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September 10, 2020

Volume 50 - No. 37

By Gary Womble

It was Friday, January 17, 1997, and Dawn Bressler, PNC Bank Manager Lima, Pennsylvania, was tired from a long, busy day and looking forward to closing and going home. Dawn glanced up at the clock and saw that it was 6:28 PM and closing time was only a couple minutes away. But then it looked as though they had one last customer when the door opened, and someone entered. The person was wearing a face mask resembling the character from the movie The Paper - 760.747.7119

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“The Nightmare on Elm Street” “Freddy Krueger.” The man was wearing dark, baggy clothing he also wore gloves and had a handgun. He immediately began loudly barking orders to get on the floor and no one was to move or try to run. He moved across the floor in a crab-like fashion, which made it difficult, if not impossible, to guess his height and weight. The baggy clothes prevented anyone from seeing his build, and because of the mask and gloves no one could tell anything about him including his age or even race.

The bank robber made a single vertical leap onto the counter and pointed his gun at the tellers crouching on the floor. He directed them to get cash from their drawers and put it on the counter including the hidden locations for large bills.

He put the money from all the tellers in his bag and jumped down.

When he leaped onto the counter Dawn silently crawled to a side office and dialed 911. She wanted at least for someone to know what was happening. The thief then ran to the front door and disappeared into the darkness of night. Dawn

later remarked that the movements themselves, as well as the precision of each move, were startling seemingly having been very carefully planned and almost militaristic like. While to the bank employees it seemed like an eternity the robber was in the bank less than two minutes. Within just a few minutes the police arrived to find all the bank employees pretty shaken up, but no one was injured.

In the next few days, the FBI arrived and conducted interviews with each of the bank employees

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working that Friday evening. Their interviews were literally identical with no one being able to provide anything useful in the form of a description of the thief. FBI agent Ray Carr who ultimately served twenty-five years with the FBI before his retirement in December of 2014, oversaw the task force assigned to catch this criminal.

During his career Ray served as the Primary Coordinator for the FBI Philadelphia Division, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, and the Philadelphia Hostage Negotiator. He was well respected because of his training as a hostage negotiator and profiler in the field. Additionally, Ray Carr was a Certified Police Instructor providing instruction to federal, state and local law enforcement officers in the areas of Crisis Management, Criminal Profiling, Hostage Negotiations, Psychology of the Criminal Mind, Forensic Crime Scene Analysis, Death Scene Investigation, Forensic Interviewing and Criminal Investigative Analysis.

After his retirement from the FBI Ray Carr served as Director of the Wilmington University Criminal Justice Institute which provides research, educational programs, professional development training, and consulting services required to assist the community in fighting and addressing the growing crime

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1) NUDITY I was driving with my three young children one warm

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problems and public safety concerns. He was also an adjunct professor at Drexel University, working in the Master of Forensic Science and Criminalistics Program. Without question Ray Carr was well-trained, had a great experiential background and was as capable as anyone to catch the person responsible for these bank heists.

Ray had told Dawn Bressler that it was his opinion that the thief was “The Freddy Krueger Friday Night Bank Robber” who had been robbing banks up and down the East Coast since 1973. He stated that everything about the robbery fit the pattern, Friday night, closing time, and the bank with proximity to a wooded area. The task force Ray Carr headed up had been established due to a lack of evidence and because all the robberies fit a similar pattern.

A couple of the task force team members went on the record with the media making public statements. “The speed and precision are something we have never seen before” said Chris Groysberg of the FBI. Randy Owens was assigned to the team from his DEA position because of his investigative experience and keen attention to detail.

Randy said, “For over a decade now he has been a phantom literally impossible to trace.” Up until this point in time no one was ever considered a suspect because of an almost complete lack of evidence.

The task force had made some

summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked!

As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, 'Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!'

2) OPINIONS On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, 'The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.'

3) KETCHUP A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone.

'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle.'

4) MORE NUDITY A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, 'What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?'

5) POLICE # 1 While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old.

Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, 'Are you a cop?

Yes,' I answered and continued writing the report.

'My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?'

assumptions based on witness accounts as well as surveillance video. One assumption that everyone agreed with was that “Friday Freddy” was more than likely fit and athletic. Ray Carr stated that the vertical leaps to the counter tops were extremely impressive and based on his voice this was a male.

On April 2, 2001 at 8:30 AM Ray Carr was in his office in the FBI’s satellite headquarters in Newton Square. Ray was trying to organize what little information he had into a “workable format,” when Radnor Detective Joe Paolantonio called.

“What are you doing today?”

Paolantonio asked. “I came across something yesterday evening I think is a little bit beyond us. Can you come up and gives us some assis tance?” Paolantonio had Carr’s attention: “What is it?”

“We found some guns and stuff in, like, a bunker.”

Two teens were building a fort in the woods late in the afternoon of April 1, 2001, when they saw something deep inside a concrete drainage pipe. Inside the drainage pipe were several sections of capped PVC piping. Being curious, they opened one of the pipes and took out documents that referred to several bank robberies, as well as instructions on how to clean a firearm. The boys knew they needed to turn this find over to the Radnor police. A Radnor police officer a short time later returned to

'Yes, that's right,' I told her.

'Well, then,' she said as she extended her foot toward me, 'would you please tie my shoe?'

6) POLICE # 2 It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me.

'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked.

'It sure is,' I replied.

Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van.

Finally he said, 'What'd he do?'

7) ELDERLY While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, 'The tooth fairy will never believe this!'

8) DRESS-UP A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, 'Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit.'

'And why not, darling?'

'You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.'

9) DEATH While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar

the place where the boys found the pipes and he stumbled on a “bunker.” The bunker was three feet deep and four feet across and was filled with capped PVC pipes and waterproof containers.

In all his 13 years as a detective, investigating burglaries and suburban crime, Paolantonio who was 45 years old at the time, said he had never seen anything quite like this.

The bunker was very carefully excavated and lined with concrete blocks and bricks. The bunker contents were organized with a high degree of precision. There was also a drainage pipe placed into the berm of an abandoned right-of-way for the old P&W trolley line. This, however, turned out to be a dummy because it did not connect with anything. “All the detail made it clear someone had taken a lot of time and effort to do this,” Paolantonio recalled.

The contents were more than just a little interesting to both Carr and Paolantonio. Among the contents was a note describing the Patriot National Bank and its location including a notation “F-7.” Carr stated that the note had just one meaning, “the bank closes on Fridays at 7 P.M.” They also found detailed surveillance notes on 10 to 20 banks in New York and Connecticut. Additionally, they found references to 160 banks in

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wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cottonwool, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.

The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: 'Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes.' (I want this line used at my funeral!)

10) SCHOOL A little girl had just finished her first week of school.

'I'm just wasting my time,' she said to her mother. 'I can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me talk!'

11) BIBLE A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.

'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out.

'What have you got there, dear?'

With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear!'

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Social Butterfly

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classic "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," (1964) may be the most famous film ever shot here -- three locations were used in Valley Center and the words Valley Center are spoken seven times -- it was not the first motion picture shot in this area. That claim dates to 1914 when a young then-unknown filmmaker named Cecil B. deMille found his way up a dirt road to Palomar Mountain and shot scenes for a silent movie called "The Virginian." That same year, he filmed part of "Rose of the Rancho" in a nearby but unidentified hilly or mountain area, likely Pauma Valley. One year later he returned to Palomar to shoot "Girl of the Golden West."

Hollywood Calling: Films Shot Locally - Among the many popular exhibits at the Valley Center History Museum is a display of celebrities who live or have lived in the area, and posters of several motion pictures that have been filmed in the local community.

While the museum remains temporarily closed, this weekly series is responding to inquiries that have frequently been asked of volunteers and docents, and it's about all the motion pictures that were shot locally. Here is installment 19 of this weekly series. To contact the Valley Center History Museum, email museum@vchistory.org, call (760) 749-2993 or visit the Website at vchistory.org.

A volunteer responds to all inquiries.

It would be another 24 years before Hollywood camera crews would return to Valley Center to shoot the action-adventure film "Daredevils of the Red Circle," (1939)".

Subsequently, area residents watched the filming of "Invaders from Mars" (1953) and "Crater Lake Monster" (1977). The "monster" movie was filmed partially at Palomar Gardens cafe off Highway 76 in Pauma Valley which was owned by George Adamski, who had written widely about UFOs and alleged alien encounters.

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weapons, all but one with the serial numbers removed. That handgun had been unaccountably neglected and proved to be an important clue.

Tracking the serial number of the pistol it was found to have been stolen in the 1970’s from a shop near the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

While the blockbuster comedy

central and eastern Pennsylvania.

They found eight flesh-colored Halloween style masks and several pullover ski masks. Some of the masks had been slightly altered to improve fit and vision. The find included five large caliber handguns, all with their primary and hidden serial numbers removed.

There were electrical-engineering and statistical materials, also a “Camp Hill Handbook.” But the detailed topographical and directional maps for Pennsylvania state forests near Jim Thorpe, PA were the most intriguing to Ray Carr. He concluded that some of the maps depicted the locations of other bunkers.

The discovery from Radnor resulted in a significant increase to the task force headed by Carr. New team members included FBI agents from states in which the listed banks were located as well as New York state police, and a veteran federal prosecutor from Philadelphia, Linwood C. Wright, Jr. They followed up on Carr’s hunch which proved correct and led to seven more bunkers. Some of the new bunkers were large enough to walk into, they had been carved out of the wilderness in northeastern Pennsylvania. The various bunkers contained everything from newspaper clippings, surveillance notes, clothing, and survival rations. One of the bunkers contained 18

In 1944, Warner Bros. realized it could not go to a vineyard in wartorn France, the setting for "Uncertain Glory," so they found a stand-in among the grapes growing at Melrose Ranch on Crown Hill Lane. A couple of years later on

Carr and his task force started following all the leads from the various bunkers. One of those leads, which also fit their profile of the thief, was a pamphlet for Dillman Karate Studio. That reference turned out to refer to George Dillman, the Reading, PA based founder and owner of an international chain of 85 karate schools.

Dillman had developed his own method of Ryukyu Kempo Karate and Tuite pressure-point fighting and grappling. Among five local studios was one “dojo” in Drexel Hill, which is near Radnor where the boys found the first bunker.

Carr visited that school and spoke with the chief instructor asking about students fitting the description. The karate instructor provided Carr with the name of one of his students who was a 3rd degree black belt, Carl Gugasian.

Carl Gugasian was the right age, height, and had an apartment on Iven Avenue directly across the street from the woods in Radnor where the boys found the first bunker. As agents investigated Gugasian’s background, more pieces came together. He received special forces training including

The only known copy of "The Rose of the Rancho" is in a New York film vault.

Lilac Road, the Mission-style estate of Ramon Novarro, at the time a major film star, two films were shot

by MGM, the studio under which he had a longtime contract.

