Local group forms to discuss race, racismBy JEFF CLEMETSON | Mission Times Courier

Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked nationwide pro-tests led by Black Lives Matter, Del Cerro resident Grace Hatch dealt with her emotions about watching yet another Black man killed by police by drawing Floyd’s face.

“I probably did like 25 versions with ink and marker. I had no plan, but that was something I wanted to do,” said the 19-year-old Hatch, who is currently at-tending UC Santa Cruz, but is back home in the community she grew up in due to coronavirus concerns and summer break.

Grace’s older brother, Morgan Hatch, saw the drawings and

suggested putting them up around the neighborhood.

“By the next day, most of them were torn down,” Grace said.The incident illuminated how the community was deal-ing with the nationwide pro-tests. “That just encouraged us to keep putting them up and keep pushing the conversation about it.”

San Diego Oasis featured in virtual senior centers videos

At the onset of the shelter-in-place orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, the leaders at the nonprofit San Diego Oasis had to make very quick de-cisions on how to continue to de-liver their classes and workshops virtually. Until then, all of their classes were delivered in-person at more than 40 locations through-out the San Diego County region.

Although San Diego Oasis’ mis-sion is to change the way people

County approves mental health crisis teamNew unit will respond to crisis without law enforcement

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On Tuesday, June 23, the County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in sup-port of creating a Mobile Crisis Response Team to respond to have clinicians respond to nonviolent behavioral health incidents rather than law enforcement.

People with untreated men-tal illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than oth-er civilians, with race and gender compounding those risk factors. The Black Lives Matter movement in San Diego was galvanized in 2016 when Ugandan refugee Alfred Olango was killed by police after his sister called for emer-gency psychiatric aid.

The board approved a pilot program last year to respond to behavioral health calls in North County. After months of delays due to North County lacking behavior health facili-ties for the crisis team to take people to, that pilot program is close to launching. The pi-lot program is supported by District Attorney Summer Stephan and Sheriff Bill Gore to bring new options to address nonviolent situations.

Supervisor Nathan Fletcher’s proposal expedites bringing

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HENRY STUDENT RECEIVES TWO SCHOLARSHIPS

Patrick Henry graduate Alby Penny is on a role.

On June 24, Cox Charities Advisory Board members awarded a total of $77,000 in scholarships to 25 students, in-cluding Penny, “This year has been unprecedented in so many ways for our graduating high school seniors, and we’re ex-cited to bring them some good news during this challenging time,” said Sam Attisha, senior vice president and region man-ager for Cox Communications in California. “These 2020 Cox Scholars are so deserving of these scholarships, and Cox and our employees are proud to rec-ognize all of their hard work and accomplishments.”

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On July 8, Wheelhouse Credit Union announced that Penny was one of five awardees of its Sustainability College Scholarship Program for who demonstrated leadership, pub-lic service, and a desire to make a sustainable difference in their schools and commu-nities. Penny’s Wheelhouse Sustainability Scholarships earned him $1,000.

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Penny will be attending Carnegie Mellon University in the fall and is planning on ma-joring in electrical and computer engineering and hopes to pursue a career in the renewable energy sector. He enjoys volunteering in his community and credits the institutions he’s spent his time volunteering with playing a large role in forming his character — the Boy Scouts and the La Jolla Quaker Meeting.

SANDAG REPORTS BLACK AND HISPANIC COMMUNITIES HARDEST HIT BY COVID-19

As the San Diego region’s la-bor market continues to expe-rience a historic decline, Black and Hispanic communities are most impacted, according to a

new SANDAG Data Science and Analytics report, “COVID-19 Impact on the San Diego Regional Economy: Black and Hispanic Communities Hardest Hit.”

Since the stay home order be-gan in mid-March, SANDAG has closely monitored the economic impact of the pandemic on the San Diego region.

The new SANDAG report finds that when compared to the White population, Black and Hispanic populations are more than four times as likely to live in areas that have been impacted by COVID-19 and unemployment. More than two-thirds of the region’s Black (67%) and Hispanic (70%) popu-lations reside in ZIP Codes with higher than average unemploy-ment rates. Approximately half of Black (52%) and Hispanic (49%) residents live in ZIP Codes with higher than average COVID-19 cases.

White and Asian communities have been less impacted, with 14% and 24% respectively residing in areas experiencing high rates of unemployment and COVID-19 cases.

The report found that Black and Hispanic employees are overrepresented in the high contact and essential workforc-es. Hispanic employees account for 32% of the overall workforce but represent 46% of those work-ing in the food service industry, and 37% of those working in the retail sector (excluding grocery and drugstore). Black employees account for nearly 5% of the over-all workforce but represent more than 7% who work in childcare and social services, 9% in truck-ing, warehouse, and postal ser-vice, and nearly 20% of public transit workers.

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the program to the entire coun-ty, which was the long-term goal of the pilot program. Supervisor Kristen Gaspar, who spearhead-ed the pilot program, questioned why Fletcher was circumventing the phased in and targeted pro-cess the board initially planned on but ultimately voted in favor of the motion.

The current system for re-sponding to suicide calls, psy-chotic episodes and other be-havioral health calls is the Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams (PERT) which pairs a cli-nician with a member of law

enforcement. According to Fletcher, of the 54,000 mental health-related calls in the coun-ty in 2018, PERT responded to 10,000 of them. Half of those re-sponses concluded with the per-son going to jail or the hospital.

Law enforcement even being present can escalate a situation, make it unsafe and can add to the traumatic nature of the event.

“When I had a friend in mental health crisis, the PERT clinician was mostly observing during the interaction. The mere presence of police sirens and a police car es-calated the situation. I could vis-ibly see my friend becoming less comfortable and less interested in talking through her feelings. She was handcuffed, searched and put

in the back of a police car for ex-pressing suicidal thoughts during a psychiatric crisis,” Chrissy Croft, a mental health professional, said about a time she needed emer-gency care for a friend who was eventually taken to a psychiatric hospital.

“The mental health care she received likely saved her life, but I can’t help imagining other possi-bilities that would have eased her into receiving help that night in-stead of simulating arrest,” Croft said.

For people who have interacted with PERT and law enforcement mental health responses regu-larly, they noted the difference between someone being booked for assault or being checked in

to a hospital is usually left to the officer’s discretion — which can lead to bias playing a role in the decision.

“Are they 5150 — a danger to themselves and others — where they go to the hospital or is what they’re doing criminal and they go to jail seems in so many in-stances such a judgment call,” Luke, a social worker specialized in homeless care, said. [Editor’s note: Luke is remaining anonymous so he can speak openly about his in­teractions with PERT.]

He explained that when some-one is yelling and spitting at people whether that is treated as assault or a mental health episode too often depends on who made the call and where the person is. For instance, law enforcement officers responding to call from a business about a homeless person are incentivized to get the person out of the busi-ness district as fast as possible. However, when a similar call is made from a shelter or commu-nity meal area where the only people who are being affected are also homeless, the response is usually much slower.

A staff member at a local college library explained that while she was not told directly, officers in-sinuated that whether a homeless person having a mental health episode was booked in jail or re-ceived a different response largely depended on whether the person “pissed off” enough people.

“That’s really subjective,” said the staff member.

Many of the people at the li-brary show up again as soon as they are released from jail or the hospital. The lack of long-term care and shelter makes the law enforcement interactions a recur-ring issue for the police, library staff and homeless people.

“The police hate doing it too. They get annoyed. It’s just a bad system. It’s a bad system for every-one,” the staff member said.

During the supervisor’s meet-ing, many members of the pub-lic called in support of Fletcher’s package of racial justice and law enforcement realignment pro-posals. Bishop Cornelius Bowser called to oppose them because they did not do enough to ad-dress the major police reforms needed.

While Luke sees having a non-police emergency response team as a necessary move to better serve the communities he works in, he believes more is need-ed because there is very little that can be done during a psychiatric episode in the first place other than going to the hospital or jail or the police leaving because there is nothing they can do.

“It just sucks that those are the options we currently have avail-able to us as a mental health sys-tem,” Luke said.

Luke wants the county to in-vest in street psychiatric medicine teams so homeless people can be connected to ongoing care that prevents major psychiatric ep-isodes. Without robust mental health care and wraparound ser-vices, people with recurring men-tal health issues take up a huge portion of police, emergency room and hospital resources.

The details of how the new Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) would be deployed are still foggy, but the teams would not replace PERT as law enforce-ment would still be utilized to re-spond to violent situations. The number of PERT units could be cut in the future if they are less needed.

