The Ukiah Foster Home Found for Malnourished Dogs
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Community Planet Smoothie FORUM sports digest lands in Ukiah Our readers write .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ..................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY July 12, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 148 Number 94 email: [email protected] Foster home found for malnourished dogs By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Things looking up for rottweiler-mix and her 8 pups The rottweiler-mix and her eight FOLLOW-UP puppies, seven of which were turned article about the animals in The pital in Santa Rosa on Saturday, keep the puppies together because over to the Humane Society for Daily Journal on Saturday and called Higgins volunteered to take her as they are only 4 weeks old. take care of them. Inland Mendocino on Thursday, the Humane Society to say she well. Humane Society volunteer Sallie “It’s a great home, here in Ukiah,” found a safe foster home in Ukiah would be willing to foster some of “It didn’t make sense not to take Palmer said the dogs are now in a Palmer said. over the weekend. the puppies. When the puppies’ them all,” Higgins said. safe place, with space to run around, Tanis Higgins said she saw the mother returned from an animal hos- The Humane Society had hoped to food, and lots of loving people to See DOGS, Page 14 Climate Beltrami back on job change Interim affecting CEO busy ‘listening grapes Editor’s note: This article is the first of a to people’ two-part series on climate change on the By KATIE MINTZ North Coast and its effect on the wine The Daily Journal industry. Statues, awards and certificates already line By JAMES ARENS Interim Chief Executive The Daily Journal Officer Al Beltrami’s The hotter it gets, the worse it is for walls, shelves and even growing wine grapes, and according to the window sill in his a study released Monday during a office at the Mendocino meeting of the National Academy of County Administration Sciences, the North Coast climate is Center, yet he’s only been slowly heating up. there for about a week. About a month ‘When He joked that if the ago, the Mendocino Board of Supervisors who Winegrowers Alli- temperatures appointed him to the posi- ance started a study reach about 95 tion following John Ball’s of its own as well. dismissal changed its “When tempera- degrees the mind, he’d have to first tures reach about 95 grapes start to pack up all of his belong- degrees the grapes ings. This sense of humor, start to have prob- have problems. Supervisor Jim lems,” said Zac Wattenburger said after Robinson, family When it gets that the board unanimously owner at Husch hot, the grapes chose Beltrami, was one Vineyards in Philo. of the qualities that made Robinson is a mem- more or less go Beltrami the ideal candi- ber of the Mendo- date, in addition to his cino Winegrowers into survival extensive experience. Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Alliance board of mode.’ Serving as the interim Al Beltrami, interim chief executive officer for Mendocino County, stands outside the directors and started CEO, Beltrami said, is a Mendocino County Administration Center on Tuesday. Beltrami was appointed after the con- a study about a lot like being back home - troversial removal of John Ball from the same position. month ago about ZAC ROBINSON - he served as the county’s North Coast warm- chief administrative offi- we were.” said. whole again next week. ry, Beltrami has held ing and its effect on Husch Vineyards cer for 25 years -- but also Beltrami is taking a He named some of his “John was ambitious interim positions through- wine grapes. “When strange, because many cautious approach settling top priorities as finishing and he made a lot of out California. In 1991, it gets that hot, the grapes more or less things have changed since into his new role. He ref- the budget and having it changes in a short period after working as interim go into survival mode.” he retired from the post in erenced a number of one- approved in August, eval- of time, and maybe we’ll city manager in Rio Dell Premium wine grapes grow best in a 1990, including a move of on-one meetings held uating the structure of the want to step back now,” in Humboldt County, he consistent climate. When temperatures office from the court- over the last week with CEO position and begin- Beltrami said. “We’ll accepted a position as are high, grapes have problems main- house downtown to the county department heads, ning the recruitment probably slow things Stanislaus County’s