FUTURO A MEDIDA QUE LA ECONOMÍA DEL ‘EMERALD TRIANGLE’ SE APAGA
Los cultivadores de cannabis están despidiendo empleados y cerrando granjas. A medida que el impacto viene cayendo en las comunidades circundantes, los trabajadores intentan encontrar su próximo trabajo. Sin embargo, las oportunidades son escasas.
Alexei Koseff CalMatters
seis a solo dos empleados. En septiembre, su peor mes de ventas, se dio un ultimátum: un año más para salir del bache o cerrar la tienda.
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— Los anteojos de color rosa de Leann Greene están rayados, agrietados, torcidos, pero aún están firmemente puestos en su rostro durante su última jornada de puertas abiertas mensual para Humboldt Workforce Coalition.
Durante tres horas este miércoles por la tarde en una sala de conferencias soleada en la biblioteca pública, los trabajadores de cannabis aprensivos, atraídos por un segmento en la estación de radio comunitaria KMUD, se filtran en busca de un refugio potencial de su industria que se derrumba. Greene es su consejera y confidente, una animadora implacable que promueve nuevas oportunidades profesionales.
“Así que sueña en grande. Es tu vida, ¿verdad? le dice a un joven que busca ayuda para conectarse con las posibilidades laborales en un lugar donde no parece haber muchos en este momento.
Es un mantra para Greene.
“Estás reinventando tu vida aquí, así que sueña en grande”, le dice a Daniel Rivero, quien teme perder su trabajo en cualquier momento después de que le redujeron las horas en el pequeño almacén donde fabrica productos de cannabis a $17 la hora.
Una caída en el precio de la hierba en los últimos dos años ha hecho tambalearse el mercado de cannabis de California, y con él, las comunidades que dependieron económicamente de la cosecha durante décadas, incluso antes de la “fiebre verde” de la legalización comercial.
En el ‘Emerald Triangle’ (Triángulo Esmeralda), la renombrada región del norte de California de los condados de Humboldt, Mendocino y Trinity que históricamente sirvió como centro de cultivo de cannabis para el estado y el país, los cultivadores que ya no pueden vender su producto por lo suficiente para obtener ganancias están despidiendo empleados y cerrando sus granjas. Los impactos financieros en cascada han dejado a los residentes locales con sueños rotos y una pregunta desalentadora: si no es cannabis, ¿entonces qué?
“Solo necesitamos reevaluar toda esta situación como comunidad de lo que podemos hacer para evolucionar con ella en lugar de tratar de ir en contra”, dijo Rivero.
El hombre de 39 años, que ha vivido en Garberville durante más de una década, obtuvo su certificación de instalación solar hace unos años, pero nunca se molestó en obtenerla porque la paga habría sido más baja de lo que podría ganar con el cannabis. Ahora está tratando de volver a poner otras opciones sobre la mesa, aunque espera poder aguantar hasta que el mercado se estabilice.
“Soy más de la escuela de pensamiento que vas por lo que te dice el corazón”, dijo Rivero, quien como tantos otros por aquí, cree que el cannabis es más que una profesión, es una cultura que brinda medicina a las personas. “Así que creo que si puedo aguantar tanto como pueda, lo haría, donde no esté afectando mi salud o mi bienestar debido a mi situación financiera”.
“¿Sigues luchando o buscas algo que sea más seguro?”.
Ese es el dilema cada vez más urgente para los residentes del Triángulo Esmeralda, en la industria del cannabis y más allá.
La marihuana ha florecido aquí durante más de medio siglo, desde sus semillas como un movimiento contracultural de regreso a la tierra en la década de 1960 hasta el motor económico predominante en la actualidad.
El clima privilegiado y las ubicaciones remotas lo convirtieron en un excelente lugar para cultivar cannabis, mientras que la naturaleza ilegal del
negocio lo hizo muy lucrativo. Un mundo completamente diferente, independiente pero insular, aislado pero autosuficiente, se desarrolló en comunidades como Garberville, un pueblo hippie de unas 800 personas a lo largo del río Eel y la autopista 101 cerca del extremo sur del condado de Humboldt.
“Aquí afuera, somos como una isla”, dijo Anson Wait, un mesero que estima que ha perdido las tres cuartas partes de sus ingresos en los últimos meses debido a que la industria local de restaurantes ha desaparecido.
Es difícil cuantificar qué tan central es el cannabis para la vida local, pero un estudio académico de hace más de una década proyectó que la industria era responsable de al menos una cuarta parte de toda la actividad económica del condado. Sin duda, la cifra es mucho mayor en el sur de Humboldt, donde se encuentran la mayoría de los productores.
Esa dependencia del cannabis fue una vez una ganancia inesperada para una extensión rural sin muchos sectores comerciales importantes, apoyando las boutiques de las calles principales y el
programa deportivo en la escuela secundaria local. Pero también ha hecho que la región sea particularmente vulnerable a la recesión desde que los votantes de California legalizaron el uso recreativo y las ventas en 2016 con la Proposición 64.
Con el incipiente mercado de cannabis con licencia incapaz de absorber un excedente de producto, los precios se han desplomado en los últimos años a una fracción de sus máximos anteriores: unos pocos cientos de dólares por una libra de hierba que se habría vendido por más de $1,000 hace un par de años. La desaparición de las ganancias para los productores significa que simplemente hay menos dinero moviéndose a través de la comunidad.
“Es como una tormenta perfecta”, dijo la supervisora del condado de Humboldt, Michelle Bushnell , quien representa a Garberville y al sur del condado.
Bushnell es dueño de una tienda de ropa en el centro de la ciudad que ha perdido más de la mitad de sus ingresos. Las cosas se pusieron tan mal el año pasado que redujo las horas y pasó de
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“Es desgarrador. Sé que tengo que tomar la decisión si se trata de eso”, dijo.
‘Cobró un precio enorme’
Como ya no pueden llegar a fin de mes con el cannabis, los cultivadores y trabajadores están contemplando, quizás por primera vez, qué más podrían hacer.
Brandon Wheeler, de 39 años, agricultor de tercera generación del condado de Mendocino cuyos abuelos se mudaron al área en la década de 1960 como colonos, se está preparando para su primera temporada de cannabis sin cultivar desde 2002.
Después de comenzar de manera simple con seis plantas en el huerto de su madre cuando tenía 18 años, Wheeler finalmente se expandió a una granja de un cuarto de acre en Hopland y cultivó bajo el sistema de marihuana medicinal que existió en California durante dos décadas antes de la legalización recreativa.
Pero tratar de convertirse en un operador con licencia bajo la Proposición 64 fue un ciclo interminable de frustración, chocando con una burocracia local que hizo que fuera casi imposible obtener la certificación. A medida que los precios caían, lo que dejaba ganancias cada vez más pequeñas después de los gastos agrícolas y las tarifas del condado y los impuestos estatales, Wheeler pasó dos años debatiendo si podía permitirse el lujo de seguir adelante.
“Estoy trabajando duro y gano $2 por hora y el estado se queda con $1,90”, dijo Wheeler. “Podría ganar más dinero volteando hamburguesas en McDonald’s, literalmente, y no tener que lidiar con tonterías”.
Finalmente, el verano pasado, Wheeler tomó un trabajo como horticultor para la ciudad de Ukiah. La transición no ha sido tan dura como esperaba. Paga solo alrededor de $50,000 por año, menos de lo que ganó en la granja en su apogeo, lo que ha requerido algunos recortes en el hogar. Ahora también está viajando, por lo que pasa menos tiempo con su familia. Pero está libre de las cargas financieras y emocionales que le preocupaban que podrían matarlo. Comenzó a tomar clases de artes marciales con su hija y está en mejor forma que en más de una década.
“Es como el 2% de la cantidad de estrés. Tuvo un gran impacto en mi salud física y mental”, dijo Wheeler. “De alguna manera, el horario de 9 a 5 es más restrictivo. Pero al mismo tiempo, cuando termino al final del día, termino”.
‘No quiero que las cosas se vayan por el desagüe’
Todavía hay muchos obstáculos para los trabajadores que buscan hacer la transición para dejar el cannabis.
En el sur de Humboldt, las oportunidades son escasas fuera de los trabajos mal pagados en turismo y hotelería. Hay más perspectivas en el extremo norte del condado, donde Cal Poly Humboldt se está expandiendo y se planean proyectos de energía eólica marina, aunque muchas personas no tienen los medios para viajar más de una hora en cada sentido.
La industria del cannabis generalmente también se basa en habilidades especializadas y limitadas que no necesariamente se traducen en otros trabajos.
Eso es lo que Greene de Humboldt Workforce Coalition está tratando de abordar. Fue contratada el verano pasado como enlace en la parte sur del condado para la organización, que administra fondos para programas federales de capacitación laboral y desarrollo profesional. Ella se
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refiere a la agitación, naturalmente, como una oportunidad para que el sur de Humboldt se reinvente nuevamente.
Con sus anteojos de color rosa, Greene se esfuerza por unir una fuerza laboral cuya experiencia principal es en el cannabis con otros trabajos calificados locales que pagan un salario digno. Ella ayuda a escribir cartas de presentación y currículos, practica entrevistas de contratación y rastrea cursos de capacitación que el gobierno pagará. Un programa de capacitación en el trabajo puede cubrir la mitad de los salarios de un nuevo empleado durante los primeros tres meses mientras aprende las habilidades que necesita, eliminando algunos riesgos para un empleador que de otro modo podría ser reacio a contratarlos.
“Estoy comprometido en mantener a los miembros de la comunidad en mi comunidad”, dijo Greene. “No quiero que las cosas se vayan por el desagüe. Me encanta vivir aquí”.
Pero también se enfrenta a la inercia de los estereotipos. Históricamente, cuando la industria del cannabis era fuerte, muchos trabajadores buscaban otros trabajos para pasar el invierno y luego volvían a las granjas en el momento de la siembra o la cosecha, donde podían ganar mucho más dinero. Esa rotación frustró a los empleadores y contribuyó al estigma de que los residentes del sur de Humboldt no eran confiables.
“Creo que los dueños de negocios y los empleadores tardarán algunos años en comprender el hecho de que se trata de personas trabajadoras, que en realidad tienen habilidades que son buenas para muchos trabajos en nuestra área, dijo Greene.
“El lado desafortunado de eso es que muchos de los residentes de nuestra comunidad no pueden esperar a que eso cambie”, agregó. “Necesitan poner comida en su mesa ahora. Necesitan mantener el techo sobre sus cabezas ahora. Necesitan trabajo ahora”.
‘Nos han convertido en tontos’
Esa creciente desesperación es real para Gabriel Ferreira y Ya Reinier, cultivadores desde hace mucho tiempo en el condado de Mendocino que aún tienen que descubrir su futuro después de concluir el año pasado que el cultivo ya no era viable.
Al igual que muchos pequeños agricultores de la región, Ferreira y Reinier, que comenzaron a cultivar cannabis cerca de Covelo en 2007, buscaron con entusiasmo una licencia después de la Propuesta 64, creyendo que podría ofrecer una mayor estabilidad financiera, dar fin de las redadas traumáticas y a tener la respetabilidad que siempre ha tenido. Compraron una segunda granja en 2017, con el objetivo de escalar para competir en un mercado que se llena rápidamente.
Pero las demandas regulatorias en constante cambio, junto con la competencia de la proliferación de cultivadores ilegales que no tenían los nuevos impuestos, tarifas y trámites, hacían que prosperar fuera prácticamente imposible, dijeron. Ferreira lo comparó con una matanza: agricultores heredados traicionados por un gobierno que cree que estaba decidido a verlos fracasar.
