NULL beats HAPPY Willits Friday INDEPENDENCE DAY! ..........Page A-6 July 4, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Saturday: Sunny H 93º L 57º 7 58551 69301 0 Sunday: Mostly sunny H 92º L 56º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 38 pages, Volume 150 Number 86 email:
[email protected] Measure Fire claims first casualty B on hold Flags fly at half-staff for court locally and at Capitol decisions to honor AV firefighter By BEN BROWN By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal The Daily Journal ‘He was a hugely enthusiastic A tangle of lawsuits have Flags at the state Capitol brought enforcement of Measure and at the Anderson Valley volunteer. He didn’t care what B to a temporary halt while Volunteer Fire Department he did, he wanted to be of county law enforcement officials flew at half-staff Thursday in await court rulings. honor of volunteer service.’ Mendocino County Sheriff Firefighter Bob Roland, who Tom Allman said the Sheriff’s died early Thursday morning Office would be delaying at Ukiah Valley Medical Fire Chief COLIN WILSON enforcement of Measure B’s Center, becoming the first new medical marijuana plant casualty in the Mendocino limits until Mendocino County Lightning Complex fire. ‘We are forever indebted to Superior Court Judge John Anderson Valley Fire Bob’s extraordinary and heroic Behnke rules on the lawsuit filed Chief Colin Wilson said the by county residents George 63-year-old Roland was act- service..’ Hanamoto and Paula Laguna. ing as a spotter on the Oso “County counsel asked that fire north of Boonville when we hold off until the next hear- he started feeling fatigue and Gov.