Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 5

THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL To report local news telephone Maureen Connor-Rice, 468-3526 Valley Living WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17,1993 Bounty planned Mendocino Bounty, the highly successful showcase of Mendocino County's food and wine products, will be back for a second year. The 1993 event will be held on Aug. 22, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Fetzer Food and Wine Center at Valley Oaks in Hopland. Mendocino Bounty combines a trade and consumer tasting of wine and food products that are a unique part of the warmth and rustic charm visitors expect from Mendocino County.

Mendocino Bounty's main goal is to educate consumers about the area's fresh products that are a source of individual agricultural pride. Included in the showcase will be all of Mendocino County's wineries and brewpubs, farm-fresh produce and restaurants utilizing fresh meat and produce from Mendocino County growers. There also will be a special panel discussion on the future of agriculture in California and cooking demonstrations by well-known Mendocino County chefs such as Cafe Beaujolais's Margaret Fox and Christopher Kump, and Fetzer Vineyards' Culinary Director John Ash. The 1993 Mendocino Bounty is sponsored by the Mendocino County Vintners Association, Mendocino County Farm Bureau and underwritten by Alex R. Thomas Company and Fetzer Vineyards.

For further information, please call George Rose at Fetzer Vineyards, (707) 485-7634 or Carre Brown at the Mendocino County Farm Bureau, (707) 462-6664. Next 500 years focus of seminar "The Next 500 Years" is the theme of the upcoming Education Seminar scheduled March 27, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Mendocino County Office of Education, 2240 Eastside Ukiah. Speakers include Ed. Castillo, professor, Native American Studies, SSU; Hawk Resales, Sink- yone Wilderness Project Coordinator; and Luwana Quitiquit, Deputy Director of Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Indian Health Service and Business Enterprise.

An Education Panel of Northern California Indians will discuss education programs and issues. The Potter Valley Dancers will perform during the awards luncheon. All Porno dancers are invited to participate and share during this time of celebration. Awards and honors will be given to deserving elders, youth and community members for outstanding service, accomplishment and contribution. Commemorated will be Alcatraz, 1969; Wounded Knee, 1973; Ya- ka-ama; DQU and the Longest Walk.

Nominations are still being accepted for awards. There will be arts and crafts displays and sales, basketweavers, good food and resource information booths from various tribes and human service organizations. In praise of crafts Mendocino County crafts will be featured at the Grace Hudson Museum Aug. 14 through Jaa 9. During mis celebration of the Year of American Craft, a series of workshops and lectures will be held at Mendocino College and outreach programs scheduled for local schools.

Guest curators for the show are weaver Holly Brackmarm and ceramicist Doug Browe. An arts grant from Fetzer Vineyards has provided substantial funding for the show. Jury members include Leslie Ferrin, a gallery owner from Massachusetts; Jan Janiero, a professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and George Blake, a Native American craftsman from Hoopa. "A Show of Hands" is open to all craft artists residing or working in Mendocino County. Pieces must be original, one of a kind, not executed under supervision and must have been completed within the last two years.

Artists wishing to participate should contact the Grace Hudson Museum at 462-3370 to request an entry form. Deadline for entries is April 16 and a non- refundable entry fee of $10 is due with each entry. Artists chosen for inclusion in the show will be notified by July 1. Health Kids' books offer a variety of subjects By The Associated Press Mirette on the High Wire, by Emily Arnold McCully. G.P.

Putnam's Sons. 32 pages. $14.95. Ages 4-8. One hundred years ago, a young, red-haired girl named Mirette met a retired high-wire walker named Bellini.

Bellini had come to stay at her mother's boardinghouse in Paris. Bellini had crossed Niagara Falls on a wire. He had walked a flaming wire in Naples while wearing a blindfold. But despite these great feats, Bellini had grown afraid. And, as lie explains in "Mirette on the High Wire," once you have fear on the wire, it never leaves.

Mirette yearns to walk above the rooftops and courtyards of Paris, but Bellini refuses to teach her how to walk the wire. "Once you start, your feet are never happy on the ground again," he tells her. But Mirette's days are filled with washing linens and mopping boardinghouse floors. Her feet are already unhappy on the ground! She does not give up. The story shows a child's determination to succeed, and just how important friends and crossing to the end can be.

Emily Arnold McCully's beautiful watercolor paintings are reminiscent of the French Impressionists. "Mirette on the High Wire" is the winner of the 1992 Randolph Caldecott medal for the distinguished picture book for children. Honest Abe, by Edith Kunhardt. Dlustrated by Malcah Zeldis. Greenwillow Books.

