Vol. 62 No. 47 | Thursday, November 24, 2022

By Maxim Elramsisy California Black Media

Around 48,000 academic workers at all 10 University of California (UC) cam puses went on strike Nov.14, shutting down classrooms and research laboratories in the largest employee walk out at any academic institu tion in history.

The Post-Doctoral schol ars, teaching assistants’ and associate instructors, graduate student research ers, and academic research ers are represented by the United Auto Workers union

in contract negotiations with the UC system.

Bargaining between the disputing parties has been ongoing for months, and while UC officials recently called for a third-party mediator to address remain ing issues, they are continu ing to negotiate without one.

“When I was working in the lab, I worked 50-60 hours per week, and the salary was so low that every month I really had to think about if I would make it through the See STRIKE page 2

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr National Correspondent

Federal prosecutors said the fight against human traffick ing, a crime that harms some of the most vulnerable mem bers of society counts among their highest priorities.

“We are committed to vin dicating the rights of human trafficking crime victims by bringing their traffickers to justice and working to ensure that survivors have access to restitution, services, and assistance that are needed to rebuild their lives,” U.S.

Attorney Roger B. Handberg offered in a statement.

U.S. Department of Justice officials maintain that their strong efforts continue to combat human traffick ing. Earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney General released the Department of Justice’s National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking.

The Strategy laid out the Department’s multi-year plan to combat all forms of human trafficking, focus ing on efforts to protect vic tims of trafficking, prosecute

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Michelle Obama Opens Tour for New Book, ‘The Light We Carry’

By Darlene Superville Associated Press

Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control. Among the things she could control during the death and iso lation of the pandemic, the racial unrest and threats to democracy were her spools of yarn and her knitting nee dles.

By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media

California’s government may have a faceoff with a $25 billion bud get shortfall in the upcoming fis cal year as tax revenues decline, according to a report issued by the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO).

Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek said during a Nov. 16 video press briefing that if the predicted downturn happens, it will be the Golden State’s weakest revenue performance since the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession.

“It is not insignificant, but it is also manageable,” Petek said. “We don’t think of this as a budget crisis. We just think of it as a notable budget problem that the legislature will have to confront when it begins that process in January.”

The LAO, the state legislature’s fis cal and policy advisor, details the budget shortfall and suggests ways to avoid it in the 20-page “The 2023-24 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook.”

The document is released yearly around this time to help guide California lawmakers as they begin

She labels such think ing the “power of small,” and she writes in her new book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” that by focusing on a small task like knitting she was able to get through the worry, anxiety and stress of the past few unsettling years.

“The interesting thing about knitting and using your hands and making something is that it is med itative,” the former first lady said Tuesday, November 15 at the Warner Theater in Washington, where she kicked off a monthlong, six -city publicity tour to pro mote the book.

“In so many ways, it is like a faith,” she said, seated on stage with a friend, former daytime talk-show host Ellen

And therein lies the power, she said.

DeGeneres, who engaged Mrs. Obama in nearly 90 minutes of often humorous conversation. “It’s a thing that shuts your worrying mind and lets your hands take over.”

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BlackPress

Michelle Obama launches her new book “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.” at Warner Theater in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.

PHOTO: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

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month,” said Neil Sweeny, President of UAW 5810, which is representing the striking UC employees. “I have two small children and my partner was a full-time student. We lived in campus family housing and we went to the campus food bank every month to make sure that we had food. This was while my research was bringing in millions of dollars in research funding for the University.”

The workers are demanding better pay and benefits, including wage increases tied to housing costs. Housing costs in California are among the highest in the country, especially in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Aside from UC campuses located in the state’s biggest cities, many of the research university system’s campuses are in parts of the state that have relatively high costs liv

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human trafficking cases, and pre vent further acts of human traf ficking. The Human Trafficking Institute estimates that there are 24.9 million victims of human traf ficking globally.

In 2020, the Institute reported that federal courts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 4 U.S. ter ritories handled 579 active human trafficking prosecutions, 94% of which were sex trafficking cases and 6% forced labor cases. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, indi viduals prosecuted for human traf ficking increased from 729 in 2011 to 1,343 in 2020, an 84% rise.

The number of persons convicted of a federal human trafficking offense increased from 2011 (464 persons) to 2019 (837 persons) before fall ing in 2020 (658 persons). Of the 1,169 defendants charged in U.S. district court with human traffick ing offenses in the fiscal year 2020— 92% were male, 63% were white, 18% were black, 17% were Hispanic,

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“I think about the knit and the purl, and the knit and the purl, and a row and a row and a row,” the for mer first lady said, naming differ ent stitches and techniques used in knitting. “And if you keep it up, and you’re focused, you have a sweater.”

In the book, published November 15, she shares the contents of her “personal toolbox” — the habits and practices, attitudes and beliefs, and even physical objects that she uses to overcome her feelings of fear, help lessness and self doubt.

“This book is meant to show you what I keep there and why, what I use professionally and personally to help me stay balanced and con fident, what keeps me moving for ward even during times of high

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to put together budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal year.

Petek said the threat of a national recession and actions by the Federal Reserve played a hand in the report’s outlook, but the pre dicted numbers are not based on a recession occurring.

“Economic conditions are really weighing on the revenue esti mates that are a major influencer of our fiscal output,” Petek said. “With high inflation, with elevated inflation that causes the Fed to have to take action to cool down the economy in its effort to bring down inflation. The longer and the higher inflation remains, the more aggressive the Fed has to be. And the more aggressive the Fed has to

ing, like Berkeley, San Diego and the Westside of Los Angeles.

“UC’s pay falls below all their self-identified peer institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and even public schools like the University of Michigan where liv ing costs are far less” the union said in a press release on Thursday, November 17.

The UC maintains that “On aver age, UC rents systemwide are 20-25% below market rates, with some campuses providing even deeper discounts. UC has offered wage increases for all UAW mem bers which would further help them meet their housing needs.”

The aggrieved employees paint a different picture.

“Being a TA pays for tuition but there is no way I can support myself in this city with what they pay,” said Victor E., a PhD. student

95% were U.S. citizens, and 66% had no prior convictions.

By the end of 2020, for the 47 states that reported data, 1,564 persons were in the custody of a state prison serving a sentence for a human trafficking offense. The District of Columbia reported zero new crim inal human trafficking cases filed in federal courts in 2021.

The advocacy organization Hope for Justice defines human trafficking as modern slavery, where one per son controls another for profit by exploiting a vulnerability. Victims usually are forced to work or are sexually exploited, and the trafficker keeps all or nearly all the money.

The control can be physical, finan cial, or psychological.

Childwelfare.com says the legal definition of trafficking involves “the exploitation of people through force, coercion, threat, and decep tion and includes human rights abuses such as debt bondage, depri vation of liberty, and lack of control over freedom and labor.”

The organization noted that traffick ing could be for purposes of sexual

anxiety and stress,” she wrote in the introduction.

The 58-year-old wife of former President Barack Obama and mother of adult daughters Malia and Sasha wrote that the book, her third, is not a how-to manual, but rather is a “series of honest reflections on what my life has taught me so far.”

“Keep in mind, too, that everything I know, all the various tools I lean on, have come to me only through trial and error, over years of con stant practice and reevaluation,” she wrote. “I spent decades learning on my feet, making mistakes, adjust ments, and course corrections as I went. I’ve progressed only slowly to where I am today.”

“The Light We Carry” is Mrs. Obama’s first new work since the 2018 release of her bestselling mem oir, “Becoming,” which has sold

be, it really increases the risk that the economy will fall into a reces sion. So that being said, our rev enue estimates do not assume a recession.”

California taxes wealthy people more than other states, so most of the revenue decline is because the rich aren’t making as much money as they used to. The report details that California could see deficits between $8 billion to $17 billion in the following years.

Less spending on large, onetime allocations is one way the state can offset the revenue losses it is expected to experience.

In response to the LAO budget prediction, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) said the state has budget resiliency — $37.2 billion in reserves.

and Teachers Assistant on strike at UCLA. “With teaching, my own coursework, and my research, there isn’t really any time to pick up another job. This has resulted in me taking out loans just to live and eat here. This shouldn’t be the case. With the amount of work the university gets out of its grad uate students, postdocs, and oth ers, a living wage is a small ask… A number one ranked public uni versity should be doing no less and certainly much, much more.”

Another priority for the workers is transportation costs. The cost of gasoline has gone up around the world and according to a statewide survey conducted by The Public Policy Institute of California, an independent and non-partisan research firm, 43% of Californians including half of lower income residents worry every day about the high cost of gasoline and the increasing unaffordability of vari ous modes of transportation.

exploitation or labor exploitation.

In 2004, officials formed the D.C. Human Trafficking Task Force to increase the prosecution of traffick ers while identifying and serving the victims.

The task force’s primary goal is to “facilitate a more coordinated anti-trafficking effort in the D.C. area through protocol develop ment, extensive community out reach, proactive investigations, law enforcement training, intelligence sharing, and more formalized part nerships between law enforcement organizations and non-governmen tal organizations.”

Additionally, while the holiday sea son counts as a time of joy, happi ness, and fun, the nonprofit Shero Foundation said for human traf ficking victims, the holidays are no different from any other day. Law enforcement officials said traffickers typically increase their illegal activi ties during the holiday season.

“We let our guard down because you’re supposed to be joyful, and, you know, it’s a great time of year. And unfortunately, we have people

more than 17 million copies world wide, by far the most popular book by a previous first lady or modern president, including her husband.

As first lady, she wrote “American Grown,” a book about the produce garden she had planted at the White House in 2009.

Mrs. Obama opened the tour in Washington and has events planned at Philadelphia’s The Met, Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, the Chicago Theatre and San Francisco’s Masonic before the tour closes at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles.

Seated in a plush purple chair on stage at the nearly 100-year-old Washington theater, Mrs. Obama discussed her feelings after the 2016 election in which her husband was succeeded by Donald Trump. Coincidentally, Trump announced a third run for president during her

“We can and will protect the prog ress of the recent year’s budgets,” Rendon said. “In particular, the Assembly will protect California’s historic school funding gains, as districts must continue to invest in retaining and recruiting staff to help kids advance and recover from the pandemic.”

