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42 pages, Volume 147 Number 307
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FRIDAY
Feb. 10, 2006
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FEMA setting up local center to provide federal flood aid
By SETH FREEDLAND
The Daily Journal
Days
ment of
of the
Federal
after the belated announcefederal funding in the wake
New Year’s storms, the
Emergency Management
Agency has begun preparing for its
arrival in the Ukiah Conference
Center.
The still-empty Colombard Room
belies the activity expected when
doors officially open for business at
10 a.m. Monday. (Hours will extend
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday
through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
on Saturday, with a center-mandated
break on Sunday.)
Aid officials anticipate the federal
drop-in to last only a week, but the
stay could be extended an additional
week should local desires warrant.
An IT specialist from FEMA is
currently preparing the Colombard
Room, officials said. Staffing num-
Grape pruners face off
Annual contest
judges speed
and quality
By BEN BROWN
The Daily Journal
The Mendocino Wine Growers
Alliance held its fifth annual
pruning contest Thursday at
Beckstoffer Vineyards. The top
three pruners will move on to the
state competition later this month.
Twenty-five contestants, representing many of Mendocino
County’s major wineries, competed for a chance to represent their
winery and the county at the state
competition Feb. 22 in Sonoma
County. Pruners from Mendocino
County have taken first in the
state the last three years.
Finishing in first place at the
county level this year was Pollito
Martinez,
representing
the
Mendocino Vineyard Company;
in second, Sergio Acevedo, also
representing the Mendocino
Vineyard Company; and in third,
Jorge Medina, representing
Vimark Vineyards.
Quality was judged by Al
White, manager of La Ribera
Vineyard, Rich Schaefers, vineyard manager for Beckstoffer
Vineyard, and Norm Kobler, with
Ardzrooni
Vineyard
Management.
Contestants pruned in heats of
five, timed by judges. The objective was to prune four vines as
quickly and cleanly as possible.
The average time to prune four
vines is between 3.5 and 4.5 minutes, said John Enquist, executive
director of the Mendocino Wine
Growers Alliance.
The fastest time was awarded
100 points; all other competitors
are penalized five points for every
second they are behind that time.
More points can be deducted
based on the look of the vines.
“The fastest guy isn’t always
the winner,” Schaefers said. “But
you can’t come in 10th and win
either.”
Afterward, the judges walk the
rows, deducting points for bad
cuts, missed cuts and debris
underneath the vines. It is a competition that requires both speed
and skill.
“It has to be a clean job,”
Enquist said..
Francisco Alvarez, represent-
bers have been set -- three FEMA
and
three
Small
Business
Administration representatives will
be on hand. Bringing the federal and
See FEMA, Page A-12
Police
warning
of fraud
attempts
By BEN BROWN
The Daily Journal
Amy Wellnitz/The Daily Journal
Demetrio Fuentes, who works at Saracina Winery, clips vines in the Mendocino County
Pruning Contest Thursday. Fuentes pruned four vines in three minutes and fifty-four seconds.
Finishing in first place at the county level this year was Pollito Martinez, above left, representing the Mendocino Vineyard Company. Above, the 2006 contest judges inspect the
vines following the first round of competition Thursday. Pictured, from left to right: La
Ribera Vineyard Manager Al White, Beckstoffer Vineyard Vineyard Manager Rich Schaefers
and Norm Kobler with Ardrzooni Vineyard Management.
ing Ardzrooni Vineyard, said he
thought he had done well in this
year’s competition, finishing his
four vines in a respectable time
and cleaning his row of debris.
“It depends on the judges; the
quality is good,” Alvarez said.
Competing again this year was
Raul Lua Valle, representing the
Mendocino Vineyard Company.
Lua Valle was widely considered
the man to beat. He won the state
competition in 2004 and 2005,
and said he was hoping to take
victory a third time.
“Nobody has won three times;
See PRUNERS, Page A-13
Officers at the Ukiah Police
Department are issuing a warning to
the public about two new fraud scams
that have been a cause of recent problems for Mendocino County residents.
Ukiah police are asking local merchants to be on the lookout for people
using stolen checks and stolen debit
cards to make purchases. Thieves
have begun to target these items
because many merchants do not
check a customer’s identification
when they pay with a check or debit
card.
“Some businesses won’t ask
because they’re afraid of offending a
customer,” said Ukiah Police Sgt.
John McCutcheon. “Frankly, I’m
glad when they ask.”
Stolen checks are considered the
most vulnerable to this kind of crime.
In one case, a suspect used stolen
checks to make purchases from nine
different establishments without
being asked for identification.
Debit cards are somewhat safer
because they require a four-digit personal identification number, but they
can be used to make small purchases
at gas pumps without the number.
Debit cards can also be run as credit
cards, which only require a signature
at the bottom of a receipt.
“Thieves are specifically targeting
these items,” McCutcheon said.
Thieves have purchased all kinds
of things with stolen checks, buying
DVDs, food, clothing and electronics. McCutcheon said thieves often
buy electronics because they’re easy
to sell or trade for drugs.
Locals are warned not to leave
purses or wallets in plain view in
cars. McCutcheon said smash-andgrab car thefts have been one of the
primary means thieves have used to
get checks and debit cards.
Those who believe they have been
a victim of this crime are encouraged
to file a police report and contact
their bank immediately to freeze their
accounts.
Ukiah police officers have investigated three reports of people cashing
fraudulent and counterfeit checks for
criminals they have met in online
chat rooms or on Internet dating sites.
The suspects gain the trust of peoSee FRAUD, Page A-12
O’Connell calls on educators to adapt to changing world
The Daily Journal
SACRAMENTO
-State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Jack O’Connell Tuesday delivered
his third annual State of Education
address in which he outlined how
educators must adapt to ensure that
California’s student population is
prepared to compete in the fast-
STATE OF EDUCATION
paced global economy of the 21st
century.
“The world is becoming smaller
and more connected by the minute,
and the state of education in
California today cannot be consid-
ered in isolation from that world or
the changes occurring in it,”
O’Connell said. “Innovations started
in Silicon Valley garages have created the dynamic world we live in
today, and largely because of these
innovations, we now find ourselves
at a critical juncture. How we as educators respond to the demands of a
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rapidly changing global economy
will in large measure determine
whether our society thrives, or merely survives.”
O’Connell described how the pace
and degree of technological change
over the last few decades have
increased exponentially, while the
way we educate students has not
changed much over the last century.
Citing the disappearance of most
good paying, low-skilled jobs,
O’Connell noted that students in
school today will be competing with
millions of young people entering
the global work force from developSee O'CONNELL, Page A-12
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The world briefly
FUNERAL NOTICES
Hostage American journalist
pleads for help, says time is short
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Kidnapped American journalist
Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired Thursday on a private
Kuwaiti TV station, appealing in a calm, composed voice for
her supporters to do whatever it takes to win her release “as
quickly as possible.”
Carroll, wearing traditional Arab attire, said the date was
Feb. 2, nearly a month after she was seized in Baghdad by
armed men who killed her Iraqi translator. She was shown sitting on a chair in front of a wall with a large floral design.
The 28-year-old freelance reporter for The Christian Science
Monitor said she had sent one letter and was sending another to
“prove I am with the mujahedeen.”
“I sent you a letter written by my hand, but you wanted more
evidence,” she said. “I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as
possible. There is very short time. Please do it fast. That’s all.”
Bush: Multinational cooperation
thwarted possible 2002 terrorist attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire for eavesdropping on
Americans, President Bush said Thursday that spy work
stretching from the U.S. to Asia helped thwart terrorists plotting
to use shoe bombs to hijack an airliner and crash it into the
tallest skyscraper on the West Coast.
“It took the combined efforts of several countries to break up
this plot,” Bush said. “By working together we stopped a catastrophic attack on our homeland.”
Some information about the foiled attack was disclosed last
year, but Bush offered more details to highlight international
cooperation in fighting terrorists. He did not say whether information about the West Coast plot was collected by his administration’s program to monitor — without court warrants — some
calls to the U.S. from terror suspects overseas.
The White House said that issue was not the point of the
speech, but the president and his advisers have been vigorously defending the legality of the program, which has been questioned by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
European newspapers publishing
prophet drawings see sales soar
PARIS (AP) — Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
That street corner cry of yesteryear is resonating at some
European publications that have enjoyed a boom in sales and
Web traffic after printing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad
that have stoked outrage across the Islamic world.
Denmark’s biggest-circulation broadsheet, Jyllands-Posten,
triggered the controversy in September by publishing 12 cartoons of the prophet, including one showing his turban as a
bomb. Its weekday circulation of about 154,000 hasn’t moved
much.
But for newspapers in France and Norway that reprinted the
drawings with much international ado, sometimes in defense of
free speech, the caricatures have become a profile boost and
tonic for lackluster sales.
If there’s a lesson, it’s an old one: Controversy sells.
Mohamed Bechari, a vice president at the French Council of
the Muslim Faith, France’s largest Islamic organization, said he
thinks French readers are buying up the newspapers out of
“curiosity” — not anti-Arab or anti-Muslim feeling.
Democratic leader’s staff routinely
met with Abramoff team, helped clients
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Harry
Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator’s staff regularly had
contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team about legislation
affecting other clients.
The activities — detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press — are far more extensive than previously disclosed. They occurred over three years
as Reid collected nearly $68,000 in donations from Abramoff’s
firm, lobbying partners and clients.
Reid’s office acknowledged Thursday having “routine contacts” with Abramoff’s lobbying partners and intervening on
some government matters — such as blocking some tribal casinos — in ways Abramoff’s clients might have deemed helpful.
But it said none of his actions were affected by donations or
done for Abramoff.
Reid, D-Nev., has led the Democratic Party’s attacks portraying Abramoff’s lobbying and fundraising as a Republican
scandal.
Sectarian violence in Pakistan and
Afghanistan kills 32 on Shiite holy day
HANGU, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck
Thursday in Pakistan on the holiest festival for Shiite Muslims,
triggering a riot that left a provincial town in flames and at least
27 people dead and more than 50 wounded.
After the bombing, which appeared to be a sectarian attack,
security forces battled enraged worshippers who torched shops
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PAUL HENRY
“HANK” GROTHE
Paul Henry “Hank”
Grothe
passed
away
Sunday, February 5, 2006
after a lengthy illness. He
was 58. Born June 12, 1947
at
Howard
Memorial
Hospital in Willits, to parents Fred A. and Mildred
C. Grothe. He was raised
on the family ranch in Bell
Springs. “Hank”, as he
was known to family and
friends,
took
several
career paths during his
life. He was a fisherman,
working off the coast of
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would give you the shirt off
his back if you needed it.
He was truly a wonderful
person and we will feel his
loss always. Hank was preceded in death by his
father Fred A. Grothe in
1975 and his mother
Mildred C. Grothe in 2004.
Hank is survived by his
wife Linda of Ukiah,
Brother John Grothe and
his wife Rene of Petrolia,
Ca, daughter Liz Grothe
and her partner Nancy
Curran of Ruth, Ca., son
Freddie Riley, his wife
Beth and their children
Haley, John, Samantha,
and Austin of Lucerne.
Hank is also survived by
his favorite “Da-Nephew”
John and “Da-Niece”
Kristina Grothe and their
children Bailey and Kenna
of Ukiah; niece Elaine and
her
husband
Willard
Leggett and their son
Michael of Ukiah, and
nephew Matthew and his
wife Misha Grothe of
Antioch.
Private services will be
held at a later date. In lieu
of flowers, donations can
be made to: Hospice 1712D S. Main St., Willits, CA
95490.
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Community Foundation, Eriksen Fund aid Red Cross
Donations earmarked
for flood relief efforts
The Daily Journal
The torrential rains and floods of New
Year’s weekend left many Mendocino
residents, primarily in the Highway 101
corridor, needing emergency help from
the American Red Cross. Two charitable
organizations now have stepped forward
to help fund those emergency services:
The Community Foundation of
Mendocino County, Inc. and T.R. Eriksen
Trust Fund.
The Community Foundation has provided a grant of $3,000 to the American
Red Cross to support the disaster relief
effort, with $2,000 of that specifically
focused on children and their families
caught in the disaster. The T.R. Eriksen
Trust Fund has donated $2,500 to assist
the Red Cross relief effort along the Hwy.
101 corridor in Mendocino County.
“There are very few charitable founda-
tions in Mendocino County,” Community
Foundation Executive Director Susanne
Norgood said. “When there are local
needs it’s important for the Community
Foundation to respond.”
To date, approximately 130 people,
including at least 34 children and their
families, have received services and
funds for food, clothing, housing, prescription medicine, storage containers
and other emergency relief support in
Mendocino County. Total Red Cross
expenditures for Mendocino County disaster relief are expected to exceed
$79,000.
The donated funds are expected to
help reimburse the Red Cross. Ellen
Maremont Silver, the organization’s marketing director, noted that the Red Cross’
policy of immediately distributing client
assistance cards and pursuing funding
later offers “dignity” to those suffering
losses.
Fund-raising is expected to fill any
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Bill would provide funds
to sort out drug confusion
Thompson said in a statement.
In an effort to help guide “The (Bush) Administration
seniors through what many knows that beneficiaries want
are calling confusing and ill- one-on-one assistance and
they say SHIP counselors are
conceived changes in
the best trained to
Medicare prescripprovide that help.
tion drug coverage,
But, they haven’t
North Coast Rep.
funded these proMike Thompson (Dgrams at a level that
Napa Valley) introlets them assist all
duced
a
bill
beneficiaries. This
Wednesday
that
bill increases funding
would add $100 milwithout adding a sinlion to funding for
gle penny to the
State
Health
deficit.”
Insurance Assistance
The increase in
Programs.
Known
as Thompson SHIP funding is paid
for by a 1 percent
HICAPs
in
reduction
to a health plan staCalifornia, SHIPs are federally mandated programs that bilization fund that was
provide Medicare beneficia- included in the Medicare
ries with unbiased informa- Modernization Act. This fund
tion about their coverage
See BILL, Page A-12
options. Lately, they have
been focused on helping
seniors sign up for the new
drug benefit and resolving
Part D enrollment disputes.
Service CENTER
“These programs are overwhelmed and understaffed,”
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deficits not aided by donations.
Most of those turning to the Red Cross
live in Hopland, Ukiah, Willits and surrounding areas, and many are Spanishspeaking, Red Cross officials said. The
Red Cross is working closely with
Nuestra Casa, as well as the Community
Development Commission of Mendocino
County, to help people who lost their
homes during the floods obtain long-term
housing.
The Community Foundation of
Mendocino County is a countywide nonprofit organization that administers permanent charitable funds established
through gifts and bequests from individuals, families, businesses and other organizations.
The T.R. Erikson Trust gives primarily
for Mendocino County needs in relation
to the environment and human services.
Contributions to the Red Cross may be
made at 463-0112 or online at
www.sonomacounty.redcross.org.
CORRECTIONS
POLICE REPORTS
Thursday’s What’s Playing Arts & Entertainment
calendar listed the Event of
the Heart under an incorrect
day. The Event of the Heart
will be Saturday evening in
Carl Purdy Hall at the
Redwood Empire Fairgrounds.
The Ukiah Daily Journal 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, 4683526.
LOTTERY NUMBERS
DAILY 3: night: 4, 7, 0.
afternoon: 7, 1, 7.
FANTASY 5: 05, 06,
20, 30, 34.
DAILY DERBY: 1st
Place: 06, Whirl Win. 2nd
Place: 12, Lucky Charms.
3rd Place: 09, Winning
Spirit.
Race time: 1:45.70.
The following were
compiled from reports
prepared by the Ukiah
Police Department. To
anonymously
report
crime information, call
463-6205.
ARREST -- Ricardo
Baroza, 44, of Ukiah, was
arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in
the 700 block of Perkins
Street at 10:28 p.m.
Wednesday. Baroza was
released after being cited.
SHERIFF’S REPORTS
The following were
prepared
by
the
Mendocino
County
Sheriff’s Office:
ARREST -- Richard
Recla, 40, of Laytonville,
was arrested on suspicion of
causing corporal injury to a
cohabitant at 10 p.m.
See DAILY, Page A-12
ATTENTION CHOWDERHEADS!
55th Annual
St. Mary’s Clam Chowder Feed
Thursday • February 23rd • 6:30pm
at St. Mary’s School
TIRES
Valentine’s Day
Tuesday, February 14th
SELZER REALTY
Each office independently owned and operated.
Alaska and all over the
eastern coast. He was also
a truck driver, driving for
a local soda company and
cement company. Hank
was also an extremely talented woodworker, creating beautiful clocks and
jewelry boxes that he often
gave to family and friends.
Hank had a wonderful
sense of humor and an
infectious laugh that we
will all miss greatly. One of
the many things that we
will miss the most about
him is his ability to talk to
anyone about anything. He
made friends easily and
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What’s Playing
FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006 – A-3
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FRIDAY
DAN BROWN– Accustic Rock; 11 a.m. to 1p.m.; Coffee
Critic; 476 N. State St.; 462-1840.
‘BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE’ – Set to Bewitch the
Willits’s Audience; 8 p.m.; tickets are $12; Willits Community
Theatre; 37 W. Van Lane; Willits; 489-0895.
RED HOT CHAMBER MIXER – Valentine’s Day theme;
Hampton Inn; 1160 Airport Park Blvd; 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; 4624705.
