SB American News Week Ending 8/14

Vol. 50 No. 16

August 8, 2019 - August 14, 2019

Publisher’s Corner

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue till they have resisted either with words or blows or words or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

—Fredrick Douglass (1849)

Buttigieg pitches $1B plan to restrict guns, fight domestic terrorism ByNicholas Sakelaris

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg waits to be introduced on the first night of primary debates on July 30 in Detroit, Mich. Photo by John Nowak/CNN/UPI | License Photo Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg laid out a plan Tuesday to fight and prevent domestic terrorism, like the type that emerged in Texas and Ohio last weekend and killed more than 30 people.

Buttigieg's plan provides more resources to law enforcement, tracks hate groups and reforms federal gun control.

A former Navy Reserve intelligence officer, Buttigieg proposes enforcing universal background checks for gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and establishing a nationwide gun licensing system.

He identified three major needs -- fighting radicalization, stopping the spread of extremism online

and making sure firearms don't fall into the "wrong hands."

"Weapons like the one I carried in Afghanistan have no place on our streets or in our schools -least of all in the hands of white nationalists," Buttigieg wrote. "I want to be able to look back on this moment and tell my children that we brought people together to deliver gun safety. I want my children to be able to to the mall with their grandmother, or to school, or to the movies, without living in fear."

"Enough," he added.

Buttigieg's plan would end the Senate filibuster, a procedural tactic that makes it more difficult for the minority party to block a bill.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor has criticized the Senate for taking its summer recess after the shooting attacks in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio last weekend and Gilroy, Calif., the weekend before. More than 30 people died in all three attacks "After foreign terrorist attacks, airport travelers have to take off their shoes," Buttigieg said of changes made to the airline industry after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "After three mass shootings in a single week, Congress takes off for recess."

Buttigieg joined the chorus of calls demanding federal lawmakers do something to change the culture of violence.

"They talk about change, but it remains easier to buy weapons of

war than a bottle of beer," he said.

"They condemn the acts of lone individuals, but are too embarrassed or evasive to confront the hateful ideology that spurs so many to act -- because an unrestrained gun lobby and racial division serves so many of their political interests."

The plan proposes dedicating $1 billion to "prevent and combat radicalization and violent extremism" -- and cited funding cuts by the Trump administration that had been allocated to the Homeland Security Department to fight white nationalism.

Democrats have called on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to reconvene the Senate for an emergency session, but the Kentucky Republican answered by saying there's no rush to act. He added that he's tapped three committee chairmen to find a political solution, but didn't give a timeline for when the chamber might act.

Dayton, Ohio mourns victims of mass shooting

Finesse McNichols, whose brother Thomas "T.J." McNichols was killed in the shooting, is comforted by friends at a memorial near the scene of the crime. Photo by John Sommers II/ UPI | License Photo

Emma Shaw 107th Birthday Celebration Community News

On Saturday, August 10, 2019, in San Bernardino the Shaw family will gather together to celebrate the 107th birthday of the family matriarch, Emma Shaw. The celebration will be held at the Akoma Unity Center in Anne Shirrells Park from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

It is being sponsored by Akoma Community, Greenwood Bail Bonds, the Westside Action Group (WAG) and the Shaw Family Foundation.

Emma was the 2nd born to James and Gertrude Armstrong on August 9, 1912 in Tallulah, Louisiana. Emma was raised by her aunt and uncle and attended Madison Parish Training School. Emma was not able to complete school because the family needed her to help in the cotton fields. At the tender age of 15 she met the love of her life, George Bernard Shaw.

Emma and George were married on February 6, 1929 and to this union God blessed them with 13 children; six sons, five daughters and two children who died at birth. Six of their children; Cleveland, Luretha, Johnny B, Joyce, Wiley and Mary were born in Tallulah. Emma and George were married for 62 years until he passed away.

In 1942 George saw potential for advancement by moving his family from Louisiana to Las Vegas, Nevada. While in Las Vegas, Emma was an employee at the El Rancho and Frontier hotels. Emma gave birth to Donell and Ronell before leaving Nevada in 1944.

Shaw Family Matriarch, Emma Shaw As times began to change, George had the foresight again to relocate his family to San Bernardino, California in 1944. Emma began working in private homes as a maid. She then found new employment at Norton Air Force Base. After leaving Norton, Emma began doing seasonal work at the National Orange Show. Once the seasonal work was done, Emma found employment in Palm Springs where she worked for 16

years. While in California Barbara, Vernon and Valerie were born.

Though their resources were limited, that did not prevent Emma from sharing with those who were even less fortunate whenever they stopped by. She is an excellent cook and is known for her homemade biscuits, fried chicken and her peach cobbler.

Emma joined New Hope Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of Reverend David

Campbell. After the passing of Reverend Campbell, Mother Shaw changed her membership to Greater New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, which was then under the leadership of Elder Herbert C. Pugh. Mother Shaw grew spiritually at Greater New Jerusalem where she became the Church Mother. She served as Church Mother for over 40 years and in recognition for this service Mother Shaw was appointed Church Mother Emeritus.

Everyone who knows Mother Shaw has heard her testimony and can repeat it verbatim as she starts to say…”Early one Saturday morning I was in my bathroom when I heard a loud voice saying, ‘Be ready, I’m on My way back’…” and from that time to this day, Mother Emma tells everyone that she encounters to be ready, the Lord is on His way back.

Emma Shaw is a local legend, living to celebrate her 107th year of life here on this earth. She is still so full of wisdom, discernment, encouragement and honesty. She has a no nonsense attitude when ‘stuff ain’t right’, and she will speak her mind and let you know. When you hear ‘now looka here’, you know something of importance is about to follow.

The matriarch of six generations Emma has 6 living children, and well over 300 grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren and great great great grandchildren.

Email: sbamericannews@gmail.com Clifton Harris Editor in Chief Publisher of The San Bernardino AMERICAN News

Circular Firing Squad and the Makings of a Political Circus…

WVWD Whistleblowers, Campaign Contributors, Quid Pro Quos, Unqualified Candidates, Satate Audit and Threats of Murder Gail Fry | Contributor As auditors from the State Controller’s office arrived to conduct a financial audit at the West Valley Water District, Director Greg Young told The Voice/Black Voice News its recent vote to appoint Jeremiah Brosowske as an assistant general manager was the result of a “corrupt political deal.”

At its May 16, 2019 meeting Jeremiah Brosowske, a Councilman for the City of Hesperia, was appointed under a cloud of controversy by a three to two vote over director Greg Young’s objections.

Board President Dr. Michael Taylor motioned to approve Brosowke’s appointment with director Kyle Crowther seconding the motion while G. Young objected explaining Brosowske did not meet the minimum qualifications for the position of assistant manager based on WVWD’s own policies and internal job description. Director Olinger reasoned Brosowske would be an at-will employee and assured he would take a close look at Brosowske once he was on the job.

WVWD’s job description for general manager calls for minimum qualifications that include a combination of education, training and experience. It also calls for a bachelor ’s degree from an accredited college or university in business administration, public administration, civil engineering or a closely related field and a minimum of ten experience in progressively responsible professional water utility administration at the managerial level. It also states that eight years of additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education, on a “two for one” basis.

Accredited colleges or universities are those accredited by accreditation agencies recognized by the United States Department of Education for postsecondary institutions and programs. More information can be found at: https://ope.ed.gov/ dapip/#/agency-list.

At its May 16 meeting, Rialto Resident Don Griggs, speaking on behalf of Mr. Hardy Brown, Publisher Emeritus the IE Voice/ Black Voice News, spoke of a pattern of political appointments and insufficient vetting leading to unqualified personnel being appointed. As President of the West Valley Water District Ratepayers Association Griggs reminded the board of their responsibility to the public.

When the vote was called

President Dr. Michael Taylor, Vice President Kyle Crowther, and Director Don Olinger, voted in favor while Director Greg Young, and Director Dr. Clifford O. Young, Sr., voted against.

In response to a public records request by The Voice/Black Voice News, WVWD provided a total of five resumes submitted by individuals vying for consideration to fill the open position of assistant general manager.

The five resumes revealed three of the applicants had bachelor’s degrees from accredited colleges/ universities in “business administration, public administration, civil engineering or a closely related field.” One applicant had a bachelor’s degree from a college with an accreditation from a unrecognized accreditation agency, while Brosowske had a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Policy & Economics from an accredited college or university, however it was not in the qualified field.

One applicant not chosen for the position had a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from California State Polytechnic University and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, 20-years’ experience in the water/wastewater industry, management experience, is a registered professional engineer and possessed state certificates for water distribution operator and water treatment operator.

Four out of the five applicants met the requirement of having over ten years’ managerial experience at a responsible professional water utility administration. Additionally, all four of the applicants had state licenses in either drinking water or wastewater. Comparatively, Brosowske has no managerial experience at a responsible professional water utility administration, no experience in the water industry, and no state licenses related to water.

Brosowske’s resume indicated he had previously worked for San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman as a policy advisor (continued on page 3)

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August 8, 2019

COMMUNITY/EDUCATION/ADVERTISING

School Segregation Worsens for Latino Children Compared with a Generation Ago By the American Educational Research Association.

Latino children are likely to enter elementary schools this year with fewer white peers than a generation ago, judging by data reported in a new study recently published in Educa-tional Researcher, a peer-re-viewed journal of the American Educational Research Associa-tion.

However, as racial segre-gation has intensified, low-income students of all racial groups are likely to learn beside more middleclass pupils than before.

In 1998, on average, the nation’s Latino children at-tended elementary schools in which nearly 40 percent of their schoolmates were white. By 2010, that percentage fell to just 30 percent nationwide, accord-ing to the study by researchers from the University of Califor-nia, Berkeley; the University of Maryland; and the University of California, Irvine. Overall, Latino children today make up more than one quarter of the 35.5 million students attending elementary schools.

Yet the researchers also found that low-income chil-dren, regardless of their race or ethnicity, increasingly at-tend schools with middle-class peers, a development that ben-efits Black and Asian-heritage students as well as Latinos.

“Set amidst high levels of racial segregation, the widen-ing economic integration of students offers an unexpected surprise,” said study coauthor Bruce Fuller, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

The scholars tracked the ra-cial composition of school en-rollments across the nation’s more than 53,000 elementary schools between 1998 and 2015, then verified findings from nationally representative samples of more than 7,200 kindergartners drawn in 1998 and 2010.

The study details trends among elementary school stu-dents between 1998 and 2010. The authors recently supple-mented those findings with national maps and local data through 2015 that detail wide between-district variation in Latino segregation for Califor-nia, New York state, the Upper Midwest, and the Washington, D.C. area.

