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California’s heat wave crisis: Report reveals staggering costs, health impacts

By HeyWire AI

Arecent report from the California Department of Insurance has highlighted the staggering economic and health impacts of extreme heat in California, totaling over $7.7 billion in the last decade.

Released amidst a heat wave, with temperatures soaring past 120 in Palm Springs, the report underscores a growing crisis.

“Extreme heat is a silent, escalating disaster that threatens our health, economy, and way of life in California. This report brings to light the staggering hidden costs of extreme heat events, underscoring the urgency of our efforts to create a groundbreaking heat wave ranking and early warning system statewide,” said California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. “We must prioritize resilience-building efforts and innovative insurance solutions to safeguard our state against the growing impacts and financial risks of extreme heat.”

Titled “Impacts of Extreme Heat to California’s People, Infrastructure, and Economy,” the report examines financial repercussions across health, energy, economy, and infrastructure sectors from seven significant heat events over the past decade. It reveals significant gaps in traditional insurance coverage for heatrelated losses and recommends creating new insurance solutions.

Kathy Baughman McLeod, CEO at Climate Resilience for All and a member of the California Climate Insurance Working Group, emphasized the urgency of these findings.

“The urgency of extreme heat is only accelerating,” she said.

In a 14-day heatwave in 2022, excessive heat directly contributed to nearly 200 deaths, 140 adverse birth outcomes, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 4,200 emergency

department visits throughout California, with the southern part of the state experiencing the highest temperatures.

“We have this thing that’s killing more people than any other climate hazard, and it’s invisible and silent,” McLeod continued. “We’ve got to double, triple, quadruple down on the data sets and tools we need to be able to respond.”

These health impacts disproportionatelyaffect already overburdened populations, including Black, Native American,andHispanic communities, who experience mortality rates 14% to 30% higher than non-disadvantaged groups. Additionally, the elderly and pregnant individuals are particularly vulnerable.

“This report underscores the critical need for equitable adaptation measures that prioritize the health and safety of our most vulnerable neighbors,” said Sona Mohnot, director of climate resilience at The Greenlining Institute.

The financial losses from

extreme heat are not limited to healthcare. The agriculture, manufacturing, and “weatherexposed” sectors have also suffered significant losses.

For example, the impacts of a single heatwave ranged from $230 million in 2013 to $3 billion in a 2022 event.

Labor productivity losses ranged between $7.7 million and $210 million per event due to extreme heat, with substantial uninsured wage losses. Infrastructure costs due to heat-related damage repair and delays ranged from $3.8 million to $35 million per event, predominantly affecting roads and rails.

The report purports that the true costs are higher as it only accounted for seven heat events. However, only a small portion of these costs are covered by insurance, with the most comprehensive coverage being health insurance for workplace injuries and nonfatal health effects. The report calls for the development of innovative insurance mecha-

nisms and investments in adaptation and resilience.

Key recommendations of the report include:

- Making the most of existing resilience funding to bolster infrastructure and healthcare systems.

- Collaborating across public and private sectors to develop and implement heatillness reduction strategies.

- Exploring innovative insurance solutions to incentivize extreme heat resilience and cover business interruptions, infrastructure damage, and emergency services during extreme heat events.

- Use insights from local government case studies to inform future state and local planning and mitigation policies.

“Anyone who says California cannot afford climate action should flip through this report to learn why doing nothing is not an option,” said Katelyn Roedner Sutter, California State Director at Environmental Defense Fund.

California landfills increasingly turn methane gas into energy

Hiker who disappeared in San Bernardino National Forest found dead

By City News Service

A61-year-old hiker who went missing on a trail in the San Bernardino National Forest was found dead in a ravine south of Whitewater, with no evidence of foul play, authorities said Friday.

The body of Hantae Kim of Chula Vista was discovered Wednesday adjacent to a dry wash at the bottom of a canyon in the vicinity of Snow Creek, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

Lt. Deirdre Vickers told City News Service that deputies received reports shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday that Kim had vanished during an excursion near Fuller Ridge, roughly two miles northeast of Idyllwild, in steep mountainous terrain.

Vickers could not confirm

whether Kim initiated his hike alone or with a group over the weekend, or just prior to it.

Sheriff’s personnel initiated an air-and-ground search, utilizing the department’s Rescue 9 helicopter to try to spot the missing man, according to the lieutenant.

“The subject was not located (by the helicopter crew); however, search-andrescue efforts continued daily with the assistance of additional search groups and law enforcement agencies,” Vickers said.

Parties trekking through the ravine near Whitewater came upon Kim’s remains Wednesday.

“There (is) ... no evidence of foul play at this time,” Vickers said.

An autopsy was pending.

Coachella resident accused of murdering man, burning body to stand trial

By City News Service

A35-year-oldman accused of killing a man and burning his body inside a vehicle in Thermal in July 2020 must stand trial for murder and other charges, a judge ruled July 12.

Ruben Corria Esquivel Jr. of Coachella was held to answer for one felony count each of murder, arson on a property, having a fire explosive and being being a convicted felon and narcotic addict in possession of a firearm, according to court records. Additional counts of being a convicted felon and narcotic addict in possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition while prohibited from owning firearms were dismissed.

He also faces a sentenceenhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury

and a special-circumstance allegation of having more than one offense.

Esquivel initially pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied the allegations in August 2023 at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. He is due back in court for a post-preliminary hearing arraignment on Sept. 3.

Deputies responded at about 2 a.m. July 18, 2020, to a vehicle fire on Pierce Street near Airport Boulevard, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ben Ramirez.

Ramirez said that after firefighters extinguished the blaze, the body of Luis Pinedo, 34, of Mecca, was found charred inside and homicide investigators were called to the scene.

Pinedo’s death was initially deemed suspicious by the sheriff’s depart-

ment, which upgraded it to a homicide investigation July 20, 2020, after medical examiners discovered evidence of “homicidal violence,” Ramirez said.

Junior H begins $ad Boyz Mania Tour at Acrisure Arena

By City News Service

Urban Mexican singersongwriter Junior H kicked off his “$ad Boyz Mania Tour” with an evening concert at Acrisure Arena on July 13.

Born Antonio Herrera Pérez, Junior H got his start as a musician by learning instruments from YouTube tutorials, eventually uploading original songs to the platform himself. After his single “No Eh Cambiado” got millions of views and overwhelmingly positive feedback, Junior H released a debut album, “Mi Vida en un Cigarro,” in May 2019. Since then, Junior H has released seven more albums, four of which achieved Platinum status and three of which peaked at No. 1 on the regional charts. He earned six Billboard Latin Music Award nominations between 2021 and 2023 and is now among the top 200 artists with the most monthly listeners on Spotify.

Junior H’s music combines trap, pop rock, and reggaeton sounds with regional Mexican elements, branching out into related genres as well. He’s made multiple collaborations each with artists such as Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano and writes frequently about sad topics, often relationships — the 2021 album “$ad Boyz for Life” was dedicated to his mother, who lived over

1,000 miles away at the time. Following his performance at in Greater Palm Springs, Junior H was scheduled to play at 19 other cities across the country, including Southern California shows in Chula Vista on July 19 and Los Angeles on Oct. 11. He’s teased new music over the past few months, some of which could make an appearance on setlists throughout the tour.

“Arson investigators determined the fire to be asphalt and located a discernible fire pattern from a poured liquid on the asphalt, leading to

the vehicle,” RSCD Master Investigator C. Mendoza wrote in a declaration in support of Esquivel’s arrest warrant. “At Autopsy, Pinedo was found to have sustained a single gunshot wound to the left side of the head and believed to be dead before being burned.”

The Riverside County coroner’s office was able to identify the body as that of Pinedo by using dental records, according to the department.

Esquivel was identified as the suspect in Pinedo’s death, Ramirez said. He was identified through interviews, phone analysis, call records and social media records, according to Mendoza.

The defendant was allegedly found with severe burns on his chest, face and arm the morning after being at the same ranch where

Pinedo was visiting family the night of his murder. Mendoza said that a review of the phones in his possession showed photos of his burned face and online searches for burned vehicles, dead bodies and homicides in Riverside County.

Esquivel was arrested on July 24, 2020, for the separate Feb. 21, 2020, shooting of a 42-year-old man in Indio, for which he has since been convicted. He was held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on $1 million bail, with sentencing in that case also scheduled for Sept. 3. In addition to the murder conviction, Esquivel has multiple prior documented felonies in Riverside County, including attempted carjacking and multiple parole violations, court records show.

Deputies search for bank robbery suspect

By City News Service

Asearch was continuing July 12 for a man believedtohave carried out at least two bank robberies in the Palm Desert area, including one the previous day.

Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station deputies responded at about 12:20 p.m. July 11 to a reported bank robbery in the 73000 Block of Highway 111, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Rovann Cleveland. The suspect had left the scene by the time deputies arrived.

According to Cleveland, an unarmed man believed to be in his 50s approached a teller and demanded an undisclosed amount of money. The suspect was described as 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall, weighing 150 to 175 pounds and wearing a lightcolored baseball cap, darkcolored t-shirt and dark jeans.

After the suspect received the money, he fled in an unknown direction, Cleve-

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land said. Deputies were unable to locate the suspect after an extensive search, but determined the man “appears to be the same individual” who carried out a June 26 bank robbery on the 72000 block of Highway 111. No additional information was immediately available. Anyone with information on the crimes was encouraged to call 911 or contact Investigator Villasenor at the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station at 760-836-1600.

“Extreme heat, by itself, is costing Californians billions of dollars. Since most of these costs aren’t covered by insurance, our small businesses and working

families on a budget are at the greatest risk. In order to build a safer and more prosperous future, California must doubledown on proven solutions

to reduce the intensity of heat in our communities, such as expanding urban tree canopies and access to green spaces.” McLeod compared the

situation in California to hurricane preparations in Florida, emphasizing the need for a similar culture of prevention and preparation for extreme heat.

“It’s hurting vulnerable communities more than other parts of the community, and people just still don’t really understand that. They’re still saying

it’s just hot,” she noted.

“The biggest thing we need,” McLeod stressed, “is to build a culture of prevention and preparation.”

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California landfills increasingly turn methane gas into energy

By Miranda Lipton for Reasons to be Cheerful.

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Across the United States, landfills are accumulating trash faster than materials can decompose. In the nearly 2,000 landfills in the US, food waste contributes over 50 percent of fugitive methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills, those invisible plumes of potent greenhouse gas emissions that seep out of landfills and into the atmosphere.

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Landfills rank as the thirdlargest human-generated source of methane emissions in the US, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While diverting trash altogether would be the preferred outcome for pollution reduction, about 500 landfills across the country have turned to a novel way of combating pollution from the waste that is ending up in landfills: capturing the gas emitted from organic materials and transforming it into electricity.

