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Dr. Ruiz Fights for COVID Relief Funds for Local Hospitals and Doctors Leads efforts to preserve patient access to quality, affordable care

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ongressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) is leading efforts to bring home additional funding for local hospitals and providers battling surges in hospitalizations due to the Delta and Omicron variants. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Ruiz urged the agency to quickly disburse the remainder of the Provider Relief Funds, allocated by Congress in COVID relief legislation, to hospitals and providers continuing to face pandemic-related hardships, such as staffing shortages. Ultimately, Ruiz’s efforts will help

local hospitals and physician offices keep their doors open, preserving vital health care access for rural communities in the region.

“Now more than ever, we must protect access to quality, affordable care,” said Dr. Ruiz. “As our local hospitals and doctors continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to expedite pandemic relief funds so that our health care heroes can get the support they need to care for patients. I will continue fighting every step of the way to ensure the people I serve get the resources and care they need.”

Providers in California and the 36th District praised Dr. Ruiz’s efforts and echoed his calls for immediate disbursement of this vital funding.

“For a small rural hospital, the immediate disbursement of provider relief funds for rural facilities may be more critical than for larger urban hospitals,” said CEO of Palo Verde Hospital Sandra J. Anaya MSHA, BSN, RN. “Rural facilities operate on thin profit margins, with less staff, and limited allocations through the traditional supply chain. The additional challenges of staff illnesses, a small number of physicians, and patient surges in a

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crowded emergency department, can easily overwhelm the facility.

The cost of travel nurses has become prohibitive as agencies continue to take advantage of all hospitals, large and small. Prolonged waiting time to transfer patients to larger, better equipped facilities, easily causes overcrowding of severely ill patients for little to no reimbursement. Provider Relief Funds will help ease the financial burden for many hospitals, especially rural facilities that continue to be challenged by myriad socioeconomic factors, that compound the provision of care in poorer communities such as ours.”

“San Gorgonio Memorial Hospi-

tal has incurred over $7 million of unreimbursed losses resulting from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,” said CEO of San Gorgonio Hospital Steven Barron. “We are currently attempting to secure bridge loan financing to cover the gap. If we are unsuccessful, we will be bankrupt.

We desperately need help from the government.”

“California physician practices are still struggling with the challenges of the pandemic, making it more difficult to provide the quality care patients deserve during this critical time,” said California Medical As-

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San Jacinto Valley students honored in February Soboba Community DIANE A. RHODES | CONTRIBUTED

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he Hemet/San Jacinto Student of the Month program held its most recent recognition event at the Maze Stone restaurant at Soboba Springs Golf Course, Feb. 17. With one carryover from January, eight local high school seniors were recognized and honored for their character, love of learning and commitment to academics in addition to their involvement in school and community activities and their ability to overcome difficult life challenges. And they do this all in a setting that honors God, America, family, community and free enterprise.

Students are nominated by teachers or other school personnel for making a difference in their homes, schools and communities.

Program founder and event facilitator Karena Zermeno also represents one of the sponsors, Altura Credit Union. Backpacks filled with gifts, a Student of the Month award, certificates of recognition and much more were donated by the program’s sponsors to the award recipients. Each

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T Recipients of the Hemet/San Jacinto Student of the Month award for February are, from left, Erica Gutierrez, Abigail Lazarrus, Freddy Boyd, Amari Hill, Aaliyah Cruz and Kasey Aguilar. Jasmine McKenna, at right, was chosen in January. Not pictured, Cynthia Jauregui. D.L. | Starkey photo.

student was invited to the podium to share their personal story, past challenges and future goals with a room full of supporters that included principals, teachers, peers, family members and community and school district dignitaries.

February’s students of the month from Hemet Unified School District schools are Kasey Aguilar, Aaliyah Cruz, Erica Gutierrez, Amari Hill and Cynthia Jau-

regui. San Jacinto Unified honorees for February are Freddy Boyd and Abigail Lazarrus.

HEMET UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Kasey Aguilar from Tahquitz High School is the class of 2022 valedictorian and Principal Kari McGowan said she is the “epito-

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Teen skateboarder in critical condition after being pushed into traffic

he Soboba Tribal Environmental Department hosts quarterly community cleanups at the Soboba Indian Reservation to help homeowners dispose of unwanted items. It also serves as a way for household hazardous waste to be disposed of properly.

Environmental Director Christian Aceves said the event scheduled for Feb. 23 was extended due to the unexpected winter storm that brought rain, hail and freezing temperatures to the area. Residents were encouraged to stop by the collection area on Soboba Road through the weekend.

“Residents seem grateful for the event; it gives them a chance to clean up around their homes and it gives us the opportunity to remediate this waste and get it off the reservation,” he said. “We also offered a 40-yard bin dedicated to other solid waste just to help everyone out.”

The most common HHW people have on hand are batteries, fertilizer, paint, oil, aerosol cans, pesticides and cleaning chemicals. The reasons these items should not be left lying around people’s houses and properties is because they can catch fire, react or explode under certain conditions and they are corrosive or toxic. Even empty containers can pose a hazard because of the residu-

Soboba Tribal Environmental Department Director Christian Aceves was encouraged by the community’s participation in the most recent household hazardous waste cleanup event Feb. 23 through Feb. 28. | Photos courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.

al chemicals that might remain.

Aceves, of Moreno Valley, started working at Soboba in October 2021 with a strong desire to oversee an environmental department and programs. He holds two bachelor’s degrees from California State University, San Bernardino with one in Environmental Studies and the other in Geography. He has more than a year of experience working with Federally Recognized Native Tribes, specifically managing and coordinating EPA programs such as the Clean Water Act and the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program.

“My ultimate goal for this depart-

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Dad of seriously hurt teen wonders why anyone would push his son to traffic after fight over skateboard CHRISTINA GONZALEZ | CONTRIBUTED

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he dad of a Riverside County teen fighting for his life at the hospital is wondering why anyone would shove his son toward a moving Tesla after a fight over a skateboard.

"He hasn’t regained consciousness," says the father of 15-year-old Angel Botello Hernandez who is seriously hurt.

The teen was heading home on Stetson Avenue at Seven Hills Drive in Hemet, when he was approached

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A Riverside County teen is recovering at a hospital with serious injuries after he was pushed into traffic by a group of suspects while riding his skateboard Monday. | Photo Submitted by family.

Paint, oil, fertilizers and fluorescent lightbulbs were just some of the household hazardous waste items dropped off for proper disposal at a recent community cleanup event at the Soboba Indian Reservation.

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UNACCEPTABLE DELAYS: RUIZ CALLS ON IRS TO IMPROVE SERVICE, EXPEDITE RETURNS FOR LOCAL FAMILIES Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) pressed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to immediately resolve delays in service that have resulted in an enormous backlog of unprocessed tax returns. Heeding the concerns of Southern California residents who have faced unprecedented processing delays, Ruiz called on IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to improve responsiveness to ensure residents can file their taxes in a timely and painless manner.

“People rightfully expect quality services from their government institutions,” Dr. Ruiz wrote in his letter to Commissioner Rettig. “While

the IRS is currently under difficult circumstances, there is no excuse for poor customer assistance and an extreme backlog of service.”

According to officials, the backlog of returns is several times the normal amount, and the National Taxpayer Advocate identified “processing and refund delays” as the most serious issues encountered by taxpayers. Furthermore, the IRS’ challenges have resulted in frustrating customer service, as only roughly 11% of calls to the IRS are answered.

Citing constituent concerns, Ruiz demands IRS improve responsiveness

RIVERSIDE COUNTY

JOB FAIR TO FILL CAREGIVER POSITIONS SET FOR WEDNESDAY A virtual job fair focused on filling hundreds of caregiver positions throughout Riverside County was held yesterday, and county officials emphasized that no prior experience is needed to apply.

The Department of Public Social Services is seeking to increase the ranks of In-Home Supportive Services personnel as demand for IHSS resources continues to expand.

Up to 1,000 positions needed to be filled, according to DPSS. According to the agency, the greatest need at the moment is in the Coachella Valley, as well as in the communities of Anza, Blythe, Hemet and Idyllwild.

Recruitment drives are ongoing. There are currently about 34,000 IHSS caregivers available to assist 40,000 seniors countywide. Some of the caregivers are related to the residents who receive services under the IHSS system, which is state-mandated.

The system is focused on assisting the aged, but disabled adults also qualify. Caregivers render assistance with person-

al grooming, light housekeeping, food service and transportation. "The program is needed more than ever as one in every five of the county's 2.5 million residents is age 60 or older -- a population projected to swell by 250% in coming decades,'' according to a DPSS statement.

The base wage for an IHSS caregiver is $15.50 an hour, and workers are entitled to benefits, including flexible work arrangements and sick leave.

Applicants do not need prior experience in caregiving, but they must pass a background check in order to be hired. Anyone interested in applying was asked to call the IHSS information line at 888960-4477.

The online job fair Wednesday will be available via https:// app.premiervirtual.com/ events/a823fcbb-527c-4b7b9574-619e0319fd6c/ihss-public-authority-job-fair/attendee It had ran from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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School mask wars far from over EMILY HOEVEN | CALMATTERS.ORG

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tarting on March 1st, unvaccinated Californians can join inoculated residents in going maskless in most indoor settings in counties that allow it — but the state’s indoor mask mandate for schools and child care facilities will remain in place until 11:59 p.m. on March 11, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Monday.

Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s top health official, said California is treating schools differently than other venues because people often can’t choose where they send their kids to school in the same way they can decide which businesses to patronize.

• Ghaly: “They go to school because that’s the school in their neighborhood. That’s the school they’re assigned to. That’s the school where they get essential services, developmental services, access to food. … And so we have all along treated schools a little bit differently.”

Newsom unveiled the changes in a joint press release with fellow Democratic Govs. Kate Brown of Oregon and Jay Inslee of Washington — but those states had already

Parents and supporters protest school mask mandates in front of San Marcos High School in San Marcos on Feb. 22, 2022. | Photo by Eduardo Contreras, The San Diego Union-Tribune

announced a timeline for ending their school mask mandates. Oregon health officials on Feb. 7 said the rule would expire no later than March 31, and Inslee in a Feb. 17 Medium post said face masks would no longer be required in Washington schools and child care facilities starting March 21.

• Before Monday, California and Hawaii were the only two states without a timeline for phasing out masks in schools.

• But even after March 11, hundreds of thou-

sands of California students may still be required to wear face coverings, as the state will continue to allow counties and individual school districts to keep stricter mask rules, CalMatters’ Joe Hong reports. Neither San Francisco Unified nor San Diego Unified, for example, have immediate plans to change their masking rules, and Los Angeles Unified appears bound under an agreement with its teachers union to require masks through at least the end of the current school year.

direction are sure to be contentious: On Monday, nearly 200 Rocklin Unified educators called in sick to protest the district’s decision to stop enforcing the state mask mandate ahead of March 11. Nevada Joint Union High School District shuttered Thursday and Friday last week when teachers walked out for the same reason.

