October 1, 2021 | Vol. XLIII No. 40

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Mona Rodriguez, 18, was shot shortly after 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27 in the area of Spring Street and Palo Verde Avenue, near Millikan High School.

Long Beach police said they responded to the scene in response to a reported shooting, and officers found the woman with at least one gunshot wound. Police said she had been shot in the upper body, but her family said she was shot in the head.

According to police, an unidentified LBUSD school safety officer was driving in the area when he observed the woman involved in an altercation with a 15-year-old girl in the street.

Investigators determined a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were also involved in the dispute, though their level of involvement was not immediately known.

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Magic: The Gathering players compete in a tournament using the Modern format of the game at Finch and Sparrow Games in Signal Hill on Sept. 28, 2021.

Finch and Sparrow Games opens expanded space, remains hub for Magic: The Gathering community

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n Tuesday, Sept. 28, a room full of players looked steadily at their decks, sorting through visages of dragons and sorcerers with knowing precision. The goal: compile a deadly combination of cards to outwit and out-strategize their opponents.

The game: Magic: The Gathering. The battleground: Finch and Sparrow Games in Signal Hill.

Seated four at a table, Joe Stucken, Dustin Sandhu, Patrick Donley and Jacob Anile shuffle their libraries and grab a flourish of seven cards.

Some, like Sandhu, use starter decks. He’s a newcomer, only playing Magic for a little more than a month. Others, like Anile and Donley, have lightly curated their decks to adhere to certain strategies. Stucken comes with a behemoth volume full of cards. (He’s been playing since the 90s.) They share laughs. Sandhu shares a few Rice Krispie Treats with the table.

They come at least once a week.

“We’ll play like eight, nine hours worth of it, which is crazy because it’s just a card game. But it goes so fast,” said Anile, who introduced his friends to the game just a few months ago.

“We’ll get here at 11 a.m. and stay until 8 p.m. at night,” Donley added.

The gameplay begins. Preliminary cards are placed, “tapped” and rotated 90 degrees. As the game becomes more complex, players place dice on certain cards to keep track of health and tokens.

Tuesday nights are busy at Finch and Sparrow Games, but Thursdays are unrivaled: it’s Commander Night, the most popular gameplay format for the 28-year-old fantasy card game. see FINCH AND SPARROW page 2

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Finch and Sparrow Games owner Michael Aust poses for a portrait with the eight most valuable Magic: The Gathering cards the shop owns on Sept. 28, 2021. The set is worth upwards of $30,000 to card collectors.

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The Long Beach Magic community makes itself known on these Thursdays, when 14 tables and 56 chairs fill up with card-wielders who often remain in their seats until they’re ushered out at the store’s 10 p.m. closing time.

Finch and Sparrow Games is the premiere Magic shop in the Long Beach area, with a strong community and a regular showing, assisted by the fact that events are scheduled every day of the week.

According to Wizards of the Coast, the creators of Magic: The Gathering, attendance at member stores for Commander games tripled from 2018 to 2020, with about 28,000 unique players each week. The thriving Long Beach and Signal Hill Magic community is only a small fraction of the estimated 35 million Magic: The Gathering players worldwide.

“Magic brings people together. You can make friends, doesn’t matter who you are,” said Stucken, who’s been playing Magic since 1996. “Any race, gender, nationality, you can come together and be wizards, goblins and merfolk.”

Richard H. Grant | Signal Tribune On most nights, Finch and Sparrow Kevin Vazquez holds his custom-made “spindown” die at Finch and Sparrow Games in Signal Hill on Sept. 28, 2021. His girlfriend made the die that, when agitated, Owner Michael Aust sits by, watching makes a golden glitter whirlpool inside of the die. Unlike games like Dungeons and Dragons, dice are not rolled in Magic: The Gathering but rather placed on top of the players dole out curses and send cards to keep track of metrics like tokens and health. their creatures on the attack.

He didn’t expect to become the Aust was selling cards online at the osks in the main storefront. A sorting people getting the stuff they want. It’s co-owner of a Magic: The Gathering what we do.”

And there were plenty of Magtime, a business he started after re- machine sits in the corner. really cool. People talk to me about space in his younger years. Even more, “We might need a second one soon,” their decks all the time,” Aust said. “I he didn’t expect the space to become a ic stores before Finch and Sparrow kindling his love of Magic in college.

He’d planned to eventually move to Aust said as one of his employees kind of have joint ownership of peoWizards Premiere Store (a public rec- Games.

In 2012 a similar shop named The a brick-and-mortar location and when pulled out a long tray of cards. ple’s decks in the sense that we talk ognition by the creators of Magic of Legendary Lotus closed down. A Mag- Power 9 shut down he jumped at the These cards make up the world of about it, we make deck decisions to“the best game stores in the world”).