The odds that a randomly chosen poor child would attend school with a middle-class schoolmate climbed between 1998 and 2010, from about 40 percent to 50 percent. That is, about one half of all school-mates a lowincome pupil sees at school are now from a mid-dle-class background.

“Prior research has found that the top 5 percent of income earners are moving farther from the rest of us,” said Fuller. “Our study does not address that, but finds increased integration be-tween low- and middle-income elementary school students, es-pecially in suburbs.”

The past half-century of re-search generally finds that stu-dents from low-income back-grounds benefit when learning beside middle-class peers.

Still, Latino children suffer from severe isolation in large urban school districts, the study shows.

In 2010, in the nation’s 10 poorest districts, Latino el-ementary students attended, on average, schools that were just 5 percent white—down from 7 percent white in 1998.

This study stems from the Latino Contexts and Early De-velopment Project, based at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland, and funded by the Packard and Spencer Founda-tions.

This article originally appeared in the Oakland Post.

Two Black Authors Declare War Against Illiteracy with New Educational Model...continued experience in education – aims to inform others about people who learn differently and provide a service delivery model for reading to help students succeed at all levels, especially those with learning disabilities.

Administrators and teachers will find practical steps to help struggling students either at their school as a whole or in small groups, leading to a culture of reading. That culture can transform students.

The authors detail learning disabilities and Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactive Disorder, which crosses all races and economic backgrounds; offers resources to service providers; aims to raise money to provide 1,000 teachers with specialized training to become certified academic language therapists or licensed dyslexic therapists or practitioners; and write a service delivery model action plan that includes a buy-in from teachers, administrators, parents and governing boards, and appropriate training for teachers and staff.

If 2 out of 3 African American males in prison can’t read and they went to school every day during Kindergarten through second grade, this in itself is a national crisis! They didn’t just drop out of school, with all the peer pressure they were forced

By Sentinel News Services The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says students of color with disabilities are disciplined more harshly than their peers. It urges President Donald Trump’s administration to offer guidance to schools on how to comply with nondiscrimination laws when punishing students.

The administration rescinded Obama-era guidance in December, saying states and local school districts are responsible for deciding how to handle discipline.

The commission’s report says unevenly applied punishments, especially removing students

from class, make it harder for students to graduate and avoid the so-called school-to-prison pipeline.

Tuesday’s report also recommends that Congress provide funding for training and to help states hire more school counselors.

The Education Department says Secretary Betsy DeVos has been encouraging local schools to “implement discipline reforms that they believe will foster improved outcomes for their students.”

This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Sentinel.

NAREB President Sets Agenda Urging Millennials To Build Wealth Through Homeownership Community News

Educational News

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held at Audubon Middle School located at 4120 11th Ave., Los Angeles, Ca. 90008.

Over the years, thousands of students have attended Audubon Middle School & Gifted Magnet (AMS) and have become successful individuals. This is a perfect time for Audubon’s Alumni to reunite with their former classmates, purchase yearbooks, say thank you to their former teachers that have made an impact in their lives and celebrate alumni achievements.

Lastly, there are sponsorship opportunities for all businesses.

If you would like to make a donation to the 90th Celebration contact Audubon Middle School & Gifted Magnet.

This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel.

of Color Punished More

Authors Leroy and Yvette McClure have kicked off a new educational model with “Why Sammy Still Can’t Read: A Service Delivery Model for Creating a Culture of Reading”

a successful academic intervention plan to help ensure that they’ll learn to read, write, compute math, and be better prepared to enter college or the workforce,” he writes.

McClure’s brother is far from alone in his struggles with reading and learning. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development estimates that learning disabilities affect 15 to 20 percent of people in the United States.

Those who can’t read often face extreme challenges coping with the standardized testing in school and may struggle with graduating from high school, college or succeeding at work.

This book by Leroy and Yvette McClure – who have decades of

BOOK DETAILS: Why Sammy Still Can’t Read: A Service Delivery Model for Creating a Culture of Reading Leroy McClure and Yvette McClure Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4575-6683-7 170 pages

On Saturday, October 5, 2019 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Audubon Middle School and Gifted Magnet will be celebrating 90 years of educating students in the Leimert Park community and surround communities with celebrity Audubon Alumni such as Brandon Mebane (LA Chargers), Curren Price (Councilman), Arron Arnell “Bobo” Johnson (KJLH) and more. This celebration will include former Audubon Principals, Teachers and Staff members, a live DJ, a performance by Fernando Pullum, Krystal SmithLA Limited Addition Drumline, Food Trucks, Vendors, Photobooth, Jumpers, Raffles and more. Tickets are available through Eventbrite (AMS 90th Celebration).The event will be

10-Year Old Black Student Facing Assault Charges Over a Game of Civil Rights Panel: Disabled Students Dodgeball Community Education News

Two Black Authors Declare War Against Illiteracy with New Educational Model

Dallas, TX — Reading is a fundamental element of learning, but not everybody has that skill.

Two authors with experience in education want to change that and have released a new book to help make that happen. The book was inspired by personal experience.

A heartfelt letter kicks off Why Sammy Still Can’t Read: A Service Delivery Model for Creating a Culture of Reading. The letter is written by author Leroy McClure to his brother, Sam, who eventually discovered he had dyslexia and it serves as both an apology and a promise.

“Because I now know about different learning styles and learning disabilities, I promise I’ll help students like you receive the proper diagnosis early and create

out because they couldn’t read.

The first 3 years of school you learn to read then you read to learn. Our African American boys are forced to learn from the streets when they can’t read. To set our people free, we must control the narrative. Why Sammy Still Can’t Read also a national movement as we hold people accountable and offer solutions.

McClure urges sweeping changes in education from parents, educators and politicians, starting with the basic building block of reading. “We as Americans citizens must look at illiteracy as a crisis,” he writes.

“This is about all children exercising one of their civil rights to read so that no child will be left behind.”

Calling All Audubon Middle School Alumni By LAWT News Service

Donnell T. Williams, president, NAREB Washington, DC - August 5, 2019 - During his speech on August 1st at the conclusion of the 72nd Annual NAREB Convention held in Atlantic City, NJ, Donnell T. Williams, newly installed as the 31st president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) set a bold, yet targeted agenda to increase Black wealth through homeownership with a special focus on reaching the country's millennials. NAREB's national meeting convened just days after the U.S. Census Bureau released its second quarter 2019 homeownership rates which listed the Black homeownership rate at 40.6% the lowest it has been in more than 50 years. In comparison, the non-Hispanic White homeowner rate was 73.1%, representing more than a 30% gap.

"Bold, energetic and effective action must be taken to stop this unthinkable slippage in Black wealth. Homeownership and investment in real estate represent the tools Black Americans in general, and millennials in particular can use to build or rebuild their wealth," said Donnell Williams, taking the helm of

NAREB, the nation's oldest minority professional real estate organization. "My plan to reverse the downward slide is to reach the 1.7 million mortgage-ready Black millennials who make over $100,000 annually, but have delayed or not considered homeownership as part of their wealth building strategy," Williams stated.

Several initiatives were outlined in Mr. Williams' speech that speak to the millennial demographic. One program in particular drew much applause from the audience when he said, "Our people need to know that you're in violation if you drive a Land Rover and you pay rent to a landlord." The initiative, w w w. h o u s e t h e n a c a r. c o m launches shortly and concentrates its financial focus on attracting millennials and GenX-ers to homebuying or real estate investment opportunities to build sustainable wealth.

Mr. Williams emphasized that NAREB's member Realtists must embolden themselves as well as their potential customers. He said, "We must Educate, Empower, and Mobilize ourselves as well as the Black American public. Wealth building through homeownership is indeed possible and we need to make that happen." Mr. Williams is not new to the real estate profession.

First licensed as an agent in 1992 serving the Northern New Jersey area, he established his brokerage Destiny Realty in 2001 in Morristown, NJ with a satellite office in Newark, NJ, now one of the largest Black American, independently owned real estate brokerages in the state.

Cameishi Lindley and her son, Bryce Canton, MI — Cameishi Lindley, a mother from Michigan, says she was shocked and disappointed when she learned that her 10-year old son, Bryce, is facing assault charges for allegedly causing injuries to another student while they were playing a school game similar to dodgeball.

Last week, Lindley reportedly got a call from Wayne County Juvenile Court saying that her soon-to-be 5th grader son is being charged with aggravated assault in connection to the incident.

Lindley argued that the game was similar to dodgeball, except that the ball is thrown in the air.

“These kids are basically playing a game we all have played,” Lindley told 7 Action News.

In the incident that happened on April 29, while Bryce was playing at Ruth Eriksson Elementary in Canton, an unidentified student was hit in the face with a ball. The student’s mother claims her son is suffering a medical condition that makes head injuries especially dangerous.

A police report filed after the incident stated that Bryce intentionally threw the ball at the other student’s face, which caused him a concussion.

“He sustained facial tissue damage to his face. He had a black eye and a bruised nose,” the other parent said.

After the incident, Bryce was suspended from school for one day. Lindley thought his son already received proper punishment and it’s over.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Lindley said about the charge. “This is a kid that was playing on the playground with his friends.”

Meanwhile, the victim’s mother claimed that it wasn’t the first time his son experienced the same incidents at school. She said her son had been targeted before and she reported it mid-April before the recent incident, which she said she can’t let pass anymore.

“I tried not to let it get to this point,” the other boy’s mother said. “My son was hit twice in the face with a ball previously due to this. The child apologized to my son and my son said, ‘Mom, it’s OK, we’re still going to be friends.'”

Moreover, Lindley believes such incidents could have been solved at the school instead of the court. Lindley also said she and her son weren’t aware of the other boy’s medical condition and added that he should not have been playing a game like that if that’s the case.

A pre-trial conference for the case was scheduled in Juvenile Court on August 1.

Lindley has set up a Facebook fundraiser to help pay for her son’s legal fees. It has so far raised double the $4,000 goal.

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August 8, 2019

WORLD GOVERNMENT/BUSINESS/ADVERTISING

The Paradox of Love: Trump's United States of Hate

By Dr. Keith Magee

Dr. Keith Magee America is experiencing the most perilous of times in recent history as the result of its president, Donald Trump. Even though Monday morning he stepped forward to speak against the weekend's hate crimes, it lacks residence because of the hate that has been reverberating since his stance against the Central Park Five, his ascendance in the GOP with the birther inquisition of Barack Obama, and not immediately condemning the chants of "send her back" aimed at four congressional women of Congress for doing their job.

It remains jarring how he and the leadership of the GOP lack human decency by caging children at the border and proclaiming that Baltimore is a predominately African-American city where no humans should live.

