A’s take 1-0 The Next Step FORUM lead over financial advice Our readers write Twins ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 .............Page 6 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Some sun, with showers possible; cool 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY Oct. 4, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 178 email: [email protected] New ordinance Ukiah High rallies allows County too loud for some to lend aid to By LAURA MCCUTCHEON tenants in need The Daily Journal The majority of Ukiah By KATIE MINTZ Under state law, landlords High School students have The Daily Journal are required to give two Homecoming spirit -- yes Being evicted due to health months rent equivalent to the they do, but some don’t. and public safety hazards can market rate plus utility During Tuesday’s indoor be devastating to tenants and deposits to tenants forced to rally, more than 150 stu- their families, said Lisa leave unsafe homes. The ordi- dents chose to hang out in Hillegas, supervising attorney nance will enable the Board to the tri area, rather than for Legal Services of provide relocation money to endure the clamor of some Northern California, a legal tenants who have been forced 1,700 students inside the aid organization that focuses out of their rental units due to gymnasium. on housing and public bene- unsafe or hazardous condi- “It’s kind of loud, and fits issues. But soon, tions when the property owner there’s a lot of guys wear- Mendocino County will be refuses to pay these benefits. ing short-shorts,” senior able to offer a helping hand -- It also allows the Board to James Anderson said, as he without breaking the bank. then recoup the funds, plus up stood outside, where the On Tuesday, the Board of to a $10,000 penalty in court screams were still in Supervisors unanimously from the property owner. earshot. introduced the Tenant According to Economic Many others echoed his Assistance Ordinance Development Coordinator sentiments, saying the ral- (Supervisor Jim Wattenburger Tony Shaw, the county has lies are “too noisy,” and the absent), which gives the coun- helped tenants relocate in the “screaming sucks.” Or as ty a mechanism to offer relo- past, such as during the winter senior Erek McCulloch, put cation assistance to tenants flood in Hopland. it, “There’s too many who live in buildings that “The procedures are screaming people. It hurts need repair when the property already in place to try to help my ears.” owner isn’t willing to shell it people find homes, what was “It’s good for some peo- out him or herself. missing was the part about ple,” senior, Kimmi Levoe, In the past few years, getting the landlord to pay said. “It’s just when you Hillegas said Legal Services instead of the public,” Shaw aren’t into it, it’s kind of of Northern California has said. annoying -- the yelling.” represented clients that got This ordinance, however, Ukiah High Principal evicted from buildings due to applies only to situations in Ken Montoya, standing out- “raw sewage seeping into and which the tenant or a guest of side the gymnasium, did not under homes, extensive mold the tenant did not cause or disagree that, while rallies that’s making the tenant and contribute to the unsafe condi- may rock for some, they with Homecoming, but it’s sure that everyone has their freshman Geneo Payer, said their children sick, leaking tion, or when the unsafe con- also roar. just not for her. “It is beliefs respected,” Montoya they’d prefer a basketball roofs and ceilings falling in, dition was not caused by a “There are a number of optional. The people who said. rotting walls due to water fire, flood, earthquake or people who wear ear plugs tournament, and junior, have a choice to go (to the Several ideas were sug- Bobby Johnson said he’d damage and exposed electri- other event beyond the prop- for this event. I saw one rallies), have the same cal wires,” all of which she erty owner’s control. It also teacher wearing industrial gested by students when like to see a football game. choice not to go,” Ames asked if there were an alter- called typical problems that does not require the Board to grade airline-issued ear Sophomore, Fernando offer assistance when the said. native event they’d prefer leave tenants without a home. muffs for this,” he said. Fuentes, said he’d like to “They get displaced with property owner will not. Other students, too, over Homecoming. substitute Homecoming Noise wasn’t the only appreciated the fact that very little notice, no safety net “We’re really excited the thing mentioned, however, “I think we should have a activities