Ukiah falls on Weekend FATHER BOYLE IN UKIAH Senior Night entertainment Jobs answer to gangs, he says ......................................Page 1 .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy and may rain 7 58551 69301 0 THURSDAY Feb. 16, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 147 Number 313 email: [email protected] Bullying, hate mail issue brought to school board UUSD board listens to By LAURA CLARK School District’s board meeting in Govern also states in a letter to the spoke at Tuesday night’s meeting, The Daily Journal order to voice her concern over what editor published in today’s Daily said something has to be done to concerns of community The mother of a 14-year-old girl she says is a “growing cancer” at Journal. assure “all” students are safe at members, will address who recently received anti-Semitic Ukiah High School. Neo-Nazi behavior at Ukiah High school. hate mail gave up her anonymity “This cancer takes the form of is not all she’s disturbed about. issue at next meeting Tuesday night at Ukiah Unified hatred, bullying and teasing,” Sharon Govern, like several others who See SCHOOL, Page 15 Daycare dilemma Water Far more children in need of child care than slots available; fight costs heavy for parents, but pay too low for many providers By LAURA CLARK The Daily Journal Finding licensed child care is a looms challenge, and for many parents so is paying for it. Schwarzenegger’s Licensed child care in public works proposal California is available for only 26 percent of the children who need it, addresses ailing Delta states the California Child Care & and hints at a canal Resource Referral Network in its 2005 California Child Care By STEVE GEISSINGER Portfolio. MediaNews Sacramento Bureau Infants are the most under- SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold served group, according to the Schwarzenegger began campaigning report, which finds only 6 percent Tuesday for water-related aspects of his of slots in licensed child care cen- $222 billion public works proposal that ters are available for children could resurrect a decades-old battle under the age of 2. over a canal skirting the Bay Area Delta Child care is expensive for -- a plan voters overwhelmingly reject- those paying for it, but for child ed amid fears it would drain Northern care workers the job often doesn’t California to quench the thirst of the pay enough to make ends meet. south state. “The cost for two children in The governor’s Strategic Growth licensed child care is more than the Plan plan does not specifically propose cost of a two-bedroom apartment a new Peripheral Canal, but administra- and is nearly 30 percent of the tion officials said that as part of the income of two public school teach- effort, they are eyeing the ailing ers,” states the portfolio, which Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta reflects child care costs, supply and and a combination of remedies that demand. include a smaller canal to divert river The average rate for full time water around the east side of the region. “We’ve determined that the current infant care in Mendocino County Amy Wellnitz/The Daily Journal is about $3.40 an hour, according New Morning Montessori School students play with blocks Wednesday. New Morning is path we’re on (in the Delta) is not sus- to Denise Gorny, resource and licensed to have 30 students in the school at any given time. After moving to a new loca- tainable, and the economy of the state referral manager at North Coast tion at the fairgrounds, the school will be able to have 45 students at once. Pictured, from of California is at stake,” said Lester Opportunities Rural Community left: Joeseph Beckmann, Julian Corvarrubias and Andrew McCormick. Standing, from Snow, director of the state Department Child Care. The average preschool left: Kaia Bogue and Chloe Martin. of Water Resources. rate is around $3.24 an hour, and The Peripheral Canal would have the average school age rate is diverted water from the Sacramento $3.13 an hour. (Coastal rates are a 39 facilities, but that doesn’t River, skirted the eastern side of the bit higher due to a higher cost of include that each year (between Delta and delivered it to huge pumps housing, Gorny said.) 2001 and now) NCO recruited and near Tracy. There, water would have In Mendocino County -- where trained a minimum of 20 new been channeled south. there are 122 licensed child care licensed family child care homes, But a bitter regional fight over trans- homes and 41 licensed child care so that means each year we lost ferring more north-state water to centers -- there are