By ROB BURGESSThe Daily Journal

When I was getting ready for work thismorning I noticed that the movie “CB4”was on, so of course I had to watch it fora little bit.

And not because I was stalling, mindyou.

The hilarious 1993 mockumentarystars Chris Rock and Charlie Murphy anddetails the fictional rap group CB4. In themovie, the formerly middle class triowho go by Cell Block 4 (MC Gusto, StabMaster Arson and Dead Mike) have risento the height of fame and success afterthey stole their name and identity from anactual criminal they know who had sincebeen locked up.

As I drank my tea and tried to find thestrength to start my day, I began to noticea uncanny resemblance to a story I havebeen following online for the past fewdays.

First, some background:Rapper Rick Ross, government name:

William Leonard Roberts, has releasedtwo full-length albums since bursting

onto the scene in 2006 with the single“Hustlin’.” Throughout his lyrics heregales his listeners with stories of hispurported previous life as a cocaine traf-ficker, taking his rap moniker from actu-

al drug kingpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross.What he neglected to mention was his

18-month stint in a Florida prison -- as aguard.

“Apparently desperate to distancehimself from any affiliation with lawenforcement, the rapper Rick Ross hasrecently denounced as fake photos pur-porting to show him in a former career asa Florida prison guard,” stated thesmok-inggun.com on June 21. “But Departmentof Corrections records show thatRoss...did, in fact, work as a correctionalofficer for 18 months. Ross was appoint-ed a prison guard in December 1995 at asalary of $22,913.54. The rapper’s SocialSecurity number is identical to that of thejail guard.”

Had Ross manned-up and told thetruth at this point, the story might wellhave fizzled. Sadly, that’s not what hap-pened.

“When a photo of a uniform-clad Rosssurfaced last week onMediaTakeOut.com, the 32-year-old per-

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The Daily JournalOn Thursday, Caltrans issued a series of updates on major

roadwork projects occuring within the county between Fridayand Thursday.

Note: Each of the following listings begins with the roadaffected and then lists the beginning and end mile-markers.

Route 1 (50.6/51.5) - Mendocino Unified School District hasbeen granted a Caltrans Encroachment Permit to install a watermain between and Jackson and Lansing streets beginningFriday. Work hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. Turns ontoLittle Lake Road will be restricted. Motorists may experienceminor traffic slowdowns.

Route 1 (60.8/62.3) - A paving project from Walnut Street toPudding Creek will continue. Work hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.,weekdays. Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direc-tion of travel. Motorists may experience minor traffic slow-downs.

Route 1 (62.8) - Utility installation will continue at AirportRoad. Work hours are 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weekdays. One-waytraffic control will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate 15-minute delays.

Route 1 (104.8/105.5) - Bridge deck rehabilitation on theSouth Fork Eel River Bridge will continue. One-way trafficcontrol will be in effect 24 hours per day, Monday thoughFriday. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays.

Route 20 (0.6/2.3) - A highway widening project from OldWillits Road to Gravel Pit Road will continue. Work hours are7 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekdays. One-way traffic control will be ineffect. Motorists should anticipate 20-minute delays.

Route 101 (0.0/9.2) - A paving project from theMendocino/Sonoma County line to the Russian River Bridgewill continue. Work hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays.Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel.Motorists may experience minor traffic slowdowns.

Route 101 (3.1/4.5) - A pavement repair project from 0.1miles nort to 1.5 miles north of Comminsky Station Road willcontinue. Northbound traffic will be restricted to one lane 24hours per day, seven days per week. Motorists may experienceminor traffic slowdowns.

Route 101 (11.7/20.9) - A paving project from Hewitt andSturtevant Road to the Robinson Creek Bridge will continue.Work hours are 9 p.m. to 8 a.m., weekdays. One-way trafficcontrol will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate 10-minutedelays.

Route 101 (31.9/33.9) - A pavement repair project fromForsyth Creek Bridge to Uva Drive will continue. Work hoursare 10 a.m. to 6 a.m., weekdays. Traffic will be restricted to onelane in each direction of travel. Motorists may experienceminor traffic slowdowns.

Route 101 (35.8/37.5) - Roadway repair due to pavementdeterioration from 3.6 miles south of Ridgewood Ranch Roadto 1.9 miles south of Ridgewood Ranch Road will continue.Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel24 hours per day, seven days per week. Motorists may experi-ence minor traffic slowdowns.

Route 101 (42.1/42.4) - Bridge deck rehabilitation on theSouth Willits Overhead will be begin Tuesday. Traffic will berestricted to one lane in each direction of travel 24 hours perday, Monday through Friday. Motorists may experience minortraffic slowdowns.

Route 101 (42.1/45.3) - A paving project from South WillitsOverhead to Manor Lane will continue. In two-lane sections,one-way traffic control will be in effect from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.,Sunday evening through Friday morning, and motorists mayexperience 15-minute delays. In four-lane sections, traffic willbe restricted to one lane in each direction of travel from 7 a.m.to 7 p.m., weekdays, and motorists may experience minor traf-fic slowdowns.

Route 101 (57.7/58.9) - Bridge deck rehabilitation on theArnold Bridge Overhead will continue. Traffic will be restrict-ed to one lane in each direction of travel 24 hours per day,Monday through Friday. Motorists may experience minor traf-fic slowdowns.

Route 101 (59.3/60), Route 162 (0.0/0.1) - Bridge deck reha-bilitation on the Long Valley Creek Bridge will continue.Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction of travel,24 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Motorists may expe-rience minor traffic slowdowns.

Route 101 (64.7/69.1) - A paving project from Long ValleyCreek Bridge to Harmon Drive will continue. Work hours are 6a.m. to midnight, weekdays. One-way traffic control will be ineffect. Motorists should anticipate 10-minute delays.

Route 101 (69.3/69.9) - A curve improvement project willcontinue. Work hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays.Intermittent one-way traffic control will be in effect. Motoristsshould anticipate 10-minute delays.

Route 101 (78.4, also 103) - North Coast EnvironmentalConstruction has been granted a Caltrans Encroachment Permitfor diesel cleanup near Spyrock Road beginning Tuesday,August 5. Work hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays. One-waytraffic control will be in effect. Motorists should anticipate five-minute delays.

Route 101 (99.2/100.7) - Construction of a retaining wallnear Confusion Hill will continue. Work hours are 6:30 a.m. to5 p.m., weekdays. One-way traffic control will be in effect.

Caltrans issuesroadwork updates

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(Top left) Headlining Sundays in the Park, Craven, Marshall,Phillips and Grier belt out their bluegrass tunes in ToddGrove Park Sunday in Ukiah. (Top right) Concert goersJessika Christopher and her brother Paul enjoy the musicon the lawn. (Left middle) Ukiah locals get down to the blue-grass of Craven, Marshall, Phillips and Grier. (Bottom left)Locals enjoy a up close and personal view one of the twoCajungrass, Psychograss and Bluegrass trios, Joe Craven,Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, David Grier and the Tri Tip Trioat the fourth concert of the 2008 Sundays in the Park con-cert series.

Al-Qaida says explosives expert wanted by US killed along with 3 other commanders

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida con-firmed Sunday the death of a top comman-der accused of training the suicide bomberswho killed 17 American sailors on the USSCole eight years ago.

Abu Khabab al-Masri, who had a $5 mil-lion bounty on his head from the UnitedStates, is believed to have been killed in anairstrike apparently launched by the U.S. inPakistan last week.

An al-Qaida statement posted on theInternet said al-Masri and three other topfigures were killed and warned of vengeancefor their deaths. It did not say when, whereor how they died but said some of their chil-dren were killed along with them.

Pakistani authorities have said theybelieve al-Masri is one of six people killedin an airstrike on July 28 on a compound inSouth Waziristan, a lawless tribal regionnear the Afghan border.

The U.S. military has not confirmed itwas behind the missile strike. But similarU.S. attacks are periodically launched onmilitant targets in the tribal border region.

Mother of embattled Detroit mayor faces stiff challenge in Democratic congressional primary

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Detroit MayorKwame Kilpatrick’s name will not appearon primary ballots Tuesday in Michigan, butvoters could decide whether his mothershould bear any of the fallout from a scandalthat has galvanized city hall.

Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., faces a serious challenge in a three-way congressional primary that has centeredon the mayor’s conduct and on tough talkabout who could best represent the strug-gling Detroit district.

The 38-year-old mayor and his former topaide are charged with perjury, misconductand obstruction of justice, all connected totheir testimony in a civil trial last year. Theydenied having a romantic relationship, butthose claims have been contradicted by textmessages in a scandal that has dominatednews coverage in Detroit for months.

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, who leads theCongressional Black Caucus, was first elect-ed to the U.S. House in 1996 after nearlytwo decades in the state Legislature. She hasfaced little opposition in a Democratic dis-trict that John Kerry won with 80 percent inthe 2004 presidential election. The primarywinner will be heavily favored in theNovember general election.

During the campaign, former state Rep.Mary Waters has repeatedly referred to thefelony charges against the mayor and criti-cized the congresswoman for defendinghim. She released a scathing ad that con-trasted the felony charges against the mayorwith video of the congresswoman defendingher son at a rally.

“The reason she got challenged on that

was her own doing,” Waters said. “If shehad not been out publicly defending hisbehavior, it wouldn’t have happened in thefirst place.”

In a recent forum, the congresswomansaid she supports her son and “we will raisewhatever he needs for his defense -- as anymother in this room would do.”

Tropical storm warningissued for parts of La. coast as depression forms in Gulf of Mexico

MIAMI (AP) -- Forecasters say a tropicalstorm warning has been issued for parts ofthe Louisiana coast as a tropical depressionformed in the Gulf of Mexico.

The warning issued Sunday is in effectfrom the mouth of the Mississippi Riverwestward to Intracoastal City. It means thattropical storm conditions are expected byMonday evening. New Orleans is not in thewarning area.

AP IMPACT: Korean commission finds indiscriminate killings ofcivilians by US military

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- SouthKorean investigators, matching once-secretdocuments to eyewitness accounts, are con-cluding that the U.S. military indiscrimi-nately killed large groups of refugees andother civilians early in the Korean War.

A half-century later, the Seoul govern-ment’s Truth and ReconciliationCommission has more than 200 such allegedwartime cases on its docket, based on hun-dreds of citizens’ petitions recountingbombing and strafing runs on South Koreanrefugee gatherings and unsuspecting vil-lages in 1950-51.

Concluding its first investigations, the 21/2-year-old commission is urging the gov-ernment to seek U.S. compensation for vic-tims.

“Of course the U.S. government shouldpay compensation. It’s the U.S. military’sfault,” said survivor Cho Kook-won, 78,who says he lost four family membersamong hundreds of refugees suffocated,burned and shot to death in a U.S. Air Forcenapalm attack on their cave shelter south ofSeoul in 1951.

Commission researchers have unearthedevidence of indiscriminate killings in thedeclassified U.S. archive, including a reportby U.S. inspectors-general that pilots could-n’t distinguish their South Korean civilianallies from North Korean enemy soldiers.

Scientist: DNA fromanthrax victims led investigators to suspect in 2001 killings

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A governmentscientist tells The Associated Press thatDNA from the bodies of people killed in theanthrax attacks helped lead investigators tothe suspect.

The scientist, who is close to the investi-

gation, described the process on conditionof anonymity because he is not authorized totalk to reporters.

He said Sunday that investigators startedwith DNA from some of those victims.Investigators matched specific DNA pat-terns to anthrax cultures that the suspect,Army scientist Bruce Ivins, was responsiblefor in the lab.

This scientific technique took years todevelop.

Ivins killed himself last week as prosecu-tors prepared to indict him on murdercharges for the death of five people in theattacks.

Stampede kills 145 atremote Hindu temple inIndia’s Himalaya region

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Thousands of pan-icked pilgrims stampeded Sunday at aremote mountaintop temple in northernIndia during celebrations to honor a Hindugoddess, sending dozens of people plum-meting to their deaths and trampling scoresmore. Police said 145 people were killed.

Rumors of a landslide apparently startedthe panic at the shrine in the foothills of theHimalayas, said C.P. Verma, a senior gov-ernment official in the Bilaspur district.

Pilgrims already at the Naina DeviTemple began running down the narrow pathleading from the peak. There, they collidedwith devotees winding their way up.

With a concrete wall on one side and aprecipice on the other, there was nowhere toescape and they were crushed. At one pointa guard rail broke and dozens of people fellto their deaths.

The bodies of the devotees -- manydressed in brightly colored holiday clothes -- carpeted the path, intertwined with flat-tened iron railings. Many still held the flow-ers and food they planned to offer at thetemple.

Christina Applegate being treated for breast cancer but expectedto recover, publicist says

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- ChristinaApplegate is undergoing treatment forbreast cancer, but the disease was caughtearly and the actress is expected to fullyrecover, her publicist said.

The Emmy winner’s cancer was detectedthrough an MRI ordered by a doctor and isnot life-threatening, publicist Ame Van Idensaid in a statement Saturday.

Applegate is scheduled to appear on aone-hour television special, “Stand Up ToCancer,” to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBCon Sept. 5 to raise funds for cancer research.

The 36-year-old actress has been nomi-nated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe forthe show “Samantha Who?”, in which sheplays a woman who wakes from a coma withno memory of who she is.

The show, which debuted last October,marked a return to series television forApplegate, who helped establish the Foxnetwork in 1987 as ditzy teenager KellyBundy on “Married ... With Children.” Theraunchy comedy ran 11 seasons and hasbeen airing in syndication since.

Another Bruce Ivins could be lurking in exploding numberof biodefense labs

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There could beanother Bruce Ivins lurking somewhere in abiodefense laboratory.

These research facilities have expandedso quickly since the anthrax attacks in 2001that the government cannot keep close tabs

on the sites or their thousands of scientists.Security procedures are designed more toprevent accidents than to deal with security-cleared scientists who control their own lab.

Billions of biodefense dollars from theBush administration swelled to nearly 1,400the number of labs handling potential bio-logical weapons including anthrax.

Background checks for people handingsuch germs and toxins are unlikely to ferretout workers with homicidal tendencies orextreme political views. There is little tostop a scientist, especially a principal inves-tigator in charge of his own lab, from smug-gling out an anthrax spore, for example, ona cotton swab used to clean his ear.

Nearly everyone cleared to work in a labwith the most dangerous substances -- des-ignated by the government as “selectagents” -- has access to potential biologicalweapons.

With nomination assured, Obama says give Fla., Mich. delegatesfull vote at convention

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that BarackObama has clinched the Democratic nomi-nation for president, he wants conventiondelegates from Florida and Michigan tohave full voting rights at the party’s nation-al convention.

Obama sent a letter Sunday to the party’scredentials committee, asking members toreinstate the delegates’ voting rights whenthe committee meets at the start of the con-vention.

The delegates were originally strippedbecause the two states violated party rulesby holding primaries before Feb. 5. The del-egates from each state were given half-votesat a contentious party meeting in May, aspart of a compromise designed to give twoimportant states some role at the conven-tion.

Obama’s former Democratic rival, HillaryRodham Clinton, had won both primaries,though Obama’s name was not on theMichigan ballot and neither candidate cam-paigned in Florida.

“I believe party unity calls for the dele-gates from Florida and Michigan to be ableto participate fully alongside the delegatesfrom the other states and territories,” Obamasaid in the letter.

Packers president says team will welcome BrettFavre back, add him to active roster Monday

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Though theGreen Bay Packers say Brett Favre has putthem in a difficult situation, they’re pre-pared to welcome him back. The NFLannounced Sunday that Favre will be rein-stated and added to the Packers’ active ros-ter on Monday.

Commissioner Roger Goodell had heldoff on granting Favre’s request for reinstate-ment for nearly a week, hoping Favre andthe team could resolve their standoff.

“Although we built this year around theassumption that Brett meant what he saidabout retiring, Brett is coming back,” saidteam president and CEO Mark Murphy. “Wewill welcome him back and turn this situa-tion to our advantage.”

The reinstatement will become effectiveat 1 p.m. EDT Monday, when Favre will beadded to the Packers’ active roster. By rein-stating Favre, Goodell is following throughon a recent promise to force action.

