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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 with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance those of whom they suppress. —Fredrick Douglass (1849)

Gov. Signs $308 Billion Budget: Californians to Get “Inflation Relief” Checks of Up to $1050 Edward Henderson | California Black Media

Around 23 million California residents will receive “inflation relief” checks of up to $1,050 soon. The aid is included in the new budget deal reached by state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, June 26th.

“California’s budget addresses the state’s most pressing needs, and prioritizes getting dollars back into the pockets of millions of Californians who are grappling with global inflation and rising prices of everything from gas to groceries,” said Newsom in a statement.

The checks are designed as tax refunds and will come from the state’s robust $97 billion budget surplus. The total state budget for the next fiscal year (2022-2023) is $308 billion.

The relief payments are based on income, tax-filing status and household size – similar to the stimulus checks sent to Americans by the federal government during the pandemic.

Single taxpayers who earn less

than $75,000 a year and couples who file jointly and make less than $150,000 a year will receive $350 per taxpayer. Those with dependents will receive an additional $350 per child. For example, a couple that earns under $125,000 and has two children qualify for $350 per adult plus $350 for each additional child, up to a total check of $1,050.

Higher income Californians will receive smaller payments.

Single taxpayers who make between $75,000 and $125,000 a year and couples who earn between $150,000 and $250,000 will receive $250, plus the same payment for each dependent, up to a maximum of $750 per family.

Single people who earn between $125,000 and $250,000 and couples who earn between $250,000 and $500,000 annually would receive $200 each, plus the same amount for their dependents.

The maximum payment couples

in that salary range will receive is $600 per family. Couples who earn above $500,000 and single taxpayers who earn above $250,000 aren't eligible for the payments.

Checks will be sent via direct deposit or debit cards by late October.

“In the face of growing economic uncertainty, this budget invests in California’s values while further filling the state’s budget reserves and building in triggers for future state spending to ensure budget stability for years to come,” Newsom said. “In addition, California is doubling down in our response to the climate crisis – securing additional power-generating capacity for the summer, accelerating our clean energy future, expanding our ability to prepare for and respond to severe wildfires, extreme heat, and the continuing drought conditions that lie ahead.”

Other hot button issues addressed in the finalized budget

include a $47 billion multi-year infrastructure and transportation package, $200 million in additional funding for reproductive health care services, and funding for education, universal preschool, children’s mental health and free school meals.

Not everyone was excited about the final negotiated version of the budget. Republicans complained about the limited time they were given to review the package for input.

“Where is the information?”

Sen. Jim Nielson (R-Yuba City) asked during the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee’s brief hearing on Monday.

“What are you afraid of?”

Gov. Newsom signed the budget into law on June 30.

You can view the complete California budget here. https://leginfo.legislature. ca.gov/faces/billNavClient. xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB178

Will the January 6th Hearings Result in Men and Women Going to Prison?

president wanted the Justice Department to be a part of this dishonest scheme.

The former president said, “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the GOP Congressmen.” (Photo: Crowd of Trump supporters marching on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, ultimately leading the building being breached and several deaths. / TapTheFowardAssist | Wikimedia Commons)

Will the January 6th hearings result in men and women going to prison?

If I had to guess, I would

probably say no.

Will these hearings change the minds of some people about what happened on January 6th?

Tanu Henry | California Black Media A little over a week ago, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) handed down a 6-to-3 decision making it more difficult for a handful of states – including California – to keep strict laws they have in place against carrying guns in public.

Late last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom fired back by signing two pieces of new legislation in California intended to strengthen the state’s hardline position on possessing firearms in public. He says, together, the bills, AB 1621 and AB 2571, will take on ghost guns and prohibit the gun industry from “advertising to children.”

“From our schools to our parks to our homes, our kids deserve to be safe – in California, we’re making that a reality. As the Supreme Court rolls back important gun safety protections and states across the country treat gun violence as inevitable, California is doubling down on commonsense gun safety measures that save lives,” said Newsom, who also pointed out the that gun violence is the leading cause of death among children.

“The lives of our kids are at stake and we’re putting everything on the table to respond to this crisis,” the governor added.

News about the SCOTUS decision on guns June 23 was drowned out by coverage of the national outrage, and applause, that followed its the high court ruling on Roe. V. Wade the next day.

Reactions around the country nationally to the court’s gun restriction decision – the most significant change to the country’s firearm laws in a decade -- were swift, passionate and strong. But the protests and celebrations mostly happened on the sidelines of the country’s more intense reactions to the abortion ruling.

In California, where more than 60 % of all adults favor stronger

gun laws, elected officials, activists and civil rights leaders have blasted the SCOTUS’ decision.

But not everyone agrees.

Micah Grant is Black, Republican, a father, husband and Natomas School Board member in Sacramento County.

He says agrees with the SCOTUS’ decision on guns, arguing that the New York law struck down had a built-in racial and class bias.

“I think it’s a fundamentally sound ruling that comes at, obviously, a very sensitive time,” Grant says. But the laws as thy they were created created two separate classes of people, where in many regions, only the connected and elite could exercise their fundamental right to protection.”

Grant says with crime on the rise in many cities across California, he says just going outside is “cause enough” to carry a gun.

“The state can simply implement reasonable training requirements to ensure those who apply for permits are knowledgeable, responsible, trained and that they understand the liability that comes with gun ownership,” Grant added.

California is one of five states with gun restrictions on the books, both statewide and municipal, that are affected by the ruling. The others are Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Hawaii.

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanagh said states are still allowed to ban handguns in certain sensitive places like courthouses, statehouses, polling places, etc.

Re. Karen Bass (D-CA-37) is continued on page 3

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James B. Ewers Jr. Ed.D. | Houston Forward Times

Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, at the time, testified that the former

Black Californians Split on Supreme Court Gun Rights Ruling

My answer to that question would be yes.

They will jump off the bandwagon of wrong and jump to the bandwagon of right.

The in-your-face truth has a strange effect on people.

These hearings, now in their third week, have made an indelible impression on a lot of us.

The culprits and cronies are even more guilty than we originally thought they were. Their denial of the facts is both laughable and pathetic.

As the January 6th hearings have unfolded, it revealed that the former president of the United States did put pressure on government officials at all levels.

Acting Attorney General Jeffrey

Rosen, at the time, testified that the former president wanted the Justice Department to be a part of this dishonest scheme.

The former president said, “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the GOP Congressmen.”

Who was corrupt in this matter?

We know the answer to that question.

We have heard many in the Republican Party state that nothing illegal or illicit happened.

Their constant refrain is: why are these hearings taking place?

What is the big deal?

How does any reasonable person who watched this attack say that nothing transpired? continued on page 3

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Bill Calling for Targeted Funding for Low-Performing Black Students Moves Forward Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media

A bill that would generate over $400 million for an estimated 785 public school districts across the state to provide critically needed academic support for Black students is on its way to the California Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Authored by Akilah Weber (D-San Diego), Assembly Bill (AB) 2774, passed out of the Senate Education Committee with a 7-0 vote on June 30, the last day before the Legislature’s summer recess.

“Thank you, CA State Senate Education Committee, for passing my bills,” Weber said via her Twitter account. “Our shared goals are to keep our students safe, provide opportunities for each of them to excel academically, and receive the support they need to stay in school and graduate.”

Weber introduced AB 2774

in February. The bill is coauthored by Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Both are members of the California Legislative Black Caucus.

Before the Senate Education Committee vote, many supporters of the bill from around the state rallied in front of “the Swing Space” – temporary legislative offices while the Capitol is under renovation -- to urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the bill.

The building is located one block south of the State Capitol.

Margaret Fortune, Fortune School of Education; Yolanda Moore, Clovis Unified Board of Education, Keshia Thomas, Fresno, Unified School District Board of Education, and students from Fresno, Sacramento, and

Elk Grove made an appearance.

In addition, Sacramento County Democratic Party Chairperson Tracie Stafford, Chache Wright from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of San Bernardino, and Sacramento County Board of Education trustees Al Brown and Bina Lefkovitiz joined the supporters of AB 2774.

“There is an undeniable achievement gap when it comes to Black children and we cannot continue failing them,” Moore said.

“Our students want to do better; they want to be held to a higher standard, but they need our focus and effort to get them there. AB 2774 would push for sustainable, equitable, and academic growth.”

AB 2774 addresses equity issues with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF),

which was created to provide additional funding for the highest need students in California.

AB 2772 would amend the definition of “unduplicated pupils” for the 2023–24 fiscal year to include pupils who are included in the lowest-performing “subgroup or subgroups,” as defined in the language.

The subgroups identified as unduplicated pupils receiving supplemental funding include English Language learners, low-income students, and foster/homeless youth.

The adjustment is based on the most recently available mathematics or language arts results on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, as specified.

“I want to specifically call on the governor to support AB 2774,” Fortune said. “Everybody would agree that there is a crisis that 67% of Black kids can’t read at grade level in our public schools. Now it's time for (Gov. Gavin Newsom) to stand in front of this issue. This group of students deserves support.”

The LCFF was enacted in 2013. Weber said over onequarter of Black students are not receiving supplemental funding through LCFF. In 2019, testing data showed that Black students are the lowest-performing subgroup on state standardized tests with 67% not passing English

Bill Calling for Targeted Funding for Low-Performing Black Students Moves Forward...continued Language Arts (ELA) and 79% not meeting the Math standard.

