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Guessing Your health: FORUM Barry’s Ask Dr. Gott Our readers write condition ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 .............Page 8 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Rainy off and on 7 58551 69301 0 TUESDAY April 11, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 2 email: [email protected] Health status report: Still lots of uninsured out there Local economy Community Health Status access to care to welfare to Disease, with 198 reported to control the trend. report. sexually transmitted diseases OTHER STATISTICS cases county-wide. 29 per- • The leading cause of affecting local For the sixth time since and may be used to craft poli- cent were from teenagers. death from 1995 to 2003 1996, Mendocino County cy as the Board of Supervisors health • Almost 3 in 5 adults • Hepatitis C is the was coronary heart dis- public health officials took the encounters health-related fastest growing infection ease, at county, state and county’s temperature, asked issues. However, certain are overweight or obese. By SETH FREEDLAND • More than a quarter with 773 new cases national levels. Cancer was The Daily Journal about aches and pains and as a health concerns are reflected conclusion -- in lieu of offer- in the county’s culture and are current smokers. between 2000 and 2005; the second most common Editor’s note: This is the ing a tasty lollipop -- distrib- economy with little clear reso- • Over 1 in 20 are dia- the needle exchange pro- cause of death, with lung first of the stories coming up uted its colossal Community lution in sight. betic. gram that has replaced cancer the most common this week by the Daily Health Status Report. Mendocino County’s three • Chlamydia is the most over 160,000 needles form followed by female Journal on the newly released The biennial exhaustive frequently reported between 2004 and 2005 is breast cancer as a distant Mendocino County analysis covers issues from See HEALTH, Page 16 Sexually Transmitted cited by officials as aiding second. Improvements to A LONG WAY FROM HOME county jail going to be expensive cost was due to the need to No state develop a plan that would allow the booking area to help likely remain open while renova- tions occur. By BEN BROWN Supervisor Jim The Daily Journal Wattenburger asked if there Improvements to the book- might be money available ing area at the county jail from the state to offset the called for in the Criminal cost. Deputy County Justice Master Plan are going Executive Officer Beth Robey to cost significantly more than said the state bond that might was first proposed, have provided money had not Mendocino County Building been rushed through to make and Grounds Manager Tim it onto the June ballot and has Garrison told the supervisors’ been tabled until November. Criminal Justice Standing “Clearly the (state’s) prior- Committee Monday. ity was on levees and storm The plan, presented to the damage,” Robey said county Board of Supervisors Renovation plans call for a on March 20, called for a ren- second, taller fence, to be ovation of the jail’s booking installed around the existing area to increase officer and one. A covered parking area inmate safety and deal with would be built along with a problems of overcrowding. new 10-foot by 15-foot sally At that meeting, Garrison port where prisoners could be estimated that a renovation of patted down before they are the area would cost between taken into booking said $100,00 and $150,000, but a Mendocino Sheriff’s Capt. more detailed inspection Tim Pierce. shows the cost to be closer to “That would be our new $300,000, with an additional search and intake area,” $30,000 required for an archi- Pierce said. tectural plan, Garrison said. Garrison said the rise in Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal See JAIL, Page 16 Douglas Livingston (center) shows Irina Fotieva (left) and Mikhail Shishin a hydrogen fuel cell at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland on Monday. The two are part of a group from Siberia, includ- ing a regional governor, that are visiting the area to lean more about alternative energy projects that can be started in their home country. Brooktrails bashes wood stove ban Energy options explored by Siberia By CLAUDIA REED to do, pay for a chipper or for Visitors come to could about alternative energy, in from Siberia to California to see The Willits News taking wood to the Willits order to protect their home in the alternative energy options in action BROOKTRAILS - By dump?” Mendocino County Altai. and to ask the experts which alterna- unanimous vote, the Others asked why smoke to consult the experts The Altai is a region in Southern tives might be most effective back