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Pico Rivera Golf Course to Close After Six Decades Due to Whittier Narrows Dam Project After nearly six decades as a recreation destination for local golfers, Pico Rivera Golf Club will permanently close as the massive Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Project consumes surrounding parkland and facilities. By Brian Hews After roughly six decades of golf, community events and recreation, the Pico Rivera Golf Club will close permanently this month, another major local casualty of the massive Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Project. The final day of public golf will be Saturday, Sept. 19, with all golf course operations officially terminating Sept. 30, according
to a closure notice issued by the city. The closure includes the ninehole golf course, driving range and practice areas, as well as the restaurant and bar, banquet and event facilities, parking lot and bicycle gate. The city-owned golf operation sits on federal land controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is undertaking a multiyear project to strengthen Whittier Narrows Dam against the possibility of catastrophic failure during a major flood. The course has been part of Pico Rivera for approximately 60 years. Designed by noted golf course architect William F. Bell, the executive course is a par-29 layout measuring approximately 1,500 yards. City records place its be-
SOUTHEAST ACADEMY cadets present the American and California flags during the 25th anniversary 9/11 remembrance ceremony at John Glenn High School. The ceremony honored the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, their families, first responders and military personnel. Story on page 16. Photo Vincent Medina.
Newsom Signs [ See COURSE, page 6 ] Law Recognizing California’s Archuleta’s $1 Million State Investment Industrial Cities Opens New K9 Training Field and Dog Park Commerce, Santa Fe Springs, Industry and Vernon among cities covered by new definition
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covered by Los Cerritos Community News, joined La Puente officials, law enforcement officers, first responders and community partners Monday, Sept. 14, for the ribbon cutting of the new Paws and Play Park and Senator Bob Archuleta Canine Training Field. The facilities are part of La Puente’s long-planned expansion of its animal shelter operations. Archuleta secured $1 mil-
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation establishing an official definition of an “industrial city” in California law, a designation sought by Commerce, Santa Fe Springs, Industry and Vernon to give cities with relatively small residential populations greater recognition for the enormous workforces and industrial operations they support. Senate Bill 1274, authored by state Sen. Bob Archuleta and coauthored by Assemblymembers Blanca Pacheco and Blanca Rubio, establishes criteria for determining which California cities qualify as industrial cities. Under the new law, an industrial city must have fewer than 25,000 residents; have a majority of its jurisdiction zoned or used for industrial, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, energy production or other large-scale
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STATE SEN. BOB ARCHULETA cuts the ribbon Sept. 14 at La Puente’s new Paws and Play Park and Senator Bob Archuleta Canine Training Field. Photo courtesy of the Office of State Sen. Bob Archuleta.
By Brian Hews A $1 million state investment secured by State Sen. Bob Archuleta has helped bring a new dog park and specialized K9 training facility to La Puente, expanding a larger city effort to improve animal services while providing a regional training site for service and law enforcement dogs. Archuleta, whose 30th Senate District includes several cities
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Sacramento Bee Slashes Staff As Gov. Gavin Newsom Weighs State Aid For News Outlets By Dan Walters | Calmatters Reprinted with permission
When I and this column moved from the Sacramento Union to the Sacramento Bee 42 years ago, it was something of a culture shock.
clearly winning the competition in the late 20th century, but the game changed in 1966 when San Diego-based Copley Newspapers acquired the Union and declared a battle for dominance in the state capital. It was as much a political maneuver as a financial one. The
CUTS: Once one of California’s most influential newspapers with a large Capitol reporting staff, the Bee faces another round of deep staff cuts under owner Chatham Asset Management. (Getty images.)
The two newspapers had been cross-town rivals ever since both were founded, just a few years after the discovery of gold and California’s admission as a state. The Bee, still owned by the founding McClatchy family, was
Bee’s editorial page had long been a supporter of liberal policies, while Copley was solidly conservative. The Union’s new owner, Jim Copley, clearly wanted to bolster Republicans in the Capitol, particularly Ronald Reagan, whose [ See BEE, page 4 ]
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Former Trustee Chris Staples Launches Campaign for NLMUSD School Board Area 6 By Vincent Medina Former Norwalk-La Mirada Unified trustee Chris Staples kicked off his campaign for the district’s Area 6 seat Wednesday, telling supporters the district can set itself apart and improve enrollment by offering trade and career classes neighboring school districts do not. The Area 6 election is Nov. 3 and marks the first time voters in the area will elect their own trustee under the district’s new by-area map. Staples is running against Malaika Ware, a school counselor and first-time candidate who launched her campaign last month. Staples served on the Board of Education from 2020 to 2024 and was president in 2022. He is a 20-year district parent with a senior still attending La Mirada High School and now serves on the Citizens’ Oversight Committee that monitors Measure G bond spending. He said he sat out the 2024 election because the new map left no open seat in his area. Trustee Lorena Vidaurre left her seat on the board last winter, and trustees appointed Mark Copland to hold the Area 6 seat until November. The Nov. 3 election will be the first time Area 6
voters choose their representative directly. At her campaign kickoff, Ware presented herself as a mother of six, with children still attending NLMUSD schools, and as a counselor in a neighboring district who has never held elected office. She said the district needs to look more closely at families who live within Norwalk-La Mirada but enroll their children elsewhere. NLMUSD budget documents have projected enrollment in the mid-14,000s sliding toward the mid-13,000s. Staples does not see rising test scores alone as the way to reverse that trend. Scores fell during COVID and have been recovering, he said, but so have scores in Downey, ABC, Brea and Whittier. “If we come up three points in reading scores, and ABC comes up three points in reading scores, that’s not an incentive for ABC kids to come here,” Staples said. La Mirada High’s welding program is already a reason students come from outside the city, he said. He wants electronics, CNC machining, wood shop and, on the La Mirada side, auto shop — classes that could give families in Artesia or Whittier a reason to cross district lines. Three solid periods a day, he said, could draw 90 to 120 students the district does not have now. “We need to look at what shop classes our neighboring districts are not doing, and those are what we should be doing, be-
KICK OFF: Chris Staples talks with supporters including community members, city officials, former and current school board trustees during his campaign launch event for NLMUSD School board trustee for Area 6, on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Photo Vincent Medina. cause that sets us apart,” Staples said. He said raising scores and maintaining the programs the district already has will not be enough if neighboring districts can say the same thing. “Of course we can do better, but we should be doing more,” Staples said. Staples said funding for the new programs could come from grants, partnerships with unions and elected officials looking to fund similar initiatives. Staples said trustees do not have to vote the same way, but they should have the same goal: doing what is best for students. “The board is very fragmented right now, and not focusing on what it should be focusing on, which is the students,” Staples said. “I’m not running with an agenda.” Former trustee Karen Mor-
rison, who served with Staples on the school board and has endorsed his campaign, said Staples has always looked for ways to help the community. “For Chris it was just, it’s all about the kids and our community,” Morrison said. “With no hidden agenda, he was just serving our students and serving our district and families.” Trustee Jose Rios, who also served with Staples and has endorsed his campaign, said Staples was able to work with other trustees even when they held opposing views. “We agreed to disagree but at the same time, we talked,” Rios said. “We were able to communicate and come to an agreement, whether it was mine and his or made in the middle. All of our programs and all of our votes should benefit students. That’s
where we both agreed on 100%.” La Mirada parent Erin Berry, who has known Staples for about 10 years through Cub Scouts and school events, said he has continued to support the district since leaving office. “He has always supported my kids and all the kids that I know in the school district,” Berry said. “I see him at multiple events throughout the year, even after his original time on the school board.” Ware already has support from four sitting Norwalk-La Mirada trustees, including Copland, the appointed Area 6 member. Staples lists endorsements from the Teachers Association of Norwalk-La Mirada, La Mirada Councilmember Michelle Velasquez Bean, Norwalk Vice Mayor Margarita Rios, and sitting trustees Norma Amezcua and Jose Rios.
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Norwalk High School Receives State’s Top Civic-Learning Honor for Student Engagement
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alifornia Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero presented Norwalk High School with the state’s highest civic-learning honor Tuesday, recognizing it as the only California high school to receive a 2026 Civic Learning Award of Excellence. Norwalk High was one of three schools statewide receiving the Award of Excellence, joining an elementary school in Sacramento and a junior high school in Anaheim. The school received the Civic Learning Award of Merit in 2025. The award is co-sponsored by Guerrero and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and recognizes California schools for achievements in civic education and student engagement. The presentation was held in the Norwalk High gym as part of the California judicial branch’s Constitution Month commemoration. State Sen. Bob Archuleta emphasized the significance of the recognition and encouraged stu-
dents to understand their role in civic life. “Forty million people live in California, but today, one high school out of 40 million in population is being recognized for excellence, that’s Norwalk High School,” Archuleta said. “What you have to say, someone has to listen, because you are Norwalk, you are Lancers, you are the future of California.” Guerrero told students and staff that it was Norwalk High’s first Award of Excellence and said schools within the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District have now received civic-learning honors seven times. “From reading your submission and learning about everything that you’re doing, it’s quite fair that this honor is incredibly well deserved,” Guerrero said. “I am just so thrilled to recognize your high school, Norwalk High, with the Civic Learning Award of Excellence.” Guerrero said the award recognizes schools that make civic education a central part of their
TOP CIVIC HONOR: California Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero joins Norwalk High School students and officials after presenting the school with the 2026 Civic Learning Award of Excellence. Norwalk High was the only California high school to receive the Award of Excellence this year. Photo and story by Vincent Medina. mission. “The Civic Learning Award of Excellence honors schools and makes civic learning a cornerstone of their mission,” Guerrero said. “You have not only met, you have exceeded the standard for what civic engagement can and should look like at your high school.” She cited Norwalk High’s Government Club, Constitution Day celebrations, mock elections and guest speaker lunches among the school’s civic-learning programs. During the school year, Norwalk High hosted a Government Speaker Series that brought public officials to campus, giving students opportunities to ask how they entered public service.
