hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county mom 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 right now for the first time you have the ability to find just about anything in minutes and you'll be able to view the menus of local restaurants find the best price plumber that can come out on the weekend locate the style of shoes that you had in mind and find out who has the best sale on back to school all in one place and it only takes minutes in town nevada memorial was first dedicated fifty years ago sunday its roots go back further with donated funds from the owner of idaho mail and mine and the will of supporters who traveled throughout nevada and sierra counties to tow the need for a modern hospital i was very thankful to be a part of it said master of ceremonies or a low steely who spent a year helping the hospital foundation dig up historical records for the occasion it was a great addition to our county still he recalled how  founding families including mary newton whose husband don went on the road show to promote the hospital's construction attendees such as mary grace to so on who still works there on a per diem basis it was  tributes who work here locally and to be with friends said to soon seventy one the ceremony included a presentation by emily clark who presented hospital chief executive catherine with a flag to fly above the hospital grounds as clark had done fifty years ago i felt very honored to do it this time just as i did back then said clarke now eighty seven during a reception followed by the ceremony to soon help close jones hospital before coming to c n n about a memorial hospital it's quite amazing to watch the growth said to stone i'm very proud of my time during a reception that included a serenade by the grass valley male voice choir and solo rendition of the star spangled banner by longtime kramer praise community for its involvement in the growth of the hospital it's very inspiring to see what this community did to bring this hospital here she said when you think about how much has changed during the first fifty years it's hard to predict what will happen in the next fifty in another union story written by pam junk and steve baker of k v m r news of the nomination of utah phillips album for grammy music stores in nevada county by surprise where copies of strangers in another country the songs of bruce utah phillips were not yet in stock over the weekend folk singer rosalie sorrels received a grammy nomination for her tribute album last week in the best traditional folk album category the record is a collection of songs written by phillips and put together by sorrels a friend of the phil of phillips for fifty five years she had begun the project as a way to increase royalty payments and help to frame medical and living expenses for her friend who had been suffering from a congestive heart failure phillips who died in may he before he heard the album was a resident of nevada city for twenty years and was who produced the show i'm pretty jaded and critical yet the show was phenomenal so sweet and to me graham added i can't think of anyone more deserving of a grammy than rosalie this is the best album i've ever made and her cd liner notes some of the songs on the album are ones that bruce braley performed and i think it's important that they get heard like enola gay it's one of my favorite songs and playing it with peggy seeger was a really special release this summer on in the this category are folk icon pete seeger peggy seeger tom paxton and kathy in the tail sorrells seventy five is an acknowledge folklorist with an encyclopedic knowledge of the folk idiom ranging from english ballads to mormon songs to the work of the contemporary songwriters like phillips her songs and stories have preserved the oral tradition and like phillips to her voice is distinctive having been described as mellow and like a finally age antique viola the late late folk singer gamble rogers called her the hillbilly edith p i a f according to sorrels website the university of california santa cruz has set a rosalie sorrels our child as part of its generation our chives in recognition of her role as a creator and collaborator in american culture during the second half of the twentieth century the university of idaho awarded her an honorary doctorate of fine arts in two thousand fillips passing was recognized worldwide in close to one thousand friends and admirers to in about a city a little league field our last story from the union written by liz keller clifford mcdonough who was convicted in october of murdering donald sullivan was sentenced friday to twenty one years to life in prison it was the maximum sentence we could get for the crimes committed so i am pleased and about the county district attorney cliff newell the sentence means that mcdonnell who was thirty seven at the time of the murder will first be eligible for parole at age sixty jurors found mcdonnell guilty on all counts death a day after october twenty second two thousand and seven beating inflicting injury on a spouse in connection with mcdonald's beating up a strange wife cindy mcdonough later that same evening and simple battery of his friend peter w arrived on the scene shortly after the crime was perpetrated the mcdonnell had been released from the county jail on his own repugnant since in connection with another battery charge earlier in the day he assaulted sullivan he had gone to cit mcdonald's house in an attempt to reconcile with her but she rebuffed him according to the trial testimony later he learned his wife had slept with solvent on one occasion after drinking with sullivan the two men started fighting itself and sullivan was brutal brutally beaten by mcdonough according to the court testimony over and damaged tools on a site and then