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NORWALK - Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Missing Persons restaurant district gets Unit Investigators are asking for help in locating 29-year-old Norwalk resident Ericka Guerrero. grades $18,500 from Guerrero is Hispanic, 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 190 pounds, with Douglas Drive In curly brown hair and brown eyes, with a “CHAOS” tattoo on her 11939 E Firestone Blvd. Friday 92˚ neck. Date Inspected: 7/30/19 Weekend Grade: A LA County She was last seen at at desert party in San Bernardino on at a Saturday, July 20 at approximately 2 p.m. Glance El Taco Rico Saturday 90˚⁰ Guerrero was seen driving a 2012 Nissan Pathfinder, with CA 12017 E. Firestone Blvd. Friday 68 for arts license plate 7FNV805. Date Inspected: 7/30/19 NORWALK - The Los Anyone with information about Guerrero or the vehicle is Grade: A Angeles County Department encouraged to contact the LASD Missing Person’s unit at (323) of Arts and Culture announced Sunday 90˚ 890-5500. Golden Express 70⁰ nearly $5.5 million in 2019 arts 11770 E. Firestone Blvd. Saturday funding. Date Inspected: 7/30/19 Norwalk / La Mirada School Grade: A District received $18,500, to support professional Tacos Los Guerro development for kindergarten 12115 Firestone Blvd. through fifth grade teachers in Date Inspected: 7/30/19 theater integration and social Summer Concerts on the Norwalk Grade: A emotional learning through TEAL and The California Arts Project. Tropical Juices 11813 Alondra Blvd. The awards fall into two Civic Center lawn Date Inspected: 7/26/19 “Taste of Ecuador” categories: $4,518,000 in two- Grade: A Sunday - Placita Olvera in Downtown year grants for 213 nonprofit LA arts organizations through the Tambuli Market Enjoy a full menu of Ecuadorean County-funded Organizational 12537 Alondra Blvd. cuisine, plus Ecuadorean crafts, musical Grant Program (OGP) and Date Inspected: 7/25/19 groups, folklore customs, carnival $922,300 to 47 Los Angeles Grade: A games, vendors, and more. Free County school districts, funded admission. through the Arts Education Collective Advancement Grant Yogurtland Program. 13933 Pioneer Blvd. Date Inspected: 7/25/19 These two programs, with Grade: A the department’s Community Impact Arts Grant Program ($750,000) and Arts Internship Luisa & Son Bakery Program ($1,160,850), mean 12543 Alondra Blvd. $7,351,150 in grants will be Date Inspected: 7/25/19 distributed this year – a record Grade: A Signal Hill Car Show for the agency. Sunday- Signal Hill Park, 8 am to 3 pm La Fresita “These grants are making 122 Civic Center Dr. Show quality cars and trucks from 1975 art more accessible across the Date Inspected: 7/25/19 and older, plus music, 50-50 raffles, County,” said County Board of and barbecue. Put on by the Signal Hill Supervisors Chair, Janice Hahn. Grade: A Police Department and Sultans Car “The Organizational Grant Club. Program helps make possible Subway concerts, theater, exhibitions, 11110 Alondra Blvd. and school education programs Date Inspected: 7/25/19 every day in communities that Grade: A wouldn’t have them otherwise. The Advancement Grants are California Sushi & Teriyaki building pathways to careers in 12531 Alondra Blvd. the arts by preparing youth for jobs in the creative economy and Date Inspected: 7/25/19 Grade: A helping give our kids a well- Millennium Age Silent Party rounded education. We want every person in this County Saturday - French Quarter Creole Bar & Senor Baja Grill in Bellflower, 9:30 pm to have access to the breadth, 11833 Alondra Blvd. depth, and diversity of the arts, Date Inspected: 7/25/19 A nightclub with no speakers or amps; now and into the future.” instead, attendees dance while wearing Grade: B headphones. Simply remove your The Downey Arts Coalition headphones to chat with other people. received $3,400 through the Golden Pho Restaurant OGP program to support 10925 Alondra Blvd. ongoing exhibition of visual art, Date Inspected: 7/24/19 partnered concerts and festivals Grade: B that showcase local artists’ work to the community. Jamba Juice 12305 E Imperial Hwy. Date Inspected: 7/23/19 Grade: A L.A. County Masters of Motown McDonalds Sunday - Warner Center Park in Los 12602 E Alondra Blvd. Angeles, 5:30 pm renews $10K Date Inspected: 7/23/19 A 90-minute celebration of the Grade: A legendary songs and performers that defined Motown and soul music. Free admission, optional $15 VIP seating. reward Rainbow Donuts NORWALK - A $10,000 12307 Imperial Hwy. reward was renewed this week Date Inspected: 7/23/19 as authorities continued their Grade: A search for the gunman who killed a tow truck operator in Stater Bros Market Norwalk seven years ago. 12523 Alondra Blvd. Robert Garcia, 22, was fatally Date Inspected: 7/23/19 shot June 28, 2012, outside Grade: A Vernola’s Tow, where he worked. Midsummer Scream Investigators said Garcia Stater Bros (Deli) All Weekend - Long Beach Convention was confronted by three men 12523 Alondra Blvd. Center before the shooting, which was Date Inspected: 7/23/19 A celebration of horrow with dozens of captured on suveillance cameras. Grade: A haunted attractions, props, screening rooms, guest panels, and more. $33-$55 “Robert was a hardworking Stater Bros (Meat) provider for his budding family, 12523 Alondra Blvd. and had two small children at Inspected: 7/23/19 the time of his death,” sheriff’s TWEET OF THE WEEK officials said. Grade: A @SupJaniceHahn: Richard, The suspects were described Baskin Robins 71-yr-old Norwalk resident as Hispanic men with thin 10939 Firestone Blvd. builds, possibly in their teens. wandered away from his Date Inspected: 7/22/19 home today. Luckily, he The L.A. County Board of Grade: A was wearing his #LAfound Supervisors unanimously voted trackable bracelet provided to renew the reward Tuesday on 7 Eleven by the @CountyofLA a motion by Supervisor Janice 12361 Imperial Hwy. Hahn. Date Inspected: 7/22/19 His family alerted Grade: A “My son was a very loving, @NorwalkLASD family-oriented person,” Garcia’s mother, Anna Salazar, Taco Bell and he was located 31 mins told reporters last year. 12503 E Alondra Blvd. later! “Everything he did revolved Date Inspected: 7/17/19 around his family, his children Grade: A Great work team! and his friends.”

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 College’s Office of International 13819 Pioneer Blvd. Student Services and hear from NORWALK HAPPENINGS Suncatcher, 4-5 pm. Join us Cerritos College librarian Paula for this fun program where we Pereira and her story as an ESL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 will make a dazzling ornament FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 address. RSVP with the Pico Library, 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. student. Cerritos College, 11110 using glass pebbles and glue. Celebrity Waiter & Dance, Rivera Chamber of Commerce. Alondra Blvd. Family Movie Night, 7 pm. Attendence is limited, and advance 6 pm. Get waited on by local DoubleTree Hotel, 13111 registration is required. Sign up celebrities at this annual dance Bring the family for an outdoor FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 Sycamore Dr. fundraiser in support of CAPC, screening of “BumbleBee.” Bring at the customer servoce desk. For SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 your own chairs and blankets. Fabric Collage Art Activity, 2 Smarty Pants Storytime, 10:30-11 ages 8-12. Alondra Library, 11949 which works on behalf of people Norwalk Park, 13000 Clarkdale Ave. pm. Use different types of fabric am. Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, E. Alondra Blvd. Rain Barrel Distribution, 9-11 am. with developmental disabilities. to create your own fabric collage. and movement while learning Learn about rainwater harvesting, DoubleTree Hotel, 13111 Smarty Pants Storytime, 10:30-11 All materials will be provided. For school readiness skills. Attendence water conservation tips, and Sycamore Dr. am. Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, ages 18 and up. is limited, and advance registration THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 benefits of a rain barrel. At the and movement while learning is required. For ages 2-5 with an end of workshop, participants will Seahorse Bookmark, 3-4 pm. Origami Lotus Flower Notebook, school readiness skills. Attendence adult caregiver. Alondra Library, have an opportunity to purchase SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 Create a colorful seahorse 2-3 pm. Join us as we create is limited, and advance registration 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. rain barrels for $20 each. City Hall, boommark for your favorite decorative mini-notebooks for Harbor Groove Band, 9 pm. is required. For ages 2-5 with an 12700 Norwalk Blvd. adult caregiver. Alondra Library, summer book. Registration notations, photos and more. For Dance to live music by the Harbor adults 18+. Alondra Library, 11949 Groove Band, playing a diverse 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. required, and space is limited. Sign SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 playlist of 70s, 80s, and 90s music, up at the customer service desk. E. Alondra Blvd. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 For ages 5-12. Alondra Library, Smart Gardening Workshop, 10 plus Latin and R&B. IV Lounge, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. am. Learn the basics of backyard Quartermania Fundraiser, 12500 Firestone Blvd. composting, water-wise gardening, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 12-4 pm. Bring your quarters for Auxillary Installation, 11 am. worm composting, grass-cycling, bidding or purchase quarters from Harbor Groove Band, 9 pm. Ring Norwalk American Legion Post 359 and edible gardening. For ages 18 the vendors. Plus, enjoy shopping SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 in September and the start of fall hosts its 19th District installation and up. Norwalk Library, 12350 and lunch. $10 admission. Norwalk Friday Flicks, 7 pm. Bring the with live cumbia, Latin and R&B Diabolic Lounge, 6:30 pm. An of officers. American Legion, 11986 Imperial Hwy. Masonic Center, 12345 Rosecrans entire family to the Civic Center by the Harbor Groove Band. IV all-ages concert with music from Front St. Ave. lawn and kick off the weekend with Lounge, 12500 Firestone Blvd. The Radiacs (UK), The Quaranteds, The Peabrains, Radarmen, Lost a free outdoor film screening of WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 Boys and Salems Ghosts. American TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 “Small Foot.” Food trucks will be FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Fairy Lights Jar, 4-5 pm. Bring TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Legion Post 359, 11986 Front St. Legal Research Class: Lawsuits on-site. Civic Center lawn, 12700 the starry magic of the nighttime Fall Fiesta, 5-10 pm. A three-day Compiled by Eric Pierce. Email in Superior Court, 1:30 pm. Norwalk Blvd. Tea Time with OISS, 11 am. sky, inside your bedroom. We will carnival (Sept. 27-30) with carnival calendar listings to This class offers an overview of Smarty Pants Storytime, 10:30-11 Practice your English speaking dcorate jars to create portable games, rides, live music, food, and [email protected] skills over tea with Cerritos the process and procedures of am. Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, glow-in-the-dark fun. For ages 12- more. St. John of God Church, a lawsuit in Superior Court from and movement while learning 18. Alondra Library, 11949 both the plaintiff and defendant’s school readiness skills. Attendence viewpoints. For ages 18 and up. is limited, and advance registration Norwalk Library, 12350 Imperial is required. For ages 2-5 with an FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 Hwy. adult caregiver. Alondra Library, 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. Boards, Brushes and Beverages, 7 pm. Crafty fun for adults 21 and WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 over. $25 per person fee includes SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 all materials, instruction, appetizers Business Expo, 4:30-7 pm. and soft drinks. Guests may bring Network and interact with dozens Front Street Car Show, 11 am to alternative beverages from home. of local businesses and vendors. 4 pm. The 19th annual Historical Norwalk Cultural Arts Center, Civic Center lawn, 12700 Norwalk Front Street Car Show featuring 13200 Clarkdale Ave. Blvd. dozens of historical vehicles, Smarty Pants Storytime, 10:30-11 Concerts on the Lawn, 7-9 pm. lowriders, and vendors. Elk’s Lodge, 13418 Clarkdale Ave. am. Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, The Mariachi Divas close out and movement while learning Norwalk’s summer concert series. Orange County Guitar Orchestra school readiness skills. Attendence This is also Norwalk’s National Concert, 2 pm. Join us for an is limited, and advance registration Night Out celebration. Civic Center afternoon filled with the sounds of is required. For ages 2-5 with an lawn, 12700 Norwalk Blvd. traditional classical guitars under adult caregiver. Alondra Library, Bottle Cap Magnets or the direction of David Grimes. For 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. Bookmarks, 4-5 pm. Turn ordinary ages 18 and up. Norwalk Library, bottle caps into personalized 12350 Imperial Hwy. magnets for your refrigerator or MONDAY, AUGUST 26 bookmarks for your favorite read. