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armelita Vallejo has long championed social causes and did not let the current global pandemic stop her from organizing a family prayer gathering on May 5 to acknowledge the National Day of Awareness for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

“This is just another important thing I need to bring awareness to as I support the cause and pray for them,” said Vallejo, who is a member of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians. “We will support our sisters and lift each other up. This is especially important for the next generation – they need to know about this now.”

In 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the U.S. Department of Justice’s federal missing persons database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases. Often, these disappearances are connected to crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and sex trafficking.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native women and that rates of violence on reservations can be up to ten times higher

PRAY: Carmelita Vallejo and her family gathered for prayer on May 5, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. | Photo courtesy of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. than the national average.

American Indians and Alaska Natives are two and a half times more likely to experience violent crimes and at least two times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes in comparison to all other ethnicities, according to the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Underreporting, racial misclassification, potential gender or racial bias and a lack of law enforcement resources required to follow through and close out cases

appropriately, are just some of the challenges faced when working on these cases. Hopefully, awareness of these and other contributing factors can help reduce and eventually eliminate the widespread problem.

“This is why we need to support MMIW and make sure there are no more stolen sisters,” Vallejo said. “Four out of five indigenous women and girls experience violence today and I believe by bringing awareness, we will be more

cautious of our surroundings and teach our youth to do the same.”

Prior to the stay-at-home recommendations, Soboba Youth Council members had plans for a rally. After that event had to be cancelled, Vallejo and her family decided to get together to bring help educate their community about this plight. About 35 family members and the Soboba Youth Council gathered near the temporarily closed Soboba Casino for a short afternoon ceremony.

Soboba Youth Council Vice Chairman Edwin Muro gave an opening prayer in the Luiseño language. Vallejo translated it as: “May our missing sisters feel our breath on their faces from all four directions; may they inhale our love, capture our strength and find their way home. Creator, hear our prayers today.”

Three generations of Vallejo’s family were represented, includ-

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St. Hyacinth Academy of San Jacinto wins Diocese of San Bernardino Academic Decathlon

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Hyacinth Academy competed against 9 other schools in the Diocese of San Bernardino Academic Decathlon, held on March 7. The team was awarded the following: 1st Overall, 1st in Super Quiz and

2nd in Logic. The students were preparing to represent the Diocese of San Bernardino in the National Decathlon Championship in May. The physical competition was cancelled but the judges used the local scores to choose win-

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n the wake of unprecedented school closures resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the College Board is supporting students and schools with free, live review sessions and online exams taken at home.

In a survey of 18,000 students

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enrolled in AP classes, 91 percent indicated they want to complete their classes and take their exams.

"We want to give every student the chance to earn the college credit they've worked hard toward throughout the year,"

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On May 14, 1904 The first Olympic Games to be held in the United States open in St. Louis. The 1904 Games were initially awarded to Chicago, but were given to St. Louis to be staged in connection with the St. Louis World Exposition.

However, the Games were overshadowed by the world fair.

On May 15, 1942

A bill creates the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACs) in the U.S. Army, granting women official military status in a wide variety of roles around the world. The 16,000 women who joined the early WAACs would not receive veterans' benefits until 1980.

an Jacinto Unified School District’s San Jacinto High School has announced their Valedictorian, Salutatorian, and Historian for the Class of 2020, from a list of 572 graduating seniors that will be honored in a virtual graduation ceremony on June 4, 2020. The district’s alternative schools Mountain View High and Mountain Heights Academy have announced their top scholars for the Class of 2020, from their list of 131 graduates (and still growing), each being honored with a personal video from their Principal and featured in a collective video to be shared by the end of May. Jason Millhiser is San Jacinto High’s Valedictorian for 2020, with a weighted GPA of 4.5714, and part of the Gold Honor Roll with GPA 4.0 or above all four years of high school. Jason participated in track and field as a junior and senior. He dedicated much of his non-academic time with community volunteering

at Valley-wide Recreation and Parks District and in the Heroes on the Water program, an alternative therapeutic program for veterans, active-duty military, first responders and their families. Jason plans to attend California Polytechnic State University for Business Administration.

SJHS Salutatorian for the Class of 2020 is Catherine Moua, with a weighted GPA of 4.5667, and dual enrollment in courses at Mt. San Jacinto College since the summer before starting her sophomore year.

Catherine participated in volleyball and tennis, Academic Decathlon, ASB and a member

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On May 16, 1975

Service Act, giving the president the power to draft soldiers. Of the almost 4.8 million Americans who served in the war, some 2.8 million were drafted.

On May 17, 1792

The colony of New York passes a law making it illegal to "gather, rake, take up, or bring to the market, any oysters whatsoever" between the months of May and September. The regulation was intended to help preserve certain species.

On May 18, 1917

Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Spain. Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world's size, calculating that East Asia must lie about where North America sits on the globe.

Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. In 1988, Stacy Allison became the first American woman to successfully climb Everest.

A group of 24 traders gather in lower Manhattan to work out the regulations of the speculative market. The result was the Buttonwood Agreement, a two-sentence contract that gave birth to the New York Stock Exchange.

Six weeks after the United States formally entered World War I, Congress passes the Selective

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Southern California desert fire contained, man arrested A man was arrested on suspicion of causing a fire that burned 150 acres (60 hectares) of Southern California desert, authorities said.

The fire erupted late Tuesday morning in the community of Joshua Tree and spread rapidly, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.

Despite strong winds, crews kept the fire from crossing Twentynine Palms Highway and away from buildings at the Joshua Tree Memorial Park cemetery, and it was fully contained in about eight hours.

Callers to 911 had reported seeing a man leaving the area where the fire started and sheriff’s deputies arrested a 43-year-old local resident, the Fire Department said. The man was not immediately identified.

The burned land is part of a 623-acre (252-hectare) property in the Mojave Desert Land Trust and has thousands of Joshua trees, as well as desert tortoises and other animals.

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Turlock care facility reports 14 residents died from virus Another three residents of a nursing facility in Turlock have died from COVID-19, bringing the total to 14, officials said.

Nearly 150 people, including 100 residents and 49 staff members, tested positive for the coronavirus at Turlock Nursing and Rehabilitation Center as of Tuesday, according to an update from healthcare company Covenant Care, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

All residents and staff have been tested and some retested. Separate wings of the facility are designated for negative and positive cases, staff continue to be screened upon entry and the facility has suspended admissions and discharges for a 14-day quarantine period, the company said.

The outbreak is among the deadliest at a nursing home in Northern California. In Alameda County, 17 deaths are linked to Gateway Care and Rehabilitation, according to the California Department of Public Health.

Meanwhile, at least eleven skilled nursing facilites in Los Angeles County have reported more than a dozen deaths, and one Tulare County facility reported 28 deaths.

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of the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council. She completed over 71 hours of volunteer service and has been continually active with the Banning Hmong Community.

Catherine plans to attend University of California Irvine to study nursing.

