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SUNDAY
Community
sports digest
World briefly
.......Page A-2
$1 tax included
‘Walking Tractor’ & other tales
..................................Page A-3
April 2, 2006
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54 pages, Volume 147 Number 358
email: udj@pacific.net
FOCUS ON FILM DA, sheriff candidates raising cash
By BEN BROWN
The Daily Journal
SHELBY
WHITE
‘Stay Alive’
a thrilling
horror ride
Audiences will never see a livelier video
game, where the only thing you can lose is
your life.
“Stay Alive,” directed by William Brent
Bell and starring Samaire Armstrong (“The
O.C.” television eries), Sophia Bush (“One
Tree Hill” television series), Jon Foster
(“Life As We Know It” television series),
Frankie Muniz (“Racing Stripes,” “Malcom
in the Middle” television series) and Jimmi
Simpson (“Herbie: Fully Loaded”) is a
thrilling horror movie that will have you
dying for more.
Hutch’s (Foster) lifelong friend Loomis
is a Beta tester for video game prototypes.
One night Loomis is testing a new game that
isn’t on the market yet called “Stay Alive.”
The game is based on the story of a 17th cenSee FILM, Page A-16
Gorton’s owner
cuts whaling ties
The Daily Journal
Nissui, the parent company of Gorton’s to
Gloucester, announced Friday that it would
be selling off all shares of Kyodo Senpaku.
Kyodo Senpaku is a Japanese company
that leases boats to the Japanese government’s whaling fleet. Gorton’s parent company, Nissui, owns one-third of Kyodo
Senpaku. That connection led to a boycott of
Gorton’s products last month.
Nissui announced it would sell all of its
stock in Kyodo Senpaku by mid-April. The
announcement comes in the wake of the
announcement by two other shareholders
that they also plan to sell their interests in
the company.
“Obviously, Nissui and Gorton’s realized
that staying in the whale killing business was
bad business, affecting not only their bottom
line, but their reputation,” said Greenpeace
oceans specialist John Hocevar.
Cindy Arch and Susan Nutter, of the
Mendocino Coast Environmental Center,
The stickers and lawn signs
may not be out in force yet, but
candidates in the district attorney
and sheriff races have been busily
raising money for June’s primary
election.
In the district attorney’s race,
the money leader is obvious.
Former deputy District Attorney
Myron Sawicki has raised
$27,322. More than half of that,
about $15,000, came from his
mother, Elizabeth Sawicki. Much
of the remaining money is made
up of loans and money from private donors in amounts less than
$1,000.
Sawicki said he was feeling
comfortable with his early monetary lead and expected a similar
amount of donations in the future.
“I’ve talked to a lot of people
and groups who say I have earned
their support,” Sawicki said.
In contrast to Sawicki, Fort
Bragg attorney Meredith Lintott
declared only $1,100 in fundraising. The bulk of that money came
from a loan she and her husband
made to the campaign. Lintott
said she was not intimidated by
Sawicki’s money lead and said
See CANDIDATES, Page A-2
ON DISPLAY AT REDWOOD EMPIRE FAIRGROUNDS
Seized horses up for bid
By BEN BROWN
The Daily Journal
After a long, dark winter there may be light at
the end of the tunnel for 29 of the horses seized
in December from Fort Bragg resident James
DeNoyer by Mendocino County Animal
Control.
The Mendocino County Public Health
Department Animal Care and Control program is
selling 29 of the 36 seized animals at auction this
month as part of an agreement with DeNoyer.
Proceeds from the sale will go to compensate the
county for the cost of caring for the horses for the
past three months.
The horses are being shown to the public at
the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds. Three months
care has done wonders for the animals, said
Manda Mello, one of the volunteers who has
been working with the horses since they were
seized.
“They’re completely different horses,” Mello
said.
Despite the care, many of the animals still
appeared to be suffering ailments. Signs on the
stall doors indicated that some were still recovering from rain rot, a bacterial infection of the skin
that horses can get if exposed to the elements for
long periods of time. Others still looked thin.
“They still have a ways to go,” Mello said. “It
takes a long time.”
Despite the rain, there were several people on
hand to look over the horses. Peter Chevalier said
he had been notified of the sale by his daughter.
Chevalier said he grew up around horses and had
two-and-a-half acres of land where he could put
up one.
“Some of them look rough,” Chevalier said.
“You can tell they’ve been abused.”
Ron Odnel came to look in on the horses
because he knew some of the volunteers, for
whom he had a lot of praise.
“They look well,” Odnel said of the horses.
“These folks have done an incredible job.”
Despite the optimism, Odnel was not sure
how many of the horses the volunteers had really managed to save, noting that damage from
long-term malnutrition can be deep and often
irreversible. “Some of the babies will never be
the right size,” Odnel said.
Mello agreed, noting that the average starting
bid for an individual horse was between $300
and $500. “That’s all some of them are worth,”
Mello said.
Some of the animals were stunted and knock-
Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal
Peter Chevalier and Angelica Flores admire one
of the 29 horses on display at the fairgrounds on
Saturday. Horses seized
from Fort Bragg resident
James DeNoyer are being
shown to the public and
will remain on display
until April 9. Anyone who
wishes to purchase one
can turn in a sealed bid to
Animal Control.
kneed and may not be ridable,
Mello said. But, she holds out hope that the horses will find good homes. “We hope to never see
them again in this condition,” Mello said.
Of the 36 horses seized, 29 are being auctioned off by the county, four have been reserved
for DeNoyer to reclaim pending the outcome of
the trial and three have been claimed by their
original owner -- a man from Missouri who sold
the horses to DeNoyer but who had not received
final payment. Mello said the man would be in
Mendocino County Sunday to reclaim his animals.
The horses will remain on display until April
9. Anyone who wishes to purchase one can turn
in a sealed bid to Animal Control. Winning bidders will be notified April 12.
Ben Brown can be reached at udjbb@pacific.net.
See GORTON’S, Page A-15
Treat political mass e-mails with open eyes
If you’re reading this column, you’re probably a naturally
inquisitive person. My guess is you regularly seek out information and, in this day and age, that pursuit isn’t too tough.
We have quite a myriad of messages coming at us from all
angles. Newspapers, radio, blogs, conversations, television,
newsletters, magazines -- our heads get filled with ideas every
which way.
But lately there appears to be a renaissance of a new form of
information dispersal: the direct mass e-mail.
It’s not a new or unique effort, to be sure. But on two different political fronts, an individual is hoping to effect change
through rallying his neighbors around his cause.
Councilmember Phil Baldwin, one of the most vociferous
advocates for local campaign finance reform, had issued a mass
e-mail requesting Ukiah residents to contact another council
member “via letter, post card, phone or email” to support
Baldwin’s proposal to create a $100 contribution limit and a
$50 disclosure limit. He provides a hypothetical example in
which the $100 limit without a disclosure provision could allow
MATTER OF FACT
SETH
FREEDLAND
a candidate or independent committee to collect more than
$10,000 without public awareness of the money’s origin.
The e-mail concludes with the “swing” councilmember’s
contact information and the expected time the contribution limit
discussion should be heard at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.
Similarly, Councilmember Doug Crane’s son Eric recently
mass e-mailed Western Hills property owners his take on the
draft regulations debate. Crane stated his belief that the draft
should be tossed out and the process started anew, an opinion he
reiterated to the Planning Commission Wednesday night.
The issue of whether it’s appropriate for family members of
a City Council member to try to influence public opinion
through mass mailings is not my issue here (although the notion
has rankled some). I’m inclined to believe that opinion dissemination should be tolerated under tried-and-true principles of
free speech.
So unless I get the impression that some campaign is drowning the city with propaganda, it simply remains up to us to find
our own truth and opinion in all that we receive. The burden is
on our shoulders to sift through the e-mails, innuendo and, yes,
political columns, to decide what we personally agree with and
what we dismiss. This is no comment on Baldwin and Crane,
men I know to believe passionately about their respective issue,
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DAILY DIGEST
Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517
udj@pacific.net
The Ukiah Daily Journal
POLICE REPORTS
FUNERAL NOTICES
[\
LEO D. MARCOTT
August 20, 1920 – March 3, 2006
The much-loved “Mayor”
of Yorkville, Leo Marcott,
passed away suddenly at his
home on March 3rd. He was
85. Beloved husband for 64
years of Barbara Marcott,
he is also survived by 2
daughters, Kris and Sue, 2
granddaughters, Joey and
Terry, 2 great-grandsons,
Anthony and Nathan, and a
sister, Shirley. He was born
in Portland, Oregon and
was a decorated U.S. Army
Veteran of World War II,
whom proudly served with
distinction and still kept in
touch with many of his
infantry buddies. He is well
known for his theatrical
background, performing
and singing for years with
his family in musical theaters in Portland, Ukiah,
and Ft. Bragg, as well as
being Yorkville’s postmaster. Leo also had 2 popular
restaurants from the early
60s to the late 80s, with
folks coming back again and
again to enjoy Barbara’s
tacos and Leo’s warmth and
wonderful sense of humor.
His family and friends will
dearly miss him. All who
knew him embraced his gentle, kind manner and loving
spirit. He knew the words to
every old song; his favorite
was “On the Sunny Side of
the Street” and that is how
he lived, every day.
Everyone who knew him
knows that he had a joke or
“sunny side” for every situ-
ation. He always made the
dark clouds go away. We
called him every day and he
always told us, “Who loves
you most!” We love you
Dad. We were the luckiest
kids on earth and you will
be in our hearts forever. A
Celebration of Life will be
held in Boonville at a later
date.
[\
DARREN REED CLUTTS
April 2, 1986 - October 17, 2003
May peace be with you,
as well as everyone who was
fortunate to have know you.
Happy birthday son! There
hasn’t been a moment that I
haven’t had some thoughts,
some tears and some smiles
since you left us. I miss you
so much and this memorial
and tribute is yours from
those who will always love
you and for those who may
have taken a second thought
and learned from a terrible
tragedy, not to make the
same decision. Nobody,
absolutely nobody wants to
, or even should go through
what all of us are going
through to get this pain
behind us. I know I will
always go through this suffering that I’ve been going
through, I’ve come to terms
with it. It really is a shame
that you are not here to
share the love , the love that
everyone has for you. We all
miss you and wish that your
life didn’t have to be cut so
short. I know that there will
be a time that you and I, as
well as all your friends, will
again be together forever. I
want you to be assured that
I have forgiven and forgotten bad feelings that may
have lead up to your tragic
death and our loss. I know
that you have as well. My
prayers are always about
you and the peace that you
must have been seeking. I,
as well as many others, will
always love you Darren. I
always appreciate your visits in my dreams, it really is
the only hope that I have
anymore to hold onto. But
thanks needs to go to the
grace of God and to your
and my friends, who, without them, their support and
love, I can’t even see how I
could be here now. I love
you more than anyone or
you could even imagine.
The following were
compiled from reports
prepared by the Ukiah
Police Department. To
anonymously
report
crime information, call
463-6205.
ARREST -- Tracey Frost,
31, of Ukiah, was arrested on
suspicion of driving under the
influence in the 100 block of
West Mill Street at 1:18 a.m.
Saturday. Frost was released
after being cited.
ARREST -- John Garcia,
34, hometown not listed, was
arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in the
800 block of Waugh Lane at
2:20 a.m. Friday. Garcia was
released after being cited.
ARREST -- Bennett Pool,
29, of Redwood Valley, was
arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on
North State Street near the
101 overpass at 10:49 p.m.
Friday. Pool was released
after being cited.
CORRECTIONS
reserves this space to correct
errors or make clarifications
to news articles. Significant
errors in obituary notices or
birth announcements will
result in reprinting the entire
article. Errors may be reported to the editor, 468-3526.
LOTTERY NUMBERS
DAILY 3: night: 5, 4, 2.
afternoon: 3, 6, 0.
FANTASY 5: 23, 14, 7,
30, 31.
DAILY DERBY: 1st
Place:
08,
Gorgeous
George. 2nd Place: 04, Big
Ben. 3rd Place: 11, Money
Bags.
Race time: 1:40.41.
LOTTO: 19-26-14-4036.
Meganumber: 20.
Jackpot: $39 million.
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Candidates
Continued from Page A-1
she had raised more funds
since the March 17 filing
deadline.
“We’re just getting started,” Lintott said.
In addition to more traditional methods, Lintott has
been using the online service
PayPal to get donations
through her Web site. Lintott
said she had received some
funds through PayPal but that
most had come through the
mail.
Incumbent District Attorney Norman Vroman did not
file fundraising documents
this period because he does
not plan to raise more than
$1,000. Vroman was out of
the office and could not be
reached for comment.
In the sheriff’s race, it’s a
fairly even match as far as
funds go. Lt. Tom Allman has
raised $15,243; just ahead of
him is acting Sheriff Kevin
Broin, who has raised
$15,575. Leading the pack is
Lt. Don Miller, who has raised
$22,332.
Both Allman and Miller
have taken out considerable
loans, which make up the
majority of their war chests.
Broin’s single biggest contribution was a donation of
$6,299 from the campaign of
Undersheriff Gary Hudson, a
former candidate in the race.
Hudson announced he was
dropping out of the race “for
personal reasons” on Jan. 19.
Hudson said he gave the
money to Broin as part of the
closing of his campaign. The
donation came to Hudson
from the campaign of former
Sheriff Tony Craver.
Hudson said he was giving
Broin the money because he
felt Broin was clearly the
most qualified candidate.
“I think he would make a
great sheriff,” Hudson said.
For the most part, the rest
of the contributions have been
donations of between $100
and $500 from private individuals. Most of the money
has been spent on filing fees
and various types of advertising, although Miller has also
received
several
items,
including a quilt and a case of
wine, to be raffled off for
fund-raisers. Filegarden also
donated $1,690 in labor to
Miller to set up his candidacy
Web site.
Ben Brown can be reached at
udjbb@pacific.net.
INDOOR CRYPT PRESALES
EVERGREEN MEMORIAL GARDENS
EVERSOLE MORTUARY
The world briefly
Former hostage Jill Carroll lands
in Germany on way home from Iraq
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Protected by the
U.S. military and far from the country where she had been held
hostage, Jill Carroll strongly disavowed statements she had
made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened.
In a video, recorded before she was freed and posted by her
captors on an Islamist Web site, Carroll spoke out against the
U.S. military presence. But in a statement Saturday, she said the
recording was made under threat. Her editor has said three men
were pointing guns at her at the time.
“During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to
participate in a propaganda video. They told me I would be
released if I cooperated. I was living in a threatening environment, under their control, and wanted to go home alive. So I
agreed,” she said in a statement read by her editor in Boston.
“Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being
taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views.
They are not.”
but the status of the crew was unknown, according to the
American command.
Meanwhile, pressure mounted on Prime Minister Ibrahim alJaafari to step aside as the Shiite bloc’s nominee for a second
term, with some fellow Shiites urging him to withdraw to break
the deadlock over a new government amid increasing sectarian
violence.
A U.S. statement said the helicopter went down about 5:30
p.m. during a combat patrol southwest of the capital but gave no
further details, except to say that the fate of the crew was
unknown. The statement did not identify the type of helicopter.
It was the first loss of a U.S. helicopter since three of them
crashed in a 10-day period in January, killing a total of 18
American military personnel. At least two of the helicopters
were shot down.
Capsized boat did not have
license to sail, Bahraini officials say
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Some worried passengers left
a traditional dhow-turned-pleasure boat because it was swaying
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U.S. military helicopter crashes;
pressure on prime minister to step aside
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A U.S. military helicopter crashed
Saturday during a “combat air patrol” southwest of Baghdad,
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THIS WAS NEWS
JODY MARTINEZ
25 years ago
Wednesday, April 1, 1981
Ukiah Daily Journal
OUNTY’S JOBLESS RATE IS DROPPING.
Mendocino County’s jobless rate dropped 2.6
percent from January to February, according to
figures released today by the state Department of
Employment Development.
The number of jobless persons in the county was about
4,800 when this year began. Now, according to the DED
report, the number is about 4,325, bringing the unemployment
rate down from 16.1 percent to 14.7 percent.
The rate of unemployment in the same period of 1980 was
12.7 percent.
Federal rosters were static because of the federal hiring
freeze and figures for the state indicate that its payroll in the
county rose by 25 through additions to education’s payroll.
While the available labor force dropped from about 29,825
to about 29,450, the employment figure in the county rose
from 25,025 to 25,125, with increases in February’s
employment figures occurring in three areas: agriculture,
lumber and education.
C
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MARKET ‘PRETTY GLOOMY’ FOR COUNTY PEARS.
Pear growers in the West may be doing their work too well.
“The market is pretty gloomy,” says Alex Thomas Jr., one
of Ukiah’s largest pear growers and marketers. The problem,
he explains, is that California, Oregon and Washington, which
produce over 90 percent of the nation’s pears, have produced
record-breaking crops each year for the last three years.
The result, Thomas says, has been a glut of the fruit, and so
“the industry could use a light year.”
Yet, he adds, signs indicate there is the “potential for
another record-breaking crop” at the end of this summer,
when the fruit will be harvested.
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FOUR-HAND PIANO RECITAL SET FOR APRIL 10 AT
UKIAHI. Ukiah audiences will be treated to an intimate
recital of four-hand piano music on Friday, April 10, when
local residents Don Minnerly and Marilynn Tollefsen perform
at the Choral Room of Ukiah High School.
... The duo, who have given a number of concerts in the
Mendocino area and are acquiring a reputation for their fine
and sensitive playing, will perform Mozart’s pianistically
brilliant sonata in C Major, K. 521, of which he is quoted as
saying, “Tell her to start practicing immediately, for it is the
very devil to play;” Schubert’s Fantasia in F Minor, op. 103,
considered one of his finest works; Debussy’s poetic six
Epegraphes Antiques; and Giorgio Ferrari’s Divertimento,
1968.
50 years ago
Thursday, March 29, 1956
The Ukiah News
NORTH STATE STREET WIDENING PROJECT BEGUN
BY CONTRACTOR. The work of widening North State street
to four lanes was started last week by the Arthur B. Siri
construction firm of Santa Rosa.
The long awaited project is being jointly financed by the
state division of highways and City of Ukiah, and property
owners.
The street will be widened to four lanes; surfaced and curbs
and gutters installed from Low Gap road to Ford road.
Widening and surfacing is being done by the state division
of highways, while the city is responsible for installing of
curbs and gutters. The city in turn will charge owners of
property fronting State street for the cement work.
Siri will do both phases of the project. Completion is
expected by the middle of June.
Widening of the heavily traveled strip to four lanes to
conform with the width of State street through the business
district will eliminate traffic bottlenecks in the areas of Low
Gap road and Ford road.
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006 – A-3
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‘WALKING TRACTOR’
... And Other Tales of Old Anderson Valley
‘What I wanted to write
was a collection of short
stories that amount to a
love letter to Anderson
Valley and to some of the
old-timers who helped
make it what it was and
who helped me become
who I am.’
BRUCE PATTERSON
author of ‘Walking Tractor And Other
Tales of Old Anderson Valley’’
By JODY MARTINEZ
The Daily Journal
Bruce Patterson is no stranger to
hard work. He’s stomped fleeces
with a sheep-shearing crew, pounded fence posts as a ranch hand, and
wrestled with massive downed redwoods as a chokersetter on a logging crew in the rugged hills ringing Anderson Valley.
Along the way he’s met a lot of
interesting people: folks like Lester
Seymour, who taught him to “ride
logs” down a mountainside behind
a
Caterpillar
bulldozer; Ole
Claude, a cowboy and onetime
rodeo rider, who
loved to tell stories
in
the
Boonville Lodge
and had a low
opinion of sheep
(“the larger the
herd, the stupidPatterson
er the individual
critter”), and a
loincloth-wearing hermit with “a
powerful appreciation for cheese,”
whom Patterson christened Billy
Bones.
In 24 autobiographical stories in
the recently published book
“Walking Tractor And Other Tales
of Old Anderson Valley,” Patterson
introduces us to these real-life characters and other old-timers, a word
he defines in a glossary as “Pioneer
stock. Pre-chainsaw and pre-TV.
Yeomen, hillbillies, mountaineers.
A type of redneck.”
Patterson’s prose conveys a wonderful sense of place. His detailed
descriptions of the hazards and the
exhilaration of “highballing” in a
lumber camp make you feel like
you’re out in the woods with him,
experiencing the woodsmen’s life,
which as Patterson writes, was so
physically grueling that by the time
each season ended, a logger needed
the rainy winter months to recover
from the battering his body had
taken during the rest of the year.
“Most any chokersetter, but
especially a highballing greenhorn
like me, was going to hit the limit of
his physical endurance,” he writes
about his first season as a logger. He
says he still remembers “the exact
moment when I hit bottom.”
Bruce Patterson’s book, “Walking Tractor And Other Tales of
Old Anderson Valley,” includes 24 local stories and 28 local
photographs, like the long gone Morrow Ranch barn, shown
below.
He’d been struggling for some
time to force a choker – a steel rope
used to secure a log to a bulldozer
for transport – under a felled log
without success, and after expend-
ing his store of “stubbornness, rage
and brute strength” he watched in
exhausted disbelief while his partSee ‘TRACTOR,’ Page A-15
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4-H CLUBS PLANT NEW ROSE GARDEN AT
FAIRGROUNDS. Members of Ukiah Jolly Girls and Ukiah
Hustlers 4-H clubs participated in the planting of a rose
garden at the 12th district fairgrounds Tuesday morning in
appreciation of the use of the fairgrounds and buildings by 4H clubs in the county.
The planting is northeast of the main building, in a corner
of lawn. Thirty bushes were planted.
100 years ago
Friday, April 6, 1906
Dispatch-Democrat
RAILROAD FARES ARE REDUCED. R. X. Ryan,
general passenger agent of the C. N. Ry. Company, has
notified L. Johnson, the local agent, that the following rates
will go into effect on and after April 10th:
Ukiah to San Francisco, $3.50; Ukiah to Willits, $1.00;
Ukiah to Sherwood, $1.75; to Calpella, 15 cents; to Redwood,
30 cents; to Laughlin, 40 cents; to Ridgewood, 75 cents. This
reduced rate also applies in the opposite direction. This
reduction in fares will certainly be appreciated by the patrons
of the railroad.
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WOULD IMPROVE RUSSIAN RIVER. FARMERS
WILL TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY.
The farmers throughout the valley are trying to formulate a
plan for cleaning and improving the channel of Russian river
so that the flood waters may flow off uninterruptedly and not
overflow the land. John Cunningham and J. E. Holliday have
been working on the matter and at the next meeting of the
board of supervisors an enabling act will be passed allowing
the farmers along the river to form themselves into an
See THIS WAS NEWS, Page A-15
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SUNDAY TV Anger sparks massive protests, but what’s next?
NEWS SHOWS
IMMIGRATION REFORM
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press Writer
Associated Press
ABC’s “This Week” —
Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,
and George Allen, R-Va.;
Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins.
———
CBS’ “Face the Nation”
— Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.;
Rep. James Sensenbrenner,
R-Wis.
NBC’s “Meet the Press”
— Sen. John McCain, RAriz.; retired Marine Gen.
Anthony Zinni.
CNN’s “Late Edition” —
Mexican President Vicente
Fox; Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn.,
Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and
Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Ali
Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s chief
representative
to
the
International Atomic Energy
Agency.
“Fox News Sunday” —
Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.,
and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.;
Philip Mudd, associate executive assistant director of the
FBI’s National Security
Branch.
Freedland
but what’s good for the individual is not always good for
the rest of us.
One hopes that we will
constantly be aware of both
sides -- or in those cases
where there are more than two
viewpoints, all sides -- and
can then use the advocacy
material that plops into our
lap to guide us in evaluating a
given topic.
In the ramp-up to June 6,
we all know we’re going to be
receiving
election-related
SOLANA BEACH —
Manuel Aguilar feels uneasy
in supermarkets and public
parks. The 22-year-old illegal
immigrant from Mexico doesn’t speed on the freeway, worried that a traffic stop might
lead to his deportation.
The same Manuel Aguilar
will soon join others at a San
Diego park to protest a proposed overhaul of national
immigration policy. He’s even
helping organize the event.
Aguilar is hardly alone in
his move from the shadows to
the streets. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants have
demonstrated in cities from
Los Angeles to Milwaukee,
Denver to Washington, D.C.
— a rare burst of civil disobedience that surprised even
event organizers.
For Aguilar, the motivation
wasn’t feeling like a target in a
swath of Southern California
suburbia where sentiment
against illegal immigration
has been rising. He was
moved to act by the blessings
phone calls, e-mails and letters. We know it’s part of the
whole kit and caboodle come
campaign season: an overfeeding of information but a
likely under-nourishing of
hard, factual truth.
It remains in the best interest of our sanity to soak in the
campaigns with this understanding. Constant awareness
of the information being
handed us will not only keep
us lucid, but also may be best
for the election itself.
Seth Freedland knows you filter out, say, half of what he
writes. If he’s lucky. If you have a
comment, question or story idea,
please
contact
him
at
udjsf@pacific.net.
of the Roman Catholic Church
and the comfort of large numbers: tens of thousands of
marchers in Chicago, 50,000
in Denver, hundreds of thousands last weekend in Los
Angeles where tens of thousands more students marched
into the week.
What’s unclear is whether
the protests will influence legislation being debated in
Washington — and whether
this just is a March of marches or the beginning of a social
movement with staying
power.
Eliseo Medina, a prominent
union official, said the marches are a transforming moment
because they draw people
from all ages and economic
backgrounds.
“People finally said, ‘If that
many people are going out,
I’ll go out too and make my
voice heard,”’ said Medina,
executive vice president of the
Service Employees Inter-
national Union and an early
leader of the United Farm
Workers.
David Locher, a sociologist
at Missouri Southern State
University who studies crowd
psychology, suspects street
action will fade.
“A true social movement
builds up gradually over
time,” he said. “As far as I can
tell, this is more a spontaneous
thing.”
The protests have no transcendent leader, no single
face.
One face belongs to
Aguilar, who attends church
three times a week and, like
many new activists, appears
uninfluenced by established
politicians or immigrant advocacy groups.
Something
changed
Sunday at St. Leo Mission
Catholic Church in Solana
Beach, a small oceanfront
suburb of multimillion-dollar
homes north of San Diego. It
Belief growing: Immigration won’t
be decided until after Nov. election
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Should
they stay or should they go,
those 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United
States?
While that question hangs
over a Senate debate on border security and immigration,
most senators agree on allowSee DEBATE, Page A-5
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was the day after enthusiastic
reports about the Los Angeles
rally saturated Spanish-language media — a protest that
the Catholic Church supported.
A church worker invited
parishioners to stay after Mass
and plan a protest against legislation that calls for a sweeping crackdown on illegal
immigration.
Organizers
expected 20 people, but
Aguilar and about 100 others
decided to stay.
Many of them live in northern San Diego County, a
stronghold of activism against
illegal immigration. The City
Council
in
Escondido
endorsed a proposed state ballot measure that would create
a police force to enforce
immigration laws. A local
man led a group of armed
civilians known as the
California Minutemen to
patrol the Mexican border.
Yet the area also functions
with labor of illegal immigrants.
Aguilar makes $380 a week
picking blooms at a flower
nursery in the ultrawealthy
San Diego suburb of Rancho
Santa Fe. He said he rarely
leaves his rented apartment,
except for work and worship,
and has never attended a political rally or meeting.
Sitting on a church bench
he spoke with quiet anger and
disbelief about a House bill
that would turn being in the
United States illegally from a
civil violation to a felony.
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Protests
“It’s not a crime to work,”
said Aguilar, who left southern Mexico five years ago.
“We are not criminals.”
About 100 people gathered
Tuesday night for a follow-up
session to plan an April 9
protest at San Diego’s Balboa
Park.
Some lead such isolated
lives that they don’t know
how to get a home loan and
can’t converse with nonSpanish speakers. When a
speaker asked how many
could find an intersection at
the park, only a smattering of
hands went up — akin to suburban New Yorkers who
wouldn’t know how to get to
Central Park.
Debate
ing undocumented workers to
stay at least temporarily. The
fight is over whether they
should have to leave three
years to six years down the
road.
Even senators who oppose
providing a path to citizenship
to illegal immigrants are willing to grant them temporary
legal status as long as they
register with the government,
pay fines and eventually leave.
“Our first obligation is to
bring them out of the shadows,
make sure we know who they
are, why they’re here, make
sure we have a name and some
kind of identification for
them,” Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist said in an
interview with The Associated
Press.
