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Dolphins Mushroom ON THE MARKET excited about Workshop Guide to local real estate Jr. Olympics on Sunday ..........Page A-7 ............Page A-5 ......................................Inside INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny; H 51º L 37º 7 58551 69301 0 FRIDAY Nov. 30, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 48 pages, Volume 149 Number 235 email: [email protected] Food On the Bank WEEKEND OF OLIDAY ALES water drive at A H S $37,200 front... The Daily Journal RV meeting Donations continue to roll in for the Ukiah Daily Journal’s on emergency Holiday Food Bank Fund Drive, and recent donors include: $500, anonymous; to be held $100, Michele Curley; $100, By BEN BROWN Thomas and Janet Martin; The Daily Journal $100, anonymous; $100, The Redwood Valley Water Michael Shapiro; $100, District board voted unani- William and Shirley Hansen; mously Thursday to hold a $50, Sylvia Tendick; $50, public meeting to declare a Rollin and Lorraine Nonne- water emergency in the wake man; $50, Daniel Hibshman; of a regulatory decision that $50, anonymous; $50, Xi Zeta will cut in half its withdrawals Alpha; $40, Virginia Simpson; $30, E and E Koledin; $20, See WATER, Page 14 George and Margaret Rau; $750, Bev Dordahl; $250, Alice M. Zeller; $200, George Supervisors and Svetlana Artemoff; $200, Erin S. Sullivan; $200, anony- to talk water mous; $100, anonymous; $100, anonymous; $100, Terry and conservation Debora McGillivray; $100, By ROB BURGESS John and Jean Slonecker; $100, The Daily Journal Thompson’s Party Rental; The Mendocino County $100, Valley Paving; $100, MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Board of Supervisors is Raymond and Verna Jacobs; scheduled to sit as the $100, Pinell Construction; Marvin Schenck, curator of the Grace Hudson Museum on Main Street, sits at a dining room exhibit that features a Christmas goose meal as it might have looked in the early 20th century. Mendocino County Water $100, Robert and Joan Agency at around 11:15 a.m. Ranochak; $100, Mendocino Tuesday in the board’s cham- County Real Estate Solutions; By ZACK SAMPSEL A Christmas tree composed of nuts is one bers to discuss, among other $50, Edna Arrington; $50, Mr. The Daily Journal of many craft items for sale at the Ukiah things, water conservation. and Mrs. Robert L. Cake; $50, Garden Club on Clay Street. County CEO Tom Mitchell Elsie B. Walker; $50, Chris or those looking to deck the halls for Christmas, this weekend in said the item, which was dis- Crozier; $50, Louis C. Bates, Calder said it was nice to get time with family. cussed by the board last $50, Janet A. Moore; $50, Ukiah will be the pinnacle of Christmas-related sales with events “The thing is, I think it’s just fun for all of month with no action taken, Alverta M. Baylie; $50, Walter F us to get together,” she said with a smile. at the Redwood Empire would be on the agenda and Shirley Madison; $50, Fred “Margery and Taffy are extremely dedicated regardless of the current Schneiter: $50, Charles and Fairgrounds, the Grace Hudson Museum Sun House, the Humane Society for people.” water crisis. Patricia Snyder; $35, Stephen This team of ladies has been making “Any water agency should and Tara Plocher; $30, Maurice Inland Mendocino County, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and the Ukiah Garden Club wreaths most of their lives, but with orders have a water conservation and Donna Roper; $30, John for 60 wreaths alone the team is working program,” he said. “It’s an and Sandy Teie: $25, Suzanne -- all of which are only a sampling of the sales and events throughout the city all weekend. diligently to fill all the orders. People important thing. Every H. Kimpton; $25, Lillian Atkis- interested in placing an order for wreaths or agency should conserve sion; $20, Tom and Lynne The Christmas sales get started bright and early Saturday morning at 9 a.m. at Holy baskets can call Sheryl Mitchum at the water.” Buske; $10, Glen and Mary Humane Society at 485-0123. And for those Concerns about the avail- Donalson; $4,000 anonymous; Trinity Episcopal Church. Inside, the sounds of jingle bells and other Christmas favorites who don’t want to place a preorder, the ability of water have been $500 Credit Bureau of Ukiah, sisters will also be selling their greens at growing since early summer Inc.; $150, anonymous; $100, will fill the air as customers shop for items like cakes, breads, jewelry boxes, paintings Rainbow Ag from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on when the Sonoma County John and Juanona Todd; $100, Saturday, Dec. 8 . Water Agency announced