Earlier this week, the team offered Favrea long-term, multimillion-dollar marketingagreement that likely would have kept himretired. But Favre’s decision to report tocamp makes such an agreement less likely.

Motorists should anticiaptefive-minute delays.

Route 162 (0.7) - A bridge

widening project at OutletCreek Bridge will continue.One-way traffic control with atemporary signal is in effect24 hours per day, seven daysper week. Motorists shouldanticipate 10-minute delays.

Route 253 (0.5) - A bridgewidening project at AndersonCreek Bridge will continue.One-way traffic control with atemporary signal is in effect24 hours per day, seven daysper week. Motorists shouldanticipate 10-minute delays.

Route 253 (3.5) - A bridge

widening project at SodaCreek Bridge will continue.One-way traffic control with atemporary signal is in effect24 hours per day, seven daysper week. Motorists shouldanticipate 10-minute delays.

Route 253 (8.4) - Caltranswill perform routine mainte-nance 4.2 miles east of CattlePass through Friday. Workhours are 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.,weekdays. A shoulder closurewill be in effect. Motoristsmay experience minor trafficslowdowns.

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Deep Valley Christian School now enrolling for all grades

Deep Valley Christian School in Redwood Valley is nowenrolling for the 2008/2009 school year, Preschool through 12thgrade. For more information or to enroll, call DVCS at 485-8778.

UUSD registration forkindergarten has begun

Registration for all-day kindergarten in the Ukiah UnifiedSchools has begun. Parents who will be registering their chil-dren are asked to bring a copy of their child’s birth certificateand immunization records, as well as residence verification(such as phone, cable, or PG&E bills) when registering. Thechild must have reached their fifth birthday on or before Dec. 2,2008, to qualify for 2008-2009 kindergarten.

School offices will open on Aug. 5, and school starts Aug.25.

• Calpella Elementary 485-8701• Frank Zeek Elementary 463-5345• Hopland Elementary 744-1333• Yokayo Elementary 463-5236• Nokomis Elementary 463-5242• Oak Manor Elementary 463-5249• Grace Hudson Elementary 463-3813Or 463-5208 to determine the school of residence.

Reading Bug summer reading program to continue Aug. 6

The Mendocino County Library’s Ukiah Summer ReadingProgram will take place on Wednesdays at 3 p.m., on July 2, 9,16, 23, 30, and Aug. 6, at the Ukiah Library.

• Aug. 6 -- “Learn About Energy From The Sun With BettyBiodiesel,” LIndsey Hassett.

Ukiah High School Class of 1963 45-year reunion set for Aug. 16

Ukiah High Class of 1963 is planning their 45 year reunionfor Aug. 16, 2008. The Reunion Committee is seeking currentcontact information from classmates of 1963. Members of theClass of 1963, or those who know a class of 1963 member, areinvited to provide the Committee with any updated addressinformation at mngibson@yahoo.com, so the Committee cansend out an invitation. For more information, contact theCommittee at the above e-mail address or by calling 462-2208.

Mendocino Sheriff’s Department isoffering community karate classes

The Sheriff’s Youth Activities League Karate Program isteaching “Free” Youth, Teen and Adult Karate Programs inUkiah, Willits and Hopland this fall. They will take place at theRedwood Health Club at 3101 S. State St., Ukiah onWednesday nights at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2p.m.; the Body Works Gym in Willits at 1511 S. Main St. onTuesdays and Thursdays, at 6:15 p.m.; and the Shorin-ryu Dojoin Hopland, Monday and Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m.

The classes are co-ed, for ages five and up. Membership inthe fitness clubs is not required to attend those classes. SALmembership/insurance dues are $5 annually. Registration willbe available at the classes.

For more information, call the SAL voice mail at 468-4288.

MONTHLY MEETINGS

GULP: Greater Ukiah Localization Project meets on thefirst Tuesday; 7 p.m.; Washington Mutual meeting room, alsomeets on the third Tuesday; 7 p.m.; Eagle Peak Middle Schoolin Redwood Valley. For more information, call Cliff Paulin at463-0413.

Inland Mendocino and Lake County Support ofMarriage Equality California: Meets first Tuesday; 7 to 8p.m.; 404 Clara Ave.; For information, call 456-0213.

Mendocino Mustang Car Club: 7 p.m.; first Tuesday;Ukiah Garden Cafe; S. State St.; call 462-2315 or 485-5461.

Yokayo Elementary School PTA: 6 p.m.; first Tuesday;Yokayo Elementary School library; Everyone is invited to joinus for our monthly PTA meeting; call Amanda Carley at 462-8337.

Ukiah Skate Park Committee: 5:15 to 6:45 p.m.; firstTuesday; Ukiah City Hall Meeting Room; 411 W. Clay St.;Looking for citizens interested in assisting in fund raising andthe building of a skate park in Ukiah; 463-6236.

Democratic Central Committee, Mendocino County:Meets first Tuesday at 7 p.m. The location alternates betweenFort Bragg, Ukiah and Willits.

Emblem Club Liberty Belles: Fund raising luncheons,11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $5; first Wednesday, Elks Lodge, 1200Hastings Road, Ukiah.

Potter Valley Garden Club: Meets on the first Wednesdayof each month at 1:30 p.m., at Member’s homes. For moreinformation, call 743-1801 or 743-1844.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Family SupportGroup: 6 to 7:30 p.m.; first and third Wednesday; for location,call 467-9798.

Willits Frontier Days Board: Meets first Wednesday, at 7p.m., Willits rodeo grounds office building on E. Commercial;for information call Peggy Hebrard 459-2121.

Redwood Riders: Meets first Wednesdays, at 7 p.m., atHorse ‘N Hound, 9155 N. State St. # 13, Redwood Valley.

Grapevine Quilters Guild of Mendocino County: Meetson first Wednesday; 6:30 p.m., at the Elks Lodge, 1200Hastings Road; dues are $30 a year; quilters of any or no expe-rience are welcome.

Knights of Columbus, St. Mary of the Angels #3791: Firstand third Wednesday; 7 p.m.; 900 Oak St.; call 463-8315.

Latino Coalition: Meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., firstThursday in the NCO conference room; for information call467-5106.

Spontaneous Play Reading Group: Meets to enjoy readingplays on the first Thursday; 6 p.m., at the Washington MutualMeeting Room; corner of State and Gobbi streets; Anyone iswelcome to come; call Arleen Shippey at 462-7173.

Mendocino Chapter of The Harley Owner Group: Meetsfirst Thursday; at 7 p.m.; call 489-1707 or 463-2842.

Literacy Volunteers, Greater Ukiah Area: Board of direc-tors meets first Thursday; 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.; Ukiah PublicLibrary, 105 N. Main St.

Ukiah Mac Users Group: Meets second Monday of eachmonth at 7 p.m., alternating meetings in Ukiah and Willits. InWillits meet at the Willits Public Library, and in Ukiah at NorthHaven School, 225 S. Hope St. between Church and W.Stevenson in Room 5. Sell or trade items; share OSX and OS9problems along with solutions; hear new Mac news and more;391-7667 or boopadrian@att.net

Ukiah Valley Alliance for Democracy: Meets secondMonday: 5:15 p.m. for open discussion over brown-bag dinner(optional) followed by formal agenda at 6:30 p.m.; MendoEducation Action Cooperative (“the MEAC”), 106 W. StandleySt. (between State and School streets), Ukiah. For more infor-mation, call 472-0724.

Modified Motorcycle Association of California: 7:30 p.m.,Second Monday; Wright Stuff Pizza; 720 N. State St; call JerryMeyer, 462-2810 or Clell McFarland, 485-9243.

Look Good. . . Feel Better: A program for women under-going appearance related side effects of cancer treatment; sec-ond Monday of each month at 10 a.m.; call to register, 462-7642.

PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians andGays, a program to provide support in a non-judgmental, con-fidential setting, meets second Monday, at 6:30 p.m., atMCAVN, 148 Clara Ave.; for information call toll free, 463-2223.

Caregiver Support Group: Second and fourth Mondays;10 a.m. to noon, at 301 N. State St.; call 1 (800) 834-1636.

Redwood Valley Grange: Second Friday; at 6:30 p.m.; at8650 East Road, Redwood Valley; potluck followed by thebusiness meeting and program.

Ukiah Contra Dance: meets second Saturday; new dancersalways welcome; beginner instruction starts at 7:30 p.m.; dancebegins at 8 p.m.; cost is $7 for adults and $3 for children; call463-2113 for location.

Saturday Afternoon Club: Second Saturday until May,from 1:30 to 3 p.m.; at 107 S. Oak St.

VFW Pancake Breakfast: Held the second Saturday ofeach month from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., with indoor flea marketfrom 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., both at the Veterans Memorial building.For more information, call 462-7622.

Ukiah Elks Lodge Breakfast: Meets second Sunday eachmonth. All you can eat breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to noon, 1200Hastings Road; proceeds benefit Ukiah area youth functions;$6, adults, $3 children under 12.

WEEKLY MEETINGS

Adults Molested as Children: Meets at 1 to 2:30 p.m. everyThursday; call Judy or Linda for location and additional infor-mation at 462-9196.

Alanon: Meets 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Ukiah MethodistChurch on Pine Street; 1 p.m. on Mondays, noon on Tuesdays,5:30 p.m. on Thursdaya, noon on Fridays and 10:30 a.m. onSaturdays at Calvary Baptist Church, 465 Luce Ave.; 463-1867or 621-2721. Spanish speaking Alanon at 7 p.m. Thursday atNuestra Casa on State Street in Ukiah.

Alanon (in Spanish): Meets on Thursdays, at 7 p.m., inNuestra Casa; 487 N. State St.; for information call 463-8181or 272-1376.

Bingo: Non smoking, non-profit, Bingo will be heldTuesday nights at 6 p.m. and Thursday afternoons at 1 p.m., atthe Ukiah Senior Center.

Card and Boardgame Club: Meets at 8:30 a.m., onTuesdays in Bartlett Hall in Room 11 and 12 and at 5:30 p.m.on Wednesdays and Fridays, at Carter Hall at the Ukiah SeniorCenter; for information call Joyce, 468-8943.

Celebrate Recovery: Christ-centered 12-step recovery;Fridays at Trinity Baptist Church Hall, South Dora Street andLuce Ave, 6 p.m. fellowship dinner; 7 p.m. teaching/testimony;8 p.m. men and women’s small group sharing; 9 p.m.dessert/solid rock cafe. Babysitting provided. For more infor-mation call 462-6535.

C O M M U N I T YEditor: Richard Rosier, 468-3520 udj@pacific.net

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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Meet Monica, she the only girl in a litter of fiveBlack Lab/Rottweiler mix puppies. Monica andher brothers are quite possibly the mostadorable puppies ever. These sweet puppieshave very different coloring, Monica having themost traditional Rottweiler pattern the boysrange from black to brindle markings. Monicaand her brothers are six weeks old and areadoptable but must remain in the shelter foranother week or two until they can be spayedand neutered. Come down and adopt your veryown adorable puppy today. To adopt a pet, visitthe Mendocino County Animal Shelter on PlantRoad. The hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday,Tuesday , Thursday and Friday, and onWednesday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturdaythe hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the shelter isclosed Sundays. View other available animals atwww.petfinder.com. For more information, callSage at 467-6453.

Pet of the Week

Photo by Katharine Kleiber

The Humane Society for Inland MendocinoCounty has been receiving kittens all summerlong. They come from many places, are of manyages, and sometimes need special care. The vol-unteers and staff at the shelter do amazing workreadying them for good homes. Alfred, Romaine,and Opus are all neutered, up to date on shots,and given routine health screenings; as are allthe animals available for adoption at the shelter.Please open your home to one of these funfelines.The shelter is located at 9700 Uva Drive inRedwood Valley, and the phone number is 485-0123. The new extended hours are as follows:Tuesday and Wednesday noon to 5 p.m., call orvisit the Humane Society for Inland MendocinoCounty.

Pet of the Week

The Daily JournalLast June 19, MTA par-

ticipated in the third annualNational Dump the PumpDay, sponsored by theAmerican PublicTransportation Association .MTA was one of over 125transportation agencies tocelebrate the event.

The purpose of Dump thePump Day is to increasepublic awareness of transitas the quickest way to beathigh fuel prices.Participating transit agen-cies encouraged peoplenationwide to leave theircars at home and ride a busor train instead. The cam-paign also emphasized waysin which public transporta-tion systems not only helpsave money, but also helpcombat climate change.

MTA participated in theDump the Pump day byoffering and free rides onany fixed bus route withinthe County. Ridership statsare in and on June 19th rid-ership increase 61 percent

over the highest ridershipthat week and by 58 percentin comparable days in thelast three years. Almost allroutes experience increases,with some routes increasing

by double digits and someroutes seeing more than a50 percent increase

“We are delighted withthe record levels of rider-ship,” states General

Manager Bruce Richard.“With gas prices higherthan ever before, and finan-cial concerns affectingeveryone, now is the time toride transit and save money.

See CALENDAR, Page 5

Dump the Pump Dayat MTA a big success

EDUCATION BRIEFS

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

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California focus

Three things are clear in aftermath of huge headlinestrumpeting the 24 percent dropout rate reported last weekby California’s public school officials:

One is that the schools are at long last ready to admitthere’s a dropout crisis of catastrophic magnitude.

Another is that the figures reported are still far lowerthan what is occurring in real life.

A third is that public schools will have to make majorchanges if they are to come anywhere close to achievingtheir mission of educating California’s children tobecome productive and efficient adults.

The first of these points may be most significant. Thiscolumn and a very few other news outlets reported formuch of the last 10 years that the high school dropoutrate in California was close to one-third. That is, of everynine students who enrolled for their freshman year in anygiven fall, about three would disappear before their pur-ported graduation day rolled around.

When those claims were first presented, based oncomparing the number of students enrolling as freshmenwith the number of graduates four years later, educationofficials scoffed. They said many missing students hadtransferred, moved out of state, switched to home schoolsor made myriad other moves.

Most school districts at first admitted dropout ratesranging between 4 percent and 12 percent. As recently aslast year, state officials pegged it at 13.6 percent.

But numbers released in late July by state SchoolsSupt. Jack O’Connell far eclipsed those. The state nowadmits an overall dropout rate of just over 24 percent,based on new reporting methods. There are no apologiesfor the outright lies officials told over many years of seri-ous denial.

So there’s the admission at long last of a serious crisis.But even that crisis is soft-pedaled. The actual dropout

rate is probably at least 10 percent higher than what isnow admitted. That’s because even though schools nowtrack students through transfers, there are still seriousflaws in the way dropouts are calculated.

Notes the pro-school voucher group California Par-ents for Educational Choice, the new figures are based onself-reported, unaudited data from school districts andcounty offices of education which have a vested interestin making themselves look good. What’s more, the newinformation does not account for students who drop outin middle schools, long before they reach high school.

“In the scientific world,” notes the group’s president,Dr. Alan Bonsteel, “self-reported and unverified data isnever accepted… We’ve seen this kind of system in thepast and the school districts simply pretended not to seewhen the kids disappeared.”

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a prospec-tive 2010 candidate for governor, is another skeptic. Hesays the reported dropout rate for his city’s schools - adismal 33 percent - is actually closer to 50 percent or 60percent.

“I know it is higher than they are saying,” Villaraigosaasserted.

So it’s a pretty sure bet that even the new, far-higherofficial dropout rate is still lowballed, meaning the crisisis far worse than the state admits.

Documented dropouts are up about 5 percent sincepassing the high school exit examination became manda-tory almost three years ago. Plus, middle school dropoutsare bound to increase now that students will be requiredto pass Algebra 1 just to reach high school.

What can schools do about this? For one thing, theycan make far greater efforts than most now do to combattruancy. Students allowed to disappear without beingtracked down are not likely ever to reappear. Schools canalso offer differential diplomas, so students who meet allother graduation requirements but can’t pass the exitexam will have some reason to stay in school. And theycan teach required subjects more intensively.

But the larger solutions will have to come outside thepublic school system. Many dropouts are apparentlydrawn away by gang activity, so new state efforts tocounteract gang recruiting will have to play a role.

