Wildcats head Miss Mendocino ON THE MARKET to NBL meet Regents Scholar Guide to local real estate ...................................Inside ..........Page A-8 ............Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Tomorrow: Sunny to partly cloudy 7 58551 69301 0 FRIDAY May 12, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 48 pages, Volume 148 Number 33 email: [email protected] Citizens asked to ‘Mothering Sunday’ minimize Students make gifts The history of water use Mother’s Day By BEN BROWN to honor The Daily Journal The Daily Journal Mother’s Day is more Officials at the Millview their moms than a Hallmark holiday, County Water District are urging according to an article by Ukiah residents and their own By LAURA CLARK holidays.net. customers to conserve water over The Daily Journal The earliest Mother’s the weekend because higher Oak Manor Elementary Day celebrations can be demand is putting a strain on their School students on Thursday traced back to the spring wells. made colorful books and celebrations of ancient Millview is currently supplying planted flowers in hand- Greece in honor of “Rhea, water to the city because improve- painted pots in honor of the Mother of the Gods,” ments at the city plant have some special women. states the online article. reduced that facility’s output, said “We’re making a “During the 1600s, Millview County Water District Mother’s Day something,” England celebrated a day Operations Manager Michael third-grader Anika Brown called ‘Mothering Sunday.’ Wieling. said, when asked what she Celebrated on the fourth “We’re trying to help make up and her classmates were Sunday of Lent (the 40-day the difference,” Wieling said. working on. period leading up to Easter), “They can’t meet their daily English Language ‘Mothering Sunday’ hon- demand.” Development teacher Kathy ored the mothers of Ann Burck, city project engi- Sparrow, assisting with the England,” the article states. neer for water treatment, said the project inside Jim Evans’ “During this time many water being bought from third-grade classroom, said of England’s poor worked Millview was a buffer. Even with- the students were making as servants for the wealthy. out the additional water pur- books out of several layers As most jobs were located chased from Millview, the city of colored paper and after far from their homes, the has plenty of water to last until joining the pages together servants would live at the Wednesday when the treatment with ribbon, they would houses of their employers. write poems inside them for On Mothering Sunday the See WATER, Page A-12 their mothers. servants would have the day Asked what she likes off and were encouraged to about her mom, Brown said: return home and spend the “She’s really very nice and day with their mothers. A MCSO sometimes I get my way if I special cake, called the ask her, and usually she mothering cake, was often takes me where I want to brought along to provide a go.” festive touch. seeking Classmate Martin Ayala “As Christianity spread said he likes his mom throughout Europe the cele- because she buys him “stuff” bration changed to honor suspect he wants. “She buys me toys the ‘Mother Church’ -- the and stuff I want. ... She takes spiritual power that gave me to the skating rink and them life and protected stuff like that.” them from harm. Over time in assault Rocio Orozco, describing the church festival blended her mother as “very nice,” By BEN BROWN with the Mothering Sunday The Daily Journal said: “She takes me places. Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal celebration . People began She really cares about me Mendocino County sheriff’s (Top) Julie Redfearn (left) and Paige White get their hands dirty potting flow- honoring their mothers as deputies are looking for a man and my brothers.” ers for Mother’s Day during Gloria Halstad’s second-grade class Thursday at well as the church,” the arti- “Mr. Evans” who “of accused of attacking Justin Sevier, Oak Manor Elementary School. (Above left) Oak Manor teacher Kathy cle states. 