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LA County Public Health report reveals inequities in health, education

By City News Service

Disproportionate inequities in access to health care, housing, nutrition and education in Los Angeles County communities impacts health outcomes for residents depending largely on where they live, according to a new report released Wednesday from the L.A. County Department of Public Health.

The data collected in DPH’s Community Health Profiles provides information on over 100 indicators affecting health and well-being for 179 communities within L.A. County. The profiles emphasize the role local environments play in influencing health outcomes. The data is intended to fuel improvements in community conditions and resident health.

“Where you live has a huge impact on your access to healthy environments and health-affirming resources,” Dr. Anish Mahajan, chief deputy director of DPH, said at a press conference Wednesday. “This is often due to long-standing patterns of disinvestments and discriminatory and racist policies and practices that have disproportionately impacted Black and brown communities.”

DPH said the interactive

index is the most geographically expansive to date. It covers the majority of the county, including incorporated and unincorporated areas, supervisorial districts, and Los Angeles City neighborhoods and council districts with populations over 20,000 residents.

The report is categorized into 11 areas, including demographics, social determinants of health, physical activity and nutrition, housing and health.

The survey shows

Felony charges have been filed against a Los Angeles County assistant district attorney, who is accused of repeated and unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily protected peace officer files, the California Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday.

After an extensive investigation, Diana Teran was

substantial geographic inequities throughout the county. For example, in eight communities, life expectancy is less than 75 years. Yet, in five communities, it is greater or equal to 85 years.

As for such chronic health conditions as obesity, in 11 communities fewer than 15% of adults are obese, whereas in 26 communities, more than 40% of adults are dangerously overweight -- more than double the amount elsewhere.

A look at the region’s

recreational space shows that 17 communities boast more than 30 acres of healthy space per 1,000 residents. But for 15 communities, less than a quarter of an acre of recreational space is available per 1,000 residents, the report found.

Further, nutritional disparity is evident in a comparison of 10 communities where less than 30% percent of the population lives near a supermarket or grocery store, and 19 communities where more

than 90% of residents live near such stores.

The profiles offer an even closer look at access to nutrition. For example, in Athens/ Westmont, the report finds 44% of adults live in households that are food insecure -- meaning unable to reliably afford or access enough food. Those residents have worse access to fresh fruits and vegetables, compared with L.A. County overall, according to the survey, and less than half of Athens/ Westmont residents live in

Assistant district attorney charged with felony counts

charged by the California Department of Justice with 11 felony counts prohibiting the use of data from a government computer system without permission, according to a statement released by the Attorney General’s Office. Teran allegedly accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018 while

By City News Service

working as a constitutional policing adviser at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and allegedly impermissibly used that data at the District Attorney’s Office after going to work there in January 2021, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

“No one is above the law,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in the statement.

“Public officials are called to serve the people and the state of California with integrity and honesty.”

Teran’s current employment status with the District Attorney’s Office was not immediately available.

“When I took office, we developed a protocol that ensured we complied with our constitutional obligations under Brady -- which

requires us to turn over potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense, a category that includes law enforcement’s prior misconduct -- while simultaneously complying with state and federal law around privacy. I stand by that protocol,” L.A. County DA George Gascón said in a statement.

“While we cannot comment on specific

close proximity to a supermarket or grocery store.

DPH also determined that educational opportunities were dependent on location. In eight communities, more than 75% of children age three to four years old are enrolled in preschool, whereas in a dozen communities, less than half that number are enrolled.

Housing costs largely remain a region-wide issue. In 29 communities, more than 30% of households are severely burdoned by housing costs, where in just five communities, fewer than 15% report being severely impacted by the cost of housing.

Such data can be used to furnish residents, policymakers, and health advocates with the information needed to understand and address the health needs of their communities, said DPH Director Barbara Ferrer.

“The Community Health Profiles are a practical and powerful tool, designed to guide our work towards a more equitable Los Angeles County,” she said in a statement. “By providing clear, localized data, these profiles inform efforts and system changes needed to address inequities.”

personnel matters, we will comply with any investigation from the Attorney General’s Office. I remain committed to upholding transparency and ensuring police accountability within Los Angeles County. These principles are paramount to the integrity of our work

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A Noise Within shows ‘True Grit’ in 2024-25

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A Noise Within shows ‘True Grit’ in 2024-25

By Staff

ANoise Within has announced six-plays for 2024-25 — a family-friendly modern classic; a play from August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle”; a holiday show; a Shakespeare; a new adaptation; and a musical — each of which exhibits “True Grit.”

“All of the plays next season are about people who are resolved to get what they want or need in one way or another, either for themselves or for the people they love,” suggest co-artistic directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott.

Launching the season on Sept. 7, the two will co-direct “The Skin of Our Teeth,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder. Set in 20th century New Jersey and the Ice Age, Wilder’s ambitious, funny, unruly story of humankind told through the lives of the Antrobus family uses humor, history and mythology to highlight humanity’s drive to carry on.

October brings another Pulitzer Prize-winning play along with the continuation of A Noise Within’s commitment to produce all 10 plays in August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle.”

Gregg T. Daniel returns to direct Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” following on the heels of critically acclaimed ANW productions of “Gem of the Ocean,” “Seven Guitars,” “Radio Golf” and “King Hedley II,” each directed by Daniel. In 1936 Pittsburgh, Berniece battles with her brother, Boy Willie, to save a treasured family heirloom: a piano decorated with images of their African ancestors carved by their enslaved grandfather. The holidays signify the return of A Noise Within’s festive, musically merry production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” In Geoff Elliott’s faithful adaptation of what might just be the greatest story of redemption ever

written, Marley and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future join forces to save Ebenezer Scrooge from a lonely and terrible fate.

“What’s done cannot be undone.” Andi Chapman will direct “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare in February. In the Bard’s grand and gripping tale of murder, treason, ambition and greed, Macbeth and his wife will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power.

Adapted by Elizabeth Williamson from the novel by Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” follows the orphaned Jane, who takes a position working as governess at Thornfield Hall for the brooding Edward Rochester. Our strong-willed heroine falls in love with her mysterious employer, but the discovery of a dark secret and its devastating aftermath forces the young governess to make a heart-

wrenching decision that changes their lives forever.

Finally, closing out the season in May, Julia Rodriguez-Elliott directs “A Man of No Importance” featuring music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by the late Terrence McNally. An

amateur theater group in Dublin is determined to stage a version of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” at their leader’s church despite the objections of church authorities in this intimate musical, a queer comingout story inspired by the 1994 film starring Albert Finney.

For more information about A Noise Within’s 2024-25 “True Grit” season, and to purchase season subscriptions (save up to 28%) or single tickets (on sale beginning July 9), call (626) 356-3100 or go to www.anoisewithin.org.

LB Airport sets monthly passenger record in March

By City News Service

Newsom honors sheriff’s

deputy

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday issued a statement honoring a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who died recently from injuries he suffered in fire at a Castaic shooting range in October.

Deputy Alfredo “Freddy” Flores died Saturday after he was injured in a fire that

started during a training exercise at the Pitchess Detention Center, officials said.

“Jennifer and I join the Los Angeles community in grieving the profound loss of Deputy Sheriff Flores, who demonstrated unwavering dedication and bravery in his service to our

Long Beach Airport set a monthly passenger record in March, with 182,382 passengers departing from there to beat the previous record of 178,836 set in July 2018, officials announced Wednesday.

“These record-breaking numbers are a testament to our 100-year-old airport’s ongoing commitment to providing world-class service to travelers who know LGB is the gateway of choice for Southern California,” Mayor Rex Richardson said. “LGB remains committed to serving the needs of travelers while driving economic growth and prosperity for the region.”