Guests included Archuleta, Norwalk Vice Mayor Margarita Rios and Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District board member Espie Free. The Government Club also created opportunities for students to participate in civic activities on campus, including a mock election and Constitution Day celebration. Guerrero said the students themselves were an important part of what distinguished the school. “Each student has the capacity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others,” Guerrero said. “You are learning that rights come with important responsibilities, and that challenging issues take time, reflec-
tion, patience, and perseverance to resolve.” Guerrero said the habits students are developing — connecting with others, thinking critically and communicating with people who disagree with them — are important to the country’s democratic institutions. “In short, you give all of us hope that our democracy will not just endure but thrive,” she said. Guerrero then formally presented Norwalk High with the 2026 Civic Learning Award of Excellence for its efforts to provide high-quality civic education. “This is your work for all of you, and to be proud of what you have accomplished,” Guerrero said.
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election as governor was virtually simultaneous with Copley’s purchase. An old-fashioned newspaper war raged for the next few decades, especially in the coverage of politics, Sacramento’s economic mainstay. The cultures of the rivals were part of the conflict. The Bee was stodgy, dutifully but superficially covering politics and local stories, while the Union was feisty, specializing in investigations of political figures. The Bee became more aggressive when Gregory Favre became its editor in 1984, beefing up its staff of journalists and winning several Pulitzer Prizes. I was one of his first hires and, for the next 33 years, wrote this column for the Bee. At the time, the Bee and other American newspapers were making a lot of money by dominating local retail advertising and classified ads. However, the advent of the internet in the 1990s revolutionized the retail business and how it was advertised and virtually erased classified ads. Thus began the decline of the newspaper industry. The Sacramento Union was one casualty. Beset by advertising declines, a scandal in reporting its circulation figures, and ownership and managerial turmoil, the Union closed its doors in 1994. The Bee survived its 144-year battle
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with the Union but could not escape what was happening to the entire industry. McClatchy declared bankruptcy in 2020. As California’s newspapers shrank or vanished, the toll on coverage of politics and the state Capitol was heavy. At one time, almost every daily newspaper in the state had at least one reporter covering the Capitol, watching local legislators and legislation having local impacts. One by one, those bureaus and their watchdogs vanished, leaving only a handful of newspaper reporters covering the politics of the nation’s most populous and economically important state. However, some nonprofit organizations have arisen to fill the vacuum, most prominently CalMatters, whose founders believed the decline of political coverage was dangerous. I left the Bee in 2017 to join CalMatters, then just 2 years old. I saw what was happening to the Bee and other papers as they desperately tried to survive by cutting staff and how political coverage was declining. I believed Californians still wanted to know what was happening in the Capitol and saw CalMatters and other startups as potential saviors. So far, it has succeeded, growing exponentially as newspapers were cutting back. This foray into newspaper history is sparked by an announcement last week that Chatham Asset Management, the company that assumed ownership of the McClatchy chain in bankruptcy, is making very deep staff cuts at the Bee and its other papers. It’s another sad episode in the decline of a once-great newspaper that traces its origins to the Gold Rush. Ironically, it occurs as Gov. Gavin Newsom decides whether to sign or veto legislation that would give California news organizations refundable tax credits for maintaining their reportorial staffs.
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Bad Owners are Killing Good Newspapers
By Brian Hews
Dan Walters’ column on the latest cuts at the Sacramento Bee tells a sad story, but unfortunately it is one I have watched unfold across the newspaper industry for decades. I have owned and published a community weekly for more than 40 years. During that time, I have worked alongside plenty of journalists who came from daily newspapers. The daily and weekly newspaper worlds are very different. Not ethically. Not journalistically. A reporter is still supposed to get the facts right, ask difficult questions, attend the meetings nobody wants to attend and hold government accountable. The difference is how the newspaper gets produced — and how it gets paid for. At a small independent weekly, there is nowhere to hide. Someone has to cover the council meeting. Someone has to file the public records request. Someone has to write the story. Someone has to sell the advertising. Someone has to build the pages, meet the press deadline and make sure the newspaper gets delivered. And every Friday, you start all over again. Over the years I hired some very talented people who came from daily newspapers. Some adjusted. Others couldn’t. They weren’t bad journalists. They simply came from an environment where somebody else generally worried about where the money came from. At an independent weekly, the connection between journalism and the business that supports it is impossible to ignore. If the advertising doesn’t come in, there isn’t some distant corporate office to make up the difference. There is no newspaper. That’s why ownership matters so much. I’ve watched people who didn’t understand newspapers buy them and then try to operate them like any other business. Today we have the hedge-fund version of the same problem. The spreadsheet says cut expenses. So they cut reporters. Then photographers. Then editors. Then pages. Then printing days. Then they move the press deadline earlier because it’s cheaper or more convenient operationally. Eventually they have saved so much money that they’ve destroyed the product they were supposedly trying to save. Look at the Los Angeles Times. Its print deadlines became so early that its Sports section could no longer consistently give print readers something as fundamental as the results of games
played the night before. Think about that. You’re selling somebody a daily newspaper containing yesterday’s sports news because you’ve structured the operation so the newspaper has to be printed before the games are finished. Then management wonders why people stop buying newspapers. That’s not the internet’s fault. The internet unquestionably devastated newspaper economics. Craigslist virtually destroyed classified advertising. Digital advertising took enormous amounts of revenue away from newspapers. Readers changed their habits. Those are realities every publisher has had to confront. But bad ownership compounded the problem. You cannot respond to declining readership by continually making your newspaper less valuable to readers. Walters makes another point that should concern everyone, whether they subscribe to a newspaper or not. California once had reporters from newspapers throughout the state covering the Capitol. Local legislators knew somebody back home was watching. Most of those reporters are gone. The same thing has happened locally. When newspapers disappear or newsrooms are gutted, there are fewer reporters sitting through city council and school board meetings, reading agendas, examining campaign reports and filing public records requests. Government doesn’t stop doing things because the reporter disappeared. It simply has one fewer person watching. We’ve survived at Los Cerritos Community News because we’ve remained local, independent and advertising-supported. We distribute 40,000 newspapers every Friday. We’re certainly not the Los Angeles Times or the Sacramento Bee. But this little community weekly broke what former Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley called “the biggest financial scandal in Los Angeles history,” the Los Angeles County Assessor John Noguez corruption story; and we stayed with it when it mattered, even through several threats from local politicians. That experience taught me something I’ve never forgotten. The size of the newspaper isn’t what determines whether it can do important journalism. You need reporters willing to dig, editors willing to publish what they find — and, perhaps most importantly, an owner who understands why the newspaper exists in the first place. Once ownership forgets that, all the cost-cutting in the world won’t save it.
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Cerritos Council Rejects $5.7 Million Deal to Acquire Bloomfield Office Property Council rejects a deal exchanging future rent for a $5.7 million property Cerritos could own outright and lease for revenue. LCCN Staff Report The Cerritos City Council on Monday rejected a proposal to acquire a vacant office complex on Bloomfield Avenue through a $5.7 million credit against future ground-lease payments. The proposal sought authorization for the city to purchase the property at 16550 Bloomfield Avenue from the Alliance of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs. The site measures approximately 0.8 acre and contains two office buildings totaling about 15,700 square feet with 64 parking spaces. In place of a $5.7 million cash payment, the city would have amended ASCIP’s ground lease at the city-owned property at 12610 Park Plaza Drive to provide a $5.7 million rent credit. ASCIP previously occupied the Bloomfield buildings before relocating to 12610 Park Plaza Drive in the Cerritos Towne Center. ASCIP occupies the Park Plaza property under a ground lease with the city that extends through March 8, 2087. Under the proposed transaction, the $5.7 million credit would have satisfied ASCIP’s rent obligations attributable to the existing building area for the remainder of the lease. In return, Cerritos would have taken ownership of the Bloomfield property and could lease the buildings to another tenant, potentially creating a new rental-income stream. City Manager Robert Lopez introduced the proposal as an economic-development opportunity. “This is an economic development
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proposal to add to the City’s exist- tive, while ASCIP’s Park Plaza grounding real estate portfolio,” Lopez said. lease payments represented an existing “There are two existing office buildings revenue stream. on the subject proposed property meaMayor Pro Tem Mark Pulido resuring a total of about just under 16,000 cused himself from the item. square feet.” Councilmember Jennifer Hong The city had also retained Kosmont questioned the financial analysis and Companies, its third-party real estate the decision to acquire a property that advisory consultant, to conduct a fi- had remained vacant for nearly a year. nancial analysis of the proposed trans“Can council see that analysis inaction. Kosmont estimated the value cluding the assumptions, projected rent, of the future Park Plaza rent credit at present value and net financial benefits approximately $5.7 million to $6 mil- to the city?” Hong said. “Because we all lion and the fair market value of the know that 16550 Bloomfield is currentBloomfield property at approximately ly vacant with no tenants or occupants $5.5 million to $5.9 million. for almost one year because the tenant The negotiated $5.7 has already moved to million price therefore the 12610 Park Plaza fell within both valuaground lease that runs tion ranges. According until March 8, 2087. to the agenda report, They already been Kosmont concluded there for almost one year.” that the structure would allow Cerritos to acquire While Hong questhe Bloomfield property tioned whether sufwhile preserving availficient financial inable financial resources formation had been and continuing its longprovided to justify the term ground-lease relaacquisition, the agentionship with ASCIP. da report summarized Under the proposal, Kosmont’s financial Cerritos Councilmember Cerritos would have esanalysis and valuation Frank Yokoyama sentially exchanged $5.7 ranges. The underlymillion in future Park ing analysis, including the assumptions and Plaza rent for ownership of the Bloomfield property, rather calculations Hong requested, was not than paying $5.7 million in cash. The presented in the portion of the agenda city would retain ownership of the Park report describing the transaction. Hong also questioned why the Plaza property while also acquiring the Bloomfield land and buildings, which property had not been sold earlier and could then be leased to another tenant. whether acquiring it was appropriate The report also noted that ASCIP given the city’speriencing financial invested approximately $2.1 million in challenges. improvements to the city-owned Park “We have the budget deficit, so at Plaza property after relocating there, this time I have not seen sufficient evienhancing an asset that remains owned dence that acquiring this property is the by Cerritos. ASCIP also paid approxi- best way to address the city’s current mately $485,000 in related permit fees. No tenant had been identified for the vacant Bloomfield property. However, staff reported that it had begun outreach to businesses needing additional space. The city’s projected rental income from Bloomfield therefore remained prospec-
fiscal difficulties,” Hong said. Councilmember Frank Yokoyama focused on the loss of cash rent under the proposed transaction. “What this proposed transaction will do is reduce our liquidity, where we would be getting operating revenues in terms of cash rent payments, and we would instead not be getting those cash rent payments,” Yokoyama said. Staff confirmed that the city would forgo the Park Plaza ground-lease payments covered by the $5.7 million credit. Yokoyama later outlined scheduled increases in those payments over the coming decades and argued that the city should protect its cash flow while facing budget pressure. “Right now, we just have to be fiscally responsible, fiscally conservative, and not reduce our cash flow,” he said. Lopez clarified the structure of the deal late in the discussion. “We are not exchanging one property for another; that may be a misunderstanding,” Lopez said. “This proposal is to acquire a new property and, instead of paying cash outright, we are basically providing a credit on ground lease payments.” The debate ultimately centered on two competing approaches to the city’s finances: retaining an existing stream of cash rent. At the same time, Cerritos faces budget pressure, or converting approximately $5.7 million in future rent into another city-owned real estate asset that could generate its own rental income. A motion to approve the staff recommendation failed on a 2-2 vote, with Pulido recused. The proposed acquisition and related ground-lease amendment were not approved.