Teacher training will have to improve, too. The betterteachers are, the fewer of their students drop out. Thisfactor will become even more important with the algebramandate. Elementary and middle school teachers willneed ever-stronger mathematics backgrounds if their stu-dents are not to drop out because of this new require-ment.

And then there are parents. Parental involvement isthe obvious reason dropout rates are far lower for bothcharter schools and private schools than in ordinary pub-lic schools. Whether by television commercials, outreachprograms or some other means, more parents will have totake an interest in their kids’ education or the dropout cri-sis will continue indefinitely.

All of which means this is a crisis that will not goaway soon, even if the immediate headlines fade away. Itwill take a sustained effort on many fronts over at least10 years to make any significant dent in what has beenproperly called an educational catastrophe.

Water bombers? To the Editor:As California burns the question begs,

“There must be a better way” and “let itbum” is a bad idea due to serious air pol-lution.

Fifty years ago the logging practicesthat were allowed are a direct connectionto the fire risk we have today. Clear cut-ting makes large open spaces where fiveto 10 times or more trees pop-up thanwere there originally, that along with cli-mate change has created tinder box con-ditions, with diseased and unhealthytrees.

It doesn’t require a fluke of nature toset it off when an increase in humanactivity is a more likely event. Well ifyou have a computer and go online,Google: “Bombardier CL-415” or“Marten Mars Bomber.”

It turns out these specialized waterbombers have been in use since 1969,mostly in Canada where they can’t easilyget a couple thousand firefighters intoforests the size of several states.

They currently are used in 8 countries;Canada has about 60, and France 13,with a Mediterranean coastline that isremarkably similar to California exceptit’s length is about San Francisco toOregon. The Bombardier CL-415,awarded the prestigious “Batefuegos deoro” (gold fire extinguisher), can pickup1,620 gallons from ocean or lake, whilethe Marten Mars Bomber can pick-up7,200 gallons in 25 seconds.

Depending on proximity to the fire,they can make drops every 15 minutes(seven if working in tandem). In onedrop they can wet-blanket 4 acres, cover-ing it with 30 tons of water, foam, or gel.

Anyone who was in MendocinoCounty during the Lightning-Complexevent experienced the catastrophic airquality from all of the fires, that went onfor far too long.

The Cal-Fire base camp was not ahealthy place for firefighters to get theirR&R, nor for anyone who stayed inland.The thought of 13 water bombers, oreven six, what do you think the result ofthis disaster would have been, and whyis it we don’t have any?

Imagine over 2,000 fire fighters risk-ing their lives with picks and shovels,hundreds of trucks and bulldozers, airpollution off the charts for six weeksmaybe, or 10 water bombers in a weekand a half tops.

The word “primitive” seems well suit-ed for how the leaders of one of theworlds most technologically advancedcountries fights forest fires.

Jim CallanLaytonville

Open letter to UkiahPolice Chief, City Council

To the Editor:There is an issue I believe needs to be

brought to your attention. Since July 1, ontwo separate occasions, I have observedtwo different City of Ukiah police offi-cers talking on cellular phones (not usinga hands free devices) while driving patrolvehicles.

Please review your departmental poli-cy on this matter and educate your offi-cers as to the law that went into effectJuly 1, 2008, prohibiting the use of cellu-lar phones while operating a motor vehi-cle.

I fully support this law, as a matter ofsafety, and would like to believe that theCity of Ukiah would expect their ‘finest’to abide by as well as enforce the law.

Thank you for your attention in thismatter.

Ronda GottUkiah

Letters from our readers

TOM ELIAS

Other opinionsFrom around the world

Chicago TribuneOn NATO andAfghanistan

... Obama’s extendedphoto op in Europe mayhearten residents of that con-tinent who view 21stCentury America as too bel-ligerent, just as it couldenhance his candidacy forthe presidency here at home.We hope, though, that thethrong gathered beforeObama in Berlin didn’t hearonly what it wanted to, lotsof talk about taking downwalls and ignore his call forNATO members to assumemore responsibility for sav-ing Afghanistan.

In 2006, NATO forcestook command of what hadstarted five years earlier as aU.S. war effort. For the mostpart, though, Europe hasn’tcommitted resources suffi-cient to prevail inAfghanistan. Rather thanlook eastward toward thewar zone and ask “What canwe do?”, too many Europeanleaders essentially havelooked westward towardWashington, chanting, “Yes,you can!”

The crowd in Berlin, likeall the peoples of Europe,needs to appreciate the una-nimity of commitment inthis country. PresidentBarack Obama or PresidentJohn McCain won’t shyfrom the message PresidentBush has emphasized: The“Don’t-bother-us” contin-gent in NATO must do moreto exterminate terror groupsin some of the most treacher-ous terrain on Earth. ...

The threat of Afghanistanreturning to uniform law-lessness is palpable, and thedemands European nationsneed to meet are notextreme. This is a sprawling

and vicious war, but not ahuge one. If NATO membersdodge their obligations inAfghanistan, how reliablewould they be as co-combat-ants in a more expansiveconflict elsewhere — per-haps one with nuclear impli-cations? ...

Dagens Nyheter,Stockholm,SwedenOn executions in Iran

The largest mass execu-tion in years is threatened tobe followed by deaththrough stoning. Youths arebeing tortured and executed.The world must condemnthe tyranny in Tehran.

Last week, an Iraniancourt sentenced eightwomen and one man todeath through stoning forprostitution and maritalcrimes, etc. The gender divi-sion is typical. Iranianwomen seldom have neithermoney nor possibility todefend themselves to thesame extent as men. Theverdict has been condemnedby the E.U. ...

Ironically enough, ston-ing is not mentioned in theQuran, despite the punish-ment now having becomelinked to Islamic law. ...

Meanwhile the medievalweek in Iran continues. ...Only this year’s Olympichost executes more people....

Since MahmoudAhmadinejad was electedpresident in 2005, the execu-tions have increased by 360percent. Does it have to takeas long as for China for peo-ple to wake up and see thetruth about the Iranianregime?

Politiken,Copenhagen,DenmarkOn democracy inMuslim countries

... The ConstitutionalCourt in Turkey is expectedto pass a judgment alreadythis week, and the risk that itwill include dissolving thegovernment party AKP andthus a breach of the parlia-mentarian majority that wona landslide victory as late asin February, is eminent.

The base is thin: a claimthat the government will“Islamify” the country witha law that will remove thescarf ban on Turkish univer-sity campuses is the soledocumentation. ...

What is crucial is that aban against a political partycan only be justified if thereis an eminent threat againstthe democratic system.

In so far as the threatexists in Turkey, this threatdoesn’t come from the mod-erate, pro-European reformgovernment but rather fromthe circles behind the courtcase. ...

Considering the serious-ness of the situation, thedemocratic world, headed byEurope, should be standingon the other end to condemnthis assault on democracy.

Although the EuropeanCommission has expressedits concerns and mostobservers see that theConstitutional Court rulingalmost certainly will be con-demned by the HumanRights Court in Strasbourg,the silence is deafening. ...

The disastrous signalwhich would result in theremoval of a democraticallyelected government, is strik-ing, and goes far beyondTurkey’s borders. ...

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

Crisis admitted atlast, but dropout figures still dishonest

Tom Elias is a syndicated columnist writingon state issues.

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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

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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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Duplicate Bridge: Meets on Mondays at 1p.m., in Ukiah Senior Center’s Bartlett Hall,except 4th Mondays, when it meets atWashington Mutual. Call for partners -- Wade744-1238.

FSP Dual Diagnosis Check-in: Meets at 10a.m., at the Buddy Eller Center, 201 Brush St.,Ukiah.

Financial Management Workshop: Noonto 1 p.m. Wednesdays; Salvation Army Office,714A S. State St, Ukiah; 468-9577.

GURDJIEFF Reading and DiscussionGroup: Meets 7 p.m. on Fridays. For moreinformation, call 391-6780 or 485-7293.

Kiwanis Club: Meets at noon, Tuesday, atThe Ukiah Garden Cafe 1090 S. State St.; formore information call Janet Carlson at 467-2288.

Lions Club: Meets at noon on Thursdays, atUkiah Garden Cafe. Redwood Empire LionsClub meets at 6:45 a.m., every first and thirdTuesday, at Zack’s Restaurant.

LGBTIQ: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender, Intersexual, or Questioning sup-port group meets on Fridays, 3:30 to 5 p.m., atthe Healing Cooperative Support Center onPine St., in Ukiah.

Overeaters Anonymous: In Ukiah --Mondays at 5:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 11 a.m.;270 N. Pine St.; 472-4747. Meets in Willits onWednesdays at 5:30 p.m. at Willits UnitedMethodist Church, School and Pine Streets,upstairs; No dues or weigh-ins, everyone iswelcome; 459-4594.

Peace and Justice Gathering: MeetsSundays rain or shine at 10 a.m. at AlexThomas Plaza in Ukiah to drum, dance andsing for peace and justice; all ages are invitedto bring drums and any other instruments; 462-2320.

Pinochle: Meets on Wednesdays and

Fridays at 5:30 p.m., in Ukiah Senior Center’sBartlett Hall. For more information, call Oni at462-4343

Pinochle and Poker: Meets on Tuesdays at8:30 a.m., in Ukiah Senior Center’s BartlettHall. For more information, call Oni at 462-4343

Rotary Club of Ukiah: Meets for lunch atnoon on Tuesdays, at Walter’s Cafe, 920 N.State St. in Ukiah; 462-2080; www.ukiahro-tary.org.

Senior Writing Class: Meets from 2 to 3:30p.m. on Tuesdays, in Room 10-11 in theAdmin. Bldg. of the Ukiah Senior Center.Record memories for children and grandchil-dren. Free and open; for information callKathie Jones, 468-5006.

Sex Addicts Anonymous: Meets at 6 p.m.on Sundays, at 700 S. State St., in Ukiah; Art,360-8479.

Soroptimist International of Ukiah:Meets at noon, on Wednesdays, at UkiahGarden Cafe. Soroptimist means “Best forWomen” and our mission is “To improve thelives of women and girls in local communitiesand throughout the world.” For more informa-tion call Joy Beeler, at 463-6729, TinaRorabaugh, at 744-1514 or Jessica Kimball at743-1902.

South Ukiah Rotary Club: Meets at 7 a.m.,on Thursdays at North State Cafe, 263 N. StateSt. in Ukiah; for more information, call presi-dent Jim Sligh at 462-8635.

Open Support Group for family andfriends of suicide victims: Drop-in group thatmeets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wenesdays, in theMOM’s at the County of Mental Health CrisisService Center, 860 N. Bush St., Ukiah. Formor einformation, call 463-2873 or 485-0759.

T.O.P.S.: (Take off pounds sensibly): Meetsfrom 9:15 to 10:30 a.m., every Tuesday, atCalvary Baptist Church, 465 Luce Ave.; Ruth,462-8440.

T.O.P.S.: Low-cost, non-profit group meetsevery Tuesday at Autumn Leaves, 425 E.Gobbi St., in the community room. Weigh-in is

from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Meeting is from 6:15p.m. to 7:15 p.m.; Linda MacDonald, 467-2391.

T.O.P.S.: Every Thursday at WashingtonMutual Building community room, 700 S.State St.; meeting is from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.; itis a low-cost, weight-reduction support group;call 462-4901 or 485-7801.

T.O.P.S.: Every Friday at the MeadowsMobil Court clubhouse, 8686 East Road,Redwood Valley; weigh in from 9 to 9:30 a.m.,meeting from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.; call 485-8260 or 485-7795.

Ukiah Community of Mindful Living:Meets Monday evenings from 6 p.m.; an inter-faith Mindfulness Practice Group inspired byteachings of Thich Nhat Hanh; it uses medita-tion exercises to deepen awareness, expandability to deal with difficulties, and increasejoy in life; open to all levels of experience;free; 462-7749.

Gamblers Anonymous: Open group meet-ing, 7 to 8:30 p.m., every Thursday;Christadelphian Hall, 23 Oak Knoll Road, just

off S. State St., Ukiah; free; 467-9326. Ukiah Senior Center Luncheon: All are

invited to meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m.,Monday through Friday, at the Ukiah SeniorCenter, 499 Leslie St., $5 members; call tomake a reservation; 462-4343.

Ukiah Toastmasters Club: Meets Fridays,from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. in the WashingtonMutual Conference Room, 700 S. State St.,Ukiah; Toastmasters privide members with amutually supportive learing environment inwhich to develop communication and leader-ship skills; For information call Carol Crandal,743-1624.

Willits Chess Club: Meets beginning at6:30 to 10 p.m. and playing until people finishon Fridays, at Perko’s in the Ray’s ShoppingPlaza, in Willits; all level of players are wel-come; for information, call Herb, 459-5911.

If an organization changes a phone number,an address, or any information in this calen-dar, call Richard Rosier at the Ukiah DailyJournal at 468-3520, or e-mail at udjfea-tures@pacific.net.

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Sturges-TravisA son, Taj Le’Roy Sturges-Travis, was born Tuesday, July 1,

2008, to Amy Sturges-Travis, of Ukiah, and Kendall Travis, ofUkiah.

He weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce.He was also welcomed by his siblings, Jasmyn, Cheyanne,

Jalahh, Nevaeh, and Jada; and his grandparents Tami Nicolayand Brent Mayfield of Redwood Valley, Kirk and Jan Sturges ofIdaho, and Janis Travis, of Ukiah.

LoggA daughter, Anya Grace Simpson Logg , was born Tuesday,

July 15, 2008, to Anastasia Simpson-Logg and Jim Logg ofUkiah.

She weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce.She was welcomed by her grandparents John and Linda

Logg, and George and Sandra Simpson.

ChristensenA son, Blake Nyland Christensen, was born Thursday, Jan.

17, 2008, to Coreena and Kevin Christensen, of RedwoodValley.

He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces.He was also welcomed by his grandparents, Rhonda and Roy

Delos Santos, and Patsy Ashcraft.

FordA son, Brody Ford, was born Tuesday, June 3, 2008, to

Kenzie and Tony Ford, of Ukiah.He weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces.He was also welcomed by his brother, Hudson Ford.

LandA son, James David Land, was born Saturday, July 23, 2008,

to Amber Cate, of Ukiah.He weighed 6 pounds, 12.6 ounces.He was also welcomed by his grandmother, Cindy Land, of

Ukiah, his grandfather William Cate, and his great grandfather,David Land.

WhitemanA daughter, Brooklyn Cheyenne Whiteman, was born Friday,

July 4, 2008, at 1:26 a.m., to Ashlee R. Whiteman, of Ukiah.She weighed 6 pounds, 12.5 ounces.She was also welcomed by her older brother, Nash Alexander

Whiteman, and her grandparents Rebecca and RichardWhiteman.

OglesbyA son and daughter, Damian Michael Oglesby and Hailee

Nicole Oglesby, were born Sunday, April 20, 2008, to MonicaDoster, of Ukiah, and Mike Oglesby, of Ukiah.

The son weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces, and the daughterweighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces.

They were also welcomed by their grandparents, Lisa Doster,of Ukiah, Troy and Laurie Doster, of Ukiah, and Jo and LarryAult, of Ukiah, and Judy Oglesby, of Washington.

Celebrating lifeNEW ARRIVALS

Taj Le’Roy Sturges-Travis

Blake Nyland ChristensenDamian Michael Oglesby and Harlee Nicole Oglesby

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Giants dazed and confused Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Greg Madduxis back to winning after a long dryspell.

Maddux drove in a run and pitchedsix strong innings to pickup career winNo. 352, lifting the San Diego Padresto a 4-1 victory over the San FranciscoGiants on Sunday.

Maddux (5-8) won his secondstraight after having gone through acareer-high 14-game winless streaksince victory No. 350 on May 10against Colorado.

“I think I’ve thrown enough goodgames during that stretch to not rein-vent the wheel,” said Maddux. “Thereis struggling, there is not feeling com-fortable, and there’s not winning.Those are totally different things.

“I felt good about how I was throw-ing the ball. I didn’t win some gamesyou would normally win.”

Maddux won consecutive games forthe first time since victories at SanFrancisco and at the Los AngelesDodgers on April 7 and 13.

