regional summit in june to address pollution troubles in the foothills fairgrounds take top honors megan is ten years old and in june of two thousand and seven she was diagnosed with post dear sir coma bone cancer she had been complaining that her leg hurt for a few weeks previous to the diagnosis and we thought she was having a typical aches and pains and g or that maybe she had pulled a muscle while playing it was such a shock to her that she had cancer child like people at suffer so her memorial are phenomenal a woman named sarah said on explained to megan in basic terms that she had cancer sarah was very simple and not at all scary in the way she described what would be happening to make make seem to accept the explanation and basically had the let's do this thing attitude the first three months were horrible does things to the body that aren't right but meghan just silently endured everything she was scheduled to have her surgery to remove the tumor and a major portion of her femur along with her knee in september and because that wasn't enough to go through she had terrible mouth sores up until a couple days before surgery somewhere in a time period megan found her voice and everything that that had sat silently bottled up for the previous three months came tumbling out the surgery went well but the recovery was beyond painful megan started chemo back three weeks post surgery and has been doing it ever since she's only has five more treatments to go and she's very excited about finishing up and going back to school this journey is a difficult one and not just physically but mentally also megan is very much feeling the mental effects now she will start crying to tell us that she doesn't know why she visits your school and children are wonderful around her but even when she is feeling well she can only join in to an extent she was in a wheelchair up to about a month ago but even with her crutches she's very limited to what she can do megan is such a tough cookie she was before this started and she still is but i think that with cancer she has really learned so much compassion i remember during her first months of chemo she was lying in bed as still as could be because every time she moved she vomit and she said to me in a quite voice why am i feel so terrible for these kids here i know why i'm getting poked but they don't and they're probably really scared broke my heart because she was so sick and yet she was worried about the other children i've always felt that making could take on the world when she grows up but now i think she can take on the world and do it with compassion she has just finished up chemotherapy part of the treatment and had a limb salvage surgery in september two thousand seven she still will have anywhere from two to five surgeries throughout the next several years to linked in her leg as she grows with treatment megan is recovering and you can now the first an bike run is going to happen at the end of this month in grass valley i'm sorry i don't have all the information today i will update it tomorrow and everyone is invited to participate in any way they can there will be a barbecue at the end of the run all the proceeds raised will be used to help megan davis fight bone cancer it's a poker run where you put basically play a hand of poker while you're traveling to different spots and there's prizes this is a great cause nevada guy can show that we care by helping out don't forget the market calendar and take a couple hours out of the day to do a good thing you won't be sorry fed up with poor air quality in western nevada county a group of concerned residents and city and county officials are busily working to hold the first regional ozone summit this summer this year ozone summit on june fourth will bring five rural foothill counties and officials from sacramento and san francisco an environmental protection agency to grass valley to brainstorm on ways to improve our air quality registration began last week for the event will bring doctors real estate agents air quality and transportation experts together to discuss how high ozone levels impact health the economy and the environment i think it will be really good to get answers for any residents up here frustrated that air quality isn't getting any better said gretchen bennett director of the northern air quality management district exhaust from cars driving in the valley is the biggest source of those on for foothill communities during the warmer months may through october western nevada county regularly exceed safe ozone levels are set by the e p a because of vehicle emissions from the valley blow in and settle over the area for hours  the majority of our ozone we read on our monitors is generated from the urban areas our health is definitely impacted having been last week to counties ozone pollution levels were ranked as the thirteenth worst in the nation by the american lung association compared to sacramento county and tense place a two thousand and seven state of the air report by the association gave the county an f grade for its always own level because of the number of unhealthy days last year nevada county had some relief because of a cooler summer that brought the usual average of twenty unsafe days down to just nine violations high ozone days are considered unhealthy for children elderly athletes and those with lung conditions buckle dr jeff kane blames always on levels for the high rate of childhood asthma one out of six in the valley county poor air quality can also depressed home sales and harm the health of forest agricultural crops said marina bernheimer chair of the local group save the air in the bad