the future of spirit center mental health patients drop in center in grass valley is in jeopardy and it could be in limbo or without a home by the summer two thousand and nine according to its officials spirit center fish was criticized about a county officials monday for allegedly telling them they would receive money for a down payment toward the purchase of the present basin home and then backing out county officials said state regulations one allow them to buy the home we see a blatant disregard for the hard work and the community input in the planning to founder lily marie she said many people in the mental health community thought a consensus existed with the county to spend new mental health services act money to help spirit buy the home can explain what a disaster it would be to clients and the community to lose the center said joan buffington the spirit backer and mental health care professionals who are in a small community and there is nothing else like it's the only game in town where monohulls clients get help without a formal appointment she had the nonprofit hold an option to purchase the building but it lapsed may fifteenth when the owner has been attorney to sell the property or raise the rent alone or reset with either outcome spirit officials fear they could lose the five acres and a large joan they feel is a perfect for operation because of its location calmness an excess of ability both human services agency director jeffrey brown and behavioral health director michael haggerty said they fully support to drop in center where peer counselors help patients stabilize and learn life skills to go back into the community they also said the county pays one hundred fifty five thousand dollars now to run spirit center pays its rent and its part time employees but new state regulations for mental health services act spending says buildings purchased must be owned by the county and we can't let a nonprofit be the owner haiti had to be every health director also said the seven hundred forty five thousand dollars in facility and technology funds for and h s a programs funded by proposition sixty three is not enough to meet the eight hundred thousand dollars needed to complete the spirit center purchase prop sixty three passed in november two thousand and four established a tax on personal income of wealthy people to help fund expanded health services have meant putting everything into one program and left nothing for other priorities either to say i didn't think it was physically prudent supporting a program with an eight hundred thousand dollars loan is a recklessly haggerty also said his express desire to give one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand towards a down payment for the home made on caveat maher radio it will eleven was not a promise to spirit i do not believe i did promise and i didn't have the authority to promise  because n h s a funding decisions are made by consensus among the county officials and citizen committees i wish i could do that but it turns out i can't it's disappointing the window of opportunity is closing brown said we're very supportive of the spirit center program and our mental health department help started years ago it's a critical element in our continue continuum of care but it's not the only element brown said he added that his department would likely like spared find grants to get facility in the future seven hundred forty five thousand dollars also is needed to purchase new billing system and electronic health record software have you seen some of the funding will also be used to renovate the facilities being used by the action team recently funded for severe patients i didn't stand in the rain to get signatures for profit sixty three so  stakeholders who made this happen don't have a stake in yuma the center has served more than fourteen hundred patients since the first of the year almost eight hundred volunteer hours lol he said she said all of the supervisors and county chief executive officer recap he have toured the facility and given their verbal backing but now there seems to be an unwillingness to negotiate with us the spirit center farmer said if an inexpensive replacement building can't be found we probably we have to close our doors for a while until we find a place waiting in limbo also could place a large financial impact on the county buffington said untreated mental health patients could clog up  nevada memorial hospital so they will cause a shipment of more cases out of county institution impact jail population he also added and they will also the loss of the grass valley property could also dash the non profits dream of building a crisis center and permanent housing on the side as it looks to expand for the future going to spear program coordinator guy care as a former mental health board member i would have to say that if  county supervisors would invest in county funds to have spirit it would be a win win situation for nevada county mentally ill and the rest of the population the general funds has at least sixty eight million dollars in reserve in the budget for emergencies and this is one of them it's time to address the mental health programs in this county and make sure we move toward some type of christ center in county in the future and this is of first deputy stone towards that goal toward a supervisor members you have been elected to make good decisions for everyone in nevada county and it's time you have this crisis with the spirit empowerment center leslie was driving his tractor trailer west around a left curve on our way twenty early monday morning when he went over a steep embankment on the north side of the roadway yuba sutter c h p officer jeff larson said passers by noticed damage to the guardrail and called nine one one on at about five a m leslie was trapped in the badly damaged cabin was flown to sutter roseville medical center with proc trauma to his legs and hip leslie had most likely been trapped for several hours before the accident was discovered the person who reported the crash reported that leslie was not wearing his seat belt one lane was closed on our way twenty buck an hour as firefighters extracted