Little Caesar’s RELIGION wins NULL title Saturday Faith community news ...................................Page 3 .............Page 8 June 17, 2006 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Mostly sunny Monday: Plenty 7 58551 69301 0 of sunshine 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 148 Number 69 email: [email protected] COUNTY OF ‘I like to go to the beach with him and I like to go camping.’ MENDOCINO LEVI CLINE, about his father Public ‘I like to go to the park with him. We swim.’ Health Dad’s day NEVAEH STORIE director By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal n Wednesday afternoon, 13 resigns preschool and kindergarten students at the New Morning Montessori School in Ukiah sat Plans to use in a circle, sharing what they Othought was special about their dads in retirement preparation for Father’s Day. With gifts of sparkling painted rocks and to pursue handmade cards adorned with colored feathers in hand, the 3- to 6-year-olds were other interests led in discussion by school Director By KATIE MINTZ Martina Ohland. As The Daily Journal Brief history they enthusiastically After 15 years of service, of Father’s Day dictated what they Director of Pubic Health for loved about their Mendocino County Carol While the Mordhorst announced her retire- exact origins of fathers, she wrote their praises on large ment Tuesday. The future of her the celebration of position, which she’ll vacate at Father’s Day dif- paper in the students’ favorite color. the end of July, is still in ques- fer from source tion, according to Alison to source -- In the spirit of Father’s Day on Glassey, chief operating officer Hallmark reports for the county. that a Babylonian Sunday, here’s what they had to say: In March, the Health and youth named Human Services Agency was Elmesu carved “Daddy always lets me play a game on the formed, bringing together the the first known Departments of Public Health, Father's Day card computer,” Andrew McCormick said. Social Services and Mental in clay nearly Health. On Friday, Glassey said 4,000 years ago - What’s special about Bobby Thing’s the county had not yet come up - the formalized with the specifics regarding beginning of dad? “That he always plays with me,” whether or not it would replace See HISTORY, Bobby said. Mordhorst. Page 15 Nayeli Vega also In the transition to bring said she likes “to play together the three departments, with daddy.” the county is working to orga- “I love my daddy Facts about taking me to the See MORDHORST, Page 15 Father’s Day beach,” said Tristan Nevin, who recalled Father’s Day tying a double-knot in is the fourth- long grass there. Report largest card- “I like when my sending holiday daddy plays monkey in the United in the middle,” States, according Kathleen Thompson on meth to Hallmark. said. Hallmark expect- “I like to go to the ed that 102 mil- park with him,” lion Father’s Day Nevaeh Storie said. disputed cards would be “We swim.” given on Sunday. “I love my daddy (Mother’s Day is every day and every locally the third-largest time,” Joeseph card-sending hol- Beckmann said, after iday, with more carefully composing Task Force than 150 million his response to why commander says See FACTS, his dad is special. Page 15 it doesn’t apply See DAD, Page 15 to Mendocino Co. By BEN BROWN Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal (Top) New Morning Montessori The Daily Journal Director Martina Ohland writes down Methamphetamine is not the Maureen Kyle’s (left) thoughts about epidemic politicians and the her dad as students take turns shar- media claim it to be, according to ing special things about their fathers. a report from the Sentencing (Right) Levi Cline double checks a Project. But, officials in the Father’s Day card he made for his dad. Mendocino County Sheriff’s (Far right) Andrew McCormick taps Office say the drug is a significant his head as he thinks about all the problem locally. ways his dad is special. “Mischaracterizing the impact of methamphetamine by exagger- ating its prevalence and conse- quences while downplaying its receptivity to treatment succeeds neither as a tool of prevention nor as a vehicle of education,” wrote analyst Ryan King in his report. The report compiled statistics Iraq resolution condemned by Thompson from government studies per- formed in 2004 that show that Eureka Times-Standard “Mr. Speaker, this resolution will not ensure any Congress played politics. It was disdainful then 583,000 people, or less than two- WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mike Thompson (D- success in Iraq. It will not bring our troops home. and when I think of those brave men and women tenths of 1 percent of the U.S. Napa Valley) condemned the Republican Iraq res- It will only signal the death of true, honest debate I’ve visited at Walter Reed, Bethesda and Ramstein population, had used metham- olution on the House floor