economy the group made up of three hundred concerned residen purchased two portable monitors that will be used to detect ozone levels at different sites in the county and posted lives throughout the day on w w w dot stain and see dot org sacramento recently requested to change its e p a s ozone not attainment classification from serious to severe in order to extend the city's deadline for meetings federal standards from twenty thirty to twenty nineteen there at that bush we can't limit is proposed by scientific advisors the sense is that industry is winning over public health also in march the california air resources board voted to lower by seventy percent the number of hybrid cars that vehicle manufacturers are required to sell in the state does not comforting to foothill communities whose read it's a residence won't breathe easier until air quality rules tightened down here while urban areas see higher spikes of unsafe ozone levels western nevada county and other sierra foothill communities suffer from longer periods of exposure to high ozone conditions it's definitely a regional problem we have to work together last year the american lung association gave nevada county a flunking grade and ranked a county the thirteenth worst in the nation for those own pollution levels last year a cooler summer meant healthier here in western nevada county better triggered nine violations of environmental protection agency standards for ozone compared to the usual average of twenty president and c e o of the seventeenth district agricultural sociate in the first proper name and skip lusk president of the fair board received the award on behalf of the association it community appreciation award honors business and nevada county then in body and celebrate community service and provide valuable economic service to the county the very ground contribute nearly twenty one million dollars in economic impact to the vet a county create about two hundred fifty local jobs and generates about two hundred twenty five thousand in local tax revenue each year the county fair plays a crucial role in youth agricultural programs including a local junior livestock program which educates educates trains young farmers in the breeding reason and grooming of form animals each year the fair host the annual head mechanics auction and the junior livestock auction which together raise more than half a million dollars for nevada county youth the nevada county fairground host of county fair to draft horse classic and a hard harvest fair and the county christmas fair i'm giving the last one in the last word to the iraqi government is or it comes to its senses and takes a path to peace or it will be seen as this same as the previous government if they don't come to their senses and curbing filtrated militias then we will declare an open war until army in baghdad and basra a u s helicopter gunships and predator drones have been repeatedly firing missiles into cider city at least two hundred iraqis have died inside or city over the past month u s military is also building a twelve foot high wall around most  cider city meanwhile secretary of state condoleezza rice made an unannounced stop in baghdad on sunday she praised the iraqi government decision to take of shiite militia members in basra and baghdad the new york times has revealed new details on how the pentagon recruited more than seventy five retired military officers to appear on t v outlets as so called military analysis ahead of the iraq war to portray iraq as an urgent reports the pentagon continued to use that analysis in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance and in campaign news senators barack obama and hillary clinton have begun their final full day of campaigning in pennsylvania ahead of the tuesday primary clinton remains the leader in almost all polls on friday obama managed to hold the largest campaign rally of the year when he it is estimated thirty five thousand people gathered in philadelphia and former u s president jimmy carter has said hamas is prepared to accept the rights of israel to live in peace within one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders but carter said i was turned down his proposal for a thirty day you know lateral cease fire with israel carter's comments came after he met with top hamas leaders excluding the groups exceeded political chief colleague michele carter said the masa leaders would also except a peace agreement negotiated by palestinian president mahmoud abbas it palestinians approved the deal in a boat carter met with hamas in defiance of the us and israel he defended his decision by saying the problem is not that i met with the hamas in syria problem is that israel and the united states refused to meet with someone who must be involved carter urged israel to engage in direct negotiations with  saying failure to do so was hampering peace efforts meanwhile the israeli military has announced it will investigate the death of the router's cameraman who was killed last week by an israeli tank human rights watch has said to journalist pradelle shayna may have been deliberately targeted by the israeli tank crew she and i was traveling in a vehicle clearly marked as belonging to media workers when he came under attack human rights watch middle east camera went black are the journalists who arrived to see shortly after the shelling also said they came under tank fire and in paraguay your former catholic priest once known of the poor has been elected president fernando lugo will be the first paraguayan president since nine hundred forty six not to be from the conservative colorado power party logo one forty one percent of