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San Ysidro School Board Moves Forward With New TrusteesBy Barbara Zaragoza

On Thursday, December 11th

Councilman David Alvarez swore inRudolfo Linares, Marcos Diaz andLuciana Corrales as new San YsidroSchool Board members. The five-member board then announced thatduring their closed session theyunanimously voted to pursue legalaction against former SuperintendentManuel Paul for the return of morethan $200,000 he received in sever-ance pay.

The San Ysidro School Board hasbeen in turmoil ever since solar powercompany EcoBusiness Alliance suedthe district for breach of contract andwon $12 million. A series of South Bayresignations followed, including twoSan Ysidro board members andformer Superintendent Manuel Paulwho was indicted in a “pay-to-play”corruption probe. When the schooldistrict tried to impose a significantteacher pay cut in October to addressthe budget shortfall, a strike ensued.

At the meeting, board memberstried to move forward, electing An-tonio Martinez as the new Presidentand Marcos Diaz as Vice-President.Teachers then voiced concerns fromthe floor.

Willow Elementary school teacherNancy Alvarado said, “As you cansee by the make-up of the board to-night, the people have spoken and Ithink this is what they said: we ex-pect our board members to be civil,ethical and to put the collective meansof all students above their individualagendas.”

Special Education teacher PatriciaManley said, “The days of corruption,of back door dealings, of arroganceand punishment for speaking out,

need to be over. For those of you whohave been on here before, I hope yousee the handwriting on the wall be-cause the parents of this community,the teachers of this community, arenot going to let happen what happenedbefore.”

Martinez responded by focusing ontransparency and teamwork. First, hesuggested that the recorded audio ofthe board meetings be available onthe school board website. He receivedapplause and the board passed themotion unanimously.

Martinez also took a moment tocomment, “I think now is a very im-portant time to emphasize that we’rea team. All of us and as a team, theway I like to look at it is a round tablewhere titles, egos are out the door,we throw them in the trash and wefocus on what we need to do and our

business, which is our kids…”Dena Whittington, Assistant Su-

perintendent of Business Services,presented the budget report. “Whenthe budget was adopted, we had a3.8 million dollar deficit and after set-ting aside all the required reserves,we were short over 800, almost900,000 dollars and we didn’t evenmeet the 3% minimum requirementfor our reserves… After the approvalof the LCAP [Local Control and Ac-countability Plan] and other changesthat have occurred since June, ourdeficit spending has been reduced to1.2 million dollars. We can meet our1.4 million dollar 3% minimum reserverequirement… and if nothing elsechanges between now and June 30th,we would have $700,000 above andbeyond our minimum reserve require-ment.”

Whittington provided a thick book-let of financial statements to boardmembers. Martinez remarked, “Ithink that was one of the biggest mis-takes we made as a board is we didn’tget the proper training on how to reada budget.” He then recommended thatthe board hold a workshop where thebudget is explained in layman terms.The meeting would also be open tothe public.

Rudolfo Linares began a discus-sion about Willow Elementary’s WildaStorm reading program, created byStorm Educational Enterprises for$63,000. The funds would come outof LCAP funds. Linares said hewasn’t against Wilda Storm, but itwas his understanding that teacherswere being intimidated by the districtto approve the program.

Marcos Diaz agreed. “Historically

there is a culture and I was going tosave it for my remarks at the veryend. There is fear in the teacher ranks.Some of them, I don’t know if they’rewarranted, I don’t know, but there isfear of reprisals. There is a hostilework environment.”

The Principal of Willow Elementary,Manuel Bojorquez, then stood beforethe board and explained he felt angrythat he was questioned in this way.The process started four months agowhen the old board decided not to passthe Wilda Storm program for the wholedistrict. The board then approved theprogram only for La Mirada andSmythe Elementary. Bojorquez said hepresented Wild Storm to his teachers;they were given the choice to pick asupport program that helped staff

Old school food means good food at Back to RootsBy Pablo J. Sáinz

When Philip Curro Ariza andÁlvaro Miranda decided to openBack to Roots Market in mid-Novem-ber, their primary goal was, as thename of their business states, to goback to the roots of great, local foodand ingredients.

“Back to Roots is about going backto how food was before it became soindustrialized,” Ariza said. “We canboth still remember every morninggoing to the local rancher to buy ourmilk we knew who the rancher wasand how he cared for his animals. Weknew where our food came from. It’snot the same when something ismade by a machine rather than hu-man hands.”

So Back to Roots Market does pre-cisely that: Most of the products of-fered come from local sources, manyof them Latinos.

There’s El Campito Farm, which isrun by Ariza and his brother Jan inDescanso and offers heirloom varietyfruits and vegetables; Chef MartinGonzalez from Taste Enoteca andAcqua al 2, which specialises inhandcrafter pastas and Italian saucesmade exclusively for Back to Roots;Fernando Gaxiola of Baja Food +Wines sales wines from Baja Cali-fornia’s Guadalupe Valley; among oth-ers.

“We offer a great variety of localproducts,” Ariza said. “These areproducts that you typically find atfarmers markets all over San Diego.This includes jams, teas, honey, oilsand sauces, and many other greatproducts.”

But in addition to local products, Back to RootsMarket also sales imported cheeses from Mediter-ranean countries, such as Spain, Italy, and Portu-gal. It also offers Iberico and Serrano ham, throughMiranda’s own Iberico Taste.

“My business partner Alvaro Miranda grew up inSpain learning about raising the Iberico pig, and aboutmaking cheese from their sheep. When he came toSan Diego he had the idea of offereing these prod-ucts, making sure they’re made by true artisans.”

Ariza said that Back to Roots Market will alsocater to the explosion of interest in San Diego forBaja California cuisine.

“Baja cuisine has grown tremendously recentlyand being so close to San Diego it offers a great

opportunity for people to experience all that is happening just southof the border,” he said.

Back to Roots Market, which is located in Banker’s Hills, openedin mid-November, right in time for the holiday season.

“We seem to fill a need in the area and our neighbors have beenvery supportive of us. We are very blessed to be part of such agreat community,” Ariza said. “We offer a wide variety of productsthat are sure to heighten your festivities. It’s definitely a place toshopping for that foodie friend. We even have a special edition oliveoil from Spain made from 1000 year old olive trees.”

Also, Back to Roots Market is offering gourmet, glouten-freetamales, for those who prefer a traditional Mexican Christmas taste.

Ariza, who was born in Switzerland to a Dutch father and aMexican mother and grew up in San Diego, said that in his ownfamily as well as his business partner’s family, meals was a time ofsharing, of joy, of good food.

“In both of our families food was something that always broughtus together. Often times our meals would last for hours on end, mostof the time laughing and sharing stories,” he said.

Back to Roots Market is located at 3318 5th Ave., San Diego. It isopen daily from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visit them online atwww.facebook.com/backtorootsmarket.

Alvaro Miranda and Phillip Curro Ariza,owners of Back to Roots Market.

Just a sampling of the fare that Back to Roots Market offers shoppers.

(see School Board, page 4)

San Ysidro School District starts the year with a new board. From left to right: Jose Barajas, Rodolfo Linares, Antonio Martinez, boardpresident, Superintendent George Cameron, Lucciana Corrales, and Marcos Diaz, board vice-president.

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The central Mexican city ofAguascalientes is perhaps typi-cal this time of year. Beginningon December 12, Virgin ofGuadalupe Day, Mexico’s longholiday season cranks up in asteaming barrage of rockets,tamales, Aztec dancers and ahonking bus caravan that bearsportraits of the national icon.

Nicknamed Lupe Reyes,the festivities extend until Janu-ary 6, Three King’s Day, whengifts are traditionally handed tochildren. This January 6, how-ever, will also be the day whenpolitically embattled MexicanPresident Enrique Pena Nietovisits the White House.

Prior to Christmas, Aguas-calientes teems with shoppers.Chicas Telcel hustle cellphonedeals while stands of clothing,shoes and wrapping paper snagpedestrians on jammed down-town streets and plaza corri-dors. The incessant conflictbetween municipal authoritiesand vendors plays out, as agroup of merchants protestsagainst an official’s allegedbetrayal of promises to grantcommercial licenses.

Holiday cheer abounds. Up-lifted by the rhythms of gru-pero, cumbia, rock, jazz andeven blues music, revelersmake their own pilgrimages inthe city’s dramatically ex-panded downtown entertain-ment district, which has prac-tically converted Aguas-calientes’ night life into a per-manent edition of the famousSan Marcos spring fair.

Usually, Lupe Reyes is atime when worldy woes areleft behind in a ritualistic bathof celebration, family gather-ings and partying. But this yearis different, with an added ele-ment hovering in the air. Ashundreds of runners heaved

and puffed through Aguas-calientes’ Virgin of Guadaluperace, two young men werespotted emerging from thedispering crowd with the mes-sage “We are Missing 43”printed on their t-shirts.

In today’s Mexico the num-ber 43 means, of course, the43 students of the Ayotzinaparural teachers’ college whowere forcibly disappeared bypolicemen in Iguala, Guerrero,last September and then trans-formed into the collective faceof a nation shaken to its core.

The slogan, “They wantedto disappear you, but you ap-peared all over the world,” lit-erally proved true last weekwhen a 21-year-old Mexicanuniversity student, Adan CortesSalas, burst into the NobelPeace Prize ceremony in Nor-way waving a Mexican flagand urging the world to payattention to human rights vio-lations in his country- all to thedelight of 17-year-old NobelPrize winner, Malala Yousafzaiof Pakistan.

Morphing into a popular up-rising in different forms, theAyotzinapa justice movementhas has not stopped for LupeReyes. In Aguascalientes, forexample, young activists shownighttime videos projected ontoa large screen in the down-town plaza.

The short videos feature atestimony from a survivor of theIguala Massacre, a piece dis-secting the feudal-like carvingup of Guerrero into a “narco-state” and an interview withDon Nepomuceno Moreno, theMovement for Peace and Jus-tice with Dignity activist whorelentlessly demanded justicefor his son, disappeared by po-licemen in Sonora, only to windup a victim himself when hewas gunned down in broad day-light in Hermosillo in 2011.

Attracting dozens of peoplewho watch and listen with in-tense concentration, the videosare a tool meant to spark citi-zen awareness, involvementand dialogue on vital issuesdefining the future of a nation,said activist Rene Lopez.

On another recent day, asshoppers surged through thestreets and a crew preparedthe stage for a Catholic rockconcert that was later soakedin rain, activists gathered on thedowntown plaza’s edge.

Prompting questions froma couple of municipal copswho scribbled notes, the uni-versity students and represen-tatives of the AguascalientesSocial and Gender ViolenceObservatory planted pinkcrosses and passed out pes-quisas, or missing person’s fli-ers.

Originally popularized bywomen’s activists and victims’relatives in Ciudad Juarez, thecrosses have since become aninternational symbol in themovement against gender vio-lence. The Aguacalientescrosses bore messages like“More than 250 Feminicides inAguascalientes from 2001-2014” and “Feminicide is not acrime of passion: It is a crimeof the State.” The fliers solic-ited public information on thedisappearance of three youngresidents: Crystal AcevedoGomez, 29; Sara EstefaniaMunoz Mota, 18; and Sergiode Lara Quezada, 28.

Mariana Avila, local coordi-nator for the Observatory,sounded complaints long famil-iar in Ciudad Juarez and otherparts of Mexico. Local lawenforcement, she contended,routinely delays investigatingwomen’s disappearances andis behind the curve in imple-menting an investigative pro-tocol that grew out of the his-

toric 2009 Inter-AmericanCourt of Human Rights sen-tence against the Mexican gov-ernment for women’s murdersin Ciudad Juarez, in the caseknown as Campo Algodonero,or the Cotton Field.

According to Avila, the stateprosecutor’s office released astatistic of 229 women and 135men who had vanished inAguascalientes from Januaryto September 2014, but leftunclear how many of the re-ported missing were eventuallylocated safe and sound or re-main disappeared.

“We don’t have a credibleset of data at the state or na-tional level,” Avila said. “Infor-mation is not correctly com-piled. This is a national prob-lem.”