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ginnings in the mid-1960s, while Army Corps documents list its opening in 1968. For generations of residents, however, the course was less about its length or pedigree than its accessibility. The small municipal course offered inexpensive golf in the middle of a densely populated portion of southeast Los Angeles County and became particularly known for introducing young players to the game. The course nearly disappeared years before the dam project ultimately sealed its fate. By the beginning of the last decade, Pico Rivera’s golf operation was struggling financially and the property had deteriorated. The course reportedly lost approximately $1 million over a four-year period, and city officials considered whether keeping it open made financial sense. Instead of closing it, the city attempted a turnaround. New management took over in 2012, improvements were made to the course and facilities, and participation rebounded. Approximately 50,000 rounds were played in 2012, and the course placed renewed emphasis on making golf affordable for local residents and young players. The city later undertook a major renovation of the facility, extending the life of a course that at one point appeared headed for closure. But another, much larger problem was developing just to the north. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined that Whittier Narrows Dam presented an unacceptable risk and began planning an extensive safety modification project. Because the golf course occupies federal property associated with the dam and flood-control system, the project increasingly encroached on the facility. By 2022, construction activity had already forced changes to holes 5 through 8 and shortened the driving range. Confusion became widespread enough that the city issued notices assuring residents that the golf course remained open despite the work surrounding it. Another setback came Feb. 7, 2023, when a fire damaged a storage area associated with the pro shop and banquet facility. The golf course remained open while repairs were undertaken. It survived that, too. The Whittier Narrows project is different. The Army Corps project will require extensive use of the surrounding recreation areas as construction proceeds, forcing the indefinite closure of several Pico Rivera facilities. According to the city, the project will affect approximately 67% of Pico Rivera’s parks, open space and recreational space. In addition to the golf course, Streamland Park, Bicentennial Park and areas along
Sports Arena Drive and Rooks Road are among the facilities affected. Major construction on the dam is expected to continue for approximately five years. For the Pico Rivera Golf Club, however, the closure is not being described as temporary. After surviving financial losses, deterioration, reconstruction, years of dam-related disruption and a fire, the course will finally run out of fairway on Sept. 19. The last golfers will walk off a course that has been part of Pico Rivera for nearly as long as the city itself. For the front page, I especially like **“Pico Rivera Golf Course To Close After Six Decades”** because people will immediately recognize what the story is. A strong archival photo of the course—or an aerial showing the course beside Whittier Narrows Dam—would make this a very good above-the-fold package.
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lion in state funding for the project to help modernize and expand the city’s animal shelter, improve animal care and adoption services, and establish the specialized K9 training center. “This critical investment will improve animal care and adoption services, create a specialized training center for service and law enforcement K9s that will strengthen community safety,” Archuleta said. The project builds on a broader effort by La Puente to bring more animal-control services under direct city management. The new K9 training field adds a regional public-safety component by providing a dedicated location where service and law enforcement dogs can train. Archuleta, a longtime Pico Rivera resident, announced the $1 million appropriation in 2025 as funding to help complete the animal shelter expansion and K9 training center. Monday’s ribbon cutting marked the completion of a project that moved from a state budget appropriation to an operating community and public-safety facility.
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commercial uses; and support a daytime workforce exceeding its resident population. The designation addresses an unusual problem faced by cities such as Commerce and Santa Fe Springs: Their relatively small residential populations can obscure the much larger number of people, businesses and industrial facilities that depend on their roads, infrastructure and municipal services each day. “SB 1274 is an important first step that gives industrial cities a foundation to advocate for laws and policies that better
reflect our unique needs,” Commerce City Manager Ernie Hernandez said. “We now have a stronger voice in future policy discussions, ensuring our economic contributions and infrastructure needs are part of the conversation.” Commerce has approximately 1,800 businesses, with more than 60,000 people working at or patronizing businesses in the city each day. Santa Fe Springs has more than 3,000 businesses and approximately 55 million square feet of industrial and manufacturing space. “Santa Fe Springs has long balanced the needs of our residents with the significant infrastructure and services required to support one of the region’s major employment and industrial centers,” Santa Fe Springs City Manager René Bobadilla said. “SB 1274 recognizes that responsibility and gives cities like ours a stronger foundation to advocate for our needs at the state level.” The four cities advocated jointly for the legislation, arguing that traditional measures based primarily on residential population fail to reflect the demands placed on industrial cities. The disparity is particularly dramatic in Vernon, which has fewer than 250 residents but supports a daytime workforce of approximately 50,000 people. “For a city with fewer than 250 residents, Vernon supports a daytime workforce of approximately 50,000 people,” Vernon City Manager Brian Saeki said. “SB 1274 recognizes that economic impact and the unique demands that come with serving a workforce many times larger than our residential population.” Industry has more than 2,500 businesses and approximately 80,000 jobs. “For the first time, California law recognizes that population alone does not reflect the economic impact or demands of industrial cities,” Industry City Manager Joshua Nelson said. “SB 1274 gives our cities a stronger voice in the policies that affect our businesses, workers and infrastructure.” The legislation does not by itself establish a new funding program for the cities. Instead, the new definition provides a statutory framework that industrial cities can use as California considers future legislation, funding programs and policies affecting transportation, infrastructure, businesses and municipal services. The four cities form part of a major industrial and commercial corridor in southeast Los Angeles County supporting manufacturing, wholesale and distribution, transportation and logistics, food production, e-commerce and other industries. Archuleta represents the 30th Senate District, which includes several southeast Los Angeles County communities.
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Historic Wintersburg Awarded $50,000 Preservation Grant By Ernie Nishii Historic Wintersburg Conservancy has received a $50,000 grant to begin construction of foundations at the historic Huntington Beach site, marking an important step toward restoring one of Orange County’s last surviving Japanese American church and farming communities. The grant was awarded through the Placekeepers Fund of Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation, known as APIAHiP. Historic Wintersburg was selected from more than 60 qualified applicants nationwide, with only 14 organizations receiving funding. Historic Wintersburg was recently designated on the California Register of Historical Resources and has developed partnerships with APIAHiP, Preserve Orange County, Ocean View School District, Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition and Republic Services. The Conservancy also previously re-
ceived a George and Sakaye Aratani Community Advancement Research Endowment grant. The latest $50,000 award represents the organization’s first construction grant and will allow preservation efforts to move from planning toward physical restoration of the property. Historic Wintersburg traces the history of Japanese immigration and settlement in Orange County and includes the remains of a Japanese American farming community and religious center established during the early 20th century. The community’s history also is connected to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, when families were forcibly removed from the West Coast. Conservancy leaders envision the restored property as an educational site where future generations can learn about Japanese American settlement, farming, religious life
CURRENT VIEW: Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, one of Orange County’s last surviving Japanese American church-farm communities.
and the wartime incarceration experience. “Preservation funding at-large is already limited, and even harder to secure for historic sites related to underrepresented histories of underresourced communities,” APIAHiP Executive Director Huy Pham said. “We are proud to provide meaningful funding for the
growing demand to preserve places crucial to telling our nation’s Asian and Pacific Islander American history.” For longtime residents, the construction funding provides tangible evidence that restoration of the property is moving forward after years of uncertainty.