“Methane is already in our environment today. You either use it or lose it,” says Mike Bakas, alluding to the methane that is wasted if it’s not captured. Bakas leads all landfill projects and renewable natural gas business at Ameresco, a company that designs, builds and operates renewable energy plants for landfills around the US.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, about 28 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping atmospheric heat. Capturing it removes the gas’s ability to stimulate the greenhouse effect that comes with its infiltration into our atmosphere.

produces enough landfill gas (LFG) to create 70,000 megawatt hours of energy each year - that’s enough to power about 6,700 homes for a year, based on the average US household’s annual electricity consumption.

While most landfills using LFGTE are actively collecting waste, not all of them are. “We’ve got a landfill that’s been shut down for about 10 years and we still have another 10 to 20 years of gas in it,” says Bakas.

Puente Hills in California is the largest LFGTE program in the country, producing enough energy to power about 70,000 homes. Before the Puente Hills landfill closed in 2013, it was the largest landfill in the US, spanning 700 acres and reaching a whopping height of 500 feet above ground level.

Landfills that utilize Landfill Gas-to-Energy (LFGTE) systems, which allow for the conversion of methane to energy, are equipped with infrastructure designed to collect the gas, often encased with a layer of clay or synthetic membrane to prevent gas from escaping into the atmosphere. Once collected, the methane can be utilized in one of a few ways, as electricity to use on-site or feed into the local power grid, or as natural gas.

The amount of energy generated through LFGTE projects varies widely depending on the size and age of the landfill, the composition of waste and the efficiency of the gas collection system.

One massive landfill that spans 629 acres in Virginia

These types of projects first came on the scene in the mid-1970s, and experienced a big rise in popularity in the ‘90s - largely due to the fact that, in 1994, the EPA began encouraging landfill operators to develop LFGTE projects through its Landfill Methane Outreach Program.

So why isn’t every landfill owner taking advantage of its latent treasure trove of energy? Funding, mostly.

According to Bakas, LFGTE systems can cost between $10 million and $100 million to implement.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provided tax deductions for landfills to install these systems, but there are still limitations that prohibit smaller landfills from being able to finance LFGTE. Specifically,

the IRA didn’t explicitly permit the use of Investment Tax Credits (ITC) for LFGTE projects, something Bakas says the industry is pushing for, as it would go a long way in helping smaller landfill projects that wouldn’t otherwise be economically feasible.

There are also caveats embedded among the IRA’s tax offerings that restrict landfills from receiving any of these benefits unless its owner owns both the landfill collection system and the energy processing plant, which, according to Bakas, is often not the case.

“So we need the treasury to come out and say, you can own either one or both, which would free us up to invest money in the equipment we need to do it,” says Bakas.

And supporting these projects isn’t just good for our air quality and atmosphere, but potentially for our pockets too. The dollars put into building these systems can be returned through the sale of electricity. And in some regions, landfill gas projects can generate renewable energy credits, which can be sold to utilities needing to meet renewable energy standards, providing an additional revenue stream.

But these projects aren’t always profitable, and some may not have the capacity to ever be.

“To the extent that the site is economic, which I don’t think it’s a guarantee that it is, operators would probably look at how much [energy] can we produce ... and how close are we to

where the energy can be used?” says Daniel Bresette, president of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.

Bresette says that if a plant is processing landfill gas for electricity, as opposed to other types of energy, the plant may be able to do so with existing equipment, and with less concern for where the landfill is located. This is because the electricity can be fed directly into the energy grid, rather than needing to be transferred off-site to be processed.

The EPA estimates that a project that requires the installation of a new capture system would cost about $8.5 million to install and maintain, and would cost about another $3.5 million over the course of its 15-year lifespan. That number would drop dramatically for a project that doesn’t require the support of a supplemental capture facility to process the LFG. It would also drop if tax credits, carbon credits or on-site electricity are utilized.

Landfills of a certain size are required by the Clean Air Act to install and operate gas collection systems. For those that don’t meet sizing requirements, the industry is pushing for more government support.

“If the treasury confirms that we can use the ITC tax credits under the IRA towards these projects, then those smaller projects that were not economic might very well become economic,” says Bakas. Miranda Lipton wrote this article for Reasons to be Cheerful.

Eight years ago, the world’s largest sports apparel brand made a bold commitment. Nike was embarking on what it called a moonshot: doubling its business while halving its impact on the warming planet.

To get there, then-CEO Mark Parker said the Oregonbased company’s innovations in environmental sustainability would become a “powerful engine for growth,” a catalyst capable of changing industries. The company’s chief sustainability officer at the time, Hannah Jones, said achieving the goal would take “innovation on a scale we’ve never seen before.”

Nike’s Sustainable Innovation team embodied the commitment. It looked for environmentally friendly new materials, like leather made from kelp and foams made from plants, that could replace some of the hundreds of millions of pounds of rubber, leather and cotton used in traditional Nike products. It assisted in testing and

Nike pledged to shrink its carbon footprint. It just slashed the staff charged with making that happen.

By Rob Davis, ProPublica, and Matthew Kish, The Oregonian/OregonLive

refining the foam in the new Pegasus 41 that Nike says cut the carbon footprint of the shoe’s midsole by at least 43%.

So it came as a surprise one Sunday night in December when the dozen or so people on the team got summoned to a mandatory meeting the next morning. In a Zoom call before sunrise, they learned why. The team was being eliminated. The vice president who ran the team was gone. The call lasted less than 10 minutes.

It was the first in a series of deep cuts that one former Nike employee called “the sustainability bloodbath.”

With sales flatlining, Nike executives in December announced a plan to cut costs by $2 billion over three years. Those cuts have dealt a big blow to Nike’s sustainability workforce.

Nike has laid off about 20% of employees who worked primarily on its sustainability initiatives, The Oregonian/ OregonLive and ProPublica found. Roughly another 10% left voluntarily or were trans-

ferred to other jobs. The cuts to its sustainability staff of about 150 people were far deeper than Nike’s 2% reduction companywide and 7% reduction at its Oregon headquarters.

The estimates are based on state employment records, a review of LinkedIn posts and interviews with more than 10 current and former Nike staff members who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the media or are looking for jobs in the industry.

“I’m truly shocked that so many sustainability roles would be eliminated,” said one person who was laid off. “I would have never thought that from the industry leader. Never in a million years.”

Nike’s elimination of such a substantial share of its environmental sustainability staff is a stunning turn in the company’s 52-year history. After emerging from the shadow of labor abuses in its foreign factories in the 1990s, the apparel behemoth helped spark the corporate responsibility movement. As the public’s attention turned

to corporate impact on the environment, a chastened Nike aimed to lead.

But before the layoffs, Nike had missed its own targets for reducing its contribution to global warming. Its emissions have instead grown slightly since 2015.

Nike today is losing market share and is likely trying to prioritize the shortterm financial results Wall Street wants over sustainability’s longer-term payouts, said Ken Pucker, a former executive with the Timberland shoe brand and a professor of practice at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.

“Given Nike’s leadership and investment, their retreat is unfortunate, especially in light of the scale and urgency of the challenge,” Pucker said.

The company’s stock price has been cut in half since late 2021, including an almost 20% drop in late June, a day after executives forecast a sales decline this year.

Nike would not address the news organizations’ estimates of job cuts when asked about them.

Jaycee Pribulsky, who was named Nike’s chief sustainability officer in February, said she was confident in the sustainability team Nike has in place and described Nike’s current strategy as “embedding” the work throughout the company. In other words: making sustainability everyone’s job as opposed to solely assigning it to a dedicated staff.

“We’re not walking away from sustainability,” Pribulsky said. “I mean, full stop. We are committed.”

The sweeping job cuts touched numerous layers of the organization. Attorneys and finance, waste and packaging specialists who worked in sustainability were laid off. Nike eliminated two of just

five people working to trace the origins of the hundreds of millions of pounds of materials it uses. The company is legally prohibited from importing products containing cotton connected to forced Uyghur labor in China and has promised not to use leather that contributes to deforestation in the Amazon.

Three top sustainability executives left, including Noel Kinder, its previous chief sustainability officer, who announced his retirement at age 52 in February.

Nike by then had already moved sustainability down in the corporate hierarchy. In 2011, Jones, who held the top sustainability job for nearly 14 years, said that her team had gone from obscurity to reporting directly to Nike’s CEO. By the time Kinder left, the position was reporting to the chief supply chain officer, who reports to the marketplace president, who reports to the CEO.

Kinder has since given several talks without addressing the cuts to his former employer’s sustainability staff. But in a June 6 webinar, he said any company’s sustainability strategy depends on what its senior leaders do “from a business strategy standpoint.”

“And this actually happened at Nike,” Kinder said, “where a change in business strategy, or a change in financial objective, directly impacted the sustainability strategy, and frankly in a negative way. And so, there, it is what it is.”

Kinder did not say when that happened. He later told the news organizations he was not referring to any particular moment in his career at Nike.

“Sustainability was a priority at Nike for the nearly

25 years I was there regardless of the ups and downs of the business,” he said. “It was very much part of the fabric of the operating rhythm.”

To understand the impact of the cuts to Nike’s sustainability staff, it helps to look at the enormous task assigned to a group of 30 Nike employees in the spring of 2023.

The Carbon Target Setting Working Group began gathering every other Wednesday, 90 minutes by Zoom and in person, to develop a detailed plan to drastically shrink Nike’s carbon footprint. As participants in the international Science Based Targets Initiative, Nike and 5,000 other companies pledged to match the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. Nike promised to reduce its emissions by 30% by 2030 throughout its supply chain.

With the deadline fast approaching, Nike’s climate working group debated possible investments to reach its targets, according to two people involved in the process. Should Nike buy renewable natural gas? How much should it invest in healthier agricultural practices? How much should it spend on renewable fuels for its shipping container vessels?

The group calculated the tonnage of emissions that would be reduced by eliminating the paper stuffed into the toes of shoes. It outlined savings from what employees called “light-weighting” shoe boxes, a strategy to use less materials and reduce freight shipping weights. Those seemingly small changes add up when multiplied across millions of products.

The result was a plan so important that it would eventually require executive

approval and the Nike board’s review. It was still being finalized when the staffing cuts began, the two sources said.

About half of employees involved in Nike’s carbon target planning were laid off or transferred to nonsustainability jobs, according to two sources the news organizations used to identify names. The list included some members who would have been responsible for implementing the steps recommended for ratcheting down emissions.

“Now you have a stool with one leg missing,” one participant said.

