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IN MEMORIAM: Film and Stage Legend

Cicely Tyson Dies at 96 “So many great stories about Cicely Tyson,” Tweeted Soledad O’Brien.

“Whew, that lady was amazing. While shooting a doc on her in Spanish Harlem, people kept stopping their cars. In the street. To hop out and say hi.

Old people. Teenagers. Middle-aged fans. “Ciss-el-lee” they’d chant as she’d walk by.”

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent From her first significant role as Jane Foster in the TV drama “East Side/West Side” to her recurring role as Ophelia Harkness in “How to Get Away with Murder,” Cicely Tyson’s nuanced portrayals of proud Black women “were a powerful counterbalance to the negative stereotypes prevalent in film and television.”

The legendary film, television, and stage actress who earned an Academy Honorary Award, three Emmy’s and a Tony, has died at the age of 96.

“Often at great personal cost, she demanded truth and dignity in the roles she accepted. Few actors have done more to advance the cause of racial justice than the incomparable Cicely Tyson,” National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial said late Thursday.

“The National Urban League was proud to present her with one of our highest honors, the Arts Award, at our 2013 Conference. The entire Urban League Movement mourns her passing and honors her memory.”

A cause of death was not immediately released.

“With heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon,” her manager, Larry Thompson, said in a statement. “At this time, please allow the family their privacy.”

Born in New York on December 19, 1924, Tyson grew up in Harlem’s famed but hardscrabble streets.

As a teenager, she worked as a typist but decided she wanted to go into show business.

She began modeling at the age of 18, but her love of the stage almost immediately took over.

In 1963, Tyson made history with East Side/West Side, becoming the first Black lead in a television drama series.

Her star soared after an Academy Award-nominated performance for the 1972 film, Sounder.

She had previously appeared in an episode of the TV western “Gunsmoke,” and had made a name for herself in “The FBI,” “A Man Called Adam,” and I-Spy with Bill Cosby.

“Cicely was a brilliant actress, who was a woman of color, with the strength of her Blackness, she made it possible for Black women to grace the stage of theatre, film, and television,” comedian Bill Cosby wrote in a statement posted to his official Twitter account.

“I still smile because I had the blessings of witnessing her talent on an episode of ‘The Bill Cosby Show’ called ‘Blind Date’ I can only imagine how strong Miles Davis is blowing that trumpet, welcoming you in his arms with the song, ‘So What.’

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The legendary film, television, and stage actress who earned an Academy Honorary Award, three Emmy’s and a Tony, has died at the age of 96.

Madam Secretary Shirley Weber Takes Oath to Serve as California Secretary of State Tanu Henry California Black Media On Jan. 29, former Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber, who represented parts of San Diego and its eastern suburbs in the lower house of the state legislature for eight years, has been sworn in as Secretary of State of California.

In her new role as the state’s top election official, the former chair of the California Black Legislative Caucus replaces Alex Padilla, who Gov. Newsom appointed to represent California in the U.S. Senate.

“I will be the 1st Black woman to serve in this role and only the 5th Black person to serve as a constitutional officer ever #RepresentationMatters,” Weber tweeted, celebrating her confirmation and the mark she has made on California political history.

Later, she thanked the people of California for placing their confidence in her and promised to fulfill the duties of the role.

“I am humbled to be able to continue to stand up for Californians as Secretary of State,” Weber said. “I thank the governor for his nomination, the state senators and the Assembly members who voted to confirm my appointment, and the Californians who expressed their faith in my ability to assume this critical office. I look forward to lifting up and defending our democratic values of inclusivity and participation in this new role.”

Both houses of the state legislature unanimously confirmed Weber. On Thursday, Senators gave Weber their nod with a 20-0 vote. No republicans voted.

The day before, her former Assembly colleagues approved her appointment by a 70-0 vote.

“Dr. Weber is a tireless advocate and change agent with unimpeachable integrity,” Gov. Newsom praised Continued on page A5

Gov. Newsom swore in Dr. Shirley Weber as secretary of state on Jan. 29. (Photo via @CASOSVote Twitter)

Doctor Leads Call for ‘Secretary of Equity’

Based on vaccinations with known race/ethnicity, the share of vaccinations among Black people is smaller than their share of cases in all 16 reporting states and smaller than their share of deaths in 15 states.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent An honest and comprehensive reckoning with America’s racial history and enacting solutions to address it is perhaps the transcendent issue of our time, argues Janet Murguia, the president of UnidosUS, a D.C.-based advocacy organization.

“The path forward may be difficult, complicated, and contested, but it is essential to pursue,” Murguia remarked in a news release where she and other advocates form the Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative.

The collaborative is the foremost diverse coalition of national, racial justice, and civil rights organizations representing and serving more than 53 million people in the U.S. The group calls on President Joe Biden to create an office within the White House to coordinate efforts to reduce racial inequality in all its forms.

Shortly after his Jan. 20 swearing-in, President Biden issued an executive order to advance equity and support for underserved communities.

The President had pledged to do his part in the fight against systemic racism in America, and his executive order charges all federal agencies with reviewing equity in their programs and actions.

President Biden has demanded that the Office of Management and Budget analyze whether federal dollars are equitably distributed in communities of color.

The coalition argues that the new administration also should establish a White House Office on Racial Equity and Inclusion.

The office would coordinate the full range of federal agency efforts to advance racial equity, centered on the administration’s promise to confront systemic racism and heal the “soul of our nation.”

Murguia declared that creating such office is “a crucial first step toward ensuring that our country lives up to its core shared

value of equal opportunity for all Americans.”

The coalition is not alone in pushing the Biden administration to create an office responsible for racial equity.

Dr. Ebony Hilton, the medical director and co-founder of GoodStock Consulting, LLC, and an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the University of Virginia, has started a change.org petition for the Biden administration to create and appoint a “Secretary of Equity.”

Comparable to a Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer of an organization, the Secretary of Equity would serve as a catalyst to initiate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) assessments and policies while leveraging best practices and resources across various federal agencies, Dr. Hilton wrote in a letter on behalf of GoodStock Consulting.

“The vision of the position is to use objective information and analytics to create and support a culture of inclusion and belonging where individuals from all diversity dimensions, racial and ethnic identities, ages, nationalities, social and economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religious, political and ideological perspectives, and physical and mental abilities, are able to thrive and be actively engaged,” her letter continued.

The importance of the position is underscored by Covid-19 statistics, which show that African Americans are disproportionately affected by the virus. Data also show that access to the vaccine is eluding the Black community.

According to statistics compiled by the independent nonprofit KFF, which focuses on national health issues, as of January 19, 2021, over 12 million COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across the country.

To date, race and ethnicity vaccination patterns appear to be at odds with who the virus has affected the most, KFF reported.

Based on vaccinations with known race/ethnicity, the share Continued on page A5

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Woman Sells Bernie Doll for Over $20K CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – Bernie Sanders went from becoming a hit meme to a nearly $20,000-crochet doll in less than a week.

After the Vermont senator went viral on social media for his simple Inauguration Day fashion choices of quirky brown mittens and over-sized olive green coat, Tobey King in Texas got to crocheting. She turned the sensational image that trended for days into a crochet doll.

It sold for $20,300. Yes, you read that right.

“It’s mind-blowing because I knew Bernie was trending because of that picture, and I already had a Bernie pattern and a Bernie doll. So I just went and got that, and I modified that super quick,” King said.