These hateful words are intentional verbal terrorism to inflame his base and continue to label some human beings as unworthy of being in the same race as White Americans. What is equally puzzling is the silence of the White Evangelical church in which 81 percent supports and believes that he has been called

by God. These blatant domestic terrorist attacks, being exercised by White supremacists best known as the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis, are embedded deeply it how they understand God, practice Christianity and see humanity.

And, yet, there are other social justice faith leaders who are grappling with this torture and how to convey the message of God's, resulting in a divided gospel.

In the New Testament gospel of Mark 12:28-33, a scholar and scribe, out of curiosity, questioned Jesus, 'which out of all the commandments is the most important?' Jesus responds with

two statements. The first is how you are to love the "Lord your God with all your heart, your mind, your soul and your strength." The second one is to" love your neighbor like you love yourself'. The implication is very powerful because what it means is to be authentically a follower of Jesus, means I have to know how to love me before I can love you.

I recently had a rather challenging dinner conversation with a young Jewish member of the GOP, who I consider close family. He questioned why continuously refer to this president as "it". He asked, "as a Christian (that believes in the same teaching in the Torah) isn't the fundamental teaching of our faith love? If so, are you not being equally divisive in referring to Donald Trump as an "it" and the GOP as them?"

My rapid response was human beings don't spark flames of hatred. They would not find any justification in anyone that assembles to chant Jews will not replace us, say that there were very fine people on both sides, call Mexican's rapists and target Muslims. Those who have a soul would condemn the acrimony so that it wouldn't ignite a fire.

The Civil rights movement wasn't driven by policy experts.

It was accomplished by people who actually practiced their faith in love. The movement was filled with the love of Imams and Rabbis, Catholic and Orthodox Priest, Unitarians and Muslim, Baptist and Hindus, and Atheist and Quakers. There were Black women frying chicken, White women making cold cut sandwiches, gay men organizing and lesbian women strategizing.

They galvanized together to enact laws because there were racist White Americans who lacked civility. The laws had to be created to protect those whom they dehumanized with Jim Crown, the violence of rape and torture of death.

The preaching of "whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also", is no longer applicable in these times. There's no longer the tolerance to mount a non-

Reform Alternative Business Lending Practices to Protect Small-Business Owners Rep. Edolphus Towns is a board member of World Business Lenders.

He represented the 10th and 11th congressional districts in New York from 1983-2013.

By Rep. Edolphus Towns

Rep. Edolphus Towns In my three decades representing parts of New York City in the House of Representatives, expanding economic opportunities for underserved communities was a top priority. That’s why, after I retired from public service, I joined the Board of World Business Lenders, an alternative business lender that provides desperately needed financing for businesses who want to grow or expand, leading to so many ancillary benefits to their local communities.

Unfortunately, not all alternative business lenders are created equal. In an industry that is not regulated, many of them are engaged in predatory practices, preying on the very customers they are committed to serving. Unlike World Business Lenders, which has voluntarily self-regulated by implementing a “best practices” lending program committed to offering fair and transparent loan terms to its borrowers, other alternative business lenders engage in opaque and occasionally destructive behavior that can lead to bankruptcy or worse for their

own customers.

A critical tool for these predatory lenders has been the use of our state’s court system to seize the assets of small businesses whether located in New York or in any other state by employing legal instruments called “confessions of judgement.” These lenders have been requiring their small business borrowers, as a condition of receiving any short-term loans from them, to sign confessions of judgement that waive borrowers’ legal rights in any dispute with the lenders. Small business borrowers in other states have no right of notice if their assets are seized in New York under confessions of judgement and may not even realize if a New York judgement has been entered against them until their banks have seized their assets.

Alternative business lenders should make every loan transparent for their borrowers by clearly disclosing repayment terms, including interest rates, prepayment charges and by outlining clear payment schedules. Borrowers must be made aware of all fees and costs associated with their loans. Brokers and employees of alternative business lenders should be subject to background checks and continuing education requirements. Importantly, alternative business lenders (continued in last 2 columns)

violence movement or foot soldiers in protest when the evidence is clear that this venom embodied in these White-skin individuals is filled with intentional rage, injustice and violence, against everyone that isn't a pure American of AngloSaxon decent. Yes, there are few who Blacks that are getting passes but I learned early in life that there was no difference between house slaves and those in the field. The white supremacist groups categorically deem them all as subhuman.

After I stepped away and reflected on my dinner conversation, I realized that my retort to these times have caused me to depart from the most essential and guiding principle of my faith. With all that the raced baited massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio by White males ages 21 and 24 in the last 48 hours, I'm wrestling with how do you continue to offer love to those who are responsible for the spillage of your brother's bloodshed on the ground?

How do, I, as a social justice intellectual and faith leader provide guidance that teaches how to love those who persecute you, speak all manner of evil against you? How do I lean in to find similarity with those who say that the believe in the same Jesus that many non-White Americans serve? If this gospel can't unite us, especially, in times like this, then what can?

Anger and Love have no limits especially when it is seeded in fear and one's misappropriated religion. The scribes were so caught up on the rules, which made up the religion, that they had fallen short on knowing how to have relationship with God, themselves and their neighbor.

There is no negating the reality of the fear of a group of White Americans being left in poverty.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, White people are 52 percent of people lifted from poverty by safety-net programs, while Black people made up less than a quarter of that share. When it comes to receiving Medicaid, Whites make up about 43 percent of recipients, Hispanics about 30

percent, African-Americans 18 percent, with 9 percent identified as other. It is obvious that their concerns are valid.

However, it is unfortunate that their anger is misappropriated. It should be directed towards the White men, like Donald Trump, who are more focused on their own wealth than strengthening and providing economic opportunities for these White Americans.

When I awakened Sunday morning I learned of the incident in Dayton, Ohio, where I graduated high school. My close group of friends immediately began to check on those who still reside there. We learned of several recent insistences of targeted violence in Dayton.

When I learned that one of my sister-friends and her family were literally next door to where the shooting happened, I began to weep because she's family. In our group of five, who have been friends now over 35 years, I'm the only African-American. And, yes, race shows up because we have fluid conversations. However, what has kept our bond with our religious, sexuality and political party difference is love.

It was then that I realized that perhaps the answer is larger than what's in the written text and manmade doctrines. The defining moments to overcome hate will be from what is written with love in our hearts. Maybe we can organize a healing, peace and love march with American presidents, Baraka and Michelle Obama standing alongside George W. and Laura Bush? Though they had many differences, they served the Unites States of America honoring a commitment of justice, equality and love for all.

Dr Keith Magee is a public intellectual with a focus on social justice and theology. He is Senior Fellow in Culture and Justice at the University College London and Lead Pastor at The Berachah Church, Dorchester Centre, MA. He is also a 1986 graduate of Colonel White High School in Dayton, OH. For more information visit www.4justicesake.org or follow him on social media @keithlmagee.

Reform Alternative Business Lending Practices to Protect Small-Business Owners...continued should be required to offer each borrower terms not worse than the most favorable loan product for which he or she qualifies.

Alternative business lenders have nothing to fear from additional regulation. World Business Lenders is a successful company that profits even as we voluntarily abide by these terms, which protect customers. Unfortunately, in the political environment in

Washington, it is unlikely that Congress will act to prevent predatory lenders from driving small business owners into bankruptcy. In the absence of leadership in Washington, it is time for Albany to act.

Rep. Edolphus Towns is a board member of World Business Lenders.

He represented the 10th and 11th congressional districts in New York from 1983-2013.

Federal Reserve Makes First Interest Rate Cut Since 2008

By WI Web Staff

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell The Federal Reserve has cut the interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point, marking the first such cut in 11 years.

The announcement made Wednesday at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, provides an extra boost to the domestic economy as it faces threat of a global economic slowdown.

While Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has acknowledged the strength of the nation’s economy — the

10-year economic expansion is the longest on record, unemployment stands at a nearhistoric low of 3.7 percent, and the stock market continues to chalk up record highs — the move is an attempt to guard the country against increasing geopolitical tensions as well as fallout from President Donald Trump’s protracted trade war with China.

This post originally appeared in The Washington Informer.

Fire restrictions elevated on the San Bernardino National Forest San Bernardino National Forest News SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Fire restrictions on the San Bernardino National Forest will be elevated beginning today, Tuesday, August 6, 2019, officials have announced. The changes will include limiting campfires to selected sites, increased restrictions on smoking and the prohibition of welding and other open-flame activities without the proper permits.

“The wet winter has provided a very mild fire season on the forest so far, but vegetation is beginning to dry out,” said Jaime Gamboa, fire chief on the San Bernardino

National Forest. “As we near Smokey Bear’s 75th birthday later this week, we’re asking the public to take his ‘one less spark’ message to heart.”

The restrictions, which are enforced through a forest order, are set to expire December 31, 2019, but may be rescinded early or extended depending on conditions at that time.

The forest order and the list of which campgrounds and picnic areas where fires in Forest Service-provided fire rings and grills will still be allowed are attached.

Circular Firing Squad and the Makings of a Political Circus…continued from page 1 from December 2014 until February 2018.

Yet at its May 16, regular meeting President Dr. Michael Taylor, Vice President Kyle Crowther, and Director Don Olinger, voted in favor of approving Brosowske’s employment contract as an assistant general manager with an annual base salary of $189,592 and $62,500 in benefits—totaling more than a quarter million dollars per year.

As questions about Brosowske’s appointment continued to haunt WVWD and after review of the applicant’s resumes, The Voice/Black Voice News requested comment from all five WVWD directors as to their reasoning in either voting for or against Brosowske’s appointment as assistant general manager.

WVWD Board of Director Greg Young explained, “I voted against Mr. Brosowske because he completely lacked the required experience for the job.”

“Additionally, I can tell you that the board never got to meet any other candidates other than Mr. Brosowske,” he continued.

According to G. Young, Taylor and Crowther were the only board members who supposedly interviewed other candidates.

“They admitted to me that they only spent 20 minutes interviewing Mr. Brosowske,” G. Young confirmed. He concluded, “Mr. Brosowske’s appointment is the ultimate in political paybacks designed to appease Councilman Jesse Armendarez from Fontana, who is the main financial benefactor of Mr. Crowther and a close personal friend of Mr. Brosowske.”

An anonymous source close to WVWD described to The Voice/ Black Voice News a similar scenario that the vote to approve Brosowske’s employment contract was in exchange for

future campaign contributions to Crowther.

WVWD Board Director Don Olinger voiced, “In retrospect I have added reservations about my vote to support two board colleagues and the general manager in the hiring of Jeremiah Brosowske as AGM.” “My vote was based on the positive information presented by the independent consultant and the interview team,” Olinger justified explaining, “Concerns about Jeremiah expressed by Director Young were disconcerting, but I surmised that they may have been motivated by a rift between two solid Republicans.”

