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TRI TRICOUNTY COUNTY

ENTRY VOL. XXVII NO. 4

Gladys Knight to Sing National Anthem at the Super Bowl n See page 12

JANUARY 25, 2019

Photo by Chris Frost

The Martin Luther King Celebration March makes its way down Fifth Street.

OXNARD COMMEMORATES FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM

By Chris Frost chris@tricountysentry.com Oxnard-- Oxnard-- The City of Oxnard was up bright and early, Jan. 21, as a large group of residents, along with dignitaries and city officials celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a march from Plaza Park downtown to the Oxnard Performing Arts Center.

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HE Freedom March took place in Washington D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963, and advocated civil and economic rights for African Americans and was the predecessor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Dr. King would have been 90 years old on Monday but was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis Tenn.

Anthony Moore was a sign carrier with his group and is proud to be part of the event.

“We already knew what time to meet, so we were able to pull this together in a few hours,” he said.

“It’s the freedom that’s important

Photo by Chris Frost

Photo by Chris Frost

Terry Mitchell-Collier brought her family to the march and said it’s important to teach the children about history.

to me. Let it ring.”

Shirley Johnson braved the chilly weather with members of her family and kept the march in her heart as she left the park.

“I went to school in Memphis, and they marched there, they got a bigger crowd,” she said. “I’ve been marching since then, and when I came back here, I’m still marching.”

She said exercising and getting out in the air is good for the lungs.

“Everybody will get something out of it,” she said. “Things haven’t changed as much as they should

have, and people still have to work at it to make sure the change still goes on. After the celebration, you have chores, and you do those.”

Terry Mitchell-Collier brought her family to the march and said it’s her eighth time participating and honoring the legacy of Dr. King.

“They’ve been doing this since they were little and it’s been wonderful supporting the county and this wonderful organization,” she said. “The kids spent a lot of time creating these signs and it’s important to teach the kids about

Martin Luther King. It’s hard to understand the work that was done all these years ago, in terms of fighting for people of color, and also for people of all races so we can all live and work together.”

State Senator Hanna Beth Jackson thanked the crowd for coming to the tribute on a cold morning but said she couldn’t complain about the weather because her brother lives in Boston where it is -13 degrees below zero outside. n King March , see page 6

PLANT-BASED EATING

BRINGS GREAT RESULTS

By Chris Frost chris@tricountysentry.com

Oxnard— Healthy plant-based foods that can improve the quality life for anyone took center stage at St. John’s Medical Center Jan 19, as residents were invited to a class that featured lots of information, simple solutions for healthier living and support, so no one feels alone.

Attendees learned healthy recipes that are easy to make, heard lots of success stories from people who enjoy a healthy lifestyle and ultimately enjoyed a plant-

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based meal that was extremely tasty.

The class took on a family-like atmosphere as each attendee talked about n Plant, see page 2

Photo by Chris Frost

Health Educator Jessica Ziebart teaches the class how to make plant-based potato salad during class.

Eadie + Payne, LLP Client Service Representative Eden Casarino reviews the city’s government finance report during a committee meeting Jan. 22.

Committee system up and running in Oxnard

By Chris Frost chris@tricountysentry.com Oxnard- The finance and governance committee kicked off the new council system, Jan. 22, as the committee heard the 2017-2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and discussed how to move forward.

Client Service Representative Eden Casarino from Eadie + Payne, LLP reviewed its audit opinion and highlights in the financial statements.

“Your CAFER (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report) includes two financial statements and the government-wide financial statement,” she said.

“Fund financial statements include inflows and outflows, assets and liabilities in the near future.”

The money is presented in the long term, or a full accrual. The fund balances also represent what‘s leftover after accounting for the city's inflows and outflows and is useful in evaluating the city’s nearterm financing requirements.

“In 2018, your total fund balance is $41 million in your general fund, and other governmental funds are $91 million for a total of $132 million fund balance,” she said.

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$46 million, $94 million and $144 million.

There was an $8 million reduction in your fund balance.”

The city’s net position, or its long-term ability to finance its requirements, is $1.8 billion of government activities, $294 million in business activities and $2.2 billion in the whole government.

“The total is a decrease of $36 million,” she said. “That is impacted in part by the prior period adjustment because there was a new accounting pronouncement to record liabilities in full of your other postemployment benefits.”

It was implemented in 2019, she said, but must be retroactively recorded, so there is a decrease of $13 million to the net position.

“There is another $20 million that is currently in that position,” she said.

During the year, Casarino said other financial uses exceeded what it received in the general fund and the other governmental activities.

“That is like your changes in net income if you are looking at a company, that is your change in fund balances of a $-6 million,” she said. ” Your expenditures exceeded your revenues by over $6 million. In the other governmental funds, it exceeded by $3 million for a total of $9 million.”

In 2018, she said there was a bottom line of $12 million, and a total of $27 million and the reason why was the revenue increased by a little bit, but the expenditures increased by a lot.

“Most of those expenditures were for vacant positions being filled, retirement costs going up, new positions being filled, your part-time employees becoming fulltime employees and benefits go up because of that,” she said.

Additionally, some of the charges going to the wastewater, water, and other enterprise funds are not charged anymore.

“They are all accounted for in the general fund and other governmental funds,” she said.

Proprietary funds, water, wastewater, and environmental resources, plus the housing authority, which is not audited by the CAFR, but falls under another audit.

“We included their financial statements into the CAFER because they include in the city’s financial statement as a whole,” she said. “There are all positive numbers at the bottom, $9 million for the water fund, $8 million for the wastewater $6 million for environmental resources.”

In 2018, she said the wastewater and environmental funds were consistent, but the water fund had a deficit because of increased water rates to the City of Oxnard.

“Wastewater is the same, environmental is the same, but revenues for wastewater and environmental resources went down, and the expenses for the water fund were consistent,” she said. “Because revenues were high, and expenses were low you get a positive at the end of the year.”

She said the city’s assets of over $3 billion include $2.6 billion in capital assets.

This story will continue on Feb. 1. .

Police seek help on Amaro’s fourth anniversary of his murder Oxnard-- Jan. 21, 2019, marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Luis Amaro. On January 21, 2015, at approximately 6:50 p.m., as Mr. Amaro stood outside his residence located in the 200 blocks of Balsam St. he was confronted by an unknown subject.

Amaro was transported to the Ventura County Medical Center where

he was pronounced dead as a result of a gunshot wound.

Witnesses recalled hearing multiple gunshots being fired and a vehicle speeding away from the scene. The vehicle was described as an older model sedan, possibly a dark colored Honda.

The Oxnard Police Department is encouraging

anyone with information about this incident to contact Detective Ken Tougas 805-2005669. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can call the Violent Crimes Hotline at 805- 982-7070 or Ventura County Crime Stoppers at 800222-8477. You can also visit venturacountycrimestoppers.org to submit a tip via text or email.

OPD conducts unattended vehicle enforcement operation On Jan. 18, between the hours of 5:30 and 7:30 a.m., officers from the Neighborhood Policing Team and Auto Theft Task Force conducted a citywide unattended vehicle enforcement operation.

Forty (40) citations were issued to residents who left their vehicles running and unattended.

Some of the violators reported they left their vehicles running under the mistaken belief they needed to warm up their vehicles before driving them. However, it is not necessary to warm up a vehicle, particularly in our climate. Other violators reported they left their vehicles running because they wanted to warm up the cabin before driving.

Both situations present an easy opportunity for a vehicle to be stolen.

Our city is currently experiencing a high level of auto

thefts. In 2018, there were 786 vehicles stolen in the city, which represented a 13.4% increase in comparison to the previous year.

In 2018, 25 percent of the stolen vehicles were considered to have been preventable, due to vehicles left running and unattended, keys left in the ignition/vehicle, or unsecured.

The Oxnard Police Department is committed to significantly reducing the number of motor vehicle thefts in 2019 by using innovative and creative techniques to proactively address the problem. However, the Department cannot do it alone and needs the assistance of our residents.

The Department reminds our residents to: Lock vehicles and remove valuables. An unlocked vehicle is an invitation to a thief.

Close all windows. An auto thief can gain access to a vehicle through the smallest of openings.

Do not leave keys in the ignition or in the car. Many motor vehicle thefts occur as a result of vehicles left running.

Do not leave a garage door opener in a vehicle. A thief can use it to gain access to a residence.

Residents can help in combating this problem by reporting suspicious persons or activity to the Oxnard Police Department at 805385-7740 or the Ventura County Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 and www. venturacountycrimestoppers.org.

The Department will continue with educating the public on this problem and conducting enforcement operations targeting owners who leave their vehicles running and unattended.

OPD arrest Benitez for firearms-related charges Oxnard-- On Jan. 18, 2019, at approximately 10:40 p.m., Oxnard Police officers responded to the area of Spruce, and “E” Streets about a vehicle disturbance in the area.

Officers located a truck suspected of causing the disruption and stopped the vehicle for code violations.

Officers contacted the occupants of the vehicle and learned that one of the passengers was on probation with search terms.

Officers searched the vehicle.

During the search, officers located a loaded .45 caliber firearm underneath the seat of one of the passengers, Benitez. The firearm was reported stolen back in 2013.

Police arrested Benitez for firearms-related charges, including possessing a loaded concealed firearm in a vehicle, a felony.

Anyone with information regarding criminal activity is encouraged to contact the Oxnard Police Department at 805-385-7600, or you can remain anonymous by calling the Ventura County Crime Stoppers at 800222-8477. You can also visit venturacountycrimestoppers.org to submit a tip via text or email.

Armed suicidal subject In possession of knives Oxnard-- On Jan. 16, 2019, at about 11:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to an apartment in the 1300 block of Althea Court, regarding a suicidal adult male threatening with a knife. Officers contacted the subject in the living room and began negotiations with him, as he held two knives to his throat and threatened suicide.

Officers learned there were additional family members locked in an upstairs bedroom unable to leave the residence. Officers requested the assistance of the Fire Department to respond with a ladder, at which time the officers evacuated the occupants through a second story window. Officers negotiated with the suicidal subject for approximately 30 minutes, as he held the knives to his throat before he voluntarily put the knives down and surrendered to authorities without incident. The subject was subsequently placed on an involuntarily hold for a mental health evaluation.

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successes and challenges while being encouraged and supported by the group.

Health Educator Jessica Ziebart said she had stroke level blood pressure, which was something she wasn’t accustomed to, but a trip to the doctor alerted her to the problem, which scared her.

“But it did catapult me into thinking about how to get my health back,” she said. “I thought I was healthy already.

