Memorial Day REMINISCE tournament SUNDAY This Was News under way ..........Page A-8 May 28, 2006 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s Movie review The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Partly sunny Tuesday: Partly sunny and warmer $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 60 pages, Volume 148 Number 49 email: [email protected] ELECTION 2006 Candidate profile edition 5TH DISTRICT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SHERIFF SUPERVISOR 3 hope Three Sheriff’s Office to beat veterans vie for top job By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Colfax Candidates for Mendocino The Daily Journal Lintott Sawicki Vroman County Sheriff Lt. Tom Four candidates with a Allman, Lt. Don Miller and variety of views are run- acting-Sheriff Kevin Broin are ning for the 5th District all longtime residents of supervisor seat now held Mendocino County who have by incumbent David District attorney worked their way up from Colfax, who is running for patrol to their current posi- re-election. tions in the Mendocino Challenging him are faces challengers County Sheriff’s Office. For Robert Gardner, a former these three candidates, it is not Allman Broin Miller grand juror who prides By BEN BROWN ond term as district attor- a question of what the prob- himself on having attended The Daily Journal ney, has campaigned on his lems are, but how they can be 30 minutes, Miller said. necessary to pay them. all the county board meet- The district attorney’s job performance, distribut- solved. “Everything that is wrong Allman acknowledged the ings for the last year. His race between incumbent ing copies of the DA’s bian- The inability to find and with this department has to do staffing problems in the coun- primary issue is metham- DA Norman Vroman and nual report at campaign hire qualified staff is consid- with staffing issues,” Miller ty but said hiring more offi- phetamine and what the former deputy DAs Myron stops and telling voters ered to be among the biggest said cers is not the only answer. county can do about it. Sawicki and Meredith “You know who I am; you problems facing county law Miller believes the Sher- “We’ll never have enough Also in the race is tree Lintott, could be described know what I do.” Sawicki enforcement. The low level of iff’s Office needs to work deputies to make crime go removal service owner as a competition between and Lintott have both run on staffing is to blame for the with local police academies to away,” Allman said. Tom Madden, who says he new changes and an estab- platforms of the need for long wait times for 911 recruit new officers and go to Instead of hiring new offi- was asked by several peo- lished order. response in rural areas, which the Board of Supervisors and ple to run and whose theme Vroman, now in his sec- See DA, Page A-5 can sometimes be as long as demand the amount of money See SHERIFF, Page A-4 is alternative energy. Finally, Els Cooperrider, owner of the Ukiah Brewery and known as SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE To our TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR author of the controversial ballot measure banning readers: growers from planting any- What they collected Be sure to remem- What they collected thing genetically modified Superior Court Judge ber that many polling Treasurer-Tax Collector in Mendocino County, is places for the June 6 Clay Brennan Primary Election are Shari Schapmire See 5TH, Page A-14 Loan: $19,150 (also received $3,000 different from previ- Loan: $13,500 loan from Joan Brennan) ous years. Many more $500+ donations: $500+ donations: Lester Marston, voters will be voting Jimmy and Kippi Dayton 3RD DISTRICT by mail, either be- SUPERVISOR Burton Rodin cause they are perma- $1,000+ donations: $1,000+ donations: Joan Brennan nent absentee voters Jim and Brenda Dayton Nonmonetary: None or because they are in Nonmonetary: $358.60 what has now been Pinches, TOTAL: $31,554.50 declared a mail ballot TOTAL: $25,793 precinct. Also, there are 37 consolidated Wagenet precincts voting at 22 polling locations. What they collected According to What they collected compete County Clerk Marsha Superior Court Judge Wharff, “These Treasurer-Tax Collector The Daily Journal and Jone Lemos changes have been Tania Ugrin-Capobianco Willits News reports Loan: None made to ensure that all Loan: $3,000 Two well-known North $500+ donations: Marilyn Fisher voters will vote in $500+: None County politicians are polling places that vying for the 3rd District $1,000+ donations: None meet strict federal $1,000+: None supervisor seat, which rep- Nonmonetary: $610 accessibility require- Nonmonetary: $920 resents Willits, Brooktrails, TOTAL: $5,783 ments and to success- TOTAL: $4,586 