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Riverside daycare operator charged with molesting 2 children

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Accused murderer, domestic violence assailant extradited from Mexico to Riverside

By City News Service

Two alleged domestic violence perpetrators — one of whom is accused of murdering his girlfriend — were apprehended in Mexico and returned to the United States on the same day, with court hearings set for later this month.

Lorenzo Castellanos, 72, was apprehended in recent weeks by U.S. Marshals and the Mexican Fugitive Task Force, as was 56-year-old Jose Luis Barron, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. Both Mexican nationals were extradited and turned over to county sheriff’s deputies on Feb. 8.

Castellanos is charged

with murder and child endangerment. He’s being held on $1 million bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning and is slated to be arraigned at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Feb. 24.

Barron is charged with attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, assault, domestic violence and sentence-enhancing weapon and great bodily injury allegations. He’s being held on $1 million bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta and is set to appear for a preliminary hearing on Feb. 27 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

According to the D.A.’s

office, Castellanos allegedly attacked and killed his live-in girlfriend and mother of his child, Maria Robles, on Jan. 1, 2001, in Jurupa Valley.

Prosecutors allege that he inflicted numerous stab wounds during the domestic assault, the reasons for which were unknown.

On Sept. 9, 2014, Barron allegedly attacked a woman with whom he was involved in Riverside. According to a D.A.’s office statement, the defendant allegedly used a machete on the victim, whose identity was not disclosed, inflicting “substantial injuries.”

Like Castellanos,

Barron fled south of the border immediately after the near-deadly assault, according to prosecutors.

He’s slated to appear for a preliminary hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Feb. 27.

The D.A.’s Bureau of Investigation coordinated with the U.S. Marshals and other agencies to track down the men over the years.

Castellanos has a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction from 1999, according to court records. Barron has prior misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery during an act of domestic abuse, records show.

Young man accused of killing Desert Hot Springs man re-enters not guilty plea

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HAZMAT: Diesel spill in Jurupa Valley, unknown substance at Beaumont Amazon facility prompts response

By City News Service

Atractor-trailer sprang a leak Wednesday on the Pomona (60) Freeway in Jurupa Valley, spilling nearly 50 gallons of diesel fuel, requiring a hazardous materials response but no lane closures.

The spill was reported about 8:30 a.m. on the westbound 60 at Pyrite Street, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The agency said the semi was in the slow lane when one of the saddle tanks began seeping diesel, prompting the trucker to pull to the shoulder.

Riverside County Fire Department crews reached the location a short time later and determined that roughly 45 gallons had spilled onto the freeway, but none of the diesel went into storm channels or aqueducts, according to officials at the scene.

Firefighters spent about an hour mopping up along the shoulder, the CHP said.

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Woman accused of selling fentanyl misses court; arrest warrant issued

By City News Service

A31-year-old woman accused with her boyfriend of selling large quantities of fentanyl in Norco and surrounding locations missed a scheduled preliminary hearing in Riverside on Thursday, prompting a judge to sign a warrant for her arrest.

Amanda Brooke Listoe of Ontario is charged with two counts of possession of controlled substances for sale.

Listoe was slated to appear before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gail O’Rane at the Riverside Hall of Justice for the preliminary hearing, which would have determined whether she should be bound over for trial. However, When her and co-defendant Gustavo Adolfo Chavez’s case was called at the Riverside Hall of

Justice, Listoe was nowhere to be found, according to the court.

O’Rane signed a bench warrant and revoked Listoe’s $100,000 bail bond.

Chavez remains free on a $100,000 bond. He’s facing the same charges as Listoe.

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Authorities receive two suspects extradited from Mexico to Riverside. | Photo courtesy of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office

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Corona police arrest robbery, assault with firearm suspects

By Staff and City News Service

Corona police on Tuesday arrested three suspects accused of attempting to steal a catalytic converter in a residential neighborhood, then assaulting the vehicle owner with a sharp metal tool and handgun, authorities said.

Corona police officers responded Nov. 14 to the 1000 block of E. Francis Street after receiving a call reporting an assault with a firearm, according to the Corona Police Department.

“A 58-year-old resident reported confronting two Hispanic male adults attempting to steal his catalytic converter,” police said. “During the contact, one suspect swung a Sawzall-type tool at the victim. The other suspect approached the victim, pointed a handgun at him, and fired a round before

fleeing from the location in a gray 2007 Ford Mustang.”

The victim of the attempted theft and assault was uninjured during the incident, police said.

Corona police detectives, the department’s Special Response Team and the Riverside County West Post-Release Accountability Compliance Team served search warrants at four separate residences in Riverside, Fontana and Yucaipa, according to police.

“During the searches authorities recovered matching clothing worn by the suspects, burglary tools commonly used to cut catalytic converters, two catalytic converters, and an unregistered firearm,” according to police.

Yucaipa residents Ricky Lopez, 19, Jacobo Lopez, 21, and 18-year-old Christian Rios were arrested without

incident and taken to the Riverside County jail.

Ricky Lopez and Jacobo Lopez were booked for the robbery, assault with a firearm, discharging a Firearm and conspiracy. Rios was booked for conspiracy.

Detectives were granted a bail enhancement of $500,000 for each suspect.

The Lopez brothers pleaded not guilty Thursday during a joint arraignment before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gail O’Rane, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for Feb. 28 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

Ricky Lopez is charged only with robbery, but his older sibling is additionally charged with gun assault and reckless discharge of a firearm.

Prosecutors have yet to file charges against Rios,

Riverside daycare operator charged with molesting 2 children

By City News Service

who is no longer in custody.

The Lopez brothers have no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

The Inland Empire and other regions statewide have been plagued by

catalytic converter thefts. Converters are used to filter engine emissions to cut down on the amount of pollutants discharged by cars and trucks. The devices, located within a vehicle’s exhaust system, average

about $1,000 apiece. Police asked that anyone with knowledge of similar crimes should contact Corona PD Detective Daniel Clary at 951-736-2359 or Daniel.Clary@coronaca. gov.

Los Angeles man in fatal Riverside County crash sentenced 15 years to life in prison

By City News Service

The operator of a Riverside child daycare facility accused of sexually assaulting two children and possibly others was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of lewd acts on a child and other offenses.

Ladislao Diaz Cuevas, 51, was arrested Friday following a Riverside Police Department investigation.

Along with five counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old, Cuevas was charged with two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object and a sentence-enhancing allegation of targeting more than one victim in a sex crime.

The defendant, who is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside, was slated to make his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

According to Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback, detectives from the police department’s Sexual Assault-Child Abuse Unit received information in January indicating that Cuevas allegedly had inappropriate contact with a girl about three years ago.

During the ensuing

investigation, “a second victim came forward to report similar allegations that occurred in December 2022,” Railsback said.

The two children were identified only as Jane Does.

Cuevas operates Little Steps Family Daycare in the 11000 block of Oriole Drive, in the La Sierra Hills area, the police spokesman said.

The specific circum-

stances behind the alleged assaults on the children were not disclosed.

Cuevas has no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

SACA Detective Jolynn Turner said investigators are seeking other potential victims and asked anyone with information to contact her at 951-826-8716, or jturner@riversideca.gov.

ALos Angeles man who caused a fatal Palm Springs crash in July while driving under the influence of alcohol was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Thursday.

Kevin Atteberry, 57, pleaded guilty on Dec. 22, 2022, to one felony count each of murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury, and DUI of alcohol with 0.08% or more causing bodily injury, as well as one misdemeanor count of driving with a suspended or revoked license, according to court records. He additionally admitted to sentence-enhancing allegations of causing great bodily injury.

He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Thursday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.

Around 9:30 p.m. July 30, 2022, Atteberry was traveling south on Sunrise Way when his vehicle rear-ended another vehicle stopped at the intersection of East Palm Canyon Drive, according to the Palm Springs Police Department. The driver of the rear-ended vehicle, Burbank resident Erik Verdian, died at the scene.

According to a declara-

tion in support of arrest filed by Officer Rhett Arden from the Palm Springs Police Department, a boy of an unspecified age was taken to the Loma Linda Medical Center with head and neck pain, a laceration on his right heel and a brain bleed.

Two other vehicles were also struck, but no other occupants were injured, according to Arden.

Atteberry is also suspected of causing a noninjury hit-and-run collision on North Sunrise Way and

East Ramon Road prior to the fatal crash, according to Arden. He was taken to a hospital after the fact and according to Arden, spoke slow with slurred speech and had red, bloodshot or watery eyes, refusing to speak about events prior.

He received medical treatment for more than two months before he was released on Oct. 9 and surrendered at the police department, according to police.

Arden said Atteberry had a prior DUI conviction.

Ladislao Diaz-Cuevas. | Photo courtesy of the city of Riverside

The aftermath of a catalytic converter theft. | Photo courtesy of Seth Sawyers/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Kevin Atteberry. | Photo courtesy of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department

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SoCalGas teams with community orgs to help consumers pay gas bills

By Staff

The Arcadia Weeklyhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number GS 004333 for the City of Arcadia, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Monrovia Weeklyhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of General Circulation in Court Case GS 004759 City of Monrovia, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Temple City Tribunehas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number GS 012440 City of Temple City, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The El Monte Examinerhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number KS 015872 City of El Monte, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Azusa Beaconhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number KS 015970 City of Azusa, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The San Gabriel Sunhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number GS 013808 City of San Gabriel, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Duarte Dispatchhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number GS 013893 City of Duarte, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Rosemead Readerhas been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number GS 048894 City of Rosemead, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Alhambra Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number ES016581 City of Alhambra, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Baldwin Park Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number KS017174 City of Baldwin Park, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Burbank Independent has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number ES016728 City of Burbank, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Glendale Independent has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number ES016579 City of Glendale, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Monterey Park Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number ES016580 City of Monterey Park, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The West Covina Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number KS017304 City of West Covina, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The San Bernardino Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number CIVDS 1506881 City of San Bernardino, County of San Bernardino, State of California.

