at three p m and seven thirty p m you can get a free podcast on the internet through i tunes or other podcast sites soon we will also be on truckee public access auburn public access and share a college channel fifteen we already are on at the local thrift stores most would call the discarded debris junk but local grass valley rock me and william de groot in trashing the modern art form no one has found art in their passion when art really started by accident fifty nine year old maid said standing outside his shack like studio at his home in backwoods of grass valley someone gave me a box of airplane parts years ago and i just started sticking them together with glue bringing new life to forgotten metal items such as garden the shape of older things like mining and former equipment is the best because it has so many shifts to use i have very little fabricated metal coming to nevada county countryside for scrap metal me it is able to find pieces he needs people also combine drop stuff saw the found metal artist of thirty years old there's no shortage of junk metal in this county that's for sure one challenge made faces when you see different  around i can always get one thing to stick to another but i have to use a lot of balls inspired by the metal shapes he works with me mind over metal doors gallery is a testament to his love for found art d one of the new pieces standing in the meadow gallery is his pirate sculpture captain jack furrow which won best of the show and this year's nevada county fair for me it's art itself is a constant learning experience for me and said you never reach a point and say ok you've always tried to improve and create something new and different it will passion passionate about found artist grass valley resident dressed chef an artist william de groot when i was a little kid would pick things up and put them together give it said the slight netherlands accent i lived on a farm growing up and i had to be creative working from the confines of the small grass valley home to sixty two year old artist uses multiple media in his pieces for me i've always liked stuff from industrial areas cherry made from an old airplane radar old airplane radar pieces my ideas come from the objects and that will take me all over the place and i never stay in one direction advancing his talents he has taken several art classes in college and was awarded best sculpture at the college with found objects people are always already familiar with the objects because you see them in every day life  sculpture made from former clothes line finding inspiration in thrift stores and salvage yards he often constructs pieces based on current events books and art of such as the late salvador dal this is a mosquito i made because of the west nile virus to group said fingering the floating creature this is a sculpture based on economic economy going digital eye out of the plane crash after nine eleven degree it said pointing to a skyscraper covered in computer desert create is fire is seen throughout his sculptures and the eclectic objects he chooses and he's found art i like working in because then you can't really see the lines of the objects you're working with and it's always so exciting to come out of the morning with the light and see what you've made both these fun art artists will be featured in an upcoming nevada county open studios tour oct thirteenth fourteenth and twentieth and twenty first sexes he fundraiser for its community investment fund to determine who's the better barbecue or a man or woman united way in about a county started as a community chest explains linda linda beatty executive director but the founding group soon realized that much of the money was flowing out of the county to sacramento so they decided to form the united way chapter to capture the payroll deduction funds from corporations like p g and the major banks to first campaign and october  hundred fifty four thousand dollars and included fourteen welcome non profits from both western nevada county and turkey and that first year of strong corporate support came from bank of america grass valley group pacific telephone and federal employees campaign last year united way raise two hundred twenty thousand dollars and now has twenty two partner agencies at least four nonprofits have been united way partner agencies for all twenty five years the big brothers big sisters domestic violence goal country telecare and community recovery resources which was formerly the nevada county council on alcoholism in along with charlie brock and barbara sailor where there are original signers of the articles of incorporation comments at the kickoff event we have scrapbooks from twenty five years which highlight the accomplishments of those remarkable volunteers over the years united way has not only been a funding source for many nonprofits but has also initiated some programs that still exist today really to the young child they held each year around halloween is a product of the united way of america's national initiative success by six which was funded through the grant  grant from bank of america to melt down a weight loss event which brought national attention to carroll carson and vatican i spun out of united way health assessment project and united way of nevada county has among the first united way's in the nation to conduct a community assessment survey using quality of life indicators to identify areas of great importance to residents of the county one of the goals of the two energies to create positive impact on issues of importance to the health and safety of our community explains currently we're looking at updating the community assessment survey working with the county on the dial two one  org project and participating in the coalition for a drug free nevada county business subgroup to encourage drug free