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Coachella 2017 Lineup

Lady Gaga at Super Bowl 2017

Glass Animals are set to perform at Coachella on Fridays, April 14 and April 21.

Coachella 2017 set to bring musical greats to Indio

By Robert Kinsler The 2017 edition of Coachellafest will feature headliners Radiohead, Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar.

The event will be held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio April 14-16 and April 21-23.

This round-up will highlight my “wish list” of performances that I hope to catch at Coachella. However, there is always the good chance that two or even three

of my “must see” artists will be performing at the same time confirming the age-old advice that life is often about making choices. With 175 or so acts performing, it is simply impossible to see every artist at the festival. And it would be criminal to not carve out some time to enjoy the alwaysimpressive art installations that inhabit the polo club grounds during the event.

Story and Photos y Pat Krause The ANA Inspiration held its 2nd annual Conference before the ANA LPGA Championships. This Inspiring Woman In Sports Conference brings some of the top names in women’s sports. Last year’s success made the ANA wanting to continue this event. The event was held in a huge white tent on the grounds by the 18th hole of the Dinah Shore Course at Mission Hills Country Club.

Speakers this year included tennis great Billie Jean King and tennis star Maria Sharapova. Two-time team captain of the Olympic

Games, Aly Raisman, winning six gold medals and the first American gymnast to be the winner of the Gold Medal for Floor Exercises. Another Gold Olympian medalist was Jessica Mendoza as a team member in Softball. Other speakers were ESPN reporterVictoria Arlen, Cari ChampionJournalist and ESPN anchor and Elisabeth Hausler-ANA Blue Wing Program and Lexi Thompson-Golf champion with seven tour wins and a bright star in the LPGA Tour.

Another Gold and Silver Olympic medalist in Soccer

Fridays, April 14 and 21 Fans of the artistic approach of Radiohead, As Tall As Lions and Other Lives will want to get to Coachella early Friday to catch Klangstof. This writer was more than impressed by the power of the Norwegian band’s 2016 release “Close Eyes to Exit.” The experimental instrumental track “Doolhof,” intense “Hostage” and sweeping

“Island” are all selections I hope to see the group perform at the festival.

Those looking to groove and move to the music will find plenty of company when Glass Animals takes the stage. The group’s 2016 album “How To Be Human,” is filled with a great batch of dance-minded tracks mixing up electronica, synthpop, trip hop and indietronica.

My favorite on the album is

“Life Itself,” a stunning foray capturing the intoxicating spirit of the Oxford, England-based quartet.

Guided by Voices is set to release “August By Cake” on April 7, perfect timing for those who plan to catch Robert Pollard and company at Coachellafest.

The new album will reportedly be a double-disc affair, and

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Lexi Thompson, Aly Raisman, Billie Jean King and Maria Sharapova. Photo by Pat Krause

The ANA LPGA Inspiration Golf Tournament winner

her cool to birdie the 18th hole in the playoff. Ryu performed extremely well and ended up with-14 at the end of the play leading the pack after Thompson’s penalty. She beat Minjee Lee, Inbee Park, and Suzanne Pettersen, who ended up -13, Michelle Wie with a-11 and Christie Kerr with a -10.

This is Rhu’s second major title. Ryu made the jump into Poppies Pond with her caddie her mother, sister and Mgr. The award ceremony is always fun to watch as the drummers start the event.

Melissa Montgomery, Dinah Shores daughter, is constantly present to help hand the award Winners, So Yeon Ryu, center, jumps in Poppies Pond with Caddie, to the winner. The award So Yeon Ryu. Photo by Pat Krause ceremony includes all the ANA Mother, Sister and Manager. Photo by Pat Krause people, Mission Hills personnel and the amateur winner Lucy Story and Photos by Pat Krause have won by several strokes that did not mention the penalty corrected by the rule makers.

Li before the TV crews The ANA LPGA Inspiration had she not been penalized for the misplacing of the ball The PGA is looking into old and photographers fill the Golf Tournament has a new four strokes on Saturdays that she did not know about. rules, and the LPGA should do green to record the event. It will winner, So Yeon Ryu, who won round. Thompson did not know This would not have the same. I give Thompson a be a sad note to realize that after a playoff on 18 with Lexi about the penalty until Sunday happened before the Internet lot of credit as she did not let maybe this ANA title will be Thompson. Thompson tied during play and still came and the ability to replay action. the news of the penalty during remembered mostly as the one Ryu on the 18th green with a back to tie RYU at the end.

Golf fans can call in when they the middle of her round on that Thompson lost to penalties birdie putt, missing an eagle Thompson was penalized four think there may have been Sunday disrupt her level of play. rather than the win

by RYU. putt by inches for the win. This strokes, One for misplacing her an infraction in play a day She continued to play very well. is a bittersweet victory for Ryu ball on the green and one for or later. Some of these rules Not to distract from the great playing by RYU who kept knowing that Thompson would entering a wrong score card are outdated and should be ••••••••••••••

ANA LPGA Inspiration Junior Golfer Event

Pat Bradley and Lucy Li. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause The ANA LPGA event has increased the Junior Golfer event into two days so more can compete. The first day saw them play 36 holes to be able to win a berth in the ANA Championship tournament.

The second day they played

18 holes on the Dinah Shore Course. It was exciting to be able to see these very young athletes play extraordinary golf. They ranged in ages from the youngest at 14 to the oldest at 18. Several of the senior players have already been given golf scholarships

LPGA Legends, Rosie Jones, Donna Caponi, Nancy Lopez and Betsy King.

Photo by Pat Krause. to the college of their choice.

There were legends that played along with the groups to help or advise them on their playing skills. These legends include several Hall of Fame golfers. This was a real thrill for these junior women

golfers to meet or be able to play with their golf heroes. A lot of these juvenile women know each other through other tournaments they have played in. Some are already seasoned to competitive play.

Some of the well-known

about how they are marketed as champions and stars.

The speakers all told about their lives, their ups and downs in their careers and how perseverance is the key to success. They all said it was important to never give up on your dream. They have all made a big contribution in women’s sports in many ways. These women have become leaders in sports and an inspiration to women in whatever they do.

Victoria Arlen and Cari Champion. Photo by Pat Krause

ANA 2nd annual Conference journeys in their chosen careers.

Billie Jean King said she was Julie Foudy, who did a has been asked millions of fabulous job as emcee for times about her win against the event. Sharapova is also Bobby Riggs. Tennis is her life, an Olympian medalist. Other and she has won many awards speakers include Hiroko for her work since she retired Kawamoto and Jun Taneie from from tennis competition. Maria ANA, ALL Nippon Airways. The Sharapova spoke about her ANA is trying to inspire future time away from golf and said generations of female athletes. you don’t realize how much you The theme this year was, love a sport until it is taken away Inspired Journeys, that had from you even for a short time. these speakers tell about their Raisman and Thompson spoke Continued from Page 1

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legends that were also excited to be able to play and mentor these young girls were Amy Alcott, Rosie Jones, Nancy Lopez, Betsy King, Patty Sheehan, Donna Caponi and many others, 20 legends in all and many are Hall of Famers, Champions of this tournament and other LPGA Tour and Open winners. Pat Bradley and Hall of Fame member were the Legend playing with Lucy Li and said she didn’t comment a lot on her play as she was doing well on her own.

The winner of the ANA Junior Inspiration was the youngest player, Lucy Li, who has been playing and qualified for the U.S. Womens Open at the tender age of 11. It was a close match as several girls were near to win. Only a few strokes made the different Lucy Li prevailed and won by four shots over the other girls. Li is excited to be able to play in the Big ANA LPGA Inspiration Tournament.

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HOA Homefront – Volunteer Means NO PROFIT

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. Dear Mr. Richardson: A board member also owns several properties elsewhere. An HOA vendor told me that this director demands, and gets, ‘discounts’ from the vendor for work done on the director’s other properties.

This is certainly ethically questionable as I perceive it to be a kickback. Is it illegal?

M.D., La Jolla Dear M.D.: Directors receiving compensation in return for their service on the board

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are no longer protected as “volunteers” under the Business Judgment Rule, found at Corporations Code 7231.5. This means that they could be held personally liable for board mistakes, without the immunity normally protecting directors under the Business Judgment Rule. The Rule protects volunteer directors acting in good faith, not profiteers.

A director receiving a financial benefit, whether directly in the form of cash, or indirectly in the form of free or discounted services, is also outside the immunity provided by Civil Code 5800, which provides that volunteer directors are personally immune if the association has prescribed minimum levels of directors and officers insurance. Directors receiving compensation from association vendors may well be outside this additional important liability protection for volunteers.

Directors receiving compensation from association

vendors may also find the vendor contract could be voided by the association under Corporations Code 7233, if the compensation was not disclosed by the director.

If the contract is voided, the compensated director might be held personally liable.

Civil Code 5350, added in 2014 to the Common Interest Development Act, for the first time lists certain prohibited conflicts of interest.

Unfortunately, the list is too short, and does not cover directors voting on contracts in which they are financially interested. Fortunately, this section specifically states that the list is not exclusive, and hopefully the Legislature will at some point expand it to include this obviously improper situation of vendors compensating directors.

Directors owe fiduciary duties to the association and a moral duty to their neighbors. One fiduciary duty violated by the compensated director is loyalty – the director

should be loyal only to the association, and not to the vendor. A director receiving compensation violates that duty. Another fiduciary duty is the duty of disclosure – a director who is secretly receiving benefits violates this duty. Directors violating their fiduciary duties in this manner also could be sued and forced to disgorge the secret benefit they received by virtue of their position as an association director.

Directors: Don’t kid yourself by thinking that the only “kickback” is money.

Such improper benefits can take other forms, such as discounted or free work in the director’s residence (or elsewhere), free upgrades in the director’s residence, or expensive gifts. Turn it down – your integrity is more important.

If a vendor offers an expensive gift, don’t take it. If a vendor even hints of a benefit if they are hired, report it immediately to the board, which should then eliminate

that vendor from future association consideration.

Directors should be serving their community, and not serving themselves.

Otherwise, that director should be replaced. Any such conflict also should be immediately disclosed to the community in an open board meeting – and the dirty director should be asked to resign. The dirty vendor should be terminated, as the HOA should only support honest vendors.

Thanks for your question (and sorry this even comes up), Kelly

By Janice Gough Many people mistakenly believe that retirement benefits are based on the last five years of earnings or the highest five years of earnings. In reality, benefits are based on the highest 35 years of indexed earnings. The term “indexed” indicates that the earnings are adjusted (indexed) for inflation.

The “highest 35 years” formula is utilized, even when an individual did not work for thirty-five years. If a spouse, for example, stayed at home raising children for a number of years, they would not have a minimum 10 years (40 quarters) of employment. When factoring in the years of zero income into their benefit calculation, their income benefit will be smaller.

In this situation, it may be wise to consider going back to work to replace zero earnings years with some positive earnings.

The maximum number of credits that beneficiaries can earn per calendar year is four, thus earning 40 credits will take a minimum of 10 years. It is not required that one works in Each quarter to earn a credit.

Earning a credit is based on earned income such as W-2 earnings and net self-employed earnings. To receive one credit in 2017, one must earn at least $1,300. Thus, an individual earning $5,200 or more during 2017 will earn four credits. It is not necessary to work during each month of the year or even during each quarter to earn the maximum four credits. An individual earning $10,000 during the month of January

and not working any other months will earn four credits for 2017 just as an individual earning $10,000 working January through December will also earn four credits.

Full Retirement Age (FRA) is the term used to describe the age that individuals can collect 100% of their Social Security benefit. The Full Retirement Age varies depending upon the date of birth of the beneficiary. For individuals born between 1943 and 1954, the FRA is age 66.

The FRA moves forward in two month increments beginning for persons born in 1955 until the FRA reaches age 67, and for those born in 1960 or thereafter, FRA is 67. Beneficiaries are eligible for 100 percent of Social Security benefits at their Full Retirement Age (FRA). Benefits are reduced by a percentage of 25% calculated by monthly increment for each month benefits begin prior to reaching FRA and can start at age 62.

It must be cautioned that the reduction is permanent and will last their lifetime. This reduction will also apply to benefits paid to a surviving spouse after the death of the Primary Beneficiary. If you change your mind within twelve months of filing, you can pay it all back to avoid the lifetime penalty and receive the higher benefit when you claim again. You can only withdraw your Social Security once in a lifetime.

For those who are still working after FRA, they may decide to increase their benefits by 8% each year if begun after reaching FRA and continue receiving credits to age 70, when one must begin to take minimum distribution from their account.

The Primary Insurance Amount, or PIA for short, is the amount of Social Security benefits payable at Full Retirement Age. A PIA of $2,000 means that an individual will receive $2,000 at Full Retirement Age. PIA is listed on their Social Security benefit statement.

Social Security Administration (SSA) recently changed the policy of mailing paper statements. Printed statements will be mailed only to clients aged 60 and older who do not have online accounts.

It is strongly suggested that all individuals establish online

accounts as the statements provide detailed information regarding benefit estimates and displays the earnings figures which were used to calculate the estimated requirement of 40 credits. Accounts can be created at www.ssa.gov or www.socialsecurity.gov.

Janice Gough in a Financial Advisor in Palm Springs, Ca. She can be reached via email at janice@ goughfinancialsvcs.com or by calling (760) 251-7724 or Cell (650) 200-8291. Call us to decide when Filing for Social Security is best for you.

Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. is a Fellow of the College of Community Association Lawyers and Managing Partner of Richardson Harman Ober PC, a law firm known for community association advice. Submit questions to KRichardson@ RHOpc.com. Past columns at www.HOAHomefront. com. All rights reserved®.

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AG Sessions requests delay in Baltimore police reform

By Desert Star Staff The US Justice Department is asking a federal judge for more time to review the Baltimore Police Department as part of its relationship with local law enforcement under President Donald Trump’s new policies.

On Monday, the

Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion requesting a 90-day pause to “review and assess” a proposed agreement to reform the Baltimore Police Department (BPD).

In January, the DOJ announced an agreement with the Baltimore PD on a courtenforceable consent decree

By Desert Star Staff BOSTON — Last month, two more towns in Massachusetts passed measures to end the use of plastic bags, and backers say it’s fueling support for a statewide ban.

As more towns and cities pass local bag ordinances, Rep. Lori Ehrlich of Essex said it builds momentum for her statewide legislation. She said as towns and cities craft their own solutions to minimize plastic bag waste, industry representatives also are looking for a statewide solution.

“The local communities are coming up with all different approaches, so it’s creating sort of a patchwork quilt of local regulations that are making it harder for the retailers to comply,” Ehrlich said.

Plastic bag bans are also in the works for Boston, Arlington and Springfield.

Opponents of banning plastic bags say it’s an

inconvenience that will ultimately cost consumers and hurt businesses. But Ehrlich said her bill includes a one-year phase-out that gives people time to change their shopping habits.

Savings can be a factor for communities making these decisions. Paul Degnan, general manager of Casella Recycling, said companies like his end up passing the cost on to cities when plastic bags tie up the works at recycling facilities.

“These plastic bags get wrapped around the equipment,” Degnan said. “They decrease our efficiencies and we have to spend extra labor and manpower cutting these bags and removing them.”

Brad Verter founded the Mass Green Network in 2015 as a peer-topeer collective to connect grassroots activists working on local measures to green

filed with the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

The announcement came after a 2015 investigation into the department found police were engaging in “a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution as well as federal anti-discrimination laws.”

The Obama-era investigation found Baltimore PD was conducting unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests, disproportionately targeting African Americans, using excessive force, and retaliating against individuals for engaging in constitutionally protected expression.

The agreement also called for an independent federal monitor to observe the Baltimore PD and assess whether the requirements of the agreement were being implemented.The proposed reforms were designed to “help ensure effective and constitutional policing, restore the community’s trust in law enforcement, and advance

public and officer safety,” according to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the continuance request days before a hearing was scheduled in US District Court in Baltimore.

The DOJ cited several reasons for the continuance, including “several new initiatives and policies that prioritize combating and preventing violent crime” that have been issued since Trump took office.

The DOJ cited an executive order issued by Trump that would create “a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety,” which directs the DOJ to “take the lead on Federal actions to support law enforcement efforts nationwide and to collaborate with State, tribal, and local jurisdictions to restore public safety to all of our communities.”

The motion was filed only hours after Sessions released a two-page memo, in which he directed his staff

to review all the investigations, prosecutions, training and existing compliance reviews between the department and local law enforcement agencies. The memo declares the DOJ “will use its resources to effectively promote a peaceful and lawful society, where the civil rights of all persons are valued and protected,” and “the misdeeds of individual bad actors should not impugn” the work police officers perform “in keeping American communities safe.”

Sessions says the review is necessary for ensuring no reform agreements undermine the Trump administration’s goals of promoting police officer safety and morale while fighting violent crime.

However, Vanita Gupta, who ran the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under former President Barack Obama, says the sweeping review “signals an alarming retreat away from ensuring that police departments engage in constitutional policing.”

More Towns Ban Plastic Bags: Momentum Builds for Statewide Solution

Litter is only one reason some communities ban retailers’ use of plastic bags. They can also damage equipment at recycling facilities. (Metro Waste Authority) their cities and towns. Since they started, he said Mass Green members have passed over 40 laws and regulations to reduce plastic waste.

“So when I started, I think there was about 15 bag bans across the state, and now

there’s 44, I think,” Verter said. “When I started, there were nine regulations about Styrofoam and other kinds of polystyrene, and now there’s 20; and again, there’s a lot more coming down the pike.”

Verter said he would

welcome a statewide bill.

Until then, he said his network will continue to work, town by town, to rid the state of plastic products that end up in trees, wash up on beaches, and foul the environment.

All students are encouraged to attend and should come prepared with a list of questions to ask the college/ university representatives.

Some of the universities attending include Brandman University, Cal Baptist University, CSU San Bernardino, CSU San Bernardino-Palm Desert Campus, Cambridge College, Columbia College Hollywood,

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Grand Canyon University, Hawaii Pacific University, Loma Linda University, National University, New School Of Architecture and Design, Point Loma Nazarene University, UC Irvine, UC La Verne, UC Riverside, University of Nevada, University of Redlands, United States Army, and West Coast University.

Other organizations will also have a table set up for the event. Those organizations

include The Girlfriend Factor, Pathways to Success, Congressman Raul Ruiz and Assembly member Eduardo Garcia, and COD’s Veterans Services, Work Experience Office, SSS Programs, Career & Workforce Solutions, International Education, EDGE Program and Financial Aid. For more information, please contact the Counseling Center 760773-2521. Source: KMIR

College of the Desert Transfer Fair

By KMIR News Palm Desert, CA -College of the Desert (COD) hosts its inaugural Spring University Transfer Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 4. Representatives from more than 20 colleges and universities are scheduled to have information tables set up at the free event in the Hilb Building on the Palm Desert Campus.

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Representatives will answer questions, pass out literature, and inform students about their various programs.

It is open to all COD current and alumni students.

This event is a wonderful opportunity for students to be able to gather information and compare numerous programs offered at many university campuses throughout California and out-of-state.

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Businesses Opposed to SB 6 Contributed to Sponsors’ Campaigns

By Desert Star Staff AUSTIN, Texas – Public records show several businesses that publicly oppose Senate Bill 6, the so-called “bathroom bill” in the Texas Legislature, have contributed thousands of dollars to the bill’s Republican sponsors.

Alex Kotch, an independent investigative reporter for the website Rewire, says 70 businesses signed a letter condemning the bill that would bar transgender people from using the restroom of their choice.

The businesses responded to a Texas Association of Business study that said the state could lose $8 billion or more if SB 6 becomes law.

The association’s executive director, Chris Wallace, warns that simply cannot happen.

“In Texas, we need to avoid the predicament that North Carolina’s in right now,

and just completely reject SB 6 and any amendments that are related to SB 6 in terms of discriminatory-type language,” he stresses. “It’s just simply bad for business.”

The bill has passed the Texas Senate, where Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made it a priority.

But it could face an uphill battle in the House, where Speaker Joe Straus opposes it.

Rewire reports that political action committees for 12 of the letter’s signers, including such companies as Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard and United Continental, contributed $185,000 to 15 GOP senators listed as sponsors of SB 6.

The Texas Association of Business study predicts if the bill becomes law, the state’s economy, particularly the sports, tourism, and entertainment sectors, could lose convention business and face boycotts of major events.

Wallace says TAB

By Desert Star Staff In 2006, one of the officers who was a member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Police (MASS C.O.P.) died by suicide. He was afraid to seek help because he didn’t want to lose his badge. With over 700 police officers present at the President’s Dinner on Friday, March 31, the MASS C.O.P. President Scott Hovsepian announced that his union, which represents nearly 4,300 police officers in Massachusetts, would be instituting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s anonymous online screening tool, the Interactive Screening Program, a Self-

Check Quiz to reach distressed police officers and help connect them to peer support officers and mental health services before a crisis emerges.

“If this can save one life, it is money, time, and energy well spent. You can’t put a price on a life. If we had had this program in place, we might not have lost our colleague to suicide in 2006,” said Scott Hovsepian, a 23 year police officer for the city of Waltham, MA, and president of MASS C.O.P. “I want police officers nationwide to know that there are tools like the Self-Check Quiz that can help them through the hard times.

We are starting with police

Some are concerned that Texas could lose major sporting events, similar to this year’s Super Bowl in Houston, if the controversial SB 6 bathroom bill becomes law. (wellesenterprises/iStockphoto) members are likely to be more discerning in the future about which candidates they support.

“I think it’s just business as usual,” he states. “In the past, there’s been a kind of ‘friendly incumbent rule,’ but we’re going to take a new look at all of that, and that may not

be the case moving forward.”

The North Carolina General Assembly voted to repeal and replace its bathroom bill last Friday. Lawmakers there were criticized for not going far enough in their replacement legislation to ensure the rights of transgender people.

Rewire obtained data for its story from the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

This story was produced with original reporting from Alex Kotch in partnership with Rewire.

officers in the Bay State.”

Brian Fleming, the owner and operator of Peer Support Services, LLC., held a four-hour training session in early 2017 for some of Massachusetts’ police officers about mental health education, alcohol and drug abuse, and how to prevent suicide among their colleagues. After the session, he was approached

by Hovsepian about doing more. Luckily, years ago Fleming had helped arrange for another Massachusetts police department to contract with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Interactive Screening Program and so he arranged an introduction for the

officers from MASS C.O.P. to meet with staff from AFSP to talk about how the foundation could help the union from losing its members to suicide.

“We are honored to be partnering with MASS C.O.P. to offer the Self-Check Quiz to its members. Police officers are accustomed to servicing others, and this is a way for them to ensure they stay healthy and strong,” said Dr. Christine Moutier, AFSP chief medical officer. “Seeking help for your mental health is the brave thing to do.”

The Self-Check Quiz is an online tool offered by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and

used by institutions of higher education, workplaces, law enforcement agencies, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) to reach distressed people and help connect them to mental health services before a crisis emerges. It is also known as the Interactive Screening Program.

The program expansion to MASS C.O.P. has been made possible by a generous grant from the law firm of Sandulli and Grace.

Those who are interested in bringing the Self-Check Quiz to their precinct can learn more here: https://afsp.org/isp.

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Opening Day: Brewers Knock Tobacco Out of Park

she states. “We know that for male high school athletes in Wisconsin, smokeless tobacco use is actually increasing.”

Mohr says baseball players are role models and heroes to children, who mimic their behavior. She says pro athletes should set a healthy example for kids, rather than teaching them to dip and spit.

According to Mohr, a lot of young people believe that smokeless tobacco is safer than traditional cigarettes, but she points out that any tobacco use is dangerous and smokeless tobacco is far from safe.

“There’s actually 28 Milwaukee’s Miller Park has become the 12th Major League Baseball stadium to prohibit smokeless cancer causing chemicals in tobacco. (wellesenterprises/iStockphoto) smokeless tobacco,” she points out. “It has nicotine which is

By Desert Star Staff of Milwaukee sports venues. coordinator, says this should addictive and it can cause a MILWAUKEE – The State law already send an important message variety of cancers: oral cancer, Milwaukee Brewers open prohibits smoking, but this to fans and players. cancer of the esophagus, and their home season Monday new city ordinance takes it “People grow up playing afternoon against the Colorado a step farther and prohibits baseball, they grow up coming pancreatic cancer, in addition to increasing the risk for Rockies, and this year there’s all forms of tobacco. to Miller Park to watch the heart disease and stroke.” a big change at Miller Park.

Violators can be Brewers, and when they see Mohr adds that there A new city ordinance fined up to $250. the players chewing tobacco on have been plenty of cases prohibits any tobacco use at Anneke Mohr, the city’s the field, that’s sending a really of poisoning in children, Miller Park and all other city Tobacco Free Alliance unhealthy message to youth,” www.desertstarweekly.com

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Mohr says Bud Selig, the former Brewers owner and former baseball commissioner, is firmly behind the city’s new ordinance, and says Selig pioneered getting smokeless tobacco out of minor league baseball.

She says almost 10 percent of Wisconsin youth have tried smokeless tobacco and 4 percent are regular users, and hopefully the new ordinance will help them make better choices.

“For that t-ball team that’s coming to a game this summer, maybe that will make them less likely to use smokeless tobacco when they’re the high school athlete, and for the players, when they reach retirement, hopefully they can actually enjoy their retirement instead of having to undergo chemotherapy,” she states. “So it’s really a good thing for everybody.”

For help in quitting tobacco, call 800-LUNG-USA.

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Marvel caught in ‘diversity’ storm over flagging sales

By Desert Star Staff Marvel Comics executives said the company will step back from politics and focus on storytelling after retailers complained that pushing “diversity and female characters” has hurt sales.

The new heroes are not going away, however.

Retailers have blamed a massive slump in comic book sales in October-November 2016 on Marvel’s politics, among other things. Following the annual retailer summit last week, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, David Gabriel, gave an interview to a pop-culture web magazine that has since

landed him in hot water.

“What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity. They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not.

I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we saw in sales,” Gabriel told ICv2.

Marvel was acquired by Disney in 2009, and has made millions on movie adaptations featuring Captain America, Iron Man and the other Avengers, as well as Guardians of the Galaxy.

Comic-book sales, however, crashed about six months ago.

The industry “changed on a dime” in October last year, Gabriel said. “There was

definitely a sort of nose-turning at the things that we had been doing successfully for the past three years, no longer viable.”