leslie from the big rooms riggs cab leslie was in critical condition monday afternoon said the hospital spokesman was madison alcohol was not a factor in the accident larson said the cause of the crash she's under investigation he added the tractor trailer may have been illegally long or overlength vehicle and the big red was on a truck route that was not approved by the department of transportation any witnesses to the crash are asked to call the you beside her c h p at six seven four five one four one that's six seven four five  that a union high school graduate a navy corpsman who served with the marine corps in iraq was killed late sunday in marysville when a woman in a van ran over him while he was road use motorcycle police and the man's  daniel arthur durkin thirty three years old was stopped in the had his motorcycle stopped in marysville on east region or fourth street at about five p m when sylvia beth baron forty eight years old of paradise ran over him from behind  union graduate her family was too grief stricken monday to talk further about derby she said police are investigating the cause of the accident comey said alcohol was not involved in the crash and investigators barry did not stop parents four children ages two three five and six were in her van at the time of the accident coming said no one in the van was heard the tragedy was an accident and parents has been great so we have baron looked down for a split second when she looked up it was too late he said the next thing you know there was a motorcycle right in front of her his wife feels just horrible about the accident great parents said if she could change places with their going she would she had a crime the van was impounded and will be mechanically inspected ongoing big county court records show sylvia barron has never been charged with a crime in her county of residence when police complete their investigation in about two weeks airport will before read to you because the district attorney's office for review rights groups have opposed the law saying it's simply a veiled effort to suppress elderly poor and minority voters those most likely to lack proper id who tend to vote for democrats in his dissent justice david souter said indiana's voter id law threatens to impose non trivial burdens on the voting rights of tens of thousands of state citizens according to american civil liberties union indiana has not prosecuted his single case of in person voting fraud in recent history indiana is one of over twenty states that have passed voter id laws other states are considering similar legislation and on capitol hill house democrat leaders are putting together is the largest iraq war spending bill to date the bill is expected to provide one hundred seventy eight billion for the war enough to fund the war through the end of the bush presidency and for nearly six months into the next president's term san francisco chronicle reports house speaker nancy pelosi is plotting a so called guns for butter strategy to try to force bush to accept some new did mastic spending in exchange for money he needs to fight the war plus the strategy has been criticized for several anti war lawmakers congresswoman barbara lee said it just wouldn't make sense to force members of congress to choose between providing food stamps for people who are hurting and need help during their terrible time in funding an occupation the people do not support meanwhile the peace activist cindy the u s death toll in iraq for the month of april has reached forty four making april the deadliest month for u s forces since september on monday four u s soldiers were killed in baghdad and in gaza hundreds of mourners on monday carried the bodies of four children and their mothers mothers killed by israeli forces through the streets of be at least lahey up in northern gaza medical officials and residents said an israeli project smashed through a ceiling of a one story house where the family was having breakfast condemned israel's shelling he also said the massacre committed by the occupation this morning in northern gaza which love seven dead mostly children prove to israeli occupation is not concerned with any calm and is insisting on aggression against our palestinian people because he didn't mention anything about them sending rockets back into israel israel officials have admitted to firing missiles near the family's home but israel army spokesman claimed the family was killed by secondary explosion caused by detonated the explosive devices carried by palestinian militants he also said this initial investigation proves it no doubt that we did not target the house the cause of the death of this palestinian family with soul of the explosion that occurred from the backpacks that were full of explosives that these terrorists carried on their backs and in other news from the region the lebanese army has accused twelve israeli air force warplanes of violating lebanese airspace warplanes were seen flying over several cities including the root and then campaign news much of the national media's focus over the past forty eight hours was focused not on any of the three main candidates but senator barack obama's former pastor the reverend jeremiah wright on monday wright spoke before the national press club and was repeatedly questioned about his sermons on u s foreign policy israel lewis israel and louis farrakhan and race wright was also asked about what he meant when he said after september eleventh attacks american chickens are coming home to roost for its own act of terrorism and he responded if you heard the whole sermon first of all you that i was quoting invested here from iraq number one that's number one number two to quote the bible be not deceived god is not mocked for whatsoever you so that you also shall reap jesus said do unto others as you would have them do unto you you this is not an attack on jeremiah wright it is nothing to do with senator obama this is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about african american religious tradition after right spoke a bomb held a new conference in north carolina and never to further distance himself from his former pastor obama