Earthquake Rocks Redwood Valley by LAURA MCCUTCHEON Some Residents with Rattled Nerves
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Celebration The Commerce MEDICAL MARIJUANA THEFT for A’s delayed File Five men arrested .............Page 6 .................Page 3 ......................................Page 2 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Sunny and warm 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY Sept. 27, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 171 email: [email protected] Earthquake rocks Redwood Valley By LAURA MCCUTCHEON some residents with rattled nerves. miles north, northeast of Ukiah, “Oh boy ... I am sitting here working “Oh, they felt it,” Calpella School The Daily Journal A 2.1 magnitude earthquake, locat- according to the U.S. Geological on my floor and it felt like somebody secretary Tina Scroggin said, when A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook ed eight miles north of Ukiah, occurred Survey. Redwood Valley is 9.3 miles ran into the house with a tank; it was asked if the children noticed the earth- the Redwood Valley area Tuesday earlier the same day at 2:21 a.m. north of Ukiah. just ‘Boom.’ It shook the whole house. quake. afternoon, resulting in a few broken The epicenter of the second quake, Redwood Valley resident Ken I went outside to see if a meth lab blew “A lot of them immediately went bottles inside a local grocery store, and which occurred at 1:56 p.m., was eight Wilson said it shook his whole house. up,” he said. See QUAKE, Page 16 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MAN HURT IN ESCAPE FROM BURNING TRAILER Faulder selected as DA Appointment fills vacancy left by Vroman’s death By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appoint Assistant District Attorney Keith Faulder as act- ing district attorney for Mendo- cino County. Faulder will serve as district attorney until Jan. 1, 2007, when the winner of the Nov. 7 general election will take office. Should the late District Attorney Norman Vroman, who was in the middle of cam- paigning for a third term at the time of his death last week, win, a vacancy will again occur Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal and the board will be responsi- Ukiah Valley Fire District as well as other local fire departments responded to a structure fire at 4:43 a.m. Tuesday at the Happiness Is trailer park on Lake Mendocino Drive. The lone occupant of the trailer home suffered first- and second-degree See FAULDER, Page 16 burns and was taken to Ukiah Valley Medical Center. Campaign One trailer destroyed, others threatened finance By BEN BROWN Smoke rises from the The Daily Journal remaining heat of the A Ukiah man was in the hospital structure after the ordinance Tuesday, following an early morning flames are extin- fire that destroyed his trailer at the guished. Firefighters Happiness Is trailer park at 311 Lake worked throughout the rejected Mendocino Drive. early morning hours to By KATIE MINTZ At 4:43 a.m., firefighters from the extinguish and clean The Daily Journal Ukiah Valley Fire District responded up the blaze. The formation process was to reports of a “fully involved” struc- long and collaborative. ture fire at space 21 of the Happiness Over the course of seven Is trailer park that was threatening a months, county citizens, Gen- nearby trailer. ‘He was alerted by the eral Government Committee Neighbor Mary Bostick, whose Supervisors Kendall Smith and trailer is only a few feet from the one sound of popping Jim Wattenburger, County that burned, said “I just woke up to Counsel Jeanine Nadel and the noise of popping and my bed- from the living room.’ Assessor/County Clerk-Recor- room all lit up by the fire,” der Marsha Wharff worked to Firefighters quickly doused the create a draft ordinance they flames and sprayed water on UVFD Battalion Chief thought was a decent compro- Bostick’s trailer. Fire scorched the Jay Beristianos mise on campaign finance branches of trees near her trailer and reform. the heat melted some of the outside Its undoing, however, was walls. relatively swift. “Quick actions by the first-in units would have burned to the ground. have a smoke detector. investigation. After approximately an saved the second structure,” said Beristianos said the fire is “He was alerted by the sound of Beristianos said the trailer’s sole hour-and-a-half discussion at UVFD Battalion Chief Jay believed to have started in the trail- popping from the living room,” occupant, a 50-year-old Ukiah man, the board’s Tuesday meeting, Beristianos. “If those guys hadn’t put er’s south end between the kitchen Beristianos said. supervisors