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Olympic gold FORUM for Ohno SUNDAY Should we rethink 4th event? ..........Page A-8 Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006 ...................................Page A-4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Rain Tuesday: Partly cloudy $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 56 pages, Volume 147 Number 323 email: [email protected] MARCH COMES IN LIKE A ......? Third candidate joins DA race By BEN BROWN isolated. Lintott said she The Daily Journal would work to bridge the gaps Meredith Lintott, coast between county agencies attorney and former deputy in including social services, law the District Attorney’s office, enforcement and mental announced health, agencies that are her inten- essential to the safety of the tion to run community. for “I will seek to build bridges District to our other county depart- Attorney ments and agencies so that the Friday, focus is on successful prose- running on cution of criminals rather than the slogan on bureaucratic power plays,” “leader- Lintott said. Lintott ship with Lintott said she is commit- integrity.” ted to vigorously and effec- Her entrance into the race tively punishing violent crim- brings the total number of inal offenders and said she candidates to three. see’s violent crime, gangs, “While it would be tempt- methamphetamine use and ing to leave the ‘dirty’ work of domestic violence as the enforcing the law to someone worst problems plaguing else, I plan to commit myself Mendocino County. for the next four years to The lack of mental health facilities and the abuse of the improving and changing the elderly and children are also course of law enforcement in areas of concern for Lintott. the county,” Lintott said. As DA, she said she would Lintott said she was run- work collaboratively with the Amy Wellnitz/The Daily Journal ning for DA because she felt Rancher Buck Guntley moves his flock from the night holding pen to the feeding pen Friday morn- police, sheriff’s office and the office was in need of new social services to help solve ing. Guntley currently has about 50 ewes most of which have at least one lamb. leadership because the current administration has become See RACE, Page A-6 Lambing season brings new life OUR AGING POPULATION But sheep ranching ‘a dying breed’ By LAURA CLARK When to retire? Early The Daily Journal Buck Guntley, a descendant of generations of sheep ranchers, remembers when family outings included dri- is not always best ving on foot or horseback, about 1,200 head of sheep over By TIM SIMMERS more to consider than if you Highway 101. Media NewsGroup think Social Security could go “We used to trail sheep from here to Anderson Valley,” broke. the 74-year-old Guntley recalled Friday from his 4,000 If you’re nearing retire- ment age, you’ve got a big Financial consultants rec- acre ranch, hidden off Highway 20. “There used to be a ommend that you first assess slaughter house there. We’d take a buggy and a couple of decision to make: when to start accepting Social Security your health and your family See LAMBS, Page A-3 payments. health history. Also, consider You can begin withdrawing if you like your job and want A curious ewe looks out from a holding pen on Social Security at age 62. But to keep working. Do you need Cold Creek Ranch. if you wait until your full the money now? If not, it retirement age of 66 or 67, might be better to wait three those monthly checks will or four years so you can draw grow as much as 25 percent full benefits. higher. There’s also the reality to Many people base this consider that job security isn’t Huey lashes out at auditor candidate tough decision on getting what it used to be. Many By SETH FREEDLAND cy of solid fiscal planning and account- tax, “is an issue that, because of public something from the govern- workers over age 50 have suf- The Daily Journal ability. “The more appropriate issue is the safety issues, should have been under- ment now, worrying that the fered from corporate job cuts Retiring County Auditor-Controller competency -- or lack thereof -- of Mr. stood by Mr. Roman,” Huey said. No Social Security well will run and have experienced tough Dennis Huey retorted Thursday to recent Roman.” “big secret” existed, he added, as various dry. job searches for new work. Huey said his 33 years with the coun- agencies including the grand jury exam- This conundrum remains But if you can’t make up public remarks by the man wishing to your mind, don’t stress, win his position in November’s election. ty has resulted in his performance being ined the use of money as discretionary prominent for residents in funds. Once the county hit a minimum Mendocino County, which experts say. You could wait In declaring his candidacy last week, tested in a public forum on a daily basis. six months or a year or two He compared this scrutiny to Roman’s fund level, it can spend the dollars as it during the 2004 census was Al Roman, former top administrator of 13.6 percent 65 years or older longer than age 62 before six-year constituency to “one man -- the chooses, Huey said. the District Attorney’s office, slammed “If Mr. Roman had taken the time to in comparison with 10 percent drawing benefits. Each month Huey’s office as incompetent and secre- District Attorney.” educate himself, he would have learned statewide. you wait, the Social Security tive. But Huey wholly disagreed with But Huey suggested further that the county was well within its legal But rumors of Social check due to you goes up a lit- Roman’s assertions -- and added some Roman’s appraisals of his office suggest- authority,” Huey said. “I can only con- Security’s poor health may be tle. critiques himself. ed a lack of knowledge in how the audi- clude that he has trouble understanding exaggerated, experts say. When Verdin Sproat was “My conscience is clear and I believe tor functions. (this crucial) concept. You have to won- They stress that people are approaching 62, his wife was- my competency is not in question here,” Roman’s focus on the county’s treat- living and working longer and Huey said, noting his long-standing poli- ment of Prop. 172 funding, the state sales See AUDITOR, Page A-6 point out that there’s much See RETIRE, Page A-6 Political poet strikes again Mendocino College students looking to restart newspaper By LAURA CLARK our students turn over so quickly, because “To start a full-fledged newspaper at In part because both the MATTER The Daily Journal it’s a two-year school,” Mendocino Mendocino College we would have to Board of Supervisors and the evaluate it like any other program and see City Council had the week After over a decade without one, a College President Kathy Lehner said. group of Mendocino College students are “We get some students interested and if we have the finances and the staff to off, and in part because I produce it. ... It would need to go through needed a break from analysis, OF FACT attempting to open up communications then by the time they get to where they on campus by reinventing a college might be able to do something, they the curriculum process and (we would I’ve decided to once again By Seth Freedland need to) develop a new class and a full shed my title of Political newspaper. move on to a four-year school and then For reasons unknown -- or unspoken - we have to start over again.” time faculty member would have to spon- Columnist and adopt for the sor the course through the curriculum second time the guise of Political Poet. - a former administration shut down the However, Lehner added, “If the stu- last school publication during the dents organize it and have support from process. Then, like all of our classes, we This week, I’ve attempted – emphasis on the word would need a minimum enrollment of 12 “attempt” – to describe a few aspects of my average workday 1994/95 school year. However, new lead- their faculty advisor and the dean of ership -- as well as faculty, staff and some Student Services, then I think the project to 15 students to make it run,” Lehner through the poetic form called a sestina. It seems complicated, said. but it’s surprisingly easy to follow. The poem is technically board members -- supports the idea of at could be very successful and aid our Meanwhile, a newsletter committee unrhymed, as the effect of rhyme follows a fixed pattern of least a newsletter on campus, if the kinks communications.” has been established, student ambas- can be worked out. Finances would also need to be See MATTER, Page A-7 “One road block I have found is that worked out, she said. See COLLEGE, Page A-6 The STRESS STOPS HERE 509 S. State St. • Ukiah Come try a hot tub on for size - Free test soaks 462-7305 A-2 – SUNDAY, FEB. 26, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ youngest of thirteen to she met and was a living ves- Dorothy Sturges was a Annie-Belle and Hester sel of unconditional love member of Calvary Baptist Browning; a shy child, she who lived her faith with Church; she was a home- Al-Qaida claims attack always helped her mother every breath she took.