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An Independent Weekly Newspaper Serving the Backcountry Communities of Julian, Cuyamaca, Santa Ysabel, Shelter Valley, Mt. Laguna, Ranchita, Canebreak, Sunshine Summit, Warner Springs and Wynola.
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from Marisa McFedries, Julian Elementary
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Election Time In Back County
by Michael Hart
November 3rd is election day and not just on a national level. School districts, Community Service Districts and the Julian Planning Group all should be filling seats... We say should be... because not enough people have signed up to run for the available seats, some will automatically be “elected” while other seats will have to be appointed. We also have to fill the 50th congressional seat in the House of Representatives. AMMAR CAMPA-NAJJAR vs DARRELL ISSA. State Assembly - 71st District race featuring RANDY VOEPEL and ELIZABETH LAVERTU. A new person for the County Board of Supervisors, District 2 - JOEL ANDERSON or Poway Mayor STEVE VAUS. Purely Julian elections include; Julian Elementary School District with three seats available and only two candidates - KEVIN MEACHAM and Danielle WOODWARD. Julian High School District; two “full term” seats - MEREDITH BROOKS as the only candidate and one “short term seat with RANDA LAKE as the lone person running. Spencer Valley School District - CAROL FRAUSTO is running unopposed. The Julian Community Planning Area(Group) has six openings with five all seeking reelection; FRANKLIN “WOODY” BARNES, ERIC JONES, KEITH KRAWIEK, REBECCA MORALES and KIKI SKAGEN-MUNSHI. The Majestic Pines Water Company has three running for the three available - KURT BOETTCHER, GARY DARNELL, and ROBERT MARKART. Wynola Water District with two seats and two candidates - JOHN LOFGREEN and TIM TASCHLER. The Julian Community Services District has zero candidates for three seats. Cuyamaca Water District has no candidates who have filed for two seats. The Schools will have to advertise and vote on candidates at their board meetings before filling vacancies. For the planning group and the water districts they will need to find appropriate candidates submit them to the County and then an appointment to each elective office will be made by the Board of Supervisors as prescribed in section 10515 of the Election Code. If you are interested in filling any of the available seats, you need to contact the district or group that you want to apply for and verify your eligibility. As an example to apply for any of the water districts you must reside within that district. Over in Warner Springs Unified School District there are three board positions available and six candidates on who have filed to run. CALOLYN ALTOAUDIBERT, TERRY COX, GENE DOXEY, BYRON KLEMASKE II, MELISSA KROUGH, MELODY SEES. This is not unfamiliar territory for any Julian election. It is hoped that qualified individuals will come forward in the coming weeks to serve the community in these vital areas. It what our representative democracy is all about.
Be proud Julian, because our kids were ready and eager to learn the moment they came back to the classroom! Yes, I said “classroom.” Our teachers have created online classrooms that help students get back to learning, and socializing, even during these difficult times! Students are
Liberty (fifth grader) in a Zoom interview with Mr. Copeland developing technology skills that will lead them towards successful academic futures, while still having flexible lessons that are tailored to their individual needs. Julian students are creating
Nick (fifth grade) conducting a science experimen
art projects, exploring science experiments, discovering new novels to read, dressing up to relive history, conducting interviews to enhance writing, relating to real-life math problems, and even finding fun new ways to exercise! If you ask a teacher, they will tell you how much they miss their students. That they wish they could greet each student face-to-face to give them encouragement and to watch the realization of a new idea dawn on their faces! Teachers want the kind of classrooms that are loud with discussion groups and messy with supplies that have been over-used. Until that day comes, students and teachers have shown their determination to make a classroom come alive
Jameson (kindergarten) counting his home grown tomatoes
Ellie’s (second grade) fox art work from a Zoom directed drawing no matter if it is within four walls or over the internet!
Dahlila reading over Zoom with Mrs. Cirillo
ESK student art project
Women’s Rights Pioneers Honoured - Finally The first statue of real women in Central Park’s 167-year history. The Park has statues of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Juliet with Romeo, witches, nymphs, and angels – but no real women…until now. Our monument of Women’s Rights Pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will be unveiled on August 26, 2020, the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th “Votes For Women” amendment to the constitution. 2020 is also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony. All three women were not only Women’s Rights Pioneers, but New Yorkers as well. The statue’s strategic location in the heart of Central Park, within walking distance of many museums and tourist attractions, will ensure that many of Central Park’s 42 million annual visitors become more aware of women’s contributions to our shared history. Monumental Women has the further goals of increasing awareness and appreciation of Women’s History through a nationwide education campaign and challenging municipalities across the country to rethink the past and reshape the future by including tributes in their public spaces to the diverse women who helped create and inspire those cities. Artist’s Statement from Meredith Bergmann As an artist working in the public realm, I approach this project with an eye on integrating four compatible but different concerns: the people and history to be commemorated, the site, our contemporary needs, and my own interest in creating the artwork. My own interest is the easiest to describe: I have worked for decades for social justice and historical redress through my art, using my artist’s imagination to create empathic representations of diverse, inspiring people. The historical record is complex, as are the people I’m portraying. Professor Margaret
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Julian Students Rise To The Challenge!
