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California ’22 ELECTION: BLACK CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE

Election 2022

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In Miami, Florida, outside the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, 93rd Street Community Baptist Church Pastor Carl Johnson prays with fellow marchers during the ‘Souls to the Polls’ event on the last day of early voting for the general election. Black church leaders in Georgia are organizing rallies to get their congregants to vote. The effort has renewed meaning this year after state lawmakers nearly did away with Sunday voting in Georgia.

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Dr. Shirley Nash Weber (D), the incumbent Secretary of State (SOS) PHOTOS: CBM

By Solomon O. Smith California Black Media

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond

There are four Black candidates running for statewide office in California. Three are contenders to win as they fight it out with their

Covid-19 cases in

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Chair of the California State Board of Equalization Malia Cohen

opponents in the final days of the election.

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BASEBALL’S SHAMEFUL DIVERSITY RECORD First World Series Without Black Player Since Jim Crow Ruled America

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION U.S. SUPREME COURT

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Black church leaders and activists in Georgia rallied Sunday, Nov. 1 in a push to get congregants to vote - a longstanding tradition known as “souls to the polls’’ that is taking on greater meaning this year amid new obstacles to casting a ballot in the midterm elections.

At Rainbow Baptist Church just outside Atlanta, about two dozen cars and a large bus emblazoned with the image of civil rights icon John Lewis formed a caravan in the parking lot. Teresa Hardy, an organizer with voting rights group The Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, led a prayer before the caravan set out for a polling site at a nearby mall.

State lawmakers nearly did away with Sunday voting under a bill signed into law last year.

The Republican-sponsored legislation followed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that voter fraud cost him reelection in 2020.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

“What is happening on college

By Sudhin Thanawala and Gary Fields

“Your rights are being taken away,’’ said Comarkco Blackett, a minister at Rainbow Baptist. “We have to get out, stand together across color boundaries.’’

ACTIVISTS DESCEND ON The activists are demanding that there remains a need for colleges and universities to consider race as one of the factors in the holistic admissions process.

VOTING CHANGES

Few people in the group actually cast a ballot there, but organizers said it was important to promote voting, particularly in the wake of new restrictions enacted by the state Legislature.

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The Leadership Conference Education Fund, in collaboration with the African American Policy Forum, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and other civil rights groups, have rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in support of affirmative action.

BLACK CHURCH TRADITION SURVIVES GEORGIA’S

Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker Jr., former outfielder and the manager of Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros. PHOTO: NNPA

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent On August 13, 1950, a white police officer murdered 22-year-old Hilliard

Brooks Jr., a Black man, on a bus in Montgomery, See BASEBALL page 2

Though lawmakers backed off the Sunday voting ban, the bill shortened the time to request a mail ballot, See CHURCH page 2

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Dr. Shirley Nash Weber (D), the incumbent Secretary of State (SOS), is the front-runner in her race against Robert Bernosky (R).

Weber was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in December 2020. She is California’s first Black Secretary of State and only the fifth African American to serve as a state constitutional officer in California’s 170year history.

Since her appointment, Weber has led successful public information campaigns resulting in more Californians going to go to the polls. She conducted a tour of state schools and local communities as part of an ongoing initiative by her office. SOS is the third highest office in California and is responsible for establishing and implementing voting rules as well as the logistics of bringing the vote to a little over 20 million voters.

In Weber’s race, she has a lengthy list of supporters and endorsements including: Gov. Gavin Newsom, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, State Treasurer Fiona Ma, Controller Betty Yee, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond,

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rolled back the COVID-19 pandemic-driven expansion of ballot drop boxes, reduced early voting before runoff elections and prohibited groups from handing out food and water to voters in line.

Republicans said Georgia’s new

Attorney Gen. Rob Bonta, and Chair of the California State Board of Equalization Malia Cohen. In addition, several papers like the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union Tribune, and The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint have also endorsed her candidacy.

Her opponent has a bit of a different opinion on the vote, as per his platform which lists “cleaning up” California’s voter rolls as number three on his to-do list. Many claimed that illegal immigrants were scattered throughout the voting rolls of Western states, all of which has been debunked by fact checkers like PolitiFact.

Tony Thurmond, a student of the public education system and a graduate of the foster youth system, is running for a second term as Superintendent for Public Instruction (SPI). Thurmond attributes the lag in the performance of Californian students to insufficient funding, an opinion which the teachers’ unions support.

“I’m honored to be supported by teachers. I’m in a race where I am supported by teachers and my opponent is supported by billionaires,” Thurmond said.

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campuses today is that applicants are treated differently because of their race and ethnicity,” said Edward Blum, a legal activist.

He founded Students for Fair Admissions and is against affirmative action.

“Some are given a thumbs up.

Some are given a thumbs down,” Blum stated.

However, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina have countered a need for a demographically diverse student body.

The universities asserted that

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Alabama. The bus driver had called the police claiming that Brooks had caused a disturbance. Brooks’ crime: refusing to enter or exit the bus through the rear as Jim Crow laws demanded.

While similar incidents of brutality would continue, the Civil Rights Movement led to noticeable change.

Only recently, perhaps in response to Barack Obama becoming the first Black U.S. President, has the struggle against racial hatred and white supremacists seemingly gone backward.

And as the slogan goes, baseball “is as American as Apple Pie.” It’s an escape from reality for many, and

Thurmond’s opponent, Lance Christensen, works for a California Policy Center, a right-leaning think tank. Christensen’s push for more control for parents and local communities is in line with Republican policies. SPI is a non-partisan elected position.

Christensen has called out teachers for “indoctrinating” children and has endorsed many right-wing views. “I’m a religious person, I’m a conservative, I don’t make any bones about that,” he said. “I don’t try to excuse it. I don’t hide it.”

Thurmond says that he wants to invest more in education, at least an amount that is commensurate with California’s standing as the fifth wealthiest economy in the world.

His opponent is focused on removing bad teachers and giving parents more control.

Although Thurmond is the favor-

law was necessary to restore confidence in the state’s election system.

Civil rights advocates saw it as an attack on Black voters, who helped Democrats win the presidential contest in Georgia in 2020 for the first time since 1992 and later take the state’s two U.S. Senate seats.

They are pushing back by redoubling efforts to turn out Black voters.

dozen people held signs encouraging passersby to vote. Georgia has experienced a significant jump in turnout during early voting, which runs through Nov. 4. As of Friday morning, more than 1.25 million voters had cast ballots in person, according to the secretary of state’s office, a jump of more than 50 percent from the 2018 midterm contest.

“No matter what barriers they try to put in place, we’re going to find a way for our people to get around those barriers so they can actually exercise their right to vote,’’ said Helen Butler, executive director of the People’s Agenda.

“Our ancestors fought far harder than we’re fighting,” said Rhonda Taylor, a leader in the AME Church in Atlanta who participated in Sunday’s rally. “We got to keep going.’’

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta who is facing reelection in November, attended a separate “souls to the polls’’ event at a church in Atlanta.

Sunday’s caravan ended at a strip mall, where several

“Souls to the polls’’ reflects the Black church’s central role in the fight for justice and freedom in the U.S., said W. Franklyn Richardson,

admissions committees need not ignore a candidate’s race “any more than it does a candidate’s home state, national origin, family background, or special achievements.”

Further, NPR reported that this holistic approach to college admissions “is used by many colleges, large and small, including the U.S. military academies.”

As broken down by NPR, “because UNC is a state school, the question is whether its affirmative-action program violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee to equal protection of the law.”

Among the many academic institutions that have filed briefs supporting affirmative action are 57 Catholic colleges and universities, including Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Holy Cross. And there are more briefs filed by 68 of the largest corporations in the country and a brief filed by a long list of retired three- and four-star generals and admirals attesting to the need for racial diversity in the upper echelons of the military.

Activists rally for voting rights at the end of a “Souls to the Polls” event in Decatur, Ga., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. PHOTO: AP/Sudhin Thanawala

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Although Thurmond is a favorite to retain his office, he has gotten some criticisms about how he handled public schools during the pandemic. Those angry about the school closures blame Thurmond and some studies show that children may have been held back academically by the shutdowns, particularly children of color.

And even though Harvard is a private institution, it is still covered by federal anti-discrimination laws because it accepts federal money for various programs. Ultimately, NPR noted, at the heart of both cases is the same principle: what constitutes racial discrimination? for some, it’s the one sport that’s supposed to mirror wholesome American values. As the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies battle in the 2022 edition of the 118th World Series, what America baseball now resembles is scary.

The teams, combined, consisted of a group of white Americans and a sprinkling of [perhaps not as welcome] immigrants.

It’s the first World Series since 1950, two months after Brooks’ brutal murder, when the New York Yankees swept the Philadelphia Phillies, in which neither team has at least one African American player.

“Nah, don’t tell me that,” Houston Astros Manager Dusty Baker lamented. “That’s terrible for the state of the game. Wow! Terrible.

ite and garnered a larger share of the vote during the June primary, Christensen appeals to some parents and his right-leaning language about school choice could make Thurmond’s race more difficult in some conservative areas.

of herself, alone, on the debate stage.

The race for state controller is a bit more complicated. The previous occupant of the position, Betty Yee, a Democrat, has termed out of her position. Malia Cohen is the Democratic choice to replace Yee. Cohen has dedicated her career in public service focused on making public dollars work for all Californians, her campaign says.

Underwood’s experience includes service as deputy mayor of Lancaster where she was the first Black woman on the city council.

Jacobs received 19.9% of the vote in the primaries, a distant second to incumbent Eleni Kounalakis’ 52.7%.

Her platform includes many of the conventional Republican issues like smaller government and less regulation, but there are also some differences.

Her opponent Lanhee Chen (R) is a self-described “conservative in the vein of Mitt Romney.”

In the primary, Cohen placed second, behind Republican Yee, 36.9% to 26.8%. However, the electorate favors Cohen in November. 46.8% of voters are registered Democrats while just 23.9 % of voters are registered Republican. The LA Times refers to this as the only open race this year.

Chen has been an aggressive underdog in the race attacking Cohen on several issues. To date, Cohen has yet to directly debate Chen, who taunted her on Twitter with images

Angela Underwood Jacobs is vying to be the first Black woman to serve as Lt. Gov of California. She is a Republican.

Her brother Dave Patrick Underwood, a federal security officer in Oakland, was shot and killed by a member of a far-right extremist group called the Boogaloo Bois — some members of the organization reportedly participated in the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Jacobs sued Facebook for promoting and facilitating the activities of these types of groups.

Jacobs’ “Make California Gold Again” motto is emblematic of her mildly Trumpian platform.

chairman of the board of trustees of the Conference of National Black Churches.

Richardson said efforts like it are particularly cr it ica l t his election cycle.

“It’s the cumulative accomplishment of Helen Butler, executive director of The Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, speaks to organizers at a Black church tradition event known as “Souls to the our people that Polls,” in Decatur, Ga., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (AP Photo: AP/Sudhin Thanawala is being challenged and It reflects a larger effort in the Black threatened that makes this such an community to leverage the church urgent election,’’ he said. for voting rights, said Dartmouth The idea for “souls to the polls’’ history professor Matthew Delmont. goes back to the civil rights movement. The Rev. George Lee, a Black In addition to motivating potential Mississippi entrepreneur, was voters, pastors provide the “logisassassinated by white supremacists tical support to get people to go in 1955 after he helped nearly 100 directly from church service to go Black residents register to vote in the town of Belzoni. to vote,’’ he said. diversity in the officer corps during the Vietnam War led to enormous tensions and even violence between the predominantly white officer corps and the primarily Black and Hispanic enlisted men, sometimes compromising the war effort.

Many anticipate that justices on the politically compromised Supreme Court, who issued the controversial decision to overturn Roe v.

Wade earlier this year, will overrule some or all the precedents in the affirmative action case.

“Citing Harvard University as the model, Justice Lewis Powell said that in evaluating applicants for admission, race could not be the determinative factor, but the university could use race as one of many factors, just as it uses other traits — special talents in music, science or athletics, and even the fact that the applicant’s parents attended the university.”

For example, the lack of racial

“The baseline for permissible affirmative action programs in higher education was established in 1978,” NPR reported.

Justice Powell stressed that “in choosing among thousands of academically qualified applicants,” a university’s admissions committee may “with a number of criteria in mind,” pay “some attention to distribution that should be made among many types and categories of students.”

I’m ashamed of the game. Quote me.

I am ashamed of the game,” reaffirmed Baker, an African American.

Clark said that the camaraderie among Black players is the reason why the World Series shutout hurts.

sented only 7.2 percent of all MLB players at the start of the 2022 season.

Tony Clark, the head of the Major League Baseball Players’ Union, said the reason there is no African American representation is the result of years of inattention by the sport to U.S.-born Black people.

“When I first started playing, players made sure, Black players on your team and other teams made sure that you were encouraged and supported, recognizing that even at that time, the numbers weren’t as high, so you were less likely in a lot of ways to see someone that looked like you or came from the same place that you did,” Clark remarked.

“Toward the end, less and less of those conversations were being had because there were less of those players to have them with.”

Researchers at TIDES – The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports – reported that the percentage of Black players “has been a serious concern for many years.”

