Eagles lose Pet of LOCAL in double the week Cohousing concept coming overtime ............Page A-3 .........Page B-1 ..................................Page A-1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Cloudy with showers 7 58551 69301 0 MONDAY Nov. 20, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 225 email: [email protected] PG&E Man botches HONORING ELDERS swept Eel River off rocks accord Company diverted found more water Body located than allowed after more than By JOHN DRISCOLL 12-hour search The Eureka Times-Standard By ZACK SAMPSEL The Pacific Gas and The Daily Journal Electric Co. for nearly two After searching more than years has diverted substantial- 12 hours, the Mendocino ly more water from the Eel County Sheriff’s Department River to the Russian River Sunday recovered the body of than is allowed in a license Eddie Yu, hometown agreement negotiated over unknown, who was swept off two decades. the rocks while fishing The discrepancy wasn't Saturday near the Mendocino discovered until this summer, Headlands in Noyo River. when the California According to the U.S. Department of Fish and Game Coast Guard, Humboldt Bay reviewed the schedule of station received a call at 2:30 diversions made by the com- p.m. Saturday that Yu had pany's Potter Valley Project. been swept off the rocks. Air PG&E fessed up to the prob- Station Humboldt Bay and lem, and even recently con- Station Noyo River were the tacted the media about the first groups to respond to the conversation taking place call and launched an HH65 among regulators. helicopter and a 47 foot long Unlike nearly every other lifeboat. river diversion system in the Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal West, the Potter Valley “Jasmine Flower,” a Chinese dance performance, is given by students during Honoring Elders Day. See FOUND, Page A-8 Project does not have real- time gauges that show how it's being operated. That infor- Lake Ada mation isn't made public until a year later. Such a monitor- Youngsters offer respect Rose plan ing system won't be in place By KATIE MINTZ until December 2007 at least, The Daily Journal and only the agencies have The dining hall at the City of outlined immediate access to the infor- 10,000 Buddhas was packed late mation. By MIKE A’DAIR Saturday morning, but not by The Willits News The Federal Energy Instilling Goodness Elementary and Regulatory Commission The Mendocino County Developing Virtue Secondary School supervisors have voted unani- amended PG&E's license for students. the project in 2004, after mously to permit the county Gathered at tables, instead, were Department of Transportation about 20 years of wrangling their elders and honorees for the over diversions to the East to work with Brooktrails City’s annual “Honoring Elders Township General Manager Branch of the Russian River Day.” for grape growers and flows Mike Chapman in his efforts More than 200 people attended the to solve Brooktrails water to the Eel River for salmon free event that included lunch, served and steelhead. The commis- shortage problems. primarily by students, and a variety Chapman told supervisors sion is now looking into the of performances. compliance of the project he has come much of the way According to Heng Yin, girls’ towards beginning work on a since 2004. school principal, the City’s founder -- “We're reviewing the alle- project to expand Lake Ada the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua -- Rose, the smaller of two gations,” said FERC spokes- started the celebration more than a woman Celeste Miller. reservoirs in Brooktrails. The decade ago and like events are held project’s initial design has Between 5 billion and 13 at other Dharma Realm Buddhist billion gallons of water that Students in the Instilling Goodness Elementary school at The been completed and project Association branches across the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas perform “The Song of funding is in place, Chapman would have flowed down the country. Eel River were instead divert- Enlightenment” during the annual Honoring Elders Day on said. All that remains is secur- ed through the project, on Saturday. Over 200 people attended the free event to promote ing the necessary permits. See ELDER, Page A-8 respect for elders. See PGE, Page A8 See LAKE, Page A-8 City ‘sphere’ debated Cohousing concept coming to Ukiah By KATIE MINTZ By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal The Daily Journal As it stands, the City of Ukiah’s sphere of influence -- By November 2008, a handful of peo- defined by California government code as “a plan for the ple hope to move into what would be probable physical boundaries and service area of a local Ukiah Valley’s first cohousing