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He claimed a land grant in 1820 and settled on the banks of eastern Kentucky’s Troublesome Creek. No mention of his skin color is made in the early histories of the area, but family lore has it that Martin himself was blue. The odds against it were incalculable, but

Martin Fugate managed to find and marry a woman who carried the same recessive gene. His redheaded American wife, was the former Elizabeth Smith, whose skin, it is said “was as pale as the mountain laurel that blooms every spring around the creek hollows.”

The Fugates had seven children, four of whom were reported to be blue in color. They were away in the remote section of Kentucky and folks just naturally tended to

marry folks that lived closest to them. Never mind the fact that these newlyweds were, more often than not, kin to one another. Likely first cousins at least.

Fugates would marry other Fugates . . . but sometimes they’d branch out and marry Combses, Smiths, Ritchies, and Stacys.

They all lived in isolation from “the real world,” bunched up in log cabins up and down the hol-

lows so it just seemed natural to marry your neighbor. As a result, the clan kept multiplying and intermarrying and interbreeding.

“When they settled this country back then, there was no roads. It was hard to get out, so they intermarried,” says Dennis Stacy, a 51year-old coal miner and amateur genealogist who has filled a looseleaf notebook with the laboriously traced blood lines of several local families.

Blue People

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Stacy counts Fugate blood in his own veins. “If you’ll notice,” he observes, tracing lines on his family’s chart, which lists his mother’s and his father’s great grandfather as Henley Fugate, “I’m kin to myself.”

It had been 162 years since the phenomenon first was noticed to the point where an explanation for the phenomenon developed. And an apparent cure. Martin and Elizabeth Fugate’s blue children had multiplied in this natural isolation tank.

Carrie Lee Kilburn, a nurse at the rural medical center called Homeplace Center referred to the daughter of Levy Fugate, Luna, as “the bluest woman I ever saw. Luna was bluish all over. Her lips were as dark as a bruise..”

Levy had married a Ritchie girl and bought 200 acres of rolling land along Ball Creek. The couple had 8 children, including Luna. A fellow by the name of John Stacy spotted Luna at Sunday services of the Old Regular Baptist Church before the turn of the century. Stacy courted her, married her, and moved from Troublesome Creek to make a living in timber on her daddy’s land. John Stacy still lives on Lick Branch of

Give Us This Day our Daily Chuckle

This week, a compendium of wit, wisdom and neat stuff you can tell at parties. Enjoy!

I once dated a girl with a twin and people always asked me how I could tell them apart.....

It was simple, Alison painted her nails red, and Bob had a beard.

Pro Tip #22: Ring your own doorbell on your way to bed. This will clear the dogs off the bed.

I went to an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting. Anonymous my ass. I knew everyone there!!

In a society that has you counting

Ball Creek. Stacy recalls that his father-in-law, Levy Fugate, was “part of the family that showed blue. All them old fellers way back then was blue. One of em - I remember seeing him when I was just a boy - Blue Anze, they called him. Most of them old people went by that name - the blue Fugates. It run in that generation who lived up and down Ball Creek”.

“They looked like anybody else, ‘cept they had the blue color,” Stacy said.

Stacy says, sitting in a chair in his plaid flannel shirt and suspenders, next to a cardboard box where a small black piglet, kept as a pet, is squealing for his bottle, “I couldn’t tell you what caused it.”

The only thing Stacy can’t or won’t remember is that his wife Luna was blue. When asked ahout it, he shakes his head and stares steadfastly ahead. It would be hard to doubt this gracious man except that you can’t find another person who knew Luna who doesn’t remember her as being blue.

Luna Stacy possessed the good health common to the blue people bearing at least 13 children before she died at 84. The clinic rarely saw her and never for anything serious.

Benjy Stacy was born in a modern hospital near Hazard, Kentucky, not far from Troublesome Creek. He inherited his father’s lankiness and his mother’s red hair but

money, kilos, calories, and steps, be a rebel and count your ‘blessings’ instead.

I just asked myself if I’m crazy, and ‘We all said No’.

Don’t worry about ‘getting old’. Worry about ‘thinking old’.

You can do a hundred things right and someone will always point out the ONE thing you did wrong.

Being a ‘little older’, I am very fortunate to have someone call and check on me every day. He is from India and he is very concerned about someone scamming me and hacking into my Computer/Banking details. He is always helpful and asks for my Password to fix my problem.

After that ‘Covid thing’, my ‘going out’ clothes have missed me so much. I put them on and they hugged me so tightly, I could barely breathe.

I told my wife she should ‘embrace

what he got from his great, great, great grandfather was dark blue skin! The doctors were astonished, not so the parents, but the boy was rushed off to a medical clinic in Lexington (University of Kentucky Medical School). Two days of tests showed no cause for Benjy’s blue skin.

Benjy’s grandmother Stacy asked the doctor’s if they had heard of the blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek. Put on that track, they concluded that Benjy’s condition was inherited. Benjy lost his blue tint within a few weeks and now he is about as normal a 7-year old boy as you might imagine. His lips and fingernails still turn a purplish blue when he gets cold or angry and that trait was exploited by the medical students back when Benjy was an infant. They would gather around his crib and try to get him to cry so they could witness the lips and fingernails turn blue. Dark blue lips and fingernails are the only traces of Martin Fugate’s legacy left in the boy; that, and the recessive gene that has shaded many of the Fugates and their kin blue for the past 162 years.

Then, in 1999, after having read a genealogy of the Fugate family, Benjamin Stacy sent the following message:

From: Benjamin Arnold Stacy

Subject: Fugate Pedigree

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999

To Whom It May Concern:

her mistakes’...............She gave me a hug.

A Genie granted me one wish, so I said “I just want to be happy”. So now I’m living in a little cottage with 6 dwarves and working in a mine. ‘whistle while you work.......’

RED SKELTON’S RECIPE FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE

1. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.

2. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas.

3. I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. “Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said. So I suggest-

My name is Benjamin Arnold Stacy, Ben for short. I am the “Benjy” (misspelled in the original article in Science 82) mentioned in the article. My mother’s maiden name is Hilda B. Godsey.

I was surprised to see that someone had taken the time to map the genealogy of my family. I would like to thank you for taking that interest, because it was something that I had wanted to do my self.

I do not know that much about methemoglobinemia and happened to come across this web site while searching.

Just for your information, I am 24 years old now and am in my senior year of college at Eastern Kentucky University. The color of my lips and finger nails usually draws some attention, but mostly out of concern for my health or curiosity. I have had no major health problems related to the disorder and simply try to live an average life in spite of being “blue.” Again, thank you for your efforts.

Madison Cawein began hearing rumors about the blue people when he went to work at the University of Kentucky’s Lexington

ed the kitchen.

5. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

6. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said “There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!” So I bought her an electric chair.

7. My wife told me the car wasn’t running well because there was water in the carburetor. I asked where the car was. She told me, “In the lake.”

8. She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.

9. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late for the garbage?” The driver said, “No, jump in!”.

10. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce.

Blue People

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medical clinic in 1960. “I’m a hematologist, so something like that perks up my ears,” Cawein says, sipping on whiskey sours and letting his mind slip back to the summer he spent “tromping around the hills looking for blue people.”

Cawein would drive back and forth between Lexington and Hazard, an eight-hour ordeal before the tollway was built, and scour the hills looking for the blue people he’d heard rumors about. The American Heart Association had a clinic in Hazard, and it was there that Cawein met “a great big nurse” who offered to help.

Her name was Ruth Pendergrass, and she had been trying to stir up medical interest in the blue people ever since a dark blue woman walked into the county health department one bitterly cold afternoon and asked for a blood test.

“She had been out in the cold and she was just blue!” recalls Pendergrass, who is now 69 and retired from nursing. “Her face and her fingernails were almost indigo blue. It like to scared me to death! She looked like she was having a heart attack. I just knew that patient was going to die right there in the health department, but she wasn’t a’tall alarmed. She told me that her family was the blue Combses who lived up on Ball Creek. She was a sister to one of the Fugate women.” About this same time, another of the blue Combses, named Luke, had taken his sick wife up to the clinic at Lexington. One look at Luke was enough to “get those doctors down here in a hurry,” says Pendergrass, who joined Cawein to look for more blue people.

Trudging up and down the hollows, fending off “the two mean dogs that everyone had in their front yard,” the doctor and the nurse would spot someone at the top of a hill who looked blue and take off in wild pursuit. By the time they’d get to the top, the person would be gone. Finally, one day when the frustrated doctor was idling inside the Hazard clinic, Patrick and Rachel Ritchie walked in.

