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Fund All Pending Homekey Projects to House the Homeless Now

By Rev. Dr. Martha C. Taylor

Teachers and community rally against budget cuts and school closures. Photo courtesy of CTA.

By Rebecca Kaplan

California is facing a housing crisis with housing costs exceeding growth in wages, and inadequate housing supply, particularly for low-income households. In California, approximately 2.5 million low-income households lack adequate affordable housing.

The high cost of housing is a significant contributing factor to California’s homelessness crisis. This causes many challenges, as homelessness has longterm and serious consequences to people’s health and safety. As of the last point-in-time count, California has approximately 161,500 individuals experiencing homelessness, which represents 20% of the total homeless population in the country. This statistic is even more stark given that California’s overall population only represents 12% of the country’s total population.

In response to the mounting challenges around homelessness, California launched its Homekey program, allocating funding to local public agencies and community organizations to buy available buildings, which can be used to immediately house people Continued on Page 10

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Teachers and Port of Oakland Workers Strike Friday Against School Closures and Billionaire Fisher’s Port Deal OUSD Supt. Johnson-Trammell says teacher strike is “illegal” but urges students to stay home on Friday

By Ken Epstein

Oakland educators and Port of Oakland longshore workers are holding simultaneous one-day strikes on Friday as a city-wide movement continues to grow in response to billionaires and gentrifiers backed by elected Democrats seeking to close as many as half of the city’s public schools and give away public funds and public

land to build a $12-billion real estate deal and baseball stadium at the Port.

The strikes, as well as rallies and a march, were proposed by a new coalition, Schools and Labor Against Privatization (S.L.A.P.) composed of rank and file educators, members and leaders of ILWU Local and community members to oppose the privatization of public assets and the accelerated dis-

placement of Oakland’s Black, Latino and working class residents.

Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association (OEA), announced the educators’ work stoppage at a press conference on Tuesday.

He said an overwhelming 75% of OEA voting members voted to authorize the one-day strike Continued on Page 10

Xi Gamma Omega Raises $40,000 for Scholarships to 22 Oakland Students for Chapter’s 40th Chapter Anniversary

The Xi Gamma Omega Chapter (XGO) of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. achieved a major milestone raising and awarding $40,000 in scholarships in honor of the chapter’s 40th anniversary.

“As the premiere community service organization for the city of Oakland, we strive for our volunteerism to have a lifelong impact on the quality of life for residents. Our program serves as a vehicle to unlock the potential of the Oakland Community,” said Dr. Kimberly Mayfield Lynch, XGO’s president.

Early in Dr. Mayfield Lynch’s tenure, she challenged

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members of the chapter to support fundraising efforts for these scholarships, and under her dynamic leadership the goal was achieved.

The major milestone of rais-

ing over $40K during a pandemic is historic, with special thanks to fundraising Chairs Kendra Brown and Misty Gaither for leading our fundraising and exceeding expectations. This occasion marked the very first time that XGO has raised this amount of funds during a single fundraising event, according to a media release.

To further commemorate this achievement, the XGO Scholarship Committee, cochaired by Ora Anderson and Tonya Jones Allred, guided the committee in the selection Continued on Page 10

OCCUR Offers Guidance to Nonprofit Leaders in the East Bay

The late Fannie Lou Hamer said, “If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?” That is the question that The United States Supreme Court wrestled with last week in the case of Joe Kennedy, who was fired by the school board in Washington State for praying at the 50 yard line after the high school football game ended.

Kennedy defended his position saying the school board violated his rights to free speech and the freedom to exercise his religion. Kennedy, a Christian, said he felt compelled to give thanks through a silent prayer at the conclusion of each game.

In 2019, a federal appeals court ruled that the school board in Washington State was correct when it fired Coach Joe Kennedy for praying publicly.

A judge of the Ninth Circuit said, “A coach’s duty to serve as a good role model requires the coach to refrain from any manifestation of religious faith — even when the coach is plainly not on duty.”

Where does freedom start and stop? Kennedy’s case has sparked controversy, landing in the Supreme Court this past week debating just how far can a person express religious freedom in public spaces.

On June 25, 1962, the Supreme Court decided that praying in schools violated the First Amendment by constituting an establishment of religion. The following year, the Court disallowed Bible readings in public schools for similar reasons.

Long before the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1962 and the current Kennedy case, we are reminded of a very dark period in U.S. history; it was legal that enslaved Africans were forbidden to express religious freedom in any form including reading, writing and praying.

The late Dr. Albert J. Raboteau, an African American scholar, gave meaning to what Africans had to endure to wor-

Fannie Lou Hamer ship. The hush harbors, known as the invisible church, was a secret worship place built with tree branches in the deep woods out of ear and eye sight of slave masters. The secret call to worship used codes.

One such code was the spiritual, “Steal Away to Jesus.” If enslaved Africans were caught worshiping, they were subjected to vicious beatings or could be murdered for exercising religious freedom.

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During the secret worship, the African preacher sermonized how God delivered the Hebrews from slavery to freedom. The ancestors believed and trusted that the same God who told Moses to go down in Egypt land and let my people go was the same God that was going to set them free. The enslaved Africans practiced their African rituals knowing the spirit of the ancestors was with them, encouraging them, that slavery was not their destiny. C. Eric Lincoln reminded us in the epic book “The Black Continued on Page 10

Fruitvale District Job Fair

By Lori Shepherd

Since the 1950s, OCCUR has been functioning as a catalyst for change in Oakland’s marginalized and deprived communities, becoming a fixture in the East Bay region, focusing on cultural, social, and economic development in areas that need their expertise.

Idealism motivates the skilled and dedicated professionals and volunteers who have kept OCCUR relevant for decades. Over the years, the nature of the challenges they face have changed, as they are currently working to find solutions to homelessness, school closures, dwindling Black homeownership, and a lack of access to learning technical knowledge and skills that prevents members of underserved communities from finding suit-

Dee Johnson, Executive Director of the Lend A Hand Foundation and attendee of OCCUR & San Francisco Foundation’s ‘A Model Built on Faith’ workshop series. Photo courtesy of Dee Johnson.

Dee Johnson at one of Lend A Hand Foundation’s many giveaway events. Photo courtesy of Dee Johnson.

portunity, and their dedication to that mission is reflected in their determination to evolve and grow.

Across the East Bay, community activists, nonprofit

professionals, neighborhood leaders, and families struggling to overcome difficult circumstances understand how

able employment. OCCUR was formed to assist people of color and other marginalized groups who have been most victimized by long-term inequalities of wealth and op-

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Aliza Gallo (left), Strong Native Workforce (Representing District 5 Councilmember Noel Gallo); and Germaine Davis, Oakland Private Industry Council.

A Fruitvale District Job Fair will be held Thursday, May 5, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fruitvale Transit Village. Aliza Gallo, of Strong Native Workforce and representing District 5 Councilmember Noel Gallo, with Germaine Davis, Private Industry Council, Inc. along with the Unity Council, are collaborating on this major job fair. Job seekers will be able to connect with many employers and resources. The Job Fair, accessible by public transportation, is within walking distance of the Fruitvale BART

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Inside Queen Hippie Gypsy, Oakland’s Learning Black History Year-Round First Black Woman-Owned Botanica Anna Olga Albertina Brown, the Soaring Miss LaLa

By Makiah Hiley

Known as “the hood alchemist,” Lilly Ayers founded and runs Oakland’s first Black women owned crystal botanica, Queen Hippie Gypsy.

Located in Downtown Oakland, Ayers’ ground floor space sells metaphysical tools like crystals, handmade intention candles, incense, books, as well as herbs that can be used for metaphysical and health-aiding purposes.

Ayers gives tarot readings and hosts events such as yoga sessions, healing circles, wellness classes in the top floor of the shop, and she even has a program for youth getting started in their spiri-

By Tamara Shiloh

Lilly Ayers, owner of Queen Hippie Gypsy. Photo courtesy of Visit Oakland.

tual journey.

The storefront’s debut was in 2018 before the pandemic struck and is currently one of the most successful small businesses in Oakland, still standing after the mass

closings of businesses due to quarantine restrictions.

“There were times we were closed for months at a time,” Ayers said.

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Dance-Pop Musician Charli XCX Offers a Glittery Differing Vision at the Fox Theater

By Sarah Clemens

Dance-pop musician Charli XCX recently brought her glittery differing vision to the Fox Theater in Oakland showing off what pop music could be.

Charli XCX has been honing her talents since 2007, releasing a steady stream of critically acclaimed experimental pop (Pop 2, Charli), and the rare bubblegum hit (“Boom Clap”, “Break the Rules”).

Using producer SOPHIE’s digital technique of constructing any sound, be it balloon pop or piano chord, Charli’s music posits that being artificial can be an art unto itself. Her music takes pop to its extremes, us-

Charli XCX

ing high pitched vocals and big bass beats to tell stories of selfsabotage.

This has translated to a small army of diehard fans. Charli has referred to her following as a “blessing and a curse.” She’s thankful for them but can never be the simultaneously polished and experimental popstar they would like her to be.

With an artist like Charli, presentation matters as much as the art itself. Everything about the concert screamed “big event,” from the elaborate set pieces to the costume changes.

Two opening acts preceded Charli. First Baby Tate, whose set was a mix of self-asserting raps and wholehearted but less inspiring ballads. Then A.G. Cook, Charli’s longtime producer. His heavily-autotuned set remixed not only her songs but his own, climaxing in a moonlit rendition of “Silver Cross.” It turned out to be the last dose of eclecticism the night would see.

In her March 27 show at the Fox, Charli arrived onstage in a puff of smoke, accompanied Continued on page 6

The circus wasn’t always a welcoming place for Blacks. There were instances in which Black men were used as “circus freaks,” lumped together with the animals and the acrobats.

But according to historians, female circus performers during the nineteenth century were spotlighted and compensated handsomely. The well-known Black acrobat Anna Olga Albertina Brown (1858–after 1919), better known as Miss LaLa, was no exception.

A small yet powerful woman, Miss LaLa broke through many racial barriers, captivating audiences across Europe with her acrobatic feats. She became popular for her wire walking, trapeze, and other death-defying acts. According to researchers, she could lift three men simultaneously.

It is documented that she was good at performing “iron jaw” tricks, using her mouth and teeth to climb ropes and suspend herself from high places.

Little is recorded of Brown’s life. It was only after becoming Miss LaLa that she was internationally known. What researchers know is that young Anna was born to German parents in what is now the Polish city of Stettin. She developed incredible strength and acrobatic skills early on and began touring Europe at age nine. Her father was Black and her mother, white, thus carnival troupes

Anna Olga Albertina Brown (1858–after 1919), better known as Miss LaLa. Photo courtesy of en.wikipedia.org.

drew crowds by exploiting her so-called “exotic” look and ancestry.

Among other names, Miss LaLa was known as Olga the Negress, Cannon Woman, and the Venus of the Tropics. She was not the lone Black performer in circuses throughout Europe, but she was perhaps the best known.

Peta Tait, professor of theater and drama at La Trobe University, Australia, writes about the rumors surrounding Miss LaLa’s life that spread throughout Victorian London.

One being that Miss LaLa was an African princess who lost

her throne and was sold into slavery when her chiefs decided to pledge their allegiance to Queen Victoria. She then ended up in a circus in the South of France.

This rumor was based on her ancestry and created for circus acts. Such tales would heighten her enigmatic appeal and draw huge crowds.

“Admiration for LaLa suggests a complicated response to her identity,” Tait added.

“Perhaps LaLa was caught up in a European fascination of performances of an imaginary Africa.”

Miss LaLa performed from the late 1860s until 1888.

There is little known or recorded about her life beyond retirement from the circus and less about her death. Some sources suggest that she relocated to the United States and married an American contortionist. The couple then had three daughters, and the family collectively formed their own circus act dubbed the Three Keziahs.

Other sources grow cold, having lost track after her travels to America.

What is known is that Olga Brown left an indelible mark on the world of performance arts.

Learn more about the many contributions that performers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds made to the development of the circus in the nineteenth century. Read “Artistes of Colour: ethnic diversity and representation in the Victorian circus” by Steve Ward, PhD.

Four Seasons Arts Honors Founder Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams With Annual Concert

On Saturday, May 7 at 3 p.m., Four Seasons Arts will honor Founder Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams with a piano recital by Dr. Rochelle Sennet. The concert takes place at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave. in Berkeley.

Sennet’s May 7 program, entitled “Bach to Black,” features two Partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach, “Four Dances for Boris”

by African-American composer Jeffrey Mumford (b. 1955) and “In the Bottoms” Suite by African-American composer R. Nathaniel Dett.

Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams led the concert organization from its beginning in 1958 until his death in 1999, and it is because of his vision that the concert series continues.

Dr. Williams was one of the first African-American presenters of a major classical music

Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams Dr. Rochelle Sennet

concert series in the United States. Dr. Williams presented artists of all races and organized racially diverse audiences, and for over 40-plus years in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, he introduced to the world some of the finest musicians of our time.

Pianist Dr. Rochelle Sennet is

a well-known performer, teacher and scholar. She has performed throughout the world as a soloist and orchestra collaborator and is a sought-after guest lecturer and adjudicator.

Free tickets to this event are available by emailing fsa.info@ fsarts.org, calling 510-8454444 or clicking the “Get Free Tickets” button at www.fsarts. org/2022-founders-concert/ .

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A coalition of California educators, civil rights groups, religious leaders, parents, students and other concerned citizens are calling on elected officials in Sacramento to do something about the continuing underperformance of Black students on California state standardized tests.

“We are in California, the Golden State, where Democrats hold a supermajority in the Legislature and where the governor is a Democrat. People that call themselves progressive have the authority and license to rectify the wrongs that have been served to African American Californians for generations,” said Dr. Margaret Fortune, an education advocate and founder of a network of seven charter schools in Sacramento and San Bernardino that focuses on closing the African American achievement gap and preparing students for college.

Dr. Margaret Fortune Dr. Fortune was speaking at a rally that the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN) held last week at the L.A. County office of Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), who is chair of the Assembly Education Committee.

In the hall outside of O’Donnell’s office, Fortune was standing with other advocates, activists, elected officials and students, carrying placards and

Assemblymember Akilah Weber punctuating speeches the group’s leaders made with chants of “no justice, no peace.”

The demonstrators were calling on O’Donnell to schedule an Assembly Education Committee on Assembly Bill (AB) 2774.

