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In this issue

As LA County expands vote by mail due to pandemic, NAACP and CAP warn against eliminating polling places

NEWS

California State Senator Kamala Harris writes letter addressing police profiling of minorities in facemasks Page 2

Kristen Farrah Naeem Staff Writer

Opinion Google Maps 2020

Location of Signal Hill’s Well No. 8 at 6065 Cherry Ave., Long Beach

Signal Hill City Council approves next step in rebuilding Well No. 8

Council also okays contract with housing planner, but defers hiring cannabis analyst.

Bygone Days Column: The Great Depression before the New Deal Page 3

Anita W. Harris Staff Writer

Due to COVID-19 social-distancing requirements, members of the Signal Hill City Council met virtually by video conference for their regularly scheduled April 28 meeting.

Though the public viewing

system went down about 45 minutes into the meeting, the council continued covering its agenda, City Manager Hannah Shin-Heydorn told the Signal Tribune the next day.

“Unfortunately, our internet went out right in the midst of the meeting and, unfortunately, our recording also got canceled,”

Shin-Heydorn said. “Hopefully we won’t have any technical difficulties the next time around.”

During the meeting, council received a coronavirus update, agreed to proceed with Well 8 reconstruction, postponed hiring a financial consultant to assess see SH COUNCIL page 4

Out of the ordinary: A kitchen’s contribution in times of uncertainty

The Ordinarie is part of Michael “Tank” Gonzales’ effort to feed the elderly in Long Beach through World Central Kitchen.

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Whether by fate or coincidence on April 10, Chris Caldwell, founder and owner of Long Beach tavern The Ordinarie, read an article that fit with the mission he had recently embarked on.

Little Sisters of the Poor, the

San Pedro home for the elderly and impoverished, was in need of food and other donations.

In the times of COVID-19, The Raven and The Wolves tattoo studio owner Michael “Tank” Gonzales had reached out to Caldwell in early April to discuss signing on to provide food for the elderly

in local living facilities. The article seemed to come at the right time.

“On April 10, as we were finalizing the plan, I saw a news piece about the Little Sisters of the Poor in San Pedro needing food see KITCHEN page 7

With many counties across the nation, including Los Angeles County, expanding vote-by-mail options for constituents in order to support voter participation and safety during the coronavirus pandemic, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Center for American Progress (CAP) have released a joint publication stating that an increase in vote by mail registration should not be used as a reason to eliminate or decrease in person polling places.

A proposal to mail ballots to every registered voter in Los Angeles County passed unanimously by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, April 28. Beginning with the General Election in November, all county residents will receive vote-by-mail ballots.

The accepted motion also includes instructions to send a five-signature letter to the Los Angeles County State Legislative Delegation asking for emergency state funds to be allocated for the accelerated expansion of vote by mail procedures.

The motion asks that the Los Angeles County State see VOTING page 7

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, L.A. County has shut down all bars & restaurants, with the exception of pick-up and delivery.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer take-out at this time. So, we will be temporarily closing our doors until the crisis is over.

Stay safe and healthy!

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California State Senator Kamala Harris writes letter addressing police profiling of minorities in facemasks Kristen Farrah Naeem Staff Writer

California State Senator Kamala D. Harris, along with five other senators, sent a letter requesting that law enforcement be trained not to profile or stop minorities for wearing masks in public to Attorney General William Barr and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray. Harris and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey requested that the guidance be passed on to local and state police departments by The Justice Department.

The letter referenced 2014 guidance from the US Department of Justice that stated “biased practices […] are unfair, promote mistrust of law enforcement, and perpetuate negative and harmful stereotypes. Moreover—and vitally important—biased practices

are ineffective.”

However, Harris and Booker’s statement to Barr and Wray claims that further anti-bias guidance is needed during the pandemic.

According to the letter by Harris and Booker, less than a week after the CDC recommended the use of face masks in public spaces on April 3, Black men began reporting instances of harassment by police. The County of Los Angeles released similar guidance April 10.

