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Court quashes lawsuit challenging Arcadia council censure

By Joe Taglieri joet@civicnewsgroup.com

ALos Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Arcadia City Council’s censure of thenMayor and current Councilwoman Sharon Kwan.

The council voted 4-1 in September to censure Kwan for alleged offenses that included violating rules of decorum during meetings and “engaging in un-collegial behavior, unprofessional temperament, and unfounded accusations against Councilmemberssimply because other Councilmembers expressed a differing viewpoint,” according to the censure resolution.Kwan has said the censure was an attempt by the council majority — current Mayor Paul Cheng, Mayor Pro Tem David Fu and Councilman Michael Cao — to quell her opposition to large pay increases for city employees and discredit her allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination against Fu.

In March an investigation into the harassment allegations determined Kwan’s charges were unsubstantiated. According to Kwan that conclusion “is not accurate, and I do not believe it was fair” because the only people interviewed were the four other council members, Fu’s wife and City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto.

Ex-Mayor and Councilwoman Eileen Wang, who resigned earlier this year after federal prosecutors outed her as an intelligence operative for the People’s Republic of China, cast a vote to censure Kwan.

In his ruling Thursday, Judge Dean J. Kitchens found that the censure was a constitutionally protected exercise of free speech and did not violate the Ralph M. Brown Act, which governs how local governments

in California operate. The ruling granted the city’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

Cory Briggs, attorney for plaintiffs Stephanie Aiken and Laurie Thompson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Previously he said they sued “because the censure was punitive and retaliatory, contrary to federal and state law.

“The plaintiffs are residents and taxpayers in Arcadia and believe that the council majority’s illegal actions are impeding Mayor Kwan’s ability to best serve their interests,” Briggs said after the lawsuit’s Sept. 18 ﬁling.

According to the lawsuit, “The ringleader behind (the censure) was Councilmember David Fu, against whom Mayor Kwan had submitted an administrative sexualharassment complaint … at least one month earlier. Shortly thereafter the City Manager informed at least three members of (the City

Council), including Councilmember Fu, that the complaint had been ﬁled and that city would hire an outside investigator to investigate the complaint.

At the time (the censure resolution) was adopted, the investigation of Mayor Kwan’s complaint had not been completed and she had not even been interviewed by the outside investigator.”

The suit alleged the council “knew the conclusion about ‘unfounded accusations of sexism’ to be false, or at least strongly suspected it to be unsupported by sufﬁcient evidence, when made.”

Plaintiffs also claimed the censure action, which was the ﬁrst of its kind in Arcadia history, has had a “chilling effect” that “has penalized Mayor Sharon Kwan and/or otherwise discouraged her from expressing herself.”

The judge, however, agreed with the city’s

argument that ofﬁcials did not violate the Brown Act when they voted for censure.

A censure is a formal statement of disapproval adopted by a legislative body in response to a member’s conduct.

“The censure of thenMayor Kwan consisted solely of an ofﬁcial expression of disapproval and did not impose additional penalties or restrictions,” according to a statement from the city.

The court concluded that the council’s censure of Kwan was an act of constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment and cited a lack of evidence that the censure was the culmination of “retaliatory actions.” The judge also noted that the District 2 councilwoman remained able to express opinions as a council member.

“The court further determined that the plaintiffs failed to establish that the

Therapy in a tent: The healthcare many homeless Californians need but aren’t getting

By Marisa Kendall, CalMatters

This story was originally published

Like many people who are or have been homeless, Jessica Scott struggles with debilitating anxiety.

When she ﬁnally moved from her stepfather’s car into a Sacramento apartment a few weeks ago, she said one thing played a major role in helping her take that step: Therapy.

“When you’re panicking so much that you can’t really talk to people, it’s difﬁcult to do anything,” Scott said. That included making – and keeping – the numerous appointments required to ﬁnd subsidized housing.

Scott used to have her therapy sessions with Anthony Villanueva, a clinician with One Community Health, on a park bench because she had nowhere else to go. But her most recent session in early July was on a blowup couch in her new living room. She credits her ability to get this housing — her ﬁrst in two and a half years — partially to Villanueva teaching her breathing exercises to calm herself down.

Media stories, politicians and splashy state-funded mental health initiatives tend to focus on people who live on the street in the grip of psychosis or other severe mental illnesses — a highly visible but statistically uncommon problem. That overlooks a much quieter but more widespread issue: All across California, unhoused people are suffering at alarming rates from less obvious but potentially enervating mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Some of those people manage to navigate the

healthcare system, ﬁnd a therapist and make regular trips to a clinic. Most do not.

To ﬁll that void, therapists are meeting their patients wherever they are, conducting therapy in a tent, a homeless shelter or a car on the side of the road.

That care is a major help to people like Scott. But there are far from enough street therapists to see everyone. Recent estimates put California’s homeless population at nearly 182,000, and a UCSF study of homeless Californians found that 48% of them reported symptoms of serious depression and 51% reported anxiety.

Doctors, nurses and clinicians who work with people on the street told CalMatters the numbers are even higher. They estimate between 80% and 90% of their patients have a mental health condition that could beneﬁt from therapy –most commonly depression, anxiety and PTSD.

“I have no capacity to see the amount of patients that we have,” said social worker Lisette Carmona, who provides street therapy in Los Angeles with the USC street medicine team.

That’s despite the fact that street medicine, which brings basic medical care (sometimes including therapy) directly to homeless people in encampments and shelters, has rapidly expanded over the past few years. What started in the 1990s as a small, grassroots movement has ballooned into at least 70 teams in 34 counties in California, said USC Street Medicine Director Brett Feldman, who is considered one of the founding

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Arcadia City Council members David Fu and Sharon Kwan. | Photos courtesy of the city of Arcadia

New Orange County program to direct some 911 calls to social workers

By Paul Anderson, City News Service

In a partnership with the Orange County Health Care Agency, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday began a program to refer some emergency calls to social workers in an effort to better allocate resources.

By the early afternoon, seven calls to 911 were referred to the experts at the Health Care Agency. Officials expect that the average will be about 70 a month.

“There’s a gain on both sides in efficiency” with the new program, Sheriff Don Barnes said in an interview Wednesday.

Health Care Agency Director Veronica Kelley said the advantage for her department is, “We can get to them earlier” before some residents spiral down in a mental health crisis.

Kelley said there are “frequent flies” who didn’t get connected to social services before things went

bad. But now the process of helping them can start earlier for some, she said. The other advantage for a Health Care Agency response instead of a deputy is, “We follow up with the individual,” Kelley said.

Barnes said his department has long prided itself on its policy, “If you call we

will come.” But now that’s been redefined to if residents call 911 someone best suited to respond will visit, he said.

“It’s a cultural change for us,” Barnes said.

Said Kelley: “We’re excited about this continuing collaboration. Other jurisdictions could learn from this.”

Part of what prompted the new policy was a review of data from sheriff’s responses that led to use of force, Barnes said. The data showed that in some cases a deputy shouldn’t have been dispatched at all and that a social worker would have been a better-trained professional to address the crisis, the sheriff added.

The main criteria now for 911 dispatchers is to determine if there is a risk to the public or is a crime being alleged, Barnes said. If not, then the call is referred to the Health Care Agency.

The sheriff’s deputies are trained to help anyone experiencing mental health issues, but the Health

Overnight horror camp to debut near LA County

By City News Service

Horror fans in Los Angeles County looking for a new thrill will soon have an overnight immersive horror camp just a short drive away when Camp Coffin Creek debuts in Chino next month.

Nightmare Rising Haunted Attraction announced Thursday the launch of the camp, which it describes as Southern California’s first fully immersive overnight horror camping experience. The event is designed to place participants inside an interactive slasher-style storyline rather than a traditional walk-through haunted attraction.

The 12-hour experience

will be held on 400 acres at SC Village in Chino, with campers navigating a series of horror-themed challenges and encounters from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Organizers said performers remain part of the experience throughout the night, with guests becoming active participants in the unfolding story.

Camp Coffin Creek will be offered Aug. 21, 22, 28 and 29. Activities include three professionally produced haunted attractions: “Zombie Survival Fight,” a tactical squad-based mission featuring gel blaster weapon

upgrades; “Zombie Survival Flight,” a pursuit through a sewer system; and “Alone in the Woods,” an isolated trek through wooded terrain.

The overnight event will also feature a hands-on special effects makeup workshop led by Eric Fox, a contestant on SyFy’s “Face Off,” along with scavenger hunts, horrorthemed camp games, a gel blaster shooting range and outdoor screenings of classic horror films, organizers said.

“You are not watching a slasher movie. You are inside one,” the Camp Coffin Creek production team said in a statement. “There are no exits,

no guided tours, and no safe distances. Every hour has a purpose, and what lives in the dark will actively pursue you until sunrise.”

Because performers may make physical contact with guests, participants must be at least 13 years old. Those ages 13 to 15 must be accompanied by an adult, and all attendees will be required to sign liability waivers, organizers said.

General admission is $120 and includes a tent rental, event T-shirt and access to all activities.

For more information, visit nightmarerisinghaunt.com.

