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RELEASE OF COVID-19 AWAIT $1,200 Postal DEMOGRAPHIC DATA Workers

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Keep Pushing Against Odds

NATION’S WEALTHIEST Millionaires and billionaires are set to reap more than 80 percent of the benefits because of the Trump tax law change, which alters what certain business owners are allowed to deduct from their taxes. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

While struggling individuals and families look forward to a $1,200 federal stimulus check, America’s wealthy have again made off with most of the cash.

REAP WINDFALL The $2.3 trillion coronavirus stimulus package includes a temporary tax change for individuals who make at least $1 million a year, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

The Joint Committee’s analysis shows 43,000 taxpayers in the highest income bracket, making more than $1 million a year, could save a combined $70 billion in taxes. Almost all benefits from the tax break go to people making more than $100,000 a year.

The change in tax law reportedly suspends limits on how much money

Newswire Voice & Viewpoint

Tuesday, April 21 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and 13 ACLU affiliates, including the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLU-SDIC), sent

letters to state officials and state departments of health across the country urging those offices to collect and release aggregate race, ethnicity and other demographic data of COVID-19 infections and deaths, to the extent consistent with privacy laws. The letters also call

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COVID-19 Recovery Task Force

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This 4/20, California’s Famous Weed Culture Took A Hit, Too

By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media

This week, Marijuana enthusiasts across the state of California — and around the world are — observing 4/20/2020.

But, this year, the famous pot smoking celebration in California, where the weed industry has been struggling to take off, has taken another twist. Like See 4/20 page 2

By Tanu Henry California Black Media

“It’s been like tons, or gallons of alcohol being thrown on the open wounds of inequality and racism in this country. And as we think about how to recover, we’re going to have to think about how to make sure that we don’t go back to where we were before,” said Angela Glover Blackwell, an African-American author and policy specialist based in Oakland.

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By Chida Rebecca California Black Media

As frontline workers mount up daily to battle COVID-19, each “essential employee” fights in a different way to keep our economy powered; our lives and livelihoods sustained; and our cities and towns safe. While some tend to the sick in hospitals, others brave the streets to distribute food.

But what may seem as the postal worker’s simple act of delivering mail is proving to be more essential than most would expect.

Every day across California, about 63,000 postal workers continue to make sure precious cargo gets to where it needs to go in the state — life-saving medications to people living with chronic illnesses, pension checks to aging adults, mailin ballots to homebound voters, and more. And even with growing competition from Amazon, FedEx, UPS and other courier services, the United States Postal Service (USPS) still delivers more online orders than any of those businesses.

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Cheryl Morrow, an African-American businesswoman in San Diego, says both of her businesses — a print newspaper that she mails and beauty products that she ships - rely on the USPS.

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“The USPS is a partner that I can depend on,” said Morrow, who owns the San Diego Monitor News and a hair care company called California Curl.

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Since the COVID-19 outbreak hit U.S. shores, Black celebrities have been making the news with their philanthropic contributions to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact. From Rihanna to Jay Z and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, many of the famous among us continue to give generously to assist those whose health and See CELEBS page 13

“Other than following the new social distancing rules, their service has remained consistent throughout this crisis. I appreciate that,” said Morrow talking about the USPS. See POSTAL page 2

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION Stimulus:

deducting as much as they want against income unrelated to the company.

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“It’s a scandal for Republicans to loot American taxpayers amid an economic and human tragedy,” Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse noted in a statement.

individuals can deduct against how much they owe based on lost income or business revenue, according to the committee.

Still, millionaires and billionaires are set to reap more than 80 percent of the benefits because of the Trump tax law change, which alters what certain business owners are allowed to deduct from their taxes.

It allows many of the country’s wealthiest to avoid nearly $82 billion of tax liability in 2020.

Nearly 82 percent of the benefits from the tax law change will go to people making $1 million or more annually in 2020, according to the Joint Committee.

“This analysis shows that while Democrats fought for unemployment insurance and small business relief, a top priority of President Trump and his allies in Congress was another massive tax cut for the wealthy.”

Whitehouse and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) sent a letter expressing their concerns to Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought.

Approximately 95 percent of those who benefit from the change make $200,000 or more.

“We are specifically seeking information about whether any people in the Trump administration who were involved with developing the changes would also benefit from the provisions.”

The government began sending out $1,200 stimulus payments to individuals making less than $75,000, and $2,400 for couples earning no more than $150,000.

Several published reports said both Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner stand to reap millions as a result of the stimulus package and the change in tax law.

An additional $500 per child under 18 was provided to families while those high school and college students over the age of 17 were left entirely out.

In all, taxpayers will lose nearly $90 billion from the change to the law, which suspends a restriction introduced in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill.

So that Congress and the American public can better understand the provenance of these tax law changes, and assess whether any individuals within the Administration who stand to gain from these provisions were involved in their development, Whitehouse and Doggett have requested that Pence, and Vought provide the following information:

The change allows owners of businesses known as pass-through entities to lower their taxes by

• All communications from January 1, 2020, to the present between the White House, Department

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Morrow said people don’t realize that the USPS has postmasters who are dedicated to helping business customers. They work with clients to make sure that their important mail shipments are moved and reach destinations on time.

Now that researchers have confirmed that the Coronavirus can be transmitted through the air and that it can even live on your mail, postal workers on the frontlines are more concerned about their safety than ever.

So far, about 30 USPS workers have died from COVID-19 and thousands have been infected, according to Mark Dimondstein, president of the Postal Workers Union, a national organization that represents more than 200,000 members.

“I’ve been a postal worker for four years,” says Renee’ Adams, who is African-American and delivers mail in San Diego.

Adams says the team she works with delivers approximately 20 packages an hour. Last Sunday, they had over 800 individual packages with only three postal workers in her unit on

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every other activity and public function, it happened, if it did at all, privately, away from public spaces, as the global COVID-19 pandemic that has now killed more than 1,000 Californians continues to rage.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued a statement urging people to continue practicing social distancing on 4/20.

“I want to be clear with people who come to San Francisco on 4/20 to Robin Williams Meadow to celebrate 4/20, do not come to San Francisco,” warned Breed, the city’s first Black woman mayor. She was elected in 2018.

The mayor said further that she would not allow the unsanctioned event to occur this year, especially in the height of a pandemic.

The unofficial “holiday” honoring the consumption of cannabis has become almost synonymous with California.

Five high school students first coined the term “4:20” in 1971 at San Rafael

hand to make all the deliveries.

“They started at 8:30 a.m. but didn’t get finished until 9 p.m.,” she said.

“They were calling people to report to work, but no one would pick up the phone.”

A trusted face, a friend and sometimes a confidante, postal workers across the nation often have to step in and do more than drop mail off to customers. Although the workload is great, Renee shares that there are aspects of her job that reinforce the importance of the human connection.

“I deliver to a lot a seniors,” she says.

“They can’t go anywhere, and they don’t have anyone to talk to. They want to talk to us but they’re scared to come near us, and they don’t want to sign for their packages just in case we have [coronavirus]. We have to sign the receipts for them.”

Postal workers, businesspeople and Californians under shelter in place orders all seem to appreciate the value and constancy of the USPS. But some politicians in Washington have been giving the mail delivery service that has enabled communications between Americans for more than 200 years a hard way to go.

High School in Marin County near San Francisco. Hippie Hill, the largest annual public pot smoking celebration in the world is held in San Francisco every year. Several more large festivals rivaling the Bay Area’s are held downstate around Los Angeles.

In pop culture, California rappers like Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Nipsey Hussle – and 1990s urban movie classics like “Friday” — have popularized weed smoking and created a laid back, dazed-out hip hop weed aesthetic straight out of the stereos of tricked-out whips and against the backdrop of the hazy Southern California sunshine.

In 1996, California became the first state in the United States to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Then in 2016, by a ballot measure, Prop 64, voters approved the use of recreational marijuana, prompting big investments in the state’s weed industry. But the retail business has been slow to pick up — some say because of high state and local taxes, protests from NIMBYs, and stiff competition from a thriving untaxed illegal market that is more rooted and widespread than the legal one.

of Treasury, or the Office of Management and Budget and any nongovernment person or entity related to sections 2303 or 2304, or the policies modified by those sections.

• All communications between the Department of Treasury and the White House, and between the Department of Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget, related to sections 2303 or 2304, or the policies modified by those sections, in the development of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. • All studies, analyses, proposals, cost estimates, or other information considered by the White House, the Department of Treasury, or the Office of Management and Budget related to sections 2303 or 2304, or the policies modified by those sections, in the development of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. “It’s a scandal for Republicans to loot American taxpayers in the midst of an economic and human tragedy,” Whitehouse noted in his statement. “Congress should repeal this rotten, un-American giveaway and use the revenue to help workers battling through this crisis.”

Doggett added that the cost of the tax break is more than total new funding for all hospitals in America and more than the total provided to all state and local governments.

“Someone wrongly seized on this health emergency to reward ultrarich beneficiaries, likely including the Trump family, with a tax loophole not available to middle class families. This net operating loss loophole is a loser that should be repealed,” Doggett said.

According to the Washington Post, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin threatened Congress that President Trump would veto the $2 trillion stimulus package that lawmakers approved earlier this month if it included a $13 billion direct grant to the USPS. A bipartisan team of congressional negotiators had already agreed to the provision. Instead, the feds offered a $10 billion loan to USPS in the final stimulus bill the president signed. The Treasury Department has not yet approved the funds although the bill passed more than a week ago.

“I’m just happy that I can get up and go to work because I don’t know what I’d do if I had to stay home with no money coming in. I’m grateful that I have a job it’s hard at times, but I have four people depending on me,” she said.

The Post Office is not taxpayer funded, so it normally runs on revenue from postage and services,” Dimondstein said, according to a Common Dreams report. “And if 40 to 50% of that dries up in this pandemic—which is what looks like it’s happening, in a very quick and precipitous way—then that money has to be made up.”