Si solo hubieran estado enfrentando desafíos económicos, la pareja podría haber dado tiempo para que el mercado se solucionara. Y si el condado hubiera estado poniendo obstáculos en su camino, habrían luchado, siempre que hubiera dinero para ganar. Pero combinados, los desafíos parecían imposibles, un túnel sin luz al final.
“Nos han convertido en tontos”, dijo Reinier. Ha llegado al límite de las tarjetas de crédito y ha cobrado una cuenta de jubilación en los últimos tres años tratando de conservar las granjas y cubrir sus gastos de manutención.
“Estamos endeudados. Estamos lamentablemente endeudados”, dijo. “Simplemente tuvimos que parar”.
La pareja ahora vive en Eureka, la ciudad más grande del condado de Humboldt, para que su hijo de 10 años pueda estar más cerca de la escuela. Llevan buscando trabajo desde el verano pasado sin éxito. Ferreira, de 57 años, que tiene experiencia previa en comunicaciones, contempla desarrollar su propia empresa porque la perspectiva de en-
contrar un trabajo se siente cada vez más desmoralizadora.
“Espiritualmente es un poco difícil pasar de ser dueño de su propio negocio a tener que volver a ingresar a un mercado en el que lo está haciendo en el nivel de entrada”, dijo.
Reinier, de 53 años, se ha sentido frustrada al descubrir que no puede establecerse en ninguna parte, a pesar de tener un título en antropología de la Universidad de Harvard. Pocos de los trabajos en la ciudad pagan lo suficiente para cubrir sus cuentas. Recientemente solicitó trabajo en la cooperativa de alimentos local, algo que hizo en San Francisco cuando era más joven, pero nunca recibió respuesta.
Se pregunta si su edad y su currículum, donde 15 años de cultivo de cannabis es su experiencia más reciente, la están frenando.
“Siento que existe el estereotipo de que si eres un agricultor de marihuana, también podrías ser un marihuanero perezoso e irresponsable”, dijo. “Solo estoy cerrando la puerta una y otra vez”.
Quizás por eso la pareja se aferra a una pizca de esperanza de volver al cannabis. Mirando hacia un mercado deprimido, aún tienen que poner a la venta sus granjas, que aún esperan la aprobación del permiso final del condado seis años después. Tal vez, fantasean, si el estado permitiera a los productores vender directamente a los consumidores, esa sería la gracia salvadora, y luego la realidad vuelve a hundirse.
“Tengo el corazón partido. Estoy desconsolado”, dijo Ferreira. “Quería ser parte de una industria. Quería pasar de, ya sabes, ser un criminal a ser un miembro productivo de la sociedad… Y sobre todo, lo que me rompe el corazón es que ya no tengo mi comunidad. Voy allí regularmente y cada vez que vuelvo, simplemente lo abre de nuevo”.
¿Me muevo? ¿Me quedo?
La situación también se ha vuelto dolorosa para quienes están fuera de la industria del cannabis. La calle principal a través de Garberville, un tramo pintoresco de moteles, cafés y un teatro histórico, puede tener más escaparates vacíos que negocios abiertos.
“Ha sido una lucha. Continúa siendo una lucha todos los días”, dijo Suzanne Van Meter, propietaria de Milt’s Saw Shop, que vende y repara equipos eléctricos portátiles que utilizan los granjeros, granjeros y cuadrillas de desbroce de árboles.
Las ventas tocaron fondo en enero pasado, un 66% menos que el año anterior. Van Meter despidió a dos empleados y redujo las horas de traba-
jo de otro. Desde entonces, redujo sus existencias, recurrió a las ventas en línea y comenzó a buscar contratos gubernamentales para estabilizar el negocio.
“Esta solía ser una tienda donde la gente entraba y podía obtener todos los equipos nuevos cada temporada”, dijo Van Meter. “Y esa ya no es una opción. Así que ahora tienen que averiguar dónde están las cosas que tenían la temporada anterior o la temporada anterior o la temporada anterior, traerlo todo e intentar repararlo”.
A tres cuadras de distancia, menos de la mitad de personas visitan Sweet Grass Boutique que cuando Jolan Banyasz compró la tienda de ropa y regalos para mujeres hace siete años. Algunos días, solo un cliente entra por la puerta.
Banyasz despidió a tres empleados en el último año y ahora trabaja en gran medida en la tienda. Consideró mudar su tienda a Eureka, más poblada, en el norte, pero pensó que sería un gran golpe para la moral de la comunidad.
“No pude apretar el gatillo. No podía sacar mis raíces del área”, dijo. “Ojalá tuviera la respuesta porque me he estado devanando los sesos sobre qué hacer durante meses, y ha sido extremadamente agotador tratar de averiguar si me muevo. ¿Me muevo? ¿Me quedo? ¿Me muevo? ¿Me quedo?”.
Al lado, intacto como si esperara abrir para otro día de trabajo, hay una cafetería donde Wait trabajó como barista hasta que cerró en noviembre.
Todavía tiene otro trabajo en un restaurante por las noches, pero esas horas también se han recortado y las propinas han disminuido junto con los clientes. Otras oportunidades aún no se han materializado, por lo que Wait renunció a una unidad de almacenamiento de $300 por mes y vendió algunas de sus posesiones (un bajo antiguo, una computadora portátil vieja, un televisor) para juntar dinero adicional.
“Se siente como si fuera una espiral descendente”, dijo Wait, quien no puede cubrir todas sus facturas, incluso con la ayuda de algunos programas de asistencia pública, como los beneficios de alimentos. No ha pagado el alquiler en tres meses y está pensando si tendrá que mudarse al norte de Humboldt para encontrar trabajo, aunque no quiere dejar atrás a su comunidad. Ni siquiera está seguro de poder permitirse el lujo de mudarse de todos modos.
“Realmente no tengo suficiente para mantenerme en este momento”, dijo Wait. “Solo estoy agradecido de estar viviendo con algunas personas que tienen un corazón y que entienden que las personas pasan por momentos difíciles”.
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Se inscribió en el programa Humboldt Workforce Coalition y está reflexionando sobre lo que podría ser un próximo acto satisfactorio a los 47 años. Últimamente piensa que podría querer obtener un título en consejería y convertirse en terapeuta, tal vez incorporando la música que es su pasión. En tiempos más bulliciosos, Wait a menudo tocaba en las aceras del centro de Garberville, tocando versiones de los Beatles con su mandolina.
“Estoy llegando a un punto en mi vida en el que estoy como, bueno, tal vez necesito cambiar a algo que sea un poco más seguro”, dijo. La consejería es “algo que la gente va a necesitar por aquí, obviamente, porque hay mucha gente que tiene mucho dolor con las transiciones por las que están pasando”.
‘No quiero simplemente sobrevivir’ En la hora final de la jornada de puertas abiertas de la Humboldt Workforce Coalition, Michael Baumann llega y se disculpa por llegar tarde, aunque todavía queda más de media hora de la sesión. El joven de 25 años fue alumno de Greene el único año que enseñó español en la escuela secundaria. Ahora trabaja en un almacén local que fabrica prerollos y otros productos de cannabis, un trabajo largamente deseado que esperaba que fuera el primer paso en su camino para eventualmente comenzar su propia granja.
Pero Baumann fue suspendido el verano pasado y luego se le redujeron las horas recientemente porque no había suficiente producto para empacar. Lo ha hecho luchar urgentemente por encontrar otras formas de mantener a su novia y a sus tres hijos, el menor de los cuales tiene solo tres meses.
“Estoy dispuesto a hacer todo lo que pueda en este momento, solo para llegar a fin de mes”, le dice Baumann a Greene. “He tratado de presentar mi solicitud en todas partes de la ciudad, pero nadie está contratando”.
Baumann se muestra entusiasmado (dejó de fumar hace un mes y medio para prepararse para cualquier prueba de drogas que pueda necesitar para su búsqueda de trabajo) y cargado con su propia investigación. Se está inclinando por obtener una licencia de clase A requerida para conducir un camión grande, porque tiene tres años de experiencia previa con la entrega de paquetes.
“Tengo metas”, dijo. “Quiero poder comprar una casa. Quiero poder comprar un buen vehículo, un buen camión o algo así. Algo para mi señora. Quiero decir, quiero poder vivir cómodamente. No quiero simplemente sobrevivir”.
Como tantos otros que se sintieron atraídos por el sur de Humboldt, Baumann alguna vez creyó que el cannabis era su camino hacia esos objetivos.
“Sé que es un sueño estúpido”, le admite a Greene, quien trata de tranquilizarlo.
“No, es un clásico por aquí.”
Greene le dice a Baumann que si está dispuesto a pasar por los aros de elegibilidad, ella puede ayudarlo a volver a capacitarse. Por mucho que le gustaría volver a la escuela para obtener una certificación de construcción, está buscando una transición rápida para poder volver a ganar dinero.
De ahí el atractivo de la licencia de conducir comercial, que podría ponerlo en la carretera en unos pocos meses.
“Mantén tu dinero en tu bolsillo y déjame gastar el dinero del gobierno”, dice Greene.
Buscan en línea cursos de capacitación para conductores de camiones que comiencen antes que el programa en el colegio comunitario en Eureka, que no está programado hasta el verano. Hay uno en Sacramento, donde Baumann podría quedarse con la familia, que tiene potencial.
Greene lo despide con una lista de documentos que deberá compilar (licencia de conducir, tarjeta de seguro social, prueba de ingresos y residencia, recibo de EBT) y consejos para hablar con su novia sobre los sacrificios que están dispuestos a hacer en este período de transición. Y, siempre, un poco de ánimo color de rosa.
“Sueña en grande. Dime exactamente lo que estás buscando”.
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‘DREAM BIG:’ CANNABIS WORKERS SEARCH FOR NEW FUTURES AS EMERALD TRIANGLE ECONOMY WITHERS
employees and closing farms. As the impact cascades through surrounding communities, workers are trying to find their next jobs. But opportunities are scarce.
Alexei Koseff CalMatters
GARBERVILLE
— Leann Greene’s rosecolored glasses are scratched, cracked, sitting askew, but still firmly planted on her face during her latest monthly open house for the Humboldt Workforce Coalition.
For three hours this Wednesday afternoon in a sunny conference room at the public library, apprehensive cannabis workers, lured by a segment on the community radio station KMUD, trickle through, seeking a potential refuge from their collapsing industry. Greene is their counselor and confidante, a relentless cheerleader promoting new career opportunities.
“So dream big. It’s your life, right?” she tells one young man looking for help connecting to job possibilities in a place where there don’t seem to be many right now.
It’s a mantra for Greene.
“You’re kind of reinventing your life here, so dream big,” she tells Daniel Rivero, who fears he could lose his job at any moment after his hours were cut back at the small warehouse where he manufactures cannabis products for $17 an hour.
A crash in the price of weed over the past two years has sent California’s cannabis market reeling — and with it, the communities that relied economically on the crop for decades, even before the “green rush” of commercial legalization.
In the Emerald Triangle — the renowned Northern California region of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties that historically served as the hub of cannabis cultivation for the state and the country — growers who can no longer sell their product for enough to turn a profit are laying off employees and shuttering their farms. The cascading financial impacts have left local residents with broken dreams and a daunting question: If not cannabis, then what?
“We just need to reassess this whole situation as a community of what we can do to evolve with it instead of trying to go against it,” Rivero said.
The 39-year-old, who has lived in Garberville for more than a decade, earned his solar installation certification a few years back, but never bothered to pursue it because the pay would have been lower than what he could make in cannabis. Now he’s trying to put other options back on the table, even as he hopes that he can just hold on until the market stabilizes.
