Ukiah 3rd REMINISCE at Invitational SUNDAY Check out latest photo contest ..........Page A-8 Jan. 29, 2006 ..................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Rain Tuesday: Sunny turning cloudy $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 54 pages, Volume 147 Number 295 email: [email protected] What’s that smell? UUSD can’t pinpoint odor at new school By LAURA CLARK members having allergic symptoms, workplace, due to poor air quality to fix the problem, the woman said, “They are not hallucinating, there The Daily Journal she said, such as headaches and itch- because of poor construction, or but it has not been resolved. “I just is a smell,” he said. “And we have There has been an intermittent ing eyes. because of a city sewer problem. I smelled it outside a little while ago. responded. About a year ago I odor at the Grace Hudson “Sometimes the whole office staff don’t know what (is causing the ... It’s not bad all the time, therefore brought an industrial hygienist up to Elementary School since it opened a feels sick, and the last time (it smell) ... there’s been many theories. you become complacent and think do air sampling. He tested for year and a half ago, according to a smelled) was right after the winter One is that it is a ventilation prob- it’s over and then it happens again.” methane and carbon dioxide, and woman who works there. break on Jan 9. What’s the point in lem, due to poor design of the air Steve Turner, Ukiah Unified that is when he discovered there The woman, who requested she having a third of your paycheck go to ducts, which has to do with the spec- School District director of mainte- were leaks in the intake of the air remain anonymous, said the foul health benefits when your health is at ification and the plans not being nance, grounds, operations and trans- conditioning unit over the office.” smell is most noticeable in the office, risk in a brand new building,” she done correctly.” portation said the smell has been pre- The leaks were fixed, Turner said, a couple of classrooms, and outside. said. “It’s really stressful wondering Maintenance has hired people sent six to eight times in the last 12 The odor has resulted in some staff if you are going to feel ill in the from heating and cooling companies months or so. See SMELL, Page A-15 GREEN PARTY PARLEY Coast horse owner jailed The Daily Journal bail schedule for a single The man charged with cru- count of animal cruelty is elty to a herd of horses on the $15,000, which meant the coast is now in jail. court could have set James Denoyer was taken Denoyer’s bail at up to into custody of the $540,000 for all 36 counts. Mendocino County Sheriff’s The DA’s office requested that Office on Thursday following a higher bail be set due to the his arraignment in Ukiah on number of horses abused and 36 felony counts of animal the severity of the abuse. cruelty. Denoyer did not enter a Superior Court Judge plea of guilty or not guilty at Cindee Mayfield ordered his arraignment. He is sched- Denoyer’s bail set at $50,000. uled to enter his plea in the District Attorney Norm Vroman filed charges Jan. 13 Ten Mile Court on Feb. 14 at against DeNoyer, the 1:30 p.m. Westport man whose 35 hors- Each of the 36 counts car- es were seized last month by ries a penalty of a $20,000 county officials. fine and up to three years The Mendocino County imprisonment in state prison. ELECTION 2006 Pinches enters Tyler Stoffel/The Daily Journal Steve Cardullo listens to Green Party Emerald region representative Paul Encimer as Encimer speaks to a small gathering of Greens in Laytonville Saturday. race in 3rd district Former supervisor dacy to unseat current 3rd District Supervisor Hal criticizes “ballooned” Wagenet. No likely candidates emerging government Pinches, who sat on the By SETH FREEDLAND board between 1995 and 1999 Poor showing at regional The Daily Journal before making an unsuccess- meeting reflects frustration Former county supervisor ful run at the State Senate, John Pinches’ reentry into said his desire to run for By SETH FREEDLAND Mendocino supervisor again came down The Daily Journal County to a simple comparison In a rustic, bare-bones meeting-hall next door to politics between what he believes he the Laytonville fire station, a tiny fraternity of polit- seems to be can provide and what is cur- ical romantics met amidst a torrential rainstorm to driven by rently being provided by the keep a mutual dream alive. the old say- board. The small tribunal of Green Party advocates ing: “If you “I just don’t like the direc- assembled there on Saturday belied the relative want some- tion the county's going,” strength of the party in the region. The