Censure lawsuit

Care Agency’s staffers are “trained at a much higher level,” Barnes said.

Calls for help involving mental health are trending up, Kelley and Barnes said.

In March 2024, sheriff’s dispatchers started “triaging” calls for service involving mental health issues and sending them when appropriate to a Behavioral Health Line operated by the Health Care Agency. The new policy announced Wednesday refines that process and applies it to 911 calls.

About 240 calls have been referred to the agency’s OC Links program.

The sheriff’s department receives about 10,000 calls annually for services related to mental health. Last year, the Health Care Agency received 43,789 calls and contacts to the OC Links line and there were 10,892 responses from clinicians.

censure violated the Brown Act, clarifying that a dispute between two councilmembers, or criticism of a public official, does not by itself give rise to a Brown Act claim,” city officials said.

“Importantly, the court also concluded that Arcadia’ District 2 residents were not disenfranchised by the censure action.”

Officials said the lawsuit defense cost the city $65,000.

Ex-Mayor Wang pleaded guilty earlier this year to

Attorneys for the city argued for the court to apply California’s anti-SLAPP, or Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation law designed to preserve constitutionally protected speech from lawsuits.

federal charges of secretly acting as an agent of a foreign government, a felony with a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. Her sentencing was scheduled for Oct. 6.

Wang and her ex-fiance

Yaoning Sun — who was her campaign treasurer in 2022 and is currently serving a four-year sentence for a similar crime — worked for a news website that published propaganda at the direction of PRC military officials, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The council appointed John Han, a self-employed investment manager, to serve the remainder of Wang’s term that was up for reelection in November.

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fathers of the field. In 2022, the state made it easier for those teams to bill Medi-Cal, helping them grow even more.

But they’re still vastly outnumbered, a problem with broad implications, because therapy isn’t just about making people on the street feel better. Practitioners say it also can be a crucial step to getting them into housing. The housing process is difficult and complicated, requiring people to go to the DMV to replace lost identification, answer a lengthy list of questions to determine their eligibility and apply for multiple waiting lists. It can take months or even years, often with plenty of setbacks along the way.

Therapy in a tent

“It’s kind of a daunting process for anybody,” said Joann Bianchi Wojick, associate behavioral health director of LifeLong Medical Care’s Trust Health Center, which sends a street medicine team out to encampments in Oakland. “But when you’re feeling anxious or depressed, and you have more difficulty organizing your thoughts and your to-do list and your actions, it can feel so overwhelming.”

childhood experience, and more than half had been through four or more.

Once someone does get into housing, if they haven’t already learned to regulate their emotions in therapy, they risk lashing out at their landlord or new neighbors. That can be a quick ticket to getting evicted and landing back on the street.

That’s why street therapy is “so, so important,” said Dr. Katherine Koh, one of the country’s early pioneers of street psychiatry, who practices in Boston.

“It needs to be part of the treatment,” she said. “I really think just meds alone is rarely going to be the solution for anybody. It’s teaching people the skills that hopefully will continue to help maintain and regulate their behavior when they move into housing, because if they don’t have that, they’re just going to end up back on the street.”

Trauma on the streets leaves mental scars

While schizophrenia is what often comes to mind when people talk about mental health and homelessness, other ailments are far more common. The UCSF study of homeless Californians found that while twothirds reported symptoms of mental health conditions, just 12% experienced hallucinations. Depression and anxiety were much more prevalent.

Some of that is caused or exacerbated by childhood trauma. A review by The Lancet Public Health journal of more than two dozen studies found that 90% of homeless adults had been through at least one adverse

Living on the street is also terrible for people’s mental health. They suffer mental scars left by physical and sexual assaults experienced while homeless, psychological damage from having to maintain a constant state of hypervigilance and the mental anguish of feeling unwanted by society.

“It’s just causing a lot of suffering in our patients’ lives,” said Dr. Shane Collins, a psychiatrist on the USC street medicine team.

California’s “housing first” system prioritizes getting people into housing above all else, promising mental health care and other services will come once someone moves indoors. But housing is in short supply, and thousands of people are stuck waiting on the street without mental health care. Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom has put a significant focus recently on helping unhoused people with schizophrenia and other acute mental illnesses. He launched CARE Court, a court-based program that connects people in psychosis with treatment, and backed a 2024 statewide bond to fund mental health and substance use treatment beds.

In addition, some cities, including Los Angeles, have mobile outreach teams dedicated to helping people on the street with severe mental illnesses.

But for the thousands of unhoused people dealing with less-obvious mental health conditions, it’s easy to fall through the cracks.

A person talks on a cellphone while sitting in the front seat of a vehicle, with a laptop open on the dashboard.

A person sitting in the

front passenger seat of a vehicle gestures with their hands while talking to someone in the car.

First: Aubriana Smith, Street Medicine program manager for One Community Health, arranges transportation through Uber Health for patients traveling to health care appointments while conducting outreach in Sacramento on July 1, 2026.

Last: Anthony Villanueva, a behavioral health clinician with One Community Health, explains the care and support the team provides during a visit to the X Street Navigation Center while traveling to the team’s next outreach stop in Sacramento on July 1, 2026.

Photos by Louis Bryant III for CalMatters

Two people stand at the open trunk of a vehicle, looking through supplies in a parking lot.

From left, Anthony Villanueva, a behavioral health clinician, and Aubriana Smith, Street Medicine program manager, retrieve supplies from their vehicle for another patient during a One Community Health outreach visit at the X Street Navigation Center in Sacramento on July 1, 2026. Photo by Louis Bryant III for CalMatters

Terri Roman, 57, has been homeless for 10 years. That’s plenty of time for the dayto-day brutality of life on the street — from drivers leaning on their horns at 4 a.m. just to be cruel and wake her up, to other unhoused people stealing her belongings — to take a toll on her mental health.

“The hard thing to cope with is the dislike of homeless people from everybody,” said Roman, who lives in an RV in Oakland with her partner and

a dog named Bonehead. “It feels like nobody wants you anywhere.”

Like so many unhoused people, she’s also experienced bloodcurdling trauma while homeless. She witnessed a murder and then had to testify in court against the alleged killer — her own ex-boyfriend. Another time, she was grabbed, slapped and kicked by two masked men trying to steal her car at a gas station in the middle of the night.

“That’s really damaging,” she said. “Now I’m hypervigilant. I go off on people.” She glanced around as she spoke, constantly scanning her surroundings.

She could really use someone to talk to and help her process her trauma, Roman said.

When she asked her local street medicine team about counseling, they referred her to the Native American Health Center. She went for eight months. But it was hard to get there if she didn’t have money for gas. And she’d lose track of the appointments, with her phone constantly running out of battery and having nowhere to charge it. She missed three appointments, and said the center dropped her as a patient. Now she’s waiting to get back in. It would help immensely if a therapist came to see people on the street instead, she said.

“Then homeless people would feel they had someone to turn to,” Roman said. “Or they would feel they’re not alone.”

Meeting people where they’re at Some lucky street medicine teams have a psychiatrist, but psychiatrists willing to go to homeless

Jessica Scott, 35, and her pitbull Baby Girl inside their new apartment July 1 in Sacramento. | Photo courtesy of Louis Bryant III/CalMatters

encampments are scarce and their time is expensive. That means they often go out on the streets just one day a week, and tend to focus on diagnosing mental health conditions and prescribing medications. That leaves little time for therapy.

Collins, the psychiatrist on the USC street medicine team, estimates his team can provide therapy to only about 5% of the patients who could use it.

If street medicine teams do provide therapy, it’s usually done by social workers like Carmona, who works alongside Collins.

“I am doing therapy anywhere where my patient is at,” she said. “So you can find me on the riverbed, you can find me in a tent…Wherever the patient is comfortable, that’s where I’m conducting their therapy.”

Two people provide medical care beside a parked vehicle while another person stands nearby holding medical supplies.

Physician’s assistant Brett Feldman does a checkup on his patient Gary Dela Cruz on the side of the road near his encampment in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2022. Feldman is the director

and co-founder of Street Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters

First: At rear, Corrine Feldman and her street medicine team draw blood from a patient in south Los Angeles on Feb. 14, 2023.

Last: Physician assistant Brett Feldman checks on his patient, Gary Dela Cruz, near Dela Cruz’s homeless encampment in downtown Los Angeles in November.

Feldman is director and co-founder of the Street Medicine program at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Photos by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/ CatchLight Local Her sessions can last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on the patient. She sees some people once a week and others more sporadically. Because her patients can’t escape to a quiet room to be alone when they are upset, or zone out in front of the TV, Carmona thinks up alternative coping strategies for them, such as coloring and journaling. She also does short-notice calls for patients in crisis.

For Bert Andernié, 52, therapy helps him deal with the soul-crushing disappointments he experiences on the streets of San Francisco. For example, in May, his caseworker told him he’d gotten a housing placement. Later, he was told that actually, no, there wasn’t a spot for him. He still doesn’t know what happened.

“I was so pissed I was crying on the bus,” he said. “I was livid.”

Andernié doesn’t have many other people to talk to about his problems, so he hashed out his frustration with the therapist he got matched with after applying for the city’s General Assistance benefits.

