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Tuesday: Partly sunny $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 52 pages, Volume 149 Number 97 email: [email protected] Building permit suspension sought Legal Services of Northern By KATIE MINTZ nearly all building. for a preliminary injunction this Hillegas and others represented California to ask court for The Daily Journal Lisa Hillegas, supervising attor- week preventing the county from three local citizens in a 2004 suit Mendocino County’s failure to ney for Legal Services of Northern issuing building permits until its against the county alleging it had not injunction against county come up with a promised housing California, said she will ask housing element is brought into com- over housing element plan could result in a moratorium on Mendocino County Superior Court pliance with state law. See HOUSING, Page A-5 Industrial ONE-OF-A-KIND GREETING CARDS hemp project pilot planned Viability program would include Mendocino County along with three others if bill becomes law By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Mendocino County will become one of four counties in a pilot program to test the viability of growing industrial hemp in California if industrial hemp legislation passes the Senate and is signed into law. Assembly Bill 684, spon- sored by Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and ‘The attitude Assemblyman Chuck DeVore of the sheriff (R-Irvine), would institute a five-year program to test the and the DA in viability of growing industrial each county hemp in California with pilot programs in Mendocino, is going to Imperial, Kings and Yolo counties. be very Mendocino County Agricul- important.’ tural Commissioner Dave Bengston said Mendocino DAVE BENGSTON County was likely chosen for the pilot program because of agricultural the county’s reputation for commissioner marijuana growing. Bengston said Mendocino County can serve as proof that it would not be viable to hide an illegal marijuana crop in a hemp field. MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal “You can’t do that,” he said. “They’d cross- Working in his home studio on a remote hillside on Orr Springs pollinate and destroy each other.” Road, Richard DiGiulio creates original, one-of-a-kind collage Bengston said agricultural issues will not be greeting cards. At left, DiGiulio displays a handful of his greet- the only hurdles hemp-growers may have to ing cards. No two are alike. get over. “The attitude of the sheriff and the DA in each county is going to be very important,” he said. Cards give local artist outlet Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said he did not expect that having people grow industrial hemp in Mendocino County would ‘creatively and politically’ be a problem because of the provisions in the By JOHN-MICHAEL KIBRICK cial to DiGiulio. bill for the amount of allowable THC. The Daily Journal “It’s a good outlet for me cre- “It’s mainly going to be an agricultural Expressing one’s thoughts and atively and politically,” said issue,” he said. feelings creatively has always been DiGiulio. “Some of the cards I The bill defines industrial hemp as contain- a struggle for people. For example: spend maybe two to three hours ing less than three-tenths of 1 percent THC. writing. There are so many words on.” Crops will be sampled and, if the amount of that it is almost impossible for peo- While DiGiulio’s cards are for THC exceeds 1 percent, the crop will be ple to write exactly what they want, sale at Moonlight Framers on destroyed. and other times it’s difficult to find School Street, he never created the The bill passed the Assembly in May, 41-29, appropriate words at all. cards with the intention of making and is currently working its way through One man who has made the money. Senate committees. impossible possible and who has “The cards definitely cost me The bill started as an attempt to legalize never let his creative well run dry is money,” said DiGiulio. industrial hemp statewide but was amended to local greeting card creator Richard Then why does he do it? With a four-county pilot program in order to get it DiGiulio. some of them having slogans refer- out of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said At 48 years of age, DiGiulio cre- ring to the city of Ukiah on them, Shannan Velayas, media representative for ates, by hand, greeting cards that are DiGiulio feels that, “they’re like my Leno. blank on the inside but unique on contribution to Ukiah.” The original bill was similar to one that the outside. No two cards are the passed both the Assembly and the Senate in same, and every one of them is spe- 2006 but was vetoed by Gov. Arnold See CARDS, Page A-5 Schwarzenegger. More than 30 countries grow industrial hemp, some of which is exported to the United States. Increased sales of hemp products has increased hemp farming in Canada, where 48,000 acres of the plant were farmed in 2006, according to Vote Hemp. National forest fire restrictions take effect early Industrial hemp can be made into numerous The Daily Journal imize the potential of accidental ignition of increased fire risk. Hot weather is expected to items, including food, clothing, paper, body- Due to dry conditions and a risk of large wildland fires,” said Mendocino National continue through September. care products, bio-fuels and auto parts. fires this year, officials of the Mendocino Forest Supervisor Tom Contreras. The restrictions will limit open campfires, According to Leno, passage of AB 648 County National Forest announced Friday that The national forest is putting provisions including charcoal fires, to developed camp- would give California farmers access to a $270 special fire restrictions will be in place in the into effect three weeks earlier than usual grounds and other designated fire-safe sites. million industry that is growing at the rate of national forest through the end of fire season. because low snow and rain levels, combined Campfire permits are not required for camp- $26 million per year. “By concentrating on open campfires in with summer heat, have caused vegetation in Ben Brown can be reached at designated recreation sites, it should help min- the national forest to dry out, creating an See FOREST, Page A-5 [email protected]. >cigdYjX^c\8dbXVhiidBZcYdX^cd8djcin Ndjg8VWaZIKVcY>ciZgcZi8dbeVcn^hX]Vc\^c\&"-%%"8DB86HI A-2 – SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected]

FUNERAL NOTICES

[\ Michigan. Upon one support and advocacy Shirley Erickson. She was an astute busi- Laura and Taylor Ca- his retirement, Jerry and to any veteran or A Visitation will be held ness woman, owning, meron. his family moved to family in need. It was with on Sunday, July 15, at various times, a drug We will gather to celebrate Mendocino County. great sadness 2007 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 store in San Francis- Evelyn’s life on July 20th at Though facing a grim when, in 2004, Jerry‚s fail- PM at the Ever- co, a Foster freeze in Los Eversole Mortuary Chapel at prognosis with expect- ing health forced sole Mortuary. A Funeral Gatos and a liquor 1:30 p.m. ed survival estimated at him to withdraw from his Service will be held store in Nice. In lieu of flowers, please only 5 years, and of- much-loved volun- on Monday, July 16 at Evie discovered and fell donate to Evies life ten struggling with painful teer work. 11:00 AM at the Ever- in love with square long favorite charity, health issues; Jerry Jerry touched many lives sole Mortuary. Burial will dancing in the mid sixties. St. Jude Childrens dedicated his life after in his 65 years and take place at Arling- She began dancing Research Hospital retirement to helping he showed that a single per- ton National Cemetery in and continued for the rest 501 St Jude Place, others, especially veterans. son really can Washington, DC. of her life, learning Memphis Tn 38105 After achieving make a difference in the Arrangements and care line and round dancing Arrangements are under his own sobriety, which he world. He will be under the direction of along the way. Danc- the direction of Ever- maintained for the greatly missed. The Eversole Mortuary. ing was one of her greatest sole Mortuary. 24 years until his death, Jerry is survived by his [\ joys. [\ Jerry became in- loving wife of 39 Other joys in her life FREDRICK CASELLA volved with AA, sponsoring years, Leona ( Ferguson) were friends and family. Memorial services for numerous recov- Erickson; son Ger- Evie was full of life and Fredrick Casella will be ering alcoholics, and he co- ald Erickson Jr. and wife love for others. She held on Friday, July 20, facilitated the first Amber of Lakeport; had numerous loyal and 2007 at 10am at the PTSD Support Groups in daughter Tonya Erickson loving friends. Her Oak Grove Day Use Area Mendocino of Redwood Valley; family adored her. She was on the North Shore GERALD (JERRY ) ERICKSON County. After years of son Stephen Erickson of something spe- of Lake Mendocino. Gerald (Jerry) Erickson helping veterans Redwood Valley; cial. Fredrick passed away at of Redwood Valley share rides to medical and grandchildren Jacob, Among those who will his home in Redwood passed away in the pres- appointments at the Caitlyn, Victoria, miss her sparkling Valley on Thursday, ence of his wife and nearest VA Hospital in San Stone and Paige. smile are her partner in July 5, 2007. children on July 9, 2007 at Francisco, he be- He is also survived by dance and in life, Born December 23, 1949 the VA Hospital in gan the all-volunteer his siblings Duane Pete Benville, her daugh- in Stockton, Fre- San Francisco. Disabled American Vet- Erickson and wife Ella of ters, Gloria Ellis drick was deputy for the Born August 16, 1941 in erans (DAV) Spearfish, SD; Leif (John), Bernice Schmitt Mendocino County Deadwood, South Transportation Van in Erickson of Vancouver, (A.J.), her grandchil- Sheriffs Office. He was a Dakota, Jerry spent 14 1989. WA; Ellie Pelzer of dren, John Ellis (Cory), member of the Elks years in the US Army This was the first such van Griswold, IA; Bertha EVELYN J. BEAMAN Joni Holland (Keith), Lodge, enjoyed hunting and before retiring in July 1978 at the San Fran- Harris of Belle Fourche, passed away at her home Jeannie Ellis (Les Thomas), fishing and was as the result of a cisco hospital and its suc- SD; Carl Erickson and in Ukiah, July 3, five great-grand- an avid motorcyclist. full service-connected dis- cess allowed other wife Fran of Sturgis, 2007, after bravely fighting children, Jesika Ellis, Colin He is survived by his ability. During his counties to establish similar SD; Chris Erickson and ovarian cancer for Rigg, Michelle sons, Jacob and Ryan service, Jerry received the programs. In wife Cleda of Red- ten years. Thomas, Julia Thomas, Casella, by his mother Army Commenda- 2000, Jerry spearheaded wood Valley; sister-in-law Evie was born in and Casey Holland, Seraphine Casella, tion Medal for Meritorious the creation of Op- Minnie Wood of Petaluma, Ca. and sister-in-law, Mrs. John sister Audrey Vrbanic and Service during his eration Flags as an attempt Capitan, NM; and by schooled Duckhorn, nephews, brother Andy Casella. period in the Vietnam War, to express patrio- numerous nieces and in San Francisco and San David Azevedo (Debra) and In lieu of flowers memor- and later the Unit- tism and remind people of nephews. Jerry was pre- Rafael. She stud- Andrew Azeve- ial contributions to ed States Meritorious what the flag stood ceded in death by his ied accordian as a young do, her loving family in Northern California Special Service Medal for ac- for. In addition to these parents Adolph and Mary girl, going on to Ukiah, sister-in-law, Olympics are preferred. complishments while sta- organized activities, Erickson; brother spend some years in San Mrs. Louis Comotta, niece, The Eversole Mortuary tioned at Selfridge Jerry spent countless hours Lauren (Bumps) Erickson; Francisco as a pro- Sandra Thornton is in charge of ar- Air National Guard Base in providing one-on- and sister-in-law fessional musician. (Dale), and Jeff, Matt, rangements.

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POLICE REPORTS Friday. CORRECTIONS afternoon: 1, 6, 5. ARREST -- Froilan FANTASY 5: 15, 31, 34, The world briefly The following were Viveros, 21, hometown not Kid’s Farmer’s Market 08, 03. compiled from reports listed, was arrested on suspi- vender River Rodriques was DAILY DERBY: 1st prepared by the Ukiah cion of driving under the incorrectly identified in Fri- Place: 04, Big Ben. Police Department. To influence at the intersection of day’s Page 1 article. N. Korea tells U.S. its reactor has anonymously report North Bush Street and Garrett The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this 2nd Place: 05, California crime information, call Drive at 8:51 p.m. Friday. space to correct errors or make clarifications Classic. shut down, hours after oil aid arrives to news articles. Significant errors in obitu- 463-6205. ary notices or birth announcements will 3rd Place: 03, Hot Shot. PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea told the ARREST -- Forrest Covey, Those arrested by law enforcement result in reprinting the entire article. Errors Race time: 1:42.87. officers are innocent until proven guilty. may be reported to the editor, 468-3526. United States it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State 21, of Ukiah, was booked into People reported as having been arrest- LOTTO: 05-35-03-33- Department said Saturday, hours after a ship cruised into port jail on suspicion of driving ed may contact the Daily Journal once 18. loaded with oil promised in return for the country’s pledge to under the influence in the 100 their case has been concluded so the LOTTERY NUMBERS Meganumber: 01 disarm. block of Talmage Road at results can be reported. Those who feel the information is in error should con- DAILY 3: night: 3, 1, 3. Jackpot: $32 million. If confirmed by a U.N. inspection team headed to the 1:30 a.m. Friday. tact the appropriate agency. In the case Yongbyon reactor, the shutdown would be the North’s first step ARREST -- Michael of those arrested on suspicion of dri- in nearly five years toward de-nuclearization. Williams, 41, of Ukiah, was ving under the influence of an intoxi- COUPON cant: all DUI cases reported by law “We welcome this development and look forward to the ver- arrested on suspicion of enforcement agencies are reported by ification and monitoring of this shutdown by the International inflicting injury on a spouse or the newspaper. The Daily Journal makes cohabitant in the 600 block of no exceptions. 10% OFF See BRIEFLY, Page A-14 South State Street at 5:29 p.m. Monday & Tuesday Bankruptcy? (with this coupon) Is it for me? D. WILLIAM JEWELERS DETAIL CENTER isbankruptcyforme.com Great Food - Great Service Free Consultation 859 N. State Street EDMUND DECHANT 462-5221 295 So. State St. (707) 462-4472 Attorney at Law 35 years Bankruptcy HUGE SELECTION OF WEDDING RINGS Windshield Experience Replacement 707-604-0042 Pear Tree Center • 462-4636 800-823-0600 www.dwilliamjewelers.com

Broiler Eagle Peak 8th Grade Class would like to say a HUGE STEAK HOUSE “Thank You!!” to the following businesses and individuals for their generous DINNER FOR 2 donations: Wal-Mart, Raley’s, Safeway, Food Maxx, Ukiah Grocery Rib Steak Outlet, Sunny Donuts, Frosty Ice, Wendy’s, Carl’s Jr., School Way Bakery, Redwood Valley Store, Fork’s Ranch Market, 7-UP, Pepsi or Bottling Group, Shodakai Casino, Angell Distributing, Wonder Bread, Deep Fried Prawns Little Caesar’s Pizza, Subway, Matt’s Custom Tree Care, Planet Kids age 4 thru 6th grade Smoothie, Kathy and Doug Goss, Flowers by Annette, Carole Maninger, Hal Wagenet, Jaron Nunnemaker, Papa Murphy’s, Freedom Vacation Bible School 485-7301 $ 00 Skateboard Shop, The Video Place, Taco Bell, Elayne’s Nails & Spa, The Tack Room, Club Calpella, Applebee’s, Paramount’s Great America, Redwood Valley Community Church 25 Starbucks, 1st Nail, McDonalds, Yokayo Bowl, Slate City, Dig Music, BROILED IN OUR July 16-20, 9am-12:30 INCLUDES Sherri Lynn’s Unique Boutique, Liv Fashion Boutique, School Way OAKWOOD PIT Baked Potato, Green Salad and Rolls Café, KFC, Ukiah High Student Activities, Nabisco, Wine Country Call 485-8541 or visit www.rvchurch.net 8400 Uva Drive Good Monday thru Thursday Evenings Gases and Shaka. Your contributions helped to make the 8th grade Redwood Valley OPEN MON.-THURS. 4-10 P.M. picnic and dance a great success. Walk-ins welcome! Take the West Road exit on 101, FRIDAY-SATURDAY 4-11 P.M. Sincerely SUNDAY 3-10 P.M. The 8th Grade Graduation Committee turn left, then turn right on Uva Drive Coupon good through August 2nd, 2007

