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CALIFORNIA’S FIRST RACIST GOVERNOR

By Gregory Nokes Black Voice News

In his apology for California’s genocidal treatment of Native Americans, Gov. Gavin Newsom focused attention on the state’s nearly forgotten first elected governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, and his declaration in 1851 that Indians would be exterminated.

As Gov. Newsom reported, Burnett infamously predicted to the 1851 Legislature: “That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected …”

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PHOENIX, -- A diverse and inclusive education workforce can play a critical role in ensuring that students receive a robust, quality educational experience. While students of color comprise more than half of P-12 classroom populations in the United States, overcoming the shortage of educators of color has been a decades-long dilemma for U.S. schools.1 The shortage is especially alarming among Black male educators, who represent less than two percent of the total teaching population.2 The recruitment of these teachers continues to be a critical topic in educational reform, but studies on the factors contributing to the shortage remain scarce. As a result, there has been little improvement in attracting and retaining Black male educators.

Romelia Turner graduated from San Diego City College with assistance from the San Diego Promise. Enrollment in the program has increased from 186 students in 2016-17 to 3,100 this coming academic year.

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To uncover factors affecting the shortage of Black male teachers, researchers from University of Phoenix (UOPX) Center for Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Research – in partnership with the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) – examined the current status of Black male educators in our nation’s classrooms. This exploration highlighted insights of fellows of the 2018 cohort of NNSTOY Outstanding Black Male Educators. Their reflective quotes and personal narratives were published in a joint white paper, entitled, “Having Our Say: Examining Career Trajectories of Black Male Educators in P-12 Education.” Three areas of focus were spotlighted as potential solutions to the shortage: improved recruitment efforts, greater representation in teacher preparation programs and enriched experiences in school settings.

Enrollment has increased again for the San Diego Promise, the San Diego Community College District’s free college program. Approximately 3,100 San Diego Promise students are expected at San Diego City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges when classes begin August 19. This is a 48 percent increase over the 201819 academic year, when about 2,100 enrolled. It also makes the San Diego Promise one of the largest free community college programs in California.

“With limited insight into the factors affecting Black male educators in P-12 education, the voices of the NNSTOY fellows served as the ‘coal miner’s canary’ – calling attention to the challenges experienced within the career trajectory of many Black male educators at every phase,” said Dr. Kimberly Underwood, University of Phoenix research chair and lead author of the paper. “While this paper will help

The San Diego Promise provides two years of free tuition and book grants to all first-time students who enroll full-time. The SDCCD launched the program three years ago with

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As a writer of West Coast history, I became fascinated by Burnett and his little-known role in briefly allowing slavery while in Oregon and promoting exclusion laws against blacks in both Oregon and California.

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I learned that throughout his political career, Burnett clung to a bizarre and deadly fantasy that the American West would be See NEWSOM page 2

2 MASS THAN 24 HOURS SHOCK US

SHOOTINGS IN LESS

By Matt Sedensky and Astrid Galvan Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas — Anguished families planned funerals in two U.S. cities, politicians pointed fingers and a nation numbed by gun violence wondered what might come next Monday as the death toll from two weekend mass shootings rose to 31.

The attacks 1,300 miles apart — at a packed shopping center in El Paso, Texas , and a popular nightlife stretch in Dayton, Ohio — also injured dozens more. They became the newest entries on an ever-growing list of mass shooting sites and spurred discussion on where to lay the blame.

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mental illness and video games but steered away from talk of curbing gun sales.

For all the back-to-back horror of innocent people slain amid everyday life, decades of an unmistakably American problem of gun violence ensured it wasn’t entirely shocking. Even as the familiar post-shooting rituals played out

in both cities, others clung to life in hospitals, with two new fatalities recorded among those injured at the shooting at the Walmart in El Paso.

As in a litany of other shooting sites before, the public juggled stories of the goodness seen in lives cut short with inklings of the demented motives of the See SHOOTINGS page 6

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION Newsom:

Within just 12 months, on Nov. 13, 1849, he was elected governor over four other candidates.

In other words, former Indian lands were legally controlled by whites.

Diversity:

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He evidently was instantly likable and persuasive, and wrote extensively for California newspapers, promoting civilian government for California. It didn’t hurt his political appeal he was also blessed with good looks. In his official portrait in the California State Capitol, he bears a resemblance to the late actor Paul Newman.

Article 3 set out circumstances under which a Caucasian could take custody of a native child—until age 18 for males, and 15 for females.

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populated almost exclusively by whites. In Burnett’s vision, there would be no blacks, no Chinese and no Native Americans.

Burnett’s attitudes toward race no doubt were shaped in part by his family background. He was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1807 and married into a slave-owning family. He owned two slaves in Missouri, and may have brought one of them to Oregon in 1843.

While a merchant in Tennessee, Burnett was responsible for the fatal shooting of a black slave who allegedly broke into his store.

In the one negative encounter with Native Americans mentioned in his autobiography, “Reminiscenses of an Old Pioneer,” he blamed Indians for setting a fire that destroyed his father’s farm wagon in Missouri.

In 1843, Burnett was one of the organizers and the first captain of the wagon train that brought nearly a thousand settlers from Missouri to Oregon in what became known as ‘”The Great Migration.”

He soon entered politics in Oregon, serving on the first elected legislature. Under his leadership, the Oregon Legislature enacted a law that excluded African-Americans. That law said African-Americans who refused to leave would face a severe lashing. Cooler heads soon overturned the Oregon law.

A self-taught lawyer, he also served as the first supreme court judge of the provisional government of Oregon.

In November 1848, Burnett joined the gold rush to California, but soon tired of mining, and befriended and worked with John Sutter Jr. to help establish the city of Sacramento, making a great deal of money.

As governor, Burnett tried but failed to impose an Oregon-style law that would have excluded African-Americans.

He also sought to exclude Chinese immigrants because he believed they were better businessmen and workers than whites, and would dominate the economy, and later supported the federal 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which all but shut down Chinese immigration.

But it was California’s native tribes who suffered the most from Burnett’s attitudes and policies.

In calling for the establishment of week a “Truth and Healing Council’’ to investigate past abuses of California’s tribes, Newsom cited Burnett’s extermination prediction.

The genocide against California Indians neither started nor ended with Burnett. But some of the worst massacres of the native population occurred while he was in office. And he signed the deviously named 1850 “Act for the Government and Protection of Indians” That became a convenient cover for seizing Indian lands, disrupting families and forcing many into involuntary servitude.

Article 2 of that law said: “Persons and proprietors of land on which Indians are residing, shall permit such Indians peaceably to reside on such lands.”

As settlers and miners poured into California, moving onto traditional tribal lands, Indians not surprisingly responded by attacking them. Whites retaliated, frequently much more savagely.

Burnett twice ordered the state militia to respond to attacks, once at a ferry crossing near the confluence of the Gila and Colorado rivers in April 1850, and again near Ringgold in El Dorado County in October 1850. He urged communities to use poorly trained local militias to respond to attacks, with predictably bloody results and little if any accountability.

The worst of the conflicts during Burnett’s time in office was the so-called Bloody Island Massacre in May of 1850 in which about 75 U.S soldiers staged a retaliatory strike on several hundred probably innocent members of the Pomo tribe at Clear Lake in Lake County.

Estimates of the number of Pomo dead—men, women and children—ranged from 60 to several hundred. The massacre was described in the following account in the Daily Alta California of May 28, 1850: “The troops arrived in the vicinity of the lake, and came unexpectedly upon a body of Indians numbering between two and three hundred. They immediately surrounded them and as the Indians raised a shout of defiance and attempted escape, poured in a destructive fire indiscriminately upon men, women and children. “‘They fell,’ says our informant, ‘as grass before the sweep of the scythe.’ Little or no resistance was encountered, and the work of butchery was of short duration. The shrieks of the slaughtered victims died away . . . and stretched lifeless upon the sod of their See NEWSOM page 6

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just 186 students. Since then, it has increased exponentially and is now attracting students from across the state. In fact, students from 122 high schools outside of San Diego County have enrolled for upcoming academic year.

“The success of the San Diego Promise is good news for San Diego, especially our local workforce since Promise students tend to finish their academic programs faster and with less student debt,” said Lynn Neault, SDCCD Vice Chancellor of Student Services. “A remarkable 98 percent of these graduates will stay in San Diego after completing their academic programs.”

To further boost student completion, and thanks

to the generosity of donors, the San Diego Promise will for the first time enroll a limited number of part-time students who meet specific criteria.

These include Promise students from the past academic year who cannot continue to attend full-time due to work or family commitments. Accommodations are also being made for more Continuing Education students, foster youth, veterans, and formerly incarcerated students who would otherwise not qualify for the program.

Neault says the SDCCD is able to expand the program as a result of increased state funding as well as continuing philanthropic support, which has exceeded $1 million in donations from local individuals and corporations.

“Dollar for dollar,” said Neault. “This is the best investment we can make in the future of our community.”

In addition to financial assistance, the San Diego Promise program provides counseling and handson support to help students develop and stick to a plan to meet their educational and career goals.

Eighty-four percent of last year’s Promise participants are students of color who saw higher success rates than their non-Promise peers.

As one of the largest of California’s 73 community college districts, the San Diego Community College District serves approximately 100,000 students annually through three two-year colleges and San Diego Continuing Education. The three colleges, San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, and San Diego Miramar College, offer associate degrees and certificates in occupational programs that prepare students for transfer to four-year colleges and entry-level jobs. Mesa College also offers a bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management.

Continuing Education offers noncredit adult education at seven campuses throughout San Diego.

identify potential solutions, we must continue to champion efforts to create sustainable actions to diversify the teaching profession and improve recruitment and retention efforts.”

Additional authors included University of Phoenix Center for Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Research fellows Dr. Donna Smith, Dr. Hilary Johnson-Lurtz, Dr. Joy Taylor and Dr. J. Medgar Roberts. Based on their experience as faculty members, educators and administrators, they provide a critical examination of the career trajectories of Black male educators as they enter into and advance within the P-12 school setting.

As highlighted in the paper, various studies suggest that the lack of Black male educators has negative implications for all students, both culturally and academically. In their absence, students lose access to valuable insights and perspectives that can dramatically decrease bias and prejudice. Additionally, direct results can be seen among the benefits to students of color, which include lower dropout rates, a more positive view of schooling, fewer disciplinary issues and better test scores.