Over the past several years, Marvel has changed a number of their legacy characters, from introducing a female Thor and a female AfricanAmerican Iron Man, to making Spiderman biracial and Ms Marvel a Muslim teenage girl.

Ms Marvel author G. Willow Wilson slammed the critics of diversity as “Riders of the Brohirrim” and said the problem was not with diversity, but that “launching a legacy character by killing off or humiliating the original character sets the legacy character up for failure.”

Speaking with the retailers, Marvel editor-in-chief Alex Alonso acknowledged that the company was part of a “discussion” about diversity in popular culture, and brought up the recent Academy Awards and Disney movies, as well as a story of his Korean nephew, who was both thrilled and terrified that the new Hulk was Korean.

“But Marvel is not about politics. We are about telling stories about the world,” Alonso said.

Gabriel has since offered a clarification, saying that the any number of things could have contributed to the sales slump, and that the new heroes aren’t going anywhere.

“We are proud and excited to keep introducing unique characters that reflect new voices and new experiences into the Marvel Universe and pair them with our iconic heroes,” he told ICv2. “We have also been hearing from stores that welcome and champion our new characters and titles and want more! They’ve invigorated their own customer base and helped them grow their stores because of it.”

The only upcoming change is “to ensure we don’t lose focus of our core heroes,” Gabriel added.

New heroes do bring in a “different demographic,” for which he is grateful, one retailer told ICv2, but they still “don’t sell the numbers that I would like.”

Another noted a 80-90 percent drop in sales from the first to the second issue, adding that “to me that says that there is so much product out there that people are willing to dip a toe in, but they’re not willing to stay.”

Other retailers quoted by the magazine did point to political content and social justice activism as hurting sales, however.

“When you talk about the Academy Awards, and how that was a prime topic, I look at the cold, hard reality, and I’m in business,” said one retailer.

“A lot of those movies, or other things in other media, aren’t really big money makers. For me, I care more about whether I’m going to sell it or not.”

“I don’t want you guys doing that stuff,” another retailer said. “I want you to entertain.

That’s the job.” He added that a customer who knew he was headed to the summit even told him “he wants to get stories and doesn’t mind a message, but he doesn’t want to be beaten over the head with these things.”

Corporate participation grew with more than 800 company teams involved; dedicated events were held for the finance, media and real estate industries.

Participants this year included Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers; Michael and Kevin Bacon of musical group The Bacon Brothers; Victor Cruz, NFL wide receiver; Alysia Reiner, actress; David Basche, actor; Mena Suvari, actress; A.C. Green, former NBA player; Bart Scott, CBS Sports NFL analyst and former NFL player; Shannon Miller, seven-time Olympic medalist; and more.

The Cycle for Survival community is dedicated to supporting innovative research that is changing

the way cancer is diagnosed and treated. About half of all Americans with cancer have rare forms of the disease, which include brain, ovarian, pancreatic, leukemia, lymphoma, all pediatric cancers and many others.

Rare cancer research is typically underfunded — often leaving patients with few or no proven treatment options.

As doctors and researchers pursue new treatments, Cycle for Survival provides urgently needed funding. To read about research breakthroughs made possible because of Cycle for Survival funding, go to www.cycleforsurvival. org/what-you-fund.

Visit www.cycleforsurvival. org to learn more about Cycle for Survival.

Cycle For Survival Raises A Record-Breaking $34 Million To Beat Rare Cancers

Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers, joined rare cancer survivors, patients, caregivers, doctors and supporters at a Cycle for Survival event in New York NEW YORK, Cycle for Survival, the movement to beat rare cancers, raised $34 million in 2017 through its indoor team cycling events — the most raised in a single year in the history of the movement. Cycle for Survival’s overall fundraising total since it started in 2007 is $140 million, of which $110 million was raised in the past four years. 100 percent of every dollar is allocated within six months to groundbreaking rare cancer research and clinical trials led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which owns and operates Cycle for Survival.

Cycle for Survival’s events

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were held in 16 cities across the country, each with rides led by world-class instructors from Equinox, the founding partner of the movement. In 2017, events took place in February and March in Boston; Bethesda, Md.; Chicago; Dallas; Greenwich, Conn.; Huntington Beach, Calif.; Long Island, N.Y.; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Palo Alto, Calif.; Paramus, N.J.; San Francisco; Seattle; Summit, N.J.; and Washington, D.C. Sponsors contributed greatly to the events: smartwater® is the official hydration sponsor, New Balance is the official apparel

sponsor and ICAP donates annually with a generous fundraising match.

Reaching significant fundraising milestones year after year, Cycle for Survival continues to earn recognition as the fastest-growing athletic fundraising event in the country.* Other record-breaking statistics this year include: More than 31,000 participants — including rare cancer survivors, patients, doctors, researchers, caregivers and supporters — rode in 2017.

More than 200,000 individuals donated to support the cause.

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Long-range effort will advance gender equity outdoors

By Desert Star Staff SEATTLE, -- Outdoor co-op REI today launched a comprehensive effort to advance gender equity in the outdoors, encouraging millions of its members to embrace the outdoors as “the world’s largest level playing field.”

From gear to experiences and from nonprofit partnerships to powerful women-first storytelling, Force of Nature aims to ensure that women are just as inspired and equipped as men to embrace life outside.

Force of Nature features four components: a comprehensive effort to change the maledominated imagery of people in the outdoors; a $1 million commitment in 2017 to support nonprofits that create opportunities for women in the outdoors; a stepped-up effort to develop and offer high-quality technical gear and apparel for women; and the launch of over 1,000 events designed for women, beginning May 6.

Force of Nature is a publicfacing effort that builds on nearly eight decades of REI work to create more access to the outdoors for women.

The co-op has a balanced leadership team. Women hold more than 40 percent of senior leadership roles, including the current chief financial officer, chief information officer, and the heads of human resources, merchandising and strategy.

One third of the REI board of directors are women.

Current CEO Jerry Stritzke, who succeeded previous CEO Sally Jewell, has publicly led the effort to advance women’s leadership across the outdoor industry. One of his first acts as CEO was to launch a five-year, $1.5 million effort with Camber Outdoors that sparked women’s innovation and leadership in the outdoor industry.

REI board chair, Cheryl Scott, said: “The leaders of REI have been pushing to change the way things are done in the outdoor industry since I got on the board 12 years ago.

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men – it’s about creating equal opportunity and levellingup in areas where there are still obvious gaps. I hope millions of REI members will embrace this because more balance outdoors means our kids, our families and our society will benefit.”

REI president and CEO, Jerry Stritzke, said: “At REI, we believe a life outdoors is a life well lived for all. That means we support equality from the backcountry to the boardroom. As a man and a CEO, I believe it is important for every leader in an organization, regardless of gender, to champion equality and we are doing the hard work here at REI to make that happen. This isn’t about elevating one group above another or pivoting REI to serve one gender over another. This is about ensuring women are just as inspired and equipped as men to embrace life outside.

Everyone should expect to get the same level of expert service, gear and experiences, and we need to get better as an industry at doing that.”

REI senior vice president of merchandising and board chair of Camber Outdoors, Susan Viscon, said: “Strong women leaders have helped REI thrive since 1938. Force of Nature is rooted in that proud heritage.

We’re taking an even harder run at ensuring women have access to the same highend gear men do, which I’m particularly proud of. That’s been a consistent part of my mission here at the coop ever since I joined 20 years ago, and it’s inspiring to see how our vendor partners have stepped up.”

Today, REI also published a national study commissioned to better understand the role the outdoors plays in women’s lives and how the outdoors is perceived today. The study revealed that 7 out of 10 women believe that women are under more pressure to conform than men, and that they also view the outdoors as an antidote to that pressure.

Additionally, the study found that more than 85 percent

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Outfitting Women for Outdoor Adventure REI will continue to work with its partners to elevate and invest in companies that are creating the world’s best outdoor gear for women. For decades, REI has pushed the outdoor industry to put the “pink-it-and-shrink-it” philosophy aside and offer high performance womenspecific outdoor gear.

Women-specific product has improved dramatically, but in certain product categories, there remains a gap between the quality of high end men’s and women’s gear available.

Several brands have stepped of women see the outdoors up as partners with an as key to better physical and increased focus on world class mental health, and overall women’s gear, particularly well-being, and 73 percent in women-specific fit and say they would like to spend assortment, including Osprey, more time outdoors.

GHOST, Oiselle, Arc’teryx, Changing the MaleTerry, Oboz, Darn Tough, Dominated Imagery of Outdoor Research and prAna. People Outdoors Over 1,000 Events The co-op has committed Designed to Get to putting women first and Women Outside foremost in all of its storytelling Beginning today, REI for the remainder of 2017. opened registration to The effort will “take over” hundreds of REI Outdoor REI’s digital marketing, School classes and social media content and experiences across the country media partnerships, and designed for women. On storytelling across member May 6, the co-op will offer communications, REI a full day of Force of Nature Adventures, Outdoor School, experiences and programs REI Adventure Projects and hosted by its Outdoor internal communications.

School’s expert instructors REI will host a film festival and community partners. this fall focused on women in These events will continue the outdoors, and partnered throughout the summer, with with Outside magazine to more than 1,000 events, many help them create their first of them happening weekly ever all-women’s issue, due on “Force Wednesdays” on newsstands April 11. in select markets. $1M to Support The co-op will also host Community Organizations three REI Outessa retreats that Create Opportunities at breathtaking mountain for Women Outdoors settings. These immersive, As part of its annual three-day outdoor adventures commitment to create access enable women to find their to the outdoors for all, the cooutdoor community, do what op will invest over $1 million in they love and try something community organizations that new in the country’s most create more opportunities for beautiful outdoor playgrounds. women and girls to get outside Retreats are scheduled at in 2017. Roughly $500,000 Kirkwood Mountain Resort in will support organizations California from July 14-16, Mt. such as Camber Outdoors, Hood in Oregon from August GirlTrek and the YMCA’s 18-20 and Waterville Valley BOLD/GOLD initiative. REI also Resort in New Hampshire unveiled a new $500,000 fund, from September 22-24. available through an open REI Adventures has also call submission process, for launched a collection of 19 additional organizations that Women’s Adventures in Africa, create opportunity for women Europe, Latin America, New and girls in the outdoors. Up Zealand and North America. to $300,000 of this fund will be These extraordinary journeys fueled by a custom-designed are designed specifically bandana, an artist collaborative for all-women groups and T-shirt and memberled by female guides.

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HOROSCOPES ARIES

Everything changed for you when Mars entered Aries.

Your energy lifted and became more available. You also felt more impatient, wanting to move forward, engage in new enterprises, make new impressions in the world. You might feel the need to assume leadership over everyone and everything. Careful. Be kind.

Be a leader, but understand you move more quickly than others. Always have love.

TAURUS You tell everyone you’d rather remain at home and research and not go out and about for a long time. You want to catch up on tasks not tended to the past many years.

Needing to maintain reserves of energy to get through each day, you need privacy and solitude. Many previously learned behaviors may arise.

Observe them. Consider, are they useful? You may dream more. Record all dreams. Over time they tell you a story.

GEMINI You need to participate in your affiliations and groups of friends, seeking their cooperation in either working on a project with you or listening to you with care and intention so you can clarify your thinking. If leading a group, teach cooperation, organize them as a team to achieve

APRIL 5 – 11, 2017 ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST BY RISA D’ANGELES

a particular goal. Ask each member their hopes, wishes, dreams and aspirations for the future. You’re achieving Aquarian goals. You’re mentoring humanitarianism.

CANCER You want to be recognized for your knowledge, abilities, and what you accomplish each day. It’s good to want this recognition for it stimulates your ability to share and provide information to others. Many are in need of real and true information. You always ask the question, “What is real and true?” When we ask, the answers are always given.

For those seeking new work or a job, after mid-May step forward into the world.

LEO You may feel a hunger for things far from your usual life and ways of living. Other cultures, people, places and things seem to be summoning you in subtle persistent ways.

You’re restless for new realities, a new adventure. You need new activities, conversations, goals, new subjects to study.

An outer fire blends with your inner Leo fire. Everything you seek will appear. Careful with legal issues. Cultivate patience.

this. Relationships will be the challenge, the wound, the confusion. It may be good to consult with someone concerning how to settle differences and how to allow everyone to be heard. Careful with impatience and ending

LIBRA things too quickly. Reconcile with those you have had differences. Love more.

LIBRA: Life seems to be accelerating, moving faster each day. Sometimes those around you move too quickly and you feel left behind.

Perhaps you’re working too hard and too long.

Even though you may have abundant energy, tend to your health, make tending

SCORPIO to your health a consistent daily practice. Careful with inflammation and infections.

Slow down on glutens, grains and all sweets. Eat apples.

Be calm with co-workers.

SCORPIO: Intimacy is important for you at this time.

There are many types of intimacy - from friendship to lovers, intimacy of the mind, the heart, and physical intimacy.

Things held in common with another is an intimacy. Knowing

and a new intimacy begins.

Both affect you deeply. Be aware of your subtle feelings.

Realize what you need. Ask for it. Intimates will help.

SAGITTARIUS: There’s so much energy flowing through your body and mind you simply can’t seem to find selfdiscipline. That’s OK if you use that unbounded energy for creative activities. You could also find children, or those

and scattered and so you try to share these ideas with others but so many errands

Risa D’Angeles is the founder and director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies Research Institute: Risa’s Esoteric Astrology. She can be reached at risagoodwill@gmail.com.

in 2016, the largest number in more than two decades, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.

