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1976 2010 SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 Vol. XXXVIII No. 38 38 YEARS of Publication 1976 - 2014 La Prensa Muñoz, Inc. Publications (See page 3) Porque si combinas tu seguro de auto, hogar y vida ahorrarás dinero. Te doy atención personalizada para que logres tu objetivo. Como un buen vecino State Farm está ahí ® . MEJORA TU ESTADO ® .LLÁMAME HOY. El arte de ahorrar Combinar para salir ganando. Las pólizas, formularios y notificaciones de State Farm están escritos en inglés. State Farm, Oficina Central, Bloomington IL 1304112 statefarm.com ® Myriam Alfaro, Agent Insurance Lic#: 0H78768 2720 E Plaza Blvd Ste N National City, CA 91950 Bus: 619-475-2770 GSA Promises Less Than 30 Minute Wait Times At The Border By This Fall By Barbara Zaragoza Locals remember the days when border waits were no more than fif- teen minutes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry (SY POE). Today, border wait times often reach upwards of three to four hours. According to the General Services Administration (GSA) that owns 50 acres of land at the SY POE, 50,000 northbound vehicles and 25,000 north- bound pedestrians cross the border each day. That translates into a total estimated 50 million people crossing the SY POE each year, making it the busiest land port of entry in the West- ern Hemisphere. The San Diego Association of Gov- ernments (SANDAG) reports that traffic congestion at the border re- sults in billion dollar losses for San Diego and the entire U.S. To decrease border wait times, the GSA has un- dertaken a large reconfiguration project in three phases. The amount of money allocated to all three phases is $741 million. Compare that to the Mid-Coast Trolley, which will open around 2016 and cost the City of San Diego $1.7 billion. The ridership for all five stops is estimated to be 20,000 passengers. Compare that also to President Obama’s urgent request to Congress back in July for almost $4 billion to set up more detention facilities and aerial surveillance to respond to the 52,000 children who have crossed the border illegally. Phase 1 The GSA’s reconfiguration project began back in 2009 and Phase 1 in- cluded the completion of the pedes- trian bridge on exclusively the U.S. side. A few months ago, a new head- house was finished. The building cur- rently has two GSA tenants: Customs & Border Protection (CBP) and Im- migration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), both under the U.S. Depart- ment of Homeland Security. The 3- story, 84,000-square-foot building acts as the POE’s nerve center, where CBP and ICE officers can enhance security. The GSA explains that the headhouse includes sustainability fea- tures, including a solar water heating system, solar panels and an onsite wastewater treatment system. As Phase 1 continues, construc- tion on the northbound vehicular in- spection booths includes 110,000 square feet of energy producing cano- pies. The GSA predicts these cano- pies and booth constructions will be finished by November. At that time, the POE, through conservation and solar production, should have zero energy output. Traci Madison, the Regional Pub- lic Affairs Officer at GSA explained in an email, “Once Phase 1B of the By Pablo J. Sáinz When Lisbeth Garces moved to San Diego from her native Venezuela she never imagined she was going to start a non-profit organization here. Back then, in 1988, all she wanted was one thing: To find proper medical care for her 5-year-old son, Juan Carlos, who had muscular dystrophy. She barely had raised the money to pay for plane tickets, she was a single mother, and she didn’t know English or anyone in San Diego. But she had something very spe- cial: Juan Carlos, who had become her inspiration in life. After years of therapies and treat- ments, Juan Carlos passed away in 1999, at the age of 15. “Juan Carlos was the most spe- cial person I ever knew,” Garces said. “He was a smiling, good-natured boy who made friends easily. He and I went through so much together as I tried to find ways to support us, to HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH Finding hope, joy for special needs people through zumba help him have an active life, and to enable both of us to become fluent in English. I learned a lot from him.” Something Garces learned from her son was to never give up. (See Finding hope, page 4) (see Border, page 2) Lisbeth and Juan Carlos, just a few months before he passed away in 1999. Lisbeth leads a Juan Carlos Organization class in Balboa Park. Por Pablo J. Sáinz Cuando Lisbeth Garcés se mudó a San Diego de su natal Venezuela, nunca imaginó que iba a iniciar una organización sin fines de lucro aquí. En aquel entonces, en 1988, todo lo que deseaba era una cosa: encontrar cuidado médico apropiado para su hijo de cinco años, Juan Carlos, quien tenía distrofia muscular. Apenas pudo juntar el dinero para pagar por los boletos de avión, era madre soltera, y no sabía inglés ni conocía a nadie en San Diego. Pero tenía algo muy especial: Juan Carlos, quien se había convertido en la inspiración de su vida. Después de años de terapias y tratamientos, Juan Carlos falleció en 1999, a la edad de 15 años. “Juan Carlos fue la persona más especial que conocí”, dijo Garcés. “Era un niño sonriente, amable, que hacía amigos fácilmente. Pasamos por mucho juntos mientras buscaba maneras de mantenernos, de ayudarle a tener una vida activa y de aprender inglés. Aprendí mucho de él”. Encontrando esperanza, gozo para personas con necesidades especiales con la zumba Algo que Garcés aprendió de su hijo fue nunca darse por vencida. “Aun cuando su distrofia muscu- lar empeoró, nunca perdió su espíritu amable y cariñoso”, recordó Garcés. “Sabía que lo perdería antes que llegara a ser adulto, pero fue muy devastador para mí cuando falleció. Caí en un dolor profundo, pero en mi mente a veces pensaba en encontrar una manera de honrar su memoria por todo lo que me dio a mí y a otros, enriqueciendo nuestras vidas”. La mejor manera que Garcés encontró para honrar el legado de su hijo fue a través de la Juan Carlos Organization, una organización sin fines de lucro que ofrece un programa divertido de ejercicio de zumba adaptado a personas con necesidades especiales en San Diego. Fue a través zumba que Garcés pudo vencer la depresión después de la muerte de Juan Carlos. “Después del gran dolor luego de la muerte de mi hijo, regresar a bailar de nuevo me ayudó a encontrar gozo By Ngoc Nguyen and Nicole Hudley NEW AMERICA MEDIA A measure on the November bal- lot would reclassify six non-violent felonies to misdemeanors, a move that observers say could help Cali- fornia finally comply with a federal mandate to reduce its overcrowded prison system. Under Proposition 47, those who commit certain low-level offenses – check fraud, drug possession, forg- ery, petty theft, receiving stolen prop- erty and shoplifting – would receive lighter sentences as long as they had no serious or violent crimes on their record. The reclassification would apply to property crimes involving amounts less than $950, and it would apply retroactively. The change is expected to reduce the number of prisoners in state fa- cilities, and state savings would be funneled into mental health and drug abuse treatment, K-12 education, and victims’ services. Prop. 47 would move California closer to meeting a looming deadline to shrink its prison population under a federal-court mandate, according to a new study by the California Budget Project. For the last three years, the state has been attempting to address over- crowding in state prisons by shifting nonviolent offenders — and funding — to local county jails, a process known as realignment. But while the policy has succeeded in reducing the state prison popula- tion, it hasn’t been enough. In 2011, a panel of three federal judges found that California’s severe prison overcrowding was the main reason it was failing to provide pris- oners with adequate medical and mental health care, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. It set a prison population benchmark that the state was supposed to have met this year, to reduce the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prisons to 137.5 per- cent of design capacity. California still has not met the threshold and court judges have extended the deadline by another 17 months. According to the Budget Project analysis, state prisons housed 115,972 individuals as of August. It still needs to shrink that number by about 2 per- cent –roughly 2,300 individuals – to comply with the federal-court man- date, and it has to do this by Febru- ary 2016. Barry Krisberg, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley, says Prop. 47 will help the state achieve that goal, without having to release violent offenders. “Frankly, the only way you could bring the prison population [down] even further, you’d have to start re- leasing more lifers…you’d have to go to the violent population,” said Krisberg, who researches juvenile justice issues at UC Berkeley’s School of Law. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that Prop. 47 could impact 40,000 people and generate savings in the low hundreds of millions annually. New Study: Prop. 47 Would Help California Address Overcrowded Prisons (See Overcrowded, page 8) (Vea Esperanza, pagina 8) Sweetwater board races provides an opportunity for a fresh start!
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1976 2010
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014Vol. XXXVIII No. 38
38 YEARSof Publication
1976 - 2014
La Prensa Muñoz, Inc. Publications
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GSA Promises LessThan 30 MinuteWait Times At TheBorder By This FallBy Barbara Zaragoza
Locals remember the days whenborder waits were no more than fif-teen minutes at the San Ysidro Portof Entry (SY POE). Today, borderwait times often reach upwards ofthree to four hours.
According to the General ServicesAdministration (GSA) that owns 50acres of land at the SY POE, 50,000northbound vehicles and 25,000 north-bound pedestrians cross the bordereach day. That translates into a totalestimated 50 million people crossingthe SY POE each year, making it thebusiest land port of entry in the West-ern Hemisphere.
The San Diego Association of Gov-ernments (SANDAG) reports thattraffic congestion at the border re-sults in billion dollar losses for SanDiego and the entire U.S. To decreaseborder wait times, the GSA has un-dertaken a large reconfigurationproject in three phases. The amountof money allocated to all three phasesis $741 million.
Compare that to the Mid-CoastTrolley, which will open around 2016and cost the City of San Diego $1.7billion. The ridership for all five stopsis estimated to be 20,000 passengers.Compare that also to PresidentObama’s urgent request to Congressback in July for almost $4 billion toset up more detention facilities andaerial surveillance to respond to the52,000 children who have crossed theborder illegally.
Phase 1The GSA’s reconfiguration project
began back in 2009 and Phase 1 in-cluded the completion of the pedes-trian bridge on exclusively the U.S.side.
A few months ago, a new head-house was finished. The building cur-rently has two GSA tenants: Customs& Border Protection (CBP) and Im-migration & Customs Enforcement(ICE), both under the U.S. Depart-ment of Homeland Security. The 3-story, 84,000-square-foot building actsas the POE’s nerve center, whereCBP and ICE officers can enhancesecurity. The GSA explains that theheadhouse includes sustainability fea-tures, including a solar water heatingsystem, solar panels and an onsitewastewater treatment system.
As Phase 1 continues, construc-tion on the northbound vehicular in-spection booths includes 110,000square feet of energy producing cano-pies. The GSA predicts these cano-pies and booth constructions will befinished by November. At that time,the POE, through conservation andsolar production, should have zeroenergy output.
Traci Madison, the Regional Pub-lic Affairs Officer at GSA explainedin an email, “Once Phase 1B of the
By Pablo J. Sáinz
When Lisbeth Garces moved toSan Diego from her native Venezuelashe never imagined she was going tostart a non-profit organization here.Back then, in 1988, all she wanted wasone thing: To find proper medical carefor her 5-year-old son, Juan Carlos,who had muscular dystrophy.
She barely had raised the moneyto pay for plane tickets, she was asingle mother, and she didn’t knowEnglish or anyone in San Diego.
But she had something very spe-cial: Juan Carlos, who had becomeher inspiration in life.
After years of therapies and treat-ments, Juan Carlos passed away in1999, at the age of 15.
“Juan Carlos was the most spe-cial person I ever knew,” Garces said.“He was a smiling, good-natured boywho made friends easily. He and Iwent through so much together as Itried to find ways to support us, to
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Finding hope, joy for special needs people through zumba
help him have an active life, and toenable both of us to become fluent inEnglish. I learned a lot from him.”
Something Garces learned fromher son was to never give up.
(See Finding hope, page 4)
(see Border, page 2)
Lisbeth and Juan Carlos, just a few months before he passed awayin 1999.
Lisbeth leads a Juan Carlos Organization class in Balboa Park.
Por Pablo J. Sáinz
Cuando Lisbeth Garcés se mudóa San Diego de su natal Venezuela,nunca imaginó que iba a iniciar unaorganización sin fines de lucro aquí.En aquel entonces, en 1988, todo loque deseaba era una cosa: encontrarcuidado médico apropiado para suhijo de cinco años, Juan Carlos, quientenía distrofia muscular.
Apenas pudo juntar el dinero parapagar por los boletos de avión, eramadre soltera, y no sabía inglés niconocía a nadie en San Diego.
Pero tenía algo muy especial: JuanCarlos, quien se había convertido enla inspiración de su vida.
Después de años de terapias ytratamientos, Juan Carlos falleció en1999, a la edad de 15 años.
“Juan Carlos fue la persona másespecial que conocí”, dijo Garcés. “Eraun niño sonriente, amable, que hacíaamigos fácilmente. Pasamos pormucho juntos mientras buscabamaneras de mantenernos, de ayudarlea tener una vida activa y de aprenderinglés. Aprendí mucho de él”.
Encontrando esperanza, gozo parapersonas con necesidades especiales con la
zumbaAlgo que Garcés aprendió de su
hijo fue nunca darse por vencida.“Aun cuando su distrofia muscu-
lar empeoró, nunca perdió su espírituamable y cariñoso”, recordó Garcés.“Sabía que lo perdería antes quellegara a ser adulto, pero fue muydevastador para mí cuando falleció.Caí en un dolor profundo, pero en mimente a veces pensaba en encontraruna manera de honrar su memoria portodo lo que me dio a mí y a otros,enriqueciendo nuestras vidas”.
La mejor manera que Garcésencontró para honrar el legado de suhijo fue a través de la Juan CarlosOrganization, una organización sinfines de lucro que ofrece un programadivertido de ejercicio de zumbaadaptado a personas con necesidadesespeciales en San Diego. Fue a travészumba que Garcés pudo vencer ladepresión después de la muerte deJuan Carlos.
“Después del gran dolor luego dela muerte de mi hijo, regresar a bailarde nuevo me ayudó a encontrar gozo
By Ngoc Nguyen andNicole HudleyNEW AMERICA MEDIA
A measure on the November bal-lot would reclassify six non-violentfelonies to misdemeanors, a movethat observers say could help Cali-fornia finally comply with a federalmandate to reduce its overcrowdedprison system.
Under Proposition 47, those whocommit certain low-level offenses –check fraud, drug possession, forg-ery, petty theft, receiving stolen prop-erty and shoplifting – would receivelighter sentences as long as they hadno serious or violent crimes on theirrecord. The reclassification wouldapply to property crimes involvingamounts less than $950, and it would
apply retroactively.The change is expected to reduce
the number of prisoners in state fa-cilities, and state savings would befunneled into mental health and drugabuse treatment, K-12 education, andvictims’ services.
Prop. 47 would move Californiacloser to meeting a looming deadlineto shrink its prison population under afederal-court mandate, according toa new study by the California BudgetProject.
For the last three years, the statehas been attempting to address over-crowding in state prisons by shiftingnonviolent offenders — and funding— to local county jails, a processknown as realignment.
But while the policy has succeededin reducing the state prison popula-
tion, it hasn’t been enough.In 2011, a panel of three federal
judges found that California’s severeprison overcrowding was the mainreason it was failing to provide pris-oners with adequate medical andmental health care, in violation of theU.S. Constitution. It set a prisonpopulation benchmark that the statewas supposed to have met this year,to reduce the number of inmates inthe state’s 33 prisons to 137.5 per-cent of design capacity. California stillhas not met the threshold and courtjudges have extended the deadline byanother 17 months.
According to the Budget Projectanalysis, state prisons housed 115,972individuals as of August. It still needsto shrink that number by about 2 per-cent –roughly 2,300 individuals – to
comply with the federal-court man-date, and it has to do this by Febru-ary 2016.