“Then there will be a period
of time, whether it’s three
years or six years ... but they
can continue to work here and
at that point in time — that’s
where the debate is — do they
have to go home or are they
put on some sort of path to citizenship?” Frist said.
As the Senate opened two
weeks of debate Wednesday
night, Republicans clashed
over whether providing a path
to legal citizenship would lead
to more flouting of U.S. immigration laws.
House Speaker Dennis
Hastert raised the possibility
that a program letting illegal
immigrants continue to reside
in the U.S. for a period of time
might be considered by the
House if the Senate approves
one.
“Our first priority is to protect the borders. We also know
there is a need in some sectors
of this economy for a guest
worker program,” Hastert told
reporters Wednesday.
The House has passed legislation limited to tightening
borders and making it a crime
to be in the United States illegally or to offer aid to illegal
immigrants.
However, there is a growing consensus among lawmakers that any merging of the
House and Senate measures so
that Congress could send a bill
to President Bush won’t occur
until after the November election.
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the House has passed a bill,
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Arnoldo Marin volunteered
to lead a group to the April
rally, though he confesses that
his bona fides as an organizer
consist of staging an Easter
play at church. The final
straw, he said, was the House
legislation that would also
enlist local law enforcement
to help stop illegal entrants,
requires employers to verify
the legal status of their workers and authorizes 698 miles
of fencing along the U.S.Mexico border.
“We stayed quiet for a long
time but the water rose above
our necks,” said Marin, a
handyman who moved to the
United States from the
Mexican state of Jalisco in
1986 and became a legal resident. “If you feel yourself
drowning, you have to do
something.”
the Senate passed a bill and
everybody declares victory
and you don’t get anything out
of conference between now
and the elections,” said Sen.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
Grassley chairs the Senate
Finance Committee that is
drafting a measure dealing
with steps employers would
have to take regarding illegal
workers.
Bush said workers should
be given tamper-resistant
identity cards and go to the
back of the line when they
seek citizenship.
“I think it makes sense to
have a temporary worker program that says you’re not an
automatic citizen to help, one,
enforce the border; and, two,
uphold the decency of
America,”
Bush
said
Wednesday.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, DMass., who has proposed with
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
allowing illegal immigrants to
earn a path to citizenship
through work, was buoyed by
Bush’s comments.
“We should reject temporary status and required departure because they are bad for
business,” Kennedy said.
“What do we gain if millions
of immigrant workers who
fuel our economy are required
to spend weeks — or years or
decades under some plans —
waiting outside the United
States for permission to continue their work?”
Frist dodged the question of
what to do about illegal immigrants in the country in the bill
he introduced. But other bills
that could be offered as
amendments tackle that issue.
On Monday, Sen. Arlen
Specter, R-Pa., shepherded
legislation containing the
McCain-Kennedy proposal
through the Senate Judiciary
Committee on a 12-6 vote. He
insisted the bill is not amnesty
because illegal immigrants
would have to undergo background checks, pay fines, back
taxes and clear other obstacles
before getting on the “citizenship track.” They wouldn’t
have to leave the United
States.
Under current law, a person
who is in the country illegally
for more than 180 days cannot
re-enter the U.S. for three
years. A person in the country
illegally for more than a year
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Letters from our readers In our opinion
United we stand
To the Editor:
In regard to the immigration reforms and
the massive pro-immigrant protests in different states: I’d like to agree with the fact
that this is a country made and forged by
immigrants, so human and civil rights must
be fair and equal for all. Laws need to be
updated and immigration must be regulated
in a fair manner. The United States of
America is a Latino and Hispanic country
as well.
The American Southwest is proud to
have a Mexican-Spanish ethnic and cultural
background. We in California are proud to
be the sixth economic power of the world,
but it wouldn’t be without the labor force
of thousands of undocumented workers.
Any wall can divide any nation, the
Mexican nation and their people exist within the United States. The Southwest
became part of the United States in 1848,
after the Mexican-American war, ended by
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the
Northwest of México became the southwest
of the United States, and many Mexicans
became U.S. citizens, and majorities
became minorities, policies changed, the
official language changed, the currency
changed, the governments changed, but the
people and their spirit abide.
The power of the people is what makes a
democracy strong, so the voice of millions
of immigrants must be listened to by the
Congress and lawmakers. We live in a
global economy world, and we need of
each other. Social justice is possible and
what all these immigrants without documents want is just dignity, opportunities,
and civil rights. And I strongly believe that
is possible. “Si se puede!” United We
Stand.
Jose Landero
Ukiah
A window opening ...?
The announcement last week that the
Fetzer Valley Oaks facility in Hopland was
closing was not a big surprise, but sent a
shockwave through the community nonetheless as dozens of long time employees finally knew for certain that the future was gone
for them at Fetzer.
The signs had been coming for a long
time. Previous layoffs of long term employees, workers’ jobs being downgraded or
staffers being moved to other departments
showed a company trying to cut costs. Some
said that when the company began charging
its customers for wine tasting - unusual in
the medium- to low-end wine arena where
Fetzer dominates - it began to look like the
end.
The Valley Oaks facility is a beauty. It
was built by the Fetzer family at a time when
wineries in California were stepping up with
marketing that stressed the wine country
lifestyle: that wine was meant to be enjoyed
as a complement to food and good living.
Even after the Fetzer family sold its Fetzer
holdings to the Brown-Forman Corporation,
Valley Oaks was a testament to that vision:
The organic gardens, John Ash’s culinary
center, the pristine bed and breakfast accommodations and the friendly wine tasting
room and reserve rooms, all on 50 lush acres
of vineyards where spring wildflowers
astounded visitors and summer gardens and
fall grape harvests were plentiful.
Valley Oaks hosted visitors from around
the world, including celebrities - not the
least of which was TV chef Emeril Lagasse
who partnered with Fetzer for a couple of
years of fun auctions and dinners to raise
funds for good causes. One of those causes
was the Ukiah Unified School District’s gardening program for kids.
We understand that business is business
and Brown-Forman is going to do whatever
it feels it needs to, to keep the bottom line in
sight. But we feel sorry for the many dedicated and long time employees the company
has cut loose and hope the facility won’t
stand abandoned for long.
The best outcome would be a buyer for
the facility who would care deeply about the
possibilities it holds as a Mendocino County
wine country attraction. The Mendocino
County wine industry is about to vote on setting up a new Wine Grape Commission that
will spend hundreds of thousands promoting
our area’s wine products. A new Valley Oaks
owner with energy, optimism and vision
could be an active partner in that effort and
make that 50 acres in Hopland a shining
example of the promise of Mendocino
County’s wine country.
their action, no matter how passionate they
are about the issue.
Kathy Davidson
Ukiah
rior programs of public education and community participation across the MendocinoLake Community College District. As a
result of the Gala and other donations, the
Foundation will provide $62,500 in scholarship assistance and $2,500 in textbook
purchase awards to students for the academic year 2006-07, along with support for a
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Wilda Shock,
President, Mendocino College
Foundation
Kathryn G. Lehner,
Superintendent/ President, Mendocino
College
Students shouldn’t break
rules to protest
To the Editor:
This morning I just witnessed hundreds
of teenagers parading in protest twice past
my business window going to and from
Talmage to downtown. These teens, who
should have been in school, were carrying
flags, mostly the flag of Mexico, and
protested peacefully regarding the immigration issue up for vote.
I am not arguing their right to gather or
their issue, but I must and do resent the fact
that hundreds of teenagers opted and willingly cut classes to participate in this
protest. As a taxpayer I wonder if they considered how many thousands of dollars in
state money was lost to the school district
by their absence. Perhaps they don’t realize that roll call is very important to
schools. Each student is worth so many
dollars in funding. When the flu hits and
people are sick, overhead still goes on but
income is drastically reduced.
But they do realize that they broke the
rules. There is a rule about non-attendance
for activities other than medical or death in
the family or other excused absences. I
hope their parents did not write an excuse
slip and if they did, I think each should be
scrutinized and challenged by the administration of the school. I also wish that there
were 20 or so truant officers deputized to
witness this incident and take names.
What important lesson did they miss in
school today by their non-attendance? Did
they miss a test? Do they realize what a
privilege it is to be able to attend a free
school or how many teens in the world
would love to take their place?
If I sound harsh, I guess I am. I am a
rule follower. I do not break laws. I do not
cheat. And I do not lie. This protest, no
matter what the purpose, involved rules and
many levels of ethics. I don’t know the truant laws so maybe a law wasn’t broken, but
I suspect there was one.
I also want to remind these students that only in this country would you be able
to do this. That your disregard for the rules
which was widely publicized may backfire
on you. Adults (voters) do not like the rules
ignored. This error in judgment may also
raise a race issue where there was none. I
hope and pray not.
I believe that the school should call an
assembly over this, and explain to the students details about the financial burden,
and what affect their disregard for the system and rules had on the District. I also
think that these students should be penalized or in some way brought to task for
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Thank you
To the Editor:
The Mendocino College Foundation
thanks the many volunteers, auction
donors, businesses, community partners
and ticket purchasers who together made
our 2006 Gala a tremendous success. As a
result of all your efforts, those who attended had a wonderful time and we netted
nearly $25,000 which will be used to fund
scholarships for students at Mendocino
College and to augment instructional program needs.
In particular, thanks go to our two student speakers, Robert Parmenter and
Danielle Jones, who eloquently described
the effect of scholarship assistance on their
ability to attend college and fulfill their
educational and career aspirations.
The mission of the Mendocino College
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Bass-ackwards
restructuring
Sunday view BY MARK SCARAMELLA
The creation of a new “Human Services Agency”
made up of Social Services, Public Health and Mental
Health was announced by Mendocino County CEO
John Ball and his powerful new Deputy, Chief
Operating Officer Allison Glassey, former head of
Social Services last month. The announcement was a
surprise, having gone through no formal planning,
public hearings or Supervisorial review. The level of
contempt Glassey and, by extension, Ball have for
public processes is now obvious. So obvious, in fact,
that Glassey and Ball didn’t even bother to analyze or
take public input on the potentially overlapping functions in these three big departments before announcing
the consolidation.
The Human Services Agency creation comes on the
heels of the decision last year to put Animal Control in
Environmental Health under Public Health. This is an
odd place for Animal Control. In many rural counties
Animal Control is in the Ag Department, which makes
more sense. A case can also be made that it should be
part of the Sheriff's Office. But there were no hearings,
no discussions of alternatives. When Animal Control's
former department head, the unpopular and regularly
criticized Greg Foss, retired, there was another lost
opportunity to hold at least one hearing to discuss the
reorganization of that small department. Instead, the
decision was simply announced as a fait accompli.
The lack of planning or review of the Human
Services Agency creation was made clear by the
announcement itself. The new “agency” has no head
and the three former high-paid department heads were
glommed together and assigned to additional tasks
which should have been thought through before the
announcement: administrative integration (payrolls,
bills, vehicles, facilities, etc.), services integration
(looking at possibly overlapping client services), and
an ill-defined training function for the as-yet undefined
integration’s office positions.
The ad-hoc “leadership team” headed by Glassey
herself plans to assign various tasks to more ad hoc
sub-committees to plan various organizational and
budgetary issues which are also yet to be addressed.
The three departments will still submit separate budgets, we’re told, although the “leadership team” says
they want to “pool resources” -- aka cut some jobs.
Unmentioned in the “integration” planning is the
effect on jobs, job descriptions, promotional opportunities, pay scales, etc. -- all things that the County
Employees’ Union should have a direct interest in -not to mention the taxpayers who are paying for it.
The result of this decree is the creation of the largest
organization in the County with numerous and wideranging functions. Yet there were no public hearings,
formal reviews or oversight. Nor has their been a peep
from the Supervisors themselves -- not one complained that such a significant County restructuring
decision didn’t make it onto their agenda.
Left out of the Agency creation process were the
employees, the employees’ union, the Supervisors, the
applicable review and advisory boards, the “clients”
and the public. Although Glassey says that 10 different
advisory groups supplied opinions on the idea, no one
has seen the “opinions” and they haven’t been publicly
discussed or reviewed. Were the opinions all positive?
While Mendo is usually incapable of making any official changes without a series of boring (but sometimes
necessary) planning meetings, this one was the other
extreme: Major restructure by executive fiat.
If the Employees Union has any backbone they’ll
file a grievance about lack of hearings concerning the
potentially significant impact on their members, since
not only should this consolidation involve the union
through the meet-and-confer process, but if the County
gets away with railroading this one through, the others
that are probably in the works will be similarly decreed
without review, planning or hearings.
It’s not that the consolidation idea is a bad one, but
these are public agencies with public employees -- and
major changes in their organization should be done
with a public process involving all involved parties -what Mendoland likes to call stakeholders.
In fact, it’s not clear that this reorganization will do
much good, anyway. Which is why, if so many “benefits” will result from this change, it’s incumbent on the
County to demonstrate that those benefits will actually
accrue BEFORE they make the move.
Most of the functions in these service departments
operate under strict terms set out by state and federal
rules, and Ms. Glassey knows that. Even when Ms.
Glassey strains hard to cite supposed benefits she drifts
into foreign territory telling the Journal’s Seth
Freedland, “The true benefit of the realignment will
come in situations like natural disasters. When emergency meetings are called, waiting for three departments’ representatives is an inflexible process but with
all three disciplines cooperating in one agency, the
county can provide a more unified response.”
That’s a ridiculous claim on its face because these
three departments have almost no official role in emerSee STRUCTURE, Page A-7
Mark Scaramella is a Philo resident.
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SUNDAY VOICES
ON THE STREETS
Like real sisters
Sunday view
What are your feelings
about the newly proposed
immigration laws?
Editor’s note: The following column
was submitted by the Big Brothers/Big
Sisters organization as ongoing outreach
to the community for support for these
programs.
My “Big Sister” Renee Wilson and I
have been a match for two years through
Big Brothers Big Sisters. I am 16 and
Renee is 22, so we like a lot of the same
things. Since we have been together for
so long, we are really close, like real sisters.
The things I like best about my mentor
are that she is always there for me when I
need somebody to talk to, and she keeps
my secrets. She makes me happy and she
makes me laugh.
I have changed since I have been with
my mentor. Renee helped me to pay
attention to what I am doing in my life.
Now I feel like I want to have a good
future, so I do not want to get in trouble.
I think much more about my family and
my actions towards them. I am very protective of my family because I love them
to death.
My Sister helped me realize that my
family is really important. Now I help my
family with money and food. I have
accomplished helping them out by keeping a job and getting a paycheck, like her.
I am a part of the Work Experience program at my school and I work five days a
BY AMANDA MAHER
week for two hours at the school library
and at a local pet store.
My mentor has also helped me with
my goals. Now I know I want to graduate. I want to go to college to be a massage therapist, and I also want to help
people with their disabilities. I am a special education student and I hope someday I can help people who also are in programs like this. I have been making
progress towards these goals by getting
good grades so I can graduate. I was getting bad grades in school and I have been
making up my credits and doing a lot better in class.
If I did not have my mentor, I would be
sitting in my room, watching television
and sleeping. Now we do lots of things I
would not normally do, like go to the
library, go swimming, go out to eat, go to
the movie theater, and go camping. It is
fun when we go to my Sister’s house and
cook dinner together or make presents
like we did for Christmas. All of these
Righting the wrongs
Sunday view
Dylan Schaffer is not just another
appellate attorney processing criminal
cases in California’s Bay Area. Neither is
his novels’ quirky protagonist Gordy
Seegerman just another public defender
making misdemeanors disappear for the
innocent and guilty alike in fictional
Santa Rita, California.
So, just how much does Dylan’s real
life as a lawyer reflect his successful fictional works, “Misdemeanor Man” and
its sequel “I Right the Wrongs?” Well,
like he told me in an enjoyable interview,
not much. His first novel was published
in 2004 and the second followed in 2005,
with its paperback version hitting stands
this month. The less confident Gordy
might settle a case here and there (trials
are not his forte), but his struggles also
include coming to grips with a father who
has early-onset Alzheimer’s plus a longdead relationship he’s unable to bury.
Hard to smile about those, but Schaffer
has a way of lightening it up.
An admittedly “quick and intensive
writer,” Schaffer has already sold his next
book, a non-fiction piece for a change.
This memoir of his relationship with his
father is coming out next September and
entitled “Life, Death & Bialys.” It’s risky
to switch genres midstream, Schaffer
admits, but he is not clear that the whodunit author is “who I am” as a writer.
Definitely not a risk his protagonist
would even think about. Gordy can’t let
go of his past, let alone bet much on his
future.
However, Schaffer’s success story is
fairly straightforward – write, work,
write, work. Since his appellate work is
project-based, he is able to take on cases,
deliver the work, and take time off to
write or promote. Then, he’s back again
to his “day job,” which he loves.
However, his fictional defender Gordy
Structure
gency or disaster response.
We know that discussions are going on
about consolidations in Mendo’s other
BY VALERIE HOLM WARDA
would never admit to loving his day job;
nothing compares with his passion of
singing Barry Manilow songs after hours
in a cover “tribute” band called Barry X
and the Mandys. I’m serious. And,
Schaffer is serious about singing the
praises of Manilow in a signature short
chapter in each novel. The statistics don’t
lie, I guess, and Manilow’s year-round
concerts in Vegas do demand $400-$700
dollars a ticket. Check it out – I did.
Maybe Schaffer’s right.
When he first had an idea to write a
book about a band that gets into trouble,
he thought of Manilow. Why? “Because I
like him and …no one else had done [it]
before. Then I went out and did some
research and discovered that Manilow is
thought of as a bit of a joke. And that
pissed me off. So, the music and the
homage became central to the character,
rather than peripheral.” And, as we readers discover, it works; because, in
Schaffer’s words, “Gordy really, really
needs Barry.”
How many of us can easily hum along
to “Mandy” or “Sugar, Sugar.” Like
Gordy says, “Manilow matters.” We
readers who have been around awhile
and have listened to Barry Manilow’s
many hits, will recognize his intended
pun of the second novel’s title. “I Write
the Songs” was a hit for Barry, and Dylan
Schaffer hopes “I Right the Wrongs” will
be successful as well.
Let’s talk about style. Schaffer’s conmajor departments as several long-serving department heads approach retirement. The Supervisors should begin by
demanding that cost-savings and substantive claimed benefits are presented to
them -- and the public -- for this consolidation so that they and the public can see
if those benefits are actually achieved --
things have made me think differently
about the world and what I can do.
I have learned lots of things from my
mentor. She showed me how to cook,
plant seedlings, and make presents. She
has shown me how to listen to people better. She has helped me learn about my
money and how to save it. I have also
learned not to get into trouble because it
is not worth it. My Sister has helped me
learn to think about what I am doing and
become more aware of the things around
me.
One thing my mentor has learned from
us being together is that it is hard to be a
teenage girl in this world today. She
learned that school is hard and family can
be complicated. I protect my friends
because they are like a family to me. My
sister learned that from me and now she
does the same thing with her friends.
I want to say thank you to Big
Brothers/Big Sisters for putting Renee
into my life. We are just happy to be best
Sisters. I hope other people have the
chance to have a Big Sister or Big
Brother too. If you want to get a mentor
or to help support mentoring in Ukiah,
call them at 463-4809.
Amanda Maher is a sophomore at
Ukiah High School and Renee Wilson
attends Mendocino College.
“I think the criminalization of immigration is not
the right move. The tightening of the border doesn’t
give many options. The
economy is dependent on
that labor force. “
Animito Pollina
Chef
Port Townsand, Wash.
“It seems like it would be
extremely
difficult
to
enforce. I wonder if the
economic
ramifications
have been thought out by
the people who brought it
up. They should be looking
at ways to help the
Mexican economy.”
Massey Burke
Natural Builder
Ukiah
cept incorporates a cartoonish take
inspired by his own television-saturated
childhood. He believes this enabled him
to “visualize” his books. He said his stories come to him in scenes, then he has to
figure out how to fit them together.
“In fact, the second book was driven
entirely by an image that came to me of
an attractive, well-dressed woman, tossing her cellular phone at the sidewalk and
then stomping it with her heel. The whole
plot derived from that single image.”
Not surprisingly, Fox TV optioned his
novels for a television series, which, disappointingly, has not yet become a reality. Both of his books were BOOKSENSE
selections, and “Misdemeanor Man” won
the 2005 Gumshoe Award for Best Novel.
Reviewers use complimentary phrases
like “writes with a sly wit” and “equal
doses of humor and suspense.”
I look forward to reading his non-fiction book – although I sure hope the fictional Gordy, with his oft-beleaguered
family, co-workers and motley crew of
band members, resurfaces soon for
another witty legal thriller. Despite his
upcoming memoir’s title, advance blips
do not sound morbid or depressing, but,
rather, heartwarming. Schaffer says he
has focused on “what’s important before
death.”
From his in-progress web site,
www.misdemeanorman.com, Schaffer
reveals that “‘Life, Death & Bialys’ is
about how an imperfect father said goodbye to his son and to his city, how a reluctant son discovered the essence of forgiveness, and how we both learned that
baking a decent baguette is much, much
harder than it looks.”
“Making it a felony isn’t
going to do a lot. It will just
make the border crossing
worse. If they’re going to do
something, it’s a backwards approach.”
Cathleen McKay
Prof. City Clerk
Ukiah
“It’s simple, all immigrants should be able to
pass proficiency tests in
reading, speaking and writing and be able to vote in
English as well as meet the
other requirements. It
would save millions in voter
election costs.
Brett Stone
Corrections Officer
Anderson Valley
“I have mixed feelings, it
seems a lot of the aggression seems to be pointed
to the people. They have a
right to be here. Although it
is good to have stricter
laws on hiring practices.”
Gary Cooper
Logger
Ukiah
Valerie Holm Warda is a Ukiah resident.
instead of just creating one more layer of
management.
And, since this is still a democracy
with public agencies, the Supervisors
need to demand that future consolidation
proposals go through at least some form
of review and hearings before the Queen
issues her Royal Decrees.
Frank talk about taxes
Judicial follies
On April 14, 1992, New York accountant
Maurice Frank settled down before his television set to watch “Saturday Night Live.” It was
the day before the general deadline for filing
tax returns, and Frank was no doubt happy to
put the frantic filing days (which, apparently,
some accountants refer to as “the harvest season”) behind him.
One of the recurring sketches on the show is
the “Saturday Night News” segment, featuring
satire on the week’s news and, sometimes,
satires of commercials. Mr. Frank was therefore horrified when, during one such commercial that night, a performer whom he claimed
bore a “noticeable physical resemblance” to
himself was introduced as accountant
“Maurice Frank,” better known as “Fast
Frank.”
As the real Mr. Frank later explained in a
lawsuit against the NBC network and the producers of “Saturday Night Live,” the actor proceeded to give “ludicrously inappropriate” tax
advice. Some highlights from “Fast Frank’s”
monologue:
“Your taxes are due tomorrow. You could
wind up with your assets in a sling. So listen
closely. Here are some write-offs you probably
aren’t familiar with - courtesy of ‘Fast Frank.’
Cliff Paulin
Attorney
Ukiah
BY FRANK ZOTTER
Got a houseplant? A Ficus, a Coleus, a Boston
Fern - doesn’t matter. If you love it and take
care of it - claim it as a dependent.
“Got horrible acne? . . . use a lotta Clearasil
. . . that’s an Oil-Depletion Allowance. . . . If
[your wife] walks out on you - you lose a
dependent. But . . . it’s a home improvement write it off.
“. . . Got a rotten tomato in your fridge?
Frost ruined your crops - that’s a farm loss.
Your tree gets Dutch Elm Disease . . . sick
leave - take a deduction. Did you take a trip to
the bathroom tonight? If you took a trip . . . and
you did business - you can write it off. Wait
there’s more. Did you cry at ‘Terms of
Endearment’? That’s a moving expense.
“. . . You got money comin’ back - and I can
get it for you fast, because I’m Fast Frank. Call
me. I have hundreds of trained relatives waiting to take your call. At Fast Frank’s, we guar-
“I’m for it. It just sounds
right.”
Photos and interviews by Isaac Eckel.
antee your refund will be greater than what you
earned. . . .”
Frank’s attorney first wrote to NBC
demanding a public apology and compensation. NBC offered only a private written apology. In the meantime, in August the network
re-broadcast the April 14 show, including the
“Fast Frank” feature. And so, Mr. Frank went
to New York State court where, in 1986, the
case came before Judge Sybil Hart Kooper,
whom NBC asked to dismiss the lawsuit on
First Amendment grounds.
Judge Kooper began by quoting contrasting
principles from past court opinions. On the one
hand, humor is not absolutely privileged,
because “a person shall not be allowed to murder another’s reputation in jest.” On the other
hand, “not . . . all ridicule . . . is actionable; a
man must not be too thin-skinned or a selfimportant prig.” (Of course, without the selfimportant prigs, where would the world get
lawsuits like this?)
Judge Kooper also noted that whether a particular statement will be deemed defamatory
depends on the circumstances in which the
statement is delivered. She cited a then-recent
California lawsuit against comedian Robin
Williams spawned by comments he made in
his stand-up routine. The court that had dismissed it in essence said, “C’mon, a joke’s a
joke.”
In dismissing Frank’s case, Judge Kooper
agreed that “no person of any sense could take
the so-called tax advice of ‘Fast Frank’ seriously. . . . No person who has ever had the
dubious pleasure of filling out a 1040 Federal
tax form would, in his most extravagant fantasies, believe that he could claim his favorite
Boston Fern as a dependent. No person exists
who is so gullible as to believe that his acne
medication entitles him to an oil-depletion
allowance or that the departure of a spouse
from the marital premises - however welcome
- may be listed as a deductible ‘home improvement.’” She concluded by noting, “Certainly,
this is an area in which cases will stand or fall
on their own peculiar facts.”
Well, this was a case of peculiar facts, all
right. Still, the whole object of the tax game
has always been to claim what someone thinks
he can get away with and then pray he doesn’t
get audited.
So who knows? First, get a social security
number for your Boston Fern.
Frank Zotter is a Ukiah attorney.
Sports Editor: Tony Adame, 468-3518
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COLLEGE BASEBALL
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UCLA will get a
shot to capture
twelfth title
TV LISTINGS
TODAY
NBA
Miami at Cleveland, 11 a.m. (ESPN)
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
NCAA Men’s Semifinal, George Mason vs.
Florida, 3:07 p.m. (CBS)
NCAA Men’s Semifinal, LSU vs. UCLA,
5:47 p.m. (CBS)
NHL
Phoenix at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. (FSN)
GOLF
BellSouth Classic, Third Round, noon (NBC)
LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship, Third
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TENNIS
NASDAQ-100 Open Final, 9 a.m. (CBS)
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The Associated Press
COMMUNITY
DIGEST
Healdsburg soccer
tryouts pushed back
because of weather
Rain and wet field conditions
have resulted in date and field
changes for the Healdsburg Youth
Soccer League tryouts for all
Division 1 and 3 competitive programs. HYSL offers competitive
team play for boys and girls in the
U9 up to U19 age groups. Boys
and girls are encouraged to
attend for their age groups at the
times listed below.
All tryouts will be at Badger
Park, which is located on Heron
Drive (head east on Matheson
from the Healdsburg Plaza and
turn right onto Heron.)
For more information visit the
HYSL Web site: www.healdsburgsoccer.org
or
email:
hysl@healdsburgsoccer.org.
HYSL tryout times
Girls and Boys
U9-U11: Saturday, April 8: 1:003:00PM and Wednesday, April 12,
4:00-5:30PM
U12-U14: Saturday, April 8,
10:00AM-12:00PM
and
Wednesday, April 12,
5:30-7:00PM
U15-U19: April 4, 5 & 6: 5:307:30PM (rain reschedules to April
11 and 13)
Ukiah Dolphins swim
and water polo camp
The Ukiah dolphins will be holding a swim and water polo combination camp April 24-28 at Ukiah
High School. The clinic starts at
5:30 p.m. each evening, is for safe
swimmers, and should serve as
an introduction to both sports.
Coaches Sue Maurer and Rick
Cleland will be givign 45 minutes
of basic instruction in each sport
for the cost of $25 for the week.
Please call Maurer at 391-8277
or Cleland at 463-1551 for further
information.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Oh,
Baby, can UCLA play defense.
Throw some offense in there
on the same night and not even
LSU and its gigantic star, Glen
“Big Baby” Davis, had a chance.
The Bruins shut him down
Saturday en route to a 59-45 victory over the Tigers that put them
one win away from their 12th
national title.
The last step in the quest to
hang another banner at Pauley
Pavilion comes Monday in the
final against Florida, a 73-58
winner over George Mason in the
first semifinal.
