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Wildcats The weekly FORUM defeat Lobos Commerce File Our readers write ..................................Page 4 .............Page 6 .................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny and warm 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY May 10, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 31 email: [email protected] Potter Valley superintendent/elementary principal hired By LAURA CLARK tendent and the elementary tendent, teacher, principal and small, rural district, and Potter community where it wants to The Daily Journal school principal. special projects director. Then he Valley came up and it looked like go.” There will be a new man on Lucky thing he likes children. moved to Romania, where he a nice fit with me, so here I am,” Meanwhile, Don Kirkpatrick, the Potter Valley Elementary “I like working with kids, spent nine years as the princi- he said. retired Mendocino School School campus come May 15. family and teachers ... the whole pal/director of an elementary “I am excited to get started; I District superintendent, and That is, when Gary Barr is not education community,” Barr said section of an international bac- have been away from kids for Ralph Paulin, retired county working at the district office Tuesday, when asked why he calaureate private school. almost a year and I am excited to schools administrator and Potter about an eighth of a mile down chose a career in education more These days, Barr says Potter get back to school with kids and Valley Elementary School prin- the road. than 30 years ago. Valley sounds like a good fit. families,” Barr said. cipal, are holding down the fort. Barr, formerly of Sonoma Barr worked in the public “I came back from Romania Asked his plans once he gets “In 2000, there was a vacancy County, has been hired as the school system in Sonoma to take care of my mother, who is there, he said: “I need to get to for superintendent and principal Barr new Potter Valley Community County for about 25 years as, not well, then I went out looking know the community and work Unified School District superin- among other things, a superin- for a job. I was looking for a with them ... and just take the See BARR, Page 16 UPD: sex Tip-a-Cop offender shouldn’t be in town Warnings of local police go unheeded by state By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal A sex offender described as “high risk” and “likely to re-offend” by the California Department of Correc- tions and Rehabilita- tion, Department of Youth Authority, has been released on parole in Ukiah over the objections of the Ukiah Police Department. Jacob Michael Par- mely, 20, was placed in temporary housing in Ukiah on May 3. Local and State of California Parmely records describe Par- mely as a “sophisticat- ed child predator,” and he is expected to “remain a significant danger to the com- munity.” Officers at UPD objected to his place- ment in the city because Parmely’s vic- Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal From left to right, Mendocino County Sheriff’s Detectives Kevin Cline and Andy Alvarado, acting Sheriff Kevin Broin tims and some of the witnesses from his and Detective Sgt. Scott Poma in the kitchen at the Broiler Steak House, where they will participate in the “Tip-a-Cop” trial still reside in or visit Ukiah. fund-raiser on Saturday, where local police will serve food in return for tips to benefit the Mendocino County Inland Police investigators were advised that a Special Olympics. ranking supervisor at the Department of Youth Authority directed that Parmely be located in Ukiah despite the objections of local authorities, according to a UPD press release. Fund-raiser benefits Special Olympics Officials at UPD note that, despite the By BEN BROWN Mendocino County Sheriff’s Capt. Kurt “It gets bigger and bigger for them every fact that extensive treatment and rehabili- The Daily Journal Smallcomb. year,” said Shirley Dietrick, general manag- tation programs are available in The phrase “to protect and serve” will Those who eat at The Broiler on Saturday er at The Broiler Sacramento, the decision was made to take on a new meaning at The Broiler in can leave tips for the police who serve their “People here are really giving,” release Parmely in Ukiah. Redwood Valley Saturday, where members tables. Often restaurant staff will offer to Smallcomb said. As a condition of his parole, Parmely is of county law enforcement will raise money split their night’s tips with police or simply The money stays within the county and not allowed to have contact with anyone for athletes participating in the Mendocino donate the whole amount, Smallcomb said. goes to support athletes in the Special County Inland Special Olympics as part of This is the seventh year county law Olympics in bowling and softball. See PARMELY, Page 16 the Tip-a-Cop fund-raiser. enforcement has been involved with the pro- Smallcomb said at one time the department Between 5 and 8 p.m., eight to 10 officers gram and the fifth year officers have worked supported seven different sports, but has from the Ukiah Police Department, the with The Broiler. Previously the event was scaled back in recent years. Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office and the held at the Crushed Grape in Hopland. There are between 100 and 150 partici- TO OUR READERS: parole office will serve drinks, deliver food Smallcomb said the event usually draws pants in the Special Olympics in the inland Due to production problems, some and fill water glasses for restaurant cus- as many as 200 people, and police generally area of Mendocino County. Smallcomb said subscribers experienced late delivery tomers. make between $2,500 and $3,000 for chari- of Sunday and Tuesday editions of “We do a little bit of everything,” said ty during their three-hour shift. See TIP, Page 16 The Daily Journal. We apologize for any inconvenience. County snow pack nearly twice average measurement The Daily Journal fluffy snow and thus more depth,” said Forest Service hydrolo- Snow depth and water content have been steadily climbing Mendocino County’s “miracle March” continued into April, gist Robert Faust. since the first measurements were taken in January that record- according to the latest snow depth reports, which put snow The average snow depth for April is 54 inches with a water ed snow depth at 36 inches and water content at 12 inches, both depth and water content at almost twice the average measure- content of 23 inches. Last year at this time snow depth was 80 significantly below average. ments. inches. At the time, Faust said measurements taken in April would Surveys taken April 28 at the Plaskett Meadows snow course “Usually snow depth and water content decreases during be a better indicator of how the county’s water-table would fare in the Mendocino County National Forest by Fred Burrows and April; but during the last two years we have had bountiful pre- this summer. Jordan Saylor of the Covelo Ranger District measured the snow cipitation,” Faust said. “This is the second consecutive wet year Measurements taken in February were also below average, but pack at 94 inches with a water content of 40 inches. and probably the reason why our hillsides are sliding and caus- on March 2 the snow started to fall in the mountains and contin- “This year the storms were colder, which made for a more ing road-bed failures.” ued almost daily, increasing 50 inches in a month, Faust said. For a lifetime 468-11010 Care for Her of women’s health. Hillside Health Center z 333 Laws Ave. 2 – WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Whipple then pulled Hoaglen Charles Russel Taylor, 53, of POLICE REPORTS to the ground where Whipple, Westport, was driving north The following were the boy and several others on Route 1 North of Omega The world briefly compiled from reports began to kick and punch Drive in a 1994 Saturn. Taylor prepared by the Ukiah Hoaglen. failed to negotiate a left-curve Police Department. To Police said an unknown and drove off the road, strik- gence that is being produced on Iran and its anonymously report subject yelled at the group and ing a redwood picket fence Iranians: U.S. hasty crime information, call they stopped attacking nuclear intentions, given what happened with and a bishop pine tree. in brushoff of Iran Iraq. 463-6205. Hoaglen who took the oppor- The passenger, John ARREST -- Sebastian tunity to get in his car, flee the TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Secretary of State He responded by noting the failure on Iraq, Thomas Cohown, 53, of whose alleged weapons of mass destruction Govea Garcia, 35, of scene and report the incident Westport, sustained moderate Condoleezza Rice’s abrupt dismissal of a let- Stockton, was arrested on sus- to law enforcement. Hoaglen ter from Iran’s president might only strength- were the chief public justification given by to major injuries and was President Bush for invading in March 2003 to picion of driving under the was treated on scene by a transported to Mendocino en hardline attitudes and mistrust of America, influence in the 900 block of Willits ambulance crew and some Iranians warned Tuesday. overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. Coast Hospital for treatment. “It turns out it was wrong, that intelli- South State Street at 12:14 was advised that he go to a Taylor sustained moderate As President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a.m.