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R.I.P. Kobe Sports world in shock after death of ‘global icon’ Kobe Bryant

By Desert Star Staff The death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash on Sunday has brought forth an outpouring of grief from many of his fellow professionals, as well as from prominent members of the global sporting community.

The 18-time NBA AllStar, aged 41, died after a helicopter in which he was a passenger crashed after bursting into flames in the city of Calabasas in Los Angeles County, according to US media. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said that

NBC PS News Staff During the 11th round, an eighth grader’s correct spelling of the word “syllabus” punched his ticket Friday to represent the Palm Springs Unified School District in the countywide competition in March.

If he wins the county competition, Dominic Carrillo, who attends Cielo Vista Charter School in Palm Springs, could land a spot representing Riverside County at the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in May in Maryland.

Forty-two students in grades 4 through 8 competed Friday in the 43rd annual Spelling Bee of Champions, which was held at Desert

Hot Springs High School, according to PSUSD spokeswoman Joan Boiko.

Luke Jin, a seventh-grader at Cielo Vista Charter School, and Antonio Maldonado Espino, an eighth-grader at Nellie Coffman Middle School in Cathedral City, were runners-up, Boiko said.

The Riverside County Spelling Bee Competition will be held on March 24 at the Moreno Valley Conference and Recreation Center, 14075 Frederick St. For more information on the county spelling bee, visit http://www.rcoe.us/ student-events/spelling-bee.

eight others are understood to have perished in the crash.

Bryant, who spent his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers, retired from basketball in 2016 after a two-decade career that saw him become a five-time NBA champion and enshrined

his status in the history books as being one of the sport’s best-ever players.

We can confirm that Kobe Bryant passed away today from the causes of a helicopter accident. The entire Los Angeles Lakers family wishes to support their family and friends. RIP KOBE — Los Angeles Lakers

His death has prompted an overwhelming display of emotion on social media as his fellow players, some of whom played alongside the Lakers icon, expressed their anguish at the loss of one of the game’s true giants.

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Big Brother and Big Sister Golf Tournament

Big Brother Don Miller with Jackson, Honoree Steve Garvey with big sister Lynne Tucker and Leilani. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Desert held their 21st Annual Hall of Fame golf tournament, dinner, and pro cup challenge on January 26th and 27th. The event was held at Ironwood Country Club. Master of Ceremonies was Dr. Raj Sinha and Rich Gilgallon. Gilgallon and Sinha both took over auctioneer duties for the Live Auction of several items that brought in over 23,000 much-needed dollars for the Big Brother Big Sisters programs. There was also a large silent auction with a variety of items up for anyone’s pleasure to bid on.

President of the Board of Trustees Bob Iglehart gave the welcoming speech and asked that all board members stand to be recognized. He thanked all for coming and wishing good luck to all who played golf on Monday. The Honoree this year was the baseball great Steve Garvey. He was honored along with many great athletes from years past, that included Yogi Berra, George Brett, Merlin Olson, Jim Plunkett, Lee Travino, Lynn Swann, Tom Flores, Dave Stockton and many more. A bit different golf as a local golf professional will be with each group. It will compete in their own

Big sister Laura Stevens with Mariana, Honoree Steve Garvey with Big Brother Daniel Thoene and Hunter. Photo by Pat Krause

tournament for prizes, and the Amateurs will vie for trophies.

Steve Garvey spoke to the crowd and told some emotional stories. The first thing he announced with a heavy heart was the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter in a plane crash that morning.

He said that working hard and having a bit of talent and lucky to be able to play on a great team is a blessing. In some sports, you have to be a team player, unlike golf and tennis.

One has to learn to give back to people to help them start on life’s journey. Kids need a mentor they can talk to and share their fears, anxieties,

and dreams. Most of these kids in this program have only one parent. The BIGS take care of the LITTLES as they are referred to. The BIGS is proud of their mentoring, and the LITTLES feel like family, a great feeling for all.

Garvey told about his life and said when he was just 7, his father had to pick up the Dodgers from the airport. He was asked to be a batboy and spent the next 7 years as a sometimes batboy. He met men like Jackie Robinson and Mickey Mantle, who gave him advice. Garvey’s father had asked him to skip school for that day, which turned out to

be a momentous occasion for him and his future. He noted you don’t have to be an idol or celebrity to make a difference in life because everyone has something to give to help make a better life for someone else.

Garvey felt he was blessed with great mentors, and he knows that others must feel the same after they start the giveback idea. He said that giving back is the heart and soul of this crazy world we live in. A great speech from someone who knows how to give back and feel blessed to be able to do that.

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Rancho Mirage 2020 Speaker Series with Danika Patrick

Leighton Ginn and Danika Patrick. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause Rancho Mirage held in the first 2020 Speaker Series with Legends of Sports figure Danika Patrick. This new 18th season of Speaker series decided to bring top names in sports to speak so all types of speakers will be heard each year. Danika is well known as a race car driver but is also an author, entrepreneur, and a Podcast Host. The event was held at the Helene Galen Auditorium at the Annenberg Health Sciences Building at the Eisenhower Health Complex on Bob Hope Drive.

Mayor Iris Smotrich spoke to the full auditorium and

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thanked all for coming. The Mayor said she was happy to have this year being about sports with speakers like Danika Patrick and upcoming football legend Joe Montana and Tennis legend Chris Evert in the coming months.

This is an exciting and new field of guest speakers to becoming this year.

Danika was a very captivating woman during a Q&A with Host Leighton Ginn. Danika set records in a male-dominated sport and broke barriers against women drivers. Danika was even named TIMEs 100 most influential people. Being a

Richard Kite, Vicki, and Dana Hobart and Mayor Iris Smotrich and Thom Smotrich.

Photo by Pat Krause beautiful woman, she has graced the covers of many magazines and also was the first female host of ESPYs and ESPN’s Sports Award Shows.

In 2005 she finished 4th in her First Indy 500. In 2008 was the first woman to win a significant league open-wheel race with a victory in the Indy Car Series, Indy Japan 300 race.

Danika spoke about how she started racing at 16 in England with her parent’s financial and emotional support. She was in England for several years, and it was a good learning experience.

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her career in the U.S. but was afraid being a girl would stop people from taking her seriously. She hid the girly image but later decided to use it with magazine covers and videos with famous singers.

She spoke about her family, the struggles she had, the ups and downs in her career, and a bit about racing and its technical side. She was very charming and open about her life and seemed to be at ease, talking about it in front of hundreds of people.

Her race car driving friends became like family. Her family has always been racing car fans and went to many race

car events. She learned to be a survivor and travel make her tough to be able to deal with everything. She said she met Paul Newman and he gave her a nice compliment.

Danika is now a Host in a podcast show, has worked on changing lives by a more healthy lifestyle with her book, and owns a vineyard in Napa Valley, Somnium. She says she is just getting started with all these different projects. Danika is not only a racecar driver and wants to pursue other things.

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Women Working in later years should Learn Use of One Device

By Janice Gough Women Retirees are entering one of the most exciting and challenging stages of their life. It can be a time to draw on personal and professional experiences, to open new doors of opportunity and education. It can be a time to realize potential and accomplish goals previously delayed by a career and raising a family. And it could be a time that the requirements needed to get work, bring concern as the requirements to do many jobs have not been learned. Many times, this is the use of computers

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or iPhones. Learning to use these tools will help take away the concern of getting that new job, not only in obtaining a job but going to the job.

Although the opportunities in the workforce may be limited, finding the right job in later years does not come without It’s hurtling.

A primary one understands how to use the tools used in today’s marketplace.

Generally, Women approach retirement with the deck stacked against them financially. They have worked for lower pay than their male counterparts (in the U.S., they earned 80.5% of men’s median earnings). Many have most likely have missed time from the workforce to raise children and care for family members in need of aid (sometimes both at once) and often during their working years, find themselves shut out of advancement and promotions along with the commensurate raises. They are usually getting by on less money before retirement than they really need, which, not only, puts them in a precarious financial position during their working years but makes it is tough for them to set aside money for retirement.

Many women will find that the income needed in retirement is not enough, and they need jobs to help them get by. Health conditions and age can keep them from getting jobs, even if they wish to work.

The “Glass Ceiling” was tough enough to break through, now

they must breakthrough with the “Grey Hair Ceiling,” which may keep them from getting jobs. Jobs which require being on your feet all day are sometimes too straining for older women, thus having an office and computer skills are the jobs they should seek; however, many women fear to try to learn new devices when they are older, since they did not grow up in the era of computers and iPhones.

The smartest “One objective” one should have is to learn to use your iPhone efficiently. It is not as difficult as we sometimes believe. An excellent way to start is by watching videos on U-tube or by getting someone to teach you. Many Senior centers also offer these classes.

The knowledge of learning to use iPhones will lead to understanding how to use

computers, as they are mostly the same type of devices.

Having an iPhone will also add to your safety going to the job. Your first goal when getting an iPhone should be to enter all-important contacts, along with the addresses and contact information. By storing essential contacts, one can ask the Cellphone (“Siri”) for information or directions to locations which they are not familiar with. This eliminates the problem of getting lost and will ease the frustration of getting to appointments and locating the best route to get there. If running late to meet for a date, one can ask their phone to call a contact on their list. Saving time and stress. This convenience helps in staying focused when driving and removes the fear of traveling. There are so many ways this device

will save the day. Learning electronic devices will eliminate the anxiety that can surround getting the job you wish.

As you enter the secondlongest phase in your life, make an informed, active role in getting it right. With appropriate guidance and thoughtful planning, you will be able to enjoy working longer.

And, if the fact that staying active, leads to longevity and mental alertness, you will feel younger, stay happier.

For further help on retirement planning, you may contact Janice Gough at 760 251-7724 or Cell: (650) 200-8291 or Email us at Janice@GoughFinancialSvcs. com. We are located at 125 E. Tahquitz Cyn. Way, Palm Springs, Ca. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.

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Can They Take Away My Sunshine (Energy) Away?

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL Hi Kelly, I read your column about HOA’s regularly,

(those are stated in Civil Code 714.1 and 4746), no, the HOA cannot arbitrarily deny homeowners seeking to install solar energy systems.

As per Civil Code 714(b), the policy of the state is “to and I enjoy it. promote and encourage the Can a HOA prevent us use of solar energy systems from placing solar panels on and to remove obstacles the roof of our condominium thereto.” Civil Code 714 townhome? If we agree to proceeds to implement that be responsible for the repairs policy by protecting solar needed due to our solar systems and making it illegal panels, do we have the right to for HOAs to ban them. Under place solar panels on our roof? this statute, “effectively” M.F., Carmel Valley prohibiting or restricting solar systems is illegal. Reasonable Dear Mr. Richardson: restrictions are allowed, and Can my HOA deny those are defined as something me from installing solar which does not increase panels on my roof? the cost by $1,000 or 10% M.H., Rancho Santa Fe (whichever is less) or does not reduce the efficiency by more Dear Kelly: I was told than 10%. HOAs which willfully we could not install solar violate this law could be liable because it would void our for damages, a $1,000 civil roof warranties. Can our penalty, and attorney fees. management company Hoping this helps to ban installation of solar shed some light, Kelly because of that reason?

D.D., Cypress Dear Mr. Richardson, I submitted a formal Dear M.F., M.H., and D.D.: application to my HOA for So long as you comply the installation of solar panels with reasonable restrictions on my roof, believing that January 29, 2020

Civil Code section 714 is quite clear that my requested installation can be “reasonably” restricted but not denied. I have since heard that the HOA lawyer advised the board that they could, in fact, deny my application if they were to come up with “3 good reasons.”

Does this sound plausible to you? Where exactly is the law on rooftop solar in common interest developments?

Thank you for your insight.

Best, R.O., Whittier Dear R.O.: If your HOA is looking for reasons to deny solar installations, they (and the attorney) already are on the wrong track. The law is clear as to what restrictions are “reasonable” (see previous answer) and lists permissible conditions on approval. A “good reason” is found in either Civil Code 417, 417.1, or 4746, and just one is enough if the requesting homeowner refuses to cooperate.