“Greg bases a lot of his work on hisperformance and he was throwing theball well,” Padres manager Bud Blacksaid. “Because of his experience, hishead, he might not let that stretch affecthim like a younger pitcher would. Hekept doing the same things every fivedays.”

The 42-year-old Maddux allowedone run on two hits and retired the final10 batters he faced before MikeAdams, Heath Bell and TrevorHoffman finished the combined four-hitter.

“He was really impressive,” saidrookie catcher Nick Hundley. “He wasreally pounding the zone and throwingstrikes. It was fun to watch.”

Hoffman pitched the ninth for his23rd save in 26 chances and career saveNo. 547.

Maddux helped himself when hetied the score at 1 in the second inningwith a single, his first RBI in nearlytwo years. Hundley was hit by a pitchwith one out and went to second on awalk before scoring on Maddux’s linedrive to right off Kevin Correia (2-6).

“It was nice to help for a change,”Maddux said. “Sometimes they hityour bat.”

“I just kind of got out of rhythmthere,” Correia said. “I was just tryingto find the strike zone and I ended upthrowing it up and away. It was a pitchthat a pitcher can handle.”

Maddux, hitting .108 this season,drove in his first run since he had twoRBIS against Cincinnati on Aug. 30,2006, when he was with the LosAngeles Dodgers.

“He does what he’s been doing for20 years,” said Correia. “When he getsan RBI on top of that, it’s hard to beathim.”

Maddux is 7-0 in his last 13 startsagainst the Giants. His last loss to SanFrancisco was a 9-2 decision on June 9,2003, at Atlanta.

“We had a real tough time againstMaddux,” Giants manager BruceBochy said. “He’s had our number andtoday he did it again.”

The win moved Maddux to withinthree games of passing Roger Clemensfor eighth on the all-time list.

The Padres broke a four-game losingstreak and prevented San Franciscofrom sweeping the three-game series.

San Diego scored the go-ahead runon Hundley’s sacrifice fly in the sixthinning off Correia.

Maddux allowed a run in the firstinning when Emmanuel Burriss singledwith one out, stole second and scoredon Randy Winn’s single. He thenretired 16 of the next 17 batters beforeleaving.

D. Ross Cameron

San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum shrugs off the three-run home run he yielded toMilwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun in the seventh inning of a Major League Baseball game,Sunday, July 20, 2008 at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Lincecum allowed five runs in six-plusinnings, and took the loss as the Brewers won, 7-4, and swept the series.

Assciated PressBOSTON (AP) — A rejuvenated

outlook and a weaker opponent werethe perfect weekend mix for theBoston Red Sox.

Jed Lowrie’s two-run triple high-lighted a three-run fourth inning thathelped Daisuke Matsuzaka to his12th win and the Red Sox completeda three-game sweep with a 5-2 winover the struggling OaklandAthletics on Sunday.

Since the Red Sox completed athree-team, last-minute trade dead-line deal that sent disgruntled out-fielder Manny Ramirez to the LosAngeles Dodgers and brought JasonBay from Pittsburgh on Thursday,the club has talked about a freshapproach in the clubhouse, empha-sizing a relaxed attitude.

“We wanted to set a tone cominginto the new month and I think we

did that,” Lowrie said. “The team’sbeen revived. I don’t think it was amatter of anyone coming or anyonegoing.”

Bay continued his strong startwith the Red Sox, going 2-for-4 witha pair of singles and two runs scored.He also threw out a runner trying tostretch a single.

“He’s done a great job, playinggreat defense and getting on base,”Boston first baseman Kevin Youkilissaid. “That’s why they brought himhere. They thought he could comeout and help this team win, and that’swhat he’s doing.”

Coincidence or not, Ramirez’sdeparture has coincided with somewins.

“One of the things we talkedabout was not looking back or look-ing forward, just attacking what’s athand,” Red Sox manager Terry

Francona said of a team meeting heldFriday. “We did that very well.”

Boston improved to 40-16 atFenway Park after losing five of theinitial six games in a nine-gamehomestand. The Red Sox, just 24-32away from home, play their nextseven games on the road, beginningMonday night in Kansas City.

“I think where we’re at right now,we can be pretty darn good,” RedSox catcher Jason Varitek said.

Daric Barton hit a two-run homerfor the Athletics, who lost their sixthstraight and 15th in 17 games.

“You look, bad series, going 0-3,”A’s manager Bob Geren said. “Butwe did get a few home runs here,which we’ve been lacking.”

Oakland’s five runs in the seriescame on three homers.

Matsuzaka (12-2), allowed tworuns, four hits, walked two and

struck out eight in six innings.Jonathan Papelbon, the third

reliever, worked a perfect ninth forhis 31st save. Boston’s bullpen heldthe A’s to one single over the finalthree innings.

The Red Sox grabbed a 1-0 leadfive pitches into the game whenDustin Pedroia doubled off theGreen Monster and scored onYoukilis’ single.

Boston increased it to 4-0 andchased starter Dallas Braden (2-2) inthe fourth. Lowrie, the final batterBraden faced, hit a line drive overcenter fielder Carlos Gonzalez afterMike Lowell doubled and Bay sin-gled. Gonzalez, playing shallow, hadthe ball go over his head as he brokeback. Coco Crisp added a sacrificefly.

“I don’t think they’ll pay shallow

anymore,” Lowrie joked.Barton’s homer cut it to 4-2 in the

fifth.Crisp’s sacrifice fly made it 5-2 in

the sixth.Matsuzaka worked out of a tough

spot in the second, allowingGonzalez’s leadoff triple beforestriking out Jack Hannahan andBobby Crosby and getting Barton tofly out.

“He threw a 100 pitches in thefirst (few) innings,” Barton said.“We had a lot of guys on base, butjust didn’t capitalize on it.”

There was a lighter moment in thefifth when lumbering DH DavidOrtiz walked and took off for secondon the next pitch, not drawing athrow on his first stolen base of theseason that amused the crowd ascatcher Rob Bowen bobbled the ball.

Maddux wins 352nd career game tolead San Diego past Giants

Matsuzaka wins 12th as Red Sox sweep of A’s

By DOUG FERGUSONAssociated Press

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — VijaySingh nearly threw away theBridgestone Invitational by missingthree putts inside 8 feet on the backnine at Firestone. He won his firstWorld Golf Championship by mak-ing the last one, which was all thatmattered.

Singh ended an 0-for-34 droughton the PGA Tour by swirling in a 31/2-foot par putt on the final holeSunday to close with a 2-under 68for a one-shot victory over LeeWestwood and Stuart Appleby.

“What a relief,” Singh said. “Ididn’t think I could finish it there atthe end.”

As shaky as Singh looked downthe stretch, Phil Mickelson was evenworse. Lefty played bogey-freethrough the first 14 holes to build aone-shot lead, then threw it away bymaking three bogeys from thebunker on the final four holes toshoot 70, two shots behind.

“It wasn’t a good finish for me,

but I played really well today,”Mickelson said. “I’m turning 63s and64s into 70s, and that’s kind of whathappened today. I couldn’t get anyputts to go in, then in the end, I madesome bogeys.”

So did Singh.According to tour statistics, Singh

was 9-of-19 on putts from 4 to 8 feetduring the tournament, and the lastthing he wanted was to face anotherattempt. But he left his 30-foot birdieputt well short of the hole, and wasrelieved to see gravity pull the ballinto the hole.

“I didn’t want to have a 4-footer,”he said. “I was kind of sweating it.But I’m glad it went in.”

Singh had not won on U.S. soilsince the Arnold Palmer Invitationalin March 2007, and twice this yearhe blew 54-hole leads at PebbleBeach and Bay Hill. But he finallygot it done, winning for the 32ndtime on the PGA Tour.

After falling out of the top 10, thevictory is expected to move him upto No. 4 in the world.

Singh finished at 10-under 270

and earned $1.35 million for his firstWGC title.

Westwood, who could havemoved up to No. 4 in the world withhis first U.S. title in 10 years, ralliedfrom a five-shot deficit with 11 holesto play to get within one of the lead.But he missed a 7-foot birdie on the17th, and his 15-foot birdie putt fromthe fringe on the 18th to tie for thelead was left all the way. He closedwith a 69.

An equally impressive rallybelonged to Appleby, the only playerto compete in all 29 of these WGCevents since they began in 1999. Hewas seemingly out of the pictureuntil a 30-foot birdie on the 16th, a 3-foot birdie on the 17th and an 18-footbirdie attempt on the final hole thatjust stayed right of the cup. He shot68.

“I had a putt for what I thoughtwould get me into a playoff,”Appleby said. “I hit the best putt Icould have hit without it going in.”

Mickelson and Retief Goosen (67)tied for fourth, while Darren Clarkemade a strong showing in his first

U.S. tournament since the PGAChampionship last year. Clarkeclosed with a 67 to tie for sixth withPeter Lonard (66).

Singh broke out of a three-way tiewith Westwood and Mickelson bymaking four birdies in a five-holestretch on the front nine, startingwith a two-putt birdie from about 18feet on the second hole, concludingwith an approach to tap-in range onthe sixth.

Westwood seemingly took him-self out of contention on the par-3seventh. He barely caught the bunkeron the right side of the green, thenblasted out short, leaving the ball inthe sand. He barely got the next oneout and took double bogey. Andwhen Singh made a terrific flop shotwith one foot in the sand to save par,he was five shots ahead of Westwoodand two clear of Mickelson.

The tournament wasn’t over, how-ever. It was just starting to get inter-esting.

Mickelson hit from the left roughto inches of the hole on the 11th for abirdie. That gave him the lead when

Singh, playing in the group behindhim, spun a wedge back 40 feet andthree-putted from the fringe.

“I started missing 5- and 6-foot-ers,” Singh said. “I tried to hit it asclose as possible so I didn’t leavemyself any putts.”

It was a grind the rest of the dayfor Singh. He answered with a teeshot to 2 feet for birdie and a share ofthe lead, then found a bunker fromthe 13th fairway and badly missed an8-footer for par.

With a chance to seize control onthe 16th, Singh’s 4-foot birdie puttnever hit the cup. Again in controlwith a sand wedge in his hand on the17th fairway, Singh spun it back toofar again, this time 25 feet away. Heleft that 4 feet short, and finallycoaxed one in.

Westwood, five behind with 11holes to play, was within one shotuntil he bogeyed the 14th by electingto hit putter from 60 feet throughabout 15 feet of fairway, leaving that20 feet short and taking bogey that

Singh wins his first World Golf Championship after long drought

See Singh, Page 7

See Giants, Page 7

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UHS Water Polo Team

The Ukiah High School boys andgirls water polo team will hold its firstpractice on Monday August 18th at8:00 am at the UHSl pool. Practiceswill be from 8 - 10:30 a.m., and from3:30-6 p.m. daily during the weekprior to school. A team informationpacket can be picked up at theUkiah High Administration Buildingor at the Student Activities Office.This includes an athletic physicalform which must be completedbefore the student is allowed topractice.

You can call Coach Rick Cleland at463-1551 or come to the Ukiah HighSchool pool on Monday, Tuesday orThursday between 3-5 p.m. the lastweek of July for more information.

UHS Overnight FootballCamp

UHS is holding their 4th annualovernight football camp from August17th-20th for all Freshmen thruSeniors who want to come out forfootball. Players must have physi-cals in prior to the beginning ofcamp to participate (the physicalpackets are available at the highschool).

Meals will be provided for duringcamp by catering. For additionalinformation call Coach Craig Morris621-0935 or Coach Bernie Sapp621-1300 or Russ Tow at 489-0963.

Hopland Bears Boccetournament

The Hopland Bears youth footballprogram is hosting its 1st annualbocce tournament on Sunday,August 17th at 10 a.m. at theBrutocao School House Plaza.

The entry fee is $20 per player or$60 per 4-person team, families areencouraged! All proceeds go direct-ly to the benefit of the footballteams. There will also be a silentauction and a bake sale.

for more information or to sign-upcall Rick at (707) 291-9457.

Ukiah Valley YouthSoccer CoachingLicense

UVYSL is holding classes forSoccer Coaches to get their ELicense.

Friday Aug 15, 6pm-9pm andAug 16 & 17, 8am-5pm. Coachesmust attend all three days.

The class is held at NokomisElementary Room 15. For furtherinformation please visit our websiteat www.uvysl.org or call our hotline467-9797.

North Ukiah LittleLeague Fall Ball

NULL fall ball league starts August23 and runs thru Nov.1. This leagueis open to players ages 9-12yrs.Sign-ups end August 8th For infor-mation contact: Sonny Garza 707338-5913.

Six-A-Side SoccerTournament

The Ukiah Host Lions and RyanRones Dickey Memorial SoccerFund are sponsoring a six-a-sidesoccer tournament for High Schoolage boys and girls on Saturday,August 16 at the Pomolita MiddleSchool track . Games begin at 8a.m. and will end about 5 p.m. Entryfee is $150 per team. Applicationscan be picked up at 601 N State St,via email at pronescpa@pacific.netor call 468-5711. Applications aredue by August 1.

Cross Country Class

There will be a Cross Countryclass open to boys and girls ages12-17. The class will meet at theLake Mendocino Chakota Trail onTuesdays and Thursdays, and at theUkiah High track on Mondays,Wednesdays, and Fridays. All class-es will meet a 6pm. All level Runnersare welcome and runners will haveindivitualzed running workouts. Theclass will run from Monday, August4th through Friday, August 22nd.There is no fee for this class, but allparticipants must register with theCity of Ukiah at 411 West Clay St.For more information please call462-5977.

Girls Soccer Clinic

Soccer Coach Andy Hendry ishosting a girls soccer clinic for 8-12th grade girls on Tuesday’s from6-8 p.m. beginning June 17th andrunning thru August 11th at YokayoSchool. Register at City of Ukiah ifyou’re interested. If you have anyquestions call 972-9156. CoachHendry is a CYSA National Dlicensee.

Support Ukiah HighFootball

We are asking the community andparents to support Ukiah High foot-ball teams this year by purchasingan ad to be placed in the FootballProgram that will be sold at thegames. The prices rangefrom$25.00 (business card), $50(1/4 page), $75 (1/2 page), $125(whole page), and $150 (inside andback covers). You may send yourbusiness card or ad to Mary Morris,P.O. Box 177, Ukiah, CA 95482(together with your check).

Any questions call Mary Morris at621-1543. Thank you for supportingthe football teams. GO WILDCATS!

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By BRIAN MAHONEY

Associated PressSHANGHAI, China (AP)

— Kobe Bryant provided theoffense in the U.S. Olympicbasketball team’s first defen-sive struggle.

Bryant scored 19 points,Carmelo Anthony added 17,and the Americans beat Russia89-68 Sunday in what was byfar their most competitivetuneup yet for the BeijingGames.

The United States had beenscoring 118 points per gamewhile winning its first threeexhibitions by an average of41 points. Russia allowed farfewer fast-break baskets than

the previous U.S. opponents,successfully keeping the gamein the halfcourt and forcingthe Americans to run moreoffensive sets.

That was fine with Bryant,who scored 12 points afterhalftime in his highest-scoringgame so far.

Dwyane Wade continuedhis strong play off the benchwith 16 points for theAmericans, who play theirfinal exhibition game hereTuesday against Australia.

Utah Jazz forward AndreiKirilenko scored 18 pointsand American point guard J.R.Holden added 17 for theEuropean champions.

The defensive tone of the

game brought an earlyentrance of Tayshaun Prince,who had played little in thefirst three games. Kirilenkohad an early block onAnthony’s shot, but theAmericans pulled away to a29-17 advantage on DeronWilliams’ 3-pointer withabout 4 seconds left.

Russia kept the deficit rightaround 10 for most of the sec-ond quarter before Wade gavethe Americans some breathingroom before the half. He fol-lowed his soft running jumperwith a steal and dunk, makingit 43-29, and his free throw inthe final second extended thelead to 46-31.

The Americans were held

to just 17 points in the period,their worst quarter so far.

The sellout crowd of14,523 at this arena built fortennis clearly favored the U.S.team, and Bryant seemed to bethe fans’ favorite. They chant-ed “MVP!” when he shot freethrows early in the game,booed when he was called foran offensive foul in the secondquarter, and generally oohedand aahed whenever hesquared up to take a shot.

