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Vol 53, NO. 9
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Dr. Dennis Morgan Brown to Speak at SB Public Library A8
Workshops teach city youth about Hip Hop
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By Anthony Victoria
Students at Norton Space & Aeronautics Academy celebrate Lunar New Year
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tristan Douglas of local hip-hop group West coast avengers teaching the youth about the importance of ‘bars’ to a song during a hip-hop workshop.
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“It’s a lose-lose situation for many of us,” said resident Sandra Ibarra, who lives near San Bernardino High School. “We need voters and property owners to find out and show the city we still have power to have our voices heard.” Ibarra, along with real estate agent Karmel Roe, and a cohort of residents intend on encouraging the city’s registered voters to protest the plan.
According to LAFCO’s change of organization protest procedures, the outsourcing plan will be terminated if the organization receives a protest from more than 50-percent of registered voters. “If we could pull this off, we could change the course of politics for San Bernardino,” said Roe. “The city cannot continue to shift the burden onto its people.”
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Homeowners and property holders are aiming to prevent the city from implementing the $148 per year parcel tax to help fund County fire services. Opposers to the fire outsourcing plan believe efforts to eradicate San Bernardino’s 137-year-old fire department has no benefit and will only hurt the community, particularly those who live under the poverty line.
Douglas along with local hiphop artists Samuel “Oxymoron” Montes, poet Ipyani Lockert, and others will be holding workshops, now through March.
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RESIDENTS CONTINUE TO PROTEST PARCEL TAX
parcel tax approved by San Bernardino County’s Local Agency Commission Formation (LAFCO) to fund the outsourcing of the San Bernardino City fire department continues to face heavy opposition from residents.
The 28-year-old native of San Bernardino spends his days off from his State of California human resources position helping community leader Edwin Johnson teach young participants of the Creating Hopeful Opportunities and Resiliency by Developing Skills (C.H.O.R.D.S.) program about the essentials of constructing poetry verses and producing music.
“We’re not trying to tell them
February 18, 2016
By Anthony Victoria
ristan Douglas had a vision to help young children and adolescents with basic reading and writing skills through one of his favorite mediums---hip hop.
Douglas, a member of local hip-hop group West Coast Avengers, believes the urban medium can help youth tell their stories.
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hip-hop artist nick croom with 13-year-old Maurice Parson during a hip-hop workshop held at the creating hopeful opportunities and resiliency by Developing Skills (c.h.o.r.D.S.) headquarters last month.
On Jan. 27 LAFCO unanimously approved San Bernardino’s plan to outsource fire services to the county. Under the city’s plan, fire services would be annexed into the county’s Fire Protection District Service Zone FP5-5. The $148 parcel tax would be imposed in fiscal year 2016-17. The zone’s tax, which has the potential to increase by up to 3percent each year, would be applied to about 42,000 properties in the city. Parcel Tax cont. on next page