a full scale art center is on the horizon and a local resident has eighteen christmas trees under one roof but first the t v news would like to thank  welcome back the grass valley police department is inviting community members interested in the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement to participate in its ten week citizen police academy which is to begin next month according to program coordinator grass vall police detective steve johnson members of the public can attend every wednesday evening to learn how local police do their jobs and work with other members of the criminal justice system to serve the public johnson also added that they really encourage people interested in a career in law enforcement to attend classes will be taught by several members of the criminal justice community among those scheduled to speak grass valley police chief john foster patrol procedures and laws of arrest criminal investigations evidence collection and use of deadly force and firearms johnson said the participation in the academy has decreased in recent years with the last academy canceled due to do annoying attendance and police hope the public will show more interest in the next coming economy drugs and said the ten week program also encourages discussion and participation and candidates must be at least sixteen years old live work or be connected to the grass valley community have no felony convictions and no misdemeanor convictions within one year of application people interested in attending the cademy can pick up an application at the grass valley police department at one two nine south auburn street and grass valley after submitting an application a member of the police department will contact candidates for an interview a brief background check will be done to confirm eligibility acceptance is based on qualifications background and by date of her c of the application the class sizes limited to twenty five another nears some people pile them under their sink others use them to line their waste baskets but in the end nearly nineteen billion plastic grocery bags end up in california's landfills  excuse me truckee recycling for nader nicole doors said that she wants to make it second nature or habit to carry this car bags and that they want to really reduce the garbage that they see on the side of the road or floating around in a ten thousand dollar grant to the town solid waste and recycling division will by two thousand organic cotton bags or enough for about one in eight truck u s fans phoebe bella foundation program officer said that the community foundation really supports different ways to help the environment added that they think this is a wise approach working through the children the idea came about when state lawmakers passed a statute requiring grocery stores and retail outlets that use plastic bags to also provide recycling for those facts the town's recycling program does not have the ability to process plastic grocery bags so the program program is also meant to raise awareness about plastic bags in general according to a town staff report only one to four percent of the bags get recycled statewide the union has learned that a movement is quietly growing in western nevada county to build a full scale performing arts center just as a publicly funded effort at sere college has been scaled back no doubt a county committee for the arts is that a sensitive point in progress toward the long cherished goal as it prepares to seek donations from private donors for a survey that would assess what kind of performing arts center would best serve the needs of the community committee chairman terry brown confirmed on tuesday the committee including leaders from music in the mountains twin cities concert association but healthier company center for the arts the kim county community leadership institute and others aims to analyze the needs of counties art community identify solution to those needs assess funding options craft a master plan of solutions to secure funding and implement the plan according to the group's mission statement the survey will cost sixty five thousand dollars and will be done by the culture and cultural and planning group based in los angeles brown at it the move comes construction as part of that construction the college will build a campus center which will have a small stage and performance area to lecture halls and an exhibit space according to college documents the change has disappointed area art supporters w operations brown added that the two thousand and six exploratory committee was formed in the wake of a study funded involved two thousand and five by nevada city residents loan in the late frank morrow and leading developer in the area to determine the level of interest a warm fragrance of fresh baked sweetbread mellow lighting and christmas songs from josh romans latest album noel filled martha weighs lee's blue farmhouse in nevada city all around the house ways these christmas trees glowed and glittered with festive shame ways lee eighty years old has eighteen christmas trees in her house each with a distinctive thing and some with personal stories attached to her smallest tree about seven inches tall was made by her mother in law one of her tallest trees about seven and a half feet in height is draped with heart shaped ornaments she received from friends after her surgery next to it stands another tree with twelve hundred addiction ornaments hand loaned bone and trimmed with real cold ways lee said she actually added the trees over the years and that she kept getting ornaments from people and so she got more trees with one ways they added that she loves doing this and that she loves turning on the lights every night and looking at the trees and they're beautiful she admitted with laughter that this year ways they begin decorating her house from october first she finished decorating her last christmas tree on friday w love for christmas comes from her grandparents who lived inside her creek and amador county she said that when she was six years old her grandfather and grandmother opened their home to the whole community every christmas and she added that her grandfather bought a gift for every child in the community and they had a potluck on christmas day and in the afternoon they dance dances and that's what started her love for christmas this to has five boys the other one is lee said she usually keeps her christmas decorations and till the end of january and added that it takes her about a month to pack all the decorations back into the label boxes stacked in her attic also the owner of the old brewery in nevada city now called the stone house restaurant welcome back the u s sentencing commission has voted to give federal prisoners jailed on crack cocaine offenses a chance to reduce their sentences the decision comes a day after the supreme court ruled federal judges can sentence a division below the guideline recommendations in crack cocaine cases the sentencing commission's decision to apply that ruling retroactively means that more than one hundred thousand prisoners will be eligible for early release the nation secret intelligence court has ruled it will not make public documents or orders relating to the bush's administration worthless spy program the american civil liberties union had petitioned the foreign intelligence surveillance court to disclose its rulings including one that reportedly declared parts of the spy program illegal it was the court's third public ruling in thirty years for director of the a c l u national security project said the bush administration is seeking expanded surveillance powers from congress because of the rulings issued by the foreign intelligence surveillance court earlier this year under this decision those rulings may remain secret forever on capitol hill as cia director michael appeared in closed session before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday to answer questions on the destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations at secret cia prisons after the hearing hayden distanced himself from the take controversy saying that there are other people at the agency who know about lawyers for quinn time obey a prisoner khan had filed the