Local sports RELIGION roundup Saturday Faith community news ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 April 14, 2007 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Mostly sunny, windy & cool 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Sunshine with patchy clouds 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 149 Number 5 email: [email protected] Planners approve The Connector Clara Ct. K.C. Meadows/The Daily Journal housing Marty Lombardi, By KATIE MINTZ center, enjoys one The Daily Journal of the jokes told on Fernando Padilla, a grocery store him at the Ukiah employee in Ukiah, has been on the Main Street waiting list for one of Rural Program dinner Communities Housing Development Thursday night at Corporation’s low-income apartments which he was for two years. honored with the With a young daughter and a son on first Samuel Lowry the way, he urged the Ukiah Planning Founders Award Commission Wednesday to approve a for his many project that, as the first affordable contributions to the housing built in the city in close to community. Below three years, would open the door to right, Cindy Sauer low-income housing for more working and Shannon Riley, families like his. owners of Shoefly The 32-unit Clara Court Housing and Sox, accept Project, planned for the corner of their Main Street North Orchard Avenue and Clara Business of the Year Avenue, first went before the commis- award Thursday sion in January but was rebuked by night. commissioners and area residents at the time for its high density paired with little area for recreation. On Wednesday, a new plan address- ing those concerns, called “a better project than we had the last time” by project architect Randy Figueiredo, was unanimously approved by the commission giving hope to those like Marty Lombardi Padilla who struggle with market-rate rents in Ukiah. “The applicants made a fairly sub- lauded for sense stantial effort to provide a much neater and more compact site that takes into consideration most of the objections of community that were raised by both the Planning By K.C. MEADOWS Commission and members of the pub- The Daily Journal lic,” Associate Planner Dave Lohse He’s The Connector, a hero, a role model, said introducing the item. Mr. Ukiah, the Cookie Man and a humanitar- Previously, RCHDC had proposed ian. to put five buildings on the 0.84 acre Those are just a few of the ways friends lot comprised of 32 one-, two- and characterized Marty Lombardi Thursday three-bedroom apartments. The new night as he was awarded the first Samuel plan keeps the same number of units Lowry Founders Award from the Ukiah Main but has only three buildings spaced Street Program. farther apart to allow for more light to On its 20th anniversary, Ukiah Main Street enter the homes. chose to honor Lombardi with a brand new A “tot lot” playground was also award, named for the first Ukiah settler who planned for the court between the arrived in Ukiah in 1856. Lombardi was cho- Ukiah Main Street honors businesses and buildings, as well as a path to another sen in a landslide vote of Main Street busi- RCHDC property, the Orchard Manor ness members. individuals at 20th anniversary celebration Apartments, where a basketball court He is “the single most influential person in and lawn area will be added for further the business community,” said friend Phil The Daily Journal quality products and service. recreation. Gary, retired Ukiah High School principal, The Ukiah Main Street Program’s • The Sponsor of the Year award went -- Duane Hill, executive director of who also credited Lombardi with inventing Thursday celebration also included awards to for the fourth time in a row -- to Thurston RCHDC, said the placement of the “cookie diplomacy,” because of his reputa- local businesses and individuals who have Auto Plaza for its continual support of down- project was a natural fit with commer- tion for showing up on the high school cam- helped preserve Ukiah’s downtown and keep town events, including Comedy Alley, the cial property to the south, an open pus bearing boxes of chocolate chip cookies it lively. Fabulous Flashback Car Show, and the Taste field to the east and RCHDC projects for the kids. • The Business of the Year award went to of Downtown. Owners Dennis and Carol to the north and west. Gary was the first among the speakers who Shoefly and Sox, the shoe store on Standley Thurston and their sons Jason, Trevor and “...It’s not an intrusion on our lauded Lombardi during the evening and Street which was opened two years ago by Tracy were also lauded for their overall com- immediate