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Warriors Plowshares LOCAL ECONOMY action honors volunteer Tribes hold forum tonight ..........Page A-6 ............Page A-3 ................................Page A-1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Partly sunny; H 51, L 27 7 58551 69301 0 FRIDAY Dec. 7, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 48 pages, Volume 149 Number 242 email: [email protected] Hearing for teen starts Monday By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Marcos Escareno’s competency trial will proceed Monday, over the objections of the Mendocino County District Attorney’s office who say the 15- year-old homicide sus- pect is competent to The issue: Is a stand trial. “We’re talking 15 year old about serious charges competent to and we’re talking stand trial? about a 15 year old,” said Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Ronald Brown. “I want to make sure I have all the information.” A jury trial to determine competency was scheduled in August at the request of Escareno’s attorney Katharine Elliot after Forensic Psychologist Dr. Kevin Kelly found Escareno to be competent. The competency trial has been delayed twice since then. On Thursday, Deputy District Attorney Katherine Houston asked Superior Court Judge Ronald Brown to enter a plea of not guilty on MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal See HEARING, Page A-10 Cheerleader Haily Gupta acts as a base for Sarah Spoljaric, while in the background Allysa Pool loads in to a stunt during practice at the Coyote Valley gymnasium Tuesday. Local Red Solid on the sidelines Cross help Bartolomei said that following try-outs UHS cheer squad she and the other coaches, Kelly heads north Denham, Nadine DeLapo and Karen By BEN BROWN Gupta -- with help from volunteers Sami hoping to get The Daily Journal Holder and Ashley Bowers -- begin look- As the heavy rains and high winds that pound- to competition ing for camps and competitions for the ed the Pacific Northwest recede and Oregon and squad. Once the competitions and camps By ZACK SAMPSEL Washington residents return to assess the damage have been decided, the coaching staff to their homes, a Red Cross volunteer from The Daily Journal will name the squad captains and begin When the 24 young men and women Mendocino County will traveling to Portland to to lay the groundwork for what will help. of the Ukiah High School Varsity and become the squad’s routine. A summer of Junior Varsity cheer teams make the trip Ken Reynoldson of Gualala will be sent to join practices and discussions leads to the the Oregon Trail chapter of the Red Cross along to Cupertino on Feb. 9 for the Cheer beginning of the school year where the Gym competition it will be the culmina- with Pete Rizzo of Santa Rosa and Bette squads prep their routines for games Fleischacker of Windsor. The three will be help- tion of nine months of practicing as many while also preparing their competition as six times each week, careful planning ing with damage assessment and other duties in routine. And as the days get shorter and the Portland area. and fundraising. This year the squad the calendar changes, the team steadily hopes to attend the Cheer Gym competi- Damage assessment must be performed before increases the number of practices until the Red Cross can give financial assistance to tion in February, but it’s a long road to it’s time to start the nine-month process Cupertino -- one that begins nine months disaster victims. all over again. Additional volunteers from Sonoma and prior. But all the practice in the world can’t “We start practice in July,” said Coach guarantee the team will be able to come Tami Bartolomei who has been coaching up with the $2,900 needed to make the See HELP, Page A-10 cheerleading for 14 years. “We’re getting weekend journey. For the squad to com- ready all year long. This is why we do it, pete at the Cheer Gym competition a because we love it. The kids motivate $500 registration fee is required for each Tribes present me.” For Bartolomei and the entire UHS See CHEER, Page A-10 squad, each season begins at the end of economic paths the previous school year, with try-outs Giselle O’Bergin is held aloft by kicking things off in April. From there team members during an after By ZACK SAMPSEL the season begins as quickly as it ended. school practice session. The Daily Journal A forum designed to help Native Americans and their tribes create positive economic change will be taking place tonight at Mendocino College’s Ukiah campus, and there will be a bevy of speakers on hand sharing their knowledge and City strengthens stands against commercial marijuana expertise. By ZACK SAMPSEL Students, tribal