The legislation would provide additional funding aimed at improving the scores of the lowest performing subgroup of students Continued on page 8

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New State Bill to Help Students Succeed States Only Black Female D.A. Announces Decades-Old Cold Case Solved at California Community Colleges

New legislation from Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (AD-44) will be heard April 26 in the Higher Education Committee, Assembly Bill 1705, which will address remedial placement policies at California’s community colleges and help more students to achieve their educational goals.

The bill is supported by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, Students Making a Change, and a diverse coalition of higher education equity, research, civil rights, social justice, and student leadership organizations.

“We strongly support AB 1705 and urge the members of the Higher Education Committee to move the legislation forward,” said Chidi Agu, Program coordinator of Students Making a Change, who will testify at the Higher Education Committee hearing. “This bill will make a tremendous difference for all kinds of students but especially our Black and Latinx students, who are too often steered into remedial classes where they lose time, money, and ultimately end up less likely to achieve their goals.”

AB 1705 builds off AB 705 (Irwin), a groundbreaking 2017 law that required the state’s community colleges to recognize high school coursework instead of relying on inaccurate and inequitable placement tests. It required that students be placed into English and math classes where they have the greatest chance to make progress toward a college degree.

Prior to this landmark change, the vast majority of California community college students were denied access to transferable, college-level English and math courses. Eighty percent of incoming students started in remedial classes that cost time and money but did not earn credit toward a

Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin

bachelor’s degree.

“Over a decade of research has established that starting in a remedial class actually makes students less likely to earn a degree,” said Dr. Christopher Nellum, executive director of Education TrustWest. “Millions of students were excluded from classes in which they could have been successful, and disproportionately, this impacted Black and Latinx students.”

AB 705 changed this by restricting colleges from requiring remedial courses. After AB 705 became law, there was a dramatic and unprecedented increase in students completing their classes at the state’s community colleges.

Student completion of transferlevel courses increased from 49% to 67% in English and from 26% to 50% in math statewide (20152019). This amounts to more than 41,000 additional students who completed transfer-level English and more than 30,000 additional students who completed transferlevel math than before the law (2015-2019).

“Researchers have found that every group examined has higher completion starting in a transferlevel course than in a remedial one, including students often cited as ‘needing’ remedial classes,” said Katie Hern, Co-Founder of the California Acceleration Project and a faculty member at Skyline

College. “This includes Asian, Black, and Hispanic students.

Students with low GPAs. Students with disabilities. Veterans. Foster youth. Low-income students. We can’t identify any group that does better taking a remedial course first.”

Yet despite the clear evidence that changing placement policies benefits students, many of California’s community colleges have yet to implement the changes mandated by AB 705. As of fall 2020, only a handful of colleges had achieved 100% implementation of the law.

“California’s community colleges have continued to devote substantial resources to remedial math, despite evidence that these classes do not meet the AB 705 standard of maximizing student completion,” said Jetaun Stevens, Senior Staff Attorney with Public Advocates. “This is especially true at colleges with over 2,000 Black students. Enrolling students in remedial courses drives racial inequity.”

AB 1705 provides clarity and additional guidance to help ensure all California community college students benefit from the success of AB 705. The bill: • Makes clear that colleges must enroll students in math and English classes where they have the greatest likelihood of completing degree and transfer requirements.

• Clarifies that colleges should not require students to repeat math and English classes they passed in high school.

• Provides greater protections to ensure that students are not required to take extra math and English courses that don’t count towards their degree requirements.

• Clarifies that it is the responsibility of colleges to ensure that students have supports that help them make progress toward their goals.

By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media

Last week, Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton, California’s only Black D.A., joined the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta and Acting Richmond Police Chief Louie Tirona to announce that they have identified the man who killed 28-year-old Meekiah Wadley in 1999.

During an emotional news conference a representative of the three agencies said Jerry Lee Henderson murdered the Contra Costa Community College student inside her Richmond home.

Tirona, said Henderson died 11 days after the killing. He was identified through DNA left at the scene.

“I know it’s been a long 22 years since this heinous crime was committed, and justice doesn’t always come swiftly,” said Becton. “Today’s announcement is a major testament to the determination of our law enforcement partners, forensic scientists, and investigators who continued to work on this case for over 20 years and who never gave up the search for the truth.”

Investigators solved the murder using California’s familial DNA search program.

Becton, who is on the ballot for the June 7 primary election, joins former Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and Sacramento County District Attorney Ann Marie Schubert as California D.A.s who have used this technique.

Becton, 70, was in the fourth year of a 22-year run as a Contra Costa Superior Court judge at the time of Wadley’s death.

On Sept. 17, 2017, the county’s Board of Supervisors

Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton

appointed her Contra Costa’s 25th district attorney, the first African American female to hold the position. In June 2018, the graduate of San Francisco State University and Golden Gate University School of Law was elected to a full term.

Becton said her priority is keeping the streets of Contra Costa County safe from dangerous and violent criminals.

She says she is committed to safeguarding communities from crimes that threaten health, well-being, and livelihood, and protecting seniors from financial abuse. She is also committed to providing positive outcomes for youth.

The legal eagle from Oakland wants to serve Contra Costa’s 1.1 million residents for four more years. To “effect change” and ensure a “fair” judicial system, she told California Black Media (CBM).

“What I’ve come to realize, though what seems like a short time some days, we’ve gotten a lot done. But the truth is that there’s so much more work to do,” Becton told CBM. ‘This truly is, in terms of building sustainable change that is going to last, is a blueprint. It’s just not something

that is going to happen in a short haul. I am running for reelection to continue the important work that we have started.”

Becton removed juvenile justice fees that severely affected low-income families of color, created the Reimagine Youth Justice Task Force to discover alternative solutions to juvenile justice, and established “Clean Slate Day” to allow former offenders opportunities to clear their criminal records.

In addition, Becton set up the first Human Trafficking Unit to fight the exploits of the sex trade, addressed racial disparities, advanced youth justice by establishing the county’s first diversion program, and held law enforcement and public officials accountable.

In April 2021, Becton announced felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semi-automatic firearm, and unreasonable force charges against Danville police officer and deputy Andrew Hall in the shooting of Laudemer Arboleda in 2018.

Becton said the cop killed Arboleda, who was reportedly driving six miles per hour, “without lawful excuse of justification.” Becton nailed a conviction in that case.

In October 2021, Hall, who is White, was convicted by a jury of assault with a firearm and sentenced to six years in prison on March 4.

Six weeks before Hall was charged for killing Arboleda, shooting him 10 times, he fatally shot a Black unhoused and mentally ill man. The killing of Tyrell Wilson by Hall is still under investigation.

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“Love Letters to Our Bodies” – Climate Despair and the A Supportive Workshop for African American Rise of the Doomers Women Cancer Patients & Cancer Survivors

Cancer is a scourge in the African American community.

African American/Black individuals have a disproportionate cancer burden, including the highest mortality and the lowest survival of any racial/ethnic group for most cancers.

The incidence of cancer in the U.S. is highest among African Americans. According to the American Cancer Society, “about 224,080 new cases and 73, 680 cancer deaths are expected to occur among Black people in 2022.”

As it relates to cancer, African Americans have poorer health outcomes. For instance, statistics from the National Cancer Institute’s “Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program” reveal that: • Blacks/African Americans have higher death rates than all other racial/ethnic groups for many, although not all, cancer types.

• Despite having similar rates of breast cancer, Black/African American women are more likely than White women to die of the disease.

• Hispanic/Latino and Black/ African American women have higher rates of cervical cancer than women of other racial/ethnic groups, with Black/African American women having the highest rates of death from the disease.

When confronted with a cancer diagnosis, patients often experience a range of emotions, including terror, grief, anger, depression, helplessness, hopelessness, and a sense of betrayal by the body.

“We all carry stories in our bodies,” said Gwendolyn Mitch-

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ell, Reiki Master and Chief Executive Officer of Moyo Institute, Inc., who will facilitate the workshop. “But seldom do we make the connection between these stories and our overall wellbeing. This is particularly true for African Americans who are carrying both generational and personal trauma,” Mitchell continued. “In Love Letters, we gently unpack these stories so participants can move forward in their journey unburdened.”

Love Letters to Our Bodies is a free contemplative workshop is for African American Women currently living with cancer or who identify as cancer survivors to explore themes related to how they experience their bodies, stories they tell themselves, how that has changed since their diagnosis, and how they engage in self-care. The workshop is made possible by a grant from the Lloyd Symington Foundation.

African Americans in the US have a complex and nuanced relationship with our bodies due to historical and contemporary factors, including access to care, quality of care, access to information and limited economic resources. The women who attend

Melbra Watts

the workshop will be supported gently through each process of uncovering stories in the body.

These stories when surfaced will inform the next steps including acceptance, forgiveness, and the creation of Love Letters to their bodies.

“At Charlotte Maxwell Clinic, we provide low-income women with cancer the opportunity for improved health outcomes and quality of life by providing free access to compassionate, integrative care, said Melbra Watts, Executive Director. “Moyo Institute’s Love Letters to Our Bodies workshop gives our clients a supportive experience of the mind/body connection and compassionate relief from the day-to-day strain of dealing with cancer.”

Charlotte Maxwell Clinic in Oakland, California, where the Black/African American population is estimated at 23.75%, is one of two onsite venues for the workshop. The other is the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C., where Black/African Americans comprise about 46.9% of the Continued on page 9

It’s Earth Month, and the movement to let earth die has never been stronger.

“Doomers’’ are people who believe climate change is irreversible and society as we know it, will soon collapse.

The term may be recent, but it’s flourished in online communities like the subreddits r/collapse, /doomer, r/preppers, and /bugout.

Posts on these forums are endlessly fatalistic. The top post, for example, on r/ doomer begins, “[s]ometimes I wonder how we are not all walking around in a state of pure unquellable panic.”

On r/preppers, there’s a weekly thread for people to share what they did “to prepare.” In the comments, people share anecdotes of buying ammo, dehydrating pineapples, and stockpiling canned goods.

There’s also r/bugout, a subreddit named after the term for military retreat.

Here, people share pictures of their “bugout bags” and judge how prepared they are for “when s**t hits the fan.”

On the flip side, you have r/collapse users, who post memes captioned, “me listening to people talking about net zero carbon by 2050 being enough when I know we’re completely f**ked already.” They crack jokes about a bygone future, a self-imploding civilization.

While these groups may not be mainstream, they’re not small either. A 2021 Yale survey concluded that 70% of Americans experience “climate depression.”

Noah Oderburg, a scientist located in California, used the term “pre-PTSD” and said, “it’s not a trauma that’s already occurred. It’s a fear of a future trauma.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on global warming on April 4.

Jim Skea, IPCC co-chair, said it was “now or never, if we want to limit global warming…without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”

Three days later, four climate activists chained themselves to a JP Morgan Chase Building as an act of protest against the bank’s funding of fossil fuel projects. “The scientists of the world have been being ignored, and it’s got to stop,” said scientist

Peter Kalmus in a video. He promptly breaks into tears.

The “doomer” movement is not without detractors who see it as too negative. At the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, climate advocate Greta Thunburg said, “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”

She spoke bleakly of reality, but also of hope for the future: “The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.”

Hank Green, an author and science communicator with a large online following, recently posted a Tiktok about the subject. In the video, he says that while he’s “very worried” about climate change, it “pisses” him off to see people say humanity is doomed. “I’m 41 years old.

I’ve been working on this since I was f**king 18. We didn’t let hopelessness eat us then, and I’m not gonna you let hopelessness eat you now.”

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 6-940.30 St. Johns Drive . On the Gateway – University of California, Berkeley NAME STATEMENT northeasterly and southwesterly File No. 561231 UCB Project No.HEARING 12785A curblines, from the prolongation NOTICE OF PUBLIC Fictitious Business Name(s): of the northwesterly curbline of ON THE All Pressure, 65th the Ave., Paseo Grande, northwesterly BUDGET THE by Weiss Architect Turner has been2306 awarded UCB Gateway projectOF designed Manfredi, Executive Oakland, CA 94605, County of to the end.

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official records in the Office of the Recorder of ALAMEDA County, California, Date of Trustee’s Sale: 09/03/2019 at 12:00PM Trustee’s Sale Location: At the Fallon Street emergency exit to the Alameda County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA 94612 The property situated in said County, California describing the land therein: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1113 DERBY STREET, BERKELEY, CA 94702. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $1,122,116.20 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale.

The Beneficiary may elect to bid less than the full credit bid. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on

JULY 24, 1996, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) At the Fallon Street emergency exit to the Alameda County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA 94612 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 063-2984-009- 01 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1130 STERLING AVENUE, BERKELEY, CA 94708 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $ 641,784.88.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed.

The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: David Habu and Kim Habu, Husband and Wife, As Joint Tenants Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC Deed of Trust Recorded 10/03/2003 as Instrument No. 2003587206 in book ---, page-- and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Alameda County, California, Date of Sale: 09/12/2019 at 09:00 AM Place of Sale: 3RD FLOOR LODGE/BANQUET ROOM, SCOTTISH RITE CENTER, 1547 LAKESIDE DR., OAKLAND, CA 94612 Estimated amount of unpaid balance, reasonably estimated costs and other charges: $ 466,083.83 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE TRUSTEE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: All right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 950 Cragmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94708-1410 A.P.N.: 0632973-026-00 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs,

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-19-854303AB Order No.: 1056766 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 9/14/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): RICHARD WESELL AND JUDITH WESELL, WHO ARE MARRIED TO EACH OTHER Recorded: 9/23/2004 as Instrument No. 2004431604 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of ALAMEDA County, California; Date of Sale: 9/4/2019 at 12:00PM Place of Sale: At the Fallon Street emergency exit to the Alameda County Courthouse, located at 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA 94612 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $473,470.91 The purported property address is: 2201 EUNICE ST, BERKELEY, CA 94709-1418 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 061-2557-026-00 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee

Notice is hereby given that this is an Online Bid Process; only bids submitted through the online portal will be accepted.

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VENDOR OUTREACH AND NON-MANDATORY NETWORKING BIDDERS CONFERENCE for RFQ #901833 Computer Software & Technical Training Services VENDOR OUTREACH Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 10:30 AM San Lorenzo Library 395 Paseo Grande San Lorenzo, 94580 NON-MANDATORY NETWORKING BIDDERS CONFERENCE: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 1:30 PM GSA Procurement 1401 Lakeside Drive Room 1107, 11th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 OR online see webpage Response Due by 2:00 PM on September 25, 2019, COUNTY CONTACT: Kachina Handy at (510) 208-9644 or via email: kachina.handy@ acgov.org.

