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Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation supports expansion of Highland housing campus
Thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses remain on picket lines this week
By Joe Taglieri
By City News Service
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aiser Permanente nurses and health care workers in the Inland Empire remained on picket lines Monday as their open-ended strike alleging unfair labor practices amid prolonged contract talks enters its fourth week. The roughly 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals vowed to stay on strike until a fair contract
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$3 million grant from Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation is helping to advance enhancements at the Pacific Village housing campus that use innovative designs to transform both indoor and outdoor spaces into environments that are consistent with the region’s Indigenous heritage to foster healing, wellness and socializing, San Bernardino County officials announced Tuesday. In June, construction began on Phase II of Pacific Village in Highland at 2626 Pacific St. The project's second phase will expand the facility into a wellnesscentered environment that will provide much-needed housing, medical treatment and "wraparound services" that may include case management, mental health counseling, educational support, housing assistance and life skills training "for some of the county’s most vulnerable residents," according to the announcement of the Yuhaaviatam grant. Phase 2 upgrades include 58 permanent supportive housing units, with 30 for very low-income older adults. The second phase also calls
Construction continues on the expansion of the Pacific Village housing campus in Highland. | Photo courtesy of San Bernardino County
for 32 recuperative care beds for individuals leaving hospitals, a 16-bed substance use disorder facility and the continuation of eight interim housing units from phase 1. “We are grateful to Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation for their generous support of this vital project,” county Board of Supervisors Chairman and 3rd District Supervisor Dawn Rowe said in a statement. “This critical funding will assist us in creating a supportive and healing environment so our residents can get the care they need to thrive and maintain long-term stability.”
The Pacific Village enhancements will include outdoor gathering areas, adding furniture and home decor items to housing units and the Recuperative Care Center as well as building a multi-use pavilion with shaded seating and flexible space for group therapy, cultural programming and recreation, according to the county. The grant funds also will be utilized to install healing gardens with shaded seating and rest areas, covered pedestrian pathways and a mapping system for the
entire facility. Officials said the planned upgrades are intended to promote social connection, support physical healing and mental health, improve comfort and quality of life, make it easier and safer to get around the campus, provide "adaptable spaces" for programs and activities while supporting residents’ longterm recovery. Planning for these upgrades is currently underway. “Pacific Village is a transformative space that represents the resilience of our
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agreement is reached. UNAC/ UHCP members include registered nurses, pharmacists, nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, midwives, physician assistants, rehab therapists, speech language pathologists, dietitians and other specialty health care professionals. Picketing resumed at 9 a.m. Monday at Ontario Medical Center, 2295 S. Vineyard Ave. "We're striking because Kaiser has committed serious
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Vigil held after early release of young Corona man's killer
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By City News Service
orge Montalvo, on the day his killer was released from prison after serving a little more than a quarter of a nine-year prison sentence for gross vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run. Friends, family and supporters gathered at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at 1693 Rimpau Ave., where Montalvo was See Early release Page 15
struck and killed in June 2020. Neomi Renee Velado, 28, was convicted three years later by a Riverside jury of gross vehicular manslaughter with negligence, hit-andrun resulting in death and sentence-enhancing allegations of fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run and causing permanent injury or death