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City Council candidate Jack Shu has been a longtime advocate for various causes in La Mesa. He was an early advocate for the city’s wellness campaign; worked to pressure the city to

adopt a comprehensive Climate Action Plan; and, most recently, helped spearhead the movement to have the city adopt a citizen oversight committee of the police department.

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Laura Lothian is a successful realtor and businesswoman who hopes to bring a business perspective to La Mesa’s City Council.

“The current balance of our City Council is three attorneys a medical doctor and a teacher.

And I think if you had a private sector business voice on the City Council, you’d have better balance,” she said. “I think the businesses in La Mesa are crying out for some support.”

Lothian hopes to be that support for businesses if she is elected to the Council in November — her third attempt at a seat in City Hall. She ran for mayor of La Mesa in 2010, coming within a few hundred votes of unseating incumbent Art Madrid.

City hosts town hall on policing, race, riots Chief Vasquez announces retirement on same day

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In a surprise move, La Mesa Police Chief Walt Vasquez announced his retirement on the same day as a town hall where he was a prominent speaker.

In a press release sent out during the live event, the police department announced his retirement will be effective Aug. 27 after five years as the top cop in La Mesa. The release said Vasquez had previously planned on retiring but he stayed longer than expected to guide the city through the coronavirus crisis.

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“Then two years later I ran for City Council and did poorly,” she said. “This time, I’m actually going to invest a lot of energy, financial resources and time.

When I ran before, I was just doing so much real estate, I didn’t try hard enough.”

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Before his retirement, he weathered another crisis as well: Peaceful protests of aggressive policing that devolved into riots on May 30.

At the Aug. 13 town hall where he faced many tough questions from the public, Vasquez provided an update on those events.

He said the investigation into the serious injury of Leslie Furcron at the protests had been forwarded to District Attorney Summer Stephan. Meanwhile, he announced that Matt Dages, SEE TOWN HALL, Page 3

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BACKGROUND OF A BUSINESSWOMAN For those that know Lothian, “not trying hard enough” would be abnormal.

Lothian was born in Hammond, Louisiana and lived there for 12 years before moving to New England and then to Southern Californian when she was 20 years old.

Her father was a physicist for NASA and her mother, a Guatemalan immigrant, was a real estate agent — a role Lothian would later step into herself, but not right away.

Before launching her own real estate career, Lothian was a stayat-home mom who with a degree in journalism who thought she would pursue her passion for writing and newspapers some day. But after a divorce at age 40, she decided to go into real estate where she discovered she had a talent for sales.

“In my first full year of real estate, I sold 101 houses, so I’ve had a phenomenal career in real estate and I think it’s helped me with a million other things,” she said.

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Lothian is now hoping to take those million other things that her business experience helped

NEWS her with and help La Mesa businesses get some “love” from City Council, which she said has stifled the local economy with too many rules and regulations. In her work as a realtor she said she witnessed how homeowners struggle with doing things like remodels because City Hall doesn’t take a “customer-friendly” approach to permits.

“That’s one problem,” she said.

“The other problem is all the businesses and the permits and the licenses and the regulations and the inspections. I think we forget that our businesses is what fund our schools, our fire and our police and our neighborhood parks and our infrastructure. I’m going

to be more about what we can do to make it easier for you open your doors and keep your doors open, instead of being constantly an obstacle.”

Regulatory obstacles are especially intrusive right now, she said, because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“This COVID has magnified every thing that has been wrong for a long time,” she said.

As an example, Lothian described a recent outing walking down La Mesa Boulevard and seeing makeshift patios with seating full of customers — made possible because regulations stopping restaurants from using sidewalks for seating and rules that don’t

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permit alcohol sales there have been temporarily revoked during the pandemic.

“To me, it was like seeing the moment the government says, ‘Hey let’s loosen up the rules and regulations,’ business is born,” she said. “Because of COVID, which is an emergency, you’ve had governments saying maybe we shouldn’t be so draconian and let’s lighten up a bit and businesses can breathe and its been a beautiful thing.”

Lothian said she would like to see the outdoor seating, and other loosened restrictions, remain in place after the emergency is over.

REGULATIONS AND RIOTS

In addition to seeing burdensome regulations hampering business, Lothian also points to their effect on personal liberties — and she sees a correlation between recent rules passed by City Council and the protests and riots of May 30. Specifically, she pointed to an ordinance passed unanimously by the council in January of this year to ban smoking in the city.

“It was like the City Council was in search of a problem,” she said.

“We don’t have a huge smoking problem in La Mesa.”

Before the ordinance was passed, Lothian said, there weren’t many people smoking cigarettes out in public spaces, except for the occasional worker taking a smoke break out back. But once passed, the ordinance then created a way for police to hassle people for smoking.

“To me, what makes hostility between the community and the police department, is when they hassle people,” she said. “If you got cops showing up because of an assault or a robbery or vandalism or arson, they are heroes.

But when they’re going around harassing people because they’re smoking a cigarette next to a trolley, there’s where your conflict happens.”

Many observers point out that that Black Lives Matter protests in La Mesa on May 30 that devolved into riots were brought to the city’s doorstep because of video showing a La Mesa Police officer pushing and then arresting a Black man at the trolley station. Although charges against the man were later dropped, the police officer said his initial reason for approaching the man was because he was smoking.

“I would like to see our police be more about protecting and serving and less about hassling,” Lothian said. “And the way for them to become less of a hassler is for them not to have stupid ordinances that they have to enforce. To me, this whole debacle that happened in La Mesa was because of an overreach by the government to create an ordinance about no smoking anywhere in La Mesa.”

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the officer behind the Amaurie Johnson arrest, was no longer with the department.

He also explained more about why the charge of resisting arrest against Johnson was dropped. Vasquez said after he viewed the body cam footage of the incident himself he did not feel it was appropriate to send the arrest to Stephan for criminal prosecution.

Vasquez said the question that hit him the most was the very first: how is the La Mesa Police Department going to regain the trust of the community?

“I must tell you, it is an every second effort. We just have to keep working hard to maintain and regain that trust of the citizens,” Vasquez said.

The department will have to do that without Vasquez soon though. In the last two years, he added new de-escelation trainings for officers and updated the use of force guidelines.