In past years, condominium associations had often denied solar installations because they would alter common area (the roofs). Now,

even a shared roof can be used for solar installation, so long as the requesting owner obtains a solar site survey showing a fair distribution of available shared roof space (Civil Code 4746(b)(1)).

Associations can under Civil Code 714 and 4746 require owners to have insurance and to take responsibility for any cost or damage caused by the solar installation. This is best documented by a written agreement between the owner and the association, which agreement should then be recorded on the title of the unit so that future owners have notice of the agreement.

Sincerely, Kelly

Kelly G. Richardson Esq., CCAL, is a Fellow of the College of Community Association Lawyers and a Partner of Richardson Ober DeNichilo LLP, a California law firm known for community association advice. Submit questions to Kelly@rodllp. com. Past columns at www.HOAHomefront.com.

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5 Tips to Help Older Adults Be Healthier in 2020

By Desert Star Staff For many, the new year is about establishing goals for the year ahead. But where should you start? As we age, an increasing number of us link our emotional and physical well-being to our overall health. After all, you can’t do the things you’d like if you aren’t healthy.

With that in mind, Cigna and its Medicare Advantage (MA) fitness partner, the Silver&Fit Healthy Aging and Exercise Program, share these five tips to help older adults get fitter and stronger and be less stressed and happier in 2020: 1. Hit the gym. Exercise is a proven way to help you get fitter and stronger, improve balance, lose weight, reduce blood pressure, improve cardiovascular health, manage pain and even be more social. Many gyms offer such options as free weights, machines, pools, classes, private instructors and other amenities that can inspire you to try new things. Prefer working out with others?

Group classes can help you discover a new exercise, stick to a schedule and find

exercise buddies. If you’re new to exercise, remember that slow and steady is the way to build good habits, avoid injury and achieve health goals. It’s always a good idea to consult your doctor before starting any new exercise program.

Can’t afford a gym membership? You may be surprised to learn that many MA plans offer exercise programs at top fitness centers and YMCAs for no extra cost. Check your plan for details.

2. Nourish your body.

For optimal health, nourish your body with healthy, energizing foods, including fruits, vegetables, grains, fish and healthy oils, such as olive oil and sesame oil. Limit pre-packaged, processed foods. Set an achievable goal. Try cutting out one unhealthy food each month, such as sugary soft drinks or chips. Your body will love you for it! Also, stay hydrated, especially when exercising.

At the same time, eliminate unhealthy habits, such as smoking or drinking alcohol in excess. With an MA plan, you may be able to get help with smoking

cessation products or alcohol counseling at no extra cost.

3. Stress less. Stress can be toxic and debilitating.

Develop a “PLAN” to deal with it. According to Cigna’s Dr. Stuart L. Lustig, this includes identifying a Period of time to unwind, a Location to destress, an Activity to enjoy and the Name of someone with whom you can talk. Yoga, tai chi and meditation may help you cope with stress, as well as going for walks, listening to music, comedy or audio books -- or even coloring. If you’re experiencing extreme stress, talk to your doctor. Remember, the mind and body are connected, and stress takes its toll on physical health.

4. Get social. According to a 2018 Cigna survey, loneliness in America has reached epidemic levels.

Nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent). Loneliness has been shown to negatively impact physical and mental health. Alleviate loneliness by taking one proactive step each week. For example, call or get coffee with friends or family, join a club or volunteer. You

can also connect with other active adults on social media.

Check out the inspirational health and fitness posts on the @SilverandFit Facebook page and join in the conversations.

5. Practice gratitude.

Happiness comes with thankfulness. Think about

people and things you feel grateful for, and start a gratitude journal.

By doing your best to incorporate these five tips into your life, you’ll kickstart your journey toward a healthier 2020. StatePoint

Anxious About the Economy? New Survey Reveals Your Next Steps

By Desert Star Staff Economic analysts increasingly predict that the U.S. will soon experience a recession, and a recent survey by CFP Board/ Morning Consult shows many Americans agree:

55 percent of respondents believe a recession will occur in the next year. Roughly three quarters of respondents said an economic downturn would affect their household, with more than a third projecting it would have a major impact.

Experts agree that developing and sticking with a prudent, long-term financial plan is key to protecting yourself against market swings, and the survey findings underscored the value of partnering with a financial

advisor before and during a recession. Sixty-seven percent of respondents who are working with a financial advisor said they would feel prepared if a recession began in the next 12 months, compared to 38 percent of those not working with an advisor. In addition, 77 percent of people working with an advisor said they are confident their advisor would successfully manage their finances through a down market.

A Certified Financial Planner (CFP) professional can help you bring all of the pieces of your financial life together and provide confidence that your finances can withstand the pressures of an economic downturn. Of the survey respondents who work with a CFP professional, 73 percent reported feeling more prepared for a potential recession now than they did in 2008, during the Great Recession.

Trained to give you a “big picture” view of financial solutions and develop a plan that is tailored to your specific goals and interests, a CFP professional will help you set long- and short-term goals and will periodically review and adjust your financial plan as needed to ensure you stay on track to reach those goals. A CFP professional will also help you understand the implications of your financial choices, providing competent and ethical advice that supports sound financial decision-making and avoids impulsive actions. To find a CFP professional near you, visit www.letsmakeaplan.org.

Partnering with a financial advisor may be one of the most important steps you can take to protect yourself and your family from feeling the effects of a dramatic market decline. StatePoint

5-4 Supreme Court Allows Rule that Could Reshape Legal Immigration to Take Effect

NBC PS News Staff The Supreme Court Monday in a 5-4 vote cleared the way for the Trump administration to make it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to obtain legal status.

The so-called public charge rule, unveiled in August, impacts people

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who receive most forms of Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers. It was immediately met with opposition from advocates and several states, which argued that the changes would penalize immigrants who rely on temporary assistance from the government and impose

costs on the states.

The vote split along ideological lines, with the five conservative justices in the majority.

The order was also issued while Chief Justice John Roberts was presiding over the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate across the street January 29, 2020

from the Supreme Court.

A New York judge last fall issued a nationwide injunction blocking the rule. Solicitor General Noel Francisco appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to allow the rule to go into effect while the appeals process played out.

Monday’s order means the

rule can go into effect in every state, pending appeal, except for Illinois which is covered by a separate injunction.

This story is breaking and will be updated. Source: NBC Palm Springs

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FBI requested interview with Prince Andrew on Jeffrey Epstein case

By Desert Star Staff US federal prosecutors have requested an interview with Britain’s Prince Andrew about the late sex-offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, an attorney for the southern district of New York confirmed on Monday.

Speaking outside the mansion formerly owned by Epstein, attorney Geoffrey Berman said Andrew has not yet responded to the FBI’s request and has offered “zero cooperation” so far. That’s despite the British royal earlier saying that he would be willing to help “any appropriate law enforcement agency” in conducting their investigations into sexual assault claims made against Epstein and the co-

conspirators who aided him. “[Prince Andrew] publicly offered, indeed in a press release, to cooperate with law enforcement investigating the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators,” Berman continued.

Andrew’s friendship with Epstein has come under scrutiny in recent months, leading him to address criticisms in a car crash BBC interview in November, which prompted even more accusations about the relationship and forced him to step back from his public duties as part of the royal family.

Berman gave no specific details as to the information the FBI would be hoping to learn

from Andrew, but said Epstein would not have been able to carry out his crimes without help from co-conspirators.

Epstein died while in custody in a New York prison in August and his death was ruled a suicide, though the

circumstances surrounding it led many to believe foul play was involved.

Global markets sink as concerns over spread of deadly virus mount

By Desert Star Staff Worries over the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus, which has infected almost 3,000 people and killed more than 80, have rocked financial markets

around the world on Monday.

US stocks tumbled on Monday from the opening bell on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging over 400 points. The S&P 500 slid 1.5

DAX and France’s CAC are down more than two percent.

While most stock markets in Asia were closed for the Chinese Lunar New Year, bourses that traded on Monday were in the red. Japan’s Nikkei dropped by more than two percent and India’s Mumbai Sensex finished trading over one percent lower.

China’s yuan tumbled more than half a percentage point to hit a three-week low. The Australian dollar, which is heavily exposed to the performance of China’s economy, dropped 0.5 percent to its lowest since December percent while the Nasdaq-100 2. The New Zealand dollar also futures falling 2.1 percent. lost 0.5 percent. The Japanese The Stoxx Europe 600 yen, which is frequently Index dropped 2.2 percent in its viewed as a safe haven, trading session and is headed rose to as high as ¥108.73 for its worst decline since per dollar, before giving up October. UK’s FTSE, Germany’s most of the day’s gains.

Census 2020: Removing Barriers for Communities of Color

By Desert Star Staff DENVER -- People of color make up more than 30% of Colorado’s population, and civic leaders are working to ensure all residents are counted in the upcoming census - a once-adecade survey that determines how the state is represented in Congress, and whether $13 billion in federal tax dollars a year will return to Colorado.

Deidre Johnson, CEO and executive director with The Center for African-American Health, said an accurate count is necessary to fund school lunch programs, health services, road improvements and more.

“Our community is a special place to live,” Johnson said. “In order to keep our community special for the next generation, it’s up to all of us to participate in the 2020 census.”

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has formed to address some of the distrust of government among people of color, and is tapping neighborhood voices including religious leaders and educators to increase participation. Advocates also are reaching out to immigrant and refugee communities, and a curriculum for English as Second Language students on the importance of the census is set to launch in February.

Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the census, but many immigrants remain skeptical about giving the government personal information. The Constitution requires a count of all people living in the country, regardless of immigration status, and Johnson said filling out the 10-minute survey will not put families in harm’s way.

“Getting counted in

the census tells our leaders what our community needs, and that our voices and opinions matter,” she said.

“It’s safe, easy and secure. In

Colorado, everyone counts.”

All data collected in the census is protected and will not be shared with other government agencies, and

“Putting the human tragedy aside, from a cold markets perspective the coronavirus might serve the purpose of taking some of the heat out of a market that has been rising rapidly for months,” said Jasper Lawler, head of research at London Capital Group, in a note to clients seen by the MarketWatch.

As of Monday, the death toll from the coronavirus had risen to 81 and the number of those infected neared 3,000 confirmed cases.

China announced an extension of its Lunar New Year holiday through February 2 to help battle the spread of the disease. Beijing also suspended sales of package tours, hitting firms around the world that rely on Chinese tourist spending.

records are confidential for 72 years under federal law.

Participants will be able to respond online or by phone in 13 languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, French, Tagalog, Polish, Haitian, Creole, Portuguese and Japanese.

The U.S. Constitution requires a full count of all people living in the nation, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, every ten years. (USAF) January 29, 2020

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ICE Accused of Brutal Treatment in WA Traffic Stop

Protesters line up on Friday outside an immigrant holding station in Ferndale, Wash., where they believe a man brutally handled by ICE was being held. (Community to Community Development)

By Desert Star Staff Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are being accused of brutally taking a Washington man into custody.

A farmworker, who only wants to be identified by his

first name, Madardo, was in the car with his wife and children when ICE pulled him over in Everson. According to his wife, agents aggressively asked Madardo to open his door, hurling racial slurs at him, but

he refused. The agents called for backup, and when the man still refused their orders, they smashed his window and dragged him from the car.

Australia Hernandez Cosby is a local community

organizer with the immigrant farmworkers’ rights group Community to Community Development.

“The father exercised his right to say, you know, ‘Hey, y’all have a warrant signed by a judge?’ And they’re like, ‘No, we don’t. We’re above the law,’” Hernandez Cosby said.

“That was a really prominent quote there that they said they were above the law.”

ICE said Madardo has been voluntarily returned to Mexico on three separate occasions, although they did not say he had a criminal record other than entering the country illegally. The agency added breaking a car window is routine in law-enforcement work when someone refuses to comply with the law.

Madardo is in custody at the Northwest ICE processing center in Tacoma.

