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Clicking with the audience: The Ventura Music Festival stays on track with Music Connects

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FEATURE

“Grasping at straws”: Dr. Stanley Frochtzwajg on what we do and don’t know about the coronavirus

by Kimberly Rivers

ART + CULTURE

For your listening pleasure: Local podcasts for news, entertainment and inspiration

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In Brief Wildfire fuel clearance deadline: June 1, 2020

Over 18,500 property owners have been sent Fire Hazard Reduction Program (FHRP) notices reminding them of the requirement to remove brush and other fire fuel to create a 100-foot defensible space between structures and open space where wildfires are a threat. For additional information on the Fire Hazard Reduction Program, call 805-389-9759 or email fhrp@ventura.org.

Free wildfire prevention in Ojai Valley The nonprofit organization Concerned Resource and Environmental Workers (CREW) is providing various services to assist in wildfire prevention in the Ojai Valley. Services offered include free brush clearance for low income and disabled seniors and veterans and free chipping services for all property owners.

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On May 30 and July 11, homeowners can drop off material to be chipped or request “curbside chipping” from the CREW. Registration is required for curbside services. www.thecrew.org/firesafety.

Tree planting honors veterans On April 23, in celebration of Arbor Day, the city of Ventura planted 10 Brisbane box trees at the Veterans Home of California on Telephone Road. Plaques were placed at the trees honoring those who served in each branch of the military and memorial plaques will be placed dedicated to veterans of WWII and the Vietnam War.

Ventura to consider reducing water shortage declaration On April 16, the Water Commission for the city of Ventura voted to recommend that the city lower the level of water short-

Coast Guard veteran Richard Brace, 73, at the Arbor Day tree planting on April 23. (Photo submitted.)

age to stage 2 due to receiving nearly 13 inches of rain so far this season.

Lake Casitas is still below 50 percent capacity, at 44.8 percent.

The Ventura City County will review this recommendation at their May 4 meeting and determine whether or not to alter the current stage of water shortage.

Man charged in Simi stabbing death The Ventura County District

Attorney’s office has filed murder charges against Rudolph Neidhardt of Simi Valley (DOB 3/5/86) for the fatal stabbing of Michael Majewski, which took place on April 18 in Simi Valley.

Neidhardt is in custody at the Ventura County jail on $530,000 bail and his arraignment is scheduled for May 29 at 1:30 p.m. at Ventura County Superior Court in courtroom 13.

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n Tuesday, May 12, in what will be the first Ventura County election during the pandemic, voters in the U.S. Congressional 25th District will determine who will serve out the remainder of Rep. Katie Hill’s term. The seat was made vacant when Hill resigned last year following a scandal that disappointed many local voters, as her election had flipped the Republican seat for the Democratic party.

Due to the pandemic, the election is being conducted entirely by mail and may be a test run of an all vote-by-mail election well before the Nov. 2 presidential election. Ballots were mailed out April 13 to all registered voters in the eastern areas of Ventura County included in the district. Voters did not need to request a vote-by-mail ballot. (Those who did not receive a ballot can contact the Ventura County Elections Division. 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday-Friday, at 805-654- 2664.) Ballots must be signed and returned no later than May 12.

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Christy Smith (Dem-38). The same two candidates will be on the Nov. 2 ballot for the next full congressional term.

Garcia is a businessman and veteran Naval Aviator, having served multiple tours in Iraq.

His endorsements include President Donald Trump, Simi Valley Mayor Keith Mashburn, former Ventura County District Attorney Michael Bradbury, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub and the Ventura County Republican

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“Food security is right here” Sea-to-table sales keep fishing business afloat

by Kimberly Rivers

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“Grasping at straws”

CMH’s Dr. Stanley Frochtzwajg discusses testing, treatment and what we do and don’t know about the coronavirus

by Kimberly Rivers

COVID-19, and the implications for public policy.

n Tuesday, April 20, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors received an update from Barry Zimmerman, chief of the Ventura County Health Care Agency, on the county’s coronavirus testing capacity and goals.

“Capacity and implementation are different things,” said Zimmerman. He said the county is moving toward its goal of having the capability, across all hospitals, facilities and private labs, to increase capacity to perform 2,400 tests each week, up from the current average of about 1,600 a week, according to Zimmerman.

The test he is referring to is called a PCR or polymerase chain reaction test, which allows the lab to replicate DNA found in a small sample, taken most commonly by nasal swab, in order to have enough DNA to test for the virus.

It’s an important test that “allows us to know if you have active virus.

But there are a lot of false negative and false positive tests,” said Dr. Stanley Frochtzwajg, chief medical officer at Community Memorial Health Care System in Ventura.

Frochtzwajg spoke at length with the VCReporter on April 20 about what the science currently tells us about the novel coronavirus and

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“We don’t really know what the testing [result] means.” He said one patient tested multiple times for coronavirus had results that came back positive, then negative.

The lack of consistency makes it “difficult to know how valid the testing is,” making testing less useful overall.

Zimmerman also told the supervisors that the county is working to obtain antibody tests, which would be part of efforts to once again allow elective surgeries, currently cancelled due to the coronavirus.

“Everybody wants the antibody test. The prevailing feeling is that once we can tell who was exposed and now has antibodies, that theoretically will confer an immunity,” said Frochtzwajg, but he added, “I have concerns that we are starting to talk about opening things up . . . allowing elective surgery. We don’t know enough to make an optimal decision.”

“We don’t really know what the antibody test indicates,” he explained. “Does it mean that they cannot truly infect others? Are they truly immune? How long are they immune? Do they shed the virus?

That’s what is so frustrating . . . We

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have these great hopes. But it’s more hopeful than knowledge.”

The presence of antibodies in a person’s blood generally means that person cannot be re-infected with the virus, and that they won’t infect anyone else. But from the start, this novel virus has revealed that it is unique and what we don’t know about it still far exceeds what we do know.

“This is a first time for us. We’ve never experienced this and don’t really understand it. It’s important to understand a virus is not necessarily a virus.”

Frochtzwajg meant that while we call this a virus and prescribe certain attributes to it, that does not mean that it actually behaves like any other virus humans have experienced. He referred to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and how that virus behaved unlike any other virus known at the time. “It was an entity unto itself, a virus that acted very differently.” The coronavirus is unique in that way, too.

In Frochtzwajg’s view, “the antibody testing is really problematic . . . there is evidence that people who have antibodies seem to shed the virus.” Meaning they can still infect other people.

“The problem with the antibodies [of this particular virus] is that we don’t know if they actually prevent reinfection. We don’t know if the antibodies are functional [in giving immunity] for weeks, months or years.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated on April 15 that “there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody-mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an “immunity passport” or “risk-free certificate.” As communities around the world (including Ventura County) decide how to open up, being able to know who has had the virus and who is immune will be key.

Frochtzwajg emphasized another consideration is the way age impacts immunity conveyed by antibodies.

Antibodies in an “elderly person [may] not carry the same value as one who is younger would get from those antibodies.”

Treatments and prevention “I don’t know that we [the medical community] have been fully transparent and honest in describing the limitations” of the treatments available, pondered Frochtzwajg.

“In reference to medications — like hydroxychloroquine and the use of steroids, the use of a vaccine, everything is completely unproven and untested,” he said.

“You hear so much information and so much talk. People are trying to get these medications and take them. People are grasping onto straws, that is a problem.”

Last week, Ventura County Public Health touted the use of convalescent plasma as a positive step for-

ward to meeting one of the six points Gov. Gavin Newsom listed as necessary for reopening up communities.

The county has a system set up for those who have recovered from the virus and COVID-19 to register to become plasma donors.

Frochtzwajg called this a “relatively unproven process as well.

Unfortunately, the one individual [in the county] who was treated [with plasma] last week passed away.” He says the drive to use unproven treatments “is problematic, but it’s common for people to grasp at straws when they are drowning.”

For the most seriously ill patients with COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, ventilators are a treatment of last resort.