While there are varying schools of thought surrounding how Black male educators specifically impact P-12 classrooms, one common thread remained consistent within the research and among all the narratives of NNSTOY fellows – representation is critical. The voices of these fellows serve as a resounding acknowledgment of the ubiquitous need to increase Black male educator representation to improve student learning.

To develop a strategic approach to the issue, the UOPX and NNSTOY team will build off the voices of these dynamic fellows and conduct research to examine socialization experiences of Black male educators, including the root cause of the attrition. Their findings will be shared in future papers and conference presentations. Once identified, University of Phoenix will seek to implement solutions to recruit and teach the next generation of Black male educators.

This is an important initiative for the University, as its faculty and student bodies represent more than double the national average of representations of African American faculty and students. As of 2019, nearly a third (31 percent) of College of Education faculty identify as African American and 34 percent of University of Phoenix students identify as African American. As a part of its collective diversity, the University is committed to championing for the diversification of our nation’s workforces, in every community of practice.

Read the complete paper at https://www.phoenix.edu/ having-our-say.

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OP-ED: Reform Alternative Mass Murder: The Presidency and Business Lending Practices to Protect Small-Business Owners the U.S. Senate

By Rep. Edolphus Towns

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

While the nation is mourning the loss of life in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, Ohio, let us not forget that death by guns is being played out each and every day in some communities across the country. While we have had over 250 mass shootings this year and yet another in northern California as I write this editorial, we appear unable to do anything as a nation because of two men--President Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, the Majority leader of the U.S. Senate.

What is happening now in terms of “White Nationalists” murdering people because of the color of their skin? It is no different than the “lynching” of countless African Amerians in the history of this country. The mass murder of Black citizens in the early days of the last century in Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, Florida’s Redwood mass murders and the mass murders in Missouri, all of which left hundreds of Black Americans dead because of the color of their skin. The difference between the mass murders of Blacks just mentioned and today’s mass murders is that in the past there were multiple Whites openly killing with single-shot weapons. The difference in mass murderers and the present day murderers are individuals with multiple-shot assault weapons, with the ability to kill so many with less effort than in the past.

Let us not forget that while Donald Trump is encouraging his base with racist speech, his side knick,

McConnell, is able to and continues to hold the U.S. Senate hostage in support of such efforts by the President. If we are going to blame Trump, than let us not forget Sen. McConnell and the Republican Party who, even after the loss of so many lives, refuses to take action on gun control legislation. And while we are speaking about gun control, let’s not be fooled by “back-ground” checks alone. We need to outlaw All Assault Weapons in this country.

Such an effort does not violate the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms,” but such weapons belong on the battle-field and not in our country’s communities.

Let us not forget that we all are victims of hate in some way. We all are in danger of loss of our lives everyday through acts of violence because we are increasingly, as a nation, turning away from God because of the beliefs of others that conflict with our own freedoms of religion.

While we watch and pray, let’s not fail to plan and take action on cleaning up the U.S. Senate and, where necessary, removing from Office, all those in any party that think more about the gun lobbyists in this country than human life. If you have a pen, use it. If you have a vote, prepare to use it. If you have friends or relatives that live in the political districts of those who refuse to act on this issue, then contact them and get about the business of really changing America.

IMPROVEMENTS IN MODULAR HOMES MAKE THEM A COMPETITIVE ALTERNATIVE TO SITE-BUILT HOMES

By Christopher G. Cox, Publisher and Managing Editor, www.realesavvy.com

A completely different method of offsite homebuilding -- modular construction — has also been around for many decades, but has not gained much traction until recently.

Unfortunately, not all alternative business lenders are created equal.

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

behavior that can lead to bankruptcy or worse for their own customers.

A critical tool for these predatory lenders has been the use of our state’s court system to seize the assets of small businesses whether located in New York or in any other state by employing legal instruments called “confessions of judgement.”

These lenders have been requiring their small business borrowers, as a condition of receiving any short-term loans from them, to sign confessions of judgement that waive borrowers’ legal rights in any dispute with the lenders.

Small business borrowers in other states have no right of notice if their assets are seized in New York under confessions of judgement and may not even realize if a New York judgement has been entered against them until their banks have seized their assets.

Alternative business lenders should make every loan transparent for their borrowers by clearly disclosing repayment terms, including interest rates, prepayment charges and by outlining clear payment schedules.

Borrowers must be made aware of all

fees and costs associated with their loans. Brokers and employees of alternative business lenders should be subject to background checks and continuing education requirements.

Importantly, alternative business lenders should be required to offer each borrower terms not worse than the most favorable loan product for which he or she qualifies.

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

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

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

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

COMMENTARY: There is Not a Racist Bone in My Body

By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor

COMMENTARY: Pros and Cons of Modular vs Site-Built Homes For many decades the preferred homebuilding method has been to assemble all the construction materials on site and build from the ground up, usually over a period of about six or more months. This is still the method used to construct some 90 percent of homes being built today.

In my three decades representing parts of New York City in the House of Representatives, expanding economic opportunities for underserved communities was a top priority.

That’s why, after I retired from public service, I joined the Board of World Business Lenders, an alternative business lender that provides desperately needed financing for businesses who want to grow or expand, leading to so many ancillary benefits to their local communities.

“Over the last 20 years,” said Maria Coutts, president of The Coutts Group and a senior officer of the Pennsylvania Builders Association, “the customization of modular homes has a consistent record of matching site-built homes and meeting customer demand, largely due to the use of computer-aided design.

“The use of overhead cranes also allows modular structures to be as wide and as high as desired,” See HOMES on page 15

In 2019, most Blacks and people of color would like to believe that, “There is Not a Racist Bone in My Body” was an accurate statement in America. With the first African American President, Black businesses in every major city, and Black political officials in federal, state, and local municipalities, diversity is a reality.

With all these achievements in one of the greatest countries in the world, there is a major divide.

This major divide is based on the color of an individuals’ skin, which makes no sense, until you study economics, politics, and business. Power is based on what you own and control, and if you close your eyes, power may also be based on what you take by force.

Last week, President Trump attacked four freshmen federal Congresswomen by claiming they are un-American, they should go back to their country, and everyone is asking the question, “why?”

This started as a tweet-storm on that weekend, and it has turned into a nasty battle of words, where the majority of the media is calling President Trump a “racist.” This tweet-storm appeared to be racist and personal, very little was discussed by the president about the ladies’ policies.

“In America, if you hate our Country, you are free to leave. The

simple fact of the matter is, the four Congresswomen think America is even more wicked now, that we are all racist and evil. They’re entitled to their opinion, they’re Americans.

Now I’m entitled to my opinion, & I just think they’re left wing cranks,” says President Trump.

It is obvious, that the first thing the President thinks comes out of his mouth, and it does not matter if it makes any sense. The president is not fit or mentally stable to manage America as Commander-in chief, but over 40% think he is doing a good job.

As this new social media and campaign rally from the President attacked the four Congresswomen escalates to a higher level of insanity, everyone in America is picking a side. The four Congresswomen at the beginning of the week called a press conference to denounce the President and asked for a draft to be drawn up to condemn President Trump’s racist language and tweets. The resolution was passed in the House last week to condemn the President.

The amazing issue about this battle is that over 40% of Americans believe that the President is correct, and at a campaign rally during the week, a packed house with the majority being White Republicans chanted, “Send her back.”

With the media claiming that President Trump initiated and supported the yelling, the President is being forced by the Vice President and some of his consultants to distance himself from the chant.

“After smearing Rep. IIhan Omar (D-MN) as anti-Semitic – and letting the crowd at his Greenville, North Carolina rally roar “send her back” for more than 10 seconds – President Trump has falsely claimed he continued his speech immediately after the crowd started yelling,” says Tana Ganervo –reporter at Raw Story.

Send her back is a turning point, “With Trump’s naked hatred and cruelty captured on live television, and along with it, so was the seething anger of the hard-core Trump base. The whole nation saw in dramatic fashion that Trump voters understood his meaning perfectly well and watched them not just agree with it but also amplify it, with as ugly and hate-curdled a chant as one could imagine.”

Racism in 2019 is out in the open, with the election of President Trump leading the way. It is easy to argue what constitutes the act, and whether someone is a racist sometimes. But President Trump does not care what Blacks and people of color think.

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Lynconia Ricks

Beulah Mae Walker

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February 19, 1955

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A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF BEULAH MAE WALKER The 98 years, 10 months and 26 days of Beulah Mae (Moms) Walker’s life was truly remarkable. She lived the belief that a mother educates a family. Her life was marked by personal growth and unfailing support of her husband, children, siblings, in laws and many friends in their achievement of their personal and professional goals.

Consider, Moms was born on August 27, 1920 in rural western Alabama to Boston and Mary Lou Shaw. She was the second birth of her parents’ marriage. Nine other children followed her birth. Moms was born at a time when people of African descent were routinely hanged, her family was of a privileged minority that owned a small plot of land but she worked outside the home in degrading and humiliating jobs to supplement the family’s income.As the matriarch of her siblings, she continued to act as “Shepard” of them long after they reached adulthood. They included: Artie, Willie , Eula Lee, Vertie B , John, Peter, Jallie, Jewel and Mary. On September 15, 1940, at the age of 20-years, she began a 68-plus year marriage to Odus L. Walker (Pops). He passed on April 3, 2009. Over the next 10-years after her marriage Moms gave birth to five children.In late 1950, they moved to Birmingham, Alabama. Diane was added to the family during her time in Birmingham. In May 1954, They moved to Los Angeles, California, in Los Angeles, Clyde and DeWayne joined the family. By 1980. In 1980, Moms had seen to it that each of her children was outside of her house and able to take care of themselves.” Her commitment to her children was complete.

Her six children yielded 12-grandchildren; Great Grandchildren and Great Great Grandchildren.

Her progeny of grandchildren and great grandchildren have conquered educational and professional goals she could not have dreamed of in 1940, but as she would tell you, accomplishments she fully expected of them.Moms was grateful for the life she was able to live. She deemed the greatest contribution to her community was the invaluable support and vision she was able to provide her children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews and many dear friends young and old.

On August 27, 1920 little positive of her life was expected by the world. But, our presence here today, personally and in spirit, proves the world wrong.

