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THE UNVACCINATED PANDEMIC

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campaign, there is a dramatic increase in cases of more than 170% and those of greater severity correspond specifically to people who have made a deliberate decision not to get vaccinated.

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l porcentaje es espeluznante. En coincidencia con la proliferación generalizada de la variante Delta del coronavirus, más del 99.5% de las muertes recientes por COVID y más del 97% de las hospitalizaciones corresponden a personas no vacunadas, de acuerdo con las cifras del Cirujano General de los Estados Unidos.

Las trágicas estadísticas confirman lo que parece ser una realidad inevitable: después de una caída en el número significativo de casos de COVID-19 gracias a la campaña nacional de vacunación, se registra un incremento dramático de casos de más del 170% y aquellos de mayor severidad corresponden específicamente a las personas que han tomado la decisión deliberada de no vacunarse.

“Es hora de empezar a culpar a las personas no vacunadas”, reaccionó la gobernadora republicana de Alabama Kay Ivey, uno de los estados con las tasas más bajas de vacunación contra el COVID de los Estados Unidos y que ha registrado un incremento de 70% en el número diario de casos de infecciones de coronavirus en la última semana.

Su colega republicano de Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, otro de los estados con un bajo nivel de vacunación, deploró que la vacunación contra el COVID se haya convertido en un asunto político. “Es un estado conservador. Algunas veces los conservadores dudan del gobierno.

Necesitamos contraatacar dándoles mejor información, construyendo su confianza”.

"It's time to start blaming the unvaccinated people," reacted Republican Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama, one of the states with the lowest rates of vaccination against COVID in the United States and which has registered an increase of 70% in the daily number of cases of coronavirus infections in the last week.

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tra COVID o deberán hacerse pruebas semanales. Otro paso: que todos los centros de salud requieran a sus trabajadores a vacunarse contra COVID. Las empresas pueden hacer lo mismo con toda su fuerza laboral.

Y las autoridades de todos los niveles, de todos los signos políticos, los medios informativos y cada uno de nosotros en nuestro círculo de seres queridos, no debemos claudicar en nuestra responsabilidad de combatir con los datos duros de ciencia y la verdad, la desinformación y politización de un asunto existencial de salud pública.

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he percentage is frightening.

Coinciding with the widespread proliferation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, more than 99.5% of recent deaths from COVID and more than 97% of hospitalizations correspond to unvaccinated people, according to figures from the United States Surgeon General.

The tragic statistics confirm what seems to be an inevitable reality: after a significant drop in the number of COVID-19 cases thanks to the national vaccination

Is it possible to do more before a potential national mandatory mandate applies?

Todo lo cual lleva una pregunta inevitable, en momentos que el país se prepara para el regreso a clases presenciales en otoño. ¿Debe haber un mandato federal para vacunarse?

El alcalde de Nueva York Bill de Blasio dio un ejemplo claro: Los más de 300,000 trabajadores de la ciudad tendrán el requisito de vacunarse con-

It is not clear if the messages of these Republican politicians will make a difference, but the majority of Americans determined not to get vaccinated identify with the Republican party (23%) and only 2% as Democrats.

“I believe that as long as vaccines do not have a final authorization from the FDA, there is not going to be a mandate. As long as they have an emergency authorization, there will be no mandate. I believe that once the FDA has given an authorization there will be a mandate. To start school in August there will be no mandate. For next year, I think there will be a mandate,”Dr. Carlos Del Rio, from Emory University, told me.

No está claro si los mensajes de estos políticos republicanos harán la diferencia, pero la mayor parte de los estadounidenses decididos a no vacunarse se identifican con el partido republicano (un 23%) y sólo un 2% como demócratas.

¿Es posible hacer más antes de qué se aplique un eventual mandato obligatorio nacional?

Ron De Santis, the Republican governor of Florida, a state that accounts for 1 in 4 of the new cases, had a similar message: "vaccines are saving lives."

All of which begs an unavoidable question as the country prepares for the return to face-to-face classes in the fall.

Should there be a federal mandate to get vaccinated?

Ron De Santis, el gobernador republicano de Florida, un estado que concentra 1 de cada 4 de los nuevos casos, tuvo un mensaje similar: “las vacunas están salvando vidas””.

“Yo creo que mientras las vacunas no tengan una autorización final de la FDA no va a haber un mandato. Mientras tengan una autorización de urgencia no va a haber un mandato. Yo creo que una vez que la FDA haya dado una autorización si va a haber mandato. Para empezar la escuela en agosto no va a ver mandato.

Para el año que entra yo creo que sí va a haber mandato”, me dijo el Dr. Carlos Del Rio, de la Universidad de Emory.

His Republican colleague from Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, another low-vaccination state, deplored that COVID vaccination has become a political issue. “It is a conservative state. Conservatives sometimes doubt the government. We need to fight back by giving them better information, building their confidence.”

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a clear example: The city's more than 300,000 workers will either be required to get vaccinated against COVID or they will need to be tested weekly. Another step: that all health centers require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID. Businesses can do the same for their entire workforce.

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And to the authorities of all levels, of all political sides, the media, and each one of us in our circle of loved ones, we must not waver in our responsibility to fight with the hard data of science and the truth, misinformation and politicization of an existential public health issue.

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Estamos fortaleciendo las comunidades en el Área de la Bahía Bank of America está ayudando a atender la necesidad de más viviendas a precio razonable en comunidades en todo el país. A través de Community Development Banking, estamos ampliando nuestro compromiso para ayudar a crear más comunidades donde las personas puedan sentirse en casa.

En 2020, destinamos $5,870 millones para viviendas a precio razonable y financiamiento para el desarrollo económico. Esto dio como resultado más de 13,000 unidades de vivienda para personas y familias necesitadas, muchas de las cuales fueron construidas por desarrolladores minoritarios. Esto incluye más de $59 millones para construir cerca de 50 unidades de vivienda aquí en el Área de la Bahía.

Adicionalmente, estamos invirtiendo $60 millones en capital junto a Enterprise Community Partners para apoyar a los desarrolladores minoritarios y su trabajo para construir comunidades inclusivas.

Mis compañeros y yo mantenemos nuestro compromiso de ayudar a más personas a encontrar una casa a precio razonable que puedan llamar hogar. ¿Qué quiere lograr?™

Trabajamos juntos Además, estamos colaborando con organizaciones que están apoyando opciones de vivienda a precio razonable aquí en el Área de la Bahía. Estas incluyen: Housing Trust Silicon Valley SV@Home HIP Housing

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APRENDER A RELAJARSE ES UNA GRAN IDEA

LEARNING TO RELAX IS A GREAT IDEA

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ou may not think of relaxing as a skill that needs to be learned. Doesn't relaxing just happen without our really thinking about it?

Unfortunately, thanks to the current health crisis, relaxing has become more difficult to accomplish for many. While there have always been things that made us stressed or anxious, today's problems really are more serious and deep reaching.

The terrible impact of COVID-19 has affected the way each of us feels, even if we haven't been ill ourselves or know anyone who has been. It's a 24-hour a day problem that has changed the way we live and provides constant uncertainty.

When something causes such on-going and long-lasting stress and anxiety, it can have a very real, negative impact on our health and mental well-being.

So, that makes this an excellent time to take steps to reduce that stress and anxiety, in other words, to learn to relax. One key is learning how to distract your poor over-worked brain. With continual news reports of the pandemic, and with medical experts still far from definitive answers, stress levels stay high because you're facing something which is invisible and over which you have virtually no control.

As a first step to relaxing more, limit your exposure to the news contributing to your worry and anxiousness. Turn off those constant TV reports and stop reading the bad news stories in the newspaper. Focus your attention on other, more positive things. Music, reading a good book, or turning to an enjoyable hobby are all ways to engage your mind without adding to your stress levels. Yes, jigsaw puzzles and bread baking actually do help.

Next, being in good shape physically can also help you better handle the pressures you may be facing. Staying physically active simply makes you feel better. Getting outdoors for a pleasant walk or jog makes it harder to stay worried about today's bad news. And if you find that negative thoughts start creeping back in, stop and spend a minute taking some deep breaths and focusing on pleasant things around you rather than what you can't control.

Eat healthy, get plenty of sleep, and find more things to do in your life that you find enjoyable.

None of this will make all the anxiety and stress disappear, but it will provide some relaxation in your life to help you achieve more balance and less distress.

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s posible que no piense en la relajación como una habilidad que deba aprenderse. ¿No es cierto que la relajación ocurre sin que realmente lo pensemos?

Desafortunadamente, gracias a la actual crisis de salud, la relajación se ha vuelto más difícil de lograr para muchos. Si bien siempre ha habido cosas que nos estresaron o angustiaron, los problemas de hoy son realmente más serios y de mayor alcance.

El terrible impacto del COVID-19 ha afectado la forma en que cada uno de nosotros se siente, incluso si no hemos estado enfermos ni conocemos a nadie que lo haya estado. Es un problema de 24 horas al día que ha cambiado la forma en que vivimos y genera una incertidumbre constante. Cuando algo causa un estrés y ansiedad tan continuos y duraderos, puede tener un impacto negativo muy real en nuestra salud y bienestar mental.

Por lo tanto, este es un momento excelente para tomar medidas para reducir el estrés y la ansiedad, en otras palabras, para aprender a relajarse.

Una clave es aprender a distraer a su pobre cerebro sobrecargado. Con los continuos informes de noticias sobre la pandemia, y con los expertos médicos aún lejos de las respuestas definitivas, los niveles de estrés se mantienen altos porque te enfrentas a algo que es invisible y sobre lo que prácticamente no tienes control.

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Como primer paso para relajarse más, limite su exposición a las noticias que contribuyen a su preocupación y ansiedad. Apague esos reportajes de televisión constantes y deje de leer las malas noticias en el periódico. Centra tu atención en otras cosas más positivas. La música, leer un buen libro o dedicarse a un pasatiempo agradable son todas formas de involucrar su mente sin aumentar sus niveles de estrés. Sí, los rompecabezas y el horneado de pan realmente ayudan.

A continuación, estar en buena forma física también puede ayudarlo a manejar mejor las presiones que pueda enfrentar. Mantenerse físicamente activo simplemente lo hace sentir mejor. Salir al aire libre para dar un agradable paseo o trotar hace que sea más difícil preocuparse por las malas noticias de hoy. Y si descubre que los pensamientos negativos comienzan a volver a aparecer, deténgase y dedique un minuto a respirar profundamente y a concentrarse en las cosas agradables que le rodean en lugar de en las que no puede controlar.

Come sano, duerme lo suficiente y encuentra más cosas que hacer en tu vida que te gusten. Nada de esto hará desaparecer toda la ansiedad y el estrés, pero proporcionará algo de relajación en su vida para ayudarlo a lograr más equilibrio y menos angustia.

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COVID-19 VACCINE CONCERNS: 6 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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PREOCUPACIONES SOBRE LA VACUNA CONTRA EL COVID-19: 6 COSAS QUE NECESITA SABER

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cientos de miles de participantes, cumpliendo con los rigurosos estándares científicos de la FDA sobre seguridad, eficacia y calidad de fabricación necesarios para respaldar la autorización de uso de emergencia.

OVID-19 vaccines are authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for widespread use for those who are eligible.

But while vaccines are now more accessible, vaccination rates are slowing across the country.

Además, el despliegue seguro y rápido de las vacunas contra el COVID-19 está respaldado por décadas de estudios de una variedad de prestigiosas instituciones médicas y de investigación en este tipo de vacunas.

Millones de personas en los EE. UU. han recibido vacunas contra el COVID-19 y estas vacunas se han sometido al control de seguridad más intensivo en la historia de los EE. UU. Los expertos revisan y monitorean regularmente los eventos adversos para evaluar si existe un verdadero problema de seguridad.

The seven-day average of first doses administered continues to decline, with virtually no change in the number of Americans who say they will get vaccinated "only if required" or will "definitely not" get vaccinated. Further, nearly half of adults say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance is confusing and hard to follow.

The reasons for vaccine hesitancy are nuanced and complex, with everyone having their own personal reasons for why they remain unsure about the vaccine. The leading causes of vaccine hesitancy can be attributed to mistrust in scientific institutions and the government and worry about the vaccine's safety and potential side effects. On top of that, some people are concerned about the accelerated vaccine development process, mRNA technology and uncertainty around long-term side effects for COVID-19 vaccines.

Those still uncertain about whether the COVID-19 vaccine is right for them can look to trusted health experts within their communities like pharmacists to address key questions or concerns about getting the vaccine, the vaccination process, and common or expected side effects. Dr. Kevin Ban, Walgreens chief medical officer, addresses six common questions about getting the vaccine.

1. What are the benefits of getting a COVID-19 vaccine?

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine has many benefits, including reducing the chances of severe illness if you do get sick with COVID-19 and allowing you to get back to pre-pandemic activities, like gathering indoors without a mask. Additionally, getting the vaccine can help prevent you from getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19 to those around you.

COVID-19 can have serious, life-threatening complications that may lead to hospitalization, intensive care or even death. There is no way to know how contracting COVID-19 might affect you, or anyone else, so it's important to get the vaccine to protect yourself and those around you. With COVID-19 vaccine rollout, infections have declined significantly, but more people need to get vaccinated in order to continue to reduce community spread and protect from variants that have proven to be more transmissible. In short, the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks associated with getting COVID-19.

Las vacunas han desempeñado un papel vital en la protección de la salud y la seguridad de las comunidades a lo largo de la historia. He estudiado a fondo las vacunas y las recomiendo a cualquier persona que sea elegible. Yo estoy vacunado, al igual que mi esposa y mis hijos. Si es elegible, le recomiendo lo mismo.

protection against COVID-19 and should go away in just a few days. You can talk to your doctor or pharmacist about taking over-the-counter medicine like ibuprofen to relieve any arm soreness or aches you may feel after getting vaccinated.

Serious side effects are extremely rare following any vaccination, including the COVID-19 vaccination.

The FDA required each of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines to be studied for at least two months (eight weeks) after the final dose even though anticipated effects occurred weeks before that. Hundreds of millions of people have received COVID-19 vaccines, and no long-term side effects have been detected. Pharmacists are thoroughly trained to respond and manage any instances of allergic reactions in the rare case they occur, as well as report to the CDC. 4. Do I really need more than one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines?

If you receive a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, it's vital that you receive both doses to get the maximum protection they provide. Although the first dose provides some level of protection, the exact length of time you are protected is unknown. Getting the second dose sends a powerful response to your immune system to boost your antibodies, making them more effective against COVID-19.

If you've waited longer than the recommended time between doses, it's better to get the second dose late than not at all. Get the second shot as soon as possible if you missed the recommended window.

2. COVID-19 vaccines were developed quickly, how do I know they're safe?

5. If I'm young and healthy, why do I need a vaccine?

Vaccines were evaluated in clinical trials with tens of thousands of participants, meeting the FDA's rigorous scientific standards for safety, efficacy and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency use authorization.

Although COVID-19 symptoms can vary from person to person, people can get very sick and have complications, long-lasting symptoms or die from contracting the virus. COVID-19 can also be transmitted to others if you're infected, even if you don't have any symptoms. Further, the Delta variant, recently deemed by the CDC a "variant of concern" for being more transmissible, continues to spread, accounting for more than 10 percent of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

In addition, the safe and speedy roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines is backed up by decades of research from a variety of prestigious medical and research institutions on this type of vaccine. Millions of people in the U.S. have received COVID-19 vaccines and these vaccines have undergone the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history. Experts are regularly reviewing and monitoring adverse events to assess whether there is a true safety concern.

Vaccines have played a vital role in protecting the health and safety of communities throughout history. I've done my homework and recommend the vaccine to anyone who is eligible. I've gotten vaccinated, as well as my wife and children. If you're eligible, I recommend the same for you.

3. Are there any long-term side effects caused by the vaccine?

Some people will experience no side effects at all, while others may experience common short-term symptoms, like pain at the injection site or tiredness.

These are normal signs that your body is building

3. ¿Existe algún efecto secundario a largo plazo causado por la vacuna?

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Until more people are vaccinated against COVID-19, the virus will continue to mutate, and there is no knowing how much the currently authorized vaccine will be able to protect you. The vaccine is meant to protect not only you, but also those around you, like family members and friends who may have weakened immune systems.

6. Where do I go to get a vaccine?

You can conveniently and safely get the COVID-19 vaccine at numerous locations including your primary care provider, off-site vaccination clinics or at your local pharmacy. Not only do they have pharmacists to help answer any questions you may have, but they are now offering same day and walk-in appointments. For more information, visit Walgreens. com/ScheduleVaccine or call 1-800-WALGREENS.

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as vacunas contra el COVID-19 están autorizadas por la Food and Drug Administration (Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos, o FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) de EE. UU. para uso general en personas elegibles. Sin embargo, aunque ahora hay un mayor acceso a las vacunas, las tasas de vacunación están disminuyendo en todo el país.

El promedio de siete días de administración de la primera dosis continúa disminuyendo, prácticamente sin ningún cambio en la cantidad de estadounidenses que dicen que se vacunarán "solo si es necesario" o que "definitivamente no" se vacunarán. Además, casi la mitad de los adultos dicen que la guía de los Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, o CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) es confusa y difícil de seguir.