TIDES reported that 38 percent of all players on Opening Day 2022 were players of color – approximately 28.5 percent Hispanic or Latino, 1.9 percent Asian, and less than 1 percent Hawaiian/Pacific Islander or Native American.

“It is truly unfortunate that any young Black player who may be watching these games tonight is not going to see someone that looks like them and, as a result, may make a decision against continuing to play our great game and move on to something else,” Clark said just as the World Series kicked off in Houston.

“That is disappointing and disheartening,” he insisted.

While Black players made up about 18 percent of all MLB rosters when researchers from TIDES first began assessing the league’s demographic data in 1991, Black players repre-

“Well, I don’t think that’s something that baseball should really be proud of,” Baker said. “It looks bad. It lets people know that it didn’t take a year, or even a decade, to get to this point.”

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EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY/OPINION Moving From The Last Word ON

Pain To Promise

Getting Out The Vote

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

If you are reading this, then you probably are one of the people who either has already voted or registered and plans to vote on November 8th, Election Day. The problem then is not with you, but those around you who either have expressed a lack of interest in voting, believe that their vote won’t make a difference, or maybe they are homeless or think they can’t vote because of some past record or conviction.

None of these reasons should be permitted to be expressed to you without your reminder of the obligation we have to vote because of the people who died for that right, just as people died for our right to be free.

Each such person should be told that “If in doubt about your right to vote, then vote a “provisional”, or what is called a “challenged” ballot; the legality of which will be determined after the election and counted where possible.

If you have friends, and relatives in another

county or state, you should be calling them with the importance of all our votes and their votes for whatever election is being held in their area. We must be reminded that when it comes to elections, we are not a “Minority”. We count equally to everyone else.

Remember that the Voting Rights Act, which was passed more than 50 years ago, led to not only getting Blacks elected to offices at all levels including President of these United States, but also the ability to elect a President who put the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, and our work is not done yet. What is being called “Democracy” under attack, is really an effort to remove all gains made by Blacks and other people of color in the last 50 years. Our votes will keep this from happening and preserve the America we know for our children, as we work to truly make it a place of equality including “us”.

Let’s get those votes cast and counted on November 8th, wherever we and our friends and relatives live.

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Politics of Ye

By Dr. David L. Horne, PhD

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is back to his game of displaying public blasphemy again.

We remember his rather recent clowning for Trump, or ‘playin the coon fool for the bleach-blonde political insurrectionist.’ Just prior to the November, 2020 elections, Mr. West allowed himself to be pimped by the Trump forces and had his name registered as an alternate presidential candidate in several states, intending to depress the Black VOTE. It didn’t work. He only accumulated approximately 60,000-some votes nationwide (in the 12 states in which his name appeared on the ballot).

Now comes again a living example of how too much access to money does not make one a better or even a decent person, Black or White.

For the person who made headlines a few years ago by saying that the long history of slavery in America made plain the “fact” that most slaves actually chose to be slaves (how else could one explain, he reasoned, how long it lasted and in so many areas?), Mr. West has lately added more non-deductive thinking to his resume in stating that he cannot be accused of being antisemitic

(for public comments he made recently saying he was about to go Def Con 3 on all Jews) because historically Black people are really Jews, thus so is he.

Notably, there are a few authors who have made this spurious claim before, but Mr. West’s comments are noticeably absent any historical references.

And why should Mr. West be taken seriously on this or any other political-social matter? This commentary argues that he should not be.

Does the attainment of such wealth grant one higher intellectual status? In other words, because you are rich, are you also smarter or are you just luckier? If Mr. West is the case to be analyzed, then let’s get to it.

Mr. West, for the first time, was invited for a personal interview on Tucker Carlson’s Fox “News” show a few weeks ago. Carlson characterized West as a brilliant young entrepreneur who could and should have a tremendous influence on the opinions and behaviors of America’s Black youth.

Carlson strongly praised Mr. West for repeatedly sport-

ing a “White Lives Matter” jacket, along with antiBlack commentator Candace Owens in a matching outfit, at the recent annual fashion show in Paris, France, at which Mr. West had a moment onstage.

Mr. Carlson thought Mr. West’s behavior in just wearing the attire was brilliant and extremely influential.

To many other people, however, the behavior seemed to be another recent example of Mr. West’s continuing “mental illness”.

Carlson also heaped much praise on Mr. West for being an outstanding current supporter of Donald Trump and conservative values. Mr. West accepted the praise, saying that wearing the WLM jacket was like standing in front of the tanks in China’s Tiananmen Square.

Did Mr. West then or at any time in the recent past, say or do anything that seemed aimed at offering Black youth positive reinforcement for struggling for equal rights in the U.S.? No, he did not and has not. So, what advice does Mr. West offer Black youth? Practice Hanukkah and not Kwanza,

By David W. Marshall The late Peter Drucker was one of the most widely-known and influential thinkers on the principles of management.

Drucker believed a leader in any business has the responsibility of words and deeds.

Knowing what kind of example you want to set and acting accordingly will shape the culture around you, from customers to colleagues.

He believed managers are leaders of society where they need to understand the value of human beings. Drucker’s human-centric approach not only applies to the business world, but it can also be relevant in our politics. While people are the greatest asset of any business, the same is true in every corner of our society.

He stated “A time of turbulence is a dangerous time, but its greatest danger is a temptation to deny reality.” One can easily say that the current events in our nation are so troubling that it makes the upcoming midterm elections the most critical midterm in modern history. These are without a doubt turbulent times, therefore none of us should deny the reality that many Black young adults believe voting is a total waste of time. They simply don’t care and feel there is no need to do it.

While schools may teach how people of color have struggled and fought in the past for the right to vote while being subjected to discrimination, threats, physical beatings and death, the images from the past does not resemble the reality many students face in their current day-to-day struggles. Politics and the idea of voting is not high on the priority list when trying to navigate and survive the realities of living in their version of America. There is more concern about being victims of street violence or police brutality.

Voting means nothing when there is no food in the house, no clean clothes to wear for school or constantly wondering if the lights will be turned off at home.

It has to be understood that many young Black men embrace the belief: “A real man doesn’t ask, plead, or wait for a politician to come down from their “house on the hill” and save him. A real man finds a way to “make it happen” for himself and his family, regardless of which politicians are in office.” This male bravado is very real in a culture where politicians regardless of race are seen as “elitist others” who cannot be trusted.

Conspiracy theories claiming elections are rigged simply reinforce their beliefs that voting is irrelevant. So how do we get people from pain to promise? Pain being the daily struggles of survival which can keep a person discouraged from seeing the merits of voter awareness and engagement.

Promise meaning those with hope who have come to realize that being invested in the election process increases the chances of having your best interest and safety addressed by political leaders who understand the value of all human beings and their lives.

Ideally, when it comes to voter awareness and engagement, the goal is to consistently close the gap by moving people away from their pain and toward promise. But people have to arrive at the point of readiness before they can get beyond the place of constantly replaying their pain. It is surprising how many young adults never had a serious one on one conversation which centered on voting and its importance.

The hope is to build from the 2020 election and to not backslide by opening wounds of disappointment after only two years of controlling the White House and Congress.

Meaningful and long-lasting change in the political arena requires winning multiple election cycles. That means winning in 2020, 2022 and 2024.

David W. Marshall is the founder of the faith-based organization, TRB: The Reconciled Body.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Request for Help in Emerald Hills Dr. Warren, You are a trusted voice in our community and we need your help. Our neighborhood of Emerald Hills has several Seasoned Senior Drivers. The increase in traffic at the schools and all of these housing projects has us concerned. Driving to our doctors’ appointments has become worse than if they had put in an obstacle course, and we are always late.

as he encourages his own children to do, he said. And simply get rich. That’s the real answer to any Black problem.

Umph.Umph.Umph. Lord, hab mercy!

Professor David L. Horne is founder and executive director of PAPPEI, the Pan African Public Policy and Ethical Institute.

One of the main problems is the rude drivers dropping off and picking up their students at Johnson Elementary. The posted speed during school hours is 25 MPH in anticipation of children walking to school.The machine checks the drivers and most clock-in at speeds 10-20 mph higher, and no one is following [the posted limit].

The number of cars makes it clear: this is no longer a neighborhood school. If that is the case, maybe the district should put those “out of neighborhood” kids on a bus. If they are from the Emerald Hills, they should carpool. If they are not going to have more orderly drop offs with monitoring, we need more stop signs especially before a child is hurt. Why wait to be reactive

instead of proactive to slow people down?

The former person in office, Cole, used to install a lot of stop signs. Where is the current administration’s care for constituent service on safety? When was the last time our Community Relations Officer handed out a warning to get people to understand they need to slow down?

We understand that people don’t want more police presence, but we need people to slow down. Thank you for checking this out. The schools and the city must get together and figure this out before a young student or older resident is hurt or worse.

Sincerely, Mr.& Mrs. Nelson

Opinion articles do not necessarily reflect the views of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint. We welcome reader essays, photos and story ideas. Submit to news@sdvoice.info

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LOCAL/STATE NEWS City Rec & Parks Public Input Workshops Schedule Public invited to discuss the Opportunity Fund

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Members of the public may attend any of the meetings listed below either in person or virtually.

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire The City of San Diego is taking additional steps to address quality-of-life concerns such as litter that degrade San Diego neighborhoods.

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Remaining Workshop Schedule: November 3, 2022

6:00 p.m. Council District 6: Mira Mesa Recreation Center: 8575 New Salem St. San Diego, CA 92126

November 15, 2022

6:00 p.m. Council District 5: Scripps Ranch Recreation Center: 11454 Blue Cypress Dr. San Diego, CA 92131

November 17,2022

November 7, 2022

6:00 p.m., Council District 1: Nobel Recreation Center: 8810 Judicial Dr San Diego 92122

November 9, 2022

The public can join the meetings from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device: by visiting https://sandiego. zoomgov.com/j/1601700908, Meeting ID: 160 170 0908 or via phone by calling 833 568 8864 US Toll-free

6:00 p.m. Council District 3: Golden Hill Recreation Center: 2600 Golf Course Dr, San Diego, CA 92102

6:00 p.m. Council District 2: Ocean Beach Recreation Center: 4726 Santa Monica Blvd San Diego, CA 92107

Prop 30 Opponents Decry Its Hidden Costs There are serious doubts about the “Clean Cars and Clean Air Act”

By Emma Fox Contributing Writer Though Proposition 30 may sound like a saving grace in the current climate catastrophe, there are hidden costs associated with the measure now on the November 2022 ballot. Titled the “Clean Cars and Clean Air Act”, Prop 30 is heavily funded

by Lyft. The ride-share app poured millions of dollars into the campaign because it would allow them to use taxpayer-funded subsidies to fuel their efforts to meet the state mandate for electric vehicles.

The prop contends that it will provide rebates to consumers and organizations (Lyft) so that they can afford electric vehicles. However, for low-income families up against growing inflation and the cost of living in California, these rebates may still not be enough to cover the cost.

The state Legislative Analyst Office’s (LAO) rundown of Prop 30 addresses a crucial detail ignored by proposition’s supporters. The California constitution includes the Gann limit which puts a cap on taxfunded government spending. The LAO says, “Some of the spending required

by Proposition 30—likely

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Citywide Hot Spot litter removal now underway

Voice & Viewpoint Staff o ensure the proper management, transparency, and equitable use of the City of San Diego’s Opportunity Fund, the City of San Diego Parks & Recreation Department is inviting community groups and stakeholders to share their input and help develop a city policy that prioritizes community needs. At stake are City recreational programming, community needs assessments for Fiscal Year 2023, and Recreation Center Fund (RCF) transfers “into communities of concern as defined by the Climate Equity Index”, and other issues, according to an October 11, 2022 Department notice.

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an amount ranging from about $1.5 billion to $3 billion annually—would count toward this limit.”

Prop 30 would force policymakers to reduce spending on government services to fund the effort to switch to electric vehicles, triggering potential budget cuts on state-funded education. Organizations like the California Teachers Association and California Federation of Teachers back the No on Prop 30 campaign for this reason.

By leaving funding for education vulnerable to cuts, Prop 30 is creating an issue in order to solve another. If it succeeds, other big corporations could create a stream of future funding from taxpayers under the guise of advocacy. Public programs like social services and health care - too many to count - could be put at risk by the precedent this proposition sets. Something to think about.

Governor Gavin Newsom appeared in a No on 30 campaign ad urging Californians to recognize this “cynical scheme” by Lyft. He says, “Prop 30 is a trojan horse that puts corporate welfare above the fiscal welfare of our entire state.”

Because of the gravity of the climate crisis, many environmental advocates understandably believe in a whatever-it-takes approach to saving the planet. With such an important issue, voters do not have to take what they can get. In the book Why Environmental Policies Fail, author Jan Laitos argues that humans are innately self-concerned and believe they have dominion over the environment. One of the major faults opponents of Prop 30 point out is that it was born out of the self-interest of a corporation.

Laitos asserts that the motivations behind environmental public policies matter if they are going to succeed.

During elections, people are meant to vote for their best interests. It is a principle of democracy that voters ask for a better solution when their options on the ballot don’t meet their needs.

They don’t have to settle.

