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40th Annual MLK, Jr. Day Parade

Jackie Robinson YMCA’s

Human Dignity Award Breakfast

Cannot be Heard”

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UAAMAC ANNUAL COMMUNITY BREAKFAST See page 11

BROADWAY HEIGHTS’ MLK WREATH LAYING CEREMONY See page 12 Photo: Courtesy of Jackie Robinson YMCA

By Christopher LeFall

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Contributing Writer

The 35th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Human Dignity Award Breakfast was held on Friday, January 17th at The Town And Country San Diego, in Hotel Circle North. In recognition of the image and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dee Sanford, the Jackie Robinson YMCA’s former MLK Committee Chair, was the 2020 Human Dignity Award recipient in honor of her more than 30 years of service.

TIGERS’ BASEBALL HALL OF EXCELLENCE See page 18

USS Midway’s 8th Annual Celebration of Dr. King

Close to eighteen hundred people were in attendance, with a large variety of breakfast treats on hand ranging from pastries, fruit, and taboo finger foods like bacon. Sponsors for the well attended event included KGTV ABC 10, KPBS, Tayari Media Group, San Diego Community College District, Wells Fargo, and the California State Assembly, to name a few. The Mayor Of San Diego, Kevin Faulconer, was also in attendance to show his support and help celebrate Dr. King’s legacy.

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RENEWING

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The USS Midway Museum is one of the most visited sites in San Diego. Last year it enthralled over 1.3 million of the 15 million visitors coming to San Diego. It has a history of being the longest-serving aircraft carrier of the 20th Century, from 1945 to 1992. It opened its doors as a museum on June 7th, 2004.

NAACP/PLAJ CIVIL RIGHTS MAYORAL FORUM See page 8

Martin Luther King’s Dream

by Renewing Our Minds

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Census Officials Kick Off

$250 Million

Ad Campaign in Washington

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

The U.S. Census Bureau unveiled its $500 million “Shape Your Future. Start Here,” 2020 ad campaign on Tuesday, January 14, in Washington, D.C.

Dr. King’s youngest child, Bernice King, has followed in her father’s footsteps, becoming an ordained minister and continues his legacy. She believes that her dad’s dream for his children to be judged by the content of their character has, in many ways, become a reality. She says, “new generations of people have benefited greatly because of the dream but we still have more work to do.”

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Nearly $38 million — or approximately 16 percent — of the paid media budget is earmarked toward African American and black audiences.

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Do you know that census data helps decide how many votes each state gets for presidential elections and how many elected officials will represent our districts in Congress? Our communities cannot have our political power erased and lose access to resources our loved ones need. ‑‑

The 2020 Census begins in March 2020 Census data will decide funding allocations for over $115 Billion* per year to for California programs that provide access to healthcare, college and K-12 schools, affordable housing, and veteran and senior programs.

The 2020 Census will Impact Us All. *According to the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy Report “Counting for Dollars 2020 — The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds,” in FY2016, California received $115,133,486,972 through 55 federal spending programs guided by data derived from the 2010 Census.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Biscuits, Grits & Politics San Diego County

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Educators Honor Dr. King

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Dr. John E. Warren, publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, held his monthly “Biscuits, Grits & Politics” breakfast discussion Tuesday, January 7th at the newspaper’s headquarters, 3619 College Avenue. The room drew a packed crowd of the usual San Diego movers and shakers, and the customary fluffy biscuits, grits (cheese and regular), scrambled eggs, sausage, and fresh fruits were served to a satiated crowd that morning. Special guests were Port Commissioner Rafael Castellanos, who is running for County Supervisor, and SDUSD School Board candidate Dr. LuWana Richmond. Mayoral candidate Barbara Bry was invited but did not attend.

There was lively dialogue and commentary surrounding the history of the MLK Parade route, the Port of San Diego, access to quality healthcare in San Diego, city and county public policy, the Live Well

Wellness Center, homelessness among African American foster youth, SDUSD suspension rates, and equitable access to jobs and contracting within the city and memory” when we vote, being county. sure to hold our elected officials because, many “The county does not have an office accountable of economic development...it’s one times, candidates show up in our of the few major counties in the community to get our votes but state of California that does not... then forget us.

The county has failed to lead on a variety of areas: seniors, children, “You have an opportunity to housing, the environment, but speak up,” Dr. Warren said, also the economy,” Castellanos encouraging everyone to share remarked when BCA President their views through written Hameed posed a question about letters to the editor and through contracting opportunities for social media, to demonstrate that, African Americans in our as a community we are paying community. Castellanos said attention and we care about what that focused leadership and affects us all. a commitment to help others strategically access opportunity The next Biscuits, Grits & Politics is Tuesday, February 4th, 7:30 a.m. will make the difference. to 9:00 a.m. For tickets, which are Dr. Warren ended the lively $15, visit biscuits-grits-politics. discussion by stating that, as a eventbrite.com or pay cash at the community “we have to have a door.

The San Diego County Educators held their 35th Annual Breakfast in honor of the life and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The entity responsible for continuing this event has been the Zega Sigma Lambda Foundation, as it has done for decades.

Western Community College. The Presidents and Administrators from these institutions have made this an event to preceed the Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade for the past 35 of the 40 years the parade has been held, regardless of parade location.

The event itself represents one of the few times that the county educators come together as one group. The following were some of the participants: The San Diego County Community College District including City College, Mesa College and Miramar College; the San Diego Community College District Continuing Education Centers; Grossmont College District, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego, University of San Diego, Point Loma Nazarene University, Palomar College, and South

This year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Gail F. Baker, Vice President and Provost, University of San Diego. The event was held at the Jacobs Center For Neighborhood Innovation. The Center was one of the sponsors this year.

Mr. Don Long, President of Zeta Sigma Lambda Chapter served as Master of Ceremonies with Rev. J. Hill, Pastor of Christian Fellowship Congregation Church bringing the invocation. All proceeds beyond the actual cost of the event are donated to worthy students.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION dream: continued from page 1

By Dr. Kelvin “Kelly” Wright “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,” a scripture reading from Romans 12:2.

Transformation is something the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior was in pursuit of. He was seeking to fulfill his God given dream to help lead all people to the promise land of true brotherhood. On this national holiday we observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., a drum major who followed the drumbeat of a different drum. He did not follow the world’s cadence of anger, discord and violence but chose to operate in the unforced rhythm of God’s grace to take a stand against racism, militarism, injustice and poverty. He sought to serve others in his quest to achieve equality in civil and economic rights for Black Americans, along with a demand for criminal justice reforms.

In 1963, I remember as a child sitting at home in Hagerstown, Maryland with my mother and grandmother in our living room watching a network news report on the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. The report showed Dr. King delivering what would become a speech literally heard around the world and echoed throughout history, “I Have A Dream.”

Dr. King’s youngest child, Bernice King, has followed in her father’s footsteps, becoming an ordained minister and continues his legacy.

She believes that her dad’s dream for his children to be judged by the content of their character has, in many ways, become a reality. She says, “new generations of people have benefited greatly because of the dream but we still have more work to do.”

Dr. King’s youngest child, Bernice King, has followed in her father’s footsteps, becoming an ordained minister and continues his legacy. She believes that her dad’s dream for his children to be judged by the content of their character has, in many ways, become a reality. She says, “new generations of people have benefited greatly because of the dream but we still have more work to do.”

King recently talked to me about her reflections of her father. Her dad’s incredible contribution to the world, she explained, is a result of his extraordinary faith in God. As I talked with her, she told me that everything her daddy did, came out of his personal commitment to Jesus Christ.

King recalls how her dad’s deep faith helped him overcome the pressures from leading the non-violent struggle for Civil Rights, particularly when the burden became too heavy to bear: “I remember in the beginning when he was about to give up because he got a call that threatened to blow up his home where my mom and my sister were. He was in the kitchen and just before midnight, he told God; I’m at the end of my powers. I’m just down here trying to do right. Why do I have to deal with all of these evil and wicked people? Why are people so mean-spirited? Why can’t people understand goodness and the good works we’re trying to do? Why is there so much hate?”

King continued that her dad had grown weary and felt he could not continue; he was at the end of his rope. She explained to me; “It was at that point that he said he heard the voice of God say; “Martin Luther King, Junior! Stand up for justice! Stand up for righteousness! And I will be with you until the end.”

Essentially, Dr. King went through what I refer to as a “Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane” moment. King was facing the very real threat of death for seeking to do what was right in the eyes of God. He knew in the eyes of man, if he would continue to carry his cross of love for humanity, the very depravity of mankind could crush him and his family. But from that encounter with God in his kitchen, his extraordinary faith compelled him to keep moving forward with his noble cause, even in the face of death.

It was a dream that set into motion the transformation of race relations in America. Dr. King’s leadership in the non-violent struggle for civil rights earned him the distinction of being called a “drum major for justice, a drum major for peace.”

Scripture tells us when we encounter adversity as King surely did, “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

Therefore, we do not lose heart.”

But to his four children, he was simply known as “daddy.”

Of her daddy’s accomplishments, Bernice humbly says, “It’s emotional to know that you’re connected to a man who had such a great impact on this world. It’s a humbling experience to know that he’s my dad.”

Dr. King was mindful of his children when he delivered his famous address, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Dr. King, a dedicated Baptist minister with brilliant oratory skills, the academic prowess of a scholar, and the wisdom of a prophet, faithfully

Dr. Kelvin “Kelly” Wright and Bernice King.

and courageously challenged America to embrace his dream of a better, stronger and united America. I asked Bernice how we have gone astray in fulfilling that dream.

“It goes back to economics and spirituality.

Those two issues I think are very critical. And the whole fervor of materialism in our society and self-centeredness has taken us away. And so, instead of people focusing on God first and everything else next, we’ve reversed those priorities. So, our values and our priorities are off.”

She adds; “Daddy talked about this in 1967. He forewarned that if we’re not careful, we will become a “thing” oriented society and not “people centered” and all of these different crises are going to emerge. And that’s what’s been happening.”

With that, King’s daughter acknowledged how the world has shattered her daddy’s dream. She points out how we are still confronted with poverty, crippling illiteracy, poor education, and senseless violence. “You think about what happened in Newtown, Connecticut. I mean that should have jolted us like nothing else. We saw 6-year-olds losing their life so senselessly. I’m thinking about Chicago and all of those young people who are killing each other. What has happened to a society that has turned away from that kind of situation and not realize this speaks to who “we are.” as a nation and a cancer in our society. The situation with Trayvon Martin, everyday there are several Trayvon Martins; not in the black community but in the Hispanic/Latino communities and other communities.

