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Arcadia’s First Avenue Middle School named 2024 California Distinguished School

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Arcadia Unified School District’s First Avenue Middle School joins an exclusive list of 293 middle and high schools from across the state to earn recognition from the California Department of Education as a 2024 California Distinguished School.

“A campus beaming with community pride, halls bustling with innovative ideas, and classrooms filled with engaging teaching and learning are just a few of the things that make First Avenue such a special place and very deserving of this prestigious distinction,” Arcadia Unified Superintendent Dr. David Vannasdall said.

In its press release announcing the 2024 California Distinguished School recipients, the California Department of Education explained that its process in selecting schools to be recognized in this year’s program included examining various school performance measures on specific state indicators that are identified in the California School Dashboard’s 2023 reports. Accordingly, schools chosen for this recognition were those that demonstrated excellence and growth in academic achievement and cultivated a positive school climate.

“Being named a California Distinguished School is a tremendous honor and validates the commitment of our students and staff to continuous improvement,” First Avenue Principal Dr. Semeen Issa shared.

“We strive to provide a well-rounded education that prepares our students for success in high school and beyond. This recognition motivates us to continue to give all of our creativity, thought, and care to ensure educational excellence for our students.”

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nition comes at fortuitous timing for Issa, who has been at First Avenue’s helm as an assistant principal and then principal for a total of 14 years, as she recently announced that she will be passing the leadership torch upon her retirement at the end of the current school year.

“I am incredibly proud to have had the opportunity to serve First Avenue for so many years and to have been able to support and watch my incredible team of educators, counselors, and staff elevate our students’ educational experience school year after school year,” Issa reflected.

“It has also been one of my life’s greatest joys to work with such talented students and supportive families, and as I close this chapter to begin a new one, I will leave with a heart filled with immense gratitude for all of the memories I have made with the best school community around.”

Among the educators at First Avenue is social science teacher Megan Forbes who

was recently recognized by the California Council for Social Studies as “Outstanding Middle School Social Studies Teacher of the Year (Grades 6-8).”

Forbes has been teaching in Arcadia Unified at First Avenue for over seven years and is also a published author of “Leaders and Thinkers in American History: An American History Book for Kids: 15 Influential People You Should Know (Biographies for Kids).” In addition, Forbes has aimed to pay it forward to others in the education profession by sharing her experience, tips, and resources with fellow educators and has built a robust YouTube and Instagram followership.

“First Avenue is the oldest school campus in our district, having served Arcadia students and families for over 116 years,” Vannasdall said in reflecting on this recognition and the history of this school campus.

“Earning this esteemed merit further highlights the importance of continuing to

ensure our facilities receive the repairs and upgrades they need to match the worldclass teaching and learning happening on the First Avenue campus and in all of our schools.”

Since the CDE’s founding of the California Distinguished Schools program in 1985, every Arcadia Unified elementary and middle school has been named a California Distinguished School at least once. Most recently, all six of Arcadia Unified’s elementary schools—Baldwin Stocker, Camino Grove, Highland Oaks, Holly Avenue, Hugo Reid, and Longley Way—as well as Arcadia Unified’s alternative learning program, Rancho Learning Center, earned historic concurrent recognition as 2024 California Distinguished Schools.

The California Distinguished Schools Program recognizes elementary schools and middle and high schools in alternate years, which means honorees hold their California Distinguished School title for two years.

San Gabriel Valley chambers of commerce are collaborating to bring a monthly webinar series to their members and businesses. The “Renewal and Resilience: Navigating the Future of Business in 2024” series begins on March 21 at noon. The series continues on the third Thursday of each month thereafter. There is no cost to join the webinar series and it is open to the public but attendance is limited. Pre-registration for each webinar in the series is required at tinyurl.com/2xfn2wah.

The first presentation on March 21 is by executive leadership coach John Burt. Burt will discuss the current economic landscape and how it impacts entrepreneurs, small business owners and managers. He will delve into the challenges and opportunities each will face in 2024.

“We are excited to be partnering with chambers of commerce in the SGV area to bring this program to our members and businesses. Working together, we developed this series of informational presentations on topics that are important for the businesses in our cities,” said Laurie Wheeler, President and chief executive officer of the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. “We hope these programs tailored to our businesses will also foster a sense of community and solidarity among all of us.”

The Chambers of South Pasadena, Alhambra, Altadena, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Claremont, El Monte/South El Monte, Glendora, Greater West Covina, Monrovia, Pasadena, Pomona, Regional Chamber (Walnut/Diamond Bar), Rosemead, San Dimas, South Pasadena, Temple City and Whittier Area are collaborating to produce this free series.

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Pasadena launches new website for landlords, tenants

Former OC resident indicted for threatening Superior Court judge

The Pasadena Rent Stabilization Department last week announced the launch of a new online information hub for landlords and tenants.

The idea is to provide stakeholders and renters alike “easy access” to the info, forms and other materials relevant to rental properties in the city. The new website, cityofpasadena.net/rent-stabilization, offers:

FAQs about rent stabilization regulations and procedures; downloadable forms such as notices and requests in English and Spanish; and educational materials with information about tenant and landlord rights and responsibilities.

“The Rent Stabilization Department is excited to launch this new website as a valuable resource for the Pasadena community,” Phillip Leclair, interim executive director of the Rent Stabilization Department. “It empowers both landlords and tenants with easy access to essential resources, and by tracking our progress through the department’s implementing plan, we remain transparent and accountable as we deliver services.”

Officials noted the multilingual website’s accessibility “for diverse abilities, and optimized for mobile devices, ensuring information is readily available to everyone.”

Another intention of the new website is to bolster communication between tenants, landlords and city officials.

“The Rent Stabilization Department aims to facilitate communication and engagement with tenants and landlords through this website, including the ability to contact a Housing Counselor who can address specific questions and concerns,” according to the agency’s announcement.

In an effort to “foster transparency,” the website also showcases the department’s implementation plan.

Since the City Council established the department in mid-December, its deadline for getting set up and delivering services is June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Also included in the June 30 time frame is implementing a rental registry database, “enhancing Outreach and Education” and supporting the Pasadena Rental Housing Board and rental policy development.

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Aformer Orange County residenthasbeen indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly threatening to kill a sitting judge who presided over his family law case, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

Byrom Zuniga Sanchez, 32, formerly of Laguna Niguel, but whose most recent residence was in Morella, Mexico, is charged in an indictment returned Friday in Los Angeles with two counts of threats by interstate and foreign communication, according to the DOJ.

Zuniga was arrested Feb. 27 in San Diego and remains in federal custody there. His arraignment is expected to occur in the coming weeks in federal court in downtown Los Angeles.

“The chilling threats allegedly made by Zuniga Sanchez via e-mail and online caused profound fear for many people in the legal and law enforcement community, and forced some to take extra security precautions,” said Amir Ehsaei, the acting assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “The FBI and our partners take such threats extremely seriously so that judges and others who make difficult decisions every day don’t suffer needlessly for simply carrying out their duties.”

According to documents previously filed in this case, from May to July 2023, Zuniga sent multiple death threats via email to the Orange County Superior Court judge. Zuniga allegedly also threatened to kill or harm others, including other judges, lawyers and law enforcement officials.

For example, in July, Zuniga allegedly emailed the judge’s former courtroom, “I am more committed to murdering you than I am to being present as a father,” according to the DOJ.

In the same email, Zuniga allegedly also wrote, “You’re already dead. The remainder of my life will be dedicated to assassinating judges, attorneys, and a police station’s entire shift staff.”

Zuniga is the subject of multiple domestic violence protective orders, pending arrest warrants and a workplace violence order, the affidavit in the case states. He has multiple warrants in Orange County for state

criminal offenses, including evading police/reckless driving, invasion of privacy, violation of a court order, and criminal threats, court papers show.

Reports show that in May 2022, Zuniga led Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies on a chase after they were called to a home where he was allegedly violating a domestic violence court order. Deputies cornered Zuniga at a business location, where after negotiations lasting several hours, he ultimately surrendered, and was arrested, according to the affidavit.

A warrant was issued for Zuniga’s arrest Sept. 8 when he failed to show in court for a domestic violence case dating back to May 4 of last year in which he violated a domestic violence court order and later led sheriff’s deputies on a chase from Mission Viejo before barricading himself in a fast food parking lot in Foothill Ranch, where he refused to get out of his car for hours, according to court records.

Zuniga’s former live-in girlfriend filed for a restraining order in April 2019, court records show. She alleged that Zuniga posted four videos to YouTube of their then5-year-old son when he was upset with online comments accusing the mother of neglecting their son, according to the restraining order request.

In February of 2019, Zuniga was ordered to pay nearly $1,000 a month in child support, according to court records.

A family law court mediator in May of last year filed for a workplace

violence restraining order against Zuniga, according to court records. The mediator was assigned to an “emergency mediation” between Zuniga and the mother of their child in July 2020, she said in the restraining order request.

The mediator said in December 2021 she was tagged in an Instagram post that began a “pattern of harassment toward me with threatening and disturbing comments on Instagram.”

She said after she blocked him on the app, her husband began receiving threats on another social media platform.

