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In Border Disaster, Advocates Seek Names of the DeadBy Amy RoeEQUAL VOICE NEWS

With her daughter missing, Dalilacan’t give up hope.

“Sometimes I think … I’m goingto find her alive, somewhere, whereshe might be recovering. A hospital,a shelter.”

Dalila, who lives in Oregon andworks as a cleaner, asked that herlast name be withheld for safety rea-sons. She came to the U.S. on a visanine years ago from El Salvador. Inlate 2013, Dalila paid a man $3,500to take her 24-year-old daughter fromEl Salvador to the U.S., with thepromise to pay another $3,500 whenher daughter arrived.

Mother and daughter were neverreunited. On Dec. 26, 2013, Dalila’sdaughter sent her a text message say-ing she was about to start walkingfrom McAllen, Texas, to Houston.

Thoughts of what might have hap-pened to her daughter during that 350-mile journey haunt Dalila: “That iswhat keeps me up at night; that iswhat is most painful about it all – thatI imagine my daughter crying, askingfor help.”

Nearly 6,000 people have diedcrossing the southern border into theU.S. since 1998, according to reportsfrom the U.S. Border Patrol. Violenceand poverty in Mexico and CentralAmerica push migrants to leave,while family ties and economic op-portunities pull them to the U.S.

Many don’t survive the journey. Somany bodies have been found – indeserts, rivers and on ranchlands –that local authorities have struggledto deal with the remains.

In southern Arizona, cemetery

space used to bury the unidentifiedfilled up, so legislators changed a lawso that unidentified remains could becremated. The morgue at the PimaCounty, Ariz., medical examiner’soffice was expanded to accommo-date the need.

The number of people who’ve diedwhile crossing into Arizona wentdown in 2014, but human rightsgroups say the flow of migrants isbeing funneled into Texas, where theborder area comprises about 30 poor,rural counties, like Brooks County(pop. 7,223).

In June, forensic anthropologistsworking in Brooks County discoveredthe unidentified remains of migrantsburied in mass graves in the SacredHeart cemetery.

Some of the remains werecomingled and bones were found inshopping bags and trash bags, accord-ing to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

Such revelations spurred changesin how Brooks County handles uni-dentified remains, but they also castlight on the magnitude of migrantdeaths and disappearances.

If hundreds of people perished inplane crashes in the desert, it wouldmake headlines and garner federalsupport, said Robin Reineke, founderof the Colibrí Center for HumanRights in Tucson, Ariz.

“In other disasters, there is a di-saster response agency where peoplewill come in and manage things,” shesaid.

Show of ForceFernando Garcia, executive direc-

tor of Border Network for HumanRights, said the migrant-deaths disas-ter is the product of U.S. government

efforts to “seal” the border betweenMexico and the U.S.

The first of those efforts, Opera-tion Hold the Line, began in El Pasoin 1993. By concentrating agents andtechnology in urban areas, the Bor-der Patrol created a “show of force”to deter people from crossing the bor-der illegally. The approach was ex-panded in 1994 to San Diego underthe name Operation Gatekeeper.

Citing a decline in the number ofapprehensions, Border Patrol calleddeterrence a success.

But human rights groups saypeople continued to cross into theU.S., taking riskier routes and payingsmugglers to help them.

“Actually the numbers of people

crossing into the deserts, the moun-tains, they were not deterred,” Garciasaid. “What you saw was people dy-ing.”

Deaths increased almost immedi-ately following increased border for-tification, according to a 2014 reportpublished by the International Orga-nization for Migration (IOM). Thecauses of deaths changed, too. AfterGatekeeper was put into operation,for example, migrant deaths bydrowning and exposure rose signifi-cantly at the California-Mexico bor-der, the report said.

Prior to border fortification, mi-grant deaths were occasional and cir-cumstantial, Garcia said. These days,they’re commonplace. When a body

is found in the Rio Grande, “It’s like,OK, there’s another floater in theriver.”

The death of thousands of mi-grants is met with apathy, Garcia said.

“If you had that many Canadians– White people – dying, this wouldbe a different story.”

Missing InformationDalila wants to put an end to the

waiting and wondering. She made amissing-person report to Colibrí Cen-ter for Human Rights in hopes of find-ing out what happened to her daugh-ter.

“Whatever it is, alive or dead, I

A cemetery in Holtville, Calif., containing hundreds of graves of unidentified persons believed to bemigrants. Photo by Robin Reineke.

By Susan FerrissCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY

As the national debate over child-hood inequities sharpens, recent de-velopments in California highlightstruggles over practices critics saydeprive some kids of quality classtime and fuel a “school-to-prison pipe-line.”

New state legislation on disciplineand truancy—along with lawsuits—are at the heart of these controver-sies in the Golden State.

This month, for instance, a judgeissued a temporary restraining orderrequiring that state education officialsintervene immediately at a schoolwhere students have joined a class-action lawsuit originally filed in May;students at the school, Jefferson Highin lower-income south Los Angeles,allege that they’ve been deprived ofequal time for education in compari-son to kids at other more affluentschools. More than 90 percent of stu-dents at Jefferson High are Latino,many the children of immigrants, andmore than 8 percent of students areblack.

The Oct. 8 order by AlamedaCounty Superior Court JudgeHernandez, Jr., required state officialsto immediately ensure Jefferson kidsare not placed in classes this fall thatthey’ve already taken and passed orassigned periods dubbed “home” or“service” periods that are “devoid”of academic instruction. State offi-cials say they’re complying with theorder.

The class-action suit over “lostlearning time” was filed in May onbehalf of kids at nine Californiaschools, including two in Alameda

(See Border Disaster, page 8)

Jason Magaña, a student at L.A.’s Jefferson High School, said he was enrolled this fall in a graphicdesign course he’s already taken and passed twice. An aspiring aeronautical engineer, he’s part of asuit filed by students at various schools who say they have been put into “work” periods or “home”

periods with no instruction rather than academic classes that are unavailable or too crowded.Screenshot/ Youtube (courtesy of Center for Public Integrity).

California Takes on Academic Inequities for Black, Latino StudentsCounty, as the Center for Public In-tegrity reported. Kids at Jefferson inL.A. joined the suit in early October.

Students at various schools in thesuit complained they were deniedclasses they needed to either gradu-ate or apply to college, and sufferedfrom poor instruction due to frequentteacher turnover and chaos in sched-uling. The litigation was filed by LosAngeles-based Public Counsel, whichhas also represented students in ex-pulsions, along with the AmericanCivil Liberties Union and other lawgroups.

Policy makers and businesses inSilicon Valley and elsewhere in Cali-fornia also argue for more action toclose an “achievement gap” and boostaccess to college prep classes forLatino and black students.

In a request this fall for immediateintervention, Jefferson student JasonMagaña, who aspires to be an aero-nautical engineer, said in a Sept. 14,2014, declaration to court that he wasscheduled this fall for a graphics de-sign class he had already taken andpassed twice. He was also placed inan overcrowded AP English class of50 kids. In addition, he was moved toan economics class he needs tograduate but had to struggle to catchup because he entered four weekslate.

The student also said was giventwo “home” periods he didn’t requestthis semester and a schedule that hadhim done with school by 11:20 a.m.on Wednesdays and Fridays.

In an interesting twist, on Oct. 2,recently resigned L.A. UnifiedSchool District superintendent JohnDeasy provided a scathing court dec-laration in support of the restraining

order request. He called the assign-ment of kids to these “service” orhome periods “indefensible” and aviolation of students’ fundamentalright to education.

“These ‘classes’ are not designedto deliver real instruction…but ratherare no more than fillers designed toplug gaps where no genuine coursesare readily available,” Deasy said. Hesaid he thought the restraining ordershould be placed on every school inthe L.A. district that assigns kids tothese periods.

North of Los Angeles, in Cali-

fornia’s farming and oil-drilling Cen-tral Valley, another lawsuit filed thismonth also raises issues of inequitableschool treatment heavily affectingblack and Latino students.

As the Center for Public Integrityrecently reported, the lawsuit in Kernwas filed on behalf of Latino andblack students who were removedfrom regular campuses and placed inalternative schools with fewer andinferior academic classes or extracur-ricular activities. The suit was filedby a number of California and nationallaw groups.

The Center in 2013 investigatedhow Mexican-American farmworkerkids who were removed from regu-lar schools were limited to alterna-tive campuses so far from their homesthey either dropped out or were puton independent “home” study withonly one half day a week of actualtime with a teacher. The Kern HighSchool District, which is named in thesuit filed Oct. 9, has declined to com-ment.

Kern officials have told the Cen-

(see California inequities, page 7)

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MÉXICO DEL NORTEPor Jorge Mújica Murias

Será Melón,Será Sandía…

Se acabó el pretexto (y sedemostró que era solamenteeso, un pretexto), de quetomar alguna acción ejecutivaen el tema de la inmigraciónpodía poner el peligro lascandidaturas Demócratas enlas elecciones intermedias.

La catástrofe llegó aWashington de todas formas,con los Republicanosapoderándose de la mayoríade las curules en las doscámaras del Congreso. LosDemócratas perdieron hastala camisa, después de haberledado la espalda a suselectores de hace dos y hacecuatro y hace seis y haceocho años.

Si, esos son los años enque los Demócratas tuvieronmayoría en el Senado y nohicieron nada en el temamigratorio excepto aprobar lachorrada de propuesta de leyS744 el año pasado, la peordesde que Sensenbrenner en2005 consiguió que suscompadres Republicanosaprobaran la criminalizaciónde los inmigrantes.

Solamente un 36 porciento de los electoressalieron a votar el 4 denoviembre, en su menorparticipación desde el fin dela Segunda Guerra Mundial.Por así decirlo, los electoresle voltearon la espalda aquienes les han volteado laespalda por muchos años.

La pregunta ahora es quépasará.

Más rápido que de boleto,Barack Obama dijo queahora sí hará lo que debióhaber hecho hace un año omás: tomar una o variasacciones ejecutivas paraaliviar la situación de millonesde inmigrantes sin papeles.Sus asesores dicen, porejemplo, que daría visastemporales a los padresindocumentados de niñosestadounidenses.

Todavía no terminaba dehablar cuando el jefe delComité de Presupuestos delSenado, el Republicano JeffSessions, le advirtió que siejecuta lo que él llama“amnistía ejecutiva”, le van aquitar del presupuesto del año2015 cada centavo quenecesitaría para ejecutar suorden.

Es decir, que si Obamaordena que se procesen tresmillones de visas temporalespara inmigrantes sin papelesque sean, por ejemplo, padresde niños estadounidenses, elCongreso ordenaría que laMigra use el dinero paraarrestar inmigrantes, no paraprocesarlos. La mentadaOrden Ejecutiva quedaríacompletamente sin efecto.

Ciudad Juarez and AyotzinapaBy Kent PatersonFRONTERA NORTESUR

Downtown Ciudad Juarezincludes a visual landscape ofubiquitous painted black crosseson pink background, faded post-ers of missing persons and streetart that protests femicide. InNovember 2014 new facesstare out from fresh posters dis-played on the streets.

“They were taken alive, wewant them returned alive,” de-mands a poster near the cor-ner of Avenida Juarez andAvenida 16 de Septiembre.

“It was the State,” pro-claimed the poster bearing theface of 20-year-old CarlosIvan Ramirez Villareal, one ofthe 43 students from the Ayot-zinapa rural teachers’ collegekidnapped and reported mur-dered by policemen and para-military gunmen in Iguala,Guerrero, last September 26and 27.

In a border city that becamesynonymous with the so-callednarco war, Ayotzinapa is butamong the latest historiesstitched into the dozens of para-doxically pretty handkerchiefsthat were draped from thefence surrounding the city’sBenito Juarez Monument lastweekend.

In a comparison of the 1968Olympics massacre of pro-de-mocracy students in MexicoCity, one handkerchief pro-claimed: “October 2, 1968Tlatelolco and September 26,2014 Ayotzinapa.” Anotherhandkerchief listed the namesof the 43 students forcibly dis-appeared in Iguala.

With tears welling in hereyes, Magda Rojero voiced acommon reaction to Ayotzinapaand the events which haveturned a nation upside down.

“We are completely indig-nant. All these people couldhave been our children. I con-sider them my children,” Rojerosaid. An activist with Stitchingfor Peace, the international net-work that produces the hand-stitched, color-lettered hand-kerchiefs with anti-violencemessages.

Rojero’s words exemplifiedthe widespread distrust inMexico, reminiscent of thecredibility gap that permeatedU.S. society during the Viet-

nam War, over the statementby Federal Attorney GeneralJesus Murrillo Karam late lastweek that the 43 missing stu-dents were murdered, theirbodies burned in a garbagedump and their ashes dumpedinto a river.

“We don’t know if they arethe victims,” she said. “Thegovernment has created a the-ater. Mexicans don’t believe inthem.”

Born of a generation thatgrew up in the somber shad-ows of the 1968 TlatelolcoMassacre, Angel Ortega de-fined Ayotzinapa as “a repeti-tion of Tlatelolco,” even though“we were supposed to haveevolved beyond these kinds ofpolitics.” Ortega added thatAyotzinapa recalls another his-torical precedent: the ovens ofthe Nazi concentration camps.“We’re doing it to our ownpeople,” he lamented.

As Ortega spoke, passersbyglanced at the handkerchiefshanging beneath the statute ofrevered President BenitoJuarez, telling bits of horrid sto-ries like the murder of 62people, many of them simplynamed “unknown,” in the stateof Sinaloa last September, andthe forced disappearance of 80families in Allende, Coahuila,back in 2011.

“The country became a se-cret grave,” reads the hand-kerchief dedicated to Coahuila.

As if Ortega’s points need-ed further evidence, the Juarezpress reported the November9 discovery of the burned bodyof a woman, who had appar-ently been beaten, in theAnapra section of the city bor-dering Sunland Park, NewMexico. For Ortega, the futureof Mexico rests with its youngpeople, whose education in his-torical and contemporary is-sues is severely limited in theschools. “For me, the key is tohave critical thinking among thehigh school students,” he said.

