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GOVERNOR NEWSOME PROCLAIMS

STATE OF EMERGENCY TO SUPPORT STATE’S RESPONSE TO MONKEYPOX

ROSEMARY POPE TURNS 77 YEARS YOUNG! SEE PAGE 9

Visual examples of the Monkeypox rash on different skintones. Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Voice & Viewpoint Staff As part of the state’s ongoing response to the monkeypox outbreak, Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday, August 1, declared a State of Emergency to bolster the state’s vaccination efforts. The proclamation sup-

ports the work underway by the California Department of Public Health and others in the administration to coordinate a whole-of-government response to monkeypox, seek additional vaccines and lead outreach and education efforts on accessing vaccines and treatment.

“California is working urgently across all levels of government to slow the spread of monkeypox, leveraging our robust testing, contact tracing and community partnerships strengthened during the

SOURCE: County of San Diego a/o 7/28/2022

SEE PAGE 10

See MONKEYPOX page 2

HUMAN MONKEYPOX

NEW QUARANTINE HEALTH ORDER & COVID-19 UPDATES – SEE PAGE 7

Covid-19 cases in southeast

NINTH ANNUAL BAYSIDE GOSPEL CONCERT

13,210

20,141

18,964

22,588

16,,571

10,962

Number of Confirmed & Probable County Cases

92102

92105

92113

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SOURCE: County of San Diego Data a/o 7/29/2022

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KIRK FRANKLIN BRINGS KINGDOM TOUR TO SD SEE PAGE 9

REMEMBERING TUSKEGEE: th Anniversary of

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Unethical Syphilis Study

Above: A Tuskegee syphilis study doctor injects a subject. Below: Tuskegee syphilis experiment test subjects.

Photo: National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Photo: Mike Norris

The Hon. Leon Williams’ Lifetime Achievement Centennial Celebration!

By Cori Zaragoza Staff Writer

By Jean Heller .

Associated Press On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked

the nation. Based on documents leaked by Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower at the U.S. Public Health Service, the then 29-yearold journalist and the only woman on the team, reported that the federal government See TUSKEGEE page 2

‘MERCHANT OF DEATH’ OFFERED IN EXCHANGE FOR BRITTNEY GRINER Brittney Griner playing in the Moscow MBA 2018 / Wikimedia Commons

The Honorable L e on L. Williams, statesman, humanitarian, and friend to everyday people, was the guest of honor at the County of San Diego Lifetime Achievement Award Celebration of him, which coincided with his 100th birthday. The event,

held at the County Administration Center, was attended by more than 500 people, including locals, politicians, and the many who have grown and worked with him over the decades.

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By Stacy M. Brown .

NNPA Sr. National Correspondent On the day she testified at her trial in Russia, Brittney Griner may have found herself closer to freedom and a return to the United States.

Several reports said the United States government has offered to swap the so-called “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout for Griner and another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan.

Bout, who’s serving a 25-year federal prison sentence and notorious for his desire to kill Americans, reportedly has been at the top of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wish list.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION MONKEYPOX: Continued from cover

pandemic to ensure that those most at risk are our focus for vaccines, treatment and outreach,” said Governor Newsom. “We’ll continue to work with the federal government to secure more vaccines, raise awareness about reducing risk, and stand with the LGBTQ community fighting stigmatization.”

To expand vaccination efforts, the proclamation enables Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel to administer monkeypox vaccines that are approved by the FDA, similar to the statutory authorization recently enacted for pharmacists to administer vaccines. The state’s response to monkeypox builds on the infrastructure developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to deploy vaccine clinics and ensure inclusive and targeted outreach in partnership with local and community-based organizations.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY Monkeypox spreads between people primarily through direct con-

Tuskegee: Continued from cover

let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in order to study the impact of the disease on the human body.

Most of the men were denied access to penicillin, even when it became widely available as a cure.

A public outcry ensued, and nearly four months later, the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” came to an end. The investigation would have far-reaching implications: The men in the study filed a lawsuit that resulted in a $10 million settlement, Congress passed laws governing how subjects in research studies were treated, and more than two decades later President Bill Clinton formally apologized for the study, calling it “shameful.”

Today, the effects of the study still linger — it is often blamed for the unwillingness of some African Americans to participate in medical research. In observance of the 50th anniversary of Heller’s groundbreaking investigation, the AP is republishing the original report and a recent interview with her and others on how the story came together.

For 40 years the U.S. Public Health Service has conducted a study in which human guinea pigs, denied proper medical treatment, have died of syphilis and its side effects.

Griner: Continued from cover

“We communicated a substantial offer that we believe could be successful based on a history of conversations with the Russians,” a senior administration official told CNN. “We communicated that a number of weeks ago, in June.”

The unnamed sources told the network that the planned trade received the backing of President Joe Biden after being under discussion since earlier this year.

CNN reported that Biden’s support for the swap overrides opposition

tact with infectious sores, scabs, or body fluids. It also can be spread by respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact.

Monkeypox can spread during intimate contact between people, including during sex, as well as activities like kissing, cuddling, or touching parts of the body with monkeypox sores.

If you think you have the monkeypox rash and want to get tested, or have any health concerns, please contact your healthcare provider.

If you do not have a healthcare provider, call 2-1-1 San Diego for information. Additionally, text COSD MONKEYPOX to 468-311 to get text alert updates.

For more information specific to San Diego County, visit https:// www.sandiegocounty.gov/conte nt / s d c / h hs a / pro g r ams / phs / community_epidemiolog y/dc/ human-monkeypox/.

STATE OF EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION According to the proclamation, as of August 1, 2022, there are more than 20,000 cases of monkeypox globally and more than 4,000 confirmed probable cases in the United States, with California

The study was conducted to determine from autopsies what the disease does to the human body.

PHS officials responsible for initiating the experiment have long since retired. Current PHS officials, who say they have serious doubts about the morality of the study, also say that it is too late to treat syphilis in any of the study’s surviving participants.

But PHS doctors say they are rendering whatever other medical services they can now give to the survivors while the study of the disease’s effects continues.

The experiment, called the Tuskegee Study began in 1932 with about 600 black men, mostly poor and uneducated, from Tuskegee, Ala., an area that had the highest syphilis rate in the nation at the time.

One-third of the group was free of syphilis; two-thirds showed evidence of the disease. In the syphilitic group, half were given the best treatment known at the time, but the other half, about 200 men, received no treatment at all for syphilis, PHS officials say.

As incentives to enter the program, the men were promised free transportation to and from hospitals, free hot lunches, free medicine for any disease other than syphilis and free burial after autopsies were performed.

The Tuskegee Study began 10 years before penicillin was discovered to from the Department of Justice, which is generally against prisoner trades.

The families of Whelan, who Russia has held for alleged espionage since 2018, and WNBA star Griner, jailed in Moscow for drug possession since February, have urged the White House to secure their release, including via a prisoner exchange, if necessary, the report stated.

During her testimony, Griner told the court that she’s still unsure how cannabis oil ended up in her luggage.

She said a doctor recommended cannabis oil for her injuries on the

experiencing nearly 800 confirmed probable cases in 27 local health jurisdictions.

The proclamation states that this is a statewide emergency because despite the fact that most cases are resolved within a few weeks, the monkeypox virus still holds the potential to cause “significant acute health impacts, including severe pain, hospitalization, long term symptoms, and, in rare instances, death.”

The emergency proclamation will help the State of California leverage testing, contact tracing, and vaccine administration. Additionally, the 2022 Budget Act is providing $300 million in ongoing General Fund support for State and local public health.

The proclamation also maximizes the number of personnel who can administer vaccines in an effort to get as many people vaccinated against Monkeypox as possible.

Recently, a state law was amended to allow pharmacists to independently initiate and administer any vaccines that are approved or authorized by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Similar flexibility does not currently exist for other personnel who could significantly enhance the ongoing vaccination efforts for monkeypox.

To view the full proclamation, visit https://bit.ly/3OT2Weq.

Additionally, the proclamation states that current state infrastructure and authorities are not equipped “to cope with the magnitude of the threat posed by monkeypox within existing statutory and regulatory constraints.”

On July 19, 2022, the California Health and Human Services Agency and the California Department of Public Health sent a letter to the CDC requesting at least 600,000 - 800,000 additional doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine so that the State can expand eligibility to both confirmed and probable exposures, as well as to those individuals who are at high-risk of the virus.

be a cure for syphilis and 15 years before the drug became widely available. Yet, even after penicillin became common, and while its use probably could have helped or saved a number of the experiment subjects, the drug was denied them, Dr. J.D. Millar says.

He is chief of the venereal disease branch of the PHS’s Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and is now in charge of what remains of the Tuskegee Study. Dr. Millar said in an interview that he has serious doubts about the program.

“I think a definite serious moral problem existed when the study was undertaken, a more serious moral problem was overlooked in the post-war years when penicillin became available but was not given to these men and a moral problem still exists,” Dr. Millar said.

“But the study began when attitudes were much different on treatment and experimentation.

At this point in time, with our current knowledge of treatment and the disease and the revolutionary change in approach to human experimentation, I don’t believe the program would be undertaken,” he said.

Syphilis, a highly contagious infection spread by sexual contact, can cause if untreated, bone and dental deformations, deafness, blindness, heart disease and central nervous system deterioration. No figures were available on when the last death occurred in the probasketball court.

“I still don’t understand to this day how they ended up in my bags,” Griner said, adding that she was aware of the Russian law prohibiting cannabis oil and that she had not intended to break it.

“I didn’t have any intent to use or keep in my possession any substance that is prohibited in Russia,” Griner said.

Detained in February, Griner said she had already been in Russia for several months before her arrest.

“My career is my whole life,” she reflected as she faces up to 10 years in a Russian prison.

This electron microscopic (EM) image depicted a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left were mature, oval-shaped virus particles, and on the right were the crescents, and spherical particles of immature virions. Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

gram. And one official said that apparently no conscious effort was made to halt the program after it got under way.

A 1969 CDC study of 276 treated and untreated syphilitics who participated in the Tuskegee Study showed that seven had died as a direct result of syphilis. Another 154 died of heart disease. CDC officials say they cannot determine at this late date how many of the heart disease deaths were caused by syphilis or how many additional deaths could be linked to the disease.

However, several years ago an American Medical Association study determined that untreated syphilis reduces life expectancy by 17 per cent in black men between the ages of 25 and 50, a precise description of the Tuskegee Study subjects.

Don Prince, another official in the venereal disease branch of CDC, said the Tuskegee Study had contributed some knowledge about syphilis, particularly that the morbidity and mortality rate among untreated syphilitics were not as high as previously believed.

really puzzles me.”

At the beginning of 1972, according to CDC data, 74 of the untreated syphilitics were still living. All of them, Dr. Millar said, were men who did not suffer any potentially fatal side effects from their bouts with the disease.

Some of them received penicillin and antibiotics in past years for other ailments, Prince said, but none has ever received treatment for syphilis. Now, both men agree, it’s too late Recent reviews of the Tuskegee Study by the CDC indicate that treatment now for survivors is medically questionable, Dr. Millar said. Their average age is 74 and massive penicillin therapy, with possible ill side effects, is deemed too great a risk to individuals, particularly for those whose syphilis is now dormant.

However, Dr. Millar, added there was a point in time when survivors could have been treated with at least some measure of success.

“I don’t know why the decision was made in 1946 not to stop the program,” Prince said. “I was unpleasantly surprised when I first came here and found out about it. It

“The most critical moral issue about this experiment arises in the post-war era, the years after the end of World War II when penicillin became widely available. I know some were treated with penicillin for other diseases and then dropped from the program because the drug had some positive effect on the primary disease (syphilis).

Looking at it now, one cannot see any reason they could not have been treated at that time.’’

“I dedicated everything. Time, my body, time away from my family.

I spent six months out of the year away from everybody, and with a huge time difference.”

ways, it’s not surprising, even if it’s disheartening, when those same actors don’t necessarily respond directly to our offers, don’t engage constructively in negotiations.”

U.S. officials are awaiting word from the Russian government on whether they will accept the swap.

The CNN report noted that Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that the United States presented a “substantial proposal” to Moscow “weeks ago” for Whelan and Griner, who are classified as wrongfully detained.

