Stars ready RELIGION for World Saturday Faith community news Baseball Classic ...................................Page 3 ................Page 6 March 4, 2006 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Windy, rain Monday: Continued 7 58551 69301 0 cool with rain 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 147 Number 329 email: [email protected] 7 quakes recorded in local area Local women who are making history The Daily Journal Friday was a day of unusual Women’s History seismic activity locally, with the Coalition will U.S. Geological Survey record- honor Buckley, ing seven measurable earth- Curtis, Perkins See QUAKES, Page 2 and Sen. Ortiz The Daily Journal The Women’s History Coalition on Sunday will Madden honor Plowshares Executive Director Mary Buckley for her contributions to the declares community -- namely the hungry. Buckley -- one of three 5th Dist. Mendocino County women this year who will receive the “Women: candidacy Builders of the Communities and Dreams By SETH FREEDLAND Award” -- has been The Daily Journal involved in many The crowded field of Fifth District different activities since supervisor candidates just got a little coming to Mendocino more crowded, with Tom Madden’s County in 1981, but she is Thursday announcement he would best known for her work join the race. with Plowshares since Madden said he has watched the 1997. As the executive Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal supervisor elections for the past few director, she has worked As executive director of the Plowshares program and Meals-on-Wheels, Mary Buckley is sched- decades and has “toyed with the idea to feed the hungry at uled to receive the “Women: Builders of Communities and Dreams” award at the annual Women’s of putting his irons Plowshares and the History Coalition on Sunday. in the fire” for elderly and disabled with years. Despite Meals-on-Wheels. Photo by Mick Paul being a political Plowshares is now may be the only person neophyte, Madden Fiona Perkins is who falls into all of the serving an average of 181 being honored for her said his campaign meals a day and 3,986 per above categories, but I am would be bolstered work with the Coast also the only one who month. Buckley has also Community Library by fresh ideas -- developed a shower gets a full-time salary for and specifically by the Women’s it.” program and a guest History Coalition. one close to his laundry to give homeless Asked why she does it, heart. people a sense of dignity. Buckley said: “I’ve “What I have in always looked for work But that’s not all. mind is solar Madden This summer, that has a good purpose power for this Plowshares plans to break and is challenging and county…as well as ground and start building stimulating, and this other alternatives like wind and fuel a new facility. Acting as certainly fits the cells,” he said. He added that move- the primary fund-raiser description.” ment toward that goal would guaran- for a nearly $3 million With that said, Buckley tee more start-up industry locally as doesn’t see herself staying building project, one of Senator Deborah well as the introduction of a clean For her role in bring- at Plowshares forever. manufacturing plant, both of which the most consuming ing music to the coun- Ortiz will be given a aspects of Buckley’s job “I see a need right now, would improve Mendocino County’s ty, Barbara Curtis will “Women: Builders of especially until the new these days is handling Communities and economy and workforce without be honored for her building is built which harming the environment. multi-level government- contribution to the Dreams” award. related funding and its will really let Plowshares Madden and his family -- he’s community Sunday Submitted photo associated copious fulfill the mission of seen six children graduate Ukiah’s during the Women’s feeding the hungry,” she schools -- have lived on solar energy paperwork, rigid History Month cele- protocols and mandated said, noting Plowshares is said. “Hunger is mostly since 1988. In building his residence bration. Submitted photo delays. as it is about so many supported by well over invisible, but it’s very real and solar grid, Madden said he has While she is clearly the people who do 2,000 actively involved here. You see somebody dealt with almost all governmental backbone of Plowshares, credit. “I feel it’s not Plowshares’ work. I am people -- staff, board, agencies and is ready to move the Buckley won’t take all the really about me so much just the organizer,” she volunteers and donors. “I See WOMEN, Page 14 county in the same direction. See MADDEN, Page 14 Snow in Law