Attendance at Vendor Outreach and Networking Conference is Non-mandatory.

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8/14/19 CNS-3281547# OAKLAND POST DOCUMENT 00 11 12 CUPCCAA - NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Oakland Unified School District (hereinafter referred to as “Owner”) will receive sealed bids prior to the date and time stated for the Bid Opening for the award of a contract to construct the:

Reed Construction Market Data Contra Costa Builder’s Exchange Marin Builder’s Exchange The Contract Time shall be Nineteen (19) calendar days, and liquidated damages for delay shall accrue. See Article III of the Agreement for details.

Bids must be sealed and filed in the Business Office of the Owner at: Front Desk Facilities Planning & Management 955 High Street Oakland, CA 94601 on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 until 2:00 p.m. on the clock designated by the Owner or its representative as the bid clock, after which time the bids shall be opened. No bid will be accepted by the Owner after this time.

Facsimile (FAX) copies of the bid will not be accepted.

Mandatory pre-bid site visit will be held on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. located at: Front Entrance of Roosevelt Middle School. Bidders not attending the site visit will be disqualified.

Bids must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond, cashier’s check, or certified check for at least ten percent (10%) of the amount of the base bid and made payable to the Owner, as detailed in the Contract Documents.

Pursuant to the Contract Documents, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a Payment (Labor and Material) Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum, and a Faithful Performance Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum. The successful bidder will be allowed to substitute securities or establish an escrow in lieu of retainage, pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, and as described in the Agreement Between Owner and Contractor and General Conditions.

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By Charlene son, 95, passedMuhammad, peacefully in retired California Assembly- from this world in her home California Black Media Hayward, California on March member and a commissioner quietly surrounded by her lovCourtesy of on the California Commission ing family, on March 28. She causes unless the tenant per25.

Rep. Lee’s Office To mark Women’s History She was born on December on Aging said 23% of Black was widely known as someone petrates a serious criminal act Month, California 25, 1927The in Port Arthur, Black Texas women live in poverty, which who lived life on her terms, a that would endanger the health, Representatives Barbara Lee is the second-highest percent- bright light in the community life, and safety of other tenants.

Women’s Collective (CBWC) to Terrance Prevost and Leola (CA-13), Jesús “Chuy” García honored more than 100 Black · Self-terminate six months Martin. Her parents moved the age in the U.S. — only behind and in the lives of her family (IL-04), and 39 additional cowomen leaders from across the Native American women. after FEMA terminates the family to Four Corners, Louiand friends. She was 98.

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Their friendships for the church and community. cock@dailyjournal.com priations Subcommittee on Stateof the previous economic members hold top social food orof funds to support President Church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints recoveries, Russell M. Nelson the A 110th annual branch greets tion Moratorium Act. Thisserim- tribute Since at 1976, Safe Place victimization a classifieds pardisproportionately from eco-ofbrutal as a shy, good-natured girl impacts, improve theofColored commuspanned more than 50 years.

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We don’t even They have customized the friends.

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We must enpassed a bi-parSaints Russell M. Nelson reimmediately.” to love each other.

If we have materials and programs to be the two great commandments school. and recognitions, she was inhosted dinners for family and bo, which she served annually For information, call Rev. CA communities of color.

94577. ads@postnewsgroup.com and outreach, as wellbill as a crimiTeen issues, including children sure everyone has access to any tisan minded those assembled for Thehope Rental Eviction Moratoofand reclaiming the lated most effective for the initia— to love love each Atthat 16, she moved toPresident Califorducted in 2015 the have Alamfriends.

NoGod oneand leftProgram. the house to her family friends every Ron Linzie “aka” Poison at One year ago today, With that said,into weviolence still a Violence Prevention that are exposed to in quality housing no matter their nalizing lynching at the federal the 110th annual national congoodwill and sense of humantive. of His children. nia with the hopes of becoming eda County Women’s Hall of without plates of food and a Christmas Eve in celebration Biden signed the American Reslonghome. way toAs goaon all of there these isCarolyn Russell, whothehas the result, is level financial situation.” thisinweek, sending bill vention of the National Asso- of ity for which we yearn, it must The two organizations also Arm arm and shoulder to a registered nurse.

Fame for her outstanding comgift. as executive director herCongresswoman birthday. cue Plan (ARP) into law followsues.

Too many lack access great need tostill strengthen theto served “No met one should loseTimotheir to President Biden’s desktoafter ciation for the Advancement each was of us,preceded one per- athe came together on Temple shoulder, may we strive lift married munity service.

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by Congress, cata- begin health care they need to live a Barbara Lee home during the COVID-19 the House approved the bill of Colored People (NAACP) son at a time.

Square last May to call all our brothers and sisters everythy Carroll Watson at 18, that and in death by, her daughter, Pa- fulfilling receivedlife. the Millions City of Oakland’s pulting a historic recovery of AmeriSunday inwhich Detroit that Idifferpandemic is why introOverand thetwo pastsons, 18 months, the MLK people, organizations and Oakland, gov- in January.

New Hope Baptist Church, CA The Emmett Till the couple had seven children.

Citizens Humanitarian tricia, Eric and has led to one of the strongest cans are struggling to put food on where, in every way we can. during the last half of 2021.

For ences the need not undermine so- First Presidency (the executive ernments to work together duced Rental Eviction MorAnti-Lynching Act, named for to This world never be the New Hope Baptist of Oakland, CAnominated seeksrising a Senior Pastor who will provide Spirit-directed, They lived in Harbor Homes Award, by DepartGreg.

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Summing up her life in her children, 13 grandchildren, 17 Many Americans hadresponbeen ference recent inElder gasdevelopment. prices to Gethe Candidates between having childcare should havecatalyze five plus teaching, counseling and congregational leadership we have a God-given the NAACP a high priority.

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She beChicago laid to restSan on grets, economic crisesM. in Nelson history. The inequities laid bare by and CO-ministerial live orwill not.seminary.

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“I’m honored The including Email a coverder letter, biography, resume license(s) toto have tainty that they won’t be kicked ing if a is killed or injured 40 years.

She born December May 3, 2022 atCovid Fouche’s Hud- VID ARP expanded access to vaccines arewas deeper than ever.may 20, Through my Commuduring a nine-minute evening Francisco and employment “I pray that we in-additional Church of of Jesus Christ ofwith Lat-a Sunday Worship 10:00 am to the curb and left homeless if nhbcpastoralsearch@gmail.com on or before April 2, 2020.

For information please see as the result a hate crime She was andon’t active member 1923 in Mississippi to look Myrtis son Funeral Home in delivered Oakland and testing; provided economic I urge Americans at ter-day Saints stand in unity Care Act,in weHouston also speech.

“We have be nity initiatives and creasingly call“pastor”. each to other they make their rent,”tosaid sentence of up to 30 years in prison. our website nhbcoakland.org under theClarence heading Nodear phone calls pm please.

Family Bible Study Wednesday 7:00 of hercan’t community, church, and and Lewis, Sr. The at 11 a.m. relief that keptalike millions outlove of vital alike or look to have what the American Rescue Plan funding to support commuCharlotte. friends,” Nelson concluded The withSenate the NAACP advance passed thetobill unaniSenior Pastor Prayer Service Thursday extended family.a catastrophic She was a nity-based efforts to hire and mo- did family moved to New Orleans, poverty; prevented in just a single year as a tes- 6:00pm and mously, though three Republican Phyllis Scott Louisiana Gladys Dr. Nadine Cranes Taller wave of Jackie evictions and forecloto thewhen transformative im- 8:30 am Ormes: Oakland’s bilize community outreach work- tament Sunday was Burke-Harris, Than The Tribune members of the House — from Hannah The California’s Tower Due at six months old.

She was active sures; helped Parker pact government can have when ers, community health workers, Radical small businesses First Surgeon Port of Oakland Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas — Becomes a General This Week her father’s church, teaching McArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 510 689-9544 Centenarian and10619 schoolsCartoonist stay afloat; and made itinprioritizes people.

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Page 7 Page 2 and working. critical investments in“A thechurch expan-driven Biden and my Democratic others increase vaccine access dent bytoChrist The bill’s passage by Congress She married her highforschool sion of health care coverage and for the hardest-hit and highest- colleagues in Congress their marks the end of hundreds of failed on the kingdom” sweetheart Georgeand Green reducing costsfocused for millions. leadership look risk communities through high- steadfast attempts to pass anti-lynching legwhen heto returned World In my district in California’s touch, on-the-ground outreach to forward continuingfrom to work toBlack Lawyers Submit War II. The couple moved to islation over more than a century.

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Every you can see a complete replica last 122 years, according to USA Bible Study Wednesday Looking 7:00 pm back on its impact, Congresswoman thereafter her parents, brothers iliesFamily in my district Barbara Lee’s of thealone printreceived edition via digital copy of Today.

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The issues members. and services for nieces, male erly Green and many became parishioners of Saint suits with the NAACP, the Civil War. These programs include the violence. just getof domestic more complicated,” “This is our third event as victims nephews, grandchildren, great Benedict’s Catholic Church.

Church seeks to Program, strengthen “Only the comprehension Emergency Shelter For more information aboutof said Regina Brown Wilson, part of the California Black grandchildren, and numerous She was active for 60 years in African American individuals the Blue true fatherhood of God can Teen Dating Violence PrevenShield Project moderator of the event andand exWomen Empowerment se- the dear friends. the Program, church, shegenealserved and familieswhere through bring full appreciation of the tion and community events, contact Carolyn ecutive director of California ries,” said Yvonne Wheeler, a other ogy. true brotherhood of men and education and outreach pro- Russell at (510) 986-8600 x member of the strategy team Black Media.

The Church helps African 315. the true sisterhood of women,” gram.

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The celebration of diversity and sell domesnancial poor health Black Women Organized for Church donated $2 million in the church.

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Brother Blown-up images likeina full moon, or a pink candy heart appear George Henry White 1900. behindwho herrepresented as perfect North visualCarfodder for materialistic, White, Jesus isPresents the80’s-inspired Way pop the audience is hearing. olina, was the House’s only Black There are times when the quality of the show dips. Charli perlawmaker at the time.

Democrat Presents formed the show to promote Crash, her latest album.

Crash is an Sen. Cory Booker and Republican unabashedly commercial project and her most successful release Senator Tim Scott, both of whom yet.Black, It alsointroduced contains some of her weakestJesus material years.

“You are the legislaisinthe Way Used To Know Me” falls completely flat live, as does “Twice.” tion together this time around.

Jesus is ride. thewho WayrepThough it may rough, thewill crowd is down for the Through“Although nobelegislation Rep. Bobby Rush, out the the night there notfelt oneby lyricresents that Charli sings alone. reverse pain andisfear the Chicago district those victims, their loved ones, and where Emmett Till lived, and Black communities, this legislation Los Angeles Rep. Karen Bass is a necessary step America must with a photo of Emmett Till take to heal from the racial- speaking before the House ized violence that has perme- passed the bill last month. ated its history,” Booker said Photo courtesy of Rush press in a statement on March 7. office.

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Edition. Dec. 30, 2020 - Jan. 5, 2021

Destiny Christian Fellowship

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media

Everett K. Sands, Lendistry’s founder and CEO. Photo courtesy of Lendistry.

The California Association of Black Lawyers (CABL) submitted the names of three accomplished African American attorneys to the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) as possible candidates for the state’s soon-to-be open Attorney General position.

In a 46-page document that includes biographical data of the organization’s recommendations, CABL called on Black members of the state Legislature to support attorneys Diane Becton, Paul Henderson or Terry Wiley to become the next Attorney General. The group also forwarded the proposal listing the candidates they are supporting – all public servants with significant experience — to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“We are in a unique position to know, understand, and recommend one of our own members to serve as the next California Attorney General,” stated the letter dated December 23 from Melinda Murray, president of CABL. “We

Destiny Christian Fellowship

By Tanu Henry, California Black Media

The State of California announced that it has selected Lendistry, a Black-led-and-operated financial firm in Los Angeles, to act as the intermediary charged with disbursing $500 million in COVID-19 grants to California small businesses and non-profits.

The California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), which operates under the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), says small businesses and non-profit organizations across California that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can begin submitting applications for relief grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000. The application process begins now and runs through Jan. 8, 2021.

The governor and the Legislature first announced the program November 30.

Lendistry is designated both a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and a Community Development Entity (CDE) small business and commercial real estate

Euradell “Dell” Logan Patterson

The CABL recommends that either, from left to right, Terry Wiley, Diane Becton, or Paul Henderson to replace California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

strongly urge the Legislative Black Caucus to consider the above three candidates and to interview them for recommendation to Governor Newsom.”

Earlier in December, President-elect Joe Biden nominated current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be

Secretary of Health and Human Services in his administration.

Since then, various candidates have emerged as possible replacements for the state’s top lawyer and law enforcement official.

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Master Teacher, Spiritual Leader, Youth Counselor

By Paul Cobb

Euradell “Dell” Logan-Patterson, achieved acclaim for years as a dedicated, faithful educational, community and faith-based volunteer in Oakland and Berkeley passed away December 26, 2020, at home in the care of her husband William “Bill” Patterson.

“Dell” as she was affectionately referred to by her friends, was born September 26, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Her parents, Ernestine Dunlap and Euell Kenneth Logan were married in 1937. They moved from Seminole, Oklahoma to Oklahoma City where “Dell” was born.

In 1941, her family moved to West Oakland where Logan served briefly in the U.S Navy and then Dell’s family settled in Berkeley. After graduating from Berkeley High School she enrolled at San Jose State University before transferring to and graduating from San Francisco State University with a B.A. Degree in Education along with her Teaching Credential. She also earned a Master’s Degree equivalence from U.C Berkeley and she also earned a Reading Specialist Credential from Holy Names University.

While pursuing her academic studies she gained valuable ex-

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Wanting to create a ‘symbol of joy,’ in memory of Breonna Taylor, Oakland sculptor Leo Carson installed a head-andneck bust of her at Latham Square on Dec. 12, 2020.

On Tuesday, the bust of the emergency services worker killed in Louisville, Ky. last March in a botched police raid was stolen after it had been found smashed to pieces on Dec. 26, 2020.

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Thirty-seven-year-old Angela White of Oakland didn’t even flinch when she was administered the COVID-19 vaccine. “I don’t remember when the needle was inserted in my arm after the nurse said ‘you’re done’,” said White. “It was quick and painless.”

White, an Emergency Medicine physician at Oakland’s Highland Hospital since 2016, is one of the few Black doctors working in Highland’s emergency room. She took the vaccine on December 18 and is looking forward to her second vaccine shot on Jan. 9, 2021.

