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OC supervisors ratchet up calls for Andrew Do’s resignation

By City News Service

Orange County Supervisors Katrina Foley and Vicente Sarmiento are calling for Supervisor Andrew Do to resign Wednesday as authorities investigate allegations of fraudulent spending of COVID-19 relief funds by a nonprofit that employed Do’s daughter.

At the county board’s next meeting on Sept. 10, Do is expected to be stripped of his committee assignments. Orange County Board Chairman Don Wagner put the matter on the agenda for the September meeting and said he expects it will pass.

Do, who did not attend Tuesday’s board meeting, declined comment.

Wagner issued a statement Monday saying he hoped Do would “seriously consider his future” on the board.

But Supervisor Doug Chaffee said in a statement that, “The lawsuits and investigations that are

occurring must be allowed to continue without disruption or intervention by any member of the board of supervisors. The board is not judge or jury and it is our constitutional duty to uphold the principle of separation of powers. This case is now in the hands of the courts. We must let the legal system take its course in a fair and unbiased manner.”

Foley said at Tuesday’s board meeting that Do “has shattered the public trust and each day he remains in office is one more day we have to wait to start rebuilding the trust of the public.”

Foley predicted, “This is just the first strand in a giant hairball that will unravel over the coming months.

Everything I’m learning over the last few weeks leads me to believe that we are just touching the surface.”

Foley spoke directly to Do in case he was viewing the board meeting.

“Andrew, please resign,” she said. “Resignation is not an admission of guilt. You are entitled to due process. However, your position on the board is untenable and will only cause harm to the

good work of the county. If you truly care about this county as you have claimed many times in the past then you will step down so we can begin to heal the wounds you have caused us.”

If Do will not resign, Foley added, “I will continue to pursue every legal avenue available to have him removed from office.” Do, who is termed out this year, could miss nearly every meeting until the end of the year without being removed for abandoning office.

LA County grants $4M to 363 small businesses in entertainment

By Staff

Hundreds of small businesses in the entertainment industry received a total of $4 million in grants from Los Angeles County agencies, officials announced Wednesday.

The Department of Economic Opportunity and the LA County Film Office awarded Business Interruption Fund grants to 363 small and micro businesses affected by shutdowns in recent years of film and TV production.

The funding provided grants of $10,000 or $25,000 to businesses including prop houses, printers, transportation, food caterers, small

production companies and other companies that assist with film and television production.

Dollars from the federal American Rescue Plan Act that the LA County Board of Supervisors approved for distribution in July 2023 funded the grants.

“The Third District is home to more studios and production companies than anywhere else in Los Angeles County. We’re committed to showing up for the entertainment industry — and the vital businesses that power it — in every way we can to ensure its continued success and growth,” Board Chair

Lindsey P. Horvath said in a statement. “I’m proud to have established the Entertainment Business Interruption Fund with Supervisor Barger to support the small, essential businesses still grappling with the economic impact of the slow return of local film and TV productions.”

Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement, “The mom-and-pop businesses behind our most cherished films are a vital part of our local economy yet have been hardest hit by ongoing disruptions from the pandemic to the historic double strikes of

2023. The County of Los Angeles remains steadfastly committed to supporting the industry, its workers, and small businesses with timely and innovative solutions such as removing excessive permitting fees, countywide Student Fee Waiver programs, studies on how the County can better attract and retain film, TV, and commercial production — most of which occurs in the Fifth District. We hope those that support the industry found some relief through our $4 million grant program.”

The COVID-19 pandemic stopped all permitted film

and tv production in the county, and the effects are still felt throughout the industry today. Combined with the writers and actors strikes and other disruptions, the entertainment business is still in a recovery phase.

“(The Department of Economic Opportunity) and our County Film Office recognized the urgency in providing immediate capital support to the small businesses that serve the entertainment industry, quickly standing up a $4 million business interruption fund in response — unlike anything seen or done before by a

local County agency,” said , DEO Director Kelly LoBianco said in a statement. “Faced with a dramatic drop in film productions and the loss of thousands of jobs, our creative economy continues to experience ongoing effects from the pandemic and the historic double strikes. We hope the grant funds have provided much needed relief during moments of crisis and remain committed to mitigate the continued economic fallout on our locally housed, internationally renowned industry.”

Supervisor Andrew Do. | Photo courtesy of Orange County

Supervisor Katrina Foley. | Photo courtesy of Katrina Foley for Supervisor

Baldwin Park shelter resumes normal operations after strep zoo

By Staff

The Baldwin Park Animal Care Center resumed normal operations on Aug. 23 following a strep zoo outbreak, Los Angeles County animal control officials announced.

Strep zoo is a bacterium normally found in horses, cattle and pigs that rarely causes disease, but it can cause severe pneumonia in immunocompromised dogs such as those in living stressful shelters. The disease shows few warning signs, and no vaccine exists.

Eleven dogs tested positive in early August for strep zoo at the Baldwin Park facility, an animal control spokeswoman told the Whittier Daily News.

After officials from the the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control identified the outbreak, to stop the spread of disease they did extensive deep cleaning of the facility, “rigorous testing and treatment” and diverted new animal “intakes” to the county’s Carson and Downey shelters.

All dogs at the Baldwin Park facility have been treated with antibiotics, and deep cleaning has been

completed, officials said. No new positive strep zoo infections were reported in the last seven days as of Aug. 22.

“By reaching these benchmarks, the Care Center was cleared to resume intakes,” according to a county statement.

Pet adoptions and other community services contin-

ued at the shelter during the outbreak, with shelter personnel offering additional counseling to adopters on strep zoo signs, symptoms and treatment options.

Another strep zoo outbreak at LA County shelters occurred in April at the Downey Animal Care Center.

Man gets 23 years

for hate crimes vs. Hispanic men

By City News Service

A37-year-old homeless man with a long arrest history has been sentenced to over 23 years in state prison for multiple hate-related assaults in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, authorities announced Wednesday.

Kevin Mumin was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department in August 2023 for multiple felony assaults with hate crime allegations. Santa Monica police had also identified him as the suspect in two attacks targeting Hispanic men in that city, according to the Santa Monica Police

Department.

Mumin was found guilty earlier this month of three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, with enhancements for great bodily injury and hate crimes. He was also convicted of one count of felony sexual battery stemming from one of the Los Angeles incidents, according to the SMPD.

He was sentenced on Aug. 21 of this year to 23 years and 8 months in state prison.

Santa Monica police said that on Aug. 20, officers found a victim struck on the head with a large wooden stick in the 3100 block of

Main Street. Two days later, a second victim said the suspect tried to punch him in the face and threw a glass bottle at him in the 1400 block of Palisades Park.

The SMPD jointly filed their cases with the LAPD after Mumin’s arrest. He had prior arrests for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, criminal threats and narcotics sales.

Anyone with additional information about Mumin was asked to contact Detective Brian Spencer of the SMPD at 310-458-8420 or Sgt. Shaun Cooney at 310-458-8436.

Rose Bowl Game tickets on sale

By City News Service

Tickets for the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game are on sale online via Ticketmaster. A maximum of four tickets per person will be available. Individual ticket prices start at $190.95, including fees.

The game is no longer a so-called contractual sellout, with the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences and Tournament of Roses receiving tickets -- and so the number of tickets available through the public sale will be “much larger than in previous years,” Karen Linhart, the Rose Bowl Game marketing & media director, told City News Service.

The Rose Bowl Game will serve as a College Football Playoff quarterfinal for the 2024-25 season, and is expected to include the Big Ten Conference champion.

Under rules of the expanded 12-team playoff, the four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and assigned to bowls in consideration of historic bowl relationships.

The other team will be the winner of a first-round playoff game played Dec. 20 or Dec 21.

