The Paper 05-05-22

May 05, 2022

Volume 52 - No. 18

By Cecil Scaglione

The nation’s westward tilt has been the theme of films, essays, books, poems, political campaigns and coffee conversation for several decades.

As the Old West quick-draw-cowboy genre became over-clichéd, writers turned their polished-prose pens to enhancing the enchantment of the riches and rich-and-famous in the land re-named Hollywood.

“California Here I Come” became an anthem for the throngs of folks and The Paper - 760.747.7119

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families tired of the cold climate and grey inversions that shrouds a lot of the northeast for much of the calendar.

In most cases, the choice was easy.

To some, it was a bit more complicated.

In our case, the choice was head for the Canadian journalism big time in Toronto, Ontario, or the California climate.

As it turned out, we opted for the Pacific breezes. But the process was

not all that simple.

ropolitan Toronto dailies.

I had risen to the top of my game. I had won a Canadian journalism award for humorous writing. The Windsor Star of that period was a premier Canadian daily newspaper. I was a member of a team of reporters and editors second to none. And I was being wooed by the three met-

Perched on the north shore of Lake Erie about 45 minutes from Windsor, it was the tomato capital of Canada and home to the massive Heinz company’s Canadian headquarters. The food-products giant

While working for the Windsor Star in Canada’s Motor City across the Detroit River from Detroit, the U.S. Motor City, I was gifted with a contract to write a book.

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The book contract was part of a federal grant program marking the 1969 Canadian Centennial. It was designed to build up a collection of Canadiana. My project was to chronicle the history and contributions of the town of Leamington.

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matched the amount of the government grant so the contract was a healthy addition to our bank account.

My wife and I decided to use some of that money to visit California, so I talked my editors into a five-week vacation to tour the Golden State by promising to bring back some stories that would interest local readers.

Packed in our luggage was a couple of dozen resumes to drop off at all the newspaper offices I planned to visit.

We started our stay with my sister, who was living in a Los Angeles suburb. While playing tourist, I managed to touch base with former colleagues who were working in Oxnard and the San Francisco Bay area. They supplied me with names they knew at several of the dailies on my to-visit list. The newspaper business is a closely knit and far-reaching fraternity.

When we landed back home, I had job offers from daily newspapers in San Diego, Orange County, Long Beach, Anaheim, Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and Oakland. I didn’t even visit the San Francisco papers. Other than legendary Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who dubbed his stomping grounds “Baghdad by the Bay,” they were disappointingly provincial and pedestrian.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Chuckle This week, a compendium of wit, wisdom and neat stuff you can tell at parties. Enjoy!

The "F" Word . . .

Question : When is the use of "@#$%" or "@#$%ing" acceptable?

Answer: There are only 11 times throughout history where the "F" word has been considered acceptable for use.

In ASCENDING order, those exclamations were; 11. "What the @#$% do you mean, we’re sinking?" ~ Capt. E. J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912.

10. "What the @#$% was that?" ~ Mayor Of Hiroshima , 1945 9. " Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?" ~ George Custer, 1877 8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that." ~ Albert Einstein, 1938.

7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!"

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It was good to know that I could get a job if we decided to move to California. But the three kids were still in elementary school so I decided to bolster my working background with a U.S. entry by hopping to Detroit.

There was a legendary unwritten rule that the much bigger Detroit papers – the afternoon News and morning Free Press – would not raid the Windsor Starr staff. Ignoring this tradition, I took the bus through the tunnel connecting the downtowns of both cites and headed to the Free Press to chat with a colleague I’d connected with on several assignments worked and had been promoted to city editor. He was out to lunch so I walked on another couple of blocks to the News to see if anyone I knew was working that day.

A theater critic I had worked with on several occasions was the acting managing editor and he said he’d hire me if it didn’t take too long to get my necessary crossing-the-border papers.

Three weeks later I joined the afternoon Detroit News editorial-room staff for half a decade.

When the youngsters were all out of elementary school and after a lot of talking and reviewing and comparing pros and cons, my wife and I decided San Diego would be best for our growing family. We chose cli-

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~ Picasso, 1926 6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?" ~ Pythagoras, 126 BC. 5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?" ~ Michelangelo, 1566.

4. "Where the @#$% are we?" ~ Amelia Earhart, 1937 3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers, my ass!" ~ Noah, 4314 BC 2. "Aw, come on Monica. Who the @#$% is going to find out?" ~ Bill Clinton, 1998 AND THE WINNER IS .....

1."There is no @#$%ing way Trump will ever become President" ~ Hillary Clinton, 2016 -This is what your text will look like.

Now that we have the Obama birth question settled, I demand that Hawaii provide papers proving that it is a state.

This just in: In 2006 Obama ran for President of Kenya but was disqualified because he was born in the US. Stop trying to make everybody happy.

You're not tequila!

It's better to walk alone than with a crowd going the wrong direction.

Be who you needed when you were younger.

If you had to choose between drinking wine every day or being skinny, what would you choose? Red or white?

There’s No Limit to Nowhere

By Cecil Scaglione

I’ve been nowhere, man, to paraphrase a Johnny Cash anthem, and traveled every road that was supposed to be there, man.

I crossed the desert like he did, man, and breathed that mountain air like he did, man. But I didn’t get everywhere, like he did, man.

I was nowhere, man.

Starting from Reno and stumbling onto a road that didn’t exist that led nowhere got me to Las Vegas.

They told me I must’ve been through Area 51, that non-existent military installation at the base of Bald Mountain.

To find out where nowhere is, I did an online search for Bald Mountain.

It’s in Arapahoe National Forest.

Reviewers describe it as the best skiing in Idaho. But how did I get there driving from Reno, Nevada, to Las Vegas, Nevada.

I was getting nowhere, man.

The road that led to nowhere really seemed like it because, after I headed east out of Reno, it rolled on and on like a ribbon into oblivion. And I suddenly found myself heading south with the sun suddenly in my eyes and I had to pull down the sunshades.

Casual answers to casual questions in Reno about Area 51 informed me that I might be thinking of Groom Lake, a hard-on-the-eyes salt flat about an hour north of Las Vegas.

It’s at the foot of the Bald Mountain that’s in Nevada. Satellite images reveal some of the world’s longest

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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time is now.

most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Who did you lend it to, and for how long?'

Songs:

Golf ! You hit down to make the ball go up ..

You swing left and the ball goes right ..

The lowest score wins , on top of that , the winner buys the drinks .

I have two lists: 1) "people I'm not speaking to" and 2) "people who wish they were on list number one".

Do you remember the late Tom T. Hall and his song, "Old Dogs and Children, and Watermelon Wine?"

Or how about Merle Haggard and "Today, I started Lovin' You Again . . ?"

Both songs have been running through my mind for days . . . can't get them out of my mind. (Or I should say, "I cain't get 'um outta ma mind,' cause when you talk about country music yew jes gotta talk like country folk . . ."

There!

Now YOU go on and be tormented by these great song lyrics! . . . .and let my poor mind rest awhile!

You're welcome.

On their honeymoon, the blonde bride slipped into a sexy nightie and, with great anticipation, crawled into bed, only to find her new Catholic husband had settled down on the couch.

When she asked him why he was apparently not going to make love to her, he replied, 'It's Lent.'

In tears, she sobbed, 'Well, that is the

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle , followed by a good bottle of beer ....

Golf is harder than baseball .

In Golf , you have to play your foul balls ..

If you find you do not mind playing golf in the rain , the snow , even during a hurricane , here's a valuable tip ...your life is in trouble ..

Golfers who try to make everything perfect before taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot ...

The term ' mulligan ' is really a contraction of the phrase ' maul it again ....'

A ' gimme ' can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers ...neither of whom can putt very well .....

An interesting thing about Golf is that no matter how badly you play , it is always possible to get worse .

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Evelyn Madison The Social Butterfly Email Evelyn at:

thesocialbutterfly@cox.net Escondido Library features Star Wars Week, May 2–7, 2022. Join us for a full-Force week of Star Wars activities for all ages!

Build Your Own Droid (Ages 812) P.J. Storytime (Ages 5-12) May the Fourth Be with You Star Wars Day Celebration (All Ages) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Ages 13 +) Inclusive Art Club (All Ages) Star Wars Week Finale: Free Comic Book Day and Jedi Padawan Lightsaber Training (All Ages) Take the Mother's Day Is Sweet Challenge Take our latest challenge to shop, eat and play local with Mom — the Mother's Day Is

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mate. And an $83-a-week pay cut.

But we never regretted it, despite the obstacles tossed at us when we tried to leave town.

We sold a bunch of stuff and packed what was left into a U-Haul trailer that we hitched onto the rear of our Ambassador. It was a cold, gray February morning when we slipped out of what became our former driveway and headed for the Ambassador Bridge to cross the Detroit River into Michigan. The three kids had to say good-bye to their pets and their school buddies and what had been the neighborhood that got them into high school.

We stopped a few blocks short of the international border to get all of our documents and papers in order so we wouldn’t foul things up and panic when we got to the immigration and customs kiosks at the bridge.

I started the car up and pulled away.

Except we didn’t pull away. The car didn’t move. Towing the trailer had been too much for the vehicle’s transmission.

It was Saturday. Nothing we needed was going to be open until Monday.

I called the Canadian Automobile Club from a nearby corner store and got everything towed back to our old neighborhood. We would at least be able to use some of what

Sweet Challenge! Register and download our scavenger hunt mobile app. Then visit participating Oceanside businesses and join us at Mother's Day Is Sweet for a chance to win local prizes through Mother's Day, May 8! The game guides you to local businesses to complete missions by snapping selfies or shooting videos. Each mission you complete earns you one or more points toward winning three grand prizes. Purchases, including Mother's Day Is Sweet ticket purchase, are optional and not required to participate. Shop local for Mother's Day and win!

Mother's Day Is Sweet May 7 NEXT SATURDAY! Experience the sweeter side of Oceanside!

