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MACHETE ARRESTRailroad workers report threat

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The Daily JournalA 39-year-old transient who

allegedly threatened four SierraRailroad employees with a machetewas arrested on assault charges

Tuesday and is also being investigat-ed for burglary and arson.

According to reports from theMendocino County Sheriff’s Office,Sierra Railroad employees David

Curry, 47, James Bumpus, 27, JavierRodriguez, 41, and Jorge Sierra, 31,all of Fort Bragg, were performingmaintenance work on the SkunkTrain Railroad line between Willits

and Fort Bragg when they cameupon Michael Castle, a 39-year-oldtransient from the Fort Bragg area ataround 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Castle had allegedly forced his

way into a cabin along the tracksaround 12 miles from Fort Bragg.According to sheriff’s reports, Castle

Transient accused of threatening railroad crew with machete

See ARREST, Page 16

The Daily JournalMendocino resident Mitch Clogg is set to

take on Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St.Helena) in the June primary for theDemocratic party’s nomination to run for the1st District House of Representatives seat,and the rhetoric is alreadyheating up.

“Mike Thompson’s aservant of the FirstDistrict’s wine and real-estate bosses,” Cloggsaid in a statement issuedlast week. “As a memberof congress’s Blue DogCoalition, he’s a self-pro-claimed conservative,and he’s insensitive to theneeds of regular people.He’s against universalhealth care, he keeps vot-ing to spend more billions to continue thetragedy in Iraq, and he has no plan to helppeople who have lost or are losing theirhomes in this mortgage crisis.

“This district is rich in resources, but it’sstrapped for cash. You might not notice thatwhere he lives, in St. Helena. That’s a fabu-lously wealthy community, smack in themiddle of wine country. Mike’s a millionairewho’s out of step with the majority of hisconstituents. It’s time for him to retire.”

The 1st congressional district stretchesfrom the Oregon border above Crescent Cityto the western edge of Sacramento and theshore of San Francisco Bay.

A veteran of the Army’s 101st AirborneDivision, Clogg has held positions in stateand Mendocino County government. He is agraduate of UC Berkeley, and his résuméalso includes a wide range of jobs in the pri-vate sector. His self-designation at his candi-date’s swearing-in last Friday was “publicservant/journalist.” He has worked as areporter for several newspapers and radiostations and done extensive freelance report-ing. He has also been a member of construc-tion and longshoreman unions.

He has raised his three children as a singlefather, from when they were 2 months, 2years and 4 years old, respectively. He wasorphaned at age 16 when his parents, broth-er and sister drowned in a boating mishap.

Clogg has a Web site at www.mitchcloggfor-congress.com.

Mitch CloggchallengesThompson

Clogg

By BEN BROWNThe Daily Journal

Four people were injured Tuesday nightwhen the car they were in went off theroad on Highway 20 east of Ukiah and col-lided with a tree.

California Highway Patrol OfficerRobert Englund said the car, a 1996 Acura,went off the road near Road 144 at around10 p.m. Tuesday. The car collided with atree, causing minor and moderate injuriesto the passengers. According to reportsfrom the Redwood Valley-Calpella FireDepartment, one of the passengers hadpotential major injuries. All four weretransported by ambulance to Ukiah ValleyMedical Center for treatment.

It was not clear at press time whichdirection the car was traveling at the timeof the accident or why the car left the road.

The names of the passengers were notavailable from CHP, but Englund said thecar was registered out of Sunnyvale.

Ben Brown can be reached at udjbb@pacific.net.

Four hurt inHwy. 20 crash

RACE FOR CONGRESS

By ROB BURGESSThe Daily Journal

The 400 block of ParkBoulevard is a fairly quietresidential neighborhoodsituated just across the

street from Todd Grove Park.One house though, has been filled

with the sounds of children laughingand learning for the past halfcentury. By all accounts, thelongevity of the Ukiah Co-OperativeNursery School can be traced backto one woman -- Susie Newman.

“It’s Susie,” said parent Robin

Dolan. “It’s her reputation. There isalways a long waiting list. Peoplesign their kids up when they’re 1year old. It feels like you’re in ahome. You can tell the kids love it.”

Parent Sara Bogner said shemoved back to Ukiah when her now3-year-old daughter Riley was 6months old and was surprised to findout the quickness with which thecoveted positions within the schoolwere taken.

“I’ll never forget someone toldme to sign up right now,” she said.“I came and asked because I wassure they’d think I was crazy.”

Newman is celebrating her 30thyear with the school as directorteacher. She said her job titlerequires her to be many things tomany different people.

“You wear all hats,” she said.Newman said she started out as a

parent with the school when her sonJason, now a history professor, was5 and gradually attained the propercertifications.

“I went back to school and gotmy preschool credential,” she said.“The program is supposed to take

PRESCHOOL MILESTONE:

The Daily JournalThe public can expect to see columns

of smoke rising above the MendocinoNational Forest this month as theCalifornia Forest Service kicks off itsspring burning season.

Forest Service employees plan to setfire to more than 5,000 acres of thenational forest between now and May toreduce the fuel load for the summer fireseason and improve overall forest health.

There is no set schedule for the 15fires that are planned for the forest.Evaluations on when and where to burnwill be made based on personnel, weath-er and fuel conditions.

The fires will be monitored by ForestService personnel to make sure theydon’t get out of control.

The majority of the fires will burnfewer than 200 acres, with the smallestfire burning 26 acres on Pine Mountainand the largest one burning 2,256 acresin the Tar Flat area.

5,000 acres of forestscheduled for burning By ZACK SAMPSEL

The Daily JournalThe Mendocino County Child Care

Planning Council is seeking new members,and if you want to provide leadership toyounger generations, then it’s time to sign up.

“Childcare, in our opinion, is the base of thewhole economics of the county,” said AnneRosenthol, MCCCPC manager. “Withoutchildcare, families with kids can’t work, andchildren need quality childcare experience tobe ready for school.”

Throughout the spring, the council will belooking for new members to serve two-yearterms as appointed by either the Board ofSupervisors or the superintendent of schools.According to Rosenthol, the MCCCPC islooking for dedicated people who understandthe importance of education.

“We’re looking for members who are dedi-cated to children and families,” she said. “Weneed people who want to expand and improve

Child Care Council seeks members

By ROB BURGESSThe Daily Journal

The Mendocino County Board ofSupervisors’ office crept one step closer toposting additional information such as staffreports online Monday, after the issue was dis-cussed during a meeting of the GeneralGovernment Committee.

During its Feb. 7 meeting, the full boardreferred the item to the committee for furtherstudy. The item was brought forward by 4th

District Supervisor Kendall Smith who, alongwith 5th District Supervisor David Colfax, sitson the committee.

The discussion began with a live demon-stration of the process the Humboldt CountyBoard of Supervisors uses to post additionalinformation on its Web site. The agendas fea-tured on the site were shown to have clickablelinks associated with each item which led to

County explores online expansion

Ukiah Co-Operative Nurseryteacher celebrates 3 decades

of service to school; membersto honor her at annual dinner

MacLeod Pappidas/The Daily Journal

In preparation for a visit from fire Capt. Jeff Adair of the Ukiah Valley Fire District, Susie Newman reads “A Day WithFirefighters” to her classroom at the Ukiah Co-operative Nursery School.

NewmanSee PRESCHOOL, Page 16

See COUNCIL, Page 16

See COUNTY, Page 16

SAN DIEGO (AP) —Fifteen people who werestranded for three days on a24-foot vessel off the Pacificcoast were rescuedWednesday after an apparenthuman smuggling attemptfrom Mexico went bad,authorities said.

The old, blue-and-whiteskipjack was found 12 milesoffshore from San Diego and20 miles north of the Mexicanborder without food or water,according to Customs andBorder Protection. No onewas killed or seriouslyinjured, but some people weredehydrated and sunburned.

Eleven men and fourwomen were taken to theMarine Corps Recruit Depotin San Diego and placed incustody of immigrationauthorities, said CBPspokesman Vince Bond.There were no childrenaboard.

Fourteen passengers wereMexican and one wasSalvadoran, said LaurenMack, a spokeswoman forU.S. Immigration andCustoms Enforcement. It wasnot immediately clear if theyincluded smugglers.

Alberto Lozano, aspokesman for the MexicanConsulate in San Diego, said

the passengers entered theU.S. illegally.

All the passengers had life-jackets but said they wereidled for three days, saidBond. The vessel may havehad engine trouble or run outof fuel.

“They say they had beendead in the water for threedays,” Bond said. “No report-ed injuries. They were justhungry, thirsty and sun-burned.”

A pleasure cruise spottedpeople waving from the boatand called a private towingcompany, which alerted theCoast Guard and CBP around8 a.m., authorities said. Ninepeople boarded a CBP boataround 8:30 a.m.; six boardeda Coast Guard vessel. Nonerequired medical treatment.

Gov. Spitzer resigns in disgrace over sexscandal; he could face federal charges

NEW YORK (AP) — In a startlingly swift fall from grace,Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting caught in acall-girl scandal that made a mockery of his straight-arrowimage and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges andperhaps disbarment.

“I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’swork,” Spitzer said, his weary-looking wife, Silda, standing athis side, again, as the corruption-fighting politician once knownas Mr. Clean answered for his actions for the second time inthree days.

He made the announcement without securing a plea bargainwith federal prosecutors, though a law enforcement official saidthe former governor was still believed to be negotiating one.The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of thesensitivity of the case.

Spitzer will be succeeded on Monday by Lt. Gov. DavidPaterson, a fellow Democrat who becomes New York’s firstblack governor and the nation’s first legally blind chief execu-tive.

The resignation brought the curtain down on a riveting three-day drama — played out, sometimes, as farce — that madeSpitzer an instant punchline on late-night TV and fascinatedAmericans with the spectacle of a crusading politician exposedas a hypocrite.

2 charged with murder in slayingof U. of North Carolina student leader

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Two suspects werecharged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing ofthe University of North Carolina’s student body president.

Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, was arrested andordered held without bond. Police said they are still searchingfor the second suspect, 17-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr.

Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran declined to saywhether Lovett was the subject of an intense police standoffWednesday afternoon in nearby Durham. City CouncilmanEugene Brown said it appears the standoff was resolved with-out an arrest.

Police in Durham refused to comment, referring all questionsabout the standoff to police in Chapel Hill.

Shackled at the ankle and waist and with a public defender athis side, Atwater whispered “yes” when asked whether heunderstood the charge against him. His next court appearancewas scheduled for March 24.

EPA tightens smog rule after saying airin 300-plus counties too dirty to breathe

WASHINGTON (AP) — The air in more than 300 U.S.counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the government says,ordering a multibillion-dollar expansion of efforts to clean upsmog in a host of cities and towns nationwide.

Scientists say the federal action, which will lower ozone lim-its, is still not enough to significantly reduce heart and asthmaattacks from breathing smog-clogged air, and they want theEnvironmental Protection Agency to issue a more stringentrequirement.

Electric utilities, oil companies and other businesses havelobbied hard for leaving the smog rule alone, saying the highcost of lower limits could hurt the economy and noting thatmany communities still haven’t met requirements set a decadeago.

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, already a target ofintense criticism over emissions linked to global warming andregulation of mercury from power plants, decided to take themiddle ground when it comes to smog.

The EPA at a news conference Wednesday planned to directthat air must contain no more than 75 units of ozone, or smog,for every billion units of air in order to be considered healthy, areduction from the current maximum concentration of 80 to 84parts per billion.

Southwest Airlines grounds dozens ofjets to examine structural soundness

DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines Co. grounded 43planes to examine if they were structurally sound enough tocarry passengers after it recently acknowledged it had missedrequired inspections of some planes for cracks.

Southwest shares fell more than 9 percent before closingdown 7.3 percent.

The move announced Wednesday affects about 8 percent ofits fleet and comes as Southwest faces a $10.2 million civilpenalty for continuing to fly almost 50 planes after the airlinetold regulators that it had missed required inspections of theplanes.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which announced thepenalty last week, has also come under fire for failing to groundthe Southwest jets last year, when agency inspectors learnedthey had not been inspected for cracks in the fuselage.

Southwest initially said it grounded 41 planes, but spokes-woman Linda Rutherford later said 38 planes were taken off theschedule for additional inspection along with five others thatwere already in hangars undergoing routine maintenance.

Obama accuses Ferraro of dividingDemocrats with ‘slice and dice’ politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Barack Obamaassailed as “slice and dice” politics Geraldine Ferraro’s asser-tion that he wouldn’t be where he is in the presidential race ifhe weren’t black.

The back-and-forth between the two Democratic trailblazers— Obama, seeking to be the nation’s first black president, andFerraro, who was the first woman on a major party presidentialticket in 1984 — continued for a second day as they madeappearances on network and cable morning news programs.

“Part of what I think Geraldine Ferraro is doing, and I respectthe fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind ofslice and dice politics that’s about race and about gender andabout this and that, and that’s what Americans are tired ofbecause they recognize that when we divide ourselves in thatway we can’t solve problems,” Obama said on NBC’s “Today”show.

Later, at a news conference in Chicago, Obama said he didnot think Ferraro’s comments were racist.

“I think that her comments were ridiculous. I think they werewrong-headed,” he said. “The notion that it is a great advantageto me to be an African American named Barack Obama andpursue the presidency, I think, is not a view that has been com-monly shared by the general public.”

Kansas woman sat on boyfriend’s toiletfor 2 years; wouldn’t leave bathroom

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are considering chargesin the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toi-let for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seatby the time the boyfriend finally called police.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat.She initially refused emergency medical services but was final-ly convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she neededto be checked out at a hospital.

“We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat wentwith her to the hospital,” Whipple said. “The hospital removedit.” Whipple said investigators planned to present their reportWednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whetherany charges should be filed against the woman’s 36-year-oldboyfriend. “She was not glued. She was not tied. She was justphysically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imag-ine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself.”

German woman and her cat repeatedlybattled staph bug in a rare case

UNDATED (AP) — People struggling to get rid of recurrentstaph infections might want to consider an often-overlookedsource: the family pet. A German woman repeatedly battled thesame strain of drug-resistant superbug MRSA until her cat wastested and treated. It’s one of the few documented cases oftransmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusbetween a person and a cat.

The otherwise healthy woman had deep abscesses, or boils,all over her back, said Dr. Andreas Sing, a microbiologist at theBavarian Health and Food Safety Authority inOberschleissheim near Munich. Nasal and other swabs from herhusband and two children showed they carried the MRSA germon skin but had no signs of infection.

Antiseptic washes and antibiotic nasal ointment killed thegerm in the other family members, but the woman was stillinfected. Four weeks after the apparently healthy cat was treat-ed with antibiotics, the woman was free of MRSA and herabscesses had all healed, Sing wrote in a brief report inThursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.

“I think the woman infected the cat and the cat had it andmight have reinfected the woman,” Sing said in an interview.

Several previous cases of MRSA infections in dogs and theirowners have been reported, as well as a cluster in pigs andfarmers in the Netherlands, said Dr. Neil Fishman of theInfectious Diseases Society of America.

Diminutive singer Ramiele Malubaybrings big voice to ‘American Idol’

MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — When Ramiele Malubay takes thestage on “American Idol,” the 20-year-old with punkish blondstreaks in her dark hair comes off as bubbly, polished and evena little edgy. That’s not exactly the young woman her friendsand family say was too shy to sing “Happy Birthday” a fewmonths ago.

When her parents tried to get her to sing a karaoke version athigh school friend Arthur “A.J.” Ke’s birthday bash, the 20-year-old Malubay just hid in the corner and rolled her eyes.

“Since it was a really cheap karaoke machine, a bunch of thewords were spelled wrong,” Ke said. “But once she was upthere, we were all cracking up, and we all ended up having agreat time.”

And if it wasn’t for her father’s prodding, the diminutiveFilipino-American singer with the big voice probably wouldn’thave auditioned a second time for “American Idol” — whichmeans she wouldn’t be standing among the final 12 contestantson the top-rated Fox TV show. She was rejected in the initialstage last year and balked at going back.

“I think she was lacking a bit of that confidence and didn’twant the people close to her to expect too much from her,”neighbor Isidra Yokose said Tuesday night at the lobby ofHilton Garden Inn in Miramar, where family and friends havebeen meeting every week to watch the show, cheer for Malubay— and furiously text in votes on their cell phones, of course.

D A I L Y D I G E S TEditor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 udj@pacific.net

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The world briefly POLICE REPORTSThe following were

compiled from reportsprepared by the UkiahPolice Department. Toanonymously reportcrime information, call463-6205.

ARREST -- Juan ManuelLicea, 27, of Ukiah, wasarrested on suspicion ofinflicting injury on a spouse,making terrorist threats anda probation violation in the300 block of SeminaryAvenue at 1:06 p.m.Tuesday.

ARREST -- Jake NeilShields, 19, of Ukiah, wasarrested on suspicion of pos-session of a controlled sub-stance, possession of a con-trolled substance for sale andtransportation of a con-trolled substance in the 100block of Henderson Lane at1:10 p.m. Tuesday.

ARREST -- Chad Simon,21, of Windsor, was arrestedon suspicion of drivingunder the influence in the100 block of North MainStreet at 10:23 p.m. Tuesday.