Barry Krisberg, a senior fellow atUC Berkeley, says Prop. 47 will helpthe state achieve that goal, withouthaving to release violent offenders.
“Frankly, the only way you couldbring the prison population [down]even further, you’d have to start re-leasing more lifers…you’d have to goto the violent population,” saidKrisberg, who researches juvenilejustice issues at UC Berkeley’sSchool of Law.
The Legislative Analyst’s Officeestimates that Prop. 47 could impact40,000 people and generate savings inthe low hundreds of millions annually.
New Study: Prop. 47 Would Help California Address Overcrowded Prisons
(See Overcrowded, page 8)
(Vea Esperanza, pagina 8)
Sweetwater board racesprovides an opportunity
for a fresh start!
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During NationalHispanic HeritageMonth HispanicHeroines NeedRecognitionBy Andy Porras
Perhaps it was no greatsurprise to many that whenthe former Governor ofChihuahua, Barrio Terrazas,told a gathering of media folkthat the 500-plus Juarezwomen who had beenabducted, sexually assaulted,tortured, mutilated andmurdered, “was a naturalphenomenon.”
Adding insult to injury, Sr.Barrios by then Ambassadorof Mexico to Canada, gavehis reasoning for the stillunsolved crimes by adding,“they were slain becausethey walked in dark streetsand they were dressedprovocatively and becausethey were wearingminiskirts.”
Not that here in Americaour respect for women isheart- whole and free fromhypocrisy or pretense, butthis particular hombre clearlyunderscored the machoattitude and passivity of hisgovernment inaction in thiscase of extreme feminicide.
If such remarks were notenough to earn him a spot inMexico’s Hall of Shame,Terrazas also blocked thecreation of an independentcommission to study thecrimes, one that wasrecommended by the UNHuman Rights Commission.
As America ushers in the2014 model of NationalHispanic Heritage Month andour neighboring nationprepares for its traditional“grito de independencia” - adifferent cry would be torecognize their mujeresinvolved in their quest forindependence during thisyear’s dieciséis deseptiembre celebrations.Much like U.S. historians,literate Mexicans involved intelling it like it was back then,have a knack for omittingcontemporary justicemovements and continue toerase many of the voicescrying out for human rights.
Few Mexicans, and mostof their Americancounterparts, are aware ofthe unique contributions madeby women throughoutMexico’s history. Oh, somehave been romanticized, likeLas Adelitas, of the 1910Revolution, but there areothers that are less likely tohave a historic spotlightshone on them.
Take for example MariaJosefa Ortiz de Dominguez,known as “La Corregidora”(the corrector), who actually
Por Juliana Rico
Más de 400 personas sedieron encuentro para celebrarla fiesta del bario el pasado 14de septiembre en Pine AvenueCommunity Park en la ciudadde Carlsbad. El evento em-pezó a las once de la mañanay termino a las cinco de latarde. La fiesta llevó unaprogramación variada de músi-ca, juegos y entretenimientopara todas las edades.
La Fiesta del Barrio contócon la demostración de cochesantiguos locales, un lugar paralos niños hacer figuras de arte,un show de bailarines aztecasy un show de bailarines de Bal-let Folklórico. El evento reunióalgunos grupos folklóricos dela ciudad de San Diego talescomo el mariachi de San Mar-cos, la banda son de San Diegoy la banda The latin rollers.
“Me siento muy contentaporque la última vez queorganizamos la fiesta del bar-rio fue en el año 2007 y al verque después de tantos años lagente continúa viniendo es algomaravilloso “ afirmó OfieEscobedo dueña de Lolas 7 upMarket and Deli y tambiénorganizadora del evento.
La fiesta del barrio empezó
La fiesta del barrio sigue manteniendo el patrimonio cultural hispano
en 1991 en donde las familiasmejicanas cerraban una de lascalles más importantes del bar-rio de Carlsbad para celebraral ritmo de orquestas musicalessu día. La primera fiesta delbarrio fue creada para resaltarla historia que empezó en losaños 1900, en donde las familiasmejicanas que huyeron delnorte durante de la revoluciónse refugiaron en carpas ytendales creando su propiovecindario llamado el BarrioCarlsbad. El Barrio se convirtió
en un lugar donde las personaslograban trabajar sus sueño detener una vida más estable ypróspera.
“Estoy muy orgullosa devolver a realizar la fiesta delbarrio en la cuidad de Carlsbad,no solo porque estamos resal-tando la cultura y la historia delas familias mejicanas quefundaron nuestro barrio, sinotambién estamos manteniendotradiciones que vienen denuestros antepasados” declaróSilvia Solis Daniels parte del
comité organizador de la Fiestadel barrio.
La Fiesta del barrio es unespacio para celebrar el patri-monio cultural hispano y paramantener la unión de la co-munidad latina en ciudad deCarlsbad. Este año contó conla participación de de 40 volun-tarios entre ellos estudiantes deCarlsbad High School. “La fi-esta del barrio la empezamos aplanear en junio, fue trabajo demucha dedicación. Nos reuní-amos una vez por semana y
discutíamos lo que queríamoshacer con la programación. Elcomité conto con la partici-pación de 10 personas entreellas están: Teri Chalfant, OfieEscobedo, Marie Kirk, Héctor,Efraín, Sylvia Solís, Cyndy, Mikey Ramona” afirmó Niki Chal-fant parte del comité del evento.
La fiesta del barrio es unproyecto que se espera realizarcada año en la ciudad y coneste día se aspira seguir man-teniendo el patrimonio culturalhispano.
San Ysidro construction projectis complete this fall, 25 newlanes and 46 primary inspec-tion booths will be available forCustoms and Border Protec-tion use. Our traffic model in-dicates that if all lanes andbooths are manned and oper-ated the expected bordercrossing time will dramaticallydecrease to less than 30 min-utes.”
Phase 1 addresses the con-cern by San Ysidro communitymembers over elevated pollu-tion at the POE. In 2012, DavidFlores of Casa Familiar under-took a Health Borders projectand found that idling vehiclesat the border produced green-house gases equivalent to ap-proximately 166,037 barrels ofoil per year and produced anestimated 78,700 tons of car-bon dioxide per year.
The San YsidroCommunity Protests GSAPlans
The last piece of Phase 1 isa pedestrian facility at VirginiaAvenue on the West side of thePOE. During a May 14th fo-rum held at Willow ElementarySchool auditorium, GSA seniorasset manager Anthony Kleppeunveiled the artist’s renderingof the so-called PedestrianWest Facility.
He explained, “It is initiallygoing to be a ten-lane facility,eight dedicated northbound and
two reversible lanes.”Simon Falic, chairman and
chief operating officer ofUETA Duty Free Americas(DFA) as well as ThomasCurrie, President of the SanYsidro Chamber of Commerceattended the meeting. They,alongside others, voiced disap-proval of the architectural de-sign because it didn’t representa world-class facility. Instead,it looked more like a road-stopbathroom.
The GSA gave no answeras to whether the architecturaldesigns would be changed.
Phase 3Recently, the GSA’s Phase
3 was approved and $226 mil-lion was allocated within thePresident’s fiscal year 2014budget. This phase includes arealignment of I-5 South toexpand from the current 5lanes to 10 lanes. The I-5 Southwill also connect to Mexico’snew El Chaparral facility.
San Ysidrans, however,have voiced many protestsconcerning the realignment. Tomake way for the I-5 expan-sion, GSA’s Phase 3 will takeaway more than 1,000 parkingspaces. The GSA will also buythe UETA Duty Free Ameri-cas store through eminent do-main.
San Ysidrans have notedthat this will increase the traf-fic nightmare that already ex-
ists at the POE, especiallysince the City of San Diegohas made no plans to changethe street infrastructure to co-incide with the reconfiguration.In addition, a major employerand philanthropist in San Ysidro,UETA, will be forced to leave.
On June 9th Simon Falicproposed a solution. He un-veiled an architectural designfor a world-class multiuseparking lot, replete with ahelioport. Although the UETAstore will be destroyed to makeway for the I-5 South, Falicasked that he be allowed toretain 3 acres next to VirginiaAvenue in order to build thestructure.
The UETA proposal wouldcreate jobs in a neighborhoodwhere unemployment is high.In addition, UETA has beenone of the top five donors toCasa Familiar, a non-profit or-ganization that provides low-income housing and more thanfifty services to the Spanishspeaking community. The GSA,however, didn’t immediatelyrespond to Falic.
Jason Wells, Co-Founder ofthe San Ysidro Border Coali-tion, piloted a campaign thatgenerated more than 5,000 sig-natures asking the GSA to ac-cept Falic’s proposal.
A community meeting wasthen held at The Front art gal-lery on August 19th. GSA rep-resentative Anthony Kleppe
presented the news that Phase3 had received the necessaryfunding and Phase 2 (whichwill construct an administrationand pedestrian building) hadbeen included in the 2015Presidential Budget. He fur-ther explained that the UETAproperty had not yet been ap-praised.
Community members wereunhappy with the GSA re-sponse. Immediately followingthe meeting, Jason Wells wrotea letter to Commissioner Nor-man Dong of the GSA in Wash-ington D.C. asking him to sup-port the proposal. Commis-sioner Dong is the governmentofficial who has the final say.
Wells wrote: “In addition tomaking Phase 3 complete, theDFA proposal will offer 300new jobs to San Ysidro; vari-ous, new commercial opportu-nities; and the mere iconic as-pect of their proposal will bean economic driver for further
investment in San Ysidro.”Wells then left to Washing-
ton D.C. on September 8th tomeet with Dong alongsidemembers of the San DiegoChamber of Commerce whosupport the DFA proposal.
Once all three phases ofGSA’s reconfiguration arecomplete, the GSA promises tohave 62 northbound vehicleprimary inspection booths andone dedicated bus lane. Allthree phases are set to be com-plete in 2018. It remains aquestion whether San Ysidrocommunity input will be heard.
Border wait times less than 30 minutes(con’t from page 1)
Danza, música y exhibiciones de carros se mostraron en La Fiesta del Barrio en Carlsbad, celebrandose asi lacultura mexicana en la región.
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Mid-Term elections will beheld on Nov 4. Mail ballots willbe sent out the first week ofOctober.
This year the focus is on theSweetwater Union High SchoolDistrict races which will usherin several first for the districtand the community.
After years of controversyand the subsequent convictionsof four of the five school boardmembers, there is an opportu-nity for whole new board toprovide a fresh perspective. Itis an opportunity to turn theattention away from scandaland court cases back to focus-ing on the education of the stu-dents.
Not only will there be a newboard, but there will be a newSuperintendent, as the last Su-perintendent was releasedfrom his contract.
Also new to the district ishow the board members willbe elected.
For the first time ever therewill be district elections. Thenewly elected board memberswill represent a specific district,five districts in all, and they willbe elected by voters in theirown districts.
Another change is cam-paign contribution limits. Con-tributions from any individualdonors are limited to $750.There are no limits on indepen-dent expenditures.
With these changes to theSweetwater elections, barriersto running for board seat havebeen lowered. This has resultedin a large number of candi-dates running in these five dis-tricts, 21 to be exact.
In our attempt to bring to ourreaders a bit of informationabout the candidates runningfor office in the SweetwaterHigh School District, we sentout a questionnaire to the can-didates along with a request fortheir bios. Not all candidatesreturned the questionnaire. Forthose candidates who did, wecondensed their answers andare providing a short bio on theircandidacy.
Sweetwater Union High –Trustee Area 1:
Trustee Area 1 has the few-est candidates running for of-fice, 3: Burt Grossman, JeromeTorres, and Arturo Solis.Trustee Area 1 encompassesall of National City and stretch-es south along the bay corriderwith I-805 as a boundary to LStreet, and East to the 3rd Av-enue boundary.
Candidate Jerome Torres:Jerome Torres currently
serves as a Sr. ManagementAnalyst for the City of Coro-nado in the City Manager’sOffice. Jerome has a Master’sDegree in Public Administra-
tion. Jerome served as BoardPresident for LULAC-Head-start, and as the Founder/Presi-dent of the Latino AdvisoryCommittee for the Superinten-dent of the Long Beach Uni-fied School District. From 1998to 2001, he served as the Sr.Policy Analyst for the San Di-ego Unified School DistrictBoard of Education. At presentin the City of Chula Vista, he isthe Chairman for the recentlycreated Districting Commis-sion.
What do you believe is thenumber one issue with thedistrict?
The #1 issue facing SUHSDin the near future is budgetary.Presently, SUHSD is looking ata potentially significant budgetdeficit by either the end of thecurrent school year or by theend of SY 2016. This is due aconfluence of two major fac-tors: 1) the expiration and rene-gotiation of the current laboragreements; and 2) the district’sobligation to increase its fund-ing of the CalSTRS pension li-ability. These two factors willwipe out the projected manda-tory (2% and 1%) and discre-tionary reserves.
What qualities will you belooking for in hiring a su-perintendent?
They are two-fold: 1) to beable to take direction by theschool board and implement itspolicy decisions; and 2) to ef-fectively collaborate with allstakeholders in the district soas to create a student-centeredlearning environment.
Board accountability hasbeen lacking, how would youhold the board accountable?
I would implement a three-step process. The first step:training. The second step: ad-dressing the by-laws and poli-cies/regulations governing theconduct of the School Board.The final step: establish com-mittees whereby School Boardmembers would be required toserve on no less than two com-mittees.This would change thestructure and dynamics ofBoard governance.
What do you believe yourrole is in interacting withteachers, and/or what kindsof relationship do believe inbuilding with teachers?
I believe my primary role isto be supportive. This includesmaintaining an open line ofcommunication at all times(even when we may disagree).
What are your financialpriorities?
I would call for an indepen-dent audit of SUHSD’s fi-nances. There is so much dis-trust among the labor bargain-ing units with regard to the fi-nancial condition of the districtthat we need to “clear the air”on this vital matter. I wouldlook at implementing a soundmonitoring system of the dis-
trict-wide and site-based Lo-cal Control Funding Plans. Iwould call for an update andannual progress reports on howthe District is fulfilling the 2011goal established by the SchoolBoard that.Candidate Burt Grossman:
Burt Grossman did not re-spond to our questioner or pro-vide a bio. What we do knowof Grossman is that this is hissecond run for the SweetwaterUnion High board. He first ranin 2012 against Berth Lopez.Grossman is assistant programdirector for Able-Disabled Ad-vocacy. In 2013 Grossman rana series of articles in La PrensaSan Diego about the San Di-ego Chargers and professionalfootball.Candidate Arturo Solis:
Arturo Solis did not respondto our questioner or provide abio. Arturo Solis is primarilyknown as the husband of Na-tional City council personAlejandra Sotelo-Solis. Whatwe could find out about him onthe web is almost non-existent.He is employed at a privateschool as a teacher.
Sweetwater Union High –Trustee Area 2:
Trustee Area 2 has the larg-est number of candidates run-ning for office, five. These can-didates include Kevin O’Neill,Adrian Arancibia, Kevin Pike,Dana Toogood, and ex-boardmember Bertha Lopez whoplead guilty to illegally accept-ing gifts.
Trustee Area 2 includesBonita, West of 54 Freeway to3rd Ave, South to L/TelegraphRoad, and East to the SouthBay Express Way.