In 1974, Lynconia moved to San Diego, California with her son, Charles “Smokey” Emeal Berotte to live with her older brother, Charles Berotte. She met her husband, Herman Ricks during that same year and eventually married on January 13, 1978. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother of three children, and grandmother of eight. She instilled the importance of unconditional love, passion, and resilience into her children. She was deeply passionate about helping others, especially the most vulnerable and held multiple positions as a caretaker. Lynconia enjoyed sewing, cooking, dancing, traveling, pampering babies, and showering her children and grandchildren with gifts. She will be greatly remembered for her selfless love; for her strength, and her will to fight tremendous battles.

She will be dearly missed by all who knew her.

On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, Lynconia Ricks, who was surrounded by family and friends, answered her call from Heaven and it is there where you will see her again. She was preceded in death by her father, Johnnie Berotte; her mother, Gwendolyn Carpenter; and brother, Johnnie Berotte II. Lynconia leaves behind her husband, Herman Ricks; three children: Charles “ Smokey” Berotte, Hayonna “Yonna” Ricks Collier (Troy), Herman “Mouchey” Ricks II (Crystal), eight grandchildren: Onezia Berotte, Aaron Quinn, Jonah Ledesma, Elise Ricks, Aneesa Ricks, Nora Collier, Olivia Ricks, and Alaina Collier, three brothers: Charles Berotte, Anthony Berotte (Gayle), and Grover Berotte (Jackie); seven sisters in laws, five brothers in laws, one aunt, and a host of nieces and nephews.

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LYNCONIA “LYNNIE” RICKS was born on February 19, 1955 in Galveston, Texas. She was the third of five children born to Johnnie Berotte and Gwendolyn Berotte.

At a very young age, she was baptized at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church.

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Services were held Thursday, August 1, 2019 at Hi Desert Church of Christ, Apple Valley, California; interment at Desert View Memorial Park. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

Arrangements by Preferred creamation & Burial BETTIE JEAN BOBO-BOLDEN was born on June 16, 1943 to Myrtle Louise and Ellis Lee Bobo in Helena, Arkansas. She was the second child to be born. Shortly after her birth, her aunt Stella and uncle Joe had her baptized.

Bettie Jean’s early years were spent in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, she spent most of her time with her older sister Rose Mary.

Rose Mary had polio and at the age of seven passed away. During those years Bettie Jean learned not to allow people to speak wrongly about her sister, she was Rose Mary’s protector.

Bettie Jean’s mother enrolled her in Elizabeth Miller grade-high school in Helena. She had a disagreement with a teacher there. This was an opportunity for this teacher to see that Bettie Jean was nobody’s fool.

Later Bettie Jean attended Franklin Private School, where she broke her arm, without any school officials being aware.

In September 1958 Bettie Jean came to San Diego, CA and on August 1959 her first son Freeman Ray was born. Then in March of 1962 her second son Robert Ellis was born. She married Plez III on March 21, 1966 and was blessed again with Plez IV, her third son.

Bettie Jean was a loyal member of the Elks Nautilus Temple #436, doing community activities with her fellow Elk members, which was the highlight of her week. She received many awards within the Elks community for a vast array of duties. In 2000 her sons started a family tradition, which is an annual picnic held at Shelter Island on the Fourth of July. Bettie Jean never missed an opportunity to be with her family and friends during this time.

Bettie Jean had a mighty hand in raising her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren to a point that a lasting foundation was set within each of them. From passing down family recipes, sharing advice for life and success on being a better friend daily. Bettie Jean was always straight forward and never walked in uncertainty, but in confidence wherever or with whoever she met.

Bettie Jean was preceded in death by husband, who passed away in June of 1997 of lung cancer; parents; stepfather Robert Buck; sister Rose Mary; niece Vanessa; and great-granddaughter Zhonyae.

Left to mourn Bettie Jean are three sons Ray (Rene), Robert (Mary) and Plez IV; daughter Brenda (Billy, Sr.); step-daughters Plezetta and Moniqua; step-son Andre; brother Brady and wife Dee; nieces LaToya, Brandi, Beverly; nephew David; grandchildren Shaunte, Robert II, Ray II, Nathaniel, Chareese, Nickolas, Plez V, I’Riyah, I’Yonna, I’Lyah, Imry, Billy, Jr., Brandon, Daniel, Shannon, Michael, and Layla; great-grandchildren Rayneasha, Angelo, Robert III, Jeremy, Bailey, Donovan, Shemar, Zacaree, Zahcion, and Sofia; and goddaughter Tia. And life long friends Shirley Turner, Shirley Woods, Ida Johnson, Evelyn Porter, Frances Ransoum and Barbara Watkins.

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Bettie Bolden

August 27, 1920

Services were held on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at St. John of the Cross Catholic Church, Lemon Grove, California; interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

She received her education in Galveston, graduating from Ball High School. She also attended San Jose City College, where she received certifications in Early Childhood Development.

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STATE NEWS CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR REPORTS UPTICK IN APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED FOR 2020 CITIZENS REDISTRICTING COMMISSION Extends Deadline to Aug. 19, 5:00 p.m.

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Today, the California State Auditor reported an uptick in applications by eligible individuals interested in serving on the next 14-member Citizens Redistricting Commission.

To date, 13,735 applications have been submitted. The Commission is tasked with redrawing Congressional, State Senate, State Assembly, and State Board of Equalization districts.

“We’ve been closely monitoring applications since the initial application period opened on June 10th, and we have seen a steady stream of applications submitted,” said Elaine M. Howle, California State Auditor. “But over the last several days we received an uptick in applications, including a one-day period in which we received more than 1,000 applications. This leads me to believe many more Californians who are learning more about redistricting and are developing an interest in the opportunity may now want to take advantage of the chance to draw California’s Congressional and State Legislative district lines. That is why I am extending the application period which will now close on Monday, August 19th at 5:00 p.m.”

Applicants must submit an application online at shapecaliforniasfuture. auditor.ca.gov.

The application takes just minutes to complete.

“My office has been analyzing the number and flow of applications since we began accepting applications. It is clear to me that for the last week, we have seen a significant increase and with every passing day, we are getting a broader application pool that is more and more representative of California’s diversity. I’m thrilled that so many civically-involved Californians are interested in being part of shaping California’s future and want to keep the process open until August 19th at 5:00 p.m. to make sure that everyone who is interested has the opportunity to apply,” said Howle.

For more information about application data, eligibility requirements, or to apply to be a member of the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission, please visit shapecaliforniasfuture.auditor. ca.gov or call (833) 421-7550. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter at @ShapeCAFuture.

About the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission Every ten years, after the federal government publishes updated census information, California must redraw the boundaries of its Congressional,

State Senate, State Assembly, and State Board of Equalization districts.

In 2008, California voters passed the Voters FIRST Act authorizing the creation of an independent Commission comprised of 14 members. The 2020 Commission will include five Democrats, five Republicans, and four who are either registered without, or “independent” of, any political party (decline-tostate or no party preference) or with another party. The Commission is responsible for drawing the lines of each district. The initial application period for new Commission members began on June 10, 2019, and will now run through August 19, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

Who’s Applying Total Initial Applications Submitted As of August 5, 2019: 13,735

For more information on the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission application and selection process, please visit ShapeCaliforniasFuture. auditor.ca.gov.

The California State Auditor is a state entity that is independent of the executive branch and legislative control. The purpose of the California State Auditor is to improve California government by assuring the performance, accountability, and transparency that its citizens deserve. For more information on the California State Auditor, please visit www.auditor.ca.gov.

Shootings: continued from cover

As in a litany of other shooting sites before, the public juggled stories of the goodness seen in lives cut short with inklings of the demented motives of the shooters, and on-scene heroics with troubling ideologies that may have sparked the bloodshed.

immigrant rhetoric. Some, like Ernesto Carrillo, whose brother-inlaw Ivan Manzano was killed in the Walmart attack, said the president shares blame for inflammatory language Carrillo called a “campaign of terror.”

Equally familiar, Washington reacted along party lines, with Trump’s vague suggestion of openness to new gun laws met with skepticism by an opposition that has heard similar talk before.

“His work as a generator of hate ended in this,” said Carrillo, who crossed the border from Ciudad Juárez on Monday for a meeting in El Paso with Mexico’s foreign minister. “Thanks to him, this is all happening.”

“Hate has no place in America,” the president declared in a 10-minute speech from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room, condemning racism and rehashing national conversations on treatment for mental health, depiction of violence in the media, and discourse on the internet.

Trump, in turn, tweeted that the media “contributed greatly to the anger and rage that has built up.”

A racist screed authorities were working to confirm was left by the alleged perpetrator in the Texas shooting, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, mirrored some of Trump’s anti-

Trump suggested a bill to expand gun background checks could be combined with his long-sought effort to toughen the nation’s immigration system, but gave no rationale for the pairing. Studies have repeatedly shown immigrants have a lower level of criminality than those born in the U.S., both shooting suspects were citizens, and federal officials are investigating anti-immigrant bias

as a potential motive in the Texas massacre.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a leading voice on gun reform since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his state rattled the country with the slaughter of 20 children, immediately dismissed the president’s proposal as meaningless. “Tying background checks to immigration reform is a transparent play to do nothing,” he wrote on Twitter.

Whatever the political back-andforth, or the re-energized presence of gun control talk on the presidential campaign trail, the very real consequences of gun violence were still being bared by victims badly injured in the two states.

In both incidents, a young white male was identified as the lone suspect.

Though authorities were eyeing racism as a possible factor in Texas, where the alleged shooter has been booked on murder charges, in Ohio police said there was no indication

of a similar motivation. Police in Dayton said they responded in about 30 seconds early Sunday and fatally shot 24-year-old Connor Betts. While the gunman was white and six of the nine killed were black, police said the quickness of the rampage made any discrimination in the shooting seem unlikely.

Betts’ sister was also among the dead.

“It seems to just defy believability he would shoot his own sister, but it’s also hard to believe that he didn’t recognize it was his sister, so we just don’t know,” said Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine visited the scene Sunday and said policymakers must consider: “Is there anything we can do in the future to make sure something like this does not happen?”

Hours later, hundreds of people stood at a vigil and vented their frustration at the Republican governor, interrupting him with chants of “Make a change!” and “Do something!” as he talked

about the victims.

“People are angry, and they’re upset.

They should be,” said Jennifer Alfrey, 24, of Middletown, who added that she didn’t agree with interrupting the vigil but understood why so many did.

In Texas, where 22 were killed, authorities said the accused shooter hailed from a Dallas suburb a 10hour drive away. Authorities seemed to take some solace in knowing the shooter wasn’t one of their own.