Magic: its lands, its commanders, its gether, and they ask me for some of my “We like to think of ourselves as ic store by the name of RivalsCCG opportunity. popped up in its place but closed down During that time, the space embodcreatures, its attacks, curses and spells, feedback.” kind of the best iteration of any of the in 2015 when it’s owners relocated ied the stereotypical gamer environeach small enough to fit in the palm of On nights like Tuesdays and ThursMagic stores that have existed in this days, he gets to see those deck deciarea,” Aust said. “There isn’t really to La Puente. After that came Power ment, complete with dim lighting and a player’s hand.

“There’s something kind of inher- sions play out in real time. anyone who serves like Long Beach or 9—a misnomer for nine extremely rare cheap fold-out tables in a relatively Magic cards—which closed in 2018. cramped 1,400-square-foot space. ently cool if you’d like to take a step “I don’t want to say [it’s like] menSignal Hill kind of proper in terms of The environment didn’t deter Magic back and kind of look at it from the top toring someone because it’s not, but in lovers from coming to the store. down, from a lore perspective,” Aust the same way a mentor would probably “This is the only card store local said. “You’re playing as a wizard. You be proud of their mentee,” Aust said. to us that you can cast spells and “When someone’s deck wins and it’s get basically every summon monsters a card that I recommended I’m like, card,” Anile said, to attack your ‘That’s right!’” noting that the store opponent. I don’t Though Aust acknowledged that Magic [The comes complete know, that’s kind the stereotype of the “nerd in the card with game space, of cool.” store” is not unfounded, he denies the Gathering] brings snacks and fellow Some are just idea that members of so-called “nerpeople together.

Magic lovers. “Bain it for the fun, dom” are standoffish or unwelcoming. sically, you can do You can make friends, playing casually At Finch and Sparrow, he said the opeverything.” between friends. posite is true. doesn’t matter who Until mid-June Others take the “I’ve been super fortunate to see this of this year, Finch competition se- community grow and I can definitively you are.

Any race, and Sparrow Games riously, bulking say we have a super welcoming comgender, nationality, was confined to the up their decks munity,” he said. “A lot of people build smaller retail space. compete with really strong friendships.” you can come together to But business was thousands on a Regulars Kate Bryent and Nick booming. During competitive cir- Hansen have found the same to be true. and be wizards, the pandemic, conOthers ap- They come to the shop around three goblins and merfolk. cuit. ventions were canpreciate the cards times a week; Bryent chimes in, “That celled and Magic for their fantasy might be an underestimate.” players turned art, collecting “Since we started playing here, -Joe Stucken, who’s been to the internet cards for their rar- which is around three to four months, playing Magic: The Gathering to flesh out their ity or beauty. we’ve made 10, 15, 20 friends. It’s since 1996 decks.

“There’s differ- super easy,” Hansen said. “Everyone Aust took the ent pockets of the here is super inviting and gets to know leap and purchased a secondary unit in community. The thing that’s super cool you. It’s super friendly.” the same business park. for me is how all of those kind of interIt helps that Magic players abide Now, Magic aficionados enter Finch sect,” Aust said. “That’s why the shop by what Hansen referred to as “Rule and Sparrow to play in a 2,300-square- exists, because it’s like the intersection Zero”—players talk amongst each othfoot space, complete with a rentable of all those little pockets.” er before they play to determine each gaming room and a modest mini arLongtime player Stucken said the other’s experience so they can accomcade. gameplay itself is what drew him to modate skill levels during the game.

Often, Magic cards are pushed into Magic.

“It brings them together. You find a corner at a comic store, wedged be“For me personally, the best thing ways to connect with people,” Aust tween board games and Funko Pops. about Magic is that it’s an intellectual said. “There’s a ton of people who like At Finch and Sparrow Games, they game,” Stucken said, noting that the to hang out, even outside the context take center stage. current card list is in the thousands, of Magic, that have either met people “We went very much into this say- giving rise to diverse gameplay and here and done all of that, or they’ve ing: ‘No, we’re not going to do that. strategy options. “Even when you’re known each other beforehand but beWe will have the best Magic store in alone you can deck build, brew up came even better friends because [of the area,’” Aust said. “And we’ve done your own deck and then try it out in the the game].” that. We have one of the best card se- wild.”

Finch and Sparrow Games is locatlections you can get in Southern CaliWhen asked about his own deck, ed at 2699 E 28th St. #406, Signal Hill, fornia.”