MARC HANSEN– Dinner concert; Potter Valley Cafe; 7 to
10 p.m.; no cover charge; 743-2848.
CONTRA DANCE– Ukiah Contra Dance featuring Marc
Hansen and Laura Smith; 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Ukiah Methodist
Church; 22 N. Pine St.; use back entrance; $7 for adults and $3
for children; tickets available at the door.
JE-JEUNE – Singer/guitarist; every Friday; 4 to 6 p.m.;
Coffee Critic; 476 N. State St.; 462-1840.
DJ DANCE MUSIC – DJ Dance Music; with Smokin’ Joe;
lots of drink specials; Perkins Street Lounge; 228 E. Perkins
St., Ukiah; 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
SATURDAY
THE SKIPTOR – Keyboard and vocals; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.;
Coffee Critic; 476 N. State St.; 462-1840.
VALENTINES PARTY– Dance music by Duckie; 7 to 10
p.m.; Happiness is Club; 311; Lake Mendocino Dr.
BELLYDANCING – Live bellydancing; Himalayan Cafe;
1639 S. State St.; reservations recommended; 467-9900.
KARAOKE – Karaoke at Yokayo Bowl; 1401 N. State St.;
Ukiah; 8:30 p.m.; 462- 8686; no cover charge.
EVENT OF THE HEART– The 19th Annual Event of the
Heart, Auction, Dinner and Dance; Carl Purdy Hal; Ukiah;
begins at 6 p.m.; Ticket are available at Mendocino Book Co.
in Ukiah and Leaves of Grass in Willits; $75 per person; Dance
only tickets are $20; 462 1932,
DJ DANCE MUSIC – DJ dance music; with Smokin Joe;
lots of drink specials; Perkins Street Lounge; 228 E. Perkins
St., Ukiah; 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
SUNDAY
AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD TRIP - Field trip to Ponit
Arena, Manchester Park, and the Garcia River, including Miner
Hole Road and Brushy Creek, exploring coastal birds; participants should meet at the Long’s parking lot in Ukiah at 7:30
a.m. sharp with weather appropriate clothing, binoculars, field
guide, water, lunch, and gas money for drivers or a car already
fueled up. Carpooling is encouraged.
VALENTINE BRUNCH – Pancakes, scrambled eggs, ham,
fruit and breakfast bread; 11:30 to 1 p.m.; ages 11 and up/$8,
ages 5 to 11/$4, ages 4 and younger free; United Methodist
Church; corner of North Bush and West Standley; Ukiah; 4858166.
DANCE WAVE – Freestyle community dance for fitness and
release; Mendocino Ballet Studio; 205 S. State St., Ukiah;
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; sliding scale donation; 489-3345.
WEEKLY DART TOURNEY – Weekly dart tournaments are
held Sundays at the Hopland Brewery; 13351 Hwy 101 S.,
Hopland; 3 to 6 p.m.; 744-1361.
MEDITATION ON THE INNER LIGHT AND SOUND –
Meditation instruction and weekly group practice; 7:30 to 9:30
p.m.; Willits; free; call for directions; 459-4444.
Counting the minutes
until Valentine’s Day
“The best gifts are tied with
heart strings.” -- Anon
Tempis fugit... You may
have heard, “take care of the
minutes, and the hours and
years will take care of themselves.”
Seems there’s a rush of calendar page-turning going on
round about, and not just in
the Hester household, either.
Themes of “how did it get to
be February already?” and
“...only ‘x’ shopping days
until Christmas...” EGAD!
When even your favorite
granddaughter, who will soon
be 17, says she’s “too old” to
send out Valentine’s cards,
there’s something a little sad.
At least our 8-year-old grandson is around to give us the
excuse to go to kids’ movies,
and get excited about things
like Valentine’s Day. The spirit of good continues as
Valentines are sent out with
sentimental verses and children exchange valentine cards
at school -- and perhaps even
some of the old folks join in
on the fun.
In the United States, Miss
Esther Howland is given credit for sending the first
Valentine cards. Commercial
Valentines were introduced in
the 1800s and now the date is
very commercialized.
The town of Loveland,
Colo., does a large post office
business around Feb. 14. You
may recall Bev Reeves, and
her husband, Tom, live in
Loveland. Tom -- who has
sadly passed from this earthly
Looking
about
By Carole
Hester
clime -- was formerly publisher of the Daily Journal and
Bev was a feature writer for
same. Bev will be visiting
Ukiah right after Valentine’s
Day, her first venture back to
a place she and Tom loved so
much and where Tom, a bigger than life fellow, impacted
the community with his presence.
Did you know you can
send your Valentines to
Loveland in a packet, with a
check for postage, and your
cards will be “canceled” at the
Loveland post office? What a
neat trick, eh? ‘Course, you
have to plan and start that little venture early for the mail
service gets swamped in
February.
The town of Loveland -well known as an arts community -- was founded in 1877
and named after W.A.H.
Loveland, the president of the
Colorado Central Railroad
company. Rocky Mountain
National Park is just 30 minutes away offering a great
opportunity to enjoy nature.
The newspaper in Loveland is
the Daily Reporter-Herald.
There’s a wonderful park with
See LOOKING, Page A-6
This month marks four
years since Plowshares took
over the Meals-on-Wheels
program for the second time,
but funds and volunteers are
currently flagging.
Holiday donations were
lower than budgeted, and
lower than they have been in
years. At the same time, the
cost of picking up and cooking donated groceries has
skyrocketed along with the
price of gas and other necessary expenses. The awardwinning Meals-on-Wheels
program, halfway through the
fiscal year immediately following the holidays -- normally the peak of income for
the year -- is running more
than eight thousand dollars in
the red.
Trustworthy volunteer drivers are also needed for two
hours a day, one or more
days a week. Volunteer morning cooks (also for two
hours, one or more mornings
a week) would be gladly welcomed as well.
After running the Mealson-Wheels program for a
year during the Ukiah Senior
Center’s financial crisis of
1997-98, Plowshares agreed
to take it on again in
February 2002 during another challenging period at the
Senior Center. Based on
Plowshares’ experience with
the government funding for
this program during that first
year, the Plowshares Board
of Directors decided to refuse
government funds the second
time around, and asked the
community for support to
keep the program operating.
This support has been continuous and generous, and
has allowed Plowshares to
deliver fresh, hot meals daily
to the homes of at-risk
seniors. United Way now
provides over a third of the
program’s budget, and various churches, businesses and
individuals also donate
specifically for Meals-onWheels. The drivers, all volunteers, have never asked for
mileage reimbursement even
with the rise in gas prices,
and even though most of
them are themselves retired.
But it’s time for another call
for help.
“We appreciate the importance of hurricane-relief
efforts and so many great
local causes people have
been supporting,” says
Plowshares volunteers B.J. Swaney, left, and Tony Reha, right, deliver a meal to
Violet Eilers as part of the Meals-on-Wheels program.
Plowshares Executive
says, “In my time I thought I authorities who were able to
Director Mary Buckley. “And would not need the help, but
remedy potentially dangerous
we don’t like to ask for help
I’m almost wheelchair-bound cases of neglect or abuse.
The seniors say they greatunless it’s really needed -now -- keep it coming!”
ly appreciate the daily checkit’s been years since we put
Some of the seniors only
out a request like this. But
receive the meals temporarily in. Some of the drivers have
received training in recognizthe seniors are still there, and while recovering from
ing and responding to depresPlowshares needs the comsurgery or hospitalization.
sion and other mental-health
munity’s generosity to keep
Some are permanently disconditions common in disgiving them their daily hot
abled and will never recover
abled seniors, courtesy of a
meal and check-in.”
their full capacities. But
United Way-funded program
Last year the program
eleven out of twelve of them
of Redwood Coast Seniors in
received a United Way
agree that Meals-on-Wheels
Fort Bragg. Generous donatagency award for
help them remain in their
"Community Impact through
homes instead of going into a ed-gift bags were also delivered to each senior for the
Collaboration." The nutriconvalescent facility. This
holidays, and information on
tious five-course meals are
saves an estimated $55,000
upcoming Medicare changes
tailored on request for vegeper year per person, while the were provided to them late
tarians and diabetics, and
Meals-on-Wheels costs
last year courtesy of
include two quarts of milk a
Plowshares roughly $1,000
Congressman Mike
week for those who drink it.
per year per person.
Thompson’s office.
They provide the main meal
Not only does the Meals“I get depressed a lot,”
of the day for over 90 peron-Wheels program provide
one of the seniors says, “and
cent of these homebound
nutritional support at low
seeing people at my door
seniors, and nearly half of
cost, it gives isolated shut-ins snaps me out of it. They are
them stretch it into two
a social bright spot in their
such nice people.” Another
meals. Eighty five percent
day, and a welfare check that says, “Even my dog loves to
say they eat better because of assures them and their famisee the drivers.” Or, as one
the program, and 93 percent
lies that they will not be
senior put it, “Wonderful
say it gives them a greater
alone for long in a crisis. It is feeling someone cares about
me!”
sense of well-being and safe- a comfort to them to know
Anyone who would like to
ty.
that the drivers will have
In the words of one senior, Plowshares staff call a family volunteer as a cook or driver
“I can be sure of a meal once member, neighbor, apartment may call Rhonda at
Plowshares, 462-8582. Those
a day, five days a week. I like manager or even law
wishing to financially supthe drivers checking on me to enforcement if the seniors
be sure I am OK.” Another
don’t respond to an attempted port the Meals-on-Wheels
program may donate online
explains, “My wife is in a
delivery. Several times driat www.plowsharesfeeds.org,
wheelchair and has disability, vers have discovered seniors
or mail donations to
and I am not in good shape.
on the floor, in need of medPlowshares, P.O. Box 475,
It gives me more time to take ical attention or even
Ukiah, CA 95482-0475.
care of my wife.” Yet another deceased, or have alerted
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
Free income tax prep on
Wednesdays and Fridays
AARP Volunteers are providing
Income Tax preparation at no cost for
taxpayers with middle and low-income,
with special attention to those age 60 and
older. Hours are Wednesdays and Fridays
9 to 11:30 a.m. until April 14, 2006 at the
Ukiah’ Senior Center.
Please bring copies of all W-2’s,
1099’s and proof of all other income.
Also bring a copy of last year’s tax return
if available. Norma Exley 462-7662.
Newborn safety class
to be held tonight
Accidents are the leading cause of
injury to children. Parents can learn how
to prevent hazards from harming their
child at a newborn safety class offered by
Care for Her. The class will be held at 6
p.m. tonight at Care for Her, 333 Laws
Ave., Ukiah. Class topics include child
proofing familie’s homes, bathing an
infant, responding to infant emergencies
and selecting safe toys. Care for Her is a
women’s health center operated by
Mendocino Community Health Clinic,
Inc. (MCHC). To register, call 472-4603.
BMX meeting to discuss
flood damage, program
The City of Ukiah Community Service
Department would like to announce a
meeting for local BMX participants.
Rusty Bowl users, and any other interested members of the public. Topics for discussion include the recent flood damage
volunteer workdays. and programming
for the upcoming year. The meeting will
be held on today at 5:30 p.m. at Ukiah
Civic Center Annex (411 West Clay
Street)
Purple Pleasure Seekers
to take trip to Santa Rosa
The Purple Pleasure Seeker of Ukiah
are having a fun filled day on Friday in
Santa Rosa. They will start at the down
town mall, “The Simon Plaza.” Then they
will explore the Rail Road Square.
Providing that the weather is fair they
will go to the Luther Burbank Garden.
Lunch will be decided on the go. They
will gather behind the Washington
Mutual Bank at 700 S. State St. by 9:30
a.m. They will depart at 10 a.m. Arrival
back home will be about 6 p.m. RSVP by
the Feb. 5 to Sandy 485-1408 or Ruth
462-8440. The Red Hat Society is where
women of all ages get together for fun,
laughter and friendship.
Senior Center to host
Valentine’s Day potluck
The Ukiah Senior Center will host a
Valentine’s Potluck Dinner Dance on
Saturday, Participants are asked to bring
a dish to share for the Dinner which is
from 5:30 to 6 p.m.
The dance will start at 7 p.m. featuring
the “Country Gents” The price is $8 for
members and $9 non-members. All adults
21 and over are welcome.
For more information call 468-9656
orientation on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to
noon. It will be held at their office located at 327 N. State St. Suite 204 in Ukiah.
Since 1994 CASA of Mendocino
County has been training volunteers to
advocate for children in the dependency
system. Here in Mendocino County,
there were over 300 dependent children
in out-of-home placement in Dec. 2005.
Although it is always the hope that these
young victims of abuse and neglect will
be reunited with their parent or parents,
many end up spending the rest of their
childhood in the foster care system. It is
these children that the volunteers of
CASA advocate for, working to make
sure that the best interests of each child
are being served. As an advocate you can
make sure the voice of one of these children is heard in a system that is overburdened and under-supported.
If you are curious about what becoming an advocate means, CASA encourages you to call their office at 463-6503
to sign up for the upcoming Friday orientation, or to get more information about
other ways you can benefit the abused
and neglected children of our community.
You can also email them at
casamc@pacific.net. Do something significant in 2006: become a CASA advocate.
Library to present ‘Queen Half-day childbirth prep
class set for Saturday
of Hearts’ this Saturday
The Mendocino County Public
Library and the Waldorf School of
Mendocino County present story time at
the library with the Queen of Hearts.
Saturday, from 10:30 until noon, at the
Willits Public Library.
Come listen to Waldorf School kindergarten teacher Katie Jean as she casts her
magical storytelling spell for children of
all ages. A craft project and small homemade treat will follow.
CASA offers new
volunteer orientation
The Court Appointed Special
Advocates, or CASA, of Mendocino
County will be holding a new volunteer
Expectant parents can learn about their
growing baby and prepare for childbirth
on Sat. Feb. 11 from 12 to 4 p.m. The
half-day class will be held at 333 Laws
Ave. in Ukiah, and will be taught by Kim
McEntee, childbirth educator at Care for
Her, a women’s health center operated by
Mendocino Community Health Clinic,
Inc. (MCHC). Topics of the class include
nutrition during pregnancy, body changes
throughout pregnancy, preparing for
childbirth and birthing techniques. This
class is an short version of the on-going
8-session class series held bi-monthly at
Care for Her; the next full session begins
in March. Private insurance and MediCal are welcomed. For more information,
call Care for Her at 472-4603.
A-4 – FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006
FORUM
Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526
VIEWPOINTS
Letters from our readers
UUSD must wait to
be sued to pay Rainbow
To the Editor:
In have recently read a number of letters
as well as editorial comment regarding the
issue of alleged non-payment of monies
due to Rainbow Construction by UUSD.
Until December 2005, I was employed by
UUSD and one of my responsibilities was
tracking construction invoices and payments, so I speak with some knowledge of
the situation.
The allegation appears to be that UUSD
is withholding funds due to Rainbow thus
causing financial hardship and unemployment of local citizenry.
FACT: By contract, 10 percent of the
contract amount is withheld in an escrow
account until the “Notice of Completion”
has been filed. As a courtesy to Rainbow, in
understanding of their financial difficulties,
UUSD authorized release of approximately
65 percent of those escrow funds over the
last two years in advance of the completion
of the project!
FACT: UUSD cannot legally pay out
the remaining escrow funds due to “Stop
Notices” filed by subcontractors for nonpayment by Rainbow. The law required
UUSD withhold an amount equal to 125
percent of the “Stop Notices.” UUSD paid
all invoices it was legally empowered to
pay.
FACT: The core of Rainbow’s argument
is that the architectural product was insufficient or flawed requiring them additional
and cost to complete the project. USD contracted TLCD to design and engineer and
Rainbow to build the school. As such,
Rainbow cannot use the architect directly
because they have no contractual agreement. In order to resolve this argument, it is
necessary for Rainbow to sue UUSD to
determine fault and the amount of award
for this project overrun. If the architect is
found to be at fault; in turn, UUSD would
then have to sue the architect to recover
damages.
These and other facts are public information. Anyone really wanting to know the
truth of the matter should contact UUSD
and review the documentation on file. I
would especially encourage the editor to do
her research and deliver the facts to her
readers rather than simply passing along
hearsay or emotional mud-slinging.
Dona Fridae
Willits
Let the planners take a
drive
THOMAS D. ELIAS
What is science?
UC system
believes it knows
Other opinions
From around the nation
San Jose Mercury News
A bold move to blanket the valley in wireless access
The notion of building a
giant wireless Internet network blanketing all of
Silicon Valley — from San
Mateo to Gilroy and from
Santa Cruz to the East Bay
— is bold, ambitious and
challenging. The idea is to
create, in essence, the largest
Internet hot spot in the
United States. It’s precisely
the kind of visionary idea
that Silicon Valley’s leaders
are right to pursue.
Whether the network
goes from vision to reality
will depend on whether
there
are
satisfactory
answers to the many questions a project of this magnitude raises, including cost,
feasibility and need.
Ubiquitous high-speed
Internet access is rapidly
turning into a necessity in
the Digital Age, especially
as handheld e-mail devices,
Internet telephones and
other connected devices
become commonplace.
And a public wireless network that blankets all outdoor locations in the valley,
as Joint Venture proposes to
build, would complement,
rather than replace, existing
broadband options provided
by private firms.