Citing the National Registryof Missing or DisappearedPersons, which reflects num-bers maintained by the federalInterior Ministry, the Aguas-calientes edition of La Jornadareported last week that 191people had disappeared in thesmall state during 2014. Thenewspaper ranked Aguas-calientes as the 21st place na-tionally among states and theFederal District in terms of dis-appeared persons. To put bothAguascalientes and Ayoti-zinapa in national perspective,more than 23,000 people arelisted in the national registry asdisappeared.

Avila said her group, whichmonitors gender violence andthe Mexican government’scompliance with the mandatoryCampo Algodonero sentence,supports the Ayotzinapa justicemovement but is pushing for itto cut culturally deeper.

“Feminism is an alternativeto look at the situation at thenational level,” she said. “We’veproposed this as a position but,unfortunately, many of our

friends haven’t adopted this.”While Avila spoke, a small

group of university studentspassed out fliers and spoke topassersby one-by-one aboutthe missing. Young, smart andserious, they are among thefuture leaders of Mexico.

Finishing up a degree in psy-chology, Brenda Serna de-scribed the situation of womenas especially grave, with theirgrievances including under-representation in political of-fice, sexual assault, impunity inthe justice system and the wolfwhistles she’s personally expe-rienced walking down thestreet.

A local example, she con-tinued, recently happenedwhen a male stripper allegedlyraped a young woman in thebathroom of a nightclub ironi-cally named “Mafia House,”escaping with the collusion ofemployees. The establishmentnow stands with a government“closed” seal on its front door.

The activism in Aguas-calientes represents only aslice of the protest and mobli-zation that is occurring acrossMexico during Lupe Reyes2014. In post-AyotzinapaMexico, violence which oncelargely went unnoticed is in-creasingly becoming a magnetfor public outrage. The brutalDecember 3 murder of 19-yearnurse Erika Kassandra BravoCaro in Uruapan, Michoacan,even jolted an entity wherehyper-violence has been thenorm for years and mobilized10,000 people into the streets,according to media reports.

Erika’s cause hit social me-dia, where a YouTube video ofthe young woman demandedjustice. After days of proteststhe Michoacan state prose-cutor’s office announced early

The Revolution of Lupe Reyes

¿Quiere Ud. Pagar hasta un 40% menos en su cuenta de luz?Si respondió “SI!”, entonces

Ud. debería cambiarse hoy conSolar Day.

“Mucha gente piensa que senecesita mucho dinero paraobtener la electricidad de sucasa por medio de panelessolares, pero hoy en día ese noes el caso” nos dice el Sr. AxelAmbrosius, represéntate deSolar Day. “Cuando cambie suproveedor de luz a Solar Dayle instalamos un sistema de pa-neles solares completamentegratis, esto le crea un ahorrode hasta un 40% a nuestrosclientes.”

En el 2013, SDGE el pro-veedor de electricidad local deSan Diego tuvo los precios másaltos de electricidad en todoslos Estados Unidos. Como sino fuera suficiente el precio deluz en el sur de California con-tinua a subir a niveles alar-mantes.

Por los últimos 20 años, losprecios de SDGE han subidopor un promedio de 7% cadaaño. Si, “cada año!” Esosignifica que en 10 años elprecio de la luz ha subidoaproximadamente por un 70%,y seguirá subiendo. Es más, enmuchas áreas de San Diego elprecio de luz ha subido por un30% en este ultimo año entranscurso.

“Expertos en la industriaenergética dicen que a re-sultado de la clausura recientede la planta nuclear de SanOnofre los precios de ele-ctricidad en California segui-

rán subiendo cada año” co-mento el Sr. Ambrosius. “Cali-fornianos que pagan $150.00dólares al mes hoy por su luz,podrían estar pagando $300.00dentro de 5 años, por eso usarpaneles solares es una opcióntan atractiva para el con-sumidor. En Solar Day lepermitimos tomar control sobresus gastos energéticos, y lohacemos de una manera muyfácil, y mejor aun sin ningúnenganche, costo inicial, ni deinstalación”.

Con los precios de luz hoyen dia, para dueños de casasla pregunta no es si es queinstalaran paneles solares en sucasa, mas bien es una preguntade cuando instalaran panelessolares. A muchos les pre-ocupa el costo de la adquisicióne instalación de estos sistemas,piensan que costara muchodinero y que su retorno deinversión será muy tardado. Siuno no tiene ahorros, podríafinanciar un sistema, pero consistemas que cuestan en pro-medio $25,000.00 y más, unpréstamo puede poner a unode nervios.

“Con Solar Day todo es di-ferente,” nos dice Ambrosius.“Nuestros clientes simple-mente cambian su proveedorde luz. Nosotros pagamos porel sistema de paneles solaresy la instalación, y ellos apro-vechan los precios de luz masbaratos. Aparte, nuestrosclientes nunca tendrán quepreocuparse del mantenimiento

de su sistema. Solar Day nonada mas instala el sistemagratis pero lo monitoreamos,mantenemos, y reparamosmientras sean nuestros clien-tes.”

Trabajando en conjunto conla comunidad hispana, SolarDay quiere cambiar ciertaspercepciones que pudieran te-ner de usar paneles solares ensus casas. Aparte de ofrecerconsultas gratuitas en casa,también tendrán eventos enEspañol cuyo objetivo seráeducar al público en generalsobre el programa que ofrecen.Sus eventos son conocidos nonada más por su ambienteameno pero también por loinformativos que son.

“Para Nosotros lo masimportante es la transparenciay honestidad. Queremos quenuestros clientes entiendancomo funciona la industria so-lar y que tomen una decisióninformada,” comento Am-brosius. “Es mas después dehacer una evaluación, enmuchos casos les informamosa ciertos clientes potencialesque usar paneles solares no esla decisión que mas lesconviene. Si no le conviene anuestro cliente decidimos noproceder, punto. “

Con sistemas solares sinenganche, ni costos deinstalación, y una gran ofertajusto a tiempo para las fiestasDecembrinas, Solar Day sinduda le alumbrara la vida amuchas vidas y casas.

(see Revolution, page 7)

El Colef da a conocer elPrimer Estudio sobre laPoblación que acude alDesayunador SalesianoPadre Chava

- Las personas que asistenal Desayunador en su ma-yoría son hombres que hansido deportados desde Esta-dos Unidos y que deseancontar con opciones para lainserción laboral y social aTijuana. Un elevado por-centaje presenta síntomas dedepresión y ansiedad.

- La falta de empleo ysalarios insuficientes son lasrazones principales parausar los servicios del Desa-yunador, que atiende tantoa personas y familias queviven en albergues, El Bordoo la calle, como a personasque tienen una residenciafija en la ciudad de Tijuana.

Durante los meses de oc-tubre, noviembre y diciembrede este año, El Colegio de laFrontera Norte (El Colef)realizó un estudio para conocerla situación sociodemográficade la población que utiliza losservicios del DesayunadorSalesiano Padre Chava. Esto,con el objetivo de conocer susnecesidades y así poder definirestrategias que permitan ladisminución de su problemáticay la ampliación de su oferta deservicios. Es así que los re-sultados que a continuación sepresentan se derivan de unaencuesta realizada a 556 per-sonas y estadísticamente rep-resentativa de los usuarios queasisten diariamente.

En primer lugar, se encontróque en promedio 998 personashacen uso del Desayunadorcada día. Asimismo, se ob-servó que el 92% de quienesasisten con regularidad a estainstitución son hombres, con unpromedio de 46 años. A pesarde que el 72% señaló tenerhijos, el 70% dijo que no seencuentran en una relación depareja y un porcentaje similar(67%) expresó que vivían so-los. Además, el 6% aseveróhablar alguna lengua indígenay, en contraposición, el 61%declaró que habla el idiomainglés.

En cuanto a su nivel edu-cativo, el 58% de la poblaciónencuestada no completó sueducación básica, lo que hacecomprensible que la granmayoría (88%) haya dedicadosu vida laboral a empleos pococalificados (tales como al-bañilería, pintura, campo, etc.).No obstante, la situación en laque hoy en día se encuentranlos ha llevado a asumir laboressumamente precarias e in-formales, tales como el ambu-lantaje y lavar carros (50%);cabe decir que el 26% no tieneempleo.

Para mayor abundancia,vale señalar que el Desa-yunador atiende a dos tipos depoblación según su residencia

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Aztec floral gift allows USflorists to ‘jingle-all-the-way’to their banksBy Andy Porras

In Pat Mora’s and Charles Ramírez Berg’scuento, The Legend of the Poinsettia, their hero,little Carlos, fears attending the last event of his Mexicanpueblo’s annual Posadas. Why? Because he has nothing tooffer Baby Jesus on his birthday, which will be celebrated at thetown’s parish.

In case you’ve never heard of this timely tale nor know beansabout the Aztecs and their cuetlaxochitls, here’s our Christmaspresent to you.

Around the 14 through 16th centuries, these beautiful plants’ sap was utilized to controlfevers, while their leaves produced a reddish dye. The last of the Aztec royalty, Moctezuma,enjoyed their beauty so much, that he had them brought into what is now Mexico City fromthe low-lands. The Aztec city, the oldest capitol in the Americas, and located 7,200 feetabove sea level, was not conducive to growing such delicate flowers.

Things didn’t go Mocte’s way, history tells us, but one of his favorite flowers became thecenter of interest for one Juan Balme, a 17th century Spanish botanist. So much in fact, thatSr. Balme noted the plant in his scientific writings and soon thereafter, another botanist, KarlLudwig Wilenow, christened it Euphorbia Pulcherrima, which allegedly means “verybeautiful.”

According to botany wisdom, Herr Wilenow was “dazzled by the plant’s flowers, whichbegin to sprout one day through a crack in one of his greenhouses.”

Enter the ever-entrepreneurial American Anglos. During the John Quincy Adamsadministration, one Joel Roberts Poinsett, was appointed as U.S. Minister to Mexico. At thattime these “ministers” served as ambassadors and although his résumé did not state it, hewas known as an official “Indian hater.” In Mexico, while a civil war raged around him, hisbotanical know-how led him to introduce the American Elm into Mexican horticulture. Hisinterest in the science of plants eventually had him wandering about Mexico’s lushcountryside. Sometime in 1828, Poinsett came across an interesting shrub with large redflowers growing wild next to a muddy country road. Immediately he took some cuttings ofthe plant and after being kicked out of Mexico, upon his return his beloved South, re-plantedthe cuetlaxochitl in one of his South Carolina greenhouses.

During the last years of his life, Poinsett, who had been recalled as minister, continued towork the flower throughout the South as a symbol of Christmas, and succeeded in making asmall fortune. (This same story, of an American stumbling on something Mexican and turningsuch a product or idea into wealth, as we know, is not uncommon.)

The late, great and good amigo/colega, José Antonio Burciaga wrote in his book, DrinkCultura, that because Poinsett meddled so much in the affairs of Mexico and the rest of LatinAmerica, t the term “poinsettismo” was coined to describe officious and intrusive conduct.When he took sides in a political dispute, Poinsett was finally declared person non grata bythe infuriated Mexican government.

Perhaps the “official” name, having come from Germany or the fact that it was steeped inearly Mexican folklore, caused the flower to be re-named after the racist minister. Whatactually happened - quien sabe? But historian and horticulturist, William Prescott, who hadjust penned, Conquest of Mexico, “honored” the minister by naming Moctezuma’scuetlaxochitl, “poinsettias.”

In due time, the Mexican flower grew in popularity, becoming the legitimate and officialChristmas flower. Ironically, in Mexico, long before anybody gave it a second look, theflowers became known as Nochebuenas, in honor of that famous silent night Baby Jesuscame into this world.

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de HispanosPor José López Zamorano

Pocas cosas son tan perni-ciosas como abusar de perso-nas en posición de vulnera-bilidad. Cuando los atropellosproceden de miembros denuestra propia comunidad, lainjuria es doblemente ofensiva.Por desgracia eso ha em-pezado a ocurrir con motivo dela próxima entrada en vigor delas acciones ejecutivas migra-torias del presidente BarackObama.