Another film shot at the house was from RKO, "The Big Steal" (1949).

in the industry as cheap "B" films, used Valley Center as the locale.

Among them were "King of the Lost World" (2005) and "Pirates of Treasure Island" (2006), both shot at the former Pikake Gardens on

self-defense and survival skills while he was at Fort Bragg in the mid-1970s. The connection was obvious between the serial numbered gun in the bunker which was the one taken from a store near Fort Bragg.

maps to sniff out a series of small, hand-dug bunkers, many in the Pennsylvania Poconos. The sites contained about 100 five-gallon plastic buckets filled with $47,000 cash and “Friday Freddy’s” tools.

The find included 30 guns and thousands of bullets, masks, climbing gear, makeup kits and detailed income records.

A number of other movies, known

Over almost a three-decade time frame “Friday Freddy,” as he was sometimes called, had earned the grudging admiration of the FBI bank squad. He was clearly a professional who always stuck to his system. He always worked alone.

He burst into banks at closing time, on Friday evenings, when the institutions were heavy with cash and the staff was distracted. He wore a Freddy Krueger Halloween mask as well as oversized clothing that made it difficult to judge even his skin tone, height, and weight. They also found a copy of 'The Mystic Arts of the Ninja' in one of the PVC pipes. 'Ninjutsu: The Art of the Invisible Warrior' was another book uncovered during the investigation. Freddy’s getaway was another trademark. He did not drive. He ran. “Friday Freddy” always hit banks that were located near forests. He would sprint into the woods and disappear, like a ghost. Later the task force would learn that Freddy always hid a mountain bike in the woods and used it to get to a panel van parked close by adjacent to a major roadway or expressway.

For months after the boys found the PVC pipes, cops, FBI agents and game officers used the robber's

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From 1973 to 2001 some 50 bank jobs that netted $2 million were thought to have been the work of “Friday Freddy.” He worked a wide swath, from North Carolina to New England, robbing from October to April, when early darkness helped conceal his escape.

Many of the bank targets were in Pennsylvania: Jim Thorpe in 1991, Limerick Township in 1996, Lima in 1997, and Carbondale in 1998.

He found productive areas in the Catskills, as well — Kerhonkson in 1990, Shokan in 1991, Rosendale in 1993. He returned to Shokan in 1999 for one of his biggest scores — a $122,000 heist that broke his rules. It was a midday robbery on June 7, a Monday. He dashed across Route 28 into the woods near the Ashokan Reservoir and disappeared.

The task force began an extensive and thorough investigation of all aspects of Carl Gugasian’s life.

Carl Gugasian was born October 12, 1947 to Armenian-Russian parents in Broomall, Pennsylvania. He

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Local News

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A bill by Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego, to crack down on puppy mills is now on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

Assembly Bill 2152, known as “Bella’s Act,” would end the retail sales of dogs, cats and rabbits throughout California while still allowing retail establishments the flexibility to partner with rescues or shelters for adoption events.

“The mass breeding operations of puppy mills are unhealthy and inhumane. We don’t want animals experiencing that cruelty in California,” Gloria said. “Bella’s Act will finally fulfill our state’s promise to end the illicit puppy mill industry and encourage pet retailers to partner with rescues and shelters for adoption events.”

On Jan. 1, 2019, California enacted a prohibition on the sales of dogs, cats and rabbits in retail stores unless the animals were acquired from a shelter or rescue group that has a cooperative agreement with a shelter, humane society or society of the prevention of cruelty to animals.

According to Gloria, pet retailers have utilized a loophole to get around the prohibition by importing animals from outside the state for sale.

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According to the Humane Society, a puppy mill is “an inhumane, high- volume breeding facility that churns out animals for profit. The animals’ needs are often ignored and they are sick and unsocialized.

The animals are commonly then sold online or in pet stores.”

The society estimates there are 10,000 puppy mills still active in the United States.

Vista to rename Gateway Aarch Sign

The gateway arch at Vista Village Drive and Santa Fe Avenue will be renamed with Vista being the prominent name and Paseo Santa Fe underneath after the City Council approved the change during its Aug. 25 meeting.

More than 20 years ago, the Vista City Council focused up on revitalizing and cleaning up Paseo Santa Fe, more commonly known as downtown.

Riddled with crime and prostitution, the city was aggressive in its pursuit to change the image and began a long process of doing so.

Four years ago, with much of those goals met, the city unveiled its gateway arch, but the reaction was mixed.

The sign read “Paseo Santa Fe,” leaving some residents and those residing outside the city a bit confused. But on Aug. 25, the council

to retire?”

Alan was a big high mucky muck with one of the most elite (and expensive) golf clubs and residential communities in the nation, Big Horn Golf Club in Palm Desert. He has now retired but is stilll an active member.

Congratulations to two of the finest people I’ve ever known.

Man About Town

Dear friends Alan and Nancy Skuba just celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary.

I managed KOWN Radio when Alan owned it back in 1970. It was a dream job with a dream owner. Alan and I got along wonderfully well . . . I met and fell in love with his entire family.

Even after Alan sold the station we remained in close contact via email and phone calls and, occasionally, we hook up for breakfast or lunch.

Alan and Nancy live in Palm Desert now. He, like me, has no plans to ever retire. We both embrace the philosophy, “if you enjoy what you do, why on earth would you ever want

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approved a name change to the sign and its companion along Santa Fe Avenue between Vista Village and Civic Center drives.

Rabid Bat Found at Safari Park

The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency is asking for the public's help to identify the park visitor who may have been exposed. Witnesses spotted the bat flying around her at 11:30 a.m.

Sunday at the Mombasa Cooker, a restaurant in an area of the park known as Nairobi Village, on the south side of the lagoon.

The bat — which was not one of the Safari Park's animals — was later caught by a park employee and turned over to county health officials, who determined it was infected with rabies.

Health officials are seeking immediate interviews with anyone who may have come in contact with the bat Sunday to determine if they were potentially exposed to rabies.

Anyone who knows the identity of the woman who may have been exposed, or anyone who was at the park and believes they were potentially exposed to the bat, is urged to immediately call the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency at (619) 692-8499.

Letters to the Editor

A Fan of The Paper’s Writers

"The Political Correctness Getting Out of Control" cover story (Aug. 27, 2020) by your most brilliant writer Friedrich Gomez should be required reading for this country right now. I thought I knew everything going wrong today until I read where just the word "white" is considered offensive to some groups and is being deleted from some cosmetic corporations, and that New York City voted to ban the words "Illegal alien" from law enforcement because it was offensive and humiliating to criminals who break immigration laws, and how the church and even statues of

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brilliant decision and created legislation and fee waivers that allowed restaurateurs to extend their dining facilities into the space normally allocated for parking.

Restaurants, even during lockdown, were able to erect tent canopies and wind/noise breaks, place comfortable seating and dining tables and offer “al fresco” dining.

reality I can see the city of Escondido becoming a West Coast focal point for fine as well as casual dining.

I anticipate that once the pandemic is over the city will be agreeable to retaining the “al fresco” dining feature - perhaps a d d i n g Escondido as a destination target for those who enjoyed fine and comfortable dining.

Wait staff would love it because when patrons get a great atmosphere, great food and great service, they tend to be generous with their gratuities.

The patrons loved it! Traffic continued to flow smoothly and patrons enjoyed dining “outside.”

Alan and Nancy Skuba (Nancy is the pretty one . . .on the right) A Pandemic Bonus - The Good Kind We’ve enjoyed dining “al fresco” and many of our friends, I have a pretty big hunch that readers, colleagues report simafter the pandemic is over and ilar pleasant experiences. becomes just a painful part of our history that we will all find One of our leading community a pleasant new phenomenon members, Arie DeJong, has has developed as a direct result long suggested a covered pedestrian mall that runs the of the pandemic. length of Grand Avenue from, say, Centre City Parkway to “Al Fresco” dining.

Juniper.

The city of Escondido made a Were such a feature to become

Restaurateurs would embrace the idea because it would greatly increase their seating capacity and their revenues; perhaps enough to help them recover from the losses they incurred during the two lockdowns.

The patrons would love it because they would continue to enjoy fine, quality food in a cozy outdoor setting.

The city Finance Department and the City Council would likely embrace the idea because sales tax revenue would go up and up and up.

Funds that were depleted due to the pandemic would now be replenished and augmented.

What’s that old song say? . .

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life . .”

•••• Found a great new eatery in Escondido, Sunnyside Kitchen, 155 S. Orange St., Escondido, Open M-Saturday, 6:30am to 2:30pm. Just super nice people, Bob and Kate Carpenter (his child bride).

More about them next week.

You’re gonna love ‘em!

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grew up in Delaware County and graduated from Haverford High School. At the age of 15, he was shot while attempting to rob a candy store and was sent to the State Youth Facility in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg for eighteen months. On his release in 1964, he did not attempt to live a normal life; rather, he took deliberate steps to continue with a life of crime and to become extremely proficient at his craft. Ray Carr believed that this decision was, likely, the result of a misunderstanding. Carr stated, "Gugasian didn’t know that juvenile records get expunged. As a convicted felon he thought he’d never be able to get a real job.” Others though question that motive because a person with Carl’s intellect would investigate that assumption. Also, later, after Villanova, he had been accepted and served in the U.S. military despite the juvenile conviction.

Gugasian’s education is more than just a little impressive, it emphasizes his superior intellect. In 1971, he was studying for a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Villanova University when he enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Following graduation, he served in the US Army at Fort Bragg and received specialforces and tactical weapons training. He later returned to college, earning a Master's degree in systems analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by doctoral work in statistics and probability at Pennsylvania State University. While still in college he began to plan out mock robberies; he planned eight bank robberies in detail, but hesitated until eventually committing his first in North Carolina in 1973, using a stolen car for his getaway.

Carr’s profile of “Friday Freddy” stated that he would be in his 40s or maybe even his 50s. Ray also believed the robber would be a fitness fanatic as well as having had military training. He would probably be a loner and would live a relatively mysterious life. He is someone who would not talk with anyone about his personal life. Given the robber’s athletic flair during the heists, Carr stated, "that he had never encountered anything like this person before in his career, and that Gugasian’s expertise at his craft was overwhelming.” The public most often associates a task force like this one with hunting for serial killers. Carr said there were serial perpetrators in every type of criminal conduct. This same task force, for example, assisted Philadelphia police by developing a profile of the Center City rapist, who was arrested later in 2002 and admitted attacking 14 women in Pennsylvania and Colorado. He also committed the fatal 1998 assault on Shannon Schieber, 23, a student at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

But when FBI and police went to Gugasian's apartment, the landlord

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said he had moved shortly after April 1, 2001 the day of the two teens' discovery. This was more than just a coincidence and Carr thought Gugasian must have discovered the empty bunkers.