But recreating Sanders’ exact look that captured people’s eyes, and laughs, took King about seven hours of crocheting, in addition to the time she had invested in the design a year ago. And her attention to detail is obvious, nailing the iconic mittens that stole the show on Inauguration Day. “The mittens are not that hard it’s just some color changing, a special stitch,” King said.

King, 46, initially posted photos of the 9-inch doll on her Instagram account, and they garnered thousands of likes and comments. On Saturday, she posted the doll on eBay and later auctioned it for $20,300, which she said will be donated to Meals on Wheels America.

Her donation was inspired by Sanders, whose campaign created sweatshirts with the image on them and donated all the proceeds to Meals on Wheel in Vermont.

“This could be my purpose; this is my new path,” King said. “This is a new way of helping people in a way that I’ve never been able to do before.”

King, who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, said more than 30,000 people bought her Sanders doll crochet pattern from her Etsy store. She said she hopes Sanders approves of her efforts.

“I really hope that he thinks this is something cool and that I’m doing something good,” King said.

Black Bus Driver Whose Crash Killed 11 to Be Freed

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The driver of a private bus in Northern California that crashed in 2008 and killed 11 passengers headed to a casino is being released from prison after his sentence was reduced due to changes in state law.

Quinton Watts, 64, was told Friday that he will be released next week, The Sacramento Bee reported.

Colusa County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Thompson took nine years off Watts’ 26-year prison term during a hearing Monday, ruling that he was properly sentenced at the time but that subsequent legal changes to sentencing enhancements made him eligible to have his sentence shortened.

Watts was driving the bus with 40 passengers from the Sacramento area to a casino near Colusa on Oct. 5, 2008, when the bus veered off the road.

Passengers said Watts seemed to be asleep or unconscious, and prosecutors alleged that he was sleep deprived and hadn’t properly cared for his insulindependent diabetes before the crash.

In an earlier story, however, The Bee found that a physician assistant had erroneously cleared Watts to drive despite his history of having a seizure disorder.

It said Watts’ attorney did not put on much of a defense, presenting just one witness; that the prosecution featured statements that Watts made while he was medicated at a hospital hours after the crash; and questioned whether Watts, who is Black, was unfairly convicted by a jury with no Black jurors.

John Poyner, the former Colusa County district attorney who prosecuted Watts, told the paper he didn’t know about the seizure disorder and said Watts had paid the price and should be released from prison for a crash he didn’t cause on purpose.

The judge did not address those allegations in his ruling.

“It should be noted 11 people died because of Watts’ criminal negligence,” Thompson said, according to the paper. “That being said, Mr. Watts is entitled to a benefit in a change in the law.”

The shorter sentence means he became eligible for parole in 2018 instead of his original eligibility date of 2027, determined the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He remained in California State Prison, Solano, in Vacaville southwest of Sacramento, on Friday while the department awaited the court documents, said spokeswoman Dana Simas.

The crash happened on Watts’ first time driving to Colusa Casino Resort aboard a bus owned by his stepfather, Daniel Cobb, who sat behind him, tried to right the careening bus, and was among those killed.

“It’s been a hard, long road, but it’s almost over. It’s not like it’s gonna be easy when I get out. This will still be hard. But this is over with anyway,” Watts said in a brief interview from prison Friday, the paper said.

He was convicted of 11 counts of felony vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Jurors also added sentencing enhancements of 21 counts of causing great bodily injury.

Corrections Secretary Kathleen Allison last month asked the judge to reconsider Watts’ sentence based on a court ruling in 2015 that found state law barred applying the enhancement to such crimes.

Officers Resign After Racist Body Camera Video

HAMILTON, Ga. (AP) – The police chief in a west Georgia city has resigned and an officer was terminated after footage from a body camera was discovered that shows the two making racist comments, a news station reported.

News outlets report that the Hamilton City Council asked for the resignation of Chief Gene Allmond and Sgt. John Brooks on Jan. 25. The recording was made hours before a Black Lives Matter march in Hamilton in June.

A part-time city employee found the footage while checking if the body camera was functional and brought it to the attention of the mayor’s office.

The video shows the two using racial slurs, speaking negatively about Blacks and about slavery, among other things.

According to WRBL, city attorney Ron Iddins said the footage “speaks for itself.”

A failure by the city to take action “would have been inexplicable,” he said. “It had to be done.”

Reaction from the city’s mayor was similar in sentiment.

“We wanted them off the force because we don’t want that kind of ugliness here in Hamilton,” Mayor Julie Brown said.

“The whole country needs more unity, we need to heal, so we didn’t want anything stopping that,” Brown said.

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World & Nation

New Administration’s Biggest Challenge:

Biden Launches Head-On COVID-19 Attack

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent A Senate impeachment trial, the aftermath of a deadly insurrection, racial tension boiling, and a myriad of foreign policy and other issues are among the many challenges facing President Joe Biden’s administration.

Perhaps the biggest – or at least of most immediate concern – is the coronavirus pandemic, which many maintain former President Donald Trump mostly (and dangerously) ignored.

The underlining challenge of the pandemic is health care. A challenge which only heightens when one considers that Trump spent the last four years weakening and attempting to completely dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which protects health care for tens of millions of Americans.

President Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, which he titled “American Rescue Plan.”

The plan includes direct payments in the form of $1,400 stimulus checks, to struggling Americans, increased federal unemployment benefits from $300 to $400 per week through the end of September, and raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

The President also proposed a new $15 billion grant program for struggling small business owners, separate from the existing Paycheck Protection Program, along with a $35 billion investment in local financing programs that provide businesses with low-interest loans.

He stated that the package would provide additional support for American workers and families until the COVID-19 vaccine is more widely available.

“A crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight, and there is no time to wait; we have to act now,” the new President said.

“In this moment of crisis, we cannot afford inaction.

These investments in jobs will prevent long-term economic damage, and the benefits will far surpass the cost.”

President Biden’s overall plan also calls for the restoration of emergency paid sick leave, $350 billion in aid for state and local governments, and $170 billion to assist K-12 schools and higher education.

Additionally, the plan includes extending eviction and foreclosure moratoriums until the end of September, with $5 billion pledged to help tenants struggling to pay rent.

The ambitious plan contains $50 billion for coronavirus testing, $20 billion toward a national vaccine program. What’s more, the President seeks to increase SNAP benefits by 15 percent through September and raise the Child Tax Credit to $3,000 per child – and $3,600 for children under 6. President Biden said he desires to make the Child Tax Credit refundable for the year.

Because of Trump’s assault on the Affordable Care Act – and health care in general, the percentage of uninsured Americans rose dramatically in the three years since President Barack Obama left office.

In November, the Supreme Court heard arguments

by Republican attorneys general and the Trump administration, seeking to repeal Obama’s signature legislation.

President Biden’s team estimates that roughly two to three million people lost employer-sponsored health insurance between March and September of 2020.

The President said even families who have maintained coverage might struggle to pay premiums and afford care.

Further, going into the pandemic, 30 million people were without coverage, limiting their access to the health care system in the middle of a pandemic.

To ensure access to health coverage, President Biden has called on Congress to subsidize continuation health coverage (COBRA) through the end of September.

He is also asking Congress to expand and increase the Premium Tax Credit’s value.

President Biden said he wants to lower health insurance premiums for most Americans and potentially

President Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, which he titled “American Rescue Plan.”

eliminate them altogether for the poor, ensuring enrollees in government-sponsored health care exchanges (including those who never had coverage through their jobs), will not pay more than 8.5 percent of their income for coverage.

“During this pandemic, millions of Americans, through no fault of their own, have lost the dignity and respect that comes with a job and a paycheck,” President Biden said.

“The very health of our nation is at stake.”