Overall commercial passenger activity for March 2024 represented an increase of 21.95% compared to March 2023. Year-to-date figures through March revealed an 18.1% rise in total passenger numbers compared to the year prior.

Airport officials cited several key factors for the surge in passenger traffic, in particular the increased use of LGB’s 58 flight slots. Southwest Airlines acquired 10 additional flight slots in 2023 for a total of 50, and gradually began increasing its schedule.

Additionally, recent modernizations have taken place as part of Long Beach

Airport’s ongoing $122 million Terminal Area Improvements Program.

“We are thrilled to see continued growth in passenger traffic at Long Beach Airport,” airport Director Cynthia Guidry said. “The diversification of our route network, coupled with ongoing improvements in infrastructure and services has positioned LGB as a preferred choice for travelers seeking convenience, comfort and connectivity.”

Officials said measuring departing passengers is the industry standard because the majority of airport revenues are generated directly or indirectly from those customers.

who died from shooting-range fire injuries

By Staff

state,” Newsom said. “Our heartfelt condolences are with his loved ones, friends and colleagues. Deputy Flores’ legacy will continue to inspire us all.”

According to a statement by the Flores’ family attorney Joe Nunez, “the malfunction of equipment during a training drill”

caused the fire.

The fire started at about 9:30 a.m. Oct. 10 in a 53-foot trailer used as a mobile shooting range, according to published reports. Flores and another injured deputy were taken by other deputies to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital.

No details on the condi-

tion of the other deputy or Flores’ injuries have been released.

”Deputy Flores was not just a colleague but a beacon of strength, earning the respect of both his peers and the community he served,” Sheriff Robert Luna posted on social media. “His sudden departure left an

immense void in the hearts of all who knew him. Freddy is survived by his wife, children, and parents.”

He was a member of the sheriff’s department for 22 years, and was assigned to the Altadena station and served at the North County Correctional Facility and the Court Services West Bureau.

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Pro-Palestine encampment established on UCLA campus, met by Israeli supporters

By City News Service

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have established an encampment on campus at UCLA, and it has grown to about 50 tents Friday, drawing Israeli supporters to meet them over the past two days.

Thepro-Palestinian groups and Israeli supporters at UCLA are part of a growing display of tensions among college students and groups in Los Angeles and nationwide, and demonstrations are expected to continue Friday.

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A day after nearly 100 people were arrested following pro-Palestine protests on the campus of USC Wednesday, a similar protest emerged on the Westwood campus of UCLA, with participants forming an encampment of tents outside Royce Hall.

By mid-morning Thursday, several dozen protesters were sitting and milling around inside the encampment, which was established around 4 a.m. The encampment slowly grew as the day wore on, with dozens of tents being erected and more protesters gathering.

Organizers of the “Palestine Solidarity Encampment,” similar to their counterparts at USC, issued a list of demands that include divestment of all University of California and UCLA Foundation funds from companies tied to Israel, along with a university call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and an academic boycott by UC against Israeli universities, including a suspension of

study-abroad programs.

“For 201 days, Israel has murdered, injured, starved, disappeared, displaced and kidnapped Palestinians with impunity,” according to a message posted online by organizers of the UCLA encampment, including the UC Divest Coalition at UCLA, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace UCLA.

“For 201 days, the world has watched in silence as Israel has murdered over 30,000 Palestinians,” the message continued. “Today, UCLA joins students across the country in demanding that our universities divest from the companies which profit off of the occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Now, more than ever, we must rise in solidarity to demand that the world centers Palestine, that the genocide is immediately ended and that our university is no longer complicit in human rights violations.”

Participants erected a makeshift wooden fence alongside the encampment and displayed signs with slogans such as “UCLA Says Free Palestine,” “Blood on the UC Hands” and “When people are occupied, resistance is justified.”

It was not immediately clear if all of the participants in the UCLA action were students.

“Our top priority is always the safety and wellbeing of our entire Bruin community,” Mary Osako, vice chancellor of UCLA Strategic Communi-

cations, said in a statement Thursday morning. “We’re actively monitoring this situation to support a peaceful campus environment that respects our community’s right to free expression while minimizing disruption to our teaching and learning mission.”

Around midday, a small group of counter-protesters, some holding Israeli flags, began gathering in the area. The day remained mostly peaceful, but early Thursday evening some brief shoving matches broke out, prompting a quick response from campus security, which worked to keep the two groups apart.

There were no reports of injuries or arrests.

On Wednesday, hundreds of people took part in a pro-Palestine protest and attempted “occupation” of Alumni Park on the USC

campus. That event ended with 93 arrests of people who refused to disperse from the area on the private campus.

The USC campus remained closed to the general public Thursday, but open to students, staff and faculty with proper identification.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the Jewish Federation Los Angeles issued a statement calling protests at USC and other college campuses across the nation “alarming.”

“Antisemitism, hate, and intolerance towards Jewish students has no place on any campus,” according to the federation. “JFEDLA is working to ensure the safety of every Jewish student across Los Angeles. While we believe in peaceful civic discourse, these protests have escalated to the point of creating a dangerous climate for Jews on campus.”

California climate leaders fight to keep setbacks around oil and gas wells

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

Leaders concerned about pollution and climate change are raising awareness about a ballot measure this fall on whether the state should mandate buffer zones around new oil and gas wells.

Voters will be asked to uphold or revoke Senate Bill 1173, which would require a 3,200-foot setback around any new well near schools, neighborhoods and hospitals.

Meghan Sahli-Wells, former mayor of Culver City and a leader with the group Elected Officials to Protect America, fought to phase out the Inglewood oil field and said no community should be a sacrifice zone.

“A study from Harvard

found that in California, 34,000 people died in 2018, prematurely, from fossil fuel air pollution,” Sahli-Wells pointed out. “These figures are three times higher than other studies.”

The Stop the Energy Shutdown campaign, supported by the California Independent Petroleum Association, opposes the setback rule, arguing it could constrict local supply and cost jobs in the industry. A court put the bill on hold pending the outcome of the November election.

A “yes” vote would keep the setbacks. A “no” vote would rescind them.

Clean energy advocates are also speaking out against companies operating older

low-producing wells rather than pay to shut them down and seal them up properly.

Ahmad Zahra, a city council member in Fullerton, said Assembly Bill 2716 would incentivize their closure by charging companies $10,000 a day to operate so-called “stripper wells.”

“We have over 40,000 oil wells currently sitting orphaned or idle, leaking methane and volatile organic compounds into the air, water and soil,” Zahra emphasized.

Other states are following California’s lead. Rep. Debbie Sariñana, D-Albuquerque, New Mexico, is sponsoring a bill to require setbacks near sensitive locations since more than 32,000 children

in the state attend school within a mile of an oil and gas extraction site.

“Over 80 schools in northwestern New Mexico - the San Juan Basin and southeastern New Mexico, the Permian Basin - are within one mile of an oil and gas well,” Sariñana noted. “Some schools are surrounded by dozens and even hundreds of wells within a single mile.”

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Oil companies must set aside more money to plug wells, a new rule says. But it won’t be enough.

By Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Nick Bowlin, Capital & Main

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For the first time in more than 60 years, the Bureau of Land Management will force oil and gas companies to set aside more money to guarantee they plug old wells, preventing them from leaking oil, brine and toxic or climatewarming gasses.

The rule, finalized this month, comes at a critical time. Money previously set aside to clean up wells on federal land would have covered the cost of fewer than 1 out of 100, according to the government’s own estimates, and the vast majority of the country’s wells sit inactive or barely producing, meaning they’ll soon need to be plugged.

But the federal agency’s work falls short of protecting taxpayers from the oil industry’s cleanup costs, according to a ProPublica and Capital & Main review of contracts or other cost estimates at tens of thousands of wells across the country. While the updated rule will shrink the gap between companies’ finan-

cial guarantees to plug wells, known as bonds, and the cost of the work, it still leaves a significant shortfall.

