Mendocino COMMUNITY falls to Friday Local happenings Napa Valley .................................Page A-3 ..........Page A-6 April 25, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Saturday: Sunny H 88º L 49º 7 58551 69301 0 Sunday: Sunny H81º L 47º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 48 pages, Volume 150 Number 16 email: [email protected] RV man killed in accident By BEN BROWN Thursday when, for unknown The Daily Journal reasons, the vehicle drove off A Redwood Valley man the road and overturned. Smile! was killed early Thursday The vehicle rolled at least morning in a rollover accident one time before coming to rest on East Road. in a vineyard. Englund said the it was not California Highway Patrol clear what caused the accident Officer Randy Englund said and said it was still under Brent Edward Kinney, 42, of investigation. Redwood Valley, was north- Kinney was pronounced bound on East Road north of dead at scene. Road H in a white Silverado Ben Brown can be reached at at around 12:40 a.m. [email protected] JUNE 3 ELECTION Jimmy Rickel running in the 1st district By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal Editor’s note: This is another of a series of profiles of candidates for supervisor in the June 3 election. MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Quick--name the supervi- Chris Warner-Carey composes a shot with one of his disposable cameras at Thomas Plaza Thursday. sor candidate who included this phrase on the paperwork he submitted to the County You’re your own candid camera Clerk upon filing his inten- tions: By ROB BURGESS “If you want a timid, quiet, The Daily Journal An anonymous inattentive leader representing Chris Warner-Carey was fishing at photographer’s you, don’t vote for me.” Alex Thomas Plaza Thursday. work is posted If you’ve watched public In the shadow of Frank’s Franks, on Warner- access television or paid Rickel Warner-Carey’s bait could be clearly Carey’s web attention to local politics any seen taped to the painted green metal site, time in the last few years, you and many many other issues,” bench facing State Street. www.flickr.com/ probably already know the he said. “It just goes on. The hook, line and sinker of the photos/ukiah- name: Jimmy Rickel. County government is in a operation consisted of a tape, a pics “I just found that while I state of moral crisis. One of string, a Rite Aid 400-speed dispos- could take the time away from the biggest issues I have is the able camera with 27 exposures and a my work I could advocate for incumbent has sat on his flyer reading “Hi there, I tied this the community,” he said. bacon and not advocated for camera to the bench so you could “I’ve learned to irritate the the individuals in his district.” take pictures -- so have fun with it! question.” Rickel said he misgivings I’ll be back at the end of the day to Rickel is one of five candi- about the board-sponsored pick it up. To see the pictures tonight dates in the running against marijuana ballot initiative, go to www.flickr.com/photos/ukiah- Ukiah Public Library. “My hope is that people will go Michael Delbar for his 1st Measure B, but that it would pics. Thanks!” A quick look at the gallery of pho- online and identify themselves,” he District supervisor seat in have to do. Though Warner-Carey has only tos shows the wide range of people said. “I can tell some people are June along with Carre Brown, “If it wasn’t for Jimmy conducted the experiment less than interested in the project where every- checking it, but I’d like to know who Dolly Brown and Ukiah Rickel pushing and embar- half a dozen times after coming one from smiling firefighters to trios they are.” Sativa Morrison. rassing the board there would across the idea in a photography of friends pointing their tongues at Warner-Carey said none of the Rickel has lived in the be no Measure B,” he said. “I newsletter, the Bench Project’s the lens can be seen. cameras have been stolen yet and Ukiah Valley since 1951 and have a lot of problems with Internet gallery now features Warner-Carey said he got the best with the reasonable price he pro- served four years in the mili- Measure B. It’s the only alter- upwards of 90 pictures taken by results from groups of passersby cured them for, he isn’t worried any- tary. He holds a BA in psy- native we have at hand.” Ukiah pedestrians. rather than individuals. way. chology and human services Rickel says that comments “You want it to be in a place that “Teenaged girls do the best ones,” “I only paid $3 for them,” he said. and works as a substance made by people like John people will see it, but not upset the he said. “Once one of them starts “I still have five or six left so I’m not abuse counselor. He is also the Pinches, 3rd district supervi- authorities,” said Warner-Carey, who doing it, they all want to do it. They concerned. I’m really having fun host of his own cable access sor, claiming that the marijua- has been involved in photography take pictures of each other. Some with this.” show titled “Studio 3 na is one of the cornerstones since senior year of high school. “It’s people make the mistake of trying to The fruits of Warner-Carey’s Presents.” of the county’s economy are just fun.” take pictures of themselves and their labors will still be available on his Rickel said he chose this bogus. In addition to Alex Thomas Plaza, arms aren’t long enough so their Flickr account, but starting today, time around to throw his hat “We are living unfortunate- Warner-Carey has also placed the faces are out of focus.” those interested will be able to find into the ring because of the ly in an enabled county,” he disposable cameras at A Healing With each project, Warner-Carey them on his own Ukiah Daily lack of common sense on the said. “I can guarantee you if Cooperative located at the United leaves tear-off copies of the Web Journal photo blog which can be board of supervisors. that (marijuana production) Methodist Church on Pine Street, a address on the side of the leaflet so accessed at “I just think that the board was going to stop tomorrow, bench on School Street and on a con- those who participated can see the www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/photo- doesn’t know the difference we would adjust. ” crete recycling bin in front of the results. blog. between right and wrong Rob Burgess can be whether it be their pay raise reached at [email protected]. Frost hitting local vineyards; could cut 2008 grape crop By BEN BROWN dropped below 25 degrees at problems as well as vineyards supplies that many vineyard below average. this it’s that prices of the The Daily Journal night. Temperatures that low as far away as Monterey. owners keep for frost protec- Poulos said many vineyard remaining grapes will likely A combination of long cold can freeze the new buds on Damage in Sonoma County tion. Poulos said an especially owners are thinking of turning rise as supply falls, Poulos nights and lower than average grape vines as well as growth is estimated as bad as 20 per- dry spring has not helped to dry farming to keep the said. Grapes that are not rainfall may end up damaging on fruit trees and walnut trees. cent of the crop though dam- manners. vines alive. This will decrease already been sold under con- this years grape crop. Poulos said the April age in Napa County is report- Rainfall in the month of the quantity of the grapes, but tract should go for high prices “Frost damage may repre- weather has been unseason- ed to be relatively minor. April has four one hundredths increase their quality, she said. on the open market. sent as much as 30 percent ably cold this April and that Most vineyard owners in of an inch. Normal rainfall is The frost damage is also “We anticipate much higher crop loss at harvest,” said the low temperatures have Mendocino County use water usually 1.79 inches. So far this Mendocino Winegrape and lasted longer than normal for frost protection. The water expected to increase the quali- than average prices for the year Mendocino County has ty of the surviving grapes. uncontracted fruit that Wine Commission spokes- every night. freezes into ice overnight and received more than 28 inches woman Paige Poulos. The damage has not been insulates the bud from the low “Stressed vines at this time remains on the market," she For the last two weeks, isolated to Mendocino temperatures. of rain, well above the near in the season tend to result in said. temperatures in parts of County, Napa and Sonoma The length of the frost each drought conditions the county better fruit,” Poulos said. Ben Brown can be reached at Mendocino County have counties have also suffered night has put a strain on water faced last spring, but well If there’s a silver lining to [email protected] A-2 – FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ ques and cars, owner/oper- and brother-in-law Helen Johnson on ator of Mail Haul Jon and Gina Miller, March 28, 1922 in White House: Syria ’must come clean’ Inc.