Like Dr. Millar, Prince said he thought the study should have been halted with penicillin treatment for participants after World War II.

“It takes two to tango. So, we start all negotiations to bring home Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained with a bad actor on the other side,” an unnamed official told CNN. “We start all of these with somebody who has taken a human being American and treated them as a bargaining chip. So, in some

The top U.S. diplomat said he intended to discuss the matter on an expected call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week.

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EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY/OPINION

MONKEYPOX, COVID, AND Your Vote

By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper

Well, Monkeypox is the latest distraction, right after Covid. As serious as both of these are in the pandemic arena, they both can be distractions from many of the everyday issues so many of us contend with like food, housing, employment, and health care. But in the midst of all these, let us not forget that how we vote has much to do with the quality of life we experience in all the areas mentioned here and many more.

We are only about 90 days away from the Midterm elections in this nation which take place the first Tuesday in November.

It is no accident that we are not seeing much, if any, local media discussion other than our own. Unfortunately, we don’t have many choices. While the Democrats under President Biden have not delivered on Voting Rights, The George Floyd Act, or John Lewis; Biden and the Democratic control of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate remain better alternatives than the Republican Trump-supporting candidates running for office in just about all states.

We must start a Voter Registration drive right here where we live. This effort must become as important to us as putting food on the table and a roof over our heads. Let us not forget what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said in his famous “Give Us The Ballot” speech on May 17, 1957:

Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights;

Give us the ballot, and we will transform the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens; Give us the ballot and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sin a “Southern Manifesto” because of their devotion to a manifesto of justice; Give us the ballot and we will place judges on the benches of the South who will do justly and love mercy, and we will place at the head of southern states governors who will have felt not only the tang of the human, but the glow of the divine ....”

Well, we have been given the ballot for more than 50 years and many of us appear to have forgotten what price we paid for the right to vote; a right that many are seeking to suppress or eliminate. Yes, let’s deal with Monkeypox, Covid, Hate Crimes, and everything else they are throwing at us today, but above all, let’s get registered and prepare to VOTE.

The Power of the Truth

By Ben Jealous

The truth has power. That is why an army of politicians, lawyers, political schemers, media personalities, and admirers of former President Donald Trump have tried so hard to keep Americans from learning the truth about his effort to overturn the 2022 election.

Fortunately, he failed to overturn the election. And he and the corrupt members of his inner circle have failed to keep the truth hidden.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on our country—and the criminal conspiracy that led up to it—is an important exercise in truth telling.

The committee finished its first round of televised hearings in July and expects to pick up again in September.

We have learned a lot thanks to the work of committee members and staff, principled members of Trump’s own administration, and journalists whose work has shed light on things Trump and his cronies desperately tried to keep hidden.

Donald Trump wanted to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. He wanted it so badly that he tried to bully his loyal vice president into making a power-abusing end run around the Constitution. He wanted it so badly that he worked his supporters into a rage with endless lies

about the election being stolen.

He called these enraged supporters to Washington, D.C., to interfere with a key step in the peaceful transfer of power. He sent them to the Capitol knowing that many were armed. And for hours, while members of the Capitol Police were being brutalized, and members of Congress and Vice President Pence’s security detail were calling loved ones, not sure they would live through the attack, Trump did nothing.

Well, to be more accurate, he did nothing to stop the rampage. He did plenty of harmful things.

He did watch the violence on television. He did pour gasoline on the fire by denouncing Pence while the attack was under way. He did take calls from fearful members of Congress only to dismiss their pleas for help. He did reject direct appeals from his own daughter to call off

The Politics of the Disappearing

Black Teachers?

By Dr. David L. Horne, PHD

Besides an effective economic delivery system, the foundation marks of successful civilizations and nation states are public approval of and continuous work to maintain the society’s governmental structures, and an effective educational system that continually teaches the young to respect and accept those governmental structures.

A sustained failure of either aspect of that duality inevitably brings that society to a bad end. It has happened many times in the past, for those who do not want to accept that principle.

Currently, the U.S.A. is enduring a crisis of confidence both in public respect for the effectiveness of our current form and operation of government, and in educating our youth to believe in the American (U.S.A.) system. The attack by a serious percentage of elected leadership on current public school curricula, and the rage of too many school board parents over badly understood school curricula decisions, if not addressed and corrected, will have a devastating impact on the future of the U.S. as a world power.

Sure, who wins the superpower contests of militancy, currency leverage, supply-chain dominance and the space race will have sway here too. But the real answers are in much simpler terms of improvement.

Either the U.S. does a better job of educating its youth now and in the future, or it can simply ready itself for a long slide into insignificance. How many nukes it has will simply not be that significant.

When politics has taken over public education, those who understand ditch-digging must take the lead to stop digging further. There has always been the narrative in American education

the attack. He did tell his chief of staff that he didn’t think the mob chanting “hang Mike Pence” was doing anything wrong. He thought Pence deserved it for choosing the Constitution over Trump’s desire to keep his grip on power.

Only when it was becoming clear that the attack would fail to stop Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s victory did Trump grudgingly tell his troops to withdraw.

But even that was a tactical retreat.

His attack on our democracy hasn’t stopped. Or even slowed down.

Trump continues to lie about the election being stolen from him. His enablers in right-wing media and far-right social media networks spread the lie even further. MAGA activists harass election officials.

State legislators use that lie to justify laws that make it harder for people Trump sees as his enemies to vote.

that “White people are better and make the best leaders,” so the increased and extreme emphasis on that idea in public education now just seems beside the point. And the book burning? The political pogroms against how children identify themselves, and correcting the historical record on slavery and who won the Civil War? Already, many good and great teachers in this country, in this state, and in this county/city are deciding to walk away from their professions and to find another way to pay their bills (if the low teaching salaries ever did that, anyway). It is already projected that there will be a major teaching shortage in this country’s public schools by this fall, 2022. The school system leaders in Los Angeles have already announced that as a fact.

And Black teachers, who’ve never been that large a percentage nationwide or statewide (except in the state of Georgia), look like they are going to completely abandon the ship, given the new headaches now loaded onto those they daily already have to deal with in order to teach in our schools.

Nationwide, African-American public school teachers are about 7 percent of the teaching population. That number is sure to decrease by this fall.

In California, the percentage is even lower—it is currently 4 percent of public school teachers, or approximately 12,000 teachers.

Even worse, they are trying to get more Trump loyalists and Big Lie believers into positions where they will have the power to succeed at what Trump and his team tried to do this time around: overturn the election results in key states.

Trumpists and election deniers are running for office as local election officials, state legislators, and secretaries of state, where they will have power to interfere with how elections are run and votes are counted.

And potentially even worse than that, they are also enlisting the far-right Supreme Court majority that Trump cemented with three justices who were preapproved by the far right-wing legal movement.

They have agreed to consider a fringe legal theory pushed by the hard right.

If the court’s new activist far-right majority embraces this legal theory, it would let state legislators violate

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Part of why this country grew to be great in the post WWII years was because teachers taught the young to be innovative, bold, mathsure, and politically astute.

There was never even the thought of a grown American who’d been properly and regularly educated, deciding to run for public office without knowing as basic knowledge that there were three co-equal branches of government; the U.S.A. is a constitutional republic; the federal government has its authority and states have their authority, etc.

For the record, there are currently at least six candidates for national office (Senate and House) who reportedly did not know any of that. All six are products of our current school system, including California’s, and they think they deserve to be, and are prepared to be, in charge.

Some of them are even African-American, which is really embarrassing.

The point is, it is true that we have a number of co-existing existential crises to deal with currently. In making the educational choices we have to make to resolve those, we must know that they are neither Cornelian dilemmas nor Morton’s forks. Instead, they are necessary decisions to save ourselves from ourselves All of us from a few of us.

Professor David L. Horne is founder and executive director of PAPPEI, the Pan African Public Policy and Ethical Institute. This article first appeared in Our Weekly.

state constitutions and ignore and override the will of the voters. And it would be impossible for courts to step in as a check on anti-democratic abuses of power. This is a battle plan for authoritarian rule.

It may be hard for many people to believe just how extreme Trump’s movement and his political supporters have become, and just how much of a threat to democracy they pose as we approach this year’s congressional elections.

The January 6 committee has done democracy a big favor by dragging important truths into the light of day. We can’t turn away from them.

To preserve our country and our freedoms, we must recognize that they are threatened. And we must act to protect them.

Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

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LOCAL NEWS/COMMUNITY Mayor Todd Gloria Announces New Oak Park Library and Other Funding Plans New Oak Park L ibrary

By Amara N. Beaty Staff Writer The Oak Park Library is a public library in the City of San Diego that has served the people of the Oak Park, Webster, and Chollas Creek communities for over 50 years. On the morning of July 28, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, along with many other elected officials representing San Diego, announced funding provisions for a new library in Oak Park.

Mayor Todd Gloria began the morning’s events acknowledging that the gathering took place on Kumeyaay land and an “all-star cast of San Diegans,” including, but not limited to, Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, Assemblywoman Dr. Akilah Weber, Council member Sean Elo-Rivera, and Council President pro Tempore Monica Montgomery Steppe. There were about 15 council members, assembly members, and other elected officials present.

Mayor Gloria made it very clear that he understands that not everyone knows how their tax dollars are being spent and, most importantly, how they’re going back into the communities that are supposed to serve them. He and other elected officials disclosed that the State would be providing San Diego 68.5 million dollars to use towards community projects including libraries, parks, green jobs, and other state programs. The new Oak Park library, which is receiving 20 million dollars towards construction, is one of the 19 regional projects receiving State funding.

The petitioning and advocacy by community members and State and local representatives to build the new facility lasted for years. Some key forces behind the funding include Claudine Thompson, whose persistent efforts since 2016 has been a large part of the fruition of the new facility being built, Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins,

whose work earned her a dedicated community center in the new facility, and Assemblywoman Dr. Akilah Weber, who grew up in Oak Park utilizing the facility growing up.

Mark Davis, Branch Manager of the current Oak Park Public Library, shared his excitement for the new facility.

“Very exciting times. It’s certainly something this community has needed for a while. Unfortunately in 2020 they didn’t know how fast this community would grow! They were rather surprised that it grew as fast as it did.”

The new facility is now in the drawing stage. More information regarding the new Oak Park library has yet to be released. While we don’t know exactly where the new branch will be, we do know that the library will be built in an underdeveloped area of Chollas Lake Park.

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USING ART TO ENGAGE SAN DIEGO’S

Middle Eastern and Northern African Communities Some of San Diego’s most impacted communities get a dose of art and Covid Awareness

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire In its ongoing effort to reach communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, the State of California recently partnered with 10 community-based organizations, who in turn have collaborated with artists and community members to raise awareness about the importance of vaccination and other actions that help slow the spread of COVID-19.

Community partner Somali Family Services joined with San Diego artist Raquel Rhone to create vibrant banners targeted to Arabic, Somali, Pashto, Dari and Swahili languagespeaking communities in San Diego’s El Cajon and City Heights neighborhoods. The banner shows images of refugee and immigrant community members in culturally and ethnically relatable clothing.

Messages such as “Healthier Together” and “Let’s Protect Ourselves – We’re Worth It” in six languages aim to connect with the culturally diverse community. The banners will be displayed at community events, vaccine clinics and health fairs.

“There is an alarmingly high level of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines among the refugee and immigrant communities we serve,” said Ahmed Sahid, president and CEO, Somali Family Service of San Diego.

“These banners help create a dialog with communities that are often invisible in public health systems because of a lack of racial and ethnic group recognition and inclusion.

Our goal is to amplify their voices to ensure equal access to healthcare for all.”

Rhone, a San Diego native and graduate of San Diego State University, added, “Representation is very important in my work, and I am excited to create something that will represent different communities, languages and cultures. I am glad that so many people will be able to look at my artwork and relate to it on a more personal level.”

Somali Family Services’ project is part of a statewide “Vaccinate ALL 58” COVID-19

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c a mp a i g n , designed to raise awareness of critical actions Californians can continue to take to help slow the spread of COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of vaccinations and boosters. Original works of art feature empowering public health messages about protecting one another, being resilient and supporting their community.