Supervisor Jim Desmond ques-tioned whether there would be a separate phone number for the non-violent calls or if the sys-tem would be simplified with only one number for PERT and MCRT. Clinicians would then decide if they felt safe enough to send a response team without law enforcement.

Luke and Croft both support having a designated phone line for the MCRT so they can ensure a response from mental health professionals rather than law enforcement.

“We don’t need people weighing the pros and cons of getting help for their loved ones. When police brutality is a real issue, we have to think twice before getting emer-gency psychiatric help for loved ones under the current PERT structure,” Croft said.

PERT could not be reached to comment on this article.

—Reach contributing edi­tor Kendra Sitton at kendra@sd­news.com.

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experience aging, adjusting to a 100% fully online environment was a big change and risk. The team trained and coached their professors and experts in history, humanities, language, technolo-gy, art, finance, fitness, and more to bring their presentations on-line. It has paid off for the nonprof-it, in ways they could never imag-ine, and created a virtual senior center, replacing their physical community presence temporarily.

“Today’s older adults are more vibrant and busier than seniors of yesteryear,” said Simona Valanciute, president and CEO, San Diego Oasis. “Some of our students jumped in to take on the challenge of taking classes online, others were hesitant, but with coaching from volunteers from Qualcomm and the community at large, we have been able to be there every step of the way to tran-sition how students take classes and how instructors present them.

“We are also attracting new students who haven’t had an op-portunity to come into our physi-cal location at Grossmont Center, but through the new virtual se-nior center model, they can,” she continued. “The classes we offer allow students to continue with their studies and participate in new ones, while not physically being together.”

COX CAMPAIGNA new social media campaign

from Cox Communications fea-tures the virtual senior center created by San Diego Oasis, as part of the technology company’s Connection Project initiative, a non-branded campaign which began the COVID-19 period by reaching people with messages of connection.

A short film (visit bit.ly/2Y-MIBjX) captures the importance of connection and the real power of technology to bring us closer to one another at a time when it is needed.

The production team also cre-ated a second short film (visit bit.ly/2NIFJOM), which focuses on

one student’s story. Vickie Daleo from Escondido was a caregiver for her husband, and after his death, she sought new connec-tions through San Diego Oasis.

“Using video conferencing and live streaming, Cox partnered with the Oasis Senior Center in San Diego to help take their cur-riculum into a virtual world and reunite older adults with their friends and communities,” said Chanelle Hawken, vice president of government and public affairs, Cox California. “We have always known that the most meaningful connections are the ones people share with each other. As a digital connections company, we know that we are really in the business of human connections. It’s our purpose and why we do what we do.”

Valanciute described social isolation among seniors as “an epidemic” before COVID-19, with some studies indicating social iso-lation is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

“So when Cox connected with us to create this documentary style film to feature a virtual se-nior center, we immediately said yes, because if we can reach more people to inspire them to stay connected, we can combat the detrimental effects of social isola-tion, among seniors in San Diego, throughout California, and across the United States,” she said.

GRANDFATHER AND GRANDDAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP STRENGTHENED

Longtime San Carlos resi-dent Ed Robles is not someone who stays at home easily. Before California’s shelter-in-place orders went into effect, the 93-year-old World War II veteran was busy and active, filling his time with personal training sessions, coffee club, and volunteering with the San Diego Police Department’s Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol (RSVP), where he even won “Law Enforcement Volunteer of the Year” in 2015.

Almost as soon as the pan-demic hit, his granddaughter Christianna Ortiz set Robles up on Zoom, and he dove right into the

San Diego Oasis course catalog. He now takes eight to ten class-es per week, in subjects such as philosophy, tai chi, history, and technology. His new online life isn’t limited to educational pur-suits, either.

“He loves Instagram,” said Ortiz with a laugh. “He has his own page and spams me.”

However, she emphasizes on-line learning has been the key to preserving Ed’s mental health — and thereby his physical health — while he’s social distancing.

“The classes make him think and engage while at home. It’s amazing the amount of questions he has.” Robles has eagerly embraced vir-tual learning, fitness classes and social groups, and he will likely keep these up long after the state re-opens.

“Ed’s experience shows that our 65-plus population can confident-ly navigate life online, which will be crucial for combating social isolation in the long months un-til it’s safe for seniors to re-engage physically with society — and, even more importantly, demon-strates that the solution to isola-tion in older adults may very well be virtual, especially for those who are already homebound or have limited mobility,” Valanciute said.

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San Carlos resident Ed Robles and his granddaughter Christianna Ortiz (Courtesy San Diego Oasis)

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WATER BOARD ADOPTS RATE INCREASES FOR 2021

The San Diego County Water Authority's Board of Directors has adopted a rate increase of 4.8% for untreated water and 4.9% for treated water in calen-dar year 2021 for its 24 member agencies.

The board told its staff to return in September or October with any further opportunities to reduce the 2021 rate increases, such as a decrease in rates set by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California or the acqui-sition of federal or state economic stimulus funds.

Rate increases are driven by reduced water sales, higher rates and charges from MWD and con-tinued regional investments in supply reliability. The adopted rates are 30% lower than pro-posed last month following refine-ments by the staff.

In 2021, the Water Authority will charge its 24 member agen-cies an all-in municipal and indus-trial rate of $1,474 per acre-foot for untreated water, or $68 more per acre-foot than they currently pay. Charges would be $1,769 per acre-foot for treated water, or $83 more per acre-foot than in 2020.

Actual figures will vary by member agency, and each mem-ber agency will incorporate costs from the Water Authority into the retail rates it charges to residents, businesses and institutions.

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Community colleges offer high school grads an alternative to a gap year

By LYNN CERESINO NEAULT, ED.D.

Flummoxed by a public health crisis that has bought a disappointing end to high school for many, along with uncertainties about starting college in the fall, today’s high school grads are feeling anx-ious and confused about what lies ahead.

As the public health crisis prompts many colleges and universities to pronounce on-line learning for the coming fall semester, many students and their parents are ponder-ing alternatives, including a “gap year,” while waiting to return to more a more tradi-tional college experience.

It’s easy to see why. For ma-ny, the pandemic has quashed the iconic scenes of college life: living in a dorm, packed lec-ture halls, fraternity or sorori-ty pledges, or the excitement of college football. As tempting an idea that a gap year represents, the downside is that it only pro-longs the process of acquiring a college degree at a time when more jobs are requiring at least some post-secondary educa-tion for workforce training.

As leaders in transfer to San Diego State University and many other four-year institutions throughout the state and nation, Grossmont and Cuyamaca Colleges have robust transfer programs that provide a seamless pathway to a bachelor’s degree. In fact, more than half of CSU gradu-ates and 30% of UC graduates began their studies at a com-munity college.

Community colleges, the leading source of workforce

training in the state, are also key to the economic recovery of the state and East County. Grossmont College programs like nursing, respiratory ther-apy and Administration of Justice, and Cuyamaca College programs such as paralegal studies, water studies, and or-namental horticulture are just a few of the many workforce training programs that thou-sands of residents throughout the county utilize every year to prepare for employment in good-paying careers.

At just $46 per credit, Grossmont and Cuyamaca colleges are the logical alter-native to paying the high cost of four-year universities. With many universities holding on-line classes in the fall, starting at a community college, albe-it online, makes more sense now than ever before. Even better, recent high school graduates can now attend the first two years of commu-nity college for free under the College Promise Program. The Promise program also pro-vides students with financial need $250 to pay for books and other expenses in their first semester.

For new high school grad-uates unsure of your plans for the fall, I urge you to at-tend Grossmont or Cuyamaca College. You will get an excel-lent education at a fraction of the cost of a university. To learn more, go to cuyamaca.edu or grossmont.edu.

—Lynn Ceresino Neault, Ed.D. is chancellor of the Gross­mont­Cuyamaca Community College District.

Fanita Ranch impacts will stretch beyond Santee

By COLLEEN COCHRAN

Recently, the threat of bull-dozers spurred me to take a hike in northern Santee. The Stowe Trail — a stretch that leads from Santee Lakes through Sycamore Canyon on Fanita Ranch — is one of the last havens for en-dangered Quino checkerspot butterflies, creatures that once fluttered abundantly through-out San Diego County skies, and for endangered least Bell’s vireo songbirds.

Because I had been hearing a lot of news about HomeFed Corporation’s plans to ravage the area by constructing Fanita Ranch, a development of 3,000 units of multistory townhouse boxes, I decided I better go on that hike before it becomes too late.