“I’m more the school of thought you go for what your heart tells you,” said Rivero, who like so many others around here, believes that cannabis is more than a profession, it’s a culture that provides medicine for people. “So I think if I can hold out as long as I can, I would, where it’s not affecting my health or my well-being because of my financial situation.”
“Do you keep on struggling or do you go for something that’s more secure?”
That’s the increasingly urgent dilemma for residents of the Emerald Triangle, in the cannabis industry and beyond.
Weed has flourished here for more than half
a century, from its seeds as a countercultural back-to-the-land movement in the 1960s to the predominant economic engine of today.
Prime weather and remote locations made it a great place to grow cannabis, while the illegal nature of the business made it highly lucrative. A whole other world — independent but insular, secluded but self-sustaining — developed in communities such as Garberville, a hippie
town of about 800 people along the Eel River and Highway 101 near the southern edge of Humboldt County.
“Out here, we’re like an island,” said Anson Wait, a server who estimates that he has lost threequarters of his income in recent months as the local restaurant industry has been wiped out. It’s hard to quantify just how central cannabis
is to local life, but one academic study more than a decade ago projected that the industry was responsible for at least a quarter of all economic activity in the county. The figure is assuredly far higher in southern Humboldt, where the majority of growers are based. That reliance on cannabis was once a windfall to a rural expanse without many major commercial sectors, supporting main street boutiques and the sports program at the local high school. But it has also made the region particularly vulnerable to the downturn since California voters legalized recreational use and sales in 2016 with Proposition 64.
With the nascent licensed cannabis market unable to absorb a surplus of product, prices have tumbled over the past few years to a fraction of their former highs — a few hundred dollars for a pound of weed that would have sold for more than $1,000 a couple of years ago. Disappearing profits for growers means there’s simply less money moving through the community.
“It’s like a perfect storm that came through,” said Humboldt County Supervisor Michelle Bushnell, who represents Garberville and the southern county.
Bushnell owns a downtown clothing store that has lost more than half its revenue. Things got so bad last year that she reduced the hours and cut back from six to just two employees. In September, her worst sales month, she gave herself an ultimatum: one more year to pull out of the slump or close the store.
“It’s gut-wrenching. I know I have to make the choice if it comes to that,” she said.
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No longer able to make ends meet with cannabis, cultivators and workers are contemplating, perhaps for the first time, what else they might do.
Brandon Wheeler, 39, a third-generation farmer from Mendocino County whose grandparents moved to the area in the 1960s as homesteaders, is preparing for his first cannabis season without growing since 2002.
After starting simple with six plants in his mother’s vegetable garden when he was 18, Wheeler eventually expanded to a quarter-acre farm in Hopland and cultivated under the medical marijuana system that existed in California for two decades before recreational legalization.
But trying to become a licensed operator under Proposition 64 was an endless cycle of frustration, crashing into a local bureaucracy that made it nearly impossible to get certified. As prices dropped, leaving ever smaller profits after his farming expenses and county fees and state taxes, Wheeler spent two years debating whether he could afford to keep going.
“I’m working my ass off making $2 an hour and the state is taking $1.90,” Wheeler said. “I could make more money flipping burgers at McDonald’s, literally, and not have to deal with the bulls–t.”
Finally last summer, Wheeler took a job as a horticulturist for the city of Ukiah. The transition has not been as rough as he expected.
It pays only about $50,000 per year, less than he made from the farm at its peak, which has required some cutbacks at home.
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He’s also commuting now, so he gets less time with his family. But he’s freed of the financial and emotional burdens that he worried might kill him. He started taking martial arts classes with his daughter, and he’s back in better shape than he’s been in more than a decade.
“It’s like 2% the amount of stress. It took a huge toll on my physical and mental health,” Wheeler said. “In some ways the 9-to-5 is more restrictive. But at the same time, when I’m done at the end of the day, I’m done.”
‘I don’t want to see things go down the drain’
There are still plenty of obstacles for workers seeking to transition away from cannabis.
In southern Humboldt, opportunities are scarce outside of low-paying tourism and hospitality jobs. There are more prospects at the northern end of the county, where Cal Poly Humboldt is expanding and offshore wind projects are planned, though many people don’t have the means to commute more than an hour each way.
The cannabis industry also generally relies on specialized and limited skills that do not necessarily translate to other jobs.
That’s what Greene of the Humboldt Workforce Coalition is trying to address. She was hired last summer as a liaison in the southern part of the county for the organization, which manages funds for federal job training and career development programs. She refers to upheaval, naturally, as an opportunity for southern Humboldt to reinvent itself again.
With her rose-colored glasses on, Greene endeavors to bridge a workforce whose primary experience is in cannabis to other local skilled jobs that pay a living wage. She helps write cover letters and resumes, practices hiring interviews and tracks down retraining courses that the government will pay for. An on-thejob training program can cover half the wages for a new employee for the first three months while they learn the skills they need, removing some risk for an employer that might otherwise be reluctant to hire them.
“I’m invested in keeping community members in my community,” Greene said. “I don’t want to see things go down the drain. I freaking love living here.”
But she’s also up against the inertia of stereotypes. Historically, when the cannabis industry was strong, many workers picked up other jobs to hold them over through the winter, then went right back to the farms at planting or harvest time, where they could make far more money. That churn frustrated employers and contributed to a stigma that residents of southern Humboldt were unreliable.
“I think it’s going to take a few years for business owners and employers to kind of wrap their head around the fact that these are hardworking people, that they do actually have skills that are good for a lot of jobs in our area,” Greene said.
“The unfortunate side of that is a lot of our community residents can’t wait for that to change,” she added. “They need to put food on their table now. They need to keep the roof over their head now. They need work now.”
‘We have been made into fools’
That creeping desperation is real for Gabriel Ferreira and Ya Reinier, longtime cultivators in Mendocino County who have yet to figure out their future after concluding last year that growing was no longer viable.
Like many small farmers in the region, Ferreira and Reinier, who first started cultivating cannabis near Covelo in 2007, eagerly sought a license after Proposition 64, believing it could offer greater financial stability, an end to traumatic enforcement raids and the respectability that has always eluded the industry, even here. They purchased a second farm in 2017, aiming to scale up to compete in a rapidly crowding market.
But constantly changing regulatory demands, alongside competition from proliferating illegal growers who had none of the new taxes and fees and paperwork, made it virtually impossible to thrive, they said. Ferreira compared it to a slaughter — legacy farmers betrayed by a government that he believes was determined to see them fail.
If they had just been facing economic challenges, the couple could have allowed time for the market to sort itself out. And if the county had just been putting obstacles in their path, they would have fought through, as long as there was money to be made. But combined, the challenges felt impossible, a tunnel with no light at the end.
“We have been made into fools,” Reinier said. She has maxed out credit cards and cashed out a retirement account over the past three years trying to hang onto the farms and cover their living expenses.
“We’re in debt. We’re woefully in debt,” she said. “We simply had to stop.”
The couple now live in Eureka, the largest city in Humboldt County, so their 10-year-old son can be closer to school. They have been looking for work since last summer without success. Ferreira, 57, who has some previous experience in communications, contemplates developing his own company because the prospect of finding a job feels increasingly demoralizing.
“It’s spiritually a little bit difficult to go from owning your own business to then having to reenter a market where you’re doing it at entry level,” he said.
Reinier, 53, has been frustrated to find that she can’t get a foothold anywhere, despite having a degree in anthropology from Harvard University. Few of the jobs around town pay enough to cover their bills. She recently applied to work at the local food co-op, something she did in San Francisco when she was younger, but she never even heard back.
She wonders whether her age and her resume, where 15 years of cannabis cultivation is her most recent experience, are holding her back.
“I do feel like there is the stereotype of if you’re a pot farmer, you might be a lazy, irresponsible pothead, too,” she said. “I’m just getting the door closed over and over.”
Perhaps that’s why the couple holds onto a shred of hope of returning to cannabis. Staring down a depressed market, they have yet to put their farms, which still await final permit approval from the county six years later, up for sale. Maybe, they fantasize, if the state would allow growers to sell directly to consumers, that would be the saving grace — and then reality sinks back in.
“I’m heartbroken. I’m heartbroken,” Ferreira said. “I wanted to be part of an industry. I wanted to move out of, you know, being a criminal into being a productive member of society… And mostly what I’m heartbroken about is that I don’t have my community anymore. I go back there regularly and every time I go back, it just tears it open again.”
‘Do I move? Do I stay?’
The situation has grown painful for those outside the cannabis industry as well. The main drag through Garberville, a quaint stretch of motels, cafes and a historic theater, may have more empty storefronts than open businesses.
“It’s been a struggle. It continues to be a struggle every day,” said Suzanne Van Meter, who owns Milt’s Saw Shop, which sells and services handheld power equipment used by homesteaders, farmers and tree-clearing crews.
Sales bottomed out last January, down 66% compared to the year before. Van Meter laid off two employees and cut back the hours for another. She has since reduced her stock, turned to online sales and started pursuing government contracts to stabilize the business.
“This used to be a store where people would just come in and be able to get all brand-new equipment every season,” Van Meter said. “And that’s not an option anymore. So now they’re having to figure out where the stuff is that they had the season before or the season before that or the season before that, bring it all in, try to get it repaired.”
Three blocks away, fewer than half as many people are visiting Sweet Grass Boutique as when Jolan Banyasz bought the women’s clothing and gift shop seven years ago. On some days, only one customer ever comes through the door.
Banyasz laid off three employees in the last year and now largely staffs the store herself. She considered moving her shop to more populous Eureka up north, but thought it would be too much of a hit to community morale.
“I couldn’t pull the trigger. I couldn’t pull my roots out of the area,” she said. “I wish I had the answer because I’ve been racking my brain of what to do for months, and it’s been extremely exhausting trying to figure out, do I move? Do I move? Do I stay? Do I move? Do I stay?”
Next door, sitting untouched as though waiting to open for another day of business, is a coffee shop where Wait worked as a barista until it closed in November.
He still has another restaurant job in the evenings, but those hours have also been cut and tips have dwindled along with the customers. Other opportunities have yet to materialize, so Wait gave up a $300-per-month storage unit and sold some of his possessions — a vintage bass guitar, an old laptop, a television — to scrape up additional money.
“It feels like it’s this downward spiral,” said Wait, who cannot cover all of his bills, even with help from some public assistance programs like food benefits. He hasn’t paid rent in three months and he’s pondering whether he might have to move to northern Humboldt to find work, though he doesn’t want to leave his community behind. He’s not even sure he could afford to relocate anyway.
“I don’t really have enough to sustain myself right now,” Wait said. “I’m just in gratitude that I’m living with some people that have a heart and that they understand that people go through tough times.”
He enrolled in the Humboldt Workforce Coalition program and is reflecting on what could be a satisfying next act at 47. Lately he thinks he might want to get a degree in counseling and become a therapist, perhaps incorporating the music that is his passion. In more bustling times, Wait often busked on the sidewalks of downtown Garberville, playing Beatles covers on his mandolin.
“I’m getting to a point in my life where I’m like, well, I need to maybe switch over to something that’s just a little bit more secure,” he said. Counseling is “something that people are going to need around here, obviously, because there’s a lot of people who have a lot of pain with the transitions that they’re going through.”
