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Community Next Step Forum sports digest Financial advice Our readers write .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy with showers 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY May 2, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 149 Number 23 email: [email protected] Man dies in single Protesters out in full force vehicle accident By BEN BROWN to rest upside down in the The Daily Journal creek. The exact time of the UPDATE - The Mendocino accident remains unknown, County Coroner’s Office has the truck sat in the creek identified the 37-year-old man overnight until it was noticed who died in a traffic accident by a passer by who reported it on Redemeyer Road Friday to CHP at 7:29 a.m. Saturday. night as Paul Jason Rosales of The cause of the accident is Nice, Calif. not known. Tafel said CHP Sgt. Dave Tafel said, Saturday that alcohol could Saturday, that Rosales have been a factor as there appeared to have been south- were several empty beer-cans bound on Redemeyer Road in the back of the truck when he drove his Ford F-350 CHP Officer Robert Simas off the road for unknown rea- said officers are still awaiting sons and overturned in a a toxicology report from the creek. near El Dorado Estates. coroners office. The truck crashed through Ben Brown can be reached at a wooden guardrail and came [email protected] 16-year-old suspected arsonist arrested Friday The Daily Journal A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of arson after Photo submitted by Jesus Ayala he allegedly started a fire in the corner of Rays Food Place on Over 150 people lined South State Street Tuesday morning, protesting immigration laws. Main Street in Willits Friday afternoon. By LAURA MCCUTCHEON According to reports from the Willits Police Department, firefighters from the Willits Little Lake Fire Department were The Daily Journal Some 150-plus protesters -- about called to 1718 Main Street on reports of a fire.in one corner of a third of them high school students, the store. and a few much younger than that -- The fire was out when firefighters arrived, having been con- on Tuesday lined South State Street tained and extinguished by 22-year-old store employee Robert to support the millions of illegal Swoboda. The damage was minimal, due to the fast actions of immigrants nationwide seeking a Swoboda, according to police reports. path to citizenship. WPD officers reviewed surveillance tape and questioned Loud cheering, noisemakers and witnesses before settling on the 16-year-old boy as their sus- motorists sounding their horns could pect. be heard blocks away from the Officers questioned the boy and he admitted to having start- demonstration, which originated in ed the fire, according to police reports. front of the Alex Thomas Plaza. The boys name is not being released because he is a minor. Later in the day, protesters paraded Upon further investigation, officers determined that the boy down South State Street to Airport was allegedly responsible for several other fires n the area start- Park Boulevard and then back again. ing in January of 2007, according to police reports. Many marchers carried Mexican The boy was arrested and booked into Mendocino County flags; others held signs reading -- Juvenile Hall. No injuries were sustained in this fire or in the among other things -- “Liberty for previous fires, according to police reports. all,” “Justice,” “Legalization,” “No Anyone with more information about this case, or about border,” and “Strike.” other incidents involving unexplained fires, is encouraged to Asked why she was there, Ukiah contact WPD Officer McNelly at 459-6122. resident, Richelle Magana, said: “Because my husband is an illegal and they deported him and now me Self-Help Legal Access and my children are left here. It’s been a couple of years now. I’m working and CPS says I need to be at Center opens in Ukiah home with my kids ’cause they need By KATIE MINTZ speaks Spanish, cannot give supervision. ... I have a boyfriend The Daily Journal legal advice, nor assist on now who is illegal as well. He is Within minutes of opening criminal, immigration or working in the grape fields and he is Photo by Richard Rosier its doors Tuesday, Mendocino bankruptcy matters, the focus supporting my family right now.” County’s first Self-Help Legal on domestic violence restrain- Magana’s sister, Roseanne Guiermo Alvarez brought a megaphone to the protest, so he could be heard loud and clear. Access Center had a visitor -- ing orders, civil harassment, Gonzalez, also of Ukiah, is in a simi- a woman who had waited two small claims and