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Page A2 • October 3, 2013 • Inland Empire Community Newspapers • El Chicano

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San Bernardino Symphony Board President Judi Valles, SanBernardino Community College District Trustee Gloria MacíasHarrison and Valles’ daughter Naomi at Libreria Del Pueblo’sLegacy of Exemplary Service Recognition Dinner on Friday,September 27 at the National Orange Show.

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From left: San Bernardino County Assistant Sherriff RonCochran, Legacy of Exemplary Service Award recipient Dr. Mar-garet Hill, San Bernardino City Unified School District AssistantSuperintendent of Educational Services Dr. Matty Zamora andYoung Visionaries founder/CEO Terrance Stone.

are known throughout the InlandEmpire for their decades of com-munity service including mentor-ship and through promotingeducation amongstChicano/Latino students throughtheir Inland Empire ScholarshipFund (IESF), which they co-founded. The IESF motto is “An-swering The Call Of Our Youth”and since 1998 they have providedscholarships to hundreds of youthwho may not otherwise have hadthe opportunity. Bill Lemann is a senior partnerin the law firm Fullerton, Le-mann, Schaefer & Dominick inSan Bernardino. Lemann hasserved the San Bernardino com-munity and Catholic Church in awide variety of capacities through-out the years, including boardmember of Catholic Charities, St.Bernardino Medical Center Foun-dation Board member and cur-rently as Chairman of the board ofSt. Bernardino Medical Center. Hehas also served with Los Padrinos,

United Way, Juvenile DiabetesFoundation and many more. Forthe past 20 years he has also de-voted numerous hours to servingindigent clients through the LegalAid Society. Rosa Martha Zárate Macías isa co-founder of Libreria DelPueblo, which was created to servethe immigrant community by pro-viding bilingual classes, citizen-ship classes, computer classes andhealth education. Libreria DelPueblo has served thousands ofpeople in obtaining documentationand becoming citizens. She hasalso been very passionate and ac-tive in other causes includingwomen’s, human and labor rights,namely that of working with theBraceros (migrant workers). Dr. Margaret Hill is a retired ed-ucator from the San BernardinoCity Unified School Districtedwhere she began her teaching ca-reer in 1971 at San BernardinoHigh. Upon her retirement fromprofessional life, she returned towork at the San Bernardino

County Superintendent of SchoolsOffice and now serves on the SanBernardino City Unified SchoolDistrict Board. Hill’s involve-ments are almost too numerous toname them all, but include servingon the First 5 Commission, theCounty Wide Gangs and DrugsTask Force, Community ActionPartnership, Kiwanis of GreaterSan Bernardino and others. She isthe recipient of over 55 awards. Dr. Armando Navarro is a UCRprofessor and author who is work-ing on his seventh and eighthbooks. His area of expertise andhis own personal involvement cen-ter on Chicano/Latino politics,Chicano political history, commu-nity organizing, social movements,immigration and education amongothers. He has authored numerousarticles, chapters and reportsthroughout the years on these top-ics as well as being personally in-volved in mobilizing andorganizing. His work has led himto many countries and regions, in-cluding Cuba, Mexico, CentralAmerica and Venezuela. Dr. Luis Gomez is presidentEmeritus of Crafton Hills College.Gomez is a member of the Kiwa-nis Club of Greater SanBernardino and has served as amember of CSUSB’s President’sAdvisory Board and as a boardmember of the YMC of the EastValley, Since 2001 he has been anactive member of the WoodrowWilson Alumni Committee andhas been featured in the Who’sWho in the West in1990 andWho’s Who in America in 2001,amongst many other accomplish-ments and recognitions. Within their respective roles andinvolvements, each of these recip-ients, individually and collectively,has left a noteworthy and indeliblelegacy for future generations. For more information on LibreriaDel Pueblo, call (909) 888-1800.