Luc Richard Mbah A Moute
was UCLA’s top performer in
this one, finishing with 17 points
on 5-for-9 shooting, to go with
nine rebounds and two steals.
“He’s a great player, he’s
probably going to play in the
NBA,” Mbah A Moute said of
Davis. “But it takes effort. I’ve
also got to thank my teammates,
too, because they always rotated
down and helped me out.”
Indeed, he had plenty of help.
Lorenzo Mata was strong in
the middle, capping Davis at
least twice, sending him to the
floor a few other times and generally driving him nuts. Big Baby
— arguably the most entertaining
character in this tournament —
didn’t look so big in this one.
He shot 5-for-17, finished with
14 points and seven rebounds and
was serenaded with chants of
“Ba-by, Ba-by” by the UCLA
fans after he took a frustration
foul on Bruins guard Darren
Collison early in the second half,
trailing by 23.
LSU shot 16-for-50, 32 percent, and didn’t make a 3-pointer.
The 45 points for LSU were the
second-lowest total in the Final
Four since the NCAA adopted
the shot clock in 1986. They
matched UCLA’s defensive effort
against Memphis in the regional
championship game.
Bruins forward Alfred Aboya
UCLA center Ryan Hollins gets caught in the air trying to defend LSU’s Tyree Smith Saturday. UCLA won,
59-45, and will take on Florida Monday in an attempt to win the school’s twelfth NCAA basketball title.
See BRUIN, Page A-10
Call for Ukiah Valley
youth soccer coaches
The Ukiah Valley Youth Soccer
League is in need of coaches. If
you would like to become a head
coach or an assistant coach for a
competitive boys or girls soccer
team pleas call the soccer hotline
at 467-9797 so the UVYSL can
get back to potential coaches with
more details.
Spring break sports
and fitness camp for
girls April 17-20
Is your daughter in second
through eighth grade? Has she
got plans for spring break?
Bring her to Ukiah High School
for the sixth annual Girl Scouts
Sports and Fitness Camp. Local
female coaches and athletes will
work with the girls on skills in basketball, softball, volleyball, swimming, soccer, gymnastics, dance,
and much more.
Camp will be from April 17 - 20,
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM daily. Cost is
$45 per girl, or $35 for registered
Girl Scouts, for four full days.
Financial assistance is available.
Look for flyers in the schools
soon.
For more information about this
camp, to request a registration
packet, or to find out about other
Girl Scout activities, please contact Connie Krantman at 4632888 or 800-764-7322.
Entry level clinic for
soccer referees
There will be an entry level soccer referre clinic May 15-18, from
6-9 p.m., and May 20 from 9 a.m.3 p.m. at the Nokomis School.
For more information, call
Friedhelm Engeln at 485-7308.
Spring break hoops
camp at Pomolita
Open to boys and girls ages 717, a week-long spring basketball
camp will offer players an opportunity to build a solid foundation of
basketball skills. Each day is filled
with fundamental skills, progression drills, easy to understand
instruction, as well as games and
fun competitions. From beginners
to advanced players this camp
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Gators end Cinderella story
Humphrey heats
up in second half
By PAUL NEWBERRY
INDIANAPOLIS — Lee
Humphrey lingered outside
the arc, determined to keep on
shooting.
Swish. Swish. And make it
three.
Appropriately enough, the
Final Four longshot was
doomed by the long shot.
Humphrey hit three straight
3-pointers to start the second
half and Florida brought
George Mason back to reality
Saturday night, ending the
Patriots’ stunning run through
the NCAA tournament with a
73-58 victory.
In all, the Gators made a
dozen shots from outside the
3-point stripe — tying a
national semifinal record.
Humphrey had six of them,
leading Florida into Monday
night’s championship game
against UCLA.
“Humpty was a monster
tonight,” teammate Joakim
Noah said. “When he’s hitting
shots like that, we’re tough to
beat.”
Too tough for 11th-seeded
George Mason (27-8), the
charming mid-major from the
suburbs of northern Virginia,
which knocked off the last
two national champions and
half of last year’s Final Four
on its way to Indy. The feelgood Patriots simply couldn’t
handle an immensely talented
team that has arrived at the
cusp of the school’s first
national title a year ahead of
schedule.
The youthful Gators (32-6)
have probably been the most
impressive team in the tournament, withstanding only one
serious challenge in their five
wins. They are winning by an
average of 16 points a game in
the postseason.
See GATORS, Page A-10
ANG Newspapers
Florida’s Al Horford, left, and George Mason’s Jai
Lewis battle for the ball Saturday.
Bonds plays nine solid innings in final test
By GREG BEACHAM
OAKLAND — Barry
Bonds played nine solid
innings and looked ready for
the regular season. The San
Francisco Giants only wish
they could say the same about
Armando Benitez.
After Benitez was rocked
for four runs in the eighth
inning of the Giants’ 14-3 loss
to the Oakland Athletics on
Saturday, San Francisco
announced its closer will start
the season on the disabled list.
Bonds went 0-for-4 but
looked smooth while playing
in a wet outfield at the
Coliseum. He again declined
comment on commissioner
Bud Selig’s announcement of
a special investigation into
steroid use in baseball last
week.
“I’m an adult. I don’t have
to react to anything if I choose
not,” Bonds said.
Bonds is expected to be the
Giants’ designated hitter in
their final exhibition Sunday.
The seven-time NL MVP’s
troublesome right knee and
strained left elbow are no
longer the Giants’ biggest
injury concerns.
Instead, they’re wondering
when Benitez will recover
from the left knee bursitis that
has turned one of the game’s
most feared closers into a
struggling shell of himself.
“He’s not throwing the ball
well,” San Francisco manager
Felipe Alou said. “We know
he’s not 100 percent. He took
it well. He’s a battler. He
wants to be on the hill, but he
also knows he’s not there yet.”
Benitez gave up Richie
Robnett’s
bases-loaded
ground-rule double while
yielding four runs, three hits,
two walks and a hit batsman
in the eighth. After missing 13
days of the Cactus League
schedule with his knee problem, he finished with a 23.48
ERA in eight spring training
appearances.
But Benitez was upbeat
after the A’s pounded him.
He’ll stay with the Giants during his rehabilitation, and
Alou expects him to be back
in two weeks.
“I’m not disappointed, but
right now, I can’t even be the
closer,” Benitez said. “I need
to get my stuff together. I
think I need a couple of
weeks. I can get myself
together and come back.
We’ve got people here that
can close the games. My arm
is good. My knee, it will be
(good). My windup, my
mechanics right now are terrible.”
Benitez has been nothing
but injury trouble since signing a big-money deal with the
Giants before last season. He
missed 96 games in 2005 with
a serious hamstring injury, finishing with just 19 saves, and
the Giants struggled for consistent ninth-inning pitching
for the third straight season in
Alou’s tenure.
Alou wouldn’t name a substitute closer, but Tim Worrell
and Tyler Walker have filled
the role in recent seasons.
“I’m a veteran of this now
— four straight years,” Alou
said of the Giants’ bad luck
with injury-plagued closers
Benitez and Robb Nen since
2003.
Eric Chavez and Nick
Swisher both hit two-run
homers and run-scoring doubles for the A’s, and Frank
Thomas also hit his second
homer of the spring for his
new team. Esteban Loaiza
pitched six strong innings in
his final tuneup before starting
his first season with Oakland.
Bobby Kielty had a runscoring single in the seventh,
but the A’s announced he’ll
start the regular season with
Triple-A Sacramento, thanks
to a daunting weather forecast
that forces the A’s to assume
they’ll play a doubleheader
against the Yankees on
SPORTS
Bonds’ aunt clears
hurdles in life
Former
Olympian has
become advocate
for homeless
senior citizens
By Josh Richman
ANG Newspapers
OAKLAND
–
Rosie
Kreidler speaks proudly of her
1964 Olympic glory, in which
gold might've been hers but
for a backward glance.
She speaks proudly of her
nursing career, in which she
cared for others until a car
crash left her unable to continue.
Jobless, recently homeless
and just shy of 62, she uses
meager public support to keep
a roof over her head and a little food in her belly while
using every extra breath to
speak proudly on behalf of
homeless seniors. She tells
anyone who'll listen: What
happened to her could happen
to anybody.
Yet until this week her
pride kept her from speaking a
word to her own family about
having spent months living in
her car on Oakland's streets,
and then months more on a
homeless shelter's cot.
She never even told her
beloved nephew here in the
Bay Area. His name is Barry
Bonds, and he's the San
Francisco Giants' left-fielder
now nearing baseball's alltime home-run record even as
he's beset by doping allegations. His $22 million salary
in 2005 made him the secondhighest paid player in Major
League Baseball.
“If he knew, he would
help... but it's hard. Maybe I'm
nuts,” she said Monday, startled that a reporter had discovered they are related. “He's
just like his father, he will do
anything for you if you ask
him. If he knew about this he'd
be mad at me (for not telling
him)... but I don't want him to
know.”
With the news about to get
out, she said she'd finally
talked Thursday with her sister-in-law – Barry's mother –
Pat. A reporter's calls to Barry
Bonds' publicist weren't
returned Friday.
Being honest about this
with her family isn't easy,
she'd said earlier in the week.
“This is the first time in my
life I haven't been able to handle it by myself... Rosie has
always been there for everybody else and I'm supposed to
be the strong one. I don't want
that image lost. I still want
them to know I'm strong.”
She doesn't seem to realize
how strong she seems to those
around her.
At St. Mary's Center, the
social-services agency at 22nd
Street and Martin Luther King
Jr. Way which sheltered her
from the streets, she's greeted
and often embraced by everyone she meets, staff and fellow clients alike. Rosie
Kreidler has become a fixture
there, part of a new family of
destitute seniors ignored by
society.
This is the family she wants
to publicize.
She testified last Saturday
at a public hearing and “truth
commission” meeting on
Alameda County's health care
crisis, recounting how a
mountain of medical debt left
her unable to work and, ultimately, homeless. Now, $300
of her $336 in monthly
General Assistance pays rent
on her tiny place in a downtown Oakland building for
low-income seniors.
She went to Sacramento
recently with local food-bank
officials to lobby lawmakers
for better benefits for seniors;
she's going again this week.
She gets $91 a month – about
$3 per day – in food stamps. “I
have $1.19 to get me through
until April 3,” she said
Monday.
And a New York City
snowstorm
thwarted
a
February trip with St. Mary's
Center Executive Director
Carol Johnson to testify at a
United Nations conference on
eradication of poverty. She
still has a copy of the statement she'd planned to make
there.
She's done all this under
her married name, Kreidler,
despite having been divorced
for decades and having gone
by “Rosie Bonds” in news
articles about her nephew as
recently as 2004. That's not
the kind of notice she wants
now; even her St. Mary's caseworker didn't know until this
week.
“This is I think where God
wants me to be, helping homeless seniors,” Kreidler said.
“With God's help, I think I'll
weather this.”
Family of champions
Born July 7, 1944, in
Riverside, Rosie Bonds
Kreidler hails from a family of
champions.
Her
brother
Bobby's
renowned strength and speed
brought him nearly 400 home
runs and more than 400 stolen
bases during 14 Major League
Baseball seasons, including
seven with the Giants. He died
of cancer in August 2003 at
age 57, but not before seeing
his son become one of the
game's most famed names.
Another brother, Robert,
was a high school track-andfield state meet champion who
played football at San Jose
State University and professionally in Canada. Living in
Morro Bay after retiring from
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11-11), 11:05 a.m.
Chicago Cubs (C.Zambrano 14-6) at Cincinnati
(Harang 11-13), 11:10 a.m.
St. Louis (Carpenter 21-5) at Philadelphia (Lieber
17-13), 12:05 p.m.
Arizona (Webb 14-12) at Colorado (Jennings 69), 1:05 p.m.
Atlanta (T.Hudson 14-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Lowe
12-15), 1:10 p.m.
Florida (Willis 22-10) at Houston (Oswalt 20-12),
4:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Schmidt 12-7) at San Diego
(Peavy 13-7), 4:05 p.m.
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Florida at Houston, 5:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 5:05 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego, 7:05 p.m.
Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.
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Monday’s Games
Boston (Schilling 8-8) at Texas (Millwood 9-11),
11:05 a.m.
Tampa Bay (Kazmir 10-9) at Baltimore (Lopez 1512), 12:05 p.m.
Detroit (Rogers 14-8) at Kansas City (Elarton 119), 1:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Colon 21-8) at Seattle (Moyer 13-7),
2:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (R.Johnson 17-8) at Oakland (Zito
14-13), 7:05 p.m.
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Minnesota at Toronto, 4:15 p.m.
Boston at Texas, 5:05 p.m.
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N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 7:05 p.m.
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43 29.597 15
Milwaukee
37 36.50721 1/2
Indiana
35 37.486 23
Chicago
33 40.45225 1/2
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57 16.781 —
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54 19.740
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Memphis
41 32.562 16
New Orleans
34 37.479 22
Houston
32 40.44424 1/2
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41 32.562 —
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34 38.4726 1/2
Minnesota
30 42.41710 1/2
Seattle
29 43.40311 1/2
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20 51.282 20
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39 35.527 11
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37 36.50712 1/2
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30 41.42318 1/2
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New Jersey 91, Atlanta 88
Orlando 108, Dallas 99
Chicago 113, Charlotte 107
Philadelphia 117, New York 112
Detroit 112, Milwaukee 105
New Orleans 107, Memphis 102
Houston 105, Washington 103
Denver 106, Minnesota 94
L.A. Clippers 106, Utah 91
L.A. Lakers 106, Seattle 93
Sacramento 96, Golden State 93
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Chicago 100, Boston 94
Milwaukee 96, Indiana 89
San Antonio 106, Washington 99
Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Phoenix at Detroit, 10 a.m.
Houston at L.A. Lakers, 12:30 p.m.
Denver at Dallas, 12:30 p.m.
Golden State at Minnesota, 12:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Memphis,1 p.m.
Miami at New Jersey, 3 p.m.
New York at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.
Cleveland at Charlotte, 3 p.m.
New Orleans at Toronto, 4 p.m.
Portland at Seattle, 6 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 6 p.m.
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No games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
Boston at Toronto, 4 p.m.
New York at Washington, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at Cleveland, 4 p.m.
Milwaukee at Miami, 4:30 p.m.
Atlanta at New Jersey, 4:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Charlotte, 4:30 p.m.
Golden State at Memphis, 5 p.m.
Indiana at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.
Sacramento at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Utah, 6 p.m.
Houston at Seattle, 7 p.m.
Denver at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.
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Los Angeles
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Montreal 2, Boston 0
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Atlanta 5, Carolina 2
Columbus 5, Chicago 2
Washington 1, Ottawa 0
Florida 4, Tampa Bay 2
Nashville 2, St. Louis 1
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Phoenix at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.
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Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 10 a.m.
New Jersey at Pittsburgh, noon
Detroit at Minnesota, 12:30 p.m.
Vancouver at Anaheim, 1 p.m.
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Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m.
Atlanta at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.
Florida at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.
Columbus at Nashville, 5 p.m.
Phoenix at Edmonton, 5:30 p.m.
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After being forced to live in her car for months, Rosie Bonds Kriedler has become
an advocate for the homeless.
the faculty of Cal Poly in San
Luis Obispo, he's not in great
health, his sister said.
Rosie Bonds in 1964 was a
rarity – an African-American
woman at the top of her sport
as the U.S. women's 80-meter
hurdling champion for two
consecutive years – when she
tried out for the Olympic
team. When she couldn't
afford airfare to the trials in
New York, singer Ray Charles
flew her there on his own
plane; lacking hotel money,
she slept in the stadium. She
was the women's hurdling
champion at the trials.
On Oct. 18, 1964 – less
than three months after her
nephew Barry's birth – she
finished first in the Tokyo
Summer Olympics women's
80-meter hurdles' first round,
fourth heat at 10.6 seconds. In
a semifinal the next day, she
finished fourth at 10.8 seconds.
In the final, running in the
first lane and leading at midrace, she glanced back and to
the right to gauge her rivals.
She hit the final hurdle and
came in eighth at 10.8 seconds; she retired from track
two years later at age 22.
This athletic pedigree is
part of why she insists her
nephew wouldn't have intentionally taken performanceenhancing drugs. æI don't
think, given our family's DNA
and physiology, that we need
enhancers,” she said, calling
Barry Bonds a dedicated, consummate athlete as well as a
caring role model and philanthropist who's been unfairly
pilloried by the media.
She became a licensed
vocational nurse – her license
remains active – working in
trauma,
medical/surgical,
transitional care and other settings. Divorced, she raised her
daughter largely on her own.
By 2002, she was shuttling
back and forth between the
Bay Area, where she had
steady work through a nursing
registry, and Riverside, where
she helped care for her mother, now about 92. She'd
applied to Doctors Without
Borders for work in the
Congo.
But while on vacation in
New Mexico with her friend
and her grandson, their car
was rear-ended at high speed
by a tractor-trailer on
Interstate 40. The car rolled
several times; all survived, but
she suffered broken ribs, back
and neck injuries and other
damage.
“Never ever would I wish
this on my worst enemy,” she
said.
At her brother's 2003 funeral, she said, Giants managing
general partner owner Peter
Magowan saw her wearing a
neck brace and using a walker,
and asked her if there was
anything he could do to help;
she declined.
Having been released from
a hospital into physical therapy, she battled with insurers to
cover her treatment. About
$50,000 in coverage ran out
fast, as did her savings; her 18
months of physical therapy
ended when the money did,
not because she'd recovered.
Her Social Security Disability
Insurance application was
rejected; she challenged the
rejection in court and lost.
Eager to get back to work
both because she loved nursing and in desperation to pay
her mounting bills, she
See AUNT, Page A-11
SPORTS
Bruin
set the tone early in the first
half when he swatted Darrel
Mitchell’s shot into the stands,
then glowered at Mitchell as
he fell to the floor. A few minutes later, Mbah A Moute
stepped into an LSU passing
lane for a steal that led to a
bucket for Collison.
On offense, the Bruins (326) were just as good, especially early. They made three of
their first four 3-pointers and
shot 58 percent in the first half
to push their lead to as many
as 16, 3 1/2 minutes before the
break.
The start of the second half
put it out of reach.
Mbah A Moute dunked
twice, Ryan Hollins took an
alley-oop from Jordan Farmar
for another slam, then Farmar
threw one up from 28 feet
with the shot clock going off
and swished it for a 48-27
lead. He celebrated by taunting the LSU fans as he ran to
the other end. Most of the purple-and-gold crowd simply sat
there stoically — they knew a
mismatch when they saw one.
LSU (27-9) remained winless in its four appearances at
the Final Four, spanning a
half-century, and a special
season that provided a needed
distraction from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina
down in Louisiana ended on a
low note.
Led by Davis and tall,
lanky forward Tyrus Thomas,
the Tigers prided themselves,
too, on monster D this season.
They made UCLA look lessthan-perfect — forcing 17
turnovers and a fair amount of
ugly offense — but few will
remember the Bruins’ flaws
from this one.
More will remember how
hard Davis had to work to get
so little. He put up most of his
points after the game was a
blowout and looked nothing
like the juggernaut who
helped John Brady’s team to
upsets over Duke and Texas in
the Atlanta Regional last
week.
The sophomore center
made a pair of free throws
with 11:03 left in the game to
finally push the Tigers past the
30-point mark. On his next
trip down, he missed from
close range, got his own
rebound and forced one in to
set up a three-point play. The
whole sequence left him huffing and puffing as he pounded
the ball onto the floor — a
mild success on an otherwise
frustrating evening.
He fouled out with 2:09 left
and clapped his hands as he
headed toward the bench, then
exchanged hugs before flopping down on the bench for
the last time.
Forward Tasmin Mitchell
scored 12 points for the
Tigers. Darrel Mitchell was
held to eight points, nine
below his season average.
LSU committed 15 turnovers
and UCLA had 10 steals — a
bad night for the Tigers no
matter how you cut it.
Farmar made two 3-pointers in the first half to go with
his desperation heave in the
second and finished with 12
points. Guard Arron Afflalo
was another long, tall distraction on defense and had nine
points and six boards.
The Bruins were in a bit of
foul trouble early, but more
than withstood it. Nine players played at least 10 minutes,
another
reason
Ben
Howland’s team can keep up
the defensive pressure.
“I have confidence in anyone we have out there from
one to 10,” Howland said.
UCLA’s gritty style of winning might not look familiar
to the faithful who watched
John Wooden’s teams run up
and down in the history-making ’60s and ’70s, when the
Bruins set the standard for
winning — and doing it the
right way.
Wooden hardly shirked
defense. The big difference is
that UCLA’s current coach
insists on it. He made no
apologies for turning the
Bruins into a hard-nosed,
scrappy team, one that looks
more suited for the Big East
than the Left Coast.
Players who come to
UCLA, he boasted, want to
win titles and go to the pros,
and defense is a big part of
both. After this Final Four
effort, it was hard to argue the
point.
Gators
“We’re playing our best
basketball all year and we’re
a really tough team,” said Al
Horford, one of four sophomores in the starting lineup.
“You can’t stop us.”
Humphrey, a junior, is
largely overshadowed by his
younger teammates. And he
struggled in the first half,
making only 1 of 5 shots —
all of them from beyond the
stripe.
But coach Billy Donovan
told the guard to keep on
shooting, and Humphrey
responded with the three
straight 3s that pushed the
Gators to a 40-28 lead before
two minutes were gone in the
second half.
“He’s a silent assassin,”
said another of the sophomores, Corey Brewer. “He
doesn’t get a lot of hype.
Nobody knows too much
about
him,
but
Lee
Humphrey wins basketball
games for the Florida
Gators.”
The Gators are heading to
the second title game in
school history. They lost to
Michigan State in the 2000
final.
Humphrey finished with
19 points and 6-of-12 shooting from 3-point range. He
was joined in the outside barrage by Brewer and Taureen
Green, who hit three treys
apiece for a team that went
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of 3s.
Humphrey took over in the
second half. The Gators
pushed their lead as high as
19 points and the Patriots
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nine the rest of the way.
“George Mason has been
playing great,” Donovan
said. “But I thought the key
to the game was the 3-point
line. That was one thing
missing from what people
were talking about.”
Tony Skinn and Jai Lewis
scored 13 points apiece for
the Patriots, who missed
countless layups and easy
shots in the lane that might
have gotten them in position
to pull off another stunner.
The George Mason band
played “All I Need Is A
Miracle” as the Patriots
warmed up before the game.
The players didn’t seem too
nervous — Jordan Carter and
Charles Makings joked
around with each other during the layup drills, while
several teammates glanced
toward their school’s greenand-gold-clad section, looking for friends and family.
The underdog Patriots
trotted on the court past the
Florida section, which greeted them with Gator chops.
But the rest of the crowd
seemed to be pulling for
George Mason.
A fan wearing an LSU
shirt held up a “Go Mason”
sign. The UCLA fans also
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“I felt good tonight,”
Humphrey said. “My teammates did a good job of moving the ball around. I got
some good looks.”
By comparison, George
Mason missed its first nine 3s
and finished 2-of-11 — both
of them coming too late to
make any difference. They
were much more accurate in
their four tournament wins,
making 26-of-62 (42 percent).
On the inside, the Gators
were nearly as dominating.
Noah — his father, former
tennis star Yannick Noah,
cheering him on from the
stands — scored 12 points.
Horford
grabbed
13
rebounds.
Florida finished with a 4027 edge on the boards, playing keep-away in the final
two minutes with three
straight offensive rebounds.
“We came into the game
feeling good about ourselves
and feeling good about our
chances,” said George Mason
coach Jim Larranaga, who
tried to inspire his team with
a pre-game poem. “For some
reason, we were never really
able to establish our rhythm,
either offensively or defensively. And Florida’s ability
to get so many second shots
really hurt us.”
Florida built a 10-point
lead in the first half and withstood a couple of George
Mason runs for a 31-26 lead
at halftime. Appropriately
enough, Green closed the
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returned to the Bay Area in
2005. But constant pain made
bending or lifting impossible,
and numbness in her hands
prevented her from drawing
blood or inserting an IV.
Her career as she'd known
it was over. Destitute and
unable to earn, too proud to
turn to her family or friends
for help, she soon was sleeping in her car.
Someone eventually told
her about St. Mary's Center,
where she occupied a cot for a
few months while seeking
General Assistance and other
aid. She still spent 7 a.m. to 4
p.m. on the streets in a rough
part of town: “I found for
seniors it's very dangerous.
People will come up and ask
you for things or try to take
things from you, or bully
you... It's a constant fear.”
“Once something like this
happens to you, it's like the
end of your life ... Your life
changes and it's all something
new,” she said.
A daily struggle
A busy life and satisfying
career had become a daily
struggle for shelter, food,
clothes and safety, and getting
public aid proved to be “the
merry-go-round of all merrygo-rounds” with months of
paperwork and waiting before
she got a dime.
On General Assistance, she
was able to rent a room in a
transitory housing facility on
San Pablo Avenue. From
tempted to finally do for the
agency what pride had kept
her from doing for herself _
asking Magowan's aid.
“There's trust and love in
here and they give you hope,
some kind of hope that it's
going to get better,” she said.
“That, to me, is what life is all
about – to care, to support, to
help. If we don't do that, why
are we all here? We're all
interconnected.”
Yet she balked at first when
encouraged to tell her family
about what befell her.
Her grandson, also in the
car crash and now 11, is the
light of her life. When he and
his mother came up from the
Modesto area to visit last year,
St. Mary's staff managed to
set her up somewhere else for
a few days so they wouldn't
know she was sleeping at the
shelter.
“I want him to look at me
like I'm not broken down and
old,” she said, but instead like
the grandma who used to take
him fishing, bicycling and on
other adventures. “I want him
to think of me and remember
me that way.”
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The camp will be held at the
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a full day camp, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.,
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Low income discounts are available
through the City of Ukiah. For more
information, please call 463-6714.
Scorekeepers and
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Ukiah March 16 at 6:30 p.m. League
play is scheduled to begin in early
May.
Team fees are $450 for the sponsor
fee and $30 per player, with checks
made payable to the City of Ukiah.
Registration forms are available at
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Player fees will be collected from
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Space is limited.
For more information, call 463-6714.
City of Ukiah men’s softball league
The City of Ukiah Community
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Nick Easterbrook and
Ryan Mayfield scored two
goals apiece Saturday,
leading the Ukiah Crushers
over Santa Rosa, 7-4, in
high school lacrosse action
in Ukiah.
“We played well,” said
Ukiah head coach Ian
Pratt. “We took command
at the beginning and never
lost command.
“It was a nice, soggy
game today, and a good
one.”
Easterbrook opened up
scoring in the first quarter,
putting one in the net for a
1-0 Ukiah lead.
Santa Rosa battled back
in the third quarter to tie
the score at 3-3, but
Easterbrook scored his second goal for a 4-3 Ukiah
lead.
The Crushers never
trailed again.
Mike Shantz and Kevin
Brutocao also scored goals
for the Crushers.
The Crushers travel to
Sacramento Saturday and
Sunday for back-to-back
games. Saturday, Ukiah
takes on a club team from
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of food stamps to ensure she
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proper nutrition and so recently discovered she's borderline
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“I never thought that hopelessness could be this terrifying,” she said. “I always
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Yet the hopelessness has
abated as her caseworker,
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secure benefits and the apartment in which she now lives.
In return, she has focused her
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By BRUCE MEYERSON
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NEW YORK — The debate
over rising CEO pay can be
maddening. There’s no doubt
that American executives are
the best paid in the world,
sometimes obscenely so, and
yet it’s hard to prove that pay
levels are excessive, fair or
even matter much in the
scheme of things.
What’s not hard to argue is
that the system that determines what top executives get
paid is broken.
Some experts say that rising pay is the fair and square
result of a free market where
companies compete for a
manager’s services. But while
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The fund companies maintain
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It’s not surprising, then, to
learn that CEO compensation
is still climbing. In a preliminary reading from the new
crop of proxy disclosures,
Equilar Inc. estimates that the
ings at those companies
between 2001 and 2003, double the rate of take-home pay
eight years earlier.
Still, while more is more,
there’s no widely accepted
benchmark for deciding how
much
is
too
much.
Comparisons with what foreign CEO’s earn ring hollow
because no other nation has
produced such strong economic growth and investment
returns over the past century.
While Whole Foods Market
Inc. has drawn praise for capping the CEO’s cash pay at 14
times the average salary of the
full-time work force, such
policies are unlikely to catch
on and run counter to free-
market principles.