‘I don’t want to just scrape by’
In the final hour of the Humboldt Workforce Coalition open house, Michael Baumann arrives, apologizing that he’s late though there is still more than a half hour left in the session. The 25-year-old was a student of Greene’s the one year that she taught high school Spanish. Now he works at a local warehouse that manufactures pre-rolls and other cannabis products, a long-desired job that he expected would be the first step on his way to eventually starting his own farm.
But Baumann was furloughed last summer and then recently had his hours reduced because there was not enough product to package. It has sent him urgently scrambling to find other ways to support his girlfriend and his three children, the youngest of whom is just three months old.
“I’m willing to do anything that I can right now, just to kind of, like, make ends meet,” Baumann tells Greene. “I’ve tried to apply everywhere in town, but no one is hiring.”
Baumann shows up enthusiastic — he stopped smoking a month and a half ago in preparation for any drug tests he may need to take in his job search — and loaded with his own research. He is leaning toward pursuing a class A license required to drive a big rig, because has three years of previous experience with package delivery.
“I have goals,” he said. “I want to be able to buy a house. I want to be able to buy a nice vehicle, a nice truck or something like that. Something for my lady. I mean, I want to be able to live comfortably. I don’t want to just scrape by.”
Like so many who have been drawn to southern Humboldt, Baumann once believed that cannabis was his path to those goals.
“I know it’s a stupid dream,” he admits to Greene, who tries to reassure him.
“No, it’s a classic around here.”
Greene tells Baumann if he’s willing to jump through eligibility hoops, she can help him with retraining. As much as he might like to return to school for a construction certification, he’s looking for a quick transition so he can get back to earning money. Hence the appeal of the commercial driver’s license, which could get him on the road in a few months.
“Keep your money in your pocket and let me spend the government’s money,” Greene says. They look online for truck driver training courses that begin sooner than the program at the community college in Eureka, which isn’t scheduled until the summer. There’s one in Sacramento, where Baumann could stay with family, that has potential.
Greene sends him off with a list of documents that he’ll need to compile — driver’s license, social security card, proof of income and residence, EBT receipt — and advice to talk with his girlfriend about what sacrifices they’re willing to make in this transition period. And, always, a bit of a rose-colored encouragement.
“Dream big. Tell me exactly what you’re looking for.”
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MalcolmHarris grew up in the intellectual heart of Silicon Valley, where people are “educated, rich, healthy, innovative” and yet so haunted by the sins of history that the city of Palo Alto had the nation’s highest youth suicide rate for more than a decade.
This is the provocative premise of Harris’ new book, the 700-plus page “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.” Harris, 34, grew up in Palo Alto, but left his hometown more than a decade ago for college and an East Coast writing career.
In Palo Alto, the former Occupy Wall Street activist, punk enthusiast and self-described Marxist casts his sharp gaze back west, delivering a scalding historical critique of a city and a part of the world whose vast income and wealth disparities were not just laid bare but accelerated during the pandemic.
Harris’ approach in Palo Alto is similar to other contemporary histories recasting modernity through the lens of an American city. His ideology is clear from the first page, with an epigraph from Karl Marx describing the Golden State by writing, “nowhere else has the upheaval most shamelessly caused by capitalist centralization taken place with such speed.”
And Harris’ thesis is straightforward: Palo Alto’s fortunes rose on the backs of the downtrodden so that a select few could profit.
“What haunts (this city) are the kinds of large historical crimes that, once committed, can never truly be set right,” Harris writes.
Yet what’s perhaps novel, and ultimately valuable, about Palo Alto, is that 15 years after the financial crisis that inspired one of his generation’s most well-known rebellions, Harris rightly captures the ascendance of the new American capitalism in California. Far from the cavernous streets of lower Manhattan, tucked away in suburban office parks and draped in the language of endless innovation, Silicon Valley is long overdue for an unflinching look, even if Harris consistently detours outside the physical boundaries of the city of 66,000 that his book is ostensibly about.
This is a region, after all, where last year just eight households held more wealth than the bottom 50% (nearly half a million households), according to the Silicon Valley Index, an annual report by the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies.
Initially conceived as a memoir, Palo Alto retains little of the author’s personal experience and in-
stead takes the reader from the gold rush era through the age of the personal computer and into the tech booms that Silicon Valley is known for today.
“I write about myself like a bad bowler anyway,” Harris concedes in his introduction, “always headed straight for the gutters of historical context rather than for the pins of personal revelation.”
“What haunts (this city) are the kinds of large historical crimes that, once committed, can never truly be set right.”
-MALCOLM HARRIS, AUTHOR OF “PALO ALTO: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, CAPITALISM, AND THE WORLD”
Palo Alto is Harris’ third book. In his first, “Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials,” Harris presents a robust rejection of the stereotypes surrounding his generation. His second book, a series of critical essays on everything from student debt to wages to fascism, carries an unprintable title inspired by an Occupy Wall Street protest sign.
An activist and a voracious researcher from an early age, Harris was arrested on his high school campus for handing out leaflets telling his fellow students they didn’t have to take a standardized test. When he was 18, Harris dedicated himself to reading 100 pages a day, “a programmatic form of
study” that he calls “a defining choice of my life.” At the University of Maryland, Harris studied government and politics and English literature.
In Harris’ analysis, California was birthed in inequality, a land stolen from its Indigenous peoples and Mexico, a land that provided Anglo American settlers with a blank slate, of sorts, to run a variety of racist, capitalist projects. He called on Stanford University to return the land to the Muwekma Ohlone tribe.
“California is capitalist from the beginning,” Harris said during an interview in San Francisco, in the midst of the first leg of his promotional tour. The state provided such rapid growth that it almost immediately created unusual amounts of wealth.
The book details the eugenics movement at Stanford, the pseudoscience that adapted Charles Darwin’s survival-of-the fittest explanation of human evolution and extended it to justify racial segregation, racial purity efforts and forced sterilizations. It was promulgated by David Starr Jordan, the university’s founding president. Stanford University’s Hoover Institute, Reaganism and the ballot measure system are all subject to critique in Harris’ book, as is Silicon Valley’s role in the postwar proliferation of nuclear weapons.
For all its attention to history, Palo Alto spends little time addressing California’s efforts to counteract
some of the inequalities Harris identifies. In recent years, the state has launched one of the most prominent reparations task forces in the nation, awarded more than $25 million in grant funding to seven guaranteed income pilot projects reaching 12,000 people and extended the social safety net to undocumented immigrants.
Harris’ book has sparked a debate about how broadly one should interpret the city’s influence in the world. The Washington Post in one review praised Palo Alto as “a vital” history, similar to Mike Davis’ treatment of Los Angeles in his classic “City of Quartz.” Meanwhile, San Francisco historian Gary Kamiya criticized Harris in the New York Times for trying to pin too many problems on one California city, and took umbrage with the book’s unapologetically Marxist framework.
For his part, Harris said he originally wanted to title the book “the Palo Alto System,” named after a horse breeding process originally developed by Leland Stanford that serves as the book’s central metaphor. Stanford, the former governor who founded Stanford University, looked to develop a better trotting horse through breeding. The plan ultimately resulted in some of the fastest horses in the country.
Stanford University plays a central role in the book, and is very much at the heart of Harris’ personal story. His father was an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz and employed at Stanford when he met Harris’ mother, then a research assistant there.
Born in Santa Cruz, Harris and his’ family moved to Palo Alto when he was a child and he attended high school as the city grappled with a spate of student suicides. Harris opens his book with these deaths, citing them as an example of the city being “haunted,” noting that many of the suicides were committed by stepping in front of a commuter train that was “the same locomotive line on which Leland Stanford built the town.”
Having thoroughly avoided writing the “suburban California survival memoir” he so promises to eschew, Harris concludes that the suicides are a response to the Palo Alto System he identifies. “Even the winners can’t stop the train, even when their own kids are in the way,” he writes.
By returning to the suicides, Harris rightly identifies the undeniable reality that his hometown has demons to reckon with. Yet hundreds of pages later, only the most dogmatically aligned reader would agree Harris has given a satisfying explanation for these particular tragedies. His conclusion threatens to exploit these sorrows, leaving the reader with a provocation, and yearning for some real hope.
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PALO ALTO, LIKE CALIFORNIA, SHINES AS A LAND OF PROMISE BUT IS HAUNTED BY ITS HISTORY
In “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World,” author Malcolm Harris tells tales of the city’s founding, highlighting how some grew rich through technology and science while others were left out of the growth and prosperity. His provocative premise explores California’s earliest sins and the haunting toll they have taken centuries later.
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Malcolm Harris, author of ‘Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World,’ in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2023. Photo Credit: Martin do Nascimento / CalMatters
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PROJECT UNCOVERS HIDDEN GEMS OF BLACK HISTORY IN WYOMING
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African Americans have played a foundational role in Wyoming since the 1860s, when they served as soldiers at Fort Laramie, and owned and operated some of Cheyenne's first businesses, which are just some of the historic nuggets uncovered by the Black Wyoming Project funded by the National Park Service.
Delia Hagen, the project's director, is documenting the history and historic places of Wyoming's Black community, a community underrepresented in the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks.
"The history of African American communities in general is underdocumented across the United States," Hagen explained. "That is especially so in places like Wyoming and Montana."
Hagen noted Black people in Wyoming played a major role as members of the workforce delivering fuel for heat and electricity to the entire nation.
African Americans were prominent members of coal-mining towns including Green River, Rawlins, Rock Springs, and in Hanna, where dozens of Black men were among the 169 miners killed in Wyoming's worst coal disaster in 1903.
Hagen's research revealed Black residents have played important roles in all of Wyoming's major economic sectors, including coal, railroad, cattle, the arts, and sports, and she said they were part of the political, social and cultural fabric of every major city, many towns and most of the state's counties.
"Some sources even trace the origins of Frontier Days to 1870s riding exhibitions by a black cowboy named Sam Stewart," Hagen explained. "Stewart
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was also known as 'Bronco Sam,' and was renowned as one of the best riders in the region."
Hagen pointed out one goal of the project is to get more historic sites registered and into the written record we rely on, including the 1914 home of two of Sheridan's most prominent Black residents, Charles and Minnie Hardaway Askew. But Hagen added there are numerous opportunities at sites across the state to make the contributions of African Americans more visible.
"This history is almost wholly unknown outside of the descendant community itself, and a few scholars," Hagen acknowledged. "But this project shows that African Americans are an integral and prominent part of Wyoming history."
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Losafroamericanos han desempeñado un papel fundamental en Wyoming desde la década de 1860, cuando sirvieron como soldados en Fort Laramie y fueron propietarios y operadores de algunos de los primeros negocios de Cheyenne, que son solo algunas de las pepitas históricas descubiertas por el Proyecto Black Wyoming financiado por el National Park Services.
Delia Hagen, directora del proyecto, está documentando la historia y los lugares históricos de la comunidad negra de Wyoming, una comunidad subrepresentada en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos y Monumentos Históricos Nacionales.
"La historia de las comunidades afroamericanas en general está subdocumentada en los Estados Unidos", explicó Hagen. "Eso es especialmente cierto en lugares como Wyoming y Montana".
Hagen señaló que los negros en Wyoming desempeñaron un papel importante como miembros de la fuerza laboral que entregan combustible para calefacción y electricidad a toda la nación. Los afroamericanos eran miembros destacados de los pueblos mineros del carbón, incluidos Green River, Rawlins, Rock Springs y Hanna, donde decenas de hombres negros se encontraban entre los 169 mineros que murieron en el peor desastre del carbón de Wyoming en 1903.
La investigación de Hagen reveló que los residentes negros han jugado un papel importante en todos los principales sectores económicos de Wyoming, incluidos el carbón, el ferrocarril, el ganado, las artes y los deportes, y dijo que eran parte del tejido político, social y cultural de cada ciudad importante, muchas ciudades y la mayoría de los condados del estado.