The Riverside Independent has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number RIC1505351 City of Riverside, County of Riverside, State of California.

The Pasadena Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number ES018815 City of Pasadena, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Belmont Beacon has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number NSO30275 City of Long Beach, County of Los Angeles, State of California.

The Anaheim Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number 30-2017-00942735-CU-PT-CJC City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California.

The Ontario News Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number CIVDS 1506881 City of Ontario, County of San Bernardino, State of California.

The Corona News Press has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in court case number RIC1723524 City of Corona, County of Riverside, State of California.

As the cost of natural gas has jacked up bills for consumers nationwide, United Way of Greater Los Angeles is partnering with the Southern California Gas Company to aid families struggling to cover the skyrocketing heating costs.

In partnership with SoCalGas, United Way of Greater LA is providing Southland income-qualified residents with up to $100 for gas bills. The funding comes from this year’s $1 million Gas Assistance Fund.

“Families are feeling the pain of high gas bills and this relief can help them prioritize spending on food, medicine, and childcare, and other pressing needs,” United Way LA President and CEO Elise Buik said in a statement. “Programs like the Gas Assistance Fund are critical to United Way’s efforts to support people in crisis, and by connecting to neighborhoods through

trusted, local organizations we can keep thousands of people safe and warm in their homes.”

Since 1983, SoCalGas and the United Way LA have provided bill payment assistance totaling nearly $18 million to more than 224,000 disadvantaged and disabled individuals, families, seniors and veterans through the Gas Assistance Fund.

This year SoCalGas projects that a customer who received a $300 bill in January will, if gas consumption remains the same, see their February bill decrease to about $135. Despite the bill relief, prices in the western U.S. are still considerably higher than last year when the average residential customer’s February bill was $99.

“Catholic Charities of Los Angeles is grateful to have this important tool to help families in need, and we know firsthand what a difference the right help at

the right time can make in someone’s life,” Sister Jenny Areas, from Catholic Charities San Gabriel Region in El Monte, said in a statement. “Often, utility assistance helps people connect with resources they weren’t aware of, like free tax preparation or tutoring for their kids. This can help families begin to build savings and free them from barriers to economic stability. The little things add up.”

Southern California residents can request assistance by doing the following:

Visit the SoCalGas Fund

at https://www.socalgas. com/save-money-and-energy/assistance-programs/ gas-assistance-fund.

Click on the “Agency List” and identify the nearest agency in your county. Call the agency to schedule an appointment and complete an application. Program applicants must provide a copy of a current SoCalGas bill and proof of income for all members of the household. For more information or for answers to questions about the Gas Assistance Fund, call 877-238-0092.

How the wealthy save billions in taxes by skirting a century-old law

By Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen and ProPublica

Series: The Secret IRS Files Inside the Tax Records of the .001%

At first glance, July 24, 2015, seems to have been a brutal trading day for Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO. He dumped hundreds of stocks, losing at least $28 million.

But this was no panicked sell-off. Among the stocks Ballmer sold were those of the Australian mining company BHP and the global oil giant Shell. Had Ballmer lost confidence in BHP’s management? Was he betting that the price of oil would not soon recover? Not at all. That very day, Ballmer also bought thousands of shares in BHP and Shell.

Why would he sell and buy shares in the same companies on the same day? The answer is counterintuitive to the average person but obvious to a sophisticated investor: A loss, for tax purposes, is valuable; a big one can wipe out millions in potential taxes. Ballmer’s two-step process allowed him to use the loss to lower his taxes, while the near-simultaneous purchase meant he effectively hadn’t changed his investment.

Since 1921, claiming tax losses from so-called wash sales — selling shares of a company then buying them again within a short period — has been forbidden. But Ballmer collected his losses anyway because, technically, the types of shares he bought and sold weren’t the same.

Both Shell and BHP offered two different versions of their common stock. For each company, the two stocks were legally distinct, but they performed very similarly because, after all, they were shares in the same company.

Ballmer’s not-so-bad day, in fact, was carefully planned, part of a strategy by Goldman Sachs, which conducted the trades on Ballmer’s behalf, to wield the stock market’s natural volatility to the billionaire’s advantage. At Goldman, the hundreds of stocks in Ballmer’s “Tax Advantaged Loss Harvesting” accounts were selected to follow the movement of the broader markets. Over time, the markets, as they had historically, would buoy Ballmer’s investments upward. When, inevitably, some of the stocks underperformed or the whole

market dipped, Goldman was ready to pounce, selling off the losers and replacing them with equivalents.

Sometimes, the replacements were nearly identical securities, as with Shell and BHP. More often, they were not. But well-tuned software could easily find the right stocks to keep the accounts tracking the market. His losses secured, Ballmer was ready to catch the bounce back.

Over and over, Ballmer sold and bought stocks in roughly equivalent amounts, as on that July day, when he swapped around $200 million worth. A month later, he did it again, landing at least $23 million in tax-reducing losses. Similar efforts that December brought $26 million more.

ProPublica estimates that from 2014 through 2018, Ballmer was able to generate tax losses totaling $579 million without changing his investment portfolio in a meaningful way. The tax savings from these losses amount to at least $138 million.

The scale of Goldman’s feat was remarkable, but Ballmer was just one client pursuing such a strategy. And Goldman

was just part of an industry that helps the ultrawealthy report billions in losses — and save billions in potential taxes — even as their fortunes rise.

ProPublica was able to reconstruct the tax-loss strategies of scores of the nation’s wealthiest people, including Ballmer and Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, using a trove of IRS data that has been the basis for “The Secret IRS Files” series. This trove includes not only some two decades of tax returns for thousands of the nation’s wealthiest citizens but also voluminous records of their trading.

After inquiries by ProPublica, Goldman said it would halt transactions like Ballmer’s Shell and BHP trades. Goldman conducted a review, according to a statement by the bank, and found that a “very small percentage” of its “tax investment solutions” trades were “inadvertently made in a manner inconsistent with our strategy.” The bank said it strives “to provide bestin-class investment advice

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Foundations

announce $5M initiative to advance Latinx art

By Staff

Several foundations announced Wednesday the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative that will provide $5 million in funding to art centers nationwide.

Two Southern California institutions that will receive funds are the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

The new effort represents the second phase of a multiyear funding collaboration between the Mellon, Ford, Terra and Getty foundations, which seek “to nurture and prioritize” Latinx art in the United States and Puerto Rico.

The foundations will provide 10, $500,000 grants to enable institutions to create and formalize permanent early and midcareer curators who have expertise in Latinx art.

Latinx artists are defined as “creatives of Latin American or Caribbean descent who live and work in the U.S.,” according to a Mellon Foundation statement.

Funding from the ALAM initiative aims to bolster museums and visual art organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to collecting, studying, exhibiting and engaging with Latinx art and its creators, according to the Mellon Foundation. The grant program also includes chances to increase the number of curators with Latinx art expertise as well as establish a point of connection among the Latinx curators at participating art centers and also to a wider circle of museum professionals.

“The deep knowledge and understanding of Latinx art these ten curators hold comes from rigorous expertise and commitment to the creative expression of Latinx communities in the United States and Puerto Rico,” Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. “Through ALAM we are proud to help expand opportunities for Latinx art curatorship across the country, and to do our part in upholding the centrality of this work in our museums and arts organizations.”

Getty Foundation Director Joan Weinstein added, “We need to invest more if we want Latinx art to be more broadly represented in our museums, with dedicated curators who can focus exclusively on building and stewarding these collections. ALAM is a decisive next step made possible through collaborative funding.”

People who identify as

Latinx comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. population and a considerably higher percentage in some of the country’s largest cities. However, Latinx causes and organizations regularly get less than 2% of philanthropic funding, according to the Mellon Foundation.

“While annual funding for Latinx arts and culture has seen a gradual annual increase since 2020, Latinx artists remain the largest majority missing from most museum collections, exhibitions, scholarship, and programming,” the Mellon Foundation noted.

“Institutional change can happen when we have experienced and knowledgeable voices at the table,” E. Carmen Ramos, chief curatorial and conservation officer of the National Gallery of Art, said in a statement. “Our renowned collection offers opportunities for Latinx art to be presented in dialogue with both the national and the global, and we anticipate that the curator’s work will benefit from the breadth and depth of our expanding holdings.”

ALAM recipients include large institutions, college and university museums, and leading Latinx museums — spanning scale, modality, and location — all aligned in their commitment to building or expanding a curatorial focus on Latinx art and ultimately creating a more inclusive curatorial field.

In addition to the Vincent Price Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, other ALAM recipients are:

-- 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico

-- Arizona State University Art Museum in partnership with CALA Alliance, Tempe, Arizona

-- Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas

-- El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York

-- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

-- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

-- National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois

-- Newark Museum of Art; Newark, New Jersey

Forty-eight arts organizations from the U.S. and Puerto Rico were invited to apply, according to the Mellon Foundation. A five-member panel of Latinx art and museum experts reviewed grant applications.

More information on the ALAM initiative is available at https://mellon.org/programs/ arts-and-culture/faq-advancing-latinx-art-museums/.

to clients, consistent with both the letter and the spirit of all applicable tax laws and regulations.”

A Ballmer spokesperson said: “Steve takes his responsibility to pay taxes very seriously. Goldman Sachs has just provided Steve with corrected loss reporting information for prior years. Steve will amend his filings and pay any associated tax, interest or penalty promptly.”

But, by Goldman’s own description, it is halting only a narrow slice of its lossgenerating trades — the ones involving two kinds of stock from the same company. The bank will continue its broader practice of finding similar stocks that achieve the same effect.

Goldman’s ability to deliver tax losses to its clients won’t be significantly curtailed. That’s because over the past 25 years, investing has undergone a transformation that’s made the law against wash sales toothless. Improved computing, new financial products, cheaper trading costs and a shift away from picking stocks to passively tracking the broader market are the main ingredients of the change.