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 Lit Wits Book Club: Mary Coin, For ages 12-18. Alondra Library, 6:30 pm. Join us to read and 11949 E. Alondra Blvd. Classic Book Club, 6:30 -7:30 pm. discuss the novel, Mary Coin by A 1961 science fiction novel by Marisa Silver. For ages 18 and up. American author Robert A. Heinlei Norwalk Library, 12350 Imperial THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 nthat tells the story of a human Hwy. Norwalk Pony’s 10u Mustang All-Stars took first place in the Pony West Zone District Tournament last State of the Nation, 12 pm. who comes to earth as an adult week. The team is managed by Carlos Garate with coaches David Ibarra and Angelo Magallanes. Players include David Ibarra, Benny Castellanos, Gabriel Rodriguez, Aiden Garate, Chazz Barnhill, Jacob Gonzalez, Rep. Linda Sanchez will deliver after being born on Mars and raied Nathan Inzunza, Michael Llamas, Louie Martinez, Will Enriquez, Sebastian Estrada, and Edwin Figueroa. her annual “State of the Nation” by Martians. For ages 18+. Alondra The Norwalk Patriot Opinion 03 Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 What ‘abolish ICE’ really means BY RACHEL HODES suggests that immigrants are far from the national security threat We spend about $7 billion a year on ICE. What would happen if the Trump administration claims they are. Regardless of status, we instead invested those funds in resettling asylum-seekers, or As I stepped inside the Cannon House Office Building on a they’re more law-abiding than native-born citizens. hiring more staff to process asylum applications? What if families Tuesday in July, I felt like I was taking a step towards a more just fleeing violence in Honduras or Guatemala had to wait only a few world. The night before, when I told my mother I planned to And time and time again, immigration has been shown to weeks to find out if they could immigrate legally, as opposed to the participate in a “Never Again” protest as part of #JewsAgainstICE, have a net-positive effect on the U.S. economy, from growing tax current average of almost two years? she had one question: “What exactly are their demands?” receipts to increasing wages for native-born residents. In fact, undocumented immigrants typically pay more of their income in The U.S. carried out over a quarter million deportations last year. That question was answered in the Cannon Building’s rotunda, taxes than your average millionaire. The $7 billion that funded these actions as we chanted: More noteworthy than the economics, however, is that the could have been used instead to resettle at least that many “Never again means close the camps.” individuals targeted by ICE are people — and all people are entitled refugees (over 11 times what the U.S. accepted last year). It could “Never again means abolish ICE.” to basic conditions of safety and for themselves and their families. also almost triple the funding of the government office that naturalizes around 700,000 new citizens each year. “Never again is now.” When the majority of these immigrants are fleeing violence with roots in U.S. intervention in Central America, the moral Which is more radical: Investing in communities that strengthen To most of America, “abolish ICE” is a cry of the far left. responsibility to offer safe haven becomes even more pressing. our country and honoring basic human decency? Or continuing to Even Americans who dislike Trump’s attacks on undocumented When government agencies neglect this responsibility, we all lose fund an agency that’s literally caused the death of children? immigrants wouldn’t necessarily tell you that ICE should be some of our humanity. abolished; that seems far too radical. As a concerned Jewish American, I believe none of us are What calls to abolish ICE actually do is beg the question: Why safe until we’re all safe. We should be focusing our resources on They’re forgetting that ICE is actually pretty new. It was only do we need an immigration system dedicated solely to terrorizing welcoming new immigrants and helping them access the rights of created in 2003, replacing the Immigration and Naturalization immigrant communities? citizenship — not subjecting them to detention and deportation. Service (the same agency responsible for the internment of Japanese-Americans in the 1940s). Threats of ICE raids prevent undocumented people from going to A better world, for immigrants and for everyone, is within our work or sending their kids to school. Those in detention are denied reach. ICE just isn’t a part of it. Since its creation, ICE’s budget has almost doubled, and its access to basic hygienic products, subjected to severe overcrowding, Rachel Hodes is a Next Leader at the Institute for Policy Studies. activity has expanded to triple the number of agents it employs. and experience all manner of abuse. Several children have died. This expansion is shocking — and unwarranted. All evidence Cutting food stamps is a lose-lose proposition BY JILL RICHARDSON stop working. I got $70 a month so I could eat, but I still had to pay Federal school breakfast and lunch programs do more than rent and put gas in my car, and for that, I worked. help food security too — they help kids succeed. Imagine trying to The Trump administration has proposed a rule that will cut an pay attention or take a test while you’re hungry. School breakfast estimated 3 million eligible people off food stamps while depriving Food stamps did its job for me. It helped me get through a tough and lunch helps kids from low income families break the cycle of half a million eligible children of school lunch. time until I could get back on my own two feet. poverty when they grow up, because it helps them benefit more I’ve been on food stamps. I’m fortunate I didn’t have children. If I did, my kids would have from their education. suffered through my financial insecurity through no fault of their I spent most of my life with mental illness, and it was not The movement to cut low-income people who are eligible for own. But food stamps and school lunch would have helped ensure diagnosed until a few years ago. Not knowing there was a reason food stamps and school lunch off of those programs isn’t just they had a chance in life despite being born to a mom too sick to everything was so difficult for me, I pushed myself until I could immoral, it’s short-sighted. make ends meet. push no more. The Trump administration claims the measure will save money While the moral righteousness of food stamps justifies the I got good grades in school, and went to college on a scholarship. because there will be less federal spending on helping hungry program on its own, there are other benefits to it as well. I got my degree and then got a full-time job like I thought I was people eat. In addition to the cruelty of “saving money” by taking supposed to. Food stamps are a huge stimulus to the economy. Families food from the hungry, it will also ultimately harm the nation by spend their SNAP benefits to buy food from local businesses like removing the economic stimulus that food stamps provide and I began getting severe migraines every day at the age of 14. That grocery stores, and that creates jobs — from the store clerk stocking making it that much harder for half a million already poor kids to do was my body telling me that I was doing more than I could handle the shelves, to the truck driver transporting the food, to the farmers well in school. and I needed to stop and heal. I had a migraine every day for 23 and ranchers producing the food. years. Working was hellish and painful, and I still tried. Forcing kids to go hungry is a lose-lose. For every $5 the U.S. government spends on food stamps, it When I could no longer handle an office job, I tried being self- Jill Richardson is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of generates $9 in economic activity. That’s an incredibly effective employed and working from home. I could never make enough to Wisconsin-Madison. She’s currently based in Montana. stimulus. really get by on. Then I went on food stamps. It didn’t mean I could Our next intelligence chief must value honesty over politics BY THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD presidential race and was once more “doing it as we sit here,” the national security adviser who has since pleaded guilty to lying Mr. Coats appointed an experienced official to oversee election about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. Before President Trump picked Dan Coats to be the director security intelligence across the government in a newly created of national intelligence, Mr. Coats spent 24 years in Washington These were not the only ways Mr. Coats rubbed Mr. Trump the senior position. A bit late in the game, but it amounted to an as a member of the House and the Senate from Indiana, serving wrong way. Time and again he delivered truths at odds with Mr. act of courage in the face of Mr. Trump’s adamant refusal to long stints on both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Trump’s preferred version of reality — saying that North Korea acknowledge the problem and respond forcefully ahead of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He had also been ambassador was unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapons, that Iran was abiding 2020 elections. to Germany. by the nuclear deal, that the Islamic State continued to be a threat Mr. Ratcliffe appears to have caught Mr. Trump’s eye by being in Syria. His predecessors included James Clapper, an Air Force a dogged critic of the Russia investigation and claiming that lieutenant general who previously headed two other intelligence The president made his position clear on Tuesday when he the F.B.I. harassed Mr. Trump. During Mr. Mueller’s testimony, agencies, and Adm. Dennis Blair, who commanded United States said that “the intelligence agencies have run amok” and that Mr. Mr. Ratcliffe accused Mr. Mueller of violating American judicial naval forces in the Pacific. Ratcliffe would “rein it in.” norms by writing an inconclusive report about whether Mr. Trump After an increasingly difficult tenure, Mr. Coats is committed a crime by obstructing justice. Mr. Coats wasn’t perfect. Some experts think he could stepping down and Mr. Trump has chosen as his replacement have done more to protect America’s 17 intelligence agencies Just before Mr. Trump picked him for the intelligence job, Mr. Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas. from politicization. But more often than not, he stood by the Ratcliffe was on the president’s favored source of intelligence, Fox professionals and their analysis. The 2004 law creating the position of director of national News, smearing the special counsel’s report. intelligence says that whoever holds the post must have One of the most important lessons from America’s response “Its conclusions weren’t from Robert Mueller, they were “extensive national security expertise,” but Mr. Ratcliffe has been to the attacks of 9/11 that led to the creation of this post was that written by what a lot of people believe was Hillary Clinton’s de a House member only since 2015 and joined the House Intelligence intelligence agencies need to work freely and honestly, and not facto legal team, people that had supported her, even represented Committee just this year. Before that he was a small-town be swayed by political considerations and the need to placate a some of her aides,” he said. mayor and a United States attorney, apparently with little or no president. An administration that sought and got the message it experience dealing with terrorism or national security issues. He Mr. Coats has defended the nation’s intelligence agencies wanted from the intelligence apparatus is what helped lead to the may have even falsely claimed to have prosecuted terrorists. in their unanimous finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 invasion of Iraq and the disasters that followed. election. He refused the president’s request to get James Comey, One reason Mr. Coats’s tenure was so uncomfortable was that, The Senate needs to be sure we don’t go down that road again. then the F.B.I. director, to end his investigation of Michael Flynn, unlike many Trump appointees, he was more likely to say what he believed to be true than what the president wanted to hear. Even some influential Republican senators are concerned that Mr. Trump’s main reason for picking Mr. Ratcliffe is his intense loyalty, and not his experience on intelligence issues. What if you like your private insurance? Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he didn’t even know Mr. Ratcliffe. BY SUSAN ESTRICH None of these positions make it impossible to win Democratic primaries. The problem is that primary voters don’t decide general “I talked to him on the phone last night,” Mr. Burr said. “It’s About 138 million Americans voted in the last presidential elections. the first contact I’ve ever had with him.” election. General elections are decided by people who probably don’t care That Mr. Ratcliffe’s record seems so undistinguished by Almost 220 million have private insurance. relevant experience and so filled with examples of partisanship enough about parties or politics to vote in a Democratic primary. makes it all the more vital that the Senate carefully vet him. “Medicare for All”? I can’t begin to imagine the bureaucracy. They may not consider themselves Democrats. They may not be. They don’t love Trump, and they don’t hate Trump, and they’ve Days before Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, Employer-based insurance is still the most popular; more than probably had enough with the shouting. testified last week that Russia had corrupted the 2016 half of the population is covered by employer-based private plans. Jobs with benefits, my mother taught me as a kid — those were “Ordinary Americans,” the politicians call them. “The American considered the good jobs. Even when you retired, good jobs with People,” as if they speak for everyone. People who work hard and private insurance would provide for the huge gaps in Medicare. play by the rules. And vote. Why in the world would we want to give up those benefits? People who worked hard to send their kids to college, or to go themselves. But my focus here, after watching Sen. Elizabeth Warren take on Mayor Pete Buttigieg on television, is not public policy. Warren, People who earned the benefits they are now receiving. more than any other candidate, can hold her own in a public policy People who want to know who is going to pay for Medicare for debate. All and Free College, who is going to provide the social safety net for My focus is on winning the election. the desperate people flooding over the border. Six in 10 Medicare recipients supplement Medicare with The divisions in the Democratic Party run deep. It’s not so much private insurance, either through retirement coverage provided by ideological — although that is how it looks — as it is strategic and employers or by Medigap plans offered by private insurers. Among generational. When you’re 29, why wouldn’t you want to fight for Medicare recipients, a group with the highest turnout records, those the heart and soul of the Democratic Party? Especially if the so- who have private supplemental insurance tend to be better educated called moderates are right about how likely it is Trump will win. If I and have higher income than other Medicare beneficiaries. were 25, I’d be going door to door for Warren. Likelihood of voting increases with age, education and income. But I’m not. I lived through the ‘80s, when we Democrats lost three in a row, after which a moderate Southern governor seemed a If the people on Medicare don’t want to give up their private perfect choice. I know that what Trump can do in the next four years insurance and they are among the demographic most likely to vote, won’t easily be undone in the next eight. is this policy plan the Democrats’ best path to the White House? How about we start by helping the people who don’t have private “Elizabeth Warren’s America.” I can just see the ads. insurance? The endless lines at the ER, punctuated by someone dying while How about giving people who want Medicare a change to opt they wait. into? The utter chaos at the border when illegal border crossings are How about putting winning first? decriminalized, as Warren has proposed. Susan Estrich is a lawyer, professor, author and feminist advocate. She Medicare for All. Open Borders. Free College. was the first female president of The Harvard Law Review How are you going to explain it in a general election? 04 Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 The Norwalk Patriot

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MONDAYS 1st, 6:00 p.m. - Public Safety meetings - Council Chambers TUESDAYS 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Farmers Market - Excelsior High School 1st & 3rd 6:00 p.m. - Toastmasters Meetings - Registrar Recorder/County Clerks Office 1st & 3rd, 6:00 p.m. - City Council - Council Chambers 3rd, 5:45 p.m. - Housing Authority - Council Chambers WEDNESDAYS 1st, 12:30 p.m. - Soroptimist International - Soroptimist Village 1st & 3rd, 7:00 p.m. - Lions Club - Bruce’s Restaurant 2nd, 10:30 a.m. - Norwalk Woman’s Club - Masonic Lodge 2nd & 4th, 1:30 p.m. - Alondra Senior Citizens - Social Services Center 2nd & 4th, 7:30 p.m. - Planning Commission - Council Chambers 4th, 11:30 a.m. - Coordinating Council - Arts & Sports Complex THURSDAYS 7:00 p.m. - Boy Scouts Troop 924 - Norwalk United Methodist Church 2nd, 7:30 p.m. - Golden Trowel -Norwalk Masonic Lodge 3rd, 8:00 p.m. - American Legion Post No. 359 - 11986 Front St. SATURDAYS 2nd, 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Pancake Breakfast - First Christian Church of Norwalk Have an event you want listed? E-mail [email protected] On This Day...

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Effective I declare that all the information in this (UCC Sec. 6105) PRECISE DEVELOPMENT where it expires 40 days after any change in Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business statement is true and correct. (A registrant PLAN NO. 1917 Escrow No. 9597-JH the facts set forth in the statement pursuant REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) MARIA Name Statement must be accompanied by who declares as true any material matter NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk NOTICE OF CATEGORICAL to Section 17913 other then a change in the LINA PEDREGON, 18333 DELOISE AVE, the affidavit of identity form. pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business EXEMPTION (CLASS 32) sale is about to be made. The name(s), residence address of a registered owner. A CERRITOS CA 90703 The filing of this statement does not of itself and Professions Code that the registrant business address(es) to the Seller(s) are: new Fictitious Business Name Statement State of Incorporation: N/A authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 WONDERFUL PROMISE LAND INC., A must be filed before the expiration. Effective THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Business Name in violation of the rights of punishable by a fin not to exceed one CALIFORNIA CORPORATION-13933 Time: 7:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Individual another under Federal, State or Common thousand dollars ($1,000). the matter may be heard PIONEER BLVD., NORWALK, CA 90650 Name Statement must be accompanied by The date registrant started to transact Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business S/JOLENE LOGOLUSO, OWNER Doing Business as: YLCA-NORWALK/ Place: City Council Chambers, Norwalk the affidavit of identity form. business under the fictitious business name and Professions Code). This statement was filed with the County City Hall, 12700 Norwalk Boulevard, YOGURTLAND NORWALK The filing of this statement does not of itself or names listed above: N/A Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 22, 2019 All other business name(s) and address(es) Norwalk, CA 90650 authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious I declare that all the information in this The Norwalk Patriot Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Project Description: For the Planning used by the Seller(s) within three years, as Business Name in violation of the rights of statement is true and correct. (A registrant 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19, 8/23/19 (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name stated by the Seller(s), is/are: NONE Commission to consider a 1-year extension another under Federal, State or Common who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of of applications filed by the Sindhi Association The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s) is/ Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed are: TOMMY THONG VO-13933 PIONEER of Southern California, Inc.; for the approval and Professions Code). and Professions Code that the registrant in the office of the County Clerk, except, as of the renovation and expansion of an BLVD., NORWALK, CA 90650 knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor FICTITIOUS BUSINESS provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, The assets to be sold are described in NAME STATEMENT existing temple building and associated The Norwalk Patriot punishable by a fin not to exceed one where it expires 40 days after any change in site improvements. The subject property is general as: FURNITURE, FIXTURES, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19, 8/23/19 thousand dollars ($1,000). File Number 2019190671 the facts set forth in the statement pursuant AND EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL, THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) generally known as 14117 Clarkdale Avenue S/MARIA LINA PEDREGON, OWNER to Section 17913 other then a change in the and 11932 Orange Street located in the COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE, LEASE, This statement was filed with the County DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) KAILEE NAIL residence address of a registered owner. A AND LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENT and SPA & BEAUTY SALON, 15933 PIONEER general vicinity of the southwest corner of Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 29, 2019 new Fictitious Business Name Statement the intersection between Clarkdale Avenue are located at: 13933 PIONEER BLVD., FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Notice - In accordance with Subdivision BLVD, NORWALK CA 90650, LA COUNTY must be filed before the expiration. Effective NORWALK, CA 90650 NAME STATEMENT Articles of Incorporation or Organization and Orange Street, in the Multiple-Family (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business High Density Residential with Parking The bulk sale is intended to be consummated File Number 2019203100 Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A Name Statement must be accompanied by at the office of: DETAIL ESCROW, INC, THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) POV NOU, (R-3-P) zone. five years from the date on which it was filed the affidavit of identity form. Environmental Review Information: 13737 ARTESIA BLVD. #105 CERRITOS, DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) GLOVALINK in the office of the County Clerk, except, as 14809 WHEATSTONE AVE, NORWALK The filing of this statement does not of itself CA 90703 and the anticipated sale date is XPRESS, 12325 IMPERIAL HWY SUITE# CA 90650 Pursuant to the California Environmental provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Quality Act (CEQA) and the local CEQA AUGUST 20, 2019 289, NORWALK CA 90650, LA COUNTY where it expires 40 days after any change in State of Incorporation: N/A Business Name in violation of the rights of The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Articles of Incorporation or Organization THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Guidelines of the City of Norwalk, this the facts set forth in the statement pursuant another under Federal, State or Common project will not have a significant effect Commercial Code Section 6106.2. Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A to Section 17913 other then a change in the Individual Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business [If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) JESUS The date registrant started to transact on the environment and is listed as a residence address of a registered owner. A and Professions Code). Class 32 Categorical Exemption from the following information must be provided.] LARA SALAS, 12325 IMPERIAL HWY new Fictitious Business Name Statement business under the fictitious business name The name and address of the person with SUITE# 289, NORWALK CA 90650 or names listed above: N/A requirements of the California Environmental must be filed before the expiration. Effective The Norwalk Patriot Quality act. Class 32 exemptions consist whom claims may be filed is: DETAIL State of Incorporation: N/A January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business I declare that all the information in this 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 ESCROW, INC, 13737 ARTESIA BLVD THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an statement is true and correct. (A registrant of in-fill development projects that are Name Statement must be accompanied by consistent with the applicable general #105 , CERRITOS, CA 90703 and the last Individual the affidavit of identity form. who declares as true any material matter day for filing claims shall be AUGUST 19, The date registrant started to transact pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business plan designation, zoning designations The filing of this statement does not of itself GOVERNMENT and regulations. Further the development 2019, which is the business day before the business under the fictitious business name authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious and Professions Code that the registrant sale date specified above. or names listed above: 07/2019 knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor occurs on a site smaller than five (5) acres Business Name in violation of the rights of substantially surrounded by urban uses, has Dated: 