"Algunas fuentes incluso remontan los orígenes de Frontier Days a las exhibiciones de equitación de la década de 1870 realizadas por un vaquero negro llamado Sam Stewart", explicó Hagen. "Stewart también era conocido como 'Bronco Sam' y era reconocido como uno de los mejores ciclistas de la región".
Hagen señaló que uno de los objetivos del proyecto es obtener más sitios históricos registrados y en el registro escrito en el que confiamos, incluida la casa de 1914 de dos de los residentes negros más destacados de Sheridan, Charles y Minnie Hardaway Askew. Pero Hagen agregó que existen numerosas oportunidades en sitios de todo el estado para hacer más visibles las contribuciones de los afroamericanos.
"Esta historia es casi totalmente desconocida fuera de la propia comunidad de descendientes y de algunos estudiosos", reconoció Hagen. "Pero este proyecto muestra que los afroamericanos son una parte integral y prominente de la historia de Wyoming".
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Historians have traced the origins of Cheyenne Frontier Days back to 1870s riding exhibitions by a Black cowboy named Sam Stewart. Also known as "Bronco Sam," Stewart was renowned as one of the best riders in the region. (Carol M. Highsmith/Wikimedia Commons Library of Congress) Historians have traced the origins of Cheyenne Frontier Days back to 1870s riding exhibitions by a Black cowboy named Sam Stewart. Stewart was also known as "Bronco Sam," and was renowned as one of the best riders in the region. Photo Caption: Carol M. Highsmith / Wikimedia Commons Library of Congress
Apartamentos para personas mayores de bajos ingresos. La lista de espera para Wittenberg Manor II se abrirá el Lunes 6/3/2023 y durará 5 semanas hasta el Viernes 7/4/23.
Durante ese tiempo, Wittenberg Manor II aceptará solicitudes de personas mayores de 62 años que cumplan con las pautas de admisión, así como de adultos con problemas de movilidad, mayores de 18 años, que requieran las características de diseño de los apartamentos accesibles.
Para solicitar un paquete de solicitud, llame al 510-785-7201 o acérquese a la oficina de Wittenberg Manor II, de 9:00 a. m. a 12:00 p. m. y de 2:00 p. m. a 4:00 p. m., de Lunes a Viernes, en 713 Bartlett Avenida, Hayward, CA 94541.
El Miércoles 19 de Abril de 2023, a las 10:00 a. m., en el comedor de Wittenberg Manor II, se llevará a cabo una lotería para la colocación en la lista de espera. Le invitamos a asistir a la lotería, pero no está obligado a asistir. Wittenberg Manor II ofrece igualdad de oportunidades de vivienda. La Junta de tránsito busca un miembro
La Junta Directiva del Distrito de Tránsito del Condado de San Mateo (San Mateo County Transit District) busca candidatos para ocupar un puesto de miembro público. El candidato exitoso será uno de nueve directores responsables de establecer la política del Distrito de Tránsito que opera el servicio de autobuses de SamTrans. Los candidatos deben ser residentes del Condado de San Mateo fuera de la región costera del condado y no deben haber ocupado un cargo electivo dentro del último año. Las solicitudes se encuentran disponibles en línea en: https://www. samtrans.com/about-samtrans/board-directors o llamando al 650-508-6242. La fecha límite para recibir solicitudes es: Jueves 30 de marzo de 2023, 5:00 p.m.
3/3/23
CNS-3671375# EL OBSERVADOR
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410291
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Marie Ange Napa INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Marie Ange
Napa has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Marie Ange
Napa AKA b. Marie Ange
Napaa AKA c. Mona
Napa AKA d. Monalisa
Napaa AKA e. Monalisa
Napa AKA Monalisa
Napaa AKA Monalisa
Napa AKA Mona Nabaa
AKA Mona Naba AKA
Marie Ange Nabaa AKA
Marie Ange Naba AKA
Mona Napa AKA Marie
Ange Napa AKA Marie
Ange Napaa to Mona
Napaa 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 05/30/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Jan 25, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
March 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 691947
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LEDGERFI, LEDGER FINANCIAL 20065 Stevens Creek Blvd, B-1B,
“La Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Clara (SCCHA, por sus siglas en inglés), anteriormente conocida como HACSC (por sus siglas en inglés), debe presentar un aviso público de los fondos en su custodia que han quedado inactivos según la ley estatal de California. Si no se reclama, el dinero pasará a ser propiedad de SCCHA el 27 de marzo de 2023. Si cree que SCCHA le debe dinero, llame al (408) 9932924 o envíe un correo electrónico a Christy.Hang@ scchousingauthority.org y proporcione el nombre del reclamante, la dirección actual, el número de teléfono y la dirección donde se encontrará durante el período de examinación. Tenga en cuenta que los representantes primero determinarán si usted es un receptor del pago de fondos inactivos. Si se determina que usted es un receptor del pago de fondos inactivos, el representante solicitará la documentación para verificar su identidad a fin de poder reembolsar el dinero adeudado.”
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 693129
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.)
President Article/Reg#: 5496806
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Mike Louie, Deputy File No. FBN 692858
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692754
File No. FBN 692787
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692601
Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): WARP SPEED FINANCIAL INC, 20065 Stevens Creek Blvd, B-1B, Cupertino, CA 95014. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/09/2022. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN685976. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Christopher Selim WARP SPEED FINANCIAL INC
President
Article/Reg#: 6719424
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/24/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 691947
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EM ANH SPA, 2230 Story Rd, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Tony Lam Nguyen, 1282 Pellier Dr, San Jose, CA 95121. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/28/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Tony Lam Nguyen
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 693129
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 693122
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 83 HYDROVAC EXCAVATION, 304 Los Encinos St, San Jose, CA 95134, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a married couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jose F Garcia, 304 Los Encinos St, San Jose, CA 95134.
Lorena Garcia, 304 Los Encinos St, San Jose, CA 95134. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this
/s/ Jose F Garcia
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 693122
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692767
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KING KONG MOBILE DJ ENTERTAINMENT, 2493 Anna Dr 1, Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jeronimo A Hernandez, 2493 Anna Dr 1, Santa Clara, CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jeronimo A Hernandez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/15/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 692767
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 693140
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TORO COMPANY 3166
Heather Ridge Dr., San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a married couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Marisa Amezola, 3166 Heather Ridge Dr, San Jose, CA 95136. Mario Solis, 3166 Heather Ridge Dr, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/28/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Marisol Amezola
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 693140
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692858
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KELLY’s HEALING MASSAGE, 990 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): GO N GO HEALTH, 60 Wilson Way Spc 23, Milpitas, CA 95035. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/21/2023.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Ting Wei GO N GO HEALTH
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Best Yoga Studios, 60 4th Street, Suite 101, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Best Yoga Studios, 200 E. San Martin Avenue, Unit 424, San Martin, CA 95046. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2023.
This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN659763. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Wendy Mosgrove
Best Yoga Studios
Owner/President Article/Reg#: 5285689
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/15/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692754
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692787
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MEX-L DISTRIBUTION, 555 W Middlefield Rd #S302, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Rogelio Madriz, 555 W Middlefield Rd #S302, Mountain View, CA 94043. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/16/2023.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Rogelio Madriz
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/16/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: H Brows, 1082 Lincoln Ave #11, San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hyeyoung Back, 5828 Laguna Seca Way, San Jose, CA 95123. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/01/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Hyeyoung Back
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/09/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692601
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 693133
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Woodpecker Studio, 1133 Lexington Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Carlos A Quintero, 1133 Lexington Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/05/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Carlos A Quintero
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 693133
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692705
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BIRRIA Y TACOS MICHOACAN, 1173 McLaughlin Ave, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Pedro Morfin, 2149 Mabel Ave, San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant
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JOBS / CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS
began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Pedro Morfin
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/14/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692705
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410130
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Maye Mendoza INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Maye Mendoza has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Avarié Rose Avila to Avarié Rose Almeida-Cervantes 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/23/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
January 20, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV411112
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Bich Ngoc Le INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Bich Ngoc Le has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Bich Ngoc Le to Bella Ngoc Le 2. THE
COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/18/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 15, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410803
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ivan Reyes Zarate INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Ivan Reyes Zarate has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ivan Reyes Zarate to Ivan Zarate Reyes 2. THE COURT
ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 06, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV411109
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Tae Young Kim INTERESTED PER-
SONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Tae Young Kim has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Tae Young Kim to Sunny Taeyoung Kim 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date:
06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 15, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410862
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Alondra Gonzalez INTERESTED
PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s)
Alondra Gonzalez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Melina Cortez to Melina Cortez Gonzalez b. Emir Caleb Cortez Gonzalez to Gael Antonio Cortez Gonzalez 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 07, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV411348 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Marissa Mendoza INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Marissa Mendoza has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Rhana Ka’iulani Guerrero to Rhana Franciscia Ka’iulani Mendoza 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/20/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 22, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
NOTICE OF DEATH OF Linda Colleen Murtha
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Linda Colleen Murtha, who was a resident of Santa Clara County, State of California, and died on January 30, 2023, in the City of San Jose, County
of Santa Clara, State of California. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the DERMER LAW FIRM, 15720 Winchester Boulevard, Suite 200, Los Gatos, California 95030 (408) 395-5111
Joseph D. Dermer, Esq. DERMER LAW FIRM 5448 Thornwood Drive, Ste 200 San Jose, CA 95123 Tel (408) 395-5111 Fax (408) 354-2797
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692859
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EL COMPADRE WESTERN WEAR, 1171 S King Rd, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): JYCJE INC, 3097 Markingdon Ave, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/15/2017. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN625810. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Javier Jauregui Diaz
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Mike Louie, Deputy File No. FBN 692859
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692831
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RM SOLUTIONS, 181 W Weddell Dr Apt 39, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Renato Vieira Machado, 181 W Weddell Dr Apt 39, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Renato Vieira Machado
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/17/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692831
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692680
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A&C JANITORIAL 2150 Monroe St AP#2, Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Adrian Carrasco, 2150 Monroe St Ap#2, Santa Clara, CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/13/2023.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Adrian Carrasco
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/13/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 692680
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
NO. 692873
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SANTA CLARA SMOG CHECK 1051
Richard Ave #A, Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): ARYAN KUMAR, 918 W. Winton Ave, Hayward, CA 94545. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/06/2017.
This filing is a refile [No change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN691442. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Aryan Kumar This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692873
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692905
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dulce Victoria
American and Mexican Food, 660 E Gish Road, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by n individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):
Maria Dolores MendezGutierrez, 1773 Cooley Ct, San Jose, CA 95116. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/28/2022. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN677923. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Maria Dolores Mendez-Gutierrez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 692905
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692556
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Victory River Handyman Services 3415 Casalino Ct, San Jose, CA 95148, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jesus Rivera3415 Casalino Ct, San Jose, CA 95148. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/08/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jesus Rivera
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/06/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692556
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692906
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: M’S BEAUTY AESTHETICS, 919 S. Winchester Blvd Suite 35, San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):
Maria Margarita Trujillo
Gutierrez, 3779 Blackford Ave Apt 27, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting busi-
ness under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/13/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Maria Margarita Trujillo Gutierrez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692906
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692938
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WESTERN WINDOW WASHING 749 Saint Timothy Pl, San Jose, CA 95037, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Romulo O Rivas, 749 Saint Timothy Pl, Morgan Hill, CA 95037. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/29/2018. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN640736. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Romulo O Rivas
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692938
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692794
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AGENCY CONNECTIONS (USA), 1129 Stafford Drive, Cupertino, CA 951014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jaling Liu, 1129 Safford Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/116/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jaling Liu
This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk-
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Court
CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS
Recorder of Santa Clara County on 02/16/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692794
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
NO. 691336
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Donde Carito Celis Coffee, 387 S 1 st St Suite 10, San Jose, CA 95113, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Ingrid Carolina Celis Mejia, 651 Branham Ln, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/04/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.) /s/ Ingrid Carolina Celis Mejia This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on 1/04/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 691336
Original Publication
Dates:
January 13, 20, 27; February 3, 2023
Re-Publication Dates
Per County Recorder
Notice:
February 24, March 3, 10 and 17, 2023
FICTITIOUS
BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
NO. 691317
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
CARRILLO’S SRVICES
3819 Seventrees Blvd #302, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County This business is owned by an individual.
