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TheDescrtSun Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Section Ansel Adams show opens Photographer's legendary images in Palm Springs. DESERT TODAY, Dl OCA assistant managing EDITORLOCAL Kakie Urch PHONE 778-4625 FAX 778-4654 e-mail localnewsthedesertsun.com FOR HOME DELIVERY ASSISTANCE PHONE: 322-5555 tadiow wmm COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL Depeche Mode to take stage at April festival STAFF REPORTS The British techno superstar group Depeche Mode is one of the headliners for this year's Coachella Valley Music Arts Festival, MTV News reported Monday. Depeche Mode singer Dave REMEMBERING THE LEGEND INDIO MORE ONLINE Find more on the festival at www.thedesertsun.com coachella Gahan spilled the beans backstage at KROQ-FM's Almost Acoustic Christmas show in Los Angeles on Sunday, according to the MTV News Web site. "He casually mentioned the I DOCUMENTARY: "Coachella," premieres Jan. 19 in Los Angeles, in theaters Jan.

24. tin Gore interrupted: "Are we allowed to say that?" "Yeah, well, I just did," Gahan responded, according to the MTV report, datelined Universal City. "And, you know, we are the 1 iriOIULLUWU. Close call Three people suffered injuries in a triple-car pileup. B3 -'nil" HEY, STARGAZERS Have a sighting to report? Don't keep it to yourself.

E-mail darrell.smiththedesertsun.com DARRELL SMITH Star pack burns up Matchbox It's starting to look a lot like Christmas. How do we know? Because a celebrity or star is in our midst everywhere we go. Last week, they were on the golf course, enjoying a night on the town or somewhere in the Coachella Valley just hanging around. Whether the stars are dining or at a tree lighting, we're there once again with this week's celebrity sightings. Fore! You couldn't walk through Palm Springs' The Falls and its upstairs companion Matchbox Thursday night without bumping into a celebrity.

Could be a typical Thursday in Palm Springs, but the celeb-packed room came courtesy of Tony Agullar who for 1 2 years has brought the Coachella Val Linden ley the Greater Palm Springs Celebrity Golf Classic. The tourney, which ended Sunday at Desert Princess Country Club and Resort in Cathedral City, kicked off in style at the Palm Springs nightspots with a host of locally-based and other stars. Songbird and Concord recording artist Keely Smith hosted the Thursday night launch and was joined by scratch golfer Elke Som-mer; "Barney Miller's Hal Linden; James MacArthur entertainer Jerry Vale; crooner Jack Jones; former San Diego Chargers running back and now-color commentator Hank Bauer among others. Buddy's back And just down the street, legendary jazz pianist and singer Buddy Greco was judging the singing talent at the PS Idol finals. Greco, over his long, celebrated career, has performed with icons Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Nat King Cole.

Good news for fans of good music: Greco has recently relocated from Las Vegas to the Coachella Valley with plans to open the eponymous Cathedral City din ner club "Buddy Greco's" in the old Beto's Bistro building on East Palm Canyon Drive. For Pete's sake One of our sharp-eyed spotters strolled onto Palm Desert's El Paseo Sunday night and saw none other than tennis star Pete Sampras and wife, actress Bridgette Wilson-Sampras Wedding Planner," "Billy enjoying a meal at California Pizza Kitchen. The pair are said to have a home at Bighorn Country Club. Get up, stand up Hung out for a bit at Howard's Hollywood Hangout in downtown Palm Springs Thursday and had a nice chat with stand-up comic Bobby Kelton. The funnyman, in town last week, reached stand-up's holy grail, "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" 21 times during his long career and continues to perform in Las Vegas and at corporate events.

Darrell Smith's column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. He can be reached at 778-4669 or at darrell.smiththedesertsun.com km best." Depeche Mode, founded in 1980, has sold more than 70 million records worldwide and in 1988 sold out the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. They are touring in support of "Playing the Angel," an album critics are saying compares to their 1990 masterpiece, "Violator." The festival, which features scores of bands and draws 100,000 alternative music fans to the Indio Polo Field each Please see COACHELLA, B4 COACHELLA VALLEY Dumping crackdown sought by Cahuilla Piles of waste tossed onto reservation with increasing abandon By Benjamin Spillman THE DESERT SUN The ugly side of prosperity is piling up on an east valley Indian reservation. And some members of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla tribe want it to stop. They're asking leaders of California's desert resort communities to stem the flow of illegal waste that's piling up by the ton and even catching on fire.