Asked about the status of the 2030 plan and how the company would reach its goals for emissions reductions with fewer sustainability employees working on them, Pribulsky said work on the 2030 goals continues.

“We’re committed to continue our journey from a greenhouse gas and a carbon reduction emissions perspective,” she said.

The carbon work that remains is substantial. Nike’s global operation spans more than 600 contract factories concentrated in Vietnam, China and Indonesia, countries heavily dependent on coal-fired power. Nike has said its carbon footprint equates to that of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, a city of roughly 1 million people.

Nike has made progress by powering its own office buildings and distribution centers with renewable energy. But the production and shipping of sneakers and apparel by suppliers and contractors accounts for 99% of its emissions. Nike’s total carbon pollution has been declining since 2020, but it is still just 1.6% lower than when Parker challenged Nike to halve its footprint in 2016.

The cuts to Nike’s sustainability staff come as multinational companies face increasing mandates to disclose their climate risks, trace the origins of their raw materials and deliver the carbon reductions they promise.

Some of Nike’s smaller competitors are doing better. Germany-based Puma has approached the moonshot that Nike missed, saying it has reduced its carbon footprint by almost a third while more than doubling revenues since 2017.

Still, few fashion companies are on target to achieve the reductions needed to prevent severe impacts to the planet, said Achim Berg, a former senior partner with the consulting giant McKinsey & Co.

“If you have conversations with CEOs in the industry, they will admit that it’s very

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difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish what has been committed to years ago,” said Berg, who oversaw McKinsey’s apparel, fashion and luxury practice. “Realistically, we’re going to see a wave of companies changing the targets or postponing the timeline.”

If the industry doesn’t act with more urgency, Berg said, “we can write off all the targets, because nobody’s even close. We need to recognize this.”

Nike’s retreat from sustainability threatens to upend its carefully crafted image as a brand working to address climate change, not one that is making it worse.

The company took a huge public relations hit in the 1990s after reports emerged about its contract factories in Asia using child labor, physically abusing workers and paying as little as 20 cents an hour. Co-founder Phil Knight ultimately admitted the company had problems, saying in 1998 that Nike’s products had become synonymous with “slave wages, forced overtime and arbitrary abuse.”

The company began issuing public reports that detailed issues its auditors identified in suppliers’ factories and laid out how it would address them. It became the first in its industry to disclose its finished product suppliers.

Nike employees also saw an opportunity to get ahead of negative headlines on another issue of social concern: the environment.

“We were learning from the mistakes made in the reaction to the labor issues that we needed to go on the offense,” said Sarah Severn, who spent two decades working to lessen Nike’s environmental impact before leaving in 2014. “We were much more aggressive about it and conscious that if those things didn’t get addressed, it would just add more problems to the company’s reputation.”

Executives including CEO John Donahoe have described the company’s aspirations today as something like a virtuous circle, a closed loop that includes turning plastic bottles and trash into Olympics medalpodium jackets and futuristic shoes inspired by the scarcity of living on Mars. Innovating ways to waste less, make lighter shoes and use fewer materials doesn’t just save on carbon emissions. It saves money.

Nike’s marketing machine has amplified the message of sustainability in pitches before the Summer Olympics, an event that sneaker companies consider an unparalleled opportunity to launch new products. Nike’s chief design

officer in 2020 called it “a moment for us to telegraph our intentions as a company.”

Ahead of the 2012 London Games, Nike introduced Flyknit, one of its most successful sustainable innovations, a lightweight, woven top part of a sneaker that reduced waste and became a $1 billion business within four years.

Before the 2016 Rio Games, Nike highlighted AeroSwift, a lightweight fabric made from recycled plastic bottles.

In 2020, it was the Space Hippie, a shoe made from recycled factory scraps. Vogue magazine said Nike’s new shoe was its “most sustainable yet.” Harper’s Bazaar called it “game-changing.”

Donahoe highlighted the new shoe during one of his earliest media appearances as CEO. Speaking on CNBC in February 2020, Donahoe praised Nike’s innovation in sustainability and said the company was making significant investments in it.

“The consumer increasingly cares about sustainability, and so they’re looking to companies like Nike to lead on this dimension,” Donahoe said.

That night, Donahoe sat next to the rapper Drake and other luminaries at a colorful New York Fashion Week runway show highlighting Nike’s environmental priorities around the Olympics.

Looking back on how good Nike’s sustainability work has been for its business, the recent staff cuts make little sense, said Tensie Whelan, director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business.

“It’s just bizarre to me that Nike would want to step back, having been the leader,” Whelan said. “If they’re moving away from sustainability driving innovation, that is the Nike brand. What does it become then?”

This April, when Nike revealed its new outfits for athletes in the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, Donahoe returned to CNBC. The CEO didn’t talk about the Space Hippie, the shoe that won critical acclaim. Just two Space Hippie models remained available on Nike’s website recently. Both were being advertised at a big discount.

Donahoe talked about what Nike needed to do differently. Just four months after his company killed its Sustainable Innovation team, Donahoe repeatedly said “disruptive innovation” would drive growth.

He didn’t use the word sustainability once.

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Inside Ziklag, the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to sway the election and change the country

By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented

Anetwork of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republicanleaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.

These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a littleknown charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation.

Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-ofcenter advocacy groups.

ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.

“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”

Ziklag’s 2024 agenda reads like the work of a political organization. It plans to pour money into mobilizing voters in Arizona who are “sympathetic to Republicans” in order to secure “10,640 additional unique votes” — almost the exact margin of President Joe Biden’s win there in 2020. The group also intends to use controversial AI software to enable mass challenges to the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of voters in competitive states.

In a recording of a 2023 internal strategy discussion, a Ziklag official stressed that

the objective was the same in other swing states. “The goal is to win,” the official said. “If 75,000 people wins the White House, then how do we get 150,000 people so we make sure we win?”

According to the Ziklag files, the group has divided its 2024 activities into three different operations targeting voters in battleground states: Checkmate, focused on funding so-called election integrity groups; Steeplechase, concentrated on using churches and pastors to get out the vote; and Watchtower, aimed at galvanizing voters around the issues of “parental rights” and opposition to transgender rights and policies supporting health care for trans people.

In a member briefing video, one of Ziklag’s spiritual advisers outlined a plan to “deliver swing states” by using an anti-transgender message to motivate conservative voters who are exhausted with Trump.

But Ziklag is not a political organization: It is a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt charity, the same legal designation as the United Way or Boys and Girls Club. Such organizations do not have to publicly disclose their funders, and donations are tax deductible. In exchange, they are “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office,” according to the IRS.

ProPublica and Documented presented the findings of their investigation to six nonpartisan lawyers and legal experts. All expressed concern that Ziklag was testing or violating the law.

The reporting by ProPublica and Documented “casts serious doubt on this organization’s status as a 501(c)(3) organization,” said Roger Colinvaux, a professor at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.

“I think it’s across the line without a question,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a University of Notre Dame law professor. Ziklag officials did not respond to a detailed list of questions. Martin Nussbaum, an attorney who said he was the group’s general counsel, said in a written response that “some of the statements in your email are correct. Others are not,” but he then did not respond to a request to specify

what was erroneous. The group is seeking to “align” the culture “with Biblical values and the American constitution, and that they will serve the common good,” he wrote. Using the official tax name for Ziklag, he wrote that “USATransForm does not endorse candidates for public office.” He declined to comment on the group’s members.

There are no bright lines or magic words that the IRS might look for when it investigates a charitable organization for engaging in political intervention, said Mayer. Instead, the agency examines the facts and circumstances of a group’s activities and makes a conclusion about whether the group violated the law.

The biggest risk for charities that intervene in political campaigns, Mayer said, is loss of their tax-exempt status. Donors’ ability to deduct their donations can be a major sell, not to mention it can create “a halo effect” for the group, Mayer added.

“They may be able to get more money this way,” he said, adding, “It boils down to tax evasion at the end of the day.”

“Dominion Over the Seven Mountains”

Ziklag has largely escaped scrutiny until now. The group describes itself as a “private, confidential, invitation-only community of high-net-worth Christian families.”

According to internal documents, it boasts more than 125 members that include business executives, pastors, media leaders and other prominent conservative Christians. Potential new members, one document says, should have a “concern for culture” demonstrated by past donations to faith-based or political causes, as well as a net worth of $25 million or more. None of the donors responded to requests for comment.

Tax records show rapid growth in the group’s finances

appeared at a Ziklag event, as did former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz, then-Rep. Mark Meadows and other members of Congress. In its private newsletter, Ziklag claims that a coalition of groups it assembled played “a hugely significant role in the selection, hearings and confirmation process” of Amy Coney Barrett for a Supreme Court seat in late 2020.

In a 2021 Ziklag meeting, Ziklag’s education mountain chair, Peter Bohlinger, said that Ziklag’s goal “is to take down the education system as we know it today.” The producers of the film “Sound of Freedom,” featuring Jim Caviezel as an anti-sextrafficking activist, screened an early cut of the film at a Ziklag conference and asked for funds, according to Dallas.

in recent years. Its annual revenue climbed from $1.3 million in 2018 to $6 million in 2019 and nearly $12 million in 2022, which is the latest filing available.

The group’s spending is not on the scale of major conservative funders such as Miriam Adelson or Barre Seid, the electronics magnate who gave $1.6 billion to a group led by conservative legal activist Leonard Leo. But its funding and strategy represent one of the clearest links yet between the Christian right and the “election integrity” movement fueled by Trump’s baseless claims about voting fraud. Even several million dollars funding mass challenges to voters in swing counties can make an impact, legal and election experts say.

Ziklag was the brainchild of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur named Ken Eldred. It emerged from a previous organization founded by Eldred called United In Purpose, which aimed to get more Christians active in the civic arena, according to Bill Dallas, the group’s former director. United In Purpose generated attention in June 2016 when it organized a major meeting between then-candidate Trump and hundreds of evangelical leaders.

After Trump was elected in 2016, Eldred had an idea, according to Dallas. “He says, ‘I want all the wealthy Christian people to come together,’” Dallas recalled in an interview. Eldred told Dallas that he wanted to create a donor network like the one created by Charles and David Koch but for Christians. He proposed naming it David’s Mighty Men, Dallas said. Female members balked. Dallas found the passage in Chronicles that references David’s soldiers and read that they met in the city of Ziklag, and so they chose the name Ziklag.

The group’s stature grew after Trump took office. Vice President Mike Pence

Confidential donor networks regularly invest hundreds of millions of dollars into political and charitable groups, from the liberal Democracy Alliance to the Koch-affiliated Stand Together organization on the right. But unlike Ziklag, neither of those organizations is legally set up as a true charity.