Teachers unions on Monday emphasized the importance of local decision-making in any changes to school mask policies.

• Decisions in either

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annabis 21+, the premier family, women, veteran, and privately-owned licensed cannabis dispensary operator in California has expanded again opening its largest store yet in Palm Desert. This first of seven County of Riverside locations set to open in the next 18 months sets the bar very high, wowing visitors.

"We know how to run high-volume stores, as our San Diego SDRC branded locations serve almost 1500 customers per day, but we've never had the square footage and service options that this new location offers. Coachella Valley residents and tourists will be delighted by the variety and value we are bringing to the community, including 6 large kiosks that our supply partners will staff to highlight the benefits of their product lines.", stated CEO Sean St. Peter, co-founder

Cannabis 21+ Palm Desert Store. | Courtesy photo of prnewsire.com.

of Cannabis 21+.

Manager Nick Smith added "Cannabis dispensaries should provide all the value of storefront retail-like faceto-face assistance, product education and instant access to products. We strive to make shopping for cannabis fun, fast and budget-friendly, without any of the hassles or worries some associate with cannabis. Our stores are bright, open, and have plenty of parking, getting people aged 21 and above back to their daily lives with a smile on their face whether they are brand new to cannabis or

long-time consumers."

This latest edition of what is expected to be 20 locations by the end of 2023 took over two years to get permitted by the County of Riverside and remodeled what was originally constructed as a boutique grocery store. Cannabis 21+ Palm Desert has 15 stations where visitors are offered 1 on 1 private consultation covering the 1500 or more products it will carry.

Cannabis 21+ prides itself on being a "Deal Store" which only carries items it can offer at the lowest price for one unit and the value

gets greater when customers tap into their daily deals and bundled offers which its well-trained budtenders go over in a fun and fast fashion.

"We helped create the reputation for many of California's biggest brands and still support them, but we also like give innovative new companies an opportunity to succeed, which our customers love," St. Peter added.

The new Palm Desert Market is located at 39225 Washington Street, Palm Desert, California 92211.

For more information, visit ShopC21plus.

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sociation President Robert E. Wailes, M.D. “The California Medical Association appreciates Congressman Ruiz’s

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me of Titan Pride.” Being on ASB all four years and serving as its current president are among her numerous accolades and accomplishments. A past soccer player for the school, she joined the football team this year as its field goal kicker and made 27 of 30 point after kicks and was named Varsity Special Teams Player of the Year. Kasey said her father was in the Navy for 22 years and was deployed for much of her childhood. She, her mother and her three siblings found it hard to have him gone so much. In 2015, a close family friend died and left behind four teenagers that Kasey’s family took in, completely changing their family dynamic.

Kasey has volunteered 100plus hours to AYSO and became Tahquitz’s first female kicker to play in a game and score a field goal. She said through her hard work she achieved a goal she set for herself in sixth grade which was to be the valedictorian for her graduating class. She plans a career in the surgical field and hopes to attend UCLA to major in biology.

Hemet High School’s Aaliyah Cruz was nominated by her ASB teacher Lindsay Brown who said she has had the joy of knowing Aaliyah all four years and watching her grow throughout her high school career. “She goes over and beyond to be kind and include everyone and truly leads by example,” Brown said. Born and raised in Hemet, Aaliyah will be a fourth-generation Hemet High School gradu-

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by a group of teens. Witnesses say there was a scuffle, seemingly over his skateboard.

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leadership and work to release important Provider Relief Funding so that patients continue to get the medical services they need.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked financial

havoc on our already fragile health care delivery system,” said Carmela Coyle, President & CEO of the California Hospital Association. “Over the past two years, hospitals in this state have lost an esti-

mated $16.3 billion due to the pandemic. And, while some federal relief funds have been made available to hospitals and other providers, the allocations to date haven’t come close to adequately covering

these losses, limiting the ability to care for communities in need. California hospitals are grateful to Rep. Ruiz for his ongoing advocacy on behalf of health care providers and the people we care for,

and we urge the Department of Health and Human Services to quickly release the remaining resources in the Provider Relief Fund to those hospitals and providers most in need.”

ate. “School was difficult for me,” she said. She worked to overcome dyslexia by committing herself to new challenging roles and getting involved in ASB, yearbook and softball. Aaliyah said her teachers have taught her more than what can be learned from reading a book such as responsibility, teamwork, accountability and leadership. “It is because of these amazing educators that I want to be a teacher myself,” she said.

Erica Gutierrez was Hamilton High School’s choice for February. Her twin brother, Christian, received the Student of the Month award in January. Her art teacher started off with a quote from Irish artist Stacia Tauscher: “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” Erica said online learning during the pandemic proved to be a challenge for her but with the help of teachers and staff she was able to get back on track and she is thankful for their support. Erica aspires to be a wildlife biologist and has always been big on volunteerism and wildlife conservation.

Alessandro High School singled out Amari Hill to be recognized this month.

She serves as her school’s representative for the Board of Trustees and only needs to complete 15 more credits to graduate. She is a member of ASB and plans to take after her mother and pursue a career in psychology. She said during middle school she suffered with depression and anxiety but one thing she learned that she will take to college and on-

ward is that “I can’t let my off days turn into my every day.” Her mother said Amari has faced many health challenges and to see how far she has come is amazing.

“As for the future, I know Amari is going to rock it out,” her mother said.

West Valley’s Cynthia Jauregui could not attend but Principal Shannyn Cahoon said the senior is a four-year cadet with the school’s Navy JRTOC and very active with the program. She’s also on the soccer team and is “honest and dedicated and believes in service to country and stands firm on her beliefs.” Cynthia plans to either attend college or enlist in the U.S. Navy as a step in accomplishing her lifelong goal of being “financially independent.”

February. “I found hope and I want to inspire others,” she said. She is working as a respite caregiver for adults with special needs and plans to attend college and start her own business. “My goal is to make people feel beautiful and empowered and feel good about themselves,” she said.

Jasmine McKenna of Mountain View High School, who couldn’t attend the recognition ceremony when she was honored in January, was given the opportunity to share her story at this month’s event. The school’s ASB director said when in-person learning resumed in August students were isolated and disconnected but when Jasmine joined ASB she brought many students with her and improved school morale.

She serves as her school’s Board of Trustees representative and even though she officially graduated in January and works two jobs, she has committed to continuing her role of reporting at monthly school board meetings. “One thing I learned while being here at Mountain View is that even if you don’t believe in yourself when things get really difficult there are people that are there for you and they are there to help you,” Jasmine said. “When I was younger, my mom and dad split up and not having my mom around was very difficult for me and caused a lot of personal problems for me and it also affected my schoolwork,” Jasmine said.

“But I decided I didn’t want it to affect me in the long run so I started focusing more and putting myself

out there.” She hopes to follow her dad’s creative path as a tattoo artist and open her own shop. Her ultimate goal is to work in the dental field as a dental assistant or a hygienist.

SAN JACINTO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Freddy Boyd transferred to San Jacinto High School two years ago and has excelled on and off the football field since he arrived.

Principal Courtney Hall said he is one of the best ambassadors for the school by possessing the skill to talk to people that takes most people many years to develop, if ever. “You can tell he genuinely cares about what you have to say,” Hall said.

Football coach and Tiger University teacher/mentor Aric Galliano said Freddy is a born leader and has made first team All-League both seasons and team MVP this past year. Freddy started off by saying, “This community offers nothing but the best so I feel it deserves nothing but the best in return. I believe my greatest contribu-

tion to my community, my school and my family is the way I motivate others and bring joy into people’s lives whether I know them or not.” His passion for sharing knowledge and helping others is what has led him to aspire to three careers simultaneously: a football coach, a personal trainer and a high school math teacher, all to help further develop the next generation of society.

He said his mother’s ability to maintain a positive outlook despite what is going on around her is one of the many lessons he will carry throughout his future journey. “Because my mom is my role model, my hero and most of all, my best friend,” Freddy said.

Mountain Heights Academy chose Abigail Lazarrus as its outstanding student for February. Principal Ken Swanson met her when she first moved to San Jacinto as a fifth-grade student at Megan Cope Elementary where he was principal at the time.

Abigail said her parents divorced at that time but that her father started sexually abusing her at the age of 3 and it continued when he had visitations. She said she was sexually abused by her boyfriend at the age of 13 and “lost myself.” She started hanging out with the wrong crowd, drinking, doing drugs and fighting which led to her being kicked out of school. “I was a toxic person and hard to be around,” Abigail said. “I tried to take my own life.” She said the ensuing trauma led to physical problems and she was full of pain. Now four months clean and sober, she finished high school in early

At one point, someone pushed Botello onto the street, where the driver of a white Tesla couldn’t stop on time and hit him. The teen suffered major injuries to his

head, says the dad.

The teen's dad can’t imagine why anyone would hurt the West Valley High student, who by all accounts has never been in trouble.

Police are looking for anyone who may have been traveling through the intersection when the incident happened on Monday, February 28, at around 4:25 p.m. Those with

a car video system they may have gotten images of the people involved on the intersection, before or after the incident, officials hope.

The driver of the Tesla

stopped immediately and faces no charges. But anyone who may know anything about the incident is asked to call Sergeant Gabe Gomez at 951-765-2396.

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CLOSING REMARKS Zermeno applauded the students for sharing their personal stories and for being great examples of being able to persevere through difficult times and situations. She encouraged everyone to forgive the past and to “forgive the person who did you wrong because when we forgive, we do something very powerful, not for them but for ourselves.” She said it gives us the ability to move on and look forward and added, “Don’t give up on your dreams. Don’t be a victim, be a victor.”

HUSD Superintendent Christi Barrett said some of the students’ speeches brought to mind the importance of family and what that means. “Many of us have a very distinct definition and mental model of what a family is,” she said, adding that the critical takeaway from this event is that everyone has the ability to be someone’s family. “Family means to love and to support without judgment and to love unconditionally.”

SJUSD superintendent Dave Pyle said he was inspired and impressed by the fact that so many of this month’s honored students have played a strong leadership roles at their schools, with ASB and other programs.

For more information, www.studentofthemonth.net.

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She Stood Up for God’s People JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES | CONTRIBUTED

1-3. (a) Why might Esther have felt intimidated by the prospect of approaching her husband? (b) We will discuss what questions regarding Esther?

ESTHER tried to calm her heart as she approached the courtyard in the palace at Shushan. It was not easy.

Everything about the castle was designed to inspire awe—its multicolored relief sculptures of winged bulls, archers, and lions of glazed brickwork, its fluted stone columns and imposing statues, even its position atop huge platforms near the snowcapped Zagros Mountains and overlooking the pure waters of the river Choaspes. All of it was intended to remind each visitor of the immense power of the man whom Esther was going to see, the one who called himself “the great king.” He was also her husband. ² Husband! How different Ahasuerus was from the kind of husband any faithful Jewish girl might have expected! * He did not look to such examples as Abraham, a man who humbly accepted God’s direction to listen to Sarah, his wife.