SHERIFF’S REPORTSThe following were

compiled from reportsprepared by theMendocino CountySheriff’s Office:

BOOKED -- GregoryFults, 47, of Santa Rosa, wasbooked into jail on a warrantfor hit-and-run with propertydamage by the MendocinoCounty Sheriff’s Office at7:47 a.m. Tuesday.

BOOKED -- Craig LloydLeitz, 57, of Potter Valley,was booked into jail on sus-picion of cultivating mari-juana, possession of mari-juana for sale, conspiracyand knowingly renting aspace for the cultivation ofmarijuana by the MendocinoCounty Sheriff’s Office at7:51 a.m. Tuesday.

BOOKED -- Louis

Fisher, 27, of New York, wasbooked into jail on suspicionof possession of a controlledsubstance and transportationof narcotics for sale by theMendocino County Sheriff’sOffice at 2:03 p.m. Tuesday.

Those arrested by law enforce-ment officers are innocent untilproven guilty. People reported as hav-ing been arrested may contact theDaily Journal once their case hasbeen concluded so the results can bereported. Those who feel the informa-tion is in error should contact theappropriate agency. In the case ofthose arrested on suspicion of drivingunder the influence of an intoxicant:all DUI cases reported by law enforce-ment agencies are reported by thenewspaper. The Daily Journal makesno exceptions.

CORRECTIONS

In an article about hospi-tal groups filing a lawsuitagainst the federal govern-ment, published on Page 8 ofWednesday’s edition, TheAssociated Press erroneous-ly reported one of the partic-ipants. It is the AmericanHospital Association, not theAmerican Medical Associa-tion.

The Ukiah Daily Journalreserves this space to correct errorsor make clarifications to news arti-cles. Significant errors in obituarynotices or birth announcementswill result in reprinting the entirearticle. Errors may be reported tothe editor, 468-3526.

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‘ARE WE ALMOST THERE?’ -- Musical comedyrevue; Ukiah Playhouse; 1041 Low Gap Road; 7 p.m.; $8;462-9226.

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USC CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER -- Withmusic by “The Grace Notes;” Ukiah Senior Center; 495Leslie St., Ukiah; 5:30 to 7:30 p.m, $8; 462-4343.

CHILI COOK OFF -- First Willits Chili Cook off; HarrahCenter; 1502 Baechtel Road, Willits; 6 to 8 p.m.; $7adults, $4 children, $25 chili entrants; 459-6826.

‘CHRISTMAS IN YELLOWSTONE’-- Wildlife films, withaccompanying music; Ukiah Civic Center; 300 SeminaryAve., Ukiah; 6:30 p.m., $10 suggested donation.

CHRIS GIBSON & PHYLEE BINDER -- Live music;Himalayan Cafe; 1639 S. State St.; 6:30 to 9 p.m.; nocover; 467-9900.

SECOND FRIDAY DANCE JAM -- Drop-in communityfreestyle barefoot dance; Yoga Mendocino; 206A MasonSt., Ukiah; 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; self-selected admissionfee.

‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ -- Live performance;Mendocino College, Center Theatre; 1000 Hensley CreekRoad, Ukiah; 8 p.m.; $15 general, $12 students andseniors; 468-3172.

‘ARE WE ALMOST THERE?’ -- Musical comedyrevue; Ukiah Playhouse; 1041 Low Gap Road; 8 p.m.;$15/seniors and students, $18/adult; 462-9226.

WILD HOG CEILI BAND -- Irish jigs, reels, and horn-pipes; Shanachie Pub; 50 S. Main, Willits; 9 p.m.; $3cover; 459-9194.

HOOKAH STEW -- Garage/Soul/powerpop music;Ukiah Brewing Company; 101 S. State St., Ukiah; 9:30p.m.; $7 cover; 468-5898.

DJ DANCE MUSIC -- DJ dance music with Patti;Perkins Street Lounge; 228 E. Perkins St., Ukiah; 10 p.m.

SATURDAY HOWARD LYMAN -- Cattle rancher/nutritional speak-

er; Mendocino College Little Theater; 1000 HensleyCreek Road, Ukiah; 3 to 5 p.m.; and City of 10,000Buddhas Main Hall; 4951 Bodhi Way, Ukiah; 7:30 to 9p.m.

AN EVENING OF REVERENCE -- Benefit concert ofmusic and spoken word; Ukiah Methodist Church; 205 N.Bush St., Ukiah; 7 p.m.; donation of $7 to $20.

AMOR LOCO -- Acoustic world music; Shanachie Pub;50 S. Main, Willits; 9 p.m.; $5 cover; 459-9194.

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COUNTRY BOYS BAND -- Dance music; Bartlett Hall;495 Leslie St., Ukiah; dance 7 to 10 p.m.; $8 and $9cover; all adults welcome.

‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ -- Live performance;Mendocino College, Center Theatre; 1000 Hensley CreekRoad, Ukiah; 8 p.m.; $15 general, $12 students andseniors; 468-3172.

BRET SLAUGHTER -- Hosue/techno music; UkiahBrewing Company; 101 S. State St., Ukiah; 9 p.m.; $5cover; 468-5898.

DJ DANCE MUSIC -- DJ dance music with Patti;Perkins Street Lounge; 228 E. Perkins St., Ukiah; 10 p.m.

SUNDAYBLUE SKY BAND -- At the Moose Lodge’s St. Patrick’s

dance and potluck; Moose Lodge; 1282 S. State St.,Ukiah; Members, guests, and friends of the band wel-come; $7 cover; food at 1 p.m., music at 2 p.m.

‘ARE WE ALMOST THERE?’ -- Musical comedyrevue; Ukiah Playhouse; 1041 Low Gap Road; 2 p.m.;$12/seniors and students, $15/adult; 462-9226.

‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ -- Live performance;Mendocino College, Center Theatre; 1000 Hensley CreekRoad, Ukiah; 2 p.m.; $15 general, $12 students andseniors; 468-3172.

SOR ENSEMBLE -- String quintet; Preston Hall;Mendocino; 3 p.m.; $15 general, under 18 free; 964-0898.

HOWARD LYMAN -- Cattle rancher/nutritional speaker,at Ukiah VegFest; Saturday Afternoon Club; 107 S. OakSt., Ukiah; 3:30 to 4 p.m.

MONDAYMICROPHONE NIGHT -- Sing or play an instrument;

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THIRD ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH --Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onions;Ukiah United Methodist Church; 205 N. Pine; 11 a.m. to 2p.m.; $9 advance, $10 at the door; 462-3360.

MARK WESTON BAND -- Rock and pop; ShanachiePub; 50 S. Main, Willits; 8 p.m.; $4 cover; 459-9194.

TUESDAYKARAOKE -- Karaoke and DJ dancing; Perkins Street

Lounge; 228 E. Perkins St., Ukiah; 8 p.m.; free.TAHITIAN DANCE -- Every Tuesday night; Mendocino

Ballet Studio; 205 S. State St.; Ukiah; ages 11 to 99; 5:30to 6:30 p.m.; $8 to $11.

WEDNESDAYOPEN MIC NIGHT -- Open Mic; Ukiah Brewing Co.;

102 S. State St., Ukiah; 8:30 p.m.; free; 468-5898.

By CAROLE HESTER Special for the Journal

Mix a little of this and a little ofthat and Voila! Something new is cre-ated out of something old.Some “old-timers” from the community are per-forming with 65 choral students fromUkiah High School at the coolestplace in town -- the sock hop.

This fundraiser dinner takes placein the 1950s on Saturday, March 15,beginning at 5:30 p.m. in theCafetorium. Tables and individualseating are still available.

Surprise “guests” are part of the funof a murder mystery revolving around

1950s style dance competition.“Gather all the usual suspects” -- afamous line in the movie“Casablanca,” might come into playhere. You’ll see flat tops and poodleskirts, duck tails and cat-eye glasses.Students will sing songs, dance andperform small stage vignettes.

Vintage cars will add to the festiveatmosphere as will several period con-tests: hula hoops, bubble gum, andElvis impersonations.

Eddie Caires and his crew aredoing diner duty featuring burgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers and cherry sodasand floats.The audience is invited to

dress up as part of the fun.Tickets are$25 each; tables for six are $150.Children 12 and under are $15. Topurchase tickets, call Robin at 463-0910 or Kitty Britton at 463-5253, ext.1044.

Make checks payable to UkiahHigh School and mail to: Ukiah HighSchool, Attn. Denise Doering, 1000Low Gap Rd., Ukiah.

This is a major fundraiser for thechoir department that presents threeconcerts a year.As this is at the highschool, it is a tobacco and alcohol freeevent.A fantastic silent auction andstudent store will be available.

‘Murder at the Hop’ mystery dinner

Students rehearsing for Ukiah High School’s fundraiser -- “Murder at the Hop” -- are, from left: AubreyMacMillan (9th grade); Rebecca Hoehn, (7th grade); Jaylene Hagins (9th grade); Andrea Gulbranson (9thgrade). Choral Music Director Denise Doering directs the group, accompanied by Elizabeth MacDougall.Advance ticket purchase is recommended, but there may be a few tickets available for purchase at thedoor. For tickets or information, call 463-5253, ext. 1040 or 1044.

By KATE MARIANCHILDSpecial for the Journal

John James Audubon,famous naturalist, ornitholo-gist, and artist, is best knownfor his book “The Birds ofAmerica” and the NationalAudubon Society that wasnamed after him.

A self-taught scientist, he isalso known for the astoundingnumbers of new species hefound during his lifetime. FewAmericans are familiar with hisdramatic life, however -- hisbirth in Haiti in 1785 to aHaitian chambermaid and aFrench sea captain, his “LittleLord Fauntleroy” childhood inFrance, or the time he wasjailed and driven from aKentucky town at age 34.

The story of Audubon’sextraordinary character andamazing achievements is toldin the award-winning movie“John James Audubon: Drawnfrom Nature,” to be shown onThursday, March 20 at theUkiah Civic Center, 7 p.m. Areview by Editor’s Choice(Booklist), describes the movieas “…visually stunning andtotally engrossing…the artist’spersonal and professional lifeare gloriously revealed in thisriveting program that empha-sizes Audubon’s creativegenius and lasting legacy.” Andfrom Plenty Magazine:“‘Drawn From Nature’ deliverslessons truly worth applying toyour own life, like…if at first

you don’t succeed, sail toEngland and see if they’ll pub-lish your book.”

John James Audubon’sinterest in nature developedduring his childhood in France,where he tied colored yarn onthe legs of phoebes, the betterto understand their lives. (He isnow recognized as the first per-son in the world known to havebanded birds). He also con-ducted home grown experi-ments that proved that TurkeyVultures find their food withtheir eyes rather than theirnoses, as was commonlythought.

Audubon left France in 1803to avoid conscription inNapoleon’s army. In the UnitedStates his multiple talents andinterests found many outlets as

he worked as a merchant, sales-man, teacher, hunter, woods-man, artist, scientist, and itiner-ant portrait painter. When anattempted career as a merchantresulted in jail for debt and lossof all of his family’s posses-sions, he picked himself up,parted from his adored wifeand children for a year or so,and embarked on what becamean 18-year quest to collect andpaint all the birds of NorthAmerica. In 1826, unable tofind a publisher for his engrav-ings in the United States, heonce again refused to admitdefeat, and took his work toEngland. The instant recogni-tion and legendary status hewas accorded in England even-tually bounced back to theUnited States, where he ended

his life in fame and comfort. Hecontinued to write and illustratebooks until he lost his eyesight.

A man of paradoxes andextremes, Audubon was ascomfortable sleeping on coldground as luxuriating in a 4-poster European bed. He was athome hunting bears withShawnee Indians for months ata time in a frozen wildernessand playing exquisite violin inupper class parlors. “Drawnfrom Nature” explores the fullrange of his complex personal-ity, revealing charm, child-likevanity, and myriad insecuritiesalong with iron determinationand supreme self-confidence.Audubon’s triumphs are all themore remarkable in the light ofhis separation from his motherin early childhood and hisAfro-Haitian identity in aracially prejudiced world.

This Peregrine AudubonSociety event is free to the pub-lic, though donations will behappily accepted. To joinPeregrine Audubon Societyand receive a newsletter withregular announcements aboutprograms and field trips, pleasesend $15 to PAS, P.O. Box 311,Ukiah, CA 95482. For moreinformation go to www.pere-grineaudubon.org. The UkiahCivic Center is located at 300Seminary Avenue. From 101take Perkins west to StateStreet (3rd light). Go left onState Street and take the thirdright onto Seminary.

‘John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature’to screen March 20 at Ukiah Civic Center

Quilters’ Guild Grant applications available now

The Redwood Empire Quilters’ Guild announces thatapplications for spring 2008 grants/fellowships are nowavailable from the Humboldt Area Foundation. They invitetextile artists from Sonoma County to southwestern Oregonto apply. Grants will be awarded in the range of $100 to$1,000.

The Quilters’ Guild created this fund to provide grantsand fellowships to encourage interest, education and activi-ties in the broad field of textile arts.

Example of textile arts include wearable art, sewing,

quilting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, fabric manipulationand dyeing.

Grant applications are available from the Humboldt AreaFoundation. The deadline for submission of grant applica-tions is April 10. For more information, contact theHumboldt Area Foundation at 442-2993.

First Willits Chili Cook Off set for this Friday

The Harrah Center invites the community to the firstWillits Chili Cook Off, from 6 to 8 p.m., on Friday.

The event will take place at the Harrah Center, at 1501Baechtel Road, in Willits. Taster tickets will be $7 foradults, and $4 for children; the entry for the cook off con-testants will be $25, and there will be a raffle. Event pro-ceeds will benefit the senior center.

For more information, call 459-6826.

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F O R U MEditor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 udj@pacific.net

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From the desk of...Clarification of views

To the Editor: I would like to clarify my statements

quoted in the March 5 article aboutPlowshares’ taking on Meals-on-Wheelsseniors formerly served by the IndianSenior Center until its contract was termi-nated by the Area Agency on Aging.

It was not my intent to blame our localArea Agency on Aging, or the SocialServices staff involved in its programs.AAA staff worked hard on the IndianSenior Centers’ compliance issues foryears, and are now going far out of theirway to assist Plowshares in accepting thefunding on an emergency basis. I believethe problem is not with AAA or even ISCbut with the demanding federal fundingparameters that seem to be designed forlarger-scale populations and agencies. Theprotocols and restrictions attached to thefunds would be acceptable in a largeagency receiving funding for large quanti-ties of seniors, but for smaller nonprofits inmore rural areas, it is quite a challenge tomake it work.

Five times in the last 10 years, fourUkiah nonprofit agencies (the IndianSenior Center, the Ukiah Senior Centertwice, Plowshares in 97-98, and NorthCoast Opportunities when they adminis-tered AAA), have had serious difficultieshandling AAA Home-Delivered Mealsfunds. There clearly seems to be a problem;perhaps it would be appropriate for the fed-eral government to ease some of therestrictions for relatively lower-population-density areas like ours. Until that happens,it seems likely that both our local AreaAgency on Aging and the agencies that usetheir contracts, despite everyone’s bestefforts, may continue having problems withthe feasibility of this funding.

Plowshares applauds the efforts ofeveryone who is working, sometimesagainst all odds, to address our localhunger need in all its manifestations.

Thank you for this opportunity to clarifymy statements.

Mary BuckleyPlowshares Executive Director

Ukiah

Outrage misplacedTo the Editor:Regarding Tina Smith’s letter about

Animal Control failing to pick up a deadcat. She blasts the agency for being lazyand is so concerned that some poor kidmight see a dead animal. I ask you Tina,did you call Animal Control and ask themwhat the delay was?

Apparently not, you just go into a tiradeabout how lazy they must be.

Did you consider the fact they may havebeen too busy to get out there, or that afteryou were told they would be right out thatmaybe some higher priority calls came in?

As for the kids seeing a dead cat, justtake a moment and see what the kids arewatching on T.V. A dead cat would be abreath of fresh air compared to the violenceon T.V.

I, for one, am for smaller government. Ithink it is great that your “poor” husbandwent out there with a shovel and took careof the situation. I have picked up a deaddeer near my residence more that once, anddrove it to Animal Control and dropped itoff.

Tina, get over it. A dead cat in the roadis no big deal, and next time call theagency up and at least get their side ofwhat happened before writing a letter blast-ing them.

Robert SchusterRedwood Valley

Paving a waste and a blightTo the Editor:What a waste of money! The city wants

to put a new side walk, where there isn’tone now, from the corner of Franklin and

South Dora, up Dora street. I am reallyfrustrated by this.

First of all, it is really beautiful andpeaceful here. In order to do this project,the very nature of this area will be ruined.All of the homes here will lose landscap-ing, trees, and bushes that give this area it’sspecial character and beauty, in order toconnect that corner to the already existingside walk up the block. And what for? Forthe five people a day I actually see walkingdown this street every day. The kids fromthe local school don’t go down this block.The school bus takes them up and downevery day. The most annoying part is, Iwouldn’t have even known about it if Ihadn’t run into the surveyors yesterday.When asked, they said there would nothave been any notices posted. They willtear out my favorite bush, tear town mostof my large front fence, cut down a tree,and move my mailbox! Imagine cominghome to that after work with no notice!

Oh and now a few houses that were outof sight, are going to be out in the open,and much more easily accessible to thecriminal elements on Franklin and Laws.