From 2-5 p.m. the day before Mother's Day, treat Mom to an afternoon of dessert and craft beverage tasting at 23 Sweet and Sip Stops throughout Downtown Oceanside while you shop for her and make her day. Bring the whole family with a discounted family ticket and enjoy scavenger hunt fun while you walk.

Conservative Order of Good Guys (COGG) stages May 10, 2022 meeting featuring Madison Habersetzer.

Madison Habersetzer, is a young person whose passions are conservativism and reaching out to her generation.

The meeting opens at 11:30 at Bernardo Heights Country Club, 16066 Bernardo Heights Blvd, Rancho Bernardo, with lunch from 12:00 noon until 12:30. Cost is $35

used-to-be-our-neighbors’ phones to get assistance.

I called the service station I used regularly and explained my plight.

They offered to come to our aid and picked up the car and dedicated their weekend to replacing our transmission. The car would be ready to pick up by mid-day Monday so we could be on our way Tuesday.

Then we called a moving company, which agreed to come and empty the trailer within a week and deliver it to an address we didn’t have yet. They had an office in San Diego so we could call them when we had a destination. They were going to take at least four weeks to deliver our load.

Seeing as the drive down was going to take less than a week, that gave us a good three-week cushion to find living quarters and call in our address.

Included in our party was my brother, Louis, who was driving down with us in his Volkswagen Beetle.

He helped the kids unload some of the stuff they wanted that would fit with them into the back seats of both our cars.

Our soon-to-be-former neighbor made room in his basement for the rest of the stuff that the mover would pick up in a week. Lou towed the empty U-Haul back to the lot and we got most of our rental fee back. That was chewed up by the moving company.

At the same time, my wife and her

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for lunch and in-person with Madison Habersetzer. Registration prior to May 7 will ensure your meal choice and seating. Blair Lawson, Conservative Order for Good Government, blawson@san.rr.com - 858-2176996 The world-famous All-American Boys Chorus is performing on Sunday, May 15th at 2 pm in the Center Theater at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido.

They sing everything! Americana, Patriotic, Broadway, movie , Beach Boys, and other popular songs.

AABC has been singing for over 53 years for all occasions plus five Presidents and will make your experience "a joy beyond all expectations" .

Tickets available online at www.artcenter.org or calling the CCAE box office at (800) 988-4253. Adults $40.00 Seniors $20.00 Veterans/military $17.00 Students $10.00 Children $5.00 This is the fourth concert of the 75th Anniversary 2021-2022 season of the Hidden Valley Community Concert Association that has presented over 300 concerts in good-friend neighbor were making plans for festivities. They invited the folks across the street and everyone started having a good time.

Except me.

I was tired, going broke and thinking about taking one of those enticing Toronto job offers.

All the neighbors pitched in. We had beds, bathrooms and breakfast for our impromptu stay and the party never ended. It was difficult to stay sober but it was paramount because we still faced a 2,300-mile drive to a new life.

Finally, after a tears-of-joy-and-sorrow farewell, we got across the border and slid into a winter whiteout before we even thought about getting around Chicago.

To those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a snowstorm during which the entire universe turns white and you can’t even see the hood ornament on the front of your car. Lou was driving behind us but I couldn’t see his lights. I had to keep peering ahead to make sure we were still on the road and not going to skid into anything. You have to keep moving because, if you stop, someone will plow into you from behind.

We asked the kids to keep a watch out for Lou and for an off ramp that may or may not lead us to a service center. But it would at least get us

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Escondido since 1945. Their website is www.hiddenvalleyCCAescondido.

Cowboy Jack is performing: 11am-2pm, Saturday and Sunday May 7&8, 2022 Mellano Farm Stand, 5750 North River Road, Oceanside, CA 92057, 760517-8383. Cowboy Jack sings vintage country while playing acoustic guitar and harmonica. No covercharge. Family Mother’s Day fun with lots of fresh produce, flowers, wagon rides, live music in the countryside of North San Diego County! www.hankshow.com www.mellano.com

Sea of

Cowboy Jack

Sunflowers, the newest addition to The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch, have officially bloomed

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runways stretching out from its base. That’s supposed to be the site of a mysterious military complex everyone says isn’t there.

Or maybe it’s just a geological formation because it’s all fantasy. I’ve been told it doesn’t exist. And, if it does exist, no one works there. At least that’s what workers there are told to tell everyone they have contact with, I’m told. Even their families say they don’t work there.

How can you work at some place that doesn’t exist?

Then I saw a sign telling me I was on the Extraterrestrial Highway – the American Automobile Association map cites it as NV Rte 375 -- just before I was about to drive by the Ale ‘E’ Inn. It’s the only place to stop on the outskirts of Rachel, which is a favorite watering hole for the folks who don’t work at the mysterious miliary complex that doesn’t exist.

The 2020 census reports the community has a population of just over four dozen and it is described as “the closest city to one of America’s most notorious air force bases.”

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Cruisin’ Grand 2022 Returns Friday, May 6. Cruisin’ Grand is back! The 2022 season of this Escondido hit event returns this Friday, May 6. The event runs every Friday night through September.

Cruisin’ Grand is known for awesome cars, live music and fun family memories. Learn more at http://www.CruisinGrand.net County’s Newest Crisis Stabilization Unit Opens in Oceanside

The latest milestone in the County of San Diego’s commitment to prioritizing mental health and substance use services was marked by the opening of a beautiful new community-based Crisis Stabilization Unit which opened its doors, becoming the sixth CSU in the county with plans for even more throughout San Diego County.

The 24-hour, 7-day a week, walk-in facility is based on a living room model and offers a kinder, gentler approach to intervention and stabilization for anyone suffering from a behavioral or mental health crisis.

People needing immediate behavioral health assistance should call 91-1. Help is also available by calling the County’s Access and Crisis Line at (888) 724-7240 or visiting www.Up2SD.org.

The Oceanside CSU is located inside the County Live Well Health Center, 1701 Mission Avenue, Suite 130, Oceanside, CA 92058.

Oceanside Approves Downtown Shuttle Service for Tourist Season April 19, 2022

used in Oceanside, said Daniel Kramer of Circuit at Wednesday’s Oceanside City Council meeting.

“A shuttle service will move passengers around more quickly and efficiently, alleviate parking congestion, and present a fun, new amenity for Oceanside residents and visitors,” officials said.

“We really need to make this happen for this summer,” said Mayor Esther Sanchez. “The big issue is traffic. It’s trying to reduce traffic and get people into the downtown area and maybe South Oceanside.

Eventually, I’d like to see this all year. We have good weather year round and visitors year round.”

Oceanside has approved an electric vehicle shuttle service for visitors and residents downtown for six months starting Memorial Day weekend.

Early this year city staffers contacted Circuit, a company that operates electric vehicle shuttles in San Diego and Huntington Beach about offering a program in Oceanside.

In San Diego, the Circuit service is known as FRED, for Free Ride Anywhere Downtown. The program there started in 2011 and had a high of 275,000 passengers in 2019, before the pandemic kept people home and reduced mobility everywhere, but now ridership is again on the rise.

San Diego’s four-person Environment Committee unanimously approved a one-year, $1.2 million contract extension last month with Circuit. The company operates 20 of its specialized, openair, six-passenger vehicles in the city.

The same type of vehicles will be

Escondido, 760.432.6100.

She returned recently from a whirlwind trip to New York City, where she attended the 5th Anniversary Celebration of Jacques Pepin Foundation that offers free culinary training to under privileged youth and people who need a second chance.

Well, Deanna Smith has done all of that. And more.

Currently, she is the owner of Deanna's Gluten Free Bakery, 2250 S. Escondido Bouldevard,

The cost of $321,361 will be paid with a share of the city’s COVID19 relief money from the federal American Rescue Plan Act. Oceanside received $16.2 million in ARPA money in May 2021 and expects a second installment of the same amount this year.

A fleet of five on-demand, shared vehicles will operate west of Interstate 5, between Vista Way on the south and the harbor on the north. Initial operating hours will be 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., though the hours could be adjusted based on demand.

People will schedule rides using a telephone or computer app like the ones used for the ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft.

outstanding and widely recognized chef. She was a professional model for a time . . and she and her brother at one time opened a marketing research firm in Escondido, gathering data to develop software for the gaming industry and the subsequent development of a Direct Mail program for the gaming industry.

Then, in 2008, she opened her bakery and learned the craft of baking gluten free product. That was 14 years ago.

"It took me one year to create the recipe . . and three years to perfect it."

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A young girl, graduating from Orange Glen High School in Escondido in 1988 . . with no college education . . . who would have thought she would wind up opening, building, and owning a highly successful bakery that distributes product throughout the United States? And who would hob-knob with the elite of entertainment . . . such as Jacques Pepin, the world famous tv chef? Who would become the Honorary Queen of the USA Multi-Culture Festival, which heads up the Cinco de May celebration in Grape Day Park, Escondido, on May 8th of this year?

The Oceanside City Council unanimously approved a contract Wednesday with the company to operate a six-month program seven days a week, 12 hours a day, from May 16 to Nov. 15.

Deanna Smith with Jacques Pepins

While at the fundraiser she contributed with her skills at preparing and serving Gluten Free Crepes and Duck Comfi with cream sauce.

(She is also a well established chef and knows her way around a kitchen!)

As in most successful businesses, it did not happen overnight. After high school she got married and had two sons, now 31 and 29 years old.

For awhile, in the early 90's, she dealt in estate jewelry from a jewelry store in her home. She got involved in floral design and still works at that . . . as well as being an

Since then the business has grown rapidly. Before the pandemic hit she had between 20 and 30 employees. In this post-pandemic climate her most challenging task is to find young people who want to come in and learn the bakery business.

Presently, she only has 8 on staff, including herself. She needs at least 20 employees so if you know of an individual who wants to learn the gluten free bakery business and enter a great business atmosphere, give her a call. She'd love to talk to you or your candidate. Hers is a seven day work week (as is the case with many owner-operated businesses).

