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Community RELIGION sports digest Saturday Faith community news .............Page 6 July 15, 2006 ...................................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Temps to 104 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Still sizzling 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 97 email: [email protected] City asks residents to conserve while electric still under repair Or rolling blackouts Substation left many in Ukiah with- substation can handle. Liz Kirkley, electrical distribution the buswork -- aluminum tubing that out power for upwards of two hours “We’re asking people to conserve engineer for the city said she did not electrically connects different sec- may be necessary Thursday afternoon, and the substa- energy,” Horsley said. “If they don’t, know when the system would be tions of the substation -- were By KATIE MINTZ tion in need of repair. or the load is too high, we’ll have to back up and running as normal. On already available at the substation. According to City Manager shut down power in areas for two Friday afternoon, repair crews were Horsley said crews worked at the The Daily Journal The City of Ukiah Electric Candace Horsley, crews will be hours at a time.” still trying to locate a part needed to substation until 2 a.m. Friday, and Department is urging customers to working over the weekend to replace The two-hour increments spread replace one that had been damaged, a returned later in the day. An engineer reduce electric usage after damage to damaged equipment, but in order to across the city in segments would task that was proving difficult from a company in Yuba City that buswork at the Gobbi Street do so, certain units will need to be reduce the load enough to keep the because of the substation’s age. taken down, limiting the load the rest of the city with power. All other parts needed to repair See ELECTRIC, Page 15 ELECTIONS 2006 “She will trade a trip to Marine World to come here for a hour.” - Parent Ruth Johnson. Camejo wants place in debates Challenges Greens on polls too the North By JOSH RICHMAN Coast The Oakland Tribune MediaNewsGroup Green gubernatorial candi- 4.98 % date Peter Camejo just can’t Mendocino Co. get any respect. 2nd highest in state He filed a Fair Political Practices Commission com- 5.74 % plaint this week over his Humboldt Co. exclusion from a recent poll, Highest registration which he calls discriminatory. in California And he’s gone public about his struggle for a podium at this fall’s League of Women wage laws and defending Voters gubernatorial debates. workers’ rights; providing Camejo, 66, of Folsom, universal health care; ending whose background is in the death penalty and abolish- socially responsible invest- ing the three-strikes sentenc- ment advising, ran for gover- ing law; and increasing educa- nor on the Green ticket in tion funding while reducing 2002, earning 5.3 percent of the emphasis on testing. Rick Huffman, a volunteer with the T.R.A.I.L. program, walks beside Gregory Gonzalez during a rid- the vote, and again in 2003’s His FPPC complaint notes ing session at Ridgewood Ranch. The therapeutic riding program, which was started in 1993, recall election, finishing the Survey and Policy helps physically and mentally challenged individuals make positive changes in their lives by fourth in a field of 135 with Research Institute at San Jose teaching riding skills as a means to mental and physical well being. 2.8 percent. He also was the State University conducted a 2004 vice-presidential run- June 26-30 poll asking, “If the ning mate of independent election were held today, presidential candidate Ralph would you vote for Gov. Nader. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Therapy in the saddle His platform includes enacting statewide living See GREENS, Page 2 A riding program for disabled kids NCRA signs new By LAURA MCCUTCHEON The Daily Journal Ridgewood TRAIL Riders Association doesn’t horse agreement with port around, but the young equestrians participating in the By JOHN DRISCOLL connection between the rail- therapeutic riding program are all smiles. The Eureka Times-Standard road and the port as vital to “It’s great. I really, really love it,” Misty Allenbaugh EUREKA -- The North reviving the railroad, and vice said of the Ridgewood TRAIL Riders Association, Coast Railroad Authority versa. located on Ridgewood Ranch in Willits. adopted an agreement with The memorandum pledges “They (instructors) are patient, the horses are really the Humboldt Bay Harbor, to jointly work toward good and it gives the children something to have self Recreation and Conservation reopening the rail line, toward confidence about. They are on this big huge animal and District this week, a