State Senate Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) said in the past, the dreary budget forecast would have meant program cuts and middle-class tax increases.

“That does not have to be the case this year,” Akins said. “Thanks to our responsible approach, we are confident that we can protect our progress and craft a state budget without ongoing cuts to schools and other core programs or taxing middle class families. The bottom line is simple: we are prepared to hold onto the gains we’ve made and

The union wants UC to cover regional transit passes, and addi tional subsidies and incentives for taking public transit or bikes to work. Recently, UC has offered to pay campus fees to extend “existing student-funded transit discounts,” to UAW members.

Although agreements have yet to be announced, on Thursday the UAW reported that “parties made progress on issues related to Parking and Transit, Appointment Notification, and Paid Time Off.”

There continues to be a large gap between the salary asks and the UC proposals. On Friday, a UAW statement said, “UC made another economic proposal to Academic Researchers containing 4.5% raises that do not match the rate of infla tion.”

However, they did report prog ress in some other areas. “We have reached agreement on a few issues

out there that don’t care what time of year it is,” Tony Mancuso, a sher iff in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, told reporters in a pre-Christmas interview in 2021.

“California is home to some of the largest hubs for sex and labor traf ficking in the United States, and it is beyond the time our state takes the necessary steps in combatting this criminal enterprise,” Democratic Assemblymember Tim Grayson insisted.

Grayson noted that human traf ficking was a $150 billion-a-year global industry and introduced a bill to establish the California Multidisciplinary Alliance to Stop Trafficking Act (California MAST).

The bill aims to examine and evalu ate existing programs and outreach for survivors and victims of human trafficking and provide recommen dations to strengthen California’s response to supporting survivors and holding offenders accountable.

“In my search for a better life, I found myself exploited by various individ uals similar to other child traffick ing survivors,” said Jimmy Lopez,

appearance.

“If you guys recall, I said, ‘Don’t vote for this guy,’” she said, meaning Trump, who sought to undo much of Obama’s record as president. “It hurt because you wonder — was it a rebuke of the eight years, the sacri fice we made? Was it complacency? What was it?”

The former first lady also discussed overcoming her fear of change and coming to the realization that she could not stand in the way of her husband’s desire to run for presi dent in 2008. He had given her veto power over his decision.

“Opportunity is on the other side of that,” she said, speaking of fear.

She also talked about the pandemic, saying her family handled it better than most because they were already used to isolation from the eight

continue where we left off once our economy and revenues rebound.”

Petek recommended that legis lators not look to the reserves to solve the budget paucity when they begin formulating the budget in early 2023.

“It would be prudent to try and identify other solutions in the early part of the budget period, and then if and when we have a lot more information about the economic situation — if revenues have dete riorated for example or if there were a recession, we are certainly not saying don’t use the reserves,” he said. “We are saying, keep them on hold and you have them to turn to in that situation if the picture has gone south in May. You have the reserves that we can tap into to really help supplement the other solutions identified earlier in the process.”

- such as health benefits improve ments for Postdocs - which, while important, are not the major ones dividing the parties.”

As final examinations approach for students in the UC system, so does uncertainty. “UAW remains ready to meet for round-the-clock nego tiations, but UC has not agreed to schedule sessions for the weekend,” a UAW release said. “Workers will be back on the strike lines Monday Morning.”

Students, faculty and elected offi cials are showing support for the strikers. Some professors are can celing classes, and some students are electing to walk out. California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon tweeted “Academic work ers are essential to the success of all of our @UofCalifornia campuses. The UC must continue to bargain in good faith to reach an agree ment with the @UAW.”

Survivor Advocate for the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking. “Human trafficking is an invisible crisis plaguing our state and forcing thousands of children to grow up too fast; we must stop trafficking in its tracks, and we must hold offenders accountable,” Lopez said.

If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free hot line, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 1-888-373-7888 to speak with a specially trained Anti-Trafficking Hotline Advocate.

Support is provided in more than 200 languages. Hotline officials said they are there to listen and connect those in need with the help required to stay safe. Callers can dial 711 to access the Hotline using TTY. You can also email help@humantraffick inghotline.org.

To report a potential human traf ficking situation, call (confiden tially) 1-888-373-7888, or submit a tip online at https://humantraffick inghotline.org/report-trafficking. All communication with the hotline is strictly confidential.

years they lived in the White House “bubble.”

She spoke about how hard it was as first lady — and still is — to make new friends she can trust, and how fun it is to watch her daughters “adult” as they share an apartment in California. The girls had returned to Washington to live with their par ents during the pandemic.

Sasha had completed one semester at the University of Michigan before she came back home. Malia, who was enrolled at Harvard, spent her senior year at home and ended up missing out on a graduation cer emony because of COVID-19. So her parents staged a ceremony in their backyard, complete with com mencement speakers.

“It was me, and Barack,” Mrs. Obama said, laughing. “We told her how lucky she was. She got us both.”

Republican Assembly member Vince Fong said the report is a wakeup call.

“California’s economy is weaken ing, and now with persistent infla tion the revenue that is coming into the state of California is com ing in way below projection,” Fong said. “As someone who has been on the budget committee for a num ber of years, we have been warn ing about this. The ruling party in Sacramento continues to spend and grow government programs without any accountability and the budget is completely unsustain able. We have to refocus on fiscal responsibility.”

LAO’s budget forecast comes on the heels of Gov. Newsom and the

EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY/OPINION Your Feelings CAN Fail You

Thanksgiving, And Real Thanks

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

This week, most of us continue to observe a tradition which started back in 1621, when the Indians and the Pilgrims shared their first Harvest meal. This was indeed a time of real thanks considering the harshness of the newcomer’s lives in an environ ment they were not really pre pared for.

For too many today, the experi ence is just as real to the homeless we politely call the “unsheltered”; to the hungry who we say are experiencing “food insecurity”; and to those who just barely have some shelter and some food, but not enough to move, out of lack and want.

While the Indians came to the rescue of the Pilgrims, so many of us today have the ability to rescue more of those among us and fail to do so. This is another appeal to put aside Black Friday

and the unnecessary food pur chases unless we are inviting folks to dinner who otherwise would have to wait in a line at one of the free holiday meal sites.

During this season of Thanksgiv ing, let us return to real thanks for not only what we have, but what we can do for others if we just choose to do so. Let us remember that not everyone needs a turkey plate. Some need a hospital or nursing home visit. Some just need a kind word spo ken in friendship, others just a hug. When we stop to give real thanks and become aware of what we have, then we can see the needs of others and perhaps give a little of that real thanks in appreciating the opportunity to do something for someone else. If you are already doing all of this, then pass it on and help someone else catch up.

The Tale of Amazon and Two Black Documentaries

By J. Pharoah Doss

Amazon received com plaints, customers felt that the “Black Lives Matter” banner was divisive and were offended.

Amazon’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, dismissed the complaints. Bezos said the phrase “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t mean other lives don’t matter, it speaks to rac ism and the disproportional risk Black people face when encountering law enforce ment.

Amazon stood its ground and remained in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, but not with the entire Black community.

Months later, Amazon Prime Video refused to stream a documentary called What Killed Michael Brown?

because the title didn’t meet content quality expectations and the film was not eligi ble for publishing. Amazon Prime also told the film’s creators, “We will not be accepting resubmission of this title, and this decision may not be appealed.”

Shelby Steele, a well-known Black conservative, wrote the script. The documen tary told the story of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, from the point of view of Ferguson residents who didn’t agree with how the media covered the story and didn’t want Black Lives Matter activists coming into their town.

In other words, the film lam basted the narrative Amazon wholeheartedly embraced a

few months earlier. More importantly, the protests and riots, were revered as “America’s racial reckoning,” and Amazon didn’t want to offend a host of “woke” customers by streaming a documentary they would find offensive and accuse Amazon of being on the “wrong side of history”.

So, the documentary What Killed Michael Brown? was “canceled”.

Curious customers that wanted to watch the film, along with right-wing media outlets, complained about censorship and accused Amazon of being opposed to ideological diversity and inclusion.

Eventually, Amazon Prime Video streamed the film.

By Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew

As I get older, I recognize that feelings are real and yet, they can be dan gerous. Our feelings, if unchecked, can wreak havoc and confusion.

Just last week, I received a voicemail from an angry lady. She was livid about some thing that happened to her and spewed frustration about what others had done. I immediately called her back, and she began to apologize for being in her feelings and reacting too quickly. I called to inform her that it wasn’t something I was responsible for and after listening to the situation, I immediately informed her that she needed to reach out to a totally different entity. She continued to apologize after realizing that she had gotten upset without having clear information.

She’s not alone—it is commonplace to witness individuals immediately respond based on how they feel. Many of our deci sions are rooted in how it makes us feel.

We immediately respond often without thinking things through and truly assess ing what is going on. Relationships have been destroyed, trust broken, and jobs ter minated because of the need to respond.

If more people paused and thought of the consequences of their actions, they might be more apt to do things differently.

According to Dr. Bryn Farnsworth, “… feelings are the conscious experience of emotional reactions. Originating in the neocortical regions of the brain, feelings are sparked by emotions and shaped by personal experiences, beliefs, memories, and thoughts linked to that particular emotion. Strictly speaking, a feeling is the side product of your brain perceiving an emotion and assigning a certain meaning to it.”

Your feelings become thoughts which can then become an action— they are all con nected. Assumptions are the worst because they lead us down a path of no return because we can assign the wrong meaning to the emotion we are experiencing.

Without having complete information and knowledge, we can make decisions that

Meanwhile, Amazon has sold a book called Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America since 2015, and in 2018, the author of Hebrews to Negroes produced a 3-hour documentary under the same title. The book and documentary claim that Black Americans are the actual descendants of the biblical Israelites, modern Jews took their religious her itage from Black people, and modern Jews have conspired to cover-up those facts to prevent Black people from knowing their “true” iden tity.