One math error alone leaves taxpayers on the hook for roughly $400 million more than they should be. A Bureau of Land Management employee’s arithmetic mistake yielded an incorrect average cleanup cost for wells that the agency has plugged, largely at taxpayer expense. That artificially low cost estimate became the foundation of the new bonding requirements. When ProPublica and Capital & Main pointed out the error in December, and that it could potentially cost taxpayers — and save oil companies — hundreds of millions of dollars when multiplied across the many thousands of wells the new rule would touch, the agency downplayed the miscalculation.

A spokesperson said the bureau “recognized the issues,” but they weren’t “significant enough” to correct. The proposed bond

amounts are minimums, which “may be adjusted” through a review every five years. Staff can then demand companies set aside more money, the spokesperson said.

But over the most recent five-year period, oil companies ignored the Bureau of Land Management’s demands to increase their bonds more than 40% of the time, a ProPublica and Capital & Main review of agency data found. The final rule did not change how these reviews are carried out or enforced.

Evidence abounds of regulators’ past failures to hold the industry to account for cleanup: hundreds of thousands — potentially millions — of so-called orphan wells that companies have walked away from and left to the government to plug. Environmentalists, researchers and some politicians worry the window is closing to fix the problem while the industry is still profitable and there’s political momentum.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, along with environ-

mental groups and taxpayer advocates, heralded the changes. “These reforms will help safeguard the health of our public lands and nearby communities for generations to come,” Haaland said. The Wilderness Society called the rule a “big step forward for the woefully outdated oil and gas program,” while the Sierra Club said it would help in “limiting harmful impacts to lands, wildlife and community health.”

Mark Squillace, a University of Colorado Law School professor who studies natural

resources, agreed that the changes are an improvement over what was there before, “but it does not go far enough.” A ProPublica and Capital & Main investigation found that the country faces a shortfall well into the tens of billions of dollars between the cost to plug wells and the money available to do so. Unaddressed, those costs could be passed on to taxpayers.

“We have too many abandoned oil and gas wells that were not adequately bonded,” Squillace said.

Bad math at the Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management oversees an estimated 30% of the country’s mineral wealth, including oil and gas, but its oil bonding rules hadn’t been updated since they were written in 1951 and 1960, not even to account for inflation.

A 2019 Government Accountability Office report found that, as a result, bonds were insufficient to cover

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the cleanup costs of 99.5% of wells on federal land. (The bureau never fulfilled a public records request filed in May 2023 seeking updated details on bonds or a related request filed in September 2019.)

The Biden administration attempted to rectify bonding issues via the Inflation Reduction Act, but the Senate parliamentarian stripped reform provisions from the bill, saying they were not germane. The executive branch then launched a process to rewrite administrative rules that apply to the nearly 90,000 wells on federal public land, where cleanup costs vary widely depending on the depth and condition of the well, among other factors.

Republicans unsuccessfully attacked that process, with the House of Representatives in March passing a bill sponsored by Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert to stop the rule and bar the agency from ever completing similar regulatory updates. It was not passed by the Senate.

The Bureau of Land Management published its final rule this month. It increased from $10,000 to $150,000 the minimum bond required to cover a group of wells, called a lease, and from $25,000 to $500,000 the minimum to cover all of a company’s wells in a state. The rule also requires the amounts to be adjusted every decade to account for inflation.

The agency based the required bond amounts on the cost to plug a typical orphan well, which it estimated to be $71,000. It drew from a narrow sample — 22 wells the agency recently paid to plug in three states — contending that was “a sufficient representation of wells to support the rulemaking.”

But the agency acknowledged higher per-well cleanup costs elsewhere in its own research, stating that it expects to spend between $112,500 and $180,000 to plug each orphan well in the future. The agency did not explain why it appears to contradict itself.

Adding to skepticism over the agency’s calculations, three wells included in the agency’s sample cost only $500 each to plug.

That figure is “hard to imagine,” said Chris McCullough, an engineer who previously managed complex plugging projects for California. At one site McCullough helped plug, two wells were leaking gas into a densely populated neighborhood a mile from Dodger Stadium. His crew spent $1.2 million overall to seal the wells, move infrastructure and set up a shuttle service for residents while the job was in progress.

Meanwhile, Bureau of

Oil well

Land Management records show that a single well in Alaska, for example, recently cost the government more than $13 million to plug. This project, however, was not included in the agency’s calculation. (An agency spokesperson said the well was “not a useful comparison” because plugging wells in Alaska includes costs that would be unusual at orphan wells in the Lower 48.)

The agency’s decision to factor in low-cost outliers while eschewing the most expensive sites ignores the reality that plugging wells brings unexpected challenges, according to geologist Dan Dudak, who also oversaw cleanup work for California and now owns an environmental consulting firm alongside McCullough. Doing such work in Alaska, Dudak explained, requires setting up “small, mobile, self-contained towns” to support “the personnel and equipment necessary to plug a single well.”

In the Lower 48, plugging costs are also high. Across Indian Country, for example, it would cost an average of more than $82,000 to plug a typical well, not counting the millions of additional dollars needed to first find the wells and study what sort of cleanup is needed, according to Interior Department data published in 2023. The department also allocated $150 million to plug roughly 600 polluting or dangerous orphan wells elsewhere on federal land — $250,000 per well.

Even more wells are plugged by states’ oil agencies, which recently offered a glimpse into what experts consider realistic plugging costs in their applications for federal funds to support that work. Alaska, California, New Mexico, North Dakota and West Virginia regulators all told the Interior Department that it takes more than $150,000 to plug a typical orphan well and address pollution around it.

Energy finance think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative in April published a report analyzing the impact the federal agency’s new bonding levels would have in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The study, authored by petroleum reservoir engineer Dwayne Purvis, found that, while the rule would require drillers to set aside millions of dollars in additional bonds, it would still only be enough to cover 3% of the projected cleanup cost.

“Despite the progress in the new rules,” Purvis said after reviewing the final version, “I’m convinced that the situation merits much more financial assurance in one form or another than this change provides.”

Cracks in the system’s foundation

While the Bureau of Land Management’s updated rule focused on how much money should be set aside to clean up wells, it ignored another looming threat: cracks in the key financial tool oil companies use as bonds.

In public comments on the rule, both environmental groups and oil industry representatives asked it to address the shriveling market for surety policies, which are the most common type of oil cleanup bond and are similar to insurance policies in that a third party guarantees wells are plugged.

The bureau did nothing to mitigate that risk in the final rule. As evidence that bonds are secure, the agency instead pointed to a Small Business Administration program that helps small oil companies obtain surety bonds if they aren’t financially strong enough to purchase such policies from the market.

Meanwhile, many insurers are already declining to provide surety bonds to oil and gas companies or are requiring unobtainable levels of collateral as drillers become a riskier bet, surety brokers in three oil-producing states and state regulators in several others confirmed to ProPublica and Capital & Main.

Trevor Gilstrap, senior vice president of AssuredPartners, an insurance brokerage firm, called the surety market “so stinking bad right now.” Surety providers, he said, went from asking oil companies for as little as no collateral when underwriting a bond a decade ago to between 50% and 100% collateral now.

“Throughout my more than a decade in the insurance industry, with a strong focus on placing insurance and bond programs for oil and gas companies, I have never encountered a more challenging surety market,” he wrote in a letter commenting on oil bonds in New Mexico.

Insurance providers’ shrinking interest is all the more reason to require sufficient bonds now before oil companies walk away from their wells, researchers and activists say.