Thanks a lot Ukiah! What about puttingthis sidewalk across the street where thereis absolutely nothing in the way? Oh wait,the rich folks live on that side. Wouldn’twant to disturb them!

Raven HoudekUkiah

Don’t blame pot, blameofficers

To the Editor:Recently, there were two “high profile”

court cases involving medical marijuanathat had all the evidence seized during theexecution of search warrants suppressed.The judges in both cases cited the “inten-tional omission of material facts” in theHamburg case and “This case was not adaytime knock-and-talk but a 3 a.m. snoopby officers whose intent by their own can-did omission was to get probable cause’ fora warrant” in the Pinches case. I have sinceread letters to the editor from outraged citi-zens about our system failed. How comeno one is outraged at the illegal activitiesof these officers involved? These officersviolated the rights of these two individuals.

Some of you may not care. They weregrowing pot, so they deserve it, right?Wrong!

To those of you who are outraged at the“failed system” remember one thing: if theofficers had done their job properly, theevidence would not have been suppressed.Be outraged at officers who snoop on yourproperty at 3 a.m., not the judges who sup-pressed the evidence and for upholding notonly their rights, but your rights.

Maybe it is time for Sheriff Allman toretrain these officers in basic police proce-dures instead of promoting them so our taxdollars are not wasted on futile prosecu-tions that cannot go anywhere because lawenforcement violated procedure.

If law enforcement can do it to them,they can do it to you. Law enforcement justneeds to believe you are guilty, even if youare not, to do anything they want. Andsome are actually getting away with it.

Jeanette BogueUkiah

Letters from our readers

EJ DIONNE JR.

V i s i t o u r w e b s i t e a t u k i a h d a i l y j o u r n a l . c o me m a i l u s a t u d j @ p a c i f i c . n e t

E.J. Dionne Jr. began his twice-weekly op-ed column for The Washington Post in 1993.In 1996, it was syndicated by TheWashington Post Writers Group, and he nowappears in more than 90 newspapers in theUS and abroad.

In our opinion

Liberals who have sung the praises of John McCainin the past confront a fascinating test of consistency,integrity and political commitment now that McCainis the virtually certain Republican nominee.

It could be an amusing moment. I should know,since I’m one of them.

Over the years, I’ve said a lot of nice things aboutMcCain. In 1996, I suggested that Bob Dole pick himas his running mate. (Dole didn’t listen.) I praisedMcCain’s work on campaign finance reform, admiredhim for opposing President Bush’s tax cuts and wasupset when he was being cut down by the Bushmachine in 2000. I wrote a friendly review of one ofMcCain’s books, and even once asked, in print, thatGod bless him (for his refusal to bash immigrants).

Even my punditry has been sympathetic to McCain.In July of 1999, I said he’d emerge as the main chal-lenger to George W. Bush, and I pointed to the begin-nings of a 2008 McCain comeback in early Novemberof last year.

Please forgive those self-referential paragraphs. Ioffer them to underscore that the problem I’m writingabout is not somebody else’s. It’s mine.

Liberals can’t ignore their past praise of McCainand trash him now just because he’s the Republicannominee. After all, isn’t he the guy many liberals oncewanted the GOP to nominate?

Yet neither does it make sense for liberals to ignoreall the issues on which they disagree with McCain --for starters, his commitment to continuing the occupa-tion of Iraq indefinitely, his flip-flopping on those taxcuts, his opposition to government-sponsored univer-sal health coverage -- even if aspects of his personaare appealing.

McCain made the liberals’ work easier by renounc-ing parts of his past so he could win this year’sRepublican nomination. His reversal on taxes isbreathtaking, and he doesn’t even own up to why heopposed Bush’s tax cuts in the first place.

His new position is that he’s for making the Bushtax cuts permanent simply because he never wants tovote for a tax increase. But if these tax cuts were a badidea, why should they be continued?

And McCain now claims he opposed the Bush taxcuts because they were not accompanied by spendingcuts. But that wasn’t his thrust at the time. “I cannot ingood conscience support a tax cut in which so many ofthe benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at theexpense of middle-class Americans who most needtax relief,” he said in 2001. Too bad that John McCainisn’t running this year.

His efforts to pander to the religious right that he sobravely opposed in 2000 (he called Pat Robertson andthe late Jerry Falwell “agents of intolerance”) aren’tvery attractive, either.

And it’s mystifying that while Barack Obama hasbeen willing -- in the phrase he made fashionable -- to“reject and denounce” Louis Farrakhan because ofFarrakhan’s anti-Semitism, McCain hasn’t gone near-ly as far in dealing with Pastor John Hagee. The evan-gelical leader, who called the Roman Catholic Church“the great whore,” has endorsed McCain. McCain dis-tanced himself from Hagee’s anti-Catholicism -- thereare, after all, a lot of Catholic swing voters -- but whyis McCain so reluctant to use much stronger languageabout Hagee himself?

All this points to what is maddening about McCain.At times, he has acted with courage and honor. Atother times, he behaves like a crafty politician. Thereis an independent side to McCain that has made himan authentic maverick. But on so many issues, he isnothing more (or less) than a thoroughly conventionalconservative politician.

Perhaps the issue that matters most, especially toliberals, is his turnabout on Bush himself. Face it:Many liberals found McCain most attractive when hewas being smeared and assaulted by Bush’s lieu-tenants in the 2000 campaign. The more theRepublican establishment attacked him, the more anti-establishment McCain became. Liberals loved that.

But McCain got to where he is now by making hispeace with Bush. Notably on Iraq but also on eco-nomics, he seems to be running for George W.’s thirdterm. That’s not what the country needs.

So what’s the path of integrity for one-time McCainfans on the center and left? It would be to base ourjudgments on the extent to which the rebelliousMcCain we admired has given way to the McCainwho is as conservative as he always said he was --even if many liberals (and, for different reasons, manyconservatives) didn’t want to believe him.

Liberals facetest on McCain

We are at a loss to understand how four ofseven board members at the MendocinoOffice of Education, could have bought intoSuperintendent Paul Tichinin’s latest requestfor more money.

Mr. Tichinin’s $5,000 salary hike to$116,000 last year was outrageous. Thisyear, here he comes again.

“It’s not fair, everyone gets paid morethan me,” he whines, and once again, thesepeople bought it.

Two of the board members, LindaHelland and Charline Ford are new to theboard and perhaps they just haven’t had

enough experience watching Mr. Tichininroller skate through his job, gathering upmore income every year.

But Nice Alterman and Stephanie Hoyshould know better.

We appreciate Diane Zucker, EdNickerman and Bob Shugart’s “no” votesand wonder that the other board members,having just been told that MCOE will face$400,000 in cuts next year, can justify givingMr. Tichinin another undeserved $4,000,bringing his annual salary to $120,000.

As Ms. Zucker very rightly put it, “Whenis enough, enough?”

Enough is enough

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President George Bush: The WhiteHouse, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washing-ton, D.C. 20500; (202) 456-1111, FAX(202)456-2461.

Governor Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger: State Capitol, Sacramento, 95814.(916) 445-2841; FAX (916)445-4633

Sen. Barbara Boxer: 112 Hart Sen-ate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510;(202)224-3553; San Francisco, (415) 403-0100 FAX (415) 956-6701

Sen. Dianne Feinstein: 331 HartSenate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C.20510. (202)224-3841 FAX (202) 228-3954; San Francisco (415) 393-0707; sen-ator@feinstein.senate.gov

Congressman Mike Thompson:1st District, 231 Cannon Office Bldg,Washington, D.C. 20515. (202) 225-3311;FAX (202)225-4335. Fort Bragg districtoffice, 430 N. Franklin St., PO Box 2208,Fort Bragg 95437; 962-0933,FAX 962-0934;

www.house.gov/write repAssemblywoman Patty Berg: State

Assembly District 1, Capitol, Rm. 4146,Sacramento, 95814. (916) 319-2001;Berg's Ukiah field representative is RuthValenzuela. Ukiah office located at 311 N.State St, Ukiah, 95482, 463-5770. Theoffice’s fax number is 463-5773. For emailgo to web site: assembly.ca.gov/Berg

Senator Pat Wiggins: State SenateDistrict 2, Capitol Building, Room 5100,Sacramento, 95814. (916) 445-3375Email: senator.wiggins@sen.ca.gov. InUkiah: Kathy Kelley at 200 S. School St,468-8914, email: kathy.kelley@sen.ca.gov

Mendocino County Supervisors:Michael Delbar, 1st District; Jim Watten-burger, 2nd District; John Pinches, 3rdDistrict; Kendall Smith, 4th District;David Colfax, 5th District. All can bereached by writing to 501 Low Gap Road,Room 1090, Ukiah, 95482, 463-4221,FAX 463-4245. bos@co.mendocino.ca.us

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The Daily JournalThe Bookbuilders West

crash course in book produc-tion basics will be held for thefirst time in MendocinoCounty on Friday, April 18, inthe Abalone Room at theLittle River Inn.

The course is designed forindependent publishers, new-comers to the industry, peopleinterested in a career in pub-lishing, as well as other pub-lishing-industry professionalsworking in editorial, market-ing, or sales. The BBW CrashCourse is being produced byBookbuilders Northcoast, theMendocino-based affiliate ofBookbuilders West.

A Bay area publishinginstitution, the Crash Courseis an all day workshop.Michele Bisson Savoy, presi-dent of Bookbuilders Westand senior sales representativefor Quebecor World, willoversee the day’s events.

Presenters will offer sixsessions designed to give anoverview of the processesnecessary to take a book pro-ject from concept to finalproduct: “ManuscriptPreparation andCopyediting,” by DeanBurrell from ChronicleBooks; “Book Design,” byMark Ong from Side by SideStudios; “Art Programs,” byCynthia Frank of CypressHouse; “Typography and

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A certificate will be award-ed upon completion of theCrash Course.

This is a one-day course,and the cost is $75 per person,which including a Continentalbreakfast, lunch, and thecourse materials. Advancedregistration is required andspace is limited.

On Thursday, April 17,Bookbuilders Northcoast willhost a mixer to welcome theBBW Crash Course partici-pants, presenters, and otherout-of-town guests. TheBBNC Mixer will be heldfrom 4 to 6 p.m. in theAbalone Room of the LittleRiver Inn. Light appetizersand refreshments will beserved. The cost for admit-tance is $10 per person. Thedeadline for reservations forboth events is Monday, March31. For more information,visit their web site athttp://www.bookbuilders.org.

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By HARI MEYERSSpecial for the Journal

The Willits Community Theatre pre-sents a special ‘08 Readers TheatreSeries focusing on the “The Life andLegend of King Arthur,” as told by mas-ter storyteller Hari Meyers.

The series begins March 25 and runsfour consecutive Tuesdays through April15. Each performance starts at 7 p.m.and all tickets are $5, available atLeaves of Grass Books by calling 459-3744 or at the door.

• Tuesday, March 25 -- The Life andLegend of King Arthur: This is theoverview and framework for the entirecycle or canon of tales. The life and leg-end of King Arthur follows the patternsof both the Hero and the World Savior.It flows from his miraculous birth to hisdrawing the Sword from the Stone. Itrelates his ceaseless efforts to uniteBritain in a vision of peace and harmo-ny. His goal was to bring mankind to ahigher order of existence. Arthur’s storyis both archetypal and compelling. Withthe establishment of the Round Table heintends to raise his kingdom to an idealexistence. The dream and its inevitablefailure to manifest itself are poignantand timeless themes. Behind this vision

is the guidance of the holy man of thetime, Merlin.

• Tuesday, April 1 -- Gawain andLancelot: We examine, compare andcontrast the two major knights of theRound Table to see what their philoso-phy teaches us of the essential qualitiesof the masculine, the animus half of thepsyche. Gawain is fascinating as hegrows and changes throughout the cycleof tales. (I will present two classic tales,Gawain and the Green Knight andGawain and Dame Ragnell). Lancelot isunique since he is perfect from the out-set, the ideal male. He is, in fact, toogood for a corrupt world. We follow himthrough his early promise, to his adul-tery, through his period of madness, tohis reconciliation with his king.

• Tuesday, April 8 -- Tristan andIseult: This is the ultimate tale of roman-tic love, its allure -- the exalted trancewe feel when in the presence of theBeloved. This is about love’s addiction,the obsessive-compulsive need to riskand endanger all to be with the Beloved.Love’s ultimate tragedy is the impossi-bility of

its ever satisfying the immensehunger it engenders. This is the classictale of the Love Potion. Tristan is a great

knight from the civilized land ofCornwall. Iseult is the beautiful princessfrom the wild and mystical Ireland. Theyare denied and cheated of what mighthave been successful and fulfilling livesby their all consuming passion for oneanother. See if this timeless tale has any-thing to teach us today about our ownaddictions, romantic and otherwise.

• Tuesday, April 15 -- Parsival and theHoly Grail: A great redeeming tale ofthe Arthurian canon, the search andquest for the Holy Grail, that which willbless, restore and make sacred thevision. Chivalry contained the seeds ofits own corruption due to the human egoof the knights. It takes the tests and tri-als of an innocent, Parsival, to move thequest from personal fame and aggran-dizement to the healing of the communi-ty and the land itself. This tale movesthe vision from the hero’s too often self-ish preoccupation with his own fame tothe redemptive and corrective devotionto the divine. Heroism is matured in thistale from adventure to service.

The WCT playhouse is located at 37W. Van Lane in downtown Willits.Advance tickets can be purchased bycalling Leaves of Grass Books at 459-3744.

‘The Life & Legend of King Arthur’ at WCT

Last chance to submit haikus to ukiaHaiku festival is Saturday

writing haikueyes open widein wonder

The ukiaHaiku festival invites submission of haiku by peo-ple of all ages by March 15. Haiku are brief 3-line poems thatoffer a “snapshot” of a scene without using rhyme, punctuation,or alliteration. This year the ukiaHaiku festival is acceptingentries in either the traditional 5-7-5 format or the contempo-rary (non-syllable counting) format for most categories.

All categories are free of charge except “AdultContemporary Haiku,” which costs $5 for up to three poems.Submissions can be emailed to ukiahaiku08@yahoo.com.(Checks for the Adult Contemporary category must be mailedseparately). Modest prizes are offered, along with publicationin a book and the opportunity for the winner to read their win-ning haiku at the ukiaHaiku festival on April 27. For haikuguidelines, examples, and submission forms go to www.ukia-haiku.org. Forms are also available at the bookmobile and otherlibraries around the county, and at Grace Hudson Museum.

Wildlife Film Series to conclude with ‘Christmas in Yellowstone’and ‘Climate Chaos Season’

Ukiah’s International Wildlife Film series will conclude onFriday, March 14, with two feature films, “Christmas inYellowstone” and “Climate Chaos Season.” One of the films,“Climate Chaos Season,” contains the strongest environmentalmessage yet presented in the series. The Ukiah Civic Centerwill open at 6:30 p.m. with songs and acoustic guitar by NancyJoy Evans, refreshments, and convivial social time. Thoseinterested in attending should note that, unlike other nights ofthe film series, thel films will start at 7 p.m. Tickets are avail-able at the door and at Mendocino Book Company for a sug-gested donation of $10. Proceeds benefit the Redwood ValleyOutdoor Education Project.

Designated America’s (and the world’s) first national park in1872, Yellowstone today receives almost 3 million visitors eachyear. Yet only a very small fraction of those who glimpse thepark’s vistas, geological wonders and animal residents do soduring the winter months -- a time when Yellowstone’s inhos-pitable conditions are matched only by its serenity. The filmtrails alongside author and photographer Tom Murphy, who hasbeen visiting Yellowstone for the past two winters, campingand photographing amid the silence and solitude of the park.

In “Climate Chaos Season,” David Attenborough exploresjust how far climate change is altering our planet. He searchesfor evidence that it is our daily activities that are radicallychanging our climate, leaving the future of Planet Earth largelyup to us.

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This week:

• TODAY, UHS varsity softball vs.Piner 4 p.m.

• TODAY, Mendocino baseball @Contra Costa, 2:30 p.m.

• TODAY, UHS varsity boys’ golfvs. Elsie Allen, 3:30 p.m.

Spring Break SportsSampler Camp

Come join Mendo womens’ headbasketball coach Jody Steliga fora spring break camp where youcan learn various different sports.

The camp is for 1st-6th gradegirls from March 25-27th, 9 a.m.-4p.m.

Registration fee is $60 for thethree full days or $50 for a regis-tered girl scout. The registrationdeadline is March 14th.

The camp will be held atMendocino College.

The girls will be taught basket-ball, volleyball, cheerleading, soc-cer, dance and much more.

For questions call Jody Steliga468-3166 or Barb Del Secco 524-9203.

Ukiah Babe Ruthcoaches needed

The new Ukiah Babe Ruthleague is in need of coaches . Toapply visit the website atwww.leaguelineup.com/ukiah-baberuth or call Kris at 468-3800or Linda at 463-0944 for ques-tions.

Tryouts begin April 5th.

South Ukiah LittleLeague umpires andscorekeepers neededfor ‘08 season

The South Little League of Ukiahis in need of umpires and score-keepers. Contact Tim Schmarekewith South Ukiah Little League at367-1070.

2008 Spring BreakBasketball Camp

Come join the fun at the fouthannual 2008 Spring Break basket-ball camp. Camp is for boys andgirls between the ages o f 7 and17. It will take place from March24th to March 28th 8:30 a.m.-1p.m. The registration fee is $100.