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JODY MARTINEZ

25 years ago Thursday, July 15, 1982 Ukiah Daily Journal UBY DEVELOPMENT WINS FAVOR FROM PLANNERS. Ruby Corporation’s plans for a major residential, commercial and industrial development between Lover’s Lane and Orr Springs Road will encounter little opposition Rfrom the city, planning commissioners indicated yesterday. While concrete recommendations on the project were delayed pending completion of an environmental impact report, commissioners discussed the project with Peter Abrahams, president of Ruby Corporation. “We originally agreed to purchase the property because the local community agreed to go from agriculture to suburban- residential – that was the recommendation of the planning commission and the citizen’s advisory commission. “We’re really asking to get the land use and zoning consistent with what will eventually be.” CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS PHOTOGRAPH? Abrahams said there are no plans for immediate work, but that development will begin around 1984. “We’ll finish the If you can identify this photo (or would just like to guess) please write down what you think is pictured and its 796th (housing) unit around the turn of the century. So we’re location. not in a hurry.” Include your name and a phone number where you can be reached if you win, and submit the information to Abrahams said he would move to allay fears that he and us by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Send it to: Elusive Images Photo Contest, Attn. Jody Martinez, Ukiah Daily Journal, P.O. Ruby Corporation would “speculate and run. We’d be willing Box 749, Ukiah, CA 95482; fax to 468-3544; e-mail to [email protected] or drop it off at our office at 590 S. to enter into a development agreement. We’ll be a School St. moneymaker for the city or the county.” All correct submissions will be entered into a drawing for a free copy of “Reflections: A Pictorial History of Opposition came from valley agricultural interests, who are Inland Mendocino County, Volume II.” Held-Poage researcher Ed Bold, who came up with the idea for the con- worried at the potential loss of productive grape land. test and chooses many of the photos, will draw the winning entry. The contest is not open to employees of The Daily Journal, Held-Poage volunteers or those who provided the *** photo, but everyone else is encouraged to enter. TRUCKS FOR SALE: 64 Jeep Waggoneer. 4 wheel drive. Gd. cond. $1500 or b/o. 1963 Ford 3/4 ton. Needs some work. $800. CARS FOR SALE: 1979 Firebird Formula. $6500. Very low mi. A/C, cruise. Exc. cond. 50 years ago Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk turns 100 Monday, July 15, 1957 Memories endure Ukiah Daily Journal By RON HARRIS PANTHER PESTERS PEOPLE ON OBSERVATORY. Associated Press Writer Sunday night Captain Arnold Book and Officers Don Musser SANTA CRUZ — The and Laurence Thomas went into the wilds around Helen Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, avenue and Observatory on the report of Mrs. John Weger that the enduring salty dog of a panther was loose in her back yard. The beast evaded the amusement parks, turns 100 officers and the matter was then turned over to the county and this year. Russell Toleman, head panther man, is combing the Exhilarating rides, foods on countryside today. a stick and pocket change San Francisco police reported that a young girl who entertainment are still the escaped from The Hall last week was in that city Friday with main attractions along a strip a girl companion and they had stopped at the home of an of shoreline that first hosted a acquaintance from where they made a long distance call to string of bathhouses in the late New York city, and disappeared. 1800s. The Santa Cruz board- Among the malicious mischief reports was the office walk itself was born in 1907, window broken from the south side of the Long Realty, 1122 and it has survived even as South Highway. similar attractions — like Four spinner-type hub caps were stolen from the Toledo Beach on Lake Erie in Oldsmobile belonging to Mr. Gregg of 1937 Elm street. LaSalle Township, Mich., and the original Myrtle Beach *** Pavilion in South Carolina — MRS. DEMPEL WILL HEAD HOME ECON. AT 1957 have gone under. EMPIRE FAIR. Recently appointed by the board of directors And while Santa Cruz of the 12th District Agricultural Association, Mrs. Eugene doesn’t have 100 mph roller Dempel of Ukiah will serve again this year as home coasters like Six Flags or economics supervisor for the Redwood Empire Fair and Cedar Point, or rides themed Patrick Tehan/San Jose Mercury News Sports show, a department under the direction of Mrs. George on movies like Disney and Fun-seekers take flight on the “Cliff Hanger” ride at the Santa Cruz Beach Butler of the board. The dates are August 22 to 25. Entries are Universal, it still attracts an Boardwalk. The amusement park is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. open to Mendocino county only. estimated 3 million visitors a year. In fact, it is considered 100 years ago one of the last remaining gems boasts real pipe-organ music, chip cookies, dipped in hard- Friday, July 12, 1907 of its breed, said Dennis hand-carved horses and rings shell chocolate and smothered Spiegel, president of IF YOU GO ... from a mechanical dispenser to in peanuts for $3.25. All done Dispatch-Democrat throw in the clown’s mouth up right before your eyes and ORNBAUN WINS CASE AGAINST WEHRSPON. Judge International Theme Park Services, a consulting firm to SANTA CRUZ BEACH each time around. not handed to you in a plastic Sayre, of Lake County, has handed down his decision in the BOARDWALK: Santa Cruz, — “The Cave Train.” This wrapper by a disinterested 16- Ornbaun-Wehrspon case. Wehrspon had a contract with J. S. the attractions industry. “It’s kind of a page out of Calif., about 75 miles south of slow-moving train ride takes year-old. They’re available at a Ornbaun to cut two million feet of lumber each year for a San Francisco; you back in time — to the few of the ice cream vendor period of twenty years. This Wehrspon failed to do and yesteryear. In our industry it’s http://www.beachboardwalk.co Stone Age — with comical windows along the boardwalk. Ornbaun sued for damages, the dissolution of the contract and just revered as one of the all- m or 831-423-5590. All-day statues of cavemen in other- ——— possession of the property. Judge Sayre’s decision is a victory time great operations,” unlimited ride wristband, wise mundane activities such Top three ways for adults for Ornbaun and dissolves the contract and gives him Spiegel said. $28.95. Rides open daily at 11 as fishing, sleeping and drink- to kill an hour while waiting possession of the property. The contract had been in existence The Canfield family has a.m. April through Labor Day ing. It’s also the perfect place to for the kids: for about ten years. run the Santa Cruz attractions and weekends year-round. steal a kiss from your summer- — The Casino Arcade. since 1952, when Laurence Closing time varies by day and time sweetie. Relive your own youth with Canfield bought a controlling week, but the rides are open ——— some of the classic games of *** until 11 p.m. July 2-Aug. 25. Top three eats: the past, including Superman AUTOIST PAYS HEAVY FINES. FIERCELY ATTACKS interest in the Seaside Co., which operates the boardwalk. CAN’T-MISS HIGH- — Surf City Grill corndogs. pinball, Pac Man, air hockey DRUMMER AND WIFE BECAUSE OF SHORT DELAY. G. LIGHTS: Hand-dipped and huge. Surf and foosball. W. Emmons, a San Francisco real estate man, severely beat His son, Charles, started Top three rides: City Grill was known as — Beer, billiards and board- Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meyers last Thursday, with a buggy whip working there four years later, — “The Giant Dipper.” Hodgie’s when it was run by walk history. In the upper which he wrenched from the hands of Meyers. The as a teenage ride operator in Constructed in 1924 in 47 days, the late Howard “Hodgie” reaches of a building called disgraceful occurrence took place on the road from Pieta to Kiddie Land, a collection of this wooden beauty of a roller Wetzel. His gut-busting legacy Neptune’s Kingdom, you’ll Highland Springs. It seems that Meyers and wife were in their rides for children not tall coaster is the signature ride of lives on with these bready find pool tables, draft beer and enough for the larger attrac- Santa Cruz. The tension delights, which will set you historic photos from the amuse- buggy head of Emmons and wife who were in an automobile. mounts as cranking chains pull back $3.45. ment park’s past. The road was too narrow to allow the machine to pass without tions. Today Charles, 67, is presi- the tiny cars 75 feet above the — Marini’s salt water taffy. — Sundown beach stroll. frightening the horse, so Meyers thought, and he drove on boardwalk, only to send you That giant metal contraption Santa Cruz’s broad beach is rapidly for a little over half a mile, and upon coming to a wide dent of the company. “Technology has really hurtling downward in a contorting in the front window just steps away. You can stand place in the road, turned out and stopped to allow Emmons to screaming blur. Declared a is twisting taffy just for you. ankle-deep in the Pacific as the pass. Emmons stopped the automobile, jumped out and ran up changed amusement parks National Historic Landmark in Flavors range from trusty old screams of the crowd and the to Meyers seizing the whip from his hands and beat him considerably,” he said. “(But) 1987, the Dipper is as old- strawberry to pina colada. A rumble of the rides blends in severely with it, and then proceeded to lash Mrs. Meyers. the people are basically the school as it gets, but it hasn’t one-pound box costs $12. with the gentle lapping of the After he had severely thrashed them he broke the whip up and same. ... They just come here lost its ability to thrill. — “Sandaes.” Hands-down sea. When the sun goes down proceeded on his way. to have a good time, sort of — “The Looff Carousel.” the best dessert at the board- and the boardwalk lights up, escape their jobs for a week- Installed by Charles I. D. Looff walk. Vanilla ice cream, sand- you’ll realize you’re in a spe- Mrs. Meyers was in a serious condition and was unstrung in 1911, this merry-go-round wiched between two chocolate cial place. nervously when she and her husband reached Hopland, where end.” Meyers swore out a warrant charging Emmons with battery. The rides are faster now, Emmons and his party headed for Highland Springs and at the but admission to the board- junction of the road were halted by a deputy sheriff. He told walk is still free. A $28.95 park also seems clean and when trains brought vacation- its 500 feet of twisting track the officer that he was not the party wanted, that he was wristband buys you access to spiffy despite its age, and the ers in from the Bay Area, the and wooden construction sur- following in another auto. He was permitted to proceed, and all the rides all day long, a view of the ocean and the Sacramento and San Joaquin vived the 1989 Loma Prieta when the deception was learned he was arrested by a Lake bargain compared to bigger occasional surfer is part of the valleys, and farther afield. earthquake. county officer at Highlands that evening. He was released on brand-name theme parks fun. The Giant Dipper roller The slow climb to the Giant his own recognizance, but failed to show up in court Saturday, where one-day tickets easily About 75 miles from San coaster, a National Historic Dipper’s 75-foot peak is a exceed $50. And unlike larger Francisco, Santa Cruz was a Landmark, remains the signa- tense affair. The small cars theme parks, the lines at Santa logical place for such an ture ride. It began thrilling See THIS WAS NEWS, Page A-5 Cruz move along briskly. The attraction in the early 1900s, visitors on May 17, 1924 and See BOARDWALK, Page A-5 A-4 – SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 GOVERNMENT Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] MENDOCINO COUNTY Revenue drop ups pressure on budget talks BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AGENDA By AARON C. DAVIS because they have no exit strategy for Still, spending in the 2007-08 budget Associated Press Writer their budget blockade,” said Steve year would exceed revenue by about Agenda for the Mendo- Item No. 3 -- Open SACRAMENTO — The longer state Maviglio, a spokesman for Assembly $1.5 billion. cino County Board of Session and Pledge of legislators wait, the worse the state’s Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles. Democrats say their budget plan has Supervisors’ July 16, 2007 Allegiance (Approximately budget picture seems to get. The state’s nonpartisan legislative a bigger reserve and smaller operating Workshop 11 a.m.) With lawmakers nearing a stalemate analyst’s office, however, said the rev- deficit than the one Schwarzenegger Item No. 4 -- Approval of on the state’s overdue budget, revenue enue drop was disturbing, especially unveiled in May. The Board of Supervisors Minutes estimates released Friday show since it was announced so soon after But Republicans want another $2 will hold a workshop about Item No. 5 -- Consent California has collected $800 million Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued his billion in cuts. the capital improvement plan Calendars less in tax money than expected in most up-to-date revenue projections in If the revenue estimates released at the County Administration Item No. 6 -- Chief recent months. May. Friday hold true, the state would have Center, 501 Low Gap Road, Executive Officer Analysts say the size of the drop “We haven’t seen this level of dis- only about $3.3 billion, not $4.1 billion, Ukiah., beginning at 1:30 p.m. (a) Legislative and Fiscal raises questions about whether the bud- crepancy with the forecast this decade,” to carry forward into the new budget Monday. All items are pre- Report get that lawmakers are already having said Michael Cohen, director of state year, which started July 1. sented for discussion and pos- (b) Chief Executive Officer trouble balancing is based on overly administration for the analyst. The revenue drop could also exacer- sible action. Report rosy revenue projections. H.D. Palmer, spokesman for bate next year’s deficit, which is (c) Discussion and Possible Republicans — already holding out Schwarzenegger’s Department of already forecast to exceed $5 billion. 1. Welcome and Introduc- Action Regarding Updating on the $140 billion spending plan sup- Finance, cautioned that it’s too early to Aside from the revenue projections, tions the Mendocino Town Plan ported by Democrats — seized on the determine how much of the revenue there were other disturbing signs for 2. Capital Improvement Item No. 7 -- Departmen- data, saying it proves the Legislature drop is real. California in the economic data “It’s not clear at this point how much released Friday. Plan tal Matters and Reports must do more to cut spending and bal- • Discussion and Possible ance the budget. of this is simply a matter of timing and The state added just 10,800 new non- (a) Department of cash flow, and how much of it is a real farm jobs in May, and for the first five Action Regarding Adoption of Transportation -- Director’s “It makes our arguments stronger,” 5-Year Capital Improvement drop off in revenues,” Palmer said, months of the year averaged 9,160 new Report said Senate Republican leader Dick Plan (CIP) Ackerman, R-Tustin. “You can’t spend explaining that some of the drop could jobs. That’s off the 15,440-average for 3. Conclusion (b) Discussion and Possible be from the state paying out tax refunds new jobs for the first five months of Action Regarding Appoint- $800 million more than you take in and • Public Expression sustain a state.” more quickly than expected. 2006. • Additional Discussion ment of Two Board Members Nonetheless, he said the weak rev- Overall, unemployment in the state to Perform Inspection of Democrats characterized the revenue enue numbers must be considered in nudged up to 5.2 percent. Topics as Identified by Board slump as simply the latest downturn in Members Completed Street Improve- budget negotiations. The real estate downturn also ments for the Nicoll Subdi- the state’s notorious revenue roller “The governor and legislative lead- appeared to affecting the state’s econo- • Additional Discussion coaster. They said it should have little Topics as Identified by Staff vision, Tract 257, Located on ers are very much aware of these num- my. the South Side of Lake bearing on the remaining budget nego- bers, and very much aware that this is After picking up slightly in the first tiations. Agenda for the Mendo- Mendocino Drive, CR 227B, precisely why we need to have a sizable quarter of 2007, new home construction cino County Board of Approximately .5 Mile East Technically, the state does not have reserve in whatever budget agreement slowed in April and May. The pace of Supervisors’ July 17, 2007 of Its Intersection with North to adjust its revenue estimates until next is struck,” he said. permits issued for new homes in May Meeting State Street, CR 104 (The year, when the numbers are finalized. A legislative budget committee was the slowest since 2001. Forks Area) -- Sponsoring “The stock market is soaring, and approved a $140 billion budget last At the same time, inventory of exist- The Board of Supervisors Department: Transportation retail sales are on the upswing. It’s month that would use $4.1 billion left ing homes for sale rose, and sales of meets in the Board Chambers (c) Planning Matters: almost like the Republicans are desper- over from a tax windfall from previous single-family homes slowed 25 percent at the County Administration (1) Planning and Building ate to find something to hang on to years to help balance the spending plan. from a year ago. Center, 501 Low Gap Road, Services -- Director’s Report Ukiah. The board meeting (2) Noticed Public Hearing will also be televised on -- 1:30 p.m.: Discussion and Channel 3 beginning at Possible Action on Rezone approximately 11 a.m. No. R 11-06 (VanVranken/ SUNDAY TV Wreaths placed at President Ford’s Larson) Which Would Rezone Item No. 1 -- Roll Call (9 Property from Limited Mich. grave site to mark birth date a.m.) Commercial (C-1) to General NEWS SHOWS Item No. 2 –- Closed Commercial (C-2) (Continued Associated Press President Ford’s half brother, resting place of a deceased Session (9:05 a.m.) from June 26, 2007) Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. presented the other wreath. president is a long-standing (a) Pursuant to Govern- Item No. 8 -- Committee Guest lineup for the — Wreaths from President Vaden Bales noted tradition, President Ford’s ment Code Section 54957.6 -- Reports/ Supervisors Re- Sunday TV news shows: Bush and former first lady President Ford’s love for museum and library explained Conference with Labor Betty Ford and her family Grand Rapids and western in a statement. ports ABC’s “This Week” — Negotiator -- Employee (a) Supervisors Reports were placed Saturday at for- Michigan. Betty Ford and the Ford Organization(s): All National Security Adviser mer President Ford’s grave “And then I know that I had family also chose to send the (b) Discussion and Possible Stephen Hadley; Sens. John (b) Pursuant to Govern- Action Regarding Board Ad- site in commemoration of his seen Gerald Ford’s monument personal wreath. ment Code Section 54956.9b - Warner, R-Va., and Richard birth date. — the city and values of Ford, who became presi- Hoc Committee Status Lugar, R-Ind. - Conference with Legal Reports The wreaths were placed at Grand Rapids, Michigan — dent after Richard Nixon ——— the site, located on the that is a lasting monument to resigned in 1974, died Dec. 26 Counsel -- Anticipated Litiga- (c) Approval of Letter to tion: Significant Exposure to CBS’ “Face the Nation” grounds of the Gerald R. Ford President Ford,” he said. in Rancho Mirage, at age 93. Congressman Mike — Hadley and Sen. Lamar Presidential Museum, in a “And, in the end, a finer mon- He lived in Grand Rapids as a Litigation -- One Case Thompson in Support of The (c) Pursuant to Govern- Alexander, R-Tenn. morning ceremony. The Ford ument there could never be.” boy and in the suburb of East Northern California Ocean ——— family plans to make the Grand Rapids Mayor Grand Rapids during his 25 ment Code Section 54957 -- and Coastal Protection Act Public Employee Perfor- NBC’s “Meet the Press” wreath-laying a tradition each George Heartwell, Ford fami- years in the U.S. House. (H.R. 2758); and Authorize — Sens. Lindsey Graham, R- July 14. ly representative Gregory D. ——— mance Evaluation -- Museum Chair to Sign and Submit Director S.C., and Jim Webb, D-Va.; Maj. Gen. Thomas Cutler, Willard and the Rev. 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ones, [but] they don’t sell as that are already being housing to be affordable under Because the Mendocino Cards well,” he said. Housing processed by the department. state standards to a family of County Board of Supervisors He says that all of the The moratorium would four making $25,750 to approved the initiation of the Continued from Page A-1 money that he does make for serve to both prevent the $41,200 a year -- considered rezone process June 26, the cards goes to his loving Continued from Page A-1 county from making planning to be low-income -- it must directing the team to move DiGiulio makes his real mother, who actually keeps provided adequate sites or decisions that might affect the have a monthly cost of no forward with investigation of money doing landscaping and large stacks of them for her- policies to support affordable ability to build affordable more than $644 to $1,030. For 20 sites totaling just over 127 interior painting, and said he self. housing after the state housing in the future and free those with very low-income, acres, he believed the county will always “love doing beau- “She’s real supportive,” he Department of Housing and up time for planners to com- $15,450 to $25,750, it must was making progress toward tiful things.” said. Community Development plete the rezone, she said. cost no more than $386 to the goal. According to County $644 a month. Where does he truly get One of the interesting denied approval of the coun- “We’ve made a good-faith inspired to perform his art? things for DiGiulio and his ty’s housing element. Director of Planning and Unfortunately, Hillegas DiGiulio has lived in Building Services Raymond said, people in these income effort and did initiate the family is that nobody saw him Though later approved in rezoning before the July 1 Amsterdam three months out taking the path in life that he 2005 after significant revi- Hall, between July 1, 2006 ranges often have to put 50 of every year since 1997 and and June 30, 2007, the county percent of their income deadline,” Gorny said, noting has. sions, including a condition that the team had planned to describes the place as color- requiring the county to rezone issued 3,788 permits for com- toward rent because of the “I was class president when bring specific sites before the ful. I graduated from high 50 acres to allow for multi- mercial, industrial and resi- shortage of affordable units. “I get a lot of my inspira- family residential housing by dential projects, bringing in “Because of the county’s Planning Commission in six school,” said DiGiulio. weeks. tion there,” said DiGiulio. Originally from July 1, 2007, the case has approximately $1.4 million in very poor performance in the Hillegas said the county “There’s a lot of day-to-day Massachusetts, DiGiulio has stayed open to monitor the revenue. last two decades doing any- can avoid litigation by volun- magic [and] people recognize always lived in America, but county’s progress. Hall said Friday he didn’t thing they said they would do your individuality.” see the logic in imposing a with the housing element, and looks forward to his trips to Because the July 1 deadline tarily entering a moratorium, DiGiulio described his was not met, Hillegas said the moratorium. the lack of affordable housing which would prevent further home-away-from-home as a Amsterdam every year. “You don’t produce hous- in the county, the state “People look at me there,” element is again out of com- losses over its housing ele- tolerant city and said he pliance. ing by putting a moratorium imposed a bigger burden on ment. Following the 2004 suit, always makes sure that he said DiGiulio. “Americans are “Under state law, if you on the issuance of permits for the county to actually perform always the loudest people the county was required to pay brings his card-making tools don’t have a housing element houses,” he said. its obligations,” Hillegas said $80,000 in attorney fees to the with him. there.” in compliance, the court has Hillegas, however, said the of the hard deadline. DiGiulio believes there are plaintiffs. “I have a box that I bring a the power to suspend the point of a housing element is Only in the last six-to-nine If it does not, she said the little bit of everything with me “certain prejudices,” in county’s authority to issue any to develop programs that months has any effort been America and has considered moratorium could be in place [in],” he said. category of building permits,” encourage affordable housing made on the rezone despite within a month of a status And it’s a good thing too, moving to Belgium, but since Hillegas said. by making it easier for devel- the requirement having been because DiGiulio says that he the currency there switched to That includes zoning opers to build, and without the laid out in the element since conference between herself, a never runs out of ideas. the Euro, he says things have changes, variances and subdi- land rezoned, that purpose is 2005, Hillegas said. judge and county counsel set “I haven’t hit any dead just gotten too expensive. vision map approvals, not being met. But Phil Gorny, manager of for July 20. spots,” he said. While DiGiulio’s heart lies Hillegas said, with the only “The moratorium is a big the Planning Team formed in County counsel was not After 20 years of card- somewhere else, Ukiah will exemptions being for afford- hammer afforded by state law 2006 to focus on the county’s available for comment on the making, DiGiulio said he cer- always have his gift to our able housing projects that because the state recognizes priority planning projects, suit Friday. tainly has his favorites. community, his greeting meet state requirements, tran- that getting affordable hous- including implementation of The Board of Supervisors “I like making the political cards. sitional or shelter housing, ing is imperative,” Hillegas the housing element, said he is scheduled to discuss the housing for farmworkers or said. was shocked Thursday to hear matter Tuesday morning in the disabled or any permits In Mendocino County, for about the litigation. closed session. recreational sites. Internal Forest combustion engines, includ- ing chainsaws, will only be HAIL NEW TOWN OF ‘GOOD ROADS.’ Continued from Page A-1 allowed on established roads This Was News... and designated trails or sites, The organization of the proposed new town of RWT “Good Roads” has progressed up to the point grounds but will be necessary and all engines must have a Continued from Page A-3 Redwood Tree Center for other sites. These sites will spark arrestor. of holding the election to see if the people in be marked with yellow signs The use of welding equip- and Deputy Sheriff Dooley caught him at the proposed territory are in favor of incorpo- and informational posters. ment and explosives is also Bartlett Springs and brought him back Sunday. rating or not. The supervisors have called the “Put Some Pride Lanterns and portable prohibited. He was fined $50 and costs for beating election and have set the date for said election stoves that use jellied or liquid Those who have a special Meyers. This did not satisfy Meyers and he had for Saturday, August 2nd. in Your Ride” gas will be permitted but the use permit from the Forest Emmons arrested again on a charge of battery A. B. Gibson, who has been the prime mover in the organization, announces that EXPRESS DETAIL operator must be in posses- Service will be allowed to on Mrs. Meyers, whereupon Judge Armstrong ✭ $100.00 - 3 Hours sion of a valid California continue otherwise prohibited there will be a meeting on the west side of the fined him $50 more and expenses. It is said valley in the Willows school house at 3 o’clock INTERIOR DETAIL Campfire Permit. activities. that a damage suit will follow. The people of ✭ Campfire permits are avail- Any person found to have p.m., Saturday July 13th to discuss matters of $160.00 - 4 Hours Hopland were greatly enraged over the matter importance and to nominate officers for the able free from all Forest caused a fire will be held and wished the fines had been heavier. ✭ DELUXE DETAIL Service, CalFire and Bureau liable for the suppression new town. $225.00 - 6 Hours costs. Jody Martinez can be reached at of Land Management Offices *** [email protected]. ULTIMATE DETAIL as well as from most camp- For additional information, ✭ $300.00 - 8 Hours ground personnel. Anyone including a list of campsites found without a permit can be where campfire permits are DEA sends warning letters to medical marijuana landlords WHILE YOU WAIT: subject to a fine and up to six required, call (530) 934-3316 Associated Press could be seized if they were ical marijuana that are nor- months in jail. or (530) 934-7724, or go to LOS ANGELES — used in the distribution of mally reserved for crack hous- Smoking will be limited to http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/men- Managers of medical marijua- marijuana or other controlled es and meth labs,” said Chris cars, buildings and designated docino. na dispensaries feared they substances. might be shut down this week It added that federal laws See MARIJUANA, Page A-14 RWT after at least 30 landlords in “take precedence” over state 15 Minute earlier generation to grab hold Los Angeles County received laws, such as Proposition 215 DON’T MISS THIS Oil Change Boardwalk of its two metal handles and warning letters from the Drug and SB 420, which allow for CONCERT!! receive a gentle jolt of elec- Enforcement Administration. medical marijuana use. tricity to encourage vitality. 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To the Editor: Travel abuses just beginning To the person who tore down and stole the congratulatory vinyl banner for Melissa While the Board of Supervisors has not policy which attempts to “fix” all the prob- Chaty, Ukiah’s very own Miss California officially responded yet to the grand jury’s lems the grand jury found and give them- BY EVAN JOHNSON 2007 hanging from my studio awning: Hats new report accusing them of misusing travel selves leeway to simply go wherever they Another voice off to you on your crowning achievement! funds, the immediate responses were pre- want and charge the taxpayers for it. You certainly accomplished what you set dictable and go something like this: “Well Here are the problems with the new poli- Unless the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors out to do: this is the way it’s always been done,” or cy: changes its course, the Ukiah Valley could be unrecog- 1. You’ve made the local paper. “We spend a lot more on this job than we get • It maintains payment to supervisors for nizable in just a few years. Large outside development 2. You’ve disappointed many. back,” or “People don’t understand how driving to and from work. We agree with the interests are yet again working hard to hijack the It’s disappointing but not surprising that hard we work.” grand jury that the supervisors should not County’s regional planning process -- and they appear such vindictiveness spawns from such cele- It is apparent from the grand jury report get paid mileage to drive to work and back. to have succeeded with our Board of Supervisors. bration and pride for our town. that the supervisors have no uniform or very No one else does. Unless the community takes action as it has in the past, May your next victory be bigger and clear idea of what constitutes a legitimate • It makes “county business” just about we will soon lose the relaxed, small-town flavor our better than your last! But next time please expense and what does not. anything the supervisors say it is. And it fur- community identified as its most valuable asset, and That’s why they drew up a new policy last let us know who you are so we can cheer ther allows supervisors to collect for going wake up to a Ukiah Valley jammed with sprawl, mega- month that will give them all kinds of loop- you on and give you the credit you deserve. to “county events,” way too broad a catego- malls and traffic. Who knows, I might even hang a banner holes to charge mileage for pretty much any- Ukiahans have worked for years on The Ukiah for you! where they want to go and to collect hefty ry. A supervisor can, for instance, be glad- handing at the county fair at our expense. Valley Area Plan (UVAP). As part of that process, we Kimarie Richardson monthly stipends to go nowhere if they have spent countless hours in community meetings and Fantasy Stills Photography choose. • It gives supervisors the ability to opt out gathering input to document what the community Ukiah However, we want to point out that while of telling the taxpayers exactly what they wants. The resulting document makes very clear that they have written a new policy to let them spent on travel in the county, by collecting a the consensus of the people who live in the Ukiah Travel abuses outrageous collect hundreds a month in tax-paid travel monthly stipend - as much as $750 a month Valley want to: expenses with no explanation necessary, the for three of the supervisors - for which they - maintain and enhance natural resources and open To the Editor: new policy does not excuse what’s been need give no explanation at all. This is over space, Many thanks to the grand jury for expos- and above the mileage they get just for - create a sustainable valley by conserving nonre- ing what many have witnessed for some going on for years and for which the current supervisors need to be held to pay. showing up at official board meetings. In newable resources and space, time at the offices of the Board of essence, it’s a hidden pay raise. A supervisor - preserve our small town rural character, Supervisors: systemic corruption, arro- The worst of the grand jury’s findings seem to lay at Supervisor Kendall Smith’s could go to all official board meetings and - grow intelligently and sustainably by promoting gance, and a blatant abuse of power. infill development, focusing on designing a healthy, Fabricating work expenses and taking door. get paid mileage for those, then stay home Ms. Smith, although she won’t answer a and collect the monthly stipend and no one dynamic and livable community and economy for peo- home-to-work mileage reimbursements is ple to share and interact with neighbors, wrong on so many levels. What working direct question about her mileage claims, will be the wiser. • It sets up new payments to supervisors - put people close to vibrant cultural, artistic and household would not benefit from an extra appears to be depending on an old travel pol- recreational amenities, $500+ of monthly income? Gas is just as icy which allows a supervisor staying for cell phones, Internet, office furniture and other “expenses” that will not be adequately - ensure the adequate infrastructure of water and expensive in this household as it is in any- overnight after a board meeting to collect sewer hook-ups for existing agriculture, manufactur- one’s. what would have been the round-trip explained. ing and residential needs, Furthermore, the IRS disallows home-to- mileage to defray the cost of the motel. • It allows supervisors coming from out- - enhance our community-based economy with workplace mileage reimbursement for good However, if Ms. Smith was staying the side Ukiah to stay at a hotel for the full local value-added production. reason. Otherwise, why wouldn’t we all night in Ukiah at a private home for free and freight after a board meeting if they don’t However, our Board of Supervisors seems deter- commute to Sonoma County or Fort Bragg, collecting that round trip mileage - which feel like driving home. mined recently to consign community input to the work an hour and a half and drive home? she has not denied - that’s more than just We think the grand jury has done the tax- trash bin while moving us in precisely the opposite There is a huge social cost and an obvious “iffy.” And District Attorney Meredith payers a service by pointing out the serious direction. It is currently studying major changes in disincentive to actually ‘work’ in that sce- Lintott should take the responsibility for abuses of travel funding that has been going land use designations to support pet projects of huge nario. investigating it very seriously. on. out-of-town developers including massive new retail Allowing these reimbursements was nei- Anticipating what was coming from the Unfortunately, the Board’s new self-serv- and residential developments. How massive? A pro- ther an oversight in the budget nor reim- grand jury, last month the supervisors quiet- posed 700,000 square-foot mall -- the equivalent of bursement process. This was a preferential ing travel policy will not only ensure more ly wrote themselves a spanking new travel abuses, but make them easier. seven new Wal-Marts with 4,000 parking spaces -- benefit sought and paid with some kind of exceeds the needs for the Ukiah Valley through the collective approval, wink, or secret hand- year 2025 by a factor of ten, even while more than this shake. The timing of this pocket-lining is available space already exists within Ukiah’s city lim- just priceless. Let us not forget the huge its, as identified by the Supervisors’ own commis- raises the BOS recently granted them- selves. See FUTURE, Page A-12 It’s ironic that this information comes to light right after an entire year of the BOS’s stonewalling in contract negotiations with Private health county employees (all of whom sought pay increases the old fashion way, through col- lective bargaining). For nearly a year, it insurance is a big was not ‘fiscally responsible’ to pay the county’s own employees a competitive wage, but somehow we found the resources part of the problem to bankroll an elected official’s social cal- endar, gas and oil changes. Let’s hope the county seat reads the GJ BY ROBERT BRUCE recommendations and seriously rethinks Another voice their decision-making and accountability when it comes to allocating the resources When Michael Moore’s new film, “Sicko,” finally of this county. Thanks again to the GJ for comes to town, we’re all going to get a look at what their work. health insurance is doing to this country. Julie Finnegan Regardless of what you think of Moore, he makes Ukiah valid points about the poor state of health care in this country. Planning a sweep A recent (July 5) article in this newspaper discussed the low health insurance reimbursement rates in under the carpet? Mendocino County. This county is relatively unattrac- To the Editor: tive to new physicians, because a high number of I don’t know what part of the world your employers do not provide medical insurance, and there reporter(s) for this article came to is a relatively high number of Medicare and Medi-Cal Mendocino from, but around here I believe patients. the phrase “seriously abusing travel bud- And when you talk reimbursement, you’re talking get” would have been better stated “embez- insurance -- a major part of the problem. zling.” The people of this county have put Insurance premiums eat up 30 percent of the health their trust in this board to run the county in care dollar. Most of this money is profit for company a professional and above board manor. Won’t be reading George Will as one of the columnists grac- stockholders, or it pays for publicity campaigns against False or padded request for reimbursement George Will ing the op-ed section of this newspaper. I single-payer health plans. in the real world amounts to embezzlement. do believe, however, that he is the same Public-sector financing, like Medicare, is the most I would like to know if the grand jury will To the Editor: George Will who once said that a Gallup efficient mechanism for collecting money fairly from seek charges against any offenders or if this How lucky we all are to now have everyone, and thus the most effective way to assure will just be swept under the carpet. See LETTERS, Page A-12 universal health coverage. Russ Minor Local physicians can tell horror stories of Medicare Potter Valley reimbursement, but it is a Congressionally mandated, WHERE TO WRITE government-run program that works relatively well for LETTER POLICY patients, despite the Bush administration’s efforts to President George Bush: The White www.house.gov/write rep downgrade it. The Daily Journal welcomes letters to the Such a single-payer system is a huge threat to the editor. 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Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] SUNDAY VOICES ON THE STREETS Following my bliss, seasickness How do you unwind at I am standing on the bridge of a ship The closer we come to Antarctica the crossing the roughest section of ocean on fewer hours of darkness we experience. earth - the Drake Passage, the tempestu- Sunday view It’s summer on the eighth continent, the end of a hard day? ous waters lying between Cape Horn on which means the sun shines all day and the tip of South American and the BY TONY ANTHONY all night. Sleep is not easy, not only Antarctic Peninsula. Often called the because of the light streaming through "Dreaded Drake" it is the one stretch of the curtain, but because of the ship’s open water that circles the globe unob- motion combined with the noise of its Lonnie Lopez structed by land, allowing waves to reach engines. I’ve joined the expedition as a Produce Clerk heights of one hundred feet or more. With the porthole sealed journalist, a non-paying passenger, so Ukiah The ocean between our current loca- I’ve been assigned to the tiniest, noisiest tion and Cape Horn is also home to the there is no fresh air so cabin on the ship. The happy Russian “I like to draw or paint. I nastiest weather found on the planet. the cabin is dank. In the engineer, who ensures the ship’s propul- like to do art.” Storms born on the flat reaches of sion informs me that a cabin like his and Antarctic ice can be whipped up by winds space which is only mine that are lowest in the ship, experi- of over 200 miles per hour by the time ence the least motion because they’re at they reach the sea. They follow a route up slightly larger than I am, I the fulcrum, the center of the seesaw. It’s the Antarctic Peninsula before heading end up spending sleep- the staterooms on the upper decks that across the Drake Passage as taunting the give the highest paying passengers the few humans foolhardy enough to attempt less hours on my back worst ride, although without a doubt they the sail down to a land which supports lit- have the best view. The tiny porthole in tle life and no land mammals. You would settled as squarely as is my cabin has been locked shut to keep Heidi Edwards think that these things, in addition to the possible on my mattress the sea out. My view, if I choose to pull Teacher legendary dangers of rogue icebergs, the curtain aside, is mostly of the under- Ukiah might be enough to steer travelers in a on the floor. The Captain sides of waves. safer direction especially when you con- ordered the crew to move With the porthole sealed there is no “I just surf the Internet sider it is well known how often ships are fresh air so the cabin is dank. In the space and play with my kids.” lost to the Drake. Yet the passage is the all mattresses and bed- which is only slightly larger than I am, I route most used to a supply Antarctic sta- end up spending sleepless hours on my tions because it is the shortest distance ding to cabin floors to back settled as squarely as is possible on between South America and the eighth prevent falls from beds. my mattress on the floor. The Captain continent. ordered the crew to move all mattresses The Clipper Adventurer on whose Antarctica. It’s no wonder that the ship, if and bedding to cabin floors to prevent bridge I am balancing is over 300 feet you follow its bow for a few minutes, falls from beds. So I lie there feeling the long, a size that appeared substantial lurches sharply to the left and right in engine vibration with my eyes closed and Aurora Long enough while standing beside her at the addition to its seesawing up and down, all my stomach in my mouth eventually Student dock in Sydney Harbor in the Falkland the while twisting on its axis. All this becoming "at one" with the white noise Ukiah Islands. Now that she’s being shoved motion causes me to wonder what keeps of the twin BMW marine engines push- around by 40-foot waves on the open the Adventurer from breaking apart at its ing the steel whale of a ship relentlessly “I go home, lock myself ocean, the ship feels more like a toy boat seams. toward our frozen destination. As we ride in my room, turn off the in a bathtub with somebody kicking up The reality of standing on the bridge one tall wave after the next, leaning this phone and read a book.” the water. I am spending as much time as deck is to experience the swirling, roil- way and that, and then that, I am wonder- possible on the ship’s bridge because it ing, deep blue-black, lost-forever-and- ing just why in hell I’m here. has the least obstructed view of the hori- die-if-you-fall-in, sea. We ride this part of The answer comes quickly: I’ve zon, the place where I feel the least like- the ocean day and night for the next three signed on to have the rare opportunity to ly to succumb to the seasickness that is days with our stomachs hyper-connected see Antarctica. Along the way, there are inflicting the passengers one fragile to thoughts in our heads. The passengers precious moments like the sighting of a stomach at a time. People have been dis- have been warned that seasickness is not whale swimming alongside the ship. appearing into their cabins like gophers likely, it’s inevitable. Knowing the inner These are the priceless "learning-at-a- Tracy Fowler into holes. ear creates motion sickness, and knowing million-miles-a-second" moments where The fore deck, painted a soothing Student I have this part of my body to thank, I the mind is no longer occupied with the Ukiah robin’s egg blue, is pitching up and down want to blame the sea anyway for making invented problems of an aging, responsi- twenty feet below me at a fairly even and me want to puke every time I take my ble citizen of the human race, but filled to “I go to my room, make quite disturbing rate. Every ten seconds eyes off the horizon. overflowing with the sparkling vision of or so the pole which supports the bow it really dark and put on On the second day of the crossing sea- young man’s awe in its most raw and some music that’s really light heads nearly straight down towards sickness comes on with earnestness. innocent form. the bottom of the ocean. The thought of soothing.... And think Realizing the inevitable can no longer be I hear my wife’s voice crying out from about things.” that is pretty scary considering just how denied, that I can‚t remain on the bridge continents away. "You act just like a far below our ship the bottom might be. indefinitely, I know I have to retreat to teenager!" I know that, I do. Moreover, I imagine silt covered sunken ships my cabin. The sickness is gaining ground I’m not ashamed to admit it. It is my sleeping on their sides in the deep. But and I’m suddenly so weak I can hardly wish, here on paper with the world as my just when it appears we are heading for a push open the heavy metal door leading witness, that I want never, ever to grow Martha Magruder final dive to the coldest darkest most to the deck, one that’s built strong enough older than nineteen years young. Doing ungodly place on this planet, up comes to keep the sea out at any cost. I head Student otherwise is, in my estimation, the most Ukiah the bow light again, along with the white down the first of five companionways ridiculous thing a person can do. Losing iron rail supporting it. The pretty blue descending to my cabin deep in the ship’s our childhood dreams means we are like- “I get together with deck thrusts defiantly upward, perform- bowels across from the engine room on ly to be resigned to the crowd of unhappy ing a brave kind of intercourse with the the lowest deck. Clinging to the railings friend or family, cook a people heading to or from a job, which very good meal, then sit ocean, this time aiming proudly towards that run along every wall inside and out serves not to enrich one’s life but to the ominous gray storm-ridden sky. of the ship, I replay the words oft quoted down and probably watch merely pay the bills. I know, because I a movie. But it’s the whole Following the final thrust a wave of from the ancient mariner: "One hand for did that for far too many years. water washes across the deck with alarm- the ship, one for you." Everyone’s favorite mythologist Joseph cooking and eating pert ing force culminating in a powerful crash On the way down five sets of stairs, I Campbell has exclaimed: "Can you that’s fun.” against the superstructure. notice bowls of Bonine tablets have been imagine, people work just to make The Second Officer, a young German conspicuously set out on every counter- money!" I spent enough time in an man named Kerstin who stands at the top. I pop one in my mouth from the first office without fresh air to breathe. wheel deftly weaving the ship between bowl and stuff a handful into my pocket Because of that I’ve struggled mightily mountains of water, points out the three from the next one for use at a further not to let myself become just another Renee Menge different waves the ship is dealing with at time. I’m already wearing a plastic sea- man in a suit. It would be far easier than Business owner the moment. There are the long rollers sickness wristband that a well-meaning not for me to end up that way, so I resist Arcata out of the west, big as office buildings, but deluded pharmacist sold me for the by whatever means possible in order to the ones that have tirelessly circumnavi- trip. Supposed to prevent seasickness, keep my dreams alive. I regret, not in “In cold weather, it’s a gated the globe. Next, there are the resid- hard plastic nibs are strategically placed the least, that I’ve tried to do this. It bath. In warm weather, it’s ual waves coming from the north, from on the underside of the band to align with seems as well that a valuable lesson has yoga.” behind us - leftovers from the "Hundred pressure points on the wrist. I recall the traveled along with me on each adven- Year Storm" which had churned up the pharmacist telling me from behind his ture I’ve taken: For this adventure as I south Atlantic off the coast of South counter safely on dry land, "people swear kneel ungraciously bowing over the toi- America only a couple of days ago, by them." Most likely, the people worked let bowl in my tiny cabin, I realize that catching our ship in its fury, delaying its for the manufacturer. On the rolling sea, seasickness is the small price one pays arrival at the Falklands. Finally, there are my experience is that the band does noth- to reach Antarctica. So the simple lesson the white and foamy renegade waves ing beyond cutting off the circulation in to be learned is to accept the inevitable. from the southwest pushed up from my wrist. Tony Anthony is a Ukiah resident. Photos and interviews by MacLeod Pappidas. Your Legislature at work Regular readers of this column (both of you) bols defy description. That’s as in, literally so overcome with a swelling of pride that this may remember a discussion some years back defying description -- namely, the official State was the logical thing to do. about the fine state emblems and other symbols Judicial follies Tartan, compactly defined as, “a pattern or sett And considering that California is the most of California that the California Legislature consisting of alternate squares of meadow culturally state in the nation, once word gets designates from time to time, and that it just BY FRANK ZOTTER green and pacific blue that are separated and out about the official State Tartan, it won’t be can’t help adding to our State’s laws every surrounded by narrow charcoal bands. The long before other groups start clamoring for an year. Some of these, such as the official state squares of meadow green are divided by a gold official State sari; official State serape; official tree (the California redwood), official state seam that is supported by charcoal lines on State sarong; official State suit of armor -- motto ("Eureka"), or the official state nick- springtime. Since 1991, the Legislature has each side. There are three redwood stripes, the well, one gets the idea. Of course, the name (the Golden State) aren’t particularly added no fewer than 8 new official State sym- middle of which is broader, that are added to Legislature hasn’t been able to adopt a budget objectionable, and probably perform some- bols, apparently because designating official each side of the gold seam. The pacific blue this year -- it’s nearly two weeks past due as of thing of a public service by giving folks who State symbols is to a Legislature what bulimia square is divided by a sky blue stripe, which is this writing. But they have time to burn when live in California a certain civic pride and dis- is to a supermodel. supported on each side by charcoal lines.” Is it comes to designating Official State Symbols. tinction. In 1995, for example, our legislators added anyone taking notes here? Still, California is known for a lot of things Still, as noted the last time, is it really nec- the garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) as the Some might wonder why California has an besides the official silver rush ghost town essary for California to have both an official new official State marine fish (though not, official State Tartan at all given that, the last (Calico, designated in 2005). How about an state dance (the West Coast Swing Dance) and apparently, in honor of the creation of the mod- time anyone checked, California was not part official state earthquake? (San Francisco, an official state folk dance (the Square Dance)? ern state of Italy). In 1997, it designated “San of Scotland. The lengthy explanation that was 1906, of course) Or an official state brush fire? The West Coast Swing Dance, incidentally, is Joaquin Soil” as the official State soil; and, in included when the State Tartan was designated It’s a tough call, but the 1970 Laguna fire prob- better known as the jitterbug, and was all the an odd selection, Purple needlegrass as the helpfully sets forth that “California is the most ably edges out 2004’s Cedar Fire in San Diego rage back in the 1940s. Think now -- when was official State grass. Heck, anyone who lives in culturally diverse state in the nation,” and that -- though maybe not. And it’s time to get busy the last time someone invited you to go jitter- northern California knows the real official “Californians of Scottish, Scots-Irish, and designating Lake Tahoe as the Official-State- bugging -- even on an official State holiday? grass of California ... . other Celtic descent have made major contri- largest-freshwater-lake-that-unfortunately-we- Well, some of these symbols may be little And, just in time for the nation’s bicentenni- butions to the history and development of the have-to-share-with-Nevada. more than relics of the past, but that hasn’t kept al -- whoops, for the twenty-fifth anniversary state.” But there’s no need to designate an official a good Legislature from continuing to add new of the nation’s bicentennial! -- in 2001 the Oh -- now it’s clear. Or, considering that it State-body-that-brings-California-the-most- State symbols as fast as poppies (the official Legislature designated the “Californian” as the was adopted in 2001, maybe it’s just that some- ridicule. That one’s been designated for us. state flower, with “California Poppy Day” official State tall ship. one in the Legislature -- of Scottish descent, being designated as April 6) bloom in the Some of the more recently-designated sym- naturally -- had just seen “Braveheart” and was Frank Zotter is a Ukiah attorney. A-8 – SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 SPORTS Editor: Zach Corns, 468-3518 [email protected]