La ampliación del Programade Acción Diferida para Lle-gados en la Infancia (DACA)anunciada por el presidenteempezará a ser tramitada porlas autoridades migratorias apartir de febrero, mientras queel Programa de Acción Dife-rida para Adultos con hijosciudadanos o residentes (DA-PA) será implementado a partirde mayo del próximo año.

Hasta el momento el Ser-vicio de Ciudadanía y ServiciosMigratorios (USCIS) no haempezado a recibir ningunasolicitud en relación con lasmedidas administrativas deve-ladas por el presidente el 20 denoviembre, por lo cual esnecesario permanecer alertasante los ofrecimientos enga-ñosos de personas inescrupu-losas.

“La gente no debe caervíctima de estafas.. que tengacuidado con cualquier personaofrezca ayudar para presentaralguna solicitud o una peticiónsobre cualquiera de estasacciones antes de que esténdisponibles… Esta es unaprioridad para nosotros, com-batirlas las estafas.”, advirtióla semana pasada el directordel USCIS, León Rodríguez.

El USCIS lanzó de hechola Iniciativa de Práctica NoAutorizada de la Ley de Inmi-

La Guerra Contra la Estafagración (UPIL), que con-templa la colaboración convarias agencias del gobiernopara identificar los recursosque pueden ayudar a las per-sonas a evitar caer en lasgarras de vivales que cometenestafas de inmigración.

Las estafas más comunesson cometidas por personasque se presentan como “no-tarios públicos”, que en lospaíses latinoamericanos sontípicamente abogados querealizan trámites oficiales anombre de particulares. EnEstados Unidos su función selimita a validar la identidad enla firma de documentos. Encualquier caso nadie que sepresente como “notario” estáautorizado para ofrecerleservicios migratorios.

Otra de las está estafas másfrecuentes incluye las llamadastelefónica donde algunas sepresentan como funcionariospúblicos o agentes de migraciónque ofrecen beneficios mi-gratorios a cambio de un pago.Por lo general piden infor-mación confidencial, como sunúmero de Seguro Social, deTarjeta de Residente o dePasaporte. Nunca acepte darinformación personal por telé-fono y cuelgue de inmediato.

En algunas ciudades existennegocios locales que ofrecenservicios para llenar los for-mularios de migración a preciosexorbitantes. Es importanterecordar que el USCIS no co-bra dinero por descargar losformularios del Internet, dondepuede encontrar las tarifas le-gales por la tramitación deservicios migratorios. Lospagos pueden hacerse concheque certificado, un giro otarjeta de crédito.

También se han presentado

casos de estafas donde se leofrece un lugar en la “loteríade visas”, un programa queanualmente concede al azar50,000 visados de entrada aextranjeros. Si alguien seacerca para hacerlo ganadorde la lotería, es una certeza quese trata de un fraude. Si ustedefectivamente ganó la loteríade visas, será informado ofi-cialmente.

La lista de estafas es tanextensa como el ingenio deindividuos sin principios quemedran con los sueños y lasesperanzas de personas debuena fe. Es esencial por elloestar en alerta ante los “focosrojos” de promesas que suenandemasiado buenas para serverdad. En todos los casos esrecomendable que busque laasesoría de abogados califi-cados o de grupos comuni-tarios de apoyo en su ciudad.

Si le han ofrecido alguna deestas promesas fraudulentas osi cree haber sido víctima deuna estafa, denúncielo a laComisión Federal de Comercio(FTC) o al Fiscal General desu Estado en www.ftc.gov/complaint o al 1-877-FTC-HELP.

The K Grill: ¡absolutamente delicioso!

Por Pablo J. Sáinz

Hay algo muy singular ysabroso cuando los restaur-antes solo utilizan ingredientesfrescos que nunca han sidocongelados. Y los propietariosde The K Grill, ubicado enNational City, saben esto, y esla filosofía que siguen en surestaurante.

”Utilizamos productos co-sechados localmente y carneslocales siempre que sea po-sible”, dijo la co-propietariaChoon Tanaka. “Nunca utili-zamos pollo o salmón con-gelado”.

No es de extrañar que TheK Grill se ha convertido en unode los favoritos en la cocinaasiática en National City, desdesu apertura en mayo.

Según la señora Tanaka,The K Grill se esfuerza por serun restaurante saludable queofrece platos principales que noutilizan MSG, azúcar ni con-servadores.

“Utilizamos la salsa hechaen casa, todos los días cocinadaen nuestra cocina”, dijo.

Entre los deliciosos platillosque The K Grill sirve son lostazones y platos: 100 por cientofresco, nunca congelado pollo,carne rib eye, el salmón delAtlántico fresco, camaronescon verduras al vapor frescos,sobre arroz sushi de alto grado.

“Todas las carnes se hacena la llama en la parrilla a laperfección con nuestra famosasalsa”, dijo la señora Tanaka.

Las ensaladas y wraps sontambién populares entre los

clientes. Pero el plato másvendido es el plato de pollo ycarne.

La señora Tanaka dijo quela “K” en The K Grill repre-senta a “Korea”, el país deorigen de los propietarios, y“Kazue,” nombre del Sr. Tan-aka.

Los comentarios en Yelp!han sido muy halagadores:

“El wrap de pollo y carnede res estuvo muy rico”, dijoun cliente. “¡El teriyaki conternera estuvo súper!”.

Otro cliente que visitó TheK Grill escribió que “Es agra-dable ver una alternativasaludable en National City.Voy a tener que probar elhelado mochi en mi próximavisita”.

Además, una familia quevisitó The K Grill dio elrestaurante, “pulgares arriba -volveremos”.

Para los postres, The K Grillofrece la Mochi Ice Cream,que es nieve envuelto en pas-tel suave de arroz. Este postrese ha convertido en uno de losfavoritos entre el público.

“Cocinamos cada plato parasu orden cada vez que ustedlos ordena”, dijo la señoraTanaka. “Son cocinados a laperfección.”

Con tantos sabores, no esde extrañar que el lema de TheK Grill se ha convertido en“¡absolutamente delicioso!”

The K Grill está ubicado enel 2220 E. Plaza Blvd., SuiteC60, en National City. Estáabierto de lunes a sábado de10 a.m. a 10 p.m., y domingos11 a.m. a 9 p.m.

Usted puede pedir por telé-fono al (619) 292-2962. Seespera que más ubicacionesabrán pronto en el Condado deSan Diego.

Proximanente The K Grillestará en Internet en www.thekgrill.com.

By Pablo J. Sáinz

There’s something veryunique—and tasty—when res-taurants only use fresh, non-frozen ingredients. And theowners of The K Grill, locatedin National City, know this, andit is the philosophy they followin their restaurant.

“We use locally harvestedproduce and meats wheneverpossible,” said co-owner ChoonTanaka. “We never use frozenchicken or salmon.”

No wonder The K Grill hasbecome a favorite in Asian cui-sine in National City since itopen in May.

According to Mrs. Tanaka,The K Grill strives to be ahealthy restaurant that offersentrées that use no MSG, nosugar, and no preservativesadded.

“We use home-made sauce,cooked everyday in our kit-chen,” she said.

Among the delicious entréesThe K Grill serves are thebowls and plates: 100 percentnever frozen fresch chicken,rib eye beef steak, fresh At-lantic salmon, shrimp withfresh steamed veggies, overhigh sushi grade fluffly rice.

“All meats were flame-grilled to perfection with ourfamous sauce,” Mrs. Tanakasaid.

The salads and wraps arealso popular among customers.But the best-selling dish is thehalf chicken and steak plate.

Mrs. Tanaka said that the“K” in The K Grill represents“Korea,” the owner’s countryof origin, and “Kazue,” Mr.Tanaka’s first name.

The reviews on Yelp! Havebeen outstanding:

“The chicken and beefwrap was pretty good,” said acustomer. “The teriyaki beefpart was super bomb.”

Another customer who vis-ited The K Grill wrote that “It’snice to see a healthy alterna-tive in National City. I’ll haveto try the mochi ice cream onmy next visit.”

The K Grill: Absolutely Delicious!Also, a family that visited

The K Grill gave the restau-rant “Thumbs up — we will beback.”

For desserts, The K Grill of-fers the Mochi Ice Cream,which is ice cream wrapped insoft rice cake. This dessert hasbecome a favorite.

“We cook every dish peryour order every time,” MrsTanaka said. “It is custom-cooked to perfection.”

With so many flavors, nowonder The K Grill’s slogan

has become, “Absolutely De-licious!”

The K Grill is located at2220 E. Plaza Blvd., Suite C60,in National City. It is openMonday to Saturday from 10a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sundaysfrom 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

You can order by phone at(619) 292-2962. More loca-tions are expected to open inSan Diego County soon.

Check out The K Grill’swebsite soon, at www.thekgrill.com.

move forward with CommonCore. “I can tell you, I don’t in-timidate people. I’m not here todo that. I’m here to work andto work with the children,okay.”

The program was approved4-1 with Linares opposed andDiaz changing his mind afterhearing the Principal speak.

Linares then suggested thatcertain attorney fees not bepaid at this moment. Whileboard members agreed intheory, Superintendent Dr.Cameron said, “Not paying thisis not in our district’s best in-terest. The next step is to con-tinue to reduce legal fees, tocontinue to close out thosepending issues that we’re deal-ing with, and to use legal coun-sel that the board feels confi-dent in their level of service,and their level of expertise…”

Linares has been vocalabout holding both the Super-intendent and the district’s hired

attorney’s accountable. Aheadof Manuel Paul’s sentencing,which takes place at 2pm onThursday, December 18th,Linares sent a letter to JudgeWilliam Gallo. “I respectfullyrequest that you reject the pleabargain offered to Mr. ManuelPaul and send him back to theDistrict Attorney for jury trial.Please allow the community toexercise their constitutionalright to judge him to the fullextent of the law for the crimescommitted against not only tothe community but to the mostdefenseless, the children.”

Diaz said he had also senthis own letter to the judge. Atleast two other former SanYsidro teachers, Josie Harnadaand Mary Ann Saponara, havedone the same.

“We’re known as the mostdysfunctional district in the na-tion. We need to change that,”Linares said in his closingstatement.

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La producción del Grinch cuenta con unagran cantidad de talento latino

Vásquez, quien ha participadoen The Grinch durante 12 años,dijo que en sus 17 años, elprograma ha construido unpúblico diverso, que incluye lacomunidad de San DiegoLatino.

”Ahora los primeros públi-cos desde hace años viene consus propios hijos y sus fa-milias”, dijo. “El reparto y elequipo creativo reflejan ladiversidad de San Diego.Todos traemos diferentestradiciones navideñas denuestras familias”.

Dr. Seuss’ How the GrinchStole Christmas! es un mara-villoso musical, basado en elclásico libro de Dr. Seuss. Ensu año número 17, la historiafavorita de la familia cuentacon las canciones clásicasnavideñas.

Annette Yé es directora deescena asistente en el show yes de origen mexicano. Dijoque durante su casi una décadaen The Grinch ha visto unaumento en la diversidad de losactores y el equipo creativo, asícomo en el público.

”Es una mezcla bastantegrande de personas”, dijo Yé.“Tienes latinos, tienes a los

Por Paco Zavala

Estamos por concluir unnuevo ciclo anual, en un Méxi-co enfrentando serios proble-mas de diversa índole, pero conun espíritu de lucha razonadoy fuerte. Circulando esteentorno la vida sigue su curso,con muchas esperanzas y fe,de que el próximo año lascosas mejoren para bien detodos.

Ahora bien, la comunidadtijuanense hace los prepara-tivos para recibir la próximanavidad y dentro de esteentorno se da tiempo paraasistir a los últimos eventos quese están presentando en lasdiversas sedes que existen enla ciudad.

Uno de estos eventos in-dudablemente fue la puesta enescena de la obra teatral“Navidad Norteña”, la cual serealizó el pasado sábado 13 dediciembre en el Multiforo delInstituto de Cultura de BajaCalifornia (ICBC), en unarepresentación con jóvenes ytalentosos actores y actrícespertenecientes al Taller deTeatro “Shakespeare” delColegio de Bachilleres (CO-BACH) Siglo XXI, bajo ladirección del Maestro JesúsTiscareño.

