BY JARRETTE FELLOWS JR.

LOS ANGELES — TheCounty of Los Angeleshas developed a master-plan for improvements toan urban park located at905 E. El Segundo Blvd.in Willowbrook, an unin-corporated urban area ofL.A. County—south ofWatts and just north ofCompton that shouldhave a neighborhood sing-ing the praises of localgovernment.

But, the proposed amen-ities and upgrades to theEarvin “Magic” JohnsonRecreation area havesome residents gallopingmad.

The County Departmentof Parks and Recreation inits masterplan proposeslake enhancements, con-struction of a sports com-plex and gymnasium,walking trails, exerciseapparutus, and expandedchild play areas, The mas-terplan also includes anequestrian area and eques-trian trails.

The latter amenity iswhat has angered someresidents in the adjoiningcommunity. An equestriancenter is proposed on thewest side of the park,

along Avalon Boulevardand along the perimeter ofthe park. An equestriantrail and stables are alsoproposed.

Named after the pro bas-ketball hall of famer, theexistent park features twolakes for fishing, numer-ous picnic areas, barbecuegrills, and children’s playareas, but the countydesires enhancements.The plan also calls forexpansion to adjoiningacreage once known asUjima Village.

The Second Supervis-orial District under theleadership of powerfulSupervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas , a long wi thParks and Recreation arethe spearheads of the parkimprovements.

But not all of the resi-dents have bought into the

masterplan.One woman who spoke

only on the condition ofanonymity, said most ofthe area residents areagainst the equestriancomponent of the plan.

“I just feel once againour supervisor is goingagainst the wishes of thecommunity,” she said.“Who in their right mindthinks that people wanthorse stables next to theirhomes?

“And instead of a horsetrail around the park, howabout a bike path. More ofthe community would beriding their bikes than rid-ing the horses they don’town.”

The woman, who ownsher own home questionedwhether or not the idea ofan equestrian center at thewestside’s much largerKenneth Hahn RecreationArea has ever been pro-posed.

“It wouldn’t be rightnext to any one’s homeand there are plenty oftrails that could possiblybe used” there by riders onhorseback, she said.

“But, I bet that commu-nity wouldn’t want iteither—‘so let’s just dumpit [in] Willowbrook. Theywon’t care; they won’torganize and oppose i t ’—well, it ain’t so!”

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Mumbling and Grumbling

Residents who live near Earvin “Magic” Johnson Park oppose the inclusion ofhorses and a stable area in the County’s master plan for the park. They contendmoments like the above will be ruined by the malodor of equine droppings.

A prayerheard andanswered

COMPTON—More than600 students, staff, andcommunity leaders cele-brated Dominguez HighSchool’s huge jump in fall2014 admissions to theUniversity of California atIrvine, during the AchieveUC annual event Oct. 30.

In a substantial 500 per-cent increase over the pastyear, 20 Dominguez stu-dents have been admittedto UCI this year.

The purpose of the year-ly event is to educate stu-dents on how to preparefor college academicallyand ensure they have allthe requirements neededfor admission.

Dominguez High Schoolsenior Keith Hairston, whoserves on the ComptonUnified School DistrictBoard of Trustees as a stu-dent representative, said itis important for his class-mates to know their peersare moving on to schoolslike UC Irvine after gradu-ation from high school.

“An event like AchieveUC lets students knowthey can get to college,” hesaid. “A lot of studentsonly have a [general] pic-ture on how to apply [to] auniversity, but knowingthe specifics makes a dif-ference. Today we arelearning so much more.”

Vanessa Landesfeind,Principal of Instruction,credited Dominguez HighSchool’s dramatic increaseto the high school’s coun-seling staff and its partner-ship with college outreachstaff, including those at theUCI Early Academic Out-reach Program.

“We’re very proud of allthe students who [havebeen] admitted to UCI. Wecould never have accom-plished this without thededication of our coun-selors Michelle Brewer,who advised the seniorclass, and Moyofune Sha-bazz who worked withUCI representatives on ourcampus.”

Highlights at the AchieveUCI event included aQuestion and Answer townhall meeting and an assem-bly which featured guestspeakers UCI Vice Chan-cellor Thomas Parham,UCI Admissions DirectorPatricia Morales, UCLAprofessor and CUSD alumTyrone Howard.

COMPTON — A heftyreward of $30,000 offeredby the Los Angeles CountyBoard of Supervisors andthe City of Compton lead-ing to the arrest and con-viction of those responsi-ble for the murder of a 34-year-old Compton man, isstill fresh on the table.

Tauruson McMillan wasshot and killed Jan. 4, thisyear at 6:40 p.m. whiledriving his red Monte Car-lo Super Sport north onWilmington Avenue fromRosecrans Avenue inCompton, afterwhich hisautomobile collided with a

fence at Wilmington Ave-nue and Cressey Street.

Sheriff’s detectives in-vestigating the case havedetermined McMillan wasnot a gang member andbelieve he was shot simplybecause he was driving ared vehicle.

Investigators are earnest-ly requesting the public’sassistance in providinginformation about Tauru-son’s murder.

Witnesses with informa-tion should call the CountySherrif’s Homicide Bureauat (323) 890-5500, anytimeseven days weekly.

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N THE AGE OF MEAN-SPIRITED POLITICS,some went a bridge too far. U.S. Rep. MaxineWaters returned to her home Oct. 30, to find herfront law crowded with the poster below.A lot of people take their politics a little too seri-

ously, especially when their actions are an affront to oth-ers with whom they have fundamental political andphilosophical differences.

This was an affront to Waters; could even be calledthreatening because we don’t know the emotional stateof the perpetrator. At the very least, it was a crimebecause the responsible party(s) thread on private prop-erty to erect the items.

What you cannot see in the art are the inscriptions thatprovide a backdrop to the glaring caricature of Watersand the phrase, “Maxine Waters Poverty Pimp,”

The inscription printed over and over, reads:“Niggas better have

my money!”The poster was print-

ed in color. So, theblack and white rendi-tion published in theHerald does not revealthe caricature’s “redeyes!”

No one knows as ofyet who created anddistributed theseposters; but they havebeen seen plastered allover California’s 43rddistrict, whichCongresswomanWaters represents, andhas represented since1991. This areaencompasses a large portion of South Central LosAngeles including Westchester, Playa Del Rey, Watts,the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, andthe cities of Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood,Lawndale, Lomita, and Torrance.

Poverty Pimp is a phrase ascribed to liberal leaningpoliticians (usually Black) who represent a largeminority, mostly low-income constituency. The termoriginated with conservatives who claim that peoplelike socially conscious activists and politicians gainriches from their crusades to aid the poor.

Whatever may divide both sides of the political aisle,does not justify the disrespect shown Waters.

Friends and aides to Waters removed the postersNov. 2, and prompted Urban Policy RoundtablePresident Earl Ofari Hutchinson to say, “We’re highlyoffended, we’re disgusted by it.”

Friends and aides of Waters are demanding a “fasttrack investigation” by the California Fair PoliticalPractices Commission to find out who created and dis-tributed the posters.

There has been no indication that Waters’ opponent,Republican John Wood, Jr., had anything to do with thepublic display. Waters defeated Woods handily inTuesday’s primary 70.4 to 29.6 percent of the ballotscast in the 43rd Congressional District. Wood releaseda statement in response to the incident:

“All I can say is that people have a right to freespeech, but that I represent a fundamentally differentbrand of politics.

“Whatever people think of Maxine Waters, weshould try to call attention to our differences and chal-lenge our opponents on them without being disrespect-ful.

That’s really what my campaign has been about.”Despite this last hour campaign against Waters, sheeasily won re-election

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had an alarming number ofwater pipe eruptionsthroughout Los Angelesthis year, with none ofthem having occurred inSouth Los Angeles. Haveyou ever wondered why?Well, I know why and I’lltell you all about it, as I amreminded of it every timean L.A. neighborhood isflooded.

It was June 30, 1993, thelate Mayor Tom Bradley’sfinal day in office and as heprepared for his retirementI encountered him in theCity Hall parking garagewhile he was loading hiscar with keepsakes to takehome.

I was then-CouncilmanNate Holden’s press dep-uty and I had City Councilparking privileges, so wentup to Bradley and thankedhim for his many years ofservice to the city andextended my best wishesupon his retirement. Thenhe said to me: “I havesomething I want you to dowhen I’m gone.”

I said, “what?” Then wesat on the bumper of his carand he explained to me thatthe water pipes in the cityare 100 years old and they

are not going to last muchlonger. He said the pipesare going to burst and cre-ate a problem all over thecity. He then said to me: “Iwant you to make Mark(Ridley-Thomas, who wasthen the 8th District coun-cilman) replace thosepipes.”

I immediately put on myButterfly McQueen “GoneWith the Wind” costumeand whined: “I don’t knownothin’ bout fixin’ nopipes!” To which Bradleyreplied: “You don’t needto. Mark does. I want youto nag him into doing it;he’ll listen to you.”

Well, shortly after Brad-ley retired, I told Markwhat Bradley told meabout the pipes and thecharge he gave me to nagthe councilman into fixingthem. Mark said: “Yeah, hetold me and I’ve alreadystarted.” A little while later,Mark came to my office atthe [Los Angeles] Sentinel,to which I had returned,and rolled out before me ahuge bundle of under-ground blueprints andspecifications and stuffabout the repair of SouthL.A.’s pipes (as if I knewwhat I was looking at!).

I asked Mark: “When thiswork you’re showing me isdone, will it solve the prob-lem Bradley is concerned

about?” Mark said, “yes,”to which I responded,“great; then I don’t need tonag!”

All hell broke loose inSouth L.A. neighborhoodswhen the work began andwhat looked like perfectlygood streets were torn upso the ancient water pipesbeneath them could bereplaced. People were madabout being inconve-nienced by “unnecessary”work.

Imagine how they wouldfeel if Bradley hadn’textended his stewardshipof the city into his retire-ment years and the “unnec-essary” work had not beendone, thus affording themthe opportunity to goswimming in their streets.

I think about Bradley andsmile every time a waterpipe bursts. It’s odd thatnone of the mayors whosucceeded Bradley thoughtto deal with our 100-year-old pipes until they startedbursting. So, add that toBradley’s legacy.

PROMISES, PROMIS-ES —Thanks to the workof Councilman CurrenPrice, a South Los AngelesPromise Zone applicationhas been developed byhim, together with thearea’s community andpolitical leaders, to be sub-mitted for the significant

federal Promise Zonegrant. South L.A. has beenexcluded from the city’sprevious submissions overthe past two years. EvenMayor [Eric] Garcettisigned this one prepared byPrice and his people. We’lldiscuss its fine points whenI get a copy.

THREATS — I heard afederal official this weekdeclare on television thatthe greatest threat toAmerica is terrorism andwe must fight it. That maybe so for white people, butfrom my vantage point, thegreatest threat to Americanblacks and their families isthe killing of unarmedblack men by law enforce-ment. Terrorists haven’tkilled many Americans, yetit seems like Americancops somewhere in thecountry kill an unarmedblack man almost daily.

We’re sitting in ourhomes awaiting the Hen-derson, Mo. grand jury ver-dict on what’s going tohappen to cop Darren Wil-son, who gunned down theunarmed and black 18-year-old Michael Brown inthat city. Then earlier thisweek, local activists had topressure Mayor Garcettiinto ordering the publicrelease of the autopsyreport on Ezell Ford Jr.,

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‘Border’ exhibit through Dec. 22CARSON—A contemp-

orary arts exhibit that givesartistic meaning to life onboth sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, will extendthrough Dec. 4 at Calif-ornia State University atDominguez Hills, for artenthusiasts.

“Crossing Borders:Storiesof Migration in Con-temporary Art,” opened inOctober at the UniversityArt Gallery, opened Oct.22 to a packed room ofartists and enthusiasts whowere treated to artistic per-spectives centered aroundthe U.S.-Mexico borderwhere migrants often findthemselves at odds withcultural bias and politicalissues.