Olinger continued, “Negative reports about political cronyism began to surface soon after the hiring. I am trying to fact-check that information given so much spurious internet blogging.”

“Yes, the salary package is excessive for the skill, experience and background, but is in line with the other AGM positions,” Olinger reasoned recalling, “As I publicly stated, Mr Brosowske is an ‘at will’ employee and his performance will be fairly monitored.” He further expressed hope Brosowske’s contributions will meet customer expectations.

Olinger concluded by declaring his personal loyalty to the ratepayers and hopes he has avoided the appearance of favoritism and nepotism. “ ‘It’s always the ones with the dirty hands pointing the fingers,’ a wise woman once proclaimed— but she never explained what happens when everyone’s hands are dirty…”

Additionally, The Voice/Black Voice News reached out to one of the other applicants who submitted a resume for the open position of assistant general manager.

The applicant (continued on page 8)

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HEALTH/FITNESS/SENIOR NEWS

Activities planned in celebration of National Breastfeeding Month

Ring of Champs Boxing Show In Fontana at the Jessie Turner Center helps Fighting 4 the Tatas cause!

Health/Fitness News

The County of San Bernardino Department of Public Health’s (DPH) Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will be celebrating National Breastfeeding Month throughout the month of August. Several breastfeeding promotional

activities will be taking place in the community such as milk bank drives and acknowledgment of breastfeeding mothers throughout the county.

This year’s theme for National Breastfeeding Month is Empower

White House drug reform reversal leaves mental health patients pinching pennies

By Patrick J. Kennedy The White House just axed a proposal that would have made medicines more affordable for patients living with mental illness.

Had the change taken effect, millions of Americans would have found it easier to afford the medicines they need.

I've made it my life's mission to help Americans who are battling mental illnesses.

While serving in the House of Representatives, I authored and co-sponsored bills to improve treatment of mental health disorders. And I've continued to advocate for these patients since leaving Congress.

Each year, millions of Americans confront mental illness. Roughly one in six Americans relies on some form of psychiatric medication.

Many patients struggle to afford the medications that keep them healthy. In 2017, nearly half of people battling a mental illness went without treatment, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Almost half of those patients cited cost as the reason.

High out-of-pocket pharmacy bills deserve much of the blame.

An analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that when copays for antidepressants double, patients fill 26 percent fewer prescriptions.

The Trump administration's proposed rule would have reduced patients' out-of-pocket costs. Specifically, the rule targeted third-party entities called pharmacy benefit

managers.

Insurers hire PBMs to negotiate discounts with pharmaceutical companies. In recent years, PBMs have extracted ever-greater price concessions from drug makers.

Total rebates grew from less than $70 billion in 2013 to $160 billion in 2018.

PBMs and insurers often use these discounts to reduce premiums. But they rarely use the savings to reduce patients' outof-pocket costs.

The president’s reform would have made it illegal for drug makers to give rebates to PBMs in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, unless the PBMs and insurers used the rebates to reduce out-of-pocket costs.

This change would have driven down medical expenses for patients with government health insurance. Medicare beneficiaries were expected to save between $14 billion and $25 billion over the next decade.

Unfortunately, now that the Trump administration has withdrawn the rule, these patients will never see those savings.

For too many Americans, high out-of-pocket costs impede access to treatment. Abandoning this helpful reform was the wrong move.

Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative (D-RI), is the founder of the DontDenyMe.org and author of the New York Times bestseller "A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction."

‘Our Words Are Not Enough’: Educators Call for Immediate Action to End America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Health/Fitness News BURLINGAME – CTA President E. Toby Boyd issued the following statement today calling for immediate action to end the deadly gun violence epidemic that terrorizes our communities and threatens families indiscriminately nationwide: “Our words are not enough.

Our combined thoughts and prayers do nothing to stop the seemingly endless plague of mass shootings and violence in America that have claimed 255 innocent lives this year alone. In the aftermath of Gilroy and another tragic weekend that saw guns kill 20 at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, nine at an entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, and three in ongoing gun violence in Chicago, we must stand together and do more than offer empty words to the families

and communities grieving for their murdered daughters, sons, parents, friends and neighbors.

“In school, we teach our students to work together to solve problems. As educators, we help children develop a foundation of respect, celebrate diversity, and collaborate to overcome shared challenges.

These have long been hallmarks of American democracy and part of what makes our country special. We may not always agree on difficult issues, but we are willing to put aside those disagreements to fight a shared threat. Gun violence and domestic terrorism are threatening our country.

“It’s time for immediate action to make our communities safe again. This doesn’t only mean (continued in next 2 columns)

Parents, Enable Breastfeeding.

The theme was chosen to be inclusive of all types of parents in today’s world. When families receive adequate information, resources and technical breastfeeding support, they are able to meet their breastfeeding goals and overcome challenges.

Breastfeeding women are more likely to breastfeed for longer periods of time with the support of fathers, partners, families, communities and even workplaces. Raising awareness during the month of August is one way WIC shows support in breastfeeding.

“WIC staff are trained and skilled to prepare pregnant moms and support new moms with breastfeeding their babies,” said Heather Wellons-Blum, Program Manager for San Bernardino County DPH WIC. “WIC is an excellent resource to turn to for questions, information and, most importantly, support.”

Breastfeeding is a key element to human well-being from the start of life. Major medical organizations recommend breastfeeding exclusively for six months and continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of a child’s life. Breastfeeding protects infants and mothers from a host of conditions and diseases.

The longer a mother decides to breastfeed, the more benefits she and her baby receives.

WIC promotes and provides breastfeeding support, which aims to remove obstacles that parents might encounter when attempting to breastfeed, which further supports the Countywide Vision of improving health and promoting wellness in the community.

For more information on WIC and their breastfeeding activities, please call 909-252-5170 or visit the WIC website at c m s . s b c o u n t y. g o v / w i c / home.aspx.

‘Our Words Are Not Enough’: Educators Call for Immediate Action to End America’s Gun Violence Epidemic...continued changing laws to protect our communities and ending the scourge of gun violence; it will require a collective commitment to making our country better for all of us. It is our shared responsibility to set aside the rhetoric and divisive politics, and work together to provide mental health resources, demand commonsense gun laws, and fight the hate that often fuels this disgusting violence. Words alone won’t fix anything; it will take action.

Something is fundamentally broken when a trip to the mall, a festival, or a night out with friends could end in a

hail of gunfire.

“As families from Gilroy to El Paso to Dayton and beyond make unplanned funeral arrangements, continued inaction is not an option. One place to start is by urging your U.S. Senator to support legislation expanding background checks for firearms and closing loopholes that make it too easy to buy guns. We educators urge our fellow Americans to stand with us for safety in our communities and to work together to end the epidemic of gun violence and domestic terrorism.”

Health News

The Fontana Boxing Club will hold the Ring of Champs Boxing Show on August 10, 2019, at 1 pm, in the Jessie Turner Center in Fontana, CA. This event is scheduled to hold 20 bouts of young amateur boxers and will showcase the work of the Fontana Boxing Club and the young boxers that are learning boxing skills, training in building selfconfidence and self-discipline.

Fontana Boxing logo City Pride Magazine brand1 City Pride Magazine is partnering with the Fontana Boxing Club and Fighting 4 the Tatas to help promote the Ring of Champs Boxing Show. We are providing advertisement and media promotion and providing a special issue of City Pride Magazine that will be a souvenir program for the Ring of Champs Boxing show. This special edition will feature stories about the activities at the Fontana Boxing Club and the young people that they are helping to grow into champions. This edition will also feature Fighting 4 The Tatas Breast Cancer Awareness Organization and the work they are doing to alert the community of this dangerous health threat.

We will also cover other important events and news in Fontana and the Inland Empire.

We are offering business, community leaders and individuals an opportunity to join us and be a part of this great event. We are offering pages in the magazine/program where businesses can advertise and show their support for what these community organizations are doing. The advertisement will help support the activities of the Fontana Boxing Club and Fighting 4 The Tatas Breast Cancer Awareness Organization.

Join us by getting a full-page ad for only $200 and ½ page ad for only $100. Cover page ads for front and back page is only $500.

Please join us in our efforts to make this event successful and continue to provide these great services to our communities. Call City Pride Magazine at (424) 2222296 or email citypridemag@gmail.com for more information on how you can participate.

The Ring of Champs Boxing Show will be a great event for the entire community.. The cost is only $10 General, $20 Ringside and part of the proceeds will go toward Fighting 4 the Tatas Breast Cancer Awareness. For more info on Fontana Boxing Club visit at 7893 Sierra Ave. Fontana CA or call (909) 997- 5724 or view www.fontanaboxing club.com

Making Progress Against America’s Number One Cancer Killer on World Lung Cancer Day Health News [SAN DIEGO] – (July 31, 2019) – Lung cancer death rates in the U.S. have decreased 11.5 percent since 2013, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For World Lung Cancer Day on August 1, the American Lung Association in California is highlighting recent lung cancer advancements that save more lives.

“Even with the decrease in deaths, lung cancer remains the number one cancer killer of both men and women in the U.S. Here in California, it is estimated that 18,990 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer and approximately 10,970 will succumb to the disease in 2019,” said Allison Hickey, Executive Vice President for the American Lung Association in California.

“However, we are making huge strides in our fight against lung cancer and the decrease in lung cancer deaths motivates us to continue our efforts.”

cancer are more than four times more likely to survive five years, but currently only 16 percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed early.

The Lung Association is working to change that. Through the Saved By the Scan campaign, the organization raises awareness of lifesaving low-dose CT scan lung cancer screening.

The scan is the only lung cancer screening tool that reduces the mortality rate for lung cancer by detecting the disease before it spreads. Today, there are an estimated eight million Americans who are at high risk for lung cancer and qualify for screening.

If everyone eligible were screened, an estimated 25,000 lives would be saved. To see if you qualify for a lung cancer screening, take a two-minute quiz at SavedBytheScan.org.

Investments in Research Awareness Through its LUNG FORCE initiative, the Lung Association raises awareness about lung cancer in both women and men.

In the most recent Lung Health Barometer survey, the organization saw positive increases in their efforts to raise awareness about the disease.

Since the inception of the Lung Health Barometer, women have become eight percentage points more likely to speak to their doctor about lung cancer (26 percent in 2017 vs. 18 percent in 2014). However, there is more work to do as only three percent of women cite lung cancer as a top-of-mind health concern.