Some argue quite convincingly that Proposition 30 puts what amounts to duct tape on the issue of climate change, one that deserves to be more comprehensively addressed.

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As of last week, crews from the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services and Stormwater departments have launched a concerted effort to remove more trash and debris from public rights of way and prevent the trash from washing into storm drains and into the ocean.

“I have directed City departments to collaborate more closely to clean up areas that are experiencing disproportionate impacts of discarded garbage accumulating on sidewalks and in gutters,”Mayor Todd Gloria said.

Enhanced Street Sweeping In portions of East Village, the Stormwater Department is deploying temporary noparking signage 48 hours in advance of the scheduled street-sweeping day to maximize the efficiency of the street sweepers.

Residents can look at the City’s interactive street sweeping map to find out when it will occur in their neighborhood in order to move their vehicles in advance to facilitate trash and debris removal. Visit https://sandiego.maps.arcgis.com and use

the search term “Street Sweeping Route and Schedule”.

Citywide Hot Spot Litter Removal The City’s Environmental Services Depart-ment will be dispatching enhanced hot spot crews to remove waste and large litter from the public right-of-way in areas most heavily affected by waste discarded by unsheltered residents.

Code compliance officers will direct the work of a clean-up crew throughout neighborhoods to address known and discovered hot spots that pose a public health or environmental concern.

Hot spot crews may be working around and directly adjacent to homeless encampments. However, the Mayor’s office made it clear that these crews will not assist or conduct encampment abatements or directly address active or inactive encampments. Encampments are addressed by separate ESD crews and outreach workers.

The enhancements to street sweeping and waste removal aim to improve the quality of life for communities citywide and reduce potential environmental impacts.

The efforts are being piloted temporarily and will be evaluated for efficacy in the coming months.

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By Voice & Viewpoint Staff It was the first time since the Pandemic that the Black Chamber of Commerce (SDBCC) held its annual dinner and fundraiser. The event was outdoors at the Bayside Hilton with about 1500 local business, elected officials and community people in attendance. The ambiance was great. The two Emcees were LisaRaye McCoy and Dwight Eubanks, nationally known personalities. SDBCC President and CEO Donna DeBerry was in gracious and lively form as the program moved through recognition of VIPs to an auc-

tion and fundraiser that brought out the dollars.

One of the highlights of the evening was not only the recognition of scholarship recipients, but also the six honorees which included Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher of the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint newspaper who was recognized as the co-founder of the San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce along with his late wife, Mrs. Gerri Warren, more than 30 years ago. Other honorees were Mark A. Stuart of the San Diego Foundation; Senate President Pro Tem Toni G.

Atkins, for outstandi and public service that the only woman to hav State legislature as bot Assembly and Preside Senate; Amber Thomas Entrepreneurial Excell the first Black woman Chick-fil-A franchise; Petitt, UCSD Equity Officer; and Mr. Jer who received the Mus Entrepreneur award in his years of contributio tainment industry.

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IN MORE NEWS Obama Endorses Rep. Bass For LA’s Next Mayor

By Antonio‌ ‌Ray‌ ‌Harvey California‌ ‌Black‌ ‌Media‌ Gov. Gavin Newsom has not yet endorsed a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, but former President Barack Obama did 10 days before the General Election on Nov. 8.

Citing her “proven leadership, integrity, and record of getting things done,” Obama’s endorsement of Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA-13) for mayor of Los Angeles can be seen on a video released by her campaign.

Bass was an early supporter of Obama’s presidential run and campaigned for him in 2007.

“I am asking Los Angeles to vote for Karen Bass for mayor. I know Karen. She was with me in supporting my campaign from the beginning, and Karen Bass will deliver results,” Obama stated when making his endorsement official. “Make no mistake, there is only one proven pro-choice Democrat in this race. Karen has always been on the right side of the issues we care so deeply about.”

President Obama’s support of Bass follows endorsements from President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Alex Padilla, Sen. Bernie Sanders and more than 250 other endorsements from community leaders, labor unions and elected officials since the June primary.

Bass is the only candidate endorsed by the Democratic Party and Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project Los Angeles County Action Fund. Her leadership has also earned her the endorsements of the Los Angeles Times and La Opinión.

“I am humbled and honored to have the support of President Barack Obama,” Bass said in a letter. “President Obama brought us faith

in our government and hope for the future of our country. It is impossible to overstate the impact of his work leading this country for eight scandal-free years advancing social and economic justice in the nation and the world.”

While Gov. Newsom has yet to endorse a candidate running for mayor of Los Angeles, he has endorsed other state and local Democrats running for office.

Statewide, Newsom is endorsing Dr. Shirley Weber, California’s first Black Secretary of State. In a local Los Angeles race, he is endorsing Black educator and community organizer Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) who is running for State Senate District 28 against fellow Democrat and Black civil rights attorney Cheryl C. Turner.

Bass is in a tight race with billionaire and Republican-turned-Democrat Rick Caruso.

Responding to a question on Fox 11’s “The Issue Is” show, Newsom said “I have deep respect for the both of them and have not gotten involved in this race.”

Black Women’s Collective PAC and Black women leaders throughout the state called out Gov. Newsom’s reluctance in declaring support for Bass.

“He stated that he supports Black Women, but his administration doesn’t demonstrate that he wants us at his decision-making table.

He selectively supports Black women candidates even when they have overwhelming support from the party leaders and our community like in the case of Congressmember Bass,” the coalition said in a “open letter” in October.

Bass is running to be the first Black woman mayor of the second-largest city in the country. She stated that “President Obama’s support underscores the contrast in this race and inspires” her campaign. She has stated her plans are to solve homelessness, make the city of Los Angeles safer, and create affordable housing.

“She has devoted her life to serving her community, from working in the emergency

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room to saving California from a budget crisis to delivering relief during the COVID pandemic as a member of Congress,” Obama stated.

Newsom’s political advisers, a firm called Bearstar Strategies, are also chief consultants for the Caruso’s campaign.

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In the 2018 gubernatorial primary, Bass endorsed former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa over Newsom. But, August 2021, Bass, members of the group calling itself Women Against the Recall (WAR), and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-37), held a news conference to openly support Newsom in the recall election held Sept. 14, 2021.

Whooping Cough: What Those With Asthma or COPD Need to Know

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Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is an extremely contagious bacterial infection that can lead to severe, sometimes life-threatening health problems, such as exacerbation of chronic medical conditions -- including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

people of all ages in the United States, it’s especially important for high-risk adults, such as those with asthma and COPD, and for older adults who will be in contact with babies less than 12 months old. Talk to your physician to find out if you are up to date on vaccination for pertussis.

Fall is one of the times of year that pertussis peaks in North America. Coinciding with COPD Awareness Month in November, it’s a good time to learn about your pertussis risk and that vaccination can help you to stay healthy. Here’s what to know:

What other prevention measures can I take?

Like many other infectious illnesses, having good health habits can reduce your chances of becoming ill with pertussis. Properly wash your hands with soap and water often, especially if you come into contact with an individual with a respiratory infection. Always cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing and clean your hands afterward.

Staying home when you’re sick will help prevent the spread of infectious respiratory diseases.

What are the symptoms of pertussis?

Pertussis usually begins with cold-like symptoms. It’s not until the disease progresses in severity that it can differentiate itself from other respiratory illnesses. After a week or two, a harsh repetitive cough may develop, sometimes accompanied by a “whooping” sound that happens when all the air is gone from your lungs and you inhale as you cough. These coughing spells, which can be so intense they can even break ribs, will often result in loss of bladder control, vomiting and exhaustion, light-headedness and headaches. The lips and areas around the lips may even turn blue due to lack of oxygen.

When should I see a doctor? Treatment for pertussis is easily available and highly encouraged. If started early, it can help reduce the severity and duration of illness and reduce the risk of complications. Once a diagnosis is made or suspected exposure has been determined, you should start on antibiotics immediately.

I have a chronic lung disease, what else should I know? While anyone can get pertussis, adults living with asthma are at four times greater risk of infection and complications. For those with COPD, symptoms often worsen after a respiratory infection. Asthma and COPD both cause your airways in your lungs to swell, and pertussis can further increase airway swelling making breathing difficult. Speak with your healthcare provider to ensure your adult vaccinations are up to date. For more tools and resources, visit Lung.org/Pertussis.

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Who is impacted? Pertussis is often thought of as a childhood disease, however it also impacts adults. Those with underlying lung disease need to be especially careful, as pertussis can worsen these diseases to the degree that patients may become hospitalized, even fighting for their lives.

How can I stay healthy? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the best way to protect against pertussis is by getting vaccinated. Childhood immunization reduces the risk of catching pertussis and there’s a vaccine for adults as well. Unfortunately, only 30% of U.S. adults received a pertussis vaccine in the past 10 years, leaving many people vulnerable. Tdap, which protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, is covered free-of-charge by most insurance plans. Recommended for

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WGA Caddie Academy Receives

$125,000 PGA Award

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire In one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last acts of generosity, the civil rights champion and his wife, Coretta, paid the hospital bill for the parents of superstar actress Julia Roberts.

It’s a little-known fact that recently surfaced when a social media post from a previous interview Roberts, 55, gave to CBS Mornings’ Gayle King.

“My parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers’ Workshop,” Roberts said.

“And one day Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids.”

Roberts’ mother said sure and thus began the friendship between the civil rights leaders and Walter and Betty Lou Roberts. That led to the Kings paying for the birth of the woman who would go on to become an international star.

“They helped us out of a jam,” Julia Roberts said.

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire A California Black teen was recruited to play college basketball and is now entering his freshman year at an HBCU against all odds.

Armstead was staying at a friend’s house when he found out he would have the opportunity to pursue higher education at Fisk University.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire The PGA TOUR announced that the Western Golf Association (WGA) Caddie Academy is the recipient of a $125,000 award. The nonprofit organization, headquartered in Chicago, was selected as the charitable beneficiary of the inaugural PGA TOUR Charity Challenge.

Founded in 2012, the WGA Caddie Academy is a unique summer work program that provides caddie opportunities to promising high school students from around the country who show academic excellence and leadership potential. This past summer, more than 140 participants attended one of five Caddie Academy chapters nationwide to caddie daily for seven weeks while living together.

After successfully completing three summers, these students become eligible to apply for the Evans Scholarship – a full tuition and housing scholarship to college.

“For young people who don’t have

access to caddie programs where they live, the WGA Caddie Academy offers a supportive community and an opportunity to experience the benefits that caddying provides,” said John Kaczkowski, President and CEO of the WGA and Evans Scholars Foundation.

The Caddie Academy began in the Chicago area with an initial group of 12 participants. Today, it has grown to five chapters nationwide, including a west coast chapter in Seattle, WA. Participants are chosen during their freshman year of high school based on showing outstanding academics, leadership and character. The average household income of participants in the Caddie Academy is $30,000, and more than 90% of the program’s participants are students of color.

The Caddie Academy’s structured summer program is centered on four major components: caddying, academic development, community involvement and personal growth. Students get the opportunity to earn

An assassin’s bullet cut down King in Memphis on April 4, 1968. But just months before, on October 28, 1967, Roberts’ mother went into labor in Smyrna, Georgia.

Until now, the story had mostly gone untold.

“Grateful that Julia Roberts shared this story with Gayle King,” Bernice King, the daughter of Martin and Coretta, wrote on Twitter. “And, that so many people have been awed by it. I know the story well, but it is moving for me to be reminded of my parents’ generosity and influence,” King stated.

Added noted strategic advisor Zara Rahim: “Fifty-five years ago, MLK and Coretta Scott King paid for her parents’ hospital bill after she was born. Can’t stop thinking about this since I read it.”

And writer Christopher “Mr. Christopher” Seals praised the Oscar-winning actress.

“The fact that Julia Roberts has one of the ultimate civil rights flexes, but never talked about this throughout her career, says everything about her character,” Seals wrote. “I learned this about her last year and was surprised as well.”

Homeless Teen Lands Spot on HBCU Basketball Team

According to Good Morning America, 19-year-old Jeremiah Armstead spent the past three years sleeping in cars and in and out of domestic violence shelters with his mother and siblings.

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school work, but with the support of family, coaches, and mentors, the 19year-old was able to persevere and get accepted into Fisk.

“I was bringing smarts, of course, but it was hard to do that being homeless and juggling everything, like domestic violence situations, just stuff like that,” he said. “Living in a shelter, living in a car–it was hard to think, go to school, worry about my mom or my brother, my sister.”

This fall, Armstead will also join the university’s basketball program under the guidance of coach and former LA Clippers player Kenneth Anderson.

“It definitely was a blessing for him and his family to be at a university — Fisk University,” Anderson said. The basketball coach said Armstead’s demeanor and work ethic made him a great fit for the team.

Armstead said he plans to study kinesiology.

“I just want to show people [that are] in my circumstances, ‘Don’t stop’,” Armstead added. “Don’t ever think of giving up because just like that, stuff could change.”

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“My mom called me. ‘Jay, you just got accepted into Fisk!’ and I’m checking my email …” Armstead recalled the exciting moment that he said made him feel “any type of adversity that I went through, for the most part, it motivated me and pushed me.”