The Fanita Hills, as the region is sometimes called, is home to coyotes, mountain lions, gray fox, and 18 other mammal spe-cies, 21 types of reptiles and amphibians, and over 100 bird species. Van Collinsworth, di-rector of PreserveWildSantee.org, describes the region as a step back in time because deep into the Stowe Trail there isn’t a trace of anything manmade in sight, save the occasional flying airplane. There are precious ver-nal pools there, which are rare because 98 percent of them have been destroyed due to San Diego County development. Within them live some of the last re-maining San Diego fairy shrimp.

If HomeFed’s Fanita Ranch development is built, the sleepy northern end of Fanita Parkway, where Santee Lakes Campground is located, will be turned from two lanes into four, two in each direction, with a raised strip in the middle. The speed limit will be raised from 40 to 50 mph, al-though I very much doubt driv-ers will be able to reach that top speed most hours of the day, since the only ways in and out of the Fanita Ranch complex will be via Fanita Parkway or Cuyamaca Street, and there will be 8,000 residents, an additional 15 per-cent of Santee’s present popu-lation, using those roads. More likely, these new Santee residents will be spending a good portion of their days idling in their cars as they wait to cross over or onto Mast Boulevard.

Construction noise will re-place the chirps and buzzes of nature’s creatures, so Santee Lakes Campground will become a far less enticing destination. In its Environmental Impact Report (EIR), HomeFed promised to mitigate construction noise by putting in place a sound barrier wall. Campers will, however, still be left with fumes, dust, and loss

of views of greenery, and they will no doubt still hear the con-struction noise too.

The construction, which will go on for 15 years, will leave present Santee residents en-during streams of trucks going through their area, endless noise, and dusty air. Air quality won’t just be reduced during construc-tion, it will be reduced forever. In the end, citizens will have lost the lovely natural barrier that gave their city its hometown feel, on-ly to have it replaced with hunks of walls, gates, parking lots, and unsightly clone houses.

All citizens throughout San Diego County will be negatively impacted by the development. Because the Fanita Ranch area is an essential biological reservoir linking adjacent open spaces pro-tected by the county’s Multiple Species Conservation Program, users of Mission Trails Park can expect to see a depletion in wild-life. Vistas throughout the region will be destroyed, air quality will worsen, and traffic will increase.

Traffic on Mast Boulevard, already the stuff of commuters’ nightmares, will become horrif-ic. The impact of this traffic will be felt on West Hills Parkway and Mission Gorge Road, all the way down through Allied Gardens and Grantville. HomeFed prom-ises to add an extra lane at the Mast entrance to SR-52, but that remedy will not prove apt to counteract the load of traffic that is going to infect that high-way. Some commuters will seek relief by using the I-8, so traffic will worsen on that highway as well.

Santee City Council mem-b e r St e phe n Hou la ha n and Van Collinsworth of PreserveWildSantee.org have put together the General Plan Protection Initiative that would enable citizens to vote on whether they want Fanita Ranch, a proj-ect that vastly exceeds size pa-rameters set forth in the Santee General Plan. Unfortunately the Santee City Council, most of whose members are more be-holden to the Building Industry Association than their own citi-zens, used a “study” to delay the Initiative vote from 2018 until November of 2020, thus provid-ing opportunity for a contested “approval” of the megaproject ahead of the Initiative vote.

Santee citizens are fighting city council’s underhanded scheme, and citizens throughout the county can join them in their efforts by sending emails that voice their concerns about Fanita Ranch. Their letters will go on the record, potentially reviewed by a judge, should the situation

STILL WAITING...Have you, a family member

or friend ever waited for a re-ply from our city government? You may not be alone with your frustration. A 92120 neighborhood has attempted to obtain an honest, open di-alogue with many city officials since 2017.

It really concerns me when our city officials can’t come together to reach reasonable solutions mitigating neigh-borhood issues (unsafe sight distancing, unsafe driveway intrusions into private prop-erty, added speeding, noise, traffic, debris, brake dust, etc.).

Our current administra-tion has side-stepped even the

common sense fixes truly lay-ing at the feet of our city await-ing implementation. Further, this administration has shown lack of focus, will, support, en-dorsement and communica-tion without forward thinking leadership, guidance, direction or accountability, which hasn’t helped us seeking reasonable end results.

To date, not one city offi-cial has shown responsibility to answer our May 13, 2017 letter sent to our mayor and six others. This is simply unacceptable!

Lead by example and not be a part of the problem.

—Ralph Richardson, San Diego

Letter

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Trump’s motto is ‘E Pluribus Ego’

By SEAN QUINTAL

In 1782, a newly formed coun-try, acting through its nascent legislative body, adopted a Latin phrase to be emblazoned on its cur-rency: E pluribus unum, in English, “out of many, one.” The Founders of this new nation selected the mot-to as it represented a unified nation that had emerged from a previous collection of 13 colonies.

In the 244 years since, that nation has grown to a popula-tion of more than 330 million, a heterogeneous collection of peo-ple from continents around the globe, many of whom look, speak and worship differently from the those who forged the country, and many of whom arrived here in chains. The nation burgeoned precisely because it represented ideals that are reflected in that Latin aphorism: We Americans are many, we are different, but finally, we are one.

That fundamental American aspiration has been tested and tried, through blood and suffer-ing, through literal armed con-flict. America has faced moments that threaten disunity and disin-tegration. In our most proud mo-ments, America and its leaders have found the will and strength to manifest our ideals of unity and solidarity, and by doing so

have preserved not just the na-tion, but its values too. America today is again living through one of those moments. And while the American people have once again found common cause, our President, tragically, has not.

Today, America faces multiple historical challenges simultane-ously: a public health crisis and an economic crisis without prec-edent for at least a century, as well as public expression of rage at racial and social inequalities unlike anything in half a century. Despite many Americans literally marching in the streets for unity, America has a President who gov-erns exactly as he campaigned — a belligerent incarnation of griev-ance, resentment and division.

In so many ways, Donald Trump has used the U.S. Presidency, not as an institution that exists for the betterment of the country’s citizenry, but rather as a catalyst for self-interest and self-aggrandizement. His cabinet and administration have func-tioned not to serve the public, or even his voters, but instead his own psychological needs and, of course, the business interests of himself, his family and his friends.

Trump governs for “his” people, the “real” America. In fact, Trump sees the “United” States as a prob-lem to be campaigned against.

If we were to mark our currency with a motto for the Trump pres-idency, it would read: E pluribus ego. Out of many, for me.

America endures with some-thing pure at its core. Reach down deep enough in America — past slavery and racism, through geno-cide and exploitation, between patriarchy and oppression — and you’ll find generosity, community and solidarity. It becomes visible in the heroic acts of our people, and is sometimes marked by the leadership of our presidents.

George Washington’s resigna-tion as Commander in Chief em-phasized the power of Congress, affirming that in this country there would be no king, and that power would reside with the peo-ple’s representatives. Lincoln, and Grant after him, endured enormous consequences for cou-rageously fighting to implement a meaningful, inclusive and just Reconstruction of a cleaved union. FDR resisted pressures

Sean Quintal

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Republican Women focusing on history and future

By PAT BOERNER

As we have just concluded our nation’s celebration of inde-pendence, it is a perfect time to remember the sacrifices of those who founded this great nation, and those who have fought to preserve it. While this year has presented challenges, we are ris-ing to the occasion and remain committed to the very essence of America — freedom. Never let a day go by that we don’t appreciate what our Founding Fathers gave to us and that it is our responsi-bility to preserve and protect that freedom and our Constitution.

Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California has the larg-est membership of all the clubs in San Diego County. Although our meeting schedule has been affected by COVID-19 and the so-cial distancing requirements, we continue to be an effective force for the Republican Party.

Our members are becoming educated, writing letters, mak-ing phone calls, and financially supporting candidates in the

upcoming November election. We look forward to getting the go-ahead to walk precincts and have conversations with our neighbors about important issues on the ballot.

Voter turnout is the number one issue for Republicans winning elections. Meanwhile, we are stay-ing in touch with each other via Zoom meetings and conference calls. This is the perfect time to be-come a member of Navajo Canyon and be kept in the loop of import-ant election information and be-coming an active volunteer.

When we say that this is the most important election in our lifetime, it is not an overstate-ment. The extraordinary econo-my we were experiencing prior to COVID-19 is beginning to come back. We are seeing positive eco-nomic indicators including the decrease in unemployment even beyond what was projected.