There’s nothing new about this premise. It was first espoused in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by the founders of the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations, in 1886. Historians say that this

have far-reaching consequences that began in our thoughts and our emotions.

In Luke 15:11-32, we see an example of a young man who thought he knew more and requested his inheritance from his father. He probably allowed his feelings to validate his decision and instead of stay ing in a place of stability and comfort, he squandered his finances with nowhere to live.

“17 When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father.”

His feelings, based in bad thinking, resulted in destructive consequences.

When we make rash decisions, we are like this young man. Instead of consulting God (represented by the Father in this passage), we allow our feelings, bad information, and other people’s opinions to sway us into choices that are not in our best interests.

Are you talking to God about your emo tions and feelings before acting? Are you allowing the presence and Word of God to inform your decisions, your feelings, and your thoughts before reacting or seek ing the advice of others? The Bible speaks about emotions and their power. “Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. (Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV) It is okay to experience our feelings because they are a gauge.

It is about listening to God to direct you, seeking wise counsel, and taking an inven tory of what is going on objectively.

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is the Founder and CEO of Soulstice Consultancy. She also is the VP of Community Affairs and Strategic Alliances for the State Fair of Texas.

group referred to White Jews as “interlopers” and deni grated them for denying the divinity of Christ.

The title of the book and documentary, along with its century old premise, passed Amazon’s content qual ity standards, and it hasn’t offended Amazon customers or anyone else in over half a decade.

Suddenly, in 2022, there’s a controversy involving the film Hebrews to Negroes, because NBA star Kyrie Irving shared a link to the film on Twitter.

When he posted a link to a film that makes claims based on conspiracy theo ries, the media automatically assumed he agreed with the film’s premise and was try ing to promote an antise

mitic film to his 4.6 million Twitter followers.

When Irving refused to apologize for what the media labeled an “antisemitic tweet,” the NBA suspended Irving for five games, and Nike ended their endorse ment deal with the NBA star.

If indirect influence is the danger, then Amazon is more dangerous than Irving for selling an antisemitic title for over half a decade.

Everyone who was offended by Irving should wonder why Amazon did not cen sor “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake up Black America” the same way it censored “What Killed Michael Brown?”.

This commentary originally appeared in the New Pittsburgh Courier.

By June 2020, there were protests and riots nationwide over the police killings of Black Americans like Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Amazon, the biggest retailer in the world, placed a “Black Lives Matter” banner at the top of its website to “stand in solidarity with the Black community”.

Gerri Warren Dr. John E. Warren Latanya Wes t

Michael

SUNRISE 12/01/1954

SUNSET 10/31/2022

Michael Manuel Afflalo was born on December 1, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in Los Angeles, CA, by a single mother who worked several jobs to support him and his siblings. When the Afflalo family initially moved to LA, the Halsey family opened their home to Michael, sister Suzanne, brother Danny and Mother Esmie. They lived with them for several of his for mative years, in a house with 7 kids and 4 adults. That loving household pro vided stability and comfort for the Afflalo Family.

While life was not easy for Michael, he excelled in academics throughout his life, believing in the transformative power of education. Michael attended St. Cecilia elementary school and Mount Carmel HS. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1977 with a BA in Political Science and went on to earn a Master’s in Urban Planning from USC.

In 1985, he met Audrey Bailey, and in 1987, they were blessed with 2 beautiful children, Aleszondra (Zondie) and Adam. Michael and Audrey were together for 10 years and remained close friends until his passing. In early 1998, Michael moved to San Diego. His 2 children joined him in the summer of 1998. Tragically in January 1999, he lost his only daughter and first-born child, in what can only be described as the darkest days of his life. He served his community and worked at Helping Hands, by counseling many to better lives after difficulties with addiction. In 2004, he met and formed a loving 18-year relationship with Claudine Carroll. He has been an active member and usher at City of Hope International Church for 10 years.

Family and honoring the legacy of his mother and father were especially important to Michael and he spoke of it often. He was the griot (storyteller) of the family, always ready to share stories of our legacy at family gatherings. His children meant the world to him, and in the last few years, his grandchil dren also captured his heart. His happiest days were the times he spent with his son Adam, daughter-in-law Michelle, and grandchildren Ayden and Ava. Michael passed on October 31, 2022. He was preceded in death by his daugh ter Zondie, mother Esmie Afflalo, father Benjamin Afflalo, 2nd parents Mr. and Mrs. Halsey, brother Peter Afflalo, and sister Joan Marie Afflalo Bell. His legacy lives on in his son Adam Afflalo (Michelle), grandson Ayden Afflalo, grand daughter Ava Afflalo, brother Danny Afflalo (Sylvia), sister Suzanne Afflalo, brother Jeffrey Afflalo, brother Mordecai Afflalo (Marlo) and all the nieces, nephews and cousins that loved him and had the privilege of his love, wis dom, and guidance.

Davis

Lillian Carolyn Afflalo

SUNRISE 06/22/1930

SUNSET 11/01/2022

ARRANGEMENTS BY PREFERRED CREMATION & BURIAL MORTUARY

Arrangements by Preferred Cremation & Burial. Funeral Services were held on November 21, 2022 at Christian Fellowship Congregational Church, UCC.

Lillian Davis was born June 22, 1930, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Ethyl and John Wright.

In young adulthood, she moved to Santa Barbara with her husband, Mager Davis, where she had three children; Mark, John, and Lynn. She also had six foster children and she took care of a few of them on and off for five years.

Lilian was a devoted Pastor’s wife for sixty-plus years to her husband, who founded Goleta Church of God and Christ. She was a loving mother, fos ter parent, grandma, friend, and, most of all, a woman of God. In her later life, she moved down to San Diego, CA. where she attended Greater Life Baptist Church, under the leadership of Dr. Willie E. Manley, and now presid ing Pastor Nate Stewart.

In her formal years, you would often find Lillian baking, and cooking for church events, or opening her home to people in the community who were less fortunate. She had a captivating spirit that drew you in, so much so that everywhere she went, whether it be the hospital, senior day care, the store, or the beach.

Lillian Davis had an amazing sense of humor and a loving spirit that anyone could recognize from a mile away. She loved to dance and swim. She lived every day honoring the Lord, her family, and her community.

Lilian was a dedicated grandmother and raised her granddaughter Aysha (Ace), who took care of her in her older age. Her granddaughter Melissa would read the scripture to her almost daily as her eyesight was going, and she could no longer read her word. Many friends and neighbors called her mom.

On Tuesday, November 1, 2022, Lilian Davis was called home by our Lord. She leaves to cherish her loving and devoted children, Mark, John, and Lynn; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Malone-Nunn

SUNRISE 06/27/1945

SUNSET 11/07/2022

ARRANGEMENTS BY PREFERRED CREMATION & BURIAL MORTUARY

Arrangements by Preferred Cremation & Burial. Funeral Services were held on November 21, 2022 at Christian Fellowship Congregational Church, UCC.

Carolyn Jameszenia Malone-Nunn was born on June 27, 1945, in Lewes, Delaware. She was one of five girls born to Sarah H. Collick.

Carolyn graduated in 1963, from William C. Jason Comprehensive High School. After completing high school, she met and married Alfred Malone.

In 1967, his enlistment in the United States Navy brought them to San Diego, California. From this union three children were born: Pamela Lynn, Alan Eugene, and Kimberly Denise Malone.

Carolyn was employed in the 1970s as a Certified Nurse Assistant, and worked for Alvarado Convalescent Home in San Diego. In 1999, she was transferred to Alvarado Hospital Medical Center where she retired after com pleting thirty-four years of service.

Carolyn later married Gerald “Jerry” Bernard Nunn on September 29, 2008. This marriage created a blended family that included his children Vanessa (Gallin) Chappell, Yolanda (Edward) Butler, Veda (Reese) Fleeton, Norma (Scotty) Gilbert, and Norman (Stacey) Nunn.

Carolyn and Jerry were members of Christian Fellowship Congregational Church in San Diego.

Carolyn and Jerry loved spending time with family, and often traveled across country visiting them and friends along the way. Carolyn was a feisty woman who always said whatever was on her mind. She often left you thinking, “Did she just say that?” or “She said what she said.” Her jokester personality and infectious laughter will be remembered and truly missed.

On November 7, 2022, while surrounded by her family, Carolyn transitioned from this life to be with the Lord. Left to cherish her memories are children Pamela Malone of Clarksville, TN, Alan Malone of Riverside, CA, and Kimberly Malone of National City, CA; six grandchildren; Chyna Malone, Tawanna Malone, Jacquel (Sean) Gransden, Daymion Malone, Maya (Andrew) Ludlow, and Laila Malone; seven great-grandchildren; one aunt, Elizabeth A. Ball of Lewes, DE; one uncle, James (Timmy) Ball of Philadelphia, PA; along with a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and dear friends.

Tanya Thomas

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Tanya Lyvette Thomas was the third child born to Ivy Jean Washington and Willie Louis Washington on February 8, 1963, in San Diego, California.

Tanya attended Audubon Elementary, where she graduated at the top of her class. She attended O’Farrell Jr. High School and later attended Madison High School. Soon after, she transferred to Garfield High School, where she graduated at the top of her class as Valedictorian.

After high school, Tanya attend Mesa College and worked at the San Diego Zoo. During this time she met Trevor Alan Watson. Out of this relationship she had her only daughter, LaToya T. Watson.

Tanya would marry Kelvin Thomas in 1983. She continued her education at National University and became an Executive Secretary for SAIC before leaving for construction companies, law firms, as well as The Urban League and San Diego Voice and Viewpoint, and later returned to SAIC.

Tanya was there as a pioneer for all her siblings through good times and bad times. Tanya was a woman of many talents; she could fix any computer device and knew every software that was ever invented.