Las razones de la indecisión para vacunarse son dispares y complejas, y cada uno tiene sus propias razones para no estar seguro sobre la vacuna. Las principales causas de indecisión para vacunarse se pueden atribuir a la desconfianza en las instituciones científicas y el gobierno, y a la preocupación por la seguridad y los posibles efectos secundarios de la vacuna. Además de eso, algunas personas están preocupadas por el proceso acelerado de desarrollo de vacunas, la tecnología de ARNm y la incertidumbre sobre los efectos secundarios a largo plazo de las vacunas contra el COVID-19.

Los que aún no están seguros de si la vacuna contra el COVID-19 es adecuada para ellos pueden ir a ver a expertos de la salud confiables en sus comunidades, como por ejemplo, farmacéuticos, para abordar sus preguntas o preocupaciones claves sobre la vacuna, el proceso de vacunación y los efectos secundarios comunes o esperados. Nivia Santiago, vicepresidenta regional de Walgreens del sur de Florida y Puerto Rico, aborda seis preguntas comunes sobre la administración de la vacuna.

1. ¿Cuáles son los beneficios de recibir la vacuna contra el COVID-19?

Recibir la vacuna contra el COVID-19 tiene muchos beneficios, incluida la reducción de las probabilidades de una enfermedad grave si se enferma con COVID-19 y permitirle volver a las actividades que usted realizaba antes de la pandemia, como reunirse en lugares cerrados sin usar mascarilla. Además, recibir la vacuna puede ayudar a prevenir que usted contraiga y propague el virus que causa la COVID-19 a quienes le rodean.

La COVID-19 puede tener complicaciones graves y potencialmente mortales que pueden llevar a hospitalización, cuidados intensivos o incluso la muerte. No hay manera de saber cómo un contagio de COVID-19 podría afectarlo a usted o a cualquier otra persona, por lo que es importante recibir la vacuna para protegerse usted mismo y proteger a los que le rodean. Con el lanzamiento de la vacuna contra el COVID-19, las infecciones han disminuido significativamente, pero más personas necesitan vacunarse para seguir reduciendo la propagación comunitaria y protegerse de las variantes que han demostrado ser más transmisibles. En resumen, los beneficios de la vacuna superan con creces los riesgos asociados a un contagio de COVID-19.

2. Las vacunas contra el COVID-19 se desarrollaron rápidamente, ¿cómo sé que son seguras?

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Algunas personas no experimentarán efectos secundarios en absoluto, mientras que otras pueden experimentar síntomas comunes a corto plazo, como dolor en el lugar de la inyección o cansancio. Estos son signos normales de que su cuerpo está formando su protección contra el COVID-19 y deberían desaparecer en solo unos días. Puede hablar con su médico o farmacéutico acerca de tomar medicamentos de venta libre como el ibuprofeno para aliviar cualquier dolor en el brazo o dolores que pueda sentir después de vacunarse.

Los efectos secundarios graves son extremadamente raros después de cualquier vacunación, incluida la vacuna contra el COVID-19. La FDA requirió que cada una de las vacunas autorizadas contra el COVID-19 se estudiara por lo menos durante dos meses (ocho semanas) después de la dosis final, aunque los efectos anticipados ocurrieron semanas antes de eso. Cientos de millones de personas han recibido vacunas contra el COVID-19 y no se han detectado efectos secundarios a largo plazo. Los farmacéuticos están completamente capacitados para responder y manejar cualquier caso de reacciones alérgicas en el raro caso de que ocurran, al igual que informar a los CDC. 4. ¿Realmente necesito más de una dosis de las vacunas Pfizer o Moderna contra el COVID-19?

Si recibe una vacuna Pfizer o Moderna, es vital que reciba ambas dosis para obtener la máxima protección que proporcionan. Aunque la primera dosis proporciona algún nivel de protección, se desconoce la duración exacta de la protección. Recibir la segunda dosis envía una respuesta poderosa a su sistema inmunológico para aumentar sus anticuerpos, haciéndolos más eficaces contra el COVID-19.

Si usted ha esperado más tiempo del recomendado entre dosis, es mejor recibir la segunda dosis tarde que no recibirla en absoluto. Póngase la segunda dosis de la vacuna lo antes posible si no lo hizo en el plazo recomendado.

5. Si soy joven y saludable, ¿por qué necesito la vacuna?

Aunque los síntomas de COVID-19 pueden variar de persona a persona, las personas pueden enfermarse gravemente y tener complicaciones, síntomas duraderos o morir por contraer el virus. El COVID-19 también se puede transmitir a otras personas si usted está infectado, incluso si no tiene ningún síntoma. Además, la variante Delta, recientemente considerada por los CDC como una "variante de preocupación" por ser más transmisible, continúa propagándose, representando más del 10% de los casos de COVID-19 en los EE. UU. Hasta que más personas se vacunen contra el COVID-19, el virus continuará mutando y no se sabe cuánto tiempo más podrá protegerlo la vacuna actualmente autorizada. El propósito de la vacuna es proteger no solo a usted, sino también a los que le rodean, como familiares y amigos que pueden tener un sistema inmunológico debilitado.

6. ¿A dónde voy para vacunarme?

Usted puede obtener la vacuna contra el COVID-19 de manera conveniente y segura en varios lugares, incluido su proveedor de atención primaria, clínicas de vacunación fuera del sitio o en su farmacia local. No solo tienen farmacéuticos para ayudar a responder cualquier pregunta que pueda tener, además ahora ofrecen citas para el mismo día o incluso sin cita previa.

Para obtener más información, visite Walgreens.com/ ScheduleVaccine o llame al 1-800-WALGREENS.

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Agosto será un mes lleno de altibajos a tu alrededor, no se presagian situaciones que te afecten directamente, pero si afectarán a seres queridos y amigos.

Muestra solidaridad a aquellos que atraviesen por trances y dificultades.

Para la suerte, ofrenda unas velas al Arcángel San Gabriel.

El planeta Marte visita tu signo y se mantendrá así por alrededor de 45 días. Momento idóneo para ponerte en forma, dejar hábitos dañinos y para poner tu salud en óptimas condiciones.

Pesares del ayer dejarán de perturbarte y así lograrás vivir con serenidad.

Números de la suerte: 9-16-21-33-4445 TAURO Espera sorpresas agradables y buenas noticias. Haz del cuidado de tu salud una de tus prioridades principales. La situación laboral y económica presentó algunos retrasos desde hace meses, la actual posición de los planetas augura un cambio positivo para tu economía.

Números de la suerte: 1-7-17-26-30-50 GÉMINIS Si ya tomaste una decisión definitiva no dudes y haz lo que tu mente y tu corazón te indiquen. En ocasiones existen relaciones inconvenientes que deben llegar a su epílogo. Te preocupará la salud de un familiar, los astros predicen que tu ser querido sanará totalmente.

Números de la suerte: 14-32-45-4649-70 CÁNCER Es probable que hayas enfrentado altibajos de salud de salud durante los dos meses anteriores, la buena noticia es que los astros te son favorables para que logres recuperarte totalmente. Recibirás noticias que alegrarán tu vida intensamente. Practica el don de la caridad.

Números de la suerte: 20-53-54-5665-66 LEO ¡Feliz cumpleaños! El Sol se encuentra navegando en tu sector más intenso, estás tomando decisiones que cambiarán para bien el rumbo de tu destino, es hora de hacer nuevas amistades y circular en un ambiente que te sea más propicio. No te fíes de todo aquel que te sonríe.

Números de la suerte: 2-18-23-27-2864

Números de la suerte: 11-21-22-32-3340 LIBRA

Éste es un mes en el que te liberarás de angustias y pesares. Una mala energía se alejará de tu vida para siempre.

Conserva un buen estado de salud, economiza lo más puedas y sé cauteloso. Agosto será un mes tranquilo pero septiembre y octubre traerán muchos desafíos.

nuestra personalidad que debemos mejorar, es aconsejable que observes tus comentarios y tu manera de actuar, pues hay errores que debes enmendar. Tienes mucho a tu favor pero procura que tu ego no sea mayor que tu corazón.

Números de la suerte: 7-19-27-29-31-33

Números de la suerte: 4-18-43-46-5354

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Siempre existen áreas y facetas en

Libérate de viejos pesares y desencantos, el planeta Júpiter tu regente, te brindará nuevos caminos y nuevas ilusiones por las cuales luchar y sentirte dichoso. Tendrás que resolver asuntos referentes a trámites y documentos.

Podrás resolverlo todo de la mejor manera.

Números de la suerte: 8-11-19-34-3962 CAPRICORNIO Los cambios planetarios auguran buena suerte para tu bolsillo. Resolverás problemas y dificultades con relativa facilidad. No permitas que un error del pasado o un remordimiento te haga sentir infeliz. Persona, olvida y sigue el camino ascendente que está preparado para ti.

Números de la suerte: 25-29-32-3842-50 ACUARIO Júpiter ha hecho su entrada triunfal en tu signo, el día 28 de julio y permanecerá allí durante un año entero. Es presagio de cambios, mudanzas y episodios sorprendentes. La buena suerte y las oportunidades se harán presentes en tu camino. Momento de cosecha.

Números de la suerte: 11-19-24-44-6669 PISCIS Los caminos de la vida suelen ser insospechados, durante esta época de verano te ocurrirán sucesos que no imaginas, habrá situaciones que te sorprenderán. Tu vida se volverá más intensa y aventurera. Gozarás de novedades que te harán sentir alegre y dichoso.

Números de la suerte: 5-10-23-34-4567

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GRANTS HELP MEDICAL SCHOOLS ATTRACT STUDENTS OF COLOR

DONACIONES AYUDAN A ESCUELAS DE MEDICINA A ATRAER ESTUDIANTES DE COLOR

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IVERSIDE, Calif. - Grandes donaciones están ayudando a las escuelas de medicina en el sur de California a aumentar la diversidad.

Aunque los latinos son el 39 por ciento de la población del estado, representan solo el seis por ciento de los médicos y el ocho por ciento de los graduados de las escuelas de medicina.

IVERSIDE, Calif. -- Large grants are helping medical schools in Southern California improve diversity, because although Latinos are 39% of the state's population, they make up only 6% of physicians and 8% of medical-school graduates.

Jeff Kim, program director for the California Wellness Foundation, said his group recently gave $450,000 to support the University of California Riverside School of Medicine's efforts to enroll and graduate students from communities of color that are historically underrepresented.

"At the current rate of how we recruit and graduate medical students, it would take us five centuries to have enough Latino doctors to match the Latino share of the population," Kim reported.

The foundation also gave almost twice that amount to the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, to attract more students and retire some of their medical debt. Both schools are currently expanding their programs. Affirmative action in higher education is illegal in California, so schools recruit heavily in high schools and community colleges in low-income communities.

Kim explained doctors who come from the community, speak its languages and understand its culture are able to offer better care.

"Because of historically problematic interactions with health care, certain communities are going to be less trusting," Kim pointed out. "But if they see people from their own community, I think that drives up quality of care and access to care."

According to the California Health Care Foundation, the state faces a shortage of physicians overall, a problem that is particularly acute in the Inland Empire and San Joaquin Valley.

Support for this reporting was provided by Lumina Foundation.

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Crystal Witherspoon and Alma Esparza Castaneda are among the 49% of med students at the University of California Riverside who self-identify as an underrepresented minority.

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DTSC AVISO PÚBLICO

Julio 2021

Departamento de Control de Sustancias Tóxicas, Nuestra misión es proteger a la gente, las comunidades y el medio ambiente de California de los productos químicos nocivos, limpiando los sitios contaminados, haciendo cumplir las leyes sobre residuos peligrosos y obligando a desarrollar productos más seguros.

Aprobación de la enmienda final del Plan de Acciones de Remediación para Midway Village – Bayshore Park El Departamento de Control de Sustancias Tóxicas de California (DTSC) ha aprobado la enmienda final al Plan de Acciones de Remediación (RAP) relativa al gas del suelo en el proyecto de reurbanización de Midway Village y Bayshore Park (Sitio) ubicado en 45 y 47 Midway Drive en Daly City, CA 94014.

El Departamento de Vivienda del Condado de San Mateo y MidPen Housing planean reconfigurar el complejo y sustituir las 150 unidades existentes por 555 unidades nuevas, en cinco fases de desarrollo.

Se construirá una nueva guardería y se reubicará el parque en una zona colindante con la calle Schwerin.

La modificación final del RAP incluye protecciones adicionales para los futuros residentes al exigir un sistema de mitigación de vapores, bajo los nuevos edificios, que protegería el aire interior de los compuestos orgánicos volátiles (COV) encontrados en el vapor del suelo (espacios entre las partículas del suelo). Durante la construcción, se excavarían aproximadamente 2.315 metros cúbicos (194 cargas de camión) de suelo contaminado con compuestos químicos asociados a los residuos de la planta de gas manufacturado, incluidos los hidrocarburos aromáticos policíclicos (HAP), y se transportarían a una instalación autorizada para su eliminación. El DTSC también aprobó una variante del convenio de uso del suelo que permitirá la aplicación de la solución aprobada y la construcción de la nueva urbanización.

Está previsto que la primera fase de las obras comience en el verano de 2021. Habrá cinco fases de trabajo, cada fase durará unos dos años.

Ley de Calidad Ambiental de California (CEQA): Tal y como exige la CEQA, Daly City elaboró una Evaluación Medioambiental de Comunidades Sustentables (SCEA) relativa al proyecto propuesto que evaluaba y resumía sus posibles efectos medioambientales y recomendaba medidas de mitigación a fin de minimizar dichos posibles impactos ambientales. El DTSC revisó el SCEA y está de acuerdo con los resultados. El DTSC ha emitido una notificación de constataciones y una declaración de resolución en la enmienda final del RAP. ¿Dónde puedo obtener más información? Puede ver los documentos en el centro comunitario de Midway Village, situado en el 26 Cypress Lane, Daly City, CA 94014 (llame al [650] 489-8533 para obtener más información) o en línea en www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public (escriba el código de sitio 41650007 y seleccione en el menú desplegable).

Información de contacto del DTSC: Kim Walsh, director de unidad/gerente del proyecto, (916) 2518321 o Kimberly.Walsh@dtsc.ca.gov; Asha Setty, especialista en participación pública, (510) 540-3910, llamada gratuita al: (866) 495-5651, o Asha.Setty@dtsc.ca.gov; Para solicitudes de información por parte de los medios de la prensa, póngase en contacto con: Russ Edmondson, Oficial de Información Pública, (916) 323-3372 o Russ.Edmondson@dtsc.ca.gov

El director del programa de la Fundación California Wellness, Jeff Kim, dice que su grupo dono recientemente $450 mil para apoyar los esfuerzos de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de California en Riverside de inscribir y graduar a estudiantes de comunidades de color que históricamente están subrepresentados.

"Al ritmo actual de como reclutamos y graduamos a los estudiantes de medicina, nos llevaría cinco siglos tener suficientes médicos latinos para igualar la proporción de latinos en la población", expreso Kim. La fundación también dono casi el doble de esa cantidad a la Universidad Charles R. Drew de Medicina y Ciencias, para atraer a más estudiantes y reducir parte de su deuda médica.

Actualmente, ambas escuelas están ampliando sus programas. La acción afirmativa en la educación superior es ilegal en California, por lo que las universidades reclutan mucho en las escuelas secundarias y los colegios comunitarios en comunidades de bajos ingresos.

Kim dice que los médicos que provienen de la comunidad hablan sus idiomas y comprenden su cultura, por lo que pueden ofrecer una mejor atención.

"Debido a interacciones históricamente problemáticas con la atención médica, ciertas comunidades serán menos confiadas. Pero si ven a personas de su propia comunidad, creo que eso mejoría la calidad y el acceso a la atención", también añadió el director.

Según la Fundación California Health Care, el estado enfrenta una escasez de médicos en general, un problema que es particularmente agudo en las comunidades de Inland Empire y San Joaquin Valley.

El apoyo para este reportaje fue aportado por la Fundación Lumina.

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¿ES LA FALTA DE VIVIENDA EL PUNTO DÉBIL DE NEWSOM DURANTE EL PROCESO DE DESTITUCIÓN? LOS REPUBLICANOS PIENSAN QUE SÍ

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l proceso de destitución de Gavin Newsom puede haber cobrado impulso como un referéndum sobre el manejo del gobernador de la pandemia de coronavirus, pero ahora la falta de vivienda también está ocupando un lugar importante.

El empresario John Cox, quizás mejor conocido como el tipo del oso, ha estado cargando una bola de basura de dos metros y medio por todo California para simbolizar “la basura que dejan atrás” las personas sin hogar y la respuesta del estado a ellas.

Kevin Faulconer, ex alcalde de San Diego, nombró a las personas sin hogar como el tema número uno de su campaña y publicó varios anuncios que mostraban a personas acampando en automóviles y tiendas de campaña en la “California de Newsom“.

La famosa Caitlyn Jenner, mejor conocida por el programa de TV “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, dijo en una entrevista con Sean Hannity de Fox News que el propietario de un avión privado vecino se había mudado a Arizona porque ya no podía soportar ver a personas sin hogar.