AB 2774 states that the subgroup identified for the 20232024 fiscal year, based on the 2018-19 the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores “shall be included within the ‘unduplicated’ pupil count until its scores equal or exceeds the highest performing subgroup (Asian American students).”

AB 2774 would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually identify the lowest-performing pupil subgroup or subgroups and would authorize school districts and charter schools to review and revise their submitted data on pupils who are included in the lowest-performing

subgroup or subgroups.

There are nearly 310,000 Black students enrolled in California’s public schools. Approximately 80,000 Black students in the state do not receive any additional funding under the LCFF, according to data compiled by the California Department of Education.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond supports the legislation.

“This is a state of emergency and we have been in a state of emergency for far too long and nothing has been done,” Thurmond said. “We cannot and will not continue to let our babies fall behind.”

CBM Video: AB 2772 Rally in Sacramento

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senator Lena Gonzalez, and Special Advisor Michael Tubbs Join California Volunteers to Launch Statewide Recruitment for Youth Jobs Corps Program The #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs Corps gives additional $35M to cities and counties to provide paid service opportunities for underserved youth Community/ Education News SOUTH GATE, Calif. — California Volunteers, Office of the Governor, Special Advisor Michael Tubbs, California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, California State Senator Lena Gonzalez, local mayors, and others to announce statewide recruitment efforts for cities and counties that were awarded $35 million to launch #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs

Corps.

The #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs Corps is an innovative partnership between the State of California and local governments to help underserved youth and young adults find employment.

Through the program, young people will gain critical job skills while making a positive, lasting continued on page 7

U.S. Department of Education Answers President Biden’s Call to Action to Spur Academic Recovery Community /Education News

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a series of actions to support students' academic recovery and to ensure recovery efforts are meeting student, parent, and family needs. These actions will help meet President Biden’s call for more schools to invest in strategies to accelerate academic recovery using American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds and to galvanize more Americans to serve their communities by becoming tutors and mentors to help address the impact of missed instruction on our nation’s students.

“Now—more than ever— students need to feel supported, seen, heard, and understood by adults in their schools and communities,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

“Today’s announcements and the launch of the National Partnership for Student Success will mean more students have a trusted adult in their corner, and more adults are prepared to address students’ academic, emotional, social, and mental health needs. Together, we can help all children make up for unfinished learning, recover from the pandemic, and prepare for future success – both inside and outside the classroom.”

Today’s actions will build on the progress school communities made this year in helping students and families recover from the pandemic. To meet the President’s call to action, the Department is: Launching the National Partnership for Student Success and recruiting 250,000 new tutors and mentors.

The U.S. Department of

Education is joining forces with leading education, youth, and service organizations to launch the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS), a new coalition that will support the expansion, launch and improvement of high-impact tutoring, mentoring and other programs to make up for lost instructional time, and support student mental health and overall wellbeing. The NPSS follows President Biden’s call for more tutors and mentors in the 2022 State of the Union Address to help students recover from the pandemic and thrive.

The NPSS will bring together school districts, non-profit partners, and institutions of higher education to recruit, train, place, and support screened adults in critical high impact roles such as tutors, mentors, student success coaches, and more.

Through the NPSS, individuals, schools and districts, communitybased organizations, employers, and colleges and universities can sign up to support student recovery through volunteer opportunities, national service opportunities, mentoring programs, and workstudy opportunities.

The NPSS is run through collaboration between the U.S. Department of Education, AmeriCorps, and the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center.

Expanding the Department’s Best Practices Clearinghouse to share best practices around academic and mental health recovery efforts.

The Best Practices Clearinghouse will highlight and

celebrate evidence-based and promising practices implemented by states, schools, and school districts using American Rescue Plan funds to support learning recovery, increased academic opportunities, and student mental health. The updated Best Practices Clearinghouse is the next phase of the Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse that the Department launched in Spring 2021, originally designed to share best practices around safely reopening schools, addressing inequities made worse by the pandemic, and providing summer learning and enrichment opportunities to help students get reconnected to their communities, peers, and educators.

Empowering parents and school communities with knowledge about how their school is using and can use federal funds to provide the necessary academic and mental health supports.

Last month, the Department launched the National Parents and Families Engagement Council to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families, and caregivers.

Today, the Department put out a call to states and school communities to contribute to the revamped Best Practices Clearinghouse to ensure parents, educators, and families know how federal dollars are being spent. Additionally, to increase transparency and accountability, the Department updated an interactive map to make state and local plans for American Rescue Plan funds more accessible to families.

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GOVERNMENT/CONSUMER /BUSINESS NEWS

Comcast Pushing Program Offering Free Internet Service for Millions of Households

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Qualifying households either earn below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level or have a member who receives other government benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, or Supplemental Security Income.

After the White House announced a plan to expand access to affordable high-speed internet for millions of Americans, particularly low-income families, it didn’t take long for Comcast to ensure its customers took advantage.

The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), created under the historic bipartisan infrastructure bill, has allowed Comcast to offer free and discounted internet service to customers in its Beltway Region – Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and parts of Delaware, North Carolina, and West Virginia.

The program provides $30 per month toward the cost of internet or mobile service to eligible low-income households.

Maryland has agreed to provide an additional $15 per month.

“The impact means for eligible households, there’s no

reason anyone should have to pay for internet service,” said Misty Allen, the vice president of government affairs for Comcast’s Beltway Region.

“In Baltimore, eligible households can get $30 applied through the federal government, and the state of Maryland is providing an additional $15, so that’s up to $45 each month,” Allen remarked.

“So, when you talk about impact, we know that there are three major barriers to internet subscription.

One is relevancy, where people ask, ‘why do I need internet service when I have a phone?’

“Do I have the skills? Maybe I don’t have a computer. The third is affordability. This takes affordability off the table because internet service effectively can continued in last 2 columns

Older Adults Still At High Risk for COVID-19 — Beware Complacency

By Mark Hedin

“You might be done with Covid, but Covid is not done with you.”

So said Denny Chan, directing attorney with Justice in Aging, at a press briefing co-hosted by the California Department of Aging on June 29 to address the high risks older adults still face from COVID-19 and what steps will protect them.

Joining Chan were Department of Aging Director Susan DeMarois, Dr. Susan Tartof, an infectious disease epidemiologist with Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and Roberto Velasquez, President and CEO of the Southern Caregiver Resource Center.

Doctors say Vaccinate “From the outset of the pandemic and still to this day,” DeMarois said, “older adults have been hardest hit — 70% of all Covid deaths in California are people 65 and older.”

“So we need your help in communicating the value of vaccines and boosters and testingto-treatment for this population.”

Tartof shared research relevant to people of all age groups, such as new evidence that the biggest benefit of being vaccinated is not preventing infection but preventing severe outcomes from infections.

Vaccines wane in effectiveness – need boosters Booster shots, she said, are

proving more effective than the original vaccination doses.

But even the heightened level of immunity provided by a booster wanes over time, she said, and researchers now recommend additional boosters.

“Really, six months after a vaccination, you’re down to like, the protection you’d have from one or maybe none. That’s what drives the booster recommendation — They’re not providing the same protection that they did when you first got them.”

This waning is more acute in “immunocompromised” people, Tartof explained, which includes people, often seniors, facing an array of challenges such as leukemia, lymphoma, HIV, AIDS, stem cell or organ transplantation.

“It’s really important to protect yourself by staying up to date and to try to keep track of what current recommendations are.”

“It’s confusing,” she admitted.

But, she said, “another thing I do is study long Covid. Those very debilitating symptoms are actually pretty much impossible to treat,” she warned.

“Every time I feel hesitant, I just think that I’m more willing to take risks with the vaccine, which are actually very minimal compared to the risks of long-term.” continued in next 2 columns

Older Adults Still At High Risk for COVID-19 — Beware Complacency...continued Of those California seniors lost to Covid, 45% were Latino, more than twice their 22% of the population aged 65 to 79. African Americans, 5.5% of that age group, experienced an 8% death rate, Chan said.

Statewide, more than 80% of older adults have been vaccinated, 70% have had one booster, almost 30% have had two. But these statewide figures do not reflect regional differences, Chan cautioned.

“We can’t have a one-size-fitsall approach to getting people vaccinated. This is long-term work for the safety of all the older adults in our state.”

The rate of positive tests for Covid in California stands at 13.2%, probably an undercount, Chan said, but still 1.5 percentage points higher than the week before.

And with 3,100 people currently hospitalized, he said, we’re back to the level we were in March, when Omicron spiked.

There’s plenty of vaccines But there’s good news too.

Unlike the early days of vaccine availability, he said, “We have plenty of vaccine,” so the days of rationing are over.

“We also know that vaccines work,” he said, and cited state data from May showing that people without vaccines are five times more likely to get Covid, seven times more likely to be

hospitalized for it and 10 times more likely to die than those vaccinated and boosted.

Vaccines are being approved for more age groups, and there’s a potential for more specific vaccines targeting variants as they emerge, Chan noted.

Also, he said, “access is easier than ever before,” with systems in place to vaccinate people at home, if necessary, that can be obtained with or without internet or cell phone access.

Free transportation or inhome delivery of vaccinations and boosters can be arranged in multiple languages by calling 1-833-422-4255. On the web, go to https://myturn.ca.gov/, DeMarois said. The site covid19.ca.gov also has information and scheduling help available in dozens of languages.

