UHS girls REMINISCE basketball SUNDAY Elusive Images photo contest ..........Page A-8 Jan. 22, 2006 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: A full day of sunshine Tuesday: Mostly sunny $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 54 pages, Volume 147 Number 288 email:
[email protected] Solar-powered home incentives funded By BEN BROWN capacity in California by 3,000 was announced earlier this month. but it also represents the collusion incentive payment per watt of elec- The Daily Journal megawatts a year by 2017. “Now it’s up to Californians to make years of political uncertainty in many tricity produced by an individual The California Public Utilities “Today’s decision signals Califo- this a reality by stepping up to the oil producing countries and a desire photovoltaic array. Individuals and Commission will be funding the rnia’s vote for a cleaner, more reli- plate to go solar.” for energy independence, said Adam businesses receiving electricity or California Solar Initiative, an 11- able energy future,” said Rachelle This victory for clean energy Browning, director of operations for gas from investor-owned utility com- year, $3.2 billion incentive program Chong, California Public Utilities advocates was the result of three the Vote Solar Initiative. aimed at increasing the solar energy Commissioner, when the decision years of hard work by many people, The program will provide a $2.80 See SOLAR, Page A-14 THOMPSON SWEET SATURDAYS AT THE UKIAH LIBRARY ON COAST: Queries Children’s toys crowned fielded, By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal even if ayla Meadows, a River Oak Charter School unpopular kindergarten teacher, stands at By FRANK HARTZELL the door to the Fort Bragg Advocate-News Kchildren’s room of the Mendocino When Mike Thompson’s County Library Saturday morning, mom first brought him to the greeting children and parents as Little River Inn, it was to they enter for the first Sweet soothe the allergies of the Saturday event of the year.