The HBCU sent him an acceptance letter welcoming him into the class of 2026 and his new student ID. “I’m not surprised Jeremiah is where he’s at today,” the teen’s mother Mindy Brooks said. “I’m not surprised because he’s always been a good person.”

Armstead said he struggled with juggling housing insecurity and his

Fisk University is a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866, shortly after the end of the Civil War. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in Nashville. The campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Fisk University Historic District (NRHP District No. 78002579). PHOTO: NNPA

money, meet role models, learn invaluable life lessons and eventually earn a college scholarship. To date, 118 Caddie Academy graduates have been awarded the Evans Scholarship.

man. “Going to college has provided me with new learning experiences – and the life-changing opportunity to fulfill my dreams of a better future for myself and my family,” she said.

This year’s participants in the WGA Caddie Academy are: Melanie Tapia. Melanie was connected to the Caddie Academy, where she spent summers learning the game of golf. By excelling in school and on the course as a caddie, Melanie earned a full tuition and housing Evans Scholarship to Northwestern University, where she is now a fresh-

Star Brooks, As a young girl, Star Brooks always wondered what college was like – but didn’t know if it was something she’d be able to experience herself. “Life in my family has not been easy, but working hard has always been my priority,” she said. Star spent her summers with the Caddie Academy and was pushed entirely out of her comfort

zone, but her desire to be a “role model of integrity” led her to stick out the challenges – and find a new family of support along the way.

She is now a senior at the University of Illinois – and the first in her family to go to college – Star is pursuing two college degrees and hopes to go into sports marketing. “I can clearly see how my caddie experiences have contributed to my character and helped me become the person I am today,” she said. “I have learned so many leadership skills, all of which will help me make my future dreams become a reality.”

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS Women’s Clinic in South Sudan

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n a country where the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, a small clinic dedicated to reproductive health care for more than 200,000 people is about to be shut down. The worried-looking mothers know too well what might happen next.

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“If the hospital closes, we will die more because we are poor,’’ said one expectant mother who gave her name only as Chuti. She was attending a monthly checkup at the Mingkaman reproductive health clinic in this town on the White Nile River, and it might be her last.

The United Nations has said it intends to end the clinic’s operations by December because of a lack of funding from European and other supporters. It is just one casualty among many in developing countries as humanitarian donors have been stretched by one crisis after another, from COVID-19 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The U.N. would not say how much it costs to run the clinic.

A loss like the clinic is of critical importance for people in places like Mingkaman, which along with the rest of South Sudan has struggled to cope with the aftermath of a five-year civil war, climate shocks like widespread flooding and lingering insecurity that includes shocking rates of sexual violence.

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has said the war in Ukraine has led to a dramatic cut in funding for emergency medical care for people who have been sexually assaulted. “It’s not that sexual violence ebbs and flows, it’s going on all the time, largely unseen,’’ commissioner Barney Afako said. The commission also has asserted that the government has failed to invest in basic services like health care.

This reproductive health clinic in the capital of Awerial county in central South Sudan serves a community largely of people displaced by the civil war and the floods. It is where women who once gave birth at home now come to deliver their children. It is also where women who are assaulted come for care.

The maternal mortality rate in South Sudan was 789 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019,

according to the World Health Organization.

That’s more than double the rate in more developed neighboring Kenya, according to U.N. data, while the U.S. rate was 23 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At least 250 women give birth in the Mingkaman clinic every month, said Teresa Achuei, the site manager with the organization IMA World Health, which runs the facility. She said she knew of only three women who have died while giving birth in the community, all of them outside the clinic.

Now, she said, hundreds of women could be at risk. “Our aim, our mission, is to reduce maternal mortality rate. Every woman should deliver safely. If the facility closes, there will be many deaths in the community,’’ she told The Associated Press during a visit in midOctober.

The clinic was founded in 2014, the year after South Sudan’s civil war began. Set up in tents as a temporary way to serve people displaced by fighting, it remains makeshift but works around the clock.

It is a center of activity in Mingkaman, a community on one of South Sudan’s muddy main highways without reliable electricity and running water. The military is present to respond to flares of violence. Many women support their families by collecting firewood from the nearby forest to sell or work in modest local hotels.

Multiple women expressed concern about the clinic’s coming closure.

“It will be worsening for us because it was helping us,’’ said Akuany Bol, who delivered her three children there. She looked miserable while waiting for a midwife to examine her child.

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LONDON MUSEUMS TO RETURN HUMAN REMAINS

STOLEN FROM ZIMBABWE IN COLONIAL TIMES Global Information Network The era of European museums claiming ownership of the bones and skulls of African war heroes stolen years ago may finally be coming to an end.

A negotiated settlement to return African remains involved London’s Natural History Museum and Cambridge University. The two institutions now say they are ready to cooperate and return what was taken in the colonial era.

Human remains ended up in European collections as a consequence of unlawful grave robbing, racist medical research, taken for resale or as priceless momentos. The two museums were among six British institutions visited by a delegation from Zimbabwe.

Talks have been going on since December 2014 over the potential repatriation of Zimbabwean human remains. It has long been suspected that body parts of some of the leaders of the First ‘Chimurenga’ - an uprising against British rule in the 1890s - were taken to the UK as trophies.

The most prominent of the remains were those of Mbuya Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana (Grandmother Nehanda in Shona), an icon of resistance against British imperialism. Accused of murdering a British official, she was executed in Harare. Today she is revered as a national hero. Her image in the form of a 10 foot tall statue was erected at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue and Julias Nyerere Way in Harare’s central business district.

In 2015, former president Robert Mugabe commented: “The First Chimurenga leaders, whose heads were decapitated by the colonial occupying force, were then dispatched to England to signify British victory over, and subjugation of the local population. Surely, keeping decapitated heads as war trophies, in this day and age, in a national history museum, must rank among the highest forms of racist moral decadence, sadism and human insensitivity.”

With 25,000 human remains, the Natural History Museum, alongside the Duckworth Laboratory with 18,000 remains, have some of the largest such archives in the world.

EFFECTIVE EBOLA VACCINES DISCOVERED IN PENNSYLVANIA DRUG COMPANY’S FREEZER Global Information Network

that to take about one month and the company will pay for it.

Thousands of doses of a vaccine effective against the Ebola pathogen now circulating in Uganda have been discovered in freezers of the Merck pharmaceutical company in Pennsylvania.

“We’re doing everything to move it as quickly as we possibly can,” BethAnn Coller, a virologist who has headed product development for Merck’s Ebola vaccines told the scientific journal.

The drugs were discovered after repeated inquiries by Science magazine - a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one of the world’s top academic journals.

Two other developers of Sudan Ebola vaccines are racing to produce enough doses to enter trials in Uganda. The Sabin Vaccine Institute has 40,000 bulk doses and is working with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness to find a company that can do the fill and finish. The University of Oxford has teamed up with the Serum Institute of India.

In a revelation that may help Uganda combat its outbreak of Ebola, the pharmaceutical giant Merck acknowledged that it has up to 100,000 doses of an experimental vaccine for the deadly viral disease in its freezers in Pennsylvania and will donate them to the Africa country.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ugandan government are now discussing whether and how these doses can be incorporated into one or more clinical trials of other candidate Ebola vaccines that could launch as soon as next month.

The Merck vaccine targets Sudan ebolavirus, the pathogen recently identified in Uganda. Merck quietly made the product in 2015 and 2016, soon after it had landmark success with a similar vaccine against Zaire ebolavirus, a different

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virus that caused a big epidemic in West Africa between 2014 and 2016.

The company froze the Sudan Ebola vaccine in bulk form and never tested it on people. But it has been shown to protect monkeys intentionally injected with Sudan ebolavirus, and given the efficacy of Merck’s Zaire Ebola vaccine, scientists have high hopes that the Sudan Ebola shots will be safe and effective as well.

Merck’s disclosure “is amazingly good news,” Mark Feinberg, who led the company’s program to develop the Zaire Ebola vaccine, told

Science magazine. “It allows this very promising vaccine to move forward quicker than would have otherwise been possible.”

In an email sent on Oct. 13, Merck acknowledged for the first time it had made the vaccine but said vials of it had expired and were destroyed in 2021.

After further questions from Science, the company replied that the vaccine still existed in bulk, testing had confirmed those doses were viable, and they would be donated.

Merck now says it plans to perform a “fill and finish,” process that puts bulk product into vials; it expects

According to a Ugandan Ministry of Health update on Oct. 22, Sudan ebolavirus had sickened 75 people in Uganda, killing 28 of them.

The outbreak, Uganda’s first since 2012, is especially threatening because a few cases have occurred in Kampala, a bustling city of 1.5 million. The Ugandan government has placed two affected districts under lockdown.

Back in 2016, Science published a survey of 50 leading vaccine researchers who ranked a Sudan ebolavirus vaccine as a No. 1 priority.

But pharmaceutical companies took little interest in Ebola vaccines because the market, with a few hundred cases at most, was so small.

There was little incentive to invest

in the shots.

Then came West Africa’s Zaire outbreak which engulfed the capitals of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in 2014 and sickened tens of thousands of people in a matter of months, including a handful in Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, the United States, and Europe.

Merck never ran human studies with the Sudan Ebola vaccine. “That was not something that was ever put on the table,” said Coller. “With hindsight, perhaps it could have been done better.”

Meanwhile, reader comments on the Science story included this from Aidan Sonoda on Oct. 28: “Ebola, with its vastly lower transmissibility compared to Covid doesn’t seem as attention-grabbing these days. Plus the usual lack of attention from wealthier parts of the world … but it remains just as serious a public health concern as ever. Resource availability to combat these diseases and improve the healthcare situation in effected areas is, vexingly, very dependent on global attention.

So I’m grateful to be made aware of these developments.”

As of Oct.26, 2022, according to the World Health Organization, there have been 115 confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease, including 32 deaths. Among these, at least 11 healthcare workers were infected, of whom four died.

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COMMUNITY

‘Art in the Park’ Takeover!

By Malachi Kudura Contributing Writer

Sunday, October 29th was the Art in the Park “Park Takeover” at Marie Widman Park in Encanto. It was a day to reflect on self, mind, body, and soul through the expression of art. This sunny day was perfect for “Art in the Park” and guest speaker J Emanuel Hodge to fuse the worlds of art & health. J Emanuel Hodge is a MetaPhysical & Integrative Medicine Physician.

There were many pieces of art displayed, created by the students of Kwaku Abdallah who is Program Director &

Master Teacher at Beta-Selam Academy.

Some painted artworks were displayed on doors in hopes of raising funds for the academy.

“It’s important for us to be another option for education,” said Kwaku Abdallah, who has been teaching for many years.

A person’s environment plays a key role in emotional and mental development. Many simply adapt to their surroundings, in the hopes of fitting in. But healing begins with thoughts and vibrations that manifest in the physical.

Guest speaker, Hodge, from the MetaHealing Balancing Center stated, “We have been trained to dim our light, and not allow ourselves to truly shine as created.” He continued, “We must step into our destiny of greatness.”

Art in the Park provided the perfect dose of culture, food, education, and art. Events like this highlight the importance of community, health and artistic expression. It reminds us of the importance of teaching positive communication to the next generation and how to keep our mind, body, and soul healthy through art.

PHOTOS: Malachi Kudura

Committed to equality for all and protecting services for veterans, children, poor and the elderly

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COMMUNITY ’

SD Lightning Bolt s

Send Multiple Teams to Playoffs

By Darrel Wheeler Contributing Writer The 12-U SD Bolts were on their way to an undefeated regular season after an easy victory over host Valencia Park’s Hornets on Saturday, October 22.

However, if they wanted to remain in the column of the undefeated they had to face the other great team in the division loaded with good coaching, speed, power, size, and tenacity. That would be Los Toros, the “0” snatchers.

They met last Saturday and LT did what they do to most teams - beat them.

After the smoke cleared, the Bolts were clearly no match for the rough and tough team from Los Toros.

The Bolts might get another chance at redemption in the playoffs, our Q Bowl.

Both associations will send their fair share of representatives to the big SDYFL playoff and Championship dance.

PHOTOS: Darrel Wheeler

Congressman Scott Peters working to lower healthcare costs

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COMMUNITY The

Halloween Hop

By Darrel Wheeler Contributing Writer

The “Halloween Hop” is a trunk or treat event that brings together many communities two days before the big Halloween date.

This year, local low-rider car clubs, in collaboration with Heavy Pocketz clothing and shoe store, provided free food, games and genuine concern for the kids, and of course, plenty of candy treats.

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sored. We look forward to many more and want to thank everyone that supported our event,” White said.

“The idea initially started because the kids were not able to go doorto-door a few years ago due to limitations caused by the COVID situation,” co-event organizer Deshon White shared.

“This was our second annual Halloween event that we’ve spon-

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OBITUARIES Brenda Joyce Chappell Butler SUNRISE

09/18/1951

SUNSET

09/25/2022

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY Funeral services were held on Friday, 10/14/2022, at Mr. Erie Baptist Church, with a burial following at Mt. Hope Cemetery Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson Ragsdale Mortuary.

My name is Brenda Joyce Chappell Butler. I was born in San Diego, California, on September 18, 1951. My parents are Henry Floyd Chappell and Gloria Williams Chappell. I was the firstborn in this union.