In one post captioned “You better pray!” he allegedly commented, “Don’t forget to say your prayers tonight while repenting for who you are, and the deafening corruption against innocent children that you have consciously enabled,” the mediator alleged. “You had ample warning and opportunity to correct course. Accountability isn’t a threat, it’s a guarantee to prevent you people from harming others again. Sleep tight, the demons come out to play tonight.”

Zuniga also allegedly tagged the attorney who represented his ex- spouse and Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, the mediator said.

Zuniga is also facing two counts of misdemeanor disobeying a domestic relations court order on April 20 and 21, 2022, allegedly making annoying and repeated phone calls on June 8, 2021, and reckless driving and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, on April 17, 2022, according to court records.

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ADOlivia Munn reveals breast cancer diagnosis, double mastectomy

ctress Olivia Munn revealed Wednesday she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy, saying she wanted to tell her story to encourage women to have their cancer risk assessed so they can identify potential problems early.

“I’m lucky. We caught it with enough time that I had options,” Munn, 43, wrote in a post on Instagram.

“I want the same for any woman who might have to face this one day. Ask your doctor to calculate your Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score.”

Munn — who appeared in HBO’s “The Newsroom” and in films including “Date Night,” “Iron Man 2,” “Office Christmas Party” and “X-Men: Apocalypse” — said she and her sister last year decided to be proactive about their health and took a genetic test that detects cancer genes.

“I tested negative for all, including BRCA (the most well-known breast cancer gene),” Munn wrote in her post. “My sister Sara had just tested negative as well. We called each other and high-fived over the phone. That same winter I also had

a normal mammogram.”

But she added: “Two months later I was diagnosed with breast cancer.”

“In the past 10 months I have had four surgeries, so many days spent in bed I can’t even count and have learned more about cancer, cancer treatment and hormones than I ever could have imagined,” she wrote. “Surprisingly, I’ve only cried twice. I guess I haven’t felt like there was time to cry. My focus narrowed and I tabled any emotions that I felt would interfere with my ability to stay clearheaded.

“I’ve tended to let people see me when I have energy, when I can get dressed and get out of the house, when I can take my baby boy to the park. I’ve kept the diagnosis and the worry and the recovery and the pain medicine and the paper gowns private. I needed to catch my breath and get through some of the hardest parts before sharing.”

She said the cancer may have gone undetected for another year if her obstetrician had not calculated her Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score, which came back elevated.

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I was sent to get an MRI, which led to an ultrasound, which then led to a biopsy,” she wrote. “The biopsy showed I had Luminal B cancer in both breasts. Luminal B is an aggressive, fast moving cancer. Thirty days after that biopsy I had a double mastectomy. I went from feeling completely fine one day to waking up in a hospital bed after a 10-hour surgery the next.”

Her message thanked the doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica.

She also thanked her boyfriend, comedian John Mulaney, with whom she shares a 2-year-old son, for his support.

“I’m so thankful to John for the nights he spent researching what every operation and medication meant and what side effects and recovery I could expect,” she wrote. “For being there before I went into each surgery and being there when I woke up, always placing framed photos of our little boy Malcolm so it would be the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes.”

California healthcare advocates unveil package of bills to lower costs

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

On Tuesday, Care4All California, a coalition fighting for affordable health care, unveiled a package of bills its members say they would like state lawmakers to pass.

Assembly Bill 3129 would give the California Attorney General the power to accept, reject or modify health care transactions involving private equity or hedge funds.

Asm. Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore and author of the bill, said mergers often improve the corporate bottom line but lead to higher prices for patients.

“We’re often led to believe these consolidations will save money, that it’s good for consumers,” Wood observed. “But what we’re actually seeing in health care is just the opposite, and it reduces competition.”

Opponents said the bill would give government officials too much power.

Care4All California also endorsed bills to help the state enforce requirements around implicit bias training for women’s health providers in an attempt to make sure patient complaints are taken seriously and to reduce the number of people of color who die from pregnancy complications.

Asm. Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, is behind Assembly Bill 2297, which she said aims to make sure people do not lose their homes due to medical debt.

“A loophole allows debt collectors to place liens on patients’ homes to collect unpaid medical debt,” Friedman pointed out. “AB

2297 closes that loophole, and prohibits liens on property when collecting medical debt from financially qualified patients.”

Another bill in the package would allow a 12-month grace period to cover people who qualify for Medi-Cal but were kicked off due to an administrative issue.

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Care4All California, a coalition of more than 70 healthcare advocacy groups, is pressing for a package of bills this legislative session to rein in healthcare costs and improve equity. | Photo by Kit Bear/HealthAccess CA

How can California solve its water woes? By flooding its best farmland

By Jake Bittle for Grist

Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the Grist-Public News Service Collaboration

The land of the Central Valley works hard. Here in the heart of California, in the most productive farming region in the United States, almost every square inch of land has been razed, planted, and shaped to support large-scale agriculture. The valley produces almonds, walnuts, pistachios, olives, cherries, beans, eggs, milk, beef, melons, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and garlic.

This economic mandate is clear to the naked eye: Trucks laden with fertilizer or diesel trundle down arrow-straight roads past square field after square field, each one dense with tomato shrubs or nut trees. Canals slice between orchards and acres of silage, pushing allimportant irrigation water through a network of laterals from farm to farm. Cows jostle for space beneath metal awnings on crowded patches of dirt, emitting a stench that wafts over nearby towns.

There is one exception to this law of productivity. In the midst of the valley, at the confluence of two rivers that have been dammed and

diverted almost to the point of disappearance, there is a wilderness. The ground is covered in water that seeps slowly across what used to be walnut orchards, the surface buzzing with mosquitoes and songbirds. Trees climb over each other above thick knots of reedy grass, consuming what used to be levees and culverts. Beavers, quail, and deer, which haven’t been seen in the area in decades, tiptoe through swampy ponds early in the morning, while migratory birds alight overnight on knolls before flying south.

Austin Stevenot, who is in charge of maintaining this restored jungle of water and wild vegetation, says this is how the Central Valley is supposed to look. Indeed, it’s how the land did look for thousands of years until white settlers arrived in the 19th century and remade it for industrial-scale agriculture. In the era before colonization, Stevenot’s ancestors in the California Miwok tribe used the region’s native plants for cooking, basket weaving, and making herbal medicines. Now those plants have returned.

“I could walk around this landscape and go, ‘I can use that, I can use this to do that, I can eat that, I can eat that, I can do this with that,’” he told me as we drove through the flooded land in his pickup truck. “I have a different way of looking at the ground.”

You wouldn’t know it without Stevenot there to point out the signs, but this untamed floodplain used to be a workhorse parcel, just like the land around it. The fertile site at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers once hosted a dairy operation and a cluster of crop fields owned by one of the county’s most prominent farmers. Around a decade ago, a conservation nonprofit worked out a deal to buy the 2,100-acre tract from the farmer, rip up the fields, and restore the ancient vegetation that once existed there. The conservationists’ goal with this $40 million project was not just to restore a natural habitat, but also to pilot a solution to the massive water management crisis that has bedeviled California and the West for decades.

Like many other parts of

the West, the Central Valley always seems to have either too little water or too much. During dry years, when mountain reservoirs dry up, farmers mine groundwater from aquifers, draining them so fast that the land around them starts to sink. During wet years, when the reser-

voirs fill up, water comes streaming down rivers and bursts through aging levees, flooding farmland and inundating valley towns.

The restored floodplain solves both problems at once. During wet years like

this one, it absorbs excess water from the San Joaquin River, slowing down the waterway before it can rush downstream toward large cities like Stockton. As the water moves through the site, it seeps into the ground,

Water flows through part of Dos Rios Ranch Preserve. The former farmland now acts as a storage area for floodwaters during wet years. | Photo by Cameron Nielsen/Grist

recharging groundwater aquifers that farmers and dairy owners have drained over the past century. In addition to these two functions, the restored swamp also sequesters an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to that produced by thousands of gas-powered vehicles. It also provides a haven for migratory birds and other species that have faced the threat of extinction.

“It’s been amazing just getting to see nature take it back over,” Stevenot said. “When you go out to a commercially farmed orchard or field, and you stand there and listen, it’s sterile. You don’t hear anything. But you come out here on that same day, you hear insects, songbirds. It’s that lower part of the ecosystem starting up.”

Stevenot’s own career path mirrors that of the land he now tends. Before he worked for River Partners, the small conservation nonprofit that developed the site, he spent eight years working at a packing plant that processed cherries and onions for export across the country. He was a lifelong resident of the San Joaquin Valley, but had never been able to use the traditions he’d learned from his Miwok family until he started working routine maintenance at the floodplain project. Now he presides over the whole ecosystem.

This year, after a deluge of winter rain and snow, water rolled down the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers, filling up the site for the first time since it had been restored. As Stevenot guided me across the landscape, he showed me all the ways that land and water were working together. In one area, water had spread like a sheet across three former fields, erasing the divisions that had once separated acres on the property. Elsewhere, birds had scattered seeds throughout what was once an orderly orchard, so that new

trees soon obscured the old furrows.

The advent of the restoration project, known as Dos Rios, has worked wonders for this small section of the San Joaquin Valley, putting an end to frequent flooding in the area and altering longheld attitudes about environmental conservation. Even so, it represents just a chink in the armor of the Central Valley, where agricultural interests still control almost all the land and water. As climate change makes California’s weather whiplash more extreme, creating a cycle of drought and flooding, flood experts say replicating this work has become more urgent than ever.