The dog kennels at the Baldwin Park Animal Care Center. | Photo courtesy of the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control

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The 102nd Rose Bowl Game. | Photo by Michael Li CC BY-NC 2.0

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Armed and underground: Inside the turbulent, secret world of an American militia

By Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.

Reporting Highlights

- Militias After Jan. 6: Internal messages reveal how AP3, one of the largest U.S. militias, rose even as prosecutors pursued other paramilitary groups after the assault on the Capitol.

- Organized Vigilantism: AP3 has already sought to shape American life through armed vigilante operations — at the Texas border, outside ballot boxes and during Black Lives Matter protests.

- Close Ties With Police: AP3 leaders have forged alliances with law enforcement around the U.S. Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

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ideology, a pronounced sense of grievance and a commitment to armed action. It has already sought to shape American life through vigilante operations: AP3 members have “rounded up” immigrants at the Texas border, assaulted Black Lives Matter protesters and attempted to crack down on people casting absentee ballots.

Last February, some 20 men and their wives gathered for dinner at an upscale restaurant in Spokane, Washington, for their annual Valentine’s Day celebration. The men weren’t just friends; they did community service work together. They had been featured on local television, in khakis and baseball caps, delivering 1,200 pounds of food to an area veterans’ center; they were gearing up for their next food drive, which they called Operation Hunger Smash. A few days after the holiday, the men went camping in the snowspeckled mountains outside Spokane, where they grilled rib-eyes and bacon-wrapped asparagus over a bonfire.

They also engaged in more menacing activities. They assembled regularly — sometimes wearing night-vision goggles in the dark — to practice storming buildings together with semiautomatic rifles. Their drills included using sniper rifles to shoot targets from distances of half a mile. And they belonged to a shadowy organization whose members were debating, with ever more intensity, whether they should engage in massscale political violence.

They were among the thousands of members of American Patriots Three Percent, a militia that has long been one of the largest in the United States and has mostly managed to avoid scrutiny. Its ranks included cops and convicted criminals, activeduty U.S. soldiers and smallbusiness owners, truck drivers and health care professionals. Like other militias, AP3 has a vague but militant right-wing

Now with the presidential election less than 100 days away, AP3 members see the fate of their country turning on a turbulent, charged campaign. They’re certain that Democrats will try to steal — not for the first time, in their view — the White House from Donald Trump. “The next election won’t be decided at a Ballot Box,” an AP3 leader wrote several months ago in a private Telegram chat. “It’ll be decided at the ammo box.” He has said he is ready to force his way into voting centers if need be, or “whatever it takes.”

The public’s impression of American militias is dominated by Jan. 6, 2021. Groups such as the Proud Boys had plotted to prevent the transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden. They formed the vanguard of the mob that stormed the Capitol that day, according to the Department of Justice. Media coverage since has centered on the prosecutions of participants, with hundreds of rioters sent to prison.

But despite the riot and its fallout, militias are far from extinct. AP3 has expanded at a dramatic pace since Jan. 6, while keeping much of its activity out of view. This rise is documented in more than 100,000 internal messages obtained by ProPublica, spanning the run-up to Jan. 6 through early 2024. Along with extensive interviews with 22 current and former members of AP3, the records provide a uniquely detailed inside view of the militia movement at a crucial moment.

The messages reveal how AP3 leaders have forged alliances with law enforcement around the country and show the ways in which, despite an initial crackdown by social media, they have attracted a new wave of recruits. A change in the political climate has also helped: In a matter of months after Jan. 6, rioters went from pariahs to heroes in the rhetoric of prominent Republican politicians. By the summer of 2021, people were enlisting in AP3, saying that Jan. 6 inspired them to join.

A portrait emerges of a group alternating between focused action and selfdestructive chaos and facing a schism over whether political engagement can still address our nation’s problems — or whether violence is the only option. It can be hard to discern the line between bluster and imminent threat in the messages, a perennial struggle for FBI agents who monitor paramilitary groups. But some senior AP3 members grew so alarmed that they quit, scared by the number of people, even highlevel leaders, advocating acts of terror.

The materials also shed light on what former national security officials say is the most urgent question regarding militias: Will Jan. 6 prove the high water mark of the movement’s violence or merely a prelude to something more catastrophic? AP3 leaders have sometimes characterized the storming of the Capitol as a botched job, a failure of ill-formed plans that didn’t go far enough. “The Jan 6 event made the movement look weak and uncommitted,” one wrote a year and a half after the riot in a secret channel. “Had the house been taken for real and held we would all be in a different world.”

This is the story of a militia fighting for its survival, determined not to make the same mistake twice.

“Life Is Too Fucking Short”

On a Thursday afternoon in February 2021, Scot Seddon, national commander of AP3, sent an audio message to his deputies in a channel open only to the group’s leadership. A former Army reservist, Seddon had founded AP3 when he was in his 30s and shaped it into a national force. Now he was 50, with a receding hairline, his beard overtaken by gray. In videos from this time, typically recorded in his kitchen, Seddon favored baseball caps and tight shirts that revealed his bulky shoulders and trapezius muscles. He looked like an aging bro who had just returned from the gym. “I hate this movement more every day,” Seddon said that February day, “and I really don’t even want to be a part of it anymore.”

It had been a few weeks since the Capitol riot. The FBI was already arresting leaders

of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two of AP3’s prominent counterparts. Another militia was about to dissolve. One of Seddon’s lieutenants had issued a dark forecast: The reaction to Jan. 6 could destroy our movement. Everyday Americans will recoil.

At least Seddon didn’t have to fear going to prison. AP3 had spent weeks preparing to go to Washington, D.C., for Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, with one of his top deputies promising to “mad max this shit.” Whether through luck, foresight or miscalculation, Seddon had decided to save his forces for that event rather than deploy them at the Jan. 6 rally. Plenty of his members went anyway; some fought with police officers on the Capitol steps. But they were under orders not to wear AP3 insignia, according to two former lieutenants to Seddon, and the organization was never publicly linked to the rioters.

That did not save AP3 from the fallout. Membership plummeted. AP3ers lost friends and business. Activeduty police officers quit out of fear of losing their jobs.

What’s more, AP3’s best recruiting tool was essentially gone: Facebook had cracked down on paramilitary organizing. “Facebook has been our greatest weapon. It’s gotten us where we are today,” Seddon told his troops. He later described those months as a period of personal “misery” and self-doubt. “I had a drinking problem,” he would confide to the group. “The bottle was consuming me.”

By the middle of 2021, some AP3 leaders were ready to give up. In July, the head of its Arizona chapter announced he was stepping down. “My life is too fucking short to beg people to do what’s right,” he said. He had hardly any members left in his state, and rebuilding was proving impossible. Still, he added, “It has been a great honor to me to have been here (and stayed here) through some of the most trying times this movement has seen since April 19, 1995.”

Nobody needs to explain the significance of that date to a militia member. It was the day a Gulf War veteran with militia ties named Timothy McVeigh blew up a government building in Oklahoma

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City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more. The modern militia movement — loosely speaking, a wide variety of groups whose shared traits are military-style training, an affinity for guns and a belief that they are the last line of defense against the excesses of the government and the left — started in the early 1990s and had been growing rapidly. But after the bombing, the movement crumbled. It didn’t recover until 2008, when a financial crisis and Barack Obama’s presidential election kindled a new generation of leaders like Seddon.

But the political climate after Jan. 6 would be very different from the period after McVeigh’s attack. Soon, Seddon’s group would have momentum back on its side.

Lions and Men

Seddon seems like an unlikely commander of a paramilitary organization. Raised in the suburbs of Long Island, he bounced between jobs through his early 40s, including stints as the manager for a small-time rapper and as a model. Seddon appeared on book jackets, including a vampire romance novel titled “Love’s Last Bite.” And there he was, in an awkward shirtless pose with a woman in lingerie, on the cover of “How to Handle a Younger Man: A Collection of Five Erotic Stories.”