32 pages. $15. Ages 5 and up. Each page in "Honest Abe" is a painting, with bright, bold colors. Using yellows, reds, blues and greens, folk artist Malcah Zeldis has created images that convey the emotional strength of Abraham Lincoln's life and clearly express the story of Lincoln's life to very young children.

Edith Kunhardt has written a clear, simple text. "People called him Abe or Honest Abe. Once a woman paid him six and a quarter cents too much. He walked three miles to find her and pay her back." Yet it is the illustrations that draw the reader. The cover is bright yellow, with a portrait of Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation tucked inside his tall, silk hat.

In the corners, doorways and landscapes of the book, readers will find green fishes, pink rabbits, blue pigs with red ears and red curly tails, a striking blue horse with red hooves and a beautiful red mane and tail. The 32-page book tells of Lincoln's birth in a log cabin, his rise in politics and the terrible effects of the Civil War. The book ends with Lincoln's assassination. "Honest Abe" also includes the text of Lincoln's Gettysbury Address, delivered on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. The speech lasted only two minutes but remains one of the most famous speeches in American history.

"The Return of Freddy Legrand" by Jon Agee. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 32 pages. $15. Ages 3 and up.

The famous old-time pilot Freddy Legrand, of good spirit and good luck, survives a flight across the Atlantic en route to Paris, but his plane runs out of gas. He parachutes into a French field where Sophie and Albert rescue him. The two farmers teach him of farm life while he teaches them about planes. In "The Return of Freddy Legrand," Freddy eventually returns to Paris a hero and takes off anewi But, crashes into the Alps and is stranded alone in the cold. his farm- friends taught him helps him survive and, as luck would have, who shows up in his old plane to rescue him but Sophie and Albert? This is a sprightly paced book that tells of travel, adventure and the value of helping people who, at some point down the line, may be able to help you.

Cinderella Penguin, by Janet Permian. Viking. 32 pages. $13. Ages 3-8.

"There once was a young penguin named So begins Janet Perlman's retelling of the Cinderella story, "Cinderella Penguin." The story is the old standard, complete with mean stepsisters and an evil stepmother, but Perlman's amusing and clever text and illustrations add a new dimension to the story. With the help of the Great Fairy Penguin, Cinderella Penguin makes it to the ball, complete with a pair of the prettiest and most delicate glass flippers in the kingdom. When the prince's men come to find the foot that fits the glass flipper, Cinderella's stepsisters throw her in the cellar and lock the door. But Cinderella's foot is caught outside the door and, when the flipper slips out of the stepsisters' hands, well, you guessed it. Cinderella and the Prince, of course, live happily ever after.

Cigarettes kill you! Editor's note: This is the first of four columns addressing the issue of'smoldng by Dr. James Cruise. By DR. JAMES ft CRUISE Friends, fellow citizens of Mendocino County, we are living in momentous times. These are times that will not only challange us in some personal way, but also times that will hurt us in some way so that we might want to individually cry out or sound off.

Our newly elected President has a tough job on his hands. One of the most difficult problems facing President Clinton is the health care issue. One way of helping the problem is through Preventative Medicine. By this method we will prevent those afflictions that we bring on ourselves. This way will involve all of us becoming educated and making educated, logical decisions about what we personally do.

I will introduce you to a topic which has exploited all of the world's population for several centuries. It has been directly involved or associated with about 40 percent of the world's total illness. What better way to decrease health care costs than to examine this toxic health destroyer under a higher magnification and see what it is doing to us. This toxic destroyer is 'Tobacco The Smoking Gun!" On Feb. 25, Sam Donaldson on the television program: "Primetime Live," took on the tobacco industry exposing a 40-year conspiracy to conceal the harmful effects of tobacco.

Donaldson visited the R.J. Reynolds tobacco plant located in Winston Salem, N.C. There he found cigarettes being made at the rate of or 300 He discussed tobacco and its affects with Dr. Anthony Calucci, and Calucci made the frank statement, "Cigarettes kill you." But who is Anthony Calucci, and why should his words make an impression on you? It wu becoming more apparent to the'tobacco ittdxtetry'in the 1950's that their was damaging. In 1953 secret meetings were held at the Plaza Hotel where defense strategies were formed to protect their industry.

From these secretive meetings, the Council for Tobacco Research, (CTR), was formed in 1968. Calucci, working for RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Company, was chosen to head a team to research tobacco and prove the harmless effects of tobacco. His findings were the opposite. He found that tobacco was a dangerous substance.

