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Rays end RELIGION Ziegler’s streak Saturday Faith community news .............Page 6 Aug. 16, 2008 ...................................Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Mostly sunny H 89º L 57º 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Partly sunny H 87º L 54º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 150 Number 129 email: [email protected] Lawmakers looking to forest thinning to cut down on fires By MIKE DORSEY Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to res- that has changed the way we look at California is having what could be “Because of these regulations, MediaNews Sacramento Bureau urrect last year’s agreement with fires and fire safety in the Tahoe its most expensive firefighting sea- California is growing more timber SACRAMENTO - The state needs Nevada, which would require inten- Basin.” son ever, having already spent $285 than it is harvesting,” Cox said, “the to be more aggressive in thinning out sive logging in rural areas. The Emergency California million in the last six weeks as fire- rate is 170 percent and growing, and forests - and less concerned about “We’re asking him to do basically Nevada Tahoe Basin Fire fighters struggle to control hundreds we certainly need to return to a more conserving trees - if they are to con- what he did last year for the people Commission Report recommended of hard-to-control blazes. balanced, regulatory environment tain wildfires, Republican lawmak- of the Tahoe area,” said Sam creating specific spaces between The problem, said Senator Dave that encourages sound forest man- ers said Wednesday at a Capitol hear- Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, the letter’s bushes and trees, which creates a Cox, R-Sacramento, is that the agement.” ing of rural lawmakers. author. “There he got together with landscape with a lesser chance of state’s political leaders have been too Underbrush and crowding are the The group, which included mem- the governor of Nevada and came up being overwhelmed by a lightening reluctant to bring the tree population bers of Congress, sent a letter urging with a fire commission and report strike. down. See FIRES, Page 14 WEATHER UPDATE KEEPING IT LOCAL Cooling off The Daily Journal Temperatures in the Ukiah area have been running high for the past week. Friday’s 106 degrees was just one degree off the record of 107 set in 1951. And that is 14 degrees higher than the 30-year average of 92 degrees for Aug. 15. Meteorologists forecast that temperatures will drop a few degrees each day over the weekend, with a predicted high of 87 on Monday. Then things will warm up a little bit through next week, but only into the low 90s. Moisture in the upper atmosphere is said to be rising in the county, and the possibility of isolated thunderstorms exists along the northern coast. These could be pushed inland by weather patterns currently moving east across the Pacific, but these are not expected to affect Ukiah. Compiled from National Weather Service Data Medpot rules in confusion Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal under ruling Paula Manalo and Adam Gaska sit on a disk plow they use to till the soil on the Community Supported Agricultural farm Gaska is readying for a winter crop on Heart Arrow Ranch off in the hills above Redwood Valley, Wednesday afternoon. DA says big commercial grows still Lintott Farmers looking for investors the target By BEN BROWN food is coming from and may be the ground ready,” said Paula By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal able to save money as food prices Manalo, who is helping Gaska with The Daily Journal The 3-acre plot of land on the increase due to the increased price of the farm. “We have a lot of starts we Recent court decisions side of the Heart Arrow Ranch hill gas, Gaska said. haven’t moved in yet.” have muddied the already limit will not change how her in Redwood Valley north of Ukiah “We’re trying to fill a community Crops from the garden will unclear waters of medical doesn’t look like much, but Adam need,” Gaska said. include beets, potatoes, onions, office prosecutes marijuana marijuana law in California, cultivation cases. She said her Gaska is hoping by December it will Gaska got involved in the project leeks, chard, winter squash and at but in Mendocino County earlier this year when he was con- least a dozen others. All the vegeta- attorneys will continue to be able to provide winter vegetables District Attorney Meredith for up to 50 families with produce tacted by the Live Power bles will be biodynamically raised. focus on large commercial from Mendocino County’s first win- Community Farm which operates A full share in the garden will Lintott said it will be business marijuana gardens. ter Community Supported several summer crop CSAs in run $900, half shares will cost $475. as usual. “That will remain our chief Agriculture farm. Covelo. Gaska said a full share from the Last week Mendocino concern,” she said. In a CSA farm, each customer is a Gaska doesn’t have any property farm will fill a 20-gallon bucket. County Superior Court Judge The District Attorney’s shareholder in the farm, paying a of his own, but he got in contact Gaska said the cost of a full share John Behnke ruled that the Office will continue to review fixed sum of money at the beginning with the Joe and Judy Golden of works out to $23.50 per week. medical marijuana possession cases as they come in and take of the year and the collecting their Golden Vineyards. Deliveries will be made weekly limits established by voter- into account all of the evi- share of the harvest. “We were lucky that Joe and Judy over the 21 weeks between the approved Measure B could dence gathered before making “Those are your dividends,” Golden have this property and are beginning of December and the end not stand as written in light of a charging decision. Gaska said. interested in diversity and local food of April. the California Appellate Court “We do reject a certain CSA farms are good for the security,” Gaska said. Gaska said the hope is to build a decision in People v. Kelly. amount of cases,” Lintott said. farmer, Gaska said. Farmers general- The 3-acre plot that the Goldens community of clients who return to In the Kelly decision, the Because the current legal ly have to go to the bank every year turned over to Gaska in April was the garden year after year, sharing in court ruled that the statewide rulings remove some of the to take out a loan to gather the planted with a cover-crop of buck- the bounty in good years and sup- medical marijuana possession protection for medical mari- money to grow their crop and then wheat. Gaska has since plowed an plying the revenue to keep the farm limit of six mature or 12 juana patients enacted under have to hope that the funds gained acre of the buckwheat under and is going in bad years. immature plants and eight the state’s regulations (now from the sale will cover the loan, or working the area with disc and trac- Anyone wishing to sign up with ounces of marijuana was struck down), suspects who risk losing their land. tor, spreading compost and getting the CSA can contact Gaska at 983- unconstitutional because the go to trial for growing mari- They’re also good for consumers the ground ready for planting. 8196 or by email at mendoorgan- limits were an amendment by juana and wish to mount a who will know exactly where their “We’re still at the stage of getting [email protected]. the legislature to the medical marijuana defense Compassionate Use Act will have to provide evidence which legalized medical mari- and witnesses to prove that create opportunities to indulge in sexual acts and have sex with juana but contained no pos- they had a medical marijuana the victim on at least two occasions while at the girl’s home. session limits. recommendation and that all The acts are alleged to have taken place between June and July. In the ruling, judges wrote of the marijuana they had was CRIME REPORT for medical use. Doyle was arrested and booked into the Mendocino County that the legislature cannot Jail on a $100,000 bond. amend a voter initiative unless Calls to the Mendocino Arrest made in molest case the initiative permits it. The Medical Marijuana Advisory The Daily Journal CUA does not. Board for comment were not A Fort Bragg man has been arrested on child sex charges for Based on that ruling, returned Friday, but on their allegedly molesting his friend’s 15-year-old daughter. Life term in death of Ukiah man Behnke ruled that if the legis- website the group wrote that it James Wesley Doyle, 28, of Fort Bragg, was arrested on sus- Vallejo Times-Herald staff report lature cannot amend the CUA was a confusing time for med- picion of sexual molestation of a child and unlawful sex with a A Vallejo man was sentenced to 83 years to life in prison than neither can an individual ical marijuana patients. minor Thursday after one of the victim’s parents reported the Thursday for the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old Ukiah man. county. “Some overzealous alleged molestation last month, according to reports from the Michael Mackey, 27, was convicted of murder, attempted Without Measure B or the Deputies are likely to regard Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.