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SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 11 Multiple Downey congresswoman businesses report votes to impeach Trump Friday 87˚

■ Calling President Trump Saturday 85˚ Covid unfit for office, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard votes for impeachment: “He has outbreaks blood on his hands.” Sunday 85˚

■ Restaurants and retail By Eric Pierce stores have experienced Editor Covid-19 outbreaks, ON THIS DAY according to newly-updated DOWNEY – Downey JANUARY 14 health department data. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal- 1784: Allard voted Wednesday to The United States ratified a peace treaty impeach President Donald Trump, with England ending the Revolutionary By Alex Dominguez citing his role in last week’s War. Staff Writer insurgence at the Capitol that left five people dead, including a police officer. DOWNEY – Multiple Downey 1952: businesses are reported to have Trump became the first NBC’s “Today” show premiered. more than three lab-confirmed president in U.S. history to be cases of coronavirus, according impeached twice when the House 1954: to data on Los Angeles County’s of Representatives voted 232 to 197 in favor of impeachment, Photo by George Skidmore Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and Covid-19 webpage. actress Marilyn Monroe were married at citing “high crimes and has deeply divided an already The list includes more than “At a time when thousands down from carrying out their San Francisco City Hall. misdemeanors.” fractured nation and has violently 500 workplaces, food and retail of Americans are dying of an armed threats against our Roybal-Allard said she took turned American against stores, and other entities. insidious virus, which to defeat nation’s capital and state capitols no joy in voting to impeach Trump American. As the unprecedented 1963: demands effective presidential across the country. The Kaiser Permanente but said he “has blood on his attack on American democracy George C. Wallace was sworn in as leadership and unity of purpose, Central Refill Pharmacy Center hands” in the wake of last week’s and our Constitution transpired, “This lack of leadership governor of Alabama with a pledge of the president continues to be sits atop those in Downey who attempted coup. President Trump was reported to and concern for the lives of our “segregation forever.” focused on himself. Defeating this were listed, with 45 confirmed The fact remains no president gleefully watch on television the countrymen and women is one pandemic cannot be undertaken staff members having tested of the United States is above the insult and attempted destruction more example that confirms 1970: while we have a president who positive. law. And this president has sadly to our nation’s capital while Donald Trump is unfit for office Diana Ross and the Supremes denies its existence and is actively Chick-fil-A follows with 21 violated his oath to support and ignoring repeated pleas for him and poses a true danger to America performed their last concert together, encouraging violence to overturn confirmed cases. defend the Constitution of the to call on his supporters to stand and American democracy. To at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. a well-documented free and fair protect our country and our Penske Toyota of Downey United States against all enemies, down. election. democracy, he must be impeached reported 17 staff members as foreign and domestic. As “Trump continues to reject “Even after the tragedy of and barred from holding federal 1993: having contracted the virus. Not members of Congress who have any responsibility for the violence January 6th, Trump continues office again. Late-night TV talk show host David far behind is Best Buy and Home made that same pledge, it is our and has shown no remorse or to fuel the fire of the mob with Letterman announced he was moving duty to take this action. concern for those who have died “I cast my vote today for the Depot, which both are listed as his self-serving and dangerous from NBC to CBS. “His constant bombardment because of his insurrection. A safety of my constituents and all having 15. rhetoric and to incite violence of false information alleging heartbreaking example was his Americans nationwide, and for Honda World Service and and distrust across America. 1994: widespread voter fraud and his initial failure to honor the fallen the survival of our democracy Parts Center has reported seven He still refuses to denounce the repeated attempts to delegitimize Capitol Police officers by lowering in the days, months, and years President Bill Clinton and Russian confirmed employee cases. insurrection and unequivocally the 2020 presidential election the flag to half-staff at the White to come. In good conscience, I President Boris Yeltsin signed accords call on his supporters to stand The LA County Library House. simply have no other choice.” in Moscow to stop aiming missiles at Administrative Office, Liberty any nation and to dismantle the nuclear Ambulance LLC., and Downey arsenal of Ukraine. Fire Station 3 are all also listed. 2004: President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Grocery Alvarez says she has Covid-19 Mars and beyond. 2008: my husband is the one who is ■ In a Facebook post, Republican Bobby Jindal, the first store taking it the hardest since he Downey Councilmember elected Indian-American governor was admitted to the hospital Catherine Alvarez in the United States, took office in today because his oxygen is very Louisiana. temporarily announced she and her low and he was already having husband had contracted complications,” Alvarez wrote. the virus. It is not known how severe Birthdays closes Alvarez’s symptoms are but she Jazz and pop singer Jack Jones (83), By Alex Dominguez did not participate in Tuesday’s Academy Award winning actress Faye By Eric Pierce Staff Writer council meeting. Dunaway (80), “Rocky” actor Carl (73), Pulitzer Prize winning Editor “This message is for all those Weathers who may not believe;” Alvarez journalist Maureen Dowd (69), DOWNEY – Downey television journalist Shepard Smith DOWNEY – Walmart continued in her statement. “I Councilwoman Catherine ask you not to wait for this bug (57), rapper and actor LL Cool J (53), has temporarily closed its Foo Fighters rocker (52), Alvarez announced that she and [to] touch your homes, take Dave Grohl Neighborhood Market in and actor Jason Bateman (52). members of her family, including care of yourself, love each other Downey to allow for cleaning her husband, are infected with and sanitizing, the company and live day by day as if it were Covid-19. announced. your last, life is short to live it Alvarez made the angry, bitter, tied to so much Deaths The grocery store closed announcement on her personal unhappiness…” Wednesday and will reopen Friday Downey Councilwoman Catherine Alvarez, right, said she and her Lewis Carroll, the English author Facebook page Sunday, urging at 7 am. “COVID-19 is not something husband have Covid-19. (Campaign photo) best known for writing the “Alice in residents to take care while also that will be erased overnight, it is Wonderland” series of books, died on “Everything we’re doing asking for prayers [all sic]: this date in 1898 of pneumonia. He was is for the well-being of our here to stay for a long time even more than ever, this passage of “I ask you to pray, for a “Covid has knocked on the 65. associates and customers, and in if we don’t want to accept it; and life is a trial is a period to have speedy recovery for my family consideration of guidance by the doors of my home, from all that is why I ask you to become our main objective to carry it out since we are all infected.” Cinematic star Humphrey Bogart, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the members of the family, aware and that we get united in the family and in society. top box office draw in the 1940s and ‘50s, died in 1957 of esophageal cancer. and health experts,” Walmart said He was 57. in a statement. “When the store reopens Friday, we will continue Ray Kroc, the businessman who turned conducting associate health McDondald’s into a global fast-food screens and temperature checks, giant, died in 1984 of heart failure. He Ed Potter dies of Covid-19 was 81. and all associates will be provided with facemasks and gloves. “Harry Potter” actor Alan Rickman “These protocols are in ■ The retired teacher and Potter was also a board died in 2016 at age 69 of pancreatic addition to the extensive measures Downey Unified assistant member with Downey Federal Ed Potter Remembered cancer. Credit Union for the last 18 years. we’ve put in place during the superintendent was 82. Two-time Academy Award winning pandemic to help protect our “He was a kind soul and we Friends and former co- actress Shelley Winters died in 2006 of associates and customers, will miss him dearly,” the credit workers share their memories heart failure. She was 85. including installing sneeze By Eric Pierce union said in a statement. “Our of the late Downey educator. Mexican-American actor Ricardo guards at registers, temperature Editor thoughts go out to his family…” Montalban died in 2009 of congestive checks and mandatory mask- heart failure. He was 88. wearing for associates, placing Potter was hired by Downey See page 3 social distancing signage and DOWNEY – Dr. Ed Potter, a Unified in 1971, embarking on civic leader and former assistant enacting emergency leave policy a 32-year teaching career that Book Recommendation for associates who are unable or superintendent with the Downey culminated with the position administrator at Downey High “Better Luck Next Time” by Julia uncomfortable coming to work. Unified School District, has died, of assistant superintendent of School,” the district said in a Claiborne Johnson “Additionally, through the officials confirmed Monday. certificated personnel. statement. It’s 1938 and women seeking a quick, help of our health ambassadors, The cause of death was Teachers, staff and “There are thousands of no-questions split from their husbands we will continue requiring reported as Covid-19. He was 82. administrators at Downey Downey Unified staff and alumni head to the “divorce capital of the customers to wear protective Unified mourned Potter’s death. with fond memories of Dr. world,” Reno, Nevada. There’s one facial coverings while inside the Potter was president of the Potter because of his unwavering catch: they have to wait six-weeks to building.” Rotary Club of Downey from “In addition to all the staff positive attitude and the smile he Dr. Ed Potter become “residents.” Many of these 1993-94. He stayed involved with he hired to support our students, always had on his face. He will be wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock the club even after his retirement he touched many students’ from Downey Unified in 2003. deeply missed.” to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that lives during his years as an caters to their every need. 2 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 Downey students earning D’s and F’s with greater frequency

■ Many students are Roger Brossmer at DUSD’s Board Students also may be [minutes], that - especially kids struggling to attend meeting on Tuesday. “What struggling with their own that are struggling – they stay we’re seeing is a spreading out of accountability with regards to on.” classes and complete students. We actually have more their schoolwork and Zoom, and Still, Brossmer said that homework remotely, A’s and B’s and we have more D’s are not taking advantage of office Downey could be facing “One of officials say. and F’s.” hours. the largest summer schools in “What we’re seeing is kids “[Students] have been the history of Downey Unified.” that are successful - have a trained their whole career in By Alex Dominguez “We’re hoping that some of workspace, have a computer that Downey Unified by every teacher Staff Writer the interventions we put in place works, have people helping them [to stay on task],” said Brossmer. will address second semester, – are doing well. Those kids who “Now that they’re home, the but we still now have a hole from DOWNEY – Downey Unified are not are doing worse.” teacher gives the assignment, School District is seeing a first semester,” said Brossmer. Brossmer described the they log off. Now they have their “We can try to fix some of that, “significant increase” in D and Playstation, their music. We’re F grades across the middle and widening gap as “disconcerting,” but we now are anticipating a however indicated that the really seeing it’s hard for our huge summer school…” high school levels, according to kids; we just haven’t trained officials. district was already looking at Students will also not likely opportunities to intervene. them to be this self-starting, The disappointing statistic is self-motivated students.” be able to fall back on an adapted “We know it’s not any one credit / no credit system. nothing unheard of during a time “That’s what we’re seeing in thing,” said Brossmer. “A lot of Not all students are properly equipped for at-home learning, where many districts and their kind of a nutshell, is they don’t “At this point, we’re not students are continuing to adapt our kids are dealing with social recommending that,” said officials said. (Courtesy photo) / emotional issues; they’re have that accountability once to a completely remote way of they log off of Zoom. So, we’re Brossmer. “Last year, the learning. isolated. Some are struggling colleges let out and said, ‘Hey, no because they don’t have the really working on how we keep a credit / no credit call that option to reduce the number of “This is a phenomenon that kids on Zoom. You’re going to harm no foul to your kids if you support. The reason I bring this do credit / no credit. They have potentially could hurt our required units for graduation for has been experienced across the up is there’s not one answer see all of our secretaries really students.” the class of 2021 at their next nation with distanced learning,” working with schedules now that not done that this year.” that’s going to fit all kids.” The board will discuss the meeting. said Assistant Superintendent once they do the minimum thirty “We’re hesitant to make Open enrollment LA County Library surpasses underway at DUSD