Candidate Kevin O’Neill:Kevin O’Neill is a general
contractor who has a historyof serving in Chula Vista on thePlanning Commission, theGrowth Management Over-sight Commission, and theTask Force on Schools. He hasserved as a member of theBond Oversight Committee forboth Sweetwater and the ChulaVista Elementary School Dis-
Sweetwater board races providesan opportunity for a fresh start!
Jerome Torres
By Anna ChalletNEW AMERICA MEDIA
In a world where every dayis a holiday – there’s NationalDoughnut Day, Pi Day (hon-oring the number 3.14 and cel-ebrated by eating pie), andTalk Like a Pirate Day (thatone is international) – a groupof organizations came togetherand decided that surely one ofthese days should be dedicatedto voter registration.
They designated a day andproceeded to register over300,000 voters in their firstsuch effort – on the fourthTuesday of September in 2012.
The main idea was to try todo for civic engagement whatEarth Day did for the environ-ment, and really create one posi-tive, fun, exciting day whereeverybody could plug in, inwhatever way was easiest forthem,” says Jessica Reeves, thevice president of partnershipsat Voto Latino, one of the orga-
nizations involved in startingNational Voter Registration Day(NVRD) http://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/.
This year NVRD falls onTuesday, September 23, abouta month before the Nov. 4 gen-eral elections.
Through on-the-ground ef-forts by participating organiza-tions, as well as online andmedia communications, the ini-tiative has registered voters inevery state – the highest num-bers in California, New York,Illinois, and Texas, the last ofwhich saw nearly 11,000 reg-istrations in the first year alone.Over 235,000 of the registra-tions took place online (whichis available in 22 states), andthe rest at field events andthrough the mail.
It started back in 2011, ac-cording to Matt Singer, the ex-ecutive director of the BusFederation Civic Fund, whichmobilizes a network of grass-roots organizations to partici-
pate in leadership developmentand other civic programs likeNVRD.
Singer, one of the individu-als behind the day’s founding,was alarmed by 2008 U.S.Census data indicating thatabout 6 million people hadn’tcast a ballot that year becausethey didn’t know how to regis-ter to vote or had missed a reg-istration deadline.
And, he thought, the centralimportance of voting to democ-racy was in danger of fallingout of the public consciousness.
The core idea of voting,which is central to what itmeans to be American, hasbeen caught up in partisansquabbles … rather than a cel-ebration of this right that peoplehave fought and died for,” saysSinger. “We wanted to bringback this idea of voting as be-ing centrally American.”
“Almost any [initiative] that
September 23 — An Earth Day for Voters
(see Voters, page 10)
(see Sweetwater, page 10)
PAGE 4 SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
LA COLUMNA VERTEBRALEl Soporte Informativo Para Millones
de HispanosPor Luisa Fernanda Montero
Luisa Fernanda Montero
By Dr. Kelly Culwell
As the medical director ofPlanned Parenthood of the Pa-cific Southwest, I speak with alot of women about reproduc-tive and sexual health. WhetherI am talking to patients at ourhealth centers or communityevents, I’m often told that hav-ing a gynecological health examis one of the least favorite thingsa woman must do. So whenSeptember comes around, andit is both National Ovarian andGynecologic Cancer Aware-ness Month, no one ever seemsterribly excited.
I get it. Who wants to focuson ovarian and gynecologicalcancer when women’s livesare packed with work, familycommitments, and recreation?There are so many things we’drather discuss. But preventivehealth screenings have savedwomen’s lives, and the nextone could be yours or some-one you love.
In the United States, eachyear about 22,000 women arediagnosed with ovarian cancerand approximately 12,000American women are diag-nosed with cervical cancer.Sadly, around 4,000 will die fromthe cervical cancer. Accordingto the National Cancer Institute,the rate of cervical canceramong Hispanic women is 65%higher than white women.
The good news is that cer-vical cancer is one of the mostpreventable cancers. Whencaught early, the five-year sur-vival rate is nearly 100 percent.
Gynecological health is im-portant at all stages of adultlife. Cervical cancer can affectwomen before or after meno-pause so it’s never too late to
start getting screened. Whetherit’s for you, a friend, familymember, or partner, there arethree things you can do to stayas healthy as possible.
Number One: Know yourbody. Being aware of yourbody is important at any age.It’s important to know how yourbody normally looks and feels.If you notice any changes, ten-derness, or pain, you should getchecked out by a health careprovider as soon as possible.
Number Two: Know yourrisk factors. Learn the risksof gynecologic cancers, includ-ing a family history of ovarianor breast cancer, and take stepsto prevent and catch them earlywhen they are most treatable.For example, older women aremost at risk for ovarian cancer-- about half of the women whoare diagnosed with ovarian can-cer are age 63 or older. Andanyone with a cervix and ova-ries, including transgenderpeople, can develop cervicaland ovarian cancer.
Number Three: Knowwhen you’re due for a check-up. The earlier cancer is de-tected and treated, the better.The frequency for checkups isdifferent for different women,but all should see their healthcare providers regularly. Na-tional medical guidelines callfor initial Pap tests at age 21;Pap tests every three years forwomen aged 21-29; and Paptests every three years forwomen aged 30-64 (or everyfive years when women 30-64receive combined Pap andHPV tests). Women with cer-tain abnormalities may requiremore frequent Pap tests, soconfirm with your health careprovider to see if you are due
for a checkup and screening,and encourage your loved onesto do the same.
In 2012, Planned Parenthoodhealth centers provided nearly500,000 Pap tests. Planned Par-enthood also provides ad-vanced testing and treatment forthousands of women with ab-normal Pap tests and precan-cerous conditions. In fact, can-cer screening and preventionaccounted for 10 percent ofPlanned Parenthood’s healthservices in 2012.
As the nation’s leadingwomen’s health care provider,advocate, and educator, PlannedParenthood encourages everywoman to visit her health careprovider regularly to receive acheckup that can screen forgynecologic cancers, and alsomay include contraceptivecounseling, birth control pre-scriptions, breast exams, andtesting for STDs, includingHIV.
Take the time to check inwith your health care providerso that you can stay as healthyas possible. We’ll make the ex-perience as pleasant as we canby treating you with the warmthand compassion you deserve.Planned Parenthood will providecare at low to no-cost. Andmost importantly, we just maysave your life. Then you can getback to all of the things you lovedoing most with the peace ofmind that comes from takingcare of your health.
Kelly Culwell, M.D, M.P.H isthe Medical Director at Plan-ned Parenthood of the PacificSouthwest. To make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion, please call 1.888.743.PLAN or visit planned.org.
September is Ovarian and GynecologicCancer Awareness Month
El hecho de que en lastiendas de CVS hayan decididofinalmente detener la venta decigarrillos es, sin lugar a dudas,una buena noticia. Actos deeste nivel, demuestran quepoco a poco, la sociedadavanza en lo que a la salud delas comunidades se refiere.
Obviamente, aquel quequiera fumar fumará. Siguensiendo muchos los lugaresdonde los fumadores encuen-tran cigarrillos. Pero el hechode que cada vez se genere másconciencia sobre las conse-cuencias del vicio, no debepasar desapercibido.
Para nadie es fácil dejar defumar. El tabaquismo causa lamuerte de miles de personas ysin embargo, dejar el vicio esuna de las metas más compli-cadas que puede tener cual-quier persona.
Pero es necesario hacerlo.Los componentes del cigarrilloafectan la salud de las perso-nas de forma demasiado drá-stica. De acuerdo con infor-mación publicada por losCentros de Control de Enfer-medades, CDC, fumar ciga-rrillos es la causa principal decáncer de pulmón. Además, esclaro que el fumar tambiénpuede causar otros tipos decáncer.
La nicotina del cigarrillo
hace que el corazón trabajemás rápido. El cigarrillo tam-bién causa un bloqueo de lasarterias del corazón, ocasion-ando ataques cardíacos, ade-más, los venenos del cigarrillobloquean las arterias y oca-sionan derrames cerebrales.
Pero por si fuera poco elfumar causa enfermedades delos pulmones, como la bron-quitis crónica y el enfisema.Estas enfermedades disminu-yen la cantidad de oxígeno queel cuerpo recibe porque larespiración se hace más difícil.
Todo ello sin contar con laforma drástica en que lanicotina afecta los dientes y lasencías o las consecuencias quepuede tener en las mujeresembarazadas, que puedenincluso, tener abortos espon-táneos.
La nicotina, además, hacemás difícil la digestión, lo cualcausa úlceras en el estómagoy mucha acidez después decomer. Pero lo cierto es quedejar de fumar es posible ynunca es tarde para empezar.
Yo lo logré. Fue un procesode más de cuatro años en losque fui disminuyendo de formapaulatina el consumo. Es decirque de fumar en promedio dospaquetes de cigarrillos diarios,pase a uno y después a 4 o 3cigarrillos diarios.
En su momento me reté amí misma en esta columna ypor eso hoy – después demuchos meses – me complacecontar que lo logré y que ya nodisfruto para nada del acto defumarme un cigarrillo. No fuefácil pero tampoco imposible,por eso, estoy segura de queusted también lo puede lograr.
Si bien es cierto que el vicioes difícil de superar dado elhecho de que el cigarrillocontiene nicotina, una drogaque produce una dependenciatan fuerte como la heroína o lacocaína, también es cierto quedejarlo atrás no es imposible;es difícil, pero no imposible.
Para recibir ayuda en suproceso puede llamar al 1-800-784-8669 o al 1-800-332-8615 encontrará ofreceapoyo gratuito de consejerosexperimentados, un plan per-sonalizado para dejar de fumar,materiales de autoayuda, loúltimo en información sobremedicamentos para la cesa-ción del tabaquismo y más.Usted decide.
Dejar de fumar no es imposible
“Even as his muscular dys-trophy got worse, he never losthis kind and caring spirit,”Garces remembered. “I knewI would lose him before he be-came an adult, but it was dev-astating to me when he passedaway. I fell into deep grief, butin the back of my mind I some-times thought about finding away to honor his memory forall that he gave me and others,making our lives richer.”
The best way Garces foundto honor her son’s legacy wasthrough the Juan Carlos Orga-nization, a non-profit organiza-tion that offers a joyful, adap-tive, group exercise program,especially through zumba, forthe special needs communityin San Diego County. It wasactually through zumba, thatGarces was able to overcomedepression after Juan Carlos’death.
“After the period of deep-est grief following the death ofmy son from muscular dystro-phy, returning to dance againhelped me find some joy andthe will to keep going,” Garcessaid. “In the past half-dozenyears, through Zumba andLatin dance, I have builtbridges to a very large com-munity of San Diegans.”
Through the adaptive formsof zumba that Garces devel-oped for the special needscommunity as part of her JuanCarlos Organization, hundredsof diverse people have foundjoy through dance, movement,and music.
“This strengthens the body,mind, and spirit, and it promotessocialization among partici-pants,” she said. “My studentscome from all kinds of culturalbackgrounds, ranging in agefrom 3 years to 101 years, andincluding people who are com-pletely healthy and energeticas well as those who have avariety of health challenges—whether physical, develop-mental, or both.”
It was two years ago whenGarces recruited a board of di-rectors to form Juan CarlosOrganization. Many people inSan Diego have contributed tomaking the organization a last-ing legacy of Juan Carlos’ joy-ful character.
“As a polio survivor whowas stricken with the virus atthe age of 8 months, I was leftwith some residual weakness
in one leg,” said RoxanneEwalt, secretary of the Boardof Directors for Juan CarlosOrganization. “Throughout mylife, however, I have loved todance and be active. Hearingabout Lisbeth’s late son JuanCarlos and his affliction withmuscular dystrophy struck achord with me. I realized thatLisbeth’s core message andmy own life’s needs and per-spective had converged.”
For Garces, being able tooffer these special zumbaclasses is a great pride, some-thing that, she said, benefits allof those who participate.
“Most people with a disabil-ity love an opportunity to beactive in some way,” she said.
Although she has helpedmany families overcome dis-abilities through her zumbaclasses, Garces is far fromconsidering herself a hero.
“Living with a mom whopassed away from Parkinson’sand a son who passed awayfrom muscular dystrophy, plusgrowing up with an older sis-ter who still lives with cerebralpalsy, has given me unusualinsights into how to reach andmotivate people with disabili-ties, and how to design andadapt exercise programs thatthey enjoy so much! I think ofthe Juan Carlos Organizationprogram as a legacy from myson, inspired by his wish to livehis life as actively as possible.”
To learn more about JuanCarlos Organization, to see alist of class calendar, and tocontribute to the organization,please visit www.jcorg.org.
The organization is planninga Día de los Muertos event inlate October to remember thelives of those who have passedaway.
Finding hope(con’t from page 1)
By Cheng YiLingLATINALISTA
On Thursday September4th, ABC Television Networkannounced that Rosie Perez(and Nicolle Wallace) wouldbe new hosts on the 18th sea-son of The View. This meansthat the View’s host lineup willhave 4 co-hosts, Whoopi, RosieO., Nicolle and Rosie P.
In sum, the View has 2white women, 1 Black woman,1 Latina woman as the face oftheir season 18 lineup. Theshow will look diverse, but be-hind the camera ABC still hasan all-white leadership in pro-duction and direction.
ABC has hired Bill Wolff asthe new executive producer toreplace Bill Geddy, as well asBrian Balthazar as co-EP,Ashley S. Gorman as directorand Kathleen Rajsp as seniorsupervising producer. For ashow that markets itself as amulti-generational, multi-racial,multi-politically representative,its writing, directing and pro-ducing teams certainly fail toreflect this purported value.
Seeing the new lineup, I’mreminded of the time I internedat The View in the summer of2011. It was my first internshipwhere I felt really out of placeprofessionally as an AsianAmerican woman. Senior pro-ducers would “ching chong” inmockery of Chinese actressesappearing on the show, audi-ence members asked me tobring them fried rice, and asenior staff member told meI’d be better off being an en-tertainment lawyer instead,because surely, my parents dis-agreed with my aspirations intelevision production.
Even as I filed papers, staffwondered out loud what anEconomics/Philosophy doublemajor from Wellesley (whostarted the school TV station)was doing there. And this ra-cial disparity was most starkin the staff representation.
In production, there wasonly one Black women who
was the only non-white pro-ducer, an Asian guy and aBlack man who spent most oftheir hours in the graphicsroom. Our intern coordinatorwas a Dominican woman whomanaged the front desk andthe guy who managed thewarehouse was a Black man.I was the only intern of color.Other than those folks, it wasa white team making a multi-racial presenting show.
A quintessential moment ofthe white power dynamic hap-pened near the end of August.A consultant from Frank N.Magid Associates was broughtin to advise the team on howbest to proceed with capturingnew demographics. As thiswhite man in his pink Polo but-ton-down went through power-point slide after powerpointslide before the entire team inthe conference room (I think itwas telling that at this consul-tation meeting, the one Blackproducer wasn’t present), hepaused on a slide detailing theviewing habits of white womenversus Black women. Blackwomen were “the next andmost important now to cap-ture.” At this, a senior whitemale writer stood up slowlyand bellowed,
“Now I just want to knowwhere the Orientals and theLatinos are.”
I sucked my breath in sharplyfrom the back of the room.“Oriental” is a deeply degrad-ing and exotifying term appro-priate perhaps only to describerugs. It stung with anti-Asianmenace.
He glanced at me, causinghalf the room to glance too.
“Oh I’m sorry, should I havesaid Asian?”
