Eagles vs. Weekend IN COURT Yuba College entertainment 6-year sentence for molester .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny; H 65º L 37º 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY Feb. 14, 2008 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 149 Number 311 email:
[email protected] HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY Beltrami Local couple who married in 1953 share story of Love that lasts: their long life together out of VALENTINE’S hospital DAY HISTORY Web site history.com The Daily Journal provides the following After several months in the hospital information about Val- following a serious car accident, former entine’s Day: “Valentine Mendocino County CEO Al Beltrami greetings were popular returned home earlier this month. as far back as the Mid- “To all the many friends who took the dle Ages (written Valen- time to send cards and prayers and best tines didn’t begin to wishes over the last 3 month travail,” appear until after 1400), Beltrami said in a letter and the oldest known posted on the Web site Valentine card is on dis- of his son Bob play at the British Beltrami, who has kept Museum. The first com- a chronicle of his mercial Valentine’s Day father’s recovery, “I greeting cards pro- can never thank you all duced in the U.S. were enough for your created in the 1840s by encouragement and Esther A. Howland. support during this Howland, known as the time of trouble.” Mother of the Valentine, Beltrami suffered made elaborate cre- major injuries in the Beltrami ations with real lace, Nov.