DOWNEY – Downey Unified is conducting its annual Intra- District Open Enrollment (formerly School of Choice) starting in 3.1 million digital downloads January for the upcoming 2021-22 school year. Downey parents who reside within the district boundaries and ■ A record number of audiobooks, especially in a year The top 10 eBook titles wish to have their student(s) attend a Downey Unified school outside digital books were checked with building closures due to borrowed through LA County of their attendance area may apply. This enrollment period does the global pandemic. LA County Library’s digital collection in not apply for parents of students who reside outside of the Downey out in 2020, increasing Library is one of 102 public 2020: Unified district boundaries. 34% from 2019. library systems worldwide that surpassed 1 million checkouts. Applications for Intra-District Open Enrollment will be available “Where the Crawdads Sing” by to be filled out and submitted online at www.dusd.net through Jan. LA County Library has been Delia Owens 31. Applications are available to pick up at any of the 20 Downey DOWNEY – The Downey- providing readers 24/7 access Unified schools or at the district office located on Brookshire Avenue. based LA County Library to eBooks and audiobooks for “Becoming” by Michelle processed more than 3 million Obama These documents will be available for pick up by appointment several years through OverDrive digital book checkouts last year, only. Those interested are asked to call the school’s front office or and its Libby reading app. Reader “Educated” by Tara Westover making it one of the top 15 public the district office to schedule a time to pick up these documents. interest and usage has grown “Little Fires Everywhere” by library systems worldwide for every year. New students (including kindergartners) entering a Downey total annual digital circulation. Celeste Ng Unified school for the first time and wishing to apply, mustalso “At LA County Library, we Crazy Rich Asians LA County Library reached a “ ” by Kevin register at their school of residence. This will guarantee registration pride ourselves on removing record-breaking 3,109,225 digital Kwan within Downey Unified for the new school year. barriers to access, and we book checkouts via OverDrive in are always working toward “The Giver of Stars” by Jojo Hand written applications, those not submitted online, must be 2020, a 34% increase from 2019. expanding and supporting Moyes submitted in person to the Student Services office at the Downey Michelle Obama’s memoir, The high volume illustrates our digital library, adding “City of Girls” by Elizabeth Unified School District by the closing deadline of Jan. 31, 2021, at 4 “Becoming,” was the most the continued growth and more content, and making it Gilbert downloaded title in LA County p.m. easier to find and use,” said importance of library digital “American Dirt” by Jeanine for 2020 (book and audiobook Skye Patrick, Library Director. For additional information and questions, please contact the lending of eBooks and Cummins combined). Student Services Office at (562) 469-6550. “The tremendous increase in checkouts of eBooks and “Nine Perfect Strangers” by audiobooks this year illuminates Liane Moriarty Delia Owens their growing importance to the “The Silent Patient” by Alex “Educated” by Tara Westover people we serve, who want to be Malhotra & Malhotra Attorneys Michaelides “Talking to Strangers” by able to access library materials, Malcolm Gladwell Serving the community for 36 years wherever they are. This digital access has been especially The top 5 audiobook titles “You Are a Badass” by Jen important this year, when access borrowed through LA County Sincero DIVORCE | CHILD CUSTODY/SUPPORT | BANKRUPTCY to library buildings has been Library’s digital collection in “1984” by George Orwell limited.” 2020: | TRUSTS/WILLS | CONSERVATORSHIPS | PROBATE “Girl, Wash Your Face” by The highest-circulating “Becoming” by Michelle Rachel Hollis title LA County Library readers Obama borrowed through OverDrive “The New Jim Crow” by in 2020 was “Becoming” by Michelle Alexander Readers in Los Angeles Michelle Obama. The top- County need a valid library card Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s circulating genre -- romance -- “ or digital library card to access Call us for a FREE initial Stone represents the most popular in ” by J. K. Rowling digital books from LA County appointment a vast catalog that also includes “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Library’s OverDrive-powered Eva Juarez Malhotra thrillers, mystery, biography/ F*ck” by Mark Manson digital collection. Readers can use any major device, including Krishna Malhotra autobiography, and children/ “Where the Crawdads Sing” by young adult. Apple, Android, Chromebook and Kindle. Se Habla Espanol Visit LACountyLibrary. OverDrive.com or download the Libby app to get started and borrow eBooks and audiobooks anytime, anywhere.

(562) 806-9400 • (800) 811-8881 7847 E. Florence Avenue, Suite 111, Downey, CA 90240 back in business Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 The Downey Patriot | 3 Ed Potter loved people, and people loved him

By Lorine Parks Rotary after a Supreme Court decision made that possible. Pat, a at Rotary meetings, that gold ring on his left hand flashing. If you Society Columnist former president of Downey Chamber of Commerce and owner could hum it, he could play it. At the club’s Christmas parties, he of Johnny’s, was a good choice. On her free day, Sunday, she gave had to compete with equally adept fellow member Dr. Bob Flynn, DOWNEY – The man who never met a stranger — that was Ed haircuts and styling to the patients at Rancho Los Amigos Rehab and organist and hostess Chris Pohlen, for a Potter. He could walk into a room, or even a bus stop, and in five Hospital in Downey. seat at the baby grand. minutes everyone would feel they knew him, and he knew them. Everyone has their favorite Dr. Ed story. As president of the Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Ed When Edward Potter’s death at age 82 was reported this week. Rotary Club of Downey in 1993-94, Dr. Ed himself remembers he Potter’s spirit of adventure led him to Dr. Ed Sussman, former superintendent of the Downey Unified was faced with a momentous decision within the first two weeks of travel, and after he retired, Ed often went School District, contacted me to say, “Ed Potter was one the finest his presidency: “Where are we going to eat?” to Hawaii with his good friend and fellow gentlemen I have ever known. He was a man of the highest integrity The old Rio Hondo Golf Club House was being torn down, and school administrator Stan Hanstad. Before and a great model for all of us. I am going to miss him terribly.” the present Event Center being built. “Dirt, trucks, construction visiting Tahiti and Quebec, he took French “In addition to all the staff he hired to support our students, he everywhere, it was awful,” said Ed, in that clear voice and precise lessons. Ed wasn’t going to miss the touched many students’ lives during his years as an administrator way he had of picking his words. Ed took pride that he led the club opportunity to meet and talk with the locals at Downey High School,” the district said in a statement. “There are to the Embassy Suites, where they had their luncheons during his wherever he went. thousands of Downey Unified staff and alumni with fond memories year. “We went to Hawaii, and the Bahamas,” of Dr. Potter because of his unwavering positive attitude and the Raul Lopez remembers: “In June of 2019 my wife Arlene and I Stan said, “we went all over the place. At smile he always had on his face. He will be deeply missed.” and Dr. Potter flew to Boston for a conference together, and then we that huge Atlantis Resort in Nassau, Ed found a piano and started As assistant supervisor in charge of personnel for the Downey drove to Miami Beach. This was a trip that he had planned to take playing, and pretty soon he had a big crowd around him.” Unified School District, Edward L. Potter was once described as “the with his wife Kay, but they never had the chance before she passed “And we were theater partners,” said Stan. “Ed had a love for man who makes the district look good.” away. He was thrilled to be able to finally travel down the east coast music and theater. We had two tickets and would go to the theater Hired by Downey Unified in 1971, Ed embarked on a 32-year and was a great travelling companion. He was always up for any every month, Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the career. “When I became the new assistant superintendent,” said adventure and was very pleasant to be around.” Downey Civic Light Opera.” Ed, “and this was many years ago, school districts were getting one “The most memorable part of the trip,” said Raul, “was our stop “We would like to start a music scholarship in Ed’s name,” Stan free computer from Apple. So, I bought the first Macintosh in the in New York. We arrived just a day before the Pride Parade. The city said. “Dr. Brian Brown thought of that today at the Downey Federal entire school district. And once my office got that, in just a couple was filled with more people than we could imagine; all the taxi’s and Credit Union, and my wife Leslie suggested music. He was one in a of months the entire district wanted to have their own. That was the buses were busy so we had to learn to use the Subway. He wanted million, and we’d like to keep his memory alive.” beginning of the digital revolution.” to see it all, he was interested in everything, so we took all available “He is with us always,” said Stan, “but he’s also home now with The Downey Federal Credit Union said “with a heavy heart we tours and walked everywhere.” his wife Kay. He’s looking down from heaven and saying, God bless mourn his passing. Dr. Potter was a kind soul and we will miss him “Ed kept up the pace,” said Raul, “and never ever missed an you for helping the kids.” dearly.” Dr. Potter had been on the Federal Credit Union Board opportunity to talk to anybody, no matter where we were. We will “Ed loved people, you know.” said Stan. “He tried to keep safe since 1999 and he brought his experiences in technology. always remember the 23 days we spent together and will miss him the way we all did, but somehow he got infected with the Covid-19. “When I was appointed,” he said. “the Board was looking for very much. Dr. Potter’s comment at the time: “We saw everything It happened so suddenly, in just four days. I talked to him the day a way to bring computers into our boardroom. I had seen what along the way, and I heard quite a lot about Cuba.” before the last one, and he wanted me to tell everyone how much he can happen when you start something with technology. I saw the An accomplished pianist, Ed loved to play honky-tonk piano loved them.” growth when I bought the first Apple Macintosh. I wasn’t afraid then and I’m not afraid now.” Barbara Lamberth, former president and CEO of the DFCU said, “I had the pleasure of knowing him for 35 years. He was a wonderful In Memory of In Memory of person who loved to share stories.” Ed recalled that he joined the Rotary Club of Downey when he Rae “Jean” Jones Harold Hougland was vice-principal at Downey High, and Dr. Ed Sussman, his boss, Rae “Jean” Jones passed away April 18, 1924 - January 11, 2021 was his sponsor. During his time in the club he earned his Ed D, at 88 years young, surrounded by going from “Mister” Potter to “Doctor” Potter, and Dr. Ed didn’t let Harold Hougland was born on anyone forget that hard-won title. her family at home on Wednesday, April 18, 1924 in Princeton, Indiana, Dr. Ed stayed involved with the club even after his retirement January 6th 2021, from Covid-19. to parents, Albert Hougland and from Downey Unified in 2003. He was famous for his hugs. And She grew up in Ontario CA, raised Alma Tooley Hougland. He went to for sponsoring one of the first women, Pat Gomez, to join Downey her three boys in Bell Gardens meet his maker on January 11, 2021. before moving to Downey in 1980. Harold spent his formative years in She continued to help raise those Oakland City, Indiana. After high who needed her love and guidance. Her home was always school, he served three years in the open and she made sure everyone had a place to call home. Navy during WWII. While assigned Tennis was her second love after her family. She was an to duty on an aircraft carrier in active member of The Downey Tennis Club, and could be the South Pacific, he survived the “USS Franklin Disaster” in found out on the courts 2-3 times a week for many years. March of 1945. After the war, he attended Indiana University, She is survived by her two oldest sons, along with her 8 graduating in l952 with a BA in Biology and made his move grandkids, 17 great grandkids, and to California. Harold was a long-time, active member of First 5 great great grandkids, however Presbyterian Church in Downey. You could also find him she was “grandma” to so many most days at the Downey Senior Center beating his friends more. She will be missed by so at pool and playing cards. In Harold’s younger years, he was many family and friends. an accomplished trombonist and up to his departing sang Due to Covid-19 no services or in perfect pitch. Harold is survived by his daughter, Lorrie gatherings will be held at this time. In honor of my grandma Jean Wilson and her husband, Bruce of Rancho Mission Viejo; hug your love ones often, and as granddaughter, Kaitlin of Portland, Oregon; and sisters she would say not a half way hug, Diane Meade of Georgia and Janice Hayes of Colorado. Due but a good two armed hug. to pandemic, no formal services will be held. Health & Wellness 4 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 At Rancho, hospital officials Paging Dr. Frischer... By Dr. Alan Frischer