That said, it’s misleading to
say today’s pay levels are the
pure result of free-market
wrangling, an argument that
often includes faulty analogies
to high-paid athletes and
entertainers. A fair negotiation
requires two fully consenting
parties.
The owners of a baseball
team have direct control over
their decision to sign a free
agent for $20 million a year.
And with sports, statistics provide a clearer sense of individual contributions to the result.
You know how many home
runs Barry Bonds has hit.
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he’ll hit that many again, his
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than if Google’s CEO
deserves credit for his stock
quadrupling.
By contrast, shareholders
who’d like to limit executive
pay have no direct say in the
matter. Instead, compensation
is set by corporate directors
who are sworn to represent the
interests of shareholders.
Since you can’t negotiate a
contract with millions of individual shareholders, this system offers practicality and the
presumed business prowess of
the directors.
That’s
in
theory.
Shareholders are so powerless
in the current system that
directors needn’t mind them at
all, even in the face of a sustained chorus like that over
rising compensation. As
shown by the mutual fund
study, the same holds true for
the relationship between
money managers and their
customers.
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owners can be so easily
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executives get to fend for
themselves at the bargaining
table, irate investors can’t get
their point across to the people
representing them, from the
board of directors to mutual
fund managers.
The latest case in point is a
new study showing that big
mutual fund companies largely ignore investor concerns
when voting on pay-related
proxy proposals at companies
in which they hold shares.
An examination of the new
voting disclosures required of
mutual funds found that the
nation’s biggest fund companies consistently vote against
shareholder proposals regarding pay and in favor of measures put forth by management. The study found that 18
top mutual fund companies
collectively followed the
board’s recommendations on
these proposals about three
quarters of the time.
Several prominent names
stood out as highly reliable
rubber stamps for management on pay proposals,
according to the analysis by
The Corporate Library and the
American Federation of State,
median payday rose 1.6 percent to $8.2 million in fiscal
2005 among Standard &
Poor’s 500 companies where
the CEO’s have held the post
at least three years. Average
pay rose 5.3 percent to $11.3
million in cash, stock awards
and option grants.
Again, while it’s fairly easy
to make splashy headlines of
these numbers, there’s no hard
evidence that CEO’s don’t
deserve their rewards or that
this state of affairs is actually
bad for shareholders.
An oft-cited study by
Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard
University
and
Yaniv
Grinstein
of
Cornell
University has established that
top U.S. executives are clearly
taking home a bigger share of
the profits at their companies.
Bebchuk and Grinstein found
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Thanks To All Of Our Sponsors!
There are many individuals and businesses
in our community who partner with Boys &
Girls Clubs of Ukiah, without your continued
support we would not be able to serve the
youth in our community. We want to send out
a Thank You to each of you who embrace our
efforts, enabling us to create a Positive Place
for Kids. Please know that all you do ensures
our Clubs the ability to build a healthy & safe
atmosphere for Kids to go after school as well
as during school breaks,
We would not be able to hold our
wonderful yearly events if not for the
Signature Event sponsors.
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To the many dedicated Club professionals
who devote their lives to guiding our young
people every day, to the countless generous
individuals, to Club board volunteers and
donors who support our work through their
selfless commitment of time, talent and
treasure. We thank you; Dave’s Bike Shop /
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Wal-mart / Mabel Albertson Trust. The TR.
Eriksen Foundation has been a major donor to
Boys & Girls Club of Ukiah for the past 5
years, insuring ongoing stability.
A special Thank you to Ukiah Unified
School District for their ongoing support of
giving the Clubs a safe place to meet,
especially thanking Dianna Davidson,
Principal of Grace Hudson Elementary School
and Meredith Rosenberg, Principal of
Pomolita Middle School.
We now have two Club sites, one is at
Pomolita. There we have two sections, one
being the elementary program serving 120
members daily. The other being the teen
portion, serving 65 members daily. The
beginning of this year we opened a site at
Grace Hudson Elementary school, we now
have close to 150 registered members signed
up there! Because of our wonderful
community of donors we were able to
scholarship every one of those members,
Even though the cost is only $30.00 per child
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IN THE WEST
Washington wine country a great destination
By SHANNON DININNY
Associated Press
QUINCY, Wash. — True
wine enthusiasts know
Washington wine country for
the smattering of tiny wineries scattered across the state.
Some boutique operations
offer tastings by invitation
only. Others are friendly,
family-owned enterprises
with doors open to everyone.
Tourists simply drop in —
sip a chardonnay, perhaps a
merlot, certainly a syrah —
then drive down the road to
the next stop on the wine
trail.
Yet, for all the premium
vintages produced in the
state, no winery has taken the
leap toward labeling itself a
destination. That is, until
now.
Nestled between sagebrush
and vineyards on a remote
cliff overlooking the
Columbia River, Cave B Inn
at SageCliffe — an offshoot
of Cave B Estate Winery —
opened its doors to tourists
and locals alike last year. So
far, business is going strong
for the Pacific Northwest’s
first luxury wine resort, and
industry leaders are taking
note to ensure Washington
wine country evolves into a
destination itself.
“With wine in particular,
it’s not just the wine, it’s the
whole experience when
you’re drinking the wine,”
said Vince Bryan, son of the
founder and property manager. “What we have now is just
the beginning project at
SageCliffe.”
Washington state’s wine
industry has exploded in the
past two decades, from fewer
than 20 wineries in 1981 to
more than 360 today.
Washington is home to more
than 30,000 acres of wine
grapes, and the industry is
worth close to $3 billion to
the state’s economy.
Distinct pockets of the
state have capitalized on that
growth. Some wineries have
a summer concert series or
festivals to draw music lovers
to their region.
In far southeastern
Washington, fine restaurants,
such as 26 brix, and inns
have opened in the quaint city
of Walla Walla, whose bricklined streets are home to
dozens of wineries.
Much like the community
of Woodinville west of the
Cascades on the outskirts of
Seattle, where the Willows
Lodge offers a spa and
restaurants like The Barking
Frog and The Herbfarm offer
fine dining, Walla Walla has
made a name for itself as a
tourist destination through the
wine industry.
Between Woodinville and
Walla Walla lies the rich terroir that produces many of
the wine grapes used in the
state’s diverse wines. The
trick, so far, has been in luring tourists to the grapes
themselves — and in turn, the
countless wineries sprouting
up in the countryside.
Bookwalter Winery in
Richland opened a bistro in
its winery about two years
ago, offering artisan cheeses,
bread, fruit and meat plates
and selected chocolate
desserts. Visitors can sample
Bookwalter wines at indoor
tables or on the patio, and
live jazz and blues musicians
perform four nights a week.
Also in Richland, Tagaris
Winery opened The Taverna
at Tagaris, a small Greek
restaurant with a wine bar,
lounge area and garden
veranda.
Vintners and grape growers on Red Mountain, the
700-acre viticultural area
renowned for its red wines,
are in the process of creating
a development plan to determine what resources — such
as inns and restaurants — are
needed to lure tourists and
how many the area can support.
Wine industry leaders also
broke ground last week on
the Walter Clore Wine and
Culinary Center in the
Yakima Valley. Slated to open
in 2007 on a bluff overlooking the Yakima River, the
Prosser center will offer wine
tasting from all of the state’s
wineries, as well as culinary
and educational classes and
space for special events.
Business leaders from
Yakima to Walla Walla have
discussed plans for creating a
wine trail through the Yakima
and Columbia River valleys.
Still lacking is anything
resembling a destination
resort.
Cave B, though off the
beaten path north of the
Yakima Valley, aims to fill
that void.
Music fans already know
the remote spot on the banks
of the Columbia River where
rock bands and country
crooners stop to play at The
Gorge amphitheater. Vince
Bryan Sr., a neurosurgeon,
and his wife Carol bought the
wind-swept property years
ago, and immediately began
growing wine grapes.
They opened a winery next
to the amphitheater they built
to draw tourists east for major
music acts. In 1993, the family sold The Gorge and the
original winery, but retained
roughly 500 acres in hopes of
building a wine, arts and
recreation resort around the
vineyards.
Cave B Estate Winery
released its first wines in
2000. The inn celebrated its
grand opening last year.
“For a long time in
Washington, wineries were
on the west side of the state
and the vineyards were over
here. You couldn’t recreate
the vineyard experience,”
Bryan said. “We recognized
that if you’re really enveloping the whole wine thing,
you’re engaging all the senses.”
Individual “cliffehouses”
and cavern rooms built into
the basalt offer spectacular
sunset views over the
Columbia River. Each room
features elegant furnishings,
floor to ceiling windows and
a personal terrace.
A restaurant with a
renowned chef and two conference rooms comprise the
main hall. A short walk takes
guests to the spa or the tasting room, where they may
sample more than a dozen
estate wines. A driving range,
hiking trails and swimming
pond also are on the grounds.
Expansion plans include an
18-hole golf course, equestrian center, culinary center,
event hall and a larger tasting
room. The entire resort is
built around acres of
orchards, gardens and vineyards that supply the 14 varieties of grapes for the estate’s
wines.
“If you create a great destination — bring in a great
chef, a great winemaker —
people will come,” Bryan
said. “I hope that’s what
we’re proving here.”
The area is remote, no
question. Aside from the
amphitheater and Gingko
Petrified Forest State Park
across the river, few recreational amenities can be
found nearby.
Diane McCormick, 67, of
Vancouver, Wash., noted that
point in a recent visit with her
husband and a longtime family friend, even as she raved
about her stay.
“The setting and the gorge
and the river are just wonderful,” she said. “Once you
leave the property, your
options are limited. People
need to realize this is a destination.”
To the Bryans, that is
exactly the point. Eventually,
Cave B plans to offer arts and
science programs through a
private foundation, paid for
with profits from the winery
and inn.
“What we’re trying to create here is a place you can be
inspired by your surroundings,” Bryan said, “and be
creative in whatever it is
you’re pursuing.”
———
If you go...
CAVE B INN AT SAGECLIFFE: The winery, restaurant and lodging are located
on the same property with a
Quincy, Wash., address,
though the resort is miles
Vintners and grape growers on
Red Mountain, the 700-acre
viticultural area renowned for its
red wines, are in the process of
creating a development plan to
determine what resources —
such as inns and restaurants —
are needed to lure tourists
and how many the area
can support.
from Quincy by road.
Located just north of
Interstate 90 on Silica Road,
across the Columbia River
from the community of
Vantage. Accommodations
range from $195 to $275 in
the summer months, with
higher prices on concert and
holiday weekends.
www.cavebdirect.com/ or
888-785-2283 for reservations.
TENDRILS AT SAGECLIFFE: The restaurant
offers short, but tempting,
breakfast, lunch and dinner
menus created by executive
chef Fernando Divina, a
James Beard Foundation
excellence award winner.
Many of the ingredients are
grown locally, with more to
come in an organic garden
that will feature 40 different
varieties of fruits, vegetables
and herbs. For dinner, prices
range from $19 for winter
root vegetable and bean
ragout with stone-ground
polenta, to $29 for grilled and
braised lamb with merlot
sauce.
CAVE B ESTATE WINERY: Winemaker Berle
“Rusty” Figgins Jr. bottles
wines under two premium
labels, Cave B and
SageCliffe, from its own
vineyards. Fourteen varieties
of grapes are grown on the
estate, including cabernet
sauvignon, merlot, semillon
and chardonnay. The tasting
room is open seven days a
week. Charge: $5 per person.
Bottle prices vary.
OTHER EVENTS: The
Washington Wine
Commission kicks off the
spring and summer tourist
season with a wine and food
tasting in Seattle April 8.
Wine tastings and festivals
are held statewide throughout
the year. Visit the events calendar on the Wine
Commission’s Web site for
more information at
www.washingtonwine.org.
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Life on the fault: Denial and humor
buoy residents living on a time bomb
By SCOTT LINDLAW
HAYWARD, Calif. -- The cracks in Elke
DeMuynck’s ceiling appear every few
weeks, zigzagging across her living room,
creeping toward the fireplace, veering down
the wall. Month after month, year after year,
she patches, paints and waits.
“It definitely lets you know your house is
constantly shifting,” DeMuynck said. So
does the gate outside that now swings uselessly 2 1/2 inches from its latch. And the
strange bulges in the street, and the geology
students who make periodic pilgrimages to
her cul-de-sac.
DeMuynck could throw a putty knife from
her front stoop and hit the Hayward Fault,
the most dangerous in the Bay Area, if not
the nation. Like others who live here, she
gets by on a blend of denial, hope and
humor, putting earthquake anxiety on a long
list of modern-day worries.
It’s the geologists, emergency planners
and historians who seem to do most of the
fretting, even in this year of heightened
earthquake awareness, when the region is
marking the 100th anniversary of San
Francisco’s Great Quake on April 18.
Several faults lurk beneath this region, but
geologists say the Hayward is the most likely
to snap.
“It is locked and loaded and ready to fire
at any time,” said U.S. Geological Survey
seismologist Tom Brocher.
The Hayward Fault runs through one of
the country’s most densely populated areas,
slicing the earth’s crust along a 50-mile
swath of suburbia east of San Francisco.
Experts say 2 million people live close
enough to be strongly shaken by a big
Hayward quake.
It runs directly
under thousands of
houses, from exclusive hilltop manors
overlooking the bay
to Hayward’s humble flatlands. It
snakes beneath
interstate bridges,
strip malls, nursing
facilities, retirement
centers, and it splits
the uprights of the
University of
California,
Berkeley’s football
stadium, official
capacity 67,537.
“A lot of these
structures are going
to come down,”
said David P.
Schwartz, the chief of the USGS’s Bay Area
Earthquake Hazards Project. He spoke with
one foot on either side of the fault, straddling
a thin crack that snaked through a parking lot
in Hayward’s business district.
Before San Francisco’s Great Quake of
1906, on the San Andreas fault, there was the
Great Quake of 1868 on the Hayward, a
magnitude 6.9 rumbler that killed five people. Severe quakes have happened on the
Hayward Fault every 151 years, give or take
23 years, meaning it is now into the danger
zone.
Experts forecast the next big one will be
in the potentially lethal 6.7 to 7.0 range. The
Association of Bay Area Governments estimates it would wipe out some 155,000 housing units, 37,000 in San Francisco alone.
It’s a time bomb waiting to go off.
Historically, severe quakes have occurred on
the Hayward Fault every 151 years, give or
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Avila had just returned from a tour with the
U.S. Army in Iraq; the “welcome home” banner and balloons still hung from the house.
“I knew I was close to the fault, but I didn’t know I was this close,” Avila said.
“I’m thinking one day it’s going to move,
but if I survive it, I’ll be able to say I survived one of the biggest quakes of all time,”
he said. “For my family -- I’m third-generation military -- it’s like, ’bring it on.”’
That could be any moment, seismologists
say.
“If it moved while we were walking, it
wouldn’t surprise me,” Schwartz said during
a tour of Hayward’s misaligned street curbs,
warped concrete gutters and abandoned
buildings. Among the shuttered structures
was the former Hayward City Hall, a grand
art deco complex deemed too dangerous to
occupy. The fault runs right underneath.
Built in 1930, it was part of a 20th century
Bay Area building boom nurtured by an
unusually quake-free period. The Great San
Francisco Earthquake of 1906 released
stresses on all faults in the region, resulting
in few earthquakes, Schwartz said.
The legacy of the boom, and the fault
menacing from below, are both visible in an
unnerving new “virtual tour” of the fault
developed by the USGS. Meant to simulate a
helicopter flight, the new images show the
Hayward Fault represented as a bright red
line, slashing through specific, identifiable
structures, like DeMuynck’s house.
DeMuynck, 62, is resolved not to worry.
“There’s dangers all around us, all the
time, so if we thought about those dangers
all the time, we wouldn’t have anything else
to think about,” she said. “We just come
home and say, the house is still here. We’re
OK for another day.”
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take 23 years, meaning
it is now into the danger zone. Experts forecast the next big one
will be in the potentially lethal 6.7 to 7.0
range.
In a big quake, the
earth on either side of
the fault could shift
three feet. Two objects
sitting on different
sides before the quake
could be abruptly carried a total of six feet
apart, he said.
“You can visualize
what would happen if
it moves six feet,”
Schwartz said, gesturing toward the telltale asphalt crack, which
disappears underneath businesses.
The Hayward Fault runs directly beneath
Eden Jewelry and Loan, but the men working in the pawn shop shrugged when asked
whether they fear a quake.
“I better get a new job!” said Saul
Gevertz, 64, flashing a smile at his co-worker. “Honestly, it’s a nonissue.”
One of the building’s co-owners, Darrell
Davidson, 47, said that ever since a renovation and retrofit about five years ago, the
structure is essentially an enormous steel
cage, designed to flex in an earthquake.
“I’m not worried-worried. I’ve thought
about it,” said Davidson, his eyes scanning
the steel beams. “I think we’re in good
shape. I hope to God we are.”
Nickey Avila, 23, confessed some alarm
when a reporter informed him the fractured
pavement outside his house was the fault.
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ner took the choker out of his
hands, moved down the log a
few feet and slid the steel rope
under it “like a spoon through
ice cream.”
“Don’t ever let these logs
outsmart you,” the experienced catskinner advised him
as he climbed back onto his
Cat.
“After you’ve hit bottom,”
Patterson writes, “naturally
you’ve got nowhere to go but
up – or out. If you chose to
stick with it, as I did, then
your blisters started getting
calluses on them, you started
getting your ‘woods legs’ and,
no longer so newborn clumsy,
you stopped constantly adding
to your collection of bumps
and bruises. As time went on,
you even started getting a little bit graceful. Your torn
down muscles slowly rebuilt
and, as your skill level
increased, you stopped wasting so many moves and so got
much more out of burning the
same number of calories.
“The logs popped out of the
woods easier, the bull line felt
lighter and, by mid-season,
you started feeling like Paul
Bunyan. Back home admiring
such a fine physical specimen
as yourself in the mirror, you
might trick yourself into
thinking that you could chase
down and bulldog a steer
without using a horse.
“And then, just when your
head started swelling to the
size of a county fair pumpkin,
the grind of the months started
getting to you and you started
getting weaker again, more
torn down and weary. Come
October or November, with
you again dragging ass, in
your mind you’d start doing a
little rain dance and praying
for mud.”
Patterson’s keen observance of nature and his fellow
man shines through the book,
whether he’s discussing the
flight patterns of waterbirds,
the rare “Blue Redwoods” or
the local legends.
“Lose the local legends,
lose the local folklore,”
Patterson writes, “and how do
you not also lose your sense of
place, of being and belonging?”
One of those local legends,
told him by an Anderson
Valley elder who had heard it
from his granddad, concerns
Gorton’s
organized the boycott in
Mendocino County. Eight
stores emptied their shelves of
Gorton’s products in protest
earlier this month.
Gorton’s vice president of
marketing, Judson Reis, said
at the time of the boycott that
neither Gorton’s, nor its parent company Nissui, were
involved in whaling.
“For the record, Gorton’s
has never engaged in any
whaling activities and never
will,” Reis said. “The company has never killed a single
whale in its entire 156-year
history.”
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an early day stagecoach robber named Bloomfield and the
posse that chased him up the
mountain that today bears his
name. Patterson recounts that
legend in a story titled
“Bloomfield’s Roost.”
The title piece, “Walking
Tractor,” lets us travel
Highway 128 between Philo
and Navarro with Patterson at
15 mph, seeing what he sees
and feeling what he feels
while enjoying a ranch chore
that for him was “nearly
always a pleasure.”
“Ranch work paid by the
hour,” he writes, “and most
hours required you to engage
in a bit of aerobic exercise.
Working a horse ranch in
Anderson Valley meant
pounding fence posts and
stretching pasture wire, bucking hay and hauling feed bags,
digging up busted waterlines
and clearing away windfall
trees from atop downed power
lines.”
... “But walking tractor was
ghost time. It was the sort of
chore that, at worst, gave you
a flat ass and a round potbelly.
While fighting a powerful
headwind blowing between
Navarro and Philo, I might
burn all of the calories contained in one lunchbox
Twinkie.”
Patterson says he enjoyed
the feel of the wind in his face,
especially the afternoon ocean
wind, which he describes as
“some of the purest air anywhere in the northern hemisphere,” adding that he
“always felt privileged to be
breathing it.”
The manmade winds created by oncoming vehicles were
less pleasant, however, and
Patterson devised ingenious
ways of keeping his hat on his
head and his rig on the road
while enduring the blast of air
from loaded logging trucks,
towering chip trucks and
speeding gravel trucks.
In mid-mornings or midafternoons, Patterson writes,
he and his tractor pretty much
had the highway to themselves and he “could indulge
in some leisurely sightseeing.”
“Anderson Valley looks a
whole lot different moseying
along atop a tractor than it
does while incased in a speeding bullet,” he writes. “Every
trip between Philo and
Navarro my eye caught on
something new. I might spot
the remains of a leaning split
rail pasture fence overtaken
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by forest, or an old buckledover ranch house tucked into a
shady cranny ... It got so I
tried to lay my eyes on something new each trip and I
always did.”
While chugging along on
his tractor, Patterson also daydreamed about those who had
traveled this route before him:
“a newlywed Pomo girl running for joy at daybreak” or a
“homesteader aboard his lathered, heaving horse, whipping
his hat in the wind and raising
dust to high heaven.”
He also encountered “the
living human landscape”:
friends flicking their headlights in greeting as they
passed, hitchhikers napping in
the shade and gardeners, who
“would rise from working in
their gardens frowning and
impatient and, seeing me,
smile slightly as if they forgave me for my untimely
intrusion of racket.”
“Woven into the winds,
landscape, history and people
were the animals,” Patterson
writes, such as a cougar in a
canyon below the roadside, “a
coyote prancing/slinking into
a tree line” or “a snowy white
kite hawk eyeballing me like I
was some giant and noisy new
kind of road kill.”
There was the mama quail
and her brood of hatchlings,
who tried to pace him up the
center of his lane; the lumbering porcupine crossing the
road, for whom Patterson
brought his tractor to a halt;
and the huge barn owl, which
Patterson remembers, “in
broad daylight, its creamy
white wings outstretched and
stone steady, soared by my
face so close I felt the wind.”
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improvement district and assess themselves for
a sufficient amount of money to clean out the
channel. It is proposed to elect three river
commissioners who will take the matter in
hand and work in conjunction with the
supervisor of this district in regard to the
matter. The county will be asked to appropriate
some money to assist the farmers.
Mr. Cunningham, who has given the matter
much thought, thinks the channel should be
cleared from the upper end of this valley south
for a distance of twenty miles. Land on either
side of the river for a half mile is proposed to
bear the expense. This would mean a strip of
land one mile wide and twenty miles long, or
12,800 acres of land. An assessment of ten
cents an acre would produce $1280. Mr.
Cunningham thought that if the county would
appropriate enough out of the county general
fund to make the amount $2,000, the work
could be started successfully this year.
Attorney Pemberton is working on an
ordinance to cover the matter and will present
it to the board of supervisors at the May
meeting.
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AMOUNT
OF
BUSINESS
ATTENDED AT REGULAR MEETING. J. L.
McCracken was given permission to erect and
maintain a telephone line from Ukiah to the
McClure ranch.
The sum of $75 was appropriated for
advertising the county, to be used by the board
of trade.
Plat of South Addition of Albion approved
Hour of sleep lost, sunshine gained
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WASHINGTON — The good news is an
extra hour of sunlight every day just as spring
begins to bloom. And the bad news isn’t that
bad, just an hour’s less sleep or a curtailed
night of revelry.
Pushing the clock forward by 60 minutes
during the wee hours today — at 2 a.m. local
time, officially — signals daylight-saving time
and, unofficially, an end to winter.
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Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and
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Daylight-saving time ends Oct. 29.
President Bush has signed a law changing
the dates of daylight-saving time, effective in
2007. Then, daylight time will start three
weeks earlier, March 11, and will end one
week later, Nov. 4.
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HAPPY COUPLE WEDDED. James R.
Elder played cupid in great shape and took
unto himself a wife last Saturday, the happy
bride being Miss Lena Wallach, of Boonville.
The ceremony was performed at the home of
the bride’s parents at Belle canyon and the
happy couple drove over to Ukiah that evening
where they will make their home. The young
people plighted their vows at the state hospital
where the groom was usher and the bride an
attendant. Mr. Elder has accepted the position
of deputy clerk under clerk McCowen and
thinks he will make a good cupid. The
Dispatch extends congratulations.
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8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
BASEBALL TEAM ORGANIZED. The
Ukiah baseball team was organized last
Saturday evening by the election of L. Belvail
captain, Pete Duff treasurer and Frank Collier
manager. The grounds are to be put in good
condition and a series of games arranged so
that the season may be opened at once.
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The international whaling
commission outlawed commercial whaling in 1986, but
the Japanese government has
continued whaling for what it
calls “scientific purposes.”
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and accepted.
...Monroe Lumber company granted
permission to erect telephone line from
Monroe to county road.
Resignation of J. W. Woodruff as constable
of Long valley township accepted.
Four prisoners were allowed a deduction of
five days a month from their sentences for
good conduct.
...Petition of residents of Boonville asking
that no liquor licenses be issued in Anderson
school district filed and application of B. J.
Adams, Mrs. T. E. McGimsey and J. E. Berry
for liquor licenses was rejected by the
following vote: Ayes – Lawson, Fairbanks,
Barnard, Lane. Noes – Gibson.
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs
and tonight’s lows.
TODAY
55°
Breezy with periods of rain
TONIGHT
CALIFORNIA CITIES
Sunrise today ............. 6:56
Sunset tonight ............ 7:37
Moonrise today .......... 9:22
Moonset today ......... 12:08
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Rockport
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Laytonville
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Covelo
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Westport
59/48
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Rain, perhaps heavy at times
ALMANAC
MONDAY
55°
40°
Rain tapering to a couple of
showers
TUESDAY
55°
41°
Partly sunny with a shower
possible
Ukiah through 2 p.m. Saturday
Temperature
High .............................................. 52°
Low .............................................. 41°
Normal high .................................. 66°
Normal low .................................... 41°
Record high .................... 88° in 2002
Record low ...................... 27° in 1929
Precipitation
24 hrs to 2 p.m. Sat. .................. 0.78”
Month to date ............................ 0.42”
Normal month to date ................ 0.12”
Season to date ........................ 48.41”
Last season to date ................ 34.16”
Normal season to date ............ 35.35”
Fort Bragg
58/48
Elk
50/44
Willows
59/50
Willits
55/45
UKIAH
55/46
Philo
59/51
Redwood Valley
55/46
Lakeport
57/48
Lucerne
57/48
Boonville
55/46
Gualala
58/46
Clearlake
58/50
Cloverdale
61/52
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Eureka
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Lompoc
Long Beach
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Marysville
Modesto
Monrovia
Monterey
Morro Bay
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Film
tury noblewomen known as
‘The Blood Countess’.
In the game, the countess is
on the loose and players must
outrun her to win the game.
Loomis doesn’t realize what
he has gotten himself into.
As he plays this intensely
creepy video game, the
Countess is on the loose looking to kill his character at all
costs. After realizing this may
be a little hard to accomplish,
Loomis is coincidentally
knocked through the banister
of his staircase and hung by
chains from the ceiling.
When Hutch arrives at
work he is given the devastating news that Loomis is dead.
Hutch is stricken with guilt.
While at Loomis’ funeral,
Hutch is given a bag by
Loomis’ sister with many
video games inside; among
them is “Stay Alive.”
To get his mind off the
death of his friend, Hutch
decides to keep busy and have
a group of his friends get
together at Hutch’s house to
play “Stay Alive.” As they
play, they realize the game is
incredibly high-tech.
Hutch’s boss, Miller, takes
a turn at the game and his
character is killed by the
Countess. As he sits in his
office playing online with
Hutch and his friends, he sees
a shadow lurking in the darkness and goes to investigate.
As he reaches the outer portion of his office hallway, the
Countess corners him and
kills him.
The next day, Hutch arrives
at work to find police officers
in the building and learns
Miller has been found lying
over a desk, stabbed to death
in much the same way he died
in the video game the night
before. In no way is this game
even close to being over.
“Stay Alive” is a spontaneous horror film that keeps
the audience always hoping
for the best for each of the
characters. This cast of people
has a unique sense of friendship and helps create the thematic circumstances in which
they all must stick together to
survive.
Even though many believe
horror movies are ridiculous
and only meant to scare you
into not wanting to turn off the
lights at night, this movie was
not that bad. “Stay Alive” will
keep you interested and submerged in the story.
This movie didn’t reach the
point where the plot line was
so stretched out that the reality of it was completely out of
the question. In some horror
movies the antagonist is walking and the victim is running
and yet they can always seem
to catch up.
