Marysville Yuba Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - May 24, 2008, Marysville Yuba, California f Photos from our readers t RY ( 1 INSIDE SATURDAY Clinton apologizes for mentioning assassination Page A6 Police officers fired for ignoring woman's miscarriage Page A7 Oakland bar celebrates 125th anniversary Page A3 OCRAT May 24,2008 California Grateful to be in America Hmong refugee aided CIA during conflict in Laos By Kancy Pasternack The fading map of a U.S. military installation serves now as a reminder of his last home in East Linda resident Tong 58, spent his young adult years in the mountains near Long the primary base of U.S. military operations in Laos from 1961 to 1975. He says that as one of the 39,000 Hmong guerrillas who fought in the Secret War - a campaign against North Communists - he helped supply food and weapons to his countrymen and U.S. troops in the jungles near the Ho Chi Minn the map and framed photos of three of his sons in U.S. military uniforms remind him of his allegiance to his new Two of those sons are deployed by the U.S. Army in A third is serving an Air Force tour in South Korea after two tours in - are citizens of this country and we have to help the says who works as a cabinet maker in Yuba His Chee 57, nods in The American flag that flies in front of their house helps announce this sentiment to others in the Not all Hmong refugees in the area are as unequivocal in their explains Bright 27, the couple's third son and their first child born in the U.S. When U.S. troops and leadership out of Laos in 1975, they left behind thousands of the mountain tribespeople who had supported The widespread killing that followed still weighs on the minds of elders in the area's Hmong Bright Vue lot of them do feel At the same they are grateful now to be in the he A TV stands in the corner of the living room and a computer screen features an ongoing slide show of family These attest to a cultural overhaul the Vue family has undergone in the 20 years since their tribal roots in East Asia were They escaped Laos in 1978 - three years after being left behind by U.S. Dozens of family members and friends had been lost in those mom is heartbroken about what happened to their says Bright when he sees his mother's eyes become They spent a year at Ban a sprawling refugee camp in Thailand where most Hmong families have some Tong and Chee and their four were finally expatriated to 2006 07 TEACHER SALARIES State Department of Education Web site Tong and Chee Vue have three sons serving in the U.S. Ana the by way of a host family in was a big says Chee by way of her son Bright's interpreting didn't know how to use the utilities around the says Bright here is the first time we see a says Tong had to learn how to use a stove and to use the sponsor had to show But the biggest said his was that the family no longer struggled to find The 10 children have assimilated to Western culture to varying Their two eldest daughters married Hmong men in where they now The rest attended Alicia Intermediate School and Lindhurst High The youngest is now a high school Bright Vue recently graduated from California State University at Hmong kids in his he are caught between two worlds and two different sets of expectations - those from their the way that modern society here wants me to he all his family members share the same strong feelings for their adoptive know that America is a good he Contact reporter Nancy at 749-4712 or at pleas in East Linda slaying By Rob Young Two more defendants in the fatal shooting of a short-order cook from East Linda pleaded not guilty Friday to murder Pheng 14, and Thang 16, entered the pleas in Yuba County Judge Julia court as five armed bailiffs kept a close eye on their family members and relatives of the Raymond Garcia IA third Meng pleaded not guilty All are being charged as Yang and all dressed in Juvenile Hall blue jump sat silently as Scrogin scheduled a two-day preliminary hearing starting at 9 a.m. June 5. was shot in the head with a 9mm according to a complaint filed by the District Attorney's The shooting happened May 8 near the intersection of and Fernwood drives in East The preliminary hearing will determine if there's enough evidence to hold each of the defendants to answer on 36 including murder and the attempted murder of a man who was with That man is expected to be a principal prosecution witness at the Prosecutors added penalty enhancements to the list of charges because the crimes allegedly were committed for the benefit of the the Hmong Nation The defendants are facing possible sentences of life in prison with the possibility of At the conclusion of Friday's bailiffs escorted Castro's family from the courthouse before family members of the defendants were allowed to Deputy District Attorney Michael the county's lead gang told the judge earlier that witnesses are in danger from the Hmong Nation Society while they wait to Contact reporter Rob Young at 749-4110 at district reach deal Pay boost in proposed at 4.5 percent By Ryan McCarthy J A tentative pact that provides a 4.5 pay percent increase for Marysville Joint Unified School District teachers is expected to win approval and end salary negotiations that began last believe we can afford Superintendent Gay Todd said Friday of the cost-of-living adjustment for Michael president of the teachers said his members a bigger raise than but than continue to fight it out over the we're accepting this as a Todd said the most recent budget figures from the governor's office showing an improved outlook for education funding in the state helped make the agreement as a district recognize that not only teachers but all staff members are working Todd Trustee Jim Flurry said of the three-year think both sides are Schlusser said the district's nearly 500 teachers will vote beginning He said the 4.5 percent increase represents a cost-of-living adjustment that school district officials had initially offered but then settlement should have come months he the district's own budget our consultant showed the district that they had the money to do we were still forced to hold informational picketing and organizing before the district finally came Turn to at Chesney gets jail for sex act By Ryan McCarthy A Linda man convicted of having sex with a female inmate when he was a corrections officer in Live Oak was sentenced Friday to 120 days in The lawyer for Mark Stephen Susoeff called the crime Sutter County Judge Chris Chandler said it was It's 45, who worked at the Leo Chesney Community Correctional received oral sex in January 2007 from an inmate near her locker in the early morning at the according to Susoeff s probation Chandler said Susoeff s actions undermine bij of legitimacy that the system going to have make amends for the institution that you have let said Cornell Companies contracts with the California Department of Corrections to house about female offenders in the feel strongly that any improper conduct should be said Cornell spokesman Charles Turn to CHESNEY Al FREEDOM Vol. 157 145 WHY 6T50863"00O09"1 48 Classic Comics Comics Entertainment Want to be in the know? 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