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Bullpen costs REMINISCE Eagles win SUNDAY More memories of Anton over Solano ..........Page A-8 March 16, 2008 ..................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Partly sunny High 71º Low 40º Tuesday: Partly sunny; High 66º Low 42º $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 46 pages, Volume 149 Number 342 email: [email protected] Measure B ‘Until you are home safely ...’ proponents, Yellow ribbons flying opponents organizing If passed, Measure B on June ballot would repeal Measure G, the county’s local marijuana ordinance By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Though the election is still three months away, both sides of the fight over the future of medical marijuana in Mendocino County have begun to orga- nize. Measure B, which was placed on the ballot by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 8, would repeal Measure G, passed by Mendocino County voters in 2000. Measure G, the cannabis personal use ordinance, instructed law enforcement officers to make prosecution of anyone growing fewer than 25 marijuana plants their lowest priority. Late last year, the Board of Supervisors agreed to set med- ical marijuana limits at 25 plants in accor- dance with Measure G. If passed, Measure B would set posses- sion limits for medical marijuana at 12 immature or six mature plants and eight ounces of dried marijuana, the same as the limits set by the state. Ross Liberty, speaking for the Yes on B coalition, said no person growing 25 plants is doing so for personal use because even the sickest person does not MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal See MEASURE B, Page A-2 Carolyn and Don Madole hung a yellow ribbon in honor of their son’s deploy- ment to Iraq. Close to a dozen ribbons now adorn the trees of their neighbors on Alicante Lane in Ukiah. Sgt. Dustin Madole is shown at right. WHAT’S IN OUR WATER? Neighborhood supports parents of Ukiah Marine deployed to Iraq City: Drugs By BEN BROWN Don said the military is always where in municipal The Daily Journal Dustin wanted to make his life. “He’s going to make a career out of it,” he hen Sgt. Dustin Madole returns said. from his first deployment in “That’s his life,” Carolyn agreed. “All water not a Iraq with the Marines, there those Marines are his brothers.” W will be a yellow ribbon waiting A picture of Dustin in his Marine uniform, for him, in fact, there will be several. shortly after graduating from boot camp, problem here After they heard Dustin was being greets visitors as they enter the Madole home By ZACK SAMPSEL deployed on Monday, his parents, Carolyn on Alicante Lane. The Daily Journal and Don Madole, tied a yellow ribbon around “They all look so intense,” Carolyn said. A five-month investigation by the the oak tree in their front yard. Within a few The Madoles are both incredibly proud of Associated Press found antibiotics, mood days, close to a dozen people in the neighbor- their son. stabilizers and sex hormones, among hood had done the same. “He was ready to go,” Carolyn said. “9/11 other pharmaceuticals, Dustin was sent to a base in Ireland on had already happened when he joined.” in the drinking water March 10 and from there to Kuwait, where he Carolyn said she tried to encourage Dustin supplies of more than See Page A-4 for will spend three days before being flown to to pick another branch to serve in, such as the 41 million Americans’ the base he will be deployed to, north of Air Force or the Navy, but Dustin was homes, but according to the AP’s Impact Baghdad. adamant. city officials, Ukiahans Report on “He can’t tell us any more than that,” Don “He said he wanted to be a Marine,” aren’t at risk. said. Carolyn said. “They’re the best.” In the course of a pharmaceuticals Dustin is 24 and in his seventh year of ser- Dustin is a small arms expert, and Don five-month inquiry, the vice with the Marines; he joined on an early found in drinking said his son will be sleeping in the armory A tree outside the Madole home AP discovered drugs in entry program in 2001 out of Ukiah High and taking care of the base’s weapons. the drinking water sup- School, where he played football all four bears a message as well as a rib- water. See MARINE, Page A-16 bon. plies of 24 major metro- years. politan areas -- from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky. “It really depends on where you are and what’s around you,” said Ann Burck, DIARY OF A PLAY interim water and sewer operations super- It’s audition time! intendent for the city of Ukiah. “We don’t really have that situation at our water Editor’s note: This week we begin tion manager at Ukiah Players production such as this? We’ll need treatment plant. There are no treatment “Diary of a Play,” a weekly column Theatre to slide it gently onto our audiences, a lot of planning, a lot of plants upstream from us.” from the folks at Ukiah Players stage with as little breakage as possi- time, a lot of money, a stage, volun- Because there are no treatment plants Theatre giving us a peek into what ble. teers and students (of all levels of upstream from Ukiah, officials from the goes into putting on one of their pro- Want to put on a play like “The ages, skill levels, availability, inter- California Department of Public Health ductions. The diary will take us Man Who Came to Dinner”? Hey, est, etc.), tools, equipment, costumes, told Burck the city was not at a high risk week-by-week through the process of great! Come over here to the big makeup, insurance, designers ... your of finding these pharmaceutical contami- staging “The Man Who Came to board and let’s see what all we’ll eyes are glazing over. nates in its drinking water. Dinner.” need to work on. Let’s see here. OK, let’s just go day by day, shall But how do these contaminates make it Someone’s going to have enough we? into the water? hough there are literally Today, Monday May 10, was … The AP’s explanation was a simple dozens of plays in the world, vision and thoroughness to iron out all the details. We’ll need a director. AUDITION DAY! one. People take pills, and while their only a few can be considered About 15 people showed up to bodies absorb some of the medication, the “American Standards.” Such In this case we scored David Hance. By Keith Aisner T That’s one down. audition for “The Man Who Came to rest of it passes through and is flushed a play is “The Man Who Came to UPT production manager Dinner,” and it is my job as produc- But what else goes into staging a See DIARY, Page A-16 See WATER, Page A-2 A-2 – SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Pelosi says it would be damaging to the Democratic line that pulls the country back from the brink of the POLICE REPORTS party for its leaders to buck the will of national con- first recession since 2001. The world briefly vention delegates picked in primaries and caucuses, Experts in this camp believe the economy is The following were a declaration that gives a boost to Sen. Barack shrinking now because of the fallout from the hous- compiled from Obama. ing and credit debacles. Businesses are shedding reports prepared by “If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what’s jobs, Wall Street is convulsing, energy prices are the Ukiah Police China gambles Tibet crackdown happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the skyrocketing and people are reluctant to spend. Yet Department. To won’t bring Olympic boycott Democratic party,” Pelosi said in an interview taped these economists say lower interest rates should help anonymously report Friday for broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” cushion the blows of a recession. crime information, BEIJING (AP) — Soldiers on foot and in armored call 463-6205. carriers swarmed Tibet’s capital Saturday, enforcing The California Democrat did not mention either a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops Obama or his rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, by name. But her remarks seemed to suggest she was Crane collapses onto row of NYC ARREST -- Charles and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In Calderwood, 35, of another western city, police clashed with hundreds prepared to cast her ballot at the convention in favor apartments; at least 4 dead of the candidate who emerges from the primary sea- Visalia, was arrested on of Buddhist monks leading a sympathy demonstra- NEW YORK (AP) — A crane rising 19 stories suspicion of assault with a tion. The violence erupted just two weeks before son with the most pledged delegates. Obama leads Clinton by 142 pledged delegates — alongside a skyscraper under construction toppled deadly weapon in the 900 China’s Summer Olympic celebrations kick off with like a tree across a city block Saturday, crashing into block of North Oak Street the start of the torch relay, which passes through those delegates picked in nomination contests to date, in The Associated Press’ count. apartment buildings, killing four people and setting at 1:28 a.m.