Were he living today, Dr. King would listen to politicians, civil rights and faith leaders agitate bloviate, instigate and aggravate. Then he would seek to elevate, motivate and demonstrate God’s

view for healing the painful wounds of the past and bridge the deep divide with the bonds of reconciliation.

In 1963, as he sat in a Birmingham jail, he wrote about becoming an extremist to deal with the extreme issues of hate and division.

He advised Americans to become more like Jesus as an extremist in love — “your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them who despitefully use you.”

His daughter says, “One of the most important traits in unconditional love is the capacity to forgive. It’s very easy to become bitter. It’s very easy to become angry. It’s very easy to want to take revenge or retaliation. We must have the capacity to have the mentality that says by destroying them; part of me is being destroyed because they’re part of my humanity.

“My dad lost his life but look at what the world has gained. Even though he didn’t make it to see that Promised Land he talked about and everybody hasn’t made it to this Promised Land he talked about but there are people that are benefiting from the life and ultimate sacrifice that he made.”

Reflecting on King’s legacy, we would serve ourselves well if we could follow his example of spiritual depth, courageous leadership and unselfish service. Like King, we must seek transformation by the renewing of our minds. Let us remember that Dr. King did not conform to the culture of hate but followed the pattern of love. He said; “I have decided to stick with love.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Let’s continue the King dream and legacy by boldly and courageously spreading God’s love, freedom and peace.

Census: continued from page 1

The “Shape Your Future. Start Here,” tagline is geared to helping underscore the notion that people can shape their future by responding to the 2020 Census.

At a news conference at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Census officials revealed that they would have more than 1,000 ads that target a range of demographics in 13 different languages. Those ads are projected to reach 99 percent of U.S. households.

“The 2020 Census is here and like we say in the ad: ‘Across America, we all count,’” Steven Dillingham, director of the Census Bureau, stated at the news conference.

“The 2020 Census is your census, and its success depends on you. It’s a once-in-a-decade chance to inform how billions of dollars in funding are allocated for critical public services like hospitals and health care clinics, schools and education programs, roads and bridges, and emergency response for the next 10 years,” Dillingham stated.

He continued: “Through advertising, public events, partnerships and digital and traditional media, we are embarking on a nationwide effort to let everyone in the country know about the upcoming 2020 Census and encourage them to respond online, by phone or by mail.

“And we are extremely committed to reaching those people who are historically undercounted.

The communications campaign includes television and radio commercials, digital, social media and print advertising and messaging on billboards and at bus stops.

The Census’ massive public education effort encourages participation among multicultural and hard-to-count populations with ads in English and 12 other languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.

During the conference, several samples of the video advertisements were previewed.

In one video, children were featured teaching adults how to count their forms. The ad aims to curb the routine undercounting of children.

In another ad that’s specifically geared to African Americans called “The Mural,” Census officials highlight a desire for an accurate count in the black community.

“Taking the 2020 United States Census impacts how funding flows in our communities for many programs and services,” the ad notes.

“Because when a community comes together, anything is possible.”

The ads will run on television, radio, the internet, newspapers, magazines, billboards, and various special events.

Bureau officials said there are three main phases of the campaign: Awareness, Motivation, and Reminder. The first began on Tuesday, January 14, the day of the news conference, and will run through March.

The Motivation phase will highlight how easy it is and the benefits of completing the Census, which can be done online, by telephone or through the mail.

During the Reminder phase, officials plan to mount a campaign that points out the urgency to count everyone with as many as 500,000 census takers and other employees swarming the nation seeking to collect data from all residents.

Census officials emphasized the importance of digital for the campaign.

About 29 percent of the paid media portion of the ad budget is allocated toward digital and social media channels; only television, at 39 percent, has a larger allocation. Johnson noted that as many as 65 percent of people are expected to complete the Census online this year.

The 2020 Census is billed as the most extensive collection of statistical information on everyone who lives in the United States and is required by

the U.S. Constitution.

Responses to the 2020 Census will shape how more than $675 billion in federal funding is distributed to local communities.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s goal is a complete and accurate count and, utilizing paid media is a critical component of the campaign, officials stated.

In spreading ad dollars, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided against advertising in the Super Bowl this year after previously running ads in 2010 and 2000.

“It isn’t an efficient spend of taxpayers’ dollars,” Alex Hughes, a census program director at VMLY&R, which is handling the campaign, told reporters.

“The work, research and dedication that has gone into this campaign is unmatched to that of any previous censuses,” stated Kendall Johnson, executive director of the communications contract for the Census Bureau.

“Our outreach is multifaceted with a heavy focus on increasing response among groups that are historically undercounted. And it’s based on the most extensive research ever conducted to understand both what motivates people to respond to the census and what prevents them from responding,” Johnson stated.

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EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY/OPINION African Americans, Blacks and the Politics of Now

Tactics to Suppress the Black Vote

By Dr. John E. Warren

By Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith

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Director of Crazy Faith Ministries in Columbus, Ohio

Recently we have had a surge in political activity in the form of meetings and would-be debates with those running for local, county and national office. A number of African Americans are running for office this year and political interest is growing among our African immigrant brothers and sisters. Some are running for positions that, at the moment, seem quite impossible to obtain. But that is not as important as the fact that they are running. While some members of the community appear to be attaching themselves to candidates just based on how those persons feel individually about the candidates, there appears to be little cross discussion among the potential voters themselves about issues and representation.

groups of us they meet with, then where is our collective impact? We must remember that the election does not have to go to the person with the most money. At the end of the day, its actual votes that make the difference not just dollars.

For example, in the City of San Diego Mayoral race, a number of people are expressing a predrawn conclusion as to who the next mayor will be and we have not hit the runoffs in a four way race. One should remember that for many, four years ago, there was a pre-drawn conclusion that Hillary Clinton would be President. So the race is not determined until it`s certified, no matter how certain it appears.

For this idea to work, we must be willing to talk with each other beyond our own personal interest. Along with that conversation must come our registration as current voters willing to get ourselves and others to the Polls on March 3, 2020 for the California Primary. Let’s watch very closely those among us who would urge us to vote for their candidates without even bothering to see what our issues are.

What is missing is the conversation among the potential voters, and residents among themselves, as to how to maximize their collective political influence. For example, are the priorities of African American voters and residents the same as those of our African neighbors.

They probably are in the areas of housing, homelessness, jobs and transportation.

We applaud those among us who have taken the initiative to place the many candidates before us in a number of forums and debates.

Now let’s take the next step and see if those of us who have held the debates and forums can come together with a common list of workable priorities that we can hold all the candidates to. This is just the beginning of a conversation.

Not the end. Let’s make the most of it for all of our interests.

If we allow candidates to determine which

In addition to the Mayoral race in San Diego, we have Congressional races that are very important, this time with the stepping down of Congresswoman Susan Davis and the resignation of Congressman Duncan Hunter in East County. We are confronted with two open fields with no one running as an incumbent.

These are opportunities to make meaningful change, if we engage each other in terms of our collective issues and willingness to work with one another.

More recently, Trump campaign workers studied the techniques that made the Obama coalition successful and greatly increased their efforts to strengthen their own grassroots organizing.

As President Trump’s impeachment unspools, news coverage is buzzing about conspiracy theories and geopolitical rivalries. But at the root of Trump’s effort to extort Ukraine was a simple motive: Trump hoped to influence our elections to preserve his power and that of his associates.

A Time magazine article reported that the Trump Victory Leadership Initiative, said to be modeled on the Obama campaign, had by 2016 trained 700,000 volunteers — and is aiming for 2 million in 2020. While they consistently attack Obama, it is clear that the Trump team learned much about Obama’s operation and sought to emulate it.

That has a lot in common with something closer to home: Our long and ugly history of voter suppression, which likewise aimed to preserve the power of some at the expense of others — primarily people of color.

Meanwhile Republicans have doubled down on efforts to keep black people from voting in key races. The marquee example is Georgia, where Democrat Stacey Adams ran for governor against Republican Brian Kemp in 2018.

In Give Us the Ballot, Ari Berman notes the U.S. has always had a “split personality when it comes to race and political power.” Efforts to get African Americans the right to vote in “a nation simultaneously founded on liberty and slavery,” he writes, have always been “met by equally intense efforts to roll back that progress.”

There, polling places in poor and rural districts were closed. “Exact match” laws resulted in the exclusion of 53,000 votes cast by Democrats because of slight differences in what their photo ID said and what was on voter rolls. Many Georgians were forced to cast provisional ballots, which according to data collected after the election were not counted.

Especially after the Civil War, the political and racial schizophrenia of white America could not endure even the thought that formerly enslaved Africans should have the right to vote.

Efforts to stymie the ability of black people to vote — from outright prohibitions to artificial barriers — began in earnest then, and continue in various forms to the present day.

Fortunately, voting rights advocates are fighting back. Voters in states like Georgia are fighting — successfully — to get polling places reopened. And Florida activists supported the passage of Amendment 4, which restores voting rights to people with felony convictions.

Brutal, often violent voter suppression prevailed in the 20th century. But a new wave of more sophisticated tactics surfaced after the 2008 general election, when Republicans realized the power of the resurgent black vote that had helped elect President Obama.

Trump, ever dishonest himself, calls the American political system rigged. He is correct, though not in the way he is communicating it.

His party’s intense effort to negate the African American vote is still keeping black and brown people, students, the elderly, and immigrant citizens away from the polls.

Carefully studying what the Obama campaign had done, they constructed laws to combat the reasons for its success. States began passing laws that curtailed early voting and mandated the shuttering of polling places that made it easier for blacks to vote. They instituted techniques like voter purging (including purging by postcard) and imposed restrictive voter registration policies.

It will take all of us working together, harder than ever, to overcome those obstacles. But we can and must do it.

Redefining Suffrage, Unerasing Black Women

By Gwen McKinney Sojourner Truth. Harriet Tubman.

Ida B. Wells. Shirley Chisholm.

Rosa Parks.

These household names, spanning a couple of centuries, qualify for the Suffrage Hall of Fame.

Almost a buzz word synonymous with the Year of the Woman, in 2020 the centerpiece of suffrage will be marked by the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women’s voting rights. Referred to as a bold justice movement, suffrage will be celebrated as America’s march to full democracy.

In popular parlance, can we unpack the significance of suffrage and inclusive democracy for Black women? Words matter. But the impact and impetus of their meaning matter more.

Here’s a composite definition from online dictionaries: Suffrage is the right to vote in public elections.

Universal suffrage means everyone gets to vote, as opposed to only men or property holders…

For example, after trying for about a hundred years, American women were granted suffrage and voted for the first time in 1920.