"We knew it: CIA, right?" the landlord said triumphantly.

"No, he's not CIA," Carr replied.

"What made you say that?"

"Then he's got to be in the witness protection program," said the landlord.

“No,” Carr said.

"Well," said the landlord, "he's really weird."

Gugasian, the landlord explained, was a loner who would go running in street clothes and with a full backpack. Carr left the Radnor apartment sure of his theory. "I know that it's him," he thought. In late summer of 2001 agents found Gugasian's new apartment in Plymouth Meeting, PA. They began watching him and planning the arrest.

And then, on Sept. 11, 2001, alQaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners and crashed them in New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Throughout the Northeast, FBI agents such as Carr were immediately sent to the crash sites. Vacations were canceled, and most agents were away from home, working up to 18 hours, seven days a week. Because of the severity of these events Carl Gugasian, the Friday Night Bank Robber moved into the background, and Carr and the task force did not return to the case until January 2002.

On Jan. 28, Carr said, he got a call from the FBI's Fort Washington office. A bank had been robbed the previous Friday night, and it seemed like Gugasian was the culprit. This all fit with “Friday Freddy’s” pattern of hitting only between October and April when gloves and heavy clothing would be normal attire. Carr, though, worried that Gugasian would hit again and recalled that on two separate occasions he had shot someone in his robberies. “Friday Freddy” shot and wounded two people, one in 1992 and the other in 1994.

Worrying that the statute of limitations might expire on some of the robberies, Carr said, the task force decided to arrest Gugasian before March. The next Monday, February 4, 2002, Carr got a call from the FBI office in Harrisburg: “We had a bank robbery up here, and we believe it was Gugasian,” stated the agent. The task force convened again and decided to arrest Gugasian as soon as possible to avoid anyone else being injured.

Because of the numerous guns recovered from the bunkers and Gugasian's special-forces and martial-arts training, a SWAT team was assembled and followed Gugasian on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002, as he left his apartment and drove to Center City.

Gugasian was arrested that same

September 10, 2020 morning, as he arrived at the Philadelphia Free Library, where for years he had been poring over topographical maps while planning his jobs. Gugasian parked in front of the Philadelphia Free Library off Logan Circle. The car was immediately surrounded before Gugasian could even get the car door open.

During interrogation he claimed to work as a gambler and business consultant. He drove junkers but had $500,000 in the bank. Only later, Carr said, did he learn that Gugasian researched robberies at the Free Library, where he photocopied the detailed topographic maps, he used to plan surveillance and escape routes. To say the least Gugasian was stunned by the sudden "takedown," Carr's team reported. But true to Gugasian's specialforces training, he adapted. "He was not cooperative; he was somewhat combative," Carr remembered.Carr and his associates began working closely with prosecutor Wright to prepare the case for indictment and trial. The evidence collected from Gugasian's home and various bunkers was overwhelming, and Wright decided to bring in a "second chair" prosecutor. That evidence included 54 fingerprints from the various bunkers.

Wright made use of a Justice Department staff "loan" program and tapped a 12-year veteran of Justice's antitrust division in Philadelphia. Bradford L. Geyer had already been helping prosecute gun and drug cases in the "Project Safe Neighborhoods" program. But now he found himself rigidly attached to "the case of a lifetime."

Carl Gugasian aka Friday Night Freddy

Gugasian continued to give up nothing. His financial affidavit filed in federal court said he was a selfemployed statistical consultant who earned about $7,000 a month. His assets included a $2,000 car, a $1,000 van, and two bank accounts totaling $500,000. His tax returns listed his source of income as gambling. As 2002 ran out, Wright said, "we fully expected him to go to trial." But on Feb. 10, 2003, with a panel of prospective jurors ready, Gugasian went before Judge Anita B. Brody and pleaded guilty. He had been convinced by his family two brothers; his 79-year-old Armenian-born mother, Sanassan Gugasian; and his girlfriend, Carol Miller, whom he met in a ballroomdancing class - with changing his mind. None of them had known about Gugasian's secret life. His mother, Miller, and brother George were present at sentencing to provide emotional support. The man who had terrorized victims for 28

years seemed to shrink when faced with the condemnation of those he loved.

On Dec. 9, 2003, Gugasian was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brody to a 17-year term in Fort Dix, NJ federal prison, some forty miles from home. Gugasian's extensive cooperation after his arrest resulted in his initial 115-year sentence being reduced to seventeen years.

In prison he happily taught mathematics including calculus to other inmates. It was a sentence carefully put together by prosecutors and Gugasian's attorneys to acknowledge his value to the FBI and to offer him some hope of avoiding what otherwise would have been life behind bars. The story of Gugasian's arrest and prosecution was, the judge noted, the culmination of "excellent police work" by the FBI and state and local police. It was also the result of an unusual friendship that developed between the hunter and the hunted. In a way it was like Frank Abignale and Joseph Shea the actual people behind the two main characters in the movie “Catch Me If You Can.”

The week after he was sentenced, Gugasian began his new career as an incarcerated "consultant" to the FBI, a role Carr helped him get. He was interviewed on videotape for a training film on bank robbing techniques that the bureau distributed nationally to police academies and law-enforcement schools.

Gugasian had already helped the FBI's profiler unit in his own case and had led agents to 27 of his bunkers throughout Pennsylvania, where he hid clothing, rations, scent block which he also wore during robberies, weapons and detailed bank surveillance notes.

Carl Gugasian would not, however, admit to a 1981 Fulton Bank robbery. The robber shot a responding Susquehanna Township police officer named Sgt. Robert “Bo” McCallister. Sgt. McCallister did not die because of the gunshot wound, but rather he returned to work and later retired as a lieutenant. He did, however, die years later and a forensic pathologist determined the gunshots from the bank robbery ultimately caused his death and it was ruled as a homicide. "A normal man would have walked away from this profession," said Susquehanna Township Police Chief Martin. "And if I leave you with anything when I referenced his strength of will to battle back to continue to his retirement. That is an absolute tribute to who he was and the heart of his service.”

“Under the law in Pennsylvania, it doesn't matter that it was 1981 when that wound was inflicted," said Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo. "The person

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who committed that crime must be brought to justice." Gugasian may well have known that admitting to this crime was virtually a life sentence. Although he did admit willingly to the two robberies where he shot someone one of which was totally by accident.

At the sentencing hearing several victims spoke directly to Carl Gugasian. "I hope you enjoy the next 17 years in prison," Dawn Bressler, manager of a PNC Bank branch in Lima, Delaware County, told Gugasian.

"I hope you have nightmares just like I do." Kathleen Mohan, who was a teller at the PNC bank when Gugasian robbed it of $26,004 on Jan. 24, 1997, recalled his grotesque Freddy Krueger mask and his frightening voice as he waved a gun and screamed at her. "The fear I now live with is something I'll never get rid of," she said.

Gugasian, dressed in his olive-green prison jumpsuit, had written the judge a letter of apology that he planned to read aloud as part of his atonement. But after listening to the victims' emotional testimony, Gugasian appeared overcome with emotion. After the sentencing, Carr consoled the victims and then walked over to Gugasian, smiled, and clapped him on the shoulder.

“Friday Freddy” smiled weakly.

Defense attorney Magargee told Brody at the hearing that Carr "deserves the court's praise" for the turnabout because he "treated Mr. Gugasian and his family throughout this with respect and dignity. He did things here that are not typical of the adversarial relationship that we have with law enforcement many times." Geyer said Carr has "amazing compassion and rapport with crime victims - and the criminals he interrogates: The guilty plea – I think Carl Gugasian could not have gotten over that hurdle but for the respect he received from Ray Carr."

In fact, the loner and professional criminal, who had spent days in the woods in camouflage clothing surveilling banks and making detailed notes, found a friend in the agent who arrested him. Carr acknowledged the bond that had developed between him and Gugasian “He's a very sincere person," Carr said. “We still talk about once a month or so.

"He's really not a bad guy for a serial bank robber. Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - they were ruthless people."

Carl Gugasian at the time of his arrest was 51, and when sentenced he was 52 years old. But despite a sentence that for most middle-aged men might seem like a life term, those who knew Gugasian had few doubts that he would see freedom again. To put his criminal activities into perspective: from 1932 – 1934

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Wife: How many women have you slept with?

Husband: Only you, m'dear. With all the others I was awake.

(Hospital visiting hours are 10am to 4pm) •••• If you ever feel a little bit stupid, just dig this up and read it again; you'll begin to think you're a genius.. , (On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

--Mariah Carey , "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," --Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. , "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC . , "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," --A congressional candidate in Texas ..

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark , "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.."

--Al Gore, Vice President "I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix .."

-- Dan Quayle

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

--Lee Iacocca

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The 2019 – 2020 Session is History

The 2019-2020 legislative session ended on August 31. During this two-year period, 5,423 bills of all types were introduced. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we had two unexpected shutdowns, and in the last weeks some members were absent and Senators were forced to vote remotely. At one point, there was an unsuccessful attempt to limit Senate debate to save time. In a normal year, the fate of much important legislation is often decided during the final few days, but this year was even more hectic.

Even so, two of my bills passed right at the end. AB 1304 supports successful reentry for those returning home from prison by helping to break the cycle of substance use and recidivism, save lives and provide a significant return on investment. SB 855, a bill that I coauthored, updates California’s 21year old Mental Health Parity Act to increase access to treatment by requiring insurers to cover medically necessary services. Both bills passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Other legislation was directed at stimulating our ailing economy. An attempt to repeal AB 5 failed. This

is the bill that limits independent contractors work. But two bills that modify its disastrous economic impact passed. One extends the sunset on exemptions for newspaper distributors and creates other preferences for local news organizations, and another attempts to fix some administrative issues and add additional exemptions. We also approved tax credits for small businesses that hire new employees.

The legislation targets employers with less than 100 workers and that suffered a 50% loss of income during the pandemic. And finally, we’ve asked the Governor to call a special session to deal more thoroughly with the state’s economic problems.

The shutdowns, COVID, and the ongoing economic crisis, and what’s shaping up to be a severe wildfire season, will make 2020 a year we remember.

Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, 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

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Let’s start with the good news. Your continued pressure has been felt in Sacramento and some businesses are able to reopen, at least partially. I’ve talked to many of you who didn’t know if your business would be able to survive any more shutdowns. I know those in the hair, and nail salon industry go through extensive safety training in order to receive required State licenses and I’m glad to see that they are able to open at full capacity, with appropriate safety measures.

Now, the bad news. While certain businesses were able to open, many others continue to be limited or closed. The announcement by the Governor is not enough. The state continues to move and change targets, and in-doing so choses winners and losers. We’ve heard, for too long now, essential versus non-essential. While the Governor may not consider certain people and their lines of work to be essential, putting food on families’ tables is essential, paying rent or mortgage is essential and trying to making a living is essential. Safely and responsibly opening our economy to get people to work is essential.

