org and today's local news groups had his eye on current green horn creek but someone else got it first it was there on tuesday morning said ruth sticking his head on friday ruth and his son russell drove to the creek with intention of pulling the car from the bank and towing it to kilroy's for demolition more than likely the good samaritan who removed the car was getting a head start before today's tenth annual cleanup sponsored by south river citizens volunteers collected an estimated seventy thousand pounds of trash and recyclables from the banks of the nevada county's watershed including refrigerators mattresses an abandoned cars down their champion mine road volunteers found a whole bunch of stuff people just pulling mattresses  up takes place throughout california today as part of the annual campaign to california coastal commission throughout the state fifty thousand volunteers will be participating in what the guinness book of world records once dubbed the largest garbage collection since the program started in one thousand nine hundred five californians have picked up more than ten million pounds of trash from the state shores collection takes place at the end of the summer when trash left by vacationers and hikers takes its toll on the fragile marine environment and ivette accounting called the cleanup a huge community effort everyone comes out to do this because everyone loves the river volunteers who haven't  that independence trailer highway forty nine purdon or edwards crossing will meet at rood center at eight thirty a m and carpool to locations where cleanup locations include the town of washington champagne road dog bar road creek at it comes had missed a widening crackdown on commercial pot farms and just three months after law enforcement tightened the limits on marijuana grown for medical purposes despite some stiff opposition considered by some in the future the rest at locations between penn valley and smart bill were handled in concert with that accounting our products task force legalizing federal drug enforcement administration once we how on a drive he was booked it went around correctional facility and released after making ten thousand dollars bail all three bus thursday involved well groomed plants but to go to produce two to three pounds of high quality pot commonplace now and it's all too frequent these folks are going to defend against someone stealing their product and we worry about people getting hurt the responses of nevada city clerk kathy wilcox barnes city manager mark miller and nevada city council two critical grand jury reports were released friday mark in some areas of agreement in an otherwise contentious dispute but wilcox dawn's also continued with her accusations of dollars allegedly mismanagement include sized other city department heads for being disorganized the three parties are embroiled in a dispute going back at least to the council and against the city blaming miller for creating a hostile work environment to areas where they do agree stems in part from the city's launching of its own investigation into its financial problem in mid two thousand and six marcella harris of what is in the grand jury's report has been gleaned from the reports that nevada city paid outside consultants to put together to inform the city of this situation of operations in the city by acting on consult already the city is in a much better shape in its finances valid systems and organisation the financial systems have all been updated carries added we are current on all the audits and addition and audit fun is bringing the city into compliance with government accounting standards for cities the bank statements are green we can styled general ledger and the general ledger to the year and audited financial statements our records are much more operations supervisor and miller failed to put the city finances in order prior to april two thousand and six in her response to the grand jury find in city clerk cox bars agreed that the files had to city hall were in a state of disarray other than her own at the time she left as operation supervisor the documents in the boxes in my office were neatly organized and labeled file folders filed alphabetically unlike the ones in the city managers chief of police city planners city engineers offices that were just stacked all over or thrown into boxes with no rhyme or reason well corresponding wrote willcox barn agreed with findings that the issue of organizing the records was brought up in the grand jury report from two thousand such a system because spawn wrote about a city finances were being put into order even before the latest grand jury finding city manager miller said and his response was have been organized and placed into a locked cabinet water and sewer bills are being collected and a new finance manager has been hired and officials are working to comply with government accounting standards miller wrote the finance experience council members are serving full time in finance committee and the finance manager in the city treasurer's report to the city council now are also has recommended that council that hold an election to change city rules to make the clerk position an appointment position rather than elected the nevada city council agreed for the most part but the observations in the grand jury report consultants were hired in april two thousand and six to investigate city finances soon after the wilcox bonds controversy erupted forming the basis for the grand jury's own investigation and findings the city's response consulted an open process and scheduled a special city council meeting july twenty third where we spent several hours going through the grand jury report point by point in front of the public harris said we discussed each item and came up with responses we thought were accurate the responses of all three parties are aged man who was standing in a driveway and brushing his teeth when a car pulled in friday seven twenty four am when a call from the highway twenty at highway forty nine to report a driver tried to cut off her off and  coffee in grants pass oregon gerald fitzgerald insisted the only way the united states could leave iraq is victory and cutting and running or bailing or anything else but when i gave her forecast for the war she could have been speaking for either of them i don't think it's any time soon president bush addressing the nation on the war thursday from the oval office said it was possible for the first time in years for people who have been in opposite sides of this difficult debate to come together and in a way they have you scattered across the nation after this speech are any indication americans expect a large us presence in iraq for years to come including well after bush leaves office in january two thousand and nine they still disagree in sight will be there for at least another two or three years predicted jim hodgkins it bartender in musician who was out for a bike ride in fresno california