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A’s lose YOUR HEALTH to Blue Jays Tuesday Striving for Imperfection .............Page 6 Aug. 5, 2008 ...................................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Wednesday: Mostly sunny; H 93º L 57º 7 58551 69301 0 Thursday: Mostly sunny; H 90º L 55º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 150 Number 118 email: [email protected] NWS: County could see more lightning today By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal Responding to the early and extremely active fire season that has already choked the north coast with fire and smoke, a fire weather watch has been issued by the National Weather Service in Eureka. The watch remains in effect from 11 a.m. Tuesday until 11 a.m. Wednesday for the interior portion of Mendocino County and the western half Mendocino National Forest, among other places in Northern California. “Monsoon moisture flowing north over the desert southwest will arrive over the area by Tuesday,” stated a portion of a release issued by NWS early Monday morning. “The mid- and upper-level moisture combined with south-southeast convec- tively favorable wind flow has the potential to bring isolated dry thunderstorms by Tuesday afternoon. These thunderstorms will be moving from south to north. The most likely develop- ment will occur over ridges, but could move north-ward over valley locations. Deeper moisture is forecast to arrive by Wednesday leading to greater coverage and wetter thunder- storms. A chance of thunderstorms will continue into Thursday morning.” Rob Burgess/The Daily Journal Doug Boushey, a meteorologist with the National Weather The kitchen of the raided home was nearly completely filled with budding adult marijuana plants. Behind the Service in Eureka, said the NWS wasn’t surprised by the devel- plants and timed grow lights, a pieces of cardboard were affixed to the windows. opment of the storm given the season. “Right now we’re looking at (storm) coverage to increase by Wednesday morning,” he said. “What we’re seeing is a surge in monsoon moisture into Southern California. This is typical for this time of year. The system appears to be dropping rain.” Major pot bust in Ukiah Boushey said that the system didn’t appear to have the same inherent danger of the front the sparked the dry lightning fires of June 20 and 21. “It won’t be another wide-spread lightning outbreak,” he Over 1,000 said. “That was unusual to get that much lightning activity with that system. The monsoon surge that we’re forecasting is more plants seized typical for this time of year and this story will likely produce rainfall. There still will be lightning. There is still a potential to see fire starts from the lightning, but it won’t be a dry lower in Ukiah home atmosphere.” By ROB BURGESS Boushey said that with exception of a few sprinklings, the The Daily Journal Ukiah Valley would stay dry for the most part. An unoccupied house on the north side “Ukiah could see a few hundredths or a tenth of an inch of of Ukiah was the site of an over 1,000- rain, but the bulk of precipitation will be north of Willits,” he plant marijuana bust Monday afternoon. said. “We’re seeing some incongruent data from the various It was just after 3:30 p.m. when the models we have. One keeps (the southern portion of the coun- Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force ty) dry and the other has it wet. What’s actually going to hap- officers entered the house located in the pen it’s a little hard to tell at this point. It’s probably somewhere 1300 block of Burgundy Drive. in between.” Standing in front of the residence, Bob Boushey said the large-scale fires that have swept the state Nishiyama, MMCTF Special agent in over the weeks and months had a direct effect on the issuance charge, said the house’s electrical meter of the warning. had been bypassed to disguise the “We understand there has been a lot of fire containment amount of juice being utilized. activity,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of fires in Northern Nishiyama said the PG & E workers California and I think that’s what has prompted the watch. told him they were surprised the house We’ve been in this very dangerous fire station since the start of hadn’t caught fire given the amount of the summer and it was unfortunate that we had that even so power flowing through the Adult plants, pictured here, were kept in different rooms from the grow- early in the season. We don’t typically see that this early in the ing seedlings that had just sprouted. The grow lights were set to timers summer.” See BUST, Page 15 to simulate natural conditions. Rob Burgess can be reached at [email protected]. Pt. Arena man arrested