We are still in the midst of Does it cause a milder or develop ways to help this worldwide pandemic. Amaz- more severe illness? ingly, scientists have developed It probably does not cause a safe vaccine in record time. In a more severe disease, and at my office, eth doctors and staff this point, does not appear to be have already any more fatal than the original victims of violence received our virus. COVID vaccina- tions. Is it still susceptible to thera- ■ A newly-launched peutic agents such as monoclo- program provides victims We are all nal antibodies? now hear- with access to counselors ing of a new This new variant may affect and social workers as mutated form the ability of some treatments they recover from their of COVID-19. currently in development against traumatic injuries. In December, it the virus. Time will tell. was announced that the variant, Will the current vaccines still dubbed B.1.1.7, had accumulated produce immunity? By Philip S. Requejo 17 mutations and was spreading The new vaccines do appear rapidly in the United Kingdom. to be effective against this new DOWNEY – Patients who It has now reached the USA. mutation. For the virus to evade sustain a disabling injury due What are the implications for the the vaccines currently in use, it to violence are often admitted pandemic? What does this mean would not only have to change into one of the trauma unit regarding the new vaccines? significantly, but do so in a way hospitals and often end up at What do these mutations change that changes the way the virus Rancho Los Amigos National about the disease itself? functions. That has not hap- Rehabilitation Center for Please note this: Viruses pened to date. Even if the virus inpatient and outpatient mutate all the time. COVID is no mutates that much, the major rehabilitation services. This exception, and mutates regu- vaccine makers have the ability includes individuals with spinal larly, acquiring about one new to modify their vaccines, and it cord injury (SCI) and traumatic mutation in its genome every could be possible to have a new brain injury (TBI). two weeks. Many mutations are vaccine in a matter of weeks. silent, meaning they cause no Following a devastating For now, a more contagious change in the structure of the COVID virus means that EVERY- life change, adjustment to a proteins they encode. Other ONE needs to take public health disability and reintegration mutations may lead to struc- measures even more seriously, to community are serious tural changes. The key question including social distancing and challenges that these is whether the virus mutates mask wearing. I urge you to be- individuals face. enough to be considered a sig- come vaccinated with one of the nificant deviation. Those who sustain a new vaccines just as soon as you disabling injury due to violence Here are the important con- are given the opportunity. They are often marginalized and cerns about any newly mutated are extremely safe and highly often lack the extensive virus: effective, protecting some 95% mental, emotional, social, and Does it spread more rapidly? of us against COVID, even in the face of these new (and inevi- case management support that Mathematical models suggest table) mutations. they need. Victims of violence Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center has developed a program to help victims of that this new mutation might often return to a life of violence violence. (Courtesy photo) be up to 70% more transmis- Let’s all do our part during because they have no other sible than the original virus. That this pandemic, and get past it as counselors, social workers, and they come here, we treat them, challenges to recovery. The peer choice. could be because eight of the 17 quickly as possible. case managers. and we send them back out to counselor serves as a confidant new mutations on the B.1.1.7 Dr. Alan Frischer is former chief of During these challenging The RVRPP team recognizes dangerous environments, and and coach throughout the variant are on the spike portion staff and former chief of medi- times, the Rancho Research that for violence survivors, often we get re-admissions, process. Individuals also of the coronavirus shell, allowing cine at Downey Regional Medical Institute (RRI) launched the adjustment to disability and or they suffer other forms of have access to a wide array of it to more easily bind to recep- Center. Write to him in care of this Rancho Violence Recovery and community reintegration violence and psychological hospital- and community- tors on the cell surface, and thus newspaper at 8301 E. Florence Ave., Prevention Program (RVRPP) in are difficult challenges. Juan issues that were never based supports, including to infect the cell. (One source Suite 100, Downey, CA 90240. partnership with the Lynwood Garibay, Program Manager addressed. assistance in accessing called it “stickier.”) based non-profit Southern for RVRPP, says that “victims RVRPP started out of the benefits, complex case California Crossroads. of crime and violence often need to address violence for management, support groups, Funded by the California feel marginalized and alone in our patients. It is a partnership individual counseling, food support, housing, educational Community Foundation and dealing with such traumatic and collaboration between in Rehabilitation Services and questions that guys usually assistance, and job-training. modeled after similar hospital- life-changing events.” physicians, therapists, social is currently pursuing a master’s ask is related to sexuality and based programs, this program He adds that “our program workers, community-based By removing service access degree in Rehabilitation dating. Can I still have a family is working to help survivors is designed to offer strategies organizations, administration, barriers, the RVRPP team Counseling. after this? Felipe said. recover from violent injury and patients past and present believes that participants will for those who are feeling lost, When asked about his most “Another goal of the and reintegrate into their with “lived experience” and more successfully return to with little sense of direction.” impactful experience as a peer RVRPP program is to develop communities. other stakeholders that feel a full, productive lives – free The issue of violence counselor, Felipe says “Seeing a sustainable model by Program staff are developing huge need to address violence from violence. that plagues our city and our the transformation of patients expanding our partnerships new interventions and ways in many forms. country really needs to be Filipe Estrada, a peer from being shy and timid about with all DHS facilities and to track each participant’s addressed in a multi-faceted We want to create counselor at the RVRPP, their injury to becoming a bit patients, and with members of rehabilitation progress during approach in partnership and opportunities for patients sustained a spinal cord injury more gung-ho and taking the our community,” Mr. Garibay their recovery. The RVRPP is alignment with not only in the who are victims of violence from a gunshot due to a steps toward greater hope and added. also working to connect recent to be reintegrated back to the carjacking incident in 1997. hospital setting, not only in healing. So far, all patients are “As such, the project is violence survivors among community by empowering health care settings, but also Before becoming a peer very welcoming and open.” developing a database registry Rancho patients with peer them to achieve their out in the community along counselor – serving as the “As an individual with a for gathering important personalized goals through with community partners. bridge between newly injured disability myself, making the demographics and follow-up community education and patients and services, Mr. connection and knowing that I, survey data that can be used Our patients who have individualized services that Estrada was a patient at too, was in a similar situation is to longitudinally track the experienced violence will be provide the knowledge, skills, Rancho where he connected very important,” Felipe said. “I progress of our patients as they affected the rest of their lives. and confidence building needed We are tired of seeing patients with Dr. Irene Gilgoff (former can talk to them about health get back into the community.” to maximize their quality of Chief of Pediatric Services being “treated and streeted” - issues and share thoughts For more information about life. To meet our patients where at Rancho) and Lisa Hilborn about things that happen to RVRPP, contact Juan Garibay, they live, work, play, and pray. (former director of Rancho’s our body because of the injury. at (562) 385-6069 or juang@ “Our goal is to allow victims Wheelchair Sports Program). “I can talk to them about ranchoresearch.org. of violence to be productive Through the where they stand and where Philip S. Requejo is chief members of the community,” encouragement and guidance they want to go with their lives. executive officer of the Rancho according to Mr. Garibay. from the people at Rancho I can talk to them about things Research Institute. Program participants and the California Department that they cannot talk to family partner with a peer counselor of Rehabilitation Mr. Estrada members about. who understands the many completed a bachelor’s degree “One of the most common Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 Opinion The Downey Patriot | 5 Georgia delivers a victory for moderation

By Steve Chapman “We are the firewall to stopping socialism.” Among them are Michael Bennet of Colorado, Maggie Hassan of New In recent years, the American political system has featured a But they may have alienated more people than they persuaded. Hampshire and Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. clash of extremes. Republicans moved so sharply to the right that Warnock and Ossoff leaned toward the center — declining to embrace It’s senators like these who will decide the fate of legislation in even past presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain no the Green New Deal, “Medicare for All” or defunding police. In the this Congress. With the thinnest possible margin, Democratic leader longer fit in, and Donald Trump stoked the ire of the sort of people end, their comparative moderation was more appealing to voters Chuck Schumer will have to keep the moderates on board to have any who stormed the Capitol building yesterday. Meanwhile, leftists than fire-breathing conservatism. chance of success. Far from empowering socialists, the new Senate such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have gained greater It has been 20 years since Georgia elected a Democrat to the Senate. lineup will erode their influence. influence over Democratic policies. The state hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since 1992. But Incremental change, not radical reform, is the only realistic way But last week’ election in Georgia was a thumping victory for with Trump antagonizing suburbanites and driving Democrats to the to advance Democratic policies. Likewise, in his judicial nominations, moderation. How so? First, because voters rejected the candidates polls, Georgia has lost its place as a GOP stronghold. Biden will have to steer down the middle of the road. endorsed by Donald Trump even as he strove to overturn Georgia’s Maybe Republicans who have become evangelists for the cult of Democrats also have to contend with their dismal showing in presidential vote. Second, because both Kelly Loeffler and David Trump should reassess. Four years ago, the GOP held not only the 2020 down-ballot races. They lost seats in the U.S. House and failed to Perdue emphasized their allegiance to Trump at his most outrageous. presidency but both houses of Congress. Today, Democrats control wrest control of a single state legislative chamber from Republicans. The president is very good at revving up the base of the Republican all three. I asked Jerry Taylor, president of the moderate Washington think Party. He got 11 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016 election. The But anyone panicking about the onset of socialism should switch tank the Niskanen Center, what he made of the new alignment. “The problem for him and his party is that he’s even better at mobilizing to decaf. The Senate will be dealing with a president who represents governing coalition in America during the 117th Congress will be Democrats. Joe Biden outdid Hillary Clinton by more than 15 million the moderate wing of the Democratic Party — and who has made it built from the center of American politics,” he said. “And happily, votes. clear that his agenda will not be plagiarized from progressives. In the extreme wings of each party have beclowned themselves and lost The stunning outcome of the two Senate races in Georgia, with striving for bipartisan cooperation, Biden will be looking for solutions political strength.” Democrats winning both, is more proof that the king of Mar-a-Lago that stand a chance of winning over at least a few Republicans. Americans, by and large, are a moderate people, gravitating is often his own worst enemy. Republicans typically win the state’s He also has to placate centrists in his own party, who are not about to sober, practical policies. This year, they may finally have a runoff elections because they’ve been better at getting to the polls. to indulge any left-wing fantasies. The Moderate Democrats PAC has government that matches. On Monday, veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove predicted they channeled support to 10 Democratic senators. The group includes Joe would win both races. Steve Chapman is a syndicated columnist and blogs for the Chicago Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, who represent Tribune. The GOP did all it could to make this an election about ideology, red states, as well as Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Gary Peters of portraying Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as radical Michigan, who represent swing states. leftists. With control of the Senate hanging in the balance Perdue’s Some Democrats who aren’t on the Moderate Democrats PAC list campaign theme was “Win Georgia, Save America.” Loeffler insisted, nevertheless earned an “F” on the leftist website Progressive Punch. Trump’s apologists owe America an apology

By Jeff Robbins trashed decency and democratic values — not merely since Nov. 3 “complicit in the big lie.” But the Trump presidency has been rife The neo-fascist mob that bashed in Capitol Police officer Brian but daily over the last four years. These individuals bear a share of with lies since its inception. The talk-show jocks, the Fox News Sicknick’s skull with a fire extinguisher, wielded lead pipes, ransacked responsibility for our national shame. celebrities, the Republican loyalists and the small-time right-wing Congress and terrorized members of Congress have a plausible claim Some of them who have coddled Trump and defended him day commentators who thrilled to Trump’s diseased machismo have that they were only following orders — those of the president of the after day for years now pronounce themselves shocked — shocked! done America incalculable damage. United States. Donald Trump had told them it was their duty to come — at last week’s attack on America. The risible, Goebbels-like lying about a “rigged” election (it to Washington, D.C., on the day Congress would count the electoral It’s a nice try. But they own it. And they owe their country an wasn’t) that Trump won (he didn’t) did not suffice to stir these votes that would make Joe Biden the next president, promising them apology. individuals’ somnolent sense of decency. But this was unsurprising. a “wild” time if they did. They supported Trump when he attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, House The president assured the insurrectionists he assembled that he Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, even He personally addressed them, exhorting them to go to the would accompany them to the Capitol, which doubtless reinforced Capitol and express their hatred with all their might. “We are going when those attacks placed them in physical danger. They supported their confidence that they were doing their Fuhrer’s will. Evidently, him when he called for retaliation against journalists and political to have to fight much harder,” he told them. “You will never take however, he was stricken with a bout of Sudden Onset Bone Spurs back the country with weakness.” opponents, when he mocked a reporter with a physical disability, (SOBS) and instead slipped back to the White House to watch on when he derided war hero John McCain because McCain was captured Namesake and certified nitwit Donald Trump Jr. urged the crowd television while his people (to whom he said: “We love you. You’re while serving his country. They supported him when he tried to to make it painfully clear to legislators that they had better swallow very special.”) laid siege to the Capitol on his behalf. After 24 hours extort a foreign leader into fabricating an “investigation” intended the fraudulent fiction that his father had won the election. Or else, of unflattering media coverage of the attempted putsch, Trump to defame the likely Democratic presidential nominee, and when he “We are coming for you,” he said. Donald Trump lawyer and frantic was persuaded to tape a statement that he condemned violence, fired devoted public servants for telling the truth. pardon-seeker Rudy Giuliani was blunter yet, telling the thousands a performance so patently insincere that it made videotaped of storm trooper-wannabes that they should engage in “trial by confessions by hostages held captive by Hezbollah seem voluntary Donald Trump’s defenders do not merely share the blame for last combat.” by comparison. week’s events. They have let America down. And whether America will ever fully recover is an open question. The mob did as it was told, savaging the Capitol and inflicting To his credit, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., called out his fellow on the country one of the gravest acts of domestic terrorism in our Republicans, who had hyped Trump’s garbage claim that he won the Jeff Robbins, a former assistant United States attorney and United States history. But it was backed by innumerable enablers and fawners and election, stoking unhinged conspiracy theories that helped trigger delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, was acolytes, politicians and right-wing commentators and ordinary Wednesday’s assault and that leave our government vulnerable to chief counsel for the minority of the United States Senate Permanent Americans alike, who have gushed and giggled as Trump has further domestic extremism. These Republicans are, Toomey noted, Subcommittee on Investigations. The presumption of liberty