Mohammad Amjad, SJHS Historian for 2020, has a weighted GPA of 4.5111 and completed his senior year with more than 170 hours of documented community service. He has been the President of SJHS’s Upward Bound, a federal supported program for high school students to increase the rate participants complete secondary education and earned their Greatest Role Model Award this past year. Mohammad participated in track and field and completed the year as Varsity Captain for cross country. He plans to attend University of California, San Diego in the fall.

Olutoyin “Toyin� Oyefeso, Mountain View High’s 2020 Valedictorian with a

Jovanny Herrera. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

Catherine Moua. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

Jason Millhiser. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

Mohammad Amjad. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

GPA of 3.37, is known to her teachers as one of the most persistent, capable, and honest students they have met. Toyin is said to approach her academics with intelligence, humility, and an overwhelming desire to achieve, which should propel her to be successful as she moves on to life beyond high school, beginning with attendance at Mt. San Jacinto College.

Mountain View High’s Salutatorian for 2020 is Sara Marie Steinhoff, with a GPA of 3.06, and preparing for attendance at Georgia State University in the fall. Her teachers

note that Sara has done amazing things, despite some difficulties in life, including pushing herself to graduate an entire year early. “She is meticulous and does not settle for anything less than her best,� stated one of her instructors.

Mountain Heights Academy’s Valedictorian for the Class of 2020 is Ysabel Ibarca, with a GPA of 4.10. She is known on the campus for her soft-spoken style as well as being a hard worker, which allowed her to excel in honors-level courses and acceptance to University of California, San-

ta Barbara. Her teachers shared that her work is high quality and she will be a great success in college and beyond.

Jovanny Herrera is Mountain Heights Academy’s Class of 2020 Salutatorian, with a GPA of 3.92, and plans to attend Mt. San Jacinto College in the fall. He was a four-year member of the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council and an instructor for other students using Raspberry Pi for computer coding. Jovanny has also been recognized for his accomplishments in the school’s Video Production Team.

Olutoyin Oyefeso. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

Sara Steinhoff. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

Ysabel Ibarca. | Photo Courtesy of San Jacinto Unified School District

be emailed an e-ticket two days before each exam. The ticket will also be available in their My AP account.

Students can get ready for exams by attending free online classes and review sessions led by AP teachers from across the country. And, during the final days before exams, classes will focus on simulating the exam experience and reviewing sample exam questions. The classes are available live or on de-

mand at youtube.com/advancedplacement. The live lessons include an AP Master Class series, with AP teachers joined by luminaries such as Janet Yellen, Tony Hale, John QuiĂąones, and Valerie Jarrett.

Details about specific AP Exams, fees, cancellations, and other topics will be updated regularly on the College Board website and shared through email, online educators' communities, and other social media.

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ners at the National level.

One student from St. Hyacinth Academy, Jadian Delgado, placed third in literature at the National level. (He is the one in the single picture) Local individual winners were: Karol Barajas (8th grader), first place in English and 2nd place in Writing; Jadian

Delgado (7th), first place in literature; Genesis Sanchez (8th), second place in math; James Reyes (8th), second place in religion; Julian Delgado (7th), third place in current events; Allyson Jamisola (7th) third place in Fine Arts. Other members on the team are Peter Malone (8th), Paulo Obmina (8th), Isabelle Ciccone (7th), and Sebastian Hilomen (6th).

says Trevor Packer, senior vice president of AP and Instruction at the College Board. "That's why we quickly set up a process that's simple, secure, and accessible."

This year only, the traditional in-person exams will be replaced by shorter online versions that will take approximately 45 minutes, accessed at home on a computer or a mobile device. Students also have the option to handwrite exams and submit photos of their work. Exams are scheduled for May 11-22, 2020, with makeup dates in June.

Exams will include topics and skills most AP teachers and students have already covered in class by early March. Most exams will have one or two free-response questions, and each question will be timed separately. Certain courses will use portfolio submissions instead of an online exam, and exams for world language courses will consist of spoken tasks instead of written responses.

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As usual, 2020 AP Exams will be scored by college faculty and AP readers, and scores will be reported on a 1-5 scale. The College Board plans to release scores as close to the usual July time frame as possible.

And colleges nationwide have committed to awarding credit for this year's AP scores just as they have in the past.

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ing elder Connie Briones, 66, and the youngest children: Ava’vash Briones, 2, Maylene Briones, 3 and Mayla Briones 4.

“We need to be careful and stay together, like what we are doing today,” Connie Briones said.

Aurelia Mendoza was eager to show her support for MMIW and for her tribe. Tanya Briones Rivera attended with her seven children and three foster children.

“It’s important for justice to be served for all Native American women,” Briones Rivera said. “My kids have learned all about it and have been taught to be aware of their surroundings and be cautious with people.”

Antonia Venegas opened up her heart to say a few words.

“We are gathered here to show support for those who have lost a loved one and that includes a few women from Soboba,” she said.

“We are wearing our colors to show we support families all over with women of all ages and to let them know they are always in our prayers.”

The MMIW movement uses red as a symbol of solidarity as it is believed (in various tribes) that red is the only color that spirits see. Vallejo said that by wearing red, it is hoped that the spirits of all the women and girls will be called back so their families may have peace. Soboba Youth Coun-

SPOTTY

Male Labrador Retriever Mix DOB: 2/25/2013 Weight: 80 Pounds

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Carmelita Vallejo, of Soboba, opened the prayer gathering with lighting of sage. | Photo courtesy of MMIWG.

Spotty is a little bit of a ham. He often has a big goofy smile on his face and is always ready to play. He adores everyone he meets and is eager to be around staff and volunteers. He absolutely loves belly rubs and enjoys a good romp at the park. He especially likes playing fetch. Overall, Spotty is a good natured and affectionate guy. Spotty’s only issue? He does not like thunderstorms and can become very anxious when left alone. Spotty’s ideal home will be with a family that is home often.

TABBYO

DSH Brown & White Tabby Male DOB: 12-25-16

POSTERS: Soboba Youth Council attended the prayer gathering to support the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. From left, Jesse Garcia, Ciara Ramos, Edwin Muro, Emma Organ, Roo Briones, Jeremiah Ramos, Iyana Briones and Leah Lopez. Standing in back is the council’s co-coordinator, Andy Silvas. | Photo courtesy of MMIWG. cil Chairwoman Iyana Briones also spoke.

“We care for each and every one of these women and girls and we pray for the ones who are gone,” she said. “The girls wear red and the boys wear black as a way to show no one is alone.”

Each year since 2017, May 5 is recognized as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered

PRAYER: Edwin Muro opened with a prayer in his native language of Luiseño on May 5. | Photo courtesy of MMIWG.

Native Women and Girls.

The date was selected because the Montana congressional delegation persuaded the U.S. Senate to pass a resolution declaring the national day of awareness on the birthdate of Hanna Harris, a 21-year-old member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe who went missing on July 4, 2013 and was later found murdered.