“Anytime you put a tube in a person’s throat, into their lungs and take over their breathing [you create] a conduit going both ways, air and infection going in, pressure going in,” Frochtzwajg explained, saying that risks include popped or collapsed lungs. “It is unusual to use ventilators except in very demanding and reasonable ways. There is not a desire to intubate and ventilate a patient.” A patient on a ventilator makes more work for hospital staff, and “it’s more dangerous…ventilators are used as a last resort.”

Now the treatment protocol has shifted and hospitals are finding that they “might be able to prevent” the need to ventilate “by placing patients in a prone position,” laying them on their bellies instead of their

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backs. He said they are seeing this help patients at CMH. As far as a vaccine goes, Frochtzwajg said that it “is well in the future.

There are currently 60 viral mutants we are able to identify of the initial virus. A vaccine may work against one, but not necessarily against all of them.”

It is estimated that a vaccine won’t be ready, at the very earliest, until 2021. Thus, some researchers are looking at other options.

The VCReporter previously reported on a local lab, ProgenaBiome, which submitted clinical trial applications earlier this month. (1) Two of those trials are underway.

One will examine the gut biome of 250 people who have tested positive for the disease to determine if differences in the digestive system may hold a key to preventing infection; it is currently recruiting participants.

A second trial will study whether hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin C, Vitamin D and zinc (used individually) have any ability to prevent or treat the symptoms of COVID-19.

Immune response and the cytokine storm Cytokines are proteins created by various systems in the body, including the immune system, to help direct the body’s response to foreign bodies. Cytokines play a major role in inflammation, for example. They also appear to be involved in the most deadly COVID-19 infections.

Frochtzwajg joined the voices of doctors around the globe pointing to a “cytokine storm” occurring in the bodies of people battling COVID-19. “The people we lose with COVID-19 . . . it is not the infection that causes them to die.

Most of these people die because their own body’s immune system attacks them . . . Some people have an accentuated cytokine release

and reaction that can cause them to be overwhelmed.”

“When we get allergies, our body’s immune system senses the foreign pollens and attempts to protect us,” Frochtzwajg explained.

“But our bodies get confused and some have bad reactions . . . an accentuated cytokine immune reaction, instead of helping us, it harms us.”

Examples of overactive immune reactions include hay fever, hives and Guillain-Barré syndrome, which generally occurs after an infection and causes the immune system to attack the body’s nervous system. In severe cases, this can lead to paralysis and death.

Frochtzwajg pointed toward other factors — stress, tobacco and alcohol use, obesity — that affect the strength of our immune system and its ability to protect us from illness.

He admitted that there is also “the genetic component . . . Immune responses vary based on genetic profile,” and that the medical community generally “doesn’t have a good handle” on how genetics and factors such as stress synergize together to impact how our immune system behaves, and what leads to an overreaction.

“There is so much we don’t know, very little that we do know.”

Questions about mortality rate “If you look at the people who have passed away with the virus, most are elderly and those who are not elderly have comorbidity conditions . . . that predispose them to dying from this virus,” noted Frochtzwajg.

He said we haven’t tested enough people overall to know the true mortality rate of the virus. At this point, many are likely to have or have had the virus and not know

it. Those people are not part of the equation yet.

“Upwards of 50 percent don’t get symptoms, and are not tested.”

Initially the thinking was that the coronavirus was 10 times as lethal as the common flu. “Well, maybe that is wrong. It might be the exact same lethality as the common flu.”

A gradual drop in oxygen levels appears to be another aspect of the illness.

“COVID-19 patients seem less mentally affected by the drop in oxygen. We see something similar in emphysema patients,” Frochtzwajg said.

Medical workers have described a phenomenon whereby a person seems fine, then suddenly requires oxygen — as if their body has been adapting, then a threshold is reached beyond which the body can cope.

“Follow the science” As the county grapples to determine a path forward, weighing public safety and economic concerns, it is paramount that we acknowledge all aspects of the coronavirus: what we know, what we don’t, the limits of our knowledge, the capabilities and inadequacies of the public health response. Despite the many questions that so far remain unanswered, Frochtzwajg is clear on one thing.

“It is so important to follow the science,” he emphasized.

Video recommended by Dr. Frochstzwajg about the virus and cytokine storm: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY&feature=youtu.be.

1. “Trying to save humanity: Dr. Sabine Hazan and ProgenBiome are working tirelessly to combat COVID-19,” Kimberly Rivers, VCReporter, March 25, 2020

Gratitude on high

Pilots send healthcare workers a message of thanks via synchronized flyover

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our aircraft took to the skies on the morning of Saturday, April 25, to send a very special message of thanks to the healthcare team at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard. Performing a synchronized flyover, the pilots — some of whom are military veterans — offered up a high-flying nod to the doctors, nurses and other medical staff seeing to the needs of patients amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is our way of thanking the care team at St. John’s and all health care workers for all that they are doing to care for the community,” said Michael Malaco, pilot and lead organizer of the flyover.

“We thought, what better way to show our appreciation than with an aerial tribute.”

Hospital employees came outside to witness the impressive display, taking photos and videos as the planes flew overhead.

“The community outpouring for our health care team has been incredible,” said Darren Lee, president and CEO of St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo. “We are grateful for our community’s continued show of appreciation and support.”

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For your listening pleasure

Local podcasts for news, entertainment and inspiration

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ith social isolation forcing local residents to remain in the safety of their homes, now is a better time than ever to listen to podcasts that feature captivating content. Several good ones are produced right here in Ventura County, providing a local’s glimpse at the world around us as well as a break from the TV. Consider some of these podcasts for your listening — possibly learning — pleasure.

[and] we are happy to be providing helpful content to those interested in getting healthy, being healthy and staying healthy.”

ers],” she added. “Take Kim’s show on the go . . . every day by starting your day in a positive way.”

Considering Some Things

The Townies Podcast®

www.consideringsomethings.com Hosted by Camarillo resident Mark Storer, Considering Some Things is a podcast born during the novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

“I used to be in radio and podcasting was always on my horizon, Stayhealthy® Experience but now seemed the ideal time,” thestayhealthyexperience.com said Storer.

The Stayhealthy® Experience A former English teacher with a hosted by Ventura resident Rob- background in freelance journalism, ert Ferguson features health pro- Storer knew this podcast was a “natfessionals and experts, celebrities ural extension” of what he enjoys. from sports and entertainment, “So, I fired up the laptop, bought a noted authors and ordinary people decent microphone and began to talk who have overcome extraordinary, to people and get their stories during health-related challenges. this strange time.”

“I’ve always believed that eduGuests on the show include cation is key when it comes to how Michael Pearce, an artist, journalist and art professor at California Lutheran University who talks about beauty in a time of fear, the importance of imagination and where art will take us during this strange time.

In another episode, Dr. Terry Paulson, a nationally renowned speaker and author Robert Ferguson of several books, we eat, think and move for better talks about building optimism from overall health and quality of life,” the ground up — and finding faith, said Ferguson, a nutrition expert and purpose and meaning through the best-selling author who is also known darkness. as “America’s Fat Loss Coach”.

“My goal is to talk to people who His podcast gives listeners an I refer to as the backbone of our opportunity to experience up-close, communities — those who create, personal and solution-based conver- adapt and look for ways to make sations about healthy living. life better whether through art, busiFor instance, recent episodes ness, service or just by their include Sergeant Jon Seeber of the contributions to their own Onondaga Sheriff’s Department, neighbors’ lives,” Storer New York, who shares insight into said. “These are conversathe growing problem and solution for tions about the challenges prisoners, law enforcement and com- we face and how to navimunities as it pertains to COVID-19. gate them.”

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Brown further emphasized: “Neighbors, we’ll be able to meet in person again soon; but in the meantime, here’s a piece of our Ventura County heart on our storytelling sleeve: The Townies Podcast®, Seasons 1 and 2.”

www.thetowniespodcast.org The Townies Podcast® A few more worth began in 2017 as a biweek- checking out . . . ly collection of live original stories and music, written Luminary Sounds and performed by friends, luminary-sounds.com Independent music podcast dedineighbors and strangers who live in Ventura Coun- cated to helping break undiscovered ty. Those featured on the talent into the mainstream through podcast have all developed music reviews, interviews and live their stories in Kim Max- shows, with the occasional local Kim Pagano well’s 10-week writing and news piece thrown in. performance class, which edge and inspiring guests. The show she has been teaching in Ventura Topa Talk www.topatalk.com is based on her belief that we are all County for 25 years.