University student DianaSolis, 24, is from another gen-eration with its own big tasteof violence. Growing up inJuarez when violence dramati-cally escalated, Solis said shebecame politicized by eventssuch the federal police shoot-ing and wounding of an Au-tonomous University of Ciudad

Juarez student on campusproperty during an anti-milita-rization protest in 2010.

“It was an awakening forme to begin thinking aboutwhat was going on, what Ishould do as a young person,”she said.

“Juarez was the experimentto kill young people, so it couldextend all across the country,”Solis contended. “(Ayotzinapa)was the breaking point in theviolence that has been going onagainst youth for years, sincethe last presidential administra-tion.” In the Ayotzinapa affair,the government’s involvement“can’t be hidden,” the youngwoman insisted.

Protests against the attackson the Ayotzinapa studentshave been less numerous andintense in Juarez than manyother places in Mexico, but lo-cal activists are on the move,according to Solis.

In addition to four separateblockades of international bor-der crossings last month, hun-dreds of residents- includinguniversity students- havestaged street protests, public“die-ins” and postered thestreets with pictures of themissing Ayotzinapa students.The burst of activism has metsome push back.

For instance, Solis said shewas part of a group that waspassing out flyers outside theCobach high school last Fridaywhen the school’s administra-tion locked the doors so stu-dents could not join in the pro-test. School staff membersthen physically pushed Solisand attempted to grab a cam-era away from another pro-tester, Solis charged.

According to the activist,municipal police showed up butended up supporting the con-tention of her group that it hada right to publicly protest. InSolis’ analysis some thingshave changed in Juarez sincea few years ago when thou-sands of soldiers and federalpolice occupied the streets anddozens of murder victims weresimultaneously racked up ontypical weekends, but the ele-ments that ignited the hyper-violence of 2008-2012 have notgone away.

“The forms may havechanged, but the root of the

matter is the same,” Solis re-flected. “Death and disappear-ance still happen.”

Disappearance is a wordthat has dominated the lives ofJose Luis Castillo and his wifein recent years. For more thanfive years, the couple haswaged a practically ceaselesscampaign to protest the disap-pearance of their 14-year-olddaughter, Esmeralda, onespring day of 2009 in Juarez.

“We managed to establishthat our daughter was taken bya (human) trafficking net-work,” Castillo said in an in-terview.

About the only thing thatslowed Castillo’s search andprotests down was a seven-month imprisonment in 2012 oncharges of committing armedrobberies together with his son.Eventually released, Castillomaintained his innocence,blaming the arrest on his ac-tivism. “We thought the inten-tion was to kill us,” he said.“We were pointing out peoplewho were involved.”

Since Castillo’s scrape withthe law, the federal attorneygeneral’s office has assumedthe responsibility for investigat-ing Esmeralda’s disappearanceand, as part of the probe, isoffering a reward of nearly$250,000 for pertinent informa-tion.

But Castillo contended thatauthorities lack “political will”in searching for all the missinggirls and women, who numbermore than 100 according to dif-ferent government and civilsociety organization reports.And like the Ayotzinapa epi-sode, crucial gaps in under-standing what happened to thevictims persist.

“Who were the (victims) de-livered to?” Castillo pondered.“Who were they sold to?”

The movements for the dis-appeared in both Juarez andAytozinapa are among “manyfronts in the struggle,” Solisadded. Local activists are

charting more actions in thecoming days, she said.

Meanwhile, as MexicanPresident Enrique Peña Nietospends the week on an Asianbusiness and diplomatic tour,the protests show no signs ofletting up throughout the coun-try, according to the latestMexican press reports. Theweek kicked off with a peace-ful march for Ayotzinapa byhundreds of university studentsin Chihuahua City. Teachersled blockades of Citigroup-owned Banamex branches inmore than a dozen Michoacancities, while rural teacher col-lege students blocked highwaysand seized toll booths up anddown the state of Oaxaca.

In Acapulco, thousands ofpeople conducted a shut-downof the city’s international airportNovember 10, causing the can-cellation of several flights fromMexico City and the UnitedStates. Preceding the tempo-rary airport closure, several stu-dents and policemen were in-jured in a battle involving rock-throwing and bottle rockets.

On Tuesday, November 11,a clash in the Guerrero statecapital of Chilpancingo report-edly left more demonstratorsand police officers injured andthe state headquarters ofPresident Pena Nieto’s Insti-tutional Revolutionary Partydamaged in a blaze set bysome protesters.

Quoted in Mexican mediaoutlets, the federal attorneygeneral’s office said Tuesdayit was sending human remainsrecovered from a Guerrerodump to an advanced labora-tory in Austria for tests thatcould indicate whether theybelong to any of the missingAyotzinapa students.

Frontera NorteSur: on-line,U.S.-Mexico border newsCenter for Latin Americanand Border Studies NewMexico State University LasCruces, New Mexico

By Susan FerrissJUVENILE JUSTICE

INFORMATION EXCHANGE

As the national debate overchildhood inequities sharpens,recent developments in Cali-fornia highlight struggles overpractices critics say deprivesome kids of quality class timeand fuel a “school-to-prisonpipeline.”

New state legislation on dis-cipline and truancy — alongwith lawsuits — are at theheart of these controversies inthe Golden State.

In October, for instance, ajudge issued a temporary re-straining order requiring thatstate education officials inter-vene immediately at a schoolwhere students have joined aclass-action lawsuit originallyfiled in May. Students at theschool, Jefferson High inlower-income south Los Ange-les, allege that they’ve beendeprived of equal time for edu-cation in comparison to kids atother more affluent schools.More than 90 percent of stu-dents at Jefferson High areLatino, many the children ofimmigrants, and more than 8percent of students are black.

The Oct. 8 order by Ala-meda County Superior CourtJudge George Hernandez Jr.required state officials to im-mediately ensure Jeffersonkids are not placed in classesthis fall that they’ve already

taken and passed or assignedperiods dubbed “home” or“service” periods that are “de-void” of academic instruction.State officials say they’re com-plying with the order.

The class-action suit over“lost learning time” was filedin May on behalf of kids at nineCalifornia schools, includingtwo in Alameda County, as theCenter for Public Integrity re-ported. Kids at Jefferson in LAjoined the suit in early Octo-ber.

Students at various schoolsin the suit complained theywere denied classes theyneeded to either graduate orapply to college, and sufferedfrom poor instruction due tofrequent teacher turnover andchaos in scheduling. The liti-gation was filed by LA-basedPublic Counsel, which has alsorepresented students in expul-sions, along with the AmericanCivil Liberties Union and otherlaw groups.

Policymakers and busi-nesses in Silicon Valley andelsewhere in California alsoargue for more action to closean “achievement gap” andboost access to college prepclasses for Latino and blackstudents.

In a request this fall for im-mediate intervention, Jeffersonstudent Jason Magaña, whoaspires to be an aeronauticalengineer, said in a Sept. 14,2014, declaration to court that

he was scheduled this fall fora graphics design class he hadalready taken and passedtwice. He was also placed inan overcrowded AP Englishclass of 50 kids. In addition, hewas moved to an economicsclass he needs to graduate buthad to struggle to catch up be-cause he entered four weekslate.

The student also said he wasgiven two “home” periods hedidn’t request this semesterand a schedule that had himdone with school by 11:20 a.m.on Wednesdays and Fridays.

In an interesting twist, onOct. 2, recently resigned LAUnified School District super-intendent John Deasy provideda scathing court declaration insupport of the restraining orderrequest. He called the assign-ment of kids to these “service”or home periods “indefensible”and a violation of students’ fun-damental right to education.

“These ‘classes’ are not de-signed to deliver real instruc-tion … but rather are no morethan fillers designed to pluggaps where no genuine coursesare readily available,” Deasysaid. He said he thought therestraining order should beplaced on every school in theLA district that assigns kids tothese periods.

This article was originallypublished by The Center forPublic Integrity.

California Takes on Harsh Discipline and AcademicInequities for Black, Latino Students

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Educator Roy Cook selected as 2014 American IndianHeritage Month Local Hero

By Monica MedinaKPBS

He is a tribal writer, self-published author, journalist, anda Native singer and AmericanIndian artist. He’s also an edu-cator, one who carries theteachings of his elders andpasses them on to the next gen-eration. Meet Roy Cook, a2014 American Indian HeritageMonth Local Hero.

In nominating him as a Lo-cal Hero, Devon Lomayesva,board member for the Ameri-can Indian Recruitment Pro-grams, notes, “Roy has been adynamic figure in the San Di-ego urban and reservation In-dian community for decades,contributing to the educational,cultural, and historical presenceof Indians in San Diego Countyand beyond. The breadth ofknowledge and information hehas, and will continue to share,will have a lasting impact onNatives and non-Natives alike.”

As a champion of his com-munity, Cook’s achievementsare many. Yet, ask him abouthis life—his childhood, hisdreams and from where hedraws his inspiration—and hemay not answer directly. In-stead, he notes that the an-swers can be found on awebsite he has developed,AmericanIndianSource.com.

Cook created the site to bean educational resource onAmerican Indian heritage andculture. It includes events Cookhas participated in, such as theannual Baskets and Botanyevent, held every October at theTecolote Nature Center.

Performing at the eventwere the Wildcat Singers—Cook, song leader, Juan (Jon)Meza Cuero, Ben Nance,Henry Mendibles, and StanRodriguez who was joined by

his son, Raymond.On the American Indian

Source site, Cook explainswhat it takes to sing Wildcatsongs. He shares a story toldto him by Cuero, a Kumeyaaywho lived in Mexico for a num-ber of years.

“Jon tells us this story...onhow to acquire a good singingvoice,” he writes. “‘Hattepa,’coyote, is well known for hav-ing a good, strong voice. Hecan sing all night long until theearly morning. He can makehis voice curve and movearound hills in very intricatetunes. We can learn a lot byobserving our four-leggedfriends….Jon goes on to tell usthat ‘Hattepa’ is known to eata lot of ‘mes-hanan,’ stink bug.So, it just goes to show if youwant a good voice to singTribal songs you might followHattepas’ example.”

Cook was born in Tucson,Arizona in 1943, of Ootam(Opata) and Oklahoma (Wa-zazee) Osage heritage, andmoved to Southern Californiaas a child. His father workedfor the railroad and found em-ployment in National City,eventually moving to LakeKenshaw, where Cook’s ear-liest memories are of thepeople on the Santa YsabelReservation. It was at thistime that he first met his men-tor, Steve Ponchetti, who for35 years would be the reser-vation’s prayer leader, until hispassing in 1984.

“My parents got to knowSteve Ponchetti, one of thepersons who really took thetime to teach me the little thatI do know of the local culture,the Kumeyaay,” remembersCook. “He and his wife, Flo-rence, were exceptional humanbeings. They took in fosterchildren, and I’d come and

spend summers with them andgot to know all the boys thatlived there. I created somelife-long friendships and we’restill in communication witheach other.”

Cook, a U.S. Special ForcesArmy soldier, did tours with theU.S. Army Airborne, and GreenBeret Special Forces during theVietnam era. As the electedpresident of the San DiegoAmerican Indian Warriors As-sociation and its official histo-rian, as well as the historian forthe Southern California Ameri-can Indian Resource Center, heappreciates the opportunitieshe’s had to teach.

“I was invited by PalomarCollege to teach and I tookgreat pleasure in teaching ashort summer course on thePala Band Indian reservation,”he says. “There were a lot ofelders in that class and someyoung adolescents….I found itto be a fulfilling and a growingexperience.”

Cook’s passion for teachingled him to a position at Gross-mont College, where he endedup serving as Chairman of theMulticultural Studies Depart-ment, and had a full teachingload with classes that includedSurvey of American Indian Art,American Indian Lifestyles,and History and Culture of theCalifornian Indian.

He has also held positionsat Mesa Community College,where he taught art for eightyears, as well as at Southwest-ern and San Diego City Col-leges.

But in 2005, his mother be-came ill, and he decided to cutback. “It required attention, soI made certain decisions,” hesays.

Even now, at 71, Cook con-tinues to serve as a 36-yearmember of the Golden StateGourd Dance Society, and hasspent the last 20 years as anassociate member of the West-ern Oklahoma ComancheGourd Clan. And he continuesto honor those who came be-fore him.

“Throughout my life,” saysCook, “elders would just starttalking to me and would find asimpatico identity and theywould share their experiences.I found that to be a fount ofknowledge to take with meand thereby in some way sur-render that to the next genera-tion.”

Monica Medina is Directorof Diversity, Engagement &Grants Contact. Reprintedfrom KPBS http://www.kpbs.org/

November is the time to remember our NativesBy Andy Porras

“I give you this onethought to keep,

I am with you still - I donot sleep.”

Thus goes a traditional Na-tive American poem worthknowing as Uncle Sam tips hisstovepipe hat to its NativeAmerican population duringNovember, Native AmericanHistory month.

It’s time to celebrate andhonor Native heritage and theirelders’ wisdom. And nudgethose in political power to makea decent effort to include Na-tive American History in theireducational programs For toolong they have closed their eyes(similar to Black slavery stud-ies) when it comes to learningabout this land’s first Ameri-cans, too many of them disap-peared due the three “Gs” -greed, gold and genocide.

Genocide, by another name,is still the deliberate and sys-tematic extermination of a na-tional, racial, political, or cul-tural group.

In the case of the unfortu-nate California Native Ameri-cans, it was labeled “ethiccleansing” by crazed gold seek-ers on a mission to become richby any means necessary.

Between 1848 and 1855 asmany as 100,000 Natives per-ished due to murder, malnutri-tion, disease or enslavement.

Yes, the Gold Rush broughtprosperity to many of the esti-mated 300,000 prospectorswho flocked to California butfor its natives, the Gold Rushturned lethal.

Scholars have stated that thearticles published in Californianewspapers of the time andother sources, made it clearthat the horror Native Ameri-cans experienced during theGold Rush coincide with theUnited Nations official defini-tion of genocide.

The state’s southern and cen-tral coastal tribes encounteredSpanish and British explorers inthe mid-16th century, but in re-mote interior regions, sometribes did not meet non-Nativesuntil the mid-19th century.

