North Ukiah Weekend FORUM All-Stars prevail entertainment Our readers write .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ..................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Low clouds, sunshine 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY July 6, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 88 email:
[email protected] Noxious FOURTH OF JULY thistle Arrests tough Police chaplains on DUI to beat A counselor, a friend, a sounding board increase Starthistle prevalent One fatal highway throughout state, accident locally with our county The Daily Journal at the top of the list The number of arrests for driving under the influence By JAMES ARENS went up and the number of The Daily Journal traffic accident fatalities Mendocino County is tied remained static this year dur- for second place in a race it ing the Fourth of July holiday doesn’t want to win. weekend. “The yellow starthistle is Between 6 p.m. Friday and pretty big here in Mendocino 12 a.m. Wednesday, the Cali- County,” said John M. fornia Highway Patrol Harper, University of observed a Maximum En- California Cooperative forcement Period. This means Extension Livestock/Natural that at all times, 80 percent of Resources adviser. “It’s defi- uniformed personnel were on nitely a problem weed.” the road looking for those The yellow starthistle is a violating the law. noxious, yellow-blossoming In Mendocino County, 11 exotic weed with 1-inch-long people were arrested on sus- spines that’s commonly found picion of driving under the influence during the enforce- See STARTHISTLE, Page 16 ment period.