“It’s nice to have somebody say, ‘yeah, you’re right, that is messed up,’” he said.

The debate over how to best use scarce therapy resources

Not everyone agrees that conducting therapy on the street is a good use of time. Some medical providers prefer to wait until someone is housed, or at least in a shelter.

Hollywood 2.0, a mental health team that prioritizes the sickest unhoused people

in Los Angeles’ Hollywood neighborhood, doesn’t do traditional therapy on the street.

“It’s really hard to catch folks and catch them sober,” said psychiatrist Dr. Chance Cruz. “A lot of times I can’t even get a logical answer out of someone because they’re high. So that person couldn’t engage in therapy at that time.”

Dr. Chad Koyanagi, one of the national pioneers in street psychiatry who practices in Hawaii, prescribes medication but doesn’t do therapy on the street.

“Probably their focus is going to be on finding their next meal, not their relationship with their parents,” he said. “That stuff is going to be dealt with at a later time when their basic needs are taken care of.”

Patients in therapy must feel safe before they can recover, and that’s often impossible when living on the street, said Rory Rieger, who oversees the Ritter Center’s behavioral health team in Marin County.

“There’s only so many things you can do when a person has that many vulnerabilities and is that stressed,” he said. “Therapy really doesn’t work for someone who is that stressed out.”

What his patients really need to make a dent in their mental health is housing.

Carmona “vehemently disagrees” with the idea that clinicians can’t do real therapy on the street, and says that idea caters to the comfort of the therapist, not the patient.

Carmona has seen patients who seemed hopeless when she met them quickly regain their optimism after starting therapy. The wins aren’t always monumental. Some weeks, it’s small victories, such as when a patient gets upset but refrains from selfharm.

Other teams use a

both-and approach, such as LifeLong Medical Care in Alameda County. Initially, their street therapy is often crisis management — helping someone cope with losing their belongings in a sweep or get through their depression, said Bianchi Wojick, associate behavioral health director of the LifeLong Medical Care clinic. Once someone gets into a shelter or housing, they can more deeply explore their past trauma.

Even without an official therapist, regular medical check-ups on the street can look a lot like therapy. It’s not uncommon for patients to spill their hearts, or even cry, while an empathetic nurse is taking their blood pressure on the sidewalk.

A healthcare worker treats a person’s foot while they sit on the open tailgate of an SUV as several people watch nearby.

Dr. Mathew Beare treats a patient’s foot along the side of the road outside Church Without Walls in Bakersfield on March 16, 2023. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

For Valerie Campos, gamechanging mental health care didn’t come on the street — it came in a tiny home. She’d grown up homeless and then continued the pattern as an adult in Southern California, ending up getting trafficked and sexually abused. That trauma devastated her mental health. She developed PTSD, as well as depression and anxiety so severe that she couldn’t drive a car on the freeway.

“It was just terrible,” said Campos, 49. “It was hard to live minute by minute sometimes.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Campos moved into a tiny home transitional housing program in Redondo Beach. All of a sudden she had access to something that had seemed

unreachable on the street: counseling.

Counselors came to Campos’ tiny home every two weeks and stayed as long as she needed. They didn’t judge her or her past, and so she began to open up, talking about her childhood, her homelessness, and everything she’d been through.

They taught her coping skills, the warning signs that could indicate her depression was rearing up again, and how to journal and keep track of her moods. They helped her get medication for depression and anxiety. She learned to recognize, and stop, her self-sabotaging behaviors.

“I’m a whole different person,” Campos said. “I’m back on the freeway, driving.”

Four years ago, Campos moved from the tiny home into her very own apartment in Gardena, thanks to a federal housing voucher. She isn’t sure how much longer she’ll be able to stay, as the program paying for her apartment — the federal Emergency Housing Vouchers — is running out of money, and Campos has been told her subsidy will end in December.

But she does know that getting mental health support saved her. Without it, she wouldn’t have been able to hold down an apartment. And without an apartment, she doesn’t think she would have made it.

“I don’t think I would be here right now,” she said, “if it wasn’t for the counseling and the housing.”

This story was reported with support from the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.

This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives license.

Lawsuit: Nearly $2B in grants canceled by Trump based on keyword searches

By City News Service

Federal agencies illegally canceled nearly $2 billion of research grants to UC professors based on keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 used to screen for projects that ran afoul of Trump administration’s priorities, according to a report by nonprofit newsroom CalMatters.

Lawyers representing the research professors in a lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to formally declare that the White House repeatedly violated the constitution, including the First Amendment. A court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 20 in the Northern District of California.

Federal agencies made the admission about the keyword searches in signed stipulations filed in court

California tribes navigate a range of priorities and opportunities, so leaders gathered recently in Los Angeles to forge a united front and to celebrate a new podcast.

“Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California” is from the nonprofit California Humanities, part of a nationwide initiative led by the Federation of State Humanities Councils in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Erica Pinto, chair of the California Tribal Chair Association and the Indian Village of California, praised

this month in Thakur v. Trump, a lawsuit that’s been ongoing since last spring, according to CalMatters.

According to the California news organization, the stipulations in the court filing show the agencies “did not terminate any grants based on alleged noncompliance with the terms of the grant” and instead used “general criteria, rather than grant-specific assessment of each award’s compliance, or performance,” lawyers for the plaintiffs wrote.

CalMatters reported that lawyers for the UC professors now contend that the admission proves three wide-ranging constitutional violations:

-- By using keyword searches to review hundreds of grants and terminate them en masse rather than reviewing them individually on their merits, the Trump administration targeted

research it found politically disfavorable, which is a First Amendment violation.

-- In terminating 283 U.S. Department of Energy grants from states where a majority voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and leaving untouched hundreds of

grants that went to “red” states, the Trump administration wrongly punished researchers for merely living in states the White House politically opposed.

-- By terminating billions of dollars in grants, and never rerouting that money to other grant oppor-

tunities, the administration violated the constitution by not spending money in ways Congress specifically required through laws it passed on how research funds should be used.

A message seeking comment from a UCLA media representative was not immediately answered. An effort to reach the White House for a comment was not immediately successful.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, who is overseeing the case in San Francisco federal court, has repeatedly sided with the UC professors and issued several preliminary injunctions forcing the federal agencies to restore the grants while she reviews the full merits of the case, CalMatters reported in its story Tuesday.

This includes the restoration of hundreds of grants at UCLA that the Trump administration sought to

California tribal leaders speak out on sovereignty

By Suzanne Potter, Public News Service

the state’s “land back” program but said it should provide maximum flexibility.

“San Ysabel, for example, just got thousands of acres back,” Pinto observed.

“When we get that land back, I would like to see no strings attached because that’s true sovereignty.”

The leaders spoke of the importance of protecting the environment to ensure survival. They emphasized economic self-sufficiency and the benefits of crosstribal cooperation. A discussion guide and an exhibition at the California Museum are in the works.

Darlene Franco, chair-

Ssuspend over its allegations that the university tolerated antisemitism and permitted transgender women to compete on women’s sports teams, the story says.

CalMatters wrote that lawyers for professors in the Thakur case now want Lin to make a final ruling ordering the grants to be restored, rather than a preliminary one. Even if that were to happen, the federal agencies could decide to appeal Lin’s ruling to a higher court.

The stakes “are huge,” lawyers for the professors in the Thakur case wrote.

If the White House is “allowed to terminate this funding, the researchers, graduate students, and program staff that relied on the grants to pursue their lives’ work will all suffer significant damage to their reputations and careers,” attorneys wrote, CalMatters reported.

person of the Wukchumni Tribe near Visalia, said some tribes face obstacles

in gaining federal recognition. Many form 501(c)(3)s to protect their people and

their land.

“Sovereignty is the ability to follow our things that were handed down to us. Our creation stories tell us that we were created by the animal people, and we were given instructions. Take care of each other, take care of the land and the water,” Franco outlined.

Juan Reynoso, a 2Spirit Ipai-Kumeyaay from the San Pasqual Band of Kumeyaay Indians, said tribes came together during the first Trump administration to mourn the separation created by new sections of the border wall.

“We would show up at that wall every day for the entire summer, and we would meet our relatives from the South at the wall. We couldn’t see each other, and we would just pray, and we would sing. We chose to show up for each other during the most harsh times,” Reynoso recounted. Tribes also called for full funding for the Indian Health Service, saying any cuts would lead to new trauma, given the long history of generational harm inflicted in the past when Indigenous children were forced into state boarding schools where their native language and cultural practices were forbidden.

Steve Hilton holds campaign event for governor in Boyle Heights

By City News Service

“Think about the people who live here, who had to put up with this,” Hilton said in his remarks. “This is the symbol of Democrat failure.”

Residents near the warehouse have filed more than

teve Hilton, the Republican candidate for governor, held a general election campaign kickoff event in Boyle Heights Wednesday in a bid to rally support from working-class Latino voters, who he says have been let down by years of Democratic policies. Hilton made his appearance at N&M Auto Body Shop, directly across the street from the Lineage Logistics cold food storage warehouse that recently burned and heavily impacted Boyle Heights and unincorporated areas of East Los Angeles. Hilton said he chose the site because it represents the “rotting regime” of Democrats.