The exhibit featurespaintings, prints, pencildrawings, photographs andsculptures shown throughthe eclectically creativeminds of six artists: LosAngeles-based artists Ram-iro Gomez, Nery GabrielLemus, Oscar Magallanes,Antonio Pelayo, Eric Alm-anza and San Jose pure-fiber artist Consuelo Jim-enez Underwood.

The exhibit is curated byCSUDH alumnus Eric Al-manza, whose work is alsoon display. One of Alman-za’s pieces, “In Search of aNew Home,” an oil paint-ing in the realist style,“sums up the theme of theexhibit” as is clearly dep-icts the desperation of animmigrant family as theyattempt to scale a borderwall as a helicopter circlesabove.

Another piece “ThoseThings That Divide Us,”

which he painted for theexhibit, was created to elic-it a feeling of “futility” forborder walls.

Almanza also submittedboth pieces as part of histhesis show at Laguna Col-lege of Art and Design,where he recently graduat-ed with a master’s in finearts.

“I had come across thisstory about extending theborder wall into the PacificOcean by 300 feet. Thatinspired me for ‘ThoseThings That Divide Us,’”said Almanaz, who teachesart West Adams Prepara-tory High School in LosAngeles. “The wall is 18feet high and extends 300feet into the ocean, but noone seems to take notice orcare about it [in the paint-ing] as a family plays in thesand.

“For me, it demonstratesthe futility of walls. Youcan’t wall up or cut peopleoff. All they have to do isclimb over or, in this case,swim around.”

The exhibit, which isopen Monday throughThursday, from 10 a.m. to4 p.m., in room A-107 onthe first floor of LaCorteHall, also features “Undoc-umented Border Flowers,”Underwood’s wall-sizedinstallation in the exhibit,that takes viewers on anenvironmentally-consciousjourney by vividly express-ing the destruction a borderwall has, not only on peo-ple, but on the desert andits flora.

She sees border regionsas “wastelands” that are“symbolically trying to

separate people.”A former textile professor

at San Jose State Univer-sity for 20 years, Under-wood is a renowned pure-thread fiber artist who ishighly political in herwork, which she exhibitsacross the U.S. The flowersin “Undocumented BorderFlowers” are intricatelywoven from linen, canvas,paper and cotton.

“On a formal level, thisinstallation is about thematerials.They are so mun-dane. There are paper clips,cheap jewelry, photo-graphs; things that peoplereally know how they feel.

“I want people to remem-ber the humble materials,and know that one canmake art with any mun-dane item or humble expe-riences,” Underwood says.

“More basically, this isabout the flowers. Theflowers live on both sidesof the border, but they’re‘undocumented’ and in

danger of being wiped out.So this piece also repre-sents the ecological des-truction that’s taking placenear the border towns,which are named in the art-work. Each side of the wallis a dead zone for about amile. Once you create asolid dead zone across acontinent, it becomes adesert.”

Pelayo, who has been ananimator at The Walt Dis-ney Company for 21 years,began exhibiting pencil-photo realism art in 2005.He had several of the deli-cate pencil drawings ondisplay at the exhibit,which were drawn fromimages he found in hisfamily photo albums.

He began in the genre bydocumenting his family’smigration from Mexico tothe U.S. with a series of 13renderings in which heredrew the photos in theirentirety. Pelayo then “took

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This manhole street cover graphically illustrates thestark border divide between the U.S. and Mexico.

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CARSON—The Calif-ornia State University,Dominguez Hills Collegeof Education has beenawarded a five-year $1.25million grant from theUnited States Departmentof Education Office ofSpecial Education andRehabilitative Services torecruit, prepare and retainhighly qualified specialeducation teachers dedicat-ed to serving students withdisabilities who attendinner city schools.

According to statistics,the state mirrors nationalspecial ed teacher short-ages, notably in low-performing urban schools.

“We are looking forwardto working with ourLAUSD partners on anoth-er quality project,” saidassociate professor of edu-cation Kamal Hamdan,who is co-director on thegrant with Kate Esposito,professor of special educa-tion.

“Our partnership contin-

ues to grow through ourcommitment to the prepa-ration of the most qualifiedteachers,” Hamdan said.

The grant would estab-lish the Secondary Spec-ial Education TeacherInterventionist project,allowing the CSUDHCollege of Education toexpand its accredited spe-cial education credentialprogram and assist inaddressing disparities with-in the Los Angeles UnifiedSchool District, where

about 12 percent of the dis-trict’s 650,000 studentsqualify for special educa-tion.

It is estimated that theintervention project willcredential 80 special edu-cation teachers with exper-tise to teach students withmild to moderate disabili-ties. Currently, between 80and 90 students earn theirpreliminary ed specialistcredential in special educa-tion from Cal State Dom-inguez on an annual basis.

University awarded $1.2 million Special Ed grant

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COMPTON — A 29-year-old local man con-victed of fatally stabbinghis niece and hiding herbody in a closet was sen-tenced today to 31 years tolife in state prison, the LosAng- eles County DistrictAttor- ney’s Office said onOct. 3.

Last Feb. 20, a jury foundJulian Carter guilty of sec-ond-degree murder in thecase. Deputy DA EmilySpear, who prosecuted thecase, said at the time of thekilling, Carter and his 5-year-old niece, MireyaMcCall, lived with otherfamily members at a homein Compton.

Evidence presented attrial revealed that on June13, 2010, Carter stabbedhis niece in the throat, puther body in a bag, and con-cealed the bag in a closet.Authorities said Carterthen wrapped the knife inclothing and hid it under abed, then left the scene.

The child’s motherreported the child missingand called police.

Sheriff Deputies arrivedat the home, conducted asearch and found the girl’sbody in the closet. Soonafter, authorities locatedCarter and arrested himconnection with the girl’skilling.

Elsewhere, a 23-year-oldman accused of openingfire on sheriff’s deputies inLawndale was chargedOct, 3 with 16 counts,including attempted mur-der.

Travis Herr was chargedwith seven counts ofattempted murder of apeace officer, seven countsof assault with a machinegun on a peace officer andtwo counts of shooting atan inhabited dwelling.

On Oct. 29, deputies said

Herr began firing variousguns in the 4200 block ofWest 164th St. in Lawn-dale. Authorities placed theneighborhood on lock-down as they evacuatednearby residents.

Deputies said Herr thenshot at responding lawenforcement officers fromboth inside and outside hishome. After more than twohours, Herr was shot byreturn gunfire and taken toan area hospital.

If convicted as charged,Herr faces a possible max-imum sentence of life inprison without parole.

Prosecutors recommend-ed bail be set at $7.7 mil-lion. Herr’s arraignment inDepartment 4 of the LosAngeles County SuperiorCourt, Torrance Branch,will be scheduled for alater date.

Elsewhere, a 23-year-oldwoman was sentenced Oct.3 to 20 years in prison forholding hostage the chieffinancial officer of an ElSegundo business whereshe worked, the L.A.County DA’s Office said.

Leonora Banuelos plead-ed no contest to one counteach of attempted murderand assault with a firearmand was immediately sen-tenced by Superior CourtJudge James Dabney.

Prosecutors said Banue-los was armed with a hand-gun on April 2013 whenshe entered the buildingwhere she worked lookingfor another employee.Ban- uelos and the co-worker had been involvedin a failed relationship andshe had become distraught,prosecutors added. Whenshe failed to find her co-worker, she held the CFOat gunpoint. After a three-hour standoff with policeBanuelos surrendered.

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LOCALLOS ANGELES — It

was all “treat” for formerstate senator Rod Wright,who turned himself in toLos Angeles County jailauthorities Oct. 31, Hallo-ween night to begin a 90-day sentence for his perjuryand fraud conviction, but,instead found himselfreleased before ever seeingthe inside of a cell.

Wright, a Democrat,turned himself in around9:30 p.m. and was releasedlittle more than an hourlater at 10:41 p.m. afterbe ing p rocessed andbooked, said Nicole Nish-ida, a spokeswoman for theL.A. County Sheriff's Dep-artment.

She said he did not getany special treatment forbeing a politician.

“Everyone goes throughthe same process,” Nishidasaid.

Wright was convicted ofeight felonies, includingperjury and voting fraud,for lying about where helived when he ran for officein 2008.

The nonviolent nature ofhis crime, his lack of priorconvictions and crowdingin the jail contributed to thedecision to process andrelease him, Nishida said.She said jail authorities usea complex formula thattakes those factors intoaccount to determine howlong all criminals willspend in jail.

“A lot of people are notserving 100 percent of theirtime because of over-crowding,” Nishida said.

Wright’s situation high-lights the trickle-downeffect of California’s pri-

son realignment program,in which state prisons areshifting low-level offend-ers to county jails, creatingmore crowding in thosefacilities and promptinglocal authorities to setsome criminals free.

Gov. Jerry Brown pushedfor realignment as a way togive local governmentsmore control while thestate complies with a feder-al court order to reduce thenumber of inmates in stateprisons, whose populationshave skyrocketed since the1970s as laws passed tomandate harsher sentences.

Californians scratchingtheir heads over Wright’squick release could see it asa tangible example of theimpacts of prison crowd-

ing—or as a sign that pow-erful people get treated bet-ter than everyone else, saidJessica Levinson, a profes-sor of political law atLoyola Law School.

“When there is a highprofile person … and weknow they serve an infini-tesimal fraction of theirsentence, it really hitshome for us.

“It is a minor part of abigger discussion about

what overcrowding means,and the supply and demandof prisons," Levinson said.

“But a lot of people willget from that: ‘I alwaysknew Rod Wright wasnever really going to serve,because he is a VIP andwould get special treat-ment.’”

Wright’s attorney said hegot no preferential treat-ment.

“This is typical,” saidWinston Kevin McKesson,a criminal defense attorneyin Los Angeles.

“The jails are overcrowd-ed. The jails should bereserved for people whoare dangerous to society.Senator Wright presents nodanger to society. In fact,he is an asset to society.”

Wright, 62, served 12years in the Legislaturebefore he resigned from thesenate in September afteran L.A. judge upheld ajury’s guilty verdicts andsentenced him to 90 days injail.

Jurors found that Wrightlied about where he lived— claiming a home heowns in Inglewood as hisaddress for political pur-poses, while actually living

a few miles away in thetonier neighborhood ofBaldwin Hills.

Wright argued that he metall the legal requirementsto use the Inglewood homeas his official address, or“domici le ,” and askedJudge Kathleen Kennedyto toss the jury’s verdictsand grant him a new trial.She denied his requests andadmonished him for disre-specting the electoral pro-cess by lying about wherehe lived.

Kennedy said Wright isbanished for life from hold-ing public office.

California law requires alegislative candidate to livein the district he wants to

represent. It’s an area of thelaw that many argue ismurky and inconsistentlyapplied.

Many legislators in theCapitol have multiplehomes, or change theirhome addresses as politicalopportunities arise.

Los Angeles prosecutorshave gone after politiciansfor residency violations,while prosecutors in mostother counties have not.

A spokeswoman for theL.A. County District Attor-ney’s Office that prosecut-ed Wright said the agencywould have no commentabout his quick releasefrom jail.

McKesson, Wright’s

attorney, said he is workingon an appeal, and expects“the senator to be vindicat-ed totally, because he com-plied with the law.”

Even after Wright wasconvicted, his attorneysargued that jail time wasnot an appropriate punish-ment for him. So the LosAngeles County Sheriff’sDepartment decision to notlock him up was a smallvindication for McKesson.

“The Sheriff's Depart-ment obviously agreedwith our a rgumen t , ”McKesson said.

“What you have here issomebody in authoritylooking at this case anddoing the right thing,”

Was it really ‘Realignment’ that erased jail term?

Former state Sen. Rod Wright was convicted of voter fraud, sentenced to 90 days,but freed without seeing the inside of a jail cell.

“What you have here is somebody in

[high] authority looking at this case anddoing the right thing.”

Local man gets 31years for murder

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who led the struggle tointegrate the Los AngelesCity Fire Department, wereheld Nov. 14 at the Cren-shaw Christian CenterFaith Dome preceding interment in the InglewoodCemetary.