Caregiver support The state has 11 caregiver resource centers (CRCs) (www. caregivercalifornia.org) (1-800510-2020, multiple languages) offering an array of free services to support those caring for people 60 and older or for adults with cognitive impairment issues.

Velasquez’s Southern Caregiver Resource Center is focused on San Diego and Imperial counties, where people 60 or older were 86% of the 5,000 Covid deaths recorded. continued on page 7

Will the January 6th Hearings Result in Men and Women Going to Prison?...continued from page 1 Of course, the key words in the last statement are “reasonable person.”

Many people outside of the political arena have also voiced their opinion on what happened.

The latest is Jack Del Rio, a professional football coach with the Washington Commanders, who recently said that the January 6th insurrection was not a “major deal.”

Coach Del Rio was fined $100,000.00. His fine will be donated to the U.S. Capitol Police Memorial Fund.

The hypocrisy of some Republicans is both dastardly and dubious.

They say no problem, but they know there is a problem.

If everything is peachy keen, then why did some of them run to Mr. T and ask for pardons.

According to reports, Republican Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, asked for pardons. Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia is also included in this report.

Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who is a member of the committee said, “The president must not use his political influence to use the Department of Justice to his advantage.”

To some, and not to all, Mr. T did try to use his political influence.

He failed.

Joe Biden is the president of the United States of America now.

The former president’s vile and incendiary comments on January 6th led to charges and jail time for many participants.

Some could make a valid argument that he is responsible for their actions and subsequent consequences.

According to Time Magazine, more than 840 people have been arrested, with more to come.

Roughly 185 individuals have received sentences, with more awaiting trials.

Those awaiting arrests and trials are anxious and nervous. In other words, they are “sweating bricks.”

Every knock on the door could mean their January 6th reckoning is upon them.

If I was one of them, I wouldn’t make any long-range plans. If you did the crime, then you must do the time.

As the January 6th hearings continue, more people will testify, and more evidence will come out.

If you are a doubter, then just keep watching!

What will be the ramifications of the January 6th hearings?

Right now, we don’t know.

However, remember the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

The post Will the January 6th Hearings Result in Men and Women Going to Prison? appeared first on Houston Forward Times.

Black Californians Split on Supreme Court Gun Rights Ruling...continued from page 1 Comcast Pushing Program Offering Free Internet Service running for Mayor of Los Angeles, a city where the homicide rate has seen a steep 50% increase between 2019 and the end of last year.

“Only 31 days after 19 students and 2 teachers were murdered in one of the most devastating mass shootings in the history of this country, the Supreme Court has responded by striking down a law that was on the books for more than 100 years, making it easier now to carry a weapon in public,” Bass said shortly after the in response to SCOTUS’ handed down its ruling.

Like Grant, Craig DeLuz is also Black and Republican like Grant and also the publisher of 2ANews, an online news and opinion outlet focused on gun rights.

“When you have a patchwork of laws from one city to another you don’t know what the regulations are. You are setting someone up to violate the law,” he says.

DeLuz says as Gov. Newsom and State Legislators draft new public safety laws to comply with the SCOTUS’ ruling, he hopes they do not violate the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution that grants citizens the right to bear arms.

“His lack of knowledge on the issue on of firearm policy and firearm technology is evident every time he speaks about it,” DeLuz said, criticizing the governor.

“Gun control laws in the state of California and nationally have been about disarming people of color going back to the 1870s,” he said. “It has been about making it illegal for Native Americans, Chinese Americans, Blacks and other people of color from owing firearms.”

Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson) has been the strongest voice in the California Legislative Black Caucus calling for strong gun control laws.

“Alarmingly, we are finding that more and more, no region or demographic is exempt from

gun violence – our hospitals, grocery stores, schools, and even places of worship, are no longer safe. The proliferation of ghost guns, which are intentionally untraceable weapons to evade law enforcement, has only worsened the issue,” Gipson said.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) says the current Right-leaning Supreme Court has shown a double standard in the way the Justices ruled on gun rights and women’s rights to abortion.

“This conservative Supreme Court has ruled that states shouldn’t be trusted to make their own laws on gun control but can keep people from making their own health care decisions. It is unconscionable,” Lee said. “We are seeing the horrific consequences of minority rule playing out in real time—and this is only the beginning of their radical agenda to take America back in history and take another step toward eroding our democracy.”

There is overwhelming support and widespread commitment among elected officials in California for finding ways to strengthen gun laws in the wake of the SCOTUS Decision.

In the state budget that Newsom signed into law last week, lawmakers and the governor’s office agreed to fund $176 million in gun violence prevention grants going to 79 cities and nonprofits.

Attorney Gen. Rob Bonta announced that he is working with the State Legislature on a bill, Senate Bill (SB) 918, intended to preserve California’s existing concealed carry laws. He reminded residents of the state that “general prohibitions” against carrying firearms in public are still in effect.

“The data is clear, and the consequences are dire -- more guns in more places make us less safe.

In California, we are committed to passing and defending commonsense, constitutional gun laws that save lives,” Bonta said.

for Millions of Households...continued be free for Maryland residents.”

According to a release from Comcast, Customers who qualify also can apply ACP credits to any tier of Xfinity Internet, including Internet Essentials or Xfinity Mobile.

Comcast and its community partners in the Beltway Region – including Montgomery Housing Partnership, The Green Beret Project, and The Senior Zone – are hosting ACP awareness events throughout the summer where residents can learn about eligibility, benefits, and how to sign up.

The ACP program should help households of color where government officials provided statistics that show Latino Americans are 15% less likely to have high-speed internet than their white peers, while Black families are 9% less likely.

Additionally, about 35% of all people living on Tribal lands lack access to broadband services.

The Biden-Harris administration estimated that 48 million households qualify for the ACP, accounting for about 40% of all households in the U.S. Qualifying households either

earn below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level or have a member who receives other government benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, or Supplemental Security Income.

“The success of the program is highly depended upon people being aware that’s it available,” Allen stated.

“We are emailing our customers, running television commercials, and doing everything we can as providers, but we’re working with community leaders, elected officials, and nonprofits.

“We’re getting that information out to them and asking them to help us spread the word. We are working with the Y’s, the Boys & Girls Clubs, Catholic Charities of Baltimore, Fight Back, and the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition has a hotline to help people who call in looking for resources. “ Allen continued: “We are working the social fabric of these communities to help get the word out because these are the folks doing it every day to help their communities.”

For more information or to sign up for the ACP program, visit www.Xfinity.com/ACP.

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81 Grassroots Organizations Awarded a Total of $750,000 in Grants through Industry’s ‘Make Golf Your Thing’ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative

Charms and Challenges of Ethnic Communities Made Plain on Our Plates

By Mark Hedin

By BlackPressUSA

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – 81 grassroots golf organizations will receive a total of $750,000 in funding to further their efforts to engage underrepresented populations of the sport. These groups (*full list below) are being awarded with a grant through Make Golf Your Thing, the industry’s commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in making the sport more welcome for all.

Initially introduced in 2021 (by the Make Golf Your Thing youth & adult player development work group), the grant program to date has provided 155 grants to 111 unique grassroots organizations, totaling more than $1 million overall (May 2021: 43 grants totaling $150,000; Jan. 2022: 31 grants totaling $150,000).

The program was established to support organizations dedicated to increasing participation among golf’s underrepresented populations (i.e., Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous communities, as well as women, LGBTQI+ individuals, veterans, and individuals with disabilities).

“When the game comes together and pools every resource to grow and broaden the reach of the game, only great things can happen,” said Mike Whan, CEO of the USGA and executive sponsor of the youth & adult player development work group for Make Golf Your Thing.

“This unifying movement is helping to make a difference in communities across America and advance the game in ways none of us can do alone.”

“Access to golf in a business context is a pathway to opportunity,” said Anna Alvarez Boyd, co-founder of FairWays to Leadership (one of the 81 grant recipients).

“Our group’s mission is to increase diversity in business and in golf by teaching college students from diverse backgrounds the skills they need to become effective leaders. The financial commitment of the grant program to organizations like ours will only further golf’s collective efforts to bring new and diverse audiences into our sport.”

The grant program is part of the industry’s broader commitment to making the sport more inclusive for all. Last month, a new Make Golf Your Thing search directory was launched for consumers, consisting of more than 8,400 registered golf programs and organizations across the U.S. The directory allows individuals to search for programs and events using filters such as location, age, ability, gender, etc., giving new and

diverse audiences an opportunity to become more engaged in the sport through programs in their own community.

Formally launched in May 2021, Make Golf Your Thing is the industry’s movement to make golf accessible to individuals from all backgrounds.

Led by six cross-industry work groups, the initiative is specifically focused on: education & skill development, talent acquisition, procurement, human resources, youth & adult player development, and marketing/communications.

Funding for the grant program is being administered by the American Golf Industry Coalition, a partnership among golf’s leading organizations to promote and advocate for the collective interests of the sport.

Financial support for the program is led by a contingent of industry supporters committed to making the sport more welcoming and inclusive for all.

About Make Golf Your Thing A multi-faceted, multi-year movement, Make Golf Your Thing is a collaborative effort across the industry to invite more people to golf from all backgrounds.

Six cross-industry work groups are committed to making the sport more diverse, equitable and inclusive, with a specific focus on: education & skill development, talent acquisition, procurement, human resources, youth & adult player development, and marketing/communications. For more, www.makegolfyourthing. org.