900 odor complaints with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the agency issued six notices of violation against Lineage for creating a public nuisance. Regulators also directed the company to implement more than two dozen additional odorcontrol measures.

Locals have complained of persistent and foul stenches emitting from rotting food as the company continues work to clean up

the storage building. Residents have raised concerns about their health and possible adverse long- term effects due to the warehouse fire.

Hilton is set to face off against Democrat and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Beccera in November. The two were the top votegetters from the June primary election, as they seek to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is

in his final term.

Born in the United Kingdom, Hilton previously worked as an aide to former Prime Minister David Cameron, emigrated to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 2021. President Donald Trump endorsed Hilton for governor in the primary.

Hilton told reporters he would be honored to have Trump’s support in the general election, but they have not discussed the matter.

“I’m a pragmatic problem solving changemaker,” Hilton said. “We may not agree about national politics, but I think we can agree we need change in California. So many people are desperate to see that.” Hilton was joined by Gloria Romero, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Romero, a former state senator, will face State Treasurer Fiona Ma in November.

| Photo courtesy of Lillia O’Hara/Unsplash

President Donald Trump prepares to take the stage at Salute to America on the National Mall in the nation’s capital on July 4. | Photo courtesy of Sgt. 1st Class Brittany Primavera/U.S. Army

El Monte City Notices

NOTICE OF ELECTION CITY OF EL MONTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Consolidated General Municipal Election will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026 for the following City of El Monte elected officers:

For One (1) Mayor Elected At-Large from the Entire City Full term of two (2) years

For One (1) Council Member of the City Council for District 2 Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) Council Member of the City Council for District 3 Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) Council Member of the City Council for District 6 Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) City Clerk Elected At-Large from the Entire City Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) City Treasurer Elected At-Large from the Entire City Full term of four (4) years

The nomination period for these offices begins on Monday, July 13, 2026 and closes on Friday, August 7, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

If nomination papers for an incumbent officer of the City are not filed by Friday, August 7, 2026 (the 88th day before the election) the voters shall have until the 83rd day before the election, August 12, 2026 at 5:00 pm., to nominate candidates other than the person(s) who are the incumbents on the 88th day before the election, for that incumbent’s elective office. This extension is not applicable where there is no incumbent eligible to be elected.

If no one (1) or only one (1) person is nominated for an elective office, appointment to the elective office may be made as prescribed by Elections Code Section 10229 of the State of California.

In-person voting will be available at any Voting Center located in the County of Los Angeles at designated locations weekdays and weekends from October 24, 2026 to November 3, 2026. Voting Centers shall be open at 7:00 a.m. on the day of the election and shall remain open continuously from that time until 8:00 p.m. of the same day when the polls shall be closed (pursuant to Election Code Section 10242, except as provided in Section 14401 of the Elections Code of the State of California.)

Gabriel Ramirez, City Clerk City of El Monte

Date Published: July 9, 2026; July 13, 2026; July 20, 2026; and July 27, 2026

NOTICE OF ELECTION CITY OF EL MONTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL QUALIFIED VOTERS of the City of El Monte that a Consolidated General Municipal Election will be held on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2026 for the purpose of electing:

For One (1) Mayor Elected At-Large from the Entire City Full term of two (2) years

For One (1) Council Member of the City Council for District 2 Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) Council Member of the City Council for District 3 Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) Council Member of the City Council for District 6 Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) City Clerk Elected At-Large from the Entire City Full term of four (4) years

For One (1) City Treasurer Elected At-Large from the Entire City Full term of four (4) years

Inclusive of any other qualifying criteria mandated by the California Government Code, the California Elections Code or the El Monte Municipal Code, candidates for the above election must be registered voters residing in the City of El Monte. Nomination documents for the election shall be available no earlier than Monday, July 13, 2026, and no later than Friday, August 7, 2026, pursuant to Elections Code Sections 10220, 10224 & 10407, at the City of El Monte, City Clerk’s Office, located at 11333 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, California 91731, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Nomination documents must be filed at the office of the El Monte City Clerk’s Office, located at the above referenced address no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 7, 2026.

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Although the City Clerk’s Office is closed for business on Fridays along with all other City Hall Offices, the City Clerk’s Office will be open on Friday, August 7, 2026, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for the sole purpose of issuing and accepting candidates’ nomination papers for the aforementioned Consolidated General Municipal Election. Prospective candidates and members of the public are further advised that the City Clerk’s Office is not open on Saturdays, Sundays or any holiday observed by the City pursuant to Section 2.68.010 of the El Monte Municipal Code.

Pursuant to Elections Code Section 10225, if nomination documents for an incumbent are not filed by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 7, 2026, the nomination period shall be extended until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. If no one (1) or only one (1) person is nominated for an elective office, appointment to the elective office may be made as prescribed by Elections Code Section 10229 of the State of California.

On the date of the Consolidated General Municipal Election, polling places shall be open between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Persons requiring multilingual assistance in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Khmer, and Hindi, regarding information in the notice may call (626) 580-2016.

Gabriel Ramirez, City Clerk City of El Monte EL MONTE EXAMINER

AVISO DE ELECCIONES CIUDAD DE EL MONTE

SIRVA EL PRESENTE PARA COMUNICAR que se llevará a cabo una Elección Municipal General Consolidada en la ciudad de El Monte el martes, 3 de noviembre de 2026, para ocupar los siguientes cargos:

Para 1 (un) alcalde electo independiente para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 2 (dos) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 2 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 3 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 6 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) Secretario Municipal elegido en votación general para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) Tesorero Municipal elegido en votación general para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

El período de nominación para estos cargos comenzará el lunes, 13 de julio de 2026 y finalizará el viernes, 7 de agosto de 2026 a las 5:00 p.m.

Si no se presenta la documentación de nominación para un funcionario titular de la ciudad antes del viernes, 7 de agosto de 2026 (el 88o día previo a las elecciones), los votantes tendrán hasta el 83o día antes de la elección, el 12 de agosto de 2026 a las 5:00 p.m., para nominar candidatos que no sean los titulares en el 88o día previo a la elección, para el cargo electivo de dicho titular. Esta extensión no se aplicará cuando no haya un titular que reúna los requisitos para ser electo.

En caso de no presentarse nominación alguna o de haber solo 1 (un) nominado para el cargo electivo, se podrá recurrir al nombramiento del funcionario en cuestión conforme lo dispuesto en el art. 10229 del Código Electoral del Estado de California. Se podrá votar en persona en cualquier Centro de votación del condado de Los Ángeles, en ubicaciones designadas, los días entre semana y fines de semana a partir del 24 de octubre de 2026 y hasta el 3 de noviembre de 2026. Los Centros de votación abrirán a las 7:00 a. m. el día de las elecciones y permanecerán abiertos sin interrupciones desde esa hora hasta las 8:00 p. m. del mismo día, momento en que se cerrarán las urnas (de acuerdo con la sección 10242 del Código de electoral, salvo lo estipulado en la sección 14401 del Código electoral del estado de California).

Gabriel Ramirez, Secretario Municipal Ciudad de El Monte

Fecha de publicación: 9 de julio de 2026; 13 de julio de 2026; 20 de julio de 2026 y 27 de julio de 2026

AVISO DE ELECCIONES

CIUDAD DE EL MONTE

SIRVA EL PRESENTE PARA COMUNICAR A TODOS LOS VOTANTES CALIFICADOS de la ciudad de El Monte que se realizará una Elección General Municipal Consolidada el MARTES, 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2026 para ocupar los siguientes cargos:

Para 1 (un) alcalde electo independiente para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 2 (dos) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 2 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 3 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 6 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) Secretario Municipal elegido en votación general para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) Tesorero Municipal elegido en votación general para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Además de cumplir con cualesquiera otros criterios para calificar que establezcan el Código de gobierno de California, el Código electoral de California o el Código municipal de El Monte, los candidatos para la elección mencionada previamente deben ser votantes registrados que residan en la ciudad de El Monte. La documentación de nominación para la elección estará disponible no antes del lunes, 13 de julio de 2026, ni más tarde del viernes, 7 de agosto de 2026, en virtud de las secciones 10220, 10224 y 10407 del Código electoral, en la Oficina de la secretaria municipal de la ciudad de El Monte, ubicada en 11333 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, California 91731, entre las 7:00 a. m. y las 5:00 p. m. La documentación de nominación debe presentarse en la oficina del secretario municipal de El Monte, ubicada en la dirección mencionada anteriormente, a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. del viernes 7 de agosto de 2026

Aunque la oficina de la secretaria municipal esté cerrada al público los viernes junto con las demás oficinas del Ayuntamiento, la Oficina de la secretaria municipal estará abierta el viernes, 7 de agosto de 2026, de 7:00 a. m. a 5:00 p. m. con el único fin de emitir y aceptar documentación de nominación de candidatos para las Elecciones Municipales Generales Consolidadas que se mencionan más arriba. Además, se informa a los candidatos potenciales y a los miembros del público que la Oficina de la secretaria municipal no abre los sábados, domingos ni días feriados obligatorios para la ciudad, de conformidad con la sección 2.68.010 del Código municipal de El Monte.