neighbors, and that’s what offered the first of many titles for him: The Shannon Riley and Cindy Sauer. The award munity involvement in such programs as always concerns us the most,” Hill is given to a business that contributes to the said. See LOMBARDI, Page 14 overall success of downtown and provides See AWARDS, Page 14 Some Wagenseller Neighborhood See HOUSING, Page 14 Campbell bound over for trial in Laytonville shooting By BEN BROWN believed the two argued arrested, Campbell made Crabb testified that Soto sheriff’s deputy Joseph told Caudillo he heard a pop. The Daily Journal before the shooting, though it statements about the shooting. said he and Gray got up to DeMarco. There was no testimony is not known what they were “The defendant made state- leave the house and while Crabb said Soto told him he Leonard Campbell will presented Friday about where stand trial on charges of mur- arguing about. ments that he had shot him, they were outside, he saw did not see Gray and der in the shooting death of In the early morning of Jan Corey Gray,” Arms said. “He Campbell leave the house Campbell argue or get into a Feather was at the time of the Corey Gray, Mendocino 15, sheriff’s deputies respond- said he shot him (Gray) in the with a .22 caliber rifle and fight before the shooting. Soto shooting. County Superior Court Judge ed to Campbell's house on face.” shoot at Gray twice from point also said Gray was not armed Campbell is scheduled to Reservation Road and found Sheriff’s Detective Robert blank range at the time of the shooting, Ronald Brown ruled Friday. Gray dead in Campbell's dri- Crabb said he spoke with Joe An autopsy report on Gray according to Crabb. be arraigned on the charges at Gray was shot and killed veway, according to sheriff’s Soto, one of four people pre- said that he died of a single Sheriff’s Detective Jason 8:30 a.m. May 3. He is being outside Campbell’s home on reports. sent at Campbell's house at the gunshot wound just under his Caudillo said Stepps was in held at the Mendocino County Reservation Road in Campbell was found near- night of the shooting. The oth- left eye. the trailer he lives in on Laytonville Jan. 15, according by and arrested. ers were Campbell, A 10-22 Ruger .22 caliber Campbell's land at the time of jail on a $600,000 bond. to reports from the Mendocino Sheriff’s Deputy Billy Christopher Stepps and rifle was found at the scene, the shooting and did not wit- Ben Brown can be reached at County Sheriff’s Office. 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State St., Ukiah 2 – SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ She is preceded in death be no service. messages of condo- by her husband, [\ lence to the family online Oscar and her daughter MURIEL NORTHCRAFT by visiting Zoe Lynn Dundas of Mrs. Muriel Northcraft, www.southernfuneral- Iraqi lawmakers meet in extraordinary Billence, WA and her age 86, of Montgom- home.com. daughter, Jane Ander- ery, Louisiana, passed [\ session in ‘defiance’ of terrorism son of Ukiah. away Wednesday, DOROTHY JANE INGERSOLL BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament met in an extraordi- After her retirement, she April 11, 2007, at Colfax Dorothy Jane Ingersoll nary session of “defiance” Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, spent time helping to Reunion Nursing and passed away at home and declared it would not bow to terrorism. A bouquet of red develop programs for indi- Rehab in Colfax, on Monday, April 9, 2007. roses and a white lily sat in the place of Mohammed Awad, the viduals with devel- Louisiana. Dorothy was born lawmaker killed in the parliament dining hall suicide bombing opmental disabilities. She is the daughter of December 1, 1918 to Fred claimed by al-Qaida. Gertrude Anderson is the late Vester Lee and Loretta Moss in Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani opened the survived by two grand- Eblen and the late Ruth Payette, Idaho. session and asked lawmakers to recite verses from the Quran in children, Denise Dundas (Stambaugh) Eblen. She will be greatly honor of Awad, whom he called a “hero.” and Gregory Dun- She is survived by her missed by her son and The unprecedented Friday meeting was called to send “a das of Washington; several two daughters, Ruth daughter-in-law Andy and clear message to all the terrorists and all those who dare try to nieces and neph- Howard of Montgomery, Denice Ingersoll, stop this (political) process, that we will sacrifice in order for it GERTRUDE ANDERSON ews; sister-in-law Cora LA., Ann Schumann daughter Becky Knudson, to continue,” said al-Mashhadani, a Sunni Muslim.