Using art to convey important public health information has been a feature of the State’s public awareness efforts. It was first launched in 2021 in partnership with The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, and features projects in Los Angeles, Oakland, Bakersfield, Sacramento, San Diego, Oxnard, Fresno and Alameda, and engages Latino, Black/African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Indigenous artists and communities. The program is aligned with the State’s commitment to equity and reaching communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

Health information on COVID-19 is available at covid19.ca.gov, and local vaccine availability is listed at MyTurn.ca.gov or available by calling 833-422-4255.

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LOCAL / NATIONAL NEWS Annual Backpack Giveaway Event Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

DATES AND TIMES: Linda Vista Rec Center

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r. Akilah Weber, Assemblymember, 79th District, is hosting the 9th annual Backpack Giveaway event on Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 10am-1pm at the Lemon Grove Recreation Center located at 3131 School Lane, Lemon Grove, CA 91945.

August 4, 11, 18, 25 6 PM - 8 PM

City Heights Rec Center

August 6, 13, 20, 27 6 PM - 8 PM

There will be over 1,000 backpacks for students of all ages filled with school supplies thanks to our generous partners and sponsors.* Additionally, there will be resource tables with tons of information for families and a bicycle helmet giveaway.

This year, Dr. Weber’s office is partnered with San Diego Protecting Against HPV and Champions for Health to provide free HPV and COVID-19 vaccines. Register now to set up a vaccine appointment and which vaccine you would like. To learn more about HPV, we held an informative webinar that can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fwKgveTPSMY&t=1s.

Backpack Giveaway Registration Guidelines:

• Your RSVP does not guarantee a backpack.

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• Priority is for residents of the 79th Assembly District. Check your address here: https://findyourrep. legislature.ca.gov/ • Priority pick up time for those who RSVP is 10 - 11 a.m.

• If you do not RSVP, you will need

to wait until 11 a.m. before joining the line to get a backpack.

Children must be present to receive a backpack. Registration closes at 3 p.m. on August 11, 2022, or once 1,000 registrants have RSVP’d.

In partnership with the City of San Diego and Parks after Dark, the transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project is offering free dance classes and performances to the communities of City Heights and Linda Vista. These classes are intergenerational and for

everyone, so the whole family is invited to groove along with the community.

No sign ups needed; just show up and jump right into the fun. For more information, visit tdarts.org. For a list of more summer programs offered, visit comeplaysd.com.

Floyd Family, Others See Inequality in Penalties for Ex-cops

By Amy Forliti and Stephen Groves Associated Press Three former Minneapolis police officers went before a federal judge on Wednesday, July 27, to be sentenced for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, and for each man, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson handed out penalties well below what prosecutors sought and below federal guidelines.

Tou Thao, who held back concerned bystanders as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, got 3 1/2 years. J. Alexander Kueng, who pinned Floyd’s back, got three. And Thomas Lane, who held Floyd’s feet and asked twice about rolling the Black man on his side, got 2 1/2.

For some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small — and a bitter reminder of a justice system they say does not treat all people equally.

“Once again, our judicial system favored people that should be locked up forever,” Floyd’s uncle, Selwyn Jones, said Thursday, July 28. The officers, he said, “contributed to the most brutal, heinous killing in most of our lifetimes.”

Floyd, 46, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes as Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe and eventually grew still. The killing, recorded by bystanders, sparked protests worldwide and a reckoning over racial injustice in policing.

Chauvin, who pleaded guilty to a federal count in which he admitted willfully depriving Floyd of his right to be free from unreasonable seizure, was sentenced to 21 years for that and for an unrelated case involving a 14-year-old boy.

Lane, Thao and Kueng were all convicted of depriving Floyd of medical care; Kueng and Thao were also convicted on a second count

of failing to intervene. When issuing sentences in cases that include multiple defendants, judges have to look at each defendant’s level of culpability and issue sentences that are proportional.

momentum for police reform.

“When someone dies and we’re only talking about the potential of two years in prison, I think there’s a well-founded concern that this

removes the motivation for police to be more mindful of the way they choose to use force against individuals,” Hardaway said.

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Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and former federal prosecutor, called the sentences for the three “groundbreaking,” saying it’s rare for officers who don’t directly commit killings to be held accountable.

Paris Stevens, Floyd’s cousin and a co-chair of the George Floyd Global Memorial, said she didn’t think Lane, Kueng and Thao should have gotten the same penalty as Chauvin — but the sentences they got were too low. She said police officers should be punished more harshly because of the power they hold, and said the three men could have helped Floyd, but didn’t.

“They stood by and kind of watched,” she said.

Stevens saw favoritism in Magnuson’s sentences.

“I think all officers get favoritism in the court of law. Because historically that’s the way it’s played out,” she said.

At their sentencing hearings, Magnuson said Lane, who is white, and Kueng, who is Black, were rookies. He called Thao, who is Hmong American, a “good police officer, father and husband.” While he said the officers were culpable for violating Floyd’s rights, Magnuson mentioned letters of support that each officer received. And during Chauvin’s sentencing, Magnuson appeared to suggest that Chauvin bore the most blame in the case, telling him: “You absolutely destroyed the lives of three young officers by taking command of the scene.”

Toshira Garraway, an activist who attended the sentencing hearings to support Floyd’s girlfriend, took exception to Magnuson’s assessment of Thao as “a good police officer, father and husband.”

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“That was irrelevant to what he did on May 25, 2020,” Garraway said.

Ayesha Bell Hardaway, who directs the Social Justice Law Center at Case Western Reserve University, said the judge “seemed to really have lost track of what occurred during those 9 minutes and 30 seconds” and what she called an “egregious” killing.

Tou Thao, 36, and Alex Kueng, 28, were sentenced for violating the constitutional rights of George Floyd. Photo: NNPA

She said Floyd’s killing sparked widespread awareness of the harm that excessive force and tactics can have, but worried that the sentences will undermine

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ARTS & CULTURE Rosedale Collective:

Changing the Face of Country Music

By Cori Zaragoza Staff Writer

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here is an old folk tale that tells the story of Robert Johnson, the notorious blues singer who gained fame in the early 1900s.

Legend says that Johnson sold his soul to the devil, at a crossroad, in exchange for gaining the ability to become a master at playing the guitar, writing lyrics, and making music.

History tells us that this story originated in Rosedale, Mississippi, where he recorded Traveling Riverside Blues in 1937.

The Rosedale Collective, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is named in honor of Robert Johnson, and is comprised of a group of musicians and industry professionals who have made a record label that is focused on raising marginalized voices in the world of country music, in specific. The label was co-founded by Sam Viotty, who is a Los Angelesbased professional who decided to create the Collective in April 2021.

Their mission statement states, “Robert Johnson sold his soul. And so have BIPOC voices throughout the history of modern music to “make it” in the industry. We’re here to celebrate and advance BIPOC voices in country music. Rosedale Collective celebrates Robert and the countless unnamed and named artists that came before and after by building on these legacies and by building on this greatness.”

A panel during the 2021 Rosedale Collective summit. Photo: Via Rosedale Collective on Twitter.

In November 2021, the Collective held their first summit with the theme of ‘Country’s Reclamation & Promising Future.” The duel summit was held in the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, and the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee. Their hope was to have a gathering for industry professionals, where they could celebrate the many faces of color that encompass the current scene of country music.

The summit featured performers such as Tony Evans Jr. and Reyna Roberts, and held talks on the state of country music and the future of it, as well as the historical context of BIPOC musicians in country music.

Moving forward, the Rosedale Col-

lective will continue to cultivate their music label by signing musicians from underserved communities, and specifically want to invest in Black and brown entrepreneurs and those who want to be involved or need guidance in navigating the music industry.

“We believe country music is the artistic form primed and underutilized for racial progress. We are racial and social justice organizations.

Dual parts company and foundation, we sit at the intersection of race and culture. We are defining new outcomes, new norms, and a new precedent,” the Rosedale Collective says in their mission statement. To learn more, visit www.rosedalecollective.com.

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Beyoncé’s Renaissance Breaks Souls and Records in Historic Debut

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire

five times more if you hear the album or any of its songs in the club. It goes so crazy.”

Beyoncé’s new album, “Renaissance,” has taken the world by storm as expected. With a healthy helping of Chicago house music and classic 1970s disco, the New York Times called Renaissance a “tour of some of the genre’s most wellknown touchstones as well as more underground sounds.”

As noted by Pitchfork, Renaissance was announced as “Act I” of an upcoming saga, and the album’s liner notes confirmed that Beyoncé would follow it up with at least two more “acts.”

“It is consciously steeped in dancemusic history, cannily embracing decades of samples and sounds: the 1970s disco of Donna Summer and Chic, Jamaican dancehall, internet-speed hyper pop,” Michaelangelo Matos penned for the Times.

Jackie Robinson swinging a bat in Dodgers uniform, 1954. Photo: WikiMedia Commons

The front of the new Jackie Robinson Museum. Photo: WikiMedia Commons

Jackie Robinson Museum Opens After 14 Years of Planning

By Ronald Blum AP Baseball Writer Long dreamed about and in development for longer than the big league career of the man it honors, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened Tuesday, July 26, in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the widow of the barrier-breaking ballplayer and two of his children.

Rachel Robinson, who turned 100 on July 19, watched the half-hour outdoor celebration from a wheelchair in the 80-degree Fahrenheit (27degree Celsius) heat, then cut a ribbon to cap a project launched in 2008.

Her 72-year-old daughter, Sharon, also looked on from a wheelchair and 70-year-old son David spoke to the crowd of about 200 sitting on folding chairs arrayed in a closedoff section of Varick Street, a major thoroughfare where the 19,380square-foot museum is located. It opens to the public on Sept. 5 “The issues in baseball, the issues that Jackie Robinson challenged in 1947, they’re still with us,” David Robinson said. “The signs of white

only have been taken down, but the complexity of equal opportunity still exists.”

Rachel Robinson announced the museum on April 15, 2008, the 61st anniversary of Jackie breaking the big league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

Robinson became NL Rookie of the Year, the 1949 NL batting champion and MVP, a seven-time All-Star and a World Series champion in 1955. He hit .313 with 141 homers and 200 stolen bases in 11 seasons and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1962.

Robinson, who died in 1972, had an impact beyond baseball, galvanizing a significant slice of American public opinion and boosting the civil rights movement.

“There’s nowhere on the globe where a dream is attached to our name — or our country’s name,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.

“There’s not a German dream. There’s not a French dream. There’s not a Polish dream. Darn it, there’s an American dream. And this man and wife took that dream and forced America and baseball to say you’re not going to be a dream on a piece

of paper, you’re going to be a dream in life. We are greater because of No. 42 and because he had an amazing wife that understood that dream and vision.”

A gala dinner was held Monday night to preview the museum, which contains 4,500 artifacts, including playing equipment and items such as Robinson’s 1946 minor league contract for $600 a month and his 1947 rookie contract for a $5,000 salary.

The museum also holds a collection of 40,000 images and 450 hours of footage.

A 15-piece band played at the ceremony, attended by former pitcher CC Sabathia, former NL president Len Coleman and former Mets owner Fred Wilpon, along with players’ association head Tony Clark and Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch.

“Without him, there would be no me,” Sabathia said. “I wouldn’t have been able to live out my dream of playing Major League Baseball.”

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, director Spike Lee (wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers cap) and

The new tracks include songs like “Cozy,” “Cuff It,” “Energy,” and “Break My Soul.” The album immediately soared to the top of Apple Music in 100 countries.

Sixteen of the top 21 songs on Apple Music are from Renaissance, and the debut enjoyed more than 43 million streams on Spotify — a new record.

“Beyoncé really made this album for the club,” journalist Vincent Desmond tweeted. “No matter how much you love ‘Renaissance,’ you are going to love this at least

former tennis star Billie Jean King also were on hand.

“It seems like we’re more divided than ever,” King said. “People like Jackie Robinson were a great reminder every single morning, every single evening that we have to do the right thing every day.”

Original projections had a 2010 opening and $25 million cost. The Great Recession caused a delay.