In California, more than 3.1 million Californians have filed for unemployment insurance since March 12, and the state unemployment rate has spiked to 5.3% from under 3% just two months ago, according to the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency.

He is demanding that Congress includes a $25 billion aid package to the USPS in the next stimulus bill.

Due to COVID-19, economists estimate, some 22 million Americans have lost their jobs across the country and the unemployment rate is hovering around 18%. More than 7 million have applied for unemployment insurance just within the last month, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Renee’s frontline work helps to keep a roof over her family members’s heads until employment opportunities open up again.

At home, Renee has two adult children, a grandbaby and a sister. Since the quarantine, one of her daughters has lost her job, while the other daughter and sister are waiting to hear back regarding recurring contract work.

“But you know it’s to the point now that if you don’t show up for work, you can lose your job because you can easily be replaced,” Renee said.

Prop 64 included in it a provision to establish the California Community Reinvestment Grant (CalCRG) program funded by excise and cultivation taxes on cannabis. The program funds programs that assist Californians disproportionately affected by federal and state War-on-Drug policies. Among its programs, the grant helps formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society with “trauma-informed” care. The majority of those impacted were Black and Hispanic men, women and children.

But the excitement that was building up to this year’s celebration has been cooled by strict social distancing measures issued by the state during the current pandemic. Organizers of San Francisco’s “Hippie Hill” 4/20 celebration cancelled the event. By early Monday morning, roadblocks were erected, park rangers were out in full force, and guards actively turned away vehicles.

Even though the state has deemed weed an essential commodity during the COVID-19 crisis, the state’s weed industry is sputtering.

Some weed smokers have been excited that the unofficial observance of weed smoking is unique this year because the date has four twenties in it. Some put forth the suggestion that the entire month of April, which is technically 4/20, like the date, be celebrated this year.

“At 4:20 on 4/20/2020, there will be four twenties,” were the words on a sign rapper Snoop Dogg held on a meme that made its way around the internet.

“We take the health and safety of the public, our staff, vendors, and sponsors very seriously. We feel it’s all of our responsibility to do our part to minimize social gathering and potential spread of this virus in the community,” read a message on Hippie Hill’s official website.

The 4/20 celebration usually takes place in Golden Gate Park, but this year organizers urged people to stay home and smoke.

“While this event is cancelled in person, it is not cancelled in spirit! We want everyone to celebrate this historic day by staying in and supporting your local delivery services and dispensaries,” it said on the Hippie Hill website.

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for the equitable distribution of personal protective and medical equipment.

On April 9, ACLU-SDIC sent letters to the San Diego County Public Health Department and Imperial County Public Health Department. San Diego is sharing limited demographic data.

“We applaud the San Diego County Public Health Department for releasing some demographic information, such as the race of people who have died or tested positive for COVID-19. But this gives us only part of the picture,” said Christie Hill, Deputy Advocacy Director at the ACLU-SDIC. “We cannot manage a pandemic if we don’t know who is being affected by it,” she continued. “The people need more information, including demographic data on who has been tested and who has been hospitalized. Issues of equity are often cast aside during public emergencies. San Diego and Imperial counties can lead the way by collecting and, to the greatest extent possible, by sharing comprehensive data that can help us to fight this pandemic.”

As of Tuesday, Imperial County had not disaggregated demographic data by race and ethnicity on COVID-19 infections and deaths on its website.

As other jurisdictions begin to release demographic data of COVID-19 infections, the ACLU believes it is becoming increasingly urgent to identify communities that are in particular need of support. As of Friday April 17, 34 states and the District of Columbia have shared racial breakdowns of COVID-19 infections, and 26 states and the District of Columbia have shared breakdowns of COVID-19 deaths. As has been widely reported, the data has shown that by and large, Black people are dying at disproportionate rates.

ReNika Moore, Director of the Racial Justice Program at the ACLU said, “Racial disparities in health care, policing and incarceration, and who holds ‘essential’ jobs, are among the factors that make people of color among the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have to address this pandemic through a racial justice lens, including by collecting and reporting accurate data on rates of infection and outcomes by race. We must take action to protect those most vulnerable.”

In Tuesday’s letter, the ACLU called on all state officials to standardize, collect and release aggregate demographic data of COVID-19 infections and deaths for government entities to effectively address this pandemic, direct resources where they are most needed and better protect all communities. The ACLU of California sent a similar letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom on April 21.

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EDITORIAL:

The Forgotten Ones

Covid 19, Politics and Our Communities

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

By now we all know that communities of color have been the hardest hit by the virus. The numbers in the deaths reported in comparison to our numbers in population don’t lie. As we see numbers like those of Louisiana and Chicago where we (African Americans) are 30 percent of the population and 70 percent of the deaths, we know that there exists a problem within the problems of this virus. Part of the explanation has been that we hold the high risk jobs like public transportation workers, postal employees, and many first responder positions. The other part of the explanation is our health disparities.

Too many of us use the Emergency

Rooms of our hospitals as “primary care providers;” too many of us have underlying conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer or other ailments that compromise our immune systems.

Many African Americans are expressing concern about the lack of testing sites in our communities and the requirement that only doctors appear able to write prescriptions for the test, where they are available. Dr. Jerome Robinson, a noted Cardiologist in San Diego, expressed concern that a local Doctor was stating that not everyone needed to be tested when testing is the only way we can know the extent of the problem.

“With over 4 million people living in the City and County of San Diego, the fact that only about 39,000 tests have been performed does not speak well to saying tests are not necessary,” Robinson said.

With the President calling for the liberation of certain states where he disagrees with the governors, we already see mounting divisions of

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protest: the “stay at home” people versus the “come out and return to ‘normal’” people. Many of us believe that, following a premature return to “opening for business,” there will be another surge in deaths and cases; a loss of confidence in the spokespersons for the science of dealing with this crisis; and a move by the President toward “Marshall Law” just in time to cancel the November elections. None of this must be allowed to happen.

Since we as African Americans are the greatest numbers at risk in all the politics of this crisis, it is imperative that we change our lifestyles, habits and thinking so that we can survive. Social distancing is just the first step. What we do with our money, our time and resources must be refocused so that we think more collectively than as individuals. Life as many of us knew it before is gone and will not return. Let’s get about the business of preparing to live in the new normal and to make our own healthcare a priority without waiting on others to do it for us.

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During this Covid-19 epidemic, the San Diego Unified School District has been touting its accolades via every social media outlet that will listen. The desired effect is for our communities to believe that Superintendent Marten and the school board really do care about our students. This seems unbelievable based on several factors that have been brought to my attention. SDUSD has forgotten: Students: The district and the teacher’s union created an MOU immediately to protect the rights of the adults working with students. This was finished in record time while a plan of action for student learning is still really not firmly secure by any means. The priority of the district is made abundantly clear...adults first, student learning next.

Adolescent Girls: The district has finally created several food distribution centers at a variety of school sites. This has been very helpful to our families that live below the poverty level. There is a major group of students who have been forgotten...our young adolescent girls. Schools meeting the 40 percent pupil poverty threshold are required to provide free feminine hygiene products to students in grades 6-12.

Education code 35292.6 states: (a) A public school maintaining any combination of classes from grade 6 to grade 12, inclusive, that meets the 40-percent pupil poverty threshold required to operate a schoolwide program pursuant to Section 6314(a)(1) (A) of Title 20 of the United States Code shall stock at least 50 percent of the school’s restrooms with feminine hygiene products at all times. (b) A public school described in subdivision (a) shall not charge for any menstrual products provided to pupils, including, but not limited to, feminine hygiene products.

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COMMENTARY:

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Black People and Coronavirus Science Vs. Myth — writing, over 945 cases have been reported countywide.

By Tonja Daniels Contributor

A memory popped up on my Facebook feed from roughly four years ago of Houston-based rapper Scarface and I. Almost immediately, a link appeared on my timeline that Scarface tested positive for the coronavirus when news began circulating that, in predominantly-black cities, blacks were contracting and dying at an astronomical rate of Covid-19. This piqued my interest to be more informed in trying to find out why our decimation levels were so high, and what preventative measures we all can take to save black lives.

What started out as a myth online was that somehow black people were immune to the novel coronavirus, and we soon began to watch in horror at how extreme that falsehood came to be. As Fat Joe stated in a town hall hosted by Diddy, “People are dying like a light switch, and the joke is always on us.” Milwaukee is 39% black and one of the few places tracking Covid-19 cases and deaths by race, which started out as only one case reported in the beginning of March. That number skyrocketed to 350 by week two, and as of this

Arline Geronimus, professor of public health at the University of Michigan (quoted in the NY Times) that, “‘One factor that might make the coronavirus more devastating to African-Americans is that they experience high levels of stress-mediated wear and tear known as “weathering, like exposure to toxins, lack of sleep and racial discrimination that can cause a kind of accelerated aging.” At Meharry Medical College, an HBCU in Nashville, Covid-19 drive-thru testing centers lay dormant due to the lack of the right testing and protective gear, while the predominantly white walk-in clinics surrounding Vanderbilt University stayed open without a hitch.

As masks run scarce, scarves or bandannas might have to suffice for black Americans, causing hesitation to adorn because of the stigma of “criminality” attached. A recent meme circulated around that showcased a black man in side-by-side pictures of him wearing a bandanna that had the caption: 1971-2019 (Gangbanger) and on the other picture of him in the exact same pose it read: 2020 (Responsible American).

Black people make up the bulk of the essential workers who have no other choice than to work because they are not afforded the luxury of working from home compared to their white counterparts, like in the case of Detroit bus driver Jason Hargrove who complained of a passenger coughing

on him in a Facebook post that went viral before he sadly succumbed to Covid-19 two weeks later.

Social distancing can be another extremely hard measure to practice when there is a disproportionate black population in housing projects, jails, prisons, and homeless shelters. At the Cook County Jail in Chicago, 73% are black males and more than 300 inmates and 200 employees tested positive for Covid-19. What makes matters worse nationwide is that 70% of inmates cannot afford to post bail so they sit in local jails and have yet to be convicted of any crime.