The town hall meeting was plagued with technical difficulties, highlighting the disconnect the virtual format created for the community. At one point, Council member Christine

Alessio streamed the meeting on her phone to Facebook Live because the city’s page was not simulcasting correctly. Speakers were often muted and long pauses occurred between each person.

Still, the public did receive more information than at previous meetings while investigations were ongoing. A lawyer specializing in employment advice to public agencies explained the process of police investigations and the disciplinary process, which can take up to a year. Unlike in the private sector, public employees are not at will and have significant workplace protections surrounding termination.

During public comment, Mayor Mark Araposthasis revealed since the protests exploded the city attorney had been educating the city council on their limited legal options while the public demands immediate action.

“What we’re finding is we have different powers because of unions and California’s due process,” he said. “It’s frustrating because trying to explain that to the public — it’s very arduous.”

It was also announced that the firm Hillard Heintz will be conducting the promised independent review of the city’s response on May 30.

While many asked tough questions of Vasquez during the public comment, those who weighed in on the issues revealed a divided public. Forty-year resident Trenton Smith said the protesters were bused in and the grandmother (Furcron) who was seriously injured should not have been participating with the rioters.

“I support vigilante justice,” a man said, praising Alessio and other people’s involvement in the La Mesa Civil Defense Group as well as the group Defend East County which has brought in counter-protesters to recent Black Lives Matter events in La Mesa. A recent San Diego Union-Tribune report found the 20,000 strong group is filled with racism and QAnon conspiracy theories.

City Council candidate Jack Shu, who recently stepped down from the task force charged with designing a citizen oversight board of LMPD, said, “We may be lucky that Leslie Furcron did not die… We really do need an independent police oversight board.”

The Citizen Oversight Task Force will present their findings at the September City Council meeting.

—Contributing editor Kendra Sitton can be reached at kendra@ sdnews.com.

Conversation on equity and inclusion

By KENDRA SITTON | La Mesa Courier

Amid ongoing efforts to reckon with racism, policing and other divisions within La Mesa, the City of La Mesa Community Relations and Veterans Commission hosted a virtual educational event called “A community conversation on inclusivity” on Wednesday, Aug. 5.

Panelists Dr. Rodney Hood and Leda Albright spoke to facilitator Gail Nugent on what inclusivity means and how people can take action to make La Mesa more inclusive.

Mayor Mark Arapostathis opened the meeting by saying, “La Mesa, like other cities, is looking to be more inclusive.”

Nugent said the meeting came to be because of the issues La Mesa has had since May, including protests over police brutality, riots, and the serious injury of Leslie Furcron.

Dr. Hood is a longtime resident of La Mesa. Within six months of moving to the city 34 years ago, he experienced an instance of racial profiling. A police officer stopped him on his way to his home around 3 a.m. after he finished a late shift at a local hospital and could not give a reason for why the doctor was being stopped. In the days that followed, Dr. Hood went to La Mesa Police Department headquarters and explained that he is a doctor and where he lives.

For him, the problem ceased and he was not contacted by officers again. However, not all Black

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In addition to his work as a clinician, Dr. Hood has researched and lectured extensively on the historic aspects of race, ethnicity, genetics and racism in medicine and the impacts on today’s health inequities. He served on the City of San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention as the public health representative and is the President of the Multicultural Health Foundation.

Before opening the floor to questions from Nugent and the public, Dr. Hood shared a powerpoint presentation that explained how systemic racism has led to differing health outcomes among Black Americans and other minorities, not a difference in lifestyle or genetics.

He explained that medical bias and discrimination can both lead to health problems, which is one of the reasons COVID-19 has been so devastating in Black and Latino communities. Dr. Hood said the life expectancy is shorter in the

diverse South Bay neighborhood where his clinic resides than in La Mesa. This is partially because of pollution and other forms of environmental racism.

Dr. Hood pointed out that individual racism could go away, but those outcomes would be the same because of systems. He is pushing for equity so the conditions that sicken Black people and other minorities no longer exist.

Dr. Hood drew an example from his own life. He was diagnosed with hypertension and began taking medication to treat the condition. After taking his medication at work, he checked his blood pressure and saw that it was in a normal range. When he went home, he watched the news where he saw violence against and dehumanization of Black people. He checked his blood pressure again and found that it was high despite the medication due to the stress of watching the news.

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consultant, she conducts trainings on diversity, inclusion and equity throughout Southern California.

She commended La Mesa for already showing community resilience when volunteers gathered to clean up after the riots on May 30.

Through her work in other cities, she had ideas about how La Mesa could work to increase equity but her main point was that programs end. “Programs are throwing money at a problem, not really long-term helping people,” Albright said.

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She also recommended leaders find out what the community actually wants instead of assuming what will help. Addressing smaller issues will help build trust ahead of major ones that need community buy in.

Many of the residents who wrote in were concerned about what they saw as increasing intolerance recently which is difficult to address while the community is separated during COVID-19. Albright offered ways to get involved in local committees and advisory groups to influence the direction of the city.

According to Albright, the work of building a better La Mesa does not solely fall on its Black residents. “[It’s] not the work of the Black community. All of us need to work this together or it’s not going to work.”

The city selected Home Start to administer the program. Home Start is a local nonprofit that specializes in helping families in need. Home Start will accept and review applications, answer emails and calls from residents, and assist the city with program administration. More information about the program can be found on Home Start’s website: home-start.org/city-of-la-mesarental-assistance.

To help residents prepare for the application process, Home Start will host an online webinar on Thursday, Aug. 27 at noon.

During the webinar, Home Start will provide an overview of the application process in English, Spanish, and Arabic as well as answer other questions: zoom. us/j/93662736572.

The application period will begin at 8 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 31 and close at midnight on Sept.

4. Residents that wish to apply should contact Home Start at 619-430-0032 or email lamesarentalassistance@gmail.com for more information.

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—Contributing editor Kendra Sitton can be reached at kendra@sdnews.com.

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CITY TO CONDUCT NATIONWIDE SEARCH FOR NEW POLICE CHIEF The City of La Mesa plans to hire an executive recruiting firm to conduct a nationwide search for its next Chief of Police. There

will be a community input component to the selection process.

The process is expected to take several months to complete.

Once the recruiting firm is hired additional details will be released.

Captain Matt Nicholass will assume the role of Acting Chief of Police on Aug. 28.