“They were bluer’n hell,” Cawein says. “Well, as you can imagine, I really examined them. After concluding that there was no evidence of heart disease, I said ‘Aha!’ I started asking them questions: ‘Do you have any relatives who are blue?’ then I sat down and we began to chart the family.”

Cawein remembers the pain that

showed on the Ritchie brother’s and sister’s faces. “They were really embarrassed about being blue,” he said. “Patrick was all hunched down in the hall. Rachel was leaning against the wall. They wouldn’t come into the waiting room. You could tell how much it bothered them to be blue.”

After ruling out heart and lung diseases, the doctor suspected methemoglobinemia, a rare hereditary blood disorder that results from excess levels of methemoglobin in the blood. Methemoglobin which is blue, is a nonfunctional form of the red hemoglobin that carries oxygen. It is the color of oxygendepleted blood seen in the blue veins just below the skin.

If the blue people did have methemoglobinemia, the next step was to find out the cause. It can be brought on by several things: abnormal hemoglobin formation, an enzyme deficiency, and taking too much of certain drugs, including vitamin K, which is essential for blood clotting and is abundant in pork liver and vegetable oil.

Cawein drew “lots of blood” from the Ritchies and hurried back to his lab. He tested first for abnormal hemoglobin, but the results were negative.

Stumped, the doctor turned to the medical literature for a clue. He found references to methemoglobinemia dating to the turn of the century, but it wasn’t until he came across E. M. Scott’s 1960 report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (vol. 39, 1960) that the answer began to emerge.

Scott was a Public Health Service doctor at the Arctic Health Research Center in Anchorage who had discovered hereditary methemoglobinemia among Alaskan Eskimos and Indians. It was caused, Scott speculated, by an absence of the enzyme diaphorase from their red blood cells. In normal people hemoglobin is converted to methemoglobin at a very slow rate. If this conversion continued, all the body’s hemoglobin would eventually be rendered useless. Normally diaphorase converts methemoglobin back to hemoglobin. Scott also concluded that the condition was inherited as a simple recessive trait. In other words, to get the disorder, a person would have to inherit two genes for it, one from each parent. Somebody with only one gene would not have the condition but could pass the gene to a child.

Scott’s Alaskans seemed to match Cawein’s blue people. If the con-

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July 27th • 5:30pm Star Valley Park 29884 Valley Center Rd

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Sunday July 23

Headliner: Len Rainey and The Midnight Players 3-5pm

Opener: School of Rock House Band 1-2pm

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Sunday, August 6

Headliner: Brawley 3-5pm

Opener: Good Day - Bach 2 Rock Band 1-2pm

California Honky Tonk at its best. A stellar group of artists playing country music ranging from the traditional era to modern times.

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Headliner: The Silent Comedy 3-5pm

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Brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman with their band The Blue People

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Teens Arrested After Overnight Burglary Spree, Vechicle Pursuit & Crash

On July 13th, 2023, at approximately 3:15 a.m., a security guard in the 600 block of North Broadway in Escondido called police to relay information provided by a homeless man who saw four males steal what he thought was an automated teller machine. The males were putting the machine into a maroon sedan in a nearby parking lot. The security guard discovered that Donut Star at 675 N. Broadway had a broken front window and had possibly been burglarized. Officers located the suspect vehicle nearby on Park Avenue, just east of Broadway.

The males were placing a large safe in the front passenger seat of the vehicle. When officers approached, the males entered the car which backed into a patrol vehicle and then fled. A five-minute high-speed vehicle pursuit ensued. The chase ended when the maroon Cadillac failed to successfully make a right turn from southbound Centre City Parkway to westbound Washington Avenue. The vehicle collided with a palm tree in the parking lot of 505 W. Washington Ave. All of the occupants fled the vehicle after the collision. One was taken into custody just outside the car, and the other three were apprehended nearby. The occupants were an 18-year-old male, two 17-yearold boys, and a 14-year-old boy. The 17- and 18-year-olds were treated at an area hospital.

The 14-year-old was treated at

Rady Children’s Hospital for a head laceration.

Officers located cash, jewelry, store merchandise, a loaded firearm and a large safe inside the vehicle. Investigators are charging the teens with burglarizing the following central and western Escondido businesses overnight: George Burgers, Donut Star, Sally’s Beauty, 10 Perfect Nails, Glamour Brows, Lourdes Mexican Food, Del’s Barber Shop, La Michoacana Plus, Blue Mug Coffee and Tea, and Top Trendy Nails and Spa. Investigators are currently working with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to determine if a few burglaries overnight in San Marcos were committed by the teens, as well as additional previous burglaries in Escondido.

The adult suspect, who drove the getaway vehicle, is Adrian Jara-

I do.

I’ve watched it over the years with good friends.

Many an evening I’ve observed former Mayor, Alan Skuba, as he would study briefing files, or carry them home to study in his “off hours.”

I remember one incident in particular.

Man About Town

Here’s To The Pols

I’ve been known to criticize political types before . . . but I also have to acknowledge that they put in a lot of time and hard work in their elected positions. They don’t always make the right decisions (to my way of thinking) but . . . they try.

The average voter doesn’t realize how much time elected folks tend to put into their jobs.

Letters to the Editor

Hello Lyle,

millo a Hemet resident. He was arrested for burglary, conspiracy, felony reckless evading. He was booked into the Vista Detention Facility. One of the 17-year-olds had a robbery warrant out of Riverside County and will be booked into Juvenile Hall. The other boys did not meet requirements for booking into Juvenile Hall per current San Diego County Probation protocol, and will be released to their parents. The juveniles are also Hemet residents.

Anyone with information on this series of crimes is asked to contact Detective Mike Martinez at (760) 839-4739.

To report any suspicious activities in your neighborhood, you may contact the Police Department directly, or you may make an unidentified call on our “Anonymous Tip Line” at 760-743-TIPS (8477) or via our Web site at police.escondido.org

ous night, I was in a local grocery store about to check out and this beautiful little grey haired lady stopped me and said, ‘Excuse me, but aren’t you Mayor Cowan?’

‘Why, yes, yes I am,’ I smiled, pleased at the recognition.

‘Well, you’re a no good so-andso . . . and . . .’ and she went on and on and on.

I don’t know if you remember me but we go back a long way. I’m pretty sure if we encountered each other on the sidewalk neither of us would recognize each other. Not that we’ve lost our good looks, just that wrinkled skin tends to distort one’s appearance. But enough about me, I’m writing you to praise your two writers, Friedrich Gomes and Tim Morrow. They both do a great job with their articles. Friedrich appears to be a really nice person. Maybe someday I may get to meet him personally. His article on San Diego’s Mysterious Secrets was a surprise to me too. What I’m really writing about though, is you! I like it when someone can make fun of themselves and you have no problem doing that. I particularly liked your poem “The Bladder”. Not quite Shakespeare but it sends a message, especially to persons my age! Keep it up.

Your friend, Andy Pino, San Diego County

LAW), Transports these guns loaded (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), Brings guns onto school property (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), Breaks into the school (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), Discharges the weapons within city limits (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), Murders 26 people (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), Commits suicide (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW).

Former councilmember, later Mayor, Ernie Cowan, and I were talking about the thanklessness of the job.

“Folks don’t realize we’re up there on the dais till 11pm, midnight, 1am, debating issues . . . spending lots of time prepared for the discussion, making hard decisions after much study and debate. And then the next day you get ripped in the media, no matter which way the vote went.”

An even better example: “One day, following a lengthy and difficult council session the previ-

Some days, you just can’t win.”

The regrets were few, however, said Cowan. There was a sense of accomplishment and time well spent on behalf of his community . . . but that’s in the past. He has no further political ambition.

Speaking of Alan Skuba, which I just was, I recall some on-point comments he once made:

The Law

A person steals guns, (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW ) , Shoots and kills his own mother (WHICH IS AGAINST THE

And there are people in this country who somehow think passing ANOTHER LAW will protect us from something like this.

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I remember a time a few years ago when lyle called his best friend and first cousin, Doug Leverenz, who then live in Huntington, Beach.

Blue People

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dition were inherited as a recessive trait, it would appear most often in an inbred line.