“Challenges in the oil and gas surety market should be taken as a giant flashing alarm for the financial health of the oil and gas industry itself,” said Andrew ForkesGudmundson, who works on bonding reform with environmental group Earthworks. The government must take this moment seriously, he added, otherwise “they and the taxpayers will be left holding the bag.”

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10 times as much of this toxic pesticide could end up on your tomatoes and celery under a new EPA proposal

By Sharon Lerner, ProPublica

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When you bite into a piece of celery, there’s a fair chance that it will be coated with a thin film of a toxic pesticide called acephate.

The bug killer — also used on tomatoes, cranberries, Brussels sprouts and other fruits and vegetables — belongs to a class of compounds linked to autism, hyperactivity and reduced scores on intelligence tests in children.

But rather than banning the pesticide, as the European Union did more than 20 years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed easing restrictions on acephate.

The federal agency’s assessment lays out a plan that would allow 10 times more acephate on food than is acceptable under the current limits. The proposal was based in large part on the results of a new battery of tests that are performed on disembodied cells rather than whole lab animals. After exposing groups of cells to the pesticide, the agency found “little to no evidence” that acephate and a chemical created when it breaks down in the body harm the developing brain, according to an August 2023 EPA document.

The EPA is moving ahead with the proposal despite multiple studies linking acephate to developmental problems in children and lab rats, and despite warnings from several scientific groups against using the new tests on cells to relax regulations, interviews and records reviewed by ProPublica show.

To create the new tests designed to measure the impact of chemicals on the growing brain, the EPA worked with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which comprises some of the world’s wealthiest democratic countries and conducts research on economic, social and scientific issues. The

OECD has warned against using the tests to conclude a chemical does not interfere with the brain’s development.

A scientific advisory panel the EPA consulted found that, because of major limitations, the tests “may not be representative of many processes and mechanisms that could” harm the developing nervous system. California pesticide regulators have argued that the new tests are not yet reliable enough to discount results of the older animal tests. And the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, a second group of advisers handpicked by the EPA, also warned against using results of the nonanimal tests to dismiss concerns.

“It’s exactly what we recommended against,” Veena Singla, a member of the children’s committee who also teaches at Columbia University, said of the EPA’s acephate proposal. “Children’s development is exquisitely sensitive to toxicants. … It’s disappointing they’re not following the science.”

The EPA’s proposal, which could be finalized later this year, marks one of the first times the agency has recommended changing its legal safety threshold largely based on nonanimal tests designed to measure a chemical’s impact on the developing brain. And in March, the EPA released a draft assessment of another pesticide in the same class, malathion, that also proposes loosening restrictions based on similar tests.

The proposed relaxing of restrictions on both chemicals comes even as the Biden administration has been strengthening limits on several other environmental contaminants, including some closely related pesticides.

In response to questions from ProPublica, the EPA acknowledged that it

“will need to continually build scientific confidence” in these new methods but said that the introduction of the nonanimal tests to predict the danger chemicals pose to the developing brain “has not been done in haste. Rather, a methodical, step-wise approach has been implemented over the course of more than a decade.”

The agency said its recent review of acephate included a thorough examination of a variety of scientific studies and that, even with its proposed changes, children and infants would still be protected.

The EPA expects to start accepting public comments on the acephate proposal in the coming months before it makes a final decision. The agency anticipates soliciting comments on malathion this summer.

Some environmental scientists strongly oppose loosening the restrictions on both acephate and malathion, arguing that the new tests are not reliable enough to capture all the hazards a chemical poses to the developing brain.

“It will put children at an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD that we already know are linked to this class of chemicals,” said Rashmi Joglekar, a toxicologist at the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco.

Health and environmental scientists are concerned about more than the direct impact of having potentially greater amounts of acephate and malathion on celery and other produce. They also worry that using the new tests as a basis for allowing more pesticides on crops will set a dangerous precedent for other brain-harming chemicals.

“I think the companies see this as a new way over a 10- or 20-year period to

gradually lobby” the EPA “to allow higher levels of pesticides in food,” said Charles Benbrook, an agricultural economist who has monitored pesticide regulation for decades. “If they can convince regulators to not pay attention to animal studies, they have a very good chance of raising the allowable exposure levels.”

Industry Helped Fashion EPA’s Testing Strategy

Since its founding in 1970, the EPA has relied on studies of mice, rats, guinea pigs and other species to set exposure limits for chemicals. The lab animals serve as a proxy for humans. Scientists expose them to different doses of substances and watch to see what levels cause cancer, reproductive problems, irritation to the skin and eyes, or other conditions. Some tests look specifically at chemicals’ effects on the offspring of rats exposed during pregnancy, and some of those tests focus on the development of their brains and nervous systems.

But over the past decade, chemical manufacturers and animal rights advocates have argued for phasing out the tests on the grounds they are impractical and inhumane.

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

The animal experiments are also expensive, and the pesticide industry, which by law shoulders the cost of testing its products, is among the biggest proponents of the change.

The EPA has allowed the chemical industry and animal rights groups to help fashion its testing strategy. Agency officials have co-authored articles and held workshops on the use of the cell-based tests to regulate chemicals alongside representatives of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as well as Corteva Agriscience, BASF and Syngenta Crop Protection, companies that make pesticides regulated by the EPA.

The EPA said its scientists have been working to develop the nonanimal tests for decades with other government and scientific organizations, both nationally and internationally.

“It is absurd to describe those scientific efforts as an apparent conflict of interest,” the agency said in a statement.

The EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs has previously come under fire for its willingness to allow pesticides onto the market without required toxicity testing.

In 2018, as The Intercept reported, staff members held a party to celebrate a milestone: The number of legally required tests the office had waived for pesticide companies had reached 1,000. A science adviser to the office at the time said the move spared companies more than $6 million in expenses.

While phasing out animal experiments would save money and animal lives, experiments involving collections of cells do not always accurately predict how entire organisms will respond to exposure to a toxic chemical. The new cellbased tests and computer techniques that are sometimes used with them can be reliable predictors of straightforward effects like eye or skin irritation. But they are not yet up to the task of modeling the complex, real-world learning disorders that have been linked to acephate and malathion, according to Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy organization.

The new tests can show whether a chemical can kill a brain cell. And they can show

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if a chemical affects how a brain cell connects with other brain cells, said Sass.

“But these tests can’t show that a kid is going to be able to sit through class and not go to the principal’s office,” she said.

While the cell-based tests may point to certain harms, they are likely to miss others, said Sass, who likens their use to fishing with a loose net. “You only know what you caught — the big stuff,” she said. “You don’t know about all the little stuff that got through.”

A 2023 study revealed the failure of the cell-based tests to detect certain problems. In it, scientists exposed brain cells to 28 chemicals known to interfere with the development of the nervous system. Although the tests were specifically designed to assess whether chemicals harm growing brains, they failed to clearly identify harm in one-third of the substances known to cause these very problems. Instead of registering as harmful, the test results on these established developmental neurotoxins were either borderline or negative.

Because of these potential blind spots and other uncertainties associated with the tests, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has advised against interpreting results of the nonanimal tests as evidence that a chemical doesn’t damage the brain. Several scientific groups have recommended that the EPA

do the same.

A federal advisory panel of scientists assembled to advise the EPA on pesticiderelated issues published a 2020 report that identified numerous limitations and gaps in the nonanimal studies, finding that they “underestimated the complexity of nervous system development.”

In 2021, the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, a group the EPA created to provide advice on how to best protect children from environmental threats, warned the agency that, “due to important limitations,” the test results “cannot be used to rule-out a specific hazard.”

In comments to the EPA, California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation also cautioned the agency against using the tests to conclude that a chemical doesn’t cause specific harms. The California regulators emphasized that the traditional battery of animal tests was still necessary to understand complex outcomes like the effects on children’s developing brains.