OKTOBERFEST WILL BE A VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE In light of current events and safety protocols, organizers of the 47th La Mesa Oktoberfest be a “reimagined weekend of festivities with just as much community spirit and prost-ing as you would expect from this beloved La Mesa tradition,” said organizers in a press release.

This year’s Oktoberfest will be held online Saturday, Oct. 3 from noon to 6 p.m. and feature an afternoon of Munich-inspired festivities including Oompah bands, bier tastings, craft demos and friendly competitions.

The event will include free streaming of entertainment like the chicken dance, German singa-longs and polka. The organizers will also offer an upgrade “Party Pack” filled with Deutche goods like a “Prost Pack” of German biers paired with a oneof-a-kind brewmaster tastings, a commemorative t-shirt and a party making Chicken Hat. Also offered for sale will be foodie boxes with items like Bavarian pretzel brats with sour kraut and more.

Although the large-scale events of Oktoberfest are cancelled, all weekend Friday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 4 the businesses of the La Mesa Village will offer deals and specials for visitors looking for some early holiday shopping. Local restaurants will also have specials for outdoor dining or take out.

Visit LaMesaOktoberfest.org website to find local businesses and unique offerings for the Oktoberfest weekend.

Lions Club, Gary Green and Jeff Phair, partners in the La Mesa Summit Estates development, The La Mesa Strong T-Shirt Team and several personal donations, as well as anonymous donations to assist these businesses.

The La Mesa Chamber encourages those businesses that were damaged during the civil unrest to apply now to receive a portion of these funds. There have already been donations made from the community for these businesses and the Chanmer is “happy to play a small role to CHAMBER BUSINESS distribute these funds, that were ASSISTANCE FUNDS NOW given with the same passion,” AVAILABLE according to a press stagtement.

The businesses damaged in La Small business owners can Mesa on May 30–31have received now apply for funds by filling out additional support from several lo- the form online: tinyurl.com/lmcal benefactors. These concerned businessassistancefund or call businesses and organizations the office 619-465-7700 to rewish to assist in the rebuilding of quest a form and then email it to the damaged La Mesa business- the chamber: chamber@lamesaes, as well as their lives. These chamber.com. The application donations have been made di- process began Aug. 10 and will rectly to the La Mesa Chamber of close on Aug. 31.

Commerce with the request that the Chamber disburse the funds to the damaged businesses. These YOUTH ADVISORY generous donations have required COMMISSION ACCEPTING the need for the Chamber to cre- APPLICATIONS ate a fund — the La Mesa Business Do you want to help plan the Assistance Fund. activities for the youth in La Randall Lamb Associates, a Mesa? business that was destroyed by Applications are being accepted the fires on May 30 made a gen- for several openings on the City’s erous contribution to begin the Youth Advisory Commission. fund. Several others followed Applicants must live within the suit to donate to this local fund. city limits of La Mesa and be at To date the donors are: Albert's Mexican Food, The La Mesa SEE NEWS BRIEFS, Page 16

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OPINION / POLITICS The constitutional right we cannot afford to waste

By TONI ATKINS

Every decade, each person in the United States, young and old, regardless of citizenship, has the Constitutional right to be counted. The Census is the only way for us to determine the true definition of America – whether you live in the largest metropolitan cities or miles down rural routes.

Reminders about taking the 2020 Census are emblazoned on billboards, featured in television commercials, and sprinkled into social media news feeds. It makes sense, given that approximately $1.5 trillion dollars in federal funding is at stake.

Breaking that down, that means for every person left out of the Census count, California could lose $1,000 per person — per year — for the next 10 years.

That’s a loss of $10,000 per uncounted person until the 2030 Census.

If you have a family of five, your community could lose out on $50,000.

The Census is like planning how much cake to have at a birthday party based on the number of RSVPs. No one wants to miss out on cake because you thought it was OK to just show up unannounced.

The total pool of funding is distributed to communities based on population and head counts. This includes babies, children, teenagers, seniors and non-citizens.

The current COVID-19 health crisis also affords an all-too-realistic example of why you need to be counted.

We need to ensure that we get our fair share of funding and resources in emergency situations. Funding for a community health clinic in your neighborhood is based on information only you can provide. The data also funds programs and resources like senior services, child health programs, higher education, and job training.

Our population is aging.

The first Baby Boomers hit 65 in 2011. That population will continue to grow, and senior services must be properly accounted for. By filling the Census form out, you are declaring, “I am here. I exist.”

More importantly, your answers help fund programs that serve your community and shape your future.

It is important to note that this is not a citizenship survey.

Despite the Supreme Court already having blocked the citizenship question from being included in the Census, the current administration continues to wrongfully attempt to circumvent the law and exclude non-citizens in the 2020 Census. Those efforts are unconscionable and unconstitutional.

Now, more than ever, we need everyone to participate in the 2020 Census so that we can ensure the law, not divisive politics, governs our land. We cannot let people be bullied or made to live in fear.

The Constitution is clear – all people must count.

If this current public health and economic crisis has demonstrated anything, it is that vulnerable communities have suffered the most. In

addition, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on our public schools and higher education, which means it is even more important to plan for the next 10 years in communities hard hit by this pandemic.

Census workers, called enumerators, will begin going door-to-door to collect Census data. They are not allowed to ask for your social security number, political preference, bank account information, or religious affiliation. It also illegal for the Census Bureau to share your information with law enforcement or any other government agency. And your information cannot be used against you in any way.

So please, consider this my “door-to-door” ask. Have you done a post on Facebook, sent a Tweet or uploaded a picture on Instagram? It’s just as easy to fill out your Census. You can do it online, over the phone or on paper. In fact, you may also be receiving an email, making it even easier to complete.

The next 10 years of funding can be determined in just 10 minutes of your time.

Make sure you are counted.

It is your Constitutional right.

Online: 2020Census.gov.

By phone: 844-330-2020.

—Toni G. Atkins is President pro Tempore of the California Senate. Having previously served as Speaker of the California Assembly, she began her tenure in the Senate in 2016. As Senator for District 39, she represents the cities of San Diego, Coronado, Del Mar and Solana Beach. Website of President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins: Senate.ca.gov/Atkins.

How to help turn East County blue

By TINA RYNBERG and MITCH WAGNER

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It’s scary out there. Rightwing extremists are here, now, in East County, threatening Black Lives Matter protesters and openly displaying Nazi symbols.

