Pet of SPORTS the Week Monday Giants lose to Padres ...................................Page 6 .............Page 3 Aug. 4, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tuesday: Sunshine H 95º L 58º 7 58551 69301 0 Wednesday: Sunny, clouds; H 95º L 57º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 150 Number 117 email: [email protected] Caltrans issues roadwork updates Trios rock park The Daily Journal On Thursday, Caltrans issued a series of updates on major roadwork projects occuring within the county between Friday and Thursday. Note: Each of the following listings begins with the road affected and then lists the beginning and end mile-markers. Route 1 (50.6/51.5) - Mendocino Unified School District has been granted a Caltrans Encroachment Permit to install a water main between and Jackson and Lansing streets beginning Friday. Work hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. Turns onto Little Lake Road will be restricted. Motorists may experience minor traffic slowdowns. Route 1 (60.8/62.3) - A paving project from Walnut Street to Pudding Creek will continue. Work hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direc- tion of travel. Motorists may experience minor traffic slow- downs. Route 1 (62.8) - Utility installation will continue at Airport Road. Work hours are 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weekdays. One-way traffic control will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate 15- minute delays. Route 1 (104.8/105.5) - Bridge deck rehabilitation on the South Fork Eel River Bridge will continue. One-way traffic control will be in effect 24 hours per day, Monday though Friday. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays. Route 20 (0.6/2.3) - A highway widening project from Old Willits Road to Gravel Pit Road will continue. Work hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. One-way traffic control will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate 20-minute delays. Route 101 (0.0/9.2) - A paving project from the Mendocino/Sonoma County line to the Russian River Bridge will continue. Work hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel. Motorists may experience minor traffic slowdowns. Route 101 (3.1/4.5) - A pavement repair project from 0.1 miles nort to 1.5 miles north of Comminsky Station Road will continue. Northbound traffic will be restricted to one lane 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Motorists may experience minor traffic slowdowns. Route 101 (11.7/20.9) - A paving project from Hewitt and Sturtevant Road to the Robinson Creek Bridge will continue. Work hours are 9 p.m. to 8 a.m., weekdays. One-way traffic control will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays. Route 101 (31.9/33.9) - A pavement repair project from Forsyth Creek Bridge to Uva Drive will continue. Work hours are 10 a.m. to 6 a.m., weekdays. Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel. Motorists may experience Racheal Boomer/The Daily Journal minor traffic slowdowns. (Top left) Headlining Sundays in the Park, Craven, Marshall, Route 101 (35.8/37.5) - Roadway repair due to pavement Phillips and Grier belt out their bluegrass tunes in Todd deterioration from 3.6 miles south of Ridgewood Ranch Road Grove Park Sunday in Ukiah. (Top right) Concert goers to 1.9 miles south of Ridgewood Ranch Road will continue. Jessika Christopher and her brother Paul enjoy the music Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel on the lawn. (Left middle) Ukiah locals get down to the blue- 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Motorists may experi- grass of Craven, Marshall, Phillips and Grier. (Bottom left) ence minor traffic slowdowns. Locals enjoy a up close and personal view one of the two Route 101 (42.1/42.4) - Bridge deck rehabilitation on the Cajungrass, Psychograss and Bluegrass trios, Joe Craven, South Willits Overhead will be begin Tuesday. Traffic will be Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, David Grier and the Tri Tip Trio restricted to one lane in each direction of travel 24 hours per at the fourth concert of the 2008 Sundays in the Park con- day, Monday through Friday. Motorists may experience minor cert series. traffic slowdowns. Route 101 (42.1/45.3) - A paving project from South Willits Overhead to Manor Lane will continue. In two-lane sections, one-way traffic control will be in effect from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., Sunday evening through Friday morning, and motorists may experience 15-minute delays. In four-lane sections, traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., weekdays, and motorists may experience minor traf- fic slowdowns. Route 