As we take individual responsi-bility for wearing masks and so-cial distancing we will continue to reopen safely across the country and get back to business and life as before the epidemic. The only way to return to that record breaking economy is to re-elect President Trump and let him continue the

policies that turned this country around and stopped the downhill spiraling. Biden simply does not have the business experience, the stamina or the foresight to guide America through this challenging time.

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Bali Hai offers us a large out-door seating area but due to the current circumstances this is defi-nitely on the “wait and see” plan. If we are able to keep this date it will indeed be a celebration!

Please check and see the latest updates on our website at rwcNa-vajo-Canyon.org and visit us on Facebook at Republican Women of California-Navajo Canyon. For more information on our activities or about joining Navajo Canyon now, please contact Waskah at waskahwhelan@aol.com.

—Pat Boerner writes on behalf of the Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California.

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from both left and right to weld together a riven country, and in doing so, not only defeated fas-cism abroad, but also saved capi-talism at home. Lyndon Johnson, a longtime segregationist, signed the Civil Rights Act, even as he acknowledged it would cost the Democratic Party the South.

After 42 months of a Trump presidency, can anyone honestly claim to envision Donald Trump ever putting his own interests aside, in order to unify the coun-try? Can anyone even imagine Trump displaying the patriotic

selflessness of those who preceded him in office?

If there is any sort of crisis that offers a President a clear oppor-tunity to unify the country, it’s a public health emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic brought the American people together, at least for a few months, in a brilliant mo-ment that allowed us all to recog-nize our interconnectedness and interdependence; we were, literal-ly, all asked to sacrifice for one an-other. It was stirring, inspirational, and felt like America at its best.

But rather than sound a clar-ion call for national unity, this President instead lied and mini-mized the danger to his citizens, refused to accept responsibility for

his government’s ill-preparedness and its disastrous response, and then contradicted his administra-tion’s own public safety policies when he believed it was to his po-litical benefit. Donald Trump this month claimed that Americans who wear masks in public do so not in the interest of public health, but rather to signal disapproval of him. Now even the most basic act Americans can do to protect one another from a pandemic disease has been weaponized as a blade of division, to cut deeper the rifts Trump intentionally ex-ploits for his personal gain, and at America’s expense.

It is obvious that Donald Trump has contempt for institutional

norms; he also makes plain his malign indifference to America’s laws, and to the Constitution from which those laws derive authority. These qualities rep-resent legitimate threats to our fragile political system. But perhaps more fundamentally, Donald Trump assaults the very ideal that has held this country through its most grave challeng-es: the recognition that we are all many, but we are one. This November, it will be up to us, the many, to ensure that we may re-main one, united.

—Sean Quintal is vice president of laws and legislation for the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club.

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evolve into a court battle. While county residents are waiting to hear the results of their efforts, I suggest they take a walk along Stowe Trail. If HomeFed has its way, one day soon, the trail will be transformed to noisy subur-ban sprawl.

Send comments to Chris Jacobs, Principal Planner City of Santee, at cjacobs@cityof-santeeca.gov.

—Colleen Cochran, JD, is a le­gal editor, nature enthusiast, and warrior against climate change.

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Locals defy COVID regulations to save neighbor’s lifeBy MAKENA HUEY | Mission Times Courier

Ever since quarantine began, Peter and Alyce Doan, along with their three young children, have been taking walks around their San Carlos neighborhood to get exercise and fresh air. On April 11, the day before Easter, the family decided to take a shortcut home — a route they had never taken before.

As they approached the in-tersection between Blue Lake Drive and Twin Lakes Drive, they slowed to allow an older man to pass them. The man nodded. However, something about the man’s behavior made Peter pause. He saw the man stagger to the left and then right before collapsing in the middle of the street.

Immediately, Peter asked the man if he was OK. But due to the coronavirus, he and Alyce were uncertain whether they should get closer.

“When he first fell, we were like, ‘Should we get close to him? Are we OK to get close to him? Does he have COVID? What if we have it, and we give it to him?,” Alyce said.

Peter realized the man was not breathing, and although he didn’t know what to do, he knew they “had to do something.”

Alyce, along with a mail carrier who was passing by, called 911. The operator instructed Peter to perform CPR on the man, who was now turning blue.

Defying social distancing regu-lations, he took off his sweater and his son’s sweater, placing them under the man’s head. Peter — who now believes everyone should learn basic CPR skills — said his chest compressions were too soft and slow at first because he was afraid the man would “break.”

“I was so scared for him,” Peter said. “And I didn’t even think at that time about COVID or any-thing. I just saw him lying on the street, and I wanted to do some-thing. I wish I knew more.”

A woman driving by got out of her car to help. She held the man’s hand and looked in his wallet to find his address.

Realizing the man was only a block and a half away from his home, someone ran to his house, where he found the man’s wife and brought her to the scene of the accident.

Another neighbor heard the commotion and came outside. He happened to be a physician, so he took over chest compressions for Peter until the firefighters from Station 34 arrived — about 10 minutes after the man first collapsed.

Eighteen minutes after they ar-rived, the firefighters were able to get Bob’s heart to beat again, and they rushed him to the emergency room.

After the ambulance left, Peter, Alyce and their children contin-ued to think about the man lying in the street.

“I feel like I didn’t do enough,” Peter said. “I feel I should have

done more. If I had known more, I could have done more. It was kind of an uneasy feeling — we didn’t know if he was OK or not.”

THE ROAD TO RECOVERYWhen 76-year-old Bob Kennedy

woke up in a hospital bed, he did not know where he was or how he got there. The last thing he re-membered was enjoying his daily walk, four days earlier.

Kennedy collapsed due to heart condition that led to ventricular fibrillation, prompting doctors to intubate him, put him on a venti-lator, induce a coma, and implant a pacemaker. He was hospitalized from April 11 to April 30.

“The time in the hospital was pretty rough because 24/7, I was there by myself except for the nurses and the lab techs and the doctors,” Kennedy said.

Due to the pandemic, Kennedy’s wife — Nancy Davis Kennedy — and his two daughters were unable to visit him, so they com-municated through twice-daily phone calls, which the nurses helped coordinate.

“I actually think that the worst emotional part had to be for Nancy and my two girls and my mother and my brother because there was nothing I could do, and they didn’t know what was going on,” Kennedy said. “So that had to be really, really hard for them.”

Kennedy said the day he was released from the hospital was

especially emotional because it was the first and last time he was able to hug one of his children since the pandemic began.

“The only physical contact I’ve had with either one of my daugh-ters was that day I got out of the hospital because I said, ‘I’m damn sure gonna give them hugs,’” Kennedy said. “I miss that a lot.”

Since returning home, Kennedy said he is doing well. He is back to walking over two miles every day, and he recently won money golfing.

MEETING HEROESWith the help of her neighbors,

Davis Kennedy was able to identi-fy the couple as Peter and Alyce, who lived about 10 minutes away.

Davis Kennedy called Alyce to thank her and Peter for saving her husband’s life and to tell them that her husband was going to be OK.

Peter said when Alyce told him that Bob was OK, he asked, ‘Who’s Bob?’

“He had no idea what my name was; I was just some guy he found laying in the middle of the street,” Kennedy said. “The story is not me. The story is the way everybody co-alesced and came to my aid.”

Peter said he felt both happy and relieved when he found out Kennedy had survived because he felt responsible for the stranger’s wellbeing.

Davis Kennedy continued to update Peter and Alyce on her

husband’s condition un-til he was able to return home.

The Kennedy’s recently invited Peter and Alyce to their house for a social-ly-distanced lunch so they could meet each oth-er’s families and thank them in person.

“When they walked in the house, it was very, very emotional for both Peter and me,” Kennedy said. “Both of us teared up. We couldn’t hug each oth-er, but it was pretty amazing. … It was a special, special day, and I know my daughters were very touched by what [Peter and Alyce] had done, as am I. I can’t say enough about them.”

Peter and Alyce, who are Vietnamese, said they bonded with Kennedy, whom they learned is a Vietnam veteran. During their lunch, they took turns sharing stories about their experiences in the country.

Kennedy, who has now had three near-death experiences, said he considers every day since he was wounded in Vietnam to be a gift. He is certain he would have died, or at least had severe brain damage, if it were not for the self-lessness of his neighbors.

“It was just a magical team effort to keep me alive,” Kennedy said. “This was not a one- or two-per-son event; this was good neighbors

getting out and doing what they needed to do to help a neighbor.”