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For instance, the season two finaThe Kim Pagano Show airs live le of The Townies was all about every Saturday morning from 7 a.m. resiliency — picking ourselves to 9 a.m. on KVTA.com, where it back up when we fall down — can also be heard online afterwards. featuring stories by Brown and Listeners can also tune into The Kim Cassandra C. Jones with music Pagano Show on Apple Podcasts.

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t is unfortunate, if inevitable, that music lovers will be unable to attend Tea and Trumpets, Cabaret, the Rising Stars concert or any of the other performances that make up the annual Ventura Music Festival. But in the spirit of the times, the shows will go on — and they will all be a simple mouse click away.

The Ventura Music Festival has brought the artists online as part of its Music Connects: A VMF Digital Festival. You won’t need to wait until July 23 (the date the festival was originally going to start): VMF is already rolling out content, and will continue to do so every Friday at 11 a.m. as musicians come on board.

“The future for performing and presenting arts organizations is very much in flux,” acknowledges VMF Executive Director Susan Scott. “Everyone has gotten into something that’s digital and online now.”

Music Connects got underway on April 17 with a music video of Anderson and Roe Piano Duo performing Antonio Vivaldi’s “I feel within a rain of tears.” Joy Roe also recorded a message for audiences, talking a little bit about why she and Greg Anderson selected that piece.

“It’s so related to what we try to do,” Scott says. “When the audience connects with the artist . . . How do you interject some of this into a digital series?”

To that end, VMF asked artists — some local, some not; past performers as well as those new to VMF in 2020 — to “do a short video about where they are in this pandemic,” and how that feeling relates to the music they selected for the performance. It’s an intimate glimpse of the creative process, and the mind of the musician, that gives texture and context to the music.

The second piece, released just last week, features Perla Batalla singing “Cucurrucucú Paloma” by Tomás Mendez, a moving song about a man suffering from a broken heart. Batalla recently lost a dear friend to COVID-19, and the performance was dedicated to him.

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I’m a gay man. I was in a relationship with my ex for about three years.

We’re on good terms and hang out as friends. He recently started dating a guy who looks like my long-lost twin (except he’s got about 40 pounds on me). Our mutual friends find this creepy and weird, and I have to say, I do, too.

— Disturbed When two people break up, there’s often the inevitable, “It’s not you...” but you don’t expect, “It’s not you; it’s you...with more of a thing for beer, fried foods, and cake.”

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others on identical twins separated at birth (sometimes by a hospital mix-up) and raised apart suggests that many of our behaviors and preferences are genetically driven. For example, Segal told me “most behaviors have a 50 percent genetic effect.” There’s an interplay between genes and environment that can shake things up a bit, but if Mommy likes hot food and dark-haired men, there’s a good chance her daughter (who shares approximately 50 percent of her DNA) will also be thumbs up for Sergio and Sriracha.

The power of genes in driving behavior and preferences is reflected in Oskar and Jack, separated-at-birth identical twins Segal studied. When they met as adults, they discovered they both wrapped tape around pens and pencils to get a better grip, read books from back to front, and flushed toilets before using them as well as afterward. Sure, these could be wild coincidences, but they’re most likely expressions of personality traits, which are substantially driven by genetics. For example, Segal explains in “Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins” that “both Jack and Oskar were sensitive to germs,” so their shared “penchant” for the

double flush “is understandable.”

We might not see situations like yours often simply because there’s a gap between the features and traits we’re most attracted to and those available to us in people around us.

Accordingly, it is possible that neither you nor the new guy entirely reflects your ex’s mate preferences, but your

some raging insecurities. How can I calm down so I won’t get so freaked out that I sabotage the relationship?

— Panicky It’s good to let your partner know you don’t take him for granted, though ideally not by waking up every morning all excited he’s (still) there: “Wow, can’t believe you didn’t sneak out, fake your death, and move to Belize!”

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus said something along the lines of, “It is not events that disturb us but the views we take of them.” In other words, it is not what happens to us that makes us feel bad but our interpretation of it. Chances are your interpretation is that it would be HORRIBLE if you were to get dumped again. Psychologist Albert Ellis calls this “catastrophizing”: engaging in irrational, overblown, drama llama thinking that only serves to make us more miserable. Rational thought, however, is the face-slap out of hysteria that we used to see in old movies.

An example of the rational approach: There are “HORRIBLE” things in the world, like being eaten alive by a family of bears. But let’s be honest:

Being dumped is merely a miserable experience you’d prefer to avoid. You will survive. ex missed you and came as close as he could to replacing you when choosing his next boyfriend. Apparently, he picked him up not at the bar but at Costco, where the products we know and love come in more generous packages: “Dumpster-sized,” “Grand Canyon-sized,” and “black hole-sized extra value pack.”

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I’m a 30-year-old woman in a new relationship with a really great guy. I haven’t been very lucky in romance, and in the past, every time I met someone I really liked, I ended up getting the rug pulled out from under me and getting dumped when I thought things were going great. This has left me with

Being dumped is merely a miserable experience you’d prefer to avoid. You will survive.

Research by psychologist Lauren C. Howe suggests a person’s interpretation of their breakup is key to their ability to recover from it. She finds that people who cast their breakup as a learning experience, viewing it as an opportunity for personal growth and better relationships in the future, are less chewed up by romantic rejection and less likely to suffer “lasting damage” in its wake. Sure, as Ellis says, we all “prefer” to avoid breakups and other painful experiences. Unfortunately, “experience is the best teacher” does not include the experience of being clonked over the head by a chunk of wisdom that falls out of a passing plane along with a child’s car seat and a gift-wrapped blender. (c)2020, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@ aol.com. @amyalkon on Twitter. Weekly podcast: blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon Order Amy Alkon’s new book, “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence,” (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018).

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES

(March 21-April 19):

I always hesitate to advise Aries people to slow down, be more deliberate, and pay closer attention to boring details. The Rams to whom I provide such counsel may be rebelliously annoyed with me — so much so that they move even faster, and with less attention to the details. Nevertheless, I’ll risk offering you this advisory right now. Here’s my reasoning, which I hope will make the prospect more appealing: If you commit to a phase in which you temporarily invoke more prudence, discretion, and watchfulness than usual, it will ultimately reward you with a specific opportunity to make rapid progress.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20):

Is there an area of your life where you would like a do-over? A chance to cancel the past and erase lingering messiness and clear a path for who-knows-what new possibility?

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to prepare — not to actually take the leap, but rather make yourself ready for the leap.

You will have God and fate and warm fuzzy vibes on your side as you dare to dream and scheme about a fresh start. Any mistakes you committed once upon a time could become irrelevant as you fantasize practically about a future breakthrough.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20):

In 1855, Gemini-born Walt Whitman published his book of poetry Leaves of Grass. A literary critic named Rufus Wilmot Griswold did not approve. In a review, he derided the work that would eventually be regarded as one of America’s literary masterpieces. “It is impossible to imagine how any man’s fancy could have conceived such a mass of stupid filth,” Griswold wrote, adding that Whitman had a “degrading, beastly sensuality” driven

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by “the vilest imaginings.” Whitman’s crafty Gemini intelligence responded ingeniously to the criticism. In the next edition of Leaves of Grass, the author printed Griswold’s full review. It helped sell even more books! I invite you to consider comparable twists and tricks.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22):

In your efforts to develop a vibrant community and foster a vital network of connections, you have an advantage. Your emotionally rich, nurturing spirit instills trust in people.

They’re drawn to you because they sense you will treat them with care and sensitivity. On the other hand, these fine attributes of yours may sometimes cause problems.