As of this writing, White has not experienced any major side effects.

“There was a small muscle in my arm that was sore for a day but aside from that, I’ve felt pretty normal,” added

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Sculptor Leo Carson placed a bouquet of flowers on the column where his statue of Breonna Taylor had been installed on December 12. Photo by Auintard Henderson.

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study on any particular group,” said White. “I think it is critically important for our community to take the vaccine.

We’re essential workers who are more likely to be impacted by COVID-19. To not get the vaccine would be giving up an opportunity to protect ourselves, our health, and the health and livelihood of our friends and community.”

“I think using the vaccine is another way of protecting me, in addition to wearing a mask and face shield at work, I also practice social distancing. It’s just one more step that’s going Angela White (seated) receives a vaccine shot from Adrian to make me, my family and my Cabrera, RN of Alameda Health System’s Employee Health community safer, and I highly recommend people take the Department. Photo contributed. vaccine if they are eligible.”

White. “As a doctor who cares myself, my family and my Physician and immunolofor COVID patients I took the community. I wanted to show gist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who vaccine because I’m exposed people that they have nothing has served as director of the to COVID patients on a daily to fear by taking the vaccine.”

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There are high hopes in the community for a newly energized school board as four new members set to take office in January pledging to disentangle the multiple crises facing the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), including shuttered classrooms and COVID-19 enforced distance learning, ongoing threats of austerity-driven budget cuts and state-enforced demands to close more neighborhood schools.

This week, the Oakland Post interviews two new

board members, Sam Davis and VanCedric Williams. Last week, the Post published interviews with Mike Hutchinson (D-5) and Clifford Thompson (D-7).

Davis, who represents District 1, worked as a teacher and family outreach coordinator in Oakland schools for 10 years.

Originally from Queens, New York, he has lived in Oakland since 2001. He has a son in the 9th grade at Oakland Technical High School.

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Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority Notice of Public Hearing The Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority (BAIFA) proposes to adopt an amended and restated Toll Facility Ordinance for high-occupancy vehicle (carpool) lanes in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and Solano County that will be operated by BAIFA as express lanes (BAIFA toll facilities).

Express lanes are high-occupancy vehicle (carpool) lanes that also allow any driver to choose to pay a toll to use the lanes during high-occupancy vehicle (carpool) hours of operation, subject to toll facility rules. BAIFA’s express lanes on I-680 between Walnut Creek and San Ramon opened to the public in October 2017, and tolling was extended from Martinez to Walnut Creek in the southbound direction in August 2021. BAIFA’s express lanes on I-880 between Oakland and Milpitas opened to the public in October 2020. Additional express lanes will be constructed and operated by BAIFA in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and Solano County in the future.

The purpose of the Toll Facility Ordinance, as amended and restated, is to establish tolls and a toll collection process for the BAIFA toll facilities, to establish civil penalties for the evasion of those tolls or noncompliance with other policies set forth in the ordinance, and to establish a program that addresses how motorists can enroll and participate in BAIFA’s toll facility program. BAIFA proposes to amend its Toll Facility Ordinance to: 1) allow BAIFA to carry out pilot projects to test alternate tolling and discount policies and new technologies; 2) authorize BAIFA to approve future updates to penalty amounts and exceptions to the assessment of penalties by resolution adopted at a duly noticed public meeting; and 3) define the executive director of BAIFA’s authority to suspend or reduce tolls or penalties or modify policies set forth in the ordinance to respond to emergencies. Other minor clarification and clean-up language is also proposed.

BAIFA is a joint powers authority of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA). BAIFA is authorized by California Streets and Highways Code Section 149.7 and California Vehicle Code Section 40250 et seq. to adopt the ordinance and construct and operate the express lanes.

BAIFA will hold one public hearing to receive oral testimony and written comments about the amended and restated ordinance. Copies of the amended and restated Toll Facility Ordinance, together with certain statutes, rules or regulations incorporated therein by reference, being considered for adoption are on file with the Secretary of the Board of BAIFA and open to public inspection at (https://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/events/public-hearings). Should you require a hard copy of the amended and restated ordinance, please submit your request to info@ bayareametro.gov or call 415-778-6757 and one will be mailed to you.

The public hearing will be held during BAIFA’s regular meeting on: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 9:05 a.m. REMOTE (In person option available) Bay Area Metro Center Board Room, 1st Floor 375 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 In light of Governor Newsom’s State of Emergency declaration regarding COVID-19 and in accordance with Assembly Bill 361’s (Rivas) provisions allowing remote meetings, this meeting will be accessible via webcast, teleconference, and Zoom for all participants. Meeting attendees may opt to attend in person for public comment and observation at 375 Beale Street, Board Room (1st Floor). In-person attendees must adhere to posted public health protocols while in the building.

Detailed instructions on participating via Zoom and phone are available at: https:// mtc.ca.gov/how-provide-public-comment-board-meeting-zoom. The meeting Zoom link, phone and accessibility instructions will be posted to: https://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/events/publichearings no less than 72 hours prior to the hearing.

In addition, the public can learn about and comment on the proposed amended and restated Toll Facility Ordinance through MTC’s website. More detail will be posted on MTC’s website (www.mtc.ca.gov/express-lanes-policies) on or before April 20, 2022.

In order to allow staff to compile written comments prior to the public hearing, the public is encouraged to submit written comments by May 20, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.. Written comments may be submitted to MTC’s Public Information Office at 375 Beale St., Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94105 or sent via e-mail to expresslanes@bayareametro.gov. Please include “BAIFA Toll Ordinance” in the subject line. After May 20, 2022 at 5:00 p.m., written comments may be submitted by email to info@bayareametro.gov and will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on May 24, 2022.

Oral testimony will be received until the close of the public hearing on May 25, 2022. For more information, call MTC’s Public Information Office at 415-778-6757.

After receipt and review of public comments and testimony, BAIFA will consider the adoption of the amended and restated Toll Facility Ordinance at its June 22, 2022 meeting. The amended and restated Toll Facility Ordinance will be effective 30 days after its adoption. For more information, call the MTC Public Information Office at 415-778-6757.

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BULK SALES NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Division 6 of the Commercial Code) Escrow No. 023573-JB (1) Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named Seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made on personal property hereinafter described.

(2) The name and business addresses of the seller are: HIMCHULI, INC, 1700 SHATTUCK AVE., BERKELEY , CA 94709 (3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is: 1700 SHATTUCK AVE., BERKELEY , CA 94709 (4) The names and business address of the Buyer(s) are: EVEREST TO USA, INC, 1587 SWALLOW WAY, HERCULES, CA 94547 (5) The location and general description of the assets to be sold are: FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT AND GOODWIL of that certain business located at: 1700 SHATTUCK AVE., BERKELEY , CA 94709 (6) The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: TASTE OF THE HIMALAYAS (7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is MAY 13, 2022 at the office of: GREEN ESCROW SERVICES, INC, 2010 CROW CANYON PLACE, SUITE 212 SAN RAMON, CA 94583, Escrow No. 023573-JB, Escrow Officer: JENNIFER BARNES (8) Claims may be filed with Same as “7” above.

(9) The last date for filing claims is: MAY 12, 2022.

(10) This bulk sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

(11) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are: NONE. TRANSFEREES: EVEREST TO USA, INC, ORD-913531 BERKELEY TRICITY POST 4/27/22 CNS-3579351# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST Escrow No.: 101599-EM NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Division 6 of the Commercial Code) (1) Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named Seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made on personal property hereinafter described. (2) The name of the Seller is: Wheelskins, Inc., a California corporation, whose address is: 2821 10th Street, city of Berkeley, county of Alameda, CA 94710 (3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is: same as above (4) The name of the Buyer is: Wheelskins, Inc., an Ohio corporation, whose address is: 10589 Kings Way, North Royalton, OH 44133. (5) The location and general description of the assets to be sold are inventory, goodwill and furniture, fixtures and equipment of that certain automobile accessory and supply business located at: 2821 10th Street, city of Berkeley, county of Alameda, CA 94710.

(6) The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: Wheelskins, Inc. (7) This Bulk Sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The anticipated date of the bulk sale is: May 13, 2022 (8) Claims may be filed at the office of McGovern Escrow Services, Inc., 436-14th Street, Suite 1015, Oakland, CA 94612, Escrow No. 101599-EM. (9) The last date for filing claims is: May 12, 2022. (10) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three

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years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are: None. DATED: April 5, 2022 TRANSFEREES: Wheelskins, Inc., an Ohio corporation. By: Russell Karla and By: Troy Roberts 4/27/22 CNS-3577224# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST

CIVIL ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. CIV2201017 Superior Court of California, County of MARIN Petition of: CAROL YI for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CAROL YI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: CAROL YI to CAROL ESTHER LEE 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: MAY 25, 2022, Time: 9:00 A.M., Dept.: B, Room: B The address of the court is 3501 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94913 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: MARIN COUNTY POST Date: APRIL 13, 2022 -----Judge of the Superior Court 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3576400# MARIN COUNTY POST ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 22CV009218 Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA Petition of: FNU RAHATULLAH for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner FNU RAHATULLAH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: FNU RAHATULLAH to RAHATULLAH HIDAYAT 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: 5/20/2022, Time: 11:00 A.M., Dept.: 17, Room: N/A The address of the court is 1221 OAK STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four

successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: OAKLAND POST Date: APRIL 1, 2022 CHARLES SMILEY Judge of the Superior Court 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4/22 CNS-3573025# OAKLAND POST

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153107 The following person(s) is doing business as: Apex Lawn Care, 615 Fairhaven Way, Novato, CA 94947, County of Marin.

Apex Soco LLC, 615 Fairhaven Way, Novato, CA 94947 This business is conducted by Limited Liability Company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ Nicholas Leader Scott / Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on April 13, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/22 CNS-3578490# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153135 The following person(s) is doing business as: PAELLA & MORE, 914 MISSION AVE., 2ND FLOOR, SUITE #3, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, County of MARIN. JOSE MAURICIO DUQUE VARGAS, 1011 LIBERTY CT., EL CERRITO, CA 94530 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ JOSE MAURICO DUQUE VARGAS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on APRIL 18, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/22 CNS-3578316# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153098 The following person(s) is doing business as: Empower Co., 435 Ralston Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941, County of Marin.

Haven Venture Partners, LLC, 435 Ralston Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941 This business is conducted by limited liability company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ Rachel Vestergaard - Member of LLC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on April 13, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3577125# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153081

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The following person(s) is doing business as: MAC Management, 149 Humboldt St, San Rafael, CA 94901, County of Marin.

Jennifer Storey, 149 Humboldt St, San Rafael, CA 94901 This business is conducted by an individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2022 /s/ Jennifer Storey / Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on April 11, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3576722# MARIN COUNTY POST

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 152991 The following person(s) is doing business as: GT FLY CO, 575 ELDRIDGE AVE., NOVATO, CA 94947, County of MARIN. WILLIAM A. SCHIMPF, 575 ELDRIDGE AVE., NOVATO, CA 94947 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 3/24/2022 /s/ WILLIAM SCHIMPF This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on MARCH 24, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3575364# MARIN COUNTY POST

subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153023 The following person(s) is doing business as: HelloDream Coaching, 19 Los Cerros Drive, Greenbrae, CA 94904, County of Marin.

HelloDream LLC, 19 Los Cerros Drive, Greenbrae, CA 94904 This business is conducted by limited liability company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/01/2022 /s/ Sacha Brandes / Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on 3-29-2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: L. Vawter, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3575082# MARIN COUNTY POST

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 152985 The following person(s) is doing business as: PESHORI GEMSTONE, 416 SHERWOOD DRIVE APT 104, SAUSALITO, CA 94965, County of MARIN. ISHEAQ-UDDIN, 416 SHERWOOD DRIVE APT 104, SAUSALITO, CA 94965 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ ISHEAQ-UDDIN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on MARCH 23, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/22 CNS-3572188# MARIN COUNTY POST

requirement.

The basic Local Business Utilization Policy requires that there is a mandatory fifty percent (50%) LBU participation with a 25% or less Local Business (LBE) participation and a 25% or more Small Local or Small Local Resident Business (SLBE/ SLRBE) participation.

The full version of OUSD’s latest Local, Small Local and Small Local Resident Business Enterprise Program can be found by going to the OUSD home page: ousd.org > District Services > Facilities Planning & Management Department > Bids and Requests 3. Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 PM on 17th day, May, 2022, at the District Office, located at 955 High Street, Oakland, CA 94601, at the Receptionist’s desk, BIDS WILL NOT BE OPENED. BID RESULTS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code.

Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder.

4. Mandatory pre-bid site visit will be held on May 5, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., starting at Front entrance of Grass Valley School site and ending until all (7) sites have been visited. Bidders not attending the site visit will be disqualified.

5. The Contract consists of: The Scope of work consists of but is not limited to cut, remove, and properly dispose of vegetation ground fuels along the fence line. Clear weeds throughout each entire school site, including playgrounds, trim bushes to an aesthetic design. Trim back ivy and any protruding branches along fence line and low hanging tree branches. Remove and haul all trash and debris. All services must be full compliance according to the Oakland Fire Code and Standards. See Exhibit A to the Agreement for complete details.

6. Contract Estimate: The District estimates the lump sum amount of the Contract at ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS NO/100 ($120,000.00) for the duration of the entire Contract. The estimated amount is determined by the services performed in last year’s scope of work.

7. The Project Manager for this Contract is Olga Bermeo, who can be reached at 510-277-6733.

8. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District.

Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders.

9. To bid on this Contract, the Bidder is required to possess the following State of California Contractor Licenses - A, B, and/or D49 – Contractors’ License The Bidder’s license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract.

10. Prevailing Wages. Pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, Bidder and all Subcontractors under the Bidder shall pay all workers on all work performed pursuant to the Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the State of California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District. Copies of the general prevailing rates of per diem wages for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the Contract, as determined by the DIR are available from the District or on the internet (http://www. dir.ca.gov).

11. Contractor Registration. Bidder shall ensure that Bidder and its Subcontractors comply with the registration and compliance monitoring provisions of Labor Code section 1771.4, including furnishing its CPRs to the Labor Commissioner, and are registered pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. Labor Code section 1771.1(a) states the following: “A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.”

A full copy of the bid forms must be submitted at time of Bid Opening, 17th day, May, 2022, @ 2:00 p.m. A copy of the bid forms must be downloaded from www.ousd.org, under the Offices & Department > Facilities Planning and Management > Subheading Opportunities > click the hyper link “HERE” > Bids.