It could help bridge the
digital divide, bring more
competition to the broadband market and offer convenience to visitors and
mobile workers. It could
area that is already unsafe.
Enjoy your coffee but don’t forget to
keep both hands on the wheel and look
both ways as you leave.
This training exercise is not meant to be
punitive, however we should try to make
an effort to prevent history from repeating
itself.
John Moon
Ukiah
Agrees on mental health
To the Editor:
With the population growth we have
To the Editor:
experienced to date and the expectation this
This is a response to a recent letter writgrowth will continue, I think we need to be
ten
by Bobbie G. Pierce. I believe that
a little smarter on how we plan for it. The
you’ve
hit the nail on the head. Mental illlogic used to design the roadways in Ukiah
escapes me.
In that vane I think it is time to upgrade
the training program for our City of Ukiah
Planning Department. I recommend we
start with some real field experience. Each
member of the roadway planning group
should have as an assignment to drive
South on Highway 101 during high traffic
periods, exit on Perkins Street and attempt
to turn left on Perkins. This will give them
a real flavor for delays in a small town. By
the way, it’s not fair to go to Gobbi and
return to Perkins so you can turn right, like
most of us do. The second part of the training is to travel North on Highway 101 and
exit on Perkins Street with the desire to
turn left to go to the downtown area. You
need to allow adequate time for these two
exercises and don’t take too many risks
because you may pay for it with your life.
In the relatively short time I’ve lived in
the community, I have seen a number of
questionable decisions made that negatively
impact our ability to go where we want to
go. The last one is memorable, in that a
commercial project was approved by the
planning department that single-handedly
eliminated any opportunity to construct a
President George Bush: The White
decent interchange at Perkins and at the
House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washingsame time created more congestion in an
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allow businesses to experiment with new wireless
applications, helping create
jobs.
It could help police and
firefighters replace older
telecommunications systems
and deliver timesaving services to building inspectors,
surveyors and other city
workers.
And it could enable a
slew of new applications:
Internet-enabled
sensors
could monitor pumps at
water treatment plants or
environmental conditions in
a creek; they could tell city
officials when parking
meters are full and tell public transit users when the
next bus will arrive.
ness is not a condition, it is a brain disease.
The three most insidious are: schizophrenia, bipolar illness, and major depression.
While there are many more diagnoses,
these three take a toll. Although I no
longer work within the mental health arena,
I did so for over 20 years (especially here
in Ukiah). If you (Bobby G. Pierce) would
e-mail me your address, I would gladly
send you my book of poetry free of charge.
The book includes many poems relating to
mental health. Not too long ago the Willits
News had an article about the book. Good
work Bobbie.
William J. Russell
Ukiah
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Sacramento, 95814. (916) 319-2001; Santa
Rosa, 576-2526; FAX, Santa Rosa, 5762297. Berg's field representative in Ukiah
office located at 104 W. Church St, Ukiah,
95482, 463-5770. The office’s fax number is
463-5773.
E-mail
to:
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Senator Wes Chesbro: State Senate
District 2, Capitol Building, Room 5100,
Sacramento, 95814. (916) 445-3375; FAX
(916) 323-6958. Ukiah office is P.O. Box
785, Ukiah, 95482, 468-8914, FAX 4688931. District offices at 1040 Main St., Suite
205, Napa, 94559, 224-1990, 50 D St., Suite
120A, Santa Rosa, 95404, 576-2771, and
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Mendocino County Supervisors:
Michael Delbar, 1st District; Jim Wattenburger, 2nd District; Hal Wagenet, 3rd District; Kendall Smith, 4th District; David Colfax, 5th District. All can be reached by writing to 501 Low Gap Road, Room 1090,
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Science is an empirical matter. The scientific
process produces conclusions based on what can be
seen and proven.
Religion is about faith, something completely different. Yes, the two can occasionally dovetail when
matters of faith are interpreted to explain observed scientific facts.
This difference is at the root of the University of
California's decision not to give students at a Christian
school in the Riverside County city of Murietta admission credit for some classes taught at the school. Not
that students of the Calvary Chapel Christian School
are excluded from UC: In the last four years, 32
Calvary graduates applied to UC campuses and 24
were admitted. That's a higher percentage than from
almost any public high school. Students can meet
entrance requirements either via coursework or by
passing national tests in various subject areas.
But this reality doesn't satisfy Calvary school leaders and their allies in the 4,000-member Association of
Christian Schools International. They've sued in an
attempt to force UC to recognize faith-based "science"
classes they teach.
One textbook used in a creationism-based science
class, published by the fundamentalist South Carolinabased Bob Jones University Press, teaches that the
world is no more than 10,000 years old. Never mind
the existence of fossils carbon-dated eons before 8,000
B.C., some of which can be seen by Calvary students
in natural history museums an hour or two from the
school.
It may be fine to teach both creationism and evolution as theories, since neither can be proven beyond a
shadow of a doubt. It may be fine to teach that the six
days of creation in the Biblical account of Genesis are
allegories, each day a metaphor for a geologic era.
But teaching things as fact when they cannot be verified in any empirical way defeats the fundamental
purpose of a university education, which is to train the
minds of young adults to think critically and give them
the ability to understand the world they see.
If parents choose to educate their children in ways
that don't match those basic purposes, they have that
right. But it would contradict the mission of a publiclyfunded university if UC began to treat faith-based education on an equal basis with fact-based classes.
So the fundamental issue in the ongoing lawsuit
comes down to one question: What is science? Is it
what some people passionately believe to be absolute
truth or is it the observation of facts and their explanation by verifiable means?
This is not to suggest that private schools don't have
the right to teach whatever they like. Roman Catholic
schools for more than a century have taught the dogma
of their religion, but have not expected public universities to recognize things like catechism classes as part
of what qualifies students for admission. At the same
time, Catholic schools' classes on the history and comparison of religions have long been accepted.
In part, that's because those courses usually teach at
least in part from complete original texts, while the
comparable Calvary classes use excerpts rather than
full texts of influential works.
The Christian school claims discrimination because
of its religious viewpoint, but UC officials deny anything like this. "(The university) accepts hundreds if
not thousands of students from these schools every
year and values the diversity of views these students
bring to its campuses," said a UC lawyer. In fact, UC
has certified 43 Calvary courses under its college
preparatory guidelines.
But if a Calvary class were to teach that two plus
two equals five because that total is fundamental to a
belief system, that class likely would not be accepted,
nor should it be.
For UC is supposed to be elite. It is intended for the
top graduates of California high schools, public and
private. Students who have been taught to deny what
can be seen cannot possibly be part of that elite.
Calvary students plainly have not been taught anything like that in all their courses. That's why so many
are accepted.
But forcing UC to accept classes based solely on
belief would be flat wrong. The university's resistance
to the attempt to force it to go along may be a sign
that its era of dumbing down to satisfy various political interests is ending at last. If so, that is a very good
thing.
Thomas D. Elias is a syndicated columnist.
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COMMUNITY
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AAA Advisory Council
members being recruited
The Governing Board of Lake and
Mendocino County’s Area Agency on Aging is
currently recruiting for AAA Advisory Council
members.
The Council shall advise the Governing
Board on issues such as developing the area
four year plan and develop and coordination of
community policies and programs throughout
both counties.
Council members must meet at least one of
the following criteria: be an older adult person
60 years or older; an advocate of older persons;
representative of a health care agency or organization serving older adults; a person providing leadership in the private and volunteer sectors; a local elected official; a member of the
general public.
Fifty percent membership shall be older persons.
Anyone interested in serving on the
Advisory Council should contact Nancy
Vinson at the Mendocino County Department
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Free pruning demonstration
to be held Saturday
Members of the Mendocino Rose Society
will hold a free pruning demonstration to educate fellow rose-lovers on the proper way to
prune roses for maximum health and beauty,
The demonstration will be held at 11 a.m. on
Saturday at the Ukiah Civic Center Rose
Garden at 411 West Clay St. The public is
enthusiastically invited to attend and learn
some successful pruning techniques. In addition. the Rose Society meets the second
Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the
Ukiah Civic Center Annex. New members are
always welcome. For more information. pleas
can 485-6219.
Peregrine Audubon Society to
lead trip to Manchester Park
Peregrine Audubon Society of Ukiah will be
leading a field trip to Pt. Arena, Manchester
For a good cause... About
60 folks gathered at St. Mary’s
parish hall last Saturday for a
cozy,
warm,
fun-filled
evening as they listened to
Danielle Brassfield, 15, entertain on the keyboard with nostalgic and sometimes romantic
songs. The evening was a
fund-raiser for a few international students here with
Rotary. The “brain child” of
Ed Nickerman, the purpose
was to raise funds for these
students to go on some of the
trips that other Rotary international students freely experience, but who come from
more affluent backgrounds
than this year’s crop of students.
Caroline Infantino, 18,
from Belgium, was the expert
organizer and cook. Her
lasagne was memorable but
the chocolate mousse, created
from Belgium chocolate -famous the world over -- and
flown by FedEx to Ukiah by
her family, was a treat de
resistance! Caroline was capable, energetic, hard working,
and thoroughly enjoyed
putting this event together.
The two Rotary Clubs -South Ukiah Rotary and
Rotary Club of Ukiah -- were
the principle attendees.
The students, in addition to
Caroline, were: Wiebke Smit,
15, from Germany; Carolin
Allenstein, 17, from Germany.
Chente Huezo, 16, from
Mexico helped set up chairs,
tables and serve. All but
Allenstein
are
Rotary
exchange students. She is in
Ukiah staying with extended
family. Wiebke is staying with
Frank and Midge McMichael,
Caroline (the super cook) is
staying
with
Teresa
Brassfield,
and
Chente
(Mexico) is staying with
George and Ann Bradford.
Allison Hoyman Browe,
last year an exchange student
to Argentina, helped in the
kitchen and helped serve as
did Katy Eddy.
Wiebke Smit also played a
classical number on her violin. Wiebke has played with
Ukiah Symphony Orchestra
and enjoyed that gig.
There are several trip
opportunities available, if the
kids can gather the necessary
funding. One, at the end of the
year, is a two week trip to
Disneyland,
Universal
Studios, the Grand Canyon,
Yosemite, San Francisco, and
other locales, but that’s a
whopping $1,100 each that
needs to be raised.
If you’d like to join in helping send these students to see
part of America, give Tim
Knudsen a call at 462-8076.
Have keyboard/will travel... if you are interested in
booking a most talented 15year-old “traveling pianist”
(Danielle), give her grandmother Midge McMichael a
call at 468-5393. Danielle has
been a student of Anne
Cedarholm for about eight
years.
More about a need... You
may recall last time reading
about a family in Willits with
huge need for support, suffering from catastrophic and rare
diseases. Debra Bryant, 51,
has two rare syndromes, and
her husband has one also.
They cannot afford the medical treatments they need.
Although in the process of
applying for total disability
with Social Security, she is not
“there” yet and any medical
treatment is private pay.
Stanford diagnosed Debra
with
Ehlers-Danlos
Syndrome: Hypermobile type,
a condition which causes
joints to be loose which can
cause them to dislocate or
sublux. It is immensely
painful.
She has been diagnosed
with another rare disorder
called Chiari 1 Malformation,
a complicated disorder involving the brain. In 2004 it was
discovered that there is somehow a connection between
these syndromes. Most doctors have never heard of these.
Another problem being
investigated on Debra is a
condition called Spinal Cord
Tethering.
The only world specialists
for the first two syndromes are
in New York (Dr. Milhorat
and
Dr.
Bologneses).
Research discovering the link
between the first two diseases
is so new that it has not even
made print in any journals.
Ukiah Adult School Offers
The next
Free
Citizenship
Class
Starts on
February 27, 2006
Ukiah Adult School
1056 North Bush Street • 463-5217
www.geocities.com/dgengoux/citizenship.html
This class will have an “all in Spanish” sub session
State Park, and the Garcia River, including
Miner Hole Road and Brushy Creek, next
Sunday, February 12. In the past we have seen
“AI”, the famous Laysan Albatross, Longtailed Duck, Eurasian Widgeon, Tundra Swans,
Pacific Golden Plover, Glaucous Gull and
Townsend’s Warbler, among many other
coastal birds.
This is a long but rewarding trip. Please
meet at Long’s Parking lot in Ukiah at 7:30
a.m. sharp, with weather-appropriate clothing,
binoculars, field guides, water, lunch, and gas
money for drivers or a car already fueled up.
Carpooling encouraged. Loaner binoculars
may be available. If you plan to car pool please
have your gear packed and ready to transfer to
another car. Folks meeting us in Pt. Arena
should be at Arena Cove at 9 a.m.
UVTG Announces trail work
day and trail marking hike
The Ukiah Valley Trail Group will be holding its next Trail Work Day at 9 a.m. on Sunday
at Lake Mendocino Dam Overlook. The Group
will work to reopen Shakota trail which has
trees down and wash-outs that make passage
difficult and potentially dangerous. As always,
bring lunch, water, gloves and be prepared to
Web site for one is:
www.thechiariinstitute.com.
The first surgery she needs is
$30,000 and all treatment
would be in New York. She
will need more than one
surgery.
Insurance does not begin to
pay the costs of the surgeries
required to help Debra. These
conditions are genetic. She
and her husband are rearing
two grandchildren they have
adopted and one, age 10, has
already been diagnosed with
Ehlers-Danlos and may have
Chiari 1.
Katharina Gassen, from St.
John’s Lutheran Church in
Willits and Congregational
Service Team Director for
Mendocino
County
for
Thrivent
Financial
for
Lutherans, is sponsoring a
love offering fundraiser for
Debra and her family. The
first $1,000 donated will be
matched by Thrivent. Checks
are tax deductible. Checks
should be made out to
Thrivent
Financial
for
Lutherans and mailed to St.
John’s Lutheran Church, 24
Mill Creek Drive, Willits, CA
95490. For more information,
Katharina may be reached at
459-2339. So far, almost $700
have fun. We try (and usually succeed) to quit
by 2 p.m. The Group will also be meeting at
Lake Mendocino Dam for a Trail Marking
Hike on Friday Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. The UVTG has
used GPS to map the trails on the Southeast
side of the lake and will now start placing trail
markers to assist trail users in locating routes.
Hikers will carry the carsonite (fiberglass-like)
markers and place them at intersections. The
hike will be less than 6 miles. For more information on the hike or trail work day call 4855794 or email neil@mendotrails.org.
Due to a recent computer crash, the Ukiah
Valley Trail Group lost approximately 200
email addresses. Community members who
are interested in trails should email neil@mendotrails.org or membership@mendotrails.org
so that they can be placed on the email list. The
email list is a measure of the group’s strength.
Adding a name to the list helps the UVTG
directors in advocating for trails with land
managers and various public officials. The
more people on the list, the more weight we
carry in land use discussions. E-mails are sent
as blind copies to protect privacy and the group
will not share email without permission.
Thanks to our friends at The Computer Scene
for their efficient and friendly help in getting
our computer back up and running.
has been received. If Debra
can make it to New York for
surgery in May or June,
United Way will cover the airfare.
Shannon Johnson, CHMT,
of Intermission Holistic
Massage in Laytonville, is
donating a free massage for
every $100 donated to this
special fund for Debra -- and
she’ll come to you. Using a
variety of techniques, she will
help with relaxation, stress
reduction and mood lifting.
Her phone number is 9847364.
Reminder...
The
Community Coalition for
Gang Prevention, along with
AODP Prevention has invited
Father Gregory J. Boyle to be
in Ukiah for a large open
forum Tuesday night, Feb. 14
at 7 p.m. at Ukiah High
School, 1000 Low Gap Rd.,
Ukiah. Spanish translation is
available. Recently featured
on CNN for his work with
gangs in the LA area, Father
Boyle is a nationally
renowned speaker. He is a
Jesuit
priest
who
is
founder/executive director of
Jobs For A Future/Homeboy
Industries, an employment
referral center and economic
development program. He
will be addressing policy
makers, elected officials, the
business community, Native
Americans, the Latino community, parents, teachers,
social workers and criminal
justice workers about the
importance of adult attention,
guidance and unconditional
love in preventing youth from
joining gangs. Each session
will be tailor made to the audience he is addressing. If you
have any questions, please
contact Sue Hawley, Chair, at
744-7585 or Sue_Hawley@BF.com or Carole Hester at
468-8197 or chester@cta.org.
A M A D E U S !
AMADEUS!...
Mozart’s
250th! Party with friends!
Ukiah Symphony’s third concert of the season is Saturday,
Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. and Sunday,
Feb. 12, at 3 p.m. This concert
features Jessica Schaeffer,
harp, and Monique Rance,
Flute. Concerts are held at the
Mendocino College Center
Theatre for the Visual &
Performing
Arts
(1000
Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah).
For More information call the
Ukiah Symphony Hot Line at
462-0235.
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A most romantic holiday... Every February, across
the country, candy, flowers,
and gifts are exchanged
between loved ones, all in the
name of St. Valentine. But
who is this mysterious saint
and why do we celebrate this
holiday? The history of
Valentine’s Day -- and its
patron saint -- is shrouded in
mystery. But we do know that
February has long been a
month of romance. St.
Valentine’s Day, as we know it
today, contains vestiges of
both Christian and ancient
Roman tradition.