(Gen. 21:12) The king knew little or nothing of Esther’s God, Jehovah, or of His Law. Ahasuerus knew Persian law, though, including a law forbidding the very thing that Esther was about to do. What was that? Well, the law said that anyone who appeared before the Persian monarch without first being summoned by the king was liable to death.

Esther had not been summoned, but she was going to the king anyway. As she drew near to the inner courtyard, where she would be visible from the king’s throne, she may have felt that she was walking to her death.—Read Esther 4:11; 5:1.

3 Why did she take such a risk? And what can we learn from the faith of this remarkable woman? First, let us see how Esther got into the unusual position of being a queen in Persia.

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Mordecai had good reason to be proud of his adopted daughter. | Photo source: jw.org.

4. What was Esther’s background, and how did she come to live with her cousin Mordecai?

4 Esther was an orphan.

We know very little of the parents who named her Hadassah, a Hebrew word for “myrtle,” a lovely white-blossomed shrub.

When Esther’s parents died, one of her relatives, a kindly man named Mordecai, took pity on the child.

He was her cousin, but Mordecai was much older.

He brought Esther into his home and treated her as his own daughter.—Esther 2:57, 15.

5, 6. (a) How did Mordecai raise Esther? (b) What kind of life did Esther and Mordecai lead in Shushan?

5 Mordecai and Esther lived as Jewish exiles in that Persian capital, where they probably had to deal with a measure of disdain because of their religion and the Law they tried to follow. But Esther surely drew closer to her cousin as he taught her about Jehovah, the merciful God who had rescued His people from trouble many times in the past—and would do so again. (Lev. 26:44, 45) Clearly, a loving and loyal bond grew between Esther and Mordecai.

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ly worked as some kind of official at the castle at Shushan, regularly sitting within its gate, along with other servants of the king.

(Esther 2:19, 21; 3:3) How the young Esther passed her time as she grew up, we can only guess, although it seems safe to say that she took good care of her older cousin and his home, which was likely situated in the humbler quarters across the river from the royal castle. Perhaps she enjoyed going to the market in Shushan, where goldsmiths, silversmiths, and other merchants displayed their wares. Esther could not have imagined that such luxuries would later become commonplace to her; she had no idea of the future in store for her.

“BEAUTIFUL IN APPEARANCE” 7. Why was Vashti deposed as queen, and what was the result?

7 One day, Shushan was buzzing with gossip about turmoil in the household of the king. At a grand feast, where Ahasuerus was entertaining his noblemen with sumptuous food and wine, the king decided to summon his beautiful queen, Vashti, who was feasting separately with the women. But Vashti refused to come. Humiliated and enraged, the king asked his advisers how Vashti should be punished. The result?

She was deposed as queen.

The king’s servants began searching throughout the land for beautiful young virgins; from among them the king would select a new queen.—Esther 1:1–2:4.

8. (a) Why might Mordecai have felt some concern

Esther knew that humility and wisdom were far more important than physical appearance. | Photo source: jw.org.

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Hemet Valley Mortuary

ike many of you, I grew up in church.

Back then, church was quiet. Shhhh…Once you entered through the sanctuary doors, there seemed to be a mood of solemness. As a kid, I thought if I sneezed too loudly it was a terrible thing. But things change - Hallelujah - and today, many churches now see themselves as places of Godly celebration and fellowship. I’m convinced that Jesus had great spirited meetings and that laughter, excitement, and passion were always in play.

It reminds me of a story I heard about the Russian czar back in 1903, who came across a sentry posted for no apparent reason on Kremlin grounds. Upon inquiry, he discovered that back in 1776, Catherine the Great found the first flower of spring on that very spot “Post a sentry here,” she commanded, “so that no one tramples that flower underfoot!” And that was that.

Well, over a hundred years later, a sentry was still posted. Some traditions die hard and changing the mood in church has been one of them. But I, for one, love the change and love the passion in our churches today.

Most people are passionate about something - be it God, football, family, food, or their work. Someone once noted that the world admires every passionate enthusiasm except one: Love for God! I have found that to be true.

Our word “fan” comes from the word “fanatic.” We hear of sports fans, celebrity fans, and music fans - but where are all the God fans?! People will fight for a front-row seat

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• E. Toby Boyd, president of the California Teachers Association: “Simply put, while some students are ready to immediately remove their masks, others remain very afraid. We urge local school districts to continue to work with educators and families and to act cautiously while prioritizing the safety of students, educators and their

at a sporting event or a music concert, but how about church? Not so much. To bad ~ I once heard that the famous Hungarian-born American conductor, Eugene Ormandy, dislocated his shoulder while directing the Philadelphia Orchestra - so passionate! So fanatic about his music! I don’t know what they were playing, but he was giving it his all. It may be hard to imagine that, but as T.S. Eliot said, “It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.” It makes you feel sad for those poor souls who have no passion.

Romans 12:11 has handed us this great verse on passion: “Be enthusiastic to serve the Lord, keeping your passion toward Him boiling hot!” To keep your passion towards God “boiling hot” one must keep the fire burning, stoked with His word and singing His praises! Without that, we often find ourselves warbling out songs like, “Make the World Go Away” - “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” - “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” or, “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.”

I recently read an article about the man responsible for the development of the Polaris Submarine - Rear Admiral William Reborn, Jr. He was always careful to keep an eye on his top management personnel and when first coming on the job, he would give them a patriotic pep talk on the importance of their work. If it ever appeared that someone was not doing their best, he would call them into his office for what he termed, “rededication.”

One officer, recalling one of those emotional sessions said, “When I walked out, families.”

Meanwhile, some parent groups suggested that Newsom and other state leaders could face political repercussions for requiring kids to wear face coverings at school long after they were made optional for most Californians in most locations other than health care settings, public transit, homeless shelters and prisons.

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I knew I was ready to die for someone. I didn’t know whether it was for the admiral, the president, or the head of the Boy Scouts, but brother, I was ready to die if necessary!”

That’s what I call passion!

Passion captures the attention of others. Why? Because it glows. It flashes. It illuminates. It’s daring. It’s contagious! Passionate people are just so “out there!”

I’ve always loved this writing by Steve Jobs, and invariably think of a zealous, passionate person - it’s a great little read. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits.

The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things, they push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

That’s real passion, and honestly, I think Jesus would have loved that read too!

Bob and Susan Beckett pastor the Dwelling Place City church at 27100 Girard Street in Hemet, CA. For more information, you can contact them at DPCitychurch.org pi, executive director of California Parent Power: “The public health and state response to the pandemic has destroyed trust between California parents and elected officials regarding whether the public school system is prepared to put children first in a crisis. … As we move to the endemic stage of this pandemic, the governor and other elected officials must reckon with our anger and frustration.”

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US states adding to financial pressure on Russia over war DAVID A. LIEB | AP NEWS

to subsidize Vladimir Putin,” Ralston said. “While our role in international affairs is limited, we make clear we stand with those who want to live in peace.”

Some actions have been largely symbolic. The capitols in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Tennessee and the governor’s mansion in South Carolina were lit with the blue and yellow colors of Ukraine’s flag. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, issued a joint statement condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as co-chairs of the presidentially appointed Council of Governors. Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled Senate passed a resolution affirming the historical ties between the state and the people of Ukraine and supporting their fight against what it described as “an illegal and violent” Russian invasion.

Other state actions have potential teeth.

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eeking to tighten the financial squeeze on Russia over its war against Ukraine, governors and lawmakers in numerous U.S. states were taking actions Monday to pull state investments from Russian companies while encouraging private entities to do the same.

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by U.S. states often pales in comparison to national ones, but state officials said they wanted to show solidarity with Ukraine and do what they could to build upon the penalties imposed on Russia by the U.S. government and other Western nations.

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, a Republican, got a bipartisan standing ovation Monday when he told representatives he would seek to have the state’s retirement funds quickly divested from any Russian assets.

“I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t want one penny of Georgians’ money going

House passed legislation that would block Russian-controlled businesses and nonprofits from acquiring property in Indiana for one year.

It now goes to the Senate.

“Indiana will not be a safe haven for ill-gotten Russian funds, nor for its oligarchs trying to find financial shelter in the wake of Putin’s unconscionable invasion of Ukraine,” Democratic state Rep. Ryan Dvorak said while proposing the amendment last week.

Pennsylvania lawmakers said Monday they will file legislation requiring state pension funds to pull investments connected to the Russian government and its critical supporters. The state Treasury Department also has begun divesting its minimal holdings in Russian-based companies.

In a memo to fellow senators, Democratic state Sen. Sharif Street said Pennsylvania “must wield our economic power to ensure that Russia faces grave consequences

Pennsylvania and other states adding to financial pressure on Russia over war | Phoro source: witf.org.

for their flagrant violations of international law and human cooperation.”

Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, a Republican seeking co-sponsors for the legislation, said state lawmakers “have a moral obligation to ensure that our public fund investments are not inadvertently supporting those who are engaging in an unprovoked invasion of their democratically elected neighbors.”

Arkansas lawmakers

have filed proposals authorizing banks in the state to freeze the assets of Russian oligarchs and to require a boycott of Russian-made goods. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared Tuesday through Thursday “special days of prayer for Ukraine.”

A bipartisan group of California lawmakers said Monday they also will introduce legislation to divest public money from Russian state entities.

New York Gov. Kathy Ho-

chul signed an executive order Sunday forbidding her state from doing business with Russia. She ordered state agencies to divest money and assets from companies or institutions aiding Russia in its war against Ukraine. The Democratic governor also said New York would welcome Ukrainian refugees, noting that New York already is home to the largest Ukrainian population in the U.S. On Monday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ordered state offices under his control to terminate government contracts that benefit Russian businesses.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, also has banned state agencies from doing business with Russian stateowned firms and their subcontractors. Colorado’s $61 billion state pension fund is pulling $8 million from a Russian state-owned bank

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Progressives struggle for influence among California Democrats ALEXEI KOSEFF | CONTRIBUTED

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rogressive activists have found themselves on the losing end of recent California Democratic Party fights over single-payer health care, endorsements and donations from fossil fuel companies. Tensions are high as the party gathers for its annual convention March 4-6.

The message was clear and, more importantly, it was loud: Progressive activists would work to block the California Democratic Party’s endorsement for any lawmaker who did not support a single-payer health care bill facing a crucial legislative deadline at the end of January.

Their threat did not persuade wavering legislators to get on board, however, and the bill was shelved without a vote. Two weeks later, the chairperson of the party’s progressive caucus announced that activists had dropped their campaign to pull endorsements from uncooperative incumbents, blaming Democratic officials for obstructing them.

“The party uses every advantage it has under the bylaws to ensure there is no democracy in the Democratic Party,” Amar Shergill, the

AMAR SHERGILL: Chairperson of the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus. | Photo via Shergill’s social media. progressive caucus chairperson, told CalMatters.

Inspired by the unabashedly leftist presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in 2016, a wave of political outsiders once seemed poised to remake the California Democratic Party. But the momentum of their movement, which coincided with heightened liberal energy in resistance to then-President Donald Trump, appears to have crested.

