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BY JENNIFER PELTZThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Trapped deep in the wreckage of the World Trade Cen-ter, Will Jimeno lived

through the unthinkable. Twenty years later, he’s still living with it.

A brace and a quarter-sized divot on his left leg reflect the injuries that ended his police career, a life-time dream. He has post-traumatic stress disorder. He keeps shelves of mementoes, including a cross and miniature twin towers fashioned from trade center steel. He was portrayed in a movie and wrote two books about enduring the ordeal.

“It never goes away, for those of us that were there that day,” he says.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers in Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network rammed four commercial jets into the trade center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001. Yet an estimated 33,000 or more people successfully evacu-ated the stricken buildings.

They navigated mountains of smoky stairs in the twin towers or streamed out of a flaming Penta-gon. Some fled an otherworldly dust cloud at ground zero. Others willed their way out of pitch-dark rubble.

Sept. 11 survivors bear scars and the weight of unanswerable questions. Some grapple with their place in a tragedy defined by an enormous loss of life. They get told

to “get over” 9/11. But they also say they have gained resilience, pur-pose, appreciation and resolve.

“One of the things that I learned,” Jimeno says, “is to never give up.”

‘IT’S ALMOST LIKE YOU’RE REBORN’It wasn’t Bruce Stephan’s first in-

credibly close call.In 1989, his car got perilously

wedged on the San Francisco-Oak-land Bay Bridge when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit and the up-per deck collapsed while he was driving across.

Twelve years later, the engineer and lawyer was settling into his workday on the 65th floor of the

‘I couldn’t fi gure out how I got out of there alive.’ BY JOHN COX

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Central Valley water-quality regulators released a final report Friday concluding oil field wastewater from central Kern County, when blended with other water sources, can safely be used to irrigate a variety of locally grown crops.

The report, based on five years’ work and incomplete in some respects, found no evidence of risks to human health from watering tree nuts, citrus, berries, tubers and other ag products with the saline water that comes up from the ground along with oil and which contains small concentrations of toxic chemicals.

Although the findings may not be the final word on the matter, they strengthen confidence that farmers facing tighter water supplies because of the drought can safely irrigate with treated produced water that has been combined with groundwater or surface supplies.

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At his Staten Island home, retired New York City police officer Mark DeMarco is seen in a reflection off a display cabinet where he keeps memorabilia from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including the small flashlight he used to help him navigate his way out of the rubble of the fallen World Trade Center. He worries that the public memory of the attacks is fading, that the passage of time has created a false sense of security. “Have fun with life. Don’t be afraid,” he says. “But be mindful.”

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It was a day of carnage as well as a story of survival: Nearly 3,000 people were killed, but some 33,000 others escaped from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

INSIDE TODAYmarking the 20th

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In the awful flash of a single day, the world changed. And we changed with it.

Twenty years later, we pay tribute to those we lost and those who survived in the Sept%�(( terror attacks on America, and to the extraordinary first responders who sacrificed their own lives Xe[ safety to help others. We also remember the spirit of courage, compassion, determination and unity that prevailed across our nation in the wake of disaster, and makes us so proud to be Americans.

BY STEVEN MAYER | [email protected] Kimble Edmonston was at home with a toddler when

the unimaginable became real. Within an hour of learning that two hijacked airliners had been flown intentionally into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, that a third had slammed into the Pentagon and a fourth had gone down in a lonely rural field in Pennsylvania, she found herself racing to “our children’s schools to bring them home.”

Cherylanne Farley worked at Borders Books at the time of the attacks. All she could think about was the employees at the Borders store in 5 World Trade Center, near what came to be known as ground zero.

“Were they all gone, too?” she wondered.KUZZ morning DJ Sylvia Cariker, known on the air as Casey McBride, remembers “fielding hundreds of calls from listeners asking what just happened.”“We were airing nonstop news reports so I was unable to

play the dozens of requests for Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA.’”

It was Sept. 11, 2001, and America had just experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in its history, a hellish horror, a nightmare of nightmares witnessed by hundreds of millions of people via TV screens around the world.

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Study fi nds local oil fi eld wastewater is safe for use in irrigation

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After weeks of climbing coronavirus cases, Kern County appears to have reached the peak of the latest surge in cases.

The number of new cases each day stabilized at around 560 this week, a decline from around 640 the week before. In addi-

tion, the Kern County Public Health Services Department said statistical models suggest the county has reached the peak of the third wave of COVID-19 infections.

“It is important to note that modeling is merely a tool that helps us plan and shore up appropriate resources and is not de-finitive, but we have trended closely with

Virus’s 3rd wave appears to peak in Kern as rise in new cases levels

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The Bakersfield Fire Depart-ment will host two ceremo-nies to honor first responders today at Bakersfield Fire Department Station 15 at 1315 Buena Vista Road. The first ceremony begins at 9:30 a.m. The second cere-mony begins at 7 p.m.

Handicap parking is avail-able along the curb of Deer Peak Drive.

Free shuttles will run from The Park at River Walk

throughout the day. Free parking is available near the businesses at the corner of Stockdale Highway and Buena Vista Road. Residents can also watch online at bit.ly/3hj87WQ.

Salty’s BBQ and SSD Alarm will give free barbecue lunches to all first respond-ers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at 2701 Fruitvale Ave. There will be raffle prizes and music by LIFE FM 88.3.

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The city of Bakersfield is holding two bulky item drop-off drive-thru events from 8 a.m. to noon today.

The events will be hosted by the Solid Waste Division at the parking lots of the Bakersfield Municipal Air-port (2000 S. Union Ave.) and at the Riverlakes Ranch Community Center (3825 Riverlakes Drive).

According to a city memo, the last events, held Aug. 14, collected nearly 24,000 pounds of trash and

recycling items.Items such as furniture,

mattresses, major ap-pliances and electronics are accepted. Items not accepted include pro-pane tanks, construction materials and debris, any item with refrigerant, items weighing more than 300 pounds, household hazard-ous waste, liquid waste and hazardous materials.

The Valley Children’s Ice Center has reopened

after being closed for the last 17 months because of COVID-19 concerns.

Public skating sessions are available every day. The complete schedule can be found at www.bakersfield-icesports.com.

The center is located at 1325 Q St., Suite 100, next to McMurtrey Aquatic Cen-ter and Maya Cinemas.

The Rose River Memorial will host a procession and vigil at 4 p.m. Sun-day from A Street and Truxtun Avenue to the Liberty Bell.

Aileen Brooks organized the event because she lost her father, David Shelton, to COVID-19 in February 2021, according to the news re-lease. Valley Baptist Church Pastor Ty Barksdale will speak at the vigil. There will be singers and speeches at 4:30 p.m. near the Liberty Bell plaza.

Exactly 1,485 roses are sewed to a net and mounted onto a sailboat used by the Brooks family. River Rose Memorial, a nationwide or-ganization, will take all the roses from every state and create one large installation in Washington, D.C.

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TODAY IN HISTORY1814: An American fleet scored a decisive victory

over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began oper-ation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator.

1941: Groundbreaking took place for the Pentagon. In a speech that drew accusations of antisemi-tism, Charles A. Lindbergh told an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” were pushing the United States toward war.

1967: The comedy-variety program “The Carol Burnett Show” premiered on CBS.

1973: Chilean President Salvador Allende died during a violent military coup.

1985: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracked career hit number 4,192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb. (The Reds won the game, 2-0).

2001: Nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.

2003: Actor John Ritter died six days before his 55th birthday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank — the same hospital where he was born in 1948.

2006: In a prime-time address, President George W. Bush invoked the memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks as he staunchly defended the war in Iraq, though he acknowledged that Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the attacks.

2011: The nation and the world marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In New York, a tree-covered memorial plaza at ground zero opened to the families of the victims for the first time. President Obama, after visiting the sites where terrorists struck, declared: “It will be said of us that we kept that faith; that we took a painful blow, and emerged stronger.”

2012: A mob armed with guns and grenades launched a fiery nightlong attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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BY EMMA [email protected]

The Greenfield Union School District is taking the next step in renaming Planta-tion Elementary School. It’s taking sugges-tions from the community for a new name.

Superintendent Ramón Hendrix wrote a letter addressed to the Greenfield commu-nity Friday morning announcing that the district had formed a committee that was ready to take recommendations.

“A committee of students, parents/guardians, school staff, community mem-bers, and other school stakeholders will review the recommendations and present the final selections to the Superintendent’s office for review and approval by the Board of Trustees,” Hendrix wrote.

Recommendations will go before the board for an ultimate vote in January or February, according to Hendrix.

In May, trustees passed a resolution not-ing that the school’s name is a “reminder of social injustices” and that the district “recognizes the continuing impact of per-ceived symbols of intolerance.”

There are a few criteria for submissions, as noted by the electronic form. Any names already used in the greater Bakers-field area for elementary or junior high schools, or the names of anyone still living,

are off-limits. However, the names of those “individuals and entities that have made contributions to the community” will be welcome.

The name “shall be free from biases, prejudices, political or religious connota-tions.” However, the name “shall take into consideration geographic location and local heritage.”

Those who have ideas for names have two options for submitting them. There is a bilingual electronic form available here: https://bit.ly/2YAwxof. Alternatively, those with a submission may head to the district office and fill out a written form. Submis-sions are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15. For any questions about the naming process, call the district office at 661-837-6000.

Since the board made the decision to change the school’s name, the district has a policy of phasing out the school’s name, which includes not purchasing any more materials with the school’s current name on them.

The district will also work with the city of Bakersfield to change the name of the street, Plantation Avenue, where the school stands.

You can reach Emma Gallegos at 661-395-7394.

Greenfi eld Union seeks suggestions to rename Plantation Elementary

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The board of the Greenfield Union School District voted to change the name of Plantation Elementary School.

City hosting bulky waste drop-off events todayWORTH NOTING

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The California Highway Patrol said Ba-kersfield CHP Officer Scott Merritt died Friday from complications related to the coronavirus.

Merritt, 42, is survived by his wife, Shannon, and two children: Madison and Nolan. He also leaves behind his brother Cody, plus parents Randall and Pattie Merritt, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

Merritt served Kern County for 11 years. He transferred to Bakersfield from the

CHP’s Santa Cruz area office.“It is with great sadness that Jennifer and

I send our condolences to Officer Merritt’s family, friends and those who served with him,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a state-ment. “Officer Merritt dedicated nearly 16 years of his life to serving the people of Cali-fornia, and he will forever be remembered.”

Flags at the Capitol will be flown half-staff, according to the governor’s statement.

The Bakersfield CHP Office declined to issue a statement Friday night.

Bakersfi eld CHP offi cer dies from COVID-19 complications

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the modeling this third surge,” Public Health spokeswoman Michelle Corson wrote in an email. “How cases will drop de-pends on factors such as vaccinations, behaviors over the recent holiday and safety measures our community takes to stay healthy and minimize the spread of COVID-19.”

Still, the leveling of cases is welcome news for healthcare providers, who worried infections would continue to increase until hospital and ICU beds ran out.

On Friday, the state COVID-19 dashboard showed 323 patients hos-pitalized with coronavi-rus in Kern County, three less than the day before. The number of patients being treated in the ICU have dropped from a high of 71 on Monday to 58 reported on Friday.

Twenty-three ICU beds were available Friday, up from a low of 16 on Aug. 31.

California and Kern County have undergone three surges in COVID-19 cases. The first occurred last summer, the second last winter, and the third is happening now.

If the peak has been reached, the third wave will have been slightly worse than the first wave, while not reaching the devastation of the sec-ond, when 464 patients were hospitalized locally at the worst point.

“We are cautiously op-timistic that we will trend with the models and see a decline in our daily cases,” Corson added. “If the modeling holds true, this is excellent news for Kern County. Our pre-hospital and hospital systems are significantly impacted by the current surge.”

Despite the seemingly welcome news, hospitals could continue to see increases in patients over the next week or two.

Hospitalization trends tend to trail cases by two to three weeks, according to Public Health.

“We are hopeful that as cases begin to decline, hospitalizations will also begin to lessen shortly thereafter,” Corson said.

Kern Public Health reported 567 new coro-navirus cases and five new deaths on Friday. That brings the total up to 130,375 cases since the start of the pandemic, with 1,496 deaths.

Broken down by age, 18,151 children aged 17 and younger have tested positive, along with 78,012 people aged 18 to 49, 22,691 people aged 50 to 64, and 11,443 people 65 years old and above.

Of the 348,389 people who have been fully vac-cinated in Kern County, 444 have tested positive for COVID-19. Since Jan. 21, 36,217 unvaccinated people have also tested positive.

The vaccine has proven extremely effective at pre-venting hospitalizations locally. A total of 27 fully vaccinated individuals have been hospitalized since Jan. 21 compared to 1,555 unvaccinated people.

The public can find more data on the county’s COVID-19 dashboard at https://kernpublichealth.com/covid-19_dashboard/.

The health department is reminding residents that you can find testing loca-tions by going to kernpub-lichealth.com, clicking on the COVID-19 button and looking for “find a testing site near you.”

The public can go to https://kernpublichealth.com/coronavirus-vac-cine/ for current vacci-nation information. Kern County Public Health Services reminds resi-dents that anyone age 12 or older is eligible for the vaccine.

You can reach Sam Morgen at 661-395-7415. Follow him on Twitter: @smorgenTBC.

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It remains to be seen whether, or how soon, Friday’s report by the Cen-tral Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board will lead to greater use of an irrigation source tapped locally for more than three decades and now irrigating about 95,000 acres of the valley’s agricultural land.

Treating produced water can be expensive for rea-sons including transpor-tation and filtration. But people familiar with the process have said costs are declining and that expecta-tions are that the practice will be scaled up as the region’s freshwater supplies diminish.

VARIED RECEPTIONOil industry represen-

tatives welcomed the findings, while an envi-ronmental organization noted important questions remain unanswered.

“This confirms what we’ve long known: Oil producers are a key part of providing much needed water to farmers during droughts,” Rock Zierman, CEO of the California In-dependent Petroleum As-sociation trade group, said by email. “When we shut down local oil production, we are also shutting down agriculture.”

Added Christine Zim-merman, senior manager of regulatory affairs at industry group Western States Petroleum Associa-tion: “The findings provide clear evidence that food crops irrigated with ben-eficial reuse water are as safe and healthy as crops irrigated with other water sources. We support the findings of the panel and acknowledge the absolute need for consideration of all safe water sources.”

But the California direc-

tor for Washington, D.C.-based Food & Water Watch, Alexandra Nagy, said the study did not put the mat-ter entirely to rest.

“As its authors clearly state, the study largely passes over soil contam-ination from produced water, which can have substantial impacts on groundwater supply and thus on the health of the communities who depend on it,” Nagy said by email. “Corporate greenwashing from industrial agriculture and fossil fuel interests have perpetuated a cycle that only benefits their bot-tom line, but threatens the health of our planet and our people.”

MAIN FINDINGSAuthored by water board

staff and the effort’s science advisor, William String-fellow, Friday’s 37-page report notes researchers compared produced wa-ter-irrigated crops with a control group of crops wa-tered with regular irrigation water.

Between 2017 and 2019 they tested for 399 chem-icals associated with local produced water — includ-ing naturally occurring hydrocarbons, metals and radionuclides as well as additives like solvents and biocides — and were unable to identify any sig-nificant health and safety risks present in the crops irrigated with produced water that weren’t present in the control group.

“While there are un-answered questions and data gaps, the information available does not indicate that there are concerns related to the presence of chemicals of interest at either background con-centrations or elevated levels in blended produced water,” the report states. “Also, while it has been demonstrated that some of the chemicals of inter-

est have the potential for plant uptake, the available evidence does not indicate that this has or will occur at particularly higher rates than plants using conven-tional sources of irrigation water.”

CAVEATS, RECOMMENDATIONS

Among several un-knowns identified in the re-port are the levels at which 19 percent of the chemicals of interest become toxic to humans. Other caveats range from a lack of ana-lytical methods for moni-toring certain chemicals to limited funding for a more thorough study.

The authors recom-mended changes to the wastewater discharge permits issued by the regional water board for produced-water irrigation. It said they should take into account not just the quality of the produced water but also the quantity, the type of crop irrigated and how the produced water was treated. They also advised the use of only low-hazard

additives by oil producers whose wastewater goes to irrigation.

The report further advised evaluating risks associated with any new chemicals used by contrib-uting oil producers, doing or supporting environmen-tal studies of the effects of produced water on agricul-ture, the practice’s effects on soils and a closer look at differences between pro-duced water from different parts of the valley.

The study also found the Central Valley is the only region in the country using produced water for irrigation. Other countries have done so, including Mexico and Brazil, which used produced water with relatively high saline levels. But according to the study, nowhere else is the practice used for commercial ag production.

The report can be found online at https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/cen-tralvalley/water_issues/oil_fields/food_safety/data/white_paper/food-safety_whitepaper.pdf.

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BY ISHANI [email protected]

A man serving life without the possibility of parole for a double murder, four counts of attempted murder and conspiracy in a 1999 shooting was released Thursday after the Loyola Project for the In-nocent uncovered new evidence casting doubt on the original conviction.

“I feel unreal,” said newly re-leased 41-year-old Dwight Jones on Friday. “I am still trying to process it.”

Three suspects went to trial in 2000 for a drive-by shooting mounted upon a 200-person crowd at Casa Loma park, leaving two — 24-year-old Alvin Aaron Jr. and 19-year-old Francisco Carter — dead and four others wounded, according to reporting by The Californian at the time.

Two suspects were acquitted, while then-20-year-old Jones was found guilty on Sept. 11, 2000. His conviction hinged on two key details: a witness placed Jones at the scene and a fingerprint indi-cated Jones rode along in the Jeep from where shots were fired.

Megan Baca, a senior staff at-torney and investigation coordi-nator with Loyola Project for the Innocent, found new evidence that discounted the original pros-ecutor’s arguments.

Baca said their team spoke to 40 people claiming Jones was never a gang member and had no mo-tive to commit the crime. Some remember standing next to Jones during the shooting, she added.

The attorney said the crime’s

perpetrators, in the Jeep during the shooting, said Jones was not in the car.

Jones’ palm print was in the Jeep because many people borrowed the car throughout the neighborhood. On that day, Jones borrowed the car earlier to go play basketball and returned the Jeep to the owner before the shooting, Baca said. Further-more, the project conducted a DNA analysis and the results re-vealed Dwight is “excluded” from being the palm print’s owner, Baca said.

Lastly, the witness placing Jones in the car testified in ex-change to drop prosecution on

unrelated cocaine charges, The Californian previously reported. Baca said a witness placing Jones at the scene was paid for his testi-mony and told LPI that he didn’t see what he claimed at trial.

Kern County Superior Court Judge Charles R. Brehmer va-cated Jones’ conviction, re-sen-tenced him to time served and ordered his release on Sept. 2 after prosecutors filed a motion and new evidence. The Loyola Project for the Innocent sought to overturn Jones’ conviction, but the Kern County District Attor-ney’s office offered a deal of re-duced charges, according to LPI’s news release.

“He was sentenced to die in prison,” Baca said. “The opportu-nity of him actually being able to live a life … he just jumped at the opportunity.”

Kern County Assistant District Attorney Joseph Kinzel said Jones was not “factually innocent.” However, the appearance of new evidence and witnesses changing their statements from the orig-inal trial prompted the office to strike a this deal whereby Jones’ charges were reduced to two counts of voluntary manslaugh-ter and a personal use of a fire-arm with enhancement, he said.

Jones regrets missing out on celebrations of certain mile-

stones with his family. He es-pecially wishes he could have visited his aunty, who raised him, before she died of cancer.

Jones ate a steak, fried shrimp and dessert made with strawber-ries and chocolate at a downtown Bakersfield restaurant Thursday before traveling to see his family. He wants to spend time with his father, a survivor of two heart attacks, and then hopefully get a job to reintegrate into society.

“I don’t want to rush anything,” Jones said.

You can reach Ishani Desai at 661-395-7417. Follow her on Twit-ter: @idesai98.

Innocence project secures early release of man originally convicted of double murder

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LEFT: Dwight Jones was released from prison Thursday. RIGHT: Friends greet Jones as he is released from the Lerdo Pre-trial facility.

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Processed oil field water flows out to farmers from Cawelo Water District’s reservoir B in 2015.

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SAN DIEGO — The co-owner of a network of online charter schools who was accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars in California education funds was sentenced Fri-day to four years in state prison.

Jason Schrock, 46, of Southern California and his business partner, Sean McManus, 48, of Australia, also were ordered to pay $37.5 million in fines, ac-cording to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.

The county Board of

Supervisors last month said the fines should be earmarked for pro-grams to aid kindergar-ten-through-12th-grade students, the District Attor-ney’s Office said.

The case is one of the na-tion’s largest fraud schemes targeting taxpayer dollars intended for primary edu-cation,” the District Attor-ney’s Office said.

Schrock and McManus ran A3 Education, which operated 19 online-only charter schools across Cal-ifornia. Prosecutors said the company used a variety of schemes to inflate the

schools’ enrollment in order to obtain state ed-ucation funds, including getting small school dis-tricts to authorize online charter schools; paying sports leagues, camps and other youth programs to collect student information and distorting school year calendars and moving chil-dren between the online campuses to earn maxi-mum funding.

The schools earned as much as $4,000 per student in state funding while providing “little to no education to most of the children enrolled,” and

some parents weren’t even aware that their children were enrolled, the District Attorney’s Office said.

McManus and Schrock also were accused of trans-ferring more than $100 mil-lion in public school funds to private companies they owned and controlled un-der the guise of providing educational services.

In fact, much of the money went to line their pockets, prosecutors said.