It was in internet forums for models, during the latter years of the George W. Bush administration, where Seddon’s right-wing politics started to emerge publicly. He would engage in lengthy sparring with his peers, heckling them with insults: “we dominate you libs” and “you SOUND LIKE A FRENCHMEN need I say more?”

Seddon grew increasingly alienated — he would later say that he felt “very alone” after Obama was elected — and engaged. He became active on a Facebook page to support Iraq War veterans. And then, during Obama’s first term, he used that as a launchpad to create AP3. At the time, Seddon did not yet own a firearm, according to one of his first recruits.

Like many militias, AP3 was suffused with a military ethos. It adopted the hierarchy and nomenclature, with ranks such as “command sergeant major.” One credential most conferred authority: military service.

Seddon described himself as a veteran and, in a public resume, stated that he had served in Operation Desert Storm. He would tell Army stories to AP3 members and show them a photo of himself as a young soldier. Even his closest confidants in the group were left with the impres-

sion that he had substantial military experience.

But Seddon did not, in fact, serve in a combat zone. He joined the Army Reserve, without any prior stint in the military, more than a year after Desert Storm was over, according to his discharge papers and military personnel records. His active-duty tenure lasted for five months, the documents say, and ended when he finished his initial training.

Seddon declined to be interviewed for this article. Presented with an extensive list of written questions, he responded, “Lions do not concern themselves with the opinions of men.”

“J6 Made Me Want to Join”

Seddon’s vision for AP3 was novel for the time: a national organization, with chapters across the country operating under his command. After Obama announced a plan for tougher gun control in his second term, membership exploded, former leaders said. One told ProPublica that their local chapter grew from four or five people to over 200 in less than a year.

By 2016, AP3 had an active presence in 48 states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center — larger than any other organization the antiextremism watchdog was tracking. AP3 was part of the loose confederation known as the Three Percenters, a set of right-wing groups that take their name from the claim that only 3% of colonists fought in the American Revolution. At its peak, by Seddon’s likely exaggerated count, AP3 had 40,000 to 50,000 members.

After the Jan. 6 riot, insiders and experts estimate the total was, at most, in the low thousands.

Seddon set about rebuilding the group in 2021. It was difficult initially and made even harder by his own struggles. When the pandemic started, he had a job as a doctor’s technician in New York City, but he refused to get vaccinated and left the medical field. He tried to get licensed as a realtor, then as a personal trainer, and found gig economy work near Scranton, Pennsylvania. He often recorded video directives to his troops from his car while driving between deliveries for Uber Eats. He began reinvigorating the remnants of his command. His communications offered a mix of elements that his followers found compelling. There was lots of posturing: “Fuck the federal government,” he offered as an opener in one video. “These rats, these devils,” he said in

another, “the only way they’re going to start listening is fear.” But Seddon also hailed his members as patriots, heroes, and praised their deeds with an “awesome job bro.” Seddon traveled the country. He would drop by at AP3’s training exercises, where veterans might teach close-quarters gun combat at an abandoned car dealership or lead sniper rifle practice at a suburban ranch. Recruiting new members and unifying the old ones — a disparate roster that brought together men with white nationalist ties and Black military vets — demanded constant effort. Seddon avoided getting pinned down on one controversial question: what precisely his group’s purpose was. “Resisting all efforts to undermine our constitution and the American way of life,” AP3’s mission statement read, at once lofty and vague. “Together we will return our country to the glory it once was.” Many members were furious about COVID-19 restrictions and the “LGBTQ agenda.” Gun control, they thought, was an injustice that might be worth dying over. But Seddon imposed no litmus test. “We have some [members] that are fixated on Muslims,” as one leader put it. “Most are fixated on Antifa and BLM.”

Under Seddon, AP3 was both an armed right-wing resistance group and something akin to a Rotary Club; camaraderie was as important a draw as ideology. AP3 members patrolled city streets with AR-15-style rifles and baseball bats during Black Lives Matters protests. They practiced attacking dummies with knives. But they also taught each other how to save money on groceries through gardening and organized seminars where they wrote reports on each Constitutional amendment. One member said the group dispatched trucks filled with clothes and furniture to his family after a wildfire destroyed their house. AP3 had its own monthly magazine, with militia news in the front pages and word games for kids in the back. By August 2021, Seddon’s lieutenants noticed that the backlash to the Capitol riot was starting to dissipate. A new type of member was signing up. “J6 made me want to join,” a recruit wrote that month in a Telegram channel. He hadn’t been part of a militia before, he explained, but seeing how “true Patriots” were being treated, “it was time to actually do something.”

Seddon sought ways to capitalize on the improving political climate. In Alabama,

members fanned out to shops around the state, where they dropped off stacks of business cards encouraging patriots to “do your part.” “The APIII Alabama Recruitment line has rang non stop today,” a leader reported back afterward. “I honestly wasn’t expecting it to get this big.”

In Washington state, AP3 members in the military reserves touted the militia to fellow reservists during their units’ regular monthly drills. One chapter looked into purchasing billboard ads. In internal chats, many members agreed the “best place to recruit” is Veterans Affairs facilities.

By the fall, they had arrived at a more efficient method. Facebook’s public posture hadn’t wavered. AP3 was still on its list of banned “dangerous organizations.” Again and again in press releases, the company said its efforts to combat militias were stronger than ever.

Inside AP3, though, leaders were seeing something different: The social media giant was gradually loosening its controls.

A Meta spokesperson said Facebook was still actively working to keep AP3 off its platform. “This is an adversarial space,” she said, “and we often see instances of groups or individuals taking on new tactics to avoid detection and evade our policies and enforcement.”

Seddon would soon tell leaders there were “huge opportunities to recruit using Facebook” again. AP3 experienced such an influx of aspiring members that leaders struggled to keep up.

“GUYS WE REALLY NEED SOME HELP,” one of Seddon’s deputies wrote in a typical appeal in an internal chat. “GOT 175 PEOPLE WAITING TO GET IN.”

It was a sorely needed shot of adrenaline.

“Our Force Multiplier”

In the view of many AP3 leaders, their chances of success hinged on building alliances with another heavily armed sector of society: police and sheriffs’ departments. If they couldn’t get the agencies to fight alongside them, they at least needed the cops to leave them alone. Many organizations like AP3 share this approach; a leaked FBI counterterrorism guide from 2015 noted that investigations of “militia extremists” often find “active links to law enforcement officers.” The details of those efforts rarely come into public view.

One test of that strategy occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as the prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse was winding to a close in 2021. When Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest overtook Kenosha the

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year before, Rittenhouse had ventured into the scrum with a semiautomatic rifle and killed two people. Prosecutors called it murder; Rittenhouse called it self-defense. Within AP3, he’d become a folk hero.

“Kyle represents every one of us,” one leader said. In September 2021, with Rittenhouse’s trial two months away, AP3 leaders were preparing for what would happen after the verdict. If he were acquitted, there might be riots in Kenosha. And if there were riots, the militia might deploy a team that could be in the same position as Rittenhouse had been in, walking armed into a volatile situation. They wanted local law enforcement on their side.

The head of AP3’s Wisconsin chapter, a truck driver, had already contacted the Kenosha County sheriff. He’d invited a couple of local officers over for beers, too. The sheriff wasn’t interested in help from a militia, the chapter head reported in an internal chat. (The sheriff did not respond to attempts to seek comment.)

Seddon told him he wasn’t trying hard enough: “I hate these kind of excuses.”