But building another Dos Rios isn’t just about finding money to buy and reforest thousands of acres of land. To create a network of restored floodplains will also require reaching an accord with a powerful industry that has historically clashed with environmentalists — and that produces fruit and nuts for much of the country. Making good on the promise of Dos Rios will mean convincing the state’s farmers to occupy less land, irrigate with less water, and produce less food.

Cannon Michael, a sixthgeneration farmer who runs Bowles Farming Company in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, says such a shift is possible, but it won’t be easy.

“There’s a limited resource, there’s a warming climate, there’s a lot of constraints, and a lot of people are aging out, not always coming back to the farm,” Michael said. “There’s a lot of transition that’s happening anyway, and I think people are starting to understand that life is gonna change. And I think those of us who want to still be around the valley want to figure out how to make the outcome something we can live with.”

You can think of the last

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century of environmental manipulation in the Central Valley as one long attempt to create stability. Alfalfa fields and citrus orchards guzzle a lot of water, and nut trees have to be watered consistently for years to reach maturity, so farmers seeking to grow these crops can’t just rely on water to fall from the sky.

In the early 19th century, as white settlers first claimed land in the Central Valley, they found a turbulent ecosystem. The valley functioned as a drain for the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, sluicing trillions of gallons of water out to the ocean every spring. During the worst flood years, the valley would turn into what one 19th-century observer called an “inland sea.” It took a while, but the federal government and the powerful farmers who took over the valley got this water under control. They built dozens of dams in the Sierra Nevada, allowing them to store melting snow until they wanted to use it for irrigation, as well as hundreds of miles of levees that stopped rivers from flooding.

But by restricting the flow of the valley’s rivers, the government and the farmers also desiccated much of the valley’s land, depriving it of floodwaters that had nourished it for centuries.

“In the old days, all that floodwater would spread out over the riverbanks into adjacent areas and sit there for weeks,” said Helen Dahlke, a hydrologist at the University of California, Davis, who studies floodplain management. “That’s what fed the sediment, and how we replenish our groundwater reserves. The floodwater really needs to go on land, and the problem is that now the land is mainly used for other purposes.”

The development of the valley also allowed for the prosperity of families like

that of Bill Lyons, the rancher who used to own the land that became Dos Rios. Lyons is a third-generation family farmer, the heir to a farming dynasty that began when his great-uncle E.T. Mape came over from Ireland. With his shock of gray hair and his standard uniform of starched dress shirt and jeans, Lyons is the image of the modern California farmer, and indeed he once served as the state’s secretary of agriculture.

Lyons has expanded his family’s farming operation over the past several decades, stretching his nut orchards and dairy farms out across thousands of acres on the west side of the valley. But his territory straddles the San Joaquin River, and there was one farm property that always seemed to go underwater during wet years.

“It was an extremely productive ranch, and that was one of the reasons it attracted us,” said Lyons. But while the land’s low-elevation river frontage made its soil fertile, that same geography put its harvests at risk of flooding. “Over the 20 years that we owned it, I believe we got flooded out two or three times,” Lyons added.

In 2006, as he was repairing the farm after a flood, Lyons met a biologist named Julie Rentner, who had just joined River Partners. The conservation nonprofit’s mission was to restore natural ecosystems in river valleys across California, and it had completed a few humble projects over the previous decade, most of them on small chunks of not-too-valuable land in the north of the state. As Rentner examined the overdeveloped land of the San Joaquin Valley, she came to the conclusion that it was ready for a much larger restoration project than River Partners had ever attempted. And she thought Lyons’ land was the perfect place to start.

Most farmers would have bristled at such a proposition, especially those with deep roots in a region that depends on agriculture. But unlike many of his peers, Lyons already had some experience with conservation work: He had partnered with the U.S. Forest Service in the 1990s on a project that set aside some land for the Aleutian goose, an endangered species that just so happened to love roosting on his property. As Lyons started talking with Rentner, he found her practical and detail-oriented. Within a year, he and his family had made a handshake deal to sell her the floodprone land. If she could find the money to buy the land and turn it into a floodplain, it was hers.

For Rentner, the process wasn’t anywhere near so easy. Finding the $26 million she needed to buy the land from Lyons — and the additional $14 million she needed to restore it — required scraping together money from a rogues’ gallery of funders including three federal agencies, three state agencies, a local utility commission, a nonprofit foundation, the electric utility Pacific Gas & Electric, and the beer company New Belgium Brewing.

“I remember taking so many tours out there,” said Rentner, “and all the public funding agency partners would go, ‘OK, so you have a million dollars in hand, and you still need how many? How are you going to get there?’”

“I don’t know,” Rentner told them in response. “We’re just gonna keep writing proposals, I guess.”

Even once River Partners bought the land in 2012, Rentner found herself in a permitting nightmare: Each grant came with a separate

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set of conditions for what River Partners could and couldn’t do with the money, the deed to Lyons’ tract came with its own restrictions, and the government required the project to undergo several environmental reviews to ensure it wouldn’t harm sensitive species or other land. River Partners also had to hold dozens of listening sessions and community meetings to quell the fears and skepticism of nearby farmers and residents who worried about shutting down a farm to flood it on purpose.

It took more than a decade for River Partners to complete the project, but now that it’s done, it’s clear that all those fears were unfounded. The restored floodplain absorbed a deluge from the huge “atmospheric river” storms that drenched California last winter, trapping all the excess water without flooding any private land. The removal of a few thousand acres of farmland hasn’t put anyone out of work in nearby towns, nor has it hurt local government budgets. Indeed, the groundwater recharge from the project may soon help restore the unhealthy aquifers below nearby Grayson, where a community of around 1,300 Latino agricultural workers has long avoided drinking well water contaminated with nitrates.

As new plants take root, the floodplain has become a self-sustaining ecosystem: It will survive and regenerate even through future droughts, with a full hierarchy of pollinators and base flora and predators like bobcats. Except for Stevenot’s routine cleanup and road repair, River Partners doesn’t have to do anything to keep it working in perpetuity. Come next year, the organization will hand the site over to the state, which will keep it open

Cal State system wins $750K in Great Admissions Redesign challenge

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

In the next few years, big changes are coming to the Cal State University admissions process, thanks to a $750-thousand grant from Lumina Foundation’s Great Admissions Redesign challenge.

Phase One will upgrade the website California Colleges.edu so 9th, 10th and 11th graders can align their schedules with the Cal State and University of California ‘A through G’ requirements.

April Grommo, assistant vice chancellor for strategic enrollment management with Cal State, said

right now, nearly half of students don’t take the right classes to qualify.

“Only about 52% of students across the state are completing A through G. And in some counties, it’s only about 15% of students,” she said.

The grant will also allow Cal State to reach out to 12th graders let them know which of the 23 campuses they already qualify to attend; and invite them to apply for admission to the more selective schools such as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Diego State and Cal State Long Beach.

Melanie Heath, strategy director for participation with Lumina Foundation, noted the grant will also allow Cal State to automate the process of getting students’ final high school transcripts - so kids will no longer have to request and pay for them to be sent.

“For the Cal State system, at that scale, to be able to have the transcripts sent for free, automatically sent through this portal that students have been accessing since ninth grade is an incredible innovation,” Heath explained.

Cal State hopes to have the changes in place by the

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as California’s first new state park in more than a decade and let visitors wander on new trails.

“After three years of intensive cultivation, we walk away,” said Rentner. “We literally stopped doing any restoration work. The vegetation figures itself out, and what we’ve seen is, it’s resilient. You get a big deep flood like we have this year, and after the floodwaters recede what comes back is the native stuff.”

Dos Rios has managed to change the ecology of one small corner of the Central Valley, but the region’s water problems are gargantuan in scale. A recent NASA study found that water users in the valley are overtapping aquifers by about 7 million acre-feet every year, sucking half a Colorado River’s worth of water out of the ground without putting any back. This overdraft has created zones of extreme land subsidence all over the valley, causing highways to crack and buildings to sink dozens of feet into the ground.

At the same time, floods are also getting harder to manage. The “atmospheric river” storms that drench California every few years are becoming more intense as the earth warms, pushing more water through the valley’s twisting rivers. The region escaped a catastrophic flood this year only thanks to a slow spring melt, but the future risks were clear. Two levees burst in the eastern valley town of Wilton, along the Cosumnes River, killing three people, and the historically Black town of Allensworth flooded as the once-dry Tulare Lake

reappeared for the first time since 1997.

Fixing the state’s distorted water system for an era of climate change will be the work of many decades. In order to comply with California’s landmark law for regulating groundwater, which will take full effect by 2040, farmers will have to retire as much as a million acres of productive farmland, wiping out billions of dollars of revenue.

Protecting the region’s cities from flooding, meanwhile, will require spending billions more dollars to bolster aging dirt levees and channels.

In theory, this dual mandate would make floodplain restoration an ideal way to deal with the state’s water problems. But the scale of the need is enormous, equivalent to dozens of projects on the same scale as Dos Rios.