7/17/2019 I declare that all the information in this another under Federal, State or Common punishable by a fin not to exceed one CITY OF NORWALK BUYER: TOMMY THONG VO statement is true and correct. (A registrant thousand dollars ($1,000). INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) NO. 19-584 no value as habitat for endangered, rare or Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business threatened species, will not result in any LA2324952 NORWALK PATRIOT 8/2/2019 who declares as true any material matter and Professions Code). S/POV NOU, OWNER PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business This statement was filed with the County AND REPAIR SERVICES FOR GAS significant effects relating to traffic, noise, FCS LA2324952 and Professions Code that the registrant Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 10, 2019 METHANE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR air quality, or water quality, and the site is The Norwalk Patriot NORWALK TRANSIT SYSTEM (NTS) adequately served by all required utilities The Norwalk Patriot knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19, 8/23/19 Notice - In accordance with Subdivision 8/2/19 punishable by a fin not to exceed one (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name and public services. thousand dollars ($1,000). Statement generally expires at the end of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Public Comment: Interested persons S/JESUS LARA SALAS, OWNER five years from the date on which it was filed of Norwalk invites prospective Bidders are invited to attend this meeting and be FICT. BUS NAME This statement was filed with the County FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in the office of the County Clerk, except, as to compete for the opportunity to provide heard regarding this matter. Copies of the Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 24, 2019 NAME STATEMENT provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, Preventative Maintenance and Repair agenda report for the above-described Notice - In accordance with Subdivision File Number 2019193760 where it expires 40 days after any change in Services for Gas Methane Detection System project will be available for public review at FICTITIOUS BUSINESS (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) the facts set forth in the statement pursuant for Norwalk Transit System (NTS), a the Community Development Department, NAME STATEMENT Statement generally expires at the end of DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) WEALTH AND to Section 17913 other then a change in the department of the City of Norwalk, a Planning Division, Norwalk City Hall, 12700 File Number 2019200480 five years from the date on which it was filed residence address of a registered owner. A municipal government. Norwalk Boulevard, Norwalk. Written THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) SAVINGS, 17105 GARD AVE., ARTESIA in the office of the County Clerk, except, as CA 90701, LA COUNTY new Fictitious Business Name Statement A pre-proposal conference will not be held. comments may be submitted to the DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) MOON PACIFIC provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, Articles of Incorporation or Organization must be filed before the expiration. Effective Should a potential bidder need to perform Community Development Department prior NURSERY, 13749 SAYRE ST, SYLMAR CA where it expires 40 days after any change in Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business an on-site inspection of the operating to the time set for the hearing. Address 91342, LA COUNTY, 15116 GERMAIN ST, the facts set forth in the statement pursuant REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) MARQUES Name Statement must be accompanied by environment, the potential bidder may written comments: Attention: Community MISSION HILLS CA 91345 to Section 17913 other then a change in the JORDAN, 17105 GARD AVE., ARTESIA the affidavit of identity form. schedule an inspection with the Purchasing Development Department at the address Articles of Incorporation or Organization residence address of a registered owner. A CA 90701 The filing of this statement does not of itself Division at (562) 929-5709. All on-site noted above. Written comments and Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A new Fictitious Business Name Statement State of Incorporation: N/A authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious inspections must be completed prior to requests for electronic copies of the agenda REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) JUAN must be filed before the expiration. Effective THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Business Name in violation of the rights of the submission of questions due date. Any report may also be submitted via email to: MOSQUEDA, 15116 GERMAIN ST, January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Individual another under Federal, State or Common request made on or after this date will not be [email protected]. If you challenge MISSION HILLS CA 91345 (2) MARIA Name Statement must be accompanied by The date registrant started to transact Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business considered nor granted an on-site inspection the proposed project, you may be limited A GONZALEZ DE MOSQUEDA, 14801 the affidavit of identity form. business under the fictitious business name and Professions Code). of the operating environment. to only those issues raised at the public CHATSWORTH DR, MISSION HILLS CA The filing of this statement does not of itself or names listed above: N/A All requests for clarification, questions and hearing described in this notice, or in written 91345 authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious I declare that all the information in this comments concerning this IFB are due on correspondence delivered prior to the public State of Incorporation: N/A The Norwalk Patriot Business Name in violation of the rights of statement is true and correct. (A registrant 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 Friday, August 16, 2019 no later than 3:00 hearing. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a another under Federal, State or Common who declares as true any material matter p.m. (Pacific Time) and must be clearly More Information: Should you have any General Partnership Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business labeled “Written Questions for IFB No. 19- questions regarding this matter, please The date registrant started to transact and Professions Code). and Professions Code that the registrant 584 “Preventative Maintenance and Repair contact Beth Chow, Senior Planner at (562) business under the fictitious business name knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Services for Gas Methane Detection System 929-5953 or [email protected]. or names listed above: N/A punishable by a fin not to exceed one NAME STATEMENT for Norwalk Transit System (NTS)” and Accessibility: In compliance with the I declare that all the information in this The Norwalk Patriot 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19, 8/23/19 thousand dollars ($1,000). File Number 2019199921 faxed to (562) 929-5966, Attention: Darlene Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need statement is true and correct. (A registrant S/MARQUES JORDAN, OWNER THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) Mena, Purchasing Division. The City is not special assistance to participate in a City who declares as true any material matter This statement was filed with the County DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) PACIFIC responsible for failure to respond to a request meeting or other services offered by this City, pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 15, 2019 MARKETING SERVICES, 23111 BERENDO that has not been submitted in accordance please contact the Community Development and Professions Code that the registrant FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Notice - In accordance with Subdivision AVE, TORRANCE CA 90502, LA COUNTY with the IFB. Department at (562) 929-5744. Notification knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor NAME STATEMENT (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Articles of Incorporation or Organization The successful bidder will be required to at least 48 hours prior to the meeting or punishable by a fin not to exceed one File Number 2019196552 Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A comply with all applicable Equal Opportunity time when services are needed will assist thousand dollars ($1,000). THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) five years from the date on which it was filed REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) Laws and Regulations. The City of Norwalk the City staff in assuring that reasonable S/MARIA A GONZALEZ DE MOSQUEDA, DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) ANGEL COLE in the office of the County Clerk, except, as GABRIELLA LOGOLUSO, 23111 hereby notifies all prospective Bidders that arrangements can be made to provide PARTNER (2) NICOLE GENTRY, 17330 BARNHILL provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, BERENDO AVE, TORRANCE CA 90502 the City will require each Bidder affirmatively accessibility to the meeting or service. This statement was filed with the County AVE, CERRITOS CA 90703, LA COUNTY, where it expires 40 days after any change in State of Incorporation: N/A demonstrate that Disadvantaged Business Assisted hearing devices will be available at Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 22, 2019 13337 SOUTH ST #355, CERRITOS CA the facts set forth in the statement pursuant THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Enterprises are afforded full opportunity to this hearing without prior notification. Notice - In accordance with Subdivision 90703 to Section 17913 other then a change in the Individual participate in the performance of contracts (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Articles of Incorporation or Organization residence address of a registered owner. A The date registrant started to transact and sub-contracts financed in part or Dated this 2nd day of August 2019. Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: new Fictitious Business Name Statement business under the fictitious business name in whole under this IFB, and will not be five years from the date on which it was filed 201803310379 must be filed before the expiration. Effective or names listed above: N/A discriminated against on the grounds of Michael L. Garcia in the office of the County Clerk, except, as REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) KIM-Z January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business I declare that all the information in this race, color, gender, age, or national origin Director of Community Development provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, 17330 BARNHILL Name Statement must be accompanied by statement is true and correct. (A registrant in consideration for an award. where it expires 40 days after any change in AVE, CERRITOS CA 90703 the affidavit of identity form. who declares as true any material matter Bids must be in writing and must be received The Norwalk Patriot the facts set forth in the statement pursuant State of Incorporation: CA The filing of this statement does not of itself pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business by the City of Norwalk Purchasing Division 8/2/19 to Section 17913 other then a change in the THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious and Professions Code that the registrant by 11:00 a.m., on Tuesday, September 3, residence address of a registered owner. A Limited Liability Company Business Name in violation of the rights of knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor 2019 via U.S. Mail, FedEx, UPS or courier new Fictitious Business Name Statement The date registrant started to transact another under Federal, State or Common punishable by a fin not to exceed one or in person. Bids received after the above LIEN SALES must be filed before the expiration. Effective business under the fictitious business name Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business thousand dollars ($1,000). listed date and time will not be considered, January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business or names listed above: 04/2019 S/GABRIELLA LOGOLUSO, OWNER and Professions Code). regardless of postmark. Extra Space Storage will hold a public Name Statement must be accompanied by I declare that all the information in this This statement was filed with the County Copies of the IFB may be obtained from the affidavit of identity form. auction to sell personal property described statement is true and correct. (A registrant The Norwalk Patriot Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 22, 2019 the City’s website at http://norwalk.org/ The filing of this statement does not of itself who declares as true any material matter Notice - In accordance with Subdivision below belonging to those individuals listed 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 businesses/rfp-posts-list