On Sept. 20, Seddon recorded a speech with more full-throated instructions for courting law enforcement. He already had officers as members: One AP3 leader in Alabama would send video messages while driving in his police uniform. Seddon wanted to move up the chain of command. “We need to pick the good apples and we need to have them infiltrate the minds of those on the inside that stand on the fence,” he said. “It’s like building an army.”

He knew that was harder to achieve when you’re seen as anti-government extremists. So Seddon had created a playbook for presenting AP3 as a misunderstood club for

good Samaritans. Leaders encouraged members to get local police departments involved in AP3’s food drives for homeless people. Seddon emphasized that these community service projects, a source of pride for many members, were invaluable public relations coups.

His members distributed brochures — “WE ARE NOT A MILITIA!!!!!” they declared — at rallies and to police officers. This was a branding decision to make people like cops feel comfortable supporting or joining AP3, Seddon said in internal messages, even though “we all know better.”

Seddon pushed members to contact sheriffs in their regions and had his deputies send Excel spreadsheets to the militia’s rank and file. The documents listed every sheriff in each member’s state, with columns to mark whether they were Republicans and “friendly.”

Sometimes it came easily. During the 2022 election, the county where Burley Ross, head of AP3’s North Carolina chapter, lived had an open seat for sheriff. In an interview with ProPublica, Ross said he approached both candidates and asked: If the federal government wanted you to take someone’s guns, what would you do?

“I’m 100% not taking someone’s guns,” Scott Hammonds, the Republican candidate, responded, according to Ross. When his Democratic opponent said he’d enforce the law, Ross suggested that if he tried that, someone would leave the encounter in a body bag.

Hammonds won. Then as sheriff, he became an “off the books” member of AP3, according to messages Ross sent in internal chats. Some of Hammonds’ deputies started training with the group, Ross wrote. “For us to train with

the deputies, that’s a plus for us,” he told ProPublica, “because we understand how they work.” ProPublica could not independently confirm Hammonds’ relationship with the group. Hammonds did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Police officers weren’t the only ones quietly allying with AP3. Some lawmakers did, too. Among them was a North Carolina state legislator who was an off-the-books member, Ross wrote in an internal chat. It was Keith Kidwell, leader of the state House Freedom Caucus. (Ross asked ProPublica to make clear he did not name Kidwell or Hammonds in interviews and that ProPublica identified them using the AP3 messages it obtained. Kidwell did not respond to requests for comment.)

AP3’s “commanding officer” in Oklahoma, Ed Eubanks, took an especially calculated approach to cultivating ties with police. A competitive shooter who said he’d been a sniper in the Special Forces, Eubanks was older than most in the militia, in his 60s and retired. He was an “outcast” in his liberal family, he wrote to a group of about 100 militia members, echoing a common theme in the group. He had a lot of time to dedicate to AP3.

Eubanks announced in a 2021 internal chat that he was setting up “a PR team to start making inroads” with law enforcement across Oklahoma. He let officers use shooting ranges on his property. He built a barbecue smoker with “APIII” on the side to use for meet-andgreets with police departments. It was just the sort of creativity Seddon was hoping for.

Eubanks would claim success with multiple law enforcement agencies, partic-

AP3’s ties to the Oklahoma City police, but Eubanks contended in a message that his efforts were “worth every second.” As he put it in another message, “This will be our force multiplier when the time arises.”

AP3 on Patrol By mid-2022, Seddon was growing ebullient. He’d toned down his drinking, he told his comrades. In videos, he looked clean cut and slimmed down. Recruiting was booming, with as many as 50 people applying each day. His members were providing security details for county GOP events again. And the militia’s first major operation since the Capitol riot was well underway.

ularly the Oklahoma City police force. Messages from 2020 show the courtship in its beginnings. Eubanks described his plans to stage a counterprotest at an upcoming “defund the police” rally in Oklahoma City in order to “build a better relationship with the OKCPD.” After the rally, Eubanks reported that he had made connections with city police officers who would be giving him intel (and barbecue — they’d invited AP3 members to a cookout at police union headquarters after the event).

In the years that followed, the invitations to functions at the union lodge continued, according to messages from Eubanks and another AP3 member. Eubanks said police notified him when rallies were happening and that the militia got “minute by minute updates” from officers at some events.

A spokesperson for the Oklahoma City police department said it was “going to pass” on a request for an interview and did not respond to detailed written questions.

Mark Nelson, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police, said that AP3 was never invited to an official union event, but that officers can host private events at the union lodge and he would “have no idea” who was invited. In response to detailed questions, Eubanks declined to comment.

One of Eubanks’ members said he pretended to be a Black Lives Matter supporter at one protest in the city because police had asked AP3 to embed a member inside BLM and report back. “The demonic presence there when the leaders showed up,” the member wrote, “was downright oppressive.”

ProPublica could not determine the full extent of

Seddon had sounded a call to arms in late 2021. Illegal border crossings were surging, and the Texas governor had declared that his state was “abandoned” by the federal government. “Our country is being invaded at the Southern border,” Seddon said. “Haitians, Middle Easterners, South American invaders that are coming in.” He had about 20 members preparing to deploy to Quemado, Texas, he said, and was seeking more volunteers.

Anyone interested would need to bring an AR-15-style carbine and a semiautomatic pistol. They would conduct vigilante patrols, a regular feature at the border since the 1970s. Another leader explained the rules. “It is a felony to detain these folks under Texas law,” he said. “We can only report to the authorities, but we are allowed to carry live rounds.”

Many members said they didn’t want to go if they couldn’t kill migrants. “The most heard comment I get” is “there is only one way to stop them,” one leader told Seddon. AP3 joined forces with another militia and soon had members in Quemado, sleeping at a Christian charity 1,000 feet from the Rio Grande.

The charity’s leaders, terrified of the Mexican cartels that helped transport some migrants, were initially grateful for the support. They put the militiamen up in twin bunk beds in little rooms that resembled a hospital ward. AP3 would keep a presence at the border for at least the next year and a half. Their members caught migrants and turned them over to the authorities. In time, messages claim, they were patrolling over 10,000 acres of land.

Eubanks helped lead the operation. At night, he’d split members up to cover more ground. Then he would don camouflage fatigues and venture alone into the pitch

Proud Boys on Jan. 6, 2021. | Photo by Elvert Barnes CC BY-SA 2.0

darkness, a shotgun in his hand.

In internal chats, Eubanks bragged about the allies they’d cultivated, including Brad Coe, a cowboy-hat-wearing local sheriff who had publicly praised border militias and regularly discussed immigration on Fox News. Coe shared intel with him and discussed the idea of Eubanks “running a bush team to track the cartel,” Eubanks told Seddon and others. Eubanks complained in the chats that the Texas Department of Public Safety was “refusing to work with us” but said AP3 was collaborating with the Border Patrol and the National Guard, who installed “observation pads for us to use along the river.”

The partnerships didn’t always go smoothly. Once, an AP3 member got into an argument with a National Guardsman that turned physical. “He kicked the shit out of the national guardsman,” Ross, who helped coordinate the operation, told ProPublica. “I called him and said, ‘You cannot beat up the national guardsmen any more.’” (Local law enforcement arrived but decided not to make any arrests, according to Ross.)

Coe did not respond to requests for comment. A Border Patrol spokesperson did not address ProPublica’s questions about its agents but said that civilians “involving themselves in border security related activities” is “unlawful” and “dangerous.” In response to detailed questions, the Texas Military Department, which oversees the Texas National Guard, issued a one-sentence statement: “The Texas Military Department does not provide support to or operate with local militias.”