Cawein needed fresh blood to do an enzyme assay. He had to drive eight hours back to Hazard to search out the Ritchies, who lived in a tappedout mining town called Hardburly. They took the doctor to see their uncle, who was blue, too. While in the hills, Cawein drove over to see Zach (Big Man) Fugate, the 76-yearold patriarch of the clan on Troublesome Creek. Zach took the doctor even farther up Copperhead Hollow to see his Aunt Bessie Fugate, who was blue. Bessie had an iron pot of clothes boiling in her front yard, but she graciously allowed the doctor to draw some of her blood.

“So I brought back the new blood and set up my enzyme assay,” Cawein continued. “And by God, they didn’t have the enzyme diaphorase. I looked at other enzymes and nothing was wrong with them. So I knew we had the defect defined.’’

Just like the Alaskans, their blood had accumulated so much of the blue molecule that it overwhelmed the red of normal hemoglobin that shows through as pink in the skin of most Caucasians.

Once he had the enzyme defi-

Man About Town

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“Hey Doug,” he said, “I’m at loose ends with nothing to do from early morning Saturday till late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Why don’t you come down Friday and spend the weekend with us. You and me can go out and drink lots of whiskey, chase wild, wild women, cuss a lot, and do all kinds of sinful things.”

“I’ll do it!” he said, “I’ll come down!”

And he did. And it was good.

lyle began to make plans.

He allowed as how he would pour mug after mug of grand Scotch whiskey. There was a slight problem, however, in that neither lyle nor doug drink. Unfazed, the decision was made to chase wild, wild women.

lyle, it is said, prefers women who are ‘rough and raw,’ preferably with only one or two teeth

ciency isolated, methylene blue sprang to Cawein’s mind as the “perfectly obvious” antidote. Some of the blue people thought the doctor was slightly addled for suggesting that a blue dye could turn them pink. But Cawein knew from earlier studies that the body has an alternative method of converting methemoglobin back to normal Cawein chose methylene blue because it had been used successfully and safely in other cases and because it acts quickly.

Cawein packed his black bag and rounded up Nurse Pendergrass for the big event. They went over to Patrick and Rachel Ritchie’s house and injected each of them with 100 milligrams of methylene blue.

‘’Within a few minutes. the blue color was gone from their skin,” the doctor said. “For the first time in their lives, they were pink. They were delighted.”

“They changed colors!” remembered Pendergrass. “It was really something exciting to see.” The doctor gave each blue family a supply of methylene blue tablets to take as a daily pill. The drug’s effects are temporary, as methylene blue is normally excreted in the urine. One day, one of the older mountain men cornered the doctor. “I can see that old blue running out of my skin,” he confided.

Before Cawein ended his study of

(they are cheaper dates, he says; they don’t eat nearly as much). Both he and doug prefer their women with a whole lot of tattoos all over the body ... up and down their legs, thighs, buttocks, backs, foreheads, breasts, shoulders . . . the more the better. It all adds up to sheer elegance, they both agree.

So, they headed out to a biker bar . . . but stopped on their way so they, too, might have multiple tatts applied to there heretofore pristine bodies.

Sadly, the tattoo parlors were not yet open; the biker bars had just closed several hours earlier.

So, sadder, but ever wiser, doug and lyle headed out for breakfast at a local restaurant.

All the waitresses were attractive, had all their teeth, did not cuss, and were good at their jobs. Totally out of keeping with the wild, wild women doug and lyle had in mind.

Maybe next time.

the blue people, he returned to the mountains to patch together the long and twisted journey of Martin Fugate’s recessive gene. From a history of Perry County and some Fugate family Bibles listing ancestors, Cawein has constructed a fairly complete story.

The story demonstrated that as coal mining and the railroads brought progress to Kentucky, the blue Fugates started moving out of their communities and marrying other people. The strain of inherited blue began to disappear as the recessive gene spread to families where it was unlikely to be paired with a similar gene.

Cawein and his colleagues published their research on hereditary diaphorase deficiency in the Archives of Internal Medicine in April, 1964. He hasn’t studied the condition for years. Even so, Cawein still gets calls for advice.

The doctor was later approached by the producers of the television show “That’s Incredible.” They wanted to parade the blue people across the screen in their weekly display of human oddities. Cawein would have no part of it, and he related with glee the news that a film crew sent to Kentucky from Hollywood fled the “two mean dogs in every front yard” without any film. Cawein cheers their bad luck not out of malice but out of a deep respect for the blue people of Troublesome Creek.

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11. I married Miss Right. I just didn’t know her first name was ‘Always’.

12. I haven’t spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don’t like to interrupt her.

13. The last fight was my fault though. My wife asked, “What’s on the TV?” I said, “Dust!”.

Can’t you just hear him say all of these?

I love it. These were the good old days when humor didn’t have to start with a four letter word or political. It was just clean and simple fun. And he always ended his programs with the words, “And May God Bless”with a big smile on his face.

“They were poor people,” concurs Nurse Pendergrass, “but they were good.”

The doctor never did reveal the location of the blue people and what with a daily dose of methylene blue, it may be that no one will ever find them again.

References:

THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEK

The story of an Appalachian malady, an inquisitive doctor, and a paradoxical cure.

©Science 82, November, 1982 Cawein, Madison, et. al. “Hereditary diaphorase deficiency and methemoglobinemia”. Archives of Internal Medicine, April, 1964.

Scott, E.M. “The relation of diaphorase of human erythrocytes to inheritance of methemolglobinemia”, Journal of Clinical Investigation, 39, 1960.

Cawein, Madison and E.J. Lappat, “Hereditary Methemoglobinemia” in Hemoglobin, Its Precursors and Metabolites,” ed. by F. William Sunderman, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia PA, 1964.

The Fugate Blue Family - circa 1900. Taken from Science82: November, 1982

our real problem.

In a Purdue University classroom recently, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States.

It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age

However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.

The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating, “What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?”

Yep, these are the same kinds of 18-year-olds that are now voting in our elections! They breed, and they walk among us...

Laugh or Cry

You, who worry about Democrats versus Republicans --relax, here is

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District Supervisor Jim Desmond

Businesses are on the Hook, Again! Agricultural Pass, Phase 2

During the pandemic, the Employment Development Department (EDD) virtually collapsed, and legislative offices like mine stepped into the breach. My office alone handled over 3,000 unemployment cases.

Solving that immediate crisis was critical for constituents needing their unemployment benefits, but the bill to cover those payments has come due. Twenty-two states, including California, were forced to borrow billions from the federal government because of a federal law requiring EDD claims to be paid whether or not states have the funds. Currently, California owes the federal government $18.9 billion, a huge sum, especially given our $22.5 billion budget deficit. California and New York are now the only states, along with the Virgin Islands, that have not paid back their EDD debt. And we hold 74% of that debt.

According to a recent report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, our unemployment trust fund is “structurally insolvent.”

California paid about $40 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic, including at least $1 billion paid to incarcerated inmates. California recently enjoyed a massive general fund budget surplus, and

we could have paid back our debt to the federal government. Instead, the state mailed out stimulus checks that cost $21.4 billion.

Pandemic-related shutdowns forced thousands of businesses to close, many forever, costing thousands of jobs, and the businesses that survived are now left holding the bag for the state’s incompetence. An additional tax of about $1,500 per employee will be applied to all businesses over the next 15 years – or perhaps longer if there’s another recession. That’s $21 per employee this year, and it will rise $21 every year for each employee until the debt is paid. That could take 10 years, or more, and it will put a damper on new hires and job retention.

These types of economic policies are why businesses and employees alike are fleeing California by the thousands. We can and should do much better.

Assemblymember Marie Waldron, R- Valley Center, represents the 75th Assembly District in the California Legislature, which includes the cities of Poway, Santee, portions of the City of San Diego, and most of rural eastern and northern San Diego County.

A Word from San Marcos Mayor Rebecca Jones San Marcos Family Campout

and secure your family’s spot at www.san-marcos.net/register, $15 per person.

Create special memories with your fellow San Marcos community members by spending the night under the stars and experiencing an exciting weekend filled with tasty food, arts and crafts, outdoor games, flashlight hike and campfire songs. Oh, and I can’t forget my favorite part, delicious s’mores!

Last year, San Diego Supervisor Anderson and I partnered on a program called the Agriculture Pass, designed to assist commercial livestock and agriculture operators in a wildfire or other disaster.

The Ag Pass allows certain people access to evacuated areas to care for their crops and animals, helping to ensure their safety and well-being.