101 (57.7/58.9) - Bridge deck rehabilitation on the When keeping it real goes wrong Arnold Bridge Overhead will continue. Traffic will be restrict- ed to one lane in each direction of travel 24 hours per day, By ROB BURGESS al drug kingpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross. Monday through Friday. Motorists may experience minor traf- The Daily Journal What he neglected to mention was his fic slowdowns. When I was getting ready for work this 18-month stint in a Florida prison -- as a Route 101 (59.3/60), Route 162 (0.0/0.1) - Bridge deck reha- morning I noticed that the movie “CB4” guard. bilitation on the Long Valley Creek Bridge will continue. was on, so of course I had to watch it for “Apparently desperate to distance Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel, a little bit. himself from any affiliation with law 24 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Motorists may expe- And not because I was stalling, mind enforcement, the rapper Rick Ross has rience minor traffic slowdowns. you. recently denounced as fake photos pur- Route 101 (64.7/69.1) - A paving project from Long Valley The hilarious 1993 mockumentary porting to show him in a former career as Creek Bridge to Harmon Drive will continue. Work hours are 6 stars Chris Rock and Charlie Murphy and a Florida prison guard,” stated thesmok- a.m. to midnight, weekdays. One-way traffic control will be in details the fictional rap group CB4. In the inggun.com on June 21. “But Department effect. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays. movie, the formerly middle class trio of Corrections records show that Route 101 (69.3/69.9) - A curve improvement project will who go by Cell Block 4 (MC Gusto, Stab Ross...did, in fact, work as a correctional continue. Work hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. Master Arson and Dead Mike) have risen officer for 18 months. Ross was appoint- Intermittent one-way traffic control will be in effect. Motorists to the height of fame and success after ed a prison guard in December 1995 at a should anticipate 10-minute delays. they stole their name and identity from an salary of $22,913.54. The rapper’s Social Route 101 (78.4, also 103) - North Coast Environmental actual criminal they know who had since House of Security number is identical to that of the Construction has been granted a Caltrans Encroachment Permit been locked up. jail guard.” for diesel cleanup near Spyrock Road beginning Tuesday, As I drank my tea and tried to find the Burgess Had Ross manned-up and told the August 5. Work hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. One-way strength to start my day, I began to notice truth at this point, the story might well traffic control will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate five- a uncanny resemblance to a story I have have fizzled. Sadly, that’s not what hap- minute delays. been following online for the past few pened. Route 101 (99.2/100.7) - Construction of a retaining wall days. onto the scene in 2006 with the single “When a photo of a uniform-clad Ross First, some background: near Confusion Hill will continue. Work hours are 6:30 a.m. to “Hustlin’.” Throughout his lyrics he surfaced last week on 5 p.m., weekdays. One-way traffic control will be in effect. Rapper Rick Ross, government name: regales his listeners with stories of his MediaTakeOut.com, the 32-year-old per- William Leonard Roberts, has released purported previous life as a cocaine traf- two full-length albums since bursting ficker, taking his rap moniker from actu- See BURGESS, Page 14 See CALTRANS, Page 2 GET A BIGGER HOUSE- UKIAH WITHOUT GETTING A BIGGER HOUSE- & RENT STORAGE STORAGE TRUCK RENTAL 468-0800 2 – MONDAY, AUG. 4, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Richard Rosier, 468-3520 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] gation, described the process on condition on the sites or their thousands of scientists. of anonymity because he is not authorized to Security procedures are designed more to The world briefly talk to reporters. prevent accidents than to deal with security- He said Sunday that investigators started cleared scientists who control their own lab. with DNA from some of those victims. Billions of biodefense dollars from the Al-Qaida says was her own doing,” Waters said. “If she Investigators matched specific DNA pat- Bush administration swelled to nearly 1,400 had not been out publicly defending his terns to anthrax cultures that the suspect, the number of labs handling potential bio- explosives expert wanted behavior, it wouldn’t have happened in the Army scientist Bruce Ivins, was responsible logical weapons including anthrax.