I felt my face flush withanger and shame as my internname tag seemed to suddenlyweigh 10 pounds down myneck. I looked down, unable tosay anything back. The con-sultant casually piped up fromthe front,
“Oh, they’re the same aswhite women so we just put
them under there.”With a cursory comment, he
continued on with the presen-tation. He also simplifiedLatina and Asian AmericanPacific Islander women into asingle footnote to whiteness.This glosses over a whole slewof differences, such as howmany Latina women are bilin-gual and thus responded bet-ter to advertisements in Span-ish.
Nielsen pointed out in an ar-ticle posted on 6/24/14 howLatin@s and Millenials, espe-cially Latin@ Millenials are thefastest growing population.According to the Selig Centerfor Economic Growth report in2012, Latin@s have $1.2 tril-lion in spending power and are52 million strong. To gloss oversome of the most viable Ameri-can consumers seemed like anincredibly bad business prac-tice. These populations are of-ten ambassadors to even largeraudiences in South Americaand Asia.
I know in the Asian com-munities, moms will keep upwith the latest Korean/Chinese/Japanese dramas to chat aboutwith their families back in Asia.I imagine there are the samepractices with Spanish-speak-ing dramas.
I really hope that RosiePerez’s hosting stint with TheView allows her to bring to lightissues that Latin@ people facein this country and beyond.Representation is a small,hard-won step towards a trulyequal and representative me-dia. And it’s a better businesspractice.
Seeing Rosie Perez’s selec-tion gives me hope that peoplebehind the scenes have begunto ask “Who are we represent-ing? How are we representingthem? Are we intentional aboutgiving folks a voice of their own,a platform of their own? Whatimpact do we want to make?”
This is only a beginningthough. What about Middle
How one intern-of-color got awhole new view of The View
(see The View, page 10)
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Las buenas escuelas de calidadmejoran a California para todos.
cta.orgPatrocinado por la Asociación de Maestros de California
Así que, si usted tiene preguntas acerca de su escuela local o la educación en California
Son los educadores quienes saben lo que realmente funciona para mejorar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. Es por eso que los maestros están trabajando con los padres para ayudar a sus hijos en casa. Sabemos que enseñar para una prueba estandarizada no es la solución ya que los estudiantes merecen una educación completa que incluye arte, la música, y la capacitación técnica.
para mantener las clases pequeñas. Y la universidad debe estar al alcance de todos los estudiantes.
PREGÚNTELE A UN MAESTRO
Veteran San Diego
Theater Director
William Virchis
Revamps Classic With a
Latino Twist
By Elia Esparza
When Neil Simon sat downin 1964 and wrote The OddCouple, he never envisionedthis odd of a couple—MikeGomez as Felix Unger and PaulRodriguez as Oscar Madison!First, they’re not two whitemiddle-aged men. This oddcouple happens to be Latino:Gomez, a disciplined trainedthespian with an impressiveresume, and Rodriguez, aniconic Chicano stand-up comic.
As theater actors go, fewrank higher on the scale of ac-complishment than MikeGomez. And fewer actors havea film resume that matchestheir theater experience. Mikeis one of a handful of actorswho created a role, under thedirection of Luis Valdez in hisoriginal cast of Zoot Suit, thentook that same role to Broad-way and remained in the fea-ture film version of the play.
Gomez shares the bill withRodriguez in The Odd Couplestarting September 17th to 28that Horton Plaza’s LyceumTheater in San Diego, CA.Directed by William Virchis,who is the artistic director forTeatro Máscara Mágica. Theproduction also features JohnAnderson, Rhys Green, DaveRivas, Doug Friedman, ErikaToraya, and Danielle Levin.
When heralded directorVirchis cast Gomez to pair withPaul Rodriguez, it was brilliantand calculated. No doubt theend result will be an even morefastidious Felix and sloppierOscar than Neil Simon couldhave imagined. In this revival
of The Odd Couple, we liter-ally have a veteran theater ani-mal in Mike Gomez opposite afreshman theater thespian whojust happens to be pop culturesuper comic Paul Rodriguez.
In an interview with fabledDJ Frazer Smith, aired recentlyon Los Angeles rock station95.5 KLOS, Rodriguez admit-ted to being nervous about theproject. “It’s the first play I’veever done,” said Rodriguez.“When I do my stand-up act,it’s material I wrote and it’s justme on stage. In theater it’s sodifferent. I have to memorizeall my lines and all my cues.It’s really a challenge.”
Paul has nothing to worryabout he couldn’t be perform-ing with a better co-star thanMike Gomez.
A native of Dallas, Texas,Mike Gomez comes from astrong theater background andan impressive film and televi-sion list of credits. Best knownfor his film work in ClintEastwood’s Heartbreak Ridge,Robert Redford’s The MilagroBeanfield War, the cult classicThe Big Lebowski, and YesMan.
I caught up with Mike re-cently after chasing him fromhere to San Diego. He’s onebusy guy to pin down!
Latin Heat: After a careerlike you’ve had in films, TVand stage, in your wildestdream did you ever thinkyou’d be one half of TheOdd Couple?
Mike Gomez: No, it neverentered my mind, although I’vealways loved the play, themovie and TV series. It is trulya sweet opportunity to play‘Felix Unger.’ Who doesn’tknow an ‘Oscar’ or a ‘Felix’?They represent a part of eachand everyone of us. We allhave a little of one or both ofthem. I think, there seems tobe a lot of ‘Felix’ inside of me,
according to friends and fam-ily—or so I’ve been told oncethey learned I was in the play.
LH: Bill Virchis said hewas going to pretty much letthe actors add their ‘ownsalsa’ to the roles. Have youadded a Latino twist to theclassic neat freak Felix?
MG: My version of ‘Felix’is going to be different from ev-eryone else based on who I amand how I see the character,and what I ‘discover’ abouthim as we rehearse and per-form the play. I’ve been anactor a long time—blessed tohave started studying at 19 atthe Dallas Theater CenterAcademy. It’s a journey thatwe’re taking and a really ex-citing one at that. The shoesI’m looking to fill are ‘FelixUnger’s’ shoes.
LH: What’s it like workingwith Paul Rodriguez, goingtoe-to-toe with him on stage?
MG: Paul is great to workwith, the consummate profes-sional, and a very talented art-ist. We’ve been in a couple ofprojects: Cheech Marin’s BornIn East L.A. and ResurrectionBlvd. But we’ve never actu-ally had a chance to work soclosely together. It’s very ex-
citing for me.LH: Where do you see
Latinos going in the enter-tainment industry from yourpersonal perspective?
MG: I consider myself verylucky because since the startof my career, I have been aworking actor in a professionwhere only five percent (5%)of the 140,000 members of theScreen Actors Guild make aliving as actors on a yearly ba-sis. I think what is most impor-tant for our Latino communityis that we continue writing ourown stories to celebrate anddocument the Latino-Ameri-can experience in the U.S. Wehave to seek the opportunitiesto have more of our storiestold. We have to continue giv-ing life to our Latino artists sothey can tell our stories.
Thank you, Mike! I amsure you will be delivering a‘Felix Unger’ like he’s neverbeen seen before.
Can’t wait to see the chem-istry between this Latino duoin this version of The OddCouple. I wish Neil Simonwould see it.
For more information on SanDiego’s revival of The OddCouple, http://www.sdrep.org
Mike Gomez Gives Felix Unger a Cultural FaceliftCity Library HostsPublic Conversation onPortrayals of Soldierson Television
As part of Cal Humanities’statewide initiative War ComesHome, the San Diego PublicLibrary will present a PublicConversation event, Soldierson TV, by writer and South-western College professorRenee St. Louis, on Monday,September 22, from 6:30 to 8p.m. at the San Diego CentralLibrary @ Joan Ë Irwin Ja-cobs Common, located at 330Park Blvd. This program isfree and open to the public
2014 Imperial AvenueStreet Festival
The first annual ImperialAvenue Street Festival is amulticultural street scene thatwill celebrate the rich history,arts and culture of the GreaterLogan Heights community.From its rich African-Ameri-can roots to the strong Latinoinfluence that exists today, thisneighborhood is a shining ex-ample of San Diego’s diversity.
The Imperial Avenue StreetFestival takes place in the heartof Greater Logan Heights onImperial Avenue – one of theoldest streets in San Diego.The goal of the Imperial Av-enue Street Festival is to fuelthe prosperity of our neighbor-hood and mark the commer-cial corridor as a destination fora unique cultural and culinaryexperience. The festival willalso feature artists acrossgenres – dance, music, and vi-sual arts, whose work contrib-utes to the contemporary andpopular dialogue amongst SanDiego’s Afro-Latino commu-nity. Saturday, September 20th,12pm – 6pm
4th Annual Harmony &Motion InternationalMusic and DanceSeptember 20, 2014, Casa delPrado Theater, Balboa Park.Shows at 1:00 PM & 5:00 PM
Harmony & Motion Inter-national Music and Dance Fes-tival is San Diego’s premiertheater production that featuresthe very best world music anddance performers in San Di-ego. Expect more than 5hours of the finest internationalmusic and dance in the Casadel Prado Theater in beautifuland historic Balboa Park. The2014 Harmony and MotionFestival is a co-production ofThe Worldview Project andSan Diego’s superlative SanDiego Civic Dance Arts.
Palomar CollegePresents Tarde deFamilia on September26
For the fourth year in a row,the Palomar College Multicul-tural Studies department is pre-senting Tarde de Familia, anevent featuring successfulmembers of the Latino com-munity who are invited to sharestories of their educational andcareer paths with students andfamilies.
This year’s event will takeplace Friday, September 26,from 6 – 8 p.m. in the StudentUnion at the San Marcos cam-pus. Featured speakers arePedro Nanez, Field TrainingOfficer for the Escondido Po-lice; Rosibel Mancillas López,Attorney at Law; and VictorManuel Torres, Attorney atLaw, Victor Manuel Torres lawfirm.
There is no charge for ad-mission and parking is availablein Lots 1 and 2, at 1140 WestMission Road.
Calendar of Events:
Mike Gomez (left) as Felix with Paul Rodriguez as Oscar
PAGE 6 SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO
By Maribel Hastings
Frustration and anger can translate into in-action and paralysis, or they can fuel change. Iprefer the second option because if participa-tion of Hispanics in elections were equivalentto our population numbers, we’d be in a verydifferent place, especially if we voted in largernumbers on every level, not just in the presi-dential elections, and if we did so conscien-tiously.
If we consider the White House’s postpone-ment of executive actions to protect millionsfrom deportation, and if we also take into ac-count the record deportations of this Adminis-tration, as well as the actions and inaction ofpast administrations and Democratically-con-trolled Congresses, and we add the factor ofRepublicans blocking immigration reform anddemonizing immigrants, we realize why thoseLatino voters for whom immigration is a prior-ity are between a rock and a hard place.They’re stuck between Democrats who taketheir support for granted and Republicans whodon’t care about the Hispanic vote.
On Sunday in Iowa Hillary Clinton, who couldpotentially seek the Democratic nomination forpresident, was confronted by DREAMers andasked about the delay in immigration executiveaction. Her response was, “we need to electmore Democrats.” Doesn’t she know thatLatinos have already elected more Democratsand they’re still waiting for immigration relieffor friends and family?
Without a real third option, where do we go?There’s not a simple answer, but that doesn’t
mean we throw in the towel. If you’re a citi-zen, let your conscience tell you which party toregister with (registering independent is alwaysan option, as is voting for a candidate, not aparty). If you’re a permanent resident who iseligible, become a citizen and register. Vote anddon’t throw away your vote. Demand resultsand show that your suffrage elects or un-electspoliticians.
If Latinos voted our potential, politicianswould think twice about using us so conve-niently. It would be harder for Democrats toget to the White House and then put us at theend of the line of priorities, and for Republi-cans to use us as scapegoats to gin up theirultra-conservative base.
For years Democrats have done as they pleasedwith our community because they figure thatLatinos don’t have an alternative. The other op-tion is not to vote and that doesn’t help us.
One of the major problems is low turnout inmidterm elections, which determine the balanceof power in Congress. The practice is voting inpresidential elections (and not even at the level
that we should be voting) and ignoring the elec-tions that determine who represents our inter-ests in Congress. Both are important.
The National Association of Latino Electedand Appointed Officials (NALEO) estimatesthat 7.8 million Latinos will vote this Novem-ber 4th, a jump of almost 19 percent in com-parison to the midterm election in 2010, but a25 percent drop from the almost 11.2 millionHispanics who voted in the presidential elec-tion of 2012.
Our vote is growing, but not to the extentthat it could. Just look at the statistics: NALEOprojects that in the 2014 election cycle therewill be 25,526,000 Latino citizens of voting age;12,861,000 will be registered and 7.8 million willvote. This represents 8 percent of the elector-ate when Hispanics make up 17 percent of thepopulation and 11 percent of those eligible tovote.
In the 2012 presidential election, there were23,329,000 Latino citizens of voting age;13,697.000 were registered and 11,188,000voted.
Each month more than 60,000 Latinos turn18 and are eligible to vote. Among those thou-sands are young people with undocumentedparents or family members who have grownup seeing both parties avoid immigration re-form and win elections without any relief fortheir loved ones.
The problem of not reaching our potentialdoesn’t just fall on us, whether it’s because ofapathy, cultural factors or lack of information.What’s needed is more educational and votermobilization campaigns, especially in states thataren’t traditionally Hispanic. The political par-ties themselves have done a poor job of courtingand mobilizing that vote. On top of that is thatfact that the Voting Rights Act is under attack.The Supreme Court has now allowed states andlocalities to make changes to voting practiceswithout prior federal authorization, which couldfacilitate electoral discrimination. It’s calculatedthat 7 million eligible Latino voters live in areaswithout adequate voting rights protections.
But inaction isn’t the answer. The slowdownof executive action on immigration or the lackof immigration reform legislation won’t besolved by just complaining about it.
Arturo Vargas, executive director of NALEO,summarizes it this way:
“As a voting community, we need to under-stand ‘hardball politics’ and recognize that leg-islative goals do not occur overnight. We needto engage as voters for the long haul, and playhardball too.”
Maribel Hastings is a Senior Advisor atAmerica’s Voice.
GUEST EDITORIAL:
Voting Is The Only Option
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is,perhaps, the most brilliant marketing phrase inthe world. Something happened in Vegas (LasVegas) on Saturday the 13th of September, itwill not stay in Vegas.
September 15-16 is Independence Day inMexico and myriad other countries formerlycolonies of Spain; it also is the kick-off of His-panic Heritage Month in the United States.
The Las Vegas Hispanic community kickedoff the month with a parade that was jammedwith Mexicans, Guatemalans, Panamanians,Nicaraguans, Colombians, Ecuadorians andothers from almost every country south of theRio Grande.
It wasn’t the Rose Parade or a PresidentialInaugural Parade, certainly, but people fromvarious national and local groups representingvarious communities in Mexico, for example,organized into informal marching groups, asmart marching drum and bugle corps, Mexi-can folk (folklorico) dancers, a hundred Zumbadancers, new and antique cars and marvelously,dozens of Mexican cowboys wearing Stetsonwestern hats riding their horses in the last ofthe Wild West towns, Las Vegas, Nevada.
How fitting it was that Mexican cowboys rodein the parade, after all, it was Spanish settlersand their sons and grandson Mexicans that in-vented the “cowboy” (the Vaquero) in Mexicoover two hundred years before Americans tookto raising cattle west of the Mississippi River.
