Community POLITICAL NEWS sports digest SUNDAY Pelosi shifts on drilling? ..........Page A-9 Aug. 17, 2008 ................................Page A-4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Partly sunny H 85º L 54º Tuesday: Partly sunny H 83º L 55º $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 50 pages, Volume 150 Number 130 email: [email protected] NEW SCHOOL YEAR ON THE WAY SOLFEST 2008 Teachers getting classrooms ready By DAVID MINTON dents,” she says. “Lots of peo- The Daily Journal ple become interested in it in The halls at Ukiah High their 30s.” So it’s up to her to School were empty and the flesh it out and make it come lights were off this week. But alive with visual aids. the sounds of rock ‘n roll led At Frank Zeek Elementary to a classroom where Angela School, on North Bush Street, McClure was stapling a second grade teacher Picasso poster to a wall, next Rosemary Janiak was putting to a world map. up a blue dragon, from one of McClure was one of sever- several books by Dav Pilkey al teachers at local schools her students will be reading. who came in a week early - on An adjacent wall was still their own time - to ready their blank, but Janiak had plans to classrooms for students. put up a school bus which Posters featuring art works would then be decorated with dotted the walls from floor to pictures of her students’ faces ceiling, along with pictures of in the windows. Mohandas Gandhi and other “With grade school kids we historical characters. have more stuff to do to get This is McClure’s way of ready,” she says. “Next week livening up the subject she we have staff meetings, and I teaches: History (U.S., wanted to be ready so that’s Michael Hooker/for the Daily Journal European and world). why I came in this week.” A perennial favorite, Ed Begley Jr. was the main stage speaker at Solfest Saturday. The actor, who “History is not a favorite subject of high school stu- has won a number of environmental awards, believes that action is the key to saving the planet. He See CLASS, Page 5 is often seen in his Southern California neighborhood riding his bicycle and lives in a solar pow- ered home. Alternatives draw crowds At left, Pablo Gregato, of OmGym in San Francisco, demonstrates “weightless yoga” at SolFest in Hopland on Saturday.“We are spirit in the body,’ says Gregato, a native of Argentina, “and when the spirit is happy we’re all happy. This is real- ity.” At right, camper Ashley Elliott, from Oakland, in her tent at Solfest in Hopland Saturday. Elliott was one of many campers volunteering for the week- end. She broke her left hand in a bike accident but still made it to Hopland “to help out green businesses.” Below, the crowd at Solfest on Saturday. David Minton/The Daily Journal Fourth grade teacher Joni Derickson gets her class- room at Yokayo Elementary School organized. When you feed a stork scrambled eggs French Flavor from Mendocino Vines By ROB BURGESS already experienced the better ridge was spared,” he is The Daily Journal part of “Don’t Tell Mom the Baxter amazed to point out calling it “The number one reason Babysitter Is Dead.” (And “a blessed path” between the white people like not having a when you’re only 15 minutes Winery Navarro and the Signal Ridge fires. He did have to put off TV is so that they can tell you away from the end, why not Two black and white mag- that they don’t have a TV.” finish?) bottling when the smoke was pies flit between the fence at its thickest. “We lost two - From entry #28 (“Not Beyond watching films I posts as I drive up the gravel Having a TV”) of the blog- would never intentionally to three weeks of work,” he driveway to Baxter Winery says. turned-book “Stuff White schedule for myself to view is on Greenwood Ridge. The People Like” by Christian the greater crime of settling on Picking bins and small fer- setting on this knoll is rustic menters are stacked under an Lander. censored versions (with com- and beautiful, with a stunning I’m getting rid of my cable mercials, no less) of movies I awning adjacent to the weath- view of Signal Ridge and the ered redwood building that this week because despite my actually do like and own. But last withering wisps of the love of spending countless House of given the unattractive choice Wine Notes was once a cabinet makers lightning fires’ smoke along shop and is now Baxter slack-jawed hours mindlessly Burgess between an infomercial or Bill the horizon. By Heidi Cusick Dickerson flipping through channels, I O'Reilly yelling at a guest like Winery. A small Filmer bot- As I pull up, the 29-year tler can turn out 250 cases in don’t feel I’m getting $90 a a incontinent