Aust admitted that he didn’t have one. CA 90744. The shop is open from 12 As for the old space, “It’s literally For him, it’s not about the glitz and p.m. to 10 p.m. every day. A schedule of • BATHROOMS just racks of cards for us now,” Aust glam of a super-rare, iridescent foil events can be found online. Finch and • KITCHENS said. deck (which could easily cost tens of Sparrow offers Magic: The Gathering The space holds over 2 million cards thousands of dollars), it’s about mak- cards in singles and packs as well as petes-plumbing.com • LANDSCAPING LINES organized on six 12-foot-long, 7-foot- ing a space for others to share in their a small selection of Pokemon cards high shelves. Cards are catalogued into love of the game. and a growing collection of Flesh and a database, searchable on computer ki“I’ve grown to enjoy facilitating Blood cards.

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Caltrans seeks input on beautifying 405 Freeway between Atlantic and Lakewood If the design plans are approved by the State’s grant program, Caltrans would complete the work by June 2023.

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he California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is seeking public input on how to beautify both sides of the I-405 Freeway between Atlantic Avenue and Lakewood Boulevard—a 2.5-mile stretch that passes through Long Beach and Signal Hill.

“The general scope of work is going to be for landscape, hardscape, planting, irrigation and beautification on the sides,” Caltrans Senior Transportation Engineer and area liaison Hammer Sui told the Signal Hill City Council during its Tuesday, Sept. 28 meeting.

“We welcome any input from the community members and/or community-based organizations.”

To solicit that input, Caltrans is hosting two virtual community meetings— one in English and one in Spanish—on Monday, Oct. 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. via WebEx. Caltrans will also open a community survey after the meetings, due back on Oct. 7, for attendees and non-attendees alike to provide input, Sui said. Peo-

ple can also provide input and ideas by emailing project coordinators at D7CleanCA@dot.ca.gov, he added.

Though the community meeting and survey are for residents of both Long Beach and Signal Hill, Caltrans will not differentiate between the two groups in deciding on the final proposal, Sui said.

During the Oct. 4 meetings, Caltrans will present the community with four general design options for beautifying the freeway section: rock-cobbled groundcover; landscaping with native, drought-tolerant and/or pollinator plants; or a sloping rock structure that prevents litter accumulation, decorated with an aesthetic design appropriate to the location.

“We’ve seen a lot of these in Arizona,” Sui said of the third option.

The fourth option would be a new idea proposed by the community.

The survey will ask community members to choose one or more of the three “visual preference” options or propose a fourth new one. Community members can also describe or even draw additional ideas during the community meetings or via email.

Existing landscaping along the 405 between Atlantic and Lakewood has deteriorated due to drought conditions and presents a fire risk, Sui said. Caltrans would cut back shrubs and other low-growth vegetation and keep the taller trees regardless of which design option the community chooses, he said.

Caltrans will submit a design proposal to the State’s Clean California Initiative (CCI) local grant program

by Oct. 15, which CCI will approve or reject by Nov. 30. If given the green

light, Caltrans would complete the beautification work by June 2023.

The proposed project would be funded by CCI from its $296-million grant budget for local beautification projects completed over the next two years. Gov. Gavin Newsom approved the CCI in July—a three-year effort with a $1.5-billion total budget from the State’s General Fund coffers.

“Clean California proposes significant investments in litter collection, community engagement and education to ultimately transform unsightly roadsides into spaces of pride for all Californians,” the initiative states.

Sui said Caltrans chose this particular stretch of the 405 Freeway because it fits with the CCI’s goal of focusing on underserved communities. Caltrans also used litter data and the number of service requests from the area, Sui added.

Councilmember Lori Woods expressed concern that a little more than a week’s notice about the community meetings might limit attendance and participation. Signal Hill has posted a notice of the meeting and join link on its website, CityofSignalHill.org.

Sui said once CCI approves the project, Caltrans will engage the community again about design details and yet again before construction to explain its impact on the area.

Because the CCI’s local grant program requires projects to be completed within two years, Sui said Caltrans is already “super rushed” to submit a proposal and begin construction.

“We’re already trying to catch up,” he said.

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“Midsummer Bloom” by artist Galileo Gonzalez hangs at Flatline Gallery on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. The painting is part of Gonzalez’s “Dedicated to You: A Love Letter to San Antonio.”

Artist Galileo Gonzalez exhibits love letter to new home in San Antonio at Flatline Gallery

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ibrant hues of green leaves glisten in the sun as their arms stretch around a large window. It’s the same comforting view that the girlfriend of artist Galileo Gonzalez saw when she fell ill for a prolonged time.

A string of Christmas lights across the window and the red and black books add a final touch to the cozy scene.