“It’s not what we’re about,” El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said.

Sedensky reported from New York and can be reached at msedensky@ap.org and https://twitter.com/sedensky Contributing to this report were John Seewer in Dayton, Ohio; Julie Carr Smyth and Kantele Franko in Columbus, Ohio; Cedar Attanasio and Morgan Lee in El Paso, Texas; Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas; and Zeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire in Washington.

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native valley were the bleeding bodies of these Indians—or sex, nor age was spared; it was the order of extermination fearfully obeyed.”

Burnett’s official correspondence mentions some conflicts, but the Bloody Island Massacre is not among them, although he must have known about it.

Burnett’s term in office lasted just 13 months. He resigned on Jan.

9, 1851 after being ridiculed for such unacceptable proposals as demanding an exclusion law against blacks and promoting capital punishment for robbery and seconddegree larceny.

He was widely deemed by California’s press as ineffective. But his time in public life was not over. In 1857, Gov. J. Neely Johnson appointed Burnett to fill an unexpired term on the California Supreme Court, and

he was elected again the following year, his transgressions as governor evidently forgotten.

In 1858, while serving on the California Supreme Court, he was once again ridiculed for ordering a former slave named Archy Lee to be returned to his former Mississippi owner even though Lee had been living in California, a free state. His ruling was blocked by another court.

Burnett’s racism, along with several tone-deaf blunders, explains why he was, until recently, largely forgotten by history. He was an embarrassment. Many of the few schools that took his name as the first governor have changed their names as his policies have become known; among them is the former Burnett Academy in San Jose, the city where Burnett and his family settled.

He died in relative obscurity in 1897.

Now, in 2019, Burnett is becoming known again, though surely not for reasons he would welcome.

R. Gregory Nokes is the author of “The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett: Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California,” published by Oregon State University Press,gregnokes. com. He wrote this commentary for CALmatters.

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LOCAL NEWS

San Diego Leads State County to Buy City Land for Southeastern with First Construction Trades Apprenticeship Live Well Center Readiness Internship The acquisition will increase visibility of the Live Well Center from the street and reduce traffic congestion by potentially providing two entrances to the property.

The Tubman-Chavez Community Center is currently located at the site but its lease by a nonprofit expires Dec. 31.

By Tracy DeFore County of San Diego Communications Office

The County is a step closer to creating a Southeastern Live Well Center after the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the purchase of City of San Diego land Wednesday to augment the County’s current site.

The 0.63-acre city lot is located at the southeastern corner of the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Market Street. The city property is west of the 4.06-acre site the County acquired for construction of the Live Well Center.

The design for the facility is still pending but the addition of city land allows for the potential of an 80,000-square-foot building to be built in three stories instead of four. The area for outdoor amenities could also expand to include garden areas, a walking path, a coffee cart site with outdoor seating, artwork and a community/educational demonstration planting area.

The Board voted to buy the property for the appraised value of $1.465 million. The overall cost of the Live Well Center project is estimated at $75 million.

When completed, the Live Well Center will serve as a one-stop shop for social, behavioral health, family strengthening, public health nursing, and justice services for both youth and adult clients. Local partners will offer community services.

The Live Well San Diego Central Region Leadership Team, community leaders and residents worked together to add even more services. They include those for child support, older adults and people with disabilities, and veterans. Workforce development resources will also be available.

A 4,000-square-foot conference center within the building will be made available to the public.

Construction on the Southeastern Live Well Center is scheduled to start in August 2020 and the facility will open for business in May 2022.

In Loving Memory

Councilman Charles L. Lewis III October 3, 1966- August 8, 2004 A Fierce Warrior Eyes like an Eagle Strength like an Elephant Boldness like a Lion May his legacy continue to give instruction and inspiration.

His purpose fulfilled. His earthly mission accomplished!

His loving & kindred spirit will live in our hearts forever.

We love you and miss you dearly, Rosemary Pope (Mother) Charos Lewis Maull (Sister) L.J. & Zion Maull (Nephews) Extended family members and countless friends

CITY OF SAN DIEGO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT SUPPORTED PILOT PROGRAM WITH SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENT Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

The nation’s largest noncredit institution, San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE), has the only Gateway-model that includes experiential learning with paid work experience. The City of San Diego Economic Development Department invested almost $300,000 to fund an expanded pilot of the school’s San Diego Gateway to College and Career’s Construction Trades Apprenticeship Readiness program.

In March of 2019 the City of San Diego’s Economic Development Department funded a robust twelve-week pilot Apprenticeship Readiness Program that provided guided pathways to financially rewarding careers in the construction trades for disenfranchised young adults.

SDCE collaborated with the San Diego Building and Construction Trades Council, and implemented the Multi Craft Corp Curriculum (MC3) sponsored by the National Association of Building Trades Unions and only accessible in partnership with the San Diego Building and Trades Council.

As a result, 85% of enrolled participants completed the program and 80% earned

the MC3 Certificate recognized throughout North America. Participants could complete the program with a total of 6 certificates including OSHA 10, CPR/First Aid, and Boom/Scissor Lift Certifications. A majority of participants earned all certifications, and 100% of participants completed mandatory safety training, acquiring credentials required to work on construction jobsites.

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“AIN’T TOO PROUD”

Showcases Temptations Musical Legacy

Photos by Matthew Murphy

By Barbara Smith Contributing Writer

NEW YORK “A little bit of funk, a lotta love, a whole lotta soul and some of the smoothest moves ever” is the way Otis Williams of the iconic Temptations describes the group’s 5-decade meteoric trajectory. And it aptly describes the dazzling 2 ½ hour production “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations,” now reigning at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. The play, directed by former La Jolla Playhouse artistic director Des McAnuff and written by Detroit playwright Dominique Morisseau, based on the book by Williams, is filled with supersonic musical numbers and thrill-a-minute choreography, rich in nostalgia, yet with a joyous contemporary impact. The story takes us through the highs and the lows, triumphs and losses of the beloved pioneering group that is considered to be the most influential group in the history of R & B.

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“Ain’t Too Proud” follows the lives of the “classic 5” lineup of the Temptations: Otis Williams (Derrick Baskin), Melvin Franklin (Jawan M. Jackson), Paul Williams (James Harkness), David Ruffin (Ephraim Sykes), and Eddie Kendricks (Jelani Remy), and the self-described 6th Temptation, Dennis Edwards (Saint Aubyn), who replaced Ruffin after the twin demons of drug addiction and abuse ended the charismatic lead singer’s time with the Tempts. Since 1963, there have been 24 Temptations and, says Williams, they are still going strong. The 76-year old still tours and sometimes performs with them. The plot is set against the changing landscape of America, beginning in 1963 with a wide-eyed, idealistic Williams, newly released from juvenile detention in Detroit, who sees singing as his salvation. One by one he enlists the musical brotherhood that becomes the Temptations.

The plot spans their growing bond as young performers, all with southern roots and ties to the church, through their rise with Motown, to the burgeoning psychedelic era and the chaotic days of civil and racial unrest in our country, all with an expansive musical backdrop of over 30 songs, highlighted by “My Girl,” “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” “I Can’t Get Next To You,” “Ball of Confusion,” “Cloud Nine,” and of course the titular “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” But more than this, the show is a story about dreams and resilience and the complexities of the human condition. Williams, played with layered strength and vulnerability by Derrick Baskin, earning him a Tony nod, serves as narrator, and is the most fully developed character. He is the anchor that brings the legendary story of the Temptations to life. We feel his elation at earning the attention of Motown mogul Berry Gordy, played earnestly by Marcus Paul James. And yes, the memorable urinal scene where Gordy hands over his business card to an ecstatic Williams is played to the hilt in this production, as are the poignant moments of reckoning as, one by one, the once indestructible musical brotherhood

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dissolves, succumbing to competing egos, ravages of drugs, and all the pressures of fame and success. “We were the number one R & B group,” Williams laments, “but I never meant to be the last one standing.” The irony is not lost that these incredibly talented individuals surrendered to the temptations whose name launched them into musical history.

All of the actors are at the top of their game, busting slides and glides, mixing humor and pathos, but the big standout is Ephraim Sykes who channels all the beauty and pain of David Ruffin, ever the showman, proud, charismatic, basking in his scene-stealing proclivities, executing spins and twirls, scissor splits and knee crawls and seeming levitation of the microphone, bonding with the audience throughout, but especially after tossing his sweat-soaked hanky into the crowd. Ruffin, dubbed “a diamond in the Ruffin,” is addicted to the worst drug of all, observes Williams, the spotlight, and we see this in his proud struts and preens across the stage.

Kudos to Rashidra Scott, who shines as Williams’ wife Josephine, most memorably as she belts out the soulful, rafter-rousing, “If You Don’t Know Me by Now,” as their marriage, one filled with regret caused by the pressures of fame, dissolves.

From a historical context we experience the group’s entrance into social consciousness.

Even though their music is colorblind, the world is not. Images of Dr. King, the 3 little girls in the 13th St. Birmingham church bombing, freedom marches, sit-ins at lunch counters all form a dramatic backdrop artfully advanced with photos projected on a large screen behind the play’s action. “Ball of Confusion,” their 1970 hit, mirrors the unhappy tide of racial and societal unrest. As the world was exploding outside, so were the lives of the Temptations inside.

The Tempts are depicted in their glory days and beyond with clashing visions leading to personnel changes and drama. Dennis Edwards replaced Ruffin in 1968 and took the sound to a more funk-driven direction. Norman Whitfield usurped Smokey Robinson as their main composer/lyricist, causing havoc in the group. Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks left the group, bumping heads with the more stable Franklin and Otis Williams. Act 2 at times seems like a series of long goodbyes, with Paul Williams, who as a youth drank nothing stronger than milk, becomes an alcoholic and commits suicide. Ruffin dies tragically of a drug overdose. Kendricks, at age 52, dies of lung cancer, and beloved bass singer Melvin Franklin, dies, also at age 52, of heart failure.

Williams is the stable force throughout who must process these losses and still move on.

There have been 24 Temptations since 1963 and, at the play’s end, when we see them all onstage in spectacular wardrobes and dazzling dance moves, we cannot help but rejoice. Ever the optimist, he offers, “Sometimes I look at this next generation and wonder what mountains they will climb, but whatever their journey, they will always have our foundation.

