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Ukiah High REMINISCE varsity girls SUNDAY Elusive Images photo contest basketball ..........Page A-8 Jan. 13, 2008 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Partly sunny; H 60º L 31º Tuesday: Sunshine & clouds; H 65º L 36º $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 42 pages, Volume 149 Number 279 email: [email protected] Questions remain about deputy suicides By K.C. MEADOWS year apart and there are a lot of ques- together that would shed light on this nor deny that the report exists. something was wrong in Covelo, and and BEN BROWN tions being asked about why. mystery and a report was given to the County officials consistently tongues were wagging even before The Daily Journal The Daily Journal has learned that Mendocino County Counsel’s office decline to speculate on why these the first suicide. Two deputies who were among there may have been an outside and has not been made public. two men killed themselves, citing Brett White killed himself in four who had worked together in investigation into activities in County Counsel Jeanine Nadel said personnel privacy rules. But that has Covelo killed themselves less than a Covelo during the years they served Saturday she could neither confirm not stopped the talk about whether See SUICIDES, Page A-12 Sex offenders at Lake Co. motel; SERVICES FOR RETURNING VETERANS DISCUSSED state paying tab New policy still allows some sex offender housing payments By K.C. MEADOWS The Daily Journal The State Department of Corrections has placed more paroled sex offenders in area motels, this time in Lake County. There are five sex offenders from outside of Lake County, currently living at the Lake Marina Inn in Clearlake Oaks on the state’s tab. Posted online According to at 7:18 p.m. DoC spokesman Bill Saturday Sessa, the state no longer pays to house paroled sex offend- ers released to their ukiahdailyjournal.com home counties, as it did when The Daily Journal reported six paroled sex offenders living at the local Ramada Inn last year at a taxpayer cost of more than $2,300 a month each. Because these motels are considered temporary housing, these sex offenders do not show up on pub- lic lists of addresses where sex offenders reside. Sessa said the new policy is that the state only pays the housing costs now for paroled sex offenders who can’t return to their home counties because the victims of their crimes have asked to have them placed elsewhere. MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Under California law, parolees are released back Vietnam veteran David Arnett reads a letter written by fellow veteran John Soltz during Friday’s meeting of to their home counties, including sex offenders. the Mendocino County Public Health Advisory Board. In it, Soltz warns of an increasing number of homeless However, the law allows that victims of sex crimes veterans due to post traumatic stress disorder. can ask that the sex offender be placed at least 35 miles from the victim’s own home. That often means placing offenders in neighboring counties, or farther. That is the case of the five sex offenders in the Lake County motel, Sessa said. He did not know Military service in war taking toll what the particular sex offenses of the five parolees By BEN BROWN David Arnett, a member of Veterans for Peace and a were, but acknowledged that they were serious, The Daily Journal Vietnam veteran, said he was proud to see Public Health tak- based on the high level of parole supervision they Some of the veterans returning from the conflicts in ing steps to prepare to help returning veterans with the prob- were under, including global positioning equipment Afghanistan and Iraq are bringing back with them both physi- lems they will face, especially since a significant number of and regular parole officer contact. cal and emotional scars, raising the question of what local veterans become homeless after returning to civilian life. “This is a protection for victims that works both agencies will do to get servicemen and women the help they “Mendocino County is listening,” he said. ways,” Sessa said. “It turns out that in the last 18 need. Michael Quakenbush, a social worker with the Mendocino months there have been eight parolees from Lake On Friday, the Mendocino County Public Health Advisory Veteran Services Office, said every veteran is entitled to both County and nine from Mendocino County that have Board heard from representatives from veterans services agen- been released to (other) counties out of the same con- cies on what services are available in Mendocino County. See VETERANS, Page A-12 See OFFENDERS, Page A-12 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SATURDAY NIGHT MacLeod Pappidas/ VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES The Daily Journal Miss Mendocino County 2007 Liberty Mendocino County Veterans Service Office Egloff