Thursday, April 1, 2021 Vol. 19 No. 52

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Lumsdaine writes ANXIOUS STUDENTS book on RETURN TO CAMPUS Friday 75˚ family ■ More than a year after “I was excited, but then when campuses closed, Downey the kids first actually showed Saturday 73˚ students returned Monday up – that first group of kids – it history was emotional,” said Principal to optional in-person Carrie White. “It’s been a ghost teaching. ■ “Indomitable: A Legacy town with just a handful of adults Sunday 77˚ of Love, Courage and on campus; to just see students walking back in with their Perseverance” was years in By Alex Dominguez Staff Writer backpacks and their computers, the making. it was energizing, really just DOWNEY – There was a energizing to see them back on ON THIS DAY palpable mix of excitement and campus.” APRIL 1 By Alex Dominguez nerves across Downey Unified According to White, Warren Staff Writer School District on Monday, as the only saw around 35% of its 1853: district’s 20 schools reopened to students opt to return, though Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first U.S. DOWNEY – A Downey students after more than a year that number is expected to city to pay its firefighters a regular resident’s new book tells a true of closure. fluctuate. salary. story of love and perseverance Teachers and staff stood “The last number I saw – on a backdrop of war, revolution, anxiously posted at several entry which was right around last 1884: racism and separation. ways to campus as students and week - was right around 1200,” Florence Blanchfield, an American “Indomitable: A Legacy of their parents began to line the said White. “There are students nurse who was the first woman to Love, Courage, and Perseverance” gates at Gauldin Elementary that if they choose to come back, become a fully ranked officer of the U.S. depicts the romance and journey School. then we can look and we can Army, was born. make sure to follow the safety of author Joseph Lumsdaine’s “We are so excited, I felt like 1933: parents. it was Christmas,” said Principal protocol, the number of students in a classroom, if it works in their Nazi Germany began persecuting Lumsdaine spent over two Sylvia Estrella. “All the staff, schedule, hopefully they’ll come Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned years interviewing his siblings we’ve been really excited.” back.” businesses. and compiling other research It was a moment that many before putting have been waiting for since DUSD “We might also have students 1960: pen to paper. that decide ‘this doesn’t work for initially closed its campuses on The first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was Originally, he me; I’m going to stay on distance March 13 last year. launched from Cape Canaveral. had not intended learning.’ After talking to all It’s been months of hard to make it a the districts that have opened, 1970: published work. conversations and painstakingly mostly in Orange County, they combing through every said you do see some movement. President Richard Nixon signed a “Through the measure banning cigarette advertising imaginable detail for the district We also think this week will be a years, when I would tell people on radio and TV. to be able to get to this point. chance for students and families the story of my family, people With the moment now arrived, to gauge if this works or not, but would say, ‘You should write that Estrella says that she is “100%” more than anything I think this 1976: down, that’s interesting,’” said confident in the school’s and the gives us the opportunity to work Apple Computer was founded by Lumsdaine. district’s ability to keep students through things so hopefully Gauldin Elementary kindergarten teacher Nicolle Carter greets students Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald “I really wasn’t planning at and staff safe. we will come back for summer returns to campus Monday. (Photo by Alex Dominguez) Wayne. first on writing it for the general “The minute it occurred, they school.” public. It was for my family, and 1987: were always proactive; Downey White added that the school I come from a pretty large family. Unified has been preparing us was hoping for a “robust summer finish out the school year. drive-thru; I want them to be In his first major speech on the My parents had 11 kids; I was the in person with as many peers as epidemic, President Ronald Reagan for this opening,” said Estrella. school” to help students make “This week is only four days. youngest. There’s only seven of possible, but most importantly told doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve “With our ventilation, the up credits and classes and repair This is where we get our protocol us left of that generation, but for their family to see them cross declared AIDS public health enemy purifying the students’ desks, grades that may have suffered in place, teachers figure out the there’s 23 grandkids, 38 great that stage is so important...and No. 1.” they’ve taken the guidelines and from the time away. technology because they’re doing grandkids.” gone above and beyond.” whatever we do for the class of There are a few nerves simultaneous zoom,” said White. 1999: “I thought that’s a good 2021, we do for 2020.” Estrella added that the staff amongst the high school’s staff, “I feel like this week is our trial A New Jersey man was arrested and audience anyways.” at Gauldin has stayed vigilant especially as teachers have and error and getting out all the “I’m committed, and I gave charged with originating the “Melissa” However, Lumsdaine’s to remain visible, transparent witnessed some of their students kinks.” them my word that we will have e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 an in-person for them. I’m niece – a professional editor – and answer questions when they lose loved ones throughout the “Then when we get back million computers worldwide. hopeful that the class of 2020 will encouraged him to publish. could. course of the pandemic, with [from Spring Break], we have get that, and we can do it for both “We had our first parent several losing family themselves. 35 school days and it’s really 2003: “She and the copy editor, back-to-back. That’s my hope, meeting, and after our first making sure we do all we can to American troops rescued Army Pfc. after the drafts and reading and White did confirm, however, but we’ll have a much better idea parent meeting we had quite a support students so that they can Jessica Lynch from a hospital in all that, said ‘You really should that every teacher and staff probably mid-April, towards the few parents decide to come back finish strong and – really more Nasiriyah, Iraq, where she had been put this out there because there member has had the opportunity end of April, and then we’ll have are things that are relatable to to hybrid,” said Estrella. “They to get vaccinated, if they chose than anything – hopefully we can held prisoner since her unit was to make a decision.” ambushed nine days earlier. people in current times.” want answers, parents would like to. do something for our students their children safe, and children and get that in person graduation Superintendent Dr. John At its core, Indomitable just want to be back on campus.” “Coming off of that and that we’re really hoping for.” Garcia likened students return to is a tale of love. His father then being really excited for the “first day of school.” Birthdays an American and his mother According to statistics some about the vaccination, it It is still early for any Chinese, Lumsdaine’s parents’ released by DUSD, approximately was just wanting that second concrete discussions about end “It has been a long 12 months Scottish singer Susan Boyle (60), relationship endured two wars, 50% of students have opted to vaccination,” said White. “It of the year activities for seniors. without our students, and we bestselling author Brad Meltzer (51), social unrest, and the challenges remain in full distance learning. took a lot of conversations, a lot However, should numbers are overjoyed to have them television host Rachel Maddow (48), that come with immigration and That holds mostly true at of processing. A lot of [staff] continue to trend downward as back on our campuses,” said MMA fighter Vitor Belfort (44), wrestler (41) and social media star raising a biracial family at that Gauldin, with Estrella estimating have that second vaccination, they have been in recent weeks Garcia. “While we are so happy Randy Orton Logan Paul (26). time. about a 51% student return rate to and if not they’ll have it within and restrictions lessen, White is to welcome back our hybrid the campus. this next week or so.” hopeful that some sort of event students, we will continue “It deals with poverty, the can be held for this year’s and to support a robust Distance Parent Iliana Miranda, who Deaths impact of war on families, “I think helping them last year’s senior classes. Learning program. Students will has a fifth grader and a third PTSD, it deals with racism,” said understand all the safety protocol, have options to be able to move In 1984, Motown singer Marvin Gaye grader at Gaulding, said that her “I think when we return from Lumsdaine. I think the District did a really from Hybrid back into Distance was shot and killed by his father. Gaye family was very excited to send Spring Break, we have got to make Lumsdaine says that his good job of going to the highest Learning based on what will work was shot three times after intervening her sons back to school. decisions. I know the District in an argument between his parents. aim for the book is not to make level of safety protocol, because best for them. Over the next few is really committed – from the He was 44. “It’s been pretty difficult; there’s things we have to do and weeks, we will continue to make a profit. On the contrary, he top, the board, Dr. Garcia, all the it was hard for them in the then there’s recommendations, ongoing adjustments to both our Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest living has committed any royalties way down – I believe everyone is beginning,” said Miranda. and they went with a lot of the Hybrid and Distance Learning person, died in 2015 at age 117. it collects to the Downey Los committed to giving the students “Throughout the whole process recommendations.” models as needed to make sure Amigos Kiwanis. the best possible option for it became even harder so they’re we provide the best instruction More importantly, he hopes There are just under 40 days graduation, and we really want very excited to come back to for our students regardless of the that the book will promote the remaining in the semester, in person even if that means Book Recommendation school.” leaving a little more than a delivery method.” message found in its byline. multiple graduation ceremonies “The Hemingway Stories: As featured When asked if she or her sprint for students and teachers spread out over days kind of like “The front of the book has in the film by Ken Burns and Lynn children were nervous, Miranda to settle into the transition and the colleges do. I do not want some Chinese writing on it….The Novick on PBS” by Ernest Hemingway said that “it’s just excitement.” Chinese words say ‘love conquers The Hemingway Stories features all,’” said Lumsdaine. “I’m not nervous or anything Hemingway’s most significant short like that, they’re not nervous stories in chronological order, so “I believe in that. I think either,” said Miranda. “I think A Gauldin viewers of the film as well as fans old people reading [the book] should it’s everything: seeing their Elementary and new can follow the trajectory of his believe that they can overcome teachers, seeing their friends, student sits at impressive life and career. anything, that they can overcome getting out of the house, being his desk. racism, poverty, injustice, Hemingway’s beloved classics, such as with the other kids.” “The Short and Happy Life of Francis separation, war… everything can Macomber,” “Up in Michigan,” “Indian be overcome if you persevere.” Miranda said that it was an Photo courtesy Camp,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “easy decision” for her family. Downey “What fuels perseverance? are accompanied by fresh insights from Unified School What fuels the courage to put up “Me and my children, my renowned writers around the world— District. with stuff, to me really is love.” husband and I, we just couldn’t Mario Vargas Llosa, Edna O’Brien, wait to go back to school, for Abraham Verghese, Tim O’Brien, and “Indomitable” can be found them to start interacting, to go to Mary Karr. on Amazon. class,” said Miranda. “Distance Tobias Wolff’s introduction adds a new learning is kind of difficult, perspective to Hemingway’s work, and because I believe they’re not Wolff has selected additional stories learning as much as when they that demonstrate Hemingway’s talent come here to school.” and range. Over at Warren, the energy was just as optimistic as it was jittery. 2 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, April 1, 2021

Former Downey mayor tours Crime Report

FEMA vaccination site •Detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred on 3/9/2021 at about 1 am in the 7100 block of Rio Flora. An unknown suspect(s) fired three shots. Nothing was hit and ■ The vaccination month. surveillance video suggests the shots were fired into the air. Officers on scene were not able to determine the type of suspect “Despite the swift pace with center at Cal State L.A. vehicle, which left eastbound Rio Flora. Forensics responded to which the Biden administration may close next month, the location for evidence collection. has vaccinated 100 million causing concern. Americans, our nation is •Detectives are investigating a commercial burglary that still at grave risk of another occurred on 3/10/2021 at about 4:45 am in the 9900 block of wave of this deadly virus,” Lakewood Blvd (Trading Post). Two suspects removed the glass DOWNEY – Former Downey Congressman Jimmy Gomez said from the front door of the liquor store and gained entry. They mayor and current Civilian Aide in a statement. “The vaccination stole $900 worth of cigarettes and fled in a vehicle. The incident to the Secretary of the Army center at Cal State L.A. is nothing was captured on security cameras. Mario A. Guerra toured FEMA’s short of essential in maintaining mass vaccination center at Cal •Detectives are investigating an assault with a vehicle an equitable vaccine distribution that occurred on 3/11/2021 at about 12 pm in the 9900 block of State L.A. on Tuesday as federal for underserved Angelenos.” officials urged the vaccine site to Brookshire Ave. The adult female victim was in an altercation stay open amid the rising threat FEMA has indicated it will with an adult female suspect. The victim saw the suspect in of a fourth wave of Covid-19. continue to provide support traffic. The suspect stopped next to the victim, got out, and in the form of funding and began assaulting the victim as she remained in her vehicle. The Mario A. Guerra presents commemorative coins to soldiers at the mass Unlike other local vaccination personnel to the Cal State L.A. suspect returned to her vehicle and intentionally rammed the vaccination site at Cal State L.A. sites in L.A. County, the center at site. However, the direct federal victim’s vehicle. The victim was not injured. The victim believes Cal State L.A. is operated by the supply of vaccines to the facility the suspect is currently dating the victim’s former boyfriend. state and federal governments. It will cease on April 11. maintaining the site’s federal center, where soldiers from the operates seven days a week and •Detectives are investigating a strong-arm robbery that On March 25, Gomez allotment of COVID-19 vaccines California National Guard and occurred on 3/13/2021 at about 10:20 pm in the 8200 block of is capable of administering up to along with infrastructure and from Fort Carson are operating 6,000 vaccines daily, although on sent a letter to acting FEMA Puritan. The adult male victim met with the suspect to give administrator Robert Fenton, personnel. the vaccine distribution together him a small amount of marijuana. The suspect entered the some days it has administered up with FEMA and the California urging the agency to either extend On Tuesday, Guerra, a victim’s car to speak with the victim, when two other suspects to 7,500 inoculations. Office of Emergency Services. its mission at Cal State L.A. or former two-time mayor of approached the vehicle and began punching the victim. The The site is slated to close next support the local operation by Downey, toured the vaccination “It was inspiring to see suspects took approximately $2000 worth of marijuana from the work of so many, working the victim and fled on foot. together, to help in the effort to •On 3/14/2021 at approximately 6 am, an anonymous witness vaccinate as many Californians as observed a dark colored truck park along the curb in the 12400 possible. As quickly as possible,” block of Paramount Blvd. The front passenger exited the truck Guerra said. “I was proud to see and began cutting a catalytic converter of another truck and the what they have been able to do witness called police. Both suspects were detained and arrested with the efficiency, passion, by officers. and commitment to fulfill their mission. Seeing our soldiers in •Detectives are investigating a burglary that occurred on uniform vaccinating our seniors 3/16/2021 at about 3:10 am in the 7900 block of Florence Ave. Hopping and special communities, The 