Mendocino REMINISCE falls to SUNDAY Elusive Images photo contest Los Medanos ..........Page A-8 April 13, 2008 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Much cooler & cloudy; H 59º L 35º Tuesday: Clouds & sunshine; H 61º L 34º $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 44 pages, Volume 150 Number 4 email: [email protected] No on B, Cyclists pedal to raise money for Yes on B Spin-a-thon Special Olympics report finances House of By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Burgess As the fight over medical marijuana plant limits in Mendocino County heats up, financial filings show Yes on You’re from B has been keeping its promise not to take money Indiana? Do from outside the county and No on B has raised little you know John? money at all. By ROB BURGESS According to financial fil- The Daily Journal ing documents, the Green After living in California Party Working Group for No for the last eight months all I on Measure B has raised a can say is, you people really total of $800 as of March 24. love John Mellencamp. That money has come from Nowadays, if I need a three separate donations from Mellencamp fix all I have to the California office of the do is scan through the local National Organization for the radio stations and more often Reform of Marijuana Laws. than not “Pink Houses” or The lobbying organization “Jack and Diane” will grace made three donations, one of the speakers of my car stereo. $300 and two of $250 each I have a similar theory about between Feb. 25 and March the television show “Law and 14. Order,” which states that you No on B has used that can turn on the television at money to pay five people, any point during the day and Kenn Zendels, Marc LaBelle, an episode of at least one of MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal David Cusack, David the show’s spinoffs will be Bart Johnston pedals a stationary bike at the Redwood Health Club Saturday to raise money for the Gregory Sheridan and playing. local Special Olympics chapter. Johnston, who has used a wheelchair for the past 20 years, com- Gregory George Hancock, to This is significant because mitted to one hour on the exercise machine. circulate petitions, according I am from southern Indiana to financial filings. and I thought we loved our No on B has also hired native son more than anyone Corrina B. Avila to work on Saturday fund-raiser at its campaign. See BURGESS, Page A-14 During the same time frame, the Yes on B Coalition Redwood Health Club raised $10,900, mostly from Burglar By ROB BURGESS small contributions. The Daily Journal Early in the campaign, the It was a beautiful day outside Saturday as nine cyclists Yes on B Coalition said it sentenced turned their cranks. would not be taking money Stationed ahead of the pack a few feet in front of the from sources outside the rest, their leader instructed them from the front. county. to prison “You’re on a flat road,” she said, circling the pedals at “This is our future at a steady clip. “I feel good. I feel strong. Ain’t nobody stake,” said Yes on B Also pleads guilty to passing me today. I had an extra bowl of ice cream today. Coalition Co-Chairman marijuana cultivation Now let’s really open it up.” Duane Wells. “We shouldn’t The cyclists took note and let the chains of their rigs allow outside forces to dictate The Daily Journal really have it. James Welch, director of Special Olympics Anthony Michael King, Mendocino, works out with a flair during the choice of voters in Suddenly though, the song changed and the blond- Mendocino County.” The 33, of Ukiah, was sentenced haired pace-setter announced that the terrain had changed Saturday’s 12-hour Spin-A-Thon. to almost three years in state largest single donation, at with it. $3,900, came in the form of a prison Friday on charges of “Now you’re going up a steep hill,” she said. “Make terrains as they were positioned squarely atop their sta- burglary and marijuana culti- loan from Wells. sure to click the lever to increase the resistance.” tionary bicycles indoors. Other top contributors vation. The cyclists did as they were told and now were strain- The volunteers were part of the 12-Hour Spin-A-Thon, King pleaded guilty to the ing visibly against this newly-found pressure. a benefit for the Mendocino County Special Olympics See FINANCES, Page A-14 charges on Feb. 15; he was Oddly enough, the participants hadn’t moved an inch arrested Jan. 21, after he was during the entire time they were changing elevations and See SPIN-A-THON, Page A-4 found in a home