“To abandon it at this time would be to abandon a critical support for healthprotective decisions,” they wrote.

EPA Accused of Double Standard

As much as 12 million pounds of acephate were used on soybeans, Brussels sprouts and other crops in 2019, according to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey. The federal agency estimates that

EPA proposal

up to 30% of celery, 35% of lettuce and 20% of cauliflower and peppers were grown with acephate. Malathion is used on crops such as strawberries, blueberries and asparagus. (The U.S. Department of Agriculture prohibits the use of most synthetic pesticides, including acephate and malathion, to grow and process products certified by the agency as organic.)

Acephate and malathion belong to a class of chemicals called organophosphates, which U.S. farmers have used for decades because they efficiently kill aphids, fire ants and other pests. But what makes the pesticides good bug killers — their ability to interfere with signals sent between nerve cells — also makes them dangerous to people. For years, there has been a scientific consensus that children are particularly vulnerable to the harms of pesticides, a recognition that

led the EPA to strengthen restrictions on them. But with both acephate and malathion, the agency is now proposing to remove that extra layer of protection.

The EPA effectively banned another organophosphate pesticide, chlorpyrifos, in 2021, based in part on evidence linking it to ADHD, autism and reduced IQ in children. (In response to a lawsuit brought by a company that sells the pesticide and several agricultural groups, a court vacated the ban in December, allowing the resumed use of chlorpyrifos on certain crops, including cherries, strawberries and wheat.) While some health and farmworker groups are petitioning the EPA to ban all organophosphate pesticides, the agency is arguing that it can adequately protect children by limiting the amount farmers can use.

Several studies suggest

that, even at currently allowable levels, acephate may already be causing learning disabilities in children exposed to it while in the uterus or in their first years of life. In 2017, a team of University of California, Berkeley researchers, partly funded by the EPA, found that children of Californians who, while pregnant, lived within 1 kilometer of where the pesticide was applied had lower IQ scores and worse verbal comprehension on average than children of people who lived further away. Two years later, a group of UCLA scientists reported that mothers who lived near areas where acephate was used during their pregnancies had children who were at an increased risk of autism with an intellectual disability.

The EPA considered this research when deciding to relax the limits on acephate use but stated that flaws and inconsistencies made these epidemiological studies “not compelling.” The agency also dismissed a rat study submitted to the EPA in 2005 in which the pups of mother rats exposed to higher levels of acephate were, on average, less likely to move than the pups of mothers exposed to lower levels. The EPA told ProPublica that “no conclusions could be drawn” from the experiment, citing the “high variability of the data” it produced. But some scientists outside the agency find that study a particularly worrisome indication of the

pesticide’s potential to harm children.

In its proposals to increase the allowable amount of both acephate and malathion on food, the EPA also had to look past other potentially concerning test results. Some of the cell-based tests of acephate showed borderline results for interference with brain functions, while some of the tests of malathion clearly indicated specific problems, including interference with the connections between nerve cells and the growth of certain parts of nerve cells. Several scientists interviewed by ProPublica said that such results demand further investigation.

Some scientists see a double standard in the agency accepting the imperfect nonanimal tests while citing flaws in other research as reasons to dismiss it.

“They’re acknowledging limitations in epidemiology while at the same time not acknowledging the even greater limitations of using a clump of cells in a petri dish to try to model what’s happening in a really complex organism,” said Nathan Donley, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental advocacy organization.

Asked about the criticism, an EPA spokesperson wrote in an email to ProPublica that the agency “does not believe there was a double standard applied.”

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Health officials warn of potential lead poisoning from ointment

By Staff

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health earlier this month warned residents not to use a Vietnamese herbal ointment because it contains lead and can be fatal.

A woman in Sacramento died in March from severe lead poisoning that occurred after she used a product called “Cao Bôi Trĩ Cây Thầu Dầu,” or Castor Oil Hemorrhoid Extract, which officials said has been marketed as a hemorrhoid treatment “with a suggested intra-rectal application.”

The woman bought the product on Facebook, and a friend or relative in Vietnam mailed it to the United States. Officials said it was unclear if the ointment is available for purchase in “informal marketplaces” in

the U.S.

The California Department of Public Health had the ointment tested and found it contains 4% lead, or 39,000 parts per million, which is “a highly dangerous amount of lead,” officials said. Any amount of lead exposure can cause lifelong learning, behavioral, reproductive, cardiovascular and other health problems.

Lead poisoning can be difficult to identify because after exposure, symptoms may not be visible and can vary from person to person, according to health officials. Symptoms are tied to the level of lead in a product, how often it is used and for how long.

Mild symptoms are fatigue, irritability or mood swings, difficulty

concentrating and difficulty sleeping; moderate symptoms are muscle and joint pain, nausea, decrease appetite, stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea, feeling tired or sleepy, headache and tremors; severe symptoms are intense stomach cramps, a pins-and-needles sensation, tingling, burning or numbness in hands, seizures, coma and death.

The county and state health departments urged anyone who used the ointment to:

1. Stop using the ointment immediately and contact your health provider to get a blood lead test, called a venous blood test.

2. Place the jar of ointment in a sealed plastic bag and contact the Califor-

nia Department of Public Health at 510-620-3620 or email toxoutbreak@cdph. ca.gov.

3. Get a blood lead test for any other household members, especially children, if they have been exposed to the ointment — kids are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning.

Officials provided a letter online with instructions for blood testing that anyone who has used the ointment can take to their health care provider. It’s available for downloading in English or Vietnamese at https:// tinyurl.com/5n84b2zd.

Information and answers to questions about childhood lead poisoning prevention in LA County are available by calling 800-524-5323 or at getyourchildtested.com.

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Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF TRINIDAD E. LOPEZ

Case No. 24STPB04167

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

TRINIDAD E. LOPEZ

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Norma Alzaga 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 May 15, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 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 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:

DARIN W BARBER ESQ SBN 189008

LAW OFFICE OF DARIN W BARBER

16163 WHITTIER BLVD WHITTIER CA 90603

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

ELAINE G. MERCIER

CASE NO. 23STPB09765

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RICHARD B. ASHWORTH in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RICHARD B. ASHWORTH 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: 05/17/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 2D 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

SCOTT A. HANCOCK - SBN 115747

SNYDER & HANCOCK 1112 FAIR OAKS AVE. SOUTH PASADENA CA 91030

Telephone (626) 799-7156

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALTA ESTEL DUMAS AKA

ALTA E. DUMAS AKA ALTA

DUMAS

CASE NO.

24STPB04164

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ALTA ESTEL DUMAS AKA ALTA E. DUMAS AKA ALTA DUMAS.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by EDNA MARY WADE in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that EDNA MARY WADE 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: 05/15/24 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

KURT WEISER - SBN 246775

DAVID DORIA - SBN 317419

GREENMAN, LACY, KLEIN, HINDS, WEISER

900 PIER VIEW WAY, PO BOX 299

OCEANSIDE CA 92049-0299

Telephone (760) 722-1234

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANN NA WANG

CASE NO. 24STPB04340

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that WILLIAM ZHANG 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: 05/21/24 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 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

LYNDA I. CHUNG - SBN 181018

KATHARINE B. LAU - SBN 303135, VALENSI ROSE, PLC

1888 CENTURY PARK EAST, SUITE 1100

LOS ANGELES CA 90067-1715 Telephone (310) 277-8011 4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24 CNS-3806251# TEMPLE CITY TRIBUNE NOTICE OF PETITION TO

ESTATE OF: SHARON LEE HODGSON

CASE NO. 24STPB03877

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KENNETH WAYNE FELDMANN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KENNETH WAYNE FELDMANN 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: 05/23/24 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 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 4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

LYNN LOLA COLEMAN GUSTAFSON

CASE NO. 24STPB04457

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LYNN LOLA COLEMAN GUSTAFSON.