Mientras proponen varias soluciones, los tres republicanos están de acuerdo: la falta de vivienda está empeorando en California, y ellos creen pueden hacerlo mejor que el hombre al que quieren reemplazar como gobernador.

Newsom hizo de la reducción de la falta de vivienda una parte clave de su campaña para gobernador de 2018, pero la población desamparada solo ha aumentado desde entonces, un 24% más que en 2018 a unas 161.000 personas en 2020. Eso fue antes de que la pandemia de coronavirus trastornara la economía. (Un conteo programado de personas sin hogar para enero de 2021 se pospuso debido a COVID-19).

El aumento es especialmente desalentador después de que el estado ha gastado $13 mil millones en personas sin hogar desde 2018. Un informe reciente y mordaz de un auditor estatal apunta a un principal culpable: la falta de coordinación y responsabilidad en la complicada red de agencias estatales y de los condados, ciudades, servicios locales y proveedores.

El aumento tampoco ha pasado desapercibido entre los votantes potenciales, que ven campamentos crecientes debajo de las carreteras ya lo largo de las calles en muchas ciudades. Una encuesta reciente del Instituto de Estudios Gubernamentales de UC Berkeley mostró que, si bien el 49% de los votantes se opuso al proceso de destitución, la falta de vivienda se vislumbraba como un posible talón de Aquiles para Newsom: el 57% de los votantes calificaron su desempeño laboral en el tema como pobre o muy pobre y solo el 13% etiquetado como bueno o excelente.

Y en una encuesta de mayo del Instituto de Políticas Públicas de California, probablemente los votantes recordaron que la falta de vivienda era el tercer problema más importante en California, después de los empleos y COVID-19, y los costos de vivienda y la disponibilidad ocupaban el cuarto lugar.

Pero, ¿es lo que proponen los retadores republicanos realmente mucho mejor que lo que el estado ya está haciendo?

Sus ideas reflejan una escuela de pensamiento sobre cómo reducir la falta de vivienda, pero algunos expertos y defensores advierten que, si bien las políticas pueden parecer atractivas, podrían empeorar la vida de las personas sin hogar. ¿Qué viene primero: vivienda o tratamiento?

Estados Unidos ha adoptado principalmente la estrategia de “Vivienda primero” desde principios de la década de 2000. Fue adoptado por las administraciones de George W. Bush y Barack Obama, y ha sido ley en California desde 2016.

La idea es simple: dar a las personas acceso a una vivienda estable y que luego venga la capacitación laboral y el tratamiento médico. En otras palabras, los servicios no son una condición previa para ingresar a la vivienda, sino que son voluntarios una vez que la persona tiene vivienda.

Y, sin embargo, existe una frustración creciente, particularmente entre los republicanos, de que la estrategia no está funcionando. Robert Marbut, quien se desempeñó durante un período como el zar de las personas sin hogar del entonces presidente Donald Trump, rechazó la idea y promocionó el modelo opuesto: una persona tenía que permanecer en el estacionamiento de concreto afuera de un refugio y dar negativo en la

prueba de drogas antes de ingresar.

dijo Kushel.

Doug Ose, un ex miembro del Congreso del área de Sacramento que se postula para derrocar a Newsom, propone un método similar. “Necesitamos dejar de permitir, excusar e ignorar estos problemas de adicción a las drogas y salud mental”, dijo en una entrevista reciente.

“Mucha gente en las calles usa estimulantes para no dormir, porque cuando duermen, los asaltan y les roban sus cosas”, dijo. “Resulta que cuando llevas a las personas adentro y eso desaparece, la vida de las personas se calma y pueden participar en la terapia”.

Ose quiere que sea más fácil poner a las personas sin hogar bajo la custodia del estado y luego establecer suficientes centros de atención comunitaria para tratar la adicción a las drogas y las enfermedades mentales.

También propone que las instalaciones financiadas por el estado exigen sobriedad de todas las personas que reciben servicios.

Cox también dice que el estado ha gastado demasiado dinero en albergar a personas sin hogar y que, en cambio, deberían verse obligado a someterse a un tratamiento de salud mental.

“Primero, primero tienes que recibir tratamiento, no primero la vivienda, primero el tratamiento”, dijo en una conferencia de prensa reciente en Sacramento.

“Y sí, tendremos que obligar a las personas a que se sometan a ese tratamiento si es necesario”.

En su plan para personas sin hogar, Cox cita una publicación de blog de la Fundación Heritage que señala un estudio de las instalaciones de “Tratamiento primero” que encontró que casi la mitad de los participantes se recuperaron del uso de sustancias, ingresaron a una vivienda y mantuvieron un empleo estable.

Ni Cox ni Ose han puesto una etiqueta de precio para ese tratamiento, pero es probable que sea mucho más alto que simplemente proporcionar camas para las personas, como lo hace el modelo de refugio actual.

Sin embargo, los candidatos tienen un punto de que se necesita urgentemente más tratamiento de salud mental. Las instalaciones de alojamiento y cuidado para californianos de bajos ingresos con enfermedades mentales graves se han estado cerrando en todo el estado a un ritmo alarmante. El presupuesto estatal para el próximo año fiscal incluye $ 805 millones para que los condados compren, construyan, preserven o rehabiliten tales instalaciones, pero el estado aún tiene que reparar el creciente vacío en la disponibilidad y entrega de tratamiento de salud mental.

La prevalencia de enfermedades mentales entre las personas sin hogar es una fuente de debate, y estar en las calles puede empeorar las condiciones de salud mental existentes. Existe un acuerdo general entre los expertos y los funcionarios electos de que la enfermedad mental por sí sola no es responsable de la falta de vivienda.

“Las personas que sufren de trastornos por uso de sustancias o enfermedades mentales son muy visibles, son un gran desafío. Pero hay una gran población desamparada que no tiene ninguno de los dos “.

-Janey Rountree, directora ejecutiva fundadora del California Policy Lab en UCLA De las más de 248.000 personas que accedieron a los servicios para personas sin hogar a lo largo de 2020, el 41% reportó condiciones de discapacidad, que podrían ser desde diabetes o una pierna rota hasta un trastorno mental, según Ali Sutton, sub-subsecretario estatal para personas sin hogar en el Conceo de Financiamiento y Coordinación de Personas sin Hogar de California.

Janey Rountree, directora ejecutiva fundadora del Laboratorio de Políticas de California en UCLA, dijo que un estudio reciente encontró que menos de una quinta parte de las 37,000 personas sin hogar en Los Ángeles tenían una enfermedad mental diagnosticada clínicamente, un trastorno por uso de sustancias o ambos.

“Las personas que sufren de trastornos por uso de sustancias o enfermedades mentales son muy visibles, son un gran desafío”, dijo. “Pero hay una población desprotegida muy grande que no tiene ninguno”.

Margot Kushel, profesora de medicina en la Universidad de California en San Francisco, que dirige la Iniciativa de Vivienda y Personas sin Hogar Benioff de UCSF, también dice que hay poca evidencia de correlación entre la salud mental y la falta de hogar.

En cambio, dice que los lugares con mayor número de personas sin hogar tienen una población dividida de personas con altos ingresos que pueden pagar los costos de la vivienda, y aquellos que no pueden, compitiendo por una oferta limitada de viviendas. Como ejemplo: San Francisco.

Una vez que las personas viven en la calle, es mucho más probable que recurran a las drogas o al alcohol,

Kushel llevó a cabo recientemente un estudio en el que los investigadores se acercaron a las 400 personas más crónicamente sin hogar en Santa Clara, -las personas que con mayor frecuencia terminan en la sala de emergencias, en la cárcel o que podría aparecer “gritando en medio de la calle “- y les ofrecieron un puesto permanente. Todos menos uno dijeron que sí.

Casi el 90% de los 169 participantes colocados en viviendas de apoyo, que incluían tratamiento voluntario pero no obligatorio, permanecieron en la vivienda durante varios años.

“Esto es en California, el más enfermo de los más enfermos, y en su mayoría todos fueron alojados”, dijo.

Pero si “Vivienda primero” es realmente la respuesta, ¿por qué no está disminuyendo la falta de vivienda?

Una razón: al estado le faltan aproximadamente un millón de unidades de vivienda para las personas con ingresos más bajos.

Si vamos a albergar a estas personas y nos ocupamos de todas sus necesidades, ¿por qué no lo hacemos de una manera voluntaria y de apoyo y excluimos a todos los abogados, guardias, jueces, costos judiciales y todo lo demás?” ¿Refugio o vivienda permanente?

Faulconer pide una auditoría sobre la necesidad de servicios de salud mental y cómo el estado está gastando ese dinero. Pero su idea principal es crear suficientes camas de refugio para que todos los que están en las calles ingresen con servicios, incluido el tratamiento de salud mental. Según su plan, si hay espacio disponible en un refugio, una persona sin hogar debe ocuparlo. ¿Cuántas camas se necesitarían? Mucho. El recuento de personas sin hogar de 2020 encontró que California tenía la mayor proporción de personas que viven en la calle, o sin refugio, con un 70%.

Cuando se le preguntó sobre una etiqueta de precio, Faulconer dijo que “el costo no es extraordinario”.

“La gente está literalmente muriendo en nuestras calles. Y todo mi plan consiste en darle a la gente la posibilidad de salir de las calles, de un entorno sucio, inseguro e insalubre a uno que les brinde apoyo con los servicios que necesitan”, le dijo a CalMatters.

Y los alquileres solo están aumentando. Un informe reciente de la Coalición Nacional de Vivienda de Bajos Ingresos encontró que California es el estado más caro para los inquilinos, en comparación con los salarios promedio. Los inquilinos tendrían que ganar al menos $ 39 por hora para pagar un apartamento de 2 habitaciones en California, mientras que el inquilino promedio gana menos de $ 25 por hora y el salario mínimo es de $ 14.

Faulconer cita una reducción del 12% en la falta de vivienda en San Diego como evidencia de que los refugios funcionan, pero los críticos locales han cuestionado ese récord .

Rountree comparó la situación con regar solo el 10% del jardín durante todo el verano y afirmar que el riego no funciona porque el otro 90% del jardín murió: “Eso es lo que dice la gente: ‘Vivir primero’ no funciona. Pero en realidad no hemos alojado a nadie “.

“La gente está literalmente muriendo en nuestras calles. Y todo mi plan consiste en darle a la gente la posibilidad de salir de las calles, de un entorno sucio, inseguro e insalubre “.

Según la base de datos del estado, de las aproximadamente 248,000 personas que accedieron a los servicios locales para personas sin hogar el año pasado, casi el 40% de esas personas se mudaron a una vivienda permanente , lo que podría significar cualquier cosa, desde mudarse con un miembro de la familia hasta conseguir su propio lugar.

“Housing First” o “Vivienda Primero” está “trabajando más rápido y mejor que nunca, tiene más recursos de los que ha tenido en años. No alteremos esa pieza que sabemos que estaba funcionando muy, muy bien”, dijo Sutton, principal funcionario estatal sobre personas sin hogar. “El problema es mucho más la afluencia, y cómo lo solucionamos”.

Forzar el tratamiento Varios candidatos en el proceso contra Newsom mencionaron el uso de tutela, o tutela legal, para obligar a las personas a recibir tratamiento.

Tanto Cox como Ose sugirió relajar la Ley LantermanPetris Short, que limita el tratamiento involuntario a aquellos que son un peligro para ellos mismos o para otros, o que están gravemente discapacitados, y limita el tiempo de confinamiento.

Ose, por ejemplo, quiere cambiar esa definición para incluir a cualquier persona “adicta a las drogas” y que no quiera o no pueda “tomar decisiones razonadas consistentes con ser autosuficiente”.

Cox dijo: “Britney Spears no necesita un tutor legal.

Miles de californianos que viven en las calles son los que necesitan administradores judiciales. Y tenemos que obligar a la gente a hacerlo”.

Newsom y otros también han pedido una expansión limitada de los tutores legales. Los partidarios argumentan que es demasiado difícil conseguir ayuda para sus familiares que la necesitan bajo la estricta definición de tutela. Otros dicen que el sistema obsoleto no aborda las necesidades de las personas que enfrentan el abuso de sustancias.

Pero Kevin Baker, director legislativo del California Center for Advocacy & Policy de la American Civil Liberties Union, dijo que las propuestas de los candidatos plantean serias preocupaciones, y no solo sobre la violación de las libertades civiles de las personas. Para convertir esto en realidad se necesitaría “un ejército” de abogados, jueces y guardias que el estado simplemente no tiene.

“Si pones a alguien bajo tutela, es tuyo”, dijo. “Hay que albergarlos, vestirlos y alimentarlos. Tienes todas las obligaciones con ellos que tienes con los prisioneros.

Si bien Newsom ha agregado un número récord de camas en refugios en el último año , ha priorizado habitaciones de hotel individuales más caras, a diferencia de los refugios grandes que sugieren Faulconer.

Mientras tanto, Cox propone eliminar los refugios por completo, diciendo que son una pérdida de dinero. Y muchos defensores están de acuerdo.

El refugio no es una vivienda asequible, por lo que seguir invirtiendo en refugios no soluciona la causa subyacente.

Si bien los defensores y los investigadores de las personas sin hogar también reconocen que las camas de los refugios existentes a veces no se utilizan, culpan a las reglas. Muchos refugios tienen toques de queda estrictos y no permiten que las personas duerman con sus parejas, traigan mascotas o guarden sus pertenencias personales. Lo más importante es que no permiten la privacidad de las personas, una necesidad que aumentó cuando los refugios se convirtieron en focos de COVID-19.

“La gente quiere autonomía en sus vidas”, dijo Kushel, de UCSF. “Estos son adultos”.

Chris Martin, director de políticas del grupo de defensa sin fines de lucro Housing California, dijo que el estado se ha alejado cada vez más del modelo de refugios colectivos, incluido el proyecto de ley de presupuesto estatal más reciente. Dice que el plan de Faulconer es inhumano. “Es almacenamiento. Realmente nos está llevando hacia atrás”, dijo.

Hay varios puntos importantes en los que los candidatos se alinean, principalmente el impulso para “limpiar” el estado. Newsom propuso más de mil millones en el presupuesto estatal para recoger basura en las autopistas y áreas del centro. Faulconer propone establecer el “derecho a los espacios públicos”, que requiera que los parques, las autopistas y otras áreas se mantengan libres de escombros.

Los defensores dicen que estos planos estigmatizan a las personas que no tienen vivienda: “Se ven obligadas a vivir en esa basura”, dijo Martin. “Y muchas veces no es basura. Es todo lo que tienen en su vida”.

Los candidatos también están de acuerdo: California necesita más viviendas y abordar la crisis de las personas sin hogar es imposible sin eso.

Ese es el mismo argumento que ha estado haciendo Newsom desde su campaña de 2018. Sus retadores proponen cambios como la racionalización de permisos y costosas revisiones ambientales. Pero ninguno de los candidatos ofrece una forma clara de sortear las presiones políticas que dificultan tanto la construcción de viviendas.

Al igual que sus oponentes, Faulconer dice que el estado simplemente necesita un mejor gobernador: “Creo que esto exige liderazgo a nivel estatal”.

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IS HOMELESSNESS NEWSOM’S WEAK POINT IN RECALL? REPUBLICANS ARE COUNTING ON IT

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Instead, she says the places with highest homelessness have a split population of high earners who can afford to pay housing costs, and those who can’t, competing for a limited supply of housing. Think: San Francisco.

he Gavin Newsom recall may have picked up steam as a referendum on the governor’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but now homelessness is also taking center stage.

Businessman John Cox — perhaps best known as the guy with the bear — has been hauling an eightfoot ball of garbage around California to symbolize “the trash that’s left behind” by people experiencing homelessness and the state’s response to them.

Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego, named homelessness as his number one campaign issue and put out several ads showing people camped in cars and tents in “Newsom’s California.”

Celebrity Caitlyn Jenner, best known for “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” noted in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News that a neighboring private plane owner had moved to Arizona because he couldn’t take seeing homeless people anymore.

While they’re proposing various solutions, the three Republicans agree: Homelessness is getting worse in California — and they can do better than the man they want to replace as governor.

Newsom made reducing homelessness a key part of his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, but the unsheltered population has only increased since then — up by 24% from 2018 to about 161,000 people in 2020.

That was before the coronavirus pandemic upended the economy. (A scheduled count in January 2021 was postponed due to COVID-19.)

The increase is especially discouraging after the state has spent $13 billion on homelessness since 2018. A recent, scathing state auditor’s report points to a main culprit: a lack of coordination and accountability across the complicated web of state agencies and local counties, cities and service providers.

The rise also hasn’t been lost on potential voters, who see growing encampments under highways and along streets in many cities. A recent UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll showed that while 49% of voters opposed the recall, homelessness loomed as a potential Achilles heel for Newsom: 57% of voters rated his job performance on the issue as poor or very poor and only 13% labeled it good or excellent.

And in a May poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, likely recall voters ranked homelessness the third most important issue in California, after only jobs and COVID-19, with housing costs and availability ranking fourth.

But is what the Republican challengers propose really that much better than what the state is already doing?

Their ideas reflect one school of thought on how to reduce homelessness, but some experts and advocates warn that while the policies might sound appealing, they could worsen the lives of those experiencing homelessness.