In all, more than $220 million in stolen funds is being recovered, of which $14 million will be paid in restitution.

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Roosevelt Gregory Jr., 67, Bakersfield, Sept. 4. Greenlawn Funeral Home Northeast.

Dawn (Judy) Jolane Holloway, 74, Tehachapi, Sept. 5. Mission Family Mortuary.

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Larry Richard Lostetter, 78, Bakers-field, Sept. 9. Neptune Society of Central California, Bakersfield.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Firefighters scrambled Fri-day to quash fires ignited by lightning as thunder-storms with mostly small but welcome amounts of rain rumbled across drought-stricken Northern California, where forests have been burning for weeks.

Firefighters were di-verted from the huge Caldor Fire south of Lake Tahoe to fight multiple overnight lightning fires throughout El Dorado County, according to the local unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The largest of those fires erupted in heavy brush in the steep terrain of Kanaka Valley. Rain from the storm cell helped firefighters and the fire’s spread was stopped at less than 7 acres, Cal Fire said.

Another fire believed to have been sparked by lightning was burning in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco Bay. The Press Democrat reported it covered 8 acres Friday morning.

Lightning blitzes can have disastrous outcomes in parched California. Last year’s record amount of land burned included huge Northern California fires that were ignited when remnants of a tropical storm unleashed thou-sands of bolts.

A cluster of 2020 light-ning fires known as the August Complex burned more than 1,615 square miles and is considered the largest California wildfire on record.

The National Weather Service said there were more than 1,100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in California between Thursday evening and Friday morning, including 110 in the Bay Area. Cloud-

to-cloud flashes were too numerous to count.

Rainfall from the thun-derstorms was no drought-buster but was welcome anyway.

The official downtown San Francisco rain gauge recorded 0.01 inch of rain by 5 a.m., marking the first time it has rained there on Sept. 10 since 1978, the weather service said. The most recent measurable

September rain in the city happened in 2019.

In the Central Valley, Sacramento Executive Airport received 0.05 inch of rain by 8 a.m. The last time at least that much rain fell was 175 days earlier on March 18, the weather ser-vice said.

Thunderstorms with downpours also moved through parts of Southern California on Thursday

and early Friday, triggering flash flood concerns for burn scars of past wildfires.

The threat of new light-

ning-sparked fires came as more than 13,000 firefight-ers were working to rein in 13 major fires and more

than 12,700 residents were still waiting to return to evacuated homes, accord-ing to state agencies.

The Caldor Fire, the 15th-largest in state history, was 53 percent contained after burning more than 341 square miles and de-stroying more than 1,000 structures, including hun-dreds of homes.

In the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades, the Dixie Fire covered more than 1,485 square miles. Second in size to the August Complex, it has destroyed more than 1,300 structures.

Cal Fire, meanwhile, announced that a fire that destroyed 142 structures in the Sierra last month was human-caused but that investigators were still working on details. The River Fire began Aug. 4 in a Placer County campground and burned 4 square miles before it was contained Aug. 13.

A historic drought and recent heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. Sci-entists say climate change has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wild-fires more frequent and destructive.

President Joe Biden will survey fire damage during a visit to California next week in which he will also campaign for Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who faces a recall election on Tuesday.

California firefighters chase new fires ignited by lightning

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Lightning strikes in the area of Sugarloaf Ridge State Park on Thursday near Santa Rosa.

On Sept. 1, firefighters are lit by a backfire set to prevent the Caldor Fire from spreading near South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Thousands of wildfires burn in the U.S. each year, and each one requires firefighters to make quick decisions, often in difficult conditions like high winds and lightning. Crews and managers must determine when to bring in aircraft, what time of day is best to battle flames, whether to evacuate residents and even if certain fires should be extinguished at all.

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BY DON THOMPSONThe Associated Press

SACRAMENTO — California lawmak-ers have approved what advocacy groups say are the nation’s strongest protections against falsely labeling items as recyclable when they in fact are destined for landfills.

The measure sent late Thursday to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for his consideration would reserve the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol for items that actually can be recycled.

The author of the bill named SB 343, Democratic Sen. Ben Allen, said in a state-ment that it will force truth in advertising and “will reduce contamination in the recycling stream and improve the sorting process, thereby saving cities and ratepay-ers money while empowering consumers to make more informed decisions.”

It’s among efforts in several states to ease confusion about recycling and increase recycling efforts. A Consumer Brands Association report recently as-serted that the confusion has led to “a bro-ken recycling system in America.”

A coalition of 14 opposition organiza-tions countered that the bill would have “resounding impacts” on the state’s goal to divert 75 percent of trash from landfills and hinder the state’s efforts to recycle packaging.

The bill would likely require state regula-tors to create a list of eligible items that “is extremely limiting,” potentially including just 15, the groups said — eight types of paper materials, two forms of glass, two types of metals, two types of plastics and one type of colored plastic.

Those limits “will cause more materials to go to landfill,” the opposing groups said.

The bill gives the state Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, known as Cal Recycle, until Jan. 1, 2024, to publish a study on what is recyclable and exempts

products and packaging that is manufac-tured up to 18 months after the study is published.

Advocacy groups said the current label-ing system is confusing and misleading.

“Consumers want to recycle correctly, which is why they dutifully look at labels and place everything with a chasing ar-rows symbol into the recycling bin — even products that will just get sorted back out and disposed into a landfill,” National Stewardship Action Council executive di-rector Heidi Sanborn said in a statement.

Californians Against Waste advocacy di-rector Nick Lapis said that manufacturers “have been able to lie to consumers for far too long, and this bill will finally hold them accountable for actually making their products recyclable.”

The groups cited a report this year by California’s Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recy-cling that said consumers assume that the chasing arrows symbol means that items should go into curbside recycling bins. The commission said the symbol should “be reserved for materials which are ac-cepted in curbside bins and do not cause contamination.”

Senators sent the bill to Newsom on a 29-7 vote, after it was advanced by the Assembly, 50-3. Newsom has not indicated whether he will sign it.

They also sent the governor a related bill by Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting that would tighten rules for what can be used in compost to prevent contamination of the soil. Cal Recycle would adopt label-ing rules so consumers can tell what can be composted.

Companies currently label some items as usable for compost “even when they contain harmful chemicals that contam-inate our compost, consequently making that compost unusable,” Ting said.

State may impose toughest rules on recycling labels

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Albert Mora could not believe the events that were unfold-ing before his very eyes.

Even 20 years later, Mora, who now resides in Central California, clearly recalls the bright, sunny morning as he walked to his work site in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. Mora and his crew found they had a painfully clear view of the twin towers as they went up in flames.

“It felt like I was on an action movie set, but no director ever came out and yelled ‘Cut!’” said Mora. “I saw for myself that every-thing can change in the blink of an eye.”

Like so many, Mora was deeply shaken from witnessing such a tragedy. “I never felt such sad-ness,” he said. “From my apart-ment, there was no way for me to escape seeing the pillars of smoke every day. For a month, we would wake up to the sight of smoke and the smell of burning.”

Relief came from reaching out to others who were struggling as he was.

Mora has centered his life around assisting others through his volunteer work as one of Jeho-vah’s Witnesses. “I love sharing my hope with my daughter, my wife, my family — all those around me. I try to provide comfort however I can. Helping others has helped me.”

Helping others has long been linked to better emotional well-being in psychology research. The book “The Healing Power of

Doing Good: The Health and Spir-itual Benefits of Helping Others” describes “powerful” effects, even for helpers who’ve experienced trauma themselves.

Trauma was all too common among the many volunteers at ground zero. Roy Klingsporn, a Brooklynite who volunteered nearly every day for two months, recalled on one occasion ap-proaching a man who sat slouched in a golf cart near the site’s makeshift morgue.

“When I asked him how he was doing, he burst into tears,” said Klingsporn, now of Fort Lauder-dale, Fla. “He said, ‘I’m tired of picking up body parts.’”

Within days of the attacks, Je-hovah’s Witnesses set up teams that spent hours each day in lower Manhattan, Bibles in hand, consoling everyone from the fam-ilies of victims to first responders battling physical and emotional exhaustion. It was a work that changed how the organization approaches disasters, with an or-ganized comfort ministry now be-ing an integral part of its response to natural disasters and even the pandemic.

Recalling the gut-wrenching days he spent as one of those volunteers near the smoldering re-mains of the twin towers still stirs deep feelings in Robert Hendriks.

“It was very emotional and extremely difficult for me, but the faces of those I passed on the street said it all,” said Hendriks,

now U.S. spokesman for the Wit-nesses. “They needed comfort, and the best thing I could give them was a hug and a Scripture.”

For Brown “Butch” Payne, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, tore open old wounds, bringing back vivid wartime memories the Vietnam veteran had tried to forget.

From his East Village apart-ment, Payne recalled the crowds of frantic people streaming north from lower Manhattan. “That sight stirred up a lot of emotions in me,” he said. “It shook me to the core.”

Payne found relief in rendering aid the best way he knew how. “Sharing the Bible’s message of hope softened the blow for me,” he said.

Offering a shoulder to cry on brought Klingsporn comfort too. “It was satisfying to be of help to my community,” he said.

Mora admits, “Sometimes I start to look at the world and feel over-whelmed again by the pain and suffering everywhere. But what has helped me is to be there for others

and share my reasons for hope.”Mora reads articles about deal-

ing with post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety on jw.org. The practical suggestions and resources have been invaluable. “Many turn to overdrinking or drowning themselves in their work,” he said. “It’s so damaging.” Mora appreciates how the Bi-ble-based articles encourage peo-ple to be balanced while coping with life’s difficulties.

Payne feels the same. In 2016, after 50 years of marriage, he lost his beloved wife to cancer. On days when his grief feels overwhelming, Payne writes heartfelt letters that lift his neighbors’ spirits — and his own. He shares Scriptures and re-sources that have helped him, like articles on coping with trauma and loss on jw.org, the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

“Encouraging others to look to the future helps me to do the same,” he said.

— Jehovah’s Witnesses news release

After 9/11, some Witnesses found healing by helping

COURTESY OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

Albert Mora of Central California reserves time with his wife and daughter to share the Bible’s message of comfort via phone calls and letters. Twenty years after Mora witnessed the tragic events of 9/11, resources on jw.org continue to help him cope as he shares what has helped him with others.

Emmanuel Lutheran, 1900 Baker St., welcomes all to its indoor worship service at 9 a.m. Pastor Dawn Wilder will preside. This Sunday at 4 p.m. the public may view the installation of the Rev. Brenda Bos as the bishop of the Southwest Califor-nia Synod of the ELCA t Angelica Lutheran Church in Los Angeles. The ceremony may be viewed on the SoCal Synod’s YouTube channel. Emmanuel is an interactive satellite site for the instal-lation. The community may livestream Sunday services on Emmanuel’s Facebook page (facebook.com/em-manuelbakerst). Past ser-vices are archived and can be viewed on Facebook and from Emmanuel’s website (emmanuelbakersfield.org). 661-323-3355.

Mill Creek Christian Church, 1660 S St., is open for business and welcomes everyone Sundays at 10:30 a.m. to our beauti-ful sanctuary. We are still social distancing, but we are smiling and singing and worshiping up a storm. Our faithful pastor, Mike Sutherland, will be happy to add you to his prayer list if you need some extra prayers. We’ll leave the AC on and save you a seat. 661-327-1673.

First Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Truxtun Avenue and H Street, welcomes you into our community! We have two in-person services at 9 and 10:45 a.m. in the Activities Center. Children’s Sunday school is offered at 9 a.m. for fourth-graders and younger and at 10:45am for eighth-graders and below. We also offer an online service Sundays at 9 a.m. on the YouTube channel First Presbyterian Church Bakers-field. Stay healthy and stay connected at fpbchurch.com, on social media (Face-book: @FirstPresBako and Instagram: @fpbchurch) and on the church’s app.

NPC (Northminster Pres-byterian Church), 3700 Union Ave., welcomes you to our bilingual Sunday worship at 9:30 a.m. for “A City with Foundations” He-brews 11:8-10 by Pastor Jace Broadhurst. If you cannot attend in-person services, join us on Facebook. Follow the links from our website at northpres.org.

Northeast Christian Church, 4201 University Ave., invites the community to join us for live, in-person services on Sundays at 10:45 a.m. We also have a live Daily Devotional conducted by Pastor Randy Bunch at 9 a.m. each weekday on his personal Facebook page, facebook.com/randylanebunch, as well. Find us online at nechristian.net, where our audio sermons can be found under the “Services” tab in the main menu. We hope that you will join us this Sunday. All are welcome! 661-871-5061.

Bakersfield Christian Science Church Services are available via conference call Sunday mornings at 10 by dialing 857-444-9650. The subject of this Sunday’s sermon is “Substance.” For more information, call 661-323-1806.

The Christian Science Sentinel Watch podcast “Where is God when bad things happen? Part 1: The basics” is available at sentinel.christianscience.com/sentinel-audio/senti-nel-watch. Hear El Heraldo Spanish’s radio program “Our contribution to peace” at 7 a.m. Sunday on 96.9 KEBT-FM. 661-324-6938.

St. Vincent De Paul Center, 316 Baker St., will host its annual Fall BBQ on Oct. 7 as a drive-thru event. Cost is $35, which includes a choice of New York steak or teriyaki chicken with all the trimmings. Purchase tickets at the center or thrift store, or by calling 661-323-2941. For sponsorship opportu-nities or other information, call 661-872-1543. Proceeds from the center’s only yearly fundraiser support its efforts to assist the less fortunate in the community. ”Help us help others.”

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BY AMELIA NOOR-OSHIRO For The Conversation

This year, 9/11 holds a dual significance for Americans across the country. It not only marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic events and lives lost since Sept. 11, 2001, but also National Suicide Prevention Awareness Week. For American Muslims who are both victims of increased rates of Islamophobic violence and survivors of suicide attempts, this juxtaposi-tion is especially stark.

In the field of public health, Islamophobia is recognized as akin to racism in how it leads to negative physical and psychological health outcomes. But this definition misses the cru-cial elements of structural violence and social stigma that underlie the hate crimes and mi-croaggressions American Muslims face. These elements are not only the key ingredients in such acts of social violence, but also the same risk factors for individual self-directed vio-lence, which is the definition of suicide.

I am the first self-identifying Muslim American to receive federal funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct grassroots mental health research within the American Muslim community. I identify as a victim of Islamophobic violence and a survivor of a suicide attempt. The hypothesis of my research is that the past two decades of an-ti-Muslim stigma in the sociopolitical climate of post-9/11 America have created the neces-sary conditions for young Muslims in America to internalize self-hatred and ultimately at-tempt suicide.

SUICIDE DISPARITIES AND RISK FACTORS IN AMERICAN MUSLIMS

Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. It is a top 10 leading cause of death in this country and the No. 1 leading cause of death in certain populations. A July 2021 study revealed that American Muslims report two times the odds of a suicide attempt in their life compared to other faith groups. These findings suggest a disparity and indicate that there is a unique set of factors that increases American Muslims’ risk of suicide.

In general, there are many elements that contribute to suicide risk. Some of these in-clude a past history of mental illness, knowing someone who previously attempted suicide and having access to lethal means like guns. Research studies on suicide risk in American Muslims, however, must specifically account for our distinct experience of being racialized, stigmatized and “othered” in post-9/11 Amer-ica. Given the unique experience of Islam-ophobia that Muslims in America face, a sci-entific focus on these social factors is essential for studies on American Muslims.

A 2019 Pew Research Center survey mea-suring the level of warmth or coldness that U.S. adults felt toward certain religious groups found that Muslims were placed toward the extremes of the cold end of the scale. A 2017 survey from Pew found that half of U.S. adults said Islam is not a part of mainstream soci-ety and perceived at least some Muslims as anti-American.

These attitudes point to how being a Mus-lim has been stigmatized in America. There is abundant evidence that stigma is a funda-mental cause of health disparities, especially as it relates to suicide among people with minority identities. I argue that the stigma of

being Muslim in America results in exposure to Islamophobic violence that can lead to in-creased suicide risk and disparity.

THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF MUSLIM AMERICAN IDENTITY

But being Muslim is not the only form of stigma and structural violence that Ameri-can Muslims face. American Muslims are a very heterogenous group with diverse back-grounds as racial minorities and forced and voluntary migrants. Coming from over 77 countries, nearly 80 percent of us are first- or second-generation immigrants, and the majority are racial and ethnic minorities. It is the combined identities of being a Muslim, a racial or ethnic minority and of immigrant-or-igin that results in intersectional stigma — these identities converge and interact with each other in ways that can negatively affect health.

Therefore, a more scientifically accurate understanding of Islamophobia endorses the intersectionality of our stigma as a key variable contributing to suicide risk. Research on American Muslims addresses the dearth of scientific knowledge on culturally specific social factors of suicide. Yet for American Mus-lims, what factors contribute to our risk for suicide and what protective factors build our resilience are still to be uncovered.

CHALLENGES IN AMERICAN MUSLIM MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH

Prior to 2006, the PubMed research data-base returned fewer than 70 search results on “Muslim” and “mental health.” Major grants for funding research on this topic were nonexistent. The launch of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health that year attempted to fill this crucial research gap. Today, the over 700 search results with the terms “Muslim” and “mental health” still represent less than one-thousandth of a percent of over 320,000 results on mental health overall. Evidently, the study of suicide in American Muslims itself faces disparities.

A major barrier to expanding research on American Muslim mental health is access to federal funding. The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities desig-nates certain groups as disparity populations, which does not include faith groups. While Muslims constitute only 1 percent of the U.S. population, we are projected to become the world’s largest faith group by the second half of this century. Even so, data on American Mus-

lim health is missing due to a lack of research resources and scientific interest.

Research on American Muslims relies on select elements of our identities as racial mi-norities and immigrants to qualify for research funding. But these qualities alone do not fully capture American Muslim lived experiences with Islamophobia and faith-based stigma, prejudice and discrimination. Without data and research on our community, American Muslims may not be considered a disparity group under current classifications and there-fore miss critical funding opportunities.

Suicide research on American Muslims may advance insights across diverse communities

WHAT WILL AMERICA LOOK LIKE WHEN WE MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11?

By 2051, the diversification of the American population will reveal a majority minority racial and ethnic demographic. Already, the majority of youth under 18 are people of color. Forty years from now, first- and second-gener-ation immigrants will encompass over a third of the population.

Alarmingly, second-generation immigrants worldwide are considered an at-risk group for suicide. The diverse new generations in America are born into adverse conditions that expose them to race-based trauma and mi-nority stress, or the cumulative negative health effects caused by racism and by being a part of a stigmatized minority group, respectively.

The intersectional discrimination that Amer-ican Muslims already experience today makes a strong case that we are a crucial reference group when it comes to future mental health research on diverse and marginalized communities. The immense value of culturally relevant research on suicide among American Muslims is evident from its substantial potential to apply across dif-ferent racial, ethnic and immigrant groups.

Insights from the American Muslim lived experience may provide science with the tools to make sure suicide in minority communities becomes a thing of the past.

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call the suicide helpline now at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline website. You are not alone and there is hope.

Amelia Noor-Oshiro is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Conversation is an indepen-dent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.

20 years post-9/11, links between Islamophobia, suicide among US Muslims remain unexplored

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In this Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands in front of a smoldering lower Manhattan at dawn, seen from Jersey City, N.J.


trade center’s north tower when one of the planes crashed about 30 stories above.

Only after his roughly hourlong walk down the crowded stairs did Stephan learn that another plane had hit the south tower — the building where his wife, Joan, also an attorney, worked on the 91st floor. Above the impact zone.

Unable to reach her by cell-phone, Bruce Stephan dashed to a pay phone and called her rela-tives, who told him she’d gotten out.

Then the south tower fell, and Stephan’s fear spiked anew. Had Joan been caught in the collapse? Hours later, he finally learned that she was OK. (At least one other couple, elevator operators Arturo and Carmen Griffith, also survived; their story inspired a re-cent film, “Lovebirds of the Twin Towers.”)

“My experience from the first disaster was that it’s a strangely happy moment when you know that you’ve survived,” Bruce Stephan says. “It’s almost like you’re reborn ... to know that you’re alive and that you still have a shot at life, and here’s your chance to do something.”

“When it happened a second time, it’s just like, ‘Oh, my God.’”

After the earthquake, the New York City natives resolved to change their workaholic lives. After 9/11, they did.

Within two months, the couple moved to Essex, a northern New York town of roughly 700 peo-ple. While telecommuting and sometimes actually commuting, they made time for other things — church, a book club, amateur theater, gardening, zoning meet-ings, a local newsletter. They cherished a newfound sense of community.

But a work opportunity pulled them back to San Francisco in 2009. They loved it, until the pan-demic made them rethink their lives again.

“One of the things that we dis-covered as a result of the disasters was that being in a community ... is maybe the biggest reward you can have,” Stephan, 65, says from their front porch in Essex. They moved back to New York last year.

‘I WAS A WALKING ZOMBIE’Désirée Bouchat pauses by

one of the inscribed names on the 9/11 memorial: James Patrick Berger. She last saw him on the 101st floor of the trade center’s south tower.

“Some days, it feels like it hap-pened yesterday,” she says.

At first, people figured the plane crash at the north tower was accidental. There was no im-mediate evacuation order for the south tower. But Berger ushered Bouchat and other Aon Corp. colleagues to the elevators, then turned back to check for more people.

Just as Bouchat exited the south tower, another plane slammed into it. Nearly 180 Aon workers perished, including Berger.

For a while, Bouchat told ev-eryone, including herself: “I’m fine. I’m alive.”

But “I was a walking zombie,” she says now.

