Wildcats REMINISCE defeat SUNDAY Elusive Images photo contest Maria Carrillo ..........Page A-8 Nov. 2, 2008 ................................Page A-3 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper .......Page A-2 Monday: Rain H 59º L 41º Tuesday: Sun and clouds; H 58º L 40º $1 tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 38 pages, Volume 150 Number 207 email: [email protected] Editor’s note: Retired Ukiah City Manager Candace Horsley highlights local businesses that you may not know even exist, primarily small Survivor recalls the horror of Jim Jones, center, is pic- businesses that are sometimes overlooked or tured here with two of his have a special something that makes them children in Redwood Valley unique. We hope these small columns will in this undated Ukiah Daily encourage our readers to explore local shopping Journal file photo. The Peo- opportunities. ples Temple religious move- Jonestown ment was started in Indi- anapolis before moving its headquarters to Redwood Happy Thai Valley in 1966. When Taj McMinn went on vacation to Ukiahan travels back to Guyana Thailand, he came back with a great idea. Take the wonderful flavors found in the Bangkok street markets, blend with his own unique cooking style and bring it back to California. When you step into the Happy Thai, you walk up to the counter, place your order and then step back and watch it all happen--because the whole area ahead of you is a fantastic open kitchen in which you can watch your meal being prepared with flair. Everything used is traditional Thai style cuisine. This is total take-out, which ranges from coconut green curry chicken or tofu, chicken What skewers with the best Thai goes around... bbq sauce you have every tasted, pad thai with chicken, tofu or shrimp and other de- UKIAH lectable items. A unique service the Happy Thai offers is stay- ing open until By Candace Horsley 1 a.m. on Fri- day and Saturday nights with delivery service in a traditional Tuk Tuk, the national taxi of Thailand. Taj goes down to the Asian markets every week to buy fresh ingredients and Asian Jonestown survivor Tracy Diaz, formerly Tracy Parks, left, and her friend Annette Brockway stand at the memorial See THAI, Page A-11 that was constructed during their recent visit to Guyana with a CNN crew to mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy. According to Diaz, the roses represented the four members of her family who escaped that day, and the three candles represent the children of her mother, Patty Parks, who was gunned down as she attempted to flee. Time change a good By ROB BURGESS 12-year-old Diaz witnessed time to make certain The Daily Journal members of the formerly Redwood Valley-based church Memories of my sister, Patty Parks smoke detector works t took almost 30 years, but gun down her mother, Patricia By WILLIAM CHAFFIN Tracy Diaz has finally The Daily Journal Parks, and four others as they (Editor’s Note: The following was If you have forgotten to set back your I found closure. attempted to flee. posted on the portion of The clock one hour for the end of Daylight “I have the peace that I was Diaz said she and a few oth- Jonestown Institute’s Web site dedi- looking for,” she said Friday, cated to remembrances of those who Saving Time, do so now, and inspect your ers were lost in the equatorial smoke detector while you are at it. sitting in the dining room of her jungle for four days before died in the tragedy.) Ukiah home. “I feel the biggest Cal Fire is reminding people to “change being rescued as they were near My sister, Patty Chaffin Parks, your clock -- change your battery,” a Cal weight off my shoulders. I feel death. came from a large family. She and like I could fly.” Fire news release stated this week. “The only thing that was I grew up with an older sister Joan According to statistics, 96 percent of all Diaz, formerly Tracy Parks, gone was this little shed on the – who has passed – a younger sis- is a survivor of the Jonestown homes in the United States have smoke side of the airstrip and that’s ter Linda, and a younger brother detectors and 65 percent of home-fire fatali- massacre that took the lives of where in my mind I was going Dennis – who just passed last more than 900 members of the ties happen in homes that either do not have to remember where the big December. We were a fairly happy a smoke alarm or have one that is not work- Peoples Temple religious move- plane was so I could remember family. Our parents married ment led by the Rev. Jim Jones. ing. where my mom’s body lay so I Ukiah resident Patty young, and Patty and Joan also The following smoke alarm maintenance Diaz and her friend Annette could do her memorial,” she Lou Parks was 44 married young, when they were 16 Brockway were part of a soon- tips are provided by Cal Fire: said. “They actually took the when she and four or 17. I remember that Patty and I -Test your smoke alarm once every to-be-aired CNN documentary picture while we were over others were killed on had to share a bed when we were hosted by Soledad O’Brien month. there, and one of the tour guides an airstrip just out- very young. In those days – I -Replace the batteries two times per year. marking the 30th anniversary of that was going to take us back side of Jonestown, would have been between 5 and the tragedy. -Even if you are doing so temporarily, do into Jonestown said he remem- Guyana on Nov. 18, not disable the alarm. A segment of the program bered me. He remembered them 1978. was filmed on location at the See PARKS, Page A-3 -Vacuum or dust your alarm to keep it in airstrip in Guyana where then working condition. See JONESTOWN, Page A-11 -Rehearse a fire drill so that everyone knows what to do when a smoke alarm sounds. Duncan Peak Vineyards: Historic ranch reflected in handcrafted wine “Our mission is to make excellent which rises in symmetry as a backdrop ranch in 1962 and he’s been coming wines for people to enjoy, and to pre- for the namesake vineyard and winery. here since he was 6 years old. He lived serve this property exactly the way I This property was part of the in Berkeley where his father was a pro- found it,” says Hubert Lenczowski, co- 15,000-acre Rancho Sanel Mexican fessor in international relations, but he proprietor of Duncan Peak Vineyards, Land Grant awarded to Fernando Feliz feels like he grew up on these rolling on Mountain House Road just west of in the early 1800s. In 1858, Elijah hills next to Feliz Creek under the Hopland. “The only thing we’ve Duncan purchased this property and shadow of Duncan Peak. After he and changed is that there are grapevines.” other acreage from the Rancho. The Resa, his wife and partner in the win- On a sunny afternoon two weeks barn, built of virgin redwood planks ery, married, he leased the ranch from ago those vines had been harvested. and timbers, has been carefully his family in 1982 and planted an acre Bins of fat black petite sirah grapes and restored by Lenczowski, who points to the tiny ruby cabernet grapes were some of the original square nails used See WINE, Page A-12 beginning fermentation next to the to build the barn. Inside, winery equip- iconic barn on Lenczowski’s 110-acre ment replaces the cow stalls. The ranch at the base of Duncan Peak. We hipped shed, which was once for sheep Hubert Lenczowski and his wife, Wine notes step back to admire the barn, built in and chickens, is now a temperature Resa, are co-proprietors of 1860. The peak of the barn reproduces controlled cellar for barrel aging. Duncan Peak Vineyards near By Heidi Cusick Dickerson the Coastal Range’s Duncan Peak, Lenczowski’s parents bought the Hopland. 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