Players will learn basic andadvanced skills of basketball fromshooting, passing, dribbling,defense, fast break and team play.Whether you are a beginner oradvanced this camp is for you.Lots of 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 gamesto develop skills.

The camp will be taught by localcollege, high school and middleschool coaches. There will bedaily prizes for contest winnersand weekly trophies for 1-on-1,free throw, on the board, hot shot,and 3-point contests. Eachcamper receives a t-shirt and bas-ketball.

For info call 463-6714. You canregister at City of Ukiah offices.

Adult Softball Leagues

Registration for men’s andwomen’s softball leagues are nowopen.

An informational meeting will beheld at 6:30 p.m. on March 20th atThe Pub in Ukiah.

League play is scheduled tobegin in early May.

Team fees are $450 for thesponsor fee and individual fee of$30 for those without a team(make checks payable to City ofUkiah).

The priority placement deadlinefor returning teams is March 21stand the final deadline is April11th. Register early, space is lim-ited.

Women’s SlowpitchSoftball

The Ukiah Women’s AthleticAssociation is taking sign up’s forwomen’s slowpitch softball teamsfor the 2008 season. $475 is thecost per team; there are no indi-vidual fees.

Please contact Pokie at 972-1719 us by March 31, 2008.

Girls 6-on-6 Soccer League

Registration for the 2008 girls 6-on-6 youth soccer league is cur-rently open and running throughMarch 28th.

Teams will consist of girls ages13 through 19.

The registration fee is $200 perteam while player fees of $20 willbe collected at the first gameswith team rosters.

Teams will be scheduled for 12games (6 double-headers) onSundays from late April throughearly June.

For questions regarding theleague or to register your team,please contact 463-6714.

Select Soccer Pumas

UVYSL is holding theCompetitive Soccer Team Tryoutsthe weekend of April 5-6 and theweek of April 7-11. Tryouts are forBoy s and girls U10-U19. Pleasevisit our website at www.uvysl.orgor call our hotline at 467-9797 for

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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — LukeHochevar was impressive in his firstspring training start, and MiguelOlivo’s homer and two doubles helpedthe Kansas City Royals beat the LosAngeles Angels 6-3 Wednesday.

Hochevar, shooting for a spot in theRoyals’ rotation, recovered from arocky first inning, allowing six hitsand two runs in four innings in histhird exhibition appearance. DraftedNo. 1 overall in 2006, he gave up bothruns in the first on a triple by VladimirGuerrero and a single by GaryMatthews Jr.

“The thing that I was pleased withis that he got hit pretty good in the firstinning and he held it together against a

very good lineup and a very goodteam,” Royals manager Trey Hillmansaid. “His composure has been consis-tently good regardless of what theresults were in any one specificinning.”

Hochevar had not allowed a run infour innings coming into the game. Hepitched 2 2-3 scoreless innings in hisprevious outing, a “B” game againstTexas.

“I’m amped up and I know that,” hesaid. “I’m ready to get after it and I’vegot to recognize that and stay withinmy delivery and keep my downwardangle and attack the strike zone.”

Hochevar, 0-1 with a 2.13 ERA infour games with the Royals last sea-

son, said he doesn’t worry about mak-ing the team.

“My focus is on the day-in, day-outprocess of trying to make myself bet-ter,” he said. “Obviously, I’m youngand have a lot to learn. Today was agood learning experience and I’ve gotto continue that progress.

“I want to pitch in the big leaguesand I want to pitch in the big leaguesfor a long time. But I’ve got to staylocked in to the process and the thingsthat are going to get me there.”

Hochevar also was pleased that heworked his way out of a rough firstinning.

“You don’t want to give up two runsand three hits in the first inning, but

I’m pleased that I made that adjust-ment and got through it and I compet-ed,” he said. “One thing I hang my haton is that I’m never going to be out-competed or outfought.”

Olivo had two doubles off formerChicago White Sox teammate JonGarland, who allowed seven hits andthree runs in four innings. Another for-mer teammate, Ross Gload, hit a two-run homer off Garland as well. Olivoconnected against Nick Green in theeighth.

Kansas City’s Alex Gordon went 2-for-3 to raise his spring average to.346.

Guerrero, Garret Anderson andMaicer Izturis had two hits apiece forthe Angels.

SPRING TRAINING | ANGELS

Hochevar impressive as Royals beat Angels 6-3

SPRING TRAINING | A’S

Eveland strikes back

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Oakland A’s outfielder Jack Cust watches as the ball he hit travels over the fence in left field during a gamelast season. Cust has been having a solid preseason so far with the A’s.

By JANIE McCAULEYAssociated Press

PHOENIX — Dana Eveland walkedoff the mound with his head held highafter a 1-2-3 third inning that featuredstrikeouts of two former teammates.

He couldn’t believe he got Eric Byrnesto swing at such a bad pitch.

Whatever frustrations Eveland mighthave felt toward his ex-bosses with theArizona Diamondbacks, Oakland’s newleft-hander was more than satisfied withhis outing Wednesday. He has a chance tomake the rotation for the Athletics, whodefeated the D-backs 2-1 in the onlyCactus League meeting between theclubs this spring.

This might have been the best Arizonahas ever seen Eveland.

“I bet, because I only threw fiveinnings for them last year,” he said with agrin. “I threw as many innings today as Idid for them all year last year. That’sprobably the first time they’ve seen methrow real well aside from Triple-A.”

Eveland struck out seven and didn’twalk a batter in five scoreless innings. Heretired six straight hitters during one

stretch before giving way to Keith Foulkefor the right-hander’s spring debut.

Foulke’s first appearance was pushedback from Monday so he could be withhis wife, Stacey, when she was hospital-ized three days after giving birth.Oakland’s closer for one season back in2003, the 35-year-old Foulke didn’t pitchlast season following three years with theBoston Red Sox.

He walked Orlando Hudson to start thesixth then allowed Byrnes’ double to leftand a sacrifice fly to Conor Jackson forArizona’s first run. But Foulke strandedByrnes at third by striking out MarkReynolds and getting Justin Upton to popup, ending the right-hander’s only inning.

Foulke ended his retirement for a$700,000, one-year contract that allowshim to earn $2.5 million more in bonus-es.

Emil Brown’s sacrifice fly in the firstscored Mark Ellis, who hit a leadoff dou-ble. Mike Sweeney, on a minor leaguecontract, added an RBI single.

D-backs starter Doug Davis walkedfour in four innings, and knew he gotupstaged by Eveland.

“It’s kind of typical Doug Davis, Iguess you could say,” he said. “At thesame time, I want to reverse that, espe-cially when my young padawan on theother side is out there throwing strikes.He threw the (heck) out of the balltoday.”

Notes: A’s RHP Justin Duchscherer isscheduled to pitch in a minor leaguegame Thursday on the team’s off day,while RHP Joe Blanton — the team’sopening day starter March 25 in Tokyo— will start an intrasquad game at thePapago Park minor league complex. ...Arizona’s Trot Nixon is playing a seriesof minor league games this week to workat 1B so the D-backs have some insur-ance behind Conor Jackson with ChadTracy still recovering from microfracturesurgery to his right knee. Tracy wasdoing agility drills Wednesday. ... A’sRHP Chad Gaudin, coming off surgerieson his left hip and right foot on Dec. 18,threw live batting practice for the firsttime. Geren hopes to use him in a gameMonday.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) —The Orlando Magic have alist of late-season goals writ-ten on the blackboard in theirlocker room. They were ableto erase the one at the topWednesday night.

Dwight Howard had 22points and 13 rebounds tohelp the Magic beat the LosAngeles Clippers 110-86,securing their first winningseason since the 2002-03 sea-son.

“We’ve got some guys inour locker room who havenever had a winning seasonand I think you’ve got toappreciate some of the thingsyou accomplish during a sea-son,” Magic coach Stan VanGundy said. “The next goal isto wrap up a playoff spot andthen win our division andsecure home-court for theplayoffs.”

Howard, playing on a win-ning team for the first time inhis four-year career, got hisleague-high 57th double-dou-ble this season. He also hadplenty of help.

Rashard Lewis had 19points and nine rebounds andHedo Turkoglu added 17points for the Magic, who putall five starters in double fig-ures by the end of the thirdquarter. Carlos Arroyo had 13points off the bench.

“It feels good to have awinning season, but we’re notsatisfied,” Howard said.“We’ve got a lot of stuff towork on for the playoffs. Wewant to be great so you’ve gotto push to get better.”

The Magic’s other note-worthy accomplishment washitting 11 3-pointers to givethem a league-leading 622this season, which ties a clubrecord for a single season.

Seven of the 3s came in thethird period, including fourstraight when the Clippershad pulled within nine points.Hedo Turkoglu hit three 3-pointers in that run as theMagic lead grew to 19 andthey coasted home from there.

“They were staying back inthe paint and leaving us wideopen so you’ve got to takethose shots,” Van Gundy said.“We usually hit a stretchwhere enough of them dropand we’re in pretty goodshape.”

The Clippers got 22 pointsfrom Corey Maggette and 17apiece from Cuttino Mobleyand Al Thornton, but werehampered by the absence ofcenter Chris Kaman. Hemissed his second straightgame with a sore back.

“I knew it was going to bea pretty long night againstDwight (Howard) withoutChris,” Los Angeles coachMike Dunleavy said. “Dwightwas just a nightmare matchupfor us. We had to collapse anddouble team him and theyhave too many good shooters.Sooner or later someone isgoing to catch fire.”

Trailing by 15 at halftime,the Clippers pulled to 69-60with 7:48 to play in the thirdquarter. However, JameerNelson hit a 3-pointer andTurkoglu added three straight3s to spark a 14-4 run thatpushed the Magic’s lead to83-64.

MAGIC 110 |CLIPPERS 88Howard’s 57thdouble-doublecarries Magicpast Clippers

By JOSH DUBOWAssociated Press

ALAMEDA — TheOakland Raiders have addedanother wide receiver, agree-ing to terms on a contractWednesday with free-agentDrew Carter.

The deal with Carter fol-lows the one given last weekto former Pro Bowl receiverJavon Walker as Oakland triesto surround quarterbackJaMarcus Russell with morebig-play options.

Carter’s agent, Joel Segal,

confirmed the deal, which hadnot been announced by theRaiders. Terms weren’t imme-diately available.

Carter set career highs lastseason with 38 catches for 517yards and four touchdowns forthe Carolina Panthers.

A fifth-round pick out ofOhio State in 2004, Cartermissed his first pro seasonwith a knee injury and has 71career catches for 977 yardsand eight touchdowns.

After losing receiver JerryPorter to Jacksonville through

free agency, the Raiders hadonly one wide receiver undercontract with more than sixcareer catches before addingWalker and Carter.

Russell, the No. 1 overallpick in last year’s draft, willenter next season as the No. 1quarterback after starting onlyone game as a rookie. TheRaiders are trying to do theirbest to give him as manyoptions as possible.

Ronald Curry led theRaiders with 55 receptions for717 yards last season, but had

only 11 catches in the finalfive games last season. Curryhas 174 career receptions for2,166 yards and 11 touch-downs.

The other receivers undercontract are Johnnie LeeHiggins, who had six catchesas a rookie last season for 47yards, Will Buchanon, whohas one career reception, andDrisan James and ToddWatkins, who have nevercaught a pass in the NFL.

Walker has 252 careercatches for 3,815 yards and 30scores.

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Shelley Duncan, his spikes up, slidhard and late into Tampa Bay secondbaseman Akinori Iwamura. JonnyGomes, at 225 pounds, came rushing infrom right field and barreled intoDuncan.

Don’t tell the New York Yankees andTampa Bay Rays these games don’tcount. They had a score to settle, springtraining or not.

Meeting only days after New Yorkmanager Joe Girardi complained aboutTampa Bay’s aggressive play in an exhi-bition game after one of his players wasinjured in a home-plate collision, theYankees brought some attitude of theirown into a testy rematch Wednesday.

Duncan’s slide into second base withhis spikes raised touched off a bench-clearing scrum that resulted in two play-ers and two coaches being ejected duringthe second inning of Tampa Bay’s 7-6victory in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Duncan, who had hinted at theprospect of retaliating for the Rays’ ElliotJohnson barreling over New York catcherFrancisco Cervelli last Saturday, spikedIwamura in the right thigh and wasimmediately tossed.

Gomes was ejected, too, after racing infrom right field and ramming intoDuncan as other players poured onto thefield.

Girardi called the home-plate collisionin the first game between the AL Eastrivals unnecessary. This time it was Raysmanager Joe Maddon’s turn to denouncerough play not normally associated withexhibition games.

“In Tampa, that play you saw at homeplate was a good, hard baseball play.What you saw today was the definition ofa dirty play,” Maddon said. “There’s noroom for that in our game. It’s con-temptible. It’s wrong. It’s borderlinecriminal, and I could not believe they didthat.”

Among New York players, Duncanwas the most vocal in his criticism of thecollision that broke Cervelli’s right wrist,sidelining the Yankees prospect for eightto 10 weeks and triggering a debate overwhat’s fair play in spring training.

The Yankees first baseman insisted hewasn’t trying to injure Iwamura.

“I’m pretty sure the spikes weren’t thathigh. They were pretty much goingstraight at the glove,” Duncan said. “I’vedone it before. Never had a reaction likethat.”

Yankees third-base coach BobbyMeacham and hitting coach Kevin Longalso were ejected by the umpires, whomet with Girardi and Maddon before the

game. Crew chief Jerry Crawford had nocomment afterward.

New York left-hander Heath Phillipswas ejected in the first inning after one ofhis pitches appeared to graze Longoria’sshirt. The Rays already had two runs andthree hits in the inning.

Girardi, criticized by former Yankeesbench coach and current Rays senioradviser Don Zimmer for comments theNew York manager made after Saturday’sgame, was unapologetic, adding that hewould have to see a replay to determine ifthe play was dirty.

The teams play again in a split-squadgame Saturday in Tampa. Once again,Girardi said he doesn’t expect any carry-over. The Rays, who will face theYankees 18 times during the regular sea-son, aren’t so sure.

“It’s going to be kind of hard for it notto,” Tampa Bay’s B.J. Upton said.

Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte wasscratched from his scheduled startbecause of irritation in his left elbow.Girardi said Pettitte will make his nextscheduled start in five days, and the prob-lem won’t keep the pitcher from beingready for the start of the season.

“It is nothing serious,” Girardi said.“He’s mad at us for not letting him throwtoday, but it was kind of an executivedecision that we made.”

Tampa Bay’s Rocco Baldelli willbegin the season on the disabled listbecause of a condition that the oft-injuredoutfielder says leaves him feelingextremely fatigued after short workouts.

Baldelli has been sidelined since lastMay because of lingering hamstringproblems. He has appeared in just 127 of486 games the past three seasons becauseof an assortment of injuries. This spring,he has played in two games, going 0-for-4 as a designated hitter.

Baldelli will be sidelined indefinitely,but said Wednesday he is not retiring. Hesaid there hasn’t been an exact diagnosisbut doctors told him he has “some type ofmetabolic and/or mitochondrial abnor-malities.”

“My body is literally spent after a veryshort amount of time out on the field,which makes it extremely frustrating anddifficult,” he said, at times appearing onthe verge of tears. “But it’s somethingthat’s kind of a reality right now, some-thing we’re dealing with the best that wecan.”

In other news, Toronto lost right-han-der Casey Janssen for the season with ashoulder injury, and Seattle released leftyHoracio Ramirez 15 months after he wasacquired from Atlanta in a trade for

reliever Rafael Soriano.In other spring training games:Red Sox 12, Twins 7At Fort Myers, Fla., Clay Buchholz

outpitched Francisco Liriano, and JoeMauer and Brendan Harris homered forMinnesota.

Tigers 11, Astros 4At Lakeland, Fla., Detroit manager

Jim Leyland used his projected opening-day lineup for the first time, and IvanRodriguez homered twice off Houstonstarter Woody Williams.

Marlins 13, Cardinals 7At Jupiter, Fla., Cameron Maybin hit

two of Florida’s five home runs, whileAlbert Pujols hit one of four for St. Louis.

Mets 6, Orioles 2At Port St. Lucie, Fla., Orlando

Hernandez threw 60 pitches in a simulat-ed game and said he expects to be readyfor opening day. Oliver Perez allowedone run and three hits in four inningsagainst Baltimore.

White Sox 4, Rockies 1At Tucson, Ariz., Javier Vazquez

pitched five shutout innings, allowingone hit while striking out seven in hissecond spring start.

Padres 11, Giants 5At Scottsdale, Ariz., Tim Lincecum

gave up four runs in the first inning forSan Francisco. San Diego’s Chris Younggave up three runs in four innings.

Blue Jays 4, Pirates 1At Dunedin, Fla., A.J. Burnett pitched

four solid innings and Vernon Wellshomered for Toronto.

Nationals 10, Dodgers 4At Vero Beach, Fla., Mike O’Connor

pitched five hitless innings forWashington. The Dodgers managed onlytwo hits, home runs by Andre Ethier andJamie Hoffman.

Royals 6, Angels 3At Tempe, Ariz., Luke Hochevar was

impressive in his first spring trainingstart, and Miguel Olivo had a home runand two doubles for Kansas City.