On, or before, Thursday, October 20, 2022, 9:35 a.m. Tanya was called home and greeted at the gates by her dad Willie Louis Washington, Sr. She leaves to mourn her; Ivy Jean Washington (mother); Michael Murrell (stepfather); Vickie R. Mundane (sister); Willie L. Washington, Jr. (brother); Michelle L. WashingtonWalker (sister); Debbie D. Washington (sister); Curtis W. Washington (brother); LaToya T. Watson-Scott (daughter); Cameron Garrison (son); grand-kids Sahawana Washington (granddaughter); Reanna Watson (granddaughter); Jonathan McNeil (grandson); Simone Scott (granddaughter); Ajahniah Scott (grandson); Sinai Scott (granddaughter); and a host of family and friends.

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“Following in the footsteps of our ancestor Fannie Lou Hamer, a human rights activist and forerunner in food justice movement with her work establishing free dom farms, we at Project New Village are creating space for our neighbors to access and benefit from healthy food,” said Diane Moss, Project New Village Managing Director, in a statement.

All proceeds from this year’s Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration will go towards paying off a land loan for the

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property at our Mt. Hope Community Garden.

“This is the future site for the Village, our vision for a vibrant community food hub. This equitable food-ori ented development is being designed with and for our community,” Moss said.

To that end, Project New Village will unveil the new legacy Fund to honor and continue the contributions of Robert Tambuzi, the orga nization’s capital campaign.

Mr. Tambuzi, who passed away early this year from

complications of cancer, was Project New Village’s first board of directors chair person as a nonprofit orga nization

Moss announced that this year’s Legacy awards go to Ami Young, Anthony Avalos, Elle Mari, Elneda Shannon, The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint and Tito, Love. The awardees, Moss said, have supported Project New Village’s work and strengthened its capac ity to contribute to the local and global food justice movement.

The awards celebration

will feature:

• Tasty, clean local food and beverages

• Legacy Award presenta tion

• Dancing / social mixer

• And more…

Event Tickets are $50.00 and can be purchased at the following link - https:// www.classy.org/event/fan nie-lou-hamer-celebration/ e442186. For more event information go to www.pro jectnewvillage.org or call 619 813-9148.

County’s Prop 47 Advisory Committee Seeks New Members

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Applications are due by December 16, 2022 for two additional mem bers with lived experience to serve on the Proposition 47 Local Advisory Committee (LAC). LAC assists the County of San Diego in identifying and prioritizing the most pressing needs of the justice-impacted population, identi

fying services, programs, and strategies to address those needs, and developing and implementing its grant project.

By changing sentencing for low-level crimes, Proposition 47 significantly reduced prison and jail populations and allocated the savings to local pub lic-safety programs, recovery services for survivors, and youth engagement.

In July 2022, the County of San Diego was awarded $6 million in Proposition 47 grant funding based on their project proposal, which proposed to provide housing and behavioral health service connections to adults arrested, charged with, or convicted of a criminal offense with a history of behavioral health diag nosis and who are exiting custody and are at risk of homelessness.

Membership on the Local Advisory Committee is vol untary, and members are asked to attend quarterly meetings, generally in the evening. The LAC includes a broad range of stakehold ers impacted by the proposal within communities, organi zations, and County depart ments.

For questions and more information, contact Nicholas Zinter NicholasD. Zinter@sdcounty.ca.gov.

$27M In New CORE Funding Available for Landscape Businesses

Qualified sole proprietorships and small businesses can benefit

The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District made an announcement earlier this month that can potentially benefit the County’s small busi nesses. 70% off the cost of zero-emission land scaping is available with a new state program, the Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Program (CORE). $27 million is now available to help professional landscape services operated by small businesses or sole propri etors.

As of November 7th, 2022, point of sale vouchers are available through the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) CORE program. Eligible zeroemission professional landscaping equipment includes:

• Edgers

• Hedgers

• String trimmers

• Chainsaws

• Pole saws

• Vacuums

• Handheld leaf blowers

• Backpack leaf blowers

• Walk-behind mowers

• Ride-on/Stand-ride mowers

• Batteries/Charging equipment

CORE’s website features both a list of approved zero-emission landscape service equipment manu-

facturers and a list of approved dealers through out California and other states. This program does not require you to turn in or destroy your old equip ment. For more informa tion, visit CORE’s website at californiacore.org

Currently, the pro gram is also still accept ing applications from Professional Landscape Equipment Dealers and Manufacturers. Those interested in participat ing should visit the CORE Professional Landscape Service Equipment link at californiacore.org/ how-to-participate-pro fessional-landscape for the application and more information.

The County encourages all eligible manufacturers, dealerships, and owners of landscaping businesses in San Diego County to par ticipate in this program, as it serves to improve our air quality and protect public health and the environ ment.

The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District (SDAPCD) is a govern ment agency guided by its Governing Board that reg ulates stationary sources of air pollution within San Diego County. For more information, visit sdapcd. org.

Panel Discusses Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media

A webinar hosted by ChangeLawyers, American Constitution Society (ACS) Bay Area, and Equal Justice Society was held on Nov. 15 to discuss the possible outcomes of the United States Supreme Court’s pend ing decision in the case Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard. The online event titled, “The End of Affirmative Action: How SCOTUS Is Coming After BIPOC Students” delved into the impact of banning the consideration of race as a factor during the college admission process.

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students would be affected by such a ruling, said panelist Lisa Holder, an attor ney and president of Equal Justice Society (EJS). EJS is an Oakland-based nonprofit and civil rights organization that does work geared toward transforming the nation’s con sciousness on race through law, social sci ences, and the arts.

“(Ending Affirmative Action) essentially, completely upends our ability to level the playing field and remediate for centuries of discrimination and marginalization,” said Holder said. “If you do not have interven tion and take affirmative steps to counteract continued systemic racism it’s going to take hundreds of years to repair those gaps. It will not happen by itself.”

Holder is also a member of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation

On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) listened to oral arguments in two cases challenging race-conscious stu dent admissions policies used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) to promote creating diverse student populations at their schools. The case emerged in 2014, when SFFA, a non profit advocacy organization opposed to affirmative action, brought an action alleging Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (Title VI).

SFFA argues that Harvard instituted a raceconscious admissions program that discrim inated against Asian-American applicants.

SFFA also alleges that UNC is violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, by unfairly using race to pro vide preference to underrepresented minor ity applicants to the detriment of White and Asian-American applicants.

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Proposals for African Americans, a nine-member panel established after Gov. Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3121, authored by then-Assemblymember Shirley Weber. The task force is investigating the his tory and costs of slavery in California and is charged with recommending an appropriate remedy for the state to implement.

Project New Village (PNV) is hosting the 11th annual Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration taking place on  Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6-8PM at the Fleet Science Center, Balboa Park 1875 El Prado 92101. The Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration is PNV’s year-end fundraising event highlighting the lessons and achievements of Mrs. Hamer’s life.

How The GRINCH Stole Christmas and Started it Too!

By TJ Dunnivant Contributing Writer

This year marks the 25th year of The Old Globe Theatre’s quint essential San Diego pro duction, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The play perennially evokes nos talgic holiday cheer. One of the most detailed and orches trated theater productions in San Diego, The Old Globe did not stop short for this children’s classic. The level of professionalism and cre ativity was evident through out the entire production, and the interactive cast and inspiring set design, that extended into the audience, made it a performance local families may never forget.

It’s a good thing they bring it back every year, so that San Diego families can then make it part of their annual holiday tradition.

That’s exactly what the Broctor family is now doing. The Broctors stated that this was their second year attend ing the performance. In what looked to be a multi-gener ational family affair, with grandparents, mom, dad and children all in attendance, the look of joy-filled antici pation was evident with the entire Broctor bunch.

“We attended last year with the boys, but they were younger,” Mr. Broctor explained enthusiastically.

“They are more excited for

tonight’s performance!” Broctor sounded as if he intends to watch his boys experience the production in different stages of their won der years growing up.

The History of The Grinch and San Diego extends fur ther than the performances at The Old Globe. According to the evening’s playbook, Theorder Geisel (Dr. Seuss) moved to La Jolla, California in 1948. It wasn’t until 1998 that The Old Globe pre miered their first show, star ring Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) as CindyLou Who. The success of The Grinch performance throughout the years led it to becoming a Broadway production in 2006.

Apparently, both pro ductions incorpo rated a new shopping scene with the song, “It’s the Thought That Counts”. The San Diego version being the best of the two, was incor porated into the Broadway pro duction, placing the final stamp of artistic validation onto The Old Globe’s reputation.

Between the scenic design of John Le Beatty, costume design by Robert Morgan, Pat Collins’ lighting design, and sound design by Paul Peterson, audience mem bers are submerged within a “come-to-life’’ book that they can also participate in. From the characters’ direct interac tion with the children in the audience to the snow falling in the theater aisles, the sen sory-rich production that was originally incorporated in 2011, was in full effect. Some of the children had to be settled by their parents as they wanted to interact by responding in their own joyous outburst toward the characters.

The stage and custom design details were incorporated so well that, from the looks of the audience members, the adults in attendance were also transfixed by the world

Big Lincoln Completes Epic Comeback Victory

By Darrel Wheeler Contributing Writer

There were multiple heroes for Lincoln’s fast Hornets at last Friday night’s Open Division Championship football game. Makhi Gray, Cory Thompson-Miller, Josiah Cox, Roderick Robinson, Jerome Roberts, Raylon Logan, KJ Chatham, Joshua Carroll, and the list goes on.

In the first half of Championship football, the fast-twitch Hornets didn’t look so swift. They could not keep up with the number one ranked team in San Diego, the Mighty Lancers of Carlsbad.

The Lancers definitely lived up to their wellearned hype in the first half, holding the high-scoring Hornets to just six points cour tesy of tough guy Rodrick Robinson’s threeyard TD run.

Half-time score: Carlsbad 14-6. The second half appeared to duplicate the first half as Carlsbad increased their lead 21-6.

Not until the fourth quarter did the Hive finally come alive.

“They finally started playing some Lincoln football. [In] the first half, we couldn’t do anything right. It took awhile for them to get that spark and get started, but they did and I’m very proud of them,” Head

David Dunn shared.

“We had a chip on our shoulders ever since last year, losing in the D-1 Championship

We’ve been working hard every day in practice. We worked hard for this, we

it and it really means a whole lot to us!” Lincoln Roderick Robinson shared.