Hernandez Cosby said she’s heard reports of escalating tactics from ICE across the state, such as

forced entry into cars and houses. However, she said this case has hit close to home.

“He works in our community, he lives here with his children. They’re part of the community. They help support our community with agriculture,” she said. “And we just don’t need that. We don’t need family members like this taken. These shouldn’t be priorities for ICE or anyone to be separating families.”

Community to Community Development said there is a connection between the arrest and the hours-long detainment of more than 60 IranianAmericans at the Canadian border earlier this year, noting both took place in Whatcom County and under Customs and Border Patrol’s watch.

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Local Hospitals On High Alert For Coronavirus

Daytona Everett NBC PS Hospitals around the U.S. are on high alert as new patients walk through the doors. Health officials from local hospitals say they’re getting alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention every day about the dynamic disease.

Eisenhower Medical Center said it updated its electronic medical record with a new question: Have you traveled to China in the last 30 days?

A new case of Coronavirus was found in Chicago. A woman in her 60’s returned from Wuhan, China, last week.

“I am pleased to report she is clinically doing well and is in stable condition,” Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of Chicago Dept. of Public Health, said.

Health officials are monitoring her contacts as well as those of the first patient in Seattle.

“So they’re following these people who have been exposed or who have

come from China for at least 14 days for symptoms,” Michael Conners, an infection preventionist for Eisenhower Medical Center, said.

Eisenhower, along with other hospitals, is constantly learning how the new Coronavirus works.

“The virus spreads through the air, not so much touch to touch,” Conners said. “So if you touch the virus on the surface, you would have to then touch your face, bring it up to your mouth.”

The virus, stopping short of a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization.

“At this point, they’re not sure how easily it transmits from person to person,” Conners said.

Coronavirus has killed at least 26 and sickened more than 800. At least 50 possible cases in the U.S. are under investigation.

The CDC is advising against non-essential travel there and urging travelers to

the country to take precautions.

“Every time we do step out, we come back, we make sure we change our clothes and take a shower,” Ken Zurek, a traveler in China, said.

Screenings continue at U.S. airports, but health experts admit infected travelers not yet feeling ill could slip by. States are reviewing infectious-disease procedures.

“We have extensive plans in place for pandemic situations and would work with public health and CDC if it became that serious,” Conners said. “But yes, I believe the resources are available within the state, within the hospital, to handle the situation.”

Meanwhile, the CDC is rushing to get rapid test kits to local health departments.

Tests have come back negative on at least 11 people.

They advise anyone who’s feeling ill and has recently returned from Wuhan or has had contact with someone who has to call ahead to their doctor’s office so appropriate precautions can be taken.

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Senate Green-Lights Bill to Raise Tobacco-Buying Age to 21

By Desert Star Staff FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill that would raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.

The bill aims to reduce access to e-cigarettes among teens and young adults.

While Kentucky brings in more than $500 million a year from tobacco sales, Ben Chandler, president and CEO of Foundation for a

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Healthy Kentucky, says only around $3 million is budgeted for tobacco prevention and cessation efforts. He says the state needs to work harder to stop the next generation from becoming hooked on nicotine.

“Vaping products are considered tobacco products and consequently, they would be under this law,” he points out. “And we’ve seen an epidemic in the use of those products by young people.”

The bill is sponsored

by Republican Sens. Ralph Alvarado of Winchester and Danny Carroll of Paducah.

According to a 2019 survey, 53% of high school students in the Commonwealth have tried e-cigarettes.

The bill now heads to the House for consideration.

Chandler adds passing Senate Bill 56 would also help the state comply with a new federal law, known January 29, 2020

as the Tobacco-Free Youth Act, that raises the national minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21. He says at least 19 states already have passed similar legislation.

“Studies have shown that if you raise the age to 21, middle-schoolers, highschoolers, are much less likely to get hold of those products,” Chandler points out.

The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services

says more than 8,000 Kentuckians die of tobaccorelated illnesses each year.

The agency also estimates that annual health care costs for treating people with smoking related diseases tops $1.2 billion.

Disclosure: Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky contributes to our fund for reporting on Children’s Issues, Health Issues, Smoking Prevention, Youth Issues.

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75 years on, death camp survivors recall the Red Army liberation of Auschwitz

By Desert Star Staff Evgeny Kovalev was captured by the Nazis during a partisan scouting mission in 1943. Loaded onto a freight train cattle cart, he had no idea he was being taken to Auschwitz and was oblivious as to the hell that awaited him there.

Now, 75 years after the Red Army liberated the notorious death camp in January 1945, Kovalev recalls his days of horror.

“We were crammed into these trains and sent somewhere. It was a very long road — at least a day and a night,” he says. The train carrying Kovalev and other Soviet prisoners eventually arrived at Oswiecim Station, just a few minutes away from the Auschwitz camp — but still, they had no way to know where they really were.

Gates of hell “Everything was lit up, bright lamps all around the camp. So bright, you could see a needle in the grass… We didn’t have the faintest idea what a concentration camp even was. We knew nothing”.

As soon as they arrived, he remembers, women and young children were separated and grouped to

one side. Kovalev himself was only 14 years old, but he was sent to the opposite side and joined a line of other prisoners. They were watched by dogs and SS soldiers armed with machine guns.

They marched us to the sanitary inspection building, a big barracks. Inside, they cut everyone’s hair, sprayed us with water, put some ointment on our skin. Then they sent us to cold showers.

At the exit, they tattooed numbers on our hands.

Kovalev was assigned to block 32 at the ‘Kanada’ section, where inmates worked in warehouses, unloading the luggage and sorting through the belongings of other prisoners as they arrived on trains.

“People were arriving from Russia, Hungary... they were bringing prisoners from everywhere,” Kovalev says.

“The job was to unload the trains, undress the people, take everything off of them and take them to the crematorium.”

They drove a lot of people inside, shut all the doors, and turned on the gas. Within 5 to 7 minutes, everyone was dead.

Working to survive The Sonderkommando unit, comprised mostly of

Children pictured after the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz © Reuters Jews, was then forced to burn the dead bodies and remove the ashes, Kovalev explains. Continually fearing for their own lives, the prisoners took the ashes out to bury in the fields or threw them into the Vistula river. Another unit was tasked with sorting through valuable remains like jewelry and gold teeth.

Kovalev himself was assigned to a team-building vegetable storage sheds.

“I dug basements, built walls, and poured concrete.

Prisoners are seen behind barbed wire during the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz © Yad Vashem Archives via Reuters

We worked like that for a very long time,” he says.

While being able to carry out manual labor increased a prisoner’s chances of survival significantly, the threat of death always hung in the air. Each week, Kovalev remembers, there was a selection process carried out by the camp’s chief doctor Josef Mengele, where prisoners were stripped naked near the furnaces.

“I survived the selection three times,” he says.

After a long trek across Poland, fighting back the Germans in every town and village along the way, Red Army soldiers finally reached Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. “You can probably imagine how we felt when we were rescued,” Kovalev says.

“We were crying tears of joy.”

My most vivid memory is when the Soviet troops came and set us free… I don’t know how to explain it, I was so emotional… we never expected to live through it.

Rewriting history Years later, at a forum in Krakow, Kovalev was surprised to hear people say it had been American troops who really liberated Auschwitz.

He was thankful when Poland’s president at the time,

Tests Show Toxic PFAS Contaminate Water

By Desert Star Staff As the Trump administration rolls back vital clean water protections, new lab tests have found toxic fluorinated chemicals in almost every water sample from 44 locations in 31 states and the District of Columbia.

PFAS, used in the hundreds of everyday products, are called “forever chemicals” because they build up in our bodies and don’t break down. Very small doses have been linked to cancer, immune and reproductive harm and other diseases.

Of the samples tested by the Environmental Working Group, only one had no www.desertstarweekly.com

detectable PFAS, and only two others had PFAS below levels that pose a health risk.

But according to Scott Faber, Vice President for Government Affairs at Environmental Work Group, there are still no federal requirements to filter the chemicals from tap water or to clean up contaminated sites.

“These findings lend new urgency to efforts by state and federal officials to reduce ongoing PFAS releases into water supplies and to clean up legacy PFAS pollution,” Faber said.

Some of the highest concentrations were found in samples from major metropolitan areas. In 2014,

PFAS contamination in Hoosick Falls, New York, drew national attention to the problem.

PFAS has been detected in the water of almost 1,400 communities nationwide.

Robert Allen, mayor of Hoosick Falls, pointed out that it wasn’t addressed in his town’s water until 2016 when Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared it a hazardous substance.

“It gave the state legal authority and the resources of the state superfund program to investigate, implement filtration, and force the responsible parties to cover the costs,” Allen said.

He said levels of PFAS in the blood of Hoosick Falls January 29, 2020

residents has dropped by about 50% since filtration was started four years ago.

EWG tested water samples for 30 different PFAS compounds, five-times more than an EPA study in 20142015. Ken Cook, president of EWG, noted that on average, their testing found six or seven different PFAS chemicals in the samples they tested.

Aleksander Kwasniewski, took the floor and rightly thanked the Soviet Army instead.

Wladyslaw Osik, a Polish Auschwitz survivor, is similarly angered by efforts to write the Red Army’s role out of history.

“I have never questioned the merits of these [Soviet] soldiers. I have always been grateful — and representatives of Russia should be at the celebrations in Warsaw”.

“People tell us that there was no liberation… but if there was no Red Army, then I wouldn’t be here,” he says.

Polish President Andrzej Duda failed to extend an invite to Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the national memorial ceremony in Auschwitz on Monday — and the two countries are embroiled in a diplomatic spat, both accusing each other of historical revisionism.

To Osik, sidelining Russia from these events is a “huge mistake,” — but he acknowledges that the atmosphere has been brewing for years. Yet, for him, the political squabbles of today are not what matters most.

“My mother returned from Oswiecim to Warsaw.

That’s all I know,” he says.

“Because we found some types of PFAS that have not been found in drinking water before, we know that this contamination problem is not only affecting more people, but has a wider range of contaminants that we need to be worried about,” Cook said.

A bill to address PFAS contamination recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, but President Trump has threatened to veto it if it gets to his desk.

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HOROSCOPES ARIES

Experiences and thoughts, dreams and visions come quickly these days. It’s as if visions make up your daily reality. You’re being called to study and research, discover (or create) groups that support and belong to you, forging a template for community. You are to negotiate fear because you know it’s no longer useful.

Wisdom’s coming. It would be good to study the art and science of astrology.

TAURUS Your future is in front of you.

It’s asking you to help create a large portion of everyone else’s future; to lead with others in partnership and cooperation; to discuss new era visions others can uphold and bring into form and matter.

Careful if you carry too many responsibilities. You need to ask for help every now and then, something you never do. Take care of your health.

Do you need someone by your side? Call them.

GEMINI You might have the desire and aspiration to take up a new study, return to school, learn a new profession, travel far away and/or ask for an expanded job description. It seems as if you’ll travel to one or more communities in order to visit friends, assess living there and review their spiritual emphasis and orientation.

Daily work strengthens your body. Consider your resources and finances. Pray over them

JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2020 ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST BY RISA D’ANGELES

each day with gratitude. Judge all that you have, including yourself, as deeply worthy.

CANCER Great benefits, at first very subtly, begin to fall into your life. Later you realize a joy has quietly entered your life as if on little cat’s feet.

You find your thinking is reshaping itself. You become a receiving, transmitting, intuitive, perceptive agent and visions become more and more available. Allow nothing to stress or impose demands upon you. Your fear could do this. Love neutralizes fear.

LEO You become more and more aware that you’re working with powerful cosmic forces these days. You are a powerful force, too, to others. Notice that people around you may be acting these forces out in their behaviors. This is an extraordinary piece of information…to know that people in our environments act out planetary movements.

Observe all work realities.

Remember also that from loss comes a profound new life. It is a good time to be creative now.

VIRGO Take hold of the family resources and begin to work carefully with them, restructuring, making changes, rearranging all financial comings and goings. Place more into savings; use the money for tangible goods.