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CRAIG COLEMAN 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 in-

terested 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: 05/24/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner

STEPHEN L. BELGUM - SBN 53143

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRUST & PROBATE CENTER 1252 N. SAN DIMAS CANYON ROAD

SAN DIMAS CA 91773

Telephone (909) 305-0005

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Public Notices

Erica Gutierrez FOR CHANGE OF

CASE NUMBER:24NNCP00114 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 150 W. Commonwealth Ave, Alhambra, Ca 91801, Northeast Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Erica Gutierrez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing

as follows:

Gutierrez

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: 06/14/2024 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: San Gabriel Sun DATED: April 5, 2024 Robin Miller Sloan JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2024 SAN GABRIEL SUN

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Kathryn Elizabeth Mauger & William Taylor

Woods FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE

NUMBER: 24STCP01038 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 312 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, Ca 90012, Central Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner Kathryn Elizabeth

Mauger & William Taylor Woods filed a petition with this court for a decree chang-

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

AN ANCILLARY PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by YOLANDA KLEVER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE ANCILLARY PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that YOLANDA KLEVER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE ANCILLARY 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 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 LINDA MCLARNAN-DUGAN - SBN 169190

LAW OFFICES OF LINDA MCLARNAN-DUGAN

150 N. SANTA ANITA AVE., SUITE 300 ARCADIA CA 91006

Telephone (626) 296-8670

4/22, 4/25, 4/29/24

CNS-3805773#

WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARGARET MO-CHIEH CHIEN aka MARGARET CHIEN

Case No. 24STPB02745

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARGARET MO-CHIEH CHIEN aka MARGARET CHIEN

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Lily Won Hwa Chien in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Lily Won Hwa Chien 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 June 18, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 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 ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

TIMOTHY D WONG ESQ

SBN 167393

LAW OFFICES OF TIMOTHY D WONG 1031 S GLENDORA AVE W COVINA CA 91790 CN106076 CHIEN Apr 25,29, May 2, 2024 MONTEREY PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

MARIA T. FABELLA

CASE NO. 24STPB04139

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARIA E. ALVAREZ in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARIA E. ALVAREZ 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: 05/16/24 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

MICHAEL G. EBINER, ESQ. - SBN

183499, EBINER LAW OFFICE

100 N. CITRUS STREET, SUITE 520

WEST COVINA CA 91791

Telephone (626) 918-9000 4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24

CNS-3805777#

WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUBEN C. CASTANEDA

CASE NO. 24STPB04204

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RUBEN A. CASTANEDA 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: 05/17/24 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 you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner

MICHAEL G. EBINER, ESQ. - SBN

183499, EBINER LAW OFFICE

100 N. CITRUS STREET, SUITE 520

WEST COVINA CA 91791

Telephone (626) 918-9000 4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24 CNS-3805784#

BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

LYDIA B. MACALALAD

CASE NO. 24STPB04000

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ANNABEL EUSTAQUIO-BOURQUE AND RENATO EUSTAQUIO in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ANNABEL EUSTA-

QUIO-BOURQUE AND RENATO EUSTAQUIO 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: 05/16/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

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

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

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

ROBERT MILLS, ESQ. - SBN 155896

LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT MILLS

1429 S. VALLEY CENTER AVE.

GLENDORA CA 91740

Telephone (626) 827-1419

4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24

CNS-3805803#

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

ANTONIO M. ARAIZA

CASE NO. 24STPB04343

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ANTHONY S. ARAIZA 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: 05/24/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner

GILBERT A. MORET - SBN 38113

LAW OFFICES OF GILBERT A. MORET

5430 E. BEVERLY BLVD., STE. 250 LOS ANGELES CA 90022

Telephone (323) 278-9991

4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24

CNS-3806260#

PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DAVID ALAN PARKER

CASE NO. 24STPB04338

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by STEVE MANUEL PARKER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that STEVE MANUEL PARKER 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: 05/20/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA

90012

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

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

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

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Thomas Edwin Murray aka Thomas Edwin Murray Jr Case No. PROVA2400312

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Thomas Edwin Murray aka Thomas Edwin Murray Jr

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Marceline E. Medina in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Marceline E. Medina be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM 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: KRISTINE M. BORGIA SB#276777

KRISTINE M. BORGIA LAW CORPORATION

3963 11TH STREET SUITE 202 RIVERSIDE, CA 92501 APRIL 25, 29, MAY 2, 2024 SAN BERNARDINO PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

RICARDO MARTINEZ

ALFARO AKA RICARDO

CASE NO. PROVA2400313

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RICARDO MARTINEZ ALFARO AKA RICARDO A. MARTINEZ.

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: 06/06/24 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

PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607

LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO

9431 HAVEN AVE., STE. 108

RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730

Telephone (909) 529-1011 4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24

CNS-3806739#

ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

JAMES LEE MOSES

CASE NO. 24STPB04443

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KEITH MOSES AND SCOTT MOSES in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KEITH MOSES AND SCOTT MOSES 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: 05/23/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

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

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

KATHERINE LINDSEY, ESQ. - SBN 252438, BARTH CALDERON LLP

333 CITY BOULEVARD WEST, SUITE 2050

ORANGE CA 92868

Telephone (714) 704-4828

BSC 225030

4/25, 4/29, 5/2/24

CNS-3806928#

WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BETTY SOI MEE LEE

CASE NO. 24STPB04425

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SAMUEL LEE 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: 05/20/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 4 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA

90012

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

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

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

Telephone (626) 499-4500

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

MARCEL MESA AKA

MARCEL LUJAN MESA

CASE NO. 24STPB04449

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MARCEL MESA AKA MARCEL LUJAN MESA.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by FRANCES LUJAN MESA AND WALTER CHARDIE in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that FRANCES LUJAN MESA AND WALTER CHARDIE 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: 05/29/24 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 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 ILIANA MADRIGAL, ESQ. - SBN 278590, CHAVEZ LAW GROUP

13225 PHILADELPHIA ST., STE. A WHITTIER CA 90601, Telephone (323) 506-3142 4/29, 5/2, 5/6/24 CNS-3807420#

BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

CAROLYN JANE MORGAN

AKA CAROLYN MORGAN

CASE NO.

30-2024-01394810-PR-LA-

CMC To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of CAROLYN JANE MORGAN AKA CAROLYN MORGAN.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOHN MICHAEL MORGAN in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOHN MICHAEL MORGAN 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: 06/27/24 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.

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

CATHERINE KIM, ESQ. - SBN

243811, ERNEST J. KIM, ESQ.SBN 181280, LAW OFFICES OF ERNEST J. KIM 17541 17TH STREET, SUITE 100 TUSTIN CA 92780

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHAEL L. WOODARD CASE NO. 20STPB10005

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

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

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TERESA NAVARRO 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: 05/23/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner

GREGORY P. SWAIN - SBN 324283, BARBARO, CHINEN, PITZER & DUKE LLP

301 E COLORADO BLVD.

PASADENA CA 91101-1911

Telephone (626) 793-5196

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Clarence Anthony Brown FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 24LBCP00111

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse, 275 Magnolia, Long Beach, CA 90802, South Judicial District TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner

Clarence Anthony Brown filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Clarence Anthony Brown to Proposed name Anthony X 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: 05/21/2024 Time: 8:30AM Dept: 26. 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: Belmont Beacon DATED: April 9, 2024 Michael

P. Vicencia JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Pub. April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2024 BELMONT BEACON

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF Rouslan Akhmerov FOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER: 24NNCP00146 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 150 W. Commonwealth Ave, Alhambra, Ca 91801, Northeast Judicial District TO ALL

INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner

Rouslan Akhmerov filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a. OF Rouslan Akhmerov to Proposed name Russ Udin 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: 06/07/2024 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: Glendale Independent DATED: April 16,

is hereby given that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property under the California SelfStorage Facility Act, pursuant to Sections 21700-21716

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. Jaquelynn Marie Velasco

Statement filed with the County of Riverside on March 25, 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-202403895

Pub. 04/08/2024, 04/15/2024, 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

FBN20240002976

File No.