4 male suspects climbed the perimeter fence of the Royal representing our Army in various Tobacco store with large duffel bags on their person. They used capacities, made me proud of a shopping cart to smash the front window and make entry. how they represent our country.” They ransacked the cigarette shelves and fled the scene with approximately $30,000 in loss. They were last seen fleeing in While at the site, Guerra a black sedan. presented coins to 10 exceptional soldiers — five from the National •On 3/17/2021 at approximately 9:30 pm, officers responded Guard and five from Fort Carson. to the north parking lot of Sears (500 Stonewood) regarding a into He also met with leadership from car club (approximately 30 cars) meeting in the lot. A member FEMA and the California Office of of the club was contacted and claimed everyone was leaving. Emergency Services. A few of the vehicles began speeding out of the lot towards Firestone Blvd. Responding officers conducted traffic stops and Approximately 1,500 soldiers issued four citations for various violations. and personnel are operating the site on an eight-week mission. •Detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred The vaccination site costs $10 on 3/18/2021 in the early morning hours at 11111 Florence million per week to operate. Ave. (Giant RV). In the evening hours, officers responded to Spring reports of shots heard in the area but were unable to locate any “As a CASA it is one of my evidence of a crime. The following morning employees of Giant great joys to be able to say thank RV discovered six trailers with bullet holes. The RVs were all you to our soldiers and commend parked on the west parking lot of the facility adjacent to the 605 them for a job well done,” Guerra Freeway interchange with the I-5 Freeway. said. “We are grateful as a nation every time we call upon them and •On 3/19/2021 at approximately 11 am, officers responded they always come through.” to the 8400 block of Firestone Blvd on a possible overdose at Embassy Suites. Upon arrival, officers found an unconscious The site will begin adult female. Two doses of Narcan were administered along with administering the Johnson & rescue breaths. The female awoke and was later transported to Johnson vaccine on April 1. The the hospital by Downey Paramedics. one-does regimen will ensure that every patient who has •Detectives are investigating a grand theft that occurred visited the site is fully inoculated on 3/21/2021 at about 3:15 pm in the 9200 block of Lakewood by the time they leave. Blvd. Five males, all wearing hoodies and face masks, entered T-Mobile and grabbed 5-10 cell phones and ran out of the location. The subjects were seen entering a black Mercedes. Forensics responded to process the scene. Thursday, April 1, 2021 The Downey Patriot | 3 CalMet adds truck Former Downey mayor Thomas Morton to handle increase in to celebrate 99th birthday illegally dumped furniture DOWNEY – Thomas H. Morton, a former three-time mayor of Downey now DOWNEY – Downey will pay CalMet nearly $35,000 to expand its living in Zebulon, Georgia, will celebrate his 99th birthday on May 29. collection of couches, mattresses and other trash illegally dumped Elected to serve Downey’s Fourth District in 1962, Morton was instrumental across the city. in obtainin a charter for the city. He also helped Downey obtain state land for During the last 12 months, Downey has seen a spike in furniture what would become Wilderness Park, assisted in getting the 105 Freeway through dumped on curbs and in alleys, usually outside apartment complexes, Downey, oversaw completion of a veterans memorial, helped launch Downey’s city officials said. beautification program, activated a fifth fire station in southwest Downey, and CalMet is responsible for picking up the trash but has been authorized the extension of Stewart & Gray Road from Woodruff to Firestone backlogged due to a growing number of residents disposing of bulky Boulevard. trash. CalMet receives an average of 125 requests each day to pick up Morton also helped establish the new 152-bed Downey Community Hospital. oversized items from Downey homes, officials said. Morton is a WWII Navy veteran, serving three years on the destroyer USS Bache CalMet began an expanded service in December, deploying a DD470. His ship was struck by a kamikaze plane in the Battle of Okinawa; 25 sailors garbage truck dedicated to illegally dumped items. The truck operated were killed in the attack and another 16 went missing in action.Miraculously, three days per week, four hours per day, and collected 72.4 tons of Morton survived, and he was awarded the Navy Ribbon of Commendation for Valor. trash from December through February. Morton’s stepson is Lonnie Croom, Downey’s retired fire chief. Under the new agreement approved by the City Council last week, After his time in Downey, Morton moved to Meansville, Georgia, where Downey will pay CalMet an additional $34,580 to continue this service he worked as the city attorney. He was instrumental in the creation of the Pike through June. Firefigther’s Museum and helped to establish the Good Citizenship Recognition Thomas Morton will turn 99 on May 29. (Courtesy photo) The service is in addition to two full-time Public Works and Award Program in the city of Zebulon. maintenance staff that drive around Downey “hot spots” to pick up He also belonged to several service clubs, including Kiwanis, the Lions and the smaller bulky items Monday through Saturday. at the time. “He is a great individual, a great asset to Pike County Historical Society. this county and today it is our honor to recognize Tom For his efforts, he has been named Citizen of the Year by the cities of Zebulon Morton for his influence on so many.” and Meansville, Georgia, and presented with a recognition proclamation by the Morton was born May 29, 1922 in Fall River, Mass. Downey police officers County Board of Commissioners. He was raised in New York City and attended Mercer “There are great people in this county, state and nation but Tom’s life is a University and Walter F. George School of Law, where return to high school testament to what you want to do with your life,” Pike County John Hanson said he graduated in 1949 with a law degree. campuses DOWNEY –The City of Downey has renewed its agreement with the Downey Unified School District to provide uniformed police Kobe Bryant, Nipsey Hussle mural can stay officers on Downey’s public high schools for the remainder ofthe current academic year. DOWNEY – A mural depicting late basketball player Kobe Bryant According to the agreement, Downey will provide three police and rapper Nipsey Hussle will be allowed to stay, city officials said officers to serve as campus resource officers at Downey, Warren and this week, after initial accusations that the city would force the art’s Columbus high schools. removal. All three campuses reopened Monday after more than a year of The mural is located on the exterior wall of Dirt Dog, a new closure due to the pandemic. restaurant at Firestone Boulevard and Woodruff Avenue. The armed officers will be paid an overtime rate, with Downey One side of the mural depicts Kobe Bryant wearing a blue Lakers Unified footing the bill. jersey. The LA County seal is to his back. The other side of the mural features Nipsey Hussle, a hip-hop artist who was shot and killed in Los Angeles two years ago. Downey extends contract According to @kobemurals, a Twitter account that tracks Kobe Bryant murals around the world, mural artist Louie Palsino was told of jail operator by the city to remove the artwork after it was completed a few weeks ago. DOWNEY – Downey has extended its contract with an City officials denied that, however, and said they only reached out independent security firm to manage the city jail. to the restaurant after receiving complaints from other businesses. G4S Secure Solutions took over operations of the Downey City Jail in March 2020; the current contract expired Feb. 28. “While Downey embraces art in public places, the City asks businesses to partner and communicate with the City on any mural the City of their plans for public art displays.” The City Council last week renewed the deal for an additional plans,” Mayor Claudia M. Frometa said. “Historically, Downey has year. partnered with the business community in the creation of artistic “There are no plans to have the mural removed,” the mayor Downey will pay G4S a fee of $327,761 to manage the jail, a 1% expression through murals. It is important for businesses to notify added. increase from last year. 4 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, April 1, 2021 Reinventing the Wheel

■ ANALYSIS: Downey “It’s us the city versus getting Pacheco’s assertion that the was good enough to perform at shows its incompetency input from the community Downey Theater subcommittee the Ahmanson Theater in L.A.’s (again) when it comes to as to what it might want.” would make a similar Music Center. Women’s auxiliary Unfortunately, the community community group redundant is groups formed, and fundraising the arts. has shown no powerful completely irrelevant, as well lunches, garden parties and inclination to make the arts as untrue. But you’ll be reading banquets took place in support critically important, not only more in these pages about the of the arts and Downey Hospital. By Lawrence Christon to Downey’s everyday life, but theater in weeks to come. The Meralta and Avenue Contributor its identity, unlike, say, places Theaters drew large audiences, Here’s a thumbnail sketch like Adelaide, Nice, Florence, mostly young people, with first- of what’s been happening, or and Edinburgh, small cities run movies. To borrow from Fats DOWNEY – It’s customary not happening, in the Downey enamored of big ideas. Waller, the place was jumpin’, for city council candidates, in arts scene over the past decade at least as much as could be running for office, to proclaim If it weren’t clear over these or so, with the proviso that, expected of a white, suburban, how they’ve spent most if not past few months that nobody as everyone on Earth knows, reasonably affluent enclave a all of their lives in Downey and on the Downey city council is a normal day in the life of short twelve miles from L.A.’s have raised families here as remotely informed on the world the world came to a dramatic city hall. well as devoting a large part of of the arts—or the many worlds halt a year ago with the World their occupational careers in that make up the arts, it became Health Organization’s elevation Sometime in the late ‘80s service to the community--as evident in that last session, in of Covid-19 to the status of through the dawn of the new if that qualified any of them for which everyone who spoke only pandemic. millennium, the air began the complexities and nuances made things worse. to leak out of the balloon. The city of Downey, mainly of civic leadership. Looking at Downey’s best restaurants, like “The arts and culture an agricultural community up this current bunch, you have the Regency Room and The Brass have played a role in our until the outbreak of WWII, Marsha Moodle greets guests at a Downey Civic Light Opera to wonder if, before they were Dolphin, began shutting down, city--a very important role at came alive when the aviation performance in 2011. (Photo by Joan Anderson) elected, any of them ever spent as did the hot spot for the young, that—for a very long time,” industry mobilized throughout much time considering the city’s Mississippi Moonshine. The said Mayor Claudia Frometa. Southern California to satisfy history, and what’s gone on Meralta closed and the Avenue “In fact, there has(cq) been the raging demand for military here. theater fell into disrepair. numerous organizations the aircraft. Various companies, the city on matters cultural and Downey had no night life, no Granata’s Italian Villa, founded Case in point: the arts. In its city has engaged with, such like Douglas, employed enough artistic. jazz or supper clubs, no vibrant by Ralph and Jeanette Granata, last meeting, as Alex Dominguez as the Downey Arts Coalition. people (some as many as thirty cultural center where kids can who later were chosen grand Some time later the city reported in these pages, We have the Stay Gallery that thousand) to become small cities hang out all day to observe and marshalls of one of Downey’s raided the Community Services the council adopted a semi- over the years we have worked whose work force alternated on take classes in music, dance, traditional holiday parades, Department to appoint a lazy, coherent proposal calling for the with them. In fact, the city the job full time, twenty-four acting, writing, designing, moved their cozy and hospitable incompetent, uninterested and creation of an arts and culture subsidizes the Stay Gallery area hours a day. Downey was one composing, stagecraft, and spot to downtown Downey and a uninformed figure to act as subcommittee that would tap in downtown Downey. of them. There are pictures performance art. Downey colder, less comfortable venue. liaison to the community. He into the community for citizen of nose-to-tail fighter planes doesn’t even have a bookstore. Added Frometa: “The refused to hold meetings, and ideas on improving Downey’s blanketing Vultee airfield, now The changes were too subtle, opportunity to bring to our one night showed up at a council To observe the dreary, dutiful cultural life. the site of two semi-desolate broad and deep to chronicle community culture and arts session to announce that art bunch that currently occupies shopping malls, ready for battle here, but clearly Downey was The message is barely has not been something that was too subjective for anyone the city council dais is to doubt over Europe and the Pacific losing its mojo, and people coherent for two reasons. One we have not provided. In fact, to reach conclusive agreement that any of them has read a book theater. like Harold Tseklenis, Frank because it’s too vague, and the we hold numerous events on. It’s conceivable that Caltech in ten years. What the city needs and Carol Kearns, Val Flores other because it doesn’t make throughout the year…There is a Jobs, housing construction, seismologists registered the is a cadre of hungry, ambitious and poet Lorine Parks stood sense. There’s a third: the city wide variety of arts that the city schools, hospitals, retail outlets, shock of jaws dropping on the young Turks who will joyfully up at city meetings to argue has tried it before, and it didn’t has engaged in.” clubs, restaurants and other Downey City Council dais that tolerate and even welcome for more vigorous cultural work. There are others, like, who institutions were developed to night. miserable, discouraging These claims are as flimsy as engagement from city leaders. are these mythic creatures that serve the growth of new families conditions to make their art. The her grammar. The Stay Gallery Andrew Wahlquist and a few That was the beginning of will miraculously step forth with and communities as Downey South Coast Repertory currently has never been able to make a go others formed the Downey Arts the end. The respected Downey brilliant ideas on how to jazz up in particular transitioned from runs on a $10 million annual of it; the Downey Arts Coalition Coalition to introduce local Art Museum is no more. Stay Downey’s moribund arts scene? military to commercial aircraft budget and $50 million rolling has grown so ineffectual that artists to the city. In 2005, the Gallery, despite the Herculean manufacturing, and then endowment. They started with The idea has been talked there are those out there who city council created the Arts effort of co-founder Gabriel aerospace. Downey became seventeen bucks and threw their up by Catherine Alvarez, and wonder if it still exists (it does; in Public Places, in which they Enamorado, is hanging by a prosperous, economically and costumes into the back of a 1947 proposed as a kind of generalized at least their website is still could finance local artists by slender thread, The Downey socially stable, and culturally Studebaker to get to their next wish list so unpopular with up); and as far as Downey’s nicking a small percent of real Civic Light Opera, under Marsha cohesive. John Hume parlayed show. Bur co-founder Don Took the rest of the council that it biggest dog in the culture hunt is estate developers’ projected Moode, was shut down by the his successful children’s theater said, “I didn’t care if we worked took colleague Sean Ashton concerned, namely the Downey revenues. The council even city at the height of its resurgent into the creation of the Downey in a toilet. We were making to translate it for them (she Civic Theater, for ten years now came up with the identical musical glory in 2013. Virtually Civic Theater. The Downey Art theater!” wanted each councilmember to the city has rolled over and scheme the current council has no city official will show up at a Museum, the first of its kind in recommend some kind of all- allowed the management firm adopted: a commission made up Downey symphony performance Does Downey have any tigers Los Angeles County, was deeded purpose arts advocate from his Venutech to pick its pocket. of community reps from each unless assured of some kind like that pawing at its gate? or her district). Unfortunately, into a small building in Furman Mayor Pro Tem Blanca District empowered to advise of award. Even before Covid, he didn’t help matters by saying, Park. The Downey Symphony Thursday, April 1, 2021 Opinion The Downey Patriot | 5 Streaming did the job. Now we need live theater.