The letter details recent instances in the country of Black men being followed or detained by police officers because they were wearing face coverings to help guard against the spread of coronavirus.

“In Miami, Florida, an African-American doctor wore a mask as he prepared for a volunteer shift to test homeless

individuals for COVID-19,” the letter reads, “he was subsequently handcuffed and detained outside his home. The Miami Police Department is investigating the incident.”

The letter warns that the fear of police harassment caused by such incidents may cause African Americans to be reluctant to wear masks in public. This is especially concerning due to the fact that African Americans are catching and being hospitalized for coronavirus at disproportionate rates in many parts of the country, including Long Beach.

“In Wood River, Illinois, for instance, two African American men in surgical masks recorded themselves being followed by a police officer as they left Walmart,” Harris and Booker’s letter states, “The police officer reportedly asked for their identification

and erroneously told them the city’s ordinance prohibited wearing masks in public.

Wood River Police are now investigating the incident internally, with the assistance of the local NAACP.” Wearing a face covering in public places may lessen the amount of droplets released by an infected person when they talk, cough and sneeze, thereby potentially reducing the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus. A person can be positive for coronavirus without knowing or showing any symptoms.

The Long Beach branch of the NAACP has been trying to increase the amount of masks worn by people of color in Long Beach, and distributed masks to 100 Black Men of Long Beach, the National Council of Negro Women, senior centers and more.

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On the other hand, the letter also referred to incidents between police and African Americans who declined to wear masks, including a video showing a man being dragged off public transportation by four police officers in Pennsylvania the day after masks were made mandatory for passengers.

“With the ongoing public health emergency,” the letter states, “it is more important than ever for law enforcement to build trust with communities of color. Accordingly, we urge your agencies to immediately provide training and guidance on bias, policing, and disproportionate or selective enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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The Long Beach Unified School District announced Thursday, April 30 that it is adding “supper” meals, starting next week, to the breakfast and lunch meals being offered for children at 27 school sites.

The schools offering all three meals are Addams, Avalon, Birney, Bixby, Burbank, Chavez, Dooley, Garfield, Gompers, Grant, Harte, Herrera, King, Lafayette, Lincoln, Lindbergh, McKinley, Oropeza, Riley, Roosevelt, Signal Hill, Smith, Twain, Washington, Webster, Whittier and Willard, according to the district.

All three meals will be handed out during the usual meal service hour of 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, beginning Monday.

Seven other schools — Emerson, Gant, Henry, Hughes, MacArthur, Marshall and Rogers — will continue to offer breakfast and lunch during the same hourlong period, according to the district.

The meals for children ages 1 to 18 are provided at no cost to families.

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The Great Depression before the New Deal

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The Great Depression saw many Americans without jobs, something the novel coronavirus is causing today. In this file photo, unemployed citizens line up for free food.

As the 1920s neared an end, many were convinced that prosperous times would go on forever. On Sept. 3, 1929, stock prices reached their highest level yet, but a slow decline began.

On Oct. 24th, an abrupt dip led bankers to attempt stemming the tide. On Oct. 29th, Black Tuesday, a record 16,410,030 shares were traded as huge blocks of stock were dumped for whatever they would bring. By Dec. 1st, stocks on the New York Stock Exchange had dropped in value by $26,000,000,000 ($391,770,000,000 today). The day after the crash President Herbert Hoover assured the public that the business of the country was on a sound and prosperous basis. All that was needed was time. In November 1929, he had summoned business leaders to the White House and secured

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promises from them to maintain wages. He also received commitments from them to spend $1.8 billion ($15 billion) for new construction and repairs to stimulate employment.

At first, Hoover was praised by the press for his actions, which allowed Long Beach and other parts of the nation to grow throughout most of 1930. In Long Beach, the Ford Motor factory opened, ground was broken for the Procter & Gamble soap plant, a new wharf to allow bigger cargo ships access to the harbor was completed, and a $100,000 water plant was put into service.