I ate chicken breasts, I loved whole grains, green leafy veggies and I hadn’t had soda or fast food for probably a year or two, and I was still at my highest weight.”

She was diagnosed and started doing some research on how to help herself.

“I’ve been dieting since I was 11, and what always happens is I lose some weight and gain it back, plus more, every single time,” she said.

“It didn’t matter what I did every time. I would lose some weight, and I would gain it back with a little extra.”

Before she found her plantbased diet, she was losing her

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perspective and was ready to give up and accept her fate.

“I knew it was time to get help because my health was a serious problem at that time,” she said. “I was 35 years old and at risk for something that killed my father. I watched him suffer for 10 years after he had his massive stroke and I was motivated to figure out how to get my health back.”

As she read about the plantbased diet, the idea clicked with her. However, like many other people she knew what to do, she just needed to do it and soon discovered that it meant more than eating her veggies.

“It is about nourishing your body,” she said.

The results, she said, were dramatic.

“I lost 150 pounds, I got off my blood pressure medications, my husband got off his blood pressure medications, the stomach issues I’ve had for as long as I can remember are gone and after four days, all the energy I had, I couldn’t stop talking.”

Ziebart said she also had

women’s issues, which meant pain, that also disappeared.

“I had terrible acne on my back, and that’s all gone down, and I got a cool tattoo on my back, and I am excited about that,” she said.

The secret, she said, is to make changes that can be sustainable for the rest of your life.

“One of the things that people ask is if this is safe,” she said. “The American Dietetic Association says it’s safe for all ages and life stages, pregnant women, children, and older adults.”

The American Medical Association (AMA) also resolved to offer more plantbased options, she said, and recently required that California health-based facilities and prisons offer health-based choices to patients and staff. That means, according to law, no animal products or byproducts.”

Attendees added success stories to the conversation, including one woman who spoke about changing her diet to plant-based eating three

days of the previous five.

“Awesome,” Ziebart said.

“Progress is a success.”

She discussed cooking with oil and called it a highly dense food that people often overuse to the point where the meal can be swimming.

“It doesn’t fill us up because it takes so little to take up so many of our calories,” she said.

One secret, she said, is to eat whole grains, which are less dense and fill you up more and not feel hungry.

From there, she discussed cooking without oil which takes a little practice.

“For most things to be cooked, you need to add a lever, like water, which is the easiest,” she said. “You can also use stock but be careful of the S.O.S.s’ (salt oil and sugar) and things you can’t pronounce.”

Tonya Shepley got started with plant-based food at age 35, after her health began to fail.

“I had already lost my parents, they were both in their 40s when one died of a heart attack, my dad died at 42, and my mom died of pancreatic

cancer at age 49,” she said. “I was young, and by the time I was 35, I was diagnosed with having beginning stages of osteoporosis.”

She spoke with her doctor, and he told her the things she eats matter.

“That was the day I started paying attention,” she said.

“I started looking at all these crazy diets and found out that eating fruits and vegetables were universal and everybody agreed on that.”

Her success stories keep her motivated.

“I am 58 and on no medications,” she said.

Ziebart showed the group how to make a plant-based potato salad that she called creamy and yummy.

“It’s delicious,” Sergio Lacha said. “I was commenting to my wife that Jessica makes a bacon-flavored teppan and what if we add that to give it a little more of that bacon flavor that people crave?”

He is all in on the healthy lifestyle and shared with the group that he eliminated coffee from his diet three weeks ago.

“I’ve never been a breakfast person, but now I am eating oatmeal with almond milk and bananas, apples, raisins, something healthy to eat in the morning to get started,” he said.

Karen Boswell from Port Hueneme thought the potato salad was excellent.

“It’s good to know there are healthy ingredients in it,” she said. “Plant-based food is healthier.”

Ziebart said the energy she feels in the room makes the class special.

“When you get good interaction from the participants the whole level of enjoyment and learning is raised when everybody contributes,” she said.

Getting her husband onboard, she said, was not an issue after he saw the results.

“As soon as he saw my blood pressure come down, my energy go through the roof and me being happier he wanted some of that,” she said.

Ziebart can be reached at Jessica.Ziebart@ DignityHealth.org.

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By Chris Frost chris@tricountysentry.com Oxnard— On a 5-2 vote, Jan. 15, the Oxnard City Council approved a special use permit and upheld the Planning and Zoning Commission’s permit to build with a density bonus 20 townhome units, including four affordable units a nd a tentative subdivision map.

Designated Agent Henry Casillas applied on behalf of JBGR Investments and attended the meeting along with a large crowd of residents concerned about the action.

Planning Manager Kathleen Mallory said the project is located at 2489 Saviers Road within the South Winds neighborhood and is a .91acre property and has a general plan land use designation which allows up to 22 units per acre.

“The property is known as a General Commercial AAH, or affordable housing site and the residential uses are permitted with the special use permit,” she said. A total of 22 units per acre is allowed, and the project is fully compliant with all the city code provisions.”

The council directed city staff to work with the property owner last Nov., she said, and they’ve worked through concerns regarding parking.

“The project consists of is surrounded by single-family units, commercial development to the south and multi-family apartments to the west,” she said. “The project was originally approved by the planning commission in Sept. 2017.”

The planning commission made a recommendation on the tentative map, and the staff brings all three of the entitlement permits up to the council, so there is a concentrated and integrative review of the project.

The commission approved the density bonus and special use permit and knows how those permits work and support the item.”

When the density bonus received approval, Mallory said three concessions were approved as

allowed by state law and since that time only two are needed because the city amended its zoning ordinance to address the building concession for separation between the buildings.

“In Sept. the commission approved the density bonus request for the reduction of the required front yard setback, which was from 25 to 15 feet, a reduction in the interior yard space which was no longer needed but changed to the code which happened later in that year," she said. "The commission approved the reduction in the interior yard space.”

Mallory said the council considered the item Nov. 2017, and there were significant concerns about the parking in the area, and the project allows for no visitor parking spaces, but it does provide the number of parking spaces required by code for sale and ownership units. “ T h e city council continued this item from Jan. 23 to Feb. 20, 2018, and directed staff to investigate if a parking program would alleviate the on-street parking concerns.”

On March 20, as a result of the staff ’s continued work with the community, she said the item continued off the calendar.

“The units are three bedrooms with three baths and a little less than 2,000 square feet,” she said. “The general plan allows 18-20 units per acre, and with the density bonus they can go up to 22 units, and they

are only asking for 20. This project complies with the city’s general plan and supports the low-income housing modernization and options promoting in-fill development.”

State law allows up to a 35 percent density bonus when there is 10 percent of the project dedicated to low-income units, five percent dedicated to very low 100 percent senior units or 10 percent moderateincome “for sale” units.

“Four of the residential units will

and the council’s hands are tied in terms of it being a ministerial action.”

The project has been conditioned to attach to the city’s utility infrastructure, she said, and reviewed by the development advisory committee and will be implementing improvements to address the needed sidewalk repairs immediately at the site.

“The internal circulation routes that are reviewed by the fire department are all in compliance with the d e p a r t m e n t’s requirements,” she said.

“There will be a homeowner’s association that will be responsible for the ownership and maintenance of all the on-site utilities, as well.”

Staff met with the community at four different times to address the parking concerns, she said, and there was a parking pilot program approved in 2006 that included all the s i ng l e - f am i l y homes on Campbell Way, Fairbourne Place, Clara Street, Clark Court, Dickens Drive, and Courtland Street.

“The residents were allowed, and the owner's tenants were allowed two permits and one guest permit every six months,” she said. “It was a voluntary program, and it was a permit-restricted to manage and monitor how parking was accommodated in that area.”

She said the South Winds Neighborhood Council asked the city to disband the program because

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APPROVES TOWNHOME DEVELOPMENT be low income which represents a 25 percent density bonus, and we’ve covered these components of the previous density bonus modifications and all of those are pursuant to state law,” she said.

"There is no mechanism to deny a density bonus request. We have a statutory requirement to approve the density bonus requirement. The density bonus requirement is clear in meeting the density code provisions,

it didn’t function well.

Owner Henry Casillas said they have been trying to move the South Winds project forward for a little over a year and said the project is more than a 20-unit development.

“What we are talking about is bringing investment to the south Oxnard Area, and we are in discussion right now with a supermarket chain that is interested in going out there,” he said. “We’re looking at trying to do some mixed-use projects in south Oxnard because we feel there needs to be further development in that area.”

He spoke to the largest property owners about a shared parking program on Hueneme Road, and the plan was to allow residents to use under-utilized parking for a monthly fee on Hueneme corridor.

The residents had concerns about the project because of crime, liability and payment collection concerns.

“Some of the property owners are doing that but are doing it on a bootleg basis, and that’s probably to avoid paying taxes on that, I’m not sure,” Casillas said.

Resident Kelly Ann Christianson said the residents of the South Winds community does not support the project, but they do support strategic developments in Oxnard.

“The developer is dodging city ordinances that are in place that protects us; we’re overlooking standard building codes with the density bonus parking, protection given to the city under density bonus that is there to protect us.”

Public works stalled in the area, which she said is documented.

“It’s not just about parking,” she said. I don’t want it to be boiled down to parking.”

Christianson said the development could be turned down if it has a significant adverse impact on the area.

“If we are already the most densely populated area in the county, we need to take that into consideration,” she said. “It’s already a public health crisis.”

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Water rates in Oxnard may rise in the future

By Chris Frost chris@tricountysentry.com Oxnard-- Part two of the groundwater pumping allocation story over the next two decades starts with an estimate of 100,000 acre-feet of water which means 60 percent will be allocated for agriculture and 40 percent will be assigned to Municipal and Industrial (M&I) needs.

“If we learn over time that we pump 60,000 acre-feet, then we are going to have to ramp down to 36,000 acre-feet by the year 2040,” Deputy City Manager Kiri Klima said. “That’s a huge decline for them.” Historically, she said the city had pumped 14-15,000 acre-feet of groundwater over the last few years, and 20,000 acre-feet work well for the city, but over time that will work into a tight fit.”

“On Oct. 12, the GMA (Groundwater Management Agency) presented an ordinance which rather than the industrial pumpers beginning at 40 percent of the allocation, the M&I began at 30

percent of the allocation and that is the 60/40 split.”

The city would pump consistently at 28,000 acre-feet until year 17, she said, and the GMA board responded with direction to start at 35,000 acre-feet, which she called a little bit better.

“That little difference between that 35,000 acre-feet starting level and the 40,000 acre-feet; over time we would be losing over 20,000 acrefeet of water in those seven years,” Klima said. “That translates into about $34.5 million if we have to buy that from the state.”