We launched the program in phases, beginning with commercial cattle, equestrian operations, and managerial employees in the unincorporated area. I am happy to announce that we approved the plan to deploy phase 2, including all other commercial agriculture and livestock operations, at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

During emergencies, I have heard countless stories of farmers and ranchers who decided to stay on their property to protect their assets because they feared they would not be allowed back in to care for their

crops or animals. With the Ag Pass program in place, we hope to encourage more operators to evacuate instead of risking their lives by staying behind. Ranchers and farmers are critical to our economy and communities. San Diego Agriculture provides over 16,000 jobs and has an economic impact of just under $3 billion in the local economy. We must be able to meet their needs in the event of a fire or natural disaster.

By expanding the Ag Pass program to include all commercial agriculture and livestock operations, we are taking a proactive step to ensure the safety of our farmers and ranchers and their livelihoods. This program will provide peace of mind for these operators during times of crisis and help them better protect their crops and animals.

San Diego County District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond, 1600 Pacific Highway, #335, San Diego, CA 92101, United States http://www.supervisorjimdesmond.com/

Get your fire roasting sticks ready for s’mores and hot dogs because it is time for San Marcos Family Campout next weekend from Saturday, July 29 at 2 p.m. through Sunday, July 30 at 9 a.m. Family Campout will be at our beautiful Walnut Grove Park located at 1950 Sycamore Drive. Hurry

This event is the perfect time to explore Walnut Grove Park and experience the camping life near home. You do not want to miss out on this year’s annual Family Campout! Register today and prepare for a fun weekend.

For additional information, visit www.san-marcos.net.

Problem Solved by

His refrigerator won’t stop buzzing. Will Home Depot take it back?

Keith Cantrell’s new refrigerator is making a loud buzzing sound. GE can’t fix it, and Home Depot won’t let him return it. What should he do?

Q: I bought a GE refrigerator from Home Depot’s website in February. I noticed a loud buzzing noise within an hour the appliance was installed. While it isn’t “hold your hands over your ears” loud, you can easily hear it from across the room.

I called to complain within 48 hours of taking delivery that the fridge was making an unacceptable amount of noise. I requested a replacement or refund.

A GE technician came to my house but could not fix the noise. I asked for a refund, but the company refused.

Home Depot says it doesn’t have a return policy for appliances and that it is only the middleman. GE won’t take it back, claiming this

is a case of buyer’s remorse. Can you help me?

A: Home Depot should have quickly accepted a return or replaced the appliance with a nonbuzzing model. Instead, it insisted that a GE technician come out to check the refrigerator.

Actually, Home Depot has a special policy for appliances such as refrigerators. It says the unit “should be inspected for defects or damage.” If you find one, notify the driver about damages for options and refuse delivery if you do not want the damaged product.

“Once delivery is accepted or a product is removed from the store by a customer, the product may be returned if the defects and/or damage are identified and reported to The Home Depot by

Problem

During the 1930s and into the 1940s Pan American Airways operated a luxury seaplane flight service across the vast Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay’s Treasure Island to Hong Kong and other Oriental destinations. But to accomplish this far-reaching feat, refueling stops were paramount. Answer to this problem was four “Stepping Stones” in the middle of the ocean: Hawaii, the tiny atolls of Midway, and Wake along with the island of Guam. Each of these refueling stops was more than a thousand miles apart.

The “stones’” route began from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay via the Pan American Clippers’ four-engine luxurious seaplanes. The huge planes would fly to Honolulu, then on to the small atolls of Midway and Wake, and finally to Guam before reaching the ultimate Far East destinations such as Manila, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. That stretch from Honolulu to Midway and Wake was critical because navigation had to be precise to find those specks of coral in the middle of the Pacific. Both Midway and Wake amount to little more than a mile

Historically Speaking

The ‘Clipper’ and 4 Pacific ‘Stepping Stones’

long and a half-mile wide barely above sea level … just enough for a runway and a small harbor where the Clippers landed.

For its first flights, Pan American used the Martin M-130 flying boat, a thoroughly modern plane equipped with state-of-the-art navigation systems that had a range of 3,200 miles down along the eastern coasts of Central and South America.. The interior of the large but graceful aircraft was modeled like a hotel, with broad armchairs and full meal service. It could carry as many as 52 passengers.

On Nov. 22, 1935, the airline began mail service across the Pacific. Airline founder Juan Trippe dubbed the first Pacific Pan Am aircraft the China Clipper, but only with destination landing rights to the British colony of Hong Kong.

As many fliers and mariners have discovered, the Pacific is a lonely, and deadly stretch of water if you

Give Hope To The Hulls

don’t know what you’re doing, navigation-wise. Today’s modern jetliners make dozens of computer-guided flights from the West coasts of North and South America traveling 12 to 17-hour non-stop flights to Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, and China – all without landing to refuel.

After a vicious battle in the opening days of World War II, Wake Island fell to the Japanese who took prisoners of a surviving detachment of U.S. Marines and a small crew of civilian construction workers. The Americans remained POWs until the end of the war. That Japanese invasion canceled the Clipper flights beyond Hawaii.

Juan Trippe, the visionary founder of Pan American, was the major driving force behind the development of the Clipper service in both the Pacific and Atlantic. In need of a modern amphibious plane, Trippe turned to famous aviation designer Igor Sikorsky. The Russian genius produced two planes for Pan American, the S-40 and the S-42, the first four-engine seaplanes. The former could carry 50 passengers in relative comfort and had a range of nearly 1,000 miles. The S-42 had a range three times the S-40, and was the world’s first big luxury airliner. In 1931, after taking delivery of his first seaplane, Trippe named the aircraft American Clipper in tribute to the China tea trade

clipper ships of the 1860s, the fastest sailing ships of their day.

Diplomatic problems with both the Soviet Union and Japan forced Trippe to consider alternative routes across the Pacific. The most obvious way was to go straight across from California to Hawaii, and then to Midway and Wake atolls, From those coral outcroppings the huge seaplanes could fly to Guam and then finally to the Philippines and various destinations along the China coast. Despite only lukewarm interest from the U.S. Postal Service Trippe pressed ahead with his trans-Pacific plans. In 1935, Pan American built airfields and anchorages on Midway, Wake, and Guam, running test flights across the Pacific using the planned island-hoping route.

In October 1936, Pan American inaugurated its first Pacific passenger flights by carrying nine travelers across the world’s largest ocean. Each passenger paid more than $1,400 for the round-trip from San Francisco to Manila, an astronomical sum at that time. Compare that high-price to the

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Pastor Huls and his beloved wife Marcia were victims of a horrible fire in their home of many decades in Escondido. Tragically, Marcia was unable to make it out in time, while Richard is in hospital recovering from his burns and smoke inhalation. Pastor Richard had served his community diligently and selflessly for over 60 years.

Your kindness and generosity at this time of need would be greatly appreciated. To make a donation visit the GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/975fae57

A Memorable Evening at the 80th Anniversary Ruby Jubilee Gala

On July 8, 2023, Seacrest Foundation’s Women’s Auxiliary held the 80th Anniversary Ruby Jubilee Gala. An extraordinarily special evening that honored Pam Ferris, President and CEO of Seacrest Village, for her 35 years of dedicated leadership. Co-Chairs Robin & Leo Eisenberg, Merrill & Robert Haimsohn, and Erica & Steven Ratner were joined by 400 guests in The Gardens at Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities being a lifeline in our community.

The Ruby Jubilee Gala was a memorable evening featuring

world-class entertainment by Bonnie Foster Productions. Upon arrival and during the champagne and cocktail reception, guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and a musical trio while overlooking the ocean. Entering the main event area guests were welcomed by emcee, Rory Devine, former NBC7 Reporter, and musical performances by the 16-piece band, including a mini horn section. Following the three-course gourmet dinner, guests had the opportunity to deepen their community impact through the Live Auction and Fund-a-Need Program. With a tremendous amount of love and support the event raised over one million dollars!

Seacrest Auctioneer, Mark Drilling, presented an impressive collection of auction items, which included:

• A gorgeous ruby and diamond ring, donated by the Diamond Boutique

• A fabulous New York Broadway Getaway for four people, including a 3-night stay in a luxury home, and round-trip business class flights.

• A private, sumptuous, winepaired dinner for 10 at the acclaimed Pamplemousse Grille, hosted by master chef Jeffrey Strauss

Funds raised will support Seacrest Village Retirement Communities’ Resident Assistance Fund, which provides charitable care for those who are in financial need. Approximately $2.5 million in charitable care is currently needed annually to cover the cost of food, shelter, and physical care; the number is significant and continues to grow.