De conformidad con la sección 10225 del Código electoral, si no se presenta la documentación de nominación para un funcionario titular antes de las 5:00 p. m. del viernes, 7 de agosto de 2026, el periodo de nominación podrá extenderse hasta las 5:00 p. m. del miércoles, 12 de agosto de 2026. En caso de no presentarse nominación alguna o de haber solo 1 (una) persona nominada para un cargo electivo, se podrá realizar el nombramiento para el cargo electivo conforme a lo dispuesto en el artículo 10229 del Código Electoral del Estado de California.

El día de las Elecciones Municipales Generales Consolidadas, los centros de votación estarán abiertos en un horario de 7:00 a. m. a 8:00 p. m.

Quienes necesiten asistencia sobre la información del aviso en otros idiomas, como español, chino, vietnamita, tagalo, japonés, coreano, tailandés, camboyano e hindi, pueden comunicarse al (626) 580-2016.

Gabriel Ramirez, Secretario Municipal Ciudad de El Monte

EL MONTE EXAMINER

11333 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, California 91731, trong khung giờ từ 7:00 sáng đến 5:00 chiều. Tài liệu đề cử phải được nộp tại văn phòng của Văn Phòng Thư Ký Thành Phố El Monte, tọa lạc tại địa chỉ được tham chiếu ở trên trễ nhất là 5:00 chiều Thứ Sáu, Ngày 7 Tháng Tám Năm 2026.

Tuy Văn Phòng Thư Ký Thành Phố đóng cửa vào các ngày Thứ Sáu như tất cả Văn Phòng khác của Tòa Thị Chính, song Văn Phòng Thư Ký Thành Phố vẫn sẽ mở cửa vào Thứ Sáu, Ngày 7 Tháng Tám Năm 2026, trong khung giờ từ 7:00 sáng đến 5:00 chiều, với mục đích duy nhất là cấp và nhận giấy đề cử của các ứng cử viên cho cuộc Tổng Tuyển Cử Thành Phố Hợp Nhất nói trên. Cũng xin thông báo thêm cho các ứng cử viên tiềm năng và người dân rằng Văn Phòng Thư Ký Thành Phố không mở cửa vào các ngày Thứ Bảy, Chủ Nhật hoặc bất kỳ ngày lễ nào do Thành Phố tổ chức chiếu theo Đoạn 2.68.010 của Bộ Luật Đô Thị El Monte. Chiếu theo Đoạn 10225 của Bộ Luật Bầu Cử, nếu tài liệu đề cử cho một người đương nhiệm không được nộp chậm nhất vào 5:00 chiều Thứ Sáu, Ngày 7 Tháng Tám Năm 2026, thì giai đoạn đề cử sẽ được kéo dài đến 5:00 chiều Thứ Tư Ngày 12 Tháng Tám Năm 2026. Nếu không có ai (1) hoặc chỉ có một (1) người được đề cử cho chức vụ dân cử, việc bổ nhiệm cho chức vụ dân cử đó có thể được thực hiện theo quy định trong Đoạn 10229, Bộ Luật Bầu Cử của Tiểu Bang California. Vào ngày diễn ra cuộc Tổng Tuyển Cử Thành Phố Hợp Nhất, các địa điểm bỏ phiếu sẽ mở cửa trong khung giờ từ 7:00 sáng đến 8:00 tối. Những người cần hỗ trợ đa ngôn ngữ bằng Tiếng Tây Ban Nha, Tiếng Trung, Tiếng Việt, Tiếng Tagalog, Tiếng Nhật, Tiếng Hàn, Tiếng Thái, Tiếng Khmer và Tiếng Hindi về thông tin trong thông báo này có thể gọi đến số (626) 580-2016.

Gabriel Ramirez, Thư Ký Thành Phố Thành Phố El Monte

Publish July 9, 13, 20, 27, 2026 EL MONTE EXAMINER

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF EL MONTE

Notice of Public Hearing and Comment Period for the proposed Substantial Amendment of the City of El Monte HOME-ARP Allocation Plan

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the El Monte City Council will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, August 12, at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, to gain citizens’ input on the upcoming Proposed Substantial Amendment to the City of El Monte HOME ARP Allocation Plan.

The public hearing will be conducted as part of a City Council meeting to be held on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 starting at 6:00 p.m. at El Monte City Hall – East, City Council Chambers, 11333 Valley Blvd., El Monte, CA 9173

The City is required to conduct a public hearing to receive input and provide direction concerning the proposed Substantial Amendment to the City of El Monte HOME-ARP Allocation Plan prior to its submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The City of El Monte is an entitlement jurisdiction that receives federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), including Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds. As a condition of receiving these funds, the City is required to prepare an Allocation Plan describing how these federal resources will be used to address community development, affordable housing, and homelessness needs within the community during the program year.

Revised use of HOME-ARP Funding

HUD regulations require the City to amend its Allocation Plan whenever a substantial change is proposed. The proposed Revised 2026 City of El Monte HOME-ARP Allocation Plan identifies revisions to the City’s approved reallocation and provides the public with an opportunity to review and comment on the proposed changes before they are submitted to HUD. Acquisition and Development of Non-Congregate Shelter will fund the completion of interim housing, Rose Court. Development of Affordable Rental Housing will fund Esperanza Village.

The proposed 2026 Revised HOME-ARP Allocation Plan will be available for a 15-day public review and comment period beginning July 27, 2026 and ending August 10, 2026. Copies of the proposed amendment will be available for public review at El Monte City Hall – West, 11333 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, California 91731, at the Housing Counter and on the City’s website.

Written comments received during the public review period will be considered by the City Council prior to taking action on the proposed Substantial Amendment.

These documents will be available for public review at El Monte City Hall - West, 11333 Valley Blvd., El Monte, CA 91731 at the

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Housing Counter and on the City of El Monte’s website at https:// www.ci.el-monte.ca.us/547/News-Notices.

It is the intent of the City of El Monte to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you should need special assistance, please contact Vanessa Sedano, Housing Manager, at (626) 2588831, or via vsedano@elmonteca.gov TDD/Voice (626) 580-2078 at least 72 hours prior to the public hearing.

City Contact: For more information and to RSVP, contact Vanessa Sedano, Housing Manager Phone: (626) 258-8831 Email: vsedano@elmonteca.gov

Notice Date: July 27, 2026 Published: July 27, 2026

Gabriel Ramirez, City Clerk City of El Monte

The El Monte Examiner

Rosemead City Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD ON AUGUST 6, 2026

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Director of Community Development will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 9:00 AM, at Rosemead City Hall, located at 8838 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, CA 91770.

CASE NO.: ADMINISTRATIVE USE PERMIT 26-01 – Yan Hospitality Group LLC has submitted an Administrative Use Permit application to operate an existing 1,693-square-foot fast-dining/sit-down restaurant with a new On-Sale Beer and Wine – Eating Place (Type 41) ABC license located at 3588 Rosemead Boulevard (APN: 8594023-047) in a Commercial (C-3) with Design Overlay (D-O) Zone. Per Rosemead Municipal Code Section 17.30.040.E.1.b., the approval of an Administrative Use Permit is required for sit-down restaurants with 1,000 square feet of floor area or larger that sells beer/wine for on-site consumption.

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: Section 15301 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines exempts projects consisting of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. Accordingly, Administrative Use Permit 26-01 is classified as an exempt project, pursuant to Section 15301 (Class 1 Categorical Exemption) of the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines.

Written comments should be received before August 6, 2026. Comments should be sent to: 8838 East Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, CA 91770, Attention: Candice (Yuxin) Jiang, Assistant Planner.

Pursuant to Government Code Section 65009 (b), if this matter is subsequently challenged in court, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Rosemead at, or prior to, the public hearing.

For further details on this proposal, please contact Candice (Yuxin) Jiang, Assistant Planner at (626) 569-2252 or yjiang@rosemeadca. gov. Any person interested in the above proceedings may appear at the time and place indicated above to testify in support of, or in opposition to, the item(s) indicated in this notice.

Notice and Publication Date: July 27, 2026

ROSEMEAD READER

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

ALEJANDRO RIOS AKA

ALEXANDRO O. RIOS

CASE NO. 26STPB07792

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ALEJANDRO RIOS AKA ALEXANDRO O. RIOS. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by VANESSA VALERIE VASQUEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that VANESSA VALERIE VASQUEZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the es-

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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

SYBIL YVONNE BURRELL - CSB: 183383

101 N. CITRUS AVE., SUITE 2B COVINA CA 91723

Telephone (213) 572-3700 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4062896# EL MONTE EXAMINER

Public Notices

Superior Court of California, County of Riverside 4175 Main St Riverside, Ca 92501

Case Number: DVRI2506414

Order on Request to Continue Court Hearing (Temporary Restraining Order)

1. Protected Party: Suzanne Bovee Ream

2. Restrained Party: William Robert Wolf

3. Next Court Date: b. The request to reschedule the court date is granted. The new court date is listed below.

New Court Date

Date: 8-4-2026

Time: 8:30am

Dept: F502

4. Option to Attend Court Hearing By Phone or Videoconference

You may attend your court date remotely, such as by phone or video conference. For more information, go to the court’s website for the county listed above. To find the court’s website go to: www.courts.ca.gov/ find-my-court.htm.