Emerald thing done Pinches said. “I felt when I Region, encompassing Mendocino, Humboldt, right, was there eight years ago we Lake, Trinity, Siskiyou and Del Norte counties, is Pinches you’ve got made good progress. Now all home to the highest percent of Green voters, accord- to do it this board seems to want is ing to the state Secretary of State’s office. Bernie Macdonald, one of the Emerald Region’s Green yourself.” conflict. I really feel I can do (Humboldt and Mendocino counties combine for Party members, pauses while speaking to other party Unhappy with what he sees a better job.” members in Laytonville on Saturday. Greens Dan as a meandering, bloated Asked for specific con- cerns, Pinches immediately See PARTY, Page A-15 Hamburg and Richard Parker are also shown. county government, Pinches declared this week his candi- See PINCHES, Page A-15 The most important opinion on the UVAP is yours In the wake of this week’s that intrigued me, as I walked prominence. countywide perspective on Board of Supervisors meet- out of what could be only be The UVAP is universally planning issues. But if the ing, public response has referred to as a marathon day believed to be closer to com- spotlight expands from the rightly focused on Supervisor MATTER at the supes’ chambers. The pletion than the general plan. Ukiah area to the whole Jim Wattenburger’s surprise notion came when former Shoemaker worried that a county, there remains the advocacy for a time-out of all supervisor and current Smart hold on county-wide building strong possibility that the val- new development building in Growth Coalition leader might take the wind out of ley might not become all that the county for a full year. The OF FACT Richard Shoemaker asked the the UVAP’s sails. Taking the Smart Growth Coalition implications for such a plan, board if the construction another step backward, one desires. both productive and harmful, time-out’s inclusionary nature could ask: How much separa- Shoemaker later told me will be debated until staff -- encompassing all of tion is desired between the that one reason an indepen- offers recommendations on SETH Mendocino County, and not UVAP and the general plan? dent Ukiah Valley plan Feb. 28. just the Ukiah Valley -- was In an interview after the should be important for val- But it was a secondary FREEDLAND appropriate given the Ukiah meeting, Wattenburger thought of Wattenburger’s Valley Area Plan’s recent focused on the concept of a See MATTER, Page A-15 A-2 – SUNDAY, JAN. 29, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] interest in tapping methane hydrates, ice-like The lawsuits accuse Walgreen Co. of violat- crystals that form at low temperatures and high ing the Illinois Health Care Right of The world briefly pressure in seabeds and in Arctic permafrost. Conscience Act. The pharmacists were being Scientists estimate that the methane trapped represented by the American Center for Law in previously known frozen reservoirs around and Justice, a public-interest group founded by Kidnappers renew threat to Poland collapsed Saturday with as many as 500 the globe could power the world for centuries. evangelist Pat Robertson. people inside for a racing pigeon exhibition, But finding the technology to mine such A new state rule requires pharmacies that kill four Christian activists killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens. deposits has proved elusive. sell federally approved contraceptives to fill A priest outside the building’s entrance The newly discovered deposit, believed to prescriptions for emergency birth control BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Kidnappers hold- prayed over the bodies of an adult and a child be substantial in size, was found about 15 “without delay” if they have the medication in ing four Christian peace activists gave U.S. and covered by a blanket and a tarp as rescue crews miles off the coast at a depth of about 2,600 stock. The rule is being challenged in federal Iraqi authorities a “last chance” to release all worked frantically to save the estimated 100 feet, at the summit of an undersea mud vol- court. detainees in Iraq, threatening to kill the people trapped inside. cano. Scientists were conducting an unrelated In response to the rule, Deerfield-based hostages if their demands were not met in a Witnesses said people beneath the wreckage study when they came across the volcano, Walgreen asked pharmacists to pledge in writ- videotape broadcast Saturday. were calling family or emergency services on which sits on top of an active fault zone in the ing that they would fill prescriptions for con- At least 22 people were killed in scattered their cell phones for help.