Of course, a video game,
in real life, does not actually
murder those who play it, but
‘Stay Alive’ has qualities that
make it a genuinely interesting film. The plot seems to be
fairly new and hasn’t been
done before, which makes this
film one of a kind.
This movie is set more for
teens, who will find it appealing with a great story, but I
also recommend ‘Stay Alive’
to those who like an alluring
plot line that will keep them
holding on to their seats.
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 1 hour 25 min.
Briefly
operator urged people to
move below deck to distribute
weight more evenly.
precariously even before it
left on a cruise that ended
with the vessel flipping over,
drowning 57 people, a British
survivor said Saturday.
The dhow, an ancient form
of sailboat used in the Gulf,
had a permit only for use as a
floating restaurant, not for
passenger cruises, an Interior
Ministry spokesman said. The
spokesman, Col. Tariq alHassan, also said the boat’s
captain, who has been
detained for questioning, was
not licensed to pilot the craft.
Simon Hill, who survived
the capsizing, said the boat
was swaying even before it
left shore, and 16 uneasy passengers disembarked. He said
a representative from the tour
Thousands march
for protection of
illegal aliens in NY
NEW YORK (AP) —
Thousands of immigrant
rights supporters formed a
line stretching more than a
mile long Saturday as they
marched across the Brooklyn
Bridge, waving flags from
more than a dozen countries
as they demonstrated against
possible immigration reform
in Congress. Heralded by a
cacophony of trumpets, whistles and drums, the crowd of
mostly Latin Americans gathered in downtown Brooklyn
and trudged a path laden with
symbols of the city’s immigrant strength on their way to
a plaza in lower Manhattan.
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our family has arrived from out of town.
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that big moment. Only one ham is good enough
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At Raley’s, we know how important it is to have
something special, which is why we rely on Bill
Andreetta. We’ve counted on Bill for years to create an extra-special ham exclusively for us. Bill
learned the craft from his father, then perfected
his technique over the next 35 years.
Bill starts with fresh hams, then hand-trims
them. Then they’re hickory smoked – not once,
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COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
Ukiah Skate Park committee seeking
dedicated volunteers
The Ukiah Skate Park will be built Summer 2007, but not
without the community’s help.
The site has been selected, located on E. Perkins Street by the
Railroad tracks. The committee needs help with every aspect to
make this happen. The committee is comprised of roughly 10
people, most of whom have stuck with this project steadfastly
for five years or more. That is simply not enough to make the
dream become a reality. The committee is looking for volunteers who care enough about the youth of this community to
give them a safe place to participate in their sport. This project
will be there to serve generations in the future. The committee
needs help building the Skate Park and cleaning up that area so
the whole community can enjoy that space. Besides the skating
surface, there will also be a picnic area and landscaping for the
whole community to enjoy, with restrooms and ample parking.
Interested community members are encouraged to attend a
meeting to see how they can help. Meetings are held the first
Tuesday of every month at the City Hall conference room, 411
W. Clay St., from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.
The committee is currently working on the design and fund
raising. They have received approximately $600,000 in grant
funds and donations which will help them get started, but initial
estimates for a complete park run $1-1.2 million
For more information, visit their Web site at www.ukiahskatepark.com or call 463-6236.
Soroptimist Sunrise meeting change
Soroptimist International of Yokayo Sunrise (SIYS) - a
vibrant, effective local service club - has moved its regular
meeting days to the first three Thursdays of every month.
Meetings will still be at 7 a.m. at Mendocino County Public
Health Dept., 1120 So. Dora in Ukiah.
For more information, contact President Marta Hernandez at
367-1481 or 468-8631; or Linda Simon at 462-0500; or Sandy
Dow at 467-4106 or any SIYS member.
Soroptimist is an International Organization of approximately 100,000 members in 120 countries.
All clubs participate internationally through their
International Projects. Soroptimist International Yokayo
Sunrise was chartered Sept. 26, 1993, and has given money to a
wide variety of organizations, including: The Chili Cook-off;
Mendocino Cancer Resource Center; the Special Olympics
Soup Off; the Elsie Lancaster Memorial Women’s Health Fair;
Operation Flags; PumpkinFest; Ukiah Akido and Gymnastics;
Space; Hospice; Special Olympics; the Boys and Girls Club;
Ukiah PAL; Project Sanctuary and many more.
“Since being chartered, SIYS has given away more than
$55,000,” explained Hernandez, president of Soroptimist
International of Yokayo Sunrise.
“This is cash and does not include the hundreds of thousands
of service hours the club has donated to our local community,
our District, our Federation, and Internationally.”
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occupation, nominator’s names address and phone number and
the reason for the nomination. Mail all nominations to McMLK
P.O. Box 1004, Ukiah, CA 95482. Deadline is Friday, April 28.
The MLK citizenship selection committee (through a
process) will select a recipient for the award. The citizenship
selection committee members are: Lynda McClure, Herman
Meadows, K.C. Meadows and Paul Taylor.
The recipient of the 2006 MLK citizenship award will be the
9th person to receive the award. The recipient will be honored
at the 4th annual Mendocino County Multicultural Diversity
Dinner event to be held on Saturday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m. in
Ukiah. The recipient’s name will be added to the MLK citizenship award plaque, which is displayed at the City of Ukiah
Civic Center in the foyer. All nominees for 2006 will be
acknowledged at the dinner event.
The MLK citizenship award project and the multi-cultural
diversity dinner event are two of the many activities provided to
the public by McMLK and friends. McMLK and friends provides these public activities in an effort to achieve McMLK’s
mission to “move beyond tolerance” and to obtain McMLK’s
goal to “enhance the innate spirit of human kindness” through
events and projects.
Those interested in the selection process may make inquires
via McMLK P.O. Box 1004, Ukiah, CA 95482.
Mendocino Striped Bass Association
is in need of donations
The Mendocino Striped Bass Association has just planted
5000 fish in the lake and now they need the communities help
paying for the. Anyone interested in helping can join the club or
send donations to P.O. Box 271, Calpella Ca, 95418.
Willits Lions Club to hold ‘World
famous’ Pancake breakfast today
The Willits Lions Club will again be holding another of
their “World Famous” pancake breakfasts on Sunday,
April 2 from 7 to 11 a.m. The breakfast features old time
sourdough pancakes, scrambled eggs, ham, orange juice,
coffee and milk. The price is $6 for adults, and $4 for children under 12, and the event will be held at the Little Lake
Grange Hall. For more information, call 459-4928.
Hospice of Ukiah to start new grief
recovery support system
Hospice of Ukiah will be offering a new Grief Recovery
Support Group starting Monday evening, and running for eight
weeks through May 22. Open to the public without charge, this
2-hour weekly meeting will convene from 7 to 9 p.m. at the
Hospice of Ukiah office at 650 S. Dora, Suite 101.
The series is open to any adult who is grieving a death. This
is an opportunity to express feelings of loss in a safe atmosphere
Wood cutting permits go on sale in April
and to learn information and techniques for moving through the
bereavement process. The group is educational as well as supportive. Each week focuses on different aspects of the grieving
process, and includes helpful written handouts to take home as
well as suggested exercises to work on during the week.
What’s “normal” when grieving? How do people handle feeling depressed, stuck, angry, guilty, and stress? How can memories be healing and not just painful reminders? What’s the best
way to approach upcoming holidays and anniversaries? Simply
committing to coming to the Grief Group once a week and
being with others going through a similar experience can be an
important component of moving forward into one’s new life
without the person who has died.
There is no charge for participation in the group. Hospice of
Ukiah, Inc., is a volunteer hospice supported by donations
which are always welcome. For more information and to register, call 391-8013.
Mendocino Coast Ocean protection
to meet Tuesday, April 4
Mendocino Coast ocean protection activists are hustling to
organize a rally at the first-ever meeting of the County Board of
Supervisors on the coast, where Fifth District Supervisor David
Colfax is scheduled to introduce a county resolution backing
Congressional efforts for permanent protection from offshore
oil and gas exploration and drilling.
Richard Charter, head of the National Outer Continental
Shelf Coalition, will be at the April 4 meeting at 10:30 a.m. at
Fort Bragg Town Hall to alert the community about new threats
of offshore drilling, and how we all can support new
Congressional initiatives for permanent protection from offshore drilling.
“Let’s come to Fort Bragg on the morning of April 4 and support our county supervisors in their efforts to help protect us
from the increasing threat of offshore gas and oil exploration,”
urges John Lewallen, Facilitator of the Ocean Protection
Coalition.
The county supervisors are inviting all coastal residents to
bring any and all issues for a hearing at the meeting.
Emblem Club to hold luncheon April 5
Well, Spring is here but not warm enough to change the luncheon, so on April 5, the Emblem Club will be serving soup,
sandwiches and desserts. This just for ladies lunch is served the
first Wednesday of each month as a money raiser for the
Emblem Club’s many charitable donations. So call friends and
make a date to have a lovely lunch and a enjoyable afternoon.
Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. until 1p.m. at the Norm
Island building located at 1200 Hastings Rd, in Ukiah.
Just Beat It.
Personal use firewood cutting permits will be available for
purchase April 3 for the Mendocino National Forest.
The minimum purchase for a firewood permit is $20 for four
cords ($5 per cord), with a 10-cord maximum ($50.00) per permit, and no maximum per household per year. All firewood
removed must be dead and down. Permits may be purchased in
person at the District Offices and at the Forest Supervisor’s
Office in Willows. The permits will be valid until Dec. 31,
2006; the amount of wood does not have to be cut all at the
same time.
In Mendocino County and Lake County, there is a quarantine to prevent the spread of Sudden Oak Death disease, so cutters may not transport any wood from these counties to other
counties outside the quarantined area.
For further information, contact the Grindstone District at
(530) 963-3128; the Upper Lake District at 275-2361; the Cove
lo District at 983-6118; or the Forest Supervisor’s Office in
Willows at (530) 934-3316.
During fire season, call the firewood information line at
530-934-1255 for updates on fire restrictions before going out
to cut wood. Additional information is available at
www.fs.fed.us/r5/mendocino.
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The Ukiah Senior Center is trying to start a monthly book
discussion group. The format will possibly be to read a book,
and then have a leader facilitate a meeting to discuss what has
been read.
Anyone interested in encouraging reading, and becoming the
Facilitator/Leader for this new group or wish to get on the list
as a group member, call Betty at 467-0960.
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Funding for Youth Led Projects through
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Any ideas for a project that would help youth in the community? Here is a chance for youth or youth groups with an adult
sponsor to implement ideas that will positively affect youth
within their school or communities.
The Youth Philanthropy Board, a training opportunity for
Mendocino County youth organized under the auspices of the
Mendocino County Work force Investment Board Youth
Council, will be awarding mini-grants to youth to implement
community service projects for youth.
The Youth Philanthropy Board has issued a request for applications and will select which of the proposals to be funded.
Awards will range from several hundred dollars up to $2,450.
Applications are available at www.mendowib.org and are
due on April 17, 2006.
Funding for the mini-grants was made possible by the
Mendocino County Department of Social Services and
Mendocino County Office of Education.
For more information call Debra Donelson, WIB Youth
Council staff, at 467-5590.
MCMLK invites public to submit
nominations for ‘Citizenship Award’
Mendocino County Martin Luther King Jr. Organization
invites the public to submit their nominations for the 2006
Mendocino County Martin Luther King, Jr. “Citizenship
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Mendocino County who is working toward the struggle for
peace, justice and equality for all in Mendocino County.
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ASTROGRAPH
By Bernice Bede Osol
Puzzle
answers
on the next
page
Datebook: Sunday, April 2, 2006
Today is the 92nd day of 2006 and the
14th day of spring.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1865, Jefferson
Davis fled Richmond, Va., as Union forces
closed in on the Confederate capital.
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson
asked Congress to declare war on Germany.
In 1982, Argentina invaded the Britishheld Falkland Islands.
TODAY’S
BIRTHDAYS:
Hans
Christian Andersen (1805-75), writer; Emile
Zola (1840-1902), novelist; Max Ernst
The rule of 12 (minus four)
Village
Idiot
Eight of us were having lunch at the
new Japanese restaurant. Andy had
never eaten Japanese food before, and
the thought of sucking down raw fish at
noon was making him a little queasy.
We ordered him the tempura.
“Did you see that movie last night
on TV?” asked Bob.
“What movie?”
“The one with the guy in it. You
know who I’m talking about, the guy
with the teeth.”
“Help us out a little,” said Andy.
“He’s married to that woman -- the
one with the hair.”
Ah, of course, the guy with teeth
married to the haired woman. (It was
like trying to describe an in-flight meal
by throwing a fork in the air.)
“You need 12 people to do this,”
said Mavis, our voice of reason.
“We need 12 people to have lunch?”
“No, you need 12 people our age to
figure out what movie we’re talking
about. To remember the names of
actors and movies and celebrities.”
By Jim Mullen
Eight (forgive me) isn’t enough?
Bob jumped in: “Doesn’t anybody
watch TV anymore? The movie I’m
talking about was on Channel 7. Or
Channel 9. Somebody must have seen
it. It was about this monk in a little village in China, no, not a monk, oh, what
do you call them...”
“A priest?”
“Humphrey Bogart?”
“A flying fork?”
“This tastes like seaweed,” Andy
griped.
“Gregory Peck?”
“It’s a seaweed salad.”
“You mean the eight of us won’t be
LINDBERG LUMBER
& TRUE VALUE
HARDWARE
Monday, April 3, 2006
Many of the hard lessons
you’ve learned from the past
will be put to good use in
the year ahead, and they can
become an advantage that
you’ve never enjoyed previously. Use them well in both
social and commercial
affairs.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- When gabbing with a
friend today, steer clear of
any subject you know from
past experience has proven
to be an unresolvable hot
issue. Don’t ignite sparks
once again. Major changes
are ahead for Aries in the
coming year.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- Your possibilities for
profit today are reasonably
good; nevertheless, there are
still problems that may have
to be overcome first. Know
the obstacles you’re facing
and what can be done.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) -- Understand that something about which you may
be quite enthusiastic might
not be of equal interest to
another who is involved in
the situation. Handle the
matter with tact and diplomacy.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) -- Before volunteering
your services and assistance
today, be sure you have the
complete picture. You may
be committing yourself to
greater responsibilities than
you realize.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Someone with whom you
may be involved socially
today could have a chip on
his/her shoulder, and s/he
could be itching to take it
out on someone. Try not to
be the one who chooses to
knock it off.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) -- Associates will be
extremely annoyed with you
today if they believe you’re
(1891-1976), artist; Buddy Ebsen (19082003), actor; Emmylou Harris (1947- ),
singer, is 59; Christopher Meloni (1961- ),
actor, is 45.
TODAY’S
SPORTS:
In
1995,
Connecticut defeated Tennessee, 70-64, to
win the NCAA women’s basketball title and
finish the season 35-0.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
able to figure out what movie Bob’s
talking about?”
“Was Gregory Peck married? I
mean, to somebody?”
“But I didn’t order a seaweed salad.”
“It comes with the eel.”
“I just ate an eel? Is that what I
ordered? I thought I was ordering
salmon. I’m gonna be sick.”
“You ate it all. It couldn’t have been
that bad.”
“Marlon Brando. Wasn’t he in
‘Teahouse of the August Moon?’”
“Yeah, but he wasn’t a monk.
Besides, that was in Japan, not China.”
“Yes, I’m sick. I just ate a bleeping
eel. A sea snake!”
“I’m telling you, you’re going to
need 12 people.”
Mavis has hit on something: the wisdom of crowds. There are things I can
still remember effortlessly -- the lyrics
of songs and who sang them and wrote
them, trips I’ve taken, books I’ve read.
And then there are things I can’t
remember at all, never could. It has
only looking out for your
own interests and ignoring
theirs. Don’t do anything to
lead them to believe this to
be true.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23) -- Keep your temper in
check today, especially if
someone throws cold water
on your plans. In reality, you
don’t need this person’s
approval anyway.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) -- Think carefully before
taking on any new long-term
financial obligations today.
There is a strong possibility
you could put yourself in a
position where you’ll later
be pressed for funds.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
23-Dec. 21) -- You’ll be justified in getting a little
miffed today with a person
you are bending over backwards to help, but who is not
treating you with equal consideration. So don’t give it a
second thought.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) -- A co-worker
might attempt to steal the
limelight today and take
credit for something you’ve
accomplished
without
his/her help. Don’t hesitate
for one minute to set the
record straight.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 19) -- If a cranky companion dismisses your
happy-go-lucky demeanor
today, don’t hesitate to
dump him/her and find
yourself other friends who
are more amenable and willing to have a good time.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) -- A matter of importance you want to conclude
today can be finalized, but
not without some difficulty.
If you’re up to handling the
messy details, you’ll accomplish your goal.
Send for your AstroGraph predictions today.
Mail $2 to Astro-Graph, c/o
this newspaper, P.O. Box
167, Wickliffe, OH 440920167. Be sure to state your
zodiac sign.
without work.” -- Emile Zola
TODAY’S FACT: Max Ernst created a
new painting technique called frottage. (An
object is covered with blank paper and
rubbed with black chalk, creating a surreal
image.)s
TODAY’S NUMBER: 16 -- length, in
feet, of the largest squid on record.
TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon
(March 29) and first quarter (April 5).
nothing to do with age; there are things
I couldn’t retain when I was young. I
can never remember people’s names at
parties, even though I make an elaborate effort.
Let’s say I meet a guy named Phil at
a party. In my mind I say “Phil. Phil is
from Philadelphia. Phil is from Philly.”
That should seal it up in there. I’ve
been to Philadelphia. It’s a great town.
All that history, the Revolution, the
Liberty Bell. No problem, Phil is from
Philadelphia.
Later on at the party I’ll be talking to
Bob and the guy I just met walks up.
Using all my memory tricks, all my
mnemonic skill I say:
“Bob, have you met Benjamin
Franklin?”
At that point, Bob’s name, too, has
slipped my mind even though I have
known him 22 years.
The good news is that no one thinks
I have a memory problem. They all
think I have a drinking problem.
Bob is still trying to come up with
the actor’s name that is eluding him.
“He was in that other movie. He was a
pilot. In the Civil War.”
“I don’t think they had pilots during
the Civil War.”
“Was it a musical?”
Andy didn’t think so. “What were
the big songs in that, ‘Thirty Seconds
over Atlanta?’‘Kiss My Cannon?’Who
wouldn’t leave the theater humming
that?”
“I remember now,” said Bob, “It
was ‘The African Queen.’”
“Well,” said Harry, “This blows
Mavis’ theory all to bits. It didn’t take
12 people to figure out the name of the
movie. Bob did it all by himself.”
Mavis was jabbing her finger across
the table at Harry. “He said it was about
a monk in Japan. ‘The African Queen’
is about a drunk in Africa. How could
anyone figure that out? The only thing
he got right was that it starred a guy
married to a woman with hair!”
You know, what’s-her-name.
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By the Editors of Consumer
Reports
• “That rebuilt alternator
will run you $899.” If you
happen to know that your
cousin paid only $399 for similar work, you’d better call
around to check. Although
good shops may charge higher
prices to cover the cost of topflight technicians and equipment, bills that are always 20
percent to 30 percent more
than the going rate should put
you on guard, warns AAA,
formerly
the
American
Automobile Association. You
can poll other shops to find
out how much mechanics in
your area are charging for
common repairs and maintenance. For complex problems,
try comparing the price of the
parts alone by calling parts
stores or dealer parts departments.
• “With some cars, it’s not
unusual to go through a starter
every year.” This may be a tipoff that the shop did the work
incorrectly or used poor-quality or makeshift parts instead
of proper ones. Call some
other shops to find out what
they think, or check the Web
to see if there’s a discussion
group devoted to your model
and its problems. You might
also want to take the car to
another repair shop for a second opinion. (Second opinions are likewise a good idea
if your mechanic can’t diagnose the problem yet keeps
replacing parts in an attempt
to fix it.) If the original job
was lacking, ask the shop that
did the work to repeat the
repair either without charge or
at a substantial discount.
• “You’ll have to bring your
car back to the dealership for
service.” Sure, the dealer
wants all the lucrative repair
and maintenance jobs. But
generally, you need to use a
dealer only for work covered
under the warranty, recalls,
post-warranty fixes you’re
hoping the manufacturer will
pay for under its “goodwill”
program or high-tech systems
that require a dealership’s specialists.
You can avoid many of
these complications -- and get
the right repairs at a fair price
-- by communicating clearly
with your mechanic at the outset. Here’s what to say and
what to expect:
• Describe the problem
fully. Provide as much information as possible. Write
down the symptoms and when
they occur. If possible, talk
directly to the mechanic who
will be working on your car.
• Don’t offer a diagnosis.
Avoid saying what you think
is causing the problem. You
may be on the hook for any
repairs the shop makes at your
suggestion, even if they don’t
solve the problem.
• Request a test-drive. If the
problem occurs only when the
car is moving, ask the
mechanic to accompany you
on a test-drive.
Finally, ask for evidence. If
you’re not comfortable with
the diagnosis, ask the shop to
show you. Don’t let the
mechanic refuse your request
by saying his insurance company doesn’t allow customers
in the work area. Insist on seeing for yourself.
Visit the Consumer Reports
Web site at www.consumerreports.org.
With assets, TbyE beats half ownership
Q: I’m refinancing my house, and I’ve
committed the sin of all sins when I actually took $35,000 out of my 401(k) last
year. I borrowed it for health reasons.
I’ve had the house for several years, and
I’m about to take out a lot of the equity
and pay off that 401(k) loan. I’m going to
take the rest of the money, fix up the
house and pay off some bills. Do I still
want to be listed as a joint tenant with my
wife? The mortgage people always ask
me that question.
A: You don’t want Joint Tenants with
Rights of Survivorship, known as
JTWROS. What you really want is
Tenants by the Entirety, or TbyE, if it’s
available in your state.
Let me explain: Most assets are held as
JTWROS. If you look at the application
form of a typical brokerage firm or a typical mutual fund, they give you several
boxes and ask you to select one. One of
the choices is JTWROS, and that’s the
box most married people choose. It
means you and your wife legally each
own 50 percent of the account. If one of
you dies, the survivor will immediately
inherit the other half, and if you get sued,
the creditors can go after your half of the
account.
But when you take title using TbyE
(which is available only to married couples), you both are assumed to own 100
percent of the asset. So if you get sued, a
creditor can’t go after this account
because, legally, your spouse is deemed
to own 100 percent of it even though your
Truth about
money
By Ric Edelman
name is on it, too. Thus, TbyE has
stronger liability protection than
JTWROS.
You will not find the TbyE option on
most forms, so you need to make the
request when opening an account. And
some mutual fund companies and brokerage firms aren’t set up to accommodate it.
Sometimes, it takes us a lot of work on
behalf of our clients to get their accounts
set up that way. Still, it’s the way we do it
for almost all our clients.
vent paying on the lowered basis?
A: You will always have the lower
basis, regardless of how long you keep it
as a second home. The basis was reduced
for depreciation while the property was a
rental, and you get no capital gains tax
break for the sale of a second home. This
break is only available when you sell
your principal residence where you must
live two out of the last five years.
Q: I have heard that it is possible for a
person with $100,000 or less to do various forms of option trading and provide
themselves with a nice income without
risk of loss. Is it possible?
A: No.
Q: I have heard you say, “On your tax
return, deduct the fair market value of
anything you give to a charity.” Our
accountant has always told us to take 20
percent of the fair market value for tax
purposes. Which is right?
A: The deduction should be based on
fair market value. Perhaps your accountant is referring to gifts of used items,
such as clothes you give to Goodwill or
the Purple Heart. My answer is still correct: Take a deduction based on the item’s
fair market value. But your accountant
may have told you to base your deduction
on 20 percent of the “original value” -which might be equal to 100 percent of
the fair market value. Ask him or her to
clarify.
Q: I own a second home that we
turned into rental property. During this
time, I have taken depreciation on the
house as is allowed by IRS. I stopped
renting it last December. How long after
it was returned to second home status
must I keep it as a second home to pre-
Financial Adviser Ric Edelman is the
author of several best-selling books
about personal finance, including
“Ordinary
People,
Extraordinary
Wealth” and “Discover the Wealth
Within You.” You can e-mail him at
money@ricedelman.com.
Risk-averse teacher gets a homework assignment
DEAR BRUCE: My husband and I
are receiving $80,000 on the sale of a
rental house. We need more cash flow, as
we’re living between $5,000 and $10,000
above the $41,348 we get from Social
Security and teacher retirement. After
paying taxes on the $80,000, how should
we invest this to improve our cash flow?
What about government I Bonds? -- D.L.,
via e-mail
DEAR D.L.: Your letter is so representative of hundreds that I receive. You
wish to augment your income from an
investment, but you are prepared to take
little or no risk. Unfortunately, risk and
reward are handmaidens. My best advice:
do a little homework on your own. There
are any number of mutual funds, securities, etc., that could return a fair amount - but with a certain degree of risk. Risk
doesn’t mean putting your money down
on a craps table, or buying some highly
speculative penny stock; it does take
some research to find those companies
that, in your opinion, after the homework
is completed, have a solid future and will
continue to return a reasonable 6 percent
to 8 percent a year, taking dividends and
growth into account. There are a number
of sectors that will accomplish this, with
a very modest amount of risk. The homework is the price you’ll have to pay.
DEAR BRUCE: My boyfriend has
been in business for himself for the past
seven years as a contractor/handyman.
He does not pay himself on a weekly
basis; he pays himself when the job pays.
We never know what we are going to
have for money. My salary is the only
income creditors are accepting, owing to
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Tip-offs to mechanic rip-offs
Consumer reports ✔
Unless you’re a car
mechanic yourself, dealing
with a repair shop may require
a leap of faith. But if you pay
attention to what your
mechanic says (and does),
you’ll find clues to tell you
whether you’re being bamboozled.
Here are some things
mechanics may say when
they’re planning to take you
for a ride:
• “Get that engine flushed
right away or it’s toast.”
Beware if your mechanic’s
idea of “scheduled maintenance” bears little resemblance to the recommendations in your owner’s manual.
Some shops “build the ticket”
(translation: pad the bill) by
recommending extra and often
unnecessary procedures, such
as engine and transmission
flushes, or by scheduling
some tasks prematurely. Some
hawk high-priced “generic”
maintenance schedules that
may omit procedures your car
needs. Be especially concerned if the shop makes
every recommendation sound
like an emergency.
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006 – B-3
SMART MONEY
BY BRUCE WILLIAMS
the fact that he has zero dollars on his tax
returns. We don’t qualify for much
money, plus creditors are giving us high
interest rates because of our credit. We
desperately want to get married and buy a
home in the near future. We have two
children together and seem to be getting
deeper and deeper financially. We do not
get any financial assistance through the
state or town. I have tried, and we do not
qualify for any state-assistance programs.
Do you know of any resources that can
help us stay on our feet? Fake grant companies have ripped us off in the past. -Reader in Massachusetts
DEAR READER: It’s time for you
guys to join the real world. You say he
only pays himself when the job is done.
He is going to have to figure out what his
average income is, put that money aside
and pay himself just as he would any
other obligation. The fact that he shows
no income is certainly not going to help
very much, especially if you want to buy
a home. Further, the fact that you are
unmarried is not going to help, either. I
don’t see why you should even be seeking financial aid through some government agency. You’re going to have to
stand on your own two feet. He is going
to have to operate his business like a
business, and in that enterprise, if he
applies himself, he should do quite well.
Great Savings!
You are also going to be obliged to get on
a budget and stay on a budget. With
regard to joint credit, you will find that
credit grantors are far more receptive to
married couples, not people just living
together.
DEAR BRUCE: I am a 23-year-old
man who delivers pizza on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday to fund my business. I have started a record label with
three acts and need advice. I want to
know the steps to take to become a sole
proprietorship. Or do I even need to?
Would you recommend something else? I
will be selling merchandise in stores as
well as online, and my acts will be touring. How do I become a legal business,
taxes and all? -- B.H. Punta Gorda, Fla.
DEAR B.H.: When you say “started a
record label,” I think you mean you’re
working with three bands, or something
similar. You’re currently a proprietorship,
there are no steps to take. However, if
you wish to go “legit” and sell merchandise, you’re going to have to get a state
Tax ID number, a Federal ID number and
set up a Subchapter S or LLC. All of this
sounds daunting, but it really isn’t. Were
I you, I would put things a little bit on
hold, deliver a lot of pizza and build up a
bankroll. At the same time, seek the services of an accountant who can set up the
books for you, offer advice on what entity you should be using and get the appropriate tax documents filed. It’s not as difficult as it seems, and all of us have gone
through it. The main thing is to develop
capital and, although you’re doing it the
hard way, I congratulate you on your
approach.