While some businesses benefit from the latest announcement, many others continue to be limited and are struggling to keep their doors open.

Businesses have come up with plans to safely reopen and proven their willingness to reopen in a safe manner for employees and customers. I’m glad to see progress, but let’s continue to push for more local control and get all San Diegans back to work!

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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John Dillinger robbed 24 banks, facilitated a prison break from Michigan City State Prison, and broke into 4 police stations, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow robbed 19 banks from 1931 – 1934. Carl Gugasian in 30 years robbed some 50 banks taking $2,000,000 from those robberies, which was calculated to be almost $40,000,000 in 2020 dollars. Linwood Wright Jr., a federal prosecutor, told reporters that Gugasian "may well be the most prolific bank robber this nation has ever known. Willie Sutton still gets the bank-robbery ink, 60 years after his last stickup, but he was no Carl Gugasian.”

Carl Gugasian was released from the federal prison at Fort Dix, NJ on May 5, 2017 at the age of 69 years old.

He remained in Pennsylvania to be near his family.

His friendship with Ray Carr lasted throughout his incarceration and continued after his release.

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"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

"We don't necessarily discriminate.

We simply exclude certain types of people."

-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 2020 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."

--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Ca "Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."

--Keppel Enderbery

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."

-- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman •••• FLASH: Rioting and Looting Spreads to Sun City

The rioting in major cities across the U.S. has spread to Sun City, a retirement community in Maricopa Co, AZ. Looters from Sun City have broken into the CVS store, just outside of Sun City, that sell items like laxatives, vitamins, adult diapers, hearing aids, reading glasses, energy drinks and surgical stockings.

The thugs were easily caught and arrested since they were using their walkers and golf carts to flee.

The protests have been limited to the evening hours because most of the lawbreakers either had doctor’s appointments during the day or rioting would have interfered with their naps.

The marches didn’t last that long because many of the demonstrators had to get home to pee. In many cases, the demonstrators simply forgot why they were even there.

Officials considered a curfew starting at 9 p.m. but since that’s the time when most of the residents go to bed anyway, it was decided that it wasn’t needed.

Community leaders concluded that part of the problem was that residents were restless because they had too much time on their hands since the recreation centers, pools, theaters, boutique stores and especially the bars were closed due to the coronavirus.

Community officials wanted to form a committee to look further

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Historically Speaking

by Tom Morrow

The Many Cruises of the ‘USS Bonhomme Richard’

A weird, but historic name for a United States Naval vessel is “The Bonhomme Richard.” Five ships of the USS Navy line were designated to be named “Bonhomme Richard,” translated in French: "Good Man Richard." The name is in reference to American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, who wrote and published Poor Richard's Almanack in the early days of the Revolution. Founder of the Navy, Capt. John Paul Jones, named the first Bonhomme Richard in honor of Franklin, who had persuaded the French king to give the new ship to our fledgling nation. The actual first ship of the Navy was “The Ranger,” but Jones lost her during an early battle to the British. It was aboard that ship when Jones yelled to the British captain: “I have not yet begun to fight!”

USS Bonhomme Richard

The first Bonhomme Richard was put into service by Jones in 1779, then 85 years later, in 1864, the second Bon Homme Richard was to be constructed at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, but was canceled at the end of the Civil War.

In 1937, the to-be named USS Bonhomme Richard (CV-5) was the first aircraft carrier. Despite the damage suffered during an earlier battle in late May 1942, Yorktown (CV-5) was able to return to Pearl Harbor for repairs. Although estimates were the damage would take two weeks to repair, Yorktown put to sea only 48 hours after entering drydock and was available for the pivotal Battle of Midway. Yorktown's aircraft played crucial roles in sinking two Japanese fleet carriers. Yorktown also absorbed both Japanese aerial counterattacks at Midway which otherwise would have been directed at the carriers USS Enterprise and Hornet. On June 4 during the Battle of Midway, Japanese aircraft crippled the Yorktown. She lost all power and developed a 23-degree list to port. Salvage efforts on Yorktown were encouraging, and she was taken in tow by USS Vireo. In the late afternoon of June 6, a salvo of torpedoes, two struck Yorktown, and a third sunk the destroyer USS Hammann which had been providing auxiliary power. With further salvage efforts deemed hopeless, the remaining repair crews were evacuated from Yorktown, which sank on the morning

of June 7. In May 1998, the wreck of Yorktown (CV-5) was located by famed marine archeologist Robert Ballard, who earlier had found the HMS Titanic in the Atlantic.

In honor of the Yorktown lost at Midway, prior to its launch, the newest Bonhomme Richard again lost the name, and at launch was christened “Yorktown” (CV-10). During WWII, together with the carrier USS Lexington, the Yorktown (CV-10) successfully attacked Japanese shipping off the east coast of New Guinea in early March 1942. Her aircraft sunk or damaged several warships supporting the invasion of Tulagi in early May. Yorktown rendezvoused with Lexington and attempted to stop the invasion of Port Moresby, New Guinea. They sank the Japanese light aircraft carrier Shoho on May 7, 1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, but did not encounter the main Japanese force of the Japanese carriers until the next day. Aircraft from Lexington and Yorktown badly damaged a Japanese aircraft carrier.

During the War, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, was the first Navy ship to keep the name since the Revolutionary War. It saw action at the end of World War II, during the Korean War, and throughout the Vietnam War. Decommissioned shortly after the end of World War II, The Bonhomme Richard CV-31, one of 24 carriers built during the War, was modernized and recommissioned in February 1953, as an attack carrier (CVA), and served with distinction. The ship was later modernized again with a slanted deck, eventually becoming an antisubmarine carrier (CVS) and served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War. Later, the carrier served as a recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, and was used in the film “Tora! Tora! Tora!” which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and in the science fiction film “The Philadelphia Experiment.”

Although the Navy’s upper echelon dislikes the moniker, the crews of the two Bonhomme Richards affectionally referred to their ship as “The Bonnie Dick.” Today, the latest USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), is a San Diego-based Wasp-class amphibious assault ship recently severely damaged by fire. The Navy presently is contemplating whether or not to restore her to service or scuttle.

The USS Yorktown (CV-10) was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where she was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Although the “Bonhomme Richard” has taken a backseat name-wise to three ships, today’s ship (maybe) will continue flying the colors of the nation.

As a post-script, when in Annapolis, Md., stop by the U.S. Naval Academy and visit John Paul Jones’ tomb, an impressive monument to the first Bonhomme Richard's captain.

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into the problem, but the next day no one could remember why they needed a committee.

Better than a Flu Shot!

Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was admired for her sweetness and kindness to all.

One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room.

She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea.

As he sat facing her old Hammond organ, the young minister noticed a cut glass bowl sitting on top of it.

The bowl was filled with water, and in the water floated of all things, a condom!

When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he could no longer resist.

'Miss Beatrice', he said, 'I wonder if you would tell me about this? pointing to the bowl.

'Oh, yes,' she replied, 'Isn't it wonderful?

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I was walking through the park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease. Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter?

•••• A writing instructor told his class to write a short story involving "Religion, Sex, and Mystery." One young lady handed in the following: Good God, I'm pregnant! I wonder who did it?"

•••• An Atheist Called Dr. Ben Carson a "Moron" for Believing in God...

Carson shut him down with one brilliant line! Dr. Ben Carson responded with one brilliant line that put the atheist in his place. “I believe I came from God, and you believe you came from a monkey,” he told the individual, “and you’ve convinced me you’re right.”

•••• Went to the doctor the other day.

He asked me if I wasn't a bit of a carouser.

"Well, doc," says me, "I believe the meaning in life is wine, women and song".

"Well, Lyle," he said, "the good news is you can sing all you want".

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Villa Sierra Road, and the horror movie "Alienoids of Fright Island" (1986). In 2001, scenes for a remake of "The Invisible Man" were filmed at a 300-acre paintball field on Lake Wohlford Road. And then there was "Frankenstein Island," (1981) which many film critics say may be the "worst movie ever made."

Finally, the late actress June Allyson once told the local Historical Society that scenes from the MGM comedy, "Reformer and the Redhead," (1950) were filmed at the Spanish Colonial home on Cole Grade Road she shared with husband and fellow actor Dick Powell. Back in Hollywood, said Allyson, the scenes from Valley Center wound up on the cutting room floor and were reshot at the studio.

Daughters of the American Revolution Reminder - The Santa Margarita Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), reminds us to remember the United States Constitution, the week of September 17-23. Public Law 91, instituted at the request of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The rule of law, under which this country abides, came into being 233 years ago and has had only twenty-seven amendments to it during that time. We invite

you, also, to join the nation at 1pm on September 17th by ringing bells in celebration. Imagine the joyful noise across this great land if everyone would participate in this celebration. Let's remember our military personnel stationed throughout the world, serving under the Stars and Stripes and this Constitution, not only during that week, but every hour of every day. May God, however you define Him, bless America!

On Thursday, September 17, The Elizabeth Hospice is hosting "Heart & Soul," a virtual event benefiting their Children's Bereavement Program. Eve Selis, award-winning artist, will perform several songs from her latest album, "See Me With Your Heart", and you'll hear from a few of the thousands of children in the community whose lives have been touched by our grief support services. This will be a live broadcast from 6pm-7pm.

The event is free and everyone is welcome. By attending, you will be entered to win a basket of Outstanding wines, rated 90+ points

by Robert Parker of the Wine Advocate. You can make your evening even more special by letting Vintana Wine + Dine do the cooking. For $150 per person, a 3course California cuisine dinner, plus wine, will be delivered to your home. Please join us at Heart & Soul to show your support for our

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community's children and to learn more about the life-changing services available from The Elizabeth Hospice. The Elizabeth Hospice, a 501(c)-3 nonprofit, provides medical, emotional and spiritual support to children and adults facing the challenges associated with a lifethreatening illness, and restores hope to those who are feeling lost and alone. RSVP Today - For more information, call 760.796.3708 or email philanthropy@ehospice.org.

Just one sweet story to share: When his baby brother died, Caeleb felt alone. His mom enrolled him in the Children's Bereavement Program from The Elizabeth Hospice where he attends a support group with children his age who have also lost a loved one. He enjoys being part of a community of kids with similar life experiences. "Group is really safe and a nice place where I can tell stories about my brother," said 8-year-old Caeleb. (Photo below)

City of Carlsbad Citizens of the Year Honored - Longtime Carlsbad volunteers Tina Schmidt and Don Whisnant have been named Carlsbad Citizens of the Year for 2019. The annual award recognizes community members who have dedicated themselves to improving Carlsbad through outstanding service. The Citizen of the Year program is more than 40 years old and honors community members who have given their time and energy toward the civic improvement, beautification and betterment of the City of Carlsbad.

