The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 13

1 The Sacramento Bee ptcrnhcr 21 1990 SECTION 1 711- PERIT IR" rftallfrOn EDITORIALS 4rgdkidigiiell Nevada City kids pitch in to help schools cope with tidal wave of economic woes By Tom Nadeau Bee Correspondent the county landfill Word then arrived that the openmg date of Gold Run School a new elcqhentary school under construction would have to be put over to the in of October because a toxic diesel fuel leak had been discovered and had to be cleaned out meaning students are still housed in rented portables And finally the heaviest blow' fell On opening day Dobbs learned his W20-student school dist t-ict Yasnit going to he the IJE22-studcnt district he had planned for A -r i 1 i lir 4'w-' 0 ili 1:: to: 1 i 0iiik 11 't t( 1 1(i 1 it-- '4)- 4 I NA "'1'-'4-- ft''' kg' i 'V 0 44t A 1-it i 4 J- f-: '4 44 t4? 4P "49 4 71144 I I 4 i lit ct 1 o- et i'f 7 11 ta' 1 4: 4 ''''( 4 'it t1914 'A 1i 4" l'' 4 0 0 0 I ii: 4)-01 1- ttitr --'1 1 1 kl 1 Vtt 1 'ly 144 )Y t' 1 Ing 3 i '1 it it 1 s' t-) A i 1-- io ti 4t -f 'iP I 4414 Vefr cr'4' 3' 17: i7if: t- Ik i i i ill 41 1 if i- 4: IL 4 t0i'4 mt)v' IIA411Lii irL!" rkot 4N- 1il ti 1 h(f 4 'N't i 4 -vzi'' -'1-- )- tA 41- 4: NI' PA '7 fr i ''g W17 Av'4'00'Ftf 't ti-: 1 '9 i 40 'Ilrg14 eii "f)i-41i- 4 have gone low-tech writing once more on the schoolroom blackboards What happened? According to District Superintendent Dennis Dobbs it was a combination of things First Gov Deukmejian shaved an anticipated 476 percent cost of living increase in school funds to 3 percent meaning a $92000 loss to his four-school elementary and intermediate district Dobbs said Then Nevada County hit like other counties by state cutbacks established new tax collection fees to make up the difference and billed the district $81500 Next the county announced the district could expect its garbage service tab to rise some 467 percent going from the S15000 it paid last year to an estimated S71000 all due to state-mandated cleanup costs at NEVADA CITY Vhen the Nevada City School District adopted a modest S68 million hudget in June it looked forward to reasonably smooth sailing through the coming school year But by the time school opened earlier this month the district had found itself battling not only the usual array of money problems but some new woes that had stripped its cupboards clean and brought it to the brink of layoffs Efforts to forestall the layoffs have wrought doomsday changes in the schools Pencils are at a premium Totally cool eighth-graders are carrying totally uncool Sesame Street lunch boxes And teachers See SCI1001S page 113 Nevada City eighth-graders go back to lunch boxes as a way to save trash-collection costs Bee Tom Nadeau 'I osemite A price tag on tranquility 4 Si 1- 4 challenge Non-profit subsidiary proposed to help park By Dale Maharidge Bev Staff liter 1 itkik t411 45 1 4i! 1 1 4ti tii :10 r1 000tt 1 ot! pi ::3 A iczier'71- 0 04 7 1'' 111( 4 11' l'' I 1 4c 1 rli 4fv 'ott l' 01i4k cv fi- 0- tk 1 7 1 i i'34 t4 4 "WiS''' 1 I i'' 4 44 '4 '44 s' 4:1 l't- 'I' 1 4'1- ft 14 1 1- t4c ii 441 A- 1k 11 F- lialtwaNSMNIMNI imow04V 4 A 4 4' '4" 1dtiir rlii 4 4 I ial ie'y 41 4 it 1 e' 44::44 4v '1 fikv )) kA 4 )s ltK A A 44 4 'J 71 -ikl i If '410' 's 7''' 1114qs lir 1 rk 1 i oe ri 01 14 1 q--41- vtkkt1----jois ok I () 4'41 I S' 12:: '11-0)- 'itt- A )41104't ft! 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'1' 'tr'4't AI Ar' 1tf4 I A SL 7 ''k 1 a -ir ---Akke iv 1 4 i 'ur :1: 1 4 Amook 4 A4 4 t-ttli' 4 In the tirst serious challenge for control of the concessions in Yosemite National Park this century a group of environmentalists and business leaders say they are creating a non-profit trust to funnel more profits back into the park 'the new corporation called the Yosemite Restoration Trust will he announced Monday' in San Francisco and has among its members the president of the Wilderness Society a former superintendent of Yosemite National Park and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara The Yosemite Restoration Trust will support any nonprofit ladder or if no organization comes torward it will tad on the contract itIt memhers of the group said The contract with the privately held Yosemite Park Curry Co a subsidiary of MCA Inc expires in 1993 "the Curry company grossed $S5 million last year The trust -will stress de-urbanization and restoration al natural N'alues: according to a statement issued by the group Members of the g-roup are critical of practices at the Curry company The trust is the latest and most significant development in an ongoing controversy surrounding