Not that we need further proof of talent, but it is gratifying to see on Broadway an almost all-black cast (an able Joshua Morgan as Shelly Berger, their manager during their crossover years is the one white character) getting well-deserved props by critics and audiences alike. The production garnered 12 Tony nominations including Best Musical and Best Performance for star Derrick Baskin, and won the coveted Best Choreography Tony under the masterful hand of Sergio Trujillo.

While it is a daunting task to portray these complex lives, their triumphs and their tragedies and their monumental musical contributions, to the production’s credit, we leave the theatre elated and all the more appreciative of who these Temptations were as artists, entertainers, musicians, dancers and most of all, as men. To be sure, the show has to be experienced to truly appreciate the epic impact of their larger-than-life brotherhood. If you missed it during its pre-Broadway run and can’t make it to New York, “Ain’t Too Proud begins its national tour in July 2020. So hey, here in San Diego, we ain’t too proud to beg for it to light up our own stage. Stay tuned.

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the 15th annual san diego

African Culture Fest Photos Courtesy of Kamaal Martin

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The City Heights community was abuzz Saturday, July 27th with the rich cultural heritage of San Diego’s African community. The 15th Annual San Diego African Culture Fest, which was held at the City Heights Performance Annex, annually draws over 3000 residents from the diverse international City Heights community, and this year was no different. Formerly known as the Somali American Cultural Festival, this year’s African Culture Fest theme was “Women, Aviation & STEAM.” According to Somali Youth United, the non-profit organization that annually hosts the event, the festival has allowed them to create a “bridge of understanding and break down cultural myths and stereotypes” and build opportunities to “celebrate, share, and preserve” San Diego’s diverse African heritage. Exhibits, vendors, community and educational resources and community organizations like The Education Station and others showcased their programs and services. The event featured well-known community activists including Geneviéve Jones-Wright and Tinicia Smith. Arts, culture and educational learning were on display with an emphasis on S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) skills acquisition for area youth and the San Diego region at large. It was a prime chance for all to think globally and embrace the rich cultural diversity within our midst.

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Muslim Creatives Featured at 2019 Comic Con Panel Contributing Writer

One of southeast San Diego own local authors had the opportunity to represent facts versus fiction at this year’s 50th anniversary of Comic Con. This year history was made by introducing a all Muslim diverse panel.

The coordinator, Shamika Mitchell, said, “I created #SalaamFandom with intent of sharing knowledge about fandom-related issues and topics, and helping people to connect. There is fandom in the Ummah!

Muslims are not always portrayed favorably in popular culture, despite our consumption of it.”

Muslim fandom content is both religious and secular, meant for education as well as entertainmet, and, according to Mitchell, designed to be both inspirational and inclusive. Mitchell plans to use #SalaamFandom to “continue to support, center and celebrate” Muslim creatives throughout the Ummah (“Ummah” is Arabic for “community/”). Comic Con’s diverse panel of Muslim creatives was surely an eyeopener for this year’s Comic Con attendees.

Mitchell’s goal and motivation for #SalaamFandom is to “uplift and establish a network of Muslim creatives who are active in different aspects of fandom, such as: gaming, animation, cosplay, Fantasy, Science-Fiction, comics, illustration, literature.”

“The #SalaamFandomSyllabus is a working bibliography; everyone can refer to it and add to it. It is a way to establish the Muslim popular culture canon,” Mitchell said.

Trash Bag Fashion Show A Great Success Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

Designer Sharon Denise Ibe held her annual Trash Bag Fashion Show at the Jacob Center on August 3rd to a crowd of over 400 people. The event itself was inspiring. Mrs Ibe says she has been doing this show for over 20 years as a way of “serving others and inspiring them to go higher”. She says she has presented the show in cities like Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Birmingham, and Las Vegas.

As the pictures show, the event was a great success with beautiful models that really made the show. The affair was made perfect with the Grammy Award Winning Artist Yolanda Adams who set the place on fire and converted the event into a church service with her songs and testimony.

This was a great event as the pictures show.

Photos: Courtesy Charles 3X Alexander

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NIGERIAN CLAIMS TO DEFEATING BOKO HARAM ARE ‘FAR FROM TRUE REALITY’ Global Information Network

In Borno State, one of Nigeria’s most conflicted states in the Northeast, few would be celebrating the anniversary of the first outbreak of violence by the Boko Haram fighters whose trail of heartbreak and tragedy weave through the region’s many small towns.

It might have seemed foolhardy for a small village to take on the Boko Haram fighters with knives and hunting guns. But two weeks ago, villagers of the Nganzai area attempted just that. Some 11 Boko Haram fighters reportedly died in the scuffle and 10 AK-47 rifles were captured.

“These people have been stealing

from us so we decided to come together because we could no longer wait for an eternity for soldiers to defend us,” said Aji Gaji Mallam, who said he lost four brothers in previous attacks.

But it wasn’t long before Boko Haram fighters came on a reprisal mission in the form of armed men on motorbikes who, witnesses said, roared into the area and attacked a funeral procession, killing at least 65 people, many of them mourners.

In a region devastated by violence, displacement, climate change and the resulting widespread malnutrition, the insurgency has led to tens of thousands of deaths

and the displacement of about two million people.

Yet Nigeria’s government and military claim repeatedly that Boko Haram is being subdued, even on the brink of defeat, its hiding places decimated. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said he received assurances from the armed forces that the terrorists who committed these killings “will pay a big price for their action”.

“This administration is determined to end the menace of terrorism,” the president said in the statement issued by his spokesman Garba Shehu.

Human rights groups, aid organizations and local Nigerians have long disputed such claims, and attacks have persisted.

“People like us who have been operating in the field, we know that what the government is saying is far from the true reality on the ground,” said Ms. Hamsatu Allamin, a human rights advocate who has worked with foreign aid groups.

Meanwhile, spokesman Shehu acknowledged the difficulties faced

by Nigeria’s military to defeat Boko

Haram. “The honest truth is lack of capacity,” he said.

“I’m not saying a lack of fighting capacity, but lack of capacity In terms of personnel, equipment, in terms of mobility access to react quickly,” he added.

“The Nigerian army, air force and the navy are all evolved in this operation; they are thinly spread on the ground. We do not have enough boots on the ground to pull that area.”

TUNISIA PAYS TRIBUTE TO FALLEN LEADER Global Information Network

Tunisians paid tribute this week to former President Beji Caid Essebsi who made his mark on the world stage by advancing the cause of women’s rights.

Tunisia has granted women more rights than any other country in the region. Since 2017, it has allowed Tunisian Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men.

The former leader played a vital role in helping ensure that, more than any other Arab state, the north African country preserved many of the essential gains of the Arab spring movement.

As his horse-drawn carriage was led through the streets of Tunis, crowds chanted: “Goodbye president, goodbye Bajbouj,”referring to Essebsi’s nickname.

Mr. Essebsi passed away at a military

hospital on July 25. He was 92 years of age.

Caid Essebsi was regarded as a unifying figure in a fractured political landscape with more than 130 political parties. He reached out to Islamists and their secularist foes to pull the country out of chaos in 2011 and presided over its first free and fair elections as prime minister His efforts earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 for Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet which avoided a civil war in 2013 and for its effort to build a pluralistic democracy.

Prior to general elections in 2014, Caid Essebsi founded Nidaa Tounes (Tunisia’s Call) - a political party that served as a counterweight to Islamists and won the vote. The electoral victory made him the first politician in the region to defeat Islamists in free elections.

Caid Essebsi became president in December 2014. He proceeded to restore Tunisia’s balanced role in the region after a drift towards alignment with Turkey and Qatar and their Muslim Brotherhood allies.

Born in the northern coastal town of Sidi Bou Said, he came from a family of wealthy landowners. In 1941, with Tunisia loyal to Vichy France, he joined the youth wing of the NeoDestour party, which had been founded a few years earlier to demand full independence from the French.

Like many of his contemporaries, Essebsi admired Habib Bourguiba, the charismatic Neo-Destour leader, who would lead Tunisia to independence in 1956.

After joining Bourguiba as an adviser in 1957, Essebsi served, among other posts, in the key positions of head of national security and interior

minister in the 1960s, a period of some domestic repression, and later as defense minister and ambassador to Paris.

Saida Farhat, and by their sons, Hafedh, also a politician, and Khelil, and daughters, Amel and Salwa.

He is survived by his wife, Chadlia

SOUTH AFRICAN MINERS WIN COMPENSATION FOR WORK-RELATED LUNG DISEASES Global Information Network

A Johannesburg High Court on Friday approved a groundbreaking 5 billion rand ($353 million) class action settlement on behalf of miners who contracted tuberculosis, silicosis and other chronic lung diseases through their work in the mines.

The settlement follows a long legal battle by miners to be compensated for illnesses they say they contracted over decades because of negligence in health and safety.

The initial motion was filed by Richard Spoor on Dec. 21, 2012, in South Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg, South Africa), requesting class certification of more than 15,000 prospective class members.

Few class actions have been brought in South Africa and none for sick workers prior to this litigation.

The agreement creates a Trust to

compensate all eligible workers who worked in defendant companies’ mines from 1965 to date. The settlement includes a significant budget for the Trust to locate potential class members, medically examine eligible miners and provide compensation to all qualifying class members. The settlement is not a limited fund or fixed amount.

The companies have agreed to compensate all eligible claimants.

“This litigation has always been about providing a means to justice and meaningful compensation for the thousands of sub-Saharan African gold miner workers and their dependents,” said Motley Rice attorney Michael Elsner, who has been a consultant in the South Africa litigation since the beginning.

“All the parties made an effort to ensure that the settlement agreement is reasonable, adequate and fair,” the High Court said in its judgement.

The gold producers agreed in May last year to the settlement but it needed to be approved by the Johannesburg High Court before being implemented.

The class action suit was launched in 2012 on behalf of miners suffering from silicosis, an incurable disease caused by inhaling silica dust from gold-bearing rocks.

It causes shortness of breath, a persistent cough and chest pains, and also makes people highly susceptible to tuberculosis.

It has been estimated that one in four gold miners in South Africa suffers from silicosis, a debilitating and incurable disease that has been called an epidemic. Approval of a class action structure for the victims of the silicosis epidemic would be an unprecedented means of recovery for South Africa.

The

companies

involved

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Harmony Gold, Gold Fields, African Rainbow Minerals ARIJ.J, SibanyeStillwater SGLJ.J, AngloGold Ashanti and Anglo American South

Africa. The latter no longer has gold assets but historically was a bullion producer.