The national day of awareness highlights the need for ongoing grassroots advocacy and changes to the laws, policies, and increased allocation of resources to end these injustices.

The Soboba group was further unified as bird singers and dancers shared a few songs during the ceremony. Vallejo, who lives on the Soboba Reservation near San Jacinto, thanked everyone for coming and said she hoped their prayers were heard.

Information, #MMIWGActionNow and I.E. Media Group on Facebook.

Mr. TabbyO is one handsome boy! He’s a gorgeous brown and black tabby with a splash of white. He is also independent and very observant.

TabbyO really enjoys playing with his buddies and the laser pointer. TabbyO is looking for a quiet, relaxed home with a cat or two and a loving human too!

BARNABY

Male Chihuahua Mix DOB: 8/23/11 Barnaby is small, but mighty.

Barnaby has a real strut to his walk, showing off his robust personality.

When he is not prancing around the dog park, he likes to flop on the grass and scoot along on his side to scratch himself.

He absolutely loves belly rubs and being with people.

He can be bossy at times with other dogs, but overall Barnaby will be a loving, fun dog that will bring joy into your home.

MASON

5/26/2019 DSH Black and Brown Tabby Male Meet Mason! Mason is a mellow sweetie, looking for his forever home.

He enjoys lounging around on cat towers, back-scratches and playing with cat wands. Mason would do well in a home with a relaxed environment.

All of our cats are spayed or neutered, microchipped, and up to date on vaccinations.

Our two main requirements for adopting a cat are: 1. Must be indoors only and 2. Declawing is not allowed.

Living Free, is a donor-supported, nonprofit, no-kill animal sanctuary. Located at 54250 Keen Camp Road in Mountain Center off Highway 74, 15 Minutes from Idyllwild. Call: 951-321-9982 or visit living-free.org/adopt.

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Irene Mercedes Seitl

Jean Domenigoni

May 3, 1941 - April 18, 2020

May 27, 1923 - May 4, 2020

Irene Mercedes Seitl Passed away at home with her loving family and friends on April 18, 2020 in San Jacinto, CA at the age of 78 years. Born May 3, 1941 in Riverside, CA and was a lifelong resident. Irene attended RCC and San Diego State and was retired from Alvord Unified School District after 30 years of service. Irene started at Alvord as a teacher’s aide and worked her way up to Secretary of Food and Nutrition.

During Irene’s time with Alvord she was on the PTA Board and held many positions including PTA president. Irene was honored by Alvord Educational Foundation as volunteer of the year. Irene also volunteered for other organizations such as Riverside Metropolitan Museum. She loved to travel with her beloved husband and enjoyed spending as much time as she possibly could with her 8 grandchildren taking them shopping, going to the movies and out to dinner.

Irene is survived by her beloved husband Andy Seitl. Loving mother of Andrew Seitl III, Derek Seitl, and Valerie Losier. Loving grandmother of Patrick, Dylan, Addison, Anya, Carson, CC, Reese and Jolie. Special mother-inlaw of Joey Losier and Saria Seitl. Dear sister of Johnny, Louie and Helen. Also survived by cousins, aunts, uncles, other family members and loving lifelong friends. The family requests that in lieu of flowers that donations be made to your favorite cancer society. Funeral and memorial services will be held at a later time due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19.

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Mona Marie Wyborny August 13, 1959 - May 6, 2020 Mona Marie Wyborny Passed away at home with her loving family on Wednesday May 6, 2020 in Hemet, CA at the age of 60 years. Mona was born August 13, 1959 in Los Angeles, CA. Mona loved her family and friends fiercely. There was nothing she wouldn’t do for someone and she would never give up on anyone. She loved traveling and vacationing, especially going to her home in Costa Rica. Mona enjoyed watching sunsets, the rain and thunderstorms. A saying that she will be remembered by, “You get what you give”. She is survived by her beloved husband Chris Wyborny to whom she was married to for 34 years, her three loving daughters, Dawn Marie Vaeoso, Crystal Dee Fazlurrehman, and Heather Leigh Wyborny; Her Siblings, Cliff, Mark, and Deano Duchi, and Her 3 grandchildren, Cameron, Alia, and Zander. She will be truly missed.

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On May 4th, 2020, the matriarch of two pioneer families passed away at her Winchester farmhouse surrounded by her family.

Jean Harriet Domenigoni was born in Winchester, California on May 27, 1923 to Estes (“Dud”) and Delores (“Dolly”) Garbani Connell. Her grandparents were Gaudenzio and Marianna Speziali Garbani. She was raised with her younger sister Betty (“PeeWee”) in the home that her grandfather, Gaudenzio, built in the 1890’s. She relished her rural life. She and her sister rode to school on horseback, fed the chickens and other farm animals. As children, they enjoyed going fossil hunting with their cousin, Harley Garbani, who became a well-known local paleontologist.

Jean had aspirations of becoming a nurse; after graduating from high school, she began that pursuit. However, in 1942, she married Francis N. Domenigoni. Her marriage and raising six sons became her life’s primary focus.

Members of the Garbani and Domenigoni families immigrated from Gresso, Switzerland, and settled in the Domenigoni Valley in 1879.

The marriage of Jean and Francis united the two pioneer families.

Jean and Francis had six boys: Richard, Dennis, Larry, Andy, Donald and Steve, who all attended local schools.

While raising her boys, she was active in the Winchester Elementary School PTA and Winchester Harvester’s 4-H Club. She and Francis were leaders and supporters of the 4-H programs during their sons’ growing years, which is continuing with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Jean was an energetic, hardworking and diminutive woman. When her husband broke his back, Jean worked the fields while caring for her family during his recovery. The farming legacy is still active today as Domenigoni Brothers Ranch.

She continued to be a partner in the farming operation, with her son and grandson, until her passing. She was humble and lived simply. After getting married, she began a tradition of having a daily lunch at home for the ranch hands at the large wood family dining table. That tradition continues to this day.

She enjoyed having family gatherings, such as Thanksgiving dinner; and was always welcoming to her boy’s many friends. She would greet you with a smile and ask you, “How are you doing?”

She and Francis enjoyed square dancing. They travelled to Anza, Wilson Valley, Murrieta and other neighboring communities to dance when they could.

Jean loved to travel. After their spouses passed away, Jean and her sister, Betty, sailed together on cruises to Alaska, South America, Greece, the Mediterranean, and the Bahamas. They also enjoyed playing Las Vegas slot machines.

She visited Ireland, Italy and Switzerland with her son and his family. The trip to Switzerland included going to the town of Gresso, high in the Alps: the homeland of her grandparents that immigrated to America. She connected with relatives she had never met, commenting that she didn’t know she “had so many relatives!”

Reading was an important part of Jean’s life. She loved romance novels.

Even after she had lost her ability to read, due to macular degeneration, she enjoyed listening to audiobooks.