The massive mounds contain everything from palm trees to golf balls bearing area resorts' logos. They are a hazard for tribal and non-Indian residents on the reservation. And the tribal government doesn't have resources to police nearly 25,000 acres of land that's become a destination for unscrupulous waste haulers. "The signs have been shot at, the fences ripped off," said VC'illard Chin, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency worker tasked with helping the tribe.

There is kind of a wild, wild west mentality." The illegal dumping is so brazen, haulers with tractor trailers and heavy equipment can be seen bringing trash during daylight hours. Gathering support Chin was among a small delegation that on Monday urged a Coachella Valley Association of Governments committee to support stronger anti-dumping enforcement. The Solid Waste and Recycling Technical Working Group heard the presentation and voted for a resolution to support the tribe's position. Leaders from around the valley could consider the resolution at a Coachella Valley Association of Government's executive committee meeting. "If it is an 1 8-wheeler and it is arriving from a development in one of our jurisdictions, I think we should help," CVAG executive director John Wohlmuth said after the meeting.

Illegal dumping has been a blight on the reservation land-Please see DUMPING, B4 Growth Development Lottery Obituaries Opinion B2 B5 B5 B6-7 CORRECTIONS We correct errors of fact promptly and courteously. If you have a correction or clarification, please call Managing Editor Rick Green at 778-4637 or nck.greenthedesertsun.com 2006 FESTIVAL DATES: April 29 and 30 HEADLINE ACT: Depeche Mode TICKETS: Not yet on sale band would be co-headlining Coachella," according to the MTV News report. Reflecting the closely guarded and highly anticipated lineup release of the festival, guitarist Mar announced ecutive officer post beginning at 8:15 a.m. Dec. 26.

The proceedings are personnel matters and will be closed to the public. The council did not take any other action and would not respond to questions regarding where the potential candidates are from, whether the city will allow residents to interview them and anvthing regarding the iden-Please see DHS, B4 I Valley marks Sinatra's 90th Fans visit idol's grave, leave pennies, flowers By Bruce Fessier THH DESERT SUN Frank Sinatra. Ninety. The words sound like a non-se-quitur to fans who recall the late Rancho Mirage resident as the man who defined the swinging generation. The leader of the Rat Pack.

The bobby-soxers' idol. The man whose name is still synonymous CATHEDRAL with Palm CITY Springs. But Sinatra was widely re membered Monday on what would have been his 90th birthday. Fans visited his grave site at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, which Sinatra chose for his final resting place upon his death in 1998. Dozens of pennies and flowers were placed on the marker, inscribed, "Beloved husband father," and "The best is yet to come," in reference to one of his popular recordings.

Georgene Johnson of Palm Desert and Claudette Johnson of Palatine, 111., said the pennies were related to his recording of "Pennies From Heaven." Some orange flowers were significant because "orange was his favorite color." The sisters-in-law, visiting the cemetery with their husbands, said they often listened to Sinatra in concert in Las Vegas. "Frank is our only music," said Johnson. "We love Sinatra." Susan Reynolds, executive director of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center and the singer's former publicist, said Sinatra's widow, part-time Rancho Mirage resident Barbara Sinatra, observed a "personal, private" remembrance. His oldest daughter, Nancy, who has a condo next to her Please see SINATRA, B4 i(u RAMON MhNA UVttSi. lHb DbAbKi SLS Georgene Johnson of Palm Desert (left) and Claudette Johnson of Palatine, pay their respects to the grave site of Frank Sinatra at Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs Cemetery District in Cathedral City on Monday.

The pop icon would have been 90 years old on Monday. City manager interviews DESERT HOT SPRINGS MORE ONLINE Get breaking news, archived stories and photo galleries from your city at n.condhs session Monday, interim City Manager Corky Larson said the council will interview four to six candidates for the city's chief ex- deserts Council to enter into closed session for four to six candidates By Nelsy Rodriguez THE DESERT SUN The Desert Hot Springs City Council announced Monday that it will begin interviewing top city manager candidates on Dec. 26. Out of a special hourlong closed.