But you can stop them, using the peaceful tools of democracy.

That’s what our next general meeting is about, Sept. 2 on Zoom: How you can volunteer your time to help Democrats win in 2020, and stop the spread of bigotry and superstition in La Mesa and surrounding East County communities.

We’ll start out hearing from Sean Quintal, the club ice president of laws and legislation, who will take a few minutes

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Akilah Weber

to walk you through the confusing array of propositions on the ballot. This is the second of a series. You don’t have to have heard Part 1 to join us in September, but we do urge you to watch if you missed that meeting. It’s on our YouTube channel; you can find that link — and all the links referenced for this article — at lmfdems. com/links.

Our guest, Terra LawsonRemer, is a candidate for San

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Diego Board of Supervisors, running against Republican incumbent Kristin Gaspar.

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News from your County Supervisors Dianne’s Corner

By DIANNE JACOB Worship and workouts: The Board of Supervisors recently approved my proposal to open up our county parks to worship services and fitness-related businesses.

We streamlined the permit process and are waiving fees related to reserving park space. This is not a new idea. Poway pioneered it with its recent SOS initiative, proposed by Mayor Steve Vaus.

East County locations with reservable space include Lindo Lake, Hilton Head, Pine Valley, Louis Stelzer, Potrero and Spring Valley parks. More information at sdparks.org.

Stepping up in a crisis: I’m pleased to report that the board has set aside $11.8 million in federal funds to expand our Great Plates program, an initiative that is helping seniors and our troubled restaurant industry.

Great Plates delivers meals from local restaurants to older residents in need. The funding allows us to triple the number of people served, and the program was expanded to include those with disabilities.

With COVID, food delivery has become critical. Many seniors live alone and lack the resources to meet basic needs. At the same time, our restaurants are hurting and need whatever help we can give them.

The county has also added $3.5 million in financial assistance to restaurants across the region as part of our economic stimulus program.

Helpi ng t he helpers: Childcare providers offering essential services during the pandemic can apply for grants, thanks to $25 million in federal CARES Act funding being distributed with the approval of the board.

Eligible providers can apply for support for staffing, supplies, mortgage and rental assistance, business resilience and capital improvements for outdoor areas.

The application window is Aug. 24 to Sept. 4. For details, go to sdfoundation.org.

In the Zone: Just a reminder that the county’s Cool Zone program is up and running again, but on a limited basis due to COVID-19. For the latest locations and hours, visit CoolZones.org.

Locations include Lakeside Community Center, Santa Ysabel Nature Center and the Alpine, Ramona and Potrero libraries.

—Dianne Jacob represents District 2 on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. For questions or comments about your county government, call 619- 531-5522 or email dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov.

POLITICS sdnews.com Republican Women looking ahead to November election

By PAT BOERNER

Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California is looking forward to a Zoom meeting featuring San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Tia Quick on Sept. 8.

Deputy DA Quick will speak on the current state of law enforcement and public safety in San Diego today, as well as other related law enforcement and judicial issues.

Our members will be given the information on how to “join” the Zoom meeting and participate in a discussion after registering. This is just another incentive to join Navajo now and be able to attend our Zoom meetings and be kept up to date on the latest political and campaign events.

For information about becoming a member please visit our website at rwcNavajo-Canyon.org and visit us on Facebook at Republican Women of California-Navajo Canyon.

The Republican Women of California San Diego County is hosting an outside meeting at the Legacy Hotel in Mission Valley on Monday Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. The speaker will be Ruth Weiss from the Election Integrity Project and her topic will be the very timely and urgent issue of voter fraud.

What can we do to assure the legitimacy of our elections? For more information and to make a reservation, please contact rdlamart@cox.net or waskahwhelan@aol.com.

Americans are increasingly frustrated with the failure of their elected leaders to protect property and the citizens. Are you paying attention to what is happening in Portland? This is our opportunity to affect a great outcome in the November 2020 election. Now is the time to volunteer and remind the public how poor leadership has led to so much chaos, destruction and lack of respect for law and order. There is a wealth of Deputy District Attorney Tia Quick (Twitter) examples to consider. Phone calls to other Republican voters and “Team Trump” in the search bar. getting them to promise to vote is so This is an excellent source of inforsimple, yet vitally important. mation, including Women for Trump Tired of biased reporting from videos that are worth watching! major sources such as Twitter, Please consider joining Republican Facebook, Google and Amazon? Women of California - Navajo There is now an alternative to Canyon. There was never a better Twitter with Parler Free Speech time to get involved and influence Social Network. Parler is an unbiased the direction of our country. Any social media focused on real user ex- questions or for more information reperiences and engagement. Parler garding volunteering, please contact never shares your personal data. You RWC-NC president Waskah Whelan can access Parler by adding the app at waskahwhelan@aol.com. on your smart phone or by accessing parler.com on your computer.

—Pat Boerner writes on behalf of Another idea: Next time you go the Navajo Canyon Republican Women into your Facebook account, type of California.

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educator, who served as senior advisor in the Obama Administration developing environmental policies to cut pollution from oil drilling and mining. She supports an evidence-based approach to COVID-19, affordable childcare and housing for San Diego, racial justice, environmental protection, a sane transit policy and more. Find out how to help LawsonRemer become the second Democrat on the Board of Supervisors and help tilt the balance toward the people.

We’ll hear from La Mesa City Council members Colin Parent and Akilah Weber about the city’s public safety oversight task force and the aftermath of the terrible rioting downtown in May, and ongoing demonstrations.

Christian Bilson, lead volunteer organizer for Southern California for Joe and Kamala group, will discuss how you can help send Joe and Kamala to the White House by building support in swing states.

And Ali Zaidi, engagement coordinator for the San Diego County Democratic Party, will talk about what you can do to help elect

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Democrats up and down the line.

Want to do more? We’re grateful if you do. Visit our website lmfdems.com/ links to find out where you can sign up to phone-bank from home. You can call voters in swing states, drum up support for California state propositions, and help Kate Schwartz for Assembly District 75 and Ammar Campa-Najjar for Congressional District 50.

Join us Wednesday, Sept.

2, for our regular monthly meeting, on Zoom. Social time starts at 6:30 p.m., programming at 7 p.m.