Sanders supporters organized early on to elect new delegates to the state party, giving the progessive wing more influence to push for policy positions and endorsements for candidates

who could challenge establishment stalwarts including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein from the left.

Yet in the five years since, they’ve struggled to achieve their biggest and most consequential goals, including twice failing to elevate one of their own to lead the California Democratic Party. Earlier this month, party officials adopted new restrictions on campaign contributions that fell short of progressive demands to stop taking money entirely from fossil fuel companies, law enforcement unions and health insurers.

As delegates gather virtually this coming weekend for the annual state party convention, nearly all of the sitting legislators who are running again will be endorsed on a consent calendar, while Shergill is encouraging progressives to withhold their donations and volunteer time from the party and focus their organizing energy on outside groups. He has also invited the director of the newly established Working Families Party to address the caucus on Saturday night.

The dissension reflects how the eternal ideological tension within California’s dominant political party has intensified and curdled in recent years. As newly em-

powered activists, many of them fresh to organized politics, escalated their tactics to demand change, so did party leaders pushing back to maintain a status quo that has largely worked to elect Democrats in the state for decades.

Though the influence of the progressive wing has not entirely waned — several political consultants declined to discuss the dynamic on the record with CalMatters for fear of angering delegates they need to woo to endorse campaigns they are working on — a lack of victories to back up their more aggressive political style has sent a signal to some Democrats to simply ignore them.

Tenoch Flores, a former communications director for the party from 2009 to 2015 who now works as a consultant for progressive causes, said there is more acrimony and hurt feelings over these fights than in the past. He attributed it to the frustration of a movement that has brought increased attention to its causes but has not grown in scope or influence to match, a dynamic that he said it would be important for its leaders to manage.

“One of the beliefs is that if you have impassioned speeches and you scream

truth to power, you can have policy change overnight,” Flores said. “They’re not able to make good on any of their threats.”

Despite numerous interview requests, the California Democratic Party did not make Chairperson Rusty Hicks available for this story.

INTERNAL DIVISION OVER PARTY’S DIRECTION This is not the first time the California Democratic Party has been through these battles, which are also playing out in the national party and in other states.

In neighboring Nevada, top Democratic politicians and their allies established a rival campaign apparatus after the state party elected a leftwing chairperson.

Karen Bernal, a former chairperson of the California party’s progressive caucus for three terms from 2009 to 2013 and 2017 to 2019, said there’s a fundamental conflict over the function of the party between rankand-file members, who join for ideological affinity, and politicians, for whom it is a conduit for money and other campaign resources.

“It’s always been a struggle between the grassroots and the legislative leadership,” she said.

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The party experienced a similar wave of insurgent progressive activism after Howard Dean’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2004, Bernal said, then the energy dwindled during the Obama years when identity politics neutralized the philosophical divide.

But the backlash from party officials is more “iron-fisted” this time around, she said. She pointed to elaborate campaigns to elected favored slates of delegates after progressives unexpectedly swept races in 2017 and rule changes when activists have found ways to challenge the power structure.

After progressives called a meeting of the party’s executive board to pursue the ban on donations from groups they consider in conflict with the California Democratic Party platform, the rules committee proposed an amendment to the bylaws that raises the threshold for requesting a special meeting, including by doubling the number of signatures required. It was adopted in late February , during the same weekend when officials approved a scaled-back proposal that gives the party more flexibility on when to reject contributions.

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Adolph Hitler first came to power in 1933 when he was elected Chancellor of Germany. He soon replaced the elected president and became a dictator. In 1934 he signed a non-aggression pact with Poland.

In his book Mein Kampf he told the world exactly what he planned to do, but most people treated it as a new novel. However, political minds were quickly changed after he remilitarized the Rhineland (1936) and annexed Austria (March 1938).

In September that year, British and French leaders signed the Munich Agreement, ceding the Sudetenland to Germany in return for Hitler’s promise to resolve all future conflicts peacefully.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London, proudly proclaiming one of the most untrue statements of all time. “Peace in our time!”.

Hitler’s promise was like pie crust, quickly broken.

In March 1939, he dismantled the Czechoslovak state. Britain and France immediately guaranteed the integrity of the Polish State. Threats were made against Hitler. He ignored them. He was hell-bent for leather to have a war.

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On April 28th, 1939, he withdrew from the non-aggression pact signed with Poland. He then signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939 (to cover his backside). The deal with the Soviets permitted the Germans to attack Poland without fear of Soviet intervention.

On September 1st, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, using a contrived excuse that Poland, Great Britain and France were planning to dismember Germany.

On September 1st, 1939, Germany’s surprise attack caught much of the world off guard. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17th. Ten days later, Warsaw surrendered to the Nazis.

The Nazi hordes soon occupied most of Europe.

World War II had begun.

I remember it. I was there.

What remains of WWII veterans remember it, too.

Sound familiar?

I thought so.

e should not be surprised that a sixteen-year-old Black girl was thrown to the ground like a full-grown man by two Rialto police officers for allegedly riding a minibike at a high rate of speed through a residential neighborhood.

The officers claim the young teen was uncooperative and in response, they slammed her to the ground and according to the victim, one officer placed his hand around her throat. She was handcuffed and taken to jail.

For those who have not seen the video I encourage you to watch and judge for yourself.

“The officer’s identity is being withheld as part of the investigation,” we are told. It is a line we read and hear over, and over again.

Rialto Police Chief Mark Kling came out of retirement in December 2017 to “clean up” the Rialto Police Department, so to speak, however this incident and others since his return have left some to wonder whether he forgot to bring a broom.

In the meantime, although two officers were involved in the aggressive takedown of the teen, only one officer has been suspended—with pay, of course. I guess the second officer who clearly participated in the aggressive handling and arrest of the young girl for some reason it appears his actions were not deemed brutal enough to warrant a suspension–even with pay.

Rialto Police Officer. | Photo Credit: (source: www.rialtopolice.com).

Will he even be investigated?

Kling has offered an apology in what appears to be a proactive effort to temper a rising storm. “We apologize to the juvenile’s family regarding these unfortunate circumstances. At a time when our police department strives to build community relationships, we certainly fell short in this encounter…We look forward to building rapport with this family now and in the future.”

Certainly an apology is a good start but it falls far short of the kind of systemic change this community must demand as a way to put an end to the ongoing maltreatment of people of color by local police.

I do not know Chief Kling and can only take him at his word but what I do know is that his words do little to assuage the physical and emotional damage his officers have inflicted on this child, her family and the broader community.

The aggressive and terrorizing handling of this young girl is no aberration. Sadly, it did not shock us. It did not catch us off guard but it

hurt just the same to witness another of our daughters treated so violently. It makes us angry that in the 21st century we are still fighting to protect our children from the viciousness of those who do not see our children as children.

But then again, this is America, the land where the criminalization of Black girls has been a reoccurring experience for us since slavery and has manifested itself again and again in city, county, state and federal sponsored violence and dehumanization, something fostered on Black women and girls with the same level of intensity as is placed on Black men and boys. Were this not true, then officers like those involved in this incident would not have felt so free to act with such violence, with such confidence and sense of impunity against a young Black girl.

THERE IS MORE GOING ON IN RIALTO As this case garners well-deserved national attention, we should not lose sight of the fact that this is not the only incident of concern in-

volving the Rialto police.

This incident comes on the heels of a January 20 press conference by the family of 23-year-old. Cristopher Valadez who was shot and killed

by Rialto police October 22, 2021. Valadez was unarmed.

As the family’s attorney explained, “Cristopher Valadez was shot multiple times by Rialto Police officer Michael Babineaux when he was attempting to drive away. He was not posing any threat of death to anyone as officer Babineaux opened fire on him.”

This case caught my attention not only because it involved another young man of color where officers acted as judge, jury and executioner, for several reasons but two in particular. Firstly, because the circumstances were somewhat similar to the Minnesota case that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by officer Kimberly Potter who was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter for shooting him to death.

Potter pulled Wright over for having an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror.

Like Valadez, Wright also tried to leave the scene and was killed when Porter said she accidentally pulled her revolver instead of her taser.

Wright was unarmed.

Another point that resonated with me about Valadez’s death is because he was shot by the same officer, Michael Babineaux, who was responsible for shooting another unarmed man in a

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Russia has Forgotten the Hard Lessons it Learned Invading Finland NED BARNETT | CONTRIBUTED

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ussia learned some hard lessons when it invaded Finland in November 1939.

Today in Ukraine, it’s become clear that those lessons didn’t “stick,” at least not among Russia’s decision-makers.

In the winter of 1939, Russia – having just conquered half of Poland after Germany had already knocked that country out of the war – decided that war was good business. So they invaded Finland. In Poland, the Soviets re-took land that had been under the control of Czarist Russia for two centuries before it was divided away from Russia at the treaty of Versailles. Repeating that strategy, on November 30, 1939, Russia attacked Finland, intending to recover land that had also been part of Czarist Russia before Versailles.

Like Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, Finland was a Baltic state that had existed for centuries, before becoming a Czarist vassal state.

But unlike Poland, Finland had a strong army that had not been defeated in battle.

In the Kremlin, the Soviets decided the time was right to take that territory back, thinking it would be another piece of cake as Poland had been two months earlier.

Indeed, this invasion should have been a cakewalk for the Soviets. After all, the Soviets had more soldiers in their army – 1.8 million – than Finland had males of all ages – 1.75 million – in its entire country in 1939.

However, after two serious but little-known border wars earlier in 1939 with Japan along the Manchurian-Mongolian border, many of the Red Army’s best troops were

still stationed along that battle line. On November 30th, the Soviet force – 450,000 men in 21 army divisions – crossed the border. Known as the Winter War, this invasion focused on the Karelian Isthmus, a strip of land that separated the Baltic Sea from Lake Ladoga. Karelia seemed to offer a “highway” between Leningrad and the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Most of the invading army – 250,000 Soviet troops – attacked along that narrow strip of land.

Facing them on all fronts were just 130,000 Finnish soldiers.

However, the Red Army committed two cardinal sins – both of which they are now repeating in Ukraine. They sent in an army largely made up of newly conscripted men, virtually just out of training and ill-equipped for a long war along the Arctic Circle. Then they divided their forces, sending nearly half their army – around 200,000 men – to invade central and northern Finland, territory with no strategic value to the Soviet Union. Their divided forces were then defeated in detail.

While some of these Red Army troops had invaded Poland in September, there was a decided – and decisive – difference between Poland and the attack on Finland.

First, the Polish Army had already been defeated by the German Army, which invaded 17 days earlier. What the Russians did was less of an armed invasion and more of a peaceful occupation of undefended territory. While they experienced the invasion, none of those soldiers had experienced real combat.

Against Finland, most of the Soviet soldiers – even veterans of the Polish occupation – were relatively recent

Finnish machine gun nest. | Public Domain Photo.

conscripts, drafted into the Soviet Army and given little training before being thrust into combat. Worse, they were not prepared for the winter weather in Finland, where daytime temperatures could reach 45 degrees below zero.