My family moved to Gardena, California, where I graduated from Gardena High in 1969. I married the love of my life, Wayne Butler, on March 13, 1971. I gave birth to our son, Sheldon Howard Butler, and thought he was the most beautiful baby ever. I loved him with all I had in me.

I attended Compton Jr. College and graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I vowed to become a nurse as my dream was to help others. Still bound to go higher and further in my career, I continued to attend school, determined to learn as much as possible.

As a nurse, I worked for the County of Los Angeles and La Habra School District. I retired from Orange County as a public health nurse. I later retired from nursing and took up real estate.

On Sunday, September 25, 2022, with my husband by my side, I closed my eyes on this side and woke up in heaven.

I am preceded in death by my sister Francere Chappell Snell; my brother Duane, better known as Ricky Chappell; my grandparents, Melvin and Verna Russell; and my parents, Clarence and Bernadine Butler.

I will be deeply missed by my husband, Wayne C. Butler; my son, Sheldon Howard; my mother, Gloria Viola Williams; my sister Janice Michelle Epps (Gary); my brothers, Michael Aaron Espy (Rhonda) and Otis Lee Espy (LaGeshia). Three aunts; an uncle; my family-in-love, the Butler’s; and lots of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Melvin Rogers McFarlin II

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SUNRISE

01/20/1968

Memory is a way

SUNSET

09/14/2022

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY Funeral services were held on 10/20/2022 Memory Chapel of Anderson Ragsdale Mortuary with a burial following at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson Ragsdale Mortuary.

Melvin Rogers McFarlin II was born on January 20, 1968, to Melvin and Sharon McFarlin in San Diego, California. On September 14, 2022, we lost a father, son, brother, grandfather, uncle, nephew, friend, and teammate. When Mel was nine years old, his family moved to Spring Valley, CA, where he attended Highlands Elementary School and started playing little league baseball, pop warner football, and youth basketball.

As a teen, he attended Spring Valley Junior High, then went on to Monte Vista High School. Mel was a beloved tri-athlete student with an infectious smile.

He excelled at football, basketball, and baseball. During his years at Monte Vista High, he lettered a total of nine times. He was also a CIF All-Star for 2 out of 3 sports, which garnered him a full scholarship to Utah State. Many that watched Mel play proclaimed him to be one of the greatest athletes that they had ever witnessed. Wanting to pass on his skill, knowledge, and love for the game, Mel coached little league baseball for a few years alongside his father, and eventually, he coached on his own.

Mel had a huge influence on others and inspired so many people to become better. Mel had such raw talent, countless people delighted in the privilege of watching him play to win. Not only was Mel a phenomenal athlete, but he was also a great human being. Everyone that encountered him instantly loved him. He knew exactly how to make you laugh and put a smile on your face.

Mel’s presence will be so deeply missed. He made his mark in this world and touched so many lives. Though he is no longer with us, his legacy will most definitely carry on. Mel will be lovingly remembered and missed by all.

He will forever bleed Crimson and Gold. A legend from East County San Diego.

of holding on to the

things you love, the things

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you are, the things you never want to lose. †¢

To Honour You Connie F. Kiefer Byrd

To honour you...

I get up every day and take a breath.

And start another day without you in it.

To honour you...

I laugh and love with those who knew your smile And the way your eyes twinkled with mischief and

secret knowledge.

To honour you...

I take the time to appreciate everyone I love, I know now there is no guarantee of days or hours spent in their presence.

To honour you...

I listen to music you would

have liked, And sing at the top of my lungs, with the windows rolled down To honour you...

I take chances, say what I feel, hold nothing back, Risk making a fool of myself, dance every dance.

You were my light, my heart, my gift of love, from the very highest source.

So every day, I vow to make a difference, share a smile, live, laugh and love.

Now I live for us both, so all I do, I do to honour you.

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EDUCATION MTS Kicks Off Local High School Laptop Essay Contest 40 brand-new laptops will be given away to winners in grades 9-12

By Voice & Viewpoint Staff The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling and the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) have announced the 19th Annual 2022 Laptop Scholarship Essay Contest for high school students across San Diego County. The top 40 bestscored essays from high school students will take home a brand-new laptop. Students in grades 9-12 are encouraged to submit an essay and application starting now through November 25.

“To date, over 700 students have received brand new laptops thanks to our partnership with Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling and the San Diego County Office of Education,” said MTS Chief Executive Officer Sharon Cooney. “Every year we choose our essay prompt to be relevant to our current and future projects. This year, the Youth Opportunity Pass went into effect, and we want to hear from students what they think about the program so far.”

The Youth Opportunity Pass (YOP) pilot program went into effect on May 1, providing all youth 18 and under free transit access across the San Diego region. The pilot is set to end on September 30, 2023. For this essay contest, students will write a persuasive essay on the value of the pilot program, and why it should or should not continue.

To be eligible to win, students must send an application form along with a 750 to 1,000-word essay. All entries are due by Friday, November 25, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.

PST. Students must be attending school in San Diego County and follow all instructions on the application form. Entries can be emailed to scholarship@sdmts.com or mailed/delivered to MTS, Attn: Laptop Scholarship, 1255 Imperial Avenue, Suite 900, San Diego CA 92101. For the full essay prompt, rules and guidelines, please visit the contest’s webpage at www. sdmts.com/rider-info/events/highschool-laptop-scholarship-contest PHOTO: Christin Hume

PVAMU’s New African American Studies Program One of Few at HBCUs

By Aswad Walker Defender Network Prairie View A&M University has recently become the only HBCU in Texas with an African American Studies program. Thanks to a $1 million initiative, Enhancing the Humanities at PVAMU, students have the option to major or minor in African American studies in addition to the school’s more traditional offerings in the arts and sciences, education, agriculture, engineering and nursing.

“A part of the HBCU experience for many students is a journey to self-identification, Blackness, and trying to understand the Black experience better,” said PVAMU’s Director and Associate Professor of AAS Jeanelle Hope, Ph.D.

“[African American Studies] provides students with the language to understand the world around them and an opportunity to engage key theories, concepts and methods that seek to make sense of the Black experience and amplify our narratives.”

Funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an anonymous contribution, and a matching grant, the new Bachelor of Arts in AAS Program will prepare the emerging generation of leaders to communicate effectively, think critically, research and examine any field of work through a comprehensive cultural lens.

This article was originally published on Defender Network.

Supreme Court Could Strike Down Affirmative Action

By Peter White Ethnic Media Services On October 31, the Supreme Court heard two cases that will determine the future of affirmative action. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is suing Harvard and University of North Carolina (UNC) for considering race in their application process. Further, SFFA says Harvard’s admission policies discriminate against Asian American applicants.

SFFA is a creation of conservative activist Edward Blum. He claims his non-profit has 22,000 members who were wrongly rejected by universities that use race conscious criteria to evaluate prospective students. None of Blum’s 22,000 alleged victims have testified. In 2022, UNC received 43,500 applications for a freshman class of 4,325. UNC rejected 40,000 applicants. At that rate, if the top two dozen schools are considered, Blum’s 22,000 students account for just 2% of total rejections. That number falls to a negligible 0.0055 percent among the top 100 schools.

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This is not a big problem, proponents of affirmative action say, especially given the fact that Harvard and UNC argue race in admissions creates campus diversity. The Supreme Court has held that to be a legitimate goal going back to the Bakke case in 1978.

In that case the justices threw out racial admission quotas but opened the door to the modern diversity rationale that was affirmed by the Court in Grutter v Bollinger:“The Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the Law School’s narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse study body.”

Blum argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He has brought four lawsuits in recent years but has yet to win one. Given the 6-3 conservative majority on the high court, Blum’s ship could finally be about to come in.

If Harvard stopped considering race in admissions the number of Black students would decline from 14 percent to six percent, said John C Yang, President and CEO, Asian

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Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC during a media briefing on the upcoming SCOTUS cases. Latino students would drop from 14 percent to nine percent. A Georgetown University study came to the same conclusion.

David Hinojosa is with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. He argued the UNC case in front of the Supreme Court on October 31st at 10 am.

“A lot of people are betting against affirmative action. They’re betting against fairness and opportunity. But the history is on our side; the Constitution is on our side; the law is on our side, and so are the facts,” Hinojosa said.

The stakes couldn’t be higher, Hinojosa noted.

“They don’t want to just get rid of affirmative action. They want to completely whitewash history and reinstate all the privileges of yesteryear to today,” he said.

SFFA didn’t put any students on the stand.

Harvard did. Sally Chen was one of them.

The daughter of working class immigrants, Chen said she wouldn’t have the benefits of a Harvard education if not for Harvard’s raceconscious admissions policies.

Applying to Harvard, Chen ignored her high school counselor’s advice and talked about her background. She said that was really crucial to “getting across who I am, why I want to do the work that I do today, and having this context made me a much stronger applicant.”

Chen was one of the couple hundred signatories to the amicus brief filed by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in the case. The fund represented 25 Harvard student and alumni organizations.

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CHURCH DIRECTORY Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of San Diego

Bethel Baptist Church

3085 K Street San Diego, CA 92102

1962 Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92105

719 Cesar E. Chavez Pkwy San Diego, CA 92113

619.232.0510 • www.bethelamesd.com

619.266.2411 • www.bethelbc.com bethel@bethelbc.com

619.233.6487 • www.calvarybcsd.org calvarybaptist1889@gmail.com

10:00 A.M. Sunday Service In Person, Live Stream on Facebook, Youtube and on bethelamesd.com

Dr. John W. Ringgold, Sr. Pastor

Christians’ United in the Word of God P.O. Box 651 Lemon Grove, CA 91946 Conference Call Worship Service: SUNDAYS 10:30 AM Call: 1-701-802-5400 Access Code 1720379#

Bishop / Pastor Adlai E. Mack

Minister Donald R. Warner Sr.

All are Welcome to Join Us.

1819 Englewood Dr. Lemon Grove, CA 91945

619.264.1454 • warnerdt1@aol.com

619.724.6226 • www.coyhm.org

Sunday Bible Study 8:45 a.m.

Sunday Morning Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Bible Class 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Class 7:00 p.m.

Friday Video Bible Class 7:00 p.m

Sunday In the Know Bible Study 8:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 9:00 a.m.

Saturday Shabbat Service 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Pastor Dennis Hodges First Lady Deborah Hodges

1728 S. 39th Street San Diego, CA 92113

124 Spruce Road Chula Vista, CA 91911

605 S. 45th Street San Diego, CA 92113-1905

619.262.6004 • Fax 619.262.6014 www.embcsd.com

Phone: (619) 427-8468 • www.gwpcogic.org

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Sunday School, 9:30 am on-site and Zoom Sunday Morning Worship, 11:00 am on-site Noon-Day Prayer, Tuesdays on Zoom Wednesday Midweek Bible Study, 7:00 pm, on Zoom First Friday Prayer, 9:00 pm to Midnight, on-site and Zoom

Sunday School 9 :00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

Bishop Roy Dixon, D.D., Pastor

Rev. Dr. Obie Tentman, Jr.

Call the church office at (619) 427-8468 for Zoom links.

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church

Mesa View Baptist Church

New Assurance Baptist Church

625 Quail Street San Diego, CA 92102

13230 Pomerado Road Poway, CA 92064

7024 Amherst Street San Diego, CA 92115

619.263.4544

858.485.6110 • www.mesaview.org Email: mvbcadmin@mesaview.org

619.469.4916 Email: newassurancebaptistchurch@yahoo.com

We are using YouTube under our website of www.mesaview.org or www.YouTube.com 8:45 A.M. Sunday School Class - Via Zoom Call Contact Office for details 10 A.M. Sunday Service • 7 P.M. Wednesday Bible Study Visit our site for previous sermons: www.mesaview.org

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.- In person & Live Stream Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.- In person & Live Stream Wednesday Night Bible Study & Prayer: 6:30 p.m.- In person & Live Stream

Pastor Dr. Darrow Perkins Jr.

Rev. Jared B. Moten, Senior Pastor

“A new Hope, A new Life, A new Way through Jesus Christ 2 Corinthians 5:17 A change is coming”

New Hope Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

Phillips Temple CME Church

Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church

2205 Harrison Avenue San Diego, CA 92113

5333 Geneva Ave. San Diego, CA 92114

4995 A Street San Diego, CA 92102

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619.262.2505

619.264.3369

Sunday Breakfast @ 8:00 AM Church Service 9:00 AM In-Person and on, Live Stream Facebook.com/PTCSanDiego & YouTube - Zoom Go to ptcmesd@gmail.com Sunday School @ 10:30 Wednesday Bible Study @ 6:00 PM In-Person and On Zoom ID: 81144203904 P: 867104

Sunday School 9 :00 a.m.

Morning Service 10:45 a.m.

New Membership Orientation BTU 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Eve Prayer Service 6:00 p.m.