She couldn’t multitask any-more. Remarks that used to bother her stirred no reaction. She was functioning, but through a fog that took more than a year to lift.

Bouchat eventually felt that she needed to talk about 9/11. The Springfield, N.J., resident has now led about 500 tours for the 9/11 Tribute Museum (it’s separate from the larger National Septem-ber 11 Memorial & Museum).

Bruce Powers has traveled from Alexandria, Va., to lead Tribute Museum tours, too. And every Sept. 11, the 82-year-old re-peats his 7-mile walk home from the Pentagon after the attack that killed 184 people, 10 of whom he knew.

The walk, the tours and hear-ing other guides’ personal stories “serve well in helping me deal with what happened,” says Pow-ers, a now-retired Navy aviation planner.

The public hasn’t fully rec-ognized the losses survivors felt, says Mary Fetchet, a social worker who lost her son Brad on 9/11 and founded Voices Center for Resilience, a support and advocacy group for victims’ families, first responders and survivors. “Although they are still living, they’re living in a very dif-ferent way.”

‘I COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW I GOT OUT OF THERE ALIVE’

For a time after 9/11, police of-ficer Mark DeMarco replayed the what-ifs in his mind. If he’d gone right instead of left. A bit earlier. Or later.

“I couldn’t figure out how I got out of there alive,” he says.

After helping evacuate the north tower, the Emergency Ser-vice Unit officer was surrounded by a maze of debris when parts of the skyscraper tumbled onto a

smaller building where he’d been directed. Some officers with him were killed.

Barely able to see his own boots with a small flashlight, De-Marco inched through the ruins with two officers behind him.

Then he took a step and felt nothing underfoot. He looked be-low and saw utter darkness.

Only later — after the officers turned around and eventually clambered through shattered windows to safety — did De-Marco realize he’d nearly tum-bled into a crater carved by the collapse.

Now 68 and retired, DeMarco still wears a wristband with the names of the 14 ESU members killed that day. He worries that the public memory of the attacks is fading, that the passage of time has created a false sense of security.

“Have fun with life. Don’t be afraid,” he says. “But be mindful.”

‘IT’S NOT SOMETHING TO BE GOTTEN OVER’

A tsunami of dust washed over emergency medical technician Guy Sanders, so thick that it clogged his surgical mask.

The 47-story building at 7 World Trade Center had just collapsed, about seven hours after the burn-ing towers fell and debris ignited fires in the smaller high-rise.

A part-time EMS supervisor for a private ambulance company in the city, Sanders had scrambled to respond from his day job at a Long Island collections agency. He was en route when the tow-ers collapsed, killing eight EMS workers, including his colleague Yamel Merino. Sanders went to funeral after funeral for EMTs, firefighters and police.

Yet 9/11 only deepened his commitment to EMS. Though it was tricky financially, he soon went full time.

“I never wanted to be in a situation where people needed me and I couldn’t immediately respond,” he says.

He still doesn’t. But health problems — including a rare cancer that the federal govern-ment has linked to trade center dust exposure — forced his 2011 retirement, says Sanders, 62, now living near Orangeburg, S.C.

“You get people telling you, ‘Well, (9/11) happened so long ago. Get over it.’ But it is a trauma,” says Sanders, who joined a support group for first responders and survivors. “It’s not something to be gotten over. It’s something to be addressed.”

‘SURVIVING IS ONLY THE FIRST PIECE OF THE JOURNEY’

Breathing through an oxygen mask in a hospital bed, Wendy Lanski told herself: “If Osama bin Laden didn’t kill me, I’m not dy-ing of COVID.”

Nearly two decades earlier, the health insurance manager es-caped the north tower’s 29th floor and ran, barefoot, through the dust cloud from the south tower’s collapse. Eleven of her Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield colleagues died.

“The only good thing about surviving a tragedy or a catastro-phe of any kind is: It definitely makes you more resilient,” says Lanski, who was hospitalized with the coronavirus — as was her husband — for two touch-and-go-weeks in spring 2020.

But “surviving is only the first piece of the journey,” says Lanski, 51, of West Orange, N.J.

She has the twin towers, “9/11/01” and “survivor” tat-tooed on her ankle. But the at-tacks also left other marks, ones she didn’t choose.

Images and sounds of falling people and panes of glass lodged in her memory. She was diag-nosed in 2006 with sarcoidosis, she said; the federal government has concluded the inflammatory disease may be linked to trade center dust. And she has asked herself: “Why am I here and 3,000 people are not?”

Over time, she accepted not knowing.

“But while I’m here, I’ve got to make it count,” says Lanski, who has spoken at schools and traveled to conferences about terror victims. “I’ve got to make up for 3,000 people who lost their voice.”

‘IT MOTIVATES ME TO LIVE A BETTER LIFE’

Buried in darkness and 20 feet or more of rubble from both tow-ers, Will Jimeno was ready to die.

The rookie with the Port Au-thority of New York and New Jersey Police Department was in searing pain from a fallen wall pinning his left side. Fellow officer Dominick Pezzulo had died next to him. Flaming debris had fallen on Jimeno’s arm and heated the cramped area enough that Pezzulo’s gun fired, sending a flurry of bullets past Jimeno’s head. He had yelled for help for hours. He was terribly thirsty.

“If I die today,” he remembers thinking, “at least I died trying to help people.”

Then Jimeno, who is Catholic, had what he describes as a vision of a robed man walking toward him, a bottle of water in his hand.

We’re going to get out, he told Sgt. John McLoughlin, who was trapped with him.

It was hours — of pushing back pain, thinking of rescues in past disasters, talking to keep alert — before they were found and gru-elingly extricated by former U.S. Marines, NYPD officers, a one-time paramedic and firefighters as blazes flared and debris shifted and fell.

“If you wanted to picture what hell looked like, this was probably it,” recalls then-NYPD Officer Ken Winkler.

Jimeno was freed around 11 p.m., McLoughlin the next morning. Jimeno underwent sur-geries and lengthy rehabilitation.

But he says his psychologi-cal recovery was harder. Trivial things made him lose his tem-per — fueled, he now realizes, by anger about the deaths of colleagues and people rescuers couldn’t help. At times, he says, he thought of suicide. It took three years and multiple thera-pists before he mastered warding off the outbursts.

It has helped to tell his story in talks, in the 2006 Oliver Stone movie “World Trade Center,” and in Jimeno’s two newly released books — the illustrated “Immi-grant, American, Survivor” for children, and “ Sunrise Through the Darkness,” about coping with trauma.

The Colombian-born U.S. Navy veteran hopes that people see in his story “the resiliency of the human soul, the American spirit,” and the power of good people stepping up in bad times.

Sept. 11 “motivates me to live a better life,” says Jimeno, 53, of Chester, N.J. “The way I can honor those we lost and those that were injured is to live a fruit-ful life. To be an example to oth-ers that Sept. 11 did not destroy us.”

New York City-based AP reporter Jennifer Peltz has covered the aftermath of 9/11 for more than a decade, including the rebuilding and memorial efforts at ground zero.

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RICHARD DREW / AP

Will Jimeno, the former Port Authority police officer who was rescued from the rubble of the attacks at the World Trade Center, shows how he crossed his arms with the signs for “I Love You,” during an interview in his home in Chester, N.J.. It was to be a sign to his family if he died in the rubble.

SEAN RAYFORD / AP

Guy Sanders was an EMT who responded to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and was on the scene when 7 World Trade Center collapsed. Sanders, who is originally from Brooklyn and now lives in South Carolina, went to funeral after funeral for EMTs, firefighters and police to show appreciation for their sacrifice.

MARK LENNIHAN / AP

Désirée Bouchat, a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, looks at photos of those who perished, in a display at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York. “Some days, it feels like it happened yesterday,” she says. For a while after the attacks, Bouchat told everyone, including herself: “I’m fine. I’m alive.” But “I was a walking zombie,” she says now.

WONG MAYE-E / AP

Winkler holds a broken piece of glass from the fallen World Trade Center, which he keeps in his office. “Somebody once asked me, ‘How often do you think about it?’ I told him it’s easier to count the days when you don’t think about it,” says Winkler, who now manages Manhattan’s cruise ship terminal.

WONG MAYE-E / AP

Retired police officer Ken Winkler helped coordinate the New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit’s response at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, ducking behind a truck to escape the debris when the south tower collapsed. “It went from a clear day to various shades of gray and black ... from kind of organized chaos to just chaos,” recalls Winkler.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s aggressive push to require millions of U.S. workers to get vaccinated against the corona-virus is running into a wall of resistance from Republican leaders threatening everything from lawsuits to civil disobedience, plunging the coun-try deeper into culture wars that have festered since the onset of the pandemic.

In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster says he will fight “to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian.” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a potential 2024

presidential candidate, says she is preparing a lawsuit. And J.D. Vance, a conservative running for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, is call-ing on businesses to ignore man-dates he describes as Washington’s

“attempt to bully and coerce citizens.”

“Only mass civil dis-obedience will save us from Joe Biden’s naked

authoritarianism,” Vance says.Biden is hardly backing down.

In a visit to a school on Friday, he accused the governors of being “cavalier” with the health of young Americans, and when asked about foes who would file legal chal-lenges, he retorted, “Have at it.”

The opposition follows Biden’s announcement Thursday of a

major plan to tame the corona-virus as the highly contagious Delta variant drives 1,500 deaths and 150,000 cases a day. Biden is mandating that all employers with more than 100 workers require their employees to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, af-fecting about 80 million Ameri-cans. Another 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be vaccinated, as will all employees of the ex-ecutive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government.

The move brought Republi-can outrage from state capitals,

Biden’s vaccine rules ignite hot opposition

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President Joe Biden, with first lady Jill Biden, speaks during a visit at Brookland Middle School in northeast Washington on Friday.

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press

New U.S. studies released Fri-day show the COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations and death even as the extra-contagious delta variant swept the country.

One study tracked over 600,000 COVID-19 cases in 13 states from April through mid-July. As delta surged in early summer, those who were unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than the fully vaccinated to get infected, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die, according to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention.

“Vaccination works,” Dr. Ro-chelle Walensky, CDC’s director, told a White House briefing Friday. “The bottom line is this: We have the scientific tools we need to turn the corner on this pandemic.”

But as earlier data has shown, protection against coronavirus infection is slipping some: It was 91 percent in the spring but 78 percent in June and July, the study found.

So-called “breakthrough” cases in the fully vaccinated accounted for 14 percent of hospitalizations and 16 percent of deaths in June and July, about twice the percent-age as earlier in the year.

An increase in those percent-ages isn’t surprising: No one ever said the vaccines were perfect and health experts have warned that as more Americans get vacci-nated, they naturally will account for a greater fraction of the cases.

Walensky said Friday that well over 90 percent of people in U.S. hospitals with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

CDC released two other studies Friday that signaled hints of wan-ing protection for older adults. One examined COVID-19 hospi-talizations in nine states over the summer and found protection for those 75 and older was 76 percent compared to 89 percent for all other adults. And in five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, protection against COVID-19 hospitaliza-tions was 95 percent among 18- to 64-year-olds compared to 80 per-cent among those 65 and older.

It isn’t clear if the changes seen over time are because immunity is waning in people first vaccinated many months ago, that the vac-cine isn’t quite as strong against delta — or that much of the coun-try abandoned masks and other precautions as delta spread.

CDC finds unvaccinated 11 times more likely to die of COVID

BY FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America / AP

FORT BLISS, Texas — The Biden administration on Friday provided the first public look inside a U.S. military base where Afghans air-lifted out of Afghanistan are being screened, amid questions about how the government is caring for the refugees and vetting them.

“Every Afghan who is here with us has endured a harrowing journey and they are now faced with the very real challenges of acclimating with life in the United States,” Liz Gracon, a senior State Department official, told reporters.

The three-hour tour at Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, was the first time the media has been granted broad access to one of the

eight U.S. military installations housing Afghans.

But even so, reporters, includ-ing those with The Associated Press, were not allowed to talk with any evacuees or spend more than a few minutes in areas where they were gathered, with military officials citing “privacy concerns.”

Nearly 10,000 Afghan evacuees are staying at the base while they undergo medical and security checks before being resettled in the United States. The operation was described by officials at the Department of Homeland Secu-rity and Department of State as a “historic” and “unprecedented” effort to facilitate the relocation of a huge number of refugees in less than a month’s time.

On Friday, Afghan children

with soccer balls and basketballs played outside large white tents. Families walked down a dirt drive-way with stacks of plastic food containers piled under their chins and Coca-Cola cans under their arms. One young girl, still wearing dirty clothing, cried in the middle of the road after her food spilled and soldiers attempted to help her. Inside the containers, which refugees had spent around 15 minutes in line for in the blister-ing sun, were traditional Afghan meals of basmati rice and hearty stew.

The U.S. government spent two weeks building what it calls a vil-lage to house the Afghans on the base. It is a sprawling area with

US gives 1st public look inside base housing Afghanistan refugees

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A man walks with a child through Fort Bliss’ Doña Ana Village where Afghan refugees are being housed in New Mexico Friday.

BY DAVID B. CARUSO The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The dust cloud caught Carl Sadler near the East River, turn-ing his clothes and hair white as he

looked for a way out of Manhattan after escaping from his office at the World Trade Center.

Gray powder billowed through the open windows and terrace door of Mari-ama James’ downtown apartment, set-tling, inches thick in places, into her rugs and children’s bedroom furniture.

Barbara Burnette, a police detective, spat the soot from her mouth and throat for weeks as she worked on the burning rubble pile without a protective mask.

Today, all three are among more than 111,000 people enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program, which gives free medical care to people with health problems potentially linked to the dust.

Two decades after the twin towers’ col-lapse, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to the attacks.

To date, the U.S. has spent $11.7 bil-

lion on care and compensation for those exposed to the dust — about $4.6 billion more than it gave to the families of peo-ple killed or injured on Sept. 11, 2001. More than 40,000 people have gotten payments from a government fund for people with illnesses potentially linked to the attacks.

Scientists still can’t say for certain how many people developed health problems as a result of exposure to the tons of pul-verized concrete, glass, asbestos, gypsum and God knows what else that fell on Lower Manhattan when the towers fell.

Many people enrolled in the health program have conditions common in the general public, like skin cancer, acid

reflux or sleep apnea. In most situations, there is no test that can tell whether someone’s illness is related to the Trade Center dust, or a result of other factors, like smoking, genetics or obesity.

Over the years, that has led to some friction between patients who are ab-solutely sure they have an illness con-nected to 9/11, and doctors who have doubts.

•••“Most people thought I was crazy back

then,” Mariama James says.She initially had a hard time per-

suading doctors that the chronic ear

Even now, fallout from toxic WTC dust grows

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In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, people covered in dust from the collapsed World Trade Center buildings walk through the area in New York.

VIRGIL CASE / AP FILE

In this Sept. 12, 2001, file photo, firefighters work in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers in New York. Two decades after the twin towers’ collapse, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to the attacks.

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infections, sinus issues and asthma afflicting her children, or her own short-ness of breath, had anything to do with the copious amounts of dust she had to clean out of her apartment.

Years of research have produced par-tial answers about 9/11 health problems like hers. The largest number of people enrolled in the federal health program suffer from chronic inflammation of their sinus or nasal cavities or from reflux disease, a condition that can cause symp-toms including heartburn, sore throat and a chronic cough.

The reasons for this are not well un-derstood. Doctors say it could be related to their bodies getting stuck in cycles of chronic inflammation initially triggered by irritation from the dust.

Post-traumatic stress disorder has emerged as one of the most common, persistent health conditions, afflicting about 12,500 people enrolled in the health program. Nearly 19,000 enrollees have a mental health problem believed to be linked to the attacks. More than 4,000 patients have some type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a fam-ily of potentially debilitating breathing problems.

Time has helped heal some physical ailments, but not others. Many first responders who developed a chronic cough later had it fade, or disappear entirely, but others have shown little improvement.

About 9 percent of firefighters exposed to the dust still report a persistent cough, according to Fire Department research. About 22 percent report experiencing shortness of breath. About 40 percent still have chronic sinus problems or acid reflux.

Tests on Fire Department personnel who spent time at ground zero found that their lung function declined 10 to 12 times greater than the rate normally expected due to aging in the first year after 9/11.

On the encouraging side, doctors say their worst fears about a possible wave of deadly 9/11 cancers haven’t come true.

Not yet, at least.•••

Nearly 24,000 people exposed to trade center dust have gotten cancer over the past two decades. But for the most part, it has been at rates in line with what researchers expect to see in the general public. The largest number have skin cancer, which is commonly caused by sunlight.

Rates of a few specific types of cancer — including malignant melanoma, thy-roid cancer and prostate cancer — have been found to be modestly elevated, but researchers say that could be due to more cases being caught in medical monitor-ing programs.

“We really don’t have the tremendous elevations in cancer I was afraid of,” says Dr. Michael Crane, director of the World Trade Center health clinic at Mount Si-nai. “I was terrified that we were going to have epidemic lung cancer.”

One study showed that cancer mortal-ity rates have actually been lower among city firefighters and paramedics exposed to Trade Center dust than for most Amer-icans, possibly because frequent medical screenings caught cancers early.

Beneficiaries of that screening include people like Burnette, who initially started getting treatment at the Mount Sinai clinic for a lung disease — hypersensitiv-ity pneumonitis with fibrosis — that she developed after spending three weeks in the swirling dust at ground zero.

During one of those visits in 2017, a scan wound up detecting lung cancer.

“Had I not been in the program, or not seen Dr. Crane, I don’t know that they would have found it,” Burnette says. Since then she has had two rounds of chemotherapy. It hasn’t cured her, but it has kept the cancer at bay.

In the federal health program’s early years, many people enrolling were police officers, firefighters and other people who worked on the debris pile. More re-cently, though, a majority of applications have been from people who worked or lived in Lower Manhattan — folks like Carl Sadler, who was in Morgan Stanley’s 76th floor office in the Trade Center’s south tower when it was struck and rocked by a hijacked aircraft.

“There were millions of pieces of paper flying out. Credenzas. Computers,” Salder says. “We saw chairs flying by that looked like they had people in them.”

He worked his way down stairwells and escalators to the street, then moved away with the crowd. “As we got to Water Street, just a block away from the Fulton Fish Market, there was a huge explosion and the clouds and everything just turned black ash and gray and we were covered with soot,” he says.

Initially, Sadler’s health seemed fine. But a few years after the attacks, he started to get winded while exercising and suffering from recurring bronchitis. In his 60s, he had to give up some out-door pursuits like skiing and soccer.

“I just had breathing problems,” he says, “but I never knew what they were.”

Now 80, he has been diagnosed over the years with acid reflux disease, asthma, and also thyroid cancer and skin melanoma, for which he was successfully treated. He figured it was all just part of getting older until around 2017, when a friend suggested he register with the World Trade Center health program.

“He said, ‘You have a lot of health is-sues. You’ve had a lot of health issues. You should register,” Sadler says.

Last year another 6,800 people joined the health program. Not all its members are currently sick. Many have signed up in case they get cancer in the future. Some have had their conditions clear up. Last year, about 1,000 people in the program got in-patient treatment and around 30,400 got outpatient treatment, according to program statistics.

The victim compensation fund, which makes payments to people with illnesses linked to the attacks, has an unlimited budget from Congress, but the medical program has grown so much it might run out of money. Members of Congress have introduced a bill that would provide an additional $2.6 billion over 10 years to cover an expected funding gap starting in 2025.

Under the program, anyone who worked or lived in Lower Manhattan or a small slice of Brooklyn is eligible for free care if they develop certain illnesses. The list includes about a dozen types of airway or digestive disorders, 10 different psychological disorders and at least two dozen types of cancer.

Research is also underway to possibly add to the list of covered conditions. The program’s administrator, Dr. John How-ard, says conditions being studied now include autoimmune diseases, like rheu-matoid arthritis.

One early estimate was that as many as 490,000 people could wind up being cov-ered, in part because people don’t have to prove their sickness is related to the Sept. 11 attacks to qualify. If a person has a condition on the list, they are presumed to be eligible.

“We cover lung cancer, regardless of attribution issues,” Howard says. “If you have lung cancer, we don’t go through an analysis of how many pack years of smoking you engaged in.”

•••Viewed through the lens of public

health, what might the next 20 years after 9/11 hold for people who were there on that morning, and on the days and weeks that followed?

The average age of enrollees in the federal health program is now around 60, and Dr. Jacqueline Moline, director of the World Trade Center health clinic at the Northwell Health medical system, is concerned that people’s health problems will worsen as they age. Cancer caused by asbestos, she noted, can take as long as 40 years to develop after exposure.

“We are just getting to the point where we might start seeing stuff,” Moline says. She’s also deeply concerned about the long-term effect of post-traumatic stress.

In addition to the psychological harm, there are fears that the constant jolts of adrenaline and other stress hormones that come with PTSD could worsen heart problems or weaken the immune system. And with that, the emotional and physi-ological ripples of one day in September 20 years ago could collide in new and debilitating ways.

Crane, who has been treating ground zero responders since the beginning, says one thing is clear based on the continu-ing stream of new patients: The issue isn’t going away.

“They keep on coming,” he says. “They keep on coming in the door.”

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Congress and the campaign trail, includ-ing from many who have supported vac-cinations and have urged their constitu-ents to take the shots.

“The vaccine itself is life-saving, but this unconstitutional move is terrifying,” tweeted Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves.

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who has promoted the vaccines’ safety to his constituents, said, “The right path is built upon explaining, educating and build-ing trust, including explaining the risks/benefits/pros/cons in an honest way so a person can make their own decision.”