Use it also to prepare for the future when goods may not be as available. Who in your daily life, including your work world, would you consider your community? If no one, then begin visualizing one right where you live.

LIBRA Some shift and/or transformation, something from the past or something deeply forgotten, something expansive, something important in your domestic world – all these are creating changes in your sense of self-identity. Something also, is creating more discipline in your life. Perhaps there is a distance or a withholding or an absence or a task needing to be completed that will bring a new depth of feeling (and forgiveness) to your personal world. Think good fortune, health and healing, order and structure. “Be of love, more careful than of anything.”

SCORPIO Your personal seed thought is the word “creativity.” Study this word from all levels, and then list for yourself all the ways you are creative. Then list all the ways you wish to be creative. Then list all those you consider creative. Then define the word creative. From these exercises create an art piece that is an expression of your joys and sorrows, enjoyments, talents and abilities, hopes, wishes and dreams. The creative field is wide open now. Bring it down and in. Like a mudra.

SAGITTARIUS Everything about you is of value. It’s also very personal, very inner and the nature of your potential opens in direct relation to your spiritual beliefs and endeavors.

Venus is overseeing your domestic reality. You have the opportunity to make great things occur, especially if you work ceaselessly with the art of gratitude (for everything).

Then you’re bestowed with great blessings and grace.

Grace is an esoteric word for Initiation, a change in consciousness, which you’re going through. You laugh…

CAPRICORN You’re inspired to study family and relatives seeking your history so you can have a realistic (building to compassionate) view of where you came from and who you are. This gives you stability and a sense of self within a cycle of history. Sometimes in families misunderstood communications occur and realities are lost. It’s a cross between political idealism and freedom. Family is more important than politics. There’s a mantram that is useful to recite daily. “Let reality govern my every thought and truth be the master of my life.”

feelings, hopes and needs. Try not to overspend and know there are financial benefits coming your way. Also realize when you help others, your well-being and self-identity grow exponentially. It’s time for you to be in community.

You’re needed there. In the meantime, careful with communication. Love more.

PISCES You will, day by day, begin to experience a greater freedom of identity, much of which has been hidden in a cloud of unknowing for the past several years. You will experience a new destiny, a celebration, a bit of self-indulgence, horizons widening, opportunities appearing and expanding, projects initiated with beauty and the arts more and more incorporated in daily life. You had almost given up, yes? Life magically comes to your aid..

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.

AQUARIUS Take extra care with personal resources, with what you consider of value. Realize that things in matter, although they have monetary value, are not the same as people with

Feds Lay Out Recovery Plan for Endangered Bumble Bee

In addition to the Midwest and East Coast, the rusty patched bumble bee was also common in many parts of Canada. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

By Desert Star Staff MADISON, Wis. -- A certain kind of bumble bee that once thrived in the Midwest and along the East

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Coast is now endangered, and federal officials are moving forward with plans to reverse the population decline of the insect.

The rusty patched bumble bee was added to the federal Endangered Species List in 2017. Experts say the bee’s population has been wiped January 29, 2020

out by nearly 90% and it’s only present in about a dozen states, including Wisconsin.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a plan to help this pollinator stage a comeback. Agency spokeswoman Georgia Parham says the plan centers around habitat fixes.

“Creating and restoring habitat in areas where the bee now exists, and creating habitat in other parts of its historic range,” she explains.

The agency says exposure to pesticides and a disease-causing pathogen also contributed to the population decline.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting public comments on the recovery plan, which will be used as a guide for conservationists to try to get the rusty patched bumble bee off the endangered list.

The agency was sued by the Natural Resources

Defense Council for not moving fast enough, but that case was settled.

Parham says the bee has been able to hang on in Midwestern states because there’s still a lot of prairie lands it can use as habitat.

In addition to federal action, she says backyard planters in these areas can also help the bee recover.

“People that like to attract pollinators and butterflies,” she points out. “If you’re doing that, you’re going to create habitat for species like the rusty patched bumble bee.”

The chubby looking bee got its name because of the distinct black and yellow rusted patch that runs along its back.

The public comment period for the recovery plan runs through Feb. 24.

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Meet the ‘super pretty’ tennis umpire setting pulses racing at the Australian Open

By Desert Star Staff While the action heats up on the court at the Australian Open, tennis fans online have been waxing lyrical about one of the officials maintaining fair play during the tournament – Serbian umpire Marijana Veljovic.

Usually, the official sat in the umpire’s chair receives little attention until a debatable line call or a warning is issued, and a player starts to remonstrate with them.

And, sure enough, the umpire in Roger Federer’s quarter-final win over Tennys

Sandgren found herself the target of attention after the usually-unflappable Swiss star was handed a warning for a verbal obscenity during his come-from-behind win.

But it wasn’t the umpire’s officiating of the match that caught the imagination of the fans. Put simply, fans were falling over themselves to declare their admiration, or indeed love, for Veljovic.

— doublefault28 Didn’t think I’d ever say this but I’m in love with an Australian Open chair

— Eric Neither Roger Federer nor Tennys Sandgren seemed to run out of reasons to go talk to this Australian Open chair umpire — Joe Mulder — doublefault28 It wasn’t just the fans who noticed the striking figure sat in the umpire’s chair.

Women’s tennis star Genie Bouchard – who has received plenty of online attention herself – tweeted to say: “The umpire in this Roger/Tennys match is super pretty.” the umpire in this roger/

tennis match is super pretty — Genie Bouchard Yo, can they alert us when Marijana Veljovic is the umpire for tennis matches?! I think I’m in love — Joe Mastoloni But, behind her striking looks is a dedicated, determined official who has worked tirelessly to reach the top of her profession.

Veljovic earned her umpire’s gold badge in 2015 and has been a regular face at the big tournaments on tour.

She officiated the women’s final in 2018 Australian Open and had the honor of umpiring the 2019 Wimbledon women’s singles final. Last year, she umpired the Fed Cup final.

“I never expected that I was going to be doing this for a living,” she said in an interview with the International Tennis Federation.

“Tennis was always my passion, I had a great love for the sport. As I was playing tennis as a young kid, my dream was basically to go to Wimbledon, even as a spectator. So for me, being selected first of all for Wimbledon was something unusual and incredible.

But just being an umpire wasn’t enough for Veljovic, who wanted to not only make

it as a woman but make it to the very top of the sport on her own merit. But she also said that she is happy to see tennis offering equal opportunities for women that previously weren’t available.

“Whether you are a girl or a guy, if you do well and they think you’re good enough to do the biggest matches like a Davis Cup final or a Grand Slam, it feels amazing that our sport is allowing us that,” she said.

“Are going to determine is she good enough really because it’s ‘only’ a female?

Can she really do it? If we start thinking from that side, I don’t think it’s fair, and it’s okay, so yeah, I feel that tennis is giving us the right opportunities.”

Clearly, with Veljovic taking charge of some of the biggest matches in the sport, she has risen to the very top of her profession, and she’s happy to be a female role model for other aspiring female officials.

“It can be tough, you’re away from home, and things aren’t always going a good way,” she said.

“But the experience overall, I think it’s a great experience, a great life experience. So yes, I would definitely recommend it.”

R.I.P. Kobe

Continued from Page 1 god no. It can’t be true.

— Kevin Love Nooooooooooo God please No! — DWade I’m stunned. Words can’t even come close to describing it. Just an incredibly sad and tragic day.

— Scottie Pippen Bryant’s reach in the sports world extended far beyond that of just the NBA, prompting several well-known names from across the globe to join in the outpouring of grief.

We miss you already Kobe — Tom Brady Kobe you were my idol... period. Mentality through and through. Thank you. To your www.desertstarweekly.com

family, I wish y’all nothing but the very best. Prayers and thoughts with you don’t begin to describe what we want for y’all. Love and respect to #8 & #24 forever — Baker Mayfield We can never forget how precious life is. How those who are special to you and never let them forget how deeply you love them — Mark Cuban US President Donald Trump was also among those to take to Twitter to express his condolences.

Reports are that basketball great Kobe Bryant and three others have been killed in a helicopter crash in California.

That is terrible news!

— Donald J. Trump

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PGA TOUR, its tournaments surpass $3 billion in all-time charitable giving

By Desert Star Staff PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA - PGA TOUR player Gary Woodland surprised Amy Bockerstette from Special Olympics Arizona last January with the opportunity to play the 16th hole together as part of his Waste Management Phoenix Open practice round.

With a smile on her face and her can-do, “I got this” selftalk, Amy – the first collegiate golfer to compete with an intellectual disability such as Down syndrome – became an overnight sensation. Her remarkable, par-saving putt has been viewed nearly 44 million times across TOUR platforms and has been featured on the NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, the TODAY Show, and countless other platforms beyond golf.

One year later, the PGA TOUR celebrated the anniversary of that memorable event by announcing that the TOUR and its tournaments have surpassed $3 billion in all-time charitable giving.

The charitable total, which includes a record of $204.3 million in 2019 to bring the all-time total to $3.05 billion, includes donations made by tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, Mackenzie TourPGA TOUR Canada, PGA TOUR Latinoamérica and PGA TOUR Series-China.

“It’s truly a pleasure to thank our fans, sponsors, tournaments, players, and volunteers for helping us generate over $3 billion for charity and positively impact

millions of lives,” said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. “As remarkable as this milestone is, what really matters are the countless stories like Amy’s that every tournament has.

Together, we look forward to continuing to reach – and celebrate – millions more.”

Woodland and Amy are two of those millions, and it’s been a whirlwind for both since the two first met at TPC Scottsdale. Woodland and his wife, Gabby, have welcomed twins; he celebrated the biggest win of his career at the U.S. Open, telling Amy he “used (her) positive energy” to do so; and Amy has become an ambassador for those with Down syndrome, launching her I GOT THIS FOUNDATION to promote golf instruction

and playing opportunities for people with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. The two will reunite on Wednesday, January 29, at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the site of their now-famous interaction.

The PGA TOUR and its more than 100 tournaments across all Tours achieved the $3 billion mark just six years after surpassing $2 billion in 2014. The TOUR reached the $1 billion mark in 2005.

Also, the record $204.3 million in 2019 bests the previous record of $190 million in 2018.

The TOUR’s first charitable donation of $10,000 was at the 1938 Palm Beach Invitational. These dollars positively impact more than 3,000 nonprofits each year, such as the First Tee, which

has introduced more than 15 million young people to its character-building programs through the game of golf.

Each PGA TOUR tournament provides individuals an opportunity to give back to the community in one of three ways – attending an event, volunteering, or donating money. Not-forprofit tournaments under the PGA TOUR umbrella donate their net proceeds to support local organizations, totaling more than $3 billion in donations to date. The impact these tournaments make throughout the year is possible thanks to the more than 100,000 volunteers who commit their time to ensure each event is a success.

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Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts Presents Pianist Estela Olevsky

By Desert Star Staff Desert Hot Springs, CA -The sixth season of Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts continues with Pianist Estela Olevsky will perform at 4pm on Sunday, February 9th.

All concerts take place at Grace Church, 17400 Bubbling Wells Rd., Desert Hot Springs. Admission is free, but donations at the door are welcome and go directly to supporting the concert series.

“In recent years, Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts has presented dozens of free community concerts throughout Desert Hot Springs, featuring performers from the Coachella Valley and the greater Los Angeles area, and even places farther afield

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such as Massachusetts, Washington, Wisconsin…as well as Scotland, Canada, and Argentina,” said Founder and Artistic Director, Danny Holt.

“In our sixth season, we will continue to strive for the same level of excellence, presenting performers who combine highlevel artistry and an ability to communicate their passion and excitement with the audience– even those who are not already familiar with classical music.”