Early Detection Unfortunately, most lung cancer cases are still diagnosed in the later stages when treatment is less likely to be curative. People diagnosed at early stages of lung

In the last five years, LUNG FORCE has raised money and advocated for more lung cancer research funding to help develop new treatments and better methods of early detection. The Lung Association has funded over $14 million in lung cancer research since the launch of LUNG FORCE in 2014.

Additionally, the organization advocated for a 69 percent increase in lung cancer research funding at the National Institutes of Health.

“We are excited to see that lung cancer deaths have decreased, but there is still so much more that we need to do to end this terrible disease,” said Hickey.

“Anyone with lungs can get lung cancer, so we encourage everyone to educate themselves and their loved ones about risks, early detection and symptoms.”

To learn more about lung cancer, volunteer or donate, please visit Lung.org.

"Babe" the pig could save the lives of human babies By Matthew R. Bailey More than 100,000 Americans are on waitlists for organ transplants. Many will die before the organ they need becomes available.

Those deaths may soon be avoidable. A team of researchers in Japan just announced that it had successfully grown mice kidneys inside rats using only a small collection of stem cells.

Researchers noted, "This approach could be used to generate human stem-cell-derived organs in livestock."

In other words, scientists could eventually grow human organs in pigs and other mammals -- and then transplant those organs to sick patients.

Some fringe activists want to shut such revolutionary research down -- and ban scientists from conducting medical studies in animals. Doing so would effectively tell the hundreds of thousands of people awaiting organ transplants they haven't suffered long enough.

Thousands of Americans are alive today thanks to organ transplants. In 2017, surgeons in the United States performed more than 34,000 transplants -including more than 3,200 heart transplants and nearly 19,500 kidney transplants.

Without animal research, these operations wouldn't have been possible. Consider the history of the heart transplant. In the mid20th century, researchers employed animals to investigate how to perform a transplant and minimize the chances of organ rejection. In the 1950s, U.S.

surgeon Norman Shumway began performing heart transplants in dogs. Building off his work, Professor Christiaan Barnard practiced transplants in animals for years, and ultimately completed the first human-tohuman transplant in 1967.

Animal research continues to influence the field of transplant medicine today. Scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, for example, recently analyzed how blood serum from a human baby interacted with cells from a genetically modified pig. The scientists found no adverse reaction. Based on this experiment, researchers believe babies in need of heart transplants might be able to rely on a pig heart until a human heart is available.

Animal research could also make organ transplants safer. It's difficult to determine when a body starts rejecting an organ. In many cases, a biopsy will be normal, and a patient will feel perfectly fine until organ damage is already severe. New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University could change that.

Using mice, scientists developed a method that makes urine fluorescent when the body starts rejecting an organ.

Despite the potential for such research to save and improve lives, critics continue to attack scientists for using animals in research. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently called on the federal government (continued on page 6)

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BY SIGNING, 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 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).) 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 THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN 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.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190008870 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 7/29/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 7/29/2024 Business is Conducted By: An Individual Fictitious Business Name(s): BUSTAMANTE CARRIERS Business Address: 17155 BASELINE AVE. FONTANA, CA 92336 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: JOSE R. BUSTAMANTE 17155 BASELINE AVE. FONTANA, CA 92336 Signature/Officer Title: Jose R. Bustamante

BY SIGNING, 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 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).) 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 THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN 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.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVVS 1900400 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:STANLEY LEE TAYLOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a.

STANLEY LEE TAYLOR to Proposed name: TAMIR ELIEZER ISRAEL THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written 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: 9/13/19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: V15 Superior Court Of California County Of San Bernardino SUPERIOR COURT 14455 Civic Drive Victorville, CA 92392 A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837 Victorville, CA 92393 Date: 7/30/19 Carlos M. Cabrera Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019

PETITION/PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE (Probate-Decedents’ Estates) Notice Of Petition to Administer Estate Of: LUZ ELENA MACIAS

aka LUZ E. MACIAS and LUZ MACIAS Case Number: PROPS 1900985 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LUZ ELENA

MACIAS, LUZ E. MACIAS and LUZ MACIAS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ROSALIO MACIAS in the Superior Court of California, County of: SAN BERNARDINO The Petition for Probate requests that ROSALIO MACIAS 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 as follows: Date: September 18, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S36: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 WEST THIRD STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 PROBATE 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: William M. Nassar 1461 Ford Street, Suite 203 Redlands, CA 92373 Telephone: (909)307-2000 Published in The San Bernardino American Newspaper August 8, 15, 22, 2019.

SUMMONS SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1904518 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JEFF STALIANS AKA JEFFREY STALIANS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Shiv Samtani, Esq., (Bar #320822), 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/8425850 (File No. 560121) DATE (Fecha): FEB 07 2019 Clerk (Secretario), by Sabrina Jamison, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

8/8, 8/15, 8/22, 8/29/19 CNS-3281183# THE SAN BERNARDINO AMERICAN

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1901602 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): FELIPE G PACHECO YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Shiv Samtani, Esq., (Bar #320822), 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/8425850 (File No. 559629) DATE (Fecha): JAN 15 2019 Clerk (Secretario), by Daniela Vargas, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8/19 CNS-3273242# THE SAN BERNARDINO AMERICAN

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1810117 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): FRANK F CARSON IV YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the

California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Diego, CA 924150210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is(El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Golnaz Heidari, Esq., (Bar #317574), 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/8425850 (File No. 554679) DATE (Fecha): APR 24 2018 Clerk (Secretario), by Amanda Vice, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

8/8, 8/15, 8/22, 8/29/19 CNS-3280346# THE SAN BERNARDINO AMERICAN SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso) CIVDS1828988 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JARED ISAAC LARA, ROGELIO J RO BLES AND DOES 1 TO 10 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MERCURY INSURANCE COMPANY You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesza por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/ espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumpilmiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, pueda llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de

California, (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/ espanol/) o poniendose en cantacto con la corte o el colegio de abagados locales The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino CA 92415-0210 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Breanne L. Reese, Esq., Bar #314663, 3168 Lionshead Avenue Carlsbad, CA 92010 (File No. 283530) Telephone: 760/8425850 Date (Fecha): March 29 2019

by Karina Venegas, Deputy (Delegado) SEAL NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (Personal Injury or Wrongful Death) To: JARED ISAAC LARA Plaintiff: MERCURY INSURANCE COMPANY seeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows: 1. General damages AMOUNT Pain, suffering, and inconvenience....$500.00 2. Special damages Property damage....$6,382.24 Date: July 23 2019 /s/ Breanne L. Reese, Esq. 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22/19 CNS-3278272# THE SAN BERNARDINO AMERICAN

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1908600 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): RAFAEL OJEDA YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese, Esq., (Bar #118226), 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/8425850 (File No. 560834) DATE (Fecha): MAR 19 2019 Clerk (Secretario), by Sabrina Duran, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

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SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1907130 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): LEAH J VARGAS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese, Esq. (Bar #118226), 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/8425850 (File No. 560608) DATE (Fecha): MAR 04 2019 Clerk (Secretario), by Daisy Bailon, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

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CEA Governing Board expands policyholder eligibility for seismic retrofit grants Thousands of CEA policyholders eligible to receive $3,000 to strengthen houses as part of CEA’s Brace + Bolt program; receive discounts on earthquake insurance premiums (SACRAMENTO) The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) Governing Board voted unanimously to offer up to a $3,000 retrofit grant, to approximately 30,000 CEA policyholders as part of CEA’s existing Brace + Bolt program.

Previously, 12,000 CEA policyholders were eligible to apply for this retrofit grant, launched earlier this year.

Beginning July 1, eligible CEA policyholders can receive up to a 25% discount on their CEA earthquake insurance premium when they retrofit their house to modern building codes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, represented by Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci; State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara; and State Treasurer Fiona Ma are the three voting members of the CEA Governing Board.

“Retrofitting your home is a simple step to take in making your life more disaster resilient and could save you enormous hardship,” said Director Ghilarducci.

“Reducing the chance of a house sliding off its foundation during an earthquake, while at the same time lowering the cost of earthquake insurance for the homeowner, is a great outcome.”

“Californians face the reality that an earthquake could strike at any moment,” said Commissioner Lara.

“Preparation and mitigation will be critical to the millions of Californians living in residences that are not built to withstand a significant quake. This successful retrofitting program will help thousands of CEA policyholders make their homes more secure and their earthquake insurance more affordable.”

Expanded eligibility criteria offers relief to CEA policyholders with premium increases Glenn Pomeroy, CEA’s Chief Executive Officer, noted that, starting July 1, 2019, premiums will be lower for about 75% of CEA policyholders, while 25% of CEA policyholders will see a premium increase.

Premium increases are a result of a number of rating factors, including recent scientific findings that show increased earthquake risk in certain areas; rising construction costs; and greater recognition of certain construction factors that contribute to damage, such as the type of roof and foundation.

“We want to help our most at-risk homeowners reduce their risk, so they can increase the safety of their home while lowering their earthquake insurance premium,” Pomeroy said.

The CEA Brace + Bolt program will provide up to $3,000 to 3,500 eligible policyholders who sign up for this program on a firstcome, first-served basis and complete a code-compliant retrofit. If more policyholders sign up, CEA will seek additional funding for the program.

“All CEA policyholders benefit when an older insured house is seismically retrofitted,” said Pomeroy.

“When we reduce the chance of one of our homes being completely destroyed or badly damaged in an earthquake, we reduce the risk of loss for our entire portfolio. We also reduce the risk of damage to neighboring homes that could be affected if a vulnerable house were to topple off its foundation.

Everyone wins.”

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Obama Twitter Comment About Recent Violence In America Local/National News

Barack Obama (@BarackObama) · Twitter

Michelle and I grieve with all the families in El Paso and Dayton who endured these latest mass shootings. Even if details are still emerging, there are a few things we already know to be true.

First, no other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see in the United States. No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do. Every time this happens, we're told that tougher gun laws won't stop all murders; that they won't stop every deranged individual from getting a weapon and shooting innocent people in public places. But the evidence shows that they can stop some killings. They can save some families from heartbreak. We are not helpless here. And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening.

Second, while the motivations behind these shootings may not yet be fully known, there are indications that the El Paso shooting follows a dangerous trend: troubled individuals who embrace racist ideologies and see themselves obligated to act

violently to preserve white supremacy. Like the followers of ISIS and other foreign terrorist organizations, these individuals may act alone, but they've been radicalized by white nationalist websites that proliferate on the internet. That means that both law enforcement agencies and internet platforms need to come up with better strategies to reduce the influence of these hate groups.