Though phone distractions are not the definitive reason for the spike in pedestrian deaths, the author of the GHSA report said it is the likely culprit.

“It’s the only factor that that seems to indicate a dramatic change in how people behave,” said Richard Retting, safety director for Sam Schwartz Transportation Consultants.

and tasks come in between you and sharing with others that you feel frustrated and can move into arguments if you’re not careful. Realizing you could feel impatient and impulsive be careful driving and when using machinery, scissors CAPRICORN or knives (while cooking).

Your inventive original mind who are child-like, to play with. slowly reveals your future.

Romantic things are good too PISCES: It’s a good time to and your love life may sense create a journal of values a deeper level of passion. (past, present and future Make sure you get enough values, aspirations). Often sleep. Don’t risk anything by we can ascertain values by gambling. Play (innocently) deciding what we need. Tend more. Reveal yourself more. to monetary issues – bank CAPRICORN: Much of your accounts, taxes, insurance, energy is focused at home inheritances, precious metals, or where your domestic self etc. With Venus continuing resides. You’re highly instinctual its retrograde, money, values at this time and protective. It’s and resources need attention. important that you feel secure Have you changed to a local because you are called to make bank yet? If not, do so. Don’t important decisions concerning impulse buy. It’s important family and the home. When to acknowledge your value and worth. Meditation AQUARIUS upon the self is good.

You may be called to be more cooperative and this may be a challenge. But you can do

your values is an intimate level concerning the self.

Sometimes, intimacies end

feeling unusually moody or frustrated tend to home repairs and re-arrange family activities.

Step back if arguments begin.

Old emotional issues may resurface. They’ve arrived for review. Soothe them.

Then they disappear.

AQUARIUS: So many ideas and plans on your mind that you feel a bit overwhelmed

Chicago Tribune. “It’s a fairly dominant factor in determining whether you have a crash.”

The alarming statistics revealed in the study come as the number of traffic fatalities have jumped by 14 percent since 2015, the largest twoyear increase in the US in five decades, according to the National Safety Council.

The CMT study involved data of more than 100,000 drivers over 18 months. During driving trips that resulted in a crash, the average length of distraction was 135 seconds. Phone distraction occurred for two minutes or more during 20 percent of distracted drives, CMT said.

The top 10 percent of distracted drivers are 2.3 times more likely to be in a crash than the average driver, and 5.8 times more likely than the least distracted of drivers, CMT found.

Furthermore, CMT said laws that seek to curb phone use among drivers are “only marginally effective,” and “that states with anti-cellphone laws have only slightly safer drivers than those that don’t.”

The study found the average duration of phone distraction per 100 miles of driving is 3.17 minutes for drivers in states with laws against all handheld devices; 3.25 minutes for states with laws against handheld devices for drivers under the age of 18; and 3.82 minutes for states with no laws that address handheld devices among drivers.

While phones seem to be a major part of increased danger on the road, Balakrishnan

said “smartphones hold the solution to the problem they created. Drivers now have access to tools that analyze their driving and achieve real behavioral change through immediate and ongoing feedback.” The company said its telematics apps can help reduce distracted driving.

Last week, phone use by drivers was blamed in part for the rising death toll of pedestrians killed by motorists in the US. Pedestrian deaths reached nearly 6,000

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Half of car crashes involve people distracted by mobile phones

By Desert Star Staff Driving data of more than 100,000 vehicle operators show that half of car crashes involved a driver distracted by a phone at some point in the trip, while one in four drivers used a phone within a minute of a crash, according to a new study.

In coordination with Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) released a study on Monday underscoring that phone distractions are a major source of dangerous driving and car wrecks in the US. The company creates mobile apps that measure driving behavior.

One in four drivers who crashed were using a phone during or mere moments before the accident, CMT said.

Meanwhile, distracted driving occurred at some point during 52 percent of car trips that resulted in a crash, CMT’s study found.

“This is a big problem for drivers and bikes and pedestrians,” said Hari Balakrishnan, chief technology officer of CMT, according to the

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BY THEDA KLEINHANS REICHMAN

‘Beauty and the Beast’--A Tale As Old As Time

“Beauty and the Beast” really is a tale as old as time.

The French fairytale, written

by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, dates back to 1748. The love story between a beauty and an enchanted beast who is actually a prince has inspired filmmakers like Jean Cocteau in 1946 and Disney animators in 1991.

That delightful 84 minute animated classic garnered an Oscar nomination, but sadly lost out to “Silence of the Lambs.” Now 26 years later Disney has brought the story back to the silver screen. This time with live performances for the most part. Only the prince’s household staff have been

transformed into computer generated characters. The candelabra, a clock, a teapot, a flirty feather duster, a grand piano and a wardrobe are voiced respectively by Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Stanley Tucci and Audra McDonald.

The film opens, just as in the earlier version, with Belle (Emma Watson of “Harry Potter” fame) walking through her village with her nose “stuck in a book.” Being well read is considered by all to be strange and peculiar.

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she has caught the eye of Gaston (Luke Evans). He is handsome, virile and totally in love with himself. He is also determined to marry Belle, even though every other maiden in the town would be happy to be his bride. To him Belle is the most beautiful girl in the village, and therefore she is the only one he plans to marry. Belle’s disdain only fuels his ego and desire. His pal LeFou (Josh Gad, the voice of the Snowman in “Frozen”) tries to change his mind but is unsuccessful.

Her loving father (Kevin Kline) is also considered odd by the townsfolk. Early in the story he departs on a journey for supplies and Belle asks him to bring her a rose upon his return--something he has always done. On the way back he takes a wrong turn and due to a heavy snowstorm arrives at the enchanted castle of the beast. He picks one rose to take home, then enters the enormous palace. He is captured by the beast and imprisoned for the theft.

When the horse returns alone, Belle rides back to try to find her father. She finds him in the castle prison and begs the beast to set him free, offering to take his place. This delights the enchanted household staff who are certain she is the one who will free them all from the curse cast upon the prince years earlier by a sorceress he treated unkindly.

The songs from the original version remain, like “Be Our Guest,” sung as she is invited to dine by the candelabra. And over time we enjoy how she learns to care about the beast. As in the 1991 Disney version, the storyline remains the same, but the animated film’s 84 minutes have been expanded to 129 minutes with some additional story material and a few new

Belle’s dress is on view at the El Capitan Theatre. Photo by Richard Reichman songs composed now by Alan Menken and Tim Rice One added story element that seems out of place deals with a magical book from the beast’s vast library that enables Belle to go back in time to see how her mother died of the plague. This was the reason why she and her father left Paris and moved to their provincial village when she was a small child.

What does work beautifully is how she and the enchanted prince (Dan Stevens) learn to care about one another. Though he has the appearance of a large beast, complete with horns and a tail, he appreciates the books in his library, including the magical one that takes them back into Belle’s past. Gaston may be handsome, but the enchanted prince shares her love of reading and is at heart a kind and loving being..

Stevens, despite his appearance as a large beast, wins over his dainty little guest after he saves her life when she is attacked by wolves as she tries to escape.

Her feelings deepen even further when he sets her free to help her father who is in great danger from the townspeople and Gaston.

The look of the film is opulent and Belle’s ball gown is said to have taken 12,000 hours to create, using 180 feet of satin organza and 2,160 Swarovski crystals. My little grand niece, who saw the film before I did, gave the move an enthusiastic thumb’s up, and I totally agree.

“Beauty and the Beast” was directed by Bill Condon (2006’s “Dreamgirls”) and is rated PG for some action violence, peril and frightening images. Running time 2 hours and 9 minutes.

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“Beauty and the Beast” will be playing at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood through April 30th. Prior to the film there is a dazzling light and projection show to put you in a magical mood.

Then after the movie be sure to go downstairs to see the exhibit of beautiful costumes and imaginative props from “Beauty and the Beast.” In the lobby area, in a large display case, is the actual crystal container for the rose used in the film. It is a perfect place to take a photo to commemorate your experience. Also check out the gift and candy store at the theatre where you can buy toys and character dolls from the movie or enjoy an ice cream treat.

Another fun thing you can do is schedule a “Beauty and the Beast” birthday party with cake and ice cream. Kids will also enjoy craft making as well. To find out more about scheduling a “Beauty and the Beast birthday party event call (818) 845-3110.

Disney’s premier movie theatre El Capitan is located at 6838 Hollywood Blvd.

For more information call 1-800-DISNEY6 or visit www.elcapitantickets.com.

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T H E AT R E R E V I E W

BY BEVERLY COHN

U.S. Premiere of The Actors’ Gang “Harlequino: On to Freedom” production would be worth its masks without a love story and indeed that is present.

Isabella, played by an adorable Lee Margaret Hanson, is in love with Mario, hilariously played by Adam Jefferies.

Their characterizations are outrageously over the top and are just one integral part of the pandemonium. They often lovingly bicker such as Isabella saying, “You see the worm in the dirt. I see the flower.” But as any noble lover would declare, “I’d rather be dead than to live without her.” But alas her father wants her to marry an Army captain, ironically also played by Adam Jefferies, who she challenges to a duel.

L-R: Cihan Sahin, Adam Jefferies, Julia Finch, Guebri VanOver, & Stephanie Pinnock in one of the many rousing Robbins is a keen wordsmith and at times production numbers. Photo by Ashley Randall takes a single thought and breaks out and the stage comically twists and turns it Utilizing these traditional Commedia dell’Arte is is filled with actors dressed until it reaches absurdity. For archetypes, Tim Robbins has a style of theatre created in in traditional costumes and example, there is a funny written and brilliantly directed, 16th century Italy. With its exaggerated clownish makeup. riff by the doctor discussing “Harlequino: On to Freedom” highly stylized, broad method They keep interrupting the how many ways a medical “A Musical Celebration of of acting, its primary purpose, lecture injecting opinions that problem with a man’s penis the Rebel Slave, wonderfully besides being “entertaining,” are not part of that “tradition.” can be described. They range played by Joshua Lamont. was to illuminate how foolish Pantalone (Pierre Adeli) refers from “Smelly urine of your With his mask covering the the upper class was and to Harlequino sayings, “He is schlong,” to “A problem with upper part of his face and a how their servants became not a slave – he’s a servant,” your cum gun, or “A clog in strong physicalization, it is enmeshed in their masters’ silly to which Harlequino quickly your hot dog.” Oh yes. He through him that we see the machinations. Traditionally, a replies “No. I’m a slave.” admits he hates being near sick exploration of both ludicrous troupe would travel around Italy In this wonderful theatrical people. But fear not. There and provocative ideas, as well performing in town squares. tradition, the upper classes are also poetic lines such as as actions that keep men in Masks to disguise the actors are made to look very foolish. ““A butterfly on the nose of a chains, literally and figuratively. were worn probably to hide For example, one of these silly unicorn.” Again, incorporating The rollicking first act their identities as several actors men says, “My wealth erases Robbins’ continuous begins with Dr. Ignatius were actually killed following a Afterword (Bob Turton) and my age.”

The entire evening commitment to illuminating the performance. One had to tread Dr. Phineus Preamble (Will is filled with laughter, beautiful human condition, we hear such lightly on how much to express, McFadden) breaking the fourth ensemble work, and as we lines as, “Why does mankind but the more outrageously wall, speaking directly to the have come to expect from Mr. constantly conspire against funny the presentation, audience. This theatrical device Robbins, his left wing political itself,” or “Why will man never the more they could put is utilized throughout the play. bent is deftly woven into the be content?” One line, which over on the ruling class.

The good doctors are trying to crisp dialogue so that we are stuck out for me in particular All of the stock characters moving back and forth between was, “Do you hate freedom so do a slide show lecture on the in Commedia dell’Arte can be 1530 and the dangerous much that you would refuse identified as one of three types: origins of Commedia del’Arte. political climate, which we to die for those who promise Before long, sheer bedlam Master, Servant, and Lovers. are currently facing. Modern you freedom.” So much references, such as water goes on during this two-act boarding, building a wall, and play and there’s never a dull student loan debt, are craftily moment. Whirling dervishes laced into the dialogue without would be an apt description. losing the stylized reality of the Other members of this time and place of the action. very talented, highly trained No Commedia del’Arte in improvisation and creating

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Most of this versatile cast effectively plays multiple roles.

In describing the look of this production, the word kaleidoscope of vibrant colors comes to mind. Beginning with the outstanding period costumes designed by Olivia Courtin, to the complementary lighting by Bosco Flanagan, and of course the book, music and lyrics by Robbins. Under his crack direction, all the elements come together to form a cohesive, rare evening of theatre, manifesting in an outlandish combination of high and low comedy, telling the story of love and resistance in an authoritarian society.

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The Desert Spirit Gala

Lori Nelson, Honoree, Erin Burnham, Melissa Neiderman and Nicole Chapman.

Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause The 28th Annual Desert Spirit Gala, Pineapples and Palms event was held on March 28th at the fabulous Heckman Estate in Rancho Mirage. This is the Desert’s Premiur gala to raise funds to fight cancer. This event is sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Co-chairs for the event were Gayle Kaegy, Renae Madore, with Melissa Neiderman as Advisory Chair

and Alfie Pettit and Honorary Chair. Gold Plus Sponsor was Harold Matzner.

Guests arrived to valet parking and cocktails. Waiters came around with local beers and wine to guests in line for registering, always taking care of the guests. Karen Devine took over duties as Emcee.