“Dos Rios is good, but we need 50 more of it,” said Jane Dolan, the chair of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, a state agency that regulates flood control in the region. “Do I think that will happen in my lifetime? No, but we have to keep working toward it.” Fifty more projects of the same size as Dos Rios would span more than 150 square miles, an area larger than the city of Detroit, Michigan. It would cost billions of dollars to purchase that much valuable farmland, saw away old levees, and plant new vegetation.

As successful as Rentner was in finding the money for Dos Rios, the nonprofit’s piecemeal approach could never fund restoration work at this scale. The

only viable sources for that much funding are the state and federal governments. Neither has ever devoted significant public dollars to floodplain restoration, in large part because farmers in the Central Valley haven’t supported it. But that has started to change. Earlier this year, state lawmakers set aside $40 million to fund new restoration projects. Governor Gavin Newsom, fearing a budget crunch, tried to slash the funding at the start of the year, but reinserted it after furious protests from local officials along the San Joaquin. Most of this new money went straight to River Partners, and the organization has already started to clear the land on a site next to Dos Rios. It’s also in the process of closing on another 500-acre site nearby.

But even if nonprofits like River Partners get billions more dollars to buy agricultural land, creating the ribbon of natural floodplains that Dolan describes will still be difficult. That’s because river land in the Central Valley is also some of the most productive agricultural land in the world, and the people who own it have no incentive to forgo future profits by selling.

“Maybe we could do it some time down the road, but we’re farming in a pretty water-secure area,” said Cannon Michael, the sixthgeneration farmer from Bowles Farm whose land sits on the upper San Joaquin River. The aquifers beneath his property are substantial, fed by seepage from the river, and he also has the rights to use water from the state’s canal system. “It’s

a hard calculation because we’re employing a lot of people, and we’re doing stuff with the land, we’re producing.”

Even farmers who are running out of groundwater may not need to sell off their land in order to restore their aquifers. Don Cameron, who grows grapes in the eastern valley near the Kings River, has pioneered a technique that involves the intentional flooding of crop fields to recharge groundwater. Earlier this year, when a torrent of melting snow came roaring along the Kings, he used a series of pumps to pull it off the river and onto his vineyards. The water sank into the ground, where it refilled Cameron’s underground water bank, and the grapes survived just fine.

This kind of recharge project allows farmers to keep their land, so it’s much more palatable to big agricultural interests. The California Farm Bureau supports taking agricultural land out of commission only as a last resort, but it has thrown its weight behind recharge projects like Cameron’s, since they allow farmers to keep farming. The state government has also been trying to subsidize this kind of water capture, and other farmers have bought in: According to a state estimate, valley landowners may have caught and stored almost 4 million acre-feet of water this year.

“I’m familiar with Dos Rios, and I think it has a very good purpose when you’re trying to provide benefits to the river, but ours is more farm-centric,”

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said Cameron.

But Joshua Viers, a watershed scientist at the University of California, Merced, says these on-farm recharge projects may cannibalize demand for projects like Dos Rios. Not only does a project like Cameron’s not provide any flood control or ecological benefit, but it also provides a much narrower benefit to the aquifer, focusing water in a small square of land rather than allowing it to seep across a wide area.

“If you can build this string of beads down the river, with all these restored floodplains, where you can slow the water down and let it stay in for long periods of time, you’re getting recharge that otherwise wouldn’t happen,” he said.

As long as landowners see floodwater as a tool to support their farms rather than a force that needs to be respected, it will be difficult to replicate the success of Dos Rios. It’s this entrenched philosophy about the natural world, rather than financial constraints, that will be River Partners’ biggest barrier in the coming decades. In order to create Viers’ “string of beads,” Rentner and her colleagues would have to convert farmland all across the state.

It’s one thing to do that in a northern area like Sacramento, where officials designed flood bypasses on agricultural land a century ago. It’s quite another to do it farther south in the Tulare Basin, where the powerful farm company J.G. Boswell has been accused of channeling floodwater toward nearby towns in an effort to

save its own tomato crops. River Partners is funneling some of the new state money toward restoration projects in this area, but these are small conservation efforts, and they don’t alter the landscape of the valley like Dos Rios does.

To export the Dos Rios model, River Partners will have to convince hundreds of farmers that it’s worth it to give up some of their land for the sake of other farmers, flood-prone cities, climate resilience, and endangered species. Rentner was able to build that consensus at Dos Rios through patience and open dialogue, but the path toward restoration in the rest of the state will likely be more painful. California farmers will need to retire thousands of acres of productive land over the coming decades as they respond to rising costs and water restrictions, and more acres will face the constant threat of flooding as storms intensify in a warming world and levees break. As landowners sell their parcels to solar companies or let fallow fields turn to dust, Rentner is hoping that she can catch some of them as they head for the exits.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” said Rentner. “We’re hopeful that some will think twice and say, ‘Wait, maybe we should take the time to sit down with the people in the conservation community and think about our legacy, think about what we’re leaving behind when we make this transaction.’

And maybe it’s not as simple as just the highest bidder.”

Jake Bittle wrote this article for Grist.

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Rams defense leader Aaron Donald announces retirement

By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com

Aaron Donald, the Los Angeles Rams’ longtime defensive leader and 2022 Super Bowl champion, announced his retirement Friday.

“Cheers to what’s next. Extending a big thank you to the Rams and all of the fans for your support over these last 10 years. Much love,” Donald posted on Twitter. com.

“For 10 years I have been fortunate to play the game of football at the highest level,” Donald, 32, said on social media. “I’m thankful for the people I’ve met along the way, the relationships I’ve built and the things I’ve accomplished with my teammates and individually.”

The Rams picked Donald, 32, in the first-round of the 2014 NFL draft. His accomplishments include Pro Bowl appearances in all 10 seasons of his career, eight All-Pro first-team selections and NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, 2018 and 2020.

“Throughout my career, I have given my everything to

football both mentally and physically — 365 days a year was dedicated to becoming the best possible player I could be,” Donald posted on social media. “I respected this game like no other, and I’m blessed to be able to conclude my NFL career with the same franchise that drafted me. Not many people get drafted to a team, win a world championship with that team and retire with that team. I do not, and will not, take that for granted.

“As I turn my focus to a new chapter, I don’t know what the future holds, but I am excited about the offthe-field possibilities,” he said. “I’m looking forward to spending more time with my wife, Erica, and my kids, Jaeda, A.J., Aaric and Aali. The greatest reward was being able to play this game with them by my side, and I can’t wait to watch them live out their dreams just as they watched me live out mine.”

A key shining moment in Donald’s luminous career came at the climax

of Super Bowl LVI, when he exploded into the backfield and forced Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow to throw an incompletion on the final play of the game, sealing the Rams the victory.

“It is a privilege to have witnessed one of the greatest players of all time and we are proud that Aaron Donald will forever be part of NFL history as a member of the Rams,” Rams owner Stan Kroenke said in a statement.

“The great players in our league elevate the people around them and Aaron has modeled the way for our team as long as I’ve been with the Rams,” head coach Sean McVay said in an article on the Rams’ official website.

McVay described Donald as “an elite competitor ... who leads by example in a way that’s authentic to him, and an exceptional teammate who inspires everyone around him. ...

“As great of a player he is, he’s an even better person,” MacVay continued. “He is truly one of one

and epitomizes everything that’s right about sports.

I will forever cherish the memories we’ve made and will always be grateful for how he poured everything into this game and into our team. He’s meant a lot to me personally and to my

family.” Rams veteran wide receiver Cooper Kupp posted, “Thankful to have been able to watch, learn from and play alongside one of the best to ever do it.”

The team’s General Manager Les Snead said in

a statement, “There will never be another Aaron Donald.”

In what turned out to be Donald’s final season, the Rams were 10-7 and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Detroit Lions on Jan. 14.

Ex-attorney at Monterey Park law office representing foster kids charged with distributing, possessing child porn

By Staff

Aformersupervising attorney at a nonprofit that provides legal representation to foster children in juvenile dependency court was arraigned last week on federal criminal charges alleging he possessed and distributed child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Charles Aghoian, 61, of Camarillo, is charged with three counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He voluntarily surrendered to federal law enforcement. He pleaded not guilty at

his arraignment in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. A federal magistrate judge set his bond at $1 million and a May 6 trial date has been scheduled in this matter.

According to an indictment that a federal grand jury returned on March 1, Aghoian in December 2020 and January 2021 knowingly distributed sexually explicit videos featuring children. In April 2021, Aghoian also allegedly possessed on his smartphone images of child sexual abuse material

including children under the age of 12 years.

At the time of the alleged conduct, Aghoian was a supervising attorney at the Children’s Law Center of California, which maintains offices in Monterey Park, Sacramento, and Lancaster. The organization provides legal representation for abused, neglected, or abandoned children who fall under the jurisdiction of the state’s juvenile dependency court system. Its attorneys serve Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Placer counties.

If convicted, Aghoian

would face a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison on each child pornography distribution charge and a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each child pornography possession and distribution charges.

The FBI is investigating this matter.

Assistant United States Attorneys Nisha Chandran of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section and Alexandra Kelley of the General Crimes Section are prosecuting this case.

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Temple City City Notices

TEMPLE CITY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL

The City Council is holding a public hearing on the project described below. You are receiving this notice because your property is located near the project, the project may directly, or indirectly affect you, or because you have requested to be notified.