En el desempeño de estadivertida y alegre puesta enescena, se respiraron airesmusicales, teatrales y dan-císticos que proyectaron losactores en escena en la vísperade esta navidad.

La obra de referenciamuestra un singular enredo fa-miliar que exalta los valores ycostumbres familiares que

Alegre y Divertida Puesta en Escena de“Navidad Norteña”

surgen invariablemente añotras año en las fiestas de-cembrinas en los ranchos deBaja California. Se trata deun reencuentro familiar, en elque los sentimientos de cariñoy felicidad afloran a pesar detodo, como sucede en muchoscasos.

El supuesto rancho en don-de se desarrolla todo el enredode la obra, es el Rancho de losArgüello, el cual se ubica en elValle de Guadalupe en En-senada, Baja California, el quees dirigido por una madreviuda, en edad avanzada, quienespera con añoranza el regresode sus tres hijos viajeros, dosde ellos migrantes. Dichoregreso implica redescubriralgunos secretos guardadosque deben aclararse.

Para esto han decididococinar y comerse una vacacompleta para celebrar elregreso de los hijos ausentes.contando con la compañía detodos los residentes del valle,en una gran fiesta navideña.

Paralelo a la narrativa de lahistoria se vive también el amoridílico de una pareja de va-cunos, quienes en su lucha porla vida, buscan escapar de lafamilia Argüello, para no sercenados en la noche de lanavidad.

El asistir a esta puesta enescena fue una noche in-olvidable, por lo momentosalegres y divertidos que secomparten en este tiempo.

En otras notas adcionales aesta principal, el Instituto deCultura de Baja California,comunica para el próximoviernes 19 de diciembre, a las18:00 horas, un espectáculo de

Danza Ecléctico, bajo la dire-cción de Adrián Bautista, conla compañía Scénique, en elMultiforo de la propia insti-tución, la admisión cuesta $80pesos. Para el sábado 20 dediciembre de las 10;00 am. alas 13:00 pm., cierre de fín desemestre del Programa Talen-tos Artísticos: Valores de BajaCalifornia, evento que serealizará en el Multiforo, laadmisión a este evento es libre.El mismo sábado 20 de di-ciembre. A las 16:00 pm., GranConcierto Navideño, en elMultioro del ICBC, la entradaes gratuita.

Para concluir, la Casa de laCultura Playas está cerrandoel ciclo con una serie deeventos: el día de ayer juevesa las 9:00 am., tuvo la Con-vivencia semanal del Club dela Amistad, con danzas, músicay conferencia; a las 16:00 pm.Posada Navideña, para laComunidad de Playas de Ti-juana; a las 18:00 pm., ConvivioNavideño Armonía de Voces.

Viernes 19, de las 16:00 alas 18:00 pm., Recital de Pi-ano con aluunos del Profr.Rolando López, a las 16:00pm., Clásicos en voz y guitarra,con alumnos de canto, guitarray percusiones a cargo delaProfra. Adriana Martínez y eldomingo 21 a las 16:00 pm.,presentación del Grupo dedanza folclórica “Tapatío”.

Así concluye sus activi-dades de este año Casa de laCultura Playas de Tijuana.

Este servidor de ustedesdesea una Feliz Navidad, paratodos los lectores de LaPrensa San Diego

Por Pablo J. Sáinz

Desde que era un niñopequeño, Jordi Bertran re-cuerda que su familia lo llevabaa ver Dr. Seuss’ How theGrinch Stole Christmas! en elOld Globe, en el Parque Balboa

”Se convirtió en una tra-dición familiar para nosotros”,dijo Jordi, quien, a los 13 años,es uno de los actores de teatromás jóvenes y más activos deSan Diego.

Este año, Jordi es parte deldiverso elenco y equipo crea-tivo de The Grinch, que estaráhasta el 27 de diciembre, ycuenta con muchos talentoslatinos.

De hecho, The Grinch nosólo cuenta con actores latinoscomo Jordi Bertran, peroincluso el director, JamesVásquez, es de origen latino.

Para Vásquez, la diversidaden el show refleja la historiade Navidad clásica, que haceénfasis en la aceptación detodos, independientemente denuestras diferencias.

”Esta diversidad resumetodo el mensaje del espectá-culo”, dijo. “Nos dice que todoel mundo es importante.”

afroamericanos, tienes a losasiáticos – es muy diversa”.

Jordi Bertran, quien nació enSan Diego de padres mexi-canos, dijo que su participaciónen The Grinch, donde in-terpreta a Danny Who, es una“gran oportunidad como ac-tor”, porque el espectáculo “esuna de las más memorablestradiciones navideñas de SanDiego y una de las mayoresproducciones de teatro”.

Y la diversidad en TheGrinch no es solo la diversidadétnica y cultural - el espec-táculo también es sensible a laspersonas con diferentes habili-dades.

Es por eso que el Old Globevolverá a ofrecer una funciónespecial para niños con autismoy sus familias el sábado 13 dediciembre a las 10:30 a.m.

Siguiendo performancesthemuy exitoso pasado dos años,El Grinch se realizará para losniños “Este es un regalo delOld Globe a la diversa co-munidad de San Diego”, dijoYé.

Las entradas para TheGrinch se pueden comprar enlínea en www.TheOldGlobe.org.

Jóvenes actores del Taller de Teatro Shakespeare del Cobach Siglo XXi en unadivertida escena de la obra de teatro Navidad Norteña

TU REMO(Redondillas)

Tu remo quieresdejarme

para que navegue enbarca,

por bello lago queabarca

y nunca de ti alejarme.

Lago plácido y tranquiloen una barca de vela,

navego yo con candelay gran amor que destilo.

Con el corazón mequieres

esta mañana dijiste,que tu alma siempre

persistepues por mi amor tú te

mueres.

Conmigo siempre eresbueno

porque tú me quieresmucho,

es por eso que yo luchopor tu amor con

desenfreno.

Lourdes P. CabralJulio 26, 2014

beautiful Pacific CoastHighway (PCH) a.k.a.Highway One, lies Encinitas,once recognized as “theflower capital of the world.”The beachtown that attractsmore than its share ofsurfers, is also where therenowned Ecke Poinsettiawas introduced in 1923.(Poinsettias grow rapidly insouthern California and the

innocent holiday bouquetplanted in a yard can take offunexpectedly and maybecome a tree, claimnurseries.)

The Ecke Ranchpoinsettias and others havebecome part of the AmericanChristmas traditions. Thentoo, say flower retail experts,total U.S. poinsettia salesproduce more than $300million for growers, nurseries

and florists during theholidays. To say that the landthat gave the world one of itsmost cherished Christmascustoms is envious, would bean underestimation.

Mexico, you see, until thisyear, couldn’t sell the plantsin the United States becauseof restrictions on importingMexican soil.

And to all, a muy FelizNavidad!

The Poinsettia(con’t from page 3)

Naval Base Opens Gatesto Public for Holiday ofLights Event

Naval Base San Diego in-vites the public to the Holidayof Lights event Friday, Dec. 19.See U.S. Navy ships dressedup with holiday lights anddecorations, all from the com-fort of your own car. Admis-sion is free and everyone iswelcome.

The Holiday of Lights cartour begins at 6:30 p.m. Mili-tary families and others with

base access privileges are in-vited to see the ships lights dur-ing a special preview tour from5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Drivers canenter the base from either Gate2, located on Harbor Drivenear the NASSCO shipyard, orGate 6, the installation’s maingate, on Harbor Drive at 32ndStreet. The event ends at 9p.m. The queue at both gatesfor the tour will end at 8:45p.m.

ALL adults must have aVALID form of identification.To bring your vehicle onto amilitary base, you must have a

valid driver’s license, currentregistration and physical proofof insurance (insurance card).If you are driving a rental car,please have your valid driver’slicense, proof of insurance andrental agreement with you. Allpassengers in vehicles thatlook over the age of 16 will berequired to have a photo stateor federal identification card.

Visitors must be in cars; pe-destrians will not be allowed toenter the gate. There is a pre-scribed tour route, and secu-rity checkpoints will be set atboth entrances.

¡Anúnciate en La Prensa San Diego!Llámanos al: 619-425-7400

e-mail: laprensa@ ix.netcom.com

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#Ferguson and #AyotzinapaThe ties that bind

By Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa

Mourning and outrage are shaking parts ofthe United States and Mexico. As U.S. fami-lies grieve and demonstrators denounce thedeaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, TamirRice, and many more at the hands of the po-lice, people are also protesting state violenceand police impunity throughout Mexico. Justthis past week, the body of Alexander Morawas identified as one of the 43 Mexican stu-dents from Ayotzinapa Guerrero who were dis-appeared after being confronted by police.

In recent interviews, President Obama andSecretary of State Kerry critiqued the crimeshappening in Mexico as having “no place incivilized society.” They offered U.S. assistance“to get to the bottom of exactly what happened[to the missing students in Mexico].” Such aresponse is part of a long practice of demoniz-ing Mexico as a corrupt nation in need of theassumed superior support of the U.S.

U.S. officials would do well to heed their ownwords and get to the root causes of what ishappening in both the U.S. and Mexico. Thesestruggles in Ferguson and Ayotzinapa are tied.The state violence against Black and poor in-digenous young people must be seen in the con-text of rabid class inequality and racism wherethe working poor and people of color arecriminalized and treated as disposable.

Corporate-driven economic transformationsand policies such as NAFTA (the North Ameri-can Free Trade Agreement) have ravaged com-munities in the U.S. and in Mexico. Once in-dustrial hubs, U.S. urban areas have been gut-ted of industry leaving a crumbling infrastruc-ture and few living-wage jobs in their wake.Many of these neighborhoods are now being“revitalized” by pushing the Black and Brownurban poor out through gentrification. In theMexican countryside, imports of subsidizedU.S. grain, the growth of industrial farms, andthe expansion of foreign companies combineto expel families from their livelihoods and com-munities. As a result, inequality has grown inboth countries, and is among the worst of alldeveloped economies.

According to a 2013 study by the Organiza-tion of Economic Co-operation and Develop-ment, of its 34 member countries the UnitedStates has the 4th highest level of income in-equality, and Mexico the second. When con-trolling for inflation, the income of those in U.S.households in the top ten percent of the eco-nomic ladder – those making over $150,000 peryear – has increased over 30% since the 1970s.In contrast, the income of those in the bottomhalf of the economy has basically stagnated, orslightly decreased. And, the minimum wage inboth countries is far from a livable wage. Theworking poor often have to work several jobsto try to make ends meet.

Wealth and power disparities are closely cor-related with race. Both countries have wit-nessed a boom in the number of millionairesand billionaires, including producing the twowealthiest people in the world Carlos Slim andBill Gates who according to Forbes have a com-bined net worth of over $150 billion. In con-trast, researchers with Mexico’s national evalu-ation agency, find that 46% of the total popula-tion lives below the poverty line, and 20% re-side in extreme poverty.

Throughout the county, the rate of extremepoverty is five times higher for indigenouspeoples than for the general population. In thesouthern states, where the majority of Mexico’sindigenous populations live, poverty rates arebetween 15 and 30 points higher and in the stateof Guerrero (the home of the disappeared stu-dents) 70% of the population lives in poverty.In the U.S., the compounding generations ofracism and class inequality are such that Latina/o and Black households have a median networth of less than $14,000 compared to over$140,000 for White households, according tothe Pew Research Center.

Since the 1980s, as a result of neoliberal re-forms, both countries have slashed public pro-grams in education, health care, transportation,social security, and public housing. Privatizationand the ideology of free trade seeks to elimi-nate most state social programs leaving the poor

to fend for themselves in an economy that looksto bargain down wages to maximize profits.While these support systems were not as strongas they could have been, they were importantreforms that were won through popularstruggle, and their erosion has hurt the workingpoor and the historically marginalized most. Forthe youth of the working poor, there are dimin-ishing opportunities.

As the U.S. and Mexico disinvest in socialprograms, they divert funds to police poor com-munities through the war on drugs and othertough on crime policies. In the U.S., accordingto a Justice Policy Report, since the early 1980sspending on police protection has skyrocketedover 400% — from about $40 billion to nearly$200 billion. The number of state and localsworn officers has also increased over 50%during this period.