When circumstances in her life changed, Jean herself did not; instead, she shared her wealth with many deserving charities all around the surrounding communities. She opened her ranch to the American Diabetes Association and DCES to help raise monies for camping, educational services and research. The semi-annual Domenigoni Ranch Charity Ride for Diabetes and barbeque began in 1993, with horse riders attending from far and wide.

Since 1997, Jean was a member of the Mt. San Jacinto College Foundation’s Legacy Society. She gave an annual scholarship to a graduating Hemet High School senior furthering their education in an agricultural pursuit.

She was proud to support and donate to local charities such as Friends of Valley Wide Foundation, Hemet Library Foundation, Winchester Historical Society, Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Riverside County, Southern California Fair Junior Livestock Auction and the Western Science Center Foundation, to name a few.

She was awarded a California Senate Proclamation for her public service.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Francis; sons, Dennis and Richard; and great grandson, Nathaniel: and sister, Betty Jennings.

She is survived by her sons, Larry (Debbie), Andy (Cindy), Donald (Sherri) and Steven (Kim), seven grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews and a very dear friend, Ruth Ditsch.

The family gives their appreciation to Jean’s dedicated caregivers; Marsha, Juanita, Fay, Jeri, Karie, Marcy and her therapist, Mary, that allowed her to live in peace at her home for the past twelve years. In spite of Jean’s medical and health issues, she never complained. In fact, up until the last few months of her life, she could out walk you with her walker.

Interment is private and arrangements are being handled by Miller-Jones Mortuary in Hemet. A Celebration of Life will be arranged at a future date.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions be made to: Friends of Valley Wide Foundation, P.O. Box 5599, Hemet, CA 92544, to be used for the Francis Domenigoni Community Center in Winchester.

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Nina Jane Dietz October 23, 1928 - May 10, 2020 Nina Jane Dietz passed away at the age of 91, in Palm Springs, California on Sunday, May 10, 2020. She was born Tuesday, October 23, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to the late Charles Bartley and the late Clara (Pflaum) Bartley.

Nina was married to the love of her life, Edward Dietz, for 43 years before his passing in 2010. She enjoyed playing bridge, cruises and her trips to Holland. Nina was a loving, caring, and a kind soul who was very social and loved to be around people. She was a pillar of strength and support.

Nina is survived by her loving children, Richard Dahlberg, James Dahlberg, Gary Dahlberg, and Linda Dahlberg; her step-children, Robert Dietz and David Dietz; 9 amazing grandchildren; and 7 adoring great-grandchildren.

She will be missed by all that knew her and loved her.

Interment will be held privately in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.miller-jones.com ON-LINE CONDOLENCES • WWW.MILLER-JONES.COM

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Ways to Stay Connected (And Check Families deserve straight talk about nursing home safety On Seniors) While Social Distancing THINKING ABOUT HEALTH TRUDY LIEBERMAN | COLUMNIST

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he headlines have been grim.

Seventeen bodies piled up in the morgue at a New Jersey nursing home. Fifty-five residents dead in Brooklyn, N.Y. In one week, 104 residents dead in a facility in western Pennsylvania and 102 dead at a home in San Antonio. In Detroit 26 percent of nursing home residents and staff test positive for the coronavirus.

Residents in nursing homes had been at risk long before I began reporting on them in the 1990s, and care facilities have continued to be the subject of press inquiry all across the country. Staffing shortages, poor care, and downright abuse had been the stuff of media exposes for years long before anyone had heard of the coronavirus.

The usual response? Nursing homes that got in trouble promised to clean up their act, engaging in what came to be called yo-yo compliance with state and federal regulations.

Nursing facilities with numerous deficiencies in care-giving would promise to make recommended changes and improve conditions.

But promises were just that. Often, they did not result in permanent or meaningful change. A facility would get in trouble again.

The nursing home story today is different: 100 dead residents at one facility in one week when even 55 or 25 would be highly unusual. Casualties during the coronavirus pandemic raise serious questions about infection control, testing protocols, protective equipment for staff, and the number of personnel to care for residents who are vulnerable to begin with.

Most visitors have been prohibited since the pandemic began, making it more important than ever that the public has access to information about complaints, infection rates, and staffing at their local nursing facilities.

The public needs someone or some agency to be their eyes and ears to help them learn what’s hap-

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Carol Marbin Miller, the deputy investigations editor for the Miami Herald, told me many Florida families wanted to move their relatives who were in Florida facilities when the pandemic hit and residents started dying in large numbers. She said the paper had begun hearing from families wondering how facilities that housed their relatives were adapting, people who needed information to decide whether to leave a family member in what could be a troubled nursing home.

She added that some readers told her they were able to care for their relatives at home for a short time if need be, but they were in the dark about conditions in the nursing facilities where their relatives were living.

Other families, looking for new nursing home placement for relatives coming from a hospital, asked the same question: “Where should I send mom?”

Florida, like a lot of other states, had refused to release numbers of nursing home residents who died from the virus, and it has been something of a national struggle for families and the media to get this information. Marbin Miller’s newspaper, along with other media outlets, threatened legal action, and eventually the state agreed to release the death counts.

At the end of the first week of May, the state reported 665 peo-

ple had died in the state’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities, an increase of 242 from the previous week. Fourteen facilities reported more than 10 deaths.

A few weeks ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees Medicare and the country’s nursing homes, issued “guidance” requiring the country’s nursing facilities to be more transparent. Beginning May 17, nursing homes will have to report their COVID-19 cases to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and to families and residents already in nursing facilities. Presumably this information will be on the CDC and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid websites and in the states, too.

Earlier this spring, Kaiser Health News offered a glimpse of what nursing home inspectors found when they visited facilities across the country. Infection control was a problem before the days of the coronavirus.

In the past three years, 61 percent of about 9,400 nursing facilities sampled were cited for one or more infection control deficiencies.

Sixty-three percent of about 9,700 were cited for infection control deficiencies on their last two standard government surveys.

Even nursing homes with fivestar ratings from the government, presumably a designation of high quality, have had problems. It turns out 40 percent of those facilities were cited for infection control lapses.

Results like these suggest families with relatives already in nursing facilities or those about to place a relative in one should look long and hard at the new data available.

“A society’s quality and durability can best be measured by the respect and care given to its elderly citizens,” British historian Arnold Toynbee once warned. Do we measure up?

Have you experienced any problems with nursing homes? Write to Trudy at [trudy.lieberman@gmail. com]trudy.lieberman@gmail.com.

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ou know we're all going a tad stir-crazy when a parody of the title song from Broadway's "Oklahoma!" ("Oh, Corona!") gets almost 1.7 million views on YouTube. But it's far worse for seniors: Not only can't even their kids and grandkids visit them, but there's the extra stress that comes with the nagging suspicion that they'll be advised to remain on lockdown long after younger people begin trickling back to work.

Whenever that is.

In fact, the AARP Foundation has even come up with this dire comparison: Prolonged social isolation, for those aged 50 and older, "is the health equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day."

