First place A’s RELIGION host Angels Saturday Faith community news ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 July 8, 2006 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Mostly sunny and very warm 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Partly sunny and cooler 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 148 Number 90 email: [email protected] STATE BUDGET 7 PUPS AND THEIR MOM Mendocino County a A Rottweiler-mix puppy, only 4 weeks old, rests On the brink in the canine corral at the Humane Society on winner in Friday. The shelter is looking for foster homes for the puppies. new budget of starvation By KATIE MINTZ The Daily Journal The newly enacted state budget for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, applauded by many for being the first in six years to be signed by the governor before its effective date, has some good things in store for Mendocino County, accord- ing to Sen. Wes Chesbro, First District representative and chairman of the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. Chesbro, serving in his fourth and last year as chairman of the committee, is pleased with the budget. “I’m going out on a positive note because the economy has recovered to a point where we can begin to restore programs,” Chesbro said. He noted that the previous three years had been some of the “most difficult times the state government has faced.” With an unexpected $7.5 billion from tax revenues and the state’s spending deficit at a low $3.3 billion compared to what it was four years ago, Chesbro said the state has made substantial progress. “If the economy and state continue to improve, I’m optimistic the structur- al deficit will be completely eliminat- ed,” he said. The budget included $4.9 billion to pay down debt and build up the state’s reserves. He cautioned, however, that See BUDGET, Page 14 IN WILLITS Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Kacey Childs, Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County manager, and volunteer Sallie Palmer, right, hold six of the puppies that were rescued Thursday evening after their mother was taken to an emergency animal hospital Safeway in Santa Rosa. It was uncertain as to whether their mother would survive, and the shelter is hoping to raise dona- tions for medical costs. remodel Humane Society seeking hurts other foster homes for puppies businesses Assistance with dog’s to take nutrients from their mother because By DAVID COURTLAND of her emaciated state, Palmer said. The Willits News medical bills also needed Humane Society members drove the Construction work on the Safeway dog to an emergency animal hospital in parking lot has caused a drastic loss of By BEN BROWN Santa Rosa for treatment. Palmer said vet- small business traffic, say owners of The Daily Journal erinarians there described the dog as the shops located next door to the A Rottweiler-mix and her seven puppies “incredibly emaciated.” She also had a supermarket. were lucky to be alive Friday after a 105-degree fever, which Palmer said could “If you see us from the highway it woman brought the dog to the Humane indicate the dog has an infection. looks like we’re closed,” said Gail Yde Society for Inland Mendocino County “She was so sick, the staff wasn’t sure of Play It Again Video. “It really has a Thursday evening. she would make it through the night,” large impact on our business.” “She was so weak she couldn’t stand Palmer said. Yde and other owners say traffic to up,” said Humane Society volunteer Sallie Veterinarians in Santa Rosa said if the their shops has gone down 25 percent Palmer. “She looks like a walking skele- dog had not been brought in she would to 30 percent since late May, when part ton.” have died, as would the puppies that were of the parking lot was closed off for The puppies were also in poor shape, dependent on her. resurfacing and restriping. their bellies distended from malnutrition, The woman who brought the dog and Safeway is giving its Willits super- Palmer said. The puppies are only 4 weeks market a $10.5 million overhaul, old and are still nursing. They were unable See HUMANE, Page 2 adding a gas station and redesigning the parking lot as well as renovating the store’s interior. Childs feeds the puppies, which were malnourished when they arrived at “When they closed off that side of the shelter on Thursday evening. the parking lot, we went from doing 100 pizzas a day to 80,” said Kathy Wallin, manager of Papa Murphy’s Take & Bake Pizza. On Wednesday, when the section of the parking lot directly in front of Yde’s video store, Phoenix Bakery, Salon 7 and Papa Murphy’s was closed off, Wallin