In acknowledging the toll the pandemic and racism have taken on Black America, the President also seeks to address racial disparities.

He promised to increase funding for community health centers.

With America’s jails and prisons disproportionately populated by African Americans, President Biden added that he wants to financially support efforts to help mitigate the impact the virus has had behind bars.

He addressed the growing hunger crisis that also primarily affects minority communities.

“More than one in five Black and Latino households in America report that they do not have enough food to eat,” the President remarked. “It’s wrong. It’s tragic. It’s unacceptable.”

Notes: Data from Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia is for non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic white residents. Data from all other states is for Black and white residents regardless of Hispanic ethnicity.

Data from North Dakota, which does not release specific numbers, was excluded from the graphic but the state’s analysis shows similar gaps by race.

States with higher rates of missing race data will appear to have lower vaccination rates across all groups, so vaccination rates by race should not be directly compared across states.

Credit: Hannah Recht/KHN Source: Data from state health departments collected from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28, 2021; American Community Survey 2019 (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Black Americans Left Behind Vaccine Rollout

By Hannah Recht and Lauren Weber Black Americans are still receiving covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans even as the chaotic rollout reaches more people, according to a new KHN analysis.

Almost seven weeks into the vaccine rollout, states have expanded eligibility beyond front-line health care workers to more of the public — in some states to more older adults, in others to essential workers such as teachers. But new data shows that vaccination rates for Black Americans have not caught up to those of white Americans.

Seven more states published the demographics of residents who have been vaccinated after KHN released an analysis of 16 states two weeks ago, bringing the total to 23 states with available data.

In all 23 states, data shows, white residents are being vaccinated at higher rates than Black residents, often at double the rate — or even higher. The disparities haven’t significantly changed with an additional two weeks of vaccinations.

In Florida, for example, 5.5% of white residents had received at least one vaccine dose by Jan. 26, compared with 2% of Black residents. That’s about the same ratio as two weeks ago, when the rates were 3.1% and 1.1%, respectively.

African Americans are being left behind because of barriers stemming from structural racism, as well as a failure to address nuanced hesitancy and mistrust about the vaccines and the medical system overall. The ongoing vaccination gap has prompted officials from around the nation to call for action.

“With covid-19 continuing to take a disproportionate and deadly toll on communities of color, we need urgent solutions to address health inequities and crush this virus,” said Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He said he is working to pass legislation to address inequity.

Across the U.S., non-Hispanic Black Americans are 1.4 times more likely to contract covid, and 2.8 times more likely to die of it, than white Americans, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis.

The ongoing disparity in vaccinations may be a selffulfilling prophecy: A new KFF poll shows a correlation between people who know someone who has gotten the vaccine and their willingness to get it. (KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF.) Thus, it is harder to gain ground in communities that don’t have many people getting vaccinated.

One of President Joe Biden’s first executive orders prioritized covid data collection. He also established the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, led by Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who cited KHN’s analysis in a CNN town hall Wednesday when describing the country’s vaccine inequity. She stressed the task force’s need to build confidence in the vaccine and fix access issues.

But Dr. Celine Gounder, a former covid adviser for Biden, cautioned there is no quick fix to the structural inequities reflected in the numbers — and Congress still needs to decide on Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid relief plan.

“If they fund it in full, you’ll have the money to do some of these things,” Gounder said. “What you really need to do is change the system so it doesn’t happen in the

first place.”

Earlier this month, the CDC told KHN it planned to add race and ethnicity data to its dashboard, but could not say when.

Citing KHN’s initial analysis, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted on Jan. 19 that the CDC “needs to add race and ethnicity data to its public dashboard immediately — we can’t address what we can’t see.”

On Wednesday, CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said officials plan to release the data publicly early next week.

Vaccine providers have already been required by the CDC to collect race and Hispanic ethnicity information for each person they vaccinate. In states that refused KHN requests for the data, local reports suggest disparities can be stark.

Many of the states that have shared data by race put it on dashboards that are difficult to understand. Some report data by dose, meaning that people who have received both doses are represented twice.

All 23 states that are reporting data by race break out numbers for Black and white residents. But beyond that, data is often limited. Eight of them do not report specific numbers for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, who are dying from covid at 2.6 times the rate of white Americans,

according to the CDC study.

Massachusetts, for example, combines all data for people whose race is unknown with Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and others.

Race and ethnicity information in health care data is often incomplete, and covid data is no exception. Although most states that provide the data have relatively low rates of missing information, in a few states race or ethnicity demographics are missing for half the people who have been vaccinated.

The data on Hispanic ethnicity is particularly fraught.

Those who give vaccines are supposed to ask patients about both race and Hispanic ethnicity in separate questions, because Hispanics can be of any race or combination of races. In nearly all states that break out such numbers separately, the percentage missing Hispanic ethnicity information is far higher than those missing race information. Hispanic Americans have died at far higher rates than non-Hispanic white Americans.

The CDC data release should help standardize what data is available — in addition to possibly providing clarity on the dynamics in the 27 remaining states — but it is not yet clear how the CDC will address the gaps in data collection.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER A3

Entertainment

“The Little Things” Review

By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic A young blonde woman drives down a deserted California highway at night, alone. A mysterious car drives alongside her, passing, then stopping in the middle of the road. She freaks. She’s scared. The big car and her sedan play cat and mouse. Terrified, she drives to a closed motel looking for help. No one is there. No one hears her cries for help. She runs. A man hunts her, weapon in hand. Could he be the serial killer that’s paralyzing Los Angeles and confounding the LAPD? That’s the dire setup for this 2h 7 min crime/drama/ thriller, a film that doesn’t break new ground and fails to invent an innovative, distinguishable or memorable murder spree. Yet within the confines of the genre, it nails basic elements enough to keep crime fans engaged until its reveal-after-reveal-after-reveal ending. Theatergoers may get restless, but HBO Max streaming viewers will be content.

Writer/director John Lee Hancock (The Highwayman, The Blind Side) wrote the script 30 years ago, hence the 1990 time period, the old cars and clothes. Influenced by buddy cop movies of the era, Hancock teams up two disparate officers of the law who are eager to stop the grisly murders of young women by a homicidal maniac. Layers and layers of missed opportunities and close calls augment that premise. The killer looks smart, elusive. The cops committed but floundering.

As a director Hancock is not in a rush. There is very little action, car chases don’t break the speed limit and if you’re looking for exciting fight scenes, it’s not that kind of party. He gives the lead actors room to explore their characters, toy with each other, savor the tangy dialogue and establish their identities. Tension grows as they get mired in head games and confounding dilemmas during their search for that big breakthrough.

In the fall of 1990, Sheriff’s Deputy Joe “Deke” Deacon (Denzel Washington) leaves Kern County, in Central Valley California, headed to Los Angeles to retrieve bloody boots, evidence for a trial. As he walks into an L.A. police station, some greet him, some look askance. That’s what happens when you return to your old workplace after leaving under murky circumstances.

The 60ish and gray-haired Deke butts heads with a press-hungry young Homicide Detective Jim Baxter (Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody). The upstart is in the midst of having Deke’s truck towed, as it’s blocking his car. It’s

an awkward introduction. The detective is trying to solve a string of murders, and his efforts are going nowhere. When he learns laconic, confidant Deke was once a successful gumshoe in the department and involved in a similar case years ago, he cozies up to him. The old guy and young apprentice unite, digging, surveilling, interrogating and deducing. Evidence leads them to appliance repairman Albert Sparma (Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer’s Club). He’s a long-haired, tall skinny man with buggy eyes. Looks like a weasel, thinks like a fox. Is it him?

