Tidbits
Tidbit 1: I have noticed in the past couple of weeks that Bruce Bread is no longer available at Safeway. I wonder if thehigh prices of wheast has put a crimp on Bruce Bread's product. They were always the expensive loaf. If cheap bread is now at $4-$5, perhaps Bruce Bread got too expensive? I had actually begun buying Bruce Bread since at $4-plus a loaf it was the same price as the lesser loaves.
Tidbit 2: Gas at Hopland's USA station (or what ever the southernmost one is) is $4.39, the cheapest I've seen around.
Tidbit 3: I understand that Peter Richardson, former owner of Rainbow Construction has settled with Ukiah Unified School District. I don't know for how much. The person who told me said he couldn't divulge that part. As you may recall, Rainbow went out of business after the school district refused to pay more than $3 million in charges the company felt it had coming to it when the Grace Hudson School was finished. The construction was over a year late and the school district said the overages were Rainbow's fault. Rainbow said they were the architect's fault. From what I have seen in reports on the construction and from talking to subcontractors, I believe Rainbow got a raw deal and the school district basically put them out of business (plus the Ukiah Valley lost the more than 200 good construction jobs they represented locally). Also it is telling that UUSD is now suing the architects.
Comments
I've found the Willits Safeway has the cheapest gas when I come through Mendocino on the way to UCSF. Used to use the Hopland USA until I discovered Safeway.
Posted by: Fred Mangels | July 20, 2008 07:18 AM