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6A Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Indian Valley Record
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Alicia Knadler Han rivers meander throughping-pong, basketball and
Indian Valley Editorand converge there, swimming.
aknadler@plumasnews.com With all that water, the city The company they work for
is oppressively humid in the in China is Johnny Eleca.
While Greenville business- summers, when tempera- Their main products
man and inventor Ken tures can reach up to an include electronics for the
Donnell travels the world extreme 108 degrees Fahren- music industry, such as pick-
in search of ways to manu- heit, or frigid in the winter ups for electric guitars and
facture his new miniature whenthe damp, bone-chilling Donnell's miniature micro-
microphone, he is also cold can go as low as minus 1. phone inventions.
searching for ways to create The men have found great They also do a large
jobs here at home. contrast in Plumas County amount of business in retail
Such is the goal of his and Greenville, where theysales of electric guitars here
newest venture, which in- are enjoying the peace andintheUnited States.
cludes having two Chinese quiet, the blue skies and The company has 400 em-
men, John Luo and Kobe fresh air. ployees in a five-story plant
Wang, live with him for a few To be fair, the Wuhan areathat features a clean room for
weeks as apprentices in the is being completely rebuilt the manufacture of specialty
guitar building and restoring right now, so it's very dusty electronics.
trade, and noisy, they said, and One of Donnell's em-
"John and Kobe's visit to there are about 2 million ployees, Matt Graves, will
Greenville is an important extra people living there be sent to China to work
first step in this journey to and working to rebuild there, while he forges ahead
develop China as a consumer the subways, freeways and in plans to open up a small
market for wood products buildings, manufacturing plant in
manufactured in Plumas Another observation from Greenville.
County," Donnell said. the men: it takes a whole day "Shipping parts back
From the Wuhan area of to drive a car around Wuhan, and forth instead of finished
central China, Luo and Wang while it takes only about 30 products will save a lot in the
both learned how to speak minutes to walk around way of tariffs and taxes," he
English in high school, downtown Greenville. said.
Wuhan is the most popu- At home in their spare time Donnell wants their com-
lated city in central China, the men enjoy watching pany to become the premier
and is the fourth largest city movies, going out to good provider of electric and
in the country. , restaurants with friends and acoustic guitars, while at the
The metropolitan land- family, ight-seeing and same time, he hopes to bring
scape is dotted with lakes and attending family parties. 10 - 15 jobs to Greenville and
pools, and the Yangtze andThey also enjoy sports like improve the local economy.
Kobe Wang and John Luo, from Wuhan, China, are first-time visitors to the United States and are
learning how to build and restore guitars from Ken Donnell, who hopes to form a partnership
with their parent company, Johnny Eleca. Ultimately, Donnell wants to open a small manufactur-
ingplant in Greenville -- reverse outsourcing, in a way. Photo submitted
FOUND, from page 1A location between 5 and 6 p.m. Reserve Deputy Nick Daw-
Shortly after 6 p.m. a three- son coordinated communica-
member team arrived from tions and requested that a
being submerged under six the Butte Inter Agency Bomb CalFire engine and Chester
feet of water. Squad. The members includ-Fire Rescue ambulance also
"The PCSO has not been in ed Butte County Sheriff's Of- respond to the location.
the water, we are working off fice deputies and bomb tech- Once fire and medical were
the information from the fire- nicians Joe Deal and JoelMa- on scene the Butte County
man," James said. linowski and Bomb Squad team went to work.
He also advised that a Commander Rob Sheridan of The ABCs of the plan,
bomb squad from Butte the Chico Police Department. according to Malinowski,
County had been dispatched Chester Deputy Michael included pulling the pipe
earlier and was scheduled to Kincaid was the first on bombs out of the water,
arrive at the diversion dam scene and secured the area. moving them to a safer
location and using a piece
of equipment called a
"destructor" on them.
Sheridan said the team
members take turns going
after bon bs and that it was
his turn tonight. He dressed
in a swimsuit to enter the
water.
According to Deal, Mali-
nowski lost the toss tonight
and had to suit up to dispose
of the bombs.
While his team members
were at the pond, Deal re-
sponded to questions about
the pipe bombs.
• "The fact that it is reported
to have a fuse leads us to be-
lieve that it may have to be lit
to explode, although this is
not conclusive," Deal said.
Sheridan was the first team
member to return to the loca-
tion of the bomb squad vail.
At that time he reported
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that both bombs had been detonation occurred at 7:54
retrieved from the water, p.m. and PCSO deputies
He also said, "These bombsmoved in to take the piPe
were not next to each other bombs into evidence.
as initially reported. TheJames said he didn't believe
smaller bomb was about 40 the pipe bombs were inten-
feet away and behind rocks." tionally placed in what the
Once it was verified that locals refer to as the "last
Malinowski had also cleared swimming hole before the
the scene and that the five- lake."
minute safety interval had"With this amount of rust
passed, Deal exploded the on thepipes it looks like
first pipe bomb. they've been in the water
Shortly after the explosion quite awhile, likely tumbling
Malinowski returned to about in the spring runoff,"
the van, too dehydrated tohe said.
continue. He also offered the opinion
At approximately 7:35 p.m.that the pipe bombs were
Deal suited up and returned probably built by youth in
to the pool area to rig the sec- the 18- to 20-year:old range.
ond pipe bomb for detona- "It was likely they Were
tion. In slightly morethen 10 experimenting and they
ti
minutes Deal returned to the would have to be older to i
van and advised James the know about galvanized pipe, I]
pipe bombs did indeed con- drilling pipe holes, timed
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tain sandwich bags filled fuses and the other compo- ii
with black powder, nents that went into making
The second, pipe bomb the pipe bombs," James added.
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