A native of Buenos Aires, pianist Estela Kersenbaum Olevsky has performed on five continents and collaborated with many distinguished instrumental and vocal soloists as well as diverse chamber music groups such as Berlin Philharmonic Festival

Players, the Lark Quartet, the Olewsky Trio and the Bach Festival in Buenos Aires under the direction of Karl Richter. She has appeared as a soloist with numerous symphony orchestras in North and South America. In the USA, she has performed at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Weill Hall. Her program on February 9th, Piano Gems from the Americas, will present a musical travelogue

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consisting of pieces from Argentina, Brasil, Cuba, Mexico, and the USA. Written by master composers such as Carlos Guastavino, Alberto Ginastera, Ernesto Nazarerth, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Lecuona, and William Bolcom these works bring together the different ethnic qualities that give Latin American its own unique flavor. For more information about Estela Olevsky, visit her website: www.estelaolevsky.com

Donations are appreciated, but admission is free, thanks to underwriting from the City of Desert Hot Springs Community and Cultural Affairs Commission, support from local businesses, and individual donors. Cash donations are accepted at the door to benefit the concert series. To learn more about Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts, visit www.

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FAMILY FEATURES

antalizing taste buds with the latest in trendy foods can be a fun way to bring the whole family to the table for meals together. Combining familiar flavors with a new preparation method, for example, is one way to add flair to dinners at home.

An innovative sushi-style concept, “beefshi� features convenient beef products like pastrami, roast beef, summer sausage, hot dogs, corned beef or bologna prepared in rolls with rice and vegetables. Because recipes like Reuben Roll, Taco Maki, New York Deli Roll and Muffarolletta can be enjoyed individually as appetizers or grouped together for a full meal, these dishes can provide a variety of solutions from entertaining a crowd to simply feeding your family.

Find more information and recipes at beefshi.com.

Reuben Roll

Recipe courtesy of the North American Meat Institute on behalf of the Beef Checkoff Yield: 2 rolls (16 pieces) Hand Vinegar: 1 cup water 1/4 cup rice vinegar Rolls: 12 3 1 2 4 1 1/4

thin slices pastrami cups sushi rice teaspoon caraway seeds sheets nori thin slices Swiss cheese, cut into slivers cups sauerkraut, rinsed, drained and squeezed dry

Russian dressing To make hand vinegar: In small bowl, stir water and rice vinegar.

To make rolls: Lay sushi mat on clean surface and cover with plastic wrap. Lay six slices pastrami on mat lengthwise. Moisten hands with hand vinegar and shake off excess. Spread 1 1/2 cups rice across pastrami, leaving 1 inch empty at farthest end. Sprinkle rice with caraway seeds. Turn nori over so rice side is down.

Cover half the pastrami crosswise with two slices cheese and half the sauerkraut.

Securing meat and cheese with fingers, use thumbs to push end of mat up and over filling until edge of nori meets rice on opposite side.

Press firmly on roll.

Lift top of mat and roll firmly until tight and round. Squeeze gently to shape. Press ends in carefully to secure loose rice. Remove mat and set roll aside.

Repeat to make second roll.

Use thin, sharp knife to cut each roll into eight slices. Arrange on sushi platter and serve with Russian dressing.

Reuben Roll

Taco Maki

Recipe courtesy of the North American Meat Institute on behalf of the Beef Checkoff Yield: 2 rolls (16 pieces) Hand Vinegar: 1 cup water 1/4 cup rice vinegar Maki: 2 sheets nori 4 cups sushi rice

4 ounces finely shredded spicy beef jerky 16 cilantro sprigs 1/2 cup slivered radishes

64 tortilla strips queso fresco crumbles pico de gallo To make hand vinegar: In small bowl, stir water and rice vinegar.

To make maki: Lay sushi mat on clean surface. Moisten hands with hand vinegar and shake off excess.

Place one nori sheet on mat, shiny-side down. Spread 2 cups rice across nori, leaving 1 inch empty at farthest end.

Lay 2 ounces jerky, 8 cilantro sprigs and 1/4 cup radishes crosswise along rice, covering half the surface closest to you.

Securing jerky, cilantro and radishes with fingers, use thumbs to push end of mat up and over filling until edge of nori meets rice on opposite side. Press firmly on roll.

Lift top of mat and roll firmly until tight and round. Squeeze gently to shape roll. Press ends in carefully to secure loose rice. Remove mat and set roll aside.

Repeat to make second roll.

Use thin, sharp knife to cut each roll into eight slices. Arrange on sushi platter. Stand four tortilla strips upright in center of each roll then sprinkle with queso fresco. Serve with pico de gallo.

New York Deli Roll

New York Deli Roll

Recipe courtesy of the North American Meat Institute on behalf of the Beef Checkoff Yield: 2 rolls (16 pieces) Hand Vinegar: 1 cup water 1/4 cup rice vinegar Futomaki: 2 sheets nori 3 cups sushi rice 2 teaspoons caraway seeds 6 thin slices corned beef 4 teaspoons horseradish, well-drained 4 thin slices Swiss cheese, sliced into thin sticks Dijon mustard To make hand vinegar: In small bowl, stir water and rice vinegar.

To make futomaki: Lay sushi mat on clean surface and cover with plastic wrap. Place one

nori sheet on mat, shiny-side down. Moisten hands with hand vinegar and shake off excess.

Spread 1 1/2 cups rice across nori. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon caraway seeds. Turn nori over so rice side is down.

Cover half the rice crosswise with three slices corned beef. Spread corned beef with 2 teaspoons horseradish. Cover corned beef with two slices cheese.

Securing meat and cheese with fingers, use thumbs to push end of mat up and over filling until edge of nori meets rice on opposite side.

Press firmly on roll.

Lift top of mat and roll firmly until tight and round. Squeeze gently to shape roll. Press ends in carefully to secure loose rice. Remove mat and set roll aside.

Repeat to make second roll.

Use thin, sharp knife to cut each roll into eight slices. Arrange on sushi platter and serve with Dijon mustard.

Taco Maki

Muffarolletta

Recipe courtesy of the North American Meat Institute on behalf of the Beef Checkoff Yield: 2 rolls (16 pieces) Hand Vinegar: 1 cup water 1/4 cup rice vinegar Rice: 1/2 cup mixed olives, patted dry and finely chopped

2 teaspoons capers, patted dry and finely chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 3 cups sushi rice freshly ground black pepper, to taste Rolls: 8 3 3 1/4

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thin slices beef salami thin slices part-skim mozzarella, cut into sticks thin slices provolone, cut into sticks cup chopped celery leaves

toasted sesame seeds shaved celery To make hand vinegar: In small bowl, stir water and rice vinegar.

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To make rice: In small bowl, mix olives, capers, garlic and rice; season with pepper, to taste.

To make rolls: Lay sushi mat on clean surface and cover with plastic wrap. Lay four slices salami on mat, overlapping by about 1/2 inch, to create surface 7 inches wide and 6 inches deep.

Moisten hands with hand vinegar and shake off excess.

Cover salami with 1 1/2 cups sushi rice, leaving 1 inch empty at farthest end.

Arrange half of each cheese along center of rice crosswise, covering half of rice closest to you. Sprinkle cheese with 1/8 cup celery leaves.

Securing cheese with fingers, use thumbs to push end of mat up and over filling until one edge of rice meets opposite side. Press firmly on roll.

Lift top of mat and roll firmly until tight and round.

Squeeze gently to shape roll.

Press ends in carefully to secure loose rice. Remove mat, peel off plastic and set roll aside.

Repeat to make second roll.

Slice each roll into eight rounds, arrange on sushi platter and sprinkle each slice with sesame seeds. Serve with shaved celery.

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An Afternoon with Dame Joan Collins

Dame Joan Collins. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause Palm Springs Speaks presented “An Afternoon with Dame Joan Collins on Jan.26th. They held the event at the Richards Center for the Performing Arts. Donors, friends, and fans were lucky to attend a VIP reception where they could get their photo taken with the Actress.

This is the third season of great speakers with the next speaker to be Bob Woodard to discuss his new book. The Palm Springs Speakers Series is a collaboration between the Friends of the Palm Springs Library and the Palm Springs Cultural Center. This series spotlights the written word, literacy, culture, the Arts and serves as a fundraiser for both.

Fans and guests had some great stories to tell about their meeting with Dame Collins at some point in their lives. Two gentlemen brought a part of a piano the was actually owned

by Joan Collins for her to see.

Another brought a Dynasty doll in her image. A few met her years ago at some dinner, play, or event with friends. Two impersonators came to see Dame Collins and meet her, and she seemed happy to meet them too. There was a long line of fans waiting to talk to her or get their photo with her.

The theatre was filled with Dame Joan Collins fans as moderator Chuck Yates asked her questions about her life.

Collins said she started acting at age 7. Yates asked about her movies and her awards. He also asked her about her book and her philanthropy work. She answered all his questions with openness about her life and career and told some hilarious facts that had the audience laughing a lot. She has been in the public eye as the famous Alexis Carrington from Dynasty, who was always beautiful and slim. At one point before that, she was told she was fat and needed to lose weight. Hedda Hopper told her she was ugly without makeup, and her hair looked like it was styled with an egg beater. Hard to believe that anyone would say that to such a beautiful woman.

She said she was approached by a talent scout at 17 who asked her if Joan wanted to be an actress, and she said no but later changed

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Ethylina Canne, Dame Joan Collins and Morgan McMichaels. Photo by Pat Krause

her mind. She told about Bette Davis and said she was terrified, and she was scared of her.

Collins told how she was offered the role of Cleopatra but would have to be excellent for the part which probably meant the so-called casting couch, which was prevalent at that time. She

met Marilyn Monroe and other great actresses and worked with many handsome male actors and even a few not so lovely. At age 49, she posed for Playboy and had a 12-page spread, and it was tastefully done.

She spoke about her 15 books and her favorite

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MUSIC

BY ROBERT KINSLER

Under The Radar Roundup The first month of 2020 seems like the perfect time to celebrate a trio of under the radar releases more than worthy of high-profile attention.

and recorded by Bobbo Byrnes (of Fallen Stars fame). The instrumentals thrill (in particular, Artist: Sound of a Distant Sun the traditional reading of “Gray Funnel Line,” “The Banner,” and Title: Music From The an ambitious medley of “Milky Heart (Independent) Way / Banshee / Molly Bahn You might like if you / Flaring Pot Reel” that wraps enjoy: Solas, Clannad, up the album are delightful), Altan, The Tinker’s Own and songs – both original and Tell me more: A winning reworked classics – resonate blend of traditional Irish and Celtic sounds award listeners of via affecting performances.

The lovely version of Boris Sound of a Distant Sun’s new Bengin’s “Johnny Come LP “Music From The Heart.”

Home Tonight” and joyful “Two Featuring the talents of Matt Tonge (guitar, bass), Georgiana Sisters,” as well as a nuanced reading of the Hennessy Hennessy (vocals, fiddle, accordion, handpan) and Matt and Tonge penned title track showcase a rich connection Froehlich (drums, percussion), the 13-track disc was produced with the enduring sounds of

the Emerald Isle. Information: Music@riverrunusa.com.

Artist: Kailey Nicole Title: Kailey Nicole (Kailey Nicole) You might like if you enjoy: Nikki Lane, Patsy Cline, Whitney Rose, Kacey Musgraves Tell me more: Armed with an affecting soprano and solid arsenal of original songs, rising Nashville-based songstress Kailey Nicole’s self-titled EP is sure to please fans of classic and contemporary country music. The Las Vegas native has an ear for infectious song craft as evidenced by the explosive “Brand New Day,” rowdy “Diamonds & Coal”

(newly available on 180 gram vinyl in January 2020) includes previously-heard tracks as well as songs that never appeared on any commercially-released vinyl or audio CD set. The range of material spans from early rock ‘n’ roll (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders’ “The Game of Love,” Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs “Wooly Bully” and Buddy Holly’s “Well...

Alright”) and Billie Holiday’s “Gloomy Sunday” to Brian Wilson’s “Girl Don’t Tell Me” and a slew of epic Beatles covers.