Ground finally was broken on April 27, 2017, when the Jackie Robinson Foundation said it had raised $23.5 million of a planned $42 million and the museum was intended to open in 2019. The pandemic caused more delays, and the total raised has risen to $38 million, of which $2.6 million was contributed by New York City.

Tickets will cost $18 for adults and $15 for students, seniors and children. The second floor includes an education center, part of a plan envisioned by Rachel Robinson.

“She has said that all the music was made during a creative burst at the peak of COVID and that it was inspired by her children, her husband, and her team,” Journalist Dylan Green wrote.

“But what could these multiple parts entail? One theory: The music is the driving force behind Renaissance more than a specific narrative arc; if Act I is a culmination of various forms of Black music and their effects on pop across the 20th and early 21st centuries, it’s possible that Act II and Act III might look at the way it moves in the present and forward into the future.”

Green continued: “Beyoncé has accomplished a lot over her nearly 30-year career, but a full-blown musical trilogy is new even for her. Like every piece of art that bears her name, the anticipation is half the fun.”

“She wanted a fixed tribute to her husband, where people could come and learn about him, but also be inspired,” said foundation president Della Britton, who headed the project. “We want to be that place, as young people now say, a safe space, where people will talk about race and not worry about the initial backlash that happens when you say something on social media.”

David Robinson said his father would have been proud.

“He was a man who used the word ‘we,’” David said. “I think today Jackie Robinson would say I accept this honor, but I accept this honor on behalf of something far beyond my individual self, far beyond my family, far beyond even my race.

Jackie Robinson would say don’t think of you standing on my shoulders, I think of myself as standing on the shoulders of my mother, who was a sharecropper in Georgia, my grandmother, who was born a slave.”

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ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER (QUARANTINE OF PERSONS EXPOSED TO COVID-19) Everyone is at risk for becoming ill with COVID-19, but some people are more vulnerable to serious illness due to age or underlying health conditions. San Diego County is currently subject to a declared local health emergency and a proclaimed local emergency due to the COVID19 pandemic, and the Governor of the State of California proclaimed a state of emergency. In order to slow the spread of COVID-19, and prevent the healthcare system in San Diego County from being overwhelmed, it is necessary for the Health Officer of the County of San Diego (Health Officer) to require the quarantine of persons exposed to COVID-19.

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This order requires persons to follow the quarantine periods and measures applicable to their unique situation. The length of the quarantine, and the measure to be taken, may be different based on factors such as vaccination status, health conditions, COVID-19 symptoms, workplace setting, or school setting. Since these requirements may change based on new data, this Order incorporates detailed quarantine criteria and measures in the hyperlinks below. If the documents linked below are updated, those updates will automatically be part of this Order.

This Order does not prevent an employer, school, facility, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), or a licensing agency from imposing more stringent quarantine requirements.

The Health Officer therefore ORDERS pursuant to California Health and Safety Code sections, 101040, 101030, 120175, 120215, 120220, and 120225: 1. All Persons who are “close contacts” as stated above shall comply with the applicable quarantine measures set forth below. a) Members of the general public who are close contacts shall follow all applicable quarantine measures identified in the California Department of

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If you develop symptoms, please contact your medical provider.

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Based on guidance from your medical provider, you may need to isolate and get tested for COVID-19.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS Victim of Private Spyware Warns

It Can Be Used Against US

By Nomaan Merchant Associated Press

House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, July 27.

Months after her father was lured back to Rwanda under false pretenses and jailed, Carine Kanimba discovered her own phone had been hacked using private spyware.

Kanimba and technology experts urged Congress to oppose the use of commercial spyware in the U.S. and discourage investment in spyware that has been used to hack the phones of dissidents, journalists, and even U.S. diplomats.

Kanimba is the youngest daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, who is credited with saving more than 1,200 lives during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a story that inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda.” An opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Rusesabagina is now serving a 25-year prison sentence on charges that he has dismissed as politically motivated.

Researchers have alleged Pegasus was used to spy on Kanimba and her cousin as Rusesabagina’s family was advocating for his release from Rwanda.

NSO Group says its software can’t be activated against phone numbers with a U.S. country code unless used by an American agency. But there are several documented reports of American officials and citizens having their data captured by Pegasus.

U.S. officials and many lawmakers in both parties are concerned about foreign interference in future elections and the prospect of Americans trying to overturn a

Photo: courtesy of GIN.

“Unless there are consequences for countries and their enablers which abuse this technology, none of us are safe,” she told the

Pegasus infiltrates phones to control their camera and microphone and siphon off data without requiring the user to click on a malicious link.

Researchers at Google have identified at least 30 vendors selling “zero click” exploits or other spyware.

NEW FILM SPOTLIGHTS WORLD’S ONLY FEMALE ARMY IN KINGDOM OF DAHOMEY Global Information Network The only documented female army In modern history was that of the Kingdom of Dahomey - now southern Benin - which, by the 1800s, had thousands of female troops.

In September, a film version that portrays the lives of these warrior women will be seen in cinemas around the country. In the meantime, a trailer of the film can be seen on YouTube. It features Viola Davis and Hero Fiennes.

“The Sacred Ibis” posting on YouTube, explains that the Kingdom of Dahomey was located in present-day Benin from 1600-1904 and became a regional power in the 18th century. The Dahomey Mothers, known as the Agooji, were the all-female army trained to kill while striking fear in the European colonizers.

The King often picked them as teenagers for their strength and beauty. By 1800, up to 4000 women were fighting for the Kingdom.

They live on through dances performed in Benin today.

Nanlèhoundé Houédanou is a survivor. “My Amazon was gentle,” said Houédanou, who, at 85, is one of the last people on Earth to have grown up with one. “She was known for protecting children,” she told the Washington Post.

Researchers have spent decades combing through European and West African archives to craft a portrait from the jottings of French officers, British traders and Italian missionaries.

Of close to 3,000 comments on YouTube, most were very positive. “It is incredibly rare that goosebumps and complete awe overwhelm me the instant a trailer begins. This changes that!” wrote Derrick Ensey.

“Everything about this is epic on an

astronomical level. The most subtle thing about it is the TIMING. At a time when women are being attacked, this is total female empowerment right here. Never underestimate a unifying message!

“The previous depictions of the all-women Agojie warriors, also known as the Amazons, portrayed the female soldiers as “beasts” and “mannish. Davis and director Gina Prince-Blythewood sought instead to bring the authenticity of the story to the big screen instead of racial stereotypes.”

“These women were fascinating and didn’t need to be embellished or glossy,” Prince-Blythewood told Vanity Fair. “I wanted it to be real and visceral and raw. We didn’t want to show them as just one thing — badass women who killed.

They also laughed and loved and cried. We wanted to show their full humanity, not just the cool part that that would look good in a trailer.”

“The French made sure this history wasn’t known,” said the Beninese economist Leonard Wantchekon, a professor of international affairs at Princeton University. “They said we were backward, that they needed to ‘civilize us,’ but they destroyed opportunities for women that existed nowhere else in the world.”

Now a team of Beninese researchers is working to reshape the narrative.

For the last three years, historians at the African School of Economics, a private university that Wantchekon founded near Cotonou, the capital, have been tracking down descendants of Amazons across the nation.

They aim to glean local memories for a book that can be taught in schools — to present a three-dimensional view of the real Amazons. Only 50 of the women are thought to have survived the two-year war with France.

The last died in the 1970s.

lawful vote by force.

“Nobody, not Mike Pence, not Nancy Pelosi, not Kevin McCarthy ... are immune from having their most private deliberations watched,” Himes said. “And that may be just enough to interfere in our elections, just enough to end our democracy.”

In a statement, NSO Group noted that the discussion over spyware “at times lacks balance (by) intentionally omitting their life saving benefits.”

“NSO reiterates that it thoroughly investigates any claim for illegal use of its technology by customers, and terminates contracts when illegal use is found,” the company said.

“Nonetheless, it is critical to consider the benefits and alternatives to these critical technologies.”

Kanimba testified that she was alerted last year by a collective of journalists working with Citizen Lab and Amnesty International that there was reason to believe that she had been spied on. A subsequent forensic analysis of her phone

Carine Kanimba, daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, testified on the use of spyware against her in front of the House Intelligence Committee Open Hearing on Commercial Cyber Surveillance on July 27, 2022. Photo: Via House Intelligence on Youtube.

revealed that she had been targeted

by Pegasus spyware, she said.

She said the surveillance was triggered as she walked with her mother into a meeting with Belgium’s minister of foreign affairs - Rusesabagina holds Belgian citizenship and U.S. residency - and was active during calls with the State Department and with the office of the U.S. government’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs.

Her family lives in San Antonio.

Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro, a

committee member who represents that city, noted that his office’s communications may have been captured

by Rwanda because he was advocating for Rusesabagina’s release.

The Rwandan Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

Rusesabagina was sentenced for terrorism offenses related to his alleged links to the armed wing of his opposition political platform. Rusesabagina has denied supporting violence and called the verdict a “sham.”

CONGO OIL AUCTION IN ‘LAST REFUGE OF BIODIVERSITY’

SHOCKS ENVIRONMENTALISTS Global Information Network As massive floods and endless droughts, unleashed by global climate change, take lives and leave homes a twisted pile of sticks, the Democratic Republic of Congo will be taking a dangerous step backward - opening up the Congo Basin to fossil fuel development.

Sections of a renowned tropical forest could soon carry the pounding of oil rigs including in Virunga National Park, the world’s largest wetland. Created in 1925 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the park is also a sanctuary for endangered mountain gorillas and other endangered species.

Environmentalists and climate activists warn that oil drilling can pose significant risks to a continent already inundated by harsh climate effects. Members of the Mbuti and Baka people are also at risk of being evicted or displaced.

Other fragile blocs up for auction include some located on Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, and one in a coastal region alongside the Eastern African Rift Valley system.

“These are the last refuges of nature biodiversity,” said Ken Mwathe of BirdLife International in Africa. “We must not sacrifice these valuable natural assets for damaging development.”

She called the auction “a mockery of DRC’s posturing as a solution country for the climate crisis – it exposes Congolese people to corruption, violence, and poverty that inevitably come with the curse of oil, as well as more heat waves and less rains for all Africans.”

Meanwhile, young activists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have posted a documentary online that describes the threats posed to Africa’s oldest proclaimed national park. The 10 minute film can be seen on YouTube at https://www. dailymaverick.co.za/article/202107-02-oil-drilling-threat-to-africasoldest-national-park-highlightedby-young-activists-documentary/

STUDY BOOSTS FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS IN

CLIMATE-DAMAGED AFRICAN NATIONS Global Information Network

losses of more than $1.8 trillion each during that same period.

The African continent of 1.2 billion people, which represents 17% of the world’s population, contributes less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions but suffers from extreme weather events which scientists have warned will become more frequent due to climate change.

The study’s authors said this is the first time scientists have connected the dots between one country’s fossil fuel emissions and the economic harm those emissions have done to other countries.

Researchers in a new study have now put an actual dollar figure on economic harm caused by the countries most responsible for the climate crisis, and the ground-breaking data could serve as a starting point for legal action by Africans against the world’s wealthiest nations.

The Dartmouth College study found that just five of the world’s top emitters of planet-warming gases -- the United States, China, Russia, India, and Brazil -- caused around a $6 trillion loss in gross domestic product from 1990 to 2014, or about 11% of total global GDP. The study also shows the US and China -- the two biggest contributors to the climate crisis -- individually caused global economic

The world’s wealthiest countries have already agreed to pay into a global climate finance fund, though rich countries have shirked deadlines on payments to that fund.

Having a rich set of data to show how much poorer nations’ economies have been harmed could increase the pressure on richer nations at this year’s summit, experts told CNN.

“Scientific studies show that high emitters no longer have a leg to stand on in avoiding their obligations to address loss and damage,” said Bahamian climate scientist Adelle Thomas of Climate Analytics.

Recent studies “increasingly and overwhelmingly show that loss and damage is already crippling developing countries, she said.

After the U.S., the countries that caused most damage since 1990 are China ($1.8 trillion), Russia ($986 billion), India ($809 billion) and Brazil ($528 billion), study authors figured. Just the United States and China together caused about onethird of the world’s climate damage.