Project Citywide, City of Temple City, County of Los Angeles

Location:

Project: File PL 24-4478. Adoption of thresholds of significance for projects and plans reviewed under the California Environmental Quality Act

Applicant: City of Temple City, 9701 Las Tunas Drive, Temple City, CA 91780

Environmental The adoption of thresholds of significance is exempt from CEQA review. Section

Review: 15064.7 of the CEQA Guidelines establish the process for adopting thresholds and CEQA review is not part of this procedure. Additionally, adoption of thresholds is not a “project” because environmental changes that might result from their adoption are too speculative to be considered “reasonably foreseeable” under CEQA.

The City Council Public Hearing will be held:

Meeting Date & Time: Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 P.M.

Meeting Location: City Council Chambers, 5938 Kauffman Avenue, Temple City, CA 91780

For questions or concerns regarding this project, or if you wish to review the project file, please contact:

Project Planner: Scott Reimers, Community Development Director (626) 656-7316 sreimers@templecity.us

The decision of the City Council is final. If you challenge any of the foregoing actions in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the hearing body at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Date: 03/14/2024

Publish March 18, 2024

TEMPLE CITY TRIBUNE

Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

JACK LEE JACKSON

CASE NO. 24STPB02351

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that REBECCA GOMEZ 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: 04/02/24 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

Signature: Scott Reimers, Community Development

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

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOAN E. McFADDEN aka JOAN ELAINE McFADDEN aka JOAN McFADDEN

Case No. 24STPB02439

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOAN E. McFADDEN aka JOAN ELAINE McFADDEN aka JOAN McFADDEN A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Ellen Lozar in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Ellen Lozar be ap-pointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the dece-dent.

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

terested in the will or estate, or both, of CYNTHIA D. THOMPSON

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Andrea S. Moss in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Andrea S. Moss 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 April 2, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 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 ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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 EDWARD C. IP, ESQ. - SBN 233048

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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 April 11, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 62 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 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: PATRICK L BARNES ESQ SBN 39511

PATRICK L BARNES

A LAW CORPORATION PO BOX 660267

ARCADIA CA 91066

CN104922 MCFADDEN Mar 11,14,18, 2024 SAN GABRIEL SUN

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CYNTHIA D. THOMPSON

Case No. 24STPB02375

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be in-

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 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: NEAL B JANNOL ESQ SBN 180713 LAW OFFICES OF NEAL B JANNOL 10850 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 825 LOS ANGELES CA 90024 CN104924 THOMPSON Mar 11,14,18, 2024 SAN GABRIEL SUN

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

CHIEN CHUNG LU

CASE NO. 24STPB02665

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TZU-CHIEH LIU LU in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TZU-CHIEH LIU LU 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: 04/09/24 at 8:30AM 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

LAW OFFICES OF EDWARD C. IP & ASSOCIATES, APC 4424 SANTA ANITA AVENUE, STE. 201 EL MONTE CA 91731

Telephone (626) 228-0638 3/14, 3/18, 3/21/24

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

RONALD EDGAR STOWE

CASE NO. 23STPB07100

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KENNETH W. STOWE in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KENNETH W. STOWE 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: 05/09/24 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

PERSONS: 1. Petitioner OF Qiang Zhu and Yi Shi filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Shirou Zhu to Proposed name Alice Zhu 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: 05/10/2024 Time: 8:30AM Dept: X. 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: Arcadia Weekly DATED: February 22, 2024 Robin Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR

COURT Pub. February 26, March 4, 11, 18, 2024 ARCADIA WEEKLY

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Gisselle Leon FOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:24AHCP00053 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 150 W. Commonwealth Ave, Alhambra, Ca 91801, Northeast Judicial District TO

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Gisselle Leon filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Gisselle Leon to Proposed name Gisselle Madrigal de Leon 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: 04/05/2024 Time: 8:30AM Dept: V. 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: Rosemead

Reader DATED: February 22, 2024 Robin Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2024

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CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 23STCV05601 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): YIN HANG, and DOES 1-25

Plaintiff’s Title Thereto. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): NEXT GEN DEVELOPMENTS I

LLC

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site

Monterey Park City Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on March 26, 2024, a public hearing as required by Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”) will be held with respect to a proposed plan of financing providing for the issuance by the California Municipal Finance Authority (the “Authority”) of exempt facility bonds for a qualified residential rental project pursuant to Section 142(a)(7) of the Code in one or more series issued from time to time, including bonds issued to refund such exempt facility bonds in one or more series from time to time, in an amount not to exceed $40,000,000 (the “Bonds”). The proceeds of the Bonds will be used to: (1) finance or refinance the acquisition, rehabilitation, improvement and equipping of Monterey Park Senior Village, a senior multifamily rental housing project located at 1935 Potrero Grande Drive, Monterey Park, California; and (2) pay certain expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. The facilities are to be owned by Monterey Park Senior Village Phase II, LP (the “Borrower”) or a partnership of which AMG & Associates, LLC (the “Developer”) or a related person to the Developer is the general partner.

The Bonds and the obligation to pay principal of and interest thereon and any redemption premium with respect thereto do not constitute indebtedness or an obligation of the Authority, the State of California or any political subdivision thereof, within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation, or a charge against the general credit or taxing powers of any of them. The Bonds shall be a limited obligation of the Authority, payable solely from certain revenues duly pledged therefor and generally representing amounts paid by the Borrower.

The hearing will commence at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, and will be held in the City Hall Council Chamber, 320 West Newmark Avenue, Monterey Park, California. Interested persons wishing to express their views on the issuance of the Bonds or on the nature and location of the facilities proposed to be financed or refinanced may attend the public hearing or, prior to the time of the hearing, submit written comments.

Additional information concerning the above matter may be obtained from, and written comments should be addressed to, City Clerk, City of Monterey Park, 320 West Newmark Avenue, Monterey Park, California 91754.

Published on March 18,2024 MONTEREY PARK PRESS

on Charter Cable Channel 6 or streamed online at: https://www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/office-of-the-city-manager/glendaletv/live-video-stream

For public comments and questions during the Hearing call 818-937-8100. City staff will be submitting these questions and comments in real time to the appropriate person during the City Council meeting.

You may contact City of Glendale, Public Works Department Engineering Division, at 818548-3945 if you have any questions.

For public comments and questions during the Hearing call 818-937-8100. City staff will be submitting these questions and comments in real time to the appropriate person during the City Council meeting.

You may contact City of Glendale, Public Works Department Engineering Division, at 818548-3945 if you have any questions.

Legal Description for Alley Vacation Case No. 190V

All that certain real property situated in the City of Glendale, County of Los Angeles, State of California, described as follows:

THAT ALLEY NORTHEASTERLY OF VICTORY BLVD., ADJACENT TO LOTS 14-21 OF TRACT NO. 8620 AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 105 PAGES 87-88 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, DESCRIBED MORE PARTICULARLY AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT THE MOST NORTHERLY CORNER OF LOT 15 OF SAID TRACT 8620;

THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ALLEN AVENUE AS SHOWN ON SAID TRACT, NORTH 41°13’10” EAST 20.00 FEET TO THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER OF LOT 14 OF SAID TRACT;

THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINES OF LOTS 14 & 21 OF SAID TRACT, SOUTH 48°45’50” EAST 334.08 FEET TO THE NORTHWESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF IRVING AVENUE AS SHOWN ON SAID TRACT;

THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE SOUTH 41°13’00” WEST 20.00 FEET TO THE MOST EASTERLY CORNER OF LOT 20 OF SAID TRACT;

THENCE NORTHWESTERLY ALONG THE NORTHEASTERLY LINES OF LOTS 15

THROUGH 20 OF SAID TRACT, NORTH 48°45’50” WEST 334.08 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING.

CONTAINING 6,682 SQUARE FEET±

PUBLISH MARCH 14 & 18, 2024 GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

PUBLIC NOTICE

VACATION OF A PORTION OF SOUTHEAST CORNER OF JACKSON STREET AND CALIFORNIA AVENUE AT 246 N JACKSON STREET IN GLENDALE, CA STREET VACATION CASE NO. 191V

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:

The Glendale City Council will hold a Public Hearing on March 26, 2024 at or soon after 6 P.M. in the Council Chamber of the Glendale City Hall located at 613 East Broadway to consider the vacation of a portion of Southeast Corner of Jackson Street and California Avenue at 246 N Jackson Street, for Glendale Street Vacation Case No. 191V, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 12.24 of the Glendale Municipal Code, 1995, and the California Streets and Highways Code Sections 8300 et seq. and as subsequently amended:

The proposed vacation of said Public Street is more fully described in the following Legal Description. Plan No. 12-246 that shows the proposed street vacation area is on file in the office of Public Works Department Engineering Division, City of Glendale, 633 E. Broadway, Room 205, Glendale, CA 91206.

Persons having any interest in and to any property that may be affected by the proposed Street Vacation may appear at the above Hearing either in person or by counsel or both and may be heard in support of their opinion. And the Hearing can also be viewed on Charter Cable Channel 6 or streamed online at:

https://www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/office-of-the-city-manager/glendaletv/live-video-stream

For public comments and questions during the Hearing call 818-937-8100. City staff will be submitting these questions and comments in real time to the appropriate person during the City Council meeting.