"Today, we are the First Gluten Free Bakery west of the Mississipppi," she proudly says.

Not only are her business credentials impressive but she’s also pas-

Letters to the Editor Loves Service Dogs

Just finished reading the cover story on Service Dogs written by Friedrich Gomez and it's difficult to believe that these specially trained animals can actually sense low-sugar levels in diabetics, seizures and strokes before they happen or even knowing suicidal thoughts purely by instinct and yet it's all amazing fact! The story really sparked a lot of exciting conversation at work and even our boss was reading it in his office!

All of us really liked the photo of Friedrich at story's end! It really captures his animated behavior and fun personality! My son used to work with Friedrich at the San Marcos Walmart and he said Friedrich was greatly loved by all his coworkers and countless customers! Your photo of

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sionate about education.

As Honorary Festival Queen for the USA Multi-Culural Festival, the sponsor of Cinco de Mayo Festival at Grape Day Park on May 8th from 11 am to 5 pm, she has broght together local Food Vendors, Mariachis, Folklorico Dancers, local commerce vendors and more.

Funds raised are headed toward providing mentoring and other educational programs for young people.

She is also the founder and head of the STEAM program, an acronym for Scientific Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.

“My tiny farm is home to Escondido S.T.E.A.M Centre (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) with 16 weeks of curriculum pertaining to the many ecosystems of a farm. I added the A for arts to STEM because I offer my expertise in the World of Culinary Arts. A 3rd grade class from Heritage Charter School will have the opportunity to plant a seed in the greenhouse and nurture it to harvest, then create a meal in my state of the art outdoor kitchen located next to the row crops. As time goes and funding is available to my 501c3, I will add all grades and ages.

It is a 501(c)3 program which trains youngsters from as young as

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the 3rd grade and up, all at the Heritage School, all grade levels; they provide a 17 week course with a varied curriculum.”

Deanna also helped developed the curricula. Naturally, given her background you just knew that she'd manage to include bakery and organic farming as part of the classes offered.

She seeks to focus on youth and providing them with mentoring and other educational programs in a variety of disciplines.

Knowing Deanna . . . she's not only going to hit her goal, but exceed it!

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off the freeway.

After more than a half hour of creeping along, they spotted an off ramp that led us into a service center with a diner, which was crammed with other road refugees like us. Lou was right behind us. He said he just followed my tail lights.

I kept muttering that we may as well head back as soon as this storm passes because it seems like California doesn’t want us.

That’s when we saw the news breaking on television. It was Feb. 9, 1971, and the Sylmar earthquake was claiming the lives of more than five dozen people as California was toppling into the ocean.

That did it. We’re going back, I said.

Sure, I had a reporter’s desk waiting for me at the San Diego Union -- if the city was still above water – but I was going to have no problem getting a damned good job with a Toronto newspaper, I pointed out.

Heck, I could even get my old job back at the News.

Deanna Smith, in her red chef’s uniform •••• Painted the town a lovely shade of pink this past Friday evening.

Was delighted to see Dominic’s packed with diners at the early hour of 5pm. Almost every table and booth was filled with patrons and all seemed to be having a marvelous time.

As usual, outstanding service and great food, thanks to the great servers and chef (John Moetam, the owner) . . . I had my favorite appetizer, calamari served in a bowl with white wine and garlic sauce plus a glass of chianti. Evelyn had her usual favorite, lasagna, (which I helped her eat along with a small chef salad. (I have tried and tried to persuade that woman to forego a salad and just get the entre’! She is a light eater and once she finishes her salad never is able to finish her entre’! I will continue my quest to teach her how to dine out properly.

But she did not take my advice Friday. Again.)

From all the cars parked on Grand Avenue early Friday evening it appears that downtown Escondido is finally beginning to recover from the Pandemic and business is returning to near normal. Great news for the owners and staffs of many businesses, all of whom made great sacrifices just to keep the doors open during that terrible period of time.

Let’s hope those crowds continue and business continues to improve.

Perhaps 2022 will prove to be a half-way decent year after all!

Hooray!

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When the bright sun chased away the storm, everyone’s spirits soared, except mine. They talked me into giving it another a chance. So I did and we trundled on. We’d stop every couple of hours to stretch and the kids would take turns riding with Uncle Lou for a spell.

We decided at the beginning that we would stop before dark for overnight quarters.

Our first motel stop was just past St. Louis, MO, and it needs mentioning because the motel operator there hosed us. He saw us as easy marks because we wouldn’t be returning and we were too tired to pay attention to the price he was charging. We didn’t make that mistake again.

The next three days were a mélange of rest stops, fueling up, snack times, estimating where the heck we were, rider changes, avoiding cities and just having fun being on the road.

At our service station stop in Needles, the smiling clerk spotted the snow tires on the Ambassador and warned me about trying to cross the unforgiving Mojave Desert in such ricketyrackety rubber. He pulled down four tires from an overhead rack and gave me a price. I was going to replace those ratty tires anyhow but the first-night motel lesson stayed with me and I asked to talk with the manager. He wasn’t in so I said we’d pass on the purchase. That brought the price down to bargain level. They had to get rid of them and I could use them.

It was getting dark as we slid into Bakersfield and we stopped to discuss whether to motel it for the night or zip on to my sister’s home in Van

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A busy day in Health Committee

On April 26, due to time-consuming debates in previous sessions and untimely equipment failures, the Health Committee, which I serve as Vice Chair, dealt with 56 bills in a hearing that lasted well into the evening. Several important pieces of legislation made it through the committee.

Among these were two bills that I introduced, Assembly Bills 2818 and 2768. AB 2818 will ultimately lead to the expansion of the substance use disorder treatment workforce in California to aid in treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. More professionals in the workforce will lead to better treatment for abusers and help reduce crime rates, the costs of law enforcement, including court and prison costs, and lead to less homelessness. AB 2768 will address the critical shortage of psychiatric beds in California by leading to the development of a real-time, internet-based database providing information on available beds/facilities to serve the mentally ill. This way when a patient is brought in to the ER, a bed and treatment can be located Since some health plans have been reluctant to cover pain management alternatives to pharmaceutical treatments, even though surveys show most patients prefer

them, AB 2585 (McCarty) will encourage insurers to cover nonpharmacological treatments approved by the FDA. Treatments like chiropractic, acupuncture etc would be options. Other bills approved on the 26th include AB.2951 (Salas), which will establish a pilot program for cities to obtain grant funding for mobile mental health response teams, and AB 2529 (Davies and Calderon), will provide state funding to programs that train certified nursemidwives to overcome projected shortages of maternity care providers in many California counties.

These bills have bi-partisan support and most are being placed on the Appropriations Committee “consent calendar” to speed passage. Despite the headlines about contentious bills, we often come together and agree on legislation that benefits everyone, regardless of party labels.

Assemblymember Marie Waldron, R-Valley Center, represents the 75th Assembly District in the California Legislature, which includes the communities of Bonsall, Escondido, Fallbrook, Hidden Meadows, Pala, Palomar Mountain, Pauma Valley, Rainbow, San Marcos, Temecula, Valley Center and Vista.

5th District Supervisor

Jim Desmond

Drowning Prevention

We are blessed to live in a region that borders the Pacific Ocean and also has many pools throughout the County. While they both can serve as wonderful activities for both adults and kids, they can also be dangerous.

Swimming is a life skill that is not easily accessible to all residents throughout our communities.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 79% of children in households with incomes less than $50,000 have little-to-no swimming ability. In California, drowning is a leading cause of injury-related deaths among children under the age of five.

Drownings are 100% preventable and swimming lessons make children water safe reducing drownings by 88%. Last year, I initiated an action, to provide underserved children an opportunity to learn to swim and prevent drownings in all of San Diego County.

If your child needs swimming lessons, please reach out to the Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego, http://preventdrowningfoundation.or g/. They will be able to assist with whatever questions you have.

Addressing this disparity in our

region will save lives and help address equity within our many communities by adding more opportunities for San Diego County children to learn basic drowning prevention skills.

I will keep you updated as we look for other ways to help prevent these tragedies from happening. As always if you need anything, please don't hesitate to reach out, Jim.Desmond@sdcounty.ca.gov.

To contact

North County Office – by appointment only 325 S. Melrose Ave., Suite 5200 Vista, CA 92081 Mon.-Fri., 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Website: www.supervisorjimdesmond.com Email: Jim.Desmond@sdcounty.ca.gov

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Continued from Page 6 Nuys. We chose the latter.

It was Friday night and we wanted to put our feet up for the weekend before heading down to San Diego.

We did strip down to swim suits the following morning to wash the transcontinental mud and muck off our vehicles. The neighborhood chuckled at the antics of us snow birds.

Shortly after 10 a.m. the day after Valentine’s Day, I reported for work at the downtown Second Avenue office of the San Diego Union. The managing editor who had hired me two months earlier had moved to the afternoon San Diego Tribune on the other side of the building.

After the two had a quick huddle to untangle whatever might have been tangled, my new boss suggested my wife and I head out and find a place to live. He made a few suggestions, which I forgot immediately because I had no idea where anything was.

We managed to land an excellent La Mesa apartment by mistake because I got my search map mixed up.

We had left the kids with my sister in Van Nuys until the next weekend, so that gave my wife and me a bit of time to ourselves and some elbow room to prepare the apartment to live in until the moving company delivered our stuff sometime in the next (hopefully) couple of weeks.

My wife dropped me off at work the following morning so she could keep the car to pick up some groceries, laundry supplies, towels and washcloths and sundry other sundries. When she returned home, a friendly neighbor greeted her in the apartment’s parking lot and the two became fast and lasting friends.

Meanwhile, the managing editor called me into his office and said he had never heard of this before but I had been hired without a trial period. Normal procedure was to have you come to work for a six-month period during which time they could appraise your work performance and personality. If one or both didn’t match the paper’s standards, you could be dismissed without recourse.

My standard was set during my California vacation a half dozen years earlier.

I had a pile of resumes I dropped off at a pile of newspapers throughout the state, including the San Diego Union.

