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Shortstop Unique niche SKELETAL REMAINS ID’D Vizquel to miss business opens Cause of death not yet known 4-6 weeks in Ukiah .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 .....................................Page 2 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Partly sunny; H 73º L 40º 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY Feb. 27, 2008 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 149 Number 324 email: [email protected] Pot raid on Gardens Ave. Memo Parker arrested again; Law enforcement officers served a search Posted online warrant on Memo Parker’s home Monday after- at 10:22 a.m. 297 adult marijuana plants, noon, seizing close to 300 plants and arresting Tuesday 34 pounds dried pot seized Parker on possession and cultivation charges under circumstances similar to a raid on the By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal See MARIJUANA, Page 14 ukiahdailyjournal.com MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Law enforcement officers served a search warrant on Memo Parker’s Gardens Avenue property Monday, seizing hundreds of marijuana plants and arresting Parker on drug charges. ABC JUDGE HEARS ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST Releaf says city’s tree Deli alcohol sales pruning is Judge now has a month to make unhealthy decision in case By ZACK SAMPSEL The Daily Journal By BEN BROWN Releaf, a local community group, The Daily Journal complained this week that the city Ghulam Ansari and the pruned the trees along School Street to 130 petitioners who unhealthy proportions, and now it’s oppose his off-sale wine working to see that it doesn’t happen and beer license had a again -- one branch at a time. chance to voice their “Well if the trees aren’t maintained, opinion to an administra- they’re going to die,” said Judy Pruden, tive judge from the a member of Releaf’s board of direc- Alcohol Beverage Com- tors. “One thing that makes School mission Tuesday, but they Street viable are the pistachio trees. will have to wait a month When you look at old pictures of down- for a decision. town and there are no trees, it wasn’t Ansari purchased the inviting. The trees have made a huge property at 1550 S. State difference in the shopping experience.” St., the former home of Releaf has fought to preserve, pro- Moore’s Flower Mill, in tect and enhance urban and community the summer of 2006 with forests in the county for more than a the intention of turning it decade since getting its start in the into Speedex Deli, but it early-’90s. Pruden said the nonprofit was almost immediately group joined forces with the Shade opposed, largely due to its Brigade later in the decade, and ulti- proximity to Grace mately became Mendocino County Hudson School and Releaf a few years ago. The group is Ansari’s intention to sell part of the larger California Releaf pro- alcoholic beverages at the deli. MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal The school is 336 feet Ghulam Ansari, right, and his lawyer, Thomas Johnson, listen to testimony from Capt. Trent See TREES, Page 14 from the proposed deli. Taylor of the Ukiah Police Department during an appeal hearing Tuesday for Ansari’s beer and The ABC has the authori- wine permit. ty to deny a permit if the proposed vendor is within The former Moore’s 2006. 600 feet of a school, but it Flour Mill, now emp- “Most of the calls there is not obligated to. ty, is where Ghulam are related to alcohol On Sept. 27, 2007, the Ansari would like to intoxication,” Taylor said. ABC denied Ansari’s per- open a deli that also On cross-examination, mit and he asked to have would sell beer and Taylor testified that the his case heard before wine. store at 390 E. Gobbi St. Administrative Law had a hard liquor license, Judge Sunny Lo. for beer and wine would not the beer and wine Testifying on Tuesday, only exacerbate existing license Ansari applied for. Grace Hudson Principal problems. Johnson said Taylor’s Diana Davidson said the Under cross-examina- survey took into account school is already having tion by Ansari’s attorney, trouble spots but did not to deal with problems on Thomas Johnson, look at stores where the school grounds related to Davidson testified that sale of alcohol has not off-sale beer and wine, Ansari’s business could caused problems, such as including finding empty not be blamed for prob- wine. ings, transients and gang at the Bottle Shop on alcohol containers on lems the school is having Ukiah Police Depart- members in one area. Talmage Road. school grounds and hav- because it is not yet open. ment Capt. Trent Taylor Taylor said a similar The Mendocino ing to roust transients Davidson said the testified that Ansari’s store operating under sim- County