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Meredith Bergmann’s statue to be cast in bronze and placed in New York’s Central Park, the first statue of “real” women to be placed in the park. Washington, historian and author of Sojourner Truth’s America, (University of Illinois Press, IL, 2011) summarized the complexity beautifully when she wrote to me: “There ought to be a way to depict that; to capture the sisterhood as well as differences.” Central Park is visited by over 42 million people each year. I’ve used some of the vocabulary of the existing statuary near our site on Literary Walk so that this monument will speak to and harmoniously coexist with the Park’s art collection. In this design, as throughout the Park, recognizable bronze figures sit and stand on a granite pedestal with inscriptions. Within this structure, my design also departs from the other monuments in ways that are appropriate to the entry of women into a sphere from which they were previously excluded. Three figures (instead of one) share a pedestal and relate to each other. They are not dreaming, but working. They
are an allegory of sisterhood, cooperation and activism but they are not just an allegory, as so many sculptures of women are. In this way I am making a contemporary work that will, as required, harmonize with its 19th Century surroundings. This requires not just research but imagination. Nick Capasso, as curator of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, has written: “As a contemporary artist, Meredith Bergmann relies on her knowledge of history and art history, as well as her considerable talent as a figurative sculptor, to forge enriching links between the past and the concerns of the present. Her success as a creator of public art stems from her ability to make free, imaginative use of the forms and symbols of traditional sculpture to address, in complex yet accessible ways, the multi-layered personal and societal concerns of modern life.”
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Recycle The Right Way Recycle Right: The County of San Diego and I Love A Clean San Diego Offer New Tips and Resources to Make Recycling Easy Recycle Right by getting “Back to Basics,” and Refuse, Reuse and Recycle the right material to help ensure what goes in the blue bin gets remade into new products. WasteFreeSD.org and the County of San Diego’s new Recycle Right webpage are countywide resources for all residents. Most people want to do the right thing when it comes to recycling, but confusing messages make it difficult to remember the basics. The recycling system throughout San Diego County only works if everyone does their part to keep the right materials in the blue bin and the wrong ones out. Residents make decisions every day when faced with a greasy pizza box, a dirty take-out container or a used single-use coffee cup from a favorite coffee roaster. In hope or haste, we dispose of these items, but do we collectively Recycle Right and what are the consequences of not doing so? Californians generate an average of six pounds of waste per person, per day. Therefore, recycling plays a vital role in helping us reduce our waste, conserve our limited resources and support the production of the raw materials manufacturers want and need. If all the waste generated in San Diego County was deposited in SDCCU Stadium in Mission Valley, it would take less than three weeks to fill up and it would fill 18 more times each year. Therefore, making the best decision now helps in the long run. By following these simple steps, recycling should become less confusing, more efficient and ensure valuable recyclables stay out of the landfill. RECYCLING RIGHT means accepted materials are: • Empty – No or very little food residue remaining • Dry – No liquids left. Liquids can ruin paper, cardboard and other materials in the recycle bin making them unrecyclable. • Loose – DO NOT bag recyclables. Doing so clogs the sorting equipment at the Material Recovery Facility where the contents of recycling bins go to be processed. Place accepted materials in your blue bin loose. Recycling Right cuts down on contamination. Contamination is anything that doesn’t belong in the blue recycle bin such as plastic bags, batteries, clothing, cords, hoses, electronics, food, liquids, napkins and paper towels, straws, plastic utensils and more. Many of those items may be recyclable, but not in the blue bins. Eric Wolff, Program Coordinator for Solid Waste Planning and Recycling at the County of San Diego, says, “There’s a big push to reduce contamination in the recycling bin since 20 percent or more of what some residents and businesses currently put in the recycle bin is actually not recyclable. Stopping contamination starts with consumers.” “Residents want to recycle,” Wolff adds. “They put items they’re not sure about in the recycle bin, hoping it’s recyclable. That’s called wishcycling, and actually causes more harm than good. That’s why we’re going back to basics.” BACK TO BASICS means placing only accepted materials in the blue bin. Throughout the San Diego region, with a few minor exceptions, the four main groups of recyclable items are: • Paper, cardboard and cartons • Plastic bottles and containers • Glass bottles and jars • Metal and aluminum cans and foil Kick contaminants to the curb! Workers and sorting equipment at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) are not able to separate out all materials that don’t belong from recyclables. Residents throughout the county can help by cutting out wasteful single-use items and switching to durable, reusable materials instead. To learn more about how to Recycling Right visit the County of San Diego’s Recycle Right webpage and check out WasteFreeSD. org, a countywide resource for information on recycling, reuse, repair and hazardous waste disposal. Looking forward San Diego County diverts about 61 percent of its waste. California has set a goal to reduce landfill disposal by 75 percent. A study by CalRecycle found that the majority of material brought to landfills could have been recycled or composted. How we think about waste in San Diego County needs a change, and it starts with Recycling Right.
Our contemporary needs are not simple either. We need statues of real women in Central Park. We need to be true to our new understanding of the historical record which does not shrink from calling out injustice and oppression, or minimize the contributions of people of color or the harms done to people of color. We need to correct the injustice done to women of all races and their invisibility in public spaces. We need to commemorate an important landmark in the so-far-endless struggle for justice in America without forgetting that had America been true to its founding principles, movements for equal rights would never have been necessary. None of the women depicted on the monument lived to see the ratification of the 19th Amendment, let alone the Voting Rights Act of 1965, whose work is still incomplete. But as we struggle towards greater justice, we need and deserve a monument commemorating some of the important work that
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has come before us. Sojourner Truth is speaking, Susan B. Anthony is organizing, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton is writing, three essential elements of activism. Truth sits with Stanton at a small table, perhaps on the occasion of a conference for the abolition of slavery or for women’s rights or for both, as these movements were, for much of their history, joined in activism. Anthony is standing behind the table with her traveling bag, bringing documentation of injustices to help focus the discussion. The women might be meeting in Stanton’s home, where both Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony were guests. The monument represents an indoor space because much of women’s political work originated in the home– in the 19thCentury women were not commonly seen in the public sphere. Statues serve many purposes in addition to portraying a likeness of a person, and the best portraits evoke a whole life continued on page 11 ESTABLISHED
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