Cynthia Mendoza is a reporterfor Inland Empire Communitynewspapers and can be reachedat iecn.cynthia@gmail.com

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From left: Legacy of Exemplary Service Award recipient, profes-sor/author Dr. Armando Navarro, Maria Anna Gonzales, andDrs. Ernie and Dorothy Garcia during Libraria Del Pueblo’sLegacy of Exemplary Service recognition dinner on Friday, Sep-tember 27 at the National Orange Show.

the public for the purpose of giv-ing voters the opportunity to get toknow the candidates and theirplans for rebuilding SanBernardino. The candidates for mayor are (inno particular order): Rick Avila,general contractor; Karmel Roe,real estate agent/mortgage broker;Rikke Van Johnson, incumbentWard 6 Councilmember; RichardCastro, retired high schoolteacher; Matt Korner, business-

man; Wendy McCammack, in-cumbent Ward 7 Councilmember;Henry Nickel, transportation;Concepcion Powell, Founder,President of the USHWGA-His-panic Women Grocers Associa-tion, write-in candidate, ChasKelley, incumbent Ward 5 Coun-cilmember, Draymond Craw-ford, city of San Bernardinoemployee; Carey Davis, certifiedpublic accountant. Candidates for city attorney areincumbent, James Penman, and

Tim Prince. While space does not allow forinclusion of full candidate state-ments, the following is a very briefsummary of their publicly statedplatforms, based on either writtenmaterial they provided, publiclyposted information on Facebookor websites and/or statementsmade during the forum. Johnson: “My vision for the cityof San Bernardino is a safe andprosperous community which of-fers a wide range of housing,recreation, education cultural andemployment opportunities…Mygoal is to create, grow and main-tain economic value in our city.” Roe: “As a lifetime resident,mother and business owner, I careabout San Bernardino. I care aboutall of its people of all faiths andencourage all to pray in their ownway but to commit to real prayertime if they want to see realchange in our community…” Korner: “We have a chance inthis election to change this cityonce and for all…let’s start todayto fix the economy of the InlandEmpire and so solve all the otherbig problems in Southern Califor-nia because only San Bernardinohas the power to do so and onlyMatt Korner has the knowledgeand creativity needed to meet thischallenge.” Castro: “Let’s set our prioritiesand get back to what matters. Let’srealize our common destiny, andensure our children’s future. Wefind ourselves at an impasse. We

find ourselves burdened by unsa-vory prospects. Our collectiveconscious will shut the door to thepast behind us. Our opportunity togrow is now.” Kelley: “It’s time for real leader-ship from the Mayor’s Office torebuild San Bernardino’s economyand put an end to the politics atCity Hall. As our new Mayor, Iwill immediately begin the processof putting together an Economicand Job Creation Strategic Plan tolay the foundation for SanBernardino’s future success.”

Crawford: Some say we need tojust move forward, but I differ andsay we must be better…SanBernardino has all the tools to bea better city, but it must start withits leadership. I am asking thosethat are willing to join me andmake the city of San Bernardinobetter.

Powell: “My plan is to bring backfiscal stability that can sustainservices that are essential for ourpeople…I will work with privatesector leaders and all governmentofficials to bring every singlepenny needed to keep our cityservices viable for our children ourseniors and all who need our city.”

Carey: His vision is “to build apolitically stable city council fo-cused and committed to motivateour community to continuallywork together to successfully im-plement the city’s plan…” and to

“keep citizens informed and in-volved in building our city’s fu-ture.”

During his remarks, incumbentCity Attorney Jim Penman sharedhis history of community involve-ment including as resident directorof the Home of Neighborly Serv-ice for 13 years and as a strong ad-vocate for the hiring of Latinosand African Americans in citygovernment jobs, particularly po-lice and fire. He said that as city at-torney, his offices’ prosecutionsare made based on evidence, noton the race or ethnicity of the per-son charge. Finally, Penman’s opponent TimPrince, whose father also served ascity attorney in the past, said thatwhile he was not naïve to the pol-itics in the city, his campaign andhis work as city attorney would befocused on living up to the role ofcity attorney, which is to providelegal counsel to the city, ratherthan on politics or policy. For more information on the eachof the candidates, do a Google orFacebook search for their respec-tive public pages and websites.You may also contact the cityclerk’s office for public contact in-formation for each of them. Thecity clerk’s number is (909) 384-5102.

Cynthia Mendoza is a reporterfor Inland Empire Communitynewspapers and can be reachedat iecn.cynthia@gmail.com

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City Attorney incumbent Jim Penman, left, and opponent TimPrince, put difference aside at least for a few seconds for aphoto during a candidate forum on Sunday, September 29 atVilla Viva Restaurant in San Bernardino.