However, Finnish soldiers were primarily long-service veterans, well-trained for winter warfare, outfitted with camouflaged white snowsuits, many equipped with skis. Perhaps as important, they were fighting for their home, their families, and their country. Against them, the rank-and-file Red Army had no clue why they were fighting.

As in Finland in 1939, the Russian army is today invading a country during the winter, using recently conscripted troops who are ill-prepared for an all-out invasion of a well-defended enemy’s homeland. The failure to invade Finland using experienced troops properly dressed and equipped for a winter war cost the Russians thousands of unnecessary casualties, and dragged the war on for more than three

months – a war the Soviets planned to win in less than three weeks. Now it seems to be happening again. Oops.

Fast forward eighty-three years. Reports from Ukraine suggest that the Russian army’s advance had stalled out. Again. Why? In yet another winter invasion – it’s still very much winter in Ukraine – an army of mostly recent conscripts, given brief training before being thrust into combat has under-performed in ways not anticipated by Kremlin leaders. The lesson in Ukraine should have been learned in Finland in 1939. On average, Ukrainian soldiers are more experienced, better prepared for the weather – and they’re fighting for their homes, their families, and their nation. Those factors are strong force multipliers.

The other main lesson from history that the Red Army is ignoring in Ukraine at their own cost involves the division of force. Two thousand years ago, the legendary Chinese master of war, Sun Tzu, wrote: We can form a single united body, while the enemy must split up into

fractions. Hence there will be a whole pitted against separate parts of a whole …

This is another lesson that the Russians should have learned in Finland, in 1939.

There, they divided their forces between the main invasion and the sideshow invasion of Central and Northern Finland. Outnumbering the Finns, they remained too weak to win anywhere. It took a second invasion of the Karelian Isthmus – on top of the first, failing invasion – a new assault with a fresh army that drove Finland to the negotiating tables more than three months after the invasion.

In addition to Sun Tzu and von Clausewitz, since Czarist days, Imperial, Soviet and Russian military academies taught the precepts of military strategist American Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan.

It was Mahan who warned against the folly of dividing the battle-fleet … and by extension, any army assault force. Mahan’s books remain required reading for Russian officer candidates, yet in its desire to quickly overwhelm Ukraine, Russia divided its

invasion force into four separate attack forces. One force is attacking from the Northwest, out of Russian puppet state Belarus. Another is attacking from the Northeast, from along the Russian/ Belorussian border. A third force is attacking due West from the heartland of Russia, and the final force is attacking from the South, from Crimea, which Russia took from Ukraine in 2014.

To the uninitiated, this might seem like a sound strategy – everywhere Ukraine looks, its borders are under attack. However, by mounting four attacks, the Russian army must also have four air forces to clear their paths, as well as four logistic trains to keep the troops supplied with fuel, bullets and bombs, food and water, repair teams, and medical units. All the while Ukraine has the longknown benefit of “interior lines.” It is far easier for them to move troops and support forces from one attack front to another, using roads and railways under their control.

Bottom line: the Russian Army should know better – and perhaps it does. But the shots are being called by the Kremlin, by leaders who have little practical experience with war at the strategic level. Eventually, if Russia is willing to absorb the casualties, they can keep pouring in ill-trained, ill-equipped troops in penny-packet formations and eventually wear down the Ukrainians, just as they did with Finland in 1939. But what could have been a lightning campaign has turned into a slogging match.

Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it?” Obviously, he wasn’t a Russian.

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A both with front-end damage. Due to the extent of injuries sustained, 33-yearold Jachelski, of San Jacinto died at the scene.

Meanwhile, responders transported the other victim to a local hospital for

treatment of major injuries.

At this time, San Jacinto officials are still currently working to identify further circumstances surrounding the deadly head-on collision.

woman was shot during a purse-snatching outside a Hemet auto shop, and the perpetrator remained at large today.

The shooting happened at about 4:45 p.m. Monday in the 1200 block of South State Street, near Stetson Avenue, according to the Hemet Police Department.

Lt. Eric Dickson said the victim, whose identity was not disclosed, was waiting for her vehicle to be smogchecked when a man approached her from behind in the parking lot and tried to grab her purse.

“A struggle ensued, and the suspect brandished a

two videos on the internet of what occurred, one a highly edited version posted by the Rialto Police and a fuller version of the incident is available here.

When Babineaux shot Bender in June 2019, he was a rookie cop, on the job less than six months—he was never suspended. Now, having been on the job less than three years, Babineaux has used deadly force for the second time—resulting in the death of Cristopher Valadez.

A 2015 review of high-profile police shootings across the country showed officers involved in many of these

incidents had a few things in common—they were primarily white, a number had disciplinary records, and many were under the age of 30.

And, we also know the problem runs even deeper in the criminal justice system than inexperienced officers and/or police with strong biases against people of color.

Exactly how deep? We witnessed a classic example with the New Jersey incident recently where police, breaking up two fighting teens, treated the white kid with gentleness and left him sitting unattended as they tackled the Black

teen, handcuffed, and held him in custody. It is obvious that his Black skin made him guilty, how else can you explain the difference in treatment by the officers? The white kid was older, larger and on top of the Black kid when the police arrived on the scene.

As local police in communities across the country continue to treat Black and other people of color as if the uprising of 2020 never happened, it was even more alarming last week to watch Judge Regina Chu sympathize and opine over how remorseful officer Kimberly Potter was

for having murdered Daunte Wright. The judge praised Potter for being a great citizen and for her long police career.

She talked about all the letters of support Potter received.

On and on the judge went singing Potter’s praises, never mind the fact that as Wright lay dying or dead in the street after Potter shot him, all she could do was wail about what was going to happen to her as she implored fellow officers on the scene to call her union representative. She never even bothered to check for Wright’s pulse.

It was heart wrenching to see the officer get a two-

year sentence…far below the minimum subscribed by law based on her 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter convictions. With the time she’s already served, Potter will spend less than two years in jail and is only being charged court fees of just over $1,000.

This is the value placed on the life of a young Black man in America today. Records show the average price of a slave in 1860 was $800— showing how little Black lives continues to be worth in this nation.

Of course, this is just my opinion.

I’m keeping it real.

vestments in Russia.

“If our state can put one brick in the wall around Putin, it will be a good thing, and we intend to do all that we can in this regard,” said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat.

Two prominent Republican governors, Florida’s Ron DeSantis and South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, who are widely seen as angling for a White House bid, mostly took aim at President Joe Biden rather than issuing executive orders targeting Russia. They criti-

cized his energy policies and said that had made it difficult to slap sanctions on Russia’s exports of oil and gas.

Other governors are seeking to sever good-will relationships between their home states and those in Russia.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday that he’s dissolving Maryland’s decades-old sister-state relationship with Russia’s Leningrad region after the invasion of Ukraine. Virginia Gov.

Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, asked the cities of Norfolk and Roanoke to end their sister city partnerships with Russian cities. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, called for an end to its sister state relationship with Stavrapol Krai, Russia, and a strengthening of its sister state relationship with Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.

Several states have expressed a willingness to provide housing to Ukranian refugees. The Washington state House and Senate each

have added amendments to their budget proposals setting aside $19 million to provide services and temporary housing to refugees who come from Ukraine.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, posted on Twitter over the weekend that he has asked restaurants and retailers “ to voluntarily remove all Russian products from their shelves.”

Officials in Alabama, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and

West Virginia — all states that control the sale of alcohol — have directed Russian-sourced alcohol to be removed from store shelves.

“Utah stands in solidarity with Ukraine and will not support Russian enterprises, no matter how small the exchange,” Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said.

and contained. But does it mean that their fight is not resonant? No, it does not.”

works with moderate Democrats in swing districts, said the single-payer activists had overplayed their hand with the threat to pull endorsements. With voter malaise over pocketbook issues such as inflation front and center, he said it was the wrong year to take on a legislative fight that would require massive tax increases. (Supporters of a single-payer health care system argue that Californians would ultimately pay less than they do now for insurance premiums.)

While politicians do respond to party dynamics, Acosta said, they must be cognizant first of their constituents. As Democrats try

to defend legislative supermajorities that allow them to raise taxes and qualify ballot measures without Republican votes, they did not want to provide their opponents with an easy campaign attack that they are out of touch with pressing economic concerns.

“People are feeling it, man,” Acosta said, “It’s just hard to tell people they’re not.”

The outsized response by single-payer advocates to the bill’s failure last month — including warnings that they might back a challenger to Assemblymember Ash Kalra, the San Jose Democrat who carried the measure,

because he did not bring it up for a vote — also turned off many in Sacramento.

Flores, the former party spokesman, called it a moment of “self-marginalization” for the progressive movement and a message for the dozens of new legislators who will arrive at the Capitol by next year after an unusually high number of resignations and retirements .

“Is that really what they’re going to want to deal with?” he said. “A lot of what’s displayed is not how you build a winning legislative coalition.”

Shergill, the progressive caucus chairperson who frequently criticizes Hicks on

social media , rejected the notion that its tactics had weakened the position of the party’s left wing. He said he would continue to advocate for progressives to build their own organizations that could operate freely outside of the California Democratic Party.

“When we’re successful, great. When we’re not, it reinforces this message that the party cannot be trusted with your time and effort,” he said. “For progressives, there’s never a scenario where we lose, because either we win the issue or we’re teaching our members lessons about how to win the next fight.”

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shley Jachelski was killed in a headon crash on North Sanderson Avenue, early Saturday morning.

According to authorities, the incident happened just before 3:00 a.m. Crews arrived to the scene on North Sanderson Avenue, just north of West Ramona Expressway.

Per reports, the driver of an SUV crossed into oncoming lanes on the highway for reasons unknown.

As a result, two SUVs collided head-on in the area.

First responders arrived and located the two SUVs,

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case I covered two years ago.

Babineaux previously shot 29-year-old Lawrence Bender who had tried to use a cigarette lighter in a tow truck to light his cigarette. At the time this occurred the tow truck driver was preparing an impounded vehicle for towing. Babineaux was on site observing the tow driver when Bender wandered onto the scene.

Babineaux shot Bender twice. Fortunately, Bender did not die but was hospitalized for two weeks. There are

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identified in federal sanctions.

Governors or other state officials in Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia and Washington also have ordered a review of whether any state money is going to Russian companies or investments supporting the Russian government. A North Dakota investment board was due to meet later this week to discuss its in-

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Activists allege that their effort to challenge lawmakers who did not support the single-payer legislation faltered because the party misinterpreted its own bylaws that establish a process for disputing endorsements and shut them down.

Combined, Bernal said, all of these measures demonstrate an establishment desperate to hold on to the status quo — and how far it will go to silence dissent from progressives.

“Their influence is being smashed from the top,” she said. “They’ve been corralled

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WHERE DO PROGRESSIVES GO NEXT? While this fight is unlikely to resonate outside of a narrow sliver of voters invested in party politics, several strategists said it presented an unnecessary distraction for Democrats in an election year where polls suggest they are facing growing political headwinds and could ultimately undermine progressives’ position in California.