There are varying opinions
as to the origin of Valentine’s
Day. Some experts state that it
originated from St. Valentine,
a Roman who was martyred
for refusing to give up
Christianity. He died on
February 14, 269 A.D., the
same day that had been devoted to love lotteries. Legend
also says that St. Valentine left
a farewell note for the jailer’s
daughter, who had become his
friend, and signed it “From
Your
Valentine.”
Other
aspects of the story say that
Saint Valentine served as a
priest at the temple during the
reign of Emperor Claudius.
Claudius then had Valentine
jailed for defying him. In 496
A.D. Pope Gelasius set aside
February 14 to honor St.
Valentine.
Didjaknow?... That 192
million Valentine’s Day cards
are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greetingcard-giving occasion. (This
total excludes packaged kids
valentines for classroom
exchanges.) That nearly 60
percent of all Valentine’s Day
cards are purchased in the six
days prior to the observance,
making Valentine’s Day a procrastinator’s delight... and I
thought it was Dec. 24th’s gift
buying spree that was the
biggest
procrastinator’s
mecca. (Source: Hallmark
research)
of Social Services, 463-7775 in order to
receive an application for membership.
Applications must be submitted by Friday.
For additional information or questions, contact Susan Era, the Acting Area on Aging director at 463-7902.
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NATION
FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006 – A-7
Presidents of U.S., Poland
Bush’s U.S. industry
competitiveness program to discuss NATO, Iraq, trade
wins congressional praise
By HARRY DUNPHY
The Associated Press
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON -- President Bush’s plan to
boost the competitiveness of U.S. industry
through innovation won support from members of Congress Thursday, although
Democrats criticized the initiative for slashing
some education programs to pay for more
spending on math and science.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez won
widespread support from members of the
House Government Reform Committee for
Bush’s “American Competitiveness Initiative,”
one of the biggest new programs in the budget
Bush sent to Congress on Monday.
The initiative would double government
funding for basic research in the physical sciences, train thousands of new science and math
teachers and extend a popular tax credit businesses can receive for investing in research and
development. The total pricetag over 10 years
would be $136 billion.
Gutierrez said country had a choice on how
it would respond to increased global competition from countries such as China and India.
“Some want to respond by retreating into
isolationism,” Gutierrez said. He said the alternative offered by the president through the
competitiveness initiative was “maintaining
our leadership by competing with confidence.”
Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va.,
said he believed there was a need to boost math
and science teaching in high schools to reverse
a slide in which the country’s colleges are
graduating fewer engineers today than 20 years
ago.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he was
concerned because while Bush’s budget called
for increasing areas of the Education
Department budget to train 70,000 new math
and science teachers and to attract 30,000 math
and science professionals to tutor in the
schools, the money was taken from other education programs.
For the second straight year, Bush’s new
budget would cut overall discretionary spending for education programs. He also asked
President George W. Bush
Congress to eliminate 42 education programs
he deemed unnecessary or inefficient, covering
such areas as providing money for the arts, parent-resource centers and drug-free schools.
Van Hollen said he was also concerned that
Bush was scrimping on the necessary support
for the National Institutes of Health, including
his proposal to trim spending for 18 of the 19
medical research institutes, calling cutbacks in
these areas a mistake given the need to maintain the country’s lead in medical research.
Gutierrez said that the president’s budget
was seeking to find the right priorities for
spending while at the same time pursuing
Bush’s goal of cutting the deficit in half by
2009.
Gutierrez urged individual members of
Congress to refrain from inserting money into
budget bills for pet projects, a process known
as “earmarking.”
“The most successful research is based on
careful planning and merit-based peer review,”
Gutierrez said. “So to maximize the impact of
(American
Competitiveness
Initiative)
research, we encourage Congress to resist earmarking scientific research funding.”
White House offers more lawmakers details on eavesdropping
By KATHERINE SHRADER
WASHINGTON
-President Bush’s monthlong
campaign to convince the
public that the government’s
eavesdropping program is an
essential anti-terrorism tool
appears to have made an
impact, a new AP-Ipsos poll
suggests.
Some 48 percent now support the administration’s program to monitor -- without a
court warrant -- some U.S.based calls with suspected
links to terrorists. That’s up
from 42 percent last month.
Half now say the administration should have to get a warrant, down from 56 percent
one month ago.
Bush has been particularly
successful at making his case
for the National Security
Agency’s controversial monitoring among men and core
segments of his base.
After weeks of insisting
that divulging details would
harm the program, the White
House relented Wednesday
and briefed House intelligence committee lawmakers.
Thursday, the Senate learned
more about the NSA program.
Press secretary Scott
McClellan said the White
House will listen to ideas that
lawmakers have about legislation, but Bush has indicated
that he would resist any move
that would compromise the
program.
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“There is a high bar to
overcome on such ideas,”
McClellan said.
The decision to give
Congress more information
came as Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Arlen
Specter, R-Pa., announced he
was drafting legislation that
would require the secretive
Foreign
Intelligence
Surveillance Court to review
the constitutionality of the
administration’s monitoring
of terror-related international
communications when one
party to the call is in the
United States.
It also came as Rep.
Heather Wilson, R-N.M.,
chairwoman of a House intel-
ligence subcommittee that
oversees the NSA, broke with
the Bush administration and
called for a full review of the
NSA’s program, along with
legislative action to update
the 1978 Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
She and others also wanted
the full House Intelligence
Committee to be briefed on
the program’s operational
details. Although the White
House initially promised only
information about the legal
rationale for surveillance,
administration
officials
broadened
the
scope
Wednesday to include more
sensitive details about how
the program works.
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said he
sought advice from Polish President Lech
Kaczynski Thursday about Ukraine, which
Kaczynski is hoping to help bring into the NATO
alliance in the next two years.
In their first meeting since Kaczynski took
office in December, the two leaders discussed
trade and other international issues during a
meeting that started in the Oval Office and led to
lunch in the executive residence.
Poland is one of the strongest U.S. allies in
Europe, and Bush said he thanked Kaczynski for
their support of the war in Iraq. They also discussed Kaczynski’s desire for NATO to expand
to include its neighbor Ukraine, which used to be
part of the Soviet Union and is now a democracy, by 2008.
“I asked the president his advice on Ukraine,”
Bush said. “That’s what friends do -- they share
information and share strategic thoughts.”
Kaczynski said they also discussed Poland’s
strained relations with Russia. Poland angered
Moscow with its support for Ukraine’s so-called
“Orange Revolution,” in which pro-Western
President Viktor Yushchenko won election over
a candidate backed by Moscow.
“There have been certain signals that might
lead to an improvement of relations between the
Republic of Poland and the Russian Federation,”
Kaczynski said. “We have no certainty yet, but
these signals we have received, and we’re hoping for an improvement in relations between
Poland and Russia.”
Kaczynski, a conservative former Solidarity
activist jailed by the communists in the 1980s,
took over in December from former communist
Aleksander Kwasniewski.
Later Thursday, Kaczynski was meeting with
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and congressional leaders, then playing host to PolishAmericans at a reception.
He is leaving Friday for Chicago after witnessing signings of bilateral agreements on science and technological cooperation and training
for Polish pilots on F-16 jet fighters. He is also
meeting with representatives of the American
Jewish Committee, who worked with him when
he was mayor of Warsaw on plans to establish a
museum commemorating the history of Polish
Jews.
In Bush’s fiscal budget request Monday,
Poland would receive $30 million “to continue
defense reform.” That is the same amount it got
in 2006.
Poland is reducing its training mission in central Iraq from 1,500 troops to 900. Kaczynski has
indicated that Poland might consider extending
its mission past the end of 2006, although he
stressed that would require a formal decision. He
has said he “could not imagine” staying beyond
2007.
Agreement reached on Patriot Act
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON -- Several
Senate Republicans who are key
to extension of the Patriot Act
reached a tentative agreement
with the White House Thursday
on minor changes to the terrorfighting law that has been
stalled in Congress.
Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H.,
and three other GOP lawmakers
-- all of who joined with
Democrats last year to block a
long-term extension of the law - arranged a late-afternoon news
conference to announce their
accord with the administration.
White House press secretary
Scott McClellan pre-empted
them, though, saying the
changes “continue to build upon
the civil liberties protections
that are in place but do so in a
way that doesn’t compromise
our national security priorities.”
“We’re pleased that this
important legislation is moving
forward,” he said.
A GOP agreement would put
Senate Democrats in a politically difficult position of deciding
whether to choose between
renewing their filibuster on an
issue of national security.
The Patriot Act was originally passed within days of the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and
has been an important weapon
in the government’s arsenal for
tracking suspected terrorists.
Legislation to renew the law
was blocked last year when crit-
ics said its provisions shortchanged civil liberties, particularly in the cases of individuals
who were not suspected of terrorist activities themselves, but
might have had innocent dealings with suspects.
Also at issue was concern
over the government’s ability to
demand information from
libraries about the activities of
suspected terrorists.
Even before the agreement
was announced, Republicans
and Democrats clashed over the
value of the changes the White
House had agreed to in private
negotiations with Sununu and
GOP Sens. Larry Craig of
Idaho, Lisa Murkowski of
Alaska and Chuck Hagel of
Nebraska.
No immediate details were
available on the changes they
wrung from the White House.
These Republicans had joined a
Democratic-led filibuster late
last year that blocked passage at
the time of a bill extending the
life of the law. Critics claimed
that the versions before
Congress would have given
shortshrift treatment to people’s
civil liberties.
Instead of a long-term extension, lawmakers decided to
extend the government’s power
to conduct surveillance against
suspected terrorists with a shortterm bill. The current extension
expires March 10.
The congressional officials
declined to be identified by
name, saying they did not want
to pre-empt the news conference.
Sununu was joined by
Republican Sens. Larry Craig of
Idaho, Lisa Murkowski and
Alaska and Chuck Hagel of
Nebraska in supporting a filibuster by 41 Democrats in
December. Democrats could
still block the new version if all
of them who opposed the bill
then also balk at the new version.
Breaking a filibuster in the
100-member Senate requires 60
votes, compared with a simple
majority for passing a bill.
The existing law was to have
expired Dec. 31, but Congress
has extended it twice while
negotiators worked on a compromise.
The agreement would put
Democrats in a position of having to choose whether to continue to block a final vote on legislation in the face of unanimous
support among Republicans and
the administration on an issue of
national security.
On Dec. 16, the Senate voted
52-47 to move to a final vote on
the legislation, which deals
specifically with 16 provisions
in the act that Congress wanted
reviewed and renewed by the
end of last year. That was eight
votes short of the 60 needed to
end the filibuster.
The original USA Patriot Act
was passed five weeks after the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
A-8 – FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006
SPORTS
Sports Editor: Tony Adame, 468-3518
LOCAL
CALENDAR
Gretzky on wiretap discussing gambling ring
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI and
GEOFF MULVIHILL
TODAY
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
• Mendocino College women at Merritt
College, 6 p.m.
• Mendocino College men at Contra Costa
College, 7:30 p.m.
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
• Ukiah at Maria Carrillo, 7:30 p.m.
• Potter Valley at Mendocino, 8 p.m.
PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL
• Potter Valley at Mendocino, 6:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEB. 11
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
• Mendocino College at Cabrillo College,
doubleheader
-Calendar listings are culled from the most
recent schedules provided by the schools
and organizations in our coverage area.
Please report schedule changes or incorrect
listings to The Daily Journal Sports
Department at 468-3518.
TV LISTINGS
TODAY
NBA
Golden State at Indiana, 5 p.m. (ESPN)
Sacramento at Phoenix, 6 p.m. (ABC)
NHL
Dallas at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. (FSN)
OLYMPICS
XX Olympic Winter Games, 4 a.m. (CNBC)
XX Olympic Winter Games, 9 a.m. (USA)
XX Olympic WInter Games, 11:30 a.m.
(CNBC)
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Hockey great Wayne Gretzky is in the
middle of a criminal investigation of an
illegal gambling ring.
TRENTON, N.J. — Wayne
Gretzky was recorded on a wiretap
talking to the alleged financier of a
gambling ring, discussing how the
hockey great’s wife could avoid
being implicated, a person with
knowledge of the investigation told
The Associated Press on Thursday.
Gretzky, coach and part-owner
of the Phoenix Coyotes, can be
heard on wiretaps made within the
past month talking about his wife
with assistant coach Rick Tocchet,
the person said, speaking on the
condition of anonymity because the
investigation was ongoing.
Gretzky’s wife, actress Janet
Jones, allegedly bet at least
$100,000 on football games over
the course of the investigation by
state authorities, the person said.
There is no evidence that
Gretzky placed any bets, according
to the person.
Authorities say from Dec. 29
through Feb. 5 — the day of the
Super Bowl — bettors placed a
total of $1.7 million in wagers with
the ring run by a New Jersey state
trooper, Tocchet and a South Jersey
man. All face charges of promoting
gambling, money laundering and
conspiracy and are scheduled to be
arraigned in Superior Court in
Mount Holly on Feb. 21, the state
Attorney General’s office said
Thursday.
Jones has not been charged.
Investigators say about a half-
dozen current NHL players placed
bets with the ring and are looking
into whether anyone involved in
the 5-year-old operation, which
authorities say had a connection to
organized crime in Philadelphia
and southern New Jersey, wagered
on NHL games. Gretzky is not the
main focus of the probe, the person
said.
The Star-Ledger of Newark, citing unidentified law enforcement
sources, first reported of a wiretap
involving Gretzky in Thursday’s
newspapers. The newspaper also
reported that Jones bet $500,000
during the investigation, including
$75,000 on the Super Bowl.
Earlier in the week, Gretzky
See GRETZKY, Page A-10
GOLF | PEBBLE BEACH PRO-AM
SATURDAY, FEB. 11
NBA
Golden State at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m. (FSN)
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Men
Iowa at Indiana, 9 a.m. (ESPN)
St. Peter’s at Loyola, 9 a.m. (ESPN2)
Duke at Maryland, 10 a.m. (CBS)
George Washington at St. Joseph’s, 11 a.m.
(ESPN2)
Villanova at DePaul, 11 a.m. (ESPN)
UCLA at Washington, 12:30 p.m. (ABC)
Nebraska at Texas, 1 p.m. (ESPN)
Wisconsin at Penn State, 1 p.m. (ESPN2)
Old Dominion at Virginia Commonwealth,
3 p.m. (ESPN2)
UNLV at BYU, 5 p.m. (ESPN2)
Stanford at Gonzaga, 6 p.m. (ESPN)
Santa Clara at St. Mary’s, 7 p.m. (FSN)
Women
Texas A&M at Nebraska, 11 a.m. (FSN)
Washington at UCLA, 1 p.m. (FSN)
OLYMPICS
XX Olympic Winter Games, 8 p.m. (NBC)
COMMUNITY
DIGEST
Mendocino College
HOF Dinner tickets
The Mendocino College athletic
department will host its first Hall
of Fame induction at the
Redwood Valley Cellars wine
tasting room (7051 N. State St.,
Redwood Valley) on Feb. 18.
The evening will begin with a
no-host wine tasting at 6 p.m. A
catered dinner will follow at 7 and
the induction ceremony will begin
promptly at 8.
Tickets for the meal and ceremony are $35 each and can be
purchased by contacting either
Anna Daugherty or Skip Hunter
in the college athletic office (4683255 or 468-3165).
2006 Mendocino College Hall of
Fame Inductees: special recognition awards — coaches Ed Boyle
and Dan Drew; athlete inductees
— Rod Dockins, Jerry Ward,
Rikki Hayes, Paul Cronin, Anne
Ibarra, John Gastineau, Kurt
Ehmann, Dennis Willeford, Jeff
Burrell, Randy Sondag.
Coyote Valley
women’s basketball
looking for teams
The Coyote Valley Recreation
Department is looking for teams
to fill out its Women’s Basketball
League.
The season will start March 13
and run through April, with the
playoffs beginning May 1.
The sponsors fee of $250 is due
by March 6, and a $10 player fee
is due by the first game. The
mandatory managers meeting
will be Monday, March 6, at 7
p.m. at the Coyote Valley
Gymansium.
Any team not represented will
not be allowed to participate.
For more information call
Ronnie DeSoto at 472-2233.
Ten Star All Star
basketball camp
Applications are now being evalutated for the Ten Star All Star
summer basketball camp.
The camp is by invitation only
and boys and girls ages 10-19
are eligible to apply.
In 2005, players from 50 states
and 18 foreign countries attended the camp.
For a free brochure, call 704373-0873.
City of Ukiah girls
youth softball
The City of Ukiah Community
Service Department would like to
announce the beginning of registration for the 2006 Girls Youth
Softball League.
Participants may register individually and will be placed on
teams according to their grade
level. The league will be divided
into the following divisions:
Grades K-2 (T-Ball); Grades 3/4;
Grades 5/6; and Grades 7-12.
League play begins in early
April and will run through early
June. Cost is $50 per player (sibling discounts and Low Income
Discounts are available).
The registration deadline is
February, 27, 2006 and forms are
available at the City of Ukiah (411
West Clay). For more information, call 463-6714.
City of Ukiah co-ed
volleyball league
announce the beginning of registration for the 2006 Co-Ed
Volleyball League.
Adults, 16 years and older, are
invited to register on a team of up
to 12 players.
Recreational and Competitive
leagues are available. All teams
will play at least 8 games and at
least 1 playoff game. Games will
be played on week-nights starting in late March or early April
and running into June.