The 19th Amendment was adopted Aug. 18,

1920, after the required number of states ratified the constitutional measure. Though many Black women led suffrage campaigns, the 19th Amendment put white women on an empowerment tract to electoral engagement. Interestingly, the suffrage movement, festooned in the symbolic color white, is often portrayed through a narrow window uncomplicated by the strictures of race and power that framed the Amendment then and now.

ing battles, literacy drives, sharecropper land rights campaigns and the establishment of a radical Black press that was led by many Black women suffragists.

Look no further than the historical landscape of that moment. Congressional approval of the Act in 1919 was the same year as the infamous Red Summer, a tumultuous white supremacist reign of terror and lynching in Black communities across the country. One year after the 19th Amendment was adopted in 1921 racist mobs set ablaze Tulsa, OK, decimating what was revered as Black Wall Street.

Rewind centuries earlier.

The Year of the Woman battle cry is perversely at odds with Black women’s unbroken quest for liberation. Although lauded today as the most reliable and consistent voting bloc for democratic change, we’ve historically endured being marginalized, dismissed and erased.

Black women’s demand to be equal and heard extends beyond the century run-up to the 19th Amendment. It was intersectional and linked with abolition of slavery, anti-lynch-

Our suffrage quest continued through the Civil Rights Era and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which finally, for the first time, delivered the franchise to Black people in the South.

Our demand to self-govern predates the formation of this republic, beginning in 1619 when the first Africans, snatched from their ancestral home, landed on these shores. Those nameless suffrage pioneers joined with their men to resist and carry the torch for all people — Native Americans, Chinese immigrants and even Irish indentured servants — denied fundamental liberty. Then and now, we wage claims to own our bodies, voices and choices.

We build on that truth by redefining suffrage beyond the limited act of casting a ballot. For Black women, the narrative is rooted in telling herstory, unerasing the achievements of yesterday and the possibilities for the future.

This centennial year is an appropriate time to redefine universal suffrage through the prism

of triumphs and tragedies Trust Black women must be more than a cliché.

Unerased Black Women promises to create brave spaces and in alliance with Black newspapers across the country, unfurl a frank public conversation about Suffrage, Race, and Power.

Through a digital destination, we’ll turn our ear to a beating heart of resilience, resistance, words and deed. Daughter of slaves, descendants of warriors, writers, journalists, teachers, mentors, activists — universal suffragists all — have something to say.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Anna Julia Cooper. Mary Ann Shadd. Harriet Jacobs.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. Mary McLeod Bethune. Fannie Lou Hamer. Ella Baker. Gertrude Bustill-Mossell. Charlotta Bass. Marvel Jackson Cooke.

Most of these women can’t claim household name status in the traditional suffrage roll call.

But their noble stories will be unerased.

Stay tuned as suffrage, redefined, meets our truth.

Gwen McKinney is campaign director of an initiative, “Suffrage. Race. Power: Unerased Black Women,” that will launch in March.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS MILITANT YOUTH PIN HOPES ON UGANDA’S ‘NEW NIGHTMARE’

By Staff Writer Global Information Network

He’s elusive. He escapes, he hides. Police keep chasing him like a video game character or a superhero in a movie.

Wine recalled. “They cursed me because I’m an ordinary ghetto youth who thought he could unseat the president.”

But despite their best efforts, authorities have been unable to stop Robert Kyagulanyi — a member of parliament and a popular reggae singer who records under the stage name Bobi Wine. He plans to seize the seat held by aging President Yoweri Museveni when elections are held in 2021.

Today, united by the slogan “People Power, Our Power,” millions of young militant Ugandans dissatisfied with life under Mr. Museveni have been given a voice by the Afrobeat artist.

Wine’s been jailed dozens of times as police step up efforts to end his presidential aspirations. “It certainly cannot be safe to run against a dictator,” he told a member of the press, “but it’s even more dangerous to sit down and resign to fate.”

Not long ago, while campaigning for another independent candidate, Wine suffered a particularly brutal beating. With international support, he was allowed to seek treatment in a hospital in the U.S. “They beat me so hard they thought I’d died,”

For the Kampala regime, however, Wine has become Uganda’s “new nightmare”. In a bid to halt this juggernaut, President Museveni empowered his army officers by placing them in top administration and legislative positions.

He had an age-limit for presidents lifted, allowing him to rule until 2034 when he reaches 92.

“He’s waging war on our prosperity,” complained Museveni about Wine in a TV interview.

“He’s telling foreigners not to come and invest.”

Having already served 33 years in office, Museveni cites “still unfinished business in Uganda as president” and would only leave if asked to do so by his National Resistance Movement party.

Meanwhile, militant youth have been gravitating towards Wine and away from long time opposition leader Kizza Besigye who, despite his long history of combat including four runs against Museveni, has been unable to make headway against the incumbent.

Uganda has the world’s second-youngest pop-

ulation, about three-quarters of people are under the age of 30, and Museveni’s government has struggled to deliver the jobs, opportunities and progress they are demanding.

“This struggle is not limited to Uganda,” Wine says. “It’s a struggle for all people, especially young people and particularly in Africa.”

GHANA’S YEAR OF RETURN BRINGS CALL TO BROADEN SCOPE

By Staff Writer Global Information Network

When Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo pronounced 2019 as the Year of Return, his words resounded with warmth and joy to all people of African descent.

So began a year-long calendar of events including concerts, art shows, visits to heritage sites, fashion shows, movie premieres and creative economy and trade conferences, organized on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of African slaves in America.

Thus far, Akufo-Addo’s call has been a great success, observed Ghanaian author and journalist Kwabena Agyare Yeboah in a recent online issue of African Arguments.

Americans arriving in Ghana increased by 26% to their highest ever rate between January and September 2019.

Similarly, the numbers of visitors grew from the UK (24%), Germany (22%), South Africa (10%) and Liberia (14%). All told, Ghana reportedly issued 800,000 visas this year and this week announced that all nationalities will be eligible to receive a visa on arrival for the next month or so due to the heavy demand.

It was exhaustive, writes Agyare Yeboah, but could they have done more? Was the exclusive focus on the transatlantic slave trade, with the US at the center, a pardonable weakness? Or did it erase other crucially important aspects and legacies of Ghana’s history of slavery?

Missing, he maintains, is the trans-Saharan slave trade in which an estimated 6-7 million people, including from the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno, were forcibly transported to North Africa, Europe and the Middle East, a period ranging over 1,250 years,” he says.

“The legacy of this trade is still palpable in Mauritania where slavery is still a present-day reality,”Agyare Yeboah says. “The country only formally abolished slavery in 1981 and local activists estimate that 20% of the population — all black — are still enslaved.

“Where are the calls for these descendants to return? Where are the African descendants outside of the US, the Jamaicans, Cubans and Brazilians?” he asks rhetorically.

The failure to fully engage with the history of slavery and the focus on just a select portion of African descendants compromises its credibility, he charges.

“The Year of Return campaign had the opportunity, and a whole year, to critically engage with the history of Africans and people of African descent in its entirety. On this, it must do more.”

PASSING OF ACCLAIMED NIGERIAN NOVELIST GRIEVED by COMMUNITY OF WRITERS

By Staff Writer Global Information Network

Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike, novelist extraordinaire, passed this month into eternity, writes Nigerian author Okey Ndibe.

Born April 28, 1931, he had a rich life as an academic, bureaucrat, father to an only son, Osita Ike (who preceded him in death), husband (to Adebimpe Olurinsola Ike, nee Abimbolu, who

survives him), and traditional leader of his community, Ndikelionwu.

Chukwuemeka Ike was known for a mixture of lampoon, humor and satire. He owed a bit of his style to his Igbo cultural upbringing.

As an educator, Ike contributed to the intellectu-

al and cultural development of Africa in important administrative positions at Nigerian universities and at UNESCO and as professor at the University of Jos. In 2008 he was awarded the Fonlon-Nichols Award at the African Literature Association meeting in Illinois, according to the African Book Collective.

“Ike’s works, laced with humor, satire, parodies and engaging dialogue, are deep interrogations of life in post-independence Nigeria. In many ways, his fiction held up a mirror to society, reflecting both the desirable and the worst in us and leaving us with something to really ponder about,” writes author Sylva Nze Ifedigbo.

His novels include Toads for Supper (1965), which is set in a university and deals with love and the inherent problems that married couples from different ethnic backgrounds encounter; The Naked Gods (1970), also set in a university, which highlights the corrupt practices in the appointment of a new vice-chancellor at Songhai University; and Expo ‘77 (1980), in which secondary school students trying to gain admission to the university cheat in examinations.

“He seemed passionate about changing society and used his fiction to consistently remind us of the increasing inadequacies of society which our fleeting sensibilities ignore as we carry on with the daily scramble for material accumulation.

More recently, Our Children Are Coming (1990) deals with the problem of youth unrest and student revolt in colleges and universities in Nigeria: reacting to commissions of inquiry that exclude them, the students set up a counter investigation of their own. The Search (1991) is the story of the feverish patriotism of a detribalized intellectual, Ola, and his search for Nigerian unity.

“Ike’s prose style encompasses dialogue, wit, and satire, which he employs to castigate corruption and the quest for inordinate power. The novels transcend historical, sociological, and political documentation and achieve comedy, tragedy, irony, and metaphor. He has also written How to Become a Published Writer (1991).

“His death is a big loss to the community of writers, but his formidable body of work will keep him in the hearts and memory of readers everywhere for a long time.”

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A Civil Rights Mayoral Forum by the NAACP and PLAJ

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Bry, Community Activist Tasha Williamson, Assemblymember Todd Gloria with Councilmember Scott Sherman a “no show.” They all had something to say about jobs, homelessness and police accountability. It was interesting that Todd Gloria, who served as Interim Mayor of San Diego for eight months following the removal from office of Mayor Bob Filner, made it clear that he was running for an “eight year,” The candidates for mayor present and not four year, term of office. were City Council Pro Tem Barbara The George Stevens Fourth District Senior Resource Center was a place of great excitement last Saturday as Mayoral Candidates and community members gathered for an 8am meeting to discuss the issues of the City of San Diego. The event entitled, “Prioritizing Black San Diego,” was held during a weekend in which all were celebrating the 91st birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther KIng, jr.

The People’s Alliance for Justice President, Shane Harris, was the moderator, with Cheryl Morrow as co-chair. The San Diego Chapter of the NAACP was one of the sponsors, along with Black San Diego Empowering Our Communities.

Tasha Williamson, appeared to resonate with the audience, with her strong words about police accountability, jobs and housing.

Baraba Bry, speaking as a mother, grandmother and formal journalist, now holds the number two spot on the San Diego City Council as President Pro Tem, which was the position Gloria held during his eight months as acting Mayor of the City Council before going to the State Legislature.

