San Bernardino Press MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 - OCTOBER 5, 2014
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VOLUME 1, NO. 22
Governor signs ban of Confederate flag San into law Bernardino by Jennifer schlueter Public Library presents author Alice Eby Hall
that morning standing outside a home. The gunman was identified as Alex Alvarado, 38, by the police, and was killed by the trainee officer after Alvarado allegedly opened fire on the police. According to police, the officers approached the group when Alex Alvarado, the suspected shooter, reportedly using had a Taurus .38 Special
Join us Saturday October 4, 2014 at the Norman F. Feldheym Public Library in San Bernardino for a book reading by local author Alice Eby Hall. This program will take place in Kellogg Room A at the Feldheym Central Library at 555 W. 6th Street in San Bernardino from 2:00-4:00 PM. “Reunions” traces the friendships that develop among four diverse, independently thinking girls Adele, Cheryl, Lily and Sondra and how they draw strength and nonjudgmental empathy from one another as they share the traumatic incidents of child abuse they have endured. The book is about faith and how young minds think, develop, cope with and survive life’s atrocities and challenges. Hall is a retired teacher who wrote in many genres before writing Christian fiction the past two years. Hall has been writing since her first poem in fourth grade. Through the years, she has published numerous articles in various publications including Guideposts, Family Life, United Caprine News, Countryside, Dairy Goat Guide, and Dairy Goat Journal. Hall has taught in Southern California school districts including San Bernardino, Yucaipa, and Fontana. She has also taught cours-
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Because the Confederate states, which favored slavery, promoted the Confederate flag during the Civil War, it is to many a sign of racism rather than Southern pride. When the mother of State Assembly-
man Isador Hall, D-Compton, spotted imitated Confederate money featuring the Confederate flag at the Capitol gift shop in Sacramento, her son decided to introduce bill AB 2444, with which he wants to “fend
off the ugly hatred of racism”. The legislation, which prohibits “state agencies from selling or displaying items bearing the Confederate flag,” according to Please see page 4
New details emerge in officer shooting by Vickie Vértiz According to an article from the San Bernardino County Sun, the events leading up to the shooting of a San Bernardino police officer came forward Friday, September 19 through testimonies in the preliminary hearing of three men charged with the crime in this past August. The three accused are Jonathan Contreras, 20, Gonzalo Medina, 22, and Orlando Cruz, 24, all from San Ber-
nardino. They appeared in San Bernardino Superior Court and are each charged with two counts of attempted murder of a peace officer and one count of possessing an assault rifle, reported the Sun. When Officer Gabriel Garcia and his trainee partner arrived on the 1900 block of Garner Avenue, Officer Garcia had been shot once in the head after he and his partner approached a group of people