Laytonville, Covelo and fully deploy one touch other areas of the north screen per polling county. location to comply Incumbent Supervisor with the federal Help Hal Wagenet, who has America Vote Act. served one term thus far, Mendocino County and former county will continue to issue Supervisor John Pinches, paper ballots to voters who served from 1994 to 2 in race for judge at the polls and for Treasurer’s position 1998, and lost to Wagenet absentees. Voters who in 2002, both have good By LAURA CLARK tant qualities a judge can wish to use the touch name recognition, loyal The Daily Journal have, Brennan said. It’s also screen instead of draws 2 contenders followers and knowledge “Here comes the (new) important that a judge treat paper will need to ask of the workings of govern- judge” ... will it be a woman people with compassion, he to do so.” By LAURA CLARK urer-Tax Collector’s Office ment. or a man -- Jone Lemos or said. Polling places The Daily Journal for 25 years -- the last seven “I’m connected to my Clay Brennan? Both candi- “When people come to established for the They both claim to be the as the assistant treasurer-tax constituency in a much dates are local attorneys. court, they are going to court June election are as best woman for the job of collector to Timothy more realistic fashion,” because some part of their life follows: treasurer-tax collector, but Knudsen. Schapmire said the said Wagenet. “The con- Brennan is in crisis,” he said, noting he •Boonville – voters on June 6 will deter- office is already working her stituency, far and away, can only think of two positive Mendocino County mine if that’s Shari Schapmire into the tax collector’s job. wants to see a balance Clay Brennan worked for reasons why someone would Fairgrounds or Tania Ugrin-Capobianco. In her current position, between civilization and the District Attorney’s Office go to court: to get married or •Laytonville – Old Schapmire’s primary respon- resource conservation.” from 1991 to 1993 as a trial to adopt a child. High School-Weight Shari Schapmire sibilities revolve around tax “The rural areas in the deputy. “We have an adversary sys- collection. “Patience and a willingness Schapmire has been with See 3RD, Page A-14 to listen” are the most impor- See JUDGE, Page A-16 See VOTE, Page A-15 the Mendocino County Treas- See TREASURER, Page A-4 10,000 Square Feet of Merchandise North Coast HYDRO GARDENS Now Carrying “Cutting Edge Solutions” Products! 3450 N. STATE STREET, UKIAH (NEXT TO WEEKS DRILLING) • PHONE 707-462-7214 • FAX 707-462-7213 • HOURS: MONDAY - FRIDAY 9 - 6 • SATURDAY - SUNDAY 11 - 3 A-2 – SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ worked for Crawford ed States Department of Floyd leaves 4 grand Lumber. From there he Agriculture Re- children, Kristen Nicole went to a Career with the search Advisory Barney, Megan Melissa United States For- Committee, Forest Service Barney, Ashley Quake kills more than 3,500 in Indonesia est Service where he stayed for Pacific Southern Cheyenne Barney and twenty-seven Region and 4-H service Chelsi Ciarra Barney. BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) — Desperate relatives searched years working as a silvicul- leaders. He leaves a brother, rubble for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake flat- turist. Floyd was a historian Robert from Washington tened nearly all the buildings in this rice-farming town while Floyd loved his commu- and spent years of and sister Charlene from residents slept, killing more than 3,500 people on Indonesia’s FLOYD EUGENE BARNEY nity and worked to dedicated research on Sonoma County. densely populated Java island. Floyd Eugene Barney make it a better place. He genealogy. He co- Numerous nieces, nephews The magnitude-6.3 quake wounded thousands more and was Born April 1, 1936 in served on many authored the “Families cousins and family. the nation’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami. It also trig- Covelo, California. committees such as: Round Pictorial History Book Floyd leaves many gered fears that a rumbling volcano nearby would erupt. Died May 24, 2006 in Valley Public of Round Valley”. friends and people The earthquake struck at 5:54 a.m. near the famed Covelo, California. Library, Covelo He leaves his wife of 44 touched by the spirit of a Borobudur temple complex, caving in roofs and sending con- Floyd was born and Cemetery District Board of years DeAnna F. true leader and a crete walls crashing down. Thousands were wounded. raised in Covelo and at- Di- Barney, his son Vincent genuinely good and kind Survivors screamed as they ran from their homes, some clutch- tended Round Valley rectors, Held-Poage Barney and wife man. He will be ing bloodied children and the elderly. Schools.