The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):
Jacqueline Carrillo, 3819
Seventrees Blvd #302, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/08/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jacqueline Carrillo
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 1/04/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 691317
Original Publication
Dates:
January 13, 20, 27;
February 3, 2023
Re-Publication Dates
Per County Recorder
Notice:
February 24, March 3, 10 and 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV411160
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Gabriel De Los Santos INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Gabriel De Los Santos has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Gabriel De Los Santos to Gabriel Flores Sotelo 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date:
04/18/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 16, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV411169 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Antonio Sanchez Flores INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Antonio Sanchez Flores has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Antonio Sanchez Flores to Antonio Flores Sanchez 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 16, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV411106
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Charity Lenore Brooks INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Charity Lenore Brooks has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. CHARITY LENORE BROOKS to Charity Lenore Brooks 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/18/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 15, 2023
Jacqueline M.
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hassan Ismail Abdullahi INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Hassan Ismail Abdullahi has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Hassan Ismail Abdullahi to Jamal (kaynan) Siarag 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 04/18/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 16, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV411343 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cuong Chi Cuong INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 22, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge
of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV408363
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Isaac Rene Allen Carabajal INTERESTED PERSONS:
Arroyo
Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV411164
Cuong Chi Ngo has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Cuong Chi Ngo to Kennedy Ngo 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/20/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located
1. Petitioner(s) Isaac Rene Allen Carabajal has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Isaac Rene Allen Carabajal to Isaac Rene Allen Sagastume 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 04/11/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
December 14, 2022
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV409459
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Juan Gomez Gonora INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Juan Gomez Gonora has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows:
a. Juan Gomez Gonora to Jonathan Michael Gomez 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 05/09/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Jan 04, 2022
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10 and 17, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 22CV409141
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Yuanfeng Zhou INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Yuanfeng Zhou has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Tank Yiyan Zhou to Hank Yiyan Zhou 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 05/02/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Dec 28, 2022
Jacqueline M. Arroyo
Judge of the Superior Court
February 24, March 3, 10 and 17, 2023
NOTICE OF DEATH OF Everdine van Loon
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Everdine Van Loon, who was a resident of Santa Clara County, State of California, and died on October 22, 2020.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR
or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the Law Offices of Laurel Loomer, PO Box 899, Losa Gatos, CA 950310899.
Law Offices of Laurel Loomer PO BOX 899 Los Gatos, CA 950310899
February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2023
Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Jason Philip Senior Case No. 22PR193674
1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Jason Philip Senior. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Dolly Emily Goyal in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.
3.The Petition for Probate requests that Dolly Emily Goyal be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 08, 2023, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7 If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representa-
tive appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
10. Petitioner:
Dolly Emily Goyal 4815 Pine Forest Pl San Jose, CA 95118 (408)826.1173
Run Dates: February 24, March 3, 10, 2023
Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Rogeleo Maestas Case No. 23PR194014
1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Rogeleo Maestas. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Tony Maestas in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Roy Maestas and Tony Maestas be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.)
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: March 24, 2023, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attor-
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ney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
10. Attorney for petitioner: Paul E. Rogers 255 N. Market St. #125 San Jose, CA 95110
(408)641-8803
Run Dates: February 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692225
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FIRME GRAPHICS & TEES, 530 N. 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Juan Rogelio Rojas Lopez, 530 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2023.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Juan R. Rojas Lopez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/01/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692225
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.
692605
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EDEN’S LANDSCAPING, 5072 New England Ct, San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and
residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Rocio Janeth Renteria Alvarez, 5072 New England Ct, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/10/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Rocio Janeth Renteria Alvarez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/10/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 692605
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692745
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gomez Berry Farm 25 Cohansey Ave, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Gregorio Gomez, 1100 Bolsa Rd, San Jose, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/07/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Gregorio Gomez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/15/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692745
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 691932
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kinder Cats 960 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Kinder Cas LLC, 960 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose, CA 95123. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2023.
This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Khanh D Nguyen
Kinder Cats LLC Ownder
Article/Reg#: 202354015142
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/24/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 691932
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692139
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TELLO MIGUEL AIR DUCT CLEANING, 1515 Martin Ave, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Miguel Tello Lara, 1515 Martin Ave, San Jose, CA 95126.
The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/30/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Miguel Tello Lara
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/30/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 692139
February 17, 24, March
3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692246
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OUR SPACE, 16579 Los Gatos Almaden Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Irina Sosnina, 3641 Copperfield Dr, Apt 188, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN691901. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Irina Sosnina
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/01/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692246
February 17, 24, March
3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692156
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Breakfast Spot 2270 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County
This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Lionel Rubalcava LLC, 905 Commercial St, San Jose, CA 95133. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Lionel Rubalcava Lionel Rubalcava LLC
Article/Reg#: 202253611461
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/30/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692156
February 17, 24, March
3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692502
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LA MUÑERA, 1486 Lakeshore Cir, San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Alicia Sauceda, 1486 Lakeshore Cir, San Jose, CA 95131. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/15/2016. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: 619068. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Alicia Sauceda
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692502
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692574
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KK HVAC, 3456 Linden oaks Dr, San Jose, CA 95117, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name
and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Pete Tu, 3456 Linden Oaks Dr, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/01/2023. This filing is a first refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: . “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Pete Tu
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/09/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692574
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692342
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ESCUELA DE FUTBOL OFICIAL CLUB LEON SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA, 2970 Van Sansul Ave Apt 15, San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jason Javier Lara Hernandez, 22970 Van Sansul Ave Apt 15, San Jose, CA 95128. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/02/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jason Javier Lara Hernandez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/02/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692342
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692517
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Foxtrot Handyman, 97 Dale Drive, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Filiberto Alvarado Arenas, 97 Dale Drive, San Jose, CA 95127. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/08/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Filiberto Alvarado Arenas
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/08/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 692517
February 17, 24, March
3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
NO. 692111
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JAIRO TREE SERVICES, 1698 Ruther Place Ct, San Jose, CA 95121, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jairo Valensuela Solis, 1698 Ruther Place Ct, San Jose, CA 95121.
The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jairo Valensuela Solis
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/27/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692111
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.
692373
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JSO Tree Service 6675 Thames Dr, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County This business is owned by a general partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Silverio O. Rodriguez, 839 Emory Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008. Juan Olguin Jr, 6675 Thames Dr, Gilroy, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/03/2023. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts form previous filing] of previous file #: FBN635823. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Silverio O. Rodriguez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/03/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader,
Deputy File No. FBN 692373
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.
692581
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AG SPORTS CLOSED CIRCUIT TV 3480 Granada Ave #159, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Artemio Gallegos, 3480 Granada Ave #159, Santa Clara, CA 95051. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/09/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Artemio Gallegos
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/09/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 692581
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692032
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RUDY CHESPY SERVICES, 1800 Civic Center Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):
Rudecindo Acuna Nunez, 1800 Civic Center Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/26/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Rudecindo Acuna
Nunez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/26/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 692032
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
AMENDED
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410929
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Aradhna
Rajendran INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Aradhna Rajendran has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Aradhna Rajendran AKA Ana Rajendran to Ana Pallares 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 15, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV4101054
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Haley Kae Epperly INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Haley Kae Epperly has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Haley Kae Epperly to Haley Kae Fox 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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:
Date: 04/18/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for
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four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 14, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV402981
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Benita Vergara INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Benita Vergara has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Benita Vergara to Maria Benita Vergara Diarte 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 03/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 03, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410863
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of:
Maria Eugenia Corrales
Monte INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Maria Eugenia Corrales Monte has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Maria Eugenia Corrales Monte AKA
Maria Eugenia Corrales
Bastidas to Maria Eugenia Corrales Bastidas 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING:
Date:
06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 07, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410406
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Amy Nicole Hays INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Amy Nicole Hays has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Amy Nicole Hays to Amy Hays Kuxhausen 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/30/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
January 27, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410665
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kelly Moreo Corona INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.
Petitioner(s) Kelly Moreno Corona has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jayden Javier Saucedo Corona to Jayden Javier Saucedo Corona Jr 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 02, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410974
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Holly-Marie Arce and Robin Yoo INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Holly-Marie Arce and Robin Yoo has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Zayden Yehchan Arce Yoo to Zayden Yehchan Yoo 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 09, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410668 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Rohit Hooda & Hema Dalal INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Rohit Hooda & Hema Dalal has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kiya Hooda to Vedika Hooda 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 05/30/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 02, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410931 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Sabrina Leigh Pilipina INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.
Petitioner(s) Sabrina Leigh Pilipina has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Arabella Rose Gonzalez to Arabella Rose Pilipina 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 08, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410995
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hagar Yeboah INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Hagar Yeboah has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Hagar Yeboah to Haden Owusu-Sekyere 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks
prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 09, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410401
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ruben Grigoryevich Suleymanov INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ruben Grigoryevich Suleymanov has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ruben Grigoryevich Suleymanov to Ruben Sullivan b. Oxana Gennadyevna Suleymanova to Oxana Sullivan c. Maxim Andreevich Arshinov to Max Welburn 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/30/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Jan 27, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410667 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Magda Grdzelidze INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Magda Grdzelidze has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Magda Grdzelidze to Magda Hall 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this
matter 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 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: Date: 06/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 02, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2023
AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 20CV369912
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jui Chen, Chien INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Jui Chen, Chien has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jui Chen, Chien to David Jui Chen, Chien 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 03/14/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
February 10, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the
Superior
Court
February 17, 24, March
3, 10, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.
692237
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: True Force Fitness Wear, 2268 Elkhorn Ct, San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Adam Muntez, 2268 Elkhorn Ct, San Jose, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2017. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN638312. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Adam Montez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/01/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692237
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692110
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ZOLANOS INSURANCE SERVICES LLC, 1415 N 10th St, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): ZOLANOS INSURANCE SERVICES LLC, 1493 Main St, Watsonville, CA 95076. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Yesenia Solano ZOLANOS INSURANCE SERVICES LLC OWNER Article/Reg#: 202250011038
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/27/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692110
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692143
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A & O Lozanos Constuction, 1370 Teryilyn Ave, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):
Leoncio Lozano, 1370 Terilyn Ave, San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/30/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Leoncio Lozano
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/30/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 692143
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692476
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Carpet Avenue Floors, 971 Stockton Ave, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jose Balleza Perez, 341 Kentbrook Circle, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/92. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN639167. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jose Balleza Perez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692476
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.