Residential districts such as Bixby Knolls started selling new homes, and two new schools, Lindbergh and Naples, opened to meet the educational needs of the many families moving to Long Beach. Economic conditions im-

proved somewhat in early 1931 until a series of bank collapses in Europe and the drought and dust hitting the Plains states sent another wave of terror through the American economy. Farmers were unable to sustain their crops and, as a result, some 2.5 million people would leave the Plains states, most headed to California.

Long Beach did have oil, new industries, and a seemingly bright future, but it could not deal with all of the displaced workers from Dust Bowl states seeking employment in Long Beach. In an attempt to remedy the downturn in the job market, the American Legion asked that only American citizens be employed by business firms, resulting in the repatriation of 120,000 Mexican laborers from California. Going a bit further, the Long Beach City Council passed an ordinance mandating that only residents of the city could be hired to build the new municipal auditorium.

By late November 1930, the veneer that everything was okay. began to crumble. Long Beach churches were asked to open their doors and give homeless men a night’s lodging. Nearby Fort MacArthur furnished 100 cots and bedding for the itinerant men who had come to seemingly prosperous Long Beach looking for work. Business sales were sagging.

In January 1931, those municipal employees not dependent on their salaries for a living were asked to take a leave of absence so their jobs could be filed by men who had to support their families. Married women were chiefly affected by this proposal. At a county conference in Los Angeles, it was agreed that every possible dollar of county

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money should be spent in employing manpower. Contractors doing public work were asked to abandon machines and use hand labor so far as possible. One rule was that persons who refused to work, although able to do so, would not be carried on the charity list, and would have to “shift for themselves.”

In March 1931, $174,000 ($3 million) was appropriated by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for Long Beach street projects. Men paid $4 ($68) a day were employed two days a week. Under this system, as many as 1500 were put to work.

The five-month period, which ended in May 1931, marked the heaviest drain ever on the social service organizations of the city. The Social Welfare League, American Red Cross and Catholic Welfare Bureau went into 4,000 Long Beach homes, providing relief in the form of food, fuel and clothing. Five thousand grocery orders were distributed by the agencies; 2000 pairs of shoes and 11,000 pieces of clothing were given out. From December 1, 1930, to May 1, 1931, the Salvation Army served 10,473 meals and provided beds for 7100 men. By mid-May 1931 the resources of these agencies were beginning to wear thin, agencies were forced to evaluate requests for aid based on need.

The City Council looked at ways to cut expenditures. Oil revenues were down and Long Beach was feeling severe financial pressures. A cost-savings study recommended a ten percent reduction in all salaries.

Police and Fire wages could not be touched, however, since they were mandated under a city or-

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dinance. On June 11, 1931, the City Manager decided to set an example and announced plans to cut his salary, even though the city charter said he should not be paid less than $7500 ($128,000) a year. Establishment of a fiveday workweek (employees used to work 9-1 on Saturdays), with appropriate salary cuts to reflect the shortened work period, was also recommended. City employee sick leave cost the city $28,000 ($475,000) per year; it was proposed employees receive no pay for the first three days of illness and that a nurse from the Health Department visit them to verify they were seriously ill.

City Manager Claude C. Lewis worked on consolidating departments; when city managers retired they were not replaced, their duties assigned to another department head. Lewis, however, did create a new position, that of Assistant City Manager whose job duties included being the director of personnel and looking into the efficiency of each city department.

New taxes were considered.

The city began to charge for the collection of garbage from business places, hotels, clubs and restaurants. Individual houses were still exempt. A business and professional tax was also instituted–any member of any profession who maintained or occupied an office or place of business within the city was required to pay a license tax.

By year’s end, the Ford Motor Company had laid off 500 employees and trimmed their operations to a bare minimum.

