EL CHICANo Weekly
Vol 58, NO. 35
August 20, 2020
Aguilar visits USPS Processing and Distribution Center to call for action to protect postal ser vice
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n Tuesday, Aug. 18, Pete Representative Aguilar visited the USPS San Bernardino Mail Processing and Distribution Center with local postal union leaders to call on the Senate and President Trump to pass the Delivering for America Act into law. The bill, which would fund the $25 billion requested by the USPS to address their funding shortfall and would ban the Postal Service from making any changes to their operations or service levels, is set to pass the House of Representatives on Saturday. “The Postal Service is a pillar of our democracy, enshrined in the Constitution and essential for providing critical services. Seniors and veterans need the USPS to deliver prescriptions, taxpayers need the USPS to mail and receive their tax returns, USPS, cont. on next pg.
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Rep. Pete Aguilar held a press conference outside the USPS San Bernardino Mail Processing and Distribution Center on Tuesday, Aug. 18.
Community Hospital welcomed three sets of healthy twins in one day
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From left: Moody twins; de Jesus twins; and Singleton twins.
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n Friday, August 7, Dignity Health – Community Hospital of San Bernardino had an unusually busy birthing day. Three sets of twins were born within a matter of hours. June Collison, Hospital President, shared, “During such a difficult and trying time for our country, it is wonderful to celebrate such beautiful moments of welcoming new life to our San
Bernardino community.” Grateful parents Shania Moody and Nicholas Vargas of San Bernardino welcomed twin brothers, Jo’Ziah and Jacob, at 2:07 and 2:09 p.m. weighing 3.6 pounds and 4.8 pounds. Big sister, Zakia, 4, can’t wait for her little baby brothers to come home from the hospital. The boys, born at 33 weeks, are being cared for
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in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Just hours later, twin brothers Enrique de Jesus and Emiliano de Jesus were born at 5:05 and 5:06 p.m. weighing 6 pounds and 5.9 pounds, respectively. The healthy pair is home resting with family in Fontana. Last but certainly not least,
baby brother and sister, Kaevon and Kevia, were born at 8 p.m. and 8:40 p.m. weighing 3.2 pounds and 5 pounds. They are the first babies for happy mom, Faith Singleton, who lives in San Bernardino and visits the NICU every day to see her growing little ones. Baby Kevia was the last twin born that special day and the only girl!