Vendors lined the grassy areas with a variety of foods, beers and spirits. Everyone took a plate to get the foods and

Teresa Whipple, Honoree-Janet K. Ihde M.D and Honoree-Monica Khanna M.D. with Aubrey and Lori Serfling. Photo by Pat Krause

drinks they chose and took them to the many tables and chairs that filled the lawn area.

The program started with Hawaian dancers form the Kekaiulu Hula Studio.

The women and young girls showed how they can shake their hips in grass skirts to the beating of the drums.

Men and women were all in Hawaian costumes with large headgear of feathers. Guests were all around the stage area

watching and taking photos in awe of the dancing. A spirit of the Mission Presentation Award was awarded to Monica Khanna M.D and Janet K. Ihde M.D. The Celebration of Life honoree was Cancer Survivor, Arin Burnham, owner and operator of Smokin Burgers with her husband Tim. Many guests came in Hawaian costumes to be a part of the event. Actor John

The Annual Art Museum Gala

Honoree-Trina Turk and Jonathan Skow. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause The yearly Art Museum Gala was held on March 25th at the Art Museum in Palm Springs. The event was chaired by Donna MacMillan and Elizabeth Armstrong. This year’s honoree was fashion designer Trina Turk. MacMillan and Armstrong came onto the stage in black wigs similar to the hair style of Trina Turk.

They showed a video of the styles of Trina Turk who has

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a business in Palm Springs.

Guests walked the ramp down to the garden area for cocktails and appetizers.

Each guest was greeted by Michael Miner a Diane Rubin and posed for a photo in all their finery. Numerous posed by a multicolored mannequin who was indicative of the colorful designs by Trina Turk. The theme this year was, Embracing the Abstract. Double platinum

Callahan and Pro Baseball legend Johnny Bench served as Auctioneers. Host Restauranteur was Chef Drew J. Davis from Catalan Mediterranean Cuisine spoke to the crowd and was also a vendor at the event. There were almost 20 local vendors providing the food and drinks that helped raise money for the American Cancer Society.

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Greg Renker, Shellie Reade and Harold Matzner. Photo by Pat Krause donors were Donna MacMillan, Harold Matzner, JoAnn McGrath with Stacey and Greg Renker. So many other Platinum, Gold and Silver guests were sponsors for this extravaganza event.

The hundreds of guests filled the Annenberg Theatre to a different style of Entertainment. 7 members of ENRA, an oriental group of dancers who dance to a video screen of black-and-

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white background graphics.

The dancers were in sync with every movement that was shown on the screen. Like kicking a ball, touching things on the screen with their hands and feet and never missing a moment. They synchronized every movement with the music too. They finished their dancing to a standing ovation by the audience.

Guests went to the main level for a delicious dinner

of salad, Korean BBQ ribs and Almost Shrimp with a scrumptious dessert of cake and chocolate mousse.

Guests were treated to music by a Saxon player during dessert. There were about 340 people attending that enjoyed watching models painted in neon moving on pedestal and watching them being painted.

Guests could meet and greet honoree Trina Turk and her husband Jonathan Skow.

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Heatwave Jazz and Show Band

Heatwave is a Professional Youth Band sponsored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Coachella Valley

By Shirley Brenon Do you need a trio, sextet or professional jazz and show band for your next party or event? If so, keep this group of musical students in mind, as they can play any type of music you need. They’ve played at weddings, art museums, libraries, Humana Golf Tournaments, Country Club parties and charity events.

They played the opening for America’s got Talent Variety Show, Disney World in Orlando and recording studios in Nashville, Los Angeles and Skywalker Sound. They can play big band, Jazz, Pop 40 or R and B. Basically, their repertoire includes everything from Glen Miller to Adele.

This Heatwave Jazz and Show Band was created in the fall of 2007 as an after school program to further enhance music at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Coachella Valley.

Their aim was to educate young musicians in real world skills and experiences in the music industry. In the early years, they were based in the La Quinta Club but now have a home of their own in the Pete & Edna Carlson Music Club in Palm Desert.

Musical Staff Jim Little, their founder and first director has an extensive background in music education in Portland and when he moved to the desert he started an elementary school music program in Coachella Valley.

Several years later, The Boys and Girls Club received a music grant and asked him to put a musical program together for them. He formed a middle

school band, a high school band and a drum line, but within a year they were combined, as there was no grant for the second year. However, this combined group of 30 young musicians became a traveling band that performed160 gigs a year, but have now cut back to about 120. Little talked about how the students manage their homework and band schedule. “We teach life skills as well as music, as we teach the students to plan ahead, get their homework done, know their music and be at the performances on time, and they do a good job of it.”

Little’s title has just changed to executive director as he has formed another Heatwave band in Portland which he is overseeing, but it is run by his grandson. He will be traveling a lot between the two cities.

Administrative Director Audrey Shuman has also been with the group since the beginning. She graduated from Indio High School, attended Cal State Sacramento on a scholarship and played oboe in the Liberace Woodwind Quintet. Next, she moved to her first choice school, BYU, but couldn’t figure out what she wanted to do with music, so she came home, married and had children. She now says that she has the perfect job and talked about mentoring skills, “We believe in hooking the students on music and then educating them later. Some children quit piano lessons because they don’t like the songs or are bored with the scales. We try to give them music they love and then they can’t wait to learn it. Also, we never discourage them from

trying a song that is difficult.

We tell them to just give it a try and see how it goes. I feel that once they are into music then I can help them find their path.”

Musical Director Tomas Granillo was taught to play drums by his brother and admitted that he was very sure of himself and cocky when he joined Heatwave Band at age 16. He explained, “My head was so big that I had to go through the door sideways.

Fortunately, director Jim Little settled me down and taught me to appreciate the band and myself.” Granillo went on to attend Riverside Community College for three years and then UC Irvine, graduating with honors in performance jazz and composition. He always stopped in to help with the band when he was in town and then in June 2015 he became the musical director. He also gives drumming and music theory lessons. He said, “This is not a school band. It is a professional group and the young musicians are here because they want to be. They are a real joy.”

The Heatwave jazz and show band is now a core group of 13 musicians, ages 12 – 19, all with the right attitude. The student musicians, members of the Boys and Girls Club, enjoy weekly after school music lessons from some of the top music professionals in the business in subjects such as stage performance, harmonies and musicianship. There is also hands-on experience for those enrolled in the engineering and recording programs. Each year these musicians take a spring tour to places like the Monterey Jazz Festival,

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feature 32 tracks. Dayton, Ohio-spawned Guided by Voices has been a leading artistic voice on the indie rock scene since the mid-1980s and it’s fitting that the group will bring its mix of indie rock, punk, lo-fi and prog rock to Indio. The strength of the first single from the new album, the dynamic “Hiking Skin,” has further excited the faithful.

The highly-anticipated return of Radiohead to Coachella is especially sweet because a majority of the band’s Southern California fans couldn’t get into their two Shrine Auditorium performances in Los Angeles in August 2016. The British rock quartet’s upcoming appearances at Coachella (their first at the festival since 2012) mark a chance to see the band play material off their ninth studio album, 2016’s

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“A Moon Shaped Pool.” That album was one of the best of 2016 and immerses listeners in a world blending acoustic, symphonic and electronic soundscapes adorned with intoxicating rhythms, sound effects and singer Thom Yorke’s ethereal vocals.

Saturdays, April 15 and 22 There has been a burgeoning buzz about DREAMCAR, a new supergroup teaming No Doubt’s Tony Kanal (bass), Tom Dumont (guitar) and Adrian Young (drums) with AFI frontman Davey Havok (lead vocals). The first single off the quartet’s forthcoming Columbia Records debut, the infectious single “Kill For Candy,” has a thrilling ‘80s new wave sound that recalls early Flock of Seagulls.

Local Natives are arriving at Coachella less than a month after the release of

their excellent new single “I Saw You Close Your Eyes.”

The song is awash in dreamy synths and a lush sound. One of Los Angeles’ most hailed young artists, Local Natives released their much-praised third full-length album “Sunlit Youth” in September 2016.

Northern Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club impressed me mightily when I caught them at Coachella in April 2013. And now they are back, set to perform in support of their latest album, the danceminded “Gameshow.” The lead-off track “Are We Ready?” and classic band cuts such as “What You Know” and “Sun” will transform the Empire Polo Club into a dance floor.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga, arrives at Coachella at the top of her game, having been featured at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 5, 2017; that April 5, 2017

Band members Luis and Isabella Ruelas with their mom Maria in the middle. Photo by Murray Ross.

Las Vegas or Arizona. Soon they will start recruiting band members for their beginning band called Sizzle, which will give the students a chance to work on their instrument skills during the summer so they can be ready to play in the fall.

money playing concerts. The group has a 501 C3 designation and one of their generous supporters is Pete & Edna Carlson from Pete Carlson’s Golf and Tennis in Palm Desert.

The Carlson’s also offer exciting jazz group performances every Saturday night during season Financing at their Golf and Tennis store The band is currently and donate a portion of the funded by the Boys and Girls proceedings to Heatwave.

Club of Coachella Valley in Go to www.heatwaveband. addition to private donations; org for more information on the however funding needs are band or call 760 406-2514. often three to four times more Go to petecarlsonsgolf. than they have so the band uses com for the jazz concert season their skills as musicians to earn schedule or call 760 568-3263 performance attracted more than 150 million viewers across television and other platforms, exceeding the number of viewers who watched the football game! Now Lady Gaga is set to bring her personae and parade of hits to the main Coachella stage.

Sundays, April 16 and 23 Baltimore-based trio Future Islands is set to release their latest album “The Far Field” on April 7. As of this writer’s deadline, two songs from that LP had been released, including the introspective “Ran” and electronica juggernaut “Cave.” Anticipation to see Future Islands perform those and other songs from that disc should make the Coachella sets especially great.

Composer Hans Zimmer has scored a number of iconic scores since the 1980s, including “The Lion King,” “Gladiator,” “The Dark Knight Trilogy” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Because his scores are well recognized for fusing electronic music

with traditional symphonic traditions, it makes sense that Zimmer would bring his music to a setting such as Coachella. To be sure, Zimmer will be on stage performing some of his most beloved compositions surrounded by dozens of top-tier musicians for a dramatic presentation.

New Order’s appearance on the main stage at Coachella back in 2005 remains one of my all-time favorite festival performances, with the Bernard Sumner-led quintet featuring amazing original material off its then-new release “Waiting for the Sirens’ Call.” Now the groundbreaking band out of Manchester, England is returning to Indio on the heels of the release of its latest masterwork, the aptly-titled “Music Complete” that was issued in late 2015. The group’s shimmering electronic-adorned synthpop sound is ideally suited to a festival setting.

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Later Life, by A.R. Gurney set to Open At CVRep

A Comedy that Poses the Question - “If You Were Given a Second Chance at Love, Would You Be Brave Enough to Take It?”

William Fair

By Desert Star Staff Rancho Mirage, CA – March 30, 2017 - The Coachella Valley Repertory (CVRep), located in Rancho Mirage at The Atrium, has announced it will offer the A.R. Gurney comedy, Later Life as its final main stage production of the 2016-2017 season.

Exemplifying CVRep’s current season’s theme of “Love, Marriage and Life Changing Events,” Later Life

by Obie and Drama Desk Award-Winning Playwright A.R. Gurney is a delightfully touching comedy about Austin, a divorced, often-times depressed, banker in his 50s who attends a party around the corner from his Beacon Street apartment where he meets Ruth, a woman with whom he almost had an affair many years ago. Austin is an extremely pessimistic man who has spent his entire life believing that something terrible is going to happen to him. Ruth, a multiple divorcee whose life is in turmoil warmly welcomes his attentions while trying to loosen his grip on depression. As they fan the flames of their past attraction, their mutual friends look to Austin as Ruth’s last shot at normalcy. Austin and Ruth comically and sometimes painfully rediscover each other and themselves while free-spirited party guests rally to remind them of the infinite possibilities that life holds, should one only choose to pursue them.

Directed by Luke Yankee, Later Life will star William Fair as Austin and Barbara Niles as Ruth, with both Teri Bibb and Joel Bryant playing multiple roles. The comedy will enjoy a four- week run from April 28 to May 21, 2017 at the CVRep Theatre located in the Atrium 69-930 Highway 111 in Rancho Mirage. Individual tickets are $48 / Previews $43 / Opening Night $58 (includes post show reception) To order tickets or for more information, please www.desertstarweekly.com

Barbara Niles call 760-296-2966 or visit the website at cvrep.org.

BIOGRAPHIES WILLIAM FAIR: William Fair is thrilled to be making his first appearance on the CVRep stage in Later Life. As an actor, he has appeared on stage, screen and television, most recently on the boards playing John Barrymore’s ghost in I Hate Hamlet at the MTA. Other recent work includes roles in Death Trap, Lillian Hellman’s, Watch on the Rhine, King Henry in The Lion In Winter, as well as playing Andrew Ladd in another A.R. Gurney play, Love Letters.

William also works the other side of the lights as a writer, director, producer and was one of the original founders of the Mountain Shakespeare Festival and the Mountain Theater Alliance, both small acting companies in the mountain community, north of Los Angeles.