You may contact City of Glendale, Public Works Department Engineering Division, at 818548-3945 if you have any questions.

Legal Description for

Vacation

BEGINNING

thence, southerly along the westerly line of said Lot to a point of cusp with a tangent curve concave southeasterly having a

which curve is also tangent to the northerly line of said Lot;

thence, northerly and easterly along said curve to said last mentioned point of tangency;

thence, westerly along said northerly line to the POINT OF BEGINNING.

The above-described land being a part of California Avenue and North Jackson Street.

Publish March 14 & 18, 2024

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DEBORAH LYNN

BOUDREAU AKA DEBORAH LYNN JACKSON

CASE NO. PROVA2400179

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DEBORAH LYNN BOUDREAU AKA

DEBORAH LYNN JACKSON.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by BRENT ERNEST JACKSON, JR. AND PATRICK RAY JACKSON in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that BRENT ERNEST JACKSON, JR. AND PATRICK RAY JACKSON 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: 04/11/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. F1 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD, FONTANA, CA 92335

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with

in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOEL JAY MASON 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:

05/09/24 at 1:30PM in Dept. CM06 located at 3390 HARBOR BLVD., COSTA MESA, CA 92626

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.

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:

05/08/24 at 1:30PM in Dept. CM05 located at 3390 HARBOR BLVD., COSTA MESA, CA 92626

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.

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 SUE C. SWISHER - SBN 243310

LAW OFFICE OF SUE C. SWISHER

20955 PATHFINDER RD., STE 100 DIAMOND BAR CA 91765

Telephone (909) 843-6490 3/11, 3/14, 3/18/24 CNS-3790901#

ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

LYNNE MARIE MASON AKA

LYNNE M. MASON

CASE NO.

30-2024-01382818-PR-LACMC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LYNNE MARIE MASON AKA LYNNE M. MASON. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOEL JAY MASON

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

ROBERT L. COHEN, ESQ. - SBN 150913, LAW OFFICES OF ROBERT L. COHEN, INC. 8081 ORANGETHORPE AVE.

BUENA PARK CA 90621

Telephone (714) 522-8880

3/11, 3/14, 3/18/24

CNS-3790963#

ANAHEIM PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

LOI VAN NGUYEN AKA TRAM TU THIENG CASE NO. 30-2024-01382137-PR-LACMC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LOI VAN NGUYEN AKA TRAM TU THIENG.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by HUNG ANH TRUONG in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that HUNG ANH TRUONG 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,

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

ANH VIET PHAM - SBN 189030

LAW OFFICE OF ANH VIET PHAM

14602 SHEFFIELD ST. WESTMINSTER CA 92683

Telephone (714) 713-5953

3/11, 3/14, 3/18/24

CNS-3791274#

ANAHEIM PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO

ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DOMINADOR BALLESTEROS

CASE NO. 23STPB10832

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

NADOR BALLESTEROS.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PERPETUA BALLESTROS PRESTO in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PERPETUA BALLESTROS PRESTO be appointed as Special Administrator 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: 04/04/24 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 DEBBY S. DOITCH, ESQ. - SBN 266731, ANDREW D. NUTBROWN, ESQ. - SBN 343702, KJMLAW Partners, PLC 301 EAST COLORADO BLVD., SUITE 600 PASADENA CA 91101

Telephone (626) 568-9300 3/11, 3/14, 3/18/24 CNS-3791571# BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DAVID E. STECYK

CASE NO. 24STPB02577

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROSINA D. STECYK in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROSINA D. STECYK 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: 04/05/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 9 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

ADAM D. BECKER - SBN 240723

CALLISTER, BROBERG & BECKER, A LAW CORPORATION

700 N. BRAND BLVD., SUITE 560 GLENDALE CA 91203

Telephone (818) 500-1890

3/11, 3/14, 3/18/24

CNS-3791737#

BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

WINDA MAPILI

CASE NO. 24STPB02613

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of WINDA MAPILI. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TERI JOAN SABALBURO MAPILI in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TERI JOAN SABALBURO MAPILI 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:

04/11/24 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

JEFFREY MARVAN - SBN 203686 ANDRE ZAKARI - SBN 284129, MARVANLAW, A.P.C. 500 S. GRAND AVE., SUITE 1490 LOS ANGELES CA 90071

Telephone (213) 386-5988 3/14, 3/18, 3/21/24 CNS-3792226#

BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

GEORGE MCCLURE AKA

MAC MCCLURE AKA JUDGE MCCLURE

CASE NO. PROVA2400203

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of GEORGE MCCLURE AKA MAC MCCLURE AKA JUDGE MCCLURE. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHERYL MEISTER in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHERYL MEISTER 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: 04/17/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. F2 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD., FONTANA, CA 92335

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

DANIEL B. BURBOTT - SBN

279759 - GAUDY LAW, INC. 267 D STREET UPLAND CA 91786

Telephone (909) 982-3199 3/18, 3/21, 3/25/24 CNS-3793160# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERT E. POSTAWKO

CASE NO. 24STPB02720

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that EDMUND POSTAWKO 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: 04/12/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 62 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 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

JILL HUNT - SBN 200083 HUNT & DOBROTT

2901 W. COAST HWY., SUITE 200 NEWPORT BEACH CA 92663

Telephone (949) 270-2785 BSC 224847

3/18, 3/21, 3/25/24

CNS-3793792#

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DANIEL M. HART

CASE NO. 24STPB02807

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PETER A. HART 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: 04/19/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 99 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

E. THOMAS CHAVEZ, ESQ. - SBN 123017

LAW OFFICE OF E. THOMAS CHAVEZ 301 E COLORADO BLVD., STE. 611 PASADENA CA 91101

Telephone (626) 796-4611 3/18, 3/21, 3/25/24 CNS-3794088#

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

Public Notices

Alhambra CA, 91801 Northeast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Curtis Sumpter filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Curtis Sumpter to Proposed name George Sumpter 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: 05/08/2024 Time: 8:30AM Dept: 3. 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: February 21, 2024 Robin

Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR

COURT Pub. February 29, March 7, 14, 21, 2024 ALHAMBRA PRESS

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Madelyn Faith Song FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER:24AHCP00072

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, Ca 91766, East Judicial District

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Madelyn Faith Song filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Madelyn Faith Songto Proposed name Abriella Faith Song 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: 04/19/2024 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: West Covina Press DATED: February 22, 2024 Salvatore Sirna JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2024 West Covina Press

CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 23STCV18665 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): OTIS WHITE, an individual; DAVID WHITE, an individual; ROBERT FIELDER, an individual; DANNY RAY WHITE, an individual; BONITA BARNES, an individual; TEVIS BARNES, an individual; VERONICA WHITE JENKINS, as successor trustee of the Doris White Trust; KIMBERLY WHITE, as successor trustee of the Vertis White Trust; CHERAYA JOHNSON, an individual; TRENICA MUNERLYN, an individual; JOE WHITE, an individual, JASMINE WHITE, an individual, LAUREN BARNES, an individual; FREDDIE BARNES III, an individual; BRIANNA BARNES, an individual; DEJUAN BARNES, an individual; KAHLIL BARNES, JEREMIAH BARNES, an individual; and DOES 1-100, inclusive, AND ALL PERSONS

UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT TO THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS COMPLAINT, WHICH IS ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE OR ANY CLOUD PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO

Plaintiff’s Title Thereto.

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DE-MANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): ALAN K. WHITE, an individual, and trustee of the Ellen Vica White Family Trust

This case affects the real property commonly known as 2936

to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo ouna concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill, Street, Los Angeles, Ca 90012

The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

ERVIN COHEN & JESSUP LLP, 9401 Wilshire Boulevard, 12th floor, Beverly Hills, California 90212; Tel: (310) 273-6323

Date: (Fecha) 08/07/2023

David W. Slayton, Clerk (Secretario)

By: G. Robinson, Deputy (Adjunto)

You are served MARCH 11, 18, 25, APRIL 1, 2024

WEST COVINA PRESS

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Gayane Anapiosyan/Sergey Darbinyan parents of Artur Darbinyan FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER:24GDCP00022

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 600 E. Broadway, Glendale, Ca 91206, North Central Judicial District

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond

Petitioner Gayane Anapiosyan & Sergey Darbinyan parents of Artur Darbinyan filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. Artur Darbinyan to Proposed name Arthur Darbinyan 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: 05/02/2024 Time: 8:30AM Dept: E. 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:

Independent DATED: February 22, 2024 Robin Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE

1, 2024

should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. 943906 / 86120, Glendale - Glendale Independent, 0311-2024,03-18-2024,03-25-2024

T.S. No. 104135-CA APN: 5643-015-113

There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (855) 313-3319, or visit this internet website www.clearreconcorp.com, using the file number assigned to this case 104135-CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (800) 758-8052

CLEAR RECON CORP 8880 Rio San Diego Drive, Suite 725 San Diego, California 92108. 943859 / 104135-CA, STOXGlendale - Glendale Independent, 0318-2024,03-25-2024,04-01-2024

is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ VIVIAN XU. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on March 12, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240002457

