in today's local that is from staying open later to highlighting their unique qualities local businesses monday begin considering possibilities of a can coordinated campaign to promote shopping locally to western nevada county business owners failed in serious cinema theaters in grass valley to hear about the local buy locally campaign to kick off as part of a joint effort in areas chamber of commerce downtown groups that has been it's been in the works in recent months we need energy and said julia for the frenzel citizens bank of print valley it's about where does this group want to go next some business owners said they already work hard to keep customers shopping locally but said the effort should be more collective later store hours in downtown grass valley would benefit many customers but the effort has not been widespread said sharon had owner of behind closed doors when addie's business remains open later on fridays or f other businesses follow suit she said everybody has to do it and everybody has to know it she said many people don't know their gift cards or certificates from local shops or velvel because major grocery stores  released and safeway carry cards from out of town retailers said catherine christie owner of top drawer yes we absolutely should get our cards into safeway and really kristie said some shop owners want to ask more questions of customers visiting infrequently garcetti haven't been downtown in nearly a month said marilyn c e o s owner of the linen closet or mills on mill street recounting a recent customers comments now maybe i'll ask why many marches wanted to take a more introspective approach to persuade local residents to shop locally you need to make sure you're doing everything you can to be unique as a business and go the extra mile said maria morrow roski owner of sold meats roski has both sam's club and costco cards and other mondays said they me reconsider their choice to shop at the stores down the hall because it doesn't support the local economy if we try to raise funds for a local organization would costco give us a local donation send them to a local competitor of mine and will say it's important we all work together excellent customer service is key to keeping customers and will and others have said we definitely make people feel like traffic to back up until almost noon jones was treated at sierra nevada memorial hospital for his injuries and released as well as amanda bender twenty one years old major thirty six million dollar highway twenty construction project near grand valley is more than halfway finished in could be completed by next summer the california department of transportation said mon area residents have learned to live with the delays caused by the construction and they look forward to an improved roadway people said monday everybody is understanding about it said barbara martin as owner of restaurant and bar in penn valley it's going to be so much better when they get it done the project designed to improve road safety included street in some curves widening shoulders in adding drainage could be concluded as soon as june a few months ahead of schedule said mark danner his spokesman for caltrans the locals have been very patient with us diggers work on a four mile section of highway twenty between mooney flat road and melody road cage and we halted traffic both ways or led it one way traffic led with one way traffic controllers people have reported waiting as long as a half an hour to pass a bartender at the tack room who lives right in the middle of the construction sometimes it's late for work martinez said i have never held out been held up for more than ten minutes yet the traffic  could stop as the rainy season approaches and work conditions deteriorate nearly seventy percent of the work including a straight the curb behind money flat road and wild turkey has been complete six foot shoulders on the roadway which now i have four foot soldiers and none at all in some spots roadside drainage improvements bridge improvements as lax or vein in a new truck climbing lane for eastbound traffic from melody road near ranch also are part of the project the second curve between wild turkey lane and melanie road could be finished in four to six weeks workers used explosives to blast away rocks and straighten it's hard to predict what kind of mess will be left on the roadway after that granite construction company of sacramento is the project's general contractor and then another breaking story out of truckee authorities say toward fortress traffic stop led to the rest of the truck the man they had been investigating for two months for allegedly dealing drugs from a trucking bore truck a police officer he dale stopped a car on interstate eighty near thursday early thursday for excessive speed the officer arrested walter lamont wright thirty four on suspicion of driving under the influence and the ensuing search of his vehicle discovered an undisclosed amount of two months due to reports that he was selling cocaine at the bar bars are frequent locations for drug dealing said sergeant johnson in an interview it's a hazard of the business johnson added the traffic stop was unrelated to twerk its investigation of rights it just happened to be a lucky stop by an officer who knew of the investigation johnson said in a phone interview monday the owner  pastime watering hole denied knowledge of any drug dealing by wright whom he said was part of the bar's maintenance staff and not the bartender shannon peacock added that he hopes the drug case will not have a negative effect on his business is not the bar it's just an individual of rights arrest i was unaware that he was doing this following the traffic stop trucking police detectives obtained  and that's it for today's local news in pakistan a massive show of protest the president general musharraf was met with force yesterday in the third day of emergency rule thousands of lawyers human rights activists and journalists were tear gassed beaten and arrested for protesting what they describe is nothing short of martial law at least two thousand