Dr. Suess. Everything from the huge painted lines mimicking gigan tic pencil strokes on “Who Village” homes, to the intri cate layer of the Grinch’s fur that moved with every bit of energy that actor Andrew Polec performed with, this year’s production was noth ing short of spectacular.

Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is playing at The Old Globe through December 31st. Because of it’s unique San Diego history, lavish set designs and the sensoryfriendly show, The Grinch is something every family should incorporate into their holiday tradition and cheer.

The Old Globe produces a classic for the 25th Year in San Diego

The Broctor family. PHOTO: TJ Dunnivant

The cast of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, 2022. PHOTO: Rich Soublet II.

Hornet

Hornet QB KJ Chatham tossed three TD’s in the fourth quarter, including the gameclencher to Cory Thompson-Miller. Lincoln’s defense stepped up and shut down the num ber one team in the County and Big Lincoln’s victory was complete and sweet 28-24.

game.

earned

CIF Open Division 2022 Champions. The best football team in San Diego. Congratulations to Hornet Nation!

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Dr. Luke Bergmann

Director Behavioral Health Services

(619) 563-2765

Cecily ThorntonStearns

Assistant Director, Chief Program Officer

Behavioral Health Service (619) 563-2700

Nadia Privara

Assistant Director, Chief Strategy and Finance Officer

Behavioral Health Service (619) 563-2700

Kat Briggs

Chief of Agency Operations, Community Engagement Behavioral Health Service (619) 563-2700

Elizabeth Bustos

Agency Equity Liaison Health and Human Services Agency (619) 515-6587

Crystal Skerven

Central Regional Community Coordinator Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities (760) 607-2911

County and Voice & Viewpoint Discuss Efforts To Address Community Behavioral Health Services

The County of San Diego and Voice & Viewpoint last Wednesday, Nov. 16, joined together for a one-hour town hall that addressed issues surrounding Behavioral Health Services (BHS) in the region and in particular within disad vantaged communities. The vir tual town hall was moderated by Voice & Viewpoint Publisher Dr. John Warren and County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) Executive Director Nick Macchione.

The presentation was led by Dr. Luke Bergmann, Director of BHS, and also included from the County Cecily ThorntonStearns, Assistant Director, Chief Program Officer for BHS, Nadia Privara, Assistant Director, Chief

Strategy and Finance Officer for BHS, Kat Briggs, Chief of Agency Operations for BHS Community Engagement, Elizabeth Bustos, HHSA Agency Equity Liaison, and Crystal Skerven, Central Regional Community Coordinator for HHSA Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities.

Dr. Bergmann went through a brief presentation that covered the efforts to shift the way behavioral health services are provided to a model that is built on prevention, to help people before they reach a crisis stage. Dr. Bergmann also dis cussed how the County is building a system that will make behavioral health care more accessible and work to offer in partnership with

the school districts mental health screenings to students in all middle schools.

Also emphasized by Dr. Bergmann during the conversation was the development of a Behavioral Health Equity Index. The Equity Index combines annual census data, care utilization and community sur vey data with data collected, in collaboration with communities and community coalitions across the County. By updating it annu ally, the County will better be able to track inequities and changes in equity, over time.

The Community Experience Partnership dashboards are available to view at: www.communityexperien cepartnership.com

For the rest of the hour, the discus sion was wide-ranging with mod eration provided by Dr. Warren and Macchione. Among the top ics covered were behavioral health support for schools, children and youth, peer resources, asser tive community treatment (ACT) teams, the need for urgent care services for mental health and the piloting of Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court, or CARE Court, to encour age those with mental illnesses to accept services.

Google “San Diego County BHS” or visit the Behavioral Health Services website: https://www.sandiego county.gov/hhsa/programs/bhs/.

The full video of the town hall and the slide show are available on the Voice & Viewpoint website, sdvo ice.info.

The third of the three scheduled Voice and Viewpoint town halls will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 14. The focus will be Homeless Solutions & Equitable Communities featuring Barbara

The Episcopal Installation for

Bishop William A. Benson

Last

The

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week, the Rev. Dr. William A. Benson, Pastor of the Total Deliverance Worship Center here in San Diego, was installed as the Diocesan Bishop of the 67th District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Inc., Southern California District Council. The event brought an array of Church Bishops to San Diego.

event was held during Conference at the Wyndham Hotel on North Harbor Drive. Included here are photos of some of the highlights of the evening with Bishop Theodore L. Brooks as the Presiding Bishop officiating.

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Connecting Hope & Greater Mt. Zion Church Annual Turkey Giveaway

By Voice & Viewpoint Staff

Saturday was truly a day of giving and thanksgiving at Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church on Greeley Street. This was the day of the Annual Turkey Giveaway hosted by Connecting Hope under the leadership of Rev. Ray Smith and Pastor J. Lindsey Whitmill, Pastor of Greater Mount Zion.

According to Rev. Smith, there were 314 Turkeys, 390 bags of food, 220 cases of water, and 170 cases of food and trimmings for the giveaway bags. Turkey’s were purchased with

contributions and purchased at the Aldi gro cery chain, which has about 8 stores in the San Diego community.

“We wanted to give people more than just a turkey and hoped the additional items could continue to feed some after Thanksgiving,” Rev. Smith said.

Over 35 churches pre-ordered the turkeys and the trimmings so that Saturday was a day of pick-ups. A host of individuals volun teered to help make the day a success.

ELEGANTDivas 8th Annual Turkey Giveaway

By Mike Norris Contributing Writer

Elegant Divas held their 8th Annual Turkey Drive at the YMCA located in Southeast San Diego. Elegant Divas is a nonprofit organization com prised of women of all walks of life. The CEO/Founder, Kim Foster had faced chal lenges of her own and knew that she needed to form a group to help other women that were facing challenges. Kim started reaching out to like minded women. Her small social group soon expanded to include the

formation of the 501(c)3 non-profit status that it has today.

Elegant Divas has been a presence in the community for several years. The Divas also host book drives, shoe drives, ‘Feed the Homeless’ programs in downtown San Diego and they visit con valescent hospitals during Christmas, Father’s Day, and Mother’s Day to give gifts and cards to those who may not normally get visitors.

Bobbie Lee Leary, PR man ager for Elegant Divas, cred its the group with truly

being a part of local com munities and making them a better place. Most of the Thanksgiving turkey give away drives are funded by local businesses and per sonal donors, who have eagerly donated turkeys and monetary assets to help. Kim hopes to pass on the values that Elegant Divas represent to the coming generations. With another successful Turkey Drive behind them, the Elegant Divas were able to help ensure that San Diegans in need had a Happy Thanksgiving.

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PLANNED MEETING OF PRESIDENTS BIDEN AND MUSEVENI AT U.S.-AFRICA

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President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet his Ugandan counter part Yoweri Museveni on the sidelines of the US-Africa leaders’ Summit this coming Dec. 13-15 in Washington, DC.

The meeting will take place at the White House with the two leaders expected to discuss, among other things, the security situation in Africa.

President Biden outlined his agen da for the upcoming confab. “The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will build on our shared values to better foster new economic engagement; reinforce the U.S.-Africa commit ment to democracy and human rights; mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and of future pandemics; work collaboratively to strengthen regional and global health; pro mote food security; advance peace and security; respond to the climate crisis; and amplify diaspora ties.”

But the meeting has generated some controversy with several letters from the Chairperson of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Robert Menendez petitioning Biden to withdraw Museveni’s invite.

Menendez’s letter followed anoth er petition from opposition forces in Uganda led by the National Unity Platform (NUP) accusing Museveni of gross violation of human rights.

In his petition, the Senator stated that Museveni has twice changed the constitution to suit his needs, impeded democratic processes, turned a blind eye to rampant cor ruption, and subjected civil soci ety, and political leaders to illegal detention, violence and torture with impunity.

Criticism of the meeting was also leveled by the authors of a recent article in Foreign Policy, an American news magazine. The article was titled “Biden’s Africa Summit Has Democracy on the Agenda, But Not the Invite List,” and con

tained the charge that “at least three heads of state accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity, the foreign minister of an autocratic country whose security services stalked senior U.S. congressional staffer this year, and top officials from a military junta that took power last year have made the invite list.

The Summit is the first opportuni ty for this administration to show case how it views the future of U.S.Africa relations on its home turf and reflects efforts to reset U.S.Africa relations after the Trump era. But the article’s authors ques tion extending invites to autocrats and leaders with checkered rights records.

Uganda’s ambassador to Washington, Mull Sebujja Katende, com mented on the recent petitions and explained Uganda’s current hiring of a top Washington lobbying firm to reset U.S. relations and challenge the narrative from rights groups and supporters of rival candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known by his stage name Bobi Wine. Wine’s movement claims it was violently suppressed to ensure Museveni a sixth term in office.

“Certainly we are not in the best of shape with regard to the way we are understood here in Washington,”

Katende said. “And it is in our interest to tell those authorities the truth of what’s happening in Uganda.”

“The problem we are dealing with is there are so many interest groups that are trying to misguide (the U.S. government),” he said. “They want to nullify the elections because they want to provide alternate leadership. That is not how things should work.”

Last year the U.S. imposed sanc tions on the head of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Abel Kandiho, over alleged human rights violations including torture, beatings and sexual abuse.

“Treasury will continue to defend against authoritarianism, promoting accountability for violent repression of people seeking to exer cise their human rights and funda mental freedoms,” Andrea Gacki, director of the Treasury’s Office of oreign Assets Control, said at the time. Kandiho has since been relieved of his post by President Museveni.

Meanwhile, the U.S Congress and Biden administration have been reassessing the U.S. relationship with Uganda, an important count er-terrorism ally in East Africa and major beneficiary of health and security assistance.

DELEGATES AT CLIMATE CONFAB REACH DEAL TO AID POOR COUNTRIES

With mere minutes to spare, del egates to the UN climate confer ence (also called COP27) reached a compromise to create a fund for disadvantaged countries coping with climate disasters worsened by pollution mainly from wealthy nations.