Hartsfield, a Los Angelesicon who battled racismeverywhere he went —from the city’s publicschools to the U.S. Army tothe LAFD — died Oct. 31of natural causes. He was96 years old.

Having been born inBellingham, Washington in1918, Hartsfield movedwith his family to L.A. in1929, settling in the thenpredominatelywhite South-west area of the city.

After attending the neigh-borhood elementary andmiddle schools, Hartsfieldattended Manual ArtsHigh School, where hisfight for civil rights began.Despite his being a trackstar and an honor societystudent, the teenaged Harts-field had to battle ManualArts’ administrators foradmission into various stu-dent groups.

Following his 1936 grad-uation — with honors —from Manual Arts, Harts-

field enrolled at UCLA andfaced another fight againstinstitutional racism. Hewas already in the JuniorArmy ROTC but he wasdenied admit tance toUCLA’s advanced ROTCcourse four times because“there had never been a‘colored’ cadet admitted tothe advance course,” univ-ersity officials kept tellinghim.

Then Hartsfield and hisUCLA classmate, the lateLos Angeles Mayor TomBradley, began protestingthe university’s racistROTC policy, which inclu-ed a radio protest programbroadcasted by the latelocal journalist and civilrights activist CharlottaBass, which was so hot thatUCLA changed its policyimmediately and admittedHartsfield as the first non-Caucasian in the universi-ty’s advanced ROTCcourse—giving him a com-mission. That earned himthe rank of lieutenant. Helater joined the U.S. armyreserves.

Hartsfield faced anotherbattlefield when he joinedthe segregated L.A. FireDepartment on Nov. 18,1940, where he remaineduntil the segregated U.S.Army called him to WorldWar II in 1943.

Hartsfield was one of thefew black army officersduring the war and he left itwith a Bronze Star Medal

on his chest and returned tothe racist LAFD as a rook-ie, and was told that,despite his previous threeyears in the department, nomatter what he did, hecould not promote to a bet-ter position.

An angry Hartsfieldthought of quitting the firedepartment, but decidedinstead to use his G.I. Billof Rights benefits to attendUSC at which he earned aB.A. in economics andobtained his law degree.He opened his law office in1955 but continued to workfor the LAFD.

And in the 1950s, thecivil rights movement tookoff and things beganchanging throughout thecountry, especially in L.A.The lawyer/fireman Harts-field jumped into the civilrights movement and leadthe battle to desegregatethe LAFD, which wasborne of necessity becausethere was no room for pro-motions within the twosegregated, black fire sta-tions on Central Avenue.

Mayor C. Norris Poulsonput an end to institutional-ized Jim Crow in theLAFD in 1955 when heordered Fire Chief John H.Alderson to integrate thedepartment, thus targetingthe one or two black fire-fighters assigned to eachfire house for outrageousracial harassment andindignities.

The fire houses, whichprovided more isolationthan integration, becameknown as “hate houses,”over which Hartsfield con-vened strategic meetings,wrote letters and organizedthe “Stentorians,” theorganization through whichthe black firefightersfought to maintain theirrights, jobs and dignity.

Hartsfield retired fromthe LAFD in 1961 after 20years of service to practicelaw and teach black studiesat Cal State University atLong Beach.

The energetic Hartsfieldwas a busy man, then, alsoserving on the CaliforniaFair Employment Prac-tice Commission and waslater appointed to Los

Angeles’ Civil ServiceCommission where he wasinstrumental in invokingthe 1974 consent decreethat forced the fire depart-ment to promote black cap-tain candidates as openingsbecame available.

Hartsfield also served asassistant city attorney forthe city of Compton, legaladvisor for the ComptonPolice Department andminority recruitment offi-cer for the LAFD. He hasalso written a book, “TheOld Stentorians,” whichchronicles the history ofblack firemen in L.A.,detailing their strugglesand victories.

Hartsfield has receivedmore plaques and awardsthan this reporter can

describe, all of which arehoused on the second floorof the African AmericanFirefighters Museum at1401 S. Central Ave.

His bust was unveiled inthe museum’s rear gardenon June 14, 2011 — his93rd birthday. He volun-teered three days a week atthe museum as an on-sitehistorian.

Hartsfield was a widowerafter 50 years of marriageto Kathleen Bush Harts-field. He is survived bydaughters Paula Johnson,Charlean Fields, BarbaraHeyworth and SharynaReece, and son Arnett III.

He is also survived bythree grandchildren andthree great grandchildren.

Arnett Hartsf ield, Jr.fought to integrateL.A. Fire Department

Arnett Hartsfield, Jr. was denied admittance to UCLA’s advanced ROTC pro-gram four times because “there had never been a ‘colored’ cadet admitted to theadvance course,” university officials kept telling him.

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BY JENNY MANRIQUEOAKLAND (NAM) —

Edwin can hardly under-stand Spanish and is slowlylearning English, but hisbiggest dilemma now isfinding a way to save hismother from the violencein his native Guatemala,and how to pay the $7,000he owes lawyers.

Edwin, 14, is a nativeMam speaker (the Mayanlanguage of his ethnicgroup). In spite of his

youth, he has already madea dangerous escape fromthe gang violence of hishomeland, crossed theU.S.-Mexico border andspent two months in the ElCentro Service ProcessingCenter, an immigrantdetention facility south ofLos Angeles.

Since his release fromdetention two months ago,Edwin has found a home atthe Primera Iglesia Pres-biteriana Hispana (PIPH,First Hispanic PresbyterianChurch) in Oakland.

“The church wants me togo to school during the day,but how am I going tocover my expenses if I donot work,” he asks. “Howam I going to pay for rentwhen I find where to live,and send money back formy mother, my brother andmy sister?”

PIPH is one of severalreligious organizations inthe Bay Area that havespearheaded a burgeoningSanctuary Movement thatbegan last summer in Ari-zona. So far 24 congrega-tions offering sanctuary in12 cities across the countryhave joined.

Inspired by the SanctuaryMovement of the early1980s, when at least 500churches offered safe-havens for migrants escap-ing conflict in CentralAmerica, faith leaderstoday are looking to renewthat commitment by pro-viding shelter, food andeven legal advice to thislatest wave of child ref-ugees.

“We are helping thesekids with shelter, clothes,food, classes, vaccina-tions,” says PPIH PastorPablo Morataya, addingthat many live in fear ofbeing detained again.

“That is why we need tobecome a sanctuary, sothey can feel safe,” he said.

Earlier this month St.John’s Presbyterian Churchin nearby Berkeley hosteda forum that drew dozensfrom congregations aroundthe Bay Area to learn aboutthe history of the SanctuaryMovement and how it ishelping today’s migrantyouth.

“Our idea of a sanctuarycan take different forms,”explained Reverend Debo-rah Lee, director of theInterfaith Coalition forImmigrant Rights, at the

forum. These can rangefrom providing safe livingspaces, to accompanyingrefugees in legal proce-dures and offering hospital-ity and other kinds of pro-tections.

St. John’s Pastor MaxLynn reminded attendeesthat Berkeley declareditself a sanctuary in 1982,two years after the assassi-nation of the Archbishop ofSan Salvador, Oscar Arnul-fo Romero.

“Changing immigrationpolicy is a long path,” hesaid, “but in the meantimethe least we can do is bringsupport to those who werebrutally violated.”

Lynn’s church is current-ly helping to reunite sever-al families, including theparents of one 10-year old,the youngest of three sonsand the last to arrive to theUnited States. “We arestruggling to raise moneyfor the lawyers and thecourthouse process,” hesaid.

Lee praised Latino con-gregations specifically forhelping to turn church pro-perty “into a place of resist-ance” against deportationorders.

“Our actions sinceOctober 16th include doingweekly vigils in front of theimmigration courts, con-stant praying for the fami-lies, and increasing the

number of churches thatare willing to become sanc-tuaries.”

Data from U.S. Customsand Border Protectionshow that between October2013 and the end of Sept-ember 2014, 68,541 unac-companied children fromEl Salvador, Honduras andGuatemala were appre-hended along the south-west border. They estimatethat by the end of 2014, thenumber of children seekingprotection in the U.S. willreach 90,000.

Almost 13,000 of themare seeking asylum throughimmigration courts in Cal-ifornia, according to theTransactional RecordAccess Clearinghouse atSyracuse University.

To meet the costs,Oakland’s City Councillast week voted unani-mously to adopt a resolu-tion authorizing a grant ofup to $577,000 to financelegal representation, men-tal health services andhousing for the migrantyouth.

San Francisco approved asimilar measure in Sept-ember that provides morethan $2 million in funds topay for legal support forunaccompanied minors andfamilies registered on theSan Francisco ImmigrationCourt’s expedited removaldocket.

Oakland “has alwaysbeen a refuge with noexceptions, and we arehappy to help these kids,taking into account theresponsibility of the UnitedStates in the drug war inCentral America,” saidMayor Quan at an eventorganized by the RedNacional Salvadoreña EnEl Exterior, or RENASE(Salvadoran National Net-work Abroad).

RENASE is urging Con-gress to enforce protectionsfor children under the 2008William Wilberforce Traf-ficking Victims ProtectionReauthorization Act, a lawthat guarantees hearingsbefore an immigrationjudge, and a chance to con-sult with an attorney, forchildren arriving fromcountries that don’t share aborder with the U.S.

“We are also demandingthat they stop the so-called‘rocket docket’ directive,which gives children’sattorneys only three weeksto prepare their cases,” saidMi rna Med ina o fRENASE. “While the legalhelp takes place, we areglad that these kids aresponsored by religiouscommunities to relieve thetrauma,” she added.

Other religious institu-tions that have not official-ly joined the SanctuaryMovement are doing their

part to help out as well. Pastor Juan José Lima

from the Church of God inSan Francisco’s MissionDistrict said Pentecostalchurches help anyone whoshows up at their doors inneed.

“We don’t have a consti-tuted network, but we arehelping get medicine for aHonduran girl who hasbeen very sick since herarrival,” he said.

The local Jewish commu-nity, meanwhile, is alsoresponding. “We are assist-

ing these kids with mentalhealth and legal support,”said Jessica Trubowitch,?director of Intergroup Rel-ations at the San Fran-cisco-based Jewish Com-munity Relations Council.

“But we want to extendour response to the human-itarian crisis in the BayArea [and] identify how wecan be of more help,” Trub-owitch said, adding, part ofthat will involve syna-gogues around the BayArea holding meetings onthe Sanctuary Movement.

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he AncientMexicans

[1000 B.C.]Perhaps the principal rea-son why so many havesought to find a birthplacefor this race in a foreigncountry is because theirown traditions are soobscure. Yet great histori-ans tell us that they are nomore so than those of manynations of the Old World.They do not extend back sofar, that is all. Their earliesttraditions reach only toabout one thousand yearsbefore the coming of JesusChrist. And where theexact line of division

occurs between traditionand history it is difficult todetermine. But we may saypretty positively that theirannals may be accepted ashistory so far back as thesixth century.

[SIXTH CENTURY, A.D.]Though the ancient historyof Mexico commenceswith the annals of theToltecs, it is believed thecountry was inhabited by awild people before this racecame into prominence.There were the Olmecs andXicalancas, the Otomiesand Tepanecs—we arespeaking now of the Mex-ican valley. Then, also, if

we may believe the tradi-tions, there were giants inthose days. But we mayfind that the history ofevery people begins withfables and traditions reg-arding giants, and a greatflood that may haveoccurred before or after thearrival of the giants uponthe earth.

We shall see, later on, thatall these different tribes liv-ing in Mexico preservedtraditions of a flood, or del-uge, that covered their por-tion of the world, anddestroyed the inhabitantsof their country.

Now, these giants mayhave been fabled monsters,

but the early Indiansbelieved that they lived inMexico. They were good-natured men, but very lazy,and when the strangersarrived among them fromthe south they enslavedthem.

Tired at last of the dis-gusting habits of the giants,the Indians turned uponthem and slew them, firsthaving put them to sleep bydrugging their wine. ThusMexico was freed fromthese worthless giants; butanother monster was tostride over the land formany hundred years andmake its fair valleys to bedesolate more than once,this was the demon war.

