Local sports Weekend VEHICLE VS. BEAR roundup entertainment Bear hit on Hwy. 101 .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 .................................Page 15 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Obituaries The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Warm and mostly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY Oct. 26, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 200 email: [email protected] 3 students arrested in fight at UHS By BEN BROWN Detective Sgt. John McCutcheon “They were posturing and chal- other two and was attacked. arrested on suspicion of fighting on The Daily Journal said the incident began around 2:45 lenging each other to fight,” The woman suffered no injuries, school grounds. All three suspects’ Three Ukiah High School students p.m. as classes were being let out for McCutcheon said. and the suspect, a 17-year-old boy, names are being withheld by police were arrested Tuesday afternoon, on the day. The argument drew the attention was arrested on suspicion of fighting because they are juveniles. suspicion of fighting on school The three suspects, who of several campus officials, who on school grounds and battery The suspects were booked into grounds, for an alleged assault that McCutcheon said may belong to two tried to stop the fight. One woman, a against a school employee. juvenile hall. may have been gang- related. rival gangs, met on school grounds campus supervisor, got between the The other two suspects, a 15-year- Ben Brown can be reached at Ukiah Police Department and began a verbal argument. more aggressive suspect and the old-boy and a 17-year-old-boy, were [email protected]. UKIAH HIGH MODERNIZATION UPDATE CITY COUNCIL FORUM Candidates share views with voters By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal From private property Complete audio from the rights, development at the night will replay on KZYX, Masonite site, gangs and pub- lic safety to what it means to Mendocino County Public serve on the City Council and Broadcasting radio chan- discussion of their own cam- paigns, the six candidates for nel 91.5 FM in Ukiah, at Ukiah City Council covered 6:30 p.m. Oct. 31. A re- the gamut at Tuesday evening’s candidate forum. cording will also be Sponsored by The Ukiah available on KZYX’s Web Daily Journal, the American site, http://www.KZYX.org, Association of University Women and the National prior to the election. Women’s Political Caucus, the forum held in the Civic Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Center attracted a sizable “I think that the current Renovations are under way in the career and technical education buildings at Ukiah High School. The audience that posed 17 ques- City Council has done well renovations are the first phase in a three-part modernization project at the high school with the first tions to the council hopefuls. with Measure S, getting it phase expected to be completed in January. They agreed on many top- passed -- the half-cent sales ics -- each said that planning tax -- to increase the police should always come before force, the number of patrol development and that there’s officers,” Mulheren said. not enough information cur- He explained that in addi- Renovation progressing rently to take a position on a tion to increasing the force, potential slaughterhouse in the city should work to create By LAURA MCCUTCHEON the Ukiah Valley -- and had employment opportunities The Daily Journal differing opinions on just as and get citizens involved with Phase one of a three-phase modern- many. the community as another ization project that will touch every Here are their takes on a way to stop gang violence. building on campus is currently under few of the issues covered dur- John McCowen, an way at Ukiah High School. ing the two-and-a-half hour incumbent, agreed. Cyclone fencing surrounds the forum: “It is a community issue. entire west third of the campus, where On what the city can do to We need to get more people the Career and Technical Education fight gangs involved -- more parents, buildings exist, currently in a skeletal “There should be no more teachers,” McCowen state. restrictions as to what the said, noting that many are “These buildings have been gutted police need. (They should) be already involved in success- inside. (Among other things) we are able to create a gang task ful programs like GRIP dropping ceilings, insulating, putting force that works properly (Gang Resistance Is in skylights and high efficiency light- with the county,” challenger Paramount) training for fifth- ing and also new heating and ventila- Mike Whetzel said, noting grade students. tion systems,” Steve Turner, Ukiah that cooperation with the “The problem is less great Unified School District director of California Highway Patrol than it could be due to the maintenance, grounds, operations