Extra-needy, manipulative folks may interpret your softness as weakness. They might try to exploit your kindness to take advantage of you. So the challenge for you is to be your generous, welcoming self without allowing anyone to violate your boundaries or rip you off. Everything I just said will be helpful to meditate on in the coming weeks, as you reinvent yourself for the future time when the coronavirus crisis will have lost much of its power to disrupt our lives.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22):

Now is an excellent time to take inventory of your integrity. You’re likely to get crucial insights if you evaluate the state of your ethics, your authenticity, and your compassion.

Is it time to boost your commitment to a noble cause that transcends your narrow self-interest? Are there ways you’ve been less than fully fair and honest in your dealings with people? Is it possible you have sometimes failed to give your best? I’m not saying that you are guilty of any of those sins. But most of us are indeed guilty of them, at least now and

then. And if you are, Leo, now is your special time to check in with yourself—and make any necessary adjustments and corrections.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

I predict that you will have more flying dreams than usual in the coming weeks — as well as more dreams in which you’re traveling around the world in the company of rebel angels and dreams in which you’re leading revolutionary uprisings of oppressed people against tyrannical overlords and dreams of enjoying eight-course gourmet feasts with sexy geniuses in the year 2022. You may also, even while not asleep, well up with outlandish fantasies and exotic desires. I don’t regard any of these likelihoods as problematical. In fact, I applaud them and encourage them. They’re healthy for you! Bonus: All the wild action transpiring in your psyche may prompt you to generate good ideas about fun adventures you could embark on once the coronavirus crisis has ebbed.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

It’s time to work your way below the surface level of things, Libra; to dig and dive into the lower reaches where the mysteries are darker and richer; to marshal your courage as you go in quest of the rest of the story. Are you willing to suspend some of your assumptions about the way things work so as to become fully alert for hidden agendas and dormant potentials? Here’s a piece of advice: Your fine analytical intelligence won’t be enough to guide you through this enigmatic terrain.

If you hope to get face to face with the core source, you’ll have to call on your deeper intuition and non-rational hunches.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

When was the last time you researched the

intricacies of what you don’t like and don’t desire and don’t want to become? Now is a favorable time to take a thorough inventory. You’ll generate good fortune for yourself by naming the following truths: 1. goals and dreams that are distractions from your primary mission; 2. attitudes and approaches that aren’t suitable for your temperament and that don’t contribute to your maximum health; 3. people and influences that are not in alignment with your highest good.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed that the cleverest people are those who regularly call themselves fools. In other words, they feel humble amusement as they acknowledge their failings and ignorance—thereby paving the way for creative growth. They steadily renew their commitment to avoid being know-it-alls, celebrating the curiosity that such blessed innocence enables them to nurture. They give themselves permission to ask dumb questions! Now is a favorable time for you to employ these strategies.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

What wonderful improvements and beautiful influences would you love to be basking in by May 1, 2021? What masterpieces would you love to have as key elements of your life by then? I invite you to have fun brainstorming about these possibilities in the next two weeks. If an exciting idea bubbles up into your awareness, formulate a plan that outlines the details you’ll need to put in place so as to bring it to fruition when the time is right. I hereby authorize you to describe yourself with these terms: begetter; originator; maker; designer; founder; producer; framer; generator.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

If I asked you to hug and kiss yourself regularly, would you think I was being too cute? If I encouraged you to gaze into a mirror once a day and tell yourself how beautiful and interesting you are, would you say, “That’s too woo-woo for me.” I hope you will respond more favorably than that, Aquarius. In fact, I will be praying for you to ascend to new heights of self-love between now and May 25. I will be rooting for you to be unabashed as you treat yourself with more compassionate tenderness than you have ever dared to before. And I do mean EVER!

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20):

In the coming weeks, I’d love to see you get excited about refining and upgrading the ways you communicate. I don’t mean to imply that you’re a poor communicator now; it’s just that you’re in a phase when you’re especially empowered to enhance the clarity and candor with which you express yourself. You’ll have an uncanny knack for knowing the right thing to say at the right moment. You’ll generate blessings for yourself as you fine-tune your listening skills. Much of this may have to happen online and over the phone, of course.

But you can still accomplish a lot!

Homework: For three days, uphold your highest ideal in every little way you can imagine.

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Public sale terms, rules, and In accordance with Section regulations will be made 22300 of the Public Contract available prior to the sale. All Code, securities may be subsales are subject to cancellaPrinted copies of the docustituted for funds withheld. tion. We reserve the right to ment can be purchased at Bidders, contractors, and othrefuse any bid. Payment most commercial printing er interested parties can obmust be in cash or credit companies that have internet tain wage rates pertaining to card-no checks. Buyers must access.

Ventura County projects at secure the units with their NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE the link provided below. own personal locks. To claim A List of Plan Holders is To satisfy the owner's storCalifornia general prevailing tax-exempt status, original available on the Website Contact Tori Behar 805.648.2244 ex.200 | tori@vcreporter.com | Deadline is Monday, 11 a.m. for Thursday publication RESALE certificates age lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. wage rates for construction for each shown above. will sell at public lien sale on can be obtained from the folspace purchased is required.

An abstract of bids received May 20, 2020, the personal lowing Web site:

By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 will be available at the same property in the below-listed http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/ Western Avenue, Glendale, web site under Bids & Subs. units, which may include but PWD/index.htm.

CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

When projects are awarded, are not limited to: household The awarded contractor must Bond No. ALL SALES ARE the award notification to the and personal items, office post copies of the prevailing SUBJECT TO PRIOR CANState will be posted under Bid Notices and other equipment. The wage determinations at each CELLATION. TERMS, rules Awarded Contracts. public sale of these items will job site. and regulations available at VENTURA COUNTY Bids must be submitted BY begin at 09:30 AM and con4/30/20 sale. Dated this 30th of April WATERSHED MAIL on the proposal form tinue until all units are sold.

CNS-3361891#/30207 & 7th of May 2020 by PS OrPROTECTION DISTRICT furnished with said docuPUBLIC STORAGE # 23411, angeco, Inc., 701 Western NOTICE INVITING FORMAL ments. Subcontractor list 740 Arcturus Ave, Oxnard, Ave., Glendale, CA 91201, BIDS must include a valid ConLien Sales CA 93033, (805) 248-7083 (818) 244-8080, Bond No. Sealed bids will be received tractor's License Number.

B040 - Valdez, Thomas; 6052683. at the County Surveyor's Contractor and any subconNotice is hereby given, purB055 - Parrish, Patrick; B071 4/30, 5/7/20 Public Counter, 3rd Floor, tractors must be registered suant to Section 3071 of the - Wilson, Janetta; C020 CNS-3360732#/30149 Administration Building, 800 with the Department of IndusCivil Code of the State of Mahler, Kristopher; C038 South Victoria Avenue, Ventrial Relations prior to bid California, the undersigned Davis-Zellers, Dianne; F003 tura, California 93009-1670, time and shall be verified durwill sell the following Probate Wagner, Eric; F029 - Brown, until 2:00 p.m. on May 21, ing bid verification processes. vehicle(s) at lien sale at said Fred; F044 - Hickstein, 2020, and afterwards Each bid must be accompantime(s) on: Friday, May 8, Wayne; F102 - Briden, opened, for SANTA ROSA ied by a bid guarantee in the NOTICE OF PETITION 2020 to wit: YEAR 94 Lynette "Lyny"; F117 - Sierra, RD NO.2 DB DECOMMISamount of not less than 10% TO ADMINISTER M A K E H A R L V I N Albert; F144 - Dwayne, RenSIONING PLANTING, for of the amount bid, PAY1HD4CEM36RY203711 ESTATE OF wick; F269 - Zorovich, Specification No. WP20-10, ABLE TO THE VENTURA LIC# STATE. To be sold by: MANUEL L. PRADO, Susan; F318 - Arthur, Williwhich consists of contract COUNTY WATERSHED BIGG JUGGZ V TWIN DECEDENT am; F380 - Perez, Mary Lou; growing and material acPROTECTION DISTRICT CYCLES I 534 MONTF410 - Hickstein, Wayne; quisition of all container and guaranteeing that the Case No: G O M E R Y A V E # 2 0 4 F423 - Ipatzi, Martin; F443 stock planting material, bidder will enter into a con56-2020-00540391OXNARD, VENTURA Washington, Lester; F447 plant treatment, irrigation intract in accordance with the PR-LA-OXN COUNTY, CA 93036 (10:00 Sanchez, Maria; F448 stallation, planting, hydroterms of the bidding docuTo all heirs, beneficiaries, AM) Said sale is for the purVasquez, Daniela seeding, and a two year plant ments if award is made. The pose of satisfying lien(s) of creditors, contingent PUBLIC STORAGE # 23050, establishment period. bid guarantee shall be in one the above for towing, storcreditors, and persons 4400 McGrath St, Ventura, of the following forms: a bid age, labor, materials, and liwho may otherwise be inCA 93003, (805) 324-6011 The estimated cost of conbond written by an admitted en charges.

