Pickrell The FORUM sweeps Commerce Our readers write Redline West File .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ......................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Cooler H 67º L 41º 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY Oct. 3, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 149 Number 177 email: [email protected] Honda sideswipes van on Hwy. 101 Drivers sustain Posted online ed across the median and her Valley Medical Center for at 1:20 p.m. vehicle collided with treatment of minor injuries. minor injuries Tuesday Ruddock’s. Traffic on northbound California Highway Patrol Highway 101 was reduced to By BEN BROWN Officer Patti Benedetti said one lane and slowed for close The Daily Journal witnesses told the CHP to an hour while police and Two people suffered minor ukiahdailyjournal.com Zastrow may have fallen fire crews investigated the injuries in a sideswipe traffic asleep at the wheel before the accident. accident on Highway 101 at Prelude driven by Brittany accident. The Ukiah Valley Fire 12:02 p.m. Tuesday. Zastrow, 18, of Lakeport, col- The two vehicles spun District, CalFire, the Ukiah According to reports from lided with the driver’s side of apart, the van coming to rest Police Department, the CHP, the California Highway the van just south of the North on the roadway and the Ukiah Ambulance Service, the Patrol, Debbie Ruddock, 41, State Street off ramp. Prelude skidding off the east Department of Fish and Game MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal of Ukiah, was northbound on Zastrow had been driving side of the roadway and into a and CalTrans responded to A Honda Prelude sits in the embankment of Highway Highway 101 in a 1994 Chevy at approximately 70 mph in ditch. this call. 101 where it came to rest after crossing the median Astrovan at approximately 70 the southbound lane of Zastrow and the other dri- Ben Brown can be reached at and colliding with a northbound Chevy van just after mph when a 1980 Honda Highway 101 when she drift- ver were transported to Ukiah [email protected]. noon on Tuesday. Lake ducks RALLY FOR HOMECOMING run down in parking lot Fish and Game seeking public’s help in finding those responsible By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal The California Department of Fish and Game is seeking three suspects who allegedly used their car to kill several ducks at Lake Mendocino Tuesday morning. Game Warden Karen Maurer said witnesses have reported that at around 11 a.m. at the south boat dock of Lake Mendocino, three people, two women and one man, were seen running over a large group of ducks that had congregated in the parking lot. The vehicle they were in has been described as a blue and white early 1990s Chevy 4X4. Several of the ducks were killed, and the suspects fled the scene. Maurer said Fish and Game is asking anyone who might have information about the truck or its occupants to call Fish and Game’s tip-line at 1- 888-334-2258. This is not the first time this year that ducks have been killed at the lake, Maurer said. Earlier this summer, two boys were seen throwing rocks at ducks, killing one. The boys are also believed to have destroyed a duck nest. Ben Brown can be reached at [email protected]. MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal Ukiah High seniors from left, Landon Chase, Jorgan Johnson and Lee Lorenzi, cheer for their year during a BOARD OF SUPERVISORS morning prep rally at the school’s auditorium Tuesday.The four high school classes are competing for the most spirit this Homecoming week. Water plan Board games provide this year’s theme By ROB BURGESS delayed one The Daily Journal hen George and Charles Parker first published Monopoly W during the Great Depression, more week they probably never imagined a By BEN BROWN billboard-sized representation of the The Daily Journal game board to be the backdrop for a The decision of how to pursue water conserva- gym full of screaming orange high tion in Mendocino County will be delayed at least school sophomores. another week so that county CEO Tim Mitchell But that’s just what happened Tuesday can meet with Mendocino County Water Agency at the Ukiah High School gym during Manager Roland Sanford. the school’s morning Homecoming rally. The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors With the chosen theme for this year’s voted unanimously Tuesday to direct Mitchell to Homecoming being “Board Games,” meet with Sanford to come up with a work plan each class chose a different theme: the for a needs assessment and conservation plan for seniors, dressed in black, chose Clue; the water in Mendocino