people have been arrested but actual number is believed to be far higher over forty eight hours after the crisis erupted president bush made his first public comments following a white house meeting with turkish prime minister minister to president bashar has been a strong frieder against extremists and radicals and president bush speaking over a good thing pakistan has received over ten point five billion dollars in u s aid since two thousand and one three quarters of the funding goes to the military in britain opposition leadership boz sharath denounced us to support from a sharp he said they have said they are deeply disappointed however they are not gone beyond that i think what we expect from them is to ensure that this law is not ruled back if the judiciary is not restored back as the second of november two thousand and seven and if new sharp does not step back in three and if free and fair elections as th been topic all over is not insured then we must cease to support him earlier not the general musharraf claimed his crackdown would in fact lead to a speedier transition to democratic elections he said i'm fully determined to execute has called for mass defiance of the shearers crackdown morning doc stand with her back at the white house president bush emerged from his meeting with turkish prime minister tell you i don't get on with the pledge to provide intelligence over kurdish movements in northern iraq president bush stated we had a long discussion about a common concern and that concern is the p k k p k k is a terrorist organization an enemy of turkey they're an enemy of iraq and they're an enemy of the united states analysts say a full scale turkish invasion of northern iraq is unlikely but that president bush has effectively given his tactic approval for limited turkish bombings of kurdish rebel positions there and the senate judiciary committee is set to vote today on whether to send the nomination of attorney general hopeful michael mccarthy to the state senate floor to the senate floor because his confirmation was in doubt last week over his refusal to declare waterboarding a form of torture but several democratic senators have stands claimed they support his nomination and on the eve of the vote activists with the good world can't wait gathered in front of the justice department monday to demonstrate an actual waterboarding twenty six year old iranian american  this is easily the most terrifying experience i've ever had ever felt and i know it's a controlled environment and water goes into your lungs and you want to scream and you can't because you know as soon as you do you're going to choke  demonstration and i torture activist clark kissinger said waterboarding should only be seen as a form of torture he said today he wanted to put together an actual demonstration of what waterboarding means and it is conducted by this government to people around the world there seems to be some confusion in the media about this some people like to refer to this as an enhanced interrogation technique if not and in rant iraq new figures show the number of displaced iraqis says quadrupled under the so called u s troop surge began earlier this year according to the iraqi red crescent two point three million people have been forced to flee their homes eight of baghdad and in israel and the occupied territories israeli prime minister olmert has announced a long planned u s backed peace conference will be held this week at the last week of this month the bush administration had previously refused to give a date for the meeting speaking in ramallah secretary of state condoleezza rice said she hoped the talks would lead to a final peace deal she said this is indeed as story more time a time of real opportunity not look forward to working with you over the next period of time so we might prepare for a successful meeting at annapolis which should be a launching pad for the negotiations that we have long sought to go she since then i sincerely hope that as prime minister olmert said last night could achieve their goal within the time remaining for the bush administration u s and israeli officials say they back in the united states new figures show a record number of detainees are being held in u s immigration jails immigration jail population has now topped thirty thousand up from less than twenty thousand last year fo thousand are being held in california to rise is attributed to growing decline to the policy of so called catch and release private companies involved in holding in transferring prisoners or see record contracts deportations are also on the rise at two hundred sixty thousand this year up nearly one hundred dollars in over two years ago immigrant rights advocates say the policy is leading to overcrowding diminished medical care at jails in california contractor involved in a scandal that sent former congress member randy duke to jail has been found guilty on all to thirteen counts in his corruption trial brant wilkes received more than eighty million dollars in government contracts after bribing cunningha maintain kadian list skew towards people of color predominantly african americans the kids in prohibition act who prohibit challenges to a person's eligibility based soley on returned mail or e k g list the bill would that's right it's time for the police blotter new pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid really grass valley police department on sunday three forty six am cold found a bag of marijuana in east main street near downtown pickup truck unloading garbage pickup five p m a call from suitland drive according to suspicious person followed her in a stolen van the car refused to give a foreigner brain said she would take care of between a daughter and a grand daughter or daughter was refusing to leave to business and a granddaughter needs to go to sleep like a grandmother to me mother on monday one twenty one a morning fog highs in the mid to upper seventy's there will be a chance of showers in the weekend with her eyes dropping in the sixty's and that should be enough weather for us today who would like to thank