Ziklag appears to be the first coordinated effort to get wealthy donors to fund an overtly Christian nationalist agenda, according to historians, legal experts and other people familiar with the group. “It shows that this idea isn’t being dismissed as fringe in the way that it might have been in the past,” said Mary Ziegler, a legal historian and University of California, Davis law professor.

The Christian nationalism movement has a variety of aims and tenets, according to the Public Religion Research Institute: that the U.S. government “should declare America a Christian nation”; that American laws “should be based on Christian values”; that the U.S. will cease to exist as a nation if it “moves away from our Christian foundations”; that being Christian is essential to being American; and that God has “called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.”

One theology promoted by Christian nationalist leaders is the Seven Mountain Mandate. Each mountain represents a major industry or a sphere of public life: arts and media, business, church, education, family, government, and science and technology. Ziklag’s goal, the documents say, is to “take dominion over the Seven Mountains,” funding Christian projects or installing devout Christians in leadership positions to reshape each mountain in a godly way.

To address their concerns about education, Ziklag’s leaders and allies have focused on the public-school system.

The Seven Mountains theology signals a break from Christian fundamentalists such as Jerry Falwell Sr. and Pat Robertson. In the 1980s and ’90s, Falwell’s Moral Majority focused on working within the democratic process to mobilize evangelical voters and elect politicians with a Christian worldview.

The Seven Mountains theology embraces a different, less democratic approach to gaining power. “If the Moral Majority is about galvanizing the voters, the Seven Mountains is a revolutionary model: You need to conquer these mountains and let change flow down from the top,” said Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies and an expert on Christian nationalism. “It’s an outlined program for Christian supremacy.”

“TheAmorphous, Tumultuous Wild West”

The Christian right has had compelling spokespeople and fierce commitment to its causes, whether they were ending abortion rights, allowing prayer in schools or displaying the Ten Commandments outside of public buildings. What the movement has often lacked, its leaders argue, is sufficient funding.

“If you look at the right, especially the Christian right, there were always complaints about money,” said legal historian Ziegler.

“There’s a perceived gap of ‘We aren’t getting the support from big-name, big-dollar donors that we deserve and want and need.’”

That’s where Ziklag comes in.

Speaking late last year to an invitation-only gathering of Ziklaggers, as members are known, Charlie Kirk, who leads the pro-Trump Turning Point USA organization, named left-leaning philanthropists who were, in his view, funding the destruction of the nation: MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; billionaire investor and liberal philanthropist George Soros;

and the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

“Why are secular people giving more generously than Christians?” Kirk asked, according to a recording of his remarks. “It would be a tragedy,” he added, “if people who hate life, hate our country, hate beauty and hate God wanted it more than us.”

“Ziklag is the place,” Kirk told the donors. “Ziklag is the counter.”

Similarly, Pence, in a 2021 appearance at a private Ziklag event, praised the group for its role in “changing lives, and it’s advanced the cause, it’s advanced the kingdom.”

A driving force behind Ziklag’s efforts is Lance Wallnau, a prominent Christian evangelist and influencer based in Texas who is described by Ziklag as a “Seven Mountains visionary & advisor.” The fiery preacher is one of the most influential figures on the Christian right, experts say, a bridge between Christian nationalism and Trump. He was one of the earliest evangelical leaders to endorse Trump in 2015 and later published a book titled “God’s Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling.” More than 1 million people follow him on Facebook. He doesn’t try to hide his views: “Yes, I am a Christian nationalist,” he said during one of his livestreams in 2021. (Wallnau did not respond to requests for comment.)

Wallnau has remained a Trump ally. He called Trump’s time in office a “spiritual warfare presidency” and popularized the idea that Trump was a “modernday Cyrus,” referring to the Persian king who defeated the Babylonians and allowed the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem. Wallnau has visited with Trump at the White House and Trump Tower; last November, he livestreamed from a black-tie gala at Mar-aLago where Trump spoke. Wallnau did not come up with the notion that Christians should try to take control of key areas of American

society. But he improved on the idea by introducing the concept of the seven mountains and urged Christians to set about conquering them. The concept caught on, said Taylor, because it empowered Christians with a sense of purpose in every sphere of life.

As a preacher in the independent charismatic tradition, a fast-growing offshoot of Pentecostalism that is unaffiliated with any major denomination, Wallnau and his acolytes believe that God speaks to and through modern-day apostles and prophets — a version of Christianity that Taylor, in his forthcoming book “The Violent Take It By Force,” describes as “the amorphous, tumultuous Wild West of the modern church.” Wallnau and his ideas lingered at the fringes of American Christianity for years, until the boost from the Trump presidency.

The Ziklag files detail not only what Christians should do to conquer all seven mountains, but also what their goals will be once they’ve taken the summit. For the government mountain, one key document says that “the biblical role of government is to promote good and punish evil” and that “the word of God and prayer play a significant role in policy decisions.”

For the arts and entertainment mountain, goals include that 80% of the movies produced be rated G or PG “with a moral story,” and that many people who work in the industry “operate under a biblical/moral worldview.” The education section says that homeschooling should be a “fundamental right” and the government “must not favor one form of education over another.”

Other internal Ziklag documents voice strong opposition to same-sex marriage and transgender rights. One reads: “transgender acceptance = Final sign before imminent collapse.”

Heading into the 2024 election year, Ziklag executive director Drew Hiss warned members in an internal video that “looming above and

beyond those seven mountains is this evil force that’s been manifesting itself.” He described it as “a controlling, evil, diabolical presence, really, with tyranny in mind.” That presence was concentrated in the government mountain, he said. If Ziklaggers wanted to save their country from “the powers of darkness,” they needed to focus their energies on that government mountain or else none of their work in any other area would succeed.

“Operation Checkmate”

In the fall of 2023, Wallnau sat in a gray armchair in his TV studio. A large TV screen behind him flashed a single word: “ZIKLAG.”

“You almost hate to put it out this clearly,” he said as he detailed Ziklag’s electoral strategy, “because if somebody else gets ahold of this, they’ll freak out.”

He was joined on set by Hiss, who had just become the group’s new day-to-day leader. The two men were there to record a special message to Ziklag members that laid out the group’s ambitious plans for the upcoming election year.

The forces arrayed against Christians were many, according to the confidential video. They were locked in a “spiritual battle,” Hiss said, against Democrats who were a “radical left Marxist force.” Biden, Wallnau said, was a senile old man and “an empty suit with an agenda that’s written and managed by somebody else.”

In the files, Ziklag says it plans to give out nearly $12 million to a constellation of groups working on the ground to shift the 2024 electorate in favor of Trump and other Republicans.

A prominent conservative getting money from Ziklag is Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer and Trump ally who joined the January 2021 phone call when then-President Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to flip Georgia in Trump’s favor.

Mitchell now leads a network of “election integrity” coalitions in swing states that have spent the last three years advocating for changes to

voting rules and how elections are run. According to one internal newsletter, Ziklag was an early funder of Mitchell’s post-2020 “election integrity” activism, which voting-rights experts have criticized for stoking unfounded fears about voter fraud and seeking to unfairly remove people from voting rolls. In 2022, Ziklag donated $600,000 to the Conservative Partnership Institute, which in turn funds Mitchell’s election-integrity work. Internal Ziklag documents show that it provided funding to enable Mitchell to set up election integrity infrastructure in Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

Now Mitchell is promoting a tool called EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters. EagleAI is already being used to mount mass challenges to the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of voters in competitive states, and, with Ziklag’s help, the group plans to ramp up those efforts.

According to an internal video, Ziklag plans to invest $800,000 in “EagleAI’s clean the rolls project,” which would be one of the largest known donations to the group.

Ziklag lists two key objectives for Operation Checkmate: “Secure 10,640 additional unique votes in Arizona (mirroring the 2020 margin of 10,447 votes), and remove up to one million ineligible registrations and around 280,000 ineligible voters in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin.”

In a recording of an internal Zoom call, Ziklag’s Mark Bourgeois stressed the electoral value of targeting Arizona. “I care about Maricopa County,” Bourgeois said at one point, referring to Arizona’s largest county, which Biden won four years ago. “That’s how we win.”

For Operation Watchtower, Wallnau explained in a members-only video that transgender policy was a “wedge issue” that could be decisive in turning out voters tired of hearing about Trump.

The left had won the battle over the “homosexual issue,” Wallnau said. “But on transgenderism, there’s a problem and they know it.”

He continued: “They’re gonna wanna talk about Trump, Trump, Trump. … Meanwhile, if we talk about ‘It’s not about Trump. It’s about parents and their children, and the state is a threat,’” that could be the “target on the forehead of Goliath.”

The Ziklag files describe tactics the group plans to use around parental rights — policies that make it easier for parents to control what’s taught in public schools — to turn out conservative voters.

In a fundraising video, the group says it plans to underwrite a “messaging and data lab” focused on parental rights that will supply “winning messaging to all our partner groups to create unified focus among all on the right.” The goal, the video says, is to make parental rights “the difference-maker in the 2024 election.”

According to Wallnau, Ziklag also plans to fund ballot initiatives in seven key states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Montana, Nevada and Ohio — that take aim at the transgender community by seeking to ban “genital mutilation.” The seven states targeted are either presidential battlegrounds or have competitive U.S. Senate races. None of the initiatives is on a state ballot yet.

“People that are lethargic about the election or, worse yet, they’re gonna be all Trump-traumatized with the news cycle — this issue will get people to come out and vote,” Wallnau said. “That ballot initiative can deliver swing states.”

The last prong of Ziklag’s 2024 strategy is Operation Steeplechase, which urges conservative pastors to mobilize their congregants to vote in this year’s election. This project will work in coordination with several prominent conservative groups that support former president Trump’s reelection, such as Turning Point USA’s

faith-based group, the Faith and Freedom Coalition run by conservative operative Ralph Reed and the America First Policy Institute, one of several groups closely allied with Trump.

Ziklag says in a 2023 internal video that it and its allies will “coordinate extensive pastor and church outreach through pastor summits, church-focused messaging and events and the creation of pastor resources.” As preacher and activist John Amanchukwu said at a Ziklag event, “We need a church that’s willing to do anything and everything to get to the point where we reclaim that which was stolen from us.”

Six tax experts reviewed the election-related strategy discussions and tactics reported in this story. All of them said the activities tested or ran afoul of the law governing 501(c)(3) charities. The IRS and the Texas attorney general, which would oversee the Southlake, Texas, charity, did not respond to questions. While not all of its political efforts appeared to be clear-cut violations, the experts said, others may be: The stated plan to mobilize voters “sympathetic to Republicans,” Ziklag officials openly discussing the goal to win the election, and Wallnau’s call to fund ballot initiatives that would “deliver swing states” while at the same time voicing explicit criticism of Biden all raised red flags, the experts said.

