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Little League REMINISCE flood cleanup SUNDAY Elusive Images photo contest effort begins ..........Page A-8 Jan. 8, 2006 ..................................Page A-3 World briefs .......Page A-2 Mendocino County’s The Ukiah local newspaper Monday: Partly sunny Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, may rain $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 52 pages, Volume 147 Number 274 email: [email protected] FOOD BANK DRIVE College sending more students to 4-year schools The Daily Journal mic year. for a total of 132 students transfer- sity and Sacramento State University. The number of students who start- Since 1989, Mendocino College ring. The top four UC destinations for Holiday ed their education at Mendocino has helped 1,468 students transfer to In school year 2004-05, the top Mendocino College students were: College and then transferred to a CSUs and 220 students transfer to the four Cal State transfer destinations for UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC San California State University or a UC system. Last year, 114 students Mendocino College students were: Diego and UC Berkeley. donations University of California reached an transferred from Mendocino College Sonoma State University, Chico State exceed all-time high in the 2004/2005 acade- to a CSU and 18 transferred to UC, University, Humboldt State Univer- See COLLEGE, Page A-14 $78,000 THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME The Daily Journal Final donations to The Daily Journal’s Holiday Food Bank Fund Drive have been reported by the Ukiah Community Center. They are: Flood displaces families Dennis and Sandra Parks: $285; Ric Piffero and Dave By SETH FREEDLAND Hull: $250; John C. Lehner: The Daily Journal $200; Cynthia and Scott As families across Harpe: $200; Steve and Vicki Mendocino County shovel Switzer: $100; Shawn and mud from their homes and Poppy Brodoski: $100; toss out debris washed into Melodie and Tony Sorace: their yards in the wake of $100; Kenneth and Brenda the New Year’s Flood, some Hoek: $100; John and Ruby families wish for the oppor- Suneson: $100; Joe Sanchez tunity. and Jessica Taaning: $100; In To fill a housing void for Memory of Steve Benassini: those hardest hit by the $100; From Travis Neece: In storm, the American Red Memory of Thomas B. Cross -- operating out of Neece: $100; Bill and Kay Santa Rosa because it does Hansen: $100; Bard and not have a Mendocino Marilynn Zensen: In Memory County chapter -- fashioned of Bernice Hanratty: $100; a shelter at Ukiah High Anonymous: $100; School. At its peak capacity, Anonymous: $100; Michael 44 Ukiah Valley residents and Ruth Hunter: $75; A. found shelter from the Andrade and M. Shalom: $75; flooding inside, according Ron and Anne Caviglia: $50; to Rose Nagy Ostrander, a Patricia Thygesen: $50; Larry Red Cross spokeswoman. Bianchi and Donna Barber: A total of 100 overnight $50; Irma E. Turner: $50; stays -- if one person slept at Fleming and Joyce Badenfort: the shelter for three nights $50; Myrna M. Hurst: $30; that equals three stays -- Lillian Cohn and Thomas took place at the high Evans: $30; Leota A. school facility MacMillan: $30; Tom and Almost every family has Lynne Buske: $25; Lou and since returned to their resi- Betty Tustin: $20; Anony- dence, Ostrander said. Only mous: $20; Anonymous: $10 12 families remain, which is for a total of $2,680 and a too few to keep the shelter grand total of $78,170.42, running, according to Red surpassing this year’s goal of Cross protocol. As a transi- $75,000. tionary move, Red Cross puts these families up in Tyler Stoffel/The Daily Journal local motels until their Selena (right) and Natalia Montoya stand outside their room at the Days Inn Ukiah, where they are homes regain liveability. being put up by the Red Cross after their Hopland home was destroyed during last week’s flood. Flu on One of these dozen fami- lies is the Montoyas, cur- side, it was like a whole largely consist of food. rently staying at the Days lake, about 10 feet deep. It ‘It’s really sad. We lost everything.