What comes first: Housing or treatment?

The United States has mostly embraced the “Housing First” strategy since the early 2000s. It was adopted by both George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s administrations, and has been law in California since 2016.

The idea is simple: Give people access to stable housing, and let job training and medical treatment follow. In other words, services aren’t a precondition to enter housing, but instead voluntary once the person is housed.

And yet, there’s a growing frustration, particularly among Republicans, that the strategy isn’t working.

Robert Marbut, who served a stint as then-President Donald Trump’s homelessness czar, rejected the idea, and touted the opposite model: A person had to stay on the concrete parking lot outside a shelter and test negative for drugs before entering.

Doug Ose, a former Sacramento-area member of Congress running to unseat Newsom, proposes a similar method. “We need to stop enabling, excusing and ignoring these drug addiction and mental health

Once people are living on the street, they’re much more likely to turn to drugs or alcohol, Kushel said.

Rafael Suarez and April Lei linger outside their trailer home to try and stay cool during a hot day in Los Angeles, on July 9, 2021. The couple have lived on this block for a year and a half, according to the couple.

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issues,” he said in a recent interview.

Ose wants to make it easier to bring homeless people into the state’s custody, and then establish enough community care centers to treat drug addiction and mental illness. He also proposes that statefunded facilities demand sobriety from all individuals receiving services.

Cox also says the state has spent way too much money sheltering homeless people, and that they should be forced into mental health treatment instead.

“First, you’ve got to have treatment first, not housing first, treatment first,” he said at a recent press conference in Sacramento. “And yes, we’re going to have to force people into that treatment if need be.”

In his homelessness plan, Cox cites a Heritage Foundation blog post pointing to a study of “Treatment First” facilities that found nearly half of participants recovered from substance use, entered housing and maintained steady employment.

Neither Cox nor Ose has put forth a price tag for that treatment — but it is likely far higher than simply providing beds for people, as the current shelter model does.

The candidates do, however, have a point that more mental health treatment is sorely needed. Boardand-care facilities for low-income Californians with serious mental illness have been shuttering across the state at an alarming rate. The state budget for the next fiscal year includes $805 million for counties to purchase, build, preserve, or rehabilitate such facilities, but the state has yet to patch the growing hole in the availability and delivery of mental health treatment.

The prevalence of mental illness among the homeless is a source of debate, and being on the streets can worsen existing mental health conditions. There is general agreement among experts and elected officials that mental illness alone isn’t responsible for homelessness.

“The people who are suffering from substance use disorder or mental illness are very visible, they’re very challenging. But there is a very large unsheltered population that doesn’t have either.”

-JANEY ROUNTREE, FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CALIFORNIA POLICY LAB AT UCLA Of the more than 248,000 people who accessed homeless services throughout 2020, 41% reported disabling conditions, which could be anything from diabetes or a broken leg to a mental disorder, according to Ali Sutton, the state’s deputy secretary for homelessness at the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.

Janey Rountree, founding executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA, said a recent study found that one-fifth of 37,000 people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles had a clinically diagnosed serious mental illness.

“The people who are suffering from substance use disorder or mental illness are very visible, they’re very challenging,” she said. “But there is a very large unsheltered population that doesn’t have either.”

Margot Kushel, a professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, who leads the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, also says there’s little evidence of correlation between mental health and homelessness.

“A lot of people on the streets use stimulants so they don’t sleep, because when they sleep, they get assaulted, and their stuff gets stolen,” she said. “Turns out that when you bring people inside and that goes away, people’s lives calm down, and they can engage in therapy.”

Kushel recently conducted a study in which researchers approached the 400 most chronically homeless people in Santa Clara — the people who most frequently ended up in the emergency room or jail you might find “yelling in the middle of the street” — and offered them a permanent home. All but one said yes.

Nearly 90% of the 169 participants placed in supportive housing — which included voluntary but not mandatory treatment — stayed in housing for several years.

“This is in California, the sickest of the sickest, and they mostly all got housed,” she said.

But if “Housing First” is really the answer, why isn’t homelessness declining?

One reason: The state is about one million housing units short for the lowest earners.

And rents are only increasing. A recent report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition found California to be the most expensive state for tenants, when compared to average wages. Renters would need to make at least $39 an hour to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in California, while the average renter makes less than $25 an hour, and the minimum wage is $14.

Rountree likened the situation to watering only 10% of the garden all summer and claiming watering doesn’t work because the other 90% of the garden died: “That’s what people are saying: ‘Housing first’ doesn’t work. But we haven’t actually housed anyone.”

According to the state’s database, of the roughly 248,000 people who accessed local homeless services last year, nearly 40% of those people moved into permanent housing — which could mean anything from moving in with a family member to getting their own place.

“Housing First” is “working faster and better than it ever has, it’s got more resources than it has in ages.

Let’s not upset that piece that we know was working really, really well,” said Sutton, the state’s top official on homelessness. “The problem is much more the inflow, and how do we solve that.”

Forcing treatment Several candidates in the Newsom recall mentioned using conservatorships, or legal guardianships, to force people into treatment. Both Cox and Ose suggest loosening the Lanterman-Petris Short Act, which limited involuntary treatment to those who are a danger to themselves or others, or gravely disabled, and limited the time for confinement.

Ose, for example, wants to change that definition to include anyone “addicted to drugs” and unwilling or unable to “make reasoned decisions consistent with being self-sufficient.”

Cox said: “Britney Spears doesn’t need a conservator. Thousands of Californians living on the streets are the ones that need conservatorships. And we have to force people to do it.”

Newsom and others have also called for limited expansion of conservatorships. Supporters argue it’s too difficult to get help for their relatives who need it under the strict definition of conservatorship. Others say the outdated system doesn’t address the needs of people dealing with substance abuse.

But Kevin Baker, legislative director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s California Center for Advocacy & Policy, said the candidates’ proposals raise serious concerns, and not just about the violation of people’s

civil liberties. Turning this into reality would take “an army” of lawyers, judges and guards the state simply doesn’t have.

“If you put somebody in a conservatorship, they’re yours,” he said. “You have to house, clothe and feed them. You have all the obligations to them that you have to prisoners. If we’re going to house these people and take care of all their needs, why don’t we instead do that in a way that is supportive and voluntary and leaves out all the lawyers and guards and the judges and the court costs and everything else?”

Shelter or permanent housing?

Faulconer calls for an audit into the need for mental health services and how the state is spending that money. But his main idea is to create enough shelter beds to get everyone on the streets inside with services, including mental health treatment. Under his plan, if space in a shelter is available, a homeless person must take it.

How many beds would that take? A lot. The 2020 tally of homeless people found California had the highest share of people living on the streets, or unsheltered, at 70%.

Asked about a price tag, Faulconer said “the cost of not doing it is extraordinary.”

“People are literally dying on our streets. And my whole plan is about giving people the ability to get off the streets, out of an unclean, unsafe, unsanitary environment into one that is supportive with the services that they need,” he told CalMatters.

Faulconer cites a 12% reduction in homelessness in San Diego as evidence that shelters work but local critics have questioned that record.

While Newsom has added record numbers of shelter beds in the last year, he has prioritized more expensive individual hotel rooms, as opposed to the large shelters Faulconer suggests.

Meanwhile, Cox proposes doing away with shelters altogether, saying they are a waste of money. And many advocates agree. Shelter isn’t affordable housing, so continuing to invest in shelters doesn’t fix the underlying cause.

While advocates and homelessness researchers also acknowledge that existing shelter beds sometimes go unused, they blame the rules. Many shelters have strict curfews and don’t allow people to sleep with their partners, bring in pets or store their personal belongings. Most importantly, they don’t allow people privacy, a need that heightened when shelters became hotbeds for COVID-19.

“People want autonomy in their lives,” said Kushel, from UCSF. “These are adults.”

Chris Martin, policy director at the nonprofit advocacy group Housing California, said the state has increasingly shifted away from the congregate shelter model, including the most recent state budget bill.

He says that Faulconer’s plan is inhumane. “It’s warehousing. It really is taking us backwards,” he said.

There are several important points where the candidates align, primarily the push to “clean up” the state. Newsom proposed more than $1 billion in the state budget to pick up trash along freeways and downtown areas. Faulconer proposes establishing the “right to public spaces,” which would require that parks, freeways and other areas be kept clear of debris.

Advocates say these plans stigmatize people who are unhoused: “They’re forced to live in that trash,” Martin said. “And oftentimes it’s not trash. It’s all they have in their life.”

The candidates also all agree: California needs more housing, and addressing the homelessness crisis is impossible without that. That’s the same argument Newsom has been making since his 2018 campaign.

His challengers propose changes such as streamlining permits and costly environmental reviews. But none of the candidates offer a clear way around the political pressures that make housing construction so difficult.

Like his opponents, Faulconer says the state simply needs a better governor: “I believe this cries out for leadership at the statewide level.”

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MEJORA LA BRECHA RACIAL ENTRE JÓVENES DE CALIFORNIA TRAS LAS REJAS, PERO SIGUE SIENDO ALTA

RACIAL GAP AMONG CA YOUTH BEHIND BARS IMPROVES, BUT REMAINS HIGH ENGLISH

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Una investigación recopilada por The Sentencing Project demuestra que los adolescentes negros tienen nueve veces más probabilidades de estar encarcelados que los adolescentes blancos, y esto realmente es una ligera mejora comparado con el 2015.

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ACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Despite decades of juvenile justice reforms, California is still incarcerating kids of color much more often than their white peers, according to a new analysis.

Josh Rovner, asociado de defensa senior para The Sentencing Project y autor del reporte, dijo que un factor importante es el hecho de que las comunidades de color son mucho más controladas por la policía.

Research collected by The Sentencing Project shows Black teens are nine times more likely to be locked up than white teens, and that's actually a slight improvement over 2015.

Josh Rovner, senior advocacy associate at The Sentencing Project and the report's author, said one big factor is the fact communities of color are much more heavily policed.

"And so, when youth of color experiment with marijuana, they are much more likely to do so in public spaces where they are likely to be arrested for it," Rovner explained. "Whereas white youth living in suburbs might be doing it in their parents' basement and so, there's no police around to see that."

The report said in California, Latinx youth are almost two and a half times as likely to be incarcerated as white teens, which is an 11% improvement since a decade ago.

The disparity for Native American youth has more than doubled over the past decade. They are now almost four and a half times as likely as a white teen to be incarcerated.

California keeps kids out of jail by favoring drug courts, restorative justice and family counseling. Detention facilities have emptied out. The report confirmed the state's juvenile justice system now has about 700 kids behind bars, compared to 10,000 in 1996.

Dan Macallair, executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, based in San Francisco, said it is notable this was achieved even as the population soared, and juvenile crime rates plunged to record lows.

"The crime rates are 80% lower than they were 25 years ago, and no one has really explained it," Macallair recounted.

"But one thing we do know is that this

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is the best-behaved generation on record."

This summer, California closed its last three state juvenile prisons and will now try to help justice-involved youth in county facilities, so they can maintain ties to family and community.

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ACRAMENTO, Calif. – A pesar de décadas de reformas de justicia juvenil, California sigue encarcelando a muchos más jóvenes de color que a sus homólogos blancos, según un nuevo análisis.

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“Y entonces, cuando los jóvenes de color experimentan con la marihuana, es mucho más probable que lo hagan en los espacios públicos y probablemente sean arrestados por eso”, explicó Rovner.

“Mientras que los jóvenes blancos que viven en los suburbios lo podrían estar haciendo en el sótano de sus papás por ejemplo, donde no hay policía que lo pueda ver”.

El reporte dijo que en California, los jóvenes Latinx tienen dos veces y media más probabilidades de ser encarcelados que los adolescentes blancos, lo que representa una mejora del 11% desde hace una década.

La disparidad para jóvenes nativos americanos se ha más que duplicado a lo largo de la última década. Actualmente tiene cuatro y media veces más probabilidades de ser encarcelados que un adolescente blanco.

California mantiene a los jóvenes fuera de la cárcel, favoreciendo a los tribunales de droga, la justicia restaurativa y la consejería familiar. Las instalaciones de detención se han vaciado. El reporte confirmó que el sistema de justicia juvenil del estado ahora tiene alrededor de 700 jóvenes tras las rejas, comparado con 10.000 en el 1996.

Dan Macallair, director ejecutivo del Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, ubicado en San Francisco, dijo que cabe destacar que esto se logró a pesar del aumento de la población, y los índices de la delincuencia juvenil disminuyeron a niveles bajos récord.

“Los índices de delincuencia son el 80% más bajos que hace 25 años, y nadie realmente lo ha explicado”, relató Macallair. “Pero una cosa que sí sabemos es que está es la generación con el mejor comportamiento jamás registrado.

Este verano, California cerró sus últimas tres prisiones juveniles del estado y ahora intentará ayudar a los jóvenes involucrados en la justicia en las instalaciones del condado, para que puedan mantener el contacto con sus familias y comunidades.

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AVISO DE RECIBO DE UNA SOLICITUD DE EXENCIÓN PARA UNA PEQUEÑA PLANTA ELÉCTRICA PARA LA INSTALACIÓN GENERADORA DE RESPALDO CA3 El 12 de abril de 2021, Vantage Data Services presentó una solicitud ante la Comisión de Energía de California (CEC) para obtener una exención de la jurisdicción de la CEC (solicitud de exención para una pequeña planta eléctrica, o SPPE) para la Instalación Generadora de Respaldo CA3 (CA3BGF) (21-SPPE-01). La CA3BGF sería parte del Centro de Datos CA3 (CA3DC), ubicado en la Ciudad de Santa Clara. Nos referimos a los componentes de la CA3BGF y el CA3DC en conjunto como el proyecto.

Descripción del proyecto El proyecto estaría situado en 2590 Walsh Avenue en Santa Clara, California. La parcela (APN 216-28-112) está zonificada para uso de Industria Ligera (ML) y abarca una superficie total de 6.69 acres. Los límites de este sitio de forma irregular son: al noroeste, un centro de prueba de microelectrónica existente; al nordeste, un centro investigación y desarrollo de software; al sur, una línea de ferrocarril existente operada por CalTrain; al este por Walsh Avenue, y al oeste por una subestación existente de Silicon Valley Power (SVP) (Subestación Uranium).

El lugar actualmente está desarrollado con un edificio de un piso de cemento, madera y estuco, de aproximadamente 115,000 pies cuadrados, que combina oficinas y depósito, con estacionamiento y zona de carga relacionados en planta baja. Las estructuras existentes serían demolidas junto con las mejoras complementarias, incluido el jardín, excepto los árboles existentes que no estén en conflicto con los planes de mejora. La tierra adyacente es principalmente de uso comercial e industrial al norte y al este, y residencial al sur y al oeste. El Aeropuerto Internacional de San Jose Norman Y. Mineta se encuentra a aproximadamente 1.75 millas al sudeste del lugar.

El Solicitante propone construir un edificio de centro de datos de cuatro pisos de 469,482 pies cuadrados, una subestación de servicios, una estación de conmutación, patio de generación (CA3BGF), estacionamiento y jardín en superficie, y una tubería de agua reciclada. Se utilizaría agua reciclada para refrigerar cuando sea posible, aunque también habría agua potable en el lugar.

El edificio del centro de datos constaría de dos componentes principales: las suites del centro de datos que albergan los servidores de los clientes, y las instalaciones administrativas que incluyen instalaciones de soporte, como la recepción, los baños, las salas de conferencia, el espacio de oficinas del propietario, espacio de oficinas de los clientes, la zona de carga y el almacenamiento. Los componentes de las suites del centro de datos tendrían cuatro niveles, y cada uno contendría cuatro suites de centro de datos y sus respectivas salas de suministro de energía eléctrica ininterrumpida.

La subestación eléctrica propuesta de 100 mega voltios-amperios (MVA) estaría ubicada adyacente a la Subestación Uranium de SVP sobre el límite oeste del sitio. Tendría un diseño de dos compartimentos, lo que permitiría que uno de los dos transformadores saliera de servicio y se suministrara efectivamente una energía total de 100 MVA. La subestación eléctrica estaría compuesta por dos mitades; Vantage sería propietaria de la nueva subestación in situ y SVP sería propietaria de la estación de conmutación que está directamente al sur y adyacente a la subestación, que brinda un servicio de 60 kilovoltios (kV) al lugar del proyecto. La nueva subestación sería capaz de suministrar electricidad al CA3DC desde SVP a través de la estación de conmutación; sin embargo, la electricidad generada por la CA3BGF no podría ser suministrada a la red de transmisión. Se extendería una tubería de agua reciclada en la intersección de Walsh Avenue y Northwestern Parkway aproximadamente 500 pies al noroeste (en Walsh Avenue) para el proyecto como fuente de agua secundaria.