The Purple Heart recipient said he is extremely grateful.

“To me, Peter and Alyce are he-roes because they actually saved my life,” Kennedy said.

Peter and Alyce disagree. They think anyone would have done what they did.

“We don’t think of ourselves as heroes,” Alyce said. “We just saw that he needed help, and we were just going to help. Nothing was going to stop up from helping him. Even with COVID going around, we just had to do something.”

—Makena Huey is a senior at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, pursuing a major in English and minor in journalism. The San Diego native was the edi­tor­in­chief of Currents magazine and is currently the managing editor of the Graphic newspaper.

(l to r) Peter Doan, Bob Kennedy and Alyce Doan (Photo by Nancy Davis Kennedy)

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Nighttime creatures at Mission TrailsBy NORA BODRIAN

Why are some animals noc-turnal? It is an evolutionary phe-nomenon where prey animals come out at night when their predators might not find them. Consequently, the predators have adapted hunting skills, and some might have enhanced their sight, speed, or senses of heat and smell. As bats produce sounds to locate prey through echolocation, ta-rantulas have specialized hairs with sensory receptors to “see” in the dark.

Animals that are primarily out at night at Mission Trails Regional Park include bats, owls, woodrats, mice, skunks, opos-sums, raccoons, and grey foxes, as well as scorpions and taran-tulas. Some animals are crepus-cular, active at dawn and dusk;

these animals include bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, and cot-tontail rabbits.

According to author, region-al bat expert, and MTRP Trail Guide Don Endicott, there are 10 species of bats at Mission Trails Regional Park, and 22 species in San Diego County. The most com-mon ones residing in the park are Canyon bats, Yuma myotis, Big brown bats, Mexican free-tailed bats, and Pocketed free-tailed bats. Living in diverse habitats throughout most of the world, bats are impressive mammals that can be nectar eaters (necta-vores), fruit eaters (fructivores), or insect eaters. Nectavorous bats are responsible for pollinating many types of plants and “fruit bats” disperse seeds, greatly as-sisting reforestation in tropical

regions. However, most of the over 1,300 species of bats, and all 10 species present in MTRP are insectivores. During their nightly forays, they consume moths, gnats, mosquitos, and other flying insects as well as those on the ground including grasshoppers, centipedes, and scorpions. One species that lives just north of San Diego County, the little brown bat, has been documented eating 1,000 mos-quitos in a single hour — that’s a lot of mosquitos!

Mexican free-tailed bats are generalists who typically feed on moths, consuming hundreds of tons of invasive and crop-dam-aging species throughout the Southwestern U.S.

Observation of the month: Fish-Hook Cactus

By PATRICIA SIMPSON

Cute and cuddly! Not really what one thinks of when meet-ing a cactus. But our observation of the month by christybeck (vis-it bit.ly/3g6bwFu) isn’t just any prickly plant, it’s the Fish-Hook Cactus (Mammilliaria dioica). Cute for its small size and tight cluster. Cuddly for its softer-than-most appearance. But let’s not fool ourselves, it’s never a good idea to cuddle with a cactus, especial-ly one that bears the name “fish-hook,” a tool meant to capture and not let go of its prey.

Have you ever noticed that a cactus has clusters of spines all around? These are called areoles. In the Fish Hook Cactus, straight short spines shoot out of the are-ole in a circle formation, except for one long spine at the very center which grows quite a bit longer than the others and is curved at the end, like (you guessed it) a fish hook!

You may see mammillaria cacti in bloom in early spring and en-joy the beautiful white to cream colored flowers. Each petal has a pale pink line through the center. The fruit that follows in late spring to summer is quite striking. It is oblong, bright red and supposedly delicious, tasting somewhat like a mix of strawberry and kiwi, which

explains the other common name for the plant: Strawberry Cactus.

In San Diego, the Fish-Hook Cactus is found on the coast and in the desert at up to 1,500 feet in elevation. Most of the observa-tions of this cactus in the MTRP Biodiversity Project on iNat are actually located in an open space area adjacent to the park’s west-ern boundary, but Fish Hook Cactus may be found within the park boundaries, so keep an eye out for it and be sure to document it if you see it.

Just in case you fell in love with this cactus and are still consid-ering the cuddling thing, check out this observation (bit.ly/2ZoE-h9C) by jaykeller from 2015. Mr. Lizard, if he could, would highly recommend you refrain from such attempt.

—Patricia Simpson is a trail guide at Mission Trail Regional Park.

Fish-Hook Cactus (Photo by Millie Basden)

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The California myotis bat is similar in appearance to Yuma myotis, a com-monly sighted species around Old Mission Dam and Kumeyaay Lake. (Photo by Don Endicott)

Tarantulas can be seen at Mission Trails. (Photo by Pea Hicks)

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Del Cerro Action Council newsBy JAY WILSON

In the interest of public health and common sense, the quarterly meeting of the Del Cerro Action Council will be a Zoom meeting on Thursday, July 23 beginning at 7 p.m. The link to the Zoom meet-ing will be posted on our website at delcerroactioncouncil.org be-ginning Monday, July 20.

Our two council district can-didates, Raul Campillo and Noli Zosa, and mayoral candidates, Todd Gloria and Barbra Bry have accepted invitations to participate in separate candidate forums. The District 7 forum will be on Wednesday, Aug. 19 and the may-oral forum will be on Wednesday, Sept. 23. If restrictions are still in place for an in-person candidate fo-rum, the forums will be via Zoom.

The Princess Del Cerro Park is now open for individual families to use the grass area and many families are taking advantage of the two grass areas. The yellow tape remains around the swings and the play equipment. The Allied Gardens and San Carlos Recreation Centers are still closed.

On a positive note, one of the first signs of communities com-ing back to life is in youth sports. Sports teams including our Little Leagues, Mission Trails Lacrosse, Navajo Girls Fast Pitch Softball, and the Crusaders Soccer Club are returning to the fields and conducting training session wile observing social distancing be-tween players.

Youth sports is certainly taking on a new perspective because on-ly training sessions are allowed at this point. It is very strange to drive by our little league fields and see training sessions with no players in the dugout and baseball bats and bags separated along a fence line at least six feet apart.

Soccer teams are training with new drills that require social dis-tancing as well. If you stop by to watch, someone will take your temperature.

The City of San Diego is con-tinuing to work with David Pfiefer, the architect with domusstudio architecture on the ongoing up-grading of the plans for the San Carlos Library. David gave an update on the library at the July 8 Zoom meeting of the Navajo Community Planners which was held after this article needed to be submitted to the Mission Times Courier.

David has been working on the project through its various stages from the first community planning meeting for the new library held in the late 1990s in the Patrick Henry library with Council member Judy McCarty. Not to date myself, but I attended that meeting while working with Council member McCarty. The current hope is that the Regional Water Quality Control Board will sign off on the vacant lot at the corner of Jackson Drive and Golfcrest Drive, confirming the soil is environmentally safe to build on within the next several months.

Check out David Ege’s article in this edition regarding the new services at the San Carlos Library while it remains closed, but is of-fering more services for drive by book pick-ups.

The Del Cerro Action Council board of directors wishes you all good health and we urge you to support our local businesses with-in Del Cerro and our surrounding neighbors. We will see you on Zoom on July 23.

—Jay Wilson is secretary of the Del Cerro Action Council. Visit delcerroactioncouncil.org.

San Carlos Area Council newsBy PATRICIA MOONEY

Happy summer to our San Carlos neighbors! We hope that you and your family are doing well during these uncertain pandemic times.

As the San Carlos Area Council (SCAC) has not met for a number of months, and we have no idea when our meetings might resume, I thought it would be nice to share a past moment in the recent history of our neighborhood that is still relevant to right now.

Five firefighters visited us in 2018 to talk about proper brush management and ways to protect your home and loved ones during fire season — which is now pretty much the entire year.

Check out these resources to get ahead of this year’s fire season:

“Be prepared!” The San Diego Fire & Rescue Brush Management video can be viewed at youtu.be/T1DUk7OB_9E.

The Mission Trails Regional Park’s “Dangers of Embers” vid-eo can be viewed at: youtu.be/mihPfGBnzcE.

SCAC meetings are now on hi-atus until further notice. If you have a San Carlos story to share, please contact San Carlos Area Council vice president Patricia Mooney.

—Patricia Mooney is vice presi­dent of the San Carlos Area Council. Email patty@crystalpyramid.com.