A beautiful video full of love and heartfelt sentiments from friends, family and colleagues was shown as a way to honor Pam Ferris for

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Do plus-size passengers deserve a bigger seat on a plane?

On a recent flight from Phoenix to London, Gerri Hether found herself seated next to an overweight passenger -- so overweight that he couldn’t fit into his seat.

“His fat rolls flowed over the armrest into my seat and onto me,” says Hether, a retired nurse from Mesa, Ariz. “I don’t know how he even managed to get into the seat.”

Appeals to the crew were pointless because it was a full flight. So for the next 10 hours, Hether leaned against her husband in her economy class seat as the oversize passenger invaded her personal space.

Hether says the plus-size passenger was apologetic, and she understands that he could not control the seat size. But maybe it was her airline, not the passenger, who should have been apologizing, she says. The seats are too small.

Her problem is widespread, but it’s hardly new. Passengers have been complaining about larger seatmates since planes started carrying people.

What is gaining momentum is the idea that plus-size passengers deserve a second seat. And they shouldn’t have to pay for it because their weight is a disability. As someone who struggles to fit into an economy-class seat (because of my height), I feel their pain. But getting to a solution will require a difficult conversation.

What are airline policies for passengers who need more room?

The current policies for airline pas-

sengers who need more room have not kept up.

American Airlines suggests that passengers who need more room purchase an extra seat at the time of booking. If you don’t, you can ask an airport agent to find out if two adjacent seats are available.

Delta Air Lines does not require passengers to buy an extra seat. But if a passenger encroaches on another passenger, the airline may either move you to a different location or make you take the next flight.

Southwest Airlines effectively gives overweight passengers a second seat at no extra charge. You have to pay for the second seat but will get a refund after the flight. United Airlines requires that you purchase a second seat if you need

Pet Parade Lady Marmalade

Lady Marmalade is pet of the week at your Rancho Coastal Humane Society. She’s a 2-year-old, 8-pound, female, Domestic Short Hair cat with a Red Tabby coat.

Lady Marmalade was picked up as a stray in Riverside County and taken to a shelter by a good Samaritan. She was transferred to Rancho Coastal Humane Society through Friends of County Animal Shelters (FOCAS.) She likes people and could live with kids 8 or older.

The $100 adoption fee for Lady Marmalade includes medical exam, spay, up to date vaccinations, and registered microchip.

Visit Rancho Coastal Humane Society in Encinitas or log on to www. SDpets.org.

Open 11 to 4, Friday through Monday, and by appointment Wednesday and Thursday.

it, and will sell it to you at the same price as the first seat. If you need an extra seat on the day of your flight but haven’t reserved it, you may have to buy it at a more expensive rate.

Bottom line: Passengers who need more room have to pay for it on most U.S. air carriers.

Why plus-size passengers deserve more room

Plus-size travel blogger Jae’lynn Chaney brought this issue to the attention of the flying public with an online petition that asked the Federal Aviation Administration to change its rules to protect plus-size passengers. The petition called on the agency to provide alternative seating arrangements, larger seats, and other size-accessible ac-

commodations “to ensure that all passengers can have a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable flying experience.”

Chaney’s requests are thoughtful, and she makes several valid points about the current state of air travel. Economy class seats are small, and they seem to be getting smaller. Plus-size travelers face discrimination and scorn by other passengers, who themselves can sometimes barely fit into their seats. It is enough to make some passengers stay home -- and many have.

“People in bigger bodies deserve the same ability to travel as thinner people,” said Lindley Ashline, a frequent traveler and body acceptance activist. “When we consider some bodies less worthy than others, we start blaming those less-worthy bodies for the way that they’re mistreated, rather than blaming the people doing the mistreating.”

The Federal Aviation Administration has been listening to passengers like Chaney. Last year, it solicited comments on a proposed rule to create a minimum seat size.

But the suggestion that overweight passengers deserve special treatment doesn’t sit well with some airline passengers.

Is obesity a disability? Some passengers disagree

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Pet of the Week

Meet the one and only Bitty (864935)! Unlike her name and stature, there is nothing small about this sweet kitty’s personality or heart! Bitty is very outgoing and loves to get pets and affection. She’ll show you her joy through precious purrs and adorable biscuit-kneading. Bitty came to the shelter with her friend Itty (864934) – yes, they’re Itty and Bitty! – and would be delighted to either go home with her pal or to a home with another feline friend. Is this playful, happy kitty the purrrrrfect fit for your home? You can adopt Bitty at San Diego Humane Society’s Escondido Campus at 3500 Burnet Dr. Through July 30, Bitty’s adoption fee is 50% off, along with every adult cat and dog (7 months and up)! If you have questions about the adoption process, you can visit sdhumane.org/adopt or call 619-299-7012.

Online profile: https://www.sdhumane.org/adopt/available-pets/animal-single.html?petId=864935

The

According to accepted demographics, the majority of “The Paper’s” regular readers are either Baby Boomers or Generation X (born between 1945 and 1980). Sprinkled into this mix are a few surviving “Silent Generation” types (born before 1945) and the handful of highly intelligent old growth “Millennials” born in the 1980s.who still read.

Largely missing from this readership are the generations of folks born after 1990 Younger “Millennials” (1990-95, “Z” gen (1995-2012) and “Alphas” (2012- present). For convenience we separate the generations thusly, seniors are those born before 1990 and the younger generations are those born after 1990.

Generation gaps have been a

Generation Gap: Part I of II

part of human culture since before the dawn of civilization. For millennia older generations were respected for their lifetime accumulation of useful knowledge and the younger generations for their strength and vigor. Older and younger generations lived and worked together using their combined assets to survive and thrive. Slowly at first and then accelerating, technology began to change this relationship. In contemporary America, younger generations have little need to rely on the accumulated knowledge of the family’s senior citizens and the survival of seniors typically no longer requires the physical help, strength and vigor of younger kinfolk.

Younger generations can phone an expert to repair anything they don’t know how to fix themselves and if they have a question they can Google the entire world of human knowledge. Who needs “gramps”? Grandma and gramps don’t need to rely on the “kids” for much either. They’re retired, on social security, live independently and have Medicare, Who needs the kids?

Family generations may not need one another like we did a hundred years ago, but we still have a lifetime bond of love and respect. Outside the family circle however, as a group, younger generations have little need for the archaic and superfluous lifetime of knowledge stored beneath the silvered locks of seniors. Conversely, we seniors pretty much have everything

we need to survive and thrive without help from the “whippersnappers” Technology has largely eliminated the historical survival imperatives that once bonded humans of all generations together.

Since Y2K and the rise of Broadband Internet there has been an acceleration in this widening “generations gap”.

Today technology has created an unprecedented schism between older and younger generations. Seniors as a group in general have a very different knowledge base and world-view than the youngest generations. It is not a result of any change in our physical or mental capabilities. The rapid and radical difference in attitudes and beliefs between generations is coupled with

an equally rapid change in our learning processes and physical environment. The difference between generational views regarding culture, race, sexuality, religion, patriotism and politics are genuine and dramatic.

This schism is reflected in the acceptance of Critical Race Theory by young Americans and its rejection by seniors.

What is causing the dramatic increase in young people who self-identify as “transgender” over the last decade? These and related radical differences in beliefs and perceptions between generations are simply examples of a massive disconnect in perceptions and communications between today’s generations. Who is right and who is wrong? Is there an answer?

We had one of those homes where there always seemed to be extra kids and critters. On the last day of the semester, my son’s friend, Luke, came for the weekend and stayed all summer. Not sure how it happened, but we just seemed to have extras.

Joker, the classroom pet, came home with my daughters almost every weekend. It started with, “Dad. Can Joker come home for the weekend?” Why not?

They neglected to tell us that Joker

was a rat! A big rat with pink eyes and white whiskers. We had to admit that he was cute and easy to love. Who knew a rat had so much personality?

We had cockatiels, snakes, lizards, an Amazon parrot, a fish named Steve (he looked like a Steve), and several cats and dogs. Once people figure out that you’ll take the pets they don’t want, you might as well paint a target on your back,

We also had Cocoa Bunny. I don’t remember where he came from. He was chocolate brown and had lots of personality. What he didn’t have was a name.

One relative suggested we name him Whoopie. We thought about that for

two seconds before saying, “NO!” Later, when Cocoa Bunny chewed through the fence and we were walking through the neighborhood calling for him, I remember thinking, “I’m so glad we’re not walking around in the dark yelling, Whoopie!”