Andrew Acosta, a political consultant who frequently

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firearm and shot the victim one time in the leg,” Dickson said. “The suspect then fled on foot with the victim’s purse and ran northbound into the parking lot on the southeast corner of State and Stetson.”

Patrol officers converged on the area within minutes and attempted to find the assailant, but there was no sign of him, according to Dickson, who said the victim was

taken to a trauma center in serious but stable condition, and she’s expected to “make a full recovery.”

The robber was described as thin, dark-skinned, in his early 20s, 5- feet-10 inches tall and wearing a dark-colored hoodie sweatshirt and dark- colored face mask.

Anyone with information about the suspect or the crime was asked to contact detectives at 951-765-2396.

Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Missouri. Associated Press state government reporters from around the U.S. contributed to this report.

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er name is Katie Toupin and she’s one of the hottest alternative singer-songwriters in the country today.

A gal from Kentucky who kicked up her heels and took off like the astronauts she is currently representing.

Q. How did that happen?

A. “I wrote and recorded a song called “Astronaut.”

It started out as a wordof-mouth thing. I reached out to NASA and they said, ‘Yeah, yeah, but we don’t know what to do with it, etc.’ A fan heard it, liked it and happened to know a guy in marketing at the Space Center in Houston named Rick King. He liked the song and saw how well it fit into their promotions and signed me to a year’s contract to represent them in their tv promotions.

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Simple as that? Not by a long shot. Born in Indiana, she now calls Kentucky her home.

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A: “I was inspired by Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline, Gillian Welch and the Rolling Stones, among others. I wanted to develop my own style. Next thing you know, I discovered that I also had a knack for writing and began to write and sing my own creations. Sometimes you do good things and

other times, they turn out bad. You don’t quit. You just keep going forward.”.

For six or seven years, she was part of the celebrated alternative country band, “Houndmouth.”

During that time, it was tour, tour, tour and she became known as a country singer. She is much more than that.

Her first self-produced album, “Magnet Moves,” received critical attention and from then on, there has been no stopping her progress.

She has recently recorded a cover EP of a band called “Blink 182.” The effort is entitled “Blink18Toupin.” It is an effort to raise awareness of Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

A: “I’ve never been more excited about anything.”

There are three distinct venues in Hemet that bring

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he Big Short - was a 2015 film about how some financial whizzes, realizing that the nation’s overheated housing market was on the verge of collapse, made billions of dollars by betting on failure.

California played no small role in the housing debacle during the first decade of the century. Housing construction had surpassed 200,000 units a year, more than the market could prudently absorb, and to fill them, mortgage lenders radically lowered their credit standards for would-be homebuyers.

When the unstable market collapsed, nearly 800,000 California families lost their homes and 10 of the 20 cities with the nation’s highest foreclosure rates were in California.

After the implosion, housing construction plummeted to as little as 10% of the pre-crisis boom and has never fully recovered, even though foreclosed houses eventually became rentals or were resold to new buyers.

Construction is now scarcely half of the 180,000 units a year state officials say is necessary, creating a severe hosing shortage, particularly for moderate- and low-income families, that fuels the nation’s highest poverty rate.

The “big short” in housing is not alone. California, which has always seen itself as a land of abun-

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dance, faces critical shortages in other commodities vital to a healthy economy and society.

One is particularly obvious this year — water.

California once led the nation in developing largescale water impoundment and conveyance projects as a hedge against its very seasonal and very unpredictable precipitation. But

very little has been built in the last half-century as the state’s population doubled and farmers shifted to more water-intensive crops such as grapes and almonds.

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Another big short is less stark than water, but still looms large — electrical energy.

California’s officialdom is bent on making the state carbon-free by converting power generation to wind and solar, by replacing gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with electric cars and

trucks, and by phasing out natural gas in homes and businesses.

This massive conversion would impose huge new demands on an electrical grid that already comes up short on some hot summer days when air conditioning systems run at full tilt — days that climate change will make more frequent, by the way.

The state has already postponed the phaseout of some natural gas-fired electric plants because of shortages but that’s just a short-term fix. Will it also postpone the 2024 closure of the state’s only remaining nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, which generates 8% of the state’s electrical power and 15% of its carbon-free juice?

Making the state carbon-free might be a worthy goal, but only if we have enough electrical power from other sources and at the moment, it’s uncertain it will be there when it’s needed.

A fourth major shortage facing California is in trained and/or trainable workers.

California employers are desperate to find enough workers as the state emerges from the COVID-19 recession. A shortage of construction workers is one reason we are falling behind in housing but the syndrome hits virtually every segment of the economy.

We have shortages of auto mechanics, truck drivers, nurses, teachers, farm workers and cops, to name just a few other impacted fields, and they will worsen because California’s population has stopped growing and its potential workforce is declining as the baby boom generation ages out.

All of these shortages are also political issues and it’s high time our politicians pay attention to them.

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The department is 100% funded by grants and Aceves said the focus of one that was recently approved will allow for a permanent HHW transfer station to be located on the Reservation. This will not only ensure residents an opportunity to dispose of unused paint, oil and other household hazardous waste when it is most convenient for them, it will provide a location where regular pickups can be made.

“In its simplest form, a transfer station is a facility with a designated receiving area where waste collection vehicles discharge their loads,” Aceves explained.

“The waste is often compacted, then loaded into larger vehicles (usually transfer trailers, but intermodal containers, railcars, and barges are also used) for long-haul shipment to a final disposal site—typically a landfill, waste to-energy plant, or a composting facility. No longterm storage of waste occurs at a transfer station; waste is quickly consolidated and loaded into a larger vehicle and moved off site, usually in a matter of hours or days.”

He said that until the permanent transfer station is built, his department will continue to host quarterly HHW commu-

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The department is planning for its annual Earth Day event on April 28 with a theme of “Face the Waste.”

The event, open to Tribal members and Soboba employees, will include local vendors, food, games, raffles, community engagement and will promote education on local and global environmental issues.

“We are also working towards expanding an Air Quality Monitoring program,” Aceves said. “This program will monitor Soboba’s air quality to ensure each Tribal Member and neighboring communities are breathing clean and healthy air.”

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“What we want to avoid is having chemicals and other items dumped in the canyon and other remote areas of the reservation where they can seep into the groundwater that provides the primary drinking water for the residents,” Aceves said. “Water resources need to be viable – they are necessary to life, not only are they culturally important and relevant but spiritually as well.”

The Environmental Department has numerous ongoing projects including water quality monitoring for Soboba’s surface water.

Aceves said monitoring is conducted monthly to ensure surface water is remaining within state water quality parameters. This ensures the

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alifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on February 24th, the arrests of 14 individuals who were charged in San Bernardino County Superior Court in connection with two hospice companies accused of stealing more than $4.2 million from the federal Medicare and state Medi-Cal programs. Based in San Bernardino County, New Hope Hospice, Inc. and Sterling Hospice Care, Inc. enrolled patients who were not terminally ill into hospice care, many of whom told investigators that they were enrolled without their knowledge or understanding of what hospice was. All of the arrested defendants face multiple felony counts including conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, insurance fraud, grand theft, and fraudulent insurance claims, with some defendants also facing charges related to identity theft, money laundering, and tax evasion. Two defendants

remain at large.

“End-of-life care is a difficult process for families to endure, and patients should be able to trust that their hospice providers are acting in good faith,” said Attorney General Bonta. “The crimes allegedly committed by the defendants against their patients, Medicare, and our state’s Medi-Cal program will not be tolerated. My office is committed to protecting the well-being of Californians and prosecuting those who abuse the financial integrity of our healthcare system.”

An investigation led by the California Department of Justice and assisted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General and the California Employment Development Department revealed that from 2015 to 2021, the defendants allegedly billed Medicare and Medi-Cal for millions of dollars, fraudulently claiming that they were providing hospice care to patients who had less than six months to live when in fact these patients were not terminally ill. Each of the defendants

allegedly played a role in the scam, which consisted of: paying illegal kickbacks to recruit patients for hospice care, including patients who did not qualify for hospice because they were not terminally ill; taking patient identity information and using it to put them in hospice without their knowledge; falsely representing to patients what services they would be receiving; and billing patients with one company, only to switch them to the other company in order to avoid detection.

When a patient is enrolled in hospice care, they give up their opportunity under the Medicare and Medi-Cal programs to receive medical treatment to prolong their life, such as chemotherapy for cancer patients. As a result of the defendants’ alleged actions, numerous ineligible patients were incorrectly certified as terminally ill and tricked into receiving hospice services, which would have made access to potentially lifesaving medical care difficult in the event that any of them required it.

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by the California Department of Justice’s Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse (DMFEA). Through DMFEA, the Department of Justice works to protect Californians by investigating and prosecuting those who perpetrate fraud on the Medi-Cal program.

DMFEA also investigates and prosecutes those responsible for abuse, neglect, and fraud committed against elderly and dependent adults in state licensed facilities. DMFEA regularly works with whistleblowers, the California Department of Health Care Services, and state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute Medi-Cal provider fraud and elder abuse, and fraud by entities other than Medi-Cal providers when their actions result in fraudulent claims. To learn more about DMFEA or to report Medi-Care fraud or elder abuse visit oag.ca.gov/dmfea.

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• Changes Needed in the Home: Take a look at your home or the home of an older loved one, and consider whether you or the person you are concerned about need to make simple repairs or modifications such as installing grab bars in the shower or lights in a dark hallway.

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alifornia officials announced that face masks will no longer be required indoors starting Tuesday, as the state shifts to an “endemic” approach to the coronavirus.

Masks will be “strongly recommended” for unvaccinated people in most indoor settings like shops, gyms, bars and movie theaters, but they will no longer be mandated by the state after Tuesday, officials said.

And next week, after March 11, masks will also not be required at California’s schools and child care centers — though officials continue to strongly recommend masking in classrooms.

Masks will still be mandated for everyone in high transmission areas, including on public transit, emergency shelters, health care settings, correctional facilities, homeless shelters and long-term care facilities.

While the state is loosening its masking requirements, local jurisdictions can still continue to require masks indoors.

Sacramento County followed the state’s guidance in mid-February as the mask mandate was lifted for vaccinated people only.

“California continues to adjust our policies based on the latest data and science, applying what we’ve learned over the past two years to guide our response to the pandemic,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “Masks are an effective tool to minimize spread of the virus and future variants, especially when transmission rates are high. We cannot predict the future of the virus, but we are better prepared for it and will continue to

take measures rooted in science to keep California moving forward.”

The move comes after California ended the indoor masking requirement for vaccinated people on Feb. 16, mandating face coverings only for unvaccinated people in indoor public settings.

That marked the end of a two-month period of more stringent masking rules brought on by an omicron-fueled coronavirus surge that sent infection numbers skyrocketing statewide.

Now, with case numbers quickly declining, the state is relaxing its masking rules even further to include those who haven’t been vaccinated.

California is easing up on the face mask requirements as it moves to an “endemic” approach that emphasizes prevention and quick reaction to outbreaks over mask mandates and closures.

Newsom announced the shift two weeks ago, saying the state is moving past the crisis stage and into a phase where Californians will have to live with the virus.