In February 1932, Seaside National Bank was forced to close its doors. County funds were depleted, and money no longer available to cities to provide jobs for the unemployed. In January 1932, the City Council put a public relief bond measure on the ballot. It was the only way Long Beach could legally raise money for public relief. The measure was overwhelmingly defeated.

People had lost confidence in the city government; they didn’t like the new taxes or the unemployment situation. In 1932, a recall petition to oust the City Council, City Manager and City Attorney was instituted.

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the potential financial impact of cannabis businesses, but did award a consulting contract to plan new housing.

COVID-19 update Signal Hill has seven confirmed cases of coronavirus as of April 28, Shin-Heydorn told the council. She encouraged the community to continue maintaining social distancing.

“Health officials have confirmed physical distancing is working and LA County is seeing a slowing of transmission,” she said. “Every day, fewer people are being infected than earlier in the course of this pandemic.”

As to when those restrictions will lift, Shin-Heydorn cited Governor Gavin Newsom’s April 28 four-stage outline for reopening the economy.

Shin-Heydorn noted that we are currently in Stage 1– ensuring workplace safety and hospital preparedness.

Stage 2 will include opening more public spaces and lower-risk workplaces adapted to minimize virus spread. Those include schools and childcare centers, retail stores with curbside pickup, manufacturing facilities and offices for which “telework” is not an option.

Moving from Stage 1 to Stage 2 depends on when the number of hospitalizations stabilizes and when the state can meet its needs for coronavirus testing and contact-tracing.

“The transition to Stage 2 will occur through a statewide modification to the stay-at-home order,” Shin-Heydorn said.

Eventually, Stage 3 will see the reopening of higher-risk workplaces, such as hair and nail salons, gyms, movie theaters, sports arenas without live audiences and religious institu-

tions, Shin-Heydorn said.

Stage 4 will mark the end of the stay-at-home order, reopening all workplaces and conventions centers and allowing live-audience sport and concert events.

In the meantime, the City offers free coronavirus testing for residents showing symptoms, Shin-Heydorn said. And she announced a new Signal Hill COVID-19 hotline– (562) 9897392– that residents can call any time for recorded information updates.

Shin-Heydorn also encouraged residents to use the City’s website to sign up for its electronic newsletter. She said the City sent postcards this week to residents and businesses informing them of safer-at-home policies in case they don’t access electronic sources.

“Our goal is to try and reach all of our residents,” she said.

Well 8 After conducting a public hearing and receiving no objection, the council approved another step toward reconstructing Well 8 by authorizing the community-development director to file a notice of exemption with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.

Since the State categorizes the project as repair-and-maintenance of an existing facility, the project is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines, City Attorney Dave Aleshire said.

Technically, the council did not even need to conduct a public hearing because of the project’s exempt status, but wanted to do so for full transparency, Shin-Heydorn noted.

Public Works Director Kelli Tunnicliff said that Well 8 is actually in Long Beach, at

6065 Cherry Ave., but that Long Beach did not object to its reconstruction.

Property owners within a 300-foot radius of the site also did not object after the City informed them of the project, Tunnicliff said.

Rehabilitating Well 8 will start in October and continue for almost a year, Tunnicliff said.

The council had approved contracts for project management and plan design earlier this year, according to the staff report.

The project entails deconstructing the old well and drilling a new 1,000-gallon-per-minute, stainless-steel, 18-inch wide well, the same size and capacity as the former well. The new well will use existing pipe connections and have a backup generator, Tunnicliff said.

The project’s budget is $3.5 million, according to a Jan. 28 staff report, with $1.5 million funded by a zero-interest loan from Southern California’s Water Replenishment District, the state’s largest groundwater-management agency.

Once complete, Well 8 will join Wells 7 and 9 in supplying Signal Hill’s 11,800 residents with groundwater, to which the City owns extraction rights, avoiding the need to purchase higher-cost water from the Southern California Metropolitan Water District.