The war on drugs has been a war on poorpeople of color. Although multiple studies sug-gest that the majority of drug users are White,Blacks have been the most impacted by drugprosecutions and punitive polices such as man-datory minimums. As Law Professor MichelleAlexander reports, there are more Black menin the prison industrial complex than were en-slaved in 1850 – devastating families and fuel-ing the prison industrial complex where privateprisons and immigration detention centers arebig business.

The power elite in Mexico has increasinglymilitarized the state in an attempt to maintainorder for foreign investors and domestic capi-talists to expand their markets. Under the guiseof the war on drugs and Plan Mérida, the U.S.has poured billions of dollars into military andpolice assistance in Mexico. Critics argue thatthe training and weaponry has been usedagainst social movements and human rightsactivists. Collusion between criminal operations,military, government, and police officials oc-curs making it difficult to distinguish who isperpetrating the violence. Over the past de-cade, approximately 100,000 Mexicans havebeen killed in the failed “War on Drugs.” Ac-cording to the UK newspaper The Telegraph,since 2007 nearly 23,000 Mexicans have beendisappeared (over 5,000 this year alone!)through cartel and police violence, the two of-ten working together.

The recent killings and grand jury verdicts incommunities from Ferguson, Staten Island,Cleveland, and Ayotzinapa must also be placedin the context of a legacy of racism. The rootsof racism in both the U.S. and Mexico are asdeep as the economic fissures. They are em-bedded in society’s laws, institutions, and gov-ernment structures.

In the U.S., they are apparent in police pro-filing and the unequal application of zero toler-ance and stop and frisk policies, the mass in-carceration of Blacks and Latinos, the depor-tation and destruction of immigrant families, andthe impunity by which members of the policeforce can kill primarily Black boys and menand have those atrocities supported by statepolicies — such as the Supreme Court’s 1980srulings justifying the use of deadly force by of-ficers.

In Mexico, similar disregard for the lives ofpoor and indigenous people is rampant. Mexi-can journalist Fernando Camacho Servín re-porting in La Jornada finds that the “effects ofracism include the criminalizing of certaingroups by their physical appearance, to blamethem for their poverty, to displace them fromtheir lands, or simply depriving them of theirbasic rights.”

In the wake of massive dissent against stateviolence, Presidents Barack Obama andEnrique Peña Nieto have suggested new poli-cies. These focus on policing, impunity, andcorruption. While they are a small step, noneof these changes will go very far unless thefoundations of such atrocities are addressedhead-on.

Enrique C. Ochoa is Professor of LatinAmerican Studies and History at CSULA anda founder of the Latino/a History Bee; GildaL. Ochoa is Professor of Sociology andChicana/o-Latina Studies at Pomona Col-lege and author of Academic Profiling

With this being our last is-sue before Christmas,this year the message willbe of a more personal

nature about the one Christmas I willnever forget.

It was over 20 years ago while work-ing with my dad at the newspaper. We hadfinally gotten to the point where I wasable to draw a salary and was finally ableto afford rent. No more roommates!

I got lucky and found an apartment onSixth Ave across the street from the parkand close to the office. It was a cute 2-story building with pink bricks and therent was cheap. The apartments justoozed character. On one side there tow-ered a condo complex, on the other, anempty lot.

It was an eclectic group of neighbors.There was the young intern, she was fo-cused on becoming a doctor. Next doorwas a gay male, but you wouldn’t haveknown it by looking, or by talking withhim. On the other side was another gaycouple, they were the opposite, theywere loud and over the top. One of theirfavorite things to do was to dress alikewhen they went out. One was a Hispanicand his mother would come to visit oncea month. The couple would tone it downa bit whenever she was around. She wasa nice lady who loved her son.

There was the lesbian couple down be-low me who didn’t socialize much. Therewas the older woman who lived in thefront apartment, it was the largest of allthe apartments, but she never came outof the apartment. I never saw her thewhole time I lived there.

I would look out my bedroom windowand across the street was the newly openedvegan restaurant that is still there. Nextto that was Extraordinary Desserts. Howgreat it was that I could just walk out mydoor and pop over for a great desert!

But the main attraction was across thestreet, Balboa Park! The parades, the fes-tivals, and just the daily parade of peopleat the park to entertain you. Every warmSunday morning I would take the fold outchair, the Sunday morning paper, and acup of coffee to the park. I would enjoythe morning with the folks doing yoga,others doing that slow motion Chineseworkout, the joggers, the walkers, manywith their dogs, and the children at theplayground. It was a great place to live.

One Christmas season as I looked outmy bedroom window onto the empty lot,I started noticing a small Toyota truck,with a shell on the back, parking rightunder my window each night. It was afamily of four with two young girls,maybe 4 and 7. They would all sleep inthe back of the truck. Each morning theywould drive off, only to come back atnight.

As Christmas day creep closer, I

started feeling sorry for the girls… theywouldn’t be able to enjoy Christmas. NoChristmas tree, no holiday lights, andworst of all no presents to open. NoSanta Claus!!! It would just be anotherday of waking up in the back of a pick-uptruck.

I didn’t make a lot of money, justenough to get by. I didn’t have a lot ofextra cash but what I did have I used tostart buying little gifts that I thought acouple of young girls would like. Not alot of presents, I don’t remember howmany, maybe eight total, four for eachgirl: dolls, teddy bears, things like that. Iguess I wanted to give them somethingto believe in. I wanted to give them theopportunity to believe in the joy ofChristmas. I wanted, for one day, to pushthe harsh reality that they lived in to theside and give them the opportunity tobelieve in Santa Claus.

The only thing that would have ruinedit would have been if they didn’t show upon Christmas Eve. But they did, likeclockwork.

My plan was to get up really early inthe morning and put the presents on thehood of the car. It was freezing cold thatmorning as I put out the presents. I wentback to bed and waited. In my head Iwanted to see the girls come out of thetruck and find the presents as theyjumped with glee telling their parents thatSanta came!

It didn’t happen that way. The father wasthe first one up. He found the presentsand collected them and took them backinto the truck. I have no idea what hethought, or what he told the kids. All Iknow was that I was glad, more than glad,that those girls had something for Christ-mas. It felt good.

They drove off that morning and nevercame back.

When my children ask me what I wantfor Christmas I tell them to take thatmoney they would have spent buying mea present and give it to a homeless per-son. And they always say, with a sigh, youtell us that every year! I wish there was away I could share with them how good itwould make them feel to make a strangerhappy. But that is something they will haveto find out for themselves.

Now we give at church. We have anAngel tree where we pick a star and buythe present listed on the star for a boy orgirl whose parent is in prison. We givean extra donation for the homeless. Webuy extra food at the grocery store andtake it church where they distribute it atthe homeless shelter. We do that andmore, but it just isn’t the same as it wasthat one Christmas a long time ago.

Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad!Daniel Munoz, Jr.Editor

A Christmas I will never forget

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¡ASK A MEXICAN!By Gustavo Arellano

SPECIAL NAVIDAD GIFTGUIDE EDITION!

Gentle cabrones: Behold my annualMexican Christmas guide, where Irecommend the best Mexi-themed libros foryou to give to your loved ones this Navidadinstead of yet another tamale to unwrap.Buy them at your local bookstore, or orderonline, but do buy!

Lowriting: Shots, Rides & Storiesfrom the Chicano Soul: Stunningcollection of lowrider photos by LosAngeles-based librarian/photographer ArtMeza combined with essays and poemsabout Chicano car culture (yours truly has apiece about my 1974 Cadillac Eldoradoconvertile—pinche thing has more powerthan a B-17 Flying Fortress). PublisherSantino Rivera also has another awesomeanthology—¡Ban This! The BSPAnthology of Xican@ Literature,published in response to the attack on ethnicstudies in Arizona and beyond. Order themat brokenswordpublications.com, andRivera just might throw in a sticker that payshomage to the Sex Pistols and reads “NeverMind the Hispanics Here Come theXicanos!” HELL YA!

A More Imperfect Union: AContrarian History of the United States:The latest collaboration between essayistIlan Stavans and legendary cartoonista LaloAlcaraz, this book is like a graphic-novelversion of A People’s History of theUnited States but far funnier. And don’tforget to buy all of Lalo’s books, as theyremain evergreen gifts.

Speaking of Evergreens: Any of theworks of Sam Quinones, Daniel Hernandez,Carey McWilliams, Jod Agius-Vallejo andWilliam Nericcio—each, in their own way,magnificent storytellers of the Mexicanexperience.

Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexicoand the Southwest: A Self-Portrait of aPeople and New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del FolklorNuevomexicano: Treasures of a People/

Commentary/Opinion Page

El Tesoro delPueblo: Yes, thesetitles by the alwaysimpressive Universityof New MexicoPress are pricey. Butanyone who’s astudent of NewMexico or a lover of Latino music must ownthese tomes, which examine the uniquemusical traditions of the Land ofEnchantment, featuring corridos that dateback centuries. The latter comes with a CD,as well—you remember those, right?

Latina/os and World War II Mobility,Agency, and Ideology: The other greatuniversity press for Chican@ thought is theUniversity of Texas Press, and their besteffort this year was this anthology regardingthe Mexican-American experience in theGood War. Yes, Ken Burns: Latinos foughtin the conflict.

The Changs Next Door to the Díazes:Remapping Race in SuburbanCalifornia: Released late last year by theUniversity of Minnesota Press, this fluidethnography reveals the Reconquista for allits nefariousness: Mexis are moving to thesuburbs and joining the middle class. RUN!

Paradise Transplanted: Migrationand the Making of California Gardens:University of Southern California sociologyprofessor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo did apioneering study of Latina domestic workersin 2001, so it made sense that her followupin the genre would focus on jardineros.Featuring her usual trenchant analysis and aStuds Terkel ear for letting subjects tell theirlife story on their own terms.

¡Ask a Mexican!, Orange County: APersonal History, and Taco USA: HowMexican Food Conquered America:Because DUH!

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Stupid America! Student Unrest: HowChicanas/os Lost Their Swagger

By Rodolfo F. Acuña

I constantly hear references to winning foot-ball teams having swagger – they play with achip on their shoulder.

In the sixties, black youth had that swagger— after years of being taught that they shouldstay in their place, they adopted the mantra of“black is beautiful — don’t fuck with me.”Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans dis-played a similar swagger as if to say “I amsomeone, I demand respect.”

The Chicano Movement was serious busi-ness. It spawned a ton of characters. You de-lighted in their audacity and their challengingof the man. I remember Dr. Ricardo Sancheztelling anyone who would listen that he wentfrom a GED to PhD.

Sanchez, a high school dropout and ex-con-vict, wrote poems about cultural justice. Hereceived a doctorate from the Union Institutein Cincinnati and had an academic appointmentat Washington State University, teaching cre-ative writing and Chicano studies.

He would saunter into El Paso restaurants anddeliver poems “reciting not from memory butfrom the moment.” I remember how he and Tigrecaptured a Tex Mex cafe in Milwaukee.

You had those who would snicker about hisdoctorate. But he did not give a shit – he knewhe was a doctor because he willed it and hispoetry established that. Ricardo did not needto attend a Princeton or a Yale to validate him-self — his swagger said it all.

Another favorite was Abelardo. LikeSanchez he was from el Chuco (El Paso). Ateacher, social worker, and administrator ofcommunity service organizations he declaredhimself a poet, producing mountains of poetry,fiction, and essays.

He loved the sound of his name, my favoritepoem was “Stupid America.”

stupid america, see thatchicanowith a big knifeon his steady handhe doesn’t want to knife youhe wants to sit on a benchand carve christ figuresbut you won’t let him.stupid america, hear thatchicanoshouting curses on the streethe is a poetwithout paper and penciland since he cannot writehe will explode.stupid america, rememberthat chicanoflunking math and englishhe is the picassoof your western statesbut he will diewith one thousandmasterpieceshanging only from his mind.