The CTR, knowing these facts, continued to act as a a It was the "cheapest insurance" for the tobacco industry. Certain members became too vocal and were dismissed from the CTR. Such members were Robert Bruce and Joseph Baumgartner, associates of Calucci. The tobacco industry was very aware of the dangers that the consumer faced while using tobacco See HEALTH, Back Page Community news notes Al Bellon, right, receives a brochure detail- Ing his grand prize trip to Disneyland from Mary Johnson, owner of Travel Time, and Mary Jo Hons, principal of St. Mary's School.

Mardi Gras winners announced Al and Klara Bellon were the lucky winners of a trip to Disneyland during last month's St. Mary's School Mardi Gras. The Bellons have purchased Mardi Gras tickets for many years, and this is their first time to win. However, they are unable to travel, so will give the trip to a friend. The trip was dpnated by Travel Time.

Other winners included Hank Wouiy who won a 20-inch televisiol or VCR donated by Andon TV Sales; Kathy Murphy of Redwood Valley, a Lane recliner donated by Home Furnishings; Marion Brooks of Bethesda, Amana microwave oven donated by Pardini Appliance; Theresa Staber, VCR donated by Pardini Appliance; Elaine McCloskey, Redwood Valley, gas chainsaw donated by Yaeger Kirk and Vincent Coniglio of Pittsburg, Schwinn Bicycle donated by Schwinn Center. Girl Scouts are selling cookies Girl Scout cookies are on sale now through March 31 in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties. Girls of all ages will sell cookies in neighborhoods, shopping malls and at corporations and businesses. Thin Mints are the all-time favorite, according to those who have been scouts for a number of years. Other cookies offered include Lemon Pastry Cremes, Shortbreads, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Peanut Butter Patties, Caramel Delites and Praline Royale which is the newest cookie.

If a girl scout has not approached you, and you would like some cookies, call the cookie hotline, 1-800-73-GIRLS. Impact training session is Saturday Anyone who is not getting everything he wants out of life is invited to participate in "Quest," a four-day adventure planned for Saturday at Calpella School. Participants will have the opportunity to discover who they really are and what they are capable of achieving in life, according to Pauline Longberg. Registration for this Guest Presentation is at 6 p.m., with the presentation beginning at 6:30. It offers an opportunity to find out more about impact training.

For more information, call 485-7982. AV Ambulance has Reno Night There will be a Little Reno Night complete with a riverboat and costumes Saturday, 7:30 p.m., at Apple Hall in Boonville. The Anderson Valley Ambulance fund-raiser will include games, door prizes, costume prizes, food and lots of fun. Call 895-3710 for more information. Neurolntegratlon workshops sot Two neurointegration workshops will be presented Saturday by chiropractor Lee VagL One session will be at 9 a.m., the second at 1 pjn.

Applied kinesiology techniques to re-program the nervous system will be discussed. Call 462-6684 for more information. Explore your Inner self "Exploring the Inner Self," a four-hour workshop, will be given by Rev. Candice Becket Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Ukiah Religious Science Church, 741 S.

Oak St. This experiential workshop is designed to encourage participants to discover the greater possibilities that exist within themselves and to bring them into their daily experience. For more information, call 462-3564. Bingo marathon Is Saturday A marathon Bingo fund-raiser will be held Satur- day, 1 p.m., at the American Legion Post, 14770 Austin Dnve in Clearlake. Proceeds will be used by the Multipurpose Senior Services and Linkages programs.

Tickets are $20. For more information, call 468-9347. St carnival at Stepping Stone Stepping Stone Children's Center will hold it St. Patrick's Day carnival Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the center, 205 N.

Bush St. Entrance to the carnival is $1 per child; parents are free. Food and activities for the youngsters include face painting, baby chick demonstration, decorating a crown, making macaroni jewelry and singing. Genealogists will meet The Lake County Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, 1 in the Lake County Museum. Presentation and discussion of a number of books recently added to the society's library will be featured.

There are now approximately 1,000 volumes pertaining to genealogy in Lake County. Call 263-5588 for more information. Junior Grand National Is Sunday The Grand National Junior Livestock School Rodeo Finals will be held Sunday at the San Francisco Cow Palace, beginning at 8 a.m. Free tickets are available at O'Leary's Feed and Seed with the purchase of a pair of Wrangler jeans or Brushpopper shirt. Call 459-5550 for more information..