on Monday, August below at the location indicated: authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name 5, 2019. Business Name in violation of the rights of and Professions Code that the registrant Statement generally expires at the end of All contacts concerning this IFB must be another under Federal, State or Common knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor five years from the date on which it was filed 10950 Firestone Blvd referred to the City of Norwalk Purchasing Norwalk, CA 90650 Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business punishable by a fin not to exceed one FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Division, (562) 929-5712. and Professions Code). thousand dollars ($1,000). NAME STATEMENT provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, 08/21/19 1:00pm S/KIM-Z ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, File Number 2019175249 where it expires 40 days after any change in Dated: August 2, 2019 The Norwalk Patriot MEMBER, WILBERT L KIMSEY II THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) the facts set forth in the statement pursuant Ayla Serrano 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 This statement was filed with the County DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) CREAMISTRY to Section 17913 other then a change in the /s/Darlene Mena, Purchasing Agent Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 17, 2019 CERRITOS, 11442 SOUTH STREET, residence address of a registered owner. A Household Items Notice - In accordance with Subdivision CERRITOS CA 90703, LA COUNTY new Fictitious Business Name Statement The Norwalk Patriot Christine Gonzales (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Articles of Incorporation or Organization must be filed before the expiration. Effective 8/2/19 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Household items NAME STATEMENT five years from the date on which it was filed REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) IKN LLC, Name Statement must be accompanied by File Number 2019185684 in the office of the County Clerk, except, as 27939 PONTEVEDRA DRIVE, RANCHO the affidavit of identity form. Joshua Marbella THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, PALOS VERDES CA 90275 The filing of this statement does not of itself CITY OF NORWALK Household items DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) HAKMA where it expires 40 days after any change in State of Incorporation: CA authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NATURALS, 12802 DUNTON DR, the facts set forth in the statement pursuant THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Business Name in violation of the rights of CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 1014 Amanda Quirozsilva WHITTIER CA 90602-3413, LA COUNTY to Section 17913 other then a change in the Limited Liability Company another under Federal, State or Common NOTICE OF CATEGORICAL Household items Articles of Incorporation or Organization residence address of a registered owner. A The date registrant started to transact Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business EXEMPTION (CLASS 1) Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A new Fictitious Business Name Statement business under the fictitious business name and Professions Code). Carlos Guerrero REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) must be filed before the expiration. Effective or names listed above: 06/2019 Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Household items CHRISTINA RODRIGUEZ, 12802 DUNTON January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business I declare that all the information in this Time: 7:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as DRIVE, WHITTIER CA 90602 The Norwalk Patriot Name Statement must be accompanied by statement is true and correct. (A registrant 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 the matter may be heard Norwalk Meadows State of Incorporation: N/A the affidavit of identity form. who declares as true any material matter Place: City Council Chambers, Norwalk Household items THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an The filing of this statement does not of itself pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business City Hall, 12700 Norwalk Boulevard, Individual authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious and Professions Code that the registrant Norwalk, CA 90650 William Montgomery The date registrant started to transact Business Name in violation of the rights of knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Project Description: For the Planning Household items business under the fictitious business name another under Federal, State or Common punishable by a fin not to exceed one NAME STATEMENT Commission to consider the following or names listed above: N/A Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business thousand dollars ($1,000). File Number 2019188369 application filed by Roy Narvaez, of Cora Camargo I declare that all the information in this and Professions Code). S/IKN LLC, PRESIDENT, KENNETH PAK THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) HungryBitez, LLC; a request to establish Household items statement is true and correct. (A registrant This statement was filed with the County DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) SUNNY the sale of beer and wine (Alcohol Beverage who declares as true any material matter Clerk of Los Angeles on JUNE 21, 2019 SERVICES, 1410 S. MCBRIDE AVE, CITY Control Type “41” License) at an approved Felicia Carr pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business The Norwalk Patriot 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 Notice - In accordance with Subdivision OF COMMERCE CA 90040, LA COUNTY BurgerIM restaurant. The subject property is Household items and Professions Code that the registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Articles of Incorporation or Organization generally known as Norwalk Town Square, knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Statement generally expires at the end of Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A 14133 Pioneer Boulevard, located at the Marshall Tippit punishable by a fin not to exceed one five years from the date on which it was filed REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) KAREN E northwest corner of Pioneer Boulevard Household items thousand dollars ($1,000). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in the office of the County Clerk, except, as CENTENO, 1410 S. MCBRIDE AVE, CITY and Rosecrans Avenue, in the General S/CHRISTINA RODRIGUEZ, OWNER NAME STATEMENT provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, OF COMMERCE CA 90040 Commercial (C-3) and Parking (P) zones. Melinda Dart This statement was filed with the County File Number 2019185721 where it expires 40 days after any change in State of Incorporation: N/A Environmental Review Information: Household items Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 3, 2019 THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) the facts set forth in the statement pursuant THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Pursuant to the California Environmental Notice - In accordance with Subdivision DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) SERRANO to Section 17913 other then a change in the Individual Quality Act (CEQA) and the local CEQA Carolina Vega (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name MAINTENANCE & CONSTRUCTION, residence address of a registered owner. A The date registrant started to transact Guidelines of the City of Norwalk, this Household items Statement generally expires at the end of 15757 LEMON DR, WHITTIER CA 90604, new Fictitious Business Name Statement business under the fictitious business name project will not have a significant effect on five years from the date on which it was filed LA COUNTY must be filed before the expiration. Effective or names listed above: 07/2019 the environment and is listed as a Class 1 Alexander Romero in the office of the County Clerk, except, as Articles of Incorporation or Organization January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business I declare that all the information in this Categorical Exemption. Class 1 includes Household items provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A Name Statement must be accompanied by statement is true and correct. (A registrant minor alterations of existing building, where it expires 40 days after any change in REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) ISRAEL the affidavit of identity form. who declares as true any material matter involving negligible or no expansion. A Nadia Roberts the facts set forth in the statement pursuant SERRANO JR, 15757 LEMON DR, The filing of this statement does not of itself pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business Notice of Categorical Exemption (Class 1) Household items to Section 17913 other then a change in the WHITTIER CA 90604 authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious and Professions Code that the registrant has been prepared for this project. residence address of a registered owner. A State of Incorporation: N/A Business Name in violation of the rights of knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Public Comment: Interested persons Dominique Renfro new Fictitious Business Name Statement THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an another under Federal, State or Common punishable by a fin not to exceed one are invited to attend this meeting and be Household items must be filed before the expiration. Effective Individual Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business thousand dollars ($1,000). heard regarding this matter. Copies of the January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business The date registrant started to transact and Professions Code). S/KAREN E CENTENO, OWNER agenda report for the above-described Name Statement must be accompanied by business under the fictitious business name This statement was filed with the County project will be available for public review at Purchases must be made with cash only and the affidavit of identity form. or names listed above: 07/2019 Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 9, 2019 the Community Development Department, paid at the above referenced facility in order The filing of this statement does not of itself The Norwalk Patriot I declare that all the information in this 7/19/19, 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19 Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Planning Division, Norwalk City Hall, 12700 to complete the transaction. Extra Space authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious statement is true and correct. (A registrant (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Norwalk Boulevard, Norwalk. Written Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind Business Name in violation of the rights of who declares as true any material matter Statement generally expires at the end of comments may be submitted to the any purchase up until the winning bidder another under Federal, State or Common pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business five years from the date on which it was filed Community Development Department prior takes possession of the personal property. Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code that the registrant FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in the office of the County Clerk, except, as to the time set for the hearing. Address and Professions Code). knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor NAME STATEMENT provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, written comments: Attention: Community The Norwalk Patriot punishable by a fin not to exceed one File Number 2019200502 where it expires 40 days after any change in Development Department at the address 8/2/19, 8/9/19 The Norwalk Patriot thousand dollars ($1,000). THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) the facts set forth in the statement pursuant noted above. Written comments and 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19, 8/16/19 S/ISRAEL SERRANO JR, OWNER DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) LUCKYLAND to Section 17913 other then a change in the requests for electronic copies of the agenda This statement was filed with the County COMPANY, 12527 ALONDRA BLVD, residence address of a registered owner. A report may also be submitted via email to: PROBATE Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 5, 2019 NORWALK CA 90650, LA COUNTY new Fictitious Business Name Statement [email protected]. If you challenge Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Articles of Incorporation or Organization must be filed before the expiration. Effective the proposed project, you may be limited FICTITIOUS BUSINESS (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business NOTICE OF PETITION TO NAME STATEMENT to only those issues raised at the public ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Statement generally expires at the end of REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) SAMUEL Name Statement must be accompanied by hearing described in this notice, or in written File Number 2019208509 five years from the date on which it was filed CHAI, 10939 ROBERTA STREET, the affidavit of identity form. CLARISSA A. DAVIS aka THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) correspondence delivered prior to the public CLARISSA DAVIS in the office of the County Clerk, except, as CERRITOS CA 90703 (2) LONKY CHAI, The filing of this statement does not of itself hearing. DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) GM TIRES, provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, 15322 LOFTHILL DRIVE, LA MIRADA CA authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Case No. 19STPB06493 14237 DILLERDALE ST., LA PUENTE CA More Information: Should you have any To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, where it expires 40 days after any change in 90638 Business Name in violation of the rights of questions regarding this matter, please contingent creditors, and persons who 91746, LA COUNTY the facts set forth in the statement pursuant State of Incorporation: N/A another under Federal, State or Common Articles of Incorporation or Organization contact Beth Chow, Senior Planner at (562) may otherwise be interested in the will or to Section 17913 other then a change in the THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business 929-5953 or [email protected]. estate, or both, of CLARISSA A. DAVIS aka Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A residence address of a registered owner. A General Partnership and Professions Code). REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) EVA Accessibility: In compliance with the CLARISSA DAVIS new Fictitious Business Name Statement The date registrant started to transact Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been HORTENCIA MORALES, 14237 must be filed before the expiration. Effective business under the fictitious business name DILLERDALE ST, LA PUENTE CA 91746 The Norwalk Patriot special assistance to participate in a City filed by: SAUNDREL CARR January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business or names listed above: 05/2014 7/12/19, 7/19/19, 7/26/19, 8/2/19 meeting or other services offered by this City, in the Superior Court of California, County State of Incorporation: N/A Name Statement must be accompanied by I declare that all the information in this THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an please contact the Community Development of Los Angeles. the affidavit of identity form. statement is true and correct. (A registrant Department at (562) 929-5744. Notification THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests Individual The filing of this statement does not of itself who declares as true any material matter The date registrant started to transact FICTITIOUS BUSINESS at least 48 hours prior to the meeting or that SAUNDREL CARR be appointed as authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business time when services are needed will assist personal representative to administer the business under the fictitious business name Business Name in violation of the rights of and Professions Code that the registrant NAME STATEMENT or names listed above: 06/2006 File Number 2019199934 the City staff in assuring that reasonable estate of the decedent. another under Federal, State or Common knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor arrangements can be made to provide THE PETITION requests the decedent’s I declare that all the information in this Law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business punishable by a fin not to exceed one THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) statement is true and correct. (A registrant DOING BUSINESS AS: (1) SOUTH BAY accessibility to the meeting or service. will and codicils, if any, be admitted to and Professions Code). thousand dollars ($1,000). Assisted hearing devices will be available at probate. The will and any codicils are who declares as true any material matter S/SAMUEL CHAI, PARTNER BOOKKEEPING SERVICES, 1859 W pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business this hearing without prior notification. available for examination in the file kept by The Norwalk Patriot This statement was filed with the County 152ND ST, GARDENA CA 90249, LA and Professions Code that the registrant COUNTY the court. 7/12/19, 7/19/19, 7/26/19, 8/2/19 Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 22, 2019 Dated this 2nd day of August 2019. THE PETITION requests authority to knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor Notice - In accordance with Subdivision Articles of Incorporation or Organization punishable by a fin not to exceed one Number (if applicable): AI #ON: N/A administer the estate under the Independent (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Michael L. Garcia Administration of Estates Act. (This authority thousand dollars ($1,000). Statement generally expires at the end of REGISTERED OWNERS(S): (1) JOLENE S/EVA HORTENCIA MORALES, OWNER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS LOGOLUSO, 1859 W 152ND ST, GARDENA Director of Community Development will allow the personal representative five years from the date on which it was filed to take many actions without obtaining This statement was filed with the County NAME STATEMENT in the office of the County Clerk, except, as CA 90249 Clerk of Los Angeles on JULY 30, 2019 File Number 2019207105 State of Incorporation: N/A The Norwalk Patriot court approval. Before taking certain very provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, 8/2/19 important actions, however, the personal 06 Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 The Norwalk Patriot LEGALS Demographic Change: The representative will be required to give secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest reason, including if the Trustee is unable to notice to interested persons unless they and late charges thereon, as provided in the convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall have waivered notice or consented to note(s), advances, under the terms of the be entitled only to a return of the monies paid the proposed action.) The Independent Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s Primacy of “Americanness” administration authority will be granted and expenses of the Trustee for the total sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser unless and interested person files an amount (at the time of the initial publication shall have no further recourse against the objection to the petition and shows good of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the cause why the court should not grant the to be set forth below. The amount may be Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s authority. greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY Attorney. If you have previously been A HEARING on the petition will be held MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE discharged through bankruptcy, you may in Public Spaces on AUGUST 14, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): MON have been released of personal liability for 9 Room N/A located at Superior Court of TOM AND THANY YOU TOM, HUSBAND this loan in which case this letter is intended California, County of Los Angeles, 111 N. AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Recorded: to exercise the note holders right’s against Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Stanley 8/6/2012 as Instrument No. 20121160184 the real property only. Date: Quality Loan operated on the same Mosk Central. and re-recorded on 1/9/2014 as Instrument Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio Part IV of VII principle of frequenting IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the Number 20140024079 and modified as per South San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 petition, you should appear at the hearing Modification Agreement recorded 3/27/2018 For NON SALE information only Sale the relevant spaces and state your objections or file written as Instrument No. 20180287311 of Official Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http:// Downey has maintained throughout Los Angeles. objections with the court before the hearing. Records in the office of the Recorder of www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement In this case, Downey’s Your appearance may be in person or by LOS ANGELES County, California; Date Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan your attorney. of Sale: 8/15/2019 at 9:00 AM Place Service Corp. TS No.: CA-19-852798-RY its status as a step-up middle-class Mexican IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent of Sale: At the Doubletree Hotel Los IDSPub #0154647 7/19/2019 7/26/2019 Americans visited creditor of the decedent, you must file your Angeles-Norwalk, 13111 Sycamore Drive, 8/2/2019 community, even as claim with the court and mail a copy to the Norwalk, CA 90650, in the Vineyard culturally important spaces personal representative appointed by the Ballroom Amount of unpaid balance IDS 0154647 residents fled to Orange throughout metropolitan court within the later of either (1) four months and other charges: $333,363.38 The The Norwalk Patriot Los Angeles. Some of these from the date of first issuance of letters to a purported property address is: 11912 7/19/19, 7/26/19, 8/2/19 County in the 1980s and general personal representative, as defined DALWOOD AVENUE, NORWALK, CA were private spaces in in section 58(b) of the California Probate 90650 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 8022-009-016 ‘90s. Downey. Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of the NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you mailing or personal delivery to you of a are considering bidding on this property lien, notice under section 9052 of the California you should understand that there are risks By Aron Ramirez In an earlier essay, Probate Code. involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You CLASSIFIEDS I mentioned the case Other California Statues and legal authority will be bidding on a lien, not on the property Contributor may affect your rights as a creditor. You itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee of Pete Martin, a local may want to consult with an attorney auction does not automatically entitle you EMPLOYMENT The experiences of Downey’s entrepreneur. Though he knowledgeable in California Law. to free and clear ownership of the property. owned a “race-neutral” YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the You should also be aware that the lien being first middle-class Mexican court. If you are a person interested in the auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are GROUP HOME CARE Americans were shaped by the business, Martin did not estate, you may file with the court a Request the highest bidder at the auction, you are or white demographic majority. privately shy away from for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing may be responsible for paying off all liens PROVIDER of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets senior to the lien being auctioned off, before Ethnic differences might his Mexican heritage. or of any petition or account as provided in you can receive clear title to the property. Weekends 9am-5pm have been irreconcilable in He taught his children Probate Code section 1250. A Request for You are encouraged to investigate the Spanish at home and Special Notice form is available from the existence, priority, and size of outstanding Background check Downey if not for the Mexican court clerk. liens that may exist on this property by Americans’ public emphasis on decorated their house Attorney for petitioner: contacting the county recorder’s office or & exp required “Americanness” in language, interior with Mexican art. LAW OFFICES OF NORMAN a title insurance company, either of which (562) 928-7917 business, and politics. It was this RASMUSSEN may charge you a fee for this information. Ed Estrella and his NORMAN RASMUSEN, CSBN: 30583 If you consult either of these resources, you way that Mexican Americans family spoke Spanish, Courtesy of the Downey Historical Society 11 GOLDEN SHORE, SUITE 430 should be aware that the same lender may secured their place in the middle- LONG BEACH, CA 90802-4218 hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust SERVICES cooked Mexican foods, and on the property. class suburb—and the capital that (562) 436-9631 phone NOTICE TO PROPERTY practiced other customs 1988 but, because of their tenure (562) 436-1467 fax OWNER: The sale date shown on this came with it. [email protected] notice of sale may be postponed one or PLANS, PERMITS privately at home. Other families in nearby cities, maintained more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, made similar decisions at home. contact with coethnics throughout The Norwalk Patriot trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section CONSTRUCTION This is not to suggest, though, 7/26/19, 8/2/19, 8/9/19 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law that all Mexican Americans southeast Los Angeles. Project Design, But metropolitan Mexicanness requires