Mendo women Rotarians plan ON THE MARKET fall to Solano Super Bowl bash Guide to local real estate .............Page A-6 ............Page A-3 ......................................Inside INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Rain High 45º Low 41º 7 58551 69301 0 FRIDAY Jan. 25, 2008 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 38 pages, Volume 149 Number 251 email: [email protected] Storm may bring snow to valley floor By ZACK SAMPSEL but with low pressure systems from and BEN BROWN Local agriculture not expected to sustain damage the Gulf of Alaska moving in one The Daily Journal after another the cycle remains the A second round of winter storms the valley floor, but the weather is not the county will experience scattered ing routine for some Mendocino same each day. lining up to hit Mendocino County expected to be a threat to agriculture. showers today with more mountain County residents. The previous low pressure system today is expected to bring more rain, According to reports from the snow to the north in higher eleva- Slight afternoon warmups have cold temperatures and snow as low as National Weather Service, most of tions, which has been the early-morn- helped to make midday travel easier, See STORM, Page A-12 GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM READIES NEW EXHIBIT Kucinich’s wife cancels planned stop in Hopland By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal Hey, guess what? Kucinich quits Elizabeth Kucinich is coming to Mendocino campaign for County. Wait. Hold on. No, White House actually she isn’t. Associated In what should be a Press familiar tale to perennial- Democrat ly disappointed support- Dennis Kuci- ers of Democratic presi- nich is aban- dential aspirant Rep. doning his sec- Dennis Kucinich (D- ond, long-shot Ohio), a scheduled ap- bid for the pearance by the congress- White House as man’s wife has once he faces a again been announced tough fight to and then subsequently hold onto his canceled. other job — Kucinich Elizabeth Kucinich U.S. congress- had been slated to make man. an appearance at a cam- In an interview with paign meet-and-greet Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, the MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday six-term House member said he An untitled piece by Mike Rodriguez is ready for viewing at the Grace Hudson Museum Thursday.The at the Real Goods Solar was quitting the race and would museum’s new exhibit, “Sing me your story, dance me home,” opens Sunday. Living Institute in make a formal announcement Hopland. on Friday. The appearance, not “I will be announcing that the event, was almost I’m transitioning out of the ‘Sing me your story, dance me home’ assuredly scrapped Thursday ahead of an See KUCINICH, Page A-10 By ZACK SAMPSEL artists discussing their announcement at a The Daily Journal work. Visitors will be planned Friday press con- able to access the tour ference that Kucinich was challenge to his re-election to hen “Sing me by calling a number to cease campaigning for the Congress were listed as rea- your story, from their cellphones Democratic presidential nom- sons for the announcement by W dance me while in the museum. ination. For those who don’t home,” opens Sunday at Money woes and a stiff See HOPLAND, Page A-10 the Grace Hudson have a cellphone, a Museum, it won’t just limited number of mp3 be the first exhibit of players are available for Native American art to the audio tour. But With or without you feature poetry at the access doesn’t stop museum, but also the inside the museum, as Whether or not Elizabeth Kucinich actually shows up, first exhibit you can the audio tour is an event in support of her husband’s presidential bid is still visit over the phone. accessible from land scheduled to take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the “This is an exhibit lines throughout the Real Goods Solar Living Institute in Hopland. that is meant to be seen area. and heard,” said Although cellphones Director Sherrie Smith- Jen Lyon checks for level on “Edge of Earth People: and museums don’t Ferri, who is a member Protecting Ourselves,” a painting by Frank Lapena. typically go hand in of the Dry Creek Pomo hand, Smith-Ferri said Indians as well as the Bodega Miwok. she expects it to be a successful venture. “Sing me your story, dance me home” is a collection “We don’t police the cell phone use in here much AT THE of contemporary art and poetry from more than 30 anyway,” Smith-Ferri said as she laughed at the thought artists. Accompanying the display will be an audio tour, of a museum filled with people on their phones. “I