The truth be told, a person or country is onlystupid when they make the same mistakes, overand over and deny them. For example, in Au-gust 2014, Ferguson, Missouri Police OfficerDarren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown,a black youth. Two grand juries failed to indictthe white police officer. The previous monthEric Garner was strangled by Staten Island,NY police officers. These incidents tapped thegrief and grievance of centuries of injustices.Protests against the police killings of Brownand Garner turned violent and spread to cam-puses and cities throughout the country.

On September 26, 2014, 43 Mexican studentsfrom the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala,Guerrero, Mexico. In all probability, they wereassassinated and incinerated.

In the 60s, the U.S. spent millions of dollars

studying the causes of urban and student re-bellions — studies that were ignored. The cata-lyst was the 1965 Watts Rebellions that shookthe nation “to its democratic foundation.” A 101-page report of December 2, 1965 titled “Vio-lence in the City—An End or a Beginning?: AReport by the Governor’s Commission on theLos Angeles Riots, 1965" startled America andthen went away.

Two years later the Kerner Commission, “TheNational Advisory Commission on Civil Disor-ders,’ was commissioned by President LyndonB. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967race riots in the United States and to providerecommendations. It warned “Our nation ismoving toward two societies, one black, onewhite—separate and unequal”, adding that“Unless there are sharp changes in the factorsinfluencing Negro settlement patterns withinmetropolitan areas, there is little doubt that thetrend toward Negro majorities will continue.”

Despite or because of the war on students,launched by the patron Saint of Greed, Gover-nor Ronald Reagan, student activism escalated.The largest and most heated were at the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley that along withSan Francisco State was the flagship of stu-dent protests.

Reagan’s (1967-1975) approach to solvingstudent turmoil was to “get rid of undesirables.Those there to agitate and not to study mightthink twice before they pay tuition. They mightthink twice how much they want to pay to carrya picket sign.” It was a smoke screen for oneof the biggest shifts in taxes from the rich tothe poor, and the wedding of the RepublicanParty to the super rich.

Student protests came to a climax on May 4,1970 when guardsmen shot down four studentprotesters students at Kent State, leading tonationwide campus protests. More than 450violent and non-violent demonstrations brokeout across the country. At New York Univer-sity banners read, “They Can’t Kill Us All.”

Over 100,000 people demonstrated in Wash-ington, D.C., against the war and the killing ofunarmed student protesters — “The city wasan armed camp. The mobs were smashing win-dows, slashing tires, dragging parked cars intointersections, even throwing bedsprings offoverpasses into the traffic down below. Thiswas the quote, student protest. That’s not stu-dent protest, that’s civil war,” said a Nixon ad-viser. The Jackson State killings occurred onFriday, May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College(now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mis-sissippi. It resulted in the killings of two stu-dents and injury of twelve.

According to the Urban Institute’s nationalstudy the Kent State shooting was the singlefactor in the first nationwide student strike inU.S. history, as over 4 million students protestedin over 900 American colleges and universitiesthat were closed during the student strikes.

Rounding off the reports was a 1979 bookby Fresno State English Department ChairKenneth Seib — The Slow Death of FresnoState: A California Campus under Reagan andBrown. The conclusion was that Black Stud-ies and La Raza Studies programs were inten-tionally killed by far right senior professors incollusion with Governor Gov. Ronald Regan andCSC Chancellor Glenn Dumke. They deliber-ately murdered the programs.

These studies are readily available on theinternet. As I have said, it is not stupid to make amistake but is to keep on making the same mis-takes. Americans are stupid not because theyare Americans but because they won’t admittheir mistakes and find ways to correct them.

“Stupid America.” You lost generations ofgeniuses. Gone is the boasting, “From GEDtoPhD,” giving of gritos of liberation. As a re-sult Chicana/o lost their swagger condemningthe poorest them to staring an “Y Qué” look.Part of the swagger was hope.

By Raoul Lowery Contreras

I don’t recall the exact date in November,1943, that the Mexican government agentshustled my Mother, me, my uncle and great-grandmother (abuelita) onto a train bound forEl Norte, the United States of America. Theexpulsion was ordered by former PresidentLazaro Cardenas who accused my great-grandmother of treason for helping organize theformal opposition – Partido Accion National(PAN)— to Cardenas and his Party, the PRI.

What I do recall is that we walked acrossthe American border on a bridge over the RioGrande. Among us, I am told we had $123.00American dollars.

We boarded a train in El Paso, Texas, headedfor San Diego to join relatives. The train wasjammed with young sailors and Marines headedto the Pacific to make war on the Empire ofthe Sun. Many of these guys had never beentwenty miles from home.

I wonder to this day if any of the sailors andMarines I saw in newsreels of the bloody battlesof Iwo Jima or Okinawa in 1945 were any ofthese young guys on the train that used to laughand reward me with chocolate when I madefunny faces at them. In later years I wouldthank them for defeating the Empire, protect-ing freedom and teaching me that people willpay you to entertain them, sometimes withchocolate.

Christmas of 1943, of 1944 and 1945 escapemy memory but Christmas of 1946 stands outas the first American Christmas I remembernot just for the festivities, but for who was there.

We started Christmas 1946 with MidnightMass on Christmas Eve, then went home andopened presents. Being the only kid and only“man” the attention seemed to be on me. Itwas a great night.

Most of the men in the family and in SanDiego’s Mexican barrio were absent as theyhad gone to war, or like my grandfather andgrand-uncle to build military bases all over theworld for the war effort. Arriving in 1943 I hadnever met either because they were gone.

My mother’s cousin-by-marriage Luis hadjoined the Army the minute he could (1943)and volunteered for the 101st Airborne (theypaid extra and he had just married my mother’sfirst cousin). He was wounded in the Battle ofthe Bulge. My uncle was 15 when we arrivedin 1943, turned 16 in February of 1944 and joined

the Army four months later by telling the re-cruiter that he had no birth certificate becausehe was born in a mountain village in Mexicowhere children didn’t have birth certificates.Being a breathing body was his qualificationfor enlistment, so the Army took him. Off towar with his buddies.

Christmas morning started with my great-grandmother and I having our morning “cafécon leche,” coffee with milk, mine was mostlymilk. Then family women showed up to startpreparing Christmas dinner.

My job was to grind corn “masa” for tortillasand tamales. My five-year-old arms almost felloff after an hour from the grinding on a grind-ing stone like the ones used by our Aztec an-cestors. My abuelita supervised all the womenand carefully watched over a giant bird in theoven they told me was a turkey in the UnitedStates but a guajolote (wah-ho-loh-teh) inMexico.

Pork, beef, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoesand rice were cooking in large pots, two womenwere using the ground corn and making tama-les with chicken, pineapple, beef and raisinsand steaming them to perfection. Others wereorganizing the large front/dining room into a largebuffet. Target time for eating was 4:00 in theafternoon. Other than helping in the kitchen thatwas the only detail I knew about. The womenwere happy. I thought it was because Santahad brought them nice presents like he did me.It wasn’t.

My grandfather and grand-uncle who hadbeen working building Army air bases came upthe stairs to the apartment above a liquor store.Then our paratrooper hero cousin Luis arrivedfrom Germany. Some distant men relatives Ididn’t know bounded up the stairs to be greetedjoyfully by their girlfriends and wives. Thencame my Uncle Johnny, all of 18-years-old withcombat ribbons from fighting in France andGermany.

I cried. I didn’t know any of the men includ-ing my grandfather. I’d never met them but Iknew my Uncle Johnny. I cried like a little girland didn’t care.

It was the greatest Christmas, the first Ameri-can Christmas I remember. All those peopleare gone but the memory of Christmas 1946 isin my mind as if it was yesterday. So are they.

Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad toall, a todos.

The Best Christmas Ever

this week the arrest of Bravo’s 42-year-old step-father as the probable murderer.The young ho-micide victim reportedly had plans to becomea doctor.

While specific mobilizations for the Ayotizi-napa students continue throughout the holidayseason, more sectors of society are rising uparound a host of issues. Outraged by reformsthey contend will devalue an essential profes-sion, nurses have staged demonstrations inGuerrero, Nuevo Leon, Guanajuato, Baja Cali-fornia and Mexico City in recent days. As thenational pulse drips with discontent, the inevi-table question begs: What next? With eachpassing day, public opinion is less tolerant ofsystemic tinkerings or public relations gestures.

For example, representatives of the cultur-ally influential film industry published a Decem-ber 14 statement that urged thorough changes.Signed by dozens of members of the MexicanAcademy of Arts and Cinemagraphic Sciences,the statement called for “many and very radi-cal actions” designed to deliver “genuine and

profound changes to Mexico, where democ-racy, justice, the opportunity for developmentfor all and national unity is posible.”

In a first step toward fundamental changes,grassroots activists are organizing “citizen dia-logues” outside the structure of governmentalagencies and political parties to identify con-cerns and possible solutions. In Aguascalientes,housewives, students and residents of low-in-come neighborhoods have been turning out forthe citizen dialogues, said university studentJosue Perales, who’s also participated in theinitiative. In the current political and social junc-ture, both short-term and long-term actions aremanifest, Perales said.

“This is important work,” the young man said.“We can see marches and protests but this isjust the beginning. The real work that will changeMexico is citizen dialogue.”

Frontera NorteSur: on-line, U.S.-Mexico border newsCenter for Latin American and Border Studies NewMexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico

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Fictitious Business Name: VEGA’S LAND-SCAPING at 867 Riverlawn Ave. Apt. B.,Chula Vista, CA, County of San Diego,91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Ruben Vega, 867 RiverlawnAve. Apt. B, Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:04/15/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ruben VegaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 21, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030788

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BUSYBEETIMEat 1750 W. Citracado Pkwy #69,Escondido, CA, County of San Diego,92029.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Corona Strategy, LLC, 1750Citracado Pkwy # 69, Escondido, CA92029.This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: 11/07/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Xavier E. Corona. Title:CEOThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 17, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030347

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. BULLDOGTOWING b. BULLDOG WRECKERS at555 Saturn Blvd. Suite B #126, San Di-ego, County of San Diego, CA 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: ID Enteprise LLC, 555 Sat-urn Blvd. Suite B #126, San Diego, CA92154.This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Marcos Lopez. Title:Vice PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 20, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030681

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: T-DOGSGROOMING at 7105 University Ave.,LaMesa, County of San Diego, CA 91942This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Tatsuma Yamamoto, 9121Kenwood Dr.#8, Spring Valley, CA 91977.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Tatsuma YamamotoThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 20, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030642

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: AUTISM HOMEREPAIR AND MODIFICATION INC. at858 Granger St., San Diego, CA, Countyof San Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Autism Home Repair andModification Inc., 858 Granger St., SanDiego, CA 92154This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Sonia Camacho. Title:PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 25, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031039

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: PD COMINSAUS at 2105 Chateau Ct., Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91913. Mailing Ad-dress: P.O. Box 210788, Chula Vista, CA91921.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Pablo R. Diaz, 2105 ChateauCt., Chula Vista, CA 91913.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:05/10/2004I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Pablo R. DiazThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 01, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031147

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: CHAIREZ CON-CRETE at 928 Kostner Dr., San Diego,CA, County of San Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Javier Chairez, 928 KostnerDr., San Diego, CA 92154.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Business

and Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Javier ChairezThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 01, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031193

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: TROYAL at 6542Garber Ave., San Diego, CA, County ofSan Diego, 92139.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Javier Trujillo Gonzalez,6542 Garber Ave., San Diego, CA 92139This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Javier TrujilloGonzalesThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 12, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-029838

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: WEPA CLEAN-ING at 1158 Nacion Ave., Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Teresa Esther Morado, 1158Nacion Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:12/02/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Teresa Esther MoradoThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 03, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031431

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. BWE/BURKETT&WONG ENGINEERS b. BWEat 9449 Balboa Avenue, Suite 270, SanDiego, CA, County of San Diego, 92123.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Burkett&Wong Engineers,Inc., 9449 Balboa Avenue, Suite 270, SanDiego, CA 92123This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:09/06/1971I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Hansol An. Title: Cor-porate SecretaryThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 19, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030594

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: IMMIGRATIONLEGAL SERVICES OF CHULA VISTAat 730 Broadway, Chula Vista, CA,County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: James S. Davis, 879 CottageSt. Ne, Salem, Oregon, 97301This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: James S. DavisThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 04, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031544

