Community Weekend FORUM sports digest entertainment Our readers write .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ..................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Breezy and partly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY July 19, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 149 Number 101 email: [email protected] Horse abuse trial in jury’s hands By BEN BROWN Mendocino County Animal Care and seized from two pieces of coastal The Daily Journal Control? That is the question the jury property in December 2005 by ‘If you don’t feed an animal it will die; if ‘It may have been bad judgment, but he Was James Denoyer a hard-work- was tasked with answering Mendocino County Animal Care and you don’t provide an animal with water has not committed a crime.’ ing and well-meaning horse owner Wednesday as attorneys made their Control. who got in over his head or a callous closing arguments. “If you don’t feed an animal it will it will die.’ animal abuser who hired incompe- Denoyer is on trial for animal KATHERINE HOUSTON, deputy DA STEPHEN TURER, Denoyer’s attorney tent help and did his best to fool abuse in connection with 36 horses See DENOYER, Page 15 STUDENT GARDENERS BUILD SCARECROWS Immediate By ZACK SAMPSEL redeployment The Daily Journal nside the garden at the Ford Street Project, and of troops in amidst the towering stalks of sunflowers, the bushy masses of Iraq sought Itomatoes and the lanky vines Eureka Times-Standard of squash plants, the students North Coast Congress- of the Supportive Education man Mike Thompson, D- class at Ukiah High School St. Helena, introduced a helped make the garden more bill this week to immedi- secure with two homemade ately begin the withdrawal scarecrows. of troops out of Iraq while The Ford Street garden, simultaneously working which is across the street from with the United Nations to the Ford Street Project offices, implement a region-wide is a completely organic garden strategy for containing with all sorts of fruits, Iraq’s civil war. vegetables and herbs. The Thompson and his col- Thompson garden not only helps provide leagues John Murtha (D- an outlet for the students of the PA), George Miller (D-CA) and Doris Supportive Education class to Matsui (D-CA) said they introduced this bill learn and be a part of the because there is no solid strategy for con- community, but it also gives trolling the violence and political unrest in them a chance to interact with Iraq after U.S. troops redeploy. other students and adults. A press release from Thompson said it is “This garden is wonderful,” also clear that while U.S. troops are per- said Chris Guadagnoli, a MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal forming excellently, their ongoing presence supervisor for the Ford Street Brenton Burris inspects a tomato he harvested at the Ford Street Project’s garden in Iraq will not lead the Iraqi government to Project. “A lot of people have plot. take control of its country. put work into this garden, and This bill will create a realistic exit strate- it shows. There’s a lot of soul community is paramount. gy that brings our troops home and helps the and spirit in here.” “It’s so beautiful here,” said Iraqi government take steps toward security, Pam Hopkins, who teaches Chris Owen, Hopkins’ teaching the release states. the Supportive Education class, assistant. “I can’t begin to This legislation -- the Iraq Redeployment said this was the first time she explain what it adds to the and Regional Security Act -- specifically and her students had done a garden.” calls for redeployment of U.S. troops to project like this, but that it The students laughed and commence no later than 30 days after enact- certainly wouldn’t be the last. applauded as each of the ment, with all troops out within one year. It Hopkins’ students visit the scarecrows went into the also requires that the president institute a garden daily and help by ground, while smiles of regional diplomatic plan, in conjunction picking fruits, getting rid of satisfaction shined from their with the United Nations’ Security Council, weeds and providing a positive faces. to curtail and contain Iraq’s civil war, pre- attitude. “I had a lot of fun today,” vent the establishment of al Qaeda safe “The kids, they have fun said Maggie Connor, a student havens and prevent genocide. with it,” Hopkins said. “They with the Supportive Education Under the bill, the president must report get a chance to feel important. class. “I have to admit I like to Congress every month on the status of the They recognize their Violet, but I also like Patch plan and the progress being made. contribution, and it’s a great Jack.” “Our troops have done an amazing job, confidence