Fortuitously, some of the niftiest technology offers solutions both to keep us connected and protect against some of the miscreants taking advantage of the situation. * Health Checks. If you are worried that all the anxiety is harming your loved ones' overall well-being, the machine-learning algorithms that analyze activity data as part of Alarm.com's Wellness solution can provide you with the very details you've suddenly found yourself obsessing about.

Did they open their medicine cabinet when they should to take their prescription? Have their sleeping, eating, and (yes) bathroom patterns changed?

Are they up and about during the day?

All that and more is done by connecting their home to yours via smart-home technology, with real-time smartphone alerts to let you know if something's amiss. "You don't even know it's there, but it's here to protect you and let someone know if something does

go wrong," said Margarete Pullen of Dallas, Texas, whose son had the system installed by an authorized service provider for her and her husband along with a Wellcam video camera with two-way voice capability. * Movie meet-ups. Most of us are just trying to find novel ways to cope with a situation that Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist and physician at Yale University, told Science magazine "calls on us to suppress our profoundly human and evolutionary hard-wired impulses for connection."

Google's new Netflix Party extension lets friends and family watch - and video chat their way through - a movie together on their computers. You'll need a NetFlix subscription, but then you're free to debate whether all the hype about Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," say, was justified. Plus, unlike in real theatres, not many people (if any) are physically there to complain if you're making too much noise eating popcorn. * Apps! Apps! Apps! No NetFlix subscription? With apps like FaceTime, Skype, Houseparty and Zoom comes more proof that social distancing needn't mean social disconnecting. Mass virtual dinner parties. Mass virtual "happy hours." Mass virtual gym classes. They've all become quite the rage, with one Vermont couple in their eighties even touchingly using Apple's FaceTime to see and talk to each other after the husband had to be put in a nursing home that bars visitors during the pandemic.

And, oh, you say you want to be a hero in your neighborhood? Use an app like Instagram to share a video of someone that Alarm.com's doorbell cameras caught swiping one of the many, many packages you've been having delivered.

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s the nation enters a third month of economic devastation, the coronavirus is proving ruinous to state budgets, forcing many governments to consider deep cuts to schools, universities, health care and other basic functions that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago.

Many states expect their revenue to plunge by 15% to 20% because government-ordered lockdowns have wiped out much of the economy and caused tax collections to evaporate. That puts statehouses billions of dollars in the red for the fiscal year that usually begins in July, with no end to the crisis in sight.

Colorado faces a gap of nearly a quarter of the state’s general budget. The projected gap in California is more than a fifth of its spending plan, in Oklahoma, a sixth. The governor of Oregon is preparing to cut 17% of her budget. Michigan may have to slash up to a quarter of the money it sends to schools.

“There’s no crisis we’ve had that even comes close to this,” said Greg Albrecht, chief economist for the Louisiana Legislature. “This is a (Hurricane) Katrina-sized downgrade in the forecast.” A forecasting panel slashed the state’s income projections by $1 billion because of the virus.

The drumbeat of bad news continued Tuesday as Washington’s governor called for 15% cuts to many parts of his state’s budget through June 2021. New Jersey announced that tax revenue for April was down 60% compared with the year before — and that it will look worse next month.

The dire projections are coming out as Congress gets ready to debate whether and how to help.

Before the pandemic, most states had generally healthy budget situations and were working on adding to their reserves, which had been built over the decade since the Great Recession. Now state finances are in peril regardless of the actual number of infections. In nearly every state that has estimates, the projected budget gaps are bigger than the emergency savings.

Governors and lawmakers hope for at least a partial bailout from Congress, which is considering a relief package that could provide money to keep teachers in classrooms, parks open and police on the streets. How much Congress and President Donald Trump agree to send is primed to be the next big battle in Washington.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his state needs $61 bil-

lion in federal support “or we will wind up aggravating the situation” by forcing cuts to local governments.

“You know who local governments are? That’s police, firefighters. You want me to cut hospitals? Hospitals are the nurses and the doctors who just got us through this and everyone celebrates as heroes. If you don’t fund the state that’s who you’re cutting in terms of finances.”

One state that stands to survive with minimal cutbacks is South Carolina, where revenue in the $10 billion budget that starts July 1 is expected to be down by perhaps $1 billion — but all of that shortfall was in extra money the state expected to collect in taxes and fees before the pandemic crash. Utah officials said they may be in a similar situation, with enough reserves to weather the pandemic.

Texas, the second-most populous state, expects revenue to plummet by billions of dollars over the next 14 months. House Speaker Dennis Bonnen has called on state agencies to reduce spending now by 5%, but the idea has not picked up momentum.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan but generally left-leaning think tank, projects a cumulative budget gap of $650 billion for state governments through the next two fiscal years. That would more than gobble up most states’ reserves as well as the federal aid they have received so far.

The National Governors Association, National League of Cities and other bipartisan groups of local officials are also pressing for federal help.

House Democrats included nearly a third of a $3 trillion aid bill for state and local governments. The plan is scheduled to get its first vote on Friday.

A bipartisan version expected to be introduced in the Senate calls for $500 billion for governments.

“We have to address it in a big way,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told The Associated Press in an interview. “The American people are worth it.”

But some lawmakers are reluctant to offer any such general aid.

“We believe additional money sent to the states for ‘lost revenue’ or without appropriate safeguards will be used to bail out unfunded pensions, reward decades of state mismanagement and incentivize states to become more reliant on federal taxpayers,” five GOP senators wrote in a letter to Trump, who has also been wary of what he

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ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the stunning $3 trillion price of tag of Democrats’ pandemic relief package Wednesday as what’s needed to confront the “villainous virus” and economic collapse.

“The American people are worth it,” Pelosi told The Associated Press.

In an interview with AP, Pelosi acknowledged the proposal is a starting point in negotiations with President Donald Trump and Republicans, who have flatly dismissed the coronavirus relief bill headed for a House vote.

The White House immediately dismissed the proposal, which is anchored in billions to the states and cash rebates to jobless Americans, as a nonstarter.

“Unserious,” tweeted White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

As wary Americans wait on Washington, the stakes for all sides are enormous. The virus outbreak threatens the health and economy of Americans, posing a generational test of political leadership on par with the Great Depression.

House lawmakers are set to return to Washington for Friday’s vote, but prospects are dim in the Senate, where leaders say they won’t consider another aid package until June.

Trump has insisted any future coronavirus aid package “must prioritize Americans’ health and the nation’s economic prosperity,” McEnany said.

The bill provides nearly $1 trillion to the states and cities to avert

layoffs of police, firefighters and other essential workers as local revenues tank during the shutdown. It boosts another round of $1,200 direct cash payments to Americans and provides $75 billion for more virus testing.

The White House particularly objected to new requirements for state election procedures during the pandemic for the November election and aid to people in families with immigrants living here illegally.

As the pandemic rages, Pelosi had just one message for Trump: “Tell the truth.”

