the grass valley hotel is one of the largest first in the country to receive the next area changes which will be completed by friday to charge changes outside the signage were approved by the city earlier this year i'll tell also featured a new position a service champion to focus on customer's needs from check in to check out in my opinion the crux of the changes also meeting new service standards added in addition to hotel rooms will eventually be equipped with thirty two inch l c d televisions the hotel is built on the former site of the gold bowl the anally and granita appliance store the eighty six thousand square foot i'm sorry fifty six thousand square foot is owned by gold miners an l l c of roseville managed by just a nature properties of palm springs local farmers are really in from the combined effects of late spring frost and smoky powell during the summer causing caused by the wildfires in the state wide drought even after supply manning the season with summer vegetables farmers who lost their fruit crops to frost say they never recovered from that was christened beer wagon peach peaches and apple trees were probably  hardest hit an account with one hundred percent loss he said and marked another black year in a decade for the farming guide to crops at two hundred thousand it's a really ready to call it quits in a big way burnell has wagon said but he keeps apple on peach trees to sell fruit at the farm stand but well discontinued the box orders he has planted rows of blueberries blackberries raspberries in places considered strawberries as more of a cold hardy alternative to the delicate peach  awakened form donard trail fruit swarmed with children and family came out to buy a pumpkin and get lost in a corner used during warm october but this year their wagon changed admission fee to walk through the maze to help make up the lost pumpkins kind of a wine that we're most known for it has full of fruity flavor to chardonnay separate to greatest blow and smith could not fulfill his ten thousand dollar contract with nevada city wondering there's no way to recover your loss yet it was the second thirty two acres of sun smile farms owner george leftists said his years frost and smoke damage took the cake frost wiped out his fruit and nut crops and cost him sixty thousand dollars this summer wildfire smok impacted the majority of his most profitable produce berries in extra tomatoes and melons he planted at the goodness i would have been better off just staying close yet this year he made an effort to diversify and expand his farm stand and presence and local farmers markets he began a community supported agriculture c s a program at his farm to put in the same amount of labor but without the revenue to support it primarily and orchid is to last as has planted for crops like broccoli cabbage and onions to extend the season like bear wagon left as has planted a vast array of berry bushes and vines he also looked at chickens to supply fresh aides i'm talking to get people out to the farm i feel like bonding the bond you get with the customer's possible drought emergency at the same time farmers across the state are experiencing the worst drought in record if we don't significantly get rainfall this season we might have this declared a disaster accounting for the in downtown wednesday signaling their reach new focus of customer service corporate leaders said the room hotel which opened in april two thousand and seven is also receiving new lighting benches music and even a new scent that will be piped into the facility the changes are part of an overall rebranding of the franchise hotel chain general manager steve young said the grass valley of taylor is one of the first in the country to receive the exterior changes which could be completed as early as friday and this is i had to add this because this is part of the original story the hotel also will feature a new position guest service champion to focus customer needs from check in to check out in my opinion the crux of the changes includes meeting new service standards and addition each of the hotel rooms will eventually be equipped like i said earlier thirty two inch l c d television screens and now that we're done with the elections we can get on with our regular lives because it was you're filling up a lot of the air space it'll be good that we can focus more on what's happening locally big grid rig turned over eastbound highway twenty nine or omega rest area wednesday morning blocking the at least one lane of the highway into the evening in calif and how the patrol said it marks the second time in recent weeks that a truck detour on interstate eighty would cause chaos and highway twenty as drivers unaccustomed to the two lane road attempt to navigate sudden curves and sometimes rapid descent the truck was on the north shoulder in the highway twenty and traffic was one one way starting from eleven forty five a m motorists on i eighty detour do highway one seventy four to reach grass valley cording to see the spokesperson big rigs were being diverted down highway twenty from i eighty this morning to clear debris from an accident on interstate no for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on tuesday six fifty two am a woman from the six hundred block of south arbor street who had called twice before reporting that both tied god was in back inside her fenced yard and she did not know how he continued to get inside police run able to catch the dog animal control was called hand and the dog was captured eight forty seven a m finally seven twenty eight a m a call from the veterans building reported protesters were walking in front of the door and were inside one hundred foot buffer zone second call reported protesters were yelling at people coming in to vote and it eight thirteen am a caller from the one hundred block of your richesse street reported strange at him showing up in a house and money hung up no victim was found and a four twenty nine pm a caller from the parking lot of a business in one thousand block a certain way reported to man and a white sedan with a confederate flag or yelling racial slurs and a five fifty eight chasing a young man in a maroon impala and seven fifty one p m woman from the fourteen hundred block of said words way reported the residents of another party are being very loud and stomping around and at eight thirty nine a woman call drive reported the man was calling her and her husband saying he wanted to meet down and he was coming with a back the man previously had asked for a welfare check on his girlfriend because he had called her and heard her crying in the background and her father said she got what she deserved it fourteen a m caller from twelve thousand block of half moon way reported