10 A.M. Sunday Service Live Stream on Facebook, Youtube, Sunday School Lesson Immediately following service.

12 P.M. Wednesday Bible Study Live Stream on Facebook, 2P.M. on Youtube

Pastor Keith Eric Ellison

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” Psalms 122:1

Pastor Donnell and First Lady Sheila Townsend

“To Serve this present age” Matt: 28:19-20

Eagles Nest Christian Center

St. Paul United Methodist Church of San Diego

Total Deliverance Worship Center

3619 College Ave. San Diego, CA 92115

3094 L Street San Diego, CA 92102

138 28th Street San Diego, CA 92102

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www.totaldeliverance.org Fax: 619.303.2008 Mail: 7373 University Ave. Suite 217, La Mesa, CA 91942

Sunday Services: Bible Study: 9 :00 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Pastor Dr. John E. Warren

580 69th Street, San Diego, CA 92114

Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church

Sunday School 9 :30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Service 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Youth Bible Study 6:30 p.m.

Pastor Milton Chambers, Sr. & First Lady Alice Chambers

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The Church of Yeshua Ha Mashiach Hebrew for “Jesus the Messiah”

Lively Stones Missionary Baptist Church

“A Life Changing Ministry” Romans 12:2

Pastor Rev. Julius R. Bennett

“A Church Where Family, Faith & Fellowship Matters”

Greater Woodlawn Park Church of God in Christ

Sunday School 9 :30 a.m.

Sunday Worship 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study 12 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.

Pastor Jared B. Moten

Sundays Bible Discovery Hour 9 :30 a.m.

Mid Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Noon Day Bible Study 12:00 noon Wednesday Discipleship Training 7:00 p.m.

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Sunday Early Morning Worship Service 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

“It Takes Team Work to Make the Dream Work”

Transforming Life Kingdom Church

True Light Apostolic Church

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Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

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Voting Guide for 2022 THE SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT

ENDORSEMENTS FOR GENERAL ELECTION 2022 THOSE NOT LISTED WERE NOT ENDORSED

The following is a list of endorsements for the November 8, 2022 Statewide General Election. These names are only listed as suggestions based on our observations and knowledge of the candidates. You, as the readers, are encouraged to make up your own minds. The important thing is that you vote and that you understand the importance of your vote. You should not vote for people you have no knowledge of. Those who care about our vote should be making efforts to inform you as to why you should vote for them.

This list will appear on our website as well.

GAVIN NEWSOM

ELENI KOUNALAKIS

SHIRLEY N. WEBER

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

United States Senate Candidate

United States Senate Candidate

Governor Candidate

Lieutenant Governor Candidate

Secretary of State Candidate

FULL TERM

PARTIAL/UNEXPIRED TERM

• Serves as one of the two Senators who represent California’s interests in the United States Congress.

• Serves as one of the two Senators who represent California’s interests in the United States Congress.

• As the state’s chief executive officer, oversees most state departments and agencies, and appoints judges.

• Proposes and votes on new national laws.

• Proposes and votes on new national laws.

• Votes on confirming federal judges, U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and many high-level presidential appointments to civilian and military positions.

• Votes on confirming federal judges, U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and many high-level presidential appointments to civilian and military positions.

• Will serve the remainder of the current term ending on January 3, 2023.

• Will serve the remainder of the current term ending on January 3, 2023.

ALEX PADILLA

ALEX PADILLA

DEMOCRAT

• Proposes new laws, approves or vetoes legislation, and submits the annual state budget to the Legislature.

• Mobilizes and directs state resources during emergencies.

• Assumes the office and duties of Governor in the case of impeachment, death, resignation, removal from office, or absence from the state.

• As the state’s chief elections officer, oversees statewide elections and provides public access to campaign and lobbying financial information.

• Serves as president of the State Senate and has a tie-breaking vote.

• Maintains certain business filings, authenticates trademarks, regulates notaries public, and enables secured creditors to protect their financial interests.

• Chairs the Commission for Economic Development; is a member of the State Lands Commission, and the Ocean Protection Council; and sits on the boards of the California university systems.

• Preserves California’s history by acquiring, safeguarding, and sharing the state’s historical treasures.

TOMMY HOUGH

ANTONIO MARTINEZ

LINDA LUKACS

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

REPUBLICAN

U.S. Representative 51st District

U.S. Representative 52ND District

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT NO. 6

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT NO. 8

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT NO. 2

MONICA MONTGOMERY STEPPE

BLANCA LOPEZ BROWN

MALIA M. COHEN

ROB BONTA

SHANA HAZAN

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

TONY K. THURMOND

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT NO. 4

CITY COUNCIL LEMON GROVE, CA

Controller Candidate

Attorney General Candidate

DAN McALLISTER

JORDAN MARKS

RICARDO LARA

MARQUETTA BROWN

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

DEMOCRAT

(NONPARTISAN OFFICE)

TREASURERTAX COLLECTOR

ASSESSOR/ RECORDER/ CLERK

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

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PROPOSITIONS & BALLOT MEASURES GENERAL ELECTION - NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Prop 1 -

Prop 26 -

Prop 27 -

Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom

Allows In-Person Roulette, Dice Games, Sports Wagering on Tribal Lands. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

Allows Online and Mobile Sports Wagering Outside Tribal Lands.

Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

Prop 28 Provides Additional Funding for Arts and Music Education in Public Schools.

Initiative Statute

Prop 29 -

Prop 30 -

Requires On-Site Licensed Medical Professional at Kidney Dialysis Clinics and Establishes Other State Requirements. Initiative Statute

Provides Funding for Programs to Reduce Air Pollution and Prevent Wildfires by Increasing Tax on Personal Income Over $2 Million.

Initiative Statute

Measure C - RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE HEIGHT LIMITS IN THE

Measure D - RELATING TO THE USE OF PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS ON

MIDWAY-PACIFIC HIGHWAY COMMUNITY PLAN AREA

CITY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

VOTE CENTER & BALLOT DROP BOX LOCATIONS VOTE CENTER LOCATIONS Select locations open throughout San Diego County October 29-November 7, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Election Day, November 8, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm CHECK THIS LIST TO FIND A LOCATION NEAR YOU

SITE NAME

SITE ADDRESS

CHULA VISTA - 91910 Bonita Vista Middle School-Cafeteria 650 Otay Lakes Rd Chula Vista City Hall 276 4th Ave Hilltop High School-Cafeteria 555 Claire Ave Chula Vista Middle School-Auditorium 415 5th Ave Rosebank Elementary School-Auditorium 80 Flower St Bay View Baptist Church Fred H Rohr Elem School-Cafeteria MAAC Community Center Shadow Mtn Comm Chr-Fireside Rm

CHULA VISTA - 91911 210 Jamul Ave 1540 Malta Ave 1387 3rd Ave 960 5th Ave

LA MESA - 91942 Maryland Avenue Elem School-Auditorium 5400 Maryland Ave United Church Of Christ Of La Mesa-Hall 5940 Kelton Ave Helix Charter High School-Pac Foyer 7323 University Ave

DATE Nov 5 to Nov 8 Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Oct 29 to Nov 8

NATIONAL CITY - 91950 Camacho Recreation Center - Gym 1810 E 22nd St El Toyon Recreation Ctr-Classrm 2005 E 4th St Granger Jr High School-Library 2020 Van Ness Ave Martin Luther King Jr Comm Ctr-Main Hall 140 E 12th St

Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

SAN DIEGO - 92101 UCSD Park & Market-Conference Rm 211 & 212 1100 Market St San Diego City College - P Bldg Flex Rm 1480 Park Blvd Washington Elem School-Auditorium 1789 State St

Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

Golden Hill Recreation Ctr-Gym

SAN DIEGO - 92102 2600 Golf Course D

SAN DIEGO - 92105 City Heights Recreation Ctr-Tennis Rm 4380 Landis St Columbus Club Of SD-Assembly Hall 4425 Home Ave Oak Park Elem School-Auditorium 2606 54th St, Use Maple St Wilson Middle School-Meeting Rm 129 3838 Orange Ave Carson Elem School-Auditorium Islamic Center Of San Diego - MPR Kearny Mesa Rec Ctr-Meeting Room

SAN DIEGO - 92111 6905 Kramer St 7050 Eckstrom Ave 3170 Armstrong St

Convenient locations throughout the county to drop off your voted ballot sealed inside its return envelope. October 10 – November 7, days and hours vary by location Election Day, November 8 all locations open 7:00 am to 8:00 pm SITE NAME & ADDRESS

LEMON GROVE - 91945 8235 Mt Vernon St

Lemon Blossom Hall

BALLOT DROP BOX LOCATIONS

Nov 5 to Nov 8 Oct 29 to Nov 8 Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

SAN DIEGO - 92113 Epiphany Women In Focus 5081 Logan Ave Mountain View Comm Ctr-Back Meeting Rm 641 S Boundary St Southcrest Rec Ctr-Meeting Rm 1 4149 Newton Ave, Use S 40Th St Dolores Magdaleno Mem Rec Ctr-Meeting Rm 2902 Marcy Ave

Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

SAN DIEGO - 92114 Audubon School-Auditorium 8111 San Vicente St Encanto Recreation Ctr-Meeting Rm 6508 Wunderlin Ave Martin Luther King Jr Rec Ctr-Meeting Rm 6401 Skyline Dr Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library 5148 Market St

Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

SAN DIEGO - 92115 Hoover High School-800 Bldg JROTC Rm 4474 El Cajon Blvd, Use Highland Ave Nov 5 to Nov 8 Clay Elementary School-Auditorium 6506 Solita Ave Nov 5 to Nov 8 Colina Del Sol Rec Center-Meeting Rm 5319 Orange Ave Nov 5 to Nov 8 Registrar of Voters Serra Mesa Rec Center-Gym

SAN DIEGO - 92123 5600 Overland Ave, Suite 100 9020 Village Glen Dr

Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

San Diego Miramar College-Room K-107 Mira Mesa Rec Ctr-Game Rm Challenger Mid School-Auditorium Hage Elem School-Auditorium

SAN DIEGO - 92126 10440 Black Mountain Rd, Lot 2 8575 New Salem St 10810 Parkdale Ave 9750 Galvin Ave

Oct 29 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8

SAN DIEGO - 92182 SDSU Aztec Student Union-Templo Mayor 5500 Campnile Dr

Nov 5 to Nov 8

SPRING VALLEY - 91977 Faith Chapel-Student Center 9400 Campo Rd Highlands Elem School-MPR 3131 S Barcelona St New Seasons Church - Youth Center 2300 Bancroft Dr Spring Valley Community Ctr-Computer Rm 8735 Jamacha Blvd

Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Nov 5 to Nov 8 Oct 29 to Nov 8

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DAYS of the WEEK & TIMES

CHULA VISTA - 91910 Chula Vista Mon-Thu 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Public Library Fri-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Civic Center Branch Sun 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

365 F St * First United Open 24 hours daily starting Methodist Church 8 a.m. Oct. 10 through 1200 E H St 8 p.m. Nov. 8 (entrance off of Paseo Ranchero)

Norman Park Senior Center 270 F St Office of the Assessor/ Recorder/County Clerk 590 3rd Ave

Mon-Fri 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Sunday Closed Open 24 hours daily starting 8 a.m., Oct. 10 through 8 p.m., Nov. 8

CHULA VISTA - 91911 Grocery Outlet Mon-Sun 7 a.m. - 10 p.m., 1340 3rd Ave HHSA Chula Vista Open 24 hours daily starting Live Well Center 8 a.m., Oct. 10 through 690 Oxford St 8 p.m., Nov. 8 Otay Recreation Center Mon-Thu 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., 3554 Main St 2 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Fri 9 a.m. -12 p.m., 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Sat 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Sunday Closed South Chula Vista Library Mon-Thu 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

389 Orange Ave Fri-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sun 1 p.m. - 5p.m.

LA MESA - 91942 Frazier Farms Open 24 hours daily starting 8401 Fletcher Parkway 8 a.m., Oct. 10 through 8 p.m., Nov. 8 La Mesa Branch Library Mon 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

8074 Allison Ave Tue-Wed 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Thu 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Fri-Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Westmont of La Mesa Mon-Sun 7 a.m. - 8 p.m.

9000 Murray Dr LEMON GROVE - 91945 Bella Vista Health Center Open 24 hours daily starting 7922 Palm St 8 a.m., Oct. 10 through 8 p.m., Nov. 8 HHSA Lemon Grove Open 24 hours daily starting Live Well Center 8 a.m., Oct. 10 through 7065 Broadway 8 p.m., Nov. 8 Lemon Grove Mon,Wed,Thu 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.

Branch Library Tue 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.

3001 School Ln Fri-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sun Closed NATIONAL CITY - 91950 Lincoln Acres Mon, Sun Closed Branch Library Tue 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.