The band tears it up on John Lost Classic Lennon’s “White Album” rocker Artist: The Smithereens “Yer Blues,” and conjure up Title: Covers (Sunset an equal zest for rediscovery Blvd Records) with Bruce Springsteen’s You might like if you “Downbound Train,” The Who’s enjoy: The Smithereens, “The Seeker” and Ringo Starr’s The Beatles, The Who Tell me more: When singer- “It Don’t Come Easy.” DiNizio’s songwriter/guitarist Pat DiNizio distinctive voice is supported by the rest of the Smithereens’ died in December 2017 it didn’t seem likely that the world stellar lineup (lead guitarist Jim Babjak, drummer Dennis Diken would be treated to another and bassist Mike Mesaros).

Smithereens album. However, in May 2018 the beloved hard- As Mesaros notes in the rich liner notes: “That intense rocking power pop troupe childlike love of our influences issued “Covers,” a 22-track never left us.” Information: compilation of artful and arresting covers. The collection OfficialSmithereens.com. and “Country Love Song,” the latter bolstered by an undeniable chorus and the singer’s rich vocals. Nicole is also capable of delivering an emotional wallop as evidenced by the tender ballad “Save Me For a Rainy Day.” It doesn’t hurt her eponymous six-song EP was produced by Niles Thomas (Roxystar), and mastered and engineered by six-time Grammy winner Bonzai Caruso (Madonna, Stephen Marley).

Information: KaileyNicole.com.

Lawmakers Consider Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Youth

By Desert Star Staff PIERRE, S.D. -- A South Dakota bill that would punish doctors who provide treatments for transgender youths is similar to others making their way through state legislatures this year. House Bill 1057 would punish doctors who treat patients younger than age 16 for certain gendertransition procedures.

If approved, the law would criminalize such medical treatment by imposing a one year jail sentence and a maximum fine of up to $2,000. At its first hearing last week, former South Dakota Attorney General Roger Tellinghuisen urged

lawmakers to reject the bill.

“Transgender children tend to be some of the most vulnerable kids that we have in our society. They have a higher rate of suicidal thoughts,” Tellinghuisen said.

“And this bill does nothing to help them in terms of their journey through life.”

Tellinghuisen said he believes South Dakota’s Republican super-majority in the Legislature has prompted outside groups to use the state as a testing ground for conservative measures. Other states with pending legislation affecting transgendered youth include Kentucky, Georgia and Texas.

Gov. Kristi Noem expressed concern about the legislation last week, but wouldn’t say if she would sign it. Should it pass, the South Dakota ACLU has vowed to challenge the bill in the courts.

South Dakota ACLU Policy Director Libby Skarin said transgender issues are for parents and their children, not the government, to decide.

“What this bill would do instead is say that you as a parent aren’t qualified to make these decisions for your child, or we as the government don’t trust you to care for your child, so we are going to make these decisions for you,” Skarin said.

She said legislation targeting

transgender individuals has been ongoing for years. In 2016, South Dakota’s Legislature passed a bill, later vetoed by the former governor, that would have limited transgender students’ bathroom access.

Skarin said instead of focusing on those already marginalized, lawmakers should focus on problems faced by a majority of South Dakota residents.

“This bill is taking up a lot of the air in the state Legislature,” she said. “It’s sucking up so much of the public conversation that would be better spent talking about real problems that we have in the state.”

During the four-hour hearing last week, representatives from the South Dakota State Medical Association and Sanford Health testified that the bill goes against “best practices.”

Legislation under consideration at the South Dakota Capitol would criminalize doctors for providing gender transition treatment to children younger than age 16 “when such procedures are done to cause the minor to feel or appear as the opposite sex.” (healthy women.org) www.desertstarweekly.com

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Write More Letters to Friends and Family

By Desert Star Staff In an age of instant messages, video chats and social media, the art of letter writing has become rare.

But sitting down to write correspondence by hand can be a much more personal way to connect than some of the modern modes of communication. Not only does it give you ample opportunity to express yourself, it gives your recipient something tangible to hold onto and revisit.

International Correspondence Writing Month (InCoWriMo), celebrated in February, is the perfect opportunity to hone your letterwriting skills. This month-long challenge invites you to handwrite and mail or deliver one letter, card, note or postcard every day of the month.

If it’s been some time since you last corresponded by snail mail, you may find your letterwriting skills to be a bit rusty.

To help you be successful during InCoWriMo and beyond, the experts at Pilot Pen are offering some tips: 1. Make Lasting Connections. Writing and

mailing letters daily may feel a bit intimidating, but why should it? Did you text someone today? Did you send an email?

If the answer is yes, you’re already halfway there. Put pen to paper instead and add a more personal, analog touch to your daily communication.

Reconnect with long distance friends, send happy mail to your parents, or explore the opportunity to encourage a soldier overseas and make a new friend in the process.

Whoever you choose to write to this process, it will help create a physical reminder of the connection between you and your recipient.

2. Pick Great Tools. A trusty pen can get you through any deadline, to-do list or thank you note. Wielding this powerful tool will automatically help you feel capable of taking on new challenges. During the month of February, Pilot Pen suggests picking up a pen designed to help you author your best correspondence, as well as overachieve in every aspect of your life. With G2, America’s number one selling, longest-lasting gel ink pen,

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Share favorite memories or accomplishments that make you extra proud of them. Then, share one anecdote or piece of news from your life. In our increasingly digital lives, your

unique hand-written sentiments will likely bring a welcome bit of cheer into their day.

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Remember: the written word is powerful, especially when it’s personal. Give each note a special touch by writing it on monogrammed stationery or a special postcard. You can take this personalization concept one step further by using different pens for each recipient. With four pen point sizes ranging from ultra-fine

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By rediscovering the art of handwritten correspondence this February, you’ll give yourself 29 meaningful chances to connect with pen pals all over the globe. StatePoint

Questions Your Teen’s Pediatrician May Ask

By Desert Star Staff Routine check-ups are essential for adolescents and young adults. As health risks and concerns are rapidly changing during the teen years, these preventive services can help keep your teens healthy and safe.

Experts say that conversations between doctors, patients and their families during these visits are very important.

“Habits formed in adolescence often continue into adulthood, making this a key period for encouraging behaviors that promote health and reduce risk,” says Dr. Elizabeth Alderman, chair of American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Adolescence. “Routine check-ups are a great time to encourage adolescents to actively participate in their own

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health, and for parents play an important role in this process.”

To help families prepare for their teen’s next appointment, here are some questions doctors may ask and some tips for making the most of these visits.

These tips were developed by the Adolescent Health Consortium, a collaboration among the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

• Your teen’s doctor may ask them questions like “What are your responsibilities at home?” and “What are you good at?” in an effort to gauge their emotional development, their ability to

cope with stress, and assess their risk for depression, anxiety, or other concerns.

• You may be asked general questions about your home, neighborhood, and your teen’s school environments in order to help the doctor determine whether your child is eating enough, feels safe, and is getting enough sleep. This can offer an overall picture of your teen’s well-being.

• Your teen’s doctor will likely ask your teen about their sexual activity, contraceptive methods, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy prevention, as well as about their use of tobacco, e-cigarettes, alcohol, and prescription and street drugs.

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during doctor’s visits,” says Dr. Alderman, who points out that doctors are more likely to gather accurate information avoiding risky behaviors. about a teen’s health when • Routine check-ups parents are supportive of are also a good time to see confidential, one-on-one whether a patient is at risk of time between teens and their developing eating disorders, doctors. “Confidentiality is so the doctor may ask your teen about their diet, exercise essential to adolescent health care, empowering teens to routine, and feelings about get the information they need their body with questions to stay healthy. Teens and like, “how do you feel about parents, separately, should the way you look?” and “do make a list of questions and you ever skip meals?”

• Your teen’s doctor discussion topics to address may start discussions on with the teen’s doctor.” topics like puberty, sexual For more resources, development, gender identity, visit HealthyChildren.org. sexual attraction and sexuality.

When teenagers and Teens should feel safe parents know what to discussing these topics with expect in advance, they their doctor and with you. can get a lot more out of “There is a gap between doctor’s visits. Remember, what adolescents and young confidential care is good for adults want to discuss and their health. StatePoint what they actually talk about

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NESS 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., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE). Publish 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2020 DSW20-2026

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NO. MCC2000097, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 30755 D AULD ROAD, MURRIETA, CA 92563, SOUTHWEST JUSTICE CENTER, COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. MARGARET ROSE DUCOULOMBIER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1a. Present Name: MARGARET ROSE DUCOULOMBIER to Proposed Name: MAGGIE ROSE SINAY. 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: FEBRUARY 27, 2020 Time: 9:30 a.m., Dept.: S101.

The address of the court is: 30755 D AULD ROAD, MURRIETA, CA 92563, SOUTHWEST JUSTICE CENTER. 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: JANUARY 15, 2020, Judge of the Superior Court, Publish January 22, 29, 2020, February 5, 12, 2020. DSW20-2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NO. PSC1909277, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262, COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. MITZY M. MARTINEZ SOTO, ARTURO JAVIER ECHENIQUE, ANAVELIA J. ECHENIQUE, ANTHONY J. ECHENIQUE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1a. Present Name: MITZY MARIANA MARTINEZ SOTO to Proposed Name: MITZY MARIANA ROJAS MARTINEZ. Present name: ARTURO JAVIER ECHENIQUE to Proposed Name: ARTURO JAVIER ROJAS MARTINEZ. Present Name: ANAVELIA JOANA ECHENIQUE to Proposed Name: ANAVELIA JOANA ROJAS MARTINEZ. Present Name: ANTHONY JOCRUZ ECHENIQUE to Proposed Name: ANTHONY JOCRUZ ROJAS MARTINEZ. 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: FEB 19, 2020 Time: 8:30 a.m., Dept.: PS4. 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. The biological father must be personally served by a registered process server. Dated: DECEMBER 20, 2019, Judge of the Superior Court, Publish JANUARY 22, 29, FEBUARY 5, 12, 2020. DSW20-2017 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NO. PSC 2000075, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92263, COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

ROBERT JOSEPH HESCH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1a.

Present Name: ROBERT JOSEPH HESCH to Proposed Name: ROBERT JOSPEH MITZEL. 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: MARCH 06, 2020 Time: 8:30 a.m., Dept.: PS4, 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: JANUARY 07, 2020 Judge of the Superior Court, Publish January 15, 22, 29, 2020, February 5, 2020. DSW20-2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS TI NASIS, 12651 AGUA CAYENDO RD 3, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: TI NASIS, 12651 AGUA CAYENDO RD 3, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/20/2020.

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 MARY ANN GARCIA. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 27, 2020.

Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202001311. 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). Publish January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 2020 DSW20-2029 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS NOVA-STARGATE : DE CONSUELO, 66351 1ST #2. DESERT HOT SPRINGS CA 92240. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: NOVA-STARGATE- -DE CONSUELO, 66351 1ST #2. 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 NOVA-STARGATE- -DE CONSUELO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/27/2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202001280 NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSI-

AMENDED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS KNEUER ACCOUNTING, 45120 DESERT HILLS COURT, LA QUINTA, CA 92253. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: BRYANNA LEAH KNEUER, 45120 DESERT HILLS COURT, LA QUINTA, CA 92253. Additional business name: BRYANNA KNEUER ACCOUNTING. Business is conducted by INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not 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 BRYANNA LEAH KNEUER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on DECEMBER 3, 2019. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201915732. 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., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE)., December 18, 25, 2019 January 1, 8, 2020. January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 2020 DSW19-1340 AMENDED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: SANTE BOTANICA; FLOWER MARKET, 19024 RUPPERT STREET, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262. Riverside County; 14080 PALM DRIVE D412, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Full name of registrant: FORTE M&D, INC. 19024 RUPPERT STREET, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262/CA. Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun to transact 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) KELLI LYNN CLARK, SECRETARY. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on DECEMBER 02, 2019. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201915697. 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). Publish December 11, 18, 25, 2019 January 1, 2020 January 29 February 5, 12, 19 2020 DSW19-1329 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS LOZOYA CUSTOM PAINTING, 87985 AVENIDA 52, COACHELLA, CA 92236. P.O. BOX 775, COACHELLA, CA 92236. Riverside County.

