Friday Local Happenings This Weekend
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Halloween Bash COMMUNITY at Speedway Friday Local happenings this weekend .................................Page A-3 ..........Page A-6 Oct. 24, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Saturday: Sunny H 85º L 41º 7 58551 69301 0 Sunday: Mostly sunny H 83º L 42º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 36 pages, Volume 150 Number 198 email: [email protected] CALSTAR soon Growing Our Own changing location at Ukiah airport ‘We are proceeding,’ and Sacramento. Owen said other organiza- airport manager says tions had expressed concern By ROB BURGESS over the base’s current loca- The Daily Journal tion. Ukiah Airport Manager “The reason was that Greg Owen has confirmed Caltrans about five years ago that CALSTAR IV will soon determined the location of be moving its headquarters to CALSTAR to be unsafe,” he a different location on the said. “The close proximity to property. the road and the air blast from “We are proceeding,” he the rotor blades were really said, adding that the Airport close to light aircraft. It actu- Commission “agreed to move ally can make their flight con- the offices to Hangar 9, which trol surfaces malfunction. It is the former DHL hangar just can cause damage to lighter next to Fed Ex. We are pro- aircraft.” ceeding with the permitting.” Owen said the final date for Since its inception in April, the move wasn’t set in stone, 1998, CALSTAR IV, which but that the plans were mov- operates out of the Ukiah ing forward. Airport, has completed more “They’re going to be mov- than 4,000 flights. It serves a ing into the hangar soon,” he region extending approxi- said. “They’re going to get mately 150 miles in diameter new portables. We’re not 100 from Ukiah. CALSTAR as a percent sure when the move whole has been in existence will take place. It may be a for 24 years and also has few months before it’s all bases in South Lake Tahoe, completed.” Vacaville, Auburn, Concord, Rob Burgess can be reached Gilroy, Salinas, Santa Maria at [email protected]. Rickel says UVSD needs independence Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal Keith and Kate Feigin, owners of Lovers Lane Farms, take a break from farming Tuesday afternoon to pose with their honey on a hillside on their to deal with issues farm in Ukiah. At right, Keith pulls a screen full of hard working honey bees from one of his honey bee boxes while harvesting honey off of East He’s one of seven Calpella Road last Friday. candidates running for five seats on Lovers Lane Farms: Couple board in election By ROB BURGESS started with honey, added pigs The Daily Journal For the second time this By SARAH BALDIK area. They are Tamworth pigs and were year, Jimmy Rickel is asking The Daily Journal imported from Washington State. The for your vote. Keith and Kate Feigin, owners of Tamworth pigs are an older breed, more Rickel is one of the seven Lovers Lane Farms, walk into the fenced- closely related to wild pigs than the com- Ukiah Valley Sanitation in yard on their family property on mercial breed used for meat. They gener- District candidates vying for Lovers Lane. Immediately, juvenile goats ally have the ability to grow more body the five open spots on the bal- run up to them and the pigs in their pens mass with less fat. “The plan is to diver- lot next month. Jimmy Rickel start to grunt a loud approval. sify our revenue stream with (the) pigs,” “I think the Sanitation “We are building a fence for them to Keith said. They chose this particular having an independently District, like many other dis- elected board,” he said. pasture as soon as we can,” Kate says as breed because their natural behavior has- tricts, has a lot of issues that she points to the pigs. “This is just tem- n’t been bred out of them. They forage haven’t been addressed by not See RICKEL, Page A-8 porary.” Their three pigs are a rare breed to the See FARM, Page A-10 TOP 5 ONLINE PumpkinFest contests yield 20-foot cornstalks in Ukiah winners, city Wednesday By ZACK CINEK they were stunted by the heat.” The Daily Journal One of the largest stalks has a circum- 1. One dead after announces Redwood Valley post office clerk ference of 6.5 inches. Ears of corn on the The Daily Journal Jeremy Bigelow grows corn 20 feet tall behemoth stalks are about 16 inches dispute at marijuana The city of Ukiah on in an unlikely garden space so small you long. Roots of the corn sprouted from the operation Wednesday announced the could barely park a motorcycle