2725 Granger Ave Wed-Thu 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Fri-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m National City Mon-Thu 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Public Library Fri 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

1401 National City Blvd Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92101 Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed San Diego Firehouse Mon-Wed Closed Museum Thu-Fri 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

1572 Columbia St Sat-Sun 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Central Library 330 Park Blvd

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DAYS of the WEEK & TIMES

SAN DIEGO - 92101 - CONTINUED Port of San Diego Mon-Fri 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

3165 Pacific Hwy Sat-Sun Closed Closed 10/14, 10/28 The Old Globe Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

1363 Old Globe Way Sat-Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92105 City Heights/ Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Weingart Library Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

3795 Fairmount Ave Sun Closed Oak Park Library Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

2802 54th St Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92111 Linda Vista Library Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

2160 Ulric St Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92113 Barrio Station Mon-Fri 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

2175 Newton Ave Sat-Sun Closed Logan Heights Library Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

567 S 28th St Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed Mountain View/ Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Beckwourth Library Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

721 San Pasqual St Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92114 Valencia Park/ Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Malcolm X Library Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

5148 Market St Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92115 College-Rolando Library Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

6600 Montezuma Rd Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed The Salvation Army Open 24 hours daily starting Kroc Center 8 a.m., Oct 10 through 6845 University Ave 8 p.m., Nov 8 SAN DIEGO - 92123 24/7 Library Kiosk: Open 24 hours daily starting County Operations Center 8 a.m., Oct 10 through 5500 Overland Ave 8 p.m., Nov 8 Office of the Assessor/ Open 24 hours daily starting Recorder/County Clerk 8 a.m., Oct 10 through 9225 Clairemont Mesa Blvd 8 p.m., Nov 8 Registrar of Voters Mon-Fri 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

5600 Overland Ave Sat-Sun Closed Suite 100 Sat 10/29, 11/5: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sun 10/30, 11/6: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Library Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

7900 Paradise Valley Rd Sun Closed SAN DIEGO - 92139 Paradise Hills Library Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

5922 Rancho Hills Dr Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed Skyline Hills Library Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

7900 Paradise Valley Rd Wed-Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sun Closed SPRING VALLEY - 91977 Casa de Oro Branch Mon,Wed,Thu 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Library Tue 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.

9805 Campo Rd #180 Fri 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat-Sun Closed Spring Valley Branch Mon,Wed,Thu 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Library Tue 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.

836 Kempton St Fri 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat-Sun Closed SPRING VALLEY - 91978 San Miguel Fire Open 24 hours daily starting Protection District 8 a.m., Oct 10 through 2850 Via Orange Way 8 p.m., Nov 8

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BUSINESS NEWS Democratizing Philanthropy: Resilia Raises 35M Largest ever for a solo Black female-founded tech company Voice & Viewpoint Newswire New Orleans and NYC-based tech SaaS platform Resilia recently announced that it has closed $35M in a historymaking series B round to further help nonprofits increase their day-to-day capacity and help funders scale their impact through resources that extend well beyond just a monetary grant.

While Black and Latina women founders received less than 1% of VC funding combined in 2021, Resilia’s latest capital raise marks another historic feat: it is the largest raise ever for a solo Black female-founded tech company, and also marks the largest VC raise of a female founder in the state of Louisiana. Resilia first made history when it closed an $8M Series A in 2020.

Launched in 2017, Resilia has over 15,000 nonprofit users and enterprise customers including Oxfam America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Goldman Sachs’s One Million Black Women Initiative, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the United States Tennis Association Foundation, and The Boston Foundation.

“Our goal at Resilia has always been to provide nonprofits with access—something our team has worked tirelessly to do,” said Sevetri M. Wilson, founder, and CEO at Resilia. “This latest investment gets us closer to realizing our vision of democratizing philanthropy by reallocating power over its decision-making and resources as well as

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The round was co-led by Panoramic Ventures and Framework Venture Partners. Returning investors included Mucker Capital, Callais Capital, Cultivation Capital, Engage Ventures, Wilson’s series B capital raise marks the highest-ever for a solo SoftBank Group’s SB Opportunity Ms. Black female-founded tech company PHOTO: BusinessWire Fund, Kimble Ventures, The Jump Fund, and Fearless Fund. New invesment, fundraising, evaluation and tors include Goldman Sachs Asset learning, communications, technolManagement Fund, Chloe Capital, ogy, collaboration, or DE&I. Further, Gaingels, Mana Ventures, and others. capacity-building assistance “beyond the grant” [such as Resilia’s platform] “The innovation that Resilia is bringis a key pathway for funders seeking ing to nonprofits maximizes the to support equity and justice efforts, impact organizations have on comaccording to the National Committee munities and is a true game-changer,” for Responsive Philanthropy. said Paul Judge, Managing Partner at Panoramic Ventures. “We are excited Added Ajay Gopal, Partner at Frameto be on this journey of enormous work Venture Partners: “The nonprofit scale with Sevetri and team.” sector has been historically underserved by technological innovations, The latest funding will be used to scale Resilia’s technology platform and but Resilia has created necessary, scalexpand access to the sector by bringable solutions to empower organizaing more North American organizations to increase capacity, execute on tions into its ecosystem—and comes at their own missions and propel teams a time when 86% of U.S. grantmakers to do more of what they do best.” provide capacity-building support Learn more at https://www.resilia. to nonprofits through investments in areas such as leadership developcom.

An Unhappy Workforce Can Cost You Money Amid the Great Resignation and the pandemic-era phenomenon of employees leaving their jobs, new research studying employees in the United States is shedding light on how employers can retain their staff and keep them happy.

“Unleashing the Human Element at Work: Transforming Workplaces Through Recognition,” a new research report by Gallup and Workhuman, reveals that only about one-third of employees say their employer has a formal recognition program, and 81 percent of senior leaders say recognition is not a major strategic priority for their organization.

Industry experts define a culture of recognition at its most basic level as one in which gratitude, praise and appreciation are freely given and regularly received in an authentic and equitable way throughout the organization. The data suggests that not embracing this ethos is a missed opportunity.

Indeed, Gallup’s analysis of the study data shows that an organization of 10,000 people with an already engaged workforce can save up to $16.1 million in turnover annually when they make recognition an important part of their culture. What’s more, employees who feel recognized are more likely to be engaged and feel loyal to their organization.

“The data clearly shows that when recognition is genuinely embedded in workplace culture, people feel its full impact.

They feel seen, valued and motivated to put in a little extra effort,” said MeishaAnn Martin, senior director of People Analytics and Research at Workhuman.

Employee recognition doesn’t just have an impact on work performance though, it also has an insulating effect that can

help shield employees from burnout and support their overall well-being. More than 70% of employees who have good recognition experiences at work rate their lives more positively overall and are more likely to be “thriving” in their everyday lives compared to those who are not being fully recognized.

But Martin advises companies to consider how they go about recognizing their employees. The study found that more than half of employees who say the recognition they receive at work is not authentic or equitable are actively looking or watching for new employment opportunities.

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Further, 2 in 5 employees say they are not receiving enough recognition from leaders at their organization, only a few times a year at most, when the bare minimum for positive impact is at least a few times a month.

Recognition of employees is not only useful for retention, it can assist with recruitment too, say analysts.

“In today’s competitive talent marketplace, the power of employee referrals cannot be understated. Yet, only 28% of employees in this study strongly agree they would recommend their organization as a great place to work.

Organizations that acknowledge employees through strong cultures of recognition can boost this figure to 68%,” said Ed 0% Boyle, Gallup’s global practice leader.

“When organizations celebrate employees’ successes and contributions, those employees pay it forward and become brand ambassadors.”

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Fictitious business name(s): RLT Notary and Financial Services Located at: 2657 W. Canyon Ave. #576 San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Robyn L. Taylor 2657 W. Canyon Ave. #576 San Diego, CA 92123 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 11, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 11, 2027 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023159 Fictitious business name(s): I Want Located at: 217 Meadow Brook Dr. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego --P.O. Box 741027 San Diego, CA 92174 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Evelyn Indira Dailey P.O. Box 741027 San Diego, CA 92174 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 19, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 19, 2027 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022877 Fictitious business name(s): Ready Rooter & Plumbing Located at: 692 Hillsview Rd. El Cajon, CA 92020 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/14/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Gilbert Palacios 692 Hillsview Rd. El Cajon, CA 92020 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 14, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 14, 2027 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022993 Fictitious business name(s): Home Learning Edu Located at: 5775 Red River Dr. San Diego, CA 92120 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 10/10/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Advanced Marketing Solutions, LLC 5775 Red River Dr. San Diego, CA 92120 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 17, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 17, 2027 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022853 Fictitious business name(s): Emma's Beauty Salon Located at: 5839 Market St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by:

An Individual The first day of business was: 10/14/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Maria Patricia Hernandez Nava 910 S. 41 St. San Diego, CA 92113 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 14, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 14, 2027 10/27, 11/03, 11/10, 11/17 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023038 Fictitious business name(s): Twinkle Nails & SPA Located at: 3223 Adams Ave. San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A General Partnership Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Vy D Phuong 3869 58th St. San Diego, CA 92115 --Kelly Ta 3412 Streamview Place San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 18, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 18, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023050 Fictitious business name(s): Ariginal One, LLC --Millennium Hippie --Tha Dread Headz --Walk With Me Impact --Walk With Me Impact Curriculum --Walk With Me Documentary --WWM Impact Located at: 3960 W. Point Loma Blvd.

Ste. H1009 San Diego, CA 92110 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 01/01/2021 This business is hereby registered by the following: Ariginal One, LLC 3960 W. Point Loma Blvd.

Ste. H1009 San Diego, CA 92110 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 18, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 18, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022314 Fictitious business name(s): OT With Lisa V Located at: 9528 Miramar Rd. #1014 San Diego, CA 92126 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 08/29/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Lisa Phuong-Linh Vu 9939 Azuaga St. Unit H205 San Diego, CA 92129 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 07, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9021643 Fictitious business name(s): MD Consulting Services Located at:

8743 Esplanade Park Ln. San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 09/29/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Myrna Durazo 8743 Esplanade Park Ln. San Diego, CA 92123 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 29, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on September 29, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9021639 Fictitious business name(s): HC Consulting Services Located at: 8743 Esplanade Park Ln. San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 09/29/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Homero Carrillo 8743 Esplanade Park Ln. San Diego, CA 92123 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 29, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on September 29, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022091 Fictitious business name(s): Queen Kreyol Located at: 325 W. Washington St. Ste. 2259 San Diego, CA 92103 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 09/28/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Whitney Nicole Hall 1502 Attu Ave. Unit A Coronado, CA 92118 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 05, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 05, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022799 Fictitious business name(s): Khanya Crafts & Creations Located at: 1730 Euclid Ave. #1002 San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Khanya Crafts & Creations 1730 Euclid Ave. #1002 San Diego, CA 92102 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 13, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 13, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9021446 Fictitious business name(s): I DENT TEETH CAL INC --A1 DENTAL LAB Located at: 6314 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 08/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: I DENT TEETH CAL INC 6314 University Ave.

San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 27, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on September 27, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022561 Fictitious business name(s): Iconic Beauty Station Located at: 1640 Camino del Rio N. Ste. 155 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego --212 Pardee St. San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/11/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Brandy D. McGowan 212 Pardee St. San Diego, CA 92102 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 11, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 11, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022733 Fictitious business name(s): DeAndra'Nicole Hair Studio Located at: 1640 Camino del Rio N. Ste. 135 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego --8252 Station Village Ln. Apt. 2304 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/13/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: DeAndra Nicole Eddington 8252 Station Village Ln. Apt. 2304 San Diego, CA 92108 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 13, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 13, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022362 Fictitious business name(s): Carmich Comercial Cleaning Located at: 7710 Hazard Center Dr. #E526 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 10/07/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Macapero Corp.

7710 Hazard Center Dr. #E526 San Diego, CA 92108 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 07, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022612 Fictitious business name(s): Coach Raynette --Finding Life's Purpose with Raynette --Walking the floor with Raynette --I Love, Love with Raynette --Life Coaching with Raynette Located at: 9233 Kenwood Dr. #28

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Sealed bids will be received at the Department of Purchasing and Contracting, at 5560 Overland Avenue, Ste. 270, San Diego, 92123, until 2:00 PM on December 1, 2022, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. Contract documents including Plans, Specifications and Bid Forms are available for download on the County Buynet site: https://buynet.sdcounty.ca.go v. You must be registered at the site in order to download documents. The Contractor shall possess, at the time the contract is awarded through Contract acceptance, a California Contractor's license, Classification A, General Engineering. The cost of construction is estimated from $300,000 to $315,000. Bid security of no less than 10% required at time of bid. Successful bidder shall provide Payment and Performance Bonds for 100% of the contract amount.

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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE): The DBE contract goal for this project is 16%. For complete bid information, go to County of San Diego Purchasing and Contracting website at https://buynet.sdcounty.ca.go v. For questions, please contact Jose Sandoval, Senior Procurement Contracting Officer at Jose.Sandoval@sdcounty.ca. gov.

