Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - May 31, 2008, Ukiah, California I I Giants shortstop honored 6 May 2008 LETTERS TO THi EDITOR Expanded Forum section 9 The Ukiah 50 cents tax Mendocino Countys local newspaper URNAL Sunday Breezy H Monday Partly sunny H L x UDJ Spring Fund Drive Fbf the Ukiah Girls Club Club Drive up to The Daily Journal The UDJ Boys Girls Club Spring Fund Drive is up to The latest donations include Nancie Jerry Garcia T R Antoni Michael Traci Cosenza Glen Mary Ann Donalson for a total of which brings the drive total to date to Systems LLC and the Boys and Girls Club of Ukiah announced last week that will match com munity donations to the UDJ Spring Fund Drive for the Ukiah Boys Girls up to Jim the president of stated has enjoyed being in Ukiah for the past 35 As our busi ness is currently pretty strong we have been looking for ways where we can support the development of the com We think that the Boys and Girls Club fills an important need in the Ukiah Their programs for young people such as Power Hour and SMART Moves help kids do better in school and become healthy and sub free young How to help Please make yow check or money order to Ukiah Hoys Girls and bring to our offices at The Daily Journal at 590 School or mail it to us do Boys Girls Club at Box 95482 or mail it directly to the Ukiah Club at Box A hightech scavenger hunt Journal James Welch shows off a Geocache full of goodies he placed in south Welch and his Jeweled have found and placed caches all over California and as far as By BEN BROWN The Dally Journal Using former military soft a group of people are wan dering our streets and rural areas searching for They are geocachers and they are engaged in the 21st century ver sion of the scavenger Its a fun said James a Geocache The coordinates for caches are posted on Web sites like and other people can put the coordinates into their GPS follow the directions to the and find Generally theyre in places unique to the Welch It sounds but Welch said there is a degree of skill to Even the best GPS readers only take you within three and most caches are hidden to keep them out of the hands of a geocaching term for Most of the caches come with hints on how to find the final Welch said the size of a cache can from the size of a pill bottle to a You still have to look for he Geocaching is a hobby only made possible by the avail ability of Global Positioning Software to the general pub Commercially available GPS readers allow anyone to enter a latitude and longitude into the device and get This Geocache logo patch is one of the many treasures that can be found In Geocaches around the The most common use of GPS readers is to get directions in a but geocachers have found another hiding things and leaving clues for others to Welch said he started Geocaching a year ago and found his first cache in Idaho with his They were on a road trip and marked out a trial of caches to visit along the It took us to a lot of cool he Every cache contains a log book that can be signed and dated by the people who found creat ing a history for the Larger caches also contain small trade usually small toys and trin If you take something you have to leave thats the Welch Welchs signature is jack squat small brass coins that have You found jack squat written on them that he leaves at every cache he Some people also put special items in their like travel Welch A travel bug is a small tag with a serial number and a stated travel One might say that it needs to travel to all of the beaches in the Caribbean before it comes Welch See Page 16 3 held in pot seizure Neighbor complaints led to investigation fourth man cited The Daily Journal Three Mendocino County men were arrested and one cited Thursday afternoon after a search of two homes in Redwood Valley revealed 400 growing marijuana according to Mendocino County Sheriffs Office At Sheriffs Deputy Tim Goss drove to a home in the 9000 block of East Road on a com plaint from neighbors about a marijuana According to sheriffs Goss talked to the peo ple living in the who told him they were growing marijuana but would not allow Goss into the house to check on their compliance with medical marijuana Goss got a search warrant for the property and found two one of which had been converted completely into a grow according to sher Deputies found 100 plants on the property as well as evi dence of other plants that had been recently Further investigation led officers to a second house on Webb Ranch where deputies found 300 growing marijuana plants as well as drying Aaron of Redwood David of and Jason of Redwood were all arrested on sus of cultivation of mari possession of marijuana for sale and providing a place for the manufacture of na and were booked into jail on a bond John of was cited on the same charges and released at the Restraining order in coastal fireworks case denied judge orders discussion to continue at 611 meeting By ROB BURGESS The Daily Journal Courtroom G of the Mendocino County Courthouse was packed Friday as the Gualala Fourth of July Fireworks program went head to head with the California Coastal The court date was just the latest skir mish in a battle over the fireworks display and its effect on near by The hearing centered around a request by the representatives for the fireworks display for a temporary restraining order against the commis The request sprang from a previously proposed staff recommendation by the commission that it issue a desist order against the The Pacific Legal which is representing the Gualala Festivals stated the commission only had jurisdiction over Never in its 35year history has the Coastal Commission regulated fire works as development as staffers pro pose stated Graham one of the two PLF attorneys at Fridays If the commission shuts down the Gualala fireworks displays from one end of the California coast to the other will be in Fridays hearing was originally set for but was moved back after the presiding judge declared he needed more time to digest the paperwork he had been Theres so many things wrong with this application that its hard to know where to said Deputy Attorney General Joseph addressing the judge at Fridays In the the judge denied the request for the restraining order and told the parties to continue the matter at the Coastal Commissions open June 11 Owen said that if an order to halt the proceedings were to be issued at that it wouldnt be the end for the If they issue a order well definitely appeal he The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10 June 11 at the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors chambers located at 575 Administration To view the entire meeting agenda on the com missions Web visit Rob Burgess can be reached at Inquiry into death on coast By BEN BROWN The Dally Journal The Mendocino County Sheriffs Office is ing the death of a Fort Bragg woman last seen with her Katlyn of Fort died at the Mendocino Coast Hospital early Friday Sheriffs deputies were called in around According to sheriffs Long had been trans ported by ambulance to the hospital from her parents Paramedics attempted to save her during the but Long was pronounced dead at the Mendocino County Sher Kurt Smallcomb said the death is being treated as suspicious because there was no obvious cause of death and because of her young Sheriffs deputies are investigating the events lead ing up to Longs According to sheriffs reports Long was last in the company of her boyfriend before she Smallcomb said the boyfriend has declined to speak with sheriffs deputies about the events leading up to Longs An autopsy was performed Friday to determine the cause of death those results were pending at press Anyone with information that might help the organiza tion is encouraged to contact the Mendocino County Fort Bragg Detectives Office at Ben Brown reached at