Together with A006 - rutkowski, Kenny; struction is $ 233,000. surety insurer on the form interested in the will or escosts of advertising and exB038 - Bazaldua, Jose; B335 cluded with the Proposal tate, or both, of: MANUEL penses of sale.

- Butler, Luwan; C218 The plans, specifications and fo r m , a c a s h i e r 's c h e c k L. PRADO P U B L I S H E D : V e n t u r a Larue, Jontue; C250 - Glaze, proposal forms for this drawn by a National bank, a A Petition for Probate County Reporter; Debbie; H228 - Goode, project are filed in the office check certified by a National 4/30/20./30211 has been filed by: Cindee; H306 - Klocow, Williof the Ventura County Surbank or cash. An electronicBEATRICE A. PRADOam; K001 - Miranda, Yvonne; veyor and are, by reference, ally transmitted copy of the LIEN SALE JIMENEZ in the Superior K211 - Chitiea, Emily made a part of this Notice. bid bond form, included in the Platinum Tow & Transport, PUBLIC STORAGE # 26812, Construction bidding docuProposal form, may be used Court of California, 938 Verdulera St Camarillo, 6435 Ventura Blvd, Venments, including plans, spebut the form must have the County of VENTURA. CA. To be sold at 10:00 am tura, CA 93003, (805) 329cifications, addenda and any original signatures of the The Petition for Probate on 5/5/2020 07-MERZ Li5384 supplementary documents principal and surety. Copies requests that: cense: HDV2127 / NY Vin: A004 Shelton, Cynthia; are now available on the of the completed bond will BEATRICE A. PRADO-JIWDBUF56X47B087366.

B017 - Medrano, Alfredo; Ventura County Web Site at: not be accepted.

Platinum Towing / Oxnard, MENEZ be appointed as C019 - Yost, Christopher; https://www.vcpublicworks.or Bidders must have a Class 720 Mountain View Oxnard, personal representative C036 - Rust, Maria; C055 g/esd/contracting/ C-27 California Contractors CA. To be sold at 10:00 am Galvez, Tim; C123 then license, and will be required to administer the estate of on 5/12/2020 05-SUZI LiJauregui, Norma; C129 click on "Contract Bidding to furnish a Performance the decedent. cense: 7JUA832 / CA Vin: Castillo, Martin; C135 Opportunities" and then Bond and a Payment Bond, The petition requests auKL5JD56Z95K141629.

Bourne, Heather; C175 - Gal"eBidBoard Website" where each in the amount of 100% thority to administer the Sierra Towing, 2651 Lavery legos, Daisy; C183 - Rohlfs the documents may be of the contract price. estate under the IndeCt #B Newbury Park, CA. To II, Richard; C207 - Bueno, Niviewed, downloaded and In accordance with Section be sold at 10:00 am on pendent Administration of urka; D071 - Hernandez, printed.

22300 of the Public Contract 5/12/2020. 16-AUDI License: Estates Act. (This authorTannia; D097 - Fries, Chris; Code, securities may be subH W W 4 5 1 0 / O H V i n : D163 - Herman, Robert; Printed copies of the docustituted for funds withheld. ity will allow the personal W A 1 E F C F S 6 G R 0 2 2 9 8 6 D181 Lugo, Melissa; D301 ment can be purchased at Bidders, contractors, and othrepresentative to take PUBLISHED: Ventura Kolodziejski, Krystyn; D323 most commercial printing er interested parties can obmany actions without obCounty Reporter; Abraham, Nathlye; D335 companies that have internet tain wage rates pertaining to taining court approval.

4/30/20./30214 Reyes, Richard; D340 access.

Ventura County projects at Before taking certain very Darling, Thomas the link provided below. important actions, NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PUBLIC STORAGE # 24110, A List of Plan Holders is California general prevailing To satisfy the owner's storhowever, the personal 5515 Walker Street, Venavailable on the Website wage rates for construction age lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. tura, CA 93003, (805) 312shown above. can be obtained from the folrepresentative will be rewill sell at public lien sale on 9304 An abstract of bids received lowing Web site: quired to give notice to inMay 20, 2020, the personal A056 - Gutierrez, James; will be available at the same http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/ terested persons unless property in the below-listed B074 - Sanders Robles, Vicweb site under Bids & Subs.

PWD/index.htm. they have waived notice units, which may include but toria; B128 - Voigts, Ryan; When projects are awarded, The awarded contractor must or consented to the proare not limited to: household B143 - Peters, Danielle; the award notification to the post copies of the prevailing posed action.) The indeand personal items, office E433 - Julius, William; E436 State will be posted under wage determinations at each pendent administration and other equipment. The Baseet, Lisa Awarded Contracts. job site. public sale of these items will PUBLIC STORAGE # 25779, Bids must be submitted BY 4/30/20 authority will be granted begin at 09:30 AM and con161 E Ventura Blvd, MAIL on the proposal form CNS-3361891#/30207 unless an interested pertinue until all units are sold.

Oxnard, CA 93036, (805) furnished with said docuson files an objection to PUBLIC STORAGE # 23411, 456-6430 ments. Subcontractor list the petition and shows 740 Arcturus Ave, Oxnard, B534 - Patterson, William; must include a valid Congood cause why the court CA 93033, (805) 248-7083 B597 - Perry, Tab; B608 tractor's License Number. should not grant the auB040 - Valdez, Thomas; Perez, Manuel; B624 - ArContractor and any subconthority.

B055 - Parrish, Patrick; B071 senault, Candace; B653 tractors must be registered - Wilson, Janetta; C020 Taylor, Dammarea; B675 with the Department of IndusA hearing on the petiMahler, Kristopher; C038 Gaines, Al; B695 - Avila, trial Relations prior to bid tion will be held in this Davis-Zellers, Dianne; F003 Erika; B700 - Gonzales, Antime and shall be verified durcourt as follows: June Wagner, Eric; F029 - Brown, g e l a ; R 2 5 5 - M a t t h e w s, ing bid verification processes.

18, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in F r e d ; F 0 4 4 H i c k s t e i n , Gregory; R305 - Barnes, Each bid must be accompanDept. J6. Address of Wayne; F102 - Briden, Patrick; R324 - Ruiz, ied by a bid guarantee in the court: Superior Court of Lynette "Lyny"; F117 - Sierra, Vanessa; R367 - Avila, Erika; amount of not less than 10% California, County of VenAlbert; F144 - Dwayne, RenW202 - Quintero, Denisse of the amount bid, PAYwick; F269 - Zorovich, Public sale terms, rules, and ABLE TO THE VENTURA tura, 4353 E. Vineyard Susan; F318 - Arthur, Williregulations will be made COUNTY WATERSHED Avenue, Oxnard, CA am; F380 - Perez, Mary Lou; available prior to the sale. All PROTECTION DISTRICT 93036, Juvenile CourtF410 Hickstein, Wayne; sales are subject to cancellaand guaranteeing that the house.