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do business with BART on the BART Procurement Portal online at https://suppliers.bart.gov and have obtained Solicitation Documents, updates, and any Addenda issued online so as to be added to the Online Planholders List for this solicitation. If a prospective Proposer is a joint venture or partnership, such entity may register on the BART Procurement Portal with the entity’s tax identification number (TIN) and download the Solicitation Documents so as to be listed as an Online Planholder under the entity’s name prior to submitting its Proposal. If such entity has not registered on BART Procurement Portal in the name of the joint venture or partnership prior to submitting its Proposal, provided that at least one of the joint venturers or partners registered online on the BART Procurement Portal and downloaded the Solicitation Documents so as to be added to the Online Planholders List for this solicitation, such entity will be required to register with the entity’s TIN as an Online Planholder following the submittal of Proposals, in order for the entity to be eligible for award of this Agreement. PROPOSERS WHO HAVE NOT REGISTERED ON THE BART PROCUREMENT PORTAL PRIOR TO SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL, (OR FOR JOINT VENTURE OR PARTNERSHIP AS DESCRIBED ABOVE PRIOR TO AWARD) AND DID NOT DOWNLOAD THE SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS FOR THIS SOLICITATION ONLINE SO AS TO BE LISTED AS AN ONLINE PLANHOLDER FOR THIS SOLICITATION, WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR AWARD OF THIS AGREEMENT. Dated at Oakland, California this 21 st day of April 2022. /s/ John Mazza John Mazza, Director of Procurement San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 4/27/22 CNS-3579142# OAKLAND POST

GOVERNMENT

toward meeting the participation requirement.

The basic Local Business Utilization Policy requires that there is a mandatory fifty percent (50%) LBU participation with a 25% or less Local Business (LBE) participation and a 25% or more Small Local or Small Local Resident Business (SLBE/ SLRBE) participation.

The full version of OUSD’s latest Local, Small Local and Small Local Resident Business Enterprise Program can be found by going to the OUSD home page: ousd.org > District Services > Facilities Planning & Management Department > Bids and Requests 3. Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 PM on 18th day, May, 2022, at the District Office, located at 955 High Street, Oakland, CA 94601, at the Receptionist’s desk, BIDS WILL NOT BE OPENED. BID RESULTS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code.

Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder.

4. Mandatory pre-bid site visit will be held on May 6, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., starting at Front entrance of Skyline High School site and ending until all (8) sites have been visited. Bidders not attending the site visit will be disqualified.

5. The Contract consists of: The Scope of work consists of but is not limited to cut, remove, and properly dispose of vegetation ground fuels along the fence line. Clear weeds throughout each entire school site, including playgrounds, trim bushes to an aesthetic design. Trim back ivy and any protruding branches along fence line and low hanging tree branches. Remove and haul all trash and debris. All services must be full compliance according to the Oakland Fire Code and Standards. See Exhibit A to the Agreement for complete details.

6. Contract Estimate: The District estimates the lump sum amount of the Contract at ONE HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS NO/100 ($130,000.00) for the duration of the entire Contract. The estimated amount is determined by the services performed in last year’s scope of work.

7. The Project Manager for this Contract is Olga Bermeo, who can be reached at 510-277-6733.

8. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District.

Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders.

9. To bid on this Contract, the Bidder is required to possess the following State of California Contractor Licenses: - A, B, and/or D49 – Contractors’ License The Bidder’s license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract.

10. Prevailing Wages. Pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code, Bidder and all Subcontractors under the Bidder shall pay all workers on all work performed pursuant to the Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the State of California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District. Copies of the general prevailing rates of per diem wages for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute the Contract, as determined by the DIR are available from the District or on the internet (http://www. dir. ca.gov).

11.

Contractor Registration.

Bidder shall ensure that Bidder and its Subcontractors comply with the registration and compliance monitoring provisions of Labor Code section 1771.4, including furnishing its CPRs to the Labor Commissioner, and are registered pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. Labor Code section 1771.1(a) states the following: “A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.”

A full copy of the bid forms must be submitted at time of Bid Opening, 18th day, May, 2022, @ 2:00 p.m. A copy of the bid forms must be downloaded from www.ousd.org, under the Offices & Department > Facilities Planning and Management > Subheading Opportunities > click the hyper link “HERE” > Bids.

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INVITATION TO BID Various Sites Eight (8) – Vegetation Fire Management Weed Abatement Maintenance Contract No. 70014 1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the Oakland Unified School District (“District” or “Owner”) will receive sealed bids for the following contract: Various Sites Eight (8) Vegetation Fire Management Weed Abatement Maintenance (“Contract”) to be performed at the following District site(s): - Kaiser ES, Hillcrest ES, Thronhill ES, Montera MS, Joquin Miller ES, Skyline HS, Montclair ES, and Carl Munck ES. 2. LOCAL SMALL LOCAL AND SMALL LOCAL RESIDENT BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM On January 29, 2014, OUSD adopted a resolution amending the 2008 Local, Small Local and Small Local Resident Business Enterprise Program (L/SL/ SLRBE) and increasing the mandatory local participation requirement from twenty (20%) to fifty (50%) percent for all capital program/construction related contracts and professional services agreements. As with all OUSD projects, companies must be certified by the City of Oakland in order to earn credit

INVITATION TO BID Various Sites Seven (7) – Vegetation Fire Management Weed Abatement Maintenance Contract No. 70013 1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the Oakland Unified School District (“District” or “Owner”) will receive sealed bids for the following contract: Various Sites Seven (7)Vegetation Fire Management Weed Abatement Maintenance (“Contract”) to be performed at the following District site(s): - Burbank ES, Grass Valley ES, Community Day, King Estates MS, Howard ES, Marshall ES, Tilden.

2. LOCAL SMALL LOCAL AND SMALL LOCAL RESIDENT BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM On January 29, 2014, OUSD adopted a resolution amending the 2008 Local, Small Local and Small Local Resident Business Enterprise Program (L/SL/ SLRBE) and increasing the mandatory local participation requirement from twenty (20%) to fifty (50%) percent for all capital program/construction related contracts and professional services agreements. As with all OUSD projects, companies must be certified by the City of Oakland in order to earn credit toward meeting the participation

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153080 The following person(s) is doing business as: Farm to Function, 310 Kent Ave., Kentfield, CA 94904, County of Marin.

Matli Consulting, LLC, 310 Kent Ave., Kentfield, CA 94904 This business is conducted by limited liability company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2021 /s/ David Matli / Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on April 11, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Mannion, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3576718# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 588201 Fictitious Business Name(s): CRUZ COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTURE, 2530 HILLEGASS AVE #211, BERKELEY, CA 94704, County of ALAMEDA Registrant(s): CRUZ COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTURE LLC, 2530 HILLEGASS AVE #211, BERKELEY, CA 94704 (CALIFORNIA) Business conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The registrant began to transact business using the fictitious business name(s) listed above on OCT. 2020 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].) /s/ JONATHAN CRUZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on APRIL 12, 2022 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3576234# OAKLAND POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153052 The following person(s) is doing business as: BAYVIEW MEDICAL / BAYVIEW DENTAL / BAYVIEW CLINIC, 630 DRAKE AVE., MARIN CITY, CA 94965, County of MARIN. MARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER, 630 DRAKE AVE., MARIN CITY, CA 94965 This business is conducted by A CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 4/25/2006 /s/ HAROLD WALLACE This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on APRIL 5, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3576228# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153058 The following person(s) is doing business as: CBD Facilitator, 310 Channing Way Apartment 208, San Rafael, CA 94903, County of Marin.

Josh Murdoch, 310 Channing Way Apartment 208, San Rafael, CA 94903 This business is conducted by an individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 06/01/2020 /s/ Josh Murdoch This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on 4/6/22.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. Gilardi, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3575967# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153051 The following person(s) is doing business as: PERSONAL HISTORY PROJECTS, 396 HICKORY LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903, County of MARIN. PERSONAL HISTORY PROJECTS LLC, 396 HICKORY LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903 (CA) This business is conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ ADAM FISHER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on APRIL 5, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3575750# MARIN COUNTY POST

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 152967 The following person(s) is doing business as: JEWELS BY DESIGN, 209 MARIN ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, County of MARIN. MICHELE KILLIAN, 209 MARIN ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on MARCH 2019 /s/ MICHELE KILLIAN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on MARCH 21, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4/22 CNS-3573979# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153013 The following person(s) is doing business as: PRACTICE SAN FRANCISCO, 10 WILLOW STREET, SUITE 1, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941, County of MARIN. MIGHTY FAMILIES, LLC,(CALIFORNIA) 10 WILLOW STREET, SUITE 1, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941 This business is conducted by LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 3/16/2022 /s/ NINA KAISER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on MARCH 28, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. MANNION, Deputy 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4/22 CNS-3572878# MARIN COUNTY POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 587856 Fictitious Business Name(s): ROCKIN WRAPS, 1151 HARBOR WAY PARKWAY 131C, ALAMEDA, CA 94502, County of ALAMEDA Registrant(s): CONNIE UPSHAW, 8306 CRESTFIELD DR, SAN RAMON, CA 94582 Business conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The registrant began to transact business using the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].) /s/ CONNIE L. UPSHAW This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on MARCH 31, 2022 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/22 CNS-3572700# OAKLAND POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 587234 Fictitious Business Name(s): LOTUS CRANIOSACRAL, 1527 POSEN AVE. APT B, ALBANY, CA 94706, County of ALAMEDA Registrant(s): MARIKA FOLTZ, 1527 POSEN AVE. APT B, ALBANY, CA 94706 Business conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The registrant began to transact business using the fictitious business name(s) listed above on MARCH 1, 2022 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].) /s/ MARIKA FOLTZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on MARCH 11, 2022 NOTICE: In accordance with

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153024 The following person(s) is doing business as: GENESIS TAXI CAB, 215 BAYVIEW ST #106, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901, County of MARIN. ABEL A. HERNANDEZ, 215 BAYVIEW ST. #106, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ ABEL A. HERNANDEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on MARCH 30, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: O. ----, Deputy 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/22 CNS-3572130# MARIN COUNTY POST STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL OF PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 584066 The following person(s) has/have withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the Fictitious Business Name: The Fictitious Business Name Statement for the Partnership was filed on NOV 1 2021 in the County of Alameda.

563-565-567 SYCAMORE STREET HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, 565 SYACMORE STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612, County of: ALAMEDA. Registered Owner(s): ERHAN SARIYAR, 6101 PANAMA AVE, RICHMOND, CA 94804 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to this section that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

S/ ERHAN SARIYAR This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Alameda County on MARCH 28, 2022.

4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/22 CNS-3571348# OAKLAND POST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 153027 The following person(s) is doing business as: HOME IN MARIN, 182 ELISEO DR., GREENBRAE, CA 94904, County of MARIN. CHRISTINA MCNAIR, 182 ELISEO DR., GREENBRAE, CA 94904 KARLA FARRELL, 10 GERMAINE PL., NOVATO, CA 94949 This business is conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ CHRISTINA MCNAIR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Marin County on MARCH 30, 2022.

Shelly Scott, County Clerk By: J. GILARDI, Deputy 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/22 CNS-3567791# MARIN COUNTY POST

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, 2150 Webster Street, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for Language Translation and Interpretation Services (RFP) No. 6M5188, on or about April 19, 2022 , with proposals due by 2:00 p.m. local time, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at the District Secretary’s Office, 10th Floor, 2150 Webster Street, Oakland, California, 94612.

Proposers are responsible to ensure their proposals are received in a timely manner.

PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING AND NETWORKING SESSION A PreProposal Meeting and Networking Session will be held on Tuesday , M ay 3, 2022 . The Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session will convene at 9:00 a.m. local time via a Zoom presentation. All Interested Parties must register via the following Zoom link prior to participating in the Pre-Proposal Meeting: Click here to Register.

After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. REQUIRED REGISTRATION ON BART PROCUREMENT PORTAL In order for prospective Proposers to be eligible for award of an Agreement being solicited on the BART Procurement Portal, such Proposers are required to be currently registered to

Notice is hereby given that The County of Alameda General Services Agency Purchasing Department will receive sealed bids for the following project, Project #22127 Alco Park UST Removal Project. Sealed Bids will be received between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00PM on May 17, 2022 at 1401 Lakeside Drive, Suite 800, Oakland, California, at or after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud.

MANDATORY PRE-BID SITE VISIT AND MEETING: Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 11:00AM at 165 13th Street, Oakland, CA 94612.

All participants are required to sign in at the site. Failure to attend or arrival after the material start of the meeting will render bid ineligible. COUNTY CONTACT: Jason Garrison at (510) 208-9520 or via e-mail: jason.garrison@ acgov.org. Information regarding the above may be obtained at the Alameda County Current Contracting Opportunities Internet website at www.acgov.org.

4/27/22 CNS-3578493# OAKLAND POST CITY OF OAKLAND, CA Public Works Department REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS AS NEEDED SEWER MAINTENANCE, TECHNICAL TRAINING SERVICES It is the intent of the City of Oakland, Oakland Public Works Department, to establish multiple as needed contracts to provide professional training services to Oakland Sewer Maintenance Leaders and Sewer Maintenance Workers. Training services may include technical training on sewer maintenance and cleaning equipment such as operation of hydro flushing and power rodding equipment; preparation classes for CWEA Wastewater Certification of all grades; PACP and MACP training, certification and recertification classes; Provide training for Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) response, volume estimation, SSO handson drills, and CIWQS training on LRO and Data submitters.

Prepare Pump Station Emergency Response Plans (PSERP) for 11 sanitary sewer lift stations, along with classroom/online trainings on PSERP and Pump Station Operations.

No meeting will be scheduled.

Questions Due: 2:00 PM, May 5, 2022 by email to the Project Manager designated in the Contact Information section. It is the Consultant’s responsibility to ensure that the email has been received. Any addendum that materially changes the RFQ solicitation shall be issued no less than 72 hours before the submittal deadline, unless the deadline is extended by said addendum.

Statement of Qualifications Due: 2:00 PM, May 26, 2022 Statement of Qualifications (“SOQs”) must be submitted electronically via email to the designated Project Manager and Capital Contracts Division representative as specified in the Contact Information section below.

Oakland-certified Local Business Requirement: 50% minimum participation. Firms unable to attend a voluntary preproposal/pre-submittal meeting are encouraged to contact the assigned Contract Compliance Officer to review the City’s Local and Small Local Business Enterprise (L/SLBE) program.