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Ms. Rosemary Pope Celebrates Her 77th Birthday!

By Voice & Viewpoint Staff

As the soulful rendition of Pattie Labelle’s “When You’ve Been Blessed, It Feels Like Heaven,” was being played, Joseph Edward Maull IV (LJ) and Zion Isiah Maull proudly escorted their grandmother, Ms. Rosemary Pope, into the banquet room of The Brigantine La Mesa Restaurant. To the honoree’s surprise, an intimate group of family, friends, and supporters had gathered to help celebrate her 77th birthday, themed “She leaves a bit of sparkle wherever she goes.”

In lieu of gifts, guests were asked to make a tax -deductible contribution to the Charles L. Lewis III Scholarship Foundation. Highlights of the luncheon included special appearances by the Honorable Mayor Todd Gloria, who was presented with the “Charles L. Lewis III Legacy Award.” Additional guests included 4th District City Councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe, former 4th District City Councilmember Myrtle Cole, Mayor Gloria’s Director of Appointments/Boards and Commissions, Chida Warren-Darby, 4th District Council Office, Chief of Staff Henry Foster, and retired City of San Diego Parks and Recreation Director, Stacey LoMedico.

Throughout the afternoon, family and friends shared stories about how Ms. Pope’s sparkle has affected their lives, including words from her daughter and son-in-love, Charos, who served as the emcee, and Eddie, a video message from her grandsons, David Cowan, Old Globe’s Associate Director and Director of Arts Engagement, Freedom Bradley-Ballentine, Common Ground’s Artistic Director, Yolanda Franklin, and Herbert W. Argrow. Gospel and inspirational artist Camilla “Toot” Bell brought guests to their feet with her brilliantly stellar

performance of Ms. Pope’s favorite songs, including “One Night with the King,” “The Greatest Love of All,” and “I’m Still Here.”

During the event, Mayor Gloria presented Ms. Pope with a proclamation “for providing over 38 years of unselfish and committed service to San Diego’s ‘seasoned’ community residents’ hereby declaring July 25, 2022, Ms. Rosemary Pope’s Day in the City of San Diego. Not only did she bask in gifts and government acknowledgments, but Ms. Pope was also showered with yellow roses, her floral favorite, which connotes friendship.

Following the champagne and sparkling apple cider toast, Ms. Pope offered words from the heart. “The words thank you seem so inadequate to describe my appreciation of everything you’ve contributed to my 77 years of life,” she said. “A very special thank you for your generous donation to the Charles L. Lewis’s Foundation in memory of my beloved son, Councilman Charles L. Lewis III, who passed on August 8, 2004. My most fervent prayer is that I will continue to sow love and appreciation so that I can reap great and lasting friendships such as yours.” She added, “It’s like heaven turning seventy-seven.”

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Night of Worship with Kirk Franklin & Maverick City Music LEADERS IN SENIOR CARE

Curating a Gospel moment wherever and whenever, Kirk Franklin danced across the stage to help keep the message of Gospel pushing forward.

The sixteen-time GRAMMY award winning songwriter, arranger and producer, Kirk Franklin, showed exactly why he has such tremendous success. The audience could not forget the works of Kirk Franklin and his intentionality to bridge Hip-Hop, Pop, and Gospel together. Inspired by his artistry and heart to give back, many aspiring artists look up to the 30 years of continuous hits that Franklin has behind him. Throughout

Maverick City Music encouraged the crowd to be thankful for overcoming hardships and remain faithful that better days are ahead. They even invited fourteen formerly incarcerated men to the stage and spoke about how God still has a purpose in their life despite the past.

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On July 27th, Kirk Franklin and Maverick City Music graced San Diego with the Kingdom Tour to Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU. These gospel artists were on a 37-city tour which kicked off on June 1st. The event featured special guests such as Jonathan McReynolds and Housefires.

Hundreds of concert goers came out on Wednesday to enjoy an evening of worship and encouragement. The Kingdom tour has traveled nationally and internationally including cities such as Los Angeles, Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, and Washington DC. Following the Kingdom Tour, a collaborative album,

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The Hon. Leon Williams’ Life

By Cori Zaragoza Staff Writer

The event, held on Saturday, July 30, 2022, was well attended with locals and political leaders gathering and mingling in celebration of Mr. Williams’ life of service. The crowd was so packed that there was no standing room left in the tent that shielded attendees from the hot, summer sun.

On stage with Mr. Williams at his celebration were his son JJ Anderson, Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher, Michael Brunker, and Yvette Porter. At 100 years young, Mr. Williams still seemed as spry as ever, up and about and smiling throughout his whole event. There was a sense of the magnitude of Mr. Williams’ service to his community; many attendees teared up as they spoke to him as they soaked in a bit of his wisdom.

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Ninth Annual Bayside Gospel Concert Aboard the Midway

By Amara N. Beaty Staff Writer

and those who were not sponsors missed an opportunity.

Saturday night on July 30 marked the Ninth Annual Bayside Gospel Concert Aboard the Midway and the much anticipated event left no room for desire! The concert was hosted and produced by GODRadio1 and M.A.N.D.A.T.E. Records Inc. and took place on the flight deck of the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier & Museum.

This annual benefit concert simultaneously celebrates our first responders and Gospel music.

The night featured Gospel artists Palace, Lemmie Battles, and the Foothills Christian Church Worship Team. Headlining the event was the multi-award winning Gospel artist Brian Courtney Wilson. All the artists provided dynamic performances and set the tone for worship and praise for God Almighty and all night long, spirit-lead individuals of all ages were moved by the music.

Due to the limiting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 Bayside Gospel Concerts were held online. This was the first year that the concert took place in-person and it did not disappoint! Not only was this the first year of the live concert since the pandemic, it was also the first sold out year with over 1300 tickets sold.

Lemmie Battles, a Gospel singer who performed alongside Eddie Baltrip & Fulfillment, performed a song entitled, “You’re Looking At A Miracle.”

In her performance, praises were lifted up giving thanks for surviving several different cancers more than once. Her testimony and praise being sung prompted the audience and even staff to praise and give thanks to God for how He has moved in their lives.

She and Eddie Baltrip & Fulfillment brought that old school, Southern Baptist church choir flare to the concert which could not be replaced.

Dr. Thompson, President of M.A.N.D.A.T.E. Records and GODR adio1, w it h his w ife Michelle, Senior Vice President of M.A.N.D.A.T.E. Records and GODRadio1, provided a first class event which should only grow—

So many of the artists literally had people out of their seats! Palace, a Christian

Hip Hop artist from Louisiana, prompted members of the audience to come up and out of their seats and to come up front to “turn up” with him in front of the stage. He pulled the audience in with call and response and real engagement, performing through aisles with lyrics that encouraged the Body of Christ. It’s safe to say that not a single member of the crowd was bored.

Simultaneously, the event featured several guest hosts who pastor within the city of San Diego who spoke encouraging and revealing words about the duality of this event. One San Diego pastor addressed the historical and spiritual significance of the Bayside Gospel Concert taking place on the USS Midway. Mentioning that many lives were saved on the Midway, but Jesus has and continues to save more.

This was definitely a night to remember! You don’t want to make the mistake of missing out on the years to come.

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Many locals who attended remarked how this would be a community event that will be remembered in San Diego history, as the significance of Mr. Williams’ love and dedication to his community, despite working through racism and adversity, was honored. His impact on San Diego is broad and unifying.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. An Unhappy Workforce Can Cost Money: To Oversee Oxford’s ‘African How to Turn Things Around American English’ Dictionary

Amid the Great Resignation, the pandemic-era phenomenon of employees leaving their jobs, new research studying employees in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland are shedding light on how employers can retain their staff and keep them happy.

“Unleashing the Human Element at Work: Transforming Workplaces Through Recognition,” a new research report by Gallup and Workhuman, reveals that currently, only one-third of employees say their employer has a formal recognition program, and 81% of senior leaders say recognition is not a strategic priority for their organization.

Industry experts define a culture of recognition at its most basic level as one in which gratitude, praise and appreciation are freely given and regularly received in an authentic and equitable way throughout the organization. The data suggests that not embracing this ethos is a missed opportunity.

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xford University Press has announced that it will undertake a three year project to create a dictionary of “African American English.” Additionally, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Black Harvard literary critic, will be overseeing the project, according to the University.

“Every speaker of American English borrows heavily from words invented by African Americans, whether they know it or not. While many scholars have compiled dictionaries of African American usage and vocabulary, no one has yet had the resources to undertake a largescale, systematic study, based on historical principles, of the myriad contributions that African Americans have made to the shape and structure of the English language that Americans speak today. This project, at long last, will address that need,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr. in a press release by Oxford The project is being funded in parts by the Mellon and Wagner Foundations. The goal of the dictionary is to “document the lexicon of African American English (AAE) in a dictionary based on historical principles,” according to an Oxford University press release.

Over three years, the Oxford English dictionary will be working with the Hutchins Center’s network of scholars of African American studies to specifically study African American English and create a definitive record of it. The research will encompass spelling, meaning, history, and pronunciation of African American English and will take into account the words of prominent African American writers, as well as the words of the common everyday African American.

“The editing of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English will realize a dream I’ve nurtured since I first studied the pages of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language: to research and compile fully and systematically the richness of African American English,” Henry Louis Gates Jr. said in a press release. “This massive project draws upon decades of scholarship from the most sophisticated linguists… and the crowd-sourced contributions of speakers of African American English as well.”

According to the Oxford University Press, the dictionary is slated for release in 2025.

Indeed, Gallup’s analysis of the study data shows that an organization of 10,000 people with an already engaged workforce can save up to $16.1 million in turnover annually when they make recognition an important part of their culture. What’s more, employees who feel recognized are more likely to be engaged and feel loyal to their organization.

“The data shows that when recognition is genuinely embedded in workplace culture, people feel its full impact — they feel seen, valued and motivated to put in extra effort,” says Dr. Meisha-Ann Martin, senior director of People Analytics and Research at Workhuman.

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ing effect that can shield employees from burnout and support their overall wellbeing. More than 70% of employees who have good recognition experiences at work rate their lives more positively overall and are more likely to be “thriving” in their everyday lives compared to those who are not being fully recognized.

But Dr. Martin advises companies to consider how they go about recognizing their employees. The study found that more than half of employees who say the recognition they receive at work is not authentic or equitable are actively looking or watching for new employment opportunities.

Further, two in five employees say they aren’t receiving enough recognition from leaders at their organization — only a few times a year at most — when the bare minimum for positive impact is at least a few times a month. Recognition of employees is not only useful for retention, it can assist with recruitment too, say analysts.

“In today’s marketplace, the power of employee referrals cannot be understated. Yet, only 28% of employees in this study strongly agree they would recommend their organization as a great place to work. Organizations that acknowledge employees through strong cultures of recognition can boost this figure to 68%,” says Ed O`Boyle, Gallup’s global practice leader. “When organizations celebrate employees’ successes and contributions, those employees pay it forward and become brand ambassadors.”

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“Recognizing employees is a simple way organizations can demonstrate their commitment to their employees and inspire them to feel connected and cared about, and in today’s climate, it’s no longer a niceto-have program but rather a business imperative,” says Dr. Martin.

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Inflation Slamming Black America Hard as Families Struggle With Necessities

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Black households are more exposed to inflation fluctuations than their white peers, according to a study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The differences, while not overwhelming, are not trivial either, the study authors wrote.

For example, if prices paid by white households increase by 7 percent over a year, calculations by researchers suggest that one may expect them to increase by 7.5 percent for Black families.

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“We examine how this informs the trade-off between inflation and unemployment stabilization for White and Black households,” the study authors explained. “The result implies that when evaluating trade-offs between inflation and unemployment, one ought to keep in mind that the costs of inflation may be borne disproportionately by the more disadvantaged group.”

With gas, food, and other prices rising, the authors concluded that necessities such as groceries, electricity, and wireless phone service make up a larger share of Black families’ budgets.

The result, according to researchers, isn’t a mystery: “Black families will suffer the worst effects of rising inflation because they lag behind their White counterparts in income, wealth, financial savings and home ownership.”