UKIAH CITY COUNCIL after woman found in Possible smoking ban on the agenda middle of coastal road By ROB BURGESS Joint Powers Agreement Appointment • Adoption of a resolution approving The Daily Journal Noe in an official statement The Daily Journal Procedure to expand eligibility for the application and contract execution for A report of a woman lying issued Monday. “Upon con- A possible ban on smoking in certain county-wide seat. Funding Down payment Assistance and in the middle of a coastal tacting the woman deputies city-owned parks and city-sponsored • Designation of a voting delegate and Housing Rehabilitation from the road over the weekend led to learned that she did not need events is just one of the topics up for dis- alternates for the 2008 League of CalHome Program and authorizing exe- an arrest of a Point Arena medical attention and she cussion at Wednesday’s Ukiah City California Cities Annual Conference, cution of grant agreement and any man. reported that her boyfriend Council meeting. which is scheduled to take place from amendments thereto with the state of Authorities were first noti- had assaulted her and choked The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 Sept. 24 - 27. California for the purposes of this grant fied of the situation at around her at a nearby property. The p.m. in the Civic Center Council • A resolution opposing “fiscally irre- and authorizing the city manager to nego- 11:30 p.m. Friday, when victim was given a ride to her Chambers, 300 Seminary Ave. sponsible state budget decisions” that Mendocino County Sheriff home and deputies returned would “borrow” local government, rede- tiate and execute agreement with the The public hearing on the proposed Community Development Commission Deputies were dispatched to to the area and located the city code change that would make select- velopment and transportation funds. the 43000 block of Schooner of Mendocino County for grant adminis- suspect, Thomas Wiles, 45, ed Ukiah parks smoke-free is slated to • Award of a bid for purchase of CCTV Gulch Road in Point Arena. of Point Arena.” commence at 6:15 p.m. Camera Truck for Sewer Maintenance to tration. “A person had called the • Award of a professional services After further investigation Also on the agenda: CUES Inc. and approval of a budget Mendocino County Sheriff’s Wiles was arrested on suspi- • Discussion and direction regarding amendment in the amount of agreement to LACO Associates in an Office and reported that they cion of corporal injury implementation of the Remedial Action $165,489.66. amount not to exceed $9,500 for prepara- had found a female adult inflicted upon family result- Plan for the corporation yard under- • Award of a bid to Turf Star Inc. for tion of bid documents for the Orr Street lying in the roadway who ing in a traumatic condition ground storage tank cleanup. the purchase of seven pieces of parks and Bridge Deck Replacement. said that she had been and lodged at the Mendocino • Proposal to amend by resolution the golf maintenance equipment in the Rob Burgess can be reached at assaulted,” stated Lt. Rusty County Jail, with bail set at Mendocino Council of Governments amount of $156,486.88. [email protected]. $25,000. 2 – TUESDAY, AUG. 5, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Richard Rosier, 468-3520 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The attackers struck at 8 a.m., plowing into the policemen FUNERAL NOTICES performing their morning exercises outside a hotel next to their The world briefly paramilitary border patrol post in Kashgar, Xinhua said. [\ him in death. He After the truck hit an electrical pole, the pair jumped out, was loved and admired by threw homemade explosives at the barracks and “also hacked his family, neigh- the policemen with knives,” the report said. bors on Central Avenue Tropical Storm Edouard moves Fourteen died on the spot and two others en route to a hospi- and many friends west in Gulf, expected to near tal, while at least 16 others were wounded, Xinhua said. and business associates.He hurricane strength before landfall was conducting Sealed documents describe DNA business and advising his NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Emergency teams were activated family on the prop- as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with link in anthrax case, could solve er way to run a restaurant another round of tropical weather for the second time in less other puzzles in 2001 attacks than a month. up to two days be- Tropical Storm Edouard gained speed as it moved west WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was science that led the FBI to the fore his death. He owned Monday and was expected to strengthen to a near-hurricane scientist.