Full name of registrant: CARLOS ELIEL LOZOYAURIAS, 87985 AVENIDA 52, COACHELLA, CA 92236. 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 CARLOS ELIEL LOZOYAURIAS. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/06/2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000182. 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., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE). Publish 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2020 DSW20-2025 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: ANS AFFORDABLE HOMES, 74-260 ASTER DR., PALM DESERT, CA 92260. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: ADRIAN CLICERIO LOPEZ ROJO, 74-260 ASTER DR., PALM DESERT, CA 92260; ADRIAN CLICERIO LOPEZ II, 74-260 ASTER DR., PALM DESERT, CA 92260; NATHAN-LOPEZ, 74-260 ASTER DR., PALM DESERT, CA 92260; SERENA- -LOPEZ, 74-260 ASTER DR., PALM DESERT, CA 92260. Business is conducted by: CO-PARTNERS. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 ADRIAN CLICERIO LOPEZ ROJO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 17, 2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County ClerkRecorder File No. R-202000895. 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). Publish January 22, 29, February 5, 12, 2020 DSW20-2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: MARTINEZ AND SONS LANDSCAPING, 68660 PANORAMA RD, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: FRANCISCO MARTINEZ MARTINEZ, 68660 PANORAMA RD, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234.

Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 FRANCISCO MARTINEZ MARTINEZ. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 9, 2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000435. 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). Publish January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2020 DSW20-2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following fictitious business name(s) JACKSON MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY, 225 S. ELK STREET, HEMET, CA 92543, RIVERSIDE COUNTY. Riverside County has been abandoned by the following person(s): BKKS HOLDINGS, LLC 225 S. ELK STREET, HEMET, CA 92543/CA. This business is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The fictitious business name(s) referred to above was filed in Riverside

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County on: 1/28/16 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: LOGAN A. BOGGS, BKKS HOLDINGS, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITIED LIABILITY COMPANY BY: LAB MANAGEMENT, LP, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP BY: LAB MANAGEMENT, LP, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTERNSHIP ITS: MEMBER BY: LOGAN A. BOGGS, TRUSTEE OF THE LOGAN A. BOGGS 1998 PRIMARY TRUST FBO LOGAN A. BOGGS, JR. ITS: MANAGING PARTNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County, signed by, Peter Aldana AssessorCounty Clerk-Recorder on January 02/2020 File No. R-201601189. Publish January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2020. DSW20-2014 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following fictitious business name(s) PUBELO SERENO MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY, 25521 LINCOLN AVENUE, HEMET, CA 92544, RIVERSIDE COUNTY. Riverside County has been abandoned by the following person(s): BKKS HOLDINGS, LLC 225 S. ELK STREET, HEMET, CA 92543/CA. This business is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The fictitious business name(s) referred to above was filed in Riverside County on: 1/28/16 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: LOGAN A. BOGGS, BKKS HOLDINGS, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITIED LIABILITY COMPANY BY: LAB MANAGEMENT, LP, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP BY: LAB MANAGEMENT LP, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTERNSHIP ITS: MEMBER BY: LOGAN A. BOGGS, TRUSTEE OF THE LOGAN A. BOGGS 1998 PRIMARY TRUST FBO LOGAN A. BOGGS, JR. ITS: MANAGING PARTNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County, signed by, Peter Aldana Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder on January 02/2020 File No. R-201601188. Publish January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2020. DSW20-2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS FASTER LUBE N TRUCK, 72189 VARNER RD, THOUSAND PALMS, CA 22276. 15985 AVENIDA ATEZADA, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: JORGE ALEJANDRO GARCIA, 15985 AVENIDA ATEZADA, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240.

CHRISTIAN ALEJANDRO GARCIA, 68340 PANORAMA CT, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240.

Business is conducted by CO-PARTNER. 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 JORGE ALEJANDRO GARCIA. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/16/2020. Peter

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Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000813. 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., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE). Publish January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 2020 DSW20-2027 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: PATRICK CAMPBELL PRODUCTIONS, 75308 KELSEY CIRCLE SOUTH, PALM DESERT, CA 92211. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: PATRICK EDWARD CAMPBELL, 75308 KELSEY CIRCLE SOUTH, PALM DESERT, CA 92211. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 PATRICK EDWARD CAMPBELL This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 8, 2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000367. 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). Publish January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2020 DSW20-2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: EG VEIN AND VASCULAR SERVICES, 9573 EL MIRADOR BLVD, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: ERICA DENISE GARCIA, 9573 EL MIRADOR BLVD, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 ERICA DENISE GARCIA This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 9, 2020.

Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000407. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTI-

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TIOUS 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). Publish January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2020 DSW20-2011 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: LLOYD’S OF HOLLYWOOD, 68680 DINAH SHORE DRIVE APT 5C, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: LLOYD ALLAN CURRY, 68680 DINAH SHROE DRIVE APT 5C, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234.

Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 LLOYD ALLAN CURRY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 8, 2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000296. 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). Publish January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 2020 DSW20-2010 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS ELITE MOBILE DETAILING; ELITE AUTO DETAILING; ELITE DETAILING, 68752 30TH AVE, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. Riverside County; P.O. BOX 3098, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92263.

Full name of registrant: JASON WILLIAM SONE, 68752 30TH AVE, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234.

Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1996. 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 JASON WILLIAM SONE. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 02, 2020. Peter Aldana, AssessorCounty Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000026.

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

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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). Publish January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020 DSW20-2008 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: R&A MOBILE TRUCK & AUTO, 19465 N INDIAN CANYON DR STE H, N. NORTH PALM SPRINGS, CA 92258. Riverside County; P.O BOX 323, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Full name of registrant: ROBERTO LOPEZ CORONA, 15075 AVE MONTEFLORA, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240; ROBERTO ADRIAN CORONA, 15075 AVE MONTEFLORA, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted by: GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 ROBERTO LOPEZ CORONA This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on DECEMBER 31, 2019.

Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201916885. 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). Publish January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020 DSW20-2007 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: R&A AUTO REPAIR & TIRES, 19465 N INDIAN CANYON DR STE H, N. PALM SPRINGS, CA 92258. Riverside County; P.O BOX 323, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240 Full name of registrant: ROBERTO LOPEZ CORONA, 15075 AVE MONTEFLORA, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 ROBERTO LOPEZ CORONA This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 02, 2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000025. 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). Publish January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020 DSW20-2006 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SUPERIOR TRUCK & AUTO, 83437 SAN ASIS DRIVE, COACHELLA, CA 92236. Riverside County Full name of registrant: EDITH- -RAMOS, 83437 SAN ASIS DRIVE, COACHELLA, CA 92236.

Business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 EDITH- -RAMOS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on JANUARY 02, 2020. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-202000010. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

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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).

Publish January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020 DSW20-2005 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS GANAS, 80200 HARRISON ST, THERMAL, CA 92274. Riverside County Full name of registrant: GENUINE ANIMATE NAVIGATE ASSIST. SUCCEED, 80200 HARRISON ST, THERMAL, CA 92274/CA. Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant has not begun to transact 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 MARTHA- -BARRAGAN, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on DECEMBER 30, 2019. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201916791. 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). Publish January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020 DSW20-2004 T.S. No. 085516-CA APN: 638-203-059-2 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 10/26/2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 3/3/2020 at 3:00 PM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 11/3/2006, as Instrument No. 20060811510, in Book , Page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Riverside County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: STEFAN STAVISKI AND MARGARET STAVISKI, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS. WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: AT THE FRONT STEPS TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE FORMER CORONA POLICE DEPARTMENT, 849 W. SIXTH STREET, CORONA, CA 92882 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 9875 LA PALOMA LANE DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses

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and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $307,225.46 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 085516CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 Publish 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2020 DSW20-2023 T.S. No. 080144-CA APN: 692-150-043-0 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 8/30/2005.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 2/18/2020 at 3:00 PM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 9/13/2005, as Instrument No. 2005-0755375, , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Riverside County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: MARCELLINE M MARIN, A MARRIED WOMAN; AS HER SOLE AND SEPERATE PROPERTY WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: AT THE FRONT STEPS TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE FORMER CORONA POLICE DEPARTMENT, 849 W. SIXTH STREET, CORONA, CA 92882 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street

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address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 41 -339 MONTCALM COURT AKA 41339 MONTCALM COURT INDIO, CA 92203 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $446,542.23 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 080144CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 Publish 1/29/2020, 2/5/2020, 2/12/2020 DSW20-2022 T.S. No. 085514-CA APN: 674-122-008-0 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 11/10/2016.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 3/3/2020 at 3:00 PM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 11/17/2016, as Instrument No. 2016-0513997, in Book , Page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Riverside County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: RICHARD P. HAFFEY, TRUSTEE OF THE RICHARD P. HAFFEY REVOCABLE TRUST DATED MAY 13, 2015 WILL SELL

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AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: AT THE FRONT STEPS TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE FORMER CORONA POLICE DEPARTMENT, 849 W. SIXTH STREET, CORONA, CA 92882 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 70800 IRONWOOD DRIVE 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 held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $87,242.12 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 085514CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117. Publish 1/29/2020, 2/5/2020, 2/12/2020 DSW20-2021

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By Troy Nix When Delta Air Lines announced plans to pay out a record $1.6 billion in profit sharing to its 90,000 employees – the equivalent of about two months pay for each of them – workers across America likely turned envious.

If only their employers would do the same.

Of course, not all companies can afford such lavish bonuses, but there are other things CEOs can do to boost employee morale and, at the same time, reduce the odds that their best workers go looking elsewhere for employment, says Troy Nix (www.troynix. com), a motivational speaker, businessman and author of Eternal Impact: Inspire Greatness in Yourself and Others.

“Money is just one thing that motivates employees, and it’s not always the primary motivator,” says Nix, founder and CEO of First Resource Inc., an association-management company specializing in manufacturing networks.

“Other factors – many of them having to do with working conditions or managers – are more likely to influence whether someone stays with a company

or heads out the door.”

A Randstad US study on why workers part ways with employers reported that some of the reasons most often cited include: They dislike their direct supervisors; they feel their companies view profits or revenue as more important than how people are treated; there aren’t enough growth opportunities for them; their companies fail to make the best use of their skills and abilities; the work culture is toxic; or their departments are understaffed.

Nix points out that bonuses or pay raises, while desirable, wouldn’t solve any of those core problems that lead to employee turnover.

“The secret to maintaining and growing a quality workforce lies in having a people-centric culture,” Nix says. “Certainly, there is no one silver bullet that will solve a company’s workforce dilemma, but there are ways businesses can create a worker-friendly atmosphere that will result in happier, more productive employees who want to stay with them.”

He says some solutions that will keep employees satisfied and even enthusiastic about their work include: • Help them understand the “why” of what they do.“The

majority of employees usually know what they do, and most of them certainly understand how they do it,” Nix says.

“But few understand why they do it. If you want to improve employee engagement, I encourage you to answer the question ‘why’ before you do anything else; and don’t just do it once, do it regularly. Habitually communicating to employees the reason your business exists will directly elevate the commitment of your people to the ‘why’ of your existence.”

• Give them purpose. ”More than ever, people want to be part of something that has purpose and meaning,” Nix says. “For young people

especially, going to work needs to be about more than just making money. Leaders should be aware of these aspirations and build a company culture that enables employees to find purpose in what they do. Imagine the success a business could have if the employees looked forward to coming to work on Monday with as much joy as they look forward to their weekends.”

• Provide support for increasing their knowledge and productivity. Great leaders understand that the majority of employees perform their job functions without coming close to their full capacity, Nix says.

Yet, among the top reasons

employees leave is they see no room for career growth where they are, or they don’t feel their companies make the best use of their capabilities.

“It’s essential for managers to find ways to tap into their employees’ skills,” he says, “because doing so is going to be good for the employee and good for the company.”