About the American Golf Industry Coalition The American Golf Industry Coalition advocates on behalf of golf’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts; environmental and sustainability initiatives; contributions to the economy (local and national); health and wellness benefits, as well as charitable giving.

The organization unites the golf industry in pursuit of goals designed to enhance the vitality and diversity of both the business and recreational levels of the sport. The American Golf Industry Coalition is a division of the World Golf Foundation.

To learn more, visit www. golfcoalition.org.

Grassroots Organization City/ Town State A Perfect Swing Foundation Inc. Charlotte NC Adaptive Golfers North Myrtle Beach SC Annika Foundation Orlando FL

Be Counted On Foundation Gahanna OH Black College Golf Coaches Association Vestavia AL Button Hole Providence RI Cameron Champ Foundation Citrus Heights CA CitySwing Foundation Washington D.C. County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation Alhambra CA DC on the Green McKinney AL Edu-Sports Academy Willingboro NJ El Dorado High School Golf Team El Paso TX Excel Youth Academy Lawrenceville GA FabNewport, Inc Newport RI FairWays to Leadership, Inc. Orlando FL First Tee – Central Florida Orlando FL First Tee – Central Mississippi Flowood MS First Tee – Greater Charleston Mt. Pleasant SC First Tee – Greater Richmond Richmond VA First Tee – Greater Sacramento (Sacramento Area Youth Golf Association) Sacramento CA First Tee – Greater Trenton Trenton NJ First Tee – Greater Tyler Bullard TX First Tee – Greater Washington, DC Washington D.C. First Tee – Greater Wichita Wichita KS First Tee – Indiana Indianapolis IN First Tee – Jersey Shore Point Pleasant NJ First Tee – North Florida (Rising Leaders of North Florida, Inc.) St. Augustine FL First Tee – Omaha (Hogan’s Junior Golf Heroes) Omaha NE First Tee – Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA First Tee – Southeastern New Mexico Roswell NM First Tee – Tennessee Knoxville TN First Tee – Triangle Raleigh NC First Tee – Tulsa (Youth Development of Tulsa) Tulsa OK First Tee – West Michigan (Lake Michigan Junior Golf Association) Kentwood MI Fore Life Inc. Lauderhill FL Fore the Ladies Sylvania OH Future Successors

Atlanta GA Gator Junior Golf Association Gainesville FL Girls Golf of America, Inc. Greensboro NC Golf. My Future. My Game.

Washington D.C. Greater Cleveland Junior Golf Scholarship Fund Bedford OH Harris Park Midtown Sports & Activity Center Kansas City MO Hi-Tee Junior Little League Golf Program Renton WA Hit It Straight Golf Academy Homewood IL I AM a Golfer Foundation Dallas TX iGolf4VETS, Inc. Riverview FL Inland Golf Academy Riverside CA Inner City Youth Golfers’ Inc. Palm Beach Gardens FL Inspiring Greatness In You Covington GA Jackson Park Golf Association Chicago IL Ladies of Futurity, Inc West Palm Beach FL Latina Golfers Association Foundation Los Angeles CA Little Linksters Sorrento FL Matrix Human Services Detroit MI Michigan Women’s Golf Association Detroit MI Midnight Golf Program Bingham Farms MI Milwaukee Area Youth Golf Academy, Inc. Glendale WI Moore-Myers Children’s Fund Jacksonville FL My Vision Golf Fayetteville GA New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc. Bedminster NJ Next 18 Fox Point WI Northern Texas PGA Foundation – Fairway to Success Dallas TX One Hundred Black Men, Inc. New York NY Par Excellence Youth Development Huntsville AL Range Fore Hope Foundation Blythewood SC Rose Hill Schools Rose Hill KS Southern California Golf Association – Junior Golf Foundation Studio City CA Southern Area Youth Program, Inc. Los Angeles CA Special Olympics Connecticut Hamden CT SwingPals, Inc. Durham NC Ted Rhodes Foundation, Inc. Chicago IL The Caddie & Leadership Academy Kenosha WI The Darby Foundation Lafayette LA The Glove Foundation Mobile AL The Honors Junior Golf Program Corona CA The Pinkney Foundation Pittsburg CA Upstate-Carolina Adaptive Golf Greenville SC Western States Junior Golf Association Las Vegas NV Women Golfers Give Back Plymouth MeetingPA Women in Golf Foundation, Inc. Ellenwood GA

Whatever our differences, we all have to eat. In the United States, where we can choose foods from all over the world, ethnic cuisine has become American as apple pie Journalists and chefs explored how the U.S. has welcomed and changed diverse eating traditions, and why, at a press briefing hosted July 1 by Ethnic Media Services and John Rudolph, of Feet in Two Worlds.

The speakers described the powerful connections that come from the heritage, sharing and innovations ethnic and immigrant communities have provided our expanding “food ways.”

They also noted positive and problematic aspects in their adoption into America’s capitalist society. Besides providing new twists and wider appreciation, the dominant culture also appropriates and dilutes what ethnic communities introduce.

Culture begins with cuisine Quincy Surasmith, an editor at Feet in Two Worlds, and host of the podcast Asian Americana described his work sorting out the differences between “traditional” and “authentic” Asian American dishes, from chop suey to Korean barbecue, fortune cookies, adobo, Indian curry pizza, California rolls, tofu tater tots and more.

“Things change and shift here because of cultural influence and what is available,” Surasmith said. “It’s all authentic. Authentic is different than traditional.”

“It’s authentic to a different set of cooks, different set of restaurants, different regions.

And these get to grow and evolve in the U.S.,” Surasmith said.

He cited the Boiling Crab restaurant chain borne of Vietnamese American communities on the Gulf Coast, to Korean barbecue styles developed in Los Angeles and more.

“I want to encourage people to think about food as signposts to all the intersecting roads it’s crossed, the specificity of the region or people, whether in the U.S. or where their families or they themselves are from.”

“I used to be very against fusion cuisine, until I realized that most cuisines ARE fusion,” said food and travel writer Kayla Stewart, native of the “rich and complex” American South.

“African American cuisine in many ways is a mixing of indigenous food and traditions.

Black, African, West African food and traditions and of course even European,” she said.

“You see this particularly in New Orleans,” she laughed, admitting to a particular affection for the cuisine of that melting pot Southern city from which “jambalaya” and “gumbo” have become English-language synonyms for a healthy mix of anything.

There, she said, the mix of ingredients, food and traditions draw from Black, African, West African, indigenous and European influences, including traditions brought from Africa

such as sweet potato pie, okra and black-eyed peas.

“So many times in my work,” Stewart said, “people assume that African American food is macaroni and cheese, collard greens and fried chicken.”

“While those are wonderful, wonderful meals and absolutely part of our food ways,” she said, they’ve also been used to insult, stereotype and minimize Black contributions to American cuisine.

“For so long, black Americans and black culinary figures have been left out of the narrative of American food. It’s blatantly unfair, but it also impacts economics.”

“Food can be such a joyful and wonderful thing, but it also is an opportunity to talk about the very real issues – history, and politics, and race, and gender, and women’s rights – that have existed in our country since its founding and continue to exist.”

‘An endless source of inspiration’ Silvana Salcido Esparza, raised in bakeries in “the cornucopia of the world,” California’s San Joaquin Valley, described a lifetime of lessons learned on the way to her wide renown for her Mexican fare and innovative Arizona establishments – renown that includes repeated recognition from the prestigious James Beard awards.

“There is a lot of politics in food,” she said. “I don’t do food for me. One thing they say in my culture is: They want the taco but didn’t want the taco maker.”

Nationally acclaimed Mexican chef and a self-proclaimed “Chingona,” Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza has dedicated her culinary career to the forward movement and promotion of Mexican cuisine and culture At those California bakeries where she was raised, she recalls

Nationally acclaimed Mexican chef and a self-proclaimed “Chingona,” Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza has dedicated her culinary career to the forward movement and promotion of Mexican cuisine and culture their immigrant field laborer customers, who’d barter tomatoes and peaches for the bread or milk her father provided, and also get help from children there to translate forms, job applications and such.

“Our bakery became the hub for our culture” – as did her uncle’s bakery, she said, for the United Farm Workers in Delano.

“I knew as a child, that’s my foundation. We’re of service to our community, through our food and our bread.”

Mexican food as generally experienced in the United States, she said, “is not really Mexican food. It is more ‘necessity food.’”