See DIGEST, Page A-9
Ron Lewis/San Mateo County Times
Luke Donald tees off on the ninth hole at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Donald tied Phil Mickelson’s course record of 62 Thursday.
Donald takes Spyglass Hill
By DOUG FERGUSON
PEBBLE BEACH — Luke Donald was in the
group ahead when Phil Mickelson blistered Spyglass
Hill last year for a course-record 62. He remembers
being amazed at the score, and hearing how it would
be a long time before anyone else could do that at the
Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
“It only took 365 days,” Donald said Thursday.
“I’m glad it was me.”
Taking advantage of weather that approached perfection, Donald holed out for eagle from 96 yards,
strung together birdies and wound up matching
Mickelson’s record with a 10-under 62 to take a oneshot lead over Mike Weir.
Not many could recall conditions so pure at
Pebble Beach, where there was no trace of a cloud or
a breeze and temperatures were pushing 80 degrees.
No one remembered Spyglass being such a
pushover, either.
Traditionally the toughest among the three courses at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, it
played as the easiest Thursday with an average score
of 70.48. Dating to 2000, Spyglass has never had an
average score under par.
It still required good golf, and Donald delivered.
After missing a 10-foot birdie putt on his opening
hole, No. 10, he ran off three straight birdies, one of
those a 45-foot putt on the par-3 12th. Then came his
sand wedge from 96 yards to a hole location on the
front shelf of the green that dropped for eagle, and
another birdie on the 15th.
“Not much was going wrong,” Donald said. “I
didn’t really threaten to make bogey today and kept
it in play.”
His round went so well that when he hit 6-iron
into 12 feet on the ninth hole, it was the same putt he
had on Wednesday during a practice round, so he
knew the break. And he knew what it meant.
“I knew that was for 62,” he said.
And he remembers what happened last year.
Mickelson followed that 62 by going wire-to-wire at
Pebble Beach, taking a seven-shot lead into the final
round.
But Mickelson already had a three-shot lead after
the first round. Donald was only one ahead of Weir,
who recovered from a sloppy start to make five
straight birdies along Stillwater Cove. He missed
only one fairway and two greens, and the only thing
he didn’t get with a 63 was the lead.
“I knew there was going to be some low scores
today,” Weir said. “But 10 under at Spyglass? I
thought of the lower scores, there might be more on
this golf course than the other two. But Luke obviously played a great round over at Spyglass to do
that.”
The low score at Poppy Hills, usually the easiest
of the three courses because it has five par 5s, came
from Arron Oberholser. He responded to back-toback bogeys with laughter, then ran off four birdies
over his next five holes and finished with a 7-under
65.
He was joined by Michael Allen (Spyglass) and
Nick Watney (Pebble Beach).
Mickelson, meanwhile, looks like he will end a
dubious streak at this tournament — the last four
defending champions at Pebble Beach have missed
the cut. Lefty was headed that direction with a double bogey on his third hole at Poppy Hills, making
the turn in 37. But he finished with a flourish —
birdie-birdie-eagle — for a 67 and was tied for 10th.
One week after J.B. Holmes hammered his way to
victory in Phoenix with a driver and a wedge,
Donald showed there is still room for someone who
tidily navigates his way around the golf course.
Clearly, Spyglass or any of the other courses at
See DONALD, Page A-10
Whisenhunt pulls out of Oakland coaching search
By JOSH DUBOW
ALAMEDA — Super Bowl winning offensive coordinator Ken
Whisenhunt and Louisville coach
Bobby Petrino have pulled out of consideration for the Oakland Raiders
coaching vacancy.
Whisenhunt came to the Bay Area
to interview Wednesday with owner Al
Davis and team officials, a day after
celebrating the Steelers’ Super Bowl
win with a parade in Pittsburgh.
He told the Raiders on Thursday
that he had decided to stay in
Pittsburgh for another season, making
him one of the top coaching candidates
for after next season. Oakland is the
only team currently with a head coach
opening.
“After coming out here and taking a
look, he decided to stay with the
Steelers,” Eric Metz, Whisenhunt’s
agent, told the Pittsburgh PostGazette.
“We came out here, had an enjoyable visit, met with Mr. Davis, and
Ken likes and respects him.”
The Raiders also talked with
Petrino, who had previously said he
had no interest in the NFL. Louisville
assistant sports information director
Rocco Gasparro said Petrino will stay
at the school.
Oakland has been without a coach
since Norv Turner was fired Jan. 3,
giving a new coach little time to put
together a staff and set his offseason
priorities before the scouting combine
begins Feb. 22.
Davis has already interviewed Al
Saunders, James Lofton and Rod
Marinelli, and had talks with former
St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz,
former Raiders coach Art Shell and
Oakland quarterbacks coach John
Shoop.
Saunders decided to take a job running the Washington Redskins’
offense, Marinelli was hired as Detroit
Lions coach, and Martz will be the
Lions’ offensive coordinator next season.
It is unclear what direction the
Raiders will go in now. They could
turn back to Shell, who had a 54-38
record with the Raiders and led the
team to the AFC championship game
following the 1990 season. Shell was
fired after going 9-7 in 1994.
Shell, currently the senior vice president of football operations and development for the NFL, had a winning
record in four of his five complete seasons. The Raiders have had only three
winning seasons since his firing and
are just 13-35 the past three seasons.
The Raiders could also try to interview Baltimore offensive coordinator
Jim Fassel, who led the Giants to the
Super Bowl in 2000 with Raiders
quarterback Kerry Collins at the helm.
SPORTS
Freshmen improve to 11-0
COMMUNITY DIGEST — CONTINUED FROM PAGE A-8
You may register as a team or individuals interested in playing may register and be placed on an available
team. Cost is $275 per team (up to 12
players) or $40 per individual before
March 2. Registration forms are available at the City of Ukiah, 411 W. Clay
St. Call 463-6714 for more information.
Women’s self defesne
class at World Gym
Women’s self defense will be taught
in a one-time class Mar. 4 at World
Gym Fitness Center from 9:30 a..m.-1
p.m.
The class fee is $5 per person, and
pre-registration is required.
Registration forms can be piced up
at Coldwell Banker Mendo Realty in
Ukiah.
For more information or to register
call Erika Holzhauer at 462-5400.
Space is limited and registration
forms must be received by Mar. 1.
Pony & Colt League
Pony & Colt League will hold its’
2006 sign ups Feb. 18 and Feb. 25
from 1-3 p.m. at Mendo-Lake Office
Products.
Players must be between the ages
of 13-17 on or before July 31, 2006.
An original county certified birth certificate is required for age verification.
The cost to sign up is $75 for the first
child and $65 for each additional sibling.
For more information, call Chris at
468-3800.
Sheriff’s Activity League
offers fitness for kids
The Sheriff’s Activity League kids fitness class meets every Thursday
evening from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the
Redwood Health Club.
The class is co-ed, for ages 7-12. It
is a positive, high energy class with
ACE certified fitness trainer Melissa
Johnson of RHC.
Melissa incorporates fun routines
and new games to challenge children
to get up and move.
You do not have to be a member of
RHC to join, and there is a $5 annual
insurance/administration fee per child.
For more information, call SAL
President Mike Tobin at 354-0565.
U.W.A.A. softball meeting
for 2006 season Feb. 21
A general meeting for the Ukiah
Women’s Athletic Association 2006
women’s softball season will be held
Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at Wright Stuff Pizza.
All teams and women interested in
playing softball this season are welcome.
For more information contact 9721719.
City of Ukiah men’s
softball league
announce the beginning of the 2006
men’s softball league. There is an
information meeting at The Pub in
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
the Ukiah Civic Center Annex at 411
West Clay St., and the registration
deadline is April 13.
Player fees will be collected from
team managers at the first game.
Space is limited.
For more information, call 463-6714.
City of Ukiah women’s
softball league
announce the beginning of the 2006
women’s softball league. League play
will be on Tuesday and Wednesday
nights and 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
the Ukiah Civic Center Annex at 411
West Clay St., and the registration
deadline is April 13.
Player fees will be collected from
team managers at the first game.
Space is limited.
For more information, call 463-6714.
South Ukiah Little
League tryouts
Late registration and tryouts for
South Ukiah Little League will be Feb.
11-12 at the SULL baseball complex.
All players except t-ball are required
to attend one day.
The times for each age group are
9:30 a.m. for 12-year-olds, 11 a.m. for
11-year-olds, 12:30 p.m. for 10-yearolds, 2 p.m. for 8-9 years and 3:30
p.m. for seven year olds and six year
olds that have played one year of tball and want to play machine pitch.
All players parents need to bring all
of the following: birth certificate (no
copies, no baptism or hospital certificates), current utility bill, current driver’s license, and current car or home
insurance for proof of residency.
The cost is $55 for each child registering and $50 for each additional sibling.
There is also a $30 cash or check
mandatory service deposit which will
be returned upon working at the concession stand.
Players must be five years old by
April 30, 2006 and no older than 12 by
April 30, 2006 to participate.
For more information, visit the South
Ukiah Little League website at
www.eteamz.com/SULL or call 4688800.
Ukiah Women's
18-Hole Golf Club
Local lady golfers are invited to join
the Ukiah Women’s 18-Hole Golf
Club. Golfers hit the links every
Tuesday. Those interested in joining
the club may call Shirley Dietrick at
485-5540.
Tiny Tigers kinderkarate
Tollow Dojo is hosting the weekly
Tiny Tigers kinder karate course,
which utilizes proven techniques to
teach martial arts to children 4 to 6
years old.
The class is held Saturdays from
12:30-1:20 p.m. The first class is free.
Call 463-1347 or 621-0714 to sign up.
Tollow Dojo is located at 3001 S. State
St., No. 4.
Willits boxing program
BASEBALL
American League
TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with INF
Aarom Baldiris, RHP Omar Beltre, LHP Fabio
Castro, RHP Scott Feldman, RHP Josh Rupe and
RHP Edison Volquez on one-year contracts.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Agreed to terms with
1B Shea Hillenbrand and RHP Pete Walker on
one-year contracts.
National League
CINCINNATI REDS—Fired Brad Kullman, director
of major league operations. Agreed to terms with
OF Timo Perez to a minor league contract.
COLORADO ROCKIES—Released RHP Ryan
Speier and agreed to terms with him on a minor
league contract.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with
RHP Matt Capps, RHP Bryan Bullington, LHP
Tom Gorzelanny, OF Rajai Davis, INF Craig
Stansberry and INF Yurendell DeCaster on oneyear contracts.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Agreed to terms
with LHP Michael Bacsik, LHP Jim Crowell, SS
Anthony Medrano and SS Rayner Bautista on
minor league contracts.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
HOUSTON ROCKETS—Traded F Lonny Baxter
to Charlotte for G Keith Bogans.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
BALTIMORE RAVENS—Named Tony Nathan running backs coach, Greg Roman assistant offensive line coach and John Fassel assistant special
teams coach.
DENVER BRONCOS—Signed S Sam Brandon to
a contract extension.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS—Recalled C Erik
Christensen from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the
AHL.
VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Assigned C Josh
Green and D Prestin Ryan to Manitoba of the
AHL.
COLLEGE
NORTH ALABAMA—Announced the resignation
of Flora Sweatt, women’s basketball coach.
NHL
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L
N.Y. Rangers
33 15
Philadelphia
32 15
New Jersey
30 21
N.Y. Islanders
24 27
Pittsburgh
12 34
Northeast Division
W L
Ottawa
36 14
Buffalo
35 15
Toronto
27 23
Montreal
26 22
Boston
24 23
Southeast Division
W L
Carolina
38 13
Tampa Bay
31 22
Atlanta
25 26
Florida
22 26
Washington
19 30
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
W L
Detroit
38 13
Nashville
33 18
Columbus
23 31
Chicago
18 30
St. Louis
15 31
Northwest Division
W L
Calgary
32 17
Vancouver
32 20
Colorado
31 20
Edmonton
30 19
Minnesota
28 25
Pacific Division
W L
Dallas
38 15
Los Angeles
30 23
Anaheim
25 19
San Jose
25 21
Phoenix
27 28
OT Pts GF GA
8 74 181 138
9 73 188 179
6 66 169 164
4 52 163 199
11 35 155 229
OT Pts GF GA
5 77 220 135
4 74 178 151
5 59 174 183
7 59 159 178
10 58 163 174
OT Pts GF GA
4 80 208 169
4 66 174 163
6 56 192 202
8 52 151 173
5 43 149 206
OT Pts GF GA
5 81 202 139
6 72 178 167
2 48 144 200
7 43 140 190
8 38 146 203
OT Pts GF GA
7 71 150 142
5 69 194 175
6 68 206 180
7 67 186 175
4 60 168 147
OT Pts GF GA
3 79 184 144
5 65 192 191
11 61 161 157
8 58 163 165
3 57 167 187
Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss
or shootout loss.
Wednesday’s Games
N.Y. Rangers 5, Ottawa 1
Columbus 7, Los Angeles 4
Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Islanders 2
Boston 3, Pittsburgh 1
Detroit 6, Nashville 0
Calgary 3, Anaheim 1
St. Louis 4, Vancouver 2
San Jose 2, Chicago 1
Thursday’s Games
Montreal 3, Buffalo 2, OT
New Jersey 3, Boston 2, OT
Atlanta 2, Ottawa 1
Tampa Bay 5, Carolina 3
Colorado 2, Minnesota 1
Detroit 3, Nashville 2
Dallas 5, Phoenix 1
Today’s Games
Pittsburgh at Carolina, 4 p.m.
Colorado at Columbus, 4 p.m.
Toronto at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m.
Washington at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
Minnesota at Edmonton, 6 p.m.
St. Louis at Calgary, 6 p.m.
Anaheim at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Dallas at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 10 a.m.
Chicago at Los Angeles, 1 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 3 p.m.
Atlanta at Montreal, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Boston, 4 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Washington, 4 p.m.
Florida at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.
Columbus at Nashville, 5 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Dallas at Los Angeles, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at Edmonton, 1 p.m.
Buffalo at Carolina, 2 p.m.
Colorado at Detroit, 2 p.m.
San Jose at Phoenix, 5 p.m.
Chicago at Anaheim, 5 p.m.
Minnesota at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
MEN
EAST
Drexel 83, Northeastern 47
Fairleigh Dickinson 96, Long Island U. 74
Fordham 81, St. Bonaventure 70
Georgetown 64, St. John’s 41
James Madison 76, Towson 68
Pittsburgh 57, West Virginia 53
St. Francis, NY 57, Wagner 49
SOUTH
Belmont 83, Jacksonville 65
Coastal Carolina 71, Charleston Southern 69
ETSU 89, Campbell 81
Florida St. 80, Georgia Tech 79
Gardner-Webb 84, Kennesaw St. 58
George Mason 73, Va. Commonwealth 61
Hofstra 76, Georgia St. 70
Jacksonville St. 74, Tennessee Tech 68
Lipscomb 75, North Florida 65
Louisiana-Lafayette 59, South Alabama 53
Morehead St. 62, SE Missouri 59
Murray St. 62, E. Kentucky 45
N.C.-Wilmington 70, Delaware 54
Northwestern St. 82, Texas-Arlington 79
Old Dominion 81, William & Mary 60
Stephen F.Austin 63, Louisiana-Monroe 59
Tenn.-Martin 71, Tennessee St. 68
Troy 62, New Orleans 58
MIDWEST
Austin Peay 70, E. Illinois 61
Chicago St. 64, S. Utah 60
IUPUI 75, Valparaiso 67
Ohio 78, N. Illinois 67
Ohio St. 94, Michigan 85
Oral Roberts 90, Oakland, Mich. 53
Wis.-Milwaukee 98, Youngstown St. 57
SOUTHWEST
Fla. International 58, Ark.-Little Rock 55
Middle Tennessee 62, North Texas 60
Sam Houston St. 66, SE Louisiana 62, OT
Texas-San Antonio 100, McNeese St. 75
Utah Valley St. 55, Texas-Pan American 52
FAR WEST
Arizona 70, Oregon 68
Arizona St. 76, Oregon St. 59
N. Arizona 88, Idaho St. 80
UCLA 50, Washington St. 30
W. Kentucky 71, Denver 70
WOMEN
EAST
Boston College 57, Georgia Tech 55
Hartford 70, Albany, N.Y. 53
Long Island U. 64, Mount St. Mary’s, Md. 59
Manhattan 58, Fairfield 52
New Hampshire 55, Binghamton 49
Stony Brook 81, Vermont 74
UMBC 63, Boston U. 57
SOUTH
Belmont 61, Campbell 56, OT
Chattanooga 86, W. Carolina 61
ETSU 74, Jacksonville 53
Florida 63, Mississippi St. 48
Florida St. 79, Miami 54
Gardner-Webb 59, Lipscomb 47
Kentucky 75, South Carolina 71
LSU 72, Tennessee 69
Louisiana Tech 75, Nevada 34
Maryland 98, North Carolina 95, OT
McNeese St. 62, Texas-San Antonio 57
Mississippi 77, Alabama 67
Murray St. 79, E. Kentucky 71
N.C. State 73, Wake Forest 60
New Orleans 63, Troy 54
North Florida 75, Kennesaw 73, OT
SE Missouri 58, Morehead St. 43
South Alabama 54, Louisiana-Lafayette 50
Tenn.-Martin 51, Tennessee St. 48
Tennessee Tech 75, Jacksonville St. 61
Vanderbilt 64, Arkansas 59
Virginia Tech 82, Clemson 70
The Daily Journal
The Ukiah freshmen girls
basketball team kept its perfect season alive with a 61-21
victory
over
Ursuline
Tuesday.