But just as important, all of us have to send a clarion call and behave with the values of tolerance and diversity that should be the hallmark of our democracy. We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don't look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as subhuman, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people. Such language isn't new - it's been at the root of most human tragedy throughout history, here in America and around the world. It is at the root of slavery and Jim Crow, the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. It has no place in our politics and our public life. And it's time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of good will, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much clearly and unequivocally.

Woodcrest Library Closing For Library Expansion Local/National News RIVERSIDE, CA. (August 6, 2019) — The Riverside County Library System (RCLS) would like to announce that the Woodcrest Library will be closing for a short period of time to make some improvements to the facility. The closure will begin on Wednesday, August 7, 2019.

The current facility is a total of 10,082 square feet and welcomes close to 173,000 visitors a year.

With the rapid growth of the community and the demand for more program space, the library will be expanding the main floor and community room; enhancing the children’s room and teen space; replacing the floors and furniture; and creating a more welcoming entrance. The expansion will consist of approximately 1,200 square feet throughout the facility.

A full closure will be for a short period of time, estimating 3 months with potential partial openings during the project until the completion in the Spring of 2020. Please check the website (www.rivlib.net) for more information. All Woodcrest Library programs will be on hold during this time. Patrons may

visit, utilize services, return and check out items at any of our other Riverside County Library System branches. Local branches include: Mead Valley Library – 21580 Oakwood St., Mead Valley Perris Library – 163 E. San Jacinto, Perris The Western County Bookmobile will also be available throughout the community. For the Bookmobile schedule, please visit the website at www.rivlib.net. The schedule can be found under the “Branches” menu then “Western County Bookmobile”.

Your continued patronage is greatly appreciated. We look forward to serving you and your families again in the near future in your newly expanded Woodcrest Library.?

The Riverside County Library System is a division of the Riverside County Economic Development Agency. For more information, please contact the Riverside County Library System at (951) 369-3003 or visit www.rivlib.net.

Single Black Seniors Network Coming to a City Near You National News

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) - Single Black Seniors Network (SBSN) is proud to announce that it is expanding their network beyond the Chicagoland region.

SBSN is a socialization network of like-minded seniors who come together to interact and enjoy planned activities. Since its launch in 2016, Single Black Seniors Network has over 400 registered networkers, has connected more than 30 couples, hosted 25 socials, 8 speed-dating events and a number of discussion groups and workshops. It serves as the primary networking organization for single black seniors in the Chicagoland area. "Single Black Seniors Network is looking to expand into other cities across the country," announced CEO, Gerri Norington.

"I receive inquires from all over the country on a regular basis, asking if Single Black Seniors Network is available in their city.

It is time to share the knowledge learned in the past three years so the whole country can enjoy the excitement and the benefit of the Network," said Ms. Norington.

Of the Black seniors in this country, 63% are single; living their retirement years alone, often lonely, and some even depressed.

Statistics also show that seniors who live alone, without regular interaction with other seniors, live an average of 8 years less than those who have a mate and/ or socialize regularly.

Creating opportunities for people to socialize and possibly make connections is a part of Single Black Seniors Network's mission. Whether its through getting out and enjoying fun activities or socializing with a group of like-minded seniors, it is crucial to stave off the urges to remain isolated. Single Black Seniors Network is helping

Single Black seniors at a speed dating event people make connections through socials with a DJ playing a variety of music, card playing, good food, movie/concert outings, discussion groups, speed-dating, and fun adventures. A monthly newsletter is published showcasing photos from the previous month's activities and always includes an article on how to live a healthier life.

"I was one of three men who showed up for the first event in December 2016, the coldest day of that year. I am so pleased to see so many more men participating these days. Single Black Seniors Network is a real jewel for black seniors, offering opportunities to socialize with warm, friendly, approachable seniors in comfortable surroundings. Even for a guy like me who doesn't really dance, there is always something to do and good conversations to be had," says Skip LeMay, age 66.

With CEO Norington keeping the network active, there's plenty of room for people to make a connection beyond the social

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Calls on Senate Republicans to Take Action on Gun Reform Now

aspects of networking. Just recently, Single Black Seniors Network celebrated the first marriage to come out of the network. The married couple is only one of at least six committed couples that met during activities hosted by Single Black Seniors Network. Many others have met (through speed-dating usually), dated, and later broke up.

"Single Black Seniors Network is the best way to meet black single seniors. I enjoy the variety of women and their interests. The activities (socials and speeddating in particular) are fun and allow for great interactions. SBSN has effectively changed my life and brought back a level of excitement about life that I thought was long gone; it is a fresh, innovative group that addresses the needs of seniors," says Charles Williams, age 77.

If you have a parent, friend, grandparent, or if you are 60 years young and want to experience a network of new and friendly faces, then Single Black Seniors Network is for you. To learn more about how to participate, go to

SingleBlackSeniorsNetwork.net to register and sign up to receive emails about activities for seniors in the community and the monthly newsletter.

About Single Black Seniors Network SBSN is a socialization network of retired seniors primarily, who come together to interact and stave off the urges to remain isolated in their homes.

The mission of SBSN is: to facilitate interaction among and between single seniors by sponsoring activities and events to allow for connections to naturally occur, helping seniors to grow older, and healthier, with loving relationships.

If you are interested in helping to bring Single Black Seniors Network to your area, please contact Gerri Norington 773-4059 0 2 0 , iamthebizcoach@gmail.com, singleblackseniorsnetwork.net or follow on Facebook at w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / singleblackseniorsnetwork

7 Job Openings For Black Designers and Innovators Local/National News

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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) released this statement on the need for common-sense gun reform in the wake of the deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio: “My deepest sympathies and sincerest condolences to all those who lost loved ones in El Paso, Texas – my hometown – and Dayton, Ohio, this weekend. My prayers are also with all of those injured. These two communities are forever changed by these horrific tragedies.

“I join my colleagues and gun safety advocacy groups in urging Senate Leader McConnell to call an emergency session to take up the gun safety bills that have already been passed by the House of Representatives.

“In February, the House passed HR 8 and HR 1112 – bipartisan bills that would require background checks on nearly all gun purchases and extend the waiting period for individuals

looking to purchase a gun from a licensed dealer. 60% of Americans support stricter gun laws in the United States. The continued refusal of the Senate to take up these bills is a national disgrace.

Every day that they wait, more lives will be lost.

“But we also have to call out this White House for its role in creating the hateful environment that has produced the kinds of shootings that we've seen in El Paso, Texas, and Gilroy, California.

“We cannot accept a country where white supremacist violence is tolerated or expected. These are acts of domestic terrorism. And we have to be clear on that.

“The longer we wait to take action, the more lives that will be needlessly lost. It’s beyond past time to pass these urgently needed gun safety measures, and I expect that Leader McConnell will finally do his job and address these horrific shootings.”

"Babe" the pig could save the lives of human babies ...continued from page 4 to investigate animal research at the University of Washington.

Activists have also staged protests at other prominent research institutions, including the University of Delaware, the University of Missouri, and Colorado State University.

Activists claim animal research is cruel and unnecessary. They say there are other ways to conduct research that don't involve animals -- such as using cell cultures or computer models.

But such restrictions would stifle medical progress. Cell cultures and computer models aren't sophisticated enough to replicate how a transplanted organ will interact with human and

animal immune systems.

Further, scientists don't abuse animals. The opposite is true -they go to great lengths to ensure animals are treated humanely. The federal Animal Welfare Act also sets a host of regulations, guidelines, and inspection requirements on scientists who use animals in research.

Americans are dying because there aren't enough organs available for transplant. Animal research offers us a chance to save the lives of our fellow citizens.

Matthew R. Bailey is president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research. This piece originally ran in Deseret News.

Nationwide -- African American designers and innovators have been excelling for years in fashion, art and software development.

Many have been successful as entrepreneurs with their own business enterprises, while others have been hired to work for Fortune 500 companies and other small businesses across the country.

Here are 7 job opportunities that are very popular for Black creative designers and innovators: #1 - Contemporary Designer for Jennifer Lopez Clothing and Decor: Will work at Kohl's headquarters to actively participate in the conceptual development of the Jennifer Lopez brand and provide direction for color and art development. Also, involves partnering with with the trend and design team to prioritize trends for area of responsibility and to share creative ideas. #2 - Communications Design Manager at the Oakland Museum of California: Will work as the key interface between the Design Studio and the institution for nonexhibition based 2D design needs. Will be responsible for ensuring that the design needs of the institution are being met and that the graphic design output is on brand. #3 - Product Designer at Nautilus Labs: Will work passionately to solve complex, real-world problems in maritime shipping to bring together human-centered design and lean and agile philosophies to deliver value and delight to customers.

Will need to collaborate closely with product managers, engineers

and business stakeholders. #4 - Social Content Creator at Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN): Will primarily include developing content for social channels such as GIFs, video pieces, graphic assets and images, etc. Will be a self-starter with start-to-finish graphic design experience either at a major agency, brand, or entertainment company. #5 - Associate Designer at Kohl's: Will support product design, and create tech packs, trim sheets and design packages.

Will help with handbag design and will presents new creative ideas in working sessions to influence cross-functional partners on product direction #6 - Animator at Playstation: Will collaborate with a versatile team of 3D artists, C++ programmers, and other Unreal developers and designers to build fluid, life-like animations. Will get the chance to demonstrate your knowledge of animation principles and character motions through a blend of key-frame animation and motion capture. #7 - Technical Designer at Kohl's: Will conduct quality and value analysis of samples to suggest product improvements that deliver customer expectations. Will also develop innovative solutions to recommend efficiencies in process or product related solutions to promote best outcome for Kohl's workplace and/or customer.

To view thousands of other job openings from employers that are dedicated to diversity hiring, visit www.BlackJobs.com

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VH1’s Launches New Show ‘Love and Listings’ By Shannen Hill

Hundreds of friends, family, and reality television stars came out to celebrate the launch of VH1’s new show “Love & Listings” on Monday, July 29.

The show features a diverse cast of young real estate agents trying to make their way here in Los Angeles. These aren’t your typical real estate agents. They show homes worth millions to their celebrity clientele including Jermain Dupri, Jordin Sparks, Amber Rose, Ray Jay, Bandy Norwood, Laz Alonzo, and more.

Along with their celebrity clientele comes some drama as the castmates battle through their love lives, business lives, and personal competition with one another.

Love & Listings features Suge Knight’s son, Jacob Knight, as one of the castmates. In Monday’s episode, he showed a house to Rev Run’s daughter, Vanessa Simmons, and the two connected on having hip hop royalty parents. Knight, however, is still trying to pass his real estate license test so he can’t make official sales without splitting the commission with a licensed agent.