692133
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MAGPIE AND THE TIGER 2725 El Camino Real Suite 107, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): BIG PANDA, INC, 79 Bonaventura Dr Unit #1, San Jose, CA 95134. The registrant began transacting business under the ficti-
tious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Mimi S Song BIG PANDA,
INC CEO
Article/Reg#: 2794675
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/30/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 692133
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692003
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Carpio Audio Car 2689 Camino Ecco, San Jose, CA 95121, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a married couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Angel Carpio, 2689 Camino Ecco, San Jose, CA 95121.
Maria F. Romero, 2689 Camino Ecco, San Jose, CA 95121. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/16/2010. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN536859. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Maria F. Romero
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/25/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692003
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 691686
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TORO TAXES, REYES LEGAL SERVICES, 115 N. 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): REYES TAX CONSULTANTS LLC, 987 Prevost St, San Jose, CA 95125.
The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/17/2022. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN691419. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Claudia Reyes REYES TAX CONSULTANTS LLC
President
Article/Reg#: 202253411126
Above entity was formed in the state of CA
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/17/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 691686
February 10, 17, 24,
March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692111
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JAIRO TREE SERVICES, 1698 Ruther Place Ct, San Jose, CA 95121, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jairo Valensuela Solis, 1698 Ruther Place Ct, San Jose, CA 95121. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/2023. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Jairo Valensuela Solis
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/27/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692111
February 10, 17, 24,
March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692273
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JSO Tree Service, 6675 Thames Dr, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a general partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Silverio O. Rodriguez, 839 Emory Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008. Juan Olguin Jr, 6675 Thames Dr, Gilroy, CA 95020.
The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/03/2023. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN635823. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Silverio O. Rodriguez
This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/03/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 692373
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692156
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Breakfast Spot, 2270 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Lionel Rubalcava LLC, 905 Commercial St, San Jose, CA 95133. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Lionel Rubalcava
Lionel Rubalcava LLC CEO Article/Reg#: 202253611461
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 01/30/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 692156
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 692409
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BLOBBLER, 1182 Calypso Ct, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): MGH VENTURES LLC, 1182 Calypso Ct, San Jose, CA 95127. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all 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.)
/s/ Michael Mehmi MGH VENTURES LLC Member/Owner
Article/Reg#: 202251014680
Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/03/2023.
Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder
By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 692409
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410929
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Aradhna Rajendran INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Aradhna Rajendran has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Aradhna Rajendran AKA Ana Rajendran to Ana Miguel 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Feb 08, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 23CV410931
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Sabrina Leigh Pilipina INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Sabrina Leigh Pilipina has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Arabella Rose Gonzalez to Arabella Rose Pilipina 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date:
06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Feb 08, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 10, 17, 24,
March 3, 2023
AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 22CV403607
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Carolina Espinoza INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Carolina Espinoza has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Carolina Espinoza to Carolina HernandezEspinoza 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 03/07/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. Feb 06, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ha Ngoc Dang INTERESTED
PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)
Ha Ngoc Dang has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Pham Bao Tran to Tran Bao Pham 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 03/07/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Feb 06, 2023
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV406229
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Sandrick Elbancol INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Sandrick Elbancol has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Sandrick Elbancol to Sandrick Elbancol Eclarino 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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. NO-
TICE OF HEARING: Date: 03/14/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located
at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Nov 07, 2022
Jacqueline M.
Arroyo
Judge of the Superior Court
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 22CV408877
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of:
Caroll Eugene Smith
INTERESTED PERSONS:
1. Petitioner(s) Caroll Eugene Smith has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Caroll Eugene Smith to Carroll Eugene Smith 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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 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: Date: 04/25/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.
Dec 22, 2022
Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court
February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2023
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services
Youngpeople are coming of age without knowing how to create a loving relationship or what the warning signs are that maybe they’re not in a good one.
So says Ana Campos, 17, who was blinded by “fake love” and thought everything was fine. Her sister recognized the red flags Ana was ignoring.
“He was very manipulative. He would constantly like, check my phone without my permission, and just be angry over the smallest things,” Campos recalled. She has been in therapy for two years. Campos is slowly leaving her toxic relationship behind.
She is one of a growing number of teenage activists dedicated to educating their peers about the dangers of teen dating violence and how to prevent it. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recently flagged an alarming increase in teen dating violence, up from the one out of 12 teens who reported having experienced it in 2021. Some youth surveys report the number of victims at one out of three.
Ana Campos shares the red flags she missed early on in a relationship that became abusive. She says schools should provide education on relationships, including recognizing ‘red flags’ and ‘green flags’, so that teens understand what constitute a safe and healthy relationship and can break the cycle of violence.
An EMS briefing marking February as Teen Dating Violence Prevention month featured four high school students who work with the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. “It’s valuable to have youth speaking out on these issues because they are able to give you an inside peak as to what relationships, both intimate and friends and peers, look like today,” said Megan Tanahashi, communications analyst for the Partnership.
Isha Raheja started working with the House of Ruth women’s shelter last year. She promoted the Awareness through Art Showcase against teen dating violence at her school but it was a hard sell to some of her classmates. Many of the fliers she posted around campus were torn down.
“It’s no surprise to me that teen dating violence can be regarded as taboo by some,” she said. Now a senior, Raheja leads a sex education reform club at her school and she recruited one reluctant classmate whose parents had opted her out of sex education.
When Raheja first talked to her about dating violence, her classmate was taken aback and said it might not be an appro-
priate subject. But she came back the next day and they kept talking. Soon the girl was regularly attending club meetings.
“Speaking on a personal level with individuals to turn apathy amongst students to empathy helped me build a group of like-minded individuals and further progress,” she said.
Maya Henry said she will never feel safe on public transit. “I ride the bus every day. That is a place where I have been a target of sexual assaulted more than once.
“The thing about it is that it robs you of your innocence forever, and I don’t know if that’s something that you could ever really give back or take back, and I hope one day that’ll happen,” she said.
She volunteers at Peace Over Violence, a youth violence prevention center headquartered in Los Angeles. She says her friends have a buddy system whenever anyone goes out so they can track each other’s whereabouts.
Healing requires unlearning certain behaviors, attitudes, and stigmas, Henry said.
“It starts with making the conscious effort to not judge yourself or others… but to actually sit down with someone who may have inflicted violence on someone else and try and find a place where instead of looking at them and thinking about the violence they caused, think about the potential they have to unfurl that violence and apologize and learn and make right their wrong.”
Restorative justice can’t make the trauma disappear but it can help both victim and perpetrator get beyond it. Henry noted that it’s hard to be joyful without feeling safe but there are places she feels very safe and comfortable.
Armaan Sharma is a sophomore at a small private school in Fremont, a Bay Area suburb with a 60% Asian population.
An open and respectful dialogue on dating and relationships between parents and teens is key to keeping kids safe in their relationships, says Armaan Sharma.
In his freshman year, Sharma took a class called Choices that briefly mentioned relationships. “Why don’t we teach about relationships more? Everyone thinks that developing relationships it’s an natural skill that all humans have. If that were true, why do we see 1 in 3 teens in America experience some sort of dating violence, whether physical, sexual, emotional or psychological?”
Sharma noted that underregulated social media is posing a greater threat to youth with each passing day. Instagram is a platform where perpetrators of violence or predators have easy access to a whole lot of youth, he says.
“Netflix has movies like 365 days, which quite literally romanticize rape.”
Sharma says teen dating violence can affect everyone, including men, and, in fact, marginalized groups like the LGBTQ community, often experience much higher rates of such violence but they are under-represented in the movement to end it. “It makes no sense because we can’t attempt to solve a problem that affects everyone if everyone isn’t involved,” he said.
The conversation should begin at home, says Kandee Lewis, CEO/President of Positive Results Center and Founder of Black Women Leaders of Los Angeles. The Board of Supervisors named Lewis Woman of The Year in 2017. She works with youth and parents on domestic violence, sexual assault, and suicide prevention.
“It’s important to talk to our children about what a healthy relationship is, what is acceptable behavior and what is unacceptable behavior,” says Lewis.
“We all want to be loved and we want to be accepted. And so, if we’re not getting the kind of attention that we need, we will go and seek that negative attention. It’s still attention and we’re gonna get it from wherever we can find it,” Lewis said.
“Your child really wants to know that you care, because if you don’t take the time to talk to your child, someone else will. And that other person could be the abuser.”
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SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL PASSES FIRST LAW IN US BANNING CASTE DISCRIMINATION
The vote came after 90 minutes of public comment from speakers on both sides of the issue. Opponents say they will explore legal avenues to overturn the law.
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services
Following90 minutes of public comments from passionate speakers on both sides of the issue, the Seattle, Washington City Council Feb. 21 made history as it passed the first law in the nation banning caste discrimination.
The measure passed on a 6-1 vote, with Council President Deborah Juarez abstaining. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell must now sign off on the resolution.
The Council chamber was filled with people waving signs and shouting over council members as they spoke. Seattle City Council President pro-tempore Tammy Morales asked the audience three times to refrain from protesting, threatening once to clear the chamber until the vote was taken.
The resolution, CB 120511 — sponsored by council member Kshama Sawant — adds caste as a protected class to the city’s existing municipal code. Seattle currently has one of the broadest codes on protected classes.
‘Discrimination
is Real’
“I grew up in a Brahmin family, so I never experienced caste discrimination, unlike so many of my South Asian brothers and sisters,” said Sawant, speaking before the vote was taken. “But I want to live in a society free of oppression. Let’s be clear: caste discrimination is here in Seattle. It is real, and existing law does not protect people.”
“I hope we can serve as a beacon to other cities across the country and around the world,” said Sawant, who identifies as a socialist. She noted that the measure had received suppport from numerous organizations, and from writers Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, and Cornel West. Ahead of the city council meeting, supporters held a noon rally to draw attention to the issue. People opposing the measure also showed up at the rally, which threatened to get violent at points, but was contained.
The lone dissenter was city council member Sara Nelson, who said that existing protections, which include ancestry, protect people from caste discrimination. “This is reckless and unnecessary,” she said, adding that the city council had not been provided with any data on the extent of caste-based discrimination in the region.
‘Racist Stereotypes’
“The caste system was abolished in India in 1950. I’m not saying caste discrimination does not exist, just that we have no data,” said Nelson.
“This resolution exposes Indians to racist stereotypes and could generate more discrimination against the community, including employers simply not hiring South Asians because of potential concerns,” said the city council woman.
Seattle is a tech hub, with many workers and employers of Indian origin. Supporters of the resolution say that Dalits — once referred to as untouchables — face discrimination at the workplace by other Indian Americans and are often denied raises and promotions because of their caste affiliation.
Many who spoke during the public comment period said they have had to hide their identity
at the workplace. Sawant likened it to discrimination against the LGBTQIA community, who often remain closeted at their places of work.
Bill Amended
Council member Lisa Herbold added an amendment to the resolution, which would require the city to document the stories of Dalits who say they have faced discrimination. The amendment also passed.
“Caste discrimination transcends religious and geographic boundaries. This resolution does not single out Hindus,” said Herbold, responding to Nelson’s comments.
Seattle city council legislative analyst Asha Venkataraman told council members that $185,000 would have to be added to the City’s budget to support one full time employee who would liaise with local businesses to inform them about the resolution. An additional $100,000 would be needed for the city to update existing outreach materials. The funds would be made available next year.
‘Politics Over Principles’
Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation, which opposed the measure, told Ethnic Media Services she was deeply disappointed. “Politics won over principles,” she said. “There were hateful and false stereotypes that this proposal was based upon.”
Shukla said that HAF is exploring all legal avenues, including a possible lawsuit against the city. “It is unconstitutional to target a single ethnic group,” she said, noting the impact the resolution will have on Hindu Americans potentially being painted as racists. “Sawant has unleashed a torrent of hatred towards a minority community.”