On Oct. 24, she said the GMA suggested different allocations that would preserve the 60/40 split, but they also wanted to add 15,000 acre-feet of pumping each year to agriculture for the Santa Clara River Diversion.

“The United Water Conservation District and the Pleasant Valley County Water District diverts surface water when there is water to divert and over the past few years, they haven’t been able to divert water,” she

said. ” The total ag pumping would be approximately 70,000 acre-feet a year, while M&I still begins at 36,000.

That’s no longer the 60/40 split.”

The GMA voiced concerned over the additional pumping during the Nov. 20, meeting, Klima said, and said the water could only be borrowed so United and Pleasant Valley would need to under pump and return the water.

“We need to see if the next version of the ordinance articulates that this water is borrowed and must be returned,” she said. “If it doesn’t say so, we can understand this is an allocation, not borrowing.”

The city also raised an issue about the water from the Cornejo Creek Project, which is recycled water taken from the City of Thousand Oaks Wastewater Treatment Plant and discharged into the Cornejo Creek Tributary.

“Because this project was supposed to be in lieu of the Pleasant Valley County Water District pumping groundwater, the GMA at the time determined that Pleasant

Valley would receive credit for every acre-foot of Cornejo Valley water delivered,” she said. The GMA board is tracing the water back and determined since the water pumping credits were transferred to United, that amount should be deducted from the users of United’s pipelines.

“In other words, the Oxnard allocation would have to be reduced because of this, rather than agriculture allocation,” she said. “We just met with the GMA staff on this issue this afternoon, (Jan. 15) and they informed us that they would not recommend this deduction. We hope the GMA board accepts this recommendation.”

The final goal, she said, would allow equitable borrowing and the ag pumpers want the flexibility to borrow against future allocations.

“From Oxnard’s perspective, that would be fine if it’s limited to a set amount per pumper, and they have a limited amount of time to return that,” she said. “We also require such flexibility.”

During council comments,

Councilman Bert Perello said the was a 20.000 acre-feet loss of water and wanted to know how many residents can be supplied by that much water.

“If we have ag-land that comes out of ag and into M&I, would the ag guys be benefitted great and the M&I guys be hurt more,” he asked.

Klima said if the water transfers from ag to M&I the allocation would go along with that.

“It’s not that M&I gets split up into smaller portions,” she said.

If the city had to buy the lost water, it would cost approximately $34.5 million. Councilman Bryan MacDonald said the city has the opportunity to double the output of the advanced water facility and put two more skids at the site.

“We can capitalize on the ability to sell that water to ag because state law doesn’t allow us to comingle it unless it sits for six months somewhere and then we bring it back in, test it and comingle it,” he said. “Maybe we can contact the state and see if we can get a rules change that allows us to comingle there.”

Martin Luther King Day in pictures

By Chris Frost chris@tricountysentry.com Oxnard—Martin Luther King Day, Jan 21, brought people off all races together to honor the dream of peace, respect and equality throughout the world.

The day started with a re-enactment of the Freedom March that started early at Plaza Park and culminated with music songs and fellowship at the Oxnard Perming Arts and Convention Center.

Memories

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OPED Elected Enemies—The Government Shutdown That’s Crippling America

By Jeffrey L. Boney Imagine having to choose between paying your mortgage and picking up the much-needed prescription for your health crisis because the job you report to and the federal resources you have relied on to live day to day are no longer available to you because of things beyond your control.

Choices like those, and many others, are exactly what approximately 800,000 federal employees, roughly 4 million federal government contractors and countless low-income families — who rely on the federal government assistance — have had to deal with since the beginning of what has become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. This has been the third shutdown of the federal government since President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office. However, as a result of the current catastrophic and life-altering shutdown, millions of the people who rely on the government for their livelihood — directly and indirectly — have been severely impacted.

People have had their Medicare and Medicaid disrupted. The stock market has been volatile.

Federal workers have gone without paychecks and are in danger of losing everything they have worked so hard for while attaining the American dream. Safety has also become an issue.

Our food supply is at risk.

As a result of the shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) immediately announced that they had stopped most of their routine food safety inspections because the staff had been working without pay, including safety inspections on foods that have been imported from overseas, dangerous recalls, foodborne illness outbreaks and much more.

Our drugs supply is at risk.

The FDA has stated that, because of the shutdown, they no longer have the ability to review new drugs that could be beneficial in helping people get better and/or address critical illnesses, until the government

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reopens.

Even our airports are at risk.

Just a few weeks ago, a passenger on Delta Air Lines, traveling from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Tokyo, Japan, informed authorities that he had inadvertently carried his loaded firearm through airport security and onto the plane. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed this problematic incident took place. There is increasing concern that unpaid TSA workers may not have the same level of focus and, perhaps even worse, many of them are not reporting to work.

Just this past week, the TSA checkpoint in Terminal B at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport was closed due to the number of TSA agents that called in sick, protest the shutdown.

Things are getting more and more out of hand.

On top of the potential safety issues impacting Americans, the financial strain this shutdown is putting on the American people, especially in large states like Texas, is devastating.

This government shutdown will

impact more than 3.5 million Texans who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits come February 2019.

SNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities.

SNAP is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.

According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, there were 3,580,375 people receiving SNAP benefits in Texas alone as of December 2018. Many African Americans and people of color are major beneficiaries of SNAP benefits in Texas.

Texas State Senator Borris L. Miles stated that while the shutdown is already hurting Texans all across the state, he believes it will hit the poorest Texans the hardest, because after February 2019, SNAP beneficiaries will no longer receive the necessary funds to purchase food.

“This is unacceptable,” said Miles.

“I am calling on the Texas leadership to make emergency preparations to help Texans on food stamps and other programs impacted by the shutdown. I am prepared to roll

up my sleeves and work with my colleagues to ensure we fund these programs adequately so that no Texan should go hungry.”

Senator Miles also sent a joint letter to President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make it clear that Texas is prepared to help those impacted in our state and expects to be reimbursed when the federal government reopens.

"This is not a Democratic or Republican issue, or a rural, urban or suburban issue, it's a poor people issue,” said Miles. “We need to do the right thing, help the poorest in our communities and minimize the impact of this shutdown.”

It is challenging to witness the very people who were elected to represent the American people, turn around and allow their personal politics and unconscionable political ideologies severely hurt the people they are supposed to serve — especially after being voted into office with the expectation of representing their constituents as advocates, not enemies.

The longer this government shutdown continues, the more the

American people will suffer and the more America as a whole will be at risk.

The American people must demand more from the federal officials who were elected to represent them. Americans, regardless of socioeconomic status, must let their federal legislators and the current White House administration know that things have gone too far and must get back to normal for the sake of the stability of the nation.

To hold the country hostage because President Trump can’t get his beloved wall across the southern border, when he stated from the onset that he would make the country of Mexico pay for it, is unfair and disingenuous. Subsequently, any elected official who cosigns this mode of thinking and action is equally as irresponsible.

It is time for all elected officials to stop playing chicken with the American people’s livelihoods and start doing what they were sent to Washington, DC to do: Act in the best interests of American citizens and stop playing the role of “Enemy of the People” that they were elected to serve.

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OPED Don’t Let Predatory Tax Loans Take Your Refunds

By Charlene Crowell For many consumers, the New Year brings an annual effort to file taxes early enough to help pay off big bills, replace major appliances or tuck away a few bucks for the proverbial ‘rainy day’.

With a continuing federal shutdown, this year there are also an estimated 800,000 federal workers who have not had a payday since December. For these consumers, an early tax refund could cover basic living needs like housing, food, child care and utilities.

And across the country, advertising – particularly on urban radio – tempts listeners with easy ways to get a loan against anticipated tax refunds. But just like other predatory lending products, what is advertised is not quite what consumers receive. Convenient taxrelated loans almost always come with a price that takes a big bite out of consumers’ money.

The bigger the refund, the more attentive and helpful “tax preparers” will be in helping with e-filing, the electronic processing that typically results in refunds in two to three business days. Once the size of the refund is known, these preparers encourage unsuspecting consumers to take out a short-term loan like a Refund Anticipation Loan (RAL).

Depository institutions like banks sell a ‘service’ known as a Refund Anticipating Check (RAC) that is most appealing to consumers who lack a bank account.

Neither product is as helpful as they appear.

RALs are usually marketed as an ‘advance’ instead of a loan. Instead of interest, many of these loans come with “fees” or a “finance charge.”

Conversely, a Refund Anticipation Check or RAC is sold as a temporary bank account that exists exclusively to receive the IRS refund. Once the refund reaches the consumer’s bank account, either a prepaid card or a check is issued by the depository institution. And once again, fees

taken out of the refund reduce the amount of monies that consumers actually receive.

The biggest target for both of these products are consumers with the largest refunds, especially those who are eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs), one of the few tax break programs available to lowto-moderate income consumers, and/or the Additional Child Tax Credit.

To be eligible for EITC, earned income and adjusted gross income can be as low as $15,270 for a single filer or head of household to as high as $54,884 for a married couple with three dependent children. This year, eligible EITC consumers could receive as much as $6,431 for families

with three or more qualifying children to $519 for single filers.

Similarly, the Child Tax Credit is available to eligible filers with children under the age of 17. For each dependent child meeting the age requirement, filers receive a $2,000 credit that like EITC reduces the amount of taxes owed.

In 2017, 1.7 million RALs were sold, and another 20.5 million RACs valued at a half billion dollars were also sold, according to the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC).

“Tax-time is hard enough for most Americans, but they also face consumer protection challenges,” noted Chi Chi Wu, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.

“They need to avoid incompetent

Convenient taxrelated loans almost always come with a price that takes a big bite out of consumers’ money. and abusive preparers and decide whether to choose financial products of varying costs.”

So how much financial sense does it make to purchase an ‘advance’ or open a temporary bank account

when the Internal Revenue Service can deposit the full refund into a checking account within two to three business days?

Just because a refund-advance product isn’t called a loan, or doesn’t have an interest rate, doesn’t mean it’s free, said Scott Astrada, the Center for Responsible Lending’s Director of Federal Advocacy.

“Carefully read the terms and conditions and ask plenty of questions”. Everyone who works for a living should be entitled not only to a paycheck but 100 percent of their tax refunds.

Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s Communications Deputy Director.

A Call to Conscience

By Marian Wright-Edelman January 15th would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 90th birthday. How should we honor him today? Earlier this month Dr. King’s personal attorney and friend Clarence Jones convened an intergenerational, interracial, interfaith group for the launch of the Gandhi King Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice to try to answer that question and issued “A Call to Conscience.” It opens: “Today, as we remember Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we watch in anguish as many achievements toward a more just and equal society we believed were secure are being eviscerated in front of our eyes.