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San Diegans Encouraged to Vaccinate Children Against Measles, Other Diseases

By José A. Álvarez County of San Diego Communications Office

Not long ago, many San Diegans were worried about measles making its way to the region after cases were reported in Orange and Los Angeles counties.

So far, the highly contagious virus hasn’t arrived in San Diego, which has not seen a measles case since 2017. However, we all must continue to be vigilant.

However, measles and other contagious diseases are a plane ride away and could arrive in the region at any time, especially into areas with lower vaccination rates.

death of a 5-week-old San Diego infant in 2016.

According to the CDC, when children get vaccinated, an estimated 381 million illnesses, 24.5 million hospitalizations and 855,000 deaths will be prevented.

Still, some parents choose not to vaccinate their children, and themselves, against common vaccine-preventable diseases.

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and the County Health and Human Services Agency is encouraging San Diegans to make sure their children are vaccinated against measles and more than a dozen other vaccine-preventable diseases.

In San Diego County, of the more than 46,000 kindergarteners enrolled in public and private schools during the 2018-19 school year, 92.5 percent had received all the recommended vaccines, compared to 93.2 the previous school year. Also, the number of kindergartners with permanent medical exemptions increased from 1.2 percent to 1.3 percent during the same period.

“Vaccines are the best line of defense we have against disease,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer.

“Because of vaccines, most parents have not seen first-hand the devastating consequences of diseases like measles and others.”

“Since all vaccines go through a rigorous approval process—by scientists, doctors and the federal government—they are safe and effective,” Wooten said. “It’s important that we continue to vaccinate our children to keep them from getting sick.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children get vaccinated against 16 diseases.

Recommended Vaccines

Vaccine-preventable diseases continue to sicken people around the world, and in the United States. Outbreaks of diseases like influenza, pertussis, mumps and measles can and do happen in this country. In recent years, there have been local outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, including the pertussis

Children who are 4 to 6 years of age are due for boosters of four vaccines: DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), chickenpox, MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) and polio.

Preteens and teens need a Tdap booster shot to protect them against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommends that teens get vaccinated against human papillomavirus and meningococcal disease. A yearly flu vaccine is recommended for all children 6 months and older.

KEEP ACTIVE, BE FIT, STAY ENGAGED. Alvarado Hospital has a number of health and fitness programs ideal for seniors to help keep you fit in both body and mind!

Under our PALS community programs, we offer classes such as our Senior Fitness Class, our Alvarado Balance Class, and the “Back Nine” Senior Golf Program, which is led by a PGA professional and licensed recreation and physical therapists. All are designed to sharpen your motor skills and strengthen your body.

Parents can obtain the vaccines for their children through their regular medical provider. People with no medical insurance can get vaccinated at a County public health center for free. Local retail pharmacies also offer some vaccinations for a fee.

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Parents know the struggle is real: how do you motivate kids to try foods that are nutritious?

Undiscovered wholesome foods they might actually prefer over highly processed foods?

California Canned Cling Peaches Deliver More Nutrients For Less Money California Cling Peaches to the rescue!

The California Cling Peach industry has introduced a collection of nine fun, easy-toprepare Just for Kids recipes designed to help parents get their kids into the kitchen. The recipe assets for publication can be accessed via this link: https://californiaclingpeaches. com/recipes.

To learn more about these and other FREE programs, contact us at (619) 229-7216, or visit us at: AlvaradoHospital.com/PALS

Greens fees apply to the Back Nine program.

The more involved kids become in preparing their own foods, the more likely they are to eat and enjoy what they make – a practice that can become a healthy habit well beyond childhood. This was recently confirmed in a study conducted by the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, which found that knowing how to cook as a young person led to healthier eating practices in adulthood.

And along the way, kids learn that eating right can be fun, healthy and delicious!

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For more information about the required back-to-school vaccines, call the Health and Human Services Agency Immunization Branch at (866) 358-2966, or visit sdiz.org. To find the nearest County public health center or community clinic, call 2-1-1.

New California Cling Peach recipes designed to get children involved in cooking and preparing their own food

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According to food expert and author, Michael Pollan, cooking is key to a healthier diet and solving America’s obesity epidemic: “Cooking is probably the most important thing you can do to improve your diet. What matters most is not any particular nutrient, or even any particular food: it’s the act of cooking itself.

People who cook eat a healthier diet without giving it a thought. It’s the collapse of home cooking that led directly to the obesity

epidemic.”

The Just for Kids recipes are designed specifically for kids with small hands and limited use of kitchen tools in mind. The recipes feature sweet, nutritious California Cling Peaches and other ingredients that are readily available in most grocery stores.

Developed to be fun, fast and simple, the recipes include such kid-friendly fare as the Grilled Cheese & California Cling Peach Snack Sandwich, California Cling Peach Quesadilla, California Cling Peach Smoothie Bowls and more.

Parents will also appreciate knowing that California Cling Peaches in cans, jars and plastic cups have the same or better nutrition than fresh peaches and contain less sugar per serving of fruit that other fruit choices.

Details on the university studies can be accessed here: https://californiaclingpeaches. com/nutrition Founded in 1996, the California Cling Peach Board is a California State Marketing Order, issued in furtherance of the desire of California’s cling peach growers to create an environment that enhances the use of cling peaches through promotion, advertising, consumer education, production and marketing research, establishment of grades and standards, and compilation of industry statistics. California Cling Peaches are picked, packed and shipped at their peak of ripeness and available from your grocer yearround in cans, single-serve cups, and jars.

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BUSINESS

Couple Opens Country’s Black Real Estate Mogul Creates $500 First Black-Owned Cancer Center Million Fund for Minority Developers

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Black entrepreneur Don Peebles is investing in the futures of women and people of color in the real estate industry. According to The Real Deal, he’s launching a $500 million fund to support developers from underrepresented groups in South Florida, Los Angeles, New York and other cities.

Peebles - who owns the real estate development firm Peebles Corp. - says he’s on a mission to level the playing field when it comes to access to capital. Through the fund he wants to work with developers from different cities throughout the country on projects that will be built on underdeveloped or vacant land.

The projects will be a mix of commercial and residential buildings; some of which will have affordable housing units.

According to Peebles, the fund will be supported by investors. He’s aiming to work on 60 different projects which will be between $10 million and $70 million each.

“The idea is to create this business model that shows that investing in emerging developers

and investing in diversity will result in higher returns with less risk,” he said while unveiling his plans at The Real Deal’s annual residential real estate event. “It’s a very positive thing to have the developments that are taking place in communities of color, to have the projects be developed by people of color. We see this as a win-win and an untapped market.”

There are several entrepreneurs who are on a mission to make the real estate industry diverse.

Johnetta G. Paye, Esq and Ernestine Johnson created the first Black-owned real estate crowdfunding company to help individuals from underserved communities overcome the obstacles of gentrification by helping them make low-cost real estate investments.

-This article originally appeared in Ms. Perry’s Free Press

A couple from Philadelphia is ensuring that cancer patients and their loved ones have access to quality healthcare and support.

According to Because of Them We Can, Marjani and Al Harris created the only Blackowned cancer center in the country.

For Marjani and Al, the battle against cancer hits home. Ten years ago, they had three family members who were fighting different types of the disease at the same time. While supporting their loved ones they noticed there was a lack of spaces that merged treatments with wellness and decided to open The Cancer Who Cares Center. “We noticed that there was no center where people with cancer could go to decompress, and let their emotions out, but also be treated with a sense of normalcy,” Al told the news outlet.

“All of our programs are free because we want to support the person and their family without them having to worry about paying for anything.”

rest of our culture that you can always be the first at something even when you feel like you are in last place,” Al stated.

There are several Black entrepreneurs who are creating spaces where people of color can receive proper care and support. Earlier this year a group of African American medical professionals joined forces to open up Chicago’s only Black-owned urgent care facility. In 2018, Dr. Tamara Moise and Wadson Fils opened the doors to Big Apple Urgent Care, Brooklyn’s first Black-owned urgent care center.

This article originally appeared in NewsOne.

The center has a variety of programs to provide emotional and mental care for patients, including spa days, forums and yoga classes. The couple hopes that their journey will inspire other individuals in the Black community to break barriers in whatever industry they choose to pursue. “We feel proud that we can show our children and the

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY CAREGIVER NEEDED Job is for 5 days a week 5 hours per day Salary is $20 per hour.

For more details about the position, email me Mr. Clifford (cliff.meltzerr@gmail.com) -----------------------------------SENIOR ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC MODELER Develop regional economic and demographic forecasts.

Call (619) 699-1900 or visit sandag.org/jobs.

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Open Until Filled. EOE. ----------------------------------The New Assurance Baptist Church (San Diego/7024 Amherst Street/92115) is seeking a Full-Time Senior Pastor based on the following: Exemplify qualities in the New Testament Scriptures (Book of Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 20:28); strong, approachable interpersonal skills towards all age groups; maintain professional confidentiality with utmost integrity; the ability to share the ministry with Associate Pastors and Elders as part of a ministry team; a selfmotivator; and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

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----------------------------------INVITATION FOR BIDS UPTOWN FOURTH & FIFTH AVENUE BIKEWAYS PROJECT CIP 1223022 (IFB 5007029) The SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS (SANDAG), 401 B Street, Suite 800, San Diego, CA 92101-4231, is requesting bids to perform the work as follows.

The work consists, in general, of constructing 4.6-miles of Class IV separated and buffered bicycle lanes along Fourth and Fifth Avenues within the City of San Diego from downtown San Diego through Bankers Hill to Hillcrest (from B St. and ending at Washington St.).

Work will include, but not be limited to, installation of erosion and sedimentation control measures to prevent water pollution; maintenance and updating of the SWPPP; setting and maintaining traffic control through the construction zones; sawcutting, roadway excavation, and removal of excess existing pavement and base material to construct concrete curbs and gutters; raised medians and islands to protect the Class IV bikeway; milling and overlaying of existing asphalt pavement; demolition and reconstruction of existing curb ramps and sidewalks for ADA compliance; providing, placing, and compacting of base material; providing and installing hot mix asphalt pavement; minor cast-in-place concrete paving; pavement marking and striping; installation of signage, street lighting, rapid flashing pedestrian beacons at specific pedestrian crossings; trenching and back filling for the installation of electrical utilities; adjustment of wet and dry utility valve caps and manholes to grade; installation and maintenance of landscaping, green gutters; and procurement of all materials and performing all other work necessary to complete the work in accordance with the project plans and specifications.

