Pet of SPORTS the Week Monday SULL Angels get awards ...................................Page 6 .............Page 3 June 23, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tuesday: Mostly sunny; H 91º L 52º 7 58551 69301 0 Wednesday: Mostly sunny; H 91º L 53º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 150 Number 75 email: [email protected] Fires still burn across the county By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal As it rose over the eastern hills Sunday, the rising sun revealed the day-old haze covering the Ukiah Valley still held a tight grip over the county, as firefighters worked frantically to get a handle on the hundreds of fires raging across Northern California. As Sunday evening progressed Cal Fire spokeswoman Tracy Boudreaux said they were still fighting some 90 fires in Mendocino County with some 60 of them unstaffed as yet. The fires had by Sunday evening consumed some 3,800 acres. Mandatory evacuations were issued in the areas of Running Springs Road, Flynn Creek and the Cherry Creek subdivision along Highway 162 in the north county. “The smoke coming from these fires can be seen as far as Sonoma County,” stated Tracy Boudreaux, Cal Fire informa- See FIRES, Page 2 Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal Lena Nunn of Sweet Memories Butterfly Farm holds a Painted Lady butterfly in her hand in her “Flight House” in Potter Valley Saturday morning. Willits could lose Healing Hearts Butterflies By LINDA WILLIAMS donations, says Bogue. The Willits News “We believe this program is Shutting down Healing exactly what Prop 63 had in Hearts one of the main pub- mind,” says Bogue. She esti- licly funded mental health mates more than 200 north care providers in Willits as of county residents have been June 30 was part of a compre- helped by the center since it Raised to be freed hensive draft plan being con- opened in 2007, with a steady sidered by the Mendocino turnover as people heal and By SARA HOUSE County Health and Human move on. Health professionals For the Daily Journal Services Agency. The draft from throughout the region It is a tradition at many weddings to was posted May 21 on the have been increasingly refer- throw rice, birdseed or confetti as a county website www.co.men- ring patients to the center as symbol of well wishes to the bride and docino.ca.us/mh/ with a pub- word spread of its effective- groom. However, rice has been banned lic comment period closing ness, says Bogue. from many wedding venues because of June 23. The proposed plan “It has been an absolute its dangerous threat to birds and other concentrates county resources lifesaver for me,” says Kim animals. on live in centers in Ukiah and now a regular at the center, Though there are limited options as Fort Bragg serving 20 adults volunteering to help others. “I to what to throw at weddings, there is suffered a deep depression an alternative that is less threatening, in each. “I don’t agree with the plan from a series of life crises, a and more attractive than rice and bird- relocation and the loss of a seed; butterflies. [as proposed] and believe it is Sweet Memories Butterfly Farm, dead in the water,” says Third husband’s job.” Kim, who had located in Potter Valley, raises and sells District Supervisor John been very active in the Willits butterflies for special events, such as Pinches. “We extended the community found herself weddings. Not only can they be money for the Healing Hearts slowly becoming isolated released at weddings, but in memory of group until the end of August, from friends and family. a loved one at a funeral or memorial. so they have time to bid on the “When I first came in I They can even be released in one’s own new contract.” thought it was a cardiac sup- garden, and the butterflies will usually The county health agency port group,” she jokes. “The remain in their new home, as long as is the administrator of the existing system just doesn’t they have host flowers to live and feed state Mental Health Services do it, spending a half hour or on. Act (Proposition 63) funds, 40 minutes with a therapist “Some customers have told me that which requires no matching once a week just wasn’t help- up to two weeks after the release of county or city money and cur- ing. The idea you can come their new butterflies, they are still there rently funds the Healing here and know there is always (in the garden),” says Lena Nunn, co- Hearts self-help center in someone here to talk with. owner and manager of the farm with Willits. Some days I had to drag her mother. Pinches thinks the existing myself here in my