By Judge Andrew Napolitano interfere with life, liberty and property after a fair trial, before a neutral The danger of voluntary servitude cannot be overstated. When The concept of personal liberty is that our rights come from judge and jury, at which the government must prove fault on the part accepted by the masses, it will make the exercise of personal liberties our humanity. If you believe in a Supreme Being, as I do and as the of the person whose life or property it wants or whose liberties it seeks the exception rather than the norm. And it will take the personal Declaration of Independence presupposes, then you acknowledge these to curtail. courage and public sacrifice of revolutionaries to resist it. rights as a gift from the Creator. If you doubt or reject the existence I offer this primer to address a troubling issue now facing Americans: The only reason we have even a modicum of personal liberty of a Supreme Being, you can still accept the personal origin of these voluntary servitude. After nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic- today is because of determined and often unpopular men and women rights. Humans are rational beings and the essence of natural rights is induced experiment in totalitarian-leaning governments, many of us who refused to surrender their natural rights. Where are courage and the exercise of reason to seek the truth. The individual employment of still live in cities or states where — to paraphrase University of Sydney sacrifice when we need them? unimpeded reason is the exercise of a natural right. Professor John Keane — the popularly attractive exercise of arbitrary Judge Andrew Napolitano is the senior judicial analyst for Fox News. Either way — whether divinely created or humanly adapted — under power has produced a level of comfort in popular compliance, and this the Natural Law, our rights come from within us. This is not a mere comfortable compliance is voluntary servitude. academic argument. Rather, it has profound everyday consequences. A Stated differently, the government and its medical personnel have right is an unconditional claim against all others that does not require scared the daylights out of so many people that they take comfort validation or approval. Thus, your right to the freedom of speech in complying with government commands to stay home, shut their enables you to think what you wish and say what you think and publish businesses and socially distance. This voluntary servitude is a pernicious Letters to the Editor: what you say. Nature — or as Thomas Jefferson said, “Nature’s God” — evil as it encourages those in power to continue to trample natural has given you that right. rights. And the more those in power get away with rights trampling, The origin of natural rights is self-evident. How is it self-evident the more common it will become and the more folks will accept it. that our rights are natural and not governmental in origin? Because we The 13th Amendment, which was enacted to abolish slavery, A mistake to impeach have them in the absence of government. only prohibits involuntary servitude. Its drafters and ratifiers never Dear Editor: Thus, when government, whether by legislation or executive imagined this voluntary version. command, purports to interfere with your natural rights, it does moral Among the rights most severely restricted today are those of The impeachment against President Trump started by the violence to you. The framers of the Constitution — who had suffered assembly, travel and commercial intercourse. And none of these House of Representatives is a futile exercise with a foreordained such violence under British rule — understood this and provided for restrictions has come about via popularly enacted legislation. All result because the Republican led Senate will not follow the House protection against government assaults upon natural rights. have come about through unlawful and unconstitutional executive leadership. That protection is called due process. This is a complex area of the commands. Although is politically correct to impeach the President, I think is law. Yet, reduced to its essence, it means that the government can only Last week, a federal judge in upstate New York became the first a mistake because it will make him a martyr and enhance his image in the nation to order a governor to produce hard evidence to justify among his followers. his closures of businesses, particularly restaurants. Lamentably, the It is better to let him fall on his own, which is likely to happen governor’s own evidence revealed that 35 times more people have been because his vanity does not allow him to accept that he lost the infected with COVID-19 while in their homes than by the patronage of election and will continue to argue that the election was stolen from restaurants. him without providing any proof of how it was done. I applaud this judge — he is skeptical of government commands and is moving in the direction of human freedom — but he has largely I don’t believe that the President will do any harm to the country missed the point. The point is that freedom is the default position in the few days that he still has in the Executive branch. He has to be because we are born with the right to exercise it. Government can only careful to not destroy whatever chance he has of running again for interfere with personal freedom not by demonstrating the evidentiary elective office. He is not a doofus. basis for its commands but by proving wrongness on the part of the Jorge Montero people whose freedom it wants to curtail. Downey The exercise of a natural right — so long as it does not nullify another’s natural right — simply can never be wrong. When government interferes with natural rights outside of due Calvary Chapel process, it fails its obligation to uphold the Constitution. And when governors and mayors use the power of the state to interfere with rights Dear Editor: that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, they explicitly violate federal law and expose themselves to federal prosecution. For a church not to obey a health directive that is killing 200 people a day in L.A. County is unbelievable. (“Calvary Defies Health Government is essentially the negation of liberty. What liberties Orders,” 1/7/20). may government morally negate? It may only interfere with the liberty of a person who has nullified someone else’s natural rights. Suppose Basically Calvary is saying we are not required to help stop the the rights nullifier is the government itself? When that happens, spread of a deadly virus. This shows how much they care for our according to Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, it is the duty community. of the people to alter or abolish the government. But Calvary Chapel is special. They feel that duty to God, as they That’s where we are today, at the beginning of 2021. We live under see it, is more important than the protection of its members and our governments that not only fail to protect personal liberties, not only local population. I don’t think God would agree with this mentality. fail to recognize their validity and primacy, but actively assault them. The division in our country is evident. Must it now spread to our And these assaults have been accompanied by sometimes soothing and places of worship and divide us there as well? sometimes terrifying scientific-sounding language, which has induced voluntary servitude. David Casillas Downey 6 | The Downey Patriot Comics/Crossword Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 SPEED BUMP DAVE COVERLY

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women from behind me rushed front of me. the stage when Elvis teasingly I was mesmerized by his pulled his scarf off his neck sapphire-blue eyes as he sang All Shook Up to wipe his brow (which I now “Love Me Tender.” I was sure he know contains his DNA) before was singing just to me. offering it to his adoring fans. By Yolanda Adele advance to be there for our Slowly Elvis leaned forward I raised and waved my hand to seventh wedding anniversary; to slip his scarf over my head plea for the apprised scarf. I it was his anniversary gift to until it reached the back of my screamed out his name. he summer of 1969 was me. The orchestra played the neck pulling me closer to him. I Elvis Presley’s opening powerful theme from 2001 He turned and looked right stood on my tip-toes, closed my night at what was Space Odyssey to a reverberating at me, giving me his trademark, eyes…then he kissed me on the then The International crescendo when Elvis finally upper lip curled smile, and said lips softly and tenderly. Women Hilton Hotel in Las made his highly anticipated “Hold on honey, I’ll get to you.” shrilled fervently, but he chose TVegas. It was the first time he appearance and took command One of his bodyguards me. performed in public for more of the stage, wearing a white pointed a flashlight beam on I opened my eyes feeling a bit than nine years. jump-suit. my burnt orange hot pants and shook up and disorientated. All According to a Newsweek The air seemed to fill with matching calypso blouse that sounds seemed muffled before article dated August 11, 1969, the I wore, that seemed to cue the electrifying energy and euphoria everything went dim and I fell to Yolanda Adele on the night she met Elvis Presley (courtesy photo) showroom was filled with 2,200 as the audience stood and lighting technician, because the ground. seats two times per day during changing color lights washed applauded with thunderous I vaguely heard someone four weeks; total attendance over me repeatedly before frenzy. My husband bribed a say, “She’s fainted, give her reportedly topped 101,509, a panning the rest of the audience the images of that magical time and all shook up. couple of waiters and a maitre’d some room!” And I remember new Las Vegas record. The gross in the auditorium. Then a single in my life are vibrant in the Yolanda Adele is a member of the to sit me up front center stage. I thinking, If only Elvis could receipts were $1,522,635 also a large spotlight followed Elvis as recesses of my mind; where I writing class offered through the didn’t sit for long. give me mouth-to-mouth Las Vegas record. he moved nearer to me and knelt visit from time to time when I Cerritos College Adult Education I rose and pressed my body resuscitation. need a break from the doldrums Program. It is held off-campus at My husband made down on one knee directly in up against the platform as some That was 40 years ago, yet and I’m once again feeling vital the Norwalk Senior Center. reservations six months in

as she and Dad were raised The movie portrays two as the hitcher held them at in Imperial. The hitch-hiker longtime fishing buddies, who gunpoint night and day, and murdered a family of five, are family men from El Centro forced them to do his bidding. The Hitch-Hiker a travelling salesman, and (this was like going downtown if The Mexican police got wind kidnapped a deputy from Blythe you lived in Imperial), deciding of him being in Mexico and they (in later years, Dad and Mom to go on a fishing trip to San By Sharon Benson Smith who goes on a killing spree that started their pursuit of him. vacationed here at Walter’s Felipe, Mexico. terrorizes the entire Imperial He was eventually caught; the Camp). Valley. The movie stars Edmond Just south of Mexicali (and two men survived the ordeal om was an avid fan O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy and The reason the movie is so again, if you lived in Imperial and were reunited with their of the movies. She William Tallman, and it was memorable to me is that during or El Centro it was just over the families. particularly liked directed by Ida Lupino who the 1950’s, before they had cars border for great Mexican food), Billy Cook was put to death in the classic black is credited as being the first of their own, brothers George, they picked up a hitch-hiker, the San Quentin gas chamber at and whites such female director in Hollywood. Cal, and their friends often and their world would be turned the age of 25. Shortly thereafter, Mas “Casa Blanca”, “Key Largo” You might say it was during the hitch-hiked to the Pike, the upside down. filming began of “The Hitch- and “The Postman Always Rings golden days of the Hollywood Coliseum, the Atlantic Plunge, The hitch-hiker outright told Hiker.” Twice.” So, I say I came by my to one of the movie theatres on studio system. them that he would kill them at Sharon Benson Smith is a member love of movies naturally. Whittier Boulevard, or just about I recall that hitch-hiking and the end of the trip, and that his of the writing class offered through anywhere they needed to go. I was watching TV last night the movie were very worrisome destination was Santa Rosalia. the Cerritos College Adult Education Mom voiced her opinion and, as and “The Hitch-Hiker” was for Mom. She remembered It was a hostage situation and Program. It is held off-campus at usual, she worried, as “boys will on. It is a true story and thriller hearing about the hitch-hiker escape seemed impossible, the Norwalk Senior Center. of a psychotic escaped convict be boys.”