The collection of plants, curated by Gonzalez’s girlfriend, are forever enshrined in the painting “Windowsill,” part of an artistic exploration of the artist’s home in San Antonio, Texas on exhibition at Flatline Gallery.

“Dedicated to You: A Love Letter to San Antonio” will show at Flatline from Saturday, Oct. 2 to Oct. 31.

The work is a tribute to Gonzalez’s pandemic bubble in the southside of San Antonio, his home of four years after graduating with a bachelor of fine arts degree from Cal State Long Beach.

“For me [the exhibition] is very important.

It’s sort of like a homecoming,” Gonzalez, who grew up in the cities of Bell and La Puente, said.

Gonzalez never expected to leave California, he shared in his exhibition statement. He did it to move in with his girlfriend, and fell deeply in love with the city in the process.

A son of Southeast Los Angeles, the artist is coming back to share the inspiration found in his Texas backyard.

In “Windowsill,” Gonzalez gives a glimpse into the comfort of the room he shares with his partner. His love for his new home pours out through the acrylic.

“It was the view my girlfriend saw every day,” Gonzalez said of the plants nestled on the windowsill. “I thought it would be a nice little tribute to the window.”

Gonzalez had an everyday view of his own he wanted to immortalize, the water tower he saw on his daily work commute.

In the middle of a clear blue Texas sky, a gigantic off-white steel water tower with the word “Cowboys” stands amid power lines contrasting with the vast greenery below.

A green gradient of shrubs create a cloud-like shape that engulfs about half of the water tower.

The piece is a serene depiction of nature enveloping the surrounding city.

A line drawing of a yellow flower, reminiscent of the sun, appears to the right.

If “Windowsill” is a representation of love, “McCollum Water Tower” is Gonzalez taking pride in south San Antonio.

“That painting in particular is like my little tribute to the south side,” Gonzalez said, noting that it also pays homage to the people and their pride for the area.

Another love letter comes in the form of “Midsummer Bloom,” a painting that was inspired by the winter freeze that hit Texas in February, killing plants in Gonzalez’s backyard and surrounding areas.

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“Windowsill,” a painting by artist Galileo Gonzalez hangs at Flatline Gallery on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021.

The painting shows remnants of a gray sky giving way to a subtle blue. Below, a cactus flourishes among green trees and red flowers.

The piece depicts the greenery that sprouted in the wild after the rain, a commentary on resilience and optimism that also applied after the winter surge in COVID-19 cases.

The serene nature of the landscapes in the exhibition are a stark difference to some of Gonzalez’s previous work.

“A lot of my earlier paintings are more violent,” the Salvadoran-American artist said. “I did a lot of things on the Salvadoran civil war, on the death of family members and other people in the war.”

Gonzalez called his latest work a “change of pace,” with some chaos attributed to his style of painting overtaken by the haze of his casual airbrush use.

The saying “Everything is bigger in Texas” rings true with this collection of paintings that are mostly acrylic on canvas tarp measuring 4 feet by 3 feet.

The large paintings will be available for viewing at the opening reception on Saturday, Oct. 2.

Gonzalez noted that he is excited to showcase a part of his new home and called his first proper show in California “a big deal.”

“It’s nice to come back home and just bring a little piece of San Antonio and what I really love about it,” Gonzalez said. “I want to bring a little piece of home [back] home.”

‘Dedicated to you: A love letter to San Antonio,’ will be available for viewing at Flatline Gallery from Oct. 2 to Oct. 31. Appointments are required Wednesday through Friday. Walkins are welcomed on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. To book an appointment click here. Flatline Gallery is located at 6023 Atlantic Ave. in Long Beach.

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Living Arts students work on a creative project in 2019. Currently, Living Arts is taking place virtually due to the pandemic.

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Since 2016, underprivileged youth in Long Beach have had a safe space at the United Cambodian Community (UCC) building to explore art through the Living Arts Long Beach program.

The program geared toward 14 to 24 year-olds recently opened applications for its next six-month session slated to start in November.

Shortly after joining UCC in 2015, Program Manager Sayon Syprasoeuth started the program following a strong belief that art is beneficial for the youth and community at large.

“We just noticed how important the arts was in the Cambodian community,” Syprasoeuth said. “It’s the history, going back to the genocide. We don’t want the arts to get lost in the community.”

Among the 2 million lives lost in Cambodia during the genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979 were many artists. The regime also tried to eliminate many aspects of culture, including art.

With a desire to keep art flowing through the community and to empower the youth, Syprasoeuth has taught classes and managed the free program which includes video game design, drawing and painting.