the future of semite and the role ()I -the Curry company the largest single concessionaire in the i55-1lnit National Park Senao system Curry has been criticized far paying a fee ot 075 percent on its annual gross revenues trom operating hotels restaurants and other services A park official said Curry has three choices- fight keep the contract difficult in the face of competing against a nan-profit trust give up or become a nonprofit subsidiary itself "We consider all kinds of things- Curry spokesman John limerot said Thursday "I cannot tell yOU hi1 ()Lir approach will be but there are no outlandish ideas Poimerao said the Yosemite Restoration trust was being unfair Ihi groups stated obtective is to discredit our company so they can get the contract- said Poimeroo lhey can't dictate to the National Park Service any more than ve can yet they imply in tilts announcement that they in defining how the park will he managed- The Wilderness Society which has laid the groundwork for creating the trust over the last year declined to comment Thursday xN-Uting for the Monday press conference But Steven khitnev a spokesman said he was pleased Curry was feeling heat "More competition in the concession procedure will be See YOSEMITE page B3 Bee Walt Odliey There's a $25 million price tag on Little Mandeville the willow-lined Delta island Bob Smith and his duck-club partners are putting up for sale For sale: Delta island wrm vu a fix-upper ROADS WEST By Walt Wiley Remote is a key word on little Mandeville Although It has telephone and electrical service access is by water Nlail delivery if any would have to come via the Stockton mail boat which makes a daily run through the a rea weather permitting The very idea of owning such a place is the stuff of dreams for Denny' Maclean a longtime Delta water-man who piloted a speedboat the other day to ferry a group of visitors to the island "It's the one island I know of that Id really like to Own- said MacLean 47 a former Sacramento youth ANTIOCH If ever a Delta island came close to being in the league with the island where Gilligan was marooned in the popular television series it might he Little Mandeville out in the tules east of here Unlike Gilligan's Island however Little Mandeville Island exists and not only that it is for sale: 350 acres for $25 million Like most Delta islands Little Mandeville is a broad tract of farmland reclaimed marsh ringed by a levee Unlike the other islands its levee is overgrown with willows and a good third of its interior has been allowed to revert to marsh and open water Sacramento real-estate man Rick Sumners who has made something of a career of selling Delta island property is attempting to sell the island for its owners a group of prosperous businessmen who bought it I 8 years ago as a duck club He said he has received about a dozen inquiries so far Sumners said such an offering is rare these days especially for a smaller tract The only other property he has listed now is I 228-acre Prospect Island for $7 million he said and it's not the remote hideaway this is" See ROADS page B2 Off-duty deputy in 3 hit-run crashes Tests indicate he was in possible diabetic shock CI reports Solar phones get call on American River trail Devices intended for emergency use By Ted Bell Bee Staff Writer the district and so wore a uniform and drove a patrol car Ahout the time CH officers heard of the two crashes Pines patrol car struck another vehicle at Greenback and Interstate SO clip gt Virg Davey said he saw Pines battered patrol car heading west on Elkhorn Boulevard shortly after an all-points bulletin was issued When Davey turned on his flashing red lights Pine stopped "There was no problem with him in a minor collision near Hemlock Street and Auburn Boulevard according to CHP Lt Thomas Boswell Pine continued driving and vas in a more serious crash at Auburn Greenback I ane in which a motorist 29-yearold Susan Redwine suffered minor injuries Boswell said Redwine whose car then struck a third vehicle was treated at Mercy San Juan Hospital and released There were no other injuries Although Pine was not working a Sheriffs Department shift he vas under contract to) provide secuntv for An off-duty Sacramento County sheriffs deputy believed to be in diabet ic shock was involved in three hit-and-run accidents with his patrol car Thursday morning before his arrest by California Highway Patrol officers Deputy David Pine 27 normally assigned to county jail duty was driving to a campus in the San Juan Unified School District at 9 am to work a security shift when he was involved See CRASH page B2 INSIDE No questions asked B4 