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LEGALS/CLASSIFIEDS/NEWS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20220006129 Date Filed 06/24/2022 Filing Expires On: 06/24/2027 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): STORAMERICA BEAR VALLEY County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 12829 BEAR VALLEY ROAD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392 Mailing Address: 2042 BUSINESS CTR DR STE 100 IRVINE, CA 92612 Number of Employees: 0 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: NSA PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC State of Inc./Org./ Reg.: DE Inc./Org./Reg. No.: 201614510151 Residence Street Address: 8400 E. PRENTICE AVENUE 9TH FLOOR GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111 This business is/was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Jan 01, 2022 John Minar, Manager, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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 FORT 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 July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20220006390 Date Filed 07/05/2022 Filing Expires On: 07/05/2027 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): CENTURY 21 TOP PRODUCERS County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 27993 GREENSPOT ROAD UNIT 1 HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Number of Employees: 5 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: EHR REAL ESTATE SERVICES, INC. State of Inc./ Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: 4610626 Residence Street Address: 7835 CHURCH ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346 This business is/was conducted by: A Corporation Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Jun 27, 2022 Kirk Stoffel, CEO declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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 FORT 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 July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20220005829 Date Filed 06/16/2022 Filing Expires On: 06/16/2027 ABANDONMENT County of Current Filing: SAN BERNARDINO Date of Current Filing: 02/28/2019 File No.: FBN20190002508 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): GOWNS BY MARLA County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 889 N D ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92401 Name of Individual Registrant: YVETTE WRIGHT Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 6184 MANDY LN SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 This business is/was conducted by: An Individual Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Yvette Wright, Owner, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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 FORT 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 June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20220005830 Date Filed 06/16/2022 Filing Expires On: 06/16/2027 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): GOWNS BY MARLA County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 889 NORTH D ST UNIT A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92401 Name of Individual Registrant: DAVID L. ACKERMAN Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 6184 MANDY LANE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 This business is/was conducted by: An Individual Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable David L. Ackerman, Owner, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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 FORT 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 June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20220005763 Date Filed 06/13/2022 Filing Expires On: 06/13/2027 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): SOAPS OF EVE & CO County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 12778 TRENT PL VICTORVILLE, CA 92392 Number of Employees: 1 Name of Individual Registrant: EVELYN L. WILLIAMS Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 12778 TRENT PL VICTORVILLE, CA 92392 This business is/was conducted by: An Individual Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Oct 01, 2018 Evelyn L. Williams, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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 FORT 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 June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20220005825 Date Filed 06/15/2022 Filing Expires On: 06/15/2027 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): IRISH INNOVATIONS County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 929 S MOUNTAIN AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762 Number of Employees: 0 Name of Individual Registrant: GRACE J. WOLLARD Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 929 S MOUNTAIN AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762 This business is/was conducted by: An Individual Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 01, 2003 Grace J. Wollard, Owner, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

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 FORT 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 June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2022.

PETITION/PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOSEPH MARTIN RINAURO CASE NO: PROSB 2200848 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: JOSEPH MARTIN RINAURO A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: THERESA M. MILLER in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: THERESA M. MILLER 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: July 20, 2022 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: S37 SUPERIO R COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 West 3rd Street San Bernardino, CA 92415 San Bernardino District-Probate Division 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: Don M. Ross II, Esq. 57382 29 Palms Hwy Yucca Valley, CA 92284 (760)999-2095 Published in The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 30, July 7, 14, 2022.

SUMMONS SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CVPS 2105843 NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DARRELL S. GEIER, Deceased, and All of His Testate and Intestate Successors and All Persons Claiming By, or Through, or Under Such Decedent; ROBERT J. GEIER, an individual; MARJORIE A. MARTIN, an individual; ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN OR INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive FURTHER NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO COMPLAINT (FICTITIOUS NAME) IDENTIFYING DOE 1 AND ADDING DEFENDANT: ORPHA GEIER AKA ORPHA BELL GEIER, AND ALL OF HER TESTATE AND INTESTATE SUCCESSORS AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY, OR THROUGH, OR UNDER SUCH DECEDENT The action affects that certain real property described as follows: THE EAST 70 FEET OF THE WEST 210 FEET OF THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 4 EAST, SAN BERNARDINO BASE AND MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE NORTH 330 FEET. APN: 666-280008 YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): ANGEL VIEW, INC., a California NonProfit Corporation NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online 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 SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen.

Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá

quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

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

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

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way Palm Springs, CA 92262 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): DIANE C. BLASDEL, ESQ., SBN 157211 PO BOX 1747 PALM SPRINGS, CA 92263 760-320-0111 760-320-0211 DATE (Fecha):11/4/2021

CLASSIFIEDS JOB

OPENING:

CUSTODIAN

POSITIONS

Submission NEW HOPE CHURCH is accepting applications to fill two custodian positions at the New Hope Church and at the New Hope Family Life Center.

Applications are available at the New Hope Church office.

For additional information, please contact the New Hope Church office at (909) 887-2526.

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities.

Deadline: Mondays By 5pm For

• Ability to read English, listen and communicate effectively, both verbally and writing.

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Biden Calls for the Suspension of Gas Tax

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

The White House noted that the latest announcement follows a series of actions the President has taken to lower gas prices for American families.

President Joe Biden recently called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax through September after taking action to boost oil and gas supply chains, including the release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

According to a White House Fact Sheet, Biden has also encouraged oil companies and refiners to boost capacity and output to get more supply on the market.

Saying that American consumers have suffered under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s price hike, Biden has called on states to provide relief by suspending their gas taxes or helping in other ways.

Gas prices are up nationwide by about $2 per gallon.

“Right now, the federal government charges an 18cent tax per gallon of gasoline and a 24-cent tax per gallon of diesel,” White House officials stated in the Fact Sheet.

“Those taxes fund critical highways and public transportation through the Highway Trust Fund…

But in this unique moment, with gas prices near $5 a gallon on average across the country, President Biden is calling on Congress to suspend the gas tax for three months – until the end of September – to give Americans a little extra breathing room as they deal with the effects of Putin’s war in Ukraine,” The White House said.

According to the Fact Sheet, Biden has also called on Congress to make sure that a gas tax holiday has no adverse effect on the Highway Trust Fund.

“With our deficit already down by a historic $1.6 trillion this year, the President believes that we can afford to suspend the gas tax to help consumers while using other revenues to make the Highway Trust Fund whole for the roughly $10 billion costs,” administration officials wrote.

“This is consistent with legislation proposed in the Senate and the House to advance a responsible gas tax holiday.

President Biden understands that a gas tax holiday alone will not, on its own, relieve the run up in costs that we’ve seen… But the President believes that at this unique moment when the war in Ukraine is imposing costs on American families, Congress should do what it can to provide working families breathing room.”

Some states and local

By: Lou Yeboah

governments have already acted.

In Connecticut and New York, governors temporarily suspended their gas taxes, and in Illinois and Colorado, governors delayed planned tax and fee increases.

In places like Michigan and Minnesota, states and local leaders are considering several forms of consumer relief – from temporary suspensions and pauses on state sales tax on gas to consumer rebates and relief payments, administration officials noted further.

“The President believes more states and local governments should do so,” they stated.

The White House noted that the latest announcement follows a series of actions the President has taken to lower gas prices for American families.

The President announced the release of a record 1 million barrels per day from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which just last week a leading oil market analyst confirmed has been critical to keeping prices from rising even more.

According to the Fact Sheet, Biden rallied international partners to join us, releasing a combined 240 million barrels of oil on the market.

He expanded access to biofuels like E15 – gasoline that uses a 15 percent ethanol blend – to increase supply and lower prices at thousands of gas stations across the country.

Biden and his administration are engaging with oil and refining companies to ask them to work with the administration to bring forward concrete solutions that increase refinery capacity and output.

Secretary Granholm plans to meet soon with those CEOs. White House officials noted that America produced more oil under the first year of the Biden-Harris administration than it did under the first two years of the prior administration and remains on track to set new records next year.

“At the same time, the President understands that our efforts to increase energy production in the near-term must be coupled with medium- and long-term efforts to transition our economy away from fossil fuels produced by autocrats and to clean energy,” administration officials asserted.

The post Biden Calls for the Suspension of Gas Tax appeared first on Houston Forward Times.

“Why?”

Lou Yeboah Why do you ignore My warnings? Don’t you know warning comes before destruction?

Keep ignoring My warnings, and you will find yourself in Hell forever. I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and you have disregarded; Ye have set at naught all my counsel and would have none of my reproof: Therefore, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your continued in next 2 columns

“Why?”...contined fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then you shall call upon Me, but I will not answer; you shall seek Me, but you shall not find Me: For you hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD: Therefore, shall you eat of the fruit of your own way, and be filled with your own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay you, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy you. [Proverbs 1:24-33]. Keep ignoring My reproof and see what will happen to you. I the Lord have spoken, and My Word shall not return void!

I tell you, the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and you are not saved. [Jeremiah 8:20]. Repent before it is too late! Because there is a day coming in which you will stand before the Great White Throne of God and Christ. God will read your sins, all of them, from His Books and you will be doomed to eternal fire. For [Psalms 9:17] says, “The wicked shall be cast into Hell, and all the nations that forget God.” I tell you; Now is the time to set your life right. Now is the time to get your house in order. Do not be complacent about this, because the message over and over from Father Abraham to the rich man: It is too late!

The Laodicean church, in the Book of Revelation, was

complacent. The Lord said to her, “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot, but because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I’m about to spit you out of My mouth” [Revelation 3:15-16].

After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

“Therefore, thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus, saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.” [Jeremiah chapter 7].

I tell you, the inescapable truth in life - every action has consequences.

Repent before it is too late!

WITNESS FOR JUSTICE #1106

A Legacy of Safe Spaces and Solidarity Michael Schuenemeyer On June 25, the United Church of Christ (UCC) not only celebrated its 65th birthday, but also the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Dr. William R. “Bill” Johnson*, the first openly gay person to be ordained to Christian ministry by a predominantly heterosexual denomination.

Rev. Johnson’s ordination was a pivotal moment in the life of the UCC. Yes, it created significant tension and sparked intense debate in the church. But ultimately, it was a source of hope for many— especially many queer people of faith—that the household of faith could learn, grow, and embrace the fresh movement of the Spirit.

Of course, this didn’t happen out of the blue. In 1957, when the merger creating the United Church of Christ occurred, issues of human sexuality were part of the cultural/societal context into which the United Church of Christ was born. In 1957, the UCC wasn’t anywhere near the forefront of gay rights, but the issues were becoming more public and there were UCC clergy calling on the society and the church to be safe places and supporting civil rights for gay and lesbian people.