The Toltecs[596-1050.] Our first cer-tain knowledge is of therace known as the Toltecs—Toltecas, artificers, orarchitects—who were real-ly quite civilized when theyfirst appeared in the pagesof history. They understoodand practiced agricultureand many arts. Being driv-en from a country in whichthey had been long settled,by invading savages, theycommenced a journeysouthward, halting at inter-vals long enough to plantcorn and cotton and gatherthe crops.

[596.] Their annals tell usthat they began their migra-tion in the year “1 Tecpatl,”or 596 of our Christian era.The country they left, sup-posed to be in the north,they called Huehue Tlapa-ltan, or the old Tlapaltan.

Here again enters specu-lation, upon the location ofthat country of the Toltecs.No one knows certainlywhere it was, but every-thing points to its havingbeen in the north.

If you are acquaintedwith the early history of theUnited States, you will

remember that the oldestremains of civilizationthere are those of theMound Builders. You willrecall the descriptionsgiven of the great earth-works lying in the Ohioand Mississippi valleys;works so vast that it musthave taken many genera-tions to complete them, anderected so long ago that noteven the faintest traditionremains to tell who builtthem.

Mound builders They were a very civi-

lized race, these MoundBuilders, very differentfrom the savages who sur-rounded them, or who havesince swept over the coun-try they once occupied.

They extended theirsway, we know, as far northas Lake Superior, becauseold shafts have been dis-covered in the coppermines there, and detachedmasses of copper ore, withthe wedges and chisels theyused at their work. Thiswas but an outpost oftheirs, for their great workswere in the south.

Everything seemed toindicate, also, that theycame from the south.Besides axes, adzes, lance-heads, knives, etc., foundin these mounds, explorershave also unearthed potteryof elegant design, orna-ments of silver, bone andmica, and of shell from theGulf of Mexico. But therehave been found thereimplements of obsidian, avolcanic product once usedby the ancient Mexicansfor spear-heads, arrow-heads, and knives. Thisshows that this people hadconnection with Mexico, ifthey had not originallycome from there, since thisvolcanic glass, obsidian,"is found in its natural statenowhere nearer the Miss-issippi valley than the

Mexican mountains ofCerro Gordo.”

There are evidences, like-wise, that they possessedthe art of spinning andweaving, which wasunknown to the Indians ofthe north, but practicedyears ago by those of thesouth—of the West Indiesand Mexico.

Now, it would seem thatthese great Mound Build-ers, when they were drivenfrom this country, took asoutherly direction, and atlast arrived in Mexico. It ismuch pleasanter to thinkthis than that they werecrushed out of existenceentirely; and there is a greatdeal to prove that this wasactually the case, and thatthey were identical withthose Toltecs who camedown into Mexico 1,250years ago.

In doing this, in perform-ing this migration south-ward, they were, it is said,only returning to their oldhomes, from which theirancestors had strayed, itmay be, in the first years ofthe world's history.

Well, the Toltecs cameinto Mexico; suddenlyappearing from the dark-ness that had envelopedtheir past, and settled final-ly at Tollantzingo, in theyear 700, where, 20 yearslater, they founded the cityof Tollan, or Tula. It is saidby some that Tula alreadyexisted, under the name ofMan-he-mi, and was mere-ly rebuilt and renamed bythe Toltecs.

Be this as it may, theruins of this capital city ofthe Toltecs now remain onthe northern edge of theMexican valley, to pointout to the visitor the site ofan ancient empire. Thewriter of this history hasseen them—a scattered lineof earthen-walled housesand temples, occupying aridge of hills overlooking alovely valley.

On the face of a cliff issculptured one of theirheroes, and in the market-place of the present town ofTula may be seen sculp-tured pillars and greatstones, taken from theancient city of Tollant-zingo.

This feature appearscourtesy of the almanacHeritage History. it is pur-posed to inspire andencourage cultural under-standing and appreciation.

It will publish in multipleparts.

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SOULVINEContinued from page 2the mentally challengedyoung unarmed black manwho was killed a couple ofmonths ago by LAPDNewton Division gangofficers Sharlton Wamplerand Antonio Villegas. TheU.S. Justice Departmenthas opened a civil rightsprobe into the shootingdeath of John Crawford, IIIin Beavercreek, Ohio.Crawford, an unarmedblack youth was gunned

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I have two sons. When-ever they leave the house, Imake the sign of the crossover them and pray to Godthat during the course oftheir day they encounter aterrorist and not a cop.

RIO DE JANEIRO—Light-heavyweight PhilDavis fully applied hiswrestling expertise anddominated Glover Teixeirafor a unanimous decision inthe co-main event at UFC179 on Nov. 1.

Davis controlled Teixeirawith various clinches enroute to grabbing thejudges' nod with scores of30-27 across the board.

Davis pushed to get thefight to the ground or overthree minutes before finallyputting Teixeira on hisback.

While on the ground,Davis landed blows whileholding a clinch. Teixeirafought to get back to thisfeet, but Davis consumedhim and concluded the

round holding a clinch onthe ground, landing morepunches.

Teixeira found himself introuble again in the secondround, getting put down byDavis and absorbing pun-ches while Davis held abody lock. When he wasable to break free, Teixeirachased Davis down, throw-ing looping punches, butlanding very few.

Towards the end of theround, Davis scored anoth-er takedown and securedhis opponent’s back, work-ing for a rear-naked chokeas time ran out.

In the final round,Teixeira began by landing afew one-two combinations,but again became victim toDavis’ takedowns. While

holding his opponent in acradle position, Davis land-ed knees and various otherstrikes.Teixeira had no ans-wer to Davis’ wrestling fora majority of the fight.

Following the win, Davisunexpectedly called outAnderson Silva. The lightheavyweight said he’sbeaten a lot of Brazilians,and Silva is the only Bra-zilian that he would like tofight next.

When the camera pannedto Silva in the crowd, theformer UFC middleweightchampion just covered hismouth and shrugged.

The win on Saturdayrebounds Davis from hisprevious loss to AnthonyJohnson and improves hisrecord to 13-2, 1 NC.

RIO DE JANEIRO—FormerUFC middleweight championAnderson Silva was rushed to ahospital on Nov. 3, here, suffer-ing from severe back pain fol-lowing a training session at X-Gym.

The incident is not expected to

jeopardize his return boutagainst Nick Diaz at UFC 183,Jan. 31.

Silva reportedly attempted tostand after a jiu-jitsu trainingsession, according to Combate.com. He was rushed to a hospi-tal after realizing he could not

stand and no longer had feelingin his legs.

Silva was cleared and releasedfrom the hospital on Nov. 4.

Marcio Tannure, M.D., med-ical director for the BrazilianMMA Athletic Commission,told Combate diagnosed thatSilva suffered from severelower back pain.

“He felt a severe pain becauseof the contracture,” Dr. Tannure

said. “It really hurts a lot, butit won’t change anything interms of training.

“The issue he had explains thepain, but won’t get him side-lined or even cancel the bout,”Tannure said.

If he suffers no further set-backs, Silva will face Diaz in afive-round, non-title middle-weight headliner on Jan. 31 inLas Vegas.

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SPORTS

CARSON—The City hasbeen officially selected toparticipate in the SpecialOlympics World GamesHost Town program fromJuly 21 to 24, 2015, as aHost Town for the games.

Prior the beginning ofthe Spec ia l OlympicWorld Games on July 25,2015, more than 7,000 ath-letes from 177 countrieswill be welcomed to Sou-thern California throughthe Host Town program.

As many as 100 commu-nities from San LuisObispo to San Diego willhave the honor of beingselected as an official HostTown.

“We are thrilled to see somany communities eagerto participate in this inte-gral component of theWorld Games,” said Pat-rick McClenahan, presi-dent and chief executiveofficer of LA2015, theGames Organizing Com-mittee.

“The Host Town programwill not only create lastingmemories for these athletesand coaches from aroundthe world, but leave a last-ing legacy for the commu-nities opening their doors,hearts and minds to hostthese inspiring athletes,”

McClenahan said.As a Host Town, the City

of Carson will showcaseitself as a vibrant city witha small town atmosphere.Located in the heart ofSouthern California, thediverse social compositionof Carson is California inminiature.

Cal State University,Dominguez Hills, whichalso housed athletes for the1984 Los Angeles Olym-pics, will provide accom-modations during the HostTown program for the dele-gation of athletes arrivingnext year.

“The City of Carsonembraces the opportunityto have a role in the 2015Special Olympics WorldGames and provide a mut-ually meaningful, memo-rable experience to the ath-letes, coaches and volun-teers, to showcase our di-verse community,” saidJim Dear, mayor of Carson.

The Host Town programhas been an important ele-ment of Special OlympicsWorld Games since 1995,and the experience has lefta lasting impression on thelocal communities.

Ireland, Japan, China,Greece, South Korea andthe U.S., all have previous-

ly organized Host Townprograms as part of theSpecial Olympics WorldGames.

LA2015 is actively iden-tifying potential HostTown candidates to be con-sidered for the program.Commuties are evaluatedon the availability oflodging accommoda-tions, sports practicefacilities and recreation/entertainment offerings forthe athletes, among othercriteria.

Host Towns are alsoresponsible for planningactivities for the athletes tointroduce them to the com-munity and help spread theword about the Games.

Carson joins the growinglist of officially proclaimedHost Towns, a list thatincludes Long Beach,Thousand Oaks, Calaba-sas, Studio City; Manhat-tan Beach, West Covina,Arcadia, Bubank, SantaClarita, Palmdale, La Mir-ada, Glendale;

Palm Springs, SantaMaria, Santa Barbara, Ir-vine, Downey, Whittier,Simi Valley, Fountain Val-ley, Pasadena, HuntingtonBeach, Fullerton, Sol-vang, Oxnard, San Diego,Del Mar, and Encinitas

HOUSTON (ESPN) —For Kobe Bryant and theLos Angeles Lakers, thecelebrating is beginning toelevate. Bryant has beeninsisting the Lakers are amuch better team than theirterrible start indicated.

For the past two nights,the Lakers have shown hemight be right.

Bryant had 29 points,Wesley Johnson made keyfree throws in the stretchand the Lakers took advan-tage of Dwight Howard’sabsence Wednesday in a98-92 victory over theHouston Rockets.

It was the second consec-utive win for the Lakersfollowing a 1-9 start.

Howard sat out the loss tothe Lakers with a sprainedright knee.

“Look, we had a badstart,” Bryant said. “Arewe a 3-9 team? No. We’re a

much better team than that.We got off to a really badstart, but we’ll (get bet-ter).”

Los Angeles used a 7-1run, highlighted by Bry-ant's three-point play andcapped by four free throwsfrom Johnson, to take a 94-92 lead with less than aminute left. Nick Youngand Bryant added two freethrows apiece to secure thevictory.

Young scored 16 points inhis second game back froma right thumb injury. Hehad 17 in his season debutNov. 18, causing him tojokingly wonder if he waswhat the Lakers had beenmissing this season. Bryantwas fine with that theory.

“Listen, if that’s what’srolling, that’s what’s rol-ling,” Bryant said, flashinga huge smile. “I’ll take it.”

Los Angeles took its first

lead since the second quar-ter when Young capped an8-0 run with a nifty reverselayup to make it 82-81midway through the fourth.Houston missed three 3-pointers and had a turnoverduring that stretch.

The Rockets outscoredLos Angeles 8-2 after thatto regain an 89-84 lead.

The Lakers used a 9-0 runat the end of the third quar-ter and early in the fourthto cut Houston's lead to 75-74. Ed Davis led the waywith four points.

Guard James Harden’sscoring spree pushedHouston’s lead to 75-65 inthe third, but then theLakers scored the last fivepoints of the quarter.

Los Angeles made 19 of23 free throws. ... Bryanthas led the team in scoring10 times this season.