As the operation expanded, Eubanks sent back pictures of hundreds of migrants the militias had “rounded up,” huddled on the ground, often surrounded by Border Patrol or what appear to be National Guard members. The militiamen would return excited after stopping a group at gunpoint, according to Lorraine Mercer,

the charity’s ministry director, who got to know the men over many months as their host. They didn’t always wait for government agents to arrive, Mercer said. “Some of them were trying to run them back into Mexico,” she told ProPublica. They’d say, “We’ll handle them, the Border Patrol doesn’t know what they’re doing.”

Seddon wanted the operation to get even more ambitious. And he had a scheme he thought could make that possible. “The bottom line is we need to start making money,” he told state leaders in July 2022. His answer was to create a nonprofit called American Community Outreach Network.

ACON’s website gave no indication of its ties to AP3. It was advertised as a charity that provided services in disaster zones and to disadvantaged youth.

But in internal chats, Seddon was explicit that ACON was a way to fund the militia. “I want every single one of us to fucking get rich,” he said in one video. “I want to be sitting on a yacht in two years with every one of you,” he said in another. Members would receive a 20% cut of any donations they brought in, he promised.

This was more than a getrich-quick ploy, in Seddon’s telling. It could help AP3 thrive in the post-Jan. 6 era.

“I feel reborn,” he said as the plan moved ahead. Imagine if people didn’t need to juggle militia duties with their day jobs, “if every single one of us had the ability to do this fulltime,” he said. It’d be so much easier to mobilize troops to the border or anywhere else.

“It’s Going to Be a Blood Bath”

“This election is do or die for us,” Seddon told his lieutenants in August 2022. The midterm elections were months away, and Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. If we can’t retake Congress now, Seddon said in a video, “we’re in real, real deep shit.” He had a plan to get involved.

Seddon wanted AP3 to fan

American militia

out across the country, stake out ballot boxes and deter fraudulent voting, which he claimed was rampant during the 2020 election. “We’re trying to persuade these people maybe that’s not such a good idea,” Seddon said about supposed liberal ballot stuffers. “There’s a large group of what look like some pretty badass patriots outside.” The operation was shortly underway in Arizona, Colorado and Michigan, though it’s unclear how many members heeded Seddon’s call.

Absentee ballots had barely made it into voters’ mailboxes before it all went awry. Eubanks posted a handheld video of a television screen in an internal chat: “NBC Nightly News” was showing surveillance footage of a man in Maricopa County, Arizona. The man hadn’t been identified, but inside AP3, they knew who he was: a Marine veteran named Elias Humiston. Several years before, he had pleaded guilty to an illegal firearm discharge. Now he was at the center of a national news cycle.

Humiston was captured on camera outside a drop box for absentee ballots. His face was masked, and he had a handgun and wore a tactical vest. He had gotten into a confrontation with a woman who tried to record his license plate, prompting the sheriff’s department to arrive.

“Now the DOJ is involved,” Eubanks wrote four days after the incident. Government attorneys said such activities could constitute illegal voter intimidation. But the authorities didn’t appear to know that the anonymous vigilante was a part of AP3.

Humiston had held a leadership role in AP3 and had recently won an award from the militia for his work at the border. He promptly resigned “to protect” AP3, records show. He was never charged with a crime or publicly linked to the militia. (Humiston did not respond to requests for comment.)

Some leaders said that Humiston’s efforts “should be applauded.” Another

camp saw the mission as a foolhardy mistake by Seddon. “Poorly planned and horribly executed,” one leader called it.

Seddon told everyone to stop acting like cowards. “If it’s not this, it’s the fact that we’re white, that we’re Christian,” he said. The DOJ is “going to come at us no matter what we do,” Seddon continued. “Communism — that’s where this country is leading if we don’t take a stand.”

Seddon had always had a short fuse. But he was becoming increasingly militant and inflammatory, according to several longtime members. In messages, he raged against “pedophilia” in schools and the “panels of blacks” “disrespecting white Americans” on MSNBC. When Congress increased the IRS’ budget, he declared that revenue agents were coming to “kill our kids.” Once, in a voice note he recorded while driving, he paused. “I almost ran over this nigger,” Seddon said. “I am not racist — just these dirty fucks walking these streets.”

Seven former leaders told ProPublica they became alarmed by how the rhetoric was shifting in AP3. In the days after Jan. 6, Seddon had suppressed calls for violence, telling members who wanted to assassinate politicians to stand down. But he had stopped acting as a voice of restraint, even as such talk increased.

One morning in August 2022, an ex-cop with at least 100 AP3 members under his command announced a mysterious initiative. He had previously said it was time to take a violent stand against Black Lives Matter: “We will have to suffer some and some will die,” he said, but he was “tired of waiting.” Now he said he planned to assemble a “Tac Team” of “those who will do what others won’t.”

A different afternoon, a different leader put forward his own proposal. “We havnt made any head way in the last 5 plus years,” he wrote. Let’s pick a date and descend on government buildings across the country, he suggested, and then kill the officials who’ve committed treason. “Time to stack body’s up.” (Two others told him to arrange a secret meeting offline.)

After the 2022 midterms, Ross made a plea in an internal chat. “APIII AND EVERY OTHER PATRIOT group seems to want a fight,” he wrote. “A war will leave no winners.” Ross, too, believed that civil war was inevitable, but he pushed for the group to focus on grassroots politics in the meantime. “There’s going to be a time to be violent,” he told ProPublica. “I’m the type

of person who’s like, ‘Now is not the time.’” In AP3, that made him a moderate.

A growing faction had lost hope in the democratic process. Elections and activism are pointless, they maintained; even the midterms were rife with fraud. They felt out of alternatives. Their talk was now a steady drumbeat:

“Get it over with I’ll die with honor.”

“It’s going to be a blood bath.”

“When does AP3 as a whole say, that’s enough and stand up?”

“I Know Where You Live”

Seddon’s downfall started around the turn of this year.

An AP3 member, increasingly suspicious, had obtained a copy of his military discharge papers. That was enough to cause an explosion. After years of touting his Army experience, Seddon’s secret was exposed.

He tried to suppress the uprising that ensued. He threatened a former leader who confronted him about the records in private. “I know where you live,” Seddon wrote on Facebook Messenger. “Tread careful.” Ross accused Seddon of stolen valor and was kicked out.

Seddon’s command quickly began to unravel. A rumor started to spread: Law enforcement was investigating the ACON scheme. The charity had never taken off.

One of Seddon’s ex-deputies told ProPublica it raised less than $5,000. But its website falsely advertised it as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit authorized to accept tax-deductible donations, which the IRS said is not true.

Leaders who had spent months encouraging the initiative now condemned ACON as a scam to put money in Seddon’s pocket.

“Not volunteering for a Rico trial,” one member wrote in a side chat, referring to the racketeering statute that prosecutors use to take down the mafia. In the spring, state chapters began to defect from AP3 in droves.

Soon Seddon had lost a significant majority of his organization. Former leaders estimate that about 10 state chapters stayed on, leaving him to try to rebuild the militia’s presence everywhere else.

Seddon appears undaunted. He’s lost a large chunk of his membership before and managed to recover. (Meanwhile, the instability in his career continues. Recently, he started a business that offers “fast cash” to cancer patients who sign over their life insurance policies.)

His recent setbacks seem to have only made him more volatile. Toward the end of Trump’s criminal trial in May, Seddon wrote on Facebook that Judge Juan Merchan was treating the former president unfairly. “This guy needs to meet his maker,” Seddon said. He followed up by posting the judge’s home address.

Facebook shut down his account, which he’d long been using to promote the militia. The platform conducted a large enforcement action against AP3 in June, according to the Meta spokesperson, removing 40 pages, 15 groups and 600 accounts that “were mostly focusing on recruitment.” The spokesperson said Facebook strengthened its policies at the beginning of the year “to take an even stricter approach to enforcement against this group and other banned militia organizations.”