The growing bond between Baxter and Deke exposes key differences: 1.) Experience: At a crime scene young Jim tries to school his elder: “Things have changed a lot since you left.” Deke: “Still gotta catch him right?” 2.) Approach: Baxter questions Deke’s intimidating methods: “Your old pal (a crook under investigation) said you broke his jaw.”

Deke: “Gotta kiss a lot of frogs to catch your prince.” 3.)

Lifestyle: One is a lively young family man. The other is estranged from his relations.

It looks like Washington finds great pleasure creating the Deke character, molding its persona and slowly revealing a history filled with mystery and regret. Grimaces, inflections, head turns and cagy smiles… It’s all a calculated effort by a great actor to bare every inch of Deke for his audience. He does it with a craftsmanship that is nearly unmatched. Leto makes a mercurial and scary suspect.

Never overdoes it. Just temptingly evil enough.

While Malek plays the needy investigator in a more understated way, never matching the masterful, thoughtful interpretations rendered by Washington and Leto. The supporting actors, from Natalie Morales, Terry Kinney and Chris Bauer to the very focused Michael Hyatt, play off the leads appropriately.

Highway scenes, and there are plenty, have hints of David Lynch as shot by cinematographer John Schwartzman (Seabiscuit). Production design by Michael Corenblith (The Blind Side) creates a ‘90s aura, but why are so many rooms and hallways green? Why do interrogation rooms and crime scenes look like obvious sets? The clothes, courtesy of costume designer Daniel Orlandi (The Blind Side), wisely blend in and don’t stand out. Editor Robert Frazen (The Founder) knows when to trim. And yes Thomas Newman’s (1917) musical score adds atmosphere, but the playlist leans too heavily on obvious songs. Etta James’s “At Last” is not the only mesmerizing tune in her arsenal. Pick another.

Yes there are convoluted moments in this police story

Denzel Washington stars in The Little Things. (Courtesy Photo)

and missed opportunities: Deke going for coffee just as Sparma sizes up Baxter and invites him for a ride in his shiny crabgrass green Chevy: “Come on in, what are you scared of?” Threats from a commanding officer that the detective could be pulled off the case by the Feds have a tinny ring.

One of the pursuers getting flummoxed and adhering to commands no cop would follow, is nonsensical. And why not give the serial killer a catchy name? It did wonders for

the “Zodiac Killer” and “Son of Sam.” There are scenes that will be etched in viewers’ minds indefinitely. Most are in the fairly astonishing finale, when it looks like the hunter could be captured by the game.

That’s when a flurry of evocative images, surprising twists and deceptive performances make this whodunit better than ordinary. Better, but never extraordinary.

Film and Stage Legend

Cicely Tyson Dies at 96

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Thank you for your brilliance and grace.”

The ultra-talented Tyson would earn Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Kunta Kinte’s mother in Alex Haley’s “Roots,” and as the lead character in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.”

In 1994, Tyson earned her third Emmy in her supporting role as housemaid Castalia in CBS’ miniseries “The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.” Among her more memorable stage performances were 1968’s “Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights,” 1969’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” and 1983’s “The Corn is Green.”

“So many great stories about Cicely Tyson,” Tweeted Soledad O’Brien. “Whew, that lady was amazing. While shooting a doc on her in Spanish Harlem, people kept stopping their cars. In the street. To hop out and say hi. Old people. Teenagers. Middle-aged fans. “Ciss-el-lee” they’d chant as she’d walk by.”

The Hollywood Reporter received statements from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Viola Davis, who worked with Tyson on How to Get Away with Murder and wrote the foreword of Tyson’s memoir, wrote: “I’m devastated. My heart is just broken. I loved you so much!! You were everything to me! You made me feel loved and seen and valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility

for us dark chocolate girls. You gave me permission to I’m not ready for you to be my angel yet. But...I also understand that it’s only when the last person who has a memory of you dies that you’ll truly be dead.

“In that case, you will be immortal. Thank you for shifting my life. Thank you for the long talks. Thank you for loving me.

Rest well.”

In a tribute, Tyler Perry emotionally shared that the news “brought me to my knees,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“She was the grandmother I never had and the wisdom tree that I could always sit under to fill my cup. My heart breaks in one beat, while celebrating her life in the next,” he wrote.

“She called me son. Well, today your son grieves your loss and will miss our long talks, your laughter from your belly, and your very presence.”

Whoopi Goldberg also paid tribute by describing Tyson as “a tower of power, a pillar of strength, CLEAR about who she was, and how she was to be treated.”

LeVar Burton paid tribute to his “first screen Mom.” “Elegance, warmth, beauty, wisdom, style, and abundant grace.

She was as regal as they come. An artist of the highest order, I will love her forever,” he wrote.

TODAY I LEARNED George Foreman has earned substantially more from the George Foreman Grill than he ever did from his boxing career. At the peak of sales he earned 4.5 million a month in payouts. In 1999, he was paid 138 million for the full rights to use his name.

Terri Lyne Carrington is the definition of

Black Girl Magic.

By MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Terri Lyne Carrington is just 11 years old and hanging backstage at a concert hall with her friend “Ella” – that's Ella Fitzgerald to us mere mortals _ and the jazz legend wants to introduce her to jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson, who had just finished performing.

“Ella Fitzgerald says, `You need to hear her,”' Carrington, now 55, recalls. “She was just somebody who would encourage me and hang out with me. She was shy, and I was disarming because I was a kid. She took a liking to me.”

So Peterson invites the young drummer to perform alongside him before the audience escapes. They jam onstage, impressing the crowd. One attendee _ the thenPresident of Berklee College of Music _ was so wowed he offered Carrington a scholarship to the exceptional music school.

“It was really because Oscar let me play but (also) because Ella introduced me to him and told him, basically, he should hear me,” she said.

Anointed by jazz legends, literally, Carrington was destined for greatness. Four decades later, she's proven she is not only great, but groundbreaking.

She's earning the highest honor bestowed on jazz artists, the prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Award. The threetime Grammy winner is nominated for best instrumental jazz album - an award she won in 2014 and is the only woman to do so in the show's 63-year history. She worked as a musical and cultural consultant on the hit Disney/Pixar animation “Soul,” making sure it portrayed the jazz world accurately. And she's the founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and has spent nearly 16 years teaching at the college, well versed in Zoom thanks to the recent pandemic.

She is the personification of Black Girl Magic.

“I knew she was going to open some doors since she was around 12 years old,” 11-time Grammy winner and jazz icon Wayne Shorter said. “She's one of the finest drummers in the world. She has a lot of finesse. She decorates. And she can also drop some bombs.”

Shorter, 87, remembers auditioning 12 drummers for a tour and hearing Carrington play, leaving him in awe.

“When Terri played, she mixed things up,” he said before using his mouth to imitate her drum playing, starting slow then speeding up his rattle.

“She was doing some historical stuff,” he continued.

“She made the bass drum sing and the tenor drum sing and the snare drum, not just rattle, she knew how to put pressure, release and have a flowing (set). She knew how to tell a story.”

“We didn't tell all the other drummers who was going to be the one. We just said, `We'll call you later on.' And as soon as everybody left, we said, `Terri Lyne, you stay here.”'

Carrington, who grew up in Medford, Massachusetts _ just minutes from Berklee in Boston _ first played saxophone and piano but fell in love with the drums at 7.

She came to national prominence decades ago as the drummer in “The Arsenio Hall Show” band and earned her first Grammy nomination with her 1989 debut, “Real Life Story.”