Carson to host Special Olympics 2015

Kobe Bryant appears to be fully recovered from last year’s injuries, scoring 44against Golden State—all in just three quarters. Bryant also had three assists.

Lakers on a ‘tear’ with second straight victory

Davis’ wrestling too much for Teixeira

Silva rushed to hospital

Anderson Silva

Phil Davis applied superb grappling skills and kicks to defeat Glover Teixeira.

hanksgivingis upon us.That translatesto family, fun,and food—

plenty of it!Turkey is usually the cen-

terpiece of most Thanks-giving dinners, but manyThanksgiving meals don’tfeature turkey, at all. Hamhas become a nice replace-ment on dinner tables formany families.

This issue, we feature OldFashioned Glazed Ham, atasty, and simple entree toprepare.

Old-Fashioned HolidayGlazed Ham

Total Time: 2 hoursPrep: 1 hour 30 minUtesCook: 30 minutesYield:12 servings

INGREDIENTS:

1 spiral-sliced half ham 1 20-ounce can pineappleslices, juice reserved15 to 20 whole cloves(optional)1 small jar maraschinocherries3/4 cup packed lightbrown sugar2 tablespoons yellow mustard

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat the oven asdirected on the ham pack-age and follow the instruc-tions for baking the ham.Remove the ham from theoven about 30 minutesbefore the end of the warm-ing time.

Decoratively arrange thepineapple slices on top ofthe ham, securing themwith whole cloves, if using,or toothpicks. Place a cher-ry in the center of eachpineapple ring and securewith a clove or toothpick.

In a small bowl, combinethe brown sugar, mustardand just enough of thereserved pineapple juice tomake a thick glaze. Spoonthe glaze over the ham andbake for the remaining 30minutes. Remove the hamfrom the oven, transfer to a

cutting board and carve.

Four-Cheese Scalloped Potatoes

Total Time: 50 minUtesPrep: 20 minUtesCook: 30 minUtesYield:6-8 servings

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 tablespoons unsaltedbutter, cut into pieces, plusmore for brushing1/2 clove garlic1/3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese1/3 cup shredded asiago

cheese1/3 cup shredded racletteor comte cheese2 pounds russet potatoes,peeled and sliced 1/8 inchthickKosher salt and freshlyground pepper2 cups heavy cream1/4 teaspoon freshly gratednutmeg4 fresh bay leaves1/4 cup grated parmesancheese

DIRECTIONS:Position a rack in the

upper third of the oven andpreheat to 425 degrees F.

Generously brush a largeskillet with butter, then rubwith the garlic. Combinethe mozzarella, asiago andraclette in a bowl.

Heat the skillet over med-ium-high heat. Add half ofthe potatoes, spreadingthem out. Sprinkle with 3/4teaspoon salt, half of thecut-up butter, half of theshredded cheese blend, andpepper to taste.

Arrange the remainingpotatoes on top. Sprinklewith 3/4 teaspoon salt, andpepper to taste. Pour thecream over the potatoes,then add the nutmeg and

bay leaves; simmer 3 min-utes. Dot the potatoes withthe remaining cut-up but-ter.

Generously brush a shal-low baking dish with but-ter; slide the potatoes intothe dish; arrange with afork, if desired. (If yourskillet is ovenproof, youcan skip this step and bakethe potatoes in the skillet.)Sprinkle the potatoes with

the parmesan and theremaining shredded cheeseblend.

Bake until golden, about25 minutes. Let rest 5 min-utes before serving. Dis-card the bay leaves.

Orange-Glazed Carrots

Total Time: 35 minutesPrep: 10 minUtesCook: 25 minUtesYield: 4 servings

INGREDIENTS:

1 pound carrots1 cup fresh orange juice1 tablespoon unsalted butterKosher salt and freshlyground black pepper1 tablespoon picked freshdill leaves

DIRECTIONS:

Cut a 1-inch chunk offone end of a carrot at anangle. Roll the carrot aquarter turn and cut anoth-er 1-inch chunk at an angle.Continue rolling and cut-ting all of the carrots into1-inch chunks.

Combine the carrots andorange juice in a largesaucepan. Add water to just

cover the carrots. Add thebutter and 1/4 teaspooneach salt and pepper.

Bring to a boil, and thenreduce the heat to maintaina steady simmer. Cook,stirring occasionally, untilthe carrots are tender andthe liquid has reduced to aglaze, about 20 minutes.Top with the dill and serve.

Lemon Garlic Green Beans

Total Time: 17 minutesPrep: 5 minutesCook: 12 minutesYield: 6 servings

INGREDIENTS:

2 pounds green beans,ends trimmed1 tablespoon extra-virginolive oil3 tablespoons butter2 large garlic cloves,minced1 teaspoon red pepperflakes1 tablespoon lemon zestSalt and freshly groundblack pepper

DIRECTIONS:

Blanch green beans in alarge stock pot of well salt-ed boiling water untilbright green in color andtender crisp, roughly 2minutes. Drain and shockin a bowl of ice water tostop from cooking.

Heat a large heavy skilletover medium heat. Add theoil and the butter. Add thegarlic and red pepper flakesand saute until fragrant,about 30 seconds. Add thebeans and continue to sauteuntil coated in the butterand heated through, about5 minutes. Add lemon zestand season with salt andpepper.

All recipes courtesy FoodNetwork.

Wishing your family a happy Thanksgiving,and by all means eat

heartily!

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ll around theworld peopleenjoy friedf o o d . B u thow many

know that cooking oils dif-fer in their ability to with-stand heat and repeateduse? Now, a new studyfinds that compared to sev-eral seed oils, olive oilremains the most stable athigh temperature and isl ikely to be bet ter forhealth.

The results showed thatwhen used as a frying oil,refined olive oil was over-all chemically more stablethan refined seed oils.

The researchers, led bySfax University in Tunisia,report what they found

when they compared oliveoil with sunflower, cornand soybean oil, in theJournal of Agricultural andFood Chemistry.

In their paper, lead authorAkram Zribi, a graduatestudent in the Ecole Nat-ionale d'Ingénieurs deSfax, and colleagues notehow different cooking oilshave different physical,chemical and nutritionalproperties, which changewhen heated.

When heated, cookingoils produce new com-pounds, some of which canbe toxic or change thenutritional value of the oil.

The purpose of the studywas to find out which oilremained the most stable at

high temperature withrepeated use. Many peopleuse the same batch of cook-ing oil several times fordeep frying.

The team cooked pota-toes in three ways in fourdifferent refined oils—olive, corn, soybean andsunflower. The three cook-ing methods were: deepfried at 320 degrees F, deepfried at 374 degrees F andpan fried at 356 degrees F.

The team repeated eachmethod 10 times with thesame batch of oil underconditions that reflectednormal home use, and theyused several methods toassess chemical changes inthe oils during frying.

When used for frying,

refined olive oil is superiorto refined seed oils

The results showed thatwhen used as a frying oil,refined olive oil was over-all chemically more stablethan refined seed oils.

The authors note that theolive oil showed the “great-est resistance to oxidativedeterioration. Its trans-fattyacid contents and percent-ages of polar compoundswere found to be lower at160 degrees C [320 degreesF] during deep frying.”

They found the highestdeterioration occurred inthe refined sunflower oilduring pan frying at 356degrees F and better main-tains quality and nutritionthan seeds oils.

—Courtesy Nutrition Diet-Medical News

McD:‘No’ to ‘freaky fries’SAN FRANCISCO

(NEWSMAX) — McDon-ald’s is turning down GMOpotatoes produced by long-time supplier J.R. SimplotCo. even though the genet-ically modified spuds havereceived approval from theU.S. Food and Drug Ad-ministration.

According to the IdahoStatesman, the Innate gen-etically modified potatoline earned federal appro-val for market on Nov. 7.The potatoes have fewersugars than normal pota-toes and less asparagine,which has the potential tobecome a carcinogen—acrylamide—when fried.

Despite the positives,McDonald’s has said itdoesn’t plan to purchasethe new potato from itssupplier, according to theagricultural news outlet theCapital Press.

“McDonald’s USA doesnot source GMO potatoesnor do we have currentplans to change our sourc-ing practice,” a McDon-ald's spokesman’s told theCapital Press.

Simplot spokesman DougCole told the Capital Presshe believed that customerswould welcome potatoeswith less sugars and car-

cinogen-causing aspara-agine. He said that 400 testacres of the GMO potatoeswere harvested this fall butthe supplier hopes toincrease production afternext year.

Tom Gillpatrick, execu-tive director of the FoodIndustry Leadership Centerat Portland State Univer-sity, told the Capital Press,though, that Innate pota-toes will still have to over-come the image of GMO-grown products.

“This whole GMO thingis so polarizing,” Gillpat-rick said to the CapitalPress. “It really doesn’tseem to matter what thefacts are.”

C.A. Pinkham of Jezebelwrote that McDonald’sposition was actually ahead scratcher consideringmost of its customers arenot the label-scrutinizingtypes while the money-sav-ing potential of using thepotatoes were noticeable.

“I t ' s pret ty bold forMcDonald’s to proudlyproclaim they don’t usegenetically-modified foodswhen you can only consid-er what they do produce‘food’ by an extremelygenerous definition—espe-cially true when you con-sider that if McDonald’smeat is organic, then I amthe Queen of England,”wrote Pinkman. “Make nomistake: this is about thefear of a public backlashfor accepting a geneticallymodified potato.

“McDonald's is also like-ly drastically overratinghow much the inclusion ofGMO products would hurttheir profits or turn off theircore customer base.

“They’re never going topull in the artisanal hipsteror granola crowds regard-less of their GMO foodpolicies, and who elsewould even care about theiruse of GMOs,” Pinkmancontinued.

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FOODFrying with olive oil better for health

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Genetically-modified frieswill not be included in theMcDonald’s menu.

our initialmemory ofB r u s s e l ssprouts maynot be of a

memorable mouthful.Brussels sprouts have a

bad reputation, but even ifyou�ve had a bad experi-ence with them in the past,they�re worth giving anoth-er shot�just don�t boilthem to death like yourmother did. Oven-roastingBrussels sprouts brings outtheir sweet, almost nuttyflavor and keeps them crispwhile reducing the harsh,sulfurous odor and taste somany find offensive.

Brussels sprouts are sur-prisingly high in protein fora green vegetable, and asingle serving would meetyour needs for vitamin Cand vitamin K for the day.

Brussels sprouts are apart of the cruciferous veg-etable family, which alsoincludes nutritional power-houses kale, broccoli, cau-

liflower, cabbage and col-lard greens, all of whichsupply loads of nutrientsfor a small amount calo-ries. If you are trying toimprove your diet, crucif-erous vegetables should beat the very top of your gro-cery list.

Brussels sprouts areamong the top 20 mostnutritious foods in regardsto ANDI score (AggregateNutrient Density Index),which measures vitamin,mineral and phytonutrientcontent in relation to cal-oric content.

To earn high rank, a foodmust provide a highamount of nutrients for fewcalories.

According to the USDANational Nutrient Data-base, one cup of raw Brus-sels sprouts (about 88grams) provides only 38calories, 0 grams of fat,eight grams of carbohy-drate (including threegrams of sugar and two

grams of fiber) and threegrams of protein.

Consuming one cup ofBrussels sprouts will pro-vide 195 percent of vitaminK, 125 percent of vitaminC, and 10 percent or moreof vitamin A, vitamin B-6,folate, potassium and man-ganese needs for the day.

Consuming fruits andvegetables of all kinds haslong been associated with areduced risk of manyadverse health conditions.Many studies have sug-gested that increasing con-sumption of plant foodslike Brussels sprouts dec-reases the risk of obesity,diabetes, heart disease andoverall mortality whilepromoting a healthy com-plexion, increased energy,and overall lower weight.

Fighting cancerSince the 1980s, consum-

ing high amounts of crucif-erous vegetables like hasbeen associated with a

lower risk of cancer. Morerecently, researchers havebeen able to pinpoint thatthe sulfur-containing com-pounds (namely sulfora-phane) that give crucifer-ous vegetables their bitterbite are also what give

them their cancer-fightingpower.