County. juniors, decked out in white, selected Sanford was before the board Tuesday to pre- Candyland; and the freshman, sent a four-point plan which included an assess- committing themselves to green, went ment of water use in Mendocino County. with Jumanji. “The purpose of this task is to take a close look No school-day activities are scheduled at water use patterns in the Ukiah Valley,” he said. for today, but Thursday will see another Sanford said study of water use in the valley lunchtime rally where students are Soccer player Molly Learn hefts Gabe Ott, a football player, into the would allow the board to determine which con- encouraged to sport their class colors. Ukiah High School auditorium for Homecoming activities. servation measures would prove the most efficient Class skits will be performed Friday at based on water needs. 9:11 a.m. in the gym during the week’s issues will prevent them from attending at 7 p.m. until the freshman take over at “It will realistically tell you what can be final rally. Friday’s rally. 8 p.m. achieved,” he said. Bob Dieffenbach, UHS director of stu- Tonight the sophomores are scheduled Also during Tuesday’s scream-fest, At the board’s Sept. 25 meeting, 2nd District dent activities, said parents who want to to begin their practice at 7 p.m., while the candidates for Homecoming king and Supervisor Jim Wattenburger made a motion to see the skits are invited to attend juniors are slated to start at 8 p.m. On accept Sanford’s plan. The meeting was continued rehearsals in the gym, but that space Thursday, seniors have the floor starting See RALLY, Page 14 until Oct. 2 by 1st District Supervisor Michael Delbar before a vote could be taken. See WATER, Page 14 2 – WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES [\ The world briefly were married in 1951. Grandpa and Grandma and 15 great grandchildren Keith’s jobs in the Eur- Rankin - a place where spread across the eka WU office included love, laughter and United States (from Oregon cashier and night food were always in abun- to North Caroli- Leaders of North, South Korea meet manager, and in 1957 dance! na) moved to Ukiah to be- In retirement, Keith Funeral services will be in Pyongyang, begin 2nd summit come the manager of the absorbed himself in his held at the LDS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Ukiah WU office. lifelong interests of reading church on South Dora in Jong Il welcomed South Korea’s president to Pyongyang dis- While in Ukiah until the (especially any- Ukiah on Thursday, playing scant enthusiasm Tuesday while orchestrated crowds WU office closed in thing concerning FDR, October 4, at 11:00 am. cheered the start of the second-ever summit between the divid- 1971, Along with helping Churchill and WWII) ed Koreas since World War II. Betty raise 3 chil- and gardening (he grew a [\ The greeting was a stark contrast to the first North-South dren Keith was much mean tomato and AARON BROWN summit in 2000, when Kim greeted then-South Korean involved in the local grafted various strains of STILLABOWER President Kim Dae-jung with smiles and clasped both his hands community, most notably geraniums). He This past Saturday, tightly in an emotional moment that softened the North Korean on the Ukiah Unified maintained his WU ties September 29th, Aaron strongman’s image to South Koreans and the world. School District Board and through involvement was promoted to Heaven. This time, Kim appeared reserved and unemotional, walking in various positions in an Investment Club that Aaron was born July slowly and occasionally clapping lightly to encourage the with the Church of Jesus began with WU 5th, 1974, in Napa, Cali- crowd of thousands at the outdoor welcome ceremony, who Christ of Latter-Day members, but branched out fornia. waved red and pink paper flowers. South Korean President Roh Saints (LDS). During his to include family He was a blessing to any- Moo-hyun appeared to revel in the moment, waving and smil- period as a Counse- and friends. He was a men- one who came into ing broadly before reviewing a goose-stepping North Korean KEITH RANKIN lor to Bishop Robert V. tor to many Club contact with him. military honor guard wielding rifles with bayonets. Keith Rankin, a dedicat- ‘Bud’ Knudsen, they members in the art of He is survived by his Roh has said his goal at the summit is fostering peace ed worker and family were heavily involved in investing, his financially wife Cherrie, and chil- between the North and South, which remain technically at war man who had ties to the the planning and conservative nature belying dren Joanna, Patrick, and since a 1953 cease-fire halted the Korean War.