National Rabbit week, July 15 through 21, is what got me started thinking back about Cocoa Bunny. Bunnies can be wonderful indoor companions. They’re cute and they have big personalities. They’re quiet. They quickly learn to use a litter box. They’re clean. And you seldom heard about someone being allergic to rabbits.

One of my buddies wanted a pet. His wife never had a dog or cat, and they had a baby on the way. The agreed to get two rabbits. It was perfect! They even met other rabbit people and made new friends.

Find out if a rabbit is the right pet for your family. Maybe there’s a Whoopie waiting for you.

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Silent Comedy create rough-hewn, expansive American rock and roll. Artists subject to change. Admission is free and open to the public. Be sure to follow all beach rules.

For assistance, please contact City staff, email, (760) 633-2746.

Escondido Public Libary Events

239 S. Kalmia • Escondido

Artsy Adults: Friendship Bracelet

July 25 • 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Turrentine Room

Join us for the next quarterly craft time for adults where you can create your own customizable friendship bracelets with thread and assorted beads! Patterns for inclusivity and diversity will be provided.

Marshmallow Bridge Challenge

July 25, 2023 • 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Turrentine Room • Ages 9–12

Rise to the challenge and test your STEM skills. Compete to build the biggest, strongest bridge of them all!

Vampires vs. Werewolves

July 26, 2023 • 3:00–6:00 p.m.

Turrentine Room • Ages 13–18

Team Edward or Team Jacob? Twilight will never die, so we are celebrating with trivia, food, prizes and a movie.

Financial Workshop

July 28 & 29 • 11a.m. - 1p.m.

Library Lobby

A representative will be here to answer your questions about our upcoming Financial Literacy Workshop and to register participants.

½ Price Sale in the Friends Bookshop

July 28 & 29, 2023

All items in the store 50% OFF marked price (25¢ minimum) Only cash payment accepted.

All events generously sponsored by the Friends of the Escondido Public Library

At The Human Library, you can borrow “A Human Book” and have a conversation with the Book about their story. You will have the opportunity to “unjudge someone,” ask questions, possibly learn something new, and perhaps talk to someone you normally would not have the opportunity to meet otherwise. In this safe place, you have a chance to examine and explore your own conscious and subconscious biases.

The link for the event from the San Marcos Library is: https:// sdcl.bibliocommons.com/ events/64484d4d753eb3611bcc375c

In the best sense of the word, The Human Library is a library of people and their experiences with prejudice. However, instead of paperback books, actual people are on loan for conversations. The concept is about acknowledging and challenging the prejudice that we all carry towards one another.

This FREE event offers an opportunity to learn more about diverse populations through conversations with persons who have lived experiences of stereotyping, biases, and prejudices.

At a Human Library, you can borrow “A Human Book” and have a conversation with the Book about their story. You will have the opportunity to “unjudge someone,” ask questions, possibly learn something new, and perhaps talk to someone you normally would not have the opportunity to meet otherwise. In this safe place, you have a chance to examine and explore your own conscious and subconscious biases.

You might choose from titles such as Neuro-diverse, Intersex, Survivor of Domestic Abuse, Addict, Transgender, Adoption, Depression, Evangelical Pastor, Suicide Survivor, Homeless Veteran, Jewish or many others.

You Are Sacred Gathering of Native Americans August 10-13

Los Coyotes Reservation Campground

2300 Camino San Ignacio Road Warner Springs

A 4-Day gathering for us to embrace our culture and traditions. This free event is for Native and Indigenous folx aged 18- 30 provided by ‘ataaxum Pomkwaan.

The GONA is a safe space designed for the support of healing and the building of healthy communities.

For more information contact Cassie Whitten at 951-297-0483, email: cassiewhitten7@gmail.com ***

Escondido Senior Travel Meetings

Escondido Senior Travel Service’s holds a monthly meeting at 1pm in the Park Avenue Community Center, 210 Park Avenue. The next meeting is September 11, 2023. No meeting in August. Upcoming trips are Knox Berry Farm, September 28 and Laughlin, October 30, November 1, 2023 and December 7, Christmas with Sinatra.

The Travel Office is located at the Park Avenue Community Center, Escondido, and is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10 A.M. to 12 P.M. Phone number 760 2941851. Call for details. ***

Carlsbad’s TGIF Concerts in the Parks

Carlsbad’s TGIF Concerts in the Parks series, one of the city’s most popular summer activities, is back in person this summer and celebrating its 36th anniversary with an exciting lineup of performances that will have crowds dancing the night away.

Poinsettia Community Park

July 21: Young Guns (Country)

Summer Movies In The Park

Summer Movies in the Park is the largest free and family-friendly outdoor movie series in San Diego County, with dozens of hosting sites and over a hundred screenings. It launched in 2007 as a ‘take back our parks’ initiative – in sync with the County’s Live Well vision to sustain safe, healthy and thriving communities.

Shows run May through October, in neighborhoods from the beach to the desert, and everything in between. Each movie event gives residents a reason to visit their local parks after dark, deterring inappropriate loitering and park use, and bringing additional safety and security to residents’ favorite locales.

Events begin as early as 6 p.m., though actual movie start times are 15 minutes after sunset. Before the movie, many locations provide additional entertainment like arts and crafts, games, costume contests, music, dancing and food trucks.

Movies, dates and locations are subject to change. For more information, visit summermoviesinthepark.com. ***

Bates Nut Farm Craft Fairs

Bates Nut Farm hosts a variety of craft fairs throughout the year, all of which prove to be very popular.

Crafters are encouraged to sign up for vendor space now before spaces are all taken. These upcoming events still have spaces available:

Pumpkin Festival

September 30th - October 1st

The Human Library

July 26 • 1pm-3pm

San Marcos Library

2 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos Free & Open to the Public

The Human Library is a global non-profit, and their mission is to create safe spaces for courageous conversations about bias and prejudice in our society, to bring us closer together with greater empathy and understanding of our shared human experience.

The Human Library creates a safe space for conversation where topics subject to taboo, marginalization, or stigmatization can be openly addressed without condemnation. The people acting as Books have directly or indirectly been exposed to prejudice, bias, or discrimination based on aspects of their person, heritage, or life experiences. At The Human Library, we invite in all the questions and out Books engage in sharing their personal experiences with the readers.

This is an impactful opportunity to learn, explore, and embrace diversity. Difficult questions are expected, appreciated, and answered.

You can come to read one Book or stay to read 2 or 3! Final checkout is at 2:45pm. #unjudgesomeone, #humanlibrary

This band plays all of the best country songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s through today.

Calavera Hills Community Park

July 28: Jungle Fire (Afro/Latin/ Funk)

An Afro/Latin Funk band creating a melting pot of Afro-Caribbean and West African rhythms with a heavy break beat funk.

Alga Norte Community Park

August 4: Betamaxx (1980s)

A high-energy, nostalgia-filled rock concert that keeps the dance floor packed from beginning to end with an 80s music experience.

August 11: The FABBA Show (A Tribute to ABBA)

An homage to pop sensation ABBA that will take you on a glittery, sparkling, and truly magical journey back to the disco and the 70s.

Filling up fast but there are still a few spaces left. This very popular craft fair runs during the opening of Valley Center’s largest event of the year, the Bates Pumpkin Patch.

Christmas on the Farm

November 4th & 5th

This craft fair is for vendors who want to participate in a holiday craft fair but don’t want to spend their Thanksgiving weekend selling their wares. There will be great food and live music. East County Cruisers Car Show is November 5th so there are a lot of visitors coming to the farm this weekend.

Santa’s Coming

November 24th - 26th

Santa pays a visit during this great holiday event, and there will be lots of other family-friendly activities as well.

A craft fair application is available online at www.batesnutfarm. biz or stop by a pick one up in the office Monday-Friday from 9-5.

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cost for today’s adventure travelers, who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars going into space or to the depths of the ocean.

Clipper flights became a dependable and elegant service. On regular trips across the Pacific, most of the cargo was mail, leaving room for usually eight to ten passengers who could stretch out in three large compartments, including a large lounge/dining salon. During the 18-to-20-hour trip from San Francisco to Hawaii, passengers could enjoy cocktails in the lounge and formal evening meals. Although uncomfortable in comparison to current-day standards, passengers of the 1930s and ‘40s didn’t seem bothered by the loud engine noise during the total flight time of some 60 hours spread over five days. So popular were the Pan Am Clipper flying boats even Hollywood gave praise with a movie titled China Clipper starring Humphrey Bogart.