builder.” Whether or not Violet and but keeping them in the middle of a civil war The scarecrows, which were Patch Jack actually protect the will not get the Iraqi government any closer made with the help of supplies area has yet to be seen, but the to securing and rebuilding their country,” from Vital Systems and Ukiah smiles and laughter from the Thompson said. “Moreover, without a plan Valley Lumber, were created students act as a testament to to keep Iraq’s civil war from spilling over to and decorated by the students. neighboring countries, the chaos in Iraq will The class made two multiply exponentially throughout the scarecrows, one male and one See SCARECROWS, Page 15 Middle East, putting the world in even female, and each was heavily greater danger. We must have a sound diplo- decorated. The male scarecrow matic strategy to contain Iraq’s civil war or was dressed as a pirate and A new pirate scarecrow named Patch Jack Spar- we will face consequences we can’t even named Patch Jack Sparrow, imagine.” while the female scarecrow row, and his companion, Violet, grace one of the Thompson also this week released a state- was draped in beautiful linens ment on the new National Intelligence and named Violet. garden plots at the Ford Street Project. Both were Estimate on “The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. The scarecrows help to not Homeland.” only protect the garden, but created by students in the Supportive Education “(The estimate) makes clear that the also add a touch of community United States has lost ground in the battle at a place where the class at Ukiah High School. against al Qaeda and global Islamic extrem- importance of people and ists,” said Thompson, chairman of the See IRAQ, Page 15 New Air Board chief tries to reassure Democrats By STEVEN HARMON environmental lawyer also argued that recently headed the UCLA Institute of law at the behest of industry, wary of MediaNews Sacramento Bureau industry’s participation will be crucial the Environment, was tapped by Gov. costly regulations. SACRAMENTO - The new chair- to the success of the law, AB 32. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the At Tuesday’s Rules Committee woman of the California Air “I am a believer that market mecha- effort to implement AB 32 after the hearing - intended to get Nichols on Resources Board assured Democrats nisms will play a role ultimately in the governor fired the previous chairman, record on how she intends to imple- this week that her mandate is to “speed implementation of AB 32,” said Robert Sawyer, and threatened to oust ment AB 32 - Senate President Pro up, not slow down” the implementa- Nichols, who previously served as the the executive director, Catherine Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, said her tion of the state’s landmark law to CARB chairwoman under then-Gov. Witherspoon, who instead resigned. role, in part, will be to restore the reduce greenhouse emissions. Jerry Brown, “but only after we have Both accused the administration of integrity of the board - and to the Capitol report But, at a rare preliminary confirma- laid out the program, with the regula- interfering with the independence of process of implementing AB 32. from the tion hearing - a full year before Mary tions, as the basis for this rule.” the board. They also accused He said that Democrats expect the Sacramento Bureau Nichols actually faces a vote from the Nichols, a former EPA official in Schwarzenegger of trying to slow Senate - the longtime Democratic the Clinton administration who most down the implementation of emissions See AIR, Page 15 2 – THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] POLICE REPORTS FUNERAL NOTICES The following were The world briefly compiled from reports [\ B.A. at Cal State prepared by the Ukiah University of Los Angeles. Police Department. To Doug came to work for anonymously report Sherwood Valley Ran- Brazilians point fingers as all the organization’s command in Iraq and Osama crime information, call cheria on November 29, 186 aboard TAM airlines jet, bin Laden’s inner circle, enabling it to wield 463-6205. 2001. considerable influence over the Iraqi group. ARREST -- Richard Doug Loved music and three on ground die in crash The announcement was made as the White Glavin, 37, of Redwood was a gifted guitar House steps up efforts to link the war in Iraq to SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s dead- the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, with a grow- Valley, was arrested on suspi- player. He also loved to liest jetliner crash was an accident foretold. cion of driving under the play poker and was ing number of Americans opposing the Iraq For months, air safety concerns have been conflict.