You know where to find the Zoom URL, right? lmfdems. com/links.

Also, we’d like to take a moment to thank and recognize Jeff Benesch, the club’s programing vice president, who resigned this month.

Jeff made an enormous contribution — his meetings were informative, enjoyable and packed in literally hundreds of people. He also organized regular anti-war protests in the 2000s, and worked tirelessly for local candidates and causes.

—Tina Rynberg is president and Mitch Wagner directs social media and communications for the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club. Contact us at lmfdemclub@gmail.com.

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BOOKS Take a vacation in your mind with fantasy reads Aug. 27 – Sept. 24, 2020

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By RAMONA PRICE

Sometimes you just want to escape to another world. Luckily, fantasy is great for that and the San Diego County Library has you covered with some great reads. All these books are available for request at sdcl.org and in ebook at sdcl.overdrive.com.

If you like fairy tales and strong female characters, check out “Uprooted” by Naomi Novik. The cozy valley where Agnieszka lives is bordered by a malevolent Wood, its evil influence only kept at bay by the powerful, mysterious wizard known only as the Dragon.

While the Dragon’s powers allow the inhabitants of the valley to live happy, peaceful lives, he demands a steep price for his protection: every 10 years he takes a young woman to live with and serve him in his fortified tower. To

everyone’s surprise, he chooses clumsy, awkward Agnieszka, and that choice changes everything, not just for her, but for the Dragon, the valley, and the Wood.

If epic fantasy is your thing, take a look at “Name of the Wind”

by Patrick Rothfuss. Framed as tavern owner Kvothe telling his life story, it is full of amazing characters, thorough world-building,

and a detailed plot. Orphaned when his parents were violently murdered by mysterious assailants, Kvothe spends most of his childhood on the streets of a dangerous city, but never forgets his parents’ deaths, and his desire to learn the truth eventually leads him to university to study magic. Despite the many distractions of friends, women, and rivals, he

remains diligent in his studies with the intention of uncovering the identity of his parents’ assassins and exacting his revenge.

Winning multiple awards, “The Fifth Season” by NK Jemisin weaves a complex tale with themes of loss, regret, and the consequences of oppression. In the world known as the Stillness, orogenes are people with the

power to move and reshape the earth. They are both despised by the public and exploited by the ruling class to consolidate their power. Told from the perspectives of three orogenic women in different parts of their lives, this book explores what happens when people with powerful abilities are SEE BOOKS, Page 18

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By LINDA MICHAEL a colorful drive-by parade was A notable local artist, Phebe followed by a family lunch. Even Burnham, celebrated her 100th the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors honored Phebe by proclaiming July 24 as Phebe Burnham Day in San Diego County. The Foothills Art Association joins in celebrating Phebe’s birthday by honoring her as the Foothills’ Featured Artist for the month of September.

Known for her colorful, often whimsical paintings, Phebe uses a variety of media and has developed a technique using gouache paint, pastels, and India ink to achieve dramatic contrasts of light and dark.

Loving to travel, Phebe’s Self portrait titled “Phebe-Phountain of Youth” (Courtesy Foothills Art Association) vibrant paintings often

depict images she captured with her camera on her many trips.

One of her favorite destinations was Oaxaca, Mexico and it is the subject of many of her paintings. Phebe taught art at the college level and, for ten years, had a successful jewelry business, Eyeglass Arte, creating decoupage miniature reproductions of famous paintings on eyeglass lenses which were sold in museum gift shops nationwide.

Phebe was born in 1920 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her parents encouraged her interest in art. Her grandmother, also an artist, painted seascapes and landscapes and was an inspiration to young Phebe. She received degrees from the Swain School of Design and the Columbia University School of Painting and Sculpture. She also studied with the Art Students League.

With all her activities, Phebe still has found time to participate in the El Cajon Arts and

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“The Blues in Blues,” a pastel of Burnham’s son-in-law doing a gig at Gio’s with help of a girl from the audience.

Culture Commission. She has been a member of the Foothills Art Association since 1953. The Foothills Art Association is proud to honor Phebe Burnham and her lifetime accomplishments.

Phebe’s artwork will be featured on the Foothills website during the month of September.

To view her artwork, as well as

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EDUCATION Grossmont High 100th anniversary postponed Aug. 27 – Sept. 24, 2020

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Since San Diego County residents are advised to avoid gatherings of any size, it is impossible to plan a fall celebration for our 100th anniversary. All fall sports are delayed until December and learning is currently online. The celebration planned for Oct. 16 and 17 has been postponed until it is safe for the Foothiller community to gather.

Perhaps, we can plan something smaller in winter 2020 as a precursor to a larger celebration in Spring 2021. As we all know, this pandemic has thrown us all off track. However, we look forward to seeing you at the 100th Anniversary Celebration, whenever it is held. We are hopeful that our previously shared plans will remain the same for the events held on campus during the celebration.

We still hope to play the Sweetwater High vs Grossmont High football game to celebrate a historic rivalry with the “Sweeties,” a 41-year consecutive game rivalry from 1920-1961. In 1920, GHS’s first football game was against Sweetwater. Football coach Tom Karlo (Class of 1992) recently shared with us, “Right now football will just shift to Jan. 8

Last October, the digital art classes visited the GHS Museum to gather ideas to help (l to r) The original Grossmont High School logo, the 1922 floor medallion and the new 100th year logo (Images courtesy GHS them create the 100th Museum) a n n iver sa r y logo.

Guided by their teachers Carolyn became “Grossmont Union High BECOME PART OF OUR ghsmuseum@guhsd.net and our Jungman and Jan Mafnas, the School 1920,” which it remained. HISTORIC CAMPUS phone messages at 619-668-6140. students with their groups then A charming art deco feature of the Today, there are several ophad two months to create a logo name was the overlapping of the portunities to celebrate yourself, —Connie and Lynn Baer write that would capture 100 years of “O’s” in “School”. your family, your class, or your on behalf of the GHS Museum.

Foothiller tradition and history.