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SUNDAY, JULY 15 Ukiah Cats Junior American Legion vs. Fairfield SG in Laurel Creek Park 11/2:00. SATURDAY, JULY 21 Ukiah Cats Junior American Legion vs. Napa at Anton Stadium 11/2:00 -Calendar listings are culled from the most recent schedules provided by the schools and organizations in our cover- age area. Please report schedule changes or incorrect listings to The Daily Journal Sports Department at 468-3518.

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Puma carwash The U-19 Ukiah Puma gorls are holding a fundraising car wash on Sunday, July 15 in the Rite Aid parking lot from 9a.m. until 3p.m. Proceeds will help pay for new uniforms and tourna- ments. Bring your car, truck or fleet down and let them make it shine. Soccer Camp Scholarship

The Ryan Rones Scholarship Committee is looking for appli- cants for the scholarship fund to benefit players wanting to attend soccer camps. Applicants must be dedicated to the game of soc- cer, hard-working, and have a good team attitude. Pick up applications at 601 N. State Street, or call 468-5711. Please submit the application at least two weeks before the start of the camp. Donations toward the fund are gratefully accepted at the MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal address listed above. Thad Rouse, 13, deflects an attack from karate professor Louis Maldonado during the student’s black belt exam. Mendocino College Volleyball Camp

Mendocino College will host a week-long volleyball camp for Thad Rouse receives his black belt at age 13 area girls beginning Monday, August 6. This is a general skills By ZACK CORNS ers and parents. All of whom were camp put on by the Mendo-Lake Spikers Volleyball Club. Girls The Daily Journal there to encourage and support him going into grades 7-9 should Power, strength, focus and during the test. sign up for the morning session endurance, all things required to From there, another student (9a.m.-noon). Girls going into 10-12th grades should sign up succeed, not only Karate, but in joined him so he could perform all for the later session (1-4 p.m.) for life. While testing for his black of his forms on a person. And dur- the more advanced players. Local coaches will teach funda- belt, 13 year old Thad Rouse ing all of this, Louis Maldonado mental skill in a low player to proved that he had them all. had been constantly giving him coach environment. This camp is “It’s more than karate, it’s about instructions on what he wanted to perfect for girls trying out for teams in the fall, or just for fun. learning life skills,” said Louis see done, and encouragement to try The cost is $80. To register call Maldonado, instructor. and get him fired up. Ori Polkinghorne at 463-0451 Rouse, an eight year student at Each form that he showed has and receive a camp flier. Registration is also available the Maldonado Karate Kenpo, recently seven different moves, all of which first day of camp. became the youngest student to keep him moving and working his receive his black belt since the hardest. In addition, for each step Attention Bowlers school moved to Ukiah from the closer he gets to the end of the test- The annual meeting of the Bay Area. ing, it gets more and more physical Ukiah USBC Board is set up for “I’ve watched him grow,” said and demanding. Thursday, July 19, at 6 p.m. at Maldonado. “I brought him up as Following the demonstration of Yokayo Bowl. Agenda: Nomination and elec- my own.” the forms, Rouse then went into tion of new board members. His testing began at approxi- sparing with pads. During this por- There will be door prizes and mately 11 on July 15, with a five tion of the test, Rouse used all of snacks provided. They need your All eyes are on Thad Rouse, 13, at the Maldonado Karate presence at this very important mile run, during which he was sur- his forms and skills against an Kenpo as he performs a series of requirements in order to meeting. If you have any ques- rounded by fellow students who he opponent, Maldonado, wearing achieve the rank of black belt. His instructor, Louis tions or wish to nominate some- has been training with at pads on his arms. one or yourself to be on the Maldonado, watches from a chair to the right. Board, there is a sign-up sheet Maldonado Karate, including his The next stage that he was test- at Yokayo Bowl or call Pam St. brother. ed on was his ground work. In this Martin at 459-5464. He then went into a round of After this final test, Rouse When he returned to the school portion, he was matched with oth- sparing with fellow students his received his black belt and a cer- All Sport Camp there was a large group of parents ers his age and competed in age, all wearing boxing gloves. tificate in a ceremony dedicated to Offered in August there cheering for them all. extremely physical manors, many During the sparing he was being all of the sweat and hard work In order to get into shape for this of which included punching and closely watched and instructed on everyone has put in for him to get The City of Ukiah is offering an run, he would go out and run the throwing elbows. what to do by Louis Maldonado, to this point. All-Sport Camp which will cover same path with his mom in the This was by far one of the most basketball, softball, volleyball, who watched every move Rouse He then read an essay that he soccer, and flag football over the early morning. exhausting portions of the testing, did closely to make sure he truelly had written about all of the things course of a five day span. The forcing Rouse to use all of his From here they went inside for deserved the black belt. he has done to get where he is, and camp costs $125 and will be the next stage of testing which was energy to maintain focus. held at the Pomolita Middle After that, he faced them all what the years of study have given School Gym. overseen by Louis Maldonado, a The last form that he was tested again, but this time without any Derek Heath is the instructor, on is one called Sanchia. In this him. seventh degree black belt who is gloves. This was the final stage of and the camp hours run 9 am to the main instructor. form they test his focus, balance The ceremony ended with 3 pm August 13-17. It started by Rouse going and strength and take him to his his testing, and during his sparing Rouse being congratulated by all the parents and students surround- of the people who had come to see Sign up now for through various forms that he has physical limit, then beyond it. learned over the years. These are a During this, Louis was constant- ing him were constantly yelling him get tested, and then having his NULL Fall Ball encouragement, even the people he name placed next to all the other Season combination of moves to block ly applying force on Rouse’s rigid incoming attacks and counter body, and then breaking boards was sparing against were cheering black belts of the school. When asked how it felt to North Ukiah Little League Fall them. over his arms, legs, back and even him on. Ball is available for players ages He started by showing the forms one over his head. “Their’s good family orientation receive his black belt, all that 10-12 years for the upcoming Rouse could say was, “(It feels) 2008 season. The season one at a time by himself, while sur- During which, you could hardly and great camaraderie,” said begins August 27 through rounded by fellow students, teach- see Rouse flinch. Maldonado. Really good.” October 27. Sign ups end July 31. Contact Sonny Garza 707- 524-8844 for more information. Registration is $55 per player. Jr Giants Car Wash

Ukiah Junior Giants is having a carwash on Saturday, July 28, NBA suspends Artest and Jackson for 7 games from 10-1:00 at the Rite Aid parking lot in Ukiah. All benefits pay to take 100 local kids to a By BRIAN MAHONEY May to a misdemeanor released by the Warriors. The NFL has toughened its because Artest and Jackson professional baseball game (the AP Basketball Writer domestic violence charge “Additionally, I apologize to punishment of players for off- have a history of trouble. San Francisco Giants) at no NEW YORK — Ron Artest stemming from a March 5 dis- my teammates, our fans, our the-field conduct under com- “Both were serious offens- expense to them!!! For more info or to help out call Kim Garroutte and Stephen Jackson are in pute with his wife, the latest in missioner Roger Goodell, but es and each are repeat viola- at 462-4501. trouble with the NBA again. a string of off-court problems. the NBA has a long list of tors of NBA rules,” The Junior Giants are the flag- ship program of The Giants The central figures in the Placer County Superior players it has suspended for spokesman Tim Frank said. Community Fund. brawl at the Palace of Auburn Court Judge Francis Kearney actions off the court. Artest and Jackson were Hills were each suspended sentenced Artest to 100 hours For example, Ruben Pacers’ teammates in without pay by the league on of community service and a Patterson was hit with a five- November 2004 when they Six-a-Side Soccer 10-day work project through game suspension in 2001 after were involved in a brawl with Tournament Saturday for the first seven games of next season because the county sheriff’s depart- he entered a modified guilty fans during a game against the The Ukiah Host Lions and of their most recent legal ment. Artest also was fined plea in Washington state to Detroit Pistons. Ryan Rones Dickey Memorial problems. $600 and ordered to get exten- third-degree attempted rape Artest was suspended for Soccer Fund are sponsoring a Ironically, Artest was in sive counseling. for allegedly forcing his chil- 73 games and the playoffs — six-a-side soccer tournament for high school age boys and girls Africa on a humanitarian mis- Jackson of the Golden State dren’s nanny to perform a sex the NBA’s harshest punish- on Saturday, August 18 at the sion at the time his penalty Warriors pleaded guilty last act on him. Three years ago, ment for a fight — and Pomolita Middle School track. Games begin at 8 a.m. and will was announced. He is with month to a felony count of Eddie Griffin was penalized Jackson was suspended for 30 end about 5 p.m. Entry fee is union director Billy Hunter criminal recklessness for fir- three games after pleading games. $150 per team. taking part in the players asso- ing a gun outside an Indiana guilty to a misdemeanor Former Sacramento Kings Applications can be picked up at 601 N. State Street, via email ciation’s “Feeding One strip club last fall, when he assault charge in Texas. coach Eric Musselman was at [email protected] or call Million” campaign in Kenya was with the Pacers. He was The NBA’s collective bar- suspended two games by the 468-5711. Applications for the and could be unaware of his ordered to pay a $5,000 fine gaining agreement calls for a league last season for driving tourney are due by August 1. suspension. and perform 100 hours of minimum 10-game suspen- under the influence. A response from Artest and community service. sion when a player is convict- The last player punished by Continued the union, including whether “I accept the suspension, ed of or pleads no contest to a the NBA was new Orlando they plan to appeal, might not believe it is fair and definitely violent felony. forward Rashard Lewis, who on page A-10 come until they return to the look forward to having this ownership and the NBA for While the league felt these got a one-game ban in April United States. entire process come to a con- the negativity this has created crimes fell short of that, it did 2006 while playing for Seattle The Sacramento Kings for- clusion in November,” and the poor example that I hit both players with a harsher after he pleaded guilty to reck- ward pleaded no contest in Jackson said in a statement set.” penalty than the others less driving. THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL SPORTS SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 –A-9