Other tribes, such as theQuechuan and Yuman Indiansin present-day southeast Cali-fornia and southwest Arizona,were the first to encounterSpanish explorers in the 1760sand 1770s while others on thecoasts of northwest California,such as the Miwok,Yurok andYokut, came across Russianexplorers and seafarers com-ing from Alaska in the late18th

century.Much has been written

about the Spanish and theirlong-term occupation in Cali-fornia, beginning in 1769 withthe founding of Mission SanDiego de Alcalá in San Diego.They utilized Native labor toconstruct 20 additional missionsalong coast. Their introductionof European invasive plant spe-cies and non-native diseases,however, resulted in wide-spread havoc and high fatali-ties for the Native populations,adding to the Native woes.

Today, it’s still amazing thatthe people who have given theworld more than 60 percent ofits favorite foods, are margin-ally recognized as great con-tributors to humanity in gen-eral. Hollywood and BuffaloBill’s Wild West Shows perp-etuated many of the Native isconceptions that most eople hold to be true. Add the act that almost nothing posit-ive is taught in public schools ith respect to early Native life nd you have additional ignor-ance thoughts of them.

November may be the besttime to recall a simple, butmeaningful quote from ChiefJoseph, Nez Perce.

“It does not require manywords to speak the truth.”

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LA COLUMNA VERTEBRALEl Soporte Informativo Para Millones

de HispanosPor Clarissa Martínez

Y Ahora, ¿Qué?Las elecciones del 2014

todavía están frescas, y susconsecuencias todavía no sesienten de lleno.

Pero en cuanto al temamigratorio toca, una cosa escierta: desde que los republi-canos en la cámara de diputa-dos bloquearon completamenteel avance de la reforma migra-toria a mediados del 2014, laposibilidad de acción inmediataquedó en manos del PresidenteObama. El presidente prometióejercer su legítimo poderejecutivo para traer alivio alsistema migratorio—particu-larmente a las deportaciones ya la separación familiar—y yaes hora que lo haga.

La decisión del presidentede esperar hasta después delas elecciones fue alimentadapor Senadores demócratas enun puño de estados conserva-dores que no querían enfrentarel debate migratorio en elcontexto de la política electoral.Pero donde convino, los can-didatos republicanos igualatacaron a los demócratas porapoyar la reforma migratoriay “la amnistía,” la cual utilizancomo una mala palabra, sinimportar que el proceso esta-blecido por la propuesta bi-partidista aprobada en elsenado era arduo y largo. Laestrategia de postergar laacción del Presidente no fun-cionó. Los demócratas encuestión perdieron de todosmodos, y es posible que enColorado la demora les hayacostado una victoria. Ahí, losvotantes Latinos hubieranvotado en mayor número, perola falta de acción presidencial,combinada con un candidatodemócrata que no exaltó sulucha por la reforma migratoriao la oposición de su contrin-

cante, dejo a nuestros votantesmenos entusiasmados.

Y ahora, ¿qué? El Senadopasará a liderazgo republicano.Con eso, al menos por lospróximos dos años, ambascámaras del congreso estaránbajo mando republicano. Elpresidente ha reafirmado queactuará antes de fin de año, yse ha desatado una batallapolítica campal. Los republi-canos dicen que ahora si van ahacer algo, pero que si elpresidente actúa, entonces no.El problema con ese argu-mento es que no hay nada queimpida a los republicanos—ayer, hoy o mañana—aprobaruna propuesta de ley sobrereforma migratoria. Esa hasido la situación particular-mente en los últimos dos años,cuando los diputados republi-canos hubieran podido en-mendar y aprobar en su cá-mara la propuesta bipartidistaaprobada por el senado, y porfin empezar a solucionar esteasunto.

Es hora de darle avance noa la política, sino al poder,precedente y prioridad deactuar del presidente. Auncuando solo el congreso puedepasar leyes y una residencia

permanente, el presidentepuede crear un proceso simi-lar al programa DACA (por sussiglas en inglés, Acción Di-ferida para los Llegados enInfancia, que permite a jóvenesindocumentados con recordlimpio pueden aplicar para unpermiso temporal renovablecon acceso a permisos detrabajo), pero que cubra a unmayor número de personasindocumentadas que han esta-do contribuyendo a sus co-munidades y no tienen recordcriminal.

La mejor manera de lograrque el congreso por fin avanceleyes en este tema es darlesun empujón. La acción delpresidente será ese empujón,y traerá alivio a la comunidady beneficio económico al paísmientras tanto. Y nuestracomunidad estará muy al tantode quien apoya o pelea estaacción. Es hora de actuar.

Clarissa Martínez-De-Castroes vicepresidente del Con-sejo Nacional de La Raza

There’s a common misper-ception that parents and theirchildren are so uncomfortablediscussing sexuality that theyavoid the topic altogether.While that may have been trueat one point, the notion is dated,according to a recent studyconducted by Planned Parent-hood and New York Uni-versity’s Center for LatinoAdolescent and Family Health.The survey of more than 1,600sets of parents and their chil-dren found that neither teensnor parents let embarrassmentget in the way of having con-versations about sexuality.

At Planned Parenthood, weare encouraged by the fact that8 out of 10 young people andtheir parents have talked aboutsexuality. And of the parentswho have talked to their chil-dren about sexuality, nearly halfreported beginning by age 10;80% started talking by age 13.This is good news becausewhen there is healthy dialoguebetween parents and their chil-dren, risk factors reduce dra-matically. Teens who can talkto their parents about sexual-ity have lower rates of unin-tended pregnancy and sexuallytransmitted infections. In fact,they are more likely to delaythe onset of sexual activity.

The fact that parents aretalking to their children aboutsexuality is a move in the rightdirection, but there are someareas where communicationcan be improved. One of themajor findings of the new studywas that parents aren’t talkingenough — or in enough detail— about critical topics that canhelp young people make heal-thy decisions.

Parents need to be specificwhen discussing issues ofsexuality. Only 20% of parentshave discussed types of birthcontrol, strategies for saying noto sex, and how to access in-formation. Less than one-thirdof parents have talked to theirkids about where to get repro-

ductive health care services.The new study also suggeststhat the critical issue is not help-ing parents or their childrenbecome more comfortable withconversations about sexuality,but rather encouraging them tohave clear, ongoing discus-sions.

Healthy dialogue betweenparents and their teens is criti-cal because the United Stateshas one of the highest rates ofteen pregnancy in the industri-alized world with 750,000young women 15–19 years oldbecoming pregnant each year.Although people 15–24 yearsold account for only 25% ofsexually active people in theUnited States, they make up50% of reported cases of sexu-ally transmitted infections an-nually.

As the nation’s largest pro-vider of sex education, PlannedParenthood is here to supportparents and teens as they havemore frequent and in-depth dis-

cussions about issues that re-ally matter. We offer familycommunication presentations atcommunity organizations, chur-ch groups, and parent clubs, of-ten at no cost. We have pub-lished booklets and brochureswith medically accurate, age-appropriate information. AndPlannedParenthood.org is al-ways here for both parents andteens looking for accurate in-formation.

Planned Parenthood wantsto help parents be their chil-dren’s primary resource forinformation on sexuality. “Let’sTalk” Month is a wonderfulopportunity to highlight the im-portance of family communi-cation, but remember thatwe’re here for sexuality edu-cation — and reproductive andsexual health care services —every month, every day. We’reworking with families to raisethe healthiest generation ever.Good conversations are thebest place to start.

“Let’s Talk”: Planned Parenthood releases newstudy on parent-child communication

South County EDC Celebrates 25 Years and Visionsan Economic Boom for the Future

Business, politicalleaders seal timecapsule at Nov. 6

celebrationIn the 25 years since its in-

ception, the South County Eco-nomic Development Councilhas worked to build the SouthBay region by developing busi-nesses and bringing people andjobs to the area, which wasonce just a field of dreams.

“For 25 years, the SouthCounty Economic Develop-ment Council has worked tocreate jobs and develop busi-nesses,” said County Supervi-sor Greg Cox, one of thefounders of the organization.“Today, we are reaping thefruits of that labor with excitingdevelopments like the ChulaVista Bayfront plan. SouthCounty is open for business!Congratulations to the SouthCounty EDC. The South Coun-ty Economic DevelopmentCouncil is a force to be reck-oned with, not only in SouthCounty, but in the whole SanDiego region.”

A crowd of local elected of-ficials, business owners andcommunity members celebra-ted the South County EDC’s25th anniversary on Thursday,Nov. 6 at the Otay Ranch TownCenter.

Attendees signed a bannerand dropped their businesscards into a time capsule,which will be stored in theCorky McMillin Companies’Millenia project.

“The Corky McMillin Com-panies and McMillin Realty areproud to be a part of SouthCounty’s history. One of ourMcMillin principles is to ‘sup-port the communities in whichwe live and work.’ We ap-

plaud the South County EDCfor the great work they do toenrich the community and wecongratulate them on 25 yearsof service,” said Scott Mc-Millin, chairman of the board.

The time capsule also in-cludes letters from CaseyTanaka, history teacher andmayor of Coronado, and CindyGompper-Graves, South Coun-ty EDC’s president and CEO;SeaWorld’s 50th anniversarycollectable coin; a DVD ofNational City’s 2013 State ofthe City Address; badges fromNational City and the ChulaVista Bayfront; flyers fromSouth County EDC, South BayExpressway and the South BayPower plant; a 3D image ofMillenia; a piece of the SR-195bridge; pamphlets, postcards,photos, a cell phone, pins, newsarticles and newsletters.

Tony McCune was theevent’s master of ceremonies.He is a member of the SouthCounty EDC’s transportationcommittee and was a memberof the South County’s originalboard of directors who startedthe South County EDC 25years ago. He served as thesecond president of the orga-nization.

“We started with practicallynothing and have grown into avery, very successful organi-zation,” McCune said. “I ex-pect to see continued growthand continued assistance tobusinesses in the South Countyfor the next 25 years and be-yond.”

In its 25 years, the SouthCounty EDC has advocatedfor the region, worked to bringbusinesses and jobs to the areaand has supported local busi-nesses with grants and incen-tives. The South County EDC

recently unveiled its VisioningProject Strategic Plan, a com-plete five-year, strategic, eco-nomic development plan forSan Diego’s South County. TheVisioning Project, modeled af-ter Our Greater San DiegoVision, was launched in July2013, and included focusgroups, community workshops,outside research, expert inter-views and a survey, which hadmore than 4,500 respondents.

“The South County has ex-perienced tremendous growthin the past 25 years, but there’sstill more work to be done. TheVisioning Project outlines ac-tion items based on opportuni-ties in key industry clusters,”said Xema Jacobson, chair ofthe South County EDC. “Thisstrategic plan will build on thesynergy of South County’smany projects, which includeBrown Field, the Cross-BorderTerminal and the Chula VistaBayfront. It focuses on invest-ment opportunities and job cre-ation, with an emphasis on be-ing a binational region. TheSouth County is poised for aneconomic boom.”

The industry clusters out-lined in the report include aero-space, maritime-related indus-tries, tourism, advanced mar-keting, health care and foodprocessing distribution. SouthCounty EDC’s new strategiesare expected to expand inter-national trade and commerce,promote the innovation cluster,grow the tourism industry andbuild on these specific indus-try clusters.

For more information onhow to get involved, or to seethe full report, visit http://www.southcountyedc.com/#!vision-project-page/cgy.

LA PRENSA SAN DIEGO NOVEMBER 14, 2014 PAGE 5

Enrique Herrera’s “Vivir Soñando”: Reality andFantasy Intertwined

By Juan Andrés Bueno

Most of us who left Mexicoat an early age and have be-come integral parts of thisamazing melting pot tend toview the old country through anostalgic, wistful looking glassthat tends to deform the physi-cal reality of today. I thus as-sumed that Vivir Soñandowould be yet another homesickyearning for a mythical para-dise that for some unknownreason was left behind in thebarren mountains of Oaxaca orthe desert in Zacatecas.

To my satisfying surprise, Iwas granted the reading of amost pleasant journey depict-ing with precise accuracy andincisive scrutiny a present dayMexico City as well as the pro-vincial cities of Córdoba andVeracruz, comparing his idyl-lic remembrances to today’scrude reality and its adversity.Enrique Herrera travelsthrough time and space inter-twining thoughts and images ina convincing form of magicrealism in which the presentmingles with the past both re-mote and immediate, as wellas with the absurd and the far-cical; personages that transmi-grate and transform, objectsthat like thoughts appear anddisappear, migrating souls thatare left to the reader’s inter-pretation.

Vivir Soñando makes an en-joyable, laid-back, read filledwith captivating imagery andpleasant, yet poignantly sarcas-tic, wit and humor. The style isflowing and none pretentious ina tale that left this reader fan-cying a book to follow, perhaps,Vivir Despierto in which En-rique Herrera could clue us inas to what caused a student atthe Instituto Politécnico to leaveMexico in 1968, during the dirtywar; what misty cravings, in acity ranked fourth in the worldof gourmet dining, motivates himto choose chain restaurantssuch as Sanborn’s and Vipsrather than El Cardenal or ElDanubio that offer a magnifi-cent culinary experience. Whydoes he start his story quotingan Argentine song? Why Gar-del and not Jose Alfredo or TataNacho? I would also like toknow why Enrique Herreratravels to Veracruz and notMichoacán or the Yucatán pen-insula; did he in his childhoodtake that magnificent train ridethrough the mystic sierras ofPuebla on his way to Córdobaand the captivating port city? Atrain that exists no more, like the

extended family that he has for-gotten or the Mexico City thatwas.

So many and interestingsituations and characters makethe book a great companionduring a long bus ride or a rainyafternoon. However, it is per-haps due to its captivating es-sence that Vivir Soñandothough it is very much worthreading, left me with morequestions than answers and, Ireiterate, a genuine desire toread Enrique Herrera’s nextbook.