More studies with sul-foraphane are testing itsability to delay or impedecancer. Promising resultshave been seen with multi-ple types of cancers includ-ing melanoma, esophageal,prostate and pancreatic.Researchers have discov-ered that sulforaphane hasthe power to inhibit theharmful enzyme histonedeacetylase, known to beinvolved in the progressionof cancer cells.

The ability to stop HDACenzymes could make sul-f o r a p h a n e - c o n t a i n i n gfoods a potentially power-ful part of cancer treatmentin the future.

Brussels sprouts also con-tain a high amount of chlor-ophyll, which can block thecarcinogenic effects of het-erocyclic amines generatedwhen grilling meats at ahigh temperature. If youtend to like your grilledfoods charred, make sure topair them with green veg-etables to decrease yourrisk.

Improving bone healthLow intakes of vitamin K

have been associated with ahigher risk for bone frac-ture. Adequate vitamin Kconsumption (which just3/4 cup of Brussels sproutsprovides) improves bonehealth by acting as a modi-fier of bone matrix pro-teins, improving calciumabsorption and reducingurinary excretion of calci-um.

Brussels sprouts also con-tribute to your daily needfor calcium, providing 37milligrams in one cup.

Managing diabetesMany green vegetables

contain an antioxidantknown as alpha-lipoic acidthat has been shown toreduce glucose levels,increase insulin sensitivityand prevent oxidativestress-induced changes inpatients with diabetes.

Studies on alpha-lipoicacid have also showndecreases in peripheralneuropathy or autonomicneuropathy in diabetics.

Of note, most studieshave used intravenousalpha-lipoic acid, and it isunsure whether oral sup-plementation would elicitthe same benefits.

Maintaining visionMaking sure you get your

daily requirement of vita-min C has been shown tohelp keep eyes healthy byproviding increased protec-tion against UV light dam-age.

Eating just one serving ofBrussels sprouts per daywould ensure you are get-ting enough of this impor-tant nutrient. Another anti-oxidant in Brussels sprouts,zeaxanthin, filters outharmful blue light rays andis thought to play a protec-tive role in eye health andpossibly ward off damagefrom macular degenera-tion.

A higher intake of allfruits and vegetables (threeor more servings per day)has also been shown todecrease the risk of andprogression of age-relatedmacular degeneration.

The antioxidant vitaminC, when eaten in its naturalform (in fresh produce asopposed to supplementform) or applied topically,can help to fight skin dam-age caused by the sun andpollution, reduce wrinklesand improve overall skintexture. Vitamin C plays avital role in the formationof collagen, the main sup-port system of skin.

You may think automati-cally reach for citrus fruitswhen you think of vitaminC, but Brussels sproutsprovide a whopping 75milligrams per cup, over100 percent of your dailyneed. Vitamin A is also cru-cial for healthy lookingskin, which Brusselssprouts also provide.

Try to find sprouts still onthe stalk for superior fresh-ness and look for sproutsthat are smaller in size,which tend to be sweeter,more tender and have a lesswoody or fibrous taste thenlarger sprouts.

Make sure the leaves aretight and firm; store thesprouts in a bag in therefrigerator. The fresher thesprouts, the better they willtaste. The most importantthing is to not overcookthem, which tends to givethem a bitter flavor anddiminishes their nutritionalvalue.

Roasting Brussels sproutsin the oven will help bringout their best flavor andretain their bright greencolor.

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HEALTH Brussels sprouts deserve second look

Brussela sprouts contain nutrients that are effective against cancer and diabetes.

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HOLLYWOOD — -Why haven’t there beenmore war movies set in anArmy tank? Aside from1943’s Sahara and 1970’sKelly’s Heroes, I have ahard time coming up withany. Maybe it’s becauseunlike soaring fighter jetsor loaded-for-bear battle-ships, these lumberingbeasts of burden aren’texactly the flashiest piecesof military hardware justaren’t as romantic, butrather the grunting work-horses of combat: 30-tonsteel sardine cans on plod-ding track wheels thatmake the cramped confinesof a submarine look down-right roomy.

That stifling sense ofclaustrophobia hangs overalmost every scene inDavid Ayer’s new WWIIfilm, Fury. Set in April1945 as the Allies areadvancing into Nazi Ger-many, where the soon-to-be-defeated Hitler is dig-ging in his heels andmounting one final desper-ate push, the movie tellsthe story of a battle-scarredAmerican tank unit. Led byBrad Pitt’s stoic Sgt. Don“Wardaddy” Collier, thisband of brothers has beenthrough hell together —from Africa to France,Belgium, and now Ger-many.

Their long march is near-ly over, but looking at theirgrime-caked faces andhaunted, thousand-yardstares, you’d never get theimpression that they're onthe winning side.

As the film opens, theunit has just lost a memberof its five-man crew andtakes on a replacement, aterrified and ill-preparedcombat virgin (The Perksof Being a Wallflower’sLogan Lerman), who’sbeen plucked from thesteno pool and sent to thefront line. We’ve all seenthese olive-hued typesbefore: the tough-as-nailsleader with a hidden streakof compassion (Pitt), thewide -eyed innocen t(Lerman), the Southern-fried loudmouth (TheWalking Dead's Jon Bern-thal), the soft-spoken grunt(Michael Peña), and theScripture-quoting gunner(Shia LaBeouf).

The problem is, Ayer, thewriter and director of suchexistential macho actionflicks as Harsh Times andEnd of Watch, isn’t inter-ested in giving his charac-ters more than one note toplay. It’s as if they walkedout of an old Sgt. Rockcomic. Pitt, for instance,could’ve used a scene likeTom Hanks’ in SavingPrivate Ryan, where welearn something — any-

thing — about his life backhome and what he’s fight-ing for besides the Starsand Stripes. Instead, Fury(the title comes from the

name of the tank) just plodsfrom one brutal, bloodycombat scene to the next.

And while these orgies ofviolence are staged with

tense, gruesome precision(especially the film’s cli-mactic, Wild Bunch-esquelast stand), providing allthe tense action a war-film

aficionado could wish for,they don’t convey muchbeyond what we alreadyknow.

That war is hell.

PAGE 11 COMPTON HERALD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

FILM STAGE TV‘Fury’ message:War is still hell

Nonstop bloody combat provides tense action in “Fury,” which opened in theaters nationwide, Oct. 17.

U.S. District Judge JohnKronstadt denied singerRobin Thicke’s motion fora summary judgment in hislawsuit against MarvinGaye’s estate over the ori-gins of Thicke’s smash sin-gle “Blurred Lines,” rulingthat the hit track does havesignificantly similar ele-ments to Gaye's “Got toGive It Up.”

Kronstadt wrote that theGaye family “have made asufficient showing that ele-ments of ‘Blurred Lines’may be substantially simi-lar to protected, originalelements of ‘Got to Give ItUp.’ Defendants haveidentified these with par-ticularity for purposes ofanalytic dissection.”

He added that whileThicke’s “inconsistentstate- ments do not consti-tute direct evidence ofcopying,” they probablydon’t help the singer mucheither.

The court’s decision onOct. 30 to deny Thickewith a summary judgmentopens up the possibility ofa full-blown copyrightinfringment trial.

Gaye’s family has main-ta ined al l a long that“Blurred Lines” is an out-right “copy [of] ‘Got toGive It Up.’”

“We believe the evidenceof copying of MarvinGaye’s legendary work‘Got To Give It Up’ isoverwhelming and nowlook forward to trying thecase,” Gaye family lawyerRichard Busch said in astatement.

“We also disagree with[plaintiff attorney] Mr.[Howard] King’s assess-ment that the court ruledthat there will be any limi-tation on what the juryconsiders a t the t r ia l ,which involves a differentanalysis than what thecourt analyzes on a motionfor summary judgment,”said Busch.

There’s no timetable onhow soon a trial can start.

Robin Thicke

Singer loses round inGayeclaim

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NEW YORK (UPI) —Ifmarijuana is legalized atthe federal level, it appearsit will become a multi-bil-lion dollar industry. On topof that, it would produce alot of tax revenue.

A new report fromGreenWave Advisors, afirm that analyzes the mar-ijuana industry, claims mar-ijuana could pull in asmuch as $35 billion inannual revenue by 2020.

“The federal govern-ment’s ‘allow for now’policies suggest that it is

warming up to the idea offul l legal izat ion,” thereport says, referencing thefederal government’sgrowing leniency towardstates legalizing marijuana.Their estimates show rev-enue of $21 billion by 2020if there is increased but notfull legalization.

As the Washington Postpoints out, a $35 billionannual revenue would farexceed the revenue of theNational Football League,which makes about $10billion a year at this time.

Furthermore, it would beon par with industries likenewspaper publishing andthe confectionary industry.Making $35 billion annual-ly would make marijuana ahuge industry, though itcan’t compare to compa-nies like Apple that makethat much revenue everyquarter.

A 2010 report from theCato Institute claims legal-izing pot would result in$8.7 billion in tax revenue,which could do a lot for astruggling economy.

The report claims muchof the savings involved inlegalizing marijuana wouldcome from law enforce-ment agencies not needingto pursue marijuana usersand distributors.

As of May 2014, Colo-rado had already accrued$25 million in revenuesince they legalized thesubstance.

Marijuana has been ille-gal in most countries sincethe beginning of the 20thcentury. While medicalmarijuana has been legal inmany U.S. states for sometime, Colorado is the firstto allow recreational sales.

The state of Washingtonapproved legal marijuanain November 2012, at thesame time as Colorado.Washington is now imple-menting its system of legalsales. Oregon became thelatest state to legalize mari-juana just this month.

Rob Kampia, executivedirector of the MarijuanaPolicy Project, said thegroup is lobbying legisla-tures and pushing for refer-endum votes in severalother states.

“It’s only a matter of timebefore lawmakers and vot-ers in more states adoptsimilar laws regulating

marijuana like alcohol,”Kampia said. “The domi-noes are falling.”

The Colorado amend-ment allows for the “per-sonal use and regulation ofmarijuana” for adults age21 and over.

The amendment also per-mits the commercial culti-vation, manufacture andsale of pot, effectively reg-ulating cannabis in a man-ner similar to alcohol.

A patron with a ColoradoID can buy as much as anounce of marijuana at atime. Someone with an out-of-state ID is limited to aquarter ounce.

BY DANIEL BRODERICKEditor’s Note: While it

hasn’t received the recentmedia attention of otheremerging economies likeBrazil or India, Mexico hasquietly positioned itself tobe a major economic forcein the long term.

Mexico’s exportationmarket is growing, as well,driven largely by growingfields within the country.Information Communica-tion Technology alone isexpected to account for 13percent of the increase in

exports from 2017 to 2020.Likewise, increased spend-ing in the count ry’sResearch and Developmentsector will allow Mexico to

service a broader interna-tional market. The UnitedStates and Canada are like-ly to remain two of thelargest export destinationsfor the foreseeable future,but Chinese demand isgrowing. China is expectedto be Mexico’s second lar-gest export market by

2030.Mexico has also benefit-

ted substantially from theNorth American Free TradeAgreement (NAFTA).Though it took time andpatience to see NAFTA’seffects, Mexico now exp-orts about $1 billion worthof goods per day, which ismore than 10 times whatthey were when theNAFTA was implementedin 1994. And NAFTA ishardly Mexico's only freetrade agreement. In fact,Mexico has 44 such agree-ments, more than both theUnited States and Chinacombined.

Stock MarketIn September 2012,

Banco Santander’s Mexi-can unit, Grupo FinancieroSantander Mexico (SAN-MEXB) had Mexico’slargest IPO to date, totaling$4.3 billion—and publicofferings have beenannounced at a breakneckpace ever since.

Meanwhile, Mexico’sprivate equity sector hasgrown 50 percent since2000, totaling $14.6 billionin 2012. Mexico’s stockmarket isn’t currently asrobust as those in someemerging markets, but thatmay change in the nearfuture.