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SCOREBOARD 21-year-old leads WS of poker LOCAL Saturday’s Games Iowa (Cubs) 50 42 .543 6 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Toronto (McGowan 5-4) at Boston (Matsuzaka Omaha (Royals) 44 49 .473 12 1/2 By RYAN NAKASHIMA day when he made a king- 10-6), 7:05 p.m. Memphis (Cardinals) 40 53 .430 16 1/2 Kansas City (Meche 5-6) at Cleveland (Sabathia Associated Press Writer high flush on the river and an CALENDAR National League 12-3), 7:05 p.m. Southern Division Chicago White Sox (Vazquez 6-5) at Baltimore W L Pct. GB LAS VEGAS — A opponent mucked his cards. By The Associated Press (D.Cabrera 6-10), 7:05 p.m. New Orleans (Mets) 47 45 .511 — Advanced Hoops All Times EDT N.Y.Yankees (Wang 9-4) at Tampa Bay Albuquerque (Marlins) 47 46 .505 1/2 Norwegian who turned 21 “Since then, I’ve been stay- (Sonnanstine 1-3), 7:10 p.m. Oklahoma (Rangers) 45 46 .495 1 1/2 ing uninvolved,” he said. Camp at Pomolita East Division Oakland (Blanton 8-5) at Minnesota (Silva 6-10), Round Rock (Astros) 41 51 .446 6 years old just three weeks ago W L Pct GB 7:10 p.m. was battling for the chip lead Several big name poker New York 49 40 .551 — Texas (Loe 5-6) at L.A. Angels (Lackey 11-5 or PACIFIC CONFERENCE An advanced basketball camp Atlanta 48 42 .533 1 1/2 Jer.Weaver 6-5), 9:05 p.m. Saturday, as fewer than 90 pros were still in the hunt for held July 16-20 from 8:30 a.m. to Philadelphia 45 44 .506 4 Detroit (Rogers 3-0) at Seattle (Batista 8-7), Northern Division 1:30 p.m. is open to boys and Florida 42 48 .467 7 1/2 10:05 p.m. W L Pct. GB players remained in the World the $8.25 million top prize as Washington 37 52 .416 12 Sunday’s Games Salt Lake (Angels) 50 43 .538 — girls ages 7 –17. This five day Kansas City (De La Rosa 7-9) at Cleveland Col. Springs (Rockies) 49 42 .538 — Series of Poker’s $10,000 the field continued to be whit- long camp offers players an Central Division (Carmona 10-4), 1:05 p.m. Tacoma (Mariners) 41 52 .441 9 opportunity to improve their bas- W L Pct GB Chicago White Sox (Contreras 5-10) at Baltimore Portland (Padres) 40 53 .430 10 buy-in main event. tled down from the 6,358 that Milwaukee 49 40 .551 — (Olson 0-0), 1:35 p.m. Dag Martin Mikkelsen began play in stages July 6. ketball fundamentals and skills. Chicago 45 43 .511 3 1/2 N.Y.Yankees (Mussina 4-6) at Tampa Bay Southern Division This camp is tailor made for St. Louis 40 46 .465 7 1/2 (Jackson 1-9), 1:40 p.m. W L Pct. GB came of legal age to gamble in They included the youth basketball players looking Pittsburgh 40 49 .449 9 Toronto (Litsch 1-3) at Boston (Beckett 12-2), Sacramento (Athletics) 53 40 .570 — Houston 39 51 .433 10 1/2 2:05 p.m. Tucson (Diamondbacks) 49 43 .533 3 1/2 Nevada on June 25, and he “Godfather of the Costa Rican to work on their game. The camp Cincinnati 37 53 .411 12 1/2 Oakland (Haren 10-3) at Minnesota (Bonser 5-6), Fresno (Giants) 46 47 .495 7 will be held at the Pomolita 2:10 p.m. Las Vegas (Dodgers) 41 51 .446 11 1/2 was winning all of his big bets players,” Humberto Brenes, School Gym. West Division Texas (McCarthy 4-6) at L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver W L Pct GB 6-5 or Lackey 11-5), 3:35 p.m. ——— on the fifth official day of the with 1.3 million, Gus Hansen Tuition is $100. Lunch is not pro- San Diego 49 39 .557 — Detroit (Verlander 10-3) at Seattle (Weaver 2-6), Friday’s Games no-limit Texas Hold’em tour- with 500,000, 1996 main vided. Pre-Register at the City of Los Angeles 50 40 .556 — 4:05 p.m. Albuquerque 11, New Orleans 5 Ukiah 411 W. Clay Street. Walk- Arizona 48 43 .527 2 1/2 Fresno 8, Tacoma 5, 12 innings nament as his chip stack event winner Huck Seed with Colorado 45 44 .506 4 1/2 Omaha 6, Iowa 5 ups welcome! For more informa- San Francisco 38 49 .437 10 1/2 MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Memphis 10, Nashville 5 swelled to 4.8 million. 2.2 million and 1998 main tion, please call Jake Burgess Portland 8, Sacramento 1 Sports Coordinator City of Ukiah ——— Oklahoma 9, Round Rock 8, 12 innings In one hand, Mikkelsen event champ Scotty Nguyen, Thursday’s Games By The Associated Press Las Vegas 3, Salt Lake 2 (707) 463-6714. N.Y. Mets 3, Cincinnati 2 All Times EDT Colorado Springs 13, Tucson 2, 1st game pushed a smaller stacked who was sixth with 2.9 mil- Friday’s Games Tucson 9, Colorado Springs 4, 2nd game Chicago Cubs 6, Houston 0 EASTERN CONFERENCE player all in with an ace and lion. Fourth Annual Washington 14, Florida 10 W L T Pts GF GA Saturday’s Games “I’m cruising, I’m relax- Legends 10k and 5k Philadelphia 13, St. Louis 3 New York 7 5 3 24 25 20 Albuquerque at New Orleans king of diamonds, while his Cincinnati 8, N.Y. Mets 4 D.C. United 7 5 2 23 23 18 Fresno at Tacoma opponent flipped over pocket ing,” Nguyen said as he Atlanta 9, Pittsburgh 1 New England 6 3 5 23 25 17 Iowa at Omaha Join the fourth annual Legends Colorado 10, Milwaukee 6 Kansas City 6 5 4 22 26 22 Memphis at Nashville eights. stepped away from the table, Arizona 8, San Diego 3 Columbus 5 4 7 22 20 21 Portland at Sacramento of the Redwoods 10k, 5k run and L.A. Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1 Toronto FC 5 7 3 18 18 24 Round Rock at Oklahoma A jack and 10 of diamonds sipping a cup of beer. “I’m on walk on July 21. This event is in Saturday’s Games Chicago 4 8 4 16 13 26 Salt Lake at Las Vegas Houston (Oswalt 8-5) at Chicago Cubs (Lilly 8-4), Tucson at Colorado Springs, 1st game and a jack of hearts came on top of my game right now. I celebration of the Native 3:55 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Tucson at Colorado Springs, 2nd game American Race from San L.A. Dodgers (Lowe 8-8) at San Francisco (Morris W L T Pts GF GA the flop and a six of diamonds hope I keep playing smooth 7-5), 3:55 p.m. Houston 10 5 2 32 25 10 Sunday’s Games came on the turn, giving like that so I take this one Francisco to Grants Pass, St. Louis (Maroth 5-3) at Philadelphia (Hamels FC Dallas 9 6 2 29 21 21 Albuquerque at New Orleans Oregon, held in 1927 and 1928, a 10-4), 3:55 p.m. CD Chivas USA 6 5 3 21 18 15 Fresno at Tacoma Mikkelsen a flush and leaving down, baby.” Colorado (Lopez 5-2) at Milwaukee (Sheets 10- Colorado 4 8 5 17 14 22 Iowa at Omaha spectacular 480 mile run. The 4), 7:05 p.m. Los Angeles 3 5 4 13 17 18 Memphis at Nashville his opponent hoping for an Bringing up third place race starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Sun Washington (Chico 4-5) at Florida (Mitre 3-4), Real Salt Lake 1 7 6 9 12 23 Portland at Sacramento 7:05 p.m. Round Rock at Oklahoma eight or jack for a full house. after several hours of play was House Park, 431 Main Street in Pittsburgh (Gorzelanny 9-4) at Atlanta (James 8- NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Salt Lake at Las Vegas Ukiah. 7), 7:05 p.m. ——— Tucson at Colorado Springs A queen of diamonds on the Philip Hilm, a 31-year-old Cincinnati (Belisle 5-6) at N.Y. Mets (Glavine 7-6), Thursday’s Game Dane making a living playing Entry fee is $20, which includes 7:10 p.m. Houston 4, Chicago 0 river shut the door, giving a shirt. Runners 16 and under are San Diego (Young 8-3) at Arizona (L.Hernandez Sunday’s Game poker online in England, with 5-5), 9:40 p.m. Toronto FC at Houston, 8:30 p.m. GOLDEN BASEBALL LEAGUE Mikkelsen a royal flush, the $5, no shirt included. Strider Sunday’s Games Thursday, July 19 best hand in poker, and a cry 3.3 million in chips. members receive a $2 discount. Pittsburgh (Maholm 5-11) at Atlanta (Carlyle 3-2), MLS All-Stars vs. Celtic FC at Commerce City, 1:05 p.m. First Half Race benefits Grace Hudson Colo., 9 p.m. At A Glance from the TV studio audience. Hilm pushed over the top Washington (Simontacchi 6-6) at Florida (Olsen Sunday, July 22 Native Plants Demonstration 6-7), 1:05 p.m. By The Associated Press Houston at New England, 4 p.m. W L Pct. GB In a later hand, Mikkelsen for all of his chips with a king Cincinnati (Lohse 5-10) at N.Y. Mets (O.Perez 7- D.C. United at New York, 5 p.m. Project. For more information call 6), 1:10 p.m. Chico 22 12 .647 — knocked out a second oppo- and 10 of hearts after two Toronto FC at Columbus, 5 p.m. Long Beach 22 12 .647 — Mark at 272-9246 or Tim at 272- Colorado (Cook 5-6) at Milwaukee (Suppan 8-8), Colorado at Kansas City, 8 p.m. 2:05 p.m. Yuma 19 16 .543 3 1/2 nent when his 10 and seven of hearts came on a flop of 4187. Houston (Rodriguez 6-7) at Chicago Cubs Orange County 18 17 .514 4 1/2 (Marquis 6-5), 2:20 p.m. Reno 15 18 .455 6 1/2 clubs made a flush on the turn queen, six and three. A player St. George 6 27 .182 15 1/2 Hopland Bears L.A. Dodgers (Tomko 1-7) at San Francisco WNBA holding pocket aces folded, (Lowry 9-6), 4:05 p.m. against a player with a pair of San Diego (Germano 5-3) at Arizona (Webb 8-6), ——— aces. but an opponent with three The Hopland Bears will begin 4:40 p.m. At A Glance Friday’s Games St. Louis (Wainwright 7-7) at Philadelphia (Eaton By The Associated Press Long Beach 16, Chico 0 “I hit some crucial outs in sixes called. sign-ups and conditioning begin- 8-5), 6:05 p.m. All Times EDT Reno 13, St. George 6 Yuma 10, Orange County 3 big pots so it worked out,” When a five of hearts came ning August 1, at 5:30 pm (at AMERICAN LEAGUE EASTERN CONFERENCE Hopland Elementary School). WLPctGB Sunday’s Games Mikkelsen said. “I ran pretty on the turn, Hilm made his Indiana 15 4.789 — Long Beach at Chico Those interested should attend By The Associated Press Detroit 14 5.737 1 Orange County at Yuma good.” flush and doubled up. Only the sessions with copies of their All Times EDT New York 10 9.526 5 Reno at St. George Connecticut 9 11.4506 1/2 Avi Cohen, a 35-year-old later did he learn that two birth certificate, their most recent East Division Chicago 8 12.4007 1/2 report card, and the $70 sign up W L Pct GB Washington 7 12.368 8 partner of a boutique financial other players folded two Boston 54 35 .607 — CALIFORNIA LEAGUE brokerage in Boston, was tied hearts each and the player fee. Toronto 44 45 .494 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE Applications may be completed New York 43 44 .494 10 WLPctGB Baltimore 39 50 .438 15 At A Glance for the lead with 4.8 million with pocket aces had an ace of at that time, or players may San Antonio 12 6.667 — By The Associated Press Tampa Bay 35 54 .393 19 Sacramento 12 8.600 1 after about two hours of play. hearts. That meant Hilm only request that one be mailed to Phoenix 11 9.550 2 Central Division North Division them by calling: Coach Rick 291- Seattle 11 9.550 2 W L Pct. GB Cohen said he doubled his had four cards left to make his W L Pct GB Los Angeles 7 12.3685 1/2 9457, or Coach Pete 463-8800. Detroit 53 35 .602 — Visalia (Diamondbacks) 13 8 .619 — stack on the first hand of the flush or go home. Houston 6 14.300 7 Modesto (Rockies) 12 10 .545 1 1/2 Cleveland 53 36 .596 1/2 Minnesota 5 16.2388 1/2 Minnesota 47 43 .522 7 x-San Jose (Giants) 11 11 .500 2 1/2 Chicago 40 48 .455 13 Stockton (Athletics) 9 12 .429 4 ——— Bakersfield (Rangers) 8 14 .364 5 1/2 Kansas City 38 51 .427 15 1/2 Friday’s Games No games scheduled South Division West Division Sunday’s Games W L Pct GB W L Pct. GB All-Star game at Washington x-Lancaster (Red Sox) 15 7 .682 — BIKRAM YOGA Los Angeles 54 35 .607 — Monday’s Games Seattle 50 37 .575 3 Inland Empire (Dodgers) 13 9 .591 2 No games scheduled Lake Elsinore (Padres) 12 10 .545 3 Oakland 44 46 .489 10 1/2 Tuesday’s Games UKIAH Texas 38 51 .427 16 R. Cucamonga (Angels) 9 13 .409 6 Minnesota at Connecticut, 7:30 p.m. High Desert (Mariners) 7 15 .318 8 Seattle at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m. ——— San Antonio at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games x-won first half Bikini Season The Original Sprayed On Boston 7, Toronto 4 ——— Chicago White Sox 9, Baltimore 7 Friday’s Games N.Y.Yankees 7, Tampa Bay 3 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE High Desert 12, Bakersfield 10 Polyurethane Bed Liner Minnesota 6, Oakland 2 Lake Elsinore 8, Lancaster 6 is Here Seattle 3, Detroit 2 San Jose 7, Modesto 2 Friday’s Games At A Glance Inland Empire 8, Rancho Cucamonga 4 By The Associated Press Visalia 4, Stockton 3 Pick-Em Up Truck Store Toronto 6, Boston 5 $29 Cleveland 5, Kansas City 4 Baltimore 2, Chicago White Sox 0 AMERICAN CONFERENCE Sunday’s Games 462-5086 Tampa Bay 6, N.Y.Yankees 4 Inland Empire at San Jose Intro Special Minnesota 5, Oakland 3 Northern Division Lake Elsinore at High Desert Detroit 6, Seattle 3 W L Pct. GB Rancho Cucamonga at Lancaster 1070 A N. State St., Ukiah L.A. Angels 2, Texas 1 Nashville (Brewers) 56 36 .609 — Stockton at Modesto 115 W. Church St • Ukiah • 468-YOGA Kloeden holds on in Tour By JEROME PUGMIRE How Kloeden — who also AP Sports Writer fractured his tailbone three BOURG-EN-BRESSE, years ago — will get through France — Alexandre the Alps is unsure. Vinokourov had planned to “I’ll be at the start tomor- begin his attack in the Alps. row (Saturday), but I’m not Now, he’s focused on just sur- making any predictions for viving the mountains. the coming days,” Kloeden Vinokourov finished said. Friday’s sixth stage of the Biver was asked what med- Tour de France in agony from ical treatment Kloeden would the pain in his knees a day have to make it past the Alps. after a crash that kept him The answer was short and hospitalized late into the blunt. night. “I can’t say. I’m not a doc- “It was a really hard day. tor,” Biver said. My knees were hurting me a Biver is sure his two riders lot,” Vinokourov said. “The will be targeted, particularly more it went on, the more I in the eighth stage Sunday, a got tired. We’re heading into leg that features three straight the mountains. I’ll take it day Category 1 climbs. by day.” “With the way things are Vinokourov was tipped as we can’t attack, it’s not possi- one of the favorites to win. ble,” he said. “The other Doing so with 15 stitches in teams won’t spare us. That’s his knee is a different matter. normal for them to take “It’s hard enough when advantage. We will know you’re in top form. But when more on Sunday night what you’re in bad shape ... even if we have to put the team back the head wants to sometimes into place.” the body can’t follow,” said Saturday’s 123-mile course Marc Biver, Vinokourov’s from Bourg-en-Bresse to Le Astana team manager. “He’ll Grand-Bornand features the go to his limit and will die on Category 1 climb at La the bike if he has to. He’ll do Colombiere pass. everything to stay in the With the peleton rocked by Tour.” several crashes in the first Biver also has doubts about week, the feeling among rid- Andreas Kloeden, the team’s ers is that La Colombiere No. 2 rider who grimaced could also prove spectacular. through the stage with a hair- “There’ll be carnage for line fracture of his tailbone sure,” British cyclist David that prevented him from mov- Millar said. “To what ing out of the standard tuck degrees? I don’t know. It will position on his saddle. be interesting.” With three upcoming Former world champion Alpine treks, things are not Boonen raced to his fifth Tour looking good for either stage victory Friday in a sprint Vinokourov or Kloeden. On at the end of the 124-mile trek top of their physical prob- from the Burgundy town of lems, they will likely be Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg- attacked by other contenders en-Bresse that saw a red-faced looking to profit from their Vinokourov roll over the line predicament. in 160th place with blood still “We’ll have to hold on for seeping from a gash to his sure ... but holding on is one right buttock. thing. We also have to make Swiss rider Fabian sure the gaps don’t increase,” Cancellara, the only man to Biver said. “If they do, it will wear the leader’s yellow jer- change the whole race and the sey this year, held onto the strategy we’ll put into place.” overall lead. THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL SPORTS SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 –A-11 NYC’s summer of ’77 was unforgettable Hotshot Beckham has weaknesses By LARRY McSHANE incumbent Mayor Abe Yankees manager Billy By ROBERT MILLWARD His return to form for Real him the biggest name in Major Associated Press Writer Beame. “Second was the fear Martin nearly came to blows AP Soccer Writer Madrid in the last two months League Soccer. NEW YORK — It was the in the city with the Son of in the dugout after Martin LONDON — American of the Spanish season helped But American soccer fans summer of Reggie, the sum- Sam. And third was Howard pulled the future Hall of soccer fans and his Los the club capture its first will quickly learn that mer of Sam, the summer when Cosell’s comment that the Famer mid-game for a per- Angeles Galaxy teammates domestic title for four years. Beckham is far from the com- the lights went dark and the Bronx was burning.” ceived lack of effort in have now seen David Coach Fabio Capello, who plete player. Bronx burned bright. But it’s not an era that Fenway Park. Beckham the fashion icon. dropped Beckham after he Even though he plays on Thirty years ago, as the inspires nostalgia. “Was this the straw that What are they getting in had announced his move to the right side of midfield, temperatures soared and its “You had looting, you had broke the camel’s back?” Beckham the soccer star? the Galaxy, admitted at the Beckham is not the sort of morale plunged, New York a homicidal maniac, you had asked Daily News sports- While his ability to bend end of the season he made a player who runs at defenders City endured a scathing sum- the city in dire straits fiscally,” writer Phil Pepe after the June free kicks are well known, the mistake. and dribbles past them. He mer custom-made for tabloid said Mitchell Moss, a profes- 18, 1977, near-brawl. former England captain has Despite numerous injuries doesn’t have the speed or headlines: A crippling July sor at the New York The Yankees had recently plenty more attributes — and to his feet, wrists and ankles, dribbling ability to do that. blackout, complete with arson University Urban Research been bought by George a number of weaknesses. Beckham is astonishingly fit. He scored 62 goals in 265 and looting (“24 HOURS OF Center. “There was a genuine Steinbrenner, rounding out the Let’s look at the good Although not quick over appearances for Manchester TERROR”); a media-savvy breakdown in the city’s self- troika that transfixed fans into points first. short bursts, he has the stami- United — most of them long- serial killer dubbed the Son of confidence.” the fall. The once-storied fran- Beckham’s right foot is one na to run up and down the range shots, free kicks and Sam (“NO ONE IS SAFE”); Even when the power dis- chise, moribund for most of of the most valuable collec- field for the full 90 minutes penalties — but manager Alex and a dysfunctional, sensa- appeared, this was the sum- the previous decade, was back tions of bones in sports. The without showing any signs of Ferguson was frustrated that tional New York Yankees mer when Reggie Jackson as the new owner and the old- Galaxy are paying him Beckham rarely got into posi- team (“THE BRONX ZOO”). owned the spotlight. school manager struggled to US$32.5 million over the next tions inside the area where he There was more: A bitterly The power-hitting right find harmony with their five years. could score. contested mayoral race, the fielder arrived in New York superstar slugger. The last of his 17 goals in Beckham also has a temper. lingering threat of fiscal disas- with a huge contract and an The Yankees won their first 96 appearances for England He has been sent off twice ter, the perception that crime ego to match, announcing — World Series in 15 years, led was at the 2006 World Cup as an England player, famous- was turning New York City at the expense of team captain by Jackson, who drilled three where he bent a free kick ly at the 1998 World Cup in into Dodge City (albeit with a Thurman Munson — that he homers on three pitches in the around a wall of Ecuador France when he petulantly splashier skyline). The was “the straw that stirs the deciding game. “YANKEES defenders to squeeze between kicked out at Argentina’s nation’s largest city was drink.” ARE CHAMPS!” read page the goalkeeper and the foot of Diego Simeone while lying on becoming a punchline, but His big bat and bigger one of the Daily News. his post for the only goal of the turf. England went on to those who resisted the urge to mouth kept the Yankees on the Thirty years later, “Mr. the game. play more than 70 minutes flee the five boroughs weren’t back page of the tabloids, October” returned to the Playing for Manchester with only 10 men on the field, laughing. even as the city’s bigger sto- Bronx for the annual Yankees’ United against Wimbledon in tiredness. That means he is losing on penalties. “There were three things ries dominated page one. By old timers’ day festivities. His 1996, he spotted the goalkeep- always available to receive a Throughout the domestic sea- that were bad for the city: season’s end, Reggie would long-ago season was er off his line and launched a pass and make them in return, son that followed, Beckham First was the blackout and the become front-page news, too. inevitably brought up, and shot from just inside his own or get into a position to try a was jeered by rival fans wher- looting,” recalled Ed Koch, A month before the black- Jackson acknowledged that it half, the ball floating over long-range shot. ever he played. who was running to unseat out, Jackson and combative lingers to this day. Neil Sullivan’s head for an Despite his showbiz Whenever Beckham is astonishing goal. lifestyle off the field, he fouled and he feels aggrieved, As well as scoring goals always gives 100 percent to he has a tendency to overre- with shots that swerve past his team when he’s on it and act. Sent off four times in four bewildered goalkeepers, he says he has maintained his years as a Real Madrid player, Rhoden surges to lead at Tahoe has the ability to deliver inch- enthusiasm for the game he often let his temper take By SCOTT SONNER ditional status on the PGA Saturday but had three birdies perfect 70-yard passes to through a pro career which over and would charge after Associated Press Writer Champions Tour. He won the on the back to finish with a 67 teammates running at full now stands at 16 years. the opponent who fouled him STATELINE, Nev. — After celebrity event in 1991-93-95- and pull within four points of speed. “I’m 32, but I feel as fit as I and wind up in trouble with struggling in the U.S. Senior 97-99 and 2003. the leader. Beckham seems to use his did when I was 22 and I’m as the referee. Open at Whistling Straits on “Obviously, Rick’s proba- “It’s nice to be around the right leg like it is a set of golf eager as I was when I was 14,” Tackling is not one of his the shores of Lake Michigan a bly the best player out here. leaderboard again,” said irons, adjusting the length of Beckham said after being strong points either. Even week ago, Rick Rhoden was So he’ll be a fun guy to Rypien, who won the inaugur- his pass accordingly to get the introduced as a Galaxy player though Beckham will often back in his element on chase,” said Fuhr, who had al event in 1990. “I’ve had 10 distance just right. on Friday. “I’m not here to track back to support his Saturday atop the leaderboard four birdies and two bogies on birdies in two days and I think On his return to the wind down my career. I’ve defenders, he often mistimes of the celebrity golf tourna- Saturday in a round of 71. that’s more than I’ve had in England lineup at Wembley won everything there is to win his tackles to give away free ment he’s won six times “You know Rick is not going three years.” on June 1, he swung a free in England. I won the Spanish kicks and often pick up a yel- before at Lake Tahoe. to beat himself. That’s some- “Rick was going to run kick that curled over Brazil’s league title and I played for low card. The former major league thing he’s proved over the away with this thing and he defenders and hung in the air my country for 11 years — six Beckham’s first game for pitcher went birdie-birdie- years.” was gracious enough to par for John Terry to leap high of them as captain.” the Galaxy will be in a friend- eagle during one stretch on the Chandler agreed. everything coming home..... and head his team ahead in a There’s no doubt that ly against English club way to a 5-under-par 67 worth “You always expect Rick to It’s not a good sign when he 1-1 draw. Beckham’s ability will make Chelsea on July 21. 51 points in the modified be up at the top, near the top, says he’s feeling good.” Stableford scoring system at always there, really solid. While Rhoden was getting the 18th annual American Everybody knows that,” he down to business, many of the Century Celebrity Golf said. competitors signed programs, Championship. After parring the first hole shirts and hats between holes. You are what you eat. Ex-NHL great Grant Fuhr Saturday, Rhoden played the Carson Palmer threw a foot- was in second with 48 points, next three holes 4-under par, ball autographed by himself, followed by former quarter- hitting a 6 iron 185 yards to Romo and Jerry Rice to a man backs Chris Chandler and within 2 feet of the hole on the on a boat anchored just off the So EatSmart. Mark Rypien with 47 headed 536-yard, par-5 fifth. He also Par 3, 17th. Earlier, Rice into Sunday’s final round at birdied the eighth then parred threw his hat down in mock Edgewood Tahoe Golf every hole on the back. disgust when an announcer Find remedies, recipes and nutrition Course. The scoring system “I feel a lot better leaving introduced him not as a future information from Jean Carper’s awards six points for eagle, today than I did yesterday, hall of famer but a star of three for birdie, one for par, that’s for sure,” said Rhoden, “Dancing With the Stars.” EatSmart column in USA WEEKEND. zero for bogey and minus two who shot a 72 on Friday and Charles Barkley, in last for double bogey or worse. started the day four points place with minus 63 points, Rhoden, 54, shot 75-76 to behind first-round leader Billy had to take a two-stroke miss the cut by three strokes at Joe Tolliver. penalty on his first hole when the links-style Whistling Tolliver, another ex-quar- he whiffed a shot in the fair- Straits and its 1,000-plus terback who has won the tour- way. His next shot hit a tree bunkers in Wisconsin, his nament twice, shot 70 and tal- and his drive on the next duck Every Sunday in… Your Newspaper Logo third U.S. Senior Open. lied 28 points Friday but had hooked into the gallery, nar- Every Sunday in... “That’s the hardest course only 15 points on a round of rowly missing the spectators. I’ve ever played, by far,” 76 Saturday for a two-day “Don’t worry. It won’t hurt Rhoden said. “I’ve played total of 41. you,” he told them. Oakmont and it’s not even Defending champ Jack Ray Romano, the Emmy close.” Wagner had 42 points and Award winning star of the “So I think visually, you Dan Quinn, a four-time longtime running comedy show up here and it looks 10 celebrity champ, had 36 “Everybody Loves times easier after playing points. Dallas Cowboys quar- Raymond,” did manage to hit there,” he said about the terback Tony Romo, making a young man when his shot Edgewood layout with its his tourney debut, shot 68 wide of the par-5 16th skipped lush, forgiving fairways wind- Saturday for a two-day total of off a cart path. ing through towering pines. 40 points. “Are you all right?” he Rhoden was ineligible to Rypien, playing in the same asked the victim. “I’m unem- play at Lake Tahoe last year group with Rhoden, trailed ployed now, so there’s no because he qualified for con- him by 10 points at the turn on money.” Track coach charges dismissed Associated Press Writer jury on Nov. 2. the pending indictments. One-Day Conference SAN FRANCISCO — Graham’s lawyers claim A spokeswoman for the Open to Public: Lawyers for an elite track U.S. Justice Department offi- U.S. Attorney’s office in San coach indicted in a federal cials broke secrecy rules by Francisco and lawyers for Assessment & Treatment probe of steroid use by profes- tipping off the media and Graham did not immediately sional athletes are seeking to asked a judge to dismiss the respond to messages seeking of the Child Prenatally have the charges dismissed charges because of “prosecu- comment Saturday. Exposed to Alcohol because Justice Department torial and witness miscon- Graham helped launch the officials allegedly leaked duct.” government’s steroid probe & Illicit Drugs information to the media. They also requested the when he mailed a vial of a Trevor Graham, who disclosure of all grand jury designer drug, called “the On Tuesday, July 24th, 2007, Dr. Ira J. the field of maternal drug use during trained track stars Justin testimony, which they said clear,” to the U.S. Anti- Chasnoff will be in Ukiah to present a pregnancy and the effects on the infant and Gatlin, Marion Jones and Tim they believed would reveal Doping Agency. Graham had conference on how to work with children child. His research projects include a study Montgomery, was charged in further misconduct. been granted immunity for his prenatally exposed to alcohol and illicit of the long-term cognitive, behavioral and November with three counts Graham pleaded not guilty cooperation in the investiga- drugs. We especially encourage anyone educational developmental effects of prenatal of making false statements to to the charges and was freed tion, but the agreement didn’t involved in the care, counseling or exposure to alcohol, cocaine, and other federal agents. He is accused on $25,000 bond. If convict- protect him from prosecution education of children to attend. drugs. of lying in 2004 when he said ed, he faces up to 15 years in for making false statements, he did not distribute steroids prison and a $750,000 fine. prosecutors said. The conference will be held at the Ukiah For more information or to register contact or tell his athletes where they His trial is set to begin Sept. The investigation led Valley Conference Center on July 24th, 2007 Theresa McNerlin at 472-2794. could get them. 24 in federal court in San authorities to the Bay Area from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The $30 Registration deadline is 3:00 p.m., In documents filed Friday Francisco. Laboratory Co-Operative, the registration fee includes continental Friday, July 20th. Space is limited. Please in San Francisco federal court, The AP stories cited “two now-defunct Burlingame- breakfast, lunch, and conference materials. ask about receiving CEU’s if you are a nurse, Graham’s lawyers cited wide- Justice Department officials based supplement company therapist, or substance abuse counselor. ly published reports by The with knowledge of the investi- that allegedly provided per- Ira J. Chasnoff, M.D., is President of the Associated Press that Graham gation” who were “speaking formance-enhancing drugs to Children’s Research Triangle and a Professor This conference is sponsored by Mendocino “was expected to be indicted” on the condition of anonymity several star professional ath- of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of County Health & Human Services Agency, as grounds for the dismissal. because the charges had not letes, including baseball play- Illinois, College of Medicine in Chicago. He FIRST 5 Mendocino, Mendocino College and The stories ran the day before been made public” as the ers Barry Bonds, Jason is one of the nation’s leading researchers in Consolidated Tribal Health Project. he was charged by the grand sources of information about Giambi and Gary Sheffield. A-12 – SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 FORUM THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL

Chronicle several days later. hidden metal, as with a welder Parkinson’s Disease or other Letters They reminded Mr. Will that who might have a very small movement disorders, or pain the poll actually showed that MRIs moving ahead piece of metal inside his eye, too great to be able to extend Continued from Page A-6 66 percent believed in In 1977, after seven years or someone with certain types the neck, for example, anes- human-induced global warm- of research and development, of surgical clips in the brain, thesia may be administered. poll of scientists concerned ing and that a mere 10 per- a team of scientists and physi- following a previous surgery. This allows the patient to be with global warming showed cent disagreed. Mr. Will said cians performed the first MRI Another voice It may not work with pace- completely asleep during the that 53 percent of them did nothing in reply. scan on a human being. It took makers. It requires that a per- whole process, as when some- not believe global warming I truly believe George Will 5 hours to produce one image BY ACE BARASH son hold very still for 20 to 90 one has surgery. To administer has occurred and another 30 should stick to baseball which, by today’s standards, minutes, while the scan takes anesthesia in the MRI suite percent were unsure. where he cannot lie about was crude. MRI or Magnetic place. The scanner makes a requires special equipment, However, the Gallup poll statistics. Resonance Imaging works on CT scans are very fast, over in good deal of noise, like con- every component of which people corrected Mr. Will’s Ross Murray the basis of a huge magnet a matter of seconds. But MRI tinual rapid hammering, while must be made without ferrous claim in the San Francisco Boonville and, using radio wave pulses has become the study of the study progresses. For visu- metals, which become danger- of energy to look at tiny points choice diagnosing masses or alizing the head, neck, or ous in the presence of the would need to include a major one at a time, it can recon- tumors in soft tissues of the abdomen, it requires that a powerful magnetic field creat- grocery and restaurant com- struct a map of an object’s body, infections of the brain, patient be slid into a tube that ed by the scanner. Future ponent, which could in itself inner territory. It depends on spine or joints; diagnosing children or people with claus- Local hospitals have not devastate our already strug- computer technology to pro- multiple sclerosis or torn liga- trophia might find confining yet developed MRI anesthesia Continued from Page A-6 gling downtown by driving duce a 3-dimensional repre- ments of the wrist, knee, and disconcerting. Open MRI programs until now, and the out existing downtown gro- sentation of what it sees. ankle, and shoulder, as well as scanners exist, but may sacri- closest location that one might sioned studies. The UVAP is cery anchors, such a Safeway Unlike CT or Computer diagnosing strokes in their fice image quality for the obtain such a service has been supposed to reflect our long- and the 6,000-member Tomography (a “CAT scan”) earliest stages. increased comfort. Santa Rosa. Howard term vision for our local area, Natural Foods Co-op, as well it does not utilize x-rays. MRI Despite its utility, MRI may Frequently, if someone Memorial Hospital now offers not the whims of developers. as our homegrown restau- has become the imaging not be used in certain situa- feels uneasy about entering MRI anesthesia for those that The County’s own recent rants, which also serve up method of choice for many tions and has certain draw- the scanner, his or her doctor are unable to tolerate the scan- can prescribe a sedative to analysis shows that we cur- generous helpings of commu- conditions because of its spec- backs. Because it depends ner, and Sutter Lakeside is rently have far more land des- help relax. Most of the time, nity interaction and local tacular ability to visualize soft upon a very powerful magnet- currently developing a pro- ignated for new residential ic field, it might be dangerous this will allow enough com- entertainment. tissues, as well as bones, with- gram. and retail growth than we can Simultaneously, the Board in the human body. for those who have ferrous fort for the imaging to pro- possibly expect to use (or can metals within their bodies. For ceed. In situations where Ace Barash is a member of of Supervisors is considering There are some conditions the medical staff at Howard support) over the next 20 rezoning a large section of for which CT imaging advan- safety, x-rays often must be one’s fear is too strong, one is years. Yet, our Board of prime agricultural land along tages are superior, and modern taken to be sure there is no unable to hold still, as with Memorial Hospital. Supervisors have just decided Lovers Lane on the North end to pay more consultants to of town for a major residential study taking away more of our development. open space, reducing our still be subsidizing insurance Other opinions These outside developers company profits. available agricultural land and are not just seeking a piece of Health slashing existing manufactur- Democratic presidential From around the nation our pie -- they are attempting contender Dennis Kucinich ing space in order to open to swallow the entire pie in more land for residential and Continued from Page A-6 correctly points out that if you Chicago Tribune curriculum has been adopted one bite, leaving few crumbs have competition between retail development while their for legitimate local growth by 395 school districts around get better health care and it insurance companies, as the On the Bible the country. ... own studies show we have over the next decades. would cost much less than more than we need already. Republican contenders would in schools Mark Chancey, a professor Allowing massive retail health care now costs in this have it, it doesn’t lower costs, Our Supervisors are even and residential sprawl, as the country. of biblical studies at Southern using the UVAP process to it drives up profits. Carriers Knowledge of the Bible is Methodist University in Board of Supervisors appar- So why are politicians so cherry-pick the healthiest peo- an important component of shift the cost of the environ- ently intend to do, will seri- afraid of it? Dallas, did a study of the cur- mental impact analysis ple and the others end up with cultural literacy. ... riculum in 2005. He found ously undermine the progress Think back to 1993 and the substandard public care. required for major land use that the City of Ukiah has Yet many people, particu- that the National Council pro- Clinton health plan. Although All the Democratic presi- larly young people, have little changes from the developers been making to deliver the it was not a single-payer plan, motes a fundamentalist to the County taxpayers’ dential contenders give at or no working knowledge kind of intelligent, sustainable it still brought out a million- least a nod to a single-payer Protestant interpretation of the pockets. Current residential growth that the entire commu- dollar TV ad campaign by the about the Bible. So it makes Bible that often ignores the and commercial landowners plan, with Kucinich the sole great sense to teach the Bible nity has said it wants. That is, insurance industry that effec- single-payer supporter. And differing beliefs and practices in the Ukiah Valley might take development with walkable tively scuttled it. in schools as history and liter- of Catholics, Jews, Eastern note. Major reclassification of he has no chance of getting neighborhoods and downtown You paid for those ads with the nomination. ature. That goes as well for Orthodox Christians and agricultural and industrial anchors supporting thriving your insurance premiums. public schools, as long as its mainline Protestants. land will undercut the value of If you want to give people a smaller businesses with open, In other words, eliminate choice, make that choice be teaching doesn’t push a reli- ... The National Council is your property even while your public spaces vital to a lively, insurance from the health care gious agenda. taxes are being used to study either a private plan or one not the only option school dis- and livable, community. scenario, tax workers and with the government. The That very distinction is get- tricts have. A competing cur- this possibility. Moreover, while our employers, and every resident ting a test these days in Some of the proposed only candidate who thus far riculum offered by the Bible Supervisors are having us pay of the United States could get proposes this is John Odessa, Texas. Eight parents Literacy Project, a nonprofit developer projects that our to study making more land free medical care, while Edwards. He offers a choice have sued seeking to stop the group, has been vetted, Supervisors are aiding are so available for unneeded resi- physicians, hospitals and massive that they would fun- between a market-based plan Ector County School Board accepted and praised by a dential and retail sprawl, we other providers would be paid and single-payer coverage, damentally alter the look and are facing a severe shortage of from teaching a Bible curricu- wide range of scholars, critics a decent sum for their work. hoping everyone will eventu- lum developed by a North and education officials. ... feel of the Ukiah Valley. For water and sewer capacity, In 2004 I covered the example, the Supervisors ally migrate to the public sec- Carolina-based group called The folks at the National which is likely to continue at Athens Olympic Games as a tor. have decided to fund an least periodically for decades. journalist. My Ukiah cardiol- the National Council on Bible Council are right on one analysis of rezoning the old Of the other two leading Curriculum in Public Schools. count: The Bible should be Hence the County is planning ogist wanted me to have Democratic contenders, Masonite property from for a significant expansion in weekly blood tests while I The lawsuit is likely to have taught in public schools. But industrial to retail and com- Barack Obama has a detailed impact outside the county. they shouldn’t be the ones to size before it figures out how was there to monitor my med- plan, but Hillary Clinton does mercial. That change is being to meet the needs of the peo- ication. I would e-mail him The National Council says its do it. requested by Developers not so far. This will change as ple who live here already. the results, and he would we approach the January pri- Diversified Realty, one of the It’s hard to imagine that respond with whatever neces- world’s largest developers of maries. this could happen here. Given sary adjustment. For a detailed rundown of mega retail shopping com- that it has already happened I got a referral to a clinical plexes and whose largest all the Democratic and throughout the rest of lab in Athens, which was Republican contenders’ health client is Wal-Mart. DDR’s California, who will stop this? clean and similar to one in the NEWSPAPER own economic analysis shows plans, a great source today is Supervisor Wattenburger, States, but with no waiting. at: ADVERTISING that its “regional retail center” whose District is also the City They charged me 5.75 euros, on file with the County would www.huffingtonpost.com/s has staying power. of Ukiah, should have a plan or $7.91 in today’s currency, usan-blumenthal/us-presiden- has selling power! not only need to pull in mas- for preserving Ukiah’s relaxed and apologized for having to sive amounts of traffic from tial-candida_b_55460.html. With so many advertising atmosphere and small town charge me at all, because I “Sicko” is going to raise mediums dividing the attention of all of Mendocino and Lake character. He’s spoken out for was not a Greek resident. counties, plus chunks of the awareness bar and put the potential customers, newspapers intelligent and sensible By comparison, the same remain the most effective source Humboldt and Sonoma coun- heat on these candidates to regional planning in the past. test in Ukiah will cost you for reaching consumers. Why? ties, it would also need to cap- take a closer look at single- Simply put, newspapers reach But we don’t know his posi- about $55. payer coverage for all more people, more often. Highly ture a major portion of our The Republican presiden- existing local business. In tion on the potential rezoning Americans through Medicare. portable and highly visible, of the Masonite and Lover’s tial contenders all propose newspaper ads go with people and other words, it would cause Pay close attention. stay with them. 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inspections of its military sites and no longer American troops can leave “any time they economic and services pressures, as well as Briefly limit the numbers of its tanks and other heavy want.” regional and international interference.” conventional weapons. One of his top aides, meanwhile, accused But he said if necessary, Iraqi police and sol- The move, threatened for months, added the United States of embarrassing the Iraqi diers could fill the void left by the departure of Continued from Page A-2 new tension to relations with the West already government by violating human rights and coalition forces. Atomic Energy Agency team,” State strained over U.S. plans to build a missile treating his country like an “experiment in a Department spokesman Sean McCormack said shield in Eastern Europe, Russian conflicts U.S. lab.” Dodd assails Edwards and in a statement. with its neighbors and Western criticism of Al-Maliki sought to display confidence at a After tortuous negotiations and delays — Moscow’s human rights record. time when pressure is mounting in Congress Clinton over overheard during which the North argued its nuclear pro- Experts said the move was a symbolic ges- for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. forces. On remarks on limiting debates gram was needed for self-defense — the reclu- ture rather than a sign of Russian intent to build Thursday, the House passed a measure calling sive regime said earlier this month that once it up forces near its borders. The Kremlin, they for the U.S. to withdraw its troops by spring, SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Connecticut received the oil shipment, it would consider said, appeared to be expressing its dissatisfac- hours after the White House reported mixed Sen. Chris Dodd on Saturday criticized rivals halting its reactor. tion with the perceived U.S. domination of progress by the Iraqi government toward meet- John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton, The 10-member IAEA team arrived in the global affairs, and positioning Russia as an ing 18 benchmarks. During a press conference, who were overheard discussing among them- North Korean capital Saturday afternoon. unyielding global player. al-Maliki shrugged off the progress report, say- selves their hope of limiting the number of Team chief Adel Tolba said the inspectors The Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty ing that difficulty in enacting the reforms was Democrats in presidential debates. would stay in North Korea as long as needed to was signed by Russian and NATO members in “natural” given Iraq’s turmoil. The private exchange was picked up by sev- complete their work at the Yongbyon plutoni- 1990, when Soviet and NATO troops faced off “We are not talking about a government in a eral broadcasters on an open microphone after um-producing reactor, located about 60 miles in Central Europe. It was amended in 1999 to stable political environment but one in the an NAACP forum in Detroit on Thursday. All northeast of Pyongyang. reflect changes since the breakup of the Soviet shadow of huge challenges,” al-Maliki said. the Democratic contenders took part in the pro- Union, adding the requirement that Moscow “So when we talk about the presence of some gram, including Barack Obama, Bill LA archdiocese to pay $600M withdraw its forces from the former Soviet negative points in the political process, that’s Richardson, Joe Biden, Mike Gravel and republics of Moldova and Georgia. fairly natural.” Al-Maliki said his government Dennis Kucinich. “I’d remind them that the to settle clergy abuse claims, needs “time and effort” to enact the political mike is always on,” Dodd told reporters on dwarfing other deals Lady Bird Johnson reforms that Washington seeks — “particularly Saturday after addressing a state convention of since the political process is facing security, Utah Democrats. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Roman remembered at funeral Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will set- attended by 1,800 tle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 mil- lion, by far the largest payout in the church’s AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former presidents, sexual abuse scandal, The Associated Press fellow first ladies and about 1,800 other people learned Saturday. attended a private funeral Saturday for Lady Attorneys for the archdiocese and the plain- Bird Johnson, celebrating her memory against tiffs are expected to announce the deal a backdrop of the wildflowers and hymns that Monday, the day the first of more than 500 she loved. clergy abuse cases was scheduled for jury Two huge, multicolored floral displays at selection, according to two people with knowl- the front of the Riverbend Centre sanctuary edge of the agreement. The sources spoke on included wildflowers and blooms from the gar- condition of anonymity because the settlement dens of friends of the former first lady, an envi- had not been made public. ronmentalist devoted to preserving wildflow- The archdiocese and its insurers will pay ers and native plants. Behind the pulpit, a large between $600 million and $650 million to window looked out onto the Texas Hill about 500 plaintiffs — an average of $1.2 mil- Country. lion to $1.3 million per person. The settlement “She’s once again united with her man for also calls for the release of confidential priest rides together through the ranch in the sky,” personnel files after review by a judge assigned Tom Johnson, a family friend and chairman of to oversee the litigation, the sources said. the LBJ Foundation, told those gathered. It wasn’t immediately clear how the payout Several family members were expected to would be split among the insurers, the archdio- speak, as well as TV host Bill Moyers, a former cese and several Roman Catholic religious press secretary for President Johnson. orders. A judge must sign off on the agreement, Those attending included first lady Laura and final details were being ironed out. Bush; former first lady Barbara Bush; former Lead plaintiffs’ attorney Ray Boucher con- President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary firmed the sides were working on a deal but he Rodham Clinton; former President Jimmy would not discuss specifics. He said negotia- Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter; former first tions would continue through the weekend and lady Nancy Reagan; Caroline Kennedy, daugh- said there were still many unresolved aspects. ter of the late President John F. Kennedy; and Tod Tamberg, archdiocese spokesman, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his wife, Anita. declined to comment on any settlement details. Iraqi prime minister insists Putin suspends Russia’s country can keep peace if U.S. participation in European leaves, given arms, training arms control treaty BAGHDAD (AP) — Prime Minister Nouri MOSCOW (AP) — Russia suspended par- al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his gov- ticipation in a key European arms control ernment’s military and political progress on treaty Saturday, saying it will halt NATO Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and • Willits • Marijuana NOYO THEATRE 459-NOYO (6696) Visit us at our website www.cinemawest.com INDEPENDENT FILM SERIES Continued from Page A-5 WILL RETURN IN AUGUST Harry Potter Adv. Tix on Sale I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & and the Order of the Phoenix Fusco of Americans for Safe LARRY (PG-13) # 12:20, 3:30, 6:50 PG13 SIMPSONS (PG-13) # Access, a medical marijuana PG13 Adv. Tix on Sale group. 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ical sciences at U.C. Santa Barbara. Lowell, the birthplace of the modern textile ties on the development of the Land Redwood Valley Grange # 382 is dedicated industry in America. Nearly 7,000 visitors are Conservation Plan,” said Jayne Battey, ACHIEVERS to supporting the community. Its members expected. Images 2007 will be presented at the Executive Director of the Stewardship believe that providing scholarships to college Lowell Memorial Auditorium, with cash prizes Council. bound young people is a good way to insure awarded, and will also include a special exhi- At the community meetings, the the future of the community. bition of antique quilts entitled “Women’s Stewardship Council will provide background Since the restart of the Grange Scholarship Work is Never Done,” curated by collector information on the development of the Land program in 2003, twenty-two students have Gerald Roy. Conservation Plan, distribute the Land been awarded $1,000 each to start their college The Lowell Quilt Festival is funded in part Conservation Plan on CD-ROM, and provide a education, five of whom have been children or by the New England Quilt Museum Auxiliary detailed explanation regarding how the public grandchildren of grange members. and the New England Quilt Museum. Proceeds can review and comment on the Land from the Festival benefit the New England Conservation Plan. The public comment period Quilt Museum, its exhibitions, collection will conclude on August 21. preservation and community outreach pro- The Stewardship Council is a collaborative grams. The New England Quilt Museum is cel- land conservation and youth investment foun- ebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For dation. Its mandate includes evaluating and more information about the Museum, visit providing recommendations for the conserva- their Web site at http://www .nequiltmuse- tion of over 140,000 acres of Pacific Gas and Electric watershed lands spread across 22 um.org. California counties, as well as investing in community-based park and environmental Redwood Valley resident wins education opportunities for under served honors at Illinois Quilt Show youth. For more information about the Stewardship Council, visit http://www.stew- Ann Horton of Redwood Valley earned First ardshipcouncil.org. Place honors in the Challenge: Blooms and Buttons category with her California Orchards at the 31st Quilt Celebration hosted by Cheshire Books to hold a Caporali Rockome Gardens in Arcola, Ill. The quilt benefit book release July 20 Local named Assistant Vice earned a commemorative ribbon. Big Brothers Big Sisters, a non-profit orga- This yearly event began as a one-weekend nization that helps match mentors with chil- President of Nevada Bank event in 1976, and has grown into a nine-day dren who need the friendship of a grown-up in festival occurring July 6 through 15. Mrs. Richard Caporali, formerly of Ukiah, their lives, and Cheshire Books, Fort Bragg’s Professional and amateur quilters from as far independent bookstore, are partnering to orga- was recently named assistant vice president of away as Florida, New York, and California nize a community event. BBBS is hosting the the Rainbow Regional Office of the Bank of Katherine Marie Brutocao have competed for $7,950, with the Best of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” book Nevada in Las Vegas. Caporali began her bank- Show receiving $1,500. More than 220 release festival, and invites Harry Potter enthu- ing career while attending Ukiah High School unjuried quilt entries are in eight categories siasts, area businesses and local non-profit in the early 90’s. She is the daughter of L. Plate Local graduate named and a challenge, Blooms and Buttons; with organizations to take part in their event. and the granddaughter of Clarice M. Cyr, both to President’s List some of the quilters electing to sell their quilts. On Friday, July 20, at 9 p.m., the alleyway of Redwood Valley. bordering Cheshire Books will be turned into a at Gonzaga University Harry Potter-themed fair, with booth spaces Redwood Valley Grange Katherine Marie Brutocao, a junior from going for a fee of $25, which goes to support awards scholarships Hopland, was among the 825 students named COMMUNITY BRIEFS BBBS. That arrangement provides an opportu- to the Gonzaga University President’s List for nity for businesses and non-profits to benefit to Ukiah High School seniors spring semester 2007. Students must earn a 3.7 from participating in the event. Cheshire Books’ booth will be ladling out Redwood Valley Grange #382 awarded or better or better grade-point average to be listed. Pacific Forest and Watershed “Hogwarts’ Pumpkin Juice.” There will be three $1,000 scholarships to Ukiah High contests, activities, and decorations. They School seniors and a $100 scholarship to a Lands Stewardship Council invite any who set up booths to creatively fash- grandchild of a Redwood Valley Grange mem- Local quilt artist meeting set for Tuesday ion a Harry Potter themed booth, and encour- ber. chosen for Images 2007 age costumes. The Ukiah High School awardees are: Jose The Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Cheshire books will open its doors at exact- Cardenas of Ukiah, who has been accepted at Laura Fogg of Ukiah has been chosen to Stewardship Council will release volumes 1 ly 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 21. Harry Potter U.C. Berkeley with studies in math and lan- exhibit her quilts “Escape from Scagway,” and 2 of its draft Land Conservation Plan for enthusiasts need not wait until Saturday busi- guages; Jessica Mendoza, who has been “Fogwoman” and “Iceberg Fantasy” at Images public review and kick off a series of commu- ness hours to obtain their copy of “Harry Potter accepted at U.C. Davis, with a double major in 2007, a judged and juried show of nearly 200 nity meetings on Wednesday, June 20. These and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final biology and life sciences; and Julian Niderost, quilts, part of the 2007 Lowell Quilt Festival meetings will take place in key locations across book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. who was accepted at Cal State University, “A Citywide Celebration of Quilts” Aug. 2 California and are designed to encourage local There will be a bookmark making contest Sacramento, majoring in mechanical engineer- through 5, downtown Lowell Mass. The community involvement in the perpetual con- with three age categories and prizes, to kick- ing. Festival, a 4-day multi-venue event featuring servation of 140,000 acres of watershed lands, start the event. Entry forms are available at Big Nicholas Pittman, of San Jose, grandson of exhibitions, classes, workshops, lectures, auc- with the local meeting taking place at the Brothers Big Sisters at 498 N. McPherson St., Wayne and Lorraine Pittman of Redwood val- tions, appraisals, vendors and a variety of spe- Ukiah Valley Conference Center on S. School Fort Bragg. ley is the graduating senior who will receive cial receptions, pays homage to the ever-grow- St., on July 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those interested in being part of this even this year’s Grange family scholarship. ing interest in quiltmaking, and finds its way “These meetings are an important step in are encouraged to contact Melissa Shlafer at Nicholas plans to major in chemistry and phys- into nearly every city block of downtown our efforts to collaborate with local communi- Big Brothers Big Sisters, 964-1228.