Vivir Soñando (Spanish Edi-tion)By Enrique Herrera99 Pages, Herrera Commu-nicationsISNB 9781502316547Available at AmazonLIKE Vivir Soñando onFacebook

About the Author:Author Enrique HerreraEnrique Herrera, since grad-

uating from Mexico’s NationalPolytechnic Institute, has spenthis adult life in the United States.He continued his studies at SanJose City College, San JoseState University, and the Uni-versity of California Los Ange-les. He has worked as a quan-titative and qualitative re-searcher for national and inter-national organizations such as

the U.S. Census Bureau, theWorld Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.His studies have produced nu-merous reports on social andeducational issues in both Span-ish and English. His bi-nationalexperience has led him to be-lieve that many immigrants aretugged to return to their coun-try of origin by an aspirationrelive memories with peoplethey keep close to their hearts.This is reflected in his creativewriting. Enrique Herrera resideswith his wife, Dolores Herrera,four children and three grand-children in Murrieta, California.About Reviewer:

Juan Andrés Bueno is afilmmaker and writer, knownfor his award-winning Amo-rous Pancho Villa (2013), Lamontaña del diablo (1975), andLos caciques (1975). Born inMexico and raised in BeverlyHills, California, Bueno’s ca-reer started in the late 1960’swhere he worked on suchiconic shows as The AddamsFamily, The Beverly Hillbil-liesand Green Acres. Since1967, he has been a memberof local 776 of the IASTE FilmEditors Union. In Mexico upuntil ten years ago, Buenotaught screenwriting and film-making. Juan Andrés Buenoknows Mexico as if he hadnever left.

Por Paco Zavala

El montaje de la obra deteatro “Viva la vida, FridaKahlo” monólogo de HumbertoRobles y puesto en escena enel teatro de la Casa de laCultura Tijuana, con la actua-ción de la extraordinario actrizMinerva Velasco en el rol deFrida Kahlo.

Este monólogo ha sidomontado en 20 países, dentrode los que contamos a: Méxi-co, Puerto Rico, Uruguay,Brasil, España, Italia, Ingla-terra, Portugal, Costa Rica,Paraguay, Estados Unidos,Colombia, Alemania, RepúblicaDominicana, Francia, Argen-tina, Canadá, Perú, Venezuelay Chile.

La acción se desarrolla enun día de muertos en la casaazul, donde Frida Kahlo, nacióy murió; ella espera a susinvitados y mientras cocina,evoca a Diego, Rockefeller,Trotsky; expone su opiniónsobre los artistas, sobre Méxi-co, Estados Unidos, Francia ysurge inevitablemente el re-cuerdo del accidente y lapresencia de la muerte. Unmonólogo entre el dolor, lapasión, la risa, el tequila, laspinturas, sus “cuatachones”,sus recuerdos, sus miedos, susdolores y fundamentalmente sualegría de vivir son una con-stante a lo largo de la obra.

Las crónicas sobre el mon-taje de este monólogo ex-presan que durante su desa-rrollo en sus repetidas repre-sentaciones ha mantenidoemocionadas a las audienciasen ambos lados del Atlántico.

Este monólogo es dirigidopor Abel González, contandocon la producción ejecutiva deRodrigo Zapién y MinervaVelasco, quien también sedesempeña en el rol de FridaKahlo.

La actriz Minerva Velasco,cuenta con diversos cursos decanto, actuación, direccióncinematográfica y perfeccion-amiento actoral en diversasinstituciones especializadas enel tema. Tambien ha parti-cipado en diversas produ-cciones teatrales y de cine.

El director Abel González,inicia sus estudios en el Centrode Artes Escénicas del Noro-este (CAEN), posteriormenteviaja a la ciudad de México aestudiar la carrera de actua-ción en Argos Casazul, centrode educación artística endonde culmina satisfactoria-mente sus estudios y tomadistintos talleres, tales como:“Perfeccionamiento actoral”con el Maestro José Caballeroy luego con Raúl Zermeño,también cuenta con una ampliaexperiencia en dirección teatraly de cine.

Esta puesta en escena estáprogramada para represen-tarse los días 13, 14, 20 y 27

de noviembre, en el Teatro dela Casa de la Cultura, en lacolonia Altamira de Tijuana.

En nota de complemento, 19Artistas bajacalifornianos seencuentran exponiendo su obraen París, Francia, participandoen la exposición World Passorganizada por L’AssociationArtistes á la Bastille (LaAsociación de Artistas de laBastilla), con el apoyo de laSecretaría de Desarrollo Eco-nómico, la Secretaría de Turis-mo y el Instituto de Cultura deBaja California.

Esta exposición se presentapor primera vez en 1989, conel objetivo de promover a losartistas en el barrio de laBastilla en París. En estaedición el tema propuesto fuePass World, l’autre Califor-nie (La otra California), la cualpromueve una visión inspiradaen viajes, territorios, ciudades,barrios, fronteras internas yexternas, la migración y otrosmás relacionados con BajaCalifornia que se destacacomo la primera entidad fe-derativa de México en serinvitada a este importanteevento internacional.

Los artistas invitados apresentar su obra en estaexposición son: Enrique Chiu,Juan Gastélum, Matilde Bara-jas, Ale Cordero, Erika Murriet,Patty Roa, Antonio Proa,Guillermina Casas, IngridPenilla, Pablo Castañeda,Tamara Conde, Laura Casta-nedo, Fernando Corona, Lu-cero Rodríguez, Martha Toral,Ma. Elena Villegas, HaydeAquino, Julio Fonseca, y An-drés Romo, además se contará

con la presencia del tenor AlexPadilla, el pianista Jorge Villa-lobos, el Chef Miguel AngelGuerrero y el sommelier MarcoA. Amador, en la apertura delevento ocurrida el pasadojueves 6 de noviembre.

Para concluir la compañíade danza Lux Boreal presentoen la Casa de la CulturaTijuana un espectáculo dan-cístico con el que han recorridola República Mexicana, ypaíses como Brasil y EstadosUnidos.

Este conjunto de obras decorto y mediano formato cre-adas entre 2012 y 2014, fuepresentado ante un público quedisfrutó del talento de losartistas en escena. Estas obrasfueron: “The End is the Be-ginning”obra del coreógrafo JoAfter, catedrático de San Di-ego State University; “Expo-sure Proof.” Coreografía deMatthew Armstrong; “ID”coreografía de Henry Torresy “QR MOVE” de AngelArámbula y Octavio Dagnino.

Lux Boreal es una com-pañía de danza contemporáneafundada en 2002 en Tijuana,codirigida por Angel Arámbulay Henry Torres, compuesta porlos creadores escénicos Bri-zeida López, Azalea López,Victoria Reyes, Raúl Navarro,Matthew Armstrong, OctavioDagnino Y Humberto Vega, ladirección técnica de PatriciaPacheco.

Si desea más informaciónsobre estos y otros eventosingrese al sitio web www.imac.tijuana.gob.mx o enFacebook/imactijuana y twit-ter/IMACTijuana

Representa la Actriz Minerva Velasco aFrida Kahlo en el Monólogo “Viva la Vida”

La actriz Minerva Velasco interpreta el rol de FridaKahlo en el montaje de la obra Viva la vida, Frida Kahlo

Chula Vista Library toScreen Huicholes Film

The Chula Vista Public Li-brary will screen the filmHuicholes: The Last PeyoteGuardians, which chroniclesthe movement to save sacredMexican land. As part of thedocumentary’s North Ameri-can tour, the film will be shownfree of charge at the CivicCenter Branch, located at 365F Street, on Tuesday, Novem-ber 18, at 2 p.m. The film cov-ers the case of the defense ofWirikuta, a sacred territory tothe Wixárika (Huichol) people,against the threat of trans-na-tional mining corporations. TheWixárika people, native to theSierra Madre, who have madepilgrimages to this land sincetime immemorial, now they findthemselves at the forefront ofa spiritual crusade to protectit. The film’s director, HernanVilchez, and its father and sonprotagonists (Huichol spiritualleaders) will be on hand to in-troduce the film and answerquestions from the audience.

The documentary combinesstunning cinematography withengaged and compassionatestorytelling to draw attention toa tale of resistance by an in-digenous community impactedby development and an extrac-

tive industry. It is nominated forBest Documentary Film by theRed Nation Film Festival, thepremier showcase for NativeAmerican and indigenous filmin the United States.

MiraCosta College PresentsDocumentary “Huicholes:the Last Peyote Guardians”

MiraCosta College’sOceanside Campus will host afree screening of the docu-mentary “Huicholes: the LastPeyote Guardians” on Friday,November 21 at 5:30 p.m. Theevening will also feature a spe-cial interview via Skype withthe film’s director and producer,Hernan Vilchez, and the starof the documentary, Jose Luis“Urramire” Ramirez.

“Huicholes: the Last PeyoteGuardians” is a story about theWixárika people, one of the lastliving pre-Hispanic cultures inLatin America. The film pre-sents their struggle against theMexican government andtransnational mining companiesto preserve Wirikuta, theirmost sacred land. In Wirikuta,the peyote cactus flourishesand this is the traditional medi-cine that keeps alive the knowl-edge of this iconic people ofMexico.

For more information aboutthe documentary, please visitwww.huicholesfilm.com, liketheir page on Facebook atfacebook.com/HuicholesTheLastPeyoteGuardians, or fol-low them on Twitter at twitter.com/PeyoteGuardians.

MiraCosta College is lo-cated at 1 Barnard Drive inOceanside. The event will beheld in the Little Theatre(Room 3601). Parking is freein any student lot.

Annual Rummage Sale Setfor November 25

Search for second handtreasures and various house-hold items at the annual rum-mage sale at the Norman ParkSenior Center, 270 F Street.Scheduled for Tuesday, No-vember 25, from 12:30 to 3:30p.m., shoppers can browse thetables for that perfect some-thing while enjoying free hotchocolate and hot cider. Ad-mission to the rummage sale isfree.

Interested in selling items atthe rummage sale? Table rentalis $5 each with a limit of two.Stop by the center’s front deskto reserve your table. Call(619) 409-1930 for more infor-mation.

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La Opinión Editorial

The massacre of 43 Mexican studentsrevealed the deep troubles this countryhas because of the mixture of politicsand drug trafficking, and the corruptionof leaders and officials that goes alongwith it.

According to the official story, stu-dents from a teachers college wanted todemonstrate during a speech that the firstlady of Iguala was giving. Her husband,Mayor José Luis Abarca, asked munici-pal police to get involved. Police offic-ers detained the students and turned themover to Guerreros Unidos, a drug cartel.Three of the cartel's assassins murderedthe students, burned and bagged theirbodies and threw them in the river.

However, the way events unfolded ac-cording to this tale convinces very fewMexicans—who are deeply, justifiablysuspicious of their officials' honesty insolving massacres and assassinations.From Tlatelolco to Acteal and SanFernando, from José Francisco RuizMassieu to Donaldo Colosio, officialshave muddled realities and legal workand swept things under the rug.

Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karamtried to do the same thing on Friday, when

he blamed the three assassins for the kill-ings. Peña Nieto's government is count-ing on the arrests of Abarca—even thoughthe former mayor today stands accusedof a crime not related to the students—and the three assassins to close the case.

This tarnishes the PRI government, es-pecially because the Attorney General'sOffice knew about the link betweenAbarca and Guerreros Unidos and of theway the tragedy was handled.

The same goes for the PRD, whichknew about Abarca's connections and thechaos of Guerrero Governor ÁngelAguirre's administration.

How many more narco-mayors arethere in Mexico, implicitly accepted bythe political structure?There must be a thorough investigationof the backgrounds, powers and actionsof governors, mayors and municipal po-lice after what happened in Iguala. Oth-erwise, there will be more massacres.

The case of the students must becomea turning point for Mexican society. Thechant "they took them alive, we want themback alive!" expresses the hope of parentsand the feelings of a society that is fed upabout living with governments that ignoreit, corrupt officials, and murderers whokill or order killings with impunity.

By Sam Fulwood IIILATINALISTA

On Tuesday, voters across the United Statescast their ballots in the 2014 midterm elections.As with any election, there are winners andlosers.

But, dear reader, this commentary offers nei-ther post-election analysis nor after-the-factsecond-guessing – well, at least, not in the well-worn, traditional sense.

Instead, I want to use the occasion of Elec-tion Day to share an insight into the sad funda-mentals of electoral democracy. Regardless ofwhether a favored candidate won or a popularballot initiative passed, our nation suffered be-cause of the number of people who didn’t voteat all.

In a study released last week — just fourdays before the midterm elections — the PewResearch Center for the People & the Presspredicted that 6 in 10 voting-age adults wouldnot show up at the polls on Election Day.

What’s more, the study found that those whowere most unlikely to vote are demographi-cally distinct from likely voters:

• They are young: 34 percent of nonvotersare younger than 30 years old and the vast ma-jority — 70 percent—are younger than 50 yearsold.

• They are racially and ethnically diverse: Afull 43 percent of nonvoters are Hispanic, Af-rican American, or other racial and ethnic mi-norities. That is roughly double the 22 percentof likely voters comprised by minorities.

• They are less affluent than likely voters:Almost half — 46 percent — of nonvoters havefamily incomes less than $30,000 per year,while only 19 percent of likely voters are fromlow-income families.

• They are less educated than likely voters:While 72 percent of likely voters have com-pleted at least some college, most nonvoters— 54 percent — did not attend college.

Political scientists — such as James E.Campbell of the University of Georgia andBrian G. Knight at Brown University — havevaried theories about why some potential vot-ers do not trouble themselves to vote, espe-cially in off-year or nonresidential elections.

In a 1987 scholarly article published in theAmerican Journal of Political Science,Campbell suggested that midterm elections lacka “wow” factor and that generally only politi-cal partisans bother to vote. For his part, Knightargues in a paper published earlier this year bythe National Bureau of Economic Researchthat voters essentially become tired of the sit-ting president and express their displeasure byvoting for the competing party in midterms, aphenomenon that is especially acute in the sec-ond term of an administration.

That certainly seemed to be the case in thismidterm election.

As far as political theories go, Campbell’sand Knight’s ideas are as good as any. Buthaving observed the political process for quitesome time, I have a theory of my own design.I call it the “reflex of rational nonvoting behav-ior.”

Civic engagement — best exemplified by vot-ing — depends upon an engaged and informedcitizenry. But in America, it’s hard to be a goodcitizen if you’re poor, ignored, or vilified.

Life is just too hard to worry about lofty is-sues such as public policies and partisan politi-cal intrigue. Indeed, among too many poor andminority Americans, voting and choosingelected officials just isn’t viewed as essentialto their lives.