“I am troubled about a taxexempt charitable organization that’s set up and its main operation seems to be to get people to win office,” said Phil Hackney, a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert on tax-exempt organizations.

“They’re planning an election effort,” said Marcus Owens, a tax lawyer at Loeb and Loeb and a former director of the IRS’ exempt organizations division. “That’s not a 501(c)(3) activity.”

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市书记官办公室和所有其他市政厅办公室通常在星期五关闭，但市 书记官办公室将于 2024 年 8 月 9 日（星期五）上午 7 时至下午 5 时之间开放，但仅为了发布和接受上述统一市级普选候选人的提名 文件。 进一步提请准候选人和公众注意，根据《艾尔蒙地市政法》 第 2.68.010 条规定，市书记官办公室在星期六、星期天或本市的任 何公共假期不开放。

根据《选举法》第 10225 条规定，如果在 2024 年 8 月 9 日（星 期五）下午 5 时之前现任官员没有提交提名文件，提名期应延长至 2024 年 8 月 14 日（星期三）下午 5 时。如果没有人或仅有一人被 提名担任选举职位，可依照《加利福尼亚州选举法》第 10229 条的 规定任命担任该选举职位的人选。

AVISO DE ELECCIÓN CIUDAD DE EL MONTE

SIRVA EL PRESENTE PARA COMUNICAR que se llevará a cabo una Elección Municipal General Consolidada en la ciudad de El Monte el martes, 5 de noviembre de 2024, para ocupar los siguientes cargos:

Para 1 (un) alcalde electo independiente para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 2 (dos) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 1 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 4 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 5 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

El periodo de nominación para los cargos mencionados inicia el 15 de julio de 2024 y finaliza el 9 de agosto de 2024 a las 5:00 p. m. Si la documentación de la nominación para un funcionario titular de la ciudad no se presenta para el 9 de agosto de 2024 (el día 88 previo a las elecciones), los votantes tendrán hasta el día 83 previo a las elecciones, es decir, el 14 de agosto de 2024, para nominar a otros candidatos diferentes de la o las personas titulares que ocupen el o los cargos electivos al día 88 previo a las elecciones. La prórroga no aplicará cuando no haya una persona titular que pueda postularse.

Si nadie (1) o sólo una (1) persona resulta nominada para un cargo electivo, el nombramiento para dicho cargo se podrá hacer según lo dispuesto en la sección 10229 del Código electoral del estado de California.

Se podrá votar en persona en cualquier Centro de votación del condado de Los Ángeles, en ubicaciones designadas, los días entre semana y fines de semana a partir del 26 de octubre de 2024 y hasta el 5 de noviembre de 2024. Los Centros de votación abrirán a las 7:00 a. m. el día de las elecciones y permanecerán abiertos sin interrupciones desde esa hora hasta las 8:00 p. m. del mismo día, momento en que se cerrarán las urnas (de acuerdo con la sección 10242 del Código de electoral, salvo lo estipulado en la sección 14401 del Código electoral del estado de California). Gabriel Ramirez, Secretario Municipal Ciudad de El Monte

Fecha de publicación: 11 de julio de 2024; 15 de julio de 2024; 22 de julio de 2024; y 29 de julio de 2024

AVISO DE ELECCIÓN CIUDAD DE EL MONTE

SIRVA EL PRESENTE PARA COMUNICAR A TODOS LOS VOTANTES CALIFICADOS de la ciudad de El Monte que se realizará una Elección General Municipal Consolidada el MARTES, 5 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, para ocupar los siguientes cargos:

Para 1 (un) alcalde electo independiente para toda la ciudad Mandato completo de 2 (dos) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 1 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 4 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Para 1 (un) miembro del Concejo Municipal para el Distrito 5 Mandato completo de 4 (cuatro) años

Además de cumplir con cualesquiera otros criterios para calificar que establezcan el Código de gobierno de California, el Código electoral de California o el Código municipal de El Monte, los candidatos para la elección mencionada previamente deben ser votantes registrados que residan en la ciudad de El Monte. La documentación de nominación para la elección estará disponible no antes del lunes, 15 de julio de 2024, ni más tarde del viernes, 9 de agosto de 2024, en virtud de las secciones 10220, 10224 y 10407 del Código electoral, en la Oficina de la secretaria municipal de la ciudad de El Monte, ubicada en 11333 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, California 91731, entre las 7:00 a. m. y las 5:00 p. m. La documentación para la nominación debe presentarse en la Oficina de la secretaria municipal de El Monte, ubicada en la dirección mencionada previamente, a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. del viernes, 9 de agosto de 2024.

LEGALS

Aunque la oficina de la secretaria municipal esté cerrada al público los viernes junto con las demás oficinas del Ayuntamiento, la Oficina de la secretaria municipal estará abierta el viernes, 9 de agosto de 2024, de 7:00 a. m. a 5:00 p. m. con el único fin de emitir y aceptar documentación de nominación de candidatos para las Elecciones Municipales Generales Consolidadas que se mencionan más arriba. Además, se informa a los candidatos potenciales y a los miembros del público que la Oficina de la secretaria municipal no abre los sábados, domingos ni días feriados obligatorios para la ciudad, de conformidad con la sección 2.68.010 del Código municipal de El Monte.

De conformidad con la sección 10225 del Código electoral, si no se presenta la documentación de nominación para un funcionario titular antes de las 5:00 p. m. del viernes, 9 de agosto de 2024, el periodo de nominación podrá extenderse hasta las 5:00 p. m. del miércoles, 14 de agosto de 2024. Si nadie o sólo una persona resulta nominada para un cargo electivo, el nombramiento para dicho cargo se podrá hacer según lo dispuesto en la sección 10229 del Código electoral del estado de California.

El día de las Elecciones Municipales Generales Consolidadas, los centros de votación estarán abiertos en un horario de 7:00 a. m. a 8:00 p. m.

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Gabriel Ramirez, Secretario Municipal Ciudad de El Monte

PAUNAWA NG HALALAN LUNGSOD NG EL MONTE

Ang PAUNAWA AY IBINIBIGAY SA PAMAMAGITAN NITO na isang Pangkalahatang Munisipal na Halalan ang gaganapin sa Martes, Nobyembre 5, 2024 para sa mga sumusunod na inihahalal na opisyal ng Lungsod ng El Monte:

Para sa Isang (1) Mayor na Inihalal sa Pangkabuuan mula sa Buong Lungsod

Buong terminong dalawang (2) taon

Para sa Isang (1) Miyembro ng Konseho ng Lungsod para sa Distrito 1

Buong terminong apat (4) na taon

Para sa Isang (1) Miyembro ng Konseho ng Lungsod para sa Distrito 4

Buong terminong apat (4) na taon

Para sa Isang (1) Miyembro ng Konseho ng Lungsod para sa Distrito 5

Buong terminong apat (4) na taon

Ang panahon ng nominasyon para sa mga katungkulang ito ay magsisimula sa Hulyo 15, 2024 at magtatapos sa Agosto 9, 2024 sa ganap na 5:00 p.m.

Kung ang mga dokumento para sa nominasyon para sa nanunungkulang opisyal ng Lungsod ay hindi naihain hanggang Agosto 9, 2024 (ika-88 araw bago ng halalan) ang mga botante ay mayroong hanggang ika-83 araw bago ng halalan, sa Agosto 14, 2024, para magnomina ng mga kandidatong bukod sa (mga) indibidwal na nanunungkulan sa ika-88 araw bago ng halalan, para sa inihahalal na katungkulan ng nanunungkulan. Ang pagpapalawig na ito ay hindi naaangkop kapag walang kasalukuyang nanunungkulan na karapat-dapat na maihalal.

Kung walang ni isa (1), o iisa (1) lamang na indibidwal ang manonomina para sa isang inihahalal na katungkulan, ang paghirang sa inihahalal na katungkulan ay maaaring isagawa ayon sa itinatakda sa § 10229, Kodigo ng mga Halalan ng Estado ng California.

Mayroong sa-personal na pagboto sa anumang Voting Center (Sentro ng Pagboto) na matatagpuan sa County ng Los Angeles sa mga itinakdang lokasyon sa mga araw ng Lunes hanggang Biyernes at mga araw ng Sabado at Linggo mula Oktubre 26, 2024 hanggang Nobyembre 5, 2024. Magbubukas ang mga Voting Center sa ganap na 7:00 a.m. sa araw ng halalan at patuloy na mananatiling bukas mula sa oras na iyon hanggang 8:00 p.m. sa parehong araw kung kailan magsasara ang mga botohan (alinsunod sa Kodigo ng mga Halalan § 10242, maliban kung nakasaad sa § 14401 ng Kodigo ng mga Halalan ng Estado ng California.)

Gabriel Ramirez, Klerk ng Lungsod Lungsod ng El Monte

Petsa ng Paglalathala: Hulyo 11, 2024; Hulyo 15, 2024; Hulyo 22, 2024; at Hulyo 29, 2022

LUNGSOD NG EL MONTE

ANG PAUNAWA AY IBINIBIGAY SA PAMAMAGITAN NITO

na isang Pinagsamang Pangkalahatang Munisipal na Halalan ang gaganapin sa MARTES, NOBYEMBRE 5, 2024 para sa layunin ng paghalal:

Para sa Isang (1) Mayor na Inihalal sa Pangkabuuan mula sa Buong Lungsod

Buong terminong dalawang (2) taon

Para sa Isang (1) Miyembro ng Konseho ng Lungsod para sa Distrito 1

Buong terminong apat (4) na taon

Para sa Isang (1) Miyembro ng Konseho ng Lungsod para sa Distrito 4

Buong terminong apat (4) na taon

Para sa Isang (1) Miyembro ng Konseho ng Lungsod para sa Distrito 5

Buong terminong apat (4) na taon

Kasama ang anumang iba pang mga kuwalipikadong pamantayang iniaatas sa Kodigo ng Pamahalaan ng California, ng Kodigo ng mga Halalan ng California o ng Kodigong Munisipal ng El Monte, ang mga kandidato para sa halalan sa itaas ay dapat mga rehistradong botanteng naninirahan sa Lungsod ng El Monte. Ang mga dokumento para sa nominasyon para sa halalan ay makukuha nang hindi mas aaga pa sa Lunes, Hulyo 15, 2024, at hindi lalampas ng Biyernes, Agosto 9, 2024, alinsunod sa Kodigo ng mga Halalan Seksyon 10220, 10224 at 10407, sa Lungsod ng El Monte, Tanggapan ng Klerk ng Lungsod na matatagpuan sa 11333 Valley Boulevard, El Monte, California 91731, sa pagitan ng mga oras ng 7:00 a.m. at 5:00 p.m. Ang mga dokumento para sa nominasyon ay dapat ihain sa tanggapan ng Klerk ng Lungsod ng El Monte na matatagpuan sa tinutukoy na address sa itaas nang hindi lalampas ng 5:00 p.m. sa Biyernes, Agosto 9, 2024.