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One Flu Shot for Life? Michigan Researchers Take a Major Step LCCN Staff Report ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Every year, health officials face essentially the same problem: predict which influenza strains will circulate months in advance, then manufacture vaccines designed to protect against them. Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a vaccine that could eventually make much of that annual guesswork unnecessary. A new nanoparticle vaccine developed by University of Michigan Engineering researchers successfully protected mice against three different strains of influenza, according to research presented Aug. 24 at the American Chemical Society’s fall 2026 conference. Rather than targeting the highly variable proteins emphasized by conventional flu vaccines, the experimental vaccine targets a protein called M2, which changes much more slowly as influenza viruses evolve. That distinction could be important. Traditional flu vaccines primarily generate immune responses against hemagglutinin, a protein that makes up much of the influenza virus surface but frequently mutates. Because of those changes, health officials monitor circulating strains and manufacturers formulate new vaccines for each flu season. The Michigan researchers instead focused on M2, which is similar across influenza A viruses, including seasonal, swine and bird flu strains. Current seasonal flu vaccines typically contain three or four influenza variants selected in advance based on which viruses researchers believe are most likely to circulate
during the upcoming season. According to the University of Michigan, their effectiveness can vary considerably from year to year, particularly when the strains that ultimately spread differ from those selected for the vaccine. That is one reason scientists have long pursued a so-called universal influenza vaccine — one capable of providing protection across multiple strains and potentially remaining effective as the virus changes. “Our goal is to develop a broadly protective and more effective flu vaccine, so you don’t have to get a flu shot every season,” Fei Wen, a University of Michigan professor of chemical engineering and corresponding author of the study, told Michigan News. The researchers ultimately envision something considerably more ambitious. “Eventually, with enough effort and research, we believe that you might need one shot to be protected for life,” Wen said. That remains a goal rather than a demonstrated result. The vaccine has so far been tested in mice, and researchers still need to determine how long the protection lasts before moving toward its potential use in people. The vaccine uses virus-like particles, or VLPs, which resemble a virus closely enough to attract the attention of the immune system but cannot cause influenza. By presenting the M2 protein to the immune system on the surface of these particles, researchers hope to
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teach the body to recognize a feature shared by a much broader range of influenza A viruses. In the animal experiments, the vaccine was tested against three influenza strains. The ability to protect mice against multiple strains is what makes the results particularly promising, although successful results in laboratory animals do not guarantee that a vaccine will produce the same protection in humans. The technology is also notable for how the vaccine is manufactured. Researchers genetically engineered ordinary baker’s yeast to produce large quantities of the M2 protein. The yeast is then processed so that it produces noninfectious, virus-like particles roughly resembling influenza viruses but covered with M2 protein. Using yeast could provide another major advantage: speed. According to the University of Michigan, the process could produce large quantities of vaccine in approximately one month. Conventional influenza vaccines produced using chicken eggs can require about six months. The shorter production period could give scientists more time to identify circulating strains before manufacturing begins. More importantly, it could become particularly valuable during a pandemic or following the unexpected emergence of a new influenza strain, when months spent producing a vaccine can
have enormous consequences. The platform is also designed so researchers can alter it if the M2 protein itself changes. “If a new M2 strain does emerge out of nowhere, we’ll be able to quickly edit the vaccine,” said Trang Hoang, a University of Michigan doctoral student in chemical engineering and first author of the study. “Our method could improve pandemic response time.” The potential reach of such a vaccine extends beyond the familiar seasonal flu. Influenza A viruses circulate in humans and animals, and strains associated with birds and pigs have periodically raised concerns because of their potential to cross species and cause outbreaks. A vaccine capable of targeting a relatively stable component shared among those viruses could therefore have implications not only for annual flu seasons but also for preparing for future influenza pandemics. The researchers have licensed the technology to Esperovax, which is working to develop an oral version of the vaccine. For now, however, the work remains experimental. The researchers’ next step is determining how long vaccinated mice remain immune to influenza — an important question if the technology is ultimately going to fulfill its promise of eliminating the need for an annual flu shot. Even if the approach ultimately proves successful, considerable testing would still be required before such a vaccine could become available to the public. Human clinical trials would need to establish safety, determine appropriate doses and demonstrate that the broad protection seen in mice can be reproduced in people. The research was partially funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The research was reported by Sheila Waterhouse of Michigan News and published by University of Michigan Engineering.
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BUENA PARK-After two convincing victories to begin the E.J. Ashby era as Artesia High’s new head coach, the Pioneers were unresponsive against Gahr High on Sept. 4 following a poor week of practice. Then came the heat and humidity that forced Artesia to have just one practice (Sept. 8) ahead of its game last Friday at winless Buena Park High. While the first half against the Coyotes was sluggish, resulting in a scoreless game at the half, the Pioneers woke up just enough to post a 17-7 victory, spoiling Buena Park’s homecoming and 70th anniversary to the date. “The number one thing was bouncing back,” said Ashby, who had been an assistant on Artesia’s staff for 13 seasons. “You always want to know how your kids are going to respond to that type of loss [to Gahr], because it wasn’t just a close loss. It was a butt kicking. I did want to see how they were going to come back, especially with having one day to practice with all the heat and the distractions. “I knew we were going to be rusty in the first half; I saw that coming,” he continued. “But I’m glad we didn’t break. We didn’t give up any huge or big plays in the first half, so we stayed in it. And then our kids started to get the confidence at halftime; they started to realize that ‘hey coach, we can do this, we can do this’. It was good to see how they bounced back and responded.” While the offense couldn’t get much going in the first half, the defense did its job and limited the Coyotes to 55 yards, forced them to punt three times and got an interception from junior free safety Andrew Quarles with under a minute remaining. He would return it to the Buena Park nine-yard line. One play later, the game was halted due to a significant injury to Buena
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Park’s Qwantino Ornellas, who remained on the turf for a significant amount of time. With 35 seconds remaining in the half, both teams would be summoned to their respective locker rooms for an extended halftime as Ornellas was attended to. The Pioneers were held to 69 offensive yards and senior kicker Giovanny Martinez was short on a 41-yard field goal attempt with 1:37 left in the first half. Even though senior halfback Izayah Carranza was nearly the whole offense the Pioneers had in the half, gaining 69 yards on 11 carries, the game still remained scoreless. “Once I explained to them the situation [about Ornellas] how their coach and myself agreed to go into half at the time before the second quarter would
end, I explained to them this is our halftime right now,” said Ashby. We have the advantage because we’re getting the ball in the second half.” A key component to Artesia’s offense was absent in the half as junior running back Justin Pettus was serving a team rule infraction. However, he played the second half and displayed his talent, rushing eight times for 162 yards and scored on a 42yard run with 8:56 remaining in the contest. “The kids know my rule; they know I’m strict about it,” said Ashby. “If you miss two practices, you have to sit the whole half. If you miss one, I’ll make you sit in the first quarter. He knew it…and he said, ‘I’m sorry coach’. I had a couple of starters that couldn’t play the first quarter because they missed at least one practice.” Artesia got on the board late in the third quarter when Martinez redeemed
himself with a 34-yard field goal with 4:44 remaining, ending a seven-play drive which would be the longest for the visitors in the game. Three plays later in Buena Park’s second drive of the half, Quarles picked off Eli Yescas, the third string quarterback for the ‘Yotes, and returned it 37 yards to the house. “It was funny because yesterday, our [freshmen] team…one of our sophomore corners returned a pick-six,” said Ashby. “So Andrew was the main one on varsity telling me, ‘coach, coach, you have to give him a sticker’ because we give stickers to the varsity players for big plays. He said, ‘if I do it this game, you have to give both of us a sticker’. Well, he did, and now both of them have a sticker.” Then on the fifth offensive play of the fourth quarter, Pettus added his touchdown and the game seemed out of control as the Pioneers were limiting Buena Park to 71 yards on 25 plays. But Buena Park would put together its best drive of the game, crossing midfield for the first and only time in the game and ending an 11-play, 92-yard drive with a three-yard touchdown run from Elias Chavez. He ended the night gaining 56 yards on 16 carries. The Artesia passing game was nearly nonexistent as junior Zyir Lewis was three of six for three yards and a pair of interceptions. But Carranza in the first half and Pettus in the second half made up for that. Senior linebacker Kingston Waller led the defense with six and a half tackles while junior lineman Alex Beccera and junior safety Jorge Velazquez each had five tackles. Artesia will conclude the non-league portion of its schedule with a home game against San Gabriel High, hoping to avenge last season’s 34-22 loss, before heading into its bye week.
