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Eagles, Raiders Pet of FORUM jump start NFL the Our readers write preseason week ................................Page A-4 .........Page B-1 ............Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 MONDAY Aug. 7, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 12 pages, Volume 148 Number 120 email: [email protected] Lawmakers return to hot-button issues By Steve Geissinger The Legislature returns Monday from its ‘What’s your’s is your’s, unless I can take it ANG Newspapers summer break to swiftly wrap up its 2005-06 from you’ and ‘the first thing you do is you SACRAMENTO – Lawmakers returning session, under the shadow of an election year. don’t use your fists, you use a gun or a knife to next week will work on an “awful’’ prison sys- Lawmakers also will conduct a concurrent spe- solve your problem.’’’ tem that fosters street violence and other key cial session on prison woes, called by Gov. Federal and state courts already are oversee- issues, but won’t make a deal to trade redis- Arnold Schwarzenegger. ing reforms to inmate health care, mental tricting power for looser term limits, Senate “Our prisons suck,’’ Perata said. health services, employee discipline and the leader Don Perata said Thursday. Though causes for Oakland’s current wave juvenile justice division. In wide-ranging comments, the Oakland of murders remains unknown, he said, some Other woes include housing of illegal immi- Democrat also acknowledged backers of a factors are “obvious’’ – little or no rehabilita- grants, a lack of prison guards and too many multibillion-dollar public works bond package tion of criminals in overcrowded prisons being temporary supervisors. File photo on the November ballot will be fighting some- released into a failing parole system. Among the changes Schwarzenegger plans Senate Leader Don Perata thinks the thing of an uphill battle to persuade voters it “We’ve been told that we are now exporting California penal system needs some will improve their quality of life. prison culture onto the streets, which is, See BUTTON, Page A-6 serious reworking. WILLITS CELTIC FAIR Hospital Past is present in Willits finances Celtic Renaissance remain takes fans on a journey through time unstable By JAMES ARENS By CONNIE KORBEL The Daily Journal Fort Bragg Advocate-News ow would you like to be FORT BRAGG - In June taken back to the past, 2005, before any restructuring when there were knights actions aimed at controlling H losses were taken, Mendocino in armor, bards, jesters, mead, mutton, wenches and dragons? Coast District Hospital reported Well, maybe not dragons. a $209,000 loss for the month. In Willits Saturday and Twelve months later, June's Sunday, the past became present. operating losses topped Willits was host to the Celtic $357,000. This was over Renaissance Fair at the Willits $300,000 more than staff had Recreation Grove Park, and the budgeted for, and followed a community showed up to be near-continuous stream of cut- taken back in time for the day. backs and changes applied over “This was a reopening of one the past year with others to fol- of the old classic jewels here in low. this community,” said Mark Every month losses deepen, Moorhead, CEO of Rusty Sword continuing to range well over Productions. “They had a Celtic $100,000, equal to and exceed- Fair in Willits for about seven ing losses experienced in the years that they held in May but it 2004-05 fiscal year, two years was rained out for a few years ago. and then just stopped happening. The statistical report present- Now we rescheduled this to have ed by accounting personnel it during the summer.” states that this June's loss was “We are helping to bring largely due to fewer patients something enlightening to the admitted to swing beds and a community,” Moorhead said. “I lower use of outpatient services. personally love the history and Highlights of the report show the ambience of the fair and the that: people here. I really do love the • There was $104,000 cash people. This has been a good on hand, which was $162,000 festival for us and the communi- less than they had in May. ty.” • Bills owed to vendors had grown another $162,234 to a Rusty Sword Productions is a Ryan Garner/The Daily Journal California non-profit organiza- new $4,380,805 total. Young and old picked up bows and arrows to try their hand at archery, Sunday afternoon at the • Labor — the total of tion and Moorhead shows his Willits Celtic Fair. appreciation and love by giving salaries and benefits — cost back to the community and char- Celtic performers from the $1,672,700 for the month. This ities. renaissance era played traditional was over budget by $23,700. “We like to bring historical music and