In April of 1969, two and half months before the Stonewall uprising in New York, for the first time a national ministry of the UCC adopted a supportive social policy resolution. The Council for Christian Social Action—a predecessor body to what is now Justice and Witness—declared its opposition to and called for the repeal of laws that criminalized private consensual same-sex relations between adults, declared its opposition to policies that banned military service, opposed police harassment and entrapment, and called the various settings of

the UCC to have “honest and open discussion of the nature of homosexuality in our society.”

The honest and open conversations that happened helped to lay the foundation for the ordinations of the Rev. Dr. Bill Johnson and the Rev. Anne Holmes, and the hundreds of other openly queer clergy in the UCC. Over the years, these conversations have become more inclusive, more expansive, and more intersectional, and are still vitally needed. The acronym of queer LGBTQIA+** inclusion continues to grow, calling us to be ever more expansive in how we understand the different identities we carry and encounter, as well as challenging us to embrace the intersectional truth that none of us are free until all of us are free.

In the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision, history could repeat itself, as future cases are likely to challenge and potentially reverse previous court decisions, removing rights recently gained.

In the midst of such turbulent times, may we trust the UCC’s legacy of creating safe spaces to engage and offer public witness, working in solidarity with others, and being open to learn, grow, and embrace the fresh movement of the Spirit for a just world for all. * A Position of Faith is a short documentary film with key moments leading to the ordination of the Rev. Dr. William R. “Bill” Johnson. ** LGBTQIA+ is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Plus (and others who experience marginalization).

Michael Schuenemeyer is the Team Leader for Health and Wholeness Advocacy Ministries for the United Church of Christ.

Ewaso Vilage: Poems, Stories, and Photography from Laikipia County, Kenya

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Ewaso Village is Duncan’s first book featuring his poetry, and the first in a trilogy featuring indigenous cultures from around the world.

Acclaimed filmmaker, photojournalist, writer, poet, and humanitarian Chip Duncan takes readers on a tour of Laikipia County, Kenya, in his new release, “Ewaso Village: Poems and Stories.”

The SelectBooks, Inc., offering provides a birds-eye view of Ewaso Village in a unique publication that incorporates stunning fullcolor images – the product of Duncan’s experience as a veteran photojournalist – and his poignant literary sensibilities as a poet and memoirist.

“All of this is focused on a community in southern Kenya, Ewaso Village, which has become an important place of spiritual connection for the author over the years of his travels,” according to a news release.

The book’s publishers noted that the Maasai people of East Africa comprise one of the most intriguing and resourceful cultures on Earth.

“For more than a thousand years, the Maasai and their Samburu neighbors have survived and thrived as pastoralists on the savannah near Mt. Kenya and the Maasai Mara borderlands of Kenya and Tanzania,” the publishers wrote.

“Chip Duncan exuberantly combines prose, poetry, and photography to celebrate the stories, songs, rituals, and dreams of people who live in this magical place called Ewaso Village.”

Further, those who speak of Ewaso Village with admiration include Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Rubinger Fellow, Dasha Kelly Hamilton, who described it as “eloquent and frank, braiding culture and commentary, justice

and joy, imagery and intimate impact. The collection of these pieces traveled me, not as a vapid tourist, but as a human.”

“Enriched with hauntingly beautiful photographs and poetic stories, Ewaso Village provides a richly detailed portrait of a nomadic society known for their centuries-old rituals and dazzling ornamentation, but a culture mostly hidden from outsiders,” National Geographic filmmaker and author Kevin McCarey stated.

“In this thoroughly engaging book, Duncan captures the heart and soul of the Maasai – an African tribal people grappling with the challenges of political strife and climate change.”

A lifelong Midwesterner and native of western Iowa, Duncan has produced more than fifty non-fiction films for international broadcast and distribution.

His work as a photographer and filmmaker has taken him to ice fields, war zones, slums, shipyards, museums, palaces, vineyards, beaches, deserts, rainforests, savannahs, and farmlands.

Duncan’s previous books include the short story collection Half A Reason to Die (SelectBooks, NYC, 2017), photographic collections Inspiring Change (Thunder House Press, Milwaukee, 2019) and Enough to Go Around (SelectBooks, NYC, 2009).

Duncan also speaks publicly on the impact of climate change as part of The Three Tenors of Climate Change.

Ewaso Village is Duncan’s first book featuring his poetry, and the first in a trilogy featuring indigenous cultures from around the world.

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Charms and Challenges of Ethnic Communities Made Plain on Our Plates...continued from page 4 years ago, the number one thing I could see was the consumer was not experiencing my kind of restaurant from a Mexican chef.”

“They expected chips and salsa. … Baker’s daughter, I gave them bread. They expected combination plates. ‘Where’s the tortillas? Where’s the sauces?’ I gave them none of that. Instead, I gave them regional food.”

“I use it as an opportunity to change erroneous perceptions that North Americans have not only over the food from Mexico, but of the culture. That was 20 years ago. And that fight is still going.”

From Mexico, she said, we got corn, tomatoes, chilies, beans, papaya, pineapples – “chocolate, for Christ’s sake! – and technique, such as barbecue pit cooking.

“I traveled the country – 17

states – studying American barbecue as a Mexican chef,” she said. “And what I found is that there’s a white supremacy that has taken over that food.”

“It’s typical not of assimilation, but appropriation, because that food developed out of Mexican culture into Texas and the rest of America.”

And then, some of the best innovations in barbecue came from enslaved cooks finding ways to make palatable scraps left off the tables they served, she said.

“There’s a lot of culture in food,” John Rudolph, founder of Feet in 2 Worlds which produces the blog site Food in 2 Worlds, concluded. “It’s about history.

It’s about politics. A lot of personalities, a lot of great stories, an endless source of inspiration.”

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Everything You Need to Know About Monkeypox and the Vaccine World /Health News

The United States is deploying an enhanced nationwide vaccination strategy to counter the continuing spread of monkeypox, federal public health officials announced at a White House briefing on Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is rapidly expanding access to hundreds of thousands of doses of the Jynneos vaccine, targeted to smallpox and its viral cousin monkeypox.

Vaccine doses will be used to protect those Americans deemed to be at higher risk of contracting the virus, according to federal officials. But how do you know if you should get the vaccine?

Here are the people whom the CDC recommends receive the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox: People who have had sexual contact with an infected person Right now, those at the highest risk include anyone who’s had close physical contact or sexual contact with a person with a known case of monkeypox.

Also at high risk are gay and bisexual men who “have recently had multiple sex partners in a venue where there was known to be monkeypox or in an area where monkeypox is spreading,” the CDC said in a statement.

Healthcare workers If you are a health care provider in the U.S. that has come in contact with patients with confirmed or probable cases of monkeypox, you

should get the Jynneous vaccine.

The CDC also urges clinicians to keep a close eye out for patients who have rashes or lesions that look like monkeypox, especially those who have recently traveled to Central or West Africa or certain parts of Europe where monkeypox has been detected.

Up to now, officials have recommended vaccination only for those detected through contact tracing for potential monkeypox exposure, Walensky said at the Tuesday briefing.e That strategy has been largely driven by vaccine shortages, according to Walensky.

However, “now we are recommending that vaccines be provided to both people with known monkeypox exposures who are contacted by public health, and also to those people who’ve been recently exposed tomonkeypox that may not be identified through cases of investigation and contact tracing,” Walensky said.

When should you get vaccinated?

“Vaccination after exposure or using vaccines for ‘postexposure prophylaxis’ is meant to reduce your risk of becoming infected with the virus and then becoming sick,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky explained at the briefing. “Vaccination should occur within two weeks of a possible exposure, and the sooner you can get vaccinated after the exposure, the better.”

There have been 306 U.S. monkeypox cases reported so far in 27 states and the District of Columbia, according to the CDC’s most updated figures.

Worldwide there are more than 4,700 confirmed cases in 49 countries, Walensky says.

“The good news is on this outbreak, we have had no deaths so far, thanks in large part to vaccines, to tests, to treatments, and to the effectiveness of our health care system,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator.

How are doses of the vaccine being administered?

Doses of the Jynneos vaccine will be distributed to areas with the highest transmission and need, using a tiered allocation system, according to officials.

The federal government is making 56,000 doses of the vaccine available immediately, and another 240,000 doses will be made available in the coming weeks.

More than 750,000 additional doses will be made available over the summer, and another 500,000 doses will be released through the fall.

The U.S. expects to release 1.6 million doses of Jynneos vaccine this year, officials note.

How is monkeypox being monitored?

The ongoing global monkeypox outbreak also has prompted the CDC to activate anemergency

command center for monitoring and coordinating response to the burgeoning epidemic.

The CDC’s Emergency Operation Center has more than 300 staff who work with local, national and international partners to counter urgent public health challenges.

While data suggest that gay and bisexual men make up a high number of monkeypox cases, anyone can get it from close physical contact with an infected person. At least five U.S. women have contracted monkeypox so far, the CDC says.

Late last week, New York City became the first U.S. city to start offering the monkeypox vaccine to those at high risk for the disease.

Demand grew so high that the city had to restrict vaccinations to those with appointments.

The city had 1,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine, and is working with the CDC to get more.

Despite all this activity, White House officials took pains Tuesday to remind people that monkeypox is a well-known pathogen.