Twenty-two years later she scored her second Grammy nomination, and first win, with her fifth album “The Mosaic Project.” And she's honed her skills on the road, playing alongside Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, John Scofield, Dianne Reeves, Stan Getz, Cassandra Wilson, David Sanborn, Clark Terry, Joe Sample, Woody Shaw, Diana Krall and James Moody.

At the March 14 Grammys she could continue to make history. “Waiting Game,” her album with her band Social Science that explores heavy topics like politics, racism, sexuality and police brutality, is nominated for best jazz instrumental album, the award she previously won for 2013's “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.” The only other frontwoman to earn a nomination for that Grammy was Carrington's mentee, the skilled saxophonist Tia Fuller, for an album Carrington produced.

“The jazz instrumental category is a really big category.

To have risen to the top of that via jazz critics is something that I don't take lightly. Especially because I didn't assume at all that this one would get that kind of recognition from the critics,” said Carrington, who won DownBeat magazine's Critics Poll for top jazz artist, top jazz album and top jazz group _ making the drummer the first female instrumentalist to win in all three categories in the same year in the magazine's 68-year history.

“Those critics seem to be older generation, I don't want to say, white guys, is what it feels like ... For them to embrace this album the way they have really taught me a lot,” she said. “Not to judge other people. Other people are really hipper than you thought. I really had to look at myself. I just felt like, `They're not going to get it.' And they did.”

Carrington spent three years creating “Waiting Game,” which features collaborations with Esperanza Spalding, Rapsody, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Meshell Ndegeocello and more. “I wanted to surround myself with people that were younger than me, that had their pulse on what's happening in jazz today,” she said.

But Carrington is still a spring chicken, sort of, in jazz.

At 55, she's one of the youngest to receive the NEA Jazz Masters Award and one of few female instrumentalists to earn the honor. Fitzgerald turned 68 the year she entered the famous jazz club and Sarah Vaughan was 65, earning the prize a year before she died.

“It's always a great honor to be the first to break through something. I think I've had a long career doing that,” Carrington said.

But she adds that she “started looking at it differently since I became the first woman to win a Grammy in instrumental jazz. I think from that moment it made me feel like, as much as I feel honored to have received these accolades and awards, the bigger problem is that it hasn't happened before. There's been women before me that have had lots of amazing work out there, one being Geri Allen.

“Even with the Grammy, I was the first woman even nominated in that category. That seems really crazy to me and really speaks to how we have to change this. With this triple crown win with DownBeat, it's the same kind of feeling.”

Carrington has a number of theories when it comes to the lack of female jazz instrumentalists on the scene, starting with there just aren't enough of them.

“There's a lot of reasons for that patriarchy. We can go back. When slavery ended men could travel. They could go on the road and bring their guitar and play in juke joints around the corner and make money. That was respectable, but it wasn't for women,” she explains.

Carrington said it was later OK for women to sing or play instruments such as piano, violin or even the flute.

“Instruments that feel more feminine, for whatever reason, to a society that gendered instruments,” she says.

“It's very different sitting at a piano than sitting at a drum set. I sit at a drum set with my legs open, standing in front of a band and leading a band and blowing a horn _ that just wasn't really what was accepted as much.

“Most of the time (women) have to work harder and don't have the same access and support. That makes it not fun, so women quit.”

Has Carrington ever quit, or thought of doing so?

“Never,” she boldly says, adding: “Well because I had support. My dad was my biggest champion and he knew everybody, and nobody really messed with me because I was kind of protected in that way. I didn't have to worry about some of the silly stuff. I had access to all these great musicians. I had talent that they were willing to engage with.”

And now she wants to make sure she passes the torch.

“I'm late to the party,” she admits. “I was just really worried about being as good of a musician as I could be and following my dream. Then eventually I was like, `Whoa!' What am I doing to really help this situation?

Once I realized I wasn't doing very much, I decided that I had a responsibility.”

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BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

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PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): BCV-19-102355 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): GAIL ELLEN MARTIN, a business owner. et al YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): JUDGE A. ROBERTSON NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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 SelfHelp 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 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 SelfHelp 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 COUNTY OF KERN, 1415 Truxton Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301 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 que no tiene abogado, es): Judge A. Robertson, 1200 First Street, Bakersfield, CA 93394 DATE (Fecha): 11/19/2020 (no signature), Clerk (Secretario), by (no signature), Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2020-B5634 Doing business as: McCLELLAN BOARD BOARD & CARE at 4104 Milo Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: VIRGINIA McCLELLAN, 5307 Glacier Springs Drive, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: VIRGINIA McCLELLAN The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 5/1/1988 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: December 21, 2020 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: N FRANCO, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on December 21, 2025 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2020-B5645 Doing business as:

PUBLIC NOTICE DEVIOUS DESIGNZ at 5117 Belcrest Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: D A L E VAUGHN, 5117 Belcrest Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: DALE VAUGHN The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: December 21, 2020 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on December 21, 2025 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0002 2021-B0003 2021-B0004 Doing business as: DFP SERVICE SOLUTIONS / D.P.F. SERVICE SOLUTIONS / DPF BURN TURN at 2512 Olmo Ct., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: M I C H A E L ANTHONY GARCIA, 2512 Olmo Ct., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: MICHAEL ANTHONY GARCIA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 4, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 4, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2020-B5527 Doing business as: DID IT DONE IT CONSTRUCTION at 816 Adelaide Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: B R E N T O N LEJANDER, 816 Adelaide Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: BRENTON LEJANDER The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/12/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: December 15, 2020 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on December 15, 2025 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2020-B5704 Doing business as: ON THE VINE WINE BAR at 10711 Rosedale Hwy., Bakersfield, Ca. 93312 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: M I S K A T WINE INC., CA, 10201 Wentworth Ct., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 The business is conducted by: Corporation SIGNED: DARREL CONNER, President The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: December 23, 2020 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on December 23, 2025 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2019-B3370 Business Name you wish to abandon: ON THE VINE Street address of business: 10711 Rosedale Hwy., Bakersfield, Ca. 93312

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: MIDEAL LLC, 2808 LaCresenta Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93312 I declare that all information in 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.)

Business was conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: MARRY HEARN, Owner/ Manager This statement of abandonment filed on: December 15, 2020 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021

Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on December 22, 2025 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 20, 27, Feb 3, 10, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0180 Doing business as: J. & M. ANAYA TRUCKING LLC at 4001 Milo Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: J. & M. ANAYA TRUCKING LLC, 4001 Milo Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: JOSE LUIS ANAYA MARTINEZ The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 19, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 19, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 2021 �������������������������������

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0005 Doing business as: ANGIE’S SWEETS & TREATS at 7120 Hanover Circle, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 12194, Bakersfield, Ca. 93389 County: Kern Full name of registrant: A N G E L A LOCKHART, 7120 Hanover Circle, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: ANGELA LOCKHART The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 09/01/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 5, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 5, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0078 2021-B0079 2021-B0080 Doing business as: JMV VENTURES / MARRIED BY MARIE / MCV MOBILE NOTARY/WEDDING OFFICIANT at 9300 Kingsmill Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93312 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: MARIE C. VILLASENOR, 9300 Kingsmill Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93312 Full name of registrant: JOHN M. VILLASENOR, 9300 Kingsmill Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93312 The business is conducted by: Married Couple SIGNED: MARIE C. VILLASENOR The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 05/01/2005 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 8, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 8, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 20, 27, Feb 3, 10, 2021 �������������������������������

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PUBLIC NOTICE:

This is to notify the following persons that his/her personal household and/ or miscellaneous goods will be sold at public auction or private sale. Stor It Self Storage 4200 Patton Way Bakersfield, CA 93308.