“Black families, especially those without an employed college graduate, are affected the most by inflation compared with all the other demographics,” said Ellie Walters, the CEO of Findpeoplefaster.com.

“Necessities like groceries, accommodation, gas, electricity bills, and phone bills eat up most of their income, leaving them with fewer savings since most of them fall within the low-income groups,” Walters stated.

She said Black families are affected by even the slightest increase in price, and with the rising recession, many might have to live without most of these necessities.

“A large number of Black families live paycheck to paycheck and cannot easily escape the constantly increasing wealth gap between them and the other demographics, especially the white,” Walters remarked.

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first-of-its-kind study of 1,813 older women suggests that the accelerated biological aging of the body — epigenetic age acceleration specifically — is associated with lower odds of living to be 90 years old and also being physically mobile and having intact mental function.

In the July 27, 2022 online edition of JAMA Network Open, a multi-institutional team of researchers led by the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego reported that epigenetic age acceleration could be used as a biomarker for healthy longevity and to estimate functional and cognitive aging.

“Older people know well that age is just a number that may not be indicative of their health status. What if we had a way to measure how fast we were aging that could predict our odds of living a long and healthy life? In aging research, we call this an individual’s healthspan,” said principal investigator Andrea LaCroix, Ph.D., M.P.H., Distinguished Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.

Chronological age is based on a person’s birthdate. Epigenetic age refers to the biological age of a person’s cells, tissues and organ systems. If an individual’s epigenetic age is greater than their chronological age, the person is undergoing epigenetic age acceleration, which is associated with higher risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson’s disease and other diseases.

Based on four different epigenetic “clocks” that measure biological aging, every five to eight years of epigenetic age acceleration was associated with 20% to 32% lower odds of living to age 90 with intact mobility and cognitive function.

“Healthspan is important because the number of individuals who will live to be 90 years and older will quadruple from 1.9 million in 2016 to 7.6 million in 2050 in the United States alone,” said LaCroix.

As part of the prospective study, the team analyzed data on physical and cognitive status from 1,813 women who participated in the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-term national health study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that began in 1993. The median age of death among Women’s Health Initiative participants was 90 years.

Among this cohort, 464 women survived to the age of 90 with intact mobility and cognitive functioning, 420 lived to 90 but without intact mobility and cognitive functioning, and 929 women who died before reaching 90.

Study participants were 70 to 72 years old at baseline and were followed until at least age 90 or the time of their deaths. The associations of the epigenetic age acceleration clocks with healthy longevity were found to be independent of other characteristics more common among the long-lived women with intact mobility and memory compared to those who did not survive to age 90 including being white, having no or fewer chronic conditions at baseline, having higher education, not smoking and walking multiple times per week.

“Prior studies have shown that epigenetic age acceleration is associated with increased risk of death, and a few studies observed that slower age acceleration occurs among longlived individuals. But this is the first study to prospectively examine the relationship between slower age acceleration and living to age 90 with preserved mobility and memory,” said first author Purva Jain, Ph.D., who completed this work as part of her doctoral dissertation at UC San Diego.

Average Teachers’ Earnings Declining, Lower Than Similarly Educated Workers

By Jennifer Cheeseman Newburger and Julia Beckhusen Census Bureau Although teachers are among the nation’s most educated workers, they earn far less on average than most other highly educated workers and their earnings have declined since 2010.

More than 95% of elementary, middle and high school teachers have a bachelor’s degree or more. In 2019, the average earnings of elementary and middle school teachers with a bachelor’s degree or more who work full-time, year-round was $53,800. For high school teachers, it was $57,840.

Just over one-half of elementary and middle school teachers and 58% of high school teachers also have a graduate degree. They still earn less ($61,130 and $64,340,

respectively) than that of other equally educated workers.

ilar education levels. For workers ages 55-64, the pattern is similar:

For example, at least onehalf of the workers in these occupations have a graduate degree, but they earn more than teachers: • Judicial law clerks ($77,960) • Biological scientists ($76,260) • Geoscientists and hydrologists ($111,100)

This earnings penalty occurs for both male and female teachers. However, more women are affected by it since women dominate teaching, making up 80% of elementary and middle school full-time teachers and 56% of high school teachers.

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Teaching was the secondmost common occupation among women in 2019, second only to nursing.

Young teachers and older/ middle-aged teachers have lower earnings than most of their similarly educated peers.

Median earnings for younger teachers (ages 25-34) with a bachelor’s degree or more are $46,310 for elementary and middle school teachers and $49,270 for high school teachers, much lower than that of other younger workers with sim-

Teachers’ Earnings Declined Since 2010 Median earnings overall have recovered from their decline in the wake of the Great Recession but teachers’ earnings have continued to fall.

Median earnings for all fulltime, year-round workers

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Voice & Viewpoint Newswire Millions of students each year rely on financial aid to continue their education. Find out if you qualify for help, especially if you have unique life circumstances.

Eligibility Requirements General eligibility requirements include that you have financial need, are a U.S. citizen or eligible noncitizen, and are enrolled in an eligible degree or certificate program at your college or career school.

Here are some special situations that may apply to you:

Students With a Parent Who Was Killed in Iraq or Afghanistan If your parent died as a result of military service in Iraq or Afghanistan after the events of 9/11, you might be eligible for additional Federal Pell Grant funding or for an Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant.

Non-U.S. Citizens If you have a “green card” (in other words, if you are a permanent resident alien), you will be considered an “eligible noncitizen” and will be able to get federal student aid if you meet the other basic eligibility criteria.

Students With Criminal Convictions Your eligibility for federal student aid can be affected by incarceration or being subject to an involuntary civil commitment after completing a period of incarceration for a sexual offense.

Students With Intellectual Disabilities Students with intellectual disabilities may receive funding from the Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, and Federal Work-Study programs in certain circumstances.

Homeless Students There is no financial aid program specifically for students who are homeless. However, homeless students can receive money for college if they meet the eligibility requirements for federal student aid. Here are some resources: • Federal Student Aid and Homeless Youth: have increased by 2.6% since 2010, from $48,792 to $50,078 (in 2019 dollars).

Elementary and middle school teachers’ median earnings declined by 8.4%, from $57,180 to $52,368 (in 2019 dollars).

Their median earnings declined throughout the dec-

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Students Who Are (or Have Been) in Foster Care There is no financial aid program specifically for students who are (or have been) in foster care. However, such students can receive money for college if they meet the eligibility requirements for federal student aid. Here are some resources: • Educational and Training Vouchers for Current and Former Foster Care Youth: https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/ foster-youth-vouchers.pdf • FAFSA® dependency status information: https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/ filling-out/dependency • Foster Care Transition Toolkit: https:// www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/foster-care/ youth-transition-toolkit.pdf

Staying Eligible If you want to keep receiving your federal student aid, stay eligible by: • Continuing to Meet Basic Eligibility Criteria: Remember, the basic eligibility criteria that allow you to get federal student aid continue to apply throughout the time you’re receiving aid.

• Make Satisfactory Academic Progress: To continue receiving aid, you have to make good enough grades, and complete enough classes to keep moving toward completing your degree or certificate in a time period that’s acceptable to your school.

• Fill Out the FAFSA® Form Each Year: When you fill out the FAFSA form, you are applying for aid for a specific year. In order to receive aid the next year, you’ll need to submit that next year’s FAFSA form.

Regaining Eligibility If you’ve been told you no longer qualify for federal student aid, find out how to get your eligibility back at https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/eligibility/regain.

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ade, with a slight uptick between 2014 and 2016.

The drop in earnings of elementary and middle school teachers is one of the largest among occupations with similar education.

During the decade, their me-

dian earnings have fallen close to that of all full-time, year-round workers, with or without a college education.

Pursuing a higher education degree is a substantial investment, and the data show that the return on that investment is lower for teachers.

Median Earnings of Select Occupations by Worker Age Occupation

Median earnings per year Ages 25-34

Ages 55-64

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46,310 49,270

61,900 66,470

Sales engineers.............................................

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Financial and investment analysts.............

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96,690 73,630 79,970 69,030

143,400 91,620 100, 900 80,870

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 American Community Survey, 1-year estimates, Detailed Occupation by Sex, Education, Age Earnings: ACS 2019 table package

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July 25, 2027 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015832 Fictitious business name(s): Luv You Infinity Plus One Located at: 5700 Cowles Mtn. Blvd. I-204 La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego This 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: Damita Evans 5700 Cowles Mtn. Blvd. 1-204 La Mesa, CA 91942 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 13, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 13, 2027 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016890 Fictitious business name(s): Chuy Cleaning Services Located at: 4078 46th St. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This 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: Jesus Robles 4078 46th St. San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 26, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 26, 2027 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9017024 Fictitious business name(s): Seena Cab Located at: 6470 El Cajon Blvd. #237 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This 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: Saliyo Hassen Usman 6470 El Cajon Blvd. #237 San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 27, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 27, 2027 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 Follow Us on Twitter: @voiceviewpoint

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9017078 Fictitious business name(s): Dirlogistics LLC Located at: 435 S. 66th St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego --P.O. Box 740269 San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This 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: Dirlogistics LLC 435 S. 66th St. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 28, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 28, 2027 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016477 Fictitious business name(s): Authentic Caribbean Taste Located at: 6171 Imperial Ave. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This 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: Clemmelia Walton 6171 Imperial Ave. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 21, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 21, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016741 Fictitious business name(s): E.A. Enterprise --Socal Print Factory Located at: 861 6th Ave. Suite 520 San Diego, CA 92101 County of San Diego --3557 Island Ave. Apt. #7 San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 07/22/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Erik Anton 3557 Island Ave. Apt. #7 San Diego, CA 92102 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 22, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 22, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016756 Fictitious business name(s): Kush Movers LLC --SOFATTISH --Kush Containers --Pettis Architecture Located at: 4783 Wilson Ave. San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego --P.O. Box 741309 San Diego, CA 92174 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 01/01/2019 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kush Movers LLC 4783 Wilson Ave. San Diego, CA 92116 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on

July 25, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 25, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016086 Fictitious business name(s): Taz Handyman Service Located at: 5961 University Ave. #314 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This 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: Hector Edwin Lopez Espino 5961 University Ave. #314 San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 15, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 15, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016085 Fictitious business name(s): Fruteria El Manguito Located at: 5961 University Ave. #314 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This 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: Mayra Espino Alvarez 5961 University Ave. #314 San Diego, CA 92115 --Juan Espino 5961 University Ave. #314 San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 15, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 15, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016475 Fictitious business name(s): Word of God Ministries Dr. Jacqueline Tanner --Dr. Jaqueline Tanner Evangelistic Association Located at: 2425 Valley Gardens Dr. Chula Vista, CA 91915 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 07/21/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Dr. Jaqueline Tanner 2425 Valley Gardens Dr. Chula Vista, CA 91915 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 21, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 21, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015500 Fictitious business name(s): Deaf Insight Located at: 5359 Santa Margarita St. #7 San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This 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: Jasmine Sandifer 5359 Santa Margarita St. #7 San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 08, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 08, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016571 Fictitious business name(s): Big Bert's Catering --Tata's Taco y Tortas Located at: 343 Inkopah St. Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 01/16/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Albert Torres 343 Inkopah St. Chula Vista, CA 91911 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 22, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 22, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016402 Fictitious business name(s): The Open Road Located at: 4158 Conrad Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Trust The first day of business was: 07/20/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: John Gault Kingsmill, Trustee of the Kingsmill Schipper Family Trust 4158 Conrad Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 --Jenny Ida Schipper, Trustee of the Kingsmill Schipper Family Trust 4158 Conrad Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 20, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 20, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015103 Fictitious business name(s): Golden Umbrella --Golden Umbrella.Live Located at: 4158 Conrad Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Married Couple The first day of business was: 07/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Jenny Schipper 4158 Conrad Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 --John Kingsmill 4158 Conrad Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 01, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 01, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015226 Fictitious business name(s): San Diego Magic Mirror Photo Booth Located at: 8593 Palm St. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/01/2018 This business is hereby registered by the following: Hai Kim Tran 8593 Palm St. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 06, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 06, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016177 Fictitious business name(s): Lash and Blush Located at: 701 49th St. San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This 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: Jessica Flores 701 49th St. San Diego, CA 92102 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 18, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 18, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9016338 Fictitious business name(s): Holographic Bugs Located at: 6982 Sun St. San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 07/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Elizabeth M. Jaime 6982 Sun St. San Diego, CA 92111 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 20, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 20, 2027 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015171 Fictitious business name(s): Volted Rides Located at: 4048 48th St. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This 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:

Omar Alejandro Puerta Sierra 4048 48th St. San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 05, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 05, 2027 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015315 Fictitious business name(s): Eat Bomb San Diego Located at: 342 Euclid Ave. Ste. 406 #303 San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 11/01/2021 This business is hereby registered by the following: Eat Bomb San Diego 342 Euclid Ave. Ste. 406 #303 San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 06, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 06, 2027 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015371 Fictitious business name(s): Project West 2 Located at: 6044 Fulmar St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego --1640 Republic St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This 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: Tamarack Enterprises LLC 1640 Republic St. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 07, 2027 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015732 Fictitious business name(s): Bel's Consultant Agency Located at: 8956 Harness St. #G-1 Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This 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: Belvia Matthews 8956 Harness St. #G-1 Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 12, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 12, 2027 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9014965 Fictitious business name(s): Cotton Candy Queen Located at: 4028 Oakcrest Dr. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This 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: Cynthia Diane Saladino 4028 Oakcrest Dr. San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 30, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 30, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9014630 Fictitious business name(s): Macapero Located at: 736 S. 37th St. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Married Couple The first day of business was: 02/02/2021 This business is hereby registered by the following:

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ADVERTISEMENT 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 “ELECTRONIC-ONLY” bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services for: GYM REROOF AT SCRIPPS RANCH HIGH SCHOOL A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022, in front of the main office Of Scripps Ranch High School. 10410 Falcon Way, San Diego, CA 92131. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK AT https:// sandiegounified.org/sitewalks Site walks will follow the latest District COVID-19 policies which can be found at https://www.sandiegounified.org/covid-19_status. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CC23-0298-52).

Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CC23-0298-52) for project details. All bids must be received electronically at or before 1:00 p.m. on AUGUST 11, 2022. Firms interested in submitting a bid package must go to https:// www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43764 then search under “Bid Opportunities” for “Invitation number” CC23-0298-52 Gym Reroof at Scripps Ranch High School. For new vendors, please register under “New Vendor Registration”. The project estimate is between $1.3 million and $1.4 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: B or other appropriate license, subject to District approval. SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Linda Hippe, Director (TOC), Purchasing and Contracts, Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department CC23-0298-52.

ADVERTISEMENT 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 “ELECTRONIC-ONLY” bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: REMOVE AND REPLACE WINDOW COVERINGS AT SEVEN (7) SITES A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022, outside the main office of Johnson Elementary School, 1355 Kelton Road, San Diego, CA 92114. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK AT https://sandiegounified.org/sitewalks. Site walks will follow the latest District COVID-19 policies which can be found at https://www.sandiegounified.org/covid-19_status. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CP23-0237-08).

Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CP23-0237-08 for project details. All bids must be received electronically at or before 1:00 p.m. on SEPTEMBER 1, 2022. Firms interested in submitting a bid package must go to https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43764 then search under “Bid Opportunities” for “Invitation number” CP23-0237-08 Remove and Replace Window Covering at Seven (7) Sites. For new vendors, please register under “New Vendor Registration”. The project estimate is between $130,000 and $140,000. This is not a PSA project and does not require 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: C-61/D-52 or other appropriate license, subject to District approval. SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Linda Hippe, Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Director (TOC), Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department CP23-0237-08.

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Maria Carmen Wahlfeld 736 S. 37th St. San Diego, CA 92113 --Margarito Perez 736 S. 37th St. San Diego, CA 92113 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 27, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 27, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015536 Fictitious business name(s): Zemoto Located at: 3805 Shiloh Rd. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This 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: ZHH Global LLC 3805 Shiloh Rd. San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 11, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 11, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015529 Fictitious business name(s): Shiloh Ireland Photography Located at: 12709 Muth Valley Rd. Lakeside, CA 92040 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 07/11/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Ronald C. Kasper 12709 Muth Valley Rd. Lakeside, CA 92040 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 11, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 11, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015316 Fictitious business name(s): CEUS Painting Partnership --CEUS Roofing & Painting Located at: 9359 Simms Ct. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A General Partnership The first day of business was: 07/06/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Emmanuel Vziel Sanchez Cortes 9359 Simms Ct. Spring Valley, CA 91977 --Cecilia Gabriella Sanchez 9359 Simms Ct. Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 06, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 06, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9014569 Fictitious business name(s): M&M Botique Located at: 1094 Angelus Ave. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 05/31/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Barbara J. Sandle 1094 Angelus Ave. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 25, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 25, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015249 Fictitious business name(s): Dumcana Roadside Assistance Located at: 4242 Spring St. Apt. 4 La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego This business is conducted by:

A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 10/24/2021 This business is hereby registered by the following: Dumcana LLC 4242 Spring St. Apt. 4 La Mesa, CA 91941 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 06, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 06, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015410 Fictitious business name(s): Blue Signal Located at: 5055 Collwood Blvd. #108 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 08/31/2021 This business is hereby registered by the following: Ahmed Bashir Abdirahman 5055 Collwood Blvd. #108 San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 07, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9014767 Fictitious business name(s): Eva Jewelry Stones Located at: 5350 Baltimore Dr. La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 06/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Eva Claire Crouthamel 5350 Baltimore Dr. La Mesa, CA 91942 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 28, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 28, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015382 Fictitious business name(s): Haus of Paragon Located at: 1120 Quail St. San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Joint Venture The first day of business was: 07/07/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Sheena Allen 1120 Quail St. San Diego, CA 92102 --Keontez Jones 7316 Prairie Mound Way San Diego, CA 92139 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 07, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9014823 Fictitious business name(s): Animal Communication with Jules Located at: 3353 Mohican Ave. San Diego, CA 92117 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 06/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Julie Adelman 3353 Mohican Ave. San Diego, CA 92117 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 29, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 29, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015254 Fictitious business name(s): CMC Property LLC Located at: 4151-4153 Hemlock St. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego --1526 Watwood Rd. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This 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: CMC Property LLC 4151-4153 Hemlock St. San Diego, CA 92113 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 06, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 06, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9014981 Fictitious business name(s): Sippian Consultant Solutions Located at: 6522 College Grove Dr. #19 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This 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: Marie Mapp 6522 College Grove Dr. #19 San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 30, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on June 30, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9015168 Fictitious business name(s): Sala Thai Restaurant Located at: 6161 El Cajon Blvd. #A San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 02/19/2009 This business is hereby registered by the following: Svangvitaya, L.L.C. 6161 El Cajon Blvd. #A San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 05, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on July 05, 2027 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4

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.

as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

37-2022-00025806-CU-PTNC Petitioner or Attorney: Lawrence Alexander Samuel

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Lawrence Alexander Samuel filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Abandonment of Fictitious Business Name STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2022-9015256 Fictitious business name(s) to be abandoned: Rapid Roadside Assistance Located at: 4242 Spring St. Apt. 4 La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The Fictitious business name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 02/17/2022 and assigned File no.

2022-9004194 The fictitious business name is being abandoned by: Dumcana LLC 4242 Spring St. Apt. 4 La Mesa, CA 91941 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 06, 2022 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4

NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2022-00030209-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Matthew Duvalier McCauley To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Matthew Duvalier McCauley filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Matthew Duvalier McCauley PROPOSED NAME: Matthew Duvalier 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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 19, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is: 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 8/04, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Central Division 37-2022-00029894-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Nathan Betschart; Briana Betschart on behalf of minor child To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Nathan Betschart; Briana Betschart on behalf of minor child filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Aiden Isabel Betschart PROPOSED NAME: Aidan Isabel Betschart 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.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is: 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 8/04, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse 37-2022-00028821-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Mustafa Amanyar; Palwasha Amanyar on Behalf of Minor Children To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Mustafa Amanyar; Palwasha Amanyar on Behalf of Minor Children filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. PRESENT NAME: Hassibullah Amanyar PROPOSED NAME: Hassib Amanyar --b. PRESENT NAME: Massiullah Amanyar PROPOSED NAME: Mossi Amanyar 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: September 12, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If all requirements for a name change have been met

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 15, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Central 37-2022-00013115-CP-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Erica Valdivia on Behalf of Minor To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Erica Valdivia on Behalf of Minor filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Erika Jackeline Calix PROPOSED NAME: Jackeline Calix 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: August 29, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 7/21, 7/28, 8/4, 8/11 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse 37-2022-00025264-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Denise Jamison AKA Demetris Ann Jamison Blount To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Denise Jamison AKA Demetris Ann Jamison Blount filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Denise Jamison AKA Demetris Ann Jamison Blount PROPOSED NAME: Demetris Ann Jamison 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: August 15, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 325 South Melrose Dr. Vista, CA 92081 North County Regional Center Read online sdvoice.info

PRESENT NAME: Lawrence Alexander Samuel PROPOSED NAME: Joshua Ray Brown 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: August 16, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 25 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is: 325 South Melrose Dr. Vista, CA 92081 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4

SUMMONS ORDER ON REQUEST TO POSTPONE TRIAL Case Number: 22AVSC00391 Case Name: Flanagan (Nance) vs. Girmai On 06/13/2022 Harriet Flanagan Filed a request to postpone the trial in this case.

The Request to Postpone Trial is approved, and the court orders the trial is postponed as indicated.

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The trial will be held as follows: August 11, 2022 at 8:30 am Dept. A22

representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

The clerk will mail a copy of this order to: The person who asked for the postponement Filed on: 06/14/2022 --SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Michael Antonovich Antelope Valley Courthouse 42011 4th St. West, Lancaster, CA 93534 Case number: 22AVSC00391 Plaintiff/Petitioner: Harriet Renee Flanagan (Nance) Defendant/Respondent: Simone Girmai I, the below-named Executive Officer/Clerk of the above-entitled court, do hereby certify than I am not a party to the cause herein, and that on this date I served by the Order on Request to Postpone Trial (Small Claims) upon each party or counsel named below by placing the document for collection and mailing so as to cause to be deposited in the United States mail at the courthouse in Lancaster, California, one copy of the original filed/entered herein in a separate sealed envelope to each address as shown below with the postage thereon fully prepaid, in accordance with standard court practices.

7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4

PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Manuel Perez, aka Manuel Perez-Gonzalez and Manuel G. Perez Case Number: 37-2022-00017803-PR-LACTL To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Manuel Perez, aka Manuel Perez-Gonzalez and Manuel G. Perez

You may examine the file kept by the court.

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a REQUEST FOR SPECIAL NOTICE (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A REQUEST FOR SPECIAL NOTICE form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Antoinette Middleton, Esq. Law Offices of Antoinette Middleton 1761 Hotel Circle South, Suite 115 San Diego, CA 92108 (619) 235-9501 7/28, 8/4, 8/11

Standard Classified: $3.75 [per line]

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Fictitious Business Name: $25 [4 weeks]

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Name Change:

$85 [4 weeks]

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 certain 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 independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on August 18, 2022 at 1:30 PM in Department 503 located at the Superior Court of California County of San Diego 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101 Central - Probate Division If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal

TODAY IN

BLACK HISTORY 1901

1961

BIRTH OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG

BIRTH OF BARACK OBAMA

A child prodigy who worked odd jobs and gave performances on the streets of New Orleans, Armstrong helped to support his mother and sister, and still managed to buy his own cornet trumpet by the age of seven. His first formal music lessons came after he was sent to a juvenile facility at the age eleven for firing a pistol on the New Year.

Born in Hawaii as the son of American anthropologist Stanley Ann Dunham and Kenyan economist Barack Obama, Sr., Barack Hussein Obama II grew up between the USA & Indonesia. In 1990, he became the first Black editor of Harvard Law Review. Moving to Chicago, He worked as a civil lawyer while also teaching at University of Chicago Law School and serving as an Illinois state senator. He was elected as a U.S. Senator for Illinois in 2005 and served until 2008, when he was elected President of the United States. He served two terms as president, before moving on to write books, make speeches, and provide voice-overs.