Pub: 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024 San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as THE BIN STORE 1183 Magnolia Ave Corona, CA 92879

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Dr. Rockets Volvo Diagnostics Specialist 9505 Arlington Ave, Apt 68 Riverside, CA 92503 Riverside County Dr. Rockets Volvo Diagnostics Specialist LLC (CA), 9505 Arlington Ave Apt 68, Riverside, CA 92503 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.Roque F Sanchez, CEO Statement filed with the County of Riverside on November 9, 2023

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202316442

Pub. 12/14/2023, 12/21/2023, 12/28/2023, 01/04/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240002457

The following persons are doing business as: JofeiX, 8336 LA SENDA RD, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701. Mailing Address, 8336 LA SENDA RD, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701. VIVIAN XU, (Owner). County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino

s.SAYYID

Statement

NOTICE:

clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403348

Pub. 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Besmani

40800 Sunflower Rd

Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County

Mehdi Besharatloo, 40800 Sunflower Rd. B2, Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County

Riverside County DAILY DEALS LIQUIDATION INC (CA, 1183 Magnolia Ave, Corona, CA 92879

Riverside County This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on January 29, 2024. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.DAVID LABIB, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 13, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403336

Pub. 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as SA BUY WHOLESALE

2021 3rd St Suite C Riverside, CA 92507

Riverside County Mailing Address, 2021 3rd St Suite

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.Mehdi Besharatloo Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 12, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202403315

Pub. 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Hapaly 40800 Sunflower Rd Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County Mehdi Besharatloo, 40800 Sunflower Rd. B2, Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.Mehdi Besharatloo Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 12, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the coun -

ty clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403316

Pub. 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are)

doing business as FARMACIA RIVERSIDE

1778 Columbia Ave Suite C Riverside, CA 92507

Riverside County

FARMACIA RIVERISDE LLC (CA, 13168 Stanton Dr, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.Mohannad Rashid, CEO Statement filed with the County of Riverside on February 21, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# 202402193 Pub. 02/26/2024, 03/04/2024, 03/11/2024, 03/18/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are)

doing business as Dos Lagos Smog Shop 19965 Temescal Canyon Rd Unit B Corona, CA 92881

Riverside County Guillermo Antonio Araujo, 19965 Temescal Canyon Rd Unit B, Corona, CA 92881

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.Guillermo Antonio Araujo Statement filed with the County of Riverside on February 16, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in

02/26/2024, 03/04/2024, 03/11/2024, 03/18/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Fresh Kabobs

625 Sky Ridge Dr Corona, CA 92882

Riverside County

KP & Son’s Foods Inc. (CA, 3698747

625 Sky Ridge Dr, Corona, CA 92882

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on January 1, 2020. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s.Mohammed Peerbhoy, CEO Statement filed with the County of Riverside on February 22, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202402263

Pub. 02/26/2024, 03/04/2024, 03/11/2024, 03/18/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240001871

The following persons are doing business as: Yummy’s Donuts, 11275 Sierra Avenue Ste 3A, Fontana, CA 92337. Suntheary Kong, 11275 Sierra Avenue Ste 3A, Fontana, CA 92337. County of Principal Place of Business:

San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on February 27, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Suntheary Kong. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on February 27, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself

Fictitious

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240002093

Pub: 03/11/2024, 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024

San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CarStock Wholesalers

598 Calhoun Circle Corona, CA 92879

Riverside County Ramiz Ahmed Khan, 598 Calhoun Circle, Corona, CA 92879

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Ramiz Ahmed Khan Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 6, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202403011

Pub. 03/11/2024, 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Isabella Transport, Inc. 16852 Katie Dr Riverside, CA 92504

Mailing Address, 17130 Van Buren Blvd, 419, Riverside, CA 92504.

Riverside County Isabella Transportation, Inc. (CA, 16852 Katie Dr, Riverside, CA 92504

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on October 1, 2023. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. David R Alvarez, Vice President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 6, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a

correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County,

FICTITIOUS

The

misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Po Chang, Manager. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on March 1, 2024 NoticeIn accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240002006

Pub: 03/11/2024, 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024 San Bernardino Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240002457

The following persons are doing business as: JofeiX, 8336 LA SENDA RD, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701. Mailing Address, 8336 LA SENDA RD, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701.

Pub: 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024

San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as THE BIN STORE 1183 Magnolia Ave Corona, CA 92879

Riverside County DAILY DEALS LIQUIDATION INC (CA, 1183 Magnolia Ave, Corona, CA 92879

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on January 29, 2024. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. DAVID LABIB, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 13, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403336

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Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as SA BUY WHOLESALE

2021 3rd St Suite C Riverside, CA 92507

Riverside County Mailing Address, 2021 3rd St Suite C, Riverside, CA 92507.

Riverside County

SH DISTRIBUTING CO LLC (CA, 2021 3rd St Suite C, Riverside, CA 92507

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc).

Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on January 1, 2024. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. SAYYID AHMED JAWWAD

HASANI, CEO /PRESIDENT

Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 13, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403348

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Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as

Besmani 40800 Sunflower Rd Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County Mehdi Besharatloo, 40800 Sunflower Rd. B2, Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Mehdi Besharatloo Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 12, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403315

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Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Hapaly 40800 Sunflower Rd Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County

Mehdi Besharatloo, 40800 Sunflower Rd. B2, Murrieta, CA 92562

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Mehdi Besharatloo Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 12, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk

File# R-202403316 Pub. 03/18/2024, 03/25/2024, 04/01/2024, 04/08/2024 Riverside Independent

Driver-less vehicle ride-hailing service expanding in LA area

By City News Service

Get ready to see cars without drivers on some Los Angeles and Santa Monica streets Thursday.

Beginning Thursday, Waymo One will offer driverless ride-hailing services in a 63-square mile area stretching from Santa Monica and Venice to downtown Los Angeles.

“Once an unimaginable future, autonomous driving is now a real-world way of getting around for tens of thousands of people each week,” Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said this week during a presentation in Austin, Texas. “After achieving key milestones in each city, we’re so excited to bring the safety, comfort and delight of our Waymo One

service to more people in Los Angeles and Austin this year.”

The Waymo driver-less vehicles have been operating in the Los Angeles area on a test basis since October, and company officials said more than 15,000 such rides have been provided during that time.

With the service officially beginning in the area starting Thursday, company officials said there are already about 50,000 people on the Los Angeles waitlist for rides.

The driver-less rides will initially be free, but it will transition to a paid service “in the coming weeks.”

The California Public Utilities Commission voted earlier this month to allow Waymo to expand its opera-

tions in the Los Angeles area. The company is already offering the service in San Francisco and Phoenix. Los Angeles and Austin will be the company’s third and fourth cities.

Some questions have been raised about the safety of the driver-less technology. The Los Angeles Times reported that a Waymo vehicle struck a closing gate at USC last month. Company officials told the paper the car had just dropped off passengers and was leaving the campus when it approached the gate, which closed on the car, causing some minor scratches.

The Times also reported that during a ride taken by some of its journalists, the

car would sometimes stop to drop people off in front of driveways, even as other cars were trying to exit. They also noted that there was no way to instruct the vehicle to pull away from the driveway.

In February, state Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, had a news conference at Los Angeles City Hall to announce legislation that would allow cities to impose additional regulations on driver-less vehicle operations. He was joined by some union members who expressed concern that the technology would impact jobs. Mayor Karen Bass has also asked that the CPUC grant more authority to cities to regulate the autonomous vehicles.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn issued a statement after the CPUC’s approval of the service, calling it a “dangerous decision.”

“These robotaxis are far

Ptoo untested and Angelenos shouldn’t be Big Tech’s guinea pigs,” Hahn said.

“Decisions like this one should be informed by cities, not made over city objections.”

Trees felled by high winds in various parts of Southland

owerful winds toppled a number of trees around the Southland Thursday, damaging cars and houses in neighborhoods including Lake Balboa, Altadena, Pasadena and La Crescenta, while leaving one person injured in Pico Rivera.

Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters responded to the 16600 block of West Victory Boulevard about 2:15 a.m. in Lake Balboa, where they found several cars blocking driveways and a tree on top of one of them, according to the LAFD.

Video footage showed the tree fell onto one lane of Victory and downed power lines hovered over and covered some vehicles. Offi-

cials from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power were notified.

Winds also blew down a tree in San Fernando on Lucas Street, and another in Pasadena in the 1700 block of Locust Street in Pasadena.

About 11 a.m. in La Crescenta, a large tree fell onto a house in the 5400 block of Pineridge Drive, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. No one was hurt, the fire department reported.

The resident told reporters she was in the basement at the time when she heard a crash.

“It sounded like an explosion, to be honest,” she said. “I immediately ran

By City News Service

upstairs, I was on the phone with my brother, I was like ‘something happened, a tree was through my house.’ I ran outside.

“Luckily the gardener was here. He came out and checked on me, made sure everyone was OK. ... It pretty much collapsed the living room, the kitchen. Thank God I wasn’t in the kitchen.

If I had been at the sink, I’d have a tree through my head right now. But I’m still in my pajamas. I haven’t even had chance to even really fully process it. But hopefully we can get it all taken care of really quickly.”

Around the same time, what appeared to be at least two large trees fell onto a

home in the 1100 block of Beverly Way in Altadena. No injuries were reported.