“This is a biggest disaster that our country has ever faced,” Pelosi said.

“The president calls it a war — we’re all warriors, that people are dying in the war. No these are family, and people are dying in the family,” she said.

“We have to address in a big way,” she said. “The American people are worth it.”

The speaker and the president don’t talk much anymore. But Pelosi remains in contact with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and expects to begin negotiations with him on the next aid bill from Congress.

Pelosi warned Americans not to expect a speedy return to normal, despite some easing of stay-home orders. “It’s going to be a while,” she said. Schools businesses and large gatherings, including the Democrats’ presidential nominating convention, will not be business as usual.

“You just can’t say because peo-

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NANCY PELOSI: House speaker of California. | Photo source: Wikipedia. ple want to go to work, we should just take every risk,” she said. “In order to turn the economy around, we have to get rid of the pandemic.”

As the party’s presumed presidential nominee Joe Biden shelters at home, campaigning via video from his basement, Pelosi said he’s doing “just fine” in the new normal of an election year.

“It’s not as if he’s missing a big crowd someplace,” she said.

“We’re in a whole new world and I think he’s doing just fine,” she said. “Everybody knows he’s a person of great integrity, and a great authenticity and connects very well with America’s working families, which is what the Democratic Party is all about.”

As the fall campaigns retool for the new normal, she expects former President Barack Obama to play a larger role with a message of “hope and optimism for the future.”

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GOOD OLD DAYS The other day I became intensely engrossed in a conversation with two friends who were about my age. All three of us closer to 100 than to 50 years old. The conversation became contentious over the issue “the good old days” of the past versus the world in which we live today. Many friends had little good to say about life today. They wanted to “Make America Great Again.”

I also remonstrated with my friends about “the good old days.” As an 84-year-old, I actually lived through the days to which they refer. They were not glamorous. The Great Depression was on – in spades.

The Stock Market crashed. Times were tough. Strikes were violent. Unemployment was sky-high. Food was scarce. I remember taking a bucket every day to a soup kitchen for bean soup. Our family lived on bean soup for months. My Dad and our neighbors worked on the WPA, paving streets. The good old days. Most of the people – including us – had outhouses. Kerosene lamps, pot-bellied stoves, ice boxes and tubs for baths.

The good old days. I wore patched clothes, shoes with holes and bib overalls. Of course, everyone made do the best they could. My Dad worked in a foundry when he could. Industrious, he planted horseradish and we would sell bottles of it from door to door—the good old days. Of course, prices were unbelievable in comparison to today. Five cents for an ice cream cone; five cents for a movie and a hot dog. Ten cents for a loaf of bread.

Fifteen cents for a gallon of gas. The good old days. Of course, I worked for twenty-five cents an hour, two dollars a day, ten dollars a week—the good old days.

What about crime? It was rampant. Bank robberies, murders, the Mafia, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, (to name a few.) The good old days. Consider the fact that fast-food restaurants were unheard of. Oh, yes, there was one, White Castle. Hamburgers were ten cents. Motels were in the future. Each evening the family gathered around an old radio and listened to The Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy. The good old days. Television? No way. Model T Ford, airplanes, malls? No way. What about medicines and disease? Polio, TB, diphtheria, smallpox and scarlet fever, plus other diseases were prevalent. The good old days. My friends and I would all be dead except for modern medicines that keep us alive. Why was the official retirement age set at 65? The Social Security was set at the age because the expected age of demise was around that age. They never expected people to live as long as many do today.

Do you remember the famous bumper sticker that was so popular a few years ago? “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” If you have an adequate pension now, if you had safety measures on your job the last fifty years, if you had medical benefits throughout your career, then thank the labor unions that demanded those benefits in the good old days. The good old days were rife with racial prejudice and religious bigotry. I grew up and saw Catholicism and Protestantism in conflict.

I pastored in South Florida in the 1950s and witnessed racial inequality. The good old days. A final assessment.

The good old days can be described as the rich versus the poor. The wealthy and the needy. No middle class.

World War II brought the middle class.

Today we are in danger of losing it. One percent (Wall St.) and the Ninety-nine percent (us). All because of deregulation, and the attitudes of the good old boys.

The “good old boys” have brought us to the edge of a very dangerous place. Their slow response to Covid-19 has cost thousands their lives, in the name of “stimulation” they have given a token to the poor and middle class and millions to big business and the already wealthy. They were not only slow to respond to the virus; they have been slow getting out the stimulus. And the stimulus is too little too late. The “good old days” weren’t all that good and now the “good old boys” are making it worse.

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ow Feeding Rosarito came to be: I grew up in San Jacinto and learned at an early age what it means to help others. I was a student at St. Hyacinth’s Academy in the 1970s, we held a carnival every year near Halloween to raise funds for the school. My parents would help out with different booths and the Bingo games, my brother and sisters would help out with the various games. My dad and a good friend of his built the board that showed what numbers had been called by having a light come on behind a plastic screen showing the different numbers. While attending San Jacinto High School, I was involved with the Future Farmers of America group, which was involved with a lot of charity groups. It was while living in San Jacinto, where I first became a blood donor.

While attending Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, I was involved with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and we helped a lot of elderly neighbors with yard maintenance as well as organizing fundraisers for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and The American Cancer Society.

While living in Las Vegas, I became involved with a group that held a Christmas party every year for between 110-120 needy children each year. I helped out with different events at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, as well as becoming a 25-gallon blood donor.

When I moved to Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, I became involved with the civic group Yo Amo Rosarito, where they put my love for baking to good use. They supported many of the local artists and dance groups and I was recruited to bake treats for upwards of 100 guests at the different events.

When the government required “non-essential” businesses to close, people that were already living payday to payday all of a sudden had no means to support their families. Some friends got together and devised a plan to buy and distribute food. The first day we went out, the 11,000 pesos worth of food we purchased was split up between four cars and taken to different areas of Rosarito, Puerto Nuevo and La Mision.

My friend, Scot and his wife, Janine brought food to the residents of one

BOY: Helping this young man as he came while his

WOMAN: An elderly woman happily receiving her

small neighborhood of Puerto Nuevo and gave it all away in less than an hour. As we were running out of food, a pregnant woman came up to us and all we were able to give her was a bag of rice and some oil. I knew she’d need more than that to help feed her family. I went to the local Abarotte (neighborhood grocery store, usually less than 100 square feet in size) and gave the clerk 500 pesos (about $23 US) and explained to her that was for the people that had no money so they could buy some food. A few days later, I went back to that same little store, hoping they’d be able to help me find the pregnant lady. Not only did they know her name, but they also knew where she lived. I was able to give her husband food for the family along with diapers and formula for when their baby arrived.

That afternoon I went to Sam’s Club in Tijuana and bought 8,000 pesos ($350 US) worth of rice, beans, toilet paper, milk, tomato paste, flour and salsa picante, brought it home and bagged up the beans, rice and flour in quart size Ziploc bags. The next day, my wife and I, along with our friend Elice Simones-Tucker delivered the food to 60 families in the Plan Libertador area of Rosarito. At this point, we were being funded by the donations Scott received.