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: HOAM CON-SULTING at 2330 Calle del Oro, La Jolla,CA, County of San Diego, 92037.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Mitra Tadayani Rebek, 2330Calle del Oro, La Jola, CA 92037This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:12/05/2009I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Mitra Tadayani RebekThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 05, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031657

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: MY PLACENAILS at 4370 Palm Ave., San Diego,CA, County of San Diego, 92154.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Tony A. Adams, 308 E JSt., Chula Vista, CA 91910. 2. Thuy N.Adams, 308 E. J St., Chula Vista, CA91910This Business is Conducted By: A Mar-ried Couple. The First Day of BusinessWas: 03/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Tony A. AdamsThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 04, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031523

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: MG FITNESS at1512 Caminito Santiago, Chula Vista,CA, County of San Diego, 91913.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Blanca Patricia Sanchez de

Acosta, 1512 Caminito Santiago, ChulaVista, CA 91913.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Blanca PatriciaSanchez de AcostaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 08, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031783

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: GAMA’S PHO-TOGRAPHY at 1450 Melrose Ave., ChulaVista, CA, County of San Diego, 91911.This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Gamaliel Elicea, 1450Melrose Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Gamaliel EliceaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 25, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030947

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: CALIBANZO at9880 Hibert St., San Diego, CA, Countyof San Diego, 92134. Mailing Address:2858 Rancho Pancho, Carlsbad, CA92009This Business Is Registered by theFol lowing: Pakapaka, LLC, 2858Rancho Pancho, Carlsbad, CA 92009This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Rafi MazorThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 08, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031814

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: CALEXICOAUTO AUCTION at 301 D RobinsonAve., Calexico, CA, County of Imperial,92231. Mailing Address: 2511 CoronadoAve. Ste. A, San Diego, CA 92154This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: LHD Partners Inc., 2511Coronado Ave. Ste. A, San Diego, CA92154This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Alva Rosa Lizarraga.Title: PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 26, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031132

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Real Madrid cruise into finalReal Madrid made it 21 consecutive wins in competitive matches as

they triumphed comfortably in what was their first ever official meetingwith Cruz Azul. First-half goals from Sergio Ramos and Karim Benzemagave Madrid the commanding lead. Goalkeeper Iker Casillas saved CruzAzul captain Gerardo Torrado’s penalty before the break to thwart anypotential comeback from the Mexican side.

Gareth Bale and Isco then ensured Carlo Ancelotti’s men will beheading to Saturday’s final with goals in the second half. Real will nowface the winner of San Lorenzo and Auckland City in the showpieceevent on Saturday, while Cruz Azul will play the loser in the match forthird place.

In front of a festive crowd at Le Grand Stade de Marrakech, Madridstarted out on the front foot when Dani Carvajal crossed from the rightwing to find Karim Benzema on the far post. Benzema then cushioneda header towards the six-yard box where Ronaldo was waiting to pounce,only for Cruz Azul goalkeeper Jose Corona to make a crucial reflexsave.

The Liga MX side responded with a chance of their own five minuteslater when Joao Rojas dribbled past Marcelo on the right wing only forCasillas to make a clearance. Benzema responded with a chance of hisown in the 11th minute only to see his shot hit the side netting.

Benzema and Co did not have to wait long for the opener when ToniKroos’ free-kick from the right wing evaded Corona and found thehead of Sergio Ramos, bringing back memories of the defender’s goalin the UEFA Champions League final last summer.

Rojas continued to cause Marcelo problems and the winger almostequalised when his left-footed shot was blocked by goalscorer Ramoswith a sliding tackle. But just when Cruz Azul’s belief began to show,Madrid got on the scoresheet once again.

Carvajal was able to get free on the right wing and finish off a longsolo run with a chipped cross that found the onrushing Benzema whovolleyed into the net from five metres out to give Madrid the 2-0 lead.

Real Madrid looked to be running away with the tie until Ramos fouledHugo Pavone inside the penalty box. Captain Torrado then stepped upto take the spot kick, but shot was saved by Casillas to dash any hopesof a Cruz Azul comeback.

Madrid then used the momentum provided by Casillas’ save to scoretheir third unanswered goal on the night. Ronaldo was able to look upand find Bale after a swift run on the left wing. The Welshman was leftunmarked and found the net with his header, giving Los Blancos the 3-0 lead.

Cruz Azul had their chances after Bale’s dagger, but it was Isco’sgoal after an effective counter-attack led by Ronaldo that completelydashed any hopes for the Mexicans.

Reprinted from FIFA.com

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. THE PRO-FESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTI-TUTE AT SAN DIEGO b. PDI- SAN DI-EGO at 731 Iris Ave., Imperial Beach,CA, County of San Diego, 92139. Mail-ing Address: 555 Saturn Blvd. Suite B,#722, San Diego, CA 92154This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Anthony Xavier Jordan, 731Iris Ave., Imperial Beach, CA 92139This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Anthony Xavier JordanThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 10, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-032045

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. LAMENTIROSA BY KARINAS b. LAMENTIROSA at 925 B St. Suite 101,SanDiego, CA, County of San Diego, 92101.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Torochan LLC, 986 Broad-way, Chula Vista, CA 91911.This Business is Conducted By: A Lim-ited Liability Company. The First Day ofBusiness Was: N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Gaspar A. Navarrete.Title: Managing MemberThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 10, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-032091

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. INTERNA-TIONAL TELECOM&TRAVEL DBAI.T&T b. INTERNATIONALTOURS&TRAVEL at 4344 Convoy St.Suite #O,San Diego, CA, County of SanDiego, 92111This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Frank Luong, 4344 ConvoySt. #O, San Diego, CA 92111This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:N/AI declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Frank LuongThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 10, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-032084

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: BACK IN AC-TION PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC at12321 Del Mar Oaks, San Diego, CA92130. Mailing Address: 3830 ValleyCentre Dr., Suite 705-545, San Diego, CA92130This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Colette Marie Seymann,12321 Del Mark Oaks, San Diego, CA92130This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:12/30/2004I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant who

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-0004189-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: MARIA ISABEL JONES ONBEHALF OF MINOR AMNA SARAHIPARRA MENDOZA filed a petition withthis court for a decree changing namesas follows:AMNA SARAHI PARRA MENDOZA toAMNA SARAHI PEETE MENDOZA

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

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: JAN-23-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:46. The address of the court is SuperiorCourt of California, County of San Diego,220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: DEC 9, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:37-2014-00040349-CU-PT-CTL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:Petitioner: GERMAN SERNA RAMOSfiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:GERMAN SERNA RAMOS to GERMANSERNA RAMOS

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

NOTICE OF HEARINGDate: JAN-16-2015. Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.:C-46. The address of the court is Supe-rior Court of California, County of San Di-ego, 220 West Broadway, San Diego, CA92101A Copy of this Order to Show Causeshall be published at least once eachweek for four successive weeks prior tothe date set for hearing on the petition inthe following newspaper of general cir-culation printed in this county La PrensaSan Diego, 651 Third Avenue, Suite C,Chula Vista, CA 91910

Date: NOV 26, 2014

DAVID J. DANIELSENJudge of the Superior Court

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declares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Colette Seymann,President/ownerThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County NOV 17, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-030282

Published: Dec. 12, 19, 26/2014. Jan. 2/2015La Prensa San Diego

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: LIBRES PARASERVIR A SAN DIEGO at 931 BuenaVista Way, Chula Vista, CA, County ofSan Diego, 91910.This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: 1. Ricardo Duron, 931 BuenaVista Way, Chula Vista, CA 91910. 2.Ofelia Duron, 931 Buena Vista Way,Chula Vista, 91910This Business is Conducted By: An Un-incorporated Association-Other than aPartnetship. The First Day of BusinessWas: 12/01/2014I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Ricardo Duron. Title:General PartnerThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 12, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-032285

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: a. TWELVE b.TWELVE INTERNATIONAL at 11536Faisan Way, San Diego, CA, County ofSan Diego, 92124This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: iThink School AssembliesInc., 11536 Faisan Way, San Diego, CA92124.This Business is Conducted By: A Cor-poration. The First Day of Business Was:01/01/2000I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Chad Furlong. Title:PresidentThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 05, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031674

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

Fictitious Business Name: STUDIO SY at4104 Bonita Rd., Bonita, CA, County ofSan Diego, 91902This Business Is Registered by theFollowing: Juan Barraza, 4077 ThirdAve. #103, San Diego, CA 92103This Business is Conducted By: An In-dividual. The First Day of Business Was:09/16/2005I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct. (A registrant whodeclares as true any material matter pur-suant to section 17913 of the Businessand Professions code that the registrantknows to be false is guilty of a misde-meanor punishable by a fine not to ex-ceed one thousand dollars [$1,000].)Registrant Name: Juan BarrazaThis Statement Was Filed With ErnestJ. Dronenburg, Jr. Recorder/County Clerkof San Diego County DEC 01, 2014.Assigned File No.: 2014-031265

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REQUESTING BIDSREQUESTING BIDS

Millenia Stylus Public Park Improvements

NOTICE INVITING BIDSProposals are requested for “Stylus Public Park Improvements”,located in the City of Chula Vista.

Sealed bids will be received at McMillin Real Estate Services,L.P (PROJECT MANAGER) offices, at 2750 Womble Road,Suite 200, San Diego, California, 92106, at 10:00 a.m., on Janu-ary 29, 2015.

Project estimate approximately: $2,000,000

The work includes but is not limited to: Drainage & Grading,Fences & Gates, Vehicular and Pedestrian Paving, Comfort Sta-tion, Splash Pad, Tot Lot Construction, Site Lighting, Soil Prepa-ration/Finish Grading, Planting & Irrigation, Dog Park, BocceCourts, Shade Shelters.

Bids arriving later than 10:00 a.m. on the date listed above, or ata different location, will not be considered.

Bids shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and shall bear thetitle of MILLENIA - STYLUS PUBLIC PARK”. Bids will be pub-licly opened and read by PROJECT MANAGER and City Repre-sentatives, at the address and time stated above. The entirebid package must be included as your bid. Be sure to executeall documents within the bid package.

All contract work except the requirement of maintenance of land-scaped areas for the plant establishment period as herein speci-fied shall be completed in place and ready for initial acceptancebefore the expiration of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY TWO (252)WORKING DAYS or less from the start date specified in theNotice To Proceed.

The plans and bid documents for this project are will be availablestarting January 5, 2015 only at the offices of McMillin RealEstate Services, L.P (PROJECT MANAGER), at 2750 WombleRoad, Suite 200, San Diego, California, 92106, between thehours of 9:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday through Friday. Biddersshall contact PROJECT MANAGER 24 hours prior to pick upof bid packages at (619) 794-1215. Bids, accompanied by a bidbond payable to SLF IV/McMillin, Millenia JV, LLC in theamount of ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid, mustbe in the hands of McMillin Real Estate Services, L.P, at 2750Womble Road, Suite 200, San Diego, California, 92106 , prior tothe hour advertised for the opening of bids. All bids will be openedat the noticed hour.

A MANDATORY pre bid meeting will be held on 15, 2015 at 10:00a.m., at PROJECT MANAGER’S field offices located at the in-tersection of Birch Road and Eastlake Parkway in the City ofChula Vista.

Note: All items in this bid qualify for reimbursement, the lowbidder will be determined based on the lowest overall bid for theentire contract, exclusive of add/deduct alternates. All bid lineitems are subject to ADDITION or DEDUCTION from contractsubject to City and PROJECT MANAGER’s discretion per 3-2.2.3of the Greenbook, 2006 edition. Any additive or deductive itemsshall be determined after bid award and prior to execution ofcontract.

The CONTRACTOR shall perform, with the CONTRACTOR’s ownorganization, contract work amounting to not less than 40 per-cent of the original total contract price, except that any desig-nated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract andthe amount of any designated “Specialty Items” performed bysubcontract may be deducted from the original total contractprice before computing the amount of work required to be per-formed by the CONTRACTOR with the CONTRACTOR’s ownorganization. Where an entire item is subcontracted, the valueof work subcontracted will be based on the Contract item Bidprice.