family law lar situation, she said. love with us. We can fall in love High school freshman, George months for assistance filing will meet a large need. “I have kids also and their father with them. We are not having feel- Segura, with Herrera, said: the necessary forms for a According to Court got deported as well. Now I am mar- ings because they have papers, or “Everybody deserves their rights, name change -- and more Executive Officer Ben ried to another man that is illegal,” don’t have papers. People fall in love and to be treated equally.” waiting outside in the Ukiah Stough, more than 4.3 million she said. with people, not with their paper- Asked if they were worried about Courthouse hall. people in the state go without Asked what it would take to make work,” she said. serving detention for walking off Located in Room 304 of legal representation in civil them legal, Gonzalez said: “I went Guiermo Alvarez voiced his opin- campus during school hours, fresh- the Superior Court of cases. down to Santa Rosa to an immigra- ion loud and clear, via a megaphone. man, Jerry Gonzalez, with Segura Mendocino County, 100 N. The Judicial Council of tion lawyer to see what I could do to “Yes we can,” he said in Spanish, as and Herrera, said: “No ’cause we are State St., the center is a col- California recently made get his papers and they told me that he marched along. doing it for our people. My mom laboration between the court funding for programs to assist he could never get them ’cause he’s Asked what he was referring to, went through it -- immigration -- and and non-profit organization self-represented litigants a been here too long.” he said: “Accomplish what we want. Legal Services of Northern priority statewide because of And it’s a confusing and expen- . Immigrant people to have their my family did.” High school freshmen, Elva California, and seeks make the quickly growing number sive process, Magana said. residence here, and get their license.” the courtroom a less-intimi- of self-represented litigants in “It’s really difficult, and it cost a Several high school students also Ramirez and Annaly Torres echoing the sentiments of those of spoke dating place for people repre- court, according to Lisa lot of money. They say the easiest voiced their reasons for being senting themselves. Hillegas, supervising attorney process is to send them back to involved in Tuesday’s protest. before them said they came out Tuesday to show support. “We really hope to lessen for Legal Services of Mexico,” she said. “So we can get a driver’s license. that and improve the public Northern California. “For 10 years. and the Our parents have cars and cops take “It’s really bad how they discrimi- nate us when we are humans,” Torres view of the justice system,” With divorce cases requir- American wives and children are them away if they don’t have a ing 20 or more forms be filed said. Tanya Ridino, project attor- here,” Gonzalez added, finishing license,” Ukiah High sophomore, ney from Legal Services of in court, for example, Stough Magana’s sentence. “What are they Faviola Zamora, said referring to a “We are all the same; we should Northern California, said. said it’s no suprise that the suppose to do to support their fami- situation familiar to many in the have the same rights,” Ramirez said. Ridino, along with a para- legal system can be frighten- ly?” she said. group. “We are also here so our par- When sixth-grader, Gabriel legal, will be on hand at the ing and confusing for some- People fall in love with people, ents won’t get deported to Mexico,” Fernandez, was asked why he came center, noon to 4 p.m., one without assistance. regardless of their immigration sta- she said. to the protest, he said: “To vote. I Monday through Thursday, to “Things happen very tus, Magana said. Denise Herrera, also a high school don’t know, I just came with my par- assist self-represented liti- quickly, they don’t understand “Just ’cause they are Mexican sophomore, said she and her friends ents.” gants navigate the court sys- what happened, they don’t doesn’t mean they aren’t human. were there because they are Laura McCutcheon can be reached at tem. know what the next step is They have feelings. They can fall in Mexicans. [email protected] While Ridino, who also See ACCESS, Page 14 A delightful tour through ten local gardens, Tickets for a tour are $25 never before seen on a tour. Tickets for the lunch are $12 May 6, 2007 • 10 AM to 4 PM All proceeds benefit Ukiah Junior Academy Tickets available at Rod’s Shoes, Mendocino Book Company, Living Water Bible for their remodeling project.

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