Teri Bibb Feiffer’s People, Oh Coward, and Molly in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. In L.A. she has continued to do theatre: Broads at the El Portal Theatre, Labor Pains, The Actors Nightmare, Bend in the Road at the Pasadena Playhouse, to name a few and most recently, Fiddler on the Roof at the Norris playing Golde.

She performs with Sound of Musical, a musical theatre acapella group. Barbara was lucky enough to do one of the first readings of Luke Yankees play-The Last Lifeboat.

Barbara is also a VO artist, teaches VO technique, and directs and is the VO booth director for McCarrell & Associates.

Thank you, George, for your devotion and support.

Joel Bryant a Song. www.TeriBibb.com JOEL BRYANT: Joel is excited to be back on the CVRep stage after his Desert Theatre League nominated performance in Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune in 2014! THEATRE: Moonlight & Magnolias (Rubicon Theatre, BroadwayWorld nominee Best Actor), The Boomerang Effect (Zephyr Theatre), ART (Hermosa Beach Playhouse), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Hudson Stage), Monna Vanna (Stella Adler Theatre), Texas Shakespeare Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

FILM: Wrong Cops, The Heartbreak Kid, Valkyrie, Ribbons, Baby Blues, Music Within, Deadly Impact..

TV: You Are Nothing, L.A. Macabre, Revenge, Harry’s Law, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Monk. INTERNET: Welcome to Sanditon, Save the Supers, After Judgment (Streamy Nominee, Best Actor). As a standup comedian or with comedy partner/wife Deven Green, he’s performed all over North America, for military in the Middle East and numerous fund-raisers, comedy festivals and corporate events. He’s a sought-after Host & MC for TV, corporate events, and charities (APLA Health, Team 2 End AIDS, Disabled Vets). He dedicates every performance to Deven, his partner in comedy, love and life. www.joelBryant.net

TERI BIBB: Teri is happy to be making her debut at CV Rep. Her Broadway credits include over 1,000 performances as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, BARBARA NILES: including the National Tour, Barbara is thrilled to be earning a Helen Hayes Award working at CVRep. Originally nomination and a Carbonell from NYC, where she spent Award. Also on Broadway, Teri most of her professional life played Amalia in She Loves (over 100 plays and musicals), Me (standby). Regional credits she came to LA for a quick include the world premiere stay, fell madly in love and of Songs from the Tall Grass stayed. On Broadway, she (Mother) at the Ford’s Theatre re-created the role of Mary in Washington D.C., Ellen Magdalene in the first revival Terry in Children of the Night of Jesus Christ Superstar, (Ovation nom.) at the Beverly starred in Hal David’s and Hills Playhouse and 2 seasons Michel Legrand’s first B’way as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas show together -Brainchild, and Carol at the Rubicon Theatre. was lucky enough to standby Teri has been a featured soloist for the amazing Millicent at Carnegie Hall, London’s Martin in Noel, opposite Royal Albert Hall, Belfast’s the Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Odyssey Arena and Radio City Holmes). She also learned to Music Hall (duets with José speak Yiddish phonetically Carreras), and has sung with to play a role on B’way in orchestras across the U.S. Oy Mama Am I in Love.

She has guest starred on TV, National tours, Off-Bway been a supporting player on and regional credits include film, and has sung on several Oklahoma (Ado Annie), Grown film scores, including Ice Age Ups, Amanda in Private Lives. and Polar Express. She was Godspell, Berlin to Broadway, also a guest soloist on ABC’s Tintypes (she played the Emma Dancing with the Stars and Goldman role and got to roller- is currently playing theatres skate across the stage while across the country with her playing the violin and singing). new solo concert, Once Upon April 5, 2017

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MUSIC Soul, blues, rock, jazz, punk on tap via new LPs

BY ROBERT KINSLER

(a moving interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire,” the original “Crying Over You”), virtuoso musicianship showcases (Trucks’ stratospheric slide Artist: Tedeschi Trucks Band guitar work shines everywhere, including on the original “Let Title: Live From the Me Get By” and a short cover Fox Oakland (Concord of George Harrison’s “Within Music Group) You, Without You”), blues (“Just You might like if you as Strange,” a fantastic take enjoy: Derek Trucks, on Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “I Pity Susan Tedeschi the Fool” featuring Tedeschi’s Tell me more: One of potent soprano). Information: modern music’s most exciting live ensembles, it is no wonder TedeschiTrucksBand.com. that the Tedeschi Trucks Band’s new two-disc concert recording Artist: Southern Avenue “Live From the Fox Oakland” Title: Southern is such a treasure. Recorded Avenue (Stax) in a single night, the release You might like if you captures singer-guitarist Susan enjoy: Bonnie Raitt, Ruthie Foster, Susan Tedeschi Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Tell me more: There is Trucks and their 10-member plenty of soul on the self-titled group showcasing their widedebut from Memphis-based ranging approach to music making. The talented troupe quintet Southern Avenue. excels in performing Allman Anchored by church-trained Brothers Band-styled Southern sisters Tierinii Jackson (lead jam rock (an 11-minute version vocals) and Tikyra Jackson of Derek and the Dominos’ (drums, percussion), the “Keep On Growing”), soul group also includes guitar Ori

Naftaly, bassist Daniel McKee and keyboardist Jeremy Powell. The young group’s rich understanding of soul, blues and R&B manifests itself via 10 solid tracks, including the uptempo original “Don’t Give Up” (featuring slide guitar work from guest Luther Dickinson), the heartfelt ballad “Love Me Right” and the infectious blues rocker “No Time to Lose” (featuring some hot fretwork from Naftaly). Additional notable guest players who join Southern Avenue include trumpeter Marc Franklin of the Bo-Keys, sax player Kevin Houston and trombonist Suavo Jones. Information: SouthernAvenueBand.com.

hitting punk rock that shines thanks to solid and memorable songs delivered with fire and precision. The classic album has been reissued by seven bonus tracks and is essential for fans of the Los Angeles band. The material ranges from blistering punk tracks where singer-guitarist Kim Shattuck’s voice is at a scream (the apt “That Awful Man,” “Nothing”) to beautiful alternative gems (“Honeymoon,” “All Blue Baby,” “Where Only I Could Go”). Produced by the Muffs, “Happy Birthday To Me” is a timeless collection from one of Southern California’s greatest punk artists. Information: OmnivoreRecordings.com.

Artist: The Muffs Title: Happy Birthday To Me (Omnivore Recordings) You might like if you enjoy: The Muffs, The Pandoras, The Pixies Tell me more: The reissue of The Muffs’ 1997 album “Happy Birthday To Me” is filled with raucous, hard-

Artist: Raul Midon Title: Bad Ass and Blind (Mack Ave / Artistry Music) You might like if you enjoy: Beck, Tell me more: If originality counts, than singer-songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Raul Midon is on the right track.

On “Bad Ass and Blind,” his

KMIR News Staff Riverside, CA -Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon will join city and county officials in Riverside today to discuss the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017- SB 1, co-authored

by Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose) and Assemblymember Jim L. Frazier Jr. (D-Discovery Bay) - which invests $52.4 billion over the next decade to fix roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California and put more dollars toward transit and safety.

Gov. Jerry Brown will join state and local representatives in Riverside today to make his case for hiking gasoline taxes to pay for road repairs.

Brown is scheduled to stand with Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-South Gate, Senate President Pro

scotch its chances of reaching the governor’s desk. Among Inland Empire lawmakers, Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, has come out against it, along with Sen. Jeff Stone, R-Palm Desert, Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, and Assemblyman Chad Mayes, R-Beaumont.

Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Indio, and has vowed to join Medina in supporting the proposal.

Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes, D-Corona, said today that she is undecided.

The California Trucking Association issued a statement Monday in support of the bill, hailing it as an ``infrastructure package that will fix our roads, make vital upgrades to our freight system and protect the $200 million a year truckers invest in the cleanest, most efficient equipment available.’’

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has railed against the gas tax package, saying it’s the product of tax-and-spend ``Sacramento politicians and special interests.’’ ``The state collects one of the highest gas taxes in the nation, but do they spend it all on roads and highways? No,’’ HJTA Director Jon Coupal said Sunday. ``Much of the money we pay in car taxes, truck fees and gas taxes is diverted. So, a gas and car tax increase means we would be paying twice for the same service.’’

Last week, in announcing the push to pass SB 1, Brown pointed out that ``California has a massive backlog of broken infrastructure that has been neglected far too long.’’ ``Fixing the roads will not get cheaper by waiting, or ignoring the problem,’’ he said. ``This is a smart plan that will improve the

Four new collections are highlighted this week, and all are worth seeking out online or at your favorite music-minded retail outlet.

9th full-length album, the New Mexico native proves the best path going forward is to continue to explore and fuse the rock, funk, soul, R&B and jazz sounds together in the service of original song craft. His smooth tenor vocals are easy on the ears (notably on the jazzy “Wings of Mind” and the creative cover of the Steve Martin Band classic “Fly Like An Eagle”), and he can rap with bona fide authenticity too (as evidenced by the title track). Midon, blind since birth, is equally a force on lead guitar. Whether just adding artistic little fills (“Red Green Yellow”) or playing flat out (just listen to “Gotta Gotta Give”), his guitar playing is always impressive. Mido is currently on tour, and he will be performing at Bluewhale, 123 Astronaut E S Onizuka, Suite 301, Los Angeles on April 21 and April 22.

Information: bluewhalemusic. com or raulmidon.com.

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Governor Brown Pleads His Case For Hiking Gas Taxes in Riverside

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Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Moreno Valley, Riverside County Supervisor Chuck Washington and others at North Park to rally support for the Road Repair & Accountability Act of 2017.

Senate Bill 1, which could be voted on as early as Thursday, seeks a 20-cent per gallon increase in diesel taxes, a 12-cent per gallon hike in gas taxes and a 5.75 percent increase in diesel sales taxes, as well as higher vehicle license fees -- up an average $38 per vehicle.

The hikes would generate an estimated $5.2 billion in annual revenue, according to the governor’s office.

SB 1 requires a two-thirds vote to pass the Legislature, and with Republican lawmakers throughout the state aligned against the measure, a few Democratic votes in opposition could

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quality of life in California.’’

The package touts ``strict new accountability provisions’’ to ensure funds are earmarked specifically for transportation projects, including highway and bridge repairs, enlargement of congested travel corridors and improved inter-city transit systems.

Melendez and other Republicans have called for scrapping the increasingly over-budget High Speed Rail Project and cutting state bureaucracy -including an estimated 3,500 redundant workers in Caltrans -- to save money that could be applied to infrastructure improvements. ``The Democrat majority has failed year after year to fix our roads, and now they are expecting the people of California to bail them out,’’ Melendez said. Source:KMIR

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Desert Self Storage 66251 Dillon Road Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240 Terms: CASH ONLY. Desert Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid or to cancel the auction. Name of Auctioneer: AMERICAN AUCTIONEERS Bond #: FS863-20-14 The following units are scheduled for auction: Name Unit SHARP, GREG A019 Household LUGAUER, MAX B079 Household VALENCIA, RICHARD B125 Household RODRIGUEZ, SERGIO B13D Household REIBSTEIN, TERRY B14C Household DOLAN, WHITNEY C092 Household GARCIA, DAWNELLA C124 Household HERNANDEZ, DAVIS C136 Household BINKLEY, TAMELA C145 Household ORTEGA, SAMUEL C183 Household LITTEN, JESSE D073 Household SHREEVE, CAROLINE D095 Household ROSCOE, HARRY E025 Household RAMIREZ, YENY E030 Household Rainey, John E044 Household DE LA FUEUTE, MARIO E053 Household SCHAFFER, TOM E079 Household LOPEZ, RENE HUMBERTO E141 Household LOPEZ, RENE HUMBERTO E152 Household FRANCO, JESSICA E158 Household SHARP, GREG E161 Household Please Print: March 29th 2017 and April 5th 2017.

DSW17-5075 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) ON SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT CASE NO. PSC 1301518 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (Aviso al Demandado): ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD ON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): PATTY L. SCHULTZ, AN INDIVIDUAL. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp}, your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp}, or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION PURSUANT TO C.C.P. § 763.020(c): 9176 Puesta Del Sol, Desert Hot Springs, California 92240, more particularly described as follows: Lot 20 of Tract No. 3656, in the City of Desert Hot Springs, County of Riverside, State of California, as shown by map on file in Book 57, Pages 70 and 71 of Maps, Records of Riverside County, California.