See also Section IV. Policies and Programs. Prime consultants should verify the L/ SLBE status of their sub-consultants prior to submittal.

Contract Term and Amount: Three (3) years. The anticipated contract not-to-exceed amount is $95,000.00 for each contract.

Contact Information: Project Manager: Johnny Nicks at jnicks@oaklandca.gov or (510) 615-5567 Capital Contracts Division (CCD): Al Lujan at alujan@oaklandca.gov or (510) 238-7366 Contract Compliance Officer: Sophany Hang at shang@ oaklandca.gov or (510) 238-3723 RFQ Documents: RFQ documents and any issued Addenda are available in electronically only and provided free of charge through two websites listed below. Separate Plan Holder lists are maintained by each site.

1. iSupplier: Email iSupplier@ oaklandca.gov with any questions. h t t p s : / / w w w. o a k l a n d c a . g o v / services/register-with-isupplier 2. CIPList.com: http://ciplist.com/ plans/?Oakland/city/9392.

Important Disclaimers and AB 2036 Compliance: It is the responsibility of each prospective proposer to download and print all RFQ documents, including any addenda, and to verify the completeness of their printed bid documents

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on the state’s assessment tests, according to the bill’s language.

Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego) introduced AB 2774 in February. The bill is co-authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Both Weber and Holden are members of the California Legislative Black Caucus.

Referring to funding requirements included in AB 2774, Fortune said, “this would generate an additional $400 million a year in perpetuity for the schools that serve Black students — because Black students are the lowest performing subgroup.”

Only 18% of Black students in California pass math on statewide standardized tests and only 23% meet the English Language

LEGALS before submitting a bid. The City does not warrant, represent, or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any RFQ documents and/or information retrieved from other sources.

The City is not responsible for any loss or damage including, but not limited to, time, money, or goodwill arising from errors, inaccuracies or omissions in any bid documents and/or information obtained from other sources. It is each prospective proposer’s responsibility to check these sites through to the close of bids for any applicable addenda or updates.

Asha Reed, City Clerk and Clerk of the City Council Newspaper publication date: April 29, 2022 4/27/22 CNS-3578130# OAKLAND POST NOTICE TO BIDDERS DOCUMENT 00 11 11 Notice is hereby given that the Oakland Unified School District (hereinafter referred to as “Owner”) will receive sealed bids prior to the date and time stated for the Bid Opening for the award of a contract to construct the (“Contract”), Project No. 22121 Madison Middle School Playmatting Structure 470 El Pasco Drive, Oakland, CA 94603 Project consists of: Removal of existing playstructure on site and clear away debris.

Slurry seal to repair asphalt. Install new playstructure and Softiles for matting. Contractor to provide utility locations and services where needed. Contractor must be certified to install Softile playmating.

Engineer’s Estimate: $250,339.00 Project Manageris Lee Sims, who can be reached at: lee. sims@ousd.org and/or 510-5357094.

“The most qualified responsible responsive lowest bid shall be determined on the amount of the base bid.” The Owner reserves the right to add or deduct any of the additive or deductive items after the lowest responsible and responsive bidder is determined. The lowest bid shall be determined by the amount of the base bid.

This Contract is not subject to prequalification pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6.

This Contract is subject to the District’s Project Labor Agreement.

The full version of OUSD’s latest Project Labor Agreement can be found by going to the OUSD home page: ousd.org > Offices and Programs > Facilities Planning & Management Department > For Contractors and Developers > Bids and Requests for Proposals > Bid Information > 2016 PLA – Project Labor Agreement.

Contract Documents will be available for review on or after April 20, 2022, at East Bay Blue Print, located at 1745 14th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606. All requests should be addressed Attention: Sandy Petty. Plans can be ordered by: Ph: 510-261-2990 Fax: 510261-6077 Email: ebbp@ eastbayblueprint.com, Attn: Sandy. Online using the Plan Command System at www. eastbayblueprint.com or plans can be delivered to a place of business, at requester’s own expense. Payment for plan sets must be made with East Bay Blue Print and are NONREFUNDABLE In addition, Contract Documents are available for bidders’ review at the following builders’ exchanges: Builder’s Exchange of Alameda County Reed Construction Market Data McGraw Hill Construction Data Contra Costa Builder’s Exchange San Francisco Builder’s Exchange Marin Builder’s Exchange Public works projects shall be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to submit a bid or to be listed in a bid proposal subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 4104 unless currently registered and qualified under Labor Code section 1725.5 to perform public work as defined by Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 (§§1720 et seq.) of the Labor Code. For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to enter into, or engage in the performance of, any contract of public work (as defined

by Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 (§§1720 et seq.) of the Labor Code) unless currently registered and qualified under Labor Code section 1725.5 to perform public work and proof of registration is provided.

The Contract Time shall be 90 calendar days, and liquidated damages for delay shall accrue.

The deadline for Completion is TBD. See Article III of the Agreement for details.

Bids must be sealed and filed in the Business Office of the Owner at: Front Desk Facilities Planning & Management 955 High Street Oakland, CA 94601 on May 5, 2022, before 2:00 p.m. on the clock designated by the Owner or its representative as the bid clock, after which time the bids shall be opened. No bid will be accepted by the Owner after this time. Facsimile (FAX) copies of the bid will not be accepted. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO COVID-19 BIDS WILL NOT BE OPENED. BID RESULTS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL. A mandatory pre-bid site visit will be held on April 28, 2022, at 1:00 p.m., at Front entrance of the Madison School site. Bidders not attending the site visit will be disqualified.

Bids must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond, cashier’s check, or certified check for at least ten percent (10%) of the amount of the base bid and made payable to the Owner, as detailed in the

Arts requirement, according to data compiled by the California Department of Education (CDE).

There are nearly 310,000 Black students enrolled in California’s public schools.

“Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell’s continued denial of a hearing for AB 2774 is intentional,” said Christina Laster, NAN Western Regional Education advisor and liaison. “It is yet another way the State of California and many of its elected representatives use their authority to hold back and manipulate the resources and conditions that would help our children overcome the racialized cumulative disadvantages in their K-12 Education.”

“We are opposed to such tactics and urge O’Donnell and the State of California to firmly establish their investment into the

lowest performing subgroup of students statewide,” Laster added.

In California, funding for local educational agencies (called L-EAs for short by state government insiders) is determined by the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which was first implemented in 2013.

The LCFF is based on a threetiered structure. The first provides general funding to all education agencies. The second directs supplemental funding to agencies that meet specified criteria.

The third approves concentrated funding, “which is generally required based on persistent performance issues over a specified period of time,” according to the CDE. To read the full story, go to postnewsgroup.com

Inside Queen Hippie Gypsy, Oakland’s First Black Woman-Owned Botanica

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However, Ayers also described challenges on more than one level. During the business fluctuation, she realized that she had to slow down. “I realized that the rate I was going wasn’t healthy for me, so I had to re-evaluate,” she said.

Another challenge she faces is the ignorance and misconceptions surrounding religion and holistic wellness within the Black community.

“People would come in and steal incense and have these ideas that spirituality is evil.

It’s what we are programmed to think,” said Ayers. Items like intention candles and herbal blends are handmade

by Ayers herself, and she includes bible scriptures. She blesses the tools used as well as her store every day.

Ayers explained that certain bible scriptures can be used to bring protection and love among other intentions one would wish to manifest .

Of course, as is the case with other health supplements, it is recommended to consult a healthcare provider before using herbs for healthcare needs.

“Spirituality is what you make it. Everything around us is energy and you can’t have good without the bad,” said Ayers.

Ayers explained that she grew up in the Baptist church, but she always knew she was

spiritual in different ways beyond the church. As a child, she was always playing in her backyard, wanting to be closer to nature. After using spirituality to help her cope with her traumas, she felt called to bring love and healing to the rest of the community, thus creating Queen Hippie Gypsy.

Her advice for anyone getting into alternative forms of spirituality is as follows; listen to your intuition, your heart, and do your own research in order to know what is right for you. “Only you and God are in control,” Ayers said in a message to the spiritual collective. “Gratitude is the attitude.”

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Contract Documents.

Owner, or its designee, has determined that certain materials, services, products or things designated by specific brand or trade name shall not be subject to Public Contract Code section 3400(a) in order that a field test or experiment may be made to determine the product’s suitability for future use; in order to match other materials, services, products or things in use on a particular Owner public improvement either completed or in the course of completion; in order to obtain a necessary item that is only available from one source; and in order to respond to an emergency declared by Owner.

Pursuant to the Contract Documents, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a Payment (Labor and Material) Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum, and a Faithful Performance Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum. The successful bidder will be allowed to substitute securities or establish an escrow in lieu of retainage, pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, and as described in the Agreement Between Owner and Contractor and General Conditions.

The Owner will not consider or accept any bids from contractors who are not licensed to do business in the State of California, in accordance with the California Public Contract Code, providing for the licensing of contractors. In accordance with Section 3300 of said Code, the bidder shall have a Class B-General Building and/or Certification to Install Softile Playmatting Contractor license and shall maintain that license in good standing through Completion of the Contract and all applicable warranty periods.

For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), the bidder shall state the public works contractor registration number on the Designation of Subcontractors form for each subcontractor performing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the bidder’s total bid.

The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California, in the manner provided by law, has ascertained the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and rate for legal holidays and overtime work. The Contractor must pay for any labor therein described or classified in an amount not less than the rates specified. Copies of the required rates are on file at the Owner’s business office and are available on request.

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work as defined by Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 (§§1720 et seq.) of the Labor Code. For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to enter into, or engage in the performance of, any contract of public work (as defined

by Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 (§§1720 et seq.) of the Labor Code) unless currently registered and qualified under Labor Code section 1725.5 to perform public work and proof of registration is provided.

The Contract Time shall be 90 calendar days, and liquidated damages for delay shall accrue.

The deadline for Completion is TBD. See Article III of the Agreement for details.

Bids must be sealed and filed in the Business Office of the Owner at: Front Desk Facilities Planning & Management 955 High Street Oakland, CA 94601 on May 5, 2022, before 2:00 p.m. on the clock designated by the Owner or its representative as the bid clock, after which time the bids shall be opened. No bid will be accepted by the Owner after this time. Facsimile (FAX) copies of the bid will not be accepted. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO COVID-19 BIDS WILL NOT BE OPENED. BID RESULTS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL. A mandatory pre-bid site visit will be held on April 28, 2022, at 12:00 p.m., at Front entrance of the EOP School site. Bidders not attending the site visit will be disqualified.

Bids must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond, cashier’s check, or certified check for at least ten percent (10%) of the amount of the base bid and made payable to the Owner, as detailed in the Contract Documents.

Owner, or its designee, has determined that certain materials, services, products or things designated by specific brand or trade name shall not be subject to Public Contract Code section 3400(a) in order that a field test or experiment may be made to determine the product’s suitability for future use; in order to match other materials, services, products or things in use on a particular Owner public improvement either completed or in the course of completion; in order to obtain a necessary item that is only available from one source; and in order to respond to an emergency declared by Owner.

Pursuant to the Contract Documents, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a Payment (Labor and Material) Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum, and a Faithful Performance Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum. The successful bidder will be allowed to substitute securities or establish an escrow in lieu of retainage, pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, and as described in the Agreement Between Owner and Contractor and General Conditions.

The Owner will not consider or accept any bids from contractors who are not licensed to do business in the State of California, in accordance with the California Public Contract Code, providing for the licensing of contractors. In accordance with Section 3300 of said Code, the bidder shall have a Class B-General Building and/or Certification to Install Softile Playmatting Contractor license and shall maintain that license in good standing through Completion of the Contract and all applicable warranty periods.

For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), the bidder shall state the public works contractor registration number on the Designation of Subcontractors form for each subcontractor performing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the bidder’s total bid.

The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California, in the manner provided by law, has ascertained the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and rate for legal holidays and overtime work. The Contractor must pay for any labor therein described or classified in an amount not less than the rates specified. Copies of the required rates are on file at the Owner’s business office and are available on request.

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Deadline to prequalify for this project is May 9, 2022. Please email Juanita Hunter at: Juanita. hunter@ousd.org or La Juana Lewis at: LaJuana.Lewis@ousd. org for more prequalification requirements.

This Contract is subject to the District’s Project Labor Agreement.

The full version of OUSD’s latest Project Labor Agreement can be found by going to the OUSD home page: ousd.org > Offices and Programs > Facilities Planning & Management Department > For Contractors and Developers > Bids and Requests for Proposals > Bid Information > 2016 PLA – Project Labor Agreement.

Contract Documents will be available on or after April 25, 2022, for review at East Bay Blue Print, located at 1745 14th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606. All requests should be addressed Attention: Sandy Petty. Plans can be ordered by: Ph: 510-261-2990 Fax: 510261-6077 Email: ebbp@ eastbayblueprint.com, Attn: Sandy. Online using the Plan Command System at www. eastbayblueprint.com or plans can be delivered to a place of business, at requester’s own expense. Payment for plan sets must be made with East Bay Blue Print and are NONREFUNDABLE In addition, Contract Documents are available for bidders’ review at the following builders’ exchanges: Builder’s Exchange of Alameda County Reed Construction Market Data McGraw Hill Construction Data Contra Costa Builder’s Exchange San Francisco Builder’s Exchange Marin Builder’s Exchange Public works projects shall be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to submit a bid or to be listed in a bid proposal subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 4104 unless currently registered and qualified under Labor Code section 1725.5 to perform public work as defined by Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 (§§1720 et seq.) of the Labor Code. For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to enter into, or engage in the performance of, any contract of public work (as defined

by Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 (§§1720 et seq.) of the Labor Code) unless currently registered and qualified under Labor Code section 1725.5 to perform public work and proof of registration is provided.

The Contract Time shall be 200 calendar days, and liquidated damages for delay shall accrue.

The deadline for Completion is TBD. See Article III of the Agreement for details.

Bids must be sealed and filed in the Business Office of the Owner at: Front Desk Facilities Planning & Management 955 High Street Oakland, CA 94601 on May 17, 2022, before 2:00 p.m. on the clock designated by the Owner or its representative as the bid clock, after which time the bids shall be opened. No bid will be accepted by the Owner after this time. Facsimile (FAX) copies of the bid will not be accepted. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO COVID-19 BIDS WILL NOT BE OPENED. BID RESULTS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL. A mandatory pre-bid site visit will be held on April 28, 2022, at 10 a.m., at Front entrance of the Castlemont High School site.