Everyday
Cheapskate
By Mary Hunt
When it pays
to buy organic
When I read the word “organic” on labels in the supermarket, what I see are extra dollar signs. Calling something organic can increase the price significantly -- especially when that label is on milk or meat.
A growing body of research shows that pesticides and
other contaminants are more prevalent in our food, our
bodies and the environment than we previously thought.
But unless you understand what labels mean and when eating organic may really matter for you and your family, you
could end up wasting a lot of money.
100 percent organic: No synthetic ingredients are
allowed by law. Also, production processes must meet federal organic standards and must have been verified independently by accredited inspectors.
Organic: At least 95 percent of ingredients are produced organically. This means 5 percent aren’t and can
consist of synthetics. (Exception: Organic labels on
seafood are meaningless because the USDA has issued no
standards when it comes to fish and shellfish. There are no
USDA regulations in place, possibly because you cannot
control what gets into fish, even when they are farmraised.)
Made with organic ingredients: At least 70 percent of
ingredients are organic. The remaining 30 percent must
come from the USDA’s approved list.
Apples, bell peppers, celery, cherries, strawberries,
spinach, peaches, milk, chicken and beef absorb significant amounts of pesticides and chemicals when produced
conventionally. These are items that warrant your consideration when produced organically. Not so with other food
items that do not absorb the bad stuff so readily. In fact,
there is little difference between organically produced and
conventionally produced cauliflower, sweet corn, broccoli,
asparagus, mangoes and peas. To pay more for organic
versions of these items is a waste of money.
Organic labels on cosmetics and hair products are
meaningless, so don’t waste your money paying more for
them. Because there are no regulations, a company can put
“organic” on the label if there is one ingredient out of 100
that can be considered such. The rest can be chemicals.
Instead of relying on references to “organic” on these
products, look at the entire list of ingredients before
shelling out the big bucks.
You can find organic growers at most farmers markets.
A 2002 USDA study found that about 40 percent of those
farmers don’t charge a premium for their organic products.
For listings of local farmers’ markets and other sources, go
to www.localharvest.org or www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets.
Look for a community-supported organic farm in your
area. When joining, you will get a weekly supply of produce from spring through fall. You’ll pay from $300 to
$500 for a family of four for the season. Go to
www.sare.org for a list of farms.
If you’re willing to pay more for organically grown
meat, dairy and produce, you might be interested to know
that national providers will ship items such as organic beef
(mynaturalbeef.com). Some businesses, such as
FreshDirect (freshdirect.com) in the New York City area
and Pioneer Organics (pioneerorganics.com) in the Pacific
Northwest, offer home delivery. Other helpful sites are
eatwellguide.org and theorganicpages.com.
Mary Hunt is the founder and publisher of Debt-Proof
Living newsletter and Debt-Proof Living Web site
(www.debtproofliving.com). You can e-mail tips or questions to cheapskate@unitedmedia.com or mail to Everyday
Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135 Paramount, CA 90723. All
correspondence becomes the property of Debt-Proof
Living.
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Ask the Guys
Dear Classified Guys,
I must admit. I am a packrat. So
when the car could barely fit into the
garage, I knew I had to do something.
That's when I made a deal with my 13
and 14-year-old sons. I told them
that if they cleaned out the garage
and had a yard sale, I would give
them the money. I figured they'd
make enough for a new bike or a
video game. I never expected them
to make almost $1500 on the sale.
Not only did they overprice everything, but they became little
sales demons. People
bought almost everything.
Now what do I do? I can't
set them loose with that kind of
money. Any ideas?
•
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Cash: First, you might want to make
sure you still have your car in the
garage. Considering their new-found
talents, you never know.
Carry: It sounds like your children
may have a successful future in sales.
Maybe you discovered a way for them
to pay for college.
Cash: Your intentions were great.
Getting children involved in the yard
sale process can be a great experience
for them. Not only does it motivate
them to help clean out the garage, but
Duane “Cash” Holze
& Todd “Carry” Holze
04/02/06
©2006 The Classified Guys®
it's also a great way to teach them about
the value of a dollar.
Carry: Or in their case, the value of
$1500.
Cash: We agree that it is not a good
idea to give $1500 to two young
teenagers. That is a lot of money for
them to have and they may not have the
skills to manage it yet.
Carry: However, you also don't want
to go back on your word. They did earn
the money and taking away their payoff
will not build trust with your children.
Cash: The best approach would be
to commend them on a job well done
and help them with managing their
earnings. Since you anticipated they
would earn enough for a bike or video
game, limit their spending to that
amount.
Carry: Then, help them open a bank
account with their name on it. That
way they can still experience ownership of the money, and you can help
manage how it is spent. Encourage
them to save for a goal, like buying a
car when they get older or helping to
pay for the insurance.
Cash: And considering how successful they were with the garage,
maybe you should have them work on
the attic!
Fast Facts
Cashing In
Reader Humor
Priced to sell
Since most schools don't offer a course
in personal finance, children are left to
learn how to handle money from their
parents. Recent studies show that
American teenagers spend more then
$100 every week. That's up from $78 in
1997. Those spending habits may not be
preparing them for the future. The number of consumers under age 25 that file
for bankruptcy has increased from 1% in
1995 to more than 5% today. Maybe we
could all use a course in money managment.
My teenage son is quite the
prankster. Late one Friday night, he
gathered a bunch of junk from
around the neighborhood and put it
on my neighbor's lawn. Then he
posted a sign out front that said,
"Yard Sale."
Sure enough, at 7:00 am there were
people knocking on my neighbor's
door waiting for the sale to open. He
was so annoyed that he called our
house and left an angry message.
When I arrived home that day, I
immediately went over to apologize
for my son's behavior.
"I can't believe my son put all that
junk on your lawn," I apologized.
"That's quite alright," my neighbor
replied rather calmly. "It turns out I
made $200."
(Thanks to Billy G.)
Money Tree
As the saying goes, "money doesn't
grow on trees." However in 2005, one
man found out that a tree could have a
credit card. Fed up with receiving credit
card applications, a California man
signed up "Never Waste a Tree" for a
card in hopes it would signal the company to stop sending applications. To his
surprise, the company mailed him a card
made out to the fictitious name, "Never
Waste Tree". Although he cut up the
card, it seems almost anything these days
can have a credit line.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning
Commission of the City of Ukiah, California will hold
a public hearing regarding:
A. Minor Variance No. 05-48, as submitted by Martin
Gadea, to allow the creation of a lot (the result of a
two-parcel subdivision) that is six inches short of the
minimum lot width prescribed in the Ukiah Municipal
Code, resulting in a lot that is 59.45 feet wide. The
subject property is located at 733 South Oak Street
(APN 002-301-45); zoned R-3 (High Density
Residential).
This hearing will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2006,
at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as practical, in the
Council Chambers of the Ukiah Civic Center, 300
Seminary Avenue, Ukiah, California.
Please pass this notice on to your neighbors, friends,
or other interested parties. You are encouraged to discuss
this project with, and express any view you may have,
or request additional information from Associate Planner
Sandra Liston at the City Planning Department at 300
Seminary Avenue, Ukiah, California, between the hours
of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
s/CHARLEY STUMP/PLANNING DIRECTOR
NOTICE OF LIEN SALE
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends
to sell the personal property described below to
enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant
to the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act
(B&P Code 21700-21716).
Will be sold at Public Auction on 7 April, 2006 at
10:00 AM, on the premises where said property
has been stored and which are located at G&W
Storage, 120 Parducci Rd., Ukiah, Ca. the
following: farm tools, misc. household items and
boxes-contents unknown belonging to B7 Georg
Rockey; A2 Scott Eichner; L1 Beth A. Hale. G&W
Storage RED1006871 (707) 462-5763
233-06
4-2/06
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning
Commission of the City of Ukiah, California, will hold
a public hearing to review and make recommendations
to the City Council pertaining to Ordinance Amendment
No. 06-11, which would allow modifications to the Ukiah
Municipal Code (UMC) zoning and subdivision
ordinance standards for private streets that provide
access to lots with no public street frontage.
This hearing will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2006,
at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as practical, in the
Council Chambers of the Ukiah Civic Center, 300
Seminary Avenue, Ukiah, California.
Please pass this notice on to your neighbors, friends,
or other interested parties. You are encouraged to discuss
this project with Associate Planner Dave Lohse to express
any view you may have, or request additional
information, by calling 463-6207. Written comments
may be mailed to the City Planning Department at 300
Seminary Avenue, Ukiah, California, during regular
business hours, Monday through Friday.
CHARLEY STUMP, PLANNING DIRECTOR
PUBLIC NOTICE
046-06
4-2/06
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Ukiah Police
Department receives
numerous items of
found property on a
continual basis. If you
have lost items within
the Ukiah city limits
within the past 90 days,
you may check to
determine if it has been
turned in as found
property by calling 4636259
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NOTICES
Annual Meeting
Potter Valley Comm.
Health Ctr., Mon., April
3rd @ 6:30 pm, 10261
Main Street PV.
Community members
welcome.
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PERSONALS
IN NEED OF HELP
Single mother financially
struggling just reunified
with 13 yr old son after
5 years is in desperate
need of a good used
bed, at little or no cost.
Twin or Double size
preferred. Thank you &
God bless for your help.
Shelley @ 468-0907
after 5 p.m.
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LOST &
FOUND
I found a 2nd place
ribbon belonging to Jason
Emmons and I’d like to
return it to it’s rightful
owner. If someone would
like to claim it, call me at
485-1280 and leave a
message.
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HELP
WANTED
$8- $10.75 hr.
LOST &
FOUND
Found Black & Brown
Dog with thick fur,
medium size in Oak
Knoll area.467-0975
468-3500
MORNING, EVE. &
NIGHT SHIFTS
No exp. Pd. training
provided. Cooking,
cleaning, driving &
providing living skills
assist. to adults w/
developmental
disabilities. Will
consider resp. Hi. Schl.
Sr. 485-0165, 468-0602
120
HELP
WANTED
ROP TEACHERBASIC SKILLS
PT (16 hrs/wk;
varied hrs/days)
$26.52-$44.15/hr.
Under general
supervision of
Regional
Occupational
Program (ROP)
Director, instruct
youth in basic skills
remediation. Reg.
teaching cred. req’d.
2yrs teaching or work
w/youth preferred.
Mendocino County
Office of
Education
For an application
packet visit
www.mcoe.us/jobs
or call
707-467-5012
DEADLINE: 4/4/06
COUNSELOR
Tapestry Family
Services
Support Counselor to
work with children
and families, in
homes, community
and in after-school
program in Ukiah.
Requires AA, BA, MA
or MSW & experience
with children in
mental health or
rehabilitative setting.
$18 to $21 per hour;
depending on
education and
experience. Benefits.
463-3300 for
application packet.
Apply by 4/5/06
120
HELP
WANTED
STATE
PRESCHOOL
ASSISTANT
TEACHER
PT (3.5 hrs/day, 5
days/wk, 10mos/yr)
$9.27-$12.40/hr.
Assist St. Presch.
teacher with all
elements of
instructional program
w/in State guidelines.
1 yr exp wkg with
preschool-age
children req’d. 6 ECE
units pref’d or
completed w/in 1 yr of
employment.
Mendocino County
Office of
Education
For an application
packet visit
www.mcoe.us/jobs
707-467-5012
DEADLINE: 4/4/06
*GET CASH* For
Settlement, Annuity
Payments, Inheritance.
1-800-836-0479
ACCOUNTANT
Lakeport & Ukiah
Office.
Staff accountants with
accounting B.S.
Degree or equivalent.
GAAP and Financial
Stmt. Preparation and
client consulting. Great
Benefits and
compensation.
Send Resume to
Jennifer@
robertsoncpa.com
or Fax 707-263-6001
CABINET MAKER
5+ yrs exp Reply to PO
box 2830
Ukiah, CA 95482
120
HELP
WANTED
Acct. Pyble/Office
Asst. at AVUSD,
7 hr/day w/bene.
$17,294-$18,711/yr.
Apply S. Ivey,
Anderson Vly District
Office, Box 457,
Boonville, CA 95415
AWESOME JOB
FUN-TRAVEL
A great way to see the
USA! Will hire 18+, free
to travel,
clean cut,outgoing.
Earn $500 -$1000/wk +
bonus Call
1-877-496-6321
Care Provider
Opportunity
California Mentor is
looking for an individual
or couple who can open
their home to an adult with
a developmental disability.
If you have personal or
professional experience
working
with
developmental disabilities
& have room in your heart
& home for one more
please call us at
California Mentor. We
will provide all of your
training & offer &
copeditive tax-free
monthly stipend.
707-442-4500
Class B
Truck Driver
P/T. Clean MVR.
707-546-3043
Delivery Truck Driver
Competitive Wages
Full benefits. Must be
21, have Class A or B
& HazMat. Come join
our team. Apply
3080 N. State St.
120
HELP
WANTED
Clinical ManagerTapestry Family
Services Oversight of
Mental Health
treatment programs for
children and families in
CBO in Ukiah,
including after-school
program for children,
PCIT services, and
supervision of
therapists. License req.
Salary negotiable. 4633300 for app.
Apply by 4/21/06
CNA’s F/T, P/T, days
& PM’s. Great working
cond.
Apply in person
Valley View Skilled
Nursing Center,
1162 S.Dora, Ukiah
Code Compliance
Manager
County of Lake
$3776-$4590 mo.
Plus ben. incl. fully paid
retirement plan. 2 yrs.
supervisory exp. req. +
1 yr. planning or code
enf., strong management
background desired.
www.co.lake.ca.us
Personnel Dept.
255 N. Forbes St.
Lakeport, CA 95453
707-263-2213
Closes 4/20/06 EOE
DRIVER: TAKE
BETTER CARE of your
family. Join ours. Swift
offers excellent miles,
compensation, CDL
training. OTR, regional,
dedicated runs.
www.SwiftTruckingJobs
.com
1-866-333-8801.
Ref#163. EOE.
120
HELP
WANTED
Come Join
Our Team!
Now accepting
applications for
SURVEILLANCE
Coyote Valley
Shodakai Casino
7751 N. State St.
Redwood Valley
M-F 9-5 EOE
707-467-4728
Communications
Company looking for
front office assistant.
Must have excellent
multitasking & prioritizing
skills. Position entails
regular clerical duties
along with several other
job functions. Please fax
resume and salar y
requirements to:
(707) 462-9749
COMMUNITY
HEALTH
REPRESENTATIVE
Assist in providing
outreach services,
health ed, follow up &
referrals. Must have
exp. in Native
American social org.
service. For full job
desc & app call
707-744-1647 ext.
1342 or email
dhendricks@
hoplandtribe.com
Housekeepers, exp. pref.
Apply in person at 101
Gregory Lane, Willits.
120
HELP
WANTED
Community Health
Representative
(CHR)
Guidiville Indian
Rancheria is seeking a
CHR-knowledge of:
Diabetes, health ed.,
vital signs, and IHS
program preferable. HS
Diploma required.
Must have clean DMV
print-out.
For more info. call 4633693
CONSTRUCTION
SUPERINTENDENT
for public works job in
FB. 10 yrs. min. exp.
$2000/wk. Fax to 916652-3922
COUNSELORS
Entry/Adv pos in-prison
tx pgm in Solano. Exp
w/crim justice,
grp/indiv. Counsel. Fax
415-499-1912
Cust. Service Rep.
Tech Ag. product.
phone, PC, org., FT,
bens, $12-$15/hr.
email resume info@
ntechindustries.com
CUSTOMER
CARE
SUPERVISOR
Maverick
Enterprises
Supervises daily
operations of fast
paced Customer care
dept., works closely
with sales,
engineering,
production &
shipping. Prepare
timely status & annual
customer sales
reports. Requires
College
degree or min 3 yrs.
exp. Supervisory exp.
and Customer
Service background
preferred. Proficient in
Access. Excel, Word
and Syteline ERP if
possible.
Resumes to jbrown@
maverickcaps.com fax
707-463-0188 or 751E. Gobbi St., Ukiah,
CA 95482
Day Camp
Counselor:
(Summer Seasonal)
$6.75-$7.75/hr. A
great summer job
working with children
6-12 yrs. old.
Minimum age 16 yrs.
with exp. supervising
or working w/children.
Counselors are
responsible for the
safety & guidance of
the children. Exp. in
arts, crafts, music &
sports desirable,
Responsible for
leading, supervising,
and conducting
programs. First Aid &
CPR cert. required.
Applications available
at City of Ukiah, CA
95482 or
www.cityofukiah.com
Deadline: 05/01/06.
EOE
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HELP
WANTED
DRIVER: F/T.
Class A Truck Driver w/
1 yr. exp. & tank
endorsements.Clean
DMV printout. Send
resume to Box 117 c/o.
DRIVERS- Reefer
Recent Average
$1,294/week. No
experience? On the
road training available.
Late model assigned
equipment. Great
benefits.
800-771-6318.
www.PrimeInc.com
Energetic, organized, detail
oriented F/T Sales person
Tues-Sat 9:30am-6pm.
Must be able to multi-task.
Construction, doors,
hardware, &/or centertop
knowledge a+. Wage
DOE. Fax
resume to 707-463-1739
Exp. Cooks wanted. FT
& PT. Please apply at
Zack’s Restaurant, 1430
N. State St. (No phone
calls).
FIELD MECHANIC
Exp. diesel, aerial &
const. equip mechanic.
PARTS MANAGER
Exp, organized, detail
oriented, comp. literate.
For both positions.
Individuals req’d to
maintain positive
attitude & exceptional
customer service at all
times. Please apply or
send resume:
Rental Solutions
5505 Hwy 29,
American Canyon
Ph: 707-251-9953
Fax; 707-251-9779
Foster Parents &
Respite Provider
Tapestry Family
Services
Foster Parents
earn up to
$1590/mo tax free:
Respite Providers
earn up to $100/dy tax
free. Single
parent OK. 463-3300
www.tapestryfs.org
Graveyard shift
WORKING with kids,
small homelike
environment, good pay
& benefits. Fax resume
to 463-6957
Howard Hospital
Opportunities
RN, ICU, FT & per
diem.
RN, Surgery, FT
RN, ER, per diem
RN, Home Health, PT
Occup. Therapist, FT
Clinical Lab Scientist,
FT
Radiology Technologist,
FT
For more
information: 4563101
www.Howard
Hospital.com
Maintenance
Associate
Busy Prop. Mgt. firm
seeks motivated,
dependable, individual
w/basic construction
exp. for F/T position.
Must have reliable
vehicle & valid DL.
Benefit pkg avail.
Apply at Selzer
Realty 300 E. Gobbi
St., Ukiah
SUNDAY, APR. 2, 2006 -B-5
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120
HELP
WANTED
SENIOR
MENTAL
HEALTH
CLINICIAN
Mendocino County
Mental Health Dept.
$3993-$4853/Mo. Req
Masters in
social work or
graduate school
degree with licensure
as LCSW, MFT, LCP
or RPN, & three yrs
related exp.
Apply by 04/13/06 to:
HR Dept, 579 Low
Gap Road, Ukiah, CA
95482,
(707) 463-4261,
w/TDD(800)
735-2929. EOE.
www.co.mendocino.
ca.us/hr
Legal
Secretary
Mendocino County
$2,574-$3,128/Mo.
Req HS Grad and 2
yrs exp or 1yr as
trainee with the
county. Apply by
04/19/06 to: HR Dept,
579 Low Gap
Rd, Ukiah, CA 95482,
(707)
463-4261, w/TDD
(800)735-2929.
www.co.mendocino.ca
.us/hr EOE
Lab Tech-Local
environmental lab seeks
motivated individual for FT
entr y
level
technician/analyst position
in our microbiology dept.
exp. pref. but not req.
Chemist-Perform GC
analysis of environmental
samples. BS in Science
req. & exp. pref. Send
resume or inquiries to email marving@
alpha-labs.com
or fax 707-468-5267.
Mason St., Ukiah. No
phone calls please.
LICENSED
PHARMACY TECH.
Salary negotiable.
Willits Pharmacy. 707459-6877
HELP
WANTED
Land Security
Officer (Temp).
Mendocino Redwood
Company, LLC. in Ukiah,
CA is looking for a
temporary security officer
to secure/protect land,
proper ty,
human
resources and other
assets. Patrols all
company properties,
secures and maintains all
locked gates. Requires
knowledge of laws and
regs. that pertain to theft,
vandalism, trespass. Must
carry a valid CA driver’s
license. 4-6 years
experience and/or training
preferred. Contact 707485-6742 for an
application. EOE/ADA
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Licensed Nurses
who enjoy seniors.
We have a hire-on
bonus and a great
shift differential.
Please contact
Barry at Lakeport
Skilled Nursing
Center, 263-6101
LIKE
CHILDREN?
This might be
the job for you.
CHILDCARE
WORKERS,
ALL SHIFTS.
F/T 4 day week. Starting
salary $9.40 per hour.
On call $9 per hour.
Qualifications: Pass
medical and drug exam,
TB test, criminal
background check and
have valid Cal. Drivers
license.
GREAT NEW
MEDICAL, DENTAL,
VISION PKG.
matching 403B TSA
Plan, paid holidays &
vacation, paid training’s,
on duty meals.
FREE Co-op Day Care
Provided
Apply:
TRINITY YOUTH
SERVICES
915 W. Church St. or
on line@
wwwtrinitycfs.org
HELP
WANTED
LVN/RN
CHARGE NURSE
position open at Ukiah
Convalescent
Hospital. DAY SHIFT.
Benefits
offered. Wages
negotiable. WILL
TRAIN. Call Sharon or
Barbara @ 462-8864
or apply at 1349 S.
Dora St., Ukiah
LVN/RN 4PM-8PM
position open at Ukiah
Convalescent Hospital.
This is a part time
position. more hours
could be available
upon
request. Will Train.
For more info call
Sharon @ 462-8864 or
apply at 1349 S. Dora
St., Ukiah Ca.
MAINTENANCE
WORKER
Entry level position,
min. of 3 yrs. exp. in
bldg repair,
construction, main. or
related mech. Trades
and
Grounds/landscaping.
HS grad valid
CA Drivers Lic. reqd.
$21,120/yr (plus vac,
sick lv, health ins., and
ret. plan.) Send resume
by April, 14,
Mendocino County Fair
PO Box 458 Boonville,
CA 95415
or call Jim Brown
707/895-3011
Make a Difference!
Still looking for
Foster Family in
Mendocino County for
a young teen who loves
animals, especially
horses! Also, looking for
a foster home for teen
boys ages 16-18 who
enjoy sports and the
outdoors. Please call
Wendy from Redwood
Children’s Services,
Inc. @ 707-467-2000 for
more information.
Now hiring Exp. Cooks
FT & PT. Apply in person
at Jensen’s Restaurant,
1550 Lovers Lane. (No
phone calls).
MORTGAGE SERVICES
E
Z
L
o
a
N ow
Gene De Geyter
Alice De Geyter
Purchase & Refinance
Quick Qualifying/Approvals
Construction/Lot Loans
Access to Great Rates/Fast Service
Train and develop retail staff
while building and maintaining
positive customer relations and
growth within the retail
environment Minimum 3 years
customer service/sales
experience required.
Supervisory and wireless
background preferred.
For complete descriptions and to
apply for open positions, please
visit our website at
www.edgewireless.com.
We offer long-term incentive
opportunities, comprehensive
health coverage, and a 401(k)
plan. An equal opportunity
employer, Edge Wireless
encourages a diverse workforce.
An equal opportunity employer,
Edge Wireless encourages a
diverse workforce.
purchasing/negotiation
experience,
and
MRP/ERP required.
Retech Systems LLC
100 Henry Station Rd.
Ukiah, CA 95482
Fax: 707-468-1708
HR@retech
systemsllc.com
EOE
Marketing/Sales
Looking for dynamic sales
minded individual as a
marketing director for 2
area skilled nursing
facilities.
Medical backgound is a
plus. If you are outgoing
and hardworking we
would like to hear from
you.
Please contact
Sharon Donnelly at
916-624-6230 ext. 129
or fax resume to 916624-6242.
MASON OR TILE
INSTALLER.
Journeyman skill
level. F/T-10 mo/yr,
wage up to $19/hr
DOE. Clean DMV
462-7433
Mendocino Community Health Clinic
Immed. Openings:
Medical Reception
Medical Records
Prior exp. Bi-lingual
(Spanish) preferred
$10-$13 + benefits.
Fax: 707-468-0793
mklobas@mchcinc.org
Pharmacy Tech
Ca. Licensed ONLY
PT/FT, Slaary DOE
707-468-4333
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HELP
WANTED
NAPA VALLEY
VINEYARD MGMT CO.
Looking to fill an
opening for a
Viticultural position.
Requires a minimum of
a B.S. in Viticultural, or
related Ag discipline.
*3-5 yrs of vnyd fields
*A working knowledge
of all vnyd practices &
how each relate to ultra
premium wines
production.
*Solid communication
skills & attn to detail.
*Ability to work long
hrs.
*Computer Literacy
*Clean DMV
*Organic Vit exp, PCA
license and
Bilingual/Spanish a +,
but not required. Salary
D.O.E. Benefits
included.
Send resumes to
Box 118
c/o Times-Herald
916 Cotting Lane
Vacaville, CA 95688
NEW EXCITING
POSITION WORKING
WITH KIDS
6 wks pd vacation
401 K. Day & Eve
avail. Small homelike
environment, good pay
& benefits. Fax resume
to 463-6957.
NEW HOME
SALES AGENT Ukiah,
P/T, 3 wkys, hrly +
benefits. Real estate
lic. req’d. New home
sales exp. a +.
Requires great
organizational skills,
computer literacy.
E-mail resume
leo@creekbridge.com
with “Vichy Agent” in
the subject line.
Nurses $42 hr LVN’s
$25 hr CNA’s $15.
ORT’s PT/FT weekly
pay, start today.
surgicalexchange.net
We make it happen.
Call 510-452-4626
Round Table Pizza
Now hiring for eves &
wkends. Must be 18 or
older. Apply in person
between 1-4 @ 292 S.
State St.
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HELP
WANTED
Nursing - Vallejo Care
Center seeking RSs,
LVNs, FT PM shift.
Competitive Pay Low
nurse to patient ratio
Excellent benefits
Friendly Staff Clean
working environment
Stable management
Free CEU units. Mail
an app. to: Vallejo Care
Center. 2200 Tuolumne
St. Vallejo, CA 94589
or contact the DNS at
707-644-7401 or fax
resume:
707-644-1665
OFFICE
ASSISTANT II
Mendocino County
Department of
Social Services
(Ukiah & Willits only)
Salary: $930$1130/Bi-Weekly
Seeking individuals
with general office
support skills. 1 yr.
clerical experience
required.for info call
(707) 467-5866
or go to:
www.mss.ca.gov to
“Career Opportunities”
Closes 4/7/06
OFFICE POSITIONS
IN FORT BRAGG
Busy office looking for
energetic, organized,
detail oriented office
manager and accounts
receivable collection
clerk. Must be able to
multi-task and have
computer experience.
Competitive pay and
benefits. Please call for
appointment.
707-964-2391
Personal Lines
Marketing Support
Busy insurance
agency, multi-tasking,
positive attitude, team
environment, strong
communication &
computer skills F/T,
competitive
compensation,
benefits. Email resume
jfisher@nwinsure.com
CUSTOMIZED
HOME
LOANS
CUSTOM HOME
LOANS PREPARED
TO ORDER.
We create home loans to suit
your needs, not ours.
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HELP
WANTED
On-Site Apartment
Management
Prop. Mgt. firm seeks
qualified individual/
team for 68-unit apt.
community. Must be
friendly,
responsible
&
professional; office &
minor maint. skills req.
Salary + 2 bd. apt. (no
pets please). Visit our
office for details &
application:
Realty World
Selzer Realty
300 E. Gobbi St.,
Ukiah.
OPERATIONS
MANAGER
P/T, $15k Email
resume:
Info@Vallejosymphony.
org Fax Resume: 707643-5746
OPPORTUNITY
Start your own
business.
*Provide energy saving
products to business!
*Have the power co.
pay for part of the cost.
*Unlimited incm
potential
*No investmt.
On going training
800-253-6736 x216
P/T Retail Help
needed Start
immediately Only
serious apply
Fax 462-0855
P/T Store Clerk
some firearms exp.
nec. Must be over 21.