Bagaman sarado ang Tanggapan ng Klerk ng Lungsod tuwing Biyernes kasama ang lahat ng iba pang Tanggapan ng City Hall, magbubukas ang Tanggapan ng Klerk ng Lungsod sa Biyernes, Agosto 9, 2024, sa pagitan ng mga oras ng 7:00 a.m. at 5:00 p.m. para sa natatanging layunin ng paglalabas at pagtanggap ng mga papeles para sa nominasyon ng mga kandidato para sa binanggit sa itaas na Pinagsamang Pangkalahatang Munisipal na Halalan. Higit pang ipinapaalam sa mga kandidato sa hinaharap at sa mga miyembro ng publiko na ang Tanggapan ng Klerk ng Lungsod ay hindi bukas sa mga araw ng Sabado, Linggo o anumang holiday na ipinagdiriwang ng Lungsod alinsunod sa Seksyon 2.68.010 ng Kodigong Munisipal ng El Monte.

Alinsunod sa Kodigo ng mga Halalan Seksyon 10225, kung ang mga dokumento para sa nominasyon para sa isang nanunungkulan ay hindi naihain hanggang 5:00 p.m. sa Biyernes, Agosto 9, 2024, palalawigin ang panahon ng nominasyon hanggang 5:00 p.m. sa Miyerkules, Agosto 14, 2024. Kung wala o iisang tao lamang ang nominado para sa isang inihahalal na katungkulan, maaaring isagawa ang paghirang sa inihahalal na katungkulan gaya ng iniaatas sa § 10229, Kodigo ng mga Halalan ng Estado ng California.

Sa petsa ng Pinagsamang Pangkalahatang Munisipal na Halalan, ang mga lugar ng botohan ay magiging bukas sa pagitan ng mga oras ng 7:00 a.m. at 8:00 p.m.

Ang mga indibidwal na nangangailangan ng tulong sa iba’t ibang wika sa Espanyol, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Hapon, Koreano, Thai, Khmer, at Hindi, tungkol sa impormasyong nasa paunawa, ay maaaring tumawag sa (626) 580-2016.

Gabriel Ramirez, Klerk ng Lungsod Lungsod ng El Monte

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Glendale City Notices

NOTICE INVITING BIDS

NOTICE is hereby given that the City of Glendale (“City”) will receive sealed Bids, before the Bid Deadline established below for the following work of improvement:

DOWNTOWN GLENDALE SIGNAL AND MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT SPECIFICATION NO. 3939

Bid Deadline: Submit before 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 (“the Bid Deadline”)

Original Bid to be submitted to:

Office of City Clerk

613 E. Broadway, Room 110

Glendale, CA 91206

Bid Opening: 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Office of City Clerk

613 E. Broadway, Room 110 Glendale, CA 91206

NO LATE BIDS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Bidding Documents Available:

Bidding documents are available to view and download online at: https://www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/finance/purchasing/rfp-rfq-page/fsiteid-1

Additional Bid Document 1. Bid America (951) 677-4819 Procurement Locations: 2. I SqFt Plan Room (800) 364-2059

3. McGraw Hill Blueprint Express (626) 471-9021

4. Reed Construction Data (800)876-4045

5. Construction Bid Board (559)325-7054

City of Glendale Contact Person: Marc David, Project Manager Phone: 818-548-3945 Fax: 818-242-7087 E-mail: Mdavid@Glendaleca.gov

Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference: Date: July 25, 2024 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: City Hall (Lobby) 613 E. Broadway Glendale, CA 91206

Mandatory Qualifications for Bidder and Designated Subcontractors:

A Bid may be rejected as non-responsive if the Bid fails to document that Bidder meets the essential requirements for qualification. As part of the Bidder’s Statement of Qualifications, each Bid must provide satisfactory evidence that:

Bidder satisfactorily completed at least four (4) prevailing wage public contracts in California; each comparable in scope and scale to this Project, within three (3) years prior to the Bid Deadline and with a dollar value commensurate with the project scope of the awarded project and Bid submitted for this Project. Additionally, Bidder satisfactorily completed at least two similar projects involving similar work and scope with the City of Glendale; has satisfied the specialty contractor qualifications required for this project, and has less than five (5) Department of Industrial Relations violations on file with the DIR in the past 5 years.

General Scope of Work:

Contractor shall furnish labor, materials, equipment, services, and specialized skills to perform work involved in the Project. The Work included in the Bid is defined in accordance with Specifications No. 3939 and Plan No. 70-115. The Downtown Glendale Signal Mobility Improvements projects in the Downtown Glendale district encompasses signal synchronization, modification, and battery backup installation initiatives at 78 intersections. These efforts involve the installation of a color video detection system (VDS), Accessible Pedestrian System (APS), traffic signal cabinet, Intelight/QFree Maxtime controllers, LED safety lights, fiber optics, and associated communication devices.

Other Bidding Information: Number of Contract Working Days: 100 Working Days Amount of Liquidated Damages: $6,700 per Calendar Day

Other Bidding Information:

1. Bidding Documents: Bids must be made on the Bidder’s Proposal form contained herein. Bidding Documents may be obtained in the Public Works Engineering Department, 633 E. Broadway, Room 205, Glendale, CA 91206 where they may be examined. Electronic copy of bidding documents can be obtained at no cost from: https:// www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/finance/purchasing/rfp-rfq-page/-fsiteid-1. Future addendums, if any will be available for download on the same page as the bidding documents. The city will not mail/deliver the addendums to the prospective bidders. It is the bidders’ sole responsibility to check the website to obtain future addendums to this bid documents.

2. Engineer’s Estimate. The preliminary cost of construction of this Work has been prepared. The estimate is in the range of $7,500,000 to $8,000,000.

3. Completion: This Work must be completed within One Hundred (100) Working days from the Date of Commencement as established by the City’s written Notice to Proceed.

4. Acceptance or Rejection of Bids. The City reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to award all or any individual part/item of the Bid, and to waive any informalities, irregularities or technical defects in such Bids and determine the lowest responsible Bidder, whichever may be in the best interests of the City. No late Bids will be accepted, nor will any oral, facsimile or electronic Bids be accepted by the City.

5. Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference. A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at 2:00pm on July 25, 2024 located at City Hall (Lobby) at 613 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91206.

6. Contractor License. At the time of the Bid Deadline and at all times during performance of the Work, including full completion of all corrective work during the Correction Period, the Contractor must possess a California contractor license or licenses, current and active, of the classification required for the Work, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9, Division 3, Section 7000 et seq. of the Business and Professions Code. In compliance with Public Contract Code Section 3300, the City has determined that the Bidder must possess the following license(s):

• a. Pursuant to Section 3300, of the Public Contract Code, the classification of the bidder’s Contractor’s License shall be “Class A and C-10”. Failure of a bidder to obtain adequate licensing at the time the contract is awarded shall constitute a failure to execute the Contract and shall result in the forfeiture of the Bidder’s Bond. The successful Bidder will not receive a Contract award if the successful Bidder is unlicensed, does not have all of the required licenses, or one or more of the licenses are not current and active. If the City discovers after the Contract’s award that the Contractor is unlicensed, does not have all of the required licenses, or one or more of the licenses are not current and active, the City may cancel the award, reject the Bid, declare the Bid Bond as forfeited, keep the Bid Bond’s proceeds, and exercise any one or more of the remedies in the Contract Documents.

7. Subcontractors’ Licenses and Listing. At the

9. Bid

(90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline.

11. Substitution of Securities. Pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300, substitution of securities for withheld funds is permitted in accordance therewith.

12. Prevailing Wage Resolution. Bidders are hereby notified that in accordance with the provisions of the Labor Code of the State of California, the City Council of the City has ascertained and determined by Resolution No. 18,626 (as amended), the general prevailing rate of per diem wages of a similar character in the locality in which the Work is performed and the general prevailing rate for legal holiday and overtime Work for each craft or type of worker needed in the execution of agreements with the City. Said resolution is on file in the Office of the City Clerk and is hereby incorporated and made a part hereof by the same as though fully set forth herein. Copies of said resolution may be obtained at the Office of the City Clerk.

13. Prevailing Wages. This Project is subject to the provisions of California Labor Code Section 1720. Contractor awarded this Contract and all Subcontractors of any tier shall not pay less than the minimum prevailing rate of per diem wages for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to perform the Work. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California, pursuant to the California Labor Code, and the United States Secretary of Labor, pursuant to the Davis-Bacon Act, have determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rates determined by the California Director of Industrial Relations are available online at www. dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD/. Davis-Bacon wage rates are available online at www.wdol.gov/. To the extent that there are any differences in the federal and state prevailing wage rates for similar classifications of labor, Contractor and its Subcontractors shall pay the highest wage rate.

14. California Department of Industrial Relations Public Works Contractor Registration.

Beginning July 1, 2014, under the Public Works Contractor Registration Law (California Senate Bill No. 854 - See Labor Code Section 1725.5), contractors must register and meet requirements using the online application https://efiling.dir.ca.gov/PWCR/ActionServlet?a ction=displayPWCRegistrationForm before bidding on public works contracts in California. The application also provides agencies that administer public works programs with a searchable database of qualified contractors. Application and renewal are completed online with a non-refundable fee of $300. More information is available at the following links: http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/PublicWorks/SB854FactSheet_6.30.14.pdf http://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html

Beginning April 1, 2015, the City must award public works projects only to contractors and subcontractors who comply with the Public Works Contractor Registration Law. Notice to Bidders and Subcontractors:

• No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a Bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)].

• No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.

• This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

• The prime contractor must post job site notices prescribed by regulation. (See 8 Calif. Code Reg. Section 16451(d) for the notice that previously was required for projects monitored by the DIR Compliance Monitoring Unit.)

Furnishing of Electronic Certified Payroll Records to Labor Commissioner. For all new projects awarded on or after April 1, 2015, contractors and subcontractors must furnish electronic certified payroll records directly to the Labor Commissioner (aka Division of Labor Standards Enforcement).

Dated this day of _______, 20___, City of Glendale, California.

Suzie Abajian, P.h.D., City Clerk of the City of Glendale

Publish July 22, & July 25, 2024

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

Probate Notices

NOTICE OF AMENDED PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF NERCESS EDWARD BABAYAN Case No. 24STPB01673

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of NERCESS EDWARD BABAYAN AN AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Her-mineh K. Babayan; Edward N. Babayan; Tallin H. Babayan in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Hermineh K. Babayan be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE AMENDED PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or con-sented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the au-thority.