I sat with editors Gerald Warren and Herb Klein, both of whom would become top-rank press officials in President Richard Nixon’s White House before returning to executive-level editorial posts at the Union. Warren also served on President Gerald Ford’s team before his return.

It was during conversations with both of them, and the editors at the

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other papers I visited, that we all agreed to the condition that I was to be hired without a trial period because I wasn’t going to travel across a continent with a wife and three children only to be fired a few weeks after arriving at a whim of some piss-ass editor.

This had been a practice for years of the two daily newspapers in Vancouver, British Columbia. They would hire promising young reporters and photographers who fell to the spell of the climate on the other side of the country at a satisfying salary.

A few weeks after joining the staff, the newcomer would be dismissed on some flimsy excuse.

Management would listen to the bewildered reaction of the fired individual and then rehire them at a much lower salary.

May 05, 2022

Historically Speaking

by Tom Morrow

I called my contact at the Times and explained my situation and thinking but also asked if they would keep a door swinging for me in case I changed my mind.

Things turned out exceedingly well.

It was fun being back on the street as a beat reporter and noshing with mayors, police chiefs, school superintendents, and movers and shakers again.

After a few years, I was called downtown and told there was a need for a business reporter. That was an excellent bridge to my resignation a few years later when what I learned on the business beat made me realize I had to launch my own career to build a pension to enjoy life in retirement.

So getting to Southern California was meant to be despite the crotchety start. My wife and I have agreed in many conversations that the climate choice was the smart one to make. The kids think so, too Cecil Scaglione is a long-time newspaper professional; a writer, editor, columnist, travel writer and executive.

He is currently retired, living in Arizona and a frequent contributor to The Paper

When the cop checked Charlie’s driver’s license proving his name, the cop smiled and simply wrote him a ticket.

“His mother named the four boys “Chan” which was their unmarried father’s name that he went by,” Kathie Chan, his wife explained.

What’s In A Name? Charlie Finally Found Out

A great number of businesspeople and those in social circles in Oceanside knew the late Charlie Chan. No, his moniker wasn’t a fictional detective’s name taken off the big screen … it was real … sort of.

I almost did head for the Los Angeles Times early on – I still had my contacts there then -- when another management shift resulted in my being transferred to the South Bay office of the San Diego Union.

In our business, being sent to the boonies like that was akin to a demotion.

I talked it over with my wife. The L.A. money was more than a fistful bigger but we were comfortable and we would have to move to and live in the Los Angeles megalopolis with all its problems. The kids were already in school. And traipsing around the southwestern corner of the nation and popping in and out of Mexico for stories might be fun.

of the day.”

The four boys were born shortly before and during World War II when anyone being of Japanese decent was unfairly discriminated against. Not wanting her and the boys to end up in an internment camp for JapaneseAmericans, she had the name “Chan” put on their birth certificates when they were born. It wasn’t until six years ago the boys were told what their mother’s true name was.

“Charlie thought he had no relatives other than his mother,” Kathie said.

After the revelation, Charlie’s older brother, Richard L. “Dickie” Chan, began researching the family and found a number of relatives they never knew they had.

“According to Dickie’s research, the father’s true name was ‘Qwok,’ but he used the name ‘Chan,’ which probably was more Americanized.” Kathie said.

In her final days their mother revealed her true Japanese name: “Maseme Fujiye.” She passed away shortly thereafter at age 98.

Charlie was a personable, popular Oceanside businessman, who spent his life helping others. He was known by his friends and business associates as North County’s “floor man.”

Charlie wasn’t one to talk about himself, but there’s more to his name than you might think. Go back to the 1942 Japanese internment edict President Franklin Roosevelt ordered interning all Japanese-Americans. Thousands of Japanese-Americans were loaded onto trains and buses and unceremonily moved to the middle of nowhere throughout West to live under barbed wire and armed guards for more than four years during World War II. It wasn’t until six years ago the truth about how Charlie, his mother and three older brothers, dodged that tragic fate. Their mother, who in reality was of Japanesedecent, used the name of “Chan,” which was the name the boys’ father went by. The father’s real name was “Qwok,” but he used the name of “Chan.” When the boys were born their mother had “Chan” put on their birth certificates, which technically was true.

But, truth be known, it would have been the four boys’ mother who would have been shipped off to the desert and, no doubt, her boys with her. During and after the war their real name was a closely-guarded secret their mother kept until 2015.

Charlie graduated from Roosevelt High in Los Angeles in 1962. When he was a teen-ager, Charlie was quite a rounder as a teen-ager. On one occasion he and some friends were racing up and down streets in East Los Angeles when a policeman pulled him over asking for Charlie’s name. When Charlie answered, the cop thought the young man was being a smart alec.

“Yeah, and I’m Charlie McCarthy,” the officer replied, thinking the young speeder was joking by using the name of a popular movie detective character

Charlie’s father was Chinese, but his parents never married. The mother’s true full name was “Masame Fujiye.”

Before she died in 2015, the mother revealed her story to son Richard “Dickie” Chan, who passed on the revelation to the other three brothers.

“They never knew the story until six years ago,” Kathie said “Charlie and his brothers always questioned their mom about not having any relatives.

After the truth came out, Dickie went online and, under their mother’s true family name, found all sorts of relatives.”

The mother grew up in the Sacramento area; the four boys in Los Angeles.

Because of the large JapaneseAmerican population in California, whenever mother and boys would go out in public, they wore little red tags reading: “I am Chinese.”

Charlie was the youngest, born in 1944. All three of his brothers are still living in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Monrovia.

“Charlie and I met in 1982 up in LA playing tennis,” Kathie recalled. “We moved to Oceanside in 1995.”

Charlie was a collector of classic automobiles, especially Studebakers instead of Fords or Chevrolets.

“He liked to be different,” said Kathie.

“Over the years he owned five classic Studebakers that I know of, but when he died he was down to just one, a 1955 Studebaker station-wagon.”

Charlie worked for 50 years in flooring, learning the trade when he worked for Sears. Kathie said he never retired. He was working on a job right up until Aug. 25 when he went into the hospital suffering with Covid.

Kathie said Charlie was in and out of the hospital and a care center. His weak heart finally gave out on Dec. 16 at age 77.

“Charlie was a good, honest friend and will be missed,” she concluded.

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with 12 days left to enjoy the springtime San Diego attraction.

The 5-acre Sea of Sunflowers patch features all colors, shapes, and sizes and is included with the price of entry. Hop on one of the brand new Tractor Wagon Rides and get dropped off right at the scene of a sunflower sanctuary, where some sunflowers are as big as small moons and others over 12’ high.

With weekends bustling, The Flower Fields recommends a midweek visit to get the best photo opps! Single ticket admission is $22 for adults, $20 for seniors 60+ and military, $10 for children 3–10, and free for children under three while season passes are available for $46 for adults, $42 for seniors 60+ and military, $20 for children 3–10, with group tours also available. All tickets must be purchased online, ahead of time and are available a https://www.theflowerfields.com/ Senior Anglers Resume In-person Meetings After a two-year hiatus, the Senior Anglers of Escondido are back in full swing with monthly meetings, camp outs, and fishing tourneys.

At their next meeting, Friday, May 13, the guest speaker will be Bill Augustus, Park Ranger San Diego County Department of Parks and Recreation’s Santa Ysabel Nature Center. Bill has worked in the

Mountain Borrego Preserves section of San Diego County Parks and Recreation for 11 Years.

This is Bill’s second career where he leads nature hikes, teaches the public about natural resource management and is delighted to be able work in a field where he can give back to the community. He is a second-generation Southern Californian, and has always enjoyed learning about the history, ecology, geology, plants and wildlife of San Diego County. The presentation will include wonderful photos of the plants, wildlife and ecosystems in the area.

The club’s meetings are held the second Friday of each month, open to all anglers age 50 and above, at the Park Avenue Community Center, 210 Park Ave., Escondido, 92025. Meetings start at 9:30 a.m.

Members of the club enjoy fishing tournaments and charters, picnics, RV camping, and community service to help kids go fishing. http://senioranglersofescondido.net/ or Senior Anglers of Escondido on Facebook

The Rancho Bernardo Republican Women Federated invites all Republican women to our next luncheon/meeting on May 20th, 11:00 - 2 PM at the Bernardo Heights Country Club,

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Letters to the Editor Cont. from Page 4

him captures his exact personality! --

/s/ Anthony Logan family & friends, Valley Center & Escondido.

Another Service Dog Fan

Attn.

Mr. Lyle E. Davis, Editor/Publisher of The Paper.

Your cover story on Service Dogs helping disabled Americans was truly inspiring & emotionallyuplifting! Had us in tears reading case by case stories of real people who benefited from these amazing animal companions!

Your writer Friedrich Gomez is also amazing and a truly gifted writer! Please let us know the details of where and when The Paper is having his 200th Story Celebration! Everyone at my work are planning to attend (including our boss and managers), as well as countless acquaintances on the computer internet! A true-blue fan of The Paper, /s/ Terrance Galloway and friends all from San Diego, Encinitas, Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, Poway, Valley Center, and Escondido!

Looking Back

Our mayor, council crew, have interest in raising our sales tax to become uniform with Vista and Oceanside at 8.25 rather than 7.75 , the current rate.

Chuckles Cont. from Page 2

Golf's a hard game to figure ..

One day you'll go out and slice it and shank it , hit into all the traps and miss every green .

The next day you go out and for no reason at all you really stink .

If your best shots are the practice swing and the ' gimme putt ', you might wish to reconsider this game ....

Golf is the only sport where the most feared opponent is you .

Golf is like marriage , If you take yourself too seriously it won't work , and both are expensive ..

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil .

•••• At dawn the telephone rings . . .

"Hello, Senor Rod? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house."

"Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"

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Let’s look back, shall we. Details show our city gave away to San Marcos, valuable entities such as our DMV Office, our Social Security Admin., our Small Claims Court, our Tax-Assessor Branch Office, and we lost our State Unemployment Office also. Did our city receive any incentive benefits for their contributions?