His big break came when “King” Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band went to Chicago for a concert tour. He left the band there and moved on to New York. By 1926, he was a headliner in his own right. There is almost no country in the world that has not heard Louis Armstrong’s singing and trumpet playing. Armstrong passed in 1971, shortly before his 70th birthday.

1931 PASSING OF DR. D. H. WILLIAMS Born in Pennsylvania about a decade before emancipation, Daniel Hale Williams was the fifth of seven siblings. After his father died when he was nine, Williams was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Maryland, but ran away to rejoin his mother in Illinois. A few years later, he moved to Winsconsin to live with his sister and open a barber shop. Inspired by a local physician, Williams apprenticed under Dr. Henry W. Palmer before entering Chicago Medical College (now Northwestern University) in 1880.

After graduation, he moved back to Illinois & opened a private practice before moving on to establish Provident Hospital. Provident also served as a nursing school for aspiring Black nurses. Unlike most hospitals at the time, Provident was integrated from its foundation, the first such hospital in the USA.

1964 BODIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS DISCOVERED The bodies of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were found buried in a shallow grave in Longdale, MS after the men went missing in June. All members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Goodman and Schwerner were both white activists from New York who traveled south to assist Mississippi local Chaney. The KKK had already burned down Mt. Zion Methodist Church, the CORE-organized voter registration center in the local area. When Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner began collecting evidence regarding the arson, they were stopped by Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff (and known KKK member) Cecil Price, who released them on bail only to “re-arrest” them with other Klan members. A highly publicized FBI search yielded the bodies of eight missing Black men before the activists’ were found. The case is considered a major catalyst for the passing of 1964’s Civil Rights Act.

The fourth doctor known to perform successful heart surgery, in 1893, Williams was the second ever surgeon to repair a heart wound and the first Black American of record to perform successful pericardium surgery. His take on the procedure was considered innovative and groundbreaking, as it was fully successful without blood transfusions or penicillin.

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A Petition for Probate has been filed by Lissette Aide Perez in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego The Petition For Probate requests that Sarah S. Newstead, CLPF be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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Osler said any prison time for a police officer would likely make other officers think twice about declining to intervene.

“We should hope that it has the impact of changing behavior and prodding them to intervene when a life can be saved,” he said.

Angela Harrelson, an aunt of Floyd’s, said the judge showed favoritism when he allowed the three men to remain free pending sen-

tencing and afterward — although that is frequently done in federal cases. Still, she celebrated the guilty verdicts as progress toward holding police accountable for their actions.

“There’s a lot of triumphs that have been made. We are on the right track and police officers are being held accountable,” Harrelson said. “For Black and brown people, we are dismantling the system. It is peeling away before our eyes.”

INFLATION Continued from page 12

“Inflation often makes this dilemma worse, since wages are cut and workers are laid off. These low-income earners, largely made up of Black community members, are trapped by an economic cycle that seems rigged against them.”

According to the Brookings Institute, the median wealth of a white household is $188,200, which is 7.8 times more than the average Black household at $24,100.

Two years ago, the homeownership rate for white Americans was about 73% compared to 42% for Black Americans.

William Thomas of Butler

Associates said money problems remain a concern for all, although Black and Brown communities feel the pain more acutely.

The supergroup formed in 2018 and emerged from a series of writing camps dedicated to bringing together a diverse range of artists from various genres who would not normally have the opportunity to be in a room together. San Diego resident and concert goer, Asha’ Jones shared, “The arena being filled with so much diversity, love, and light is truly a reflection of what heaven would look like. Moreso, I enjoyed that the artists’ sang enlightening songs that were critical to life experiences. That night I was reminded that God is always in control.”

Artists at the Kingdom Tour incentivized guests to donate to the non-profit organization, Food for the Hungry, for an opportunity to meet Maverick City Music artists.

The non-profit seeks to end human poverty and provide life-changing resources to

children internationally. Audience members generously gave to sponsor a child in areas such as Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Asha’ also shared, “It wasn’t about getting to meet the artists afterwards but being able to reach and change the lives of these children whose family members are incarcerated. Seeing so many people donate showed me that what we do for Christ is bigger than just within the four walls of the church.”

Kirk Franklin and Maverick City Music artists on stage at Cal Coast Open Air Theatre on Wednesday night. Photo: Ahliyah S. Chambers

“Make a budget, reduce any unnecessary expenses for the time being, which means assessing needs versus wants,” Thomas asserted. “[Also], identify a Community Development Financial Institution in your area and seek financial advice from a professional. This action may support better financial choices while navigating through uncertain financial times. Finally, stick to the plan created.”

Kirk Franklin leaves it on the stage as guests are praising and worshipping. Photo: @kirkfranklin on Instagram

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ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY Funeral Services will be held for Ms. Geraldine C. Pipkins at Memory Chapel of Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary on Monday, August 15, 2022 at 12:00. Viewing will be from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Burial will follow after the service at Cypress View Mortuary. Final Arrangements are entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

A Tribute to My Friend Ms. Pipkins enjoyed a genre of music, maybe that’s why she moved so melodically through this life. Her song can be played over and over again in the hearts of those who knew her. Picture her strolling and playing a new song on the piano. She is with the Lord making the best music of all, resting from the labors of life…welcome home Ms. Pipkins, welcome home!

May you rest peacefully, Ms. Louise Young

Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ Has Died at 89

By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89.

Her son Kyle Johnson said Nichols died Saturday, July 30, in Silver City, New Mexico.

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“Star Trek” premiered on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966. Its multiracial cast was creator Gene Roddenberry’s message that in the far-off future — the 23rd century — human diversity would be fully accepted.

“I think many people took it into their hearts ... that what was being said on TV at that time was a reason to celebrate,” Nichols said in 1992 when a “Star Trek” exhibit was at the Smithsonian Institution.

“Last night, my She often recalled mother, Nichelle how Martin Luther Nichols, passed King Jr. praised her away. Her light role. She met him at however, like the a civil rights gathancient galaxies ering in 1967, at a now being seen for time when she had the first time, will Nichelle Nichols as Lt. decided not to return remain for us and Uhura on “Star Trek.” for the show’s second Photo: WikiMedia future generations Commons season. to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspira“When I told him I tion,” Johnson wrote was leaving the show, on Sunday, July 31. “Hers he became very serious and was a life well lived and as said, ‘You cannot do that,’” such a model for us all.” she told The Tulsa (Okla.)

World in a 2008 interview.

Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lt. Uhura earned “‘You’ve changed the face of Nichols a lifelong position of television forever, and therehonor with the series’ fans. fore, you’ve changed the It earned her accolades for minds of people,’” she said breaking stereotypes that the civil rights leader told had limited Black women her. “That foresight Dr. King to acting roles as servants had was a lightning bolt in and included an interracial my life.” onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was For the full article, please unheard of at the time. visit sdvoice.info.

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WILLIAM RAY JENKINS was born August 28, 1927, to Mildred West and William Raymond Jenkins. William was raised by his mother and grandmother Percella West. In 1941, when William was fourteen years old, his mother married Westley Glover who proved to be a great stepfather and husband.

JASON AARON GREEN was born on December 29, 1983 in Buffalo, New York.

He lived with his grandma, Doris Green, for his pre-school years. He had an extended family that helped to raise him along with his grandmother. At the age of five, he moved to New York City with his mother Janine. Jason had many role models in his life. A positive influence (who was equally important to Jason) was his stepdad Alamo Jones. It was Jason’s biological father Brian who instilled within him the love of baseball. The ability to play this sport year round brought Jason to San Diego in his senior year of high school. During that time, he lived with his grandparents Herschel and Nancy Reingold. After Melissa gave birth to Jadon, Jason looked forward to the day that he could share his passion and see his son become excited about sports.

William was better known by family and friends as “Skippy;” a nickname given to him by his grandmother. Other nicknames given to him were because of his short stature, this included “Tattoo,” “Shorty,” and “Bill,” although most people called him “Skippy.”

“Skippy” attended elementary school in the Los Angeles area. Due to employment opportunities presented to his stepfather, the family moved to San Diego in 1942. Skippy attended Memorial Jr. High School and San Diego High School where he met Mardestha Rice. In 1948, after graduating high school and after two years of dating, he asked for her hand in marriage. Soon after marriage they had five beautiful children: Janice, “Britches” William Jr., Howard, Robert Earl, and Donna Jo. Skippy worked for Convair Aircraft for five years before joining the U.S. Army Reserves. In 1950, Skippy was sent to serve in the Korean War where he received an honorable discharge.

Skippy moved back to Los Angeles and remained involved in raising his children, while also continuing to remain best friends with the mother of his children. He retired from Aerospace engineering as a parts inspector and enjoyed his freedom by being around his family and friends.

Skippy was known as a stylish dresser and a smooth dancer. He loved driving big cars and always knew he looked good driving in them. Eventually, he and Eileen were married until her passing.

In May of 2022, Skippy moved back to San Diego.

On July 5, 2022, William Ray “Skippy” Jenkins left time and entered into eternity.

He was preceded in death by his son Robert Earl and daughter Donna Jo; along with his first wife Mardestha; and his second wife Eileen. Left to treasure his memory are three surviving children Janice Yvonne Carter (San Diego), “Britches” William, Jr. (L.A.), and Howard Jenkins (Seattle, WA). He is also survived by 15 grandchildren; 53 great-grandchildren; 20 great-great-grandchildren; along with other family members who loved him dearly.

Anyone who knew Jason was blessed to witness his dedication, love, care, thoughtfulness, and passion as a proud father and a mentor. He was a huge support to all of those he loved. Jason’s loving energy impacted so many over the years. He was devoted to the San Diego sports community through coaching youth football for the last 15 years. During his time at San Diego High School, his team won the San Diego State Championship in 2018. He was an incredibly driven individual who encouraged everyone in his life to be the best they could be. Jason dedicated his life to being an amazing father. He used himself as an example of being a role model and a leader to his son and his players. He instilled core values such as determination, self-sufficiency, hard work, and striving to be their best in all they do.

Coach Jason Aaron Green gained his wings on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Left to cherish his legacy and memory are: his mother Janine Green; father Brian Reingold; his son Jadon Green, Jadon’s mother Melissa Jose and her parents Edgardo and Millie Jose; brothers Mustafa & Elijah (Jones), grandmothers: Doris Green and Nancy Reingold; aunts and uncles: Jasmine Green, John Green (Santrell), Geoff Reingold, and Susan Spampata; his cousins: Joshua, Vanessa, Caleb, Olivia, Jabari, Katelyn, Keydra, Ariana and Erica; the players he coached and mentored; along with a host of friends and loved ones.

Bill Russell, NBA Star and Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 88

By Jimmy Golen AP Sports Writer Bill Russell redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country.

The most prolific winner in NBA history, Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., stood with Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

The centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell earned his last two NBA titles as a player-coach — the first Black coach in any major U.S. sport.

Russell died Sunday, July 31, at the age of 88, with his

wife, Jeannine, at his side, his family said in a statement posted on social media.

and an Olympic gold medal — and an archetype of selflessness who won with defense and rebounding while others racked up gaudy scoring totals.

“We hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up Former Boston Celtics with Bill’s uncom- player, Bill Russell, Reactions poured in promising , dig- during his first years with Sunday, from Obama nified and always the franchise. Photo: to Michael Jordan, constructive com- WikiMedia Commons from Magic Johnson mitment to princito Boston’s Mayor, ple,” the family said.

Michelle Wu. “That would be one last, “Today, we lost a giant,” and lasting, win for our Obama said. “As tall as Bill beloved #6.”

A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in the NBA history by basketball writers. He remains the sport’s most decorated champion — he also won two college titles

Russell stood, his legacy rises far higher _ both as a player and as a person. Perhaps more than anyone else, Bill knew what it took to win and what it took to lead.”

“To be the greatest champion in your sport, to revolutionize the way the game is played, and to be a societal leader all at once seems unthinkable,” the Celtics said on Sunday. “But that is who Bill Russell was.”

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