By Froma Harrop As it happened, many American playhouses bowed to reality and audience in mind, so watching it on a 32-inch screen compromises the When will we be able to attend a live performance? That question necessity and streamed their productions. Are they planting the seeds experience.” is being asked angrily in France, where theater is more central to the of live theater’s destruction? Perhaps not. A 2016 study in Britain found A theater feeds local businesses. People go out to eat or drink national culture. (America has no national theater.) But we should ask that theatergoers who watched streamed performances patronized before or after. An actual theater district provides customers for hotels that here as well. Broadway remains shuttered, as are indoor theaters live theater more than those who didn’t. and other travel-related activities. and concert halls across the country. Can’t they at least start their The National Theater in London has been broadcasting plays for Performing arts companies across the country are starting their engines, if in a limited fashion? free on YouTube. It’s also started its own paid streaming service that revival with outdoor productions. Austen Opera will soon stage the In France, protesters are occupying at least seven theaters, anyone in the world can watch, which is providing a tidy source of opera “Tosca” at a Formula 1 racetrack. The Fountain Theatre in including the landmark Odeon in Paris. The occupiers — largely actors, income. Los Angeles is about to present the play “An Octoroon” in its East workers and students — are demanding that France’s theaters be at Meanwhile, fabulous TV from the streaming services got us Hollywood parking lot. least partly reopened. They’ve been shut since October following a through COVID-19. “The Crown” or “The Mandalorian” — there was The Broadway theaters aren’t expected to open until autumn. New spike in coronavirus cases. something for everybody. York is trying to keep the heart beating through pop-up events, where Australia halted the spread of the virus through disciplined So, why crowd into a playhouse? artists perform on subway platforms and at similar public areas. mask-wearing and social distancing. Thus, if you want to see a stage There are reasons. The players in a theater interact with the An advantage of outdoor performances is that social distancing is production of Disney’s “Frozen,” you have to go to Sydney. You’re audience, which makes every performance unique. And the audience easier in these bigger spaces. But soon, we pray, we won’t have to do now able to see a live performance of “Hamilton” there, too. Audience is part of the show, its members responding to one another. A good social distancing. members, needless to say, must wear masks. example is the group laugh. As they say in the business, the experience None of this can replace the electric moment when the theater Some sponsors of live theater fear that their former audiences, belongs to the collective. lights start to dim and a stage comes alive with real people. The glued to streaming services during the pandemic, won’t want to In a videoed production, you see what the camera shows you. pandemic showed us the fierce human need for communal life. Live detach themselves. They also worry that once their patrons have seen Often, that’s a close-up of a single character. In a theater, you can also theater should again be part of it. “Hamilton” on Disney+, they won’t want to spring for a $100-plus follow the reactions of other characters on the stage. As Alex Webb Froma Harrop is a syndicated columnist who writes about politics, theater ticket. wrote for Bloomberg News, “The show was developed with a theatrical economics and culture. Banning assault weapons won’t stop mass shootings

By Steve Chapman murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 had an would use several 10-round magazines or multiple guns. Most mass Many national problems have simple, effective solutions. To curb AR-15-style rifle designed to comply with Connecticut’s ban on assault shooters bring more than one gun. global warming, reduce fossil fuel use. To combat child poverty, give weapons. There is a common belief that forcing a shooter to stop to switch money to families with kids. To end a pandemic, get people vaccinated. Third, because anyone bent on taking many lives can find out magazines would save lives by allowing someone to subdue him. But some problems are impervious to any plausible remedy. Mass innumerable alternatives. The shooter who killed eight people at spas But in a real-life situation, he would not be surrounded by potential shootings are one of those. in Georgia used a 9 mm pistol. The statistics portal Statista notes that victims who would leap to grab his gun during the few precious seconds In the days after the bloody carnage in Georgia and Boulder, “handguns are involved in about 78 percent of mass shootings.” Most they would have. It’s a scenario more likely in movies. Colorado, politicians and activists offered familiar proposals: Ban mass shooters don’t use assault weapons. Expanding background checks to private sales and eliminating the assault weapons. Outlaw high-capacity magazines. Expand federal Advocates who want to prohibit them make much of the supposed Charleston loophole would be justifiable measures to make it harder for background checks. Close the “Charleston loophole” that allows gun success of the 1994 federal ban, citing data that mass shooting deaths people who are not allowed to own guns, such as felons and fugitives, sales to go through if the FBI can’t complete the background check declined while it was in effect and rose when it expired. But a good deal to get guns. There is no good reason to maintain holes in a dike. within three days. of scholarly research found no overall benefit. A 2017 analysis in JAMA But it’s not likely that tighter rules would avert mass shootings Not all of these ideas are without value. But none holds any serious Internal Medicine, for example, found that laws forbidding these guns anytime soon, if ever. Most of the mass shooters, including the most prospect of averting future horrors. The proposals stem from the idea “were not associated with changes in firearm homicide rates.” recent ones, were not barred from buying firearms. that the perpetrators of this kind of slaughter are weakly motivated If the number of mass shooting deaths rose after 2004, the The conservative notion that more armed citizens are the answer is and easily foiled. They rest on mistaken beliefs about the guns that are expiration of the ban is not necessarily to blame: Correlation is not equally flawed. Colorado allows adults to openly carry rifles and pistols often used. causation. Often, it’s coincidence. without a permit. Only three states have more people with concealed- The term “assault weapon” is a triumph of marketing over The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety says mass shootings carry permits than Georgia. Neither fact was any help to those who function. These guns have no capabilities that ordinary ones lack. are “far deadlier when they involve assault weapons and high-capacity were attacked. They are no more lethal than any number of semiautomatic firearms, magazines.” But that doesn’t mean guns and magazines are the reason. It’s painful to consider that even in America, mass shootings are and they don’t fire more rapidly. They can accommodate magazines Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck told me by email, such freakish, random events that they are impossible to prevent. But holding 30 or more cartridges, but so can traditional rifles. “The strength of motivation of shooters (how badly they want to hurt a the writer Flannery O’Connor once noted, “The truth does not change Banning them would be a fool’s errand. First, because some 16 lot of people) affects both 1) how many people they shoot, and 2) their according to our ability to stomach it.” million have already been sold, and no one is going to confiscate those. choices of weapons and magazines to use in their attacks.” Steve Chapman blogs for the Chicago Tribune. Second, because any attempt to define them allows manufacturers to Take away assault weapons and these criminals would use other, produce modified versions that are no less deadly. The shooter who equally deadly firearms. Take away 30-round magazines and they Biden’s ill-fated plan for students

By Terence P. Jeffrey out of the experiment and decide that, you know, the September-to- Is it better for a 3-year-old child to spend more time with a May (school year), there’s nothing magic about it,” Kaine said, “and government employee or a mother? possibly the best way to help our kids is to have a longer school year, or to readjust the school calendar to minimize learning loss.” President Joe Biden is pushing for a federal program to put preschool children in the hands of the former — theoretically, as a Marten agreed with Kaine. benefit to the latter. “I think that you’ve cast a vision not just for this summer but What about summer vacations? Should children have them? Or is the following summer, and that’s the kind of forward thinking that I it better to keep them in school 12 months a year? think would be important if I should be confirmed, that we’re able to not just have an immediate reaction to what needs to be addressed, Cynthia Marten, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School but long-term planning,” she said. District, took the latter position at a Senate confirmation hearing last week. “So, what we build this summer, I can say from very real experience as a principal of an inner-city school, we were a year- She is Biden’s nominee to be deputy secretary of Education. round school, and we had summer programs as well, and I always Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia — seeing the COVID-19 saw the difference that it made when students had uninterrupted pandemic as an opportunity to permanently expand government learning,” she said. control over the lives of American children — asked Marten about “And what you can do when you create these kinds of robust the prospect of keeping them in school for the summer. summer experiences makes a huge difference,” she said. “I would hope that both summer of 2021 and summer of 2022 The post-COVID-19 vision of this Biden administration might be powerful opportunities for us to A. help kids catch up, but bureaucrat: Children will go to school this summer, this fall, next we might also learn some things about what the optimal length of winter, next spring and next summer — and that will set the model the school year should be,” said Kaine. for the future of America’s government schools. “I mean, we could use it as an experiment, and we might come They will be a cage from which no child may escape. Then there is the question of the age at which a child should be put in this cage. In his campaign pronouncements, Biden repeatedly vowed to take 3-year-old children out of their homes and put them in school. One Biden manifesto — “The Biden Plan for Educators, Students, and Our Future” — declared: “President Biden will start investing in our children at birth.” (Prior to birth, his administration will invest in what Biden calls “a woman’s constitutional right under Roe v. Wade.”) This “investing” in born children will include providing “high- quality, universal pre-kindergarten for all three- and four-year- olds.” It will also “expand home visiting.” Home visiting? That is a program, Biden’s campaign explained, in “which health and child development specialists make consistent, reading test. Eighth grade students in public schools had an average scheduled visits to help parents through the critical early stage of score of only 262. That same year, eighth grade students in Catholic parenting.” schools had an average score of 293 in math, while eighth grade students in public schools had an average score of only 281. “President Biden will double funding for home visiting so more families benefit from this program every year,” says his plan. Did the Catholic-school students do better because their mothers were more likely to put them in a government pre-K when they were Biden also promised to hire more teachers — and pay them more 3? Did they do better because they were denied summer vacations? money — to deal with these very young children. Or did they do better because Catholic schools do a better job than He “will maintain and grow a diverse, talented care and education government schools at teaching children? workforce by providing increased pay and benefits, and access to collective bargaining, training and education, and career ladders,” it Perhaps the problem is not that students spend too little time in said. government schools but that they spend any time in them at all. Would it be good for children to increase government control of If the Biden administration truly wanted to give children a better their lives? chance to learn, it would encourage school districts to give all parents a voucher equal to the cost of educating a child in the local public According to the government itself, children do better schools and let them redeem that voucher at any school they want. academically in Catholic schools than they do in government schools. Terence P. Jeffrey is a political commentator and former editorial writer In 2019, eighth grade students in Catholic schools had an average for the Washington Times. score of 278 in the National Assessment of Educational Progress 6 | The Downey Patriot Comics/Crossword Thursday, April 1, 2021 SPEED BUMP DAVE COVERLY