La CA3BGF tendría una capacidad generadora de hasta 96 megavatios (MW) para que el CA3DC pueda cumplir con la necesidad de brindar suministro de energía ininterrumpido para sus servidores. La CA3BGF solo funcionaría para mantenimiento, pruebas y durante cortes de suministro eléctrico de emergencia. La CA3BGF constaría de 44 generadores diésel de respaldo de 2.75 MW, dispuestos en un patio de generación diseñado para alimentar al edificio del centro de datos que compone el CA3DC. El proyecto también incluiría interruptores y cableado de distribución para interconectar los dos patios de generación con sus respectivas partes del edificio. Ocho de los 40 generadores del centro de datos serían redundantes, para brindar el objetivo del solicitante de un factor de confiabilidad del 99.999 por ciento. Los otros cuatro generadores de emergencia son generadores locales (dos de los cuales son redundantes) que alimentarían a partes del edificio de administración y herramientas necesarias para respuesta de emergencia.

Jurisdicción de la CEC y proceso de la SPPE La CEC tiene la autoridad exclusiva para certificar todas las plantas de energía térmica (de 50 MW y más) e instalaciones relacionadas propuestas para su construcción en California. El proceso de la SPPE permite a los solicitantes que proponen construir plantas de energía térmica de entre 50 y 100 MW obtener una exención por parte de la jurisdicción de la CEC y proceder con los permisos locales en lugar de requerir la certificación de la CEC. La CEC puede otorgar una exención si encuentra que la instalación propuesta no crearía un impacto adverso sustancial sobre el ambiente o sobre los recursos energéticos. En la sección 25519(c) del Código de Recursos Públicos se designa a la CEC como la agencia principal, según la Ley de Calidad Ambiental de California (CEQA, por sus siglas en inglés), para todas las instalaciones que soliciten una SPPE. El Código de Recursos Públicos, sección 21080.3, y la Normativa de la CEQA, sección 15063(g), obligan a la CEC, como agencia principal, a consultar con agencias responsables y fiduciarias que determinen si se requiere una declaración negativa o un informe de impacto ambiental. El personal de la CEC ha comenzado su revisión de la aplicación. Durante los próximos meses, el personal evaluará el proyecto y preparará el documento del análisis ambiental correspondiente para su revisión pública.

El Comité asignado de dos comisionados de Energía luego llevará a cabo una audiencia para determinar si se propone que toda la Comisión adopte (o certifique) el documento de la CEQA y determinar si se recomienda a toda la Comisión que la instalación debería quedar exenta del proceso de certificación para una planta eléctrica por parte de la CEC. Además de otras oportunidades para comentar sobre el proceso, como el periodo de comentarios públicos luego de la publicación del documento ambiental, esta audiencia dará al público, las agencias locales, estatales y federales y las tribus nativas americanas la oportunidad de brindar aportes sobre la solicitud de exención. Los siguientes pasos serán la emisión de una decisión propuesta por el Comité, y la posible adopción de esa decisión por parte de la CEC en una Reunión de Trabajo. Si se otorgara la exención, el solicitante igual necesitaría conseguir las habilitaciones correspondientes de las agencias locales, regionales, estatales y federales relevantes para construir y operar el proyecto propuesto.

Las regulaciones de la CEC que describen el proceso de la SPPE están principalmente ubicadas en el Título 20 del Código de Regulaciones de California, secciones 1934-1947.

Participación del público La CEC permite la participación del público en el proceso de revisión de la SPPE. Se puede encontrar una copia de la solicitud de la SPPE y más información del proyecto, en el sitio web de la CEC EN https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/ca3/. Para mantenerse informado sobre este proyecto y recibir avisos de las próximas reuniones y talleres, lo invitamos a suscribirse al servicio de listas del proyecto, al que se puede acceder en el mismo sitio web del proyecto. La lista de correo envía notificaciones por email cuando se publican documentos y avisos en la página web del proyecto.

Por preguntas acerca del proyecto, por favor contáctese con Eric Veerkamp, Gerente del Proyecto, al (916) 661-8458 o por email a eric.veerkamp@energy.ca.gov.

La Oficina de Asesoría al Público de la CEC está disponible para brindar información y asistencia con respecto a la participación del público en los procesos de la CEC. Puede contactarse con la Oficina de Asesoría al Público llamando al (916) 654-4489) o sin cargo en California al (800) 822-6228, y también por email a publicadvisor@energy.ca.gov.

Las preguntas sobre los medios deben ser dirigidas a la Oficina de Medios de la CEC al (916) 654-4989 o por email a mediaoffice@energy.ca.gov.

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MEASURE TO REDUCE SINGLE-USE PLASTIC QUALIFIES FOR 2022 BALLOT

MEDIDA PARA REDUCIR LOS PLÁSTICOS DE UN SOLO USO CALIFICA PARA LA BOLETA DEL 2022

Backers of a new initiative say nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste ends up in the world's oceans each year. Photo Credit: Raftography / Sustainable Coastlines

Defensores de una nueva iniciativa dicen que casi 9 mil millones de toneladas de desechos de plástico terminan en los océanos del mundo cada ano. Photo Credit: Dustan Woodhouse / Unsplash

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ACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A groundbreaking measure to reduce plastic waste has just qualified for the 2022 ballot.

The proposal would give companies a big incentive to reduce plastic packaging by taxing each item by one penny. It would also make producers meet certain goals for recycling and reuse.

Jennifer Fearing, legislative advocate in Sacramento for the nonprofit Oceana, said the program would raise about a billion dollars a year.

"That would go to funding local governments, so they can upgrade waste and recycling systems, to support state and local governments in broader waste recycling and composting, and then the final 30% would go to environmental mitigation," Fearing outlined.

The American Chemistry Council opposes the measure, proposing instead a more lenient national plan to require all plastic packaging to be made of 30% recycled material by 2030.

The proposal would ban styrofoam food packaging, and would apply to all plastic packaging and foodware, including items sold in stores, restaurants or online.

A huge percentage of the items consumers try to recycle actually end up in landfills, and now many foreign countries are refusing to take our trash.

Fearing pointed out throwaway plastics are causing widespread environmental degradation.

"Plastics are just choking storm water

drains, and water treatment and sewer systems," Fearing observed. "They're showing up as microplastics in the oceans and in fresh water."

A 2020 study in the journal Science predicted with current consumption patterns, the amount of plastic waste in our rivers, lakes and the ocean will more than triple by 2050.

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ACRAMENTO, Calif. – Una medida revolucionaria para reducir los deshechos de plástico acaba de calificar para la votación del 2022.

Jennifer Fearing, defensora legislativa en Sacramento para la organización sin fines de lucro Oceana, dijo que el programa recaudaría más de mil millones de dólares cada año.

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“Ese se destinaría a financiar a los gobiernos locales, para que puedan mejorar los sistemas de residuos y reciclaje, a apoyar a los gobiernos estatales y locales en el reciclado y compostaje de los desechos en general, y luego el último 30% se destinaría a la mitigación ambiental, destacó Fearing.

El American Chemistry Council está en contra de la medida, y en cambio propone un plan nacional más permisivo que requiere que todos los envases de plástico estén hechos del 30% de material reciclado antes del año 2030.

La propuesta prohibiría los empaques de alimentos de poliestireno extruido y aplicaría para todos los envases y productos alimenticios de plástico, incluyendo a los artículos vendidos en tiendas, restaurantes y en línea.

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Fearing señaló que los plásticos desechables están causando una degradación ambiental extensa.

“Los plásticos solo están obstruyendo la red de desagüe pluvial, y los sistemas de tratamiento de agua y de alcantarillado”, observe Fearing. “Están apareciendo como micro plásticos en los océanos y en el agua dulce”.

Un estudio del 2020 en la revista Science predijo que con nuestros hábitos de consumo actuales, la cantidad de plástico en nuestros ríos, lagos y el océano va a aumentar más de tres veces para el año 2050.

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he unemployment rate in Silicon Valley saw a slight increase in June, signaling that the region still has a way to go before returning to pre-pandemic levels.

The regional unemployment rate increased from 4.6% to 5.1% between mid-May and mid-June, according to a study released this month by Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a nonprofit that analyzes the economy and quality of life in the South Bay. The analysis examined data from a July 16 report from the California Employment Development Department.

That increase is “significantly driven” by the job losses in Santa Clara County, according to Rachel Massaro, director of research at Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Between May and June, the county lost 1,400 jobs and gained 4,400 unemployed workers.

Neighboring San Mateo and San Francisco counties gained more than 4,000 and 5,000 jobs, respectively.

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a tasa de desempleo en el Silicon Valley tuvo un ligero incremento en junio, señalando que la región todavía tiene un camino por delante antes de regresar a los niveles pre pandemia.

Monthly unemployment rate from January 2020 to June 2021. Photo Credit: San José Spotlight The region’s recovery is moving at a faster pace than the state and the country, which have unemployment rates of 8% and 6.1%, respectively. But it will take time before Silicon Valley gets back to the pre-pandemic 2.1% unemployment rate of February 2020, Massaro said.

La tasa de desempleo regional subió del 4.6% al 5.1% entre mediados de mayo y mediados de junio, según un estudio publicado este mes por Joint Venture Silicon Valley, una organización sin fines de lucro que analiza la economía y la calidad de vida en la Bahía Sur. El análisis examinó los datos de un reporte del 16 de julio del California Employment Development Department.

Ese aumento está claramente impulsado por las pérdidas de trabajo en el Condado de Santa Clara, según Rachel Mossaro, directora de investigación en Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Entre mayo y junio, el condado perdió 1.400 trabajos y ganó 4.400 trabajadores desempleados. Los “This is the first month since the pandemic that Across the Bay Area, which also includes San Fran- condados vecinos San Mateo y San Francisco we’ve see this contrast,” Massaro told San José cisco and San Benito counties, education saw the ganaron más de 4.000 y 5.000 trabajos, respecSpotlight, adding that ISO state12647-7 data is Digital limited,Control so it’sStripmost 2009job losses compared to other industries. In to100 60clear100 100 30 100 60 40 100 3 70 30 losses 100 60in the 100 40and40 100tivamente.

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combinación de los condados de Santa Clara y San Mateo, se está recuperando lentamente de las pérdidas récord de empleo del 11.6% en abril del 2020 al principio de la pandemia.

Desde mediados de junio, aproximadamente 73.100 trabajadores de Silicon Valley siguen sin trabajo. Esto es casi el doble del número de los trabajadores desempleados reportados en marzo del 2020 – 42.900 – según el análisis.

La recuperación de la región se está moviendo a un ritmo más rápido que el estado y el país, que tienen tasas de desempleo del 8% y del 6.1%, respectivamente. Pero tomará tiempo antes de que el Silicon Valley regrese a su tasa de desempleo pre pandémica del 2.1% de febrero del 2020, dijo Massara.

En todo el Área de la Bahía, que también incluye los condados de San Francisco y San Benito, la educación vio la mayor cantidad de pérdidas de trabajo en comparación con otras industrias. En total, la región perdió 3.200 trabajos en escuelas públicas y 1.400 trabajos en universidades o colegios, según el análisis.

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“Hay un caso plausible de que cuanto más generosos sean los beneficios de desempleo, menos ansiosas estarán las personas por volver al trabajo”.

a renta básica universal fue defendida por Martin Luther King Jr., promovida por los ciudadanos de Silicon Valley como la “vacuna social para el siglo XXI” y respaldada por el candidato presidencial de 2016, Andrew Yang, pero nunca se ha popularizado realmente.

-Matt Zwolinski, director del Centro de Ética, Economía y Políticas Públicas de la Universidad de California en San Diego A Zwolinski le preocupa que los plazos de uno a dos años de los programas pilotos limiten la evidencia que los investigadores pueden extraer de los datos.

Ahora puede que haya llegado el momento.

El jueves, los legisladores de California aprobaron el primer programa de ingresos garantizados financiado por el estado del país. Una vez que el gobernador Gavin Newsom firme el proyecto de ley, las ciudades y los condados pueden solicitar dinero de un fondo común de $35 millones para apoyar los proyectos piloto actuales o nuevos que dan prioridad a los jóvenes de crianza temporal que abandonaron recientemente el sistema de cuidados de crianza temporal y las madres embarazadas. La Casa Blanca también ha implementado una forma de ingresos garantizados en su nuevo Crédito Tributario por Hijos ampliado que es parte del paquete de ayuda pandémica.

El programa estatal viene inmediatamente después de los esfuerzos locales en el Área de la Bahía y Stockton. Durante los últimos dos años, Oakland, el condado de Marin, San Francisco y el condado de Santa Clara comenzaron programas de ingresos básicos de uno a dos años que ofrecen a los participantes entre $500 y $1,000 dólares garantizados cada mes sin condiciones. Esos programas están financiados en gran parte por donaciones privadas.

El aumento en el apoyo a los ingresos garantizados se atribuye a la riqueza y las desigualdades raciales reveladas por el COVID-19, ya que la pérdida de empleos afecta más a los trabajadores de bajos ingresos y de minorías.

La pandemia “quitó el velo de lo que significa vivir marginado”, dijo la supervisora del condado de Los Ángeles, Holly Mitchell, miembro de Mayors for Guaranteed Income, un grupo nacional que ha crecido de 11 ciudades miembro a más de 50 en el último año. “Todos lo vieron”.

Las iniciativas de ingresos básicos del Área de la Bahía se centran en sacar de la pobreza a artistas, madres o minorías. El programa del condado de Santa Clara, que ayuda a los jóvenes de crianza, ayudó a sentar las bases para el programa estatal.

“Las ciudades son los laboratorios de la democracia”, dijo Sukhi Samra, director del grupo de alcaldes, quien espera que los pilotos en el Área de la Bahía y en todo California “proporcionen una prueba de concepto” para las políticas federales.

“Vale la pena hacer los programas piloto. Proporcionan cierto nivel de evidencia “, dijo, pero” siempre habrá un acto de fe involucrado en saltar de un programa piloto a un programa completo en toda la ciudad a un programa completo en todo el estado “.

Vieyra es uno de los 72 jóvenes de crianza que recibe pagos de $1,000 al mes en el primer programa piloto de ingreso básico garantizado del condado de Santa Clara. Photo Credit: Anda Chu / Bay Area News Group

menos ansiosas estarán las personas por volver al trabajo”, dijo Matt Zwolinski, director del Centro de Ética, Economía y Políticas Públicas de la Universidad de San Diego.

Los partidarios de la renta básica universal apuntan al programa 2019 de Stockton, el primero en el estado, que encontró que el empleo de tiempo completo entre los participantes aumentó en un 12% en el primer año del programa.

Los participantes, que recibieron $ 1,000 mensuales de 2019 a 2021, reportaron una mayor estabilidad financiera mes a mes. Eso les permitió comprar los alimentos necesarios, pagar costos inesperados y aumentar su bienestar general.

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Las iniciativas de ingresos básicos del Área de la Bahía se centran en sacar de la pobreza a artistas, madres o minorías.

La nueva ola de iniciativas de ingresos básicos es una alternativa a los programas de asistencia del gobierno que eran “muy prescriptivos sobre la distribución de servicios sociales”, dijo el senador estatal Dave Cortese, demócrata de San José, quien inició el programa de ingresos del condado de Santa Clara para jóvenes en hogares de crianza como supervisor del condado. “Realmente tenía una mentalidad de ‘sabemos qué es lo mejor para ustedes, las personas más débiles y pobres’”.

El programa piloto del condado de Santa Clara proporciona $1,000 al mes a 72 jóvenes de crianza. Los programas seleccionan aleatoriamente a los residentes elegibles o se extraen de un grupo de solicitantes.

Una de las beneficiarias del programa de Santa Clara fue Veronica Vieyra, una recién graduada de la Universidad Estatal de San José.

En marzo de 2020, Vieyra sobrevivía con un estipendio mensual de $ 1,100 de una pasantía con iFoster, una organización que apoya a los jóvenes de crianza. Expulsado de los dormitorios cuando COVID-19 se extendió por California, sus gastos mensuales de alquiler, seguro de automóvil y teléfono la dejaron con $ 280 para comida y gasolina. Las calificaciones de la joven de 25 años cayeron en picado y cayó en una nueva rutina de vida.

“Si duermo, no tengo mucho de qué preocuparme”, recordó haber pensado. “De hecho, ahorro dinero porque entonces no tendré que comer tanto”. Vieyra planeaba regresar al trabajo en Safeway donde trabajó antes de la universidad, lo que retrasó su graduación.

Cuando Vieyra recibió su primer pago al final del verano, “Lo primero que sentí fue que voy a pagar el alquiler”. Pagó con dos meses de anticipación. “Pensé que se siente tan bien”.

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Con mayor tiempo libre, Vieyra asistió a tutorías fuera del horario de atención para las clases en las que había reprobado el año anterior y se graduó con un título en salud pública. Ella espera trabajar con jóvenes de crianza.

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“Si no fuera por el programa, probablemente volvería a Safeway”, dijo.

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A los críticos de los ingresos garantizados les preocupa que el dinero gratis, similar a las prestaciones por desempleo, desincentive a los participantes de trabajar. “Hay un caso bastante plausible que se puede argumentar que cuanto más generosos sean los beneficios de desempleo,

El nuevo programa de la Ciudad de Oakland es el más grande del Área de la Bahía, y ofrece $500 mensuales a 600 familias que ganan por debajo del ingreso familiar promedio de Oakland, alrededor de $65,000 para una familia de cuatro personas. San Francisco ofrece $1,000 al mes para 130 artistas y 150 mujeres embarazadas afroamericanas e isleñas del Pacífico. De manera similar, el condado de Marin apoyará a 135 mujeres de color de bajos ingresos con $1,000 mensuales.