Brooktrails board has rejected from forest fires wasn’t fac- Siberia near China and Kazakhstan home. a ban on new wood stoves tored into the AQMD’s clean By BEN BROWN roughly the size of England. It is “Coming here gives us the oppor- proposed by the Mendocino air mandate. The Daily Journal home to several endangered species, tunity to access resources, technolo- Air Quality Management Board member Tony Orth Among the tourists and the ecolo- including snow leopards and several gy and the experts in the field,” said District for parcels less than objected to the absence of a gists at the Solar Living Institute in plants, as well as a UNESCO World Sybil Diver of Pacific Environment. two acres in size. plan for upgrading existing Hopland Monday were a group of Heritage Site. A San Francisco environmental Board members accepted air-polluting wood stoves and people with a slightly more serious Mikhail Shishin, president of the group that has been working with the other parts of the AQMD’s fire places. purpose. Two Siberian environmen- Fund for a 21st century Altai and Fund. proposed ordinance, however, “This isn’t addressing the talists and one Siberian politician Irini Foteva, executive director for including a mandate that new current condition, which is were there to learn everything they non-profit organization, traveled See ENERGY, Page 16 stoves be EPA certified (or out of attainment (of air qual- pellet stoves), and that sub- ity standards),” he said. “The standard stoves be replaced AQMD should have the when a property is sold. Board impact of cleaning the air, not members also pushed for the just preventing further pollu- Calvert reappointed to planning commission addition of a change-out pro- tion.” By MIKE A’DAIR protect the county’s timber completely in support of non- fell to around 250 million gram upgrading existing out- Resident Wally Stahle The Willits News resource from housing devel- profits purchasing land to board feet and stayed close to of compliance wood stoves agreed, pointing out the The Mendocino County opment encroachment and the ensure sustainable timber pro- that number throughout the and fire places. turnover period for homes in Board of Supervisors has subdivision of timber holdings duction. 1990s. “This is going too far,” said this area is often as long as 20 unanimously reappointed into what she termed “private Over the past 25 years, In 1998, Mendocino board member Mary Zaidy, years. Karen Calvert to the parks.” county timber production has Redwood Company took over who called the two-acre limit Stahle, Zaidy and others Mendocino County Planning While Calvert told plummeted. In 1989 timber operations on Louisiana- elitist for limiting wood stove said the use of clean, efficient Commission. Calvert, the only Supervisor Kendall Smith she production stood at 515 mil- Pacific’s massive holdings in enjoyment to those who can wood and pellet stoves is one applicant for the position, has does not support the purchase lion board feet, an unsustain- the county, and cut back tim- afford larger parcels. answer to the predicted short- served as the commission’s of timberlands by nonprofit able figure that was partly ber production to more envi- She called wood stove use age of fossil fuels. timber representative for the groups for purely recreational responsible for the Board of ronmentally sensitive levels. an incentive for removing fire “If the gas (supply) fails, past 20 years. purposes because that loses Supervisors forming a Forest In 2004, county timber pro- fuels from private lots and the people are going to use all Calvert said her role now is timber production, and that Advisory Committee. Over duction was 110 million board greenbelt: sorts of contraptions to stay what it has always been: to loses jobs, she added she is the next few years, production feet. “What are people supposed warm,” Stahle said. ANNIVERSARY SALE OUR BEST OF THE 509 S. State St. • Ukiah SALE YEAR! 462-7305 2 – TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The world briefly FUNERAL NOTICES [\ at Yokayo Elementary Dale is predeceased by Willette. DALE THELMA BROADDUS School before raising her Arthur “Bev” Broaddus, Memorial services will be Skilling proclaims country gives to us every- Dale Thelma Broaddus four daughters. her husband of more than held at Eversole Mortuary thing,” said Florentino Cruz, passed away Sunday April Throughout her life she was 50 years. She is survived by Thursday April 13th at ‘absolute’ 32, an illegal worker from 9, 2006. She was 78 years deeply involved in volun- her four daughters Janet 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers innocence Mexico who has been in the old. teer literacy activities. Anderson, Martha the family suggests that United States since 1992.