recommendations from a special committee it created to hire a marketing director for the new barrel and to see it with ninety thousand dollars for its first year the proposal from the committee seeks for the nonprofit to be fine actually independent and not tied to the county after three years supervisor said three years ago the county's chamber of commerce were doing well for their areas and cities but it different group was needed to work in a county wide vision the committees vision is the link successful events like the nevada city classic bike race to others to linked in stays the committee also envisions small conferences during the week to help fill area hotels motels which are full on weekends but not on weekdays members of the independent grass valley  convention and visitor's bureau set up about eighteen months ago said the county would give them the money and have everything already in place however the board voted to give the committee's plan to county administrator officer kathy and his staff for a cost analysis instead the board said it would then put out requests for proposals for groups or individuals to run the new visitors and conference office in a story by dave mahler and com megan the snowstorm that clobbered much of the western and central united states took its toll in western about a county monday causing abundant wrecks in the area roads and closing schools and some government offices and leaving frigid temperatures in its wake the first major storm of the season left more than eight inches of snow in downtown grass valley in ten inches reported at the county yard on loma rica drive and a foot or more and cascades shores along highway twenty north of nevada city cedar ridge reported fourteen inches with nevada city resident seen one foot of snow in penn valley about two inches or commuters struggle children built snow forts through snow balls and press no angels into the light powder that covered everything the vast swath of the united states from southern california northeast to michigan suffered from combined effects of a winter storm from the pacific in a low pressure trough in the jet stream blowing across the great lake regions dumping snow cast in freezing temperatures and even throwing blizzards over millions of residen yesterday actually continued freezing temperatures through wednesday morning pose an added risk to area residents icy roads could be make just walking down the street as threat travel treacherous all over sier temperatures from the monday's cold wave are expected in the mid twenty's and the freezing temperatures are expected and wednesday night into wednesday night two or three feet of are expected to be in the ground in the morning and higher elevations according to national francis driving ball road within fifteen minutes of each other starting at twelve fifty three p m and another story of the vatican city public health department is continuing to provide h one n one vaccine clinics while the national news has reported a downturn in  number of h one n one cases california continues to see a widespread h one aide in one cases last week in california there were seven hundred eighty two new cases of h one n one that were hospitalized and twelve additional fatalities there were twenty six new cases of severe pediatric influenza reported in california last week this included children from birth to eighteen years of age this is important since we do not usually see this type of severe illness and children for seasonal flu in addition to the clinic in december twelfth for health care workers and first responders county has scheduled a new clinic for the general public december seventeenth that clinic could result in long lines possibility county might run out of vaccine before everyone receives one clinks our first baptist church and ridge road nine a m to one p m saturday december twelfth this clinic is for all health care workers all first responders fire service e m s and law enforcement agencies all full time paid school staff and school done if occasion cards are needed staff from child care centers and preschools and first and second doses for chilled in a just six months through twelfth grade each person will be required to show a valid driver's license and either a current medical practitioner license or current paycheck stub or receipt grass for all these veterans halls on salt auburn street to eight p m thursday december seventeenth this clinic is for everyone in any gauge group that come to receive an h one n one vaccine a vaccine is free of charge be prepared to show valid proof of nevada county residency at the clinic and that's right it's time for the police blotter pictures in a bar not from these actual events but used for visual and only sammy castro the police department on seventy eight forty four a m call from the business in one thousand nine hundred bucks and way reported the person next door was thrashing about through the night levon ten a m caller from the block of some block of west main street reported a woman screaming and banging on a door three twenty two p m a woman from brentwood overpass reported an assault no crime was found reported a man was on his way to a business regarding a person pepper spraying him earlier tonight he was told not to return to the business and at nine fifty nine pm call from nevada city highway reported a person any b m w possibly gave a bag of marijuana to a person in  honda and ten or one pm a caller from east main street reported a person's throwing snowballs can you imagine that eleven to twenty four pm a caller from one hundred block of the person throwing