5. Temporary Restraining Order

b. 1: The court extends the TRO previously ranted on (date): 8-29-25

It now expires on (date): 8-4-26 (If no expiration date is listed. The TRO expires at the end of the court date listed in (3) b).

6. Reason Court Date IS Rescheduled

a. There is good cause to reschedule the court date (check one):

1. The protected part has not served the restrained party

7. Serving (Giving) Order to Other Party

The request to reschedule was made by the:

a. Protected party

2. You must have the restrained party personally served with a copy of this order and a copy of all documents listed on form DV-109, item (6), by (date): 5 days before hearing.

9. The sheriff or marshal will serve this order for free

10. Attached pages (All of the attached pages are part of this order)

a. Number of pages attached to this threepage form: 9

b. Attachments include forms (check all that apply): DV-100

Date: June 24, 2026

Judges Signature: Mona Nemat

BURGOS SANTOYOS SMITH, INC

tate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/14/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 246 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA

2667 Camino Del Rio South Ste 108 San Diego, Ca 92108

Publish July 13, 20, 27, August 3, 2026 ARCADIA WEEKLY

Trustee Notices

costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $ 362,057.66.

Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned a written request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically

Probate Notices

Glendale City Notices

NOTICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DECISION

ADMINISTRATIVE USE PERMIT CASE NO. PAUP-006702-2026

LOCATION: 1013 SOUTH BRAND BOULEVARD (Signature Bar & Grill)

APPLICANT: elen Aguayo

ZONE: “CA” - (Commercial Auto) Zone

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lots 3 and 4 of Tract 939

APN: 5641-018-003 and -004

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Application for an Administrative Use Permit (AUP) to allow the on-site sales, service, and consumption of alcoholic beverages (Type 47) at a new full-service restaurant (Signature Bar & Grill), in the CA (Commercial Auto) Zone.

CODE REQUIRES

1) The sale of alcoholic beverages requires an Administrative Use Permit in the CA Zone (Glendale Municipal Code §30.12.020, Table 30.12-A).

APPLICANT’S PROPOSAL

1) To allow the on-site sales, service, and consumption of alcoholic beverages at a new full-service restaurant.

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION

The project is exempt from CEQA review as a Class 1 "Existing Facilities" exemption, pursuant to Section 15301(e) of the State CEQA Guidelines because the discretionary permit request is to allow for the on-site sales, services, and consumption of alcoholic beverages at a new full-service restaurant within an existing commercial space and there is no additional floor area proposed.

PENDING DECISION AND COMMENTS

Copies of plans, staff analysis, and the proposed decision letter are available at GlendaleCA.gov/planning/pending-decisions.

If you would like to review plans, submit comments, or be notified of the decision, please contact case planner Soc Yumul at (818) 937-8166 or SYumul@glendaleca.gov.

DECISION

On or after Friday, August 14, 2026, the Community Development Director will make a written decision regarding this request.

APPEAL

After the Director has made a decision, any person may file an appeal within 15 days of the written decision. Appeal forms are available at GlendaleCA.gov/home/ showdocument?id=11926.

Dr. Suzie Abajian, The City Clerk of the City of Glendale

Published on July 27,2026

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

Probate Notices

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

JENARO ARAGON AKA

JENARO PADILLA ARAGON CASE NO. 26STPB07680

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JENARO ARAGON AKA JENARO PADILLA ARAGON.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT DANIEL ARAGON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT DANIEL ARAGON 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:

08/17/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 629 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

County of SAN BERNARDINO.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/20/26 at 9:00AM in Dept. F3 located at 17780 ARROW BLVD., FONTANA, CA 92335

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.

Attorney for Petitioner PIERRE J. RODNUNSKY, ESQ.SBN 182888

RODNUNSKY & ASSOCIATES 5959 TOPANGA CANYON BLVD., #220 WOODLAND HILLS CA 91367

Telephone (818) 737-1090 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4061534# BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CYNTHIA THERESA GONZALEZ

CASE NO. PROVA2600525

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ANTONIO BARRIOS in the Superior Court of California,

08/14/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 236 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.

Attorney for Petitioner

PAUL HORN, ESQ. - SBN 243227

PAUL HORN LAW GROUP PC 11404 SOUTH STREET CERRITOS CA 90703

Telephone (800) 380-7076

BSC 228784

7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4062195# WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: HOWAIDA SEFAIN CASE NO. 26STPB07779

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner

SOPHIA R. PRESTON - SBN 321601

PRESTON LAW GROUP, P.C. 2151 MICHELSON DRIVE, SUITE 205 IRVINE CA 92612

Telephone (949) 418-7771 BSC 228779 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4061960# ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JULIUS SIGNARS JR. CASE NO. 26STPB07773

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SEAORIA SIGNARS LEMA in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SEAORIA SIGNARS LEMA 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:

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

SARA J. MCLEMEN - SBN 270077 MCLEMEN LAW, APC 31365 OAK CREST DR., STE. 160

WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91361

Telephone (805) 424-5739

7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26

CNS-4062388#

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANTHONY JOSEPH SANTILENA

CASE NO. 26STPB07850

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBYN FIELDER PICHEL in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBYN FIELDER PICHEL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/14/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 246 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/21/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 610 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

Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SUSAN LAW be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/14/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 246 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.

Attorney for Petitioner

TALINE PANOSSIAN, ESQ. - SBN 332654

LAW OFFICES OF TALINE PANOSSIAN, APC

301 E. COLORADO BLVD., STE. 510 PASADENA CA 91101

Telephone (626) 628-8117

7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26

CNS-4062411# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RAYMOND G. LAW CASE NO. 26STPB07845

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SUSAN LAW in the

Attorney for Petitioner

KELLY S. KEUSCHER - SBN 204037

VALENSI ROSE, PLC 1888 CENTURY PARK EAST, SUITE 1100 LOS ANGELES CA 90067-1715

Telephone (310) 277-8011 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4062709# BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN LOUIS PIECHOTA CASE NO. 26STPB06344 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JOHN LOUIS PIECHOTA.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by LAURIE PETERSON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LAURIE PETERSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/19/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 244

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.

STEWART LEVIN, ESQ. - SBN 101034

LAW OFFICES OF STEWART LEVIN

424 S. BEVERLY DRIVE, SUITE 21 BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212

Telephone (310) 777-7550

7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4062852# WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

RICHARD HAROLD MAZA

AKA RICHARD MAZA

CASE NO. 25STPB14253

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RICHARD HAROLD MAZA AKA RICHARD MAZA.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/15/26 at 8:32AM in Dept. 418 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

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 DONNA CHRISTINE BACHOURA - SBN 231805

150 E. MEDA AVENUE, SUITE 220 GLENDORA CA 91741

Telephone (626) 335-4755

BSC 228785 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26

CNS-4062503# WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF TISHA ANN CLARK

Case No. 26STPB05272

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of TISHA ANN CLARK A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Corey Clark and Nelwyn Clark in the Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Corey Clark and Nelwyn Clark be appointed as per-sonal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 14, 2026 at 8:32 AM in Dept. No. 600 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: CYNTHIA VELASCO ESQ SBN306140 GREENACRE LAW LLP 700 FLOWER ST STE 1000 LOS ANGELES CA 90017 CN129039 CLARK Jul 23,27,30, 2026 Burbank Independent

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

RICHARD HAROLD MAZA AKA RICHARD MAZA CASE NO. 25STPB14253

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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 RICHARD HAROLD MAZA AKA

RICHARD MAZA.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 09/15/26 at 8:32AM in Dept. 418 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

Attorney for Petitioner DONNA CHRISTINE BACHOURASBN 231805

150 E. MEDA AVENUE, SUITE 220 GLENDORA CA 91741

Telephone (626) 335-4755 BSC 228785 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4062503# WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF TISHA ANN CLARK

Case No. 26STPB05272

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Corey Clark and Nelwyn Clark in the Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Corey Clark and Nelwyn Clark be appointed as per-sonal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 14, 2026 at 8:32 AM in Dept. No. 600 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 issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

Attorney for petitioner: CYNTHIA VELASCO ESQ SBN306140 GREENACRE LAW LLP 700 FLOWER ST STE 1000 LOS ANGELES CA 90017 CN129039 CLARK Jul 23,27,30, 2026

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: NATHAN ALFONSO ROMO CASE NO. 26STPB07872

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

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/18/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 246 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

PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO, ESQ.SBN 259607

LAW OFFICES OF PRISCILLA C. SOLARIO

9431 HAVEN AVE., #108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730

Telephone (909) 529-1011

7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26

CNS-4062899#

BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PATRICE ADONICA TRAYLOR

CASE NO. 26STPB07945

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

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/17/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 614 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.