Tina Schmidt - Tina's volunteer work is so extensive that it is conceivable she has greeted ever Carlsbad resident at least once.

After retiring and moving from Chicago to Carlsbad in 1992, Tina worked part time with the Carlsbad Police Department Juvenile Justice Program, which introduced her to many people and served as a springboard to volunteer work. She also joined the League of Women Voters, serving as a volunteer observer at Carlsbad City Council meetings, which provided new contacts and even more volunteer opportunities.

Throughout the years her volunteer resume has expanded, focusing chiefly on the arts. "I'm from an arts family that was very involved in music, and I married a wonderful husband who was a music histori-

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an" she said. Tina and her late husband, Tony, dedicated many hours volunteering at the nonprofit Museum of Making Music, helping open it to the public 20 years ago.

"It took us about 18 months of training as a docent before opening the museum," she said. Between her city contacts and love of music, Tina was a natural choice for the City of Carlsbad Arts Commission, which she was appointed to ten years ago. The commission is a seven-member panel that supports the arts and oversees the arts portion of the city's general plan. Tina played an active role in drafting the city's Arts & Culture Master Plan by encouraging residents to contribute their ideas to the final document.

She is also active in and a former board member of Friends of the Arts, a nonprofit group that strives to make the arts and integral part of life in Carlsbad. Friends of the Arts is a major sponsor and fund raiser for the City of Carlsbad's TGIF Concerts in the Park, a summer series of open-air concerts. She also served on the board of the Quail Botanical Garden before it became San Diego Botanic Garden.

While volunteering with the Carlsbad Historical Society, she used her newly found gardening knowledge to help replant the garden at historic Magee House with native plants. "I made some wonderful friends there that I still know." she said.

Tina is a regular volunteer at the bookstore at Carlsbad City Library on Dove Lane, where she works five or six evenings a month. The bookstore is operated by the Friends of the Library, a nonprofit group that raises funds to support Carlsbad Library programs. She confessed that working the bookstore is one of her favorite gigs.

"It's the only thing I volunteer doing that I don't have to prepare for," Tina quipped. The only requirement is to show up and greet people. "It's a delight," she said. "My partner at the bookstore thinks that I know almost everybody in Carlsbad because there's so many people that I know through all my volunteering," she said. Her partner might be right.

Tina said community service enriches her life in so many ways that she will likely never give it up.

"I love to help other people expand their knowledge and skills," she said. "And I just want to keep learning and connecting with others."

Don Whisnant - Don Whisnant's life in public service began with a little fib. He told a Marine Corps recruiter in 1953 that he was old enough to enlist when actually he was only 15 years old. Soon he was enrolled in communications and

electronics school and trained as a radar technician serving various Marine Corps squadrons. When he finally confessed to his real age he was too valuable to let go, and through his 22-year career he worked his way into the design and development of intelligence-related systems. He retired as a decorated Marine Corps major in 1975 and carried his engineering skill into the private sector, where he continued to develop intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

When Don retired from his defense industry job in 2008, he and his wife, Pam, had no specific destination in mind, except that they wanted to live near the ocean. Carlsbad seemed a natural choice, and they moved here.

Not one to sit still, Don sought something to do in his new home and attended the City of Carlsbad's Citizen Academy, which introduces residents to city government operations. He was immediately drawn to CERT - the Community Emergency Response Team - a team of volunteers who assist first responders during such large-scale emergencies as earthquakes and wildfires, and signed up. CERT volunteers are trained in such important skills as first aid and light search and rescue, and are allied with the Carlsbad Fire Department.

They are activated by the City's Emergency Preparedness Manager if they are needed.

After about three years Don shifted from CERT to another safety-related grou7p, the Senior Volunteer Patrol. The Volunteer Patrol assists the Carlsbad Police Department in many ways, such as by assisting at traffic accidents and other incidents.

Don said one of the patrol's vital services is YANA or You Are Not Alone, which checks on the welfare of senior citizens. Senior Volunteer Patrol members call each person on the YANA list every morning to say hello and make sure they are okay.

If they don't get an answer after repeated calls, they drive to the person's house and knock on the door.

If they still don't get an answer they call a police officer to do a further check. Patrol volunteers also visit each YANA member at their home once a week. "It's a great program," Don said. "When I was there we had 30 to 35 members in YANA who we called every day."

Don rose to become the Senior Volunteer Patrol's first captain, making him responsible for scheduling, assigning patrols and coordinating with the Police Department.

Don also volunteers for the Rancho Coastal Humane Society Thrift Shop, making sure that donated electronic gadgets and appliances work properly. His wife is volunteer coordinator.

Asked why he is so dedicated to helping people, Don was modest, saying that sitting makes him "antsy." "I'm the type of person that has to do something," he said. He recently retired from all his volunteer activities, except the Humane Society. "I wonder how long tht going to last until I get antsy

again," he said. If he does, the City of Carlsbad has a volunteer assignment waiting for him. "I'm so happy we wound up in Carlsbad," Don said. "It's a wonderful, wonderful community."

2020 Lifeline Awards Event on Thursday, September 17th - At North County Lifeline we pride ourselves on being adaptive to the needs of the communities we serve, and find ourselves in a continual state of "construction". Since the first stay at home orders were announced back in March, COVID19 has taught us to seize the great moments as they come. We were disappointed when we had to cancel our spring Volunteer awards, but now we are delighted to combine that event with our annual Community Impact Awards for a special 2020 Lifeline Awards event.

This year's theme is "Under Construction: Building Communities Since 1973.� The past 6 months have been challenging for us all, but our volunteers, interns, and community partners have rallied around us to ensure that North County Lifeline's services are unaffected.

We will be online for this event, but our larger than life emcee, Mark Mullen, from NBC 7 San Diego, special guest speakers, and host of amazing honorees will be there to celebrate all that is North County Lifeline. Join us on Thursday, September 17th at 10:45am for this special event.

Contact North County Lifeline at 3142 Vista Way, Suite 400, Oceanside, CA 92056, to register.

Donate to Our Back 2 School Program - The Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside is asking for donations of school supplies to ensure their kids have the resources they need to succeed. Due to the pandemic, sharing school supplies is no longer possible. Donate to their Back 2 School Program today.

Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside is located at 401 Country Club Lane, Oceanside, 92054. Also, a notice that per CDC recommendations, the upcoming Annual Cornhole Tournament has been postponed to 2021 - date TBD. You have more time to practice. We care about you and your loved ones, so please follow all CDC and Public Health recommendations.

Supporting Our Students' SocialEmotional Needs During the Pandemic - The Carlsbad Educational Foundation invites you to join an important conversation with a panel of experts discussing challenges related to the pandemic and exploring opportunities to support students in the Carlsbad Unified School District (CUSD).

This panel webinar, hosted by the Educational Foundation on Thursday, September 10th, from 6pm to 7pm, will offer resources to help students, families, and teachers create healthy environments during these unprecedented times. The Foundation is presenting this panel webinar as part of its

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a White Jesus are being toppled and vandalized, and so many other examples the cover story mentions of political correction gone berserk.

All our neighbors, family, and friends said the same thing: "WAKE UP AMERICA!" This cover story in The Paper, seriously, should be required reading for everyone, especially in our schools and colleges.

We've already mailed out several copies of this Political Correctness cover story to friends outside of California. Friedrich has online readers as far away as New York and even parts of Europe. Do you ever wonder why? Because he gives a voice to many Americans and others who don't have a forum to express themselves. He writes brilliantly on every topic. And he makes us laugh when the world needs to. His "You Could Be Jewish" cover story made me spit out my food because I laughed so damned hard (the same as someone else in their Letter to the Editor)!

God bless Friedrich Gomez and God bless The Paper for having the courage to publish a cover story like this. Long overdue. One more thing, your forum of four North San Diego County mayors, and revolving pastors are great! The pastors always have something uplifting and inspiring which we all need.

And Tom Morrow is great! Spoke to Friedrich once and he said Tom Morrow was his inspiration to be a good writer! Wow! Semper Fi. -- From the big Patrick Flannigan Irish Clan, friends, and extended family all over North San Diego County.

To the Editor/publisher of The Paper, Mr. Lyle Davis.

Bravo! For publishing the "Political Correctness" cover story

by Friedrich Gomez. Our family actually read it out loud and our family and friends all applauded

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when we finished reading it. It doesn't matter what political party you belong to, the radical PC changes in terms like "Illegal Aliens" or attacking the churches and even the Christian statues of Jesus are ridiculous abuses of our freedom and the physical violence and destruction is deplorable! The scariest part is how easily these changes are happening and how large segments of our cultural society have "given in" so quickly to ridiculous changes.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that this is happening around the world! It's like a bad dream and we just can't wake up. I'm all for equality and justice for all, but destroying religious statues and burning churches? This is not the country we brought our children up in. Our kids are confused and asking questions that we're unable to give reasonable answers to.

We took copies of The Paper to our neighbors and friends and they had already read it and we're rejoicing that your cover story brought this to our attention.

Every cover story Mr. Gomez writes is fascinating and needs to be read! I'm proud of The Paper and Mr. Gomez for this cover story.

And Mr. Gomez's closing statements of our country and how he personally feels brought tears to our eyes. Keep up the great work.

The Paper is a wonderful forum and freedom of speech over political incorrectness. There are a lot more of us out here that are rejoicing over this cover story, including at our workplace where coworkers are very proud of you, Mr. Davis. for founding this amazing publication of yours. We support you and pray that you don't let radical, absurd political correctness pressure you, like they have with many big companies, into a submissive,

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Comment from Friedrich:

OMG! Mrs. Tilbbets’ Letter to the Editor about me! Embarrassing, but funny! I must've been on a "sugar high" as I love Coca-Cola slurpees from 7-Eleven! Anyway, I gotta watch how I behave out in public from here-on-out, LOL. And yes I wore Invisalign braces on my teeth for over 3 years, from my amazing dentist Kenneth Berrin, in Poway. I wore them the first two years while working at Walmart (I still have to wear a "retainer" at bedtime).

The shock of reading this in Letters to the Editor now makes me wonder “what's next?"

Mrs. Tibbets was, and is, one of the nicest customers I ever met while being a Walmart cashier. /s/ Friedrich Gomez

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Thank you for printing Friedrich

Why We’ll Be Outdoors for Awhile

With regulations loosening up, it’s now possible for churches to meet indoors again.

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I'm so sick and tired of it all! My granddaughter had to try and explain her "White Privilege" the other day and I said she doesn't have to explain or apologize to anyone about being white! This has got to stop! And when did this "White Privilege" label start and why are we having to apologize and explain our existence? I refuse to answer to anyone.

My husband, friends, neighbors and relatives are all wondering just what our country is going to look like in 20 years, 50 years, 100 years from now. God has already been kicked out of our schools, and now our freedom will be next. Our freedom of speech. Our freedom of worship. We'll all be another Communist country and by then, it'll be too damned late to go back and change things!