“In this hour of constitutional crisis and moral emergency, do we wish to truthfully honor Dr. King’s life and further his legacy?

“If we wish to honor Dr. King, we must shake the foundations of our grotesquely unequal social and economic order. ‘We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values,’ he warned us. ‘We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.’”

Our nation is at a critical inflection point where evil and greed are running amok and it is

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not enough to simply celebrate Dr. King. We need to figure out what he would be doing right now and follow him through nonviolent action: from voting to organized protest.

"A Call to Conscience" goes on: “Dr. King’s mission was ‘to redeem the soul of America.’ His life’s work was to hold fast to the Spirit of the Lord and attend to the needs of ‘the least of these’—to help feed the hungry, provide shelter to the homeless, release the captives, free the oppressed, and to follow the Lord’s commandment to have no other gods before Me. Thus, Dr. King decried the blasphemy and idolatry of Americans who had increasingly come to worship ‘the false god of nationalism,’ a religion that ‘affirms that each nation is an absolute

sovereign unit acknowledging no control, save its own independent will.’ He warned us against the prophets and preachers of this false religion, specifically ‘the advocators of white supremacy, and the America First movements.’ To his Christian brothers and sisters, he declared: “One cannot worship this false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. The two are incompatible…’”

As usual our greatest American prophet’s prescient words speak to us right now.

"A Call to Conscience” continues: “Today we face the gravest danger to democracy and rule of law since 1877, when federal troops withdrew from the former Confederate states, crushing the hopes of former slaves that Reconstruction would bring

them equal rights as promised under the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. We believe that the threat of civil unrest and violence is higher today than at any time since the riots and uprisings that followed Dr. King’s assassination more than fifty years ago. If we do not pull our nation back from the brink, find ways to confirm our common humanity in all interactions and communications, and unite in the common struggle to defend the core principles of our democracy, we are at risk of moral, social and national collapse….” And it ends with the conviction that it is time for a massive new nonviolent movement for justice and peace to save America’s soul: “We will not stop until we eradicate the systemic violence

inflicted on our brothers and sisters, and all of us, by white supremacy, and the legacy of chattel slavery; mass incarceration and militarism at home and abroad; sexism and gender discrimination in all forms; poverty in America among children, their families and adults who are alone; hunger and homelessness in the cities and rural areas of America and throughout the world; the proliferation of guns and opioids into our communities; environmental degradation and the urgent threat of catastrophic climate change.

“Are we still able to hear Dr. King’s trumpet of conscience? Do we have the collective will to reset the course of our society to realize his vision of the Beloved Community?

“We have a choice today, and it is the same choice Dr. King identified before his death: ‘The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.’ The existential choice before us has become more urgent today than at any time in our lives since our beloved friend and pastor was assassinated more than fifty years ago.

“We cannot repair America and the world with hate, only with love.”

The choice is ours. Please honor Dr. King by identifying the ways you—as an individual and working collectively with others—will use this Call to Conscience from his friends as a call to urgent and sustained action.

Marian Wright Edelman is Founder and President Emerita of the Children's Defense Fund.

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who did not give her last name, said she supports the South Winds neighborhood council.

“I have friends in the area of South Winds, and it’s not fair to see the interests of the community not being taken into consideration by a private developer,” she said. “It would be best if the South Winds Neighborhood Council is listened to. This is another problem that is affecting all residents of Oxnard.”

Sofia Vega said the proposed development concerns her.

“Although we welcome

housing to alleviate the crowding in south Oxnard, it is important to point out several things,” she said.

“These units will have a twocar tandem garage there is not a guarantee that everybody will use those two spaces, so guess what? They are going to go everywhere else, and they don’t have guest parking.”

City Attorney Stephen Fischer said its worth looking into why the legislature passed the laws and read the legislative intent statement they codified when they did the Housing Accountability

Act. “The legislator’s intent when enacting this section in 1982 expanded its provisions since then significantly and increased the approval and construction of new housing for all economic sections of California communities by meaningfully and effectively curbing the ability of local governments to deny, reduce the density or render infeasible housing development projects,” he said. “This intent has not been fulfilled, so the legislature keeps increasing the incentives to developers

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as well as sticks to local governments to approve these projects.”

He said if the city denies the project under state law, the court can order compliance in 60 days and if the court finds the agency acted in bad faith the court can impose a fine of $10,000 per unit.

Councilman Oscar Madrigal said he would use more than three minutes allotted by Mayor Tim Flynn and doesn’t want to shut anyone out. Flynn said he is running the meeting, and no one is getting shut out.

On that comment, Madrigal left the dais.

Councilwoman Gabriela Basua said it is a tough issue and she knows the struggles in the south area and the parking struggles.

“This plan does allow for the density bonus, and it also allows for developers to come into our area,” she said. “I drive through this area on a daily basis, and I make it a point to go through Hueneme Road, and it is an undeveloped area, and it has been neglected for many years. Part of my campaign was to bring development int this undeveloped area, not to make it overwhelming for our residents, but to make it a community where we can

all walk to our neighborhood stores.”

She is committed to working with the neighborhood to address the parking issues, but she it goes way beyond this development.

“I must support his project because I believe it will benefit this community,” she said.

Mayor Pro Tem Carmen Ramirez thanked everyone who came out and said she understands the crowding issue in the neighborhood.

“The fact is the city would be in a difficult situation to deny this project because the developer has complied,” she said. “I do believe we need housing, and this is home ownership.”

Councilman Bryan MacDonald said he’s talked to people on both sides and no matter what decision they make someone is going to be unhappy.

“I realize there is an exemption for health safety and welfare, but I don’t think I have heard enough to get us to that exemption and get us to that level, so I am going to support this,” he said.

Councilman Bert Perello said the neighborhood voted to do away with the parking issue and there was a contradictory statement the parking issue was deemed

illegal.

“My city attorney when I spoke to him told me that he didn’t know the answer to that question, but I can’t make a decision until I get an answer to that question,” he said.

Council member Vianey Lopez said this is not an easy issue.

“We have a housing problem in the State of California, and you might have heard in public comments the governor’s suggestion that we are meeting our housing needs,” she said. “I understand the concerns that have been brought forward.”

She wanted to know if the area residents can get priority, so they don’t bring in more cars or traffic.

“I think from a real estate background, I don’t think we can do any specialized outreach to one population and discriminate against another population,” Casillas said. “In the past, I have worked on five different affordable housing projects and what we would love to do is engage early-on with the community to see how many pre-qualify.”

Madrigal returned to the dais and spoke on behalf of the project.

Flynn said he committed to the South Winds neighborhood and he will uphold that commitment.

My daughter works for Kamala Harris, and today, on Martin Luther King Day, she announced that she is running for president.”

Irwin said the civil rights movement had made much progress, but more work needs to be done.

“There is a lot of division in this country, and as a community, it is so important that we all come together and be sure that we continue the progress of justice for all,” she said. “We all have our favorite Martin Luther King quote, by my favorite is what are you doing for others?”

She told the crowd to ask that question of themselves.

Assemblywoman Monique Limon noted how far the legislature has come and said three women are leading the state legislature which has plenty to do with Dr. King.

“We would not have the leadership that we have and wouldn’t see the diversity that I am looking at right now if it weren’t for people who paved

a road for us,” she said. “We opened up today’s march with a prayer that focused on love, hope, and faith and we look at what we need today to get through some of the challenging moments, and that’s exactly what we need, love, hope, and faith.”

County Supervisor John Zaragoza was honored to be part of the Martin Luther King Day Celebration and presented the Martin Luther King Committee of Ventura County a certificate.

“Whatever affects one affects all of us indirectly,” he read. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Mayor Pro Tem Carmen Ramirez told the crowd that Oxnard loves diversity.

“This is an important day,” she said. “We have a lot of work to do in our country, and the work never stops. The only thing that will drive out hate is love, and that’s what Martin Luther King said.”

Newly Elected Ventura City Council Member Lorrie Brown said she wants to move the city forward in the vision Martin Luther King had.

“We represent the first democratic majority, the first female majority and the first African-American woman t be voted onto city council ever,” she said. “Martin Luther King Jr. came to California 51 years ago today to speak at Cal Tech, and he delivered a message of progressiveness in the new age, and this is what we need to pay attention to.”

King spoke about love, she said, but noted that he was a leader and a fighter.

“He did not fight with his hands, but with his words and with his movement,” she said.

“I am here as a testament to that.”

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ACROSS 1. Bird hangout 6. Loquacious person's gift?

9. Columbus launcher 13. Nebraska's largest city 14. Not a thing 15. Hispaniola republic 16. Shmear holder 17. Brouhaha 18. Court call 19. *Gaga and Cooper hit 21. *The Recording ____ 23. *Drake's "Nice ____ What" 24. Doe's mate 25. *Best New Artist, 1983: ____ at Work 28. Aquarium show star 30. *"Why don't you just meet me in the ____" 35. Line of symmetry 37. Itty-bitty bit 39. Unwelcome message on computer screen 40. Roll call call 41. *"Reputation" artist 43. "The Bridges of Madison County" state 44. Implant 46. Delhi wrap 47. Politicians, for short 48. Isaac of science fiction fame 50. *Grammy Hall of Fame's "Sixteen ____" 52. Sodium solution 53. French Riviera city 55. Trigonometry abbr.

57. Danced to Miami Sound Machine in 1985 61. *____ Center 65. Bay window 66. Poor man's caviar 68. Home to BYU 69. Dished out 70. Three strikes 71. Like yesterday's meal 72. '80s sitcom "Who's the ____?"

73. *"____ Robinson," 1968 74. Giving up the ghost

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DOWN 1. Ugly crowds 2. Wet nurse 3. Indian music 4. Elf 's perch 5. Inciting call to a hunting hound 6. Bite like a beaver 7. A hand 8. Swell up 9. Persian backgammon 10. Adjutant 11. Type of cell 12. Well-ventilated 15. Deli offering 20. Florentine iris 22. Tucker of "Modern Family" 24. Fill to satisfaction 25. *Fall Out boy's album 26. End-of-semester events 27. Nimbus, pl.

29. Hang out till these come home?

31. Type of coffee maker

32. Salivate 33. Humble 34. Make blank 36. Appear to be 38. Bushy do 42. Color lightly 45. *Childish Gambino's name 49. *What nominees do 51. Like lathered hands 54. Read-only memory device 56. Aerosol can emanation 57. Toothy groomer 58. Three-ply dunker 59. Lice eggs 60. *Bee ____, multiple awards winner 61. Series of reps, pl.