San Diego firefighters speaking to the San Carlos Area Council in 2018 (Photo by Patricia Mooney)

Allied Gardens/Grantville Community Council newsBy SHAIN HAUG

Our next Town Hall Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 28 at 6:30 p.m. using the online Zoom program. We will begin with pre-sentations by the police depart-ment and elected representatives. Our principal topic will be the San Diego River Park Foundation. The vision of the foundation is to protect and enhance the river’s valuable natural and cultural re-sources and to encourage com-munities to embrace this legacy and to celebrate it with the cre-ation of a river-long park sys-tem. Ally Welborn, Community Engagement Manager for the San Diego River Park Foundation, will discuss the organization’s trash-tracking and clean-up program as well as provide up-dates on the new River Discovery Center coming to Mission Valley.

Even in this era of closures and social distancing, Allied Gardens residents are finding creative ways to stay engaged in the com-munity and spread positivity. As you walk our residential streets you will see neighbors who have created chalk art on sidewalks, posted signs of encouragement, and, if you are lucky, you may find a brightly painted rock.

“Allied Gardens Rocks!” was started to spread fun and kind-ness, and to build a sense of com-munity. The idea is to decorate rocks (paint, chalk, markers) and

hide them in various locations throughout the neighborhood with the hopes of brightening someone’s day. If you find a rock, take a picture and post it to the Facebook group, then hide the rock in a new location.

Neighbors of all ages can en-joy rock hunting and contribute their artwork to this fun game. Allied Gardens resident Shannon Hurst Aviles and her family have painted several rocks.

“I wanted to pay homage to famous works of art since muse-ums are temporarily closed, and of course, we have to pay tribute to our favorite Allied Gardens hot spot Fosters Freeze,” she said.

To learn more about how you can participate and the rules for decorating and hiding rocks, join the Facebook group “Allied Gardens Rocks!”

We are about to embark on a new project, the decorative painting of the electrical and communication service boxes throughout our neighborhood. The work done by the Clairemont

Town Council and the folks at Foster Elementary show us how beneficial this will be to the com-munity. If you have experience with this kind of project we need your help in sorting out the ad-ministrative details, costs, and artistic requirements.

Meetings of the AGGCC Board of Directors are held monthly to design and implement communi-ty projects. Every odd numbered month, Town Hall meetings are held for civic representative re-ports, public comment, and pre-sentations on matters of concern to you.

Are you interested in getting involved? Use the “Contact” page on the website, aggccouncil.org, to let us know how AGGCC can support the community. Your feedback is greatly valued. As is your membership on the Board. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m.

—Shain Haug is president of he Allied Gardens/Grantville Community Council.

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The highly affordable eatery, founded by a practiced chef from Thailand, has gradually expand-ed to four San Diego locations, including one that sits a stone’s throw from San Diego State University.

Vijit Pipatkhajonchai began cooking as a young teenag-er at his family’s restaurant in Bangkok. He would later run

several kitchens, emigrate to the U.S., and become co-owner of J&T Thai Street Food in Linda Vista.

But it wasn’t until he launched the original location of 55 Thai Kitchen in the back of a modest grocer in Golden Hill more than two years ago that he began un-leashing flavors and recipes inher-ent to his homeland. Consumers and food critics suddenly began applauding his concise menu while bestowing rousing encores to the chicken massaman curry in particular.

W h e n I s p o k e t o Pipatkhajonchai shortly after he first opened, he emphasized the dark-brown curry is made ex-actly like it’s done in his native Bangkok, meaning it’s rich in meat stock, brown sugar, cloves, cumin, tamarind, chili paste and a host of other ingredients.

Massaman is paired often to beef or lamb in Thailand, al-though here it permeates chunks of tender chicken thigh meat, which appear more like pot roast than poultry because of the curry’s deep color. There’s also

tenderly cooked potatoes and bell peppers in the mix. And the end result is sensational.

As with most of the curries, stir fries, and rice and noodle dishes served at 55 Thai Kitchen, you’re given a choice of spice level — not from the usual 10-point heat scale, but rather from an uncom-plicated selection of “none, mild, medium or hot.”

I chose “medium” for the mas-saman. It translated easily to a “4” with its slow, steady burn. But it was nothing that a few swigs of house-made limeade couldn’t quell.

My dining companion opted for “mild” when ordering his yellow curry with chicken. After steering my spoon into the sweetish coco-nut-spiked liquid, and stealing a piece of scalloped breast meat, I can attest the spice level is safe for the wimpiest of palates.

He requested “mild” as well for a bowl of tom kha soup we shared, and skipped over a choice of protein additions (beef, shrimp, chicken and tofu) in lieu of veg-gies. Despite falling way below my preferred spice level, the soup struck that classic, spellbinding allure of when coconut milk, lemon grass, galanga, kaffir lime and cilantro unite. Floating

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The garbled timing is a conse-quence of fast-casual restaurants that have us placing full meal orders at front counters before

seizing a table. I’m afraid the days of receiving soups or salads or ap-petizers first are fast disappearing.

All menu items are served in sturdy cardboard bowls or boxes. The eating utensils are plastic. Though the quality of the food rises to the level of a nice full-ser-vice restaurant. Indeed, the lack of porcelain plates and silverware

conserves on overhead, and such savings are passed on to custom-ers. For example, egg rolls are 85 cents apiece, and most entrees are priced below $9 for adequate portions.

Pipatkhajonchai should also be commended for his philanthropy. He donates meals and portions of his profits to local schools, first responders, and military per-sonnel. It’s been one of his goals

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Kindness Matters muralEach year, Henry selects a

theme to help build the school culture around their three pil-lars of Being Welcoming, Do No Harm, and Using Choice Words. This year, our school t-shirts were designed with a “Kindness Matters” theme and our advisory team of teachers (kudos to Chad

Miller, Linda Good, Tom Knapik, Elise Morgan, Mike Pinto, Karen Thomas, and Karl Bolton) began their work around building activ-ities to help our students under-stand the importance of working together.

The year began with a special Wisdom Quest, where students

were assigned to meet with three d i f ferent sta f f members to learn their wisdom that they elected to share with them. Secretaries, cus-todians, teachers, counselors, and ad m i n i s t rat or s were i ncluded in the activity to help students meet people out-side their bubbles and to appreciate

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the wisdom adults can share with them from all walks of life. Mrs. Passmore, long-time PHHS receptionist, shared her love of reading and created a special bookmark for every student with the top 50 books every adult should read during their lifetime according to the Internet.

Our last advisory class of the year was built around be-ing grateful. Students were each given a Kindness Matters postcard (printed by teacher Karl Bolton) to write a thank you note to someone who was near and dear to them and asked to give them out during lunch time. Watching students share these special postcards at lunch was quite impressive on many levels. Students were also given a skinny slip of paper to write a message of gratefulness to a teacher, friend, or parent that was to be turned in for our school mural.

The mural was created by Mr. Karl Bolton and during the pandemic, he took over 2,500 slips of paper and created a life-size image of a peace sign from the slips of paper students turned it. This mural will go up in the quad, when the students return to Henry as a reminder that what we do as a communi-ty does matter and has a ripple effect on others. Special thanks to our team who developed these ideas to show our stu-dents and staff that kindness really does matter at Henry!

IScholar named for 2020IScholar was founded and

launched in 2014 by Irina Chukhray, a PhD student in Sociology at Rice University. Chukhray obtained her BA degree in Psychology, followed by her MA degree in Women’s Studies at San Diego State University, and her MA degree in Sociology at Rice University. She aims to obtain her PhD degree in Sociology at Rice University in 2018.

After graduating from Patrick Henry High School (PHHS), Chukhray set her mind to one day give back to the school and espe-cially the teachers who motivat-ed and encouraged her to pursue her academic goals. She decided to help PHHS seniors currently mentored by the same teachers that mentored her (PHHS science teacher, Mr. Andy Mangahis, and PHHS English teacher, Mrs. Erin Mangahis).

Chukhray designed IScholar with the intention of creating a scholarship that would be use-ful to its applicants. In her own experience of applying for schol-arships, she noticed that the re-quired essay component seemed like an extra writing assignment that did not directly relate to the college application process. The application requirements for IScholar, however, mirror cur-rent college application require-ments, resulting in a practice run (i.e. essay draft and required supplemental material) for college

applications. Using that format, she structured her prompt and selected a student.