The meeting of over 200 countries, ending after two weeks of talks, put a finishing touch to one of the most contentious issues dogging the U.N. group that saw years of dis cussion but no agreement on how to phase out fossil fuels or meet the urgent needs of African and other regions of the Global South.

The compromise was a new “loss and damage” fund - a win for poorer nations that have long called for cash — sometimes viewed as repara tions — for the costs of destructive storms, heat waves and droughts fueled by global warming.

The United States and other wealthy countries have long rejected the loss and damage concept, fearing they could be held legally liable for the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change.

Although the Americans have now agreed to add to a fund, money must be appropriated by Congress. Last year, the Biden administra tion sought $2.5 billion in climate finance but secured just $1 billion, and that was when Democrats controlled both chambers. With Republicans in power, who largely oppose climate aid, the prospects for approving an entirely new pot of money appear dim.

Collins Nzovu, Zambia’s minister of green economy and environment, called the latest development “a very positive result for 1.3 billion Africans.”

ten to the people of Africa – not the fossil fuel sector - and collec tively commit to a phase out of all fossil fuels”.

Other outspoken critics of fossil fuel development were Kenyan cli mate activist Barbra Kangwana of Safe Lamu. The group squashed government efforts to build a coal plant at Lamu, a UNESCO world heritage site, in the name of boost ing the national electricity supply.

“The community raised its voice, lobbied, signed petitions, went to court, and eventually the people won,” she said.

Patience Nabukalu, an activist from Uganda, has been organizing against an East African crude oil pipeline (EACOP), calling it “a clear exam ple of colonial exploitation in Africa and across the global south.”

“EACOP is not going to develop our country: peoples’ land was taken, leaving many homeless and poor and critical ecosystems and bio diversity at risk of oil spills such as lake Victoria, rivers, National Parks, animals and birds, as well as aquatic life. We remain hopeful and vigilant as banks and insurers have withdrawn their support. We will continue to resist until every one involved abandons it com pletely.”

“The fossil fuel industry has degraded our people, our lands, our oceans and our air,” charged Mbong Akiy with Greenpeace Africa. “Enough is enough. No matter how many deals they sign, no matter how many bribes they pay, or how fancy the suits they wear: we shall wait for them in our communities, we will wait for them on the frontlines.

More than 20 years since the first U.N. climate conference was held, less than five women have been cli mate conference presidents out of 110 heads of state and government.

Women are now calling for greater representation at the next conference to be held next year in the United Arab Emirates.

Last year the percentage of women sent from participating countries was around 37 percent, while over 70 percent of total speaking time by delegates was taken up by men, according to the United Nations Foundation.

To highlight their demands, a photo of global leaders attending this year’s conference in Sharm el Shaikh, Egypt, was displayed at the confer ence hall, and captioned: “Notice Anyone Missing?”

While progress seems to have been made by countries sending female

representatives as part of the delega tion, Elise Buckle, co-founder of She Changes Climate, said it is disap pointing to have less than 10 of the about 110 heads of state who attend ed the conference, being female.

“When we talk about representation it is about more than numbers; it is meaningful representation and inclusion,” said Nada Elbohi, an Egyptian feminist and youth advo cate, in a press release. “It is bring ing the priorities of African women

and girls to the table.”

“There is no climate justice without human rights,” said Mara Dolan with the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). “It’s a common misconception that women’s groups only care about getting the word ‘women’ on the agenda. … We come to this conference looking for a full recognition and realization of human rights. And gender justice is one piece of that.”

But many African climate activists were dismayed by the small steps taken by the global delegates and also by the African delegations who, they said, used the conference to embrace the new scramble for oil and gas on the continent.

“For any meaningful outcome to be achieved in Egypt,” wrote Tal Harris of Greenpeace, “delegates must lis

In 2021, over 200 environmental and land defenders were murdered, according to Global Witness, a nonprofit that exposes the role of industries like mining and logging and how they commit human rights abuses.

At an event prior to the conference, participating climate activists included Nada Elbohi, Salimata Ba, Sylvia Diamond Dorbor, Zainab Yunusa, Pricsilla Achakpa and Gertrude Kenyangi.

“We will not stop until we see a complete transition to clean, renewable energy that is guaranteed to take millions of Africans out of energy poverty… . In South Africa we have won against big oil, we sent Shell packing, and we will send them all packing again.”

“Fossil fuel production, if adopted, will stop Africa from leapfrogging towards a renewable and clean energy future,” said Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe of Powershift Africa. “We pledge to continue pushing for The Africa We Want beyond COP27.”

Ms Yunusa observed: “80% of climate refugees are women. Displacement affects everyone, but with women and girls in Africa it affects us the most.”

“Let us make sure women, in their diversity, have an equal say in deci sions around climate policy,” said UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous. “They must be at the heart of climate action.”

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Drought in

Du ring the holidays there is no better time to make memories. We can almost smell the chestnuts roasting on an open fire while Jack Frost nips at our noses. While the holidays bring a bunch of generational traditions like cooking with family and open ing gifts together, there’s always space to create new ones.

To help you out, here are 5 new tra ditions you can set with your fam ily this holiday season, courtesy of Pure Wow:

Mystery Gift Swap

Gift-giving is by far one of the most rewarding and stressful aspects of the holiday season. Every year it seems like the list of who to buy gifts for gets longer. While it may be easy to shop for your little brother, it gets a little bit tricky once you get to your second cousin’s baby niece and the lady from the church who always gives good hugs. In order to take the guesswork out of gift-giv ing, we recommend a mystery gift swap. This works best for adult fam ily members and requires everyone to pick a name out of the hat. You can do it on Thanksgiving in prepa ration for Christmas or Kwanzaa; you’d only be responsible for get ting a gift for the name you picked. Because it is only one gift, instead of many, you can increase the mon etary limit and ensure that every one in the family gets at least one incredible gift.

Holiday Movie Marathon

Nothing says holidays like a good classic movie. Whether you’re into a family movie or a festive cult classic, we’ve got you covered with 9 Black movies that are sure to get you into the holiday spirit. Gather your loved ones, set aside an entire day, and get the drinks and snacks

ready because it’s going to be a great time!

Give Back to Those in Need

This is an oldie but goodie and nothing gets you more in the fes tive spirit than giving back to those less fortunate. There are a variety of ways to give back and whether you donate gently used clothing, feed locals at a shelter or give money to a worthy cause, it’ll help make a difference. The point of this holi day tradition is to enroll the whole family in the good deed and make it an annual tradition that warms hearts for generations to come!

Holiday Photos

This is one of our personal favor ites to do and every year it gets bet ter and better. The goal is to pick a theme for your holiday card and get the whole family to take pic tures together. It sounds simple but the work is in the details. If you can coordinate everyone’s sched ules and outfits, you’ll have beau tiful cards every year and that one memory is priceless!

Write A Holiday Letter

Holiday cards are great, but a holi day letter is even better. The letter can be in addition to the card, or it can be something you send out separately, the choice is complete ly up to you. The point is that you have everyone contribute with an update, something they’re grate ful for or their favorite memory and you send it out to your clos est family and friends. The letter gives you a chance to reflect on the year while also giving an update to those loved ones who you may not talk to as much. In 10 or 15 years, imagine how many amazing mem ories you will have accumulated on paper for the whole family to see.

Cheers to setting new traditions! Happy Holidays!

Dr. Dali Fan, a cardiologist and health sciences clinical professor at UC Davis, offers some tips for keeping your family free from Covid exposure this holiday season.

By Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services

The holiday season is here. And, as we comb through our collections of treasured holiday ornaments, put Santa and his reindeer on the lawn, and plan elaborate feasts, health experts advise us to devise a strate gy to keep our beloved friends and family safe from COVID-19 infec tion. This is especially important to protect elderly family members.

Dr. Dali Fan, a cardiologist and health sciences clinical professor at UC Davis, says he expects there will be an increase of COVID-19 cases this winter.

“I would not call it a ‘surge,’ which carries a tone of an uncontrolled situation. But a winter case increase is likely, and we need to stay vigi lant,” said Dr. Fan.

Boosters Provide Protection

About 80 percent of Americans have received their initial COVID19 vaccine series, but just 10 per cent have availed of the updated booster, which is believed to recog nize and provide protection against the Omicron variant.

In mid-October, the BA.5 subvariant accounted for 70 percent of COVID19 cases in the US. But rapidly emerging are the BA.4 and BA.4.6 subvar iants, which account for 13 percent of infections. BQ.1 and BQ1.1, both immune-evasive variants, are rising rapidly and account for about 11 percent of cases in the US., said the CDC in a Nov. 4 report.

“It’s unclear whether any of them will overtake BA.5 as the country’s dominant COVID strain,” Fan said. “That makes getting a new Omicronspecific COVID booster all the more crucial.”

Dr. Fan provides advice on keeping our families safe from a COVID-19 infection, as we celebrate the holi days.

EMS: The holidays usually mean large indoor parties. Are such gatherings super-spreader events?

Dr. Fan: The short answer is yes. Hosting a holiday party indoors is considered risky for those who invite family and friends living outside of their homes. Risks associated with parties and events are driven in large part by the highly infectious Omicron strain of COVID-19.

A Harris Poll conducted last year found that 54 percent of fully vacci nated respondents intend to make vaccination status a factor when they’re making their holiday plans. More than 50 percent are hesitant

to attend gatherings with unvacci nated family members or friends. So, if you are concerned, you are not alone.

EMS: How can hosts keep their guests safe from getting a Covid infection during their indoor gathering? Conversely, what can guests do?

Dr. Fan: First, urge everyone on your holiday guest list to get vac cinated, and to get a new updated booster or third dose if advised to by their health professional. This will be the biggest COVID-19 risk factor reduction.

Second, if you’re able to, host fam ily outside, where risks are consid erably lower.

Third, protect yourself while attending indoor gatherings. Wear a wellfitted mask, keep a safe distance from others, and wash your hands frequently.

Lastly, if you are sick, stay home.