one twenty five a m a call from south church street reported finding the hypodermic needle eleven fifty seven a m a caller from hennessy school reported some type of juvenile disturbance a twelve sixteen p m a call from four hundred block of doors drive reported items missing from the rental property and three fifty five p m a man from the law bar meadow road and the night way reported a driver who was all over the road unable to maintain lanes and driving in a very called from east maryland drive reported drivers in a white sedan had been parking at a dead end for the last few nights when the caller went to get a license plate driver asking if there was a problem before d v and on friday one twenty three a m it woman from a business on a one thousand block of sutton way reported prescriptions she was picked up was different from the one she usually gets she was advised to follow up with the pharmacy and an account of sheriff's office on ten thousand block a rough and ready highway reported illegal scattering of remains and at ten forty nine am he called from pole to no and the toll roads reported a horse tangled in a fence animal control responded and found the horse was dead and there you have it today for the blotter in pakistan and commander says u s needs to double to plot holes in afghanistan and pakistan rate's militant camp and police killing sparks right in groups and representative been conducted sitting at the chicago plan since friday look they say their former boss gave them one of three days notice of its closing many of the boys had worked out the factory for decades union organizers say that workers are still owed vacation and severance pay and were not given the sixty days of notice generally required by federal law when companies make layoffs on sunday so rights leader jesse jackson visited the factory workers he said these workers must be congratulated for having the courage in the great tradition of dr king  tradition of cesar chavez and tradition of rosa parks you're sitting down in many ways allows america to stand up workers all around the nation who are now facing massive layoffs it's your job it's your plan to stay there and fight for them tell justice comes and justice will company told workers last tuesday that that was closed because bank of america had canceled republics line of credit laid off workers have hoisted placards saying bank of america you got bailed out we got sold out on sunday president elect barack obama voice support for the workers he said number one i think that these workers if they ever earned these benefits in their pay then these companies need to follow through on those commitments and number two i think it is important for us to make sure that moving forward any economic plan that we put in place helps businesses to meet pay off its payroll so that we're not seeing these kinds of circumstances again factory operation has attracted international attention labor organizer latest fried said we're going we're doing something we haven't done since the one nine hundred thirty s and the factory occupation began on friday the same day the borough of labor statistics report of the five hundred thirty three thousand jobs were lost in november the highest monthly total since  hundred four total nearly two million jobs have been lost this year at a congressional hearing on friday key's haul of the bureau of labor statistics token grassman you guys are coming is that this was one of the worst job reports in the agency's history he also said if i were to yes and then coming to ask again how long has it been around and a whole set one hundred twenty four years and coming to responded on hundred twenty four years and so that means that we're sliding down a slippery slope fast the national official unemployment rate has risen to six point seven percent the new york times reports unemployment rate does not include these two discouraged to look for work any longer than those working fewer hours than they would like add those to the roster of unemployment rate hit a record twelve point five percent in november meanwhile the proportion of homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payment or in foreclosure rose to an all time high in the third quarter and on saturday obama outlined plans to a massive economic stimulus program to help rebuild the economy president elect barack obama said second we will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure they'll lose the money he also pledged to invest in technology he said we as we renew our schools and our ways will also renew our information superhighway it is unacceptable that the united states ranks fifteenth in the world in broadband adoption here in a country where who invented the internet every child should have the chance to get online and they'll get that chance when i'm president because that's how we'll strengthen america's competitiveness in the world in transition as president elect obama has chosen retired general eric to be the secretary of veterans affairs department shinseki made headlines in february two thousand and three when he testified before congress that the u s would need several hundred thousand soldiers to stabilize iraq after the invasion at times and jackie was army's chief of staff defense secretar donald rumsfeld and other high ranking pentagon officials publicly rebuked him while insisting that iraqis would welcome the americans as liberators and he responded a word to my fellow veterans if confirmed i will work every work each and every day to ensure that we are serving you as well as we said as you have served us we will pursue a twenty first century v a that will serve your needs will open the doors new doors of opportunity so you can find a job support families when you return to civilian life if burned