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By Bernice Bede Osol

you’ll eventually find the solution you’re seeking. Stay coolheaded. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- There is apt to be a shift in conditions Monday, July 16, 2007 precipitated by outside Something you had factors beyond your con- always wanted to accom- trol. However, by adapt- plish in the past but were ing a versatile attitude, unable to achieve can be you’ll be able to turn a attained. This is because negative into a positive. the lessons you’ve AQUARIUS (Jan. 20- learned won’t allow your Feb. 19) -- When mistakes to be repeated involved in any teamwork anymore. situation, be sure to share CANCER (June 21- in the decision making July 22) -- Guard your along with the others. No own interests, but not to one in particular has all the point of where you are the answers, but collec- indifferent to the needs tively you will. and sensitivities of others. PISCES (Feb. 20- If you are unmoved, you March 20) -- Owing to a might get your way now bit of depression, you but you’ll lose later. could be a slow starter. LEO (July 23-Aug. But once you get rolling 22) -- Don’t get rattled if with something that inter- something important to ests you, you’ll be both you takes a second or consistent and dedicated even third effort to to the task at hand. accomplish. In order to be ARIES (March 21- successful, you can’t give April 19) -- If you don’t up after one or two untest- take yourself or today’s ed tries. developments too serious- VIRGO (Aug. 23- ly, you’ll have a much Sept. 22) -- There’s a more pleasant day. Just good chance someone don’t let winning or los- may test your reliability ing become so important by deliberately giving you that it preempts having some confidential infor- fun. mation to see if you TAURUS (April 20- reveal it to others. Can May 20) -- Family issues you pass this exam? that some find disturbing LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. can best be resolved if 23) -- Hopes and expecta- everyone involved has a Puzzle tions that are founded chance to sleep on things. upon realistic premises Time is the magic elixir should have no trouble that will bring solutions answers being realized. It’s only the household can live things viewed through with. rose-colored glasses that GEMINI (May 21- on the next won’t materialize. June 20) -- Be extremely SCORPIO (Oct. 24- careful to leave emotions Nov. 22) -- It is quite pos- out of your phrases when page sible that one of your you frame your remarks more meaningful endeav- or comments to others. If ors could face much you get impassioned, you tougher competition than might say something you anticipate. You’re up you’ll regret. to the challenge, so don’t Major changes are crumble at the first sign of ahead for Cancer in the a struggle. coming year. Send for SAGITTARIUS (Nov. your Astro-Graph predic- 23-Dec. 21) -- If you tions. Mail $2 to Astro- remain mentally unfet- Graph, c/o this newspa- tered and have faith in per, P.O. Box 167, what you’re trying to Wickliffe, OH 44092- achieve (regardless of the 0167. Be sure to state challenges you face), your zodiac sign.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), TODAY’S QUOTE: “You can’t legis- Datebook: Sunday, July 15, 2007 founder of charitable religious order; Linda late morality.” -- Jesse Ventura Ronstadt (1946-), singer/songwriter, is 61; TODAY’S FACT: Clement Clarke Today is the 196th day of 2007 and the search of a “normalization of relations.” Jesse Ventura (1951-), wrestler/governor, Moore named his most famous poem “A 25th day of summer. In 2002, U.S. citizen John Walker Lindh is 56; Terry O’Quinn (1952-), actor, is 55; Visit from St. Nicholas,” but it is widely TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1916, pleaded guilty to having fought as a soldier Forest Whitaker (1961-), actor, is 46. known by its first line, “’Twas the night William Boeing incorporated Pacific Aero with the Taliban in Afghanistan. TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2005, Jack before Christmas.” Products, later named the Boeing Co. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Rembrandt Nicklaus played in his last professional TODAY’S MOON: Between new In 1971, President Richard Nixon van Rijn (1606-1669), painter; Clement major, finishing with a birdie at the British moon (July 14) and first quarter (July 22). announced his intent to visit China in Clarke Moore (1779-1863), author/poet; Open Championship at St. Andrews. Ask Little Miss Know-It-All DEAR LITTLE MISS KNOW- you’ll have each other. Maybe your tist?! As if Nike is ever going to pay IT-ALL: I met a guy on a computer IT-ALL: My fiance and I want to stupid father doesn’t know it, but it’s you millions of dollars to wear their dating service, and he says he’d like hold our wedding in a historic, 80- a well-known fact that the more swoosh on your lab coat. to see me in person but he can’t room castle in France and fly all our Village money you spend on your wedding, Still, let’s get real. You may never afford to travel all the way. He lives friends and family in for free. At the the better your marriage will be. become a $30-million-a-year athlete. two states away and is really cute. reception, we want a 12-course Don’t let anyone, especially your You may only be a $5- or $6-million- Should I send him the $600 he needs French meal served by waiters wear- Idiot unbelievably stupid father, step on a-year athlete. If you don’t think you to get here and back, or not. -- ing outfits of my own design. The your dreams. I wouldn’t even invite can live with that kind of bitter dis- Confused in Columbus guests must wear all black or all By Jim Mullen him to the wedding. appointment, you might as well go to DEAR CONFUSED: Is $600 white. I’ve already told my friends DEAR LITTLE MISS KNOW- Harvard. I suppose it can’t hurt. enough? He may think you’re cheap. they can’t be bridesmaids unless they out of that house as soon as possible IT-ALL: I’m 16 and I want to be a DEAR LITTLE MISS KNOW- Why not send him a $1,000 to show weigh less than 110 pounds. by marrying Tommy. He sounds football star or a basketball star. Or IT-ALL: I plan to win “American him what nice person you are. He The bad news is that my Dad says dreamy. As soon as you’re married, maybe a golf legend. The problem is Idol” this year, but I’m worried about sounds like a nice guy, I’m sure he’ll he won’t pay for it. He thinks we’re you’ll find that all your problems that my parents want me to may what to do with the million dollars pay you back. After all, you met him too young (Geez, I’ll be 20 in a few will magically disappear. Suddenly, apply to one of those colleges that after I win. You’re the only person I on a computer. What could go years). He said he’d pay for a wed- you’ll be happy with the way you barely even has a sports team like can talk to. Should I spend it on wrong? You know, it’s funny that he ding in our local church if we invite look and you’ll be comfortable with Harvard or MIT, just because I get fancy cars, designer clothes and jew- can afford a computer but not airfare. the same old boring friends and fam- your weight. Everyone will suddenly good grades. They want me to be a elry, or should I just waste it on silly I don’t know what that’s all about, ily we see every day. And only if my like you, even those snobby kids at scientist or a professor. How do I stuff? What do you think? -- Tired of but I’m sure it will all become clear fiancé, Tommy, gets a job. What your old high school. convince him that being smart is a Waiting once you meet him. should I do? -- Why Me in I think you should pay for the dumb career move? -- Concerned in DEAR TIRED: Spend it all, Jim Mullen is the author of “It Massachusetts wedding yourself by maxing out all Mineola baby! And why wait until you win? Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating DEAR WHY ME: Can’t you see your credit cards -- yours and DEAR CONCERNED: Spend it now and pay it back after the Simple Life” and “Baby’s First that your control-freak Dad is trying Tommy’s. After the wedding, you Sometimes you wonder where par- you win. Tattoo.” You can reach him at to wreck your life? You’ve got to get won’t need any money because ents get these silly ideas. A scien- DEAR LITTLE MISS KNOW- [email protected]

The Ukiah Reach 18,000 potential customers daily by becoming a comics Mendocino County’s page sponsor. For more information contact your sales L o c a l N e w s p a p e r DAILY JOURNAL representative today at 468-3500 or e-mail us at [email protected] ukiahdailyjournal.com YOUR MONEY SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 – B-3 Editor: Richard Rosier, 468-35200 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Avoid bidding with e-fraud crooks By the Editors owned by eBay, is the site’s of Consumer Reports preferred method. Everyday With 100 million items for Consumer reports ✔ Using PayPal is fast, simple sale, eBay is the king of online and safe. Both the buyer and Cheapskate auctions. When Consumer • Check feedback. The Shopping. Older collectibles the seller must have an By Mary Hunt Reports recently asked more feedback forum, accessible generally have at least one account (sign-up is free at than 2,500 online subscribers from an eBay member’s list- reputable source of informa- www.paypal.com) that is about their eBay purchases in ing and profile, reflects his or tion: Beckett price guides for linked to a checking account, the past year, 70 percent said her trading history, and it’s the sports cards, for instance. Or debit card or credit card. they were highly satisfied only way to know whether the you can consult an appraiser. When you buy, PayPal overall. Nearly half of respon- individuals you’re dealing Insist that the seller provide promptly pays the seller, who dents characterized eBay as an with have been trustworthy. proof of authenticity and con- never sees your account infor- Double dip excellent source of hard-to- Buyers rate sellers (and vice dition. mation. Most PayPal transac- find items. versa) with a positive, nega- • Read between the lines. tions are automatically pro- Yet at the same time, tive or neutral grade, plus a Sellers might dangle words tected for $2,000 if you buy brief summary of the transac- such as “genuine,” but look almost half of those surveyed from a seller with a positive tion. Look for at least a 99 for terms such as “inspired feedback rating of 98 percent of mint chip said they’d encountered percent positive feedback rat- by” that indicate the product is deceptions on eBay. Some or higher; otherwise, you’re ing. a knockoff. Also beware of protected for up to $200. Today as you rolled out of bed to greet the day, I bet sellers took their money and • Avoid shady sellers. Go counterfeits: Five percent of If you’re unhappy with you had no idea what a special day it was. Yes, my dear ran, failed to disclose key beyond the screen name to CR’s survey respondents said your purchase and can’t get readers, this is National Ice Cream Day -- a day to be details about merchandise, or identify the seller’s identity by they had bid on or bought satisfaction from the seller, celebrated with at least a double dip. overstated its condition. e-mail and confirm a physical such merchandise. Top-shelf eBay will attempt to facilitate Last year, the Federal While I’d like to say it was in anticipation of this address or phone number. brands don’t generally sell on a settlement through its online day that I recently toured an ice-cream manufacturing Internet Crime Complaint Don’t be afraid to ask ques- auction sites for bargain-base- Dispute Console. Center logged roughly 39,000 tions or request additional ment prices. Complaining directly to eBay plant, I can’t -- because I didn’t even know there was consumer complaints about photos of products. If the per- authorities satisfied 60 percent such a day when I met Ron Simmer, plant operations Internet auction sites that were son doesn’t respond or is of CR survey respondents manager at the Thrifty Ice Cream Factory in El Monte, serious enough to merit crimi- vague, stay away. Also, Paying up, who took that action. An even Calif. So what brought me there? This column, of nal investigation -- more than review the types of products settling disputes more effective way to deal course! You might recall a few weeks ago I mentioned any other type of online fraud. the seller has listed in the past. with dishonesty, however, is that the best ice cream in the world is available cheap If someone previously spe- Once you’ve won, eBay to file a complaint with at some West Coast Rite Aid drugstores under the E-buyer beware cializing in toy cars is sudden- prompts you through the pay- PayPal. Of the 23 percent of ly selling glitzy watches, ask ment process and sends e-mail unhappy CR survey respon- Thrifty brand label. You can’t eliminate risk why. messages to both parties. dents who went that route, 66 Because Simmer’s staff read this column faithfully, when buying from strangers • Comparison shop. To Payment options, specified by percent said it worked. I got the nicest e-mail thanking me and offering me a on eBay, but you can lessen it. determine whether a new item the seller, might include cred- Visit the Consumer Reports tour of the facility where the ice cream is made. And I Consumer Reports suggests is a bargain, consult Web sites it card, money order or per- Web site at www.consumerre- did. Trust me when I say it is an amazing process. I the following tips: such as Shopzilla and Yahoo sonal check, but PayPal, ports.org. have a new respect for the quintessential cold treat. And so, on this special day, I honor every brand and flavor of ice cream everywhere with possibly the most Keeping tabs on your financial adviser humble and cheap way to make some of the cold stuff yourself. Right at home. In the backyard. Just be Q: How do you know if your financial died. But we will not follow this linear warned: You may need a couple of energetic kids to adviser is honest and has your best inter- pattern. Instead, we’ll go to school, work, ests in mind? Can you check to see if Truth about retire, go back to school, work, go to complete the process. there are any complaints filed? My advis- school while working, quit working for a er parted company with his associate. He money while, return to work, maybe return to Campground Ice Cream did not let us know about the change, and By Ric Edelman school, work without pay (volunteerism), he moved his office. He changed his and so on in a cyclic nature, and we’ll do 1 cup heavy cream phone number. After searching around this for as long as we’re healthy enough 1 cup whole milk we found him. Please let me know what to do so. This new method is affordable. 1 egg beaten you think. It’s also desirable because our self-worth 1/2 cup sugar A: You can check on your adviser by and chisel my own headstone. That is the will be sustained through continued per- looking at the Web sites for both the pinnacle of personal financial responsi- sonal development and contribution to 1 teaspoon vanilla NASD (www.nasd.org) and the U.S. bility: the opportunity to work and enjoy society. 1 1-pound coffee can Security and Exchange Commission it. You are already beginning to realize 1 3-pound coffee can (www.sec.gov). They will show you if A: If you’re beginning to notice some- this. In coming decades, the rest of soci- crushed ice there have been any complaints. thing strange going on, you’re not the ety will catch on. And the sooner people rock salt It’s worth a call to your adviser -- now first. But you’re among the few. I’ve realize this, the better off they will be -- that you’ve found him -- to ask why he been cautioning for years that retirement and not just financially. as we have known it is a thing of the past. Place cream, milk, egg, sugar and vanilla in a medi- left. Usually, when an adviser leaves a Q: My mother owned a certificate of um bowl and mix well. Clean the 1-pound coffee can firm, he is contractually prohibited from Yet, most Americans still haven’t yet fig- deposit with Payable On Death instruc- contacting his former clients. But some- ured that out. tions to my sister and me. After her death, well. Pour the liquid into this small can. Seal with the times, he’s been booted out, so a call to Why do so many want to retire in their we closed the CDs and each received a plastic lid, and tape the lid to the can well with sealing his former firm might be revealing, too. 50s? Because they saw their parents and check payable individually for half the tape or duct tape. Set this can in the center of the 3- Q: Why is everyone so attracted to the grandparents retire at 62 and die shortly funds. My sister has opened a checking pound coffee can. Pour 4 parts crushed ice and 1 part idea of early retirement? It seems as if the thereafter. “That won’t happen to me!” account for the funds payable to her in rock salt into the spaces between the small and large pinnacle of all the possible benefits asso- they exclaim. They are determined to the name of the estate of my mother. cans until full. Cover the large can, and tape this cover ciated with personal financial responsi- enjoy themselves in the final years, and It is my understanding that these funds for some strange reason it hasn’t occurred in place as well. Take the whole thing outdoors and roll bility has become early retirement. And are not part of the estate and should be in it back and forth on the picnic table for 10 minutes. Or the earlier, the better. Why? Is the culmi- to them that their “final” years are likely my sister’s name only. Is this correct? nation of one’s life centered around the to occur in their 80s, 90s and 100s, not A: Essentially. The funds are part of let the kids roll it back and forth in a game, out on the fantasy of not working? Is doing nothing their 60s and 70s. the estate, but they are not part of the pro- lawn or other open area. Uncover and stir the ice really that fantastic? How does personal What the masses also don’t yet under- bate estate. Thus, you are correct: The cream. Recover and tape shut as before. Return to financial responsibility have anything in stand is that they will not be able to money should be invested into individual large coffee can with the salt and ice (or replace as common with early retirement? Why afford a 40-year retirement. And they accounts registered in each of your names necessary) and roll 5 minutes more. Open, serve and would I want to retire early? To watch the don’t yet understand that they won’t want only, not your mother’s. enjoy. “Price is Right” every day for the next 40 one. You’re ahead of the curve: You’ve Your sister needs to rely on legal already figured out that retiring isn’t as By the way, as good as homemade ice cream can be, years of my life? advice before she acts on matters pertain- nothing for me will ever top the taste and texture of Is it me? Or is everyone saying, “I am fulfilling as many anticipate. ing to the estate, or she might inadver- going to quit work so I can retire early!” But this does not mean that today’s tently make a mess of things. Thrifty mint-chip ice cream right off the factory line. What! A life of TV and coupons! No older workers will never retire (not even Financial Adviser Ric Edelman is the Oh my, you have no idea. thanks! you, although you said you’ll work for- author of several best-selling books Without work, weekends and vaca- ever). Instead, today’s workers will trans- about personal finance, including Mary Hunt is the founder and publisher of the Debt- tions basically have no meaning. The form themselves from a linear lifeline to “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Proof Living newsletter and Web site (www.debt- opportunity to work is a blessing. I hope a cyclical one. Wealth” and “Discover the Wealth proofliving.com). To send a question or tip, e-mail to work till my bones turn to dust, and Our parents and grandparents went to Within You.” You can e-mail him at school, then worked, then retired, then [email protected] or write to Everyday then some. I hope to dig my own grave [email protected]. Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. All correspondence becomes the property of Debt-Proof Rebate not all it seems when state gets involved Living. DEAR BRUCE: Several months ago, to her. She asked to have her name taken I purchased a new vehicle that had a SMART MONEY off the loan if he refinances, but they rebate of $2,000. When I completed the won’t let him refinance. She has contact- PUZZLE ANSWERS paperwork, I was charged sales tax on the BY BRUCE WILLIAMS ed lawyers to try to make him refinance rebate. The dealer said the state requires the house, but they say there is nothing this. Is this possible? -- K.R., via e-mail they can do to force him. Is there any- DEAR K.R.: All jurisdictions that thing she can do? Please help! -- Worried charge sales tax (even cities and counties Mother, via e-mail in some states) have different rules and answer to your question. Real estate, DEAR MOM: I’m afraid your daugh- regulations. Ordinarily, in most jurisdic- including condominiums, can rise in ter is on the hook. The fact that she tions, if the rebate is shown simply as a value or decline in value. Areas can rise signed off on the house does not in any reduction in price, there is no sales tax. or decline in value, and no one can look way relieve her of responsibility for the However, if they actually cut a check for ahead 10 years with absolute authority. If mortgage payments, taxes, etc. The that amount, the true price is used when the area where you are purchasing is sta- lender is going to continue to hold her computing sales tax. While there may be ble and there is not a huge amount of responsible, particularly since the ex is some advantage to the manufacturer in developable land that can continue to not reliable. They loaned the money to cutting a check rather than just reducing flood the market with new buildings, the two people and expect that those two the price, in the case of a 6 percent sales likelihood is that you will be OK. This people will be responsible. There is noth- tax, the purchaser is penalized $120. That does not take into account major or minor ing they can do to make him sign off. The certainly takes away from the bargain of hiccups in the economy of your area or time to address that detail was during the the rebate. You can bet your life that the the nation in general. In short, there is no divorce. That barn door has unfortunately government, at whatever level, will take such thing as a sure thing. been unlocked for a long time. as much as it can whenever it can. DEAR BRUCE: Three years ago, my Send your questions to: Smart Money, DEAR BRUCE: I would like to buy a daughter divorced her husband and P.O. Box 2095, Elfers, FL 34680. E-mail condo in a nice area from which I can get because of many problems just wanted to to: [email protected]. the money back in about 10 years. I can’t be free from him. She got a fast divorce Questions of general interest will be find any information on this. Can you and gave him the house and most of what answered in future columns. Owing to the help? -- Mark, via e-mail they had accumulated. Now he’s having volume of mail, personal replies cannot DEAR MARK: There is no pat financial trouble and the bank is looking be provided. The Ukiah More local news than Mendocino County’s L o c a l N e w s p a p e r DAILY JOURNAL any other source ukiahdailyjournal.com B-4- SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL

529-07 7-15,22/07 NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GOV- ERNING BOARD OF THE WILLITS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, OF THE COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, State of California, will receive up to, but not later than, 3:00 p.m., Thursday, July 26, 2007, and will then publicly open and read aloud, sealed bids for: Site Work For New Modular Classrooms At Willits High School & Commercial Street Copy Acceptance Campus The Daily Journal reserves the right to edit or withhold publication & may exercise its discretion in acceptance or classification of any & all advertising. Such bids shall be received and read aloud at Deadlines the Willits Unified School District Office, 120 New classified ads, corrections & cancellations is 2:00 p.m. the day before publica- Pearl Street, Willits, CA 95490. tion.Sunday and Monday edition deadline is Friday at 2:30. 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Notice is hereby given that the Governing NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE shall be given as a guarantee that the bidder Board (“Board”) of the UKIAH UNIFIED ning Commission of the City of Ukiah, Califor- Board (“Board”) of the UKIAH UNIFIED (Business & Professions code Sec. to whom the contract is awarded shall exe- SCHOOL District (“District”), of the County of nia will hold a public hearing regarding the fol- SCHOOL District (“District”), of the County of 21700-21707) cute the contract documents and shall pro- MENDOCINO, State of California, will receive lowing project: (ZC 06-39) and a Major Subdi- up to, but not later than, 2:00p.m., MONDAY, MENDOCINO, State of California, will receive Notice is hereby given by the undersigned vide the required payment and performance vision Map Application (SUB 06-40) that AUGUST 6, 2007, and will then publicly open up to, but not later than, 2:30P.M., AUGUST that the public lien sale of the following de- bonds as specified therein within ten (10) would change the zoning for the 2.3-acre sub- and read aloud at UUSD, BOARD ROOM, 6, 2007, and will then publicly open and read scribed personal property will be held at the days after the notification of the award of the ject property from CN (Neighborhood Com- 925 N STATE ST, UKIAH, CA 95482, sealed aloud at UUSD, DISTRICT OFFICE, 925 N. hour of 11:00 a.m. on 7/26/07. contract. mercial) to CN-PD (Neighborhood Commer- bids for the ROOF REPLACEMENT ON CAF- STATE ST. UKIAH, CA 95482, sealed bids The sale will be conducted at Carousel Indus- Each bid shall be made out on a Bid Form in- cial-Planned Development) and establish a ETERIA, LIBRARY AND ADMINISTRATION for THE GRADING, INSTALLATION OF A trial Park, 50 Carousel Ln. #20, Ukiah, CA cluded in the contract documents. commercial planned development on seven BUILDING AT POMOLITA MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCRETE CURB AND PLAY EQUIPMENT 95482 485-7888. The items to be sold are The Governing Board has obtained, from the AT NOKOMIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Proj- individual lots occupied by existing medical Project (“Project”). Such bids shall be re- generally described as follows: Clothing, fur- Director of the Department of Industrial Rela- ect (“Project”). Such bids shall be received at office buildings. ceived at the office of the UUSD, 925 N niture, and/or other household items stored tions, the general prevailing rate of per diem the office of the UUSD, 925 N. STATE ST, Project Location: The project site consists of STATE ST, UKIAH, California. by the following persons: wages in the locality in which the work is to 2. Each bid shall be made out on the Bid Pro- UKIAH , California. two lots located at 1165 South Dora Street Dickson, Wesley C-6 be performed for each craft, classifications or posal Form included in the contract docu- 2. Each bid shall be made out on the Bid Pro- (APN 003-130-52; 56; and 57), on the east Smith, David F-12, G-15 type of worker needed to execute the con- ments, and must conform and be fully respon- posal Form included in the contract docu- side of Dora Street. Briseno, Jose D-8 tract, including employer payments for health sive to this invitation, the plans and Specifica- ments, and must conform and be fully respon- Project Hearing: This hearing will be held on Martin, Tina D-16 and welfare, pension, vacation, apprentice- tions and all other documents comprising the sive to this invitation, the plans and Specifica- Wednesday, July 25, 2007, at 6:00 p.m., or Van Housen, Brady N-25 ship and similar purposes. Copies of these pertinent contract documents. Copies of the tions and all other documents comprising the as soon thereafter as practical, in the Council Thomas, Joel H-3 prevailing rates are on file at the District office contract documents are available for exami- pertinent contract documents. Copies of the Chambers of the Ukiah Civic Center, 300 Curtis-Smith, Susan B-10 and shall be made available to any interested nation at the UUSD DISTRICT office 925 N. contract documents are available for exami- Seminary Avenue, Ukiah, California. Subse- Barchus, Marie S-8 party upon request. STATE ST., UKIAH County of MENDOCINO, nation at the DISTRICT office, 925 N STATE quent hearing to act on the precise develop- Rosen, Allison R-37 California, and may be obtained by contrac- ST, UKIAH County of MENDOCINO, Califor- ment plan and major subdivision required for tors licensed by the California State Contrac- Piver, Darin R-32 nia, and may be obtained by contractors li- this project will be noticed separately. tors' License Board, upon deposit of TWEN- Flicker, Linda G-16 censed by the California State Contractors' Li- Please pass this notice this notice on to your TY ($ 20) per set. This deposit will be refund- Mgt. Carousel Industrial Park cense Board, upon deposit of TEN ($10) per neighbors, friends, or other interested parties. ed if the set or sets of contract documents de- set. This deposit will be refunded if the set or This notice is given in accordance with the You are encouraged to discus this project livered are returned in good condition within sets of contract documents delivered are re- provisions of Section 21700 et seq. of the with, and express any view you may have, or ten (10) days after the bid opening. turned in good condition within ten (10) days business & professions code of the State of request additional information from the City 3. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash, a after the bid opening. California. Planning Department by contracting Associ- cashier's or certified check, or a bidder's bond 3. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash, a The owner reserves the right to bid at the ate Planner Dave Lohse at 300 Seminary executed by an admitted surety insurer, li- cashier's or certified check, or a bidder's bond sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is” and Avenue, s/CHARLEY STUMP, PLANNING SELZER REALTY censed to do business in the State of Califor- executed by an admitted surety insurer, li- must be paid for in cash and removed at the nia as a surety, made payable to the District, DIRECTOR. censed to do business in the State of Califor- time of sale. Sale subject to prior cancellation 350 E. Gobbi St. Ukiah in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) PUBLISH: July 15, 2007 nia as a surety, made payable to the District, in the event of a settlement between owner 468-0411 of the maximum amount of the bid. The in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) check or bid bond shall be given as a guaran- and obligated parties. of the maximum amount of the bid. The 535 of the public code. 539-07 APARTMENTS tee that the bidder to whom the contract is check or bid bond shall be given as a guaran- awarded shall execute the contract docu- 7-14,15,17/07 13272 S. Hwy. 101 - Cozy 1 bd., 1 ba. apt. tee that the bidder to whom the contract is situated in downtown Hopland, within walking ments and shall provide the required payment NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER awarded shall execute the contract docu- 528-07 distance to everything, w/garage & on-site and performance bonds and insurance certifi- ESTATE ments and shall provide the required payment 7-15/07 laundry facilities. $650/mo. cates as specified therein within ten (10) days CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB ’07-25051 and performance bonds and insurance certifi- NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING after the notification of the award of the con- To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin- 335 Leslie St. - 2 bd., 1 ba. apt. w/central heat cates as specified therein within ten (10) days NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Men- tract. gent creditors, and persons who may other- & air, stove, refrig., microwave, carport parking after the notification of the award of the con- 4. The successful bidder shall comply with the docino County Zoning Administrator at its reg- wise be interested in the will or estate, or and laundry facilities; centrally located near tract. many conveniences. $700/mo. provisions of the Labor Code pertaining to ular meeting on Thursday, July 26, 2007, at both, of: VIVIAN BEVERLY HAGENHOFF payment of the generally prevailing rate of 4. The successful bidder shall comply with the 10:00 a.m., to be held in Conference Room provisions of the Labor Code pertaining to A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed 1960 S. Dora St. - Spacious 2 bd., 1 ba. wages and to apprenticeship or other training C, County Administration Center, 501 Low apartment located near conveniences and payment of the generally prevailing rate of by: SONIA GAY in the Superior Court of Cali- programs. The Governing Board has ob- Gap Road, Ukiah, California, will conduct a fornia, County of Mendocino. school, with on-site laundry facilities and carport wages and to apprenticeship or other training parking. $725/mo. tained, from the Director of the Department of public hearing on the following project(s) at THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests Industrial Relations, the general prevailing programs. The Governing Board has ob- the time listed or as soon thereafter as the that: SONIA GAY be appointed as personal 165 Oak Manor Ct. - Upstairs 2 bd., 1 ba. apt. rate of per diem wages in the locality in which tained, from the Director of the Department of representative to administer the estate of the w/stove, refrig., and on-site laundry facilities the work is to be performed for each craft, Industrial Relations, the general prevailing item(s) may be heard. decedent. located close to area conveniences. $750/mo. classifications or type of worker needed to ex- rate of per diem wages in the locality in which CASE#: U 8-2007 ecute the contract, including employer pay- the work is to be performed for each craft, DATE FILED: 4/6/2007 THE PETITION requests authority to adminis- 505-531 Capps Ln. - Sierra Sunset Apts. ments for health and welfare, pension, vaca- classifications or type of worker needed to ex- OWNER: JOHN E. FETZER ter the estate under the Independent Adminis- feature 2 bd., units w/pool & laundry facilities, lovely common areas, carports & more. $740- tion, apprenticeship and similar purposes. ecute the contract, including employer pay- AGENT: BARRETT COMPANY tration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many ac- 760/mo. ASK ABOUT OUR MOVE-IN Copies of these prevailing rates are on file at ments for health and welfare, pension, vaca- REQUEST: Use Permit to construct a two- tion, apprenticeship and similar purposes. tions without obtaining court approval. Before SPECIAL!!! the District office and shall be made available story, 2,240 square foot duplex. Currently a to any interested party upon request and are Copies of these prevailing rates are on file at taking certain very important actions, howev- CONDOS & DUPLEXES also available online at the District office and shall be made available single-family residence exists on the site. er, the personal representative will be re- http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. It shall be man- to any interested party upon request and are LOCATION: In Hopland, lying north of Center quired to give notice to interested persons un- & TOWNHOUSES datory upon the contractor to whom the con- also available online at Street (CR# 114), just west of its intersection less they have waived notice or consented to 1119 S. Dora St. - 2 bd., 1.5 ba. townhouse tract is awarded, and upon any Subcontractor http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. It shall be man- with Highway 101, located at 50 Center the proposed action). The independent ad- w/stove, refrig., microwave, carport parking, under the contractor, to pay not less than the datory upon the contractor to whom the con- Street; AP# 048-290-45. ministration authority will be granted unless patio & on-site laundry facilities. $725/mo. specified rates to all workers employed by tract is awarded, and upon any Subcontractor PROJECT COORDINATOR: FRED TARR an interested person files an objection to the 280 San Jacinta Dr. - 2 bd., 1.5 ba. condo them in the execution of the contract. It is the under the contractor, to pay not less than the ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The petition and shows good cause why the court located in a park-like hillside setting; adult-only contractor's responsibility to determine any specified rates to all workers employed by request has been processed through the should not grant the authority. community w/pool & laundry facilities, carport rate change which may have or will occur dur- them in the execution of the contract. It is the County Environmental Review Process and it A HEARING on the petition will be held on and more. $1000/mo. ing the intervening period between each issu- contractor's responsibility to determine any JULY 27, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, lo- ance of written rates by the Director of Indus- has been determined that the project is Cate- 905 Waugh Lane - Luxury 3 bd., 3 ba. condo rate change which may have or will occur dur- cated at: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFOR- trial Relations. gorically Exempt from environmental review. fully equipped with all amenities, plus garage ing the intervening period between each issu- NIA, COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, 115 N. and small yard. $1200/mo. 5. The schedule of per diem wages is based Your comments regarding the above project ance of written rates by the Director of Indus- State Street, ROOM 107 Ukiah, CA 95482 upon a working day of eight hours. The rate trial Relations. are invited. Written comments should be sub- IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti- HOUSES for holiday and overtime work shall be at least 5. The schedule of per diem wages is based mitted to the Department of Planning and tion, you should appear at the hearing and 26790 N. Hwy 101 - Unique 2bd., 1.5 ba. time and one half. upon a working day of eight hours. The rate Building Services, at 501 Low Gap Road, state your objections or file written objections custom flat located three miles north of Willits. 6. The substitution of appropriate securities in for holiday and overtime work shall be at least Room 1440, Ukiah, California, 95482, no later with the court before the hearing. Your ap- All utilities incl. $1200/mo. lieu of retention amounts from progress pay- time and one half. than July 25, 2007. Oral comments may be pearance may be in person or by your attor- ments in accordance with Public Contract 6. The substitution of appropriate securities in 3850 Burke Hill Dr. - 2 bd., 1 ba. ranch-style Code Section 22300 is permitted. Perform- lieu of retention amounts from progress pay- presented to the Zoning Administrator during ney. home situated south of Ukiah w/vineyard views & easy freeway access. $1250/mo. ance and payment bonds will be required of ments in accordance with Public Contract the public hearing. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent the successful bidder. Code Section 22300 is permitted. Perform- The Zoning Administrator's action regarding creditor of the deceased, you must file your 1940 Talmage Rd. - Newer 3 bd., 2 ba. home 7. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section ance and payment bonds will be required of this item shall be final unless appealed to the claim with the court and mail a copy to the w/numerous amenities and fabulous views of 4104 each bid must include the name and lo- the successful bidder. Board of Supervisors. The last day to file an personal representative appointed by the the vineyards and surrounding hills located east cation of the place of business of each Sub- 7. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section court within four months from the date of first of Ukiah. $1300/mo. contractor who shall perform work or service appeal is the 10th day after the Zoning Ad- 4104 each bid must include the name and lo- issuance of letters as provided in section or fabricate or install work for the prior contac- ministrator's decision. To file an appeal of the 1500 Meadow Dr. - Executive home in El cation of the place of business of each Sub- 9100 of the California Probate Code. The Dorado Estates with 4 bd., 2.5 ba., equipped tor of this contract in excess of one-half of Zoning Administrator's decision, a written contractor who shall perform work or service time for filing claims will not expire before four with too many amenities to list, including a one percent (1/2 of 1%) of the bid price. statement must be filed with the Clerk of the or fabricate or install work for the prior contac- months from the hearing date noticed above. beautiful swimming pool and manicured 8. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of tor of this contract in excess of one-half of Board with a filing fee prior to the expiration of YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the landscape. Must see! $2200/mo. sixty (60) days after the date set for the open- one percent (1/2 of 1%) of the bid price. the above noted appeal period. If you chal- court. If you are a person interested in the es- ing for bids except as provided pursuant to lenge the project in court, you may be limited COMMERCIAL Public Contract Code Sections 5100 et seq. 8. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of tate, you may file with the court a Request for sixty (60) days after the date set for the open- to raising only those issues you or someone Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of 275 Cherry St. #A - 1525 sq. ft. warehouse The District reserves the right to reject any space w/office. $650/mo. and all bids and to waive any informalities or ing for bids except as provided pursuant to else raised at the public hearing described in an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or irregularities in the bidding. Public Contract Code Sections 5100 et seq. this notice, or in written correspondence deliv- of any petition or account as provided in Pro- 9. Minority, women, and disabled veteran The District reserves the right to reject any ered to the Department of Planning and Build- bate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe- WE HAVE MANY RENTALS AVAILABLE, contractors are encouraged to submit bids. and all bids and to waive any informalities or ing Services or the Zoning Administrator at, or cial Notice form is available from the court irregularities in the bidding. INCLUDING COMMERCIAL & STORAGE UNITS! This bid is subject to Disabled Veteran Busi- prior to, the public hearing. All persons are clerk. 9. Minority, women, and disabled veteran ness Enterprise requirements. invited to appear and present testimony in ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER: FOR MORE INFO. CALL 468-0411 10. This contract is not subject to a labor contractors are encouraged to submit bids. L. Scott Spears this matter. compliance program, as described in subdivi- This bid is subject to Disabled Veteran Busi- 115 N. State Street, Suite 1 Find us on the web: Additional information regarding the above sion (b) of Section 1771.5 of the Labor Code. ness Enterprise requirements. Ukiah, CA 95482 www.realtyworldselzer.com 11. The bidder shall possess at the time the 10. This contract IS NOT subject to a labor noted item may be obtained by calling the De- (707) 462-4606 bid is awarded the following classification(s) compliance program, as described in subdivi- partment of Planning and Building Services at of California State Contractor's license: C-39 sion (b) of Section 1771.5 of the Labor Code. 463-4281, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. ROOFING OR B AND USE A SUBCON- 11. The bidder shall possess at the time the through 5:00 p.m. The Staff Report and No- TRACTOR POSSESSING A C-39. bid is awarded the following classification(s) tice is available for review at the Department 12. A mandatory bidders’ conference will be of California State Contractor's license: A or S T ! of Planning and Building Services at 501 Low UBSCRIBE ODAY held on JULY 24, 2007 AT 11 A.M. at POMO- B. LITA SCHOOL for the purpose of acquainting 12. A VOLUNTARY bidders’ conference will Gap Road, Room 1440, Ukiah and on the De- all prospective bidders with the bid docu- be held on JULY 24, 2007 at 1 p.m. AT NO- partment's web site at ments and the work site. Failure to attend the KOMIS SCHOOL for the purpose of acquaint- www.co.mendocino.ca.us/planning. Should conference may disqualify the non-attending ing all prospective bidders with the bid docu- you desire notification of the Zoning Adminis- The Ukiah bidder from the bid. ments and the work site. trator's decision you may do so by requesting UKIAH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT UKIAH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT notification in writing and providing a self-ad- By: STEVE TURNER, DIRECTOR OF MAIN- By: STEVE TURNER, DIRECTOR OF MAIN- dressed stamped envelope to the Department TENANCE TENANCE AND GROUNDS of Planning and Building Services. DATED: JULY 13, 2007 DATED: JULY 13, 2007 DAILY JOURNAL Raymond Hall, Director of Planning and Publication Dates: 1) JULY 15, 2007 2) JULY Publication Dates: 1) JULY 15, 2007 2) JU- 22, 2007 LY 22, 2007 Building 707-468-3500 B-6- SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL

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Apply by dale or mail to P.O. 462-5258 arbor,boatparking & a 10x12 storage shed.Located in a the award winning Palm Harbor Homes noted 07/31/07 to: HR, 579 Box 245, Clover- nice neighborhood & within walking distance to the for their energy efficient construction & standard Low Gap Road, dale, CA 95425 or Russian River & Lake Mendocino. Truly a special home. features that are upgrades on many other Mystery Shoppers $486,000 homes. Offered at $575,000 Ukiah, CA 95482, fax to 707.894.4465. Attn: Lab/Harvest Earn up to $150/day (707) 463-4261, Undercover shoppers w/TDD (800) 735- Line Cook. Exp needed to judge retail OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, July 15th, 11:00am-2:00pm Featured Property 2929. EOE. needed. Apply at & dining establish- 325 Arlington Dr., Ukiah www.co.mendocino. 1640 Road D, Redwood Valley Shotgun Restaurant ments. 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This is a with tile floors, covered patio and cious living room, family room with wood license, HS Grad & paid class and upon burning stove, central heat and air, large SUPERVISOR private yard, fully fenced with a laundry room and garden area with ag three mos related in children’s completion you will beautiful pond out front. Offered at water. All on approximately 1 useable exp. Apply to: HR residential facility. receive a State of $317,000 acre. $529,000 Dept by 07/20/07, BA/BS pref. Super- California certificate. 579 Low Gap Rd, visory exp. req. Full No experience nec- Featured Property Featured Property Ukiah, CA 95482, benefits. Excel. essary. Benefits of- (707) 463-4261, pay. Fax resume to fered with many in- 280 Kuki Rd., Ukiah 376 E. Gobbi St., Ukiah w/TDD (800) 735- 463-6957 centive programs. 2929 or visit website Apply at 1349 S. at: www.co. MAINTENANCE Dora St., Ukiah, CA. mendocino.ca.us/hr ASSOCIATE NURSING, RN’s. EOE. 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disabled adults one STREET OAK S. LANE WAUGH requirements see benefits (health, va- MORTGAGE on one in their own GOBBI STREET flyers posted on the cation, retirement). ST. STATE SOUTH 950-A Waugh Ln. ✪ VICHY SPRINGS HEIGHTS - UKIAH home. All Shifts Job description/re- From the low $600,000’s - Surrounded by heritage oaks and nestled against a Human Resources S. DORA website: available. Call quired application at spectacular backdrop of tranquil foothills and open space, Vichy Springs Heights Cindy 468-9331 combines the dream home that you’ve always wanted with all the breathing www.co.mendocino. 463-4915 or S TALMAGE RD. room you need to retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. ca.us/hr [email protected] 5 distinctive floorplans ranging from 2,307 to 3,096 sq, ft. with up to 5 bedrooms MAP NOT TO SCALE on spacious homesites. Close to the Sonoma wine country and nearby Vichy Springs Resort. Sales office Open Thursday-Monday 10am - 5pm. For more Out Here we have everything under the sun information call (800) 573-8510 or visit www.creekbridgehomes.com INCLUDING GREAT CAREERS! Sheila Dalcamo This space is MORTGAGE SPECIALIST License #OPR9138 462-0211 available 1772 S. Main St. From Covelo to Gualala the Most Trusted Name Willits, CA 95490 ASST. MANAGERS •Professionalism Call 468-3513 MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE •Confindentiality in the Termite Business! MLS® Candidates with previous or current exp. as •Expertise Call for appointment For more Info Helen McKeown office: (707)-459-9315 • cell: (707) 292-3196 department, assistant or store manager in a CAL-BAY MORTGAGE, 215 WEST STANDLEY ST. UKIAH 485-7829 Realtor-Associate residence (707) 463-8355 • [email protected] mid to big box retailer encouraged to apply. TONI PAOLI-BATES Garbocci - Van Housen Realty Kelly Vogel - Tellstrom Loan Officer a Nose for (707) 462-4608 Mona Falgout (707) 272-1650 1(800) 55-PAOLI Realtor® Real Estate TEAM MEMBERS Fax (707) 462-5746 I Go the Extra Mile! 950-A Waugh Lane Ukiah, CA 95482 950-A Waugh Lane 707-272-5887 PV Realty Inc. Full-time & Part-time Ukiah, CA 95482 [email protected] INVESTMENTS • MORTGAGES • REAL ESTATE LOANS 743.1010 We are a $2 billion Fortune 1000 company with INVESTMENTS • MORTGAGES • REAL ESTATE LOANS www.paolimortgage.com 684 stores in 37 states, the number one retailer Chamise Cubbison in our field with excellent advancement potential. Real Estate Broker/Realtor® As an EOE, TSC values diversity. Apply in person: Professional, Independent, Rachel Maki First American Title Company Local, Hometown Service REALTOR® “All you need to know” 114 So. School St. Ukiah Fax 707-462-3838 Tractor Supply Company Where You are #1 551 South Orchard Avenue, Ukiah, CA [email protected] Cell 707-621-1404 Ph: 707.462.1446 Fax: 707.462.0947 GARY BATES 1248 Airport Park Blvd. 707-489-5082 or [email protected] Office 707-462-5005 Home 707-462-3211 Email: [email protected]/County Manager Ukiah, CA 95482 1-888-750-4USA Carol Myer, Agent 707-485-5759 CPCU, CLU, ChFC Termite Control ® Lic. ODO5161 •Inspections Locally Owned •Structual Repairs By Gerald Boesel State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. •New Construction P.O. Box 389 Calpella, CA 95418 Home Office: Bloomington, Illinois (707) 489-1812 Cell 400 E. Gobbi St., Ukiah, CA 95482 •Remodels General Contractor, Lic #752409 Off: 707-462-4936 (707) 462-6701 Office Pat Williams Realtor® www.TractorSupply.jobs Fax: 707-462-7158 101 So. School, Ukiah Email: [email protected] •Foundations Structural Pest Control, Lic #OPR9000 THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 -B-7

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED 120 WANTED PROGRAM Retech Systems LLC ROUTE DRIVER SMALL ENGINE SOCIAL SERVICES Taylors Tavern TEACHER-OFFICE Tehama County Telephone Operator The Hopland Band has immediate open- Graveyard Shift P/T Bartender Health Services position P/T nights SECRETARY Repair Teacher NON-PROFIT. Assist OCCUPATIONS of Pomo Indians ings for the following Drive a co. pickup for Apply Mon-Thurs. Agency and Weekends. has an immediate P/T 4 hrs/day, Willits High School individuals with de- Potter Valley 5 days/wk. positions: this Mon thru Fri de- velopmental disabili- before 4pm. 485-5108 High School Invites you to apply Typing, spelling, and opening for a ● P/T 2 hrs/day $13.72-$17.51/hr visit EE Designer livery route. Starts at P/T 4 hrs/day for full time, regular phone skills a COMPLIANCE ties to achieve inde- TEACHER - www.mcoe.us/jobs ●ME Designer 1a.m. in Ukiah, goes 5 days/wk 5 days/wk and bilingual, benefit- must.Benefits INSPECTOR ●Industrial Mechanic to Willits, Ft. Bragg, $27.84-$46.36/hr pendence in com- Criminal and ed positions (Salaries offered. Apply at 960 call 467-5012 or Restorative Justice $27.84 - $46.36/hr Must uphold a high ●Industrial Electrician Pt. Arena. 8-9 hrs. Regular teaching munity and personal include a 15 per cent N. State St. email [email protected] $27.84-$46.36/hr Regular teaching level of confidentiality. Mendocino County ●Project Manager daily. Load & unload. settings. Richmond, credential not market adjustment). Familiarity with credential not Cloverdale YOUTH Office of Education ●Electrical Engineer Clean DMV & Drug. Fremont, Concord & required. Visit Public Health Nurse Gaming Regulations requried. Visit High School DEVELOPMENT DEADLINE: ●Journeyman Welder $10/hr. Fax resume Antioch. minimum www.mcoe.us/jobs I/II, Public Health preferred, but not 07-27-07 www.mcoe.us/jobs Regular teaching SPECIALIST required. Must be able ●Manager, w/DMV to (916)921- req: HS Dipl, Drivers or 467-5012 Nurse I/II - Bilingual; or 467-5012 credential not .5 FTE/11 mos to write a clear, pre- Procurement 4414 or call Jobline License, good DMV; DEADLINE: Supervising Public Propane DEADLINE: 7-12-07 required. /flex schd cise report. Drug test- (916)557-0422. 7/16/07 Health Nurse; Regis- Delivery Driver M-F daytime hours. Visit tered Nurse l/ll - Reg- 3 years of paid or ing and background Hazmat, tanker, air Retech offers excel- SHOWROOM Excellent benefits! www.mcoe.us/jobs istered Nurse l/ll- Bi- unpaid exp. work- checks are required. brakes, Class B. lent benefits and TEACHER - SALES $11-$15/hr DOE and or call 467-5012 Ukiah lingual. To apply call ing with students For application info. Great salary & bene- compensation com- Viticulture DEADLINE: Filling Part time posi- position. Fax resume Daily Journal 530-527-8491 ext. and families. Call 707-744-1647 fits. 401k. Propane or mensurate with expe- $27.84-$46.36/hr tion for tile show- to 925.370.2048 or 7/19/07 3081 or visit website $15.53-$19.81/hr fuel exp. pref rience and abiity. Cloverdale High 590 S. School St. ext. 1341 or email: room. Need a person http:/co.Tehama.ca.us Mendocino Fax resume to Retech Systems LLC [email protected] TRUCK DRIVER DRIVER F/T [email protected] with great customer School Regular for details. Postmarks County Office 459-2178 or apply 100 Henry Station Rd g. WorkARC.org. Ad- Class A Hazmat en- Ukiah,CA 95482 service skills, design teaching credential Early AM and faxes will not be of Education Waldorf School of in person at vocacy, Respect & Fax: 707-467-1708 and organizational not required. Visit dorse. great pay/ben. Must have clean accepted. TEHAMA Visit Mendocino County Pro Flame Gas Co. Commitment to peo- HR@retech skills. Please inquire www.mcoe.us/jobs near Wdld, CA Call DMV. COUNTY IS A www.mcoe.us/jobs P/T Teacher 3-4hrs/ 1580 Main St. Willits systemsllc.com ple with developmen- or 467-5012 at 169-A Mason St., or call 467-5012 Betw M-F 7:30-5 Apply in person EEO/ADA/DRUG wk. Spanish $20/hr. PURCHASING EOE tal disabilities. Circulation Dept. DEADLINE: 7-19-07 Ukiah. Open M-F 8-5 DEADLINE 7/19/07 530-668-9316 FREE WORKPLACE. 485-8719 EOE. TECHNICIAN: & Sat. 10-3. $2,625 - $3,191 per month, plus benefits. Job description/ap- Roofing Supplier plication available at has immediate open- City of Ukiah, 300 ing for Class B driver Seminary Ave. and Loader. Must be Ukiah, CA 95482 or able to lift 50lbs. Full www.cityofukiah.com time, excellent bene- Deadline: 5 p.m., fits. Apply in person 8/1/07. EOE. with current DMV printout. M-F 8:00- 3:00. 2310 So. State St., Ukiah, CA Round Valley Indian REAL ESTATE Housing Authority AGENTS Job Announcement Zip Realty, Inc-Now MANAGER Hiring in Your Area. OF FINANCE Leads Provided!! Applicant will be re- Med/401K Expenses/ sponsible for/and Marketing Covered. maintaining an ac- Call Tom Smyth 800- counting system that 225-5947 ext 2676 follows the standard [email protected] accounting practices m and assures compli- Red Fox Casino ance with all HUD ac- NOW HIRING counting require- ● Auditor - P/T ments. Performs all ● Kitchen accounting functions ● Tech as assigned; pre- ● Security, pares statements and ● Cashiers financial reports; ● 2 Floor Managers must have good oral and written communi- ● Exp. promotions cation skills. & marketing Applicant must be person. knowledgeable of Friendly attitude modern bookkeeping/ helpful. Willing to accounting practices train. 984-6800 and procedures. or come in for Must be able to use application. Word and have the 200 Cahto Dr. ability to type a mini- Laytonville ●●●●●●●● mum of 40 wpm.The Manager of Finance Now offering will report directly to employee the Executive Direc- insurance after tor/Deputy Director. 90 days. Applicant must be willing to submit and Registered Dental be able to pass a Assistant for general pre-employment drug & cosmetic dentistry. screening and pos- Send resume to sess a valid Califor- 702 S. Dora St. Ukiah nia Drivers License. TLC Child & This is an offer as a Family Services Full time permanent seeks 2 additional position. homes for Shelter Salary: NEGOTIABLE Care program DOE. Applicants need to Call Karen Breedlove have at least 1 spare at 707-983-6188 ext. bdrm to house a child 25 for more informa- for up to 30 days. tion and copy of the Guaranteed monthly allotment. Generous job description. Sub- increase upon place- mit RVIHA applica- ment. Income tax-ex- tion and resumes to empt. Exp. with chil- RVIHA PO B ox 682, dren req. Parents will Covelo, CA 95428 receive training, + So- Indian Preference Ti- cial Worker, in-home tle 25, U.S. Code support & respite. Need 1 or 2-parent Sections 472 and homes, with 1 parent 473 will be adhered. home full time. Home RVIHA is an Equal with no more than 1 Opportunity Employer. biological child con- Sign Language sidered. Interpreter Retirees invited to Cloverdale School apply. Contact TLC 6-7 hrs/day 707-463-1100 Easter Seal Lic#236800809 1-800-234-7325 CREEKSIDE VILLAGE HUD subsidized senior housing now accepting applications for waiting lists for qualifying low income, very low income & extremely low income applicants. 1 bdrm units & 2 bdrm. unit as well as 4 bdrm. assessable units. 62+ yrs. or mobility impaired. Apply at 751 Waugh Ln., Ukiah or call 463-0721 Hrs. 2-5pm M-F TDD 800-735-2929

APARTMENTS 1 Bedrooms $700...... New Interior, W/D hookups $875...... Upstairs, new carpet $825...... Custom interior, downtown ...... location $900...... Brand new, MUST SEE 2 Bedrooms $650...... Country Cottage, ...... Potter Valley $760...... Large balcony, ...... W/D hookups $785...... Nice, some utilities paid $825...... Upstairs, laundry on site $825...... Good Area, quiet complex All rents subject to discount upon timely payment! Applications available at Beverly Sanders Realty Co. 320 S. State Street 707-462-5198 B-8- SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL

HELP BUSINESS 120 WANTED 210 OPPORT. TRINITY YOUTH only. SERVICES Child Care Swing & graveyard shifts available. Starting $9.40 per hr. Open Homes On call $9 per hr. Qualif. 21 years old, Med. & drug exam, BUSINESS OPEN HOUSE, Sun., July 15, 2:30pm - 4:00pm T.B. test, criminal 250 RENTALS 240 South Highland Avenue background check. OFFICES OPEN HOUSE Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue. Great benefit pkg. 390sf.$425/mo.+dep. Apply 300sf. $300/mo+dep. Sun., July 15 915 W. Church St. Util & janitorial incl. Ukiah 95482 Very nice location, 12:00pm - 4:00pm VALLEJO HEALTH 468-5426 CARE 9671 East Road Center is hiring Retail dwntwn, 352 Drivers, N. State St. 1500 sq Redwood Valley RNs/LVNs/CNAs/ ft. Great location! $900/mo. 459-3696 Host: Clint Hanks MSWs PT/ST/OT. Hosted By: De Geyter Investment • Owner/Agent If you are looking for that special home, to make uniquely yours, Please call SHOP/WAREHOUSE 4 bed., 3 ba., 3 car garage, 3000 sq. ft. on 2.17 flat acres, including large gourmet kitchen and bedrooms, then don’t look any further. Bring this classic home up to date and 707-642-6811 you will have a true work or art, with great views from huge picture 4950+/- sq.ft. hardwood floors, heated swimming pool and spa, horse barn and much more. $795,000.00 windows in a tree house setting. Price reduced to $495,000 WANTED Shared fenced yard Les Ryan Realty • 468-0423 IMMEDIATELY Great N. Ukiah Loc. (707) 462-7615 495 E. Perkins • Ukiah A new health DOWNTOWN care facility is 1600+/-sqft Ofc. Ste. OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, July 15th, 12-2 pm OPEN HOUSE, Saturday, July 14th, 10am – 12 noon OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, July 15th, 12:00pm - 2:00pm in need of the Hi-traffic loc. Parking. following: 460 Observatory 27170 Tuck Place – Brooktrails 580 Hazel Avenue Directions to property:Helen or Dora to Observatory (closer to Helen) Directions: Sherwood Rd. rt. on Daphne; rt. on Poppy, left on Maize; rt. on Directions: Walnut turn right on Hazel. MEDICAL OFFICE Tuck Rd; left on Tuck Place ●CNA’s or RETAIL All Shifts S. Orchard (competitive & 3400+-sq. ft. attractive rates). Parking. ●Dietary Aide AM/PM LEE KRAEMER Real Estate Broker Hostess: Mona Falgout Presented by: Pat Williams Hosted By: Sharron Thomas 468-8951 Contractor’s Home with quality features! Three bedroom, two bath 3 bedroom 2 bath home with open floor plan and vaulted living Please see or call: with: *crown molding , upgraded baseboards & door trims, *solid room ceilings. New kitchen appliances, new flooring and paint Charming Westside home. Close to golf course and park. Well Bobbye Greet interior doors, *coffered ceiling in FR, *wood burning FP w/ gas make this home ready to move into. Large master suite with maintained 4 bed, 2 bath home, good square footage, floor to APARTMENTS ceiling fireplace in living room, skylight and wet bar in family Joan Wright ignition & beautiful redwood mantle, *new hardy board siding, *new walk in closet, central heat & air, plus woodstove. Over 1/3 acre 300 UNFURNISHED 40 year roof, *copper rain gutters, *newer central heat and air, * built level lot with fenced yard, hot tub and 2 car garage. Offered room. Sliders to private deck. Lovely, low maintenance Rebecca Randall in BBQ on covered patio, more….. $429,000 below appraised value at $399,900. landscaping, covered carport and workshop, hardwood floors $825 modern cozy 2 under carpet in front part of house. $419,000 131 Whitmore Ln. BR wtr/garb pd. A/C, Ukiah, Ca. 95482 (707) 272-5887 lndry 232 Mason St. (707) 489-1812 707-462-6636 Ukiah 707-433-4040 114 South School Street-Ukiah, CA Selzer Realty • 467-3632

YOU could make $925-Marlene St. TH, $250 per hour.New Lg. 2br 1.5 ba. New OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, July 15th, 1:30-4:00pm OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, July 15th, 11-1pm OPEN HOUSE, Sunday, July 15, 11:00am – 3:00 pm vending concept. In- crpt & paint, pool, yd. 1061 Maple Avenue 1050 North Oak Street 491 Kennwood Drive vest. Reqrd. Routes 217-2764, 462-1546 Directions: Sherwood Rd. rt. on Daphne; rt. on Poppy, left on Maize; rt. on Directions: Sherwood Rd. rt. on Daphne; rt. on Poppy, left on Maize; rt. on Located in desirable West Fork Estates avail. in your area. Tuck Rd; left on Tuck Place Tuck Rd; left on Tuck Place 1bdrm with W/D. Call now & be $775 + dep. 304 one of the first. Cooper Ln. No pets. 1-800-377-1948 415-626-4265 Youth Advocate 1br $625 2br $725. Intensive + dep. N/P N/sec.8 Treatment Foster Presented by: Pat Williams Cute. Nice Loc. Extensively remodeled 3 bedroom 2 bath home in great neighborhood Presented by: Pat Williams Care Program. Opportunity knocks! Huge price reduction on this charming 2 To view 472-0322 close to Todd Grove Park. Kitchen features granite counters, new PT O-20 hrs week cabinets and new appliances, fireplace in living room, family room with bedroom home with 10’ ceilings on desirable westside, close to schools, shopping, golf course and parks. Central heat & air plus wet bar leading to new concrete patio and remodeled inground pool Hosted by:Tracy Anderson mornings in Ukiah. 2 bdrms, Good overlooking the golf course. Freshly painted, new central heat & air, new woodstove, new appliances, two covered carports, rustic dining (707)480-0615 Will aid Foster Pa- Credit, NS, No pets. roof, new flooring and interior doors. Don’t let this opportunity pass you room w/built-in hutch opening to quaint patio. Won’t last long at Luxury living in this 4bd/3ba immaculate home w/views,situated next to by. Reduced over $65k to $499,900. $319,900 rents w/child rear- HUD ok. $775/mo. park &backing up to open space &the Russian River.Custom ing problems. As- 621-1717 landscaped yard w/grape covered steel pergola, water fountain,veg sist children & garden,hot tub &more.Kitchen w/granite countertops.Great for Large W. Side Ukiah. (707) 489-1812 (707) 489-1812 youth w/difficulties entertaining & living.$592,000 1bdrm. Walk-in base- in social adjust- ment. $750 + dep. ments. Must have No S/P. 462-3911 AA or BA in Social OPEN HOUSE Science Field w/1 LEE KRAEMER yr. exp. with chil- PROPERTY MGMT Sunday, July 15th, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Sell It Fast dren in institutional Spacious 1bd1ba. 977 Dominican Way settings. $10-$14 $750. Directions: West on Grove Street, Right on Live Oak Drive, Left on With DOE. Job #07-YA. POOL, LAUNDRY, Maple Avenue, Right on Dominican Way Facility #236801918. CARPORTS Hosted By: Margaret North Ukiah Therapeutic No Section 8. Desirable Fairway Oaks Subdivision - one level Residental Staff 463-2134 custom 1639 sq. ft. 3 bedroom, 2 bath home Daily borders the 17th golfcourse green. Some of the roof Children’s Center in NEWER Willits On-call. Pro- to floor upgrades include: Granite countertops and Journal 2 BEDROOM. new appliances in kitchen, both bathrooms have tile vide supervision DW\Garage+pool counters and floors plus solartubes, newer inside Classifieds and care for each $850 mo. 463-2325 and outside paint, central heat and a/c plus a pellet individual child in a stove, newer roof and double car garage. Low Maintenance group home setting. PARK PLACE yard with new landscaping. One year home warranty AA or BA degree 1 bd. $750-$775 included! $590,000 and/or experience 2 bdr. $850 TH $950. in related field pre- Pool/garg. 462-5009 Selzer Realty • 467-3624 ferred but not req’d. Spacious 2bd1ba. $10-14, DOE. Job w/W/D. N/P. WTR., #07-TRS. Faciity GARB. PD. #236801878. 462-8600 All applicants must pass background Spacious 2bd. Pool. check, physical & H20, trash pd. $800. TB before hire. Also 1bd. $700. Ht. Must have valid AC Pd. N/P. 462-6075 CDL & clean DMV. Featured Properties Studio cottage Applicants MUST $650/mo. All utils pd. specify position ap- 1st & dep. 4 blks. Featured Property Featured Property Featured Property plying for in cover from dntwn. 391-7499 351 Toyon Road 525 Oak Manor Drive letter or resume. 1321 Oak Knoll Road Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue Fax: 707-462-6994 or mail: HR PO Box 422, Ukiah, CA 95482. EOE. UKIAH Youth Worker: Fort Bragg/ APARTMENT Mendocino area. 2000 S. Dora 20-30 HRS WK. Offered By: Denise Ridley 2 bdrm., 1 ba. Private Reserve - Looking for that special 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home Benefited. Crisis in- Offered By: Denise Ridley with your own wine tasting room? This 2600 sq. ft., tri level home is on 2 $775/mo. acres and has fabulous views of the Ukiah Valley. Living room with For Sale by Owner Owner has refinished beautiful Ash kitchen cabinets and new tiled Enjoy this 3 bedroom, 2 baths home across the street from Oak Manor Park. Home has tervention, youth/ fireplace, large master suite with outdoor deck. Terraced yard in the hills counters. Time to take another peek, enjoy 3 bedrooms, 2 baths on 5 a completely remodeled kitchen with granite countertops & custom oak cabinets. New make for a peaceful setting to enjoy a meal or sit in the hot tub and family conflict, self acres, terraced decks, fenced raised gardens, solar water heater. Paved central heat/air, dual pane windows, cozy fireplace and newer carpet throughout. Charming Studio enjoy the stars. Offered at $639,900 harm, runaway or road and 5 minutes to town! Reduced to $698,000 Beautifully landscaped yards with automatic sprinklers. Motivated seller! Offered at only $675. $370,000 at risk, substance All utils incl. use, and other is- Selzer Realty • 467-3628 Selzer Realty • 467-3628 Call 391-4907 to schedule appointment. sues. Work closely MOVE IN SPECIAL with schools, help at 1416 S. State St. Featured Property Featured Property Featured Property recruit Host Homes. 3bd2ba. townhse. Some group work, 951 Rubicon Drive - Ukiah 676 S. Orchard Ave, Ukiah 432 McPeak Street, Ukiah Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue youth development Directions: East Perkins Street to Vichy Spring Drive to Watson Road Directions: East Perkins Street to Vichy Spring Drive to Watson Road 140 Zinfandel projects. Salaried 1bd1ba. $660 $9.16-13.04 p/h. Hud OK. Application pack 707-463-4915 MCYP CENTURY 21 Les Ryan Realty SERVICES Property Management OFFERED 200 468-0463 Offered By: Chamise Cubbison Offered By: Nancy Borecky Beautiful custom built home in gated community. Home features large HANDY MAN Offered By: Chamise Cubbison Charming two bedroom, two bath home complete with bonus kitchen with custom cabinets, granite counters, large island, all kitchen All Home Repairs Commercial Property - includes main building divided into two loft perfect for a home office, guest bedroom, or media appliances upgraded. Private master suite on 2nd floor with large walk- units, 20x40 garage with offices and large carport all on 1/2 lounge. The home has been lovingly remodeled from top to in closet, coffee bar with sink, frig and granite counters. Master bath is Yard & Tree Work all tile with jacuzzi tub and separate shower. Private deck off master DUPLEXES acre. Lots of potential uses. Do not disturb occupants. Call bottom. Includes an attached single car garage, mature trees 320 listing agent for appointment to see. $595,000 & bushes, front porch and rear patio. $524,000 suite has awesome views. The guest suite has living room, bedroom, DUMP RUNS. large bath and walk-in closet. A must see! Offered at $1,475,000 367-0076 3 bdrm 1.5 bth Chamise Cubbison, Owner/Broker Chamise Cubbison, Owner/Broker Townhouse. Fire- 510 S. School St. • 707-489-5082 510 S. School St. • 707-489-5082 mendoproperties.com mendoproperties.com Selzer Realty • 467-3630 BUSINESS place, W/D hu. gar. OPPORT. yd. $1100/mo. $1600 210 dep. (707) 433-6688 FAST FOOD Featured Propety Featured Propety Featured Property FRANCHISE? HOMES 9501 Lane Drive Huge Price Reduction! 1461 Gamay Place - Ukiah Only serves head- 330 FOR RENT Directions: Dora to W Church 1990 Elm Street Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue aches. Franchise 1 Bd by Ptr Vly & Eel Directions: Dora to W Church North America’s Rvr. Trees, lawn, lease-to-own retail pond & deck. W/D giant. lease $750+ dep NYSE-listed with 743-1525 $1.6 billion in system wide revenue. Store 2+ Bed earnings available. 1 Bath-Ukiah Contact Doug Keane 11 Betty, Shop, Offered By: Eric Garbocci Office Exclusive:Million Dollar Views! 40 acres located just outside Offered By: Nancy Borecky 469-323-3901 Garage, Trees, of Ukiah. Great well. Lots of privacy. Property has home and shop. Great home for large family. Two master suites, one upstairs, one douglas.keane@ $699,000 downstairs. Remodeled kitchen and laundry room opens into large Lawn. Lease This is a roomy family home (1534± sq. ft.) within easy walking dining room and onto covered patio. Family room and spacious master aaronrents.com distance to schools and shopping. Four bedrooms, one bath and a suite located upstairs for maximum privacy. Offered at $529,000 $1,200/mo+ huge laundry that could be converted into 2nd bathroom. Newer www.aaronsfran- 462-5005 paint & flooring. Won’t last at $319,900. chise.com deposit 114 South School Street-Ukiah, CA Wally Johnson Realty: 485-8700. www.wjrealty.com Selzer Realty • 467-3630 Offer by prospectus 743-1525 THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 -B-9

HOMES PETS & MOTOR- CARS CARS Affordable Security For 330 FOR RENT 500 SUPPLIES 620 CYCLES 680 FOR SALE 680 FOR SALE 770 REAL ESTATE 770 REAL ESTATE Your Individual Needs Starting at 2bd. dbl. wide mobile 6 Beagle/Fox Terrier Honda Fat Cat. Off Cherokee Jeep ‘88 Toyota Camry LE - 11 ac. 3 separate liv- HOME FOR in quiet Senior Park. puppies. 8 wks. old. Hwy. Perfect cond. 2004, Silver. 36K mi. ing areas. Fenced for ELECTRONIC 4x4, $1000 obo. PROTECTION $ 95* No pets. $850/mo. + $300-$350.To see $1500. Impalla ‘83, 4dr, Ext’d Warr. No kids, animals. $600,000 AUCTION BY 199 $850 sec. dep. incl. 707-272-4674/Brian 743-1709, 621-2399 pets, smoke. Tint. Blandford RE 391-7612 Like new 4bd., 3ba., DEEP wtr. sew garb. 468- hard-top. Rrebuilt Protect your most 4X4'S $15,200 Beaut. 2bdrm 1bth. 2265sf, 2 car gar. 5607 or 462-7630 8MO. NEUTERED trans. $1000 obo. VALLEY valuable assets: 650 FOR SALE 707-391-2897 Good Loc.-CLK West Fork Estates. LG LAB gd for fami- 482 Observatory Built in 2003. SECURITY 3bd, 2.5ba, 2 car CHEV S-10 BLAZER Reduced $149,900 Your Home & Family ly. Current shots COMMERCIAL Valued @ $569K. (707) 462-5200 gar, w/many extras. 4x4 V-6, auto, needs 707-484-1055 $100 485-5210 GLS Jetta ‘97 V. REAL ESTATE Inspection Sat. 7/28 24 hours a day! $2200/mo. + dep fly wheel. $500 745 FSBO: 3bd.2 ba. Good cond. $2500. Sun. 7/29 12pm-5pm. NO S/P/D. Sandy Chihuahua/Mini 459-0350 FOR LEASE 1472 sf living space. 462-2256 485-1970 or $464,500 or Best Basic System Includes: American Eskimo Avail. June 1st, 970 F/R. w/frplc, covered 1st shots. 10 wks. Dodge 3qtr Ton, ‘03, 367-0945 N. State St. 12K sq Reasonable Offer. • G.E. Control Panel 3bd.2ba. 2 car gar. patio, fenced BY, RV • Passive Infrared Avail. Aug. 1. No old. $150. 743-1709 crew-cab, w/ shell & ft., good parking Home will be sold with Backup Battery (1) Motion Detector (1) LEXUS GS 430 05 parking, garden area, Sunday night 7/29 Smoking, drugs,pets. 621-2399 rack. 4x4. 83k mi. 462-4344, 489-0810 • Interior Siren (1) • Free Key Fob (1) $1500/mo. 462-7615 $21k. Bill 357-1886 20k mi, one owner! corner lot. Close to to HIGHEST AND Full American Pitbull • Door/Window Contacts (2) Moonroof! Heated LOTS & schools & park. BEST BIDDER. Beautiful spacious 1 yr, 3 mos. 100 lbs. TRUCKS 24hr rec’d info. Authorized 3bdrm 2bth, w/ den. 670 FOR SALE Seats! Leather, 760 ACREAGE Priced reduced Shots, friendly dog. 1-866-738-5424 Security Pro W. Side loc. in Uk. nav. Loaded. $379,500. 463-2842. 744-1186 Chevy 4x4 1998 493Briarwood.com Dealer Avail mid. Aug. Ext. cab. $14,800. mikmil- COMMERCIAL LOT SELLER MOTIVATED $1650+ dep. German Shorthair 100K mi. l@hotmail. com Approx. .68 ac. DEEP VALLEY SECURITY PUPS, AKC 431-4371 743-1709, 621-2399 323-735-7054. flat S.W. Ukiah. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Don’t lose 2males/8females, In city limits. Elect. 462-5200 $600 ea. CARS RED 02 PT Cruiser, 1-800-862-5200 • 960 N. State St., Ukiah your house FOR SALE there. Deeded ease- to foreclosure. 707-485-7894 680 113K miles runs www.deepvalleysecurity24.com Chevy Lumina ‘93, ment for water & The Ukiah LIC.#AC03195 • CONT. LIC.#638502 I can keep you in it! Happy Jack® great, great body, exc. cond. intieror & ACT NOW!! Call Burk for details Novation® Protective sewer. Great spot for exterior. Runs great. 1 owner, $5500. * This special pricing required 36 month agreement at $19.95 per month. at (707) 462-9999 Band: patented a mini storage. By $2500, 468-5250 OBO 707 743-1584 DAILY JOURNAL release provides owner. 462-5667 Gary 707-468-3500 FB 3BD 2BA, fam. flea/tick control for 8 rm. Avail. NP, NS. months. TSC Stores $1500, + sec. Gd (707-462-3748.) ref/credit. 964-5140 www.happyjackinc.com New 3bd, 2ba, “We can show and sell 2 car ga, near Jack Russel Terrier NEWSPAPER Mendo lake. Puppies 4 Male Black any house on the market” ADVERTISING $1450/mo. 373-3192 & White $200 each gets snipped. gets saved. New deluxe town- 463-8810 102 N. School Street, Ukiah, Ca 95482 gets sales! house. 2bd. 1.5 ba. Jack Russell Terrier 707-468-8008 (0ffice) 111 Cleveland Ln. puppies $375. Brown WWW.UKIAHDREAMS.COM With so many advertising $1200/mo. 272-7388 & white Habla Español mediums dividing the attention of Newer 3bdrm 2bth, 707-272-3007 potential customers, newspapers remain the most effective source nice neighborhood. for reaching consumers. Why? $1475 + sec. dep. Need Barn Cats? FEATURED PROPERTY OPEN HOUSE, Sun., July 15, 11am-12:30pm Simply put, newspapers reach No S/P. Call 272- Healthy neutered, 9091 Colony Drive - Redwood Valley 230 Forsythe Dr. Redwood Valley more people, more often. Highly 1769. Avail. 8/4/07 Spayed, & rab. Vac. 462-4510 for info Directions: Perkins Street to Highland Avenue portable and highly visible, PV 3BD, 1BA lg newspaper ads go with people yard, cute, clean. No YELLOW AKC and stay with them. sec.8 ND. Ref’s LAB PUPPIES. That means your business is more $1400+sec.489-1343 2 fem. 1 $550 ea. likely to be on their minds when Ukiah 2 Bd 1 Ba. 707-972-8111 they’re in the market for related Cute House. Great products or services. When it PASTURE & comes to spending your Nbrhd. Pets Neg. FEED SUPPLY $1200/mo+sec 530 advertising dollars, make the 528-6651 Hay For Sale choice that’s tried and true: Potter Valley Rye Newspaper advertising works WANTED Grass & Oat Mix harder for you. 370 TO RENT 3 Twine Bales Hostess: Rosemary Brown Couple w/ exc. ref. $5.75/bale Offered By: Tori Brown Priced Below Market Value! Located in one of Redwood To advertise, call today Office Exclusive. 1993 Manufactued home on a foundation 3 Valleys Most desirable neighborhoods. This 3 bedroom, 2- looking for house to 462-7411 bed/ 2 bath, living room and family room on .98 of an acre all flat 1/2 bath home is nestled among Oak Trees. This home is a 707-468-3500! rent around GARAGE and usable. Newer 30 X 40 foot steel shop. 2 car detached must see! Asking $475,000 $1000/mo. With dog. garage. Asking $445,000 SALES 467-9415 590 3+ FAMILY GARAGE WANTED TO SALE 475 OAK 102 N. School Street • Ukiah 102 N. School Street • Ukiah 380 SHARE RENT MANOR DR, UKIAH Cell (707) 489-6772 • Bus (707) 468-8008 Cell (707) 489-4175 • Bus (707) 468-8008 $475/mo. furnished 7/14-7/15 8AM TO [email protected] [email protected] room, kitch. privelag- 3PM EARLY BIRDS es. No S/P/D, sec. PAY DOUBLE dep. 468-5556 Roommate Needed- = ❤ + Great condo! $500/mon. + elec. HUGE Aug. 1st. #462-7262 YARD SALE 440 FURNITURE HSIMC Purch. w/in last 4 (Humane Society) mos; Scandin. dble SAT. 9-5 drssr & matching SUN. 11-3 nght stands. Cherry Benefits our $350, Queen Plat- incarcerated form Bed Cherry 225, dogs and cats. Black Cont. lamps: 9700 Uva Dr. tble $100 ea. Floor Redwood Valley $150 ea, Glass/ chrom/coffee tble FREE GARAGE $200; 72’x30’/disp. SALE SIGNS. syst. blk $120, Realty World Selzer 60’x’26 display/syst. Realty. 350 E. Gobbi blk $110, Anthracite Fri. 7/13 sale Sectional $300, flr thru Sun. 7/15 sale mirror $75, blk chr Lumber, fencing, sid- otto. $250, 2 glass/al- ing, lattice panels, umn. pedestals fork lifts, machinary $50/75. 463-2344 & much more. 1117 Commerce Dr. WANTED 450 TO BUY Huge Yard Sale We recycle & pay for Soroptimist Int. of batteries copper, Yokayo Sunrise brass, stainless, Fundraiser alum., radiators, 1021 Lk Mendo. Dr TODAY ammunition Fri-Sun 9-4 brass casings 50 Moving Sale cents lb. 467-1959 Sat&Sun 8a-3p, Free Lemonade. 5700 E/S 460 APPLIANCES Calpella Rd. Big & USED small items, low APPLIANCES prices. All must go! & FURNITURE. Moving Sale. Great videos $1, hot dog Guaranteed. 485-1216 cart fishing gear, MISC. tools, books, 480 FOR SALE sauna cabinet, sew- Beautiful Southwest- ing mach., handicap ern art prints, well scooter, mtn bike, known artists. All halogen lights, signed. 4632344 Champion juicer. Gads more. 3900 CELESTRON 3.5” N. State. Spc 56. Spotting Scope. Very Fri, Sat & Sun 8-3 good condition $350 459-8654 SUNDAY, JULY 15 FREE PAINT 8am-1pm. 1260 Se- Recycled latex, 5 gal. quoia. Clothing, buckets, white, tan, Household, Furniture, brown, gray. Tues- RV. days only, 8am to YARD SALE! 494 2pm, 298 Plant Rd., Briarwood Dr. Ukiah. Ukiah (behind animal All kinds of stuff! Sat shelter). & Sun July 14 & 15. Hot Tub ‘07 Deluxe 9am -2pm. Model. Many jets. REC VEH Therapy seat. 610 CAMPING Warranty. Never 1984 ITASCA 21 ft. used. Can deliver. MOTOR HOME Worth $5700. Sell Chevy 350 - 90K mi. $1950 with new Very well maintained. cover. 707-766-8622 Onan generator. Samsung 32’’ Flat Sleeps 6 scrn $700, Samsung $9000 HD, 5 disc Theater 200; HD cables, or best offer BOSE comp. spkrs 485-5389 or $60, 50 DVD popular 489-7108 + storage rack $25. Yr/old Breitling man’s 5th wheel, ‘92 Colt chrono. Blk face, Scottsdale Cobra. plat. zones. Retail Good cond., 34ft. 1895. $700. New in 2 roof A/Cs, slideout. box ME25 Lazer Too much to list! Jammer/Blinder Must see! $10,500 $375. 707-463-2344 485-0616 B-10- SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007 THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL SSERVICEERVICE DDIRECTORYIRECTORY HOME REPAIRS CONSTRUCTION LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING HANDYMAN Sangiacomo CREEKSIDE Escobar Services ALVAREZ All types of home repair, HOME REPAIRS Landscape LANDSCAPE remodeling, construction, Carpentry - Painting - Plumbing Lic. #367676 License #624806 C27 window & door repair, Electric Work - Tile Work carpentry & tile Pavers & Cement Work • Consult • Design RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL Can fix almost anything. NOW OFFERING Foundation to finish • Install Complete Landscape Installation Serving Ukiah, • Landscaping/Yard Work • Concrete & Masonry • Retaining Walls Redwood Valley, Exclusive Line Calpella & • Lawn Maintenance Homes • Additions • Irrigation & Drip Sprinklers • Sprinkler Valve of Bobcat track loaders • Drainage Systems • Consulting & Design Willits. • Kitchens • Decks Residential Established in 1970 • Bobcat Grading • Tractor Service Work Commercial Lic. #580504 Office (707) 468-0747 Joe Morales Guaranteed Lic # 6178 • Insured 707.485.8954 Cell (707) 391-7676 (707) 744-1912 (707) 485-0810 (707) 972-8633 707.367.4040 cell (707) 318-4480 cell Non-licensed contractor

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