EMS: Would you recommend wearing a mask at an indoor holiday party, even if folks around you choose not to wear them? And should we limit the size of gatherings?

Dr. Fan: Wearing a mask in indoor spaces helps slow the spread of many different respiratory viruses including RSV, flu and COVID.

I personally recommend that if you’re going to get together with people who are not living in your home and local transmission rates are high, do wear masks, if possible. This can be awkward and embar rassing. But it lowers your risk, your host’s risk, as well as your loved ones.

If the meal can be enjoyed outdoors with a limited number of people, that’s safer than gathering inside. If the celebration must take place indoors, opening windows can increase ventilation.

Who Should Wear Masks?

Other people who should consider wearing masks include:

• Younger children who may not be able to receive full vaccina tions

• E lderly guests who may be con sidered immuno-compromised but unable to complete vaccina tion and those who face pre-ex isting conditions that put them at high risk for severe sickness

• Those living in a town or city where local COVID-19 transmis sion is trending high, as asymp tomatic spread (those who are sick without any symptoms) is still a concern.

EMS: Would you recommend that hosts mandate a COVID test of each of their guests on the day of the gathering?

Dr. Fan: I don’t think a COVID test mandate is necessary, but those that feel safer testing before traveling or attending in person events should feel free to do so.

EMS: How do we keep elderly fam ily members and high-risk peo ple safe? If a resident of a longterm care facility joins in, what safety measures would you sug gest for them, and your guests?

Dr. Fan: Remember: Compared to young adults, those over the age of 65 are 60 times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to the CDC. The death rate is 340 times higher for those over the age of 85. This underscores the need to get vac cinated and boosted and to take any additional precautions based on your situation, like masking or celebrating outside or virtually if necessary.

People from long-term care facilities usually have the highest risk. Inform your guests about their presence.

EMS: Will boosters play a big role in keeping people safe during the holidays?

Dr. Fan: I believe the COVID vac cine booster doses are crucial. Please keep in mind that while the original mRNA coronavirus vaccines have proven effective at preventing death and severe disease from COVID-19, breakthrough infections and rein fections have become more com mon in the face of an evolving virus and waning immune protection over time. The boosters can strengthen the protection on both fronts.

The updated booster is a bivalent vaccine, which means it contains two messenger RNA (mRNA) compo nents of the coronavirus. Half of the vaccine targets the original strain, and the other half targets the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariant lin eages, which are predicted to contin ue circulating this fall and winter.

EMS: When is the ideal time to take the shot, for protection through Thanksgiving and beyond?

Dr. Fan: It’s going to take about two weeks for you to start to develop pro tection from the initial COVID vac cine. It typically takes a few weeks for the body to produce T-lymphocytes and B-lymphocytes after vaccina tion. But the protection starts to wane after about six months.

So, the best time to get boosted for the holidays is now. Check with your medical care provider, local clinic, or MyTurn.ca.gov.

As federal rental assistance money subsides, rent increases, and inflation rises, more and more Americans are being evicted. In 2020, a federal moratorium was put in place in an effort to pre vent landlords from kicking tenants out for not paying rent. Even after the moratorium was lift ed in August 2021, the eviction rates stayed low because of federal funding.

Over this past summer, that federal funding began to dwindle. The Treasury Department estimates that less than $7 billion out of a total of $46.5 billion remains available. As a result,

nearly 7.8 million Americans said they were behind on rent in early October, according to a survey done by the U.S. Census Bureau. The same survey also found that 2.5 million people had experienced a rent increase of more than $500 over the past year.

An analysis by Redfin found that rents were up 9% nationwide in September, compared to a year earlier, and more than a dozen cities had double-digit rent increases.

In San Diego, the City passed a “no fault” eviction moratorium on March 31, 2022 which extended noticing periods and prohibited no fault evictions for all residential tenants. The moratorium extend

ed through September 30 and now that it has expired there has been no exten sion.

Resources for San Diego tenants with questions about legal rights or pending eviction actions:

Legal Aid Society of San Diego: (877) 534-2524

Tenants Legal Center: (858) 571-7100

San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program: (619) 235-5656 ext. 127

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BUSINESS / FINANCES

The Rewards, Tribulations and Importance of Diversity and Equity in Nursing

Southern California.

As a young girl, Tamarra Crandall wanted to become a doctor, aspiring to help cure patients suffering from illnesses that cause so much pain and dis comfort, especially among minority populations. As fate would have it, Crandall didn’t pursue a medical degree. But, as she will tell you, she pur sued the next best thing, which was a career in nurs ing, and she has no regrets.

“The most rewarding aspect of being a nurse is deliver ing care to people in their most vulnerable moment,” said Crandall, a registered nurse at Kaiser Permanente

“Being in the hospital is very hard for people. Being there for them and advocating on their behalf for safe and equi table care is very rewarding to me. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

Crandall, who is African American, adds another reason for her pursuit of a nurs ing career is wanting to care for patients in the Black community, believing in the importance of diversity and equity. She wanted to also pursue nursing to repre sent the African American com munity in a profes sion in which only 6.7% are African American nurses, according to the

Getting your first paycheck is an exciting experience and an opportunity to kickstart your financial journey. Mapping out your short and long-term financial goals early on will allow you to build a strong founda tion for your future.

“That first paycheck is such a great moment and an opportunity to start managing your money. Direct deposit and automatic savings are some ways that we can stay on top of our goals,” said Neil Hart, Chase executive director and market director for banking in metro Phoenix. Here are five things to help you make the most of that first paycheck:

1. Open a Bank Account: Checking accounts allow you to deposit money, make transfers, withdraw cash, pay bills and take care of other banking transactions either in person, online or through your bank’s mobile app. Most accounts come with a debit card that can be used anywhere cards are accepted. What’s important is that you’re fitted with the account that best suits your needs. Learn more about the documents you need to open an account.

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“Diversity in the workforce –especially in healthcare – is so critical because patients are more comfortable with people who look like them. Being African American, it’s extremely important to me that our community is wellrepresented in the work force. A very important part of nursing is cultural com petence. You have to make sure you have representa tion for all communities, es pecially when you pro vide care to a minority pop ulation.”

As a nurse, Crandall is aware of the severe shortage of registered nurses locally and across the nation. She encour

ages young Black women to study nursing, as well as other qualified candidates to enter the field that she describes as very fulfilling.

Jerry Spicer, regional chief nurse executive and vice president of patient care services for Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Hawaii, noted health care organiza tions are always looking to hire registered nurses due to a shortage. “Not only is being a nurse a noble profession, but it’s also a good-paying job that’s very satisfying,” he said. “The need for registered nurses is very high, and health care organizations acrossthe-board are doing every thing they can to attract can didates.”

Although nursing involves hard work and can be chal lenging, Crandall notes the rewards outweigh the chal lenges associated with the profession.

“This is the best job I can think of,” she explained.

“Nursing is so well-rounded. Nursing is also such a broad profession that allows for nurses to use their skills in various fields. The real joy of being a nurse is providing compassionate care and mak ing a difference. Believe me when I say there are few jobs where you will truly make a difference in people’s lives for the better. As a nurse, my relationship with my patients is what keeps me going.”

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Fictitious business name(s): College Smog Check Located at: 4622 College Ave. San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego

This business is conducted by: An Individual

The first day of business was: 10/14/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Abdul Ahad 5415 Blackberry Way Oceanside, CA 92057

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 04, 2022

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Fictitious business name(s): Honey Badger Studios Located at: 441 S. San Jacinto Dr. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above

This business is hereby registered by the following: Jaden Mills 441 S. San Jacinto Dr. San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 09, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on November 09, 2027 11/17, 11/24, 12/01, 12/08

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This business is hereby registered by the following: Steve Clarke 11595 Prairie Shadow Pt. San Diego, CA 92126

Keysha Clarke 11595 Prairie Shadow Pt. San Diego, CA 92126

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Fictitious business name(s): Scruples 2 Located at: 7733 Palm Ave. #103 Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego

This business is conducted by: An Individual

The first day of business was: 10/30/2022

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Fictitious business name(s): Rima Tires Located at: 3475 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92104 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 11/15/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Israel Jose Acuna 3475 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92104

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 15, 2022

This fictitious business name will expire on November 15, 2027 11/24, 12/01, 12/08, 12/15

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9025048

Fictitious business name(s): Kayamour Kollections Located at: 2307 Fenton Pkwy. Ste. 107 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego

2307 Fenton Pkwy. Ste. 107 POB740 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company

The first day of business was: 11/15/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Kayamour Kollections 2307 Fenton Pkwy. Ste. 107 San Diego, CA 92108

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 15, 2022

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Fictitious business name(s): Cortland The Junkman Located at: 3586 1/2 Louisiana St. San Diego, CA 92104 County of San Diego

This business is conducted by: An Individual

The first day of business was: 02/01/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Cortland W. Anderson 3586 1/2 Louisiana St. San Diego, CA 92104 This statement was filed with

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the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 08, 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9024704

Fictitious business name(s): Kook Sox Located at: 5430 Linda Vista Rd. Unit 21 San Diego, CA 92110 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 11/09/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Kyle Aratin 5430 Linda Vista Rd. Unit 21 San Diego, CA 92110

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 09, 2022

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Fictitious business name(s): Arize

Arize Music Located at: 615 S. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego

This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 11/15/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Dahani McFadden 615 S. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92114

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 15, 2022

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Fictitious business name(s): HURU HOMES Located at: 3635 National Ave. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego 10449 Lake Breeze Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following:

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Fictitious business name(s): Intuitive Integrative Chiropractic Located at: 1565 Hotel Circle S. Ste. 350 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Michael Baba 23041 El Caballo Lake Forest, CA 92630

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 18, 2022

This fictitious business name will expire on October 18, 2027 11/17, 11/24, 12/01, 12/08

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Fictitious business name(s): I Want Located at: 5754 Market St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above

This business is hereby registered by the following: Evelyn Indira Dailey 5754 Market St. San Diego, CA 92114