voted 2-3, Supervi- water on the second structure, it and living room. The trailer did not The cause of the fire is under See TRAILER, Page 16 sors Michael Delbar, Hal Wagenet and Chairman of the Board David Colfax dissenting, putting an end to hopes for an ordinance that would have placed a limit on the dollar Air tanker makes emergency landing after takeoff amount of contributions candi- dates for county office could By GREG WELTER 11:09 a.m. and had only been in the air receive from any one donor. Chico Enterprise-Record about five minutes when he heard an odd Noble Fire near Piercy reaches 150 acres The Fair Campaign Ordi- CHICO – An aerial tanker under con- noise and noticed an abnormal amount of nance proposed that candidates tract to the U.S. Forest Service was forced black smoke in the exhaust from one The Daily Journal the California Department of or committees be prohibited to abort a fire mission to Mendocino engine, which also started to backfire. The Noble Fire, burning on feder- Forestry and Fire Protection and the from accepting total contribu- County Monday morning and return to He and a co-pilot, the only other person al land eight miles east of Piercy, had California Department of Correc- Chico when an engine failed. spread to 150 acres on Tuesday. See ORDINANCE, Page 16 Pilot Dale Dahl, 31, said he took off at See TANKER, Page 16 A total of 240 firefighters from See NOBLE, Page 16 UP TO 75% OFF Come See Our High Quality Summer Clothing Clearance Children’s Toys & Clothing 463-0628 211 S. State St., Ukiah 2 – WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ the big city life to a Alonso & husband Luis, [\ [\ Vicki, Jennifer much more reserved life in Chrystal Turner, Jen- DOROTHY MAE FRASER and Katlynn of Ukiah. the small town of nifer Rice, Joshua Turner, Dorothy Mae Fraser, 92, Edward and wife Ukiah, where she worked Benjamin Rice, Tif- of Ukiah passed Brandy, children Amelia as a waitress & an fany Turner, Scott, away Sunday, September and in-home care provider she Makeyen and William 24, 2006 at Ukiah Daphne who recently discovered her Schultz-Matias, Brittany Convalescent Hospital. moved from Ukiah to love for helping those in Turner, Adam Turn- Dorothy was born Oc- Littleton, Colorado. need. This is where er, Garrett Rice, Taylor tober 8, 1913 in Galesburg, Larry is also survived by she found many of her Marchan, as well as Illinois. Dorothy children of his two priceless friends such her daughter Kathy’s 3 lived in Los Angeles, CA deceased sons. Les, who as; Mr. & Mrs. Elder, Dr. children (she never prior to moving to died this year in Massingill, Glenda had the chance to meet), Ukiah 5 years ago. She May; wife Vicki Salisbury, “Suzie” Mason & many, her great-grandchil- worked as a Regis- children Nate, tered Nurse and was also a Chandra and Matthew. In Loving Memory of many more. dren; Marcos Rodriguez- Care Home Ad- The loss of Diane, for Turner, Vyanette Gregg, who died in DIANE ROSE THOMAS ministrator. Dorothy was 2003; child Sara Salisbury August 30, 1936 her family is great & Alonso-Turner, Michael LARRY NEIL SALISBURY proud to be the first Larry Neil Salisbury, 72, of San Antonio, TX. to September 22, 2006 she will always be remem- Garbocci Jr. and Ken- in three generations of bered for her efforts dall Rice. died Sept. 20th in Larry leaves four sisters; Born, Diane Rose Registered Nurses. Verna Haas of to always do what was best We all will miss you very Redwood Valley. He was a Thomas, August 30th 1936 Dorothy is survived by son of a pioneer Ukiah, Lois Suchan of in the state of Texas to Jose for her family & much, but we are her daughter Diane Upper Lake, Leta those closest to her. happy that you will no Ukiahan. His father Fount Thomas & Gua- O’ffill and her husband came to Ukiah in Sprague of Redwood Valley dalupe Garcia. Diane Preceding her death was longer be suffering, Robert, sons James and Rubye Ha- her mother in 1976, 1908. His mother Ora Neil- entered into rest on and that you will have Fraser, Jay Fraser and his Salisbury and her gemeister of Winthrop, WA. September 22nd, 2006, her eldest son Paul in 1982, finally found peace, re- wife Lael, 2 grand- parents were born in Potter Many nieces, nephews when the Lord felt it her father in united with those that left daughters, 2 grandsons, 2 Valley, Ca. Fount and cousins also sur- was time to end her long 1993 & her sister Annabell this world before step-granddaugh- and Ora’s children were all vive. suffering from can- in 2005. Diane is you and to watch over and ters, 4 step-grandsons, 3 He is predeceased by his great-granddaugh- born in Ukiah. cer. survived by her brothers & protect us always.