62. "Laughing on the inside" text 63. Fifty-fifty 64. *____ of the Year 67. Partaker's pronoun

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“It’s important that we stand together as a community and nation to try and heal the bonds,” she said. “We have seen so much this past year in Ventura County; we’ve had fires, we’ve had a horrific shooting in our state. In our nation, we see the fabric of our society being torn apart by those who try to divide us rather than unite us.”

She thinks of Dr. King, his courage and his “I have a dream” speech in Washington and remembers the moments of excitement and enthusiasm.

“We have to re-ignite that sense of hope,” she said.

Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin also attended the event, loved the big crowd on-hand and applauded the organizers.

“As we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, it’s important that we remember the others who fought for justice; Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges, Thurgood Marshall.

Foot soldiers, to name a few and, of course, our previous president, Barack Obama.

SODOKU SOLUTION

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LEGAL T.S. No. 029601-CA APN: 679-0-082095 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 3/12/2007.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 2/7/2019 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP., as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 3/19/2007, as Instrument No. 20070319-00057218-0, , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Ventura County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: MOHAMMAD REZA HADJI ALIKHANI AND ELAHEH AMOUEI AS TRUSTEES OF THE MOHAMMAD REZA HADJI ALIKHANI AND ELAHEH AMOUEI 2005 TRUST DATED FEBRUARY 4, 2005 WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: Auction.com Room, Four Points

by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001 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: LOT 29 OF TRACT NO. 1539-1, IN THE CITY OF THOUSAND OAKS, COUNTY OF VENTURA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 37 PAGES 70 TO 75, INCLUSIVE OF MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDED OF SAID COUNTY. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1990 RAYSHIRE STREET THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA 91362 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 held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured 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: $1,853,490.63 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor 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 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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.AUCTION.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 029601-CA. 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. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (800) 280-2832 CLEAR RECON CORP. 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 SchId:74137 AdId:24711 CustId:670 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-18-839905-AB Order No.: 8744302 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/29/2012. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below.

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The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): THOMAS KIM, A SINGLE MAN Recorded: 7/12/2012 as Instrument No. 20120712-00122110-0 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of VENTURA County, California; Date of Sale: 2/7/2019 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001, in the Auction. com Room Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $244,066.40 The purported property address is: 1126 KEY WEST CT, OXNARD, CA 93030-6781 Assessor's Parcel No.: 202-0-341-315 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 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 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-18-839905-AB. 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. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-18-839905-AB IDSPub #0148738 1/11/2019 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 SchId:74110 AdId:24713 CustId:608 -----------File No.: 20181214-10022646-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Willis Law Group 2. Insurance Claim Specialist 4841 Shoreline Way Oxnard, CA 93035 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Joshua N. Willis, Attorney at Law APC 21700 Oxnard Street #1590 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 This Business is conducted by: 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/Joshua Willis 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 12/31/2018.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74118 AdId:24716 CustId:938 -----------File No.: 20181212100224530 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Danicures 43 w thousand oaks blvd studio 16 Thousand oaks , CA 91360 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant:

1. Danielle Meisenheimer 43 w thousand oaks blvd studio 16 Thousand oaks , CA 91360 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2019.

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/Danielle Meisenheimer 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 12/12/2018.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74133 AdId:24721 CustId:939 -----------Amended Order To Show Cause For Change of Name Case No. 56-2018-00521075-CU-PTVTA To All Interested Persons: Travis Michael Cooper & Amanda Michelle Cooper filed a petition with this court for behalf of Logan Riley Cooper, a minor, for a decree changing names as follows: 1 PRESENT NAME: Logan Riley Cooper PROPOSED NAME: Logan Michael Cooper The Court Orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice Of Hearing Date: 2/19/2019 Time: 8:30 AM Dept.

40. The address of the court is Superior Court of Ventura, 800 Victoria Ave., Ventura, CA 93009. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: TriCounty Sentry Date: 12/31/2018 MICHAEL D. PLANET Ventura Superior Court SchId:74140 AdId:24722 CustId:743 -----------File No.: 20190104100002720 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Duty Bound Goods 648 Binnacle Street Oxnard, CA 93035 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Corey Lamar Johnson 648 Binnacle Street Oxnard, CA 93035 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 11/04/2018.

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/01/04/2019 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/4/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74156 AdId:24727 CustId:941 -----------File No.: 20190103-10000128-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Bio-Technical Services 2. Neurotechnical Services 968 S. Coast HWY #343 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 ORANGE COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Bio-Technical Services, LLC 1968 S. Coast HWY #343 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 This Business is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 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/Amy Mesick 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/3/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74160 AdId:24728 CustId:942 -----------File No.: 20190107-10000351-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. DESIRE'S ENERGY CONSERVATION 2220 ISABELLA ST OXNARD, CA 93036 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. DESIRE ANN AYALA 2220 ISABELLA ST OXNARD, CA 93036 This Business is conducted by: 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/DESIRE ANN AYALA 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/7/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74164 AdId:24729 CustId:943 -----------File No.: 20190107-10000292 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Family Management Services 1242 Carlsbad Place Ventura, CA 93003 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Gail Ocheltree 1242 Carlsbad Place Ventura, CA 93003 This Business is conducted by: 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/Gail Ocheltree 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/7/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74168 AdId:24730 CustId:944 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF EMMA MAXINE CROSSLEY Case No. 56-2018-00522294-PR-LAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of EMMA MAXINE CROSSLEY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARTIN CROSSLEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the

authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/13/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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.

KENNETH W. KOSSOFF, ESQ. (SBN 111108) PANITZ & KOSSOFF, LLP 5743 CORSA AVENUE SUITE 208 WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362 Phone: 818-865-0766 SchId:74172 AdId:24731 CustId:747 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CURTIS T. CARLSON Case No. 56-2018-00522289-PR-PWOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CURTIS T. CARLSON. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by WILLIAM T. CARLSON in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that WILLIAM T. CARLSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/13/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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.

Law Office of Raymond L. Stuehrmann Raymond L. Stuehrmann, Esq. (SBN 067733) 100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite 231 Thousand Oaks CA 91360 Phone: 805-230-1288 Fax: 805-2301291 SchId:74175 AdId:24732 CustId:695 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JACQUELINE LAURA WORTMAN Case No. 56-2019-00522964-PR-LAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JACQUELINE LAURA WORTMAN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JIMMY A. VASQUEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JIMMY A. VASQUEZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/13/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 93036.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written ob-

jections 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.

Jeanne M. Kvale, Esq. (SBN 180457) HATHAWAY, PERRETT, WEBSTER, POWERS, ET AL. 5450 Telegraph Road Suite 200 Ventura CA 93003 Phone: 805-644-7111 Fax: 805-6448296 SchId:74178 AdId:24733 CustId:753 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DONALD ALTON NISBET JR. Case No. 56-2019-00522978-PRPWOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DONALD ALTON NISBET JR..

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by DIANA NISBET in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

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

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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.

AMBER RODRIGUEZ, ESQ. (SBN 220876) LAW OFFICES OF AMBER RODRIGUEZ 468 POLI STREET, STE. 2F, VENTURA, CA 93001 P.O. BOX 24295, VENTURA CA 93002 Phone: 805-643-4200 Fax: 805-6434201 SchId:74181 AdId:24734 CustId:770 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF BARBARA K. COLEMAN AKA BARBARA KRUMMEL COLEMAN Case No. 56-2019-00522876-PR-LAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BARBARA K. COLEMAN AKA BARBARA KRUMMEL COLEMAN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by URSULA C. KRUMMEL in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that URSULA C. KRUMMEL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/7/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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

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LEGAL 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.

LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS E. MALLEY SAMANTHA W. KOOPMAN, ESQ. SBN 310227 1200 PASEO CAMARILLO, STE. 295 CAMARILLO CA 93010 Phone: 805-482-2199 Fax: 805-3897375 SchId:74184 AdId:24735 CustId:787 -----------T.S. No. 072143-CA APN: 596-0-202105 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 12/8/2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 2/13/2019 at 11:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 12/15/2006, as Instrument No. 20061215-00263152-0, , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Ventura County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: JOHN M RADFORD AND BEVERLY A RADFORD HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: AT THE MAIN FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER HALL OF JUSTICE LOCATED AT 800 S. VICTORIA AVE., VENTURA, CA 93003 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: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 285 MILL COURT SIMI VALLEY, CA 93065 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 held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured 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: $842,665.04 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor 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 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 (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING. COM, using the file number assigned to this case 072143-CA. 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. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 SchId:74188 AdId:24737 CustId:670 ------------

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TSG No.: 8734725 TS No.: CA1800283425 FHA/VA/PMI No.: APN: 160-0-271-295 Property Address: 890 Via Marquesa Camarillo, CA 93012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/15/2009. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 01/31/2019 at 11:00 A.M., First American Title Insurance Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 04/23/2009, as Instrument No. 20090423-000645010, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of VENTURA County, State of California.

Executed by: CHRISTOPHER SAWYER AND SINDY SAWYER HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS JOINT TENANTS, 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 State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 160-0-271-295 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 890 Via Marquesa , Camarillo, CA 93012 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 $324,832.14. 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 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 CA1800283425 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 DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)9390772NPP0346746 To: TRICOUNTY SENTRY 01/11/2019, 01/18/2019, 01/25/2019 SchId:74192 AdId:24738 CustId:68 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JAMES M. MCDONALD Case No. 56-2018-00520138-PRLAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JAMES M. MCDONALD A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Bryan McDonald in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Bryan McDonald be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent

administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 31, 2019 at 9:00 AM in Dept.

No. J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard, 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: DAVID R SCHNEIDER ESQ SBN 204578 LAW OFFICES OF DAVID R SCHNEIDER APC 325 E HILLCREST DR STE 195 THOUSAND OAKS CA 91360 CN956749 MCDONALD Jan 11,18,25, 2019 SchId:74197 AdId:24741 CustId:65 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-18-838852-BF Order No.: DS730018002267 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/2/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below.

The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Todd Titcomb, a married man as his sole and separate property Recorded: 8/9/2005 as Instrument No. 20050809-0196593 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of VENTURA County, California; Date of Sale: 2/14/2019 at 11:00AM Place of Sale: 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 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $379,081.69 The purported property address is: 1621 GLIDER COURT, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 Assessor's Parcel No.: 667-0280-235 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 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 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-18838852-BF. 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. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's

Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 916939-0772 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-18-838852-BF IDSPub #0149010 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 2/1/2019 SchId:74202 AdId:24743 CustId:608 -----------File No.: 20181227-10023283-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. CHAVEZ LANDSCAPING 746 S. G ST., APT. C OXNARD, CA 93030 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. MARINO CHAVEZ RODRIGUEZ 746 S. G ST., APT. C OXNARD, CA 93030 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2019.