Bryant hadn’t been lookingfor his offense on the tour,averaging only 11.7 points —sixth-best on the team —while focusing his efforts ondefending the top perimeterthreat. But it was needed

Sunday, since he’s theAmericans’ best halfcourtplayer.

His 3-pointer early in thethird gave the Americans a 20-point cushion, but Russia cutit down to 12 barely two min-utes later. Bryant respondedwith the next three U.S. buck-ets to keep it from getting anycloser, and Wade and MichaelRedd combined for the final10 points of the period tobump the lead back to 71-51.

Wade came in averaging17.3 points in only 18.7 pointsper game, showing he’s fullyrecovered after missing thelast 1 1/2 months of the NBAseason due to his surgicallyrepaired left knee.

Bryant scores 19, helps US win defensive struggle

turned out to be the differ-ence.

“I just couldn’t picture achip from there,” Westwoodsaid. “The fringe ended upbeing a lot slower. The first

time I really putted throughthe fringe all week. The puttjust seemed like the right shotat the time.”

The victory came at a per-fect time for Singh, who cantake loads of confidence —from winning, not so much hisputting — to the PGAChampionship next week atOakland Hills.

Continued from Page 6

Singh

The Padres added a run inthe seventh on Brian Giles’two-out single that scoredJody Gerut, who reached on adouble, and another in theeighth on KevinKouzmanoff’s 420-foot lead-

off homer against OsirisMatos, his 15th.

Correia allowed two runson three hits over 6 1-3innings.

Correia helped San Diegopush across the go-ahead runin the sixth after he gave up aleadoff double to Giles. Hewalked two batters with oneout to load the bases and setup Hundley’s sacrifice fly.

Continued from Page 6

Giants

By ANDREW DALTONAssociated Press

CARSON, Calif. (AP) —Travis Pastrana returned to thegold medal podium at the XGames on Sunday after an off-year, winning the Rally CarRacing Super Special, thefinal event of the action sportsshowcase.

“I’m really excited to behere and to have a chance tocome back,” Pastrana saidafter jumping down from atop-of-the car celebration.“This feels really good.”

One of the X Games mostdominant and dynamic ath-letes, Pastrana handily beatdefending gold medalist andmovie stunt driver TannerFoust in the head-to-head finalrun over dirt, pavement andjumps.

The single-elimination,one-on-one event, as opposedto the timed stages usuallyused for rally, encourages anall-or-nothing style thatPastrana embraced.

“You have to push,”Pastrana said. “If I’m a littlebit behind, I have to make upthat time, and the only way tomake up that time is full videogame style. You just startbouncing off stuff.”

Pastrana, though, bouncedoff far less stuff than his oppo-nents.

In the final, Foust cleanlycleared the giant jump in themiddle of the Home DepotCenter but hit the wall as hewas leaving the arena for thestreet course and never quite

recovered.“I kind of went for the

brake and went a little bitwide and hit the wall there,and bent the right rear cornerof the car,” Foust said.

And Pastrana got a giftwhen the car of his semifinalopponent Ken Block stalled atthe start and never left.

Block shared the bronzewith Dave Mirra, a BMXbiker making his rally debutwho gave the crowd hugethrills with his wild style.Mirra had already bent hiswheels in a wall crash duringthe quarterfinal when hisopponent Andrew Comrie-Picard drew gasps with anend-over-end flip on thecourse’s giant jump. Mirra’stwisted tires forced him to doa series of awkward three-point turns to limp home forthe win.

Pastrana churned up a hugedust cloud with his Subaruand took out a pair of adver-tising placards in his victorycelebration.

For years Pastrana, origi-nally a motocross rider, domi-nated Moto X Freestyle at theX Games, taking six golds ineight years.

His action-sports stardomand X-Games darling statuspeaked in 2006 with a double-backflip in Moto X Best Trick,one of the games’ great “did-he-really-do-that?” moments.

He won two other goldsthat year, including a dramaticwin in the inaugural rally carwhen rally racing legend

Colin McCrae rolled his car inthe final and continued on,narrowly losing to Pastrana.

McCrae was killed in ahelicopter crash lastSeptember.

Last year Pastrana cameinto the games a celebrity butleft with only a rally bronze.

Also Sunday, veteran skaterRune Glifberg finally brokethrough in the X Games newshowpiece SkateboardSuperPark.

“It’s my first X Games goldmedal, 14 years in the mak-ing,” Glifberg said.

The 33-year-old fromCopenhagan, Denmark, wondespite a shoulder injuryincurred in practice earlier inthe week that kept him out ofSaturday’s Skateboard Vertcompetition.

“I’m not sure of the exactdiagnosis, but it was about a10-foot air straight down ontomy shoulder, so that’s nevergood,” Glifberg said.

Andy MacDonald of SanDiego won silver and SanFrancisco’s Tony Trujillo wonbronze.

The event, which organiz-ers had hoped would inspire acompetition between usuallyseparate street and vertskaters, was more notable forwho was missing.

TV promos had advertiseda competition between thebiggest star in street skatingRyan Sheckler and the biggeststar in vert Shaun White, butboth bowed out of Saturdayqualifying, and they weren’t

alone in skipping the competi-tion.

SuperPark — whose venueis a tricked-out version of aneighborhood skatepark —was designed to replaceSkateboard Vert, whichdespite years as the games’signature event has grownstagnant in the ratings anddoes not jibe with the experi-ence of most skaters.

“The viewer in our demo-graphic can connect with parkskating way more than theywill connect with vert,” XGames general manager ChrisStiepock said. “It’s what thekids are doing.”

Skaters signed on to theidea in its infancy, but manyexpressed disappointment atthe eventual design, citing itsmodest size. Both events wereheld this year.

“It was going to be just likea vert ramp but bigger andcooler,” said Saturday’s vertgold medalist Pierre LucGagnon, who did not take partin SuperPark. “It’s definitelyway too small. We thoughtthere would be lips 10 or 12feet high.

“It’s like minipark,”Gagnon said.

Even Glifberg, who wasvery comfortable on thecourse in his winning runs,said he wasn’t quite satisfiedwith the setup.

“I’d like to see some big-ger, gnarlier sections on there,not so compact,” Glifbergsaid. “I think they should getthe skaters involved.”

Stiepock said organizers

plan to do just that.“When this is all over, we’ll

sit down with them and we’llsay, ’OK guys, let us have it.What do you want? What doyou like?’ In skateboarding, ifI sit 10 guys down I’m goingto get nine different opinions.

The X Games lacked a last-ing singular image this yearlike Pastrana’s double-back-flip or skater Jake Brown’shorrendous plunge last year.

Most of the drama came onopening night, which beganwith the successful, fall-freereturn of Brown on the BigAir mega ramp, followed byan amazing and brutal duelbetween the event’s only twoprevious gold medalists,Danny Way and BobBurnquist.

Way, designer of theevent’s mega ramp, twice tooknasty spills and lay still forseveral minutes, bringinggruesome reminders ofBrown’s tumble.

He added to his alreadyunmatched reputation fortoughness when he fought hisway out of the medical roomand returned to the huge rampboth times despite what helater learned was ligamentdamage in his legs.

“What do you expect? Theguy jumped over the GreatWall of China with a brokenankle,” said Burnquist, whostole the gold from Way withhis final run, just as he hadwith Brown a year earlier.

Way was named Athlete ofthe Games by ESPN despitegoing without a gold.

X Games fave Pastrana back on top with Rally gold

By SCOTT SONNERAssociated Press

RENO, Nev. (AP) —Parker McLachlin missed allbut one green on the front ninebut saved par on all of themthen hung on to shoot a 2-over74 Sunday and claim his firstPGA Tour victory by sevenstrokes at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open.

McLachlin, in his secondyear on tour, recovered fromtrouble time after time to card14 pars, three bogeys and abirdie on the 18th to finish thetourney at 18-under-par 270 atthe 7,472-yard Montreux Golf& Country Club near LakeTahoe.

“It feels like it has been alifetime coming. It has been adream of mine since I wasabout 12,” said McLachlin,29, who grew up in Hawaiiand played at UCLA. “This isa huge stepping stone for me.”

John Rollins shot a 71 tofinish at 11-under 277 in a tiesecond with England’s BrianDavis, who trailed by onlyfour strokes with five holes togo but had a double bogey andtwo bogeys down the stretchto shoot a 75. A shot back tiedfor fourth were Martin Laird(66), Harrison Frazar (69),Eric Axley (69) and RyanPalmer (70).

McLachlin tied the courserecord with a 10-under 62 onFriday and set a 54-holerecord at 20-under in largepart by hitting a tourney-best80 percent of the greens inregulation at the 7,472-yardMontreux Golf & CountryClub near Lake Tahoe.

On Sunday, he hit only oneof his first 10 greens — onlyfive for the round — but reliedon his trusty wedge and hotputter to save par, including a

12-foot putt after he had dri-ven into the rough behindlarge pine trees on the par-4fifth and a 9-footer after blast-ing out of a greenside bunkeron the sixth.

McLachlin started the daywith a six-stroke lead overDavis, but slipped back tofour when Davis chipped inout of a bunker on the par-511th to get to 15-under andMcLachlin missed a 6-footbirdie attempt to remain at 19-under.

The leader was in troubleagain on the par-3 12th whenhis tee shot went in a wastearea 20 yards right and shortof the green but again man-aged to chip out of the pineneedles to within 15 feet andmake the putt. He alsochipped out of a greensidebunker on No. 13 to 8 feetthen rolled it in.

His lead grew to six againwhen Davis double-bogeyedafter he took two shots to getout of a bunker at No. 14,while McLachlin two-puttedfor par from 12 feet.

McLachlin’s drive hit a treeand landed in a pond on the636-yard, par-5 17th, but his200-yard fourth shot made theback of the green and he two-putted from 60 feet for abogey. He putted 15 feet forbirdie on the 18th to join fourothers who claimed their firstPGA wins at Reno — NotahBegay III (1998), Chris Riley(2002), Vaughn Taylor (2004)and Will MacKenzie (2006).

“Brian was putting the heaton and I was feeling it. I wasjust gutting it out,” McLachlinsaid. “I didn’t have much inthe tank. It was all I had. I’mpretty spent right now.”

McLaughlin had won onthe Hooters Tour, Tight Lies

Tour, Gateway Tour andSpanos Tour, but the closesthe’d come before on the PGAwas a tie for fifth in May atthe AT&T Classic.

With the top 50 golfers inthe world playing at theBridgestone Invitational inOhio, McLachlin entered theweek ranked 98th on themoney list, but the $540,000first-place check at Renogives him $1.28 million on theyear and should push him atleast inside the top 70. It alsoensures him a spot in nextweek’s PGA Championship,his first major since he quali-fied for the U.S. Open in2004.

Last year on theNationwide Tour, McLachlinled the National MiningAssociation Pete Dye Classicby seven strokes entering thefinal round, but shot a final-round 77 to finish tied forfourth.

A similar scenario was pos-sible on Sunday without hisheroics around the greens.From 60 feet away on the 220-yard par-3 No. 7, he chippedto within 4 feet and made theputt then dropped a 6-footerafter chipping from 50 feet onthe par-4 No. 8.

With the wind swirling onthe downhill, 616-yard, par-5No. 9, his attempt to layupsafe with his second shot land-ed on the side of a hill in six-inch deep rough 85 yardsshort of the pin. But again hechipped onto the fringe within15 feet and two putted for parto make the turn at even-par36.

The streak of par savesended on the 494-par, par-510th when he hit in a bunkerbehind the green and missed a12-footer for par.

McLachlin claims first PGATour victory at Reno

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COLORADO SPRINGS,Colo. (AP) — The 29th U.S.Senior Open will be remem-bered for the black bears thatmenaced The Broadmoor’sEast Course — and the onecat who conquered it.

Eduardo “El Gato” Romeroon Sunday became the secondArgentine golfer to hoist thesilver cup, 28 years afterRoberto De Vicenzo won thetrophy at Winged Foot.

The 54-year-old Romeroshot a final round 3-over 73but was never seriously chal-lenged by Fred Funk (75),who finished four strokesback.

Romero was 6-under 274for the tournament.

Funk, who began the daytwo shots back, predictedSaturday that he’d have tomake his move on the frontnine and then just hold on.

He did neither, failing tocut into the deficit and thenwatching his quest to becomethe fifth straight come-from-behind winner die with atriple-bogey on the par-4 13th.

Mark McNulty (68) fin-ished in third, five shots back.Greg Norman shot a 70 andfinished in fourth, his thirdstraight top-5 finish.

But Norman, the 53-year-old Australian who held the54-hole lead at the BritishOpen two weeks ago, is skip-ping the PGA Championshipat Oakland Hills next week.His honeymoon with tennisgreat Chris Evert over, he saidhe needs to return to work asCEO of Great White SharkEnterprises.

Romero, one of the big hit-ters on the Champions Tourwho regularly hits driver-wedge into the par-4s, is thefirst international winner atthe U.S. Senior Open since

Australia’s Graham Marsh in1997 and the first to hold boththe 54-hole lead and the tro-phy since Bruce Lietzke in2003.

Although several deer andfawn showed up Sunday onthe cragged course carved outof the Rocky Mountainfoothills, there weren’t anymore sightings of black bearslike the one that interruptedthe tournament Friday.

Volunteers did arrive atdawn to discover a bear hadvisited the concession stand atthe seventh hole overnightand helped itself to a smorgas-bord of candy bars, bananas,hot dogs and bread.

And a foe and two fawnscrossed the 14th fairwaySunday, where Norman hit along drive over them and JuanQuiros had to wait as the deertrotted off into the trees.

Other than that, the onlyinterruption of the final roundwas a 23-minute weatherdelay when the leaders wereon the fairway on the sixthhole.

Romero can expect a hero’swelcome when he returns toVilla Allende in centralprovince of Cordoba, thesame city where his Argentinecompatriots held a parade for2007 U.S. Open championAngel Cabrera, whomRomero once sponsored onthe European Tour.

Romero said both Cabreraand De Vicenzo, the godfatherof golf in Argentina, calledhim this week to offer encour-agement. He said De Vicenzotold him, “I think this is yourweek.”

Was he ever right.Romero grabbed the lead

on the 12th hole Saturday, ledby two strokes heading intothe final round and never gavethe rest of the field a chance tocatch him on Sunday.

Romero is secondArgentine to win USSenior Open

By CHRIS JENKINSAssociated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP)— Brett Favre is back. Itremains to be seen whetherhe’ll still be the leader of thePack.

The Green Bay Packersreluctantly embraced Favre’sforced return to the footballfield Sunday, after failing tocome to a financial agreementthat would manage to makeFavre happy while stayingretired.

The NFL announcedSunday that Favre will bereinstated and added to thePackers’ active roster onMonday. CommissionerRoger Goodell had held off ongranting Favre’s request forreinstatement for nearly aweek, hoping Favre and theteam could resolve theirstandoff.

“Although we built thisyear around the assumptionthat Brett meant what he saidabout retiring, Brett is comingback,” said team president andCEO Mark Murphy. “We willwelcome him back and turnthis situation to our advan-tage.”

A private plane carryingFavre, wife Deanna and agentJames “Bus” Cook arrived inGreen Bay shortly after 8 p.m.EDT Sunday night. Favreexited the plane and waved toa crowd of a few hundred fansgathered at the airport — in asevere lightning storm, no less— before driving off in anSUV.

The reinstatement willbecome effective at 1 p.m.EDT Monday, when Favrewill be added to the Packers’active roster. By reinstatingFavre, Goodell is followingthrough on a recent promise toforce action.

Earlier this week, the teamoffered Favre a long-term,multimillion-dollar marketing

agreement that likely wouldhave kept him retired. ButFavre’s decision to report tocamp makes such an agree-ment far less likely.

A trade remains a possibili-ty.

“Frankly, Brett’s change ofmind put us in a very difficultspot,” Murphy said in a state-ment released by the team.“We now will revise manyactions and assumptions aboutour long-term future, all pred-icated on Brett’s decision lastMarch to retire.