Seddon was back on social media, this time on TikTok, after the assassination attempt on Trump in July. “This was a direct attack on us,” he said. “We need to become fucking lions.”

AP3’s travails have not been unique. Since the Capitol riot, the militia movement has grown more fractured and decentralized. This may make it harder for one leader to spur mass action. It could also make it harder for one leader to prevent mass action and for law enforcement to track the groups and to intervene.

The presidential election could propel the militia movement in a darker direction. Experts worry that a Trump loss could spark violence from those who feel it’s their only option, especially if he once again refuses to accept the results. If Trump wins and then fulfills his promise to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, they fear the most radical wing of his party could take it as a license for more extreme action.

AP3 may have splintered, but its former members have mostly just moved to other militias. John Valle, Seddon’s former third in command, sees the movement’s future as consisting of state and local groups, operating independently but coordinating on secure messaging apps.

He said that the 286 members of his Washington chapter are now operating as their own independent group. They didn’t want to get caught up in AP3’s potential legal problems, but their mission remains the same. As Valle put it, “We’re just rebranding.” Alex Mierjeski contributed research.

Republished with Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

State gets nearly $400M for sustainable transportation upgrades

By Staff

The U.S. Department ofTransportation granted $102 million to West Coast states for infrastructure to support zeroemission trucks that haul goods up and down Interstate 5 and other freight corridors, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced Tuesday.

The $102 million is for new, publicly accessible electric charging stations and hydrogen fueling stations, with an additional $47 million going to other entities across California for electric vehicle infrastructure.

This round of funding follows $250 million recently announced for upgrading airports across California and supporting sustainable aviation fuel.

"The Biden-Harris Administration is helping California build our clean transportation infrastructure, faster," Newsom said in a statement. "From installing truck chargers to improving our airports, this latest federal funding is another opportunity for America’s exports to look west for moving freight

while fighting our climate crisis."

According to Newsom’s office, the federal funding is essential to the governor's "build more, faster agenda" to upgrade and de-carbonize infrastructure.

With funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project aims to increase zero-emission vehicles in the trucking and logistics industries.

According to the California Air Resources Board, 6% of the vehicles on California roads are trucks, but they spew more than 35% of transportation-generated nitrogen oxides, which cause smog, and 25% of roadway greenhouse gas emissions.

Construction of the charging stations is expected to begin in 2026, the governor's office reported.

The new charging and fueling stations support California’s mandate for an increasing percentage of truck sales to be zero-emission vehicles.

"In 2021, Oregon and

Washington became the second and third states after California to adopt this policy," according to the governor's office. "In 2023, one out of six new mediumand heavy-duty trucks sold in California were zeroemission vehicles, exceeding the state’s ZEV sales goals two years ahead of schedule."

The new infrastructure plans also follow last year's Advanced Clean Fleets standard, which requires fleets statewide to start a phased transition to zeroemission vehicles, and all new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in California will be ZEVs by 2036.

The new infrastructure via West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project adds to efforts in the three West Coast states to install light-duty emission-free infrastructure. The more than 14,000 direct current fast chargers in California, Oregon and Washington total a third of the nation’s publicly accessible fast chargers for light-duty vehicles, according to the governor's office.

The federal funding

for the freight truck infrastructure complements state-funded programs for emission-free trucks.

"California has distributed more than $780 million to help fleet operators purchase zero-emission trucks and the state’s Climate Commitment includes over $10 billion to accelerate the ZEV transition and build ZEV charging and fueling infrastructure," according to Newsom's

office.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced more than $250 million for California airports and sustainable aviation fuels.

Airports are getting $51.6 million from the Airport Improvement Program, and $78.2 million via the Airport Infrastructure Grants program, according to the governor's office. The funding can be used

for airport planning, development, sustainability, terminal expansions, baggage system upgrades, safety enhancements and noise compatibility projects.

California companies are receiving more than $120 million from federal Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition grants to help along California’s transition to more sustainable aviation fuels and cutting aviation emissions.

As California workers seek higher wages, a program seeks to help them move up

By Suzanne Potter, Producer, Public News Service

Unions representing fast food workers are asking the state's new Fast Food Council to support a 70-cent-per-hour boost in the minimum wage at its next meeting on Sept. 11.

The minimum wage for fast food workers was recently raised to $20 an hour but it works out to just over $41,000 a year, which, in California, is significantly less than the average cost of living.

Linda Becker, director of regional partnerships in the Bay Area for the nonprofit Merit America, supports a higher minimum wage but said it is just a start.

"While raising the minimum wage offers an immediate paycheck boost for low-wage workers, it's

just one piece of the puzzle," Becker explained. "We still really, firmly believe that a low-wage job should be a steppingstone and not a dead end."

Merit America offers intensive career counseling and online courses in IT support, data analytics, cybersecurity, project management and UX design. It costs nothing to start and a maximum of $5,700 total. According to Forbes magazine, it costs on average more than $53,000 a year to cover housing, medical care, food, transportation and taxes in California, the thirdhighest cost of living in the country.

Becker pointed out learners only start to pay Merit America back, at $95

a month, after they get a higher-paying job.

"The average wage gain that we see is about $24,000 a year," Becker reported. "Which is a significant, kind of life-changing increase of wages, post-program."

California's general minimum wage is $16 an hour. Over the next few years, the state is also phasing in a higher minimum wage, of $18 to $25 per hour, for certain health care positions.

Disclosure: Merit America contributes to Public News Service’s fund for reporting on Education, and Livable Wages/ Working Families. If you would like to help support news in the public interest, visit https:// www.publicnewsservice.org/ dn1.php.

A zero-emission freight truck. | Photo courtesy of the California Air Resources Board

A job retraining program from Merit America hopes to help an additional 2,000 people transition from low-wage work into technology careers as it expands its efforts in the Bay Area. | Photo courtesy of Merit America

Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DILYS JOAN JANECEK

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DILYS JOAN JANECEK

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

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

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

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A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/25/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 9 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

DONALD L. SCOGGINS - SBN 167359

ATTORNEY AT LAW 9190 W. OLYMPIC BLVD. #414 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212

Telephone (323) 591-0144

8/29, 9/2, 9/5/24 CNS-3846784# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

DONNA JEAN MCPEAK CASE NO. 24STPB09605 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DONNA JEAN MCPEAK.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHARLES MCPEAK in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHARLES MCPEAK 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: 09/26/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

Ave H514, Ontario, CA 91761; Zhuorui Li, Secretary. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on April 22, 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/ Zhuorui Li, Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on May 1, 2024 NoticeIn accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240004141

Pub: 06/10/2024, 06/17/2024, 06/24/2024, 07/01/2024, 07/08/2024, 07/15/2024, 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024 San Bernardino Press

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

550 N Santa Fe St Hemet, CA 92543 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County

550 N Santa Fe St, LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006 Los Angeles County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 22, 2019. 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. Rao R. Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 18, 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-202409434

Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside

The

Los Angeles County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 10, 2021. 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. Srinivas Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409540 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Hemet Duplexes 2486 W Oakland Ave Hemet, CA 92545 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006 Los Angeles County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on February 9, 2016. 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. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code).