in the 600 Forum on block of North State Street asleep on the couch with the resident’s 5-year-old child. Measure B Ukiah Police Department officers arrested King, and a Berg Medicare scam protection bill advances subsequent search of his is Monday home found 68 marijuana The Daily Journal support Assemblywoman Patty Berg’s AB 2842, which would The Daily Journal plants, according to police A bill before the Assembly Appropriations Committee is one prohibit agents from using bait-and-switch techniques or other The Ukiah City Council reports. step closer to protecting seniors from Medicare coverage come-ons to sell policies and products to Medicare recipients. will be hosting a forum on Mendocino Superior Court scams. “Believe me, seniors like myself get all sorts of solicitations Measure B at 6:30 p.m. Judge Richard Henderson Earlier this week, the state Assembly’s health policy experts from insurance agents for various insurance products,” said Monday at the City Council sentenced King to two years agreed California needs stricter rules for the way insurance Berg, D-Eureka. “Seniors must have rights when they are deal- chambers, 300 Seminary Ave. and eight months in state agents can deal with those who rely on Medicare coverage. ing with Medicare and other insurance products. We have a lot Representatives from both prison, citing his five previ- Members of the Assembly Health Committee voted 12-4 to See MEDICARE, Page A-14 sides have been invited to ous felony convictions. attend and present their argu- ments and answer questions from the audience. DIARY OF A PLAY Measure B, which was Part V: Beating the play placed on the ballot by the Mendocino County Board of Editor’s note: We’re following the produc- …you have no idea how to subdivide a down a little differently. Supervisors in January, would tion of a play in our community, “The Man play into beats. Television shows, movies and plays repeal Measure G and set Who Came To Dinner,” a co-production of Fear not, my friend, for I am here to are generally chopped up into “acts,” medical marijuana limits in Mendocino College and Ukiah Players help you. “scenes” and “beats.” Theatre. It will be performed at the Ukiah Mendocino County at the Playhouse May 8-31. We began with audi- You see, it’s all about the story. The “act” is the biggest unit of dra- state limits of six mature or 12 tions, moved on through the first reading and Every story can be broken down into matic action. Unlike the higher number immature plants and eight watching movies together, blocking and now: smaller parts. The most obvious example of acts found in older works (nearly all of ounces of dried marijuana. Beating the Play is a book. Stories in books are usually Shakespeare’s plays are told in five acts) Measure G, which was broken down by their writers into chap- most full-length plays these days contain passed by Mendocino County Perhaps you’ve found yourself lying ters. Chapters in books are like bricks in either two or three acts. The most com- voters in 2000, instructed law awake, late at night, a cold sweat starting a wall, with each brick a separate unfin- mon arrangement within modern theatre enforcement to make the to bead on your brow. Something’s nag- ished element of the complete story. is for there to be one act, an intermission prosecution of marijuana gar- ging at you – filling you with a horrible When these bricks/chapters are fitted and then a second act of approximately dens of 25 plants or fewer the By Keith Aisner sense of dread. Another uncertain breath together they are supposed to create a sin- the same length as the first. The two-act lowest possible priority. UPT production manager hitches in your throat as it hits you full- gle cohesive wall/story. Measure B has been placed force and you suddenly realize… Stories told through acting are broken See DIARY, Page A-4 on the June 3 ballot. A-2 – SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] FUNERAL NOTICES The world briefly [\ away at a local wife Sophie Cambra of hospital on Wednesday, Redwood Valley, daughter April 9, 2008 sur- Debbie Holland rounded by his family. and husband Dave of Bloodiest week of 2008 for tries in trouble, is facing its own hard times. Born April 27, 1930 in Redwood Valley, son U.S. troops in Iraq ends with One proposal on the agenda would trim 15 per- Los Angeles, Tony Gary Cambra and wife cent of the agency’s staff and sell about $11 served his country in the Linda of Lakeport, sis- roadside bomb death billion in the institutions’ vast gold reserves.