and and state agencies is also dedication and the skill of our transportation said Tuesday as he essential. local police officers, who walked through the construction area. “There has to be enough have been very effective in Right inside the door of the small revenues there for a full-time keeping the lid on things,” engine shop, for instance, miles of new 2006/2007 Ukiah High • Drama I, II, III, Advanced Drama team of police officers just to McCowen said. electrical conduit were visible, as were School ROP classes: • Child Development deal with the gang problem in Challenger Jeanne Metcalf the city,” Whetzel said. new interior walls not yet covered in • Advanced Auto • Intro to Ag, Ag Sheltered, said aggressive measures are Sheetrock, and exposed plumbing. Vet/Farm Animal, “Their hands shouldn’t be necessary to get rid of gang • Beginning Auto tied.” Across the room, the concrete floor • Welding Horticulture/Landscape/Forestry activity. had been removed in preparation for • Photo, Advanced Photo, For the most part, chal- “I’m a solution-oriented • Advanced Welding lenger Benj Thomas agreed. replacing underground hoists with • Intro to Industrial Technology Photo/Yearbook person who would look at above ground hoists. • Business Math “We have to fund our Measure S money,” Metcalf • Drafting police and public safety ade- In the adjacent auto shop, new dia- • CAD/Advanced CAD • Intro to Wood, Beginning Wood said. “Half a million dollars mond plate wainscot covered the • Sports Medicine quately, but we also have to would employ an extra police • Beginning Machine/Advanced work on prevention and pro- lower half of the walls. In there, too, Machine • Computer Maintenance officer for five years, or five the ceiling would be dropped, making vide alternatives for young for one year. We also could it easier to heat and cool the building. people to gang activity,” employ officers for gang and Thomas said. “There’s a lot of drug enforcement units.” The new, acoustic corrugated ceiling Phase one of the modernization pro- education buildings at the high school, will also quiet the room a bit, accord- good work being done in that Incumbent Phil Baldwin ject -- which began over the summer and which encompass wood shop, auto shop, regard.” said much of the problem ing to UUSD project manager Don should be done by January -- is to reno- Alameida. See UHS, Page 2 Challenger James Mul- comes down to enforcement vate all of the vocational and technical heren noted the work that has of even relatively established already been done toward fighting gangs. See FORUM, Page 15 2 – THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES CORRECTIONS In Tuesday’s article, “Child [\ eating establish- facility), as the After- [\ home November 11, at 1 dies in accident,” the 13-year- ments. Hours Crisis Worker for PM 40240 Old old victim from Sacramento, His next stop was the Sri Mendo County and Stage Rd., Gualala, and at who was transferred to Santa Ram Ashrama, a for the last eighteen years his son’s home Rosa Memorial Hospital for less obsequious and more as a Supervisor in November 12, at 1 PM 4470 treatment, should have been irreverent offshoot Child and Adult Protective East Side Cal- identified as male. The child’s of Timothy Leary’s League Services. Steve pella Rd. Ukiah. sex was mistakenly recorded for Spiritual Dis- talked untold numbers of Memorial donations may as female on a press release covery in Millbrook, New people out of com- be sent to Gualala distributed by the California York. Steve was op- mitting suicide, ran a detox Community Center. Highway Patrol. posed to the Vietnam War program, acted as The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this [\ space to correct errors or make clarifica- and refused milita- liaison for six northern tions to news articles. Significant errors in ry service. He continued on California counties in obituary notices or birth announcements the next phase in installation and implemen- will result in reprinting the entire article. his spiritual quest, moving tation of the State- Errors may be reported to the editor, 468- 3526. STEPHEN SCULLY west and obtaining wide CWS computer net- Someone as unique, a Drug/Alcohol Counselor work, helped found messy and exceptional certification from the local needle exchange LOTTERY NUMBERS as Stephen Scully deserves Metro State College in program, sat on a unique, messy Colorado. the board of the Ukiah DAILY 3: night: 4, 0, 3. and exceptional obituary. A turning point in Community Center, afternoon: 9, 6, 1. Born October 8, 1945, Steve’s life came in the 70’s was a steward for SEIU FANTASY 5: 05, 26, 27, Steve never stopped when he had an opportuni- Local 707, spent 31, 37. considering himself a New ty to receive the countless hours in court on DAILY DERBY: 1st Yorker despite blessing and initiation of behalf of abused Place: 10, Solid Gold.