This year’s 2020 award went to Emily Donahue (class of 2020) as she presented herself as a strong candidate who has persevered to achieve her goals. In her applica-tion essay she writes:

“My whole life, I have been fascinated with nature, with an-imals, with ecosystems and cause and effect. Even as a kid I knew I wanted to have a career that would put me out in the field to study nature’s beautiful creations. Now, to fulfill this dream, I plan to major in environmental engineer-ing and minor in marine science at a four-year university.

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Patrick Henry principal retiresOn May 8, 2020 Mrs.

Elizabeth Gillingham an-nounced her retirement to her staff and in the follow-ing week announced it to the school community. She writes her last message below as the principal at Henry High School:

“It is with mixed emotions I share this news, as being a principal in the community

my own children grew up in meant a lot to me.

I started at Henry on Nov. 4, 2012 and was thrilled to begin working at the largest high school in the district. Henry was slated for many changes during my tenure, which included a full mod-ernization of all classrooms, a state-of-the-art theater construction project (fondly

known as PHAME!), a new two-story building, and a re-build of the football, baseball, and softball fields. Each phase brought on new challenges as we worked hard on providing the best educational program while working around a con-struction site in the middle of the school.

With a degree, or two, under my belt, I hope to find a job with a research organization that focuses on marine life. I want to help spread awareness about the impacts of human interac-tions with nature and find solutions to minimize the negative effects. Specifically, I would love to focus on saving the coral reef ecosystems and the shark populations. My life would consist of field work, data analysis, and the education of others. Ecosystems and the delicate balances that make up natural habitats are like a con-stantly changing puzzle that I can’t wait to solve.

The next step in achieving my dream is at-tending a university to earn a degree related to my dream. I believe that I am a strong can-didate for college admissions because of my passion, leadership and perseverance. Over the course of my life, these traits have developed and grown with new experiences, and will continue to grow.

I can claim to have an unwavering passion for the environment, and that can be reassuring for a potential college. Other than having loved nature for my whole life, I also have already gotten a taste of my dream. This last summer I traveled with our school’s marine science teacher and a fellow student to the small town of Bayahibe in the Dominican Republic to study the coral reefs. We would snorkel in waters that should’ve been colorful, vibrant, and full of life. Instead they were brown, dead, and with min-imal fish. Regardless, the trip was incredible, and I felt so grateful to be able to learn firsthand about parrotfish, how to build coral farms, and specifically how plastic affects the ocean ecosys-tems. This trip cemented my dream to do this kind of work for the rest of my life.”

Congratulations to Emily Donahue and spe-cial thanks to Irina Chukhray for making this scholarship possible for our Henry grads.

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Class of 2020 goes out with a paradeWith in-person graduations

being banned due to COVID 19, Henry High School kicked into gear with a new way to honor their graduates. Thanks to several Zoom meetings with senior ASB representatives and advisor Autumn Flores, a plan was made to honor the gradu-ates in a special, socially-dis-tant way. Stations were placed around the school for students to visit and get gifts along the way while they made one last drive around the campus.

Station 1, started off with a literal blast from Vice Principal Bill Miller, who had a green-smoked filled bomb that he pulled the string on every 15 minutes to welcome the next 20 decorated cars that lined up with seniors wearing their caps and gowns

and their families who were all ready for a tribute.

Station 2 had our counsel-ors lined up to cheer the se-niors with their cars decorat-ed with large car-size caps and tassels put on their car hoods facing the grads as they en-tered through a large balloon arch made to welcome the Class of 2020. Special banners lined each station as students drove past the halls of learning they once traveled through.

At Station 3, students were able to drop off thank you cards written to various staff mem-bers and in return got a grat-itude newsletter written by the Henry staff for the class of 2020. From there, they picked up cookies, diploma covers, pro-grams, popcorn bags, and key chains provided by our ASB.

The Grad Night Parent com-mittee provided two special stops. One was an 8-by-10-inch yearbook photograph of each graduate and the other was a stage for the grads to stop and take a traditional graduation photo while pomp and circumstances was being played in the background. Each grad was greeted by Principal Gillingham (live and a large cutout) so pictures could be taken with them re-ceiving their diplomas as if we were at USD Jenny Craig Pavilion. A red carpet was in-cluded which made the event feel festive and special for each of the graduates as they had their moment to celebrate their achievements.

At the end of the day, each senior seemed happy with

the tribute given the circum-stances and felt as though the school had done the best they could to honor them in a per-sonal and significant way.

Congrats to the Class of 2020! You set the bar high for others to follow you and your legacy of school spirit will be one that other classes will hope to demonstrate in future years.

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The Problem with Holding Title as Joint Tenants

Many married couples in Califor-nia hold title to their real and person-al property as “joint tenants” which carries with it the right of survivor-ship in the surviving spouse upon the death of the first spouse to die.

Such a means of taking title does, indeed, result in the survivor of you (surviving joint tenant) receiving full title to the property on the death of the first of you, without requiring an expensive and time-consuming court administration (“probate”) of the estate of the first of you to die. It is thus an efficient means of passing title.

On the other hand, here are some negatives:

(1) If you die together, you still must have a will or trust in place to indicate to whom the property will then go. If you have neither a will nor trust, then a court probate will be required; and who actually receives your property will be determined by statute (the laws of intestacy) – possi-bly a person or persons you had no intention of receiving it. Further, if you die with leaving only a will (and no trust), probate will still be required, because the law generally requires that wills (but not trusts) be probated.

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I also put energy into building a strong community feeling at Henry. That included adding three pillars — Do No Harm, Use Choice Words, and Be Welcoming — which helped build a warm and caring culture among the students and the staff over time. I could feel the difference standing each year in the front of the school as I greeted students who entered on their way to their morning class. I also could see the difference in terms of the way the students treated the school. Simple things like trash ending up in cans began to take hold and the spirit at each home game became legendary and noticed by other schools when they would compete against us.

It has been a sincere pleasure to work with the community at Henry, too. I was embraced by the Alumni Association by being invited to presi-dent Kevin Calrlon’s home for a cele-bration of their first golf tournament fundraiser and have enjoyed working with them over the years as they ea-gerly raised close to $750,000 dollars to support Henry High School. I al-so enjoyed working with the Cowl’s Mountain Foundation headed up by Katherine Nakamura as they worked hard to support the addition of PHAME! through many fundraisers and they helped support the cutting the ribbon ceremony once this spe-cial project finally became a reality for our school. I also want to thank the Patrick Henry Foundation, headed up by Donald Thomas, but supported

fiercely by former Henry vice princi-pal Mike Derisi and volunteer extraor-dinaire Mary Treadway. Again, hav-ing the community support us on a yearly basis is so important to helping the school with expenses and plans that weren’t easily covered with the day-to-day budgets given to us by the district.

There are so many teachers at Henry who made me feel wel-comed to visit their rooms at any time and who encouraged growth in their own instruction-al program by constantly mak-ing changes as new research was shared over the last eight years. We instituted PLCs (Professional Learning Communities), common assessments, structured-talk rou-tines (moving away from lectures all period long), fostered growth mindsets, and built culturally-re-sponsive instructional programs. My vice principals, Mr. Bill Miller and Mrs. Jennifer Pacofsky, are both credited for helping me carry out change with the operations of the school as well and will continue to help the next principal with new Henry goals as we work through this pandemic.

And a special thanks goes out to the office staff, custodians, counsel-ors, nurses, and cafeteria workers who all embraced the Henry fami-ly we developed and made sure the experience of every student who walked the halls of our school were receiving an educational program that was something we would all be proud of.

The students will always be my fa-vorite part of Henry. Special thanks

to the coaches and athletes who competed with skill and passion to be the best; the amazing musicians, singers, dancers, and actors who entertained me over and over again with their many talents; the cheer team for supporting our athletes, and community service provided by our students through NJROTC, Engineering Academy, ASB, and the countless clubs that have given our students a place to show off their skills and make a difference in our community.

My last day was June 30, so like the class of 2020, I get to slip away in a more sedate and calm way. But I walk out grateful for 38 years in education with the San Diego Unified School District. I have loved my career choice that I shared with my husband Bob Gillingham, who is also retiring as the head of the Lower School at Francis Parker School. And knowing my daughters are both teachers and my son is step-ping into his first principal/director job at High Tech Middle Media Arts school, our work will still continue through them. It doesn’t get better than that!

Hopefully, you’ll see me back at Homecoming or some other com-munity event because once a friend at Henry, always part of the family. Thank you for enjoying the articles written by me and other staff mem-bers. I have loved sharing our work and I hope this continues with the new principal too!”