California became the first state to formally offer such a detailed plan for a future when COVID-19 becomes manageable as the population’s immunity builds.

This new stage depends on the state identifying surges or variants faster, fighting misinformation, adding more health care workers and stockpiling tests.

The Newsom administration dubbed the plan SMARTER to highlight its key elements: Shots, Masks, Awareness, Readiness, Testing, Education and Rx. Two other western states, Oregon and Washington, will also join California in updating their masking guidance Tuesday.

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(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ FONTANA DANIEL SCOTT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/26/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201881 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CHERRY VALLEY RV STORAGE, 38941 CHERRY VALLEY BLVD CHERRY VALLEY CA 92223 Mailing address: 1440 BEAUMONT AVE UNIT A2-193, BEAUMONT CA, 92223. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): WATSON DAVID TODD BORTHWICK 9475 LAKEVIEW CT CHERRY VALLEY CA 92223 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 02/04/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ WATSON DAVID TODD BORTHWICK This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/10/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022. AFF#S00828

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201442 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SIFA CONSTRUCTION, 31060 HIDDEN LAKE RD, MURRIETA, CA 92563.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): SIOSIFA TONGA ULI ULI MAFUA 31060 HIDDEN LAKE RD MURRIETA CA 92563 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ SIOSIFA TONGA ULI ULI MAFUA This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/02/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/10/2022, 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022. AFF#S00813

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201351 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BANDA LA ELECTRIZANTE, 3859 SHAMROCK AVE, RIVERSIDE, CA 92501.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): BLANCA ESTHELA RODRIGUEZ 3859 SHAMROCK AVE RIVERSIDE CA 92501 PEDRO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ ROSALES 3859 SHAMROCK AVE RIVERSIDE CA 92501 This business is conducted by: MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ BLANCA ESTHELA RODRIGUEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/31/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/10/2022, 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022. AFF#S00816

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-20220101205 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TOWERS PLUMBING, 1183 WATER LEAF WAY, SAN JACINTO, CA 92582.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): ARTURO -- TORRES 1183 WATER LEAF WAY SAN JACINTO CA 92582 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 02/13/2017. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ ARTURO TORRES This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/27/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022. AFF#S00812

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202414 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LEWING LEGAL SERVICES, 2617 W. FRUITVALE AVENUE, HEMET, CA 92545. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): CELINE MICHELE LEWING 2617 W. FRUITVALE AVENUE HEMET CA 92545 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 01-01-2022. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ CELINE MICHELE LEWING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/25/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022, 03/24/2022. AFF#S00852

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202146 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RR SOLUTIONS, 25925 VIA ELEGANTE, MORENO VALLEY, CA 92551.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): RICHARD PAUL RODRIGUEZ 25925 VIA ELEGANTE MORENO VALLEY CA 92551 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ RICHARD PAUL RODRIGUEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/17/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022, 03/24/2022. AFF#S00842 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201622 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ALLEN PLUMBING, 56890 VOLKMANN RD, ANZA, CA 92539 Mailing address: PO BOX 391692, ANZA, CA 92539.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): DEANNA KAY ALLEN 56890 VOLKMANN RD ANZA CA 92539 ROBERT LEE ALLEN 56890 VOLKMANN RD ANZA CA 92539 This business is conducted by: MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 4-12-2012. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ DEANNA KAY ALLEN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/07/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/10/2022, 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022. AFF#S00824

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202200825 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SUNSHINE CAR WASH, 3470 E FLORIDA AVE, HEMET, CA 92544 Mailing address: P.O. BOX 1943, HEMET, CA 92546. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): SUNSHINE CARWASH CORP 3470 E FLORIDA AVE HEMET CA 92544 This business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 1/1/2022. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ MUHAMMAD A. NAEEM This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/20/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/10/2022, 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022. AFF#S00822 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202007 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TURNKEY HOMES AND INVESTMENTS, TURNKEY HOMES, TURNKEY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, TURNKEY REAL ESTATE, 42880 BROWN ST, MURRIETA, CA 92562. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): FUTURO FINANCIAL GROUP INC. 42880 BROWN ST MURRIETA CA 92562 This business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ RODOLFO CORTES JR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/15/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022. AFF#S00833

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202458 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SALAZAR’S TRACTOR WORK, 43101 CACTUS VALLEY RD, HEMET, CA 92544.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): ALFREDO -- SALAZAR 43101 CACTUS VALLEY RD HEMET CA 92544 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ ALFREDO SALAZAR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/28/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022, 03/24/2022. AFF#S00850 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202086 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DAHLIA’S HOME DECOR, 25211 SUNNYMEAD BLVD, MORENO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 92553 Mailing address: 25465 OLD FARM ST, MORENO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 92553. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): DALIA -- SANCHEZ 25465 OLD FARM ST MORENO VALLEY CALIFORNIA 92553 JORGE ANTONIO SALCEDO 25465 OLD FARM ST. MORENO VALLEY CA 92553 This business is conducted by: MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ DALIA -- SANCHEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/16/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022. AFF#S00834

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201091 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: XPRESS MOBIL AUTO SERVICE, 7539 LAKESIDE DR, RIVERSIDE, CA 92509.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): FONTANA DANIEL SCOTT 7539 LAKESIDE DR RIVERSIDE CA 92509 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 03/09/2009. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ FONTANA DANIEL SCOTT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/26/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022. AFF#S00836 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202050 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MANAGEMENT REVENUE CYCLE SOLUTIONS, 412 SELKIRK DRIVE, CORONA, CA 92881. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): JOSE MAURICIO NINO 412 SELKIRK DRIVE CORONA CA 92881, SANDRA PATRICIA CARVAJAL 412 SELKIRK DRIVE CORONA CA 92881 This business is conducted by: MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ JOSE MAURICIO NINO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/16/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022. AFF#S00838

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201858 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TACOS Y BIRRIA JALISCO, 1000 DOLPHIN DR, PERRIS, CA 92571. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): ANTONIO – DENIZ DENIZ 1000 DOLPHIN DR PERRIS CA 92571, MARIA TERESA MUNDO SILVA 1000 DOLPHIN DR PERRIS CA 92571 This business is conducted by: MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).) Registrant signature/ ANTONIO DENIZ DENIZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/09/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022. AFF#S00827 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202333 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TODD STAMPS, 1167 VIA DEL ECHO AVE, HEMET, CA 92543.

Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): TODD ANTHONY STAMPS 1167 VIA DEL ECHO AVE HEMET CA 92543 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 01/01/2020.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ TODD ANTHONY STAMPS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/24/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022, 03/24/2022. AFF#S00844

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202201333 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GIRL FRIDAY DOCUMENT SERVICES, 1499 NOLETTE AVENUE, HEMET, CA 92545. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): AMANDA LYNN MCWILLIAMS 1499 NOLETTE AVENUE HEMET CA 92545 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ AMANDA LYNN MCWILLIAMS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/31/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 02/10/2022, 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022. AFF#S00821 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILED COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE PETER ALDANA ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER R-202202444 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ACE CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING, ACE EQUIMPEMENT RENTALS, WY INTERNATIONAL MARKETING, WATSON ELDERLY ESTATES,14058 SILENT STREAM CT, EASTVALE, CA 92880 Mailing address: 7056 ARCHIBALD AVE, STE 102360, EASTVALE, CA 92880. Name of County where business is located: RIVERSIDE Registrant(s): 4AW CORP. 7056 ARCHIBALD AVE STE 102360 EASTVALE CA 92880 This business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name (s) listed above on 11/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 or 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).)

Registrant signature/ WILLIE WATSON This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/28/2022 NOTICE: IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 THIS STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. Published in The Hemet Chronicle: 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022, 03/24/2022. AFF#S00849

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME R-202103974 The following fictitious business name(s): ELEGANTE BEAUTY SALON 109 S STATE STE C, SAN JACINTO, CA 92583. COUNTY: RIVERSIDE has been abandoned by the following person(s): GUADALUPE – TOVAR 109 STATE ST STE C SAN JACINTO CA 92583. This business is conducted by: GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. The fictitious business name(s) referred to above was filed in Riverside County on 03/30/2021. I declare that all information n this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). s/ GUADALUPE TOVAR. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/09/2022. PUBLISHED IN THE HEMET CHRONICLE 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022. AFF#S00831

should 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 court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING Date:4-14-22. Time: 8:00 AM Dept: S101, TELEPHONIC. The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Hemet Chronicle. Dated: FEB 24 2022. JONI I. SINCLAIR, Judge of the Superior Court. Published in The HEMET Chronicle: 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022, 03/24/2022 AFF#S00846

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RICHARD MICHAEL DAVENPORT AKA RICHARD M. DAVENPORT CASE NO. PRMC2200211 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RICHARD MICHAEL DAVENPORT AKA RICHARD M. DAVENPORT A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARGARET P. MATHER in the Superior Court of California, County of RIVERSIDE. 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 that be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on 04/14/2022 at 08:30 A.M. in Dept. T1 located at 41002 COUNTY CENTER DRIVE, #100 TEMECULA, CA 92591. 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. KEVIN R. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW 41555 EAST FLORIDA AVENUE, SUITE H HEMET, CA 92544 Telephone: 951 658 4492 Published in the Hemet Chronicle 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022 AFF #S00855

default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California

Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTI OF RIVERSIDE, MURRIETA 30755-D AULD RD. STE. 1226 MURRIETA, CA 92563 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, es): ROBERT M. ARONSON, SBN 81487 / JEFFREY A. CLARK, SBN 70546 LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT M. ARONSON, P.C. 217 E. ALAMEDA AVE, SUITE 304 BURBANK, CA 91502 TEL (951) 719-3456 / FAX (310) 815-9440 DATE (Fecha): 1/27/2022 Clerk, by (Secretario) P. Kinkade, Clerk Deputy (Adjunto) Judge of the superior court, Honorable Marie E. Wood (SEAL) Published in The San Jacinto Chronicle: 02/10/2022, 02/17/2022, 02/24/2022, 03/03/2022 AFF#S00825

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NAME CHANGE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE # CVSW2201224 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner, TAWNYA JOYCE GARNER & SEAN DONALD BRUCE CASE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: KAYLEE PATRICIA JOYCE GARNER. Proposed Name: KAYLEE PATRICIA JOYCE BRUCE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RUTH E. HOFFER CASE NO. PRMC2200217 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RUTH E. HOFFER A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by VADA LITTLEJOHN in the Superior Court of California, County of RIVERSIDE. The petition requests that VADA LITTLEJOHN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on 04/15/2022 at 08:30 A.M. in Dept. T1 located at 41002 COUNTY CENTER DRIVE, #100 TEMECULA, CA 92591. 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.

KEVIN R. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW 41555 EAST FLORIDA AVENUE, SUITE H HEMET, CA 92544 Telephone: 951 658 4492 Published in the Hemet Chronicle 03/03/2022, 03/10/2022, 03/17/2022 AFF #S00793

SUMMONS SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CVSW2107127 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): WAYNE THOMAS NELSON, an INDIVIDUAL YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): AMERICAN UNITED FEDERAL CREDIT UNION NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

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You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by

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to act, salvation for the Jews would arise from some other source. But how could she expect to be spared once the persecution gathered force?