Council members expressed appreciation that the project is moving forward. Repairing the well was part of the impetus behind the council raising water rates earlier this year, as previously reported in the Signal Tribune.

Cannabis analyst The council agreed to postpone a decision on hiring a consultant to analyze the potential

fiscal impact of cannabis businesses on Signal Hill. The City currently bans all cannabis-related businesses, including use for medical purposes, though such businesses are legal in California.

Shin-Heydorn reminded the council that the City conducted a formal survey of residents earlier this year with results showing that most support allowing cannabis businesses as a way to boost city revenue, as reported in the Signal Tribune.

After the council considered those results during its March 10 meeting, it asked staff to estimate the fiscal impact on the city of the different types of such businesses, including medical-retail dispensaries, research-and-testing sites, manufacturing facilities for edibles and other products, recreational retail-stores and indoor commercial cultivation on private property, Shin-Heydorn said.

The City solicited bids from consultants for that work and received cost estimates ranging from $10,500 to $39,000.

Given the wide variation in cost along with other factors, Shin-Heydorn suggested that the council defer making a decision to hire a consultant until its scheduled fiscal-year 2020-2022 budget workshop on May 28.

“As there is currently no dedicated funding source for this project, and in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the anticipated decline in revenues to the City’s General Fund, staff is recommending that the project be considered as a decision package for the fiscal year 2020-2022,” Shin-Heydorn said.

The council meeting went offline to the public at this point, but Shin-Heydorn confirmed with the Signal Tribune the next

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Housing planning Shin-Heydorn also told the Signal Tribune that though the public could no longer view the meeting, the council approved a three-year contract with consultants Castañeda & Associates for $93,200.

The City had applied for and received a $160,000 Senate Bill 2 grant at the end of last year for just this purpose– to help plan how to meet the State’s next cycle of new housing requirements between 2021 and 2029, as previously reported in the Signal Tribune.

Castañeda & Associates will conduct an inventory of potential sites for new housing, prepare affordable-housing zoning standards and assist with community outreach and accessory-dwelling unit and density-bonus ordinances, according to the staff report.

The City must submit its new-housing plan to the State

by October 15, 2021.

The State’s new 6th-Cycle Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) requirement calls for 1.3 million additional dwelling units regionally, according to the staff report. Signal Hill’s share of that is 516 units– more than three times the previous cycle’s allocation of 169 new units across four income levels.

Since 2014, in accordance with the RHNA’s 5th Cycle, the City has built 120 new units but still needs to complete eight more in the “moderate” income level and 41 in the “above-moderate” income category by 2021.

Shin-Heydorn told the Signal Tribune that during its discussion Tuesday, the council did not express any particular concerns about housing, only clarification about one of the firms that submitted a bid.

“There was [also] a clarification regarding which of the current RHNA goals we have met,” she said. “Everything else was approved quickly, with no questions.”

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PUBLIC NOTICE by COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT No. 29 OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY of PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED MASTER CONNECTION FEE AND CONNECTION FEE RATE ORDINANCES The Board of Directors of County Sanitation District No. 29 of Los Angeles County will hold a public hearing on May 13, 2020, at 1:30 p.m., via teleconference. The purpose of this hearing is to provide the public with an opportunity to make comments regarding the Master Connection Fee Ordinance and Connection Fee Rate Ordinance introduced to the Board on April 8, 2020. The boundaries of Sanitation District No. 29 are shown below.

Sanitation District No. 29 provides wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal services. The District’s Connection Fee Ordinances prescribes fees for connecting to the District’s sewerage system or for significantly increasing the quantity and strength of wastewater discharged by an existing user. The connection fee is based on the quantity and strength of the discharge. The discharge from a single-family home is equal to one capacity unit. All other user categories are charged proportionately. It is proposed that the connection fee rate be decreased from $4,530 per capacity unit to $3,828.75 per capacity unit.