Another trending topic has been what can black people eat to boost their immune system? Supplements and vitamins like elderberries, sea moss, black seed oil, zinc, and Vitamins C & D, etc., have been one solution. Van Jones stated that the, “Hoteps in the community drinking their green juices while we make fun of them. Well they’re the ones who are healthy while the rest of us are getting taken out.”

Psychologist Dr. Jess suggested that black people can use this down time to read books such as: “Medical Apartheid”; “The New Jim Crow”; and “The Color of Law.” Royce da 5’9 stated that the major setback for black Americans has been misleading and mixed messages.

After all, we saw what happened to Flint, heard about the Tuskegee Experiment.

The COVID-19 Crisis

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire Contributor

Trump’s decision to cut funding for the World Health Organization (WHO)—which we warned about last week—is yet another example of his efforts to obscure reality and distance himself from any responsibility for the mess that the USA finds itself in as a result of his handling of the COVID-19 crisis.

There is a deeper problem, however, than Trump’s apparent narcissism and scapegoating. We are seeing the consequences of avoiding reality and replacing reality with what can, at best, be described as wishful thinking.

In the last couple of weeks, very damaging information has emerged regarding the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by the Administration. It now appears that as early as December 2019, the Administration was being warned about possible dangers from this outbreak. Indeed,

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Leaving aside the complicity of most Republican elected officials with the Administration’s nonsense, it is time for a reckoning when it comes to reality. Should decisions by government in the face of crisis be based on wishful thinking? Self-aggrandizement?

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Early Sunday Morning Worship 7: 45 am Sunday School 9 : 30 am Sunday Morning Worship 11: 00 am Children and Youth Bible Study Tuesdays 6 : 30 pm Bible Study Tuesdays 6 : 30 pm Mid-day Bible Study Wednesdays 12 : 00 pm

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Virginia Griff in

Timothy Stewart

Ahmad Robinson

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VIRGINIA GRIFFIN was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1932 to Mary and Charles Thomas. She was the youngest child of one brother and one sister. She spent her formative years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she received her education. She later enrolled in Franklin Schools and earned a Certificate of Graduation in Practical Nursing on November 13, 1961. After graduation, she worked as a nurse for twenty-five years before moving to San Diego, California in 1988 where she lived with her foster-sister Rebecca Morrow.

TIMOTHY TERRELL STEWART was born on November 16, 1998 in San Diego, California to Carmaline and Ronnie Stewart, Sr. Timothy was the seventh of eight children born to this union. Throughout his childhood he attended Truth Apostolic Church and Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church in Lemon Grove, California. At the time of his early demise he was attending both Younique Praise Apostolic Church, pastored by his older brother Overseer Ronnie Stewart, Jr. and Nu Life His Way Devotional Center pastored by Linda Morgan.

AHMAD ROBINSON was born in San Diego,California, on February 21, 1991. He immediately filled the hearts and souls of his devoted and loving mother, Leah D. Robinson and grandparents Charles and Edna Robinson with pride and joy. Ahmad was the epitome of quiet strength, and always had a caring and loving spirit.

Out of the places she lived, San Diego, California was her favorite place to live. Virginia’s religious beliefs were Methodist, Baptist, JehovahWitness, and Catholic. She was recently baptized as a Catholic in 2018. Her hobbies were knitting, singing church songs, reading The Bible and Daily Bread, and talking to friends and family. She loved to fellowship with her Jehovah-Witness and Catholic family.

Timothy received his education in San Diego. He attended Monterey Heights Elementary School, Knox Elementary, Palm Middle School, Lincoln High School and New Dawn High School. After finishing with school, Tim worked various jobs, including Westbrook Security.

He was a go getter who would go above and beyond what was asked of him to make sure he completed his work with excellence.

Her favorite foods were Vienna sausage and crackers, fried chicken, beans, rice, and gravy, and other soul food dishes and desserts.

Tim was a bright, spirited student who accomplished everything with an amazing sense of humor. As a child, he loved being outdoors more than anything, including skateboarding, and fishing alongside his family.

When her health became fragile, she had amazing caregivers. She loved her adopted Blackwell family and caregivers: Linnette Blackwell, Theresa Blackwell, and Dynesha Phillips. Virginia was very friendly and always smiled. Virginia’s wish was to live a good Christian life, which she did.

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KENNETH JOE DIAMOND, affectionately known as (Ken or Kenny), was born the eldest of four children on February 18, 1948 in San Diego, CA to the loving parents of Marie and Joe Diamond.

Kenneth received his formal education in the San Diego Unified School District.

Tim also enjoyed boxing at Emerson School of Martial Arts.

He had a heart of gold and opened the doors of his home for any of his friends that needed a place to stay.

Many of his friends affectionately called him “Lil’ Styckz.” He was known for his very charismatic personality. He had an insane love for music and would walk around town singing or rapping the lyrics to any song that came to his head. One of his favorite gospel songs was “I Smile” by Kirk Franklin.

On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Timothy Terrell Stewart was called home to be with the Lord. After a long fight through the night, Tim passed away at Scripps Mercy Hospital with his friends and family nearby. He was preceded in death by father Ronnie Stewart, Sr. and grandparents.

Left to treasure his memory are mother, Carmaline Smith (Adrian Smith); brothers Frederick Caples and Ronnie Stewart (Rhonda Stewart); sisters Vyonne Pamplin (Chris Pamplin), Ronisha Stewart, Martha Stewart (Xavier Jones), Shamya Stewart, Nijiya Stewart; nephews Aiden Jones, Christopher “CJ” Pamplin, Jr; nieces Nariah Stewart, Ca’marii Pamplin, Zarley Jones, and Naylani Lipscomb; godparents Ruben Cabrera, Timothy Thorn, Autumn Ardrey, and Alicia Hickabottom, and a host of family and friends who loved him beyond measure. His smile will forever live on.

Shortly after high school, Ken enlisted in the United States Air Force in September 1967 where he proudly served his country for twenty years. While serving in the Air Force, Ken received several awards and ribbons, including an Air Force Commendation Medal.

After retiring from the Air Force, Ken became employed with the San Diego County Probation Department as an Assistant Deputy Probation Officer. Ken was promoted to Deputy Probation Officer in November of 1991 and was assigned to Adult Field Services where he wrote pre-sentence investigation reports.

Ken retired from his probation career in October 2007.

In 2001, Ken met Sadalya (Sadie) Wilson and the two became inseparable. He and Sadie enjoyed going on trips, Soul Train Cruises, and traveling to visit family. They united in marriage in August 2006.Ken was called home to rest on Sunday, March 22, 2020. He was preceded in death by parents Marie and Joe Diamond. He leaves to cherish his memory his loving wife, Sadalya D.Wilson-Diamond; two sons Kenneth J.C. (Sabrina) Diamond and Ian Diamond; three daughters Qwintrice Cochran, Kelli (Charles) Diamond-Johnson, and Paula Anderson; step-father Turner “Poppy” Clipper, Jr., mother-in-law Emma Wilson; brothers Richard “Rick” (Carmen) Diamond, and Anthony Diamond; one sister Alisa Yvette (Clay) Rollins; four grandchildren three greatgrandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.

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Ahmad’s exposure to spirituality and faith began early on while participating in Poolside Ministries at New Creation Church. On January 26, 2014, he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior and was baptized at North Park Apostolic Church.

Ahmad expressed his joy through sports and athletics. He spent countless hours riding bicycles and skateboards with neighborhood friends. His memories of learning to swim were some of his fondest.

Ahmad loved and maintained his family’s commitment to the Southeast San Diego community. In 2009, Ahmad completed his high school education at San Diego Charter before starting his college career at Grossmont College. Ahmad’s educational and career path led him to the Black Contractors of America (BCA) in 2011 where he developed his skills in construction and dry walling. However, Ahmad’s passion for football took him to San Diego Mesa College for an opportunity to compete at the collegiate level in the sport that he loved.

In 2016, God blessed Ahmad with a beautiful baby girl named Ahmaya. She instantly wrapped him around her tiny finger bringing elation and greater peace into Ahmad’s life.

Ahmad shared his inquisitiveness, and his love of reading, with Ahmaya. Ahmad was ready to see the world with Ahmaya, whispering plans of travel to South Africa and beyond.

Ahmad demonstrated a high sense of good moral character by aspiring to give to his community and maintaining the deeply rooted spiritual, academic, and athletic commitments. Ahmad worked with Pastors on Point beautifying neighborhoods. His next plan was to volunteer his time coaching youth football and track by returning to his Skyline Tigers and MLK Blasters roots.

On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, God called Ahmad Robinson home.

His memory will forever be treasured. Left to honor and remember Ahmad are daughter Ahmaya Robinson; mother Leah Robinson, grandparents Charles and Edna Robinson, and Lee Adams; aunts Thelma Corinne Johnson, Gwen Adams, Keelee, Crystal Adams, and Imani Grant; uncles Allen Thierry, Greg, Michael, and Kahlo Adams, and Kevin Grant; cousins, and a host of relatives and friends.

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Sakena Hubbard

Millard Branch

Mae Belle Jessie

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Private Graveside Service was held on Monday, April 20, 2020 at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

SAKENA CHARRISA HUBBARD was born on Sunday, September 9, 1973 in San Diego, California, to Gwendolyn Buggs and Robert Hubbard. She attended John F Kennedy Elementary, O’Farrell Jr. High and Lincoln High School. Sakena eventually moved to Sacramento, California to once again be alongside her mother, Gwendolyn; while there, she made the wise decision to further her education.

Sakena was very family oriented, loving, caring, often the life of the party and always offering a helping hand to loved ones.

She enjoyed being social, always listening to music, cooking, catching up and making memories with her family and close friends. Her “me time” was spent catching up on all of her favorite television series. Anyone who knew her loved her.