“For me the personal satisfaction is just to see the students discover and feel their own empowerment within the arts,” Syprasoeuth said.

Former student Lauren Snook noted in a YouTube video that Living Arts gives younger people the power to speak through paintings, collages or writing.

“It gives more voice to younger adults to be a part of the community,” Snook said.

Using a hands-on approach, the classes are sometimes taught by guest artists who facilitate creative projects.

While storyteller Sambo Sak has taught students about self-expression through the written word, visual artist Angela Willcocks has focused on paintings and self-portraits.

According to Syprasoeuth, part of the allure of having a guest artist teach is the student’s ability to see what it takes to be a career artist and ask questions.

“It dispels a lot of the mystery for them,” Syprasoeuth said in a video about the program noting that some students have gone on to study art in college.

Far beyond developing their artistry, the program aims to build the student’s confidence and their social and communication skills through artistic expression and interaction with others.

In a Zoom video (the program went virtual in 2020 due to COVID-19), a student sparked a discussion about building confidence in their artwork

after presenting a stop motion project, stirring up a wave of encouragement from others on the call.

Although it meant spending extra hours in front of a monitor after a day of virtual education, Syprasoeuth said students have liked the virtual experience.

Zoom videos online consistently show over a dozen participants per session.

When classes continue in November—Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 6

p.m.—they will continue to take place virtually.

“When you see students’ eyes light up about things that they didn’t know about and to even have a support system to show them that a mentor cared about them, [that] is amazing to me,” Syprasoeuth said.

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EYE ON CRIME CRIMES REPORTED BY THE SIGNAL HILL POLICE Thursday, September 23

4:46 p.m., Grand theft, 2400 block Gundry Ave. 9:12 p.m., Battery on Peace Officer; disorderly conduct, E. 15th St./Rose Ave. (suspect arrested)

Friday, September 24

1:48 p.m., Indecent exposure, Obispo Ave./E. PCH 3:17 p.m., Identity theft, 3300 block Cerritos Ave. 8:37 p.m., Identity theft, 2900 block E. 19th St.

Saturday, September 25 None reported.

Sunday, September 26 None reported.

Monday, September 27

7:15 a.m., Auto burglary, 1000 block E. 32nd St. 9:49 a.m., Burglary, 2900 block E. PCH 10:38 a.m., Grand theft, 2700 block Gaviota Ave.

Tuesday, September 28

2:16 a.m., False identification to Peace Officer; felony warrant, 1800 block Stanley Ave. (suspect arrested) 10:33 a.m., Identity theft, 2100 block Ridge View Terrace 2:15 p.m., Identity theft, 1600 block E. Spring St.

Wednesday, September 29

12:37 p.m., Grand theft, 2800 block Junipero Ave. 5:55 p.m., Misdemeanor warrants, 900 block E. 33rd St. (suspect arrested) LBPD reporting area is too extensive to report here.

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CITY OF SIGNAL HILL TST6533 NOTICE OF ORDINANCE INTRODUCTION Ordinance No. 2021-09-1528 was introduced by the Signal Hill City Council at their meeting of Tuesday, September 28, 2021. A summary of the ordinance is as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA, GRANTING TO TESORO SOCAL PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC AND THE INTERESTS, RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AND DUTIES TO LAY AND USE PIPES AND APPURTENANCES FOR TRANSMITTING AND DISTRIBUTING OIL AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FOR ANY AND ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES UNDER AND ALONG THE PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS, ALLEYS, AND PLACES, AS THE SAME NOW OR MAY HEREAFTER EXIST, WITHIN THIS CITY The ordinance was introduced by the following vote:

AYES:

VICE MAYOR KEIR JONES, COUNCIL MEMBERS TINA L. HANSEN, LORI Y. WOODS

NOES: NONE

ABSENT: MAYOR EDWARD H.J. WILSON

ABSTAIN: NONE

A copy of the full text of the ordinance is available in the City Clerk’s Office and on the City’s website: www.cityofsignalhill.org. __________________________ Carmen R. Brooks City Clerk Published in the Signal Tribune newspaper on October 1, 2021.

Posted at City Hall, Discovery Well Park, Reservoir Park, and Signal Hill Public Library on or before October 1, 2021.

TST6522 / 2021 199305 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: STILLNESS THERAPY, 3515 Atlantic Ave., #1021, Long Beach, CA 90807. Registrant: NOEMI FERNANDEZ, 3238 Lemon Ave., Signal Hill, CA 90755. This business is conducted by: an Individual. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Noemi Fernandez.

The registrant has not begun to use this fictitious business name. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles County on September 7, 2021.