leaders, entrepreneurs, busi- demeanor, punishable by up ness owners and all other interested community The Daily Journal to six months in jail and a It’s going to do what? members are invited to attend the forum, A unani- $1,000 fine. “Community Empowerment: A Traditional Path mous vote Although growing marijua- What Ukiah’s amended marijuana cultivation ordinance means: To Economic Restoration,” which is an event from the na outdoors is already prohib- sponsored by the Mendocino College Native Ukiah City ited by the city’s Marijuana • Gives police more tools for enforcing the abatement procedure set in place earlier this year. American Outreach program. The forum will be Council Cultivation Ordinance, the held from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., in Little Theatre Wednesday amendment introduced at the • Redefines the standards for a safe and secure structure for growing Room 710, 1000 Hensley Creek Rd., on the main The issue: night upheld meeting expanded enforce- marijuana. Ukiah campus. The forum is a free event and is Pot grows a ban ment options, but did not • Requires all lights and air filtration in indoor grow rooms to meet open to the public. in the city already in change the number of plants California Building Code. “The purpose of this seminar is to find oppor- place on allowed to be grown indoors • Upholds that violations of the city’s ordinance could result in a mis- tunities to be an entrepreneur and to be a part of growing within city limits. demeanor, punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine. a movement to create positive economic change marijuana outdoors within City Attorney David for local Native Americans and tribes,” said city limits, and made viola- • Clarifies the procedure for the city to disposal of, or return of mari- juana seized during arrests. tions of the ordinance a mis- See POT, Page A-10 See FORUM, Page A-10 Xmas Craft Classes We Wrap, We Ship, For Our Kids children’s shop 463-0628 211 S. State St., Ukiah We Deliver A-2 – FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The world briefly Schwarzenegger travel donors revealed By AARON C. DAVIS Associated Press SACRAMENTO — Under THE DONORS Police say Omaha gunman may have pressure to comply with open- smuggled rifle into mall in a sweat shirt records laws, Gov. Arnold A list of donors to C. Richard Kramlich Schwarzenegger travel $5,000 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The teenage gunman who went on a Schwarzenegger on Thursday for the first time released a list foundation Diane Lake $25,000 shooting rampage in a department store may have smuggled an of wealthy donors to a A list of donors to the Bill Lane $25,000 assault rifle into the mall underneath clothing, police said fundraising group that has California Protocol Kumar Malavalli $5,000 Thursday. Police Chief Thomas Warren said the young man spent millions of dollars on Foundation from a Nov. 7 Carole McNeil$25,000 “appeared to be concealing something balled up in a hooded lavish overseas trips for the fundraiser held at the de Robert sweat shirt” he was carrying, according to a surveillance video. governor over the past four Young Museum in San Mondavi$10,000 The teen entered the store Wednesday using an elevator, and years. Francisco. Lisa Morgenthaler moments later, gunfire pierced through the notes of Christmas The list contains well- Mary Agee $5,000 $10,000 music at the Westroads Mall’s Von Maur department store. known California business- Barry Cinnamon $5,000 Lindsay People huddled in dressing rooms and barricaded themselves in men who have supported him David D. Bohannon Morgenthaler$5,000 offices as 19-year-old Robert A. Hawkins sprayed the floor publicly, such as winemaker Schwarzenegger Organization $10,000 Charles Munger, Jr. with bullets. Robert Mondavi and Gap Fireman’s Fund $25,000 Six store employees and two customers were killed. When founder Don Fisher. However, $10,000 Bernard Osher $5,000 the shooting was over, Hawkins shot himself. it also revealed the names of The foundation turned the Don Fisher $25,000 Joe Putnam $10,000 The mall was closed Thursday as authorities continued to both Republican and list of donors over to the gov- FW-JP Management Mary Putnam $5,000 investigate what may have motivated the teen to go on the Democratic developers, ernor’s office last month. $12,500 Reachnet International shooting spree. The shooting spree was Nebraska’s deadliest lawyers, and others who have Schwarzenegger had until the Richard Goldman Inc. $25,000 since January 1958, when Charles Starkweather killed 10 peo- maintained a low profile, or end of December to file the $25,000 Fred Reid $5,000 ple in Nebraska and another in Wyoming.