Pub March 15, 22, 29, April 5, 2017. DSW17-5059 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NO. PSC 1701068, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92263, COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

CARLEY NICOLE VOTAW filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1a. Present Name: CARLEY NICOLE VOTAW to Proposed Name: CARLEY ESCARREGA. 2.THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING a. Date: April 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 a.m., Dept.: PS3, b. The address of the court is: 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262, County of Riverside 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county (specify newspaper): DESERT STAR WEEKLY 13279 PALM DRIVE SUITE 5, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240 Dated: March 1, 2017, Judge of the Superior Court, Publish March 15, 22, 29, April 5, 2017. DSW17-5058

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istrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : JUDY LEE BAILEYSAVAGE, MANAGING MEMBER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 24, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704372 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5076 BUSINESS AS: DESERT HEMP TRADER, 80646 HARVARD CT., INDIO, CA 92201. Riverside County. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE Full name of registrant: ENRIQUE- -RODRIGUEZ, FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI80646 HARVARD CT., INDIO, CA 92201. Business NESS AS: DWELL HOME FURNISHINGS, 72021 29 is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not PALMS HIGHWAY, 29 PALMS, CA 92277. Riverside yet begun to transact business under the fictitious County. Full name of registrant: MARTIN LEON business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the CORRAL, 1820 S 8TH AVE, TUCSON, AZ 85713. information in this statement is true and correct. (A Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant registrant, who declares as true, information which has not yet begun to transact business under the he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare Signed: ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ. This statement that all the information in this statement is true was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, on March 7, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County information which he or she knows to be false, is Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201703364. NOTICE — guilty of a crime). Signed : MARTIN LEON CORTHIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT RAL. This statement was filed with the County EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS Clerk of Riverside County on March 22, 2017.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT No. R-201704183 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHO- YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE RIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTIBUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS TIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). Pub April USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 5, 12, 19, 26, ,2017. DSW17-5081 NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Pub March 29, April NESS AS: PAUL DAVIS OF HESPERIA, 4537 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5074 JEREMIAH CT., RIVERSIDE, CA 92503. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: PRIORTIY RESTO- FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE RATION, INC., 4537 JEREMIAH CT., RIVERSIDE, FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSICA 92503/CA. Business is conducted by: COR- NESS AS: POWER’S HOME CONCIERGE, 42-191 PORATION Registrant commenced to transact SANDY BAY RD, BERMUDA DUNES, CA 92203. business under the fictitious business name(s) listed Riverside County; PO BOX 5550, LA QUINTA, CA above on 03/27/2017. I declare that all the informa- 92248. Full name of registrant: PRESTON TYLER tion in this statement is true and correct. (A regis- POWERS, 42-191 SANDY BAY RD, BERMUDA trant, who declares as true, information which he or DUNES, CA 92203. Business is conducted by: INshe knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed: DIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact DOREL LEO ANTIM, PRESIDENT. This statement business under the fictitious business name(s) was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County listed above. I declare that all the information in on March 29, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704564 NOTICE — who declares as true, information which he or she THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS PRESTON TYLER POWERS. This statement was FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT on March 13, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201703612 NOTICE — OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHO- THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT RIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COM- A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSI- MENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE NESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). Pub April 5, FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF 12, 19, 26, 2017. DSW17-5080 AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. NESS AS: TERRA INNOVATION LANDSCAPE, SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

83-135 BEACHWOOD AVE., INDIO, CA 92236. Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5073 Riverside County; P.O BOX 778, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92235. Full name of registrant: GABRIEL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT CARRERA LOPEZ, 83-135 BEACHWOOD AVE. THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING INDIO, CA 92201; CLAUDIA ARACELI LOPEZ, BUSINESS AS: TRUE YOU MEDICAL, 73375 EL 83-135 BEACHWOOD AVE., INDIO, CA 92201; ROLAND DAVID MARROQUIN CURRUCHICH, 31105 WHISPERING PALMS, CATHEDRAL CITY,CA 92234. Business is conducted by: GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime).

Signed : GABRIEL CARRERA LOPEZ,OWNER/ PARTNTER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 23, 2017.

Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704293 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5079

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: ALDANA LANDSCAPE, 99341 PLEASENT VIEW DR, MECCA, CA 92254. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: BIANCA HERNANDEZ TOVAR, 99341 PLEASENT VIEW DR, NORTH SHORE, CA 92254. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : BIANCA HERNANDEZ TOVAR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on February 28, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County ClerkRecorder File No. R-201702906 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FI0043TITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

NESS AS: DINERO EXPRESS Y SERVICIOS, Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5078 49965 HARRISON ST SUITE B, COACHELLA, CA 92236. Riverside County; 81421 AVENIDA ROME- FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE RO, INDIO, CA 92201. Full name of registrant: VAN- FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSIESSA NOEMI AGUAYO DE ALMENDAREZ, 81421 NESS AS: COACHELLA VALLEY DELIVERY SERAVENIDA ROMERO, INDIO, CA 92201. Business VICE, 31250 SAN YSIDRO AVE., CATHEDRAL CITY, is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant com- CALIFORNIA, 92234. Riverside County. Full name menced to transact business under the fictitious of registrant: ALEJANDRO- -LOPEZ VAZQUEZ, business name(s) listed above on 05/16/2013. I 31250 SAN YSIDRO AVE., CATHEDRAL CITY, declare that all the information in this statement CALIFORNIA 92234. Business is conducted by: INis true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as DIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact true, information which he or she knows to be false, business under the fictitious business name(s) is guilty of a crime). Signed: VANESSA NOEMI listed above. I declare that all the information in AGUAYO DE ALMENDAREZ. This statement was this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County who declares as true, information which he or she on March 23, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704227 NOTICE — ALEJANDRO- -LOPEZ VAZQUEZ. This statement THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS on March 27, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704414 NOTICE — A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHO- FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. RIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEBUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS MENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COM- FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF MON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSI- AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). Pub April 5, TIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE 12, 19, 26, 2017. DSW17-5083 OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5077 BUSINESS AS: ANGELS HEARTS HOME CARE, 11854 FOXDALE DRIVE, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE CA 92240. Riverside County. Full name of regis- FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSItrant: REIGALO LLC, 66756 CAHUILLA AVENUE, NESS AS: CANCER RELIEF DELIVERY SERVICE, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240/CA. Business 39707 GREEN OAKS DRIVE, TEMECULA, CA is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. 92592. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business VORTEX FARMS, LLC, 39707 GREEN OAKS under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. DRIVE, TEMECULA, CA 92592/CA. Business is I declare that all the information in this statement conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Reg-

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PASEO STE D, PALM DESERT, CA 92260. Riverside County; 77907 GREY WOLF TRAIL, LA QUINTA, CA 92253. Full name of registrant: TRUE YOU NATUROPATHIC MEDICAL, INC., 73375 EL PASEO STE D, PALM DESERT, CA 92260/CA. Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : NICOLE MARIE ORTIZ, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 21, 2017.

Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704106 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5072 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: DESERT MOBILE DENTISTRY, 77680 MOUNTAIN VIEW DR., PALM DESERT, CA 92211.

Riverside County. Full name of registrant: RICHARD ARTHUR BULLOCK, 58855 SAN MARINO DR., YUCCA VALLEY, CA 92284. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : RICHARD ARTHUR BULLOCK. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 23, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704247 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5071 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: 4H PROPERTIES INVESTMENT LLC, 69400 COUNTRY CLUB DR., DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92241. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: 4H PROPERTIES INVESTMENT LLC, 1212 STANFORD AVE STE 104, LOS ANGELES, CA 90021/CA. Business is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/14/2004. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed: JESSICA H. KIM, MANAGING MEMBER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 22, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201704162 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON

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LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). Pub March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2017. DSW17-5069 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: THE UPS STORE #4204, 39252 WINCHESTER RD #107, MURRIETA, CA 92563.

Riverside County. Full name of registrant: ECCES ENTERPRISES INC., 19069 VAN BUREN BLVD STE 114, RIVERSIDE, CA 92508/CA. Business is conducted by: CORPORATION Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/1/2017.

I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed: CRYSTAL DAWN FARMER, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 20, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201703996 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CODE).

Pub March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2017. DSW17-5067 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: TRANSPORTATION SERVICE, 68681 RIDGE CREST WAY, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: FLOYD JAMES ROBERTS, 68681 RIDGE CREST WAY, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime).

Signed : FLOYD JAMES ROBERTS. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 17, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201703915 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Pub March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2017. DSW17-5066 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCE AND OUTREACH CENTER, 85983 VISTA DEL NORTE, COACHELLA, CA 92236. Riverside County; 83103 AVENUE 48, SUITE 1B-235, COACHELLA, CA 92236. Full name of registrant: VETERANS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP, 85983 VISTA DEL NORTE, COACHELLA, CA 92236/CA. Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : PATTI- -PATANE, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on March 15, 2017. Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201703746 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE

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OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Pub March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 2017. DSW17-5064

No. R-201703508 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Pub March 15, 22, FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- 29, April 5, 2017. DSW17-5061 NESS AS: VALLEY BROS., ELECTRIC, 80167 MARAMAR DR., INDIO, CA 92203. Riverside Coun- FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE ty. Full name of registrant: JOSUE GEORGE MON- FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSITANO, 80167 MARAMAR DR., INDIO, CA 92203. NESS AS: GUNNYS TRAINING CENTER; DESERT Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant NUBELLS, 28260 LANDAU BLVD-A, CATHEDRAL has not yet begun to transact business under the CITY, CA 92234. Riverside County. Full name of fictitious business name(s) listed above. I declare registrant: ROBERT CECIL PUENTES, 28260 that all the information in this statement is true LANDAU BLVD-A, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant information which he or she knows to be false, is commenced to transact business under the fictiguilty of a crime). Signed : JOSUE GEORGE MON- tious business name(s) listed above on 3/1/2017.

TANO. This statement was filed with the County I declare that all the information in this statement Clerk of Riverside County on February 14, 2017. is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File as true, information which he or she knows to be No. R-201702210 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS false, is guilty of a crime). Signed: ROBERT CECIL BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE PUENTES. This statement was filed with the County YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE Clerk of Riverside County on March 8, 2017. PeOFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTI- ter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File TIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE No. R-201703409 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTINAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF AN- TIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE OTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Pub March 15, 22, USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 29, April 5, 2017. DSW17-5062 NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- AND PROFESSIONAL CODE). Pub March 15, 22, NESS AS: RIXX CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY 29, April 5, 2017. DSW17-5060 MANAGEMENT, 28480 AVENIDA DUQUESA, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. Riverside County. Full T.S. No.: 9948-0230 TSG Order No.: 730name of registrant: RICHARD JOHN HOPPER, 1508154-70 A.P.N.: 009-600-478-6 NOTICE OF 28480 AVENIDA DUQUESA, CATHEDRAL CITY, TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER CA 92234. Business is conducted by: INDI- A DEED OF TRUST DATED 09/13/2002. UNVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact LESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR business under the fictitious business name(s) PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC listed above. I declare that all the information in this SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST declares as true, information which he or she knows YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. to be false, is guilty of a crime). Signed : RICHARD NBS Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed JOHN HOPPER. This statement was filed with the Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale County Clerk of Riverside County on March 9, 2017. contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File 10/16/2002 as Document No.: 2002-578363, of

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Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Riverside County, California, executed by: Joyce K. Yorba, an unmarried woman, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time: 04/12/2017 at 09:00 AM Sale Location: In front of the Corona Civic Center, 849 W. Sixth Street, Corona, CA 92882 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 138 DESERT WEST DR, RANCHO MIRAGE, CA 92270 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $140,094.94 (Estimated).

Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage

or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, (800) 758-8052 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www. homesearch.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9948-0230. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. NBS Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www.homesearch.com or Call: (800) 758-8052.

NBS Default Services, LLC, Veronica Garcia, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only. NPP0303809 To: DESERT STAR WEEKLY 03/22/2017, 03/29/2017, 04/05/2017. DSW17-5068

and the District of Columbia with laboratory evidence of possible recent Zika virus infection reported to the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry from January 15 to December 27, 2016.

“Zika virus is causing a lot of anxiety among my patients and their partners, who are accustomed to traveling for work or to visit family,” says Siobhan Dolan, MD, MPH, an obstetrician-gynecologist at

Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and medical advisor to the March of Dimes. “I advise them that preventing infection is the most important thing for themselves and their babies. Protect yourself from Zika before and during pregnancy, and that includes avoiding travel to affected areas. But remember -- it’s not forever. Yes, you may miss a family event now, while you’re pregnant. But after the baby is born, in a few months, you’ll be able to travel safely and with peace of mind.”

The March of Dimes coordinates with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to provide upto-the-minute information in English and Spanish for women, men, and families at ZAPzika.org and nacersano. org/zika. The March of Dimes also answers questions about Zika virus in social media and via email in both English and Spanish. Send email to AskUs@marchofdimes.org or Preguntas@nacersano.org.

“We don’t yet know the full range of disabilities in babies infected with Zika virus,” says Dr. Dolan.

“Even babies who don’t have obvious signs of birth defects still may be affected.

Babies born to women who have evidence of Zika virus during pregnancy need brain imaging and other testing after birth to make a correct diagnosis, and to help us understand how these babies grow and develop.”

She noted that the March of Dimes is hosting and promoting “Zika Care Connect,” a new website that will launch this month to assist Zika-affected families in finding healthcare professionals around the country who can

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the real property described below is to be sold subject to the right of redemption pursuant to the power of sale in accordance with California Civil Code Sections 2924f and 5717 and the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Reservations of Easements Palms & Sands – Tract No. 2515, a Planned Residential Development, recorded January 28, 2005. The sale will take place on April 11, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. PDT, at 849 West Sixth Street, Corona, CA 92882, at the front steps to the entrance of the former Corona Police Department. The real property is described as follows: PARCEL 1: LOT 34 OF TRACT 2515 AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 48, PAGES 61, 62 AND 62A OF MAPS, RECORDS OF RIVERSIDE

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COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. The street address, if any, or the common designation of the property, if any, is: 70033 Mirage Cove Drive #8, Rancho Mirage, California 92270. The county assessor’s parcel number for the real property is: 689-151-021. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the real property is $27,905.00. The estimated costs, expenses, and advances as of the date of the initial publication of this notice, are $1200.00. The name of the original trustor is: Ronald C. Bailey. The trustee or other person conducting the sale is: Brandon Woodward, 2331 West Lincoln Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92801, Telephone: (714) 520-5544. Directions may be obtained pursuant to a written request submitted to Mr. Woodward within ten (10) days from the first publication of this notice. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call the trustee. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Dated: March 16, 2017 CATANZARITE LAW CORPORATION, AS AGENT FOR BENEFICIARY By: Brandon E. Woodward, Trustee Sale Officer. Publish March 22, 29, April 5, 2017. DSW17-5065

Zika Virus Reported in Pregnant Women in 44 States

By Desert Star Staff A new government report shows that nearly 1,300 pregnancies from 44 states with possible recent Zika virus infection were reported to the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry in 2016. Most of the women acquired the virus during travel to Zika-affected areas, the report says.