The following persons are doing business as: Fernandez Hauling, 851 W Flora St, Ontario, CA 91762. Mailing Address, 851 W Flora St, Ontario, CA 91762. Jesse Fernandez, 851 W Flora St, Ontario, CA 91762. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. 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/ Jesse Fernandez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

San Bernardino on March 25, 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#:

FBN20240002976 Pub: 04/15/2024, 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024, 05/06/2024 San Bernardino Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT File No.

FBN20240003190 The following persons are doing business as: METRO-LOK, 1339 Brooks St, Ontario, CA 91762. Mailing Address, 1339 Brooks St, ontario, CA 91762. ANOLDA ENTERPRISES, LLC (CA, 27365 Bottlebrush Way, murrieta, CA 92562;

WILLIAM FUENTES, PRESIDENT.

County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino 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. 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/ WILLIAM FUENTES, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on March 29, 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 State-

ment 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#: FBN20240003190 Pub: 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024, 05/06/2024, 05/13/2024 San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as N & L TRANSPORT

26366 Baldy Peak Rd

Menifee, CA 92586

Riverside County

ENRIQUE SAVEDRA, 26366 Baldy Peak Dr, Menifee, CA 92586

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. ENRIQUE SAVEDRA Statement filed with the County of Riverside on April 17, 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-202405097

Pub. 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024, 05/06/2024, 05/13/2024

Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Goldleaf Scientific 3300 Harrison St suite 2 Riverside, CA 92503

Riverside County Lab Locus LLC (CA, 30042 Mission Blvd Ste 121-244, Hayward, CA 94544

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. Ryan Henry, Manager

Statement filed with the County of Riverside on April 17, 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-202405113

Pub. 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024, 05/06/2024, 05/13/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

File No. 20240003581

The following persons are doing business as: APEX INTERNATIONAL CULTURE AND ART EXPO, 5388 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763. Mailing Address, 5388 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763. Carissa and Harry Foundation (CA, 5388 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763; Sam Ip, President. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino

This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. 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/ Sam Ip, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on April 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#: 20240003581

Pub: 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024, 05/06/2024, 05/13/2024 San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Big Voice Pictures

560 Desert Way

Palm Springs, CA 92264

Mailing Address, PO Box 931, Palm Springs, CA 92263.

Riverside County

Kathleen Barbini, 560 Desert Way, Palm Springs, CA 92264

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. Kathleen Barbini

Statement filed with the County of Riverside on April 11, 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-202404844 Pub. 04/22/2024, 04/29/2024, 05/06/2024, 05/13/2024

Pelican found with slashed pouch now healed, returned to wild

City News Service

Abrown pelican that was found in San Pedro with a slashed pouch was released back into the wild in San Pedro Thursday after undergoing weeks of treatment and receiving more than 500 stitches.

The bird, nicknamed Blue, spread her wings and took flight to join other pelicans at White Point Park Thursday morning. Russ Curtis, from the nonprofit International Bird Rescue, told City News Service visitors often see other pelicans roosting or just hanging out at the park, which will make it easier for Blue to rejoin them in the wild.

The bird was brought to the care center in San Pedro on March 10 after being found with its pouch severed from the base to the tip on both sides — injuries that are believed to have been human-caused.

“Pelicans are pretty resilient, especially if we get them in early and get them hydrated,” Curtis told City News Service. “We were able to put some sutures into her

started eating immediately, and if she hadn’t been brought in when she was, Blue wouldn’t have made it in the wild. The 3- year-old pelican was nicknamed Blue in honor of a similarly injured pelican that was treated at the center a decade ago

pretty quickly, so she could start to eat again. We did a second surgery to clean it up a little bit.”

Curtis noted that she

Curtis noted Blue healed pretty quickly after undergoing two surgeries. Blue required about 500 stitches to reconnect her pouch to her mouth.

named Pink, who required about 600 stitches.

“We believe these are human caused. Evidence from the folks who did the

surgery and looked at the pouch laceration said the way it was cut — it looks like somebody was malicious and did this horrible act,” Curtis said. He said that often times

the center rescues pelicans with injuries or tears caused by fishing lines, but Blue’s injury was too significant to have been caused without some sort of human interaction.

Curtis expressed his gratitude for the person who noticed Blue and brought the pelican in.

“Let’s be more mindful around wildlife. We need to share our space with wildlife,” Curtis said. “They’re a big part of what makes life on Earth a little bit easier for all of us. Seeing those squadrons of pelicans, flying right at the wavelength, especially around sunset, it’s a very meditative thing.”

He added, “I think people should appreciate these birds. They are so majestic and they’re the closest thing I see to what we would consider almost flying dinosaurs.”

Anyone who might have information about the attack on the pelican to call the Cal Tip Line at 888-334-2258.

The nonprofit wildlife organization relies on public support to help fund the care of injured, sick and orphaned waterbirds. Donations may be sent to www.birdrescue. org/donate/.

2 dead in Anaheim apartment complex shooting; murder-suicide suspected

City News Service

Ashooting at an Anaheim senior living apartment complex that left two people dead was being investigated Friday as a possible murder-suicide.

The shooting occurred around 3:40 p.m. Thursday at the Tyrol Plaza complex at State College Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, according to Anaheim police Sgt. Jon McClintock.

and the trust of the community we serve. We will address this matter with the utmost seriousness and diligence to uphold the values of justice and fairness.”

In 2019, then-Los Angeles County Undersheriff Tim Murakami said the agency was investigating Teran along with Inspector General Max Huntsman for allegedly accessing confidential personnel files of high-ranking sheriff’s executives, including then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

Murakami told ABC7 at the time that Teran had downloaded the confidential personnel records on behalf of the Inspector General’s Office a few days before Villanueva was sworn into office in late 2018.

Responding officers found a 59-year-old woman with “at least one gunshot

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wound,” police said. She was taken to a hospital, where she died. She was identified by police Friday as Ana Monterrosa, who a witness said was the apartment building manager.

Investigators identi-

Huntsman at the time denied any wrongdoing, insisting that a county ordinance afforded his office access to county employee records, and that his office kept such records confidential.

fied the suspect as Brian Lawrence, 67, who lived in the apartment complex. Police went to his apartment and entered at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday and found him dead inside from an “apparent suicide.”

Police did not immediately release any additional details.

A39-year-old man was shot to death Tuesday in Rosemead, identified by county authorities Thursday, authorities said.

The shooting was reported at about 5:45 p.m. in the 3200 block of Gladys Avenue, one block east of San Gabriel Boulevard and a few blocks south of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Deputies from the LASD’s Temple station responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call, where they learned the shooting stemmed from a family dispute, according to homicide Lt. Michael Modica.

There was no indication on what prompted the shooting.

Police asked anyone with information to call 714-765-1900.

A resident of the building told OnSceneTV he was talking to Monterrosa when the suspect calmly walked right up to her and “shot her four times,” then ran off.

Man shot to death in Rosemead

City News Service

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner’s office identified

the scene.

A person of interest was detained at the scene, authorities said.