DiversificationMexico’s forays into

diversification has onlysolidified its status as agrowing economic power,particularly with its pen-sion funds. New demandfor pension funds hasplayed a key role in Mex-ico’s surging stock market,and the flurry of IPOsannounced last fall wasprompted largely by pen-sion funds that are growingmore confident about buy-ing individual stocks.

This first appeared inForbesBrandvoice. Part IIIof this feature continuesnext issue

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BUSINESSCOMPTON — Indivi-

duals and organizations inCompton seeking afford-able homeownership or tofoster community develop-ment, may get a leg up ontheir ambitions in fiscalyear 2015-2016.

The City has issued aNotice of Funding Avail-ability from the U.S.Department of Housingand Urban Development,in the new fiscal year. The

city will offer HUD grantfunds, including a Commu-nity Development BlockGrant, and a EmergencySolutions Grant.

The city is authorized byHUD to distribute thesefunds to promote housingand community develop-ment for low- and moder-ate-income persons.

Organizations classifiedby the Internal RevenueService as tax-exempt

501(c)(3) are organizationsthat have been in existencefor at least two consecutiveyears; and projects thatmeet a HUD nationalobjective and address a pri-

ority need identified by theCity of Compton Consol-idated Plan.

Organizations that havematching funds from othersources are eligible, aswell.

Applications will be avai-lable beginning Nov. 19,2014 on the City of Comp-ton website at www.comp-toncity.org.

The application will be inpdf format.

According to a spokes-person for the city, applica-tions must be submittedand postmarked no laterthan 5 p.m. on Dec. 18,2014, addressed to: Officeof the City Clerk, City ofCompton, 205 S. Willow-brook Ave., Compton, CA90220.

Facsimiles, e-mails, andlate applications will not beaccepted. Applicants areencouraged to get a receipt

for applications. A warn-ing in the City website saysthat incomplete applica-tions will not be allowed.

A technical assistanceworkshop is scheduled forDec. 2, 2014, from 10 to 11a.m. in the Council Cham-bers Community MeetingRoom at 205 S. Willow-brook Ave.

For more information,call the city’s Grants Div-ision at (310) 605-5580.

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LYNWOOD — Greatplans are in store for theCity of Lynwood’s 93rdAnnual Candy Cane LaneChristmas Parade sched-uled Dec. 5, 2014.

Parade-goers will onceagain grab their blanketsand lawn chairs and line upalong the City’s stretch ofMartin Luther King Jr.Boulevard to enjoy every-thing heart-warming abouta small town parade.

Set to start at 7 p.m. at thecorner of MLK Boulevardand Atlantic Avenue, theparade will proceed westtoward Bullis Road wherea holiday carnival willawait families this year.With an array of specialguests, to be confirmed,

this year’s parade will fea-ture over 100 entries, frommarching bands to holidayfloats to little leaguerseager to wave to their fam-ilies on the sidelines.

“Last year’s Candy CaneLane Parade was a hugesuccess, our families werevery happy with it,” saidMark Flores, interim direc-tor of the city’s Recreationand Community ServicesDepartment. “This year,it’s going to be even better.Our parade isn’t just a tra-dition for our community;it’s a tradition for our fami-lies.

“People who grow uphere and move away don’tjust return for the holidaysto be with their families,they return to see ourparade with their families.It’s a tradition for themtoo,” Flores said.

Confirmed special guestsinclude radio personalityCarlos Alvarez from SuperEstrella 107.1 FM, Lupita

Infante, granddaughter ofthe late Pedro Infante whowill be releasing her firstalbum in 2015, and Ang-elito and Luis Angel Garciafresh off La Voz Kids’stage.

Parade’s festivities willbegin with a reception atBateman Hall in Lynwoodfor the parade’s special

guests, grand marshals andparade marshals at 5:30p.m.

Booth spaces and spon-sorship opportunities arestill available. Contact theRecreation and Commu-nity Services Departmentfor more info at (310) 603-0220 ext. 319 or email to:recinfo@lynwood.ca.us.

BY LILLY FOWLERST. CHARLES, Mo.

(RNS) — The first time thepublic heard the nameRenita Lamkin was proba-bly the day she was shot.

In early August, four daysafter Michael Brown waskilled by Officer DarrenWilson, Lamkin, a pastor,stood with Ferguson pro-testers, attempting to medi-ate. Police had warned thecrowd to disperse and in aneffort to buy a little time,Lamkin shouted, “They’releaving!”

“That’s when I felt a popin the stomach,” Lamkinrecalled of the rubber pelletthat hit her. The pellet left aghastly wound — large,deep and purplish — andspurred a social mediafrenzy.

Tweet after tweet showedLamkin, 44 and white,wearing a T-shirt with animage of a cross that shelifted up just slightly toshow off the ugly bruise.

Lamkin said she didn’treally have a plan when sheventured out to Fergusonbut that “the whole beingshot thing was probably thebest thing that could havehappened.” The injury hadcemented Lamkin’s role inthe struggle for racial equa-lity.

“They say, ‘You took abullet for us.’ My sense is

…We’re in this together,and I was playing my role,”Lamkin said.

Fast forward nearly threemonths and Lamkin contin-ues to deliver the samemessage of defiance as pas-tor of an African MethodistEpiscopal Church in St.Charles.

The AME denominationwas born out of the resist-ance to s lavery withapproximately 2.5 millionmembers, most of themAfrican American.

“We can and should bedefiant,” Lamkin told hercongregation on a recentSunday at St. John AMEChurch. “There will alwaysbe those who discount thevoice of the poor.” But “wedon’t have to accept theconditions of this world.”

Although Lamkin ismother to two African-American children, her roleas a white leader in theAfrican Methodist Episco-pal Church is unusual.

“She’s a rare breed ofperson to be both white andfemale in an overwhelmingblack denomination wherethe ministry is overwhelm-ing male,” said MichaelJoseph Brown, academicdean at Payne TheologicalSeminary in Wilberforce,Ohio.

Brown said Lamkin, whograduated from Payne in2014, was the only Cauca-

sian in her graduatingclass.

Dennis C. Dickerson, ahistory professor at Van-derbilt University whotaught Lamkin, says the“social protest and socialinsurgency” ethos that’s“baked into the church’sDNA” clearly appealed toher.

While the church’s phi-losophy informs her workin Ferguson, Lamkin ack-nowledged that the experi-ences her children hadgrowing up in St. Louisalso influenced her deci-sion to be actively engagedin the protests.

“My kids would be sus-pended for things that otherkids would just have adetention for,” Lamkin saidwhen describing the treat-ment of African Americansin schools. “It’s painting allthese kids as if they’rethese gangsters who are outkilling everybody.”

Lamkin said she’s out-raged by what she sees asunnecessary police brutali-ty, even in cases where thevictim may have beenguilty of certain crimes.

Lamkin was four whenher mother died in a carwreck. She and her threesiblings were reared bytheir grandmother.

From an early age sheread the bible three or fourtimes a year and could rat-

tle off scripture on com-mand.

“First person I led toChrist, I was like eight or10 or something,” saidLamkin, who grew up inthe Pentecostal church inKansas City. “I was outknocking on doors afterchurch asking people ifthey knew Jesus Christ.”

As a child, Lamkin says,she even ran a bible schoolin the yard.

But Lamkin’s involve-ment with religion was notalways so playful. She saida youth pastor, as well as acousin sexually abused her.

She was also severelymistreated by the father ofher children. The two metin high school and weretogether for seven years.Lamkin said she knew shehad to leave him on the daythat he threatened her witha gun and accidentally shothimself instead.

“That is when I said toGod, ‘You got to get meout of here, one of us isgoing to die,’” Lamkin

said.When she had enough

money to put down a pay-ment for a rental property,she and an old high schoolgirlfriend loaded up aPontiac Trans Am witheverything they could andleft.

Lamkin expected to be amissionary or a pastor’swife. Yet because of herknowledge of scripture, shewas repeatedly invited topreach. She said her fatewas sealed when in biblestudy she met a womanpastor in the AME church.

“I talk too much, youknow, I get on people’snerves, I’m abrasive —sometimes it takes a littlebit to warm up to,” Lamkinsaid. But “people trust mewith their stories and trustme to speak from God’sheart to theirs, and I don’ttake that trust lightly.”

Ferguson has complicat-ed Lamkin’s life as a pas-tor. When asked if she’sfearful of what might hap-pen when the grand jury’s

decision on indicting Wil-son is released, Lamkinsays police comportmentremains her primary con-cern.

“That regular group ofprotesters that are normallyout there, they’re not vio-lent. They’re angry, they’reloud, they’re intense, theysay a lot of cuss words, butthey’re not violent.”

Lamkin said the simpleact of arresting Wilsonwould send a badly neededmessage.

“Even if it didn’t go any-where, the arrest itselfwould say that we are mak-ing a shift and that there isaccountability. It would bea start,” Lamkin said. “Theway things are now, policeare protected, and they canact on their opinion and beprotected.”

They can’t shoot first,”Lamkin said, “and figure itout later.”

This story was first pub-lished in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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RELIGIONWOUNDEDpastor on Ferguson’sFront Lines

WORSHIP DIRECTORYATTEND CHURCH THIS SUNDAY

St. Johns AME Pastor Renita Lamkin (center), prays for and “lays hands” onMissouri Highway Patrol Col. Ron Johnson in Ferguson on Aug. 14, 2014.

J.B. FORBES, COURTESY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Lynwood to host 93rd Christmas parade

Special guests participating at Lynwood’s 93rdAnnual Candy Cane Lane Christmas Parade set forDec. 5, include Carlos Alvarez, DJ from Super Estrella107.1 FM (top left), and Lupita Infante, granddaughterof the late Pedro Infante, who will be releasing herfirst album in 2015; and Angelito and Luis Angel Gar-cia, fresh off the La Voz Kids’ stage.

PAGE 14 COMPTON HERALD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014

EDITORIALJARRETTE DEAN FELLOWS, JR

PUBLISHER, CEO and EXECUTIVE EDITORFOUNDED 2007

BY BETTY PLEASANT

HE LOS ANGELESCounty Office ofEducation (LACOE)began taking steps inMay to close the

Wisdom Academy for YoungScientists (WAYS), a Manches-ter Avenue-based charter school,and took its final step Tuesdaywhen its board voted to revokethe license of the 10-year-oldschool and move to change itfrom a black operated entity andconvert it into an Hispanic oper-ated school.

LACOE is the same entity thatclosed down the iconic and lastblack operated Kedren Head Startprogram in June and bestowed itscontract upon the white-runChildren’s International Insti-tute (CII). But unlike its treat-ment of Kedren, LACOE said itwas willing to leave WAYS’ con-tract intact provided the school’sboard of directors be “recon-structed,” and its principal and allits administrators be replaced —by Hispanics , according toLACOE’s pro-revocation argu-ments and emails among LACOEofficials, Judy Higelin and Yol-anda Benitez.

According to WAYS’ principal

Edward Cabil, LACOE boardmember Alex Johnson presentedWAYS a “deal” from LACOE inwhich WAYS would contract amanagement team to perform theday-to-day operations at theschool and whose express pur-pose was to bring in all Latinosfor each vacant position atWAYS, as well as force out allpresent administrators and boardmembers — all of whom areblack.

Johnson pressed the WAYSboard — especially in secretmeetings with WAYS boardmember Cheryl Johnson, to hireCelerity Educational Group,

which runs the Celerity Siriuscharter school, to manage WAYSas a means of avoiding revoca-tion. But the WAYS board,including its two newly electedLatino board members, did notbuy it. The WAYS board saw thedeal for the ruse it was because,according to LACOE’s ownaudit, Celerity Sirius is $766,000in the red, while WAYS’ totalassets are more than $1 million.

This whole matter betweenLACOE and WAYS reeks ofracism and has been going on forthree years with Alex Johnsonbeing involved in it for that entireperiod. Kendra Okonkwo, a for-mer WAYS board member whosefinancial contribution was instru-mental in creating the school,said LACOE’s animus has beenso severe that WAYS’ boardmembers met with Johnson fre-quently about LACOE’s abuse.