Her grandmother, Lizzie always would take Sakena during her youth to Greater Life Baptist Church, where she eventually accepted Christ into her life. It was always said that Sakena was the first grandchild to be born into the church, which was established in 1973. Sakena loved variety in her life, during her career span she served as a cafeteria worker in a shipyard, as a laborer in a manufacturing company named Roadrunner; and in her latter days, as a security agent for The Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.

On Monday, March 2, 2020, Sakena Charrisa Hubbard went to be with the Lord, and was reunited forever with her father, Robert Hubbard; her grandmother, Lizzie Buggs; her uncle, Archie Buggs and her aunt, Norma Jean Buggs, She leaves to cherish her memory: her mother, Gwendolyn Buggs; her children Shawnette Sipert, Edward Paris (Deazhane), Marquise Paris and Leandre Sipert Jr. and her grandson, Rahman Taylor Jr. all from San Diego, CA; her brothers, Robert and Don Hubbard and Tyrus Halloman all from San Diego, CA; her sister, Michelle Hubbard from Texas; her aunt, Marilyn Buggs from San Diego, CA; Her cousins, Terry White (Christina) from Albany, NY; Aisha and Naomi White from Connecticut and Raynerio Huffman from San Diego, CA., her best friend and “father figure”, Louis Peete and a host of other relatives and countless friends to cherish her memory.

Janet Marie Collins

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Graveside service was held on Monday, April 13,2020 at Miramar National Cemetery. Military honors and a celebration of life service will be held for Millard when the Covid-19 crisis has been resolved. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

MILLARD “UNCLE BONDS”, 86 died Thursday, 2 April 2020 at home from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.

Born in Bear Creek Township, North Carolina on 13 August 1933, to Willie and Polly Marsh Branch, in 1950, Millard moved to White Plains, New York.

After serving in the Army for two years, in Ulm, Germany, Millard returned to White Plains, New York, where he met and married Virginia M. Smith. To this union were born five children: André , Kenneth, Sheila, Millard, Jr. , and Veronica . Millard and Virginia moved to Harlem, New York a year after the birth of their first child, André. After living in Harlem for a few years, the family moved to Bronx, New York, where they made their home for many years. It was during these years that Millard began driving the “Big Rigs”. His career driving Big Rigs span over twenty-nine years. Millard was a hard-working man, who often rose at 5:00 A. M. to prepare for work and sometimes made cross-country deliveries that kept him away from the family for a week at a time. It is not an exaggeration to say that he loved driving and being on the open road.

Millard and his family moved to San Diego, California in 2012.He leaves his son, Dr. André J. Branch and daughter-in-law Petrina, son, Sargent Millard Branch, Jr., daughter-in-law, Sargent Lisa Branch daughter, Veronica N. Sidbury, son-in-law, Reverend Guy Sidbury, granddaughter-in-law Sandra Arnell , granddaughters Brittney ,Armani , grandsons Xavier ,Tyrell ,Jared, Kenneth.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Polly Marsh Branch Bonds, his wife, Virginia M. Branch, his daughter, Sheila Branch, his son Kenneth Maurice Branch.

Millard was buried at the Miramar National Cemetery on 13 April 2020 after a small and brief graveside service that could only be attended by ten family members and friends because of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Military honors and a celebration of life service will be held for Millard when the Covid-19 crisis has been resolved.

Gracie Mae Hutsona

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Janet’s early journey began December 12, 1958 in Williamsburg, VA to Junius Holmes and Iris Mason. She was the fifth child of thirteen children.

Janet accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior at an early age and was baptized at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Williamsburg.

She received her formal education at Bruton Heights School.

In 1977 Janet relocated to San Diego, CA where she lived with Eddie Jackson. They had two daughters, Natalie and La’Toya Holmes. After separating from Eddie she met and married Johnny Collins in 1985. In this union they were blessed with a son, John Christopher Collins. During this time Janet devoted her life to Christ.

She received her calling to ministry and began holding weekly Bible Study. This led her and Johnny to start their church “His Church of Victory”, where she was an evangelist, he was the pastor.

In 2015 Janet married her lifelong companion Stanley Thomas. Janet enjoyed music, dancing with Stanley, cooking and entertaining her family and friends.

Friday, March 27, 2020, was the day she closed her eyes and took her last breath on earth, knowing it was the beginning of taking her first breath in heaven. Preceding her in death was her father Junius Holmes.

Although Janet’s physical body is gone, she is still with us and will live in our hearts and minds forever. We are all God’s children; some of us are loaned out for a little longer than others. Only God knows when He is ready for us. So let us celebrate all the good times and the memories we shared during the time “Janet” was with us.

Janet leaves to cherish her wonderful memories; husband Stanley Thomas; two daughters Natalie Laird (Tippy) of San Diego, CA, La’Toya Murphy (Tim), Jefferson City, TN; one son, John Christopher Collins; and step-daughter Kamea Thomas of San Diego, CA; eight grandchildren Anthony Wilson, Wallace Thomas V, Nyah Lee Murphy, Timothy Murphy, Kamryn Thomas, Mikeyah Thomas, Kenyah Dawkins, and Brandon Dawkins; mother Iris Mason-Holmes all of San Diego; three brothers Sherlock, Junius, and Dewayne Holmes; nine sisters Maxine Mason, Renee Johnson (Dr. Tommy), Pamela Lewis, Phyllis Burgess (Freddie), Parthina Holmes, Katrina Holmes, Alicia Porter (Garry), Areatha Holmes, and Roslind Henning (Clifton), all of Williamsburg, VA; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends who will mourn her passing, and yet celebrate her life.

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GRACIE MAE HUTSONA was born on July 7, 1927, in a small farming community called Camel Hill Texas. She was the eldest of eleven children born to Hattie and Andrew White.

Gracie had fond memories of elementary school. Her childhood church also served as the local schoolhouse. She was an excellent student who received high marks. As a preteen, Gracie and her sister began to venture into entrepreneurship. Together they picked cotton and various vegetables to sell on the side of the road. They made pretty good money for that day and time.

By the time Gracie reached high school, the family had relocated to Arizona. She attended a three room school named Crockett High School (later renamed Ralph Bunch High School). By the eleventh grade, Gracie and her sister worked as full time maids at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. Unbeknownst to their parents, they were working instead of attending school. Needless to say, extra money was appreciated, but education was valued more. Gracie and her sister were forced to return to school.

Gracie dedicated her life to Christ, and as an adult, she was a faithful and devoted member of the Bayview Baptist Church in San Diego, California. Her pastor would be the one to introduce her to a young serviceman by the name of Sargent Almando Hutsona. On February 5, 1950, Gracie married the love of her life, Almando Hutsona. Born to their union were three sons.

Gracie had a heart for serving others. She pursued her degree as a Licensed Vocational Nurse at San Diego City College. Gracie later attended the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and received her Psychiatric Nurse Certificate. Through her work as a nurse, administrator, and community leader, she was able to help many individuals who were among the most vulnerable and needy.

Gracie was known for her compassionate spirit and giving heart. She served in several capacities within her church and community. Some of the achievements that she accomplished included the Southwestern District Minister’s Wives Chairperson, the 1978 Woman of Distinction in the field of religion, the Chairperson of Urban League Education, mentor and office administrator with the San Diego Unified School District and San Diego County and State Grand Jury Member. Above all else, Gracie was known for loving her God, and her family.

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Private Entombment service was held on Friday, April 17,2020 at CYPRESS VIEW MAUSOLEUM. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

MAE BELLE JESSIE was born in Yuma, Arizona on December 7, 1924 to Frances B. Norfles and Nelson Norfles. Mae Belle went to Yuma High School in Yuma. Mae Belle had a beautiful voice,she started singing at the age of 16 and performing for black community functions. Mae Belle had her own radio program every Sunday morning at 9:00 A.M. NBC sponsored and broadcast Mae Belle, where she was approached by Bob Hope at the age of 17 to sing for the troops and she turned it down to finish her education.

Mae Belle went to Los Angeles City College and studied foreign languages and learned to speak French, Spanish, Hebrew and German. She met and married the love of her life, Walter W. Jessie.

She received a scholarship from UCLA School of Performing Arts where she graduated and received her Master’s Degree.

After receiving her Master’s Degree, she moved to San Diego with her husband. She continued her education and worked for the Department of Social Services and was also a translator. Mae Belle and Walter were blessed with 5 beautiful children: Walter Francis, Julia Denise, Joseph Charles and the twins, Jacqueline and Geraldine.

Also, Betty Horne who she loved and called her daughter.

Mae Belle attended Greater Israelite Church of God in Christ, She became a devoted Deaconess, Missionary and Evangelist.

On July 15,1984, Mae Belle received recognition from Jimmy Swaggart ministries for helping intensify the mission’s outreach programs. Also, she was appointed by Greater Israelite Church of God In Christ as President of the Hospitality Board and served in office from February 1989 to February 1990 and appointed

by Greater Israelite Christian Center, Church of God In Christ by the 1st Jurisdiction of Southern California to the position of Vice President, Home and Foreign Mission on February 15, 1992.

Mae Belle Jessie was called home on April 10, 2020. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Jessie; daughter, Julia Norwood; son, Joseph Jessie; her mother, Frances Norfles; her father, Nelson Norfles; three brothers, Joseph Norfles, David Norfles and Paul Hassell; and sister Rebecca Norfles-Long.

To cherish her memory, she leaves: three children: Walter Jessie , Jacqueline Forjais and Geraldine Hill; 22 grandchildren,19 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

When great trees fall.

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

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

When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken.

Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutte able ignorance of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die, after a perio peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Maya Angelou

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Community Food Distributions

Photos by Voice & Viewpoint & Carleton Overstreet

Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church

Rev. Whitmill and Rev. Smith of Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church and volunteers

Calvary Baptist Church

Staff Writer Voice & Viewpoint

We salute those volunteers and their service to our entire community.