Our residents lost convenience; what might have the city gained by such actions!

I witnessed Sears, Nordstrom, Marshall’s, Gemco, Toys R Us, and Mervyns, leave Escondido, all tax revenue losses.

Our city has lost over the years, Gentlemen’s Choice Fine Dining, The Baltic Sea Fish House, Acalpulco Mexican Restaurant, Long John Silvers (to San Marcos), Carrows Diner, Coco’s Diner, Yours Truly Diner, Aunt Emma’s Pancake House, Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor, Fedco Store, Fedmart Store, Fresh N Easy Market, Thrifty Drugs, Sav On Drugs, and our Escondido Bowling Lanes with Restaurant.

What a major loss of sales revenue from every business that found Escondido to be a business unfriendly city, harder to survive within.

I ask, “Is this any of the public’s fault?” How can the city DEMAND the public to shield, cover-up, for their inefficient unreasonable planning, inadequate financial accounting practices, and poor judgment skills.

This monetary deficit the city may be

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Nowhere Cont. from Page 3

This was my chance, I thought, to get the real story and find out where the heck I really was. I could book an overnight room in the tiny motel – I checked to see if it really had some rooms – and keep watch for flying saucers, little green people with large black eyes, unscheduled takeoffs and landings, UFOs and any other happenings that reportedly don’t happen around here.

I could await the shift-change commuter parade that would pin point exactly where all those non-existing jobs were.

No such luck. Eavesdropping at the Ale ‘E’ Inn’s bar indicated no one drives nowhere to work. All the employees who don’t work there allegedly are flown in an out from a small airfield that doesn’t exist in Rachel. But no one’s ever seen any aircraft landings or takeoffs from the slumbering mini-metropolis. I can call it that since it calls itself a city.

"My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?"

With all the charm of a rag-tag trailer park, there is a plaque posted prominently proclaiming Rachel as having a mining history and having been named after the first baby born there. There’s no way of knowing if that’s true or not

Chuckles Continued on Page 13

Nowhere Continued on Page 11

"Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Rod, that your parrot - he is dead."

The Pastor Says...

Pastor Richard Huls (Retired) I REMEMBER WHEN ——

Recently, I had occasion to visit my birth State, Michigan. I have heard it said, “You can’t go home again.”

While this might be true, I found it only partially true. I was privileged to spend some time on the family farm, in the small village where I attended church, and have lunch in a converted utility store, which once was occupied by my granddad, who was the town’s barber.

I was filled with nostalgia, as I remembered my granddad giving me some pieces of candy after a haircut. Those were the days. Then I visited the old farm on my dad’s side of the family.

My grandparents barely made enough on forty acres to keep body and soul alive. It was in their modest home, however, that I got the greatest spiritu-

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Sunflower is as lovely as her name!

She can be shy at first when meeting new people, but is getting more and more comfortable every day.

She will solicit attention and enjoys going for walks with her people. She will do best in a patient home that will give her time to slowly get acquainted at her own pace. Sunflower is available for adoption at San Diego Humane Society’s Escondido Campus at 3500 Burnet Drive. To learn more about making her part of your family, please visit sdhumane.org/adopt or call 619-2997012.

Online profile: https://www.sdhumane.org/adopt/available-pets/animal-single.html?petId=795770

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al lesson my life. It was my responsibility to deliver a quart of milk three times a week to my grandparents, who lived a mile from our house. On a cold winter morning after the delivery, I was warming myself by the kitchen wood stove. I was about ten years old.

It was then that my grandmother began telling me about heaven with its golden streets and pearly gates. It was a place of peace, abundance, and happiness. Her picture of heaven had birds singing, warmth, and only the best of everything for me. There it all was, with God, the angels, and Jesus Christ.

My Grandma had it all together and she wanted to make sure that her milkcarrying grandson was going to heaven when he died. As far as I knew, I was a long way from dying, but just in case, she asked me if I would like to go to heaven. After her description,, I jumped at the chance and said, “YES.” That seemed to be enough for Grandma. I was in. And with a homemade cookie and a quarter for the milk I was on my way. For a minute or so, standing where my Grandma told me about heaven, I did go home again.

For reflection, inspiration, and counsel call Dial-a-Prayer, 760 746 6611.

Pet Parade

Flo is pet of the week at your Rancho Coastal Humane Society.

She’s a 10-year-and-10 month-old, 7-pound, fChihuahua mix.

Flo was transferred to Rancho Coastal Humane Society from a private rescue in Victorville through the FOCAS (Friends of County Animal Shelters) program. The rescue got her from her owner, who didn’t want her anymore.

The $75 adoption fee for Flo includes medical exam, spay, up to date vaccinations, registered microchip, and a one-year license if her new home is in the jurisdiction of San Diego Humane Society’s Department of Animal Services.

For information about adoption or to become a Virtual Foster visit Rancho Coastal Humane Society at 389 Requeza Street in Encinitas, call 760-753-6413, or log on to www.SDpets.org.

Open 11 to 4 Friday through Monday, and Wednesday and Thursday by appointment.

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A Weekly Message from the Mayor of Your Community published in the belief that it is important for elected leaders to communicate with their constituents and that constituents have a means of hearing from their elected leaders.

San Marcos • Mayor Rebecca Jones

San Marcos Creek Project approaching key milestone

The San Marcos Creek team continues to make progress on construction, which started in March 2020. The team is nearing the end of construction of the Lionel “Doc” Burton Bridge at Bent Avenue, continuing improvements along Discovery Street and preparing for the upcoming construction of the bridge at Via Vera Cruz.

In April, construction crews completed the final construction stages of the Bent Avenue bridge and road surfacing. Next up for the project, the team looks ahead to opening the bridge to traffic in May. This exciting milestone marks a historic achievement for community infrastructure. When completed, motorists will once again be able to utilize Bent Avenue as a connection to West San Marcos Boulevard, Craven Road and Creekside Drive. The Lionel “Doc” Burton Bridge at Bent Avenue will provide cyclists and drivers transportation connectivity and beautiful views of the San Marcos Creek.

To learn more about the Creek Project, please visit sanmarcos.net/creek. The community is also encouraged to sign up for project updates by texting SMCREEK or ARROYOSM (Spanish updates) to (760) 281-7300.

Vista • Mayor Judy Ritter

Get Deliciou s In-Seas on Produc e in Vista

There’s no better time to pick up local in-season produce at the oldest farmers market in San Diego County - the Vista Farmers Market. The market is located at the San Diego County Courthouse at 345 S. Melrose Drive. The market is open each Saturday from 8 am to noon, in all weather and regardless of holidays. It features 53 local, certified, organic growers, with an abundance of avocados, persimmons, apples, oranges, strawberries, cheeses, and other fruits and vegetables. Plus, you can also find a new plant or flowers and browse the stalls for fresh breads, pies, eggs and other unique goods. It’s worth your time on Saturday to drop by!

More information is online at vistafarmersmarket.com.

Letters to the Editor Cont. from Page 10

facing must revert back to exactly where it developed. Start to clear out and clean up your individual city department management as your top priority.

Do Not Penalize it’s residents that are presently having to meet high inflation hikes already. Every city around Escondido, near and far, without addition of Vista, Oceanside, has maintained a 7.75 sales tax. If this is the basis for their claim as presented partly at the 4/20/22, meeting, it is an entirely weak one.

Loss of businesses equals loss of revenue. What’s next? Loss of residential families, that shall either relocate, or shop exclusively at all nearby cities that retain the 7.75 sales tax rate!

Just Imagine, the auto sales tax loss revenue alone; give that a thought, why don’t you! /s/ Maryann Sinopoli Escondido, Ca.

Letters tot he Editor are always welcome. Please limit them to 250 words or less. Send them to: thepaper@cox.net Attention: Letters to the Editor

Social Butterfly Cont. from Page 8

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Register and RSVP at rbrwf.org "RSVP" by Friday May 13th - 6 PM.

Escondido • Mayor Paul “Mac” McNamara Greetings Escondido,

If you didn’t get to go, our Chamber of Commerce hosted a Green EV Expo at the Westfield Mall about a week ago.

It really was innovative and well attended, and our Chamber deserves a big shout out. I understand it was the first of its kind in the county. As we would say in the military – Bravo Zulu or Well Done. That said, there is still a robust debate about how we reduce traffic and lower GHGs. But let’s not let that debate get in the way of the goodness of this event.

And if you haven’t heard, our Climate Action Plan (CAP) scored the highest in the county with a 97.5. The #2 city had an 82. And for the first time San Diego was displaced as the #1 city for its CAP. Our CAP was the result of a lot of hard work from the staff and lots of community input. Your opinion does matter, so stay engaged. It passed with a 4-1 vote across partisan lines.

And a lot of us still think we can improve it!!

Stay informed, Be Kind, Remember your neighbor, and Stay safe!

Semper Fi, Mac

Paul P. McNamara Mayor of Escondido pmcnamara@escondido.org

Nowhere Cont. from Page 10

because there’s no sign of any mines or infants anywhere.

That’s not really fair, man.

The message was left by E Clampus Vitus, a loosely knit society known more familiarly as the Clampers. Their motto is Credo Quia Absurdum, which they translate roughly from the Latin to mean “I believe because it’s absurd.”

But I kept listening and pieced together chips of conversation to come up with some interesting facts.

First of all, the moon landing seen by millions around the globe was probably filmed in one of the Area 51 hangars. I had to work on that one because how could they film a fictitious moon landing in a hangar that doesn’t exist?

But it must make sense to onethird of the millennials. One out of three who were polled just a couple of years ago said they don’t believe the earth is round so how can there be a moon circling us in orbit. That many people can’t be wrong. They can’t all be nowhere.

Government and military and hitech and space officials would like all of us to believe that they catapulted three people crammed in a tiny craft through nowhere to land on the moon. AND THEN THEY CATAPULTED THEMSELVES BACK TO EARTH! Can you believe that? That was a tale concocted way back in the Dark Ages -- 1969.