Athletics 2, Diamondbacks 1At Phoenix, Milwaukee’s Dana

Eveland pitched five scoreless inningsagainst his former team, striking outseven without a walk.

Mariners 5, Brewers 1At Peoria, Ariz., 38-year-old lefty

Arthur Rhodes pitched a perfect inning inhis first outing since last March forSeattle.

Rangers 5, Cubs 4At Surprise, Ariz., Gerald Laird home-

red twice for Texas, and Michael Youngalso connected.

MLB | SPRING NEWS & NOTESBenches clear during Yankees-Rays scuffle; 5 ejected

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Ukiah High swim team beatMontgomery High in both theboys Varsity and JV competi-tions.

In their first meet of theyear, the boys showed greatstrength and depth winning103-69 earning team points ineach race.

Senior Travis Clelandplaced first in the 200free(1:52.98), 100free(52.33), and in the 200free relay teaming up withNick Johnson, Leif Matternand Brett VanPatten. Placingnumber two in the free relay:

Chad Williams, TommyStover, Joey Selzer and CalumWeeks.

Freshman Marcus Ramirezplaced first in the 500 free(5:10.58), and second in the200IM. More points: PaulR i e m e n s c h n e i d e r(200IM,100breast), JakeHilliard (100 back,50 free),Frankie Thomas (100 fly,100breast).

The Varsity Girls swamwell but lost 80-103. In the200 free relay the girls tookfirst with the team of KatieBishop, Shayne Mattern,Shelby Cleland and MeganStark. Cleland placed first in

the 500 free(5:37.88). MileyMerrit, swimming the 100back(1:07.40), also placedfirst.

In other races seconds andthirds but just not enough totake the win. Jade Barrett,Jillian Clark, Kylie Carr,Katelyn Dunn, ChristineEmmerson, Molly Lehre, andAmanda Morris completed theteam and did a good job in thisfirst meet.

The JV team had somegreat races and won 97-68.The team of Megan Laughlin,Will Stone, Leah Blue andMacaela Stenbeck won the

200 medley relay, and theteam of Sami Ruddick,Jennifer Tovar, YiannoulaVlachos, and Dan Beardentook second. Laughlin alsotook first in the 100back(1:28.95). Stenbeck tookfirst in the 500 free(7:00.30).Also contrubuting to the JVwin: Kristof Radics, GraceMorrison, Andrea Dimas,Riley Manford, and DillonJivens.

On Thursday March 13, allthree Ukiah High swim teamswill compete against MariaCarrillo.

UKIAH | SWIM TEAMWildcats take both boys’ varsity and JV competitionsversus Montgomery Vikings

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP)— Hall of Fame managerTommy Lasorda’s secondgame as the Dodgers managerin place of Joe Torre left himfeeling a little sick.

Los Angeles managed justtwo hits, home runs by AndreEthier and minor leaguerJamie Hoffman, and theDodgers split squad fell 10-4to the Washington Nationalson Wednesday.

“Every time I looked up, Ikind of got sick,” said the 80-year-old Lasorda, filling in forTorre while he’s in China withpart of the Dodgers team thatwill play the San DiegoPadres twice this weekend.The Dodgers lost to Florida 7-6 in Lasorda’s first game astheir manager since he retiredin 1996.

The Dodgers have focusedon manufacturing runsthrough aggressive base-run-ning, but it only took them sofar against the Nationals.

“You’ve got to be able toget them on to do it,” Lasordasaid. “We scored two runswithout a hit. It was a toughday. We ran into a bad, bad

game today.”Mike O’Connor pitched

five hitless innings, walkingthree and striking out four forWashington. O’Connor, alongshot for a spot in theNationals rotation after going3-8 with a 4.80 ERA as arookie last season, walkedJuan Pierre and Rafael Furcal,the first two batters he faced.Pierre stole two bases beforescoring on a passed ball, andFurcal also stole a base andeventually scored on aninfield out.

“After the first inning, Iwas able to get ahead of theguys,” said the lefty, who islikely to start the season inTriple-A. “Those two guys aretwo of the faster guys around,so the biggest thing is just totry to keep those guys off baseand not walk them. I didn’t doa good job of that, and theytook advantage.”

Washington managerManny Acta was impressedwith the way O’Connorbounced back using just twoof his pitches.

“He’s one of those guys wefeel comfortable about if any-

thing happens we can grabhim,” Acta said.

The Nationals had 13 hitsagainst six Dodgers pitchers.Starter Chad Billingsleyallowed two runs and threehits in 3 1-3 innings, andJason Johnson, contending forthe fifth spot in the rotation,allowed a three-run homer toAustin Kearns in his onlyinning of work. Reliever MikeMyers retired the first two bat-ters he faced in the eighthbefore giving up four hits andfour runs.

“They just beat me,” Myerssaid. “It happens.”

Notes: Dodgers closerTakashi Saito threw a 26-pitchbatting practice to infieldersMark Sweeney and Jeff Kentbefore the game. He reportedno pain, but was only at 85-90percent according to pitchingcoach Rick Honeycutt. It’sstill uncertain when Saito willpitch in a game. ... Pierrewalked three times and fin-ished with two stolen basesand a run.

Mike O’Connor pitches 5 hitless inningsand Nationals beat Lasorda’s Dodgers 10-4

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NHLEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L OT Pts GF GANew Jersey 40 24 6 86 180 163Pittsburgh 39 24 7 85 206 192N.Y. Rangers 37 24 9 83 186 171Philadelphia 35 26 9 79 215 201N.Y. Islanders 32 32 7 71 174 212Northeast Division

W L OT Pts GF GAMontreal 39 23 9 87 227 197Ottawa 39 25 7 85 227 210Boston 36 26 8 80 184 195Buffalo 32 27 11 75 211 204Toronto 31 30 10 72 200 219Southeast Division

W L OT Pts GF GACarolina 37 29 5 79 216 221Washington 32 30 8 72 203 209Florida 32 31 8 72 190 200Atlanta 30 33 8 68 188 235Tampa Bay 27 35 8 62 197 229WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

W L OT Pts GF GADetroit 46 18 6 98 220 155Nashville 35 28 8 78 206 204Chicago 33 30 7 73 202 202Columbus 31 28 11 73 170 182St. Louis 29 30 11 69 173 201Northwest Division

W L OT Pts GF GAColorado 38 27 6 82 194 187Calgary 36 23 10 82 195 190Minnesota 37 26 7 81 187 190Vancouver 35 24 10 80 185 174Edmonton 34 31 5 73 195 214Pacific Division

W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 41 21 8 90 187 166Dallas 42 25 5 89 212 176Anaheim 39 25 8 86 178 173Phoenix 35 30 5 75 185 187Los Angeles 27 38 6 60 200 234

Two points for a win, one point for overtime lossor shootout loss.———Tuesday’s GamesColorado 5, Atlanta 2Ottawa 4, Boston 1Detroit 3, Chicago 1Montreal 4, New Jersey 0Toronto 4, Philadelphia 3, OTTampa Bay 8, N.Y. Islanders 4San Jose 2, Nashville 1Edmonton 4, St. Louis 3, OTPhoenix 3, Anaheim 2, SOWednesday’s GamesCalgary at Washington, 4 p.m.Toronto at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 4:30 p.m.Carolina at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Anaheim, 7 p.m.Thursday’s GamesCalgary at Atlanta, 4 p.m.Tampa Bay at Boston, 4 p.m.Dallas at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.Ottawa at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Nashville, 5 p.m.New Jersey at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Edmonton at Colorado, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at Phoenix, 7 p.m.Friday’s GamesChicago at Columbus, 4 p.m.Atlanta at Washington, 4 p.m.Carolina at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 4:30 p.m.St. Louis at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBx-Boston 50 12 .806 —Toronto 34 29 .54016 1/2Philadelphia 30 34 .469 21New Jersey 26 38 .406 25New York 18 46 .281 33Southeast Division

W L Pct GBOrlando 41 24 .631 —Washington 31 32 .492 9Atlanta 26 37 .413 14Charlotte 24 39 .381 16Miami 11 51 .17728 1/2Central Division

W L Pct GBx-Detroit 46 17 .730 —Cleveland 37 27 .578 9 1/2Chicago 26 38 .40620 1/2Indiana 25 39 .39121 1/2Milwaukee 23 41 .35923 1/2WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 44 19 .698 —Houston 43 20 .683 1New Orleans 42 20 .677 1 1/2Dallas 41 23 .641 3 1/2Memphis 15 48 .238 29Northwest Division

W L Pct GBUtah 42 23 .646 —Denver 37 26 .587 4Portland 34 31 .523 8Seattle 16 48 .25025 1/2Minnesota 14 49 .222 27Pacific Division

W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 45 19 .703 —Phoenix 42 22 .656 3Golden State 39 23 .629 5Sacramento 28 35 .44416 1/2L.A. Clippers 21 41 .339 23

x-clinched playoff spot———Tuesday’s Games

Indiana 114, Seattle 107Washington 105, Milwaukee 97Portland 103, Minnesota 96Chicago 108, Utah 96Phoenix 132, Memphis 111L.A. Lakers 117, Toronto 108Wednesday’s GamesHouston at Atlanta, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Orlando, 7 p.m.New York at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Cleveland at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.Seattle at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Utah at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.San Antonio at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Charlotte at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Memphis at Denver, 9 p.m.Toronto at Golden State, LateThursday’s GamesCleveland at Washington, 5 p.m.Portland at Sacramento, 7 p.m.Golden State at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.Friday’s GamesUtah at Boston, 4:30 p.m.Orlando at Miami, 4:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 5 p.m.San Antonio at Detroit, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.Charlotte at Houston, 5:30 p.m.Indiana at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.Toronto at Denver, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONSBASEBALLAmerican LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Assigned RHP Dan Kolb totheir minor league camp.CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Optioned RHP LanceBroadway, RHP Dewon Day, RHP Charlie Haegerand RHP Oneli Perez to Charlotte (IL) and RHPLucas Harrell to Birmingham (SL). Released LHPCarlos Vasquez. Assigned INF Chris Getz, INFRoyce Huffman, INF Jeff Liefer, OF MiguelNegron, INF Mike Rouse and C Ryan Smith totheir minor league camp.CLEVELAND INDIANS—Released LHP JuanLara and agreed to terms with Lara on a minorleague contract.DETROIT TIGERS—Optioned RHP ArmandoGalarraga and LHP Macay McBride to Toledo (IL)and RHP Rick Porcello to Lakeland (FSL).Assigned RHP Jeff Gerbe, C Joe Bowen, C DustyRyan, C James Skelton, INF Jeff Larish, INFDanny Worth, OF Matt Joyce, OF Wilkin Ramirezand OF Clete Thomas to their minor leaguecamp.OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Assigned INF JeffBaisley and INF Wes Bankston to their minorleague camp.SEATTLE MARINERS—Released LHP HoracioRamirez.TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Optioned LHP GustavoChacin to Syracuse (IL). Reassigned INF-OFTravis Snider to their minor league camp.

National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES—Reassigned INF JavierGuzman and INF Diory Hernandez to their minorleague camp. Sent RHP Charlie Morton, RHPPhil Stockman, RHP Matt DeSalvo and RHPZach Schreiber to Richmond (IL), Jairo Cuevasand C J.C. Boscan to Mississippi (SL) and C-IBTyler Flowers to Myrtle Beach (Carolina).CINCINNATI REDS—Claimed LHP JoseCapellan off waivers from San Francisco.Optioned RHP Richie Gardner and LHP TylerPelland to Louisville (IL). Sent LHP AlexanderSmit outright to Louisville. Assigned C ChrisKroski, LHP Matt Maloney and LHP AdamPettyjohn to their minor league camp.COLORADO ROCKIES—Extended their playerdevelopment agreement with Colorado Springs(PCL) through 2010.FLORIDA MARLINS—Optioned RHP DanielBarone to Albuquerque (PCL). Assigned RHPBrett Sinkbeil, RHP Ryan Tucker and LHP AaronThompson to their minor league camp.BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationMIAMI HEAT—Signed F Bobby Jones to a 10-daycontract.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS—Re-signed QB JoeyHarrington to a two-year contract.DENVER BRONCOS—Announced Ted Sundquistis no longer the general manager.DETROIT LIONS—Re-signed CB Travis Fisher toa three-year contract. Released G-C BlaineSaipaia.MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed K Dave Rayner to aone-year contract.NEW YORK GIANTS—Signed QB David Carr.OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed WR Drew Carterto a one-year contract.PITTSBURGH STEELERS—Signed LB KeyaronFox to a one-year contract.TENNESSEE TITANS—Agreed to terms with WRJustin McCareins.WASHINGTON REDSKINS—Re-signed DT RyanBoschetti.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueNHL—Suspended Buffalo F Andrew Peters forone game for an altercation involving N.Y.Rangers F Colton Orr on March 10; Dallas FSteve Ott for three games for delivering a hit tothe head of Colorado D Jordan Leopold on March9; and Chicago D James Wisniewski for onegame for a cross-checking incident on March 11.DALLAS STARS—Agreed to terms with LW ChrisConner and G Tobias Stephan on one-year con-tracts. Signed RW Sergei Korostin to a three-yearcontract.NEW YORK RANGERS—Agreed to terms with FJustin Soryal.ST. LOUIS BLUES—Signed G Ben Bishop.COLLEGEELON—Announced the contract of Brenda Paul,women’s basketball coach, will not be renewed.LOYOLA MARYMOUNT—Re-signed RodneyTention, men’s basketball coach.NAVY—Extended the contract of Billy Lange,

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On Monday the Ukiah JVboys’ golf squad took on theMontgomery Vikings on theirhome, par 34 front nine golfcourse, winning 208-241.

The JV Wildcats continuedplaying well against a solidMontgomery squad on awindy afternoon.

“This was the best ninehole score of any of my JVteams in four years of coach-ing,” said Ukiah Head CoachPaul Moore of the 208 overallscore.

“They all played very wellon a windy afternoon to main-tain a perfect record for theseason.”

Michael Villa led the wayfor the Wildcats with a roundof 39. Gunnar Annis and LukeLucchesi shot a 7 over 41,Logan Morris had a round of43, Mason Colombo shot 44and Scott Cokeley shot around of 50.

The junior-varsity Wildcatshost Cardinal Newman nextWednesday at 3 p.m.

Wildcats JV golf topsMontgomery

For The Daily JournalVarsity Wildcats boys’ golf

squad remained undefeatedTuesday as they turned awaySanta Rosa, 181-202.

Ukiah (5-0) remains in afirst place tie atop the NorthBay League (NBL) standingswith their 21 stroke victoryover the Panthers.

Playing in Santa Rosa onthe par 32 front nine ofOakmont East, the Wildcatscontinued their solid play withevery golfer shooting a roundin the 30’s.

“The boys played very welland seem to be rounding intomid-season form,” said Ukiah

Head Coach Chris Philbrick.Max Brazill led the

Wildcats in scoring with around of 34, just 2 over par.Jared Hull was one behindhim with a 35 and CaseyFernandez another one behindwith a 4 over 36. CarsonSheppard shot a round of 37,Dominic Brutocao 38 andBrett Walker rounded outUkiah’s scoring with a 39.

The Wildcats will look tocontinue keep pace with theCardinals of CardinalNewman as they come homeon Thursday to host ElsieAllen at 3 p.m.

Ukiah remains undefeatedafter beating Santa Rosa

For The Daily JournalThe Wildcats held on to

beat Montgomery High 7-6 onFriday afternoon.

Led by Jesse Williams whowent 1 for 3 and pitched well,the Ukiah junior-varsity base-ball team continued toimprove as they secured theirthird win of the season.

Through three innings ofplay, the Wildcats built a 5-0lead. The Vikings, though,battled back in the fourth, cut-ting Ukiah’s lead to one, 5-4.The two teams then tradedzeros for two more framesuntil the Wildcats scored twocritical insurance runs to givethemselves a bit of breathingroom.

Those runs would provemore than critical as theVikings mounted a seventhinning rally to cut the deficit

to one once again but thenWilliams got the final batter toground out for the win.

“I am very pleased with ourplay,” said Ukiah JV HeadCoach Andrew Williams. “Weneed to fine tune a couple ofthings but we are getting bet-ter every day.

“I have a great group ofkids, I really couldn’t ask for abetter bunch of boys.”

Leading the way for Ukiah(3-2) in the win was MilesMurphy who went 2 for 3with four stolen bases andCole Cupples who went 2 for3 with a double. AnthonyButler also had a good game,going 1 for 3 from the plate.

The Wildcats next take thefield against CardinalNewman on Wednesday,March 12th at 4 p.m.

Wildcats hold on to edgeVikings, 7-6

By GREG BEACHAMAssociated Press

BERKELEY — DeSeanJackson pivots, stoops andsnags a football just before ithits his shoetops. He sprintsdownfield, and the three-dozen scouts at MemorialStadium nod in unifiedapproval.

The former Californiareceiver and punt returnereven impresses Jerry Rice,who’s taking a personal inter-est in making sure Jacksongets where he wants to gonext.

“He has all the talent in theworld,” Rice said whilewatching Cal’s pro day fromthe sideline, his 1989 SuperBowl ring dangling from achain around his neck.“There’s no reason he can’t beeverything he wants to be atthe next level.”