NOTICE: This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). Pub. The Signal Tribune: September 17, 24 & October 1, 8, 2021.

TST6523 Case No. 21NWCP00347 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, NORWALK COURTHOUSE, 12720 Norwalk Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650 PETITION OF: JAEMY SANTOS SANCHEZ LOPEZ TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioners: JAEMY SANTOS SANCHEZ LOPEZ has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing her name as follows: Present Name: JAEMY SANTOS SANCHEZ LOPEZ to Proposed Name: JAEMY SANCHEZ LOPEZ. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: November 5, 2021; Time: 10:30a.m., Dept. C, Room 312. The address of the court is the same as above.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, THE SIGNAL TRIBUNE, 1860 Obispo Ave., Ste. F, Signal Hill, CA 90755, September 17, 24 & October 1, 10, 2021 ___//ss//___ Margaret M. Bernal, Judge of the Superior Court Dated September 13, 2021 TST6530 / 2021 207053 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: PARADISE ANESTHESIA GROUP, A PROFESSIONAL NURSING CORPORATION, 2321 PROMONTORY DR, SIGNAL HILL, CA 90755. Registrant: PARADISE ANESTHESIA GROUP, A PROFESSIONAL NURSING CORPORATION, 2321 Promontory Drive, Signal Hill, CA 90755. This business is conducted by: a Corporation.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Steven A. Beals. The registrant has begun to use this fictitious business name. The registrant began using this fictitious business name in November, 2019. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles County on September 16, 2021.

NOTICE: This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). Pub. The Signal Tribune: September 24 & October 1, 8, 15, 2021 TST6529 Case No. 21LBCP00305 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESGEORGE DEUKMEJIAN COURTHOUSE, 275 Magnolia, Long Beach, CA 90802 PETITION OF: JOSHUA MORRIS OLSON STOEBNER TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioners: Joshua Morris Olson Stoebner has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing his name as follows: Present Name: JOSHUA MORRIS OLSON STOEBNER to Proposed Name: JOSHUA MORRIS OLSON. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: November 2, 2021; Time: 8:30a.m., Dept. 26. The address of the court is the same as above. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing

on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, THE SIGNAL TRIBUNE, 1860 Obispo Ave., Ste. F, Signal Hill, CA 90755, September 24 & October 1, 8, 15, 2021 ___// ss//___ Michael P. Vicencia, Judge of the Superior Court Dated September 21, 2021 TST6532 / 2021 208333 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: 1. LITTLE SAGE, 2. LITTLE SAGE HERBS, 3. LITTLE SAGE ACUPUNCTURE, 4.

LITTLE SAGE ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBAL MEDICINE, 2800 Pacific Ave., Suite A, Long Beach, CA 90806. Mailing address: 3553 Atlantic Ave., Suite 105, Long Beach, CA 90807.

REGISTRANT: Little Sage Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, Inc., 3553 Atlantic Ave., #105, Long Beach, CA 90807. This business is conducted by: a Corporation.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Melissa Roxas, President. The registrant has not begun to use this fictitious business name. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles County on September 17, 2021. NOTICE: This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). Pub. The Signal Tribune: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

ness name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). Pub. The Signal Tribune: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021 TST6537 / 2021 206670 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: CHARA ORTHODONTICS, 3714 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807. Registrant: Chara Quintero, Inc., 3714 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807. This business is conducted by: a Corporation. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Efrain Chara. The registrant has not begun to use this fictitious business name. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles County on September 16, 2021. NOTICE: This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). Pub. The Signal Tribune: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

TST6534 Case No. 21LBCP00303 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELESGEORGE DEUKMEJIAN COURTHOUSE, 275 Magnolia, Long Beach, CA 90802 PETITION OF: ROXANA AGUIRRE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioners: ROXANA AGUIRRE has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing her name as follows: Present Name: ROXANA AGUIRRE to Proposed Name: ROXANNE HARMON-AGUIRRE. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: November 5, 2021; Time: 8:30a.m., Dept. 27. The address of the court is the same as above. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, THE SIGNAL TRIBUNE, 1860 Obispo Ave., Ste. F, Signal Hill, CA 90755, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021 ___//ss//___ Mark C. Kim, Judge of the Superior Court Dated: September 21, 2021 TST6535 / 2021 208214 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: FLATLINE GALLERY, 6023 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90805. Registrant: ELIZABETH MUNZON, 1708 Redondo Ave., Apt 5, Long Beach, CA 90804. This business is conducted by: an Individual.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Elizabeth Munzon. The registrant has begun to use this fictitious business name. The registrant began using this fictitious business name in August, 2021. This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles County on September 17, 2021. NOTICE: This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). Pub. The Signal Tribune: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021 TST6536 / 2021 206642 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as: THE UNION TRUCK SERVICES, 15303 White Ave., Compton, CA 90221. Registrant: JUAN DURAN GUTIERREZ, 15303 White Ave., Compton, CA 90222. This business is conducted by: an Individual.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Juan Duran Gutierrez. The registrant has not begun to use this fictitious business name.