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Valley Christian to induct four legendary coaches at halftime of football game By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on X When Valley Christian High hosted Ontario Christian High last Friday in the 72nd Battle of the Shield football game, the school also celebrated the program’s 1986 CIF-Southern Section divisional championship. Now, the Defenders will celebrate the induction of a quartet of former coaches into their Coaches Hall of Fame, which expands to 19. During halftime of the game against St. Anthony High, the second of four straight home games and the HMGCommunity News Game of the Week, V.C. will induct former boys and girls tennis head coach Sheri Admiraal, former boys and girls cross country and track and field head coach Tim Becksvoort, Gene Bras, who coached half a dozen sports and is currently the decorated public address announcer for several of the school’s athletic teams and former girls soccer head coach Kim Looney, who is currently the girls athletic director. V.C. is coming off a 42-29 win against Ontario Christian to improve to 2-1-1 and has scored at least 35 points in three games. Last Friday against the Knights, senior Graham Lunzer completed 14 of 17 passes for 181 yards and threw a touchdown while gaining 124 yards on 22 carries with two more touchdowns. Sophomore running back Tae Cooley rushed five times for 55 yards and scored twice while sophomore wide receiver Eli Zoetewey caught five passes for 92 yards. Lunzer is closing in on 800 passing yards and has rushed for 306 yards while accounting for 15 of the team’s 18 touchdowns. The Defenders gained 403 yards on offense in defeating Ontario
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Cerritos dominates Gahr in fourth set to win league opener By Loren Kopff @LorenKopff on X Two city rivals who are now in the same league for the first time in over 30 years kicked off the debut of the new Gateway League opener last Thursday with pure intensity. On one side of the volleyball court was Cerritos High, which dons, no pun intended, 15 league championships while on the other side was Gahr High, with 23 league championships to its credit. We’ll have to wait a few more weeks to see if either school can add to those numbers, but for now, Cerritos has the advantage following a 25-12, 24-26, 3028, 25-11 victory. The Dons have won 10 of 14 meetings against Gahr since 2012, including the last six matches. And for Cerritos senior outside hitter and team captain Ceana Merino, who is in her third season on varsity with over 75 high school matches to her credit, she admitted this was the best win she has ever had with the Dons. “We have always wanted to play this game as they are our rivals, and they always wanted to talk just a bit,” said Merino. “So it made sense that we were angry and all of us wanted to push a little bit
Christian for the second straight season and third time since 2018. It’s expected that they will have similar, if not better results, against winless St. Anthony. The Saints dropped a 35-7 contest to St. Margaret’s High on Sept. 4 and have been outscored 79-32 in their three games. St. Anthony trailed 8-0 at the half and 21-7 entering the fourth quarter and has allowed 529 yards on the ground and 430 yards through the air. Last season, V.C. defeated St. Anthony 28-13 and has won three of the last four meetings with the downtown Long Beach-based school. Prediction: V.C. 35, St. Anthony 7 GAME PLAYED ON SEPT. 17 Contreras Learning Center (0-4) @ Cerritos High (0-4)-Despite scoring 84 points in its last two games, the last thing Cerritos needs is another loss before its bye week. The Dons came up short in a ‘no defense necessary’ game against Marina High, falling 66-56. The halftime score was 38-12 in favor of the Vikings, and the host Dons scored 30 points in the fourth quarter. Cerritos yielded 537 yards to Marina, which picked up its first victory this season. The Dons have now given up 165 points while scoring 94. Relief could be on the way against the CIF-Los Angeles City Section Cobras who have just over 30 members on the team and are coming off a 41-6 loss to Santee High. Contreras opened in 2006 and the best record the program has had came last season when it won eight games. The team has been outscored 179-28 in the four games. Prediction: Cerritos 42, Contreras 7
Justin Pettus gained 162 yards on eight carries with a fourth quarter clinching touchdown and junior free safety Andrew Qiarles returned an interception 37 yards to the house late in the third quarter. San Gabriel is on a three-game losing streak after falling to Costa Mesa High 45-7 last Friday. Since winning their season opener over Glendale High 20-16, the Matadores have been outscored 106-13 during the threegame slide. Costa Mesa scored three touchdowns each in the first and second quarters to gain a 42-7 halftime lead. Last season, in the only other meeting between the programs in over 30 seasons, San Gabriel came out on top 34-22 as Pettus rushed for 121 yards on 15 carries and scored once. “Next week is going to be important,” said Artesia first-year head coach E.J. Ashby on the San Gabriel game. “Just like Buena Park beat us last year, San Gabriel beat us last year as well and a lot of these players who are juniors, were sophomore starters that game. A lot of them are itching; they know that they want revenge. They know they need momentum going into homecoming [on Oct. 2] because we have Pioneer in our first league game.” Prediction: Artesia 31, San Gabriel 7
GAMES PLAYED ON SEPT. 18 San Gabriel High (1-3) @ Artesia High (3-1)-It has been an interesting couple of weeks for Artesia’s football team, but the Pioneers bounced back from a 31-3 loss to Gahr High with a 17-7 win over Buena Park High last Friday. All the scoring came in the second half as junior running back
Ocean View High (3-1) @ Gahr (2-0-1)-After having last week off to reflect on its two wins and tie against the two ABC Unified School District schools with an 11-man football program and its Artesia Blvd. neighbors, Gahr is back in action against an Ocean View team that has won three straight including last Friday’s 42-28 decision over Linfield Christian High. A trio of running backs have topped 100 yards for the Gladiators, led by junior Branden Martinez (20 carries, 282 yards, two touchdowns). Gahr will have to rely on its running game as nine different players have combined to catch 15 passes for 188 yards, and no player has more than four receptions.
more.” “I think this is what’s going to be great for both of our programs; to play competitive rival games that are meaningful to have consequences for league [placements] and playoffs,” said Cerritos head coach David Cuthbert. “It was a great game, and I’ve been looking forward to this for a couple of years once we knew [the new Suburban Valley Conference] was going to happen. “This is what we need and what our kids need; for both us and Gahr,” he continued. “I think it’s great for both of us to have; two great teams from the city of Cerritos going at it in league.” Gahr head coach Charity Dennis had similar inputs on the match, saying that her team viewed it as the first league match, adding that the team was excited to start the league out on a strong note and that they are excited to face Cerritos when the second round on league action begins on Sept. 29. Cerritos went wire to wire in the first set, gaining leads of 6-2, 11-5 and 21-9 as serving was paramount in the beginning with Merino depositing four of her team’s seven aces while five players had at least one of the 12 kills the Dons collected. Merino was already making ways to have a stellar match as she accounted for seven points, including four straight aces in the second serving rotation to open the lead to 21-8. “In the first set, I believe that we just played our own game and was consistent with our energy,” said Merino. “We were able to get a lot of our serves in and were able to move it around a lot to play with
different players.” The middle two sets were everything that would be expected from two city rivals who entered the game with a combined record of 26-7. The second set featured 13 ties and seven lead changes with neither team leading by more than two points through the first serving rotation. The Dons led 17-12 after junior outside hitter Ally Veron completed a fivepoint scoring spree with her sixth kill of the match. But the Gladiators would dominate the remainder of the set, first going on a 6-2 run, then tying the set three times before finding themselves down 24-22. But a serving error gave them new life and freshman outside hitter Kenzie Vikchai served the final three points, two coming off aces and the other on a block from sophomore middle blocker Amira Benton. “It was a little bit of a slow start in the first set, but I thought in the second and third sets, we showed up competing hard,” said Dennis. “It’s kind of a testament to the team and their fight. They are competitors; they’ll get after it.” The third set was almost similar to the second set in that there were 11 ties and six lead changes. But this time, the Gladiators held a 14-7 advantage until a serving error allowed junior libero Chloe Gomez to serve two straight points thanks to a kill from junior middle blocker Miranda Martinez and a block from her and senior middle blocker Kaylin Cho. The Dons would still trail until the first kill from sophomore middle blocker Peyton Hoyer put the hosts up 2322, From there, six more ties would be
The Seahawks are averaging more than 30 points a game and against Linfield Christian, they scored 14 points each in the second and third quarters to open a 35-14 lead. Ocean View is a running team as quarterback Trevor Vaivao, who completed two passes in three attempts for 66 yards, gained 168 yards on the ground and scored twice. The Seahawks rushed 42 times and picked up 349 yards against the Lions. For the season, Vaivao has gained 546 yards and scored seven times while the team has eclipsed the 1,200-yard mark and is averaging 312 yards on the ground. Ocean View fell to Gahr 43-35 in 2024 and 43-7 the season before. Prediction: Ocean View 38, Gahr 28 El Rancho High (4-0) @ La Mirada High (3-1)-An encouraging start to the season for La Mirada was briefly halted last Friday in a 49-28 loss to Brea Olinda High. The game was a one-possession contest until the Wildcats scored 14 points in the fourth quarter. Senior Josiah Fregoso scored two touchdowns and senior quarterback See NOTES, Page 12
generated, and the Gladiators would be at set point once until another kill from Hoyer and an ace from junior opposite hitter Leah Hidalgo gave Cerritos the advantage. “It’s what competitive volleyball is,” said Cuthbert. “We made a few more errors in those sets and Gahr made a few less, and they felt pretty good about themselves, and they had a lot of momentum going. We looked a little sluggish and we had to work really hard to turn that third set around. That was huge for us.” “There was a big energy switch,” said Merino. “As much as Gahr wanted it a lot, we wanted it a lot more, and we really showed it out there.” By then, it appeared that Gahr was beginning to lose some of their momentum they had gained the previous two sets even though they had an 8-6 lead. But another serving error gave the Dons a chance to seal the match and they took advantage of it. First, Veron served 11 straight points as she had five more aces and Hoyer had three kills. Then after junior outside hitter Violet Hackworth served an ace, Cerritos reeled off five straight points off the serving of Gomez, the final two in the form of the team’s 27th and 28th ace. “Her serving is super consistent; she always goes for it,” said Merino of Veron. “No matter what the score is, she’s still going to go for the serve and do a tough serve. I think that’s what we needed as See CERRITOS, Page 12
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Isaac Cuevas tossed one more. El Rancho is coming off a 47-28 win over Montebello High and has scored at least 25 points in three of the four wins, Quarterback Adrian Lopez was 26 of 37 for 288 yards and five touchdowns with three going to Nathan Carlos and the other two to Andres Centeno. Braylon Morrison rushed for 175 yards on 16 carries as El Rancho picked up over 250 yards from the ground and through the air. This is the first meeting between the two in at least 30 years. Prediction: El Rancho 31, La Mirada 21 Last week’s predictions: 4-2 Season to date: 15-7 GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL League play has started for the area teams and Artesia was blanked by Cerritos 20-0 on Sept. 9 in the MidCities League opener before posting a 25-0 victory over Savanna High this past Monday. The Pioneers (3-4, 0-1) faced Paramount High this past Wednesday and will travel to La Mirada on Monday
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before going to Santa Fe High on Wednesday. Cerritos improved to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in league play after a 22-8 win over Santa Fe this past Monday. After hosting La Mirada this past Wednesday, the Dons will travel to Paramount on Wednesday. In Gateway League action, Gahr blanked Bellflower High 12-0 this past Monday to improve to 8-2, 2-2 as the Gladiators entertained La Serna High this past Wednesday and will host Warren High on Monday before going to Mayfair High on Wednesday. John Glenn High dropped a 21-0 decision to Whittier High in its MidCities League opener this past Monday to fall to 3-4 overall. The Eagles welcomed Whitney High and will host Oxford Academy on Monday before going to Pioneer High two days later. La Mirada (2-4, 1-1) dropped a 6-0 affair to Paramount this past Monday after defeating Paramount by the same score in the Mid-Cities League opener while Norwalk High remained winless in nine contests this season. The Lancers entertained Pioneer High this past Wednesday and will go to Whitney on Monday before hosting Whittier on Wednesday. V.C., in its first season of fielding a girls flag football program, dropped a 35-7 contest to Western Christian High this past Tuesday to fall to 6-4 overall. The Defenders will travel to Fairmont Prep on Monday and Whitney (1-10, 0-1 in the Mid-Cities League) on Wednesday. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Artesia was swept by Whittier this past Tuesday just five days after dropping a five-set match to La Mirada. The Pioneers are 4-6 overall and 0-2
in the Rio Vista League as they will host Firebaugh High on Tuesday before going to Mayfair on Thursday. Glenn swept Pioneer this past Tuesday in a 605 League match to improve to 3-5, 1-1 as the Eagles visited Bellflower on Sept. 17 before hosting California High on Tuesday. La Mirada (5-16, 1-1) fell to Firebaugh in a five-set Rio Vista League match this past Tuesday and went to Whitter on Sept. 17 before hosting Mayfair on Tuesday in the first of four straight home matches through Oct. 6. Norwalk (12-8, 1-0) defeated Paramount 25-22, 25-17, 23-25, 2512 this past Tuesday in its Mid-Cities League opener as the Lancers travelled to Whitney on Sept. 17 and will go to Santa Fe on Tuesday before hosting Oxford Academy on Thursday. After going 4-1 in the La Jolla Tournament last Friday and Saturday, V.C. swept Maranatha High 25-17, 25-19, 25-16 this past Tuesday in its Olympic League opener. The Defenders (13-4, 1-0) hosted Village Christian High this past Wednesday and will go to Bishop Montgonery High and Heritage Christian High on Monday and Tuesday, respectively before hosting Whittier Christian High on Thursday.
