hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county mall we're bringing the community to you and a revolutionary way to save you time money and before we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the union story by a loyal about it has been in the make and addition to swim in freezing water new year's day for at least one hundred years probably more an early record polar bear swim on in one thousand or three at coney island was led california thousands of people now polar bears plunge into the pacific ocean and other waterways from reading to where the whole or perhaps a few of you have participated in the traditional swim  bidwell park it seems there are more comfortable ways to wash away the woes of the past year for some of the lake of the pines residents however shorts women the icy water is the one way to demonstrate resolve and begin the new year with a clear head to any will people are very slim was held thursday according to ralph kindred who was announced the who announced the event the hagans fire department e m t was on hand as an added precaution ralph an avid swimmer and retired navy captain prefers not to get into the water himself and monitors a swim from his kayak swimmers who are officially registered receive the commemorative towel provided by activities department but many the first one out of the water rebecca has braved the icy waters of p for at least five years five years days new year's days did you see how best swimming to get out of your ass her mother sheila as she as she cited the lake they told me the temperature of the lake was forty four degrees two degrees colder than last year another season swimmer bill swanson eighty five has participated every year except last year when he had broken a leg his wife things he's a little crazy said bill but he believes if you stop swimming he probably won't get started again he also feels continuing his activity as is a matter of surviving many  west coast crab crab harvest was released last monday by the associated press that two thousand and eight harvest was poor due to a low point in the natural cycle of crab populations this phenomenon has been particularly devastating to fishermen because demand for crab also has decreased due to economic conditions when a lawyer who has headed the feed for nine years she says she had said he had no problem taking enough crab for this year eight hundred pounds bulk even though the harvest was low in some areas lou expects to have some tickets left to sell this week the part the party begins at six p m with cocktails to six a over four nine four call lynn and a story by a roseville man might have fallen asleep at the wheel sunday morning drifting off the road on highway forty nine south of crestview drive and crashing into several trees kevin me l forty you was driving about fifty five sustained trauma to his mouth according to the c h p report mel was incoherent and was transported by air ambulance to sutter roza hospital there was no evidence he had been drinking and he might have fallen asleep while driving a siege three spokesman said in their last story from the union written by david morality when some of her clay street neighbors protested and that walters plans to open a home based business earlier the this year the career hair stylist clipped the fight shore and decided to open a place of her room the latest manifestation of a three day carry three decade career instead of being styling and listing is a small space called the hair inspirations by an e tucked by highway forty nine off ramp where walters can create her own sense of place she moved into the office and rode on election day it was the day of change for me walter said remarked while playing a highly highlighting tincture to long time mourners hair on new year's eve in april nevada city planning commission are split two to two split to two to grant walters and permit to operate a swan at her home opponents of the project cited and increased in traffic inadequate parking and signage that could prove offensive to the neighborhood even if i met all the criteria the city in the state has you also need to have all the blessings of the neighbors in the area walter said i went into it thinking well i wouldn't have any problems whatsoever plan b included moving into a spot owned by a local chiropractor where she can create a place of her own nice energy the place is spires with smokey robinson and sarah mclachlan tunes playing softly patrons are offered organic tea coffee and cookies while they wait i'm having more fun now walter said she's not of say over the decision that led her to moving into a rented space instead her shop is more like an extension of herself with walter's own watercolors decorating on the walls i loved it my husband greg an architect and a member of planning commission who abstained from the vote and say this is what i want she said the watercolors represent a time in her life when walters was at a crossroads three decades ago her inner hairstylist eventually won out with an essay from visits to a favorite salon in southern california i walked i walked in there and there there were these three guys giving hot haircuts and i said that's what i want to do she said she was a stylist for more than twenty years before coming to nevada county this is her first solo act she has a roster of several dozen clients who enjoyed the boat experience including more a part time about a county resident i waited to come back all the way from michigan to have and do my hair said morris whose brother is the documentary filmmaker michael moore and it isn't just loyalty she's great at what she does walters admits she took a risk opening a new shop in this economy but she had help a friend gave her tile flooring and  cost another did the plumbing and some of the antique style furniture came from a relative's house while there is doing her part she said by offering discounts just students and seniors it's a nice energy when everyone's trying to help everyone else she said i'm having a ton of fun at my clients love it that's right it's done for the police blotter the pictures on the border not from these actual events but used for visual aid on friday one fifteen a m a caller said the white jeep cherokee was taken at ten a m the engine was run in and cash a for taking one forty four p m a call from two hundred block of sutton way said an apartment was broken into and saturday one forty four p m caller at east main street in use road said a person threw a beer or birds resting in the eaves of the establishment and saturday at eleven o seven a m it woman at the ten thousand block of bricks reservoir reported her soon to be ex department on friday two thirty three p m call from business on a three hundred block of broad street reported stuff to their credit cards six o three p m a caller from three hundred block of black gold road reported they heard several explosions saturday nine forty three am a caller at five hundred block of coyote street reported a large amount of water was leaking from a sitting line in front of the colors house and down the street fire department which is more serious here grass valley fire department responded to sixty five calls of service return seven twenty third seven twenty nine to clued in those part of our joint operational relationship with nevada county consolidated fire cause is under investigation by the way these are also not pictures of the actual events seven thirty p m december twenty sixth d v d f t responded to a vehicle accident