This statement was filed with the county clerk of Los Angeles County on September 16, 2021. NOTICE: This fictitious busi-

Pet of the week:

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One of Jacob’s needs is managing his diabetes, which, with care, can give him good life quality. Adoptions are made through appointment only, so email PetAdopt@ longbeach.gov to meet Jacob. Ask for ID#A658270.

(This rescue encouraged by the usual suspects.)

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Three local writers plan to open writing space dedicated to people of color

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hree local writers are planning to open a new space in Long Beach dedicated to the written work of BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color).

“This really is a grassroots movement to return writing to community,” Giovanni’s Room co-founder Jasmin L. Roberts said. “And in particular to create space for folks who have felt excluded from the writing and publishing and media industry in the past.”

Giovanni’s Room aims to create space for writers of color

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Giovanni’s Room co-founders Danielle Broadway, Myriam Gurba and Jasmin L Roberts at Page Against The Machine bookstore in Long Beach on Saturday, Sept. 25. thors and writers are white.

Gurba is well known for criticizing the publishing industry, and the written work it churns out. In 2019, amid an echo chamber of support and endorsement for the narco-thriller novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, Gurba set off an avalanche of criticism following a critique she wrote about the book.

The feminist magazine that originally asked Gurba to write the critique wanted to kill the story after reading it, saying Gurba did not have the fame necessary to write something so mean, she said.

Instead, it was eventually published

by Tropic of Meta and blew up, with numerous critics agreeing with Gurba’s assertion that American Dirt was “a book overflowing with sloppy Mexican stereotypes meant to stir pleasure through pity.”

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continued from page 1 vehicle, the school safety officer approached the car and fired into the vehicle as the driver was pulling away, striking the woman inside.

Video of the shooting posted online appears to show the unidentified officer firing at least two shots at the car.

Millikan High School confirmed in a statement that no students were injured in the shooting.

Investigators determined the woman, identified by the family as Rodriguez, initiated the original altercation and that she and the 15-year-old girl “are known to each other,” though the motive for the altercation was unknown, police said.

Relatives said Wednesday Rodriguez is brain dead and will not survive, although she remained on life support as the family said its farewells. She is the mother of a 5-month-old boy.

Rafeul Chowdhury, Rodriguez’s boyfriend of two years and the boy’s father, got emotional outside Long Beach Memorial Care Hospital, saying, “I want justice for my girl, my baby momma, the love of my life.”

Asked what he would say to the public safety officer who shot Rodriguez, Chowdhury said, “I just want him in jail, bro.”

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25, Gurba shared an essay she wrote in response to a threatening online message an angry white man had sent her about her critique of American Dirt. In it, he expressed his desire for Gurba’s life to end.

The message sent to Gurba is included in a zine published by Giovanni’s Room, in a section titled “The Hate Mail Chronicles,” that contains copies of messages by white people deriding the works of Roberts, Gurba and Broadway.

In response to an article Broadway wrote for Parents Magazine titled “How to Teach the History of Racism in Science Class,” in which she suggests teaching the history of Henrietta Lacks and the Tuskegee Study in science class to help children understand medical racism, a Twitter user wrote “What the [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] is this?”

Another commenter on Twitter wrote “[Danielle Broadway] apparently enjoys ‘Racism’ so much that she thinks we need to teach our children about it.”

In a spoken word poem by Roberts titled “For White Poets,” they criticize the work of white poets who re-

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Founders Roberts, Myriam Gurba and Danielle Broadway formed Giovanni’s Room in response to the frustrations and obstacles they and other writers of color they knew had experienced in the overwhelmingly white writing and publishing industry.

“We spent a lot of time, sort of during our quarantine days, sitting in peoples’ living rooms and talking about writing and talking about the writing community and the publishing industry and we started, I mean, venting,” Roberts said. “Venting about what spaces exist for us, and what spaces feel exclusive.

And then Giovanni’s Room was born.”

Roberts, Gurba and Broadway are still fundraising and looking for a location for Giovanni’s Room. Once it opens, they plan to host workshops, open mics, and give writers a space where they can work collaboratively or alone.

“Among my hopes for Giovanni’s Room is a space that functions much more like a mutual aid society,” co-founder Myriam Gurba said in a YouTube video. “Rather than a cutthroat competitive workshop space or a space where we’re very concerned with the market and with industry.”