More than 208 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose, but some 80 million remain unvaccinated, driving infections. There are now about 300 percent more new daily COVID-19 infections, about two-and-a-half times the hospitalizations and nearly twice the num-ber of deaths as at the same time last year.

While breakthrough infections do hap-pen among the vaccinated, those cases tend to be far less severe, with the vast majority of deaths and serious illnesses occurring among those who have not received shots.

The pandemic is worsening in many of the states where governors are most loudly protesting the president’s actions. South Carolina, for example, is averaging

more than 5,000 new cases per day and has the nation’s second-highest infection rate. A hospital system there started can-celing elective surgeries this week to free staff to help with a crush of COVID-19 patients.

In a section of Idaho, overwhelmed hospitals have implemented new crisis standards to ration care for patients. And in Georgia, hospitals have been turning away ambulances bringing emergency or ICU patients.

“I am so disappointed that particularly some Republican governors have been so cavalier with the health of these kids, so cavalier with the health of their commu-nities,” Biden said during his school visit. “This isn’t a game.”

But Republicans and some union offi-cials say the president is overreaching his constitutional authority. They take issue, in particular, with the idea that millions could lose their jobs if they refuse to take the shots.

“That’s a ridiculous choice,” said Mis-sissippi Gov. Reeves.

Biden, however, says he’s doing what needs to be done to fight resistance that has continued despite months of encour-agement and incentives. In his White House speech announcing the new measures, he was visibly frustrated, crit-icizing the remaining holdouts and ac-cusing some elected officials of “actively working to undermine the fight against COVID-19.”

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scores of air-conditioned tents used as dormitories and dining halls on scrubby dirt lots, a landscape that in some ways resembled parts of the homeland they fled.

Under the program called “Operation Allies Welcome,” some 50,000 Afghans are expected to be admitted to the United States, includ-ing translators, drivers and others who helped the U.S. military during the 20-year war and who feared repri-sals by the Taliban after they quickly seized power last month.

Nearly 130,000 were air-lifted out of Afghanistan in one of the largest mass evacuations in U.S. history.

Many of those people are still in transit, undergoing security vetting and screen-ing in other countries, including Germany, Spain, Kuwait and Qatar.

Members of Congress have questioned whether the screening is thorough enough. Many of the Af-ghans who worked for the U.S. government have undergone years of vetting already before they were hired, and then again to ap-ply for a special immigrant visa for U.S. allies.

After they are released from the base, they will be aided by resettlement agen-cies in charge of placing the refugees. The agencies give priority to places where the refugees either have family already in the United States or there are Afghan immi-

grant communities with the resources to help them start a new life in a foreign land. Those with American citizenship or green cards are able to leave once arriv-ing at the base, according to a State Department representative.

If other evacuees — whose release is dependent on completing health pro-tocols mandated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — choose to leave prior to the full reset-tlement period, that may be used against them.

So far, no one at Fort Bliss has been released for resettlement.

The Pentagon has said all evacuees are tested for COVID-19 upon arriving at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.

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BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Reporter

SAN RAMON, Calif. — A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive bar-ricade guarding its closely run iPhone app store, but rejected allegations that the company has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and innovation.

The ruling issued Friday continues to chip away at the so-called “walled gar-den” that Apple has built around its crown jewel, the iPhone, and its app store, without toppling it completely.

The 185-page decision from U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers also provided Apple with some vindication. The judge didn’t brand Apple as a monopolist or require it to allow competing stores to offer apps for iPhones, iPads and iPods.

Those were two of the biggest objectives sought by Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite

video game that filed what it would hoped would be a landmark antitrust case last year after brazenly defying an exclusive payment sys-tem that funnels 15 percent to 30 percent of all in-app digital transactions on iP-hones to Apple.

Such transactions can include everything from Netflix or Spotify subscrip-tions to the sale of digital item such as songs, movies or virtual tchotchkes for video games. Epic cast that highly lucrative fee as a price-gouging tactic that wouldn’t be possible if com-peting stores were allowed to offer iPhone apps.

While parts of her deci-sion raised questions about whether Apple’s fees were driving up prices for con-sumers, Gonzalez Rogers left the fee structure intact and upheld the company’s right to block other stores from offering apps for its iP-hone. She sided with Apple on every other key point of the case.

But the judge did con-clude Apple has been engaging in unfair com-petition under California law, prompting her to order the company to allow de-velopers throughout the U.S. to insert links to other payment options besides its own within iPhone apps. That change would make it easier for app developers to avoid paying Apple’s commissions, potentially affecting billions of dollars in revenue annually.

The prospect of Apple taking a hit to its lofty profit margins rattled investors, causing the company’s stock price to fall by more than 3 percent in Friday’s trading.

Judge loosens Apple’s hold on app store in Epic decision

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In this Feb. 5 photo, an Apple store employee is shown in New York.

At least 1 dead in Mexico landslide

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Boulders that plunged from a mountainside rest among homes in Tlalnepantla, on the outskirts of Mexico City, where a mountain gave way on Friday. At least one person was dead and 10 others missing. Firefighters scaled the three-story pile of rocks that appeared to be resting on houses in Tlalnepantla, which is part of Mexico state. The state surrounds the capital on three sides. As rescuers climbed the immense pile of debris, they occasionally raised their fists in the air, the familiar signal for silence to listen for people trapped below.

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Delano IS growing, though I am surprised because I do not see many new

homes being built and consider the pandemic a likely cause of a slowdown.

Since I first re-ported on the build-ing of a local Popeyes at the corner of Cecil Avenue and Princeton Street, I have received a few calls from Henry Mendez, a broker for Central Valley Com-mercial Brokers, who has kept me updated on the project.

He says that the “deal” required two years to be completed. Dirt work should take place in the next 30 days, he said, and the business should be open by early 2022.

The business previously on the property, Trujillo’s Automotive, has moved to the old Yonaki au-tomotive building on Ellington Street about a block away from Cesar Chavez Park.

Henry, who as a youngster lived down the block from me and was a wrestler at Delano High, also said that permits were expected to be out this month and by the close of the year or in January that Boot Barn should go up at the corner of 17th Avenue and Glenwood.

The businesses that most peo-ple will be excited about are In-N-Out Burger and Chipotle. “They are also on the way,” he said. Lo-cation will be west of Home Depot on the northeast corner of Dover

Parkway and Woollomes. He said the project has already been approved by the city planning commission.

Henry also said that the state has three acres of property along the Dover Parkway and south of Clinica Sierra Vista that is on the east side of the road. Sometime in the fu-ture that will become the new DMV office, he said.

Although it is not property he is work-

ing with, he said he knew the brokers who are involved with the Sno White building going up at the Garces and Albany corner just across from the cemetery.

I also told him someone had told me of a Five Guys hamburger business that was to go up near Home Depot. He said he would check with the Realtor and get back to me.

The first event of Harvest Holi-days is the Tiny Tots, for which the deadline for entry has al-ready passed.

Harvest directors left me with a list of entrants for the Sept. 18 event, which is likely to be limited to parents.

Aaron Angulo, age 8, is candi-date for king and Sophia Baker and Genesis Fernndez, both age 9, for queen.

In the 5-6 category, princess

candidates are Aubrey Baker and Pilar Cardenas Lopez, both age 6, and Emilie Ramirez, age 5. In the prince category, candidates are Edgar Angul Eloy Mendoza and Nicco Cardenas Lopez, all age 5.

In the ages 3-4 division, Aaron Lopez and Levi Cook, both age 3, and Anthony Gage Jimenez, age 4, are contesting for the title of duke with Analia Gonzalez and Alina Ariza, both age 4, and Violet Rico, age 3, all taking part in the duch-ess category.

The Harvest Holidays scholar-ship program for girls vying for queen has been expanded this year to include boys competing for the title of king and schol-arships as well.

Liz Morris, Delisa Gallego and Octavio Nunez are preparing the eight girls and four boys for the event, which the group hopes to be able to present to the public on Saturday, Sept. 25. Admission will be $10.

Harvest Holidays directors are selling 2021 grand marshal and king/queen barbecue tickets for $15. At the Saturday, Oct. 9 event at Delano First Assembly of God Church, 2222 9th Ave., the charge will be $20. Serving will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A fire at a Delano packing shed on Glenwood Street recently prompted school officials to cancel classes for the day or

delay school’s start in reaction to the possibility of the fire spreading.

COVID-19 has affected some students locally; the rural Colum-bine School had to actually can-cel classes for a few days. Cesar Chavez High, because of COVID, had to cancel its season-open-ing football game with Delano High, and it has affected some of its football players and other students.

Delano High’s homecoming on Sept. 3 crowned footballer Rob-ert Andrade as king and Neyda Magallanes as queen.

Other king and queen candi-dates by couples were Andrew Carrasco/Esmeralda Magallanes and Raymond Delgado/Julissa Tarango.

Underclass prince and prin-cesses for classes were juniors Bryan Garcia and Idallis Torres, sophomores Angel DeGuzman and Demeer Salgado, and fresh-men Elijah Storres and Jacqueline Flores.

Class leader positions at Del-ano High School were voted upon in recent elections.

Leading the seniors will be An-drea Escareno as president and Neyda Magallanes Tovar as vice president.

Nevaeh Minel has been voted the junior president. The vice president post is still vacant.

Leading sophomores are pres-ident Ally Herrera and vice presi-dent Brianna Galvan.

Leaders of the freshman class are president Andrew Marquez and vice president Aracely Soto.

Homecoming Sept. 3 for Delano High School brought back quite a few alumni.

One parent I ran across was Mrs. Gurrola, whose daughter was a DHS cheerleader several years ago before transferring to Tulare Western. She must have been proud of her grandson, Jayden Gurrola, as he intercepted three passes for Delano in the fourth quarter.

Another former cheerleader who I did not recognize was one of the Magallanes twins. Twins Karina and Korina were senior cheerleaders at Delano High, but I still am unsure which one I spoke to at the game.

Delano High football was set to be the visiting team for a Sept. 9 matchup with Robert F. Kennedy High at Delano High’s Gene Beck Stadium. Kennedy’s stadium is having new astro-turf put in.

With only 10 varsity seniors on the team, it was supposed to be a rebuilding year. But with 21 juniors and a handful of soph-omores, RFK appears to be a challenger for the South Sequoia League title this fall.

DELANO RAMBLINGS

New businesses on the way highlight Delano’s continued growth

GARY GIRARD

BY GENE GARAYGORDOBILThe Record

An evacuation order and shelter-in-place advisory early Sept. 3 were lifted hours after an on-site ammonia hazard was discovered at Solorio and Sons Cold Storage in Delano.

A fire broke out at Solorio and Sons Cold Storage at 710 Glenwood St. in Del-ano. Officials determined that ammonia onsite could cause a hazard.

Emergency personnel issued a shelter-in-place order if you lived or worked in Delano between 11th Avenue south to First Avenue, between Dover Street east to

Jefferson Street, on both sides of Highway 99.

The shelter-in-place order meant to go indoors, shut and lock doors and win-

dows, and prepare to self-sustain until further notice and/or being contacted by emergency personnel for additional direc-tion, emergency personnel stated.

An evacuation was issued for 9th Ave-nue south to First Avenue, between Fre-mont Street east to Glenwood Street. An evacuation center was set up at the 11th Avenue Center, 200 West 11th Ave. in Del-ano. The evacuation order meant that the fire at Solorio and Sons was an immediate threat to life.

At about 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, both the evacuation order and shelter in place advisories were lifted.

Fire at Solorio and Sons leads to evacuation

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A fire broke out Sept. 3 at Solorio and Sons Cold Storage.

BY TERESA ADAMOFor the Record

If eating a meal fuels the body, then sharing a meal fuels the soul.

That’s the philosophy behind Ad-ventist Health Delano’s latest food box distribution effort. On Tuesday, Aug. 24, boxes were shared with 350 staff members in order to dispense nour-ishment and comfort during these difficult times.

While the hospital has undertaken food drives in the past, this venture is unique in that it is directed so close to home.

“We tend to focus many of our efforts towards our community, but we realize that there is also a need internally,” said Matthew Cauthron, director of community integration at Adventist Health Delano. After learn-ing of an excess of food boxes in the community, the endeavor was turned inward. “With or without the pan-demic, we have associates who may be struggling.”

According to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-re-lief organization with a network of 200 food banks across the nation:

• Due to the effects of the coronavi-rus pandemic, more than 42 million people may be experiencing food insecurity, including a potential 13 million children.

• In Kern County, there are approx-imately 121,800 people living with food insecurity.

• The pandemic has most impacted families that were already facing hun-ger or were one paycheck away from facing hunger.

• Many households that experience food insecurity do not qualify for federal nutrition programs and visit their local food banks and other food programs for extra support.

The idea to alleviate burdens with the meal boxes came about after con-versations with Director of Spiritual Care Danny Parada about the private trials faced by some employees. These

struggles are not new, but they are hidden struggles many associates don’t discuss, instead devoting them-selves to serving others.

“Within our own workforce, there are folks in need,” said Cauthron. “As they show up to care for our commu-nity, we want to make sure we take care of them.”

Each food box, provided by Ad-ventist Health’s community partners, includes items such as oats, pasta, peanut butter, canned fruits, mixed vegetables, canned soups, pasta sauce and canned tuna.

As noted on the flyers placed on each of the food boxes, those associ-ates who are blessed enough not to need the food box contents are en-couraged to expand Adventist Health’s mission to inspire physical and men-tal wellness by passing it on to a fam-ily member or friend who does.

“This simple act of sharing food can accomplish the great task of providing hope,” said Cauthron.

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Adventist Health Delano leadership prepare to distribute food boxes to employees. Standing from left to right are Marvin Rouhotas, director of operations; Danny Parada, director of mission and spiritual care; David Butler, president of Adventist Health Delano; Rodelia Garbanzos, director of human performance; and Matthew Cauthron, director of community integration.


Two Delano men died Sept. 1 in a morn-ing car crash south of Porterville along Road 192 north of Avenue 104.

The men were identified by the Tulare County Coroner’s Office as driver Ruben Morales, 25, of Delano, and his 74-year-old passenger, Pedro Vicario, also of Delano.

On Wednesday, Sept. 1, at about 6:50 a.m., the California Highway Patrol received a call of a two-vehicle collision on Road 192 just north of Avenue 104. Officers from the Porterville CHP and medical per-sonnel went to the scene.

Investigators said Morales was driving a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier north on Road 192 at about 55 to 60 miles per hour. Carlos Tapia Valencia, 35, was driving a 1997 Chev-rolet Silverado south on Road 192, also at about 55 to 60 miles per hour.

For undetermined reasons, Morales allowed the Cavalier to travel off the east roadway edge of Road 192. The CHP said he turned the Cavalier to the left and allowed the vehicle to travel across all lanes, directly into the path of the Silverado. The front of the Silverado collided with the right side of the Cavalier and both vehicles came to rest on the west shoulder of Road 192, the CHP said.

As a result of the crash, Morales and Vicario both died from their injuries at the scene. Valencia was transported to Kaweah Delta Medical Center with minor injuries. Road 192 was closed for about three hours for investigation.

Neither alcohol nor drugs are considered to be a factor in this collision, the CHP said.

This collision remains under investigation.

2 Delano men killed in crash


Delano police arrested a man last week after they said he threw Molotov cocktails into the Kern County Human Services building.

On Aug. 31 at about 11:28 am, Delano police officers were dispatched to the Hu-man Services building at 1816 Cecil Ave. regarding objects thrown through several windows.

Police said the suspect, Alejandro Men-doza Rodriguez, 30, also threw canisters containing flammable liquids, known as Molotov cocktails, into the building, caus-ing a fire inside.

A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer witnessed Rodri-guez’s actions and detained him until Del-ano police arrived, officials said.

Although DHS was open to the public, with several employees inside the building, no major injuries were reported, police said.

The Kern County Fire Department Arson Unit is assisting in the investigation.

Rodriguez was charged with several felo-nies, including possession of a destructive device, and booked into the Kern County jail.

Man arrested in arson at Human Services building

Feed the soul Adventist Health Delano distributes boxes of blessing to its employees

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I ask this question to those who believe in the God of the Bible. While

I recognize there are others with various re-ligious persua-sions outside of Christianity, I ask this ques-tion to those who say they believe in the God of the Bible. What makes you so sure God is real? Does the Bible have any relevance in your belief system or are you driven by your feelings and emotions?

A “good feeling” about your belief in God does not make it so. As a man who

has a strong persuasion in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Jesus Christ, I am not persuaded because

of a “feeling.” I often hear people say they believe in God because they have “a good feeling” when they think about God. “A good feeling” is not evidence of the existence

of God. There is not enough room for me to expound on the existence of God. The Bible is a collection of comprehensive writings with plenty of evidence of his existence through his-

torical, archaeological and scientific findings.

There are some who I classify as “Christian athe-ists.” Such individuals are those who claim to believe in God but live as if he doesn’t exist. These individ-uals may frequent a church setting but never open their Bible or share their faith with non-believers. It’s be-cause they have a “form of godliness.” It’s all pretense. They’ve got the “church thing” down packed and live a life where their con-science is soothed by their form of religiosity.

So to the professing believer in God: How per-suaded are you about the creator? Is he worth living

for where you pray “not my will, but your will be done”? Do you deny yourself and take up your cross daily to follow him? Does your “Christianity” contradict the Scriptures? Are you sure you believe in the God of the Bi-ble or do you deny him with your lifestyle?

There’s much to think about on this essential sub-ject. If you’re going to be-lieve in God, make sure you believe in him as the Scrip-tures teach (Luke 9:57-62; 1 Corinthians 15:31; Matthew 6:10; 2 Timothy 3:5).

David Vivas Jr. is the pastor at World Harvest Interna-tional Church in Delano.

Are you sure that God really does exist?COMMUNITY VOICES

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COUCH’S CORNER

DAVID COUCH

In this week’s Couch’s Corner, I wanted to showcase a new and

exciting recycling program in Kern County. Americans dispose of ap-proximately 10 million metric tons of glass annually. Most of it ends up in the trash. Only about a third gets recycled. Glass has an un-limited life and can be recycled endlessly to make new glass products with no loss in quality.

Recycling glass has many proven environmental ben-efits, such as the reduction in emissions, energy savings and reduction in the con-sumption of raw materials. Some 93 percent of resi-

dents and consumers expect to be able to recycle glass.

Bottle recycling rates have dropped sharply in Califor-nia over the past decade.

Even before the pandemic hit, Californians were having trouble finding places to recycle their bottles. Hundreds of buy-back centers had already shut down over the

past year. Now, many of the remaining centers have also closed, at least temporarily, to help stop the virus from spreading.

Kern Alliance of Business Inc., a California nonprofit public benefit corporation doing business as Recycling Lives, desires to eliminate

New recycling program in Kern has multiple benefi tsnon-CRV glass bottles from being taken to the local landfill through its Recycling Lives Program.

KAB serves as the non-profit arm of Employers’ Training Resource, a depart-ment within Kern County. ETR is the fiscal and admin-istrative agent for the Kern, Inyo and Mono Counties Workforce Development Board and has been pro-viding workforce training services in Kern County for more than 40 years.

Recycling Lives was estab-lished as a California non-profit corporation started by one of my current staff members, Sal Moretti, in October 2017 with the intent to break the cycle of home-lessness, poverty and incar-ceration by recycling lives and glass in Kern County. In February 2018, RL made a determination that KAB was in a better position to ensure the successful oper-ation of the RL program due to its connection with ETR and the partnerships that

ETR has formed through the workforce development system.

RL is partnering with Ba-kersfield Adult School within Kern High School District for training services for par-ticipants. RL is also working with The Mission at Kern County, Bakersfield Home-less Center, Kern County Probation, Garden Pathways and Kern County’s Behav-ioral Health and Recovery Services to identify eligible participants for the program.

On June 15, BAS started its first cohort of eight par-ticipants. One of the par-ticipants left the program due to finding a high-paying employment opportunity. The RL program includes classroom training on basic safety and equipment op-eration, soft skills and basic work readiness. In addition, the facility will provide equipment operation train-ing, forklift training and warehouse management training.

On July 30, all seven par-

ticipants completed the program; five were hired by employers throughout Kern County and two have been rehired by the RL program to act as warehouse logistic leads for the second cohort. Eight participants enrolled in the second cohort, which commenced on Aug. 18 and continues until Nov. 18.

RL is using the Andela Glass Pulverizer System (Andela Recycling System), which turns small to large volumes of waste glass into fine sand or gravel and broken glass with no sharp edges or decorative glass of different colors. Partici-pants feed mixed, broken, unsorted glass and take out round-edged aggregate. The Andela Recycling System selectively reduces the glass into 3/8 of an inch in size or finer aggregate, but removes metal, plastics and paper without hand sorting. The sand will be sold in bulk to private businesses, as well as to cities and the county of Kern to be used for public

work projects. The deco-rative glass will be sold in bulk to businesses and the general public for landscape material.

KAB is providing opportu-nities for RL participants to access the entire workforce development system, which is designed to increase ac-cess to, and opportunities for, employment, education, training and supportive services that individuals need to succeed in the labor market, particularly those with disabilities, ex-offend-ers and other barriers to employment.

Much thanks to ETR, BAS and the Lazzerini Founda-tion for their contributions to make this program successful. If you have any questions about this or any District 4 matter, don’t hes-itate to call at 661-868-3680 or email us at [email protected]. Have a safe week.

David Couch represents Kern County’s 4th District.

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Running on the beach this time of year has become a tradition for the Stockdale cross country team, as the athletes have escaped the Bakersfield heat to participate in the Morro Bay Invitational in five of the past six years. The only exception was last year, when the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

But this year’s run is a bit more special, landing on the 20th an-niversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Mustangs girls coach Bree Tape wanted to commem-orate the historic date with her team’s annual pilgrimage to the coast.