The sale will take place online at www.storagetreasures.com; the bidding will end (February 10, 2021) at 6:00 pm.

G032 Subrina Lee – Misc.

BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 27, Feb 3, 2021 �������������������������������

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0065 Doing business as: SYNERGY SLEEP & RESPIRATORY at 900 Truxtun Ave., Suite 330, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: V A L L E Y OXYGEN LLC, 900 Truxtun Ave., Suite 330, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: DANIEL LUNA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2016 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 7, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: N FRANCO, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 7, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 20, 27, Feb 3, 10, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER BCV-20-102970 Superior Court of the State of California, for the county of Kern, 1415 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301 PETITION OF: ROXANA GALLEGOS FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ROXANA GALLEGOS for a decree changing names as follows: Present name PRISCILLA DIANA OLIVAS ANTONIO OLIVAS JR JASMINE KARINA OLIVAS FRANCISCO OLIVAS Filed a petition with this court Proposed name PRISCILLA DIANA GALLEGOS ANTONIO JOSE GALLEGOS JASMINE KARINA GALLEGOS FRANCISCO MANUEL GALLEGOS THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two 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: Mar 15, 2021 Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept: 12 The address of the court is: Same as noted above.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a 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 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER Date: January 8, 2021 Linda S Etienne COURT COMMISSIONER Andrea Sanders DEPUTY Petitioner: Roxana Gallegos 426 S. Haley St. #A Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 Phone: (562) 280-3812 E-Mail Address: rosygil1222@gmail. com BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2020-B5650 2020-B5651 Doing business as: RUCKER’S MORTUARY, BAKERSFIELD / RUCKER’S MORTUARY at 301 Baker Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93305 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: W I L M A DAVIS, 431 W. Wintergreen Rd., De Soto, Tx. 75115 nducted by: Individual SIGNED: WILMA DAVIS The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 05/19/1947 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: December 22, 2020 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ,

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (NÚMERO DEL CASO): BCV-20-100304

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): Bill G Destefani, aka Bill Destefani aka Bill Gene Destefani aka William J Destefani aka Destefani Bill, an individual; Flying Tiger Farms, Inc., a California Corporations, adba Flying Tiger Farms, Does 1 through 20, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): American Express National Bank NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

PUBLIC NOTICE 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 SelfHelp 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 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 SelfHelp 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, COUNTY OF KERN 1415 TRUXTUN AVENUE, BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301 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 que no tiene abogado, es): Mordechai Wolowitsch, Esq. SBN: (324413), MICHAEL & ASSOCIATES, PC 555 St. Charles Drive, Suite 204 Thousand Oaks, Ca 91360 Telephone: (805) 379-8505 Fax: (805) 379-8505 DATE (Fecha): February 4, 2020 TAMARAH HARBER-PICKENS, Clerk (Secretario), by Rebecca Saldivar, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individial defendant.

3. on behalf: under: CCP 416.10 (corporation) BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (M&A) PUB: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 2021 �������������������������������

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ELIZABETH R. BIDDULPH CASE NUMBER: BPB-20-003038

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ELIZABETH R. BIDDULPH A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ELIZABETH R. BIDDULPH in the Superior Court of California, County of KERN 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Branch Name: BAKERSFIELD COURTHOUSE THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that HEATHER R. BIDDULPH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to pprobate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the

PUBLIC NOTICE authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: Feb 4, 2021 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: P Room: located at 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 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 deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided on Probate Code section 9100.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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 (for DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate code section 1250. A request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Brandon B. Holladay 1901 Truxtun Avenue Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Telephone: (661) 861-7911 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (Y&N) PUB: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 2021

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NOTICE OF HEARING GUARDIANSHIP CASE NO: BPB-20-002611

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF KERN 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 GURDIANSHIP of the peron of: LOGAN GENE SMITH (Minor) This notice is required by law.

This notice does not require you to appear in court, but you may attend the hearing if you wish.

1.NOTICE is given that: JANET ROSE BRANDON (representative capacity, if any): PETITIONER has filed: PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN OF MINOR-PERSON 2. You may refer to documents on file in this proceeding for more information (Some documents filed with the court are confidential Under some circumstances you or your attorney may be able to see or receive copies of confidential documents if you file papers in the proceeding or apply to the court.)

4. A HEARING on the mater will be held as follows: Date: Feb 23, 2021 Time: 10:30 am Dept: P Address of Court Same as noted above BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0228 2021-B0229 2021-B0230 Doing business as: NANOKNEE INSTITUTE / NANO CLINIC / BONE & JOINT CENTER at 620 California Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: 860 Oak Park Blvd., Ste. 101, Arroyo Grande, Ca. 93420 County: Kern Full name of registrant: THOMAS D. FERRO, M.D., A MEDICAL CORPORATION, CA, 248 Candice Court, Arroyo Grande, Ca. 93420 The business is conducted by: Corporation SIGNED: THOMAS D. FERRO, M.D. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/1991 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 20, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 20, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0225 Doing business as: HEIGHTEN DISPATCHING at 4900 California Ave., Suite 210-B, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: 3413 Rio Grande Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 County: Kern Full name of registrant: H E I G H T E N MANAGEMENT LLC, CA, 4900 California Ave., Suite 210-B, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: DANIEL LUNA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 20, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: N FRANCO, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 20, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0284 Doing business as: RESILIENT FLOWERS at 6202 Estavez Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: NANCY MOSQUEDA RODRIDGUEZ, 6202 Estavez Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 Full name of registrant: DAISY FLORES, 5419 Tyner Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 The business is conducted by: CoPartners SIGNED: NANCY MOSQUEDA RODRIDGUEZ The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/31/2020 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 21, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 21, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0222 Doing business as: ROYAL TRUCK WASH at 8247 Kimber Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: GURJIT BASSI, 4024 Flintridge Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 Full name of registrant: ANANT PAL SINGH, 204 Somerford Ct., Bakersfield, Ca. 93312 The business is conducted by: General Partnership SIGNED: ANANT PAL SINGH The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2004 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 20, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: N FRANCO, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 20, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0171 Doing business as: GORDON OIL & GAS CONSULTING SERVICES at 10416 Sterling Silver St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: GALON WESLEY GORDON, 10416 Sterling Silver St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: GALON WESLEY GORDON The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/05/2021 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 15, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 15, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER BCV-20-103010 Superior Court of the State of California, for the county of Kern, 1415 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301 PETITION OF: ANNTOINETTE EBONEE AGUILAR FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ANNTOINETTE EBONEE AGUILAR for a decree changing names as follows: Present name DONTE DAVID-CAMERON AGUILAR JR Filed a petition with this court Proposed name CAMRYN EZEKIEL AGUILAR THE COURT ORDERS: that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two 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: Mar 16, 2021 Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept: 12 The address of the court is: Same as noted above.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a 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 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER Other: Non-petitioning parent to be served as required by CCP Sec. 1277 Date: January 8, 2021 Linda S Etienne COURT COMMISSIONER Andrea Sanders DEPUTY Petitioner: Anntoinette Ebonee Aguilar 6408 Monitor Street Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 Phone: (661) 778-7280 E-Mail Address: Anntoinette16@ gmail.com BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0252 Doing business as: GORDON MOTORSPORTS at 10416 Sterling Silver St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: GALON WESLEY GORDON, 10416 Sterling Silver St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: GALON WESLEY GORDON The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/07/2021 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 21, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 21, 2026 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2021-B0253 Doing business as: REAL STEEL CLASSIC CARS at 10416 Sterling Silver St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: GALON WESLEY GORDON, 10416 Sterling Silver St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: GALON WESLEY GORDON The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/07/2021 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: January 21, 2021 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. 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 to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in 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 This statement expires on January 21, 2026 BAKERSFIELD

������������������������������� SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): BCV-20-102174 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CALEB SCOTT HANSON; DOES 1 throught 10, inclusive; YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): AMCO INSURANCE COMPANY, an Iowa corporation NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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 SelfHelp 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 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 SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

PUBLIC NOTICE 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

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PUBLIC NOTICE 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.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notices/ Features

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 COUNTY OF KERN, 1415 Truxton Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301 The name, address, and telephone

PUBLIC NOTICE

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 que no tiene abogado, es): Law Offices of Jay W. Smith Esq. Sbn: 150113 and Nancy A. Young, Esq. Sbn: 183328 6644 Valjean Avenue #200 Van Nuys, Ca 91406 (T) 818-709-2556 (F) 818-709-2513 DATE (Fecha): 9/17/2020 TAMARAH HARBER-PICKENS, Clerk (Secretario), by Candice Rocha, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021

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5 Tips to Set Your Business Up for Success in 2021 The challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic hardships can make 2020 a difficult year to look back on. 46% of small business owners surveyed in the Q4 Wells Fargo Small Business Index reported decreases in revenues, while the prospect of closing their business was most frequently ranked as the top concern. Nonetheless, even the most challenging times can yield opportunities for the future. 2020 provided hard truths, but also valuable insights that small business owners can use at the outset of 2021 to move forward.

Get online Nearly one third (29%) of businesses planned to start using a website in 2020.1 Luckily for those that followed through on that plan, 2020 showed that having a strong online presence, user experience and functionality can not only be a competitive advantage in the marketplace, but also critical to a business’s survival. 86% of consumers rely on the internet to find a local business.2 With a wellrounded digital strategy, including a website and social media, business owners can build awareness and leverage how people are searching for information online. Further, ensuring a positive user experience with these channels can help set up an environment for business growth.

Key questions:

• Is my website mobile friendly?

• Can customers place orders or make payments online?

• Are my hours and contact information up to date?

Take advantage of digital banking Online and mobile banking can help business owners monitor and manage their accounts from anywhere and make analyzing cash flow easier. In fact, 73% of small businesses utilize these services, according to Barlow Research. What 2020 exhibited is the ability of this functionality to help in preparing for uncertain circumstances, such as not being able to visit a physical bank branch for an extended period.

Utilizing tools like these can provide extra insurance against

potential challenges that may arise.

Key Questions: • Am I using all of the available features for my online banking service?

• Is my accounting software up to date and synced with my bank accounts?

• Have I downloaded any requisite applications so I can use tools like mobile deposit?

Check your tech Almost one third (29%) of business owners said in November 2020 that the closure of their business was their top concern, while 57% said they did not anticipate recovery for businesses like theirs until at least the second half of 2021. With recent surges in COVID-19 cases, one key thing business owners can do to withstand these challenges and to help safeguard negative impacts to the business down the line is to ensure the right technology is fully utilized to serve operations, including sufficient internet bandwidth and wireless capabilities.

Key Questions:

• Can I use accounting software to better analyze sales, costs, and opportunities in 2021?

• Is my accounting software synced to my bank accounts?

• Can I use social media or a clientrelationship manager to get to know my customers better?

Join a professional organization Networking can help small business owners through crises like COVID-19 and help facilitate a potential reset or even rebuilding of a business in the coming year. Whether it’s a traditional chamber of commerce or networking group or an online or social media-based community, networking groups can provide ideas and resources for growth, and may also help with recruiting talent, finding vendors, or even generating sales.

Key Questions: • Could I join my local chamber of commerce?

The possibility of not seeing economic or business recovery until at least mid-2021 highlights the importance of planning for multiple scenarios.

• Are there trade groups or industry organizations that serve my area?

• Could I start an informal network of business owners?

Create a plan B and a plan C The possibility of not seeing economic or business recovery until at least mid-2021 highlights the importance of planning for multiple scenarios. Having a backup plan for each area of your business, from sales to operations to marketing, will help mitigate potential negative impacts of unforeseen circumstances.

Key Questions: • What happens if there’s another shutdown in 2021?

• What happens if 2021 sales return to

2019 levels?

• What happens if costs increase?

One key thing to remember is the lesson that permeates all of the others listed here: flexibility is key.

Planning is as important as ever, but the ability to shift those plans based on the realities of a situation could make the difference between continuing toward recovery or facing a business closing. As the New Year is upon us, it is important for business owners to reflect on the past year and plan for success in 2021.

1 “2020 Small Business Marketing Stats,” Visual Objects, 2020.

2 “Thinking about Updating Your Business Website?

Here are 5 reasons You Should,” Small Business Trends, 2019.

Madam Secretary Shirley Weber

Takes Oath to Serve as California Secretary of State

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Weber when he appointed her in December.

“The daughter of sharecroppers from Arkansas, Dr. Weber’s father didn’t get to vote until his 30s and her grandfather never got to vote because he died before the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965,” the governor continued.

“When her family moved to South Central Los Angeles, she saw as a child her parents rearrange furniture in their living room to serve as a local polling site for multiple elections.

Now, she’ll be at the helm of California’s elections as the next Secretary of State – defending and expanding the right to vote.”

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) tweeted After the Senate confirmed Weber.

“This is a loss for the assembly, but a huge gain for our state. @ShirleyWeberPHD has been an incredible leader of

our house. We will miss her, but I know she will serve as secretary of state with the same strength and leadership she brought as a legislator.”

In the Assembly, Weber authored several high-profile bills that became law, including a measure that created one of the strongest laws against police use of force in the country. Another set up an 8-member commission to study California’s role in the enslavement of – and discriminatory practices against -- Black men, women and children, and the ways the state may be liable for those actions.

No date has been set yet for the special election to replace weber in the state’s 79th Assembly District. But late last month, Weber’s daughter, Akilah Weber, who is a medical doctor based in San Diego, announced her candidacy to run for the seat her mom just vacated.

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of vaccinations among Black people is smaller than their share of cases in all 16 reporting states and smaller than their share of deaths in 15 states.

For example, in Mississippi, Black people account for 15 percent of vaccinations, compared to 38 percent of cases and 42 percent of deaths, and, in Delaware, 8 percent of vaccinations have been received by Black people, while they make up nearly a quarter of cases (24 percent) and deaths (23 percent).

In Pennsylvania, just 3 percent of those vaccinated are Black.

“As vaccine distribution continues, ensuring racial equity will be important for mitigating the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on people of color, preventing widening health disparities, and achieving broad population immunity,” KFF officials wrote.

Dr. Hilton noted further that the Secretary of Equity would provide strategic and programmatic leadership for diversity and inclusion initiatives that advance diversity as a critical component of federal and local policies.

“This position will lead a team of Equity Officers that sit within these targeted federal agencies to assess the existing and potential disparities specific to that agency and its respective industries – greater than racial disparities and within all diversity

dimensions,” Dr. Hilton noted.

“As mentioned, this position would work across various agencies with specific interest and collaborative partnerships with the agencies that directly impact the social determinants of health like the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Treasury, the Small Business Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”

Regarding establishing a White House Office on Racial Equity and Inclusion, the National Urban League President Marc Morial also noted his support.