When we began the museum in business. One way is to contribIn December, members of the 2007, we chose the original school ute to our GHS Endowment Fund GHS 100th Celebration Steering logo to be the museum’s logo, a re- and become a Foothiller Friend Committee visited the digital art minder of our historic origins, as ($250) or Founder ($1,000). Your room for the students’ presenta- Grossmont UHS was created to donation will be permanently tions. The selection of the final serve East County students after commemorated with a gray tile logo was difficult due to the ma- the closing of the Riverview Union on campus. Visit grossmont.dony wonderful visions that the stu- High School campus in Lakeside nationtiles.com to see the current dents created. and the original El Cajon Valley tiles and place an online order or Committee President Amy Union High School. In our muse- contact us to receive an order Conrad shares, “We are so excited um collection, we have the origi- form by mail. to be celebrating Grossmont High nal seal press that was used to imAnother opportunity is to doSchool’s 100th year and congrat- press the school’s seal on official nate a personalized royal blue ulate GHS design students for documents such as graduation 6 foot bench on campus to celcreating a logo to commemorate diplomas — and it still works! ebrate you, your family, or your Grossmont’s rich history in our A more modern interpretation class ($1,650). There are many CORRECTION TO 2020 community.” of the original logo is seen in the locations available including near DAISY CHAIN The 100th anniversary lo- lobby of the 2016 GHS office. the entrance to the new theater.

I nadver tently, A nd ie go echoes the first logo used by This beautiful four-feet-diame- Please email or phone us for more Akenson was omitted from Grossmont. In 1922, the cov- ter granite medallion welcomes information. the list of participants in the er of the second yearbook, El visitors, students, and staff to the To learn more about GHS, 2020 Daisy Chain during the Recuerdo, was decorated with an office. Donated by Class of 1965 past and present, visit the GHS 2020 graduation celebraembossed logo of a silhouette of a alumnus Ginger Cheney Belilove Museum website at foothillertion that was printed in this hill with the sun peeking above and created by her husband Jim museum.com. Due to the corocolumn in the June 26 issue it. In 1923, the same image was and his company Creative Edge navirus and our move into our of La Mesa Courier. We apolused with the added perimeter MasterShop in Fairfield, Iowa, it larger museum space, the GHS ogize for the error. border first saying “Grossmont reminds Foothillers of their his- Museum is currently closed, but 1923”; then in 1924, the border toric legacy. we are checking our emails at

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All sessions, which will be offered through Zoom, are free and open to the public. To obtain the Zoom link, call the Cuyamaca College Student Affairs office at (619) 660-4612.

Eleven workshops are being offered in September. They are: • Discussion about the film “13th.” Wednesday, Sept. 2, 11 a.m12:15 p.m.

Cuyamaca College Sociology Instructor Raquel Jacob-Almeida and History Instructor Moriah Gonzalez-Meeks discuss the film “13th.”

• Racial and Economic Disparities of COVID-19: An Exploration of National and Local Trends. Wednesday, Sept.

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Cuyamaca College Psychology Instructor Marissa Salazar and Hala Madanat, Director of the School of Public Health at San Diego State University, explore the ways in which COVID-19 disproportionately impacts communities of color.

• Votes for Women: Why It Still Matters 100 Years Later.

Monday, September 14, 9:3010:45 a.m.

Cuyamaca College History Instructor Moriah GonzalezMeeks discusses current issues related to women, voting, politics, and how women organized and fought for the right to vote.

• A Hidden Heritage: African Ancestry in Latin America.

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 11 a.m.-noon.

Cuyamaca College World Languages Instructor Karla Gut i e r r e z a nd S o c iolo g y I n st r uct or Raquel Jac ob Almeida discuss racism and colorism in Mexico and Brazil, including the erasure of African heritage and the myth of a “racial democracy.”

• A Dialogue on Racial Trauma. Thursday, Sept. 17, 4-5 p.m.

Personal Counselor Halima Eid discusses racial trauma, what it is, and how to discuss one’s experiences with racial trauma.

• One Latinx’s Literary Journey and How You Too Can Tell Your Story. Monday, Sept.

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Patricia Santana, author of “Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility and Ghosts of El Grullo,” will discuss her journey as a writer and how you can begin to tell your story.

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FOOD & DRINK sdnews.com ‘Cardiff crack’ comes to Grantville Restaurant Review

By FRANK SABATINI JR. It’s considered the Cadillac of tri tip.

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In carnivore circles, the tri tip is called “Cardiff crack” because of its addicting flavor and gentle texture.

The recipe was introduced nearly 20 years ago at Seaside Market in Cardiff, which attracts shoppers far and wide for the stuff — whether eaten onsite or toted away raw to be cooked at home.

It’s now flying off the grill in spades at Crack Taco Shop, located a stone’s throw from the Mission Gorge exit off Interstate 8, in a strip plaza anchored by Chili’s and a Mobile gas station.

The colorfully decorated eatery was launched in May by Ron Abbo, his brother Steve, and Pete Najjar, who co-owns Seaside Market. The idea for it came about when Abbo was at Najjar’s house for a party.

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Shu is now running for City Council — his first attempt at public office — to bring what he sees is lacking to the city — a forward-looking vision.

“Overall, I want to have a much better vision for La Mesa,” he said.

“The United States didn’t make it to the moon because someone said to Kennedy, ‘That’s impossible, it’s a pipe dream, we can’t get there.’

We made it to the moon because the president put a vision there and he essentially gave us a goal to get someplace that at the time someone would have said was impossible or unimaginable.”

EARLY YEARS

Shu grew up in Los Angeles, before heading north to attend college at Humboldt State University.

“I wanted to go into something to do with natural resources and ended up with a degree in wildlife management,” he said.

After graduation, he went to work for National Park Service and Forest Service and later California State Parks, eventually becoming a park superintendent at Cuyamaca and Palomar state parks in San Diego in the early ‘80s when his wife was pregnant with their first child.

After heading the local state parks, Shu spearheaded a statewide program to link urban populations with state parks and the outdoors. He also worked

with groups to save forests and grasslands and helped form the Cleveland National Forest Foundation 25 years ago.

Shu said the Cleveland National Forest Foundation’s “claim to fame” was suing SANDAG and winning with the help of now vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris who intervened on the side of the foundation when she was Attorney General for California.

“We essentially showed that SANDAG was faulty in their document. It was the first time that a major metropolitan planning agency had to decertify a CEQA document,” he said.

When Shu decided to run, he stepped down as the foundation’s president.

CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ADVOCATE With a background in wildlife and parks and wellness, Shu was a natural fit to advocate for a comprehensive climate action plan (CAP) in La Mesa, where he was a fierce critic of the city’s early attempts at drafting one.

