The Governing board of Adventist health Ukiah Valley has increased an annual scholarship to help fill a growing need for bilingual nurses in the community from $1000 to $3000. This year’s recipient was Ukiah High School student Olivia Lucchetti. According to the Daily Journal, the bright senior has a GPA of 3.91 and ranks in the top 10% of her class. She plans on attending University of Nevada at Reno to peruse her nursing education but plans on returning home after graduation.
California Highway Patrol investigators would like the public’s help finding a person of interest in connection to the February murder of a Santa Clarita man. 41-year-old Patrick Michael Weber died of a gunshot wound and had been found in his van after it went off the south side of highway 20 west of Walker ridge road. A picture of the person of interest shows a male in his 20’s or 30’s, about 160 pounds and 5 feet 8 inches tall, wearing a dark green baseball cap and camouflage hoodie with short facial hair and sideburns. Lake County News reports that the picture of the man released by authorities came from surveillance video, but police haven’t said where it was captured. Authorities are stressing that the man is only a person of interest and not a suspect.
Lawmakers all agree that low-income adults should have access to Medi-Cal. Democrats tabled a proposal to proved the coverage to undocumented adults over 65, but undocumented adults aged 19 to 25 would be covered under a proposal that still must be approved by the full legislature before getting Governor Newsom’s signature.
A car went tumbling about 100 feet down a cliff off of highway 1 near Bodega Bay early this morning, catching fire and landing on its roof on top of rocks near Coleman Beach. The driver had to crawl out of a broken window and tread water about 50 to 70 yards offshore as crews rushed to her rescue. She was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