And how did they get that photographer on the moon to take all those pictures of a robot-like figure

in a space-man/space-woman costume bouncing up and down from the lunar surface. All that must’ve been photographed in one of those hangars. That don’t exist.

How easily folks can be gulled was proved further when the individual acclaimed for being the first-ever human being to walk on a body way out in nowhere was even sent to Washington (which some folks claim is nowhere) mainly because of the feat of having his feet on the moon. John Glenn’s round-trip to nowhere got him to that nonentity known as Congress.

Another stubborn fact has emerged. The mutated being recovered from the 1947 Roswell spacecraft crash was housed and studied at Area 51. That made some sense since military reports bleached accounts of that long ago mishap, so it was fitting that evidence of an incident that didn’t happen was being shelved in a place that doesn’t exist.

Remember the Roswell Incident in New Mexico way way back in 1947? It was reported widely that a rancher found some debris on his land that was identified as a flying saucer by the Roswell Air Field Commander.

That was negated the next day by a military intelligence officer according to a local newspaper headline: Army Disk-ounts New Mexico Find As Weather Gear.

That version was also discounted years later as false and the twisted material ID’d as a weather balloon was reportedly the remains of a highly classified spy device.

And all the debris of that fallen

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beyond.

The culture of the “younger” generation is formed through exposure to contemporary education, technology and social interaction. Emotional biases and beliefs formed in this period tend to influence their actions throughout their lives. “Tweeners” focus upon families and careers. “Seniors” take a lifetime of learning and earning into retirement to enjoy a leisure life and old friends.

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For the purpose of this column we’re talking mainly about folks over sixty although in reality, “old” can happen to anyone at any age. It’s that point in your life when you get the feeling that there is a fundamental difference between you and the younger generation. Our definition of generations is not fixed, like Baby Boomers, Silent Generation or Millennials, it’s much simpler. Our generations are, “younger” (0-30), “tweeners” (30-60) and “seniors” (60-death). Our scenario is fluid, we all move from “younger” through “tweener” to “senior” and

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One year later, she's locked in a battle with the company and Capital One. Is there a way out?

Q: I ordered two chairs from Pottery Barn and returned them more than a year ago. But Pottery Barn now says I still owe it for the chairs. I also have interest and late fees on Capital One, my credit card. My credit is being negatively affected because they are showing the account is past due. Can you help? - Virginia Cepero, Miami A: It looks like you returned the chairs to Pottery Barn, but it gets confusing after that -- really confusing.

The company says it issued a partial credit, but your refund was $755 short since you wanted them to cover late fees and interest from Capital One. When you didn't receive the refund you expected, you initiated a credit card dispute.

And that made things even more complicated.

It looks like Pottery Barn's dispute department contacted you and presented you with its own accounting of the purchase, return, dispute and refund. According to its records, it

Through most of human history, change has come at a glacial pace and “Generation Gaps” were small because there was little difference in the technology and knowledge base between “seniors” and the “younger” generation. The past century has dramatically increased the knowledge base differential between these two generations and widened the “Generation Gap”.

“Seniors” find that the skills they learned through a lifetime are becoming useless or irrelevant. Increasingly they are forced to rely on or adapt to unfamiliar technologies.

The “younger” generation, having grown up with the latest technologies, exhibit a tendency to regard “seniors” as being a bit “thick”, probably a result of age and infirmity.

the “senior” and “younger” generations has never been wider and it’s not likely to change. It isn’t anyone’s fault either. Those who are “seniors” today will remember how we regarded the “old folks” when we were young. The young like to hang out with their peers because they share a “culture.”

“Seniors” like to hang together because we also share a culture. It’s human nature to regard what is familiar to be superior to what is not. That means we are doomed to continuing regarding one another as either “old farts” or “whippersnappers”. No one is

going to wave a magic wand and have us all singing Kumbaya together any time soon.

So if you are a “senior” and have any computer issue or question you need to come see us. We’ll treat you like a lost member of the family. You really don’t need those “whippersnappers” at Best Buy snickering behind your back. If you happen to be one of those “Younger” generation folks you can come in and talk to our Lead Tech “whippersnapper” Derek. Don’t pay any attention to Nome and I snickering behind the counter.

In truth “youngers” aren’t any smarter than “seniors.” It’s just that their knowledge base is more relevant in today’s connected universe than that of “seniors.” The argument can be made that the knowledge needed to thrive in a world without cell phones and the Internet was far more intricate and substantive than that required to manipulate a touch screens today. And if the grid goes down who knows how to light a fire?

The bottom line is that the gap between

had already fully refunded you.

One of my advocacy team members, who is an expert on credit card charges and fees, reviewed the back-and-forth between you and Pottery Barn. There were layers upon layers of fees, charges, chargebacks and partial credits. He couldn't make sense of it, and neither could I.

Here's what I do know: A credit card dispute should be one of the last things you do when questioning charges from a company. I like to call it the nuclear option. If your bank finds in your favor, you get all your money back. But if it doesn't, you may need to go to small claims court to get relief. The regular customer service channels might be closed to you once you've filed a dispute. So be careful about going down this path.

Also, I'm not sure if refusing to pay your credit card bill is the way to resolve this dispute. After a year, Capital One had heaped late fees into your account and your credit score had begun to suffer, according to you. There's a better way to fix this problem.

Sometimes, a short but polite email to an executive can get your complaint reviewed by someone at a higher level. I publish the names, numbers and email addresses of the < a href="https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/williamssonoma/">Pottery Barn execu-

tives</a> on my consumer advocacy site, Elliott.org. (Pottery Barn is owned by Williams Sonoma.) I recommended that you try contacting them in writing.

You did, carefully and politely outlining your arguments for why Pottery Barn still owed you $755.

"That same day I got a call from someone at Williams Sonoma, and the credit was issued immediately," you reported. "Capital One immediately removed the late fees and interest. My account is now at zero."

© 2022 Christopher Elliott.

Christopher Elliott is the chief advocacy officer for Elliott Advocacy.

Email him at chris@elliott.org or get help with any consumer problem by contacting him at http://www.elliott.org/help

Nowhere Cont. from Page 11

UFO was tucked away in one of the hangars that don’t exist in the Nevada boonies. It was a few years later that footage of the autopsy of an alien being on that crashed craft was released. Its body, too, had been housed in Area 51 all this time.

This report also was debunked and some of its perpetrators admitted it was all a caper. But not all of them.

In fact, any and all living or dead visitors from anywhere, somewhere and nowhere in space who have hit this globe are housed in one of the many Area 51 hangars.

They’re still nowhere, man.

There have been several such landings reported because the skies over Nevada are constantly invaded by dark noiseless flying objects.

Locals know they’re there but they disappear as soon as anyone looks up.

In reviewing my passage to nowhere on a map of Nevada, I seem to recall having tripped over a place called Ely. It looks like it’s just a few hours due east of Reno and a few hours due north of Las Vegas, two places I and the rest of the world know exist.

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Then it hit me.

If you head east from Reno and turn 90 degrees south at Ely you get to Las Vegas. That’s the top of a pyramid whose base is formed by the California border.

It’s the Nevada Triangle.

It’s on the other side of the country from the Bermuda Triangle, that storied nowhere in the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida.

With Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico as its corners, it’s also been called the Devil’s Triangle because it reportedly swallows up unsuspecting ships and sailors. There’s even a mythical military file recording the unexplained disappearance of a U.S. Navy squadron that flew over this hole in the globe but never flew out of it.

"Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?"

"Yes, Senor Rod, he died from all that work pulling the water cart."

"Are you insane?? What water cart?"

"The one we used to put out the fire, Senor."

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"From eating the rotten meat, Senor Rod."

"My prize thoroughbred is dead?"

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"Damn! That's a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?"

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As I recall, I was told (by someone who probably doesn’t exist) that it was a Pony Express stagecoach stop and later became a coppermining center. But its history is clouded because the town’s heritage railroad is called The Ghost Train of Old Ely.

"Si, Senor, that's the one."

"Dead horse? What dead horse?"

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"Nobody, Senor. He ate the meat of the dead horse."

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"Good Lord!! What fire are you talking about, man??"

"The one that destroyed your house, Senor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire."

Could that squadron, which might not have existed, have been from Area 51? Is it possible that a squadron flew from nowhere on a flight plan that ended up nowhere?

It could happen.

As you can see, checking into any and all of this is going nowhere, man.

Since my trip through nowhere, family, friends, relatives, neighbors, colleagues and bartenders have patiently and persistently tried to discredit my adventure as if it never happened. You’ve never been there, I’m told. Like all my time has been spent nowhere.

The hoodoo landscape surrounding Area 51 that doesn’t exist feeds my imagination, they tell me.

A light glittering off a shiny rock on the desert floor could be mistaken for a beacon to the mothership coming in for a landing, they explain.

And the Joshua trees alongside a dark dirt road with arms reaching to the sky might be my illusion of aliens on the march.

They’ve never been nowhere, man.

So they just don’t know. But trying to convince them of that gets me nowhere, man.

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"What the hell?? Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a candle?!"

"Yes, Senor Rod."

"But there's electricity at the house!!

What was the candle for?"

"For the funeral, Senor Rod."

"WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL?!"

"Your wife's, Senor Rod. She showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new Taylor Made Super Quad 460 golf club."

SILENCE...........

SILENCE.........

LONG

"Ernesto, if you broke that driver, you're in deep doo-doo!"

•••• A dog lover, whose own dog was a female and "in heat', agreed to look after and house her neighbor's male dog while they were away on vacation.

She had a large house and believed that she would have no trouble keeping the dogs separated.

However, the very first night, as she was drifting off to sleep she heard awful howling and moaning sounds and rushed downstairs to find the dogs locked together, in obvious pain and unable to disengage as so frequently happens when canines mate.

Unable to separate them and perplexed as to what to do next, although it was late, she called her vet, who answered in a very grumpy voice. She explained the problem to

The vet said "Hang up the phone and place it down alongside the dogs.