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/MARINO CHAVEZ RODRIGUEZ 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 12/27/2018.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74221 AdId:24746 CustId:693 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-18-832837-JB Order No.: 180315278-CAVOI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 5/8/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): RUTH ARMSTRONG, AS SURVIVING JOINT TENANT Recorded: 5/10/2007 as Instrument No. 20070510-00096162-0 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of VENTURA County, California; Date of Sale: 2/19/2019 at 11:00AM Place of Sale: 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 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $389,114.53 The purported property address is: 4128 VALLEY SPRING DR, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91362-4264 Assessor's Parcel No.: 690-0-070-025 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 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 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-18832837-JB. 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. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 916939-0772 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-18-832837-JB IDSPub #0149077 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 2/1/2019 SchId:74224 AdId:24747 CustId:608 -----------File No.: 20190108-10000372-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. DIANE'S INTERIORS 2. DIANE'S INTERIORS & WINDOW FASHIONS 936 BRIGHTSTONE COURT WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA 91361 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. DIANE FLAM 936 BRIGHTSTONE COURT WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA 91361 This Business is conducted by: 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/DIANE FLAM 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/8/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74228 AdId:24748 CustId:693 -----------File No.: 20190109100004600 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Anam Cara End of Life Services 155 South G Street Oxnard, CA 93030 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Robin Annette Fontana Kent 155 South G Street Oxnard, CA 93030 This Business is conducted by: 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/Robin Annette Fontana Kent 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/9/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74232 AdId:24749 CustId:945 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ROBERT LEE STERLING Case No. 56-2018-00522237-PRLAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ROBERT LEE STERLING A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Rodney Allen Sterling in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Rodney Allen Sterling be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This

authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 31, 2019 at 9:00 AM in Dept.

No. J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard, 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: GREGORY L LARSON ESQ SBN 61830 LAW OFFICES OF GREGORY L LARSON APC 30423 CANWOOD ST STE 103 AGOURA HILLS CA 91301 CN956550 STERLING Jan 11,18,25, 2019 SchId:74236 AdId:24750 CustId:65 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DAVID S. LUDWIG Case No. 56-2018-00521196-PRLAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DAVID S. LUDWIG A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Judith Ludwig in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Judith Ludwig be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on January 31, 2019 at 9:00 AM in Dept.

No. J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard, 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: FABIOLA B KARLS ESQ SBN 236997 LAW OFFICES OF ESTHER HOPKINS PC 2393 TOWNSGATE RD STE 201 WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91361 CN955777 LUDWIG Jan 11,18,25, 2019 SchId:74239 AdId:24751 CustId:65 -----------File No.: 20190111100007040 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Boulevard Optometry 2. Blvd Optometry 2316 East Ventura Blvd Camarillo, CA 93010 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Boulevard Optometry Inc 2316 E. Ventura Blvd Camarillo, CA 93010 This Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/11/2019.

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/Michael Buffo NOTICE - In accordance with subdivi-

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LEGAL sion (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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/11/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74251 AdId:24757 CustId:946 -----------File No.: 20190102-10000022-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. HARTLEY, MAXWELL, ET. AL. 2. HARTLEY, MAXWELL, CASTELLANO & LAMAS 5700 RALSTON STREET, SUITE 210 VENTURA, CA 93003 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. CARLA HARTLEY LAW, APLC 5700 RALSTON STREET, SUITE 210 VENTURA, CA 93003 This Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/15/2018.

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/CARLA L. HARTLEY, PRESIDENT 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/2/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74273 AdId:24761 CustId:693 -----------T.S. No. 072217-CA APN: 666-0-171065 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 5/30/2017. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 3/7/2019 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 6/12/2017, as Instrument No. 20170612-00075038-0, , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Ventura County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: SUSAN MILLER, MARRIED WOMAN AS HER SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN

BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: Auction.com Room, Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001 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: MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 3091 DELACODO AVE NEWBURY PARK (aka THOUSAND OAKS), CALIFORNIA 91320 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 held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured 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: $603,131.14 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor 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,

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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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.AUCTION. COM, using the file number assigned to this case 072217-CA. 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. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (800) 280-2832 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 SchId:74276 AdId:24762 CustId:670 -----------File No.: 20190103-10000104-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. PRINTING IMPRESSIONS 4893 MCGRATH STREET VENTURA, CA 93003 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. NATIONAL GRAPHICS, LLC 4893 MCGRATH STREET VENTURA, CA 93003 This Business is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 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/MICHAEL SCHER, PRESIDENT 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/3/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74283 AdId:24764 CustId:947 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-13-607556-JP Order No.: 160178716-CAVOI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 8/19/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below.

The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): MERLE B WILKINS, A WIDOW Recorded: 9/2/2005 as Instrument No. 20050902-0220263 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of VENTURA County, California; Date of Sale: 2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001, in the Auction.com Room Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $818,893.78 The purported property address is: 510 ROSARIO DRIVE, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 913622237 Assessor's Parcel No.: 670-0022-205 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 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 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http:// www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-13-607556-JP. 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. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-13-607556-JP IDSPub #0149169 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 2/1/2019 SchId:74290 AdId:24766 CustId:608 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-18-830973-JB Order No.: 180281125-CAVOI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/23/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below.

The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): SELESTINO A. SANTOS AND MARIBEL SANTOS, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Recorded: 6/30/2006 as Instrument No. 20060630-0139102 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of VENTURA County, California; Date of Sale: 2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001, in the Auction.com Room Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $499,310.51 The purported property address is: 3651 LA COSTA PLACE, OXNARD, CA 93033 Assessor's Parcel No.: 219-0-351-045 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 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 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site http:// www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-18-830973-JB. 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. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if

any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio South San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-18-830973-JB IDSPub #0149227 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 2/1/2019 SchId:74293 AdId:24767 CustId:608 -----------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. 133079 Title No. 7301705186-70 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 09/05/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 02/19/2019 at 11:00 AM, The Mortgage Law Firm, PLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 09/13/2006, as Instrument No. 20060913-00192587-0, in book xx, page xx, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Ventura County, State of California, executed by Mark A. Davis, a Married Man as His Sole and Separate Property, 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), At the main entrance to the Government Center Hall of Justice, 800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura, CA 93003. 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: FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE DEED OF TRUST. APN 171-0-324-065 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 5116 Colony Drive, Camarillo, CA 93012 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, if any, 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: $917,051.86 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. Dated: 10/24/2018 THE MORTGAGE LAW FIRM, PLC Adriana Durham/Authorized Signature 27455 Tierra Alta Way, Ste. B, Temecula, CA 92590 (619) 465-8200 FOR TRUSTEE'S SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (800) 758-8052 The Mortgage Law Firm, PLC. may be attempting to collect a debt.

Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. 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 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 (800) 758-8052 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site - www.homesearch. com - for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case: 133079. 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. A-4674315 01/25/2019, 02/01/2019, 02/08/2019 SchId:74295 AdId:24768 CustId:64

-----------File No.: 20181227-10023313-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. SPECIAL DELIVERY FRAMES 2. SPECIAL DELIVERY FRAME SUPPLIES 1534 N. Moorpark Road, #165 Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. DAVID LEE HEYMAN 3152 Big Sky Drive Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/01/2008.

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/DAVID LEE HEYMAN 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 12/27/2018.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74299 AdId:24770 CustId:949 -----------File No.: 20190107-10000329-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Echo Peak Studios 2905 Deacon St. #20 Simi Valley, CA 93065 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Zachary Cheney 2905 Deacon st. #20 Simi Valley, CA 93065 2. Jakob Padilla 9509 Delco Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 This Business is conducted by: GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2019.

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/Jabob Padilla 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/7/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74304 AdId:24771 CustId:950 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARLENE P. DICKEY AKA MARLENE PAULETRA DICKEY Case No. 56-2019-00523072-PR-PWOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARLENE P. DICKEY AKA MARLENE PAULETRA DICKEY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by GEORGE E. DICKEY AKA GEORGE EARL DICKEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that GEORGE E. DICKEY AKA GEORGE EARL DICKEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/20/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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 DE154) 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.

Law Office of Eva Prince Weiss Eva Prince Weiss (SBN 222992) 290 Maple Court, Suite 118 Ventura CA 93003 Phone: 805-654-0332 Fax: 805-6426520 SchId:74308 AdId:24772 CustId:951 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CAROLINE L. OLLER AKA CAROLINE L. HAWKINS Case No. 56-2019-00523307-PR-PWOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CAROLINE L. OLLER AKA CAROLINE L. HAWKINS. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by BEVERLY FINCH in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

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

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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 DE154) 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.

AMBER RODRIGUEZ, ESQ. (SBN 220876) LAW OFFICES OF AMBER RODRIGUEZ 468 POLI STREET, STE. 2F P.O. BOX 24295 VENTURA CA 93002 Phone: 805-643-4200 Fax: 805-6434201 SchId:74311 AdId:24773 CustId:770 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EMIL HABALIK CASE NO. 19STPB00201 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of EMIL HABALIK. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by EVA EMILIA CRABB in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that EVA EMILIA CRABB be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 02/08/19 at 8:30AM in Dept. 67 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 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

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LEGAL 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 ROZSA GYENE - SBN 208356 LAW OFFICES OF ROZSA GYENE 450 N. BRAND BLVD. SUITE 623 GLENDALE CA 91203 1/18, 1/25, 2/1/19 CNS-3213636# TRICOUNTY SENTRY SchId:74314 AdId:24774 CustId:61 -----------File No.: 20190115100009060 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. HILL FAMILY CHILDCARE 2141 WANKEL WAY #300 OXNARD, CA 93036 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. LAKISHA HILL 2141 WANKEL WAY #300 OXNARD, CA 93036 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/15/2019.

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/LAKISHA HILL 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/15/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74317 AdId:24775 CustId:952 -----------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOSE GUADALUPE COVARRUBIAS Case No. 56-2019-00523039-PR-LAOXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOSE GUADALUPE COVARRUBIAS. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARIA COVARRUBIAS in the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura.

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

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on 2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM in Department J6 located at 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard, California 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 DE154) 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.

