Pinches Calls for End to Pot War by KATIE MINTZ End to the War on Marijuana and Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana
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Wildcats finish REMINISCE incredible SUNDAY ‘The House of the Sun’ season ..........Page A-8 June 3, 2007 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Clouds yielding to sunshine Tuesday: Mostly sunny and breezy $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 52 pages, Volume 149 Number 55 email: [email protected] Pinches calls for end to pot war By KATIE MINTZ end to the war on marijuana and regulation and taxation of marijuana. Wants to send letter to state The Daily Journal finally embrace its commercial BOARD OF SUPERVISORS In Mendocino County, Pinches and federal officials calling In a place lauded for its wine value. says conflicts between state and fed- for legalization, regulation grapes but notorious for its other On Tuesday, 3rd District ter to area state and federal legisla- eral regulations, compounded by cash crop, one Mendocino County Supervisor John Pinches will ask fel- tors, and even President George W. and taxation of marijuana supervisor says it’s time to put an low boardmembers to endorse a let- Bush, supporting the legalization, See PINCHES, Page A-14 County seeks to help EMS 2007 MENDOCINO LITERARY FESTIVAL providers By MIKE A’DAIR The Willits News Efforts to shore up sagging ambulance ser- vice providers and local fire departments are one of two remaining sore spots in the county’s proposed 2007-2008 budget. During a recent budget workshop, county staff told the supervisors that the draft budget is coming into focus and that, while there are some unknowns and some concerns, it appears that the county can meet its obligations and goals without major belt-tightening. The good news is that the county spent some $2.5 million less than it budgeted for this year, and that it will have that amount as a car- ryover fund balance. The other good news is that projected income for next year will be up about $1 million. The bad news (budgetarily but not social- ly) is that the county will be spending an extra $4 million to $5 million on employee wages and benefits over the next fiscal year Never- theless, according to Chief Operations Officer Alison Glassey, the budget is close to being balanced. In a private discussion on Tuesday, Glassey said that new priorities of the board might knock the budget out of balance. “Without new priorities of the board, we have a balanced budget,” Glassey said. “But if they want to augment any of those things, obviously we’ll have to transfer those funds MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal from somewhere else.” Composing on typewriters, flash poets (from right to left) Armando Brint, Paolo Firreira and Theresa Whitehill com- One of those fiscal rough spots concerns pose their works from donated words. how the board will help emergency medical service (EMS) providers (otherwise known as ambulance companies) as well as the county’s rural fire districts. At the Monday meeting, the county’s Flash poetry a highlight of LitFest administrative staff came to the board with a By BEN BROWN She recalled one couple who had proposal that the county give the Coastal The Daily Journal See Monday’s edition for images requested a poem about their refrigerator. Valleys EMS Agency $100,000 and an organi- June, blue moon. Apparently, they had bought the appliance zation of county fire districts $200,000 in Three words written on a Post-it note of LitFest from a child’s point of view. long ago when they started dating and it financial help. that local poet Theresa Whitehall promises recently stopped working. However, at that workshop, both organiza- she can turn into a poem in under five min- Whitehall said she got the idea from “It had just died,” Whitehall said. “They tions told the board that the proposed largess utes. This is flash poetry at the Mendocino some friends on the coast and has been were in mourning.” would not be enough. The EMS group said LitFest. writing flash poetry at the Gualala Acorn Asked why she used a typewriter, they needed $200,000 and the fire folks said Whitehall sits in the sun, writing on a Festival for years with proceeds going to Whitehall had any number of answers. they wanted $500,000. manual typewriter. The sharp report of the benefit the Acorn School. “What am I going to do with a laptop out Both of these higher figures were strongly keys cuts through the soft murmur of con- The proceeds of Saturday’s poetry will here,” she joked. supported by Jim Wattenburger, who reminded versation on the Quad at Mendocino go to offset the costs of production for Whitehall said the typewriter allows her the board members that they had made a com- College. LitFest. Each poem costs $5, but Whitehall