of ownership. They know their ing what was reported as road rage near Clear families. Along with the gifts, first names, their ages and their development stoppage. Unified School District. To 9 percent-no new business- Lake Oaks, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office qualify, eligible families must families receive a turkey or ham gender.” The application process stated. from the Christmas Effort and a es. meet income guidelines. One 7 percent-thriving local Sukhbir Singh, 36, of Ukiah, was booked family of four is living on $2,700 grocery gift card for their holiday See LEADERSHIP, Page 12 into Lake County Jail on suspicion of negligent economy. discharge of a firearm and brandishing a firearm, the Lake County Sheriff’s Department stated. According to the report, a Clear Lake Oaks man, 47-year-old Bruce Hutchins, made TOP 5 ONLINE the call to the Highway Patrol and said the sus- Boxer report shows realities of recession pect was driving a black Lexus car. When The Daily Journal Singh was arrested, Hutchins later confirmed At a press conference in Culver Boxer findings on Mendocino County that he was the suspect. City Thursday, U.S. Sen. Barbara Hutchins told Lake County deputies he was Boxer (D-CA) released her report Population: 90,163 many circumstances, such as bud- heading west from the parking lot of the Clear detailing the impact of the nation’s Unemployment rate: 6.6 per- get cuts at the state level. To Thursday Lake Oaks Post Office when Singh began to recession on California’s counties cent address budget shortfalls, tailgate him. Both men then exchanged ges- and cities. Foreclosure filings Jan.-Nov. Mendocino County may take sev- 1. Pot raids net 14 arrests tures with their fingers. The report, which was based on 2008: 426 (1 per every 91 house- eral measures, including: possible 2. County workers looking at Then, according to what Hutchins said, interviews Boxer and her staff had holds) furloughs for county employees; Singh passed Hutchins and began to weave with officials in 20 cities and all 58 Mendocino County currently cutting employee benefits for time off without pay back and forth in front of him. Next Singh counties, paints a has a balanced budget, though 3. Marine walking across U.S. pulled off the highway and opened the trunk of stark picture of future budgets will depend on See COUNTY, Page 12 his car as Hutchins drove by him, Hutchins the economic reaches Mendocino said. Singh passed Hutchins a second time and strains felt across pulled over to the edge of the road. Then Singh California. The recession on social services and non- Budget deficits and revenue County allegedly pointed a handgun into the air, firing detailed analysis governmental, charitable organiza- reductions have forced counties and 4. Cold snap: near-record one shot. At this time, Hutchins continued west includes unem- tions. cities to make cuts in many impor- on Highway 20, called 911, and said Singh ployment figures, “This report is a reality check on tant programs, including public safe- lows forecast could be seen traveling on the road behind him. home foreclosure the economy,” Boxer said. “Things ty programs, Medi-Cal services, 5. Bill introduced to remove In Upper Lake, Singh was arrested and then rates, budget are not good, but change is coming. mental heath services, Meals on released from Lake County jail when he paid deficits, and first- I am going to focus like a laser beam Wheels, and youth and senior cen- Clear Lake levee his bail of $10,000 that evening.