‘Love Wins’
Themozhi Soundararajan, co-founder of Equality Labs, which organized support for the resolution, told Ethnic Media Services: “Love has won over hate as Seattle becomes the first city in the nation to ban caste discrimination. Thank you to the 200 organizations who stood with us.”
“We are united as South Asian Americans in our commitment to heal from caste oppression.
First Seattle, then the nation,” said Soundararajan, a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area.
EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE SEATTLE APRUEBA LA PRIMERA LEY EN EE. UU. QUE PROHÍBE LA DISCRIMINACIÓN POR CASTAS
La votación se produjo después de 90 minutos de comentarios públicos de oradores de ambos lados del tema. Los opositores dicen que explorarán vías legales para anular la ley.
alcance de la discriminación basada en castas en la región.
'Estereotipos racistas'
“El sistema de castas fue abolido en India en 1950. No digo que la discriminación por castas no exista, solo que no tenemos datos”, dijo Nelson.
“Esta resolución expone a los indios a estereotipos racistas y podría generar más discriminación contra la comunidad, incluidos los empleadores que simplemente no contratan a sudasiáticos debido a posibles preocupaciones”, dijo la concejal de la ciudad.
Seattle es un centro tecnológico, con muchos trabajadores y empleadores de origen indio. Los partidarios de la resolución dicen que los dalit — antes conocidos como intocables — enfrentan discriminación en el lugar de trabajo por parte de otros indios estadounidenses y, a menudo, se les niegan aumentos y promociones debido a su afiliación a una casta.
Sunita Sohrabji
Ethnic Media Services
Luego de 90 minutos de comentarios públicos de oradores apasionados de ambos lados del tema, el 21 de febrero, el Concejo Municipal de Seattle, Washington, hizo historia al aprobar la primera ley en la nación que prohíbe la discriminación por castas.
La medida fue aprobada en una votación de 6-1, con la abstención de la presidenta del consejo, Deborah Juarez. El alcalde de Seattle, Bruce Harrell, ahora debe aprobar la resolución.
La cámara del Consejo estaba llena de personas que ondeaban carteles y gritaban sobre los miembros del consejo mientras hablaban. La presidenta provisional del Concejo Municipal de Seattle, Tammy Morales, pidió a la audiencia tres veces que se abstuvieran de protestar, amenazando una vez con despejar la cámara hasta que se llevara a cabo la votación.
La resolución -- CB 120511-- impulsada por la concejal Kshama Sawant, agrega la casta como clase protegida al código municipal existente de la ciudad. Seattle tiene actualmente uno de los códigos más amplios sobre clases protegidas.
'La discriminación es real'
“Crecí en una familia brahmán, por lo que nunca experimenté discriminación de casta, a diferencia de muchos de mis hermanos y hermanas del sur de Asia”, dijo Sawant, hablando antes de que se llevara a cabo la votación. “Pero quiero vivir en una sociedad libre de opresión. Seamos claros: la discriminación de castas está aquí en Seattle. Es real, y la ley existente no protege a las personas”.
“Espero que podamos servir como modelo para otras ciudades del país y del mundo”, dijo Sawant, quien se identifica como socialista. Señaló que la medida había recibido el apoyo de numerosas organizaciones y de los escritores Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky y Cornel West. Antes de la reunión del consejo de la ciudad, los partidarios realizaron una manifestación al mediodía para llamar la atención sobre el tema. Personas que se oponen a la medida también se presentaron en la manifestación, que amenazó con volverse violenta en algunos puntos, pero fue contenida.
La única disidente fue la concejala Sara Nelson, quien dijo que las protecciones existentes, que incluyen la ascendencia, protegen a las personas de la discriminación por castas. “Esto es imprudente e innecesario”, dijo, y agregó que el ayuntamiento no había recibido ningún dato sobre el
Muchos de los que hablaron durante el período de comentarios públicos dijeron que han tenido que ocultar su identidad en el lugar de trabajo. Sawant lo comparó con la discriminación contra la comunidad LGBTQIA, que a menudo permanece encerrada en sus lugares de trabajo.
Proyecto de ley enmendado
La concejal Lisa Herbold agregó una enmienda a la resolución, que requeriría que la ciudad documente las historias de los dalit que dicen haber enfrentado discriminación. La enmienda también pasó.
“La discriminación de casta trasciende las fronteras religiosas y geográficas. Esta resolución no destaca a los hindúes”, dijo Herbold, respondiendo a los comentarios de Nelson.
La analista legislativa del consejo de la ciudad de Seattle, Asha Venkataraman, dijo a los miembros del consejo que se tendrían que agregar $185,000 al presupuesto de la ciudad para apoyar a un empleado de tiempo completo que se comunicaría con las empresas locales para informarles sobre la resolución. Se necesitarían $100,000 adicionales para que la ciudad actualice los materiales de divulgación existentes. Los fondos estarían disponibles el próximo año.
'Política sobre principios'
Suhag Shukla, directora ejecutiva de la Hindu American Foundation, que se opuso a la medida, dijo a Ethnic Media Services que estaba profundamente decepcionada. “La política ganó a los principios”, dijo. “Había estereotipos odiosos y falsos en los que se basaba esta propuesta”.
Shukla dijo que HAF está explorando todas las vías legales, incluida una posible demanda contra la ciudad. “Es inconstitucional apuntar a un solo grupo étnico”, dijo, y señaló el impacto que tendrá la resolución en los estadounidenses hindúes que podrían ser pintados como racistas. “Sawant ha desatado un torrente de odio hacia una comunidad minoritaria”.
'El amor gana'
Themozhi Soundararajan, cofundador de Equality Labs, que organizó el apoyo a la resolución, dijo a Ethnic Media Services: “El amor ha vencido al odio cuando Seattle se convierte en la primera ciudad del país en prohibir la discriminación por castas. Gracias a las 200 organizaciones que estuvieron con nosotros”.
“Estamos unidos como estadounidenses del sur de Asia en nuestro compromiso de curarnos de la opresión de castas. Primero Seattle, luego la nación”, dijo Soundararajan, residente del Área de la Bahía de San Francisco.
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DESPITE OBSTACLES, LGBTQ FARMERS FIND FERTILE GROUND IN MIDWEST
Mike Moen Public News Service
Shannon
and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth is "very gay."
They hang strings of pride flags and sell rainbow stickers to help pay for gender-affirming care, like hormone replacement therapy, for Eve.
Sometimes, when parents and their teenagers pass the booth, the adults glance, then speed ahead. The kids pause for a second look. Shannon, 34, hopes it means something for them to see LGBTQ professionals out and succeeding.
People often share stories. The middle-aged woman who confided that her daughter is transgender. The teen who stood in the middle of the Mingalones' booth and said, "This makes me feel safe."
"That means everything to me," Shannon said. Now in their second season, she and Eve, 35, grow more than 45 varieties of vegetables at their business, Ramshackle Farm, in Harvard, Illinois. Lettuces and Asian greens emerge on stacks of hydroponic troughs and spinach in a warm hoop house. Outside, Shannon and Eve tend to arugula, broccoli, peas and radishes using intensive planting and heavy rotation techniques - never pesticides or synthetic fertilizer.
Their operation is an exception to the sprawling corn and bean fields that dominate the landscape. Shannon and Eve work to feed people, not livestock or cars.
Shannon wears her politics on her coveralls. Her favorite jean jacket includes patches that declare "End monoculture" and "Save the earth. Bankrupt a corporation."
The Mingalones are among a multitude of LGBTQ farmers who draw connections between their identities and agriculture, including their adoption of sustainable practices.
"We're not just raising food," Shannon said. "We are creating safe spaces for people."
Like many, they used to have a specific image of a "typical farmer:" white, male, heterosexual, Christian and conservative. Excluded from that vision - or perhaps myth - is a space for them. So they are creating one.
The presence of LGBTQ people in agriculture challenges stereotypes of who can, or should be, interested in farming. But the community is not a monolith, interviews with 16 Midwestern LGBTQ producers indicate. Some use restorative techniques in hopes of reducing environmental destruction and social inequity. Others run conventional operations, which industry representatives and policymakers say are key to feeding the world's growing population.
Nonetheless, as LGBTQ farmers navigate common hurdles, ranging from land inaccessibility to federal lending restrictions to social isolation, they rely on creativity and resilience to survive, much like they do in other arenas of their lives.
USDA doesn't count LGBTQ farmers
No definitive figures measure how many LGBTQ people farm in America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture asks respondents to identify their sex in its five-year censuses, not their sexual orientation or gender identity.
But the department is considering adding those questions to the 2027 Census of Agriculture. It conducted a pilot study in late 2021 to gauge whether their inclusion would affect response rates.
Responses decreased significantly when the questions were inserted, despite the survey's confidentiality. The study lacked possible expla-
nations for the findings.
But when word of the survey reached U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., he accused the USDA and President Joe Biden of advancing a "woke agenda." Hawley claimed in a tweet that a farmer sent him a copy of the document. The lawmaker questioned, facetiously, the relevance of "such important" questions to the farming profession.
The National Young Farmers Coalition likewise encountered pushback from outside of the LGBTQ community to a survey that included similar demographic questions.
But a failure to acquire demographic information about LGBTQ people prevents improvements to services, said Katie Dentzman, a rural sociology and public policy assistant professor at Iowa State University.
"If you're completely unaware that these people are out there, then their issues are completely being ignored," she said. "In a way, that is perpetuating violence in a system."
Dentzman jimmied a statistical workaround using the USDA's 2017 census, finding that 8,302 farms were overseen by men married to men and 3,550 by women married to women. That was about 1.2% of all dually run farms nationwide.
Dentzman found that many same-sex couples farmed conventionally. But same-sex married men were more likely to have organic land and grow products intended for human consumption than farms run by men married to women. Likewise, women married to women more often engaged in alternative farming practices like intensive grazing and the production of value-added products.
Might LGBTQ people's unique vantage draw them to sustainable farming?
It's possible, Dentzman said, but as other sociologists have proposed, the economic and social disadvantages queer people face also might funnel them into alternative agriculture. That is, they lack the expansive resources and capital necessary to farm conventionally.
Statistically, LGBTQ people experience higher rates of poverty and food insecurity compared to non-LGBTQ people. They also earn less dollar-for-dollar and disproportionately experience homelessness.
Then add the upfront costs of farming.
Land access remains a top obstacle to entering agriculture, and attempting to do so without the backing of family can be a Herculean task.
Fifty-nine percent of respondents to the 2022 National Young Farmer Survey said finding affordable farmland to purchase is very or extremely challenging, while 45% said the same of finding any farmland at all.
Meanwhile, the cost of cropland is rising nationwide.
Corbin Scholz, 27, operates Rainbow Roots, an organic farm "rooted in queerness" on 6 acres of rented land north of Iowa City, Iowa. She does not come from a farm family and works two other jobs to support herself.
Scholz's lease expires after the 2024 growing season and she doesn't know whether she will be able to renew.
"I'm not sure I'll be able to ever afford a farm," Scholz said, "and moving everything I've built to another one-to-five-year lease really limits my growth opportunity."
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Bennet Goldstein wrote this article for Wisconsin Watch. Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Wisconsin News Connection reporting for the Wisconsin Watch-Public News Service Collaboration
Shannon Mingalone, left, and Eve Mingalone are seen in their hoop house at their business Ramshackle Farm in Harvard, Illinois, on Oct. 19, 2022. Photo Credit: Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch
