Wildcats win Pit Crew UKIAH SKATE PARK first game Program at New location suggested of playoffs Animal Care ..........Page A-6 ...........Page A-3 ...................................Page A-1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Clouds, then sun; breezy 7 58551 69301 0 FRIDAY May 18, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 48 pages, Volume 149 Number 39 email: [email protected] IN SACRAMENTO County, Vroman’s estate, others sued over horses By BEN BROWN Attorney Norman Vroman and Mendocino, Vroman’s estate, volun- according to court documents filed Election The Daily Journal numerous individuals for actions sur- teers Roni McFadden, Pam Gadiardo, April 20. He is seeking unspecified Newbury resident Mark Scripter, rounding his purchase at auction of Janet Kayada and 50 unnamed defen- damages. brother-in-law of animal abuse sus- several of the horses seized from dants for breach of contract, defama- Scripter had previously filed a reform pect James DeNoyer, is suing the DeNoyer in December of 2005. tion, right to privacy and intentional Scripter is suing the county of infliction of emotional distress, See HORSES, Page A-8 bill OK’d county, the estate of late District in Senate Remains Measure sparked found by special election Every 15-Minutes in DA’s race now in pot goes to governor Simulation shows students DUI’s deadly consequences The Daily Journal By BEN BROWN A bill authored by Sen. Pat The Daily Journal garden Wiggins (D-Santa Rosa) was It is not known how fast approved by the state Senate the two cars were going 2nd man missing; Thursday, and now awaits when they collided head-on 4,500 marijuana only the approval of the gov- near Ukiah High School ernor to become law. Thursday morning. It is not plants eradicated The bill, SB 813, is meant known if the passengers to clarify a section of were wearing seat belts. The Daily Journal California election law that What is known is that The Mendocino County dictates what happens in an seven people suffered major Sheriff’s Office is investigat- election if a candidate dies injuries in the crash. Ukiah ing a homicide and seeking a within 68 days of the election. High School Senior Josh missing person, both alleged- “In light of the turmoil Kates died, slumped over the ly connected to an illegal resulting from the 2006 hood of the red Thunderbird marijuana garden in the Mendocino County DA race he was riding in as a passen- Wylettie Flats area of Covelo. and the subsequent lawsuit ger. An unnamed female pas- The victim, Joseph and court ruling, I introduced senger was extricated from a Clarence Wilma Jr., 52, of this bill to clarify once and for tan Kia and died at the hospi- Redway, was identified by the all that Section 8026 does tal. forensic exam of a jawbone indeed apply only to primary The driver of the on Tuesday. elections,” Wiggins said. Thunderbird, Caleb Meek- Wilma was reported miss- Conflict over this issue led Bradley, was arrested on sus- ing in Humboldt County in to a lawsuit and special elec- picion of driving under the September of 2005. tion during the 2006 District influence and the rest of the He went missing under Attorney’s race after incum- injured were transferred to suspicious circumstances and bent District Attorney the hospital by ambulance. is believed to have been in the Norman Vroman died from This was not a real acci- company of Michael William complications due to a heart dent. It was a simulation put Desmet, 33, of Shelter Cove, attack within 47 days of the together by the Every 15- who is also missing, accord- election, leaving Fort Bragg Minutes program for the ing to sheriff’s reports. attorney Meredith Lintott the benefit of UHS’s 2,000 stu- Wilma’s jawbone was only candidate in the race. dents, an attempt to show found April 6 by a hiker in the The Board of Supervisors them the consequences of a area of Wylettie Flats. The believed the race was gov- real drunken-driving acci- hiker contacted sheriff’s erned by California Elections dent. deputies, who searched the Code 15402, which says that area and found a 4,500 plant illegal marijuana grow. if a candidate dies within 68 See 15-MINUTES, Page A-8 days of the election, the can- Deputies called in the didate’s name remains on the County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team, ballot. In the event the dead MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal candidate is elected, the Emergency respon- which eradicated the garden. Board of Supervisors fills the ders zip up senior A further search of the area seat until the next election. Josh Kates for trans- conducted with cadaver dogs Keith Faulder, who was port. Kate’s