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we needed to push through the set.” “I was very thankful for that run,” said Cuthbert. “I was very thankful to get a little bit of breathing space. Ally wants to be playing at her highest level all the time. I was so pleased for her to get that huge run which really blew that game wide open.” Even though the Gladiators dropped the match, Dennis was still pleased to see her team rally from deficits of five and four points in the second set and stay within reach in the third set. “We fell short in the third set, but the goal was to roll that energy over from the second to the third,” said Dennis. “There were big plays, but we fell short. It’s a little bit of luck and discipline, but this team is young, they’re developing and by the second round, we’ll be ready. “We have a lot of things to work on; dialing in on our serve receive, dialing in on our serving and dialing in on our communication,” she later said. “We’ll be back better than ever.” Hackworth led the Gladiators with 11 kills while junior setter Sykoya Molina and senior defensive specialist Raeana Sousa added nine and seven kills, respectively while Merino paced the Dons with 14 kills and eight aces while Veron had 13 kills and half a dozen aces. “She’s the heartbeat of our team,” said Cuthbert of Merino. “She’s so ex-
cited; she loves the game, she loves our team, she loves her teammates and she’s really, really talented as well. Whenever we’re feeling a little sluggish, she brings that [energy] for us. We lean on her in big moments, and she makes plays for us.” “In the past, we’ve only had one chance to really show them that we could win against [Gahr],” said Merino. “But now that we have them [in league], we can play them twice and really show them that we are winners.” After winning all three of its pool play matches in the Bellflower-Gahr Volleyball Classic the next day, the Gladiators went 1-1 in the playoffs last Saturday to see their record go to 19-8. Gahr visited Warren High on Sept. 17 and will return home on Tuesday against Downey High to end the first round of league action. Cerritos (16-4) also swept through its pool play action in the same tournament before going 1-2 in the playoffs last Saturday. The Dons will host La Serna High on Tuesday to wrap up the first round of league action. The rematch will be on Sept. 29th at Gahr. “Oh, I’m sure it’s up there; I don’t know if my memory is good enough to totally say that this was number one,” said Cuthbert on the topic of his best win at Cerritos. “But it was a great day; really competitive, loud in the gym, close games [and] going to extra points.” “This game is always so fun; just good energy on both sides of the bench,” said Dennis. “From Cerritos as well as us, this is a game that everyone wants to win. Everyone wants to watch ‘the Cerritos game’ they call it. So, we expected the high energy. We just fell short in the end. But we’ll get them in the second round.”
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Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 9/15/26 LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF BELLFLOWER ORDINANCE NO. 1152 1460
Mayra Ochiqui, City Clerk Dated: September 18, 2026 For a translated version of this notice or more information regarding this election, please visit www.bellflower.org or contact the City Clerk’s Office at (562) 804-1424, ext. 2271.
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT CASE NO. ZOTA 26-01 AMENDING CHAPTER 17.66 (HOUSING OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY ZONE “HOOZ”) OF THE BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADDRESS USES AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS TO IMPLEMENT THE HOUSING ELEMENT Pursuant to Government Code Section 36933(b), Ordinance No. 1460 is summarized as follows: Ordinance 1460 would approve Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Case No. ZOTA 26-01 amending Chapter 17.66 (Housing Opportunity Overlay Zone “HOOZ”) of the Bellflower Municipal Code to address uses and development standards to implement the Housing Element. Ordinance No. 1460 had its first reading on August 24, 2026, its second reading on September 14, 2026, and was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council of the City of Bellflower at its Regular Meeting of September 14, 2026, by the following vote to wit: AYES: Council Members –
Sanchez, Dunton, Koops, Morse, and Mayor Santa Ines
Effective Date: October 14, 2026. For a copy of Ordinance No. 1460, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (562) 804 1424. Approved as submitted above: Karl H. Berger, City Attorney ATTEST: Mayra Ochiqui, City Clerk
Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 9/18/26
Published at Los Cerritos Community News 9/18/26 CITY OF LA MIRADA NOTICE INVITING BIDS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO. 2018-01 TELEGRAPH ROAD REHABILITATION FROM LEFFINGWELL ROAD TO IMPERIAL HIGHWAY Notice is hereby given that the City of La Mirada, California invites sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, equipment, and services for Capital Improvement Project No. 2018-01, Telegraph Road Rehabilitation From Leffingwell Road to Imperial Highway. Work includes pavement rehabilitation of the City portion of Telegraph Road from Leffingwell Road to Hutchins Drive and the slurry seal of Telegraph Road, full width from Hutchins Drive to Imperial Highway. Work also included the removal and reconstruction of PCC sidewalk and minor curb and gutter removal and reconstruction. The traffic signal at Springview Drive and Telegraph Road will be modified on the City half of the roadway, along with signing and striping improvements in the City of La Mirada. Project Documents are available online from American Reprographics Company (ARC). Bidders may obtain free copies of the Plans, Specifications and other Contract Documents online by visiting the ARC Southern California website: https://customer.e-arc.com/ arcEOC/PWELL_Main.asp?mem=29. Look under PUBLIC PLANROOM and click GO, then search for City of La Mirada from the dropdown list titled “in all company”. You can also contact ARC at (949) 660-1150 or costamesa.planwell@e-arc.com to request Plans and Specifications. Sealed bids shall be delivered to the City Clerk at or before 11 a.m. on October 15, 2026. Bids must be submitted on the blank forms, prepared and furnished for that purpose and included in the Plans and Specifications. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or delete portions of any or all bids, or waive any informality or irregularity in the bid or the bid procedures. Leticia Revilla, City Clerk Published at La Mirada Lamplighter Newspaper 9/18 and 9/25/26 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700–21716 of the CA Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of CA Commercial Code, Sections 1812.600 –1812.609, Section 1988 of CA Civil Code and Section 535 of the CA Penal Code. The undersigned will be sold at a public auction conducted on www.storagetreasures.com ending on Wednesday October 7,2026 at 10:00am. The personal property including: general household goods, electronics, tools, personal effects, and or miscellaneous items are stored at: Cerritos Self Storage, 16515 Valley View Ave., Cerritos, County of Los Angeles, State of California by the following: Name Unit # Randolph A Rykschroeff F66 Purchases must be made in CASH ONLY and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Self Storage Management Company Bond #: WLI1254152 Published at Los Cerritos Community News 9/18 and 9/2526
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec 6101 et seq. and B&P 24074 et seq.) Escrow No. 150-33694-SC (1) Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named Seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made on personal property hereinafter described. (2) The name and business addresses of the seller are: MAJEC INC., 11688 SOUTH STREET, #103, ARTESIA, CA 90701 (3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is: 11688 SOUTH STREET, #103, ARTESIA, CA 90701 (4) The names and business address of the Buyer(s) are: SEBASTIAN MILITANTE AND/OR ASSIGNS, 9027 SORBONNE WAY, BUENA PARK, CA 90620 (5) The assets to be sold are described in general as: THE BUSINESS TRADE NAME, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL, LEASEHOLD INTEREST, LEASEHOLD IMPROVMENTS, INVENTORY OF STOCK, COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE, AND OTHER ASSETS of a certain business known as BAKERS & BARISTAS SUPERETTE and are located at: 11688 SOUTH STREET, #103, ARTESIA, CA 90701 (6) The business name used by the Seller(s) at said location is: BAKERS & BARISTAS SUPERETTE (7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is OCTOBER 6, 2026 at the office of: GLEN OAKS ESCROW, 2334 HUNTINGTON DRIVE, SAN MARINO, CA 91108, Escrow No. 150-33694-SC, Escrow Officer: SHARI CHEN (8) Claims may be filed with Same as “7” above. (9) The last date for filing claims is: OCTOBER 5, 2026. (10) This bulk sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. (11) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are:. BUYER(S): SEBASTIAN MILITANTE 5430690-PP LOS CERRITOS COMMUNITY NEWS 9/18/26 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE (UCC Sec. 6101 et seq. and B & P Sec. 24074 et seq.) Escrow No. 020104-MK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license is about to be made. The names of the Seller/Licensee are: CC FAMILY, INC., 18921 NORWALK BLVD., ARTESIA, CA 90701 The business is known as: CHUNG DAM TOFU The names of the Buyer/Transferee are: HJ BKL INC., 18921 NORWALK BLVD., ARTESIA, CA 90701 As listed by the Seller/Licensee, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller/Licensee within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer/Transferee are: NONE The assets to be sold are described in general as: FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT, TRADENAME, GOODWILL, LEASE, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENT, COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE WITH ABC LICENSE together with the following described alcoholic beverage license(s): 611964 and are located at: 18921 NORWALK BLVD., ARTESIA, CA 90701 The kind of license to be transferred is: 41-611964 ON-SALE BEER AND WINE-EATING PLACE now issued for the premises located at: 18921 NORWALK BLVD., ARTESIA, CA 90701 The anticipated date of sale/transfer is: NOVEMBER 25, 2026 at the office of: HANA ESCROW, 6281 BEACH BLVD., SUITE 333, BUENA PARK, CA 90621 It has been agreed between the Seller/Licensee and the intended Buyer/Transferee, as required by Sec. 24073 of the Business and Professions Code, that the consideration for the transfer of the business and license is to be paid only after the transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Dated: SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 CC FAMILY, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION Seller/Licensee(s) HJ BKL INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, Buyer/ Transferee 5423592-PP LOS CERRITOS COMMUNITY NEWS 9/18/26
