Marysville Yuba Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - September 21, 2007, Marysville Yuba, California Honkers sweep Falcons B1 For anyone who ever puzzled over all that crazy writing on the sidewalls of here's some DRIVE SECTION E Area kids read story in unison CI OCRAT September 21,2007 California + tax WORLD AROUND LIFESTYLE Twila gets all philosophical Usually an observer of things quotidian in the columnist Twila Kardatzke turns her thoughts Is she the best mother she can What is success in life? What battles should you pick to Is it better to have a child who has perfect grades but who lives in fear of or a child with average grades and knows that no one is Maybe there is no end-all answer Page Ft LOCAL fee to be arrested in Yuba driving with a suspended license will hurt a little more starting Oct. 1, Sheriffs begin charging a we for releasing the The Board of Supervisors approved the new fees in June as jart of an ordinance that covered a variety of fees across county Page CI latest online poll Does Yuba City redly need a new retail To goto Our previous poll What's the best part of the fall Cooler temperatures and changing 79% lots of 10% that much doser to Total 77 S 1530 Ellis Lake 95901 M Lottery V jaywalking brouhaha Police crackdown on high schoolers sparks controversy By John Dickey Add jaywalking tickets to the list for Yuba City High School Yuba City police say they issue dozens of crosswalk citations at Clark Avenue and B Street every year just after school starts - 68 have been written this year since the high school opened for classes on Aug. 20. in response to complaints by we are out there issuing said Police Chief Richard One difference this year is a parent's letter to the criticizing police for using three officers to issue citations en masse on Aug. 29 - and questions from city Councilman Kash Gill about whether police are giving the tickets to ate revenue or to ensure public really wasn't fair and it wasn't said Lynn who wrote the letter after her daughter was Doscher told the City Council this week that police have been issuing jaywalking citations at Yuba City High every year since 1994. The citations are not to generate revenues for the city - first offenders typically don't get said Doscher - but in response to According to jaywalking is an annual occurrence at the start of the school year that spiked a few years ago when students would wait for the light to jump out in the intersection and climb on car Police took video then and showed it to the said NEW MARYSVILLE BYPASS PROPOSAL WOULD SPAN LANDMARK Nick Fredrick walks with Ella and Kaian Motey on Thursday around Ellis where a proposed bridge would go over the The latest plan to funnel traffic around downtown Marysville features a bridge over the lake that would take out the gazebo Bridge over Ellis City official on latest Are they smoking By Nancy Pasternack Anew highway bypass system around Marysville could help unclog downtown traffic and make the city safer for according to But it would do that by sending some of that traffic across the middle of Ellis The plan would run a new Feather River Parkway alongside railroad tracks on levees in west Marysville and cross the lake to connect sections of Highway 20. gotta be kidding said Marysville attorney Craig Leri has lived in a house on 11th Street since and his office lies on the same about a block from where the proposed bridge across Ellis Lake would be according to the The said the only asset Marysville and they want to run right over How Wayne deputy district director of planning and local assistance for District 3 - the man who takes credit for up with this - said he anticipated if not altogether initial responses to the Lake really is a of he The Turn to Democrats not able to stop Associated Press WASHINGTON - Unable to block the start of President Bush's Iraq war troop increase last now are powerless to hasten So much for mandate to end a waged by a president with the support of a congressional minority of And so much for the Democratic prediction that Republicans would be more inclined to break with the tion this fall than they were last spring or no question that the White House has been very effective at making this a loyalty braska Sen. Chuck a vociferous Republican critic of the said Wednesday after the GOP blocked legislation to guarantee the troops as much time at home as they spend in the war Their of votes evident - and their increasingly restive - crats looked ahead to the 2008 elections more than a year it is Bush's with the Republican said Majority Leader Harry Republicans have sustained Bush's policy repeatedly despite the loss of Senate control last November and the persistent polls showing that both the president and the war are held in poor The Senate vote marked the latest in a long line of disappointments for Democratic critics of the who have repeatedly Turn to WEB COMMENTS Read comments on the ticketing issue page A6 The department also fielded 911 calls demanding that officers go down to the school and take care of it. This on Aug. 29, Doscher said the situation was so that a police officer asked for another Police wrote 38 citations that Police have also observed a number of Turn to TICKETS Driver killed in collision Pickup rams sedan at rural crossroads in southern Yuba By Nancy Pasternack The driver of a Toyota sedan was pronounced dead Thursday evening after running a stop sign and colliding with a pickup at the intersection of Ostrom and Virginia roads in south Yuba An Air Force sergeant from Beale Air Force Base who witnessed the accident emergency medical technicians performed CPR on the to no The female motorist had not yet been identified Thursday She was pronounced dead at 6:40 according to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Shawn According to it was the first fatal traffic accident in Yuba County this The sedan's two passengers were transported to Rideout Memorial Hospital with what appeared to be minor Turn to CRASH agency find accord on levee move By Andrea Koskey An tentative agreement has been reached between Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority and orchard owner Jeanette Rice over the setback levee at her south Yuba County Instead of constructing a section of the levee through some of the most important crops on the Rice agreed to move the levee 45 feet to the preserving some of Rice's most profitable peach are Rice wanted the whole but we know that can't be We are being Compromise is The compromise must first be approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state Turn to LEVEE At