27, of Ukiah, at a party on course” is making his moth- Sparrow assists students making Mother’s Day books and poems in Jim “In the United States er a card, is doing so because Eastside Calpella Road Monday Evans’ third-grade class on Thursday. (Above right) Kasie Taglio removes Mother’s Day was first sug- night. “she’s always there when I flowers that she will place in a decorated pot as a Mother’s Day gift. gested in 1872 by Julia need her,” he said. Sevier suffered a split lip, abra- Ward Howe (who wrote the sions to the head and leg, a possi- Two doors down, Gloria words to the Battle Hymn Halstad’s second-grade stu- know ... a lot of things. ble skull fracture and lost two of Where should I start?” of the Republic) as a day his front teeth as a result of the dents sat outside perched at a ‘She’s really very nice and sometimes I get my way if I ask her, dedicated to peace. Howe picnic table covered with Paige White, in answering attack. the same question, said: “I and usually she takes me where I want to go.’ would hold organized Mendocino County Sheriff’s potting soil, orange, yellow, Mother’s Day meetings in pink and white zinnias, and like it how she’s really, real- Lt. D.J. Miller said detectives are ly nice to us and buys us Boston, Mass. every year. working off a first name for the clay pots previously decorat- ANIKA BROWN “In 1907, Ana Jarvis, ed by the children. toys.” suspect and will be reinterviewing from Philadelphia, began a witnesses from the party and set- “This is fun ... just getting Katherine Thornton said: “She’s nice and she likes to ‘She really cares about me and my brothers.’ campaign to establish a ting up photo lines. dirty,” Ismael Ceja said as he national Mother’s Day. According to police reports, planted a flower for his sew with me, and we like to ROCIO OROZCO play with each other.” Jarvis persuaded her moth- Sevier was attending a party at a mother. er’s church in Grafton, West The children, who seemed house at 4160 Eastside Calpella Kasie Taglio said she Virginia to celebrate Road around 9 p.m. when he was liked planting the flowers eager to please, had other your room’ ... and then we Christopher Nelson, said Mother’s Day on the second plans for mom, besides the attacked by a man Sevier knew because “they are pretty.” have to do it,” Christine he would “do the laundry, anniversary of her mother’s only as “Mike.” Asked what she likes gifts they were making her. Tsarnas said, when asked and do all of her chores, and death, the second Sunday of Sevier told sheriff’s deputies about her mom, the young “We are gonna have a jar do the dishes.” May. By the next year, and write little things that what she was going to do for the suspect struck him several Taglio said: “She looks just Laura Clark can be reached times in the face and then kicked like me ... she’s nice. I don’t say, like, ‘Be nice,’ ‘Clean her mother on Sunday. at [email protected]. See MOTHERS, Page A-12 See ASSAULT, Page A-12 Grand jury issues report on county’s rural schools The Daily Journal among the districts indicate they are Furthermore, the grand jury states It’s no wonder the grand jury ing plan, which is reviewed at least A Mendocino County grand jury doing something right. that negative incidents between eth- found Anderson Valley Unified twice yearly. report on some small, rural schools Gang activity, graffiti and vandal- nic groups are minimal, as is fighting School District -- at both the elemen- • AVUSD offers an elective indicates they might be country, but ism are not major problems in the on campus. Drug-related incidents tary and secondary levels -- to be a American Sign Language class they aren’t bumpkins. surveyed school districts, according are minimal, and there is no known stable, flourishing educational sys- which fulfills the foreign language The grand jury recently performed to the grand jury. student use of meth on these cam- tem. Currently, 237 students are graduation requirement. oversights on Arena Union “An enforced dress code for stu- puses -- where administrators enrolled at AVHS, and 312 at the ele- • AVUSD offers a Culinary Arts Elementary School District and Pt. dents seems to have solved several reportedly know the names of all mentary school. elective; students from the five class- Arena Joint Union High School problems; it has eliminated gang their students. Among other findings at es assist in menu planning, food District, Leggett Valley Unified attire worn by ‘wannabes’ and “The relatively small school pop- Anderson Valley Unified School preparation, setting up, serving and School District, and Anderson Valley appears to promote positive student ulations enable school personnel to District: actually cooking for the breakfasts, Unified School District. behavior,” states the grand jury in its recognize and know virtually all • Every AVUSD senior high Many positive common findings report. their students,” the report states. school student has a personal learn- See SCHOOLS, Page A-12 A-2 – FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] read. The Roman Catholic priest showed no reaction. POLICE REPORTS Robinson, who had worked closely with Sister The world briefly Margaret Ann Pahl as the hospital chaplain and The following were presided at her funeral Mass, was a suspect early on compiled from but was not charged until two years ago.