to be open with each other about says. “It’s impossible to know can help you be strategic and set Smallwood says. “It requires the wealth that they’ve created. what the trends will be in the up layers of asset protection – consistency to stay up to date The more open the conversation, future. And maybe you’ve wills, revocable trusts, spousal on new information, a family the better future generations accumulated a lot of your own lifetime access trusts, life commitment, and work with will be able to avoid pitfalls and personal wealth, then inherit insurance – in order to protect a team of professionals. If the traps that place wealth under money on top of that. Then you inherited money for you and money is going to come to you, attack.” could end up in a higher tax following generations.” it must be managed properly so Learn wealth-sustaining/ bracket. With poor planning, you “Protecting wealth from all that it can be passed from one growing financial strategies. could be looking at 40 to 50% financial pressures should be the generation to the next.” Smallwood emphasizes that drains of wealth over multiple foundation of any wealth plan,” preserving wealth from generations. Financial planners generation to generation is about education and the protection pieces that are put in place. That may require a financial planner, but with each generation having different financial philosophies and priorities, it’s first up to the parents to emphasize the importance for the next Will your kids generation to sustain financial growth. “The baby boomer generation, much of which is now retiring, usually had steady jobs and an abundance of squander their material niceties,” Smallwood says. “Since then, there’s a generation that has seen tremendous growth in incomes and lifestyles. Kids born into inheritance? that lifestyle have become accustomed to it. But when Wealth is wonderful for tips to help families protect those kids try to leave the nest, families to have, but it can be and grow their wealth across they’re shocked to find out just lost quickly if those handling generations: how much money it takes to run the money aren’t prudent. It’s Open conversation between a household.” estimated that 70% of wealthy generations. Money is often a families will lose their wealth Pay special attention to tax subject that families avoid, and ramifications. “Historically, by the second generation, and as a result family members don’t 90% will squander it by the estate taxes have been known to understand how to protect and devastate wealth,” Smallwood third, according to a study by grow the wealth that has been the Williams Group wealth worked for. “It requires open consultancy.. communication with family Fortunes collapse because members, addressing topics of family squabbles and other that are personal in nature,” mistakes that could have Smallwood says. “The successful been avoided with proper families I’ve worked with over planning, says John Smallwood the years have had a willingness (www.johnlsmallwood.com), president of Smallwood Wealth Management and author of “It’s Your Wealth – Keep It: The Definitive Guide to Growing, Protecting, Enjoying, and Passing On Your Wealth.” “Enduring wealth, the kind that transcends generations, boils down to teaching family members at an early age the principles of saving and hard work,” Smallwood says. “When these principles are emphasized, preparing the next generation for responsible financial management has a decent chance of being successful. “But strategically optimizing family wealth for generations also comes down to communication between the generations, and there seems to be a real disconnect between the generations when it comes to talking about wealth. And there is a fundamental misunderstanding of how to pass money well. Saving and protecting multigenerational wealth requires alignment among all family members.” Smallwood offers these three 8 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 Finally! Biola University basketball begins 2021 season

■ The men’s and Benn was no doubt referring are an experienced team,” women’s teams will play to having no fans in the gym for Holmquist said. “Our biggest the games. challenge relates to a lack of a condensed conference As for the opening game depth. For different reasons, schedule with no fans in Saturday against Nazarene, Benn we will only be suiting up nine attendance. said, “Any game that we have, it players for the first few games. will help us in the future. I think Because of these problems we we’re really ready for it. I’m haven’t done any five-on-five By John M. Sherrard trying to use this time to have a scrimmaging in practice since Contributor good year.” last March.” It will be a wait and see for LA MIRADA – At long last, Nakamura added how valuable Benn will be to the team the coaching staff for the first the first live sporting event on game of the season. the campus of Biola University in this year. 10 months. “She is a versatile six-foot “We have good players though, so if our conditioning The men’s and women’s player who can defend all five positions, is an excellent play- can hold up in the early games, basketball games will take place we should be very competitive,” Saturday when the NCAA DII maker and can score at all three levels.” Holmquist added. “I’m not sure Eagles host Northwest Nazarene what to expect in the first game of Nampa, Idaho. A top returner out of Brea- since we haven’t competed With the 2020-’21 season Olinda High School is sophomore five-on-five against anyone, delayed 11 weeks due to Covid-19, guard Stephanie Lee. Last including ourselves, in practice.” season she earned the PacWest the teams will take to the Holmquist added two new hardwood in Chase Gymnasium. Freshman of the Year Award, earning five Freshman of the freshmen to the 11-man squad, The men will tip off at 2 pm, Week Awards along the way. Maximo Milovich, a 6-7 forward followed by the women at 5 pm. from Argentina and Malvin No fans will be allowed at the “In addition to her top level Payero, a 6-0 guard from the game, but it will be live streamed ability to score, Stephanie’s real Dominican Republic. strengths are her knowledge of for free on the Biola Athletics Also returning is Solomon YouTube page. the game, teachable spirit, and ability to make the right play for Ruddell, a 7-0 junior forward and Because of the concerns of the team,” said Nakamura of the sixth man for the Eagles. Covid, both teams will only play long-range specialist. “Our team is full of strong Head coach Dave Holmquist leads the men’s basketball team practice in preparation for their a 13-game season, instead of the players, who have great character game on Saturday at Biola University in La Mirada. (Photo by Keith Durflinger) usual 30-plus games. Lee led the team with a conference-leading 62 three and are enjoyable to coach,” The 11-team conference pointers last season. Holmquist added. Saturday’s will be broken up into three opponent, Northwest Nazarene I was super welcomed and when Michael Bagatourian, (Girls basketball), Concordia and “pods.” The Hawaii pod features “Jazz and Stephanie are (1-0), opened the season with a high quality young women,” I met coach, I knew I wanted to senior guard: “I’m looking Seattle Pacific before taking the Hawai’i Pacific, Hawai’i Hilo and win over DI Portland State and play here.” forward to our first game in 10 head job at NNU in 2016. Chaminade, while the Northern Nakamura said. was led by senior point guard Stephanie Lee, sophomore months. It’ll be a little strange NNU, for the first time since pod consists of Academy of Art, Benn had high praise for the Ezekiel Alley with a game-high (with no fans). My parents have Fresno Pacific, Holy Names and sophomore. “As a freshman (last 27 points. guard: “Coach is a great guy and 2000, won the regular season cares so much about us. He leads gone to every game since I was conference title and conference Dominican. year), she was a big part of our The Nighthawks are on a a little kid. It will be strange for team.” us well. championship in 2018 and ’19, The SoCal pod is Biola, APU, west coast, four-game swing them. Nothing really changes. respectively. Concordia and Point Loma. Lee, along with the rest of the with additional games against “In our conference pod, we It’s still five-on-five. are playing some great teams and Men: Biola and NNU have Each team will play the other team, is ready to start the season. Concordia and Point Loma “With this first game, we three teams four times, to make this week. They finished 15-11 we’ll have to adjust after each played five games in their “Our whole team is very game.” just want to make sure that history, with the Eagles winning up the 12-game conference excited,” she said. “We’ve been last season and were 12-8 in everything that we’ve been schedule. Throughout the six- conference. Men’s coach, Dave the last three. The last game preparing for this for six months. working on these last couple played was December 11, 1998, week season, the teams will play Holmquist: “We’ve worked hard of months before the season is “At first it was pretty with the eagles winning a low- each opponent in a back-to-back during the fall. We’re lacking important. The things that we’ve different, wearing a mask and all. scoring affair, 42-41. Only nine format on Friday and Saturday. What they said: some depth right now, but we been talking about need to show But wearing a mask has helped have five character guys and good Biola players will be able to play At the conclusion of the Women’s coach Alan up in the game. our conditioning. Our coaches players. We’re trying to find out in the first game. regular season, the NCAA DII Nakamura: “We had to have done a great job getting us where we are, because we don’t “Hopefully all of the work postseason is scheduled to start follow strict Covid guidelines ready for the season.” have a gage on that right now. that I’ve put in during the off in the second week of March. throughout the Fall, and the season is going to come to As for her take on Nazarene, A lot of things about the team, Road to 1,000 wins: NNU and Biola are both in the players handled everything with fruition. It’s been tough with Lee added, “We just want to go we’ll learn this Saturday. With the season finally West Region. humility and a strong work ethic. Covid. We haven’t been able to out there and do the best we can. getting underway Saturday, Thank the Lord that we have not Alex Wright, junior guard: do everything we wanted to do, The last games played by It’s going to be a lot different. longtime coach Dave Holmquist had any positive Covid tests, and “I’m so excited. It’s game week. as far as live basketball goes. I’m the Biola men’s and women’s is nearing a milestone that only “We haven’t got a lot of the team has done everything You have to just roll with the just hoping that we go out there teams were held 10 months four other NCAA Division I, II or ago in the PacWest Conference chances to play anyone. We have they can to get ready to compete. punches. I just want to be out and our team plays together.” there in a game. I look forward III coaches have achieved: 1,000 Championship Tournament. just scrimmaged each other.” “Following Covid guidelines to be back in the game. I miss career wins. Nazarene, a member of from the state and county, we The women lost a close the game atmosphere. It’s been the Great Northwest Athletic started the school year with Game notebook: Holmquist is currently 992- semifinal game to DII No. 3 10 months since we last played. Conference (GNAC), is playing semi-isolation in dorms, online 406 overall and will become one Hawaii Pacific, 68-65, while the We are going to attack every Women: Biola and NNU an independent schedule classes and then we progressed of only five NCAA coaches with men had a similar heartbreaker team. This year it’ll (schedule) have played four times in their this season due to only two to practicing outdoors only. We 1,000 or more career victories. in the championship game, be a little different. Getting history, with the Nighthawks remaining teams (Nazarene and wore masks, kept our distance Holmquist will eventually losing to Point Loma, 98-95 in the energy up for the second of holding a 3-1 edge. St. Martin’s). and couldn’t share or pass join longtime Duke coach Mike overtime. the back-to-back in the double basketballs. We had the usual The last time the two teams Krzyzewski in the 1,000 win club, “I am very excited about “They are a very strong header format is crucial. met was two years ago, as the program and have done very NCAA limit of eight hours per who has the most wins with 1,157 our season,” sixth-year Biola “We’d really like to come out Biola women lost, 97-64. Biola well in the West Region under week in the pre-season.” and is still active. Women’s coach, Alan Nakamura, on top in those games. We can’t defeated the Nighthawks in fifth-year coach Steve Steele,” Jazz Benn, Sr. forward: Only one of the other three said. “We have a wonderful group take days off this year. We have 2017, 67-64, with Benn the only Nakamura said of the NNU “Everything was different, from coaches is active. Herb Magee of high quality young women. one of the toughest pods in DII. remaining player on the current They are intelligent, talented, Women’s team. housing to even having practices Eagles roster that faced NNU. of Thomas Jefferson University “As for Nazarene, we’d rather coachable, and really care about The NNU Women, who have outside. After a couple of months, in Philadelphia is second to play a tough team (like NNU), Nazarene’s coach Steele each other. won 73 games over the last three we finally got in the gym. Krzyzewski with 1,123. who just beat a DI Portland St. is a local product out of Troy years, finished 22-7 last season “(Coach) Alan reaches out “We are going to need to be team, than a lesser opponent. We High School, played soccer and were ranked No. 5 in the to us every day, on and off the ready. We are playing an NCAA- won’t shy away from anything.” at Concordia and began his mandated reduced schedule, NCAA DII West Region. court. When I got recruited here, coaching career at Brea O’Linda and every game on our schedule is against the best of the West Region.” Biola Men are ready The Biola women are a young The Biola men are chomping team with just one senior and six at the bit to get on the court freshmen. for a real game after months of conditioning and limited Senior captain Jazz Benn, a practice. 6 ft. forward who averaged 10.7 PPG last year, will be counted “Everyone is excited to on to lead the team along with finally play a game after so many the other two captains, redshirt months of just practicing,” junior guard/forward Danita said longtime Biola coach Dave Estorga (10.7 PPG) and junior Holmquist.. guard Aysia Johnson (7.4 PPG). In the PacWest championship “They personify the high tournament last March, the character athletes we are building Eagles came up just short of their our program with,” Nakamura first title since entering DII. This said. “They are accomplished and year marks the second season of are givers, on and off the court. post-season eligibility for Biola. Their desire is to do all they can After the three-point, OT loss for the benefit of the team. They in the title game, three of the six are excellent representatives of All-Tournament selections were all that is good about Biola.” Eagles and they all return this Nakamura also had high season. praise for Johnson and Estorga’s Senior guard Michael basketball skills as well. Bagatourian, who stands 6-7 “In addition to their and was All-Conference, senior leadership skills, they can also guard Chris Rossow and 6-5 run the offense, attack off the junior guard Alex Wright all are bounce, knock down three’s, and expected to lead the team in this grab tough rebounds,” he said. shortened season. Benn is a four-year starter, “Chris played very well earning All-Conference down the stretch, especially in recognition each year. In the conference tournament,” addition, she is President of Holmquist said. Biola’s Student-Athlete Advisory In addition to those three Committee. starters, the other two starters “We’ve been working out way return, 6-9 senior forward Jesse longer than a normal preseason,” Elrod and junior guard Whitten Madi Chang passes the ball during the women’s basketball team practice in preparation for their game on Saturday at Biola Benn said. “It’s definitely going Dominguez. University in La Mirada. (Photo by Keith Durflinger) to be exciting. These are crazy “With the five starters circumstances right now.” returning from last year, we Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 The Downey Patriot | 9