today. Thompson, a within the walls of this great chamber. ... It makes me sick today. Let’s do our job and phetamine in the last month. Vietnam War combat veteran and Purple Heart “Today’s so-called debate is politics at its bring our troops home as soon as possible. By contrast, four times as many recipient, was asked by Democratic Leader Nancy worst... we’re playing politics while U.S. men and “For weeks we have been told, and the people regularly use cocaine and Pelosi to manage a portion of the floor debate. women are being killed, wounded and kept away American people have been promised, by the 30 times as many use marijuana, Thompson called on Congress to bring our troops from their families. I remember laying in an Army home as soon as possible. hospital bed just home from Vietnam while See IRAQ, Page 15 See METH, Page 15 2 – SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] POLICE REPORTS Fitness experts call for new neighborhood designs in fat fight The following were compiled from reports By CHASE SQUIRES lored locally. prepared by the Ukiah Associated Press Writer The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Smoking bans, for example, have been state and Police Department. To DENVER — Bad news on the fat-fighting front: two-thirds of U.S. adults were overweight in 2003-2004. local initiatives. The government did its part by anonymously report Fitness experts say that solving the nation’s obesity identifying the dangers, Meer said, but it took soci- crime information, call problem is going to take a lot more than public ser- For children, 34 percent were overweight, up from 28 ety decades to embrace the message and tackle Big 463-6205. vice campaigns and frightening reports. Tobacco. One easy step, they say, would be designing percent in 1999-2000. On obesity, however, the government has been bullish with its warnings. ARREST -- Teri neighborhoods to be walkable. “We’ve built an unhealthy world in a lot of differ- Tom Gleason, a spokesman for developer Forest The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ullrich, 41, of Ukiah, was says two-thirds of U.S. adults were overweight in arrested on suspicion of ent ways,” said James Sallis, a San Diego State City, said the design has been a hit. Two years ago, University psychology professor once dubbed an organizers were concerned people coming to a park 2003-2004. For children, 34 percent were over- driving under the influence weight, up from 28 percent in 1999-2000 (17 percent in the 700 block of “obesity warrior” by Time magazine. for a founders’ day celebration might take up all the Sallis and others who gathered recently at the were obese, up from 14 percent). Talmage Road at 9:08 p.m. parking. American College of Sports Medicine’s annual CDC standards says a 5-foot-10-inch adult — Thursday. Ullrich was “We had about 2,000 people there, and I went meeting in Denver said virtually everything around back, I looked in the parking lots, they were male or female — is overweight at 174 pounds and released after being cited. American society has done for the past 100 years has obese at 209. For children, age and sex are factored ARREST -- Israel empty,” Gleason said. “People will walk if you give made it easier for us to be fatter. them that opportunity.” in and compared against other children. Bautista, 24, of Arizona, Sallis contends change will come only when the Two years ago, the federal National Institute of was arrested on suspicion Stapleton’s development plan was crafted largely public demands walkable development, more feder- through citizen advisory panels in the 1990s. Even Environmental Health Science hosted a conference of driving under the influ- al money for parks and bike paths and even a tax on on how society has engineered activity out of ence and resisting arrest in then, Gleason said, people wanted neighborhoods industries that promote sedentary lifestyles (he where they could get around without their cars. American life. Institute spokeswoman Christine the 300 block of West pointed to video game makers, movie theater chains Jack Berryman, a professor of medical history at Bruske said a similar conference last year focused on Smith Street at 11:52 p.m. and even electric Segway scooters). the University of Washington, said active lifestyles how children are affected, but new ideas take time. Thursday. Proof that people will accept an active lifestyle date back centuries and President Roosevelt famous- Without a coordinated effort among federal, state ARREST -- Derek and walk to parks and shopping if they can is found ly worried about Americans’ “slothful life.” Before and local governments, communities can’t compete Haddon, 34, of Ukiah, was in the “new urbanism” style of planned communi- both world wars, military leaders complained about with auto-centric subdivisions or corporate advertis- arrested on suspicion of ties, the experts contend.