an estimated Southern California ended with voters 9,392 children age 13 and under See CHILD, Page 2 soundly rejecting the Peripheral Canal whose parents are in the labor in 1982. Ever since, the state has cho- force and only 2,312 licensed child Mercedes Allende serves sen to transfer river water from the care slots, according to a report. egg salad sandwiches for Sierra Nevada snowpack through the And the number of local snack Wednesday to Chloe Delta, instead of around it. licensed child care homes is Martin at New Morning Now, however, there is wide consen- declining, Gorny said. Montessori School. The sus among state and federal water offi- “In 2001, we had 161 licensed school currently has a wait- cials, Delta stakeholders and experts child care homes -- the centers ing list and hopes to take in that the region’s woes have grown crit- have stayed pretty solid. In looking new students once it ical, including risk of more aging lev- at 161 versus 122, it shows we lost moves to a new facility. ees that protect farms and homes crum- bling due to flooding or earthquakes, See WATER, Page 15 Employment can lead gang members ‘to a better place’ By BEN BROWN ilar activity in those 14 years old and the Mendocino County Office of The Daily Journal ‘Any community that wants to sensibly younger will never work because Education, detailed a program run Jobs, not jails was the rallying cry deal with this problem needs to work those who have been written off will through her office that helps troubled behind Jesuit priest Father Gregory have greater influence, he said. kids attain gainful employment. Boyle and 500 mothers from gang- on prevention, intervention and “Any community that wants to The program provides a business filled project housing in Los Angeles sensibly deal with this problem with money equal to a minimum when they went looking for a solu- enforcement.’ needs to work on prevention, inter- wage paycheck and workers com- tion to the violence in their commu- vention and enforcement,” Boyle pensation payments for 10 hours a nity. Twenty years later, Homeboy said. week of work if that business will Industries, the program Boyle found- FATHER GREGORY BOYLE Ana Araiza, a counselor at Project give someone in the program a job. ed, has given jobs to more than 500 Sanctuary, said she’s concerned with “This can be the thing that turns former gang members. quell gang violence. the emphasis in Mendocino County their life around,” Kaufman said. “If you give them a job, it gives Jobs provide community and a on eradicating gangs. Araiza believes Similar programs have been put them a reason to get up in the morn- sense of purpose in people who have the solution is to give gang members forth by the Willits action group ing and not engage in this activity,” been marginalized by society, he a sense of belonging and worth that’s working on a plan to have trou- Boyle said. “It’s the job that leads said. Abandoning and criminalizing instead of trying to drive them out. bled kids work on a project growing them to a better place.” youth is the worst thing to do in this “We want to eliminate behavior,” and processing lavender for sale. Boyle spoke with community and situation, Boyle said. Demonizing Boyle said in agreement. “We don’t “We’re giving them a place to be, business leaders Wednesday about young people who engage in gang do that to people.” Father Gregory Boyle how job programs can be used to activities to focus on preventing sim- Abbey Kaufman, a coordinator for See GANG, Page 15 2 – THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] CORRECTIONS FUNERAL NOTICES Child The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this space to correct [\ Frank came to Ukiah in errors or make clarifications to Continued from Page 1 news articles. Significant errors in 1966 with his first wife Lee and family, married Liz obituary notices or birth facilities. ... We actually lost 139 facilities during announcements will result in Ojanpera in 1976. He is sur- reprinting the entire article. vived by his sister Dorothy that time,” she said, noting some facilities are Errors may be reported to the edi- Rodriguez, son Rob Turner licensed for eight children and some are licensed tor, 468-3526. and wife Helen, daughter for up to 14 children. Ann Eastham and husband Going with the eight number, Mendocino County has lost 1,112 licensed child care spaces FRANK TURNER George, step daughters Pam LOTTERY NUMBERS Durham and Sue Ojanpera, since 2001, Gorny said. “If you think about 139 Frank Turner passed facilities closing, that is 139 jobs lost, and 139 DAILY 3: night: 4, 7, 1.