“The most important point to start with is reminding folks that this is not a novel virus,” Jha says. “Unlike COVID of two years ago, monkeypox is a virus that’s been around forever.

We’ve known about it for at least 60-some-odd years, and we have spent years studying and treating monkeypox in endemic nations.”

The United States itself has had outbreaks in 2003 and 2019, Jha notes Getting tested for monkeypox Testing capacity for monkeypox also is being expanded nationwide, according to health officials. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started shipping tests to five commercial laboratory companies across the nation, to make sure that testing is available in every community, the experts at the White House briefing said.

If you experience new rashes or are concerned about monkeypox, contact your healthcare provider.

California’s Youngest Kids at Acute Risk from Covid-19 — Vaccines Offer Best Protection Around

By Mark Hedin

More than two years after Covid-19’s onset, there is finally a federally approved vaccine against it in the United States for children age 6 months to 4 years old.

Covid has become the fifthleading cause of death among kids between the ages of 1 and 4, and the fourth-leading cause among those younger than 1.

California already has 400,000 doses to distribute, free and regardless of insurance or immigration status, and has bought enough for all 2.2 million newly eligible children in the state, according to Dr. Lucia Abascal, of the California Department of Health.

Abascal spoke at a June 23 press briefing organized by Ethnic Media Services and Vaccinate All 58 of the California Department of Public Health.

Joining her were Dr. Jennifer

Miller, of East Bay Pediatrics in Berkeley, and Dr. Sarah Takekawa, an obstetriciangynecologist at Kaiser Permanente in South Sacramento.

Because federal law prohibits pharmacies from vaccinating children younger than 3, Abascal said, families must contact their doctors directly to arrange a vaccination, or go to https://myturn. ca.gov/ if they don’t have one.

The state has already made arrangements with enough pediatricians to provide for 85% of those 2.2 million newly eligible kids, Abascal said.

Two versions of the pediatric vaccine, one made by Moderna, the other by Pfizer, were approved in mid-June after independent, federal and state reviews.

“This vaccine is going to be the most heavily studied vaccine in history,” noted Dr. Miller.

“They’ve been properly tested and vetted. The production didn’t cut any corners.” Moderna’s version is a quarter the strength of its adult dose and administered in two injections, a month apart. Pfizer’s takes three shots, the second 21 days after the first, the third 60 days after the second. It’s a tenth the strength of the adult version.

Abascal said it seems likely there will eventually be a booster for the Moderna regimen, but its lower initial dosage should also reduce side effects which, she added, would not be severe.

All three doctors said that, in their view, the best vaccine to get is simply whichever is available first, that there are no significant differences between them.

When it comes to Covid vaccinations, Miller said her patient families generally have one of three different attitudes: “The first group are beating my door down, anxious to get their children vaccinated,” she said. The second are having second thoughts and “don’t feel confident about moving forward until they have more answers… The third just don’t feel it’s safe or necessary.”

“The decision not to vaccinate is the decision to get the Covid virus,” Abascal warned. “There’s

no predicting how severe that will be. You are taking a chance that it will be mild, however, one in five hospitalized children end up in the ICU (intensive care unit).”

It’s true that having been infected with Covid provides a degree of immunity from further infection, she said, but it’s less than that provided by the vaccines. When her recently infected 19-month-old daughter gets well enough to be vaccinated, she said, she’ll have the strongest protection possible.

“There’s this idea that Omicron is milder,” she said, “but in this age group, when the Omicron surge started, there were record hospitalizations.”

Five times as many as during the previous “Delta” Covid surge for kids younger than 4, Dr. Miller noted.

“I try to remind them that we are in this together,” Dr. Miller added. “Getting our children vaccinated helps us all; it improves the health of our community.”

As a gynecologist, Takekawa spoke of having witnessed unvaccinated Covid patients’ struggles during pregnancy and childbirth, and contrasted that with what she’d observed of her continued in next 2 columns

California’s Youngest Kids at Acute Risk from Covid-19 — Vaccines Offer Best Protection Around...continued own and her patients’ ability to both become pregnant and bear children — with no issues related to getting vaccinated or boosted.

Both Abascal, who is pregnant, and Takekawa shared stories of how they and their respective husbands had contracted Covid when their toddlers brought it home from day care.

“That misconception that kids are safe, that nothing happens to kids, is wrong,” said Abascal.

“We have more and more evidence that kids are at an acute risk” and “can also suffer consequences such as multi-inflammatory syndrome and long Covid.”

“Children and adolescents need

their lives back,” Miller said.

“They need to be able to fully gather with friends and peers, go to dances and proms, participate in sports and activities, be fully in school activities and not on Zoom away from their friends.”

“Because of Covid they’ve missed milestones and critical stages of development, leading to an unprecedented mental health crisis. We all need to do our part to bring that to an end.”

“It is normal to be afraid of the unknown and want to protect your child,” Abascal said.

“With that in mind, vaccination is the best protection around.”

Older Adults Still At High Risk for COVID-19 — Beware Complacency...continued from page 3 Of Velasquez’s care-provider clients, he said, more than 70% were spending more than 40 hours per week providing care and got no paid help. They self-reported fair to poor and worsening health, moderate to severe depression and loneliness.

“Caregivers usually don’t want help for themselves,” he said, but when Covid hit, the challenges of social distancing eventually led to increased calls for help in the form of the “respite services” CRCs can provide.

For his CRC’s 516 family caregivers, it came to a combined 192,600 hours in one year, Velasquez said.

“You have to get them to think that they’re helping their loved one, even though they’re helping themselves.”

Beware complacency “For me, the most worrisome thing is how everybody’s become a little bit more complacent. Masks are not being worn on a regular basis. People are just tired. They just want to say, ‘Covid is over, let’s just do what we do.’”

“We really want to encourage individuals and families to consider safely re-entering settings where they can share meals, participate in activities and have multidisciplinary healthcare teams supporting them.”

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senator Lena Gonzalez, and Special Advisor Michael Tubbs Join California Volunteers to Launch Statewide Recruitment for Youth Jobs Corps Program..continued from page 2 impact in their communities.

Included in the California 2021- 2022 budget, the #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs Corps program provides $150 million for youth workforce

development in the 13 largest cities in California and $35 million for counties and other cities around the state.

Learn more and apply at C AYo u t h J o b s c o r p s . c o m .

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Wins Awards for Maternity Care World /Health News Arrowhead Regional Medical Center was recently honored by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) with two quality and engagement awards. CMQCC launched the Quality and Engagement Award Program to recognize and honor member hospitals for excellence in maternity care. To receive an award, the recipient hospital must have the highest level of engagement with CMQCC’s quality improvement tools, clinical guidance, and education.

ARMC’s Maternity Care Centers won the Maternal Data Center (MDC) Superstar Award: Medium-Sized Birth Volume Hospitals, for hospitals with 1,000-2,499 births. To achieve superstar status, ARMC hospital personnel accessed the Maternal Data Center more than 700 points across the Maternal Data Center utilization categories: Overall Login Counts, Supplemental Data Completeness, Hospital Report views, and Provider Report views during the previous calendar year.

ARMC also won the Quality & Sustainability Award: NTSV Cesarean Birth Rate (PC-02), for its outstanding efforts to reduce cesarean sections in first-time mothers. ARMC Maternity Care Center was honored for achieving and surpassing the Healthy People 2030 target goals for Cesarean

Birth Rate among its Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) birthing population for three years in a row. The target NTSV Cesarean Birth Rate was 23.9% for 2019 and 2020 and 23.6% for 2021, however ARMC achieved birth rates of 17.8 % for 2019, 19.2% for 2020 and 16.4% for 2021.

“We are very proud that we have been able to serve our community by providing some of the lowest NTSV rates, in not only San Bernardino County, but also in the State of California. Even though this award represents the past three years, we have been below the state average for the past four years.” said ARMC’s Clinical Director for Maternal Child Health Services, Sheryl Wooldridge, MSN, RN. CMQCC is a maternal quality improvement group dedicated to improving hospital-based maternity care in California.

More than 200 California hospitals are active CMQCC members. These hospitals use CMQCC’s Maternal Data Center to track the performance of their maternity care and identify opportunities to improve the quality of their perinatal care and maternal patient safety. CMQCC’s efforts and partnerships have helped California to achieve one of the nation’s lowest overall maternal mortality rates.

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Akron Authorities Release Disturbing BodyCam of Shooting of Black DoorDash Driver

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Jayland Walker, an unarmed Black DoorDash delivery driver with no criminal record shot dozens of times

by Akron Police Officers.

Authorities on Sunday released disturbing bodycam footage of Jayland Walker, an unarmed Black DoorDash delivery driver with no criminal record shot dozens of times by Akron Police Officers.

The lawyer for the 25-yearold’s family called it an execution, telling media members that police fired 90 shots, hitting the young man “60 to 80 times.”

As the video rolls, several

officers are seen approaching Walker’s vehicle with their guns drawn. Police Chief Stephen Mylett claimed Walker had a ski mask on and reached toward his waist during a foot chase and turned toward pursuing police officers.

He claimed that’s when officers opened fire. Mylett said a weapon was found in Walker’s car, but it wasn’t clear if it was discharged.