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CITY OF PICO RIVERA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE OF A SPECIAL PUBLIC HEARING FOR A BILLBOARD DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT (BDA-26-01) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of Commerce will conduct a Special Meeting on Monday, September 21, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. to consider the following items: BDA No. 26-01 (Applicant: Morley Justman): A request to allow the conversion of a previously approved on-site digital sign into an off-site digital freeway-oriented billboard sign through the approval of a Development Agreement pursuant to Commerce Municipal Code, Title 19, Chapter 19.25 (Signs), Division 4. – Off-Site Digital Billboard Signs at a property located at 6300 Telegraph Road within the Light Manufacturing (M-1) zoning district. The Planning Commission will consider the proposed project and Development Agreement and make a recommendation to the City Council concerning adoption. The proposed project is consistent with the goals, policies, and objectives of the Commerce General Plan. PURSUANT to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA; Public Resources Code § 21000 et seq.), the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 (Class 1 - existing facilities), as it involves minor physical alterations to an existing structure with no expansion of dimensions or height, and Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption), as it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity may have a significant effect on the environment. MEETING INFORMATION: The meeting will be held at the City of Commerce, Council Chambers, 5655 Jillson Street, Commerce, CA 90040, at which time proponents and opponents of the proposed project will be heard. Any comments, objections, or other information may be offered in person at the time of the hearing or in writing, prior to the hearing. We encourage you to submit written comments supporting, opposing, or otherwise commenting on an agenda item for distribution to the Planning Commission before the meeting. Send emails to planning-division@commerceca.gov by September 21, 2026 by 3:00 p.m. or written correspondence may be sent to: City of Commerce, Community Development Department, 2535 Commerce Way, Commerce, CA 90040 or may be contacted at: (323) 722-4805 ext. 2820. STATE GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65009 NOTICE: If you challenge this application in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. THE PLANNING COMMISSION Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 9/11/26 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE File No.:25-373376 A.P.N.:8037-025-084 Property Address.: 13501 AVENIDA SANTA TECLA #21 IE, LA MIRADA, CA 90638. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED (The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owners) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED JULY 05, 2007. 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. A public auction sale 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 interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. The property described heretofore is being sold “as is”. 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 Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor(s): HAROLD E. CAPPS, A WIDOWER Duly Appointed Trustee: Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid and Crane, LLP DEED OF TRUST Recorded on July 11, 2007 at Instrument No 20071639763 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California Sale Date: 10/9/2026 Sale Time: 11:00 AM Sale Location: At The Courtyard located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $666,256.76 (Estimated) Street Address or other common designation of real property: 13501 AVENIDA SANTA TECLA #211E, LA MIRADA, CA 90638. See Legal Description - Exhibit “A” attached here to and made a part hereof. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. 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 first publication of this Notice of Sale. 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. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDER(S): 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 PROPERTY OWNER(S); 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 (866-684-2727) or visit the website http://www.servicelinkasap.com using the file number assigned to this case 25-373376. 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(S): Effective January 1, 2021, you may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to California Civil Code Section 2924m. 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 (866-684-2727) or visit the website http://www.servicelinkasap.com. using the file number assigned to this case 25-373376 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. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid and Crane, LLP Date 8/31/2026 By: Jonathan Meisels Authorized Signatory 13010 Morris Road. Suite 450 Alpharetta. GA 30004 Phone: 858-997-1304 SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT HTTP://WWW.SERVICELINKASAP.COM FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (866-684-2727) The above-named trustee may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. CA DPFI Debt Collection License # 11461-99; NMLS ID 2591653. To the extent your original obligation was discharged or is subject to an automatic stay of bankruptcy under Title 11 of the United States Code, this notice is for compliance and/or informational purposes only and does not constitute an attempt to collect a debt or to impose personal liability for such obligation. However, a secured party retains rights under its security instrument, including the right to foreclose its lien. LEGAL DESCRIPTION - EXHIBIT A A CONDOMINIUM COMPRISED OF: PARCEL 1: THAT PORTION OF LOT 1 OF TRACT 30864, IN THE CITY OF LA MIRADA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 850, PAGES 54 AND 55 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER Of SAID COUNTY AND DEFINED AS UNIT 82 ON THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM PLAN (THE “CONDOMINIUM PLAN” HEREIN) RECORDED ON DECEMBER 23, 1974 LN BOOK M4871, PAGE 436, ET SEQ., OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SAID COUNTY, AND REFERRED TO AN INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THAT CERTAIN NOTICE OF ADDITION OF TERRITORY AND SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF EASEMENTS, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICT IONS FOR LA MIRADA LANDMARK ADULT COMMUNITY-PHASE II, RECORDED ON DECEMBER 23,1974 IN BOOK M4871, PAGE 463, ET SEQ., OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SAID COUNTY (THE “SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION” HEREIN). PARCEL 2: AN UNDIVIDED 1/90TH INTEREST IN AND TO THOSE PORTIONS OF LOT 1 OF TRACT NO. 30864, SHOWN AND DEFINED AS COMMON ARE A (THE “COMMON AREAS” HEREIN) ON THE CONDOMINIUM PLAN AND IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION. EXCEPT THEREFROM ALL OIL, GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS AND ALL OTHER MINERALS, WHETHER SIMILAR TO THOSE HEREIN SPECIFIED OR NOT, WITHIN OR THAT MAY BE PRODUCED FROM THE PROPERTY; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ALL RIGHTS AND INTEREST IN THE SURFACE OF THE PROPERTY ARE HEREBY CONVEYED TO GRANTEE, NO RIGHT OF INTEREST OF ANY KIND THEREIN, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED BEING EXCEPTED OR RESERVED TO GRANTOR EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY SET FORTH, AS RESERVED BY STANDARD OIL COMPANY IN DEED RECORDED DECEMBER 31, 1970 LN BOOK D4930, PAGE 968, OFFICIAL RECORDS. PARCEL 3: AN EASEMENT FOR THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF POSSESSION AND OCCUPANCY OF THOSE PORTIONS OF THE COMMON AREAS OF LOT 1 OF TRACT NO. 30864, SHOWN AND DESIGNATED ON THE CONDOMINIUM PLAN AS PATIOS, BALCONIES, STAIRWAYS AND LANDINGS, AND SHOWN, DEFINED AND/OR DESIGNATED ON THE CONDOMINIUM PLAN AND/OR IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION AS BEING APPURTENANT TO PARCEL 1 ABOVE. PARCEL 4: A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR INGRESS, EGRESS, TRAVEL AND PRIVATE STREET PURPOSES, OVER, ACROSS AND THROUGH LOTS 4 AND 5 OF TRACT 30550 AS SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 822, PACES 95 TO 97 INCLUSIVE OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF LOS ANGELES, AND LOT 2 OF TRACT 30864, WHICH NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT SHALL BE APPURTENANT TO PARCEL 1 ABOVE AND SHALL BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF GRANTEE, HIS SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, GUESTS, SERVANTS, LICENSEES AND INVITEES. PARCEL 5: A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT APPURTENANT TO PARCEL 1 ABOVE, AS SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 5.4 OF THE MASTER DECLARATION AS SUPPLEMENTAL BY SECTION 11.7 OF THE MASTER DECLARATION, WHICH SECTIONS ARE BY THIS REFERENCE INCORPORATED HEREIN AND MADE A PART THEREOF. PARCEL 6: A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT/APPURTENANT TO PARCEL 1 ABOVE, AS SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AND SET FORTH IN SECTION 11.1 OF THE MASTER DECLARATION AS SUPPLEMENTED BY SECTION 11.7 OF THE MASTER DECLARATION, WHICH SECTIONS AREA BY THIS REFERENCE INCORPORATED AND MADE A PART HEREOF. A-4885660 09/11/2026, 09/18/2026, 09/25/2026
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number 2026174669 THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: CAP E 16013 E. CRESTLINE DRIVE, LA MIRADA, CA 90638, LOS ANGELES COUNTY Registered Owners: EDWARD ENG, 16013 E. CRESTLINE DRIVE, LA MIRADA, CA 90638; BRANDON ENG, 2241 HYPERION AVE, UNIT A4, LOS ANGELES, CA 90027. This business is conducted by a GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /S/ EDWARD ENG, GENERAL PARTNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 8/13/26. In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the affidavit of identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State or Common Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). LCCN [insert your 4 publication dates, e.g. 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25/26
The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the project described below. You are receiving this notice because your property is located near the project or because you have requested to be notified. Project Location:
8401 Slauson Avenue (Attachment A) Assessor’s Parcel Number: 6369-012-015
Project Description:
Conditional Use Permit No. 766 a request to operate a warehouse and distribution facility in the General Industrial (IG) zone.
Environmental Review:
The proposed project is categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 – Existing Facilities. None of the exceptions to the exemptions under CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2 apply.
The Planning Commission Public Hearing will be held: DATE:
Monday, September 21, 2026
TIME:
6:00 p.m.