This tends to come as something of a shockto happy, well-fed, and middle-class or afflu-ent voters, who have a justified belief that thepolitical process works to their benefit. Politi-cians covet these voters because their confi-dence in the process makes them more likelyto support candidates and head to the polls onElection Day.

But that’s just one more illustration of the

wide gulf between the haves and have-nots inour society.

An example unrelated to voting trends helpsdrive home this point: A team of social scien-tists at the University of Buffalo School ofMedicine and Biomedical Sciences recentlydiscovered considerable differences in the solidfoods that babies from different social classesconsumed. As reported in The WashingtonPost, the researchers discovered that “Specifi-cally, diets high in sugar and fat were found tobe associated with less educated mothers andpoorer households, while diets that more closelyfollowed infant feeding guidelines were linkedto higher education and bigger bank accounts.”

The newspaper report makes clear this prob-lem extends beyond personal choices and foodpreferences: “The tentacles of income inequal-ity find their way into many different aspectsof life, and food is a particularly apt example,”the article stated. “Food inequality, wherebyAmerica’s wealthiest people eat well, while thecountry’s poorest eat, well, poorly, is not onlyreal, but worsening.”

Just as eating habits are determined bywealth, so too are political knowledge andawareness. I would argue this is by design, notby accident.

To be sure, when politicians talk, it’s gener-ally not to poor people. As my colleague ClaireMarkham, the Outreach Manager for the Faithand Progressive Policy Initiative at the Centerfor American Progress, pointed out in a recentTalkPoverty.org blog post, conservative mem-bers of the House Budget Committee held aseries of five hearings on poverty this summerbut invited only one working-poor person toaddress their august body.

“Seventeen experts on poverty and, amongthem, only one poor person,” Markham wrote,noting the conservative House members didn’twant to hear from a working-poor person.“They came to preach what they think theyalready know about people in poverty.”

Of course, our nation’s political leaders could— and should — do better to encourage allcitizens to participate in voting. Sadly, that’srarely the case, as political expediency and ef-ficient strategy demand that politicians seek outand mobilize only those voters who support theirplatforms.

When politicians do discuss the issues thatmatter to low-income voters, such as minimum-wage increases, it is often only in the contextof how those issues affect their existing politi-cal supporters. The hell with anyone who dis-agrees or holds competing political objectives,which is often the case with poor and minorityAmericans.

Writing for The Root, Danielle C. Belton ad-dressed the conundrum of political nonparti-cipation among the people who most need rep-resentation.

“The reason politicians ignore so many ofthe working poor is that they don’t vote,” shewrote. “And the reason so many of the work-ing poor don’t vote is that certain politicianshave made sure it’s as inconvenient as pos-sible for them.”

Indeed, this election cycle saw several bar-riers to voting, including long waits, strict IDlaws, and the potential for increased use of pro-visional ballots among minorities. Belton con-cludes that if voting were easier and more egali-tarian, politicians would “suddenly have morecitizens to answer to — citizens who want dif-ferent things and can’t be ignored.”

Little wonder that these voters, the ones whohave been rebuked and scorned, are the oneswho tune out when politicians speak. Viewedfrom this perspective, it’s an unfortunate andrational reflex for those who have been ex-cluded from the national conversation to avoidtrying to elbow their way into a voting booth onElection Day.

Sam Fulwood III is a Senior Fellow at theCenter for American Progress and Directorof the CAP Leadership Institute.

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D.

No soy muy adepto a ver telenovelas.Es muy raro que me ponga cómodo enel sofá, utilice 30 o 60 minutos diarios,en una secuela de dramas sin sentido que,muchas veces, no tienen nada que ver conla realidad.

Dos o tres años atrás, la cadenaTelemundo lanzó la serie de televisióncolombiana “Pablo Escobar: el patróndel mal” que, por mis prejuicios contralas telenovelas, nunca me interesé enverla, a pesar de la enorme popularidadque adquirió con la población latina.

Mi curiosidad por esta serie de tele-visión empezó en el momento en que elgran novelista peruano Mario VargasLlosa, ganador del premio Nobel deLiteratura, escribió un resumen en tornoa la historia de esta serie de televisión.

“Los 74 episodios […] dan un testimo-nio muy genuino fascinante e instructivosobre la violenta modernización econó-mica y social que trajo a la aletargadasociedad colombiana…”, resume VargasLlosa.

Desde ese instante, me dispuse ainvestigar sobre el tema, leyendo artí-culos sobre los narcos y viendo algunoscortos (trailers) en el internet. No hacíamás que incrementar mi ansiedad por lahistoria del capo de Colombia.

A través de unos contactos en Bogotá,logré comprar todos los discos de laserie. Al final, en un lapso de dossemanas, pude apreciar el gran trabajoque hicieron los actores de la cadenaCaracol para recapitular el tormentosodrama real que dejó miles de hombres/mujeres calcinados, políticos y magi-strados asesinados, mujeres violadas,niños abusados, policías que se co-rrompen por el vicio al dinero.

Cuando la sociedad colombiana parecíahincarse ante las iniquidades de Escobar,aparecieron figuras de carne y hueso queentregaron su vida por su patria. Elministro de Justicia Rodrigo LaraBonilla, el juez Gustavo Zuluaga, el jefede policía Antinarcóticos Jaime Ra-mírez, el director del periódico ElEspectador Guillermo Cano, el pro-curador general Carlos Mauro Hoyos, elcandidato a la presidencia Luis CarlosGalán, entre muchos/as.

Al igual que Colombia, México está enmedio de una marea violenta pregonadapor los narcotraficantes. Las matanzasviles se vislumbran en montón. Cuerposachicharronados por ácido u otrassubstancias químicas corrosivas, ca-dáveres sin cabeza que nunca son re-conocidos, jóvenes y niños balaceadosy desaparecidos, políticos y admi-nistradores públicos que no simple-mente se venden a los narcos, sino queforman sus propios tugurios de muerteen sus áreas de dominio.

México está al borde del precipicio.A diferencia de Colombia, los héroes noaparecen y los delincuentes continúancometiendo atrocidades. Al presidentePeña Nieto pareciera que le interesa másviajar por el mundo, hacer gala de sutítulo de “mandatario” que nunca lequedó, relucir su cabello engomado yexhibirse con su bella esposa.

Pobre México. Aquél es tierra dehéroes; éste es tierra de malvados.Haber, cuándo sobresalen los héroes ycuran este mal endémico que acosa a estebello país latinoamericano.

Humberto Caspa, Ph.D., es profesor einvestigador de Economics On TheMove. E-mail: hcletters@yahoo.com

GUEST EDITORIAL:

Mexico Student MassacreRaises Big Questions

Tierra de héroes, tierra de malvados

Race and Beyond: Why Young, Minority,and Low-Income Citizens Don’t Vote

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¡ASK A MEXICAN!By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I’m interested in a jobthat says it is a plus to have anunderstanding of Latin, Spanish andMexican music. I found out some namesof musical styles such as Tejano,norteño, nariachi, banda, cumbia,merengue, flamenco, and so on. I’mwondering if there is a way to form a“good ear” for the different styles ofmusic and, if asked, I could explain thedifferent styles of music on a structuralbasis and know something about theartists in the different genres. I knowthey have introduction books and CDprograms for classical and jazz, but waswondering if there was a similar one forLatin music. Or some similar learningmethod. Can ya help a gabacho outhere?

P.S. Will this kind of knowledge give mean “in” with the Latin ladies or doesthat just come with salsa dancing?

Gabacho who Seeketh Knowledge

Dear Gabacho: True story: an amigo of mineonce texted me that he was going to aRomeo Santos concert and wanted to knowwho he was. I immediately texted back thathe was going to chichis heaven; that therewould probably be 14,999 shriekingwomen—all of them 10s—to see thebachata superstar, and he’d be the onlystraight male. He replied that he wished heknew that information beforehand, becausehe had taken a date to the concert: “A 10,”he wrote, “but I’m surrounded by 12s!”

For the last time, men: women in generallove to dance, but it’s a requirement to beda mexicana. You need to learn the slowgroove of a cumbia, the flips of salsa, thehip-shaking beauty of merengue; a properwaltz or polka to be able to dance to

norteño and bandasinaloense—all of itwill lead to choni-melting abilities. I’mnot going to directyou, SeekethKnowledge, to anybooks or CDs tolearn Latin music’s many grooves, but ratherurge you to become a quinceañeracrasher—cute second cousins for días!

¡FELÍZ BIRTHDAY, ¡ASK AMEXICAN! This week marks the 10-yearanniversary of this infernal columna-–10pinche years already! The Mexican is notmuch for retrospectives—that’s a gabachothing—but I do want to take a moment tooffer thanks to a couple of cabrones: formerOC Weekly editor Will Swaim, for giving methe idea for the column; Vice Mediachingón Daniel Hernández, for writing theLos Angeles Times profile that changed mylife; Scribner, for printing ¡Ask a Mexican!in best-selling book form; mi chula esposa,for all her support and pickling my peppers(and that is not a metaphor); Tom Leykis,for hosting a call-in-version of ¡Ask aMexican! all these years (subscribe to hispodcast at www.blowmeuptom.com); all thehaters, whose vile words remind me why Istarted writing this in the primera place; myfriends and familia, for the obvious reasons;the Albuquerque Alibi, for being the firstnewspaper besides my home periódico tohave the huevos to run the column. And,lastly but not leastly: ustedes gentle readers,whose eternal curiosity about Mexicansmakes this weekly rant an eternally rollickingbit of DESMADRE. To the next decade or50!

Ask the Mexican at themexican@askamexican.net, be his fan on Facebook,follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellanoor follow him on Instagram@gustavo_arellano!

ter in the past that they are taking steps tospread the use of alternative discipline ratherthan removal of kids.

The L.A. and Kern lawsuits are pending. ButCalifornia schools are also facing changes ap-proved by state legislators this year and takingeffect in January.

One of those measures prohibits the jailingof “contemptuous habitual truants” as a wayto force kids into regular attendance. Truancyis not a crime. But kids in some California coun-ties—most had abandoned the practice—weregetting locked up once judges found them to bein contempt of court orders to attend classesregularly.

At least 14 states already prohibit jailing oftruants or other kids who have committed “sta-tus offenses,” which are infractions only mi-nors can commit, like truancy, running away orsmoking. Truants in California can still faceconsequences –including fines and communityservice—and their parents can be jailed for al-lowing kids to be truant.

According to records provided by the YouthLaw Center in San Francisco, Kern Countycourts in 2013 imposed “two weekends” in ju-venile hall on 39 mostly Latino truants. Somewere also ordered to write essays, pay fines orhad driver’s licenses suspended.

The same year, more populous AlamedaCounty locked up 13 minors for truancy; Or-ange County locked up truants 41 times; andSan Diego locked up 41, some for up to fourdays.

In April, a video a student in Kern shot at theNorth High School sparked a community dis-cussion over tough tactics used to try to scarestruggling students who miss too much schoolor have failing grades.

The video—provided to TV stations—re-vealed a school truancy officer shaming 34 stu-dents at a public assembly by calling out theirnames, disclosing that they would probably notgraduate and ordering them to stand up andwalk out of the assembly.

The Kern High School District apologized tothe students and spokesman John Teves toldlocal News17 TV: “It’s not standard practiceto abuse students verbally this way.” He saidthe truancy officer was not authorized to singleout the students, calling out their names into amicrophone in front of peers.

On Sept. 24, local TV cameras also filmedKern High School District school police andother law enforcement conducting a “sweep”to look for more than 80 truants. Officers wenthouse to house and eight students were report-edly given court citations and taken into school,where officers were shown lecturing kids, who

were shown from the back or side.Kern High School District Police Chief Mike

Collier told local reporters, “The best place forkids to be in terms of their safety, their welfareand their future is in school.”

Last April, before Democratic Gov. JerryBrown signed the anti-jailing bill, local TVfilmed a similar Kern sweep that resulted inminors being handcuffed and led into juvenilehall.

Sue Burrell, a staff attorney at the Youth LawCenter in San Francisco, which supported theanti-jailing bill, said she was troubled by thevideo of the September sweep even though kidswere taken into school rather than jail.

“The COPS-like show of force still seemslike the wrong way to approach what is often acomplex set of underlying issues,” she said.Often, Burrell said, kids who are truant arestruggling privately with learning disabilities orbullying, family problems, including substanceabuse or neglect in the home, or responsibili-ties to work or care for other siblings.

Research has shown that even one time inlockup increases a kid’s risk of involvement withthe adult criminal justice system by 50 percent.

Another new policy that California legisla-tors approved and that goes into effect in Janu-ary prohibits suspensions of the Golden State’syoungest students for a broad category of mis-behavior called “willful defiance.”

Legislators gave the bill a three-year life toallow for evaluation after that time lapses. Asanother compromise, the new discipline policyapplies only to children who are in kindergar-ten through third grade. It is the nation’s firstsuch statewide prohibition. Some school dis-tricts, such as Los Angeles Unified, have al-ready barred “willful defiance” suspensions andexpulsions for students of all grade levels.

Several years in the making, the suspensionsbill stemmed from complaints that suspensionsof one day to several days at a time were spi-raling out of control in California; in a “zero-tolerance” climate in some districts, kids werebeing removed for an array of accusations, in-cluding talking back, dress code violations andfailing to do homework or failing to have schoolsupplies.

Data also showed at-home suspensions havebeen disproportionately imposed on black andLatino kids, raising questions about whethercertain kids are treated more harshly for per-ceived misbehavior. Moreover, critics—includ-ing law enforcement officials—pointed to re-search that suspensions put kids behind aca-demically, further alienate them from school,and also increase their risk of getting into troubleand dropping out.

California inequities(con’t from page 1)

...Será la Misma PorqueríaLo cual nos lleva de nuevo a entender que

en el tema de la migración nadie busca unasolución sino jugar a ver quién gana y quiénpierde en la política pero sin arreglar nada.

Por más que Obama prometa, sualternativa entonces sería no tomar (denuevo) ninguna acción ejecutiva hasta quetermine la batalla del presupuesto 2015,quiensabe para cuando.