enforcement Willits resolving issues on Snow lightly covers the ground surrounding an old coast, GJ reports barn off Highway 20 west By BEN BROWN of Willits Friday morning. the substation was found to According to the National The Daily Journal be in compliance with laws Weather Service in Eureka, Despite excessive work- and adequately staffed, some Brooktrails received about loads and financial difficul- issues did arise. The grand 2.5 inches of snow and ties, the Mendocino County jury found that storage space Willits had about an inch Sheriff’s Office Coast Sector in the evidence room was at 1,200 feet. The hills Sub-Station and the Fort inadequate and the jury sug- above Laytonville, how- Bragg Police Department gested that the room be ever, at about 3,800 feet holding cells were found to expanded and upgraded in were covered with 12 to 18 be providing excellent ser- accordance with its use. inches of snow. vice and working to fix The general services existing problems, accord- director and the Board of Amy Wellnitz/The Daily Journal ing to a Board of Supervisors both found that, Supervisors review of the while storage space was recent grand jury report. While for the most part See COAST, Page 14 Redwood Children’s Services, Inc. Be Part of the Solution 1201 Talmage Rd., Ukiah Become a Foster Parent (707)-467-2000 2 – SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ He is survived by his Syracuse, NY, she was 69 Helen Patapow and hus- wife, Doris Blake of and lived in Ukiah for 12 band Walter of Syracuse, Redwood Valley, his chil- years. A housewife, Lucille NY, Angie Donato of NY, dren, Debra K. Blake of was very pound of her mar- nieces Adrian Dallas, who is Bush: U.S. should welcome competition Vashan, Wash., John Blake riage and raising her chil- also Lucille’s Goddaughter of Redwood Valley, Joe dren. She was very loving and Annette Sorrells. Her ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Traveling under heavy Conway of Concord, North and giving to family and family also gives their security, President Bush showed solidarity with Pakistan in the global war on terror Friday as anti-American protests flared CHARLES F. BLAKE, Carolina, and Steve Burns friends. she loved her bingo thanks and love to her care- of Ukiah, and his sister, and socializing with friends. givers Sierra Madison and across this Islamic nation. The visit probably put Bush closer 78, of Redwood Valley, than he’s ever been to Osama bin Laden. passed away at his home Jean Horvath of Corona, She will be remembered for Lynn Norvell. Calif. her generosity, friendship A Memorial Rosary will Anti-American sentiment runs deep in this Islamic nation March 2, 2006 after a peri- and the threat of terrorist attacks is ever present. A day before od of failing health. In keep- Private cremation is and love of animals, includ- be held on Tuesday March under the direction of ing her cats Boots, Bingo, 7, 2006 beginning at 6 PM at Bush’s visit, an American diplomat was killed in a suicide car- ing with his wishes, no ser- bombing at a U.S. consulate in the southern city of Karachi, a vices are planned. Empire Mortuary Service. Elouise and Buster. She is the Eversole Mortuary. A survived by her loving hus- Memorial Mass will be cele- hotbed of Islamic militancy. Born in Canton, Ohio Bush is to spend all day Saturday in Islamabad, conferring December 9, 1927, he was a [\ band of 47 years Francisco brated on Wednesday LUCILLE ANN MORENO Castro Moreno of Ukiah, March 8, 2006 beginning at with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, meeting with business Navy Veteran. He had lived leaders, attending a state dinner and even watching a cricket in the local area for the past Lucille Ann Moreno, died daughters Andrea Borjeson 10 AM at St. Mary of the at her home on Friday of Discovery Bay, Rosalie Angels Catholic Church. match — a passion of Pakistanis. 28 years and had worked at Hoping to boost the U.S. image among Muslims, Bush Masonite as an Electrical March 3, 2006 with her fam- Lacson of Ukiah, her sisters Arrangements under the ily by her side. A native of Eileen Sorrells of San Jose, care of Eversole Mortuary. planned to call attention to American contributions to Pakistan Engineer. after a devastating earthquake in October. Bush said he would talk with Musharraf about Pakistan’s Please sign the guest book at www.ukiahdailyjournal.com. Funeral notices are paid announcements. For information on how to “vital cooperation in the war on terror and our efforts to foster place a paid funeral notice or make corrections to funeral notices please call our classified department at 468-3529.