—Elizabeth Gillingham is the now former principal of Patrick Henry High School.

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As of July 6, all library book drops are open Monday through Friday, 24 hours a day! Book drops will open on weekends soon, so be sure to check our website for the most up to date information.

Virtual Short Classics Book Club: Are you looking for a quick read and some con-versation? Be sure to check out the Short Classics Book Club on Facebook at bit.ly/3f1smoS. Each month, a title will be se-lected that is readily available online. Participants will read the book and then come to-gether for a virtual discussion led by a staff member.

Summer reading: Our summer reading program started on June 1, but there is still plenty of time to sign up and read 10 books or 10 hours!

Centennial of women’s suffrage: We are gearing up for programs and contests to help us celebrate the cen-tennial of women’s suffrage in August. Please be sure to check our Facebook page for information about a voting challenge for children, a teen contest, and virtual adult programming.

—By Kathryn Johnson, branch manager of the Allied Gardens Benjamin Branch Library.

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Library is now part of the San Diego Public Library Contactless Pick-Up Service. There are currently 18 con-tactless pick-up locations. Holds for the San Carlos Branch and the Allied Gardens/Benjamin Branch can be picked up at the San Carlos Branch Library at 7265 Jackson Drive, San Diego, 92119 on Monday through Friday between 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Here’s how it works:

• Once you receive email notification that your hold is available, go to the branch and make sure to have a phone available to coordinate pick up.

• When you arrive, stay in your car and call the library. Walk-ups are welcome, but you will also need to call. Staff will ask for your library card number and check the items out to you. You must have your library card number to checkout items.

• A staff member will then bring your materials outside and place them on a table for you to retrieve. All patrons are expected to social distance and wear a mask when retrieving their library items.

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The Hatch’s across-the-street neighbor Jen Coburn also became part of that push.

“I noticed that [the posters] were up in the community and I thought, ‘Right on Del Cerro for getting into the conversa-tion,’” she said. But when Coburn learned that the posters were torn down, she took to the social media site Nextdoor to comment on the destroyed artwork.

“I took a picture of Grace’s art-work and I said, ‘I think this great. I support it. But if you don’t, make your own poster from the oppos-ing view, there’s plenty of room on the lightpost, but don’t tear down somebody else’s work — add to the conversation. We can have a dis-cussion with differing opinions,’” Coburn said.

That post on Nextdoor imme-diately sparked a discussion with over 500 comments from neigh-bors in Del Cerro.

“It was very lively, very produc-tive, very messy and sometimes contentious,” Coburn said. “But that’s sometimes how it is when you’re discussing racial reconcili-ation. It’s not going to be easy and it’s not going to be smooth, but it still must happen.”

Grace Hatch also welcomed the discussion.

“People started commenting about what they thought about George Floyd, what they thought about racism in America, Black Lives Matter — all sorts of things. And some of them were incredibly hateful. Some of them were hopeful,” she said, adding that it was “nice to have the community talking about something.”

A DISCUSSION EVOLVESMayisha Fruge is a Black resi-

dent in the predominantly white Del Cerro/Allied Gardens area, where she has lived for over 10 years now. Fruge said that while 90% of the interactions she has had with the community have been good over the years, 10% have been troubling because of racial stereotyping.

“They assume that because I am Black, I am poor — I’ve gotten that,” she said. “They assume that I’m living in subsidized housing.”

Fruge said her son Omar Hammond also experiences occa-sional stereotyping, like the time he was selling candy as part of a track team effort to fund a trip to Reno.

“One lady said to him, ‘We can just raise money since you can’t afford it,’” Fruge said.

Harsher treatment by white neighbors over the years has included being called racial epi-taphs, but still Fruge insists on pointing out that the majority of her interactions with the commu-nity have been very positive.

When she first read the discus-sion thread on Nextdoor about Grace’s posters being torn down, Fruge said she initially didn’t want to say anything or “get in the back and forth.” But as the discussions got more vitriolic with some neighbors calling Black Lives Matter protesters “thugs” and mis-directing the issue by bringing up topics like black-on-black crime, Fruge decided to speak up.

“One lady wrote, ‘If Black lives matter, why is the leading cause of death for Black babies abortion?’ That’s when it got to a point where I said I just got to say something,” she said.

In that same discussion thread, another white neighbor shared that she was afraid of Black Lives Matter.

“That’s when I said, ‘Well, if you feel that way, we can meet.’ So we met, had an open conversa-tion and came out both of us being educated,” Fruge said.

Fruge’s interaction also educat-ed and inspired Grace and Morgan Hatch.

“That got us thinking, ‘Wow, we can have constructive con-versations that can change peo-ple’s opinions and give people a broader perspective,” Grace said, “That’s how the idea for Del Cerro 4 Back Lives Matter started.”

A DISCUSSION ORGANIZESAlthough not an official chap-

ter of Black Lives Matter, the Del Cerro 4 BLM group has permis-sion to use the moniker, Grace said, adding that the group was formed with the goal of “getting people together to start think-ing about how to get community talking about race, talking about racism and talking about how we can improve our community to make it safer and make it more inclusive and to change.”

The first meeting of the group was just an informal gathering of about 10 neighbors putting up Grace’s posters together. The next meeting was held in the Hatch family’s backyard where over 30 neighbors sat socially distancing and watched a video produced by SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), then got into groups to discuss contemplate what each in-dividual’s stake is in ending white supremacy.

“The question was posed by the SURJ group, intended to be very daunting and big,” Grace said. “But it’s supposed to get a read on how we tie ourselves in-to this process, especially since the majority of the group were white. It’s a way to get everyone involved and know it’s important to them.”

The group’s structure is very open ended and there is no for-mal leadership role. People join by emailing DelCerro4BLM@gmail.com, which also adds you to the group chats. A recent chat in the group was about the proposed police reform measures going on the ballot in November for the city that include citizen oversight. Other topics found in the chats in-clude sharing resources, articles, dates of protests and other infor-mative items.

“So there’s a lot of action steps that we’ve been putting out there but we’re still developing how we can keep going with that,” Grace said, although the focus of the group at the moment is just in-troducing each other and talking about ways to overcome racism. “A big thing about this ongoing racist

behavior is that we don’t confront it and we don’t see it in ourselves and we don’t talk about it.”

That people are talking about racism — especially white people — has given Fruge hope that this moment in time might see real change in America.

“It feels a lot different,” she said. “I have never seen allies like this before. I’ve never seen the white women marching with signs that much. It feels totally different and I hope we can keep this momen-tum up. I’m just so excited to see that my neighbors are actual-ly getting together on the Black Lives movement. I just love to see it. It makes so proud to live in that neighborhood.”

—Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at jeff@sdnews.com.

DC4BLMCONTINUED FROM Page 1

(clockwise from top left) A Del Cerro home with Hatch posters and American flag (Photo courtesy Jennifer Coburn); Mayisha Fruge with her son Omar Hammond (Photo courtesy Mayisha Fruge); Morgan Hatch (Photo by Jennifer Coburn); art poster of Breonna Taylor by Grace Hatch (Courtesy Grace Hatch)

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At night, one might catch a glimpse of such silent flying pred-ators as barn owls or great-horned owls. Owls can take down large rap-tors as well as small rodents, frogs, and lizards. They can swallow small prey whole, then spit up pellets of un-digested feathers, skin, and bones. By dissecting pellets, one can see what kinds of animals live in an area.

The owl’s razor-sharp talons are for piercing and cutting; they would not sit on your shoulder like Harry Potter’s “Hedwig.” Owls’ large eyes don’t move in their sockets, but the whole head can swivel 180 degrees. It is very difficult to see an owl as they sit very still and their feathers are patterned like tree bark and leaves. One might see them flying over Mission Trails’ grasslands.

Tarantulas are the largest of all spiders, with distinctive hairy legs and bodies. The hair, or setae, is their primary sensory organ to smell and hear. The urticating hairs on the abdomen are defense mechanisms, which they flick out at attackers. Tarantulas do not spin webs, but live in burrows or under rocks, which they line with their spun silk. Tarantulas primarily eat insects, and their predators include mammals, birds, reptiles, and the infamous ta-rantula hawk wasp.

Bats, owls, and spiders make im-portant environmental contributions beyond our imaginations. After the MTRP Visitor Center reopens, make sure to go out onto the terrace to see the interpretive panel about bats at MTRP, and the bat boxes installed on the Visitors Center’s roof.

—Nora Bodrian is a trail guide at Mission Trails Regional Parkk.

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