Bidders not attending the site visit will be disqualified.

Bids must be accompanied by a bidder’s bond, cashier’s check, or certified check for at least ten percent (10%) of the amount of the base bid and made payable to the Owner, as detailed in the Contract Documents.

Owner, or its designee, has determined that certain materials, services, products or things designated by specific brand or trade name shall not be subject to Public Contract Code section 3400(a) in order that a field test or experiment may be made to determine the product’s suitability for future use; in order to match other materials, services, products or things in use on a particular Owner public improvement either completed or in the course of completion; in order to obtain a necessary item that is only available from one source; and in order to respond to an emergency declared by Owner.

Pursuant to the Contract Documents, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a Payment (Labor and Material) Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum, and a Faithful Performance Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum. The successful bidder will be allowed to substitute securities or establish an escrow in lieu of retainage, pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22300, and as described in the Agreement Between Owner and Contractor and General Conditions.

The Owner will not consider or accept any bids from contractors who are not licensed to do business in the State of California, in accordance with the California Public Contract Code, providing for the licensing of contractors. In accordance with Section 3300 of said Code, the bidder shall have a Class “A-General Engineering Contractor and/or B- General Building Contractor” license and shall maintain that license in good standing through Completion of the Contract and all applicable warranty periods.

For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), the bidder shall state the public works contractor registration number on the Designation of Subcontractors form for each subcontractor performing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the bidder’s total bid.

The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California, in the manner provided by law, has ascertained the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and rate for legal holidays and overtime work. The Contractor must pay for any labor therein described or classified in an amount not less than the rates specified. Copies of the required rates are on file at the Owner’s business office and are available on request.

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been filed by MALCOLM B. FEIED in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that MALCOLM B. FEIED be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on MAY 11, 2022 at 9:45 A.M. in Dept. 202 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: BEVERLY LAVIN, 2121 NO. CALIFORNIA BLVD., STE. 290, WALNUT CREEK, CA 94596, Telephone: 925-6860793

require, all parties who wish to attend the hearing on the above date and time, including those who wish to state objections, to appear by audio or video technology.

The parties should consult the court’s website for the specific telephonic and video applications available. The parties may also contact the probate clerk in the respective department for information concerning remote appearances. Parties must be present at least five (5) minutes before the scheduled hearing time.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: ALEXANDER T. BOWMAN / HORTON, WEST & BOWMAN LLP, 1901 HARRISON STREET, SUITE 1500, OAKLAND, CA 94612, Telephone: 510-452-2133

a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee.

In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call Nationwide Posting & Publication at 916.939.0772 for information regarding the Trustee’s Sale or visit the Internet Website www.nationwideposting. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA08000424-21-1.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice to Tenant NOTICE TO TENANT FOR FORECLOSURES AFTER JANUARY 1, 2021 You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction.

There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 916.939.0772, or visit this internet website www. nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case CA08000424-21-1 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Date: April 13, 2022 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA08000424-21-1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949-252-8300 TDD: 866-6604288 By: Amy Lemus, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.nationwideposting. com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Nationwide Posting & Publication AT 916.939.0772 NPP0401106 To: THE BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST 04/27/2022, 05/04/2022, 05/11/2022 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3577998# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST

of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Glenda A. Teal, an unmarried woman Recorded: 5/23/1988 as Instrument No. 88-122199 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of ALAMEDA County, California; Date of Sale: 5/19/2022 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: On the Fallon Street Steps of the Alameda County Courthouse located at 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $106,807.68 The purported property address is: 1059 EUCLID AVE, BERKELEY, CA 94708-1423 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 063-2987-049 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website http:// www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA20-887353-CL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction.

If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase.

First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800-2802832, or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA20-887353-CL to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee.

This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan. com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-20887353-CL IDSPub #0177879 4/27/2022 5/4/2022 5/11/2022 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3575865# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST

NOTICE TO BIDDERS DOCUMENT 00 11 11 Notice is hereby given that the Oakland Unified School District (hereinafter referred to as “Owner”) will receive sealed bids prior to the date and time stated for the Bid Opening for the award of a contract to construct the (“Contract”), Project No. 17117 East Oakland Pride Elementary School Playmatting Structure 8000 Birch Street, Oakland, CA 94621 Project consists of: Removal of existing playstructure on site and clear away debris.

Slurry seal to repair asphalt. Install new playstructure and Softiles for matting. Contractor to provide utility locations and services where needed. Contractor must be certified to install Softile playmating.

Engineer’s Estimate: $385,000 Project Manager is Lee Sims, who can be reached at: lee. sims@ousd.org and/or 510-5357094.

“The most qualified responsible responsive lowest bid shall be determined on the amount of the base bid.” The Owner reserves the right to add or deduct any of the additive or deductive items after the lowest responsible and responsive bidder is determined. The lowest bid shall be determined by the amount of the base bid.

This Contract is not subject to prequalification pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6.

This Contract is subject to the District’s Project Labor Agreement.

The full version of OUSD’s latest Project Labor Agreement can be found by going to the OUSD home page: ousd.org > Offices and Programs > Facilities Planning & Management Department > For Contractors and Developers > Bids and Requests for Proposals > Bid Information > 2016 PLA – Project Labor Agreement.

Contract Documents will be available for review on or after April 28, 2022, at East Bay Blue Print, located at 1745 14th Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606.All requests should be addressed Attention: Sandy Petty. Plans can be ordered by: Ph: 510-261-2990 Fax: 510261-6077 Email: ebbp@ eastbayblueprint.com, Attn: Sandy. Online using the Plan Command System at www. eastbayblueprint.com or plans can be delivered to a place of business, at requester’s own expense. Payment for plan sets must be made with East Bay Blue Print and are NONREFUNDABLE In addition, Contract Documents are available for bidders’ review at the following builders’ exchanges: Builder’s Exchange of Alameda County Reed Construction Market Data McGraw Hill Construction Data Contra Costa Builder’s Exchange San Francisco Builder’s Exchange Marin Builder’s Exchange Public works projects shall be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

For all projects over Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to submit a bid or to be listed in a bid proposal subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 4104 unless currently registered and qualified under Labor Code section 1725.5 to perform public

NOTICE TO BIDDERS DOCUMENT 00 11 11 Notice is hereby given that the Oakland Unified School District (hereinafter referred to as “Owner”) will receive sealed bids prior to the date and time stated for the Bid Opening for the award of a contract to construct the (“Contract”), Project No. 17115 Castlemont High School Field and Bleachers Replacement 8601 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94605 Project consists of: This project includes replacement of the outdoor athletic field, track, specialty athletic sport areas, and bleachers. Existing restroom facilities will be upgraded, and new single-occupancy accessible restroom facilities will be added to new north and south plazas. This project includes ten accessible parking spaces and an accessible path of travel from the bust stop to the new work.

Engineer’s Estimate: $7,500,000.00 Project Manager is Mike Tores, who can be reached at: mike. tores@ousd.org and/or 510-6379290.

“The most qualified responsible responsive lowest bid shall be determined on the amount of the base bid.” The Owner reserves the right to add or deduct any of the additive or deductive items after the lowest responsible and responsive bidder is determined. The lowest bid shall be determined by the amount of the base bid.

This Contract is subject to prequalification pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6.

PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ANDREW STREITWIESER JR. CASE NO. RP22123581

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ANDREW STREITWIESER AKA ANDREW STREITWIESER JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by DAVID STREITWIESER in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that DAVID STREITWIESER 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 probate.

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 authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on MAY 25, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. in Dept. 201 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: BASIL J. BOUTRIS, ATTORNEY, VAUGHT & BOUTRIS LLP, 7677 OAKPORT STREET, SUITE 1140, OAKLAND, CA 94621, Telephone: 510-4301518 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/22 CNS-3578454# BERKELEY TRI-CITY POST

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: CLINTON COY FEIED A Petition for Probate has

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CRAIG DAVIDSON AKA CRAIG M. DAVIDSON CASE NO. RP22122857

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: CRAIG DAVIDSON AKA CRAIG M. DAVIDSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by HAROLD SILVER in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA. The Petition for Probate requests that HAROLD SILVER 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 probate.

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 authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on MAY 2, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. in Dept. 201 Room N/A located at 2120 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY, BERKELEY, CA 94704.

REMOTE APPEARANCE: The Court allows, but does not

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TRUSTEE SALES TS No: CA08000424-21-1 APN: 059-2287-017-00 TO No: 210826715-CA-VOI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE (The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1).

The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED June 10, 2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On May 20, 2022 at 12:00 PM, at the Fallon Street emergency exit to the Alameda County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA 94612, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on July 17, 2006 as Instrument No. 2006276009, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Alameda County, California, executed by GEORGE R NACE, LINDA M NACE WHO ACQUIRED TITLE AS LINDA MORRIS NACE, as Trustor(s), in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”.

The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1640 KAINS AVE, BERKELEY, CA 94702 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $171,805.18 (Estimated).

However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-20-887353-CL Order No.: DS7300-20002569 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 5/3/1988. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum

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Black Mental Health Part 2:

Survive and Advance: Youth ALIVE! Honors “COVID-19 and White Supremacy, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Creating Our New Normal”

By Tanya Dennis

With the global COVID-19 pandemic, everyone knew the world would never be the same. For some, COVID-19 has provided an opportunity to correct a society filled with bias, inequality, and meanness.

For Dr. Wade Nobles, longtime scholar/activist, and cofounder of the Association of Black Psychologists, “This is our time of reckoning. It is a time to redo what we have always done, sometimes under the radar, always in opposition to White supremacy. This is the time for Black people to interlock, reconnect and heal our community without European influence.”

Dr. Nobles, the Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists, and Oakland Frontline Healers are bringing together the best minds and calling on every sector to join them in the development of African American Wellness Hubs and an African American Healing Center in Oakland.

“Restoring wellness is to make the whole well. It is to connect everything and everyone in life affirming ways throughout the entire African world. Our way of being well and whole were well established in our past. In the past we gathered and found solutions collectively. Remember rent parties, Sunday church special offerings to send a child off to college or visiting the sick and shut in? These are our examples. In our way, personhood, familyhood, neighborhood, peoplehood, all the “hoods” are of equal importance. We can’t have a sick community and think our people will be well.”

Nobles and colleagues, after surveying and talking with Black people in Black communities across the nation, designed a detailed written plan for an African American Wellness Hub Complex. They envision a hub that is linked spiritually and psychologically, as a place where wellness and wholeness is real and ethnically authentic. Nobles said, “In many places our children are failing in school, many of our

Dr. Wade Nobles

children are feeling they have no value, are being demeaned and assaulted. We need to take charge of these places. If teachers don’t love our children, they cannot ignite in them a desire to know and a passion for learning. If law enforcement doesn’t have high regard and deep respect for Black people, they will never understand that to ‘serve and protect’ means to be life affirming in what they do.”

“A big part of our new normal is to have in our thought, beliefs, and behavior the best of our wisdom, traditions and restorative practice available.

This means to have in place living learning laboratories that are unapologetically devoted to our wellness, e.g., a wellness hub complex with healing centers. To have an exceptional and extraordinary place to bring people together and take them from hostile angry dis-at-ease producing places to places where we can work in harmony, create in dignity, and live to inspire life and ways of being that is affirming.”

Alameda County has stepped forward and is committed to establishing a Black Mental Health facility in partnership with the Association of Black Psychologists. The Association is grateful to Alameda County but notes four or five locations are necessary considering the amount of damage and illness that needs to be undone in the Black com-

munity.

Nobles says, “We must create a space, place and time that is guided by an African American wellness narrative that is awe-inspiring.” As an example of how important space is, he notes, “We tried to escape the blight and poverty of the inner city and move out to the suburbs, but all we did was go from inner city hostility to outer city hostility in the white enclave. At least in the inner city, our children didn’t lose their point of reference of belonging in the neighborhood or church. Healing spaces and places must be grounded in life affirming worldview and culture.”

“We must rescue and refine the best of Black ways. Look at our historical grandeur. We once imagined the great step Pyramid before there was a pyramid. How did we do that?

Black people lived through over four hundred years of rabid, hostile, savage, dehumanization yet never became rabid, hostile, savage dehumanizing people. Our way, our worldview, our narrative, our normativity is what allowed us to do this. This is what we need to revisit. We need a wellness place in our Black community where people can “imagine the better.” A place where we can dismantle the ill and wrongfulness and recreate a vibrant affirming life spirit.

According to Dr. Nobles, “our new normal is the old African normal, where Black people inspired greatness just by living well and whole.

Black people are a people of caring, sharing and daring. Our way was to care for our people, to share what we have, and to dare to be free. Our history records us having sacred places in nature where we would go to re-create our spirit of wellness. We need those places today and that’s why we’re need an African American Wellness Hub and healing centers.”

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Youth ALIVE! and communities impacted by violence and incarceration are uplifting the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week through events and advocacy.

“We are honoring National Crime Victims’ Rights Week by pushing for policy solutions that provide victims and survivors with the mental, emotional, and financial support they need to recover from their trauma,” said Gabriel Garcia, policy and advocacy director at Youth ALIVE!. “We rely on their voices and stories to guide our policy priorities.”

Based in Oakland, Youth ALIVE! is a community organization preventing and responding to violent crime. In the last year, the group has worked with over 500 shooting survivors and family members of homicide victims through innovative hospitalbased violence intervention, violence interruption, mental health, and crisis response and support programs.

Since 1981, the U.S. Department of Justice has recognized National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. This year’s theme is “Rights, access, equity, for all victims.” This theme that aligns with Youth ALIVE!’s work to

ensure that communities that are disproportionately impacted by violence, poverty and racism, receive the support for victims that they deserve.

Youth ALIVE! is sponsoring three bills in the California State Legislature that would expand support for victims of violent crime: Senate Bill 993, authored by Senator Nancy Skinner who represents Oakland in the California State Senate, would improve access to support and services for crime survivors and increase the financial support a survivor can receive. In addition to removing barriers for survivors, this bill would also allow community-based organizations to provide direct cash assistance to violent crime survivors to minimize the administrative hoops clients must go through in order to receive support.

Senate Bill 299, authored by Senator Connie Leyva (D-Pomona) would allow victims of police violence to receive healing resources from the California

Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP). This bill would also address specific ways the families of homicide victims can be denied resources and services based on the contents of a police report.

Assembly Bill 1929, authored

by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D - Calabasas), would create a Community Violence Prevention and Recovery Program within the state’s Medi-Cal system, so victims and survivors with MediCal can receive violence intervention services, like Youth ALIVE!’s Caught in the Crossfire program, which address the ongoing service needs of traumatized victims as they get back to life and confront the sometimes debilitating effects of their trauma.