Watching these modern vaqueros ride in theparade also brings back history that in 1862Colonel Porfirio Diaz’ horse soldiers of theMexican Army routed/destroyed beautifullyplumed French Cavalry at the Battle of Pueblaon the 5th of May, 1862, disrupting the Frenchinvasion of Mexico.
That fight for Mexican freedom morphed intoa long dictatorship of the aforementionedPorfirio Diaz and the 20th Century’s first socialand political revolution that helped change theworld.
Led by a University of California educatedslightly built bespectacled Francisco Madero,Mexicans in 1910 revolted against the 30-yearlong dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz and his gov-ernment of oligarchs otherwise known as ossi-fied old men.
Madero’s most loyal fighting general wasformer bandit and spectacularly charismaticPancho Villa in the border state of Chihuahua
Celebrating Hispanicswhose call to arms raised an army – Divisiondel Norte, that showed the world Mexicanscontinued to be the world’s finest light cavalrythat they had demonstrated against the Frenchforty eight years earlier.
Victor Alba, Spanish leftist-evolutionary,Franco prisoner who fled to Mexico and Americain 1946 wrote a brilliant history — “The Mexi-cans – The Making of a Nation – in which hewondered how Pancho Villa’s troops could fightall day, travel overnight two hundred miles inrailroad cars arrive at a battlefield and organizehead on cavalry charges that overwhelmed theenemy like few cavalry in history.
Coming from the south was EmilianoZapata’s army on foot. The two armies met inMexico City. Fortunately for all, Villa and Zapatadecided to not fight each other and modernMexico was born. A little later, however, Mexi-can reactionary generals imported Germanmilitary advisors who imported barbed wirefrom America and machine guns from Europeto fight off Villa’s horse soldiers and the fa-mous Mexican cavalry faded into history — acasualty of modern warfare.
This history-making Mexican Revolutionlasted ten years and produced an unknownnumber of dead. We do know that there was amuch smaller Mexican population in 1920’scensus than in the 1910 census. Not all missingdied, so where did the living go?
They came to the United States as they hadsince 1779 when Mexicans came to fight inthe American Revolution and in 1861 when theycame to fight in the American Civil War (onboth sides). It was their great-great grandchil-dren I mingled with on the parade route andwatched as they happily marched and dancedtheir way into Downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is home to far more Hispanicsthan I ever realized. They come from every-where; they work in the gigantic hotel and gam-ing industry of Las Vegas, they work in con-struction every day in 100-degree plus tempera-tures, they work in retail, services, law enforce-ment, media, mining, ranching, they flip burgers,run restaurants, run tax and notary services andseem to open new Mexican, Salvadoran andCuban restaurants every week. They are ev-erywhere.
Fittingly, the Grand Marshall of the paradewas Nevada’s Governor, Brian Sandoval whosefamily came to the United States from Mexicowhen everyone rode horses, wore Stetsons andtamed the Wild West.
DeMaio’s commitment to women’srights questioned
At a public relations event, Congressional can-didate Carl DeMaio announced that he supportslegislation that would make birth control pillsavailable over the counter. He claimed this dem-onstrates his commitment to women’s rights.
I found the announcement disconcerting be-cause the Planned Parenthood Action Fund ofthe Pacific Southwest has been asking DeMaiofor his position on access to contraception foryears now, and he has never given us a straightanswer. The question of whether birth controlpills should be sold over the counter or pro-vided at no cost through health insurance is animportant one, but only part of a broader issueof access to care.
The non-partisan Action Fund asked DeMaioon numerous occasions where he stands onPlanned Parenthood services, like cervical can-cer screenings, breast health, STD testing andtreatment, and contraception.
DeMaio had nothing to say when he was run-ning for City Council. He did not respond toinquiries when he was running for mayor. Andnow, as he attempts to unseat Congress mem-ber Scott Peters, DeMaio still refuses to en-gage in a dialogue about women’s health withPlanned Parenthood.
In my experience, both Republican andDemocratic candidates who truly support re-productive health welcome an opportunity toengage with Planned Parenthood. The ActionFund endorses candidates regardless of partyaffiliation. Our issue is women’s health overpolitical party. Just ask Republicans like CountySupervisor Ron Roberts, San Diego District
By Angelica Torres
Most people will ignore the teenage boy ask-ing for money at the freeway entrance or thegirl sitting at the edge of a busy city street witha sign: homeless and hungry; please help. Somemay be disgusted by them, thinking that thesekids are lazy and should get a job instead oftrying to sponge off everybody else; or ratio-nalize that they will not give money that wouldonly help feed their addictions. The compas-sionate ones will pat their pockets to find anyspare change they can find.
There is a lot of prejudice around home-lessness. I’ve heard many voice their opinionthat people are homeless because of their owndoing. They made decisions that ultimately madethem homeless. I remember when I wasyounger; I had some misconceptions abouthomelessness. I couldn’t figure out how peoplecould end up in that situation. I found that it wasmostly my ignorance that prevented me fromunderstanding. There are so many different rea-sons why people end up homeless.
According to the National Runaway Safeline,there is between 1.6 and 2.8 million homelessyouth living on the streets. Some teens end uphomeless due to family problems. Some sufferfrom abuse at home. Others deal with psycho-logical disorders or substance abuse issues ofa parent or both. In recent years, the numberof teens that are living in the streets as a resultof ‘coming out’ is increasing. Some families donot agree with the life style or life choice oftheir child and cannot deal with their youth be-ing different. There is a large number of youththat become homeless after they age out ofthe foster care system. These youth usuallyhave little or no income support and limitedhousing options.They are usually less prepared
than other youth from the same age and there-fore less likely to attend college and find a steadyjob. Aged out youth are more likely to becomehomeless than any other youth group and theyare more likely to remain homeless longer.
Youth along with their families, may becomehomeless due to financial problems. Familiesmay fall into difficult financial situations becausethey have no access to affordable housing orare not able to get or maintain a job. For manyof these youth being out on the street is morebearable than being at home. Unfortunatelysome of these kids get involved with illegal drugsand crime. Alcohol and drugs are ways theychoose to cope and deal with their problems.There are various reasons why kids end uphomeless but it comes down to one thing: lackof support. Ultimately the lack of support is thecommon factor in many of the cases that manyyouth choose to run away.
The homeless system needs to be improved.What can you do about it? Individuals can helpreduce this growing problem either by becom-ing foster parents or volunteering in organiza-tions that offer services to homeless youth. Thegreatest impact is for us to come together insupport of H.R. 2955; the Runaway and Home-less Youth Inclusion Act. This act is asking foradditional funding in direct support of servicesrecently offered to homeless youth. These ser-vices include addressing the health, behavioral,and emotional problems that youth experiencebecause of lack of sufficient resources, the needfor temporary shelters and services, as well asservices that provide youth development. As acommunity, we should be able to help the youththat are the future of America.
Angelica Torres, MSW graduate student anda mother to three children.
Homelessness doesn’t discriminate whyshould you?
Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, and former SanDiego Mayor Jerry Sanders. Candidates whofail to return questionnaires or phone calls usu-ally do so because they do not support PlannedParenthood. They typically don’t answer ourquestions because they know mainstream vot-ers won’t like what they have to say.
At Planned Parenthood Action Fund of thePacific Southwest, we would like to knowwhether Candidate DeMaio thinks a woman’sboss has the right to decide whether she hasaccess to contraception covered by her healthinsurance. We would like to know if he believeswomen serving in our nation’s Armed Forcesshould receive the same medical care and cov-erage that civilians get. We would like to knowhis position on protestors who aggressively ha-rass women or blockade health centers.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund sup-ports the re-election of Congress member ScottPeters. The reason we’ve endorsed Peters isbecause he has he been candid with votersabout where he stands on women’s health. Notonly has he told constituents, he’s shown them.As a Member of Congress, Peters co-spon-sored the Women’s Health Protection Act andconsistently voted to protect access to contra-ception and reproductive health care.
Supporting women’s health is about more thanholding a press conference that addresses asmall part of a larger issue. It’s about engagingwith community members and respecting themenough to answer their meaningful questions.
Nora VargasVice President of the Planned Parenthood
Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest
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Commentary/Opinion Page
By Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos
Coinciding with Father Miguel Hidalgo’s ElGrito de Dolores on September 15, 1810, tofoment an end to slavery after almost 300 yearsof Spanish rule, I humbly declare my indepen-dence from the Democratic Party and call uponall Latino voters in the U.S. to do the same,throughout the farcical ‘Hispanic HeritageMonth’ celebration.
With President Obama’s latest broken prom-ise to protect by executive action the 11 millionimmigrants in political limbo, I declare that Ihave decided to quit the Democratic Party andcall upon all Latino voters to rebel, by changingtheir registration to ‘independent’ because thereis no political party that deserves our vote, ortruly represents the interests of our families andchildren.
We should celebrate ‘Hispanic HeritageMonth’ by voting on November 4th as inde-pendent voters for “No executive action, novote ! “ across the U.S., to deliver the mes-sage that Obama must exercise by Thanksgiv-ing his executive authority through deferredaction, and grant administrative relief to all 11million immigrants without a criminal record.
His deportation regime represents a form ofgenocide of more than 2 million Latino immi-grant families, because 96% of those deportedwere Latinos, which is inherently a form ofracialized and discriminatory law enforcementthat should be prosecuted as a criminal case inan international court, and litigated as a mas-sive violation of U.S. citizens children’s rightsin the United Nations and U.S. courts.
To wit, as a result of Obama’ Deporter-in-Chief legacy, there are over 500,000 U.S. bornchildren of Mexican parents deported, nowexiled in Mexico, and whose constitutional, hu-man and children’s rights have been violated.They should be given safe return to their coun-try of birth, along with their parents and nuclearfamily.
Ironically, Obama’s legacy will be judged inhistory by this familicide, in contradiction withhis unjustified and undeserved Nobel PeacePrize.
In my opinion, when president Obama finallyannounced his decision to deny again his prom-ise to protect the 11 million unauthorized immi-grants that contribute to our economy with theirhard work, he lost his last chance to energizeLatino voters and the Democratic Party’s base,not only for the November elections, he also
A Latino Voters Declaration of Independencefrom the Democratic Party in the U.S.
jeopardized the 2016 presidential election.Surely, Latino voters will be cuddled by the
Dems to vote the GOP out of Congress and toelect Hillary in 2016, as our duty and allegianceto the party. But for what benefit and how canwe trust them, when Obama’s persuasive ap-peal is exhausted, unconvincing and bankrupt.
Conclusively, President Obama and theDemocratic Party’s leadership cannot betrusted on immigration before, or after the elec-tions this year. They will continue to punt withthe justification that we must wait until afterthe 2016 election, due to congressional gridlockand the GOP’s threat of impeachment and law-suits against the president.
Notwithstanding that Obama’s deportationswill continue at record-pace, as he becomesthe longest serving lame duck president in thehistory of the U.S., for his last 2 years in officeafter the November 4 election.
The president and the Democratic Party’sleadership led us down the path of deceptionand without consultation dictated to Latinos toaccept the nefarious S.744 legislation producedby the senate’s ‘Gang of 8’, despite the factthat it would deport half or more of the 11 mil-lion undocumented, while militarizing the bor-der with a $56 billion boondoggle.
As Geronimo would say, Obama and theDemocratic Party leadership ‘speak forkedtongue’.
Now there is no doubt that they are a part ofthe problem, that Obama is a president that doesnot respect even his own democrat membersof congress, much less Latino voters.
Blatantly disrespectful, he never replied tothe appeal letters for immigrants’ legislativerelief sent by Congress members Raul Grijalvaand Yvette Clarke on December 5, 2013 andJanuary 24, 2014, and signed by 40+ democratmembers of the U.S. Congress.
Regardless of the November election results,Obama must deliver on his word before theend of the year, to change his legacy to theEmancipator-in-Chief, and do what is rightfor the economy and future generations of newAmerican immigrants that will be 30% of theU.S. population by 2050.
Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos teachesChicano and Latino Studies in the Califor-nia State University system, and is an AreaCoordinator for the Protect Our Familiesand Save the Children Campaign in LosAngeles.
By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: A very close friend ofmine is supposed to become a U.S.citizen. He was brought here by hisparents when he was nine and has beenillegal since then. When the lawschanged, he went through a lot of hoopsand it really didn’t look good for a longwhile—especially since he was 30already by the time the law was trulyenacted. But somehow, throughpetitions and an appeal, he somehowhas been told he will become a U.S.citizen. That being said, he is stillwaiting for the day, still working in adodgy manner, still not driving—hisAmerican wife always drives. There’s apallor of emasculation about not being acitizen. He feels second-rate—something I know not because he tellsus, but because his wife and I are veryclose. He takes out his anger andresentment on his wife and marriageand it’s caused immense stress. Arethere counselors specifically for peoplewho are dealing with the elongation anddifficulty of becoming legal? Is that astrange question? I love this guy somuch—he’s such a close friend to ourfamily. I’ve never met a harder worker,a more curious soul. This scenario whilecommon, is so unfair it breaks my heartthat he has to experience this and hasfor really years. Any advice would be sogreatly appreciated.
Good Gabacha Friend
Dear Gabacha: There are many supportnetworks for undocumented folks, whetherthe younger DREAMer or people who justmissed the cutoff point for Deferred Actionfor Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obamaadministration memorandum that effectivelyput millions of people like your friend in awaiting game. And now with Obummerstating there’s no chance of any immigrationreform until after the November elections,your friend and so many others will continue
to wait infrustration—but tellyour amigo he shouldfeel no shame, and tokeep the faith. Thenagain, who am I tosay anything? TheMexican was born inthis country—it wasmy papi who came in the trunk of aChevy—so maybe my privilege makes mewear rose-colored mad-doggers. So havehim check out dreamersadrift.com, wheremy former producer, renowned artist JulioSalgado, and others tackle on the problemof what it means to grow up in this countrywithout papers and a government de purospendejos.
So I went to New York the other dayand we went to this neighborhood thatwas Dominican. I didn’t know what thatmeant but it just looked like a normalblack neighborhood. Then I notice theywere all speaking Mexican. Is aDominican just a fancy word for a blackMexican? Why are they so good atbaseball?
Confused in Utah
Dear Gabacho: This is ¡Ask a Mexican!,not ¡Ask a Tíguere!, so I really can’t helpyou much here. The only facts I can offerare that a 2008 City University of NewYork study projected Mexicans to eclipseDominicans as the largest immigrant group inla Gran Manzana in the next decade,meaning there’ll be a whole new group ofLatinos to hate us soon. Oh, and that ourmujeres LOVE bachata, the twangDominican music form that’s the only genrein the world certified by God as anautomatic choni dropper.
Ask the Mexican at [email protected], be his fan on Facebook,follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellanoor follow him on Instagram@gustavo_arellano!
¡ASK A MEXICAN!
The Invisible Achievement Gap: Students inFoster Care
By Marian Wright Edelman
Across the country it’s back to school time. Ihope it is a year full of promise and not disap-pointment and added stress for all children—especially those most vulnerable. I also hopethis school year begins with a renewed com-mitment by all teachers and school administra-tors to help every child succeed.
Every year too many children don’t get therespect and extra help they need to reach theirfull potential.
Children of color, poor children, English learn-ers, and children with disabilities are especiallylikely to be left behind. And there is anothergroup of children—those in foster care—whosespecial needs too often are ignored. Manyschool districts do not even know which stu-dents are in foster care and are not trackingtheir performance. So now I am grateful thatin California findings about educational out-comes for public school students in foster carehave been well documented in a 2013 study byThe Center for the Future of Teaching & Learn-ing at West Ed commissioned by the StuartFoundation and a 2014 follow-up report by TheCenter and the California Child Welfare Indi-cators Project linking student outcomes to theirfoster care experiences. They found the oddsagainst foster student success are worse thanwe thought and call this “The Invisible Achieve-ment Gap.”