A HEARING on the amended petition will be held on Sept. 17, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 99 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should ap-

HABERMEHL

CASE NO. 30-2024-01410246-PR-PW-

CMC

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of DUANE MICHAEL HABERMEHL. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JAMES RAYMOND HASTINGS in the Superior Court of California, County of ORANGE.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JAMES RAYMOND HASTINGS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/29/24 at 1:30PM in Dept. CM07 located at 3390 HARBOR BLVD, COSTA MESA, CA 92626

NOTICE IN PROBATE CASES

The court is providing the convenience to appear for hearing by video using the court’s designated video platform. This is a no cost service to the public. Go to the Court’s website at The Superior Court of California - County of Orange (occourts.org) to appear remotely for Probate hearings and for remote hearing instructions. If you have difficulty connecting or are unable to connect to your remote hearing, call 657-622-8278 for assistance. If you prefer to appear in-person, you can appear in the department on the day/time set for your hearing.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

pear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: ROUPEN AVSHARIAN ESQ SBN 182647

AVSHARIAN & ASSOCIATES 450 N BRAND BLVD STE 600 GLENDALE CA 91203 CN108364 BABAYAN Jul 15,18,22, 2024

GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DUANE MICHAEL

requests that CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL GUYER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/15/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 5 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

In Pro Per Petitioner

JAMES RAYMOND HASTINGS 3735 HWY 101 N YACHATS OR 97498 7/15, 7/18, 7/22/24 CNS-3832204# ANAHEIM PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PAUL MICHAEL GUYER CASE NO. 24STPB07644

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of PAUL MICHAEL GUYER.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL GUYER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner HENRY H. DEARING - SBN 060946 GIFFORD, DEARING & ABERNATHY, LLP 515 S. FIGUEROA ST. STE 2060 LOS ANGELES CA 90071 Telephone (213) 626-4481 7/15, 7/18, 7/22/24 CNS-3832208# GLENDALE INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LARRY EUGENE WISEMAN, SR. CASE NO. 24STPB07581

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LARRY EUGENE WISEMAN, SR.. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT SHELLY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT SHELLY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/05/24 at 8:30AM in Dept.

the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

RICHARD T. LEBHERZSBN316037

KAMINSKI LAW GROUP, APC 140 DIAMOND CREEK PLACE SUITE 165 ROSEVILLE CA 95747

Telephone (916) 540-7618

7/15, 7/18, 7/22/24 CNS-3832778#

BELMONT BEACON

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JAIME R. GUTIERREZ

Case No. 23STPB08465 (related 23STPB11645)

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JAIME R. GUTIERREZ

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Margaret Ramirez in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Margaret Ramirez be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM in Dept. No. 9 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition

or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: ALEXANDRA PRADO ESQ SBN 247351 PRABAX LEGAL

355 S GRAND AVE STE 2450 LOS ANGELES CA 90071-9500 CN108397 GUTIERREZ Jul 18,22,25, 2024 BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ALBERT MICHAEL GRIBSCHAW aka ALBERT M. GRIBSCHAW

Case No. 24STPB07828

To all heirs, beneficiaries, cred-itors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ALBERT MICHAEL GRIBSCHAW aka ALBERT M. GRIBSCHAW

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Christine Ann McCarthy in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Christine Ann McCar-thy be appointed as personal repre-sentative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administra-tion authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objec-tion to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 13, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 11 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your ap-pearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issu-ance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: DONATO R LEOMBRUNI ESQ SBN 219980

JOHN P PRINGLE ESQ SBN 072300

ROQUEMORE PRINGLE & MOORE INC

13300 CROSSROADS PKWY N STE 185 CITY OF INDUSTRY CA 91746 CN108649 GRIBSCHAW Jul 18,22,25, 2024 WEST COVINA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RAYMOND WONG

Case No. 24STPB07862

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RAYMOND WONG A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Alena Thi Tran

LEGALS

in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Alena Thi Tran be ap-pointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court ap-proval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the per-sonal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 23, 2024 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 44 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal rep-resentative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: PAUL HORN ESQ

SBN 243227

PAUL HORN LAW GROUP PC 11404 SOUTH STREET CERRITOS CA 90703 CN108653 WONG Jul 22,29, Aug 5, 2024 ALHAMBRA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RAQUEL SAN PEDRO CORTEZ

CASE NO. 24STPB07833

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RAQUEL SAN PEDRO CORTEZ.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SHERWIN SAN PEDRO in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SHERWIN SAN PEDRO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/23/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 44 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

NATASHA L. CARROLL-FERRARY - SBN 255004 NCF LAW 16350 VENTURA BLVD, STE D179

LOS ANGELES CA 91436

Telephone (818) 588-6079 BSC 225456 7/22, 7/25, 7/29/24 CNS-3834075# BURBANK INDEPENDENT

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LYN RODRIGUEZ AKA LYN ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CASE NO. 24STPB07873

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LYN RODRIGUEZ AKA LYN ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SHANNON LYN HOWELL in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SHANNON LYN HOWELL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/14/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 9 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file

with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner

JENNIFER A. LUMSDAINE - SBN 232751

TREDWAY, LUMSDAINE & DOYLE, LLP

3900 KILROY AIRPORT WY STE 240

LONG BEACH CA 90806

Telephone (562) 923-0971

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7/22, 7/25, 7/29/24

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BALDWIN PARK PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Linda Montoya

Case No. PROVA2400598

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Linda Montoya

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Roseanna Ruiz in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Roseanna Ruiz be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 26, 2024 at 9:00 AM in Dept. F1. located at 17780 Arrow Boulevard, Fontana, Ca 92335.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Kristine M. Borgia

Kristine M. Borgia Law Corporation SB#276777 3963 11th Street Suite 202 Riverside, Ca 92501 (951) 823 - 5138

July 18, 22, 25, 2024 ONTARIO NEWS PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GEORGE MOHR CASE NO. 24STPB07966

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested

in the WILL or estate, or both of GEORGE MOHR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RALPH S. PANTOZZI in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RALPH S. PANTOZZI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/15/24 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner GREG LAWRENCE, ESQ. - SBN 82243 GREG LAWRENCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9854 NATIONAL BLVD., #216 LOS ANGELES CA 90034

Telephone (310) 839-8352 7/22, 7/25, 7/29/24 CNS-3834416# PASADENA PRESS

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LENORA VINCENT CASE NO. 24STPB07900

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LENORA VINCENT.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TERESA GIPSON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TERESA GIPSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should

a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 833-561-0243 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site WWW.SALES.BDFGROUP. COM for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000009951666. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder”, you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 833-561-0243, or visit this internet website WWW.SALES.BDFGROUP. COM using the file number assigned to this case 00000009951666 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: 833-5610243 WWW.SALES.BDFGROUP.COM

BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP as Trustee 3990 E. Concours Street, Suite 350 Ontario, CA 91764 (866) 795-1852 Dated: 07/18/2024 A-4821150 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024 BURBANK INDEPENDENT

Fictitious Business Name Filings

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN20240005755

The following persons are doing business as: Golden bear Plaza LLC, 41609 & 41619 Big Bear Blvd, Big bear Lake, CA 92315. Mailing Address, Po Box 660266, Arcadia, CA 91066. Golden Bear Plaza LLC (CA, 41609 & 41619 Big Bear Blvd, Big bear Lake, CA 92315; Jonathan Mu, Chief Executive Officer (CEO). County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on November 22, 2022. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Jonathan Mu, Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on June 25, 2024 NoticeIn accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except,

as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240005755 Pub: 07/01/2024, 07/08/2024, 07/15/2024, 07/22/2024 San Bernardino Press

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 202466933406. The following person(s) has(have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name: found in situ, 11392 Harrisburg Road, Los Alamitos, CA 90720. The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed in Orange County on: January 8, 2020. FILE NO. 20206586551 Full Name of Registrant(s): MAMIE M. WONG, Trustee of the MAMIE M. WONG

REVOCABLE TRUST U/D/T dated May 29, 2019, 11392 Harrisburg , Los Alamitos, CA 90720. This business is conducted by an individual. /s/ MAMIE M. WONG, Trustee of the MAMIE M. WONG

REVOCABLE TRUST U/D/T dated May 29, 2019. This statement was filed with the County Clerk on June 27, 2024. Published in: Anaheim Press 07/11/2024, 07/18/2024, 07/25/2024, 08/01/2024

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240005645

The following persons are doing business as: Valley Alder Family Dentistry, 17644 Valley Blvd Unit #1, Bloomington, CA 92316. Mailing Address, 17644 Valley Blvd Unit #1, Bloomington, CA 92316. Alpesh Patel DDS, Inc. (CA, 17644 Valley Blvd Unit #1, Bloomington, CA 92316; Alpesh Patel, President. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 1, 2009. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Alpesh Patel, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on June 21, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240005645 Pub: 07/15/2024 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024 San Bernardino Press

business name or names listed herein on June 25, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Vicente Gil, Owner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on July 12, 2024 NoticeIn accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240006346 Pub: 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024 San Bernardino Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240006037

The following persons are doing business as: Smile Together Dental Care, 11450 Fourth St STE 102, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730. Mailing Address, 25155 Crestview Dr, Loma Linda, CA 92354. Poomprakobsri Dental Service, INC. (CA, 11450 Fourth St STE 102, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730; Kiddee Poomprakobsri, CEO. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on June 11, 2024. By signing below, I declare that I have read and understand the reverse side of this form and that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Government Code Sections 6250- 6277). /s/ Kiddee Poomprakobsri, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on July 5, 2024 Notice- In accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920. A Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code) File#: FBN20240006037 Pub: 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024 San Bernardino Press

business name or names listed herein on May 1, 2023. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. zachary pfeiffer, Vice President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 3, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R202408624 Pub. 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Cisco’s 24 955 Montecito Drive Corona, CA 92879 Riverside County Mailing Address, 2528 Costero Magestuoso, San Clemente, CA 92673. Orange County Cisco’s Hospitality Group Inc. (CA, 2528 Costero Magestuoso, San Clemente, CA 92673

Orange County

This business is conducted by: a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).) s. Francisco Perez hernandez, President Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 15, 2024

NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409210 Pub. 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as The Local on 50th

of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Joseph Salwey, member Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 8, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202408815 Pub. 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024 Riverside Independent

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Pool Pro 31805 Temecula Pkwy #760 Temecula, CA 92592

Riverside County Batson Ventures LLC (CA, 31805 Temecula Pkwy #760 Temecula, CA 92592