O tal vez nunca.Como todas las discusiones de inmigración

no son más que juegos electorales, capaz y aObama se le prende el foco y no hace nada.Así, podría tranquilamente decir dentro de dosaños que los Republicanos no hicieron nadamientras tenían la mayoría en las doscámaras del Congreso, y animar de nuevo alos latinos a que voten por los Demócratascon la promesa de que cuando tengan otravez mayoría en el Congreso ahora sí van ahacer algo.

O capaz veta las propuestas que losRepublicanos aprueben mientras son mayoríaen las dos cámaras y entonces se cubre degloria por impedir lo que a todas luces seríanhorrendas propuestas migratorias. Me refiero,por ejemplo, al nefasto E-Verify y al

Será Melón, Será Sandía…(con’t de pag. 2)

Programa de Remoción de InmigrantesCriminales, que son de su obra, por acciónejecutiva y que a los Republicanos lesencantaría convertir en leyes obligatorias.

O capaz no veta nada, aunque las mayoríasRepublicanas no son suficientemente altaspara impedir el veto presidencial, y eso es loque me da más miedo.

Tal vez Barack Obama le firme todo a losRepublicanos, tal como hizo Bill Clinton en susegundo período presidencial, cuando tambiénlos Demócratas perdieron su mayoría y losRepublicanos dirigidos por Newt Gingrichimpusieron su famoso Contrato con América.Ahí fue donde se decidió que ni siquiera losinmigrantes con papeles tenían derecho aayuda pública y otras lindezas que Clintonfirmó sin rechistar.

Puede que Obama tome alguna acciónejecutiva algún día. Puede que efectivamentealivie la situación de dos o tres, o a la mejorcuatro millones de inmigrantes sin papeles.De lo que no me queda duda es que el juegopolítico seguirá tratando el tema de lainmigración como juguetito, sin que hayasoluciones reales, de fondo.

Y mientras no se arregle la situación detodos, no estaremos conformes.

Por Delia PompaNCLR

Seguramente has escuchado hablar sobre losEstándares Comunes Escolares (conocidoscomo Common Core State Standards), ¿peroqué significan para sus hijos? La respuesta cortaes que estos estándares nacionales tienen lapotencial de asegurar que todos los niños tenganlas mismas ventajas educacionales, incluyendoa los estudiantes latinos y los que están enproceso de aprender el idioma Ingles. Comosu implementación ha sido un poco controver-sial, queremos ofrecer respuestas a algunas delas preguntas más comunes.

¿Que son los Estándares Comunes?Los Estándares Escolares fueron desa-

rrollados para establecer estándares con-sistentes y claros que delinean lo que cadaestudiante debe saber en las asignaturas dematemática, lectura, y escritura en los gradosK-12. Hoy día, 43 estados, el Distrito de Co-lumbia, y cuatro territorios, han adoptado yestán implementando a estos estándares quese enfocan en preparar a las estudiantes parala universidad y una futura carrera. Paraaveriguar si su estado ha adoptado a losEstándares, vea Estándares Estatales.

Los estándares implementan unos puntos dereferencia de lo que deben de aprender losniños, no lo que lo que tienen que enseñar losmaestros. Mientras que algunos maestros estánpreocupadas por perder alguna autonomía,otros se han dado cuenta que tienen laflexibilidad para ajustar a su currículo para cadaestudiante.

¿Como Usted Puede Apoyar elAprendizaje de Sus Hijos?

¿Debe un niño en kindergarten saber todassus letras mayúsculas y minúsculas? ¿Debe unestudiante en tercer grado saber su tabla demultiplicación? Anteriormente, cada estadotenía sus propios estándares educacionales quequiere decir que estas lecciones se podríanenseñar en diferentes niveles dependiendo delestado. Los Estándares Comunes aseguran quea pesar del distrito o estado donde ustedpermanece, usted sabrá lo que esperar a cadanivel de grado. Usted puede ver el progreso enEstándares Comunes para que pueda seguir altanto de los nuevos conceptos que estáaprendiendo su hijo/a y reforzarlos en casa.

¿Cómo Puede Usted Trabajar Con LosMaestros de Sus Hijos?

Como ahora existen metas definidas paracada asignatura, usted puede trabajar enconjunto con los maestros de sus hijos paraasegurar que los niños tengan éxito, sin importardonde usted vive. En las conferencias con losmaestros, usted puede discutir el progreso desu hijo/a y averiguar como usted ayudar a quecontinúen su desarrollo educacional. El ConsejoNacional de PTA (grupo de padres y maestros),sugiere que usted no trate de cubrir todo esestas conferencias sino que pida ejemplos deltrabajo del estudiante y averigüe si estostrabajos satisfacen los estándares.

¿Qué Puedes Hacer en Casa?Además de apoyar el aprendizaje de sus hijos

instándolos a que lean y tengan buenos hábitosde estudio, es principalmente importantepreguntarle a sus hijos “porque?” en vez deconcentrarse en memorizar hechos. LosEstándares Comunes no solo se enfocan enensenar información y habilidades, sino tambiénenseñan como los estudiantes pueden aplicarlo que están aprendiendo para obtener un

entendimiento aun más profundo del tema.Los padres de niños pequeños saben que los

niños muchas veces preguntan ‘¿por qué?’(¿Por qué es azul el cielo? ¿Por que las perso-nas hablan idiomas diferentes? ¿Por qué nopueden volar los carros?), estimula esatendencia natural a través de conversacionesy discusiones sobre diferentes temas y busquenjuntos las respuestas a esas preguntas.

“Los Estándares Comunes ayudaran enor-memente porque cuando los padres estánenvuelto en el aprendizaje de sus hijos, ambosestán aprendiendo. También ayuda a que lospadres tengan una buena idea de los que estánhaciendo sus hijos y como mejor ayudarlos,”dice Tania Soto Velez, madre de una estudianteen las escuelas públicas de New York.

¿Qué Pasa Si Su Hijo/a Esta en ElProceso de Aprender el Ingles?

Los niños que no dominan el Ingles bene-ficiaran de los Estándares Comunes y su énfasisen idioma y lectura. En vez de concentrarsesolamente en escribir durante la clase de Ingles,los maestros en todas asignaturas incluyendo ala ciencia, historia y hasta matemática, seenfocaran en ayudar a desarrollar lectores yescritores.

¿Notaré Una Diferencia En Las Tareasde Mi Hijo/a?

Si su hijo/hija ha estado en la escuela unosaños, usted notara un cambio en el tipo detrabajo que hace a paso de que se implementenlos estándares. Unos de estos cambios es lareducción de hojas de trabajo y un incrementoen proyectos que requieren que los estudiantespiensen, analicen, leen, investiguen, y escribansobre problemas específicos.

También notarás que su hijo/a estaránasignados más textos no-ficción en diferentesasignaturas, no solo en la clase de Ingles. Estosnuevos estándares requieren que los estudi-antes lean textos de no-ficción como revistasde ciencia y documentos históricos apropiadospara su edad que los ayudara a prepararseefectivamente para la universidad y para unafutura carrera. Los maestros desarrollarantarea y estrategias para ayudar a los estudiantesa aclarar cualquier confusión para que no sesientan frustrados.

¿Y Los Exámenes Estandarizados?Nuevos estándares requieren nuevas

medidas. Mientras que las escuelas hacen latransición a los Estándares Comunes, ustednotará que los examines estandarizados seránmas difíciles. La meta es alejarse de exámenesde respuestas múltiples hacia un asesoramientoque le pide al estudiante analizar y sintetizar lainformación, escribir ensayos, y demostrar loque han aprendido.

“Pienso que mis hijos se beneficiaran de losEstándares Comunes Escolares porque estánexigiendo que los estudiantes aprendan mate-ria y habilidades que son necesarios para queellos sean los futuros profesionales de nuestrasociedad,” dijo Heidi Colon, madre de dosestudiantes.

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want to be done with this,” she said.Colibrí founder Robin Reineke is among a

coalition of scientists, students and human rightsactivists working to collect better data fromthe remains of unidentified border crossers sothat they can be positively matched with thosereported missing.

Reineke and her colleagues have made 100positive identifications from remains since 2006.

That leaves about 900 other John and JaneDoes found in Arizona alone. Funerals will notbe held for them; their families will likely neverbe notified.

“They have been made invisible many times,”Reineke said.

Clock is TickingWhen an undocumented migrant dies trying

to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, the clockbegins ticking. If the body is found before ithas decomposed or been eaten by animals, in-vestigators can determine the person’s weightand find scars or tattoos that might aid in iden-tification. There’s also a better chance thatclothing and personal items will be found.

“What we have to go on is pretty much indirect proportion to the condition of the remainswhen they were found,” said Pima CountyMedical Examiner Gregory Hess.

Despite its relatively small population of 6.6million, Arizona ranks third in the U.S., behindCalifornia and New York, for number of uni-dentified remains.

In 2010, the Pima County Medical Exami-ner’s Office saw a spike in the number of uni-dentified remains coming in. And, with thatspike, came people searching for loved ones.

“We get families who show up in the park-ing lot,” Hess said.

The families had come to the wrong agencyto file a missing-person report.

“It’s not like you could search those param-eters in the records we use to house our cases.It’s not made for that,” Hess said.

At that time, Reineke was a graduate stu-dent working with University of Arizona an-thropologist Bruce Anderson to centralize miss-ing-migrant data from southern Arizona. Shecollected data from consulates – including pa-per records – and took reports from families.

“The breakdown of the case is most of thefamilies of missing migrants can’t go to police,either because they are afraid of getting re-ported or because they are in Mexico or Cen-tral America,” she said.

Sometimes, the family will choose a delegatewho is bilingual or has secure legal status inthe U.S. to make the report.

“Other times,” she said, “we can sense theperson [making the report] is terrified.”

Colibrí, a nonprofit that grew out of this work,receives as many as 60 reports from familieseach week and also collects missing-personreports from consulates, nonprofits, journalistsand BORSTAR, the Border Patrol’s search-and-rescue unit.

“We’re really just trying to be a clearing-house of all this data so medical examinersacross the border will have an easy list,”Reineke said.

Little is easy about determining migrants’identities. In 2008, the body of a young womanwas brought in to the Pima County ME’s of-fice. Found with the body was an ID card, andthe face of the woman matched the photo on

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSNotice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School Dis-trict, acting by and through its governing board, will receivesealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transporta-tion, equipment, and services to:

FURNISH AND INSTALL NEW PUBLIC ADDRESSSYSTEMS AT SILVER GATE AND SUNSET VIEW ELEMEN-

TARY SCHOOLSA mandatory site visit is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on NOVEM-BER 20, 2014 in front of the main office of Silver Gate El-ementary School, 1499 Venice Street, San Diego, CA 92107.Upon completion, contractors will proceed to Sunset ViewElementary School, 4365 Hill Street, San Diego, CA 92107.Contractors must be present and sign-in at both sites to be ableto bid this project. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS. (No.CZ-15-0697-29)

All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on DE-CEMBER 4, 2014, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts De-partment, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123,at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The project estimate is between $110,000 and $130,000. Thisis not a PSA project and does not require prequalification. TheDistrict requires that Bidders possess any of the followingclassification(s) of California State Contractors License(s), validand in good standing, at the time of bid opening and contractaward: C-10.

All late bids shall be deemed non-responsive and not opened.Each bid shall be in accordance with all terms, conditions, plans,specifications and any other documents that comprise the bidpackage. The Bid and Contract Documents are available inthree formats, hard copy, CD, or online from Plan Well. Hardcopy bid documents are available at American ReprographicsCompany (ARC), 1200 4th Avenue (4th and B Street), San Di-ego, CA 92101, phone number 619-232-8440, for a refundablepayment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per set; CD’s are avail-able for a non-refundable charge of $50. Payments shall bemade by check payable to SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOLDISTRICT. If the payment for Bid and Contract Documents isrefundable, refunds will be processed by the District only if theBid and Contract Documents, including all addendums, are re-turned intact and in good order to ARC within ten (10) days ofthe issuance of the Final Bid Tabulation. Online documentsare available for download free of charge on PlanWellthrough ARC. Go to www.crplanwell.com, click on Pub-lic Planroom, search SDUSD (Questions? 714-424-8525).All bids shall be submitted on bid forms furnished by theDistrict in the bid package beginning November 11, 2014.Bid packages will not be faxed.

As of January 1, 2012, the San Diego Unified School Districtno longer administers the in-house Labor Compliance Programfor all new construction projects. Prevailing wage requirementswill still apply to all public works projects and must be followedper Article 18 of the General Conditions of this bid.

WAGES: The Director of the Department of Industrial Rela-tions has determined the general prevailing rate of per diemwages in the locality in which this public work is to be performedfor each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to ex-ecute the contract. Copies of that determination are availableat the District’s Labor Compliance Office for interested partiesupon request; or may be found on the internet at: http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. It shall be mandatory upon thecontractor to whom this contract is awarded and upon any sub-contractor under him to pay not less than the said specifiedrates to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed bythem in the execution of the contract.

DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPA-TION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Ser-vice Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Dis-abled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May10, 2011 by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required tosatisfy a minimum DVBE participation percentage of at leastthree percent (3%) for this project. In compliance with thisProgram, the Bidder shall satisfy all requirements enumeratedin the bid package.

Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the bidpackage and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid secu-rity in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder andSurety Company, or a certified or cashier’s check in favor ofthe San Diego Unified School District, in an amount equal toten percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall begiven to guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract asspecified, within five (5) working days of notification by theDistrict.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and towaive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in thebidding. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120days after the date set for the opening of bids. For informationregarding bidding, please call 858-522-5831.

PREQUALIFICATIONS - Beginning January 1, 2014, SanDiego Unified will only accept bids from prequalified con-tractors on all projects of $1 million or over, regardless ofthe value of the prime and/or subcontractors’ work on theproject. Prequalification will be required of all generalcontractors and certain subcontractors. (A, B and C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and/or C-46 licenses). Get your prequalification package startednow by going online to https://prequal.sandi.net oremailing Glenda Burbery, Construction Contracts Assis-tant, at gburbery@sandi.net to request a pre-qualificationquestionnaire. For more information, and a list ofprequalified contractors, go to: www.sandi.net/Page/56337.