As Jackson prepares for hisearly entry into the NFL draft,the former Golden Bears starhas quite a tutor. He’s gettingfootball instruction and lifelessons from Rice, the mostprolific receiver in NFL histo-ry, before he enters the leagueas a probable first-round pick.

“He’s my man, like mymentor,” Jackson said. “He’sbeen a great inspiration for mefor a long time, and now to getto be with him is like a dreamcome true. He reminds meevery day that to be the best inthe world, it’s all about work-ing harder than anybodyelse.”

Jackson connected withRice through DeBartoloSports and Entertainment, themanagement firm run by for-mer 49ers owner EddieDeBartolo. One of the firm’sperks was up-close contactwith Rice, who’s still closewith DeBartolo after winningthree Super Bowls together.

Rice and Jackson beganworking out together inPensacola, Fla., before theNFL combine, and they’vecontinued meeting back homein the Bay Area. Though Ricedoesn’t fancy himself a truecoach, he provides his obser-vations and anecdotal instruc-tion to his hungry protege,who’s striving to be more thana kick-returning specialistwho sometimes catches pass-es, like Chicago’s DevinHester.

Rice shares his philoso-phies on everything from pro-fessionalism to the properusage of speed. Jackson’s4.35-second time in the 40-yard dash was the best amongreceivers at the NFL combine.

“You can see he knowshow to catch the ball, but whatI’m trying to let him know is

there’s a time for speed, andthere’s a time to keep it undercontrol,” Rice said. “I hadfootball speed. People, whenthey were chasing me, I wasjust able to run away frompeople. The hair would standup on my back, and I was ableto get away, because I knewthey wanted to hurt me.”

Survival skills will come inhandy for Jackson, who’sundersized by most conven-tional measures of a receiver.Jackson acknowledges he’sabout 5-foot-10 and 169pounds — not the 6-footer heclaimed to be at Cal.

“Yeah, that was in shoes,”he laughed.

Rice also worked last yearwith USC’s Steve Smith, whowent to the New York Giants,but he compares Jackson tothe better-known Steve Smith,the Pro Bowl receiver whostars for the CarolinaPanthers. Both are smallishpass-catchers who thrive onspeed and will — qualitiesRice sees in abundance inJackson.

“He’s let me know that ifyou’re able to catch the balland be competitive, prettysoon they’ll forget about yoursize,” said Jackson, who stilldeclared for the draft after anuninspiring junior season atCal.

Since Rice retired on a one-day contract with the 49ers in2006, the 45-year-old hasbeen a bit of a dilettante,unable to slow the breakneckpace he kept during hisrecord-breaking career.

Rice has appeared on tworeality television shows andwritten his second book. Healso hosts a show on Siriussatellite radio and appearsregularly on Bay Area news-casts as a commentator whonotably predicted 49ers ownerJohn York wouldn’t fire coachMike Nolan in January afterthe club’s fifth straight losingseason.

“I like what I’m doing rightnow, the place where I’m at,”he said.

The 49ers resolved a poten-tial conflict with Rice onWednesday when the clubannounced new receiver IsaacBruce won’t wear No. 80,which Rice wore for 16 sea-sons. While Rice’s jersey isamong the most hallowed in49ers history, the club stillhasn’t retired it.

Rice seemed open to theidea of allowing Bruce towear his old number, but was-n’t sure how fans would react.Bruce signed with SanFrancisco last month after 14years as the Rams’ No. 80.

DeSean Jacksonstudying up for NFLdraft under JerryRice’s tutelage

Special for the JournalDrawing from the musical

traditions of the sacred and sec-ular, Ukiah United MethodistChurch presents “An Eveningof Reverence” Saturday, March15 at 7 p.m.

Featured will be“EarReverence,” an a cappellavocal ensemble (above) and the“Matthew Rothstein Quartet.”The two groups will eachuniquely blend sacred and con-temporary jazz, blues, and pop-ular music. Performed in thechurch sanctuary at 206 PineSt. the evening will includeoriginal arrangements of“Sometimes I feel like aMotherless Child” and“Amazing Grace.” Tickets atthe door from $7 to $20.

“EarReverence is an eclecticmix of jazz, pop and comedysung a cappella, because aschildren we were too lazy topractice our instruments,” saidBill Bardisso.

Like every good Italian boy,young Bordisso survived hisfather’s insistence of nine yearsof forced accordion lessons. Heeven somehow kept his love formusic. Bordisso was a raging“folkie” through the 60’s and‘70s. He played professionallywith various acoustic folk-rockgroups in the San FranciscoBay area. These groups allfocused on intricate vocals.Moving to the country to teachpublic school and raise a fami-ly, Bordisso continued to pur-sue his musical passion. Heplayed saxophone keyboards,banjo, and guitar in an acousticband, singing and playing tenorsax. B

Valerie Reid’s fourth gradeteacher made her singEdelweiss (from the Sound ofMusic) to calm down the stu-dents returning form lunchrecess, and it did. So her fatherbought her a guitar an forcedher to sing folk songs for everyrelative or friend who walkedthrough the front door. So, atage 18 she decided to join a topforty band, which performedand opened for major actsaround the Monterey Peninsulafor 12 years.

Nick Reid was born andraised in Marin CountyCalifornia where he attendedDominican College. He

appeared in the San FranciscoBay area with the MarinSymphony, San FranciscoSymphony, and in a wide vari-ety of opera, choral and orato-rio. He now lives and teaches in

lake County and is a member ofthe faculty at the Ukiah Schoolof Music. Reid would like itclearly understood that he wasnever arrested in Denver.

Carol Cole Lewis began her

musical career at the tender ageof three when she horrified herparents during her church’sannual Christmas pageant. Notcontent with sitting in theangelic choir, Cole Lewis hikedup her robe, adjusted herwings, and marched over topeer into the cradle to see whatthose shepherds found so inter-esting. During her time in theUnited Kingdom, Cole Lewisachieved her Grade 6 (highestgrade) in Voice from the RoyalCollege of Music, and sangwith the St. John the DivineChurch Choir and ExultateSingers in London and theSaint Peter’s Singers in Leeds.Upon her return to the US in1994, Carol has performedwith the San Jose SymphonicChoir, the Ohlone ChamberSingers and the MendocinoCollege Jazz Choir.

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The Daily JournalThe “Grace Notes,” a women’s a cappella quartet, will be

appearing at Ukiah Senior Center on Friday, March 14, to helpcelebrate St. Patrick’s Day and the Center’s popular annualcorned beef and cabbage fundraiser.

Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. and cost is $8 per person. Formore information about the dinner, contact the Center at 462-4343. The address is 499 Leslie Street in Ukiah.

They will “grace” the stage, providing a fun-filled time ofsing-along Irish tunes, along with their program.

Grace Notes was formed in May 1993 and they performedtheir first gig the following October. Although they sing in thestyle of Sweet Adelines, they are not part of that organization.They are an independent quartet.

Grace Notes sing a varied style of music; from ballad togospel and everything in between. Peterman and Murray live inthe Boonville/Philo area, Hester lives in Ukiah and Gowan inCalpella.

Marolyn Peterman, tenor, comes from a musical family. Shebegan studying piano when she was 5, and violin at age 6. Shehas sung in duets, trios and quartets all her life butBarbershop/Sweet Adeline music has always been a favoritestyle for her. Not just talented musically, for years Petermantaught painting technique in her studio. She also assisted herhusband “Pete” in their business in Boonville: Peterman R & DServices Corp.

Carole Hester, lead, has had a lifelong interest in anythingmusical having grown up surrounded by the music of greatclassical musicians. As an adult, Hester has been a music leaderin churches, and in addition to directing choirs, has organizedensembles of varying sizes in each locale, singing in each.Locally, she has performed with Mendocino CollegeMasterworks Chorale; the former Ukiah Children’s Theatre(appearing in the role of the Fairy Godmother in “Cinderella”);Ukiah Players Theatre (Fairy Godmother in spoof of“Cinderella”); Ukiah Civic Light Opera; Ukiah Symphony(“Wizard of Oz,” “Music Man,” “Babar the Elephant,” Mrs.Potts in “Beauty & the Beast,” Narrator in “Phantom of theOrchestra” by Justin Locke) and Ukiah High School (“TheBoyfriend”).

Karen Gowan, baritone, grew up in the San Francisco BayArea and enjoys singing with Barbershop tenor hubby, Ray.She began studying music in the fourth grade, both choral andinstrumental. Gowan has performed and sung in many stageproductions and groups: Musicals, both locally and in college;Ukiah Valley Madrigals; “And Who” Sisters; The NewFranciscans, are but a few of her notable endeavors. Gowan hasalso studied voice and arranging and uses her special trainingwhen rehearsing with the Grace Notes. Gowan is a supervisorat the Ukiah office of California Highway Patrol.

Joyce Murray, bass, is originally from Baltimore, Maryland.Like the others in the quartet, she, too, came from a musicalfamily and has fond memories of musical events at home. Shesang professionally for 30 years on television, in concerts andin clubs. She spent four years with Fred Waring; weekly televi-sion shows on live television: three years on the televised“Perry Como Show,” five years on the “Garry Moore Show;”and sang one year on “Danny Kaye Show.” She toured twoyears with the Andrews Sisters. Her “credits” are much too longto list entirely. She married Ross Murray, also a retiree fromshow biz, and they moved to Boonville in 1980. Murray lovessinging harmony and especially enjoys performing musicagain. She is active in the Community Concert Association.

For more information about Grace Notes, contact any mem-ber or 463-1231.

Grace Notes to play on St. Patrick’s atUkiah Senior Center

‘Hang your hat with the Ukiah MainStreet Program’ meeting set for Friday

On Friday, March 14, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. The Ukiah MainStreet Program invites the public to hang their hats with themas they celebrate their past accomplishments, recognize out-standing volunteers and look to the future.

Those interested are invited to join them for a breakfastreception at the North State Café and celebrate historic down-town by meeting this year’s Board of Directors, recapping theyear’s highlights, and honoring the Downtown Business of theYear: Dig Music; Spirit of Main Street Volunteer: MikeSpencer; De Los Santos Volunteers: Bridget and Terry Sholin;All Star recipient: Mimi Booth; and Sponsors of the Year:Thurston Auto Plaza, Kwine/Max Radio, Eagle Distributingand Mendocino Brewing Company.

Participants are encouraged to dust off their old fedora,beret, or sombrero, as the best hat will win a prize, and thosewithout hats may be offered a less appealing headpiece. $12dollars per person includes breakfast and mimosas. The MainStreet Program requests that prospective attendees RSVP byMarch 12 to the Ukiah Main Street program office at 463-6729.

All you can eat fish dinner set for Saturday

The Holy Ghost Society will hold an all you can eat fish din-ner at on Saturday, from 5 to 7 p.m. The dinner will includefish, salad, potatoes, beans, bread and a beverage. Tickets soldin advance will be $15; tickets sold at the door $18, tickets forchildren 5 to 12 will be $6, and Children under five will eat forfree. The event will be preceded by a social hour, at 4 p.m.

For more information, call 964-0485 or 964-4971.

Watercolor technique presentation set for Saturday

On Saturday, March 15, Patricia Martin Osborne willdemonstrate watercolor techniques. Sponsored by MendocinoCounty Art Association, this demonstration will take place atthe Grace Hudson Meeting Room at 10:15 a.m.

Ms. Osborne will encourage participants to explore new ter-ritory using sketching, experimentation and creativity.

For more information, call Rosalind O’Neal at 463-2268.

‘Roots and Shoots’benefit set for Saturday

The Tree of Life Montessori Charter School’s benefit dinnerand auction, “Roots and Shoots,” will be held on Saturday,March 15, at 6 p.m., at the Lake Mendocino Club House, 1500Lake Mendocino Dr.

The evening’s activities will include dancing to music pro-vided by the local band, Gigantic, a silent auction, a live auc-tion with a dinner catered by Schat’s Bakery included. Ticketswill be $30 per person.

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Today is the 73rd day of 2008 and the83rd day of winter.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1781,William Herschel discovered the planetUranus.

In 1884, the United States adoptedStandard Time.

In 1957, Jimmy Hoffa was arrested andcharged with bribery.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: PercivalLowell (1855-1916), astronomer; WalterAnnenberg (1908-2002), publisher/philan-thropist; L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986),author/Scientologist; Neil Sedaka (1939-),

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TODAY’S MOON: Between newmoon (March 7) and first quarter (March14).

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Dear Annie: “Rupert” and I have been mar-ried nearly two years. I guess you could say themarriage was unplanned because we marriedwhen I became unexpectedly pregnant. Ithought Rupert would be happy that I was hav-ing his child, since he’d told me he alwayswanted children. When he didn’t jump for joyat the news, I assumed he was just in shock andit would pass. But it didn’t. Rupert has beenclosed off ever since. He barely speaks to me.Worse, he has started having a lot more nightsout with the guys and has managed to becomefriends with several younger women.

I’ve explained to Rupert how awful thismakes me feel, but it goes in one ear and outthe other. I’ve put pleading letters in his brief-case, praying he’ll read them, but nothing hap-pens, so I cry myself to sleep. Right now, theonly thing keeping me in this marriage is ourdaughter.

My parents don’t look kindly on divorce,

and honestly, Annie, I really don’t want toleave him, but I don’t know what else to do.Can this marriage be saved? -- HopelesslyDevoted in Illinois

Dear Hopeless: Only if both of you arewilling to make the effort. Rupert may havewanted children, but apparently, not so soon.He feels trapped into marriage and resents it.However, he needs to grow up and acceptresponsibility for the life he’s made. Stopputting notes in his briefcase and then cryingyourself to sleep. Tell him point-blank that themarriage is in serious trouble and he needs tocome with you for counseling. If he refuses, go

without him so you can make the best deci-sions for your daughter and yourself.

Dear Annie: Over the weekend, my familyhad a “friendly” discussion about the properetiquette for accessing items that are generallypersonal.

What is OK when it comes to checking aperson’s Caller ID log, looking inside some-one’s purse, going through pictures on a digitalcamera or cell phone, etc.? Arguments rangedfrom snoopy, boorish, disrespectful behavior tono big deal. What is acceptable? -- BostonInvestigator

Dear Boston: Looking inside someone’spurse, wallet or tote bag is strictly off-limits.Checking their Caller ID log is rude, but peo-ple will do it because it’s visible to anyone whowalks by (very slowly, of course). And whilemany people don’t mind, no one shouldassume it’s OK to view pictures on a digitalcamera or cell phone unless invited to do so.But again, if these items are left out in the openand unattended, you can be sure some busy-body will take the opportunity to be nosy. Cellphones and PDAs, in particular, contain per-

sonal information that should not be accessedby others. If you want such items to remain pri-vate, keep them where they are not easilyperused.

Dear Annie: I’d like to pass along some-thing that may be helpful to your readers whobecome stepparents.

My brother’s wife left him with threeteenage boys. When he eventually remarried,they were concerned about what to call theirnew stepmother. She is a wonderful lady whohad a great idea. She reassured the boys thatthey already had a mother and that would notchange. She suggested they consider her afriend with whom they could speak candidlyand not have to fear raising topics that might bedifficult to discuss with a parent. She said,“Friends are called by their first name.”

This worked extremely well over time. Ithad the added benefit of helping everyone feelcomfortable with their new situations. -- Davein Louisville

Dear Dave: Every relationship with chil-dren needs to find its own best expression.Thanks for providing one of them.