All the candidates left expressing a belief that they had done a good job in stating their positions.

BAPAC Holds Monthly Membership Meeting Photos by Voice & Viewpoint

By Dr. John E. Warren Voice & Viewpoint About 75 people were on hand last Saturday for the Black American Political Association of California (BAPAC) at the Educational Cultural Center (ECC). This was a big day promoted as one at which local elected officials from cities in San Diego County would, and did, appear. The central theme was one of “How The Black Community Can Remain Relevant.” The topics surrounding this theme were: Census 2020, Redistricting, Boards and Commissions, Elected officials/ Community resident support, and Advisory Board vacancies for both Proposition 47 Board Vacancies and the Regional Task Force on the Homelessness.

his concern for the community as a whole. While acknowledging the current housing crisis throughout the county, Spriggs expressed concern over the disp[acement that will come with the additional housing construction. Mayor Vasquez of Lemon Grove spoke on her journey of social involvement leading up to her election as Mayor; Councilmember Monica Montgomery, in whose district ECC sits, proudly spoke of her success with bringing change to the Citizens Review Board of the City of San Diego. Assemblymember Shirley Weber also appeared on the program. Dr. Weber was the one person no one speaking wanted to follow. This was a compliment to her many achievements and the fact that The first part of the meeting there really is nothing left to say after consisted of remarks by local city Dr. Weber speaks. This was all good council and mayoral officials. and done with much love.

Imperial City Council Member Ed Spriggs spoke of growing up in San Different speakers addressed the topics Diego; the schools he attended and listed from their own perspectives.

What was most important about the event itself was the fact that those attending were engaged and excited about participating in the political process to bring about change.

There were also reports from the various BAPAC Committees, which was an indicator of the ongoing work of the organization beyond its monthly meetings. There will be much more to come.

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provided an outstanding program and luncheon while hundreds of tourists streamed by the festivities, which were held on the deck of the Midway. Retired Commander Bobby E Brown, Jr., USN, was the keynote speaker. He spoke of the personal journey that led him to the Navy and the career he enjoyed as a helicopter pilot. The representation of a cross section of San Diegans at this luncheon was a reflection on how well the Midway is connecting with the community and not just on Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘s Birthday. It was a great event with well deserved recognition. Keep up the great job Midway. community, Rudolph Johnson, III Birthday. It was a great event with is the story of a young man who well deserved recognition. Keep up started out as a child participant in the great job Midway.

Neighborhood House’s Head Start program who returned years later as a young professional to become President of Neighborhood House Association. Johnson now resides over an organization that provides services to thousands of San Diego residents each year in a variety of This year’s diversity luncheon was programs. the occasion for the presentation Gozalez, a of two special Awards by Assemblywoman the Diversity Committee to former labor leader in San Diego individuals identified as Bridge County, mother of five, and wife of Builders in the community. Fourth District County Supervisor The honors fell on Rudolph A. Nathlan Fletcher, has not only built Johnson, III, President and CEO a record of service with labor, but of the Neighborhood House has also been a friend of working Association and Assemblywoman people while serving in the State Lofena Gonzales, California 89th Assembly.

Assembly District. While both individuals have outstanding The Diversity and Inclusion histories of contribution Committee, under the Committee’s and service to the San Diego Vice Chair, Peggy Cooper, On Wednesday, January 15th, the Diversity Committee of the Midway Museum held its 8th Annual Celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a continued “showcase of the USS Midway’s legacy of diversity in service to America and to generate greater ethnic community awareness and support.”

Honoring MLK at Harriet Tubman Village Charter School Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

Veterans, Students, Teachers, Staff, Community and Corporate volunteers came together at Harriet Tubman Village Charter School in a day of service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King. Projects completed included bench building, painting murals and the entryway to the school. The event was organized

by The Mission Continues (TMC), which is a Veteran-led volunteer service organization. Starbucks was a major corporate sponsor and provided over 100 volunteers in addition to funding for materials.

TMC welcomes all volunteers.

Learn more about future projects by going to www.missioncontinues. org.

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MLK, Jr. Day Parade

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By Brian Goodin Contributing Writer

Sunday, January 19th at 2 p.m. on North Harbor Drive at Waterfront Park was the place to be as thousands gathered to pay honor and tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a social activist, Baptist minister, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who lead the American civil rights movement from the mid-’50s until his assassination in 1968. Dr. King was subjected to a racist policy of segregation, a legalized method that was institutionalized to keep African-Americans from having equal civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. desired equality and human rights for African-Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest. His efforts for these just causes are celebrated throughout the United States as he is the only American besides President George Washington to have a national Holiday observed on his birthday, which is honored on the third Monday in January.

The weather for the parade was perfect with very few clouds in the sky and temperature right at 68 degrees. Participation was

amazing for this event that, at one time, in its earlier beginnings was held in Encanto on Imperial Avenue in San Diego some 40 years ago. The waterfront provided a great backdrop for the dazzling floats, awesome marching bands, university students, youth organizations, churches, public servants, radio stations, television stations, college fraternities & sororities, along with drill teams.

A hundred and four organizations in all participated to keep kids, parents and anyone else on the edge of their seats, living Dr. King’s dream and keeping the dream alive.

The Grand Marshall for this year’s MLK Jr. Day Parade was Lemon Grove Mayor Racquel Vasquez.

The Master of Ceremonies was Tayari Howard, in his 39th year at the post. This long-time parade event was put in motion by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, of which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a member, with express permission from the late Coretta Scott King who endorsed the fraternity to hold the parade in her late husband’s honor.

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By Christopher LeFall Contributing Writer

The nominations for the annual Human Dignity Award are open to all San Diego County individuals and organizations. Nominees must epitomize contributions that reflect the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in underdeveloped San Diego-region communities and embody values that reflect the spreading of

“Cultural Awareness.” to all. These attributes aid in reducing prejudices, promote unification through the YMCA’s core values, which are: Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility, and create inclusive opportunities for youth in continuing or higher education.

Virginia Cha, reporter for KGTV ABC 10, greeted the enthusiastic crowd Friday morning. The opening ceremony consisted of the Presentation of Colors by the Greater San Diego Chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers, 9th and 10th Calvary Association, with assistance from The Heartbeat Music Academy, followed by uplifting songs by The Martin Luther King Jr., Community Choir San Diego that made one feel that they were in church service.

Starla Lewis, global teacher of self-love, was the keynote speaker. Lewis commented in her speech that, “When we recognize Dr. King, we recognize the best in ourselves.”

When asked to elaborate, she had this to say about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : “He was a man of truth, justice, and peace.

The best way to get peace is through Love.

Love is God, and the most powerful force in the world.” Lewis also stated, “Forgiveness is the topic that I wish I had more time to touch on….” Many of those in the audience were moved by her words.

If you missed this event, you should definitely make an effort to make next year’s.

uaamac 25th annual

Community Breakfast & Celebration

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By Vayunamu Bawa Contributing Writer

Divinely Diverse Destiny. That was the theme of the 25th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast & Celebration which took place on January 20, 2020, at the Jacobs Center. The annual event put on by the United African American Ministerial Action Council (UAAMAC) aims to be a place for members of Black and other communities to remember and reflect on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Councilmember Monica Montgomery opened with a speech challenging those present to remember that, while Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against racism, he also spoke out against militarism and economic inequality.

“There’s a reason he’s gone, and it’s because he spoke the truths of the time,” she said. Montgomery said the rights that were eventually won

did not cost America much and we all ought to do what will actually “cost us.” Her brief message was to go beyond the celebration and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. for “what he really said.”

The honorees of the day were Elizabeth Bustos, Community Hero award; Bonnie Dumanis, Community Hero Award; Angela Harris, the Rev. George Walker Smith, Jr. Trailblazer Award; Bruce Williams, the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Shelley Zimmerman, the Community Hero Award.

Dumanis was recognized for her contributions to justice in the law enforcement sector as former San Diego District Attorney and current Juvenile Court judge. Committed to improving the situations of low-level offenders and reducing recidivism, her time as the DA is marked by the creation of the first prison reentry program in California. Judge Dumanis, upon receiving her award, presented UAMAAC

with a $1,000.00 donation.

Bruce Williams was recognized for his faithful service to the community, specifically his work with elected officials. Working with Councilmember Montgomery as the Fourth District Ombudsman, he uses his knowledge and experience as a San Diego native to connect the people to their officials.

Williams acknowledged his mother for her sacrifices as a single mom and ended his speech with a quote from the movie ‘The Help’ where the lead character portrayed by Viola Davis, Aibileen Clark, simply remarks, “Ain’t you tired?” He shared the quote to say that hatred, as a result of racism and other prejudices, takes a lot of energy and he urged the audience to, instead, engage with people based on the content of their character.

Angela Harris received recognition for her multicultural community outreach work and engagement through The Harris

Group International and as an author writing with aims of helping women of color live better lives. In her speech, she highlighted some points from Martin Luther King Jr.’s popular Letter from the Birmingham City Jail on the interconnectedness of all people in the fight for justice and equality. With all of us so linked, she said, whatever happens to one of us affects everyone indirectly and thanked UAAMAC for standing in the gap.

Elizabeth Bustos was recognized for her work in health promotion and disease prevention, particularly in Black communities where heart disease is more prevalent. She spoke of her call to follow in the way of Martin Luther King, Jr. by seeking justice and honoring sacrifice. Shelley Zimmerman was recognized for the low crime and homicide rates in San Diego during her time as Chief of Police. However, she spoke on the importance of not looking at crime in terms of numbers, noting that there are

people behind those figures. She also spoke about the significance of reducing friction between various communities.

Dr. David Jeremiah, the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, was the keynote speaker. Dr. Jeremiah spoke on the significance of worship, not only as believers but as a diverse group of believers, noting that it provides a glimpse of heaven. Dr. Jeremiah brought along 100 members of his phenomenal, interracial Shadow Mountain Community Church Choir. Speaking on the connection in worship as his choir roused the audience to sing along with their hands held high, Dr. Jeremiah acknowledged that the fellowship at this event might be similar to what Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned.

He ended his presentation by handing Dr. Don Conley, UAAMAC Director, a check for twenty thousand dollars as a donation to support UAMAAC’s mission.

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Celebrates Dr. King with Wreath Laying

Home Going Celebration for Ernest Lee Buchanan, Jr.

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The Broadway Heights Community was out in full force on January 15th for a wreath laying at the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the now famous neighborhood Promenade celebrating Dr. King’s life and legacy.