west empire street first arriving in and found no injuries occurred before friday's associate with tax cuts and franken takes a two hundred twenty five vote lead over coleman and then first school chief to become colorado senator democrats threaten to block burris from taking senate seat and coal ash disaster tests show arsenic three hundred tonne normal level and water two side bomber kills forty in baghdad and fifty three hundred die in drug related killings in mexico in two thousand and eight sri lankan military takes rebel capital cuba marks the fiftieth anniversary of revolution and air tran removes muslim family from  in our first story israeli ground troops and tanks have pushed deeper into gaza and surrounding gaza city effectively splitting gaza into two sections at least five hundred thirty one palestinians have died over the past ten days including eighty since israeli ground forces invaded g saturday five israelis have died since the fighting began united states blocked a un security council statement on saturday calling for an immediate cease fire in gaza u s deputy ambassador  said this council has spoken on many times about the concerns we had about hamas military attacks on israel the charter of this organization respects the rights of every member of state to exercise its self defense and israel self defense is not n the united nations estimated israeli forces have now killed at least one hundred palestinian civilians earlier today and they were showing off the coast of gaza it killed a palestinian family of seven inside the ship the refugee camp israel says it's not targeting  seeking to halt rocket fire from a mosque militants despite ten days of attacks and last fighters are continuing to fire rockets into israel on sunday new york mayor mike bloomfield was touring so brought israel when he was taken into a bomb shelter due to a possible rocket attack bloomberg and new york police chief ray kelly travel to israel to express their support for israel's attack on gaza hamas has been balmain sending rockets over to israel for the last six months much of gaza's without electricity and running water hospitals are running on backup generators in order to stay open in a region doctor name mads gilbert said the situation in gaza is worse than he has ever seen in  conflict zone he said all spittles in gaza lack everything monitors and seizures surgical equipment heaters and spare parts over the weekend israel blocked emergency medical team from an international committee for the red cross from entering gaza israeli officials claim there is no humanitarian crisis in g peter lerner israel's defense minister of official said israel for the last week has implemented he managed to an effort alongside the military operation and over approximately ten thousand tons of humanitarian assistance food supplies and medical supplies medication have gone into gaza to care show on crossing this is part of our ongoing activities in order to try to give the palestinians some food that they're require that they require and the medical supplies and indeed the living in for all their life why would we evacuate our home why are they lying to the civilians they say that they're airstrikes targeting militants but this is all lies they targeted children the house it's the sleeping people that get to air raids protest against israeli invasion continue around the world in israel twenty one members of the group an archivist against the wall wall were arrested friday morning after they blocked  israeli air force base in north delegate on saturday over ten thousand israelis attended a rally in tel aviv opposing israeli invasion here in this country a group of one hundred scholars calling themselves california scholars for academic freedom have condemned israel's bombing of the islamic university and other educational sites in other news new mexico governor bill richardson has withdrawn his name to be commerce secretary nominee richardson cited the federal grand jury investigation into claims that his administration gave out lucrative contracts in exchange for donations to political action committees established by richard the wall street journal reports president elect barack obama and congressional democrats are crafting a plan to offer about three hundred billion dollars to ten of tax cuts to individuals and businesses this part of the new administration's massive stimulus package the size of the proposed proposed tax cuts is greater than many on both sides of the aisle in congress had anticipated republican ten business leaders welcomed the idea of basing that bigger proportion of the stimulus plan on tax cuts democratic challenger al franken has taken a two hundred twenty five vote lead over republican incumbent norm coleman in the minnesota senate race the state's canvassing board meets today to signify the final results of the race but coleman has vowed to challenge the results senate republicans are threatening to block any attempt to see franken until minnesota supreme court rules on whether some absentee ballots were wrongly rejected and in colorado democratic governor bill ritter was named denver public school superintendent michael bennet to fill the senate senator go by go bitch i never can say the name right pointed former illinois attorney general roland burris but senate majority leader harry reid is threatening to block for us from taking your seat because blago of its recent arrest for trying to sell the seat to the highest bidder republicans are pushing for a special election in tennessee new tests have revealed high levels of arsenic in the water near last month's massive coal ash spill in apparent tests found the arsenic level to be as much as three hundred times higher than drinking water limits two weeks ago the walls of the retention pond holding the coal ash crumpled over one billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled out covering homes and roads knoxville news sentinel reports the tennessee valley authority had known about the problem in a retention pond for more than two decades but opted not to pay for long term solution to the problem in baghdad if you mail suicide bomber killed at least forty people on sunday in an attack outside of want iraq's holiest shiite shrines it's a dead include sixteen iranian pilgrims one for on friday another twenty three people died in a george w bush although i said bush policies have been utter failure that gave rise to terry and venom that rabbits to the country and news in mexico the number of drug related killings more than doubled in two thousand and eight the country's top prosecutor said more than fifty three hundred people died last year in drug related attacks over sixteen hundred people died in the northern border city of car you would juarez alone if i fold tigers for twenty six years the rebels have been fighting for a separate homeland in the north and east hope south asia of the south asian island and the cuban government held ceremony thursday to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the cuban revolution and january principles and its most difficult moments not changed in the least bit it's true that you have tired and have it even renegade its history for get to live is an internal battle and the airline or air tran has issued an apology to nine members of a muslim family who were removed from their plane and questioned by the f b i on new year's day air tran refused to rebook the family even after a p r agent said they had done nothing wrong so nine passengers were flying