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127-082-28,3-6,13/08

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE

CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB ’08 25160To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin-gent creditors, and persons who may other-wise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LYNN GUSTAFSON aka LYNNGRACE FRANKLINA PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: LEILA SCHNYDER in the Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino.THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requeststhat: LEILA SCHNYDER be appointed as personal representative to administer the es-tate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests authority to adminis-ter the estate under the Independent Adminis-tration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many ac-tions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, howev-er, the personal representative will be re-quired to give notice to interested persons un-less they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action). The independent ad-ministration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A HEARING on the petition will be held on MARCH 28, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, lo-cated at: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFOR-NIA, COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, 100 N.State Street, Rm 108, Ukiah, CA 95482IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti-tion, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attor-ney.IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.YOU MAY EXAMINE the f i le kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the es-tate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Pro-bate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe-cial Notice form is available from the court clerk.ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER:Heather Gimle622 H StreetEureka, CA 95501(707) 444-9281/s/Paul HeagertyPAUL HEAGERTY

130-082-28,3-6,13/08

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE - YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED February 15, 2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROP-ERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE, IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On MARCH 21, 2008, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the main entrance to the Mendocino County Cour thouse, located at 100 North State Street, City of Ukiah, County of Mendocino, State of California, PRIME PA-CIFIC, a corporation, as Trustee will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash in lawful money of the United States, all paya-ble at the time of sale, real property situated in the County of Mendocino, State of Califor-nia, commonly known as 450 Hardwick Lane, Ukiah, CA (APN:168-204-10), and is more particularly described as follows: COMMENC-ING AT THE POINT WHERE AN IRON PIN IS DRIVEN INTO THE GROUND AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF THE LAND NOW OR FORMERLY OWNED BY S.A. RI-CHEY, FROM WHICH A POST OAK TREE 14 INCHES IN DIAMETER BEARS SOUTH 82E 30' EAST, 33.66 FEET; THENCE NORTH 0E 29' EAST, 709.69 FEET;THENCE NORTH 0E 29' EAST, 178.41 FEET; THENCE NORTH 89E 51' WEST, 208.24 FEET TO AND FOR THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE SOUTH 0E 29' WEST, 178.88 FEET TO THE SOUTH LINE OF THE LAND OF ALVIN W. HARDWICK, ET UX, AS DESCRIBED IN DEED RECORD-ED IN VOLUME 503 OF OFFICIAL RE-CORDS, PAGE 579, MENDOCINO COUNTY RECORDS; THENCE NORTH 89E 59' WEST, 114.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE LANDS OF ORVILLE DALTON, ET UX, AS DESCRIBED IN DEED RECORDED IN VOLUME 617 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, PAGE 40, MENDOCINO COUN-TY RECORDS; THENCE NORTH 0E 29' EAST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID DALTON LAND, 179.15 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER THEREOF;THENCE SOUTH 89E 51' EAST 114.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. APN:168-204-10 If a street address or common designation of property is shown in this no-tice, no warranty is given as to its complete-ness or correctness. The undersigned Trust-ee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid obligation, together with reasonable estimate of the costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publica-tion of this notice is $69,890.87. The sale will be made without covenant or warranty re-garding title, possession, or encumbrances to satisfy the obligation secured by and pursuant to the power of the sale conferred in that cer-tain Deed of Trust executed by SUSAN LYLY, an unmarried woman and STEPHANIE LYLY, an unmarried woman, as Trustor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, a California corporation, as Trustee, for the benefit and security of EDWARD F. CADOGAN, Trustee of the Edward F. Cadogan trust dated July 1996, as Beneficiary, dated February 15, 2007, and recorded February 28, 2007, in Document No. 2007-03803, Official Records of Mendocino County, and said property will be sold "as is" and no warranty or representa-tion is made concerning its present condition.PRIME PACIFIC was substituted as trustee under that cer tain document recorded No-vember 7, 2007, in Document No. 2007-20424, Official Records of Mendocino Coun-ty. The address and telephone number of the trustee is: PRIME PACIFIC, Post Office Box 177, 445 North State Street, Ukiah, California 95482; Telephone: (707) 468-5300. Notice of Default and election to sell the described real property under the mentioned deed of trust was recorded on November 7, 2007, Docu-ment No. 2007-20425, Official Records of Mendocino County. The name, address, and telephone number of the Beneficiary at whose request this sale is to be conducted is: Ed-ward F. Cadogan, Trustee, Post Office Box 969, Laytonville, CA 95454, telephone: (707) 984-6620. NOTICE TO TRUSTOR/PROP-ERTY OWNER: If your property is sold at a foreclosure sale and there are surplus funds available, you may be entitled to said sums.Please make sure you contact Prime Pacific immediately after the sale to confirm if there are any surplus funds. It is important that Prime Pacific knows your current address and phone number. Dated: February 26, 2008 PRIME PACIFIC, a California Corporation;By: MARY F. MORRIS -No. M-07-92F President - Trustee

143-083-6,13,20/08

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE

CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB ’08 25157To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin-gent creditors, and persons who may other-wise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROBERT G. HUFFMANA PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: RODNEY G. HUFFMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino.THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requeststhat: RODNEY G. HUFFMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests authority to adminis-ter the estate under the Independent Adminis-tration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many ac-tions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, howev-er, the personal representative will be re-quired to give notice to interested persons un-less they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action). The independent ad-ministration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A HEARING on the petition will be held on MARCH 28, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, lo-cated at: COURTHOUSE, 100 N. State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti-tion, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attor-ney.IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.YOU MAY EXAMINE the f i le kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the es-tate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Pro-bate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe-cial Notice form is available from the court clerk.ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER:Kenneth E. Mitchell, Esq. Bar #54150Mitchelle & Courts, LLP1001 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 400Alameda, CA 94501510-523-5272

145-083-6,13,20,27/08

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES(Personal Injury or Wrongful Death)

To (name of one defendant only): Robert McDonaldPlaintiff (name of one plaintiff only): Tonya Lainoseeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows:1. General damagesa. x Pain, suffer ing, and inconvenience $300,000.00b. x Emotional distress $100,000.002. Special damagesa. x Medical expenses (to date) $327,232.00b. x Future medical expenses (present value) $50,000.00c. x Loss of earnings (to date) $7,000.00d. x Loss of future earnings capacity (presentvalue) $4,000.00e. x Property damage $12,500.00Date: March 4, 2008David M. Kindopp/s/ David M. Kindopp

158-083-13/08

LEGAL NOTICEGREEN PONY PROJECT

The Upper Lake/Covelo Ranger District, Men-docino National Forest is proposing the Green Pony Project to address several objec-tives established in the Forest Plan. This proj-ect is located approximately 18 miles north-east of Covelo, California, and is being pro-posed to address concerns about forest health, fuels reduction and timber product availability.An Environmental Assessment (EA) for this project will be prepared this year, and is an-ticipated to be available in November, 2008.The analysis will describe the environmental effects as well as alternatives to the proposed activities. Comments regarding this proposed action will be reviewed to determine major is-sues and develop alternatives relating to the project. A decision is expected in December, 2008.To Provide Comments:To be considered for the preparation of the EA, we would appreciate having your com-ments by April 10, 2008. Letters comment-ing on the project should be addressed to:Lee Johnson, Distr ict Ranger, 10025 Elk Mountain Road, Upper Lake, California 95485.A project-specific mailing list will be devel-oped from the individuals and organizations that express an interest in this project. If you do not wish to make comments at this time but would like to receive future mailings and meeting notices on this project, please let us know. Comments received in response to this solicitation, including names and ad-dresses of those who comment, will be con-sidered part of the public record on this pro-posed action and will be available for public inspection. Comments submitted anony-mously wil l be accepted and considered;however, those who submit anonymous com-ments may not have standing to appeal the subsequent decision per 36 CFR Part 215.If you would like additional information re-garding the comment process for this project, please contact Bruce Higgins, Team Leader at 559-920-2165 (email at bdhiggins@fs.fed.us), or Nancy Gard, Plan-ning Staff Officer at 707-275-2361.

159-083-13/08

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE(UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 4920-JH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s) and busi-ness address(es) of the seller(s) is/are:AQUASAFE LLC, 42300 COMPTCHE-UKIAH RD, MENDOCINO, CA 95460Doing business as: AQUASAFEAll other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: NONEThe name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) is/are: HIJUNG LEE, 42300 COMPTCHE-UKIAH RD, MENDOCINO, CA 95460The assets being sold are generally descri-bed as: GOODWILL, TRADENAME, COVE-NANT NOT TO COMPETE AND ASSETS OF BUSINESS and is located at: 42300 COMPT-CHE-UKIAH RD, MENDOCINO, CA 95460The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: TIME ESCROW INC, 3055 WILSHIRE BLVD, STE 1150, LOS AN-GELES, CA 90010 and the anticipated sale date is APRIL 1, 2008The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: TIME ESCROW INC, 3055 WILSHIRE BLVD, STE 1150, LOS ANGELES, CA 90010 and the last day for fil-ing claims by any creditor shall be MARCH 28, 2008, which is the business day before the anticipated sale date specified above.HIJUNG LEE, Buyer(s)PCTS LA138894 UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL 3/13/08

PUBLIC NOTICE

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FICTITIOUSBUSINESS NAME

STATEMENTFile No.: 2008-F0096

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI-NESS AS:AQUAPOOLCO123 W. Lake Mendo-cino Dr,Ukiah, CA 95482Ryan N. Wollitz1650 Elm StUkiah, CA 95482Michelle A. Wollitz1650 Elm StUkiah, CA 95482This business is con-ducted by Husband& Wife. The regis-trants commenced to transact business un-der the fictitious busi-ness name or names listed above on 2-18-08. Endorsed-Filedon 02/19/2008 at the Mendocino County Clerks Office./s/Ryan N. WollitzRYAN N. WOLLITZ

131-082-28,3-6,13,20/08

FICTITIOUSBUSINESS NAME

STATEMENTFile No.: 2008-F0122

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI-NESS AS:CAROL’S PET TAXI3900 N. Sate St. #2Ukiah, CA 95482Carol A. Dotson3900 N. State St. #2Ukiah, CA 95482This business is con-ducted by an Individ-ual. The registrant commenced to trans-act business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 2/27/2008.Endorsed-Filed on02/27/2008 at the Mendocino County Clerks Office./s/Carol A. DotsonCAROL A. DOTSON132-08

2-28, 3-6, 13, 20/08FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS NAMESTATEMENT

File No.: 2008-F0072THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI-NESS AS:PACIFIC DRYWALL CA9111808755 Cave Creek/P.O. Box 503Redwood Valley, CA 95470Chris Edberg8755 Cave CreekRedwood Valley, CA 95470This business is con-ducted by an Individ-ual. The registrant commenced to trans-act business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/01/2008. En-dorsed-Filed on02/04/2008 at the Mendocino County Clerks Office./s/Chris EdbergCHRIS EDBERG

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FICTITIOUSBUSINESS NAME

STATEMENTFile No.: 2008-F0123

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI-NESS AS:LENORE GARDENS160 South Lenore Ave,Willits, CA 95490Frederick K Mucke9001 Hearst RdWillits, CA 95490Diana L. Mucke160 South Lenore Ave,Willits, CA 95490This business is con-ducted by Husband& Wife. The regis-trants commenced to transact business un-der the fictitious busi-ness name or names listed above on 3-1-08. Endorsed-Filedon 2/27/2008 at the Mendocino County Clerks Office./s/Frederick K MuckeFREDERICK K MUCKE

PUBLIC NOTICE

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STATEMENT OFABANDONMENT OFUSE OF FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS NAMEThe following person (persons) have aban-doned the use of the f ict it ious business name:ANTOJITOS DON FER1990 Talmage Rd.Talmage, CA 95481Rosamaria Pena1950 Foster LaneTalmage, CA 95481The fictit ious busi-ness name referred to above was filed in County on 6/12,2007. This business was conducted by anIndividual. Thisstatement was fi led with the County Clerk of Mendocino County on 3/11, 2008./s/Roselia ValdezROSA MARIA PENA

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Hello I am a female Yellow Lab mix and I was traveling with my male Yellow Lab friend on 3/8 and we thought we would go into Raleys and get a bite to eat. But little did we know dogs are not welcome in the store. So now we are getting all our meals at the Ukiah Shelter located at 298 Plant Rd. If we are yours, please come and get us oth-erwise we will be up for adoption on 3/14.You can call Sage about us at 467-6453

I am a beautiful fe-male tan Husky/ Shepherd mix. I was going down Gobbi St on 3/8 and decided to stop by and visit some people. Luckily for me, they keep me safe until they could br ing me into the Ukiah Shelter at 298 Plnat Rd. If I am your dog please come and get me. There are so many lost dogs here..You can also call Sage at 467-6453.

I was running just as fast as I could down Road N in Redwood Valley on 3/8. I wasbeing followed by a pack of male dogs all who wanted to be my next boyfriend. Yougot it, I was in heat! Luckily I was scoop-ed up before and un-wanted pregnancy could occur. I must be someone's pre-cious red female Dachshund. If you can identify me please call Sage at the Ukiah Shelter 467-6453.

It was Thurs. 3/6.How can I have got-ten lost with my two week old puppy? She can not even walk! There we were in a ditch on Gibson Ln in Potter Valley trembling and afraid.Were we just dump-ed? Now we are safe in the Ukiah Shelter. I am a tri-colored Jack Russell Terr ier and my baby is white and black. If you know anything about us please call Sage at 467-6453

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BANKINGTrainer

Savings Bank of Mendocino County has a full-time Train-er position available.Primary responsibili-ty is the training of new tellers including classroom training on cash handling, secur ity, pr ivacy, compliance basics, standards and other operational duties, including the bank’s computer systems.Assists in maintain-ing training records and works w/Train-ing Officer re:scheduling & overall training needs of each employee.Must possess above -average organiza-tional skills and trav-el to conduct train-ing sessions in branches or attend work-related semi-nars.Must pass Teller Test. Six months to one year related ex-per ience and/or training; or equiva-lent combination of education and bank-ing experience re-quired.

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qualified health ctr w/$18m budget & multiple sites in

Mendo. & Lake Co.Will provide daily

management of all accntg functions.

Directly supervises staff of 7. Must pos-sess at least B.S. in

Business Admin. with a concentration in

acctng. w/5yr+ exp.to incl. supervision.Health Care exp a+! MCHC offers exc.

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eration, send resume w/cover ltr.to HR Dept-MCHC 333 Laws Avenue Ukiah, CA 95482

Fax: (707) 468-0793 Email: skenney@

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MECHANIC3 yrs exp. Gd wages & benefits. 462-6721

Direct Care WorkNo Experience

Needed!!Morning, evening, graveyard. Drug test required, no test for cannabis, good DMV.Personal care, cook-ing, cleaning, driving and providing living skil ls training to adults with develop-mental disabil i t ies.Three 6 bed group homes, established in 1988. Call for inter-view 485-5168, 485-0165, 468-0602.

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DIRECTOR OF PROPERTY

MANAGEMENTwanted for an estab-l ished non-profit Housing Corp. Expe-r ience with USDA/ RD, Tax Credit & HUD procedures pre-ferred. Monthly Sal-ary Range: $4678-$5685. For applica-tion packet contact RCHDC 499 Leslie St., Ukiah, download at www.rchdc.org orcall 707-463-1974, ext 120. OPEN UN-TIL FILLED EOE.

DRIVERS

$1000HIRINGBONUS

Golden State OvernightF/T & P/T

with insured,dependable van or pickup with shell.Early am route in

Mendo. & Lake Co.Benefits avail.Contact Steven

Koller 866-779-7726 or skoller@gso.com

Food Instrument Specialist

for E Center’s Women, Infant & Children (WIC)

Program in Lake-port, CA. Refer to

job #WIC-2008-03-01; 20-40 hrs/wk.

$11.98/hr w/poten-tial up to $14.60/hr;benefits for 30 hrs

or more a wk;Bilingual (Eng/Span)

pref. HS diploma/ GED, min 1 yr cleri-cal exp or technical training in a health

or edu related; must have CA driver’s lic.Screen appicants

for program eligibili-ty, be responsible for all aspects ofissuing WIC Food Instruments, be

local liaison to LakeCo. WIC vendors.Contact: WIC, 122 “D” St., Lakeport,

CA 95453;707-263-5253; or

www.ectr.org.Deadline: 3/17/08,

5 pm. EOE

Front Desk ClerkMust be willing to

work 2 night audits.Inquire at

Discovery Inn1340 N. State St

Full Time Caregiver,mental health facility.

PT Various shifts$8-$10/hr. 467-0911

JANITOR/LAUNDRY WORKER

Responsible for pro-viding Janitor ial/ Laundry services at the Residential Treat-ment Campus. Excel-lent benefits including medical, dental, vi-sion, & tuition reim-bursement. Must pass pre-employment physical, drug test and background check.

APPLY AT 915 W. Church St.,

Ukiah or fax resume to 877-382-7617

www.trinityys.orgEOE

Telephone OperatorsVery flexible shifts

avail. Apply in person 516 S. School St. Ste

A. Mon.-Fri. after 1:30pm. Background checks & drug test.

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Human Resources Administrator

Mendocino Forest Products Company, LLC., based in Ukiah/Calpella.Knowledge of CA and Federal Labor Laws and 2 to 5 years of HR experi-ence required. Es-sential responsibil i-ties include: adminis-tration of hourly re-cruiting, leaves of ab-sence, compliance and recordkeeping and special events.We offer excellent benefits and compen-sation package.Submit cover letter, resume and salary requirements to re-cruiter@mendoco.com or fax to 707-485-6873. Visit our web-site www.mfp.com for more information.ADA/EEO

INSURANCE IN-SPECTOR Comm.

loss control. Mendo.Co. Fee work800-797-3575

IN-HOMECARE

Providing in-home care doesn’t just pay in dollars, it also pays in joy in a job well done for someone who gets to stay in their own home be-cause of you. Part & full time jobs availa-ble in all areas of Mendocino County.Flexible hours.$9.45/Hr. Health ben-efits available (50/Hrs worked a month mini-mum) & Workers Compensation Insur-ance. Workers need-ed to provide domes-tic services and/or personal care to aged, blind or disa-bled persons. Tasks may include house-cleaning, cooking, laundry, shopping, & personal care. Must consent to be finger-pr inted for cr iminal background check, provide references, & attend an orientation class. Applications & orientation are availa-ble in Spanish through the Willits of-f ice. Mendocino County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Public Author-ity Referral Registry.To apply, call in Ukiah: 467-5875, in For t Bragg: 962-1150, or in Wil l i ts:456-3752

IT ADMINISTRATORDirect IT system ad-ministration & dev.Min 1-3 yrs systems admin exp., with Win-dows, Office 2003, incl. Access. Crystal repor ts a+. Exp. in Production/MFGwork environment Assoc. Degree - BS/BA preferred. Ap-ply st: Maverick En-terprises 751 E. Gob-bi St, Ukiah jbrown@maverickcaps.comFax: 707-463-0188 www.maverickcaps.com

LVN Part time.Tired of high case loads? Provide sup-port to 6 adults with Devel. Disabilities in

their home.Office 485-5168Cell 489-0022

LVN Case ManagerMCHC seeks LVN Case Manager for Hillside Health Ctr.Exp. F/T lic. LVNCompetitive salary

DOE great benefits! Fax: 468-0793

skenney@mchcinc.orgwww.mchcinc.org

MAKE A DIFFER-ENCE! Small agency w/family feel seeks person to fill shoes of supervisor/facilitator.Help persons w/disa-bilities have a happy fulfilling life in their own homes. You be:dependable, flexible, friendly, accountable, independent and trustwor thy. BA or combination ed/exp.req’d. Competit ive pay & bene. Must pass background check & have good DMV. 275-8014

Patient ServicesRepresentative

Hillside Health Ctr.seeks receptionist

Bilingual pref.Competitive salary +

great benefits!Fax: 468-0793

skenney@mchcinc.orgwww.mchcinc.org

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Trinity YouthServices-Ukiah

A social service agency serving abused & neglected youth in a Residen-tial Treatment Cam-pus is looking for

CHILD CARE WORKERS.