“He was Supervisor MarkRidley-Thomas’ education dep-uty and every time we wanted totalk with the supervisor about theproblems, we were told to talk toJohnson,” Okonkwo said. “Andwe did. He took notes all the timeand said he’d discuss it with thesupervisor. Nothing was everdone. We never heard from Rid-ley-Thomas or Johnson — untilRidley-Thomas put him on the

LACOE board and he voted torevoke our contract,” Okonkwosaid.

Johnson and his fellow boardmembers’ full-court press to getWAYS under CEG managementis odd considering that LACOE’sown final revocation report aboutthe CEG-managed Celerity Siriuscharter school, dated June 30,2014, reads as follows:“Additionally, there is a concernregarding CEG’s capacity tomanage WAYS, as its Sirius char-ter school, currently operated byCEG, had a negative net positionof $476,357 as of June 30, 2014.CEG has been given until Dec.15, 2014 to provide LACOE witha plan to stabilize the school’s fis-cal position. Additionally, Siriusowed CEG approximately $4.5million as of June 30, 2014.”

Troubled by the nitpicking dou-ble standards to which LACOEapplies to black operated charterschools, WAYS principal Cabilsaid: “Will someone please tellme how Celerity Sirius can con-tinue to operate when it is obvi-ous that they don’t have funds?!Moreover, why wasn’t anFCMAT (audit report) orderedfor them like it was for WAYS?Where did the school’s moneygo? There must be some misman-agement of funds? No one seems

to want to answer that question!”Cabil said.

“And LACOE states thatCelerity Sirius only needs tocome up with a plan? Where isthe fairness?” he asked.

This is not about money. It’sabout race. “As far as WAYS isconcerned, the hatred LACOEofficials have toward the blackOkonkwo family and its commit-ment and involvement in theschool far outweighs all otherconcerns; therefore, anythingother than allowing a full Latinotake-over would result in our rev-ocation,” Cabil said.

On May 29, when I wrote thefirst story about the WAYS/LACOE problem, I reported thefollowing statistics about theschool: It had 525 students inkindergarten through grade five,of which 57 percent were black.The California Department ofEducation measures overallschool improvement over time onstatewide Academic PerformanceIndex (API) testing and has set anAPI score of 800 as the statewidegoal for all schools. WAYS’ APIscore was 768 and it raised itsscore 53 points between the 2012and 2013 school year. While theschool met its statewide API tar-get for 2013, in May it has not yet

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hile the nationand the worldwatches andwaits for theSt. Louis, Mo.

grand jury’s decision to beannounced in regards to the legalfate of a white Ferguson policeofficer Darren Wilson, who shotand killed 18-year-old unarmedblack teenager Michael Brownon Aug. 9 in front of witnesses,the question is will their decisionbe taken with calm or riotousprotest by the community?

Three months later many areconcerned that the grand jury willnot choose to charge the officerwith a crime due to the dividedracial and political culture withinthe St. Louis County PoliceDepartment, and the DistrictAttorney’s office.

Because so many have very lit-tle faith in Wilson being broughtto trial business owners in Fer-guson have already started board-ing up their business in prepara-tion of the coming storm ofprotest and the probability oflooting and destruction.

District Attorney Bob McCul-loch engendered criticism forrefusing to bring an indictmentagainst Wilson but chose to leaveit in the hands of the grand jury,which critics believe washes hishands clean of any backlash bythe powers that be in case Wilsonis indicted.

Some believe McCulloch isbiased and should have recusedhimself, or that Missouri Gov.Jay Nixon should have recusedMcCulloch and appointed anoth-er DA to the case.

Since neither McCulloch norNixon agreed for him to stepdown, his office is accused ofallowing leaks to the press to gounanswered. This has been hap-pening from the very beginning.

As extreme as it sounds for thisday and time, some online com-ments and Fox News’ racially-tinged broadcasts reek of a covertpropaganda scheme similar tothose used in pre-World War IIGermany. What is most sad is themedia is the messenger, pro or

con. It would appear on both sides of

this issue some are counting onthe public forgetting about thedetails of the shooting in order togive made- up online innuendosand distortions, time to fester andtake their place in the psyche ofthose who are already pre-dis-posed to Wilson’s innocence orguilt.

This type of propaganda is alsobeing used by outside groupswho want nothing more than tosee a return of violence and loot-ing that transpired days after theshooting.

Propaganda to taint the grandjury and the case against Brownwas set in motion with theFerguson Police Department’srelease of a video of an earlier,unrelated incident at a conven-ience store in which an individualresembling Brown was seen tak-ing cigars he did not pay for as heexited the store. The man in thevideo is stopped by the storemanager, who is pushed aside.

The Ferguson Police Depart-ment did not have to release thevideo because it was unrelated tothe actual shooting as stated bythe chief of police and Wilson inhis initial testimony. It was a cal-culated move to create an imageand picture in the mind that lastlonger on the human psyche andresulting in giving the viewer anexcuse for Brown being shoteven if the shooter and his chiefdisagrees based on their testimo-ny. This is my opinion

As of this composition, the St.Louis Post Dispatch releasednew video and audio of eventsthat took place shortly afterWilson shot Brown. Under theSunshine Act the press was ableto obtain video showing Wilsonwalking with his attorney andanother lead officer in policeheadquarters, showing no visiblesigns of physical injury. Somewill look at the video and makeexcuses because it does not fittheir narrative.

Fear is opening the door for ele-ments that have a destructiveagenda because it gives thesegroups an excuse to act as aspokesperson to commit mayhemand violence to others who had

zero to do with Brown’s death. Members of the Missouri chap-

ter of the Ku Klux Klan are nowpassing out threatening leaflets inFerguson, warning of violencetoward the protesters if there isno indictment. There are said tobe anarchists among those inFerguson, whose sole aim is toencourage violent confrontationswith law enforcement.

There are so many elements to

this story that are questionable,but it is a fact that there is a greatdivide in St. Louis, once againunderscoring the reality that thereexists two Americas.

Whatever grand jury’s decision,it will not change the minds ofthose who made up their mindsalong time ago.

Taking a page out of the GeorgeZimmerman playbook some areassured that like Zimmerman

who shot and killed un armedTrayvon Martin, Wilson will con-tinue receiving more love andsupport due largely to his race.

Brown’s death may be remem-bered for igniting a movementand causing martyrdom. This, toocan be attributed to his race.

For the sake of the communityand the nation...are we ever goingto learn live together and respectone another?

ALEX JOHNSON AND LACOAShady dealings beg disclosure

TAlex Johnson

The revolution will not be televised

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Continued from page 14than the worst Tea Partier.

What are some of themost interesting racesyou have been tracking?

I think one of the mostinteresting things happen-ing right now is in Arizona.Largely unreported is whatI would call the beginningof the end of SB 1070 andSB 1062, the racial profil-ing law and the ethnic stud-ies ban. The politics andthe politicians that broughtthat about are not expand-ing and growing; they areretreating now.

You have no betterinstance than the case ofDavid García, a largelyunknown Ph.D Army vetwho ran his campaign [forSuperintendent of PublicInstruction] against a TeaParty candidate. The mosttelling thing is… he got theendorsement of the Cham-ber of Commerce. That’sthe same Chamber ofCommerce that was beingboycotted by Latinos inArizona and throughout theU.S.

So what does that mean?It means that those forcesare now on the retreat. Itmeans that the boycotts,the protests, the Move theGame campaign get theMajor League game out ofArizona, all those cam-paigns, all those efforts onthe ground worked. Thatpreviews for me what’s

going to be the most excit-ing thing in U.S. politics,which is what I call thelatinoamericanización ofU.S. politics.

Can you describe whatthe latinoamericaniza-ción of American politicsmight look like?

It’s a style of politics wherestreet action, continuedorganizing in differentcommunities and differentsectors, and bold actionsand campaigns are inti-mately linked to electoralprocesses.

Which is very differentfrom the way “politics” isdefined in the U.S. TheU.S. is bordered off fromLatin America, so our ideasabout politics are borderedoff in the imagination:Politics mean elections.Punto.

Well, if you have theArizona Chamber of Com-merce endorsing a pro-immigrant candidate, andcalling on the RepublicanParty to tone down andchange course, whichthey’re doing—regardlessof who won these electionsin Arizona, because youstill have 150,00 votes thatare not counted as of rightnow—that’s a sea changein politics, and a seachange that’s being led byLatinos.

Why do you use the termlatinoamericanización of

U.S. politics?

People in the U.S. only getpolitical when it’s electiontime. In Latin America,that’s not how politics arethought of, conceived of orpracticed. It’s more organicand from the ground up,and opens up possibilitiesthat we absolutely have tohave now here in the U.S.

If you look at the LatinoDecisions poll and otherpolling, people don’t haveconfidence in the politicalprocess. Our political pro-cess itself may be deadbecause of the CitizensUnited decision. In the faceof such a dictatorship ofcorporations, we have real-ly no choice at this pointbut to fight and organizeoutside of the two-partysystem that’s controlled bythose corporations.

We have before us a dic-tatorship. So if we have adictatorship—it’s not justmilitary, but corporationsthat are in cahoots with themilitary, and that profitfrom military funding—then we have to go to thosewho know about how tofight military dictatorship,like the ones that the U.S.created in Latin America.We have to go to LatinAmerican-style politics,from below.

Roberto Lovato is a Visit-ing Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Lat- inoPolicy Research.

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ber who recently purchaseda home in the area on Aug.29, is disgruntled about thehorse stables and was moreblunt.

“I just bought a three bed-room-one bath home for$238,000 across the streetfrom the park,” Mendozasaid. “I had no idea thecounty was planning tobuild horse stables in thevicinity of my home. It’s abad idea.

“If I had known, I wouldhave never bought thehouse because of the smell.I don’t want to wake up tothe smell of horses andhorse ---- seven days a

week, 24 hours a day.”The stable is going to be

less than 200 feet “from myhome, said the father ofthree small children.

“Besides, it’s going to betoo crowded with horsesand the traffic. The park isgood for kids and thingslike picnics,” but not forhorseback riding.”

In fairness to Ridley-Thomas and the Depart-ment of Parks and Rec-reation, “nothing is set instone at this point” said aspokesperson for the super-visor, who noted that theopportunity for residents toattend scheduled meetingsto voice their concernsregarding the masterplan.

Residents conceivablycan even challenge any andall aspects of the county’sstrategic Draft Environ-mental Impact Report(DEIR) currently in devel-opment.

“The purpose of thesemeetings is for communityinput, said the spokesper-son, who noted that theCompton Junior Posse, anequestrian program locatedthree miles south of MagicJohnson Park supports themasterplan in its entirety.

Residents have had oneopportunity to voice theirconcerns at one meeting atAthens Park on Nov. 1,with a second planned at anunknown future date.

Equestrian center kicks up dust of dissent

Existent Magic Johnson Park embraces 104 acres.

Continued from page 14met the state goal of 800.Nevertheless, WAYS hasan API statewide rank of10 --- meaning the school’sAPI fell into the top 10 per-cent of all schools in thestate with a comparablegrade range.

WAYS also has an APISimilar Schools Rank of10, meaning the school isamong the top 10 schoolsin the state with similarstudent demographic pro-files (i.e. poverty level,ethnicity, parents’ educa-tional level, etc.)

And now that the

LACOE board has voted torevoke, WAYS will lose allrights to function as a char-ter school, including beingeligible to receive state andfederal funding.

Alex Johnson, the onlyblack member on theLACOE board, did notreturn my call for an inter-view and discussion of theWAYS revocation matter,and to allow me the oppor-tunity to ask him, pointblank: Why didn’t he andhis former boss, Ridley-Thomas, the only blackmember on the Board ofSupervisors, fight to keep

open this fine, high per-forming, black-operatedcharter school whosemajority black studentbody excels? And whywould he and his fellowLACOE board membersseek to solve whateverfinancial/operational prob-lems WAYS has by requir-ing it to be managed by anon-black charter schoolcompany that has fargreater problems thanWAYS?!

Because it’s not aboutanything but race. Some-body needs to sue some-bodies.

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