in it. stalks several feet above the ground and winners of the 2008 Bigelow cultivated his colossal corn are about .25 inches in diameter and 3 2. Five arrested in PumpkinFest cooking con- from a patch of dirt on the edge of a park- inches long. Branscomb drug bust tests. ing lot, behind a dumpster and between Over the five months that the corn has In the Creative Pumpkin two fences in a Ukiah neighborhood. been in the ground, Bigelow said he gave 3. Ukiah Mervyns to Baked Goods division, the Measured with a tape measure, the it water and fertilizer. Bigelow has now close its doors this only rule was that pumpkin tallest of the corn stalks had grown to positioned one-gallon milk jugs around must be one of the ingredi- heights of 19 feet-plus to about 20 feet the base of the stalks to protect them fall ents. Tammy Kuny took first Wednesday afternoon. from frost. place with her four-layer “Hopefully we can get something big- 4. Single vehicle crash pumpkin cake in the Creative ger for next year,” Bigelow said. “I think See CORN, Page A-8 closes Hwy 1 Pumpkin category. Angela Johnsen scored Michael Hooker/ The Daily Journal 5. Drug raids result in second place with a pumpkin On a small piece of dirt surrounded by an asphalt parking lot and a cheesecake with gingersnap trash receptacle grows possibly the tallest cornstalks in town. Using a arrest of seven crust. 30-foot tape Wednesday afternoon gave us proof of their spectacular ukiahdailyjournal.com height of 20 feet tall. See WINNERS, Page A-10 463-6729 www.downtownukiah.com Comedy Alley this Saturday for more info A-2 – FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] POLICE REPORTS LAW FIRM OF PHILIP M. VANNUCCI The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah LITIGATION Police Department. To anonymously report crime information, call • Business • Divorce • Real Property 463-6205. ARREST -- A 17-year-old Ukiah boy was arrested on 462-0900 suspicion of driving under the 201 N. State St., Ukiah influence in the 600 block of South State Street at 11:08 p.m. Wednesday. Watch Repair BIKRAM YOGA SHERIFF’S REPORTS UKIAH The following were compiled from reports Need a watch battery How Good prepared by the Mendo- or watch band? cino County Sheriff’s Could You Office: Stop By today... BOOKED -- David Lloyd Laughlin, 59, of Upper Lake, D. William Jewelers Feel? was booked into jail by the Pear Tree Center California Highway Patrol on 462-4636 HotYogaUkiah.com suspicion of transportation of marijuana, possession of mar- Mercer, 38, of Fire Rock, was Remember to carry a flash- In Loving Memory of ijuana for sale and child booked into jail by the light if you trick-or-treat and endangerment at 7:41 a.m. Mendocino County Sheriff’s to be aware of children run- Car Wash Tuesday. Office on suspicion of cultiva- ning around. The CHP also Glenn Gray BOOKED -- Raymond tion of marijuana and posses- reminds drivers and pedestri- 859 N. State Street 1952 – 2006 Michael Denny, 61, of Ukiah, sion of marijuana for sale at ans that clocks will soon be 462-4472 was booked into jail by the 6:57 p.m. Tuesday. rolling back one hour when California Highway Patrol on BOOKED -- Edward Daylight Saving Time ends $3.00 off suspicion of driving under the Albert Norton, 40, of Nov. 2. CAR WASH influence at 10:13 a.m. Redwood Valley, was booked EVERY into jail by the Mendocino You are the brightest star in my universe Tuesday. TUESDAY shining always as you fly with the angels. BOOKED -- Shalene Gina Major Crimes Task Force on CORRECTIONS Gwenlynn Peake, 18, of Nice, suspicion of possession of a The Ukiah Daily Journal was booked into jail by the weapon and possession of reserves this space to correct California Highway Patrol on marijuana for sale at 8:04 p.m. errors or make clarifications to FUNERAL NOTICES suspicion of possession of Tuesday. news articles. Significant errors in Those arrested by law enforcement obituary notices or birth marijuana for sale and trans- officers are innocent until proven guilty. [\ years in San Diego Schools. of Redwood Valley, son portation of marijuana at 8:45 People reported as having been arrest- announcements will result in ALLENE E. STRONG She kept the Frank Strong of Rancho p.m. Tuesday. ed may contact the Daily Journal once reprinting the entire article. Errors Funeral services for books for her husband’s Murieta, CA, sister Nettie BOOKED -- Debra Ann their case has been concluded so the may be reported to the editor, 468- Allene E. Strong of Ukiah business, played pia- Hagar of San Die- results can be reported.