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niversal basic income was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but it has never really caught on.

Now its time may have come.

On Thursday California lawmakers approved the nation’s first state-funded guaranteed income program. Once the bill is signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, cities and counties can apply for funding from a $35 million pool to support current or new pilots that prioritize foster youth who recently left the foster care system and pregnant mothers. The White House has also rolled out a form of guaranteed income in its new expanded Child Tax Credit that is part of the pandemic relief package.

The state program comes on the heels of local efforts in the Bay Area and Stockton. Over the last two years, Oakland, Marin County, San Francisco and Santa Clara County started one to two-year basic income programs that offer participants between $500 and $1,000 guaranteed dollars every month with no strings attached. Those programs are largely funded by private donations.

The surge in support for guaranteed income is being credited to the wealth and racial inequalities revealed by COVID-19, as job losses hit low-income and minority workers the hardest.

The pandemic “took the blinders off of what it means to live on the margins,” said Los Angeles county supervisor Holly Mitchell, a member of Mayors for Guaranteed Income, a national group that has grown from 11 member cities to over 50 in the last year. “Everyone saw it.”

The Bay Area basic income initiatives are focused on raising artists, mothers or minorities out of poverty. The Santa Clara County program, which helps foster youth, helped lay the groundwork for the statewide program.

“Cities are the laboratories of democracy,” said Sukhi Samra, director of the mayors’ group, who hopes the pilots in the Bay Area and across California will “provide a proof of concept” for federal policies.

The Bay Area basic income initiatives are focused on raising artists, mothers or minorities out of poverty.

The new wave of basic income initiatives is an alternative to government assistance programs that were “very prescriptive about doling out social services,” said state Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, who started Santa Clara County’s income program for foster youth as a county supervisor. “It really had a mentality of ‘we know what’s best for you weaker, poorer people.’”

Critics of guaranteed income worry that free money, similar to unemployment benefits, will discourage participants from working. “There’s a pretty plausible case to be made that the more generous you make unemployment benefits, the less anxious people are going to be to get back to work,” said Matt Zwolinski, director of the Center for Ethics, Economics and Public Policy at the University of San Diego.

Universal basic income supporters point to Stockton’s 2019 program, the first in the state, which found that full-time employment among participants increased by 12% in the program’s first year. Participants, who received $1,000 monthly from 2019 to 2021, reported greater financial stability month to month. That enabled them to buy the necessary food, pay off unexpected costs, and increase their overall wellbeing.

“There’s a plausible case to be made that the more generous you make unemployment benefits, the less anxious people are to get back to work.”

Veronica Vieyra, San Jose State University Class of 2021 graduate poses for a photograph on campus in San Jose on Saturday, July 3, 2021. Vieyra is one of 72 foster youth to receive payments of $1,000 a month in Santa Clara county’s first guaranteed basic income pilot program. Photo Credit: Anda Chu / Bay Area News Group

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-MATT ZWOLINSKI, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR ETHICS, ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY AT UC SAN DIEGO Zwolinski worries that the pilots’ one to two-year timeframes limit the evidence researchers can pull from the data.

“The pilot programs are worth doing. They provide some level of evidence,” he said, but “there’s always going to be a leap of faith involved in jumping from a pilot program to say a full city-wide program to a full statewide program.”

The City of Oakland’s new program is the largest in the Bay Area, offering $500 monthly to 600 families making below Oakland’s median household income, about $65,000 for a four-person family. San Francisco is offering $1,000 a month for 130 artists and 150 Black and Pacific Islander pregnant women. Similarly, Marin County will be supporting 135 low-income women of color with $1,000 monthly.

Santa Clara County’s pilot program provides $1,000 a month to 72 foster youth. The programs either randomly select eligible residents or pull from an applicant pool.

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Vieyra is one of 72 foster youth to receive payments of $1,000 a month in Santa Clara county’s first guaranteed basic income pilot program. Photo by Anda Chu, Bay Area News Group One recipient of Santa Clara’s program was Veronica Vieyra, a recent San Jose State University graduate.

In March 2020, Vieyra was surviving on a $1,100 monthly stipend from an internship with iFoster, an organization supporting foster youth. Kicked out of the dorms as COVID-19 spread across California, her monthly expenses for rent, car insurance, and phone left her with $280 for food and gas. The 25-year-old’s grades plummeted, and she fell into a new living routine.

“If I sleep I don’t have so much to worry about,” she remembered thinking. “I actually save money because then I won’t have to eat as much.” Vieyra planned to return to the job at Safeway she worked before college, delaying her graduation.

When Vieyra received her first payment at the end of the summer, “The first thing I felt was like, I’m going to pay my rent.” She paid two months ahead. “I was like, that feels so good.”

With greater free time, Vieyra attended after-hours tutoring for the classes she had failed the year before, graduating with a degree in public health. She hopes to work with foster youth.

“If it wasn’t for the program, I’d probably be going back to Safeway,” she said.

This article is part of the California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.

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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: 8/24/2021 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.

Jun 10, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30, August 6, 13 and 20, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676739 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GoPro Transport, GoPro Limousine, GoPro Limo and Go-

Pro Limo & Transport, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Silicon Valley GoPro Limousine, 416 Boyton Avenue, #201, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on, 10/08/2014.

This filing is a refile. “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/ Vahid Lahijanian, Manager Silicon Valley GoPro Limousine Article/Reg#: 201423310260 This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 07/07/2021 Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy

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KITCHEN HELP Name of Business: Seoul Hotdog Location: 2505 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709 (Next to UC Berkeley) Position: Kitchen Help Pay: $16.07 per hour Phone#: 510-766-8182 (Please Leave Message) File No. FBN 676739 July 30, August 6, 13 and 20, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676587 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RECO CAR WASH LLC, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): RECO CAR WASH, LLC, 1645 Tully Road, San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on, 05/20/2021.

This filing is a refile. “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/ PHUC CONG TRAN, PRESIDENT RECO CAR WASH LLC Article/Reg#: 202113911256

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 07/01/2021 Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 676587 July 30, August 6, 13 and 20, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676885 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CAMILAS JANITORIAL SERVICES, 318 Surber Dr, San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Antelmo L Lucas, 318 Surber Dr, San Jose, CA 95123. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 07/10/2021.

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/ Antelmo L Lucas This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/12/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 676885 July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 677337 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LILIS HAIR DESIGN, 1748 De Marietta Ave 2, 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): Iliana D Zuniga, 1748 De Marietta Ave 2, San Jose, CA 95126. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 04/28/2021. 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/ Iliana D Zuniga This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/23/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 677337 July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384798 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: NEIMA SARAJMOTLAGH, SAM SAR AJ M OTL AG H. Petitioner(s) NEIMA SARAMOTLAGH, SAM S A R AJ M OT L AG H have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

NEIMA SARAJMOTLAGH to NEIMA SARAJ b. SAM SARAJMOTLAGH to SAM SARAJ.

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 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 on 10/19/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 28, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384459 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Dilroop Kaur. Petitioner(s) Dilroop Kaur have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Dilroop Kaur to Dilroop Kaur Sidhu. 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 on 10/05/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 19, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384448 Superior Court of California, County of Santa

Clara-In the matter of the application of: Boma Miracle Ozioma Ndionyenma. Petitioner(s) Boma Miracle Ozioma Mdionyenma has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Divine Princewill Chinecherem Ndionyenma to Divine Chinecherem Chukwudinma b. Boma Miracle Ozioma Ndionyenma to Boma Miracle Ozioma Chukwudinma.

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 on 10/05/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 19, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384409 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Vitalijus Domozirovas.

Petitioner(s) Vitalijus Domozirovas has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Vitalijus Domozirovas to Vitaly Housewell. 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 on 10/05/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

July 15, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384640 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Angelica Prado-Palacio.

Petitioner(s) Angelica Prado-Palacio has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kianna Milani Schwede to Kianna Milani Palacios. 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 on 10/12/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 23, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383001 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Emily Pi. Petitioner(s) Emily Pi have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Isabella Emily Castillo to Isabella Emily Pi-Castillo.

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 on 08/31/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

June 15, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 30; August 6, 13, 20, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676550 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Hartnell Home One, 2. Hartnell Home Two, 38 N Almaden Blvd Unit 2207, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hartnell Homes Inc., 38 N Almaden Blvd Unit 2207, San Jose, CA 95110. 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/ Alvin Teodoro Hartnell Homes, Inc. President Article/Reg#: C4748861 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 6/30/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 676550 July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 677035 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Suastegui Residential & Comercial Services, 1348 Shawn Dr Unit 4, San Jose,

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com CA 95118, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Fredy Palma Suastegui, 1348 Shawn Dr Unit 4, San Jose, CA 95118. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 7/07/2021. 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/ Fredy Palma Suastegui This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/15/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 677035 July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 677157 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. META8C, 698 N Santa Cruz Ave #9, Los Gatos, CA 95030, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by a: Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): HIGH PERFORMANCE DIVERSITY, LLC, 698 N Santa Cruz Ave #9, Los Gatos, CA 95030. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 07/13/2021. 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/ Julia Sullivan HIGH PERFORMANCE DIVERSITY, LLC. Owner Article/Reg#: 201714510099 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/19/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy

File No. FBN 677157 July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 677155 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. PARK HILLVIEW LG, 698 N Santa Cruz Ave #9, Los Gatos, CA 95030, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Julia A Sullivan, 698 N Santa Cruz Ave #9, Los Gatos, CA 95030. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 07/07/2021. 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/ Julia A Sullivan This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/19/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 677155 July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 677052 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MI CASA AGAVE, LLC, 5544 Lean Ave Apt 206, 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): MI CASA AGAVE, LLC, 5544 Lean Ave, San Jose, CA 95123.

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/ Blanca Rodriguez MI CASA AGAVE, LLC Member Article/Reg#:

202114610181 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/15/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 677052

she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Alexa Hiznay This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/08/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 676806

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 677139 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. AIDEN’S SMOG CHECK, 51 Hornlein Ct, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Laura Phuong Mai, 1136 Woodminster Dr, San Jose, CA 95121. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 7/09/2021. 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/ Laura Phuong Mai This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/19/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 677139

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383591 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Maria Teresa R. Amante.

Petitioner(s) Maria Teresa R. Amante has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Maria Teresa R. Amante to Maria Teresa B. Regala. 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 on 9/07/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

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July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NO. 676806 The following person(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Your Home Jungle, 346 Garner Ave, Sunnyvale CA, 94089. Filed in Santa Clara County on 9/10/20 under file no. FBN668201. Alexa Hiznay, 1545 Walnut Grove Ave, San Jose CA, 95126. This business was conducted by: An Individual. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or

July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384463 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ek Hukum.

Petitioner(s) Ek Hukum has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ek Hukum to A Ashish. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 10/12/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 19, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384467 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Araceli Natali Padilla.

Petitioner(s) Araceli Natali Padilla has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Alexander Sepulveda Padilla to Alexander Padilla. 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 on 10/12/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 19, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384446 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Isabel Ortega.

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a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Isabel Ortega to Isabel Diaz Sumano.

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 on 10/05/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 19, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384501 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Shahzad A Jahan Panah Bilehsavar. Petitioner(s) Shahzad A Jahan Panah Bilehsavar has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Shahzad A Jahan Panah Bilehsavar to Eray Jahan b. Mina G Eshghi Sarooghieh to Mina Jahan c. Ela Jahanpanah Bilehsavar to Ela Jahan. 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 on 10/12/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

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Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384148 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Michael Alexander Nunez. Petitioner(s) Michael Alexander Nunez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Michael Alexander Nunez to Mike Amor. 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 on 9/28/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 09, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384149 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Phuong Nam Bui. Petitioner(s) Phuong Nam Bui has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Phuong Nam Bui to Jaynee Phuong-Nam Bui. 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 on 9/28/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 09, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384404 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Angelina Ellie Andrei, aka: Lina Eilia Serhan, aka: Lina Eilia.

Petitioner(s) Angelina Ellie Andrei, aka: Lina Eilia Serhan, aka: Lina Eilia has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Angelina Eilie Andrei aka Lina Eilia Serhan aka Lina Eilia to Lenea Antonius Cirelli. 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 on 8/17/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 16, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384053 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Francisco J. Mercado Jr. Petitioner(s) Francisco J. Mercado Jr. has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com changing names as follows: a. Francisco J. Mercado Jr. to Cisco Namauleg. 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 on 9/28/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 07, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383868 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: TRI VAN CHAU & QUYEN MY TRAN. Petitioner(s) Tri Van Chau & Quyen My Tran has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. HUY GIA CHAU to HENRY HUY CHAU. 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 on 9/21/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 01, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW

CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383867 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: TRI MINH NGUYEN & TU THI NGUYEN. Petitioner(s) TRI MINH NGUYEN & TU THI NGUYEN have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. SA TI NGUYEN to TISA NGUYEN. 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 on 9/21/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 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.

July 01, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 23, 30, August 6 and 13, 2021 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of John Villarreal No.21PR190146 1. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of John Villarreal. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Marisela Campos in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.

The Petition for Probate requests that Marisela Campos be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

4. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal represen-

tative 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: September 13, 2021, 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 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Ave Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 408-866-8382

July 23, 30 and August 6, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676679 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OCAMPO TRUCKING, INC., 1528 Mr. Herman Drive, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Ocampo Trucking, Inc., 1528 Mt. Herman Drive, San Jose, CA 95127. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/19/2020. This filing is a new 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/ Hilario H. Ocampo CEO Ocampo Trucking, Inc. Article/Reg#: 4536730 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 07/06/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 676679 July 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676447 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lila’s Cleaning and Janitorial Services, 2727 Aido Avenue, 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): Olga L. Duran, 2727 Aida Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on, 6/14/21. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of 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.)

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 /s/ Olga L. Duran This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 5/10/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 676447 July 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676638 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tapatio Store, 459 South Capitol Avenue, #5, 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):Alejandro Ferreira Angula, 575 Minor Avenue, 575 Minor Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125. 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 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/ Alejandra Ferreira Angulo This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 5/10/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 676447 July 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383802 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Juan A. Mauricio. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Juan A. Mauricio & Reina I. Menjivar, on behalf of Cathy Mauricio Menjivar, a minor have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Cathy Mauricio Menjivar to Katie Mauricio Menjivar 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: 9/21/2021 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.

July 06, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384080 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Shu Feng Liu. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Shu Feng Liu has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Shu Feng Liu to Shu-Feng Wu 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

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 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: 9/28/2021 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.

July 08, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383909 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Evangelina Gallegos. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Evangelina Gallegos has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Evangelina Gallegos to Marvella Andrea Gallegos 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: 9/21/2021 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.

July 02, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV378081 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Guadalupe Ramirez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Guadalupe Ramirez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Oscar Santiago Ramirez to Santiago Ortiz Lozano 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: 8/31/2021 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.

July 07, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com NO. 21CV383907 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Zhenglong Sun. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Zhenglong Sun has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Zhenglong Sun to Jake Sun 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: 9/21/2021 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.

July 02, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383595 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Eunice Minjee Kang. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Eunice Minjee Kang has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Eunice Minjee Kang to Eunice Hinjee Cho 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: 9/07/2021 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.

June 24, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383783 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ernestine Rios Hernandez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ernestine Rios Hernandez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ernestine Rios Hernandez to Ernestina Rose Hernandez 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: 9/14/2021 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.

Jun 29, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383786 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Shivani Bharatkumar Pandya. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Shivani Bharatkumar Pandya has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Shivani Bharatkumar Pandya to Shivani Vedant Dhruv 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: 9/14/2021 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.

Jun 29, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383803 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Phat Tan Lam. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Phat Tan Lam Sun has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Phat Tan Lam to Henry Lam 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: 9/21/2021 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.

June 30, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS OF NAME NO. 21CV383795 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jiang Yu. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Jiang Yu has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Jiang Yu to John Hetai Yu 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: 9/21/2021 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.

June 30, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383794 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ka Kui Wong. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ka Kui Wong has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ka Kui Wong to Warwick Ka Kui Wong 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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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: 9/21/2021 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.

June 30, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383788 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Chen, Ming Yu. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Chen, Ming Yu has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Chen, Ming Yu to Yuan, Ming Yu 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

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granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 9/14/2021 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.

June 29, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

Columbine Dr, San Jose CA, 95127. This business was conducted by: An Individual.

“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/ Joseluis Arroyo Rojas This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/07/2018.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 676757

selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web Site (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and cost that the court waived for you and the other party.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante.

Una carta o llamada telefónica o una audiencia de la corte NO basta para protegerlo.

Exención De Cuotas: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas.

La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a petición de usted o de la otra parte.

July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021

July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021

AMENDED SUMMONS (Family Law) (FL-110)

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos.

La corte también puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Ruby’s House of Beauty, 345 Leavesley Rd, Gilroy CA, 95020.

Filed in Santa Clara County on 2/21/19 under file no. FBN651607.

Alma D. Arroyo, 345 Leavesley Rd, Gilroy CA, 95020. This business was conducted by: An Individual.