Asset managers have used these advances to forge loss-harvesting accounts that boast hundreds of billions of dollars in assets. What the law sought to prevent — generating a tax loss without a substantial change in the investment — is now commonplace.

That ability is available even for smalltime investors, who can mimic the sorts of techniques used by Goldman on their own or opt for products offered by mass-market brokerages such as Vanguard and Charles Schwab. But relatively few Americans have stocks or mutual funds outside of taxprotected retirement accounts, meaning most can’t employ the strategy.

It is the wealthiest who benefit most. The losses can be used to erase an unlimited amount of investment gains. Someone like Ballmer can easily deploy $100 million in losses to cancel out a $100 million gain from selling some of his vast Microsoft holdings. It’s a very different story when it comes to wages and other forms of income, of which only $3,000 can be offset. On average, only the top 0.001% of taxpayers made a majority of their income through investment gains in 2018, according to public IRS data.

Those gains, like many aspects of wealthy Americans’ tax returns, are usually the result of careful planning. Since, in the U.S. system, gains aren’t taxed until they’re sold, even the richest Americans can have years where they owe no tax at all.

The story is exactly the opposite with investment losses. From 2014 to 2018, Ballmer grew $22 billion richer, a fact that doesn’t appear on his tax returns. Meanwhile, Goldman made sure that even momentary losses were listed by the thousands.

For the rich, the “tax system is sort of like a rigged coin,” said David Schizer, a tax expert and professor at Columbia Law School: “If you win, you get to keep all of it, but if you lose, you can pass some of those losses on to the government.” The wash sale rule, he said, is easily skirted by “welladvised taxpayers.”

IRS data shows how widespread the use of investment losses is among the richest Americans. In the U.S., short-term gains, those sold less than a year after buying, are taxed at about twice the rate (around 40% for the top bracket) as longterm gains. That makes short-term losses more valuable since they reduce this higher tax rate income. In 2018, almost two-thirds of Americans with income over $10 million reported net short-term

losses. That was the highest share of any income slice; with more income, counterintuitively, came more losses — at least, on their taxes. Meanwhile, long-term losses were rare for them.

Take a look at the taxes of Jim Walton, the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton and the 10th-wealthiest American, and you’ll see years of short-term losses, thanks to a tax-loss harvesting account at Northern Trust, a bank that specializes in managing the assets of the rich. (A representative for Walton declined to comment.) From 2014 to 2018, Walton grew $10 billion richer, according to Forbes, but reported only $111 million in long-term gains on his taxes. Since his losses easily overwhelmed those gains, he paid no taxes on them at all.

In November 1920, a reader of The Wall Street Journal identified as R.H.T. wrote in with a question. It was a time with parallels to today: The stock market, after reaching highs amid a pandemic (then the Spanish flu), had plummeted. R.H.T.’s portfolio had fallen about $50,000 ($750,000 in current dollars).

“I do not want to sell these stocks at the present market,” wrote R.H.T. “Would it be legal for me to sell these stocks and deduct the loss from this year’s income, even though I bought them in again the same day?” Yes, the Journal responded, the transaction was permitted under the law.

“Basically, the strategy went viral,” said Lawrence Zelenak, a law professor at Duke Law School, and author of a history of the early income tax.

Lawmakers decided to do something about “evasion through the medium of wash sales,” as a 1921 Senate conference report put it. They passed a law that barred taking a tax deduction if, within either 30 days before or 30 days after a sale, an investor bought a security that was “substantially identical” to the one sold.

In the following decades, investors still found ways to collect losses that would reduce their taxes. Often, the volume of selling at year-end was enough to temporarily depress stock prices.

But with the wash sale rule in effect, there were real risks to what was often known as “tax-loss selling.” Investors could sell their losers and try to pick stocks with better prospects. That, as The New York Times reported in 1983, often led to “regret” when an abandoned stock went to the moon. If investors wanted to stick with a stock, they’d have to work around the 60-day limitation. That meant either buying the same stock 30 days before they sold (called “doubling up”) or after. Both options carried danger. If the stock continued to tank while they were doubled up, their losses were compounded, and if the stock boomed before they could buy back in, they missed out.

In the mid-1990s, amid a historic market ascent, new strategies were forged to serve a new generation of superrich Americans. Asset managers began to emphasize post-tax returns. “Tax-aware investing is the challenge of the moment,” wrote Jean Brunel, the chief investment officer of JP Morgan’s global private bank, in the journal Trusts and Estates in 1997. The “tax-sheltering volatility” of stock movements, he explained, presented a “free option” to investment managers, who should “make a greater effort to identify ‘harvestable’ tax losses.”

Enabling this new “tax-loss harvesting” was a shift away from stock picking and toward passive products, such as funds that track the S&P 500. The wash sale rule still foreclosed easy solutions to the problem of replacing a specific stock. But

replacing an investment in something as broad as the S&P 500 with another similar product became increasingly simple. As the Times reported in 1998, “it is getting easier for investors to find a close double for almost any portfolio.”

Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which emerged in the ’90s, fit this purpose perfectly. Unlike mutual funds, they could be traded like stocks, making them easier to use in loss-harvesting transactions.

Consider a trade by one billionaire in the summer of 2015. Markets had dropped after troubles in the Chinese economy, providing a loss-harvesting opportunity for investors with exposure to Asia.

Brian Acton, a co-founder of WhatsApp, which a year before had been sold to Facebook for $19 billion, was one of those investors. He owned shares of Vanguard’s emerging markets ETF, which tracks an index of companies in China and elsewhere.

At the end of August 2015, according to ProPublica’s IRS data, Acton sold $17 million in shares, resulting in a loss of $2.9 million. The same day, he bought $17 million worth of the emerging markets ETF offered by Blackrock.

The two funds have only minor differences, with large holdings in many of the same Chinese companies. Unsurprisingly, the two funds perform similarly.

When emerging markets fell even further toward the end of the year, Acton did the same deal in reverse: He sold Blackrock and bought back into Vanguard. That allowed him to bank another $600,000 in tax losses.

In 2015, well over 100 wealthy Americans in ProPublica’s database switched from one company’s emerging markets ETF to another to collect tax losses.

Asked about loss-harvesting transactions, Acton told ProPublica, “To be honest I’m not really aware of any events like that.”

“Broadly my wealth is managed by a wealth management firm and they manage all the day to day transactions,” Acton, who has donated to ProPublica, added in a brief exchange over the messaging app Signal, where he is now interim CEO. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions.

Why was Acton’s trade, and the many others like it, not a wash sale?

In theory, the stocks inside two different funds could overlap so much that the IRS might deem them “substantially identical” and thus disallow any tax loss on such a trade.

In practice, however, there is only one scenario in which the wash sale rule is consistently enforced. IRS regulations require brokerages to mark a trade as a wash sale if, in the 60-day period around the sale, the investor buys, in the exact same account, the exact same security (with the same ID, called a CUSIP number). The amount of the forbidden loss is then noted on a form, called a 1099-B, that brokerages send to the IRS each year to detail stock trades.

Beyond that, the IRS has provided no clear guidelines. Instead, the agency has commented on only a few little-used scenarios, while directing taxpayers to “consider all the facts and circumstances” of a trade. Is it OK to swap Vanguard’s ETF tracking the S&P 500 for Blackrock’s version of the same index? Some tax experts say yes, some say no. Besides the IRS’ vague guidance, there are few relevant court cases, and all are decades old. (The IRS declined to comment.)

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ProPublica’s analysis of its IRS data found dozens of examples of taxpayers switching between funds with the exact same holdings. More common were switches like Acton’s between funds with significant, but incomplete, overlap.

The clearest sign that these sorts of trades do not, in the IRS’ eyes, violate the wash sale rule is that ProPublica could find no example of the agency challenging one.

In fact, audits very rarely target wash sales at all, attorneys who’ve represented wealthy taxpayers in IRS disputes told ProPublica. “I have had only one audit on this,” said Bryan Skarlatos, a partner with Kostelanetz & Fink, and it was “for a trader who totally screwed up.”

As popular as ETFs are for harvesting losses, the premier vehicle for delivering tax losses to wealthy clients is another innovation of the 1990s: the separately managed account.

In these accounts, managers make decisions about what to buy as they would for a fund, but the investor owns the stocks directly. When the account mimics an index like the S&P 500, it’s called direct indexing. Such products have boomed in recent years. A 2021 report by the consulting firm Cerulli Associates estimated that $362 billion was invested in direct-indexing accounts, most for “high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.” The main use of such accounts are for “tax optimization,” the report said.

The advantage, as Goldman Sachs explained in a recent promotional document, is that “with an ETF, an investor may only harvest a loss when the entire index is down.” But if you own the components of an index, now you have hundreds of stocks that might dip.

The year 2017, for example, was great for investors, with the U.S. market up around 20% and world markets up even more. There were no obvious, broad dips to exploit — but that didn’t stop Goldman Sachs from delivering big tax losses to its clients.

That year, Ballmer’s direct indexing accounts, which tracked both U.S. and world indexes, posted over $100 million in tax losses through 15 loss-harvesting transactions. At the same time, the performance of those indexes in 2017 meant that, overall, Ballmer’s accounts were actually way up.

In a direct indexing account, you don’t need to own all the stocks that compose the index, and it doesn’t really matter which specific stocks they are. Instead, what matters is that the collection of stocks closely tracks the index’s movements. This is achieved via a “thoughtful sampling of the underlying positions,” as a

team of Morgan Stanley wealth managers put it in a recent issue of an investment journal. When it comes time to harvest tax losses, the manager sells off the losing stocks and then chooses replacements with the aim of continuing to match the index.

Tax records show that Goldman Sachs routinely made trades for direct-indexing clients like Ballmer that included the sale and purchase of the same company’s stock. These companies offered two classes of common stock, and when Goldman traded from one class to another, it was not required to flag them as wash sales.

Often, these two classes of common stock were distinguished only by the right to vote on things like directors and shareholder initiatives. The sports apparel company Under Armour, for instance, offers a Class A voting stock and Class C nonvoting stock. The two classes command a slightly different price, with the Class A shares usually trading at a premium of around 10%. But the prices move in sync, making them nearly perfect loss-harvesting replacements.

As part of larger rebalancing trades, Goldman clients also swapped other votingnonvoting pairs from companies like Discovery, TwentyFirst Century Fox and Liberty Global.

Shell and BHP, both part of Ballmer’s loss-harvesting trade in 2015, each offered shares based in two different countries. Each company viewed these two versions as interchangeable in value. In fact, in 2022, both companies chose to merge their two classes into a single stock on a 1:1 basis.

ProPublica’s IRS data contained several hundred examples of these kinds of trades by Goldman clients dating back as long as 10 years ago. The records show instances of these sorts of trades through other brokerages, but the overwhelming majority were made through Goldman.

Goldman said that the impact of the now-halted trades on its clients would be “minimal,” and that it would “cover any costs they incur” as a result of disallowed losses.

“We have also initiated a discussion with the IRS and will address any questions they may have on this matter,” the statement said. Generally, only returns filed within the past three years would be subject to possible audit.

At wealth management firms, loss harvesting accounts are often designed to work in tandem with other services, as a kind of knob to turn up or down, depending on the need.

At Iconiq Capital, this is part of an approach that goes far beyond investing to things like managing personal staff. In 2007, the firm’s co-founder,

a former Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley banker named Divesh Makan, told a wealth management magazine that he’d even organized clients’ parties and helped find possible marriage partners. Clients, he said, “want us to look after them these days.”

The San Francisco-based firm manages about $13.2 billion for its 337 high-networth clients, according to a regulatory filing. Among them is Facebook co-founder Moskovitz, Zuckerberg’s old roommate at Harvard. Since the mid-2000s, when Moscovitz’s six-figure Facebook salary made up almost all his income — he’s now worth more than $7 billion — his financial life has grown considerably more complicated. After leaving Facebook, Moskovitz co-founded Asana, a software company, in 2009, but his stake in Facebook still accounted for the vast majority of his wealth. He set about changing that. From 2012 through 2018, he sold $3.6 billion worth of his stock, funds that he, with Iconiq’s help, could then use for other investments.

One of those new ventures was a tax-loss generating account. In late 2012, Moskovitz harvested his first tax losses, according to ProPublica’s analysis. It was a tiny haul by the standards of a billionaire, just $309,000, but it was a start. By 2013, he’d put over $100 million into the account, and his tax losses began to swell. In December of that year, he sold off 153 stocks to produce his first million-dollar loss.

Asset managers recommend adding to a direct indexing account over time, since it ensures there are always new losses to harvest. That’s the strategy Moskovitz followed, every few months seeding $13 million here, $25 million there. As the account grew, so did the tax losses.

Although ProPublica could not determine which index Moskovitz’s account tracked, the transactions followed the telltale pattern of direct indexing. In March 2016, for instance, Moskovitz sold off a basket of 85 stocks worth $27 million and bought a collection worth about the same amount. The two baskets were stuffed with stocks that had performed very similarly in the previous year, according to ProPublica’s analysis. The trade delivered $6.2 million in losses.

Meanwhile, Iconiq arranged other investments for Moskovitz, and the point of these was simply to make money. Most of the money Iconiq manages is in the form of venture capital, private equity and hedge funds, and Moskovitz bought large shares of partnerships run by the firm with names like Iconiq Strategic Partners and Iconiq Access. From 2014 to 2018, Iconiq entities sent over $200 million

to Moskovitz.

The two types of investments were complementary, with the direct indexing account helping to blunt the tax sting from that income. Over the same period, Moskovitz’s dozens of loss-harvesting trades resulted in $84 million in tax losses. That saved him at least $20 million in taxes, ProPublica estimates.

For Zuckerberg, too, Iconiq provided the same twin services of providing and erasing income. His Iconiq investments earned him $88 million during the five-year period, while his tax-loss harvesting trades produced losses of $34 million.

Representatives for Iconiq and Moskovitz, who has tweeted that he’s “in favor of raising taxes on the wealthy,” did not respond to written questions. A representative for Zuckerberg said, “Mark has always paid the taxes he is required to pay.”

To prevent the wealthy from easily skirting the wash sale rule, Congress would need to change the law, experts said. One fundamental, but long-shot, reform would be to automatically tax the annual fluctuations of investments’ value (called “marking to market”). That would prevent the wealthy from being able to defer taxes on gains forever — and also render tax-loss harvesting unnecessary.

But even narrower changes could have an impact. Steve Rosenthal of the Tax Policy Center suggested a law aimed at how products like direct-indexing accounts are marketed: If an asset manager touted the ability to replace securities with positions that were economically the same,

then those losses could be deemed wash sales. This, he said, wouldn’t be a major change, “but it might slow people down.”

Schizer, of Columbia Law School, suggested a more comprehensive reform: Congress should replace “substantially identical” with “substantially similar,” a phrase that is used in some other areas of tax law. That could rule out some of the most common harvesting moves, he said. The rule, he said, “ought to be updated to reflect how people invest today instead of how they invested 100 years ago.”

Methodology Total Tax Losses Harvested

To calculate the total tax losses harvested for each taxpayer, we limited our analysis of 1099-B forms to days in which all the following conditions were true:

At least 10 positions were sold that day.

Of those positions, at least 90% resulted in a loss.

The total losses from sales that day exceeded the total gains by a factor of 10 or more.

The purpose of these limitations was to exclude days that did not appear to be motivated by harvesting losses. The method effectively identified sales from directindexing accounts, which tend to involve dozens or even hundreds of positions, but did exclude some loss-harvesting transactions that involved only a few positions — for instance, selling a couple large ETF holdings. As a result, these are conservative estimates that likely understate total losses. The totals shown in the story represent the net losses accu-

mulated from loss-harvesting days in 2014-18.

Steve Ballmer’s estimate uses a different methodology to calculate his total losses. For an unknown reason, ProPublica’s IRS database did not have information about Ballmer’s 2018 trades, so we based his totals for 2014-18 on the Schedule D forms from his tax returns. Our analysis of his 1099-Bs from other years showed that his direct-indexing accounts at Goldman Sachs dominated his short-term trading results, as represented on his tax returns. These he noted on his Schedule D, in the field reserved for trades that had been reported on a 1099-B form that included the basis. As a result, Ballmer’s total is the sum over 2014-18 for short-term trades that included a 1099-B form with the basis reported.

ProPublica provided detailed descriptions of our loss calculations to all the individuals named in this article, and none contested our totals or methodology.

Tax Savings

Since both Ballmer and Moskovitz did not have extensive net capital gains from short-term trading during the periods we studied, we opted for a simple method for calculating their tax savings: 23.8% of losses, representing the long-term capital gains rate plus the net investment income tax. The tax benefit of a harvested loss can be diminished if stock is sold in the future (given the lower basis). But Ballmer, Moskovitz and other billionaires we analyzed held on to their gains, and there’s good reason to think they will hold on to them indefinitely.

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Report finds nursing homes sedate too many residents; California bill looks to require written consent

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

“These are, by and large, residents who have not had a history of psychiatric conditions.”

This spring, the California Legislature will consider Assembly Bill 48, which would require facilities to get written consent from a patient or the patient’s representative before administering psychotherapeutic drugs.

The California Association of Health Facilities says it is reviewing the bill and hasn’t taken a position.

California has made significant progress on this issue. Federal data show antipsychotic use for longstay residents dropped from more than 21% in 2011 to 10.5% in 2021.

Carlson - who is also the director of long-term services and supports advocacy for Justice in Aging - said informed consent must be a bedrock principle for all patient care.

Groups that advocate for older Americans are speaking out about the overuse of psychotropic medications in nursing homes.

Last November, the federal

government reported that 80% of nursing facility residents they studied received these medications, which are supposed to treat conditions like psychosis, convulsions,

depression and anxiety.

But Eric Carlson, author of a new policy brief from the nonprofit Justice in Aging, said residents are sometimes being sedated as a form of

chemical restraint.

“Evidence suggests that nursing facilities are using these antipsychotic medications to keep residents manageable,” said Carlson.

“People should say, ‘Yes, I want this medication,’ or, ‘No, I don’t want this medication,’” said Carlson. “And that decision should be made after being given information on the benefits and potential

risks of the medication.”

The feds use the prevalence of antipsychotic medicines to rate nursing home quality, but they don’t count patients with certain diagnoses, like schizophrenia.

The brief points out that the number of diagnoses for that condition shot up 35% after the rating system took effect in 2015.

Disclosure: Justice in Aging contributes to our fund for reporting on Civil Rights, Health Issues, Senior Issues, Social Justice. If you would like to help support news in the public interest, click here.

References:

Long-Term Trends of Psychotropic Drug Use in Nursing Homes US DHHS OIG 11/4/22

Why Too Many Psychotropic Medications? (policy brief) Justice in Aging 1/1/23

National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes: Antipsychotic Medication Use Data Report (includes historical data) U.S. CMS 4/1/22

Number of residents in certified nursing facilities in the United States as of 2022, by state statista.com 2022

Settlement between former UCLA quarterback, ex-wife, still not finalized

By City News Service

Former UCLA quarter-

back Brett Hundley and his ex-wife have not finalized a settlement of her lawsuit in which she alleged he broke one of her ankles and caused her to suffer a back injury during arguments between the former couple in 2016.

In a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, the plaintiff, identified only as “Jane Doe,” alleged causes of action for domestic violence as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent misrepresentation. The two had met while at UCLA, where Doe was a track runner, and were married in July 2016.

Doe’s lawyers filed court papers on Oct. 11 with Judge Elaine Lu stating that a “conditional” settlement was reached. However, the attorneys told the judge during a hearing Thursday that the accord was not finalized.

“The parties are in a dispute over the written settlement agreement,” Lu’s clerk stated in a minute order from the hearing.

The judge scheduled another hearing for Tuesday and ordered attorneys on both sides to be present.

Doe alleged that in January 2016, Hundley choked her during an argument in which she broke her ankle. In December of that year, Hundley “pushed her through an open garage door,” resulting in a back injury. In July 2016, Hundley became infected with a sexually transmitted disease after having unprotected sex with an unknown number of women at a Las Vegas bachelor party and later passed the malady on to Doe, the suit filed in April 2020 further alleged.

In a sworn declaration, Hundley denied abusing the woman.

“I have never put a hand on plaintiff in a violent manner, assaulted, battered or threatened plaintiff at any point over the course of our relationship,” said the 29-year-old, now a member of the Vegas Vipers of the XFL. “This includes hitting, aggressively grabbing, pushing, or choking or any

other physical manifestation of violence.”

Hundley denied pushing Doe through a garage door and says she broke her ankle when the two were dining out.

“During dinner, plaintiff had a severe allergic reaction to shellfish,” Hundley said. “Plaintiff went to the restroom and struck her foot on the bathroom stall causing, plaintiff to injure her ankle.”

Hundley further says that, in December 2016 or January 2017, Doe told him that she had contracted chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease.

“I got tested as a result of plaintiff telling me she was infected with chlamydia and also tested positive for the infection,” Hundley said. “I did not know I was infected with chlamydia until I was notified by plaintiff, nor did I have any reason to believe I could be infected with chlamydia or any other sexually transmitted disease or infection.”

Doe and Hundley renewed their vows July

2017, and even after she filed for divorce in November 2018, the woman “expressed the desire to continue a

romantic relationship with me,” according to Hundley.

Hundley was drafted in 2015 by the Green Bay

Packers and later played for the Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts.

Former UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley. | Photo courtesy of Neon Tommy/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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INVITATION TO BID

Pursuant to Public Contract Code Sections 1600 and 1601, all bids or proposals shall be submitted through the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.

com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43375 by 2:00 pm Pacific Standard Time on or before March 9, 2023 for the project listed below. A bid submitted after the time set shall not be considered. Bidders are required to submit (upload) all items listed in the section 4(d) of Instructions to Bidders, including a copy of the required Bidder’s Bond and acknowledgement of all addendums. Bids will be received by the City via the electronic submission up to the date and time shown in the Notice of Inviting Bids. The City will be responsible for bid tabulations. Bids will be opened and read out loud by the City Clerk’s Office in Council Chambers at the date and time stated in the Notice of Inviting Bids. Bid results will be made available to the public on the City’s website in the electronic bid management system once the bid tabulation has been completed.

The foregoing notwithstanding, the award of any contract shall be subject to approval by the City Council at a duly noticed City Council meeting and the City Council reserves the right to reject all Bids.

The Bidder, by submitting their electronic proposal, agrees to and certifies under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California, that the certification, forms and affidavits submitted as part of this proposal are true and correct. The Bidder, by submitting its electronic bid, acknowledges that doing so carries the same force and full legal effect as a paper submission with a longhand (wet) signature. By submitting an electronic bid, the Bidder certifies that the Bidder has thoroughly examined and understands the entire Contract Documents (which consist of the plans and specifications, drawings, forms, affidavits and the solicitation documents), and that by submitting the electronic bid as its Bid proposal, the Bidder acknowledges, agrees to and is bound by the entire Contract Documents, including any addenda issued thereto, and incorporated by reference in the Contract Documents.

Sidewalk & Curb Ramp Reconstruction Project (PHASE 3), CIP 052

The proposed work consists of but not limited to removal and reconstruction of sidewalk, curb and gutter, driveway approaches, AC pavement, curbs, tree and stump removal, adjust to grade of utility meter box, sidewalk grinding, construct ADA curb ramp, and all other work as indicated in the construction documents. It is the goal of this project to improve pedestrian safety, mobility and access within the City. The City Engineer’s estimate for the project is Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000).

This is a federally assisted construction contract. Federal Labor Standards Provisions outlined in the HUD-4010 form, including prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), will be enforced.

The “current Federal Wage Decision” is the one in effect ten (10) days prior to the bid opening date and can be found online at http://www.wdol.gov In the event of a conflict between federal and state wage rates, the higher of the two will prevail. “The Contractor’s duty to pay State prevailing wages can be found under Labor Code Section 1770 et seq. and Labor Code Sections 1775 and 1777.7 outline the penalties for failure to pay prevailing wages and employ apprentices including forfeitures and debarment.” This Project is a “public work,” and thus, the Contractor and any Subcontractors must pay wages in accordance with the determination of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) regarding the prevailing rate of per diem wages. Copies of those rates are on file with the Director of Public Works and are available to any interested party upon request. The contractor shall post a copy of the DIR’s determination of the prevailing rate of per diem wages at each job site.

Section 3 Statement: This is a HUD Section 3 construction contract. First preference will be given to a bidder who provides a reasonable bid and is a qualified Section 3 Business Concern. Second preference will be given to a bidder who provides a reasonable bid and commits to achieving the Section 3 employment, training, and subcontracting opportunity goals by submitting a Declaration of Intent to comply with Section 3 requirements, including benchmarks. A Section 3 MANDATORY Pre-Bid Meeting will be held at 10:00am on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at El Monte Aquatic Center (Conference Room A), 11001 Mildred St, El Monte, CA, 91731, to discuss the Section 3 bid preference and goals. A bidder who is not responsive to the Section 3 requirements of the Housing Development Act of 1968 (as amended), will not receive consideration for a bid preference.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. It is not a violation for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

Completion of Work: All work shall be completed within fortyfive (45) working days from the date designated on the Notice to Proceed. Liquidated damages as provided for in the General Conditions of the Contract shall be in the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each and every day as defined therein for each different scope of work as defined by the Base Bid and each change order except as otherwise specified in the General Conditions.

Obtaining Contract Documents: Specifications and contract documents are posted in the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375. All Bidders must first register as a vendor on the City of El Monte PlanetBids System website to participate in a Bid or to be added to a prospective Bidders list. Only those parties that have registered with the City as a plan holder on a particular project will receive the addendum(a) for that project. The City is not responsible for notifications to those parties who do not directly register as a plan holder on the City’s database. It is the responsibility of all perspective Bidders to register on the City’s database to ensure receipt of any addendum(a) prior to Bid submittals. Additionally, information on any addendum(a) issued for any bid specifications for any project will be available on the City website at: https:// www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43375. The City reserves the right to reject as nonresponsive any bid that fails to include the information required by any addendum(a) posted on the City website.

Questions: Project-specific questions must be submitted in writing through the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375 by 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on or before Tuesday February 28, 2023. All posted questions will be answered in writing and conveyed via written addenda to all Bidders via posting on PlanetBids.

Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting: A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on Thursday February 23, 2023, 10:00 a.m. at El Monte Aquatic Center (Conference Room A), 11001 Mildred St, El Monte, CA, 91731. Every Bidder is required to attend the pre-bid meeting. Failure of a Bidder to attend will render that Bidder’s Bid nonresponsive. No allowances for cost adjustments will be made if a Bidder fails to adequately examine the Project before submitting a Bid.

In light of the new health order issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health lifting the indoor mask mandate [for fully vaccinated individuals], effective Friday, March 4, 2022, the City of El Monte COVID-19 Prevention Plan will remain in effect. All employees and customers entering a City facility will be required to wear at least a face-covering or mask regardless of vaccination status. If you plan to wear a face-covering instead of a surgical mask or well-fitting respirators (e.g., N95 and KN95), please ensure that the face covering is a tightly woven fabric or non-woven material with no visible holes or openings covering the nose and mouth.

Submission of Proposals: All Bids or Proposals shall be submitted through the City’s electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375 no later than the date and time prescribed. All Bids must be signed by an authorized representative.

All required sections, including pricing, shall be submitted (uploaded) to PlanetBids via the website. The Bidder shall attach Subcontractor(s) Listing, Experience Form, Copy of Bid Security, and all other documents as listed in the BIDDER’S CHECKLIST to the PlanetBids Attachments Tab. The system will not accept a Bid for which any required information is missing. Prior to the Bid due date and time, all Bidders shall submit the original Bid Security to:

Office of the City Clerk

City of El Monte – City Hall East 11333 Valley Blvd El Monte CA, 91731

The award of the contract by the City Council is contingent upon the Bidder submitting the required bonds and insurance, as described in the Contract, prior to the Bid due date and time. If the Bidder fails to comply with these requirements, the City may award the contract to the second or third lowest Bidder and the Bid security of the lowest Bidder may be forfeited.

Bids Remain Sealed Until Due Date and Time. Electronic Bids are transmitted into the City’s bidding system via hypertext transfer protocol secure (https). Bids submitted prior to the due date and time are not available for review by anyone other than the submitter, who will have until the due date and time to change, rescind or retrieve its bid should they desire to do so. Upon the Bidder’s entry of their bid, the system will ensure that all required fields are entered. The system will not accept a Bid for which any required information is missing. This includes all necessary pricing, subcontractor listing(s) and any other essential documentation and supporting materials and forms requested or contained in these solicitation documents. All Bid submission information must be fully transferred from the Bidder server to the bid system server before bid closing. Bids still transmitting at the time of bid closing will not be accepted. Bidders will receive an e-bid confirmation number with a time stamp from the bid management system indicating their bid was submitted successfully. The City will only receive those bids that were transmitted successfully. DO NOT FAX OR EMAIL.

Bid Security: Each proposal must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the form of a cashier’s check, certified check, or bid bond executed on the prescribed form, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid price payable to the City of El Monte. Bidders are hereby notified that in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 22300, securities may be substituted for any monies which the City may withhold pursuant to the terms of this Contract to ensure performance.

LEGALS

Prior to the bid due date and time, all Bidders shall submit the original Bid Security to the City Clerk. Proof of delivery that is date/time stamped and signed for by the City Clerk from other couriers other than Certified mail will be accepted. A copy of the proof of delivery shall be submitted with the bid package by the bid due date.