the vote beating blanco who received thirty one percent legal was pledged to crack down on corruption and channel paraguay's wealth into social programs he also said may we never again in the political class of paraguay never again base our politics client ism or enticement because it is done so much damage to our national politics and pope benedict the sixteenth has returned to the vatican after six day trip to the united states at united nations on friday pope benedict gave a forty minute address on peace and human rights but never directly mentioned the iraq war in what was viewed as a veiled criticism of the bush administration pope said nations should obey international law and take collective action to deal with the world's problems the pope also said protecting human rights is vital to bridging inequalities between countries pope benedict the sixteenth said it is inconceivable that believe or should have to suppress a part of themselves their faith in order to be active citizens it should never be necessary to deny god in order to enjoy one's ri and in somalia at least eighty one people died over the weekend and the heaviest fighting in the capital mogadishu has seen in months what's the plan is between us back to ethiopia troops in somalia fighters linked to the former union of islamic courts the l many human rights mugabe has been turned away from a dark in south africa a few union workers refused to unload the arms the dark workers are were protesting south african president thabo mbeki east failure to pressure mugabe to release the results of last month's presidential election the opposition party movement for democratic change claims they won the election while mugabe's ruling party says there should be a runoff and sunday ten day bt the secretary general sea rejected calls for a recount he said it is quite clear that the dictatorship will do everything legally and extra legally to try and reverse the people's victory of the twenty ninth of march two thousand and eight but we have made our case the jury is out there zimbabweans themselves know what they did in the polling stations the rest of africa community the rest of the international community is watching the so called recount has no credibility at all is not legitimate and we will not accept that recount we will not accept that which is a model and in economic news two more major corporations have announced plans to lay off thousands of workers on friday citigroup a five point one billion dollars loss and said it would cut nine thousand jobs meanwhile eighteen da has announced plans to eliminate forty six hundred positions and president bush heading to new orleans today to meet or this is yesterday or two days ago actually by time you see his new orleans today to meet with his mexican and canadian counterparts for a summit on the security and prosperity partnership of north america critics of s p p accused bush of pushing a new nafta plus deal with mexico and canada that would cover security immigration the environment business food regulations and other issues amnesty international and other critics accused the north american leaders of negotiating the deal in secret without meaningful public debate and other food matters a new study in the university of kansas has found a genetic modifications reduces the product productivity of crops the independence of london reports the study undermines your pretty claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis researchers found a genetically modified soria products produce about ten percent less food then it near la barre metal road drive reported a suspicious looking man was carrying a large gun eleven forty five a m a caller from the store and one on a black a west mcknight way reported a person collecting signatures for a petition was yelling over her while she was also collecting facing her home and when she complained and said it was offensive one of them lifted his shirt to expose and swung his swastika tattoo she said he said he liked the history of the swastika and officer contacted the woman at eight thirty nine p m police arrested a thirty three year old man on the two hundred block of certain way on suspicion of violation of parole the man's bicycle was also seized and on friday twelve twenty vandalism had to skate park police took a report for vandalism and closed down the park and up public works could clean out up for safety purposes in the nevada county sheriff's office on thursday at twelve twenty four p m a deputy took a report for child endangerment on a ten thousand block of rough and ready highway and it's three fifteen p m a deputy contacted an ice cream truck on the eleven doesn't block on highway one seventy four deputy was following up on a report wednesday evening mild music and it's three thirty five p m caller reported several juveniles broke into a government building on the ten thousand block of bull valley road and they were in the elections office  school road and arrested a person on suspicion of drunk driving and on friday the twelve fifty one am a woman called from the sixteen thousand block of fair lois lane to report a motorcycle was don't from inside  house police took a report from burglary nevada city police department on thursday at six fifteen p m a caller from the store in the seven hundred block of zion street reported three men just told me left in a blue ford ranger truck with a that's it for the blotter today now for our weather report sorry about the weather forecast last week but that's not all for all because we trust the weather man should be sunny all week but maybe a dr east and stay tuned tomorrow for the news on the black widow case