has brought its delicious food and service downtown the grasshopper you like desserts they kind of you like international style and just 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 gas before we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the locate the style of shoes that you had in mind and find out who has the best sale on back to school gear all in one place and it only takes minute going into an operation where people who live among the pines simply can't get enough of them pine trees don't just grow here now these are christmas trees at the mcburney tree farm near cedar ridge where bob mcburney work works on christmas all year long as p visitor to the tree farm can sample fresh hot coffee in large wooden sign advised his patrons to watch for stumps and go for holes bernie isn't the only person working for a business is time of year farmers are offering precut and cut your own pints and first dot western counties so do stores that sell trees that don't need water we've lost a market share to them mcburney admits of the trend towards fake christmas trees i try to keep things neat and clean and a key thing is service someone gives you a dollar and  thank them with a smile most customers are friends of mcburney and he's known for years barbara wallander has been coming to the tree farm since your children are now growing more small they have a wonderful selections trees and i always have the one i want she said wallander has a fake tree too but i always put the real one in the front living room for everyone to see for bob and bernie it's been christmas since his father decided to buy a lot more than forty years ago bought me  who served in the u s air force and spent thirty years in safeway store clerk at a christmas tree lot however has been his lot in life for half a century i spend anywhere from forty to fifty hours a week out here he said as with anything day as early as august customers pull up and there's a lot driving over one of those old school bell hoses you see at full service stations to pick out a tree they'll take home and if you once you simply try to make this an enjoyable as enjoyable for people as you can but me in another union story written by dave mohler crest fallen firefighters and police department personnel are scenes short furloughs as the city continues to struggle with its seven hundred fifty thousand dollar deficit caused by declining sales tax revenue so fridays a police department employees agreed to take off eight hours per employee at some time in the fiscal year firefighters are being furloughed for one twenty four hour shift is their part of their city's continuing cost cutting measures i've asked for it to be done in the first quarter of the coming year haller added they could lose additional hours in the future depending on the budget although the safety employees are seen a decrease city featureless have promised to keep them in the street around the clock earlier this week the city council approved a forty hour furlough for each of the forty office and public works employees the council also froze or limited seven city jobs and our last story a local story written by liz keller of the union a woman at the courthouse to pay a traffic fine wednesday was arrested on multiple charges after a security officer found she appeared to be intoxicated aurora elizabeth figaro from twenty was at the courthouse at about nine thirty a m wants us to get off of there were traffic court was about a county sheriff saying she appeared to extremely intoxicated girl added and she failed several field sobriety tests she was at the courthouse with her eleven year old sister and although she claimed her father had driven her there he could not be located the sister eventually was released to a friend after the family was contacted by telephone cruelty to a child and possession of a controlled substance and that's it today for our local news recession is no time to be getting raises in our board of supervisors should vote down their own race for now creswell i want to cut days at city hall is open so employees get less hours to save money but city council voted in a raise at this point around ninety five dollars per hour why should do you leave a job holders skin moneys while the actual workers get wage cuts bad enough that the government is now bailing out our big business failures with taxpayers money capitalism is based on private businesses excess by competition and intelligence of the individuals who run the companies if you aren't competitive for your quality or pricing is high you don't make a profit and you fail as a business small and large businesses fail all the time because of supply and demand swings and why if this point should we bail out those who make the wrong decisions this is the new standard then where is the monies to be allowed small businesses they need money to the best solution is to take the eight hundred billion that equates out to about one million dollars for every citizen in the usa give each person one million dollars and let them go spend it and boost our economy by injecting the money back in to the businesses where it belongs car manufacturers begging for money is when they let unions drive them out of business union members you must look at your own leaders who advise you to gouge the car manufacturers to the point where they can make money if you're out of a job you should picket your union leaders it's their fault some say the new administration is for change and a jingle in my pocket hasn't gotten any louder yet socialism didn't work in russia