Food lines continue to grow as cars line up for blocks at a time for bags and boxes of food. This week saw a coalition of churches and community organizations including SD Hip Hop 5K (Organizer, Carleton Overstreet), Connecting Hope (Pastor Ray Smith), Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church Volunteers, and I am My Brothers’ Keeper (Bros. Charles 3X).

Over 300 cars lined up for the distribution which was held from 11am ‘til 12 noon at Greater Mt. Zion. The free food giveaway also included masks.

On Tuesday, there was a food giveaway at Calvary Baptist Church. Dr. LaVerne Davis of B5 Foundation, UDW and a member of Calvary Baptist Church was one of the volunteers coordinating the giveaway. Mrs. Francine Maxwell, President of the San Diego Chapter of the NAACP stopped by to pick up bags for some homebound seniors. There was another Food Distribution by I am My Brothers’ Keeper, Paving Great Futures and the Hip Hop 5K volunteers at the Jacobs Center from 4pm until 6pm the same day.

Dr. LaVerne Davis UDW, Francine Maxwell, President of NAACP San Diego, and Calvary Baptist Church volunteers

We salute those volunteers and their service to our entire community.

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San Diego’s ‘New Normal’

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As San Diego has adjusted to the Stay-at-Home orders issued by local and state officials in March, many once bustling spots around the city have become almost unrecognizable. Little or no traffic, school closures, empty parking lots, business and restaurant closures, take out-only food service and food distribution lines are now the norm. Mayor Faulconer opened some neighborhood parks, including Balboa Park, with restrictions, on Tuesday, April 21. See a partial list of open neighborhood parks on pg. 10. A full list is available at www.sdvoice.info.

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LOCAL COVID-19 RESOURCES AND INFORMATION COUNTY MORATORIUMS ON TENANT EVICTIONS (Federal – California – San Diego County)

See the official list on our website at www.sdvoice.info, or go to www.sandiego.gov and search under “MORATORIUMS ON TENANT EVICTIONS.PDF.” United States

State of California

County of San Diego

City of San Diego

City of San Marcos

City of Chula Vista

City of Oceanside

City of Imperial Beach

City of Santee

Approval/Effective Date

3/27/20

3/27/20

3/27/20

3/25/20

3/24/20

3/17/20

3/26/20

3/17/20

3/25/20

Expiration Date

7/25/20

5/31/20

5/31/20

5/31/20

5/31/20

For duration of declared, local emergency

5/31/20

Until declared local emergency ends, state law preempts the resolution, or 5/31/20, whichever occurs first

In effect during the period of the local emergency declaration (declared 3/18/20)

Applies to residential tenants

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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Applies to commercial tenants

No

No

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Applies to tenants whose income and ability to pay rent have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

Yes

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Yes

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Applies to tenants of housing developments with “federally-backed mortgages.” See sandiego.gov for more details

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Yes

Yes

Yes. Specifically includes mobile homes as a protected residential type

Yes

Yes

Yes

Required Written Notice to landlord of inability to pay all or some of the monthly rent

Not specific language, but is assumed “Yes”

Yes. Before the rent is due, no later than 7 days of due date.

Letters, texts, & email okay

On or before rent due date. Letters, texts, & email okay

On or before rent due date.

Letters, & email okay

Within 30 days of rent due date.

Letters, texts, & email okay

Within 30 days after rent due date.

Letters, texts, & email okay

Landlord must be notified prior to rent due date. Letters, texts, & email okay

Landlord must be notified within 30 days after rent due date. Letters, texts, & email okay

Landlord must be notified within 30 days after rent due date.

Documentation must be submitted to confirm inability to pay rent

Not specific language, but it is assumed to be “yes”, documentation will be required

Yes. No later than the time upon payment of back-due rent

Yes. Within 7 days of the written notice to landlord/agent

Yes. Within 7 days of the written notice to landlord/agent

Yes. Within 30 days of your rent being due

Yes .

Documents must be submitted within 30 days after rent is due

Yes. Documents must be submitted within 7 days of the date the notice is provided to the landlord, and paid the amount of rent the tenant is able to pay

Yes. Document must be submitted within 30 days after rent is due

Yes. Documents must be submitted within 30 days after rent is due

Yes. Paid in full by end of the deferment period of 120 days

Yes

Yes. Within 3 months of June 1, 2020.

One month add’l extension w/notice & documentation. if still unable to pay due to COVID-19 by 9/1/20

Yes. Within 6 months of the Mayor’s proclamation of a local emergency (3/12/20)

Yes. Deferred until after 5/31/20.

No specific repayment time frame. Assumed to be due in full

by June 1, 2020

Yes. Within 6 months of the emergency’s expiration

Yes. No specified repayment window. Rent assumed due by June 1, 2020. All owed rent is due upon move out.

Yes. Within 6 months of the emergency’s expiration

Yes. Within 6 months of the expiration of the local emergency

Moratorium Order

Does the order apply to every residential tenant unit type (ie, rent a room, garage, etc) or how long they’ve lived there?

Tenants must repay unpaid rent amounts

SOURCE: SanDiegoCounty.GOV

San Diego Parks Now Open For the complete list, visit our website at www. sdvoice.info 47th Street Canyon

Children’s Museum Park

Gompers Neighborhood Park

Mt. Acadia Neighborhood Park

Allen Neighborhood Park

Chollas Community Park

Grant Hill Neighborhood Park

Mt. Etna Neighborhood Park

Balboa Park - Bird Park and Morley Field

Clay Neighborhood Park

Imperial MarketPlace

Nestor Neighborhood Park

Bay Terraces Community Park

Colina del Sol Park

King Promenade Park

Skyline Hills Community Park

Cabrillo Heights Park

Collier Neighborhood Park

Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Park

Southcrest Community Park

Cesar Solis Community Park

Emerald Hills Neighborhood Park

Mount Hope Cemetery

Wightman Street Neighborhood Park

Charles L. Lewis III Memorial Park

Encanto Community Park

Mountain View Community Park

Willie Henderson Sports Complex

**Pools, Rec/SR Centers and joint-use sections, tennis courts and golf ranges are closed. Most skate parks are closed. All leash free parks are closed.**

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DESPERATE U.S. RELIEF AGENCY SEEKS PERSONAL FRENCH DOCTOR DISPLAYING PROTECTIVE GEAR FROM POOR COUNTRIES ‘COLONIAL MENTALITY’ SUGGESTS TESTING DRUGS ON AFRICANS

By Lisa Lives Global Information Network

An unexpected “urgent request” from the USAID relief agency has popped up where least expected – on the desks of aid groups around the world that work with refugees and poor people.

The U.S. agency asked them to find medical supplies and personal protective gear against the coronavirus that could be made available to the U.S. government. The unusual request was uncovered by reporters with the investigative unit of NBC News and CNN. It is not known if the relief groups, including many in Africa, have supplies to spare or how their work with refugees and other vulnerable populations would be affected.

A task force led by Vice President Pence last month ordered a freeze on shipments of personal protective equipment abroad to safeguard supplies needed in the U.S., despite the scarcity of medical equipment across Africa. Until February, there were only two laboratories on the continent able to test for the virus - in Senegal and South Africa.

Since then, the World Health Organization has supplied approximately 40 countries with testing equipment and more is reportedly on the way.

By Lisa Lives Global Information Network

WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey said some countries in Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, were using systems developed for the deadly Ebola virus to now test for the coronavirus.

“This is a great example of how investing in health systems can pay dividends for health security,” Tedros said.

In the USAID email, titled “Urgent Request for Inventory of Available PPE and Medical Equipment Resources,” groups that carry out USAID-funded projects overseas were asked to take stock of all medical supplies that could be of use to the U.S. government in its fight against the coronavirus outbreak and inform USAID within 24 hours.

As of this week, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa was 9,867 – with 947 recoveries and 482 deaths.

The Kenya Medical Research Institute conducts tests at no cost to the patient, but it hasn’t been easy to get tested for coronavirus. Dr. Ahmed Kalebi, a lead consultant pathologist, said this was because there were only a couple hundred test kits left in Kenya.

So he sent his sample to a laboratory in South Africa. Even there, Kalebi said, there was a backlog of 7,000 samples.

“Not many countries have commercial or large-scale production of these kits, and certainly in Africa we don’t have that,” he said.

TEAM OF CHINESE CORONAVIRUS SPECIALISTS MEET WALL OF OPPOSITION IN NIGERIA

By Lisa Lives Global Information Network A small team of China medical specialists headed for Nigeria is meeting stiff opposition from Nigerian medical groups who call the visit “an embarrassment” to hard-working doctors in the country.

The visit by the Chinese specialists was announced Friday, April 3 by the Nigerian Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire. He said they were coming to combat the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria.

But in a surprising turn of events, the announcement was vigorously rebuffed by Nigerian professionals starting with the Nigerian Union of Journalists whose president, Chris Isiguzo, called it an opportunity for Nigerians to be used as experimental guinea pigs.

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) - the premier medical association in Nigeria - joined the journalists in kicking against the government’s plan to bring in Chinese experts.

It’s “a thing of embarrassment to the membership of the Association and other health workers who are giving

their best in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic under deplorable working conditions,” they said.

“We are … profoundly dismayed to learn that the Federal Government is … inviting the Chinese who from available accounts are not out of the woods themselves... Even the United Nations has just recently commended the efforts of Nigeria so far,” read the NMA statement published by the Premium Times.

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria also advised against the plan, saying

Photo: Jean-Paul Mira

During a debate on drug testing on French TV, Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive care at a Parisian hospital said: “If I can be provocative, shouldn’t we be doing this vaccine trial in Africa, where there are no masks, no treatments, no resuscitation”?

He continued: “It’s a little bit like it’s been done for certain AIDS studies, where among prostitutes, we try things, because we know that they are highly exposed and don’t protect themselves…”

The response was explosive. World Health Organization head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the remark a hangover from the “colonial mentality.”