At this first Annual Wreath Laying, 4th graders Shenice Medina-Garcial and Mary Bailey placed the wreath on a stand at the top of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way Promenade in the heart of the Broadway Heights community. The ceremony itself included the Passing of colors by the USMC Color Guard, the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag by Lemon Grove School Students. Louise Sheffield gave Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Rev. Eric Miller, Pastor of True Vine Missionary Baptist Church spoke on Remembering Dr. King. Closing remarks were made by Mr. Robert Robinson, President of the Broadway Heights Community Council.

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By Darrel Wheeler Contributing Writer

An overflow crowd of family and friends gathered at North Park Apostolic Church in Lemon Grove to pay their respects to Ernest Lee Buchanan, Jr. on January 10, 2020.

In 2007, a group of residents from the Broadway Heights community went on a 16-day tour of civil rights locations across America. When they came back home, they were disappointed that they did not have a street named after Dr. King in San Diego. For the next 12 years, they worked with the City of San Diego to make it happen. Last February, San Diego City Council members voted 8-0 to rename Westin Street to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way.

Friends and family stepped to the microphone to share some of their precious memories of the highly respected football coach, security agent, son, father, grand-father, Super Charger fan, sometime rapper and home-boy.

After some heart-felt songs

by Fred Hammond and an inspiring eulogy by Pastor Mark Garcia and a loving tribute from his kids, it was time to lay Ernie in his final resting place of peace at Greenwood cemetery.

But it is not just any street-the entire block was transformed into a “Smart Promenade.” The Broadway Heights Community organization has partnered with the San Diego Unified School District to have students come to the site on field trips for the rest of the month.

“I think they did a great job with his service today. He would have been proud of the way it went down,” friend Tyrone Carter said.

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Hoover High Student-Led Mayoral Debate Challenges Candidates

By Vayunamu Bawa Contributing Writer

Mayoral candidates Barbara Bry, Todd Gloria, and Tasha Williamson participated in a youthled forum on Thursday, January 16, 2020, at Hoover High School. Students of Hoover High School’s Social Justice Academy in partnership with a San Diego nonprofit known as Youth Will hosted this annual debate where issues pertaining to San Diego youth were centered.

The candidates present were Councilmember Barbara Bry, Assemblymember Todd Gloria, 1963 mayoral candidate Rich Riel, and community activist Tasha Williamson. Health, homelessness, mobility, and other matters of justice were brought forward for the candidates to respond to in about sixty seconds. The questions were presented by the Hoover High students who had gone through training on community advocacy in preparation for this event and they effectively communicated their personal and collective experiences.

On the issue of mobility and the question of free transit and bike passes for low-income youth, Tasha Williamson spoke powerfully on the importance of constituents being put first as opposed to the current reality which involves police officers riding transit for free. If elected mayor, Williamson committed to having a conversation with MTS surrounding its excessive force treatment of minority youth on transit. As a community leader and activist, Williamson holds a strong anti-establishment position in the race for mayor. She has worked to support San Diego residents who have suffered the effects of gang or gun violence. With a history of fighting for accountability from those in various positions of influence, from police officers to teach-

ers, Williamson’s campaign is clearly centered around working for Black and other marginalized folks.

Todd Gloria pointed a lot to his past projects, both to the successes and to what he could have done better while in the various offices he has previously held. Gloria served as a San Diego Housing Commissioner from 2005 to 2008 and was elected to the San Diego City Council in 2008. He has improved roads, provided affordable housing units, and worked on results-oriented programs for the homeless population.

As a gay man who identifies as Native American, Filipino, Puerto Rican, and Dutch, Gloria felt comfortable relating to the majority minority audience. One student spoke of her situation as a young immigrant struggling to figure out living in San Diego and he assured her of ways he could, if mayor, make it easier to make ends meet as a result of having a similar personal experience when he was younger.

Barbara Bry acknowledged her existence in the space as a white woman but expressed that having grandchildren growing up in this city urges her to make San Diego a great place to live for all. Bry’s campaign emphasizes that she is not a politician even as a San Diego City Council official and instead labels her as seeking to fix the problems she found with the government. Despite this, Bry, as well as Rich Riel, had a hard time connecting with the audience.

On the issue of transit, Riel’s spoke of his plan to shut off the buses after 6pm and issue out Uber/ Lyft vouchers instead due to the lack of use of the buses at those times of the day. This

showed an unfavorable stance on sustainability in terms of transportation and, more broadly, a lack of understanding of the climate crisis—a subject youth globally and locally have no choice but to be passionate and informed about. On homelessness, Bry mentioned that while not all of those without homes are there due to crime.

Some of them, she said, have committed crimes and she remarked on the failing infrastructure in the Southeast that, “A city is only as strong as its weakest link.” Williamson used this opportunity to say that politicians also commit crimes and she encouraged the youth, saying that they come from strong and resilient communities, and should not be called weak. She stated that decriminalizing poverty would be a priority for her if elected because “people in survival mode do whatever they can to feed their kids.”

The last matter of the night was on the place of youth in decision-making in San Diego. A student asked the candidates their thoughts on ded-

icating seats to youth on the various boards and commissions that affect youth. Gloria pointed to his previous advocacy for youth voting rights on the planning committee in relation to the MidCity Community Advocacy Network and added that he was supportive of youth being able to vote in elections at sixteen. Bry said she would be open to a youth advisory board. Williamson, on the other hand, said that there needed to be a move from seeing youth in advisory positions to seeing them as decision-makers.

After the general Q&A period, attendees of the forum were able to speak with the candidates one-on-one during breakout sessions.

Although Williamson and Gloria had the most support of those present, all candidates and their platforms reflected a complex San Diego that is distinctly different in the needs of its various communities and is in tension in how it will be represented.

Tuition-Free San Diego Promise Program Now Accepting Applications

By Voice & Viewpoint Newswire Students interested in attending San Diego City, Mesa, or Miramar College next fall without having to pay tuition can now sign up for the San Diego Promise program. The application window opened on January 13.

The San Diego Promise provides up to two years of free tuition and health fees, book grants for eligible students, sessions with peer mentors, and guidance from academic counselors to ensure educational and career goals are met. Promise participants must be a first-time college student and a California resident who will graduate from a California high school or earn the equivalent of a high school diploma in 2020, or who are San Diego Continuing Education students transitioning to City, Mesa, or Miramar. Undocumented immigrants also are eligible under Assembly Bill 540 guidelines.

Promise students are required to enroll in at least 12 units each semester while maintaining a 2.0 GPA. The tuition-free San Diego Promise has served nearly 4,400 students since it was introduced as a pilot program in the fall of 2016. Participants say the Promise program makes them feel more focused, supported, and connected.

In addition, because of the extensive support services available, promise students are more likely to earn better grades and less likely to drop a class or leave school.

“This was an opportunity I never had before in my life,” said Yolanda Granados, who seamlessly transitioned from Continuing Education to Mesa College, graduated from Mesa last spring, and transferred to Cal State Long Beach in fall, 2019. “I didn’t have to worry about books or tuition. You get one counselor assigned to you who is keeping track of you and your progress, and you get your school paid for. Yes, I’d say the Promise is pretty cool.”

Besides completing a Fall 2020 Promise application, students interested in the tuition-free program must complete a Fall 2020 admissions application for City, Mesa, or Miramar College; a 2020 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form or Dream Act application; meet with an academic counselor; and attend an on-campus Promise orientation during the summer.

Continuing Education offers non credit adult education at seven campuses throughout San Diego.

San Diego Promise students from City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges. The program is one of the largest in the state.

For additional information on the San Diego Promise program, contact the City College First Year Services Office at (619) 388-3998 or sdpromisecity@sdccd.edu; the Mesa College Outreach Office at (619) 388-2230 or sdpromisemesa@sdccd.edu; or the Miramar College Outreach Office at 388-7357 or sdpromisemiramar@sdccd.edu

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Ozell Parker

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Services were held Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

Services were held Wednesday, January 15 at 10:00 A.M. at AndersonRagsdale Mortuary, Memory Chapel; interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

On January 7, 2020. God blesses her and welcomes her home in eternal peace and beauty. Carolann Grace was born February 14, 1941 in San Diego, CA. She was the second of three children born to the union of Gilbert Clarence Groff and Naomi Agusta Welch Groff. As a debutante, as well as the daughter of a Mason and an Eastern Star, Grace enjoyed participating in society functions after her debut in her teens. After graduating from San Diego High School in 1958, Grace married her high school sweetheart in 1960, Robert Louis Fowler. They were blessed with four children, Rodney Lauren, Mark Scott, Charlyn Grace and Robin Lisa. Grace retired from the Internal Revenue Service in 1996, after an exemplary 35+ year career working for the federal government. She got her start at the Department of the Navy before joining the IRS in 1973 as a GS-3 Clerk/Typist. Grace rose through the ranks and retired as a GS-12 Journeyman Revenue Officer (investigator/ tax collector). She was an active member of the National Treasury Employees Union – Chapter 92 San Diego Office, eventually serving as Vice President for multiple terms. Grace, who was centered in Christ, was baptized at Bethel A.M.E. Church in San Diego, CA. In her adult years Grace’s home was the gathering place for family and friends on occasions big and small. It brought great joy to her heart to cook for her family and entertain her friends. She will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Claudia Grace; both of her parents and both of her siblings, sister, Patricia Louise Groff Grundy and brother, Ralph Carter Groff. She leaves to cherish her memory her four loving and devoted children: Rodney (wife, Tyler), Mark (wife, Barbara), Charlyn (husband, Jim) and Robin (husband, Mark); ten grandchildren, Michael (wife, Adriane), Deva, Rodney Jr., Austin (wife, Vannessa), Nadia, Marco, Giulia, Vito, Isabella, and Mia; eight great-grandchildren, Rodney III, Demi, Ferah, Kobe, Marlo, Ashton, Maxwell and Nova and a host cousins, other relatives and many friends who will mourn her passing, yet celebrate her life.

JIMMIE EUGENE FREDRICK WRIGHT transitioned peacefully on December 27, 2019 in Riverside, CA at the age of 53 years old.

Jimmie is survived by his vast amount of family and friends. Born on March 4th, 1966 in San Diego, CA to the late Willie B. Wright and the late Jewelry B. Henderson. He joined his older brothers the late Alvis Henderson and the late Otis Henderson. The youngest of nine children, he is survived by three brothers and three sisters; Elias “EB” Banks-Henderson (Late Emma), Terry Jones (Terri), Wilbert Wright (Dorothy), Willean Sims-Pender (Late Gary), Sandra Sharp (Ralph), Valerie Wright and an abundance of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Jimmie graduated from Clairemont High School in San Diego in 1985 and upon graduation he worked as an aircraft mechanic at the Naval Aviation Depot, in Coronado, CA. Jimmie was a good man. He was always there for his family and friends.