and it won't work here let the big boys fall where they may in the change when gloated companies fail let us stay healthy by getting rid of the weeds they're growing all over our country you want justice and voting laws that require senators and house representatives to get paid according to the net profits of the regions of the country they were voted in by this way they earn their salaries bohdan to disband lobbyist and maybe some of the greed and the corruption will be controlled otherwise just sit back and let the powers to be just keep on taking you to the time for the police blotter new pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on thursday twelve thirty three p m a caller from c r college drive reported it parked white honda was hit by a gr gray four door car and a nine eighteen p m a call from two hundred block a male street reported an alter case in between a man and a woman and woman was hysterical and there was banging coming from the parked nine twenty four pm a caller from main street in brunswick  drive reported an elderly man carrying a plastic grocery bag was trying to hitchhike he was provided to ride and friday at five sixteen am a caller from the two hundred block a certain way reported about people possibly having a party and about a county sheriff's office on thursday twelve thirty nine p m a man from the fourteen thousand block of heart your place reported his neighbor threatened to throw molotov cocktails through his window for all seven pm a caller from fourteen thousand block north bloomfield road reported receiving harassing phone calls from a neighbor regarding barking dog issues and at four nineteen p m a call from the ten thousand block of one can rob reported a pit bull terrier chasing livestock the dock was caught by animal control five twenty eight pm a woman from one thousand block of lake shore drive south reported jury was stolen from her house and at six fifty three pm a call from the officer nine out of block a helen way reported receiving threatening telephone calls stayed four people die and at nine twenty five p m a call from twenty two thousand block of sense that ridge road reported the front window of a vehicle had been shattered and at nine thirty three p m a man from one thousand block of sycamore court reported burgundy toyota or honda drove by his house slowly and took off when his wife shined a flashlight on it he said someone tried to break into his house last weekend and friday at twelve thirty five a m a man from the fifteen thousand block of balance three lane requested transportation for a voluntary mental h commitment he said he thinks he is garden has hurt people in the past so it is not on drugs right now and would be waiting on the porch he was taken to the emergency room and never had a city police department on thursday chavez renewed effort to end term limits an anti war vet planned civil suit over hempstead protest injuries and white suspects charged in driving deaths of african american and ecuadorian immigrant clings to life following apparent hate crime and mexican guest workers allege forced slavery and eventually eventually go lobbyist resigns after supporting gay marriage in police work moscow rally sees ninety to one hundred thirty detainees in u s custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of a few bad apples acting under their own the fact is the senior officials in the united states government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques redefined the law to create appearances of their legality and authorized their use against detainees democrat senator carl levin and republican john mccain of this so an armed force committee released a report based on nearly two year senate investigation and in iraq at least fifty seven people have been killed in a suicide attack near the northern town of kirkuk the bombing struck a packed restaurant where kurdish and sunni groups were meeting to discuss easing ethnic tensions another one hundred people were wounded it was the worst attack to hit iraq in six months and defen secretary robert gates has announced plans to deploy scores of the twenty thousand additional u s troops set for afghanistan as early as next spring speaking in the afghan city of kandahar thursday gates said he foresees a sustained u s occupation force in afghanistan over the next four years and in pakistan at least six people have been killed in the latest u s air strike near the afghan border the victims adenovirus fidelity's remain unknown the bush administration has carried out more than thirty missile attacks in pakistan since august and on capitol hill talks between democrats and republican senators on the fourteen billion dollar out of bail out has collapsed general motors and chrysler have warned of an eminent bankruptcy unless the government steps in talks broke down over disagreements of the wage cuts and united auto workers both sides agreed wages should be dropped to the levels of foreign competitors but republicans want to deadline two thousand and nine democrats insist on twenty eleven when current workers contracts expire on ruther of the united auto workers did unfortunately senate republicans insisted the workers and retirees be singled out and treated differently from all the other stakeholders this is what ultimately led to the breakdown of the negotiations democrat lawmakers are now urging the white house to do some of the remaining wall thirty five thousand jobs over the next three years a company blamed the move in part on a pending acquisition of brokerage firm merrill lynch bank