He admitted that Walker

SoCalGas Awards More Than $80,000 in Scholarships Over the Next Three Years to Inland Empire and Imperial County Students Pursuing Higher Education Over 85 percent of SoCalGas scholarship recipients are minority students majoring in STEM, accounting and finance State/County/ Political News LOS ANGELES—June 30, 2022– Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced nine students from San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Imperial County who have been awarded funds from the 2022 SoCalGas Scholarship Program.

The recipients will receive scholarships eligible for renewal for the next three years totaling over $80,000 in available funds.

For the first time, the utility has partnered with Scholarship America® to provide multiyear scholarships for students studying science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), accounting or finance. Scholarships are eligible for renewal for the next three years totaling over $300,000 in available funds. The students were evaluated on their academic achievements, community involvement and personal statements addressing the utility’s sustainability actions in support of California’s clean energy goals. With 87 percent of this year’s recipients identified as minority students, SoCalGas’ scholarship program continues to help create new opportunities for diverse and underserved scholarship recipients.

“A college education is often a costly investment, and many of us experience certain daily hardships that may prevent us from reaching those goals,” said San Bernardino County Supervisor and Chairman of the Board Curt Hagman. “SoCalGas’ Scholarship program is one step forward in helping our students overcome those challenges and we’re committed to helping them attain new opportunities one step at a time.”

“I want to thank SoCalGas for always championing our people and helping open doors for

many within our communities,” said Diahna Garcia-Ruiz, board president at Central Union High School District. “Year after year, I am amazed at what SoCalGas does for our communities. This is a tremendous opportunity for our students who lack financial support – these scholarships will aid them and help drive their future.”

"Our youth are the driving force of the future. The goal of our scholarship is to nurture this group and help build the important foundation that will help prepare them for professional opportunities and higher education,” said Andy Carrasco, vice president of communications, local government, and community affairs at SoCalGas. “We understand that rising educational costs can be stressful, and we want to help alleviate those worries as much as possible to allow our students a brighter future."

Matthew Torre, a graduate from Patriot High School in Jurupa Valley who will be pursuing a degree in Management Science and Engineering with a minor degree in statistics at Stanford in the fall said, “I am truly honored to be selected for such a prestigious and generous scholarship. It has always been a dream of mine to attend a top University and to do so with the help of this scholarship, is a dream realized for me. I am proud to represent my community and SoCalGas as part of the Stanford Class of 2026.”

Krystal Flores, a graduate from Southwest High School in El Centro who will be pursuing a degree in Public Health at the University of California San Diego this fall said, “It’s an honor to receive the SoCalGas scholarship this year. It’s been an continued in next 2 columns

didn’t exit the car with a gun.

While handcuffed and bleeding profusely from his wounds, Mylett claimed officers attempted to provide lifesaving help for Walker.

The eight officers directly involved in the shooting had been placed on administrative leave.

“It was difficult to watch, and shocking,” Mylett stated. “I’m not going to pass judgment.: The chief and Akron Mayor

Daniel Horrigan commended Walker’s family for calling for peaceful demonstrations.

“The video is heartbreaking, it’s hard to take in,” Horrigan said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and the FBI field office in Akron issued joint statements noting that they were “closely monitoring and reviewing the circumstances.”

“The FBI continues to coordinate with state and local partners to provide resources and specialized skills,” officials wrote in the statement. “If the evidence reveals potential violations of federal criminal statutes, the Justice Department will take appropriate action.”

In attempt to quell tensions, Horrigan announced the cancelation of Akron’s Fourth of July Festival.

Walker’s family attorney Bobby DiCello called for a federal investigation.

“The is brutal,” DiCello asserted.

“It’s going to stir up some passion.

It’s going to make people uneasy.”

SoCalGas Awards More Than $80,000 in Scholarships Over the Next Three Years to Inland Empire and Imperial County Students Pursuing Higher Education...continued amazing journey so far, and I hope to accomplish all my dreams and goals at UC San Diego with the help of this scholarship in the next four years.”

The program is administered

by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarship, tuition assistance, and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor, and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team.

Since the program’s inception in 2001, the utility has awarded more than 2,200 scholarships totaling over $3 million in funding.

Students who plan to attend a community college or trade school will receive a $1,000 scholarship

and students who plan to attend a university, or 4-year college will receive a $5,000 scholarship.

Awards are renewable for three years or until a bachelor's degree is earned, whichever occurs first, on the basis of satisfactory academic performance for a total of up to $20,000 per recipient.

In 2021, the utility invested $2.3 million in educational programs with over $500,000 spent in funding towards scholarships for students throughout our service territory. SoCalGas’ Scholarship Program is part of the company’s ASPIRE 2045 sustainability goals to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and the communities it serves, including a commitment to invest $50 million to drive positive change in diverse and underserved communities over the next five years.

HUD Announces Agreement With California Real Estate And Property Management Company County News WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has entered into a Conciliation Agreement with California property owners Joel and Christie A. Crowley, a property management company, Distinctive Properties Real Estate and Property Management, and property manager William Ware, resolving allegations that they discriminated against an interracial married couple on the basis of race and disability. A former employee of the Respondents allegedly made discriminatory statements and refused to provide an accessible parking space for the husband. Read the Conciliation Agreement here.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits housing providers from discriminating because of race and disability. This includes making discriminatory statements and refusing to provide

reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities.

“Families deserve the right to enjoy their homes, free from discrimination,” said Demetria L. McCain, HUD’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.

“HUD remains committed to ensuring that all housing providers meet their fair housing obligations.”

The case came to HUD’s attention when a couple filed a complaint alleging that the housing providers discriminated against them because of race and disability. The complaint asserted that the property manager made discriminatory comments and that other tenants subjected them to racial slurs and threats. They also alleged that they were refused an accessible parking space.

Under the terms of the Agreement, the property owner has agreed to pay the couple $25,000, and Respondents have agreed to

HUD Announces Agreement With California Real Estate And Property Management Company...continued process any and all future requests made by or on behalf of applicants and/or residents for reasonable accommodation in a timely manner and provide fair housing training for their staff. Property owners Joel and Christie A. Crowley, property management company Distinctive Properties Real Estate and Property Management, and property manager William Ware deny any violation of the law, and their entering into the

Conciliation Agreement does not constitute an admission by them or evidence of a determination by the Department of any violation of the Act or any other law.

Individuals who believe they have experienced discrimination in housing may file a complaint by contacting HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at (800) 669-9777 (voice) or (800) 877-8339 (Federal Relay Service).

Start Now to Take Back the Supreme Court

By Ben Jealous

Ben Jealous Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good.

Or, more accurately, they have answered it for bad.

In the term that has just ended, the new far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court went on a rampage. They have torn up decades of legal precedent to diminish Americans’ rights and legal protections. To justify the results they wanted, they lied in their rulings the way some of them lied to get on the court. It has been a shameful display of power politics disguised as judging.

Not surprisingly, the most attention has been paid to the Court majority overturning the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision.

A constitutional right that has made a huge difference in the lives of generations of women was wiped away. The impact will be devastating and deadly.

Millions of individuals and couples dealing with unwanted pregnancies, the trauma of rape or incest, life-threatening pregnancy complications, or even a miscarriage that some intrusive government official decides is suspicious, will have their options severely limited or eliminated entirely.

We know that those restrictions and their consequences will fall most harshly on already vulnerable people, including Black people, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and low-income people. Already in Missouri, a major health care system will no longer treat rape victims with emergency contraception because the state abortion ban puts medical care providers at legal risk.

Anti-abortion state legislators seem to be in competition to see who can pass the most extreme, intrusive, and controlling laws.

Some are even trying to limit people’s right to travel from one state to another, targeting anyone who helps a person from a state that bans abortion get care in a state that permits it. It reminds me of the old fugitive slave laws that forced free states to help slave states deny people their freedom.

Unfortunately, overturning Roe is just one of the harmful decisions handed down by the Trump Court.

The Court intervened in voting rights cases to protect

gerrymandering designed to limit Black voters’ access to political power. This comes on top of other rulings gutting the Voting Rights Act. The Trump Court went after sensible regulation of guns. The far-right justices overturned a New York law more than 100 years old that required people to show a good cause to get a permit to carry concealed firearms. Communities that are already suffering from the effects of gun crime are likely to experience even greater violence now that the court has robbed public officials of options and given the extremist pro-gun political agenda the power of law.

The court also further dismantled the separation of church and state, which protects religious freedom and preserves equality under law for people regardless of their religious beliefs.

The Trump court took a wrecking ball to this pillar of American society. It is forcing states to divert tax dollars to religious schools, like some southern states did when they funded white evangelical segregationist academies that emerged in resistance to the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing racially segregated public schools.

This court has made it easier for public officials, like teachers, to coerce students into prayer or other religious practices. This is a very clear threat to anyone whose faith is different from the one dominant in their community or state.

In other words, the U.S. Supreme Court, which we counted on for generations to uphold civil rights and tear down obstacles to equality, is now acting as an arm of the increasingly aggressive far-right political movement.

How did we get here? Simple.

Thanks to the anti-democratic Electoral College, Donald Trump was elected in 2016 even though almost three million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell prevented the Senate from even considering President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination so that Trump could fill it instead—and then rushed Trump’s third justice onto the court even as voters were casting ballots to remove Trump from office. Behind Trump and McConnell was a massively funded, decades-long campaign to build the political power to take control of the judiciary.

In other words, winning the presidency and controlling the Senate gave the far right the power to force its harmful agenda on the American public long after voters rejected Trump.

Taking the Court back from the extremists who now control it will be a long-term project. It starts with this year’s elections.