danced for the crowd • Purchased services, which enrichment to the people who Sunday afternoon at the first contains additional labor costs attend and to the surrounding annual Willits Celtic Fair. Over for categories such as temporary community,” Moorhead said. 1500 people attended the fair and registry employees, were “We also like to help raise over the weekend, enjoying $115,474 higher than budgeted. money for MS Moms to benefit games and performances common The report explained this was families who are dealing with hundreds of years ago. “due primarily to additional multiple sclerosis. billing and collection initia- “We’ve also helped the bat- tives,” implemented by Interim tered women shelter in Ione dur- CEO Jon Baker to accelerate debt collection. See PRESENT, Page A-6 Ryan Garner/The Daily Journal See UNSTABLE, Page A-6 Debate on wetland plant concludes, more debates to come By Claudia Reed officials, staff and consultants agreed double as a bird sanctuary and hiking that must extend the city's expired lenge to decisions by water board The Willits News to meet again at 6 p.m. Wednesday, trail is the “preferred alternative,” water permit for the existing treat- staff as “long odds, but not impossi- A meeting that was supposed to August 16, in city hall chambers for but advised the city might not have ment plant. ble.” end about 8:30 p.m. dragged on until a closer look at what it might mean the time and money needed “to fight Chris Neary, attorney for the “I like to fight the good fight, but after 11 p.m. Monday, as city staff, to challenge the agencies standing in the good fight.” Brooktrails Community Services I like to win fights, too,” said city officials, and a host of legal and the way the proposed plant. The North Coast Regional Water District, which uses the city's waste- Councilman Ron Orenstein. technical advisors discussed whether City Manager Ross Walker agreed Quality Control Board, which origi- water treatment plant, provided a 15- A similar battle for a wetland- or not to defend a proposed wetland- the wetland system, which would nally encouraged the wetland-based page Memorandum of Opinion and based system in Arcata, which has based wastewater treatment plant. reduce energy use to negligible, need project, then did an about-face after a 10-page supplement on a pro bono After more than five hours, city few repairs for the next 40 years, and personnel change, is also the agency basis. He rated a successful chal- See DEBATE, Page A-6 PENSKE UKIAH CALL NOW TRUCK RENTAL @ Storage 468-0800 A-2 – MONDAY, AUG. 7, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The world briefly Suspected Phoenix serial Looming cease- fighting to demand that Israel attacks, a community that killers took turns at trigger pull its forces out of the coun- believes widely discredited fire spurs Israel, try once hostilities end and ideas about what happened on By CHRIS KAHN type, he may have been the tal. Hezbollah to step hand over its positions to U.N. Sept. 11, 2001, persists and The Associated Press follower who got himself in a A few minutes later, police peacekeepers. even thrives. Members trade PHOENIX — The gunmen situation and just kept going say, the duo shot a 17-year-old up attacks The draft resolution circu- their ideas on the Internet and took turns as they drove because the reality was creat- in the back while he was KFAR GILADI, Israel lated Saturday by the United in self-published papers and around the city. ed by the dominant partner,” walking along a street. (AP) — A defiant Hezbollah States and France made no in books. About 500 of them Some nights it was Samuel she said. “That happens in After targeting people and pounded northern Israel with mention of an Israeli with- attended a recent conference John Dieteman, a burly elec- team killings quite often.” animals across Phoenix and rockets Sunday after rejecting drawal. It calls for “a full ces- in Chicago. trician with a ragged mop of Until last week, investiga- its suburbs on the west side, a U.S.-French truce proposal, sation of hostilities” based on The movement claims to be jet black hair. According to tors had no idea who was the attackers moved east. court documents, he’d blast at responsible for the late-night Early on the morning of killing at least 15 people. “the immediate cessation by drawing fresh energy and attacks. They didn’t know if July 22, they found a man in Israel also struck hard, killing Hezbollah of all attacks and credibility from a recently lone pedestrians from the win- dow of a silver Toyota Camry the attacks were committed by his 30s riding his bicycle in 14 in Lebanon as both sides the immediate cessation by formed group called Scholars in what he called “random one person or more, and Mesa.