of america has received twenty five billion under the taxpayer bailout of wall street so far its latest new round of mass layoffs to hit the financial sector last eleven percent last week to five hundred seventy three thousand several key developing countries gathered at the un environmental conference in poland have agreed to set goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases mexico has agreed to date twenty fifty to cut carbon emissions fifty percent below two thousand and two levels and brazil is agreed to reduce emissions by up to forty five percent by cutting annual deforest dacian rate by seventy percent on tuesday former vice president al gore addressed a possible non conference warning global warming could create hundreds of millions of climate refugees he also said there could be a dramatic increase in the sea level leading to as many as four hundred fifty million climate refugees the moment of tropical disease in the higher latitudes district lane of storms a str approval to stand for reelection chavez wants voters to let him run for reelection after his term expires in two thousand and thirteen the venezuelan president says this is a revolution a permanent revolution a revolution inside a revolution and a revolution is based on the effort to abolish term limits in a referendum last year but the proposal was blunt along with several others that critics said would have granted him too much power and back in the united states charges have been officially dropped against fifteen anti war veterans and their supporters arrested in october outside a presidential debate at new york's hofstra university so called hempstead fifteen have been charged with disorderly conduct and failure to obey a law for order they were arrested when they tried to enter the debate in an effort to ask the candidates about the iraq war were resistors and veterans treatment one of the veterans nick morgan was hospitalized after his face was travelled by a police horse outside the hearing thursday morgan said he plans to launch a civil suit morgan said there's an investigation that's been held up while we get the criminal case out of the way so i think that investigation is going to be able to be opened up and we have a whole lit the police officers were in violation of including constitutional rights and civil rights so if it goes to court it will be tried in federal court with a jury so they'll be able to discover evidence and in texas two white men in the town of paris have been and in september dragging debts of an african american man the body of a twenty four year old brandon mcclelland was found middle aged and partially man dismembered the two suspects were accused of running him over and dragging him beneath their pickup truck with a baseball bat sukkos hand he has been declared was has been declared brain dead and is on life support and in louisiana a group of mexican guest workers are ques the former employer forcing them to slave like conditions the alliance of guest workers for dignity part of new orleans workers center for racial justice and a leading evangelists vangelis goal bobbie is to has resigned after publicly admitting he supports same sex marriage lobbyist reverend richard into trucks organizers said one thirty one hundred thirty people were detained around the capital but the police put the number at nine hundred opposition movement headed for the fierce kremlin critic and former chess champion garry kasparov said the co leader of the group was one of those se the other russian movement organized the protest in defiance of the ban to draw attention to wretched economic troubles and to protest kremlin plans to extend the presidential term from four years to six critics say the constitutional change is part of the retreat from democracy  protest of the authorities had denied permission for it before the scheduled start hundreds of officers guarded transco there which was ringed by police trucks and metal barriers police roughly grabbed protesters who tried to enter the square dragon at least twenty five people to waiting trucks police also seized other russians co leader edward lemon up along with a handful of bodyguards as they walked towards a square they were bundled into police vehicles as parents and a group of supporters decided to avoid police by marching in a different location and then set off on a third site after finding another strong police presence a spokesman woman marina live in no beach said dozens of protesters gathered at the third site and marched about a co the police in moscow also broke up a protest by a hardline group of retired generals in a square nearby and detained about fifty participants the group the soviet officers union could not be reached for comment but moscow police said they detained ninety people some of the kremlin through one of the guarded gates today we saw a police state and its methods he said other russians russia said most of the release were released but many of the ordered to appear in court later charges of involvement in the prohibited public activity said she said the police action showed the government was afraid some kind of power will rise against them i want my country to develop along a democratic path said moral zola standing against a wall in the edge of the square it's not only said at least one organizer was to time detained before and st petersburg police of the ten people were detained at a separate site popular support for other russian and other vocal opposition groups is minimal but the kremlin is wary about any evidence of public anger