Dudley Hart REMINISCE leading at SUNDAY Vintage Valentines Pebble Beach ..........Page A-8 Feb. 10, 2008 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Mostly sunny; H 68º L 40º Tuesday: Sunshine, clouds; H 66º L 41º $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 44 pages, Volume 149 Number 307 email: [email protected] BOARD OF Local candy shop turning out SUPERVISORS Valentine’s Day: the chocolates Asphalt House of facility Burgess EIR on The bridge agenda By ROB BURGESS to nowhere The Daily Journal By ROB BURGESS A long-simmering debate The Daily Journal about the future of a local I’ve decided that I’m pretty quarry is likely set to once much the last person to know again boil over into impas- when it comes to most things. sioned rhetoric at Tuesday’s Before my coworker Sarah Mendocino County Board of told me about the documen- Supervisors meeting. tary “The Bridge,” I had no At 9:15 a.m., the board is idea the Golden Gate Bridge scheduled to introduce the was such a popular suicide Harris Quarry Draft destination. There have been Environmental Impact Report, more than 1,200 such deaths which will focus on both pub- there since it opened in 1937. lic and supervisor comments The film’s director, Eric on a proposed asphalt batch Steel, explored this phenome- plant on the site near Willits. non by recording almost two Several community groups, dozen of these leaps during including the Ridgewood Park the course of a year. Neighborhood Association, “From January through the Shafer Ranch Road December 2004, Steel used Association and Keep the 10-to-12-person crews to MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Code, have spoken out against train his cameras day and Cathy Haas displays her signature chocolate-covered strawberries at Expressions, her candy and the project. night on this landmark -- gift shop. Thursday’s Mendocino using both close-up lenses County Planning Commission and wide angle shots to see ‘We have a nice little community here. We’re not like Russell Stover or Whitman’s was also host to lengthy pub- the full expanse of the lic comment on the issue. bridge,” stated an ABC News that’s been packed for six or eight months. Our candy comes fresh.’ – CATHY HAAS The debate surrounding the story titled somewhat omi- proposed plant began several nously “Bridge of Death.” By ROB BURGESS “For Valentine’s Day we will go each. “The ones that can get off come years ago when Northern “By the time he finished, he The Daily Journal through this full five or six times and help us. One of our daughters Aggregates, otherwise known had taped 23 of the 24 sui- While you probably will still be over, dipping strawberries,” she said works at Wal-Mart and she’ll take the as Hot Rocks, began the cides that occurred that year.” asleep in the early morning hours of with her hand on the large black pot day off to help us on Valentine’s lengthy bureaucratic process Proving it is always easier Valentine’s Day on Thursday, the couple uses to melt the chocolate Day.” of trying to open an asphalt to ask for forgiveness than Expressions Candy and Gift Shop on that coats the fruit. “I hold them firm- Cathy Haas said even the younger manufacturing facility in the permission, Steel fibbed a bit South State Street will be buzzing ly by the stem and then it’s just a mat- members of the family get excited county. about his intentions when with activity in preparation for the big ter of dipping it. Then I push the stem about helping around the store. The plans for the Willits applying for the filming per- day. down just to make it look better.” “We are strictly a family opera- quarry surfaced in response to mit. “We start at about 5 in the morning Romantics in Ukiah aren’t the only tion,” she said. “We have one grand- opposition of a North State “Steel initially told offi- on the 14th,” said Cathy Haas, who, ones with a sweet tooth this holiday daughter who gets mad when we Street Ukiah site. Objections cials he planned to spend a along with her husband, Dave, has season -- more than 36 million heart- make turtles when she’s not here.” and the Planning year filming the ‘powerful owned and operated the store for the shaped boxes of chocolate are sold Dave Haas said the secret to the Commission’s eventual denial and spectacular interaction last eight years. for Valentine’s Day, according to the success of the shop is the personal of the application stemmed between the monument and Dave Haas, who also works as a Chocolate Manufacturers Association touch that comes with being locally- from a concern with proximi- nature’ and that his work was captain for the Ukiah Valley Fire and National Confectioners owned. ty to residential areas. to be first in a series of docu- District, said that even with the holi- Association. “It’s a one-on-one thing,” he said. Northern Aggregates then mentaries about national day a few days away, some customers Cathy Haas said she hand-picked Cathy Haas said the personal ser- appealed the Planning monuments such as the St. have already planned ahead. family members to assist with the vice they offer makes the customers Commission’s decision to the Louis Arch and the Statue of “We just had a guy order seven operation. feel at home. Board of Supervisors, but Liberty,” stated San Francisco pounds of berries,” he said. “So peo- “We have nine children and 20 “We have a nice little community withdrew the appeal after a Chronicle staff writers Phillip ple pre-order, and we start working on grandchildren who range in age from here,” she said. “We’re not like discussion with the board Matier and Andrew Ross in those first.” 2 months to almost 21,” she said, lay- Russell Stover or Whitman’s that’s about potentially opening their Jan. 19, 2005 story on Cathy Haas said they usually go ing a row of berries covered in par- been packed for six or eight months. asphalt facilities at the Harris the project. “That’s how he through 130 to 150 pounds of tially molten chocolate on a sheet of Our candy comes fresh.” site. While prior and current got the Golden Gate National Driscoll’s strawberries during the wax paper, before drizzling lines of Rob Burgess can be reached at zoning law only allows for the Recreation Area’s permission sweets-buying rush. white chocolate across the tops of [email protected]. construction of such facilities on a temporary, project-spe- See BRIDGE, Page A-13 See ASPHALT, Page A-14 ‘Murder at the Hop’ March 15 at UHS at the Hop’ is the 1950s theme.” portray the “suspects.” It will be the Choral fund-raiser a The date is Saturday, March 15, audience’s task to figure out who the 1950s mystery dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the murderer is, and the winning table will Cafetorium. win a prize. By CAROLE HESTER In “Ready Teddy” (1956), Little In addition, Eddie Caires and his for The Daily Journal Richard sings, “All the flattop cats and crew will prepare a diner type menu that Shades of Elvis Presley, “I Love the dungaree dolls are headed to the will feature burgers, hot dogs, veggie Lucy,” McDonalds, “Rock Around the gym for the sock hop ball.” Murder at burgers and cherry sodas and floats. Clock,” the jukebox, drive-in theater the Hop, under the direction of Doering, Students will dress in period costumes. and TV dinners were all part of the ’50s. will feature a murder mystery revolving The girls will wear poodle skirts made When you walk through the door at the around a 1950s -style dance competi- Ukiah High School, you’ll be transport- tion. Eight high school students will See CHORAL, Page A-4 ed into a 1950s diner for Ukiah High School’s Choir Department’s annual fund-raiser. MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Choral Music Director Denise Some members of the cast pose during a rehearsal of “Murder at Doering said, “This year’s fund-raiser the Hop,” an upcoming mystery dinner at Ukiah High School. From dinner shifts from the Renaissance to left are: Estee Etter, Dillon Howell, Alexa Prax, Chuck Wilson and the 1950s to a mystery dinner. ‘Murder Susan Haynes. ♥ Visit D. WILLIAM JEWELERS ♥ ♥ Valentine’s Day ❤ ♥ for Pear Tree Center • 462-4636 ♥ ♥ A-2 – SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ Peterson, nine grandchil- March 3, 1999. well as numerous most recently of Kenne- RETECH where dren, seven great She will be remembered for nieces, nephews and dear wick, WA, went to be with he retired at age 82. granchildren and numerous her love of family friends. the Lord on Friday, John is survived by his nieces and neph- and friends, cooking and Family and friends are February 1, 2008. Born in children, Marjory Jean ews. gardening. She had invited to attend a Cel- Honolulu, Hawaii Peterson of Turlock, CA John is preceded in a remarkable memory for ebration of Life for on July 22, 1914 to John and John C. Pringle death by his brother Rob- birth dates and Genevieve and to remem- and Jean Cullen of Kennewick, WA and ert Champion. events as well as her recol- ber Hank per her request, Pringle, John was preceded grandchildren: Jac- At John’s request, there lection of “old On Saturday, Feb- in death by his queline Anderson, Sumner, will be no services.