“Even before 2020 exposed our pandemic of a deadly triple disease and economic hardship and racial unrest, America was a nation that still had only begun to grapple with the legacy of white supremacy,” Morial stated.

“Establishing a White House Office on Racial Equity and Inclusion is our best hope of nurturing that awakening and achieving our true potential.”

Watch Dr. Ebony Hilton’s interview with the Black Press at Facebook.com/BlackPressUSA, Twitter: @BlackPressUSA, and YouTube.com/BlackPressUSATV.

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Kern Vaccination Site Now Accepting Appointments for This Week

By South Kern Sol Staff The COVID-19 mass vaccination site at the Kern County Fairgrounds is accepting appointments for Wednesday, Feb. 3 through Saturday, Feb. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To schedule a COVID-19 vaccine appointment at this location, call 661-868-0165. Based on California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Plan, those eligible for a vaccine must fall in a group in Phase 1A, or be healthcare workers or 65 years of age and older.

Right now, the vaccination site is only doing walk-up appointments and is administering an average of 500 doses per day, “which we are prepared to increase based upon vaccine allotment from the state,” the department said in a news release.

For residents who received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Fairgrounds: Approximately one week prior to when your second dose is due, you will receive a phone call from Kern Public Health to schedule your visit at the phone number you

provided when you scheduled your original appointment.

Phone calls will begin the middle of this week for those who received their first dose during the week of Jan. 18, 2021.

Residents are urged to continue practicing healthy habits when in public after receiving two doses of the COVID-19. Not enough information is currently available to say if or when CDC will stop recommending that people wear masks and avoid close contact with others to help prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.

For more information, visit our website at https:// kernpublichealth.com/coronavirus-vaccine/ for current vaccination information and resources. Additionally, an interactive map is available identifying other community providers who are currently offering vaccinations.

The Kern County Public Health Department announced Monday 354 new cases of COVID-19 in Kern, bringing the total to 94,467 cases. Of these cases, 32,229 people have recovered.

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Black History

Biden Pushes Harriet Tubman $20 Bill In April 2016, then-President Barack Obama announced that Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Obama wanted the release of the new bill to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment in 2020 that gave women the right to vote. However, Trump had expressed an affinity toward Confederate figures and sang the praises of Andrew Jackson, claiming that he had led the U.S. to great success during his two-terms in office from 1829 to 1837.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent After four years of push back from the administration of Donald Trump, Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman may finally appear on U.S. currency.

“The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume those efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday, Jan. 25.

“[The Biden administration] is exploring ways to speed up that effort. It’s important that our notes, our money reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman’s image on our new $20 note would certainly reflect that,” Psaki commented.

In April 2016, then-President Barack Obama announced that Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Obama wanted the release of the new bill to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the passage of

the 19th amendment in 2020 that gave women the right to vote.

However, Trump had expressed an affinity toward Confederate figures and sang the praises of Jackson, claiming that he had led the U.S. to great success during his two-terms in office from 1829 to 1837.

Jackson, a slave owner, joined the Confederate army after Virginia seceded in 1861. He served under Gen. Robert E. Lee during the Civil War. Tubman, an escaped slave, led countless people to freedom. Trump suggested that he might consider placing her image on a $2 bill, but not replace Jackson.

President Biden has vowed to right the many wrongs of the Trump administration, including working toward improving race relations in America and offering more opportunities to people of color. Tubman would be the first African-American woman featured on U.S. currency.

“The $20 currently features a former president, Andrew Jackson, who not only owned slaves, but ordered the death march of thousands of Native Americans,” NNPA’s General Counsel A. Scott Bolden wrote in a 2019 editorial.

“Euphemistically called ‘Indian Removal,’ the Trail of Tears made way for white settlers to claim millions of acres of southern land,” Attorney Bolden wrote.

He continued: “The attempted erasure of Tubman represents yet another move in the Trump playbook to disconnect racial reality from white fantasy. Harriet Tubman should be a respected and lauded icon for people of every race and ethnicity. Did she not personify American ideals, at the risk of her own life? As a Black woman in antebellum times, she was vulnerable to capture, prison, assault or lynching, but did she falter? Did she not refuse to kneel to any man or any king? Did she not fight for freedom against overwhelming odds? Are these not the qualities we hold dear in our American heroes?”

“The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume those efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday, Jan. 25.

TODAY I LEARNED

Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard 1960.

That slaveholders in the U.S. knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

ASU Renames Film School to Honor Sidney Poitier

President Barack Obama awarded Poitier the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, and in 2011, he earned the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Chaplin Lifetime Achievement Award.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Arizona State University has named its new film school after legendary actor Sidney Poitier.

According to a USA Today report, the decision to name the school after Poitier, 93, is about much more than an emphasis on diversity.

In an interview ahead of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School’s unveiling, University President Michael M. Crow said Poitier embodies everything that one would look for in an icon.

“With Sidney Poitier, it’s his creative energy, his dynamism, his drive, his ambition, the kinds of projects he worked on, the ways in which he advanced his life,” Crow asserted, according to USA Today.

The legendary actor filmed his Oscar-winning “Lilies of the Field” in Arizona in 1963. Poitier became the first Black person to win an Oscar for lead actor in a motion picture.

Crow noted the unusually scandal-free life that the superstar has lived despite being in the public limelight for decades.

“Look at his life: It’s a story of a person who found a way,” Crow added. “How do we help other young people

find their way?”

As noted in his biography at Oscar.com, Poitier is both an esteemed actor and a respected humanitarian.

In addition to his Oscar for Best Actor, he received an Honorary Award in 2001. Born in Miami, he grew up both in the Bahamas and the United States and became a noted actor both on the stage and in such films as “The Defiant Ones” in 1958, which he earned his first Oscar nomination.

Throughout his career, Poitier provided some of the most legendary performances ever on the Silver Screen.

Among the most memorable were “A Patch of Blue” in 1965, “In the Heat of the Night” in 1967, and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” in 1967.

Poitier also directed and starred in a series of 1970’s hits with Bill Cosby, including “Let’s Do it Again” and “Uptown Saturday Night.”

He went on to direct nine feature films.

In 2000, Poitier published the autobiography “The Measure of a Man” and earned a Grammy Award for the best-spoken word album for the audio version of “The Measure of a Man.” He followed up his autobiography eight years later when he published “Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My

Great-Granddaughter.”

A recipient of numerous awards and honors throughout this career, Poitier was knighted in 1974 by the British government.

President Barack Obama awarded Poitier the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, and in 2011, he earned the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Chaplin Lifetime Achievement Award.

According to USA Today, Arizona University reportedly has invested millions of dollars in technology to create what’s intended to be one of the largest, most accessible, and most diverse film schools.

Crow said the film school would measure success not by exclusivity but by inclusivity.

“If it has my Dad’s name on it, it has to be inclusive because that’s the foundation of who he is and what he stands for,” Anika Poitier, the legend’s daughter, remarked.

“And it’s important to not only have inclusion but to have diversity, and to give people the opportunity to tell their stories. I think it’s imperative to cast a wide net and allow anyone who’s called to tell their story to learn how to do that.”

Meet Roberts Smalls Ronald McNair Defied • Born into slavery in 1839 • Steals a Confederate military ship in 1861 • Disguises himself as the captain • Uses the secret code book and hand signals to pass Confederate guard ships •Rescues more slaves and their families • Escapes to freedom • Works as a military advisor to the Union until war ends • Buys a house • Wins • Runs for Congress • Lives happily ever after

All Odds and Became Sucessful in Life

In 1959 police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when 9 year old Ronald McNair refuses to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT and died in 1986 aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.