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THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall 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.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: July 31, 2020; Time: 8:30a.m., Dept. A, Room 904. The address of the court is the same as above. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, THE SIGNAL TRIBUNE, 1399 E. 28th, Street, Signal Hill, April 24 & May 1, 8, 15, 2020.

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sole Dba.: ‘’ ROGELIO ALTAMIRANO JR.Š ‘’, to the depositor: ‘’ altamirano-el, rogelioŠ ‘’, nom deguerre: ‘’ altamirano jr., rogelioŠ ‘’. All property , of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: ‘’ altamirano-el, rogelioŠ ‘’, nom deguerre: ‘’ altamirano jr., rogelioŠ ‘’, as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : ‘’ HOUSE OF TOLTECAH TRUSTŠ ‘’, a Private Divine Unincorporated Trust.

This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank , nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor. This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. Any and All Attorneys with a License from the BAR Association are explicitly prohibited from administrating ‘’ HOUSE OF TOLTECAH TRUSTŠ ‘’ property without handwritten consent from each and every trustee, after said Attorneys have furnished their nationality, and Principal for whom’s interest they are working Pursuant to Public Law 89-487 & Public Law 75-583, to Trustees in plain writing.

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In God We Trust. Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: ‘’ altamirano-el, rogelioŠ ‘’, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: ‘’ ALTAMIRANO JR., ROGELIOŠ ‘’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘’ ROGELIO ALTAMIRANO JR.Š ‘’, and, ‘’ ALTAMIRANO, ROGELIOŠ ‘’, corp.sole Dba.: ‘’ ROGELIO ALTAMIRANOŠ ‘’ having reached the age of majority hereby duly affirms to declare my intention to be as my pedigree subscribes, as an: Toltecah Moorish American National , but not a citizen of the United States. I declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to the Moorish Empire, In God We Trust, The united states of America, Republic ( Major ), The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, etc.. In harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and all Natural laws governing moors, I hereby Declare and Proclaim my nationality as an: Toltecah Moorish American National. I am that I am: ‘’ altamirano jr., rogelioŠ ‘’, from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: “ altamirano-el, rogelioŠ �. Notice of Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: ‘’ ALTAMIRANO JR., ROGELIOŠ “, corp.

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for their seniors,” Caldwell said.

“I called Tank, I forwarded the article and he called the sisters. We started delivering [food] there on [April] 13.”

The food delivery to the religious charity is part of an initiative led and organized by Gonzales to bring World Central Kitchen to Long Beach.

World Central Kitchen is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization, which provides meals around the world following natural disasters and was founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres in 2010.

“We’re so happy and excited,” Angel Borro, dietary manager at Little Sisters of the Poor said in a video uploaded to the Ordinarie’s instagram page. “I told my residents about it, a few, and they were very excited, very happy and very thankful […].”

The program, which Gonzales had volunteered with in the past, is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization, which provides meals following natural disasters founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres. “[He] reached out to [WCK],”

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Caldwell said. “They asked him to lead efforts on a new program in Long Beach and he reached out to me at The Ordinarie to discuss how we could make this happen.”

On his end, Caldwell and his team were responsible for planning meals and figuring out how to package them. Gonzales reached out and secured the senior living facilities and had UPS donate a truck to help with the food deliveries.

They partnered with Lola’s, a Mexican cuisine restaurant, and together they are making over a thousand meals a day for seniors staying at home in local senior facilities.

“Just like so many others that work in this industry, providing is very natural to me,” Chelsea McNeill, chef at The Ordinarie said. “Usually that means bringing people together around a table for a meal, but in these times that is not a possibility. Instead, knowing that my team and I can provide healthy, delicious food for our community not only brings me a sense of joy but also pride in the industry and community I love so deeply.”

Just weeks before, McNeill wouldn’t have been able to say the same. She had to ask her team not to come back to work.

“It was extremely heartbreaking, I just wanted to find a way for them to come back […],” McNeill said on the tavern’s instagram page.