“This popped into my head two

weeks ago,” said Tape, who was struck with the idea while running at the beach with her assistant coach Kim Roberts last week af-ter the team competed in Arroyo Grande. “I realized it was 9/11, and we just said, ‘let’s do this,’ and kind of just got the ball rolling. But just to be able to pay tribute on a special day will be great.”

In past years, after competing against other high schools in the 3-mile race, Tape typically gives her team the option of a bonus activity, running approximately six miles from nearby Morro Rock to the Cayucos Pier, where the run-ners can enjoy some downtime and lunch before heading to the

Stockdale to pay tribute to Sept. 11 fallen heroes

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The Stockdale cross country team with shirts that read, “Never Forget, 9.11 for 9/11,” to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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NEW YORK — If Novak Djokovic does complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam for a man since 1969 — and he is headed to the U.S. Open final, just one victory away — he, and every-one else, will remember one par-ticularly pivotal, and epic, game along the way.

It came at the conclusion of the third set of what eventually became a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Alexander Zverev in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows on Friday night, making Djokovic 27-0 in major championships this season.

Beating No. 2 Daniil Medvedev on Sunday for the title will allow Djokovic to secure two significant milestones. He would add the 2021 U.S. Open trophy to those he won at the Australian Open in February, French Open in June and Wimbledon in July. And the 34-year-old from Serbia would

collect his 21st Slam title in all, breaking the men’s career mark he currently shares with Roger Fed-erer and Rafael Nadal.

“There’s only one match left. ... All in. Let’s do it,” Djokovic said while he spread his arms wide in his on-court interview. “I’m going to put my heart and my soul and my body and my head into that one. I’m going to treat the next match like it is the last match of my career.”

That key game against Zverev featured one extended exchange after another, including a 53-shot, minute-plus point that was the longest of the tournament and ac-tually was lost by Djokovic. Zverev delivered a forehand winner, then hunched over with his hands on his knees. Djokovic went to grab a towel. Both men were breathing heavily as most of Arthur Ashe Stadium’s 21,139 spectators rose in unison on a cool, crisp evening.

But that one, tiny outcome didn’t matter. Never seems to with Djokovic, especially in best-

of-five-set matches on his sport’s most prestigious stages. As usual, he used his superb returning and never-take-a-rest defense to wear down Zverev.

So, yes, Djokovic lost that point — which was preceded by others lasting 13, 19, 22 and 31 shots, and followed by one that went 16 — but he won that game, and that

set with it. Just as he had lost the first set about 1 1/2 hours earlier but turned things around, with the help of a dip in level from the fourth-seeded Zverev. And just as, later, Djokovic lost the fourth set but immediately rebounded and was nearly untouchable while going ahead 5-0 in the fifth then held on.

Djokovic, who has spent more weeks at No. 1 in the ATP rankings than anyone, figures out what is re-quired to emerge on top and does it. In each of his past four matches — and 10 in all at the Slams this year — he trailed by a set and won.

He equaled Federer by getting to a 31st career Slam final; Djokov-ic’s total now includes a record nine in New York, where he has won three championships.

It will be Slam final No. 3 for Medvedev, a 25-year-old from Russia, who eliminated 12th-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 in the after-

1 to go: Djokovic into US Open final, nears year Grand Slam

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Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, reacts after defeating Alexander Zverev, of Germany, during the semifinals of the US Open tennis championships Friday in New York.


Michael Stewart’s tenure as football coach at Bakersfield High is over less than three seasons after returning to his alma mater, according to school administration.

The former NFL, Fresno State and BHS standout was hired after Paul Golla resigned and took over the football program at Garces prior to the 2019 season. Stewart was 8-11 overall, but 0-3 this sea-son against one of the more diffi-cult preseason schedules in recent memory.

Drillers offensive coordinator Rashaan Shehee was named the team’s interim coach. Shehee, who spent parts of two seasons as a running back with the Kansas City Chiefs, also serves as the school’s varsity girls basketball coach.

Although the Kern High School District is not involved in the hir-ing or firing of coaches, director of school support services Stan Greene did make a statement.

“We’re grateful for the time Coach Stewart has given our stu-dents and we wish him the best in his future endeavors,” Greene said.

BHS was coming off a 59-20 loss to Fresno-Central in its home opener last week, Bakersfield’s third loss to a top-25 opponent in as many weeks.

The Drillers were originally scheduled to play Ridgeview on Friday night, but health and safety protocols following a positive COVID-19 test by a Bakersfield player forced its cancellation.

The team has a bye next week before being slated to host Chats-worth-Sierra Canyon, ranked ninth in the state by CalHiSports, on Sept. 24.

Bakersfield High coach Stewart out

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Bakersfield High football coach Michael Stewart gives his team instructions against Fresno-Central last week.

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WEEK 4 UNDER THE LIGHTSFor more coverage of Friday night’s prep football games, visit Bakersfield.com

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Centennial’s Kevin Muana celebrates his fumble recovery versus Saint Joseph on Friday night.


Centennial’s Jonathan Boyd runs into the Saint Joseph secondary.


Centennial’s Levi Manning throws a completed pass versus Saint Joseph.

ABOVE: Foothill’s Kevin Sandoval nabs a pass over Taft’s Richard Rodrigues on Friday. LEFT: Foothill’s Tyson Reynolds gets shoved out of bounds and loses his helmet by Taft’s Caeden McAfee.PHOTOS BY ROD THORNBURG / FOR THE CALIFORNIAN

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TELEVISION TODAYAUTO RACINGFormula 1: Qualifying, Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy, 7:25 a.m.NASCAR Xfinity Series: The Go Bowling 250, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Va., NBCSN, 11:30 a.m.MotoAmerica Superbike: Day 1, New Jersey Motosports Park, Millville, N.J., FS2, 12 p.m.NASCAR Cup Series: The Federated Auto Parts 400 Sa-lute to First Responders, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Va., NBCSN, 4:30 p.m.

BASKETBALL2021 Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony, NBATV, 4 p.m.

COLLEGE FOOTBALLIllinois at Virginia, ACCN, 8 a.m.W. Kentucky at Army, CBSSN, 8:30 a.m.Youngstown St. at Michigan St., BTN, 9 a.m.Pittsburgh at Tennessee, ESPN, 9 a.m.South Carolina at East Carolina, ESPN2, 9 a.m.Miami (Ohio) at Minnesota, ESPNU, 9 a.m.Oregon at Ohio St., FOX, 9 a.m.Tulsa at Oklahoma St., FS1, 9 a.m.Alabama St. at Auburn, SECN, 9 a.m.Florida at South Florida, ABC, 10 a.m.Rutgers at Syracuse, ACCN, 11 a.m.Toledo at Notre Dame, PEACOCK, 11:30 a.m.Purdue at UConn, CBSSN, 12 p.m.Buffalo at Nebraska, BTN, 12:30 p.m.Air Force at Navy, CBS, 12:30 p.m.UAB at Georgia, ESPN2, 12:30 p.m.California at TCU, ESPNU, 12:30 p.m.Texas A&M vs. Colorado, Denver, FOX, 12:30 p.m.Ball St. at Penn St., FS1, 12:30 p.m.Mercer at Alabama, SECN, 1 p.m.Iowa at Iowa St., ABC, 1:30 p.m.SC State at Clemson, ACCN, 2 p.m.Portland St. at Washington St., PAC-12N, 3 p.m.Houston at Rice, CBSSN, 3:30 p.m.Texas at Arkansas, ESPN, 4 p.m.NC State at Mississippi St., ESPN2, 4 p.m.Appalachian State at Miami, ESPNU, 4 p.m.Eastern Michigan at Wisconsin, FS1, 4 p.m.Idaho at Indiana, BTN, 4:30 p.m.Missouri at Kentucky, SECN, 4:30 p.m.Washington at Michigan, ABC, 5 p.m.Jacksonville St. at Florida St., ACCN, 5 p.m.Vanderbilt at Colorado St., CBSSN, 7 p.m.San Diego St. at Arizona, PAC-12N, 7 p.m.Utah at BYU, ESPN, 7:15 p.m.UNLV at Arizona St., ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.Tennessee St. vs. Jackson St., ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.Stanford at Southern Cal, FOX, 7:30 p.m.Hawaii at Oregon St., FS1, 8 p.m.

GOLFEPGA Tour: The BMW PGA Championship, Third Round, Wentworth Club, London, GOLF, 4 a.m.PGA Tour Champions: The Ascension Charity Classic, Second Round, Norwood Hill Golf Club, St. Louis, GOLF, 12:30 p.m.

HORSE RACINGNYRA: The Irish Championship Stakes, FS2, 5:30 a.m.Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: The Turf Sprint and Turf Cup, Kentucky Downs, Franklin, Ky., NBC, 2 p.m.

MLB BASEBALLSan Francisco at Chicago Cubs, MLBN, 11 a.m.LA Angels at Houston, BSW, 4 p.m.NY Yankees at NY Mets, FOX, 4:30 p.m.San Diego at LA Dodgers, SNLA, 6 p.m.Arizona at Seattle, MLBN, 7:30 p.m.

SOCCER (MEN’S)SPL: Glasgow at St. Johnstone, CBSSN, 4:30 a.m.Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur at Crystal Palace, NBCSN, 4:30 a.m.Premier League: West Ham United at Southampton, NBCSN, 7 a.m.Premier League: Newcastle United at Manchester United, USA, 7 a.m.Premier League: Aston Villa at Chelsea, NBC, 9:30 a.m.

TENNISWTA: The U.S. Open, Championship, ESPN, 1 p.m.

SPORTSSATURDAY

TODAY’S LOCAL SCHEDULEJC WRESTLINGat Bakersfield, 9 a.m.

JC FOOTBALLEl Camino at Bakersfield, 6

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLKern Valley at McFarland, 11 a.m.Garces at Fresno-San Joaquin Memorial, 7:30Concord-Clayton Valley vs. Liberty at Brentwood-Lib-erty, 7:30

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALLLee Vining at Mojave, 11 a.m.Garces at Fresno-San Joaquin Memorial, 2Stockdale in Central California Classic at Merced-Golden Valley, TBA

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TENNISBakersfield, Centennial, Garces, Liberty, Ridgeview, Stockdale in Fresno-Cal Classic, TBA

HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRYArvin, Chavez, McFarland, Mira Monte, North, Shafter, Wonderful Prep in Delano Tigers Twilight Invitational, 8Bakersfield, Bakersfield Christian, Centennial, Frontier, Garces, Golden Valley, Mira Monte, Shafter, Stockdale, Wasco at Morro Bay Invitational, TBAEast, Foothill, Highland, Ridgeview, Tehachapi, Wasco at Independence Invitational, TBA

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS WATER POLOSanta Barbara Invitational, all day


Prior to Thursday night, it had been 10 years since Delano and crosstown rival Kennedy had met on the football field.

Plenty has changed in that time period. The last time current RFK coach Mario Millan patrolled the sidelines at Gene Beck Sta-dium it was as the Tigers head football coach, and all his players were in elemen-tary school. The same was true on the other sideline where Delano graduate Frank Gonzales Jr. is in his first year as coach at his alma mater.

Here’s hoping fans won’t have to wait so long for a rematch between the schools located on opposite sides of Highway 99 just two miles apart, because the much-anticipated matchup was intense.

Avian Pesina rushed for 227 yards and four touch-downs, including a 67-yard scoring run on the Thun-derbirds’ opening play from scrimmage, to help Ken-nedy pull away for a 41-14 victory over host Delano in a physical, highly-emotional battle of undefeated teams.

“It’s special for me, it’s special to be in this sta-dium,” Millan said. “Being on the other side is obvi-ously different, having been there for a long time, but it’s been a long time com-ing and I knew up until we played Delano, as much success as we’ve had, we never played Delano, so I was looking forward to fi-nally playing, to see where we stand. And we came out on top, so I think we’re in a good place.”

Emotions ran high. At least two players were ejected late in the game and opposing coaching staffs exchanged words in the sec-ond quarter while trying to separate players following a tackle near midfield on a kickoff return. Three per-sonal fouls were assessed, and more than a few fingers were pointed.

“It’s hard to keep our kids at bay at times,” Millan said. “They see each other all of the time, but no one could say anything because we hadn’t played each other. So I understand Delano being at home and being unde-feated and they have a great team, but our guys were excited about it, and were going to bring it. I knew

there was going to be a lot of emotions, but as a coaching staff we just talked to our kids about staying under control, regardless of the scenario.”

When the dust settled, the two teams played tough, hard-nosed football, coun-tering each other’s big plays during a highly-competitive first half before Kennedy wore Delano down in the second half..

The Thunderbirds (4-0), who lost momentum after giving up a late touchdown to the Tigers in the first half, regained control with a dominant run game in the final 24 minutes.

Pesina, who missed stretches of the second half with a leg cramp, put the exclamation point on an impressive night with a 25-yard touchdown run with 8:26 left in the game, capping a big night for the 5-foot-8, 185-pound run-ning back.

“(This game) meant the most, about who really runs it in Delano,” Pesina said. “We came out and put 41 points on the board, so that’s a statement. This was definitely one of my biggest games so far, hopefully there’s more to come.”

After his long scoring run on his opening carry, Pesina scored on runs of 28 and eight yards in the second quarter, the final of which gave his team a 21-7 lead with 2:07 left in the half.

But Delano (3-1), which entered this season with a 16-game losing streak,

countered with a touch-down of its own. George In-guito returned the ensuing kick-off to almost midfield, and after the Tigers drive stalled, took advantage of a prevent defense by the Thunderbirds and moved the ball to 5-yard line on a 45-yard run by Andrew Carrasco.

After spiking the ball to stop the clock, Delano quarterback Edward Silva made the most of a broken play and threw a short TD pass to Jayden Gurrola with seven seconds left in the quarter, curing the deficit to 21-14 entering halftime. Carrasco finished with a team-high 78 yards rushing on 11 carries, while Gurrola added four catches for 28 yards.

“Like I just told the kids right now, there’s no wins and losses, there’s wins and lessons,” Gonzales said. “To us this is a lesson. (Ken-nedy) is a team that’s been around for a while. They’ve been running this offense and defense for a long time. And they run it well, they run it efficiently, and they have good athletes. Some-times guys are just better than you on a day.”

But Kennedy took the second half kickoff and marched 70 yards on 15 plays, capped by a 1-yard scoring run by quarterback Julian Orozco, taking nearly 7 minutes off the clock.

After forcing Delano to punt, the Thunderbirds drove down the field again, with Hugo Mora scoring on a 3-yard run to build his

team’s lead to 34-14 with 21 seconds left in the third quarter. Mora finished with 129 yards rushing on 19 carries, part of a 403-yard rushing night for RFK.

“We have four guys who can run the ball for us, Pe-sina just happens to be the one on a streak right now,” Millan said. “I think we’re in a really good place. We kind of pride ourselves that if a guy’s a bad night, we have two other guys that will have a good night, and that’s usually what happens for us.”

Trailing 7-0 just two min-utes into the game, Delano’s offense seemed to come to life after junior Paul Carrillo stopped Kennedy’s Drake Sand for a 5-yard loss on a third-and-six play.

Following a Thunderbird punt, the Tigers drove 57 yards on 14 plays, and tied the game at 7-7 when full-back Alex Cervantes scored on a 1-yard run on the first play of the second quarter.

“Our guys got a chance to see … before the game it was like a playoff atmo-sphere,” Gonzales said. “I’ve been in a lot of playoff games with other teams, and it felt like that. There was a lot of emotions going on both sides. But I’m going to come here and establish what I can at Delano. I can’t worry about anyone else.

“We’re not going to be a stepping stone for anybody. Win or lose, we’re going to come out and fight and we’re going to scrap, and that’s the mentality I want our kids to have.”

Kennedy pulls away from Delano

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Kennedy quarterback Drake Sand runs against Delano during their game Thursday night. Kennedy won 41-14 to stay undefeated on the season.

Sports Betting LineMLB

NATIONAL LEAGUEFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINESan Francisco -192 at CHI CUBS +167at PHILADELPHIA -190 Colorado +160Washington -130 at PITTSBURGH +115Cincinnati -125 at ST. LOUIS +110at ATLANTA -211 Miami +184at L.A. DODGERS -198 San Diego +172

AMERICAN LEAGUEat OAKLAND -171 Texas +154Toronto (Gm. 1) -235 at BALTIMORE +190Toronto (Gm. 2) -155 at BALTIMORE +135Tampa Bay -165 at DETROIT +150at MINNESOTA -135 Kansas City +120at CHI WHITE SOX -190 Boston +160at HOUSTON -227 L.A. Angels +194

INTERLEAGUEMilwaukee -165 at CLEVELAND +150N.Y. Yankees -125 at N.Y. METS +110at SEATTLE -160 Arizona +140College Football

SATURDAYFAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOGat VIRGINIA 10 10 (55) Illinoisat ARMY 5½ 7 (53½) W. Kentuckyat MINNESOTA 20½ 19½ (54) Miami (Ohio)at MICH ST. 20½ 19½ (54) Youngstown St.at NWESTERN 20½ 19½ (54) Indiana St.at EAST CAROLINA 2 1 (58) S Carolinaat OHIO ST. 14 14½ (63½) OregonPittsburgh 1½ 3½ (57) at TENNat OKLAHOMA ST. 12½ 13½ (52½) TulsaFlorida 29 28 (58) at S. FLAWyoming 5½ 6½ (44½) at N. ILLINOISat VIRGINIA TECH 19 19 (54) Middle TennRutgers 1½ 2 (52) at SYRACUSEat NOTRE DAME 18½ 16½ (55) ToledoPurdue 32½ 33½ (57½) at UCONNat NEBRASKA 12 13½ (54½) Buffaloat GEORGIA 27½ 25½ (46) UABat PENN ST. 22½ 22 (57½) Ball St.Air Force 6½ 6½ (40½) at NAVYat TCU 9½ 11 (48) CaliforniaTemple 7 6½ (52½) at AKRONBoston College 37½ 37½ (59½) at UMASSat FAU 6 7 (48½) Ga. SouthernTexas A&M 17 17 (50½) at COLOSouth Alabama 14½ 15 (51) at BOWL GREENat IOWA ST. 3½ 4½ (46) IowaHouston 9½ 8 (54) at RICEat SMU 21½ 22 (73) North Texasat WISCONSIN 24 26 (52) E. MichiganTexas 6 6½ (57) at ARKat MIAMI 7½ 8 (54½) App St.NC State 2 2½ (55) at MISS ST.Memphis 5 5 (65) at ARK ST.at FIU 1 1 (55½) Texas St.Liberty 6 4½ (60½) at TROYat NM 18½ 18½ (54½) NM St.at KENTUCKY 5 5 (56) Missouriat N CAROLINA 25½ 25½ (66) Ga. St.at MICHIGAN 5½ 6½ (49) Washingtonat ARIZONA 1 1½ (47½) SD St.at COLORADO ST. 5½ 7 (51½) VanderbiltUtah 7 7 (48) at BYUat ARIZONA ST. 33 32 (53) UNLVat USC 17½ 17 (51½) Stanfordat OREGON ST. 11½ 11 (63½) HawaiiNFL

SUNDAYFAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOGJacksonville 2½ 3 (45½) at HOUMinnesota 3½ 3 (47½) at CINSeattle 2 3 (50½) at INDYat TENNESSEE 3 3 (52½) Arizonaat BUFFALO 6½ 6½ (48½) PittsburghSan Francisco 7½ 8½ (45½) at DETROITat WASHINGTON 1 1½ (44½) LA Chargersat CAROLINA 4 3½ (44½) N.Y Jetsat ATLANTA 3½ 3 (48½) Philadelphiaat NEW ENGLAND 1½ 3 (43½) MiamiDenver 1 3 (41½) at NYGat KANSAS CITY 5½ 5½ (54½) ClevelandGreen Bay 2 3½ (49½) at NOat LA RAMS 7 7½ (46½) Chicago

MONDAYBaltimore 5 3½ (50½) at VEGAS

GolfBMW PGA ChampionshipFridayAt Wentworth Golf ClubSurrey, EnglandPurse: $8 millionYardage: 7,267; Par: 72

SECOND ROUNDKiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand 64-68—132 -12Francesco Laporta, Italy 68-65—133 -11Laurie Canter, England 67-66—133 -11Adam Scott, Australia 65-69—134 -10Billy Horschel, United States 70-65—135 -9Justin Rose, England 67-68—135 -9Jamie Donaldson, Wales 69-66—135 -9Marcus Armitage, England 70-66—136 -8Shane Lowry, Ireland 70-66—136 -8Christiaan Bezuidenhout, S. Africa 64-72—136 -8Thomas Pieters, Belgium 70-66—136 -8Masahiro Kawamura, Japan 67-69—136 -8Fabrizio Zanotti, Paraguay 70-66—136 -8Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain 68-69—137 -7Tapio Pulkkanen, Finland 70-67—137 -7Sam Horsfield, England 72-65—137 -7Joachim B. Hansen, Denmark 69-68—137 -7Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark 70-67—137 -7Mikko Korhonen, Finland 70-68—138 -6Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 68-70—138 -6Martin Kaymer, Germany 70-68—138 -6Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 71-67—138 -6Ross Fisher, England 71-67—138 -6Matthias Schwab, Austria 69-69—138 -6

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-Connecticut 23 6 .793 —x-Chicago 15 14 .517 8Washington 11 18 .379 12New York 11 18 .379 12Atlanta 7 22 .241 16Indiana 6 22 .214 16½WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-Las Vegas 21 8 .724 —x-Seattle 20 10 .667 1½x-Phoenix 19 10 .655 2x-Minnesota 19 10 .655 2Dallas 12 17 .414 9Los Angeles 10 19 .345 11x-clinched playoff spot

FRIDAY’S GAMESWashington 82, Atlanta 74Minnesota 89, Indiana 72

TODAY’S GAMESNew York at Dallas, 5 p.m.Connecticut at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMESWashington at Chicago, 12 p.m.Indiana at Minnesota, 4 p.m.Seattle at Los Angeles, 6 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMESDallas at Las Vegas, 12 p.m.