While there has been a positive federal pushto improve educational stability and success forchildren in foster care and some strong advo-cacy and good laws in California to protect them,these important data reports, a collaborationbetween California’s Departments of Educa-tion and Social Services, were the state’s firsteffort to examine and report educational out-comes for these students in every county. Theyfound children in foster care:
• were more likely than other students tochange schools during the school year. About1 in 10 students in foster care attended threeor more schools during the year compared toabout 1 in 100 of the general student popula-tion and their “low socioeconomic status” peers(those eligible for free and reduced-priced lunchor whose parents have not received a highschool diploma).
• were more likely than the general studentpopulation to attend the lowest performingschools.
• had the lowest participation rate in the state-wide testing program, making it impossible toaccurately determine how they are perform-ing.
• fell into “below basic” and “far below ba-sic” performance levels for English languagearts and mathematics at twice the rate of thestatewide student population and performedworse than their low socioeconomic statuspeers. They performed similarly to Englishlearners and students with disabilities in En-glish, but did worse than all groups in math.
• had a lower graduation rate; 58 percent com-pared to 84 percent for all students, 79 percentfor low socioeconomic status students, 65 per-cent for students with disabilities, and 60 per-
cent for English language learners.• were clustered in a small number of dis-
tricts. Two-thirds were enrolled in 10 percentof the state’s school districts. Identifying wherethese students are and targeting services thereis critical to closing this achievement gap forCalifornia and the rest of the nation.
Congress and the Administration have actedto improve educational stability and success forchildren in foster care, but more is required.The bipartisan Fostering Connections to Suc-cess and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 re-quires all states to ensure children entering fos-ter care remain in their original school if it’s inthe child’s best interest. A May 2014 agencyletter has reinforced the obligation of educa-tion and child welfare agencies to implementthese protections.
California’s experience shows us that betterfederal and state policies are essential but notenough. Every state must gather and analyzedata about students in foster care and how theyare doing and then act quickly and decisivelyto help them. California has done that. Afterrecognizing the unique educational needs offoster care students from this data it includedthem as one of the three subgroups of at-riskstudents that can help generate additional fundsfor local school districts as part of the state’snew local control funding formula.
While states step up and do their part, localactions like the enhanced resources and sup-ports for students in foster care in the Los An-geles Unified School District and the StuartFoundation’s Education Equals Partnership ini-tiative—a five-year demonstration effort in fourCalifornia counties to improve educational out-comes for children in foster care from earlychildhood education through college—also areessential. The Kids in School Rule! Project inHamilton County, Ohio, a collaboration betweenthe county child welfare agency, the cityschools, the juvenile court, and the Legal AidSociety of Greater Cincinnati, is another stronglocal initiative.
We must all work together to get child wel-fare and education agencies in more states—and eventually every state—gathering data onhow children in foster care are doing in everyschool district and taking appropriate action tohelp them succeed. You can begin by askingyour own school district what they are doing tohelp children in foster care stay in one school,rather than moving from school to school asplacements change, and help them get the ex-tra support they need. Check with the Ameri-can Bar Association’s Legal Center for FosterCare and Education (http://www.americanbar.org/groups/child_law/what_we_do/projects/education.html ) to seewhat your state is doing to improve school sta-bility and success in foster care and to link withothers working on their behalf in your own state.We must not let any of our children remain in-visible or go without the help they need to re-ceive a quality education.
Marian Wright Edelman is President of theChildren’s Defense Fund. For more infor-mation go to www.childrensdefense.org.
Importancia de estados pequeñosPor Humberto Caspa
Tenemos una forma única de elegir a nuestrosgobernantes. A diferencia de otros países, enEstados Unidos el voto popular no determinaal ganador en las elecciones presidenciales.
O puede ocurrir que algunos estados, a pesarde ser pequeños, no solamente deciden alganador de una contienda presidencial, sino quepueden tener la capacidad de afectar lasrelaciones de poder dentro de la Cámara deRepresentantes y/o del Senado.
Comparemos a los estados de Iowa y Cali-fornia. El primero es uno de los estados máspequeños, con apenas 3 millones de habitantes.El segundo es el estado más poblado, con másde 38 millones de almas, muchos de ellos latinas.
California tiene un Producto Interno Bruto(PIB) de más de 2.000.000 millones o, comonormalmente se dice en Estados Unidos, 2trillones. Si es que California fuera un paísseparado e independiente, entonces estaríamoshablando de la octava economía más poderosadel mundo.
Por su parte, Iowa es uno de los estados quese encuentra un poco más arriba de la mitadde los demás estados en términos de susingresos económicos. Alrededor de $116.000millones anuales.
Empero, en términos políticos, Iowa es muchomás importante que el “golden state”, particu-lar-mente en las elecciones venideras denoviembre.
California tiene 53 representantes en elCongreso y otros dos en el Senado. Enelecciones presidenciales o de senadores es casiseguro que los candidatos demócratas se llevan
la victoria porque la mayoría de su electoradotiene principios progresistas. Las senadorasdemócratas Diane Feinstein y Barbara Boxerhan estado ganando elecciones desde que BillClinton subió al poder por primera vez en 2000.
Mientras que en Iowa sucede lo contrario.Se ha convertido en uno de los estados másinciertos políticamente y puede ser el que de-termine al ganador por la batuta del Congreso.El senador demócrata Tom Harkin se retiró ydejó su puesto vacante. Los republicanos estánfestejando su retiro con bombos y platillos,pensando que su puesto va a ser arrebatadopor una correligionaria suya.
Bruce Braley, candidato demócrata, y larepublicana Joni Ernst están puño a puño en latarima política. El resultado no se sabrá hastaque se haya contado el último voto delelectorado local. Antes de eso, es muy difícilsaber quién va a ser el ganador.
En tal sentido, Iowa es uno de los estadosque puede revertir el dominio de los demócratasen el senado. Si los republicanos logran acertaruna victoria, estarían prestos a darle un dolorde cabeza a Obama, cuyo dolor duraría los dosaños restantes de su mandato presidencial.
Si ahora es muy difícil legislar proyectos deley en un Congreso dividido, con un dominio delos republicanos en el Senado y en Cámara deRepresentantes, los latinos tendríamos queesperar hasta las elecciones de 2016 para quelos políticos nuevamente consideren laaprobación de una ley integral migratoria.
Humberto Caspa, Ph.D., es profesor einvestigador de Economics On The Move.E-mail: [email protected]
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Sealed bids will be received at the Office of Purchasing andContracting, 5560 Overland Avenue, Suite 270, San Diego, Cali-fornia, 92123-1294, until 2:00 p.m. on September 23, 2014 atwhich time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. Contractdocuments including Plans, Specifications and Bid Forms areavailable for download at the County Buynet site: http://buynet.sdcounty.ca.gov. You must be registered at the site inorder to download documents.
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NOTICE TO PROPOSERSRequest for Proposal (RFP) No. 1415-144
Host Services for the Imperial Valley SmallBusiness Development Center
Notice is hereby given by the Southwestern Community CollegeDistrict (SCCD) of San Diego County, California, hereinafterreferred to as the District, acting by and through its GoverningBoard, will receive up to, but not later than 2:00PM on Friday,October 10, 2014 to this Request for Proposal (RFP) for HostServices for the Imperial Valley Small Business DevelopmentCenter for the Southwestern Community College District.
The SCCD, regional host for the San Diego and Imperial SmallBusiness Development Center Network (Network), is seeking pro-posals from qualified applicant organizations to be a host of theImperial Valley Small Business Development Center (IVSBDC),serving Imperial County. The IVSBDC delivers defined businessdevelopment support services to established and emerging busi-nesses.
Responses shall be received in the Office of Procurement, Cen-tral Services & Risk Management, Room 1651 located at 900Otay Lakes Road, Chula Vista, CA 91910, on the date and at thetime stated above.
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All interested Firms may request a copy of this RFP by [email protected], calling 619-482-6481 or by visiting theDistrict’s web-site at www.swccd.edu/procurement. Any requestsfor information may be directed to Priya Jerome by [email protected] no later than 4:00 PM on Monday, Sep-tember 29, 2014.
Melinda Nish, Ed.D.Secretary of the Governing BoardSouthwestern Community College Districtof San Diego, California
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00028285-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: NAHARA JANESSY GALVAN-ACEVEDO filed a petition with this courtfor a decree changing names as follows:NAHARA JANESSY GALVAN-ACEVEDO to NAHARA JANESSYSANCHEZ-GALVAN
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-10-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: AUG 22, 2014
DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Aug 29. Sept. 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00027776-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MINH THY KHANH HUYNHfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:MINH THY KHANH HUYNH to CATHYKHANH HUYNH
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-03-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:C46. The address of the court is Supe-rior Court of California, County of San Di-ego, 220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: AUG 19, 2014
DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Aug 29. Sept. 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
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AVISO DE NOMINADOS PARA CARGO PÚBLICOSE NOTIFICA POR MEDIO DEL PRESENTE que las siguientespersonas han sido nominadas para los cargos designados a serocupados en la Elección Municipal General que se llevará a caboen la Ciudad de La Mesa el martes, 4 de noviembre de 2014.
Para Miembro del Concejo de la Ciudad Vote por Dos
Pete GregorovicAbogado/Hombre de Negocios
Bill BaberSíndico del Distrito Escolar de La Mesa-Spring Valley
Guy McWhirterHombre de Negocios de Pequeña Empresa
Patrick DeanGerente de Banquetes
Mary EnglandMujer de Negocios
Para Alcalde Vote por Uno
Mark ArapostathisMiembro del Concejo de la Ciudad/Educador
Art MadridAlcalde, Ciudad de La Mesa
Para Tesorero de la Ciudad Vote por Uno
Eldon “Bud” VogtTesorero de la Ciudad/CPA
Iniciativas de Ley a ser Votadas:
¿Debe adoptarse la Ordenanza queenmienda el Código Municipal de La Mesapara autorizar y regular dispensarios demarihuana medicinal en la Ciudad de La
Mesa?
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¿Debe adoptarse la Ordenanza queenmienda el Código Municipal de La Mesapara imponer un límite de tres períodos
consecutivos en el cargo de Miembro delConcejo de la Ciudad, Alcalde o cualquier
combinación de los períodos de losmismos?
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¿Debe ser designado el cargo de secretariode la ciudad?
Mary J. Kennedy, CMCSecretaria de la CiudadCiudad de La Mesa, California
Fechado: 18 de septiembre de 2014
Publicado: Septiembre 19, 2014 La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00028515-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: DELIA TAPIZ ON BEHALFOF MINOR JUAN GANDARA filed a pe-tition with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:JUAN TAPIZ GANDARA to JUANGANDARA TAPIZ
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-17-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: AUG 25, 2014
DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Aug 29. Sept. 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00029064-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: VIVIAN S. MCKESSON filed apetition with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:VIVIAN SIGNE MURIEL MCKESSON toVIVIAN SIGNE MURIEL IRONFIELD
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-10-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: AUG 28, 2014
DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26/2014La Prensa San Diego
CHANGE OF NAMEREQUESTING BIDS REQUESTING BIDS CHANGE OF NAMEPUBLIC NOTICEPUBLIC NOTICE
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00023573-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: BLANCA FAVIOLA AYALAfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:BLANCA FAVIOLA AYALA to BLANCAFAVIOLA ROMAN
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-10-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: AUG 29, 2014
LISA SCHALLJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00029400-CU-PT-NC
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: GIULIANO SCIAMMARELLAfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:GIULIANO SCIAMMARELLA toGIULIANO PICCIUTO
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-28-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 2, 2014
K. MICHAEL KIRKMANJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00029466-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MELISSA JANOWIAK filed apetition with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:MELISSA JANOWIAK to MELISSAJANOWICK
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-17-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 2, 2014
DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00024542-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: CORRIE RODRIGUEZ filed apetition with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:A. RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ to RAFAELGALVAN. B. CORRIE RENEERODRIGUEZ TO CORRIE RENEEGALVAN. C. JASMINE ELIZABETHGOMEZ TO JASMINE ELIZABETHGALVAN
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no written
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According to the BudgetProject report, the measure, ifpassed, would reduce prisonovercrowding in two ways:Going forward, fewer individu-als would be sent to state prisonfor the reclassified crimes; andthose already in state prison forthose offenses would be resen-tenced and sent to county jails.
Some county jails are alreadyexperiencing their own over-crowding problems as a resultof realignment. But San Fran-cisco District Attorney GeorgeGascon, a sponsor of the mea-sure, says the change wouldn’tworsen conditions in countylock-up. Shorter sentences forindividuals convicted of the re-classified crimes, he says, couldease overcrowding in the countyjails.
And because misdemeanorscarry shorter sentences thanfelonies, he says, “there will bea reduction in the time thatpeople will spend in custody.”
But not everyone affected byProp. 47 would be sent tocounty jails. Instead of jail time,someone who was convicted ofa misdemeanor could receivesupervised probation or court-ordered drug treatment.
“Prop. 47 will help, not hinder,counties working to reduce anypressures they are experienc-
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ing in their jails,” said LenoreAnderson, who directs Califor-nians for Safety and Justice.The group has a 501 c4 VoteSafe that is a sponsor of Prop.47.
The measure grows out of anidea that began with realign-ment, explains Rev. Ben Mc-Bride of PICO California. Thequestion both are trying to ad-dress, he said, is: “How do weget non-violent offenders closerto getting home, building relation-ships with families?”
“When folks are closer tofamily…visitation of clergy…they keep more connected [andit helps] the process of reha-bilitation,” McBride said. “Thefurther they are from whatPICO calls the ‘lifeline tohealing’…the worse they willbe.”
These community-basedpractices, the Budget Projectanalysis found, help lower crimerates and save money. For ex-ample, mental health courts thatprescribe therapy instead of jailtime for non-violent offendershas lowered re-arrest rates inSan Francisco.
Similarly, drug courts thatmandate drug treatment in thecity reduce recidivism by up to26 percent.
“Most people agree we havea challenge because a lot of
crime incidents are connectedto drug addiction and mentalissues and yet our communitiesdon’t have resources to reallyaddress those issues,” saidAnderson. “A lot of those prob-lems get much worse in thecriminal justice system.”
UC Berkeley’s Krisbergnoted that Prop. 47 has verylittle opposition thus far. Oppo-nents, including the CaliforniaPolice Chiefs and the Califor-nia Correctional Officers Orga-nization, have raised $8,000 –far less than supporters of themeasure, who have raisedmore than $3 million.
Public support for the mea-sure also appears to be high. AJune Field Poll found that 57percent of Californians supportthe initiative, with 19 percentundecided.
Anderson says the lack ofopposition and strong supportfor Prop. 47 shows state resi-dents are “increasingly frus-trated with spending on pris-ons.”
“We have the ability to …sig-nificantly reduce the prison andcrime problem in state with thisballot measure,” she said. “Andreinvest [the money] into thingsthat Californians think are moreimportant priorities to keep com-munities safe.”
y las ganas de seguir adelante”,dijo Garcés. “Por seis años, através de la zumba y el bailelatino, he construido puenteshacía una gran comunidad desandieguinos”.