“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 K Thomas This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 7/07/2018.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 676758 July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Antojitos Michuacanos, 3580 Columbine Dr, San Jose CA, 95127. Filed in Santa Clara County on 11/30/20 under file no. FBN670408. Joseluis Arroyo Rojas, 3580

NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): Trinidad Jose Martinez AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre): Trinidad Jose Martinez You have been sued.

Read the information below.

Lo han demandado.

Lea ia información en la pagina siguiente.

Petitioner’s name is: Jamie Marie Martinez Nombre del demandante: Jamie Marie Martinez Case Number (Número de caso): 18FL002827 You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children.

You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/

Para asesoramiento legal, pónganse en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpca.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

NOTICE; The restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

AVISO; Las órdenes de restricción están en vigencia en cuanto a ambos cónyuges miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes.

Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas ordenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee

1. The name and address of the court is (el nombre y dirección de la corte son): Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara Family Justice Center Courthouse Street Address: 201 N. First Street.

San Jose, CA 95113 2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección, y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Jamie Marie Martinez 763 San Justo Court, Apt. #3 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Tel: (650)793-5220

Date (Fecha): October 25, 2019 Clerk, by (Secretario, por) A. Georgieva, Deputy (Asistente): STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or

other coverage, including life, health, automobile and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children: 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court.

Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective.

However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or you own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

NOTICE - ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www. coveredca.com Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506.

WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides

that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divide, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption.

You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

ORDENES DE RESTRICCION NORMALES DE DERECHO FAMILIAR En forma inmediata, usted y su cónyuge o pareja de hecho tienen prohibido: 1. Llevarse del estado de California a los hijos menores de las partes, o solicitar un pasaporte nuevo o de repuesto para los hijos menores, sin el consentimiento previo por escrito de la otra parte o sin una orden de la corte; 2.

Cobrar, pedir prestado, cancelar, transferir, deshacerse o cambiar el nombre de los beneficiarios de cualquier seguro u otro tipo de cobertura, como de vida, salud, vehículo y discapacidad, que tenga como beneficiario(s) a las partes y su(s) hijo(s) menor(es); 3. Transferir, gravar, hipotecar, ocultar o deshacerse de cualquier manera de cualquier propiedad, inmueble o personal, ya sea comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o separada, sin el consentimiento escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte, excepto en el curso habitual de actividades personal o para satisfacer las necesidades de la vida; y

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 4. Crear o modificar una transferencia no testamentaria de manera que afecte la asignación de una propiedad sujeta a transferencia, sin el consentimiento por escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte.

Antes de que se pueda eliminar la revocación de una transferencia no testamentaria, se debe presentar ante la corte un aviso del cambio y hacer una entrega legal de dicho aviso a la otra parte.

Cada parte tiene que notificar a la otra sobre cualquier gasto extraordinario propuesto, por lo menos cinco días laborales antes de realizarlo, y rendir cuenta a la corte de todos los gastos extraordinarios realizados después de que estas órdenes de restricción hayan entrado en vigencia. No obstante, puede usar propiedad comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o suya separada para pagar a un abogado o para ayudarle a pagar los costos de la corte.

AVISO-ACCESO A SEGURO DE SALUD MÁS ECONÓMICO: ¿Necesita seguro de salud a un costo asequible, ya sea para usted o alguien en su hogar? Si es as¡, puede presentar una solicitud con Covered California.

Covered California lo puede ayudar a reducir el costo que paga por seguro de salud asequible y de alta calidad.

Para obtener mas información, visite www. coveredca.com. O llame a Covered California al 1-800-300-0213.

ADVERTENCIA – INFORMACION IMPORTANTE De acuerdo a la ley de California, las propiedades adquiridas por las partes durante su matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma conjunta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para los fines de la división de bienes que ocurre cuando se produce una disolución o separación legal del matrimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera de las partes de este caso llega a fallecer antes de que se divida la propiedad comunitaria

de tenencia conjunta, el destino de la misma quedará determinado por las cláusulas de la escritura correspondiente que describen su tenencia (por ej. tenencia conjunta, tenencia en común o propiedad comunitaria) y no por la presunción de propiedad comunitaria. Si quiere que la presunción comunitaria que registrada en la escritura de la propiedad, debería consultar con un abogado.

Run Dates: July 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2021 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número de caso): 19CV347681 SUM-100 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DIEGO ARMANDO SERRANO MONDRAGON; MARCELINO HERNANDEZ PEREZ AND DOES 1 TO 30, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): PABLO BANUELOSMEZA NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para respuesta.

Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes California (www. sucorteca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la

corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorteca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.

AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NUMBER (Número de caso): 19CV347681 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara 191 N. First Street San Jose, California 95113 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): THEODORE COX, ESQ., SBN: 147357 SOUTHWEST LEGAL GROUP 22440 Clarendon Street, Second Floor Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Tel: (818)591-4300

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com Date (Fecha): 5/9/2019 3:43PM Clerk, by (Secretario) Yuet Lai Deputy (Adjunto) For Proof of Service of this summons, use Proof of Service of Summons form POS-010. Para prueba de entrega de esta citation use el formulario Proof of Service of Summons, POS-101.

Statement of Damages (Personal Injury or Wrongful Death) Case No. 19CV347681 To: Diego Armando Serrano Mondragon Plaintiff: Pablo BanuelosMeza, seeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows: 1. General Damages a.

Pain, suffering and inconvenience $ 100,000.00 2. Special Damages a. Medical Expenses (to date) $13,693.23 b. Future medical expenses (present value) $15,000.00 c. Loss of earnings (to date) $15,000.00 Date: July 13, 2021 /s/ Theodore Cox, Esq. Statement of Damages (Personal Injury or Wrongful Death) Case No. 19CV347681 To: Marcelino Hernandez Perez Plaintiff: Pablo BanuelosMeza, seeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows: 3. General Damages b. Pain, suffering and inconvenience $ 100,000.00 4. Special Damages d. Medical Expenses (to date) $13,693.23 e. Future medical expenses (present value) $15,000.00 f. Loss of earnings (to date) $15,000.00 Date: July 13, 2021 /s/ Theodore Cox, Esq. July 16, 23, 30 August 6, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676156 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: QUEE’S BEAUTY SALOON, 3975 Senter Road, Ste 101, 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):

Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, 1260 Danforth Court, San Jose, CA 95121. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on, 5/1/21. 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/ Ngoc Thanh Nguyen This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 6/16/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 676156 July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676205 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The BLVDS, 787 Farm Drive, Unit 4, San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Ensou, LLC, 787 Farm Drive, Unit 4, San Jose, CA 95136.

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/ Davon G. McMillian, Owner Ensou, LLC Article/Reg#: 202009410463 This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 6/17/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 676205 July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676446 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PRETTY PICNICS

BAY AREA, 953 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Lourdes Ibarra, 953 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on, 5/7/21. 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/ Lourdes Ibarra This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 6/29/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 676446 July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 676650 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Platinum Realtors, Platinum Realtors California, 1999 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite 700, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Veronica Juarez, 916 Goodwin Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on, 7/2/21. 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/ Veronica Juarez This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 6/29/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ M. K., Deputy File No. FBN 676650 July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE

OF NAME NO. 21CV378848 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Xia Wang and Chang Hao Yin. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) : Xia Wang and Chang Hao Yin has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Xia Wang to Bonnie Yoon, b. Chang Hao Yin to Vincent Yoon, c. Rui Yin to Rebecca Yoon, and d. Grace Yin to Grace Yoon. 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: 9/14/2021 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.

June 29, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383151 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hao Cheng Chen/Tung Chi Huang. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) : Hao Cheng Chen/Tung Chi Huang has filed a petition for

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Po Yuan Chen to Brad Poyuan Chen and b. Po Han Chen to Sophie Pohan Chen. 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: 8/10/2021 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.

July 6, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV383006 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: FNU SOORAJ PARASURAMAN. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) FNU SOORAJ PA R A S U R A M A N has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

FNU SOORAJ PARASURAMAN to SOORAJ PARASURAMAN b.

FNU SHEENA SOORAJ to SHEENA SOORAJ c. FNU SURANJANA SOORAJ to SURANJANA SOORAJ 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all

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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: 8/24/2021 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.

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OUTGUNNED: WHY CALIFORNIA’S GROUNDBREAKING FIREARMS LAW IS FAILING

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It didn’t work, largely because the agency had trouble recruiting and keeping staff.

wo decades ago, California legislators added a new weapon to the state’s growing arsenal of gun-control measures, already among the toughest in the nation. Their motivation came from 2,000 miles away in a shaken Chicago suburb.

Bonta said in an interview that he wants to address those staffing shortages and keep pace with advances in technology so overburdened agents don’t have to grapple with a hodge-podge of nearly a dozen outdated databases to create a reliable list.

As it stands now, the department can’t even determine the precise breadth of the backlog, including how many cases have remained unresolved for more than six months.

It was there that a gunman opened fire in an engine factory where he’d worked for nearly 40 years. He killed four people and wounded four others before pulling the trigger on himself. It was soon revealed that some of the weapons he smuggled inside should have been earlier confiscated because of his past criminal convictions.

In the wake of the rampage, and with lofty expectations, California became the first state in the country to create a database identifying thousands of people who’d legally purchased guns but were now deemed too dangerous to be armed.

In a rare display of bipartisanship — especially on an issue as fractious as gun control — the California Legislature wanted to give state and local authorities a methodical way to remove firearms from individuals who’d lost their right to bear them because of violent crimes, serious mental health issues or active restraining orders.

But what seemed at the time like a straight-forward approach to the enforcement of existing gun laws has instead become mired in chronic shortcomings, failing for years to make good on its potential.

Successive administrations have vowed to fix the problems, but all have fallen short.

Today, the state is struggling to recover thousands of guns from people who have been ordered to surrender them. At the start of the year, the list compiled by the state Department of Justice had swelled to 24,000 individuals, the most ever. The pandemic only worsened the mounting backlog of cases when some state Justice Department agents were pulled from field enforcement.

“We are lucky to have a system that tells us this information,” said Julia Weber, a former supervising attorney for the state courts’ administration who now works on gun policy issues for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “But it’s disheartening. It’s a failure of the promise of the system.”

CalMatters spent three months examining the layered troubles of the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, interviewing current and former law enforcement officers, gun control advocates, lawmakers and researchers. The news outlet also contacted hundreds of law enforcement agencies across California to assess their engagement — or lack thereof — with the system.

“We are lucky to have a system that tells us this information, but it’s disheartening. It’s a failure of the promise of the system.”

-JULIA WEBER, FORMER SUPERVISING ATTORNEY FOR THE STATE COURTS’ ADMINISTRATION The state would not provide names of individuals in its database, citing confidentiality restrictions. But CalMatters obtained a small sampling dating back to March through separate requests to local law enforcement agencies that had received state Justice Department information for their jurisdictions. They provide a glimpse of the stakes behind the statistics.

In Santa Paula, a woman in the database has been ordered to surrender her guns because of a mental health-related prohibition. She’s listed as having 22 of them. In Ukiah, an accused domestic abuser is believed to have 44 guns. A Central Valley man awaiting trial on a rape charge for three years has remained armed despite a court order requiring him to hand over his firearm.

One of the names in the database stunned Corina Arias. In 2016, the Kings County grandmother was punched by her next-door neighbor, John Marshall Smith, who was convicted of misdemeanor battery.

The conviction carried a 10-year ban on owning a gun in California.

“I can’t even believe they’d allow him to be armed,” Arias said when told her attacker was listed by the state in March as having failed to surrender his gun.

“It’s a complete shock.” (CalMatters was unable to

California enacted a law to remove guns from people deemed too dangerous to be armed. But the measure, plagued by problems, has not achieved its promise. Photo Credit: Illustration by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters; iStock; California Department of Justice; Alameda County Superior Court locate Smith, and his attorney in the case is deceased.)

closet of the Norwalk home, where a 16-year-old and 2-year-old also lived.

Top-to-bottom problems stymie success The system’s effectiveness, CalMatters found, is being undermined on numerous fronts.

The previous year, law enforcement authorities discovered that a Los Angeles County man in the database was trafficking illegal weapons. They found a tactical vest and a pipe bomb in his home.

On the ground, the envisioned collaboration between state and local criminal justice officials to confiscate firearms has been scattershot, at best.

Some police departments say they had no idea they even had access to monthly state reports identifying individuals in their jurisdictions who remain unlawfully armed.

In 2020, as the pandemic spread across the months, nearly 300 people on the list tried to buy ammunition but were denied the purchases during background checks mandated in California, according to the Justice Department. Agents investigated and closed 73 cases involving those people, recovering 96 guns.

At the same time, many judges have done little to ensure their orders requiring gun relinquishments are executed, worsening the backlog and potentially putting the public’s safety at risk.

At the time of its adoption, the Armed and Prohibited Persons System was seen as the low-hanging fruit of gun-control measures—taking firearms from known owners who legally shouldn’t have them.

Meanwhile, understaffed state agents in the Bureau of Firearms are often outmatched by the onslaught of new cases every day from throughout California.

Each one must be checked and cross-checked by hand across multiple criminal justice databases before being added to the prohibited-persons list.

Simply put, the additions are coming faster than the subtractions.

But today, the inability of state and local agencies to make it work as envisioned has raised questions about how they can begin to confront the wider menace posed by the thousands of illegal firearms circulating throughout California or the new wave of untraceable “ghost guns,” assembled at home from mail-order kits.

The work-intensive process and outmoded technology has led some in law enforcement to question the database’s reliability. They say they’ve discovered errors during field operations and that investigations based on the list are a waste of resources.

Experts on the system — who note that thousands of guns have, in fact, been removed from individuals — say stakeholders throughout government must summon the resolve to finally fix the system’s deepening problems.

“We’ve made a decision as a society that there are people who, for a constellation of reasons, should not be allowed to have firearms. Are we going to enforce that social decision or not?” asked Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis.

To be sure, a person’s inclusion on the list does not mean he or she will act violently with a legally purchased but unlawfully possessed weapon. Gun control advocates struggled to identify shootings that might have been prevented had authorities successfully retrieved firearms. Officials acknowledge that some people on the list may have already surrendered their weapons.

Although the state does not track how many individuals, if any, commit crimes while they continue to remain armed, the agency has good reason to be concerned.

“We’ve made a decision as a society that there are people who should not be allowed to have firearms.

Are we going to enforce that social decision or not?”

GAREN WINTEMUTE, DIRECTOR OF THE VIOLENCE PREVENTION RESEARCH PROGRAM AT UC DAVIS Last year, agents recovered 12 handguns, four rifles, two shotguns, one assault weapon and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a person listed in the database as having 24 firearms. One of the handguns was loaded and unsecured in a bedroom

“It’s very frustrating to see that we have such a hard time implementing firearms removals in situations where we have all the information in front of us,” said Weber of the Giffords Law Center. “It doesn’t give the public a lot of confidence in our ability to tackle a lot of these more complex firearm issues.”

Stephen Lindley spent more than 15 years in the state Justice Department, including nearly a decade in charge of the Bureau of Firearms before leaving in 2018. He said he was proud of California’s database and its successes removing weapons from potentially dangerous and suicidal individuals.

But he said he also saw up close the many obstacles. You can’t keep adding people to the list, he said, without making sure weapons are being removed from people, too.

“We’re no longer at the front of the pack here,” he said.

A vow to fix California’s gun law — again During his recent confirmation hearings, State Attorney General Rob Bonta was peppered with questions from lawmakers on how he planned to fix the system. The discussion mostly focused on the need to modernize the database and hire additional agents to investigate cases.

At the start of this year, there were 75 authorized positions in the Bureau of Firearms unit responsible for the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, nicknamed APPS, including special agents, supervisors and trainees. But a third of those spots were vacant, meaning that some 50 individuals in six offices across California were primarily responsible for tens of thousands of guns.

In the past, money has not been the answer.

Following the Newtown, Conn., elementary school mass shooting in 2012, for example, the state added $24 million to address what was then a rising backlog of armed individuals. With that funding, the Justice Department said it could reduce the backlog by 40% over three years, bringing total cases down to

“It is a nation leading system, something that California should be proud of,” Bonta said. “We’re committed to making progress in reducing the APPS list and hope to be able to show you the outcomes and data in the months and year ahead that demonstrates that.”

Holes on the front lines Lost in all the talk about funding and modernization has been an arguably bigger obstacle to success — how to get hundreds of local law enforcement agencies to pick up a heavier share of the burden, as legislators initially envisioned. Building the list is one thing, getting the guns is another.

The Justice Department has for years prepared a monthly report for local agencies across the state showing who in their jurisdictions is in the database.

But either the word hasn’t gotten through or the will to act among some local police hasn’t been strong.

Lindley, the former head of the state firearms bureau, said that under his watch the state sent the monthly reports as both a document and spreadsheet so departments could filter data to, say, focus on just local residents with a history of domestic violence or severe mental health issues.

But “agencies didn’t do shit with them,” Lindley said.

He later softened his criticism, saying some, like the Los Angeles Police Department, did set up local programs to confiscate the guns. But many agencies didn’t engage.

“The APPS program saves lives,” Lindley said. “And if more agencies invested just a little bit of time into doing that in their own jurisdictions, it would be very beneficial.”

CalMatters asked 400 local law enforcement agencies across California for the most recent monthly reports they’d received regarding unlawfully armed people in their jurisdictions.