I'm very proud of Friedrich Gomez and how he has the guts and honesty and cares enough about this country to print the facts! I'm keeping copies of The Paper in my purse and the next time my daughter or any of us are confronted and asked to explain our "White Privilege" I'm going to shove a copy of this story in their face and say, "Here read this! And maybe

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about singing outdoors. Truly, every person in our parking lot has a smile on their face on Sunday mornings! I never anticipated this, but there is a kind of supernatural joy in this outdoor experience. Couple that with a wholesome simpleness about just being together, and it feels like family.

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Gomez's story on this crazy political correctness movement and protest extremist and the crazy violence everywhere!

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At least for awhile, New Song will be staying outside. Here’s why.

1. More options. With our Parking Lot Services, people have choices. Some bring their chair to our seating area and experience “being together,” while socially distanced. Others sit next to their vehicle and hold a family tailgate party.

Still others feel safer staying inside their car. Our sound system includes an FM radio broadcast, so all three options provide great sound and sight lines. It’s literally “something for everybody.”

2. Safety. Covid doesn’t survive well in sunlight or fresh air. Couple that with plenty of space between worshipers, and our Parking Lot Services are safer than the grocery store. By far.

3. Pure joy. There is something special

4. Indoor worship is restricted.

Outdoors, once you’re in our designated space or seating area, you can take your mask off and sing without hesitation.

Indoors spaces still require masks, and I can’t imagine singing with a mask on.

Outdoors, there are no fears of infection. I’m confident no one who worships with me in the parking lot can get infected by what we’re doing.

At some point soon we may offer an indoor option as well, but for now, everyone is basking in what God is doing in our parking lot.

Join us, if you’d like. I’ll guarantee you’ll leave with a smile on your face.

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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 Are you prepared for an emergency?

Disasters don’t wait. That’s why it’s a good idea to get prepared in advance of a crisis. San Marcos prepares for emergencies through regular trainings and emergency exercises, and needs residents, businesses, schools and other community organizations to do their part to be prepared.

Establish an emergency plan Be proactive and put an emergency plan in place for you and your family before you need it.

• How will we get emergency alerts and warnings?

• How will we get to safe locations during an emergency and let loved ones know we are safe?

• How will we get in touch if cell phones, internet or landlines don’t work?

• How will we get to our meeting place after the emergency?

Prepare an emergency supply kit In the event of an emergency, you may be without immediate help for up to 72 hours.

Prepare emergency supply kits for your home, office and vehicle in the event you are unable to get help immediately and need to be self-sufficient.

For more information, please visit the State of California’s Emergency Preparedness campaign at listoscalifornia.com and our website at san-marcos.net and to learn more about preparing for the unexpected.

Escondido • Mayor Paul “Mac” McNamara Greetings Escondido,

Today (9/11) is one of those days that everyone remembers where they were at when they heard the news.

I was a Colonel in the Marine Corps and it was 6AM and I was sitting at my desk going through my emails with a small TV with the news playing in the background. I was the Chief of Staff for the First Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton. My boss LtGen (at the time) Hagee hadn’t come in yet and neither had his deputy BGen (at the time) Mattis.

As I watched the horror of the day, I remember thinking how this event was going to change our lives. Well it’s been 19 years, and the impact of that day is still affecting us. Of all the things that have happened since and are worth remembering, I’m going to remember those patriots, both men and women, who gave their lives in the service of others on that day and in the subsequent years. I would ask you to do the same. As sad as it is to lose someone, I still feel a sense of pride in our country and its people when I think of their sacrifice Stay informed, Be Kind, Remember your neighbor, and Stay safe!

Semper Fi, Mac

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you'll learn another opinion besides your own! And I am assuming you CAN read!" Because sometimes rioting and vandalizing can take away from doing your school homework!

From Arlene Ann Tibbets & relatives & friends, Escondido/San Marcos, California.

Biased Government Hearings

Any reasonable person viewing the Democratic House Judiciary Committee Meeting chaired by Jerry Nadler was surely embarrassed by their unethical and unprofessional conduct.

The Democrats had five minutes to harass and attack Attorney General Bill Barr. They were very unprofessional and disrespectful in not allowing Mr. Barr to answer or ask questions.

Politeness and courtesy were lack-

ing in their demonstration Meeting of Hatred for A. G. Barr and our President.

The harsh and curt denial of a request by A. G. Barr for a five minute recess, after a long session summed up the attitude of the attacks.

The Democrats reflected their philosophy of ignoring the Deplorable people (that’s us) views and preventing them from expressing their thoughts.

Democrats seem to be so filled with hate, that reasonable people can’t relate to them and that hearing certainly demonstrated it.

Intelligent and competent people are necessay to work and serve in our government.

Those committee members abusive treatment of a top government offi-

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Vista • Mayor Judy Ritter

Vista Firm Provides Lab Space During Pandem ic Across the globe, biotech companies have had to alter the way research can be conducted onsite due to social distancing rules brought on by Covid-19. While some biotechs have been able to maintain some critical research with a skeleton staff, others have been scrambling to find creative ways to keep their labs going. A premier incubator space in Vista is enabling biotechs to expand their footprint during Covid-19 and beyond. North County is opening its extra lab spaces to life science firms across the region that need extra space for their employees to work safely. Unlike many incubators that have large labs where people share equipment, North County Biotech’s six labs are all individual with dedicated, non-shared equipment, allowing tenants to meet social distancing needs as they conduct research. Having North County Biotech in Vista further cements the City as a life science hot spot. Growing our biotech cluster will bring even more talent to the region and contribute greatly to the quality of life of our community! Kudos to all our businesses stepping up during the pandemic.

Oceanside • Mayor Peter Weiss

The Oceanside Public Library, is proud to present Yōkoso: An Online Celebration of Japanese Culture. From Monday, September 14 to Friday, September 18, 2020, the Oceanside Public Library will implement a week-long Japanese cultural program series called, Yōkoso, or “Welcome!” in Japanese.

Each day the Library will host a Japanese storytime and all-ages special events on Zoom, Instagram, or YouTube.

Special events will include:

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Registration is required. Once registered, participants will receive free kit of materials for the week and links to all programs. To sign up for the week’s events, please visit the Library’s website at www.oceansidepubliclibrary.org or call 760-435-5600. Follow the Library on Instagram and Facebook @oceansidelibrary for updates on Yōkoso and more

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Harry Truman jump started the civil rights movement in 1948 when he integrated America’s armed forces.

From 1948 until the end of the draft in 1973, an entire generation of young men learned that race didn’t matter. In 1954 “Brown V the Board of Education” ended segregation in schools. The Voting Rights Acts of 1957 and 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 lifted racial barriers institutionalizing equal rights, but the real battle for equal treatment was just beginning.

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How did we become racist, sexist, homophobic, bigots?

I was there and remember what racism looked like in mid 20th century America. In almost every town, a river, street or set of railroad tracks separated black from white neighborhoods. It didn’t matter that you were a doctor, teacher, factory worker or field hand. Your skin color dictated where and how you lived. For generations there was little resistance to the status quo. Most white folks knew it was wrong but it was easier to just let it go. Black folks, especially in the South, risked arrest or worse if they challenged it, so most also just let it go. But change was “blowing in the wind”

Many fought integration fearing economic consequences. Home owners, businesses and developers feared that black access would hurt property values or drive white consumers away.

Whatever their motives, that was real racism. Slowly over the years the fears and ignorance that created “racism” dissipated. Vestiges still exist, but there is absolutely no comparison between the race relations and attitudes of today and those in mid 20th century America. The same holds true of attitudes toward the LBGQ community, the place of women in society and acceptance for people of different faiths. America has become by far the most tolerant and least judgmental of all nations. In 1955 no one would have believed we would elect a Catholic president or that a nation with a 15% black population would elect and reelect a black president. In two generations we have seen women rise from virtually no presence in business or politics to head corporations and fill the seats of government.

Millions of Americans blinked back

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tears as Tiger Woods accepted the green jacket at Augusta. It wasn’t because he is black. It was because we recognized his almost super human triumph over personal demons and physical adversity. It was a tribute to perseverance, integrity and the human spirit. When Serena or Venus win a Grand Slam or our women win the World Cup at soccer we don’t celebrate their color or sex. We celebrate because they are part of us.

We all face triumphs and adversity throughout our lives. There is always the temptation to take credit for the wins and find someone or something to blame for the losses. If you are a woman, gay, black, Asian or Hispanic you are not an oppressed minority, you are part the majority. If you are a

white male you are a minority, you just don’t know it because you think about yourself as being Irish, Italian, Southern Baptist, a Raiders fan or from Minnesota. The last thing you identify with is being a white guy.

Today in spite of the obvious evidence to the contrary, there is a movement in our country that seeks to separate us and make us believe we are a deeply flawed society. They have a vision for society that strictly conforms to an odd view of “social justice.” They are the “social justice warriors” whose view of justice is revenge. They are indeed a “minority” even among the communities they claim to represent.

To them we say, America isn’t perfect but it’s moving in the right direction.

Please don’t tear it down before we get there.

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Office of Education; and Scott Schimmel, President and Chief Buy-the-Box Book Sales; every Guide at TheYouSchool.com, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, 602 which partners with school leaders Civic Center Drive. The Friends of to create thriving cultures where all the Oceanside Public Library is holdstudents flourish. ing drive-through book sales on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays Your financial investment through from 9am to 1pm, behind the Civic the Foundation is needed now Center Library. Customers can purmore than ever. The Foundation is chase (using cash only) boxes of adapting its funding priorities to books in various categories including include providing groceries to feed fiction, nonfiction, romance, scia family, school supplies to fi/fantasy, children's, mysteries, biogempower a student, and childcare raphies, cookbooks, and more. No for a working, single parent facing special requests or browsing. financial hardships. Your investment will also help ensure many Reveal Your Inner Picasso Paint critical curriculum-based programs Sessions, September 12th, Bliss Tea in Music, STEAM, and Innovation and Treats. Bliss Tea is hosting two are provided and adapted to align Reveal Your Inner Picasso paint seswith the CUSD's learning models. sions next Saturday, Join the For more information about these 40+ programs, visit www.CarlsbadEd.org.

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cial would discourage any reasonable person from serving our country and taking such personal abuse. /s/ Fran and Neal Hook Escondido, CA.

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Yokoso: An Online Celebration of Japanese Culture, September 14-18, Online. The Oceanside Public Library, in partnership with California Humanities' Library Innovation Lab, is proud to present a week-long Japanese cultural program series. Each day the library will host a Japanese storytime and an all-ages virtual special event on Zoom, Instagram or YouTube.

Registration is required for each event.