I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R202409528 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Beaumont Apts 845 E 6th St Beaumont, CA 92223 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties NO. 130 LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006 Los Angeles County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on March 15, 2021. I

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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. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 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-202409483 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Park Columbia Apts 201 Columbia St Hemet, CA 92544 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County Park Columbia, LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006

Los Angeles County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on September 1, 2014. 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. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 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-202409484 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Oak Terrace Senior Apts 551 N Santa Fe St Hemet, CA 92543 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties NO. 22, LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006

Los Angeles County

is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 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-202409477 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Nicolet Apts 233 W Nicolet St Banning, CA 92220 Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County PI Properties NO. 130 LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006

Los Angeles County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on February 28, 2022. 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. Rao R Yalamanchili, Manager Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 19, 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-202409482 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Vintage Woods Apts 87 E Jarvis St Perris, CA 92571

Riverside County Mailing Address, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Floor 2, Arcadia, CA 91006. Los Angeles County Vintage Woods LLC (CA, 610 N Santa Anita Ave Arcadia, CA 91006

Los Angeles County

This business is conducted by: a limited partnership. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on April 22, 2016. 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. Rao R Yalamanchili, General Partner Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 22, 2024

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-202409549 Pub. 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007094

The following persons are doing business as: (1). Notary, Apostille & Translation Services (2). Uptown Notaries (3). Say I Do – Marriage License & Ceremony , 8599 Haven Ave Suite #306, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730. Mailing Address, Po Box 9274, Whittier, CA 90608. Aracelly J Sanchez, 12432 Pasadena St, Whittier, CA 90601. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on July 12, 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/ Aracelly J Sanchez, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 7, 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#: FBN20240007094 Pub: 08/12/2024, 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024 San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TACOS EL CHAPULIN 6104 Mission Blvd Jurupa Valley, CA 92509 Riverside County Mailing Address, 8628 6th St, Downey, CA 90241. Riverside County El Chapulin LLC (CA, 6104 Mission Blvd, Jurupa Valley, CA 92509 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. Yahir german caiceros galeno, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 7, 2024

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Trusted Ledger Solutions 3610 central ave, suite 400 Riverside, CA 92506 Riverside County Jose Francisco Navarro, 3610 central ave, suite 400, Riverside, CA 92506 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. Jose Francisco Navarro Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 13, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202410346 Pub. 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as PlainJoe Studios Architecture, Inc. 7345 Piute Creek Drive Corona, CA 92881 Riverside County Storyland Architecture, Inc. (CA, 7345 Piute Creek Drive, Corona, CA 92881 Riverside County This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 14, 2024. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Blake Ryan, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 15, 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-202410478

Pub. 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN20240007036

The following persons are doing business as: Gen Transport, 1726 N Sierra Way, San Bernardino, CA 92405. Mailing Address, 1726 N Sierra Way, San Bernardino, CA 92405. Alisson M Valle, 1726 N Sierra Way, San Bernardino, CA 92405. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino

This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 6, 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 62506277). /s/ Alisson M Valle, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 6, 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#: FBN20240007036

Pub: 08/19/2024, 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024 San Bernardino Press

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as (1). Riverside Independent (2). Corona News Press 820 S. Myrtle Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 Los Angeles County Mailing Address 820 S. Myrtle Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 Los Angeles County Hlr Media, LLC (CA, 820 S. Myrtle Ave, Monrovia, CA 91016 Los Angeles 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. Vafa Von Raees, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 15, 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-202410529 Pub. 08/26/2024, 09/02/2024,

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09/09/2024, 09/16/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Mindful Mortgage Solutions 31630 Railroad Canyon Rd Suite 15 Canyon Lake, CA 92587

Riverside County First Link Mortgage (CA, 31630 Railroad Canyon Rd suite 15, Canyon Lake, CA 92587

Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a corporation. 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. Coby Chatwin, CEO

Statement filed with the County of Riverside on August 15, 2024

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20246697730. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BRIDGEUS, 8 Corporate Park Ste 300, Irvine, CA 92606. Full Name of Registrant(s) BRIDGEUS LLC (CA, 8 Corporate Park Ste 300, Irvine, CA 92606.

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. BRIDGEUS. /S/ Junsoo Lim, Secretery. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Orange County on August 29, 2024. Publish: Anaheim Press 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024, 09/16/2024, 09/23/2024

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007718

The following persons are doing business as: HENLIV, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. Mailing Address, 10950 Arrow Route 2362, Rancho Cucamonga, Ca , CA 91279. Aarica M Sanders, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. 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/ Aarica M Sanders, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 26, 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#: FBN20240007718

Pub: 09/02/2024, 09/09/2024, 09/16/2024, 09/23/2024

San Bernardino Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007719

The following persons are doing business as: A/S CONCEPTS CO, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. Mailing Address, 10950 Arrow Route 2362, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 92337. Aarica M Sanders, 13969 Cameo Drive, Fontana, CA 92337. 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/ Aarica M Sanders, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on August 26, 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#: FBN20240007719

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240007793

The following persons are doing business as: (1). HUGGING HEARTS (2). CC ADVISING AND SERVICES , 551 E Riverside Dr APT 43, Ontario, CA 91761. Mailing Address, 551 E Riverside Dr APT 43, Ontario, CA 91761. JOAN CORDERO, 551 E Riverside Dr APT 43, Ontario, CA 91761. 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

New book highlights unique, unexpected museums of greater LA

By Staff

Angel City Press’s new publication “Also on View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles” celebrates LA’s most fascinating and underappreciated collections, from the deeply culturally significant—such as the Garifuna Museum—to the highly specific and unusual, like the City of Los Angeles’s Streetlight Museum. There are more than 750 museums in the greater Los Angeles area, many of which may not be familiar to even the most seasoned explorers.

“After spending the better part of a decade seeking out hundreds of local museums large and small, I am grateful for this opportunity to turn a private obsession into a public celebration of these incredible institutions,” says author Todd Lerew. “It has been an honor to work with the stewards and caretakers of the 64 featured museums to share stories of the collec-

tions and communities that they are dedicated to helping preserve.”

The text explores the worlds of fascination and

Gary Smith, head of the film office, said in a statement, “No other region in the country has responded to the pandemic with such a proactive and comprehensive approach. As the County’s primary advocate and touchpoint for local film and tv production, the LA County Film Office is committed to supporting the growth and recovery of the entertainment industry through innovative approaches, including streamlining processes, reducing fees, and exploring local tax incentives.”

The program awarded $10,000 or $25,000 grants based on an applying company’s revenue size and businesses that are within the “highest, high, and moderate tiers” of the county’s COVID-19 Vulnerability and Recovery Index, officials said. Twenty-eight businesses received $25,000 grants, and 335 each received $10,000.

The full eligibility criteria are available at grants.lacounty.gov. See breakdown of each tier below:

Of the 363 grants, nearly half went to businesses owned by black, indigenous and other people of color. More than half of grant recipients were women, LGBTQIA+, veterans or disabled.

Yucaipa, a World War II-era pioneer known for harvesting black widow spider silk to support the American war effort. They will read about the

enchantment that lie just beyond one’s doorstep.

Readers will learn about Nan Songer, the “spider lady” of

survey of all the diversity and wonder that Los Angeles has to offer.

Lerew is director of special projects for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, curating eclectic exhibitions and programs in support of the Los Angeles Public Library. He holds a BFA from Hampshire College and an MFA from CalArts, and collects library cards, pictorial maps, and all-black postcards that claim to depict a certain location at night.

One of the grant recipients was History for Hire, a 33,000-square-foot, family-owned prop house in North Hollywood. The business rents contemporary and historical props and graphics available for film and TV productions.

“History For Hire Prop House has supplied props to the entertainment industry since 1985,” Pam Elyea, co-founder and co-owner, said in a statement. “Started by my husband and brother Bob, we’ve supplied props for films all over the United States and the world. There was no film production for months once the pandemic started. We applied for the grant because we needed funding to pay the rent, staff, benefits, and utilities.”

Elyea said the prop business “took a leap of faith” and used the time while keeping most of the staff on payroll to take History for Hire’s catalog of props online.

“I am so grateful to LA County for the Business Interruption Fund,” Elyea said. “This fund brought so many small businesses together to talk about our issues and the road ahead.”