The Wildcats are now 11-0.
“The girls came out ready
to play,” said Ukiah head
coach Jeff Burrell. “We beat
Ursuline by 14 points last
month.”
Leah Blue led the Wildcats
in scoring against Ursuline
with 10 points. Blue also had
six rebounds and two steals.
Ashley Lower had nine points
and five rebounds.
“Ashley dominated on the
inside,” Burrell said.
Jessica Graham led Ukiah
with 10 rebounds. Taylor
Paleta had eight rebounds and
six points and point guard
Nayeli Caldera had a whopping seven steals to match
seven points.
The Wildcats also lost
Carly Montano to an ankle
injury, and Burrell said it was
unlikely she would be able to
play in Ukiah’s last two
games.
The Sheriff's Youth Activities League
"Willits" Boxing Program is currently
meeting at the Body Works Gym and
Martial Arts Center (1511 Main St. in
Willits) on Monday and Wednesday
nights at 7 p.m. in the aerobic room.
This program is free and open to the
public. Ages 8 and above are encouraged to participate.
For more information, call Body
Works Gym at 459-0594. There is an
annual $5 insurance/registration fee.
Michaels headed to NBC in
exchange for cartoon rabbit
Boxers wanted
By RONALD BLUM
Boxing classes are offered by
Mendocino County Sheriff’s SAL and
are ongoing at the Redwood Health
Club for all ages and levels. New
expanded class times for winter 2006
are: Thursday, 6:45 p.m; Friday, 5
p.m.; Sunday 5 p.m.; Tuesday 5:30
p.m.
Anyone interested in joining SAL
must fill out the necessary paperwork
to become a SAL member and pay $5
a year, and membership is free to
Redwood Health Club members.
Minors must have the forms signed by
their parents. Please allow 10 minutes
before class to do this.
Call Cris and Pattie at 463-1339 for
questions.
Rusty Bowl BMX
Bicycle motocross races are held
weekly at Rusty Bowl BMX, located at
the east end of Gobbi Street in Ukiah.
The American Bicycle Associationsanctioned races are held Saturdays
with sign-ups from 9:30-10:30 a.m.
and racing immediately after.
For more information, call the Rusty
Bowl hotline at 462-0249.
To place an announcement in the
“Community Sports Digest,” contact
The Ukiah Daily Journal Sports
Department by phone at 468-3518.
You may also mail your listing to 590
S. School Street, Ukiah, Calif., 95482,
e-mail it to udjsports@pacific.net, or
fax it to us at 468-3544. Because the
“Community Sports Digest” is a FREE
service, no guarantees can be made
on the frequency of a listing’s appearance in The Daily Journal. To assure
your event maximum publicity, please
contact either our classified (4683535) or display advertising (4683510) departments.
SCOREBOARD
TRANSACTIONS
FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006 – A-9
MIDWEST
Austin Peay 55, E. Illinois 46
Detroit 55, Wright St. 45
Ill.-Chicago 76, Cleveland St. 52
Indiana 58, Penn St. 43
Iowa 76, Northwestern 61
Michigan St. 84, Minnesota 61
Purdue 76, IPFW 52
Wis.-Milwaukee 67, Loyola of Chicago 58
Wisconsin 66, Illinois 61
SOUTHWEST
Ark.-Little Rock 57, Arkansas St. 47
Stephen F.Austin 61, Louisiana-Monroe 53
Texas St. 70, Lamar 67
Texas-Arlington 83, Northwestern St. 43
FAR WEST
Arizona 70, Oregon 68
Cal St.-Fullerton 59, UC Riverside 55
Idaho St. 84, N. Arizona 71
UC Irvine 79, Pacific 58
Utah St. 55, New Mexico St. 45
Weber St. 59, Sacramento St. 55
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
New Jersey
26 21.553 —
Philadelphia
24 25.490
3
Boston
18 31.367
9
Toronto
17 32.347 10
New York
14 34.29212 1/2
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami
30 20.600 —
Washington
24 23.5114 1/2
Orlando
19 28.4049 1/2
Atlanta
15 32.31913 1/2
Charlotte
14 36.280 16
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Detroit
40 8.833 —
Cleveland
29 19.604 11
Indiana
24 22.522 15
Milwaukee
25 23.521 15
Chicago
21 27.438 19
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Dallas
39 10.796 —
San Antonio
38 10.792 1/2
Memphis
26 22.54212 1/2
New Orleans
25 23.52113 1/2
Houston
19 30.388 20
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Denver
26 25.510 —
Utah
24 25.490
1
Minnesota
22 26.4582 1/2
Seattle
19 30.388
6
Portland
17 30.362
7
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
Phoenix
32 17.653 —
L.A. Clippers
29 18.617
2
L.A. Lakers
25 24.510
7
Golden State
22 26.4589 1/2
Sacramento
21 27.43810 1/2
Wednesday’s Games
San Antonio 125, Toronto 118, OT
Indiana 101, Portland 69
Washington 129, Golden State 124
New Jersey 96, New York 83
Detroit 97, L.A. Clippers 87
Charlotte 100, Philadelphia 92
Milwaukee 94, Orlando 89, 2OT
New Orleans 109, Seattle 102
Cleveland 97, Minnesota 91
L.A. Lakers 89, Houston 78
Phoenix 108, Memphis 102
Chicago 110, Denver 107
Thursday’s Games
Dallas 112, Miami 76
Chicago at Sacramento, 7:30 p.m.
Today’s Games
Detroit at Orlando, 4 p.m.
Cleveland at Washington, 4 p.m.
Toronto at Charlotte, 4:30 p.m.
Portland at Boston, 4:30 p.m.
Utah at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
New York vs. New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 5
p.m.
Golden State at Indiana, 5 p.m.
San Antonio at New Jersey, 5 p.m.
Sacramento at Phoenix, 6 p.m.
Dallas at Denver, 7:30 p.m.
Atlanta at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.
Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Golden State at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Utah at Houston, 5:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Milwaukee, 5:30 p.m.
Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
San Antonio at Indiana, 10 a.m.
Philadelphia at Washington, 10 a.m.
Portland at Toronto, 10 a.m.
Detroit at Miami, 12:30 p.m.
Orlando at Boston, 3 p.m.
Milwaukee at New Jersey, 3 p.m.
New York at Houston, 5:30 p.m.
Denver at Seattle, 6 p.m.
Atlanta at Sacramento, 6 p.m.
Chicago at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.
NEW YORK — Al Michaels was traded
from ABC to NBC for a cartoon bunny, four
rounds of golf and Olympic highlights.
The rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a
bunny created by Walt Disney in the 1920s
before he invented Mickey Mouse, were transferred from NBC Universal to The Walt
Disney Co. as part of the agreement to release
the broadcaster from his contract with ABC
and ESPN.
“As the forerunner to Mickey Mouse and an
important part of Walt Disney’s creative legacy, the fun and mischievous Oswald is back
where he belongs, at the home of his creator
and among the stable of beloved characters
created by Walt himself,” Disney president
Robert Iger said after Thursday’s announcement.
Michaels had been with ABC for three
decades and had been the play-by-play
announcer for “Monday Night Football” for
the past 20 years.
“Oswald is definitely worth more than a
fourth-round draft choice,” Michaels said,
referring to what the Kansas City Chiefs gave
the New York Jets as compensation for releasing coach Herm Edwards from his contract.
“I’m going to be a trivia answer someday.”
A four-time Emmy Award winner, Michaels
agreed last July to stay with ABC/ESPN as the
Monday game switched to the cable network
next fall, but he asked to back out and instead
will broadcast
Sunday night NFL games on NBC with
John Madden, his partner on ABC during the
past four seasons.
As part of the deal, NBC sold ESPN cable
rights to Friday coverage of the next four
Ryder Cups through 2014, and granted ESPN
increased usage of Olympic highlights through
2012 and other NBC properties through 2011.
NBC, in turn, gets expanded highlight rights to
ABC and ESPN events.
NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said
ABC Sports and ESPN president George
Bodenheimer called last month to initiate talks,
which culminated in an agreement Tuesday.
“He told me this incredible story that Walt’s
first really big production as a cartoonist for
the cinema had been a character called Oswald
the Lucky Rabbit, which was before Mickey,”
Ebersol said. “And for reasons that aren’t still
totally clear to me, Walt lost those rights. He
didn’t have the money to hold onto them.”
Disney and his partner, Ub Iwerks, created
the rabbit in 1927 at the request of Carl
Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures,
and made 26 silent cartoons.
After Disney learned that Universal held the
rights, he created a new character, eventually
named Mickey Mouse, who resembled
Oswald, but with shorter ears.
Universal continued to make Oswald films
from 1929-38 — Mickey Rooney was one of
his voices — and appeared in a comic book
from 1943-62.
“We earn nothing from those rights; they’ve
had no value in the United States,” Ebersol
said.
The Walt Disney Co. had been trying to
reacquire the rabbit for some time.
“When Bob was named CEO, he told me he
wanted to bring Oswald back to Disney, and I
appreciate that he is a man of his word,” Walt
Disney’s daughter Diane Disney Miller said in
a statement. “Having Oswald around again is
going to be a lot of fun.”
Michaels, 61, began to think about hopping
networks during the past season, realizing he
wanted to work with Madden, producer Fred
Gaudelli and director Drew Esocoff, who also
are moving from ABC to NBC.
“As the weeks went on, I began to realize
more and more how much I was going to miss
being with those people,” he said. “That’s my
family, that’s my broadcasting family, and
they’re moving out of the house, and I wanted
to move back in with them.”
Cris Collinsworth, who had been set to be
NBC’s play-by-play broadcaster, will instead
be a studio analyst.
Michaels wanted to finish the current NBA
season as ABC/ESPN’s lead announcer. He is
being replaced by Mike Breen.
Michaels’ first television broadcast was on
NBC, when Buffalo played Minnesota in
October 1971. He’ll get a chance to work with
his brother, who a producer of NBC’s Olympic
coverage.
“Life comes full circle,” Michaels said.
Anaheim loses lawsuit on name
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
SANTA ANA — A jury
ruled Thursday that the
Angels did not breach a contract with the city of Anaheim
when the baseball team
changed its name.
Jurors, who deliberated
about five hours, also found
the team did not violate a state
law requiring good faith and
fair dealing when it changed
its name last year from
Anaheim Angels to Los
Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
City officials filed suit for
breach of contract last
January, shortly after Angels
owner Arte Moreno made the
switch.
The city claimed the
change cost it at least $100
million in lost tourism, publicity and so-called “impressions” — buzz the city gets
each time its name appears in
the national media.
City officials claimed The
Walt Disney Co., which sold
the team to Moreno in 2003,
agreed to call the team the
Anaheim Angels and signed a
1996 stadium lease agreement
committing to that name.
Although the lease lan-
guage said only the name shall
“include” the word Anaheim,
the city said Disney promised
to call the team the Anaheim
Angels in exchange for stadium repairs and the use of the
stadium itself.
Moreno maintained that
changing the name did not
violate the contract because he
kept Anaheim in it. He said he
wanted to use Los Angeles to
capitalize on the secondlargest media market in the
nation, adding the new name
would attract more publicity,
broadcasting contracts and
sponsors.
SPORTS
A-10 – FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006
Heroic Witty will carry Stars and Stripes in Turin
By BRIAN FRIEDMAN
Associated Press Writer
TURIN, Italy — Chris Witty has
been to the Olympics before, both
summer and winter, and has won
medals of all colors.
What’s different about these
games for the celebrated speedskater,
though, is what she will be carrying
— and what she won’t be carrying.
On Friday night, she will lead the
U.S. team into the opening ceremony
of the Turin Games, proudly bearing
the U.S. flag. She is no longer burdened, however, by the 20-year-old
secret that she was sexually abused
as a child.
After she competed in Salt Lake
City in 2002 and underwent therapy,
Witty went public with an account of
how a trusted neighbor in suburban
Milwaukee had abused her, starting
at age 4 and continuing until she was
11 — and her subsequent feelings of
guilt, an inability to trust people,
awkwardness as a teenager, and serious depression.
Revealing the truth and talking
about it openly — even though it
sometimes makes adults “squirm in
their chairs a little bit” — has
changed her and helped other victims, she said.
“I enjoy everything about life
right now — everything. I’m just
really happy. I’m able to enjoy
everything. I’m not depressed all the
time and I’m not worried about anything, about myself or my appearance or things like that,” she said.
“Now I just feel so much more
comfortable in my skin because I
feel like I’m able to really tell everybody who I am and where I’m coming from and why I am the way I am.
I’m just a different person today than
I was even four years ago.”
The five-time Olympian, chosen
by her teammates for the honor of
flag-bearer, won gold while setting a
world record in the 1,000 meters at
Salt Lake City.
She won silver and bronze medals
at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. She
also competed in Lillehammer,
Norway, in 1994.
She is expected to race in the 500,
1,000 and 1,500 in Turin, and is one
of the medal favorites in the 1,500.
“Just to be part of this team is an
honor, but to lead them is amazing,”
Witty said.
She also was in the 2000 Sydney
Olympics, competing in track
cycling — becoming the ninth U.S.
athlete to compete in both summer
and winter games.
At a news conference Thursday,
she described how the neighbor
preyed upon her until she was in the
sixth grade, when she saw a videotape at school that prompted her to
finally tell him “No.”
He left her alone, but abused others, she said.
Although never charged with
abusing Witty, he was finally caught
with a girl she used to baby-sit.
“I remember warning them, but I
didn’t do anything about it, and I had
to find out that it actually happened.
For a long time, I blamed myself, I
think, because I should have done
more,” she said.
An emotional turning point for
Witty came right before the Salt
Lake City Olympics.
A month before those games
began, Witty said she was down on
herself because she knew the neighbor had been released from jail and
that his wife had died, and his monitoring anklet was removed.
“I was overwhelmed with all these
emotions,” and she sought out a
sports psychologist who told her to
wait until after the Olympics to see
him.
“He lifted a huge weight off my
shoulders and made me feel so free
to go out and compete at Salt Lake,
which obviously worked,” she said.
Her therapist later suggested
telling her story to The Deseret
Morning News in Salt Lake City,
which she did in 2004.
“I have nothing to be ashamed of.
It wasn’t my fault, and I’m just
happy to share my story and help
other people,” she said. “The ripple
effect was incredible. I could not
believe how many stories I got in
return.”
Now she is a spokeswoman for
child abuse awareness programs,
telling children how “things can happen in your life but you can still go
on to do great things.”
And she’s making an impact.
“Abuse kind of exists because of
secrecy,” she said, adding that a way
to combat it is by “just breaking the
silence — just get people talking
Eight Olympians suspended
By JOHN PYE
TURIN, Italy — Eight
Olympic cross-country skiers,
including two Americans and
one former gold medalist,
were suspended for five days
after they were found to have
excessive hemoglobin levels
— the first hint of scandal at
the Turin Games.
The
suspensions,
announced
by
the
International Ski Federation,
last five days from the day the
tests were administered.
The U.S. Ski Association
said that the tests were taken
Wednesday, meaning the athletes will be barred from competition until at least Monday.
That would keep the skiers
Gretzky
denied any involvement in the
ring.
“My love for her (Jones) is
deeper than anything. The
reality is, I’m not involved, I
wasn’t involved and I’m not
going to be involved. Am I
concerned for both of them?
Sure there’s concern from me.
I’m more worried about them
than me. I’m like you guys,
I’m trying to figure it all out,”
Gretzky said Tuesday.
Gretzky did not attend the
Coyotes practice in Phoenix
on Thursday. He would not be
available until after Thursday
night’s game against the
Dallas Stars in Phoenix and
the team would not comment,
said Coyotes spokesman Rich
Nairn.
Lawyers involved in the
case said details of the threemonth investigation should
not be made public.
“I have never been
involved in a case where the
prosecution has engaged in
such inappropriate conduct in
terms of making investigators
available to the press, appearing on nationally syndicated
television,”
said
Kevin
Marino, a lawyer for Tocchet,
who was granted an indefinite
leave
from
the
NHL
out of the first cross-country
events of the Olympics — the
men’s and women’s pursuit on
Sunday.
The suspensions mark the
possibility of a drug scandal at
this year’s games, where the
IOC has said it plans to conduct some 1,200 drug tests. As
of Tuesday, more than 100
IOC drug tests had been conducted with no positive
results. The cross-country
testing was done by the ski
federation, which said it sampled 224 athletes over two
days this week.
The federation said in
announcing the suspensions
that the competition ban is not
a disciplinary action, but
taken to “protect the health of
the athlete.”
Hemoglobin is the part of a
red blood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to all cells
and can increase endurance.
Illicit strategies such as the
use of synthetic hemoglobin
and blood transfusions have
been used by some athletes to
increase the oxygen in the
muscles, ideal for endurance
sports.
The American athletes are
Kikkan Randall, 23, from
Anchorage, Alaska, and Leif
Zimmerman, 22, of Bozeman,
Mont. The others are: Sean
Crooks of Canada, Sergey
Dolidovich of Belarus, Jean
Marc Gaillard of France,
Aleksandr
Lasutkin
of
Belarus, Natalia Matveeva of
Russia, and Evi Sachenbacher
of Germany.