“I thought the city initially started completely on the wrong foot,” he said. “I told Yvonne Garrett, this was when she was assistant city manager, that to accept money from SDG&E to help write the climate action plan was a complete conflict of interest.”

That draft led to delays in the plan, then the city went in “a poor direction with the wrong contractor” on a second draft, according to Shu.

“So our initial climate action plans were not only weak, but they couldn’t even copy a good climate action plan from the city of San Diego and at that time, that was one of the best ones.”

After several drafts that Shu graded as “Fs” or “Ds,” the city eventually adopted a plan that is “much better,” he said.

If he becomes a Council member, Shu would like to add to the city’s CAP a drive through VMT (vehicle miles traveled) that would include measuring pollutants from cars traveling through the La Mesa segments of Interstate 8 and CA 125.

“If I knew what I know now with regards to what car emission causes for pregnant women, I would have second thoughts about living in La Mesa because the incidence of problems for the fetus caused by pollutions form cars is so great,” he said, adding that all three of his children have asthma.

Drive through VMT was left out of city climate action plans because SANDAG wanted control over it, Shu said, but if added to La Mesa’s plan, the City Council representative to SANDAG would have clear direction to influence “better policy” on car pollution from San Diego area freeways.

POLICE OVERSIGHT

Most recently, Shu has worked on developing a police oversight committee in La Mesa — a reform to policing he said is long overdue.

“Five years ago, the Grand Jury recommended strongly to several

Jack Shu with supporters at a campaign launch event on July 30 (Photo by Jeff

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cities including La Mesa to form citizens’ review boards. The police chief came out against it, said we don’t need one. City Council did nothing,” he said.

Then the 2018 Helix High School incident happened, where a La Mesa police officer was filmed throwing a Black female student to the ground. The city conducted an independent investigation that took a year to complete and cost over $20,000 and “essentially told us nothing” because the investigation contract was written by the city attorney and city manager, Shu said.

“Their job is to protect the city.

That’s their job, I have no problems with that,” he added. “But if that’s their job, you can imagine what the contract is going to look like. It’s going to ask questions as to if the city did anything wrong in a very narrow, specific way. It

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doesn’t talk about what the police department should have done to prevent that incident, it only asks whether the policy was broken.”

That was when Shu and several others began pressuring the city to adopt citizen oversight of police. The City Council agreed and tasked the police department to come up with a plan — one that when it was presented to City Council, Shu said was inadequate.

“The City Council realized it was a bad proposal because a number of us were quite upset, so they formed the task force,” he added.

Shu volunteered for the task force but recently stepped down to avoid any conflicts of interest while running for City Council.

He said that the work the task force is finishing will be presented to the city soon and is written by the “best attorneys in the state who work on these ordinances.”

“So we’ve come a long ways,” he said. “Unfortunately, in between, we’ve had a riot and two banks burned. That should not be the way we do things.

“Some might say, had we done some work five years ago, the event at the trolley station would not have happened,” he continued. “If we had a better system in the city to address these issues, perhaps that officer either would have had to leave the department or would have gone through some other training or something would have helped to prevent that whole thing.”

With the announcement by Chief Walt Vasquez that he will be retiring at the end of the month, Shu said he hopes the city hires an interim police chief from outside the department so that candidates from all over the state or country will have equal footing with candidates from inside the department.

Shu said the new police chief should look at La Mesa arrest data to see if racial profiling is happening and have a plan to address it if it is, because “policing depends on community.”

“It is the community that empowers the police to do their work.

If the police do not have the support of they community they really are powerless and that’s why I got into this in the first place,” he added. “I’m not trying to hurt law enforcement, I have 22 years experience being a supervising SEE SHU, Page 15

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police officer, teaching community policing. I know our police officers need the trust of the community if they are going to get better and when that trust is being eroded, that’s when police officers lose their authority and power.”

A citizens’ review board is one of the things that can help, he said.

COVID RECOVERY

In addition to dealing with the fallout from police incidents and the protests and riots that followed, the next City Council will also be dealing with budget shortfalls and economic recovery from the cornavirus pandemic.

“We know we’re going to have a very hard time with our budget, so there’s not a whole lot we can do, but I think we can be a lot smarter and make La Mesa different in some other respects,” Shu said.

One thing to help the city would be to promote La Mesa as a friendly place to live and shop and dine in to “help our businesses attract customers as they recover.”

HOUSING

When it comes to the city’s housing needs, Shu said he prefers infill developments near

transit over high rise buildings.

He said that through his work on wellness initiatives, he read studies that show that people who live in buildings over five stories high stop going out to walk around their cities.

“I want people to be walking and when they walk, they start supporting businesses,” he said.

“So the ideal situation may be the first story is for commerce, for businesses, and then the next three or four stories up is for residential. If you look at other successful urban communities throughout the world, that works.”

SHU’S VISION

Whether it is housing, climate or policing, Shu said his overall goal for La Mesa is one of compassion and fairness.

“I have a vision that La Mesa is a vibrant community from one end of the city to the other, that we leave no one behind, that we use our hearts as our jewel,” he said. “Our jewel is not a muscle or strength, our jewel is our heart and the heart of La Mesa is going to be big and its going to help build this vibrant community.”

For more information about City Council candidate Jack Shu, visit jackshu.com.

—Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at jeff@sdnews.com.

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Aug. 27 – Sept. 24, 2020

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chief following the retirement of Chief Walt Vasquez, Lothian replied, “The new chief should be looking at what the City Council is going to be like.”

FARMERS MARKET

Lothian also has criticism for the City Council’s handling of the Friday Night Farmers Market.

Lothian was on the board of the La Mesa Village Association (LMVA) that spearheaded the effort to bring the market to the Village.

“The plan was to use farmers market to bring people to the doorsteps of businesses in the Village and to use money raised to promote La Mesa and hold other events,” she said.

Although widely popular among residents, the businesses in the Village itself were sharply divided on their support for the move. In deciding its fate, the City Council eventually voted to keep the market in the Village but to take control of it away from the LMVA. “We created all these enemies and the one thing we promised to deliver was we were going to be able thousands and thousands promoting Downtown and we lost all of it. It was the worst of

Laura Lothian says “no” to a refill of “rules and regulations” in a video posted to her campaign website. (LauraForLaMesa.com)

all worlds,” Lothian said. “The locals that could have used those proceeds were robbed.”