I will then call you right back and the noise of the ringing will make the male lose his erection and be able to withdraw."

"Do you think that will work?" she asked.

"It just worked for me!" he replied •••• Why I’m Divorced . . .

Last week was my birthday and I didn't feel very well waking up on that morning.

I went downstairs for breakfast hoping my wife would be pleasant and say, 'Happy Birthday!,' and possibly have a small present for me.

As it turned out, she barely said good morning, let alone 'Happy Birthday.'

I thought, well, that's marriage for you, but the kids .... they will remember.

My kids came bounding down stairs to breakfast and didn't say a word.

So when I left for the office, I felt pretty low and somewhat despondent.

As I walked into my office, my secretary, Kay, said, 'Good Morning Boss, and by the way Happy Birthday!'

It felt a little better that at least someone had remembered.

I worked until one o'clock, when Kay knocked on my door and said, 'You know, It's such a beautiful day outside, and it is your Birthday, what do you say we go out to lunch, just you and me?'

I said, 'Thanks, Kay, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go!'

We went to lunch.

But we didn't go where we normally would go. She chose instead at a quiet bistro with a private table. We had two martinis each and I enjoyed the meal tremendously. On the way back to the office, Kay said, 'You know, it's such a beautiful day - we don't need to go straight back to the office, do we?'

I responded, 'I guess not. What do you have in mind?'

She said, 'Let's drop by my apartment, it's just around the corner.'

After arriving at her apartment, Kay turned to me and said, 'Boss, if you don't mind, I'm going to step into the bedroom for just a moment. I'll be right back.'

'OK,' I nervously replied.

She went into the bedroom and, after a couple of minutes, she came out carrying a huge birthday cake... followed by my wife, my kids, and dozens of my friends and coworkers, all singing 'Happy Birthday.'

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San Diego, Ca. 92111

This business is operated by an individual.

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Registrant Information: Intense Sports, LLC

2937 Norman Strasse Rd. San Marcos, Ca. 92069

This business is operated by a Limited Liability Company.

First day of business: N/A /s/ Anand Parekh, President Filed

with

Ernest

J.

Dronenburg

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Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/29/2022,

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•••• Oxy-morons

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?

2.

Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?

5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?

7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges?

9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

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First day of business n/a.

10. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?

11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?

12. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?

13. Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?

2022-9007428

The name of the business: Syl Las Hermanas Mexican

Food and Pupuseria, located at 5841 Market St., San Diego, Ca. 92114.

Registrant Information: Marta Lorena Ceron 4522 60th St. Apt 2

San Diego, Ca. 92115

This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business: 1/01/2022 /s/ Marta Lorena Ceron Filed

with

Ernest

J.

Dronenburg

Jr.,

Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 3/29/2022,

County

4/28, 5/05, 5/12 & 5/19/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9009599 The name of the business: The Cookie Girls, located at 980 Los Vallecitos Blvd., San Marcos, Ca. 92069.

Registrant Information: Hailey Smith 3647 Emma Rd. Vista, CA. 92084 This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business: 4/21/2022 /s/ Hailey Smith Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/25/2022,

4/28, 5/05, 5/12 & 5/19/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008885

The name of the business: The Leslie Legal Group;

North County DUI Center; Boertje and Associates;

Boertje and “Associates, Attorney at Law, located at 1808 Astopn Ave., Ste 235, Carlsbad, CA. 92008.

Registrant Information: Sean F. Leslie

2055 Alta Vista Dr. Vista, CA. 92084

This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business: 4/15/2022 /s/ David Boertje, Filed

with

Ernest

J.

Dronenburg

Jr.,

Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/15/2022,

County

4/21, 4/28, 5/05 & 5/12/2022

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #2022-9008884 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME:

North County DUI Center, located at 1808 Aston Ave., Ste 235, Carlsbad, CA. 92008.The Fictitious

Business Name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on 5/20/15 and assigneed file no. 20150-013479 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IS BEING ABANDONED BY: Sean F. Leslie 2055 Alta Vista Dr., Vista, CA, 92084

This business is conducted by an individual.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1000). /s/ Sean F. Leslie, Owner This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County on April 15, 2022, 4/21, 4/28, 5/05 and 5/12/2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

2022-9008028

The name of the business:Pure

Love Ministries, located at 411 Village Lane, Vista, Ca. 92083.

Registrant

Information:

Carine and Jason Bassili 411 Village Lane Vista, Ca. 92083

This business is operated by a Married Couple.

First day of business 9/18/2020 /s/ Carine Bassili Filed

with

Dronenburg

Ernest

Jr.,

J.

County

Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/5/2022,

4/21, 4/28, 5/05 and 5/12/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008136 The name of the business: Safe Dog ID Collar, located at 2023 Meadowlark Ranch Circle, San Marcos, CA. 92078.

Registrant Information: Laura D. Kaye 2023 Meadowlark Ranch Circle San Marcos, CA. 92078 This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Laura D. Kaye Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/06/2022,

4/21, 4/28, 5/05 & 5/12/2022

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #2022-9007638 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME:

Care Free Pools, located at 17161 Alva Road, #3013, San Diego, CA. 92127. The Fictitious

Business Name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on 3/10/2020 and assigneed file no. 2020-9006228.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IS BEING ABANDONED BY: Julian Lucas Guzman Morgan Taylor Guzman 2438 Gum Tree Lane Fallbrook, CA. 92028

and

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1000). /s/ Julian Lucas Guzman This statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County April 01, 2022 4/14, 4/21, 4/28 and 5/05/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9007938 The name of the business: Prontos’ Gourmet Market, located at 2812 Roosevelt St, Carlsbad, CA., 92008.

Registrant Information: Wake Properties, Inc. 3008 Fairview Dr. Vista, CA. 92084 This business is operated by a corporation.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Trinity Wekefield, Secretary Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/05/2022,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008600 The name of the business: Diaz Landscapes, located at 611 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd, #25, San Marcos, CA. 92078.

Registrant Information: Daniel Joseph Diaz 611 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd. #25 San Marcos, CA. 92078 This business is operated by an individual.

4/14, 4/21, 4/28 & 5/05/2022 First day of business n/a. /s/Daniel Joseph Diaz Filed with Ernest J. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Dronenburg Jr., County 2022-9007687 Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, The name of the business: on 4/12/2022, Flames of Fire Ministry & 4/21, 4/28, 5/05 & 5/12/2022 Apparel, located at 1906 Oceanside Blvd., #R, Oceanside, Ca. 92054.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Registrant Information: Flames of Fire Glory NAME STATEMENT Tabernacle Church 2022-9008167 800 E. Bobier Dr., Apte E1 The name of the business: Boomin Vista, CA. 92084 This business is operated by a Barrels; Booming Barrels, located corporation. at 4050 Arroyo Sorrento Rd., San First day of business 4/1/22. /s/ Angela Benjamin, President Diego, CA. 92150.

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Registrant Information: Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, Jacob M. Moss on 4/01/2022,

4/14, 4/21, 4/28 & 5/05/2022

4050 Arroyo Sorrento Rd. San Diego, CA. 92150

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008085 individual.First day of business The name of the business: Daisy Maisy GF Bakery, 1/01/2022. located at 1063 Camino Del Sol /s/ Jacob M. Moss San Marcos, CA. 92069 Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Registrant Information: Nicole Tracy James Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San 1063 Camino Del Sol San Marcos, CA. 92069 Diego, on 4/06/2022 This business is operated by an 4/21, 4/28, 5/05 & 5/12/2022 individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Nicole Tracy James Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, NAME STATEMENT on 4/06/2022, 2022-9007595 4/14, 4/21, 4/28 & 5/05/2022 The name of the business: RVC Landscape and Tree Service, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS located at 802 W. 3rd Avenue, NAME STATEMENT Escondido, Ca. 92025 2022-9006748 Registrant Information: The name of the business: Grotto Rosario Vasquez Spa, located at 6755 Mira Mesa 802 W. 3rd Avenue Blvd. #140, San Diego, CA. Escondido, Ca. 92025 This business is operated by an 92121 Registrant Information: individual.

First day of business 1/31/2022 Ying Xu 1602 Wesley Way /s/ Rosario Vasquez Filed with Ernest J. Vista, Ca. 92081 Dronenburg Jr., County This business is operated by an Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, individual. on 3/30/2022, First Day of Business: 3/15/2022.

4/14, 4/21, 4/28 & 5/05/2022 /s/ Ying Xu Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS San Diego, on 3/22/2022, NAME STATEMENT 4/21, 4/28, 5/05 & 5/12/2022 This business is operated by an

2022-9008414

The name of the business: The

Community Paper LLC dba The Paper, located at 1733 Via de la Cuesta, Escondido, Ca. 92027.

Registrant Information:

This business is operated by a Limited Liability Company.

First day of business 3/8/2006

/s/ Evelyn Madison, Managing Dronenburg

Ernest

Jr.,

J.

County

Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/8 /2022,

4/14, 4/21, 4/28 & 5/05/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

2022-9008279

The name of the business: Angel

Massage Studio, located at 1691

Melrose Dr., #140, San Marcos, Ca. 92078.

Registrant Information: Ba Yue, Inc.

205 Vineyard Ct.

San Marcos, CA. 92069

This business is operated by a corporation.

First day of business n/a.

/s/ John A. Brodsky, President

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County

Clerk/Recorder of

San Diego, on 4/07/2022,

name

of

the

business:

California Wraps, located at 1495 Registrant Information:

Escondido, Ca. 92027

with

The

STATEMENT

2022-9009092

92081

1733 Via de la Cuesta

Filed

NAME

Poinsettia Ave. #150, Vista, CA.

The Community Paper, LLC

Member

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

4/21, 4/28, 5/05 and 5/12/2022

Trevor James Vercoe

152 W. Avenida Palizada Ave. San Clemente, CA. 92672

This business is operated by an individual.First day of business 9/12/14.