WCK allowed The Ordinarie the opportunity to hire back its kitchen staff to help make meals and for McNeill, their willingness to contribute has been touching.

“Today coming in, we have my guys back with me,” McNeill said. “The kitchen isn’t so empty, it isn’t so lonely anymore.”

According to McNeill, as of this week approximately 5400 meals have been delivered to local senior facilities.

“The first call I made was to one of my guys to tell them about the program and see if they wanted to come back and help out,” McNeill said. “Their response was ‘I’ve been waiting for the call Chef!’ Man, I never felt so much relief and gratitude. Their willingness to help is admirable.”

who formerly mingled with the crowned heads of Europe, a graduate of West Point and a former head of a newspaper publishers association who turned down the chance to become Governor of his home State eight years earlier to go into business in California.

Southern California was becoming the Mecca of transient families from all parts of the country.

Lured by the fine climate and promise of a better future, thousands left their homes for the sunshine of the Southland. Such SPRINGTIME wanderings created untold problems forSAVINGS the areas they wanted to callLock home. in your price Though a Republican town

by tradition, Long Beach gave Franklin D. Roosevelt a majority of 7181 votes in the November election. It was time for a change and new solutions to the economic woes of the nation.

More about the Roosevelt’s “New Deal” in the 4th and final part of this series.

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lic that a recall measure would bring disaster. There was no provision in the City Charter to hold a special election to fill the vacancies should the recall prove successful. The running of Long Beach would be turned over to the State. The 1932 recall election was defeated, but in 1934 a recall was approved and eleven city officials were without a job.

Public relief was something city, county, state and federal governments had never dealt with before. It had always been handled by charitable institutions.

Now new rules and new players were getting into the game. Long Beach had done what it legally could to raise money for public relief, and the measure had been defeated. While they were looking into the legality of tapping into Gas Department revenues, the American Legion proposed holding a drive to raise $100,000 ($1.7 million) for employing outof-work men in planting trees along Long Beach streets.

By Oct. 21, 1932, the County was giving aid to 151,628 people, or one-tenth of the county population. On the charity rolls were an ex-brigadier general, working for $3.20 ($60)a day; an ex-State’s attorney of a Midwestern State, an Austrian countess

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Legislative Delegation fund “recovery efforts that support the limitation of available in-person voting locations and the recruitment of election workers.”

The NAACP and CAP strongly advise against any limitation of in person polling places, despite the benefits of social distancing mail in ballots provide. While vote by mail ballots reduce the amount of voters who have to visit polling places in person, vote-by-mail options do not allow for the same day voter registration available at many in person voting locations.

“Officials have called for expanding opportunities to vote-bymail, a critical, commonsense step that states should prioritize in order to help protect the health and safety of voters and poll workers alike,” the joint publication by the NAACP and CAP states. “Unfortunately, some officials have coupled this call with efforts to reduce or even eliminate in-person polling places, which could potentially deny access to the ballot for millions of Americans.”

The column by the NAACP and CAP outlines five recommendations for counties planning to expand vote by mail programs: • Keep in-person voting locations, which should allow early voting for at least two weeks before elections, as well as designating voting locations on tribal lands.

• Expand same day voter registration and online registration options.

• Develop nondiscriminatory signature verification standards and ballot tracking programs.

• Simplify requirements for ab-

sentee ballots.

• Create initiatives to educate voters on new voting policies.

According to the NAACP and CAP, African Americans are often at a disadvantage when it comes to vote by mail options, as they are more likely to move residences often and experience homelessness. Disabled people who need special accommodations when voting may also be put at a disadvantage if they cannot receive the assistance they need when voting through the mail.

“There are a number of in-person voting options from which states and localities can choose,” the joint publication by the NAACP and CAP states, “including traditional polling places, vote centers, and curbside or drive-up voting. By working with election officials, public health experts, voting advocates, and infectious disease specialists, states can choose the in-person voting options that work best for their voting-eligible population.”

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