F423 - Ipatzi, Martin; F443 tion. We reserve the right to bidder will enter into a conIf you object to the Washington, Lester; F447 refuse any bid. Payment tract in accordance with the granting of the petition, Sanchez, Maria; F448 must be in cash or credit terms of the bidding docuyou should appear at the Vasquez, Daniela card-no checks. Buyers must ments if award is made. The PUBLIC STORAGE # 23050, secure the units with their bid guarantee shall be in one hearing and state your 4400 McGrath St, Ventura, own personal locks. To claim of the following forms: a bid objections or file written CA 93003, (805) 324-6011 tax-exempt status, original bond written by an admitted objections with the court A006 - rutkowski, Kenny; RESALE certificates for each surety insurer on the form inbefore the hearing. Your B038 - Bazaldua, Jose; B335 space purchased is required. cluded with the Proposal appearance may be in - Butler, Luwan; C218 By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 form, a cashier's check person or by your attorLarue, Jontue; C250 - Glaze, Western Avenue, Glendale, drawn by a National bank, a ney.

Debbie; H228 - Goode, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080. check certified by a National Cindee; H306 - Klocow, WilliBond No. ALL SALES ARE bank or cash. An electronicIf you are a creditor or a am; K001 - Miranda, Yvonne; SUBJECT TO PRIOR CANally transmitted copy of the contingent creditor of K211 - Chitiea, Emily CELLATION. TERMS, rules bid bond form, included in the the decedent, you must PUBLIC STORAGE # 26812, and regulations available at Proposal form, may be used file your claim with the 6435 Ventura Blvd, Vensale. Dated this 30th of April but the form must have the court and mail a copy to tura, CA 93003, (805) 329& 7th of May 2020 by PS Ororiginal signatures of the viewed, downloaded and printed.

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If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Sasha L Collins 297122, 1200 Paseo Camarillo, Suite 280, Camarillo, CA 93010, (805) 482-2282.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 4/30/20, 5 / 7 / 2 0 a n d 5/14/20./30215

appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 06/10/20 at 9:00AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner ROBERT A. ARABIAN SBN 177963 GIFFORD, DEARING & ABERNATHY, LLP 515 S. FIGUEROA ST. STE 2060 LOS ANGELES CA 90071 4/16, 4/23, 4/30/20 CNS-3359352#/30061

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GARY MAURICE THOMAS CASE NO. 56-202000541246-PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of GARY MAURICE THOMAS. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by FREDRICK THOMAS in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that FREDRICK THOMAS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be re-April 30, 2020 — quired to give notice to interested persons unless

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PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): SHAYNAELY 18, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons Bulk Sales and legal papers are served on you to file a written reNOTICE TO CREDITORS sponse at this court and have OF BULK SALE a copy served on the plaintiff.

(Division 6 of the Commercial A letter or phone call will not Code) protect you. Your written reEscrow No. 001738-EL sponse must be in proper (1) Notice is hereby given to legal form if you want the creditors of the within named court to hear your case.

Seller(s) that a bulk sale is There may be a court form about to be made on personthat you can use for your real property hereinafter desponse. You can find these scribed. court forms and more inform(2) The name and business ation at the California Courts addresses of the seller are: Online Self-Help Center BTSV CORPORATION, 2679 (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfTapo Canyon Road, Simi help), your county law library, Valley, CA 93063 or the courthouse nearest (3) The location in California you. If you cannot pay the filof the chief executive office ing fee, ask the court clerk for of the Seller is: 2679 Tapo a fee waiver form. If you do Canyon Road, Simi Valley, not file your response on CA 93063 time, you may lose the case (4) The names and business by default, and your wages, address of the Buyer(s) are: money, and property may be ADD-KAY, INC., 2679 Tapo taken without further warning Canyon Road, Simi Valley, from the court.

CA 93063 There are other legal require(5) The location and general ments. You may want to call description of the assets to an attorney right away. If you be sold are furniture, fixtures, do not know an attorney, you equipment, goodwill, trademay want to call an attorney name, leasehold interest and referral service. If you canimprovements covenant not not afford an attorney, you to compete, inventory of may be eligible for free legal stock in trade of that certain services from a nonprofit legbusiness located at: 2679 al services program. You can Tapo Canyon Road, Simi locate these nonprofit groups Valley, CA 93063. at the California Legal Ser(6) The business name used vices Web site by the seller(s) at that loca(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), tion is: It's Boba Time the California Courts Online (7) The anticipated date of Self-Help Center the bulk sale is 05/18/20 at (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfthe office of Hana Escrow help), or by contacting your Company, Inc., 3580 Wilshire local court or county bar asBlvd., Suite 1170, Los sociation. NOTE: The court Angeles, CA 90010. h a s a s ta tu to r y l i e n fo r (8) Claims may be filed with waived fees and costs on any Same as "7" above. settlement or arbitration (9) The last date for filing award of $10,000 or more in claims is 05/15/20. a civil case. The court's lien (10) This Bulk Sale is submust be paid before the court ject to Section 6106.2 of the will dismiss the case.

Uniform Commercial Code. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado.

(11) As listed by the Seller, Si no responde dentro de 30 all other business names and días, la corte puede decidir addresses used by the Seller en su contra sin escuchar su within three years before the versión. Lea la información a date such list was sent or decontinuación. livered to the Buyer are: Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENNone DARIO después de que le Dated: February 14, 2020 entreguen esta citación y Transferees: papeles legales para ADD-KAY, INC., a California presentar una respuesta por Corporation escrito en esta corte y hacer By: S/ Helen J. Chae, que se entregue una copia al President demandante. Una carta o By: S/ Frank Kim, Secretary una llamada telefónica no lo 4/30/20 protegen. Su respuesta por CNS-3361830#/30208 escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si deSummons sea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya SUMMONS un formulario que usted (CITACION JUDICIAL) pueda usar para su CASE NUMBER (Número del respuesta. Puede encontrar Caso): estos formularios de la corte 56-2019-00537370-CU-ORy más información en el VTA Centro de Ayuda de las CorNOTICE TO DEFENDANT tes de California (www.su(AVISO AL DEMANDADO): corte.ca.gov), en la bibliORBIS WATER COMPANY, oteca de leyes de su a suspended California Corcondado o en la corte que le poration, All Persons Unquede más cerca. Si no known, Claiming Any Legal puede pagar la cuota de or Equitable Right, Title, Espresentación, pida al secrettate, Lien, or Interest in in the ario de la corte que le dé un Property Described in the formulario de exención de Complaint Adverse to pago de cuotas. Si no Plaintiff's Title, or Any Cloud presenta su respuesta a On Plaintiff's Title Thereto tiempo, puede perder el caso and DOES 1 through 20, inpor incumplimiento y la corte clusive le podrá quitar su sueldo, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY dinero y bienes sin más adPLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEvertencia.

MANDANDO EL DEMANDHay otros requisitos legales.

ANTE): SHAYNAELY 18, Es recomendable que llame LLC, a Delaware limited liaba un abogado inmediataility company, mente. Si no conoce a un NOTICE! You have been abogado, puede llamar a un sued. The court may decide servicio de remisión a against you without your beabogados. Si no puede pagar ing heard unless you rea un abogado, es posible que spond within 30 days. Read cumpla con los requisitos the information below. para obtener servicios leYou have 30 CALENDAR gales gratuitos de un proDAYS after this summons grama de servicios legales and legal papers are served 14you — to file—a April 30,re-2020sin fines de lucro. Puede enon written contrar estos grupos sin fines sponse at this court and have de lucro en el sitio web de

dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales.

Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Superior Court of California, C o u n ty o f Ve n tu r a , 8 0 0 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura, California 93009 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Ellen K. Wolf, Wolf Wall e n s t e i n & A b r a m s , P C, 11400 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90064, 310-622-1000 DATE (Fecha): 12/16/2019 Michael D. Planet, Clerk (Secretario), by Joan Foster, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) The real property which is the subject of this litigation is located at 701 North Wendy Drive, Thousand Oaks, California, in Ventura County and more specifically described as: THAT PORTION OF LOT 14 IN TRACT NO. 1313, IN THE CITY OF THOUSAND OAKS, IN THE COUNTY OF VENTURA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 32 PAGE 40 OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWESTERLY TERMINUS OF THAT CERTAIN CURVE IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOT 14 , SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF TRACT NO. 1313 AS BEING CONCAVE NORTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 960.00 FEET; THENCE, 1ST: NORTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE, A DISTANCE OF 243.45 FEET TO THE BEGINNING OF THAT COMPOUND CURVE IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 14 , SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF THE TRACT NO. 1313 AS BEING CONCAVE NORTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 300.00 FEET; THENCE, 2ND: NORTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 142.34 FEET, A RADIAL LINE TO SAID POINT BEARS SOUTH 67° 24' 12" EAST; THENCE, 3RD: NORTH 48° 16' 00" WEST, 306.19 FEET TO THE BEGINNING OF A TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE SOUTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 560.00 FEET, LAST SAID CURVE ALSO BEING TANGENT AT ITS WESTERLY TERMINUS WITH THE

THENCE, 2ND: NORTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 142.34 FEET, A RADIAL LINE TO SAID POINT BEARS SOUTH 67° 24' 12" EAST; THENCE, 3RD: NORTH 48° 16' 00" WEST, 306.19 FEET TO THE BEGINNING OF A TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE SOUTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 560.00 FEET, LAST SAID CURVE ALSO BEING TANGENT AT ITS WESTERLY TERMINUS WITH THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF CONEJO ROAD, 700.00 FEET WIDE, AS SAID ROAD IS SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF TRACT NO. 1313; THENCE, 4TH: NORTHWESTERLY ALONG LAST SAID CURVE A DISTANCE OF 268.72 FEET TO SAID POINT OF TANGENCY IN THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF CONEJO ROAD; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID CONEJO ROAD, 5TH: NORTH 75° 45' 36" WEST, 119.24 FEET TO A POINT, LAST SAID POINT BEING DISTANT ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY LINE OF CONEJO ROAD SOUTH 75° 45' 36" EAST, 420.00 FEET FROM THE MOST NORTHERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 14; THENCE AT RIGHT ANGLES THERETO 6TH: SOUTH 14° 14' 24" WEST, 592.39 FEET TO AN INTERSECTION WITH A LINE PERPENDICULAR TO THAT CERTAIN COURSE IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOT 14, SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF TRACT NO. 1313 AS HAVING A BEARING AND DISTANCE OF "NORTH 64° 18' 42" EAST 597.67 FEET“, SAID PERPENDICULAR LINE PASSING THROUGH A POINT IN SAID SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF LOT 14 DISTANT THEREALONG NORTH 64° 18’ 42" EAST, 16.00 FEET FROM THE SOUTHWESTERLY TERMINUS OF THE HEREINBEFORE DESCRIBED COURSE IN SAID SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF LOT 14; THENCE ALONG SAID PERPENDICULAR LINE, 7TH: SOUTH 25° 41' 18" EAST 216.59 FEET TO AN INTERSECTION WITH SAID SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF LOT 14; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOT 14, 8TH: NORTH 64° 18' 42" EAST 381.67 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. EXCEPT THAT PORTION THEREOF DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHWESTERLY TERMINUS OF THAT CERTAIN CURVE IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOT 14, SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF TRACT NO. 1313, AS BEING "CONCAVE NORTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 960.00 FEET"; THENCE, 1 S T : N O R T H E A S T E R LY ALONG SAID CURVE, A DISTANCE OF 218.31 FEET TO A POINT, A RADIAL LINE TO SAID POINT HAVING A BEARING OF SOUTH 38° 43’ 04" EAST, LAST SAID POINT ALSO BEING THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE, 2ND: CONTINUING NORTHEASTERLY ALONG LAST SAID CURVE, A DISTANCE OF 25.14 FEET TO THE BEGINNING OF THAT COMPOUND CURVE IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOT 14, SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF TRACT NO. 1313 AS BEING CONCAVE NORTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 300.00 FEET; THENCE, 3RD: NORTHEASTERLY ALONG LAST SAID CURVE A DISTANCE OF 142.34

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2ND: CONTINUING NORTHEASTERLY ALONG LAST SAID CURVE, A DISTANCE OF 25.14 FEET TO THE BEGINNING OF THAT COMPOUND CURVE IN THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID LOT 14, SHOWN ON SAID MAP OF TRACT NO. 1313 AS BEING CONCAVE NORTHWESTERLY AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 300.00 FEET; THENCE, 3RD: NORTHEASTERLY ALONG LAST SAID CURVE A DISTANCE OF 142.34 FEET TO A POINT, A RADIAL LINE TO LAST SAID POINT HAVING A BEARING OF SOUTH 67° 24' 12" EAST; THENCE, 4TH: NORTH 48° 16’ 00" WEST, 140.00 FEET; THENCE AT RIGHT ANGLES THERETO. 5TH: SOUTH 41° 44’ 00" WEST 140.00 FEET TO AN INTERSECTION WITH THAT RADIAL LINE HEREINBEFORE DESCRIBED AS HAVING A BEARING OF SOUTH 38° 43' 04" EAST AND WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE ALONG LAST SAID RADIAL LINE, 6TH: SOUTH 38° 43’ 04" EAST 151.88 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. ALSO EXCEPT THAT PORTION CONDEMNED BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES AS DESCRIBED IN T H E FI N A L OR D E R OF CONDEMNATION A CERTIFIED COPY OF WHIC H WAS RECORDED JUNE 19, 1967 IN BOOK 3157 PAGE 375 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS. ALSO EXCEPT AN UNDIVIDED ONE-HALF INTEREST OF ALL OIL, GAS AND HYDROCARBON SUBSTANCES IN AND UNDER AND UPON SAID LAND, WITHOUT THE RIGHT, HOWEVER TO DRILL, DIG OR MINE THROUGH THE SURFACE THEREOF, AND WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO ENTER OR ENCROACH UPON ANY PORTION OF SAID LAND LYING WITHIN 500 FEET OF THE SURFACE AS RESERVED BY CASPER BORCHARD, JR., AND IDA FRANCES BORCHARD, BY DEED RECORDED DECEMBER 21, 1959 AS DOCUMENT NO. 47712 IN BOOK 1809 PAGE 210 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS. APN: 668-0-250-085 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21/20 CNS-3361837#/30210 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF VENTURA. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION WELFARE & INSTITUTIONS CODE §366.26 J 072414 HEARING DATE: 07/01/2020 TIME: 08:30 am COURTROOM: J1 In the matter of the Petition of the County of Ventura Human Services Agency regarding freedom from parental custody and control on behalf of Jonathan Fleischer, a child. To: Lindsay Fleischer, Unknown father, and to all persons claiming to be the parents of the above-named person who is described as follows: name Jonathan Fleischer, Date of Birth: 02/11/2020, Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, CA, Father's name: Unknown, Mother’s name: Lindsay Fleischer.

Pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26, a hearing has been scheduled for your child. You are hereby notified that you may appear on 07/01/2020, at 8:30 a.m., or as soon as counsel can be heard in Courtroom J1 of this Court at Juvenile Justice Center 4353 Vineyard Ave. Oxnard, CA 93036. YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED as follows: At the hearing the Court must

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION WELFARE & INSTITUTIONS CODE §366.26 J 072414 HEARING DATE: 07/01/2020 TIME: 08:30 am COURTROOM: J1 In the matter of the Petition of the County of Ventura Human Services Agency regarding freedom from parental custody and control on behalf of Jonathan Fleischer, a child. To: Lindsay Fleischer, Unknown father, and to all persons claiming to be the parents of the above-named person who is described as f o l l o w s : n a m e J o n a t h an Fleischer, Date of Birth: 02/11/2020, Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, CA, Father's name: Unknown, Mother’s name: Lindsay Fleischer.

Pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26, a hearing has been scheduled for your child. You are hereby notified that you may appear on 07/01/2020, at 8:30 a.m., or as soon as counsel can be heard in Courtroom J1 of this Court at Juvenile Justice Center 4353 Vineyard Ave. Oxnard, CA 93036. YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED as follows: At the hearing the Court must choose and implement one of the following permanent plans for the child: adoption, guardianship, or long term foster care. Parental rights may be terminated at this hearing. On 07/01/2020, the Human Services Agency will recommend termination of parental rights. The child may be ordered placed in long term foster care, subject to the regular review of the Juvenile Court; or, a legal guardian may be appointed for the child and letters of guardianship be issued; or, adoption may be identified as the permanent placement goal and the Court may order that efforts be made to locate an appropriate adoptive family for the child for a period not to exceed 180 days and set the matter for further review; or, parental rights may be terminated.