had sold only 15 pizzas by Assisted suicide bill’s failure ‘crushing disappointment’ 5 p.m. By KATIE MINTZ to Berg’s chief of staff, Will May 31. “This was never an easy bill The loss of traffic is threatening The Daily Journal Shuck. Last year, Berg made her to pass,” Shuck said. jobs, said Lee Burnes of Phoenix In her second attempt to On June 27, the state Senate first attempt to legalize the Had it passed, the bill would Bakery, who says his business has legalize assisted suicide, Judiciary Committee rejected practice. After the bill passed have allowed doctors to pre- been down as much as 70 percent on Assemblywoman Patty Berg, AB 651, the California two Assembly committees, scribe a lethal prescription to a some days since construction began. D-Eureka, was defeated. On Compassionate Choices Act however, Berg and Levine did terminally ill patient diagnosed “I’m basically telling my girls, I Thursday, she hadn’t yet authored by Berg and not feel it had enough support with no more than six months can’t tell you if I’m going to be able to decided whether or not she’d Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, for full Assembly approval and to live. The bill was modeled give you any hours,” said Burnes. try for a third time in the next D-Van Nuys. The bill was chose not to bring it up for a Berg legislative session, according approved by the Assembly on vote. See SUICIDE, Page 2 See WILLITS, Page 2 2 – SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] SHERIFF’S REPORTS compiled from reports Mendocino Coast Hospital for FUNERAL NOTICES DEATH NOTICES prepared by the Califor- treatment. The following were nia Highway Patrol: [\ Cristian will be greatly Joanne Marie Stuart- compiled from reports missed and always • ACCIDENT -- A single- CORRECTIONS Carpenter, of Ukiah, died prepared by the vehicle accident on State loved by his parents Mendocino County CHARGES DISMISSED Yadira Ramos and Fran- Wednesday, July 2, 2006. Route 1 at 9 a.m. Thursday Arrangements are under the Sheriff’s Office: resulted in minor injuries. -- The notation of charges dis- cisco Novoa of Hopland. BOOKED -- Michael missed against Erik Giumelli Grandparents Jesus direction of Ukiah Valley Sean Christopher Mortuary. David Reed, 26, of Ukiah, Delcampo, 29, of Fort Bragg, printed on Friday should have Ramos and Maria was booked into jail on suspi- read that charges of commit- Martinez of Hopland and was traveling north on State cion of causing corporal Route 1 north of Little Valley ting a felony while on release Grandmother Anna injury to a spouse at 12:36 from custody before final Alvarez of Michoacan, Road in a 1995 Chevy pickup. POLICE REPORTS a.m. Thursday. Also in the vehicle was Jason judgment on a prior felony In Loving Memory Mexico. He also leaves BOOKED -- Pamela Kay charge were dismissed. behind numerous The following were Miller, 36, of Fort Bragg. The Of Grigsby, 47, of Chico, was pickup was carrying a load of The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this aunts, uncles, and cousins. compiled from reports space to correct errors or make clarifications Cristian Javier Novoa-Ramos booked into jail on suspicion roofing supplies for a Fort Cristian was born on Viewing for Cristian will prepared by the Ukiah of first-degree burglary and to news articles. Significant errors in obitu- Police Department. To Bragg contractor. ary notices or birth announcements will Thursday June 22, 2006 be held on Sunday knowingly receiving stolen result in reprinting the entire article. Errors July 9, 2006 from 5 pm to anonymously report According to reports from in San Fransisco, CA. He goods at 10:14 p.m. Thursday. the California Highway may be reported to the editor, 468-3526. 9pm at Eversole crime information, call Those arrested by law enforcement entered into rest on Patrol, Delcampo lost control Wednesday July 5, 2006 in Mortuary in Ukiah. 463-6205. officers are innocent until proven guilty. People reported as having been arrest- of the vehicle after entering a San Francisco, Recitation of the Rosary ed may contact the Daily Journal once LOTTERY NUMBERS will be held at 10am at ARREST -- Three Ukiah left curve at an unsafe speed. CA due to complications their case has been concluded so the The pickup rolled over onto Eversole Mortuary and girls, all age 14, were arrested results can be reported. Those who feel DAILY 3: night: 3, 6, 2. from congenital its right side and dumped its heart disease, he was 13 interment will follow at the on suspicion of battery caus- the information is in error should con- afternoon: 9, 1, 7. Ukiah cemetery. ing serious bodily injury in the tact the appropriate agency.