Wednesday. “It’s improper,
it’s unwarranted and I will not
tolerate it.”
“We are not going to try
this case in the press and
we’re not going to let them
either,” he said.
Attorneys for all three men
charged in what authorities
have dubbed “Operation
Slapshot” said they will fight
the charges.
“This case will not be a
guilty plea,” said Charles A.
Peruto Jr., who is representing
James Ulmer. Ulmer, along
with Trooper James Harney, is
accused of taking wagers and
cuts of the bets.
The allegations have sent
shock waves through the
hockey world.
State investigators said
they will interview more
hockey players who were
believed to have placed bets,
in part to determine whether
there was any gambling on
hockey. So far, authorities say,
they do not have evidence that
there was.
The NHL has hired Robert
Cleary, a former federal prosecutor who handled the
Unabomber case, to investigate.
Cleary said Thursday that
he was not sure how long his
work might take, in part
because he wants to stay out
of the way of law enforcement
agents who are continuing to
investigate.
Hockey players are prohibited from making NHL
wagers, legal or otherwise.
There are no rules that forbid
them from placing legal bets
on other sports.
With the NHL launching its
own investigation into the
alleged gambling ring, the
National Hockey League
Players’ Association has been
telling its members that their
collective bargaining agreement gives them the right to
counsel or players union
counsel present during interviews, the association said in
a
statement
released
Thursday.
“In addition, the NHLPA
has recommended that players
investigated in connection
with criminal proceedings
retain counsel so that their
legal rights are fully protected,” the statement reads.
Asked about the scandal
Thursday, Gov. Jon S. Corzine
expressed confidence in law
enforcement.
The New Jersey State
Police is also investigating
itself in the case.
“I’m convinced that the
state police are doing a thorough investigation of their
own affairs,” Gov. Jon S.
Corzine said at a news conference Thursday.
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about it, because it’s such a common
problem, and it doesn’t need to be.”
That’s why she sees her role as a
returning Olympic medalist and the
U.S. team’s flag-bearer as a “great
opportunity ... to hopefully do some
Donald
Pebble require more than just
bashing the ball.
He fit his drives through
the tree-lined fairways, kept
his middle irons on the
greens and made a bunch of
putts to break his career-low
round on the PGA Tour by
two shots. Donald played
behind Bubba Watson,
another basher, who shot 1over 73.
“You see some of his drives ... if I could hit it that far,
this game would be easy,”
Donald said. “But you still
good in this world.”
Asked if the flag and its pole are
heavy to carry, Witty said: “I’ve
heard it is.”
She quickly added, “But I work
out.”
have to get the ball in the
hole.”
He twice holed putts
longer than 30 feet, which
always helps. And the
biggest help of all was
Mother Nature, who allowed
the peninsula to shine like
never before. More than 100
players in the 180-man field
broke par, meaning Donald
had plenty of work left the
rest of the week.
“With the conditions, all
the courses are there to make
some birdies,” Donald said.
“I think the scoring is going
to be good this week if the
weather stays like this. Sixtytwo is a great start, but it’s
not like the tournament is
over. I have to keep playing
solid golf. Hopefully, I can
do what Phil did last year.”
Divots: Kevin Hall, who
has been deaf since he was 2,
received a sponsor’s exemption and opened with a 72 at
Pebble Beach. This is the
third PGA Tour event for
Hall, who won the Big 10
title when he played at Ohio
State.
When Fred Funk’s amateur
partners
were
announced, they walked onto
the first tee wearing pink
skirts. At the Skins Game,
Funk lost a bet and wore a
pink skirt when Annika
Sorenstam drove it past him
on one hole.
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SPORTS
FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006 – A-11
Powe leads Cal past Stanford
By JOSH DUBOW
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Cal's Ayinde Ubaka, right, pressures Standford's Tim Morris during the first period at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley Thursday night.
BERKELEY — Leon
Powe scored a career-high 32
points and California survived
a late flurry from Stanford to
win 65-62 Thursday night,
snapping a six-game losing
streak to its Bay Area rivals.
The Golden Bears (15-6, 93 Pac-10) played with poise
down the stretch, making all
six free throws in the final
minute
and
stopping
Stanford’s last-ditch effort.
After Ayinde Ubaka’s two
foul shots made it 65-62 with
13.5 seconds left, Stanford
(12-8, 8-4) tried to tie it with a
3-pointer.
Cal coach Ben Braun chose
not to order his team to foul
and Ubaka knocked the ball
away from Hernandez and
into the hands of Eric
Vierneisel, who ran out the
clock to give the Bears their
fifth straight win.
Cal students, part of the
first sellout at Haas Pavilion
since undefeated Stanford visited two years ago, rushed the
floor after the Bears’ first win
against Stanford since 2003.
Cal had lost 16 of 18 in the
rivalry.
Cal took sole possession of
second place in the conference
with the win, a game behind
UCLA, and Stanford dropped
into a third. Both teams are
also fighting for at-large
berths in the NCAA tournament.
Powe scored six straight
points down the stretch for
California, including two free
throws with 32.5 seconds left
to make it 61-57. After
Hernandez made two free
throws for Stanford, Ubaka
made two more for Cal to
make it 63-59.
Matt Haryasz, playing with
goggles after being poked in
the eye last weekend at
Oregon State, responded with
a 3-pointer to cut it to 1 with
14.4 seconds left.
But Ubaka, who finished
with 18 points, added two
more free throws for the final
margin.
Haryasz, who did not start
because of the injury, led
Stanford with 18 points and
Hernandez added 13. The
Cardinal had won five straight
and now must go on the road
against No. 5 Gonzaga on
Saturday.
Cal started the game slowly
making just four of its first 16
shots. But Ubaka found his
stroke late in the first half and
the Bears made 10 of their
next 15 from the field, leading
to a 13-4 run to open the second half to make it 40-29.
Hernandez hit a 3-pointer
to end the spurt and start one
for Stanford. Haryasz scored
six straight points for the
Cardinal during a 14-6 run
that cut the lead to 46-43.
Cal went more than seven
minutes without a field goal,
but remained in the lead
because of their ability to get
to the foul line. Powe went 5for-6 from the line during the
stretch and Ubaka made two
free throws after being fouled
by Mitch Johnson on a 3-point
attempt, making it 52-46.
Ubaka’s pull-up jumper ended
the drought and made it 54-46
with about 6 minutes to go.
Cal finished 23-for-28 from
Four Pistons selected as reserves for All-Star game
By BRIAN MAHONEY
NEW YORK – Detroit
was rewarded Thursday night
for one of the best starts in
NBA history when four
Pistons made the All-Star
team as reserves.
Chauncey
Billups,
Richard Hamilton, Ben
Wallace
and
Rasheed
Wallace all were picked for
the Eastern Conference team
that will be led by Detroit
coach
Flip
Saunders.
Tayshaun Prince was the lone
Pistons starter not chosen in
voting by East head coaches.
"I would just like to thank
the coaches in the league for
recognizing our players,"
Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars
told The Associated Press on
Thursday night. "What the
coaches are saying by voting
our guys on is that they
appreciate
unselfishness,
great attitudes and team basketball."
The Pistons (40-8) became
the first team with four players in an All-Star game since
the Los Angeles Lakers sent
Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe
Bryant, Eddie Jones and
Nick Van Exel to the 1998
game in New York.
"I wish Tayshaun would
be there," Hamilton said. "If
that would have happened,
that would have been incredible because it hasn't happened before. But it will be
incredible to be there with
those guys and if Flip plays
us all at the same time that
will be even more exciting."
Joining the Pistons on the
East team for the Feb. 19
game in Houston will be
Toronto's
Chris
Bosh,
Boston's Paul Pierce and
Vince Carter of the New
Jersey Nets.
The Western Conference
reserves are guards Ray
Allen of Seattle and Tony
Parker of San Antonio, and
forwards Dirk Nowitzki of
Dallas, the Clippers' Elton
Brand, Memphis' Pau Gasol,
Minnesota's Kevin Garnett
and the Suns' Shawn Marion.
Billups, the 2004 NBA
Finals MVP, and Hamilton
are among the five first-time
selections, joining Bosh,
Parker and Gasol.
"That is something that
you play for, to be recognized as one of the best,"
Billups said. "I've felt like
I've played like that for a
couple of years now and it's
nice to finally get that validation."
Despite playing in the
NBA Finals the last two
years, recognition had come
slowly for the Pistons during
the season in recent years.
Ben Wallace was Detroit's
only All-Star in each of the
last three years, and the
Pistons haven't had multiple
selections since Grant Hill
and Jerry Stackhouse in
2000.
"What they have done the
first half of the year, I wouldn't have disagreed with five,"
said Mavericks coach Avery
Johnson, who will coach the
West.
The only other teams with
four All-Stars were the
Celtics (1953, '62 and '75);
Lakers ('62) and 76ers ('83).
This is the first time four
players from one team have
been picked as reserves by
the coaches.
The starters were voted on
by fans and were announced
last Thursday. Miami's
Shaquille
O'Neal
and
Dwyane Wade were chosen
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Kiely three-pointer
seals Wildcat J.V. win Toxic
The Daily Journal
The Ukiah junior varsity boys basketball team pulled out a
close win over Cardinal Newman Wednesday, 57-54.
Ukiah led 42-34 after three quarters, but Cardinal Newman
battled back to tie the score at 52-52 late in the fourth quarter.
A Tommy Kiely three-pointer made the score 55-52, and two
more Kiely free throws sealed the victory.
Gabe Ott led Ukiah with 17 points, Kyle Mayfield finished
with 11 points, and Casey Prine scored 10 points.
The Wildcats record is now 5-6 in North Bay League J.V.
play and 14-9 overall.
in the East along with forwards LeBron James from
Cleveland and Jermaine
O'Neal
of
Indiana.
Philadelphia's Allen Iverson
was the other guard.
Houston's Yao Ming and
Tracy McGrady were voted
in, along with Bryant, the
Suns' Steve Nash and San
Antonio
forward
Tim
Duncan.
Jermaine O'Neal is injured
and his replacement will be
chosen by NBA commissioner David Stern.
Though Saunders gets to
choose who will start in
O'Neal's place, he doesn't
think it will be one of his
players.
"I haven't really thought
about that yet, but it probably
won't be one of our guys," he
said. "The first time they step
on the floor, we will have
them step on the floor together."
The toughest omissions in
the East seemed to be guards
Gilbert
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other players regardless of
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Fraud
ple on these sites and, once
they have the victim’s trust,
the suspects explain they have
a cashiers check and they
need the money, but that it
will take too long for the
check to clear where they are,
usually a foreign country.
Suspects ask the victim to
cash the checks for them and
wire them the money. Often
the checks will be written
against large businesses or
banks like Wal-Mart or Chase
Manhattan.
McCutcheon said suspects
will sometimes work for up to
a year to gain a victim’s trust,
and are often working on multiple victims at the same time.
“We assume it’s not the
only scam they have going,“
McCutcheon said. “You are
just another number to them.”
If the victim agrees, the
suspect will send a forged or
fraudulent check that the vic-
Bill
has never been used and the
Senate has voted to eliminate
it and redirect the funding.
Last year, SHIPs were
funded at $31.7 million. With
more than 43 million
Medicare beneficiaries, that
averages out to less than 80
cents per person. This bill will
bring beneficiary assistance
funding up to approximately
$3 per person.
Thompson
questioned
Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Leavitt
about the SHIP program when
the secretary testified before
the House Ways and Means
Committee this week. He
pressured Leavitt with data
that shows that SHIPs cannot
meet beneficiary demand.
Thompson added that he was
unmoved when the secretary
responded that beneficiaries
must look to other resources
for help -- such as pharmacies,
FEMA
state leadership to a local level
has been a “smooth” transition, said Mark Hilliker, a
safety officer with Mendocino
County.
“The city’s been able to
provide everything they
need,” Hilliker said.
Officials expect a couple
hundred Mendocino County
residents to request help or
information at the assistance
center. Handling claims to
procure individuals’ reimbursement funds is anticipated
to be the greatest priority for
staffers.
FEMA officials strongly
encouraged residents to collect payments on their insurance claims, which can then
be covered by government
dollars. Anyone seeking aid
needs to register with FEMA
at
1-800-621-FEMA or
www.fema.gov.
Local government leaders
will soon receive a four-hour
orientation from FEMA on
how to interact with federal
tim will then deposit, and wire
matching funds to the suspect.
The forged check will be discovered and no money will be
deposited in the victim’s
account.
McCutcheon said the
checks have ranged in size
from $500 to $3,000 and
nationally have reached as
high at $5,000.
It’s not clear where this
scheme originated. Victims
have been asked to wire
money to cities in Africa,
Europe and within the United
States. No one knows if this
fraud represents a number of
individual criminals, or several working as a team.
“It could be either/or,”
McCutcheon said. “Or it
could be both.”
Anyone who believes he or
she has been a victim of this
crime is encouraged to file a
police report. McCutcheon
said it may help in getting
money back from your bank.
Ben Brown can be reached at
udjbb@pacific.net.
‘HHS cannot expect pharmacists
– who are already underreimbursed and who are sorting
out their own payment problems
with these drug plans – to walk
beneficiaries through every step
of this process.’
MIKE THOMPSON
churches or family members.
“HHS cannot expect pharmacists -- who are already
under-reimbursed and who
are sorting out their own payment problems with these
drug plans -- to walk beneficiaries through every step of
this process,” Thompson said.
“Nor can they rely on just any
volunteer. SHIP counselors
are specifically trained to do
this job. They need to be
given the funding to put that
training into action.”
officials, who have already
descended upon Northern
California.
“We are initiating our field
work as we speak,” said
FEMA spokesman Russ
Edmonston from Sacramento.
The process began in San
Anselmo and Napa, he said,
where operational centers are
already in full swing.
The Internal Revenue
Service and the state board of
taxes will allow residents to
amend tax returns to reflect
the flooding, Edmonston said.
Other benefits expected to be
offered at the Conference
Center will include business
loans, renters assistance and
legal aid for fraud cases.
The goal for FEMA officials is to “slowly disappear,”
Edmonston said, allowing
local leaders to take the reins
on bringing Mendocino
County back to pre-storm
conditions.
“We want to work ourselves out of the job,” he said.
“We actually want to leave
people a better situation than
there was before.” To this end,
federal staffers will recommend mitigations to both resi-
O’Connell
ing countries around the world
at the same time that the
workplace has become more
technical, demanding workers
with higher and higher level
of skills.
O’Connell called the diversity of California’s student
population rich in potential for
California’s strength in the
global economy, but noted
that the population of students
that is growing the fastest is
lagging the furthest behind
their peers academically.
“In any one of California’s
thousands of classrooms, we
could have future workers
with the ability to understand
a dozen different cultures and
the wherewithal to connect
and communicate with people
all over the globe on terms
they can understand. But, we
have not yet tapped the
tremendous potential we have.
Quite simply, the demanding
global economy and a stubborn achievement gap not
only threaten the future of our
Daily
Wednesday.
Sheriff’s deputies were
called to the home of Recla’s
52-year-old girlfriend, who
reported that Recla had struck
her during an argument the
previous evening, lacerating
her eye. When deputies contacted Recla, he admitted to
having been intoxicated the
previous evening but said he
did not remember fighting
with anyone.
Recla was arrested and is
being held on $25,000 bail.
ARREST
-Jeremy
Alexander Madley, 33, of
Ukiah, was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault and
probation violation in the 100
block of Zinfandel Drive at 8
p.m. Wednesday.
Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the residence on
the report of a domestic
dents and elected officials on
reducing damage should
flooding occur again.
Initial estimates pegged the
cost of statewide damage at
more than $350 million, with
Mendocino County representing about $50 million. Of the
29 counties to receive 75 percent of the eligible costs for
emergency work and the
repair or replacement of damaged facilities, a select 10 of
the hardest-hit counties -Mendocino County included - will also receive aid from
FEMA’s individual household
programs.
Homeowners and renters
may be eligible for federal and
state grants to help pay for
temporary housing, emergency home repairs and other
serious
disaster-related
expenses.
The Ukiah Conference
Center was chosen as the
county’s local aid hub for its
safety, parking, computer
availability and handicap
accessibility.
Seth Freedland can be
reached at udjsf@pacific.net.
students, but also the future
economic health and security
of our state and nation.”
O’Connell called improving teacher and school administrator quality key to closing
the achievement gap, even as
nearly a third of California’s
teaching force is expected to
retire over the next 10 years,
by:
• Re-establishing and fully
funding regional teacher
recruitment centers and incentives for talented teachers to
serve in the lowest performing
schools;
• Expanding the intensive
professional
development
programs for teachers in the
subjects of science and history/social science;
• Providing $53 million in
funding to provide outstanding teacher coaches in all subject areas in the most challenging schools;
• Expanding pathways for
becoming a classroom teacher
and new ways for talented
administrators to move from
the private sector to careers in
school; and
• Providing ongoing professional development for inex-
perienced school principals.
To increase the rigor and
relevance of high schools,
O’Connell called for an
expansion of smaller learning
communities where academics are blended with a focus
on careers. He urged increasing the number of California
Partnership Academies and
will seek legislation to expand
these academies to all four
years of high school. He also
asked for more public
involvement in schools and
announced that he is working
to redesign the School
Accountability Report Card so
parents and communities
know how individual schools
are doing.