CCW is responsible for the daily care & supervision of cli-ents & living condi-t ions. Swing & Night shifts availa-ble. Star ting at $9.40/hr. On-call $9/hr. Must be 21 yrs old. Excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vi-sion, tuition reim-bursement & FREE co-op child care.Must pass pre-em-ployment physical, drug test & back-ground check.

APPLY AT915 W. Church St.

Ukiah or fax resume

877-382-7617www.trinityys.org

EOE

MECHANIC F/TExperienced only,

outgoing, must have own tools 462-1126Milgard Windows

is looking for an ex-per ienced Outside Sales Representative for our Lake and Mendocino Countyterr itory to aggres-sively grow sales and promote the Milgard brand. To view re-quirements and to apply, please go to www.milgard.comand click on“Careers” AA/EOE

NCO Head StartMendo Co

Cook I/II- Prep nutri-tious meals, cook exp & basic math skills.$10.16-$11.12/hrDOQ Must complete NCO appl & include transcripts, 800-606-5550 ext 302 for app & job desc. Closes 5pm 3/24 (Postmarks not accepted). EOE

NCO Head StartMendo/Lake

Aide-for HS Ctr.Sp/Eng Bil preferred.$8.17/yhr w/bene’s.19-35 hrs/wk. Must submit NCO app:

800-606-5550x302 or www.ncoinc.org.

Closes 3/17 @ 5 PM (postmark not

accepted). EOEOFFICE ASSISTANTUkiah, 25 hrs/wk.Outgoing phone per-sonality. Computer skil ls, esp. Quick-books. Knowledge of wine and organic food. Fax resume to 462-4258

PERM. DRIVER PTThurs./Fri. $100/day.Clean, dependable.Drug free. Bring DMV report. Must lift 50lbs & able to deal w/cus-tomers. 1268 S.State St, Ukiah

Post Office Now Hiring!

Avg Pay $20/ hr, $57 K/yr, incl. Fed ben, OT.

Offered by ExamServices, not aff w/ USPS who hires.1-866-292-1387

Prenatal EducatorsMCHC’s Little Lake & Lakeside Health Ctr.

seek Prenatal Educa-tors. P/T 1-yr perina-tal exp. req. Bilingual req’d Fax: 707-468-0793 skenney@mchcinc.org

www.mchcinc.org for job description.

ROBINSONRANCHERIA

is currently seeking a Tribal Administrator, experience in work-ing with Tribal, State and Federal funding agencies. Must over-see all departments and programs. For a job description/infor-mation contact the Tribal office at 707-275-0527

SELF MOTIVATED Office assistant, Quickbooks a must, filing, Word & Works.$12-$15/hr DOE.Contact Dave 621-3024

SERVICE STATION ATTENDANT PT

Pick up app at8551 East Rd R.V.

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Transportation Aide-Tapestry

Family ServicesTranspor t children to appts and events.PT as sched. Safe vehicle, exc DMV & ins. $10/hr + mi. re-im. 463-3300, 290 E. Gobbi St, Ukiah.Apply now!

Ukiah residential childrens facility

is looking for caring,responsible individ-

uals to come join our team. Some exp. pre-ferred but not neces-sary. Will provide on

the job training. Start-ing sal. $12.12 hr.

403B, great benefits & vacation package.

Fax resume to 463-6957

Valley View is looking for CNAs days and p.m. shifts avail.great work environ-ment, competit ive wages & benefits.Hire-on bonus. Call Dawn @ 462-1436.

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Little Friends Pre-school. F/T & P/T. Opening ages 2-5. Monthly rates

between $185-$495.465 Luce Ave.

463-2273

200 SERVICESOFFERED

HANDYMANExpert Yard WorkAll Home Repairs

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210 BUSINESSOPPORT.

Make Money With-out a Job! Unem-

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250 BUSINESSRENTALS

2950 sf office space.Remod. to suit. 376 E. Gobbi St. Ext. un-der renov. 462-6506

250 BUSINESSRENTALS

LEE KRAEMERReal Estate Broker

SCHOOL STREETOFFICE/RETAIL

1300+/- sq. ft. w/pkg.

BRAND NEW!BUILD TO SUITOffice or Medical

1974+/- sq. ft. w/pkg.

DOWNTOWNHi-traffic loc. Ofc. Ste1600+/- sq. ft. w/pkg.

MED. OFFICE orRETAIL

South Orchard3400+/- sq. ft. w/pkng

468-8951

300 APARTMENTSUNFURNISHED

1 Studio $6851&2bd Apts.$835/$885/mo,

no pets. 462-4759351 N. Main

2bd 1 1/2 ba bkyd, pet ok w/dep. $900 +dep avail 3/20. 272-6778 or 272-6978

2BD, 1BA water & garbage pd,

w/washer & dryer462-8600

2bd2ba. Avail. 3/1$1025mo. $1025 sec.

W/D, pool, spa.No sec. 8 or pets.

463-2973

Lg. 2 story new office building S. State St.& Main St. frontage.2,000sq/ft all or part

NCR 468-9101

NEWER2 BEDROOM

DW/Garage + Pool$885mo. 463-2325

PARK PLACE1 bd. $800, 2 bdr.$910 TH $1050.

Pool/garg. 462-5009

Spacious 2bd. Pool.H20, trash pd. $850.Also 1bd. $725. Ht.AC Pd. N/P. 462-6075

Se habla espanol.

310 APARTMENTSFURNISHED

UPSTAIRS STUDIO $650/mo., $650 dep.

Incld’s utilities.391-7755

320 DUPLEXES

2bd 1bth w/d includ-ed $850/mo near Safeway avail 4/1 480-6063.

Duplex on Capps & Carrigan, $1175 rent.$1300 sec. 2 bdrm.

1.5 ba 462-4759

330 HOMESFOR RENT

1159 Helen Ave.Ukiah 3bd 2ba w/of-fice. $1800mo 508-8773

3bd hse in Rdwd Vly pos lease opt. Totally refurb 1/3ac. Pet neg.$1700. 695-1920.

4 bd 2 ba only $874/mo! Buy!

5%dn, 20yrs at 8% apr! For listings

800-749-7901 xS622 Cute cottage in Lu-cerne 2/bd +bonus rm. deck, hrdwd, dog ok $875 539-8005

Willits 3bdrm 2bth $1500 or Grt Studio w/bath. $700 N/S/P

707-486-7193

350 ROOMSFOR RENT

LARGE ROOM,Private entrance

$380 utilities & cable included 463-0889

370 WANTEDTO RENT

I need space for myTrailer to garden & live in. Work or cash.391-8941

390 MOBILES FORRENT

MOBILE SPACE upto 8x35 ok. Water & garbage pd $270/mo.462-5910

440 FURNITURE

Dining room table w/5 chairs $100.Large hutch $100 obo. 462-6947

450 WANTEDTO BUY

OLD US COINS, LicPlates $5. Collecti-bles. Gutar tube amp.equipment $Cash$ 485-7750, 621-1308.

460 APPLIANCES

USEDAPPLIANCES

& FURNITURE.Guaranteed. 485-1216

480 MISC.FOR SALE

LUMBERLattice tops fence panels. $65 ea.Kindling $25 a pickup load. Lattice panels $3 ea. Decking & fencing. 462-0686

500 PETS &SUPPLIES

1 MALE SHIH TZU Puppy AKC reg.

$700 Wants good home 462-2525

BLUE NOSE/Ameri-can Staf Pit pups.2m, 3f, beautiful dogs. All shots. $200 ea. 621-1500

Eng Springer Span-iel Pups 2 Blk/Wht

males 10wks (707)485-8505 $300

590 GARAGESALES

FREE GARAGE SALE SIGNS.

Realty World Selzer Realty. 350 E. Gobbi

MOVING SALE504 Low Gap Rd. Sat

& Sun. after 8am til dark 485-7271

MOVING SALELeather sofa, kitchen table & chairs, coffee table, outdoor furn. & more Sat & Sun 9am

85 Fairview Ct

SAT 7-2,410 NOKOMIS DR.

Wood, bike, golf clubs, hse hld misc

650 4X4'SFOR SALE

2004 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER AWD, all pwr, CD, auto, 3rd

row seat. 46k mi.Great cond. $18,300

468-5760

Ford F150 1997 V8 A/C PW/D cruise AM/FM CD New tires New reg. 168K miles $5,750 obo 489-0033

670 TRUCKSFOR SALE

GMC 1966 Long bed PU. Runs good, body has dents & scrapes

$950 468-7971

GMC Envoy 02 Grt cond. runs like new.only asking $7k. Call Frank 489-0953

SUV & TRAILER for sale. Dodge Durango

2001 38k mi. Trlr hitch, electric brakes, load leveler. Trailer,

Fireball 25’ 462-2460

680 CARSFOR SALE

HONDA CRV 200544K Silver/Blk int. Excellent cond.$15,900. 937-0721

720 MOBILESFOR SALE

1983 SILVERCREST3bd/2ba in desirable

family park. Only $48,000 obo 707-

391-2726 ask for Bill

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741 TOKAY 4bdrm, 3ba, including guest

suite, excellent condi-tion $499,000

Blandford RE 391-7612

I’m still doing mortgage loans,

purchasing & refin.Rates below 6%

Larry WrightGolden Bear Mortgage

707-239-8080

770 REAL ESTATE

The Area Agency on Aging of Lake and Mendocino Counties announces the avail-ability of Federal and State funds for the provision of nutrition services to seniors and adults with disa-bilities covering the inland area of Men-docino including Lay-tonvil le, Hopland, Redwood Valley and Boonville for the peri-od of July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2011. A Request for Proposals (RFP) for the provision of con-gregate and/or home delivered meals will be released on April 14, 2008. Funds in the amount of $3.40 per congregate meal and $2.20 per home delivered meal will be made available to the successful applicant.Deadline for submis-sion of proposals is 3:00 pm, Wednes-day, May 14, 2008.Parties interested in submitt ing an RFP must submit a letter of interest by Friday, April 25, 2008. All in-terested agencies areinvited to apply.

An Applicants’ Work-shop is scheduled for: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.Friday, April 25, 2008747 S. State Street, Ukiah, Joshua Tree Conference Room

For a copy of the Re-quest for Proposals contact: The Area Agency on Aging of Lake & Mendocino Counties, PSA 26Rae Garman747 S. State StreetUkiah, CA 95482(707) 463-7775e-mail:garmanr@mcdss.org

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24 hrs to 2 p.m. Wed. ................ 0.00"Month to date ............................ TraceNormal month to date ................ 2.66"Season to date ........................ 26.93"Last season to date ................ 19.58"Normal season to date ............ 32.20"

High .............................................. 66Low .............................................. 41Normal high .................................. 63Normal low .................................... 41Record high .................... 84 in 1910Record low ...................... 26 in 1922

UKIAH59/42

54/45Fort Bragg

54/45Westport

55/37Covelo

54/37Willits

57/38Redwood Valley

58/38Lakeport

60/38Clearlake

57/37Lucerne

63/44Willows

53/46Elk

56/46Gualala

60/41Cloverdale

56/40Boonville

54/45Rockport

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told the maintenance crew hehad been lost for several daysand was walking to FortBragg.

The maintenance crew con-tinued east and found anothercabin that appeared to havebeen broken into. They alsofound an overturned piece ofrailroad maintenance equip-ment and a shed that hadburned down, according tosheriff’s reports.

The maintenance crewwent back to where they hadseen Castle to ask him aboutit. When the four men foundCastle, he allegedly drew amachete, waved it at them and

told the maintenance workershe would attack them, accord-ing to sheriff’s reports. Castlethen ran toward a nearby roadand threw the machete into acreek.

The maintenance crewcalled sheriff’s deputies, whodrove to the area and recov-ered the machete from thecreek. Based on a descriptionfrom the four men, sheriff’sdeputies arrested Castle inFort Bragg on Tuesday onsuspicion of assault with adeadly weapon and makingterrorist threats and bookedhim into the MendocinoCounty Jail.

Castle is also being investi-gated on charges of burglaryand arson in connection withthe alleged break-ins at thetwo cabins and the fire.

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two years, but I was doing itpart time so it took four. Assoon as I graduated in 1978 ajob opened up here. I thinkthey really liked the fact that Ihad been involved with theschool before.”

Laurie Halsted has threechildren who attended theschool and was on the hiringcommittee that originally gaveNewman the position.

“She had just finishedschool and I knew it was herdream to work with smallchildren,” she said. “She wasa good friend of mine. I justknew she was well qualifiedand that she would be a won-derful mentor to our children.Susie is the best pre-schoolteacher in the area.”

Newman said that of all thethings that have changed overthe years, the children havenot.

“The children haveremained the same,” she said.“The biggest difference is thefamilies are much busier nowthan they used to be. When Istarted they didn’t have asmany additional things goingon. I don’t know how some ofthem do it.”

Newman said parents arepart owners of the school andare required to work two orthree days a month dependingon how many times per weektheir children attend.

“They also are required to

attend two meetings permonth,” she said. “The firstMonday is when we conductthe business of the club, andthe third Monday we have achild development classwhich is partially fundedthrough the Ukiah AdultSchool.”

Bogner said that sinceevery parent is part-owner ofthe school, use of the facilitiesduring off hours is availableas well.

“We’ve had birthday par-ties in here,” she said. “We allhave access to the building inoff school hours. The parentsall get to know each other.There is a sense of familyhere.”

On April 5, the school willbe honoring Newman at itsannual dinner and auction at 5p.m. at the Ukiah Elks Lodge.Dinner tickets can be pur-chased for $25 per person andeight-seat table reservations

can be made for an additional$50 and include two bottles ofwine. In addition, there will beboth live and silent auctionsduring the dinner, as well as araffle. Raffle tickets cost $1and you need not be present towin.

For more information or topurchase tickets to the event,contact Sara Bogner at 468-5109 or the school at 444 ParkBlvd. or 462-6638 by April 1.

Rob Burgess can be reachedat udjrb@pacific.net.

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childcare services, and alsowilling and able to attendmeetings 10 times each year.We are a strong team of 15members. We need peoplewho are willing to take actionin a capacity that’s comfort-able to them.”

Rosenthol said one of thebiggest tasks handled by theMCCCPC was to complete aneeds assessment for child-care countywide. In additionto the needs assessment, theMCCCPC focuses on devel-opmentally appropriate child-care environments, culturallycompetent childcare, safe and

healthy environments andissues of affordability andaccessibility to students. Thecouncil provides leadership inidentifying child care needs,priorities and resources. Thecouncil also advocates foraccessible, affordable, qualitychild care for all families inthe county while also promot-ing collaboration, policychange and local capacitybuilding -- all while educatingthe community about childcare issues.

For more information, callChild Care Planning CouncilManager Anne Rosenthol at467-5143, or visit the Website athttp://mcoe.us/d/ch_dev/ccpc.

Zack Sampsel can be reachedat udjzs@pacific.net.

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supporting documents andstaff reports, among otherthings. Each page of a sup-porting document was savedin Tagged Image Format (TIF)and then all pages were com-bined into a single AcrobatPortable Document Formatfile (PDF).

Humboldt County isn’t theonly area governmental orga-nization to post additionaldocuments on its Web site:The city of Ukiah posts staffreports along with CityCouncil agendas on its Website prior to council meetings.

After the presentation hadconcluded, Kristi Furman,clerk of the board, then pre-sented a PDF demonstrationcopy of a board agenda whichhad been formatted to link tothe agenda summary of eachitem.

“We wanted to show youthis is doable in-house,” shesaid.

Assistant CEO AlisonGlassey said staff time associ-ated with uploading and scan-ning larger documents, suchas environmental impactreports, could be mitigated

through simply uploadingelectronically submitted docu-ments.

“A lot of EIRs are beingdelivered on disk,” she said.“We can specify how thingsare delivered to us.”

Smith said she saw a time-saving opportunity in simplylinking to other county docu-ments that were alreadyoffered electronically online,such as Mendocino CountyPlanning Department files.

“That’s one of the thingsthe public has the most inter-est in - planning matters,” shesaid. “Why not use existingresources?”

CEO Tom Mitchell saidgoing electronic with publiclyavailable files would not onlyincrease transparency in coun-ty government, but also saveon resources such as paper.

“One of the goals we wantto get to is paperless,” he said.“We could save up to 13copies on every document byusing our PCs.”

Furman said the issue willremain in committee for thetime being, but will also bediscussed further duringfuture supervisors meetings.

Rob Burgess can be reachedat udjrb@pacific.net.

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