Contractor's License: Bidder must possess a current Class_”A” - General Engineering Contractor license or Class “C-8” – Concrete Contractor issued by the State of California, at the time the bid is submitted.

Contractor Registration: All Bidders and listed subcontractors must have registered with the California State Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 prior to submitting a Bid. Furthermore, a Contractor and all subcontractors must be registered pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 before entering into a contract to work on a public project.

City’s Right to Postpone Opening of Bids. The City reserves the right to postpone the date and time for the opening of Bids at any time prior to the date and time initially announced in this Invitation to Bid in accordance with applicable law.

Opening of Bids. Bids will be received by the City via the electronic submission up to the date and time shown in the Notice of Inviting Bids. The City will be responsible for bid tabulations. Bids will be opened and read out loud by the City Clerk’s Office in Council Chambers at the date and time stated in the Notice of Inviting Bids. Bid results will be made available to the public on the City’s website and in the electronic bid management system (PlanetBids) at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43375 once the bid tabulation has been completed.

Award: The award shall be made to the lowest responsible Bidder whose proposal complies with the specified requirements. The foregoing notwithstanding, the award of any contract shall be subject to approval by the City Council at a duly noticed City Council meeting. Contractor shall execute the Contract within ten (10) days after it has received the Contract from the City. The City reserves the right to waive any irregularity in the proposals. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the opening of bids.

Rejection of Bids: The City reserves the right to reject any and all Bids. The City further reserves the right to waive immaterial irregularities in any Bid. Any Bid not conforming to the intent and purpose of the Contract Documents may be rejected. The City reserves the right to make all awards in the best interest of the City.

Disqualification of Bidder: If there is a reason to believe that collusion exists among any Bidders, none of the Bids of the participants in such collusion will be considered and the City may likewise elect to reject all bids received.

Wage Rates: Bidders are hereby notified that the California Department of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rate of wages for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the work. Copies of the current schedules for prevailing wages applicable to this project are on file in the City’s office. It shall be mandatory for the Contractor and any subcontractor under it to pay not less than the said specified rates to laborers and workmen employed by them in the execution of the Contract. The contractor’s duty to pay State prevailing wages can be found under Labor Code, Section 1770 et seq. Labor Code Sections 1775 and 1777.7 outline the penalties for failure to pay prevailing wages and employ apprentices including forfeitures and debarment.

This public works construction project is also funded in whole or in part with federal funds. Accordingly, federal labor standards provisions including prevailing wage requirements of the DavisBacon and Related Acts (DBRA) will be enforced. In the event of a conflict between Federal and State prevailing wage rates, the higher of the two will prevail.

Bonds: The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a payment bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price, and a faithful performance bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price.

Conflict of Interest: In the procurement of supplies, equipment, construction, and services by sub-recipients, the conflict of interest provisions in 24 CFR 85.36 OMB Circular A-110, and 24 CFR 570.611, respectively, shall apply. No employee, officer, or agent of the sub-recipient shall participate in selection, or in the award or administration of a contract supported by Federal funds if a conflict of interest, real or apparent, would be involved.

Arcadia City Notices

Thursday March 2, 2023, at which time said proposals shall be publicly opened and the names of the proposers shall be read. Copies of the proposal may be obtained from the Purchasing Office, City of Arcadia, 240 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, 91007, or by emailing Amber Abeyta, Management Analyst, at aabeyta@ArcadiaCA.gov. Said specifications and proposal forms are hereby referred to and incorporated herein and made a part by reference and all proposals must comply therewith.

The City of Arcadia reserves the right to accept in whole or part or reject any and all proposals and to waive any informalities in the proposal process, and all proposals are binding for a period of ninety (90) days after the proposal opening and may be retained by the City for examination and comparison, as specified in the proposal documents. The award of this contract shall be made by the Arcadia City Council.

CITY OF ARCADIA PURCHASING OFFICE

/s/ Linda Rodriguez Assistant City Clerk

Dated: February 13, 2023

Publish: February 13, February 16, and February 20, 2023

ARCADIA WEEKLY

CITY OF ARCADIA NOTICE INVITING BIDS

The City of Arcadia (“City”) will receive in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside “SEALED BID FOR Well Inspection and Rehabilitation of Orange Grove Well 5 Project / Project No. 72863623 - DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL” at the office of the City Clerk, located at 240 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA 91007, no later than Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 11:00 A.M., at which time or thereafter said Bids will be opened and read aloud. Bids received after this time will be returned unopened. Bids shall be valid for sixty (60) calendar days after the Bid opening date.

Bids must be submitted to the City on the City’s Contract Bid Forms. Prospective Bidders may obtain Bid Documents only from the ArcadiaCA.gov. Please contact the Public Works Services Department at (626) 254-2720 for more information, including availability of Bid Documents. One or more Pre-Bid Conference and Site Walks will be held on the date(s), at the time(s) and under the conditions indicated in the Bid Documents. Bidder SHOULD attend.

All Bids must be addressed, sealed in an envelope and received by the office of the City Clerk no later than 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. All Bids will be publicly opened, examined and read aloud at the City’s Clerk’s office at that time. Bids shall be valid for 60 days after the bid opening date. Bids must be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or a Bid Bond in favor of the City in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish the City with a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond, each equal to 100% of the successful Bid, prior to execution of the Contract. All bonds are to be secured from a surety that meets all of the State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and is admitted by the State of California.

Each Bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to the Business and Professions Code and shall be licensed in the following appropriate classification(s) of contractor’s license(s), for the work Bid upon, and must maintain the license(s) throughout the duration of the Contract: C-57.

Bidders are advised that this Contract is a public work for purposes of the California Labor Code, which requires payment of prevailing wages. City has obtained from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations the general prevailing rates, and will place them on file at the City’s office and make them available to any interested party upon request.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work.

City reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive any informality or irregularity in any Bid received, and to be the sole judge of the merits of the respective Bids received.

CITY OF ARCADIA

Monday, February 20, and February 27, 2023

ARCADIA WEEKLY

the City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, 240 W. Huntington Drive, P.O. Box 60021, Arcadia, California, 91066-6021. Proposals are due no later than 11:00 a.m. on

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Norma Frances Markoya

CASE NO. 23STPB01231

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Norma Frances Markoya

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Paula Dahlin in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Paula Dahlin be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with full authority . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 03/14/2023 at 8:30AM in Dept. 44 located at 111 N. HILL ST.

LOS ANGELES CA 90012 STAN-

LEY MOSK COURTHOUSE.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner:

Cindy T. Nguyen (SBN273886)

Amity Law Group LLP

3733 Rosemead Blvd, Ste 201

Rosemead CA, 91770

TEL: 626-307-2800 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

PAULINE WHITE AKA

PAULINE L. WHITE

CASE NO. 23STPB01079

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of PAULINE WHITE AKA PAULINE L. WHITE.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHARLENE KAY BLUNDELL in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHARLENE KAY BLUNDELL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to

the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/10/23

at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner BRITTANY DUKE, ESQ. - SBN 279489

BARBARO, CHINEN, PITZER & DUKE LLP

301 E COLORADO BLVD., #700 PASADENA CA 91101 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SHEREE COOMER CASE NO. 23STPB01355

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SHEREE COOMER.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by AARON COOMER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that AARON COOMER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/15/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 5 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate

assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner PAUL R. KELLY, ESQ. - SBN 282324

THE KELLY LAW FIRM 3777 LONG BEACH BLVD., STE 300 LONG BEACH CA 90807 BSC 222869 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23 CNS-3669306# AZUSA BEACON

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: TONY CHIN

CASE NO. 23STPB01309

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of TONY CHIN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TERRENCE CHIN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TERRENCE CHIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/24/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 67 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

CARMELA BOMBAY - SBN 309680

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRUST & PROBATE CENTER 1252 N SAN DIMAS CANYON RD SAN DIMAS CA 91773 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23 CNS-3669324# SAN GABRIEL SUN

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

BLAS ROMERO AKA

BLAS RIVAS AKA CARLOS ALBERTO RIVAS CASE NO. 23STPB01371

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of BLAS ROMERO AKA BLAS RIVAS AKA CARLOS ALBERTO RIVAS. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by THOMAS L. PHILLIPS in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that THOMAS L. PHILLIPS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/15/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 5 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner JOHN R. GOTTES - SBN 134317 6723 WASHINGTON AVENUE WHITTIER CA 90601-4309 2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LAWRENCE LUNA Case No. 23STPB01456

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LAWRENCE LUNA

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Laurice A. LunaMolangi in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Laurice A. Luna-Molangi be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 24, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 67 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the

California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowl-edgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: CLARK E SELTERS ESQ SBN 306892 SELTERS & SELTERS 399 W MISSION BLVD STE K POMONA CA 91766 CN994200 LUNA Feb 16,20,23, 2023 AZUSA BEACON

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SUFI BABU HAIDER AKA FERDAUS HASAN CASE NO. 23STPB01360

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SUFI BABU HAIDER AKA FERDAUS HASAN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KAMRUN SHIMA in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KAMRUN SHIMA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/14/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 29 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

NICHOLAS G. EVERETT, ESQ.SBN 298306

LAGERLOF, LLP

155 N. LAKE AVE. 11TH FLR. PASADENA CA 91101 2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

CNS-3671284#

MONROVIA WEEKLY

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JIRI PYTLIK

CASE NO. 23STPB01273

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JIRI PYTLIK.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CANDICE RYDER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CANDICE RYDER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/14/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner WALTER PENA, ESQ. - SBN 247469

BEWLEY LASSLEBEN & MILLER LLP

13215 EAST PENN ST STE 510 WHITTIER CA 90602 2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23 CNS-3671750# MONROVIA WEEKLY

Public Notices

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Ashley Kay LuTran FOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER: 23PSCP00038 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, Ca 91766, East Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Ashley Kay LuTran filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Ashley Kay LuTran to Proposed name Ashley Kay 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 03/24/2023 Time: 8:30AM Dept: G. Room: 302 The address of the court is same as noted above. 3. a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the day set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: El Monte