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By Yolanda Adele me when he showed up!!! I will never forget the first met Rosalie incident at the Olive Garden. Sciortino in 1993 at a You asked to personally creative writing group at compliment the chef on the Apollo Park in Downey. I eggplant dish you enjoyed so was the youngest in the much. He came to our table Igroup and Rosalie may have to meet you. When we went been a little older than her to pay the bill the cashier told contemporaries there. us it was already taken care of As I heard and watched with the chef’s compliments! her read her stories I was not I loved when you told only entertained but inspired. me you had made contact in Her creativity was not cyberspace with an old flame stagnant with melancholy. you were once engaged to She put a smile on everyone’s who (safely) lives hundreds of face including her own, as miles away. I laughed till my she looked around the room stomach ached! You seemed like a child with a story to to relish my reaction. tell. I knew then I wanted to How hysterical was the get to know her better. time we went to the theatre She invited me to her to see the musical “Chicago.” Writer’s West Workshop I found your sense of fun some strange people sitting Group where she was and child-like abandonment at our table.” president, then secretary. influencing me because She went up the Rosalie married later in life I was not even remotely backstairs and said “I’ll get and had no children. After embarrassed when we were the coffee!” As I watched her her husband Nick died, I told to hush by audience I thought she tripped on the invited her to my Memoir members after we began to carpet. She had a hand on the Writing Group in Norwalk. sing along with Catherine washing machine holding her She eventually joined and we Zeta Jones, Renee Zellweger up. I ran to help her. It was got to know each other better and Queen Latifah. If that too late. She fell to the floor; through stories we shared. were not bad enough, we her eyes were wide open as Rosalie was truly younger got the giggles and had to was her mouth. leave the theatre before the at heart than I. I had to grow I remember thinking this lights came on. We continued up fast having been married couldn’t be really happening. laughing all the way home. and a mother while in my Time seemed to go by at Who knew so much fun could teen years and the Vietnam warp speed and subsequently be so exhausting? I slept very war was a personal concern to slow motion. I gave her CPR, well! How about you?” our family, as Vic my teenage knowing she was already husband and father of our Of course, there were also gone. I picked up the phone, child was a Marine soldier times we cried together and called paramedics; Carol deployed in Cambodia, in comforted each other. Rosalie and Frank Kearns who live harm’s way. came to both of my parents’ nearby, Matthew also a close After Vic’s time in the funerals then to my beloved friend and my husband Vic. military he went to work at Uncle Brown’s. In the days, When everyone arrived the Owen Glass factory, where weeks and months to follow nightmare felt real. It was a he worked double shifts for she helped me through the horrendous experience. I felt four decades. With now two grieving process, of which almost numb. daughters grown and Rosalie she said, she was all too In time, I came to view living alone we began to have familiar with. it as a blessing. If I had not a gal’s day out once or twice a been there I forever would I hope I played it forward week. We went to breakfast, have wondered how long she on that ominous morning lunches, movies, tea parlors, had lain on the floor, perhaps when I came over to have plays, shopping or just visited crying for help. Knowing coffee with Rosalie. The gate in the backyard. Where, we she did not suffer and died to the backyard was open. I laughed, sipped, chatted and instantly brought me peace. chewed. could see the little table set out in front of the garage. When I came home I I recently came across It had a lace tablecloth and found a message from Rosalie a copy of a letter I sent to a small vase with two pink on my answer machine Rosalie: roses from her garden. asking me if I had left my “Dear Rosalie, I aspire house yet and that she had to be like you. You were so Rosalie came out and told been waiting for me. Thank charming to the intern at the me she had been calling my you, Rosalie. E.R. when you sprained your house wondering if I was wrist. You asked if he was late and that she had been Palermo, Sicily and he said, sitting at the table waiting for “Yes!” You me and motioning passing cars to drive in, each time You invited him to write thinking it was me. She about his love for the “old laughed (though a little country” and to come to our annoyed, I could tell). Then W.W.W . He must have been I laughed harder when she impressed by you also. No mused, “Luckily they all one was more surprised than ignored me, or we would have

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Sarah Obama of a writing career was planted recognizable roles in 2003, “muMs da Schemer” or simply in Cleary’s mind, as she talked playing the acidic matriarch “muMs,” a poet and actor who Obituaries Sarah Obama, an educator to young readers who were Lucille Bluth on Fox’s “Arrested starred as Arnold “Poet” Jackson and philanthropist who was disappointed that there weren’t Development,” and she on the HBO series “Oz,” died President Barack Obama’s step- many books about children like continued with the show when it March 24 of natural causes at age grandmother and the matriarch convicted of conspiracy, burglary, them. was picked up by Netflix in later 52. G. Gordon Liddy of his African family, died March years. Her voice role on “Archer” and illegal wiretapping, Liddy was It wasn’t long before she Grant was performing slam 29 at a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya offered a similar character in G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI sentenced to 20 years in prison, a wrote her first book, “Henry poetry in New York when he was after a short illness at the age of the form of the leader of an agent best known for his pivotal sentence that was commuted to Huggins,” about a boy who featured in the 1998 documentary roughly 99. intelligence agency. role in the Watergate scandal that eight years by President Jimmy makes fast friends with a stray “SlamNation.” Around the led to the end of Richard Nixon’s Carter. Born around 1920 or 1921 – dog. Henry’s adventures with Walter’s other movies include same time, he was cast as Poet presidency, died March 30 at age records were not kept at the time After serving seven years in Ribsy served as the jumping-off “Grand Prix” (1966), “The in “Oz,” where he was also able 90. and she was unsure of the date prison, Liddy rebounded from the point for a series of books, which Flamingo Kid” (1984), “PCU” to perform his poetry over the – Obama lived her whole life in Liddy joined Nixon’s 1972 scandal that once looked like it introduced more of Cleary’s (1994), and her final film, “The course of the show’s six seasons. Kenya. She was the third wife of enduring characters: Beezus Mimic” (2020). She had a starring reelection campaign as part of would break him. He published Grant later had recurring President Obama’s grandfather, Quimby and her little sister, voice role on TV’s “Dinosaurs” the “Plumbers” unit, tasked his autobiography and began roles on the TV adaptation of and though they weren’t blood Ramona. (1991) as well as recurring roles to contain leaks of potentially traveling on the lecture circuit, “She’s Gotta Have It” as well as relations, she and the former on “Saving Grace” (2007) and damaging information to the including a series of debates in As Cleary’s books struck “Boston Legal” and “Hightown.” president formed a bond after “90210” (2008). In 2011, she press. tandem with psychologist and chords with young readers, she He was featured in several they met in the 1980s. starred with George Segal in the It was in that capacity writer Timothy Leary. began receiving recognition for episodes of “Def Poetry Jam.” He came to call her “Granny short-lived sitcom “Retired at that he was told to break Liddy took guest spots on TV her work. In 1975, the American Sarah,” and when he became 35.” His movie credits include into the Democratic National shows including “Miami Vice,” Library Association presented president, she attended his “Birdman,” “Side Effects,” and Committee’s office in the “MacGyver,” and “Airwolf,” and her with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Walter made dozens first inauguration and received “Good Time.” Watergate complex, where he he hosted a radio talk show on Award, an honor for lifetime of TV guest appearances widespread attention. She led the team and supervised Radio America and Sirius and XM achievement. over six decades, on shows Grant was also a member of spoke out in defense of her including “Flipper,” “Mission: the Off-Broadway troupe the from a nearby room. Caught and satellite radio from 1992 to 2012. Her 1983 book “Dear Mr. step-grandson in the face of Impossible,” “Knots Landing,” LAByrinth Theater Company. Henshaw” received the Newbery accusations from his detractors “Murder, She Wrote,” “Law & Medal the following year, and about his place of birth and Order,” “The Big Bang Theory,” Newbery Honors were conferred religion. and “Good Girls.” on “Ramona and Her Father” Robina Asti Later, she formed the Mama and “Ramona Quimby, Age Robina Asti, a World War II POETRY MATTERS Sarah Education Foundation to 8.” She won a National Book veteran who later became an support a school in her village Award for “Ramona and Her Jose Baselga inspiration to the transgender and the education of local girls. Mother,” and she received the José Baselga, a Spanish community as she fought for Small Kindnesses National Medal of Arts in 2003. oncologist who developed highly her husband’s Social Security The city of Portland, Oregon, effective new drugs for treating benefits, died March 12 in San has commemorated Cleary’s I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk Beverly Cleary breast cancer, died March 21 at Diego at age 99. contributions with a grade school Beverly Cleary, the author his home in Spain of sporadic down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs named after her as well as statues Asti served in the U.S. Navy who penned award-winning Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” of Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and during World War II, installing books for children and young age of 61. when someone sneezes, a leftover Ramona Quimby displayed in the radios in aircraft in the Pacific adults including the popular from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. city’s Grant Park. Working as both an oncologist Theater. After the war, she “Ramona” series, died March 25 And sometimes, when you spill lemons and a researcher, Baselga was operated a supper club with in Carmel, California at the age friends and later worked for from your grocery bag, someone else will help you involved in the development of 104. of cancer drugs including mutual fund company E.W. Axe. pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. Jessica Walter Herceptin and Perjeta. Both drugs We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, Born Beverly Atlee Bunn April It was in the 1970s that Asti 12, 1916, in McMinnville, Oregon, Jessica Walter, an Emmy- effectively target an aggressive and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile began her transition, and she in the heart of the Willamette winning actress who was best form of breast cancer and have later married Norwood Patton. at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress Valley, Cleary initially didn’t known for playing Lucille Bluth been credited with extending and After his death in 2012, she filed to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, seem destined for a career of in “Arrested Development” saving lives. to receive his Social Security and voicing Malory Archer in and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. writing beloved classics for They have also been useful in benefits. She was denied her “Archer,” died March 24 at her We have so little of each other, now. So far young readers. Indeed, she was a targeting other cancers, including claim because, according to her home in New York City at the age from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. reluctant reader herself, one who stomach and kidney cancers. birth certificate, she was legally a What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these was in the bottom reading group of 80. man at the time of her marriage. Baselga was chief medical in her first-grade class and didn’t Among Walter’s most fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, officer and physician in chief Asti enlisted the help of find reading at all interesting. memorable early roles was Evelyn have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Lambda Legal and fought to Draper in the 1971 Clint Eastwood Eventually she found Cancer Center in New York receive the benefits. She not film “Play Misty for Me.” Her Danusha Laméris, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness inspiration in the 1911 children’s before resigning in 2018 amid only won, receiving two years of performance as an obsessed and Connection. book “The Dutch Twins” by Lucy controversy over his lack of back checks, the Social Security fan of a disc jockey earned her a Fitch Perkins – delighted to find a disclosure of his connections to Administration and IRS changed Golden Globe nomination. Green Writers Press, 2019 book that told a story with a plot drug and health care companies. their guidelines so the situation she wanted to follow – and a life On TV, Walter had a He was later hired by AstraZeneca can’t happen again. of reading and writing began. memorable recurring role on as chief of research and A lifelong pilot, Asti Resolution of conflict and promotion of peace begin with minor acts of Cleary earned a degree in “Trapper John, M.D.,” and she development in oncology. continued to fly and work as a graciousness that recognize the spark of the divine that is within each library science at the University won a Primetime Emmy Award flight instructor into 2020, and person. Laméris is currrently the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County. of Washington in Seattle, later for her performance in the she was in the process of being Poetry Matters is curated by Lorine Parks taking a job as a librarian. It limited series “Amy Prentiss.” Craig Grant certified by Guinness World was at the library that the seed Records as the world’s oldest She took one of her most Craig Grant, better known as flight instructor.