inter- taining photosynthesis, and the sugars administration center, supervisors and county process, addressing other down.” im CAO. in the grapes can break down. “On which used to be the counsel penciled in on his vacancies within the Part of his role as the “They had just let their those real hot days sprinklers are actu- county’s hospital, and a desk-sized calendar. county and moving for- interim CEO will be to CAO at that time go, and ally turned on to try to help counteract shift in job description “That’s sort of what it’s ward with the formation bring back a sense of cer- they needed somebody to the high temperatures,” Robinson said. from CAO to CEO. all about right now in the of the Health and Human tainty to county depart- fill in and be interim,” According to Robinson, Napa, “It’s not really apples beginning, just letting Services Agency, a con- ments and the organiza- Beltrami said. Sonoma and Mendocino counties have and apples anymore. It’s people tell you what they glomeration of the Public tion as a whole. He said it After going through a been seeing average temperatures rise more apples and think and how they see Health, Social Services wouldn’t be an easy task, three- to four-month over the past half century, with one oranges,” Beltrami said. things, because some- and Mental Health but his background will recruiting process and local exception. “The basic structure’s the times if you make a deci- Departments. He said he help. completing a number of “The North Coast has a documented same, but it’s much wider, sion too soon without all will have a clearer idea of In addition to serving interviews for a perma- warming trend with one exception, and the county’s involved the facts, you do the the direction he’ll take Mendocino County as Ukiah,” Robinson said. “Ukiah’s aver- in a lot more issues than wrong thing,” Beltrami when the board meets as a CAO for a quarter-centu- See BELTRAMI, Page 2 age temperature is actually going See GRAPES, Page 2 Hookah bar exempt from Ukiah’s smoking ordinance By BEN BROWN the rest of the restaurant in its own ness. always flow into the room, never out employees from an environment that The Daily Journal room away from the restaurant prop- Dave Koppel, program director of it. could be damaging to their health. Cafe Med, the newly opened er. That room has its own ventilation for Environmental Health, said Cafe Med is also a “solely owner In order to allow smoking in an Mediterranean restaurant and hookah system that vents the air to the out- Environmental Health looked over operated” business, said Guadalupe owner-operated business, the owner bar on South State Street, has discov- side without allowing it to mix with the plans. He said, in addition to Chavez, prevention services coordi- has to file an exemption with ered a way to allow customers to the air in the restaurant. venting smoke outside the restaurant, nator for Mendocino County Public Environmental Health. Chavez said smoke hookahs inside the restaurant Owner Nayef Asfour said he pre- the separate ventilation system in the Health. Being owner operated allows there are a few bars in Mendocino despite several laws that forbid sented the design to the Mendocino hookah bar also creates “negative air Cafe Med to get around laws ban- County operating on the same princi- smoking in restaurants. County Department of Environ-men- flow,” which means that, even when ning smoking in restaurants because The hookah bar is secluded from tal Health before he opened for busi- the door to the room is open, air will those laws hinge on protecting See HOOKAH, Page 14 Across from We’ve Moved! Ukiah Ford, and Redding’s • More Rental Trucks Behind Lost Coast Car And Truck Rentals • Larger Location Motorcycles 468-0902 • NEW LOCATION • 1125 So. State Street, Ukiah • More Convenient 2 – WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] 82, of Ukiah, died Sunday, FUNERAL NOTICES DEATH NOTICES July 9, 2006. Graveside ser- vices will be held 11 a.m. [\ afternoon drop-in USS Copahee in of Ukiah; daughter, Thursday, at Kelseyville event at his business office WWII. He is survived the Betty Cleveland of • James Ronald Teters, Cemetery. Arrangements are at 1920 No. State sinking of the Lex- Kelseyville; sons, John 71, of Ukiah, died Saturday, under the direction of Chapel St., Ukiah and Saturday ington in the Coral Sea (MaryAnne) Abercrombie July 8, 2006. A memorial ser- of the Lakes. 15, July on Sher- Battle. After his dis- of San Leandro and vice will be announced at a • Robert N. Swartz died at wood Ranch at “Randy’s charge from the Navy he Dean Abercrombie of later date.