City Council makes board POETRY MATTERS

the coming of archy appointments expression is the need of my soul i was once a vers libre bard By Alex Dominguez Planning Commission. but i died and my soul went Staff Writer Councilman Trujillo into the body of a cockroach appointed two individuals, it has given me a new outlook on life DOWNEY – The first Downey naming Horacio Ortiz Jr. to City Council meeting of the year the Planning Commission and saw new appointments to several Dorothy Pemberton to the i see things from the under side now of the city’s committees and Public Works Committee. thank you for the apple peelings in the wastepaper basket commissions. but your paste is getting so stale i can’t eat it Mayor Pro Tem Blanca there is a cat here called mehitabel i wish you would have Pacheco made three Cemetery annexes parts appointments Tuesday, naming of Downey removed she nearly ate me the other night why don’t she Henry Ceja to the Recreation catch rats that is what she is supposed to be for The Downey Cemetery and Community Services Commission voted unanimously there is a rat here she should get without delay Commission, and Denny Chavez last week to move forward in and Timothy Horn to the Public its pursuit to annex parts of Works Committee for District 1. don’t you ever eat any sandwiches in your office Downey not currently within the i havent had a crumb of bread Ceja is the husband to new cemetery district lines. councilmember Mario Trujillo. for i dont know how long The cemetery district not or a piece of ham or anything but apple parings In District 3, Councilwoman only secures funding for the (Downey Cemetery photo by Mario Guerra.) and paste leave a piece of paper in your machine Catherine Alvarez made a cemetery’s care and upkeep, number of appointments, it also determines who can run by the city. certain fees.” and i will write you a series of poems including Ana De Silva to the be buried within the historic This will be a combined effort “I also want to make sure showing how things look Library Advisory Board, Sergio Downey Cemetery. with the Artesia and Little Lake it’s distributed evenly. I don’t to a cockroach F. Ramirez Ancheyta to the However, up to this point cemetery districts, who are also want to pay a third of this and Board of Building Appeals and every night you can call me archy the boundaries have not looking to gain territory not then only benefit 20%, so our the Recreation and Community included the entirety of the city, currently available to them. community makes sure we’re Services Commission, Sean don marquis, “archy and mehitabel,” doubleday (1927) leaving Downey without some getting our money’s worth and Berrios to the Urban Forest According to Commission of the valuable resources and that the fees are appropriated Management Plan Workgroup, Chair Mario Guerra, it could be prohibiting those outside of its properly between the districts.” archy, the philosophical cockroach whose friend mehitabel is on her Lester Reyes to the Green Task a year and potentially anywhere lines from securing some of the ninth life, was discovered one morning when don marquis, a newspa- Force, Carlos Aranibar to the from $30,000-$60,000 before Downey Cemetery does not remaining space. perman, arrived in his office to find a bug hurling itself head down on the Public Works Committee, Phillip the new boundaries may be set. currently have any remaining typewriter keys. it could not work the capital letters. the book has never Lee Squire to the Public Works The cemetery district “One of my concerns is the plot land available, however gone out of print. you could read it online. poetry matters is curated by Committee and the Measure S remains under the auspices of cost,” said Guerra. “We’re trying there are still “niche plots” for lorine parks Independent Citizens Oversight Los Angeles County, however, is to see if the county will waive purchase. Board, and Art Montoya to the LEGALS REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) BRUCE pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name new Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICT. BUS NAME WEXLER, 4956 CASTANA AVE. #27, and Professions Code that the registrant Statement generally expires at the end of must be filed before the expiration. Effective NAME STATEMENT LAKEWOOD CA 90712 knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor five years from the date on which it was filed January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business File Number 2020223074 State of Incorporation: N/A punishable by a fine not to exceed one in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Name Statement must be accompanied by THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an thousand dollars ($1,000). provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, the affidavit of identity form. IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) NAME STATEMENT Individual S/ADRIAN ROSITAS, OWNER where it expires 40 days after any change in The filing of this statement does not of itself DOWNEY ELECTRONICS (2) DOWNEY File Number 2021001615 The date registrant started to transact This statement was filed with the County the facts set forth in the statement pursuant authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious AUDIO ELECTRONICS (3) DOWNEY THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) business under the fictitious business name Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 22, to Section 17913 other then a change in the Business Name in violation of the rights of ELECTRONICS RESTORATION, 7420 DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) SHB VENDING or names listed above: N/A 2020 residence address of a registered owner. A another under Federal, State or Common BUELL ST, DOWNEY CA 90241, LA SERVICE, 9615 HORLEY AVE., DOWNEY I declare that all the information in this Notice - In accordance with Subdivision new Fictitious Business Name Statement Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business COUNTY CA 90240, LA COUNTY statement is true and correct. (A registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name must be filed before the expiration. Effective and Professions Code). Articles of Incorporation or Organization Articles of Incorporation or Organization who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed Name Statement must be accompanied by The Downey Patriot REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) JAI MADI and Professions Code that the registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as the affidavit of identity form. 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 FRANCISCO PELAYO JR., 7420 BUELL CORPORATION, 9506 LONG BEACH knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, The filing of this statement does not of itself ST, DOWNEY CA 90241 BLVD., SOUTH GATE CA 90280 (2) punishable by a fine not to exceed one where it expires 40 days after any change in authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious FICTITIOUS BUSINESS State of Incorporation: N/A BIPINKUMAR PATEL, 9826 WILEY BURKE thousand dollars ($1,000). the facts set forth in the statement pursuant Business Name in violation of the rights of NAME STATEMENT THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an AVE., DOWNEY CA 90240 S/BRUCE WEXLER, OWNER to Section 17913 other then a change in the another under Federal, State or Common File Number 2020208329 Individual State of Incorporation: (1) CA (2) N/A This statement was filed with the County residence address of a registered owner. A Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) The date registrant started to transact THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 14, new Fictitious Business Name Statement and Professions Code). DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) SOCAL business under the fictitious business name Corporation 2020 must be filed before the expiration. Effective REALTY SERVICES (2) SOCAL LOANS, or names listed above: 02/2020 The date registrant started to transact Notice - In accordance with Subdivision January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business The Downey Patriot 9964 DU PAGE AVE, WHITTIER CA 90605, I declare that all the information in this business under the fictitious business name (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Name Statement must be accompanied by 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21 LA COUNTY statement is true and correct. (A registrant or names listed above: 12/2020 Statement generally expires at the end of the affidavit of identity form. Articles of Incorporation or Organization who declares as true any material matter I declare that all the information in this five years from the date on which it was filed The filing of this statement does not of itself FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business statement is true and correct. (A registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious NAME STATEMENT REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) CATALINA and Professions Code that the registrant who declares as true any material matter provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, Business Name in violation of the rights of File Number 2020224624 ORTIZ, 9964 DU PAGE AVE, WHITTIER knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business where it expires 40 days after any change in another under Federal, State or Common THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) CA 90605 punishable by a fine not to exceed one and Professions Code that the registrant the facts set forth in the statement pursuant Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) ESCALA State of Incorporation: N/A thousand dollars ($1,000). knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor to Section 17913 other then a change in the and Professions Code). FINANCIAL (2) INVERSA FINANCIAL THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an S/FRANCISCO PELAYO JR., OWNER punishable by a fine not to exceed one residence address of a registered owner. A (3) ESCALA REALTY, 8255 FIRESTONE Individual This statement was filed with the County thousand dollars ($1,000). new Fictitious Business Name Statement The Downey Patriot BLVD SUITE 301, DOWNEY CA 90241, The date registrant started to transact Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 22, S/JAI MADI CORPORATION, PARTNER, must be filed before the expiration. Effective 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES business under the fictitious business name 2020 SANJAY PATEL January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Articles of Incorporation or Organization or names listed above: 02/2012 Notice - In accordance with Subdivision This statement was filed with the County Name Statement must be accompanied by FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A I declare that all the information in this (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Clerk of Los Angeles on JANUARY 5, 2021 the affidavit of identity form. NAME STATEMENT REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ESCALA statement is true and correct. (A registrant Statement generally expires at the end of Notice - In accordance with Subdivision The filing of this statement does not of itself File Number 2020202724 REALTY GROUP, 8255 FIRESTONE BLVD who declares as true any material matter five years from the date on which it was filed (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) SUITE 301, DOWNEY CA 90241 pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Statement generally expires at the end of Business Name in violation of the rights of DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) CASA GAZCON State of Incorporation: CA and Professions Code that the registrant provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, five years from the date on which it was filed another under Federal, State or Common MEXICAN GRILL, 11413 TELEGRAPH THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor where it expires 40 days after any change in in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business RD, SANTA FE SPRINGS CA 90670, LA Corporation punishable by a fine not to exceed one the facts set forth in the statement pursuant provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, and Professions Code). COUNTY The date registrant started to transact thousand dollars ($1,000). to Section 17913 other then a change in the where it expires 40 days after any change in Articles of Incorporation or Organization business under the fictitious business name S/CATALINA ORTIZ, OWNER residence address of a registered owner. A the facts set forth in the statement pursuant The Downey Patriot Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A or names listed above: 08/2009 This statement was filed with the County new Fictitious Business Name Statement to Section 17913 other then a change in the 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) EL I declare that all the information in this Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 07, must be filed before the expiration. Effective residence address of a registered owner. A TAPATIO MEXICAN GRILL, INC., 11413 statement is true and correct. (A registrant 2020 January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business new Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS TELEGRAPH RD, SANTA FE SPRINGS who declares as true any material matter Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Name Statement must be accompanied by must be filed before the expiration. Effective NAME STATEMENT CA 90670 pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name the affidavit of identity form. January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business File Number 2020216571 State of Incorporation: N/A and Professions Code that the registrant Statement generally expires at the end of The filing of this statement does not of itself Name Statement must be accompanied by THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor five years from the date on which it was filed authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious the affidavit of identity form. DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) FISH WINDOW Corporation punishable by a fine not to exceed one in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Business Name in violation of the rights of The filing of this statement does not of itself CLEANING 3236, 9047 FLORENCE The date registrant started to transact thousand dollars ($1,000). provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, another under Federal, State or Common authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious AVE SUITE G, DOWNEY CA 90240, LA business under the fictitious business name S/ESCALA REALTY GROUP, PRESIDENT, where it expires 40 days after any change in Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business Business Name in violation of the rights of COUNTY or names listed above: 10/2015 MOISES CARLOS the facts set forth in the statement pursuant and Professions Code). another under Federal, State or Common Articles of Incorporation or Organization I declare that all the information in this This statement was filed with the County to Section 17913 other then a change in the Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business Number (if applicable): AI #ON: statement is true and correct. (A registrant Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 23, residence address of a registered owner. A The Downey Patriot and Professions Code). 202021710293 who declares as true any material matter 2020 new Fictitious Business Name Statement 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) PARTIDA pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business Notice - In accordance with Subdivision must be filed before the expiration. Effective The Downey Patriot OHANA ENTERPRISES LLC, 9047 and Professions Code that the registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21, 2/4/21 FLORENCE AVE SUITE G, DOWNEY knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Statement generally expires at the end of Name Statement must be accompanied by CA 90240 punishable by a fine not to exceed one five years from the date on which it was filed the affidavit of identity form. GOVERNMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS State of Incorporation: CA thousand dollars ($1,000). in the office of the County Clerk, except, as The filing of this statement does not of itself NAME STATEMENT THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a S/EL TAPATIO MEXICAN GRILL, INC., provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious CITY OF DOWNEY File Number 2020208653 Limited Liability Company PRESIDENT, RUBEN GAZCON where it expires 40 days after any change in Business Name in violation of the rights of THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) The date registrant started to transact This statement was filed with the County the facts set forth in the statement pursuant another under Federal, State or Common SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) ZAMORA & business under the fictitious business name Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 2, to Section 17913 other then a change in the Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business ADOPTED SON CONSTRUCTIONS, 3531 BALDWIN or names listed above: 09/2020 2020 residence address of a registered owner. A and Professions Code). AVE, EL MONTE CA 91731, LA COUNTY I declare that all the information in this Notice - In accordance with Subdivision new Fictitious Business Name Statement On January 12, 2021, the City Council Articles of Incorporation or Organization statement is true and correct. (A registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name must be filed before the expiration. Ef The Downey Patriot of the City of Downey adopted the Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of fective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious 12/24/20, 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21 following Ordinance: REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed Business Name Statement must be FRANCISCO JAVIER SR ZAMORA and Professions Code that the registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as accompanied by the affidavit of identity form. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Adopted Ordinance No 21-1456, an LEGASPI, 3531 BALDWING AVE, EL knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, The filing of this statement does not of itself NAME STATEMENT Ordinance of the City Council of MONTE CA 91731 punishable by a fine not to exceed one where it expires 40 days after any change in authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious File Number 2020221022 the City of Downey approving the State of Incorporation: N/A thousand dollars ($1,000). the facts set forth in the statement pursuant Business Name in violation of the rights of THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) Fourth Amendment to the Ground THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an S/PARTIDA OHANA ENTERPRISES LLC, to Section 17913 other then a change in the another under Federal, State or Common DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) MI PAN Lease between the City of Downey Individual MANAGER, ARMANDO PARTIDA residence address of a registered owner. A Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business BAKERY, 12038 HORLEY AVE, DOWNEY and Holdings Downey, LLC and IRG The date registrant started to transact This statement was filed with the County new Fictitious Business Name Statement and Professions Code). CA 90242, LA COUNTY Downey, LLC, thereby changing the business under the fictitious business name Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 15, must be filed before the expiration. Effective Articles of Incorporation or Organization scope of the property subject to the or names listed above: 11/2020 2020 January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business The Downey Patriot Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A lease and the related amount of base I declare that all the information in this Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Name Statement must be accompanied by 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21 REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) rent, establishing a revised termination statement is true and correct. (A registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name the affidavit of identity form. ALEJANDRA RUELAS JIMENEZ, 12038 date and making other clarifying who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of The filing of this statement does not of itself FICTITIOUS BUSINESS HORLEY AVE, DOWNEY CA 90242 amendments. pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious NAME STATEMENT State of Incorporation: CA AYES: Council Members: Ashton, and Professions Code that the registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Business Name in violation of the rights of File Number 2020214357 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Trujillo, Pacheco, Mayor Frometa knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, another under Federal, State or Common THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) Individual NOES: Council Member: None. punishable by a fine not to exceed one where it expires 40 days after any change in Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) WHITTIER The date registrant started to transact EXCUSED: Council Member: Alvarez thousand dollars ($1,000). the facts set forth in the statement pursuant and Professions Code). LIONS (2) WHITTIER HOST LIONS, 7604 business under the fictitious business name ABSTAIN: Council Member: None. S/FRANCISCO JAVIER SR ZAMORA to Section 17913 other then a change in the GREENLEAF AVE, WHITTIER CA 90602, or names listed above: N/A LEGASPI, OWNER residence address of a registered owner. A The Downey Patriot LA COUNTY, P.O. BOX 245, WHITTIER I declare that all the information in this Copy of the full text is available in the This statement was filed with the County new Fictitious Business Name Statement 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 CA 90608 statement is true and correct. (A registrant City Clerk’s Office. Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 07, must be filed before the expiration. Effective Articles of Incorporation or Organization who declares as true any material matter 2020 January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Number (if applicable): AI #ON: 1958101 pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business M. Alicia Duarte, CMC, City Clerk Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Name Statement must be accompanied by NAME STATEMENT REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) WHITTIER and Professions Code that the registrant January 14, 2021 (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name the affidavit of identity form. File Number 2020209955 HOST LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION, 15309 knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Statement generally expires at the end of The filing of this statement does not of itself THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) JUPITER STREET, WHITTIER CA 90603 punishable by a fine not to exceed one The Downey Patriot five years from the date on which it was filed authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) BEYOND State of Incorporation: CA thousand dollars ($1,000). 1/14/21 in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Business Name in violation of the rights of INFINITII, 9556 FLOWER ST STE 307, THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a S/ALEJANDRA RUELAS JIMENEZ, provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, another under Federal, State or Common BELLFLOWER CA 90706, LA COUNTY, Corporation OWNER where it expires 40 days after any change in Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business 5928 GREENTOP ST, LAKEWOOD CA The date registrant started to transact This statement was filed with the County the facts set forth in the statement pursuant and Professions Code). 90713 business under the fictitious business name Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 18, NOTICES to Section 17913 other then a change in the Articles of Incorporation or Organization or names listed above: N/A 2020 residence address of a registered owner. A The Downey Patriot Number (if applicable): AI #ON: 4533231 I declare that all the information in this Notice - In accordance with Subdivision SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, new Fictitious Business Name Statement 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) BEYOND statement is true and correct. (A registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES must be filed before the expiration. Effective INFINITII, 9556 FLOWER ST STE 307, who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS BELLFLOWER CA 90706 pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed FOR CHANGE OF NAME Name Statement must be accompanied by NAME STATEMENT State of Incorporation: N/A and Professions Code that the registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as CASE NUMBER: 20NWCP00322 the affidavit of identity form. File Number 2020223055 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner The filing of this statement does not of itself THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) Corporation punishable by a fine not to exceed one where it expires 40 days after any change in ARGELIA LOERA G filed a petition with this authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) GRIZZLY The date registrant started to transact thousand dollars ($1,000). the facts set forth in the statement pursuant court for a decree changing names as Business Name in violation of the rights of WOODCRAFTS, 9341 PARROT AVE, business under the fictitious business name S/WHITTIER HOST LIONS CLUB to Section 17913 other then a change in the follows: another under Federal, State or Common DOWNEY CA 90240, LA COUNTY or names listed above: N/A FOUNDATION, PRESIDENT, RUBEN residence address of a registered owner. A Present name (1) ARGELIA LOERA G Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business Articles of Incorporation or Organization I declare that all the information in this ARMIENTA new Fictitious Business Name Statement to Proposed name (1) ARGELIA LOERA and Professions Code). Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A statement is true and correct. (A registrant This statement was filed with the County must be filed before the expiration. Effective GUDINO REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ADRIAN who declares as true any material matter Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 14, January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business THE COURT ORDERS that all persons The Downey Patriot ROSITAS, 9341 PARROT AVE, DOWNEY pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business 2020 Name Statement must be accompanied by interested in this matter appear before this 12/24/20, 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21 CA 90240 and Professions Code that the registrant Notice - In accordance with Subdivision the affidavit of identity form. court at the hearing indicated below to show State of Incorporation: N/A knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name The filing of this statement does not of itself cause, if any, why the petition for change of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an punishable by a fine not to exceed one Statement generally expires at the end of authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious name should not be granted. Any person NAME STATEMENT Individual thousand dollars ($1,000). five years from the date on which it was filed Business Name in violation of the rights of objecting to the name changes described File Number 2020214445 The date registrant started to transact S/BEYOND INFINITII, TREASURER, in the office of the County Clerk, except, as another under Federal, State or Common above must file a written objection that THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) business under the fictitious business name ROBERTO ERIC BARRERA GARAY provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business DOING BUSINESS AS: includes the reasons for the objection at (1) VERSATECH or names listed above: N/A This statement was filed with the County where it expires 40 days after any change in and Professions Code). least two court days before the matter is ENTERPRISES, 4956 CASTANA AVE. I declare that all the information in this Clerk of Los Angeles on DECEMBER 08, the facts set forth in the statement pursuant scheduled to be heard and must appear at #27, LAKEWOOD CA 90712, LA COUNTY statement is true and correct. (A registrant 2020 to Section 17913 other then a change in the The Downey Patriot the hearing to show cause why the petition Articles of Incorporation or Organization who declares as true any material matter Notice - In accordance with Subdivision residence address of a registered owner. A 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/20 Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A should not be granted. If no written objection 10 | The Downey Patriot Legal Notices/Classifieds Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 CLASSIFIEDS AUTOS MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES

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is timely filed, the court may grant the petition Bellflower, CA 90706 should not be granted. If no written objection ATTACHED YOU ARE IN DEFAULT The undersigned Trustee disclaims any com/default.aspx, using the file number without a hearing. (323) 867-8486 is timely filed, the court may grant the petition UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED liability for any incorrectness of the street assigned to this case 20-4410. Information NOTICE OF HEARING without a hearing. 11/8/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO address or other common designation, if about postponements that are very short in Date: FEBRUARY 26, 2021, Time: 10:30 The Downey Patriot NOTICE OF HEARING PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE any, shown above. If no street address duration or that occur close in time to the a.m., Department: C, Room: 312 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21 Date: FEBRUARY 22, 2021, Time: 10:30 SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED or other common designation is shown, scheduled sale may not immediately be The address of the court is 12720 NORWALK a.m., Department: C, Room: 312 AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF directions to the location of the property may reflected in the telephone information or on BOULEVARD, NORWALK CA 90650 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, The address of the court is 12720 NORWALK THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU be obtained by sending a written request to the Internet Web site. The best way to verify A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES BOULEVARD, NORWALK CA 90650 SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public the beneficiary within 10 days of the date postponement information is to attend the be published at least once a week for four ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, of first publication of this Notice of Sale. scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You successive weeks prior to the date set FOR CHANGE OF NAME be published at least once a week for four cashier’s check drawn on a state or national NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you may have a right to purchase this property for hearing on the petition in the following CASE NUMBER: 21NWCP00007 successive weeks prior to the date set bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit are considering bidding on this property lien, after the trustee auction pursuant to Section newspaper of general circulation, printed in TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner for hearing on the petition in the following union, or a check drawn by a state or federal you should understand that there are risks 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT VICTOR MANUEL CARRILLO CASTILLO newspaper of general circulation, printed in savings and loan association, or savings involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase DECEMBER 29, 2020 filed a petition with this court for a decree the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT association, or savings bank specified in will be bidding on a lien, not on the property the property if you match the last and highest Judge Margaret M. Bernal changing names as follows: DECEMBER 23, 2020 Section 5102 of the Financial Code and itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are Judge Of The Superior Court Present name (1) VICTOR MANUEL Judge Margaret M. Bernal authorized to do business in this state will auction does not automatically entitle you an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner CARRILLO CASTILLO to Proposed name Judge Of The Superior Court be held by the duly appointed trustee as to free and clear ownership of the property. purchase the property if you exceed the last ARGELIA LOERA G (1) VICTOR MANUEL CASTILLO Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner shown below, of all right, title, and interest You should also be aware that the lien being and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. 8103 COLE STREET THE COURT ORDERS that all persons EDUARDO BUCIO SOTELO conveyed to and now held by the trustee in auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are There are three steps to exercising this right DOWNEY, CA 90242 interested in this matter appear before this 5505 LOVELAND ST #4 the hereinafter described property under and the highest bidder at the auction, you are or of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of (323) 787-5920 court at the hearing indicated below to show BELL GARDENS, CA 90201 pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. may be responsible for paying off all liens the trustee sale, you can call (714) 730-2727, [email protected] cause, if any, why the petition for change of (323) 773-6744 The sale will be made, but without covenant senior to the lien being auctioned off, before or visit this internet website https://www. name should not be granted. Any person [email protected] or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding you can receive clear title to the property. servicelinkasap.com/default.aspx, using the The Downey Patriot objecting to the name changes described title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay You are encouraged to investigate the file number assigned to this case 20-4410 to 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21 above must file a written objection that The Downey Patriot the remaining principal sum of the note(s) existence, priority, and size of outstanding find the date on which the trustee’s sale was includes the reasons for the objection at 12/24/20, 12/31/20, 1/7/21, 1/14/21 secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest liens that may exist on this property by held, the amount of the last and highest bid, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, least two court days before the matter is and late charges thereon, as provided in contacting the county recorder’s office or and the address of the trustee. Second, you COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES scheduled to be heard and must appear at the note(s), advances, under the terms of a title insurance company, either of which must send a written notice of intent to place ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE the hearing to show cause why the petition the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, may charge you a fee for this information. a bid so that the trustee receives it no more FOR CHANGE OF NAME should not be granted. If no written objection PROBATE charges and expenses of the Trustee for If you consult either of these resources, than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, CASE NUMBER: 21NWCP00002 is timely filed, the court may grant the petition the total amount (at the time of the initial you should be aware that the same lender you must submit a bid so that the trustee TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner without a hearing. NOTICE OF PETITION TO publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably may hold more than one mortgage or deed receives it no more than 45 days after the JASMINE AMELIA WICAB filed a petition NOTICE OF HEARING estimated to be set forth below. The amount of trust on the property. All checks payable trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as with this court for a decree changing names Date: MARCH 8, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., ADMINISTER ESTATE OF may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: to Prestige Default Services. NOTICE TO an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” as follows: Department: C, Room: 312 JANE EDITH HARTSFIELD aka RAMON BECERRA , A Married Man as his PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown you should consider contacting an attorney Present name (1) JASMINE AMELIA WICAB The address of the court is 12720 NORWALK JANE E. HARTSFIELD aka Sole and Separate Property Duly Appointed on this notice of sale may be postponed one or appropriate real estate professional to Proposed name (1) JASMINE AMELIA BOULEVARD, NORWALK CA 90650 JANE HARTSFIELD Trustee: PRESTIGE DEFAULT SERVICES or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, immediately for advice regarding this TORRES A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall Case No. 20STPB08041 Recorded 11/17/2006 as Instrument No. trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section potential right to purchase. Date: 12/23/2020 THE COURT ORDERS that all persons be published at least once a week for four To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, 20062552453 in book , page of Official 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law PRESTIGE DEFAULT SERVICES 1920 Old interested in this matter appear before this successive weeks prior to the date set contingent creditors, and persons who may Records in the office of the Recorder of Los requires that information about trustee sale Tustin Ave. Santa Ana, California 92705 court at the hearing indicated below to show for hearing on the petition in the following otherwise be interested in the will or estate, Angeles County, California, Date of Sale: postponements be made available to you Sale Line: (714) 730-2727 Briana Young, cause, if any, why the petition for change of newspaper of general circulation, printed in or both, of JANE EDITH HARTSFIELD 1/29/2021 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: By and to the public, as a courtesy to those Trustee Sale Officer A-4728703 01/07/2021, name should not be granted. Any person the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT aka JANE E. HARTSFIELD aka JANE the fountain located at 400 Civic Center not present at the sale. If you wish to learn 01/14/2021, 01/21/2021 objecting to the name changes described JANUARY 6, 2021 HARTSFIELD Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 Amount of unpaid whether your sale date has been postponed, above must file a written objection that Judge Margaret M. Bernal A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed balance and other charges: $127,674.83 and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and ASAP 4728703 includes the reasons for the objection at Judge Of The Superior Court by Robert L. Cohen in the Superior Court of Street Address or other common designation date for the sale of this property, you may The Downey Patriot least two court days before the matter is Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner California, County of LOS ANGELES. of real property: 7153 NADA ST DOWNEY call (714) 730-2727 or visit this Internet 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 scheduled to be heard and must appear at VICTOR MANUEL CARRILLO CASTILLO THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests California 90242 A.P.N.: 6232-012-024 Web site https://www.servicelinkasap. the hearing to show cause why the petition 9209 GARNISH DRIVE that Robert L. Cohen be appointed as should not be granted. If no written objection DOWNEY, CA 90240 personal representative to administer the is timely filed, the court may grant the petition (323) 788-3130 estate of the decedent. without a hearing. [email protected] THE PETITION requests authority to NOTICE OF HEARING administer the estate under the Independent Date: MARCH 8, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., The Downey Patriot Administration of Estates Act. (This authority Department: C, Room: 312 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21 will allow the personal representative The address of the court is 12720 NORWALK to take many actions without obtaining BOULEVARD, NORWALK CA 90650 Rancho Los Amigos court approval. Before taking certain very A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall South Campus Sports Complex important actions, however, the personal be published at least once a week for four representative will be required to give notice successive weeks prior to the date set Ohno Construction is requesting bids for the to interested persons unless they have for hearing on the petition in the following new construction of the Rancho Los Amigos waived notice or consented to the proposed newspaper of general circulation, printed in Sports Complex project. The project location action.) The independent administration the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT is 7651 Gardendale Street, Downey CA authority will be granted unless an interested JANUARY 6, 2021 90242. Bids are now due on January 29 at person files an objection to the petition and Judge Margaret M. Bernal 4:00 PM. Bids are being received thru email shows good cause why the court should not Judge Of The Superior Court at [email protected]. grant the authority. Petitioner or Attorney for Petitioner A HEARING on the petition will be held JASMINE AMELIA WICAB A Mandatory Pre-bid Job Walk is scheduled on Feb. 17, 2021 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 11327 CHARLESWORTH ROAD on January 19, 2021 at 1:00 PM at the project 67 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA 90670 site. All current health & safety protocols CA 90012. (562) 450-7326 shall be followed. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the [email protected] petition, you should appear at the hearing All subcontractors who are interested in and state your objections or file written The Downey Patriot bidding this project should agree to the CWA objections with the court before the hearing. 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21, 1/28/21 requirement set forth by the County of Los Your appearance may be in person or by Angeles. A copy of the CWA Agreement has your attorney. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, been posted in our website for your review. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES creditor of the decedent, you must file your ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE The project is broken up into multiple bid claim with the court and mail a copy to the FOR CHANGE OF NAME packages. Bid Packages can be downloaded personal representative appointed by the CASE NUMBER: 20NWCP00326 from the website listed below. court within the later of either (1) four months TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner from the date of first issuance of letters to a CHAROLETTE KAYSHANNA MARIE https://ohno.sharefile.com/home/shared/ general personal representative, as defined OLIVER ON BEHALF OF SAVANNAH fobe0ddb-24d4-4b9e-aa3e-32019564454c in section 58(b) of the California Probate GRACE SMITH filed a petition with this court Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing for a decree changing names as follows: Login Information: or personal delivery to you of a notice under Present name (1) SAVANNAH GRACE Username: [email protected] section 9052 of the California Probate Code. SMITH to Proposed name (1) SAVANNAH Password: Yosh1966! Other California statutes and legal authority ROSE GRACE SMITH may affect your rights as a creditor. You THE COURT ORDERS that all persons For questions you can contact the may want to consult with an attorney interested in this matter appear before this Project Manager John Karlsson at knowledgeable in California law. court at the hearing indicated below to show [email protected] o r YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the cause, if any, why the petition for change of Estimating Department at estimating@ court. If you are a person interested in the name should not be granted. Any person ohnoconstruction.com estate, you may file with the court a Request objecting to the name changes described for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing above must file a written objection that The Downey Patriot of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets includes the reasons for the objection at 1/14/21 or of any petition or account as provided in least two court days before the matter is Probate Code section 1250. A Request for scheduled to be heard and must appear at SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Special Notice form is available from the the hearing to show cause why the petition court clerk. should not be granted. If no written objection ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE is timely filed, the court may grant the petition FOR CHANGE OF NAME Petitioner: Robert L. Cohen without a hearing. CASE NUMBER: 20NWCP00317 LAW OFFICES OF NOTICE OF HEARING TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ROBERT L. COHEN INC Date: MARCH 03, 2021, Time: 10:30 a.m., EDUARDO BUCIO SOTELO filed a petition 8081 ORANGETHORPE AVE Department: C, Room: 312 with this court for a decree changing names BUENA PARK CA 90621 as follows: CN974570 HARTSFIELD Jan 7,14,21, The address of the court is 12720 NORWALK 2021 BLVD NORWALK, 90650 Present name (1) EDUARDO BUCIO A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall SOTELO to Proposed name (1) EDUARDO be published at least once a week for four BUCCIO CN974570 successive weeks prior to the date set THE COURT ORDERS that all persons The Downey Patriot for hearing on the petition in the following interested in this matter appear before this 1/7/21, 1/14/21, 1/21/21 newspaper of general circulation, printed in court at the hearing indicated below to show the county, THE DOWNEY PATRIOT cause, if any, why the petition for change of DECEMBER 31, 2020 name should not be granted. Any person TRUSTEE SALES Judge Margaret M. Bernal objecting to the name changes described Judge Of The Superior Court above must file a written objection that Petitioner or Attorney, In Pro Per includes the reasons for the objection at NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No.: Charolette Kayshanna Marie Oliver least two court days before the matter is 20-4410 Loan No.: *******553 APN: 6232- 9421 Harvard St #1 scheduled to be heard and must appear at 012-024 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF the hearing to show cause why the petition THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 The Downey Patriot | 11 Buying a mobile home: what to know