The grant program is administered in partnership with Lendistry and the Los Angeles Regional Small Business Development

Los Angeles Poverty Department (“the other LAPD”), the first performance group in the country composed primarily

of homeless artists and activists, which has created the Skid Row History Museum and Archive downtown. And they will get an introduction to Albert “The Chicken Man” Okura, the late founder of the unofficial and unauthorized First Original McDonald’s

Grants

Center Network, or SBDC. It adds to more than $50 billion the county awarded to small businesses and nonprofits in 2023.

“So many of our region’s small businesses are still recovering from the economic impacts of the pandemic, and continue to face significant challenges,” Pat Nye, SBDC regional director, said in a statement. “LA County’s Business Interruption Fund program is a critical resource to communities across our region.”

Lendistry CEO Everett K. Sands said in a statement, “Entertainment is one of the largest industries here in Lendistry’s hometown, requiring small businesses of all types to support it. I’m proud that Lendistry was able to help (LA County) distribute over $4 million to help them recover from one of the largest disruptions they’ve ever experienced.”

Film LA President Paul Audley said in a statement, “When Los Angeles competes internationally for new film, television and commercial projects, it does so based on the resiliency of its production support infrastructure. Put another way, it’s the working people and small businesses that support this industry that continue to make LA’s global leadership possible.

Museum in San Bernardino, who believed it was his destiny to sell more chicken than anyone in the world.

With photographs by Ryan Schude and a range of critical, curious, and incredible histories, “Also On View” presents an unparalleled

Schude is an editorial, advertising, and fine art photographer. Often employing a staged narrative approach akin to theatrical tableaux, environmental portraiture remains integral to his work, connecting him with artists, educational institutions, and just about any character willing to engage in the process. Schude teaches photography and media arts at the Ojai Valley School.

Loss of business due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the disruptions of the ensuing years, have placed our competitive advantages at risk. We are grateful to the County of Los

for introducing the Business Interruption Fund, to sustain these businesses and the economic stability of our

| Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Department of Economic Opportunity

Western Foundation for Vertebrate Zoology collection manager René Corado in his resplendent quetzal jacket, with a small sampling of diverse nests. | Photo by Ryan Schude

Karen Collins and Eddie Lewis, of the African American Miniatures Museum, in their living room, which doubles as Karen’s workshop. | Photo by Ryan Schude

Air regulators order more odor control at Chiquita Canyon Landfill

By City News Service

The operators of the ChiquitaCanyon Landfill have been ordered by Southland air regulators to begin a series of steps Wednesday to mitigate odors emanating from the facility, which has generated complaints from residents for nearly two years.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District Hearing Board on Tuesday issued an order of abatement that mandates various measures for odor control and monitoring. Among the steps are a limit to the allowable excavation area at the site, along with application of odor suppressants and increased air sampling.

The order also calls for collection of landfill surface samples for analysis at least three times per month, expansion of a public notification system when air quality standards are violated, development of procedures to prevent

“leachate tank” overflows or failure, including daily inspections of tanks, along with installation of real-time remote temperature-monitoring systems at wellheads.

Additional proposals aimed at mitigating trash odors and changing operating hours are expected to be discussed by the board Nov. 13-14.

The AQMD is considering ordering the landfill to pause operations from 7 to 10 a.m., when trash odors have been reported to be strongest.

The Chiquita Canyon Landfill operators were notified in June they were in violation of the federal Clean Air Act by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The landfill was notified of violations for excessive toxic air emissions in a letter dated June 4. The operators of the landfill, Chiquita Canyon LLC, and the company that owns it, Waste Connections, received

Supervisors

Sarmiento said, “I believe it is very difficult for one of us to be able to carry out our public functions while all this is swirling around. ... I would ask him, and would demand, that he step down. I believe his 150,000 residents deserve somebody who will be able to deliver services, be responsible to constituents.”

Sarmiento said Do deserves “due process,” but, he added, “I do think that at this point it is very difficult for a supervisor or any board office to carry out its public functions given what we’re dealing with right now.”

Sarmiento also wants the board to consider censuring Do.

Earlier this month, the county sued the Viet America Society and its President Peter Pham, alleging misappropriation of millions of dollars of pandemic relief earmarked for delivery of meals to needy residents. The Hand to Hand Relief organization, which subcontracted with Viet America Society, was also sued.

Sarmiento had previously asked for ethics reform amid criticism of Do for not disclosing his daughter Rhiannon Do volunteered and then worked for the Viet America Society when the nonprofit was subcontracted to provide meals to the needy during the pandemic. Do said he was not required to disclose

the notice from the EPA.

The landfill was also in violation of its operating permit by emitting high levels of toxic gasses such as benzene and volatile organic compounds that are known to create smog and contribute to the formation of the ozone, which can cause lung damage.

It was the first time the EPA issued a violation to the landfill operators and owner.

The South Coast AQMD has received more than 15,000 complaints about the landfill from nearby residents since January 2023. The EPA is leading a multi-agency task force to monitor the landfill and track the pollution it is creating.

CalEPA, the state Department of Toxic Substance Control and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board have also issued violation notices to the Chiquita Canyon Landfill.

In the notice sent by the

EPA in June, it states the landfill “failed to maintain and operate air pollution control equipment in a manner consistent with good air pollution control practice for minimizing emissions.”

The landfill has been the source of pollution and complaints for months.

In March, the Water Quality Control Board denied the landfill’s request to expand operations in its East Canyon Project. The landfill applied for the expansion on Jan. 4, 2022. The water control board sent a letter dated March 1 informing the operators of the rejection.

UCLA receives $120M gift for West LA medical research institute

the relationship because the society was not a main contractor.

Foley this week also called for a new probe of whether Do resides in the district he represents. Do has homes in Westminster and Tustin, but he has said he splits his time between both. Earlier investigations

did not lead to any determinations of wrongdoing.

Last week, the FBI searched the Garden Grove home of Pham and the Tustin home of Rhiannon Do as well as the Perfume River restaurant in Westminster, where meals were prepared for the delivery services.

Surgeon and philanthropist Dr. Gary Michelson and his wife Alya donated $120 million to UCLA for its development of the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy that will be housed at the former Westside Pavilion mall in West Los Angeles, the university announced Tuesday.

“The UCLA community owes Alya and Gary Michelson a debt of gratitude for this transformative gift,” UCLA Interim Chancellor Darnell Hunt said in a statement. “The Michelsons envisioned an institute that would leverage UCLA’s strengths for maximum public good, create new knowledge leading to better medical treatments, and reshape the study of immunology. The gift will change countless lives here and across the globe.”

According to UCLA, $100 million of the donation will be equally split between two research entities within the institute -- one focusing on rapid vaccine development and the other on “harnessing the microbiome to advance human health.”

University officials said the UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center will be

among the largest microbiome research facilities in the world.

The other $20 million from the donation will provide research grants to scientists using “novel processes to advance immunotherapy research, humane immunology and vaccine discovery.”

“Immunology is the mediator of nearly all human diseases, whether we’re talking about cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer’s,” according to Michelson, a spine surgeon who holds nearly 1,000 patents.

“The vision for this institute is to become a `field of dreams’ -- the world’s leading center for the study of the immune system to develop advanced immunotherapies to prevent, treat and cure all of the diseases that afflict people today and to end these diseases in our lifetime.”

The research institute will be part of the UCLA Research Park being built within the former Westside Pavilion, which saw most of its retail stores close by 2020. UCLA purchased the former mall in January.

By City News Service

The Chiquita Canyon Landfill and surrounding areas. | Photo courtesy of LA County Development Authority

Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento. | Photo courtesy of the city of Santa Ana/Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

Dr. Gary (left) and Alya Michelson. | Photo courtesy of David Hume Kennerly and UCLA