Miles and Libby Gordon; $100, and more. The sale is expected to run from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at 640 S. Orchard Ave. in One of the largest sales taking place this that, without conservation, Floyd A. Ross Jr.; $100, Saturday is the 35th Annual Holiday Crafts water levels in Lake Ingrams Bros Excavating and Ukiah. Although most of the sales begin Saturday, much of Mendocino could drop as low Grading; $100, Mendocino See HOLIDAY, Page A-13 as 8,000 acre-feet by August. Animal Hospital; $100, James the preparation began earlier. At the Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County, located along Uva Drive As of Monday, lake storage G. Armstrong; $50, Mr. and was at 29,982 acre-feet. The Mrs. Jim Menzmer; $50, Pacif- north of Ukiah, a team of four sisters have been working diligently since the day after Thanksgiving to collect maximum capacity is 122,500 ic Internet; $30, John and Laura acre-feet. Reber; $30, Martin and Eliza- supplies and materials for the handmade wreaths, garlands, swags and baskets they sell as a fundraiser for beth Husmann; $30, Elva Wil- See COUNTY, Page A-14 son; $30, Bill and Jo Courtney; the Humane Society. $25, Peter and Laurel Mayland; The wreaths are a product of love and dedication from $25, Carol Cowles - Headlines Taffy Montgomery, Mary McClure, Evelyn Calder and Hair Design; $25, Joan Erik- Margery Clark as the sisters have been converging at the Hwy. 20 sen; $20, J & L Bromley; $20, Humane Society daily in preparation for Christmas. They Terry and Jane Eib. The Fund live in Redwood Valley, Windsor and Cloverdale, and road work Drive total now stands at $37,200. This year’s goal is Bliss the cat lends a helping paw to Taffy $85,000. Montgomery who, together with her three sis- soon done Donations may be sent to: ters, is making wreaths to benefit the Humane UDJ Food Bank Fund Drive, Society of Inland Mendocino County. By BEN BROWN Ukiah Community Center, 888 The Daily Journal N. State St., Ukiah, CA 95482. After more than a year of construction, the project that has consistently closed at least one lane of traffic on Salmon money from feds on the way Highway 20 will soon be complete, according to Got family? The Eureka Times-Standard region also saw a tough year, as fishermen CalTrans representative Phil The state is putting out millions of dollars in weren’t able to keep any fish in the fall. Frisbie Jr. federal relief this week to fishermen and fish- In all, some $60.4 million in aid came down Frisbie said traffic controls ing businesses scarred by the disastrous 2006 from the federal government to be split by fish- salmon season. ermen, fish buyers, processors, tribes and other will be removed within a The season was all but eliminated for North fishing businesses in California and Oregon. week, as construction crews Coast commercial fishermen, and sharply California secured $33 million of that, in what finish up the last of the reduced for Central Coast and Oregon fisher- is only the second fishery disaster every paving. Crews will return to find activities at ukiahdailyjournal.com men, due to a poor run on the Klamath River. declared by the U.S. Department of the site for a few days in Fishing guides and businesses in the Klamath Commerce. See HWY. 20, Page A-14 Great Toys Party Area Superior Clothes children’s shop 463-0628 211 S. State St., Ukiah Locally Owned A-2 – FRIDAY, NOV. 30, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ ters Peggy Sander- Dino lived with his wife, ural causes. church. Jewel enjoyed fish- mer and high school in PATRICK JAMES HEALY son of Shelton, Wa. Pam Mary, and two chil- Robert was adopted into ing, and in later Ukiah, graduating with Patrick James Healy, 61, Kauffman of Wind- dren in Marin County until the Laytonville Tribe years she and Martin were the class of 1940. Through of Redwood Valley sor, Colo. and Kay Fagg of 1967, when they and lived there all his well known for her early years passed away peacefully at Wenatchee, Wa., relocated to Tennessee. He remaining life. He was keeping their friends and she enjoyed her summers home on Saturday, brother Tim Healy of continued to well loved by his communi- neighbors supplied on the Sweeney November 10, 2007. Olympia, Wa. and close work in the grocery indus- ty. He is survived with the crappie they Ranch in Potter Valley, Patrick was born family member Elijah try there until he and by his sisters Bonnie Elliott caught at Caney Creek CA, where her grand- January 5, 1946 in Wilhite. Mary retired to northern of Hopland, Judy dock and Elk Creek on parents were pioneer set- Ritzville, WA. He had lived Patrick was buried California in 1983.