Local sports Local veterans LOCAL roundup honored Deputy led on chase ..........Page A-8 ............Page A-3 ...................................Page A-1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Mostly sunny 7 58551 69301 0 FRIDAY Feb. 16, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 18 pages, Volume 148 Number 313 email: [email protected] Body Candidates Something’s fishy at Lake Mendocino cleared found by election near board By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal Willits Jeanne Metcalf, James Mulheren and Mike Whetzel, Badly decomposed all unsuccessful candidates for Ukiah City Council, have male corpse ID been still unknown cleared of a com- By BEN BROWN plaint The Daily Journal alleging The Mendocino County failure to Sheriff’s Office is working to accurately determine the identity of a report body that was found in the campaign woods near Willits at 8:20 contribu- p.m. Wednesday by a bicy- tions and clist. Mulheren expenses “It appears to be a male in the adult,” said MCSO Lt. D.J. November general election. Miller. “We are closing the com- The body, which has not plaint we received because been positively identified, we have no information indi- was found by a bicyclist 100 cating that you violated the feet off Highway 101 in a Act,” reads a letter sent to wooded area near milepost Mulheren Jan. 29 from the marker 43. Fair Political Practices Miller said Sheriff’s detec- Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Commission, the enforcement tives do not know how long agency for the Political the remains may had been Fish and Game Fish and Wildlife Technician Danny Garcia, right, and Scientific Aid Brent Rinker, use a tube to push air into a female steelhead trout to remove eggs that will be artificially inseminated at the Reform Act of 1974. laying in the woods before The complaint naming the they were found. Bill Townsend Conservation Fish Hatchery. Each Thursday the public is welcome to come out and visit the hatchery and watch the spawning take place. three candidates was made by “We’re trying to establish Dotty Coplen, of Ukiah, in a time line,” he said. October after they filed their Positive identification of first campaign statements, the body has been complicat- which were supposed to ed by the state of the remains It’s spawning season include all expenditures made and contributions received See BODY, Page A-2 By BEN BROWN stop the eggs from continuing to in holding ponds to be trucked out at between July 1 and Sept. 30. The Daily Journal absorb water, Garcia said. a later date. According to the com- Once again it is spawning season Many of the fertilized eggs are “They’ll swim right back up the plaint, each candidate “made Deputy for steelhead trout and at the Bill then transferred to the Warm Springs ladders otherwise,” Garcia said. or authorized expenditures for Townsend Conservation Fish Fish Hatchery, Garcia said. The hatchery repeats this process professionally printed multi- Hatchery below Lake Mendocino, Once Garcia and Rinker are done with 12 fish every week during the colored campaign signs,” but employees are working to make sure with the adults, the females are put spawning season, between January “no expenses for these cam- led on there will continue to be fish in the back into the river to swim down- paign signs appear in their river. stream while the males are put back See FISH, Page A-12 statements.” Working together, Fish and Game She also said the success Technician Danny Garcia and scien- fee policy of political consul- chase Black dots, tant Rob Muelrath of tific aid Brent Rinker collect eggs and indicating Muelrath Public Affairs, hired By BEN BROWN sperm from full-grown steelhead to eyes, are The Daily Journal fertilize the eggs that will be raised in by all three, “makes it diffi- apparent on cult for local residents who A Sonoma County man the hatchery. incubated fish wanted on felony charges first Each female produces an average are concerned about cam- eggs in the paign financing to be ade- fled from, and then fought of 5,000 eggs and the hatchery uses fish hatchery. with, a Mendocino County two males for every female in order quately informed about who A single is financing candidates,” sug- Sheriff’s Deputy in an attempt to encourage variety. Garcia said female will to avoid arrest early close to 90 percent of the eggs will be gesting that it would be possi- give 5,000 ble for candidates to indefi- Thursday, according to fertilized. eggs which Sheriff’s reports. “We have a pretty good average,” nitely conceal contributions