Part time Deli Clerk
Apply in person
with resume
DIAMOND JIMS
1294 N. State St.
Ukiah Btwn 9 & 3
PEST CONTROL
TECH BRANCH II
Experienced. Up to
$20/hr, 401k &
Benefits/Vacation. Day
& night routes
available.
1-800-244-1176
120
HELP
WANTED
Pharmacy ClerkTypist in training.
Computer, typing,
MATH, people skills.
Must work Mon., Tues.,
FT 1-9, PT 3-9. Salary
DOE. Drug Test. 707468-4333
Preschool Teacher
F/T or P/T. 12 ECE
units & CPR Cert. req.
Send resume to New
Morning Montessori
School, 656-C S.
Orchard Ave., Ukiah or
462-6115
PUBLIC SAFETY
DISPATCHER:
$3,008-$3,656 per
mo., plus benefits.
type 35 wpm. receiv
es and transmits
emergency radio and
telephone
communications;
dispatches law
enforcement, fire,
ambulance, and other
public safety
personnel. Complete
job
description/application
available at
City of Ukiah, 300,
seminary Ave. Ukiah
CA 95482 or
www.cityofukiah.com
Bilingual-Spanish
speaking abilities
preferred. Deadline: 5
pm, 4-17-06 EOE
`Retirement
Specialist
Trainee
Mendocino Co.
Retirement Dept.
$2331-$2834/Mo. Req.
HS diploma or GED
and 1 to 2 yrs
exp.Apply by 4/13/06
to: HR Dept, 579 Low
Gap Rd., Ukiah,CA
95482, 707-463-4261,
w/TDD
800-735-2929.
www.co.mendo
cino.ca.us/hr EOE
(707) 462-8666 • Toll Free 800-464-8485
376 East Gobbi Street • Ukiah, CA 95482
45061 Little Lake Rd. • Mendocino, CA 95460
(707) 937-5855
Applications online: www.ezloanow.com
707-462-7615 • 800-963-5002 Se Habla Español
CA Dept. of Real Estate #01041417
For All
Your Title
and Escrow
Needs
Redwood Empire Title Company
413 Talmage Road • Ukiah, California
Douglas Klyse
Daulton Abernathy
Loan Consultant
Loan Consultant
387 N. State St.
Ukiah, CA 95482
707-462-3332 office
866-462-3332 toll free
No point loans
Reduced closing costs
4 different payment options
Flexible approval criteria
Give us a call.
LGM Financial Services Group
Is Your Adjustable Rate
Mortgage Getting Ready
To Adjust?
If it is your rate could increase 2% over your
current rate. If you have a $350,000 mortgage
that will mean up to a $525.00 per month
increase in your payment.
To Find Out What You Can Do To Stop This
Programs subject to change. Certain restrictions apply. Interest rate/APR may be
higher than when these costs are paid by borrower. Some programs may not be
combined with others. Washington Mutual has loan offices and accepts loan
applications in: Washington Mutual Bank - many states; Washington Mutual Bank,
doing business as Washington Mutual Bank, FA - many states; and Washington
Mutual Bank fsb - ID, MT, UT.
Account Executive/
Outside Sales
Store Supervisor
HELP
WANTED
MANUFACTURING
BUYER
Coordinates
the
procurement
and
distribution of materials,
parts, equipment and
supplies
for
the
organization. Investigates
and
negotiates
subcontracts.Strong
communication, computer,
and interpersonal skills.
2-3 years + mfg
components
Real Estate Services
It’s a new year with new
opportunities and
Edge Wireless is where
you need to be!
Prospect and develop new
consumer accounts in the B2B
environment through various
networking techniques. This
position needs your B2B sales
experience!
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Sales...
Ukiah and
Mendocino
County...
Homes,
Income
& Land
Home Loans...
Purchases,
Refi’s,
2nd’s &
Manufactured
Homes
101 S. School St. Ukiah
Office: 707-462-6701
DRE#01087966
Buyers, get prequalified and search thru hundreds of
listings at www.wallyjohnson.com...
Sellers, find out the value of your property at our easy
to use website.
Wally Johnson, Broker
(707) 485-8700 or 800 BUY UKIAH
Felipe Mendoza
Your friends in the
mortgage business.
Se Habla Español.
“SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY”
Buy or sell a home through me and I will
Donate “5%” of my net commission to:
Any Charity of Your Choice.
Chris Hale
Where a handshake and a face to face meeting
is still the only way to do business!
Les Ryan Realty
BUD THOMPSON,
REALTOR
707-468-0423 Office
707-489-6936 Cell
Call 1.866.818.5349
or e-mail lgmfinancial@sbcglobal.net
Les Ryan Realty
“The Progressive Real Estate Company”
Marianne
Maldonado
Office Manager
Property Management
495-C East Perkins Street
Ukiah, California 95482
Business (707) 468-0463
Fax (707) 468-7968
Each office is independently owned and operated.
120
HELP
WANTED
RECEPTIONIST
for foster family agency
looking for friendly
professional to answer
multi-line phone, use
voice mail, fill in for
records mgr. data entry,
typing, filing. Must pass
background check
before hire. Applicant
must have 2 years exp.
in
prof.
work
environment, keep
confidentiality. Must
know Word, Excel &
Outlook,
great
communication skills.
Fax resumes to Attn:
Human Resource Dept.
707-462-6994 or mail
to PO Box 422, Ukiah,
CA 95482. EOE
Receptionist. Apps
close Wed. April 5th.
For job desc & app call
707-744-1647 ext.
1342 or email
dhendricks@
hoplandtribe.com
Resident Manager
Needed for 31 units on
South Side
of Ukiah.
Fax resume to:
707-463-1502
Attn: Property
Management.
Resort Front Desk
prof. dress, good
diction, comp skills
impt. Fax Res to 4629516
RN/Assistant
Director Lakeport
Skilled Nursing
This challenging
position is full-time
with On-Call duties.
Long term care
experience preferred
but willing to train the
right individual.
Excellent salary. Join
our team of health
care professionals.
Contact Barry Loflin,
R.N. Director of
Nursing. Ph: (707)
263-6101, Fax: 2636300
RN/LVN P/T F/T
needed for homecare
Lake & Mendo. Co.
Paid mileage. Medical
benefits avail. Please
callLorraina
800-462-0717
Robinson Rancheria
Gaming Commission
seeks two full-time
Compliance Officers
for detailed info refer to
job listing at
www.caljobs.ca.gov
Call (707) 262-4059 to
obtain application
Salary DOE
www.rrre.com
Robinson Rancheria
Gaming Commission
seeks a full-time
Assistant Background
Investigator
For detailed info.
refer to job listing at
www.caljobs.ca.gov
Call (707) 262-4259
to obtain application.
salary DOE
www.rrre.com
SALES REPS,
INDEPENDENTExperience selling to
buyers of
trucks/trailers, aircraft,
industrial, heavy
construction
equipment, farming,
mining, medical, and
office equipment.
Serious inquires only.
1-800-838-9164
SECRET
SHOPPERS
Needed to Evaluate
Local Business.
Flexible hrs, E-Mail
Req’d
800-585-9024 ext 6520
Security Guard/
Event Staff. P/T to F/T.
$7.00 hr. to start DOE.
For more info. call 888211-2321.
SENIOR
PROGRAM
MANAGER
Mendocino
County
Department of
Social Services
Salary $2176$2644/biwkly
Opportunity to be a part
of
a
dynamic
management team,
assessing all aspects of
personnel, payroll, Civil
Rights, and Medical
Leave monitoring.
College degree Or
MSW or MA degree
and management
experience.
For info call
707-467-5866
or go to:
www.mss.ca.gov to
“Career
Opportunities.”
Closes 4/21/06.
SERVICE STATION
Attendant-PT
PU application at:
8551 East Rd. R.V.
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HELP
WANTED
SOCIAL WORKER
OUTREACH.
Act as community
advocate & liaison for
prgrms. Must have
AA Degree in Human
Social Service. For
full job desc & app
call 707-744-1647
ext. 1342 or email
dhendricks@
hoplandtribe.com
Staff Expansion!
We Need:
RNs, Medical
Assistants, and
Drivers
Blood Centers of the
Pacific’s donor site
located in Ukiah seeks
to fill the following
positions immediately!
Come join our team in
a healthy work
environment!
All
positions require a valid
CA drivers license,
acceptable driving record
and ability to interact
effectively with public and
staff.
RNs & MEDICAL
ASSISTANTS
Work with healthy
volunteer community
blood donors. We offer
a full training and
orientation program.
RNs require a valid CA
RN license. MAs require
six months related exp.
or MA certificate &
three months relevant
exp.
DRIVERS
20 Hours
Will set-up/breakdown
equipment
for
community blood drives,
transport supplies and
staff as needed. Must
be able to lift & carry up
to 50 lbs. Requires one
year relevant exp. Class
B license preferred, but
not required.
Send resume to: BCP
Human Resources, Job
Code: UK P.O. Box
591329, San Francisco,
CA 94159-1329 or
email:
resumes@bloodcenter
s.org or fax (415) 7496620.
EOE/AA.
www.bloodcenters.org
Superior Court
Mendocino County
Clerk
Position
$1922-2577/Mo.
Full Benefit
Package. General
Clerical Duties.
For Application/
Information
Call: 707-463-4285
Or apply at:
100 North State St
Room 303
Ukiah, CA 95482
www.mendocino.
courts.ca.gov
Support
developmentally
disabled
in their own home. PT,
FT & wkends. PU
application at
Mountain View
1000 Sanford Ranch Rd.
Ukiah. 468-9331.
Wastewater
Treatment Plant
Supervisor:
Total annual comp. up
to $83,756, including
flex dollars and
management
incentive pay. $4,698$5,710 per month,
plus benefits; 2.7% @
55 PERS. Under
general direction of
the Public Utilities
Director, plan and
supervise the
operation and
maintenance of a
grade IV wastewater
treatment plant, and
perform related work
as assigned. Grade IV
wastewater cert.
req’d; Complete job
available at:
City of Ukiah, 300
Seminary Ave. Ukiah,
CA 95482 or
www.cityofukiah.com
Deadline: 5 pm, Wed.
April 5, 2006. EOE
120
HELP
WANTED
OPEN HOMES
SYSTEMS
PROGRAMMER
Savings Bank of
Mendocino County
is seeking
applicants for a
full-time Entry or Mid
Level Systems
Programmer.
Assists in writing
applications,
develops program
code and system
documentation.
Reviews & analyzes
systems within the
scope of
authority. Will serve
as backup to
computer operations.
Requires some
college level
courses in computer
science; AA or AS
degree desirable.
Knowledge of one or
more programming
languages.
Experience in
structured
programming with
midrange or PC
computers.
One or more years of
programming
experience or
equivalent
combination of
education experience
preferred.
Applicants may
apply at
Savings Bank of
Mendocino County
200 N. School St.,
Ukiah, CA 95482
OPEN HOUSE Sunday, April 2nd, 11:00am-2:00pm
261 Uva Place, Redwood Valley
OPEN HOUSE Sunday, April 2nd, 1:00pm-3:00pm
2040 Wildwood Road
OPEN HOUSE Saturday, April 1st, 11:00am-1:00pm
1701 Hickory Court
Directions: Hwy 101 to West Rd. exit, left to Uva Drive to Uva Place
Directions: East Perkins to Redemeyer Road, to Deerwood Drive, to Wildwood Road
Directions: East Perkins to Watson Road, Right on Knob Hill left on Hickory.
Host: Joe Blake
Desirable Neighborhood. Single story 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on culde-sac of custom built homes. Easy access to Hwy 101 and within walking distance of the Broiler Steak House and Deep Valley Christian
School. Features include: Living room, formal dining room and separate
family room with stone hearth fireplace and access to patio; master bedroom with access to semi-private deck; tile in kitchen & baths; landscaped front and rear with auto sprinklers/ RV/ boat parking. $499,000
462-5400
MENDO REALTY, INC.
444 N. State Street, Ukiah
Offered By: John Walker
Fabulous home in a fabulous location in Deerwood Park. Home is professionally decorated. Yard is landscaped with irrigation system. Billiard
room/craft room and wine cellar on the basement level. This is a must
see home! $725,000
Les Ryan Realty • 468-0423
495 E. Perkins • Ukiah
Les Ryan Realty • 468-0423
495 E. Perkins • Ukiah
OPEN HOUSE Sunday, April 2nd, 11:30am-1:00pm
Potter Valley - Main Street
Redwood Valley - Sems Lane
22945 Ridge Rd., Willits
Directions: Hwy 101 to West Rd. exit, left to Uva Drive to Uva Place
Directions: West Rd. exit, South on State St.
Directions: East Perkins to Watson Road, Right on Knob Hill left on Hickory.
Hostess: Ann Campbell
A darling home in the friendly small town of Potter Valley. Conveniently
located close to the school, a large yard, almost 1/2 ac, & it definitely has
a country feel! The living area has a large open floor plan with a country
kitchen, one of the bedrooms is a cute attic type, there is new tile in one
of the bathrooms and new carpeting throughout. There is an extra bonus
building in the backyard that could be used for many different purposes.$399,000
Hostess: Ann Campbell
This home is artistically delightful with a spacious yard, 1.3 acres. Varied
landscaping allows the owners a retreat to a shady brick terrace, play a
game of Bocce ball,plant a garden or have some chickens. Over 3000
sq. ft. this home has 4BD, 3BA, a formal living room, formal dining room
and a family room off the cheery kitchen. Upstairs the master suite has a
sitting room, a lovey bathroom step right out onto the deck to your own
hot tub. $698,000
Your Host: Mike Ednington
Very private 2003 manufactured home sits on double lot that backs up to
greenbelt. Perimeter foundation. Separate adjoining lot is mostly flat & is
included in sale. Guest house has on demand water heater, double sinks
in bath, private rear deck & entrance. Also RV hook up with power, water
& septic. All this for only $629,000 R-5
972-4021
462-1600
972-4021
462-1600
463-2570
1772 S. Main St., Willits
1149 North Oak Street
4040 Richey Rd.
1140 W. Perkins St., Ukiah
Directions: Low Gap to Oak
Dir:N.State St.-Empire Dr.-Lockwood Dr
by April 4th, 2006.
EEO/AA m/f/v/d
Tasting Room in
Ukiah/Hopland area
seeking part time help
4-5 days/mo. Knwldg of
wine & dealing w/
public a +. Hourly pay
+com. fax 468-0362
The Potter Valley Tribe
is currently seeking an
individual. with superb org.
and com. skills for Tribal
Administrator. Tribal
Govt and grant writing exp.
pref.The individual should
have knowledge in HUD,
PL638 grants, and
computer exp. Salary is
$35,000 or neg., qualified
Native Americans will
be given. pref. Drop off or
fax res. at 2251 S. State,
462-1240. Closing date
Apr. 7, ‘06 at 5pm.
THERAPIST
Tapestry Family
Services
Staff Therapist to
provide assessment,
individual and family
therapy, and training
for children and
families. Full time.
Ukiah. MSW or MA in
related field; License
preferred. $24$30/hour. 463-3300
for app, or send
resume to Tapestry
Family Services, 290
East Gobbi Street,
Ukiah
Apply by 4/5/06.
Tile Finishers
Fairfield Subcontractor
looking for exp., Tile
Finishers for
commercial &
residential installation.
Medical, Dental &
401K offered. Please
call Ron at 707-4322392 or fax resume to:
707-436-9619 or email
RonC@CampbellsCarp
ete.com
Your Hostess: Pat Peaslee
Charming Vintage 1950’s Clean. Well built home with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath & single garage. Dual pane windows, central heat &
air plus a wood fireplace with insert that keeps this home nice &
warm. Vinyl siding, sprinklers & private back yard. Only $374,900
O-2
Your Hostess: Erika Duran
Sellers Motivated! 3 bd/2 ba home on approx. 1/2 acre with
private yard, detached 2 car garage, storage shed, two fireplaces, central heat/air and much more! Bring all offers
$498,000 R-4
463-2570
463-2570
320 So. State St., Ukiah
320 So. State St., Ukiah
Agent: Sherri Cooper Johnston
VINTAGE COTTAGE. 2 bedroom / 1 bath, lots of charm and loads of potential. Great
location. $349,000
COLDWELL BANKER
GIOVANNONI & COOPER REALTY
433-3397
MENDO REALTY, INC.
391 Lovers Lane, Ukiah
OPEN HOUSE Sat. & Sun, April 1 & 2, 1:00pm-4:00pm
1706 Lockwood Dr. Ukiah
528 Capps Ln., Ukiah
Direction: Washington to L on Dora to R on Doolan Drive
Hostess: Nancy Rudig
Need more space? Do the kids want a swimming pool? 4 bdrm. home
with beautiful in ground pool, a hot tub, double garage, RV parking, vegetable garden and a master bdrm suite. 2,000 sq. ft. home on 11,700 sq.
ft. lot near Ukiah High School. $637,000
Lincoln Realty
Nancy Rudig
972-3894
Located in Empire Gardens area this 3 bedroom, 1 bath home is perfect for anyone.
With approx.5,225 sq ft lot you must see! $357,000
Help-U-Sell Mendocino Hills Realty
George Rusake • 479-3984
Great Potential! 3 bedroom 2 bath 1096 sqft single story home with cathedral ceilings
and central heat and air priced at $380,000 bring all offers, sellers are motivated.
Featured Properties
Featured Property
350 Laughlin Way
Featured Property
1330 Tuck Road - Willits
Featured Property
4411 First Ave.
Direction: Washington to R on Dora to l on Doolan Drive
Offered By: Patty McMillen
On 3/4 acre, this two bedroom, two bath charming home is in the country
surrounded by vineyard and mountain views. Living room with fireplace,
breakfast room with windows to view the valley, in-door laundry room,
detached double car garage, raised garden beds, fenced and plenty of
room for animals. $455,000
Selzer Realty • 467-3637
Offered By: Nancy Borecky
Charming two bedroom bungalow set in a forest. Laminate floors, large
deck, great views and fully fenced yard are just a few of this home’s
amenities. Priced at $277,000
Selzer Realty • 467-3630
Immaculate 3 bd., 2 1/2 ba. home in excellent neighborhood.
Features 2 car garage, living room, family room, dining room,
large redwood deck on large lot w/RV parking. $579,000
485-5907 • Serious Inq Only
Featured Property
San Jacinta Condo For Sale
Featured Property
44081 Noyo Way, Irish Beach
Featured Property
2645 Beach Ln. Lakeport
Direction: Washington to R on Dora to l on Doolan Drive
Dir: CALL OFFICE FOR DETAILS.
Dir:Lakeshore Blvd.-L on Rainbow Rd - R on Beach Ln
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Box 234
Ukiah, CA. 95482.
Deadline-3/31/06.
Ukiah Unified
School District
is seeking applicants to
Assist teachers, serve
food, perform clerical
work, clean bldgs., monitor
campuses, drive a bus,
etc; substitute and/or
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vary. Salaries range from
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Info & app: Personnel
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Bush St., Ukiah, CA
95482, 707-463-5205.
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Enjoy peaceful adult living in the exclusive Westwood Acres Townhouse
Condominiums. Desirable Western foothills location in town. This spacious 2-story
end unit townhouse provides: 2 bedrooms with lovely views; 1 full bathroom; quest
bathroom; charming kitchen includes all newer appliances; large living room with
huge fireplace; upgraded flooring throughout and added custom windows; swimming
pool, beautifully maintained landscaping and more. All of this is offered at $315,000
Shown by appointment 707-463-5546
On The Market
Vacant 12,000 sq ft lot with 180 degrees of breath taking views of the beach! Utilities
are available already for your future home or vacation home! Must see! Offered at:
$273,000
City of Ukiah, 300
Seminary Ave. Ukiah,
CA 95482
www.cityofukiah.com
Extended Deadline
to apply: 5 pm,
4/3/06 EOE
Must see this charming older home complete with huge barn/garage in rear, RV parking, automatic sprinklers, landscaping, gorgeous rock fireplace, must see this property
which sits on a big 1/2 an acre lot! $385,000
Featured Property
1411 Concord
Featured Property
13921 Hwy.128, Boonville
Dir:Lakeshore Blvd.-L on Rainbow Rd - R on Beach Ln
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Offered By: Patty McMillen
Move in Ready! Incredible buy for the space. 2,700 sq ft home with 4 bedrooms and 3
baths. Two bedrooms are master suites with private entrances and baths. Newly remodeled kitchen has new cabinets, stainless steel appliances and opens on to the great
room. Oversized lot had new landscaping, pool, patio, great lawn and still room for RV or
boat parking. Converted garage is a great bonus room or just remove the wall and have
your garage back. $499,900
462-5005
114 South School Street-Ukiah, CA
This gorgeously maintained home in Boonville features 3Bd/2Ba, approx.1,800 sq ft,
filled with so many upgrades, too many to list. With studio in back this is a great property close to everything!
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Your Hostess: Tina Nelson
Beautiful Ukiah Location! Immaculate 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in very
nice neighborhood. Built in 2001 with open floor plan, large master suite.
Large yard, only 5 minutes to downtown. $689,000
Hostess: Vicki Keever
Enjoy the beauty of the country, in city style comfort in this 3 bd, 2.5 ba.
traditional style home. Just 10 min. from Hopland and 10 min. from
Ukiah, it’s cradled in one of the most spectacular settings you can imagine amongst ancient shady oaks. With so much to offer on this private
.95 acre lot, this home is a must see! Reduced to $590,000
972-4021
462-1600
Presented by: Eric Garbocci
Westside Cutie! Great two bedroom one bath home located on a corner
lot. Landscaped front and rear yard with a deck in the back. Tile counters
in the kitchen, hardwood floors, gas insert fireplace in the living room.
Separate laundry room and washer and dryer are included in sale.
$479,000
462-5005
114 South School Street-Ukiah, CA
120
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462-4343
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2030 Industry Rd.
5000 Sq.Ft. Aprx.
w/400 sf office
Steve 462-6164
REALTOR
Custom 4200+ Sq.Ft. home on
106+ wooded acres with 10 acres
fenced with creek frontage along
Robinson Creek!!
Just 10 minutes to Ukiah this
beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath
home has architectural flair and
custom woodwork throughout. A
large formal living room with stone fireplace, formal dining, and a well
appointed maple kitchen with sunny breakfast area. Huge downstairs
family / game room with full wet bar, w/ adjoining deck with newer spa and
large open lawns with handmade stone walls and Robinson Creek gently
flowing past. Stone Koi pond with waterfall entry, large tiled upper deck with
views, and a spacious master suite with luxury bath.
DOWNTOWN
2nd FLOOR
DANCE STUDIO
3500 sq. ft.
LEE KRAEMER
Real Estate Broker
468-8951
Office Spaces
776 S. State St.
340 sf. $375/mo.
390 sf $425/mo.
Inc. util, janitor, cent.
ht/air, off st. parking.
468-5426
300
APARTMENTS
UNFURNISHED
1bd. cent. located. Close
to trans. No sec. 8 N/P.
$625/mo + dep. 4720322
2 BEDROOM APT.
$785 per month. $1000
sec. dep. Great
westside
location. No pets. No
Sec. 8. Jack Cox &
Associates. 462-6060
In country small trailer.
$500mo. + utils. + dep.
468-1257
Additional Features of the estate include the 1600 Sq.Ft.
woodshop for those with hobbies that require space. This
shop could easily be converted into a guest home with a
full bath and large woodstove heating already installed,
only flooring, interior walls, and a kitchen are needed to
make this a wonderful 2nd unit. Huge 8000+ Sq.Ft shop
with roll up doors and an interior office. Great for those
need space to run a home business, collect cars, store
equipment or just about anything you can dream up
including uses such as indoor tennis / basketball courts,
and even a possible horse arena. Older pole barn is also
conviently situated on this property with indoor corrals
and 2nd story for feed storage. Surrounding park-like
grounds with walking paths, stone walls, large open
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separate family room with adjoining private
patio, and an oak kitchen. Central heating &
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and a 2 car garage.
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APARTMENTS
UNFURNISHED
2bd. 1 ba
$800
2 bd. TH
$825
No Section 8.
LEE KRAEMER
PROPERTY MGMT
463-2134
2bd/1ba Downstairs
Small yard in Ukiah
W/D $750/mo
No pets 743-1953
2br, garage. Fen. yd.
Quiet country setting.
N/S. 1741 Talmage Rd.
$725. 433-4040
2Br. Walk to shop.
Lndry, free wtr & garb.
232 Mason St. N/S.
$775 433-4040
3bd/2ba Newly
Remod $925/mo $925
dep No pets No
section 8 477-6183
625 N. STATE ST.
PARK PLACE
1 bd. $725-$775
2 bdr. $850 TH $950.
Pool/garg. 462-5009
ALDERWOOD APTS
NEW OWNERS!
1450 S.State St.
2 bd. $800 mo.
463-2325,
Beverly Sanders
Realty Property
Management
This week’s
featured
properties.
S. Dora - 2 bed., 1
ba. apt. $725
Ford St., - 2 Bed, 1
Ba. apt. $735
Laws Ave. - 1 & 2
bed apts. $610 &
$710 up.
Chablis - 2 Bd., 1.5
Ba. Twnhse $1200
Redemeyer - 3 Bed.,
2 ba. home $1400
Mason - 2 bed, 1 ba.
dplx. $700
Talmage - 1 bed., 1
ba. apts. $525
Observatory - 2
bed., 1 ba. apts.
$735.
Powerhouse - 2
Bed., 1 Ba. home.
$1200
Van Arsdale - 2
bed., 1 ba. mobile
$675.
Complete rental list
available at
320 S. State St.
462-5198
Clean 2 Bdrm apt.
quiet Westside 4-plex.
good credit, N/S, no
pets, $725/mo. 4623563
300
APARTMENTS
UNFURNISHED
HOPLAND
1bdrm. Remodl. Avl.
now. $650 + dep.
Studio $550
489-8600
MOVE-IN
SPECIAL!!!
Sierra Sunset offers
2 bd. apts. w/pool &
laundry facilities,
carports & more!
Selzer Realty
468-0411
Spacious 2bdrm. 1 ba
incl. ht, AC, wat, &
garb.w/balcony, patio
& pool, $875/mo.
No pets. 462-8600
320
DUPLEXES
2 bd. 351 Creekside,
Willits. Lndry rm. No
pets. Sml. bk yd. Garage.
$800. 485-0841
2 bdrm triplex fenced
yd no common walls,
stove ref AC H20, Sew
& Gar pd. N/P
$800/mo +$800dep.
462-1396
380 El Rio Ct.
2bd.1.5 ba. $805mo.
330
HOMES
FOR RENT
3bd/3ba Country
Ranch House Ukiah
on Hwy 20 Buffalo
Ranch Behind Security
Gate. Low traffic
occupants $1400/mo
Avil 5/1 463-1500
3bd1ba. Quiet area.
$1200mo. + $1800 sec.
No pets/No smk No
sec. 8. 463-8640
McNab Ranch
Locd 30min So of
Ukiah. Lg Sunny.
2bd/2ba, decks, views,
privacy. No pot
growing. Road is 15min
pvd/15min dirt/gravel
$1350/mo 530-4325500
Mobile Home for rent in
Quiet Senior Park, no
pets $650/mo + $650
sec dep. 462-7630
Must Love Dogs!
Lrg. 4 bdrm. 2 ba.
located on Rwd. Vly.
HSIMC. $1350 incl.
elect., wtr., garb. Req.
1st mo. + $1500 sec.
dep. Avail. approx.
4/15. Sharron, 4673632, HSIMC 4850123
Century 21 Les Ryan Rlty
468-0463
3bd/2ba w/Gar in
Ukiah N/P N/S
$1200/mo 765
Yosemite Ave unit B
707-732-8188
In Kelseyville Older
4bd 1bth duplex
$950/mo. $2,000
sec dep. 275-2128
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WESTSIDE
UKIAH LATE
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2400sf.
Newly remod.
$2200
489-0201
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HOMES
FOR RENT
145 E Fircrest Dr.
2bd1ba fireplace
w/d hookup new kitch
$950+ dep 529-0937
Redwood Valley
Clean 1bd 1bth, New
paint new bath single
gar $750/mo $1000
dep N/P, N/S Call 4858254 eves.
1bd. cottage, yard,
W/D. Ukiah. Westside,
lease. $825mo +dep.
743-1525
w/storage. Avail 4/1.
$950/mo.
Greg 823-6213
1bd1ba. Rwd. Vly.
1 ac. Storage, carport,
pets OK. $800.