work places for more information on united way visit their website and w w w dot you w n c dot org mission of the united way of nevada county is to improve lives by directing the community resources to community needs maryland drive put it to juvenile boys were driving an all terrain vehicles on her property police responded and she said she'll call back if the juveniles return at five forty two p m woman called from the seven hundred block of taylorsville road report into her car was keyed on the passenger side door and on monday it went to one a m officers rest of the thirty two year old man in florence avenue on suspicion of driving under the influence and for a warrant springs road put items including a camera and forty dollars in cash stolen from attempt last night the theft occurred while the woman watched the movie with her family at a campground at twelve fifty seven p m called from the fifteen thousand block now for some around the world news israel's supreme court has ordered the state to reroute part of the west bank separation wall around the palestinian village of bilin for nearly three years residence of blen an international peace activist a failed weekly nonviolent demonstrations against the wall because it cuts off large part of the farming land believes mare yachts and hailed the court's ruling as a victory but he said protests will continue until the wall is eliminated israel is building a four hundred twenty five mile wall through the west bank to separate palestinian residents and jewish settlers in two thousand and four the international court of justice situated non binding ruling that part of the walls are illegal and should be torn down but israel has vowed to complete the project and president bush has made a surprise visit to iraq on monday he spent six hours at a us air base in anbar province and met with top u s military and iraqi political leaders the president suggested that a reduction of u s troops in iraq is possible president bush stated i'm going to tell you this about the decision about my decision about troop levels those decisions will be based on  commanders on the conditions on the ground not a nervous reaction by washington politicians to pull results in the media in other words when we begin to draw down troops from iraq it will be from a position of strength and success not from a initiated by the iraqis themselves sunni tribes decided to fight retake control from al qaida many months before the president decided to send in an extra four thousand marines to and bar as part of his troop buildup in addition middle east analyst said and bar province remains more violent than president bush but on one quarter of all u s troops killed in iraq in july died in the province eighty percent of the population in anbar remains unemployed president bush stopped in iraq on his way to australia where he is attending the asia pacific economic cooperation forum sydney apec summit brings together with twenty other world leaders including russian bridge protesters said we have organized this rally because we cannot sit on the sidelines while a warmonger like george bush comes to this country we cannot sit on the sidelines in the face of innocent people being killed every day in iraq and the support of government in our name we cannot sit by and watch these things happen we are here today to say that george bush is not welcome in this country we are not intimidated and our protest will be going  saturday and on saturday up to twenty thousand protesters are expected to take part in a rally organized by a stop push coalition environmental groups have also been staging demonstrations urging apex nations to take action to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases eleven protesters were arrested today after killing themselves by the neck to quit at the world's biggest coal port newcastle north of sydney and the sunday times in london center told the paper that u s military planners were not preparing for a pinprick strikes against iran's nuclear facilities instead he said military planners you're talking about trying to take out the entire iranian military president bush has recently intensif washington she was accused of promoting revolution in iran two more iranian americans remain in jail in iran tied to a consultant with the open society institute and peace kerry campaign this former senator john edwards has won the endorsement of the united steel workers and the united mine workers of america endorsements were announced in pittsburgh on labor day before an audience of one thousand union members edwards told the crowd america was not built on wall street america was built on still workers and mine workers and another surprise republican senators larry  sorry i have little control over what people choose to believe but clearly my name is important to me and my family is also having said that to pursue my legal options as i continue to serve idaho would be an unwanted and unfair distraction of my job and for my senate colleagues meanwhile newsweek is reporting airport police in minneapolis have arrested forty one men sense since may in sting operations at the airport bathroom a police spokesman person admitted undercover officers spent a considerable amount of time inside the bathroom trying to find an arrest looking for sex and other news from capitol hill republican senator john warner of virginia has announced he will retire when he is term ends in two thousand and nine the eighty year old senator said age was a factor once retirement boost democratic hopes of increasing their slim senate majority and in pakistan two bombs exploded earlier today in the city about during the morning rush hour the blast killed at least twenty four people and wounded sixty six and president calderon has harshly criticized the bush administration for its crackdown