A two-day collection drive for illegal or outdated chemicals in Kern County no questions asked turns up some surprises including a man with a 5-ton load on a flatbed truck Some of the chemicals turned in hadn't been used in decades Surrogate case heats up B7 Mark and Crispina Calvert paid Anna Johnson to give birth to their baby Now Johnson wants a role in the rearing of the baby born Wednesday but the Calverts are fighting for full parental rights and custody Sa icido on trial B7 The arms of mass slaying suspect Ramon Salcido were bloody when he drove to Ken Butti's home and shot him Butti testified Thursday at Salcido's trial Butti was hit once in the right shoulder Weather B2 By Gracie Bonds Staples this kind of service is available" said Bee Staff Writer Kukkola Meanwhile at least three Sacra-Prompted mento bike shops Fleet Feet Sports on Street The Rest Stop on Folsom Boulevard and City Bicycle Works on Street have been con-phones ducting a petition drive for more pothe lice patrols on the trail in addition to the call boxes So far more than 1000 signatures have been gathered at the three businesses Jess Polakoff owner of City BicyIn cle Works said that a number of his customers have complained of being knocked from their bikes and having had their bikes stolen In a much more serious incident March 16 a 34-year-old woman was jogging alone at the three-mile post on the bike trail near Del Paso Bouleyear yard when she was jumped from be-be hind She was forced into the brush and sexually assaulted Larry Craft 38 a parolee from Mississippi was convicted of the as-County sault and was recently sentenced to 62 years in state prison According to Lois Wright commuand nity relations officer for the county Chico hunts for consultant or two Prompted by safety concerns along the 23-mile American River Parkway Sacramento County has decided to make solar-powered emergency telephones a permanent fixture along the well-traveled bike and hiking trail Three solar phones have been part of a two-year pilot project along the parkway In a press conference Bursday county and cellular telephone representatives unveiled a fourth call box at the trail's 35-mile mark Officials said they hope to ultimately have phones within a half-mile of anyone on the trail who might need one "These call boxes during the past year and hopefully in the future will be used to report urgent-care needs whether they be medical police or fire services" said Gary Rukkola superintendent of the Sacramento County park rangers "Being remote this is the only communication typically available and a long ways from any visitor entry station or any public phone so it's absolutely critical to the users that by safety concerns along the 23-mile American River Parkway Sacramento County has decided to make solar-powered emergency tele- a permanent fixture along well-traveled bike and hiking trail Three solar phones have beeri part of a two-year pilot project along the parkway a press conference Thursday county and cellular telephone repre- sentatives unveiled a fourth call box at the trail's 35-mile mark Officials said they hope to ultimately have phones within a half-mile of anyone on the trail who might need one "These call boxes during the past and hopefully in the future will used to report urgent-care needs whether they be medical police or fire services" said Gary Kukkola su- perintendent of the Sacramento park rangers "Being remote this is the only communication typically available a long ways from any visitor en- By Jim Haynes Bee Correspondent With that answer in hand the council can decide whether to bankroll the celebration next spring The city's consulting efforts has its critics including one on the City Council Councilman David Guzzetti complained that the city already has spent S1500ou on extra police costs and other riot-related expenses Paying consultants to look at video tapes" of the rioting is throwing good money after bad he said There is also "a suspicion this is an effort to kind of whitewash it all and kind of spread around the blame" Guzzetti said Thursday CHICO If unsure what to do hire a consultant If unsure which consultant hire another consultant That's the policy being followed by the Chico City Council as members consult today with one consultant at a cost of up to SI 350 about whether to hire a second consultant at an estimated $20000 All the consulting is intended to explain to local officials why beer-drinking college students and other youths rioted during Rancho Chico Days the second such disturbance in the past four years See CHICO page B2 See PHONES page B2 4 4 I 4 411k eh111Ftd.