think which visitors can listen to while browsing. The audio MISS tour will feature poets reading their poems as well as See EXHIBIT, Page A-10 AMERICA Felon arrested twice in domestic case PAGEANT Witnesses say he punched wife in Jones had allegedly been beating his wife Tabitha Busch, 40, of Ukiah, had sup- and was armed with a pistol. plied Jones with the pistol, according to IN LAS face, threatened her with gun; Witnesses to the incident told officers police reports. second woman investigated for that Jones had punched his wife in the At 5 p.m. Wednesday, UPD officers allegedly providing weapon face, drawn a pistol he had tucked into served a search warrant on Busch’s home VEGAS the waistband of his jeans and threatened at 701 Boonville Road and allegedly The Daily Journal her with it, according to UPD reports. found the pistol Jones used in the alleged A Ukiah man who was arrested on Officers found Jones and searched domestic assault, as well as additional domestic violence charges Saturday but him, finding ammunition but not a gun. ammunition. Dirk Wunderlich/special to The Daily Journal who later posted bail was arrested again Jones was arrested on charges of domes- On Thursday, UPD officers again Melissa Chaty, Miss California 2007, right, is busy in Thursday after Ukiah Police officers tic violence and being a felon in posses- arrested Jones, this time on suspicion of Las Vegas, where Miss America pageant contestants found the gun he is alleged to have used sion of ammunition. He was booked into being a felon in possession of a firearm, have been rehearsing and making appearances for in the attack. the Mendocino County Jail but posted committing a felony while armed and the past week. Early this week, the contestants According to UPD reports, the sus- bail shortly thereafter and was released. making terrorist threats, He was booked walked the runway at the Fashion Show Mall in Las pect, Tony Jones, 34, of Ukiah, was first An emergency protective order was into county jail. Vegas. After the show, all the contestants were avail- arrested on Lockwood Drive at around obtained for Jones’ wife, police said. Busch is currently under investigation able for autographs as their fans formed long lines. 2:40 p.m. Saturday. Officers had Further investigation by UPD as to her involvement in this incident, See Sunday’s Daily Journal for more photos of Chaty, a Ukiah res- responded to the home on reports that Detective Chris Long revealed that police said. ident, and a full report on the Miss America pageant. A-2 – FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ Harrington Jr., Jim Har- Ind. attire, listening to Memorial Gardens Chapel. Manuel Genabe of the husband Cenon rington & Joe Harrington Nickatina on his ipod. Consuelo passed Phil., Paz Victoria Dalistan Perez , an English profes- all of Ukiah, and Thomas’s quote on life away on Wednesday, and her husband sor on April 9,1971 aunt Shelia Lancaster of was “The only way of January 16, 2008 at Isagani Dalistan of Ukiah, at the age of 69, daughter AZ, along with nu- discovering the limits of the her daughter’s home sur- Lina P. Vitan and Sonia P. Levy, merous cousins, relatives & possible, is to rounded by her fami- her husband Danilo Vitan. grandchildren Dennis friends. venture a little way past ly. Son Jose Perez Genabe, Gary Genabe Thomas will forever be them into the impos- Born July 6,1913 in the and her wife Erlinda Perez. and Raymond Genabe. remembered as the sible.” Thomas will never Philippines, she was Her sister Leoncia Memorial contributions legend that was larger than be forgotten, his an elementary school Falcon 90 years old, her to Phoenix Hospice or life by all those memory & spirit will live teacher and has resid- sister- in- law Lucila St. Mary of the Angels that knew & cared for him. on for eternity. ed in the Ukiah area for 28 Perez and Flora Perez. Her Church. The Eversole He lived life to the Funeral services will be years. She en- grandchildren Mortuary is in charge of THOMAS MARSHALL fullest with no fear, as his held on Saturday joyed home gardening, Maria Vanderhorst and arrangements.Re- LANCASTER hobbies included January 26, 2008 at 2 p.m. sewing and going to husband Derek Van- ception after funeral at Thomas Marshall mobbin’ his 20 inch bicycle at Eversole Mortu- casino. She was proud of derhorst, Perla Gonzalez Danny and Paz’s Lancaster, 16, passed & doing wheelies, ary & the reception will be the fact that she and husband Gen- home at 1327 Laurel away on January 21st, stoppies, backflips & 360’s. held at the Lancas- was a hard working busi- aro Gonzalez, Cenon Perez Avenue, Ukiah.