performs a • Volunteers are needed to serve as volunteer drivers, driving routine with some of veterans from Ukiah to the Veterans Hospital in San Francisco. A the 2008 hopefuls at regular California driver’s license is required. For more informa- Ukiah High School tion, call 463-4226 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. during the opening Lake Mendocino Army Corps of Engineers of the scholarship • Volunteers needed for outdoor work at Lake Mendocino; program Saturday indoor work is also available, in the offices and interpretive cen- night. Seven county ters. For more information, contact Volunteer Coordinator Laura women are compet- Smith at 467-4232. ing for the title of Ukiah Senior Center Miss Mendocino • Volunteers to help with their Thrift Store -- some lifting, sort- County 2008. In addi- ing and pickups. tion, about a dozen • Volunteers who can fill in for dishwashers, set up and take other contestants down tables and chairs. are vying for the •Any volunteer who may have experience in local soliciting open titles of Miss and fund-raising for special events. Contact volunteer coordinator North Coast and Carmen Lucchesi at 462-5933 or the center at 462-4343. Miss Northern Mendocino County Releaf Counties. For a com- • Tree planting in the Ukiah area during the months of January plete report on the and February. For more information, contact Miles Gordon at 462- evening’s festivities, 0244. see Monday’s edi- Redwood Valley Rancheria tion of The Ukiah • Provide financial literacy classes. For more information, con- Daily Journal. tact Hai-Lee Sun at 458-0361. THANK YOU HAPPY We Appreciate Your Business 1252 Airrport Park Plaza Ukiah - Behind Les Schwab Tire & Value Our Friendship NEW YEAR! Across From Friedman Bros. A-2 – SUNDAY, JAN. 13, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] tional troops to the country to quell violence. city of Ukiah will be perform- In announcing the troop buildup more than a year ago, Bush POLICE REPORTS ing utility work on Henry The world briefly said it would provide the Iraqi government “breathing space” to The following were Street between Pine Street and begin tackling legislation designed to reconcile Iraq’s Shiite and compiled from reports Oak Street Monday. Sunni Arabs as well as Kurds. prepared by the Ukiah Crews will be working Bush says no decision yet on deepening Police Department. To between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., With contests in Iowa and NH settled, anonymously report and Pine Street will be closed drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq minority voting power takes center stage crime information, call for the duration. Detour routes 463-6205. around the construction area MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — President Bush said Saturday (AP) – With nomination contests in lily-white Iowa and New he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to ARREST -- Cheryl Ann will be available. Hampshire settled, minority voting power now moves into the Scoggins, 48, hometown not bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic spotlight. Historical realities suggest that blacks and Hispanics demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war develop- listed, was arrested on suspi- won’t play much of a role in determining the Republican Party cion of driving under the CORRECTIONS ments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his pres- presidential nominee. But this year’s Democratic primary and idency. Bush said any decision about troop levels “needs to be influence in the 600 block of In Friday’s Page 1 article caucus schedule was designed specifically to give increased South State Street at 1:51 p.m. “Psychiatrist finds boy com- based upon success,” but that there was no discussion about influence to minorities, particularly Latinos. specific numbers when he was briefed by Gen. David Petraeus, Friday. Scoggins was released petent to stand trial,” Albert Voters in both groups are energized: Blacks by the early suc- after being cited. Castl should have been identi- the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. cesses of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Latinos by the intense, ambassador to Baghdad. ARREST -- Valarie fied as a psychologist. sometimes xenophobic debate over immigration. But it’s far Oswald, 42, hometown not The president was cheered by news that Iraq’s parliament from clear how those influences will play off each other. had approved legislation reinstating thousands of former sup- listed, was arrested on suspi- The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves Nevada’s caucuses on Jan. 19 will give an early showcase of cion of driving under the this space to correct errors or make porters of Saddam Hussein’s dissolved Baath party to govern- Hispanic voting. However, observers say the true impact of clarifications to news articles.