Riverside County This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousands dollars ($1000).)

s. Gavin Batson, CEO Statement filed with the County of Riverside on July 15, 2024 NOTICE: In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of the five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any changes in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 Et Seq., business and professions code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana, County, Clerk File# R-202409241 Pub. 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024 Riverside Independent

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN20240006346

The following persons are doing business as: East L.A. Backflow Co., 1151 Jacaranda St., Ontario, CA 91762. Mailing Address, 1151 Jacaranda St., Ontario, CA 91762. Vicente Gil, 1151 Jacaranda St., Ontario, CA 91762. County of Principal Place of Business: San Bernardino This business is conducted by: a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Auto Glass Now 72078 Corporate Way Suite 104 Thousand Palms, CA 92276 Riverside County Mailing Address, 440 S Church Street Suite700, Charlotte, NC 28202. Mecklenburg County All Star Glass LLC (NC, 440 S Church Street Suite 700, Charlotte, NC 28202 Mecklenburg County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious

49990 Jefferson St Suite 110 Indio, CA 92201

Riverside County Mailing Address

49990 Jefferson St Suite 110 Indio, CA 92201

Riverside County

The Local LLC (CA, 49990 Jefferson St Suite 110, Indio, CA 92201 Riverside County

This business is conducted by: a limited liability company (llc). Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20246694425. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Capital Real Estate & Investments, 30211 Avenida de las Banderas #225, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688. Full Name of Registrant(s) EDNA Darlene KEARNEY, 30211 Avenida de las Banderas #225, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on October 1, 2001. /S/ EDNA Darlene KEARNEY. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Orange County on July 12, 2024. Publish: Anaheim Press 07/22/2024, 07/29/2024, 08/05/2024, 08/12/2024

Change of plea hearing delayed for druggist in Medi-Cal fraud case

By City News Service

Achange of plea hearing was delayed earlier this month until Aug. 5 for a druggist from Riverside County accused of using his pharmacy to submit more than $300 million in fraudulent Medi-Cal claims for prescription medications that were medically unnecessary, often not provided to patients and obtained through the payment of illegal kickbacks.

Kyrollos Mekail, 36, of Moreno Valley, has agreed to enter his plea in downtown Los Angeles to two counts of health care fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to court documents, Mekail is a licensed California pharmacist who owns, operates, and is the pharmacist-in-charge of the Montclair- based Monte VP LLC, which does business as Monte Vista Pharmacy. The pharmacy is a provider

under Medi-Cal, a California health care benefit program that provides reimbursement for medically necessary health care services for low- income patients.

In early 2022, Medi-Cal suspended its requirement that health care providers obtain prior authorization before providing certain health care services or medications as a condition of reimbursement. The suspension of the prior authorization requirements was part of an ongoing transition of Medi- Cal’s prescription drug program to a new payment system.

From May to March 2023, Mekail and his associates allegedly exploited Medi-Cal’s prior authorization suspension by billing Medi-Cal tens of millions of dollars per month for dispensing high-reimbursement, noncontracted, generic drugs through

Monte Vista Pharmacy. Some prescription medications purportedly were to treat pain and also included Folite tablets, a vitamin available over the counter, according to the DOJ.

Normally, these highcost reimbursement medications would have required prior authorization under Medi-Cal’s old payment system. The charges allege the medication involved in the scheme was medically unnecessary, frequently was not dispensed to patients, and procured by kickbacks, federal prosecutors said.

In less than one year, Monte Vista billed Medi-Cal about $306 million for the medications, of which Medi-Cal paid the drug store over $204 million, according to documents filed in LA federal court.

The DOJ contends Mekail paid two co-schemers more than $36 million

as payments for “consulting services,” the DOJ alleges. If his plea is accepted,

Felon accused of killing Cabazon man years ago arraigned

By City News Service

Afelon accused of killing a 30-year-old Cabazon man whose disappearance remained a mystery until his remains were located more than two years later pleaded not guilty July 12 to murder.

Shannon McCloud Collins, 47, of Cabazon, was arrested last month following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the 2021 death of Zachary Hemminger.

Collins was arraigned before Superior Court Judge Francisco Navarro, who

scheduled a felony settlement conference for Aug. 26 at the Banning Justice Center.

The defendant is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.

According to sheriff’s Sgt. Jarred Bishop, Collins allegedly killed Hemminger on April 7, 2021, for reasons still unclear.

Bishop said that detectives were alerted around that time Hemminger had gone missing, but there

was no confirmation of foul play until the investigation progressed.

When detectives received sufficientinformation pointing to a homicide, they began developing leads, ultimately identifying the approximate location where the victim’s body had been dumped, the sergeant said.

He said that in November 2023, remains were found in the 40000 block of Blanche Avenue in Cabazon that forensic analysis confirmed to be those of Hemminger.

Woman suspected of stealing child’s motorcycle at Lake Elsinore

home arrested

By City News Service

A25-year-old woman suspected of stealing a child’s electric motorcycle from a house in Lake Elsinore was arrested July 12.

Deputies responded to the 32000 block of Meadow Wood Lane July 11 regarding a social media post detailing the burglary, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

Investigators determined upon further investigation

that the electric motorcycle was a birthday gift recently purchased by the child’s parents and that Cindy Cline of Lake Elsinore had allegedly stolen the property. A search warrant was executed July 12 by the Lake Elsinore Robbery/Burglary Suppression Team with the assistance of the Special Enforcement Team in the 100 block of Plaza Valenza, where investigators located Cline

and took her into custody.

The stolen motorcycle was recovered from the residence and returned to the family, sheriff’s officials said.

Cline was booked at the Cois Byrd Detention Center on suspicion of theft and outstanding warrants.

Anyone with information on the burglary was asked to call Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station Deputy Castro at 951-245-3300.

The homicide investigation continued, culminating in an arrest warrant being served on Collins on June 21, when he was taken into custody without incident at a residence on Lois Avenue.

How the defendant and victim were acquainted, and the circumstances that led to the alleged attack, were not disclosed.

Court records show Collins has prior felony convictions for animal cruelty, auto theft and receiving stolen property.

Firefighters reach 98% containment of Temecula brush fire

By City News Service

Evacuation orders were canceled in Temecula, where firefighters have reached 98% containment with lines of cleared vegetation around a 101-acre brush fire that broke out on a hillside east of town, authorities said July 13.

The Pauba Fire was reported at 1:30 p.m. July 12 in the area of Pauba and Los Caballos roads, north of Highway 79, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

Engine and hand crews from the county, Hemet Fire Department, San Diego County Fire Department and other agencies were sent to

the location and encountered flames moving to the southeast at a moderate rate.

Eight Cal Fire air tankers and two water-dropping helicopters made runs on the brusher, enabling crews to begin digging tentative containment lines out ahead of the brusher. Its forward rate of spread was stopped at 4:25 p.m. July 12.

All tankers returned to their bases shortly afterward, with only the two choppers making targeted drops.

Two firefighters collapsed while digging lines, suffering apparent heat stroke, according to reports from the scene. They were taken to Temecula

Valley Hospital where they were listed in stable condition.

Firedepartment commanders issued an evacuation order for the Vail Lake Resort as the flames approached. The order also applied to the Butterfield Lake Estates, while an evacuation warning was in effect for the area north of Highway 79, south of Avenida Bravura, east of Anza Road and west of Wilson Creek.

The evacuation warning was lifted as of July 13 morning and the fire department announced that Pauba Road was reopened.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

Testimony underway in trial of felon accused of murdering motel guest

By City News Service

Prosecution testimony got underway Thursday in the trial of a 48-yearold convicted felon accused of gunning down a motel guest who punched him for unknown reasons while the person was socializing outside a room in Riverside.

Robert Donald Intong of Desert Hot Springs was arrested in 2021 following a Riverside Police Department investigation into the slaying of 31-year-old Cole William Birchard of Riverside.

Intong is charged with first-degree murder and sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations.

The prosecution and defense completed opening statements in the trial Wednesday afternoon, after which Riverside County Superior Court Judge Sam Shouka directed the jury to return to the Riverside Hall of Justice Thursday morning, at which point the District Attorney’s Office called its initial witnesses.

Intong is being held on $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Jail.

According to the prosecution’s trial brief, the defendant, his girlfriend and her young adult daughter were staying at the Motel 6 in the 3600 block of La Sierra Avenue when they met Birchard, who was staying in a room nearby on the first floor.

It was unclear how long they were all acquainted.

In the early morning hours of May 17, 2021, Intong and his girlfriend, whose identity wasn’t disclosed, were sharing a cigarette

when the victim joined them.

The brief said that security surveillance video from the establishment showed the three conversing for several minutes, during which time the defendant appeared to become agitated.

Birchard stepped away and stared at the first-floor perimeter wall for “five minutes,” then went to his room. However, he returned roughly 15 minutes later, walking straight toward Intong, whom he punched in the face, the brief said.

The defendant yelled profanities at Birchard, then stepped into his room while his girlfriend stood in the doorway, grabbed a 9 mm handgun and took a position behind the woman, allegedly firing multiple rounds “over her shoulder” at the victim, fatally wounding him, according to court papers.

Birchard made no attempt to flee when he saw Intong with the pistol, instead standing motionless, the prosecution said.

The defendant, his girlfriend and her daughter then proceeded to “remove items from their room” at an unhurried pace and load them into the defendant’s Chevy Suburban, walking around the victim’s lifeless body all the while, according to the brief.

The narrative alleged Intong picked up some of the spent 9mm shell casings near Birchard’s body before climbing into the Yukon and leaving with the women.

Police officers were not summoned to the motel for another 40 minutes, until a clerk spotted the victim’s

body and called 911. It was unclear how the gunshots did not wake the other guests and prompt them to call the police.

Detectives immediately pulled the security surveillance videotape and observed the recordings, watching events unfold and verifying the license plate on the defendant’s vehicle, according to prosecutors.

Intong and the two women were tracked to the Roadway Inn on Magnolia Avenue around noon the same day, and all were detained for questioning.

The defendant’s girlfriend and her daughter both told investigators that Birchard “had been bothering them and was scary,” turning “aggressive” toward Intong for reasons unclear, the brief stated.

After he punched the defendant, Intong said aloud, “I’m tired of this (expletive)” and grabbed the gun, though the women suggested that he fired in self-defense, according to the brief.

Intong initially denied perpetrating the shooting, but after he was shown the video, he “admitted to shooting the victim, saying he `just lost it’ (because) the victim was ‘(expletive) with me earlier,’” the narrative said.

The defendant was booked into custody and “wrote an apology letter to the victim’s family,” according to court papers.

Intong has prior convictions for possession of controlled substances, felony evading, battery and resisting arrest.