In the past year, Youth ALIVE! has also been working with the Oakland Police Department (OPD) and the Family Support Advocacy Taskforce to introduce more trauma-informed policies and practices within the department. This year, OPD will institute a trauma-informed training led by Youth ALIVE! staff and former clients, where officers will be able to understand how their interactions with victims and survivors impact their ability to recover and heal.

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population.

“We are excited to make the Love Letters to Our Bodies workshop available to community members in the Washington metropolitan area,” said Lisa Simms Booth, Executive Director of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, whose advocacy journey began when her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003. “The workshop aligns perfectly with our mission of providing programs and resources that support a journey of healing and finding wholeness and gives us an opportunity to let the African American communi-

ty know about the array of supportive services available here.”

Select Love Letters will be in a booklet and recorded for workshop participants. There are three ways to participate. In addition to the workshops in Oakland and the District of Columbia, the workshop will be offered online for African American women throughout the nation.

WORKSHOP LOCATIONS & DATES: OAKLAND, CA - Tuesday & Wednesday – May 3 & 4, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Pacific Charlotte Maxwell Clinic, 411 30th St., Suite 508, Oakland

(limited space for in person attendance) WASHINGTON, DC – Saturday & Sunday – May 14 & 15, 2022, from 2 p.m. to 6: p.m., Eastern Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 1632 U St., NW, Washington DC 20009 (limited space for in person attendance) NATIONWIDE- ONLINE – Saturday & Sunday, June 11 & 12, 2022, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Pacific;1 p.m. -5 p.m., Central; and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m., Eastern For registration links and more information, go to : https:// bit.ly/MOYO-LOVE-LETTERS

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Residents After Encampment Closure Continued from page 1

By Zack Haber

A recent closure of a homeless encampment near the intersection of MacArthur Boulevard and 106th Avenue has prompted Homies Empowerment, an East Oakland based grassroots organization, to call attention to and organize for improving the living conditions of two displaced pregnant women that had lived in the encampment.

“We’re looking for a house to rent for them now,” said Rev. Harry Louis Williams II, an activist, author, and hip-hop artist who works as a Care Manager with Homies Empowerment. “Our long term goal for these women is to get them into an affordable place to live. We don’t want their children to be like baby Jesus in the manger.”

After the closure, Homies Empowerment put the two women up in a hotel room. They want help from the community to house them and are encouraging those who have the means to of-

Teela Hardy’s RV sitting near 106 Ave and MacArthur Blvd in East Oakland on April 7, the morning she had to have it towed due to an encampment clearance. Photo by Zack Haber.

fer aid to contact the organization.

“Sometimes people say things are bad, and they wish they could do something,” said Williams.

“Well this is a way to do something. This is urgent and we’re not sitting around and waiting for a grant.”

According to residents and advocates present during the closure of the encampment on April 7, city public works staff and Oakland Police Department officers arrived around 9 a.m., asked

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residents to leave, and did not offer alternative shelter options.

OPD confirmed one officer and two public service technicians were present. In the days before the closure, about 20 residents had lived in the area, mostly in RVs and trailers. The city posted pink signs informing residents of the closure several days before it occurred. While most residents left the encampment, a few remained.

Two of those who remained were Teela Hardy and Tanya Andrade. Hardy had been working as a receptionist for a law firm but became homeless after she was laid off. Andrade said she was let go from her service industry job soon after she became pregnant. While she says she technically has access to her former home, it’s uninhabitable.

“I can’t stand my house because it’s full of mold,” said Andrade.

“Living there is unsafe because I’m pregnant, and I have asthma.”

Both Hardy and Andrade are about seven months pregnant and had lived in RVs that no longer run

but still provided them with shelter. In the days leading up to the closure, it was difficult to move their inoperable RVs and they did not expect the city to follow through with the eviction.

“They gave us a warning,” said Hardy. “But they’ve given us warnings before and not gone through with their word.”

According to Hardy, the City of Oakland had posted signs three separate times this year telling residents they planned to close the encampment on specific dates, but those dates came and passed without any closure enforcement.

The Oakland Post emailed Oakland’s director of communications multiple times over three days seeking comments on this story.

But the city ultimately did not provide comments before this story’s deadline.

Hardy and Andrade were able to keep their RVs after friends helped tow them to another location, but the women said they lost other possessions during the closure. For Hardy, the most important thing she lost was her car she had been using to do odd jobs and run errands, including getting to doctor’s appointments. According to Hardy, it was impounded because, although she had been trying to get it registered, she hadn’t yet been able to do so.

“It’s just hard,” Hardy said.

“They didn’t give me a bus pass or anything, and I know I’m not going to be able to do the things I need to do in the amount of time I need to do them now that I don’t have a car.”

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(including dorms and hotels) and use available properties to develop a broad range of housing types for permanent and interim affordable housing. Yet while there are many excellent projects pending which could house thousands of people the State so far has left many unfunded. In order to respond to the magnitude of the crisis we face — I introduced a resolution that was heard by the Oakland City Council on April 19. It urges the state to fund all pending Homekey applications.

The rising homeless crisis warrants a substantial and urgent response, commensurate with the magnitude of the cri-

sis. Given that the state is anticipating a $45.7 billion surplus for the 2022–23 fiscal year, and $20.6 billion will be available for discretionary use, my resolution strongly urges the State of California to fund all pending Homekey Applications in order to promptly house people. With multiple pending Homekey applications awaiting awards statewide, a substantial number of individuals could be helped off the streets and into better facilities for a cost that would be a tiny fraction of the State surplus.

The state of California and the City of Oakland, and others, have declared that we are facing a homeless crisis, and lack adequate affordable housing.

Oakland has sought to remedy this crisis by dedicating public lands and other resources to providing affordable housing. In that same vein, the City Council in December 2021 and January 2022 adopted resolutions that authorized the City Administrator to jointly apply for, accept, and enter into standard agreements as a local agency partner for funds from the State’s Homekey Program with several projects.

The State Homekey Program is currently in the process of awarding approximately $1.45 billion in grant funding to local public entities to sustain and rapidly expand housing for persons experiencing homelessness or who are at-

risk of homelessness. State leaders should immediately increase the amount available now, to fully cover all pending projects (estimated to be a few hundred million more — a tiny fraction of the surplus).

Although the State of California has issued multiple Homekey awards to other jurisdictions, there are many excellent projects, both in Oakland and elsewhere, which have not yet been approved for funding.

California needs to fully fund all Homekey projects in Oakland and throughout the state so we can bolster the fight to take people off the streets and give them the security of a home with a key.

is next to a fully functioning industrial railroad.

“Already the (public) price tag for building the luxury condos and A’s stadium is $1.3 million, (and) they want to close down Oakland’s public schools? Not on our watch,” he said.

Willis added, “The ILWU is really excited about this coalition, Schools and Labor Against Privatization — in fact SLAP is urging similar committees against privatization around the country.”

OEA President Brown said that the strike is taking place because educators are taking “the next step to stop school closures that will displace thousands of students and disproportionately impact Black students in Oakland. Educators say that they (have) had enough. We have authorized a one-day ULB (Unfair Labor Practices) strike to let the district know that the refusal to honor agreements and to have meaningful conversations about how these school closures will impact communities of color is unacceptable.”

“This plan to close schools in predominantly Black and Brown neighborhoods will accelerate charter growth and

gentrification, leading to more educational segregation and a financial drain. That already costs Oakland Public Schools $57 million annually,” he said.

“We call on our elected officials to provide students and schools with the support that they need — instead of closing our schools — and stop the disruption and dislocation of our students. Closing schools does not save money. Our students need more, not less.”

He said that on April 29, teachers are picketing at all OUSD school sites at 6:30 a.m.

Other actions that are taking place during the day include a rally at Oscar Grant Plaza at Oakland City Hall and a march to the OUSD headquarters at 1000 Broadway.

The Oakland administration and school board have rushed to close schools ignoring its own policy and contract commitments to implement its commitments to confer with parents, teachers and the public about its proposals. Rather than “engage” with school communities, the school closures are being planned in concert with state leaders and their representatives, Alameda County Schools’ Supt. L.K. Monroe and the Fiscal Crisis

Management and Assistance Team (FCMAT).

OUSD has already closed about 20 schools since 2003.

This year and next year, the district is planning to close about 12 more schools. Officials have said repeatedly that OUSD should ultimately shut down about half of its 80 public schools.

Joining in the strike are school workers in AFCME and SEIU 102. A representative of the Alameda Labor Council spoke at the OEA press conference, backing the unions.

OUSD Supt. Kyla Johnson Trammell denounced the strike as an “illegal” work stoppage and urged parents and guardians not to send their children to school on Friday.

“While school buildings will be open on Friday and all employees are still required to come to work, we do not believe that we’ll be able to cover the high number of expected staff absences with substitutes or reassigned central office staff,” she said. “Therefore, we are asking all families not to send their children to school on Friday. The absence will be excused, and no student will be adversely impacted by not attending school that day.”

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“because the Oakland Unified School District has unilaterally set aside its 2019 agreement with OEA to engage with families when considering school closures. OUSD has continued to ignore this important agreement despite the outcry from families to stop school closures.”

Trent Willis, past president International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 said the union moved its annual May Day stop-work meeting from Sunday to Friday so both unions could join together to protest privatization of public resources.

Willis said that longshore workers and school communities are facing the same opponents.

“We have in common the same billionaire, John Fisher, also a funder of KIPP and Rocketship charter schools, who is trying to privatize our schools and our ports,” he said. “Howard Terminal is key to our Port infrastructure and crucial as an economic engine of the Bay Area. It is a nexus between the port cargo area, ILWU training area, and ship turn around. It is critical to keeping trucks off of the streets of West Oakland and

Church in the African American Experience,” that “The term ‘freedom’ has found a deep religious resonance in the lives and hopes of African Americans.”

Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner, National Anthem. He said he did so to protest police shootings of African-American men and other social injustices faced by Black people in the United States. The StarSpangled Banner is a lyrical prayer - “and this be our motto, “In God we trust.”

Kaepernick was punished for expressing his freedom by refusing to engage in what he sees as hypocrisy. Is it time for a new national anthem? Near the Rotunda of the Capitol, a

room is set apart for prayer. In light of the controversy, should the prayer room be removed?

In 2009, I gave the opening prayer as a Guest Chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives that was aired on CNN and other networks.

Is the opening prayer possibly up for elimination? On April 17, 1952, President Harry Truman signed a bill proclaiming the National Day of Prayer into law in the United States. Will it be reversed? Tim Tebow often knelt and prayed at football games. Steph Curry has a line of tennis shoes with a biblical scripture, “I can do all things…”

Ms. Hamer raised a critical inquiry, how much of my freedom can I have today? Are you willing to contend for your faith?

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essential, proactive, and effective OCCUR has been for all these years. Their capacity-building initiatives have elevated the fortunes of many nonprofit and faith-based organizations, including the Lend a Hand Foundation, a highly successful Oakland-based nonprofit that has benefited tremendously from its ongoing association with OCCUR. The Lend A Hand Foundation is a youth-focused nonprofit that offers vital assistance to children, adolescents, and families facing arduous challenges or debilitating life circumstances.

Their diverse initiatives are designed to help the underserved experiencing poverty, deprivation, illness, or other stressful emergencies, by providing them with access to immediate essential aid and life improving goods and services of all types. Lend A Hand has received the most attention for its free backpack program, which provides school-aged children from deprived communities with backpacks stuffed full of all the crucial supplies they require at the start of each school year.

When the Lend A Hand Foundation opened its doors in 1997, it had little to rely on except good intentions. Funds were short and experience at running a nonprofit was even shorter. Executive Director Dee Johnson knew she would need help to keep the project viable, and that’s why she began attending the free workshops OCCUR offers for aspiring nonprofit organizers.

“The workshops brought so much enlightenment to what was needed to survive,” Dee Johnson told us during a recent interview.

Sponsored jointly by OCCUR and the San Francisco-based Foundation Alliance with Interfaith to Heal Society, or FAITHS, the ‘A Model Built on Faith’ workshop series is offered annually at no cost to administrators and volunteers who run or serve faithbased or secular charity organizations in the Bay Area. The workshops combine individual coaching with small intensive group exercises and activities and are designed to help participants develop the skills and knowledge necessary to build stable organizational structures, find financing sources, create highly impactful individual and community uplift programs, and promote the empowerment of marginalized neighborhoods and people.

During the pandemic, the staff at Lend a Hand developed and implemented a comprehensive plan of action that included a safe and effective mix of virtual and in-person engagement. Despite lockdowns and quarantines, they continued to deliver vital assistance to the most vulnerable.

According to Johnson, the organization’s involvement with OCCUR played a big part in their capacity to rise to the occasion.

“Having gained a lot of knowledge from the esteemed management team, coaches, and facilitators, we were able to sustain,” she said. “Had we not received the knowledge through all the workshops we attended, we would not have been able to face the challenges when this very frightening situation occurred.”

Lend A Hand plans to distribute their signature backpack school supply kits to 25,000 underserved students in Oakland and Alameda County for the 2022 - 2023 school year.

Recently, OCCUR was in the news for a most surprising reason. In March the offices of the organization were burglarized and vandalized. Despite this temporary setback, organization leaders have no plans to slow down.

“With the ramping up of our capacity-building programs, OCCUR is not letting the burglary derail us,” Charla Montgomery, OCCUR’s program consultant, told the Post News Group. “Now more than ever, it is important that OCCUR reaches as many communities as possible and all those committed to positive change throughout the Bay Area.”

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of 22 bright and talented seniors from high schools in Oakland and other East Bay cities. XGO offered awards ranging between $1,000-$2,000 for seven named scholarships.

These awards are the outgrowth of XGO’s commitment to providing ongoing service to enhance the Oakland community. The students selected demonstrated educational excellence, scholastic aptitude and community involvement. “We congratulate these outstanding scholars and congratulations to Xi Gamma Omega,” stated scholarship committee leads Ora Anderson and Tonya Jones Allred.

The Xi Gamma Omega Chapter was chartered in May of 1982 by 28 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority who had a deep commitment to provide service to all mankind, particularly in the Oakland community. The chapter will celebrate its 40th anniversary publically at the Oakland City Hall Frank Ogawa Plaza on Friday, May 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and privately virtually on May 21 at the monthly chapter meeting. For more information about XGO, visit xigammaomega.com