Sheriff’s Office, who sometimes sleep on school has no problem business could be a ilar conditions at 390 E. which has jurisdiction the playground at night. with Ansari opening a deli source of problems Gobbi St. had 175 calls over the area the proposed Davidson said the at the site, only with his because the area com- for service in 2005 and MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal addition of another outlet intention to sell beer and bines multi-family dwell- 258 calls for service in See DELI, Page 2 A pruned tree is still adorned with Christmas lights on School Street Tuesday. Board votes to draft an ordinance 200 POT PLANTS IN WILLITS HOME Man who asks officers to protect to ban grocery bags made of plastic him arrested on marijuana charges By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal spoke with John J. Mayock, 39, of The Daily Journal BOARD OF SUPERVISORS While responding to reports of an Willits, who told them he had been con- Plastic grocery bags took one more step toward assault on Sherwood Road Monday, law ducting a commercial marijuana grow extinction in the county with a 3-2 vote by the according to Californians Against Waste, a nonprof- enforcement officers discovered a large with two other men at his home in the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors directing it group working to preserve the environment, the marijuana grow. 24100 block of Sherwood Road. staff to draft an ordinance banning them. state spends $25 million annually to put the bags in According to a news release from the The three got into an argument over The ban was proposed by the Mendocino County landfills. Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, money, during which the other two men Solid Waste Management Authority and had already Fourth District Supervisor Kendall Smith said she Willits Police Department officers were allegedly attacked Mayock, according been given the thumbs up by the cities of Willits, supported the ban and that her concerns about the investigating an alleged assault around 3 to sheriff’s reports. Fort Bragg and Ukiah. cost-effectiveness of such a plan were minimal. p.m. Monday and summoned sheriff’s Mayock asked sheriff’s deputies to Statistics about the percentage of plastic bags “I think this is something we really need to step deputies for help. recycled in Mendocino County are unavailable, but See PLASTIC, Page 14 When they arrived, sheriff’s deputies See ARREST, Page 2 2 – WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ grandchildren. A They were the great joy of etery Chapel. Visitation will and graduated Boonville will be held on Celebration of Life will be her life. She is sur- be on Thursday, Cum laude from San Friday, February 29, on vived by numerous loved February 28, 2008 from 12 Francisco State Univer- 2008 at 1pm at Evergreen Saturday, March 1, 2008 at nieces and neph- to 5pm at the Ev- sity, with a joint Master’s Cemetery. Donald 11:00 a.m. at ews. ersole Mortuary. degree in geography passed away on Saturday, Paradise Alliance Church. Hazel was predeceased The Eversole Mortuary and anthropology. She was February 23, 2008 Arrangements by her life-partner is in charge of ar- employed for in San Francisco. were handled by Newton- and husband of 57 years, rangements. many years as a Born June 21, 1932 in Bracewell of Para- Sam, her parents [\ secretary/dispatcher with Onalaska, Washing- dise. View obituary and and eight brothers and sis- MURPHEY, FRANCES ANNE the City of Rohnert Park ton, Donald served in the send condolences ters. WHITMAN Public Safety Depart- US Army for 9 online to With Sam she worked Passed away at UVMC ment. She was involved in years in Germany. He WWW.NBCFH.COM many years in ranch- on February 21, 2008 many city activi- worked as a saw filer [\ ing, the life she loved most. at the age of 83 with her ties including Babe Ruth and has resided in HAZEL MARIE SCROGGINS In her youth she family by her side. and Joe DiMaggio Mendocino County for the Hazel Marie Scroggins was an expert horse woman She was born on December baseball leagues. Upon past 48 years. Don is sur- was born 1914 in and an expert 13, 1924 in retirement in 1996 vived by his wife of Page, Oklahoma, the 4th shot with a pistol or rifle. Boston, MA. She was the she moved to Ukiah to be 53 years Joy Frazer of child of Jess and She was very proud of beloved mother of closer to her family. Boonville, daughter VIOLA LADEAN PHILLIPS Edna Teresa Davis. She the work she did for Chris Murphey of Hopland, Her favorite things to do Donna Gibson of Santa Viola “Dolly” Phillips went to be with the the war effort during Claire Hardeman included taking Rosa, sons Ray Fraz- age 78 passed away at Lord February 22, 2008 in WWII.

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