When a portion of an item is subcontracted, the value of worksubcontracted will be based on the estimated percentage of theContract item Bid price, determined from information submittedby the CONTRACTOR, subject to approval by the Engineer.

Any material purchased by the CONTRACTOR will only becounted towards the 40 percent of the original total contract priceif the material is installed by the CONTRACTOR with his ownforces.

McMillin Real Estate Services, L.P reserves the right to rejectany or all bids.

THIS PROJECT IS NOT SUBJECT TO PREVAILING WAGE RATEREQUIREMENTS:

The PROJECT MANAGER has up to ONE HUNDRED TWENTY(120) calendar days from bid award to issue notice to pro-ceed to CONTRACTOR.

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By Eduardo Stanley

Wonder where some tradi-tions like the Piñatas or thePosadas come from? Here isa very basic and simple list ofthose Christmas traditions, in-cluding some holiday drinks.

The Poinsettia: Thefavorite plant for theholidays

Poinsettias are part off allChristmas celebrations.

This is a case of “stolenidentity” because this plant(read: the red petals you seeare actually leaves–the poin-settia flower is the yellow partyou see in the middle of thosered leaves) was brought fromMexico to United States andrenamed by Joel R. Poinsett,the first US envoy to Mexico.

Poinsett (1779-1851), a phy-sician and diplomat, held sev-eral offices in the country and

besides the plant, severalplaces in the East Coast carryhis name: A lake, a highway, acounty, a bridge. He was aMinister to Mexico between1825 and 1830. According tosome reports, he “discovered”the shrub called Christmas Eve,or Cuetlaxochitl by the Aztecs,in Taxco. He later broughtsome samples to the USA, re-named it and made it popular.

This red and green leavesblooms in winter and it’s alsopopular in Central America.The Aztecs used it as red dye

The origins of Christmas traditions

and pain reliever. Its associa-tion with Christmas came inthe 16th century as part of theCatholic Church’s efforts tocontrol all aspects of indig-enous cultural life.

The story, created by Catho-lic priests, talks about a younggirl willing to make Jesus apresent for Christmas, but shewas very poor. Inspired by anangel, the girl collected seedsand planted them in front ofChrist’s image. Later, beautifulred and green flowers bloomed,and that’s how the legend of the“Flor de Nochebuena” wasborn.

The PosadasThe festivities are in full

swing with the beginning of theposadas.

The Posada (or lodging) is areenactment of the VirginMary and Joseph asking for aplace where she could givebirth to her son Jesus.

According to the Christiantradition, Mary and Josephtraveled from Nazareth toBelen, where Jesus was born.They asked several people forlodging, but they refused untilsomebody accepted them.

Of course, the representa-tion varies according to timeand place. However two ele-ments are almost untouched:The main song and the length—this is played for nine days.Each reenactment is short, andmost of the time participantshave candles while going from

one house to the other.The song is basically a dia-

logue between the travelersand the people inside thehouses that they visit. OnceMary and Joseph are accepted,the song becomes more fes-tive and there is a celebration.

At the end, in most casesthere is a piñata for children andpeople drink either “cham-purrado,” hot chocolate orponche.

This tradition was broughtfrom Spain to Mexico whereit’s very popular to this day. It’salso celebrated in Guatemalaand parts of the SouthwesternU.S. due to the Mexican cul-tural influence.

The Piñata: AnotherChristmas traditionwith a Hispanicaccent.

Piñatas are known to livenup any Christmas celebration.

Basically, a piñata is a con-tainer —made of colorful pot-tery, cloth, or papier-maché—filled with candies and/or smalltoys. It’s not just for Christmas,but also other celebrations, es-pecially birthday parties.

Hung from above on a string,the piñata is hit by participantsat the party until it breaks, thecandies and toys falling on thefloor while people run to getthe treats.

In certain Mexican areas,piñatas are filled with peanutsand small mandarins. This wasa tradition used by Catholic

priests in the early times of theConquista to co-op local tradi-tions, a perfect blend of Euro-pean and indigenous customs.

Catholic priests brought thistradition from Spain, howeverthe word comes from the italian“pignatta.” And to make it moreintriguing, some historianstracked down similar traditionsin China and other countries.

However, the Aztecs alreadyhad a similar tradition to cel-

ebrate “Huitzilopochtli,” —theWar God— in December.

The piñatas are a commer-cial success and people canbuy them almost in any His-panic supermarket around theUS, particularly in the South-west. Nevertheless, somefamilies prefer to make theirown piñatas, having children bepart of the process; others pre-fer to purchase more elaborateand artistic piñatas that arecommercially made.

Santa Claus, PapaNoel or ViejitoPascuero?

Christmas tradition and theorigin of Santa Claus.

This is not a Hispanic tradi-tion, but without a doubt it’s themost popular character of theHolidays.

There are several interpreta-tions about the origin of SantaClaus —and many songs too.In this regard, we can mention“Santa Claus is coming totown,” written by John Cootsand Haven Gillespie in 1934, asthe most popular of all.

Over the years, the image ofSanta Claus changed, but sincethe first part of the 20th cen-tury, tradition established thathe lives in the North Pole, hehas a large white beard andwhite hair; he is chubby and isalways jolly.

On Christmas night, Santadelivers presents to all children.Well, not all of them since themain condition to be on his listis to be a well behaved child.Santa travels around the worldon his magic sledge and car-ries a big bag with presents.

Apparently, the figure ofSanta comes from the Greekpriest Saint Nicholas, of Myra.He lived in the third centuryand was known as a generousperson.

Based on this model, with theaddition of local traditions andfolkloric narrative, the image ofSanta Claus became well es-tablish in Europe around the19th century, passing later toUSA and Canada, and expand-ing later to the rest of the con-tinent.

As the image of Santa Claustraveled South, his name alsochanged, becoming Papa Noelin most Latin-American coun-tries and Viejito Pascuero inChile.

Today most people don’tthink much about the origins ofthis tradition, and Santa Clausimpersonators can be seen inmost shopping centers in theAmericas.

TraditionalChristmas drinks

Christmas traditions andMexican champurrado

ChampurradoIts a thick indigenous drink

made of corn dough and choco-late. There are many versionsof this drink. But regardlesswhat recipe you use, cham-purrado will keep you warmand will give you energy —natu-rally.

One basic recipe call for sim-

mer milk, piloncillo (a dark-brown unrefined cane sugar,used to replace sugar) andchocolate. You can also addcinnamon. Mix the corn doughwith water (or milk) and add itto the simmering milk. After 10or more minutes its ready.

Since this is a very thick drink,it keeps its temperature, whichis one of the reason to be con-sidered a “winter drink.” Theingredients to make cham-purrado can be organic, mak-ing this drink a natural favorite.

Hot chocolateTo drink chocolate is another

indigenous tradition. It’s saidthe Mayan loved this “potion.”Is very simple to make hotchocolate these days by usingpowder chocolate, mixed withhot milk or water.

However, the real thing callsfor melting a chocolate bar andmixing it with sugar or piloncillo.Most Mexican or Hispanic gro-cery stores carry this type ofchocolate.

PonchePonche Navideño: Tradi-

tional Mexican Christmaspunch

It’s a warm fruit punch andit also has several variations.Nobody knows where this con-cept started. Apparently Span-iards brought to Mexico, a rawidea about the ponche.

The idea is to mix fruits in apan with boiling water, pluspiloncillo and cinnamon. You canuse the fruits of your choice butbasically oranges, apples, tej-ocotes guavas and a piece ofsugar cane. A real ponche in-cludes other ingredients, liketamarindo, prunes, raising, etc.

The ponche is ready whenthe fruits are tender. Childrenlove it and adults sometimes in-corporate a little bit of rum orbrandy and tequila. This recipeis easy to make and in somegrocery stores there are some“ponche kits” available.

Reprinted from VOXXI (http://voxxi.com/)

Diego Rivera's La piñata (1953)

1881 illustration by Thomas Nast who, along withClement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit from St.

Nicholas", helped to create the modern image of SantaClaus.

Las Posadas procession. Imgage downloaded from MásTV website (http://revistamastv.com/.)

Ponche Navideño

en Tijuana. Una primera, queconstituye el 46%, reside demanera fija en la ciudad, puesviven en casas en distintascolonias de la ciudad. El otro54% de las personas en-cuestadas no cuenta con unlugar que habite de manera fija:23% de ellos duerme en al-bergues, mientras que el 16%vive en El Bordo, 8% en lacalle y 7% en múltiples lugaresalrededor de la Zona Centro dela ciudad de Tijuana.

Por otro lado, el 85% de lapoblación atendida por elDesayunador ha cruzado aEstados Unidos, sobre todopara radicar en California(86%), siendo 17 años elpromedio de vida en aquél país.Mientras que el 17% regresóa México bajo su propia volun-tad, el 83% fue deportado porlas autoridades migratoriasestadounidenses: el 26% fuedeportado luego de un juicio y

el 57% mediante la modalidadde salida voluntaria. Cabedecir que el 57% fueron de-portados entre el año 2010 y el2014.

Asimismo, el 50% han sidodetenidos por la Policía Munici-pal en al menos una ocasiónen las últimas dos semanas.Como razón de detenciónseñalan faltas tales como “suvestimenta” (14%), andar “sindocumentos de identificación”(28%) y “deambular” (48%),entre otras. Ello señala unacondición de vulnerabilidad asus derechos humanos y unobstáculo para su integraciónlaboral y social.

Se encontró presencia dealguna enfermedad física en41% de las personas mayoresde 60 años y en 20% de losmenores de 60; sólo una ter-cera parte de ambos grupos dijoestar recibiendo algún trata-miento. Dentro de las condi-ciones de salud más reportadas

por ambos grupos de edad, seencuentran la hipertensión, ladiabetes y el colesterol alto, asícomo problemas respiratorios yartritis en los adultos mayores.Respecto a la salud mental, laencuesta arrojó que dos ter-ceras partes de los usuariosmenores de 60 años reportansíntomas de depresión y an-siedad, condición que se ob-servó en la mitad de los ma-yores de 60 años. A pesar delelevado porcentaje de personasque padecen estos síntomas,sólo el 4% y 12% respectiva-mente reciben tratamiento.

El DesayunadorEl 60% expresó que asiste

todos los días al Desayunador;además, el 33% señaló llevarentre uno y cinco años visi-tando esta institución, mientrasque el 17% lleva entre seismeses y un año y el 16% llevamenos de un mes. Como moti-vos para utilizar sus servicios,

el 52% declaró que acudeporque no tiene trabajo; de lamisma manera, el 35% expresóque no le alcanza con lo quegana. Entre la oferta de servi-cios, destacan el de corte decabello (51%), regadera (46%),donación de ropa y calzado(40%), servicio médico (31%)y llamadas telefónicas (26%).Cabe decir que entre los ser-vicios que les gustaría recibir,los usuarios del Desayunadorpidieron que se cuente con unabolsa de trabajo (19%) y contalleres de capacitación (18%).Finalmente y como planes paralos próximos meses, el 32%señaló que buscará trabajo enTijuana, el 20% que intentarácruzar la frontera y sólo el 8%que regresará a su lugar deorigen.

Los resultados de este estu-dio permiten observar la per-tinencia de la labor del Desa-yunador Salesiano Padre Cha-va, quien atiende las nece-

sidades de protección de estapoblación en situación de vul-nerabilidad por falta de empleo,ingresos insuficientes o sinresidencia fija. La deportaciónde Estados Unidos es unacondición importante entre lapoblación que atiende, así comolos problemas de salud mental.

Ante esta situación, se vuel-ve pertinente hacer un llamadoa las instituciones guberna-mentales que así correspondan

a sumarse a los esfuerzos delDesayunador y colaborar demanera conjunta en el esta-blecimiento de programas parala capacitación e inserciónlaboral, apoyo en alimentaciónpor bajos ingresos y desempleo,atención a la salud física,emocional y sexual-repro-ductiva; y ampliación de losservicios de albergue a de-portados y migrantes en trán-sito en la ciudad.

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