possible identity theft and in nine twenty two a m a caller from bizzle place reported in assaults occurred the night before and at nine forty three a caller from eight hundred thousand block oh dear run report reported a physical fight that occurred tonight for simply these two guys know each other lead twenty five am a man from lakewood lane reported someone called and threatened to burn down his house was made of bricks to up ten pm a caller from ten thousand block a newton town road reported identity theft and across forty seven p m a man from eleven thousand block of michael ware reported six thousand dollars was stolen from his bank account with his debit card and at one thirty four p m a woman from the fourteen thousand block of out creek road reported a man called at six thirty a m and made inappropriate comments about his five year old daughter and a two nineteen p m a woman from twelve thousand block  a red car looks blue to me came on told him to get off his property or he would obvious property here he was shooting for twenty six pm a woman run from that ten thousand block east drug report an argument with property owner of a house she was moving into the house had been a new us bombings north western region of afghanistan the attack comes just one day after reports emerged of massive casualties in another attack in the south today killings came after u s forces reportedly came under fire and that people were killed that's what they said that another resident said in an air strike thirty seven people had died and thirty five more wounded most of them women and children the pentagon has admitted causing civilian casualties it says u s forces attacked after coming under fire from nearby afghanistan last month at least twenty five people were killed in a nato air strike on the town of lashkar gah that attack came last two months after another u s strike killed ninety afghan civilians six of them children in the united states president elect obama stayed mostly out of public view wednesday one day after his historic election and its first major staffing move obama has offered democratic congress member rahm emanuel of chicago the position of white house chief of staff emanuel served  under the clinton administration and has been a key democratic party leader in congress on foreign policy manual is not to represent the right wing of the democratic party he was vocally back because israel's occupation of the west bank and gaza and its two thousand  nine congressional races remain undecided after the boat count still underway in oregon democratic can be candidate jeff merkley is expected to won a close race against incumbent rip republican gordon smith held four thousand  are ordered to recount the senate race between republican incumbent norm coleman and democratic challenger al franken coleman led franken by less than five hundred votes nearly three hundred million cast coleman has declared victory but franken says he will wait the recount in georgia republican senators sex be campbell as well face runoff against democratic challenger jim martin and failing to gain fifty percent of the vote in alaska republican senator ted stevens appears headed to real action if you believe  that well anyway there's a bunch of others here and i know of most of us are just so bored with all of these things about other areas and i'm going to read them all meanwhile in the house close races in washington state maryland virginia and ohio all could be headed to recounts and on state level new york democrats made huge gains in election day one hundred thirty two of their sixty two open seats in the state senate with an existing majority in the state house to victory at least democrats in control of the state legislature and governor's office for the next first time since the new deal meanwhile new hampshire has become the first state with a majority of women in the legislative chamber with today's vote thirteen of the twenty four members in the new hampshire state senate are women and in california three lawsuits have been filed to challenge the passage of the controversial ballot measure banning gay marriages proposition eight would amend the state constitution to only recognize a marriage between a man and a woman the law suit alleges the vote is illegal because it marks  sweeping victory was widely seen as a repudiation of the bush administration's policies particularly on economy but at the white house president bush tried to put a positive spin on the vote congratulating obama and vowing a smooth transition and he also said they chose a president whose journey represents a triumph of the american story a testament to the hard work optimism and faith of an enduring promise of our nation many of our citizens thought they would never live to see that day the moment is especially uplifting for a generation of americans who has witnessed the struggle of civil rights with their own eyes and four decades later see a dream fulfilled meanwhile secretary of state connelly's rice made a surprise appearance after daily state department medi media briefing rice said she was proud of the vote as an african american she also said i'm ready to leave for the middle east but i did not want this morning to pass without taking note of the extraordinary election last night this was exercise in american democracy of which americans across the political spectrum are justifiably proud and i just want to close on a personal note as an african american i'm especially proud because this is a country that's been through a long journey in terms of overcoming wounds and making race not the factor of our lives that work is not done but yesterday was obviously an extraordinary step forward and obama's victory continues to be celebrated worldwide in kenya the birthplace of obama's father and obama a national holiday has been declared today in honor of obama's win and in economic news congressional democrats are reportedly considering doubling to fifty billion dollars the amount of taxpayers to struggled to the struggling u s auto makers house speaker nancy pelosi is set to meet today with the heads of detroit's big three car companies and united auto workers union maybe she just got a little better car the better off in iraq at least six people have been killed and more than twenty wanted in several bombings around baghdad at least thirty iraqis have died and eighty wounded in daily bombings since monday and in a democratic republic of congo thousands of civilians have fled to towns seized by rebel forces in ongoing battles with the pro government militias the rebels took key wanda after a second day of fighting that continues despite a recent brokered cease fire some two hundred fifty thousand people have been at certain times