on undocumented immigrants called their own condemned recent immigration raids and record number of immigrants being deported from the united states  want to express again and energetic protest of the unilateral measure taken by the us congress and the government which exact exasperates the persecution and abusive treatment of one documented mexican workers calderon called for the u s congress to pass changes to immigration laws to grant legal status to about twelve million undocumented mexicans living and working just he also reiterated his strong opposition to plans to build more walls along much of the southern border i guess if they had better jobs in mexico people would stay there in economic news analysis are predicting the rates of foreclosure in the united states is approaching i'd not seen since the great depression that year there was one point two million foreclosure filings this year is reflective the number will top two million on friday president bush unveiled a plan to how some homeowners facing foreclosure because of so prime mortgage crisis but it ruled out a federal bailout president bush stated it is not the government's job to bail out speculators or those who made the decision to buy a home when they could never afford it there are many are american homeowners who could get through this difficult time with a little flexibility from their lenders or a little help from government so i strongly urge lenders to work with the homeowners to adjust their mortgages i believe lenders have a responsibility to help these people renegotiate so they can stay in their lives and in louisiana a judge is scheduled to hear arguments today on the motions to toss out the conviction of mike mike bell last year bell and five other african american high school students were arrested for beating a white student after nooses were hung from a tree in the schoolyard where the black students the r six african american students were originally charged with attempted murder that was convicted before an all white jury of a grad dated second degree battery there's a twenty two years and six months in jail that was the only student to have been convicted so far so the five are awaiting trial civil rights groups have called for all the charges to be dropped and out of beijing china on tuesday denied a report that the military had hacked into the pentagon computers sending allegations were groundless beijing was opposed to cybercrime the financial times citing unnamed officials reported monday that the people's liberation army hacked into a computer system in the office of defense secretary robert gates in june forced officials to take down the network for more than a week the report said some people make groundless accusations against china that it's a military attack the pentagon chinese foreign ministry spokesman you said at a regular news briefing china has all along been opposed to an forbids criminal activities under money and computer networks including hacking she said china is ready to strengthen cooperation with other countries including the u s in countering internet crimes the financial times reports said pentagon was still investigating how much information was stolen but cited and named person as saying that most of it was probably unclassified it was the second time in two weeks that china was accused of hacking into foreign government computers on the ev through port which did not specify that sources said germany's domestic intelligence agency believed a group of hackers associated with the people's liberation army might have been beyond the alleged hacking at the time premier wen you call ed the report hacking the matter of great concern and said china would take firm and effective action to prevent such crimes the pentagon warned earlier this year the chinese army is emphasizing hacking as an offensive weapon and cited chinese appeared to target the department headquarters and offices dealing with china and north korea and north korea it was reported however experts have said that china is home to a large number of him secure computers and networks that hackers death early monday while trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend neighbor police said the neighbor believes a burglar was trying to break in and fired a shot to the door around four am dallas police spokesman sergeant gill service  thirty four died at the scene it was not clear why al bragg went to the house and the case is under investigation no arrests have been made here was that his girlfriend's house last night said danny was roommate he left out and went next door for whatever reason which we don't know he knocked on the neighbors door and from what i understand he was persistent i don't know if there was a verbal exchange but the person panicked and tried to shot through the door the death of albert who also played keyboard and guitar and sang in a dallas rock band sorta with stun friends and those who knew him in north texas music community he is not a violent person said kerry garcia album the bill is called the best thing he has ever done he was the best musician i've ever played with no question he could play in these things it's a shame not enough people outside dallas h that's it for the world knows today now for the weather it's sunny and cooler today with highs in the upper eighty's south winds five to fifteen miles per hour tomorrow will be sunny and mild  low ninety's temperatures will stay in the mid ninety's through the work week and into the weekend we would like to thank the union so if you press truck you sent tribune valley wire and other sources for our daily news you can see our news it's seven days a week online at w w w g v t v dot org we also offer podcast through i tunes an r s s feeds and you can see the news at three p m and seven thirty p m monday through friday