O’Connell also called for
incentives in the infrastructure
bond for education that will
lead to the construction of
school facilities that are more
reflective of the changing
world.
“In this Conceptual Age,
we should question whether it
still makes sense to build
classrooms that were designed
more than 100 years ago for
the Industrial Age,” he said.
“With this type of infrastruc-
ture
investment
comes
tremendous opportunity to
impact not only student
achievement and experience,
but, in fact, the very communities in which we all live.
Let’s build energy efficient,
high-performance learning
environments that work in a
world of continuous computing.”
Finally,
O’Connell
announced that the California
Department of Education, in
partnership with the William
and
Flora
Hewlett
Foundation, will initiate a new
function as a broker of expertise to share research and
innovative best practices in a
practical way with schools
around the state.
O’Connell concluded by
asking educators to use technology and data to tailor our
educational system to more
directly meet the needs of
each student.
“It’s time to work together
in our communities to find
innovative ways of meeting
all children where they are,”
he said.
assault that had allegedly just
occurred. There they found
Madley’s 32-year-old girlfriend, who said Madley had
choked her and struck her in
the back.
A criminal history check
revealed Madley was on probation for felony domestic
assault and was subsequently
held without bail.
Nicole Ogulin, 19, of
Upper Lake, was driving a
2001 Honda ATV with passenger Jessica Marie Silva,
20, of Lakeport, southbound
on Bartlett Springs Road at an
unknown high rate of speed.
Ogulin failed to negotiate a
left turn and drove off the
west side of the road.
The vehicle rolled down an
embankment, ejecting both
passenger and driver, who
both sustained major injuries
and were evacuated to Santa
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REACH. Alcohol consumption is being considered as a
factor in the crash, which is
still under investigation.
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Mayor, White House clash over release of info on terror plot
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
AP Political Writer
LOS ANGELES — Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday
he was blindsided by President
Bush’s announcement of new details
about a purported 2002 plot to crash
a plane into a city skyscraper, but the
White House and state officials said
the mayor’s office was contacted.
“I’m amazed that the president
would make this (announcement) on
national TV and not inform us of
these details through the appropriate
channels,” the mayor said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I
don’t expect a call from the president
— but somebody.”
In Washington, White House
Press Secretary Scott McClellan said
the administration “did reach out to
officials in California and Los
Angeles to let them know, I think it
was yesterday, that the president
would be talking about this.”
Villaraigosa later confirmed that
City Hall was notified Wednesday by
state officials in Sacramento. But
that information was only general,
city officials said, and the mayor was
never informed. They maintained
they had no warning that extensive
new details on the plot would be disclosed, which in turn set off a new
round of anxiety over terrorism in
the nation’s second-largest city.
City officials stressed that Los
Angeles was not facing an imminent
threat.
The mayor was watching Bush’s
speech on TV Thursday morning
when he first learned of the new
details about the 2002 hijacking plot.
“I would have expected a direct
call from the White House,”
Villaraigosa said at a City Hall news
conference.
In addition, the mayor said he had
twice requested meetings with Bush
on visits to Washington to discuss
security risks in the city. Those
Jury rejects defective bike
lawsuit against Wal-Mart
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A
civil jury on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by nine boys who
claimed they were hurt riding
Chinese-made bikes purchased at Wal-Mart.
The jurors in a suburban
San Francisco community
rejected claims that Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. and San Rafaelbased importer Dynacraft
BSC Inc. tried to hide defects
in a key bicycle part even
after injuries were reported.
A trial in Marin County
Superior Court lasted eight
weeks, and the jury deliberated a little more than two days
before denying the claim.
Kathleen Russell, a spokeswoman for the plaintiffs, said
the families won’t receive any
monetary damages.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Mark
Webb said he was disappointed with the verdict but said, “I
feel strongly that we brought
an important safety issue to
light with this case.”
“I hope that we’ve raised
the consciousness of consumers and companies alike
about the importance of selling safe bicycles to children,”
Webb said in a statement. “We
hope that there might be some
Pruners
he’d be the first,” said Arturo
Viramontes. “He’s a young
kid; he can do it.”
Competing beside Lua
Valle was the 2003 winner
Martinez, who finished in second place behind Lua Valle
last year. The pair said they
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internal changes in the way
Wal-Mart treats its customers
when they report serious accidents on their products.”
The suit centered on
“quick-release”
devices
attached to the bicycles’ front
wheels, which are designed to
allow the wheels to be easily
removed for maintenance.
The nine boys, ages 7 to 13,
claimed they smashed their
faces onto pavement after the
part malfunctioned and the
front wheels came loose while
they were riding.
The suit also named insurance administrator Carl
Warren & Co., which investigated complaints for the
importer, for allegedly conspiring to cover up the
defects.
Wal-Mart and its attorneys
said the bicycles in question
— primarily Next Ultra Shock
and Next Shock Zone mountain bikes — are safe if “properly used.” Their attorneys
claimed the quick-release
component was never the subject of a recall or safety citation.
“We are pleased that the
jury overwhelmingly agreed
that every allegation in this
case was unsubstantiated.”
requests, made in July and August,
were made “to no avail,” he said.
In his interview with the AP, the
mayor called communication with
the White House “nonexistent.” He
also called for more federal aide to
safeguard the city.
A
spokesman
for
Matt
Bettenhausen, California’s homeland
security chief, said he personally
contacted
a
deputy
mayor
Wednesday afternoon with advance
notice of the president’s comments.
“We were assured that that information would go to the mayor,” said
Chris Bertelli, spokesman for the
state Office of Homeland Security.
Michelle Petrovich, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, said the agency
notified the Los Angeles Police
Department, along with state officials, that the 2002 plot would be
mentioned during the president’s
speech.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, broad efforts have been
made to improve communication
between
government
entities
involved in homeland security. But
the confusion over when and how the
mayor’s office was notified underscored the fragility of such communications — even when they involve
an upcoming news conference.
The president has referred to the
2002 Los Angeles plot before, but
until Thursday the White House had
provided only a vague description of
what was planned.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the
alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11
attacks who was captured in 2003,
had already begun planning the West
Coast operation in October 2001,
Bush said Thursday during a
Washington speech.
The hijackers were to use shoe
bombs to blow open the cockpit door
of a commercial jetliner, take control
of the plane and crash it into the
Library Tower in Los Angeles, since
renamed the US Bank Tower, Bush
said.
The 73-story skyscraper — the
tallest building in Los Angeles —
has about 3,000 occupants and is
1,017 feet high.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
urged residents not to become
alarmed.
“Landmarks are targets, and
places where people congregate are
targets, and that’s just the world we
live in today,” she said.
At the tower, financial consultant
Monica Ding, 27, who works on the
26th floor, said the revelations didn’t
worry her.
“I guess they do all they can to
prevent it,” she said. “If it fails and
an airplane flies into our building,
there’s nothing we can do to stop it.”
———
Associated Press Writers Robert
Jablon and Jacob Adelman in Los
Angeles, and Erica Werner in
Washington, contributed to this report.
IS LETHAL INJECTION CRUELAND UNUSUAL?
Judge considers blocking Feb. 21 execution
By DAVID KRAVETS
AP Legal Affairs Writer
SAN JOSE — A federal judge here
said Thursday he might block a murderer and rapist’s Feb. 21 execution to provide enough time to determine whether
injection is unconstitutionally cruel and
unusual punishment.
“People’s confidence and integrity in
the process might be assisted in having
some kind of evidentiary proceeding,”
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said
from the bench after an 80-minute hearing. He said he would rule by Tuesday.
Lawyers for Michael Morales asked
Fogel to block the looming execution
amid claims lethal injection violates the
Eighth Amendment.
Morales, 46, was condemned for raping and murdering a 17-year-old Lodi
girl 25 years ago.
The Stockton man has a long legal
road to travel in his bid to stay alive,
even if he wins a reprieve by Fogel. The
U.S. Supreme Court has never endorsed
a claim that lethal injection, used in 36
states, is unconstitutionally cruel,
although the justices are weighing the
procedure by which inmates can make
such a challenge.
Morales also is asking Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger to commute his sen-
tence to life without parole, a clemency
bid supported by the trial judge and six
jurors who sentenced him 23 years ago.
Last year, Fogel dismissed a similar
Eighth Amendment challenge by threetime murderer Donald Beardslee. Days
later, Beardslee was injected at San
Quentin State Prison, where California
carries out its executions.
But Fogel did not afford Beardslee a
so-called “evidentiary” hearing by
which experts will examine medical
records of past California executions
and haggle in court over whether prisoners are conscious and feeling pain
once a paralyzing agent begins coursing
through their bloodstream.
The judge, in what he said is a “very
weighty decision,” is considering
whether to grant Morales that type of a
hearing, which would result in a battle
of the experts.
Morales’ representatives claim the
injection procedure — a sedative, followed by a paralyzing agent and then
heart-stopping medication — masks
whether the prisoner is in excruciating
pain before death because the inmate
might be conscious.
“There’s no evidence that they’re
conscious. Absolutely no evidence,”
state prosecutor Dane Gillette argued to
Fogel.
Morales attorney John Grele said if
the sedative does not work, the paralyzing agent will mask whether the inmate
is in pain when the paralyzing drugs are
given. He suggested previous executed
inmates felt too much pain when injected.
“The suffering I think is important to
focus on is the suffering in silence ... the
inability to scream out in pain,” Grele
said.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never
directly addressed whether death sentences carried out by lethal injection are
cruel and unusual punishment. The justices have upheld executions in general
despite the pain they might cause
inmates, but have left unsettled the issue
of whether alleged pain in lethal injections is unconstitutionally excessive and
can be avoided.
Morales, of Stockton, was convicted
in 1983 of murdering 17-year-old Terri
Winchell, who was found beaten and
stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
He was tried in Ventura County
because of extensive pretrial publicity in
San Joaquin County.
The case is Morales v. Hickman, 06219.
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Lua Valle finished with a
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WEATHER
A-14 – FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2006
.
3-DAY FORECAST
SUN AND MOON
REGIONAL WEATHER
CALIFORNIA CITIES
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs
and tonight’s lows.
TODAY
71°
Sunrise today ............. 7:11
Sunset tonight ............ 5:44
Moonrise today .......... 3:23
Moonset today ........... 6:09
Mostly sunny
a.m.
p.m.
p.m.
a.m.
MOON PHASES
TONIGHT
Full
Last
New
First
Rockport
63/44
Laytonville
68/37
Covelo
69/38
Westport
63/44
39°
Feb. 12 Feb. 20 Feb. 27 Mar. 6
A moonlit sky
ALMANAC
Ukiah through 2 p.m. Thursday
Temperature
High .............................................. 71°
Low .............................................. 36°
Normal high .................................. 59°
Normal low .................................... 39°
Record high .................... 79° in 1954
Record low ...................... 20° in 1929
Precipitation
24 hrs to 2 p.m. Thu. .................. 0.00”
Month to date ............................ 1.33”
Normal month to date ................ 2.36”
Season to date ........................ 33.59”
Last season to date ................ 24.47”
Normal season to date ............ 24.62”
SATURDAY
69°
42°
Mostly sunny
SUNDAY
66°
40°
Fort Bragg
61/41
Elk
63/41
Willows
67/40
Willits
69/37
Redwood Valley
68/39
UKIAH
71/39
Philo
66/40
Lakeport
70/39
Lucerne
70/39
Boonville
73/40
Gualala
64/44
Clearlake
69/39
Cloverdale
72/44
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2006
Mostly sunny
City
Today
Hi/Lo/W
Sat.
Hi/Lo/W
City
Today
Hi/Lo/W
Sat.
Hi/Lo/W
Anaheim
Antioch
Arroyo Grande
Atascadero
Auburn
Barstow
Big Sur
Bishop
Blythe
Burbank
California City
Carpinteria
Catalina
Chico
Crescent City
Death Valley
Downey
Encinitas
Escondido
Eureka
Fort Bragg
Fresno
Gilroy
Indio
Irvine
Hollywood
Lake Arrowhead
Lodi
Lompoc
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Mammoth
Marysville
Modesto
Monrovia
Monterey
Morro Bay
78/48/s
67/41/s
71/36/s
76/39/s
64/40/s
74/42/s
63/48/s
69/24/s
80/44/s
79/49/s
73/33/s
67/44/s
73/58/s
67/40/s
60/44/s
79/41/s
75/49/s
72/46/s
77/43/s
62/42/s
61/41/s
70/42/s
78/39/s
85/45/s
73/48/s
76/50/s
65/30/s
66/38/s
64/44/s
74/49/s
76/50/s
59/19/s
66/39/s
67/41/s
77/50/s
72/47/s
69/49/s
78/47/s
68/42/s
74/36/s
75/39/s
67/40/s
68/34/s
61/46/s
65/22/s
77/37/s
77/46/s
66/28/s
71/42/s
74/59/s
65/41/s
55/43/pc
72/37/s
79/49/s
73/45/s
75/43/s
58/40/pc
55/41/s
68/42/s
77/41/s
77/37/s
76/47/s
78/49/s
56/30/s
65/40/s
64/42/s
78/47/s
78/50/s
57/14/s
67/37/s
67/42/s
75/47/s
64/45/s
65/47/s
Napa
Needles
Oakland
Ontario
Orange
Oxnard
Palm Springs
Pasadena
Pomona
Potter Valley
Redding
Riverside
Sacramento
Salinas
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Fernando
San Francisco
San Jose
San Luis Obispo
San Rafael
Santa Ana
Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
S. Lake Tahoe
Stockton
Tahoe Valley
Torrance
Vacaville
Vallejo
Van Nuys
Visalia
Willits
Yosemite Valley
Yreka
71/37/s
78/44/s
67/45/s
79/47/s
81/44/s
66/47/s
86/56/s
78/52/s
79/46/s
69/39/s
68/38/s
80/46/s
66/39/s
70/45/s
80/46/s
68/49/s
79/47/s
64/48/s
69/46/s
75/41/s
69/44/s
72/48/s
67/42/s
70/46/s
70/48/s
70/40/s
52/18/s
65/39/s
52/18/s
72/50/s
68/40/s
70/40/s
79/48/s
70/39/s
69/37/s
63/32/s
56/25/s
68/38/s
71/37/s
64/44/s
77/44/s
80/40/s
71/49/s
76/49/s
74/48/s
77/37/s
68/42/s
70/40/s
77/44/s
67/41/s
68/46/s
78/43/s
73/48/s
76/46/s
64/49/s
68/46/s
75/41/s
70/44/s
80/47/s
71/40/s
66/45/s
76/49/s
68/40/s
52/18/s
66/40/s
52/18/s
76/50/s
69/41/s
70/41/s
76/47/s
68/40/s
68/40/s
60/21/s
56/24/pc
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, rrain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
Lake Mendocino – Lake level: 737.42 feet; Storage: 68,274 acre-feet (Maximum storage 122,500 acre-feet) Inflow: 390 cfs Outflow: 196 cfs
Air quality – Ozone: .032 ppm (State standard .090 ppm) Carbon monoxide: 1.48 ppm (20.0 ppm) Nitrogen dioxide: .026 ppm (.25 ppm)
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in the Pear Taree Center
Briefly
and cars and took up positions
on hills overlooking Hangu,
where the sound of gunfire
echoed through the smoky
streets.
In neighboring Afghanistan, hundreds of Shiites and
Sunnis clashed in the western
city of Herat, hurling gren-ades
and burning mosques. At least
five people were killed and 51
wounded.
The Shiites were marking
Ashoura, when they pound
their chests and flail their backs
with chains and blades to
mourn the 7th-century death of
Imam Hussain, a grandson of
the Prophet Muhammad.
Hussain’s death fueled a rivalry
between Shiites and Sunnis
over who should succeed the
prophet.
Bullied mice show
how brain reacts
to social stress
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Any bully’s victim knows the
experience can cause lingering
fear. Now scientists watching
big mice intimidate small ones
have discovered the stress
spurs genetic changes in the
brain — a finding that may
help research into depression
and other mental illnesses.
The experiment suggests a
part of the brain linked to
addiction also plays a previously unsuspected role in illnesses
characterized by chronic anxiety and social withdrawal,
Texas researchers report
Thursday in the journal
Science.
In fact, a substance pro-
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controlling whether the bullied
mice turned into fearful hermits
or not.
Neuroscientists at the
University
of
Texas
Southwestern Medical Center
wanted to test the role of the
brain’s “reward pathway” in
depression-like behavior. This
brain circuitry is involved in
emotional learning, and recognizing pleasure, and thus has a
role in addiction. But people
with major depression become
almost numb, unable to experience pleasure, suggesting
another role for the reward
pathway.
6:50, 9:05
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) —
Wayne Gretzky was recorded
on a wiretap talking to the
alleged financier of a gambling
ring, discussing how the hock-
ey great’s wife could avoid
being implicated, a person with
knowledge of the investigation
told The Associated Press on
Thursday. Gretzky, coach and
part-owner of the Phoenix
Coyotes, can be heard on wiretaps made within the past
month talking about his wife
with an assistant coach.
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indexes mixed after investors’
enthusiasm over a six-year low
in unemployment claims and
strong corporate earnings
waned in the face of longerterm economic worries.
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