“Winning the loyalty of your employees translates into individuals who are dedicated to making the company better,” Nix says. “They will take the extra step to ensure the needs of the customer are met, and they will literally think about the company on their off time because it is that important to them.”

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Poll: Carmakers’ Support for Clean Car Rollbacks Alienates Customers

By Desert Star Staff LOS ANGELES -- A new poll suggests carmakers that support the Trump administration’s attempt to roll back clean-car emission standards may be undermining their standing with their customers. Toyota, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Subaru, Nissan, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi support the feds in a lawsuit to prevent California from establishing tougher emissions standards than those set by the federal government.

Pollster Matt George said his firm questioned 1,000 Toyota owners and found the company’s reputation takes a big hit once people find out about the lawsuit.

“In terms of the perception of Toyota being a ‘green and sustainable company that takes care to be environmentally friendly,’ at the outset of the poll, 90% of Toyota consumers would agree with that statement. At

the end of the poll, after they found out more information, 55% agree,” George said. “So, that’s a pretty significant drop.”

Other car companies have taken a different approach.

Volkswagen, Ford, BMW and Honda have agreed to adhere to California’s stronger standards, which have been adopted by 14 other states.

Toyota did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration has said the lower standards will translate to lower sticker prices.

However, Shannon Baker-Branstetter, manager of cars and energy policy for Consumer Reports, said the government’s own analysis shows the lower emissions standards would hurt fuel economy - and cost drivers an average of $1,400 more a year in gas.

“The stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards improve both consumer pocketbooks

California’s emission standards are the toughest in the nation for cutting emissions of carbon and other pollutants to combat climate change. (Olando/Adobe Stock) and reduce pollution, and so that really is a win-win,” BakerBranstetter said. “However, rolling back the rule will increase pollution, as well as cost consumers money.”

Clean-air advocacy groups are hoping more public awareness will pressure the feds to withdraw the

lawsuit and allow California to keep its high standards.

George said the poll showed only 15% of Americans are following the lawsuit closely - and that number is only slightly higher in California.

“The number in California is only 20% - only 5% higher than the national average, for a

lawsuit that is going to directly impact emissions standards within that state,” George said.

The poll also found 1 in 4 Toyota owners, particularly those ages 18-34, would consider switching brands after hearing about the company’s stance on clean-car standards.

Survey: At Least 5,000 Teens Report Being Sexually Exploited grade were asked whether they had traded sexual activity for goods or shelter.

Roughly 1.4% said they had.

University of Minnesota associate professor Lauren Martin helped with research on the project. She said the issue is not limited to any particular part of the state.

“Young people across the state answered yes, that they have traded sex,” Martin said.

“We’ve noted slightly higher rates in northern Minnesota, compared to the metro area.”

Martin added the rate was very similar between boys and girls. And she acknowledged the overall number is probably higher because of teens who don’t attend school or because respondents were too embarrassed to answer ‘yes.’

Others who have researched the topic in Minnesota say the survey provides a good benchmark

to build on outreach services for victims.

Julia Atella is a researcher with the Wilder Foundation, which has examined state efforts on the issue. She agreed that while the findings are critical, they really only scratch the surface.

“But I think what you don’t know is why the exploitation, or how long it’s been happening,” Atella said; “some of those things that could give more information about what type of services are needed” Atella said Minnesota’s Safe Harbor program, which helps fund outreach services and provides legal protection for victims, has done great work in meeting the needs of sexually exploited youth. But she said there needs to be a greater focus on communities of color, and an expansion of prevention measures.

individuals and entities, including non-governmental

By Desert Star Staff said U.S. Transportation modes of transportation will be organizations, transportation WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary Elaine L. Chao. trained because of this initiative. industry associations, research institutions, and State and local Transportation Secretary Among the initiatives Human trafficking is government organizations, to Elaine L. Chao today announced by Secretary modern-day slavery, affecting think creatively in developing announced a series of efforts Chao is a renewed focus millions of adults and children innovative solutions to to combat human trafficking on the “Transportation in the United States and in the transportation sector.

Leaders Against Human worldwide. Victims are of every combat human trafficking in Secretary Chao was joined Trafficking” pledge to train age, race, gender, background, the transportation industry. by leaders from Congress, the transportation workforce citizenship, and immigration The Department will review applications and determine the state governments, and and raise public awareness status. Some are trafficked individual or entity that will most the transportation industry on the issue of human within their own communities effectively utilize these funds responding to this call to action. trafficking across all modes of on various forms of “The U.S. Department of transportation. Secretary Chao transportation, while others are to combat human trafficking.

Secretary Chao also Transportation is committed is challenging the transportation transported to new locations. announced $5.4 million in grant to working with our public industry to commit to “100 To amplify counterselections through the Federal and private partners to fight Pledges in 100 Days.” The trafficking efforts, Secretary Transit Administration’s (FTA) human trafficking on America’s Department anticipates over Chao established an annual Human Trafficking Awareness transportation system,” 1 million employees across all $50,000 award to incentivize

and Public Safety Initiative.

Twenty-four organizations across the country will each receive funding for projects to help prevent human trafficking and other crimes on public transportation. A list of the selected projects is available online.

To support the Department’s countertrafficking efforts, the DOT Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking completed a report in July 2019 that recommends actions the Department can take to help combat human trafficking and best practices for states and local transportation stakeholders.

Minnesota officials say that between 2017 and 2019, nearly 1,300 teens and young adults were assisted by various groups after being victims of sexual exploitation. (stopcse.org)

By Desert Star Staff ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Based on findings from a recent survey, Minnesota health officials estimate at least 5,000

high-school students have been sexually exploited. But officials and researchers say the problem likely runs deeper.

A question was added to

the most recent Minnesota Student Survey, a census conducted by the state health department every three years.

Students in 9th and 11th

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The Last Ship

Photos by Matthew Murphy.

By Lisa Lyons The Last Ship portrays the end of an era in Great Britain when the shipbuilders of Wallsend ultimately went the way of the dinosaurs much like American coal miners in the late 20th century. When overseas shipbuilders could produce a competitive product for millions less with no messy unions to deal with. It eliminated a whole way of life for thousands of workers who struggled to reinvent themselves in an economy that no longer wanted them. Singer/composer/ musician Sting created a loving tribute to the town of his youth in England’s gritty Northern country. Entire generations of families lost everything... but they didn’t go quietly. The battles they fought to take over their shipyard and launch one last ship is the plot of this uneven musical that can’t quite decide to go port or starboard.

At the show’s opening scene, young Gideon desperately wants to flee the poverty and narrowness of Wallsend and rebels against his father’s wishes to join the shipbuilders union.

Instead, he impulsively runs off to join the Navy, leaving behind his childhood love Meg whom he promises to return for in a short while.

Seventeen years later, the disillusioned Meg is running a local pub and raising daughter Ellen as a single mum, when Gideon suddenly reappears, wanting to reclaim his lost love and discovers he has a daughter. This all happens amid news that the shipyard will be closing, and the last ship they are working on, the Utopia, will be torn down and sold for scrap.

Sting plays Jackie White, the shipyard foreman, who is caught between management and his men. His wife, Peggy, is the shipyard nurse who stands loyally by her man as the builders and their families turn on Jackie in a rage of betrayal and disappointment.

If it sounds like a lot is going on here, there is. And each element - plot, music, dialogue, movement - is fighting against each other, much like the characters in the show. The opening number is a rousing sea shanty of sorts, “We’ve Got

Nowt Else” sung full-throttle by the powerful chorus. It starts promising, but then subsequent numbers are alternately Sondheim-Esque character pieces, inspiring hymns, jazzy eleven o’clock showstoppers, or a plaintive reflection from Sting’s classic album “The Soul Cages.” In fact, three songs from that album are featured in THE LAST SHIP. This results in a dissonance that often throws the show off-balance.

As far as the cast goes, there are some outstanding talents up there, giving it their all. The real find of this production is the glorious Frances McNamee, whose tremulous yet powerful voice brings Meg to full life. As her love Gideon, Oliver Savile has a beautiful presence and shows both the good and bad sides of this prodigal. Like Ellen, the feisty young woman who also longs to flee the shipyards like her father did to pursue a musical career, Sophie Reid has a strong voice but seems a bit too mature to be 16 years old.

Other outstanding performers include Jackie Morrison as the no-nonsense wife of Jackie

White; Marc Akinfolarin as a philosophizing builder who brings a sweet quality to his scenes; and Annie Grace, channeling her best Margaret Thatcher person as a Baroness who represents the government in the shipyard brouhaha.

But where you might be asking, is Sting, the star and musical creator of THE LAST SHIP in this review? I, he is the least compelling actor on that stage. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Sting, and when he is performing in concert, he is a magical, magnetic presence.

But he’s not rough-edged and dynamic enough to portray Jackie. I have a feeling that he agreed to be the marquee name to boost sales for the show, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But his restrained and erudite way of speaking doesn’t really fit the workingclass Jackie. However, he has the most authentic accent on the stage. Many of the cast members are inconsistent, slipping between Scottish, Irish, and a weak attempt at the traditional Geordie accent of northern England.

Definite praise must be

The Desert Symphony 2020 Luncheon

Rod Hendry, Nancy Tapick, Jaishri Mehta, Linda Rider, Mae Peck, Saoirse O’Sullivan, George NacsiSinatra. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause The Desert Symphony 2020 4th Annual Symphonettes Luncheon was held on January 22 at the Bighorn Country Club. The Symphonettes of the Desert Symphony was formed to help the Children’s Music Discovery Series. This group www.desertstarweekly.com

gives local school children exposure to Symphonic Concerts. It gives them a chance to understand and enjoy Symphony music. The Desert Symphony collaborated with McCallum Theatre Education and its director, Kajsa Thruesson-Frary, to hold

these concerts for our Valley Children for the 3rd year.

President Nancy Tapick introduced some of the Board Members present and the two co-chairs, Susan Gelman and Linda Rider. She wore and showed diamond earrings that were donated January 29, 2020

by El Paseo Jewelers for a live auction to raise money for the Symphonettes programs.

Tapick noted there was a great surprise in store for the guests when the Coachella Valley Youth Ensemble Program, CVYEP, would perform.

Eight young musicians got in front of the guests adjusting their Music and instruments before playing several classical renditions. CVYEP teaches motivated students skills for a potential career in Music by implementing small ensemble traditional groups and is supported by grants, donations, and volunteer support.

The Mission of the Symphonettes group is to invest in the Arts and our local children. By doing this, they are spending the health, music enrichment well being of all the Valley. This luncheon was called The Sweetheart Luncheon as it is close to

leveled at the 59 Productions design team that created the multi-level set using projected images to change scenes and mimic the look of a real shipyard bay. Director Lorne Campbell met the challenge of bringing all the sound, movement, and performance elements into a cohesive presentation, which was no easy task. Other production team members include Sound Designer Sebastian Frost, Lighting Designer Matt Daw, Music Supervisor, and Orchestrator Rob Mathes, Musical Director Richard John, Costume Designer Molly Einchcomb, and Movement Director Lucy Hind.

While it may not be the grand musical the creators envisioned, it is nonetheless a unique look at a way of life that is no more. THE LAST SHIP is playing at the Music Center’s Ahmanson Theater through February 16, 2020.

General tickets for “The Last Ship” are available online at CenterTheatreGroup. org, by calling Audience Services at (213) 972-4400 or in person at the Center Theatre Group Box Office.

Valentine’s day when everyone enjoys each other and the Arts. The children are exposed to Symphonic Music with a full Orchestra in the beautiful McCallum Theatre. A theatre full of smiling children and their teachers brings joy to the many donors and benefactors that contribute to the Children’s Discovery Programs.

Maestro Gary Berkson held two concerts that gave children lessons in Music about the diversity of composers, both American and Foreign.

Berkson also brought different musical instruments from foreign countries to expose their particular kind of Music.

This effort shows the children that Music has no boundaries to get in the way of their dreams and aspirations for their future. These concerts brought out young teenage conductors to show the children that this might be one of them someday, and it is all possible.

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