A través de las formasadaptadas de zumba queGarcés desarrolló para lacomunidad con necesidadesespeciales como parte de laJuan Carlos Organization,
cientos de personas hanencontrado gozo a través delbaile, del movimiento y de lamúsica.
“Esto fortalece el cuerpo, lamente y el espíritu y promuevela socialización entre losparticipantes”, dijo. “Casi todaslas personas con unadiscapacidad aman laoportunidad de estar activos dealguna manera”.
Aunque ha ayudado amuchas familias a vencer lasdiscapacidades a través de sus
clases de zumba, Garcés estálejos de considerarse unaheroína.
“Pienso que el programa dela Juan Carlos Organization esun legado de mi hijo, inspiradopor su deseo de vivir su vidatan activamente como fueraposible”.
Para conocer más acerca dela Juan Carlos Organization,ver una lista de clases ycontribuir a la organización,visite www.jcorg.org.
La sequía y sus secuelas en la economía y elmedioambiente
Se estima que la sequía queviene azotando a Californiacausará pérdidas por 1,700millones de dólares tan solo enel Valle Central, la zona agrícolamás rica del estado, según in-dica un estudio preliminarrealizado por la Universidad deCalifornia en Davis para elDepartamento de Alimentos yAgricultura del estado.
“Desde el punto de vista deCalifornia, la agricultura re-presenta solo un 3 por cientodel producto interno bruto, porlo que no va a afectar mucho anivel estatal. Pero hay regionescomo el Valle Central, la CostaCentral y el Valle Imperialdonde la economía depende dela agricultura. Ahí si habrá másafectados y se prevé un incre-mento en el desempleo”,señalaSamuel Sandoval Solís, es-pecialista en el manejo derecursos hídricos de ExtensiónCooperativa en la Universidadde California en Davis.
El estudio preliminar sobre lasequía, Preliminary 2014Drought Economic Impact Esti-mates in Central Valley Agricul-ture, indica que en el Valle Cen-tral se dejarán sin cultivar 410,000acres, lo cual resultará en unareducción de 738 millones dedólares en ingreso agrícola.Asimismo se perderán 14,500empleos –tanto de trabajadoresde tiempo completo como detemporada- de los cuales 6,400están directamente relacionadoscon la producción de cultivos.
“Desafortunadamente sonempleos para gente de bajosingresos. El gobernador deCalifornia ya ha creado políticaspara mitigar el impacto, pero lostrabajadores quieren trabajo yno la ayuda de emergencia”,indica el especialista.Panorama de la sequía
California enfrenta una delas peores sequías en la historiamoderna. La falta de aguaafecta a muchas regiones y
muchos agricultores y gana-deros están disminuyendo susniveles de producción.
La poca lluvia registradaeste año, aunada a la dis-minución de las capas de nieveen las montañas, está causandouna reducción considerable enlas reservas de agua. Los dosprincipales abastecimientos deagua -los ríos Sacramento ySan Joaquín- están siendo sobreexplotados en algunas áreas.También ha aumentado el usodel agua del subsuelo y estopodría generar otros problemas.
“Cuando deja de llover elagua subterránea son nuestrosahorros y como cuando nosquedamos sin trabajo (sin aguade los ríos durante una sequía)es super importante hacer unbuen manejo de esos ahorros”,indica Sandoval Solís.
El explica que cuando lluevesuficiente por lo general seutiliza entre 20 a 30 por cientodel agua subterránea, pero enla actualidad se está con-sumiendo entre 50 y 60 porciento. “¡Significa que estamosagotando nuestros ahorros!” in-dica el experto.
La sobre explotación del aguasubterránea o mantos acuíferospuede tener varias conse-cuencias negativas, como elaumento de salinidad del suelo,hundimiento del suelo e incre-mentar el riesgo de in-cendios.
La salinidad del suelo se in-crementa cuando no hay sufi-ciente agua para regar y realizarel lavado de la tierra, lo quepodría afectar la producción dealimentos. Además, cuando elagua subterránea se agotadejando huecos en la tierra estopuede causar erosiones y hundi-mientos que podrían afectarviviendas, calles, sistemas dedrenaje y alcantarillado, etc.Asimismo la resequedad en elmedioambiente aumenta elriesgo de incendios.
Para contrarrestar esta
situación,los especialistas de laUC están trabajando en dife-rentes áreas: han creado unacampaña de información convideos en inglés y español paraeducar a la población sobre estacrisis y brindar sugerenciasacerca de cómo ahorrar agua.También están trabajando enlos condados con las agenciasdel control de agua para crearsoluciones locales.
En la región de Watsonvilley Monterey, en los cultivos defresa, frambuesa y zarzamorase cambiaron los sistemas demonitoreo de agua y se in-stalaron sensores a diferentesprofundidades en el suelo, lo quepermite saber con precisióncuándo hay que regar y cuandono es necesario. Asimismo losexpertos están estudiando quétipo de alimentos se puedenproducir utilizando menos agua,sin afectar la apariencia, sabory textura de la fruta.
A medida que esos esfuer-zos avanzan, se pide a loscalifornianos que pongan enpráctica medidas sencillas paraayudar en esta crisis. SandovalSolís recomienda:
No regar todos los días, solodos veces a la semana.
Regar el jardín solo por cincoa siete minutos.
Reducir la ducha a 5 minutos.Usar la lavadora de platos
pues se ahorra más agua quecuando se lavan a mano.
Cerrar la llave de aguacuando se lave los dientes y encambio utilizar un vaso conagua.
California es un estado árido,donde llueve poco y el aguaque hay en el subsuelo es unvalioso recurso que hay quecuidar.
“Como consumidores tene-mos que estar conscientes quecualquier cosa que hagamos,directa o indirecta, afectaránuestros recursos hídricos”,concluye Sandoval Solís.
REQUESTING BIDS REQUESTING BIDS
Notice to Mechanical Engineering andEnergy Services Firms
Request for Proposal/Qualification(RFP) No. 1415-143
Notice is hereby given by that Southwestern Community Col-lege District of San Diego County, California, hereinafter referredto as the “District”, acting by and through its Governing Board,will receive up to, but not later than 10:00 AM on Monday, Octo-ber 13, 2014 responses to this RFP #1415-143 for MechanicalEngineering and Energy Program Services.
The District plans to complete energy-saving projects (collec-tively, the “Projects”) at its four campuses in accordance withpotential funding and guidelines. Potential sources of fundinginclude Proposition 39 (Clean Energy Job Creation Act) and othersources (local bond funding, redevelopment funding, and Gen-eral Fund) during an initial period of four fiscal years (2014-2015to 2017-2018). One deliverable will be an Energy ExpenditurePlan with prioritized energy-savings projects. The goal of com-pleting energy-savings projects is to reduce the District’s en-ergy, operations, and maintenance costs.
The District is seeking a Mechanical Engineering firm with en-ergy program experience within San Diego County as well asexperience in dealing with the District’s IOU (SDGE) and theChancellor’s Office CCC/IOU partnership. In particular, the Dis-trict is looking to augment its staff with mechanical engineeringsupport (and some electrical engineering support) from qualifiedengineering personnel, preferably with CEM certification.
Responses shall be received in the Office of Procurement, CentralServices & Risk Management, Room 1651 located at 900 OtayLakes Road, Chula Vista, CA 91910, on or before the date andtime stated above. All responses to this RFP shall conform andbe responsive to the RFP, including its attachments/addenda.
RFP documents will be available on Friday, September 19, 2014.Those interested in obtaining copies should contact Janet Politeat [email protected], [email protected], or 619-482-6321.Documents may also be viewed and downloaded by visiting theDistrict’s webpage at swccd.edu/procurement. Requests for in-formation or clarification of RFP documents must be sent [email protected] and/or [email protected] no later than10:00AM on Wednesday, October 1, 2014.
Melinda Nish, Ed.D.Secretary of the Governing BoardSouthwestern Community College Districtof San Diego, California
Published: Sept. 19, 26, 2014 La Prensa San Diego
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: INTERNA-TIONAL INSTITUTE OFMICROPIGMENTATION at 91 W ProspectSt., Chula Vista, CA, County of San Di-ego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Ema Corning, 91 W ProspectSt., Chula Vista, CA 91911This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ema CorningThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 21, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-022585
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ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Monica CorderoThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County JUL 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-020383
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: CRAIN MEDICALASSITANCES SERVICES at 2121 F Av-enue, National City, CA, County of SanDiego, 91950.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Reyna Isabel Crain, 2121 FAvenue, National City, CA 91950.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Reyna Isabel CrainThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 26, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-022971
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: HAPPY CUS-TOM PRINTS at 704 Spinnaker PointTer, San Diego, CA, County of San Diego,92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Jorge Carranza, 704 Spin-naker Point Ter, San Diego, CA 92154 2.Jeanette Carranza-Islas, 704 SpinnakerPoint Ter, San Diego, CA 92154.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Reyna Isabel CrainThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 27, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023135
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: SHARKIESMARISCOS at 1680-C Hilltop Drive,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Janeth Rojas, 175 W.Seaward Ave. Apt. 4, San Ysidro, CA92173. 2. Francisco J. Rogriguez, 175 W.Seaward Ave. Apt. 4, San Ysidro, CA92173.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: 04/26/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Janeth RojasThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023348
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name:HALTENBERGER LOCKSMITH at 243N-Highway 101 #2, Solana Beach, CA,County of San Diego, 92075.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Alexander AlbertHaltenberger, 968 16th St., San Diego,CA 92154.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:01/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name:Alexander AlbertHaltenbergerThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023380
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. ALLIED RE-ALTY b. ALLIED REAL ESTATE at 970Eastlake Pkwy #104, Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91914. Mailing ad-dress: P.O. Box 1877, Bonita, CA 91908This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Raul Leon, 970 EastlakePkwy #104, Chula Vista, CA 91914.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:05/26/2010I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Raul LeonThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 20, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-022396
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: RESENDIZAUTO SALES at 1760 Palm Ave. Unit200, Ste. 202, San Diego, CA, County ofSan Diego, 92154. Mailing address: 737Ashbrook Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91913This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Maria Isabel Alvarez, 737Ashbrook Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91913This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:08/15/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Maria Isabel AlvarezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 18, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-022192
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: PINKY’S DIS-TRIBUTORS at 2832 Paxton Court, SanDiego, CA, County of San Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Alejandrina Alvarez, 2832Paxton Court, San Diego, CA 92154This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:12/20/2011I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Alejandrina AlvarezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 02, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023485
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. QUALITYHYDRAULICS SERVICE&SALES b.HYDRAULIC COMPONENTSSERVICE&SALES at 2252 Main St. #6,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Victor Salazar, East J St.,Chula Vista, CA 91911. 2. Mario Gomez,484 Jamul Ct, Chula Vista, CA 91911. 3.Josefina Gomez, 484 Jamul Ct, ChulaVista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: A Gen-eral Partnership. The First Day of Busi-ness Was: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Josefina GomezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 12, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-021657
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: RAYAM SHEETMETAL FAB at 822 Calle Lagasca, ChulaVista, CA, County of San Diego, 91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Ernesto de la Torre, 822Calle Lagasca, Chula Vista, CA 91910This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:07/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ernesto de la TorreThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 02, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023499
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: VENOVA TRAD-ING COMPANY at 1108 Hilltop Drive,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Jose A. Vega, 1108 HilltopDrive, Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:08/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Jose A. Vega.This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023334
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. DE LEONDYNAMICS. b. DE LEON AERIAL FIT-NESS at 12335 World Trade Dr.#8, SanDiego, CA, County of San Diego, 92128.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: De Leon LLC, 12335 WorldTrade Drive #8, San Diego, CA 92128This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: 08/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Victor FloresThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 03, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023559
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: PRESTIGEJANITORIAL SERVICES at 2445 VanNess Ave., National City, CA, County ofSan Diego, 91950.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Leticia Romero Legaria,2445 Van Ness Ave., National City, CA91950. 2. Carlos V. Romero, 2445 VanNess, National City, CA 91950.This Business is Conducted By: A Gen-eral Partnership. The First Day of Busi-ness Was: 03/01/2003I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Leticia Romero LegariaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 03, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023599
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: ENE-TE STUDIOat 1384 4th Ave., Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91911This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Daniel Tames, 1384 4thAve., Chula Vista, CA 91911. 2. AgustinNavarro Gomez, 1152 Tesoro Grove WayApt. 160, San Diego, CA 92154This Business is Conducted By: A Gen-eral Partnership. The First Day of Busi-ness Was: 08/28/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant who
declares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Daniel TamesThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 04, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023686
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: JUICE JOINT at3731 Mission Blvd. Suite A, San Diego,CA, County of San Diego, 92109This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Johnathan Power, 819 Ja-maica Court, San Diego, CA 92109.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Johnathan PowerThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 03, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023565
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: TERE TERANTAX SERVICE at 1120 3rd Ave. Ste. 2,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Teresa Teran, 117 E. OrlandoSt., Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:01/01/1995I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Teresa TeranThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 05, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023923
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: OUR LITTLEWORLD FAMILY CHILDCARE at 3556A del Sol Blvd., San Diego, CA, Countyof San Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Irma Leon, 3556 A del Sol,San Diego, CA 92154This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:07/22/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Irma LeonThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 25, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-022785
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: POSTMODERNPRESS at 1080 Broadway, Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91911. MailingAddress: P.O Box 80247, San Diego, CA92138This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Jerry Dell Ehrlich, 1078Broadway, Chula Vista, CA 91911This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:06/01/2007I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Jerry Dell EhrlichThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 08, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023992
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: BERKELEYPIZZA at 539 Island Av., San Diego, CA,County of San Diego, 92101. Mailing Ad-dress: P.O Box 12349, San Diego, CA92112This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Daniel Palacios, 539 Is-land Av., San Diego, CA 92101. 2. An-gela Rochester, 539 Island Av., San Di-ego, CA 92101.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple The First Day of BusinessWas: 09/10/2009I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)
Registrant Name: Daniel PalaciosThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 27, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023083
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: JR. CUTTINGSERVICE at 2232 Verus Street, Suite E,San Diego, CA, County of San Diego,92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Ernesto Borboa, 3003 Vil-lage Pine Drive Unit D, San Diego, CA92173. 2. Ernesto Borboa Luna, 2915 Vil-lage Pine Drive Unit C, San Diego, CA92173This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple The First Day of BusinessWas: 09/10/2009I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ernesto BorboaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEPT 09, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024128
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: FASTUSVISA at1970 Columbia Street, Apt.#213, San Di-ego, CA, County of San Diego, 92101This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Aliya Molta, 1970 Colum-bia Street, Apt. #231, San Diego, CA92101. 2. Anthony Michael Molta, 1970Michael Molta, 1970 Columbia Street,Apt. #231. If corporation or LLC: Califor-nia.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Aliya MoltaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEPT 08, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024086
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: ANNA K DE-SIGNS at 296 Sea Vale St.#B, ChulaVista, CA, County of San Diego, 91910This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Ana B. Kiryakos, 296 SeaVale St.#B, Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:02/14/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ana B. KiryakosThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEPT 11, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024348
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: BLUE 4 MEDIAat 1926 Wellington Lane Apt. 147, Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 92081.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Ana Karen FragosoPalomba, 1926 Wellington Lane Apt.174, Vista, CA 92081.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ana Karen FragosoPalombaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 03, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023632