According to the 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey by Lee & Low Books, 76% of those working in the publishing industry are white.

According to statistics gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau by Data USA, 80.7% of those employed as au-

ceive accolades and praise from other white people for writing about racism they’ve never experienced.

Online comments in response to the poem include, “Why is she bashing people ‘just for being white’ when they are [technically] helping this country get better on racism?” and “I think Roberts intentionally misunderstands the motivation of white poets who try to combat racism through poetry; is it so hard to believe they just want racism to stop?”

Similar to Cummins, the commenters under Roberts’ work seem to believe the good intentions of white writers who write about other communities should be taken at face value.

“At worst, we perceive them as an invading mob of resource-draining criminals, and, at best, a sort of helpless, impoverished, faceless brown mass, clamoring for help at our doorstep,” Cummins wrote in an author’s note. “We seldom think of them as our fellow human beings […] I hope to create a pause where the reader may begin to individuate.”

Cummins received a seven figure publishing deal for American Dirt.

As Roberts points out in their poem and Gurba in her essays, the careers of white writers benefit from writing about marginalized communities far more than those marginalized communities benefit from white people writing about them.

Giovanni’s Room seeks to give writers from marginalized communities a place to tell their own stories, and support each other through the often painful process of doing so.

“This is something that racially minoritized people have to be especially cautious about because we’re often urged to write about trauma,” Gurba said. “And if we do choose to do that, I think that it’s very important for us to practice not just self-care but community-based care.”

Giovanni’s Room is asking for volunteer help from the community.

Those interested in volunteering can email giovannisroomlb@gmail.com.

A GoFundMe campaign has also been set up to help raise funds for Giovanni’s Room.

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“I want him in jail for what he did to my girlfriend,” he said. “She did not deserve it. I can’t even sleep through the nights. I’m going crazy for myself, you know. I’m used to seeing her 247…. My girl’s not living life no more. I want him to be in jail and face his case for what he did to my girl.”

Family spokesman Najee Ali said the safety officer had no excuse for shooting into the car.

“I want to know, where is the outrage?” Ali said. “Where is the concern from the mayor of Long Beach, from the city council people, from the leaders. I’ve been at this hospital from the very moment I heard that she was shot in her head, to try to support and help the family. I’ve been here. I have not seen the mayor, city council, our elected leadership show any concern for the victims.”

Long Beach police and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office are both investigating the shooting.

The school safety officer who fired the shots has been placed on leave.

Rodriguez’s family has established a GoFundMe page to assist with funeral arrangements. The page states that Rodriguez is also survived by her mother, four brothers and a sister.

Former LBPD officer facing federal child pornography charges City News Service o S tu e h rn a C lifornia Local News

A former Long Beach Police Department officer who had been facing state charges of possessing and distributing child pornography is now facing federal prosecution on the allegations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday, Sept. 30.

Anthony Brown, 57, of Lakewood, was arrested Wednesday and appeared in federal court in downtown Los Angeles, where he pleaded not guilty to three counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, according to federal prosecutors.

He was released on bond and is due back in federal court Nov. 23.

In light of his federal indictment, which was returned by a grand jury Sept. 21, the state charges filed against Brown in March were dismissed, prosecutors said.

The indictment alleges that Brown used the MeWe internet messaging application to distribute sexually explicit images of girls in November 2019 and

April 2020. From October 2019 to May 2020, he allegedly possessed a sexually explicit image of a girl under 12 years old, prosecutors said.

Brown had been with LBPD for 27 years but left the force following his arrest earlier this year on the state charges.

Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish said in March after Brown’s arrest that his actions “do not represent the professionalism and commitment that all of our employees show every day while protecting our community.”

“When the actions of an individual employee erode the values of our organization and the public trust all of us have worked so hard to cultivate, they must be held accountable,” he said, adding that, “protecting children is one of our most sacred responsibilities.”

Brown was assigned to the Security Services Division at Long Beach Airport.

If convicted of the federal charges, Brown would face between five and 80 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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Rick Robertson 59 Clara Lee Clark 89 Gerald Lloyd 90 Mary Cowles 49 Stevil Meredith 71 Ira Gauden 83 David Martinez 56 Patrick Wilhelm 78 Rocco Danovaro 48 William Coggon 69 Janet Seiter 84 Kirk Shulman 71 Venita Cooper 67 Raymond Johnson 72 William Leiter 87 David Martinez 56 Stephen Crumity 29

The families were assisted by McKenzie Mortuary.

For more details on service dates and times, contact (562) 961-9301

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