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JAMES GILBERT COX III

CASE NO. 23STPB00726

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES GILBERT COX III

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by BRADLEY TYER in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that BRADLEY TYER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with full authority . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 3/2/2023 at 8:30am in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST. LOS ANGELES CA 90012 STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner:

Brittany Britton SBN 303084

2312 W. Olive Ave. Suite D Burbank, CA 91506, Telephone: (626) 390-5953

2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23

CNS-3668771#

BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DERREL DEAN RHOADS

CASE NO. PROSB2300119

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DERREL DEAN RHOADS.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DEBORAH FAYE RHOADS in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DEBORAH FAYE RHOADS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/22/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S37 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 924150212

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

TONY J. TYRE - SBN 269506, ALLYSON S. HELLER - SBN 315086, LAW OFFICES OF TONY J. TYRE, ESQ., APC 100 S. CITRUS AVENUE, SUITE 101 COVINA CA 91723 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23 CNS-3669329# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

VIRGILIA ESPLANADA

ARCEBIDO CASE NO. 30-2023-01305388-PR-LA-

CJC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of VIRGILIA ESPLANADA ARCEBIDO.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RACHELLE PARKS in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RACHELLE PARKS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

WEST, SANTA ANA, CA 92701

NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES

The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost service to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the day/time set for your hearing.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607, LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO 9431 HAVEN AVENUE, STE. 108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23 CNS-3669349# ANAHEIM PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUPERTO GONZALES ARCEBIDO CASE NO. 30-2023-01305291-PR-LACJC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RUPERTO GONZALES ARCEBIDO.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RACHELLE PARKS in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RACHELLE PARKS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/15/23 at 1:30PM in Dept. C10 located at 700 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE WEST, SANTA ANA, CA 92701

NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES

The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost service to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the

day/time set for your hearing.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607, LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO 9431 HAVEN AVENUW, SUITE 108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730 2/13, 2/16, 2/20/23

CNS-3669358# ANAHEIM PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CLAIRE ESTELLE YOUNG Case No. 23STPB00857

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CLAIRE ESTELLE YOUNG

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Petitioner, Kimberly De Chellis in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Petitioner, Kimberly De Chellis be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 3, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. 44. located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: LAUREL A. BUCHANAN, ESQ SBN 293175

LAW OFFICES OF LAUREL A. BUCHANAN 6329 BROCKTON AVENUE RIVERSIDE, CA 92506-2031 (951) 530-8649

FEBRUARY 13, 16, 20, 2023

BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MELANIE ANN THOMAS

Case No. 23STPB00323

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MELANIE ANN THOMAS

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Glen A. Wright in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Glen A. Wright be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 24, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 67 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner:

ANTHONY C GROSSMAN ESQ

SBN 175408

SCHOFIELD & GROSSMAN APC 201 S LAKE AVE STE 403

PASADENA CA 91101

CN993984 THOMAS

Feb 16,20,23, 2023

BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DOLORES L. LOTZ

CASE NO. PROSB2300131

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DOLORES L. LOTZ.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RICHARD LOTZ in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RICHARD LOTZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority

to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/13/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S35 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

MICHAEL G. EBINER, ESQ.SBN 183499, EBINER LAW OFFICE 100 N. CITRUS STREET, SUITE 520 WEST COVINA CA 91791

2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

CNS-3669862# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

GWENETH L. JACKSON CASE NO. 23STPB01404

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of GWENETH L. JACKSON.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT JACKSON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT JACKSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/15/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 5 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal

representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JASON L. GAUDY - SBN 228975, GAUDY LAW INC.

267 D STREET UPLAND CA 91786

2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

CNS-3669968# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARIA DIEPLINGER

CASE NO. 23STPB01455

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MARIA DIEPLINGER.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHARLES DAVID YOUNG in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHARLES DAVID YOUNG be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/17/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner THOMAS O. HOFFMAN - SBN

100881

LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS O. HOFFMAN

302 W SIERRA MADRE BLVD

SIERRA MADRE CA 91024 2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23

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CARL LOUIS KANE, JR.

Case No. 23STPB01475

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CARL L. KANE, JR. aka CARL LOUIS KANE, JR.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Michael C. Conner in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Michael C. Conner be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 16, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 11 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either

(1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner:

WENDY E HARTMANN ESQ SBN 204587

LAW OFFICES OF WENDY HARTMANN 300 W GLENOAKS BLVD STE 300 GLENDALE CA 91202

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANN HAYES HIGGINBOTHAM CASE NO. 23STP00794

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ANN HAYES HIGGINBOTHAM.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by STEPHEN HIGGINBOTHAM in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that STEPHEN HIGGINBOTHAM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and

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shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/03/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner DEBBY S. DOITCH, ESQ. - SBN 266731, KJMLAW PARTNERS, PLC 301 EAST COLORADO BLVD., SUITE 600 PASADENA CA 91101 2/16, 2/20, 2/23/23 CNS-3670542# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF SUBSEQUENT PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: TOMMY BAKER CASE NO. 22STPB09188

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of TOMMY BAKER.

A SUBSEQUENT PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PATRICIA ANN GAINEY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE SUBSEQUENT PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PATRICIA ANN GAINEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE SUBSEQUENT PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE SUBSEQUENT PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/17/23 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal

authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner PETA-GAY GORDON, ESQ. - SBN 238995, OLDMAN COOLEY SALLUS BIRNBERG COLEMAN & GOLD, LLP 16133 VENTURA BLVD., PENTHOUSE ENCINO CA 91436 2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SHAOPING WU ZINN CASE NO. PROSB2300151

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SHAOPING WU ZINN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DEHAO JIN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DEHAO JIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

03/22/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S35 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner WEI C. WONG - SBN 116428

LAW OFFICES OF WEI C. WONG 716 S. GARFIELD AVENUE ALHAMBRA CA 91801 2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

JOSEFA CAPULONG CHICO

CASE NO. PROSB2200783

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JOSEFA CAPULONG CHICO.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CRISTINA CHICO in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CRISTINA CHICO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/09/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. S35 located at 247 W. THIRD STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JEFFREY FORER - SBN 108310, HINOJOSA & FORER LLP

2215 COLBY AVE.

LOS ANGELES CA 90064

2/20, 2/23, 2/27/23

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF SOOK TSING LEUNG

Case No. 22STPB12794

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SOOK TSING LEUNG

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Ying Ming Chan who is also known as George Ying Ming Chan in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Ying Ming Chan who is also known as George Ying Ming Chan be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 27, 2023 at 8:30 AM in Dept. 4. located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner:

CYNTHIA H. LEE SBN 213064 AMERICAN TRUST INSTITUTE 2055 JUNCTION AVENUE SUITE 210 SAN JOSE, CA 95131 (415) 693-8882 FEBRUARY 20, 23, 27, 2023 WEST COVINA PRESS

Public Notices

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Eason Weng (minor) by & through guardian ad litem: Zhihua Guan & Qiqian Weng FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 23AHCP00040 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 150 W Commonwealth Ave, Alhambra Ca 90801, Northeast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Eason Weng (minor) by & through guardian ad litem: Zhihua Guan & Qiqian Weng filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Eason Weng to Proposed name Eason Guan 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING a.

Date: 03/22/2023 Time: 8:30AM Dept:

3. Room:300 The address of the court is same as noted above. 3. a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the day set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Alhambra Press DATED: January 24, 2023 Robin Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. January 30, February 6, 13, 20, 2023 ALHAMBRA PRESS

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR

CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Kristin

Marie Williams FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 23VECP00037 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 6230 Sylmar Avenue, Van Nuys, Ca 91401, Northwast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Kristin Marie Williams filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Kristin Marie Williams to Proposed name Kristin Williams Englezos 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: 03/10/2023 Time: 8:30AM Dept: T. Room:600 The address of the court is same as noted above. 3. a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the day set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper

HAZMAT

Riverside police offer grants for businesses to improve security measures

By Staff

According to the fire department, the county’s Department of Environmental Health took over the hazmat operation about 10 a.m.

There was no word on what caused the leak.

As of 1:30 p.m., CHP officers and environmental health personnel were still at the scene.

On Thursday, an unknown substance seeping from a tractor-trailer parked in a loading dock at an Amazon warehouse in Beaumont sickened at least five workers and prompted a hazardous materials response.

The hazmat emergency was reported about 4:40 p.m. at the warehouse at 36900 Fourth Street, on the extreme west end of the city, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

The agency said that multiple engine crews were sent to the location and found the semi at a loading bay cordoned off due to fumes.

“They’re still trying to figure out what the source may be,” fire department spokeswoman April Newman told City News Service.

She confirmed that five people required medical treatment at the scene, but it was not immediately clear whether any of the victims were hospitalized, and the exact nature of their exposure sickness could not be verified.

There was also no word on whether any part of the warehouse had to be evacuated. The investigation at the site was ongoing.

Fentanyl sell

It’s the second time she has skipped a court appearance. In May, Listoe missed her scheduled arraignment, and O’Rane issued a bench warrant at that time. The defendant was located and arraigned two days later, then posted bond and was released again.

She and Chavez are representing themselves in the case.

According to sheriff’s Sgt. Art Mendez, Listoe was the principal focus of investigators after she was arrested in Eastvale in December 2021 for allegedly carrying an undisclosed quantity of fentanyl.

Mendez said Listoe posted bail, but her activity remained under scrutiny, and detectives developed leads that she and her codefendant were allegedly engaged in ongoing fentanyl sales around Corona, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley, Norco and Riverside.

A surveillance operation led to the pair being taken into custody on Hamner Avenue in Norco during the first week of March 2022.

“A search of their person and vehicle revealed a significant amount of fentanyl pills,” Mendez said.