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTArthur S. Hanby, Jr., CPPO, C.P.M., CPPB, A.P.PStrategic Sourcing and Contracts OfficerStrategic Sourcing and Contracts Dept NO. CZ-15-0697-29

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSNotice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School Dis-trict, acting by and through its governing board, will receivesealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transpor-tation, equipment, and services to:

FURNISH AND INSTALL NEW PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMAT KEARNY HIGH SCHOOL

A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on NOVEM-BER 20, 2014 in front of the main office of Kearny High School,7651 Wellington Street, San Diego, CA 92111. PLEASE SEEBID FOR DETAILS. (No.CZ-15-0696-29)

All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on DE-CEMBER 3, 2014, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts De-partment, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123,at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The project estimate is between $160,000 and $170,000. Thisis not a PSA project and does not require prequalification. TheDistrict requires that Bidders possess any of the followingclassification(s) of California State Contractors License(s), validand in good standing, at the time of bid opening and contractaward: C-10.

All late bids shall be deemed non-responsive and not opened.Each bid shall be in accordance with all terms, conditions, plans,specifications and any other documents that comprise the bidpackage. The Bid and Contract Documents are available inthree formats, hard copy, CD, or online from Plan Well. Hardcopy bid documents are available at American ReprographicsCompany (ARC), 1200 4th Avenue (4th and B Street), San Di-ego, CA 92101, phone number 619-232-8440, for a refundablepayment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per set; CD’s are avail-able for a non-refundable charge of $50. Payments shall bemade by check payable to SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOLDISTRICT. If the payment for Bid and Contract Documents isrefundable, refunds will be processed by the District only if theBid and Contract Documents, including all addendums, arereturned intact and in good order to ARC within ten (10) days ofthe issuance of the Final Bid Tabulation. Online documentsare available for download free of charge on PlanWellthrough ARC. Go to www.crplanwell.com, click on Pub-lic Planroom, search SDUSD (Questions? 714-424-8525).All bids shall be submitted on bid forms furnished by theDistrict in the bid package beginning November 11, 2014.Bid packages will not be faxed.

As of January 1, 2012, the San Diego Unified School Districtno longer administers the in-house Labor Compliance Programfor all new construction projects. Prevailing wage requirementswill still apply to all public works projects and must be followedper Article 18 of the General Conditions of this bid.

WAGES: The Director of the Department of Industrial Rela-tions has determined the general prevailing rate of per diemwages in the locality in which this public work is to be performedfor each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to ex-ecute the contract. Copies of that determination are availableat the District’s Labor Compliance Office for interested partiesupon request; or may be found on the internet at: http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. It shall be mandatory upon thecontractor to whom this contract is awarded and upon any sub-contractor under him to pay not less than the said specifiedrates to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed bythem in the execution of the contract.

DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPA-TION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Ser-vice Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Dis-abled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May10, 2011 by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required tosatisfy a minimum DVBE participation percentage of at leastthree percent (3%) for this project. In compliance with thisProgram, the Bidder shall satisfy all requirements enumeratedin the bid package.

Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the bidpackage and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid secu-rity in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder andSurety Company, or a certified or cashier’s check in favor ofthe San Diego Unified School District, in an amount equal toten percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall begiven to guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract asspecified, within five (5) working days of notification by theDistrict.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and towaive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in thebidding. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120days after the date set for the opening of bids. For informa-tion regarding bidding, please call 858-522-5831.

PREQUALIFICATIONS - Beginning January 1, 2014, SanDiego Unified will only accept bids from prequalified con-tractors on all projects of $1 million or over, regardlessof the value of the prime and/or subcontractors’ work onthe project. Prequalification will be required of all gen-eral contractors and certain subcontractors. (A, B and C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and/or C-46 licenses). Get your prequalification packagestarted now by going online to https://prequal.sandi.netor emailing Glenda Burbery, Construction Contracts As-sistant, at gburbery@sandi.net to request a pre-qualifica-tion questionnaire. For more information, and a list ofprequalified contractors, go to: www.sandi.net/Page/56337.

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTArthur S. Hanby, Jr., CPPO, C.P.M., CPPB, A.P.PStrategic Sourcing and Contracts OfficerStrategic Sourcing and Contracts Dept NO. CZ-15-0696-29

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SDHC PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSINGFUNDING AVAILABLE

The San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) is issuing a No-tice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to identify qualified andexperienced organizations to create affordable housing in theCity of San Diego, using the following funding sources, aloneor in combination, to provide housing for homeless individuals:

1. Combination of federal Project-Based Housing Vouchersand federal Sponsor-Based Housing Vouchers – 250 avail-able;

2. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD) Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH)Project-Based Housing Vouchers – 25 available;

3. Flat Housing Subsidy Program for Youth Aging Out of theFoster Care System – 25 subsidies available for a pilotprogram; and

4. Allocation of up to $10 million from diverse federal, stateand local funding sources administered by SDHC.

5. FTEH up to $240,000 in funding from Funders Together toEnd Homelessness

Eligible Projects:

• Minimum 25 units

• 25% of the units designated as permanent supportive af-fordable units

• Supportive services, appropriate to the target population,on-site or partnership agreements for supportive servicesfor all permanent supportive affordable unit residents

Pre-Proposal Meeting (Non-Mandatory): Tuesday Novem-ber 18, 2014, 10:00am to 12:00pm San Diego Housing Com-mission, 1122 Broadway, 5th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101.

Opening Date to Submit Applications: November 20, 2014

Closing Date for Application Submittal: Notice will be pub-lished when all funds are committed to eligible projects

SDHC is an award-winning public housing agency that providesa variety of affordable housing programs and services thatstimulate the local economy revitalize neighborhoods and im-pact the lives of more than 125,000 individuals in the City ofSan Diego annually:

1. Federal Rental Assistance – SDHC’s largest program pro-vides rental assistance to more than 14,000 low-income house-holds through the federal Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8)program, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Ur-ban Development (HUD).

2. Creating Affordable Housing – SDHC owns 153 proper-ties with 2,294 affordable housing units, including public hous-ing, in the City of San Diego. As a partner and lender, SDHCalso has directed more than $1 billion in loans and bond financ-ing to real estate developments that, coupled with housing den-sity bonuses and inclusionary housing, have produced morethan 14,782 affordable apartments in the City of San Diegosince 1981.In addition, since August 13, 1990, when SDHC’sFirst-Time Homebuyer Program began, through December 31,2013, the program helped 5,236 families. Furthermore, SDHC’s“Home Safe Home” program has provided more than $109 millionin federal, state and local grants for home rehabilitation to ad-dress safety hazards in the home, allowing 12,086 low-incomeowners to improve their properties.

3. Homeless Prevention and Assistance – SDHC is a drivingforce of the national “Housing First” model in the City of SanDiego, directing federal housing resources to achieve the goalof ending homelessness. In addition, since July 1, 2010, SDHChas administered the City of San Diego’s Homeless Sheltersand Services Programs, which provide temporary shelter as-sistance to some of San Diego’s most vulnerable citizens.

For additional information, contact Ralph Tharp, atralpht@sdhc.org

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the ID, which also had a name. Despite allthis, Reineke was unable to locate the woman’sfamily.

“Sometimes it’s just a matter of the data notbeing comprehensive,” she said.

On one hand is the information collected fromthe remains. On the other, is missing-personinformation. One or the other – or both – maybe missing or incomplete.

Family members may not file a missing-per-son report because they are estranged fromthe relative, involved in the drug trade or tooscared, because of their own undocumentedstatus, to make a report.

Information about the remains of unidenti-fied bodies is often inconsistent, since there isno universal protocol on how an unidentifiedbody is handled.

“The way death investigations work is veryfragmented. Who is doing this [DNA sampling]depends on where you live,” Hess said.

Pima County takes DNA samples from allunidentified remains, but, as Hess points out,“a physical DNA sample can be useful onlyinsofar as there are other samples with whichto compare it.”

In the U.S., databases of DNA are linked tolaw enforcement. CODIS, the Combined DNAIndex System, is managed by the FBI.

It contains DNA profiles of people who havebeen arrested, convicted offenders, and fam-ily members of missing persons.

Hess and his colleagues sometimes takeDNA from unidentified remains and enter theinformation into CODIS.

“Sometimes that comes back as a hit,” hesaid. “But then again, do we know the name isa real name, or something that they made up?”

Investigators can also take fingerprints andsend them to the Border Patrol, but even amatch there can be inconclusive as bordercrossers often use false identities and addresses.Dental records are likewise unhelpful becausethe population of border crosses often has hadlittle access to dental care.

“A Mass Disaster”Kate Spradley knows all too well the chal-

lenges of unidentified remains. A forensic an-thropologist at Texas State University, she isconducting an analysis of the remains of 65unidentified border crossers exhumed fromBrooks County’s Sacred Heart cemetery.

The project, she said, is “a mass disaster thatwas dropped off at our lab.”

Texas state law requires DNA sampling ofall unidentified remains, but the law, Spradleysaid, is rarely enforced.

Texas has 254 counties, only 13 of which havemedical examiners, and those examiners serveonly their own counties, Spradley said. Thereare three medical examiners in the border area.An autopsy of unidentified remains costs about$1,500, plus another $1,500 for transport.

“They don’t have the resources to processthose deaths,” Spradley said of border coun-ties.As a result, no one knows for sure how manyunidentified border crossers are buried in Texascemeteries.

“I think whatever number is out there is verymuch an underestimation,” Spradley said.

Amy Roe is the reporter for Equal Voice News. MariaRigou, the social media marketing manager for EqualVoice News and the Marguerite Casey Foundation, con-tributed reporting.

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CITATION FOR FREEDOMFROM PARENTAL

CUSTODY AND CONTROLCase Number: AN15075

In the Matter of JORGE GABRIELLOMBERADate of Birth 05/15/2006 A Minor

To: JORGE LUIS LOMBERA

You are advised that you are requiredto appear in the Superior Court of theState of California, County of San Di-ego, in Department 25 at SUPERIORCOURT OF THE STATE CALIFOR-NIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO. NorthDivision, 325 S. Melrose Dr., Suite 130,Vista, San Diego County, CA 92081 onFRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014, 8:30am, to show cause, if you have any,why JORGE GABRIEL LOMBERA mi-nor should not be declared free from pa-rental custody and control (*for the pur-pose of placement for adoption) as re-quested in the petition.

You are advised that if the parent(s) arepresent at the time and place abovestated the judge will read the petitionand, if requested, may explain the ef-fect of the granting of the petition and,if requested, the judge shall explainany term or allegation contained thereinand the nature of the proceeding, itsprocedures and possible conse-quences and may continue the matterfor not more than 30 days for the ap-pointment of counsel or to give coun-sel time to prepare.

The court may appoint counsel to rep-resent the minor whether or not the mi-nor is able to afford counsel. If any par-ent appears and is unable to afford coun-sel, the court shall appoint counsel torepresent each parent who appears un-less such representation is knowinglyand intelligently waived.

If you wish to seek the advice of anattorney in this matter, you shoulddo so promptly so that your plead-ing, if any, may be filed on time.

Date: OCTOBER 22, 2014

by M. ZURCHER, Deputy.Clerk of the Superior Court

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CITATION FOR FREEDOMFROM PARENTAL CUSTODY

SUMMONS - (Family Law)CASE NUMBER: DN 180088

NOTICE TO RESPONDENT:AVISO AL DEMANDADO:ANTONIA GARCIA VALENZUELAYou are being sued.Lo están demandando.

PETITIONER'S NAME IS:NOMBRE DEL DEMANDANTE:DAVID FREDERICK STEINBISYou have 30 calendar days after thisSummons and Petition are served onyou to file a Response (form FL-120 orFL-123) at the court and have a copyserved on the petitioner. A letter orphone call will not protect you.If you do not file your Response on time,the court may make orders affecting yourmarriage or domestic partnership, yourproperty and custody of your children.You may be ordered to pay support andattorney fees and costs. If you cannotpay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a feewaiver form.For legal advice, contact a lawyer im-mediately. You can get informationabout finding lawyers at the CaliforniaCourts Online Self-Help Center (www.court.ca.gov/self help), at the CaliforniaLegal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting yourlocal county bar association.

Tiene 30 días de calendario despuésde haber recibido la entrega legal deesta Citación y Petición para presentaruna Respuesta (formulario FL-120 ó FL-123) ante la corte y efectuar la entregalegal de una copia al demandante. Unacarta o llamada telefónica no basta paraprotegerlo.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo,la corte puede dar órdenes que afectensu matrimonio o pareja de hecho, susbienes y la custodia de sus hijos. Lacorte también le puede ordenar quepague manutención, y honorarios ycostos legales. Si no puede pagar lacuota de presentación, pida al secretarioun formulario de exención de cuotas.

Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal,póngase en contacto de inmediato conun abogado. Puede obtener informaciónpara encontrar a un abogado en elCentro de Ayuda de las Cortes de Cali-fornia (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en el sitioWeb de los Servicios Legales de Cali-fornia (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) oponiéndose en contacto con el colegiode abogados de su condado.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: DIAZ INSUR-ANCE AGENCY at 664 Broadway Ave.Suite D, Chula Vista, CA, County of SanDiego, 91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Solrac Enterprise Inc., 664Broadway Ave. Suite D, Chula Vista, CA91910.This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:10/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Carlos Diaz. Title:PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 24, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028181

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: EDESIGNS&CREATIONS at 463 DenneryRd. Apt. 30, San Diego, CA, County ofSan Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Elizabeth Muzquiz, 463Dennery Rd. Apt. 30, San Diego, CA92154This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:10/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Elizabeth MuzquizThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 24, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028180

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: VALENCIA CABat 867 Ada St., Chula Vista, CA, Countyof San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Miguel Valencia, 867 Ada St.,Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:07/13/2006I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Miguel ValenciaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 28, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028470

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Fictitious Business Name: a. RELENT-LESS MOBILE GYM MURSE b. RE-LENTLESS M.B MURSE at 5385 MaryFellows Ave., La Mesa, CA, County ofSan Diego, 92116.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Jorge Esquivel, 5385 MaryFellows Ave., San Diego, CA 92116.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:08/18/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Jorge EsquivelThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 24, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028224

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Fictitious Business Name: SUPERIORREGISTRATION SERVICE at 1234-CHeritage Road, San Diego, CA, County ofSan Diego, 92154. Mailing Address: 3156Bonita Road, Chula Vista, CA 91910This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Carla M. Diaz, 3156 BonitaRoad, Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Carla M. DiazThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028619

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: KREST at 1200Paseo Magda #421, Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91910. Mailing Ad-dress: 374 E.H. St. Ste. A PMB 337,Chula Vista, CA 91910-7496This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Krest LLC, 1200 PaseoMagda #421, Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: 10/29/2014.I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Sammy Balian. Title:CEOThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028662

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: A&S PACIFICDEVELOPMENT at 1200 Paseo Magda#421, Chula Vista, CA, County of San Di-ego, 91910. Mailing Address: 374 E.H.St. Ste. A PMB 337, Chula Vista, CA91910-7496This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: A&S Pacific DevelopmentLLC,1200 Paseo Magda #421, ChulaVista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: 10/29/2014.I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-

Powderhorn Drive, San Diego, CA 92154.2. Armando Benny, 4214 PowderhornDrive, San Diego, CA 92154.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Maristela BennyThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 16, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027434

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: LIBERTY MO-TOR GROUP at 6529 Calle Pavana, SanDiego, CA, County of San Diego, 92139.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Rogelio Avila, 6529 CallePavana, San Diego, CA 92139. 2. MariaG. Ruiz, 6529 Calle Pavana, San Diego,CA 92139.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Rogelio Avila.This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 16, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027485

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name:LGUAPOGREENGO at 6305 MountAinsworth Way, San Diego, CA, Countyof San Diego, 92111.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Marc Daniel Emmons, 6305Mount Ainsworth Way, San Diego, CA92111.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Marc Daniel EmmonsThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 14, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027298

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name:SAILCLOTHBAGMAN at 7777 StalmerSt. #7, San Diego, CA, County of San Di-ego, 92111.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Lawrence Bayard Goebel,7777 Stalmer St. #7, San Diego, CA92111. 2. Carmen Lopez Goebel, 7777Stalmer St. #7, San Diego, CA 92111.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Lawrence BayardGoebelThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 16, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027506

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: MIKE TAX EZat 423 Third Avenue, Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Monica Maria Martinez, 234Elder Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:04/17/2007I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Monica Maria MartinezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 22, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027884

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: UNLIMITEDTRANSPORTATION SERVICES at 353544th St., San Diego, CA, County of SanDiego, 92105.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Elviro Barraza, 3535 44th St.,San Diego, CA 92105.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:10/05/2009I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Elviro BarrazaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 21, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027870

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: REAL JCS at1020 McCain Valley Ct, Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91913.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Monica Y. Real, 1020McCain Valley Ct, Chula Vista, CA91913.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Monica Y. RealThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 22, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027900

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suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Sammy Balian. Title:CEOThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 29, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028665

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BIODENTALUSA at 2240 Main Street Ste.2, ChulaVista, CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Easy Dental, Inc., 2240Main Street Ste. 2, Chula Vista, CA91911.This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:02/26/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Hugo Pretty. Title: Vice-PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 30, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028696

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: TIJUANA JR.TACOS Y COCTELES at 631 BroadwaySuite B, Chula Vista, CA, County of SanDiego, 91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Arturo Garcia Aceves, 631Broadway Suite B, Chula Vista, CA91910. 2. Ma. Irene Medina de Garcia,631 Broadway Suite B, Chula Vista, CA91910.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Arturo Garcia AcevesThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 30, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028738

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BELLA BUMPMATERNITY at 1875 Crossroads Street,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91915.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Cynthia Gonzalez, 1875Crossroads Street, Chula Vista, CA91915.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:10/27/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Cynthia GonzalezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 27, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028275

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: ROMEROSELITE SERVICES at 1261 Pecan Pl,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911. Mailing Address: 727 San YsidroBlvd. #165B, San Ysidro, CA 92173This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Juan Raul Romero, 1261 Pe-can Pl., Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Juan Raul Romero.This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 31, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028850

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: KING TRANS-PORT at 1300 First Ave., Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: King Reyes Transport, Inc.,1300 First Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:10/22/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Adriana ReyesThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 03, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028988

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. DHNUTRITION&HEALTH b. DH NUTRI-TION AND HEALTH at 527 2nd Ave.,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Horacio De la Cruz, 527 2ndAve., Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Horacio De la CruzThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 05, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029174

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: RANDY’S RE-PAIRS at 677 G Street, Chula Vista, CA,

ABANDONMENT OFFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT OFABANDONMENT OF USE

OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME

Fictitious Business Name: ELITE RVRENTAL SERVICE&DETAIL, 1982 KentSt.., Chula Vista, CA, County of San Di-ego, 91913.The Fictitious Business Name referred toabove was filed in San Diego County on:07-11-2013, and assigned File No. 2012-020075Is Abandoned by The Following Regis-trant: 1. Silvia Brizuela, 1982 Kent St.,Chula Vista, CA 91913. 2. Adrian Garcia,532341, San Diego St., San Diego, CA92153.I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct.S i g n a t u r e o f R e g i s t r a n t: SilviaBrizuelaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 31, 2014

Assigned File No.: 2014-028872

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BLUE STAR IM-PORTS at 2335 Paseo de las Americas,Suite B, San Diego, CA, County of SanDiego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: 1. Peter LockwoodTownsend Jr., 22912 Avenida Valverde,Laguna Hills, CA 92653. 2. Lizbeth RocioAispuro Lavenant, 1563 Hillsborough St.,Chula Vista, CA 91913.This Business is Conducted By: A Gen-eral Partnership. The First Day of Busi-ness Was: N/A.I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Peter LockwoodTownsend Jr.This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 16, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027564

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: EL PORTONDOORS at 1151 4th Ave. Int. 608, ChulaVista, CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Mauricio Flores Adame, 11514th Avenue, Int. 608, Chula Vista, CA91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:09/22/2014.I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Mauricio Flores AdameThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 17, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027604

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BENNY BEANSCOFFEE at 435 H Steet, Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91910. Mail-ing Address: 4214 Powderhorn Drive, SanDiego, CA 92154This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Maristela Benny, 4214

County of San Diego, 91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Randall J. Patrick, 677 GStreet. Spc. 40, Chula Vista, CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:10/30/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Randall J. PatrickThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 30, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028727

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: GO TO ERRANDSERVICE at 904 12th St., Imperial Beach,CA, County of San Diego, 91932. Mail-ing Address: P.O. Box 5958, Chula Vista,CA 91912.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Christian George Chavez,904 12th St., Imperial Beach, CA 91932.2. Lourdes Marine Chavez, 904 12th St.,Imperial Beach, CA 91932.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Christian GeorgeChavez.This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 07, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029589

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: ADORARTE IN-STITUTE at 904 12th. St., ImperialBeach, CA, County of San Diego, 91932.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Israel Macias Valdivia,904 12th St., Imperial Beach, CA 91932.2. Christine Macias, 904 12th St., Impe-rial Beach, CA 91932.This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Israel Macias ValdiviaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 07, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029590

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: UNITED KING-DOM at 503 Georgetown Pl. Unit B,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Christian Sevilla, 503Georgetown Pl. Unit B, Chula Vista, CA91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:11/07/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Christian SevillaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 07, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029618

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: F&G TRANS-PORT at 2153 Union St., San Diego, CA,County of San Diego, 92101.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Francisco Perez Perez, 2153Union St., San Diego, CA 92101.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Francisco Perez PerezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 10, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029716

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. DYNAMICESTATES b. DYNAMIC ESTATE SER-VICES at 8880 Rio San Diego Drive, Ste.800, San Diego, CA, County of San Di-ego, 92108.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Alberto I. Siapno IIIThis Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:10/30/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Alberto I. Siapno IIIThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 10, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029731

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. UNITED KING-DOM WORLDWIDE b. KINGDOM CAFEat 503 Georgetown Pl. Unit B, ChulaVista, CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Christian Sevilla, 503Georgetown Pl. Unit B, Chula Vista, CA91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:11/07/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Christian SevillaThis Statement Was Filed With Ernest

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. BULLDOGTOWING b. BULLDOG WRECKERS at4247 Layla Ct., San Diego, CA, Countyof San Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Marcos Lopez, 4247 LaylaCt, San Diego CA 92154. 2. CaesarEsparza. 319t E J St.This Business is Conducted By: A Gen-eral Partnership. The First Day of Busi-ness Was: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Marcos Lopez. Title:Vice-presidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 23, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028045

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BRICKHOUSECARDIO CLUB at 4390 Palm Ave. Ste.A, San Diego, CA, County of San Diego,92154. Mailing Address: 1489 HawkenDrive, San Diego, CA 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: CJS Fitness, LLC, 1489Hawken Drive, San Diego, CA 92154.This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Joann R. Stephens.Title: MemberThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 22, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-027949

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: A COMPLETECLEANING SERVICE at 7770 RegentsRd, Suite 113-570, San Diego, CA,County of San Diego, 92122.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Sean Defreitas, 10526Caminito Pollo, San Diego, CA 92126. 2.Maria T. Arribas, 3027 Briand Ave., SanDiego, CA 92122.This Business is Conducted By: JointVenture. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Sean Defreitas-Maria T.Arribas.This Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County OCT 31, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-028858

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: URBAN REFUGEat 4390 580 Hilltop Drive, Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91910. Mail-ing Address: P.O. Box 82625, San Diego,CA 92138This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Upper Room CommunityChurch, 580 Hilltop Drive, Chula Vista,CA 91910.This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Lee Wagenblast. Title:CEOThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 10, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029746

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Petitioner: JESSICA NOEL BURNS fileda petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:JESSICA NOEL BURNS to JESSICANOEL FREDERICK

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-19-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: NOV 05, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00037683-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: YURI MENDEZ GUZMAN fileda petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:YURI MENDEZ GUZMAN to YURIGUZMAN MENDEZ

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-19-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: NOV. 5, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Nov. 14, 21, 28. Dec. 5/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00035284-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: WASSAM ALBO-AUEF ANDHIBA AUEF ON BEHALF OF MINORHOMAM KHUDHER ALBO-AUEF ANDREHAM KHUDHER ALBO-AUEF filed apetition with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:A. HOMAM KHUDHER ALBO-AUEF TOALEX KHUDHER AUEF. B. REHAMKHUDHER ALBO-AUEF to JESSIEKHUDHER AUEF

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-5-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: OCT 17, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Oct. 24, 31. Nov. 7, 14/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00035282-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: STEPHEN SCOTTSANDBURG filed a petition with this courtfor a decree changing names as follows:STEPHEN SCOTT SANDBURG TOSTEPHEN SCOTT SPERRAZZO

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-12-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: OCT 17, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Oct. 24, 31. Nov. 7, 14/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00035185-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MONICA MARGARITACAMPERO ON BEHALF OF MINORALEXA CHANTAL VIRAMONTES fileda petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:ALEXA CHANTAL VIRAMONTES TOALEXA CHANTAL RODRIGUEZ

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-5-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: OCT 17, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Oct. 24, 31. Nov. 7, 14/2014La Prensa San Diego

CHANGE OF NAME

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00035478-CU-PT-NC

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: PEDRO MARCOS GASPARAND ELENA VICENTE JUAN ON BE-HALF OF MINOR ALVIN ROGERGASPAR filed a petition with this courtfor a decree changing names as follows:ALVIN ROGER GASPAR to JACOBROGER GASPAR

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: JAN-06-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:26. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,325 S Melrose Drive, Vista, CA 92081.North County Division.A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: OCT 20, 2014

Michael KirkmanJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Oct. 31. Nov. 7, 14, 21/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00037037-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: TYMMIE HEANG AND NIKKIR. HENG ON BEHALF OF MINORKIMHENG BRYANT HEANG filed a peti-tion with this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows:KIMHENG BRYANT HEANG to BRYANTKIMHENG HEANG

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-12-2014. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: OCT 30, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00036488-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: CARLOS A. PEREZ-MARTINEZ AND MARLENE BRITO ONBEHALF OF MINOR ANGEL JOELPEREZ-BRITO filed a petition with thiscourt for a decree changing names as fol-lows:ANGEL JOEL PEREZ-BRITO to ATZINJOEL PEREZ-BRITO

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: JAN-09-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: OCT 27, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00037407-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MAYRA KARINA VASQUEZfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:MAYRA KARINA VASQUEZ to MAYRAVAZZQUEZ

THE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear be-fore this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the peti-tion for change of name should not begranted. Any person objecting to thename changes descr ibed abovemust file a written objection that in-cludes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appearat the hearing to show cause why the pe-tition should not be granted. If no writtenobjection is timely filed, the court maygrant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: DEC-19-2014. Time: 9:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: NOV 03, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28/2014La Prensa San Diego

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00037725-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

CHANGE OF NAME

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AVISO-LAS ÓRDENES DERESTRICCIÓN SE ENCUENTRAN ENLA PÁGINA 2: Las órdenes de restricciónestán en vigencia en cuanto amboscónyuges o miembros de la pareja dehecho hasta que se despida la petición,se emita un fallo o la corte dé otrasórdenes. Cualquier agencia del ordenpúblico que haya recibido o visto unacopia de estas órdenes puede hacerlasacatar en cualquier lugar de California.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the fil-ing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiverform. The court may order you to pay backall or part of the fees and costs that thecourt you waived for you or the other party.

EXENCIÓN DE CUOTAS: Si no puedepagar la cuota de presentación, pida alsecretario un formulario de exención decuotas. La corte puede ordenar que ustedpague, ya sea en parte o por completo,las cuotas y costos de la cortepreviamente exentos a petición de ustedo de la otra parte.

1. The name and address of the court is:El nombre y dirección de la corte son:Superior Court of California, 325 SMelrose Drive, Vista, CA 92081.

2. The name, address, and telephonenumber of petitioner's attorney, or the pe-titioner without an attorney, are:(El nombre, dirección y número deteléfono del abogado del demandante, odel demandante si no tiene abogado,son): David Frederick Steinbis, 940Orpheus Ave., Encinitas, CA 92024. Tel.:760-633-4883

Date (Fecha): AUG 21, 2014

Clerk, by (Secretario, por) E. TAYLOR,Deputy (Asistente)

Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28/2014La Prensa San Diego

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