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It’s a worrisome statistic. With sufficient sleep hours, a sleep quality. November 1923 - March 2021 Although sleep experts person wakes up refreshed, with What about alcohol? Avoid Edmond F. Espriu was born in November 1923 in Nogales, recommend adults get at least the mental and physical energy drinking alcohol before bedtime. Arizona, where he lived until the age of 14, when he moved to seven to eight hours of sleep, needed for a new day. It does make people relaxed many American adults prior to Dr. Becker offers the following and drowsy, but it suppresses California with his family. When he was 18, he signed up to serve the Coronavirus pandemic were answers to frequently asked production of melatonin, the in the Air Force during WWII. He spent most of his time in the already averaging as little as six questions about the importance natural sleep hormone, causing service repairing damaged B-17s as a ground mechanic stationed hours per night. of sleep, especially during the very disrupted sleep patterns and Today, more people across pandemic that is affecting many reduction of REM sleep. REM sleep in England. When he returned to California, he met his wife Betty, Southern California are sleeping people’s sleep cycle: is needed for mental stability. who he adored and was married to for more than 60 years. They even less, not getting enough Can I make up for lost What about using my smart bought a home in Downey in 1949, where they raised their five children: Ron, Dennis, Renee, ZZZs as many have become weeknight sleep on weekends? No. phone or iPAD before I go to bed? Denise, and Chris. heavily impacted by losing loved While it may help some, sleeping It’s easy to say NO, but we are ones, facing unemployment, long hours on weekends can very attached to our devices and In 1978, Edmond retired from the Ford Motor Company, where he had worked for 30 years. experiencing financial hardship actually contribute to insomnia. constant flow of information. He continued to stay active, lifting weights each day, as he had done for decades. Edmond and other COVID-19-related Your best bet is to keep the same Research has found that exposure and Betty got matching Schwinn bicycles and would spend many lovely afternoons biking challenges. schedule all week long when it to “blue” light suppresses your “More people are feeling comes to going to bed and waking body’s production of melatonin. all over Downey together. However, their focus was now on their new role as Papa and Nana depressed and anxious,” said Dr. up. Without sufficient melatonin, it is to a growing number of grandchildren. A day with Papa might mean blowing bubbles in the Kendra Becker, a sleep medicine Do older people need less difficult to fall and stay asleep. backyard, going for a drive down to the Seal Beach pier, or eating a couple of burgers at In N physician with Kaiser Permanente sleep? Not always. Studies show all Can I watch TV in bed to Out together. Southern California. “During adults, with few exceptions, need relax to sleep? No. Bed should this pandemic, we’ve seen an to ideally sleep between seven and be reserved for sleep. Wait until Edmond had a sweet tooth. He loved chocolate, especially See’s Candies Peanut Butter increase in people suffering from eight hours per night. Older adults you are sleepy to go to bed. The Patties, and would eat several each day, if they were at hand. If you offered him one chocolate, insomnia, problems falling asleep are less active in the day, and bedroom should be dark, cool and he would always request another one “for the road.” and staying asleep. Fear and nap often, which can make night quiet to optimize the quality of stress are the main reasons why, sleep more difficult. Staying active sleep. Avoid checking the time After the passing of his wife Betty in 2008, Edmond remained at their home in Downey, and it makes it harder for you to during the day is the key. Going during the night, as it causes where he spent many mornings filling in word search books or solving a jumble puzzle in the sleep because of all that worrying. outside in sunlight is energizing, anxiety. Use an alarm to wake. LA Times, many afternoons sitting in the backyard enjoying the sunshine, and many evenings People are more concerned and makes it easier to sleep at Morning sunlight is important to about their jobs, their families, night. be wakeful and energetic in the watching a good mystery program on television. He stopped lifting weights but would go and it keeps them up at night. day. walking nearly everyday. Depression and insomnia are Will consuming caffeine make related – they go hand-in-hand.” it harder for me to fall asleep? It’s “The facts are clear: getting He was a family man who had a great sense of humor and loved to make his loved ones smile. not advisable to consume caffeine a good night’s sleep is critically He passed away in March 2021 in Downey, California at the age of 97. He will be profoundly Many people think sleep is late in the day, so avoid that late- important to everyone’s good just for resting at the end of their night cup of joe, as it’s likely to health,” Dr. Becker said, noting if missed by all of his family and friends. busy day. They justify less sleep stimulate your nervous system and your sleep problems last for more Edmond is predeceased by his wife Betty (Lain) Espriu, his son Dennis Espriu, and his by saying: “I feel fine.” However, may stop your body from naturally than three months, it’s time to brothers Ben Dickens, Gus Espriu, and Hector Dickens. He is survived by four children, nine getting enough shut eye is as relaxing at night. In fact, according seek medical attention. “It’s in important as any other activities a to one study published in the everyone’s best interest for good grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, seven great-great grandchildren, two sisters, many person does during the day. When Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, health to sleep well, sleep enough, nephews and nieces, and friends. we sleep, our immune system is consuming caffeine up to six hours be well and thrive!” A private service will be held for Edmond at All Souls Cemetery in Long Beach, California. activated to hunt and kill viruses, before bed significantly worsened bacteria and even cancer cells. 10 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, April 1, 2021 Things You Didn’t Know About Downey: Homes in the 1860s

■ Homes prioritized space Ticks filled with shredded northern end of Los Angeles. when the town of Gallatin began cornshucks or straw served as settlement, for surveys and and functionality, and Gallatin, believed to be the mattresses and were placed deeds were delayed months and luxuries were few and far second town settled by people upon wooden slats. There were sometimes years after occupancy from the United States, was between. no springs in beds or mattresses began. A number of early located in a farming community to ease the bodies of these settlers agree with “Wilson’s in the middle-western part of hardworking early pioneers. History,” published in 1880, Rancho Santa Gertrudes. Like which says: “Gallatin settlement To economize in space, one many other American villages, By Bobbi Bruce was started early in 1867.” or more trundle beds were used. Gallatin was built around a Contributor The town was located on the Wooden cradles for the babies’ public school. When the school corner of Jaboneria Road and on daytime beds were a part of was organized, the residents Lexington-Gallatin Road, now every home. Only one family in were few and widely scattered. designated as Florence Avenue. DOWNEY – Let us take 10 had a sewing machine. Some There were no appropriations by a peek at this time into the were operated by hand but the county or state, and the need of A survey of county records homes as assessor J.W. Venable newer models were run by foot erecting the first school house brings to light a deed, executed found them during the 1860s in pedals. was met by the people. by Allen Neighbours on Jan. 4, Downey. 1869, to a 40 ft. by 100 ft. lot, Luxuries were scarce. One It was of primitive structure, adjoining the school house lot Homes were built entirely privately owned library was the walls of which consisted of a on the north, to Rose, Hopkins & of unsurfaced knotty wood. listed to R.L. Latimer. Mrs. framework of sticks or branches, Company, where they had been Pieces of tin nailed over the W.P. McDonald was the proud into and around which were operating a general store for knotholes and bats to cover the possessor of a piano, a gift from woven tules and mustard stalks some time. gaps between boards made the her father, M.D. Crawford. This and such materials as were at houses more livable. Most of instrument was a curiosity and hand. The roof was made of the On Jan. 17, 1870, Mr. them were white-washed inside people came from miles to see same similar substance. This Neighbours also deeded the lot and out, and in various stages of the melodious contraption. offered protection against the just north of the Hopkins store disintegration. These California elements and wild animals and to Leopold Harris, who also had On the night prior to the “box houses,” so called for their allowed plenty of ventilation, been running a store, where he election of Nov. 5, 1872, a great type of construction, had an but was far from comfortable. continued business until 1874. Pio Pico State Historic Park in Whittier is the site of El Ranchito, the final average of three small rooms meeting was held at the old home of Pio Pico, the last governor of Alta California. consisting of two main rooms courthouse in Los Angeles, Here began the first religious and a lean-to kitchen. with a bonfire and other services of the community. More on 1865 demonstration which heralded Later the little red school house home on Shugg’s Lane (now Downey community from the There were no screens. Due political meetings of that time. was built and in it on Sept. In 1865, whole acres were to the risk in transporting glass, sold for a few groceries and Slauson Avenue in Pico Rivera). Santa Fe Railroad, south to There was a large assembly and 19, 1868 the Baptist church The problems of development the County Farm (Rancho Los window panes were expensive although it was a presidential was organized. This was the people lived on one meal a day. and difficult to get. Many A barrel of flour went for $15 and were great and moles, gophers, Amigos). election, the question of only church within a radius squirrels, etc. constantly caused windows were closed only by frijoles (red beans) brought 15 With the shortage of rain the railroad was of prime of 10 miles. The first wedding the loss of water and in 1867 the wooden shutters to keep out the cents a pound. over a period of years, river importance. celebration in this building was ditch was abandoned. wind and rain. that of Miss Mattie Morrow water was supplemented by The same drought that Each house had a fireplace and James Birchett of Gallatin, caused a terrific loss of stock When efforts toward a ditch convenient wells. and water company were retried, for heating and cooking. Kettles Early Settlement officiated by John Fuquay, the and forced Juan Temple to sell Here are the totals of yearly James Shugg, Eli Taylor, William were hung on cranes or iron The first distinctive first pastor of the church. Rancho Los Cerritos proved rainfall in Los Angeles and the Caruthers, J.P. Fleming, R.H. rods by a pot-hook. Sometimes settlement by Americans in Los In about 1875, Pastor Fuquay fatal to Don Abel Stearns, owner local vicinity in inches: a grate or grill rested on a small Angeles County was made at El of Rancho Los Alamitos. Pio Mayes and a few other farmers married Miss Sarah Neighbours, 1880: 20.34 shelf built into each side of the Monte (first called Lexington) Pico, whose ranch adjoined (13 in all) built a diverting dam in daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen 1881: 13.13 chimney. Sheet iron stoves, at the end of the Santa Fe Trails Rancho Santa Gertrudes on the the river in the neighborhood of Neighbours. The ceremony what is now Whittier Boulevard. 1882: 10.40 inadequate for the large families in July 1851. The pioneers were was performed under an arbor, north, lost heavily. While Santa The ditch extended south to the 1883: 12.11 of that day, were being replaced Ira W. Thompson; the first erected expressly for this event Gertrudes was hard hit by the by larger and better cast-iron postmaster, Dr. Obed Macy, and drought, Pio Pico was fortunate head of the Arroyo on the H.L. 1884: 38.18 in front of the bride’s home. Montgomery place then followed stoves. son, Oscar Macy; Samuel Heath; She wore a lovely white Swiss in having the San Gabriel River 1885: 9.21 G.W. Gibson; Nicholas Smith; J. along its western boundary the arroyo to the farming district 1886: 22.31 The crude but durable gown trimmed with narrow below, where a dam was built furniture included only bare Colburn; J. Sheldon; J. Chisholm; ruffles edged with lace. After the where settlement had begun. 1887: 14.05 and Mrs. Roland. across the arroyo, high enough 1888: 13.87 necessities, such as cupboards, services, relatives and friends In 1866, James Shugg made to raise the water to a level with 1889: 19.28 tables, beds and chairs. Some About 50 American families participated at a banquet given the first effort to divert the river the adjacent farmland. chairs were made of rawhide, for the couple. came into this settlement during water for irrigation purposes. Bobbi Bruce is a docent with the often with the hair on; other the next two years. In 1852, On reaching the upland, his This was the beginning of It cannot be ascertained the Arroyo Ditch and Water Downey Historial Society. hides for the seats and backs. Kern County was formed, which with any degree of accuracy ditch continued south from the took a considerable slice off the Santa Fe railroad track to his Company, now serving the

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Any sold Glenair Mobile Home Park (Warehouse) provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Notice - In accordance with Subdivision bid that is submitted after this time shall be at public auction to the highest bidder for where it expires 40 days after any change in Business Name in violation of the rights of (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name nonresponsive and returned to the bidder. cash, in lawful money of the United States, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS the facts set forth in the statement pursuant another under Federal, State or Common Statement generally expires at the end of Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must or a cashier’s check payable to Glenaire NAME STATEMENT to Section 17913 other then a change in the Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business five years from the date on which it was filed be made in compliance with section 5100 et Mobile Home Park, payable at time of sale, File Number 2021044377 residence address of a registered owner. A and Professions Code). in the office of the County Clerk, except, as seq. of the Public Contract Code. on Monday, April 5, 2021 at 8:00 a.m., at THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) new Fictitious Business Name Statement provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, the following location: DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) BIGGER FISH must be filed before the expiration. Effective The Downey Patriot where it expires 40 days after any change in All bids shall be on the form provided by 1700 S GLENDORA AVE TWO FRY, 2901 E 10TH ST. APT. 9, LONG January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21 the facts set forth in the statement pursuant the District. Each bid must conform and GLENDORA, CA 91740 BEACH CA 90804, LA COUNTY Name Statement must be accompanied by to Section 17913 other then a change in the be responsive to all pertinent Contract Said sale is to be held without covenant Articles of Incorporation or Organization the affidavit of identity form. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS residence address of a registered owner. A Documents, including, but not limited to, the or warranty as to possession, financing, Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A The filing of this statement does not of itself NAME STATEMENT new Fictitious Business Name Statement Instructions to Bidders. encumbrances, or otherwise on an “as is,” REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ALLISON authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious File Number 2021059128 must be filed before the expiration. Effective “where is” basis. Upon sale, the mobile TILLMAN, 2901 E 10TH ST. APT. 9, LONG Business Name in violation of the rights of THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business A bid bond by an admitted surety insurer on home must be removed from the Premises. BEACH CA 90804 (2) ALAN EADY, 2901 E another under Federal, State or Common DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) ASTRID Name Statement must be accompanied by the form provided by the District a cashier’s The property which will be sold is described 10TH ST. APT. 9, LONG BEACH CA 90804 Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business CHAIDEZ REAL ESTATE, 11015 the affidavit of identity form. check or a certified check, drawn to the order as follows: State of Incorporation: N/A and Professions Code). CROSSDALE AVE, DOWNEY CA 90241, The filing of this statement does not of itself of the Downey Unified School District, in the TRADE NAME: DEL MAR THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a LA COUNTY authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid YEAR: 1983 General Partnership The Downey Patriot Articles of Incorporation or Organization Business Name in violation of the rights of price, shall accompany the Bid Form and H.C.D. DECAL NO: LAD5349 The date registrant started to transact 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A another under Federal, State or Common Proposal, as a guarantee that the Bidder will, SERIAL NO.: CB2308A/CB230B business under the fictitious business name REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ASTRID Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business within seven (7) calendar days after the date HD Label/Insignia: CAL253161/CAL253162 or names listed above: 12/2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CHAIDEZ, 11015 CROSSDALE AVE, and Professions Code). of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract The current location of the subject property I declare that all the information in this NAME STATEMENT DOWNEY CA 90241 with the District for the performance of the is: 1700 S Glendora Ave, Spc 23, Glendora, statement is true and correct. (A registrant File Number 2021058750 State of Incorporation: N/A The Downey Patriot services as stipulated in the bid. CA 91740. who declares as true any material matter THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21, 4/22/21 The public auction will be made to satisfy pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) M AND M TAX Individual A mandatory pre-bid conference and the lien for storage of the above-described and Professions Code that the registrant AND INSURANCE, 6313 EASTERN AVE, The date registrant started to transact FICTITIOUS BUSINESS site visit will be held on April 5th, 2021 property that was deposited by Joe Nuanes knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor BELL GARDENS CA 90201, COUNTY OF business under the fictitious business name NAME STATEMENT at 9:00 a.m. at Unsworth Elementary and Lorene Nuanes to Glenair Mobile punishable by a fine not to exceed one LOS ANGELES or names listed above: 08/2020 File Number 2021051175 School, 9001 Lindsey Avenue, Downey, Home Park. thousand dollars ($1,000). Articles of Incorporation or Organization I declare that all the information in this THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) CA 90240, California. All participants The total amount due on this property, S/ALLISON TILLMAN, PARTNER Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A statement is true and correct. (A registrant DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) VITAL STEP are required to sign in at the front of the including estimated costs, expenses and This statement was filed with the County REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) MARTHA who declares as true any material matter FINANCIAL SERVICES (2) VITAL administration building. The site visit is advances as of the date of the public sale, is Clerk of Los Angeles on FEBRUARY 19, L. MONTOYA, 7725 ALLENGROVE ST., pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business STEP MORTGAGES (3) VITAL STEP expected to take approximately two hours $ 2,827.23. The auction will be made for the 2021 DOWNEY CA 90240 and Professions Code that the registrant MORTGAGE (4) VITAL STEP MORTGAGE and will include visits to all sites. Failure to purpose of satisfying the lien on the property, Notice - In accordance with Subdivision State of Incorporation: N/A knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor SOLUTIONS (5) VITAL STEP LOAN attend or tardiness will render bid ineligible. together with the cost of the sale. (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an punishable by a fine not to exceed one SERVICES (6) VITAL STEP LOANS (7) Statement generally expires at the end of Individual thousand dollars ($1,000). VITAL STEP REAL ESTATE SERVICE The successful Bidder shall be required to Date: March 19, 2021 five years from the date on which it was filed The date registrant started to transact S/ASTRID CHAIDEZ, OWNER (8) VITAL STEP REALTY, 1008 WEST furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a /s/ Airene Williamson in the office of the County Clerk, except, as business under the fictitious business name This statement was filed with the County AVENUE M14 SUITE A193, PALMDALE 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the Airene Williamson, Esq. provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, or names listed above: 07/2019 Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 10, 2021 CA 93551, LA COUNTY, 2851 WEST Contract for the Work. Authorized Agent for where it expires 40 days after any change in I declare that all the information in this Notice - In accordance with Subdivision AVENUE L #216, LANCASTER CA 93536 Glenair Mobile Home Park the facts set forth in the statement pursuant statement is true and correct. (A registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Articles of Incorporation or Organization The successful Bidder may substitute to Section 17913 other then a change in the who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A securities for any monies withheld by the Contact: Amalia Uribe residence address of a registered owner. A pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ERIN District to ensure performance under the (714) 575-5130 new Fictitious Business Name Statement and Professions Code that the registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as CHARLES, 2851 WEST AVENUE L #216, Contract, in accordance with the provisions must be filed before the expiration. Effective knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, LANCASTER CA 93536 of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. The Downey Patriot January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business punishable by a fine not to exceed one where it expires 40 days after any change in State of Incorporation: N/A 3/25/21, 4/1/21 Name Statement must be accompanied by thousand dollars ($1,000). the facts set forth in the statement pursuant THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an The successful bidder will be required to the affidavit of identity form. S/MARTHA L. MONTOYA, OWNER to Section 17913 other then a change in the Individual certify that it either meets the Disabled The filing of this statement does not of itself This statement was filed with the County residence address of a registered owner. A The date registrant started to transact Veteran Business Enterprise (“DVBE”) goal authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 10, 2021 new Fictitious Business Name Statement business under the fictitious business name of three percent (3%) participation or made a NOTICES Business Name in violation of the rights of Notice - In accordance with Subdivision must be filed before the expiration. Effective or names listed above: 02/2021 good faith effort to solicit DVBE participation another under Federal, State or Common (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business I declare that all the information in this in this Contract if it is awarded the Contract SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business Statement generally expires at the end of Name Statement must be accompanied by statement is true and correct. (A registrant for the Work. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES and Professions Code). five years from the date on which it was filed the affidavit of identity form. who declares as true any material matter ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE in the office of the County Clerk, except, as The filing of this statement does not of itself pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business The Contractor and all Subcontractors under FOR CHANGE OF NAME The Downey Patriot provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious and Professions Code that the registrant the Contractor shall pay all workers on all CASE NUMBER: 21NWCP00100 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 where it expires 40 days after any change in Business Name in violation of the rights of knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Work performed pursuant to this Contract TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner the facts set forth in the statement pursuant another under Federal, State or Common punishable by a fine not to exceed one not less than the general prevailing rate of filed a FICTITIOUS BUSINESS to Section 17913 other then a change in the Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business thousand dollars ($1,000). per diem wages and the general prevailing NAME STATEMENT petition with this court for a decree changing residence address of a registered owner. A and Professions Code). S/ERIN CHARLES, OWNER rate for holiday and overtime work as names as follows: File Number 2021040765 new Fictitious Business Name Statement This statement was filed with the County THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) determined by the Director of the Department Present name (1) must be filed before the expiration. Effective The Downey Patriot Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 1, 2021 of Industrial Relations, State of California, for DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) GLOBAL to Proposed name January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21 Notice - In accordance with Subdivision the type of work performed and the locality in (1) AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY, INC., 1944 Name Statement must be accompanied by (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name which the work is to be performed within the E GLADWICK STREET, RANCHO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons the affidavit of identity form. Statement generally expires at the end of boundaries of the District, pursuant to section interested in this matter appear before this DOMINGUEZ CA 90220, LA COUNTY The filing of this statement does not of itself NAME STATEMENT five years from the date on which it was filed 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Articles of Incorporation or Organization File Number 2021050374 court at the hearing indicated below to show authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Prevailing wage rates are also available from cause, if any, why the petition for change of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A Business Name in violation of the rights of THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) GLOBAL the District or on the Internet at: . AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY, INC., 1944 TRANSPORTATION, 11737 DUNNING objecting to the name changes described Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business the facts set forth in the statement pursuant above must file a written objection that E GLADWICK STREET, RANCHO and Professions Code). ST, SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA 90670, LA to Section 17913 other then a change in the DOMINGUEZ CA 90220 This Project is subject to labor compliance includes the reasons for the objection at COUNTY residence address of a registered owner. A monitoring and enforcement by the State of Incorporation: CA Articles of Incorporation or Organization least two court days before the matter is The Downey Patriot new Fictitious Business Name Statement Department of Industrial Relations pursuant scheduled to be heard and must appear at THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21 Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A must be filed before the expiration. Effective Corporation to Labor Code section 1771.4 and subject to the hearing to show cause why the petition REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ARTHUR January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business the requirements of Title 8 of the California The date registrant started to transact FICTITIOUS BUSINESS SALAZAR, 11737 DUNNING ST., SANTA should not be granted. If no written objection Name Statement must be accompanied by Code of Regulations. The successful is timely filed, the court may grant the petition business under the fictitious business name NAME STATEMENT FE SPRINGS CA 90670 the affidavit of identity form. or names listed above: 05/2011 Bidder shall comply with all requirements of without a hearing. File Number 2021053312 State of Incorporation: N/A The filing of this statement does not of itself Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, Articles 1-5 of I declare that all the information in this THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an NOTICE OF HEARING authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious the Labor Code. Date: MAY 26, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., statement is true and correct. (A registrant DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) CORAZON Individual Business Name in violation of the rights of who declares as true any material matter Department: C, Room 312 LATTE, 14132 PRICILLA ST, LA MIRADA The date registrant started to transact another under Federal, State or Common The District intends to award separate pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business CA 90638, LA COUNTY business under the fictitious business name The address of the court is 12720 Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business contracts for each school site. The District NORWALK BLVD., NORWALK CA 90650 and Professions Code that the registrant Articles of Incorporation or Organization or names listed above: 01/2021 and Professions Code). knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor shall award each Contract, if it awards it at A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A I declare that all the information in this all, to the lowest responsive responsible punishable by a fine not to exceed one REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) YVETTE statement is true and correct. (A registrant be published at least once a week for four The Downey Patriot bidder based on: successive weeks prior to the date set thousand dollars ($1,000). PACHECO, 14132 PRICILLA ST, LA who declares as true any material matter 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21, 4/22/21 S/GLOBAL AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY, INC., MIRADA CA 90638 pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business for hearing on the petition in the following VICE PRESIDENT, SUPAVADEE PEREZ a. The base bid amount newspaper of general circulation, printed in State of Incorporation: N/A and Professions Code that the registrant FICTITIOUS BUSINESS only. This statement was filed with the County THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor NAME STATEMENT the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT Clerk of Los Angeles on FEBRUARY 18, MARCH 26, 2021 Individual punishable by a fine not to exceed one File Number 2021051246 The Board reserves the right to reject any 2021 The date registrant started to transact thousand dollars ($1,000). THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) JUDGE MARGARET M. BERNAL Notice - In accordance with Subdivision and all bids and/or waive any irregularity Judge of the Superior Court business under the fictitious business name S/ARTHUR SALAZAR, OWNER DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) YAMADA in any bid received. If the District awards (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name or names listed above: 02/2021 This statement was filed with the County & NAKATA, CERTIFIED PUBLIC Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner Statement generally expires at the end of the Contract, the security of unsuccessful I declare that all the information in this Clerk of Los Angeles on FEBRUARY 26, ACCOUNTANTS, 17918 PIONEER BLVD, bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) five years from the date on which it was filed statement is true and correct. (A registrant 2021 SUITE 209, ARTESIA CA 90701, LA 12637 SHREVE RD. in the office of the County Clerk, except, as days from the time the award is made. WHITTIER CA 90602 who declares as true any material matter Notice - In accordance with Subdivision COUNTY Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Articles of Incorporation or Organization (949) 278-6582 where it expires 40 days after any change in may withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days after [email protected] and Professions Code that the registrant Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A the date of the bid opening. the facts set forth in the statement pursuant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor five years from the date on which it was filed REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) DWIGHT to Section 17913 other then a change in the punishable by a fine not to exceed one in the office of the County Clerk, except, as T. NAKATA, 1442 E. LINCOLN AVE., The Downey Patriot residence address of a registered owner. A thousand dollars ($1,000). provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, #215, ORANGE CA 92865 (2) KATSUKO Darren Purseglove, C.P.M. 