Along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts Pan Am flew the Martin M-130, which had a 3,000-mile range and could carry 40 people. The grandest of the successful flying boats was the Boeing 314, nicknamed the Yankee Clipper. Pan Am used them between 1941 and ‘46. It had nearly the wingspan of a modern-day Boeing 747, and it could carry 70 people more than 4,000 miles.

Through World War II, Pan American operated scaled-down Clipper services over both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, but the end of the war signaled the beginning of a new flying era. Seaplanes were being replaced by new four-engine landplanes that could fly into a multitude of new modern airstrips. The great seaplanes faded away. To this day Hawaii and Guam continue as popular Pacific destinations; Midway and Wake serve as nature preserves as well as emergency airstrips.

CALLING ALL CRAFTERS

Bates Nut Farm has many opportunities for crafters to sell their handmade & vintage wares. Visit www.BatesNutFarm.biz and click on the Events Tab to download an application

Plus Size from page 10

Air travelers have mixed feelings about giving large passengers an extra seat.

“Obesity is not a disability,” says TV producer and frequent traveler Mark Anthony DiBello. “It’s a choice.”

He says flight crews are plenty accommodating already. On several occasions, he’s been seated next to a large passenger. Every time, the crew members told him he would have to remain in his seat and dismissed his complaints about a lack of space.

“I was made to be the one who felt shamed and excluded for daring to feel uncomfortable,” he recalls.

By the way, medical professionals now recognize obesity as a disease rather than a lifestyle choice.

Kathleen Panek, a former plus-size passenger herself, says the idea of giving oversize passengers a bigger seat is a nonstarter for her.

“I understand there are many who have medical or genetic reasons for their girth,” says Panek, who owns a bed and breakfast in Shinnston, West Virginia. “But as a business owner, I understand there must be a profit to be able to remain in business.”

Here are the options

So what should we do about plussize travelers trying to squeeze into a tiny economy class seat? Here are the choices:

Pay by the pound. Some passengers say the most equitable way to accommodate all passengers would be to set their ticket price based on weight, as you would for cargo. “That’s the fairest solution,” says Rory Briski, an airline consultant from Bellevue, Wash. He says Samoa Air tried that a decade ago, and passengers liked it. Unfortunately, the airline ceased operations a few years later.

Buy a second seat. Many airlines allow you to book a second seat so

that you have enough room. “That seems more appropriate,” says Mitch Krayton, a travel advisor from Denver who is no stranger to second seats. As someone who used to weigh more than 350 pounds, he often struggled to fit into a regular economy-class seat. “I had to ask for a belt extender, and I would ask if the armrest could be raised to provide a bit more room,” he recalls.

Give them a free seat. That’s the solution embraced by Southwest Airlines and by the Canadian government, which in 2008 introduced a rule called One-Person-OneFare, which required that anyone “functionally disabled by obesity” be given an extra seat at no charge on certain flights within Canada.

But who are we kidding? None of these solutions will fix the real problems.

Is this how to solve the problem of overweight passengers?

There are two issues here. One is America’s obesity epidemic, which is far beyond the scope of a travel column. But clearly, we can’t talk about a solution to accommodating plus-size airline passengers until we also address body sizes in a meaningful and respectful way. Simply demanding the airlines adopt a body-positive attitude is not enough.

What else? Well, no matter how you feel about whether larger airline passengers deserve a second seat, there’s agreement among most passengers that airlines are not blameless. They continue to move their seats closer together to fit more passengers on a plane. The FAA is supposed to issue a rule on minimum seat sizes any day now. It can’t happen soon enough.

Christopher Elliott is an author, consumer advocate, and journalist. He founded Elliott Advocacy, a nonprofit organization that helps solve consumer problems. He publishes Elliott Confidential, a travel newsletter, and the Elliott Report, a news site about customer service. If you need help with a consumer problem, you can email him at chris@elliott.org.

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Problem Solved

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calling (800) 455-3869 within 48 hours of delivery,” it adds.

You let Home Depot know about the buzzing sound within two days. But was it truly a defect? It looks as if GE thought it wasn’t after its initial service call. But after three visits, a technician agreed that something was amiss.

Here’s how I see it: You’re the customer, and if your appliance is making strange noises, your opinion counts -- not GE’s and not Home Depot’s. After all, it’s your kitchen.

It looks like you followed all the right steps to a resolution, including sending written appeals to both companies. I list the names, numbers and addresses of the customer service executives at Home Depot and GE on my consumer advocacy site, Elliott. org. You also followed the Elliott Method for resolving this by being patient, polite, and persistent. Nice work.

However, you did not appeal this problem to GE in writing. You say it was because you thought this was between you and Home Depot, but I think GE bore some responsibility. I have a free guide to repairing, replacing or refunding your appliance, which might have moved things forward. But, based on the file you shared, both companies had given you the cold shoulder.

I contacted GE on your behalf, and a representative offered to send another technician to your home. Instead, and independent of my intervention, you loaded the refrigerator onto a pickup truck and returned it to Home Depot. The company accepted the appliance and gave you a full refund.

Christopher Elliott is the founder of Elliott Advocacy (https://elliottadvocacy.org), a nonprofit organization that helps consumers solve their problems. Email him at chris@elliott.org or get help by contacting him at https:// elliottadvocacy.org/help/

Gala

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her 35-year career with the organization.

Speakers included Mary Epsten, Women’s Auxiliary President, Wayne Otchis, Seacrest Foundation President, Lindsay and Mitch Surowitz, Seacrest Foundation Board Member, and Robin Israel, Chief Foundation Officer, who after speaking invited honoree, Pam Ferris, to the stage for her words.

A dedicated Steering Committee truly made this event an enormous success. A very special thanks to Women’s Auxiliary President, Mary Epsten, and Steering Committee members: Ellen Addleson, Susan Arenson, Rusti Bartell, Rhonda Berger, Hildi Beyor, Cindy Bloch, Liz Coden, Dalia Cohen, Suzi Cohen, Avrille Copans, Jean Gaylis, Sylvia Geffen, Jeanne Gold, Robin Israel, Lisa Levine, Barbara Milstein, Annie Mound, Linda Otchis, Roselyn Pappelbaum, Shirley Pidgeon, Linda Platt, Laurayne Ratner, Elana Schiff, Karen Silberman, Isabelle Wasserman, Orna Wittenberg, Marcia Wolochow, Helene Ziman

Seacrest Foundation is a not-forprofit, 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation which supports Seacrest Village Retirement Communities and Seacrest at Home in their efforts to meet the growing and

changing needs of seniors in our communities. An investment in Seacrest Foundation is a means to express compassion and concern for the well-being of frail and elderly adults who need housing, healthcare, and supportive in-home services, who may have limited ability to provide for themselves.

Seacrest Village Retirement Communities is a vibrant not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) senior housing and healthcare organization in Encinitas, California. Known for a caring and nurturing environment, Seacrest Village has been serving the ever-growing San Diego community in the Jewish tradition since 1944. Seacrest Village works with over 250 clients daily through an array of programs and services, embracing their changing needs every step of the way. Through comprehensive and progressive care options and delivery systems, they encourage and support a life of dignity and spirituality. The community offers unsurpassed service as well as a continuing commitment to the highest standards in independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing and rehabilitation. The highest possible quality of care for residents is the foremost priority. Created and maintained through the generous support of families in San Diego and beyond, the Seacrest Village campus and affiliates reflect the sincerest dedication to seniors.

Signs You’ve Grown Up

Your potted plants are alive... and you can’t smoke any of them.

You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.

You hear your favorite song in an elevator.

You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.

Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.

You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.

Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as ‘dressed up.’

You’re the one calling the police because those bloody kids next door don’t know how to turn down the stereo.

Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.

You don’t know what time McDonald’s closes anymore.

Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.

Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m.

Dinner and a movie - The whole date instead of the beginning of one.

Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.

You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.

“I just can’t drink the way I used to,” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”

Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.