He was generous, loving, and witty. Jimmie loved and was a dedicated fan of the Oakland Raiders. Jimmie loved low-rider cars, drawing, playing games with friends, and family. He was an avid chess player and adored listening to his music. As a child, he was an active and dedicated member of the Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church, in San Diego. His kindness knew no bounds; knowing him was a privilege.

Jimmy Eugene Frederick Wright will be missed by all who knew him.

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Services held on Thursday, January 23, 2020 at Church of the Loving God; interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

OZELL J. PARKER was born on August 1, 1927 in Dermott, Arkansas to James Johnson and Alberta L. Morris. She was the oldest of eleven children and graduated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ozell accepted Christ at a very early age and was a longtime member of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Dermott.

On October 23, 1946, Ozell Johnson married Leon Willie D Parker.

Their union was blessed with ten children. In 1969, the Parker family moved to San Diego, California, and became members of the Church of the Living God on 32nd St. in San Diego under the leadership of Pastored by Harvey Jones Sr. The church later moved to 4202 Delta Street, San Diego, California and was renamed The Church of the Loving God in 1991. The current serving pastor is Harvey Jones Jr. Ozell was very active in the church’s Senior Auxiliary Group; Yesterday’s Friends for Tomorrow Future.

Ozell lived a long-blessed life and was called home on Saturday, January 11, 2020. She was greeted at the Holy Gates by her parents, her husband and four of her children that preceded her in death.

She leaves to cherish her memory two brothers, Earl Johnson (Frankie) of Milwaukee, Wi. and Otis Jones of Los Angeles, California; one sister, Judy B. Charles (Edwin) of Paris, California; two sons, Willie Earl and Lafayette Parker of San Diego, California; four daughters, Gloria Hawkins (Matson) of Spring Valley, California, Catherine Mcleod (James) of San Diego, California, Elnora Parker of Menifee, California and Dorothy Johnson (James) of San Diego, California; and a host of grandchildren, great- grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, cousins, nieces, nephews and many friends.

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“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”

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Services were held Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at FREE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN JESUS NAME; interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary VINCENT JEFFERSON was born on July 23, 1959 in San Diego California. He was the second child born to Elaine and Levi Jefferson. Vincent’s primary school education was through the San Diego Unified School District. Vincent worked as an auto detailer for years. He also worked in landscaping in addition to being a handyman throughout San Diego County. Vincent was a homebody, never going far from home. At every gathering and in every conversation, he found a way to lighten it with laughter. Most importantly, he never parted from family without saying “I love you”.

Vincent was introduced to the Lord in his early childhood through his grandmother, Mother Avery Springer. As an adult, his brother Tony made frequent requests of him to help around the church when there was a need and Vincent was always willing.

Vincent was preceded in death by his father, Levi Jefferson, his youngest sister, Tammy Jefferson, and his eldest brother, Anthony Jefferson. The Lord called Vincent home Wednesday morning January 8, 2020. He leaves behind to celebrate his homegoing; his mother, Elaine Jefferson; sister, Wanda Jefferson; niece, Tammy Jefferson; a great niece, Angelina, and a great nephew, Ray; as well as, a host of other family and friends.

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STANLEY VERNON VARNER, was born on December 25th 1958 in San Diego, California. He was the third of four children born to Doisha Vernon Varner, Jr and Kathryn Gentry Varner. “Vernon”, as he was affectionately known by family and friends, attended Mead and Chollas Elementary, Gompers Junior High School and graduated from San Diego High School in 1977. After graduating from San Diego High, Vernon attended DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona where he received an Associate of Arts Degree in Electronic Technology.

Once he received his degree, Vernon moved to San Jose and got a job as an Electronic Technician. Vernon married his high school sweetheart, Wanda Jones. Their union was blessed with two children, Vashon and Tyrell. Vernon and his family relocated to Sacramento, California in 1999.

Prior to his illness, Vernon worked for Champions Store Fixture Installers.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, the Angel of Mercy came from Glory and bore the spirit of another weary soldier home to rest.

Vernon leaves a legacy of life, love and hope which will immortalize and keep his spirit present for his loving family, Wanda, his two sons, Vashon of San Francisco, Tyrell of San Diego, one granddaughter, AiYonna Chadwick Varner of San Diego, sister, Carolyn Norfleet of San Diego, California, brothers Rodger Varner (Marcia) of Temecula, California, and Thomas Varner of San Diego, California, one aunt, Lelia Gentry Martin of Oakland, California, and a host of nephews, nieces, cousins, and other relatives and friends.

PAUL ERIC DELESBORE Sr. the son of Louise Patterson and Joesph Delesbore was born on November 10, 1963 in San Francisco, CA. Paul along with his siblings were Navy brats which caused them to move every so often relocating from states such as Charleston, SC, Pensacola, FL, Jacksonville, FL and eventually back to California.

Paul spent some of his teen years and remainder of his life in San Diego, where he’d meet a few of his nearest and dearest lifelong friends.

After graduating high school he too would follow in the footsteps of his father and join the U.S. Navy. After time served in the Navy he worked in produce at Henry’s Market in El Cajon for years, as well as bouncing at multiple clubs, often working many graveyards shifts as a supervisor for Bald Eagle Security and later becoming a front desk clerk at the Golden West Hotel. Paul was always a hard worker and demonstrated those qualities throughout his lifetime. As a loving father of four children and a husband he was always an extraordinary provider and made sure his household was taken care of. He was an overall amazing being.

Paul was extremely loved, adored by many and made quite an impression everywhere he went. Everyone always expressed how much of a great guy he was.

Paul Delesbore, Sr. was a beloved father, son, brother, and friend.

The kind of man you could depend on and had a huge heart.

Paul was preceded in death by mother Louise Patterson, father Joseph Delesbore and sister Carmen Pulley.

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Paul Eric Delesbore, Sr. is survived by his stepmother Shirley Delesbore; sister Michelle Harris; brother Warren A. Pulley; four children Cherrelle Roberts, Juan Cantera, Paula Delesbore, and Paul Delesbore, Jr., as well as a host of long distant relatives and family friends he considered dear to his heart.

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ROBERT LEE BOWIE Jr., son of the late Robert Lee Bowie, Sr. and Helen Bowie was born December 15, 1953, in San Diego, CA. He attended the public schools of San Diego Unified School District and was a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. Robert worked alongside his father in the construction field as a house framer.

He will forever be cherished in the lives of his four children: Tyrone Bowie, Tamera Bowie, Tamerisha Davis-Bowie and Latasha Hopson all of San Diego, CA; nine grandchildren: De’Angelo Bowie, Na’Teia Bowie, Tyrone Bowie Jr., Anthony Hudgies, Joevon Walker II, Tayashana Davis-Tuenter, Marlin Davis, Nathaniel Hopson and Twyla Hopson; one great- grandchild: Charleigh Rae Cooper; siblings: Curtis Bowie, Larry Bowie, Eunice Gipson and Brenda Carr-Bowie, who preceded him in death; a host of devoted nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

If Tomorrow Never Comes If I knew it would be the last tine that I’d see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in the more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.

If I knew it would be the last time I’d hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would videotape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.

If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare and extra minute or two to stop and say, “I love you,” instead of assuming, you would know I do.

If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, well I’m sure you’ll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.

For surely there’s always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything right.

There will always be another day to say “I love you’s”, And certainly there’s another chance to say our “Anything I can do’s?”

But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I’d like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget, Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.

So if you’re waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?

For if tomorrow never comes, you’ll surely regret the day, That you didn’t take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a liss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.

So hold your loved ones close today, whispher in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and that you’ll always hold them dear.

Take time to say “I’m sorry,” “please forgive me,” “thank you” or “it’s okay”.

And if tomorrow never comes, you’ll have no regrets about today.

• Thursday, JANUARY 23, 2020

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When great trees fall, When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.

When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken.

Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us.

Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away.

We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Maya Angelou

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Located at: 3660 Marlborough Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: San Diego Design Collective 3660 Marlborough Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 09, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 09, 2025 01/23, 01/30, 02/06, 02/13 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000558 Fictitious business name(s): Tere teran tax Service Located at: 1120 3rd Ave Ste 2 Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 01/02/2018 This business is hereby registered by the following: T.T. Tax Service, Inc. 1120 3rd Ave Ste 2 Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 08, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 08, 2025 01/23, 01/30, 02/06, 02/13 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9001295 Fictitious business name(s): Icy Tooth Gems Located at: 3401 Scenic Ter Spring Valley, CA 91978 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Shanta R Williams 3401 Scenic Ter Spring Valley, CA 91978 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 15, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 15, 2025 01/23, 01/30, 02/06, 02/13 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030088 Fictitious business name(s): Boardwalk Business Solutions --Boardwalk Tax Service Located at: 8318 University Ave. Ste #B La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A General Partnership The first day of business was 12/01/2019 This business is hereby registered by the following: Marvin Caldwell 8318 University Ave. Ste #B La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego --Javier Bravo 8318 University Ave. #B La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 20, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 20, 2024 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000577 Fictitious business name(s): Styles By Meekz Located at:

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County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 10, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 10, 2025 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000292 Fictitious business name(s): The Lash Palace Located at: 940 Eastlake Parkway Chula Vista, CA 91914 County of San Diego --2224 F Ave Apt. 206 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 11/25/2019 This business is hereby registered by the following: Alejandra Tamora Tucker 2224 F Ave Apt. 206 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 06, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 06, 2025 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030660 Fictitious business name(s): Onyx Property Management Located at: 3281 Vista Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Married Couple The first day of business was 04/03/2015 This business is hereby registered by the following: Rosolyn Jenee Harper 3281 Vista Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego --Aundray Lamar Eaton 3281 Vista Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 30, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 30, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030403 Fictitious business name(s): Blush Salon Located at: 4801 El Cajon Blvd.