“It was a disgrace, appalling, to hear during the 21st century, to hear from scientists, that kind of remark. We condemn this in the strongest terms possible, and we assure you that this will not happen,” Tedros said.

“Africa can’t and won’t be a testing ground for any vaccine,” he added.

“Africa isn’t a testing lab,” Ivorian professional football player Didier Drogba, who used to play for Chelsea, wrote on Twitter. “I would like to vividly denounce those

demeaning, false and most of all deeply racist words.”

Olivier Faure, of France’s Socialist Party, said the marks were hardly a provocation. “It’s not provocation, it’s just racism,” he wrote on Twitter. “Africa is not the laboratory of Europe. Africans are not rats!”

The anti-racism group SOS Racisme called on France’s media regulator, the Conseil Supérieur de L’Audiovisuel (CSA), to formally condemn the remarks.

“It’s scandalous to see that not a single regulatory authority has come out to publicly denounce these statements,” Amar Thioune, a member of SOS Racisme, told Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, Le Club des avocats au Maroc, a Moroccan lawyers’ collective, said it was suing Jean-Paul Mira for racial defamation.

Mira later apologized in a statement published by his employer.

“I want to present all my apologies to those who were hurt, shocked and felt insulted by the remarks that I clumsily expressed on LCI this week,” he said. w/pix of JeanPaul Mira

“It won’t be surprising that the Chinese Meanwhile, a contingent of Cuban doctors will be made to be on top of doctors is expected to join the fight the Nigerian doctors. Please stop these against the coronavirus in South Nigeria was already handling the crisis doctors from China until our doctors Africa. have failed”. effectively.

The proposed medical team will be Harsher criticism was leveled by Capt. The criticism forced the government in addition to some 200 Cuban docJerry Ogbonna, Rtd of the ruling party. to respond, sending spokesman Dr. tors already deployed in eight South Garba Abari, who noted that the gov- African provinces except for the “There is always this inferiority com- ernment was not inviting the Chinese Western Cape, which declined to plex with white skin people,” he said, medical experts to take charge of the participate in the South Africa-Cubareferring to the Asian health experts. fight against COVID-19 but simply medical doctors’ training program.

“Nigerian doctors are some of the best to share experiences on how the panin America and Europe. The ones here demic was handled in China.

The doctors have been providing assisare doing very well even in this corotance including patient care, medical navirus pandemic. What magic does Nigeria currently has 232 cases of examinations, transferring of samples the president think Chinese doctors Covid-19 of which 33 have recovered and other services to stem the spread of the virus. will perform here? and five deaths.

SHARP RISE IN DEPORTATIONS FROM CHINA AND SAUDI ARABIA

By Lisa Lives Global Information Network An internal U.N. memo seen by Reuters said the Saudis were expecting to deport 200,000 Ethiopians in total.

Other Gulf Arab states, Kenya and other neighboring countries are also expected to repatriate migrants from the Horn of Africa, the memo said.

by governments seeking to stem the spread of coronavirus.

“We are co-operating with individual countries to say ‘do you want your people back, are you able to receive them, what can we help to enable them to come back?’” a senior Saudi official said. “And where countries have responded positively, we are organizing flights, some of it we pay for to send them home, but we are not forcing people.”

Catherine Sozi, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Ethiopia, commented in a press interview: “Large-scale migratory movements which are not planned make the transmission of the virus much more likely to continue.

We are therefore calling for the tempo- Ethiopia has asked that the deporrary suspension of large-scale deporta- tations stop during the coronavirus crisis, and on Saturday denied landtions,” she said. ing rights to a Saudi aircraft, it was Deportations have ramped up as reported by the Financial Times. The migrant workers have lost their jobs Ethiopian foreign ministry could not due to economic lockdowns imposed be contacted for comment.

Saudi Arabia began repatriating Ethiopian migrants from mid-2018, according to UN officials. At the time, there were as many as 500,000 Ethiopians in the kingdom working in the construction industry, as maids or as animal herders, they said.

As many as 300,000 Ethiopians were repatriated during the past two years.

Nearly 2 million foreign workers have left the kingdom since the beginning of 2017 as Riyadh has implemented labor reforms and imposed tariffs on expatriates and their dependents.

Several Africans told the Agence France Press news service they had been forcibly evicted from their homes and turned away by hotels.

“I’ve been sleeping under the bridge for four days with no food to eat... I cannot buy food anywhere, no shops or restaurants will serve me,” said Tony Mathias, an exchange student from Uganda who was forced from his apartment on Monday.

Meanwhile, Africans are also being deported from southern China’s “We’re like beggars on the street,” the largest city where they say they have 24-year-old said. become targets of suspicion, racist abuse and subjected to forced evictions. Infections in Guangzhou have sparked

a torrent of abuse online, with many Chinese internet users posting racist comments and calling for all Africans to be deported.

Last week a controversial cartoon depicting foreigners as different types of trash to be sorted through went viral on social media.

China denies the accusations.

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EDUCATION

DON’T SUFFER IN SILENCE Domestic Violence Red Flags & Resources to Help Last week’s tragic attack in Lemon Grove involving two precious Helix High teens has left many in the community reeling and is a sad reminder of the very real consequences of domestic abuse. Are you at risk of domestic violence? Families and couples might be, and victims who are now living in close quarters with abusers are especially at risk for harm amid the state and local coronavirus stay-at-home orders.

The DA’s List of Red Flags:

• Threats to harm you, your children or pet • Put downs or telling you that nothing you do is right

• Destruction of property • Forced sex

• Saying if you get coronavirus symptoms you will get kicked out

• Withholding access to money or medical care

• Forcing you to do drugs or alcohol

• Shaming or embarrassing you

• Threatening to have you deported

Local Resources Are Available NOW If you or someone you know is in danger, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233. Or, Call the online chat service or text LOVEIS to 22522.

Determine your risk - and take a free anonymous quiz at local website preventdv1.org.

Offenders can get help to stop the cycle of abuse at local website preventdv2.org.

Check out the DA's website for more domestic violence-related hotline numbers, tips and information.

Anyone in immediate danger should call 911.

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Tips to Encourage Your Child to Read During Quarantine

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

Voice & Viewpoint Staff Writer

• Controlling and jealous behaviors

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COURT SERVICES AND SHELTERS ARE STILL AVAILABLE: According to the DA’s Office, domestic violence hotlines, resource centers and temporary restraining orders are still available during the temporary court closure. Shelters funded by Cal OES are essential services and are still operating.

Services are also available for victims of sexual assault, human trafficking, elder abuse, child abuse and fraud.

These are unprecedented times. Victims don’t have to suffer in silence. Heed the signs of domestic violence and get the help you need.

Masks— Do They Matter?

Reading comprehension is the cornerstone of literacy.

For younger children, especially, if you can read with your child and help them to develop a love of reading, it will open up new opportunities for learning. But with children of any age, even your stubborn middle grade or high school aged kids, encouraging them to read makes them better readers, writers and critical thinkers-which are essential skills for the 21st Century.

Make a list.

For children of any age, but especially your younger children, help them make a list of books they are willing to give a try. Search for book titles on Goodreads. com, Amazon.com or, for free books, try the local San Diego Public Library website at https://www.sandiego.gov/ public-library. Or try online sites dedicated to books for African American, like African American Literature Book Club (aalbc.com), The C onsciou sK id .org , a nd TheBrownBookshelf.com.

Be sure to look at all types

of books for children: fiction Audiobooks and comic books, history books, books books count. on nature. Explore them all, even books your children Strange as it may sound, may not think they would listening to audio books like. or reading comics or picture books can build reading comprehension skills.

Don’t force them Audiobooks help readers to read something of any age with vocabulary they don’t enjoy.

Try not to simply give your development, and graphic child a random book to read novels and picture books in hopes they’ll suddenly help readers comprehend become a reader. Instead, characters and story events give them time to explore the because the story is the main books on their list for at least focus.

20 to 25 minutes. And, give them permission not to like Right now, helping our chilthem. If they don’t like one dren learn at home is trial book, have them try another and error. You can never go one the next day. They’ll wrong helping to foster a eventually connect with a love of reading. book that is interesting to them.

For Families with High School & College Students at Home Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

Voice & Viewpoint Staff Writer Though San Diego City Mayor Faulconer has eased some restrictions on the city’s Stay-at-Home order and opened some neighborhood parks, with restrictions, wearing face masks when out in public is still a good idea.

Face masks are a symbol of

the fight against coronavirus. But they’re only effective if they fit properly and are worn correctly.

Masks should be snug from the top of the nose to below the chin and cover the entire area. There shouldn’t be gaps

on the sides. When leaving the house, a mask should be worn the whole time. Don’t move it up and down while eating, drinking, or talking, and wait until you reach a safe zone (home, car with the windows up) to uncover your nose and mouth.

The most common masks are:

N95 N95 are the ones every doctor wants. “N95” means it blocks 95% (or more) of the tiniest, hardest to stop infectious particles, so they are most effective. But, N95 masks are only good for one use, and don’t fit children or people with facial hair, so it may not be bad news that they are now hard to get.

Medical

N95

Medical masks are less effective than N95s. Yet, a good, 3-ply mask can filter as much as 80% of small particles. 1- or 2-ply masks are closer to 60%. They are usually one-use masks of breathable, paper-like fabric, rectangular, with pleats to expand it for a better fit.

Homemade Many people are making masks. A good homemade mask can be as effective as a medical mask, depending on fabric and fit. The best fabrics are natural, with a tight weave and high thread count. Look for patterns with 2+ layers, that cover the nose and chin, and have secure straps. Or you can splurge on the many designer-made masks out there if you really crave some swag.

Medical

Homemade With Filter Basically the same thing, with an added pocket to hold a filter. There are several patterns out there the CDC even has a no-sew, coffee-filter version.

Most block 20-30% of small particles.

No mask is 100% effective, but any face covering is better than nothing. A mask combined with social distancing and regular hand washing has a huge impact on our communities. So, which mask will you be wearing?