As a Council member, she said she would continue to seek a compromise that keeps the market going but is less intrusive to the businesses who have issues with it.

BUDGET WOES

If she is elected to the City Council in November, Lothian said she will take a conservative approach to the city’s budget, which will be facing steep cuts because of the COVID crisis.

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And all the things that are nonessential or luxury have to be back-burners,” she said. “So if you get right back down to the basics of government, our government is meant to be safety and infrastructure. The focus to me has to be safety, security, infrastructure. And everything outside of that has to be on a priority basis.”

For more information about the Laura Lothian campaign for City Council, visit LauraForLaMesa.com.

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NEWS Kumeyaay tribes demand suspension of border wall Aug. 27 – Sept. 24, 2020

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Six Tribes of the Kumeyaay Nation and an intertribal council of nine Kumeyaay governments submitted a demand letter to Customs and Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calling for a suspension of construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall until measures are in place to protect culturally-significant resources from construction activities.

Frustrated with multiple federal construction activities along the border that have failed to properly detect and protect Kumeyaay village sites, burials and religious sites, the Manzanita Band

of the Kumeyaay Nation, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation, the Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, the Jamul Indian Village and the Kumeyaay Heritage Preservation Council (KHPC) demanded the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) temporarily cease all ground disturbing activities until CBP fully evaluates construction impacts on Kumeyaay religious beliefs, practices, and cultural resources. Federal law

and CBP guidelines require that CBP meaningfully consult with the Kumeyaay on those impacts, and take appropriate steps to avoid or mitigate such impacts on tribal religious rights.

The Kumeyaay Tribes also object to federal agencies placing unwarranted restrictions on tribal monitors, which impede meaningful oversight of cultural resources. Given the agencies’ impediments, delaying construction is the only viable way to protect the sites, according to the Kumeyaay Nation tribes.

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aboriginal land that spans the border area and contains sacred sites, ancient village sites and certainly human remains. The tribes are proposing to work cooperatively with the CBP while construction is temporarily paused to evaluate the impacts, mitigate, and where possible, avoid irreversible adverse impacts.

“We are horrified that the government is moving forward with construction on the border without studying our Kumeyaay sacred sites and other cultural resources and how to protect them,” said Angela Elliott Santos, chair of both the Manzanita Band and KHPC. “Construction must stop in order to avoid further destruction of Kumeyaay cultural resources and sacred sites while studies are done in consultation with the Kumeyaay Tribes.”

Elliott Santos added, “the Kumeyaay people, our people, have occupied this region, on

both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, for many thousands of years.

Trenching for the new border barriers is destroying an important part of our legacy and likely the precious human remains of our ancestors. Until we can study the area, we will not know the extent of the damage. We remain willing to work with the government in a reasonable time frame to ensure that the Kumeyaay history and religion are not illegally desecrated further by the border wall construction projects.”

Each Kumeyaay Tribe is a federally-recognized tribe with ancestral and reservation lands in Southern California. The Kumeyaay Heritage Preservation Council represents nine federally-recognized tribes of the Kumeyaay Nation and is charged with protecting Kumeyaay spirituality, cultural resources, and heritage within the aboriginal territory of the Kumeyaay people.

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least 13 years old, but not more than 20 years old, at the time of appointment. Participating on the commission is a great way for young people in middle and high school to work with their peers to explore and develop activities that promote positive youth relations in the City and gain volunteer experience that can be applied towards community service hours.

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most advanced, standdentist. I decided then alone, medical-grade air and there, that’s what I was going to do.” purifier that will completely purify the air Of his profession Pawl in a room every three said, “I like being a genminutes,” he said. “And eral dentist because you the noise level is equal do a little bit of everyto the sound of a dishthing, and you have to washer working.” have a broader knowlAdded Pawl, “The edge of all the fields of air that’s coming out dentistry.”

Looking ahead to the (purifier) is like the air that you breath after a future of dentistry, Pawl rainstorm. It has that gave a prediction. clean, fresh feeling. I’m “M i n i a t u r i z a t i o n no longer tired at 3 p.m. Dr. Larry Pawl (center) and his team (Photos courtesy Larry Pawl) is going to be a part of dentistry, having a And knowing that the room is completely clean of dust, in this technology to make them camera small enough to fit on a bacteria and viruses every three safe.” dental hand piece that the dentist minutes is a wonderful sense of Asked if he always wanted to be can look at on a screen,” forecastsecurity.” a dentist, Pawl replied, “From age ed Pawl. “The materials used to Pawl pointed out he’s glad he 9 I wanted to be a marine biologist fill cavities will be better, stronger, spent the money “to do it now be- and work with Jacques Cousteau. last longer. They may even evencause in the future, I think it (air But in my sophomore year of col- tually come up with some sort of purifiers) will become mandatory lege, my marine biology bubble vaccine to keep teeth from becomfor all dentists.” was burst. I realized working with ing susceptible to decay.”

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“They are very aware of it,” he a dental appointment that aftersaid. “They thank me for investing noon and talked with my family SEE DENTIST, Page 18

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The videos offer a views way to meet local business owners and have them share their history, their passion for what they do and how they embarked on their journey of opening their business If they are a spokesperson for a larger company, they will share the company’s goals, vision, vital statistics about that company and possibly give the viewers a behindthe-scenes tour of that business.

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Another great read for middle-grade and teen readers is “The Amulet of Samarkand” by Jonathan Stroud, which takes place in an alternate London where magicians rule over the common folk, and they get their powers by summoning and enslaving spirits from another realm. After being humiliated by the powerful magician Simon Lovelace, 12-year-old apprentice Nathaniel summons the djinni Bartimaeus to get even by stealing the Amulet of Samarkand, a powerful magical protector and Simon’s greatest treasured possession. Now, Bartimaeus is just over being a slave to the magicians, but he must do Nathaniel’s bidding or be painfully punished. He steals the amulet but is pursued and caught and a wild adventure of power-hungry politicians and the spirits who do their bidding begins.

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For the latest news on the library’s reopening plans, visit sdcl.org or follow the La Mesa Library on Facebook.

—Ramona Price is a librarian at the La Mesa branch of the San Diego County Library.

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