snowballs at a taxi it was thirty six am a caller from fifteen thousand block norvin way reported the vehicle went flipped upside down there were no injuries reported top twenty seven p m caller from you bet and green horn road reporting two vehicles stuck in the snow but there was more than that p m call from ten thousand block all to street reported being assaulted with the golf club but did not need medical attention i couldn't help page six sixteen p m a woman from pascali road reported being stuck in the snow six senate bill and over one hundred killed in iraq bombings and obama to defend afghan war escalation in noble speech clashes erupted at iran protest at indonesian officer australian journalists restrained for covering more invasion and six charged to death of x chilean president and chicago resident accused of roll of mumbai attacks and hashmi remains in solitary environmental protection agency said six gases including carbon dioxide and methane endangered at the environment and public health the move would allow the e p a to take actions against gases without needing a congressional approval e p a says it's now a draft regulations to curb the emissions under the clean air act e p a administrator lisa jackson announced the move in washington she said today's action is a step towards enduring pragmatic solutions to the enormous challenge of climate change it is a step towards innovation investment and implementation of technologies that reduce harmful admissions the new york times is reporting that twenty percent of the nation's water treatment systems have violated to safe drinking water act over the past five years more than forty nine million people get their drinking water from the systems while every single violation was reported regulators took action in less than six percent of the cases the disclosure comes ahead of the senate hearing today on law on enforcement of follows the opening day of the global climate summit here in copenhagen there in copenhagen on monday environmental activists opened a parallel summit billed as the global civil side counterpart to the climate talks just in a climate forums opening session a canadian author and activist miami klein said the climate reparations for developing nations and stressed the urgency of grassroots environmental movements said we have to somehow offset the carbon we are meeting coming here how do we do it how do we do it how do we try to do it but what using this incredible space is a start converging to build a kind of global mass movement that will never ever let our leaders get away with this kind of criminal negligence again that is our task my friends it's an awesome fears and f e think of it is mother of all carbon offsets and in the united states dozens of people gathered outside the offices of west virginia department of environmental protection monday for a rally against the mountaintop removal mining the activists called for an immediate end to mountaintop remo beginning with the blasting underway at the coal river mountain the last intact mountain and historic coal river mountain range protesters included environmental activists and attorney robert kennedy junior meanwhile in california twenty nine people were arrested monday at a protest outside the san ramon headquarters of the oil giant chevron the group mobilize ation for climate justice west organized to action to kill coincide with the copenhagen summit opening day and the oil giant shell has won approval to begin drilling off alaska's northwest coast on monday the interior department approved shell's license for three exploratory wells in the ci sea native and environmental groups have warned to drill in could chase away sea life and contaminate the ocean and on capitol hill senate democrats have drafted a can promise a measure that would have the sensually hand over the so called public option to private insurance companies under the proposal the government would no longer establish a public option to compete with insurers instead the federal office of personnel management would hire the insurance companies to run the health plans and democratic senator ben nelson of nebraska  meanwhile has introduced an amendment adding strict anti abortion language in the senate health care reform bill nelson's measure mirrors the controversial language included in the house bill sponsored by mitch you can democrat bart stupak the measures would bar any woman who receives government health insurance subsidies from enrolling in an insurance plan that covers a portion and iraq more than one hundred people have been killed and over one hundred sixty wounded in a series of coordinated bombings at least five areas of baghdad were hit earlier yesterday it was one of the deadliest attacks in iraq this year the white house has announced president obama plans to defend his decision to escalate the afghan war when he excepts the noble peace prize in a later this week on monday white house press secretary robert gibbs and obama will address sen obama will address critics of his orders to deploy over thirty thousand additional troops give said world addressed directly the notion i think that many have wondered which is the whatever of from the noble deep deep i can't even read what gibbs says because it's so ridiculous that's obviously something that he will address anyway to just do what he and i ran dozens of anti government demonstrators were arrested monday as part of an annual student day protest iranian police blocked main roads and fired tear gas near main schools campuses in tehran it was the latest in a series of crackdowns on opposition protests since