to quickly hand over the finished product. mitment last November to both agencies. “You have to be brave,” she said. “You said no reasonable contribution would be “I can assure you that I am damn frustrated, have to trust your intuition.” turned away. after two-and-a- half years of working on this See POETRY, Page A-14 See EMS, Page A-13 3rd-graders get real-life lessons in Junior Achievement class By LAURA MCCUTCHEON teers to do so. a restaurant,” Myer said. “For The Daily Journal “It really is a neat curriculum. instance, where is my restaurant Frank Zeek third-graders this After the first time I taught a going to be, what kind of food last week opened restaurants, class I was sold. The kids love it. will I serve, what kind of people read blueprints, and wrote and ... It’s a great way for them to will I hire, how much money do I designed their own newspaper, start thinking about what kind of need to make to cover my among other real- life lessons job they want, and what kind of expenses and how will I adver- offered through the Junior education they will need for that tise.” Achievement program. job,” Myer said. Which led up to Friday’s Junior Achievement Inc. is a “We started on Tuesday, and assignment -- when the students nonprofit organization financed we learned about city planning in Dara Spears’ class got a crash by businesses, foundations and and zoning, and on Wednesday course in newspaper reporting. individuals. Its purpose is to edu- we learned about the importance of building the buildings, how to cate and inspire youth to value See LESSONS, Page A-14 free enterprise, business and eco- read blueprints, and they got to nomics to improve the quality of color their own pop-up buildings their lives, states the organiza- and name them. Then we said MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal tion, which was founded in 1919. ‘OK, take your building and put Third-graders Carolina Tor- Local State Farm Insurance it on the map in the proper zone.’ res, left, and Brianna Conley agent and South Ukiah Rotarian ... (Thursday) we worked in listen to Junior Achieve- Carol Myer, took up teaching the groups and pretended we were ment teacher Carol Myer, Junior Achievement class a few opening a restaurant, so the kids who is explaining the differ- years ago after someone came to got to think about all the things ent sections of a newspa- the Rotary Club seeking volun- you’d think about when opening per. A-2 – SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES 4 charged in terror plot to blow up airport [\ Associated Press tards.” “We have no interest in blowing up KAYONI Michelle Vines, cousins NEW YORK — Four Muslim men He was in custody in Brooklyn and anything in the U.S.,” she said Saturday ZACCARIA Vanessa Sisneroz, Eloy were foiled from carrying out a plot to was expected to be arraigned Saturday from the couple’s home in Guyana. “We CARLSON Sisneroz, Dominique destroy John F. Kennedy International afternoon. have relatives in the U.S.” Kayoni Mitchell, Candace Mitchell, Airport, kill thousands of people and trig- Two other men, Abdul Kadir of Investigators received information was born Alex Mitchell, Nicolas ger an economic catastrophe by blowing Guyana and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, about the plot in January 2006, according in Castro Mitchell, Tietta Mitchell, up a jet fuel artery that runs through pop- were in custody in Trinidad. A fourth to the indictment. Valley, CA Kip Davis, Kayla Vines, ulous residential neighborhoods, authori- man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still Buckeye spokesman Roy Haase said onAngel Baca, Gary Barnes, ties said Saturday. being sought in Trinidad. the company, which moves petroleum November and Marisol Barnes. She is Three men were arrested and one was The suspects believed explosives through pipelines in a number of states, 5, 1989 to survived by many other lov- being sought in Trinidad on Saturday. In could ignite the pipeline at JFK and had been informed of the threat from the Diane Zaccaria and ing caring relatives and an indictment charging the four men, one destroy the airport and parts of Queens, beginning. Kenneth Caracal. She died friends. She is also survived of them is quoted as saying the plot where the line runs underground, accord- “Given the nature of Buckeye business on May 28, 2007 in Waco, by her pet dog Angel! would “cause greater destruction than in ing to the indictment. and the importance of this transportation Texas where she lived with Kayoni will be available the Sept. 11 attacks.” The pipeline, owned by Buckeye network, we have an intense and ongoing Shirley Ceja and Leda Pena for viewing on Sunday, One of the suspects, Russell Defreitas, Pipeline Co., takes fuel from a facility in communications relationship with the and their families.