Later that week, it was decided that the money Scott would receive would be used to provide vouchers through

4 stores in the Puerto Nuevo and La Mision areas. That left the people of Rosarito with no one to turn to. On April 8th, I made the Facebook group Feeding Rosarito and started a PayPal account for that group tied to the FeedingRosarito@Yahoo.com email address. To date, we have raised over $14,500, we have provided food to over 2,180 families. We have around 150 bags of food ready to be delivered over the next few days and can make another 150 bags with the food we have on hand. We have just over 10,000 pesos in our account with is enough to buy food for another 75 families.

My wife, Claudia Salceda-Conijn and I receive more requests for food than we can take care of. The hardest thing in the world is to say “no” when someone asks for help. We help as many as we can and provide others with the phone number to the local food bank. We try to deliver to 50-75 families each day. We go to 2 or 3 neighborhoods each day. Claudia grew up in Rosarito and has been involved with Yo Amo Rosarito for ten years. She handles the logistics of where we go each day through her network of contacts.

Donations are accepted through Venmo.com or PayPal.com to FeedingRosarito@Yahoo.com and are greatly appreciated. Follow what we’re doing at https://www.facebook.com/ groups/2849337511829399/ Muchas Gracias!

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food bag. | Photo by Joe Conijn.

(This article has been adapted from an e-mail sent by a retired pastor G. W. Abersold, Ph.D. to his friends in a weekly message he entitled “Words to Think About.”)

Dick Gale, President of Democrats of Hemet-San Jacinto

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Joe Conijn.

by Joe Conijn.

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he nineties came in like a lamb and went out like a windstorm. Everything in our society seemed topsy-turvy. It was the decade of credit card mania, bigger homes, more expensive cars and extravagant spending.

It was as though we were granted the right to “just charge it,” without any thought of how to pay for it. Bankruptcies increased as did divorce, child and spousal support. Step-fathers became more important than biological ones to children abandoned by fathers who married too young and couldn’t or didn’t want to deal with the responsibilities of family life.

THE UNHEALTHY PRACTICE OF “GETTING EVEN” Leading into the nineties, television and movies became more realistically violent, as did a lot of popular music. Because of that, kids especially began to become desensitized to blood and gore. When disputes erupted, instead of a fistfight to settle the argument and making up the next day, more and more guns began to be employed by teenagers, especially young men, to settle arguments. Almost daily, newspapers and television headlined a new killing involving youth. It was the dawn of mass killings that permeate the media today and there seemed to be little to deter the trend. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 was neutered as some 30 states enacted right-to-carry gun laws. More guns in the home, meant better access to angry young men. Most folks shrugged their shoulders and saw it as a sign of the times. That is, until one of their own became perpetrators or victims.

A CULTURAL DIVIDE As the crusade for gay rights progressed, so did the right to traditional masculinity. Gymnasiums had a sudden increase in membership. Machismo prevailed as some men took to the woods to chant and beat on drums like wild men.

However, the Christian right considered homosexuality a curse and abomination. Nonetheless, in a survey taken in 1998, the majority of Americans found same-sex relations acceptable. Bigotry and prejudice continued as violence and legal actions continued into the 21st century against gays.

A RELIGIOUS SPLIT The Gen-exers had a different review of religion that had nothing to do with gender. Spiritualism in what became “New Age” became a mantra for many, unhappy with the strictness of orthodoxy. Individuality prevailed over longtime traditions. Belief in Biblical heaven and hell was questionable. It was a different form of Creation vs. Evolution.

White Anglo-Saxons did not stand alone in what appeared to become a social revolution. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, organized a Million Man March, in some ways mimicking Reverend Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington when close to a million African American men marched onto the Mall in D. C. to listen to speeches and sermons lauding the virtues of family and community responsibility. It was the largest assemblage of African Americans ever held.

LOOSEN UP, BE YOURSELF The age of self-realization in dress codes fell upon us.

Men began trading ties and suits in the workplace as women took to slacks and denims in favor of dresses. Sneakers were popular over dress shoes and high heels. Work comfortably became code words for casual dress attire. Dress down Friday’s led to casual dress codes throughout offices across the country. Grunge music influenced young people to wear loose-fitting jeans, flannel shirts and T-shirts with designs that seemed alien to their parents. It was the advent of thrift stores and ragged jeans with holes and rips that often exposed nearly as much flesh than they covered. It was a special style designed to be non-conforming as they conformed to be non-conforming. The 21st-century hip-hop made its entry into the youth fashion world.

Some of these clothing fads became a tradition and added to the mix of non-conformity came along Ralph Lauren, Stone Island, Harrington jackets, Tommy Hilfiger sweaters, Guess, Hush Puppies shoes, Doc Martens boots and Aviator sunglasses.

By the late nineties, a Southeast Asian and Indian fashion became influential, not only in the United States but around the world. Some blamed it on the sixties and seventies’ influence of the Beatles and their mentor Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian guru who first met the Fab Four in 1967. He introduced them to Transcendental Meditation, which became part of the self-realization movement in the nineties.

FINANCIAL SPIN AND WHIRL Your 1990 hundred dollar bill would be worth $163.26 today. In 1990 an average house came at $123,000. By 1999 it would appreciated to $150,000 plus. The average income for a family of four in 1990 was $28,970. At the end of the decade, it was $40,819. A new car cost approximately $16,000.

In 1999 that same vehicle would have cost $21,000. However, a gallon of gasoline was $1.34 in 1990 but down to $1.22 at the beginning of the 21st century.

POLITICAL UPHEAVALS The United States’ political situation was still traditionally a two-party system. George H. W. Bush was President, having succeeded Ronald Reagan in 1988. Such peaceful politics did not exist around the world. Boris Yeltsin became the first President of Russia and served as such until 2000. The current President, Vladimir Putin succeed him in 2000.

As the Soviet Union collapsed, East and West Germany were reunited. Operation Desert Storm pushed Iraqi Armed Forces out of Kuwait.

After 12 years of Republican control of the White House, in 1992, Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was elected President.

Former branches of the Soviet Union declared their independence, including Bosnia, Herzegovina and Czechoslovakia became Czech Republic and Slovakia. Freedom

from terror and tyranny were becoming a part of the revised history of Europe.

Kofi Annan became Secretary-General of the United Nations and Bill Clinton (after being impeached and acquitted) was re-elected President for a second term. Under Clinton, Madeline Albright became the first female Secretary of State.

Economic sanctions against South Africa placed by the United States and the European Economic Council forced the country to amend its constitution to eliminate White rule and accept a new multiracial constitution. As a result, all Black Political Leaders, including Nelson Mandela, were released from jail. In 1994 Mandela would become the first Black President of a Democratic South Africa.