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San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/28/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Adrian Gerardo Caballero Barajas 6063 Hughes St. San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 28, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 28, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9024028 Fictitious business name(s): BACKOFFICEDESIGNS.COM Located at: 2822 Chatsworth Way Carlsbad, CA 92010 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 04/19/2017 This business is hereby registered by the following: William C. Kellaway 2822 Chatsworth Way Carlsbad, CA 92010 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 31, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 31, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023815 Fictitious business name(s): Flower and Fray Located at: 6212 Valner Way San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 10/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Hello Pink Monday, LLC 6212 Valner Way San Diego, CA 92139 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 28, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 28, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023910 Fictitious business name(s): Lemon Grove Childcare --Citronica Childcare Center Located at: 3468 Citrus St. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 02/23/2018

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Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/12/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Raynette Chanel Jordan 9233 Kenwood Dr. #28 Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 12, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 12, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9021863 Fictitious business name(s): SushYi Located at: 2700 Boston Ave. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: SushYi LLC 5208 Wightman St. #7 San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 03, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 03, 2027 10/20, 10/27, 11/03, 11/10 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022316 Fictitious business name(s): Get Your Life Together Located at: 7541 Skyline Dr. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual First day of business was: 10/06/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Malanda Lewis 7541 Skyline Dr. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 07, 2027 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/03 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9020541 Fictitious business name(s): Kiana Landscape Located at: 2285 El Prado Ave. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first business day was: 09/14/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Sigifredo Lopez 2285 El Prado Ave. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 14, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on September 14, 2027 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/03 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022363 Fictitious business name(s): Upper Room Ministry Located at: 5009 Cervantes Ave. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Jeffrey Roy Gary 5009 Cervantes Ave. San Diego, CA 92113 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 07, 2027 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/03 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9021864 Fictitious business name(s): Dignity With Serenity LLC Located at: 647 Stork St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above

This business is hereby registered by the following: Dignity With Serenity LLC 647 Stork St. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 03, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 03, 2027 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/03

DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date.

NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse 37-2022-00042755-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Thao Ngoc Thoung Nguyen To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Thao Ngoc Thoung Nguyen filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Thao Ngoc Thoung Nguyen PROPOSED NAME: Mia Jane Nguyen THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 12, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

To change a name on a legal document, including a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, and other identification, a certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issues the legal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified copy is required.

A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee.

Petitioners who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program may contact the assigned department for information on obtaining certified copies.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/27

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BLACK HISTORY 1843 CARLOTTA LUCUMI HELPS LEAD CUBAN SLAVE REVOLT

Carlota Lucumi, a kidnapped African woman, is known as one of the leaders of the slave rebellion at the Triunvirato plantation in Mantanzas, Cuba.

In 1843 Lucumi and another enslaved woman, Firmina, began to plot a rebellion among the slaves. Their plan called for a simultaneous uprising on Triumvirato and surrounding plantations.

SMALL CLAIMS LEGAL NOTICE State of Wisconsin Circuit Court Manitowoc County Published Notice: Case No: 22-SC-854 Defendant: Jennifer M. Sensenbrenner 11718 Carmel Creek Rd. #101 San Diego, CA 92130 You are being sued by Fox Hills Owners Association in small claims court.

A hearing will be held at the Manitowoc County Courthouse, 1010 South 8th Street, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Room B-15, on November 22, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. or thereafter.

If you do not appear, a judgment may be given to the person suing you. A copy of the claim has been mailed to you at the address above.

Attorney John F. Mayer MGW LAW LLP 1425 Memorial Drive, Suite B Manitowoc, WI 54220 Attorney for Plaintiff Phone: (920) 683-5800 State Bar I.D. No. 1017384 11/03, 11/10, 11/17

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On November 3, 1843, Lucumi, along with other tribal leaders, led a raid that initiated what would be known as the Triumvirato Rebellion. Wielding a machete, she first freed slaves being held in captivity in a house on the property.

Lucumi and her followers then went to the Acane plantation, killing as many whites as they could find. In their brief two-day rebellion, they destroyed five sugar plantations, as well as a number of coffee and cattle estates.

The day the last plantation was destroyed, Lucumi and Firmina were both captured and executed.

The following year, 1844, became known as the “Year of the Lashes” in Cuba as slaveholders brutalized virtually all enslaved people on the island to punish both those who participated in the uprising and intimidate those who did not. There is now a monument to the legacy of Carlota Lucumi at the Triumvirato sugar mill.

1868 JOHN WILLIS MENARD IS THE FIRST BLACK MAN ELECTED TO CONGRESS

John Willis Menard, (1838-1893) was the first African American elected to Congress when on November 3, 1868, he received the majority of votes to fill the unexpired term of Louisiana Second District Congressman James Mann. On the strength of the vote, Menard went to Washington to be seated.

However, his opponent Caleb Hunt challenged the election. The Committee on Elections of the U.S. House of Representatives refused to seat either candidate.

18 2004 MARGARET PETERS OF THE PETE SISTERS TENNIS DUO DIES

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Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were African American tennis stars from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. Margaret, the older sister, was born in 1915, while Matilda was born in 1917. They were nicknamed “Pete” and “Repeat” for their doubles playing skills and last name.

ARTICLE CONTINUATION PROP 30: Continued from page 5

Prop 30’s tagline promotes the idea that Californians deserve clean air, which is absolutely true. However, corporations are notorious for using deceptive marketing to portray a product or organization as environmentally friendly, otherwise known as “greenwashing”, to take advantage of people who understand the urgency of the climate circumstances. They know vulnerable people will back any measure that they think will ensure a future for their children, and corporations use that for profit.

An Environmental Protection Agency social vulnerability report done in 2021 states, “​​Looking across the results for the four socially vulnerable groups analyzed [Low-income, Minority, No High School Diploma, 65 and Older], minorities are found to be most disproportionately at risk, relative to their reference populations.” (United States EPA, 76) This prop doesn’t truly intend to address those constituencies who deserve an adequate education and accessibility to environmental opportunity, or to help the people who need it the most.

Opponents of Proposition 30 believe the ideal answer to the environmental crisis does not come at the cost of valuable social services. They insist that policymakers need to find a way to fight climate change and address the communities that are greatly affected by it in a complete, uncompromising way.

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“All students deserve a fair shot at going to college, regardless of their income, where they grew up, or their racial and ethnic background,” said Michaele Turnage-Young, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Senior Counsel.

She said minority students, often poorer than their white counterparts, have less of an opportunity to amass the credentials that colleges consider in admissions. They are three to six times more likely than white students to attend a high poverty school.

“And many attend majority minority schools, which generally have, like high poverty schools, less experienced teachers, less advanced courses, inadequate facilities, less extracurricular activities, less arts instruction, less recess, and fewer classroom resources.”

College admissions officials try to balance out those things by looking at which minority students show the best potential even if their test scores aren’t the highest.

The plaintiffs in the case say admissions criteria should be color-blind.

“Our clients, in particular, are concerned that erasing race from the admissions process will make it impossible for applicants of color to present their authentic selves in their college application,” Turnage-Young said.

While still in high school, the Peters sisters attracted the attention of a tennis coach from Tuskegee Institute, Cleve Abbott, who offered each of them a four-year scholarship. Margaret, feeling uneasy about traveling so far away from home, deferred for a year until Matilda graduated from high school.

While in college, they played in the American Tennis Association tournaments, an African American tennis league that still exists today. They both graduated from Tuskegee in 1941 with degrees in physical education.

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Despite their skill, they were never permitted to test themselves against the great white doubles players of the time. By the time the walls of segregation in tennis started falling, the Peters sisters were past their prime and were never able to compete in racially integrated matches.

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Margaret died in Washington on November 3, 2004, and on May 16, 2003, Matilda died from pneumonia.

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ICMYI: MYTHBUSTERS Learn the Facts About COVID-19 Vaccines FACT

The ingredients in COVID-19 vaccines are NOT dangerous. Nearly all the ingredients in COVID-19 vaccines are also ingredients in many foods — fats, sugars, and salts. COVID-19 vaccines do NOT contain ingredients like preservatives, tissues (like aborted fetal cells), antibiotics, food proteins, medicines, latex, or metals.

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The natural immunity you get from being sick with COVID-19 is NOT better than the immunity you get from COVID-19 vaccination. COVID19 vaccination is a safer and more dependable way to build immunity to COVID-19.

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine gives most people a high level of protection against COVID-19 and can provide added protection for people who already had COVID-19.

Getting sick with COVID-19 can offer some protection from future illness (“natural immunity”) but the level of protection varies depending on age, time of infection, and severity of illness. If you get sick, you can spread COVID-19 to others. Getting sick with COVID-19 can cause severe illness or death, and we can’t reliably predict who will have mild or severe illness. You can also continue to have long-term health issues after COVID-19 infection.

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COVID-19 UPDATES COUNTY COVID-19

VACCINATION STATUS BY RACE/ETHNICITY

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

COVID-19 STATUS

San Diego County Residents Ages 6 Months and Older Who Completed a Primary Vaccine Series Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander 82.3% Black/ African American 50.5%

American Indian/ Alaska Native 38.8%

TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES

929,549

REPORTED TESTS

12,630,978

Hispanic/ Latino 67.9%

Asian 71.1%

HOSPITALIZED

35,476

White 70.9%

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SOURCE: County of San Diego.

Last updated 10/27/2022

2,334 SOURCE: County of San Diego as of 10/27/22

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY PUBLIC HEAL TH SERVICES

LIMITED ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER (Effective June 15, 2021)

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COVID-19 vaccines DON’T create or cause COVID-19 variants. COVID19 vaccines can help prevent new variants from emerging. New variants of the virus happen because it constantly changes through a natural ongoing process of mutation (change). As the virus spreads, it has more opportunities to change. High vaccination coverage in a population reduces the spread of the virus and helps prevent new variants from emerging.

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mRNA vaccines, such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna ARE REAL vaccines. They work differently than other types of vaccines, but they still trigger an immune response inside your body. This type of vaccine is new, but research and development on it has been underway for decades.

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COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT contain microchips. Vaccines are developed to fight against disease and are not administered to track your movement.

Illustrations courtesy CDC

Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine will NOT make you magnetic, including at the site of vaccination (usually your arm). COVID-19 vaccines do not contain ingredients that can produce an electromagnetic field at the site of your injection. All COVID-19 vaccines are free from metals.

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U.S. COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT shed or release their components. Vaccine shedding is the release or discharge of any of the vaccine components in or outside of the body and can only occur when a vaccine contains a live weakened version of the virus. None of the vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. contain a live virus.

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COVID-19 vaccines DO NOT change or interact with your DNA in any way. Both messenger RNA (mRNA) and viral vector COVID-19 vaccines work by delivering instructions (genetic material) to our cells to start building protection against the virus that causes COVID-19. The genetic material delivered by mRNA vaccines never enters the nucleus of your cells, which is where your DNA is kept. Viral vector COVID-19 vaccines deliver genetic material to the cell nucleus to allow our cells to build protection against COVID-19. However, the vector virus does not have the machinery needed to integrate its genetic material into our DNA, so it cannot alter our DNA.

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A C OV I D - 1 9 v a c c i ne CANNOT make you sick with COVID-19. Because none of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines in the United States contain the live virus that causes COVID-19, the vaccine cannot make you sick with COVID-19.

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COVID-19 vaccines will NOT affect fertility. Currently no evidence shows that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems (problems trying to get pregnant) in women or men.

Learn more about how COVID-19 vaccines work.Visit www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/vaccines. Source: Centers for Disease Control

On June 15, 2021, the Blueprint for a Safer Economy will be rescinded. Persons and entities may still be subject to Cal OSHA and California Department of Public Health guidelines and standards with limited public health restrictions, including face coverings, school based guidance, and guidance for mega events. The California Public Health Officer has issued an order to be effective June 15, 2021, and available here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/ CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Order-ofthe-State-Public-Health-Officer-BeyondBlueprint.aspx. The California Public Health Officer has also issued updated face covering guidance effective June 15, 2021, and available here: https://www. cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/ COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings. aspx#June15guidance.

In San Diego County, persons who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or who are likely to have COVID-19, will be subject to the Order of the Health Officer titled: “Isolation of All Persons with or Likely to have COVID-19,” or as subsequently amended. Persons who have a close contact with a person who either has COVID19, or is likely to have COVID-19, will be subject to the Order of the Health Officer titled: “Quarantine of Persons Exposed to COVID-19,” or as subsequently amended.

Both orders are available at: https://www. sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/ programs/phs/community_epidemiology/ dc/2019-nCoV/health-order.html.

Subsequent Health Officer Orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic may be issued in San Diego County as conditions warrant.

Pursuant to California Health and Safety Code sections 101040, 120175, and 120175.5 (b), the Health Officer of the County of San Diego (Health Officer) ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: 1. Effective June 15, 2021, the Order of the Health Officer and Emergency Regulations,

dated May 6, 2021, and any other Health Officer orders related to COVID-19 shall expire, with the exception of the following: a.“Isolation of All Persons with or Likely to have COVID-19,” dated December 24, 2020. b.“Quarantine of Persons Exposed to COVID-19,” dated April 5, 2021. c. Any quarantine or isolation order issued to an individual that is currently in effect.

2. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 120175.5 (b), all governmental entities in the county shall continue to take necessary measures within the governmental entity’s control to ensure compliance with State and local laws, regulations, and orders related to the control of COVID-19.

IT IS SO ORDERED: Date: June 14, 2021 WILMA J. WOOTEN, M.D., M.P.H. Public Health Officer County of San Diego ___________________________________ EXPIRATION OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS As Director of Emergency Services for the County of San Diego, I am authorized to promulgate regulations for the protection of life and property pursuant to Government Code Section 8634 and San Diego County Code section 31.103. The Health Officer Order and Emergency Regulations, dated May 6, 2021, shall expire as a regulation for the protection of life and property, on June 15, 2021.

Date: June 14, 2021 HELEN ROBBINS-MEYER Chief Administrative Officer Director of Emergency Services County of San Diego

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