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. VISTA SMARTCELL b. RW SMART CELL at 162 Ze-nith Street, Chula Vista, CA, County ofSan Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Raquel Calderon, 162 ZenithStreet, Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:02/15/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Raquel Calderon
objection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-10-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 05, 2014
LISA SCHALLJudge of the Superior Court
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00030306-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MICHAEL FRANCIASCAMANETTI filed a petition with thiscourt for a decree changing names as fol-lows:MICHAEL FRANCIS CAMANETTI TOMICHAEL RICHARD SMITH
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-24-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 09, 2014
DAVI J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00030176-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MAZIN YELDA/MUNA YELDAON BEHALF OF MINORS MARYANAMAZIN MASOUD, MARVIN MAZINMASOUD AND MARCELINO MAZINMASOUD filed a petition with this courtfor a decree changing names as follows:A. MARYANA MAZIN MASOUD TOMARYANA MAZIN YELDA. B. MARVINMAZIN MASOUD TO MARVIN MAZINYELDA. C. MARCELINO MAZINMASOUD TO MARCELINO MAZINYELDA
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-24-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 08, 2014
DAVI J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00030171-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MAZIN YELDA AND MUNAYELDA ON BEHALF OF YOUSIFMASOUD filed a petition with this courtfor a decree changing names as follows:YOUSIF MAJID MASOUD TO YOUSIFMAJID YELDA
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-24-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 08, 2014
DAVI J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00029443-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: AHMAD ALZEDI AND ZAINABALTEMIMI ON BEHALF OF MINOR AYAHASHEM AND ALIAH HASHEM filed apetition with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:A. AYA HASHEM TO AYA AHMADALZEDI. B. ALIAH HASHEM TO ALIAHAHMAD ALZEDI
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appear
at the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-17-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 09, 2014
DAVI J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct. 3/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00023497-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: DAVINDA HUTCHINSON ONBEHALF OF MINOR JAMES ERICBLANTON filed a petition with this courtfor a decree changing names as follows:JAMES ERIC BLANTON TO JAMESERIC PITTENGER
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-10-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: AUG 29, 2014
LISA SCHALLJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00030935-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: PHILIP LE CHANTHAMARTfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:PHILIP LE CHANTHAMART to PHILIPLE OUDORN
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: OCT-31-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 15, 2014
ROBERT J. TRENTACOSTAJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept. 19, 26. Oct 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00031154-CU-PT-CTL
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: DAVID STEPHEN MOOREfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:DAVID STEPHEN MOORE to DAVIDMOORE BOULWARE
THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: NOV-7-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910
Date: SEP 16, 2014
ROBERT J. TRENTACOSTAJudge of the Superior Court
Published: Sept. 19, 26. Oct 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: GOLDENKITCHEN at 119 N. Main Ave. 2nd Flr.,Fallbrook, CA, County of San Diego,92028.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Sombutphaya, Inc., 7931Borson St., Downey, CA 90242This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: ThanyaSinsombutcharoin. Title: PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 04, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-020804
Published: Aug 29. Sept 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: JP TRUCK ANDTRAILER REPAIR at 164 Minot Ave. Apt.A, Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Jose Luis Perez, 164 MinotAve. Apt. A, Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:02/17/2009I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Jose Luis PerezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County JUL 30, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-020419
Published: Aug 29. Sept 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: KARY FRUT at4492 Camino De La Plaza, San Ysidro,CA, County of San Diego, 92173.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Salvador Flores LopezThis Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Salvador Flores LopezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 27, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023015
Published: Aug 29. Sept 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: SAINZ TAX SO-LUTIONS at 730 Broadway St. 301,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Maria Sainz, 70 Quintard St.#15, Chula Vista, CA 91911This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Maria SainzThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 04, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-020845
Published: Aug 29. Sept. 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: ONE UNIQUETOW&TRANSPORT at 483 Timber Ct,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Rafael Guerra, 483 TimberCt, Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:08/06/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Rafael GuerraThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 27, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023152
Published: Aug 29. Sept 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: SUPERIOR DIS-TRIBUTION AND SALES at 1955 GroveAve., San Diego, CA, County of San Di-ego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Jesus Magallon, 1955 GroveAve., San Diego, CA 92154.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:08/27/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Jesus MagallonThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 27, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023187
Published: Aug 29. Sept 5, 12, 19/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: HARD KNOXAPPAREL at 4360 Main Street, Suite202, Chula Vista, CA, County of San Di-ego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Monica Cordero, 2619 FaivreStreet, Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-
CHANGE OF NAME CHANGE OF NAME
This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 26, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-022937
Published: Sept. 19, 20. Oct. 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: TANDOORIKING at 14034 Poway Road, Poway, CA,County of San Diego, 92064. Mailing ad-dress: 727 North Valley View Dr., ChulaVista, CA 91914This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Allahnoor Khan Mahsud, 727North Valley View Dr., Chula Vista, CA91914.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Allahnoor KhanMahsudThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 11, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024460
Published: Sept. 19, 20. Oct. 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: SO-CAL TOW-ING at 315 E. Oxford St., Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Katia E. Hernandez, 315 E.Oxford St., Chula Vista, CA 91911This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Katia E. HernandezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 15, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024656
Published: Sept. 19, 20. Oct. 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: a. NOPALMEXORGANIC. b. NOPALMEX 4U. c. TIMEFOR ORGANIC. d. TIME FOR ORGANICat 645 Front St. Unit #103, San Diego,CA, County of San Diego, 92101.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Irving Kass, 645, Front St.Unit #103, San Diego, CA 92101This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:09/15/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Irving KassThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 16, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024732
Published: Sept. 19, 20. Oct. 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: DARACO at 650Via Maggiore, Chula Vista, CA, Countyof San Diego, 91914.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Daniela Rajlevsky, 650 ViaMaggiore, Chula Vista, CA 91914.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Daniela RajlevskyThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County SEP 16, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-024835
Published: Sept. 19, 20. Oct. 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
Fictitious Business Name: MS. GABY’SPLACE HOME FAMILY DAY CARE at2164 Meander Rd., Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91915.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Gabriela Urtecho, 2164 Me-ander Rd., Chula Vista, CA 91915This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Gabriela UrtechoThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County AUG 26, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-023001
Published: Sept. 19, 20. Oct. 3, 10/2014La Prensa San Diego
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trict. O’Neill is a graduate fromHilltop High.
What do you believe is thenumber one issue with thedistrict?
Re-establish the lost goodwilland respect within the commu-nity.
What qualities will you belooking for in hiring a su-perintendent?
I believe that before thequalifications for the new su-perintendent can be estab-lished, the residents and busi-ness’ within the District as wellas teachers and staff should bebrought together to set the vi-sion for what they want theDistrict to be in 10 years. Oncethe goal is set, the skills neededfor carrying out that vision canbe established.
Board accountability hasbeen lacking, how would youhold the board accountable?
By conducting the public’sbusiness in the open.
What do you believe yourrole is in interacting withteachers, and/or what kindsof relationship do believe inbuilding with teachers?
A school board membershould ensure that Teachers begiven maximum control overhow they teach. I would hopethat the Board and Teachersreach a point where they sharepride in the quality of the edu-cational experience offered toALL students as well as mu-tual respect. As a board mem-ber, my allegiance must be tothe institution as a whole andnot to a single area or any par-ticular class of employee orparent.
What are your financialpriorities?
I want a top to bottom auditof the District accounts in or-der to determine the depth andbreadth of any holes. Oncethose are identified the Boardshould meet with teachers, staff,and residents to determine themeasures necessary to bring theDistrict back to a firm financialfooting. I would propose that theDistrict establish both a regularreserve and a rainy day reserve.The latter could be used to pro-vide security and consistency ofstaffing during times the Stateunderfunds education.
Kevin O’Neill web site:www.oneill4sweetwater.com
Candidate AdrianArancibia
Arancibia is a resident ofBonita and a graduate of BonitaVista High School. He receivedhis Bachelor’s, Master’s andDoctorate degrees from UCSan Diego. He has been aneducator for the past 23 years.Adrian is co-founder of theTaco Shop Poets and later theperformance space, Voz Alta.
What do you believe is thenumber one issue with thedistrict?
I would argue that the num-ber one issue that the districtfaces is establishing a vision thatthe public can trust. For manyyears, the community of parentsand teachers has been excludedfrom any type of dialogue ontransparency, budgets and visionfor the district. Thus, there hasbeen a general leadership void.There has been no real discus-sion of educational issues orpriorities, instead, it has been aconsistent attempt to spin dis-cussion while back room dealswere made. In order to gain thetrust of the district, we mustestablish a vision that will leadour district into the future. Thisvision must have participationof all parties to gain the trust ofour community.
What qualities will you belooking for in hiring a su-perintendent?
I am looking for a new vi-sion for the district. I hope tofind a leader in the region thatunderstands the strengths andchallenges of our district. Iwould hope that this individualwould have an understandingof our student population whilealso working towards improv-ing student achievement. Thisleader must also be willing towork with all stakeholders.These include parents, teach-ers and community members.Further, this ethical leader mustwork hard to be transparentwith the community so as togain the support and respect ofall constituents.
Board accountability hasbeen lacking, how would youhold the board accountable?
All board members must re-frain from taking any and allgifts. They must never vote onissues where there are conflictsof interests. Board membersmust always work in the inter-ests of students in the district.
What do you believe yourrole is in interacting withteachers, and/or what kindsof relationship do believe inbuilding with teachers?
Teachers are the interface ofthe district with the community.They are the difference mak-ers in our children’s lives. Weshould work with them to bet-ter our district. This means thatwe should offer them a chanceto help us plot out the vision ofthe district.
What are your financialpriorities?
My financial priorities are tomake the district economicallysustainable for the future. Inorder to do this, we must havean audit to assure the long-termsustainability of the district, butalso to be transparent to thecommunity moving forward.We must also work to minimizethe costs of the district while atthe same time working to as-sure that we can recruit andmaintain our teachers.
Adrian Arancibia web site:adrianforsweetwater.comCandidate Dana Toogood:
Ms. Toogood did not respondto our questioner. What we doknow of Ms Toogood we de-rived from her website. Ms.Toogood taught in the highschool district for 10 years,1993-2003, after which she leftto open a Subway sandwichstore. She now owns four Sub-ways in Chula Vista.Candidate Kevin Pike
Mr Pike was sent the ques-tioner late so we are extendinghis deadline to reply. If Mr Pikeresponds to the questioner wewill include his responses nextweek. What we do know of MrPike we found on his facebookpage. Mr Pike is a retired po-lice officer, at one time was ateacher, and he enjoys coach-ing his grandson’s t-ball team.Candidate Bertha Lopez:
Disgraced former Sweet-water trustee Bertha Lopezplead guilty to hiding gifts sheaccepted from contractors whodid business with the district.We have editorialized that webelieve Lopez epitomizes theproblems with the previousSweetwater Board. BerthaLopez was removed from of-fice due to her guilty plea. Ber-tha Lopez has the audacity torun for her former seat, a merecouple of months after she wasremoved from office. We feelthat this was a cynical thing forher to do and she shows a defi-nite lack of respect for the com-munity she used to represent byseeking office again. There-fore, we chose not to invite herto answer our questionnaire.You can read our editorial opin-ion here: http://laprensa-sandiego.org/?p=28280
Next week we will continueour look at the candidates forTrustee Areas 3, 4, and 5.
Sweetwater school board race(con’t from page 3)
Adrian Arancibia
Kevin O’Neill
was a wealthy criollo-Creolewoman, but had aspirationsof a free Mexican nation asproven by her hosting ofsecret literary salons to readand discuss works ofEnlightenment philosophybanned by the CatholicChurch. When her husbandhad been appointed acorregidor (magistrate) inQuerétero, Josefa Ortiz stillmaintained close ties withrebel organizers.
Then there was GertrudisBocanegra, known as “LaHeroína de Pátzcuaro”another criollo-Creole womanborn to wealthy peninsulares(Spanish born parents) inMichoacan whose husbandwas originally a soldier in theSpanish army but when theMexican War ofIndependence broke wideopen, both of them joined thefight against Spain.
This particular lady’s lifereads like a novel, historianssay she worked as amessenger, aidingcommunication betweendifferent fronts, but wasfinally captured in herhometown of Pátzcuaro.
One of the stories aroundher execution include theclaim that although she wastortured, she never gave upthe names of her fellowrebels, and that she continued
ranting against herexecutioners until she wasshot by a firing squad. Herescapades were immortalizedin a Spanish-language movie,“Gertrudis.”
If you’ve ever in MexicoCity visit the area on Paseode La Reforma where ElAngel de La Independencialooks down on a plaquehonoring Leona Vicario,another criola who was borninto wealth in the AztecCapital. Leona, because ofpolitical differences, wasforced to flee to Tacuba,where she founded a groupof women supporters of theindependence movement.Later, she used her fortune tohelp fund the rebellion, andtransmitted information to therebels, acting as a spythrough her connections inMexico City, and co-foundinga secret organization knownas Las Guadalupes. Leonawas imprisoned in a conventfor her rebel involvementuntil she was able to escapeto Michoacán.
Of all these patrioticwomen, La Corrigidora hasreceived the most attentionbecause it was impossible tooverlook the fact that it wasthanks to her that Mexicocelebrates to its heart’scontent on the 16th ofSeptember.
You see, the rebellionwasn’t scheduled to beginuntil December, but SpanishRoyal troops began searchingfor rebels around Queréteroin September, where PadreMiguel Hidalgo y Costillasought rebel support. DoñaJosefa, already a suspectedrebel supporter, was orderedto be locked-up in her ownbedroom. But she outsmartedher captors by sending asecret message to the mayorof the city. His honor, a stoutrebel supporter himself,informed the Padre that theSpanish forces knew of hiswhereabouts and wereplanning to capture him.
So three months before larevolución was to start, onthe eve of September 16,1810, Hidalgo y Costilla’sspeech, now famously knownas Grito de Dolores,passionately urged thegathered masses to fight forMexico’s freedom. The rest,they write, is history.Mexican History, that is,without giving due credit toits mujeres.
We too have cast a blindeye at our heroinesthroughout history. Perhapssome day both nations will doan about-face and co-celebrate them on or aroundHispanic Month.
and help register voters http://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/partner-sign.
aims to register voters inAmerica is going to end uphaving about half the people itreaches be under the age of30, often because they justhaven’t been asked,” saysSinger. “They need someoneto talk to them.”
Many of Voto Latino’sNVRD efforts center around“reaching young Latinosthrough technology, media, andpop culture in ways that arerelevant to them,” such as con-tests and celebrity partnerships,according to Reeves.
For now, Singer hopes thatmore organizations will sign upas partners to promote the dayand host events on the 23rd.
It’s a good opportunity to dosomething simple and non-par-tisan, and just make sure thatyour own community is regis-tered and ready to participatethis fall,” he says.
Organizations can still sign upto take part in September 23
Eastern women? Or SouthEast Asian women? EastAsian women? Gender non-conforming folks? Queerfolks? Trans women of color?And more Latin@s!
Who ever said 1 is enough?We’ll have to tune in on the
15th to find out. Or perhapstune into Latin@ front-liningshows like Cristela and Janethe Virgin. Plus there’s FreshOff the Boat, Black-ish, Howto Get Away With Murder, andmany more people of color-ledshows.
Let’s give approval with ourattention, the most valuablecurrency of our informationage.
Cheng YiLing is a freelancecontributor and blogs atyellowcitizen.com.
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