He said search warrants were obtained and served at their shared residence in the 3200 block of Yellowstone Drive, where “fentanyl pills, methamphetamine and items indicative of the sales of controlled substances” were seized.

According to court records, Chavez has a prior misdemeanor conviction for being under the influence of a controlled substance. Listoe has no documented prior felony or misdemeanor convictions in Riverside County.

Fentanyl is manufactured in overseas labs, and according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, it’s smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border by cartels. The substance is 80-100 times more potent than morphine and is a popular additive, mixed into any number of narcotics and pharmaceuticals. The ingestion of only two milligrams can be fatal.

In 2022, there were about 415 fentanyl-induced deaths throughout Riverside County, while in 2021, there just under 400 poisonings, representing a 200-fold increase from 2016, when public safety officials say that only two such fatalities were documented.

Statistics published in May by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed there were roughly 108,000 fatal drug overdoses in 2021, and fentanyl poisoning accounted for over 70,000 of them.

Figures published by the CDC and other agencies show that fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45 years old.

The Riverside Police Department is offering grants to local businesses to help cover the costs of improving safety and security, the city of Riverside announced Tuesday.

All businesses located with city limits are eligible to apply for funds from the Safety & Security Program, which offers help paying for security cameras, security lighting, fencing and other items related to a business’ attempts to safeguard its property and personnel from theft and violence.

Federal funding via the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, enables the police department to award grants up to $10,000 to qualifying businesses.

“We are excited to announce this opportunity for our local businesses to enhance their security measures that not only better protect their property, but help reduce crime in their neighborhood,” Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said in a statement.

Grant-eligible upgrades to businesses include:

-- Lighting for parking lots, alleyways and areas immediately around business — lighting may be direct wired, electrical or solar.

-- Video camera systems that surveil activity inside the business or directly surrounding the business.

-- Landscaping that improves a business’ safety and security.

-- Fencing that enhances

the safety and security of a business.

-- “Any other devices, structures or equipment that improves the safety and security of the business that have been approved after a CPTED inspection conducted by Riverside Police Department personnel,” according to the city’s announcement.

The Riverside PD’s grant program — CPTED, or Crime Prevention Through Environment Design — “is a multi-disciplinary approach to crime prevention through building safety, architectural design, and the management of build and natural environment,” according to the announcement. “A member of the police department who is qualified to conduct CPTED inspections will meet with the business owner to evaluate safety and security improvement in accordance with best CPTED practices.”

Applicant businesses have to meet several qualifications such as:

-- Being a for-profit business located within the city of Riverside, including home-based businesses though owner residency is not required;

-- Having proof of a valid city of Riverside business license and being in good standing with the city — no liens or judgements unless those resulted from a direct COVID-19 impact;

-- Being a small or micro-enterprise with a maximum workforce of 50

employees, including “sole proprietors, independent contractors, 1099 employees, C-corporations, S-corporations, cooperatives, limited liability companies, partnerships, and limited partnerships,” according to the city.

-- Having no more than $2.5 million in annual revenue;

-- Being registered with California Secretary of State and having valid Riverside County Health Department licenses if required based on the type of business.

City employees and elected and appointed officials are not eligible to participate in this program.

“The safety of our residents, businesses and visitors is our number one priority in Riverside,” Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson said in a statement. “These ARPA grant funds are going to help us maintain our continued commitment to public safety and community wellbeing in our city.”

To apply for a grant, go to www.RiversideCA. gov/RPD/ARPA-GrantApplication to review the business qualifications and download the grant application. When the application is completed, submit it to RPDSASProgram@ RiversideCA.gov.

Prospective grant applicants can direct comments and questions to RPDSASProgram@RiversideCA.gov.

A diesel fuel tank on a tractor-trailer truck. | Photo by duallogic/Envato Elements

| Photo courtesy of Riverside Police Department/Flickr

The Riverside Office of Education added to the growing list of Educators of the Year honorees, naming the top principal and classified employee.

Michelle “Daphne”

Donoho is “a principal who creates a close-knit sense of community at Táawila Elementary School in Menifee,” and Jeanine Wingfield is a Val Verde Unified School District security officer who works at Rancho Verde High School in Moreno Valley,” according to a Feb. 14 announcement from the Office of Education.

Both were accompanied by students, family and colleagues when Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Edwin Gomez delivered the official announcements of their awards.

Gomez plans two more surprise visits through the rest of this month, and all Educators of the Year will be recognized at a May 2 luncheon at the Riverside Convention Center, according to the Office of Education.

Donoho has been a principal for nearly 20 years and is the first principal of the Menifee Union School District’s Táawila Elementary that opened in 2018.

“At every school she has led, Donoho has garnered state and national awards for school success,” according the Office of Education.

At Táawila, Donoho has emphasized professional

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development for teachers as well as writing and literacy instruction for students.

“Only because of all of you — that is why this is happening today,” Donoho told staff members and nearly 750 students after being surprised with the news of her Principal of the Year award. “I appreciate every one of you, and we are all so lucky to work with the amazing teachers and staff here every day.”

As Gomez made the announcement, he said, “With over 515 schools in Riverside County, out of all those principals, we have only one that has been selected as the Principal of the Year. And, guess who that is?”

Students enthusiastically and loudly responded, “Mrs. Donoho.”

In addition to her duties as a security officer, Classified Employee of the Year Jeanine Wingfield is also a “leader on campus who consistently builds positive relationships with students, and seeks ways to connect with them for their benefit, and for that of the campus culture,” according to the Office of Education.

Wingfield consistently contributes to underwriting the costs of prom tickets and caps and gowns for students who might not otherwise be able to participate, while supporting students with everything from a welcoming smile to a goodie bag of treats so they know they are

“seen”.

“Thank you for allowing me to serve our community in this way. This job is the highest position we can have — to build a relationship with the community and the campus so that parents trust us with their students,”

Jeanine supports students and the community is by taking the initiative to serve as a resource beyond the role of a district security officer. She is collaborative and contributes to serving on the Culture and Climate Committee to serve the

Wingfield said after receiving the news of her honoree status. “I put in what I hope other people have put in for my kids. Thank you to the students for allowing me to serve you.”

Said Gomez: “One of the most prominent ways

students and the campus.”

Three previously named honorees are Counselor of the Year Hilda JaureguiCastanon, Certificated Administrator of the Year Cassandra Willis and Classified Administrator of the Year Craig Petinak.

Educators of the Year are selected from the more than 36,000 school employees in Riverside County. The selection process begins with nominations by teachers, classified employees and school district administrators. Then applications are submitted to the Office of Education and an outside selection committee eventually selects the honorees culminating with the superintendent’s surprise

in-person announcements. The county’s Teachers of the Year were named in mid-2022. They are Autumn Lundblad, Sundance Elementary School, Beaumont Unified School District; Heather Hanlon, Dorothy McElhinney Middle School, Murrieta Valley USD; Anthony Gomez, Jurupa Middle School, Jurupa USD; and Beth Schwandt, Lake Hills Elementary School, Alvord USD.

Young man accused of killing Desert Hot Springs man re-enters not guilty plea

By Kristy Ramirez, City News Service

ALa Quinta man

re-entered a not guilty plea to a murder charge stemming from the shooting death of a 20-yearold man whose body was found in the open desert of Desert Hot Springs.

Jose Manuel Angel Arellano, 23, initially pleaded not guilty to the murder charge Feb. 23, 2021.

At the end of a preliminary hearing on Feb. 6, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Edward Forstenzer ruled there was sufficient evidence to warrant a trial for him on the murder charge. Arellano re-entered a not guilty plea to the

charge Thursday morning at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.

Arellano is accused in the slaying of David Joaquin Murrieta of Desert Hot Springs, according to Sgt. Rick Espinoza of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. According to court records, 27-year-old

Gabriel “Vago” Magdaleno is also accused in the case, but was charged separately from Arellano with murder and a sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury.

According to Espinoza, deputies from the Palm Desert sheriff’s station

investigating a missing person case discovered human remains on Jan. 21, 2021, in the area of Mission Lakes Boulevard and Little Morongo Road.

Sheriff’s Detective Martin Alfaro testified in Arellano’s preliminary hearing that Murrieta’s body was found with three gunshot wounds — one entering from the back of his head, one from the left side of his head and one from the right side of his chin — in a shallow grave under a set of metal springs in the open desert.

Alfaro said Arellano drove from Tijuana, Mexico to the Palm Desert sheriff’s

station on Feb. 17, 2021 to tell “his side of the story” and alleged that his friend, Magdaleno, was the one who shot Murrieta on Jan. 14, 2021.

According to Alfaro, Arellano said the trio were at Murrieta’s house before they all left in the defendant’s truck and drove toward Indio. At some point while Arellano was driving on Intestate 10 approaching Cook Street, Magdaleno and Murrieta began arguing, Alfaro testified.

Both men had guns in their hands during the argument, and Arellano said Magdaleno felt disrespected,

according to a declaration in support of Magdaleno’s arrest warrant filed by Alfaro.

“Arellano told me that he saw Magdaleno shoot once at victim Murrieta in the back of the head and subsequently saw him shoot him two additional times after,” Alfaro testified Feb. 6.

The defendant then drove to the location, where they ended up burying Murrieta with a shovel that was in the back of the truck, Alfaro said.

Arellano subsequently went to a house on Sixth Street to get rid of his clothes by burning them before driving his truck to Mexico, he said.

According to inmate records, Magdaleno was arrested Dec. 13 and remains held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on $1 million bail. A declaration in support of his arrest was filed by Alfaro on Aug. 18, according to court records.

Magdaleno pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery in 2014 in Riverside County.

Arellano remains held at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta on $1 million bail. He does not have any documented felony convictions in Riverside County.

Principal of the Year Michelle “Daphne” Donoho with School Superintendent Edwin Gomez. | Photo courtesy of the Riverside County Office of Education

Classified Employee of the Year Jeanine Wingfield with School Superintendent Edwin Gomez. | Photo courtesy of the Riverside County Office of Education