mobile or manufactured home When you’re considering the and new home buyers should than any house they might find cost of a mobile or manufactured expect the future value of their at a comparable price. home, don’t forget to factor home investment to depend in depreciation as an expense. largely on its location, whether Since it generally costs less Every type of home depreciates renting or with a home on its to buy a mobile or manufactured over time, but in the past, own lot, just like other real home than to buy or build a housing that was priced estate investments. traditional single-family home, separately from land did not a mobile or manufactured home Realtor.com hold its value well. loan may also come with a lower down payment. Manufacturer standards improved post-1976, however, Many conventional loan programs have a minimum down payment of 5 percent, according to Golightly. Some government- backed programs may require even less. For example, Golightly says, if you live in a rural area, with the “USDA Rural Development program, you could end up with 100% mortgage and have very little out-of-pocket expenses.” However, your interest rate may be higher than other single-family home rates, since many lenders see mobile or manufactured homes as a higher risk. Most first-time home rent or lease vary by area. qualify for a conventional loan if buyers only consider site-built you’re considering buying a used If you get a mortgage on In more rural areas, lenders single-family homes, but have mobile home that is more than your mobile home, your lender commonly use “a land-home you considered buying a mobile 15 years old. is likely to require you to package” deal. This bundles home or manufactured home? carry mobile-home insurance private real estate with the For government- Mobile and manufactured for as long as you have the purchase of your mobile home, backed loans, the mobile or homes, while not as popular, loan. Similar to traditional so you make monthly payments manufactured home you are have one big advantage: They homeowner insurance, this on one mortgage. considering must be “original typically offer more space or insurance protects you, and set.” amenities for the money. In urban areas, many the mortgage holder, in case of mobile-home owners rent or According to Golightly, when natural disasters, damage from Today’s companies lease lots in mobile-home parks. you buy a mobile home, it cannot fire or loss from theft. manufacture homes at many “have been set up somewhere price points, with options from else and then later broken economy to high-end. You can down, moved, and set up again even purchase a home that Financing options somewhere else.” looks as if it had been built on If you decide to finance site. The lender will also “require the cost of your mobile or a foundational inspection However, buying and manufactured home or your from an engineer to make sure financing a mobile or land, the rules are a little that [the mobile home] was manufactured home is very different from those for set up to [Housing and Urban different from traditional home financing standard single-family Development] specifications.” buying and getting a mortgage. homes. If you are thinking about buying For a new single-wide mobile a mobile or manufactured home, home, Golightly says financing here is what you need to know: Costs and insurance is practically impossible through a larger private lender. However, For would-be homeowners you may be able to find finance who are tired of paying rent, Types of mobile through the mobile home sales purchasing mobile homes or company or through a credit manufactured homes can seem homes union. like an opportunity for home ownership at a price they can Typically, mobile or For double-wide homes, afford. manufactured homes give you financing rules depend on the the option of buying either type of loan you choose. If they can’t afford their own single-wide or double-wide lot, they can at least own their For conventional loans, units. Some companies build own home, while they pay lot “Quite a few lenders have a triple-wide new homes, as well. rent to a park owner. They can self-imposed 15-year-old generally afford a newer, more Companies manufacture rule,” according to Golightly. energy-efficient model in a single-wide mobile homes This means that you may not with a narrower frame. Inside, they manufacture rooms that are usually connected to each other rather than separated by hallways. With a double-wide mobile home, the width is roughly equal to two single-wide units attached to each other, so that the mobile home tends to look more like a stick-built single- family residence. When you buy a new mobile home, you also must buy or rent real estate where you can place your new home. According to William Golightly, an associate with Poole Realty Inc. in Live Oak, FL, real estate sales and options to 12 | The Downey Patriot Real Estate Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021