To help him pass his test, he introduces his friend, Taylor Schwartz, to the show. Schwartz is the fire cracker of the show. She has her real estate license and passed the test on her first try, but she is also only 19 years old on the show. Schwartz’s castmate, Ajani Scott, brings up her age as an insult almost causing a fight on the first episode.

Scott is new to the city and the other castmates are still trying to get a feel for her. On Monday’s episode, she shows a condo to Sean Kingston and he takes a liking to her outside of real estate.

Scott turns to her friend Andrew Clinkscale to get advice on whether she should take the full commission on the Sean Kingston deal or split it with her mentor, Erik Miles. The other cast-members include former NFL player Zac Diles, his love interest Samantha

Barretto who works with one of the most prestigious real estate agencies in Beverly Hills, celebrity broker Tai Savet, and real estate tycoons Sarah Scheper and Alexandre Anu. “We’re all diverse, African American and other, real estate agents closing multi-million dollar deals every day and there’s nothing else on television that looks like or sounds like that. A lot of people tell me that they don’t even think about a diverse image when they think of multimillion-dollar real estate and they should because that’s what we do,” said Andrew Clinkscale.

“With this show, there’s intrigue, there’s drama, there’s big money being made and lost, there’s betrayal, there’s a whole bunch of things that make life amazing and television even more amazing. ” The launch party was full of drinks and laughter. Some rea1ity stars came out to show support.

Mister Ray and Masika Kalysha of VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop Hollywood” were at the party, along with Tonya Reneé Banks of Little Women L.A. Model Slick Woods, was also in attendance.

The party was catered by Chef Ryan Rondeno of Rodeno Culinary Designs. He cooked macaroni and cheese, short ribs, mashed potatoes, chicken croquette with soy red curry sauce, and grilled shrimp with lemon herb aioli.

As with all reality shows, we are promised drama for the rest of the season. The party, however, went very smoothly and the castmates seemed to get along. This is a young, diverse group with a lot of potential. Even though things can get a little crazy in their personal lives, they keep it professional in their business lives. Love & Listings airs Monday nights at 10 p.m. on VH1.

For more information on the show ad cast, visit www.vh1.com.

This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Sentinel.

L.A. Sparks Bet on Defense to Defeat Las Vegas Aces By Amanda Scurlock

If Las Vegas had Aces, the Los Angeles Sparks had a royal flush on Thursday in their 76-68 win over the Las Vegas Aces. The odds were against the Sparks as the Aces were searching for their 15th win of the season, which would have put them in first place in the WNBA. “They’re a contender right now,” said Sparks center Nneka Ogwumike. “We would really like to be able to win the series because they’re the team we play four times this year.”

Some might have betted against the Sparks due to injuries, with Chiney Ogwumike and Alana Beard out, but their hand stayed hot throughout the game. Sparks star Candace Parker, guard Alexis Jones and forward Maria Vadeeva returned to the lineup.

Nneka led the Sparks with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Guard Chelsea Gray led the Sparks with 10 assists to complement 16 points. In her return, Parker made a showing with 16 points, seven rebounds, three steals, and four blocks.

Aces guard Kayla McBride had 19 points and forward Dearica

Hamby made 11 rebounds with her 11 points. Las Vegas was without starting guard A’ja Wilson, who is out with an ankle injury.

The Sparks jumped to an 11-4 lead to begin the game, by Parker who had six points by the first timeout. Aces center Liz Cambage picked up two quick fouls and was soon subbed out the game.

“We know she was a big offensive part of her playing,” center Kalani Brown said about Cambage. “Her getting in foul trouble that takes away a lot so our girls can get to the paint.”

When the Aces’ shots were not falling, guard Tamera Young made plays to keep the Aces in the game. Las Vegas had a nine-point deficit at the end of the first.

Brown hit a jumper, pegging the Sparks score at 26. Then Los Angeles hit a four-minute lull, allowing Las Vegas to get within two points. Guard Kayla McBride would give the Aces the lead with a free throw; she continued to best the Sparks defense, scoring 11 points in the second quarter alone. (continued in next 2 columns)

L.A. Sparks Bet on Defense to Defeat Las Vegas Aces...continued “Every now and then people get in foul trouble,” said Aces head coach Bill Laimbeer. “We have other players who are able to come in and pick it up. We got behind in the first quarter, but our bench did a good job of coming to get the game back and in their control for a tied half time.”

The Aces frontcourt managed the offense with a 10-3 run after the half. Ogwumike found shots around the Las Aves defense.

Brown tied the game at 56 with a free throw and the Sparks began taking authority of the game late minutes of the third quarter. Guard Sydney Wiese tossed a no-look pass to Vadeeva, helping the Sparks remain in the lead.

“Sydney has been making big plays in practice,” Parker said.

“I’ve watched her over the last three years develop.”

The Aces still competed in the fourth quarter; guard Kelsey Plum brought Las Vegas within one point. Cambage and McBride would also bring the game close, but Jones, Parker and Gray made shots to sustain the lead. Las Vegas only scored eight points in the final minutes of regulation.

“We missed a few chippy shots, layups,” Young said. “We wasn’t aggressive, I felt we let then get kind of comfortable and had lapses on communication.”

This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Sentinel.

UCC leaders call for action to end gun violence now Written by Connie Larkman

After two mass murders in just over 13 hours that left 29 people dead and scores injured in Texas and Ohio, the President of the United States echoed the call that religious leaders and gun violence prevention advocates have been sounding for years: It’s time for swift bipartisan action to address the national epidemic of gun violence.

United Church of Christ leaders think the U.S. needs to go a step further.

They issued a call to action, urging churches and congregants to make gun violence prevention a prominent campaign issue – in addition to offering prayers for victims, their families and the communities of El Paso, Tex., and Dayton, Ohio, where the Aug. 3 and 4 shootings occurred.

"In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy," President Donald Trump said from the White House Monday, Aug. 5. "These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul."

In his Monday remarks, Trump stopped short of advocating for gun control legislation, calling instead for the need to disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism. He blamed the violence on the internet, video games and mental illness. "First we must do a better job identifying and disrupting early warning signs. Stop the glorification of violence in our society.

We must reform mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence. Get treatment, and when necessary, involuntary confinement," Trump continued. "Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun."

Immediately after the weekend massacres, the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ spoke out against white supremacist rhetoric and said it’s long past time that lawmakers focus on domestic terrorism and sensible gun control legislation.

"These shootings are utterly horrifying. America must stop thinking prayers for the victims alone will resolve this. Two things must happen.

Responsible gun laws must pass through Congress. And the President must be censured when his rhetoric crosses the line of decency and incites violence," said the Rev. John C. Dorhauer.

News reports identified the shooter in El Paso as a white male acting on racially motivated extremism. He drove 10 hours from Allen to El Paso, opened fire at a Walmart and killed 20 people on Saturday. Little is known about the motivation of another white male who killed nine people in a Dayton entertainment district early Sunday.

Monday morning, Dorhauer said in addition to prayer for the victims, their families and our country, advocates need to keep going. Despite the "continued trauma of these tragedies on our nation’s soul and psyche” people of faith need to keep after "legislators who still do not take any action, to even talk about any sensible gun control laws, they are so beholden to the NRA and the powerful gun lobby.

We have to get out and vote and any lawmaker who refuses to even talk about responsible gun control, they can no longer serve in our name and on our behalf. We have to walk out into the streets and march until the arc of

history continues to bend toward justice."

"In February of this year the House passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 which would require checks on gun transfers between unlicensed dealers. It has languished in the Senate for months without a vote," said Sandy Sorensen, director of the UCC Washington, D.C. Office. "If there were the political will, Senate Majority Leader [Mitch] McConnell could call the vote today. We await the President’s call to McConnell to hold the vote today.

Prayers and platitudes are not enough."

The National Council of Churches, noting in a statement that "elected leaders are guilty of negligence and cowardice" and are "captives of the gun lobby," is asking the 100,000 local churches that comprise its member communions to contact elected officials and demand actions that will renew the assault weapons ban.

"There is no reason for anyone to own assault weapons which were created for use in war. There is widespread public support for requiring licenses to own guns, for a ban on assault weapons, and for background checks. The only reason elected officials refuse to take action in the face of desires of the voters is because they fear the power of the gun lobby," said the Rev. Jim Winkler, NCC president and general secretary. "The combination of readily available weapons of mass destruction and a toxic white racist nationalist ideology is a recipe for disaster. If we cannot confront these two evils, far greater violence and social disruption awaits our nation."

Also awaiting Senate action is a host of additional gun violence prevention measures, including reversing prohibitions on funding for the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health for studying gun violence as a health and safety epidemic, and provisions in the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization – passed by the House and stalled in the Senate – that would provide critical protections for victims of stalking, dating violence and domestic violence. Lawmakers could also ban large capacity ammunition magazines and extreme risk prevention measures.

What can be done?

• UCC leaders are urging members to call on the Senate to act immediately on pending gun violence legislation.

• They are also urging voters to attend town halls and candidate appearances and ask the candidates what they plan to do to end gun violence. For instance, a strong bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives recently passed background checks for all gun sales.

More than 90 percent of Americans consistently support universal background checks. Ask the candidates about their position on passing those background checks, and what action they are taking now to see that the bill is signed into law.

"We are not helpless in the face of this unrelenting violence," Sorensen said. "We can take meaningful bipartisan steps to reduce gun violence. From a faith perspective, it is nothing short of idolatry to put protecting guns ahead of protecting lives."

"I pledge I will contact religious leaders all over this country this week to see how we can bring our collective capacity together to make a difference,” Dorhauer said. "May Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead so we could have our life, sustain us and give us the strength and the courage and the patience to see this through to the end.”

Help! Please, Somebody Help Me…!

By: Lou Yeboah

Lou Yeboah “And in Hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldst send him to my father’s house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith onto him, they have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

And he said, nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” [Luke 16: 22-24]. “He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear.”

Cain cried, “My punishment is greater than I can bear,” Genesis 4:13; Hebrews 9:22; Exodus 20:12. The people in Noah’s day cried “Let us in! Let us in!” [II Peter 2:5; Genesis 7:16; Hebrews 9:27.] Judas cried, “I have betrayed innocent blood,” [Matthew 27:4]. King Agrippa cried, “Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian,” [Acts 26:28]. These people had resisted the call of God too long.

They fiddled and played, and procrastinated. They put off

their salvation too long. Don’t you do it! Don’t you delay! For there is great danger in saying, “Someday.” Because one of these days death will slip up on you and you won’t be ready, and it will be too late forever. For “it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

I tell you time is running out!