San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/26/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Mai Trinh Nguyen 5327 Krenning St San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 26, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 26, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030754 Fictitious business name(s): SPICY CITY Located at: 4690 Convoy St Ste 107 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: S&L SPICY TASTE INC 4690 Convoy St Ste 107 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 31, 2019

This fictitious business name will expire on December 31, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030679 Fictitious business name(s): Clear Magnet --Clear Magnet Consulting Located at: 4187 69th Street La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 01/18/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kevin Shorter 4187 69th Street La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 31, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 31, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9029461 Fictitious business name(s): MediVeggie Located at: 2921 Chamoune Ave. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Detra Dine Galloway 2921 Chamoune Ave. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 12, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 12, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030537 Fictitious business name(s): DO More, Say Less Located at: 4734 Crooked Creek Ct. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: Co-Partners Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Timothy Omario Douglas 4734 Crooked Creek Ct. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego --Jermel Bryant 4727 Crooked Creek Ct. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 30, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 30, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9029347 Fictitious business name(s): Threadman Embroidery Located at: 6070 Wanda Ct. San Diego, CA 92120 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/11/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Neil Lance Schindler 5136 Gary Street San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 11, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 11, 2024 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030352 Fictitious business name(s): Premiere Homes --Premiere Property Management Located at: 7710 Balboa Ave #324 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 04/10/03 This business is hereby registered by the following: Premiere Real Estate Group 7710 Balboa Ave #324 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 24, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 24, 2024 01/02, 01/09, 01/16, 01/23 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030289 Fictitious business name(s): Live Run Boundless Located at: 1422 Hilltop Drive Apt. 2 Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/23/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kenneth Neal Pinckney 1422 Hilltop Drive Apt. 2 Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 23, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 23, 2024 01/02, 01/09, 01/16, 01/23 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9030120 Fictitious business name(s): Sweet Yuri Located at: 1511 S. 43rd Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A General Partnership Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Fabian Alejandro Roman 1511 S. 43rd Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego --Yuriria Roman 1511 S. 43rd Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 20, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 20, 2024 01/02, 01/09, 01/16, 01/23

above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

5519 Lake Murray Blvd. #301

La mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual

5519 Lake Murray Blvd. #301

La mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 08, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 08, 2025 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000678 Fictitious business name(s): TC Nails Located at: 3160 5th Ave San Diego, CA 92103 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 01/08/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: TC Nails Inc 3160 5th Ave San Diego, CA 92103 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 09, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 09, 2025 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000746 Fictitious business name(s): Miramar Car Audio Located at: 6904 Miramar Road #108 San Diego, CA 92121 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 01/01/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: CV, LLC 6904 Miramar Road #108 San Diego, CA 92121 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 09, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 09, 2025 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000382 Fictitious business name(s): Grant It First Consulting Services Located at: 7170 O'Meara Street San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Sabrina Michelle Carnell-Williams 7170 O'Meara Street San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 07, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on January 07, 2025 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9000839 Fictitious business name(s): Axiom Tax Group Located at: 4025 Camino Del Rio South Ste. 329 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego --4611 51st Street San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 01/01/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: M.C. & Associates, Ltd. Liability Company 4611 51st Street San Diego, CA 92115

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NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Central 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00066516CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Odeat Hermez To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Odeat Hermez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Odeat Hermez PROPOSED NAME: Odette Hermez

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 09, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 The address of the court is: 330 W Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 01/23, 01/30, 02/06, 02/13 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Civil Division 330 W. Broadway P.O. Box 120128 San Diego, CA 92112-0128 37-2019-00063264CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Jennifer Susan Higgins To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Jennifer Susan Higgins filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Jennifer Susan Higgins PROPOSED NAME: Jenny Pierce Tobin

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 a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 24, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 The address of the court is: 330 W. Broadway P.O. Box 120128 San Diego, CA 92112-0128 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Civil Division 330 W. Broadway P.O. Box 120128 San Diego, CA 92112-0128 37-2019-00063264CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Ruth Ann Shannon To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Ruth Ann Shannon filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Ruth Ann Shannon PROPOSED NAME: RuthAnn Shannon Tobin

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 a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 24, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61

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The address of the court is: granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may 330 W. Broadway grant the petition without a P.O. Box 120128 hearing.

San Diego, CA 92112-0128 NOTICE OF HEARING 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 Date: February 24, 2020 ----------------------------------Time: 8:30 A.M. SUPERIOR COURT OF Dept. 61 CALIFORNIA The address of the court is: County of San Diego Superior Court Central Division 330 West Broadway Hall of Justice San Diego, CA 92101 330 West Broadway 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 San Diego, CA 92101 ----------------------------------37-2020-00000492SUPERIOR COURT OF CU-PT-CTL CALIFORNIA Petitioner or Attorney: County of San Diego Christopher Scott Central Division Hejtmanek Hall of Justice and 330 W. Broadway Camille Marie Passon San Diego, CA 92101 To All Interested Persons: 37-2019-00069055Petitioner CU-PT-CTL Christopher Scott Petitioner or Attorney: Hejtmanek Michael Del Angelo and Shepherd Camille Marie Passon filed a petition with this court To All Interested Persons: Petitioner for a decree changing names Michael Del Angelo as follows: Shepherd filed a petition with this court PRESENT NAME: for a decree changing names Christopher Scott as follows: Hejtmanek --PRESENT NAME: Camille Marie Passon Michael Del Angelo Shepherd PROPOSED NAME: PROPOSED NAME: Christopher Scott M. Shepherd-EL D'Ambrosio --Camille Marie D'Ambrosio THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this THE COURT ORDERS that matter appear before this court all persons interested in this at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated petition for change of name should not be granted. Any below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of person objecting to the name name should not be granted. changes described above must file a written objection that Any person objecting to the includes the name changes described reasons for the objection at above must file a written least two court days before objection that includes the the matter is scheduled to be reasons for the objection at heard and must appear at the least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be hearing to show cause why the heard and must appear at the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is hearing to show cause why timely filed, the court may the petition should not be

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 18, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 The address of the court is: Superior Court 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30

PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Juanita Chevalier Case Number: 37-2020-00000452-PR-PW-CTL

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both, of Juanita Chevalier A Petition for Probate has been filed by Carl Mason in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

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

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.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certaiwn very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The

REQUEST FOR BIDS Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: FURNISH AND INSTALL SECURITY FENCING AT SCRIPPS RANCH HIGH SCHOOL AND LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on JANUARY 30, 2020 in front of the main office Scripps Ranch High School, 10410 Falcon Way, San Diego, CA 92131.

Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Lincoln High School, 4777 Imperial Ave., San Diego, CA 92113. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CZ20-0758-52).

GENERAL CONTRACTORS ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO INVITE SUBCONTRACTORS TO SITE VISITS. All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on FEBRUARY 13, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The project estimate is between $1.6 million and $1.8 million. This is a PSA project and requires prequalification. The District requires that Bidders possess any of the following classification(s) of California State Contractors License(s), valid and in good standing, at the time of bid opening and contract award: A or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

All late bids shall be deemed non-responsive and not opened. Each bid shall be in accordance with all terms, conditions, plans, specifications and any other documents that comprise the bid package. The Bid and Contract Documents are available in three formats, hard copy, CD, or online from PlanWell. Hard copy bid documents are available at Crisp Imaging, 8375 Camino Santa Fe, Unit B, San Diego, CA 92121, phone number 858-535-0607, for a refundable payment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per set; CD’s are available for a non-refundable charge of $50.

Payments shall be made by check payable to SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. If the payment for Bid and Contract Documents is refundable, refunds will be processed by the District only if the Bid and Contract Documents, including all addendums, are returned intact and in good order to Crisp Imaging within ten (10) days of the issuance of the Final Bid Tabulation. Online documents are available for download on PlanWell through Crisp Imaging. Go to www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD (Questions? 949-285-3171).

All bids shall be submitted on bid forms furnished by the District in the bid package beginning January 21, 2020. Bid packages will not be faxed. PRE-QUALIFICATION OF BIDDERS: Pursuant to Public Contract Code (PCC) §20111.6, each contractor wishing to bid as a prime to the District for projects estimated at $1,000,000 or over, or any subcontractor performing the license classifications of A, B [if performing the work of] C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and/or C-46 wishing to submit a bid to a bidding prime contractor must be prequalified in order to bid. Go online to https://www.sandiegounified.org/contractor-prequalification to download the most current prequalification application for your company. Completed applications must be submitted to the District no later than January 30, 2020, which is 10 business days before the bid opening due date. Any questionnaires submitted later than this deadline will not be processed for this Invitation for Bids.

The District encourages all general contractors bidding as a prime contractor, and all MEP subcontractors to request a questionnaire, complete it and submit it as soon as possible. SENATE BILL (SB) 854 REQUIREMENTS: Effective July 1, 2014, no contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal, or awarded a contract for a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code §1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code §1771.1(a)]. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Prime contractors must add the DIR Registration Number for each of their listed subcontractors to the Subcontractors List AND submit a certificate of registration for their own firm and those of their listed subcontractors upon request by the District.

Failure of the bidding prime contractor to list their subcontractors DIR Registration Number on the Subcontractors List at time of bid may result in rejection of their bid as non-responsive. Refer to the following DIR Website for further information: www. dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html PREVAILING WAGES: Prevailing wage requirements apply to all public works projects and must be followed per Article 17 of the General Conditions of this bid. PROJECT STABILIZATION AGREEMENT (PSA): This project is subject to the Project Stabilization Agreement (PSA) adopted by the Board of Education on July 28, 2009. The complete agreement is available for viewing and downloading at www.sandi.net - Proposition S & Z. DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Service Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May 10, 2011 by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required to satisfy a minimum DVBE participation percentage of at least three percent (3%) for this project. In compliance with this Program, the Bidder shall satisfy all requirements enumerated in the bid package.

Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the bid package and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid security in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder and Surety Company, or a certified or cashier's check in favor of the San Diego Unified School District, in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall be given to guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract as specified, within five (5) working days of notification by the District.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120 days after the date set for the opening of bids. For information regarding bidding, please call 858-522-5840.

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Andrea O’Hara, M.A. Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Officer Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department CZ20-0758-52

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independent administration appraisal of estate assets or of authority will be granted any petition or account as unless an interested person provided in Probate Code files an objection to the section 1250. A Request for petition and shows good cause Special Notice form is why the court should not grant available from the court clerk. the authority.

Petitioner: Carl Mason A Hearing 7561 Skyline Dr. on the petition will be held in San Diego, CA 92114 this court as follows: 619-346-0662 on February 19, 2020 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 at 1:30 p.m.

----------------------------------in Department 502 NOTICE OF PETITION TO located at the ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Superior Court of Catherine Knoll Nordeck California Case Number: County of San Diego 37-2019-0067997-PR-LACTL 1100 Union St. San Diego, CA 92101 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, If You Object and persons who may to the granting of the petition, otherwise be interested in the you should appear at the will or estate or both, of hearing and state your Catherine Knoll Nordeck objections or file written Catherine K. Nordeck objections with the court before the hearing. Your A Petition for Probate appearance may be in person has been filed by or by your attorney.

John Nordeck in the Superior Court of California, County of If you are a creditor or a San Diego. contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file The Petition for Probate your claim withthe court and requests that mail a copy to the personal John Nordeck representative appointed by be appointed as personal the court within the later of either (1)four months from representative to administer the estate of the decedent. the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal The Petition representative, as defined in requests authority to section 58(b) of the Califor- administer the estate under the nia Probate Code, or (2)60 Independent Administration days from the date of mailing of Estates Act.(This authority or personal delivery to you of will allow the personal a notice under section 9052 of representative to the California Probate Code. take many actions without Other California statutes obtaining court approval. and legal authority may Before taking certain very affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to important actions, however, the personal representative consult with an attorney will be required to give notice knowledgeable in to interested persons California law. unless they have waived You may examine the file notice or consented to the proposed action.) kept by the court.