role was by the Office of Emergency acting as interim district attor- one of two fatalities in Services revealed several ney at the time, rejected that a drunken driving car potential pieces of evidence, interpretation and said wreck. according to sheriff’s reports.. Section 8026 was the correct According to sheriff’s reports, the death of Wilma See ELECTION, Page A-8 See HOMICIDE, Page A-8 Santa Cruz firm to design Ukiah Skate Park Railroad suggests alternate site for park; council agrees UKIAH CITY COUNCIL by 3-2 vote to hear proposal currently leased for the park from the North By KATIE MINTZ Coast Railroad Authority was finally selected The Daily Journal in 2004. The selection of a design team to begin However, according to Director of work on the long-awaited Ukiah Skate Park Community Services Sage Sangiacomo, the was nearly stalled by a last-minute proposition NCRA may now have some interest in retain- Wednesday night to consider a new site for its ing its land for future development purposes. location. “I don’t get what’s going on. It’s not just See SKATE, Page A-8 disconcerting; something seems fishy here,” Councilman Phil Baldwin said of the discus- sion that strayed from selecting the firm to a Illustration courtesy of The Willits News nearly two-hour talk about moving the park The Ukiah City Council Wednesday from its planned location beside the Depot chose Santa Cruz-based design firm Park on Leslie Street across Perkins Street to Wormhoudt, Inc. to develop plans for an unspecified plot of land along the railroad the Ukiah Skate Park with input from tracks. the local skate community. The firm, Carole Aleshire, who has been on the Ukiah which also designed Willits’ skate park Skate Park Committee since it formed in 1997, (pictured above), has more than 30 said 18 sites across the city were evaluated years of experience designing skate over the course of seven years before the plot parks. Great Toys Party Area Superior Clothes children’s shop 463-0628 211 S. State St., Ukiah Locally Owned A-2 – FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES DEATH NOTICES [\ loving wife and their always willing to live by & Janice Dyer and their family. his beliefs, Aaron exempli- children of California; • Violet Gebauer, 90, of Pomona, died Thursday, May 10, Aaron loved his family fied those charac- Terre' (Southwick) & Kyle 2007. At her request, no services will be held. Arrangements are with all his heart and teristics that built this great Foutz and her chil- under the direction of Eversole Mortuary. cherished every moment nation. Aaron was dren of California; Sandra • Oscar Stanley Nelson, 78, of Covelo, died Saturday, May and memory shared a lifetime learner, reading & Marty Hockwart 5, 2007. No services are planned at this time. Anker-Lucier with them. Aaron never everything that he and their children of Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. met a person who could find on politics, med- Idaho. He is also sur- wasn’t a friend. He ical healing, chiro- vived by his siblings: touched the lives of many practic health care, and Bernadine Foutz of CORRECTIONS 3rd Place: 12, Lucky people through his friend- Church history. Aaron Utah, Stephen Clark of Charms. ship, love, genuine led his family by precept California, Alden Clark Thursday’s Page 1 article Race time: 1:44.51. caring, service, kindness and example and of California, and Joseph “Hospice: Terminally ill have and his outstanding was blessed with a loving Clark of Utah and two hospices locally to choose healing skills. His medical family and special their extensive families. We from for care at end-of-life,” POLICE REPORTS inaccurately reported that practice was more friendships; his legacy is will miss Aaron, and look The following were of a calling than a job; it’s beyond measure. forward to being united Hospice of Ukiah, Inc. pro- vides social work to its clients compiled from reports AARON WESLEY CLARK what he did and Aaron is survived by his again as an eternal family. prepared by the Ukiah Dr. Aaron Wesley Clark, who he was, he loved his wife Delilah Rae Wil- Funeral Service will be through volunteer services. Hospice of Ukiah, which Police Department. To beloved husband patients dearly. His liams Clark and their five held at the Church of anonymously report and father, passed away on lifetime involvement in the children, two nieces Jesus Christ of Latter Day relies on community support and donations as well as crime information, call Wednesday May Church of Jesus and nephew. Sean & Saints at 1337 S. 463-6205. 16, 2007 at the age of 63 Christ of Latter Day Saints Rebekah Clark of Arizo- Dora Street Ukiah, CA.