MLSEastern Conference W L T Pts GF GANew England 16 4 4 52 45 28Orlando City 10 5 8 38 33 29Nashville 9 2 11 38 37 21New York City FC 10 7 4 34 37 22Philadelphia 8 7 8 32 28 24CF Montréal 8 7 7 31 30 27D.C. United 9 10 3 30 35 32Atlanta 7 7 9 30 28 28Columbus 7 10 6 27 27 32Inter Miami CF 7 9 5 26 22 31Chicago 6 11 5 23 24 33New York 6 10 4 22 23 25Cincinnati 3 10 8 17 21 38Toronto FC 3 13 6 15 26 47Western Conference W L T Pts GF GASeattle 12 4 6 42 35 19Colorado 12 4 5 41 31 20Sporting KC 11 5 7 40 37 26LA Galaxy 11 8 3 36 35 35Minnesota United 8 6 7 31 24 24

Portland 9 10 3 30 31 39Real Salt Lake 8 8 6 30 34 29Vancouver 7 7 8 29 29 32Los Angeles FC 7 9 6 27 32 31San Jose 6 8 8 26 24 30FC Dallas 6 10 7 25 32 36Austin FC 5 13 4 19 21 31Houston 3 10 10 19 24 36NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

FRIDAY’S GAMESAtlanta 3, Orlando City 0Portland at Vancouver, late

TODAY’S GAMESLA Galaxy at Colorado, 12:30 p.m.Minnesota at Seattle, 2 p.m.D.C. United at New York, 4 p.m.New York City FC at New England, 4 p.m.Toronto FC at Cincinnati, 5 p.m.Columbus at Miami, 5 p.m.Nashville at CF Montréal, 5 p.m.Austin FC at Houston, 5:30 p.m.Chicago at Sporting Kansas City, 5:30 p.m.San Jose at FC Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

SUNDAY’S GAMESReal Salt Lake at Los Angeles FC, 7:30 p.m.

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCE

EAST W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 0Miami 0 0 0 .000 0 0N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 0 0New England 0 0 0 .000 0 0

SOUTH W L T Pct PF PAHouston 0 0 0 .000 0 0Indianapolis 0 0 0 .000 0 0Jacksonville 0 0 0 .000 0 0Tennessee 0 0 0 .000 0 0

NORTH W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 0 0 0 .000 0 0Cincinnati 0 0 0 .000 0 0Cleveland 0 0 0 .000 0 0Pittsburgh 0 0 0 .000 0 0

WEST W L T Pct PF PADenver 0 0 0 .000 0 0Kansas City 0 0 0 .000 0 0L.A. Chargers 0 0 0 .000 0 0Las Vegas 0 0 0 .000 0 0NATIONAL CONFERENCE

EAST W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 0Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 0Washington 0 0 0 .000 0 0Dallas 0 1 0 .000 29 31

SOUTH W L T Pct PF PATampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 31 29Atlanta 0 0 0 .000 0 0Carolina 0 0 0 .000 0 0New Orleans 0 0 0 .000 0 0

NORTH W L T Pct PF PAChicago 0 0 0 .000 0 0Detroit 0 0 0 .000 0 0Green Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0Minnesota 0 0 0 .000 0 0

WEST W L T Pct PF PAArizona 0 0 0 .000 0 0L.A. Rams 0 0 0 .000 0 0San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 0 0Seattle 0 0 0 .000 0 0

THURSDAY’S GAMESTampa Bay 31, Dallas 29

SUNDAY’S GAMESArizona at Tennessee, 10 a.m.Jacksonville at Houston, 10 a.m.L.A. Chargers at Washington, 10 a.m.Minnesota at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 10 a.m.Philadelphia at Atlanta, 10 a.m.Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 10 a.m.San Francisco at Detroit, 10 a.m.Seattle at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at Kansas City, 1:25 p.m.Denver at N.Y. Giants, 1:25 p.m.Green Bay at New Orleans, 1:25 p.m.Miami at New England, 1:25 p.m.Chicago at L.A. Rams, 5:20 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMESBaltimore at Las Vegas, 5:15 p.m.

MLBAmerican League

EAST DIVISION W L Pct GBTampa Bay 88 53 .624 _Boston 80 62 .563 8½New York 78 63 .553 10Toronto 77 63 .550 10½Baltimore 46 94 .329 41½

CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBChicago 80 60 .571 _Cleveland 69 70 .496 10½Detroit 67 75 .472 14Kansas City 63 77 .450 17Minnesota 62 78 .443 18

WEST DIVISION W L Pct GBHouston 81 58 .583 _Oakland 76 64 .543 5½Seattle 76 64 .543 5½Los Angeles 69 71 .493 12½Texas 51 88 .367 30National Leauge

EAST DIVISION W L Pct GBAtlanta 75 65 .536 _Philadelphia 71 70 .504 4½New York 71 71 .500 5Miami 59 82 .418 16½Washington 58 83 .411 17½

CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GBMilwaukee 87 55 .613 _Cincinnati 75 67 .528 12St. Louis 71 69 .507 15Chicago 65 77 .458 22Pittsburgh 51 90 .362 35½

WEST DIVISION W L Pct GBSan Francisco 91 50 .645 _Los Angeles 88 53 .624 3San Diego 74 65 .532 16Colorado 65 77 .458 26½Arizona 45 95 .321 45½

FRIDAY’S GAMESN.Y. Mets 10, N.Y. Yankees 3Milwaukee 10, Cleveland 3Detroit 10, Tampa Bay 4Baltimore 6, Toronto 3San Francisco 6, Chicago Cubs 1Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3Atlanta 6, Miami 2Colorado 11, Philadelphia 2Cincinnati 4, St. Louis 2San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, lateBoston at Chicago White Sox, lateKansas City at Minnesota, lateL.A. Angels at Houston, lateTexas at Oakland, lateArizona at Seattle, late

TODAY’S GAMESSan Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m.Texas at Oakland, 1:07 p.m.Toronto at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m., 1st gameColorado at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m.Milwaukee at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at Detroit, 3:10 p.m.Washington at Pittsburgh, 3:35 p.m.Boston at Chicago White Sox, 4:10 p.m.Kansas City at Minnesota, 4:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Houston, 4:10 p.m.Cincinnati at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m.Miami at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m.Toronto at Baltimore, 4:35 p.m., 2nd gameN.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 4:40 p.m.Arizona at Seattle, 6:10 p.m.San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 6:10 p.m.

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scorching temperatures back home.

This year, Tape has measured out a few extra steps, making the combined run 9.11 miles — or as close as possible — and even printed shirts for her squad that say “Never Forget, 9.11 for 9/11.”

“It kind of dawned on me that we ask these kids to run this extra (stretch) and I thought this might be a way to encourage the kids to make the run,” said Tape, who also provides a bus to runners who decide not to make the extra trek, but expects at least 30 ath-letes and coaches to participate in the bonus run. “So I thought it sounded kind of like a fun thing.”

Boys cross country coach Tyus Thompson is excited to partici-pate, having the unique perspec-tive of doing so as an athlete and now as a coach.

“We’ve done this run for as long as I can remember, and so I think being able to tie it in (to 9/11 is great),” said Thompson,

who was in kindergarten when the terrorist attacks happened in 2001. “Just being able to have a talking moment before the meet and before the run, just to reit-erate just how lucky we are to be able to run in a race like this, and then be able to have the oppor-tunity to just be able to run freely on the beach and be with each other. I think that helps reflect the moment for these kids.”

For seniors, such as Kaitlyn Lavarious and Avery Ontiveros, being able to run is exciting in it-self after being limited to a three-week spring season due to the pandemic. The addition of the 9/11 run makes it extra special in their minds.

“It’s very special and a really cool idea,” Lavarious said. “It’s a nice way to honor the men and women (who lost their lives in the attacks). I wasn’t born yet when this happened, but you learn about it every year in school and it’s something we talk about. I think it’s just very special to be a part of this.”

Ontiveros has similar emotions about the event.

“It’s such an important part of our history, and since it’s re-ally important to Coach Tape, I wanted to do it in support of her and her husband, and the event in general,” Ontiveros said.

Although her athletes have only seen the event through ar-chived footage the past several years, Tape vividly remembers the infamous date, just a few weeks after starting a position as a math teacher at Stockdale.

“I distinctly remember it was my first year teaching and sitting in my classroom (when I found out),” said Tape, who also re-members current Mustangs foot-ball coach Brett Shelton being a student in her class at the time. “Basically, I just flipped on the television instead of teaching my math class that day.”

While running nine-plus miles may not sound like fun, Tape, Roberts and Thompson all plan to run alongside their teams. Al-though Thompson has given him-self an out if needed, after recently battling through a sore right knee suffered in an ultra-marathon in July, he’s going to give it a try.

“I ran five miles the other day and felt pretty good, so I should be alright, but I don’t plan on rac-ing any of the kids,” Thompson said with a laugh. “They don’t want to get beat by me, and I don’t want to look like a fool if I get beat. But I definitely plan on going out there, and it’s always fun. It’s good to get away from the heat, and nice to run on the beach along with everything else planned.”

Although the initial plan to connect the running with 9/11 was designed as more of an in-centive for her team, the idea became more meaningful for Tape as the plans began to de-velop. Her thoughts turned to her father, Tim Denison, who retired after a 36-year career with the Los Angeles City Fire Depart-ment, and to her husband, Jeff Tape, a Kern County firefighter, bringing thoughts of all those whose lost their lives on 9/11 to a much more personal level.

“It’s something that’s near and dear to my heart, needless to say,” Tape said. “It’s a way to sup-port what they do.”

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer will miss the rest of the season.

Major League Baseball and the players’ association extended his paid administrative leave Friday through the end of the World Series.

Bauer was placed on seven days’ paid leave July 2 under the union and MLB’s joint domestic violence and sexual assault pol-icy after a Southern California

woman said he choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual en-counters earlier this year. MLB

and the union have since agreed to several extensions.

The decision to extend the leave through the rest of the season had been expected, given that Bauer had not pitched since June 29 and was running out of time to get back in shape to return to the mound while games remained. The regular season is scheduled to end Oct. 3 and the minimum ramp-up time for pitchers is gen-erally regarded as three weeks.

“That’s more on the legal side, so I think for us just focusing on the baseball side, it really hasn’t af-fected the guys in the clubhouse,” manager Dave Roberts said.

The Dodgers are in the thick of the NL playoff race, trailing the first-place San Francisco Giants in their bid to win a ninth straight division title. Bauer’s absence has compounded the problems of a pitching staff beset by injuries.

He had a record of 8-2 and a 2.59 ERA in 17 appearances in his first season with the Dodgers. He’ll be paid his $28 million salary.

Asked if Bauer will ever pitch for the Dodgers again, Roberts said, “I have no idea. I just really haven’t given any thought to that.”

Bauer’s representatives issued a statement saying he had agreed to extend his administrative leave through the playoffs “in a measure of good faith and in an effort to minimize any distraction to the Dodgers organization and his teammates.”

“He continues to cooperate with the MLB investigation and refute the baseless allegations against him,” the statement said. “Again, by definition administra-tive leave is neither a disciplinary action nor does it in any way reflect a finding in the league’s investigation.”

The Pasadena Police Depart-ment last month delivered the results of its own three-month in-vestigation into the woman’s alle-gations to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office and the case is under review. The move came a week after Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman of Los Angeles Su-perior Court denied the 27-year-old San Diego woman’s request for a restraining order against Bauer.

In denying the civil domestic violence restraining order after a four-day hearing, Gould-Saltman said that according to the wom-an’s testimony, Bauer honored her boundaries when she set them. The judge said Bauer couldn’t know the boundaries the woman didn’t express to him.

The judge noted that in the woman’s communications with Bauer, the woman “was not am-biguous about wanting rough sex in the parties’ first encounter, and wanting rougher sex in the second encounter.”

Bauer has said through repre-sentatives that everything that happened between the two was “wholly consensual” in the nights they spent together at his home.

Bauer out for season as leave is extended

Bauer

noon. Medvedev was defeated by Djokovic in this year’s Australian Open final and by Nadal in the 2019 U.S. Open final.

“The more you lose something, the more you want to win it. The more you want to gain it and take it,” said Medvedev, who has lost only one set over the past two weeks. “I lost two finals. I want to win the third one.”

Djokovic is trying to go 4 for 4 at the majors over the course of one season, something last done in men’s tennis by Rod Laver 52 years ago. It was also done by Laver in 1962 and Don Budge in 1938. Three women have com-pleted what’s known as a true Grand Slam, most recently Steffi Graf in 1988. Serena Williams’

attempt in 2015 ended at the U.S. Open with a semifinal loss to Ro-berta Vinci.

As Friday night’s semifinal be-gan, the 81-year-old Laver was seated front and center behind a baseline in the President’s Box at Ashe.

A year ago in New York, when fans were banned because of the coronavirus pandemic, Zverev came oh-so-close to collecting his first major, taking a two-set lead and getting within two points of a championship before frittering it all away and losing to Dominic Thiem in a fifth-set tiebreaker.

Zverev came into Friday on a 16-match winning streak, a run that includes beating Djokovic in the Summer Games semifinals on July 30. That was in a best-of-three-sets format, though, which changes everything when it

comes to Djokovic. He is now 36-10 in matches that go five sets.

Here’s the thing about Djokovic, who occasionally rubbed his lower back with his left hand or hit his legs with his racket: What-ever the outward signs seem to say, his racket stays steady, he never stresses and he waits for the other guy to slip.

“It’s kind a hurricane, a tor-nado, of emotions that you’re going through in a sequence of one set or even one point. You are by yourself on the court, so there is no escape. You’ve got to find a way,” Djokovic said. “And I think, over the years, I have managed to develop a formula that works for me.”

Sure does.Against Zverev, things really

came alive six games and 20 minutes in, thanks to a terrific 24-stroke point in which Djokovic

tried a drop shot. Zverev got to it, replied at a seemingly impos-sible angle and — after Djokovic sprinted wide of the doubles alley and stretched to retrieve that, sneakers squeaking all the way — came up with a winner.

The crowd went wild. Zverev raised his right hand and wagged his fingers: “Louder!” Ten minutes later, three missed forehands and a double-fault by Djokovic put him in a 5-4 hole. Zverev, a 24-year-old from Germany with a game built on power, served out that set with the help of aces at 128 mph and 132 mph, and, on the last point, a serve at 128 mph that Djokovic shanked off his frame, sending the ball into the seats.

Zverev went from six unforced errors in that set to 13 in the sec-ond, and the match was even. In the third, some loose play by

Djokovic, and a backhand passing winner by Zverev, created a pair of break points. But Djokovic saved them and held to 3-2 with a fore-hand that clipped the baseline.

Zverev put a hand on his hip, disagreeing that the ball was in, but there is no recourse at the U.S. Open this year: All rulings come via electronic line-calling and can’t be disputed. There are no line judges to doubt or to ar-gue with.

Last year, there were, and Djokovic was disqualified from Flushing Meadows in the fourth round when a ball he hit after los-ing a game inadvertently struck a line judge in the throat. At the following major tournament, the pandemic-delayed French Open, Djokovic lost in the final to Nadal.

Since then, there have been deficits in Grand Slam matches for Djokovic, but no defeats.

DJOKOVICContinued from PAGE C1

BY GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers have traded the rights to Marc Gasol back to the Memphis Grizzlies, where the 36-year-old center spent his first 11 NBA seasons.

The Lakers also sent a sec-ond-round pick in 2024 and cash to Memphis on Friday in exchange for the draft rights to Chinese big man Wang Zhelin.

ESPN then reported the Griz-zlies intend to waive Gasol, who plans to begin the new NBA sea-

son at home in Spain. The move saves the Lakers about $10 mil-lion against the salary cap and the league’s luxury tax.

The 36-year-old Gasol av-eraged a career-low 5.0 points and 4.1 rebounds per game last season with the Lakers, who signed him to a two-year deal last November. The 7-foot-1 center never found a regular role in the injury-plagued Lakers’ rotation while they lost in the first round of the postseason.

Gasol’s role for the upcoming season looked increasingly tenu-

ous this summer after the Lakers signed centers Dwight Howard and DeAndre Jordan, who offi-cially returned to Los Angeles on Thursday. The Lakers also weren’t even certain Gasol wanted to return for another NBA season, prompting them to stock up on big men.

Gasol made three All-Star teams during his career with the Grizzlies, who first acquired his rights from the Lakers in the trade sending his older brother, Pau, to the Lakers in November 2008.

Gasol was traded from Mem-phis to Toronto in February 2019, and he won a championship ring later that season.

Gasol is averaging 14.0 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game in his NBA career as a playmaking center with strong defensive abilities as the former NBA Defensive Player of the Year. Those skills never translated into consistent con-tributions with the Lakers, who acquired center Andre Drum-mond near the trade deadline last season.

Lakers trade Marc Gasol’s rights back to Memphis

BY BRIAN MAHONEY The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Emma Radu-canu first met Leylah Fernandez at a tournament for players 12 and under, around the time one of Fernandez’s teachers urged her to give up the tennis dream.

They shared a love of the game and a connection to Canada, where Fernandez lived and Ra-ducanu was born, helping build a quick relationship. But the teenagers have much more in common — maybe more than they realized.

They will attract an audience to their U.S. Open women’s final Saturday that extends far beyond the fans who will be at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

“I just think that the matchup and what we’re seeing — those two ladies are touching a lot of young girls,” said Jorge Fernan-dez, Leylah’s father and coach.

People will be watching in Asia: The 18-year-old Raducanu’s mother is from China and the 19-year-old Fernandez’s is Fili-pino Canadian.

And in Latin America: Jorge Fernandez is from Ecuador.

And in Europe: Raducanu’s father is from Romania.

And, of course, in Canada: Fernandez was born in Montreal (although she has been based in

Florida for several years); Radu-canu was born in Toronto and still holds a passport from that country (her family moved to En-gland when she was 2).

Beyond being terrific tennis players, these teenagers are citi-zens of the world.

“This can only be good for the tennis game and for the WTA al-together,” said Jorge Fernandez, who answered questions during a Zoom interview Friday in En-glish, Spanish and French.

Leylah Fernandez was rel-atively unknown in the Phil-ippines and Ecuador before beating defending champion Naomi Osaka in the third round. She has since drawn plenty of at-tention from local media in both countries, with mentions of her family’s roots.

Char Abalos was among the fans who woke up early Friday in Manila to watch Fernandez beat No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka in a semifinal match that took place Thursday night in New York.

“She looks very calm but at the same time cheerful in the court,” Abalos said, noting that many tennis players are often quick to frown. “Leylah is so calm, just making sure that the crowd is enjoying.”

The player who emerges Sat-urday as a new face of tennis will

be a lot like last year’s U.S. Open champion. Osaka was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, with the family moving to New York when she was young.

Tennis also sent this year’s finalists on the move — in Fer-nandez’s case, her mother moved to California to help support the family while Leylah and her fa-ther remained in Canada to train.

Now, they live together in Florida, where Jorge Fernandez has remained during these two weeks while coaching from afar via phone conversations. He’s noticed the messages of en-couragement that in recent days included tweets from Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Leylah Fernandez didn’t al-ways have such support.

She remembers being in the fifth or sixth grade and being encouraged to quit spending so much time on her backhand and pay more attention to the blackboard.

“I remember one teacher, which was actually very funny — at the time wasn’t, but now I’m laughing,” Fernandez said. “She told me to stop playing tennis, ‘You will never make it and just focus on school.’”

Instead, her family dug in more, with Jorge Fernandez remembering his daughter win-ning a tournament at 12 that fea-tured players who were 16. Per-haps that got her ready for a U.S. Open draw that featured three players ranked in the top five.

After beating all of them in three sets, including Osaka, her opponent is Raducanu, who wasn’t even in the top 350 a few months ago. Nor was she even guaranteed to be in the U.S. Open a few weeks ago, having to play her way into the main draw through the qualifying rounds.

She is the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final. Radu-canu beat Fernandez in the ju-nior Wimbledon tournament in 2018, but their skills — and fans — have only grown.

“Obviously since then, we’ve both come very far in our games and as people,” Raducanu said. “I’m sure it’s going to be ex-tremely different to when we last encountered each other.”

This meeting is the first Grand Slam final between teenagers since the 1999 U.S. Open, when Serena Williams, 17, beat Martina Hingis, 18.

“I’m sure there will be a good atmosphere for both of us,” Ra-ducanu said.

The world will be watching.

Teen US Open finalists have fans all over

FRANK FRANKLIN II / AP

LEFT: Emma Raducanu, of Great Britain, reacts after defeating Maria Sakkari, of Greece, during the semifinals of the US Open tennis championships Thursday in New York. RIGHT: Leylah Fernandez, of Canada, reacts after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during the semifinals of the US Open tennis championships Thursday in New York.