are inseminat- from financial backers if they David M. Arreola, 42, of he said. ed by two Sonoma County, was arrested Once they are fertilized, the eggs were sent directly to Muelrath males to give to cover expenses. on suspicion of assault with a are cleaned, first with water and then a more deadly weapon, assault of a with iodine. Then they are placed in a Muelrath had said he diverse gene would only charge the candi- police officer, evading a bucket of running water which will pool police officer, possession of a cause “water hardening” that will dates a fee of $500 each if controlled substance and on a felony warrant out of Sonoma See ELECTION, Page A-12 County at the Golden Rule Mobile Home Park at 12:30 a.m. Thursday. According to Sheriff’s Lake County board says no to Konocti casino reports, Deputy Tim Goss was Lakeport Record-Bee effort to get the land into trust, on a T-shirt, “‘If you can’t run on patrol southbound on LAKEPORT -- The Lake and the BOS’ opposition to with the big dogs don’t get off Highway 101 near Walker the concept of “reservation the porch.’ We need to run Road Thursday when he saw County Board of Supervisors Casino thought to have voted unanimously to shopping.” with these big dogs on our a motorcycle driving speed- terms.” Siegel commended ing northbound on the high- oppose a developer’s efforts Supervisor Ed Robey sug- to add a casino to Konocti gested giving the developers Brown for his efforts in “get- be key to resort’s sale way. ting off the porch,” and Goss made a U-turn and Harbor Resort & Spa. two weeks to present their By TIFFANY REVELLE Representatives of several plans to the board formally, referred to Anderson, Record-Bee Staff Writer stopped the motorcycle near Kenwood Investments and his Hollands Lane. As Goss came homeowners’ associations saying the BOS’ decision KELSEYVILLE -- The matter of a casino at Konocti around the resort expressed would be strengthened by Platinum Advisors as the “big Harbor Resort & Spa may be the central issue to whether to a stop, Arreola turned his dogs” capable of getting the motorcycle around, drove the need for the BOS to act having given Kenwood or not the sale of the resort goes through. quickly to stop such a devel- Investments a chance to make land into federal trust. During a Lake County Board of Supervisors meeting, past Goss’ patrol car and Farrington symbolically dedi- headed south. opment. its case. Brad Welch of Kenwood Investments spoke to the audi- Ed Calkins, president of the cated his vote in Siegel’s ence and outlined some of the firm’s plans for Konocti. Goss turned to follow After almost two hours of honor, saying “the big dogs Arreola who led him in pur- discussion and 15 speakers Riviera West homeowners’ Supervisor Anthony Farrington disclosed at that meeting are off the porch.” a conversation where Welch indicated to him that the casi- suit at speeds reaching higher appearing, with one in favor association disagreed, claim- Brown said he was than 110 mph, according to of waiting for more informa- ing two weeks could make a no development was a contingency of the sale. impressed with the response He said one of the biggest challenges was winter and Sheriff’s reports. tion about the developer’s big difference because of the from state representatives he At the top of the Howard developer’s political connec- off-season months, and that the resort has been running in plans, the decision to adopt a had contacted about the issue, the red, losing approximately $3.5 million per year. Forest Summit, Goss lost resolution against any poten- tions and their efforts to get and indicated that they were sight of Arreola but Sheriff’s “Through our preliminary due diligence and visioning, tial casino was made. the land into federal trust. waiting for the BOS to take a it’s critical we consider all aspects that could make this deputies who had staged at Supervisor Rob Brown Several other speakers position in the form of a reso- the bottom of the hill said project a success, and so therefore, yes we have considered cited several reasons for the voiced similar opinions. lution. tribal gaming as an option to add to the success of the pro- they had not seen a motorcy- resolution, including Clearlake Homeowners Brown also presented sig- Kenwood Investment’s con- Association representative See CASINO, Page A-12 See CHASE, Page A-2 tact with five tribes in its Angie Siegel quoted a saying See BOARD, Page A-2 A-2 – FRIDAY, FEB. 16, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. 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