PLACE:
City Hall Council Chambers 6615 Passons Boulevard Pico Rivera, CA 90660
If you challenge the action taken on this proposal in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing, described in this Notice, or written in correspondence delivered to the City of Pico Rivera City Clerk prior to or at the public hearing. Additional information online or in person can be obtained here: Project Planner:
Aneli Gonzalez, Assistant Planner aneli.gonzalez@pico-rivera.org 562-801-4307 Community & Economic Development Department 6615 Passons Boulevard, Pico Rivera, California https://www.pico-rivera.org/our-city/city-commissions/planningcommission/
Email public comments to aneli.gonzalez@pico-rivera.org prior to 4:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. ****************************************************************************************************** In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of Pico Rivera is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for a person with a disability. Please contact City Clerks Office at (562) 801-4389 if special program accommodations are necessary and/or if program information is needed in an alternative format. Special requests must be made in a reasonable amount of time in order that accommodations can be arranged. Attachment “A”
Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 9/11/26 ABC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE CALLING FOR BID NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ABC Unified School District will receive up to but not later than 2:00 PM on the 20th day of October 2026 Bids for: ABC Bid # 1708 Gonsalves Elementary School Modernization All bids shall be made and presented on a form furnished by the District. Bids submitted shall conform to the terms and conditions stated on said form. Bids shall be received in the office of the Purchasing Department at 16700 Norwalk Blvd., Cerritos, CA 90703 and shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the above-stated time and place. There will be a mandatory Job Walk Meeting on September 22, 2026 at 9:00 AM sharp at the front of the Administration building at Gonsalves Elementary School (13650 Park Street, Cerritos, CA 90703). To prequalify to bid, bidders and subcontractors with contractor license class of A, B, C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 or C-46 must submit Prequalification package no later than October 15, 2026. Prequalification Package is available to enter and submit at the PQ Website https://pqbids.com/abc-usd-ab2031/ All public works are subject to prevailing wage payments, Valid License valid Class B General Contractor’s License and DIR Registration will be required. Los Cerritos News
September 11, 2026 September 18, 2026
Published at Los Cerritos Community Newspaper 9/11 and 9/18/26 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. 26TRCP00293 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SHAHROOZ KERMANSHAHI GOVAHI AND FOR MINOR DANIEL GOVAHI KERMANSHAHI, filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: SHAHROOZ KERMANSHAHI GOVAHI TO SHAHROOZ GOVAHI AND DANIEL GOVAHI KERMANSHAHI TO DANIEL GOVAHI. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant a petition without a hearing. Court date OCTOBER 9, 2026, at the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 825 Maple Ave., room 100, Torrance, California, 90503, Torrance Courthouse. Published at Los Cerritos Community News 8/28, 9/4, 9/11, 9/18/26.
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To advertise call 562-407-3873 NOTICE INVITING BIDS FOR ARTESIA BOTANICAL GARDEN PROJECT Bid Number: 2026-008 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Artesia, California (“City”) invites sealed Bids for the Project. The City will receive such Bids at the City Clerk’s office, City Hall, 18747 Clarkdale Avenue, Artesia, California 90701 up to 3:00 p.m., October 12, 2026, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. SCOPE OF WORK. The Project includes, without limitation, furnishing all necessary labor, materials, equipment and other incidental and appurtenant Work necessary to satisfactorily complete the Project, as more specifically described in the Contract Documents. This Work will be performed in strict conformance with the Contract Documents, permits from regulatory agencies with jurisdiction, and applicable regulations. The quantity of Work to be performed and materials to be furnished are approximations only, being given as a basis for the comparison of Bids. Actual quantities of Work to be performed may vary at the discretion of the City Engineer. OBTAINING BID DOCUMENTS. Bidders may obtain free copies of the Plans, Specifications and other Contract Documents online by visiting:
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MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING AND SITE VISIT. A mandatory pre-bid meeting and site visit will be on September 15, 2026 at 9:30 A.M. at 11462 178TH Street in Artesia, Ca. 90701. Every Bidder is required to attend the pre-bid meeting and project site visit. Failure of a Bidder to attend will render that Bidder’s Bid non-responsive. No allowances for insurance cost adjustments procedures. Real dental ANNOUNCEMENTS will be made gutter if a Bidder fails toforever! adequately examine -the Project before submitting a Bid. Eliminate cleaning NOT justsite a discount plan. Do not
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Ana Bogdan CASE NO. 26STPB09707 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Ana Bogdan, aka Ana Buzle: A PETITION FOR PROBATE HAS BEEN FILED BY Simona Ani Bogdan IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012, IN THE PROBATE COURT AT THE STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE. The Petition for Probate requests that Simona Ani Bogdan be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with full authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: SEPTEMBER 28, 2026, 8:30 AM, DEPARTMENT 308 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012, IN THE PROBATE COURT AT THE STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the california probate code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the california probate code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (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. Petitioner Without an Attorney: SIMONA ANI BOGDAN, 14733 Jalisco Road, La Mirada, CA 90638, (714) 280-6567 LCCN 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25/26 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PAUL MARK WEINSTEIN CASE NO. 26STPB09921 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of PAUL MARK WEINSTEIN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHERYL ANN HASENBECK in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHERYL ANN HASENBECK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/02/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 610 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner ZEV S. BROOKS - SBN 162830 LAW OFFICE OF ZEV BROOKS 18627 BROOKHURST ST., PMB 435 FOUNTAIN VALLEY CA 92708 Telephone (714) 965-0179 BSC 228992 9/11, 9/18, 9/25/26 CNS-4075915# LOS CERRITOS COMMUNITY NEWS NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANDREW GUERRERO CASE NO. 26STPB10097 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ANDREW GUERRERO. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ARTHUR GUERRERO in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ARTHUR GUERRERO 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: 10/07/26 at 8:30AM in Dept. 614 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner JOHN LEWIS, ESQ. - SBN 216119 THE LAW OFFICE OF LEWIS & LEWIS, APC 14241 E. FIRESTONE BLVD., STE. 400 LA MIRADA CA 90638 Telephone (562) 293-4073 9/18, 9/25, 10/2/26 CNS-4077248# LA MIRADA LAMPLIGHTER
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Sharon Renee Williams CASE NO. 26STPB08339 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Sharon Renee Williams : A PETITION FOR PROBATE HAS BEEN FILED BY Geraldine Williams IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012, IN THE PROBATE COURT AT THE STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE. The Petition for Probate requests that Geraldine Williams be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests that 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 with full authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: NOVEMBER 19, 2026, 8:30 AM, DEPARTMENT 240 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012, IN THE PROBATE COURT AT THE STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the california probate code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the california probate code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (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 WITHOUT A PARTY: GERALDINE WILLIAMS 218 West 103rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90003 LOS CERRITOS COMMUNITY NEWS 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/26
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number 2026187406 THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: LEAD HORIZON MARKETING 17343 CITRONIA ST., NORTHRIDGE, CA 91325, LOS ANGELES COUNTY Registered Owner: VALERIE BENDERSKY, 17343 CITRONIA ST., NORTHRIDGE, CA 91325. This business is conducted by an INDIVIDUAL. The date registrant started to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above: N/A. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). /S/ VALERIE BENDERSKY, OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 9/1/26. In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the affidavit of identity form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State or Common Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). LCCN 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25/26
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Southeast Academy Cadets Mark 25 Years Since 9/11 By Vincent Medina Student cadets from Southeast Academy High School led a 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday at John Glenn High School, marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The ceremony at John Glenn High School’s football stadium honored the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks and recog-
nized first responders, military personnel and families whose lives were forever changed. Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District and Southeast Academy invited students from neighboring schools, families, veterans and first responders to attend. Officials from Norwalk and La Mirada and district trustees also attended. The Norwalk Public Services Department helped raise a massive American flag over the stadium for the ceremony. On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes in a coordinated attack on the United States. Two
planes were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, another struck the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew members attempted to regain control of the aircraft. The attacks killed 2,977 people, making Sept. 11 the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. Master Sgt. Marty Schafer, director of Southeast Academy, opened the ceremony by dedicating a five-minute call to the children who lost a parent in the attacks. “Some were too young to remember their mothers’ voices or
their father’s smiles, others waited for parents who never returned home,” Schafer said. “Today, during that five-minute call, we wanted to honor the children who carry the loss into every birthday, every graduation, every milestone that follows. Their strength reminds us that the impact of September 11 did not end that day. It lives in the hearts of families. May we never forget those who we lost, and may we always remember the children whose lives changed forever.” Approximately 3,000 children lost a parent in the attacks. Southeast Academy is a tuition-free public military and law
enforcement high school. Cadets led an American flag-folding ceremony as a tribute to those killed on Sept. 11, their families and the first responders who responded to the attacks. Schafer said the ceremony also honored military personnel who have served the country in the years since. Norwalk-La Mirada Unified Superintendent Tania Magaña told the crowd she remembered the news reaching her office on the morning of the attacks and the response that followed. “Our firefighters, police officers, paramedics, military personnel, and everyday Americans stepped forward to help strangers in a moment of tremendous uncertainty,” Magaña said. “People chose courage over fear, service over self, and unity over division.” Magaña acknowledged that most of the students and cadets attending the ceremony were not alive in 2001 and encouraged them to follow the example of those who stepped forward to help others. “At Southeast Academy, the uniform you wear means something, it represents discipline, character, responsibility, and a commitment to something bigger than yourself,” Magaña said. “Leadership is not about your title that you hold. Leadership is about your actions, especially when no one is watching, and when doing the right thing is very difficult.” La Mirada Mayor Anthony Otero, a retired Los Angeles Police Department captain and Marine veteran, delivered the keynote address, pointing to the large American flag raised over the stadium and urging students to remember the importance of national unity. “In a time where there’s such a desire to divide us, to put us in camps, and tell us ‘you belong here, you belong here,’ that we’re missing the bigger picture,” Otero said. “The more we’re divided, the less we’re united.” Otero thanked educators and encouraged the students and cadets to appreciate the sacrifices of those who came before them. “The future is yours,” Otero said. The program also honored John Glenn High School graduates who were killed in the Vietnam War. Principal Jennifer Padilla said their names are displayed on a plaque near the stadium ticket booth. A bell rang twice for each person as their names were read. Schafer said this year’s ceremony focused on public servants, military personnel and the children who lost parents on Sept. 11. “The 25th anniversary of September 11 reminds us that the impact of that day extends far beyond the lives lost,” Schafer said. “We remember the public servants and military personnel who answered the call to serve, the innocent victims who never came home, and the thousands of children whose lives were forever changed by the loss of a parent. Through this ceremony, our student cadets help ensure that their stories, sacrifices, and legacies are never forgotten.”
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