Emergency Rental & Utility Assistance, through September 14th, Oceanside. The City of Oceanside's COVID-19 Emergency Rental & Utility assistance Program helps individuals and families who are experienceing financia hardship due to the pandemic. The program will provide one-time payments per qualifying individual or household to help pay past-due and/or upcoming rent and utility expenses. To learn more, call the City's Housing Division at 760.435.3360.

SDG&E offers solutions to help businesses DURING COVID-19 Local businesses may be worried about their energy bill as summer arrives and as they try to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic. Businesses can take advantage of SDG&E programs to help stretch bill payments over a longer time, find the best pricing plan and take online energy webinars.

Escondido Public Library Events - In an ongoing effort to protect the health and safety of our staff and community, Escondido Public Library will be closed to the public until further notice. No overdue fees will be accrued until the library reopens. Curbside pickup is available for item checkout. Go to www.escondidolibrary.org/curbside for information on how it works!

The book drops in the Library parking lot are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for item returns. All items will be quarantined for at least 5 days before being checked in.

Have a question? please call or text us at 442.777.3799 or email us at library@escondidolibrary.org between 8:30 a.m and 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday, and 1 p.m. through 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for assistance. If you get our

voicemail, please leave a message and we will call you back as soon as possible. Don't have a library card? No problem! Contact the Library to sign up for your online library card for free!

Contact the Library to check out a complete event calendar - Visit us online at www.escondidolibrary.org.

Many events are still being held, such as Virtual Book Clubs for all Ages!, Read, Build, Play, Virtual Events, Ages 6-12, Join Live Chats with your favorite Authors, Streaming on Facebook Live; Kids Poetry Annual 2020 Virtual event, Saturday, September 26th, 11am12:30pm, Zoom Meeting, Ages 612; and Get Started with Biblioboard, an eBook platform that allows you to read eBooks by local authors or thinking about self-publishing your own book?

You can also download the Biblioboard app for Android and Apple devices.

The 2nd Saturday Concert Series presents Julia Sage, on Saturday, September 12th, from 3pm4:30pm, Streaming on Facebook Live; all ages.

Chilean Performer/Songwriter; a songwriter since very early childhood, Julia presently lives and plays in the greater San Diego area where she performs both as a solo artist, as part of "Grampadrew's Flim Flam Revue", and with her band, "Julia Sage and The Bad Hombres", an eclectic ensemble of musicians, guest musicians, and unusual instruments.

Escondido Writers Group, Tuesday, September 15th, 1pm4pm, Zoom Meeting for Adults.

Writers of all genres are invited to read their work and receive group critiques in a friendly and comfortable environment.

Email azar.katouzian@escondidolibrary.o rg for Zoom information.

Kids, Poetry Annual 2020 Virtual Event. Saturday, September 26th, 11am-12:30pm, Zoom Meeting, Ages 6-12. This is an online event conducted through a Zoom meeting.

Please email eveleen.crouthamel@escondidolibrary.org and include name of parent, Child(ren), age(s), and contact. This course is designed to teach a love of Poetry and creativeness in young children. Poems created by participating children will be included in this years Kids!

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September is National Preparedness Month - While we may not know when a disaster will strike, whether it's an illness, wildfire, earthquake or other even, we can plan ahead to care for ourselves and our pets.

During National Preparedness Month, The San Diego Human Society wants to remind pet parents to include animals in emergency planning. Here are three tips to help get you and your beloved pets ready.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9013686 The name of the business: Core Chiropractic Solutions, located at 410 S. Melrose Drive Suite 200, Vista. Ca. 92081 Registrant Information: GM Investment Group LLC 21919 S. El Camino Real Ste 103 Oceanside, CA. 92054 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

First Day of Business: n/a.. /s/ Travis R. Garland, President Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on9/02/2020.

9/10, 9/17, 9/24 & 10/01/2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9014593 The name of the business: a2z DME, located at 2191 S. El Camino Real Ste 103, Oceanside, Ca. Alison Lea Stamos 1766 Solana Glen Escondido, CA. 92026 This business is conducted by an individual.

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760.990.4289 &DULQJ)RU1RUWK&RXQW\ FRP Trained • Experienced • Insured • Bonded ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME 37-2020-00028723-CU-PT-NC TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Luis Sanchez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Luis Sanchez Proposed name Louie Sanchez.

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: October 6, 2020 8:30a.m., Department 23.

NOTE: No hearing will occur on the above date. See ATTACHMENT. The address of the court is: 325 S. Melrose, Vista, CA. 92081. 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 August 17, 2020 /s/Sim von Kalinowski, Judge of the Superior Court 9/3, 9/10, 9/17 & 9/24/2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9013899 The name of the business: Sunny Floral Co., located at 6211 Yarrow Dr. Ste F, Carlsbad, CA. 92011.

Registrant Information: Jose T. Amador 490 Honeyglen Dr. San Marcos, CA. 92078 This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business 3/01/2019 /s/ Jose T. Amador Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/19/2020.

9/3, 9/10, 9/17 & 9/24/2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

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The name of the business: Planter Sam, located at 791 Trailside Pl., San Marcos, CA. 92078.

Registrant Information: Samira Sadeghlou 791 Trailside Pl.

San Marcos, CA. 92078

This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Samira Sadeghlou

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/12/2020.

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The name of the business: MB Trucking, located at 927

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The name of the business: Dynamic Fitness, located at 5002 Medalist Ct., Oceanside, CA. 92057.

Registrant Information: Don Alan Davenport 5002 Medalist Ct.

Oceanside, Ca. 92057

This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Don Alan Davenport

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 7/25/2020.

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ATTACHMENT TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Name Change (NC-120)

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the Court not conducting in-person hearings, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The Court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause.

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

If all the requirement have not been met as of the date specified, the Court will mail you a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the Court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions. ‘ IF YOU ARE A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO HE NAME CHANGE, YOU MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do Not Come to Court on the Specified Date, you will be notified by mail by the Court of a future hearing date.

Any petition for the Name Change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause on the other, non-signing parent, and proof of service must be filed with the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Sim von Kalinowski Judge of the Superior Court 8/20, 8/27, 9/3 and 9/10/2020

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

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The name of the business: TMS Electric, located at 565 Lands End Way, #216, Oceanside, CA. 92058.

Registrant Information: Tyler Matthew Smith

565 Lands End Way, #216 Oceanside, CA. 92058

This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business 5/11/19. /s/ Tyler Matthew Smith

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/05/2020.

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Registrant Information: Luis Angel Leal

927 E. Grand Ave.

Escondido, CA. 92025

This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Luis Angel Leal

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/04/2020.

8/27, 9/3, 9/10 & 9/17/2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

#2020-9013705

The name of the business: HIRIE, HIRIE MUSIC, located at 714 Casita Ln., San Marcos, CA. 92069.

Registrant Information:

Paatricia Anne and Jamey Joe Jetton 714 Casita Ln.

San Marcos, CA. 92069

This business is conducted by a Married Couple..

First day of business 7/10/2013. /s/ Patricia Anne Jetton

Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/15/2020.

9/03, 9/10, 9/17 & 9/24/2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9013311 The name of the business: Synergy Integrated Health, Synergy Health, located at 205 W. Mission Ave., Suite P, Escondido, CA. 92025.

Registrant Information: Lim Chiropractic Professional Corporation 205 W. Mission Ave., Suite P Escondido, CA. 92025 This business is conducted by a corporation.

First day of business 11/13/2017. /s/ Hoon Lim, CEO Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/08/2020.

8/20, 8/27, 9/3 & 9/10/2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9012443 The name of the business: Breakfast Club Comics, located at 1159 Montura Rd., San Marcos, Ca. 92078.

Registrant Information: Brooke Elyse Karras 1159 Montura Rd. San Marcos, CA. 92078 This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business 7/02/2020. /s/ Brooke Elyse Karras Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 7/24/2020.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME AMENDED 37-2020-00020332-CU-PT-NC TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Lara Angelita filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Lara Angelita to Proposed name Angelica Lara. 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: September 22, 2020 8:30a.m., Department 23.

NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE SEE ATTACHMENT The address of the court is: 325 S. Melrose, Vista, CA. 92081. 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 August 5, 2020 /s/Sim von Kalinowski, Judge of the Superior Court 8/20, 8/27, 9/3 and 9/10/2020

ATTACHMENT TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE - Name Change (NC-120)

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the Court not conducting in-person hearings, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

The Court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause.

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

If all the requirement have not been met as of the date specified, the Court will mail you a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the Court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions. ‘ IF YOU ARE A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO HE NAME CHANGE, YOU MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do Not Come to Court on the Specified Date, you will be notified by mail by the Court of a future hearing date.

Any petition for the Name Change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause on the other, non-signing parent, and proof of service must be filed with the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Sim von Kalinowski Judge of the Superior Court 8/20, 8/27, 9/3 and 9/10/2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9013166 The name of the business: Puddle Jumpers, located at 6439 Olea Lane Unit 208, Carlsbad, CA. 92011.

Registrant Information: Christine Marie Marsicano 6439 Olea Lane, Unit 208 Carlsbad, CA.92011 This business is conducted by an individual.

First day of business n/a. /s/ Christine Marie Marsicano Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/06/2020.

8/20, 8/27, 9/3 & 9/10/2020

LEGALS

The Paper • Page 15 • September 10, 2020

*Superseded by California State Legislation*

ORDINANCE NO. 2020-1492

AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS DUE TO NONPAYMENT OF RENT FOR RESIDENTIAL TENANTS IMPACTED BY THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) WHEREAS, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease that may result in serious illness or death, and is easily transmissible from person to person; and WHEREAS, on January 31, 2020, the United States Department of Public Health Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared a public emergency for COVID-19 beginning on January 27, 2020; and

WHEREAS, on February 14, 2020, the San Diego County Public Health Officer declared a local health emergency due to the threat of COVID-19; and WHEREAS, on February 19, 2020, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors ratified the Declaration of Local Health Emergency and Proclamation of Local Emergency arising out of the COVID-19 outbreak; and WHEREAS, on March 4, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in the State of California as a result of the threat of COVID-19; and

WHEREAS, on March 12, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-2520, which exercised authority pursuant to the Emergency Services Act, Government Code section 8550, et. seq., including an order to ensure adequate facilities exist to address the impacts of COVID19; and WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, the President of the United States declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; and

WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, the City Manager, acting in his capacity as Director of Emergency Services of the City, proclaimed the existence of a Local Emergency related to COVID-19 within the City, and activated the San Marcos Emergency Operations on that date; and

WHEREAS, on March 16, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-2820, which is currently in effect until September 30, 2020, and which delegated to local jurisdictions the authority to enact temporary moratoria on evictions based on impacts related to COVID-19 and extended the time limitation set forth in Penal Code section 396, subdivision (f) concerning protections against residential eviction; and