pajamas.” Nunn said she became interested in Healing Hearts program may Kim slowly began making butterflies after reading a book on not meet the narrow require- progress with her depression them, and soon after they created their ments for funding under the and now is volunteering at the butterfly habitat and business. For act because it does not exclu- center to help others. “We do about five years Nunn’s butterfly farm sively provide mental health so much with so little, with has been flourishing with customers support services. While he our effort and slim resources from all over the country. In fact, Nunn thinks the other services pro- we provide exponential says that most incoming orders are vided by the group may be results,” says Kim. “It makes from outside of California. During but- needed within the community, no logical sense to consider terfly season, which is from April to they cannot be funded using cutting out something that November, Sweet Memories Butterfly mental health act funds. works for the community for Farm also hosts tours for families and Healing Hearts opened in so little money.” school field trips to better educate their Willits in early 2007 and has “We offer what we can,” guests about the butterfly population. helped hundreds of north says Rayna Maginte at the Over 2,000 butterflies are sold and county residents, says Ellen Willits Integrated Services shipped all over the country each day Bogue a mental health nurse Center, “and many of our by this busy home business in Potter at the center. Healing Hearts is clients leave here and spend Valley. They also sell dried flowers, able to operate on a shoestring the rest of the day at Healing nature gifts, homemade crafts and gar- annual budget of only Hearts.” Maginte says her This newly-hatched Mourning Cloak butterfly gently fans its wings to $80,000 due to extensive vol- clients have come to rely on See BUTTERFLIES, Page 14 dry them on a fountain, Saturday. unteer staff time, peer help programs and community See HEALING, Page 14 NEW 10x20 units R-30 insulated UKIAH FREE MOVE-IN TRUCK STORAGE 468-0800 call for details 2 – MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Richard Rosier, 468-3520 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ June 16, 2008 at of Ukiah, CA. the age of 74. Grand daughters Rochelle He will be remembered A and Kristi N Temple of for many life changing HI., Grandson William achievements. He coached M.H. Temple of HI., baseball for Little Bill is also survived by League and Ukiah High second wife Julia A School for many Temple and her family. years. A member of Willits Daughters: Cathy A. Shifter’s Car Club. De-Atley, Patty D. Jackson He performed in many and Kim L. Rodal- Community College legas. Grand daughters plays and also with the Emily Rodriguez and Ukiah Players Theater. Alisha Friar. Great grand- Bill is proceeded in children, David M. death by his first wife, and Jacquelyn X. Patsy Jane Temple. He is Rodriguez. WILLIAM (BILL) K. TEMPLE survived by son, Memorial service will be Bill Temple of Redwood William M. Temple and held Friday June 27, Valley, CA. passed wife Terise of Hawaii. 2008 at Eversole Mortuary away unexpectedly Monday Daughter Benita K. Biester at 11:00 A.M. Ukiah Valley Fire District firefighters Arron Sulivan and Ryan Cooley put out a The world briefly smoldering oak tree hit by lightning while tree faller Brant Brooks watches. the smoke continues to blan- ranged in size from less than ket the Ukiah Valley. an acre to more than 750 Fires Meanwhile at least 24 acres. Consumers to pay more Rod Brenneman, president and chief execu- small wildland fires started on Gov. Arnold tive of Seaboard Foods, a pork supplier in Continued from Page 1 for meat, dairy after Midwest Sawnee Mission, Kan. that produces 4 million the Mendocino National Schwarzenegger's office said floods send corn prices soaring hogs a year, said high corn costs were already tion officer, in a release issued Forest when the lightning Saturday that lightning had forcing producers in his industry to cut back on late Saturday night. storm passed through sparked nearly 400 fires from NEW YORK (AP) — Raging Midwest the number of animals they raise. “Firefighters continue to bat- Saturday. The fires range in Monterey County to the floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent tle fires with the greatest size from one-tenth of an acre California-Oregon line. The corn and soybean prices soaring are about to threat to homes and property. to three acres in remote and governor ordered the give consumers more grief at the grocery store.