who described himself as a liberal democrat no one seems to have the guts to change policy the president told americans the surge strategy he announced in january which includes to american forces in iraq by about thirty thousand troops was meeting its objectives citing security gains and  said it was possible for fifty seven hundred u s troops to come home by chris and by late friday defense secretary robert gates had raised the possibility that the u s forces could drop to one hundred thousand by the end of two thousand and eight that's it's just fine with lee daughter to be a salesman it's a gun shop in savannah georgia who consider themselves conservative leaning independent and who keeps a cross through picture of democratic presidential candidate senator hillary clinton and the store i think we're going to be involved for several more years there's no doubt about in my mind said dorothy age fifty eight if we're going to see this through we've got to finish it we've got to play to win dorothy said he agrees one hundred percent with bush's assertion that free iraq will help protect us from terrorism at home bush said thursday a free iraq would also counter iran and be an anchor of stability in the middle east senator jack reed of rhode island delivering the democratic response t bush had failed to provide an adequate plan to end the war in iraq or to convince in rationale to keep it going the interviews friday unscientific sampling reflected some of the familiar opinions of the war itself some people mention weapons of mass destruction that have never been found others complained the media has not reported enough good news from iraq scientific surveys meanwhile have shown an american public clearly turned against the war according to the most recent associated press ipsos poll on iraq fifty seven percent of americans say the war was a mistake compared to just thirty seven percent who said it was the right percent both polls were completed before the bush address and had margins of sampling error of three point one percent other recent opinion polls also taken before the bush speech have shown solid majorities of americans believe in the surge was vermont carrying a sign that read demand an end to this unjust war but she said she did not expect an end unless congress pulled the plug on financing the war i just don't think they have the guts frustrated frustration with iraq help democrats regain control of the house senate but the party has been unwilling to unite behind proposals to cut off the funding for the war several people interviewed around the nation said they felt conflicted about the next step in iraq  toll climbs steadily towards four thousand but worried about what might happen if the united states pulls out i think it's going to be at least a ten year war unless we just pull out said barbara turner a customer service representative from to who on friday was visiting abraham lincoln this my marks in spring field illinois she had threaded if the united states pulls out what does that say about us that we can be scared off that we can be intimidated i think we literally just have to stay the course do the best you can and show the world that we're the power to be reckoned ways and at the alamo all the san antonio church that came to symbolize the heroic stand of freedom and independence choice double a fifty year old republican visiting from seattle figured it would be at least two thousand and nine before the u s could major with drawl i think we will always have a presence there she added if we get out too early we'll have done it all for nothing and out of baghdad the three men glanced left and right before cautiously entering a looker store to do street one of the two areas where alcohol is publicly sold in iraqi capital inside they pointed to a bottle of champagne give me a box of dollars one said selling and drinking alcohol is still legal in iraq but since the rise of the religious parties in this predominantly muslim country the trade has come under severe pressure aside from legal restrictions many lookers shops have been bombed in the past four years some who dared sell their homes have been killed by religious militias which use fear and his full name for security reasons people are buying big amounts of alcohol because ramadan is coming referring to the muslim holy month of fasting that begins this week all liquor stores are closed during ramadan a major that has been in force since before saddam hussein's regime was toppled in april two thousand and three when would you leave the buyer takes bottles but now they buy boxes of said name a clerk who refused to give his full name out of fear of safety they want to make sure that they have enough until the end of the month or so and lots of beer and whiskey wraps alcohol business based various pressures on long before the u s led invasion for decades baghdad's nightclubs and bars by the tigris those in his secular bass party so they are heavily restricted and regulated alcohol sales night clubs were turned into restaurants but some still sold are called to their clients secretly so not to saddam's fall the liquor business s hops began openly selling alcohol and vendors were seen in some of the baghdad streets hawking imported beer and whiskey all that came to an end as religious parties so that if i had their hold on power today there is only two areas in baghdad where alcohol is legally sold near the baghdad hotel in the central part of the capital along civilian street and myriam area just outside the green zone that houses offices of the iraqi prime minister and iraq and that and i see the dates flavored liquor which is produced in iraq and sells for as little as ten dollars and forty cents a bottle the most expensive brands he sells is johnny walker black label whiskey for twenty eight dollars a bottle at another shop a christian employ who refused to give his name sr has been receiving threats for months said his temples brand is the indian made whiskey and sells for two dollars for a fifth this is usually bought by the homeless people who live on the street to man said he said most of his clientele is muslims christians and his ears sell and muslims drink he said today for the world nose and now it's time for our weather report it's a beautiful weekend looks up to be shaping up across our area mainly senate skies today with the afternoon highs for the sacramento area and the san joaquin valley in the low to mid eighty's to put hills should see a mix of seventies the eighty's with mostly sunny skies towelheads to the mid sixty's today a low just off the coast of northwest part of the state looks to head south along the coast before heading in late sunday the end of the weekend should also see mostly sunny skies along our eyes a tad cooler than what we today another lol looks to dip in from the north in the middle of the coming work week to bring cooler temperatures to our area along some clouds and the chance for showers in