that information about trustee sale expressed their “Americanness” postponements be made available to you also happened in public spaces Consumers spoke of Downey and to the public, as a courtesy to those New Construction, the same way. Mexican Americans TRUSTEE SALES in neighborhoods like East Los as devoid of ethnic businesses not present at the sale. If you wish to learn Remodeling & Additions did not necessarily become whether your sale date has been postponed, Angeles with established Mexican throughout the 1990s. For those NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and suburban by becoming pocho. CA-19-852798-RY Order No.: 8751006 Lic. #936419 American communities. Through accustomed to patronizing ethnic date for the sale of this property, you may Rather, it required careful YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED call 800-280-2832 for information regarding Call Jeff (562) 869-1421 metropolitan Mexicanness, businesses, many were merely OF TRUST DATED 7/30/2012. UNLESS the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web attention to their public image. YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT Downey’s middle-class Mexican a few streets away. Margot site http://www.qualityloan.com, using the YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD file number assigned to this foreclosure by As I briefly mentioned last Americans shopped at grocery Coronado, for example, lived AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN the Trustee: . Information in South Gate before moving EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF CA-19-852798-RY APPLIANCE TECH week, some Mexican Americans stores and other ethnic-themed about postponements that are very short in to Downey in the late 1980s. THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU duration or that occur close in time to the retained ties to their Mexican businesses in nearby cities. SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public HAS ARRIVED Markets like El Mercadito, built in Her parents, both Mexican auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, scheduled sale may not immediately be heritage by practicing the cashier’s check drawn on a state or national reflected in the telephone information or on House calls. Same day rapid East Los Angeles in 1968, attracted immigrants, responded to the the Internet Web site. The best way to verify culturally important language, bank, check drawn by state or federal credit Mexicans and Mexican Americans absence of Mexican grocers in union, or a check drawn by a state or federal postponement information is to attend the service all major brands. purchasing, and entrepreneurship scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee Downey by shopping in the same savings and loan association, or savings Washers, dryers, ovens, practices in spaces outside of throughout the region to its food association, or savings bank specified in disclaims any liability for any incorrectness stands and stores stocked with South Gate stores as before they of the property address or other common Downey. I will analyze that Section 5102 to the Financial Code and stoves, refrigerators, etc. goods from Mexico. moved. My parents ate at the authorized to do business in this state, designation, if any, shown herein. If no phenomenon, what I call will be held by duly appointed trustee. The street address or other common designation Senior citizen discount. “metropolitan Mexicanness,” in same Mexican restaurants in Bell, sale will be made, but without covenant or is shown, directions to the location of the Throughout Los Angeles—and property may be obtained by sending a this installment. where they met, after they moved warranty, expressed or implied, regarding (562) 866-4291 especially on the eastern side title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay written request to the beneficiary within 10 to Downey. the remaining principal sum of the note(s) days of the date of first publication of this (310) 251-3018 Through metropolitan of metropolitan Los Angeles— Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any Mexicanness, some of Downey’s established communities served In fact, metropolitan Mexican Americans could express as important cultural anchors Mexicanness of the 1990s their ethnic identity without where Mexican Americans demonstrated the rarity of compromising their civic identity. expressed, refashioned, and achieving upward mobility. This continued throughout the strengthened ethnic identities Some middle-class Mexican beginnings of demographic through contact with co-ethnics Americans made the “move up” change in Downey, which I who differed along class, legal to Downey while siblings, parents, narrate at the end of this essay. status, and immigration lines. and extended family remained Restaurants like El Nayarit and in nearby minority-majority The Los Angeles area is, “place markers,” as one historian working-class neighborhoods. and has always been, home has called them, generated a Metropolitan Mexicanness to a profound array of diverse sense of community for Mexican allowed those with upward communities. Diversity in Americans from Downey without mobility to retain ties to working- metropolitan Los Angeles goes jeopardizing their place in the class relatives and explains how beyond ethnic diversity, too. middle-class suburb. some families retained their Consider the economic diversity Mexican heritage while portraying of metropolitan Los Angeles: the Metropolitan Mexicanness an assimilated civic identity in bastion of wealth in Beverly Hills, also served a more practical Downey. This happened even the working-class and working- purpose for some of Downey’s when Mexican Americans became poor communities of south- middle-class Mexican Americans. the demographic plurality, and central Los Angeles, and every Rito Calderón and the Arcello eventually majority. For the rest shade in between. family, who I mentioned of this installment, though, I before, operated their ethnic- will explain why 1988 became But these communities exhibit themed businesses in line with the pivotal year for demographic remarkable levels of figurative the assimilated civic identity: change in Downey. and literal mobility. Some families invariably outside of Downey. in working-class communities Certainly not all Mexican The late 1980s were high find upward economic mobility American entrepreneurs ran times for residential property and move to middle-class ethnic-themed businesses; for owners throughout the United neighborhoods; many of the many their businesses did not States, years when selling Mexicans Americans moving to cater only to a Mexican clientele. was profitable and buying was Downey in the 1970s and 1980s But metropolitan Mexicanness possible. National housing debt did just that. let some Mexican Americans and wealth conditions in the profit from selling products and mid-1980s became especially Meanwhile, the freeway services that were familiar to the advantageous for many system (more so than public Mexican diaspora throughout Los homeowners who had nearly paid transportation) connects and Angeles. Calderón, for example, their entire mortgage. Bouts of enables connections between owned a chain of licorerías, liquor inflation during the early-to- the same exact communities; stores with Mexican products, mid 1980s reduced the real value an (admittedly congested) in Huntington Park and nearby of outstanding mortgage debt drive along the 405 freeway is cities with Mexican American considerably. Nominal interest all that separates a Long Beach communities. rates fell, incomes rose, and the family from spending a day of Reagan Administration’s 1986 recreation in Santa Monica. Both The Arcello family tax reforms removed tax relief of these forms of mobility have headquartered their spice- from all personal loans except had significant implications packaging business in East Los those related to housing. These for Los Angeles—and indeed, Angeles. Indeed, ethnic-based factors encouraged homeowners American—history. These are the entrepreneurship offered a to engage in housing-related factors that enabled metropolitan pathway into the middle class for borrowing. Households shifted Mexicanness. recent immigrants and Mexican toward partially tax-exempt Americans who may not have had mortgage borrowing, which Consider the case of thrifty a college degree. But few Mexican induced greater activity in the shoppers in neighboring South Americans opened restaurants, housing market and put upward Gate during the 1940s and supermercados, tortillerías, or pressure on home prices. 1950s. One historian showed panaderías in Downey, as was the conflicts that arose between common at the time in cities In California, voters passed the merchants and working- like South Gate, Norwalk, and two propositions that equally class consumers over shopping Compton (as well as in present- incentivized older homeowners practices. Merchants wished for day Downey). to buy new property. Proposition South Gate shoppers to remain 60 (1986) amended the California loyal to South Gate businesses. In sum, metropolitan Constitution by allowing They waged advertisement Mexicanness allowed some homeowners over the age of 55 campaigns that underscored how middle-class Mexican Americans to transfer the assessed value retail dollars spent in South Gate to practice (and profit from) the of current homes to new home funded civic infrastructures. customs that were important purchases within the same county to their ethnic identity in (for tax purposes). This was But working-class South spaces throughout Los Angeles. significant because Proposition 13, Gate shoppers were painfully Doing so allowed middle-class passed in 1978, limited property aware of their precarious hold Mexican Americans to exist as taxes to one percent of a home’s on homeownership and looked the overwhelming demographic assessed value. Prop 60 allowed to economize in any way they minority without sacrificing older homeowners to purchase could. This included travelling to their assimilated civic identity in newer (and often more expensive) other cities for groceries, clothes, Downey. homes without incurring a or other goods if the prices were significant increase in their cheaper. While this may have But metropolitan Mexicanness property tax bills. Two years later, upset South Gate merchants, the did not end in the 1990s, when Proposition 90 extended the same shoppers took advantage of the Mexican Americans became rule to inter-county purchases, diverse and eminently accessible the demographic plurality (and meaning a Downeyite could communities throughout eventually majority). In fact, transfer their property valuation metropolitan Los Angeles to metropolitan Mexicanness to new homes in Orange County. accomplish their goals of prudent endured throughout the 1990s spending. precisely because of the rapidity of demographic change. Many Continued on page 11 Metropolitan Mexicanness families moved into Downey after The Norwalk Patriot 07 Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 Here’s what’s coming to 1980s brought drastic change to Downey Continued from page 10 homeowners than the Spanish-speaking realtors’ efforts county average. Just as white at integrating the city. Later, homeowners sold their homes and business owners, politicians, Propositions 60 and 90 moved to Orange County, middle- and the general public avoided Netflix in August were especially relevant to class Mexican Americans in speaking Spanish in public or Downey homeowners. In 1980, southeast Los Angeles sold their otherwise portraying themselves Downey had the highest rates of August 1: The InBESTigators August 20: homes and moved to Downey. as “Mexican.” Metropolitan homeowners over 55 in southeast Mexicanness, as I discussed earlier Are We Done Yet? iZombie: Season 5 Gangs of New York Los Angeles; fully 25% of the city’s Five-year-tenure rates in in this essay, offered one means of Boyka: Undisputed Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Simon Amstell: Set Free residents—and up to 33% of some Downey showed that 84 percent doing just that. Four Weddings and a Funeral Cling north Downey neighborhoods— of families who moved to Downey Groundhog Day Sintonia August 21: were over 55. This was not only between 1985 and 1990 came from Many of these actions, though Horns Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales American Factory higher than the other southeast within Los Angeles County. Most survived past 1988. Through Jackie Brown Tiny House Nation: Volume 1 Hyperdrive Los Angeles suburbs, but was were not first-time homebuyers, demographic change, middle- Jupiter Ascending higher than the county average on either. class Mexican Americans became Now and Then August 13: August 22: the whole. Though not perfect the plurality and eventually majority of residents. Once white Panic Room Knightfall: Season 2 Love Alarm In 1990, 22.3% of Downey calculations, this census data homeowners left, middle-class Rocky Tiffany Haddish Presents: residents were over 55 years old, suggests that Mexican American Mexican Americans no longer They Ready again higher than both the county homeowners from elsewhere in Rocky II August 23: needed to prove themselves as Rocky III El Pepe: Una vida suprema and nearby suburbs’ averages. southeast Los Angeles sold their homes around 1988 and moved to worthy of a spot in the suburb. Rocky IV August 14: Hero Mask: Part II This created an optimal Downey. They did not need to convince Rocky V The 100: Season 6 Rust Valley Restorers sellers’ market for the Anglo white homeowners that they Sex and the City: The Movie residents who had stayed after the Anecdotal evidence lends comported themselves differently Something’s Gotta Give August 15: August 27: Watts Riots. Many white families credence to this idea. Each from what racial ideology The Bank Job Cannon Busters Million Pound Menu: Season 2 sold their home at a profit and Mexican American respondent I predicted. In that sense, it might interviewed, whether they moved The House Bunny Trolls: The Beat Goes On!: moved to Orange County. One have been expected to see a resident recalled that the booming in before or after the housing The Sinner: Julian August 16: Season 7 weakening of the assimilated 45 rpm property values meant that boom of the late 1980s, spoke of civic identity. One might have To Wong Foo, Thanks for Downey as having a reputation Apache: La vida de Carlos residents could either refinance expected the 1990s to usher in a Everything! Julie Newmar August 29: as a move-up community. The Tevez their mortgage and take out large period of “public Mexicanness” Why Do Fools Fall in Love Falling Inn Love amounts of equity or sell and independent school district, stable Better Than Us or a weakening of metropolitan Kardec “move on to something bigger,” property values, and perception Diagnosis Mexicanness. In fact, neither August 2: Workin’ Moms: Season 3 which the resident clarified meant of lower crime rates allured happened. Ask the StoryBots: Season 3 Frontera Verde “let’s go move to Orange County prospective Mexican American Throughout the 1990s, Basketball or Nothing Invader Zim: Enter the August 30: and we can buy something bigger homeowners. Florpus residents perpetuated key Dear White People: Volume 3 The A List and newer.” One resident recalled her The Little Switzerland components of the assimilated Derry Girls: Season 2 Carole & Tuesday By the late 1980s, white parents saying that Downey, Mindhunter: Season 2 civic identity—not because they Otherhood The Dark Crystal: Age of homeowners looking for compared to South Gate, was needed to prove themselves as QB1: Beyond the Lights: She-Ra and the Princess of Resistance geographic distance from “an overall better area to raise homeowners, but because they Season 3 Power: Season 3 La Grande Classe minority-majority suburbs moved your family.” Another resident thought that doing so would Selfless Mighty Little Bheem: Season 2 en masse to Orange County, recalled that even though Downey steward their community through August 4: Sextuplets Styling Hollywood whose population boomed in the was “mostly white people,” novel problems of the 1990s. Patriot Act With Hasan Super Monsters Back to True and the Rainbow 1960s and 1980s, developing the his parents thought “it was My last essays will discuss how Minhaj: Volume 4 School Kingdom: Wild Wild Yetis county’s identity as a “haven” ideal to live in Downey.” These Mexican Americans saw their civic respondents also came from Victim Number 8 Un bandido honrado for whites concerned about identity as the solution to these nearby suburbs. For example, my August 5: states-rights, property-rights, challenges. and “traditional” values, as one parents and Margot Coronado Enter the Anime August 17: August 31: One such problem was The Punisher historian has observed. moved from South Gate, Ed No Good Nick: Part 2 Luo Bao Bei: Season 1 Estrella from Culver City, and Rito intimately tied to the events of Indeed, cities like Yorba Calderón from Pico Rivera. 1988. A booming housing market August 6: Linda, Newport Beach, and Irvine accelerated demographic change offered Downey homeowners Regardless of where they Screwball and destabilized the harmony similar middle-class autonomous moved from, middle-class Sebastian Maniscalco: Why between the growing population suburban lives without Downey’s Mexican Americans began Would You Do That of assimilated middle-class geographic proximity to southeast to dramatically remake the Mexican Americans and their Los Angeles’s minority-majority demographics of Downey after white neighbors. The increased August 8: cities. 1988. This should ostensibly presence of Mexican Americans Dollar have changed the trajectory of But the booming sellers’ made some of the remaining white Jane the Virgin: Season 5 “Mexicanness” in Downey. Before market also benefited home- residents panic and overestimate 1988, Mexican Americans were Judy Moody and the Not owning Mexican Americans in the cultural differences and the overwhelming demographic Bummer Summer southeast Los Angeles. This is un-assimilability of the middle- minority and needed to downplay The Naked Director partly because homeownership class Mexican Americans. The “Mexicanness” in favor of Wu Assassins was common among Latino/a/x race-based tensions Mexican “Americanness” to secure their residents in southeast Los Americans worked meticulously access to suburban resources. August 9: Angeles. Every suburb but to avoid surfaced in the 1990s; Cable Girls: Season 4 Downey—which was in the In the first essays of this I narrate them in next week’s The Family early stages of demographic series, I portrayed the ways installment. GLOW: Season 3 change—had more than twice middle-class Mexican Americans G. Aron Ramirez can be reached at Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day.” the percentage of Latino/a/x did just that. The assimilated [email protected]. civic identity factored into 08 Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 The Norwalk Patriot

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The yellow emoticon in Smile” Though Philip’s smile was “Suddenly you know why your smile has generated virtues of love the 80’s has evolved into a myriad center in Who would ever think that worth its weight in gold, it must heart sings — when a certain face and compassion from others who of emojis displaying reactions on one can experience a life changing not have cost him a single dime. leads an unsuspecting heart on a attend to me during my 48-hour FB, in texting, posting positivity or moment by merely sitting on a School pictures require merry chase.” Six years later, the infusion and more.” negativity. couch? payment with the pro Norwalk lyrics resonated in my nostalgic Myself, while pregnant with Smiles have existed through photographer making profit out of Watching the 2018 movie, mind when I met the boy in college my youngest child, partially generations way back in the time NORWALK - Su Casa – the student’s free smile, with just “Pope Francis Man of His Word,” whom I eventually married. dislodged my front tooth from of King David. In Psalm 39:13, Ending Domestic Violence gave me such an experience. It a click. So much so with investors Icon singer Nat King Cole, of a fall on the driveway after the “Turn Your gaze away from me, has opened an outreach was at the movie’s end when who set up photo booths at events over a hundred songs, popular rain. Pushing back the displaced that I may smile again Before I and resource center in the Pope Francis declares his true for guests to pose, smile and for his song, “Smile:” “that even tooth, I managed smiling with it depart and am no more.” David confession: “I pray every day for stare at the dot within five second Norwalk Social Services through fear and sorrow when you for several years until the doctor asks God to look away from his sin two things : To smile and to have a countdowns. Center two evenings per smile, you’ll find that life is still prescribed a root canal to save it. and forgive him, for strength that sense of humor.” The unfading enigmatic smile month. worthwhile.” To this date, I can smile with it, he may be prepared for the next Smile — it can cost from of Mona Lisa is classic. Currently unconscious of its history. life. costs $837 million in insurance I, too, was one of hundreds The programs will be nothing to millions of dollars. My mom smiled through Mindful of King David’s pearls value though, in reality, this of fans who would not miss Nat offered on the first and third Either way, it’s a win-win fashion 11 years of confinement in a of wisdom, I too plead for God’s Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece is King Cole for the world when he statement if one chooses to wear rehabilitation hospital at Laguna mercy that I may have miles of Tuesday evening from 6:30 to un-insurable as it is irreplaceable. performed live at the same venue it. Honda in San Francisco from smiles before I sleep. 7:30 pm at the Social Services Mona Lisa is the inescapable in Manila in 1961. I got a recent email from 1987 to 1999. Her massive stroke center, located at 11929 Renaissance painting on the A smile can be attractive, Maria L. Garcia is a member of the Darlene, daughter of Phillip Lucas, resulted in aphasia, but smiles Alondra Blvd. in Norwalk. course outline I had taught for 12 infectious…or non infectious to writing class offered through the our very first friend whom I met and laughter became her signature years. Not until 1985 did I see the one’s health. Studies show a smile Cerritos College Adult Education together with his wife, Lumen, form of communication. On the first Tuesday of the painting before my very eyes at the Program. It is held off-campus at the can lower one’s blood pressure, month, Su Casa’s counselors lessen pain, strengthen one’s I would drive or fly from LA Norwalk Senior Center. to visit Mom. In one of those will conduct Domestic Violence 101, a domestic violence awareness class. Each week, a different topic Little League will be discussed. Topics include: What is Domestic Violence, What is aspect of the game, camaraderie, This is not meant to diminish Gaslighting, How Abusers Short Stories loyalty, timeliness, and the the joy, thrill, or sense of pride in Trick Survivors into Denying importance of getting to practice. winning…there is that; however, I Abuse, as well as other Grill & Cantina And, just as important, so that feel that the qualities Ray tried to AuAutthentichentic FFreshresh MMadeade MMexicanexican FFoodood By Sharon Benson Smith parents who paid and showed up instill in his team far outweighed subjects relating to domestic Contributor for the games could see their sons always being on the winning team. violence. Counselors will be in action. on hand to address individual And at season’s end what a concerns and provide It now seems like a lifetime The bases could be loaded surprise we had in store! Ray and HAPPY HOUR ago but as soon as our children with a possible homerun in sight, his team, The Pirates, were the direction and resources o were eligible (two sons and assist with personal concerns. Mon. - Fri. 3 -8  but under no circumstances real winners when he was awarded one daughter), my husband did Ray ever change the lineup. the much-deserved Manager of Sat. & Sun. 3 -8  and I signed them up in North If you were on deck, you were the Year plaque presented by the On the third Tuesday of Whittier’s Keenan-Avocado the month, Su Casa’s will (Bar Only) next, and that was that. There league! Our entire family, the Heights Little League. was no “warming the bench” team members and their families conduct housing stability N P S The most memorable season or substituting a batter for a were so proud of him on that workshops. The purpose of to me was when Ray managed “pinch hitter” at a crucial time unforgettable, most pleasant these workshops is to address Breakfast & Lunch the Pirates, the team that our in the game, and that’s the way Little League day. the link between domestic the “ball bounced.” And that, in son, Steve, was on. Two of the The following, to me, is the violence and housing players were somewhat physically my opinion, should be the very Bu et MARIACHI most befitting quote from a instability. challenged in that one wore an premise or foundation of all youth Friday 6 -12  sports leagues. famous sports figure, manager or Now Available! Saturday 7:30  - 12  appliance on his foot and the coach and it is further proof that, These workshops will other wore a brace on his calf. Of course, there was the usual (and I’m paraphrasing now) “It’s define housing stability Monday - Thursday Sunday 3:00  - 9  Each of the two always struck out gossip and murmurs from the not whether you win or lose, but versus instability and the Buy One Entree, or walked to first base and then disgruntled, super competitive how you play the game.” the of Tel. 562.622.9100 potential barriers that Get Second $ couldn’t run fast enough to make parents to whom winning meant Equal or Lesser Price for Sharon Benson Smith is a member 3.99 11010 Paramount Blvd. it to second base. everything. 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All the sessions are open to the public and childcare for children age 4 and older will be provided at no charge. For more information, call 562-421-6537 or stop by Su Casa’s walk-in resource center at 3750 E. Anaheim St., Ste 100, Long Beach. Information is also available at sucasadv.org.

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