puppy, even the old winemaker Phillip Baxter, he welcomes me and talks month of enjoyment out of it think I’m sitting down for five edited-for-TV version of an about the 200 lightning a day. When the Baxter fami- Jr. crosses the driveway in ly purchased this 24 acres on any more. minutes to have something to expletive-laden favorite like flipflops, jeans, and a T-shirt. strikes he counted the night It probably has something watch while I sip my tea only Fit and boyishly handsome, of the storm. “This entire to do with the fact that I’ll to find an hour later that I’ve See BURGESS, Page A-5 See WINE, Page A-5 PDF Page Organizer - Foxit Software 2 – SUNDAY, AUG. 17, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The world briefly FUNERAL NOTICES [\ Rathdrum, ID, Ronald tling n Boonville. Her joy MARJORIE BELLE MILES Miles of Redwood Val- was spending time Georgia: Russian- Russia’s attack has caused ond-degree burns on their Marjorie entered into ley, CA, and Cathy with her grandchildren, serious strains in relations faces and hands, Fire God’s hands on July 23, Mangrum of Eugene, OR. youth sports, quilting backed Abkhazian with the West and heightened Department spokesman Lt. 2008. Marjorie Belle Chase Marjorie is also survived and gardening. separatists seize fears in the young democra- Keith Staples said. was born to Mary by brothers Frank Chase, Interment will be at The cies of Eastern Europe. Boyce said the two-story E. Emmonds and Frank A. and Bill Chase and sisters Evergreen Cemetery Georgian villages brick and wood-frame house Chase in Arkan- Joyce Van Schoonhoven, in Boonville at a later date. Tropical Storm was engulfed in flames and sas City, Kansas on August Rachel Goodner, and Mary In lieu of flowers, the TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — windows were popping out Joe Chase. Grandmother family asks donations Georgia’s Foreign Ministry 27, 1926. Marjorie was the Fay could hit from the heat when he and his wife of the late James of 8 and great- be made in Marjorie’s says Russian-backed sepa- girlfriend, Nikko Moore, grandmother of 26, Margie name to the Anderson ratists from the province of Florida Keys Theron Miles and mother rushed to try helping the vic- of four children: Virginia and her husband Valley High School Athletic Abkhazia have seized 13 vil- as a hurricane tims. Mellor of Eugene, OR., of 57 years moved to Program, PO Box lages in Georgia and a power “She tried to put the water James Miles Jr., of California in 1949, set- 130, Boonville, CA 95415 plant. KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — hose on it to do what we could A ministry statement says Residents and tourists in the do, but by that time it was too Russian army units and sepa- Florida Keys prepared late,” Boyce said. “It was too US files yield truth Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more CORRECTIONS ratist militants shifted the bor- Saturday for Tropical Storm much fire. The water hose on ‘Korean Mata der of breakaway Abkhazia Fay, which forecasters said wouldn’t do nothing.” than 6,000 gathered on The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this toward the Inguri River. It could strengthen to a hurri- Lorenzo Williams, who Hari,’ a half- Chicago’s South Side to space to correct errors or make clarifica- says they set up temporary cane and begin battering the remember Bernie Mac on tions to news articles. Significant errors in lives down the street in the century too late obituary notices or birth announcements administration in 13 villages island chain as soon as low-income neighborhood, Saturday, he cracked that the will result in reprinting the entire article. and put the Inguri hydropower Monday. said he and several other SEOUL, South Korea (AP) comedy king was “still the Errors may be reported to the editor, 468- plant under separatist control. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist neighbors also tried to help — Back in the days of hottest ticket in town.” 3526. The claim could not imme- declared a state of emergency but flames and smoke turned “Commies” and “pinkos,” of Fans, friends and fellow diately be independently con- to help protect communities them back. Red scares, black lists, suspi- celebrities descended on the firmed. from the storm, which “threat- cion and smear, Kim Soo-im House of Hope megachurch to LOTTERY NUMBERS Russian-backed Abkhazian ens the state of Florida with a Obama and stood out as a one-woman axis bid their farewells to a man DAILY 3: Afternoon: 2, fighters forced Georgians out major disaster,” he wrote in an of evil, a villainess without who never forgot his humble 8, 5.