for “girls in biki- for them and most of the time, county is taking this seriously they had the option of skip- concert and have all the nis playing volleyball.” as one girl said she didn’t ping the festivities, if they get no money from their and going after what I call the like the fact that during local bands play,” sopho- Another student recom- landlords, who are legally ‘bad eggs’ of landlords,” inclined to do so. more Melissa Madueno mended replacing the rallies Homecoming week the “It’s OK since they are responsible for providing Hillegas said following the dress code wasn’t enforced. said. Several others agreed with “a beer fest,” which relocation assistance,” decision. “I am hopeful, with not mandatory assemblies,” with here. Ballard suggested clearly wouldn’t fly with “All the girls have an junior Andrew Miller said. Hillegas said at the meeting. excuse to dress really a “Battle of the Bands” type administrators -- or those See COUNTY, Page 16 Kody Miller, also a of event. provocative and they can’t junior, agreed. “I am happy students who love dress like that normally,” we have a choice not to go Levoe wasn’t sure if it’d Homecoming week. For junior Alyssa Ballard said. because I am not into the work at Ukiah High, but she every person complaining Which works for sopho- school spirit thing,” he said. said Willits High School about the noise, there are San Diego transient more, Juan Gonzalez. “Ukiah High knows we races chickens. “I know hundreds of students who “(Homecoming) is cool have students of different Willits High School does a can’t wait to make it. ‘cause we get to kick it a lot needs and we celebrate chicken run. Each class has “It’s loud, it’s fun, and arrested in Willits and the girls can wear what- those differences, even a designated chicken and it’s crazy,” said a boy ever they want -- just for when they are different they race their chickens, dressed in purple and gold, the week,” he said. from the majority -- and which would be pretty following Tuesday’s rally. for making honey oil Senior Hillary Ames said that’s OK. The world has all cool,” she said. Laura McCutcheon can be By BEN BROWN she doesn’t have a problem Anderson said the size of kinds, and we want to make Senior Pedro Ortiz and reached at [email protected]. The Daily Journal the operation indicated that A transient from San Diego Savoie was only making was arrested on suspicion of enough honey oil for personal manufacturing honey oil at a use, though he may have had homeless camp in Willits, the materials to produce more. Monday. “We have reason to believe Medical pot dispensaries David Paul Savoie, 18, of he had a considerable amount San Diego, was arrested on of shake to work with,” suspicion of manufacturing a Anderson said. controlled substance by Two other people were outlawed in Willits city limits Willits police officers. Officer found at the camp with Christopher Fisher and others Savoie, they were not arrest- By CLAUDIA REED sales of any kind: “‘Medical Marijuana housing, health, or safety of that patient were enforcing a Willits anti- ed. The Willits News Dispensary’ means any facility or loca- or person...” Honey oil is a concentrated By unanimous vote, Wednesday night, tion, whether fixed or mobile, where While the city’s regulation on marijua- camping ordinance at Skunk Hollow at the end of Railroad derivative of marijuana often the Willits City Council passed an ordi- medical marijuana is made available to, na dispensaries does not include a section made from “shake” or low- nance outlawing the operation of medical distributed by, or distributed to two or on enforcement, the previously passed Avenue when they found Savoie working under several quality marijuana. Anderson marijuana dispensaries within city limits. more of the following: a qualified patient, comprehensive code enforcement ordi- said production of the drug Two key findings were listed as justifi- a person with an identification card, or a nance applies. The enforcement ordi- tarps. “We would best character- has been on the rise for the cation for the prohibition: primary caregiver.” nance allows the city to declare any code last three or four years. • the 2001 U.S. Supreme Court deci- The words “two or more” are key. An violation a nuisance that can be abated ize it as a mobile honey-oil lab,” said WPD Chief Gerry “It’s the thing, lately,” he sion holding that “there is no medical exchange in which one supplier gives or through a civil lawsuit, criminal prosecu- said. necessity exception to the federal sells marijuana to just one medical user is tion, or such administrative remedies as Gonzalez.