Paul said that it is closer than when we first believed. The night is just about to be over and it is day time. Wake up! You can’t continue to live like you have been living. “… Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” [2 Corinthians 6:2]. Don’t be like Lot. Lot lingered…When it was time for decisive action. Lot lingered…When Heavenly messengers were urging him to go. Lot lingered…When Judgment was Imminent. Lot lingered…. Stop lingering!

Neither time, nor death, nor judgment linger. Decide for Christ before it is too late. For [Isaiah 55:6] says, “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.”

Procrastination can cost you your soul in the end [2 Corinthians 5:20–6:2].

Don’t put if off. Not tomorrow, next week, or next month, but do it now! Understand the choice that is before you today. Don’t get confused on such an easy and obvious choice. This is not a process to think through how far is too far. This isn’t a process to think through whether you should. God confronts you with only one question… What are you waiting for? David said in [1 Samuel 20:3], “Yet as surely as the LORD lives and you live, there is about one step between you and death!” [1 Corinthians 15:30-31] asks, “So why do you endanger yourself every hour?”

Repent and be converted.

Help! Please somebody help me!

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set life and death before you….

Choose life…!

[Deuteronomy 30:19].

Witness For Justice #955

Shall We Gather at The Table?

Traci Blackmon Associate General Minister open table is a declaration that we are called to serve simultaneously as both host and guest at the table. It is recognition that the table is not ours to regulate.

One of the things I love most about the United Church of Christ is the professed wideness of our table.

“No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here” is both an inspirational and aspirational profession that I’ve reflected upon often since we gathered in Milwaukee this summer.

The table is a symbol of inclusion. But too often we embrace the symbol with little attention to the complexities of an open table.

I’m invited to many tables because I hold many identities.

As a clergy woman who is unapologetically black and unashamedly Christian serving in a predominantly white denomination with progressive theology, I am frequently invited to tables because of my racial identity, or my gender, or my theology, or my proximity to the lived experiences of cultural and institutional oppression. Too often the expectation of the host in such instances is that only the invited identity will show up, but neither the table nor humanity work that way.

Scripture teaches us that Jesus accepted invitations to diverse tables with diverse people. If an open table is to have any credibility within the Church, an invitation to the table cannot be synonymous with conformity or comfort.

Open tables are hard work. Open tables require a relinquishment of control. The declaration of an

An invitation to an open table is not merely be an invitation to be seated. It is an invitation to have a say.

An invitation to an open table is not merely an invitation to have a say. It is an invitation to be seen.

An invitation to an open table is an invitation to be recognized, fully seen and fully heard in the complexity of our beings, and to have our whole selves invited to be fully present.

This does not mean there won’t be times of calling out and correction at the table. At the table we replicate most often, Jesus gathers those who love him in a room for one final meal before the crucifixion, and both John and Judas were present. Jesus did not shy away from difficult conversation at the table.

Neither can we.

The gift of the table is the opportunity to understand love outside of agreement, a love that holds fast between grace and truth. Sometimes we create a false dichotomy between love and truth, but love cannot exist apart from truth.

At the table we have the incredible opportunity to see and proclaim a God that is bigger than ourselves. A God that does not require us to be generic or muted or missing. A God that calls us out and calls us in so that we might be one.

May it be so.

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LOS ANGELES/USA: Dr. Joel McLeod, Chancellor of the Next Dimension University, an accredited Bible College, with campuses throughout California and extension schools throughout the USA, is pleased to announce the 2019 Commencement and Awards Ceremony Weekend. This year’s theme: Doing it Big in God. Celebrating 12 years of Academic Excellence at N.D.U. The Commencement will be held Saturday August 17th at 2:00 p.m. West Angeles Cathedral, 3600 Crenshaw BL, Los Angeles, CA. Our 2019 Commencement Speaker will be Bishop Kenneth Ulmer. The Commencement is free and open to the public.

This year Next Dimension University will bestow upon Frederick K.C. Price the Living Legend Award. We will also be

honoring Kurt Carr, Dina Andrews, Paul Jackson, Jr. Dawnn Lewis, Lynette Hawkins Stephens, Tim Bishop Brown and many more. After the commencement, there will be a formal banquet: “The Black, White and Blue Gala” at the LAX Hilton.

The Black, White and Blue Gala will be held at the LAX Hilton 5711 Century Bl. LA 90045. Guest Speaker will be Dr. Fred Price, Jr., This event includes the God Awards. Recipients will be presented their Awards by special guest, to include Dr. Joel McLeod, the NDU Chancellor, Dr. Evelyn Saucer, Dr. Evelyn Reason and Dr. Rose Parker and other distinguished presenters.

NDU Alumni and Past Honorees, included Fred Hammond, Donald Lawrence, Yolanda Adams, Randall Cunningham,

Judge Mablean, Janet’ Dubois, Judy Jacobs, Bishop Noel Jones, Cecil Murry, Jack Hayford and more.

Red Carpet will begin at 12:00 noon on Saturday for the Commencement, and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday night for the banquet.

For more information or to purchase a Scholarship or Banquet tickets; or to make a donation, contact Dr. Evelyn Saucer, e.saucer@yahoo.com 951 5679716. For Press Conference, Interviews and Media credentials, contact Dr. Rose Parker at drrose.ndu@gmail.com 909 5288350. For info. about Next Dimension University call 888 206-4344.

Visit our website at www.nextdimensionuniversity.com.

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Circular Firing Squad and the Makings of a Political Circus…continued from page 3 described being recruited by a headhunter, rudely interviewed

by Taylor and Crowther, and developing the opinion, “They knew who they wanted [to fill the position]”. The applicant commented on the lack of professionalism when he did not receive a courtesy call advising he was not selected for the job.

G. Young also recalled questioning Taylor and Crowther ’s knowledge of Brosowske’s ties to former Assessor and former County Supervisor Bill Postmus.

Postmus, once a rising star in the San Bernardino Republican Party, is now serving three years in state prison for several felony crimes related to the settlement of a lawsuit brought against the County of San Bernardino by Colonies Partners, LLC. The suit involved the county’s flood control operations’ alleged negative impact on its property in the City of Upland.

Court documents allege Postmus and San Bernardino County Supervisor Paul Biane were being extorted by Colonies Partners to vote for a favorable settlement. In November 2006, the San Bernardino County Supervisors approved $102 million to settle the lawsuit.

Evidence of ties between Brosowske and Postmus lie in Brosowske’s 700 form, the statement of economic interest filed when Brosowske ran for city council in the City of Hesperia. It showed Brosowske received over $10,000 in income from Mountain States Consulting, LLC., a Wyoming limited liability company, managed by Bill Postmus.

Over the past four years WVWD has experienced an unusually high turnover of its management staff culminating when in December 2017 the staff filed allegations that former

WVWD President Clifford O. Young, Sr. had a pattern of “improper spending and hiring practices.”

Subsequently, staff members were put on paid leave. A personnel investigation ensued, followed by WVWD’s management staff filing complaints with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and several lawsuits in state court.

Then WVWD directors, employees and ratepayers were shocked to learn of a whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of WVWD was filed under seal

by WVWD Director Dr. Clifford Young, Chief Financial Officer Naisha Davis and Assistant Board Secretary Patricia Romero in February 2019.

The whistleblower lawsuit became public when it was unsealed in June 2019.

It alleged corruption at the agency including kickbacks, bribes and fraud in exchange for campaign contributions, free trips, gifts and NFL tickets. The lawsuit named WVWD General Counsel Robert Tafoya, also city attorney for the City of Baldwin Park, Tafoya’s law firm Tafoya and Garcia, WVWD Special Counsel Clifton Albright and his law firm, Albright Yee and Schmit, WVWD Special Counsel Martin Kaufman and his law firm Kaufman Law Firm and WVWD consultant Robert Katherman.

The whistleblower complaint named as co-conspirators WVWD President Dr. Michael Taylor, former police chief of Baldwin Park, Vice President Kyle Crowther, General Manager Clarence C. Mansell, Jr., former Assistant General Manager Ricardo Pacheco, current Baldwin Park City Councilman, and Human Resources and Risk Manager Deborah Martinez.

The whistle blower case is

being heard in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. The next hearing scheduled for August 13, at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse will consider a special motion by the defendants named in case to strike the complaint, claiming the whistleblower lawsuit was filed to silence Tafoya, his law firm Tafoya and Garcia, Albright, his law firm Albright Yee and Schmit, Kaufman and his law firm and Katherman.

To many observers, C. Young’s complaint appears to be an effort to silence unresolved allegations against him tied to the purported misappropriation of funds and potentially unethical hiring practices that led to the State Controller’s Office conducting an audit of the district—state auditors arrived at the WVWD the week of July 29.

On July 29, WVWD Public Affairs Manager Naseem Farooqi issued a press release announcing the state audit and quoting Taylor welcoming the audit while appearing to point a finger at C. Young, Sr. That same day, July 29, Farooqi also filed for an emergency temporary restraining order in San Bernardino Superior Court against WVWD Director G. Young. Farooqi alleged that at a meeting on the evening of July 11, G. Young with a serious facial expression pointed to him and declared, “I am going to kill you.”

Farooqi recalled G. Young uttered he had “read the press release and he was going to kill me.”

Farooqi confirmed he filed a complaint about the threat with WVWD on July 16. He was so concerned and fearful for the lives of his wife and children he missed time from work and took his family out of town. Farooqi alleged his delay in filing the complaint was because he was out of the office.

According to the court’s minute

order, a July 29 hearing on Farooqi’s emergency temporary restraining order occurred and after hearing testimony from Farooqi, the Court found there was “no emergency” at this time, continuing the hearing until July 31.

Two days later at the July 31 hearing, after receiving testimony from G. Young and witness, WVWD Public Affairs Specialist Socorro Pantaleon, the court advised G. Young of his Fifth Amendment Rights and denied Farooqi’s emergency restraining order. Although the court found no emergency existed, it did schedule a hearing on the restraining order for August 27 at the San Bernardino Court, Civil Division.

The court’s minute order revealed a Farooqi associate, Christopher Dustin Duarte, took a photograph of the counsel table and was excluded from the proceeding as taking the picture violated court rules.

In an interview with The Voice/ Black Voice News, G. Young voiced, “I am overjoyed that for the second time in as many days that a superior court judge has rejected Mr. Farooqi’s restraining order against me.”

“I am also pleased the judge forcibly removed Mr. Farooqi’s political associate, Christopher Dustin Duarte, for an improper attempt to take photographs in the courtroom and lying to the judge,” he continued adding, “And I am also pleased that the judge criticized Mr. Farooqi and his associate for turning the proceedings into a political circus.”

Neither Taylor, Crowther, nor C. Young, Sr. responded to The Voice/Black Voice News requests for comment. A request for comment was also made of Armendarez who also did not reply before publication.

August 8, 2019