The independent If you are a person interested in the estate, you administration authority will be granted unless an may file with the court a interested person files an Request for Special objection to the petition and Notice (form DE-154) of the shows good cause why the filing of an inventory and

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court should not grant the authority.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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A Hearing on the petition will be held in Attorney for petitioner: Melody A. Kramer this court as follows: Kramer Law Office, Inc. on February 04, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

4010 Sorrento Valley Blvd in Department 504 Ste 400 located at the San Diego, CA 92121 Superior Court of (855) 835-5520 California 01/09, 01/16, 01/23 County of San Diego New Central Courthouse Abandonment of Fictitious 1100 Union St. Business Name San Diego, CA 92101 STATEMENT OF If You Object ABANDONMENT OF to the granting of the petition, USE OF FICTITIOUS you should appear at the BUSINESS NAME hearing and state your 2020-9000349 objections or file written Fictitious business name(s) to objections with the court be abandoned: before the hearing. Your JD Travel appearance may be in person Located at: or by your attorney.

7710 Balboa Ave Suite 127 San Diego, CA 92111 If you are a creditor or a County of San Diego contingent creditor of the The Fictitious Business Name decedent, referred to above was filed you must file your claim with in San Diego County on: the court and mail a copy to the 01/13/2015 personal representative and assigned File no. appointed by the court within 2015-000974 the later of either (1)four Fictitious Business Name is months from the date of first being abandoned by: issuance of letters to a genJulie Hoang eral personal representative, 7710 Balboa Ave Suite 127 as defined in section 58(b) of San Diego, CA 92111 the California Probate Code, County of San Diego or (2)60 days from the date of This business is conducted by: An Individual mailing or personal delivery to This statement was filed with you of a notice under section 9052 of the California the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on Probate Code.

January 06, 2020 Other California statutes and 01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06 legal authority may ----------------------------------affect your rights as a STATEMENT OF creditor. You may want to ABANDONMENT OF consult with an attorney USE OF FICTITIOUS knowledgeable in BUSINESS NAME California law.

2019-9030755 You may examine the file Fictitious business name(s) to kept by the court. be abandoned: If you are a person SPICY CITY interested in the estate, you Located at: may file with the court a 4690 Convoy St Ste 107 Request for Special San Diego, CA 92111 Notice (form DE-154) of the County of San Diego filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed any petition or account as in San Diego County on: provided in Probate Code 06/18/15 section 1250. and assigned File no.

2015-016133 REQUEST FOR BIDS Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned by: Advertisement for Bids Sichuan Garden Inc 4690 Convoy St, Ste 107 Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and San Diego, CA 92111 through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, County of San Diego This business is conducted by: materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: A Corporation PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT REPAIRS AND PLAYGROUND SURFACING This statement was filed with REPLACEMENT AT 8 SITES the Recorder/County Clerk of Mandatory site visits are scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on JANUARY 31, 2020, in San Diego County on front of the main office at EB Scripps ES, 11778 Cypress Canyon Rd., San Diego, December 31, 2019 CA 92131. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Cubberley ES, 3201 01/09, 01/16, 01/23, 01/30 Marathon Dr. San Diego, CA 92123. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Hearst ES, 6230 Del Cerro Blvd. San Diego, CA, 92120. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Clay ES, 6506 Solita Ave. San Diego, CA 92115. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Benchley-Weinberger ES, 6269 Twin Lake Dr. San Diego, CA 92119. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Gage ES, 6811 Bisby Lake Ave. San Diego, CA 92119. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Valencia Park ES, 5880 Skyline Dr., San Diego, CA 92114. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Loma Portal ES, 3341 Browning St. San Diego, CA 92106. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CP20-0820-52).

GENERAL CONTRACTORS MUST ATTEND AND SIGN IN AT ALL EIGHT (8) SITES IN ORDER TO BID THIS PROJECT AND ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO INVITE SUBCONTRACTORS TO SITE VISITS. All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on FEBRUARY 12, 2020, at 1937 - AMANDA BERRY the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, SMITH BORN San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Under Public Contract Code 3400, the District has made a finding that the following particular materials, products, things, or services are designated by specific brand Referred to as “God’s image carved or trade name in order to match other products in use on the particular public in ebony”, Amanda Berry Smith improvement either completed or in the course of completion: was born into slavery in Long • Specification Section 11 68 00 Play Field Equipment and Structures The project estimate is $830,000 to $850,000. This is not a PSA project and does Green, Maryland. Following the not require prequalification. The District requires that Bidders possess any of the death of her second husband in 1869, following classification(s) of California State Contractors License(s), valid and in she traveled as an evangelist. Her good standing, at the time of bid opening and contract award: A or C61/D34 or other overseas ministry began in England appropriate license, subject to District approval. All late bids shall be deemed non-responsive and not opened. Each bid shall be in accordance with all terms, in 1878. From there, conditions, plans, specifications and any other documents that comprise the bid Smith went to India, package. The Bid and Contract Documents are available in three formats, hard copy, and later the African CD, or online from PlanWell. Hard copy bid documents are available at Crisp continent. Her spiritual Imaging, 8375 Camino Santa Fe, Unit B, San Diego, CA 92121, phone number 858-535-0607, for a refundable payment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per set; CD’s fervor, mission work, are available for a non-refundable charge of $50. Payments shall be made by check and calls for social payable to SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. If the payment for Bid and justice inspired Contract Documents is refundable, refunds will be processed by the District only if the Bid and Contract Documents, including all addendums, are returned intact and expanded roles for in good order to Crisp Imaging within ten (10) days of the issuance of the Final Bid women in ministry.

Amanda Smith Tabulation. Online documents are available for download on PlanWell through Crisp Imaging. Go to www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, 1977 - ABC-TV BEGINS search SDUSD (Questions? 949-285-3171). All bids shall be submitted on bid forms furnished by the District in the bid package beginning January 21, 2020. Bid packages TELEVISING THE will not be faxed. SENATE BILL (SB) 854 REQUIREMENTS: Effective July 1, 2014, ROOTS MINI-SERIES no contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal, or awarded a contract for a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code §1725.5 [with Based on Alex Haley’s book, the limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Roots mini-series would become the §1771.1(a)]. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the most watched mini-series in history.

DIR. Prime contractors must add the DIR Registration Number for each of their listed It won nine Emmy Awards and was subcontractors to the Subcontractors List AND submit a certificate of registration for their own firm and those of their listed subcontractors upon request by the District. nominated for 37. Roots also won Failure of the bidding prime contractor to list their subcontractors DIR Registration Golden Globe and Peabody Awards.

Number on the Subcontractors List at time of bid may result in rejection of their bid Roots still contains the third-highest as non-responsive. Refer to the following DIR Website for further information: www. rated episode for any television series. dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html PREVAILING WAGES: Prevailing wage requirements apply to all public works projects and must be followed per Article 17 of the General Conditions of this bid. DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE 2003 - NELL CARTER DIES PARTICIPATION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Service Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May 10, 2011 by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required Nell Carter, famous for her roles to satisfy a minimum DVBE participation percentage of at least three percent (3%) for in “Gimme a Break!” (TV Series this project. In compliance with this Program, the Bidder shall satisfy all requirements 1981-87), “The Misadventures of enumerated in the bid package. Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided Sheriff Lobo” (TV Series 1980-81), in the bid package and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid security in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder and Surety Company, or a certified “Ryan’s Hope” (TV or cashier's check in favor of the San Diego Unified School District, in an amount Series 1978-79), and equal to ten percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall be given to a Tony Award in 1978 guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract as specified, within five (5) working for the Broadway days of notification by the District. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding musical “Ain’t process. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120 days after the date set Misbehavin’”, died at for the opening of bids. For information regarding bidding, please call 858-522-5840.

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By Darrel Wheeler Contributing Writer

The baseball coaching staff of Morse High School on Skyline Drive in San Diego inducted six ex-Morse Tiger baseball players into its Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday, January 4, 2020. The induction ceremony and the ensuing alumni baseball game was attended by many Morse students and supporters.

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Dallas Booker, the current Tiger baseball coach, proudly presented each inductee with his plaque. The inductees are: Javier Brown, Class of 1988. Brown was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the MLB’s 26th round in 1988.

Lateef Vaughn, Class of 1993. Vaughn was drafted by the New York Yankees in MLB’s 40th round from Southwestern College in 1995. He was also drafted in MLB’s 12th round by the Minnesota Twins from California State Long Beach in 1997, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree.

in Morse’s 52-year history, looked on as alumni members dueled the current players in a friendly game of softball.

Mike Yancy, Class of 1997. Yancy was drafted by the New York Mets in MLB’s 4th round in 1997.

“Winning the CIF baseball championship shows that current Morse players are continuing a legacy of excellence in baseball established by today’s inductees and other past Morse Tigers,” Manager Dallas shared. The roaring baseball Tigers have produced their fair share of MLB players: Mark Mclamore, Adam Jones, Sam Horn and Quinton Berry to name a few.

Dwain Bostic, Class of 1992. Bostic was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in MLB’s 2nd round in 1992.

Dwight Booker, Class of 1994. Booker was a draft prospect very high on many MLB scouts’ lists but injuries short-circuited his career.

Bruce Billings, Class of 2008. Billings was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in MLB’s 30th round in 2007.

Coach Booker, whose Tigers won the 2019 CIF baseball championship for the first time

“This ceremony and the alumni game are ways to honor past Tigers and connect them to current Morse players,” Booker said.

“I love how the baseball program has grown thanks to Dallas and his staff. They are doing a great job teaching and getting the alumni involved and they genuinely care about the kids,” former Morse alum and MLB player Quinton Berry shared.

Christine Beene Turns With hearts of love and gratitude, the family of Christine Beene recently celebrated her 90th birthday. The two day affair began on January 11th with a scrumptious lunch at her favorite restaurant, Olive Garden, followed by a gathering at the home of her daughter and son-in-law. The celebration culminated on Sunday, January 12th, with special recognition by the congregation of Calvary Baptist Church. Christine’s husband of 71 years, Ollie Beene, as well as her son Tyrone and daughter-in-law Deborah, daughter Diana and sonin-law Melvin Jones gathered to celebrate the occasion along with Christine’s and Ollie’s five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, niece, great-niece and nephew. It was a memorable day filled with laughter and love.

Photos: Courtesy of Christine Beene

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