“As a result of his decision,we invested considerably in anew and different future with-out Brett and we were obvi-ously moving in that direc-tion. That’s why this wasn’teasy. Having crossed theRubicon once when Brettdecided to retire, it’s very dif-ficult to reorient our plans andcross it again in the oppositedirection — but we’ll put thisto our advantage.”

Could reorienting theirplans include a competitionbetween Favre and AaronRodgers for the starting job?Team officials have main-tained that if Favre returned tothe Packers, it would be insome role other than as thestarter — a job that belongedto Rodgers.

In his statement, Murphysaid only that coach MikeMcCarthy would “talk to theteam and the quarterbacksabout the plan moving for-ward, and after he has donethat we will share it publicly.”

Rodgers had a rough nightin the Packers’ annual“Family Night” scrimmage atLambeau Field on Sundaynight, as a few boos weremixed in with enthusiasticcheers from the crowd of56,600 when he was intro-duced.

Rodgers hit his first pass ofthe night to Donald Driver,

and drew a pass interferencepenalty on a deep pass toDriver on the next play. Hethen missed on his next sixattempts, including severalballs that seemed to bounceoff receivers’ hands.

After he threw anotherthree incompletions to begin asimulated two-minute drill,Rodgers appeared to be heat-ing up until he threw an inter-ception in the end zone tosafety Aaron Rouse.

The Packers do not haveanother scheduled publicpractice until Tuesday after-noon. Favre’s arrival in train-ing camp could cause a majordisruption to the team,although may not begin prac-ticing with the rest of the teamright away.

Favre retired in March buthas been having secondthoughts. Team officials haveinsisted in recent weeks thatthey are moving on withRodgers, though, causing ten-sions to rise between Favreand the team.

Team officials publiclyhave ruled out releasingFavre, fearing he wouldimmediately sign with divi-sion rival Minnesota.

McCarthy has said thePackers had a plan in placeshould Favre report to camp.He first would have to pass aphysical exam and a condi-tioning test, then would likelybe limited to individual drills.

Goodell told the NFLNetwork on Saturday hethinks the situation has lin-gered long enough.

“I think we have to forceit,” Goodell said. “I think it’scome to the point where thereneed to be some decisionsmade on behalf of thePackers, on behalf of Brett, onbehalf of all the fans.” APSports Writer Brett Martel inNew Orleans contributed tothis report.

Pack prez Murphy says teamwill welcome Favre back

By STEPHEN WADEAssociated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Tick,tick, tick.

The official countdownclock in Tiananmen Squarehits “4 Days To Go” onMonday. More than 40 mil-lion potted flowers are inbloom everywhere, evenalong the center medians ofgritty highways. And for sev-eral days now, blue skies havetaken the place of the usualgray smog.

So far, so good.The day China has long-

awaited, the day it makes itsdebut on the internationalsports stage with, literally, acast of thousands, arrivesFriday when opening cere-monies kick off the BeijingOlympics inside its stunning91,000-seat “Bird’s Nest”National Stadium.

“I hope the sky can stayblue like this, both during andafter the Olympic Games,”said 25-year-old ZhangShuang, a government officeworker. “This will give for-eigners a good impression ofthe city and leave a legacy toBeijing citizens.”

Though it’s hot and humid,the city’s morale has been lift-ed by several days of notice-ably cleaner air, replacing theshroud of chemical haze thatusually hangs over theChinese capital.

“It’s much better than Iexpected, there’s none of thegunk in the air,” said PaulLewis, sports editor of theAuckland, New Zealand,Herald on Sunday newspaper.“There is a little haze in theair, but that reminds me of LosAngeles in 1984, but it’s noth-ing like I’ve been readingabout.”

Even if the good weatherhangs around, lingering issuescould shift the focus fromsports in a snap. Among them:Tibet, terrorism and Internetcensorship. And sinceFebruary, the country has

been wracked by crisis aftercrisis. Deadly riots in Tibetsparked chaos and protests oninternational legs of theOlympic torch relay, stunningpatriotic Chinese who stagedcounterprotests. In May,almost 70,000 people died inthe Sichuan earthquake,which sparked an outpouringof sympathy around the worldand muted criticisms ofChina’s policies on Tibet,human rights, Darfur and thetreatment of its Muslimminority.

To a lesser extent, therewas the nuisance of an algaebloom at the Olympic sailingsite, caused by water pollu-tion.

With the games about tostart, it’s anyone’s guess howthey will end. They couldshowcase China’s rising eco-nomic and political power ofthe 21st century or they coulddescend into a miasma ofprotests, police crackdownsand Chinese citizens angrywith their rude guests.

The communist govern-ment says it wants the gamesto convey a message of friend-ship and has mobilized thesecurity apparatus to ensure it.

In a rare meeting this weekwith foreign journalists,President Hu Jintao said thegames would be successful ifthe sports were good and theypromoted world friendship.He asked journalists to be fairand keep politics out on thesidelines.

That friendly face of thegames contrasts with a muchharsher side featuring 100,000troops, commandos andpolicemen. They’re aided bythousands of neighborhoodwatch groups — whose mem-bers wear red armbands —and are further augmented bywatchmen and guards dressedin gray or blue uniforms.

Add to this 70,000Olympics volunteers, and sev-eral hundred-thousand so-called “city volunteers” who

fill subway stops, work instreet-side tents offeringtourist information, or simplystand at attention in hallwaysat Olympic venues.

“A safe Olympics is thebiggest indicator of the suc-cess of the games,” VicePresident Xi Jinping, thesenior-most Communist Partyleader overseeing prepara-tions, told a rally of volunteerslast month. “A safe Olympicsis also a key indicator of thepositive reflection of ournation’s image.”

Victor Cha, the director ofAsian Studies at GeorgetownUniversity, said the govern-ment must reach four targetsto be successful.

Cha said Chinese athletesmust do well in the medalcount. Many pick them to winmore than 40 gold medals andtop the United States. Cleanair is a must. Organization andlogistics must go well, andpolitical protests have to bemarginalized.

“Protest by athletes doesn’treally mar the games becausethat is something even theIOC would be opposed to,”Cha said. “But I think majorprotests that the Chinese putdown in front of televisioncameras, particularly if theyare foreign protesters, thatcould look very bad.”

The IOC has maintainedthe games are about sports,not politics. But Cha saidspending $40 billion onvenues and infrastructure wasa political statement, and themore Chinese officials rejectthe tag, the more it sticks.

“When you are the biggestcountry in the world, andyou’re an illiberal regime, andyou’re hosting the Olympics,then it’s bound to be politi-cal,” Cha said. “These multi-billion dollar iconic Olympicfacilities are meant to showthat China is not simply theGreat Wall. It’s modern, it’spowerful, it’s a player.”

Beijing Olympics are almost hereChina is getting ready

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Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008Important elements, such as

what you know and how capa-ble you are in executing yourknowledge, will be responsi-ble for your rise in status inthe year ahead. The better pre-pared you are, the higher youcan climb.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) --You will do quite well withwhatever you take on, butonly if you don’t let your egoget in the way. Don’t pretendto know how to do somethingif you’ve never had any expe-rience.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.22) -- Today’s activities mightoffer some pleasant reprievesfrom the pressures of the day.However, be careful whenhaving a good time; you don’t

want to forget about the costs.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)

-- You’ll handle difficultassignments rather easilybecause you’re prepared. Yet,when it comes to the easytasks that you believe can bedone blindfolded, that’s whenyou’re likely to screw up.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.22) -- Your gregarious moodwill provide many enjoyableinteractions and conversationswith others, but there is aword of warning: You couldinadvertently say things youdon’t want repeated.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Keep your expec-tations within reasonablebounds and you will accom-plish many things. Overstepthem, and things will fall

apart. That line between opti-mism and self-delusion is athin one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- The only way youwill be successful is to relytotally upon your resourceful-ness and perseverance. Theminute you depend on LadyLuck, all you put your hand tocould go awry.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Many times yourhunches are strong, reliableallies, but that’s not likely tobe the case at this time -- sodon’t bank on them. View allyour dealings pragmatically,especially important matters.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March20) -- Think twice about get-ting involved in a joint ven-ture with an individual who

can afford to lose shouldthings go south. You’ll be theone who is hurt if you can’ttake the loss.

ARIES (March 21-April19) -- If you’re involved insomething for which youcould use some outsideadvice, you’ll be smart to lis-ten to several different people.You’ll know when you hearthe best answers.

TAURUS (April 20-May20) -- You will be extremelyimaginative, and many ofyour ideas will be quite good.However, when it comes toimplementing them, youcould be inflicted with asevere case of procrastination.

GEMINI (May 21-June20) -- Miscalculations in yourdealings can be rectified, but

things will never be like newagain. You can fix all thedents, but the metal will havebeen weakened; be preparedto treat things gently.

CANCER (June 21-July22) -- The later it gets in theday, the greater your lack ofjudgment in evaluating criticalmatters, so don’t put thingsoff. Make all-importantassessments early on -- whenyou are well rested.

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Today is the 217th day of 2008 and the45th day of summer.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1944, theGestapo arrested diarist Anne Frank and theseven others in Amsterdam, Holland.

In 1972, Arthur Bremer was sentenced to63 years in prison for shooting Alabama Gov.

George Wallace. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed

the Congressional Act that established theDepartment of Energy.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Percy ByssheShelley (1792-1822), poet; Louis Armstrong(1901-1971), musician; Billy Bob Thornton

(1955-), director/actor, is 53; Barack Obama(1961-) U.S. senator and presidential candi-date, is 47; Roger Clemens (1962-), baseballplayer, is 46; Jeff Gordon (1971-), racecardriver, is 37.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2007, 32-year-oldAlex Rodriguez of the New York Yankeesbecame the youngest player to hit 500 careerhome runs.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I’ve found thatthere is always some beauty left -- in nature,sunshine, freedom, in yourself.” -- AnneFrank

TODAY’S FACT: George Wallace gavespeeches while standing behind an 800-pound bulletproof podium because he fearedassassination.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon(Aug. 1) and first quarter (Aug. 8).

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Dear Annie: I live with my boyfriend,“Mike,” in a very small apartment. Last month,his mother and 14-year-old sister moved in.They had nowhere else to go.

Mike’s sister sleeps on our couch and hismother sleeps on the living room floor. Hismom says she is looking for work, but I’m notthere to watch her, so who knows? She has nomoney and nothing to contribute except forsome food stamps, which keep the pantriesslightly stocked. She insists on having everymeal together, so when we buy food, we haveto buy enough for four.

In the beginning, it was understood that herstay was temporary, but now we have no ideawhen she will be able to move out. Our electricbill has doubled and we are paying a lot morefor water. Mike and I are having trouble mak-ing ends meet, and I don’t sense much effort onhis mother’s part to find work. She is onlylooking for a certain type of job. We’ve told

her she needs to broaden her search, but shewon’t.

This is taking a toll on our relationship. Howdo we tell her to take any job she can get andmove out? -- Squished

Dear Squished: You can’t tell her anything.Mike has to do it. Frankly, it often takes a lotlonger than a month to find work. Mike needsto give Mom a deadline for getting a job (per-haps three months), making it clear that if shecannot find one in her particular field by then,she must take whatever allows her to pay rent.She should not be freeloading. However, Mikemay be unwilling to stick with such an ultima-

tum, so consider moving out until this resolvesitself.

Dear Annie: My nephew is getting marriedsoon. To date, I have not received an invitation,although most all other family members have.As the wedding draws near, I fear I could bethe only one left out, although the groom’smother (my sister) assures me that an invite ison the way.

I realize she does not control the guest listand I know they are trying to keep the numberdown, but how can you invite all the auntsexcept one? I am very hurt.

Do you think I’m justified, or should I sim-ply make other plans for that day and refuse tobe on the “D” list? -- Forgotten Aunt

Dear Aunt: Of course it is rude to invite allthe aunts except one. However, we urge younot to take this as an intentional snub. Morelikely, the bride’s family is withholding someof the invitations and your sister felt you wouldbe the most understanding of her relatives. Sowe hope you will be. If she says there is aninvitation coming, please assume there is.

Dear Annie: You told “Sam in Tallahassee”

that preferring thin women is not in our nature,but in our constant media images.

You are wrong. Our media images are but areflection of our biological predilections. Ourgenes want to reproduce themselves with thehealthiest female specimen they can find.Women who are overweight are not healthyspecimens. And if they can be so sloppy withtheir own bodies, how likely are they to beresponsible in childrearing?

The same applies to men, or it should,though women seem to place more emphasison a man’s earning power than his physicalappearance. They want a secure nest withinwhich to raise their young. -- B.A.

Dear B.A.: You don’t think the mediamanipulates our idea of attractive body shapes?Get real. If we’d had a “biological predilec-tion” for the anorexic models in magazines,we’d never have survived as a species.Extremes, whether too fat or too thin, areunhealthy. Larger women can be perfectlyhealthy and, more importantly, we are all capa-ble of loving what’s beneath the surface. But,of course, we have to be willing to look.

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Unscramble these four Jumbles,one letter to each square,to form four ordinary words.

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DIRECTIONS:

A. Using each "Chaos Grid" number with its letter one time, arrange the numbers with their letters for the "Order Grid" so each vertical column, horizontal row, and two diagonals each ADD to numbers inside thick lined cells.

B. Some correct numbers with their letters have been put into the "Order Grid" to get you started. Also, above the "Order Grid" is a "Decoded Message" clue.

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CASE NO.: SCUK CVPB 08-25245To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contin-gent creditors, and persons who may other-wise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES ANTHONY WOLF.A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARY WOLF in the Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino.THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: MARY WOLF be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.The will and any codicils are available for ex-amination in the file kept by the court.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 8-08-08 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: E, located at:SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, 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 Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.YOU MAY EXAMINE the fi 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.ATTORNEYS FOR PETITIONER: THOMASS. BRIGHAM & BROOKE A. BRIGHAMP.O. Box 358 Ukiah, CA 95482 707-462-9292

538-088-1,4/08

PUBLIC NOTICEPursuant to Chapter 10, commencing with 21700 of the Business Professionals Code, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that C & M Mini-Storage, 297 Brush St., Ukiah, CA 95482 (707)462-1299, will cause to be sold to the general public by oral auction at 9:00 a.m., Friday, August 8, 2008, the property described as furniture, household goods, ap-pliances, tools & miscellaneous.

Name Unit#MATT SENFTEN 52TYNISHA HENSON 71JESSICA FABYUNKEY 189LAURA CONTI 355ROBERT MACDONALD 362FAYE AULT 624PAULETTE TUCKER 740VALACIA PEREZ 925JOHN WILLIAMSON 984REGINA GOMEZ 1195PHILLIP DUNCAN 1223PHILLIP DUNCAN 1314SALVADOR YANEZ 1499

Landlord reserves the right to bid at the sale.Purchase must be made with cash only and paid for at the time of sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is” and must be removed from the premises by 5:00 pm on the date of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the even of settlement between Landlord and ob-ligated party. Auction conducted pursuant to Sec.2328 of the Commercial Code and 535 of Public Code.Auctioneer: Robert McCarthy Bond#0347716

542-088-4,11,18/08

TS# 057-002232 Order # 30130765 Loan # 0058234485 Notice of Trustee’s Sale YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/22/2006. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank speci-fied in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warran-ty, expressed or implied, regarding title, pos-session, or encumbrances, to pay the remain-ing principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and ex-penses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor(s): Silence Casavant & Eric Casavant, wife & husband as joint ten-ants Recorded: 06/27/2006 as Instrument No.2006-12616 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Mendocino County, Califor-nia; Date of Sale: 8/25/2008 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the main entrance to the Mendocino County Cour thouse, 100 Nor th State Street, Ukiah CA Amount of unpaid bal-ance and other charges: $411,220.49 The purported property address is: 2411 St Yorre Court Ukiah, CA 95482 Assessors Parcel No. 178-250-05-05 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common desig-nation, if any, shown herein. If no street ad-dress or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any rea-son, the successful bidder’s sole and exclu-sive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Date: 8/3/2008 LandAmerica Default Services Letxy Jime-nez, Foreclosure Coordinator Post Office Box 5899 6 Executive Circle Irvine, CA 92616 (949) 885-4500 Sale Line: 714-573-1965 Re-instatement Line: 949-885-4500 To request reinstatement/and or payoff FAX request to:(949) 885-4496 This office is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. P447393 8/4, 8/11, 08/18/2008

12- MONDAY, AUG. 4, 2008 THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL

If you’re looking to buy or sell, the Classifiedshave everything you need. So, get the scoopand check out the Classifieds for yourself.