467-1385
Sell It Fast
With
Ukiah
Daily
Journal
Classifieds
330
2bd1ba.
Quiet
neighborhood.Wtr. Garb.,
Gas&elec. inc. $875/ mo.
$800 dep. req. 463-0808
aft 10 am.
Rwd. Vly. 2bdrm1ba.
340
VACATION
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BUILDING
SUPPLIES
STEEL BUILDINGS.
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440
OAK
FUTON
350
ROOMS
FOR RENT
All utilities paid 5
rooms avai 5 fridgs
prov W/D Avail now
$395-$600/mo
213-795-6115
$300/bo.
Premium mattress.
468-7403
PERSIAN RUGS
Lg .Rm. Priv entr,
Kitchenette. F. pref.
Shared ba in main hs
N/P/S Refs. $600 inc.
utils. 467-9925
380
WANTED TO
SHARE RENT
Room for rent in 2
bd/1 ba house
$550/mo + util
N/S have dogs
760-550-2014
Room in nice quiet &
beautiful house $550/mo
all util inc. 621-2899/4631228p
390
MOBILES FOR
RENT
SENIORS Clean single
wide in senior park,
Ukiah $40K. Howard
272-2500. Sanders
Realty
463-2570
420
BOATS
Hallett flat bottom ski
boat 1963 1/2. With ‘63
1/2 427FE Ford. Rblt
and bal. Sgl 4-barrell
Bassett headers and
wtr log manifold. Hall
craft V-drive.. 10-gal
moon tank. 2-5 gal seat
tanks. Comes w/trailer.
Cur reg . 5hrs on eng.
Fixed cavitation plate.
Started/no water 28yrs.
Good cond. $15,000.
459-6247
430
FURNITURE
BUILDING
SUPPLIES
1, new steelclad patio
door. 5’ 10lite. $150. 1,
used glass slider.
5’ $50. 937-3718
Beautiful quality! Many sizes,
colors. Must sell. Negotiable.
Call today. Penny 707-8231326
450
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BOOKS WANTED!
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prices paid. (800) 3507754
460
APPLIANCES
USED
APPLIANCES
& FURNITURE.
Guaranteed. 485-1216
480
MISC.
FOR SALE
Brunswick Slate Pool
Table w/Accs. Ex. Con.
$600
459-4543
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N/sec. 8. $1100/mo.
Credit chk. 485-0433
Clean Sm 2bdrm 1bth
w/gar. N/S/P $800 dep.
$900/mo. 462-1739
Karena’s March/April Newsletter:
Thinking of Buying or Selling?
MENDO REALTY, INC.
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444 N State St., Ukiah, 95482
1460 S Main St., Willits, 95490
350 E. Gobbi St. Ukiah
468-0411
Money Isn’t Everything!
APARTMENTS
777 Apple Ave. - 1 bd. apt. w/ carport in a
small, single-level complex; convenient
central location. $575/mo.
806 Grove Ave. #B - charming Westside 1+
bd., 1 ba. upstairs flat w/ large enclosed
porch & yard; walking distance to park & golf
course! $700/mo.
1960 S. Dora St. - newly renovated 2 bd., 1
ba. upstairs apt. w/ carport overlooking the
new Grace Hudson school. Receive up to 1
mo. rent FREE! Call for details!
160 Oak Manor Ct. - extensively renovated
& conveniently located 2 bd., 1 ba.
downstairs apt. w/ carport, shared laundry &
patio facilities. $775/mo.
757 Waugh Ln. - fully renovated 2 bd. apts.
in small, centrally located complex within
walking distance to schools & shopping.
$800/mo.
505-531 Capps Ln. - Sierra Sunset Apts.
features 2 bd. units w/ pool & laundry
facilities, lovely common areas, carports &
more. ASK ABOUT OUR MOVE-IN
SPECIAL!!!
DUPLEXES/TOWNHOMES
705 El Rio St. - walk to schools, parks &
shopping from this 2 bd., 1.5 ba. townhouse
w/ garage & small yard. $725/mo.
1420 Sanford Ranch Rd. #B - newly
renovated 2 bd., 1 ba. duplex w/ lovely
vineyard view. $750/mo.
HOUSES
202 Washington Ave. - fully renovated &
beautiful! 2 bd., 1 ba. w/ garage & yard within
walking distance to local schools.
Water/sewer/garbage pd. $1000/mo.
9311 Gibson Ln. - 2 bd., 2 ba. mobile w/
carport & yards in a country Potter Valley
setting. $1000/mo.
9605 Colony Dr. - BACK ON THE
MARKET! Spectacular 2+ bd., 2 ba. hillside
Redwood Valley home w/ a Tuscan flair!
Fabulous views, lap pool, fireplace & too
many more amenities to list! $1650/mo.
WE HAVE MANY RENTALS AVAILABLE,
INCLUDING COMMERCIAL
& STORAGE UNITS!
FOR MORE INFO. CALL 468-0411
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Quite a bold thing to say, isn’t it? But, when it
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and write a list of
questions that you
would like answered.
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confident about the
interview, and the
agent will be glad to
see your interest and
will be better able to
address your concerns!
Selling a home is rarely an easy task, and can take
months from first on the market until the Title Company calls to say the sale is complete and the new
deed has been recorded— Meanwhile, all the disruptions that comes with having your home for sale can
be immensely stressful, especially if you have to
field all the questions, and handle all the paperwork!
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person… me,
Courtesy of:
For Getting Your Home Ready to Show!
Don’t forget to clean the
street in front of your home.
Removing garbage and leaf
litter makes your home look
much more inviting!
Another potential problem
is peeling paint on fences
and gates~ a fresh coat of
paint makes a world of difference!
Tired mailbox or outdoor
lights? Replacing them with
newer models will send a
much better message to the
buyer!
Painting the interior of your
home is highly recommended, and the “safe” colors are white, off-white, and
pastels.
Keeping your windows
clean sends the message
that the house is taken care
of. Dirty windows sets a
negative tone!
Try to limit the sounds of
children, dogs, and
appliances while the buyer
is looking at your home
If at all possible, leave your
home while the buyer and
his/her agent are there, and
take children and dog(s)
with you!
Usually, this inconvenience
does not last longer than
15-20 minutes, and can
help you sell your home
faster!
~Coldwell Banker Home Enhancement Guide
EACH OFFICE IS INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED
● GUN ●
& KNIFE
SHOW
MARCH 4 & 5
Ukiah
Fairgrounds
(530)527-2678
New Whirlpool Heavy
Duty Washer and Dryer
$400
New in box 11 pc
Catalina Pation
Dining Set made of
solid wood $350
New Single Bed
w/pillow top mattress
$100 485-9153
ORDER
PRESCRIPTIONS
At a great price. Save
time and money!
Fioricet, Tramadol,
Soma, Viagra, Xenical,
Cialis and many more!
Call toll-free today! 1866-315-7600
SPA-Deluxe ‘05
model. 30 jets.
Therapy seat. Never
used. Warr.Can del.
$2650.707-468-4300
GMC ‘91 1/2 T.
Excel. cond. $4000/bo.
489-3559 485-5091
Jeep Wrangler 1992
4 cyl. soft top, New crpt,
stereo, tires. 91k mi.
$6,200 456-9016
660
VANS
FOR SALE
Ford Windstar 1996
Autotomatic all
electric $3500 obo
Call Gail 462-4939
670
TRUCKS
FOR SALE
Ford F-150 1998 2WD.
,manual, bed liner, cd
player, excellent
condition. $5,500 2233742
Toyota Tundra
Limited ‘05 double cab
4 dr 4wd V8 White w/
beige leather 21K mi.
Exlnt cond $31,500
984-8194
680
CARS
FOR SALE
Toyota Avalon 2000
Original owner,
90K miles, new tires,
good condition, runs
perfect, well
maintained, 28 mpg
highway $12,900.
462-0902
HONDA ACCORD
EX 1999 Coup, AT,
loaded $5850 OBO
937-1925
Wine Barrell Halves for
planters Freshly cut Just
in time for Spring. $10-$15
each. Also will be on the
coast 1X a month 4624917
Mitsubishi Galant ‘90
4 door, sunroof, all pwr.
New Parts, clean in &
out.
Burgundy, Runs good
139K miles. $1,800
obo 462-5934
500
720
PETS &
SUPPLIES
Beautiful German
Shepherd Puppies
3 shts dob 12/12 Top
Ger lines. 245-8294
CATS: Looking for a
cat, or want to find a
home for a cat?
Call 462-3929
Horse Pasture near
Ukiah. Miles of trails.
Arenas, lots of extras.
Sheli 462-4784
520
FARM
EQUIPMENT
30HP BACKHOE
Mitsubishi dsl 4x4
w/60” ldr +- 500 hrs.
$13,500. 877-3419
MOBILES
FOR SALE
FREE MOBILE
‘69 1200 sq/ft 3bd
Must be moved by 4/15
485-5946
L(●)(●)K
530
2 bedroom,
1 bath
manufactured
home with new
roof, new
flooring, new
paint inside/
and out.
Beautiful
vineyard views in
back.
Very quiet all age
park.
590
$38,000
PASTURE &
FEED SUPPLY
HAY POTTER VLY.
Grass/Clover.
Organic. Cantaloupe
boxes, new & used. TPost. 743-1342
GARAGE
SALES
Alert-Senior Center
Thrift Open Mon-Sat
10-4, Donations &
volunteers needed
462-4343
610
REC VEH
CAMPING
31’ Pacearrow 1983
Moterhome Exc
cond.$9,500 obo
467-1327
TEARDROP
TRAILER
$2500 FIRM
Exc. cond. Clean. New
tires. Current reg.
Fresh paint.
468-7403
620
MOTORCYCLES
‘01 YZ 250. FMF SS Pipe
& S/A. Renthal chain & big
gear spkt. Pro Connect
F/G
$3500/obo 274-8733
Harley Davidson
Softail FXST Late ‘84
$10,000
983-6420
Beverly Sanders
Realty Company
463-2570
Call Kim at
489-7205
or
Terry at
272-4309
GROVE AVE.
SCOTT ST
REAL ESTATE
Have equity in your
property? Income or
credit problems?
Unusual property
REET
E
✪
✪
EET
MILL STR
S
Need cash out? Can do!
RATES STILL LOW!
Call Larry Wright
GOLDEN BEAR
MORTGAGE
EET
I STR
GOBB
E
SUN
HOUSE/
HUDSON
MUSEUM
FIRE & POLICE
DEPARTMENT
MAP NOT TO SCALE
AL DRIV
HOSPIT
ST.
MASON
ST.
RY AVE.
SEMINA
CIVIC CENTER
1
Interest rates as low as 1%
S. MAIN
320 S. STATE ST.
Approx 1200 sq ft.
2bdrm 1 1/2 bth Fam
rm, dining rm & den,
$375k Don 467-8498
Between 12-5pm.
PAOLI
MORTGAGE
350 E. GOBBI ST
VICHY SPRINGS HEIGHTS - UKIAH
950-A Waugh Ln.
From the low $600,000’s - Surrounded by heritage oaks and nestled against a
spectacular backdrop of tranquil foothills and open space, Vichy Springs
Heights combines the dream home that you’ve always wanted with all the
breathing room you need to retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday
life. 5 distinctive floorplans ranging from 2,307 to 3,096 sq, ft. with up to 5
bedrooms on spacious homesites. Close to the Sonoma wine country and
nearby Vichy Springs Resort. Sales office open Wed-Sun 10 am to 5 pm. For
more information call (800) 573-8510 or visit creekbridgehomes.com
TALMAGE RD.
Central Willits 4br/2ba
New tile kit. w/stainless
appl. tile ba new
hardwood fl, deck,
wind, paint. $405,000
fsbo 415-595-4904.
Open Sun 1-5 218
East Valley
FORECLOSURES!
3bd.2ba. Only $165K
For Listings
MORTGAGE SPECIALIST
462-0211
•Professionalism
•Confindentiality
•Expertise
Conscientious & environmentally Safe
485-7829
1(800) 55-PAOLI
I Go the Extra Mile!
707-272-5887
monafalgout@pacbell.net
950-A Waugh Lane
Ukiah, CA 95482
INVESTMENTS • MORTGAGES • REAL ESTATE LOANS
Nancy Rudig
nancy@nancyrudig.com
462-5400
468-1200 RES
Please call (707) 463-0300
or stop by for
an application.
www.paolimortgage.com
“All you need to know”
Home Office: Bloomington, Illinois
400 E. Gobbi St., Ukiah, CA 95482
551 South Orchard Avenue, Ukiah, CA
Ph: 707.462.1446 Fax: 707.462.0947
Off: 707-462-4936
GARY BATES
President/County Manager
Email: ris@redwoodinspectionservice.com
Fax: 707-462-7158
Erika Holzhauer
Realtor®
Hablo Espanol
350 East Gobbi Street
Ukiah, CA 95482
(707) 462-6514 Bus.
(707) 489-1812 Cell
(707) 391-5004 Cell
erika@coldwellbanker.com
MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE
MENDO REALTY, INC.
Pat Williams Realtor®
MLS
444 N. State St., Ukiah, CA 95485
Email: patwilliams@pacific.net
Michelle Doyle Presents....
Cell: 367-4261
Office: 472-2928
1005 West Clay Street, Ukiah
Bernard AGT 485-7840
Must be 62+ or mobility impaired.
INVESTMENTS • MORTGAGES • REAL ESTATE LOANS
Selzer Realty
School Wy Rdwd Vly
2 bd 2bth home Tree
covered acre. Work
shop, fruit trees.
Hud Subsidized Senior Housing
for Qualifying low, very low and
extremely low income limits.
DISCOUNT BROKERAGE
743.1010
realestate@pottervalley.com
Realtor®
Century 21 Les Ryan
Rlty. 463-0520
Enclosed two story with an
elevator. Ground floor Laundry
and Community Room
P.V. Realty inc.
FREE Home Warranty
Loan Officer
(707) 272-1650
950-A Waugh Lane
Ukiah, CA 95482
Michael Jacobs
Just Listed
for
JACK SIMPSON SCHOOL VIEW
APARTMENTS
1051 N. BUSH, UKIAH, CA
Kelly Vogel - Tellstrom
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.
Ginny Richards
Senior Loan Consultant
463-2100
1252 Airport Park Blvd. Ste D-3 Ukiah 707-462-4300 and 800-845-6866
Large 3bd/2ba home
on 1/2 country acre.
$335,000
Desirable W. Side
Immac upgraded 3
bd/2ba home w/lots
of extras. $425,000.
Call Ed Keller @
Now Accepting Applications
320 S. State St., Ukiah, 95482
First American Title Company
formerly
Dawn Deetz
Loan Officer
462-8050
House for Sale
3bd/1ba Totally new
inside & out. Must see
1614 S. Dora 485-8963
468-0123
General Contractor, Lic #752409
Structural Pest Control, Lic #OPR9000
•Foundations
CPCU, CLU, ChFC
Lic. ODO5161
FSBO 3bd/2ba Quiet
west side hardwood
floor & tile throughout
$419K 468-5696
Ukiah
Daily
Journal
Delivered
to Your
Door
•Remodels
707-485-1423 Res.
Carol Myer, Agent
A DIFFERENT BRAND OF MORTGAGE
Lincoln Realty
972-3894
®
Termite Control
Locally Owned
•Inspections
By Gerald Boesel
•Structual Repairs
P.O. Box 389 Calpella, CA 95418
•New Construction
Realtor®
Fax (707) 462-5746
FREE Weekly List of
Homes For Sale With
Prices, Addresses &
Descriptions Included
866-472-5468 x. 260
Free 24Hr. Recorded
Details. Agent
License Number OPR /9138 • Bonded
Garbocci - Van Housen Realty
Mona Falgout
(707) 462-4608
1661-A S. Main St. • Willits
Box 510 • Redwood Valley, CA 95470
Your friend in the business
TONI PAOLI-BATES
800-749-7901 x R397
Mark Hanes
REALTOR
463-2570
1-888-750-4USA
707-485-5759
Sheila Dalcamo
CAL-BAY MORTGAGE, 215 WEST STANDLEY ST. UKIAH
CHP/DMV
REALTY
WORLD
SELZER
707-433-9143
3bd/2ba Doublewide
in Senior Park new
appl, frplc, cathedral
ceiling $128K 4630561 fsbo
VICHY
SPRINGS
HEIGHTS
495 E. PERKINS
.
✪
FULL
SPECTRUM
PROPERTIES
601 S. State St.
✪
✪
E. Perkins St.
01
HWY 1
W
✪
BEVERLY
SANDERS
REALTY
CENTURY 21
LES RYAN
REALTY
RD AVE
T.
S
W. CLAY
.
RKINS ST
EAST PE
OR C H A
EET
SON STR
STEPHEN
Vichy Springs Rd
PEAR TREE
CENTER
T
CHAMBER
OF
COMMERCE
LIBRARY
HOSPITAL
STREE
N
✪
114 SO. SCHOOL ST.
.
RKINS ST
WEST PE
COURT
HOUSE
304 N. STATE ST.
LESLIE
STAN
POST
OFFICE
PREMIER
PROPERTIES
S. SCHOOL ST.
GARBOCCI
VAN HOUSEN
REALTY
ET
DLEY STRE
✪
e
Lake Mendocino Driv
444 N. STATE ST.
N. STATE ST.
PINE ST.
ET
SMITH STRE
✪
N. OAK STREET
HENRY STREET
HWY 20
COLDWELL
BANKER
MENDO
REALTY
LANE
770
UPDATED!
Very Clean!
UKIAH
FAIRGROUNDS
WALNUT AVE.
✪
P.V.
REALTY
FORD STREET
UKIAH MUNICIPAL
GOLF COURSE
N. Shore Oahu, HI
Hilltops overlooking
Turtle Bay Resort.
27 to 500 ac.
850-231-5119
www.cplandco.com
WILD WEST RANCH
So. COLORODO
60 AC - $49,900.
Outstanding rocky
mountain views!
Elec/Tele inlcuded. Get
away for a weekend or
a lifetime! Low down
payment with excellent
financing! Call Today!
1-866-696-5263
POTTER VALLEY
▲
WILLITS
H
WAUG
Single mother financially
struggling just reunified
with 13 yr old son after
5 years is in desperate
need of a good used
bed, at little or no cost.
Twin or Double size
preferred. Thank you &
God bless for your help.
Shelley @ 468-0907
after 5 p.m.
UKIAH AREA REAL ESTATE OFFICES
SOUTH STATE ST.
IN NEED OF HELP
650
4X4'S
FOR SALE
Jeep Grand
Cherokee LTD 2001
V8, 4x4, leather,
auto, heated seats,
prem stereo with CD
changer, sunroof, new
tires brakes & battery,
83k miles, well
maintained,
exceptional condition.
$14,685.
707-472-0840
LOTS &
ACREAGE
A DREAM FIND20 Acres - Reduced
$139,900. Near
Tehachapi. Fresh
mountain air and
picture perfect views.
Streams and oaks.
Ideal for horses,
country getaway, or to
buy and hold.
Financing. Call owner
1-888-821-5253.
S. OAK STREET
HUNT ELK,
Red Stag, Buffalo,
Whitetail. Season
August 25, 2006March 31, 2007, over
70 Californians hunted
this past season; All
successful. Guaranteed
License $5.00, we
have a no-game/no
pay policy. Book now.
Days:
1-314-209-9800,
Evenings: 1-314-2099800.
Ford 427 FE Stk 1963,
2-4’s, air cleaner, fuel
rails, linkage. All
stk/orig $10,000
Ford 428 FE 1968.
Bored 30 over. Comp
with 4-barrell. $1,000
3-2’s, Manifold, air
cleaner with linkage
and fuel rails from a
410c.i.FE eng $1,000
Ford FE cast iron
headers for Cobra &
631/2 thunderbolt.
$1,000 Make offer
459-6247
760
BUSH ST
HOT TUB ‘05 DELUXE
MODEL Neck jets, therapy
seat, never used, wrnty,
can deliver.Worth $5700
Sell: $1750
766-8622
AUTO PARTS &
ACCESSORIES
4 Goodyear Integrity
Black - Wall tires.
P215/65R17. Less than
500 mi. $250. 463-0672
before 9pm
N. DORA STREET
Giants Tickets
Opening day avail.
972-0945
630
S. DORA STREET
MISC.
FOR SALE
FREE PAINT
Recycled latex, 5 gal.
buckets, white, tan, brown,
gray.Tuesdays only, 8am
to 2pm, 298 Plant Rd.,
Ukiah (behind animal
shelter).
BARNES ST.
480
FIRST HOME? RETIREE?
SERIOUS INVESTOR?
Whatever your situation, don’t let this oneof-a-kind opportunity pass you by. This
historic Westside property, dating back to
the late 1800’s, is located in one of Ukiah’s
most desirable areas. With two 1 Bd, 1 Ba
units, this property is low on maintenance &
high on charm – and income! Upon
entering Unit A, you will be welcomed into
this completely reconstructed home by the
Unit #A
warmth radiating from the rich Brazilian
If you decide to move in yourself, we won’t be surprised. With
cherry hardwood flooring that extends
granite countertops, custom cabinetry, breakfast bar, pantry, and
throughout the open living, dining, and
all stainless steel appliances in well designed kitchen, finding time
kitchen areas, and into the bedroom.
to cook will become a priority! Numerous oversized windows crowned w/custom moldings, finished with designer shades –
allow natural light to brighten each room. All tile bath w/glass
enclosed walk in shower and custom vanity. Tiled laundry room w/
washer & dryer, built-in ironing board, and storage cabinetry. Did
we mention central heat and air? Unit B, while slightly pale in
comparison, has off-street privacy, sunny and private yard,
covered porch for morning tea and evening meals. Updated in
Unit
2002 with all new carpet, plumbing, appliances, tiled kitchen
#B
counters & floor, tiled bathroom w/vintage claw foot tub/shower
combo, separate laundry room w/ washer, dryer. New energy
efficient windows in 2004! Enough said….Now it’s up to you!
$495,000
Coldwell Banker Mendo Realty, Inc.
444 North State Street
Ukiah CA 95482
www.mendocinocountyproperties.com &
coldwellbanker.com
MENDO REALTY, INC.
B-10- SUNDAY, APR. 2, 2006
DIRECTORY OF
PROFESSIONALS
ANTIQUE
AUTO
with this coupon
Fast mobile Service
*No One Can Beat Our Prices*
FREE
Antiques &
Collectibles
Appraisals
EVERY WEDNESDAY 11-5
Redwood Valley
Antique Mall
9621 N. State St.
Redwood Valley
485-1185
Buying Antiques &
Collectibles Daily.
TREE TRIMMING
FRANCISCO’S
Tree & Garden
Service
Yard Work
Dump Runs
Tree Trimming
Licensed & Insured.
467-3901
CONSTRUCTION
Windshields as low as
$98
CALL (707) 573-3031
for quotes and appointment
Window Tinting for Auto,
Residential and commercial.
Auto Windshield Replacement Rock Chip Repair
We accept all major credit cards,
checks are welcome
Affordable Auto Glass
From Covelo to
Gualala the most
trusted name in the
Termite Business!
Call for
appointment
485-7829
Redwood Valley
Joe Morales
(707) 744-1912
(707) 318-4480 cell
Massage
Oolah Boudreau-Taylor CMT
Thorough & Sensitive
Deep Tissue & Sports Massage
My work is to reduce your pain,
improve your ability to do your
work, and allow you to play harder
and sleep better.
1st Visit Special
2 Hrs/$65
By appointment 8am to 6:30pm, M-F
485-1881
PLUMBING
FLOORING
25 Years Experience
Hardwood
Flooring
Quality Service
Robinson
~ Plumbing ~
Serving Willits and Ukiah
SPECIALIZING
IN REPAIRS
(707) 459-3212
(707) 467-1888
License #646710
SPA & SALON
DAY SPA & SALON
• Hair Style
• Manicures
• Pedicures
• Facials
• Waxing
• Massage
• Make Up
• Body Wraps
We use and recommend
Aveda products.
158 S. Main St. Willits
(707) 456-9757
BEAUTY
HAIR & SKIN CARE
HAIRCUTS
COLOR
PERMS
STYLING
FACIALS
PEELS
WAXING
LASH TINTS
Organic Hair Products
Therapeutic Skincare
Products
Mineral Makeup
468-7979
309 A West Perkins St.
707.485.8954
707.367.4040 cell
468-0853
GUTTERS
Prepainted
Seamless Gutters
27 Colors to Choose From
Fascia
Gutter
Ogee
Gutter
Curved
Face
Gutter
5 1/2”
4”
5 1/2”
Aluminum • Copper • Steel
Limited Lifetime Warranty**
FREE
ESTIMATES
Family Owned for 40 Years
462-2468
Insured Bonded
CREEKSIDE
LANDSCAPE
Complete Landscape Installation
• Concrete & Masonry • Retaining Walls
• Irrigation & Drip Sprinklers
• Drainage Systems • Consulting & Design
• Bobcat Grading • Tractor Service
J.C. Enterprises
Lic. # 292494
MASSAGE THERAPY
H AND S CRAPED
S OLID O AK
50% OFF R ETAIL!
Solid Oak $3.99/s.f.
Bamboo $2.99
Laminate 88 cents
Laminate Center
468-7490 • 995-3290
• Room Additions
• Painting
• Fences/Decks
• Garage/Shops
• Solid Surface
Countertops
• Kitchen & Baths
Lic. #580504
License #OPR9138
LANDSCAPING
License #624806 C27
Homes • Additions
• Kitchens • Decks
TERMITE BUSINESS
Lic. # 073512
RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL
Foundation to finish
CONSTRUCTION
**To original owner.
ELECTRICIAN
SHANAHAN
ELECTRIC
Auger
Electrical
Dump Truck
Trenching
420 O.K.
Free Estimate
Serving Lake, Mendocino,
Sonoma Counties & beyond
707-621-0422
lic. #871755 • John Johnson
COUNTERTOPS
SOLID SURFACE &
LAMINATE COUNTERTOPS
2485 N. State St. • Ukiah
Bill & Craig
707.467.3969
CL 856023
HANDYMAN
HOME REPAIR
Escobar Services
CalMend
All types of home repair,
remodeling, construction,
window & door repair,
carpeting & tile
Can fix almost anything.
Serving Ukiah,
Redwood Valley,
Calpella &
Willits.
Work
Guaranteed
(707) 485-0810
Non-licensed contractor
Home Repair
• Electrical
Ceiling fans, wall outlets, wall
heaters (gas & electric),
Dryer hookups
• Carpentry
Doors, windows, fine finish trim
• and more
• Satisfaction Guaranteed
Irv Manasse
All Local Numbers
707-313-5811 office
707-456-9055 home
707-337-8622 cell
No CSLB Insured
DUMP RUNS
REFINISHING
• Tractor
work
• Hauling
• Clean up
• Landscaping
• No job too small
• Free estimate
Furniture
and Antique
Repair
& Refinishing
391-5052 cell
30+ years experience
Laquer, Varnish, Oil,
Wax, Water-based finish
Workshop
in Redwood Valley
free estimates
C-10 #825758
485-8659 mess
Allen Strong
707-485-0802
CABINETS
LANDSCAPING
MASSAGE
Sangiacomo
Landscape
Medicine Energy
Massage
Ukiah, Calpella, Redwood Valley
license #849949
463-2333
Showroom - 756 S. State St.
Cabinets, countertops,
design, installation and
remodeling
Clines Unlimited
Construction, Inc.
license #608885
462-5617
Lic. #367676
• Consult • Design
• Install
Exclusive Line
of Bobcat track loaders
Established in 1970
Office (707) 468-0747
Cell (707) 391-7676
Mr. Terry Kulbeck
Holistic Health Practitioner
Nationally Certified
Message Therapist
1 year 1200 hours training
1 hr. $40 • 1 and a half hour $60
Your choice of:
Swedish & Lymphatic Oil
Massage, Tui-Na & Shiatsu
Acupressure, Neuromuscular
Assisted Stretching
or Medical Massage
Treat Yourself Today
(707) 391-8440
NOTICE TO READERS
The Ukiah Daily Journal publishes home improvement
and construction advertisements from companies and
individuals who have been licensed by the State of
California. We also publish advertisements from
unlicensed companies and individuals.
All licensed contractors are required by State Law to list
their license number in advertisements offering their
services. The law also states contractors performing work
of improvements totaling $500 or more must be licensed
by the State of California.
Advertisements appearing in these columns without a
licensed number indicate that the contractor or
individuals are not licensed by the State of California.
Further information can be obtained by contacting the
Contractors State License Board.

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