Attorney for Petitioner MAYRA L. HARRIS - SBN 361874

GASPERIAN LAW CORPORATION 966 ARTESIA BLVD. HERMOSA BEACH CA 90254

Telephone (310) 606-2576 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4062922# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

MAN WEN

CASE NO. 26STPB08124

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by AMY Y. WEN in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that AMY Y. WEN AND VIVIAN T. NGO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/26/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 614 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

Attorney for Petitioner

KEVIN CHIU - SBN 249479 LAW OFFICE OF KEVIN CHIU 1055 E. COLORADO BLVD. #500 PASADENA CA 91106 Telephone (626) 607-1411 7/23, 7/27, 7/30/26 CNS-4063501# WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WENDY JANE PARRY CASE NO. 26STPB07970 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of WENDY JANE PARRY.

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

the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (800) 758-8052 or visit this Internet Web site www.xome. com, using the file number assigned to this case 26-39755. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (800) 758-8052, or visit this internet website www.xome. com, using the file number assigned to this case 26-39755 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Please be advised that the trustee may require entity or trust bidders at this trustee’s sale to provide information, documentation and/or certification of the vesting instructions and the data required to be reported pursuant to FinCEN regulations effective for transfers of residential real property to covered transferees on or after March 1, 2026. The required information must be provided to the trustee before a trustee’s deed upon sale will be issued for covered transfers. The Buyer may be required to pay charges associated with the gathering and reporting of information to FinCEN. Additional information regarding these regulations and the required transferee information and certifications can be found at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/29/2024-19198/anti-money-laundering-regulations-for-residentialreal-estate-transfers and https://www. fincen.gov/rre-faqs#D_5

Date: 07/11/2026 Vylla Solutions, LLC 500 N. State College Blvd., Suite 1030 Orange, CA 92868 Automated Sale Information: (800) 7588052 or www.Xome.com for NON-SALE information: 888-313-

1969 LaTedran Franklin, Trustee Sale Specialist PPP #26-007601 7/20/26, 7/27/26, 8/3/26 WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee’s Sale No. CA-RTP-26021762 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 9/17/2025. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NOTE: PURSUANT TO 2923.3(C) AND 2924.8 THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED [PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE SECTIONS STATED ABOVE, THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO ABOVE IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT IS MAILED TO ALL REQUIRED RECIPIENTS] NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.servicelinkasap.com, using the file number assigned to this case, CARTP-26021762. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. On August 20, 2026, at 12:00:00 PM, AT THE NORTH FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 700 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE WEST, in the City of SANTA ANA, County of ORANGE, State of CALIFORNIA, PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC., a California corporation, as duly appointed Trustee under that certain Deed of Trust executed by AVENIR IMMOBILIER INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AS TO PARCEL A AND GHIATH AL SAMMANE AND NOUR ABOCHAMA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS, AS TO PARCEL B, as Trustors, recorded on 10/7/2025, as Instrument No. 2025000275556, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of ORANGE County, State of CALIFORNIA, under the power of sale therein contained, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and

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property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Property is being sold “as is - where is”. TAX PARCEL NO. 361-221-39 THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL 1 OF PARCEL MAP 89-247; IN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 248 PAGES 41 AND 42 INCLUSIVE OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY. From information which the Trustee deems reliable, but for which Trustee makes no representation or warranty, the street address or other common designation of the above described property is purported to be 4501 E. CERRO VISTA DR, ANAHEIM, CA 92807. Said property is being sold for the purpose of paying the obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, including fees and expenses of sale. The total amount of the unpaid principal balance, interest thereon, together with reasonably estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee’s Sale is $468,037.07. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 877-

237-7878, or visit www.peakforeclosure. com using file number assigned to this case: CA-RTP-26021762 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. NOTICE TO PERSPECTIVE OWNER-OCCUPANT: Any perspective owner-occupant as defined in Section 2924m of the California Civil Code who is the last and highest bidder at the trustee’s sale shall provide the required affidavit or declaration of eligibility to the auctioneer at the trustee’s sale or shall have it delivered to PEAK FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC. by 5:00 PM on the next business day following the trustee’s sale at the address set forth above. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of the first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale will be entitled only to the return of the money paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchasers sole and exclusive remedy. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. SALE INFORMATION LINE: 714-730-2727 orwww.servicelinkasap.com

Dated: 7/16/2026 FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC., AS TRUSTEE By Lilian Solano, Trustee Sale Officer A-4881122 07/27/2026, 08/03/2026, 08/10/2026

ANAHEIM PRESS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20266746290. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hemababa Books,

29, 2026. Publish: Anaheim Press 07/06/2026, 07/13/2026, 07/20/2026, 07/27/2026

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 20266746471. The following person(s) has(have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name: SOLA SALON STUDIOS, 20152 Milano Court, Yorba Linda, CA 92886. The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed in Orange County on: March 2, 2023. FILE NO. 20236657319 Full Name of Registrant(s): ALISOLA VENTURES LLC (CA, 20152 MILANO COURT, Yorba Linda, CA 92886. This business is conducted by an limited liability company (llc). SOLA SALON STUDIOS. /s/ ALICE B PERIQUET, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk on July 1, 2026. Published in: Anaheim Press 07/13/2026, 07/20/2026, 07/27/2026, 08/03/2026

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 20260006293

The following persons are doing business as: (1). MAURICE HANNA, CPA (2). MAGDY HANNA, CPA , 15338 Central Ave STE 116, Chino, CA 91710. Mailing Address, 15338 Central Ave STE 116, Chino, CA 91710. HANNA, CPA (CA, 15338 Central Ave STE #116, Chino, CA 91710; MAGDY HANNA, PRESIDENT. 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 June 1, 2026. 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/ MAGDY HANNA, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on July 6, 2026 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

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LA County board backs lawsuit seeking to stop media megamerger

By Joe Taglieri joet@civicnewsgroup.com

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday formally supported California’s lawsuit seeking to block Paramount Skydance Corp.’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

The board’s action follows a court-ordered temporary halt to the $110 billion proposed megamerger of two of the entertainment industry’s largest conglomerates.

“The Board is laser focused on the importance of the entertainment industry on our local economy,” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said at the board meeting Tuesday. “I’ve heard from constituents and residents who’ve spoken at our board meetings, concerned over job loss and the movement of industry jobs to other states and countries.”

The District 5 supervisor said the film and television industry is a key pillar of the county’s economy with over 171,000 jobs and a broader creative workforce totaling more than 300,000 workers.

“Hollywood is more than a place; It is an industry of writers, actors, technicians, creators, caterers, dry cleaners, and family-owned businesses whose livelihoods depend on a thriving entertainment economy,” said Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said in a statement. “LA County has a responsibility to fight for them, defend competition, and ensure the next chapter of Hollywood is written by the people who built it, protecting and strengthening our creative economy and cultural capital for years to come.”

The motion calls for the county to support the lawsuit filed last week in Northern California via legal support or filing an amicus brief.

The board also OK’d Barger’s amendment to the motion that directed county attorneys to provide a written report in 60 days that analyzes “all other legal options for the County to pursue to protect and preserve the television and film industry, including jobs, in Los Angeles County from the impacts of the prospective merger.”

During the meeting Horvath said, “The future of Los Angeles County’s entertainment industry and the livelihoods of the people who make it possible are at stake,” Horvath said during the meeting.

“Today we are sending a clear message — Los Angeles County stands with our workers, our creatives, our small businesses and every family whose future depends on this important industry,” the District 3 supervisor

added.

Earlier this year the county Department of Economic Opportunity reported to the board on possible impacts of Paramount’s takeover bid. The DEO estimated the merger could result in nearly 2,500 job losses in the county and roughly 6,000 positions globally.

The jobs most at risk are in corporate, tech, real estate and other shared functions because of duplicative roles in the two companies, according to the report. DEO analysts noted that the job-loss estimates are not a layoff forecast, but a report on the scale of possible employment impacts that may be subject to consolidation if a merger comes to fruition.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Araceli MartinezOlguin issued a temporary restraining order that put a two-week hold on the proposed takeover while the court considers whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the deal during the

full course of the lawsuit. The judge set an Aug. 3 hearing.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is leading a multistate coalition in the antitrust lawsuit, applauded the ruling as “a critical first win in our case to ensure this megamerger never sees the light of day.”

According to Bonta’s announcement of the lawsuit last week, the merger — which the U.S. Department of Justice and a number of other national governments have already OK’d — would lead to higher prices for consumers and less available entertainment content.

Bonta said the $110 billion merger, considered one of the biggest media deals of all time, would place one corporation in control of nearly one-third of all theatrical motion picture and basic-cable programming.

Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington have

joined Bonta’s lawsuit.

The court heard arguments Friday before Martinez-Olguin declined to immediately rule on the states’ request for a temporary restraining order.

A statement from Paramount last week said the suit “reflects a fundamentally flawed application of the antitrust laws and is wrong on both the facts and the law.”

Company officials said they “will vigorously defend the transaction and demonstrate that this challenge is inconsistent with sound competition policy and the competitive realities of the media marketplace. Delaying this transaction will only harm entertainment workers who have already suffered over recent years as technology has disrupted their livelihood and cost California tens of thousands of entertainment jobs,” Paramount’s statement continued.