You don’t drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT 2023-9012163

The name of the business: AAI, Alco Alert Interlock, located at 3145

Tiger Run Court Ste 104, Carlsbad, CA 92010. Registrant Information:

Clear2drive LLC, 16597 N. 92nd St., Suite A111, Scottsdale, AZ 85260. This business is operated by a limited liability company. First day of business: 5/1/2023

/s/ Daneil Rhodes, Manager with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/ Recorder of San Diego on 6/5/2023

6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9012359

The name of the business:

DiscountDrain.Net Inc. located at 1031 Palm Ave, #4, Carlsbad, CA 92008. Registrant Information:

DiscountDrain.net, 1031 Palm Ave., #4, Carlsbad, CA 92008. This business is operated by a corporation. First day of business:

3/29/2023

/s/ Demetrio Escamilla, CEO with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/ Recorder of San Diego on 6/7/2023

6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9007985

The name of the business: In the Cut Barber and Beauty Lounge, located at 918 Mission Ave., Unit 115, Oceanside, CA 92054. Registrant

Information: Kristy Rogers, 29538

Major League, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530 and Tatyanna Lackritz, 6779 Heath Ct., Carlsbad, CA 92011. This business is operated by a general partnership. First day of business:

3/1/2023

/s/ Kristy Rogers with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 4/11/2023

4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT 2023-9012899

The name of the business: D’ Reyna

Boutique, located at 205 W. 5th Ave., Ste. #202, Escondido, CA 92029.

Registrant Information: Reyna L. Tello, 827 Hidden View Lane, Escondido, CA 92027. This business is operated by an individual. First day of business: 11/8/2009

/s/ reyna L. Tello with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/15/2023

6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9012623

The name of the business: Waterline Pools And Spas Services, LLC,

located at 741 Santa Barbara Dr., San Marcos, CA 92078. Registrant Information: Waterline Pools And Spas Services LLC, 741 Santa Barbara Dr., San Marcos, CA 92078. This business is operated by a limited liability company. First day of business: 5/1/2023

/s/ Holly Dreeuws, Managing Member with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/12/2023 6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9013025

The name of the business: Rethink Opex, located at 1756 Merriam Rd., San Marcos, CA 92078. Registrant

Information: 3 Putt Bogey LLC, 1756 Merriam Rd., San Marcos, CA 92078. This business is operated by a limited liability company. First day of business: 6/1/2023

/s/ Harry Glazer, Managing Member with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9013089

The name of the business: Tile Countertop Solution Repair, located at 429 Daisy Lane, Suite C, San Marcos, CA 92078. Registrant

Information: Tile Countertop Solution Repair LLC, 429 Daisy Lane, Suite C., San Marcos, CA 92078. This business is operated by a limited liability company. First day of business: N/A

/s/ Jose Luis Mendoza Sanchez with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9012992

The name of the business: Redwing

Audio, located at 2703 Via Festivo, Carlsbad, CA 92010. Registrant

Information: Ryan Tyler Robins, 2703 Via Festivo, Carlsbad, CA 92010. This business is operated by a General Partnership. First day of business: N/A

/s/ Ryan Tyler Robins with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/16/2023

6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9013041

The name of the business: Jasmine Masssage Center, located at 313 Killgore Street, Oceanside, CA 92058. Registrant Information:

Ramida Herridge, 313 Killgore St., Oceanside, CA 92058. This business is operated by an Individual company. First day of business: 11/17/2014

/s/ Ramida Herridge with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/20/2023

6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9013141

The name of the business: Skullys Entertainment, located at 413 Autumn Dr., San Marcos, CA 92069. Registrant Information: Skullys Entertainment, 413 Autumn Dr., San Marcos, CA 92069. This business is operated by a Limited Liability Company. First day of business: N/A

/s/ Joshua Hayes, CEO with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/21/2023

7/6, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9013122

The name of the business: CSL Advertising, located at 15565 Walton Heath Row, San Diego, CA 92128. Registrant Information: Cathy S. Leopold, 15565 Walton Heath Row, San diego, CA 92128. This business is operated by an individual. First day of business: 1/7/1995

/s/ Cathy S. Leopold with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/21/2023

7/6, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT 2023-9012609

The name of the business: SavTec, located at 153 Mayfair St., Oceanside, CA 92058. Registrant Information: Phenome Pool & Spa Service Inc., 153 Mayfair St., Oceanside, CA 92058. This business is operated by a Corporation. First day of business: N/A

/s/ Solomon Thomson, President with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/12/2023

7/6, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9011294

The name of the business: Mastiff Kitchen, located at 3038 University Avenue, San Diego,CA 92104.

Registrant Information: Tugboat Sausage Company, Inc., 657 Brightwood Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91910. This business is operated by a Corporation. First day of business: 2/22/2023

/s/ Jacob Bartlett, CEO with Jordan

Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 5/23/2023

6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT 2023-9011295

The name of the business: RAD Burger, Fluster Cluck Hot Chicken, The Pig’s Gig BBQ, Mastiff Kitchen, located at 8360 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, #112, San Diego, CA 92111-1321. Registrant Information: Mastiff Sausage Company, Inc., 8360 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, #112, San Diego, CA 92111-1321. This business is operated by a Corporation. First day of business: 2/17/2016 /s/ Eric Gallerstein, CEO with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 5/23/2023

6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9011294

The name of the business: Mastiff Kitchen, located at 3038 University Avenue, San Diego,CA 92104. Registrant Information: Tugboat Sausage Company, Inc., 657 Brightwood Avenue, Chula Vista, CA 91910. This business is operated by a Corporation. First day of business: 2/22/2023 /s/ Jacob Bartlett, CEO with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 5/23/2023

6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9009425

The name of the business: Golden Acres, located at 300 Carlsbad Dr., #217, Carlsbad, CA 92008. Registrant Information: Maryam Kavousi, 300 Carlsbad Dr., #217, Carlsbad, CA 92008. This business is operated by an individual. First day of business: 4/26/2023

/s/ Maryam Kavousi with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 4/27/2023

5/25, 6/1, 6/8, 6/15/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2023-9013820

The name of the business: Lucy’s 24 Hour Cleaning Service, located at 1954 West Dr., Apt. #11, Vista, CA 92083. Registrant Information: Lucia Ortiz Cortez, 1954 West Dr., Apt. #11, Vista, CA 92083. This business is operated by an individual.

First day of business: 1/1/2017

/s/ Lucia Ortiz Cortez with Jordan Z. Marks, SD County Clerk/Recorder of San Diego on 6/29/2023

7/13, 7/20, 7/27, 8/3/2023

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF QUINGHAN WANG, Decedent Case No. 37-2023-00025973PR

PL-CTL

Assigned for all purposes to: Hon. Daniel S. Belsky

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA. 92101

CENTRAL COURT HOUSE

AMENDED PROBATE OF WILLAND FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION WITH WILLANNEXED; AUTHORI ZATION TO ADMINISTER UNDER THE INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION OF ES TATES ACT

To all heirs, beneficiaries, credi tors, contingent creditors, and per sons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both, of QUINGHAN WANG. A petition for probate has been filed by CHARMAINE JI in the Supe rior Court of California, County of San Diego, 1100 Union Street, San Diego, CA. 92101. Central Court house, - Probate Division. The Pe tition for Probate requests that CHARMAINE JI be appointed as personal representative to adminis ter the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the In dependent Administration of Es tates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without ob taining court approval. Before tak ing certain very important actions, however, the personal representa tive will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed actions.) The inde pendent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the pe tition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the au thority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 11/21/2023

Time: 10:30 AM.

Dept: 504

Address of court: Same as noted above.

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

If you are a creditor or a contin gent creditor of the decedent, you must

file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as de fined in Section 58(b) of the Cal ifornia Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a no tice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal au thority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowl edgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person in terested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Spe cial Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Russell M. DePhillips, Esq. MILBERG & DEPHILLIPS, P.C. 2163 Newcastle Avenue, Suite 200 Cardiff by the Sea, CA. 92007 760.943.7103

DOP:

7/13, 7/20 & 7/27/2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT 2023-9014361

The name of the business: Tinny’s Pet Sitting, located at 5723 San Miguel Road, Bonita, CA

Only the Bold, the Best and the Brightest read The Paper

First, I discovered America. Then, I discovered The Paper!

Ever since I can remember I’ve had the burning desire to discover new places, new adventures. Because of this, I set out to discover a new country . . . and I was successful. I even ventured inland a great many miles where I discovered a place I called Minnesota. “This,” I thought, “would be a great place for Scandinavians.” So I headed back to Norway to recruit settlers. While I was gone, some clown named Columbus claimed he discovered America. Life ain’t fair. Except life also give us The Paper. I read it whenever and wherever I go exploring and only buy from those who advertise in The Paper. It’s a Viking thing. Your friend, Eric the Red