/s/ Trevor J. Vercoe

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County

Clerk/Recorder of

San Diego, on 4/19/2022,

4/28, 5/05, 5/12 & 5/19/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9009110 The name of the business: LVL Consulting, located at 1194 Corte Ladera, San Marcos, Ca. 92069.

Registrant Information: Ravi Kumar Kamboh 1194 Corte Ladera San Marcos, CA. 92069 This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Ravi Kumar Kamboh Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/19/2022,

5/05, 5/12, 5/19 & 5/26/2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9009595 The name of the business: The Rooted Goddess, located at 1239 Maryland Dr., Vista, CA. 92083.

Registrant Information: Eband Flows , LLC 1239 Maryland Dr. Vista, Ca. 92083 This business is operated by a Limited Liability Company.

First day of business 2/28/22. /s/Ebony M. Henry, CEO Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/25/2022,

5/05, 5/12, 5/19 & 5/26/2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME 37-2022-00014831-CU-PT-CTEL TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner J. Ernesto Arrendondo Santoyo filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: J. Ernesto Arrendondo Santoyo to Proposed name Demetrios Juan Ernesto Garcia Santoyo. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 6/06/2022, 8:30 am, in Dept. 61 The address of the court is: Central Division, Hall of Justice, 330 W. Broadway, San Diego, Ca. 92101. A copy of the Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: San Marcos News Reporter, dba, The Paper, 845 W. San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, Ca. 92078.

Dated April 21, 2022. /s/ Michael T. Smyth, Judge of the Superior Court 4/28, 5/05, 5/12 & 5/19/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008688 The name of the business: SD Photo Video, located at 2102 Cosmo Way, San Marcos, CA. 92078.

Registrant Information: Abbas Solhdoost 2102 Cosmo Way San Marcos, CA. 92078 This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Abbas Solhdoost Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/13/2022,

4/28, 5/05, 5/12 & 5/19/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008085 The name of the business: Daisy Maisy GF Bakery, located at 1063 Camino Del Sol San Marcos, CA. 92069 Registrant Information: Nicole Tracy James 1063 Camino Del Sol San Marcos, CA. 92069 This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Nicole Tracy James Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/06/2022,

4/14, 4/21, 4/28 & 5/05/2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME 37-2022-00014831-CU-PT-CTEL TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner J. Ernesto Arrendondo Santoyo filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: J. Ernesto Arrendondo Santoyo to Proposed name Demetrios Juan Ernesto Garcia Santoyo. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objections that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 6/06/2022, 8:30 am, in Dept. 61 The address of the court is: Central Division, Hall of Justice, 330 W. Broadway, San Diego, Ca. 92101. A copy of the Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: San Marcos News Reporter, dba, The Paper, 845 W. San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, Ca. 92078.

Dated April 21, 2022. /s/ Michael T. Smyth, Judge of the Superior Court 4/28, 5/05, 5/12 & 5/19/2022

CITY OF SAN MARCOS REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (ADMIN RFP 22-04) COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNICATION PLAN SERVICES FOR THE SAN MARCOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (SMUSD) COVID-19 MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS UNIT PROGRAM (“PROGRAM”)

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of San Marcos, hereinafter referred to as Agency or City, invites proposals for the above stated Project and will be available on line via PlanetBids. Proposals are due up to the hour of 4:00 p.m. on May 24, 2022.

WORK DESCRIPTION The City is seeking the services of qualified firm(s) to provide professional communications services as required to prepare and implement a comprehensive and expansive communications plan for the Program.

LOCATION OF WORK Citywide.

ESTIMATED BUDGET The estimated overall budget is $200,000.

TERM 3 Years.

AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS The City uses PlanetBids to post and receive bids/proposals. Only vendors that are registered will be eligible to submit a bid/proposal for formal solicitations with the City.

PlanetBids is accessible via the City’s website and direct link provided below and provides all documents at no cost to bidders/proposers. http://www.san-marcos.net OR https://www.planetbids.com/po rtal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=39 481 GENERAL The company to whom the Contract is awarded, and any subcontractor under such company, shall hereby ensure that minority and women business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids for subcontracts.

Further, there shall be no discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical handicap, medical condition, marital status, age, or sex.

DOP 5/5/ and 5/12/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9008770 The name of the business: Pro Teeth Guard; ProTeeghGuard.com, located atr 804 N. Twin Oaks Valley Rd. #120, San Marcos, CA. 92069 Registrant Information: Yong Dental Lab and Medical Equipment Inc. 2230 Cottage Way Vista, Ca. 92081 This business is operated by a corporation.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Yongping Geng, President Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/14/2022,

4/21, 4/28, 5/05 and 5/12/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9007799 The name of the business: Green Madness; Ash’s Bistro, located at 16769 Bernardo Center Dr., Ste. K1-285, San Diego, CA. 92128 Registrant Information: Green Madness, LLC 16769 Bernardo Center Dr., Ste K1-285 San Diego, CA. 92128 This business is operated by a Limited Liability Company.

First day of business n/a. /s/Ashraf Elgharieb Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/04/2022,

4/21, 4/28, 5/05 & 5/12/2022

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (Planning Commission)

The Planning Commission of the City of San Marcos will hold the following public hearing in the City Council Chambers located at San Marcos City Hall, 1 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, CA 92069 at 6:30 p.m., on Monday, May 16, 2022.

Project No: CUP22-0001 and EX22-033 Applicant: American Rentals, Inc. Request: A Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to remove 1,754 square feet of existing nonconforming structures and construct a new 2,500 square foot building to establish and operate an equipment rental facility with outdoor storage in the Commercial (C) zone.

Environmental Determination: The Conditional Use Permit (CUP) is categorically exempt (EX22-033) from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Section 15303, Class 3 (New Construction of small structures), in that the proposed commercial structure is less than 10,000 square feet.

Location of Property: 1030 Linda Vista Drive, more particularly described as That portion of the Westerly 175 feet of the Easterly 500 feet of Lot 2 in Block 80 of the Subdivision of Rancho Los Vallecitos De San Marcos, in the City of San Marcos, County of San Diego, State of California, according to Map thereof No. 806, filed in the Office of the County Recorder of San Diego County, December 21, 1895, lying Southerly of the Northerly 350.95 feet, measured along the Easterly line of said lot. The Southerly line of said Northerly 350.95 feet being drawn parallel with the Northerly line of said Lot. Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN): 219-152-3400.

Further information about this notice can be obtained from Senior Planner Sean del Solar, AICP, by calling 760-744-1050 extension 3223, or via email sdelsolar@san-marcos.net.

Notice: Any interested person may appeal the decision of the Planning Commission to the City Council provided that appeal fee is paid ($20 for residents; $1,155 for non-residents) and a written appeal is submitted to the Planning Division Secretary within ten (10) calendar days of the date of the decision (due no later than 4:30 PM on May 26, 2022). The written appeal should specify the reasons for the appeal and the grounds upon which the appeal is based. The City Council will then consider the filed appeal/s at a later public hearing. The Planning Division can be contacted at (760) 744-1050, extension 3233 or via email gjackson@san-marcos.net.

The City of San Marcos is committed to making its programs, services and activities accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you require accommodation to participate in this public hearing or any other City program, service, or activity, please contact the City Clerk’s office at 1 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, CA 92069, or call (760) 744-1050, extension 3145.

Phil Scollick, City Clerk, City of San Marcos.

PD: 05/05/2022.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DECISION (Administrative)

The Planning Division Manager of the City of San Marcos has considered the proposed project and does intend to APPROVE the Director’s Permit DP21-0017 on May 16, 2022.

Project No.: DP21-0017 Applicant: Virtuoso Fitness and Wellness Request: A Director’s Permit to allow the operation of a 1,560 square foot personal service facility (Fitness Center) within an existing industrial building.

Environmental Determination: This Director’s Permit is Categorically Exempt from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Section 15301, Class 1 (Existing Facility with No Expansion) in that this is an existing facility with no expansion.

Location of Property: 145 Vallecitos de Oro, Suite C, more particularly described as: Lot 5 of Tract Map No. 9676, in the City of San Marcos, County of San Diego, State of California, filed in the Office of the County Recorder of San Diego County, State of California, on June 10, 1980.

Assessor’s Parcel Number(s) 219-172-47-00.

Further information about this notice can be obtained from Senior Planner Sean del Solar, AICP by calling 760-744-1050 extension 3223, or sdelsolar@san-marcos.net Notice: Any interested person may appeal the decision of the Planning Division Manager to the Planning Commission provided the appeal fee is paid ($20 for residents; $1,155 for non-residents) and a written appeal is submitted to the Planning Division Secretary within ten (10) calendar days of the date of the decision (due no later than 4:30 PM on May 26, 2022. The written appeal should specify the reasons for the appeal and the grounds upon which the appeal is based. The City’s Planning Commission will then consider the filed appeal/s at a later public hearing. The Planning Division can be contacted at 760-744-1050, extension 3233 or gjackson@san-marcos.net.

The City of San Marcos is committed to making its programs, services and activities accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you require accommodation to participate in any City program, service or activity, please contact the City Clerk’s office at 1 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, CA 92069, or call 760-744-1050, extension 3145.

Phil Scollick, City Clerk, City of San Marcos.

PD: 05/05/22.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9009682 The name of the business: LindySpa, located at 910 W. San Marcos Blvd., #109, San Marcos, CA. 92078.

Registrant Information: Melinda Crandall 3025 Shale Rock Rd. Vista, Ca. 92084 This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business 8/1/2015 /s/ Melinda Crandall Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/26/2022,

5/05, 5/12, 5/19 & 5/26/2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9009827 The name of the business: Well Kept Home Construction, Inc., located at 514 Shadow Tree Dr., Oceanside, CA. 92058.

Registrant Information: Well Kept Home Contruction, Inc. 514 Shadow Tree Dr. Oceanside, CA. 92058 This business is operated by a corporation.

First day of business 3/17/2022. /s/ Lewis Ringer, President Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego, on 4/27/2022,

5/05, 5/12, 5/19 & 5/26/2022

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