590 S. School St., Ukiah468-3500

10 NOTICESADOPTIONS &FOSTER CARE

TLC Child & FamilyServices seeks families.Reimbursement, training & professional support

provided. 463-1100 #236800809

HOPLANDBEARS

SIGNUPSfor football & cheerleading.Boys and girls

ages 7 through 15. 2nd through

8th grade.For more

information contact Rick

707-291-9457 or 707-272-3971

hoplandbears@comcast.net

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BOCCETournamentHopland BearsYouth Football

1st AnnualBocce Tournament

Sun. Aug. 17th10am to ??

Brutocao School House Plaza

All tournamentproceeds go directly to the needs of the

football teams.

$20 per player or $60 per team of four - families encouraged!

For more information or to sign-up, please call Rick at 707-291-9457 or email us at

hoplandbears@comcast.net

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Dont miss the delicious tri-tip

sandwiches, drinks and homemade

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Check out ourSILENT AUCTION

featuringVALUABLE

SPORTS MEMORABILIA

Come out to have a great time and help

a good cause!

Interested in Playing Football or

Cheerleading?Applications are

available by calling Rick at 707-291-9457

or emailing Hopland Bears Youth

Football at hoplandbears@

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30 LOST &FOUND

=I am nearly blind, I am old and I was dangerously walk-ing down the 700 block of Boonville Rd the morning of 7/30. Luckily the PG&E truck came by and picked me up and brought me to the Ukiah Shelter. Like all the lost dogs here I sure would like to go home. I am a male Pomeranian.If you know me please call Sage at 467-6453 or come to 298 Plant Rd.

FOUND on Orr Springs Rd. 7/30.

Female orangetabby 6-8 months

old, wearing collar, very friendly.

462-6466Found: Plain black wallet w/snap, found in vicinity of Wal-Mart in June. Call to identi-fy name. 468-5044

KEYS FOUNDSet of keys found on Woodlake Drive in Deerwood. Please

call 272-9586to identifyl

LOST DOGGIELARGE REWARDTeacup Poodle/

Maltese, very small.Black, straight fluffy hair. Lost vic. of log-

ging Rd. and Eel River Bridge Ptr. Vly.Sat. 7/19. Answers to

Twinkle. 489-0022

120 HELPWANTED

Live-in caregiver in Fort Bragg area.

Agency placement 937-1298

120 HELPWANTED

2 FT Integrated Science TeachersMath & academic support. Health & academic support

Potter Vly. Jr. Hi./Hi.School 743-2101

Accounting PositionF/T Accounting position avail.

w/busy Property Mgt. company.

Must be computer literate, detail

oriented, able to multi-task & pos-

sess strong organi-zational skills.

At least 2 yrs. previ-ous accounting ex-perience required.Following benefits

available: 401k, health insurance,

paid vacation,holidays & more.

Salary DOE.Please submit

resume' & cover letter to sisrael@selzerrealty.com

or mail to Realty World Selzer Realty

Property Management at 350 E. Gobbi St.Ukiah, CA 95482.

Please No Phone Calls!

Activity Assistant,32-38 hrs. per wk.Sat. & Sun. req.

Some eves. Depend-able, able to follow

instructions, & complete paperwork.

Able to work with seniors. Creative

minds a plus.Applicaitons avail.

at Valley View.1162 S. Dora St. UkiahADMIN ASST, F/T,

Busy Real Estate of-fice, heavy computer/ phone skills nec. Hrly wage neg. Drop off resume to 169 Ma-son St., Ste 300,

Ukiah

Anytime Fitness Opening Soon24 hr fitness &

tanning. All positions avail. Call 468-9999www.anytimefitness.com

Class B DriverF/T, tank endorse, Yokayo Biofuelsfax res 462-7603

CNA’S Work/Holiday on the coast. Wil l provide Vacation ac-commodations. Call Sherwood Oaks Con-valescent Hospital.(707)964-6333

Come join thetable games

expansion teamat Shodakai

Casino. Seekingcandidates who have Blackjack

exp. Desired with Poker pref. Great employees, bene-

fits & happy environment.Also seeking

● RETAIL GIFT ●SHOP CLERK P/T

Cash handling & register exp. pref.

Hours. 5-9Coyote Valley

Shodakai Casino7751 N. State St.Redwood Valley

M-F 9-5 EOE707-467-4752

COMMERCIALDRIVER

Class A or B Lic req’d. FT + benefits.Job description and app available at 351 Franklin Ave in Willits

CONTROLLER $60K - $80KMendocino

Community Health Clinic seeks a

Controller to provide daily management of all accounting functions & staff.Requires B.S. in

Business Administra-tion, 5+ yrs. exp.Healthcare exp.

preferred. Excellent comp/bfts pkg. Send

resume w/cover letter to: Email:

dakka@mchcinc.orgFax: (707) 468-0793

DELI MANAGER position available

Exp. nec.Apply within

113 W. Perkins Ukiah.Ask for Lisa or ZachNCO/RCCC-UkiahAdmin Assist ll -

AA/two yrs exp pref,& comp exp. Bilin-

gual pref. 20 hrs/wk, $12.71/hr & bene.For appl & job de-scrip; contact NCO 800-606-5550x302or www.ncoinc.orgCloses 5 pm,08-08-08. (Postmarks not

accepted). EOE

120 HELPWANTED

Direct Care WorkNo Exp.Needed!!

Morning, eves, graveyard. Drug test req., no test for can-nabis, gd DMV. Per-sonal care, cooking, cleaning, dr iving & providing living skills training to adults with developmental disa-bilities. 3,6 bed group homes, estb. in 1988.485-0165, 485-5168

Division manager/ job developer. Lake-port area. Find jobs for disabled adults. 2-5 yrs. job develop-ment in voc. rehab or social service & su-pervison. F/T. $40K per yr. + full benefits.incl. 401k.Auto ins.CPR, FA req.ctmi-inc.org Apply on l ine or call HR (858)467-0600 x 341

HARVESTPOSITIONS

FETZERVINEYARDS

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivat-ed individuals to join our team for the 2008 harvest. Work starts mid to late august for approximately three months. Positions are available in the fol-lowing areas• Cellar Worker• Barrel Room• Sugar Testers• Lab Tech• Scale House• Truck Drivers

(Class A CDL)• Data EntryMust be able to work flexible schedules & O/T as required.Must pass pre-em-ployment drug screen. Apply at Fet-zer Vineyards, Ad-ministration Building, 12901 Old River Road, Hopland or email fetzerhr@b-f.com or fax (707)744-7606. AA/EOE M/F/D/V

SENIOR LIBRARY

TECHNICIAN Mendocino County $2896-3522/Mo. Req AA degree and 3 yrs related l ibrary exp.Apply by 08/12/08 to:HR Dept, 579 Low Gap Rd, Ukiah, CA 95482, (707) 463-4261, w/TDD (800) 735-2929. EOE www.co.mendocino.ca.us/hr

Linkages Social Work/Care Manag-er, for non-profit

agency helping eld-erly & disabled adults avoid nursing homes.MSW or BSW pref.Part time, exc. ben.

Resume, cover letter to Community Care,

301 S. State St.,Ukiah CA 95482

707-468-9347communitycare707.com

MAKE ADIFFERENCE INTHE LIFE OF A

CHILD! JOIN THETRINITY TEAM!

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

Ukiah residentialchildrens facility

is looking for caring, responsible individu-als to join our team.Some exp. pref. but

not nec.. Will provide on the job trainng.

Starting sal. $12.12 hr. 403B, great bene-fits, & vac. pkg. Fax resume 707-463-6957

120 HELPWANTED

NUESTRA CASA,a Latino Family

Resource Center in Ukiah, has a position

open as aCommunity Civic

EngagementCoordinator.

Performs direct Civic Engagement, com-munity convening,

training and educa-tion to the Latino community. $35,m annual + benefits.

Applications & more info available at:

Nuestra Casa, 487 N.State St. Ukiah CA

95482 (707)463-8181

OFFICE ASST.COUNSELING

16 hr/wk.Ukiah CampusMENDOCINO

COLLEGEwww.mendocino.edu

468-3024

P-T COMPUTERSCIENCE INSTR

Ukiah CampusMENDOCINO

COLLEGEUkiah Campus

www.mendocino.edu468-3024

People to work with developmentally

disabled adults 1 on 1 in their own home.All shifts avail. Mary 468-9326 or come by &PU app. 182 Thomas St. Ukiah

POSICIONES PARA LA MOLIDA

FETZERVINEYARDS

Estamos buscando individuos entusiatas y motivados para que se unan a nuestro equipo para la molida del 2008. El trabajo comienza a media-dos o fines de agosto por aproximada-mente tres meses.Hay posiciones dis-poniblcs en las si-guicntes áraes:• Trabajador de laBodega• Cuarto de Barriles• Persona para ex-aminar el nivel de azúcar• Técnico de Labora-torio• Operador de la es-tación de peso/esca-la• Conductor de Ca-mión (Clase A CDL)• Registro de DatosDebe poder trabajar horar ios f lexibles y tiempo extra cuando sea necesario. Debe pasar un examen de detección de drogas antes de iniciar el empleo. Aplicar en Fetzer Vineyards, Administration Build-ing, 12901 Old River Road, Hopland o cor-reo electrónico fet-zerhr@b-f.com o por fax (707) 744-7606.AA/EOE M/F/D/V

120 HELPWANTED

Post Office Now Hiring!

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

Placed by adSource not USPS who hires.1-866-292-1387

PROGRAMSPECIALIST

Special Education Local Plan Area

(SELPA)Coast

$68,003 - $87,259 (pro-rated for part-time) Approx. 20 hrs/ week, or 96-8 hr days, 11 mos/year.Valid CA Spec. Ed.cred or or equiv, 3 yrs. exp in CA K-12 schools.

MendocinoCounty Office of Education

www.mcoe.us/d/hr/jobs707-467-5012hr@mcoe.us

DEADLINE: 8/14/08

RDA NEEDED withexp. & leadership

qualities. Please sub-mit resume to 702 S.Dora St., Ukiah CA

95482RECEPTIONIST:Ukiah Law Firm seeks receptionist with excellent phone skills to answer calls and handle cler ical duties. Client interac-tion/occasional driv-ing required. Position also requires basic computer knowledge and typing skills. Sal-ary DOE. Fax re-sume along with valid California Drivers Li-cense to (707) 468-0453.

RN Care Manager,80% FTE in Clear-lake working with

seniors. PHN prefer-red. Exc. Bens.

Resume to CCMC:14642-C Lakeshore Dr., Clearlake, CA

95422.. See communitycare

707.com for job desc.

Seeking dependable person for F-TRecords Clerk

position. Job descrip-tion available at No. Circle Indian

Hsg Authority694 Pinoleville Dr., Ukiah - 468-1336.Applications will be accepted until 5:00

p.m. on 8/12/08.Indian Pref. applies.

Small CNC machine shop seeks - entrylevel machinist, goodmath skills a plus. PTOffice Assist. Musthave computer skills.707-462-5040 for app & interview.

TEACHER P/T Elem. Indep.

Study Coord. 5-10hrs per wk. $25 per hr. Cred. req. Indep.

Study & Waldorf exp.pref. LaVida Charter School 459-6344

120 HELPWANTED

TEACHERCareers

with ChildrenTemporary Leave Replacement at

Ukiah High$28.82-47.98/hr

MendocinoCounty Office of

Educationwww.mcoe.us/d/hr/jobs

call 467-5012 or email hr@mcoe.us

DEADLINE: 8/14/08

The Alliance for rural Community Health

seeks a task oriented individual to join our team to manage & implement perform-ance improvement

activities. 32-40hr/wk;req. BA/BS dgr. Mas-ters pref. Excel. work

environ. & benefit pkg. Compl. job desc.at www.ruralcomm

unityhealth.org.Cvr letter & resume to: Colleen McNutt, ARCH, 367 N. State St., Ste. 201 Ukiah, CA 95482, or email

to cnutt@ruralcommunityhealth.org.

VALLEY VIEWis looking forRN’s LVN’s

days & p.m. shifts avail. great work

environment, com-petitive wages & benefits. Hire-onbonus. 462-1436.

VALLEY VIEWis looking for

CNA’sdays & p.m. shifts avail. great work

environment, com-petitive wages & benefits. Hire-onbonus. 462-1436.

WAITRESS/HOUSEKEEPER

5-6 days per week.Some exp. working with the elder ly a plus. 1199 S. Dora St. for app & info.

YOUTH WORKER for transitional age youth. Flex 1/2 time

position. Ukiah ($8.91-$10.31) plus

benefits. Job descrip-tion/application

MCYP. 463-4915.Closes 8/08/08 EOE

250 BUSINESSRENTALS

Free month rent 171 Brush commercial or light industrial, ample pkng, xlnt loc.Water/sewer chg $25/mo.Unit B-1800 sq ft 12x14 a/c office, RR, 6’ wide entry door.Lease @ $1000/mo.Unit E-1875 sq ft. a/c office & a/c display area. 12’ roll up door front & rear ent.Lease @ $950/mo Call owner 468-5176 or 972-3864.

300 APARTMENTSUNFURNISHED

Modern 2br wtr/gbe pd AC laundry carport walk to town. MasonSt. $850mo. 433-4040

300 APARTMENTSUNFURNISHED

1BD, 1BA $550 + $1000 SD Apply @ Jack Cox & Assoc.455 E. Gobbi St.

462-6060

1bd. Upstairs.No pets. $675/mo.

+ dep. S. Ukiah.Avail. now. 357-5575

1bd. Luxury town-house. W/D. Cent.

AC, Gar. $810/mo. + dep. 468-5426

1st mo. 1/2 off!2 BD, DW/Garage +

Pool Alderwood Apartments 1450 S.

State St $885-$925mo. 463-2325

2 APARTMENTS AVAIL Now. N/P,

Credit report & score a must. 485-0841

2 bd 1.5 ba.town-house, pool, lndry, AC, $920+ dep. N/P

N/S 468-5426

Deluxe 3bd 1 ba.Hdwd./tile flrs.

downstairs. $1000/mo. Pool, lndry, car-

port.463-2134

Lg. 2bd1ba. New carpet & paint. N/S/P.Wtr/gar/sew pd. $825

+ sec. 462-5159

PARK PLACE1 bd. $800. 2 bd.$910. T.H. $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.

TRIPLEX In Willits 2bd 1.5 bath, water & garbage pd. $800 +

dep 468-0716

320 DUPLEXES

3bd/1.5bth Ukiah tnhse w/ f ireplace, w/d hkup, garage, $1200/mo $1600dep 707/433-6688

330 HOMESFOR RENT

1BD CUSTOMsm office N/S/P. Nice area, nice yard. RV $1200/mo 485-0104

2bd, 1ba W/Side$1200 mo + dep.

Refs req’d. Avail. 9/1 w/d hkups 462-6339

2BD, 1BA, lg yard, landscaping incl.

$1300/mo. avail 8/15 467-9495

2BD, 2BA Tile ktchn, stove, frige, lndry rm.

Lg fenced yd. No dogs. Ukiah $1250/ mo + dep 489-2934

3 Bed Only $368/mo! Buy Foreclosure! (4%dwn 20 yrs @8.5%)

For Listings Call 800-379-5067 ext. 1788

3BD 2BA recently re-mod. Betty St. Ukiah

New bath, frige, stove $1050/moBeverly Sanders

462-5198

3BD, 2BA quiet Ro-gina Hieghts N/S/P $1500/mo. sec. dep

& gd ref’s req’d. Avail 8/2 468-8648or 489-9350

330 HOMESFOR RENT

3bd1ba $1400/mo.Rwd. Vly. Horse pas-ture. Pr ivate, encl porch. 485-1848

3bd2ba (Uk) Pets ok RV parking. $1600

mo + dep. Cnt. HT. & AC. Avl. 9/1. 391-7423

3bd2ba. Lg. Clean Quiet. W/side. Ukiah N/S/P. $1575 + dep.209-482-3983

Blue Lakes 2bd,1.5ba, newly remod, no pets. $1,050/mo (925) 787-6739

Clean 2bd. 1ba in town Wlts. Lg. yd. Avl 09-01. $1200\mo + dep. 707-472-7185

Country setting/Close to Town 3BD, 2BA Cntrl H/A Clean/New Paint Avail 8/1.$1,700/mo, $1,700 dep 707-489-6742

Great view Willits$1400/mo. 3bd2 ba.W/D, deck & more!