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Fictitious business name(s): Yo Quiero Located at: 5754 Market St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Evelyn Indira Dailey 5754 Market St. San Diego, CA 92114

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Fictitious business name(s): The Faith Room Located at: 1335 Borrego Springs Rd. Chula Vista, CA 91915 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 11/07/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Nathaniel Deon Stewart 1335 Borrego Springs Rd. Chula Vista, CA 91915 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on November 07, 2027 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/01

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Fictitious business name(s): Pacific Home Concierge Located at: 125 N. Lafayette Ave. Ventnor, NJ 08406 County of Atlantic This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above

This business is hereby registered by the following: Newbury Franklin Home Services LLC 125 N. Lafayette Ave. Ventnor, NJ 08406

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 19, 2022

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Fictitious business name(s): Get it out San Diego Hauling & Junk Removal Located at: 723 Pecos St. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual

The first day of business was: 11/03/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Daniel Gomez 723 Pecos St. Spring Valley, CA 91977

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 04, 2022

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Fictitious business name(s): Pengate Publishing. Located at: 11595 Prairie Shadow Pt. San Diego, CA 92126

County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Married Couple

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This business is hereby registered by the following: Carmen Miner 2445 Calle Serena San Diego, CA 92139 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 31, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 31, 2027 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/01

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Fictitious business name(s): Sam's Concrete Located at: 4545 50th St. San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego

This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/06/2021

This business is hereby registered by the following: Samuel Lopez 4545 50th St. San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 01, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on November 01, 2027 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/01

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Fictitious business name(s): Impak Events & Travel Located at: 2706 Alta View Dr. San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/20/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Roshauna D. McGhee 2706 Alta View Dr. San Diego, CA 92139 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 25, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 25, 2027 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/01

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Fictitious business name(s): Keep'Em Cumin Located at: 2706 Alta View Dr. San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/20/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following:

Roshauna D. McGhee 2706 Alta View Dr. San Diego, CA 92139 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 25, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 25, 2027

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Fictitious business name(s): Caballero Outlet Located at: 5075 E. Federal Blvd. San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual

The first day of business was: 10/28/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Adrian Gerardo Caballero Barajas 6063 Hughes St. San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 28, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 28, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9024028

Fictitious business name(s): BACKOFFICEDESIGNS.COM Located at: 2822 Chatsworth Way Carlsbad, CA 92010 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 04/19/2017 This business is hereby registered by the following: William C. Kellaway 2822 Chatsworth Way Carlsbad, CA 92010 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 31, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 31, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

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Fictitious business name(s): Flower and Fray Located at: 6212 Valner Way San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 10/01/2022 This business is hereby registered by the following: Hello Pink Monday, LLC 6212 Valner Way San Diego, CA 92139

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 28, 2022

This fictitious business name will expire on October 28, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

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Fictitious business name(s): Lemon Grove Childcare Citronica Childcare Center Located at: 3468 Citrus St. Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 02/23/2018

This business is hereby registered by the following: IKUTI LLC 1267 Willis St. Ste. 200 Redding, CA 96001

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 28, 2022

This fictitious business name will expire on October 28, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

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Fictitious business name(s): Lake Murray Chevron Located at: 5600 Baltimore Dr. La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego This business is conducted by:

A Corporation

The first day of business was: 10/24/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Hallak Brothers INC 5600 Baltimore Dr. La Mesa, CA 91942

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 28, 2022

This fictitious business name will expire on October 28, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023533

Fictitious business name(s): Divorce Esquire Located at: 501 W. Broadway Ste. 800 San Diego, CA 92101 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 10/20/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Kymeshia Michelle Murphy 2 Corey Dr. Peabody, MA 01960 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 25, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 25, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9022242

Fictitious business name(s): Fern's Professional Notary Located at: 4150 Bonillo Dr. Apt. 141 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 06/08/2022

This business is hereby registered by the following: Fern L. Williams 4150 Bonillo Dr. Apt. 141 San Diego, CA 92115

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 07, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 07, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2022-9023657

Fictitious business name(s): Blkofe Expresso Bar Located at: 9090 Gramercy Dr. Apt. 149 San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above

This business is hereby registered by the following: Denise Hamilton 9090 Gramercy Dr. Apt. 149 San Diego, CA 92123 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 26, 2022 This fictitious business name will expire on October 26, 2027 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA

County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse 37-2022-00046467-CU-PTCTL

Petitioner or Attorney: Abyssinia Tadele Belay AKA Azeb Tadele Belay

To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Abyssinia Tadele Belay AKA Azeb Tadele Belay filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

PRESENT NAME: Abyssinia Tadele Belay AKA Azeb Tadele Belay

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: January 3, 2023 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61

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

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

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

To change a name on a legal document, including a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, and other identification, a certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issues the legal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified copy is required.

A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee.

Petitioners who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program may contact the assigned department for information on obtaining certified copies.

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

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

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

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

PROPOSED NAME: Azeb Tadele Belay

FICTITIOUS

The address of the court is:

330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 11/24, 12/01, 12/08, 12/15

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse 37-2022-00044555-CU-PT-

CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Christopher Leon Anderson on behalf of minor child

To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Christopher Leon Anderson on behalf of minor child filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

PRESENT NAME: Janee Nacole Johnson

PROPOSED NAME: Janee Nicole Anderson

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: December 21, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61

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

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

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

To change a name on a legal document, including a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, and other identification, a certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issues the legal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified copy is required.

A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee.

Petitioners who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program may contact the assigned department for information on obtaining certified copies.

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

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

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

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment

served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.

The address of the court is:

330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/01

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego

330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse 37-2022-00042755-CU-PTCTL

Petitioner or Attorney: Thao Ngoc Thoung Nguyen

To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Thao Ngoc Thoung Nguyen filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

PRESENT NAME: Thao Ngoc Thoung Nguyen

PROPOSED NAME: Mia Jane Nguyen

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: December 12, 2022 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61

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

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

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

To change a name on a legal document, including a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, and other identification, a certified copy of Decree

Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issues the legal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified copy is required.

A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee.

Petitioners who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program may contact the assigned department for information on obtaining certified copies.

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

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

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

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

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 11/03, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24

PROBATE

PETITION

OF

NOTICE

TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Doris Jean Savage

Case Number: 37-2022-00009851-PR-LACTL

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Doris Jean Savage

A Petition for Probate has been filed by Christopher L. Savage in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego

The Petition for Probate requests that Christopher L. Savage be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act.

(This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

on December 6, 2022, at 11:00 AM in Dept. 504 located at the Superior Court of California County of San Diego 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101 Probate Division

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

You may examine the file kept by the court.

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

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

Petitioner: Christopher L. Savage 2363-2 Adirondack Row San Diego, CA 92139 (619) 731-1608 11/24, 12/01, 12/08

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Esther R. Wickliffe Case Number: 37-2022-00044968-PR-PWCTL

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Esther R. Wickliffe

A Petition for Probate has been filed by Patience Wickliffe in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego

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

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

on January 5, 2023, at 1:30 PM in Department 503 located at the Superior Court of California County of San Diego 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101 Probate Division

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

You may examine the file kept by the court.

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

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

Petitioner:

BLACK HISTORY

1866

DUSE MOHAMAD ALI BORN Scholar, playwright, journalist, and African nationalist, Duse Mohamad Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt on November 24, 1866 to an Egyptian father, Ali Abdul Salam and a Sudanese mother. In 1912 Ali launched African Times and Orient Review, the first newspaper in England owned and published by a black person. Through this publi cation, he developed relationships with a number of black intellectuals, including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Alain Locke, and Marcus M. Garvey. He became particularly close to Garvey and joined Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) where he served as the foreign secretary and the head of African Affairs.

1935

RON DELLUMS BORN

Ronald Vernie Dellums, considered by many to be one of the most outspoken Congressmen in Washington, DC, was born on November 24, 1935, in Oakland, California to Willa Terry Dellums, a labor organizer, and Vernie Dellums, a long shoreman. In 1967, he was elected to the Berkeley City Council, quickly becoming known as a spokesperson for African American community affairs.

In 1970, Dellums was elected to Congress, where he served until 1998. He called for investi gations into alleged war crimes in Vietnam and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus. In 1986, he introduced the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act which called for sanctions on South Africa. President Ronald Reagan vetoed the bill, but his veto was overridden, the first time a presidential veto of a foreign policy measure was overridden by Congress in the 20th Century. Dellums remained in Congress until his resignation on February 6, 1998. In 2006, Dellums, a member of of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, was elected mayor of Oakland. He died at his home in Washington, D.C. on July 30, 2018, at the age of 82.

Local Food Resource from Live Well San Diego

The Salvation Army

• WHEN: Thursday, November 24, 2022 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

• WHERE: 1025 E Main St. El Cajon, CA 92021

Heavens Windows

• WHERE: 2820 Via Orange Way Ste. W, Spring Valley, CA 91978

• PHONE: (619) 303-7806

Local Places of Worship

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Food Banks & Distributuion Centers

San Diego Food Bank

• Find a distribution site near you

• Explore the “programs” section for resources

specific to seniors, children, and college students

Feeding San Diego

• Search for a food distribution site near you Grandma LuLu’s Table

• Offering plant-based breakfast to those in need

• Visit the website for event times and locations

Senior Food Distribution Sites

• Free meals for seniors aged 60 and older

• Visit the website for locations and information about meal delivery

Imperial Beach Food Distribution

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Somali Family Services

• Two food distribution

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Food Assistance Resources

CalFresh

• Apply for benefits

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San Diego Hunger Coalition

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Food Assistance Resource Flyer

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Giving Back

If possible, volunteer your time or donate to:

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• Your local food bank

• Your local place of worship

SOURCE: Live Well San Diego

ARTICLE CONTINUATION

DEFICIT:

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Democratic-controlled legislature estimated $97-billion surplus that led to the expan sion of Med-Cal eligibility to all immigrants in 2024, a boost in the earned income tax credit, and free preschool for 4-year-olds.

A relief package, priced at $17 billion, to help families, seniors and low-income Californians and small businesses was also

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