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[email protected] Teachers march in protest of cutbacks By ROB BURGESS Carrying slogans like “California School District employees a half- The Daily Journal lawmakers have the courage to block in length then made the mile- Before they rejoined the rest of lead!” and “Layoffs impact stu- the assembled crowd, a modest bevy dents,” the line of Ukiah Unified See TEACHERS, Page A-12 of previously crouched teachers capped their markers and raised MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal their newly-marked posterboards Ukiah Unified School District teachers and administrators just before 4 p.m. Thursday in the march south on Bush Street Thursday on their way to the UUSD front parking lot of Frank Zeek building, to publicize the teachers’ plan to appeal recently Elementary. received layoff notices. Boonville REDWOOD REGION LOGGING CONFERENCE OPENS man awarded Purple Heart The Daily Journal Boonville native Sgt. Jessie Slotte was awarded the Purple Heart Feb. 26 in cere- monies at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Brigadier General Francis G. Mahon made the presentation to Slotte and 13 other soldiers injured during Slotte combat in Iraq. Sgt. Slotte was severely wounded in action on Nov. 13, 2007.