N/S 486-7193

Thomas St. 3bd2Bahse w/lg 900sf shop.Avl. 8/15. $1300mo.Also for sale. 1st &

dep. lv msg. 462-7116

UKIAH $2500/moNew 5bd, 3ba 2 story

hm, 3 car gar w/d hkup, fp, pool

N/S, pet neg Avail 8/15 (707) 318-7053

WONDERFUL W/Side house 3bd,

1ba $1350mo. + dep Avail 9/1 463-0371

380 WANTED TOSHARE RENT

$475/mo + dep. bd.in quiet home. Util.

incl.N/S pets, drugs.621-0556, 468-5556

$550/mo for 1 br, share home

w/2 others, utilities separate (approx $90/mo., or less).

Must be responsible (pay bills ON TIME) & neat. No dogs or cats. 1st/last/$100 security deposit = $1200. 972-4282

$800 2 rooms, shr kit, ba, 1/2 util. First & last $100 dep. N/s/d, pet ok. 391-3023

FURN rm for res.wrkg indiv. cbl/frg

$485 + $485 util incl.N/S/P/D 462-9225

SHARE 2BD housein Potter Valley. N/P $350/mo. $250 dep

272-3577

440 FURNITURE

3 pc. ent. ctr. Like new. Cherry wood.Hooker.90”W80”H24D. Fits 37” TV. Org.$3600, asking $1800/ bo. Glass top coffee tble. 60x30, textured metal base. $200/bo.462-9007

BLUE & WHITE tileconcrete table with bench seats bought

at Bravo Barbs$300 513-8085

460 APPLIANCES

USEDAPPLIANCES

& FURNITURE.Guaranteed. 485-1216

480 MISC.FOR SALE

For Sale Nice SouthWest furn,

exc bike, treadmill, comp desk, etc.call 485-6511

FREE PAINT Recycled latex, 5 gal.buckets, white, tan, brown, gray. Tues-days only, 8am to 2pm, 298 Plant Rd., Ukiah (behind animal shelter).

Hot Tub 2008 Many jets. Therapy seats Warranty. Never used. Wor th $5000 Sell $1895. 766-8622

Queen bed & 2 Oak stands, Mirrored

headboard. Ask $190468-0933 after 5 pm

Samsung flip-phonePre-Paid, can be switched to bil led phone. WILL ONLY WORK WITH VERI-ZON WIRELESS! New, never used, pkg has been opened. Comes w/ charger & manual.You hook up. Retail $75. Asking $40 obo Has camera, & blue-tooth operation. Call 972-9577

We recycle & pay cash for junk batteries, cop-per brass & aluminum.

707-467-1959

500 PETS &SUPPLIES

1/2 Boxer 1/2 Pit Bull born 5/29. 1st

shots. 1f, 1m. Free to great, loving home

272-7749

AKC Approved Lab pups. Champ. blood line. Fem. $600, Mls $500. 707-984-6029

Baby Cornsnakes5 mice included.

Born 7/12. $30 ea.391-9164/391-5391

Canadian Grey Alas-kan Malamute. 2 1/2 yrs. female. $300.Millie 707-983-6062

510 LIVESTOCK

OAT HAY! $12 per bale, 60

bales or more. $14 single 621-3897

590 GARAGESALES

FREE GARAGE SALE SIGNS.

Realty World Selzer Realty. 350 E. Gobbi

620 MOTOR-CYCLES

2 ROKONSTrail Breaker2 wheel drive

485-5477

630 AUTO PARTS &ACCESSORIES

Recond. battries. $15 & up with exchange.12 mo. replacement free. 467-1959

650 4X4'SFOR SALE

FORD RANGER ‘854x4 pickup, with

camper shl. $3500obo. 489-6501

Nissan Pathfinder SE 2007 38K tow

pkg excl cond $25K 462-9146

680 CARSFOR SALE

$$CASH FOR YOUR USED CARS $$$ For your old used cars! FREE pick up in Ukiah area! Lost title ok. Steel drop boxes for scrap metal also available upon re-quest, call 707-546-7553!!!!

1993 Honda Accord LX Only $700! Buy Police Impounds! For Listings 800-368-6118

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former claimed toAllHipHop.com that unnamed‘online hackers’ put ‘my facewhen I was a teenager in highschool on other peoples’body,’” stated the article. “‘Ifthis **** was real don’t youthink they would have morespecifics, like dates andeverything?’”

So, in the week after theinitial documents werereleased, the Web site wentand got the dates and every-thing -- 86 pages of it.

“We don’t mean to pile onthe beleaguered gangster rap-per (and former prison guard)Rick Ross, but a Freedom ofInformation request hasturned up additional docu-ments chronicling the per-former’s penal career,” statedthe second article releasedMonday. “The documentsinclude Ross’s employmentapplication, which notes thathe was a 1994 graduate ofMiami’s Carol City SeniorHigh School and spent a yearat Georgia’s Albany StateCollege, where he studiedCriminal Justice...Other per-sonnel records include a fin-gerprint card that was usedduring a criminal backgroundcheck, and the resulting reportshowing that Ross was clean.In a supplemental application,Ross agreed to perform a widerange of correctional officerduties, including ‘shoot aninmate attempting to escape.’”

I certainly don’t rememberany of those details sneakingtheir way into his rhymes.Maybe I’ve been listening tothe wrong songs.

Anyway, as more detailsemerged, the man in questionstill held the party line.

“In a recent interview withPhoenix’s Power 98.3, Rossdenied being an officer,” stat-ed the Web site sixshot.comon Tuesday. “‘Don’t believethe hype,’ Ross said. ‘In thegame we in, it’s real competi-tive. Competitors have to dowhat they have to do to eat.We making the best music. Wethe biggest in the game, wethe best in the game. Justkeeping it real...One of myclosest homies was on‘America’s Most Wanted.’”

The next day, NPR’s AlexCohen spoke to New YorkTimes reporter JonCaramanica on the subject.Caramanica said that despitethe embarrassing revelation itdidn’t necessarily have tospell doom for the entertain-er’s career.

“Rick Ross has positionedhimself in his entire rap careeras someone obviously movingin the shadows of the law,” hesaid. “But for something likethis to come to light throwsthe whole idea of authenticityinto doubt. Now obviously,you know, rap like most art isa form of performance, butthat said, when you made yourentire career premise onsomething proves to be falsethat can be potentially damag-ing in the long run...If he

makes a great song about it hecould conceivably just movepast this like another bump,but the fact that he lied aboutit is unfortunately a bad firstsign.”

In “CB4,” the jig is upwhen the real Gusto gets outof prison and comes lookingfor the kids who stole his per-sonality.

Now, despite Ross’ bestefforts, the truth about his pasthas been granted early releasedespite being given a life sen-tence long ago by the formerscrew -- and he’s not handlingit well.

For sheer unrepentanthypocrisy, this scandal ranksup there with Sen. Larry Craig(R-ID) voting against gayrights while at the same usinghand signals to cruise forcompanionship in airportmen’s restrooms.

As a whole, the Americanpublic, myself included, issurprisingly forgiving when itcomes to welcoming back it’sfallen heroes -- provided theaccused admit what they’vedone and apologize once it’sbeen made maddeningly clearwhat they did.

Hugh Grant, for example,famously said “I think youknow in life what’s a goodthing to do and what’s a badthing, and I did a bad thing,and there you have it,” on theTonight Show in 1995 afterbeing arrested for lewd con-duct with Hollywood prosti-tute Divine Brown.

It’s 13 years later and he’sstill able to pull off the charm-

ing, bouncy-haired Englishguy routine in every hitromantic comedy he’s in. Noone hardly even mentions thearrest anymore unless it’s oneof those annoying countdownshows like “Top 543 CelebrityArrests” that they play inces-santly on E! or VH1 (or news-paper columns, I suppose.)

What’s funny to me is howhappy the smiling, teenagedRoss looks in the photo of hisgraduation ceremony that wasinitially leaked. The expres-sion on his face couldn’t bemore different from theembarrassed wreck of a manpictured in Grant’s mug shot,but both snapshots had thesame, career-ending power.

What Ross should havedone is to listen to the timelesswisdom of Kenny Rogers andknown when to hold ‘em andknown when to fold ‘em.Ross’ bluff has failed and hiscareer as we’ve known it mayvery well be over.

On the other hand, giventhe fact that his latest album“Trilla” currently sits at #13on the Billboard R & B/Hip-Hop Album Chart almost fivemonths after it was released, Imight actually be frettingabout this whole thing morethan Ross himself.

Rob Burgess can bereached at udjrb@pacific.net.

This column was first post-ed on the “House of Burgess”blog at 5 p.m. Saturday andcan be accessed along withprevious entries atwww.insideudj.com/houseof-burgess.

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By LINDA WILLIAMSThe Willits News

The Willits City Council sent a letter toGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger andthe California Legislative leadershipprotesting proposals surfacing whichwould redirect and borrow funds fromcity governments throughout the state tobalance the state budget.

The League of California Cities hasbeen closely monitoring the budget bal-ancing shenanigans in Sacramento andadvised city management of severalissues being seriously considered, whichcould remove as much as $700,000 inrevenue from the 2008-2009 Willits citybudget.

Despite a series of initiatives votershave passed directing the state to use onlystate money to balance the budget, onceagain the Legislature is considering bor-rowing and taking money from localcommunities, according to the League.

In the letter, the city stated, “Californiacity residents are still paying for the yearsthat the state regularly seized city andredevelopment funds when the state lead-ers refused to us only state revenues tobalance the budget. The state then startedtaking Prop. 42 funding for street repairsand transit. Every time the state tookfunds, cities were forced to defer mainte-nance and cut important services, lower-ing the quality of life in our communitiesin the process.”

“The state must find a way to resolveits budget problems without ‘borrowing’or seizing funds meant for voter-approved local government, infrastruc-ture and community revitalization pur-poses. We understand your options indoing this are limited, and we will sup-port a budget that is balanced and makes

progress toward long-term budgetreform. These steps are vital if you aregoing to restore the stability in the statebudget and the confidence of our votersand the business community.

“Borrowing or taking these funds topay state operating costs is simply badfiscal policy. It compounds the state’sstructural budget deficit and undercutsboth voter and investor confidence in oureconomy.”

The state remains without a budgetsince July 1 even though it is required bythe state constitution to be passed eachyear by July 1. The state has failed tomeet this requirement 17 of the past 20years.

A senate budget vote scheduled forJuly 29 was cancelled at the last minuteby the Senate President Pro Tem DonPerata citing he was reluctant to schedulethe vote, which had been expected to fail,because progress being made.

State Department of Finance DirectorMike Genest said in a July 25 radioaddress, “this year the delay really mat-ters. It’s costing you hundreds of millionsof dollars. The state has already lost near-ly $160 million in potential savings thatcould have been achieved if we’d had abudget by July 1.

“If the gridlock is not broken soon, weare going to miss the chance to get anoth-er $320 million of savings in the month ofAugust. We also face very serious cashflow problems. Even in good years, thestate borrows money to bridge the gaps inour cash flow. But without a balancedbudget in place, the cost of that short-term borrowing goes up considerably.

“In fact, if we don’t get a budget soon,we will waste an extra half a billion dol-lars of taxpayers’ hard-earned money just

because the Legislature has failed to passa budget. The late budget also threatensthe state’s credit rating. Much more delayand we could be downgraded, costingtaxpayers another several hundred mil-lion dollars in interest payments overtime.

“As you can see, the longer we wait,the deeper the hole gets and the more itcosts every Californian. With every dayof inaction and stalemate, the choices donot get easier. They get harder.”

Paychecks automatically stop forelected officials, their personal staff andcertain appointees until a budget ispassed. The governor said at a recentpress conference he is considering layingoff about 22,000 part time, temporary orcontract employees and to order tempo-rary pay cuts for many of the nearly200,000 full time state workers down tothe $6.55 per hour federal minimumwage.

What the state will continue to pay andwill not pay is a jumble of variously con-strained items. It will pay vendors forwork done in the prior year but not forwork done from July 1 forward. The com-munity college July payments are notauthorized, yet the July community col-lege payments, which had been deferredfrom June are authorized. All schoolfunding (kindergarten through 12thgrade) which was supposed to be paid inJuly is authorized but starting in Augustmore and more of the payments cannot bepaid. MediCal payments have alreadystopped to most institutions althoughnon-institutional providers continue toreceive payment. The longer the impassegoes, the wider the impact to individuals,businesses and agencies relying uponstate funding.

State budget axe may fall locally

By THADEUS GREENSONThe Eureka Times-Standard

Criminal investigations and local law enforcement budgetscould take a substantial hit if a proposal from the stateLegislature’s Budget Conference Committee makes its wayinto the state’s final spending plan.

Budget negotiations are seemingly in a stalemate, withRepublicans and Democrats divided on how to close a $15.2billion deficit weeks after the start of the fiscal year, the com-mittee of lawmakers is proposing a variety of changes to thestate’s public safety budget.

Of primary concern for area law enforcement -- and proba-bly those in most rural areas of the state -- is a proposal torequire local agencies to pay for forensic testing at the state’sDepartment of Justice crime labs -- fees which have historical-ly been paid by the state.

”It’s basically putting a pricetag on justice,” Arcata Chief ofPolice Randy Mendosa said, adding that many local agencieswould be left to pick and choose which cases deserve forensictesting. “If entities are forced to cut back on these services itcould make the difference of whether cases are prosecuted ornot.”

While most larger cities have their own crime labs, localagencies send a wide variety of things to the DOJ satellite crimelabs for testing, ranging from the headline generating to themundane.

Most in the community only hear of forensic testing in high-profile cases, a recent example being the investigation into thesuspected murder of Michelle Ashlee Dickson, whose bodywas found under an Oregon bridge on July 23.

A suspect in the case, Josiah Miller of Arcata, has beenarrested, but the case against him hinges in part on traceamounts of blood evidence discovered in his vehicle. That traceevidence is now being tested at the DOJ crime lab to see if itbelongs to Dickson. Investigators have said it could take weeksfor the lab to provide them with results.

But that’s the exception, not the rule. The vast majority oftesting that occurs at the crime labs is for cases the public neverhears about.

Humboldt County Sheriff Gary Philp said the most commonitems his department sends for testing are narcotics to verify thetype and potency, and blood and urine samples related to DUIcharges.

Ryan Chamberlain, the department’s property technician,explained that charges can be filed on presumptive tests doneby the department, but DOJ testing -- which is considered morereliable -- is required for cases that go to trial.

If departments were forced to pay for their own testing, theresults could be devastating, local officials said.

”That would be a huge cost for us,” Philp said.Based on last year’s usage, the department would be facing

a $127,000 bill from the state.Because all local budgets have been adopted, a late change

coming from the state would mean that many local agencieswould have to find the money to pay those fees in what theyhave already been allocated.

While Philp said his department is currently working with anapproximately $29 million budget, he estimated more than 80percent of that goes to personnel costs and said finding an extra$100,000 mid-year is no easy task.

If the proposal is adopted with the state budget, Philp saidhis department would either very carefully pick and choosewhich cases warrant forensic testing or try to find the fundingby making cuts to other areas or leaving positions vacant.

”They’re not real good choices as far as we’re concerned,”he said.

But, that picture would look even bleaker for the EurekaPolice Department.

”It would be a big hit for us,” EPD Chief Garr Nielsen said.“The estimate I’ve seen is it would be close to $100,000 a yearfor EPD. What that translates to, to us, is the equivalent of oneofficer.”

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