iran's disputed elections in june and in indonesia a former army officer has admitted the five australian journalists were deliberately murdered while covering the u s backed indonesia invasion of east timor in one nine hundred seventy five speaking to a news want to say the president free in his time how was denouncing human rights violations and this is probably the motive for the criminal action that ultimately cost him his life therefore it seems to me that the here in chile justice takes a while but it comes and in this case it has arrived and we know before this all took place nearly a hundred seventy people were killed in a three day siege of mumbai including six americans in a new york to trial of a young u s citizen has been held in three twenty three hours solitary confinement for nearly three years has been delayed arrest hashmi is being prosecuted for two week period when the informant stated his home carrying rain gear that was allegedly later delivered to a kind of members in pakistan means period in solitary confinement is believed to be one of the longest ever for a prisoner before trial supporters continue to hold weekly rallies outside of the manhattan federal prison where he is jailed for it so i should and the court and interactions where we see him in court he looks like a shell of the person he was before he looks frail and he looks jittery as you can imagine people cannot stand solitary confinement for a day or two days or three years he's been in solitary street solitary confinement ahead of his trial for two and a half years without having a conviction because the government said so and the securit committee the f c c commissions i'm sorry has filed civil charges against three former executives what was once one of the nation's top subprime lenders the three were kids to mislead investors before their company new century financial collapse in two thousand and seven it's about time t did something and now are horror story out of sparks nevada a government plan to round up and relocate thousands of wild horses in the west faces opposition from advocates who say the proposals inhumane and unnecessary at a hearing near reno two dozen advocates present the u s thousand wild horses from western range lands to processors in the mid west and east out of fear that the mustangs fast multiply numbers will lead to mass starvation while the panels adjourned late monday without taking any in nevada has county was one of only two people who supported cells as planned at the hearing two dozen others expressed opposition i've learned as a rancher that they have to be managed for their own good and for the good of other oversee the wild horse program the current schedule of the round up would result in a nail in the coffin for many small herd she said terry farley author of the popular phantom stallion series of children's books presented the board with more than two hundred letters from children  who pose salazar's plan which she says could cause horses to become extinct in the wild children will grow up to believe wild horses were like unicorns exist in only stories farly said we want to protect american wild horses and ensure a lasting legacy for our children and grandchildren jeremy drew of the northern nevada chapter of safari club international said his hunting group supports salazar's plan because mustangs adversely affect wildlife to government argues that the mustang population in ten western states is growing so rapidly that the horses are quickly running out of food and damaging their range in part because of drought ravaging the region the b l m says the number of wild horses and burros on public lands in the west stands at nearly thirty seven thousand but half of them in nevada an additional thirty four thousand wild horses already live away from the range in federal run carouse and pastures and those are nearly fall we're concerned about the numbers during their hearing time is not on our side b l m officials fairly appropriate number of wild horses and burros that can be supported in the range is about twenty six thousand six hundred agency said last year it would have to consider destroying wild horses because of their escalating numbers and the cost of caring for them but earlier this count as more like fifteen thousand horses in the wild they're seeking an independent analysis on the population the relocation plan as part of a long run feud over wild horses in the west where mustangs have roamed ever since they arrived with spanish settlers centuries ago injecting merit with the back seeing one at a time has proved costly and time consuming in recent years the b l m has rounded up and relocated wild horses to government funded holding facilities in and out of the west helicopters are used to drive the mustangs toward the the animals the b l m spent about fifty million this year to feed corral and otherwise manage the nation's wild horses from thirty six million last year without contraception or other such measures mustang herds can double in size about every four years one of the most vocal wild horse advocates is grammy winning singer sheryl crow who has adopted a mustang yourself and took her concerns directly to salazar in a recent telephone call one of the first things he said was something must be done because the horses are starving we don't believe it corrodes said in interview with the associated press either that's it today thanks so much and presents and yes it's serious three for music each week we'll try to scour the world for music for you and if os we're always looking for 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