In Pico Rivera, one person sustained a head injury when a tree fell on a home in the 7000 block of Rosemead Boulevard around 11:15 a.m., according the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

A high wind warning was in effect until 4 p.m. in many areas of the Southland thanks to a “strong to moderate” Santa Ana wind event, but the gusts began to diminish by late afternoon, and the warnings were reduced to less severe wind advisories, some of which will remain in place until Friday morning.

Landslide destroys 1 Sherman Oaks home, prompts evacuations

By City News Service

Alandslide likely triggered by the drenching rains that poured on the Southland earlier this year destroyed an under- construction home in the hills of Sherman Oaks Wednesday and forced the evacuation of two others.

Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters responded at 2:51 a.m. to 3741 N. Ventura Canyon Ave. to a report of a large tree and wires down in the backyard of a residence. When they arrived, however, crews found that a large portion of the hillside had slid down

toward at least three homes, said LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange. The slide opened up a cavernous trough that wound through the neighborhood. A vacant home that was being remodeled was destroyed by the deluge of mud, debris and vegetation.

The slide also came dangerously close to two other homes, both of which were evacuated. Fire officials said a total of three people were evacuated from the two homes. A fourth home was also being closely watched, but was not immediately

evacuated.

The city Department of Building and Safety was contacted and was accessing the integrity of all the impacted structures and hillsides.

The destroyed structure was red-tagged as unsuitable for habitation. The two others were yellow-tagged, allowing only limited access for residents to retrieve belongings.

Neighbors said the home that was destroyed had been undergoing renovations for a long time, and was thankfully vacant when the

slide occurred. Fire officials said no injuries have been reported.

Landslides have continued to occur in recent weeks following the devastating storms that inundated the region earlier this year, dumping record amounts of rain.

Earlier this week, a landslide forced the closure of Pacific Coast Highway near Big Rock in Malibu. Crews later cleared enough of the road for two lanes of southbound traffic and one lane of northbound traffic. A separate slide has forced the

This map shows the planned coverage area for Waymo’s driver-less rides. | Image courtesy of Waymo

A large fallen tree blocks the 1700 block of Locust Street in Pasadena. | Photo courtesy of the Pasadena Fire Department/X

indefinite closure of Topanga Canyon Boulevard from PCH to Grand View Drive.

Another stretch of PCH

north of Corral Canyon Road is restricted to one lane of traffic due to a slide that occurred in February.

The storm last week caused a landslide that destroyed this Sherman Oaks home. | Photo courtesy of Bill Hons/Facebook

Man sane at time of murders of estranged wife’s 2 nephews in Arcadia

By City News Service

Ajudge Thursday found that a man was sane at the time of the bludgeoning deaths of his then-estranged wife’s two teenage nephews in the boys’ Arcadia home.

Superior Court Judge Jared Moses made the ruling at the prosecution’s request during the sanity phase of Deyun Shi’s trial after the testimony of a psychologist called on behalf of the defendant.

One of Shi’s attorneys, Vicki Podberesky, said the defense objected to the prosecution’s request, asking that the jury be allowed to decide whether the 52-year-old man was sane or insane at the time of the crimes.

“I truly believe that our client suffers from severe mental illness,” she said after the judge’s decision.

The ruling came a day after jurors found Shi guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the Jan. 22, 2016, slayings of 15-year-old Anthony Lin, who was asleep when he was attacked with bolt cutters, and the teen’s 16-year-old brother, William, who was killed while studying in a separate room.

Jurors also found true the special-circumstance allega-

tion of multiple murders and allegations that he personally used a deadly weapon — bolt cutters.

The jury also convicted Shi of one count of corporal injury for an attack on his then-wife in La Cañada Flintridge with a wood-splitting tool the night before the killings.

Shi is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole, with sentencing set May 2 in an Alhambra courtroom.

Deputy District Attorney MacKenzie Teymouri told jurors in her closing argument Tuesday that Shi planned the teens’ bludgeoning deaths in an “act of revenge” against the family of his estranged wife, who had filed for divorce.

Podberesky argued that her client was suffering from delusions and did not premeditate or deliberate the attack.

Shi -- who bought a ticket for a one-way flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Hong Kong -- was arrested after arriving at the airport in Hong Kong and was sent back to the United States to stand trial.

The teens’ father had been at a hospital with Shi’s wife after the attack that left

her with a broken nose and an injury to her head, the deputy district attorney told jurors.

The prosecutor said Shi “put the need for retribution” ahead of the lives of two innocent children.

Shi’s estranged wife had sought a temporary restraining order against him and he had recently learned she had filed for divorce from Shi, who had been “abusive and controlling” with his wife for over a decade before she found strength in her family’s support after moving from China to the United States, according to the prosecutor.

The deputy district attorney said “every act along the way” suggests that Shi was “in his right mind” and “knows what he’s doing is wrong.”

Teymouri showed jurors surveillance video that she said shows there was “absolutely nothing unusual about the defendant” while he was at Los Angeles International Airport, and said his one-way flight to Hong Kong was consistent with his plan to flee to nearby China to avoid punishment

Podberesky called it a “tragic, tragic case” in which the two teenage boys were “brutally bludgeoned,” but

said the issue jurors have to decide is whether her client had the mental capacity to deliberate and premeditate the killings.

The defense lawyer said Shi had a history of mental issues documented in hospital records from China dating back to when he was 15 years old.

The evidence supports a finding of “psychosis” stemming from schizoaffective disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, according to Podberesky.

Shi’s attorney cited “inexplicable acts of rage” by Shi in the months leading up to the killings, and told jurors that his actions were “so unprecedented” that his wife sought a restraining order against him.

“This is not a controlling man. ... This is a man who is deteriorating,” Podberesky said.

The defense attorney told jurors that Shi had delusions that the victims’ father was monitoring him with strange equipment.

“These are not beliefs based in reality. They are delusions,” she said.

Shi’s lawyer said it was a “real fallacy to believe that somebody who’s experiencing a deterioration of mental

health can’t do things” such as drive a car.

Podberesky noted that there was no evidence that Shi had ever demonstrated any animosity against the teens.

She contended that the prosecution has not met its burden to prove that the killings were done with premeditation and deliberation in arguing against firstdegree murder.

In her rebuttal argument, the prosecutor countered that it was “never about the nephews,” but instead about getting “the ultimate revenge”

against the boys’ father.

The deputy district attorney said what matters is whether the defendant was able to premeditate and deliberate at the time of the crimes, saying he was “deliberate in every one of his actions.”

The prosecutor contended that Shi was “not in an active state of psychosis” when he committed the attacks.

“Find him fully responsible for his actions on that day,” Teymouri told jurors.

Podberesky said she expects that Shi will appeal his conviction.

SB board commits funds for 92 new affordable housing units, community center

By Staff

TheSanBernardino

County Board of Supervisors committed up to $5 million for 92 affordable housing units and a community center, officials announced Thursday.

The funding, which comes primarily from the federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program, will enable the San Bernardino County Housing Authority and its partner National Community Renaissance to develop the housing units and community center as part of Phase IV of the Arrowhead Grove Inclusive Redevelopment Project, officials said.

Arrowhead Grove will replace the former Waterman Gardens public housing site that was situated on the southeast corner of Waterman Avenue and Baseline Street in the city of San Bernardino. Waterman Gardens was a 38-acre, 252-unit complex the housing authority built in 1943.

“Since 2018, (the

housing authority) has pursued an aggressive revitalization plan for the site, which has included the demolition of the 76-yearold buildings and the development of a mixedused, mixed-income, sustainable community that, at full buildout, will consist of 534 new units of housing, commercial space, an onsite Head Start preschool program and a new community center,” county officials said in a statement.

The county maintains ownership of the entire 38-acre parcel of land, subdividing the lot into separate parcels by phase, officials said. Phases I, II and III of the project have yielded the 322 affordable housing units.

Phase IV will include 22 one-bedroom, 46 twobedroom and 24 threebedroom units, totaling 92 new affordable units. The targeted income levels for prospective occupants are 80% and below the area median income.

A community center is also planned for Phase IV of the project. The center will lease office space to nonprofit organizations to provide co-located services for low-income residents, officials said.

“Preliminary plans for the community center include a partnership with Dignity Health, a major healthcare provider in California, which would lease the west wing of the building to open a new Federally Qualified Health Center,” according to the county.

Officials described Arrowhead Grove as “a collaborative effort with numerous stakeholders” that seeks to help achieve the objectives of the Countywide Vision and the Homeless Strategic Action Plan. Constructing affordable housing units is “a critical component of the homeless continuum of care, offering safe, affordable sources of permanent housing that are needed to resolve and prevent home -

lessness.”

The $5 million that the board just approved will be leveraged with additional funding from federal, state and local governments and other third-party funding sources, according to the county.

“San Bernardino County ... has the highest concentration of unsheltered homeless, the highest concentration of homeless K-12 students as identified by school district data, and one of the highest concentrations

of poverty and households at risk of homelessness,” officials said.

The project was expected to start construction in 2026’s first quarter, with a completion target set for the fourth quarter of 2027.

The Arrowhead Grove affordable housing development. | Image courtesy of the San Bernardino County Housing Authority

Deyun Shi. | Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department