“The combination of Paramount and WBD will create a stronger, well- capitalized,

creative-first media company that is better positioned to compete with companies like Netflix that have come to dominate the industry for audiences, premium content, and creative talent,” according to the company. “Put simply, any attempt to block this transaction undermines the very principles antitrust law is designed to promote: more competition, more choice for consumers, and more opportunities for creators and workers.”

Paramount’s takeover bid would combine Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., studios with histories spanning over 100 years. The merged corporation would also include the Paramount+ and HBO Max streaming services, the CBS broadcast network and cable channels such as CNN.

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has said the merger would honor the legacy of both companies while creating a “next-generation media and entertainment company.”

Ellison is the son of billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

The deal has faced opposition from some entertainment industry professionals and elected officials who argue it would further consolidate ownership in the media industry.

Over 1,000 entertainment professionals signed an open letter in April opposing the proposed megamerger, contending the deal would reduce competition in an already heavily concentrated industry.

Port of Long Beach to partner with US Maritime Association on new tech

By City News Service

The Port of Long Beach signed an agreement Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration with the goal of developing “small modular reactor” nuclear technology to power commercial vessels.

Port officials said the agreement represented a significant milestone, making Long Beach the first U.S. seaport to formalize a partnership with the maritime administration to establish nuclear-powered vessels. Under the agreement, the port and MARAD will collaborate with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Energy and the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission to help define operational protocols, safety standards and inspection processes needed to support the safe arrival and servicing of SMR-powered vessels at U.S. ports, as well as to develop and share other best practices.

The agreement is nonbinding and does not commit either party to funding, procurement decisions or the adoption of any specific technology.

CEO Noel Hacegaba said the agreement will allow the port to leverage federal leadership and private sector innovation for the development of this technology.

“We’re

billion in cargo annually to support 2.7 million American jobs, and we will continue our tradition of leadership as we partner to advance nuclear energy in maritime and beyond,” Hacegaba said in a statement.

Maritime Administrator Stephen Carmel said the agency is taking action to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding and secure energy dominance for the United States.

“This milestone agreement with the Port of Long Beach brings cutting- edge Small Modular Reactor technology into active testing. It ensures our maritime supply chains stay operational under any

contingency while training the next generation of highskilled American mariners,” Carmel said in a statement. The agreement comes after the federal government issued a request for information on May 7 regarding the development of a U.S.-built, scalable and commercially viable small modular reactor for the nation’s marine transportation system.

Port officials said their partnership with the federal government complements their recent lease agreement with BlueCore Energy Inc. The port is allowing the company to assemble, test and store maritime power modules on its property.

The gates to Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank and Paramount Studios in Hollywood. | Photos courtesy of Coolcaesar/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Gary Bembridge/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

building the Port of the Future in Long Beach, where we’ve led in global trade by moving $300

| Photo courtesy of Port of Long Beach

Food Access LA launches online EBT ordering

By City News Service

FoodAccessLA announced Thursday that CalFresh recipients can now use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards to purchase farmers’ market produce boxes online for home delivery.

The nonprofit said the expansion allows CalFresh recipients to use their existing benefits to order seasonal produce boxes sourced from local and regional farms through its Farmers’ Market Delivery program.

According to the organization, the online EBT purchasing option is intended to reduce barriers to accessing fresh food by eliminating transportation challenges, expanding payment options and making farmers’ market produce more convenient for households throughout Los Angeles County.

Food Access LA is an organization focused on expanding access to healthy food.

By City News Service

“Healthy food is not a luxury. Families deserve both access to high- quality produce, as well as meaningful choices about what they put on their plates,” Executive Director Jennifer Grissom said in a statement. “Online EBT purchasing modernizes our food-access infrastructure, while connecting more households with fresh, locally grown food.”

Food Access LA described the program as a farmers’ market produce subscription service that delivers seasonal produce from five to seven regional farms directly to customers. The organization coordinates deliveries, allowing participating farmers to reach more consumers without handling their own distribution.

Officials said the program is intended to benefit working families, seniors, people with disabilities, college students and others who may face transportation or mobility challenges.

“Families can now order fresh produce from home

while supporting small, local farmers who grow in California,” said Isabel Thottam, director of the eat! Food Distribution Program.

“Food Access LA handles the delivery, allowing farmers to focus on growing quality food, while we bring the farmers’ market access directly to shoppers’ doorsteps.”

Food Access LA said the program also is intended to strengthen the regional food system by supporting small and mid-sized farms and keeping food spending within Southern California.

The nonprofit encouraged eligible residents to enroll through its website at https:// foodaccessla.org.

Fortnite joins Halloween Horror Nights lineup

By City News Service

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios

Hollywood will feature a scare zone inspired by the popular video game Fortnite for the first time when this year’s event opens in September.

Inspired by Fortnite’s annual Halloween event, “Fortnitemares,” the attraction will immerse guests in a scare zone called “Freaky Fields,” where they will encounter the game’s iconic Battle Bus, familiar Fortnitemares characters and new creatures created exclusively for Halloween Horror Nights, according to Universal.

“Fortnite is a global ecosystem where players create, compete, and hang out with friends in an alwaysevolving world,” Universal Studios said in a statement.

“It’s highly-anticipated fall in-game event, `Fortnitemares,’ brings new char-

acters and horror-themed gameplay together every year.”

Halloween Horror Nights opens Sept. 3 and runs select nights through Nov. 1.

The Fortnite-themed scare zone joins a growing lineup for this year’s event that includes haunted houses based on the upcoming film “Evil Dead Burn,” the horror

County approves Altadena program to remove lead-contaminated soil

By Joe Taglieri joet@civicnewsgroup.com

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a program Tuesday to help Altadena homeowners remove soil contaminated with lead from their properties in the Eaton Fire burn area.

The program prioritizes households with standing homes where pregnant women or children younger than 6 years old live because of their greater vulnerability to health risks from lead exposure.

“Families whose homes survived the Eaton Fire have faced obstacle after obstacle,” Barger said in a statement. “Many Altadena residents have spent months waiting for answers while insurance companies have fallen short of meeting survivors’ legitimate needs. Today’s action is an important step forward to help residents safely restore their properties and move on with rebuilding their lives.”

The board authorized the LA County Development Authority to administer the Altadena Soil Remediation Program, expected to launch this fall, that will provide up to $3 million for enrollment, administration and soil remediation work.

The county will contribute $1 million from Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s Fifth District Climate Equity Account combined with $2 million from the 2025-26 state budget that funds the

California Community Foundation’s partnership with CONSORTIUM, a group that helps fire-affected families understand and address environmental risks. The acronym stands for CommunityOriented Network for Scientific Observation, Recovery and Tracking of Impacts from Urban Megafires.

According to Barger’s office, CONSORTIUM is an interdisciplinary collaboration that has led soil testing, scientific research and community outreach following the Eaton Fire. The group works with the Department of Angels and the Altadena Recovery and Rebuild Corporation.

CONSORTIUM members CAP.

LA, USC CLEAN and the LA Fire HEALTH Study will plan

how to implement the project and so community engagement “to ensure residents receive the resources and technical support needed to safely recover,” officials said.

The board authorized the Development Authority to oversee the program using an existing county contracting system.

The funding will not affect the county’s General Fund because it comes from Barger’s discretionary Climate Equity Account allocation, officials said.

The Eaton Fire destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures and caused the deaths of 19 people in January 2025. Overall damage cost estimates are between $20 and $30 million.

Hammer Museum names curators for biennial ‘Made in L.A. 2027’

By City News Service

The Hammer Museum announced Thursday that Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet will serve as co-curators of “Made in L.A. 2027,” the next edition of its biennial exhibition showcasing artists from across the greater Los Angeles area.

movie “Sinners,” Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and the “Hellraiser” franchise.

The “Hellraiser” attraction marks the first time the franchise has been featured at Halloween Horror Nights.

Universal has said additional haunted houses and attractions will be announced before the event opens.

The exhibition, the eighth in the “Made in L.A.” series, is scheduled to open in fall 2027, according to museum officials. The biennial highlights the work of local artists, with an emphasis on emerging and underrepresented voices.

Wellen became the Hammer Museum’s chief curator in April after previously serving as senior curator of international art at Tate Modern in London.

Blondet is a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

“For more than a decade the `Made in L.A.’ biennial has been a convergence point for artists in Los Angeles,” Hammer Museum Director Zoe Ryan said in a statement. “I am excited to watch Michael and José Luis develop an exhibition that will draw on the current dynamism and artistic legacies of this city. Both curators have a track record of working closely with artists and creating exhibitions with insightful frameworks that center their ideas.”

Blondet has organized exhibitions at MOCA featuring artists including Olafur Eliasson and Ana Segovia. Before joining MOCA, he spent 13 years at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he developed exhibitions, commissions and performance projects with numerous contemporary artists.

Made in L.A. debuted in 2012 and has become one of the Hammer Museum’s signatureexhibitions, highlighting artists working throughout the Los Angeles area, officials said.

Wellen organized exhibitions at Tate Modern featuring artists including Takis, Lubaina Himid and Philip Guston. He also previously served as assistant curator of Latin American and Latino art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Altadena homes in the Eaton Fire burn area. | Photo courtesy of Brian Feinzimer/Los Angeles County

| Photo courtesy of Anne Preble/Unsplash