You are entitled to be present at the hearing with your attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, you are entitled to have the Court appoint counsel for you. A thirty-day continuance may be granted if necessary for counsel to prepare the case. At all termination proceedings, the Court shall consider the wishes of the child and shall act in the best interest of the child. Any order of the Court permanently terminating parental rights under this section shall be conclusive and binding upon the minor person, upon the parent or parents, and upon all other persons who have been served with citation by publication or otherwise. After making such an order, the Court shall have no power to set aside, change, or modify it, but this shall not be construed to limit the rights to appeal the order. If the Court, by order or judgment, declares the child free from the custody and control of both parents, or one parent if the other no longer has custody and control, the Court shall, at the same time, order the child referred to the licensed County adoption agency for adoptive placement by that agency.

The rights and procedures described above are set forth in detail in the California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26. You are referred to that section for further particulars. Michael J. Planet, Executive Officer and Clerk, County of Ventura, State of California. Dated: 04/08/2020 by: Crystal Jimenez Deputy Clerk, Children and Family Services Social Worker.

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upon the minor person, upon the parent or parents, and upon all other persons who have been served with citation by publication or otherwise. After making such an order, the Court shall have no power to set aside, change, or modify it, but this shall not be construed to limit the rights to appeal the order. If the Court, by order or judgment, declares the child free from the custody and control of both parents, or one parent if the other no longer has custody and control, the Court shall, at the same time, order the child referred to the licensed County adoption agency for adoptive placement by that agency.

The rights and procedures described above are set forth in detail in the California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26. You are referred to that section for further particulars. Michael J. Planet, Executive Officer and Clerk, County of Ventura, State of California. Dated: 04/08/2020 by: Crystal Jimenez Deputy Clerk, Children and Family Services Social Worker.

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Trustee’s Sales TSG No.: 8762335 TS No.: CA2000286183 APN: 075-0211-095 Property Address: 3209 PORTER LANE VENTURA, CA 93003 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/20/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF TH E NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 06/04/2020 at 11:00 A.M., First American Title Insurance Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 04/26/2007, as Instrument No. 2007042600086479-0, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of VENTURA County, State of California. Executed by: JANET M. WENTLING, A WIDOW, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) To the right of the main entrance, near the exit doors, of the Government Center Hall of Justice, 800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura, CA 93009 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and S t a t e d e s c r i b e d a s : AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 075-0-211-095 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 3209 PORTER LANE, VENTURA, CA 93003 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation se-

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tura, CA 93009 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED Sales OF TRUST Trustee’s APN# 075-0-211-095 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 3209 PORTER LANE, VENTURA, CA 93003 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $ 494,890.20. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge : you a fee for this information.

If Monday you consultat either of for these 11am resources, you should be Thursday aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgageContact: or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO Tori Behar PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice (805) of sale648-2244 may be postponed one or more times by Ext. 200 the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the CaliYourThe Ad:law reforniaEmail Civil Code. quires that information about tori@vcreporter.com trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this vcreporter.com property, you may call (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http://search.nationwideposting.com/propertySearchTerms.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA2000286183 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in

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understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http://search.nationwideposting.com/propertySearchTerms.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA2000286183 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Date: First American Title Insurance Company 4795 Regent Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F Irving, TX 75063 First American Title Insurance Company MAY BE ACTING AS A D EBT C OL L EC TOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939-0772NPP0370038 To: VENTURA COUNTY REPORTER 04/30/2020, 05/07/2020,05/14/2020 /30168

Fic. Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200406-10005633-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1) GOLDEN STATE SELF STORAGE, 2) GOLDEN STATE STORAGE, 400 W. Ventura Blvd., Ste. 100, Camarillo, CA 93010, Ventura County, State of Incorporation / Organization, CA, Ojai Oil Company, 400 W. Ventura Blvd., Ste. 100, Camarillo, CA 93010. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 6/15/2010. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any materi-

Oil Company, 400 W. Ventura Blvd., Ste. 100, Camarillo, CA 93010. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 6/15/2010. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ Ojai Oil Company, Sarah Powell Monroe Allen, Sarah Powell Monroe Allen, Assistant Secretary.

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

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., B u s i n e s s & P r o f e s s i o ns Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 6, 2020.

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poration / Organization, CALIFORNIA, B.L. MADISON, INC, 325 E. Hillcrest Drive #130, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ B.L. MADISON, INC, Lisa Madison, Lisa Madison, Secretary.

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

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Business & Professions Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on March 30, 2020.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO. 2020042110006083-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SIGN 4 U. Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 1013 Calle Vista Calma, Oxnard, CA 93030.

The date on which the Fictitious Business Name being Abandoned was filed: 02/12/2019. The file number to the Fictitious Business Name being Abandoned: 20190212-10002623-0. The County where the Fictitious Business Name was filed: Ventura. 1DAY2LA LLC, 1013 Calle Vista Calma, Oxnard, CA 93030. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares information as true which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes public record upon filing pursuant to California Public Records Act (G.C. 6250-6277). /s/ 1DAY2LA LLC, Jonathan Patrick, Jonathan Patrick.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200421-10006079-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1) INTEGRATOR DESIGNS, 2) INTEGRATOR ELECTRONICS, 2520 Pierpont Blvd., Ventura, CA 93001, Ventura County, Daniel P Grieder, 2520 Pierpont Blvd., Ventura, CA 93001. This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 03/01/2020. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ Daniel P Grieder, Daniel P Grieder. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., B u s i n e s s & P r o f e s s i o ns Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 21, 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200330-10005484-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: REAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LIMITLESS, 325 E. Hillcrest Drive #130, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, Ventura County, State of Incorporation / Organization, CALIFORNIA, B.L. MADISON, INC, 325 E. Hillcrest Drive #130, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who de-

of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Business & Professions Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 21, 2020.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 4/30/20, 5/7/20, 5/14/20 and 5/21/20./30216 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200416-10005978-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AJK ETERNAL VALOR PRODUCTIONS, 1561 Flynn Rd., #4312, Camarillo, CA 93012, Ventura County, Amani J. King, 1561 Flynn Rd., #4312, Camarillo, CA 93012. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 1/1/2018. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ Amani J. King, Amani J. King, Amani J. King. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Business & Professions Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 16, 2020.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 4/30/20, 5/7/20, 5/14/20 and 5/21/20./30219 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200416-10005996-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GOOD TO DREAM PRODUCTIONS, 1561 Flynn Rd., #4312, Camarillo, CA 93012, Ventura County, Kim Mikaeli King, 1561 Flynn Rd., #4312, Camarillo, CA 93012. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 1/3/2020. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ Kim Mikaeli King, Kim Mikaeli King, Kim Mikaeli King. NOTICE in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name

generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Business & Professions Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 16, 2020.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 4/30/20, 5/7/20, 5/14/20 and 5/21/20./30221 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200416-10005980-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: INSPIREBY MIKAELI, 1561 Flynn Rd., #4312, Camarillo, CA 93012, Ventura County, Kim Mikaeli King, 1561 Flynn Rd., #4312, Camarillo, CA 93012. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 2005.

I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ Kim Mikaeli King, Kim Mikaeli King, Kim Mikaeli King. NOTICE in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., B u s i n e s s & P r o f e s s i o ns Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 16, 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20200423-10006171-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MARIPOSA BAGS, 257 Dorothy Ave., Ventura, CA 93003, Ventura County, Melinda Diane Angle, 257 Dorothy Ave., Ventura, CA 93003. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).) /s/ Melinda Diane Angle, Melinda Diane Angle. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., B u s i n e s s & P r o f e s s i o ns Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on April 23, 2020.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 4/30/20, 5/7/20, 5/14/20 and 5/21/20./30229

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