…When you In an increasingly com- increase Inn in Ukiah. Beside bags was deeper than me -- my mon example of inter-coun- filled with clothing, Selena, father had to carry me.” saw outside, it was like a whole lake, about 10 ty cooperative aid, Napa the grade school-aged Selena described life in County presented Mendo- locally daughter, recalled waking the shelter as a mixed bag, feet deep. It was deeper than me -- my father had cino County with an extra up in her family’s Hopland as worries over her family’s emergency relief vehicle, By BEN BROWN home and discovering it future were at least partially to carry me.’ adding to the handful cur- The Daily Journal was completely flooded. placated by plenty of food. rently utilized locally. One Every winter, between 5 After grabbing some Meals now consist of the truck leaves its Ukiah base percent and 20 percent of clothing, Selena, her par- inn’s free breakfast and SELENA MONTOYA filled to the brim with hot Americans get the flu, hospi- ents, her big brother and the restaurants at night, on a meals, which are then dis- talizing roughly 200,000. In baby jumped to a neigh- Red Cross credit card. tributed door-to-door down Ukiah, emergency room visits bor’s house, which proved Under strict orders from friends. are diminishing, Patterson flooded neighborhoods. have increased as people with to be a temporary solution. her parents not to go back Vicki Patterson, execu- said. Ostrander estimated that both the flu and common Soon a boat came to take home herself, Selena said tive director for Nuestra For those families who between 85 and 100 colds visit, seeking treatment. them out of the flooded area her father, Savino, went to Casa, said three Spanish- were able to make it back to Mendocino County families The CDC has developed a list so they could be transported Hopland to bring back what speaking families, including their water-logged houses, have received a kit. of key facts to identify which to the high school shelter, could be salvaged. He found the Montoyas, contacted the the Red Cross is currently Red Cross officials reit- illness you have as well as she said. nothing. In a few days, service organization for aid. providing cleanup kits -- erated their need for volun- some tips for prevention. “It’s really sad,” Selena Selena said, their time at All need food, household brooms, buckets and gloves, teers over the weekend. “Influenza, or the flu, is a said. “We lost every- Days Inn will end and the goods and other assistance, among similar products -- contagious respiratory illness thing.…When you saw out- Montoyas will stay with as Nuestra Casa’s resources and comfort kits, which See FAMILIES, Page A-14 See FLU, Page A-5 After the New Year’s Flood, another deluge roars in On Friday, the last available day for counties to report storm approaches its close, the truly onerous part of the process damage to the state, Mendocino County relayed a mighty tab to begins. Sacramento -- $46,068,966, to be exact. “The recovery phase of this is very, very political,” sighed This sum -- expected to climb still higher as damage contin- MATTER OF FACT Gregg Smith, interim emergency services coordinator and 23- ues to be reported -- is broken down for the state into three cat- year veteran of disaster relief in Mendocino County. egories: about $9.5 million for individual assistance, about $5.7 The warm feelings that come from helping our neighbors -- million in agricultural damage and about $30.7 million in pub- either providing hot meals to those without electricity or allow- lic assistance. SETH ing guests into our homes as residences become habitable again The total figure may be a great deal of money to you and me -- will inevitably be replaced by white-hot fervor should -- and obviously doesn’t even factor in the sometimes-more- FREEDLAND Mendocino County find itself on the short end of the limited valuable sentimental loss -- but it may seem a relative drop in reimbursement pool. the state’s bucket considering, for instance, the city of Napa is The available state funds -- already painfully finite due to reporting $100 million in damages. make the Friday deadline. But those declarations give us noth- oft-reported budgetary shortfalls -- may be stretched out even Officials from all 23 counties receiving emergency declara- ing more than simple eligibility for state reimbursement for thinner because fire, police, sanitation, sewage, transportation, tions from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked through the emergency-related costs. night, adding up staff time and inspecting infrastructure, to Let there be no doubt: As cleaning up our communities See FREEDLAND, Page A-5 A-2 – SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] DEATH NOTICES Police chase through Ukiah Theater ends in arrest Dr. Margaret Gannon The Daily Journal ted Rodriguez running near the Jensen, 59, of Willits, died On Thursday, Ukiah police front of the theater, which Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006. A cele- chased a local resident through the Rodriguez entered. bration of her life will be held Ukiah Theater. As the officers chased Rodriguez Sunday, Jan. 15 at the Ukiah At about 4:45 p.m. police through the theater, he refused to Senior Center, at 2 p.m. responded to a report of a domestic comply with their orders to stop, dispute in the 700 block of South police said. Rodriguez attempted to Death notices are free for Oak Street.