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Eagles vs. Weekend IN COURT Yuba College entertainment 6-year sentence for molester .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny; H 65º L 37º 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY Feb. 14, 2008 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 149 Number 311 email: [email protected] HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY Beltrami Local couple who married in 1953 share story of Love that lasts: their long life together out of VALENTINE’S hospital DAY HISTORY Web site history.com The Daily Journal provides the following After several months in the hospital information about Val- following a serious car accident, former entine’s Day: “Valentine Mendocino County CEO Al Beltrami greetings were popular returned home earlier this month. as far back as the Mid- “To all the many friends who took the dle Ages (written Valen- time to send cards and prayers and best tines didn’t begin to wishes over the last 3 month travail,” appear until after 1400), Beltrami said in a letter and the oldest known posted on the Web site Valentine card is on dis- of his son Bob play at the British Beltrami, who has kept Museum. The first com- a chronicle of his mercial Valentine’s Day father’s recovery, “I greeting cards pro- can never thank you all duced in the U.S. were enough for your created in the 1840s by encouragement and Esther A. Howland. support during this Howland, known as the time of trouble.” Mother of the Valentine, Beltrami suffered made elaborate cre- major injuries in the Beltrami ations with real lace, Nov. 17 traffic accident ribbons and colorful pic- when his 2006 Lincoln Zephyr went off tures known as “scrap.” Highway 101 and collided with a large “In addition to the tree just south of Cloverdale, according to United States, Valen- reports from the California Highway tine’s Day is celebrated Patrol. in Canada, Mexico, the Beltrami’s injuries included a broken nose, broken right clavicle, several bro- MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal United Kingdom, France, and Australia.” ken ribs, lacerations to the scalp and a Paul and Betty Orsi will be celebrating their 55th anniversary in April.The couple met at St. Mary spinal injury. of the Angels Church in Ukiah. Source: www.history.com He was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, where he spent more than a month in the critical care unit recovering from his injuries. On Feb. 1, Beltrami was discharged ‘I’m going to marry that girl’ from the hospital and, at his request, stopped to look at the tree his vehicle col- PAUL ORSI’S comment to a friend at St. Mary’s in the early ’50s lided with all those months ago. He thinks it would make good firewood. By ROB BURGESS she said. “We also used to park in front of Meanwhile, Betty worked a number of The Daily Journal the television shop and watch TV. Not jobs before becoming the director of Once upon a time in the early 1950s, Paul everyone had a TV back then.” Medical Records at Hillside Community Orsi was attending St. Mary of the Angels After joining in holy matrimony at the Hospital, where she worked for 27 years. Molester Catholic Church in Ukiah when he saw a church where they met, the couple opened Betty said she also did medical transcription young woman in the choir belting out a up their own grocery store, Greeott’s from home and still found time to exercise melody. Grocery, on the corner of Spring and Walnut her vocal talents in her free time. “I turned to my friend and told him ‘I’m streets. “I still do transcriptions now here at sentenced going to marry that girl,’” he said, sitting on “We ran that for the first few years of our home,” she said. “I was director of music at a couch alongside the musically-inclined marriage,” she said. St. Mary’s officially for almost 10 years, but Betty, now his wife of 54 years. Five years later, the couple sold the busi- I’ve been involved in music since I was a “It will be 55 years in April,” she said. ness and went to work in different areas. teenager.” to 6 years “We got married in 1953.” Paul managed the Mendocino State The couple currently boasts five children, After dating for a year, Paul proposed to Hospital Canteen before leaving in 1965 to nine grandchildren and one great-grand- By BEN BROWN Betty at the Beacon Restaurant on South work for AAA as a sales representative, a child, who all live in the area, save one The Daily Journal State Street, where the Bluebird Cafe is job he held for 16 years. daughter who moved away. Paul Orsi said Redwood Valley resident Merlin Gale today. “I always did enjoy people,” he said, Yttrie was sentenced to state prison on “That was our fast food place back then,” smiling. See ORSI, Page 15 child molestation charges Wednesday. Yttrie was arrested July 18, 2007, by Mendocino County sheriff’s deputies on suspicion of lewd acts with a child under the MENDOCINO COLLEGE ART GALLERY age of 14 years old and Area students sexual penetration with a foreign object. honored by The crime was first Olaf Palm’s reported to the Ukiah Police Department but Partnership art on display was turned over to the The Daily Journal Sheriff’s Office when it At an afternoon ceremony The Daily Journal was determined the Friday in the Pomolita Middle The Mendocino College Art Gallery crime occurred in School library, five Ukiah Unified continues to honor Mendocino Potter Valley. Yttrie School District students were hon- County’s rich artistic heritage with an According to sher- ored by the Partnership Scholars exhibit of Olaf Palm’s art -- much of iff’s reports, the 76-year-old Yttrie had Program. which was previously unreleased. abused a 10-year-old girl several times in Dr. Glenn Langer, founder of Many collectors loaned Palm paintings 2002 when she was living with Yttrie in the program, was on hand to con- for the display, which opens today. Potter Valley. gratulate Victor Diaz and Victor Since his death in 2000 at the age of When questioned by sheriff’s detec- Gonzalez from Eagle Peak Middle 65, interest has resurfaced in Palm’s tives, Yttrie confessed to having assaulted School and John Hagins, Kerida work and life, which was aided by the the girl, according to sheriff’s reports. Moates and Lonnie Rickel from publication of a biography: “Olaf On July 31, 2007, Yttrie pleaded guilty Palm, A Life in Art” by Irene Thomas. to lewd and lascivious acts with a child Pomolita Middle School. Photo submitted by Mendocino College The Partnership Scholars “Self-Portrait at Gravesite” is one of many pieces of art The late-Palm’s biographer called him under 14 years old, and on Wednesday he Program is a nonprofit, all-volun- by Olaf Palm that will be hanging in the Mendocino a “kind of California Old Master,” who was sentenced to six years in state prison. teer program initiated in Los College Art Gallery starting today. Most of the pieces went in his own direction at a time Yttrie will also be required to register Angeles in 1996. on display are from the private collections of other art when the art world was preoccupied as a sex offender for the rest of his life. enthusiasts, including Mickey Chalfin -- the owner of Ben Brown can be reached at See STUDENTS, Page 15 this piece. See EXHIBIT, Page 15 [email protected]. ❤ ❤ SaberSaber 95*Per Month ❤ FAST DSL for $11 * Terms & conditions apply. ❤ ❤ 800-989-8851 • www.saber.net ❤ 2 – THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Task Force at 8:35 p.m. by the California Highway POLICE REPORTS Monday. Patrol at 10:32 p.m. Tuesday. The following were BOOKED -- Raymond Those arrested by law compiled from reports William Bush, 42, of Willits, enforcement officers are inno- The world briefly cent until proven guilty. 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