The Ukiah Local Newspaper

Community Macho merlo marketed FORUM sports digest for the ‘manly man’ Our readers write ...................................Page 4 .............Page 6 .........................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY March 29, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 147 Number 354 email: [email protected] INSTILLING GOODNESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND DEVELOPING VIRTUE SECONDARY SCHOOL Seasonal City of 10,000 rainfall schools complete way past their third decade normal By LAURA CLARK nation -- also opened on the The Daily Journal grounds of the “488-acre January-March rainfall Buddhist monastery, convent, typical, but season as a he fogginess university, and international whole 11.5 inches ahead at the crack community 110 miles north of of dawn, the San Francisco,” according to of what’s usually seen vibrantly written information about the By LAURA CLARK colored city. The Daily Journal ‘Tclouds at sundown, and the “When the first light of day When will it end? The rain, that is. recitation in the Buddha Hall hits, the sun’s rays pour over Even a meteorologist dares not ... I like everything about the the drowsy earth like maple answer that question. City of 10,000 Buddhas,” syrup over pancakes and “I can’t tell you when it’s going to 10th-grader Virginia Chung gently nudge the plants and stop,” said Mike Vojtesak of the states in a book honoring the animals awake. I greedily Eureka National Weather Service. 30th anniversary of Instilling breathe in the fresh air as it He did say Ukiah should see scat- Goodness and Developing calms my previous night’s tered showers this morning, but that Virtue Schools. frustration and brightens up they would diminish by this after- In 1974, the Dharma Realm my spirit. The City of 10,000 noon. After a “fairly clear” Wednes- Buddhist Association acquired Buddha’s beautiful morning day night, another system with more the Talmage property, formerly tells me that today is a new rain is expected to arrive by the location of a state mental day, so I have to make that day Thursday evening and carry on into hospital, and two years later a masterpiece,” Chung Friday. the Venerable Master Hsuan continues. The weekend, “right now doesn’t Hua founded Instilling She also writes about the Goodness Elementary School. peacocks that freely roam the See RAIN, Page 16 In 1981, or by the time the campus, and others visiting the elementary school students city have described the temple reached high school age, as nothing less than awe- Developing Virtue Secondary inspiring. That said, students Probation School -- reportedly the first Buddhist high school in the See CITY, Page 16 Dept. may Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal (Above) Emma Crawford, front, and Samantha Bennett, along with the rest of their class, partake in a daily ceremony of chanting and bowing be given in the Buddha Hall temple after lunch Tuesday at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. (Left) Teacher Dan Barth goes over journal entries with student Tony Yang during an English class at the Developing Virtue new duties Secondary School. (Below) Students in a drama class at the Developing By BEN BROWN Virtue Secondary School practice a performance based on Dr. Seuss’ The Daily Journal book, “The Butter Battle.” With the county jail already too small to handle Mendocino County’s growing inmate population and a new jail at least five years off -- assuming a way can be found to pay for it -- some are looking for a way to take the pressure off. According to the Criminal Justice Master Plan, programs run through the Probation Department could alle- viate some of that pressure. The Probation Department could take the lead in “community correc- tion programs,” according to the report. These include work release, electronic monitoring and pretrial release, allowing suspects to remain under supervision outside of the jail. “We need bodies, we need time and we need these programs,” said Chief Probation Officer Wes Forman. Programs such as these would release nonviolent suspects into the community on certain conditions. Officers from the probation office would stay in contact with these ‘One hundred percent of our graduates, since 1995, have gone to either a community college or a four-year inmates to ensure their continued university. Over 93 percent graduate from a university, so our products are good. ... So what we intend to do is cooperation. “We are the specialists in this build on this and improve the schools.’ – MATT BOSTICK, principal of the boy’s division elementary and high school county; this makes us the naturals to See PROBATION, Page 16 Ukiah Police warning of scam to clean out bank accounts By BEN BROWN received letters from either USA is to compensate the winner for any conversation, the person on the Both USA International Inc. and The Daily Journal International Inc. or America Direct processing fees. phone will try to get the victim to America Direct Inc. are fake, but The Ukiah Police Department is Inc. saying they have won the Mega- “The check is just there to legit- give out his or her bank account BNSF Railway is a real business warning Mendocino County resi- Millions Jackpot and are entitled to a imize the letter,” said Ukiah Police number or other personal informa- whose bank accounts are being used dents to watch for a new scam aimed $750,000 cash prize. Detective Sgt. John McCutcheon tion. illegally to perpetrate this fraud. at getting victims’ personal banking Also included is a fake check The letter directs winners to call “They’re going to tell you they No cases of this scam have been information. from BNSF Railway to the letter one of two numbers in the 778 area need the information to transfer the A number of people have already recipient. The letter states the check code to claim their prize. During the money,” McCutcheon said. 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He was Sacramento, California; a member of New Home [\ grandchildren, Julee Renee prosecutors disclose Baptist Church and the RENEE JOYCE AULT Carden; Mark Steven Lear; Associated Press to rebut a defense exhibit. Washington Outboard Renee Joyce Ault, age 77, Jennifer Paige Ard; Jemee ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Al- Closing its case Tuesday, the Club. His past-times passed away on March 24, Lynne Broward; Scott Oren Qaida conspirator Zacarias defense had introduced a par- included fishing, blues 2006 at her residence in El Ault and Timothy Joseph Moussaoui offered last month tial transcript of Moussaoui’s music, and practical jokes. Macero, California. She Ault; great-grandchildren, to testify for prosecutors against guilty plea last April. He is preceded in death by was born on March 26, 1928 Evan Joseph Carden; Jack himself at his death-penalty In that 2005 pleading, his parents, wife Dorothy, in Stockton, California to Christopher Carden; Tyler trial and told agents that he did Moussaoui said, “Everybody sister Doris, and grandson Robert R. and Doris Paige Dale Ault and Dylan Scott not want to die in prison, knows that I’m not 9/11 mater- R.J. He is survived by his Sprinkle. She married Ault. according to last-minute testi- ial.” He said Sept. 11 “is not my brother John and wife Rita; Joseph Edwin Ault on June Funeral Services will be mony Tuesday. conspiracy.” He said he was daughters Marva Hill, 8, 1945 in Stockton, held on Thursday, March The bizarre testimony going to attack the White Annette Savage, Sharon California and they enjoyed 30, 2006 at 11:00 A.M. at capped a trial that has seen House if the United States did Hill, Venita Jacobson, and 55 wonderful years together Wiscombe’s Davis Funeral more than its share of the not release radical Egyptian MARVIN ODELL Rhonda Samuels; son until he preceded her in Chapter 116 D Street Davis, unusual over three tumultuous cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, Mar 1, 1935 - Mar 21, 2006 Calvin Brown; six grand- death on October 23, 2000. California with interment to weeks. Introduced as part of a imprisoned for other terrorist Born in Kosciusko, MS, children, and three great- Mrs. Ault was an avid follow in the Davis brief government rebuttal case, crimes. to Evie Leana and Willie grandchildren. Parting golfer who loved golfing Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, this testimony may be the The latest strange turn in Henry Hill. After his father view, Thompson’s Funeral with her friends in El please make donations to firmest evidence the 37-year- Moussaoui’s behavior could died, the family relocated Home, Mar 29 4:00-8:00 Marco. She will be dearly the United Way. Those who old Frenchman of Moroccan bolster the defense’s claims that to California. He worked in PM. Funeral services, New missed by all of her family which to sign a guest book descent hopes for martyrdom he would say anything to the saw mills of Ukiah, was Home Baptist Church, 6612 and friends.

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