by congress would become the first asian american to head to veterans affairs department shinseki who is a japanese descent housing was the first asian american to be a four star general and the first to head one of the branches of the u s military and newly released campaign records reveal that president elect barack obama raised its record shattering seven hundred fifty million dollars during the overall campaign that is triple the amount raised for two thousand and four by president bush who held the previous record obama and the democratic national committee outspent mccain and republicans by a two to one margin during the final two months of the campaign and the washington post reports congressional democrats are drafting legislation that would give detroit automakers at least fifteen billion dollars in emergency loans friday democratic congressman barney frank said lawmakers can allow the on makers to collapse he said if you really to some extent out of three of our major domestic manufacturing energy it would be a very serious problem in any case in the midst of the worst economic situations since the great depression it would be an unmitigated disaster this is barney frank who helped our little property problem of foreclosure the justice department is expected marine corporal dustin heard former marine corporal donald ball and paul slow who served in the army and texas national guard while indictments who will be unveiled washington blackwater guards are expected to surrender today in utah but surrendered and you tell the man could argue the case imposed a maximum penalty for them not only the guards but the director gave them the authority weapons because any munity he must be taken to trial because this is our demand mohamed also said was in his car with several members of his family one when spies for americans and allied forces in afghanistan the attack occurred in the outskirts of the city of peshawar where a car bombing on friday killed thirty four and wounded more than one hundred people the top commander of the u s and nato troops in afghanistan has told usa today that the united states will need nearly twice as many troops in for years to stabilize afghanistan general david mckiernan said the u s needs to raise troop levels from about thirty two thousand to around sixty thousand report by the international council of security and development estimates taliban have expanded the footprint in afghanistan now a permanent presence in nearly three quarters of the country and other news from the region pakistani security forces have reportedly raided a camp used by militants blamed for a month by attacks and arrested more than a dozen people including one of the suspected mastermind of the attack and in greece the police killed killing of a fifteen year old has sparked three days of clashes between police and youth the unrest began in athens has spread across the country and into louisiana democratic congress member william jefferson has lost his bid for the tenth term in office jefferson last republican lawyer on joseph cao who will become the first vietnamese american to serve in congress last year jefferson was indicted for bribery racketeering money laundering and obstruction of justice green party candidate malik raju placed third in the race and our last little tidbit today los angeles how the las vegas o j simpson will spend at least fifteen years in a bad prison for an armed robbery at a local hotel judge ruled yesterday morning simpson stood stone faced friday as well this was last friday judge jackie glass quickly rattled off his punishment after he pleaded with her that he didn't mean to steal when he tried to retrieve recover sports memorabilia the mentos and personal items from two collectible peddlers in las vegas hotel room it was much more than stupidity glass said rejecting his apology simpson appeared ready to break down in tears as he said sorry and confused before going into a rambling and emotional five minute declaration i don't want to steal anything from anyone i'm sorry sorry he said you saw force that was somewhat hoarse glass rule before sentencing that simpson cannot be freed on bail pending possible fred goldman and his daughter kim goldman the father and sister of ronald goldman were among the fifteen members of the public allowed into the courtroom most of the sixty three seats were taken by media lawyers and family members of the defendants ronald goldman was slain along with simpson's ex wife nicole brown simpson and one thousand nine hundred four father declined to comment on simpson's sentencing until after the hearing the sixty one year old former football star walked away if you're a man after the celebrated murder trial in los angeles this time around neither simpson nor his codefendant and former golfing buddy clarence c j stewart testif at the trial they were convicted october third of twelve criminal charges including kidnapping armed robbery and facing mandatory prison time a minimum of six years and up to life jurors who heard thirty days testimony said after the verdict they were convinced of some sense because of the audio recording middleman thomas secretly made to september thirteenth two thousand and seven palace station casino hotel confrontation with sports memorabilia brokers offered beards 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 so we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the phone and clip being but now for the first time you have the ability to find just about anything in minutes and you'll be able to view the menus of local restaurants find the best price plumber that can come out on the weekend locate the style of shoes that you had in mind and find out who has the best say on the back to school gear all in one place and it only takes minutes in town