Jeanne M. Kvale, Esq. (SBN 180457) HATHAWAY, PERRETT, WEBSTER, POWERS, ET AL. 5450 Telegraph Road Suite 200 Ventura CA 93003 Phone: 805-644-7111 Fax: 805-644-8296 SchId:74327 AdId:24778 CustId:753 -----------STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 20190108-10000395-0 The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name: SIANY, 968-8 Westlake Blvd., West-

Tri County Sentry (January 25, 2019).indd 10

lake Village, CA 91361.

The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed in Ventura County on 3/16/18.

FILE NO. 20180316-10004727-0.

Full name of Registrant: 1. NYLB, INC., 968-8 Westlake Blvd., Westlake Village, CA 91361.

This business is conducted by a corporation. /s/ CAREN LEIB, VICE-PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura County on 01/08/2019.

SchId:74330 AdId:24779 CustId:65 -----------File No.: 20190118-10001134-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Agile Time Coach 2593 Poli Street Ventura, CA 93003 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Andrew Story 2593 Poli St Ventura, CA 93003 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/18/2019.

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/Andrew R Story 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/18/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74356 AdId:24792 CustId:954 -----------Order To Show Cause For Change of Name Case No. 56-2019-00523312-CU-PTVTA To All Interested Persons: Saurez Jr Name Change filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1 PRESENT NAME: Emmanuel Saurez Jr PROPOSED NAME: Todd Michael Butler The Court Orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice Of Hearing Date: 2/27/2019 Time: 8:20 AM Dept.

21. The address of the court is Superior Court of Ventura, 800 Victoria Ave., Ventura, CA 93009. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: TriCounty Sentry Date: 1/9/2019 MICHAEL D. PLANET Ventura Superior Court SchId:74366 AdId:24795 CustId:955 -----------Order To Show Cause For Change of Name Case No. 56-2019-00523508-CU-PTVTA To All Interested Persons: Gunka Name Change filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1 PRESENT NAME: Ronald Lloyd Gunka PROPOSED NAME: Ronald Lloyd Langhurst The Court Orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice Of Hearing Date: 3/4/2019 Time: 8:20 AM Dept.

41. The address of the court is Superior Court of Ventura, 800 Victoria Ave., Ventura, CA 93009. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: TriCounty Sentry Date: 1/14/2019 MICHAEL D. PLANET Ventura Superior Court SchId:74370 AdId:24796 CustId:956 -----------T.S. No. 18-53421 APN: 164-0-061-065 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 7/19/2005.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CON-

TACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: JORGE GUERRERO, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE & SEPARATE PROPERTY Duly Appointed Trustee: Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 8/1/2005, as Instrument No. 20050801-0188151, The subject Deed of Trust was modified by Loan Modification Agreement recorded as Instrument 20111003-00145742-0 and recorded on 10/3/2011; further modified by Home Affordable Modification Agreement recorded as Instrument 20130509-00084882-0 recorded on 5/9/2013;further modified

by Home Affordable Modification Agreement recorded as Instrument 2014010300000928-0 recorded on 1/3/2014; further modified by Loan Modification Agreement recorded as Instrument 20151029-00160148-0 recorded on 10/29/2015, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Ventura County, California, Date of Sale:2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Auction.com Room, Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $563,641.15 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1087 SKEEL DRIVE CAMARILLO, California 93010 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust.

A.P.N #.: 164-0-061-065 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

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 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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site www.auction. com, using the file number assigned to this case 18-53421. 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.

Dated: 1/21/2019 Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For NonAutomated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (800) 280-2832 www.auction.com Andrew Buckelew, Trustee Sale Officer THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE EPP 27892 Pub Dates 01/25, 02/01, 02/08/2019 SchId:74377 AdId:24798 CustId:108 -----------File No.: 20190107100003200 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Nyberg Landscape & Maintenance 293 Melrose Dr. Oxnard, CA 93035 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Nicholas Nyberg 293 Melrose Dr.

Oxnard, CA 93035 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/25/2019.

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/Nicholas Nyberg 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/21/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74380 AdId:24799 CustId:957 -----------File No.: 20190122-10001219-0 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 1. Mani Pedis Express 2111 Hermosa Way Oxnard, CA 93036 VENTURA COUNTY Full Name of Registrant: 1. Tina Do 2111 Hermosa Way Oxnard, CA 93036 This Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/22/2019.

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/Tina Do 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 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 and Professions Code).

THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF VENTURA ON 1/22/2019.

MARK A. LUNN SchId:74385 AdId:24801 CustId:958 -----------Escrow No. 14911 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Notice pursuant to UCC Sec. 6105) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made.

The name(s) and business address of the seller are: NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PHARMACY, INC., a California Corporation, By: Amani B. Hishmeh, President, 960 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA 93023 Doing business as: MEDICINE SHOPPE All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years as stated by the seller(s), are: None The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PHARMACY, INC., a California Corporation, By: Amani B. Hishmeh, President, 960 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA 93023 The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: HEALTH AID UNLIMITED, a California Corporation, By: Farzad Farkhani, President, 4737 Brewster Drive, Tarzana, CA 91356 The assets being sold are generally described as: inventory, furniture, fixtures, trade fixtures, equipment, contract rights, computer hardware and software, customer and client lists, prescription files and records, telephone numbers and fax numbers, supplies, trade name, goodwill, intellectual property, websites, domain names, social media accounts, email addresses covenant not to compete, leasehold improvements, signs, etc. and are located at: 960 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA 93023 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of JEAN ALLEN ESCROW CO., INC., 3341 Cerritos Ave., Los Alamitos, CA 90720 and the anticipated sale date is February 22, 2019 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2. (If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.)

The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is JEAN ALLEN ESCROW CO., INC. 3341 Cerritos Ave., Los Alamitos, CA 90720 and the last day for filing claims by any creditor shall be February 21, 2019, which is the business day before the anticipated sale date specified above.

Dated: December 13, 2018 HEALTH AID UNLIMITED, a California Corporation, By: Farzad Farkhani, President, Buyer(s) CN956937 14911 Jan 25, 2019 SchId:74405 AdId:24806 CustId:65 -----------County of Los Angeles Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services (WDACS) Invitation for Bids Solicitation Release Date: Friday, January 25, 2019

Solicitation No.: AAALTCOP-1920 IFB Services: LongTerm Care Ombudsman Program Services Mandatory Bidders' Conference: Friday, February 8, 2019 from 2:00 p.m.

- 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time (or until all questions have been answered, whichever is sooner) WDACS 3175 West 6th Street, Room 105 Los Angeles, CA 90020-1708 Bid Due Date/Time: Monday, February 25, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) Pacific Time Additional details are available online: https://wdacs.lacounty.gov/ (Business Opportunities/Doing Business with WDACS) Direct all questions to: aaarfp@wdacs.lacounty.gov Internet access is available at County libraries.

CN956930 LTCOP Jan 25, 2019 SchId:74406 AdId:24807 CustId:65 -----------T.S. No. 18-50386 APN: 152-0-160-235 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12/15/2005.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: SHERRY MANNELLO, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 12/21/2005, as Instrument No. 20051221-0311607, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Ventura County, California, Date of Sale:2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Auction.com Room, Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,884,554.51 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 6 8 ENCINO AVENUE CAMARILLO, California 93010 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust A.P.N #.: 152-0-160-235 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

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 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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site www.auction. com, using the file number assigned to this case 18-50386. 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.

Dated: 1/21/2019 Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For NonAutomated Sale Information,

call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (800) 280-2832 www.auction.com Andrew Buckelew, Trustee Sale Officer THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE EPP 27891 Pub Dates 01/25, 02/01, 02/08/2019 SchId:74407 AdId:24808 CustId:108 -----------T.S. No. 18-53879 APN: 618-0-142-115 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 6/19/2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The 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 the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: NILDA R. CORONA, A SINGLE WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 6/28/2006, as Instrument No. 20060628-0136778, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Ventura County, California, Date of Sale:2/21/2019 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Auction.com Room, Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort, 1050 Schooner Drive, Ventura, CA 93001 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $500,406.76 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 4275 FLORENCE STREET SIMI VALLEY, California 93063 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust.

A.P.N #.: 618-0-142-115 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

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 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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site www.auction. com, using the file number assigned to this case 18-53879. 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.

Dated: 1/21/2019 Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For NonAutomated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (800) 280-2832 www.auction.com _________________________________ Andrew Buckelew, Trustee Sale Officer THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE EPP 27894 Pub Dates 01/25, 02/01, 02/08/2019 SchId:74410 AdId:24809 CustId:108

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HEALTH

USC: Leaky Brain Capillaries Portend Alzheimer's

By Staff Reports LOS ANGELES—Leaky capillaries in the brain portend early onset of Alzheimer's disease as they signal cognitive impairment before hallmark toxic proteins appear, according to a USC research study released Monday.

The findings, which appear in the current issue of Nature Medicine, could help with earlier diagnosis and suggest new targets for drugs that could slow down or prevent the onset of the disease, according to the researchers.

The number of Americans with Alzheimer's is expected to more than double to about 14 million in 40 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are currently five Alzheimer's drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that temporarily help with memory and thinking problems, but none that treat the underlying cause of the disease or slow its progression. Researchers believe that successful treatment will eventually involve a combination of drugs aimed at multiple targets.

USC's five-year study, which involved 161 older adults, showed that people with the worst memory problems also had the most leakage in their brain's blood vessels -regardless of whether abnormal proteins amyloid and tau were present.

"The fact that we're seeing the blood vessels leaking, independent of tau and independent of amyloid, when people have cognitive impairment on a mild level, suggests it could be a totally separate process or a very early process," said senior author Berislav Zlokovic, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of

Medicine of USC. "That was surprising, that this bloodbrain barrier breakdown is occurring independently."

In healthy brains, the cells that make up blood vessels fit together so tightly they form a barrier that keeps stray cells, pathogens, metals and other unhealthy substances

from reaching brain tissue.

Scientists call this the bloodbrain barrier. In some aging brains, the seams between cells loosen, and the blood vessels become permeable.

"If the blood-brain barrier is not working properly, then there is the potential for damage," said co-author

Arthur Toga, director of the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine.

"It suggests the vessels aren't properly providing the nutrients and blood flow that the neurons need. And you have the possibility of toxic proteins getting in."

Wendy Williams to Take Health-Related Break from TV Show

By Lynn Elber

LOS ANGELES (AP)— Wendy Williams is taking an extended break from her TV talk show to deal with health issues related to her immune system disorder, her family said Friday.

The family wrote in a statement that Williams has suffered complications from Graves' disease in the past few days.

Treatment is necessary and will include “significant time” in the hospital, according to the family statement provided by show producer and distributor Debmar-Mercury.