Homemade

Many parents are navigatthe semester: final projects, ing new terrain as the weeks final papers, and final tests of home schooling continue are coming due amid the coronavirus pan- • Course material is at its demic. College professors peak difficulty, with everyand high school teachers thing up for review are reaching out to parents to help with the transition. • Students and Teachers are navigating new online sysBelow is a compilation of tems they’ve never used tips from across the country before that bear repeating for those parents with a college stu- • They are trying to adapt to dent, or even a high school a new routine student, now at home.

• There are limited social interactions 1. C ollege Students • School/Campus resources are not on break are largely unavailable • They’re carrying a full • End of year events they course load and class have been preparing for schedule are cancelled • They may have classes • Some seniors have lost during dinner or other odd the opportunity to enjoy times, so be flexible important events like prom & graduation • Teens & Young Adults can not supervise younger siblings all day 3. S tudents need specific • Do expect them to help resources to succeed. around the house like they do when physically attend- • A place to work where the rest of the family leaves ing school them alone • Make sure to respect their schedule; school is a col- • A computer with Internet connection to do their lege student’s job, not a work & get access to hobby materials • Textbooks & notes - many 2. S tudents are under publishers are providing a lot of stress free Ebook access during • This is the busiest time of the pandemic.

• The ability to check-in with their teachers or professors to ask questions

4. D ifferent age groups need different types of support.

• K-5 may need reminders to work on assignments, as well as a precise schedule and hands-on help from adults • Middle & High School students may need a schedule & reminders about due dates for tests, papers, & other assignments • College students are adults and fully capable of managing their work load; unless they ask for reminders or assistance, leave them alone

5. Older students need space and quiet to sleep • It is not uncommon for college-age students to have team meetings at 9 or 10 pm • Some students are still working part- or fulltime, which affects their schedules • They still need to sleep 7-8 hours each day, no matter what time they go to bed

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MORE COVID-19 RESOURCES AND INFORMATION Updates on COVID-19 Related Waivers & Extensions • Extended Unemployment Insurance (UI) Call funds available for eligible undocumented immi- • CONNECT ALL @ the Jacobs Center Business grants. Begins in May 2020. Visit https://covid19.

Center Hours: 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week Accelerator Program (Virtual) Cohort 3: ca.gov/guide-immigrant-californians/ Application deadline extended to May 3rd. Visit • New CA One-Stop Shop for UI and Federal https://www.connectallsd.org/ Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) • Back Child Support Payments: Federal stimubenefits: Includes the self-employed and gig lus checks will flow directly to custodial parents • Covid-19 Property Tax Penalties Cancellations: owed back child support payments workers. Available April 28. Visit https://www.

Submit waiver requests by June 30. Use TTC labor.ca.gov/coronavirus2019/#chart Form at https://www.sdttc.com/ • IRS Filing Extension Dates For Individuals and • $125M Disaster Relief Assistance: Emergency Small Businesses: July 31st

ARTICLE CONTINUATION Celebs: continued from cover livelihood have been affected.

Here are a few more celebrities putting their wealth to good use:

Zion Williamson On March 11th, the NBA suspended the remainder of the 2019-2020 season. The MLB followed on March 12th, delaying the beginning of the season. The decisions, while wise, left hundreds of stadium workers across the country jobless.

The following Saturday, Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson pledged to cover the salaries of all workers at the New Orleans Smoothie King Center (the Pelicans’ home stadium) out-of-pocket for 30 days.

In an Instagram post, Williamson wrote “... The people of New Orleans have been incredibly welcoming... and some of the most special people I have met are those who work

at smoothie King Center. These are the folks who make our games possible...sometimes providing a little extra assistance can make things a little easier for the community.”

Taraji P. Henson The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation is a nonprofit that seeks “to eradicate the stigma around mental health issues in the AfricanAmerican community.” Actress Taraji P. Henson founded it in 2018 in honor of her father.

On April 15th, the foundation created a fund to pay for tele- or online mental-health services during the COVID-19 crisis. The foundation website acknowledged: “Having to choose between a meal and mental health is not something that one should ever have to ponder.”

The fund will provide up to five sessions with a licensed clinician on

a first come, first served basis. To FashionNova.com/Cares. register for sessions or to donate to the foundation, text NOSTIGMA to Megan Thee Stallion 707070 or visit the website https:// On March 12th, Megan followed L’il borislhensonfoundation.org.

Nas X’s example and had a random cash giveaway to help her fans get Cardi B ready for Coronavirus-prompted Cardi B has teamed up with stay-at-home orders. On April 6th, Fashion Nova to give away $1 mil- she followed that up by partnering lion to fans in need by donating with Amazon Music to donate Fire $1,000 every hour to those affected 7 tablets to the residents of Park by coronavirus. In an Instagram Manor Skilled Nursing Facility video posted April 8th, the rapper to help them stay connected with told her fans that she and the global their families. They also donated fashion company plan to give the to Houston’s HMG Healthcare money to those severely impacted Foundation. by the global crisis. She also wrote, Megan has a passion for Senior “Tell us how the $1,000 can help you Assisted Living Facilities; she during these times. We’ll be read- reportedly dreams of opening one ing your submissions and select- herself when she completes college. ing stories everyday...Also PLEASE “Supporting the Park Manor Skilled make sure that your Instagram is Nursing Facility, in my hometown public, because I will also person- of Houston, is very important to ally be looking thru these submitted me,” the rapper said in a statement. pages.” The application is on www. “I’d like to thank Amazon Music for

COVID-19 GLOSSARY Stay-at-Home Order: Requires Californians and San Diegans to stay at home, except for caregiving, necessary health care, grocery shopping and workers in essential industries. San Diegans can still participate in outdoor activities such as walking, jogging, biking, and volunteering while practicing social distancing requirements.

Social Distancing: Also known as physical distancing. Stay 6 feet apart, wear masks to cover nose and mouth to prevent transmission of COVID-19 virus, Avoid gatherings of any size.

CARES Act: The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act signed into law March 27th providing economic assistance and protections to American workers, families, and small businesses from the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19.

Eviction Moratorium: Emergency law temporarily halting evictions and in San Diego to last until May 31. Requires written notice to landlords / mortgagors and must be repaid.

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their additional donation and joining me in providing much needed technology equipment and supplies for the residents...”

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All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on MAY 20, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened via webcast only.

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To view the bid opening virtually: 1. Click this URL to start or join Zoom: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/j/2412342424 2. Enter meeting ID: 241 234 2424.

To listen to the audio portion of the bid opening: 1. Dial 1-669-900-6833 (Find your local number: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/u/abK35UAcmR) 2. Meeting ID: 241 234 2424.

The project estimate is between $175,000 and $210,000. 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: A, C-12, or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

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

CP20-1209-24

Addendum No. 1

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Revised 4/21/2020

Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: CARPET AND VINYL FLOOR REPLACEMENT AT FOUR (4) SITES A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020, in front of the main office of Dingeman Elementary School, 11840 Scripps Creek Drive, San Diego, CA 92131.

Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Nye Elementary School, 981 Valencia Parkway, San Diego, CA 92114. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Dewey Elementary School, 2351 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92110. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Whittier K-12, 3401 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, CA 92117. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK. Please send only one representative per Company. Contractors must be present and check in at all four sites to be able to bid this project. Contact scheng@sandi.net for the link to preregister.

PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CP20-0819-24).

COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CP20-0819-24) or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information.

All bids must be received at or before 2:00 p.m. on MAY 15, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened via webcast only.

No in-person attendance allowed at Bid Opening.

To view the bid opening virtually: 1. Click this URL to start or join Zoom: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/j/2412342424 2. Enter meeting ID: 241 234 2424.

To listen to the audio portion of the bid opening: 1. Dial 1-669-900-6833 (Find your local number: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/u/abK35UAcmR) 2. Meeting ID: 241 234 2424.

The project estimate is between $700,000 and $800,000. 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-15 or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CP20-0819-24 Andrea O’Hara, M.A. Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Officer Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department

Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: PROVIDE ASPHALT AND CONCRETE REPAIRS AT WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: PROVIDE ASPHALT REPAIRS AT AUDUBON K-8

A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020, outside main office of Walker Elementary School, 9225 Hillery Drive, San Diego, CA 92126. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK. Please send only one representative per Company. Contact mmoyers1@sandi.net for the link to preregister. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CP20-1165-39).

COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED: Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CP20-1165-39 or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information

A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020, in front of the main office of Audubon K-8, 8111 San Vicente Street, San Diego, CA 92114. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK. Please send only one representative per Company. Contact scheng@sandi.net for the link to preregister. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (CP20-1207-24).

COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CP20-1207-24 or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information.

All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on MAY 21, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened via webcast only. No in-person attendance allowed.

All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on MAY 14, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened via webcast only.

To view the bid opening virtually: 1. Click this URL to start or join Zoom: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/j/143460671 2. Enter meeting ID: 143-460-671.

To listen to the audio portion of the bid opening: 1. Dial 1-669-900-6833 (Find your local number: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/u/a4HJ4eLIv) 2. Meeting ID: 143-460-671

No in-person attendance allowed at Bid Opening.

To view the bid opening virtually: 1. Click this URL to start or join Zoom: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/j/2412342424 2. Enter meeting ID: 241 234 2424.

To listen to the audio portion of the bid opening: 1. Dial 1-669-900-6833 (Find your local number: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/u/abK35UAcmR) 2. Meeting ID: 241 234 2424.

The project estimate is between $220,000 and $260,000. 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: A, C12 or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

The project estimate is between $290,000 and $325,000. 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: A, C-12, or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

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

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

CP20-1165-39

Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: PROVIDE ASPHALT AND CONCRETE REPAIRS AT MISSION BAY HIGH SCHOOL A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020, outside main office of Mission Bay High School, 2475 Grand Ave, San Diego, CA 92109. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK. Please send only one representative per Company. Contact mmoyers1@sandi.net for the link to preregister.

PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CP20-1204-39).

COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED: Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CP20-1204-39 or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information.

All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on MAY 15, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened via webcast only.

No in-person attendance allowed at Bid Opening To view the bid opening virtually: 1. Click this URL to start or join Zoom: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/j/143460671 2. Enter meeting ID: 143-460-671.

To listen to the audio portion of the bid opening: 1. Dial 1-669-900-6833 (Find your local number: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/u/a4HJ4eLIv) 2. Meeting ID: 143-460-671 The project estimate is between $575,000 and $625,000. 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: A, C12 or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

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

CP20-1204-39

CP20-1207-24

Sealed bids will be received at the Department of Purchasing and Contracting, at 5560 Overland Avenue, Ste. 270, San Diego, 92123, until 2:00 PM on May 1, 2020,at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. Contract documents including Plans, Specifications and Bid Forms are available for download on the County Buynet site: https://buynet. sdcounty.ca.gov. You must be registered at the site in order to download documents. The cost of materials is estimated to be from $7,700,000 to $8,100,000. The Owner, as a matter of policy, requires Disabled Veterans Business Enterprise (DVBE) participation for this project. For complete bid information, go to County of San Diego Purchasing and Contracting website at https:// buynet.sdcounty.ca.gov. For questions, please contact PCO, William Eames at William.Eames@sdcounty. ca.gov.

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Located at: 3835 Madison Ave San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 02/15/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Madeleine R. Dodge 3835 Madison Ave San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on March 30, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on March 30, 2025 04/23, 04/30, 05/07, 05/14 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9007309 Fictitious business name(s): NatioNal City sMoke shop

Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: REMOVE/RELOCATE/REMODEL RELOCATABLES AT TRACE SITE AND PROVIDE CURB OUTLET REPAIRS AT MANN MS SCHOOL A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020, in the East parking lot of JACKSON ANNEX, where TRACE Site is located, 5465 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92115.

Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 4345 54th Street, San Diego, CA 92115. Contractors must be present at both sites in order to bid this project. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK. Please send only one representative per Company. Contact mmoyers1@sandi.net for the link to preregister. Please see bid for details (CZ20-1177-39).

COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED: Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CP20-1177-39) or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information.

All bids must be received at or before 2:00 p.m. on MAY 14, 2020, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened via webcast only. No in-person attendance allowed.

To view the bid opening virtually: 1. Click this URL to start or join Zoom: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/j/143460671 2. Enter meeting ID: 143-460-671.

To listen to the audio portion of the bid opening: 1. Dial 1-669-900-6833 (Find your local number: https://sandiegounified.zoom.us/u/a4HJ4eLIv) Meeting ID: 143-460-671 The project estimate is between $600,000 and $650,000. 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: B or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

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

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CP20-1177-39

Located at: 537 S 38th St San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Webster Drew Stephenson III 537 S 38th St San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on April 09, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on April 09, 2025 04/23, 04/30, 05/07, 05/14 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9007083 Fictitious business name(s): Forseeable Future prod.

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY April 23rd

1872-Charlotte Ray Becomes First Female Af-Am Lawyer

Charlotte E. Ray was born in New York in 1850. By 1869, Ray was a teacher at Howard University’s Prep School. While there, she studied law. In 1872, Ray became the first woman to graduate from the Howard Charlotte Ray University School of Law, pass the D.C. bar, and be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

She had a reputation as one of the best corporate lawyers in the country. Regardless of her legal expertise, she was unable to maintain a steady client flow, so returned to teaching.

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Protest Segregated Schools Led by 16-year-old Barbara Johns, students at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA walked out of school to protest unequal conditions. The resulting court case was bundled with several others to become Brown v. Board of Education.

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated public-school desegregation. Virginia state leadership overruled desegregation.

In 1959, both federal and state courts ruled the state’s actions unconstitutional.

The Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors (where Farmville is located) then closed its public school system rather than integrate. There were no public schools until a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision forced them open. Johns’ strike is considered the start of desegregation.

Henry L. Aaron played briefly in the Negro and Minor leagues before being recruited to the Braves. He was a consistently strong player, both at bat and in the field. On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked Henry Aaron out the first home run of his Major League Baseball career, his first step to breaking Babe Ruth’s homerun record. Aaron was recognized as baseball’s home run king for over 30 years, until 2007. He is currently Senior Vice-President of the Atlanta Braves..

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Blackwell is the founder and president of the non-profit PolicyLink, a research institute and social action organization that advances racial and economic equity, according to the group’s website.

finances, health, and way of life of people across class, race, and geographical lines, but especially so among African Americans and other people of color.

medium-term and long-term ideas” to put California on track to once again attain the level of economic prosperity the state had reached before the pandemic: 21 consecutive months of job growth; a $20 “It was unacceptable then and billion budget surplus in 2019; it will be unacceptable going and 20 billion more stacked forward,” Blackwell continued, away in the state reserves. pointing out the “painful” economic and health disparities “I have asked and tasked the COVID-19 pandemic has some of the best and brightest laid bare across the United minds that we could source — a disproportionate number, States and here in California. almost exclusively, reside right She was speaking Friday here in the state of California during Gov. Gavin Newsom’s – some of the most welldaily COVID-19 press known business leaders in the conference in Sacramento. world. The great social justice During the briefing, the lawyers reside here in the state governor announced that he of California. Tribal leaders. has appointed Blackwell and 79 Health care leaders. Small other prominent Californians business leaders.” to the state Task Force on Tom Steyer, the billionaire Business and Jobs Recovery. businessman, civic leader, The governor said he is and former US presidential charging the diverse group of candidate will co-chair the task social, political and economic force along with Gov. Newsom’s leaders to analyze every sector Chief of Staff Ann O’Leary. of the state economy and put together a road map to The impact of the global economic recovery. Newsom Coronavirus pandemic in says he expects the task force California has been deep to come up with “short-term, and far-reaching, hitting the

About 95 people died of COVID-19 last Thursday, the deadliest day since the onset of the pandemic, and a day before the governor announced his economic recovery task force appointments.

Last week, the governor also and have nots.” announced that the state is officially in a “pandemic- Other members the governor appointed to the task force are induced recession.”

California Assembly Speaker Rendon (D-Los “This pandemic has forced Anthony millions of Californians out of Angeles), Senate Minority Shannon Grove jobs – with the most vulnerable Leader Assembly hit the hardest,” he said. “We (R-Bakersfield), Leader Marie will use a gradual, science-based Minority and data-driven framework to Waldron (R-Escondido), former guide our re-opening timing Federal Reserve Chair Janet while planning our economic Yellen, Walt Disney Company Executive Chairman Bob recovery.”

Iger, former head of the Small More than 3.1 million Business Administration Aida Californians have filed for Álvarez and dozens of other unemployment insurance Californians from sectors, business, labor, since March 12, and the state including unemployment rate has spiked health care, academia and to 5.3% from under 3% just philanthropy. two months ago. Before the onset of the pandemic, about Gov. Newsom also appointed 2,500 people applied weekly, the state’s four living former on average, for unemployment governors as honorary members insurance. Over the last few on the task force. They are weeks, that weekly average has Hon. Jerry Brown, Hon. Arnold jumped to more than 200,000. Schwarzenegger, Hon. Gray Davis and Hon. Pete Wilson.

“This is an amazing moment despite all the suffering,” “We need to demonstrate for the Blackwell said. “The silver nation that it is possible to have a lining could be to finally recovery that is transformative, and radical,” understand that we cannot go imaginative forward as a nation divided as Blackwell emphasized. we have been between haves

and practice to address pollution and global warning.

But one can also see evidence of this in the Administration’s illogical withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, despite all reliable evidence of Iranian

compliance with the agreement. reality is incontrovertible, and to the benefit of the majority, in The core of Trump’s base November. appears to believe that if Trump says something, then it must be true. As for the rest of us, well, we will have to ensure that

At press time, the coronavirus had claimed the lives of more than one thousand Californians, and more than 28,000 more across the state had been infected by the deadly virus – with the largest concentration, more than 11,000 people, diagnosed in Los Angeles County alone.

Based on racial data the state has collected so far on mortality rates, a disproportionate number of Black Californians have died from COVID-19: About 12 percent in a state where African Americans account for 6 percent of the total population of nearly 40 million people.

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Administration we have seen, time and again, a dismissal of facts and science. The clearest case is probably in connection with the environment and the efforts underway to reverse Throughout the course of this nearly fifty years of legislation truly believe, in the words of the comedian George Wallace, that “…that’s the way I see it, and that’s the way that it ought to be…”

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these supplies provided to them at no cost and the supplies are just sitting at the school sites.

Our young girls rely on this service and we need to provide this immediately. There are some sites that actually have (Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. a pantry and could bring 687, Sec. 1. (AB 10) Effective those supplies to the food distribution sites as well.

January 1, 2018.)

-(c) For purposes of this section, “feminine hygiene products” means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

It would be great to take the products from the schools and distribute them to the students at the school food distribution sites. Our school nurses have

assist our young girls to give them the necessary items needed that were provided for them prior to this epidemic.

I cannot imagine young men being forgotten in this way!

While these important factors . have been brought to my attention, I am asking the media to inquire from our district if and when they will

So how can we trust a government when we are first in line for disparities, most affected but least likely to benefit? Royce states that black people need to focus on us and come together as a collective.

We need to start putting systems in place that are going to offset some of those that are meant to destroy us.”

Diddy’s wisdom to black Americans is, “It’s very important that we use this time wisely. This is all God’s Divine

Order, and He’s not giving us this time to waste it. In order to be that greatness, you have to be isolated and that’s what’s happening to us now. We built this country. We want our fair share and more and everything we deserve.”

But perhaps the most poignant sentiment we can remember is what the grandparents of activist Killer Mike taught him on how to weather a storm: “Sometimes we have to be quiet and let the Lord do His work.”

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