said he does not speak for me he does not speak for the campaign and then another local another story here a private security company blackwater has announced plans to build an indoor training center in otay mesa california just across from the mexican border blackwater recently abandon plans to build a large facility on a ranch in part travel california democratic congressman bob filner said he is concerned of blackwater's attempting to become better situated to win border security contractors this is a very sensitive area when it comes to human and civil rights we don't need people who have no regard for human and civil rights to be part of the enforcement it's dangerous literally to the lives of my constituents blackwater official say they will use the sixty one thousand square foot site to train naval and coast guard sailors and the united nations special reporter on the right to food jane ziegler has called for the suspension  biofuels production he says major cause of the food crisis that has thrown millions into poverty also said biofuels with today's current production methods are a crime against a great part of humanity they're an intolerable crime and i requested the united nations general assembly new york in my last report to the human rights council that a moratorium be imposed as a five year ban against this transformation according to jean ziglar the united states burned hundred  thirty eight million tonnes of corn last year transformed it into bio ethanol and biodiesel in an interview with al jazeera ziegler saying burned burning food today so as to serve the mobility of rich countries is a crime against because comments came while the un held an emergency summit in switzerland to tackle the global food crisis and on monday oil prices hit new record of nearly one hundred twenty dollars a barrel but p reported making record profits in the first three months of this year when i'm uneasy and shell our nine billion in the first quarter be pleasing income rose sixty three percent to seven point six billion on the campaign trail sen hillary clinton has joined senator john mccain in calling for a temporary elimination of roughly eighteen cents a gallon gas tax over the summer sen obama has opposed the elimination of the tax while clinton and mccain have framed the tax cut as a way to help working class families when economists question what would benefit from the tax cut cording to congress dean baker tax cut would result in higher profits for the oil industry but would not change the price of gas paid by consume and other economic news the number of vacant u s homes has hit a record heat hundred point six billion million this is one who will be billions in this is because more homes are in foreclosure and many homeowners are finding it increasingly difficult to buy find buyers nearly three percent of all owner occupied homes in the country are now empty meanwhile while fargo bank is under newsgroup need for its money and practices member of the group responsible wealth plan to prove santa shareholders resolution at the bank year old is meeting today quote requesting that the company explain racial and ethnic disparities in its subprime loans according to bank did african americans were almost four times more likely than whites to receive high costs of prime loans f in two thousand and six the teano borrowers were almost twice as likely as whites to receive the high cost loans and in labor news the coalition of immokalee carli workers has presented eighty five thousand petition signatures to the headquarters of burger king the coalition is urging burger king to pay for more cars an additional penny per pound tomatoes picked burger king has so far refuse in demand despite a similar agreement between the coalition of the workers in young brands and mcdonald's meanwhile the fort myers news press has revealed your information and burger king is convert attack on the farm workers to daughter of burger kings vice president he made it to the newspaper that her father used her laboring international longshore and warehouse union is planning to shut down all of its nation's west coast ports on thursday to condemn the wars in iraq and afghanistan the eight hour shutdown will affect twenty nine ports union workers are calling for an immediate end to the war and occupation in iraq and afghanistan and withdrawal of u s troops from the middle east protests will occur may first and that's around for today's world news we didn't have any police blotter so we brought in a couple more local breaking stories of chico california authorities say a crude bomb containing fish hooks and b b s packed inside plastic bottle exploded this weekend at an early california junior high school no one was injured the homemade device was discovered sunday night at the basketball court of bi stories don't believe there was anyone in the area at the time of the explosions bell says homemade devices are showing up more frequently on house porches and mailboxes in the chico area this was the first time the bottle h rodeos organized by the penn valley community rodeo association but five thousand spectators are expected to attend the event between friday and sunday said the association president d rodeo itself is the biggest attraction has dick said it's like a car race where people get really excited when there's a crash in the rodeo there's a crash in every ride because a couple he has to get dropped off the horse the rodeo started as a fundraiser for the penn valley fire department corps in one nine hundred fifty six operation of the rodeo passed to the high graders lions club the penn valley firefighters association and after the rodeo laps in two thousand and four to the rodeo association formed in two thousand and five to revive the popular event this year's rodeo kickoff event is may fourteenth it's the free family event with live music rodeo queen contestants cowboy poetry and food and beverages to keith wilson memorial bowl writing takes place may sixteenth one of the five year old children to adults will write variety of animals from sheep to steers to balls to rodeos parade starts at one thirty p m saturday at western gateway park and