Diana Teran. | Photo courtesy of ladaoffice/Instagram

Blue the brown pelican returns to the wild after recovering from a severe injury thought to be human-inflicted. | Photo courtesy of Ariana Gastelum/International Bird Rescue/Facebook

Dr. Rebecca Duerr examines Blue, the rescued pelican, after surgery. | Photo courtesy of International Bird Rescue

the victim Thursday as Kevin Neiman, who was found lying in the home’s driveway. He was pronounced dead at

| Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s

9 more couples sue fertility clinic over dead embryos

By City News Service

MultipleOrange Countycouples added to the legal woes of a fertility clinic with offices in Newport Beach with another claim regarding failed attempts at pregnancy due to some sort of error in a laboratory.

Earlier this month, two couples sued in Orange County Superior Court alleging that an Ovation Fertility clinic employee in the Newport Beach lab wrongly used toxic chemicals to clean an incubator housing frozen embryos. On Tuesday, nine more couples sued alleging something went wrong with their pregnancies.

Attorney Rob Marcereau said a 10th couple had contacted his office after a news conference announcing the lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court.

“The things that they all have in common is that they had embryos that were thought to be transferred during a two-week period at the end of January of

this year, and during this two-week period they had a 100% fail rate,” Marcereau told City News Service. “No embryos resulted in pregnancies and normally there’s about a 75% success rate.”

Attorney Adam Wolf, who now represents four couples, alleged earlier this month that an employee wrongly used hydrogen peroxide instead of a sterile solution when cleaning an incubator, killing the embryos.

Marcereau said that is one of the potential causes.

“Ovation has given different stories to different doctors who then explained to their patients what they were told,” Marcereau said. “We’ve heard it was an equipment malfunction. We’ve heard it was a PH-balance issue, and finally we heard hydrogen peroxide somehow had gotten into the incubator when the embryos were in there.”

Marcereau added: “The reason that has become

more of the prevalent theory is that was the story that was told to doctors two or three times, and so it was the one version or explanation that has been repeated in the case, so that’s why we believe that may have happened.”

If the hydrogen peroxide mishap is the explanation, then “It’s a huge screw-up,” Marcereau said.

Marcereau has a “whis-

tleblower” in Ovation who reported that the clinic “had a systemic problem. This is the tip of the iceberg,” the attorney said.

The company has “stopped documenting instances where there have been lab failures ... because they’re concerned about future litigation,” Marcereau added.

Last week, Ovation

issued the following statement responding to Wolf’s lawsuit:

“Ovation Fertility has protocols in place to protect the health and integrity of every embryo under our care. This was an isolated incident that impacted a very small number of patients, and we have been in close contact with those patience since this issue was discovered. We are grateful for the opportunity to help patients build a family and will continue to implement and enforce rigorous protocols to safeguard that process.”

But Marcereau said his clients were not notified for weeks and that some of them underwent “invasive testing ... to figure out and determine what was wrong ... all of which was completely unnecessary because it was a lab failure and these embryos were dead on arrival.”

Another claim in the lawsuit is that Ovation employees should have

known the embryos were dead before implantation because they should check them under a microscope before the procedure, the attorney said.

The company was “super vague” and “super non-committal” about what happened when they contacted the couples, Marcereau said.

“This was a nuclear holocaust within that incubator,” he said. “They dumped the equivalent of battery acid and killed them all and wouldn’t own up to it.”

Then the company “tried to trick these couples into signing all their rights away and stay quiet about it” with an emailed offer to give them a $5,800 lab fee refund that was also a waiver of litigation and a non-disclosure agreement, Marcereau alleged.

Eight of the couples Marcereau’s firm represents are from Orange County with one from Catalina Island.

Daylong Cecil Murray memorial services held at First AME Church

By City News Service

Adaylongmemorial, includingaviewing and Celebration of Life wake, was held Friday in honor of the late Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray at First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, where the spiritual leader served as pastor for 27 years.

Murray died of natural causes April 5 at his home in the View Park section of Los Angeles at the age of 94, his family said.

During his 1977-2004 tenure at FAME, the city’s oldest Black church, Murray helped grow its congregation from 250 to more than 18,000 members and attracted highprofile visitors including former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, along with multiple governors and Los Angeles mayors.

He was also noted for his calming presence during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

After his death was announced, Mayor Karen Bass called Murray “a giant” who had “dedicated his life to service, community, and putting God first in all things. I had the absolute honor of working with him, worshiping with him, and seeking his counsel. My heart is with the First AME congregation and community today as

we reflect on a legacy that changed this city forever.”

Following his retirement, Murray embarked on a second career as a Tansey Professor of Christian Ethics and chair of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement at USC from 2005 to 2022, where he trained more than 1,000 faith leaders in the “Murray Method,” which focused on tackling community needs by moving from what he called “description to prescription.”

In 1992, Murray gained national attention for helping to calm tensions during the riots sparked by the April 29, 1992, acquittal of four police officers videotaped beating motorist Rodney King, and playing a key role in rebuilding South Los Angeles after the uprising ended.

“We are not proud that we set those fires, but we’d like to make a distinction to America this morning about the difference between setting a fire and starting a fire,” he told his congregation on May 3, 1992, the day the unrest ended. “We set some of those fires, but we didn’t start any of those fires. Those fires were started when some men of influence decided that this nation can indeed exist half slave and half free. Those fires were started when some

men poured gasoline on the Constitution of the United States of America.”

Murray tapped one of his parishioners, Mark Whitlock, who worked in commercial real estate, to secure investments and real estate developments to help restore communities left devastated after the rioting.

FAME hired 180 people as part of the effort and Murray oversaw the launch of FAME Renaissance, the church’s economic development unit, which attracted $400 million in corporate investment for the community.

“We were able to create 4,000 jobs,” Whitlock, now a pastor at Reid Temple AME Church in Maryland, told PBS in 2020. “We developed real estate extensively throughout South Central Los Angeles. He [Murray] is a remarkable leader. He’s 90 years old, but his legacy continues through many of the real estate projects. He was the spiritual leader, the voice that moved the city and kept the city peaceful.”

Then-President George H.W. Bush named the church the “177th Point of Light” as part of his Points of Light nonprofit initiative.

“Pastor Murray was one of the most prominent and

influential faith leaders in the nation. He was hard working and sincere,” said Najee Ali, civil rights activist and community relations ambassador for the nonprofit Operation Hope. “He helped transform First AME Church under his leadership into not just a must stop for political leaders looking for support. FAME was always in the trenches first to serve with an uncompromising track record of social justice advocacy.”

Murray was born on Sept. 26, 1929, in Lakeland, Florida.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University in 1951 and joined the United States Air Force after graduation where he served during the Korean War as a jet radar intercept officer in the Air Defense Command and as a navigator in the Air Transport Command.

Murray retired as a reserve major in 1958 and was decorated with a Soldier’s Medal of Valor.

He earned his doctorate in religion from the School of Theology at Claremont College in 1964 and served as a pastor at churches in Pomona, Kansas City and Seattle before coming to FAME in Los Angeles where he showed up sporting

an Afro and a dashiki and started to transform the church from a staid congregation of traditional hymns and little civic activism to one that included drums and guitars during services.

Longtime parishioner Toni Scott told the Los Angeles Times in 2004 that Murray’s high spirits and joyful manner were “contagious.”

Los Angeles media consultant Kerman Maddox said he had avoided church membership, but Murray’s passion pulled him into the

congregation in 1984 after he visited FAME to hear Jesse Jackson speak while running for president.

“I saw this guy [Murray] and said, `Wow, he’s different,”’ Maddox told The Times in 2004. “He was getting involved in the neighborhood, the community, Jesse’s campaign. I still wasn’t sold, but it made me go back again.”

Murray’s wife of 54 years, Bernardine, who gave him the nickname “Chip,” died in 2013. His survivors include his son Drew.

Artificial insemination. | Photo by maxxyustas/Envato Elements

Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray. | Photo courtesy of USC