Among the pregnant women with confirmed Zika infection, 1 in 10 had a fetus

or baby with birth defects.

The highest risk was from confirmed infection in the first trimester -- birth defects were reported in 15 percent of these fetuses or infants.

The report, published today in the journal Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), includes data on completed pregnancies in the 50 states

provide specialized care.

Other March of Dimes activities to protect babies from Zika virus include: Funding research into a “weak spot” in the structure of a Zika virus protein that may lead to development of the first drug treatment for Zika infection; Providing continuing education for nurses on “What Every Nurse Should Know” about Zika in both English and Spanish; Preparing Zika Prevention Kits for newborns in Puerto Rico (including mosquito netting, onesies and prevention tips).

Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause damage to the brain, microcephaly (smaller than expected head) and congenital Zika syndrome, a pattern of conditions in the baby that includes brain abnormalities, eye defects, hearing loss, and limb defects. Zika infection during pregnancy also has been linked to miscarriage and stillbirth.

“Vital Signs: Update on Zika Virus-Associated Birth Defects and Evaluation of All U.S. Infants with Congenital Zika Virus Exposure -- U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, 2016” was an early release in MMWR, Vol. 66, April 4, 2017.

The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. For more than 75 years, moms and babies have benefited from March of Dimes research, education, vaccines, and breakthroughs.

For the latest resources and health information, visit our websites marchofdimes. org and nacersano.org.

Source March of Dimes

Steinway Society’s Junior & Senior Festival Winner’s Concert

By Desert Star Staff RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. Don’t miss an opportunity to witness some of the finest young musical talent that Riverside County has to offer at the Steinway Society of Riverside County’s annual Festival Winners Concert, Wednesday, May 10, 7 p.m. at the Rancho Mirage Public Library, 71100 Highway 111. The event is free and open to the public.

Performing at the concert are junior (ages 7 to 14) and senior (ages 15-18) winners of the Festival Competition that took place two weekends in March, hosted by Rancho Mirage High School.

“The level of playing in the Festival is very high,” said Jim McCormick, chairman and organizer of the festival.

“Five awards are given at each of the Junior and Senior Levels. It was particularly difficult at the Senior Level this year where nine students participated and five needed to be selected for awards.”

This year’s winners in Junior Level Awards are Isabella Cao, 13, from Fontana, student of Agatha Hou; Emma Erickson, 11, from Murrieta, student of Yiyi Ku; Kathleen Gurning, 11, from Fontana, student of Dr. Elvin Rodriguez; Matthew Gurning, 14, from Fontana, student of Dr. Elvin Rodriguez; and Aaron Kwan, 13, from Rancho Cucamonga, student of Agatha Hou. Master teachers and adjudicators for this year’s Junior Festival were Antoinette Perry from the USC Thornton School of Music and Mark Neiwirth from Idaho State University in Pocatello.

Senior Level Awards are James Antonios, 16, from Corona, student of Dr. Elvin Rodriguez; Karissa Juhas, 14, from Beaumont, student of Dr. Angelica Prodan; Joel Oswari, 16, from Moreno Valley, student of Dr. Elvin Rodriguez; Lydia Xu, 15, from Riverside, student of Dr. Elvin Rodriguez; and Samuel Xu, 15, from Riverside, also a student of Dr. Elvin Rodriguez.

Master teachers and adjudicators for this year’s Senior Festival were Catherine Kautsky and Anthony Padilla, both from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.

“Students selected are usually those who project the strongest musical personalities,” said McCormick. “They are all winners in their own right, however, and we try to put the emphasis on the wonderful learning experience that this Festival provides rather than the competitive aspect of it.”

Participants must live in San Bernardino or Riverside County, and be studying with a qualified music teacher for at least six months prior to the festival.

Winners were selected based on their performances in two master classes and a recital.

About the Steinway Society of Riverside Serving Riverside County and the Coachella Valley since 2002 and founded by Ruth Moir, the Steinway Society brings music education to more than 30,000 children annually through a variety of programs designed to engage, educate and inspire youngsters of all ages.

The non-profit organization presents concerts and music labs in schools, and holds an annual Piano Festival

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Competition and Winners Concert for children aged 7 to 18. The festival is hosted this year by Rancho Mirage High School with recitals open to the public on March 5 & 12 followed by the Festival Winners Concert at Rancho Mirage Library on May 10.

Steinway Society’s outreach scholarship programs provides study awards for private piano lessons, music, and pianos for deserving children with a financial need.

Volunteer and docent programs introduce children to classical music, notation, opera and jazz, and to the basics of an orchestra through interactive audio visual presentations.

In addition to children’s programs, Steinway Society

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p.m., a Border Patrol agent assigned to surveillance duties observed an ultralight aircraft fly over the international border from Mexico into U.S. airspace.

The aircraft was operating without any lights and in violation of Federal Aviation Administration regulations.

A Course in Miracles discussion and study group. Every Friday at 4 p.m. at 67735 Loma Vista Rd. For info 805-440-9149.

Come join the community walk with Bobby from One one One Fitness every Wednesday at 6pm. Meet in the parking Palm Drive.

has created Music is Wellness, a program in conjunction with Eisenhower Medical Center’s Memory Care Center, bringing live classical music for the enjoyment, enrichment and wellbeing of clients at the center.

Although authorized to use the Steinway name and logo, the non-profit organization receives no funding from the Steinway Piano Company. A number of community and fundraising events raises money for Steinway Society scholarships and programs, and increases awareness of the need for music education in the classroom.

For information and calendar of events, visit www. steinwayriverside.org.

Border Patrol Seizes Crash-Landed Ultralight Aircraft

By Desert Star Staff SALTON CITY, Calif.

– On Wednesday night, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents tracked and seized an ultralight aircraft that made a cross-border incursion from Mexico and landed in the United States.

At approximately 10:30

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After a coordinated search effort, CBP Air and Marine agents discovered a crash site of the ULA near Salton City at approximately 8:20 a.m.

Border Patrol agents arrived moments later, but were unsuccessful at locating the pilot. No drugs or other contraband were found.

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“These ultralight aircrafts are extremely dangerous to legitimate air traffic,” said Assistant Chief Patrol Agent, David S. Kim. “We urge the community to call 911 if they see or hear one at night since it’s illegal to operate during hours of darkness and could cause a catastrophic accident with other aircraft.”

Ultralight aircraft look similar to hang-gliders and the engines sound similar to lawnmower engines.

This incident is currently being investigated.

-CBPU.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between official ports of entry. CBP’s mission includes keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

Open Air Market every Wed-Sat 4-10p.m.at 46350 Arabia St. For info, call 800-222-7457.

Weekend LIT Concerts at The Fantasy Springs Resort Casino March 31 @ 9PM Stagecoach, California’s Country Music Festival at The Empire Polo Grounds April 28 Latin Superstar Miguel Bosé Performs at Fantasy Springs APRIL 22 @ 8PM Rock Yard Concert Lineup at Fantasy Springs in Indio APRIL 15 @ 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo GroundsAPRIL 14

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Red Velvet Special to Desert Star Weekly from Lisa Lyons In the history of theatre, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary multi-casting, the idea of casting a black actor to play “Othello” has been seen as earth-shaking in its audacity.

Why that should be so and what black actors had to endure to make it an accepted custom is the basis of Lolita Chakrabarti’s “Red Velvet,” now playing at San Diego’s Old Globe on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage.

The show tells the story of Ira Aldridge (Albert Jones), a classically trained American actor who was the first black actor to play Othello at London’s prestigious Covent Garden in 1833. The renowned tragedian Edward Kean had been stricken and hospitalized, and rather than go dark (unheard of in the Garden’s history), the company’s French manager Pierre Laporte (Sean Dugan) makes a unilateral decision to hire Aldridge as Kean’s replacement.

This doesn’t go down well with Kean’s petulant son Charles (a scene-stealing John Lavelle) who feels he should rightly step into his father’s shoes despite his obvious lack of talent. Charles’s fiancée and leading lady Ellen Tree (a sparkling Allison Mack) is at first shocked, then intrigued and eventually won over by the larger-than-life Aldridge. The other players seem divided over the appropriateness of the casting, especially older, more staid members like Bernard Warde (Mark Pinter) who cautions that “The British are open - to a point…We like what we know, and we know what we like!” he states firmly.

All of this is set against the British Abolition Movement which was causing rioting in the streets along with calls for the abolition of slavery. The fear that such a provocative move may further inflame London society is dismissed

by Laporte who has more faith in the broad-mindedness of the theatre-going public. It will be up to the talent and sheer bombast of Aldridge to pull off the role he has most longed to play. The thought of a large black man grabbing the wrist of the lily-white Desdemona is deemed inappropriate and offensive by the press. But Ellen is fascinated by Aldridge’s idea that, rather than declaiming lines to the audience, that Othello and Desdemona should look at each other, truly feeling the emotions of this tragically mismatched couple; shades of early “method acting” which seems obvious now, but was groundbreaking in 19th century British theatre.

She eagerly embraces the new intimacy and power she feels onstage; but sadly, the reception to the performance is not what any of them (save Charles Kean) expected www.desertstarweekly.com

and desired. The critics are brutal in their reviews of Aldridge’s performance (which playwright Chakrabarti takes from the actual newspaper texts of the time), stating “Owing to the shape of his lips, it is utterly impossible for him to pronounce English” and labeling him “an unseemly n*gg*r”.

The fallout from Laporte’s brave casting had a toxic effect on not only the actors but on the casting of ethnic actors in major roles for many years to follow. Aldridge was a groundbreaker on many levels and it’s sad that apart from theatre historians, his contributions are mostly unknown to current generations.

As portrayed by Albert Jones, Aldridge is much like the tragic figures he portrays – Othello, Lear, Richard III – a man full of talent, anger, longing, imagination and audacity. He is, as most flawed heroes, his own worst enemy.

He will not be swayed by logic or reason, only carried aloft on his aspirations and belief in his own talent. He ignores Laporte’s subtle advice to “move gently” into the intensity of Othello’s emotions that the conservative audiences may recoil from initially; he believes fervently in the truth of drama and his right to portray this most ego-maniacal of Shakespeare’s leading men. Jones has the physical presence and vocal power to inhabit Aldridge’s persona yet to make you feel some pity towards him when the world turns against him.

The supporting actors are outstanding and imbue their characters with real distinction.

There is a star turn by Amelia Pedlow, who brilliantly portrays three separate characters: a persistent Polish journalist, a ditsy ingénue and a warm and loving first wife to Aldridge.

Monique Gaffney brings her usual depth of character to the role of Connie, the company’s servant, and Michael Aurelio is a dashing Henry Forrester, the young actor playing Cassio who is delighted at Aldridge’s casting as he is in support of the abolitionist movement.

Mark Pinter plays both Aldridge’s dresser Terrence and the charmingly fusty Bernard Warde, never drifting into parody in either role. As previously noted, John Lavelle has a scene-stealing turn as the arrogant and delusional Charles Kean. His fabulous “hair toss” had the audience laughing aloud on opening night.

Sean Dugan brings a boyish enthusiasm and simmering anger to the complex Laporte who is forced to betray his old friend for the sake of business.

Director Stafford Arima, who previously helmed “Allegiance” and “Ace” for the Globe, has a sure hand with this material, finding the oh-so-relevant references to

The cast of Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet, directed by Stafford Arima race and nationalism in the material. He keeps things moving forward, although I had a problem with the decision to have the show open with two characters speaking in Polish for several minutes.

As usual at the Globe, the scenic design, costumes and lighting are perfection. Jason Sherwood’s rotating, cathedrallike proscenium arch is both beautiful and grotesque with macabre touches hidden in its skeletal frame. The lighting design of Jason Lyons captures how theatre must have looked to the audiences in the 1800s with flickering footlights and stately chandeliers casting

long shadows. The costumes

by David Israel Reynoso are richly elegant, especially Aldridge’s robes as Othello.

Kudos to the dressers who make some remarkably speedy changes for Pinter and Pedlow in their multiple roles.

In a climate that is full of uncertainty, with politics, art and race relations under siege, “Red Velvet” seems profoundly prescient despite its being written in 2011.

Could Chakrabarti have had a premonition of “Brexit” and “Black Lives Matter”?

Finding the universal truths in life is the hallmark of a talented writer, and she is

deserving of the many awards the play has received.

If you love theatre go see “Red Velvet” and discover the story of the actor who has a memorial plaque at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in honor of his contributions to the performing arts and another in Lodz, Poland where he was buried after dying while on tour at age 60 in August 1867.

The show plays until April 30, tickets can be purchased at the Box Office, by calling 619-23-GLOBE or online at www.TheOldGlobe.org.

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