request claimed claiming they believe that evidence of his torture still exists the top legal adviser overseeing military trials like wind tunnel has refused to rule out the use income country on u s forces in algeria as many as sixty seven people are dead following a bombing attack on a government building and u n compound the toll includes eleven u n employees it's believed to be algeria's worst attack since winning independence from france in one nine hundred sixty two the group al qaeda in the islamic magreb claimed responsibility and secretary general ban ki moon condemned the bombing u n secretary general said i'm really surprised and shocked that terrorist attack this terrorist attack against the united nations headquarters as well as the united nations i am now in the process of checking further information i have not exact information at this time i have instructed our people in new york to further form information the exact extent of sacrifice of as well as damage and this is just unacceptable i'd like to condemn in the strongest terms in iraq an estimated forty people were killed and more than one hundred fifty wounded in a triple car bombing earlier today and amara it was one of the worst attacks southern iraq has seen in months meanwhile a high ranking iraqi official has issued the government government's strongest rejection to date of permanent us military bases in iraq and an interview with our arabiya television national security advisor more like ruby says iraq needs the u s but added permanent forces or bases in iraq for any foreign forces  concluding iran has abandoned a nuclear weapons program ahmadinejad called the report a vindication of a step towards dialogue he also added we evaluate this as a positive step and a step forward and if they take one or two more steps the situation will be totally different and the problems will lose their intricacy and the road will be paid for resolving regional and international issues and the lateral bilateral cooperation the bush administration is preparing a campaign for a new round of sanctions against iran for nearly x year early next year at the white house president bush called iran dangerous following a meeting with italian president georgia napolitano president bush said we believe iran had a secret military weapons program and iran must explain to the world why they had a program iran has an obligation to explain to the ira why they had this program from them iran is dangerous and they will become more dangerous that they learn how to a former navy officer on trial for torturing political prisoners has died just four days before his verdict was to be announced hector febreze favorite was the first to be rescued for crimes committed at the military dictatorships mean prison yes i whereabouts of the children and lying place of hundreds and hundreds of the disappearing from the u s in may is now left in the open in mexico city dozens of farmers gathered outside the u s embassy tuesday to call for changes to the north american free trade agreement the farmers want mexican lawmakers to amend nafta to the to bar being and corn imports from the united states critics say nafta has devastated mexican farmers unable to compete with the u s government subsidized agriculture and campaign news the founder of the image anti immigrant group the money men project has endorsed republican hopeful mike huckabee on tuesday make money man head jim gilchrist appeared with huckabee at a press conference in iowa negotiators at the global climate talks and bali have to clear they won't accept any binding goals for cutting gas emissions before president bush leaves office the announcement means a u s commitment to reduce emissions wouldn't come in till at least two thousand nine the bush administration has rejected several proposals as negotiators work out a consensus agreement one measure would have called for a halt to world wide emissions within the next fifteen years the u s also rejected language and i draft statement calling for sufficient financial support to poor nations affected by climate change but ministration is also blocking a proposal asking the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change for an updated report before the next round of that's right it's time for the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on monday at ten thirty five a m a caller from a business on one hundred block of west main street reported a woman who was going door to door and selling items from a tray police advised the woman of a municipal code and how she can obtain a license the woman would have someone pick her up eleven fifteen a m police cited an eighteen year old man on the one hundred block of park avenue on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale eleven forty four a m a call to nine one one from the two hundred block of june drive was courting regarding grand jury and a complaint police contacted a man at the june drive location who was not having an emergency police advised the man of the proper use of nine one one fifty five p m a caller from a business on the six hundred block of sutton way reported a dog tied to a jeep continued to get tangled in a bush a tree in a car and animal control officer responded and the dog was recent cured in the vehicle the officer left a business card two and i'm pm a caller from a business on the hundred block of mill street reported to brazil was stolen police checked the area for possible suspects and they were unable to locate any of two seventeen p m a caller from the thousand block of cheese main street reported two protesters in front of a store on the sidewalk may have been inhibiting sidewalk traffic and six forty nine p m a call from east main street reported for heavy set woman were going through garbage at a federal building police check the area and were unable to locate anyone at ten  four p m a caller from a business on mill street reported a fight out front police arrested thirty seven year old man on suspicion of violating probation eleven twenty one pm please stop the vehicle and w violation of probation eleven thirty four p m an officer went to a home on the hundred block of highland court to check for a missing twenty three year old woman reported by the nevada city police department police located the woman at the grass valley address twelve forty five pm a person fired down an officer on south auburn street at park avenue to report a man was yelling into his cell phone that he wanted to shoot someone police contacted the said twenty six year old man and arrested him on a warrant out of placer county the man denied making the alleged statements and being angry radicality sheriff's office on monday at ten forty three a m a man called from the sixteen thousand block of ofer silver road to report a soap dish and a cast iron stove or vandalized collar believed his neighbor had done it at ten thirty seven a m a caller from the school on the twenty four thousand block of highway forty nine reported an assault deputy reported at three thirty five pm a caller from an office on the twelve thousand block of school creek road reported the office had been receiving suspicious letters under him that a man in the area had been acting strangely the caller requested after patrol by seventeen pm someone called the nine one one from the twelve thousand block of rough and ready wrote and hung up just matters called back twice and a woman up twice and second nine one one call came in at the residence and the woman hung up and we hung up three more times dispatchers heard the woman crying on the fifth call the woman said her son had guns and was going crazy in the residence the deputies arrested twenty two year old man of suspicion of battery and exhibiting a firearm at six twenty nine pm a woman called from a mobile home park on the ten thousand block of timberland drive deport her husband was scaring her and he had a gun she said he waved to go around and threatened suicide a deputy took a handgun for safekeeping on tuesday at nine twenty six a m a deputy stopped a vehicle off highway forty that's right it's time for the police blotter to pictures in the blotter not from these actual bins but use for visual aid only hello and world news