WHEREAS, on March 19, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-3320 (“Stay-at-Home Order”), which required that all individuals living in the State of California remain at their place of residence, except as needed to maintain continuity of operation of the federal critical infrastructure sectors; and WHEREAS, on March 20, 2020, the City Council adopted

Resolution No. 2009-7140, ratifying the declaration of the Director of Emergency Services and declaring the existence of an ongoing local emergency pursuant to COVID-19; and

WHEREAS, on March 24, 2020, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2020-1485, which enacted a temporary moratorium on evictions due to nonpayment of rent for residential and commercial tenants impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) until May 31, 2020; and WHEREAS, on March 27, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-3730, which expired on May 31, 2020, and which extended the time in which tenants could respond to an eviction action for a period of 60 days and prohibited the enforcement of any writ for eviction during that period of time; and WHEREAS, on April 6, 2020, the California Judicial Council adopted Emergency Rule Number 1, which was initially effective until 90 days after the termination of the state of emergency related to COVID19, and which prevents courts from issuing summons on unlawful detainer complaints or issuing defaults in such actions, unless the plaintiff can show the need to proceed on public health and safety grounds; and continues trials in any unlawful detainer actions for at least 60 days, with no new trials to be set until at least 60 days after a request for trial is filed; and

WHEREAS, on May 12, 2020, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2020-1486, which extended the temporary moratorium on evictions due to nonpayment of rent for residential and commercial tenants impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) until June 30, 2020 and modified it in part to conform with State Executive Order N-37-30; and WHEREAS, the Health Officer of the County of San Diego issued an order on April 10, 2020, which was extended on April 30, 2020 and August 8, 2020 and remains in effect until further notice, requiring individuals to remain at their place of residence, except for employees or customers travelling to and from essential businesses or activities; prohibiting all public or private gatherings; closing all non-essential businesses; and prohibiting all schools from holding classes on campus; and

WHEREAS, on August 11, 2020, the California Judicial Council issued Order CO-2013, which modified the term of Emergency Rule 1, such that it will now terminate after September 1, 2020; and

WHEREAS, as of August 22, 2020, the numbers of reported positive cases of COVID-19 and related deaths in San Diego County have increased to 36,540 and 660, respectively, and both numbers are expected to continue to increase; and

WHEREAS, Penal Code section 396, subsections (e) and (f) provide that after the proclamation of a state emergency by the President or Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency by a local authority, it is unlawful to increase the rental price of housing or to begin to evict any tenant of residential housing

for a 30 day period, which can be extended by local proclamation or by extension of the proclamation of the President or the Governor; and WHEREAS, as a result of the public health emergency, the closures or reduced operations of many local businesses, the closures of all schools in San Diego County, and the “stay at home” orders issued by the Governor Newsom and the San Diego County Health Officer, many tenants in San Marcos have experienced or will experience sudden and unexpected income loss, hindering their ability pay their rent; and

WHEREAS, further economic impacts are anticipated, leaving residential tenants vulnerable to eviction just as the protections against unlawful detainer actions offered by Judicial Council Emergency Rule Number 1 have lapsed, and before it is known whether pending State legislation intended to provide renter protection for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will be approved by the Legislature and signed by the Governor; and WHEREAS, during this local emergency, and in the interest of protecting the public health and preventing transmission of COVID-19, it is essential to allow residents to stay at their place of residence, to avoid unnecessary housing displacement, to protect the City’s affordable housing stock, and to prevent housed individuals from falling into homelessness; and

WHEREAS, the City Council has the power under Government Code sections 36934 and 36937 to adopt an ordinance that takes effect immediately if it is an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, contains a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the City Council; and

WHEREAS, the City finds it is necessary for the City Council to adopt this Ordinance as such an urgency ordinance, as set forth in the above recitals, which are incorporated herein by reference, and pursuant to the powers under Government Code sections 36934 and 36937, for the immediate preservation of the public health and safety, as affected by the emergency caused by the spread of COVID-19; and

WHEREAS, this Ordinance is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA; California Public Resources Code Section 2100 et seq.) and CEQA regulations (Title 14, California Code of Regulations Section 15000, et seq.) because this ordinance is covered by the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment (Section 15061(b)(3));

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Marcos, California, in accordance with the freedom afforded to charter cities generally, and by the Charter of the City of San Marcos specifically, does ordain as follows: Section 1.The foregoing recitals are true and correct and are incorporated herein as though set forth in full at this

point.

Section 2.Resolution 20097140 ratifying the local emergency declaration of the Emergency Services Director and declaring the existence of an ongoing local emergency related to COVID-19 is hereby incorporated into this Ordinance as if fully set forth herein.

Section 3.Pursuant to the authority prescribed by state law, including but not limited to, State Executive Order N-2820, the San Marcos Municipal Code, and the ongoing federal, state, and local emergency, the City Council hereby adopts a temporary moratorium on evictions of residential tenants for non-payment of rent impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as follows:

a.

No landlord in the City shall evict a residential tenant for nonpayment of rent due on or after the effective date of this Ordinance if the tenant notifies the landlord in writing within seven (7) days after the date that rent is due that the tenant is unable to pay rent due to financial impacts related to COVID-19. b.

For purposes of this Ordinance, “financial impacts related to COVID-19” is defined as follows:

1.

A substantial decrease in household income (including but not limited to, a substantial decrease in household income caused by business closure, layoffs or a reduction in the number of compensable hours of work, or a substantial decrease in business income caused by a reduction in opening hours or consumer demand), or substantial out-of-pocket medical expenses; and 2.

The decrease in household income or the outof-pocket medical expenses described in subsection (b)(1) was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or by any local, county, state, or federal government response to COVID19. c.

For purposes of this Ordinance, “in writing” includes email or text communications to a landlord or landlord’s representative or agent with whom the tenant has previously corresponded by email or text.

d.

Within seven (7) days of providing notice under subsection (a), the tenant shall provide the landlord documentation to support the claim that the tenant is unable to pay rent due to financial impacts related to COVID-19. Documentation may include, but is not limited to, paystubs, letters from employers, financial or bank statements, business records, physician’s letters, and/or monthly bills or evidence of financial responsibilities. Any medical or financial information provided to the landlord shall be held in confidence and only used for evaluating the residential tenant’s claim. e.

If the tenant does not provide evidence of financial impacts related to COVID19 within the timeframe described in subsection (d), the landlord may pursue any enforcement action in accordance with state and local laws.

f.

If a tenant complies with the requirements of this Ordinance, a landlord shall not serve a notice pursuant to Code of Civil Procedures sec-

tion 1161(2), file or prosecute an unlawful detainer action based on a 3 day pay or quit notice, or otherwise seek to evict the tenant for nonpayment of rent.

Section 4.This Ordinance applies to nonpayment eviction notices and unlawful detainer actions for residential tenants based on such notices, served or filed on or after July 1, 2020, following the expiration of Ordinance No. 2020-1486, which extended the City’s initial temporary moratorium on evictions due to nonpayment of rent for residential and commercial tenants impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID19) until June 30, 2020, through September 30, 2020.

This Ordinance is intended to be retroactive in effect, to provide continuous protections to residential tenants from March 24, 2020, the date of the City Council’s adoption of Ordinance No. 2020-1485, the initial eviction moratorium, through September 30, 2020, subject to Section 7, below.

Section 5.Nothing in this Ordinance shall relieve a tenant of the obligation to pay rent, nor restrict a landlord’s ability to recover rent due, including any late fees imposed by an underlying rental agreement.

Section 6.This Ordinance shall be punishable as set forth in San Marcos Municipal Code section 1.14.030 and any other applicable section. In addition, this Ordinance grants a defense in the event that an unlawful detainer action is commenced in violation of this Ordinance.

Section 7.Unless extended by City Council, this Ordinance shall remain in effect until either: (i) the close of business on September 30, 2020; or (ii) the date, if any, that renter assistance legislation intended to assist those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, currently anticipated to be in the form of AB 1436 and/or AB 828, is passed by the California Legislature and signed by the Governor, whichever occurs first.

Section 8.Subject to the provisions of this Section 8, upon the expiration or earlier termination of this Ordinance as provided in Section 7, above, a tenant who satisfied the notice and documentation requirements set forth herein shall have up to six (6) months to pay the landlord all unpaid rent. If a tenant opts to move while this Ordinance is effective, all owed rent is due upon move out. At the end of this six (6) month period, a landlord may evict a tenant who has not paid all outstanding rent and resort to all remedies available to the landlord under the lease and the law. However, in the event renter assistance legislation intended to assist those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is passed by the California Legislature and signed by the Governor, the terms and provisions of such approved legislation will supersede this Section 8 and will be controlling with respect to the repayment period.

Section 9.This Ordinance is to be construed in a manner which affords the greatest possible protection to residential tenants.

Section 10.

This is not a project within the meaning of Section 15378 of the California Environmental Quality Act

(CEQA) Guidelines because there is no potential for it to result in a physical change in the environment, either directly or indirectly. In the event this Ordinance is found to be subject to CEQA, it is exempt from CEQA pursuant to the exemption contained in CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) because it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility of a significant effect on the environment.

Section 11.

If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is determined to be invalid, illegal or unconstitutional by a decision or order of any court or agency of competent jurisdiction, then such decision or order will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have passed and adopted the Ordinance, and each section, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof, regardless of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

Section 12.

Pursuant to Government Code section 36937, this Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its adoption. Within fifteen (15) days following its adoption, the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published, or the title thereof as a summary, in accordance with the provisions of State law in a newspaper of general circulation designated for legal notices publication in the City of San Marcos.

PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of San Marcos, California, this 31st day of August, 2020, by the following roll call vote:

AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: JENKINS, NUÑEZ, PETREK, WALTON, JONES NOES: C O U N C I L M E M BERS: NONE ABSENT: C O U N C I L M E M BERS: NONE A certified copy is posted in the office of the City Clerk at 1 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, CA Phillip Scollick, City Clerk, City of San Marcos.

PD: 09/10/2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9013340 The name of the business: ClanMacAuley.com; ClanMcAuleyUSA; CelticPrideUSA.com; CelticPrideUSA, located at 654 Banjo Ct., San Marcos, CA. 92069.

Registrant Information: Mr. Beach, Inc. 654 Banjo Ct. San Marcos, CA. 92069 This business is conducted by a corporation.

First day of business 7/01/2015 /s/ James E. MacAuley, Jr., President Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/08/2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #2020-9013108 The name of the business: Royal Property Partners, located at 1036 Phillips St., Vista, CA. 92083.

Registrant Information: Edward Pranis 5692 Edinger Ave. Huntington Beach, CA. 92649 Peter V. Pranis 1036 Phillips St. Vista, CA. 92083 This business is conducted by General Partners.

First day of business 8/01/1995. /s/ Edward Pranis Filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr., County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 8/05/2020.

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