THE WORLD OF MUSIC, MOVIES, TELEVISION AND COSMETICS American popular music took a sharp turn in the nineties. We were inundated with Grunge, Hip-Hop, Britpop, Psychobilly, Punk, Skater, Goth and Preppy. While their parents were still hung up on Elvis and the Beatles, their offspring were going off in every direction when it came to musical tastes. The most popular singers of the nineties were 4 to 1 in favor of the ladies. Mariah Carey was number one, followed by Janet Jackson, Madonna and Whitney Houston.

Boys II to Men came in fifth.

Boys’ bands were generally popular. N’SYNC, New Kids on the Block, and All 4 One are examples. As to girl bands, Spice Girls, TLC and En Vogue were big. The Capris was the only Doo-Wops with a hit.

Eminem’s “My Name Is” topped the Rap/Hip Hop Charts. “Murder She Wrote”

by Chaka Demus & Pliers was the big Reggae hit. Va- RUSTY STRAIT | File Photo. nilla Ice’s Ice Baby topped the one-hit wonders list. Achy Breaky Heart was the fad song of the decade. Billy Ray Cyrus soared like a spike in blood pressure, then dissolved into the dust of forgotten melodies. His daughter did better. This could go on and on, but I’m sure you get the gist.

The top ten male movie stars were: Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Carrey and Sylvester Stallone.

Top ten female movie stars were: Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston, Meg Ryan, Demi Moore, Winona Ryder, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angelina Jolie.

The top ten movies: Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler’s List, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Toy Story.

Do you remember the top ten television shows? If not, here they are: Seinfeld, Friends, The X-Files, The Simpsons, Law and Order, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, Saved By the Bell, Roseanne and Ellen.

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them to resist herbicides and insecticides. By the end of the decade, some 100,000 acres were planted with soybean, Maize, Cotton and other vegetation. Because of that, more than 60% of food products on the grocery shelves included GM ingredients - and most folks never knew the difference.

In technology, Microsoft conquered the world with computers and computer programs. It has become as common to say Microsoft as it is motor vehicle. All of this technology brought mobile phones and the cell phones we use today, which not only provide communication but ready access to the world’s compiled knowledge we take for granted today.

The world waited and hoped. Waited for the last bell of the clock that introduced 01/01/2000. Happy 21st century. The hopes and dreams of a tired and war-torn world sought peace and prosperity, but mostly peace. Funny how the past has a way of turning out better in the future than it was at the time. There is an old saying that belongs to the military - or at least it used to. Perhaps it also belongs to all of us. It goes like this: “The only places that are good are those where we have been and where we are going. But this place sucks!”

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est-ranked elected official, setting the agenda and message. But now she said of Biden: “He is the leader of the Democratic Party.”

As Republicans on Capitol Hill join the Trump administration to investigate China’s role in the virus outbreak, she calls it a “diver-

sion” from the more immediate problems of stemming the health crisis and salvaging the U.S. economy.

“Yes, we want to know the source of this pandemic, but let’s focus on why we are not testing, how we can help people,” she said.

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most days, masked in a scarf at the U.S. Capitol, and said she is reminded that “life is fragile.”

She repeatedly washes her hands and covers herself to protect others, she said.

“Let’s take it a one giant step at a time, as we go forward because what for

what we’ve been doing for has been helpful, but not enough,” she said.

She said she has been “dismayed, frankly” by the way Trump’s is encouraging people to avoid the stay-home guidelines but said she “can’t dwell” on the president’s leadership.

“I mean, injecting Lysol, ‘magically go away,’ ‘hoax,’” she said, repeating some of Trump’s comments on the coronavirus.

“I believe in miracles. I believe in prayer. But again, we have to pray — and work — for the solutions to it all,” she said.

In March, lawmakers in Florida, one of the biggest GOP-run states, adopted a budget that came with the expectation that it would be cut later. But they have not yet formally sent the budget to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, giving him more time to make cuts with line-item vetoes.

The governor said it’s become clear that the economic fallout from the virus has worsened.

“Now, remember, we started doing 15 days to stop the spread,” he said

at a news conference this week. “Then it went into another 30, and so I think that that’s caused a lot of problems throughout the country.”

Lawmakers in Missouri, where Republicans control the Legislature and the governor’s office, last week adopted a budget that counts on more federal aid.

If it fails to come through, aid to state universities would be cut 10%.

In New York, which has seen by far the nation’s highest number of virus

cases and deaths, lawmakers will plug a gap for this year estimated at more than $13 billion, or about a seventh of the budget, by borrowing up to $3 billion and cutting more than $10 billion that was supposed to go to local governments.

Sarah Brancatella, the legislative director and counsel for the New York Association of Towns, said that could translate into aid cuts of more than 40% for some communities.

“We understand that

we’re all in this together and everyone is hurting and will have to tighten their belts,” Brancatella said in an email. “Our hope is that the federal government will not force the state into making these difficult decisions.”

writers James Anderson in Denver; Summer Ballentine in Jefferson City, Missouri; Adam Beam in Sacramento, California; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan; Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Florida; Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City; Andrew Selsky in Salem, Oregon; Paul Weber in Austin, Texas; and Lindsay Whitehurst in Salt Lake City.

mine, but that’s what makes for so many differences in our personal selections.

SPORTS IN THE NINETIES For the second or third time, Baseball players went on a strike. As a result, when they came back to play, ball attendance dropped more than 20%. Fans were frustrated and angry. Somehow we always feel that they make enough money and are not grateful to their endearing public.

Maybe. But the market dictates attendance. The players have families and as sports heroes they have their own tastes and desires as befits their status in the entertainment world. Never forget that sports entertain.

Basketball players also decided to strike. To get even, the owners locked the players out in 1998, deciding that what’s good for the grunts is good for the elite.

It was mostly routine for football, hockey and tennis.

The United States launched Major League Soccer which has thrived, as had soccer which is still moving toward competing with the NFL for their place in the sun.

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“He’s not a very political person,” Pelosi said of Obama. “That’s really part of his strength.”

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THEY GO HAND IN HAND Medical science and technology made great strides in the nineties both individually and as partners. Thanks to computers both prospered. We saw the growth of the World Wide Web and Personal Computer PC. In 1991 WWW first made the web available for public consumption. Early users grew at the rate of 3500 a year. By the end of the decade, more than 295 million users were on the internet. Communication was becoming revolutionary.

Consequently, Medical Science turned to the internet to solve medical problems. Two advances have helped doctors take giant leaps into the future of medicine. Cloning gave us the ability to clone one animal from the cell of another.

The first cloning produced Dolly from an ewe. In 1998 stem cells from human embryos created a storm of controversy.

Although fundamentalists decried it as interfering in God’s work, it nevertheless found approval with the medical community as it became more evident how much it would assist in the cure and prevention of diseases that previously were killing us by the millions. Morality and social traditions were a bar in some social areas. But medical innovations were not to be denied in the search for a healthier nation.

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