The engineer's estimate for this work is $12,241,215.00.

The prime contractor must have an A license at time of contract award. Bidders must comply with all Buy America requirements. The Prime contractor must perform with their own organization, at least 30 percent of the work.

The project is funded in whole or in part with Local funding. There is no DBE goal for this project.

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meeting will be held on August 13, 2019 at 9:30 am, at SANDAG, 401 B Street, 7th Floor, Board Room, San Diego, CA 92101-4231 (in the Wells Fargo Building).

Networking for subs and primes: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Prebid starts at 10:00 a.m. All prospective bidders are highly encouraged to attend. It is an opportunity to learn about the Project, ask questions, and network with firms with whom you may partner for the Project. There will be no site walk. At the prebid meeting we will share images of the sites. The project areas are accessible to all. Bidders are reminded to stay in the public right of way.

708 Bandak Court, San Marcos 92069 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Synomyn Costales 708 Bandak Couort San Marcos 92069 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 16, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 16, 2024 8/8, 8/15, 8/22,8/29 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018765 Fictitious business name(s): JOY ACUPUNCTURE HEALING ARTS, INC. Located at: 4420 Hotel Circle Ct. #265 San Diego 92108-3434 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 07/01/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Joy Acupuncture Healing Arts, Inc. 4420 Hotel Circle Ct. #265 San Diego 92108-3434 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 31, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 31, 2024 8/8, 8/15, 8/22,8/29 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019089 Fictitious business name(s): DEL CERRO NAIL LOUNGE Located at: 6374 Del Cerro Blvd., San Diego, CA 92120 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Lan Tuyet Tran 5117 Auburn Drive San Diego 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 5, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 5, 2024 8/8, 8/15, 8/22,8/29

This business is hereby registered by the following: New Faith Baptist Church of San Diego 7024 Amherst St. San Diego 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 22, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 2, 2024 8/8, 8/15, 8/22,8/29 -----------------------------------STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2019-9019024 Fictitious business name(s): THE GOOD LIFE DISTRIBUTORS Located at: 7424 Alsacia St. San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 01/13/2016 and assigned File no. 2016-001052 Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned by: Carlton B. Handy 7424 Alsacia St. San Diego, CA 92139

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018408 Fictitious business name(s): IN HIS HANDS CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL ACADEMY Located at: 4020 Wabash Avenue San Diego 92104 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Corporation The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: In HIS Hands Christian Preschool Academy LLC 4020 Wabash Avenue San Diego 92104 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 26, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 26, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22

Fictitious business name(s): ALDO COLLISION Located at: 464 W. Main Street El Cajon, CA County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Individual The first day of business was: 01/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Eduardo Acuna Ortiz 7593 Woodlane Way San Diego 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 02, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 02, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22

A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 07/10/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Taylor Made Professional Window Cleaning 2848 Glen Canyon Circle, Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 10, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 10, 2024 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15

This IFB package can be downloaded at no charge from the SANDAG website at www.sandag.org/contracts.

Register in SANDAG’s online database and download the IFB and plans. SANDAG is the only source of accurate information about SANDAG projects. The IFB may be reviewed at SANDAG. Bids must be received by 3:00 p.m., on September 17, 2109, at SANDAG, on the 8th Floor, attention: Brittany Salbato. Bids arriving later than 3:00 p.m., or at a location other than 401 B Street, 8th Floor, will not be considered.

SANDAG is an equal opportunity employer and, as a matter of policy, encourages the participation of small businesses that are owned and controlled by minorities and women. Joint ventures are also encouraged where feasible.

-----------------------------------NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the City of San Diego (City) is seeking to receive Electronic Bids for the below named Public Works project.

The solicitation, including plans and specifications, may be obtained from the City's website at: https://www. sandiego.gov/cip/bidopps Contractors intending to submit a Bid must be prequalified. Please refer to the solicitation for instructions.

Project Name: Job Order Contract (JOC) Building Improvements Project Number: K-20-1879JOC-3 Estimated Value: $ 9,000,000.00 Bid Open Date: 08/13/2019, at 2:00 P.M. License Requirement: B It is the policy of the City of San Diego to encourage equal opportunity in its Construction and Consultant contracts. Bids or proposals from local firms, small, minority-owned, disabled, veteran-owned, and womenowned businesses are strongly encouraged. Contractors are encouraged to subcontract with and/or participate in joint ventures with these firms. The City is committed to equal opportunity and will not discriminate with regard to race, religion, color, ancestry, age, gender, disability, medical condition or place of birth; and will not do business with any firm that discriminates on any basis.

Bids shall be received no later than the date and time noted above at: City of San Diego's Electronic Biding Site PlanetBids at: https://www.planetbids. com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=17950 James Nagelvoort, Director Department of Public Works July 31, 2019 8/8/19 CNS-3278997# VOICE & VIEWPOINT NEWS ----------------------------------

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-----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018257 Fictitious business name(s): SAVAGE CLUB Located at: 541 S. Radio Drive., San Diego 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Christopher Lavon Jones Jr. 541 S. Radio Drive., San Diego 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 24, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 24, 2024 8/8, 8/15, 8/22,8/29 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017947 Fictitious business name(s): NEW FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAN DIEGO DBA NEW ASSURANCE BAPTIST CHURCH Located at: 7024 Amherst St. San Diego 92115 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 03/01/06

-----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017599 Fictitious business name(s): B IS FOR BLACK GIRL Located at: 2178 Harrison Ave., San Diego 92113 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 07/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Channing & Chelsae Limited Liability Company 2178 Harrison Ave. San Diego 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 16, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 16, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017527 Fictitious business name(s): COFRICA ARTFRICA Located at: 4630 Border Village Rd. #1702 San Ysidro, CA 92173 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Ousmane Degoume Diawara 4630 Border Village Rd. #1702 San Ysidro, CA 92173 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 15, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 15, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9015737 Fictitious business name(s): IARS GROUP Located at: 3120 Rue Montreux Escondido, CA 92026 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 05/09/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: JCH International Aviation Consultant, Inc. 3120 Rue Montreux Escondido, CA 92026 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 21, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on June 21, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 ------------------------------------

-----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018266 Fictitious business name(s): ATHLETIC EDGE PHYSICAL THERAPY Located at: 849 Tourmaline St., San Diego 92109 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 07/12/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: NLH Physical Therapy, Inc. 849 Tourmaline St., San Diego 92109 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 25, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 25, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018306 Fictitious business name(s): PLATINUM BLESSED SPORTS PLATINUM BLESSINGS Located at: 9246 Lightwave Ave. $#140 San Diego 92123 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 07/25/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Derrick Davis 4635 Yerba Santa Dr. San Diego 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 25, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 25, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018544 Fictitious business name(s): F & S MAINTENANCE SD Located at: 3845 Highland Ave., San Diego 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Married Couple The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Felizardo Castillo Alvarez 3845 Highland Ave. San Diego 92105 ------------------------Silvia Guerra Arballo 3845 Highland Ave. San Diego 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 29, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 29, 2024 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9016467

-----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9016468 Fictitious business name(s): 33 PERSONA 33P THRITY THREE PERSONA 3THREE PERSONA 33 PERSONA Located at: 4386 35th Street, San Diego, CA 92104 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 05/01/15 This business is hereby registered by the following: 33 Persona, LLC 9386 35th Street San Diego, CA 92104 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 2, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 2, 2024 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9016481 Fictitious business name(s): EZ AZZ PIE Located at: 5482 Wolverine Ter Carlsbad, CA 92010 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Ez Azz Pie LLC 5482 Wolverine Ter Carlsbad, CA 92010 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 2, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 2, 2024 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9018076 Fictitious business name(s): CHRIS'S DELICIOUS BBQ Located at: 7677 Mission Gorge Rd #124 San Diego, CA 92120 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Christopher Scott Mitchell 7677 Mission Gorge Rd #124 San Diego, CA 92120 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 23, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 23, 2024 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017050 Fictitious business name(s): TAYLOR MADE PROFESSIONAL WINDOW CLEANING Located at: 2848 Glen Canyon Circle Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by:

-----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017489 Fictitious business name(s): CUBAN CIGAR FACTORY Located at: 551 5th Ave, San Diego 92101 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 09/28/05 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kalzooky Inc. 551 5th Ave, San Diego 92101 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 15, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 15, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017490 Fictitious business name(s): CESAR CIGAR LOUNGE Located at: 503 5th Ave, San Diego 92101 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 07/23/10 This business is hereby registered by the following: Marthony Inc. 503 5th Ave, San Diego 92101 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 15, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 15, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9016826 Fictitious business name(s): HERB-N-ROOTZ Located at: 3412 Olga Avenue San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 07/08/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: My3Nys Limited Liability Co. 3412 Olga Avenue San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 08, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 08, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017305 Fictitious business name(s): DETAIL ON THE RUN Located at: 120 50th Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 01/04/93 This business is hereby registered by the following: Africa Negatu Zerfu 120 50th Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 12, 2019 This fictitious business name

www.sdvoice.info LEGAL NOTICES will expire on July 12, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017125 Fictitious business name(s): ONE WAY UP SAFE HOUSING LLC Located at: 8339 Aqua View Ct., Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 05/30/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: One Way Up Housing LLC 8339 Aqua View Ct., Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 10, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 10, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9017408 Fictitious business name(s): JUST WASH IT MOBILE DETAILING Located at: 1499 Broadway #8 El Cajon, CA 92021 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 07/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Just Wash It Mobile Detailing 1499 Broadway #8 El Cajon, CA 92021 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 15, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 15, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9016735 Fictitious business name(s): THE STEAM COLLABORATIVE JASMINE MAVEN PSALM 150 ORCHESTRA Located at: 8885 Rio San Diego Dr., Ste. 237 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 01/01/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Jasmine L. Sadler 8885 Rio San Diego Dr., Ste. 237 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 5, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on July 5, 2024 7/18, 7/25, 8/1,8/8 ------------------------------------

PROBATES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Percy McKinley Bowser, Jr. Case Number: 37-2019-00033188-PR-LACTL A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JANETTE M. TATE, PROPER Petitioner, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JANETTE M. TATE, PROPER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of 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 petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held at the following court on August 28, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 502 located in Superior Court of California 1100 Union Street,

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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 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 four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9052. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the Court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or 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: Janette M. Tate 1122 Ramona Ave Spring Valley, CA 91977 (619)697-5766 8/8, 8/15, 8/22 ----------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Rose Marie Collins a.k.a.