commu- agency” -- covers nearly all of the valley, running ridgetop nity. to ridgetop and Highway 20 to Burke Hill Road. Louisa Aronow of Redwood Valley, Now, the Ukiah City Council is considering a reduction in fact, is already propagating plants for in it’s sphere. The proposal, which is still open for revision, the site, despite not yet having the land. however, shows a larger sphere than a 1995 proposal that According to Aronow, she and seven was never adopted, adding more hillside land to the west, other individuals are currently in negoti- lands developed or planned for urban development in the ations for about 3.5 acres of land in a south and lands within the Ukiah Valley Sanitation District subdivision just south of Ukiah where in the north. they want to build what she calls an On Wednesday, the Ukiah City Council reviewed the “incredible alternative to the isolation of new proposal’s boundaries, which were formulated by a subcommittee comprised of Mayor Mark Ashiku, See HOUSING, Page A-8 Councilman John McCowen, and Mendocino County Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Supervisors Michael Delbar and Jim Wattenburger. Louisa Aronow (left) and Kambra “The sphere of influence is the area around the city Phoebus look over preliminary that’s outside the city that represents the probable or logi- plans for a 34-unit cohousing cal area the city will grow in the next 20 years,” Ukiah community they hope to build Planning and Community Development Director Charley south of Ukiah. Final plans will be drafted based on input from those See SPHERE, Page A-8 who will live there. Storage, Moving For All Your Storage HAS It And Moving Needs UKIAH and Packing Call Now For Details All... ® STORAGE Supplies, and... TRUCK RENTAL 468-0800 A-2 – MONDAY, NOV. 20, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ Eversole Mortuary. his children Rosemary great granddaughter, ANACLETO “LAYTON” Layton passed away on Lucero and husband Earl Nevaeh Marie Vaca INONG Tuesday, November 14, of Red Bluff, Bobbie Barajas. Numerous nieces Syrian foreign minister urges U.S. A Mass of the Christian 2006 in Windsor, Inong of Ukiah, Barbara and nephews also withdrawal timetable to stop violence Burial will be held for surrounded by his family. Inong of Ukiah, Rudy also survive. Anacleto “Layton” Inong Born July 9, 1913 in Inong and wife Kay of He was preceded in BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Syria’s foreign minister called on Monday, Novem- Sinait, IIocos Sur Philip- Hoopa, Patricia Demp- death by his wife Lor- Sunday for a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces to ber 20, 2006 at 1 pm at St. pines, Layton immigrated sey and husband Brian of raine, step-son Phillip help end Iraq’s sectarian bloodbath, in a groundbreaking diplo- Mary of the An- to the United States Branbridge Island, Rilcapiro and great- matic mission to Iraq that comes amid increasing calls for the gels Catholic Church. at the age of 15. He Washington and Diana grandsons Mario Vaca and U.S. to seek cooperation from Syria and Iran. At least 112 peo- Interment will follow at worked at Harvey’s/Har- McGee and husband Johnny Aguilar. ple were killed nationwide, following a week that had already Ukiah Cemetery. Visitation rah’s Casino in South Theo of Windsor. Twenty- The Eversole Mortuary seen hundreds of deaths. will be on Sunday, Lake Tahoe retiring af- four grandchildren, is in charge of Walid Moallem, the highest level Syrian official to visit since November 19, 2006 from 4 ter 34 years. thirty-six great grandchil- arrangements. the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein, denounced terrorism in pm to 8 pm at the Layton is survived by dren and 1 great- Iraq even as Washington mulled its own overture to Damascus for help in ending Iraq’s violence. Syria and Iraq share a long and porous desert border and both Hernandez, 38, of Ukiah, was South School Street at 8:51 Baghdad and Washington have accused Damascus of not doing POLICE REPORTS arrested on suspicion of dri- p.m. Saturday. CORRECTIONS enough to stop the flow of foreign Arab fighters. The following were ving under the influence at the ARREST -- Dean Spears, The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this Moallem spoke at the end of a day that saw suspected Sunni space to correct errors or make clarifications compiled from reports intersection of Low Gap Road 38, of Ukiah, was arrested on to news articles. Significant errors in obitu- Muslim bombers kill at least 33 Shiites and the kidnapping of a prepared by the Ukiah and North State Street at 1:15 suspicion of driving under the ary notices or birth announcements will deputy health minister — believed the senior-most government Police Department.