Williams has a strong desire to return to work but must focus on her “personal and physical well-being,” the family said, adding a request that her privacy be respected.

Williams, 54, is married to Kevin Hunter.

She is on the mend from another health problem, a shoulder fracture she suffered in December, the statement

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said.

The host revealed the Graves' disease diagnosis on her show last February, when she announced a three-week hiatus.

Graves' disease leads to the overproduction of thyroid hormones and can cause wide-

ranging symptoms and affect overall health.

In October 2017, Williams fainted on stage during her show, saying later she became overheated while wearing a bulky Halloween costume.

Debmar-Mercury said that it “wholeheartedly” supports

Williams' decision to take the time she needs. She will be welcomed back when she is ready, the company said.

Repeats of “The Wendy Williams Show” will air during the week of Jan. 21, to be followed by original episodes with guest hosts.

China Seems to Confirm Scientist's Gene-Edited Babies Claim

By Marilynn Marchione Chinese authorities appear to have confirmed a scientist's unpublished claim that he helped make the world's first gene-edited babies and that a second pregnancy is underway, and say he could face consequences for his work.

China's official Xinhua News Agency said Monday that investigators in Guangdong province determined that the scientist, He Jiankui (HUH JEEN-qway), evaded supervision of his work and violated research norms because he wanted to be famous. The report said He acted alone and will be punished for any violations of the law, although it didn't say which regulations he may have broken.

The scientist stunned the world in November by claiming that he had altered the DNA of twin girls at conception to try to help them resist infection with the AIDS virus. He's work has been widely criticized as unethical because of questions about whether the participants truly understood the risks. It is also considered medically dangerous because of possible harm to other genes and the DNA changes can be passed to future generations.

There has been no independent verification of his claim, first reported by The Associated Press, and it has not yet been published, although He gave details at an international gene editing conference in Hong Kong. Some have even speculated that it could be a hoax.

But the Chinese investigation appears to confirm it. The Xinhua report says the twins and those involved in the second pregnancy will remain under medical observation with regular visits supervised by government health departments.

“It does sound like they have confirmed the existence of the babies,” said Dr. Kiran Musunuru, a genetics journal editor from the University of Pennsylvania who reviewed materials He provided at the AP's request. Given that the Chinese investigation The Xinhua alleged ethical lapses, work might not be report says He's published by a scientific the twins and journal, but “the needs to those involved information be made available so we in the second know exactly what was done,” Musunuru said. pregnancy “It could be as simple as will remain putting it on the web.”

The scientist, He, under medical could not be reached observation with for comment. A media relations person who regular visits had been acting as He's declined supervised by spokesman comment. It's unclear government how many edited health embryos remain from He's experiment and departments. what will become of them.

He's school, Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, and the Chinese ministries of health and science also have said they are investigating and have put a halt to his work. Gene editing for reproductive purposes is effectively banned in the U.S. and most of Europe. In China, ministerial guidelines prohibit embryo research that “violates ethical or moral principles.”

“This behavior seriously violates ethics and the integrity of scientific research, is in serious violation of relevant national regulations and creates a pernicious influence at home and abroad,” the report of the Guangdong province's investigation said.

The statement shows that “scientific leadership is taking this situation seriously,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin bioethicist and one of the leaders of the Hong Kong conference. It's hard to interpret without knowing who was involved in the investigation and what they did, but it “does indicate that there is a system of regulatory controls in China that can be brought to bear on any effort to prematurely use this technology,” which may be a better way to regulate it than an outright ban, she said.

Stanford bioethicist Dr. William Hurlbut said he has spoken regularly with He since the Hong Kong conference, most recently last week. Hurlbut, who said he disapproves of what He did, met with him often over the last two years to discuss gene editing and when it might be appropriate.

A week or so after the news broke of He's work, “he was calm, he was thoughtful,” and “was thinking about what he should have done differently,” Hurlbut said.

Hurlbut said He “told me that he's OK, that he is being treated respectfully. He spent long hours talking with people during the investigation ... They asked him to voluntarily give his material to them and he did.”

There are plain-clothes guards at the university apartment where He is living, because “He and the authorities believed it was a good idea” to shield him from media and others trying to contact him, not because he's being treated like a prisoner, Hurlbut said.

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PBS Film Tackles Native American Links to Rock, Blues, Jazz

By Russel Contreras ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)—As a child, Fred Lincoln “Link” Wray Jr. hid under a bed when the Ku Klux Klan came to his parents' home in rural North Carolina. Racist groups often targeted the poor family of Shawnee Native American ancestry as the Wrays endured segregation in the American South just like African-Americans.

Wray eventually took all that rage of his early years and crafted a 1958 instrumental hit “Rumble” using a distinct, distorted electric guitar sound that would influence rock ‘n' roll musicians from Iggy Pop and Neil Young to Pete Townshend of The Who and Slash of Guns N' Roses. Though the song had no lyrics, it was banned in the 1950s for allegedly encouraging teen violence.

Wray is one of many Native Americans musicians whose stories are featured in a documentary set to air on the PBS series “Independent Lens " showing how Native Americans helped lay the foundations to rock, blues and jazz and shaped generations of musicians. “RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World” will be broadcast online and on most PBS stations Monday.

The film is the brainchild of Apache guitarist Stevie Salas, who has performed with the likes of Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger. It was during a tour with Stewart that the Oceanside, California-raised Salas began to wonder about other Native American rock musicians who came before him. “I was there with Rod Stewart and thinking, ‘Am I the only Indian to have ever played at (New York's) Madison Garden?”' Salas told The Associated Press. “So I started to investigate.”

Soon Salas, now 54, stumbled upon Wray, a musician he'd admired but had no idea he was Native American. Then he found out about the Norman, Oklahoma-born Jesse Ed Davis, a guitarist of Kiowa and Comanche ancestry who performed with John Lennon.

The hobby searching for Native American rock musicians eventually launched an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, then a film.

“People need to know about Link Wray. People need to know about Jesse Ed Davis,” Salas said.

But rock musicians aren't the only popular performers “RUMBLE” seeks to highlight. The documentary touches on blues pioneer Charley

Patton, an early 20th Century Mississippi Delta guitarist of Choctaw and African-American ancestry. The film shows how some of Patton's music preserved on rough vinyl recordings is similar to traditional American Indian songs.

Those traditions were fused with black music.

Legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf would say he learned to play the guitar from an “Indian man” by the name of Charley Patton.

The film also introduces viewers to the largely forgotten jazz vocalist Mildred Bailey. A member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe in the Pacific Northwest, Bailey began singing ragtime in the 1920s and developed a swing style that blended traditional

Native American vocals with jazz.

She became known as the “The Queen of Swing” who performed at speakeasies and had a style so unique that young Italian-American aspiring singers Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra began copying her form.

“She was one of the great improvisers of jazz,” Bennett said on the film. “I was completely influenced by Mildred Bailey. She sang perfect, for me.”

The film also explores the career of Robbie Robertson, a Canadian musician of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, who performed with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s before forming his own group called The Band.

“Be proud that you're an Indian,”

Robertson said he was told as a child, “but be careful who you tell.”

The documentary dives into the career of Davis, lead guitarist for Taj Mahal, who died in 1988 of a heroin overdose. And it goes into the momentous career of Randy Castillo, the Albuquerque, New Mexico-born Isleta Pueblo drummer for Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue, whose life was cut short by cancer in 2002.

As the Native American musicians get closer to the 21st century, the film shows that they stopped hiding their identity and began to celebrate it.

“This is a missing chapter to this history of music,” co-director Catherine Bainbridge said. “Native Americans were at the center of our popular music.”

James Blake, Music's Most Requested Collaborator, Opens Up

By Mesfin Fekadu NEW YORK (AP)—Some people get lots of invitations.

James Blake gets the right ones.

He's had a role on two of the greatest albums of the last de c ade—B e yoncé's delicious “Lemonade” and Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize-winner “Damn.” He worked on another impactful and culturally relevant album, JayZ's “4:44”; he's part of Travis Scott's pop star breakthrough “Astroworld”; and he contributed to the uber-successful “Black Panther” soundtrack, earning him two Grammy nominations.

Those key projects helped Blake, a British singersongwriter-producer with a distinct downbeat electronic sound, develop and expand as an artist—growth heard throughout “Assume Form,” his new album out Friday.

Blake produced, wrote and mixed the album, but helpers include co-producer Dominic Maker and engineer Nathan Boddy. Andre 3000, Metro Boomin, Rosalia and Scott also

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appear on the album.

His past albums have some feeling he's always down and out. But he said that's not the case.

“If someone says that I make sad music, I don't take it as an insult. I think there's room for every emotion in music. I guess I write autobiographically and if I feel reflective at the time, then I'll write something reflective. Also, music being

an outlet means that you don't always feel the way you felt when you're writing all the time. If anything, writing is a creative outlet for emotion, or it is for me. So, in those moments maybe I felt that way, but it doesn't mean that's how I always feel.”

“If anything, my goal is to maybe more accurately portray a broader range of emotions in my music. I think partially this is

what this album does,” he added. “I have had more of a range, from happiness to doubt to self-doubt to suspicion that the world might not be as good as it feels now, forever.”

Blake will get to take the new songs to another level when he performs them live on his North American tour, kicking off Feb. 18 in Atlanta.

A week before that he'll be competing at the Grammys for best rap performance and best rap song with “King's Dead” from the “Black Panther” soundtrack.

Blake shares the nomination with Lamar, Jay Rock and Future.

“I'm honored to be asked to work on that ‘Black Panther' soundtrack. I was aware of the gravity of what they were doing, and I think it was just really sweet to be asked,” said Blake, who also appears on “Bloody Waters” from the soundtrack.

“I didn't take it lightly, especially to be working with Kendrick himself. I think that was great. I just wanted to approach it as well as I could, really.”

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Gladys Knight to Sing National Anthem at the Super Bowl

By Staff Reports NEW YORK (AP)—Gladys Knight will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at this year's Super Bowl.

The seven-time Grammy Award-winner says she's proud to use her voice to “unite and represent our country” in her hometown of Atlanta.

The 74-year-old and the Pips were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

Her hits include “Midnight Train to Georgia” and “That's What Friends Are For.” Maroon 5 will be joined by Big Boi, Atlantabased rapper from Outkast, and Travis Scott during the halftime performance.

Rihanna is among several top performers who reportedly turned down appearing at this year’s game in a show of support for quarterback Colin Kaepernick. He’s remained unsigned for the past two years after sparking a movement to silently protest the National Anthem before games, by taking a knee to draw attention to the issue they identify as police brutality.

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