partner- improving marine infrastruc- they are telling them what to do,” she said, as she ship it believes will help ture, and toward diversifying watched her 7-year-old daughter, Maranda, ride around secure funding for improving the commodities shipped into the arena on Woody, an Appaloosa pony. a trade corridor into Humboldt Bay. After about 45 minutes in the arena, where the Above, T.R.A.I.L. head instructor, Ellen Humboldt County. The railroad recently young riders -- with the help of their instructors -- Bartholomew, gives a high five to Maranda The memorandum of signed on a new operator, the essentially exercise on the horses, they all hit the trail, Allenbaugh after a riding session on Friday understanding would establish Northwestern Pacific Railroad which travels over a creek, alongside cattle pastures morning. Below, Huffman watches as T.R.A.I.L. a working relationship Co. One of the investors in the student Victor Cardona maneuvers his horse between the two agencies, company, John Williams, was “Woody” around barrels. Cardona, one of the said authority Executive on hand at the signing. He more independent students, is able to ride Director Mitch Stogner. That said the company is interested bareback with little assistance. could be particularly helpful if in moving forward, and said a $19.9 billion transportation that one partner in the group is and into a Redwood grove. bond is approved by voters in particularly focused on devel- TRAIL -- Teaching Riding as an Access to November, he said. oping the Island Mountain Independence and Learning -- is a therapeutic riding Provisions in the bond deal quarry site, which the rail line program which uses horseback riding to help improve with trade corridors, including would serve. the lives of those who are challenged physically, men- those for freight. Also at the meeting at the tally, socially, and emotionally. According to the pro- Authority board director Humboldt County gram’s literature, “therapeutic riding” provides “a Hal Wagenet, the Mendocino Supervisors Chambers, unique and holistic approach to therapy, rehabilitation County supervisor who repre- Eureka Fire Department and recreation.” sents Mendocino County on Assistant Chief Rick Bennett The riding program can be helpful to people with a the board, said he believed a asked the authority to devise a variety of conditions including disabilities categorized relationship between the two plan to maintain the rail line - as orthopedic, neurological, and a broad range of oth- entities would bring them - remove weeds and trash -- ers. both more influence. through Eureka. The county The children use muscles they don’t normally use in “This is part of a much sheriff's work program has their day-to-day activities, Allenbaugh said, noting for larger center of gravity that been dealing with the mainte- example, they squeeze with their knees, kick with their will draw the railroad up nance, which Bennett said is feet, and use their upper arms and hands, as well. through the canyon,” he said. not a long-term solution. “And, they get to go on a trail ride and be outdoors The Northwestern Pacific “I enforce these require- Railroad has been shut down ments on all property own- See RIDING, Page 2 since winter rains in 1997 and ers,” Bennett said. 1998 wiped out the line in the Director John Woolley Eel River Canyon. Some see a asked staff to draft a plan. 2 – SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ away at Valley View on two brothers. daughter of Cliford & Ce- Wednesday, July 12, A visitation will be held celia Snider, passed away 2006. Marie was born in on Monday, July 17, July 7, 2006, at Israeli missiles destroy Beirut home Ukiah April 23, 1908. 2006 from 9-12:30 at the the age of 76. She was the Marie was a member of Eversole Mortuary. beloved mother and office of Hezbollah’s leader the Ukiah Emblem A funeral service will take of Bill White of Long BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel destroyed the home and Club and the Calvary place at the Calva- Beach, CA and Donice office of Hezbollah’s leader Friday and tightened its seal on Baptist Church for 26 ry Baptist Church at 2:00 Parsegian of Rohnert Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world to years. She is survived by PM on Monday, July Park, CA; grandmother punish the guerrilla group — and with it, the country — for the her sisters Elervia 17, 2006 with Pastor David to Vicki Gilbert and Jay capture of two Israeli soldiers. Mertle and Della Donnell officiat- Parsegian, both of Hezbollah’s Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said “You wanted an Crettenden, brother Albert ing. Burial will follow at Rohnert Park, CA. open war and we are ready for an open war,” addressing Israelis Costa, step son Melvin the Ukiah Cemetery.