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21, 4/22/21 new Fictitious Business Name Statement Darren Purseglove S/YVETTE PACHECO, OWNER where it expires 40 days after any change in YAMABE, 12 ALICANTE AISLE, IRVINE Director, Purchasing and Warehouse SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, must be filed before the expiration. Effective This statement was filed with the County the facts set forth in the statement pursuant CA 92614 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Downey Unified School District Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 2, 2021 to Section 17913 other then a change in the State of Incorporation: (1) CA (2) CA Los Angeles County, State of California ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Name Statement must be accompanied by Notice - In accordance with Subdivision residence address of a registered owner. A THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a FOR CHANGE OF NAME the affidavit of identity form. (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name new Fictitious Business Name Statement General Partnership CASE NUMBER: 21PSCP00111 The filing of this statement does not of itself Statement generally expires at the end of must be filed before the expiration. Effective The date registrant started to transact The Downey Patriot 3/25/21, 4/1/21 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious five years from the date on which it was filed January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business business under the fictitious business name AUTUMN RACHEL LOPEZ filed a petition Business Name in violation of the rights of in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Name Statement must be accompanied by or names listed above: 01/2018 DOWNEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT with this court for a decree changing names another under Federal, State or Common provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, the affidavit of identity form. I declare that all the information in this as follows: Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business where it expires 40 days after any change in The filing of this statement does not of itself statement is true and correct. (A registrant NOTICE OF BID Present name (1) AUTUMN RACHEL and Professions Code). the facts set forth in the statement pursuant authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious who declares as true any material matter LOPEZ to Proposed name (1) AUTUMN to Section 17913 other then a change in the Business Name in violation of the rights of pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the RACHEL LOPEZ-ESCE The Downey Patriot residence address of a registered owner. A another under Federal, State or Common and Professions Code that the registrant Board of Education for the DOWNEY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 new Fictitious Business Name Statement Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Downey, interested in this matter appear before this must be filed before the expiration. Effective and Professions Code). punishable by a fine not to exceed one CA (Los Angeles County), will receive Bid court at the hearing indicated below to show FICTITIOUS BUSINESS January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business thousand dollars ($1,000). for the procurement of NAME STATEMENT Number 21/22-01 cause, if any, why the petition for change of Name Statement must be accompanied by The Downey Patriot S/KATSUKO YAMAVE, PARTNER the following: name should not be granted. Any person File Number 2021053299 the affidavit of identity form. 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 This statement was filed with the County THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) objecting to the name changes described The filing of this statement does not of itself Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 1, 2021 Food Service Paper products DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) HAPPY HOOS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS above must file a written objection that authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Notice - In accordance with Subdivision includes the reasons for the objection at (2) MY HAPPY HOOS, 685 LUCAS AVE. Business Name in violation of the rights of NAME STATEMENT (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Sealed bids must be delivered to the APT 719, LOS ANGELES, CA 90017, LA File Number 2021068150 least two court days before the matter is another under Federal, State or Common Statement generally expires at the end of Downey Unified School District, Purchasing scheduled to be heard and must appear at COUNTY Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) five years from the date on which it was filed Articles of Incorporation or Organization Department, 11627 Brookshire Ave. Room the hearing to show cause why the petition and Professions Code). DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) THEHOMIE, in the office of the County Clerk, except, as 169, Downey CA 90241 no later than 11:00 Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A 13637 KLONDIKE AVE, DOWNEY CA should not be granted. If no written objection provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, a.m. on Monday, May 3, 2021. is timely filed, the court may grant the petition REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) HAPPY The Downey Patriot 90242, LA COUNTY where it expires 40 days after any change in HOOS LLC, 685 LUCAS AVE. APT 719, Articles of Incorporation or Organization without a hearing. 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21 the facts set forth in the statement pursuant Companies interested in bidding should NOTICE OF HEARING LOS ANGELES CA 90017 Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A to Section 17913 other then a change in the State of Incorporation: (1) CA request appropriate bid documents from Date: MAY 6, 2021, Time: 8:30 a.m., STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ALEXIA residence address of a registered owner. A the Purchasing Department at fshih@dusd. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a OF USE OF JAHNLADY SALDANA, 13637 KLONDIKE Department: J, Room: 418 new Fictitious Business Name Statement net or download them from our website The address of the court is 400 CIVIC Limited Liability Company FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME AVE, DOWNEY CA 90242 must be filed before the expiration. Effective The date registrant started to transact (web.dusd.net) under Bids and RFPs. CENTER DRIVE, POMONA CA 91766 2021053785 State of Incorporation: N/A January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business We encourage small, minority, women, business under the fictitious business name FILE NO: 2020023063 DATE FILED: THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall Name Statement must be accompanied by and disabled-veteran owned business be published at least once a week for four or names listed above: N/A JANUARY 29, 2020 Individual the affidavit of identity form. I declare that all the information in this enterprises to participate in the bid process. successive weeks prior to the date set NAME OF BUSINESS(ES): LA BIKE AND The date registrant started to transact The filing of this statement does not of itself The Board of Education reserves the right statement is true and correct. (A registrant BITE TOUR business under the fictitious business name for hearing on the petition in the following authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious to reject any and all bids. No bidder may newspaper of general circulation, printed in who declares as true any material matter STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP or names listed above: N/A Business Name in violation of the rights of pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business withdraw their bid for a period of ninety the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT CODE: 4301 SERVICE ST, LOS ANGELES I declare that all the information in this another under Federal, State or Common (90) days after the date set for the opening and Professions Code that the registrant CA 90063 statement is true and correct. (A registrant MARCH 9, 2021 Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business of bids. Refer to the formal bid documents JUDGE GLORIA WHITE-BROWN knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) SINDY who declares as true any material matter and Professions Code). punishable by a fine not to exceed one and specifications for additional information, Judge of the Superior Court LOMELI MORENO, 4301 SERVICE ST, pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business terms, and conditions. thousand dollars ($1,000). LOS ANGELES CA 90063 (2) LAMBERTO and Professions Code that the registrant Petitioner or Attorney, In Pro Per The Downey Patriot AUTUMN RACHEL LOPEZ S/HAPPY HOOS LLC, MANAGER, GARCIA III, 4301 SERVICE ST, LOS knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 CRISLENE MARY LOU S JARDELEZA, Darren Purseglove, C.P.M. 480 FERRARA CT APT 304 ANGELES CA 90063 punishable by a fine not to exceed one Director of Purchasing and Warehouse MANAGER OF HAPPY HOOS LLC If Corporation or LLC – Print State of thousand dollars ($1,000). POMONA, CA 91766 This statement was filed with the County Incorporation/Organization: N/A S/ALEXIA JAHNLADY SALDANA, OWNER (315) 436-0467 Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 2, 2021 Business was conducted by: a General This statement was filed with the County GOVERNMENT The Downey Patriot [email protected] Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Partnership Clerk of Los Angeles on MARCH 18, 2021 4/1/21, 4/8/21 The Downey Patriot (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name I declare that all information in this statement Notice - In accordance with Subdivision NOTICE TO BIDDERS Statement generally expires at the end of is true and correct. (A registrant who (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21 five years from the date on which it was filed declares as true information which he or Statement generally expires at the end of Notice is hereby given that the governing LIEN SALES SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, in the office of the County Clerk, except, as she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) five years from the date on which it was filed board (“Board”) of the Downey Unified COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, S/SINDY LOMELI MORENO, OWNER in the office of the County Clerk, except, as School District (“District”) will receive sealed NOTICE OF LIEN SALE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE where it expires 40 days after any change in This statement was filed with the County provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, bids for the following projects, Bid No. 20/21- FOR CHANGE OF NAME the facts set forth in the statement pursuant Clerk of LOS ANGELES on MARCH 3, 2021 where it expires 40 days after any change in 04 (“Project” or “Contract”): CASE NUMBER: 21NWCP00048 to Section 17913 other then a change in the the facts set forth in the statement pursuant NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: residence address of a registered owner. A The Downey Patriot to Section 17913 other then a change in the EXTERIOR PAINTING OF CARPENTER, Petitioner AMANDA MENDEZ ON BEHALF new Fictitious Business Name Statement 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 residence address of a registered owner. A property described below to enforce a GALLATIN, PRICE, UNSWORTH AND lien imposed on said property pursuant to OF JONATHAN ALEXANDER MENDEZ must be filed before the expiration. Effective new Fictitious Business Name Statement WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS filed a petition with this court for a decree January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS must be filed before the expiration. Effective Sections 21700–21716 of the CA Business NAME STATEMENT and Professions Code, Section 2328 of changing names as follows: Name Statement must be accompanied by January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business The Projects consist of: Present name (1) JONATHAN ALEXANDER the affidavit of identity form. File Number 2021050572 Name Statement must be accompanied by CA Commercial Code, Sections 1812.600 THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS –1812.609, Section 1988 of CA Civil Code MENDEZ to Proposed name (1) JONATHAN The filing of this statement does not of itself the affidavit of identity form. All work, materials and supplies necessary ALEXANDER REYNOSA authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) JC The filing of this statement does not of itself and Section 535 of the CA Penal Code. AUTOMOTIVE CUSTOMS, 13547 CORAK to repaint the exteriors of each of the above THE COURT ORDERS that all persons Business Name in violation of the rights of authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious school sites. interested in this matter appear before this another under Federal, State or Common ST, BALDWIN PARK CA 91706, LA Business Name in violation of the rights of The undersigned will be sold at public auction COUNTY conducted on www.storagetreasures.com court at the hearing indicated below to show Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business another under Federal, State or Common The Contract Time is 60 days, including cause, if any, why the petition for change of and Professions Code). Articles of Incorporation or Organization Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business on April 14th, 2021 ending at 10:00am. Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A preconstruction activities. The personal property including: general name should not be granted. Any person and Professions Code). objecting to the name changes described The Downey Patriot REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) JULIO household goods, tools, electronics, and CESAR AYALA ORANTES, 13547 CORAK The District intends to award separate personal effects, have been stored and which above must file a written objection that 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 The Downey Patriot contracts for each site. If one Contractor includes the reasons for the objection at ST, BALDWIN PARK CA 91706 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21 are located at: Paramount Self Storage, 8160 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS State of Incorporation: N/A is awarded multiple contracts, the work for E. Rosecrans Ave, Paramount, CA 90723, least two court days before the matter is NAME STATEMENT THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an FICTITIOUS BUSINESS all contracts must be done concurrently County of Los Angeles, State of California, scheduled to be heard and must appear at File Number 2021047477 Individual NAME STATEMENT and completed within the Contract Time the following: the hearing to show cause why the petition THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS The date registrant started to transact File Number 2021073035 stated above. should not be granted. If no written objection (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) CLEO business under the fictitious business name THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) Name Unit # is timely filed, the court may grant the petition MUNSTER, 1164 SALT LAKE ST. UNIT or names listed above: N/A DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) SPARKLING To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required Robert Bitters 1348 without a hearing. 1, LONG BEACH CA 90806, LA COUNTY I declare that all the information in this CLEAN LAUNDRY, 5127 WHITTIER BLVD, to possess one or more of the following Diana Diaz 2181 NOTICE OF HEARING Articles of Incorporation or Organization statement is true and correct. (A registrant EAST LOS ANGELES CA 90022, LA State of California contractors’ license(s): Mario E Guevara 2424 Date: APRIL 12, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A who declares as true any material matter COUNTY, 11138 DEL AMO BLVD. #470, B or C-33 Mario E Guevara 2430 Department: C, Room 312 REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business LAKEWOOD CA 90715 Daissy Gutierrez 1574 The address of the court is 12720 CLEOPATRA A PARRA, 1164 SALT LAKE and Professions Code that the registrant Articles of Incorporation or Organization The Bidder’s license(s) must remain active Elaine Johnson 1133 NORWALK BLVD., NORWALK CA 90650 ST. UNIT 1, LONG BEACH CA 90806 knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Number (if applicable): AI #ON: and in good standing throughout the term Lakeisha Parker 1405 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall State of Incorporation: N/A punishable by a fine not to exceed one 202107010209 of the Contract. be published at least once a week for four THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an thousand dollars ($1,000). REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) CM Purchases must be made in CASH ONLY successive weeks prior to the date set Individual S/JULIO CESAR AYALA ORANTES, MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISE LLC, 11138 To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required and paid at the above referenced facility for hearing on the petition in the following The date registrant started to transact OWNER DEL AMO BLVD. #470, LAKEWOOD CA to be registered as a public works contractor in order to complete the transaction. Sale newspaper of general circulation, printed in business under the fictitious business name This statement was filed with the County 90715 with the Department of Industrial Relations is subject to cancellation in the event of the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT or names listed above: 01/2021 Clerk of Los Angeles on FEBRUARY 26, State of Incorporation: CA pursuant to the Labor Code. settlement between owner and obligated FEBRUARY 12, 2021 I declare that all the information in this 2021 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a party. JUDGE MARGARET M. BERNAL statement is true and correct. (A registrant Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Limited Liability Company Contract Documents will be available on or Judge of the Superior Court who declares as true any material matter (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name The date registrant started to transact after April 5th, 2021, for review at the District Dated this 25th day of March 2021 and 1st Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business Statement generally expires at the end of business under the fictitious business name M.O.T. Office, and may be downloaded day of April 2021. AMANDA MENDEZ ON BEHALF OF and Professions Code that the registrant five years from the date on which it was filed or names listed above: N/A from the District’s website, www.dusd.net/ Self Storage Management Company JONATHAN ALEXANDER MENDEZ knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor in the office of the County Clerk, except, as I declare that all the information in this bids-and-rfps. Electronic files may also be Bond #: WLI1254152 13937 HALCOURT AVE punishable by a fine not to exceed one provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, statement is true and correct. (A registrant requested by emailing Mr. John Shook, NORWALK CA 90650 thousand dollars ($1,000). where it expires 40 days after any change in who declares as true any material matter Director, M.O.T. Services, at jshook@ The Downey Patriot (562) 387-5373 S/CLEOPATRA A PARRA, OWNER the facts set forth in the statement pursuant pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business dusd.net. 3/25/21, 4/1/21 [email protected] This statement was filed with the County to Section 17913 other then a change in the and Professions Code that the registrant Clerk of Los Angeles on FEBRUARY 23, residence address of a registered owner. A knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Sealed bids will be received until NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The Downey Patriot 2021 new Fictitious Business Name Statement punishable by a fine not to exceed one 1:30 p.m., April 15th, 2021, at the 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 Notice - In accordance with Subdivision must be filed before the expiration. Effective thousand dollars ($1,000). District Maintenance, Operations, and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Transportation Office – Room S-4, 11627 California Civil Code Section 798.56a and SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business S/CM MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISES LLC, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Statement generally expires at the end of Name Statement must be accompanied by CEO, JASON CHAO Brookshire Avenue Downey California California Commercial Code Section 7210 12 | The Downey Patriot Legal Notices/Classifieds Thursday, April 1, 2021 CLASSIFIEDS FOR SALE SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE SEVILLA the hearing to show cause why the petition for hearing on the petition in the following ANGELES, CA 90012, STANLEY MOSK probate. The will and any codicils are FOR CHANGE OF NAME THE COURT ORDERS that all persons should not be granted. If no written objection newspaper of general circulation, printed in COURTHOUSE available for examination in the file kept by CASE NUMBER: 21PSCP00095 interested in this matter appear before this is timely filed, the court may grant the petition the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the the court. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: court at the hearing indicated below to show without a hearing. MARCH 12, 2021 petition, you should appear at the hearing THE PETITION requests authority to Petitioner RORY SEBASTIANO AMADEO cause, if any, why the petition for change of NOTICE OF HEARING JUDGE MARGARET M. BERNAL and state your objections or file written administer the estate under the Independent ALESSANDRO CRISTOBEL DE SEVILLA name should not be granted. Any person Date: MAY 5, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., Judge of the Superior Court objections with the court before the hearing. Administration of Estates Act. (This authority filed a petition with this court for a decree objecting to the name changes described Department: C, Room N/A Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner Your appearance may be in person or by will allow the personal representative changing names as follows: above must file a written objection that The address of the court is 12720 MARY KENDAL TEETER your attorney. to take many actions without obtaining Present name (1) RORY SEBASTIANO includes the reasons for the objection at NORWALK BLVD., NORWALK CA 90650 6124 1/2 GOTHAM STREET IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent court approval. Before taking certain very AMADEO ALESSANDRO CRISTOBEL least two court days before the matter is A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall BELL GARDENS, CA 90201 creditor of the decedent, you must file your important actions, however, the personal DE SEVILLA to Proposed name (1) RORY scheduled to be heard and must appear at be published at least once a week for four 562-658-5400 claim with the court and mail a copy to the representative will be required to give notice SEBASTIAN SILAS LOPEZ-ESCE the hearing to show cause why the petition successive weeks prior to the date set personal representative appointed by the to interested persons unless they have THE COURT ORDERS that all persons should not be granted. If no written objection for hearing on the petition in the following The Downey Patriot court within the later of either (1) four months waived notice or consented to the proposed interested in this matter appear before this is timely filed, the court may grant the petition newspaper of general circulation, printed in 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21, 4/22/21 from the date of first issuance of letters to a action.) The independent administration court at the hearing indicated below to show without a hearing. the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT general personal representative, as defined authority will be granted unless an interested cause, if any, why the petition for change of NOTICE OF HEARING MARCH 23, 2021 in section 58(b) of the California Probate person files an objection to the petition and name should not be granted. Any person Date: MAY 6, 2021, Time: 8:30 a.m., JUDGE MARGARET M. BERNAL Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing shows good cause why the court should not objecting to the name changes described Department: A, Room 904 Judge of the Superior Court PROBATE or personal delivery to you of a notice under grant the authority. above must file a written objection that The address of the court is 200 W Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner section 9052 of the California Probate Code. A HEARING on the petition will be held includes the reasons for the objection at COMPTON BOULEVARD, COMPTON KARLA MARISOL DONIS NOTICE OF PETITION TO Other California Statutes and legal authority on April 12, 2021 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. least two court days before the matter is CA 90220, 16141 EUCALYPTUS AVE #17 ADMINISTER ESTATE OF may affect your rights as a creditor. You 2D located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, scheduled to be heard and must appear at A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall BELLFLOWER, CA 90706 may want to consult with an attorney CA 90012. the hearing to show cause why the petition be published at least once a week for four (562) 507-0006 TEODULO ROMULO knowledgeable in California Law. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the should not be granted. If no written objection successive weeks prior to the date set [email protected] VELASCO GEPIGON YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the petition, you should appear at the hearing is timely filed, the court may grant the petition for hearing on the petition in the following Case No. 21STPB02323 court. If you are a person interested in the and state your objections or file written without a hearing. newspaper of general circulation, printed in The Downey Patriot To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, estate, you may file with the court a Request objections with the court before the hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21, 4/15/21 contingent creditors, and persons who may for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing Your appearance may be in person or by Date: MAY 4, 2021, Time: 8:30 a.m., MARCH 3, 2021 otherwise be interested in the will or estate, of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets your attorney. Department: J, Room: 418 JUDGE KRISTIN S. ESCALANTE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, or both, of TEODULO ROMULO VELASCO or of any petition or account as provided in IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent The address of the court is 400 CIVIC Judge of the Superior Court COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES GEPIGON Probate Code section 1250. A Request for creditor of the decedent, you must file your CENTER DRIVE, POMONA CA 91766 Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed Special Notice form is available from the claim with the court and mail a copy to the A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall ARACELI FLORES FOR CHANGE OF NAME by: MARY AILEEN VERGARA GEPIGON court clerk. personal representative appointed by the be published at least once a week for four 804 E. MEADBROOK ST CASE NUMBER: 21NWCP00082 in the Superior Court of California, County Attorney for petitioner: court within the later of either (1) four months successive weeks prior to the date set CARSON, CA 90746 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner of LOS ANGELES. ANH PASCHAL, SBN 294906 from the date of first issuance of letters to a for hearing on the petition in the following (310) 619-7668 MARY KENDAL TEETER filed a petition with THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests ATN LAW OFFICE, P.C. general personal representative, as defined newspaper of general circulation, printed in [email protected] this court for a decree changing names as that MARY AILEEN VERGARA GEPIGON 7451 WARNER AVENUE #E-227 in section 58(b) of the California Probate the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT follows: be appointed as personal representative to HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 92647 Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing MARCH 10, 2021 The Downey Patriot Present name (1) MARY KENDAL TEETER administer the estate of the decedent. (949) 336-2240 or personal delivery to you of a notice under JUDGE GLORIA WHITE-BROWN 3/11/21, 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 to Proposed name (1) MARYKENDAL THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will [email protected] section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Judge of the Superior Court ACOSTA and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. Other California statutes and legal authority Petitioner or Attorney, In Pro Per SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, THE COURT ORDERS that all persons The will and any codicils are available for may affect your rights as a creditor. You RORY SEBASTIANO AMADEO COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES interested in this matter appear before this examination in the file kept by the court. The Downey Patriot may want to consult with an attorney ALESSANDRO CRISTOBEL DE SEVILLA ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE court at the hearing indicated below to show THE PETITION requests authority to 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 knowledgeable in California law. 480 FERRARA CT APT 304 FOR CHANGE OF NAME cause, if any, why the petition for change of administer the estate under the Independent YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the POMONA, CA 91766 CASE NUMBER: 21NWCP00091 name should not be granted. Any person Administration of Estates Act. (This authority NOTICE OF PETITION TO court. If you are a person interested in the (315) 436-0467 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner objecting to the name changes described will allow the personal representative ADMINISTER ESTATE OF estate, you may file with the court a Request [email protected] KARLA MARISOL DONIS filed a petition with above must file a written objection that to take many actions without obtaining NAOMI MAE FORD for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing this court for a decree changing names as includes the reasons for the objection at court approval. Before taking certain very of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets follows: least two court days before the matter is Case No. 21STPB02306 The Downey Patriot important actions, however, the personal To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, or of any petition or account as provided in 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21, 4/8/21 Present name (1) KARLA MARISOL DONIS scheduled to be heard and must appear at representative will be required to give notice Probate Code section 1250. A Request for to Proposed name (1) KARLA MARISOL the hearing to show cause why the petition contingent creditors, and persons who may to interested persons unless they have otherwise be interested in the will or estate, Special Notice form is available from the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, O’DONIS should not be granted. If no written objection waived notice or consented to the proposed court clerk. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES THE COURT ORDERS that all persons is timely filed, the court may grant the petition or both, of NAOMI MAE FORD action.) The independent administration A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been Petitioner: Laurie Holmes ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE interested in this matter appear before this without a hearing. authority will be granted unless an interested LAURIE HOLMES FOR CHANGE OF NAME court at the hearing indicated below to show NOTICE OF HEARING filed by Laurie Holmes in the Superior Court person files an objection to the petition and of California, County of LOS ANGELES. 12024 PARROT AVE CASE NUMBER: 21CMCP00023 cause, if any, why the petition for change of Date: MAY 19, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., shows good cause why the court should not DOWNEY CA 90242 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner name should not be granted. Any person Department: C, Room 312 THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests grant the authority. that Laurie Holmes be appointed as personal CN976258 FORD Mar 18,25, Apr 1, 2021 ARACELI FLORES filed a petition with this objecting to the name changes described The address of the court is 12720 A HEARING on the petition will be held court for a decree changing names as above must file a written objection that NORWALK BLVD., NORWALK CA 90650 representative to administer the estate of on APRIL 20, 2021 at 8:30am. in Dept. the decedent. CN976258 follows: includes the reasons for the objection at A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall 11 Room N/A located at SUPERIOR The Downey Patriot Present name (1) ARACELI CASTRO least two court days before the matter is be published at least once a week for four THE PETITION requests the decedent’s COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF will and codicils, if any, be admitted to 3/18/21, 3/25/21, 4/1/21 SEVILLA to Proposed name (1) ARACELI scheduled to be heard and must appear at successive weeks prior to the date set LOS ANGELES, 111 HILL STREET, LOS Thursday, April 1, 2021 The Downey Patriot | 13 What to consider before buying a second home

forced to sell it for half his manager, but that has its own might not be the best financial investment. disadvantages.” decision, but when she and Consider the overall Renting can work just her sister were growing up, impact on your life. Most as well. While it might their parents took them every people don’t have endless feel exhilarating to own a summer to Sunset Beach on streams of money, even if they mountain home in North the North Carolina coast. have done well for themselves Carolina or a Pacific Ocean She wanted to continue that financially. So, a splurge in one beach house, Rush says tradition for her children, area often requires a sacrifice another option is simply to her sister, and her sister’s in another. “If you want the rent a place for a week or a children. second home, then perhaps an weekend whenever you’re in “It was a reminder that Alaskan cruise won’t be in the need of a getaway. it’s not always about the budget,” Rush says. “It comes None of this means a numbers,” Rush says. “You down to what your priorities second home is always a have to weigh the return are.” mistake, Rush says. on investment against the Upkeep can become emotional benefit. Financially, One client whose parents it wasn’t the best choice, overwhelming. People tend died and left her a generous to overlook the ancillary costs but to her, it meant so much inheritance wanted to invest more. It was about keeping her that make owning a second the money in a beach home. Owning a second home second home either as a rental Real estate doesn’t parents’ memories alive. Some home expensive, Rush says. Rush warned her of the can provide retirees – or even property or a vacation home, automatically mean easy things truly matter more than Take those into consideration potential pitfalls. younger families – a mountain which they might also rent for money. People mistakenly as you make your decision. money.” retreat or a house at the beach part of the year,” Rush says. believe real estate provides “Property taxes, homeowners She teared up. She agreed it for those family vacations or “But unless you’re in a hot real a guaranteed return, but association dues, insurance, quick weekend getaways. estate market, the return on that’s not always true. Rush and maintenance start to add But if buying a second investment usually isn’t worth recalls one client who, over up,” he says. “Renting the home is on your list of New the hassle. There are better Rush’s vehement objections, house out when you aren’t Year’s resolutions for 2021, ways of growing your money.” withdrew all of his retirement using it does provide an be sure to consider all the Rush says a few things money to build an expensive income stream, but managing upsides and downsides before to know about investing in a second home. The client was the property and dealing committing, says Patrick second home include: certain the house would pay with tenants is a hassle. Rush (www.patrickrushtfa. off, but he eventually was You can hire a property com), CEO of Triad Financial Advisors and the ForbesBooks author of Gain Big and Give Back: Financial Planning with Intention. “Many retirees end up regretting it,” Rush says. “They feel they are forced to go to that second home every weekend just because they spent so much on it. A vacation property or second home can certainly provide a lot of joy, but it rarely works out financially.” That doesn’t stop people from buying them, though. The National Association of Home Builders estimates that Americans own about 7.4 million second homes, which is about 5.6 percent of the total housing stock. “People tend to purchase a 14 | The Downey Patriot Real Estate Thursday, April 1, 2021