Rose Marie Moody Case Number: 37-2019-00016396-PR-LACTL A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ALLISTER NORRIS Petitioner, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ALLISTER NORRIS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of decedent.

The PETITION requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held at the following court on August 14, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 502 located in Superior Court of California 1100 Union Street, San Diego, CA 92101.

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 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 four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9052. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the Court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or 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: Allister Norris 809 Leppert Street San Diego, CA 92114 (619)347-9521 8/1, 8/8, 8/15

----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00030738-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Kymberly Bryant on behalf of minor child Josiayah Parham TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows:

for decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Darrell Neal Walters

PROPOSED NAME: Darrell Neal Calvin THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 12, 2019 PRESENT NAME: Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, Josiayah Prophecy Robert The address of the court is: Parham 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101 PROPOSED NAME: A copy of this Josiayah Prophecy Robert Order to Show Cause shall be Bryant published at least once each THE COURT ORDERS that week for four all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the court hearing to show cause, petition in the following if any, why the petition for newspaper of general change of name should not be circulation, printed in this granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: county,Voice & Viewpoint.

7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 September 5, 2019 ----------------------------------Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, The address of the court is: 1100 Union Street SUMMONS San Diego, CA 92101 A copy of this Superior Court of Order to Show Cause shall be California County of published at least once each San Diego week for four Central Division, successive weeks prior to the Hall of Justice, date set for hearing on the 330 W. Broadway, San petition in the following Diego, CA 92101 newspaper of general Case Number: circulation, printed in this 37-2019-00025339 county,Voice & Viewpoint.

8/8, 8/15, 8/22, 8/29 Upon considering the ----------------------------------evidence, consisting of an application and declaration as NAME CHANGE provided in Code Civ. Proc. § 415.50 by the plaintiff/ petitioner and it satisfactorily California County of appearing therefore that the San Diego defendant/respondent/citee, 330 W. Broadway Nicolle Richardson, cannot San Diego, CA 92101 be served with reasonable 37-2019-00040817-CU-PTdiligence in any other manner CTL specified in the Code of Petitioner or Attorney: Civil Procedure, and it also Loi T Le and Hellen Nguyen appearing from the petition/ on behalf of minor children complaint that a cause of TO ALL INTERESTED action exists in this case PERSONS: in favor of the petitioner/ filed a petition with this court plaintiff therein and against for decree changing name as the defendant/respondent/ follows: citee and that the said defendant/citee is a necessary PRESENT NAME: or proper party to the action, Han Gia Le or that the party to be served Ha Ai Le has or claims an interest in real or personal property in PROPOSED NAME: this state that is subject to Mia Le the jurisdiction of the court, Lia Le or the relief demanded in the action consists wholly, THE COURT ORDERS that or in part in excluding such all persons interested in this party from an interest in matter shall appear before this such property : NOW, on court hearing to show cause, application of Katie Naglar if any, why the petition for plaintiff/petitioner. change of name should not be granted: IT IS ORDERED that NOTICE OF HEARING Date: service of said summons/ October 24, 2019 citation in this case be Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, made upon said defendant/ The address of the court is: respondent/citee by 1100 Union Street publication thereof in Voice San Diego, CA 92101 & Viewpoint, a newspaper of A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be general circulation published at San Diego, California, published at least once each designated as the newspaper week for four most likely to give notice to successive weeks prior to the said defendant/respondent/ date set for hearing on the citee; that said publication be petition in the following made at least once a week for newspaper of general four successive weeks in the circulation, printed in this manner prescribed in Gov. county,Voice & Viewpoint.

Code § 6064.

8/8, 8/15, 8/22, 8/29 ---------------------------------IT IS FURTHER California County of ORDERED that a copy of San Diego said summons/citation, of 330 W. Broadway said complaint/petition, and San Diego, CA 92101 of the order for publication 37-2019-00035316-CU-PTin this case be forthwith CTL deposited with the United Petitioner or Attorney: States Postal Service, Tara Lynn Guyton postage-paid, directed to said TO ALL INTERESTED defendant/respondent/citee PERSONS: if the address is ascertained filed a petition with this court before expiration of the time for decree changing name as prescribed for the publication follows: of this summons/citation and, a declaration of this mailing PRESENT NAME: or of the fact that the address Tara Lynn Guyton was not ascertained to be filed at the expiration of the time PROPOSED NAME: prescribed for publication.

Trinity Lynn Scott THE COURT ORDERS that To Nicolle Richardson, all persons interested in this Plaintiff Katie Nagler seeks matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, damages in the above-entitled action, as follows: if any, why the petition for change of name should not be General damages: Pain and suffering, and inconvenience granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: $15,000; Emotional distress $8,137.81; Special damages: August 27, 2019 Medical $1,862.19.

Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 23, The address of the court is: If you fail to respond to this 325 Melrose Drive within 45 days from the date Vista, CA 92081. of the first publication of A copy of this service we will be seeking Order to Show Cause shall be a court order of default published at least once each judgment in the total of week for four $25,000.00 in damages. successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county,Voice & Viewpoint.

7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 ----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00035155-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Darrell Neal Walters TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: filed a petition with this court

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Coutts adds.

In modern modular construction, modules are manufactured in a climate-controlled factory environment.

“This decreases the possibility of the materials being exposed to rain, snow and wind,” Coutts explains. “Prolonged exposure to these elements can lead to warping, mold and nail pops throughout the home. Also, squeaky floors and steps can be an issue if it is raining or snowing during a site build,” Coutts said.

Jeff Holdren, district sales manager, western territories, for North Carolina-based Holmes Building Systems, agrees with Coutts that quality control is greatly enhanced with modular building. “Actually, if you think about it,” Holdren said, “a modular home is a lot stronger structure. You have to be able to pick it up, put it on a transport and wind tunnel test it to 60 miles an hour.”

Both Coutts and Holdren

point to the relative speed of construction of modular versus site-built homes.

“The time a site builder might be involved in the construction process,” said Coutts, “is tremendous and with modular this time is cut in half.” Holdren concurs, noting, “A home can be finished within 120 days from the time we start.

“Many of the homes featured on the television series ‘Extreme Home Makeover’ are modular homes because of the speed required by the production schedule,” Holdren adds.

Coutts and Holdren also agree that the public at large is not aware of the many advantages of modular construction.

“Modular homes are much better than when I started in 2002, 17 years ago,” Holdren said. He attributes the lack of growth in part to the failure of his industry to better educate the public.

“We do not do a great job of educating people. There is

still a general perception that a modular home is inferior,” he notes.

Coutts is optimistic that this is changing. “Site-built construction has been the standard for so long that consumers don’t always research both sides, pro and con, of these two styles. As the concepts and practices of modular construction are becoming more popular with the general public, more consumers are becoming very receptive to this building practice,” she said.

Perhaps as a sign of things to come, Coutts notes that modular construction has gained much more of a foothold in Europe than it has in the U.S. “Modular construction will eventually increase in use similar to the northern European countries of Denmark, Sweden and Germany,” said Coutts, “where it accounts for 20 to 85 percent of total annual builds.”

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The trades focused classroom education was taught simultaneously with on-the-job training.

Participants received steel toed work boots, work attire, and safety gear including a vest, hardhat, gloves, and glasses. Within one month following completion of the program, each student has gained employment and in the process of qualifying for union apprenticeship programs including: electricians, sheet metal workers, plumbers, and pipefitters, HVAC technicians, carpenters and others. Upon completion of the program and entering the workforce, graduates are earning significantly above minimum wage at jobs paying between $14 and $21 dollars per hour.

In June 2019 the Trump administration proposed apprenticeships as a solution to train workers for indemand jobs without the need to attend college and take on the associated debt, according to the Wall Street Journal. President Trump’s goal is to provide more opportunities to secure an apprenticeship and the training needed to fill thousands of high paying jobs that are vacant across the United States.

“I enthusiastically announce our Construction Trades Apprenticeship Readiness program can report a 95% success rate,” said Carlos O. Turner Cortez, Ph.D., President of SDCE. “Next year, SDCE will begin expanding career and apprenticeship readiness programs to each of SDCE’s nine career technical education guided pathways.”

Laurie Coskey, Ed.D., Executive Director of San Diego Continuing Education Foundation

explained students are accustomed to not seeing their goals through. “One of our strengths here is helping them persist,” she said. “We try to take away the barriers that prevent them in both learning and working. Among them are transportation barriers, food barriers, emotional barriers and daycare barriers. We are supporting people in figuring out what their dreams are and how they are going to achieve them.”

Brandin McNabb struggled to make ends meet working a minimum wage retail job before being selected for the Construction Trades Apprenticeship Readiness program. “Walmart was not a career but a job. I learned about many different trades during this internship. I am very proud of my hard work and dedication. I have accomplished a lot of my goals,” he said. Eastridge Workforce Solutions employed McNabb when he completed the boom lift certification and scissor lift certification during SDCE’s program. In addition to employment with a toprated Skilled Construction Employer in San Diego, McNabb will start a sheet metal internship in the fall.

SDG2CC students who want to further their education are guaranteed a San Diego Promise scholarship, which provides two-years of tuition/fees for community college, plus $500 per year for books, in partnership with the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and the James Irvine Foundation.

SDG2CC’s Construction Trades Apprenticeship Readiness program relies heavily on donations.

Please contact Dr. Coskey at lcoskey@sdccd.edu to get

more involved and/or to make a contribution to the SDCE Foundation.

SDG2CC is enrolling now for the fall semester and the Construction Trades Apprenticeship Readiness program admission is in high demand. Learn more at SDCE.EDU. For interviews please contact, Allura Garis at alluragaris@ gmail.com or 619-319-0209.

About Gateway to College Gateway to College is a national network that supports communities in building sustainable pathways for opportunity youth.

The Gateway model began at Portland Community College and is now successfully implemented in more than 40+ community college settings throughout the nation. The San Diego Gateway to College and Career at SDCE is the first model in San Diego and has served hundreds of students in its first years of implementation, with that number growing to thousands within five years About SDCe San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) is the adult education division of the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD).

As the largest provider of noncredit education in California, SDCE’s mission is to provide accessible, equitable, and innovative quality education and career training to adult students.

SDCE has offered free career training and classes continuously for more than 100 years.

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