Here Mordecai showed his profound faith in Jehovah, who would never let His people be exterminated and His promises go unfulfilled.

(Josh. 23:14) Then Mordecai asked Esther: “Who is there knowing whether it is for a time like this that you have attained to royal dignity?” (Esther 4:12-14) Is not Mordecai worthy of imitation? He trusted completely in his God, Jehovah. Do we?—Prov. 3:5, 6.

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about Esther as she grew up? (b) How do you think we might apply the Bible’s balanced view of physical beauty? (See also Proverbs 31:30.)

8 We may imagine Mordecai gazing fondly at Esther from time to time and noting with a mixture of pride and concern that his little cousin was grown-up— and had turned out to be a remarkable beauty. “The young woman was pretty in form and beautiful in appearance,” we read. (Esther 2:7) The Bible presents a balanced view of physical beauty—it is delightful, but it needs to be coupled with wisdom and humility. Otherwise, it may breed vanity, pride, and other ugly traits of the heart. (Read Proverbs 11:22.) Have you ever seen that to be true? In Esther’s case, what would beauty turn out to be—an asset or a liability? Time would tell.

9. (a) What happened when the king’s servants noticed Esther, and why must her parting from Mordecai have been difficult? (b) Why did Mordecai allow Esther to marry a pagan unbeliever?

9 The king’s servants noticed Esther. They gathered her up in their search, taking her away from Mordecai and off to the grand palace across the river. (Esther 2:8) It must have been a difficult parting, for the two were like father and daughter.

Mordecai would not have wanted his adopted daughter to marry any unbeliever, even a king, but events were out of his control. * How eagerly Esther must have listened to Mordecai’s words of advice before she was taken away! As she was led to Shushan the castle, her mind was filled with questions. What kind of life lay ahead of her?

SHE WON FAVOR “IN THE EYES OF EVERYONE SEEING HER” 10, 11. (a) How might Esther’s new environment easily have affected her? (b) How did Mordecai show his concern for Esther’s welfare?

10 Esther found herself ushered into a world that was entirely new and strange to her. She was among “many young women” who had been gathered from far and wide in the Persian Empire. Their customs, languages, and attitudes must have varied greatly. Placed under the charge of an official named Hegai, the young women were to undergo an extensive beauty treatment, a yearlong program that included massages with fragrant oils. (Esther 2:8, 12) Such an environment and lifestyle might easily have bred an obsession with personal appearance among those young women, along with vanity and competitiveness. How was Esther affected?

11 No one on earth could have been more concerned about Esther than Mordecai was. We read that day by day, he made his way as near as he could to the house of the women and endeavored

Esther risked her life to protect God’s people. | Photo source: jw.org.

to learn of Esther’s welfare.

(Esther 2:11) As bits of information trickled out to him, perhaps through cooperative servants in the household, he must have beamed with fatherly pride.

Why? 12, 13. (a) What impression did Esther make on those around her? (b) Why would Mordecai have been pleased to learn that Esther had not revealed her Jewish heritage?

12 Esther so impressed Hegai that he treated her with great loving-kindness, giving her seven servant girls and the best place in the house of the women. The account even says: “All the while Esther was continually gaining favor in the eyes of everyone seeing her.” (Esther 2:9, 15) Would beauty alone have impressed everyone so profoundly? No, there was much more to Esther than that.

13 For instance, we read: “Esther had not told about her people or about her relatives, for Mordecai himself had laid the command upon her that she should not tell.”

(Esther 2:10) Mordecai had instructed the girl to be discreet about her Jewish heritage; he no doubt saw that among Persian royalty, there was much prejudice against his people. What a pleasure it was for him to learn that now, even though Esther was out of his sight, she still showed the same wise and obedient spirit!

14. How can young people today imitate Esther’s example?

14 Young people today can likewise bring joy to the hearts of parents and guardians. When out of their parents’ sight—even if surrounded by people who are shallow, immoral, or vicious—they can resist bad influences and stick to the standards that they know are right. When they do so, like Esther, they make the heart of their heavenly Father rejoice.—Read Proverbs 27:11.

15, 16. (a) How did Esther win the king’s love? (b) Why might the changes in Esther’s life have been challenging?

15 When the time came for Esther to be presented to the king, she was given the liberty to select any items

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that she thought she might need, perhaps to beautify herself further. Modestly, though, she asked for nothing beyond what Hegai mentioned to her. (Esther 2:15) She probably realized that beauty alone would not win the king’s heart; a modest and humble spirit would prove a far rarer commodity in that court. Was she right?

16 The account answers: “The king came to love Esther more than all the other women, so that she gained more favor and loving-kindness before him than all the other virgins.

And he proceeded to put the royal headdress upon her head and make her queen instead of Vashti.”

(Esther 2:17) It must have been hard for this humble Jewish girl to adjust to the change in her life—she was the new queen, wife to the most powerful monarch on earth at that time! Did her new position go to her head, filling her with pride? Far from it!

17. (a) In what ways did Esther remain obedient to her adoptive father? (b) Why is Esther’s example an important one for us today?

17 Esther remained obedient to her adoptive father, Mordecai. She kept her connection to the Jewish people a secret. Further, when Mordecai uncovered a plot to assassinate Ahasuerus, Esther obediently passed his warning along to the king, and the plotters were foiled.

(Esther 2:20-23) She still expressed faith in her God by showing a humble, obedient spirit. How we need Esther’s example today, when obedience is rarely valued as a virtue and when disobedience and rebellion are the norm! But people of genuine faith treasure obedience, as Esther did.

ESTHER’S FAITH UNDER TEST 18. (a) Why might Mordecai have refused to bow down to Haman? (See also footnote.) (b) How do men and women of faith today imitate the example of Mordecai?

18 A man named Haman rose to prominence in the court of Ahasuerus. The king appointed him prime minister, making Haman his principal adviser and

the second in command in the empire. The king even decreed that all who saw this official must bow down to him. (Esther 3:1-4) For Mordecai, that law posed a problem. He believed in obeying the king but not at the cost of disrespecting God. You see, Haman was an Agagite. That evidently means that he was a descendant of Agag, the Amalekite king who was executed by God’s prophet Samuel. (1 Sam. 15:33) So wicked were the Amalekites that they had made themselves enemies of Jehovah and Israel.

As a people, the Amalekites stood condemned by God. * (Deut. 25:19) How could a faithful Jew bow down to an Amalekite? Mordecai could not. He stood his ground.

To this day, men and women of faith have risked their lives to adhere to this principle: “We must obey God as ruler rather than men.”— Acts 5:29.

19. What did Haman want to do, and how did he go about persuading the king?

19 Haman was enraged.

But it was not enough for him to find a way to kill off Mordecai. He wanted to exterminate all of Mordecai’s people! Haman persuaded the king by painting a dark portrait of the Jews. Without naming them, he implied that they were inconsequential, a people “scattered and separated among the peoples.” Even worse, he said that they did not obey the king’s laws; hence, they were dangerous rebels. He proposed to donate to the king’s treasury an immense sum of money to cover the expense of slaughtering all the Jews in the empire. * Ahasuerus gave Haman the king’s own signet ring to seal any order that he had in mind.—Esther 3:5-10.

20, 21. (a) How did Haman’s proclamation affect the Jews throughout the Persian Empire, including Mordecai? (b) What did Mordecai implore Esther to do?

20 Soon messengers were speeding on horseback to every corner of the vast empire, delivering what amounted to a death sentence on the Jewish people. Imagine the impact of such a proclamation when

it reached far-off Jerusalem, where a remnant of Jews who had returned from exile in Babylon were struggling to rebuild a city that still had no wall to defend it.

Perhaps Mordecai thought of them, as well as of his own friends and relatives in Shushan, when he heard the terrible news. Distraught, he ripped his clothes, wore sackcloth and placed ashes on his head, and cried aloud in the middle of the city. Haman, however, sat drinking with the king, unmoved by the grief he had stirred up among the many Jews and their friends in Shushan.— Read Esther 3:12–4:1.

21 Mordecai knew that he had to act. But what could he do? Esther heard of his distress and sent clothes to him, but Mordecai refused to take comfort. Maybe he had long wondered why his God, Jehovah, had allowed dear Esther to be taken from him and made the queen of a pagan ruler. Now the reason seemed to be emerging.

Mordecai sent a message to the queen, imploring Esther to intercede with the king, to stand up “for her own people.”—Esther 4:4-8.

22. Why was Esther afraid to appear before her husband the king?

22 Esther’s heart must have sunk when she heard that message. Here was her greatest test of faith. She was afraid, as she freely revealed in her reply to Mordecai.

She reminded him of the king’s law. To appear before the king unsummoned meant a death sentence.

Only if the king held out his golden scepter was the offender spared. And did Esther have any reason to expect such clemency, especially in view of Vashti’s fate when she had refused the king’s command to appear?

Esther told Mordecai that the king had not invited her to see him in 30 days! Such neglect left her plenty of reason to wonder if she had fallen out of favor with this capricious monarch. *—Esther 4:9-11.

23. (a) What did Mordecai say to bolster Esther’s faith? (b) Why is Mordecai worthy of imitation?

23 Mordecai replied firmly to bolster Esther’s faith. He assured her that if she failed

A FAITH STRONGER THAN THE FEAR OF DEATH 24. How did Esther show faith and courage?

24 For Esther, the time of decision had arrived. She asked Mordecai to get her countrymen to join her in a three-day fast, concluding her message with a statement that resonates down to this day in its simple faith and courage: “In case I must perish, I must perish.”

(Esther 4:15-17) She must have prayed more fervently in those three days than she ever had in her life. Finally, though, the moment came.

She dressed in her very best royal finery, doing all she could to appeal to the king.

Then she went.

25. Describe how events unfolded as Esther appeared before her husband.

25 As described at the outset of this chapter, Esther made her way to the king’s court. We can only imagine the anxious thoughts and fervent prayers filling her mind and heart. She entered the courtyard, where she could see Ahasuerus on his throne. Perhaps she tried to read the expression on his face—the face that was framed by the carefully tended, symmetrical curls of his hair and of his squared beard. If she had to wait, it must have felt like an eternity. But the moment passed—her husband saw her. He was surely surprised, but his expression softened. He held out his golden scepter!—Esther 5:1, 2.

26. Why do true Christians need courage like Esther’s, and why was her work only beginning?

26 Esther had gained an audience, a hearing ear. She had taken a stand for her God and for her people, setting a beautiful example of faith for all servants of God down through time. True Christians today cherish such examples. Jesus said that his genuine followers would be marked by self-sacrificing love. (Read John 13:34, 35.) Showing such love often requires courage like Esther’s. But even after Esther stood up for God’s people that day, her work was only beginning. How would she convince the king that his favorite adviser, Haman, was a wicked schemer? How could she help to save her people? We will consider these questions in the following chapter.