About 80 departments indicated they were aware of the report but declined to provide a copy, citing various public records exemptions. Many departments simply didn’t respond.

But more than 150 agencies wrote back saying they didn’t have any such reports. Although it’s possible an officer in one of those agencies may have obtained information directly through the Justice Department’s website, numerous police officials said they had no idea what CalMatters was asking about.

“I have been the police chief here for almost eight years. We have never received a report from anyone regarding who has guns that they should not have,” Orange Cove’s police chief wrote in an email.

“I have never heard of such a report.”

The same went for Leslie Easley, a records administrator at the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office. “As far as I know, there is no report like that. I’ve never seen one in 15 years here.”

While on the phone with a CalMatters reporter, she logged into a portal where the state shares information with local law enforcement agencies. She tried searching for a monthly armed and prohibited persons report but got only an automated message saying her search yielded no results.

And it wasn’t just smaller agencies that said they were unaware of the reports.

“I’ve never heard of this,” said Maryann Weiman, a senior administrative analyst with the Stockton Police Department. “That might have been nice to know about.” Weiman said she couldn’t rule out the possibility that someone in her 400-person department receives an email. But if the department was using such a docu-

JUL 30 - AUG 05, 2021 ment, Weiman said, she’d know about it.

Martin’s friend.

One Northern California department indicated that it would start getting reports as a result of CalMatters’ records request.

“He still has access to these guns. I believe this is a sham transfer,” said Lange, who has asked the family court to hold Martin in contempt.

“After checking our files, we found that our agency was not receiving the Armed Prohibited Persons System reports on a monthly or any basis. As such, we have no reports that are subject to release,” Willits Police Chief Fabian E. Lizarraga wrote in an email. “We have now instituted steps to start receiving these reports through the Department of Justice. Thank you.”

Barring someone from having a gun for a few years, Lange said, allows for a “cooling off period” and gives “time for someone to heal and get over their anger. But it only works if we can actually get the guns away from them. Nobody is following through to make sure it actually happens.”

“I have been the police chief here for almost eight years. We have never received a report from anyone regarding who has guns that they should not have.”

-MARTY RIVERA, ORANGE COVE’S POLICE CHIEF Questions surrounding the reports publicly surfaced as a result of a 2008 shooting in the Southern California city of Baldwin Park.

In that case, Roy Perez shot and killed his mother, a neighbor and the neighbor’s 4-year-old daughter with a handgun he bought legally in 2004. In the aftermath, authorities acknowledged that Perez was in the state’s database and should have had his guns confiscated three years earlier because of mental health issues.

In a 2011 article on California’s database system, The New York Times noted that Baldwin Park police had failed to regularly read the state’s locally-tailored reports. “Nobody knew where the e-mail was or where it was going,” one lieutenant was quoted as saying.

A decade later, the list apparently still remains a mystery to the Baldwin Park Police Department.

Through a public records request, CalMatters asked the department for the latest monthly armed prohibited person report.

“There are no responsive documents because the City does not have the report you are requesting,” wrote an attorney representing Baldwin Park. Police department officials did not respond to multiple requests to clarify whether they were aware of the reports.

Every weapon a challenge The system’s mounting backlog reflects, in part, the time-consuming hurdles authorities confront in trying to get thousands of recalcitrant individuals to surrender their firearms — or to verify they’ve already done so. Each one presents its own formidable complexities in a system that, despite the state’s centralized database, is often hit-and-miss locally.

Take the case of Roger Martin, who was on the list supplied to Kings County law enforcement in March and obtained by CalMatters. Last year, court records show, he was accused of domestic violence in both criminal and family courts.

Martin, 60, allegedly shoved his wife so hard she fell face first onto the floor and broke her wrist, according to a restraining order request filed by her attorney in September 2020. In the request, the court was informed that Martin possessed firearms.

Martin was arrested and charged criminally for the alleged attack, ultimately pleading no contest to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge.

He was required to surrender his guns in early September when he was first served with the family court’s temporary restraining order. Two months later, the judge presiding over the criminal case issued a protective order, which also barred him from having guns.

Despite the two court orders, Martin for months failed to surrender numerous firearms.

Court records show that in April of this year, the family court appointed a local lawyer to retrieve the guns and give them to Martin’s attorney, who would ensure his client no longer had access to them.

Records submitted in the case show that Martin transferred 12 firearms on April 12 for no money to a gun shop in Arizona — seven months after he was ordered to relinquish them.

Attorney David Lange, who represents Martin’s wife, is challenging the transfers because he believes the guns should have been transferred to a licensed dealer in California, as he argues the law requires.

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Martin’s attorney in the criminal case referred questions to his family court lawyer, who handled the weapons transfer. That attorney declined to comment.

In the field, police see flaws up-close Law enforcement officers, meanwhile, face their own roadblocks.

The database is what some refer to as a “pointer system.” It points officers toward possible guns, but it takes investigation and planning to determine if a firearm should be seized and how to do it.

Merely being in the database does not rise to the level of probable cause for authorities to obtain a search warrant and gain access to a home. Instead, officers must resort to knocking on doors, getting people to voluntarily acknowledge they still possess firearms and then convincing them to hand them over — no small feat.

Troy Newton spent 22 years in the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department before retiring in 2019. Several years ago, he was part of a small team his department assembled to recover guns from people on the list. But it was a bust, he said.

Newton said the team knocked on doors for all of one night before abandoning the effort as a waste of resources that could be directed toward more pressing violent crime problems. Some individuals the team contacted, he said, easily provided proof their guns had been sold long ago, while others claimed they had gotten rid of them but could provide no evidence.

“There was just no way to verify,” Newton said, adding that the state “has no idea who has guns and who’s turned them in.”

Department of Justice officials acknowledge their database isn’t fail-safe.

In 2018, for example, they found that local police routinely failed to update the state’s databases after taking a gun. As a result, state agents concluded that in more than 8% of their investigations that year, the guns in question were already in law enforcement custody.

Even when the information is correct, some people might be on the list because of an apparent misunderstanding or paperwork issue, not because they’re trying to illegally keep their guns.

Christopher Blankenship, a former reserve officer for the Santa Paula Police Department, said he had to “jump through hoops” to get his name off the list.

In 2013, he pleaded guilty to a felony for a drunken, off-duty crash that killed another officer. The conviction resulted in a lifetime ban on firearms ownership.

CalMatters contacted Blankenship to determine why, eight years after his conviction, he was among eight individuals who remained listed as unlawfully armed as of March, according to information released by Santa Paula police through a public records request.

Blankenship said the Justice Department informed him about five or six years ago that he was in the Armed and Prohibited Persons System as owning two guns. He said he told the agency that he’d given both away as gifts — one to his brother, one to a friend — and provided photos to back up his account. He said he also signed a form attesting that he no longer owned them.

“As far as I knew that was done, taken care,” he said.

But in March, he said, two Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies knocked on his door. Their department is one of four participating in a pilot project in which local agencies help recover firearms from individuals on the list, an effort that got a $10 million funding boost from the Legislature this year.

Blankenship said they told him he’d have to legally transfer ownership of the gifted weapons in California, otherwise he’d remain in the database.

So in late March, Blackenship said, he drove north to a gun store in Redding, where he met his Oregon friend and transferred ownership of the firearm. He did the same with his brother at a store in Oxnard.

Despite the hassle, Blankenship said, he appreciates the importance of the state’s database. Whether it’s getting guns from dangerous individuals or simply ensuring they’re properly accounted for, “it’s just a good way of making sure they’re handled in a legal, proper way.”

Courting danger One logical place to start confronting the backlog of unlawfully possessed weapons, advocates say, is in the courts, where judges issue the directives prohibiting individuals from possessing firearms because of convictions and restraining orders.

But CalMatters found that California judges, for a variety of reasons, are failing to ensure that their orders are being followed. This forces the Justice Department and local police to play catch-up months later after the names end up in the state’s database.

Department officials flagged the problem in their last two annual reports on the system.

They noted that the percentage of individuals with felony convictions in the database climbed from 47% to 54% between 2019 and 2020, suggesting that “relinquishment regulations at the time of conviction are not being effectively implemented.”

Over the years, there have been efforts — including legislation and voter-approved measures — to ensure guns are being surrendered earlier, at the courthouse level, but many have been stymied by budget barriers, hiring hurdles, technological issues or inconsistent enforcement.

“What if (judges) could say, ‘I got it right here in the computer… You’ve got guns and we’re going to send you home with the bailiff and we want those guns now.’ Just get it done.”

-GAREN WINTEMUTE, DIRECTOR OF THE VIOLENCE PREVENTION RESEARCH PROGRAM AT UC DAVIS The state has failed, for example, to fully fund a mandate requiring California’s county courts to confiscate or enforce the transfer of firearms “at the time of conviction when an individual is prohibited due to a felony or qualifying misdemeanor,” the Justice Department noted in its 2020 annual report.

A 2001 law also has failed to live up to its billing.

It requires family courts to perform background checks on individuals before issuing domestic violence restraining orders to determine, among other things, criminal histories. A later law expanded the checks to include a review of the state’s vast database of all legal weapons sales. If there’s a match, judges are empowered to convene hearings and hold gun owners in contempt to ensure their weapons are surrendered.

In practice, this hasn’t always happened.

The full background checks only applied to courts with the resources to afford them. The state Judicial Council was legislatively tasked with determining which courts were too hard-pressed to comply.

But that analysis was never done. To this day, state court administrators do not know who’s doing rigorous background checks and who’s not.

In addition, many judges lack access to a confidential Justice Department database that includes all weapons sales, to match against individuals in their courtrooms accused of acts that would bar gun ownership.

Records show that 20% of people in the Armed and Prohibited Persons System — nearly 4,600 gun owners — are under restraining orders.

“Why don’t we give judges access to the purchase records?” said gun researcher Wintemute, who is studying the state’s system. “What if they could say, ‘I got it right here in the computer…You’ve got guns and we’re going to send you home with the bailiff and we want those guns now.’ Just get it done.”

Only 28 superior courts — fewer than half — have access to the Justice Department’s web portal, which includes firearm ownership records and other law enforcement databases, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Although some courts told CalMatters that local sheriff’s offices check firearm ownership for them in domestic violence cases, others acknowledged they’re unable to regularly

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get such information.

Confusion was evident in the response of Placer County to CalMatters’ queries. The court there initially said it had access to criminal histories, but not firearms ownership. After follow-up questions, a spokesman said the court discovered it did have access to that information and would now use it in domestic violence cases.

Even when family court judges learn an alleged abuser is armed, they don’t always require proof that guns are surrendered.

Too often it’s an “honor system,” said Allison Kephart, the legal director of Weave, a nonprofit that helps domestic abuse survivors in Sacramento County. “It falls on the victim to come back to the court and say, ‘Excuse me, your honor, you told this person they needed to turn their gun in. And I don’t believe they have.’”

A bill advancing through the Legislature, Senate Bill 320, would force family court judges to do more to ensure abusers surrender their weapons. Although a similar bill failed last session, this one has little opposition.

Defiantly armed and dangerous The price of legislative inertia or judicial inaction can be harrowingly high.

In June 2019, a Fremont woman asked the family court in Alameda County to issue a domestic violence restraining order against her husband, Treveonn White. She alleged that he strangled her and threatened to shoot her.

CalMatters learned of the case through a public records request to county prosecutors for information on individuals with restraining orders who were later charged with firearms possession. CalMatters does not identify alleged abuse victims without their consent.

During a hearing, the 22-year-old woman warned a superior court commissioner, who functions like a judge, that White owned two handguns. Records confirm that he had two registered firearms.

“He’s definitely required to surrender those,” the court commissioner replied, according to hearing transcripts.

The woman was granted a restraining order, which directed White to hand over any guns in his possession to a law enforcement agency or licensed dealer. “The judge will ask you for proof that you did so,” the order states.

There’s no record that the court followed through with the warning—not in hearing transcripts or any documents available in the court file.

There is, however, evidence that White’s wife continued to fear for her safety. Twice, she filed documents with the court saying her husband remained armed. She wanted the court to force him to surrender the weapons but she missed one hearing on her request and was told she incorrectly filled out the paperwork a second time.

Just weeks later, in the middle of the night, White began leaving menacing messages on his wife’s phone.

“I can’t wait. I can’t. I’ll be right there and I’ll be watching when I blow your f—ing brains out,” he said, according to allegations later filed in criminal court.

Terrified, the woman called the police. Fremont officers raced to her house, where they found White parked in the darkness in a black Kia. He had a .22-caliber handgun and a magazine loaded with nine rounds.

White was charged with making criminal threats and possessing a firearm, despite being the subject of a restraining order. Last month he pleaded no contest to illegally carrying a concealed weapon, and the District Attorney’s Office dropped the other charges.

The Alameda County Public Defender’s Office declined to comment on the case. So, too, did a court spokesman. Nor would the Justice Department confirm whether White was in the state’s Armed and Prohibited Persons System.

But according to a declaration police filed in the case, White did know about the restraining order.

When officers asked him why he hadn’t surrendered his firearms, White responded: “F—k that.”

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MIGRANT WORKER GROUP HELPS VACCINATE AN OHIO COMMUNITY

GRUPO DE TRABAJADORES MIGRANTES AYUDA A VACUNAR A UNA COMUNIDAD DE OHIO

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Mary Schuermann Kuhlman Public News Service

"Era importante para ellos asegurarse de que sus miembros tuvieran asientos en primera fila para recibir la vacuna, lo que en realidad lo hicieron, porque la clínica de FLOC estaba en funcionamiento como los principales hospitales", dijo. "Entonces, creo que fue crucial para ellos mostrar a sus miembros que los respaldan".

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OLUMBUS, Ohio - Jessica Molina of Perrysburg says she was inspired as a child by the spirit of activism, as she watched her parents participate in rallies and protests advocating for the rights of farm workers. Now, as the principal of the only bilingual elementary school in Toledo, Escuela Smart Academy, Molina volunteers with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee on youth programs.

Por sus contribuciones para ayudar a los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes, Molina y sus padres asistieron recientemente a una celebración en la Casa Blanca de trabajadores y voluntarios de atención médica de primera línea.

Most recently, Molina has helped FLOC with COVID-19 vaccination efforts, even opening the doors of the school to provide more space for their clinic.

"It was important for them to make sure that their members had front-row seats to getting the vaccine - which really, they did, because FLOC's clinic was up and running just like the major hospitals," she said. "So, I think it was crucial to for them to show their members they have their back."

For their contributions to helping migrant farm workers, Molina and her parents recently attended a White House celebration of front-line health-care workers and volunteers.

FLOC's work resulted in more than 6,000 people being vaccinated at the south Toledo clinic, with an 89% return rate for the second dose. Molina noted that the clinics were open to anyone in need of the vaccine.

"The clinic was available on the weekends, in the evenings," she said. "We even had a 'vaccine-athon,' where we were offering vaccines for 42 hours straight, from sunup until sundown. So, it was a really productive clinic."

El trabajo de FLOC dio como resultado que más de 6.000 personas fueran vacunadas en la clínica del sur de Toledo, con una tasa de retorno del 89% para la segunda dosis. Molina señaló que las clínicas estaban abiertas a cualquier persona que necesitara la vacuna.

Jessica Molena of Perrysburg says her own parents' advocacy for migrant farm workers has served as an inspiration. Photo Credit: FLOC Molina said she believes FLOC has set an example of what it means to serve the community in times of crisis.

"They maximized their relationships and their partnerships with other organizations to refocus their work on battling the pandemic," she said. "Fighting COVID isn't a part of their mission statement, but helping the community is."

With such a large percentage of the community now vaccinated, Molina said the school is no longer needed as a clinic site. However, she noted that FLOC continues to connect workers at various migrant farms to health-care services.

María Schuermann Kuhlman Public News Service

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OLUMBUS, Ohio - Jessica Molina de Perrysburg dice que cuando era niña se sintió inspirada por el espíritu de activismo, mientras veía a sus padres participar en mítines y protestas que abogaban por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas. Ahora, como directora de la única escuela primaria bilingüe en Toledo, Escuela Smart Academy, Molina es voluntaria en el Comité Organizador de Trabajadores Agrícolas en programas para jóvenes.

Más recientemente, Molina ha ayudado a FLOC con los esfuerzos de vacunación contra COVID-19, incluso abriendo las puertas de la escuela para brindar más espacio para su clínica.

"La clínica estaba disponible los fines de semana, por las noches", dijo. "Incluso tuvimos un 'maratón de vacunas', en el que ofrecimos vacunas durante 42 horas seguidas, desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer. Así que fue una clínica realmente productiva".

Molina dijo que cree que FLOC ha dado un ejemplo de lo que significa servir a la comunidad en tiempos de crisis.

"Maximizaron sus relaciones y asociaciones con otras organizaciones para reenfocar su trabajo en la lucha contra la pandemia", dijo. "Luchar contra COVID no es parte de su misión, pero ayudar a la comunidad sí lo es".

Con un porcentaje tan grande de la comunidad ahora vacunada, Molina dijo que la escuela ya no es necesaria como un sitio clínico. Sin embargo, señaló que FLOC continúa conectando a los trabajadores de varias granjas de migrantes con los servicios de atención médica.

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