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“Sweet Carolina” (2021, Romance) Lacey Chabert, Tyler Hynes. (DVS)

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tonight’s picks

Lauren Alaina and Tyler Hynes

8 p.m. on HISTORY9/11: Four Flights

The passengers on four airline flights — American 11, United 175, American 77 and United 93 — boarded their planes and de-parted for their destinations with no inkling of the fateful events that awaited them. This new two-hour documentary presents a powerful and personal take on some of those innocents on board, recounted by heartfelt narratives by their surviving fam-ily members and friends.

9 p.m. on HALLMARKMovie: Roadhouse Romance

Returning home following a tour of duty, Lt. Callie Jackson (Lau-ren Alaina) assumes she’ll pick up her civilian life right where she left it, but when she gets back to her hometown, she’s dismayed to discover that her grandfather’s barbecue restau-rant is struggling and her high school sweetheart has moved on to greener pastures. She’s really not in the mood, then, for a run-in she has with Luke (Tyler Hynes), a handsome TV director passing through town.

9:40 p.m. on FREEFORMMovie: Up

The Disney-Pixar teaming scores yet again with this de-lightful, sometimes emotional fantasy about a cranky senior citizen (voice of Edward Asner) who decides to fulfill a goal he had with his late wife. To reach South America, he attaches numerous balloons to his house and heads aloft — with a young scout (voice of Jordan Nagai), who was on the traveler’s porch at the wrong moment, as an un-expected companion.

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A message is sent to the user via text or email to verify one’s identity. Also, never put pass-words in your phone’s or tablet’s contacts, since almost all apps require users to allow the app companies access to user con-tacts, photos, etc.

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“She was rescued from a high kill shelter in Georgia, hence her name! She was super skittish at first, but has now really gotten

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Kal, this is a common problem, and I have a solution. To prevent the odors in the closet, mix a box of baking soda with 3 to 4 table-spoons of your favorite spice, such as cinnamon or nutmeg.

Then place the mixture in a plastic margarine tub and poke holes in the lid. Your closet will have a nice smell to it!

For more helpful hints about baking soda, order my six-page Heloise’s Baking Soda Hints and Recipes pamphlet by sending $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001.

FYI: Clean plastic pet toys with a solution of baking soda and water.

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Dear Carolyn: My brother and his wife love their kids, and yet everything I see suggests they hate being parents.

“Rachel” complains incessantly about things that are very normal, and makes dramatic social media posts about how hard her life is as a mom. She used to post crying selfies about it, but I think a friend told her it was a bad look. She has a career she is very good at, and I think it’s possible she was meant to focus on that instead. My brother is a good dad but similarly full of complaints.

I cannot get the idea out of my head that I should offer to take the kids in. I sincerely believe my husband and I could make room in our brood for the kids’ cousins.

I am looking for a way to approach this question that doesn’t alienate them forever. Or is it a completely crazy thought

that I should just put away?— Anonymous

Dear Anonymous: Here’s one I haven’t seen before.

It’s both valid and completely out there.Valid: Some people do regret becoming

parents, and some of their kids feel that regret acutely. Completely bananas: Leap-ing from weepy selfies to an offer to take someone’s kids away.

The slim bit of sane overlap might be to offer to host the kids for a weekend here and there, a school vacation week, maybe a summer if these smaller trials are reward-ing for all involved.

This is something relatives do for each other all the time under normal circum-stances, so you don’t even have to come up with inoffensive language to make the offer:

“Hey, we were thinking how great it would be to host all the cousins some upcoming weekend. What do you think?” See how that plays out.

If the wayyy more likely scenario is true, they just need a breather, then there it is. If the worst is true, there’s a serious problem in this home, then a weekend will be a test run for a refuge.

Readers’ thoughts:“I can’t imagine the logical leap is to offer

to take the kids in rather than to say, “Hey, you seem like you’ve been struggling. Are you OK? Is there anything I can do?” and then hear them out.

“Maybe they’re having a tough phase that will pass. Maybe they want to be able to express when stuff is going rough without people thinking they forever would prefer not to continue to raise their kids. Yes, it

was guano loco crazy to make that leap.”“Holy smokes. I don’t like kids and am not

at all suited to parenting, both things that I didn’t learn until after I had my own kids. But I love them and am committed to them. I would think very hard about why you want to cast yourself not as the unsung hero who provides unconditional support and love to this family, but the starring hero who is go-ing to show the whole world you can raise your brother’s children.”

“I stayed with relatives when I was 12 and it worked out great for the summer. I was just bummed it wasn’t permanent because it’s no fun to keep being reminded that you are the source of your parents’ misery.”

The day ahead: ★★★★★ = Dynamic; ★★★★ = Positive; ★★★ = Average; ★★ = So-so; ★ = Difficult

Moon Alert: After 10:15 p.m., avoid shop-ping or making important decisions. The Moon is in Scorpio.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ This is a lovely day! The celestial gods will bless you in financial matters, as well as af-fectionate romance. Keep your pockets open, because gifts, goodies and favors from others can come your way. Enjoy fun times with your main squeeze.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ This is a wonderful day to relate to everyone, including members of the general public. Conversations with close friends and partners will be warm and congenial. Ba-sically, people are in a good mood today. However, they’re also prepared to work hard to get things done.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ This is a productive day for you, because you’re in a positive frame of mind, in addition to which, you’re motivated to get things done. Group efforts will be beneficial. Some of you will be involved with work-related travel.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★★ Today is an excellent day, because people can work hard or they can party hard — or both. However, for your sign, the greater likelihood is that you will choose to party hard! It’s a great day for a vacation. Enjoy sports events, playful activities with kids, the entertainment world and social outings!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ This the perfect time to entertain at home or enjoy family get-togethers. Recently, you worked to make your home look more attractive. Perhaps now is the time to show off your efforts. Mark Twain said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★★ This is a winning day! The Sun and Mars in your sign will invigorate you and give you energy and enthusiasm! Meanwhile, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter will make your words so diplomatic and charm-ing, everyone will want to hear what you have to say.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ Because you are in an enthusiastic and energetic frame of mind today, you can work hard, you can party hard, or you can do both. This is a particularly good day for busi-

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College Football Stanford at USC. From Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. (N) (Live)

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(:35) Vera “The Deer Hunter” The death of a suspected poacher.

(:04) Grantchester on Masterpiece

CABLE V A&E Court Court Court ››› “The Bourne Identity” (2002) Matt Damon. ›› “Pain & Gain” (2013, Action) Mark Wahlberg. Neighbor. Neighbor. ≠ Animal Planet The Zoo The Zoo The Zoo The Zoo: San Diego The Zoo: San Diego The Zoo: San Diego Buddies Buddies The Zoo: San Diego H BET (3:30) The Temptations › “Meet the Blacks” (2016, Comedy) Mike Epps. ›› “This Christmas” (2007) ∑ Bravo Below Deck Below Deck Below Deck Below Deck Below Deck ››› “United 93” (2006) David Alan Basche. Premiere. United 93 ∞ Cartoon Net. Teen Teen Teen Teen Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball American American American Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Rick Rick

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W Discovery 9/11 Programming 9/11 Programming 9/11 Programming 9/11 Programming Surviving 9/11 (:07) 9/11 Program-ming

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± Freeform “Wreck-It Ralph”

(:35) ››› “Ralph Breaks the Internet” (2018, Chil-dren’s) Voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman.

(:10) ››› “Monsters University” (2013, Children’s) Voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman.

(:40) ››› “Up” (2009) Voices of Ed Asner. Animated. An old man flies away in a balloon-powered house.

D FX (3:30) ›› “Ride Along 2” (2016) ››› “Hitch” (2005) Will Smith, Eva Mendes. › “Grown Ups 2” (2013) Adam Sandler. › “Grown Ups 2” (2013) Adam Sandler. (231) GAC Bonanza Cowgirls Cowgirls Cowgirls Cowgirls Cowgirls Cowgirls Cowgirls

Hallmark (3:00) “Paris, Wine & Romance” (2019)

“Sweet Pecan Summer” (2021) Christine Ko, Wes Brown, Lauren Tom. (DVS)

“Sweet Carolina” (2021, Romance) Lacey Chabert, Tyler Hynes. (DVS)

“Roadhouse Romance” (2021) Lauren Alaina, Tyler Hynes. Premiere. (DVS)

“Autumn in the Vineyard” (2016)

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C Lifetime “Murder on Maple Drive” (2021, Suspense) Bea Santos, Sebastien Roberts.

“Next-Door Nightmare” (2021, Suspense) Julia Borsellino, Mark Taylor.

“Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace: Enhanced Edition” (2021) Jordan Dean.

(:03) ›› “William & Kate” (2011, Docudra-ma) Ben Cross, Camilla Luddington.

K MTV Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Ridic. Æ Nat. Geo. 9/11: One Day 9/11: One Day 9/11: One Day in America Survivors are separated by a dust cloud. Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Locked Up Abroad Ø Nickelodeon Sponge. Sponge. Sponge. Sponge. Sponge. Sponge. Sponge. Koral TBA Unfiltered “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” Friends

F PARMT (3:30) ›››› “The Dark Knight” (2008, Action) Christian Bale. Batman battles a vicious criminal known as the Joker.

››› “Batman Begins” (2005, Action) Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson. Bruce Wayne becomes Gotham City’s Dark Knight.

›››› “The Dark Knight” (2008) Christian Bale.

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¥ TBN In Touch Huckabee (N) Some Hour Power: Schuller Youseff Huckabee Some Fontaine J. Rubin Praise Rubin @ TBS “Justice League” ››› “Shazam!” (2019) Zachary Levi. (DVS) (:45) ›› “Aquaman” (2018, Action) Jason Momoa. (DVS) Miracle (:15) Wipeout Y TLC Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Say Yes to the Dress Welcome to Plathville Long Island Medium: In Memory of 9/11

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› “Little Fockers” (2010, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson.

›› “The Replacements” (2000) Keanu Reeves. Misfit substitutes take the field during a football strike.

›› “A Knight’s Tale” (2001) Heath Ledger, Mark Addy.

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µ AMC (3:00) ››› “Star Trek” (2009, Science Fiction) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto.

››› “Unstoppable” (2010, Action) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine.

›› “Fast & Furious 6” (2013, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. Premiere. Hobbs offers Dom and crew a full pardon for their help.

›› “Fast & Furious 6” (2013) Vin Diesel.

Cinemax In Secret (:19) › “Equilibrium” (2002) (:08) ›› “The Good Liar” (2019) ›› “Underwater” (2020) (:35) ›› “Wicker Park” (2004) Gangs NY Cinemax East “The Good Liar” ›› “Underwater” (2020) (:35) ›› “Wicker Park” (2004) (:31) ››› “Gangs of New York” (2002) Leonardo DiCaprio. Presidio HBO (:10) ››› “Pitch Perfect” (2012) (:05) › “Identity Thief” (2013) NYC Epicenters 9/11 Through 2021 NYC Epicenters 9/11 Wonder HBO East (3:05) “Identity Thief” NYC Epicenters 9/11 Through 2021 NYC Epicenters 9/11 (:35) ›› “Wonder Woman 1984” (2020) Gal Gadot. NYC Epicenters 9/11 HBO Latino (:10) ››› “Pitch Perfect” (2012) (SS) (:05) › “Identity Thief” (2013) (SS) NYC Epicenters 9/11 Through 2021 NYC Epicenters 9/11 Through 2021

∏ LMN (3:00) “The Perfect Wedding” (2021)

› “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” (2018) Taraji P. Henson. A woman takes action against her philandering husband.

“Into the Arms of Danger” (2020, Suspense) Cathy Moriarty.

(:01) › “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” (2018, Suspense) Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent, Ajiona Alexus.

“Into the Arms”

MoreMAX “The Madness of King George” (:17) ››› “Misery” (1990) (:05) ››› “Capote” (2005, Biography) ››› “Harriet” (2019) Cynthia Erivo. (:06) “Queen & Slim” Showtime “Windows on the World” (2019, Drama) ››› “United 93” (2006, Drama) Return of the Taliban “Blithe Spirit” (2020) (:45) › “Scary Movie V” (2013) Showtime East (3:00) “United 93” Return of the Taliban “Blithe Spirit” (2020) (:45) › “Scary Movie V” (2013) (:15) Billions “Copenhagen” ››› “United 93” (2006)

∂ TCM (3:15) ››› “The Producers” (1968)

›››› “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962, Drama) Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford. (DVS)

›››› “The Hustler” (1961, Drama) Paul Newman. A pool shark takes on the legendary Minnesota Fats.

››› “Drive a Crooked Road” (1954) Mickey Rooney.

“Last Pict.”

TMC › “Brahms: The Boy II” (2020) ››› “eXistenZ” (1999) (:10) ›› “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” ››› “American Psycho” (:45) › “American Psycho 2” TMC East (:10) ›› “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” ››› “American Psycho” (:45) › “American Psycho 2” (:15) ››› “American Psycho” (2000) “American Psycho 2” Starz (:09) › “Me, Myself and Irene” (2000) (:09) ›› “Footloose” (1984) Kevin Bacon. Heels Power Book III (:01) ››› “Ray” (2004) Jamie Foxx. Starz East (3:09) “Footloose” Heels Power Book III (:01) ››› “Ray” (2004) Jamie Foxx. (:38) Heels (:37) “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”

tonight’s picks

Lauren Alaina and Tyler Hynes

8 p.m. on HISTORY9/11: Four Flights

The passengers on four airline flights — American 11, United 175, American 77 and United 93 — boarded their planes and de-parted for their destinations with no inkling of the fateful events that awaited them. This new two-hour documentary presents a powerful and personal take on some of those innocents on board, recounted by heartfelt narratives by their surviving fam-ily members and friends.

9 p.m. on HALLMARKMovie: Roadhouse Romance

Returning home following a tour of duty, Lt. Callie Jackson (Lau-ren Alaina) assumes she’ll pick up her civilian life right where she left it, but when she gets back to her hometown, she’s dismayed to discover that her grandfather’s barbecue restau-rant is struggling and her high school sweetheart has moved on to greener pastures. She’s really not in the mood, then, for a run-in she has with Luke (Tyler Hynes), a handsome TV director passing through town.

9:40 p.m. on FREEFORMMovie: Up

The Disney-Pixar teaming scores yet again with this de-lightful, sometimes emotional fantasy about a cranky senior citizen (voice of Edward Asner) who decides to fulfill a goal he had with his late wife. To reach South America, he attaches numerous balloons to his house and heads aloft — with a young scout (voice of Jordan Nagai), who was on the traveler’s porch at the wrong moment, as an un-expected companion.

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FYI: Clean plastic pet toys with a solution of baking soda and water.

— Heloise

The day ahead: ★★★★★ = Dynamic; ★★★★ = Positive; ★★★ = Average; ★★ = So-so; ★ = Difficult

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Moon Alert: After 10:15 p.m., avoid shop-ping or making important decisions. The Moon is in Scorpio.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ This is a lovely day! The celestial gods will bless you in financial matters, as well as af-fectionate romance. Keep your pockets open, because gifts, goodies and favors from others can come your way. Enjoy fun times with your main squeeze.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ This is a wonderful day to relate to everyone, including members of the general public. Conversations with close friends and partners will be warm and congenial. Ba-sically, people are in a good mood today. However, they’re also prepared to work hard to get things done.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★ This is a productive day for you, because you’re in a positive frame of mind, in addition to which, you’re motivated to get things done. Group efforts will be beneficial. Some of you will be involved with work-related travel.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★★ Today is an excellent day, because people can work hard or they can party hard — or both. However, for your sign, the greater likelihood is that you will choose to party hard! It’s a great day for a vacation. Enjoy sports events, playful activities with kids, the entertainment world and social outings!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ This the perfect time to entertain at home or enjoy family get-togethers. Recently, you worked to make your home look more attractive. Perhaps now is the time to show off your efforts. Mark Twain said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★★ This is a winning day! The Sun and Mars in your sign will invigorate you and give you energy and enthusiasm! Meanwhile, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter will make your words so diplomatic and charm-ing, everyone will want to hear what you have to say.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★ Because you are in an enthusiastic and energetic frame of mind today, you can work hard, you can party hard, or you can do both. This is a particularly good day for busi-

ness and commercial transactions. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★★ To-

day fair Venus is in your sign promoting your people skills. Meanwhile, the Moon is in your sign increasing your enthusi-asm for anything that you do. Expect to be successful when dealing with friends and groups, as well as family members.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ You continue to impress bosses, parents, teachers and VIPs, which is why this is an excellent time for you to do anything to advance your agenda. Today, you might work behind the scenes in such a way as to promote your good name.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ This is a lovely, popular day, which is why you’ll enjoy interactions with others. You will especially enjoy time spent with a friend or perhaps a group. In fact, groups could be anything from a few friends to a large convention.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ To-day you make a fabulous impression on bosses, parents and important people. Since this is the case, choose this day to make your pitch. Do whatever you need to do to advance your agenda, because doors will open for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ You’re keen to travel, and today is no exception. You might see ways to do something that expands your horizons — perhaps with a friend or a group. Use your energy to make this happen, because it is possible. Accept someone’s offer of help if it comes your way.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY For Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021: Because you are curious and forward-thinking, you investigate new ideas and concepts. You are precise and a stickler for details. You are sensitive, careful and a shrewd negotiator. You will enjoy this year, because it is a time of learn-ing as well as teaching. Reach out and grab new knowledge — anything that will enrich your life. Solitude also will benefit you.Born today: Actress Taraji P. Henson (1970), musician Moby (1965), actress Virginia Madsen (1961)

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DRAWN & QUARTERED

As we approach the 20th anniver-sary of one of our country’s worst tragedies, the devastating Sept. 11 attacks, there have been debates as

to why we should remember such a day, given that young people now, were not even born when this event took place.

The real question is, why shouldn’t we remember such an event? Our country has always been somber on days like June 6, (D-Day), Dec. 7, (Pearl Har-bor), or the bloodiest day in all of American history, Sept. 17, (the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War).

What we can never forget, is that these are all human trag-edies, and that all losses of life, no matter how big or small, must be remembered at all costs. This is also important because we must honor those who died trying to prevent further loss of life. The firefighters, police officers, and paramedics who were killed that day; it is up to us to ensure their bravery and heroism can never be tossed aside.

After we were struck with such cata-strophic loss of life on 9/11, this feeling that we call the American spirit, did not just fal-ter and die. We climbed back out when the enemy expected us to drown in our own sorrow and hopelessness. Our thirst for justice only increased our resolve. We de-livered a crystal-clear message that an act of terror on such a massive scale would not

be tolerated. Three days after the attacks, on Sept. 14, 2001, President George W. Bush went to the ruins of the World Trade Center and delivered what would become one of the most inspiring speeches in history. He promised the American people that their calls for justice would not go unheard, saying “I can hear you. I hear you, the rest

of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down, will hear all of us soon.” These words rang in our ears and convinced an entire generation, as well as the one after that, to fight for what was right.

The President’s quick re-sponse also teaches us the value of decisive action and strong leadership. Following

nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan, and all the carnage that we have seen as a result of it, reminds us that we must also remember all the men and women who lost their lives in a conflict that arose from them trying to avenge their own fallen brothers and sisters.

For us as Americans to forget the reason why all these soldiers were sent in the first place, would be nothing short of an out-right betrayal. The memories of the 9/11 victims are memories that must never be forgotten. Because of everything that has occurred since, these men and women have a notable place in history. Keeping them close is a strong reminder to my

generation that respect is sacred, and that preserving the memory of these individu-als, even though we may not have known them or their families personally, should be considered an honor, sense of duty, and preservation of national pride. My gener-ation needs to understand how fortunate we are to not have witnessed this tragedy first hand. However, our parents and other close family did, and I can say for a fact that I felt very humbled and a deep sense of respect when I listened to their accounts about how that awful day unfolded. It was very hard to listen to my mom and dad’s account of the story as they heard the ma-jority of the attack on their car radio that fateful September morning. They saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center, and the second tower fall, but not being able to see the first plane hit, and having to picture all the chaos in their heads, gave me a deep sense of just how difficult 9/11 really was, since I lived it through their words and their memories.

We must understand that no human being should ever have to experience what happened that day. I believe 9/11 greatly impacted the events that are playing out right now across the world. We have seen the war in Afghanistan progress and play out during our lifetimes. We witnessed the last decade of the war, as well as oversaw its evacuation and conclusion.

We can never lose sight of the reason that sent all these individuals on the path to their destiny. Western Civilization prides

itself on honoring its dead in the highest possible ways. It is up to the Americans of today, as well as those of tomorrow, to ensure that the promise of remembrance is never broken.

Brady Shuler is a junior at Liberty High School. His work was selected as the winner of an essay contest hosted by the Bakersfield Firefighters Historical Society, for which the Kern County Superintendent of Schools partnered to help judge the submissions. Students were asked to address this topic: The Sept. 11 attacks happened 20 years ago and school-aged students were not alive then. Why is it so important for us as U.S. citizens to remember the attack and honor the victims?

Remembering 9/11 and honoring the victims

COMMUNITY VOICES

A t the end of World War II, Winston Churchill sug-gested the arch leading

into the bomb-stricken House of Commons be rebuilt with stone scarred by the war. He hoped it would be a reminder to future generations of the fortitude and sacrifice of those who fought and the families who stood behind them.

As the global war on terrorism reaches its 20th year this Sept. 11, the United States needs a place to honor its sacred war dead.

Calls to the Department of Vet-erans Affairs’ Veterans Crisis Line have surged since the United States left Kabul.

Veteran service organizations have responded with concern, putting out letters, op-eds and videos reminding veterans that their service made a difference.

Yet there is no national memorial to the global war on

terrorism. No eternal reminder of the brave women and men who gave their lives for their country. No place to collectively honor the troops, veterans, families and friends who remain. We cannot wait 50 years to break ground on a memorial for this war.

Legislation to secure a prom-inent location on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a National Global War on Terrorism Memorial is stalled in Congress, though there is some reason for optimism.

The For Country Caucus, a bipartisan group of veterans in the House of Representatives, has called on President Joe Biden to support H.R. 1115, the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Location Act, the final hurdle to

authorize construction of the memorial.

In addition, many outside groups, including the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foun-dation, Gold Star families and veteran-led groups such as With Honor Action, have been working for years for a National Global War on Terrorism Memorial on the National Mall. The legislation before the House has widespread bipartisan support, with more than 100 co-sponsors. Congress should listen to those voices and pass it into law this year, and Biden should put his public sup-port behind a National Global War on Terrorism Memorial.

Like the other wars memori-alized on the National Mall — World War II, the Korean War and

the Vietnam War — the global war on terrorism is the war of a generation. Born from the tragic events of Sept. 11, the war on ter-rorism is now America’s longest war, touching young women and men who were not yet born on that harrowing day.

We lost more than 7,000 troops during military operations in the past two decades. Each left behind family, friends and fellow service members who deserve a place to remember them. And each of these service members should be held up as a reminder for generations to come of the bravery and sacrifice this war required. Their memories should be enshrined next to the memo-rials for other brave women and men who gave their lives defend-ing this nation since its founding, because their sacrifices are just as significant.

The National World War II Me-

morial was completed almost 60 years after the conflict ended. A 20-year-old World War II veteran returning home would have visited the memorial at 80 years old. Most never made it there. We must give friends, families and veterans a place to gather, throughout their lifetimes, with the spirits and memories of all those they lost.

In these days after the exit of the last American service mem-ber from Afghanistan and during the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, the president and the Congress have an opportunity and an obli-gation to get this done.

Robert M. Gates, Leon E. Panetta, Chuck Hagel, Ash Carter, Jim Mattis and Mark T. Esper are the six surviving secretaries of defense who led the Defense Department during the past 20 years of the global war on terrorism.

We must memorialize the fallen in the global war on terrorism

BRADY SHULER

ROBERT M. GATES, LEON E. PANETTA, CHUCK HAGEL, ASH CARTER, JIM MATTIS & MARK T. ESPER

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Legal Notice

The California Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy Management Division, hasreceived an application from California Resources Production Corporation to initiate a waterflood project in the Paloma Sand zone, Paloma field, Section 35, T31S, R26E, Kern County. Acomplete description of the proposed project can be reviewed at the Inland District office,11000 River Run Blvd., Bakersfield, CA. 93311, attn: Matt Stikes (661) 326-6034 [email protected]. Comments on this project should be submitted to this officeno later than 15 calendar days from publication of this notice.

May 1 - 3, 202114778050

NOTICE OF KERN COUNTY’SINTENT TO ACQUIRE REAL PROPERTY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 25, 2021, the Board of Supervisors of the Countyof Kern intends to authorize the County’s acquisition of real property commonly known asAssessor’s Parcel Number 481-040-03 located north of Lerdo Highway in Bakersfield, Countyof Kern, State of California (“Property”) from Precious Earth Inc. The General Services Division has reviewed possible environmental effects arising from theproposed title transfer, and has determined that the project is exempt from the requirements toprepare environmental documents pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CaliforniaEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, since it can be seen with certainty that there isno possibility that the purchase will have a significant effect on the environment; andfurthermore, if determined to be a project, then the project would be categorically exemptpursuant to sections 15301, 15302, 15303, 15304, and 15311 of the CEQA Guidelines. Any interested person may obtain more information related to the proposed acquisition ofproperty by visiting the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 1115 Truxtun Avenue,Bakersfield, California or inquiring with Katie Watkins, General Services Department, at (661)868-3074.Dated: April 27, 2021KATHLEEN KRAUSEClerk of the Board of SupervisorsBy /s/Theresa M. Derouchie, Deputy Clerk

May 3, 10, 17, 202114778019

NOTICE OF KERN COUNTY’SINTENT TO ACQUIRE REAL PROPERTY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 25, 2021, the Board of Supervisors of the Countyof Kern intends to authorize the County’s acquisition of real property commonly known asAssessor’s Parcel Number 452-070-20 on the Southeast corner of Downing Avenue and WearStreet in Bakersfield, County of Kern, State of California (“Property”) from Stanley W. Ellis andTricor Energy, LLC. The General Services Division has reviewed possible environmental effects arising from theproposed title transfer, and has determined that the project is exempt from the requirements toprepare environmental documents pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CaliforniaEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, since it can be seen with certainty that there isno possibility that the purchase will have a significant effect on the environment; andfurthermore, if determined to be a project, then the project would be categorically exemptpursuant to sections 15301, 15302, 15303, 15304, and 15311 of the CEQA Guidelines. Any interested person may obtain more information related to the proposed acquisition ofproperty by visiting the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 1115 Truxtun Avenue,Bakersfield, California or inquiring with Katie Watkins, General Services Department, at (661)868-3074.Dated: April 27, 2021KATHLEEN KRAUSEClerk of the Board of SupervisorsBy /s/Theresa M. Derouchie, Deputy Clerk

May 3, 10, 17, 202114778016

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Director of the Kern County Planning and NaturalResources Department, who has been designated the HearingOfficer, will, on Thursday, June 3, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., in theConference Room, Kern County Planning and NaturalResources Department, 2700 "M" Street, Suite 100,Bakersfield, CA, consider the following:

1. Vesting Tentative Parcel Map No. 12280proposing the division of a 496.30-acre site into eight (8)parcels ranging in size from 32.31 acres (net) to 97.51acres (net) and a 7.61-acre designated remainder andincludes the following: (a) development variations to theLand Division Ordinance to allow a 20-foot-wide privateaccess easement where a 60-foot-wide public accesseasement is required; (b) allow deferral of additionaldedications along section and mid-section lines, and; (c) alimited design variation to the Land Division Ordinanceto allow key (reverse corner) lots. Project site is zoned A(Exclusive Agriculture) and A GH (Exclusive Agriculture -Geologic Hazard Combining) ; A portion of Section 21,T28 South, R27 East, north of Burbank Street andbisected by Highway 65, north Bakersfield Area;Environmental Review: Common Sense Exemption,Section 15061(b)(3) ; Northern Heights, LLC, by NelmsSurveying, Inc. (PP21172) , applicant; Staff PlannerMatthew Hall, Planner II, (661) 862-8611

The application(s), environmental document(s), and completelegal description(s) for this request are on file in the office of thePlanning and Natural Resources Department and are availablefor public review. Anyone wishing to give testimony on this request will beheard. If you challenge the action taken on this request incourt, you may be limited to raising only those issues you orsomeone else raised at the public hearing described in thisnotice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planningand Natural Resources Department at, or prior to, the publichearing. Written comments received by May 16, 2021, insupport or opposition of this request will be incorporated intothe staff report presented at the hearing. Additionalinformation may be obtained by calling the Staff plannerassigned to the case at above-listed telephone number.LORELEI H. OVIATT, AICP, DirectorPlanning and Natural Resources Department2700 "M" Street, Suite 100Bakersfield, CA 93301

May 3, 202114777716 (90484)

ROSEDALE-RIO BRAVO WATER STORAGE DISTRICT

NOTICE OF HEARING ON ESTABLISHING RATE OF DISTRICT ASSESSMENTS AND/ORTOLLS TO BE COLLECTED BY KERN COUNTY ON THE PROPERTY TAX ROLL OF ALLLANDOWNERS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ROSEDALE-RIO BRAVO WATER

STORAGE DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, commencing at 8:30 a.m., oras soon thereafter as the matter may be heard at the District office, located at 849 AllenRoad, Bakersfield, California 93314, the Board of Directors of the Rosedale-Rio BravoWater Storage District will conduct a hearing to consider and adopt the rate(s) of theDistrict’s assessments and/or water tolls for 2021 (collected 2021-2022). At the hearing,the Board will receive and consider any written comments received prior to the hearing.Any written comments should be directed to the District at 849 Allen Road, Bakersfield,California 93314 and must be received by the opening of the public hearing. At thehearing, the Board will consider all questions, comments and objections relative toestablishing said rates and having the County of Kern collect the same along with its generalproperty taxes. The hearing may be conducted via web-based broadcasting andtelephonically, and may also be available for attendance in person (depending on conditionsrelated to the Covid-19 state of emergency); details for participation may be obtained on theDistrict’s website (www.rrbwsd.com) or by contacting the District at (661) 589-6045 priorto the hearing.

April 19, 26, May 3, 202114775101

SUMMONS (Family Law)CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DE CASO):

FAMSS-2008257

NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre):ELVIRA KARINA DURAN

You are being sued. Lo estan demandado.

Petitioner's name is: Nombre del demandante:MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ ORTIZ

You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response(form FL-220 or FL-270) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phonecall, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your right tocustody of your children. You may also be ordered to pay child support and attorney fees andcosts, if you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get this information about findinglawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at theCalifornia Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your localcounty bar association.

Tiene 30 días corridos después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición parapresenter una Respuesta (formulario FL-220 ó FL-270) ante la corte u efectuar la entrega legalde una copia al solicitante. Una carta o llamada telefónica no basta para protegerio.Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio oparaeja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar quepague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion,pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas.Si desea obtenedr asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado.Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes deCalifornia (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de Califronia(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de sucondado.

NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domesticpartners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes furtherorders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officerwho has received or seen a copy of them.AVISO: Las órdenes de restricción que figuran en la página 2 valen para ambos cónyuges oparaja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes.Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puedehacerias acatar en cualquier lugar de California.NOTE: If a judgement or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part ofthe fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or the other party. If this happens, the partyordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside theorder to pay waived court fees.AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutención, la corte puede ordenar que usted pagueparte de, o todos las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a petición de usted o de laotra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y laoportunidad de solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas.

1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son):SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO351 N. ARROWHEAD AVESAN BERNARDINO, CA 924152. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner's attorney, or the petitioner withoutan attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante sino tiene abogado, son):Miguel Angel Lopez Ortiz4504 Bandera St. Apt EMontclair, CA 91763Date (Fecha): 12/04/2020, ClerkM Soto, Deputy (Asistente)

April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 202114775690

SUMMONS (Family Law)CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DE CASO):

BFL-21-001473

NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre):RICKY LEE COLVIN

You are being sued. Lo estan demandado.

Petitioner's name is: Nombre del demandante:SUE E COLVIN

You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response(form FL-220 or FL-270) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phonecall, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your right tocustody of your children. You may also be ordered to pay child support and attorney fees andcosts, if you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get this information about finding law-yers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at theCalifornia Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your localcounty bar association.

Tiene 30 días corridos después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición parapresenter una Respuesta (formulario FL-220 ó FL-270) ante la corte u efectuar la entrega legalde una copia al solicitante. Una carta o llamada telefónica no basta para protegerio.Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio oparaeja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar quepague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion,pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas.Si desea obtenedr asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado.Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes deCalifornia (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de Califronia(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de sucondado.

NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domestic part-ners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders.These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who hasreceived or seen a copy of them.AVISO: Las órdenes de restricción que figuran en la página 2 valen para ambos cónyuges oparaja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes.Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hace-rias acatar en cualquier lugar de California.NOTE: If a judgement or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part ofthe fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or the other party. If this happens, the partyordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside theorder to pay waived court fees.AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutención, la corte puede ordenar que usted pagueparte de, o todos las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a petición de usted o de laotra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y la oportu-nidad de solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas.

1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son):SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF KERN1215 TRUXTUN AVEBAKERSFIELD, CA 93301METRO DIVISION2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner's attorney, or the petitioner withoutan attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante sino tiene abogado, son):Sue E. Colvin433 Helen StMaricopa, CA 93252Date (Fecha): 2/24/2021, ClerkP Allison, Deputy (Asistente)

April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 202114775707

FILE NO. #2021-B1986FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENTThe following person(s) is/are doing businessas:SESPECREEK CHILI & SPICE COMPANY

7608 LOVETTA DRBAKERSFIELD, CA 93308

KERN COUNTYMailing Address:

SAMERegistrant's Name(s)

JIMMEY FRANK BEATY7608 LOVETTA DR

BAKERSFIELD, CA 93308This business is beingconducted by

INDIVIDUALSigned

JIMMEY BEATYThis statement filed with the County Clerk ofKern County on 04/12/2021The registrant commenced to transactbusiness under the fictitious business name ornames listed above on09/17/1993Mary B. Bedard, CPACounty ClerkBy: M HERNANDEZ"NOTICE THIS FICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENT EXPIRES 04/12/2026”"NOTICE THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEWFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTMUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME, thefiling of this Statement does not in itselfauthorize the use in this State of A FictitiousBusiness Name in violation of the rights ofanother under Federal, State or common law(see Section 14411 et. seq. Business andProfessions Code).April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 2021(14775810)

Legal NoticesCITY OF BAKERSFIELD has issued:20-21-74 19,500 GVW Service TruckWith Crane & Flat Bed20-21-75 Half Ton Regular Cab Pickups20-21-76 Trailer Mounted Water WagonBid Deadline: May 11, 2021Access documents at www.bakersfieldcity.us.For questions or assistance contact:Purchasing, Kim Berrigan 661-326-3744Email: [email protected]

May 3, 202114778034

Public NoticesORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:BCV-21-100782

To All Interested Persons:Petitioner:

AMANDA DANIELLE RUEBELFiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:Present name:

AMANDA DANIELLE RUEBELTo Proposed Name:

AMANDA DANIELLE DODSONTHE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear beforethis court at the hearing indicated below toshow cause, if any, why the petition forchange of name should not be granted. Anyperson objecting to the name changesdescribed above must file a written objectionthat includes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appear at thehearing to show cause why the petitionshould not be granted. If no written objectionis timely filed, the court may grant thepetition without a hearing.NOTICE OF HEARING6/14/2021, 8:30 a.m., Dept. 12, SuperiorCourt of California, County of Kern – MetroDivision1415 Truxtun AveBakersfield, CA 93301Date: 04/09/2021Judge of the Superior Court:/s/ Linda S. Etienne, Court Commissioner ofthe Superior CourtSanders, Andrea, Deputy

Petitioner or Attorney:Amanda Danielle Ruebel6607 AlderbrookBakersfield, CA 93312

May 3, 10, 17, 24, 202114778040

FILE NO. #2021-B1608FILE NO. #2021-B1609FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENTThe following person(s) is/are doing businessas:

OWN ITPUSH POWER

1607 S CHESTER AVEBAKERSFIELD, CA 93304



PEARSEY ENTERPRISES, INC.1607 S CHESTER AVE


CORPORATIONSigned

BENTON D. MOOREThis statement filed with the County Clerk ofKern County on 04/01/2021The registrant commenced to transactbusiness under the fictitious business name ornames listed above on05/01/2017Mary B. Bedard, CPACounty ClerkBy: M HERNANDEZ"NOTICE THIS FICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENT EXPIRES 04/01/2026”"NOTICE THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEWFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTMUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME, thefiling of this Statement does not in itselfauthorize the use in this State of A FictitiousBusiness Name in violation of the rights ofanother under Federal, State or common law(see Section 14411 et. seq. Business andProfessions Code).April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2021(14773436)

FILE NO. #2021-B2321FILE NO. #2021-B2322FILE NO. #2021-B2322FICTITIOUS BUSINESS


RANCHO TREE SERVICERANCHO TREE SERVICES

RANCHO TREE CARE1731 ART ST

BAKERSFIELD, CA 93312KERN COUNTY

Mailing Address:P.O. BOX 20576

BAKERSFIELD, CA 93390Registrant's Name(s)

RANCHO TREE SERVICE1731 ART ST


CORPORATIONSigned

JOSE DELACRUZThis statement filed with the County Clerk ofKern County on 04/27/2021The registrant commenced to transactbusiness under the fictitious business name ornames listed above on01/01/2011Mary B. Bedard, CPACounty ClerkBy: R ROBERTS-MARTIN"NOTICE THIS FICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENT EXPIRES 04/27/2026”"NOTICE THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEWFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTMUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME, thefiling of this Statement does not in itselfauthorize the use in this State of A FictitiousBusiness Name in violation of the rights ofanother under Federal, State or common law(see Section 14411 et. seq. Business andProfessions Code).May 3, 10, 17, 24, 202114777721 (28621)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NUMBER:BCV-21-100837

To All Interested Persons:Petitioner:

LINITA JUNE ALBINS MEJIAFiled a petition with this court for a decreechanging names as follows:Present name:

LINITA JUNE ALBINS MEJIATo Proposed Name:

LINITA JUNE MEJIA RODRIGUEZTHE COURT ORDERS that all personsinterested in this matter shall appear beforethis court at the hearing indicated below toshow cause, if any, why the petition forchange of name should not be granted. Anyperson objecting to the name changesdescribed above must file a written objectionthat includes the reasons for the objection atleast two court days before the matter isscheduled to be heard and must appear at thehearing to show cause why the petitionshould not be granted. If no written objectionis timely filed, the court may grant thepetition without a hearing.NOTICE OF HEARING6/22/2021, 8:30 a.m., Dept. 12, SuperiorCourt of California, County of Kern – MetroDivision1415 Truxtun AveBakersfield, CA 93301Date: 04/15/2021Judge of the Superior Court:/s/ Linda S. Etienne, Court Commissioner ofthe Superior CourtSanders, Andrea, Deputy

Petitioner or Attorney:Linita June Albins Mejia3100 Ashe Rd Apt 121Bakersfield, CA 93309

April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 202114776846



TECHNIKYL GAMING10805 PRAIRIE STONE PLBAKERSFIELD, CA 93311



KYLE PATRICK SMIZER-MULDOON10805 PRAIRIE STONE PLBAKERSFIELD, CA 93311

This business is beingconducted by

INDIVIDUALSigned

KYLE PATRICK SMIZER-MULDOONThis statement filed with the County Clerk ofKern County on 04/08/2021The registrant commenced to transactbusiness under the fictitious business name ornames listed above onN/AMary B. Bedard, CPACounty ClerkBy: M HERNANDEZ"NOTICE THIS FICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENT EXPIRES 04/08/2026”"NOTICE THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEWFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTMUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME, thefiling of this Statement does not in itselfauthorize the use in this State of A FictitiousBusiness Name in violation of the rights ofanother under Federal, State or common law(see Section 14411 et. seq. Business andProfessions Code).April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2021(14776854)



SAWDUST & SUCCULENTS10110 BOOTHBAY HARBOUR DR


Mailing Address:SAME

Registrant's Name(s)SHAYNA SUSANNE CHESNUT

10110 BOOTHBAY HARBOUR DRBAKERSFIELD, CA 93314


INDIVIDUALSigned

SHAYNA SUSANNE CHESNUTThis statement filed with the County Clerk ofKern County on 04/29/2021The registrant commenced to transactbusiness under the fictitious business name ornames listed above on04/01/2021Mary B. Bedard, CPACounty ClerkBy: R PADILLA"NOTICE THIS FICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENT EXPIRES 04/29/2026”"NOTICE THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEWFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTMUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME, thefiling of this Statement does not in itselfauthorize the use in this State of A FictitiousBusiness Name in violation of the rights ofanother under Federal, State or common law(see Section 14411 et. seq. Business andProfessions Code).May 3, 10, 17, 24, 202114778066

Public NoticesFILE NO. #2021-B2261FICTITIOUS BUSINESS


HOSEY’S TRUCKING15618 SAINT CLEMENT WAY


Mailing Address:SAME

Registrant's Name(s)JAMES HOSEY

15618 SAINT CLEMENT WAYBAKERSFIELD, CA 93314


INDIVIDUALSigned

JAMES HOSEYThis statement filed with the County Clerk ofKern County on 04/24/2021The registrant commenced to transactbusiness under the fictitious business name ornames listed above onN/AMary B. Bedard, CPACounty ClerkBy: M HERNANDEZ"NOTICE THIS FICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENT EXPIRES 04/24/2026”"NOTICE THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEWFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTMUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME, thefiling of this Statement does not in itselfauthorize the use in this State of A FictitiousBusiness Name in violation of the rights ofanother under Federal, State or common law(see Section 14411 et. seq. Business andProfessions Code).May 3, 10, 17, 24, 202114778063

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the Will or Estate,or both of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): MARIA DUARTE

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by NOEMI SALAZAR in the Superior Court of California, County of KERN.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that NOEMI SALAZAR be appointed as personal representative to administer theestate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedents will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils areavailable for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (Thisauthority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certainvery important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless theyhave waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless aninterested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: October 15, 2021 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept.: PSuperior Court of California, County of Kern Metro Division1215 Truxtun Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93301

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file writtenobjections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT, you must file your claim with the court andmail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the LATER of either (1) FOUR MONTHS from the dateof first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2)60 DAYS from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.OTHER CALIFORNIA STATUTES AND LEGAL AUTHORITY MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS AS A CREDITOR. YOU MAYCONSULT WITH AN ATTORNEY KNOWLEDGEABLE IN CALIFORNIA LAW.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition oraccount as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TOADMINISTER ESTATE OFMARIA PONCE CONTRERAS

Case No. BPB-21-002854To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,

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A PETITION FOR PROBATE has beenfiled by Delima Duque Ponce in theSuperior Court of California, County ofKERN.THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests

that Delima Duque Ponce be appointedas personal representative to administerthe estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority toadminister the estate under theIndependent Administration of EstatesAct. (This authority will allow thepersonal representative to take manyactions without obtaining courtapproval. Before taking certain veryimportant actions, however, thepersonal representative will be requiredto give notice to interested personsunless they have waived notice orconsented to the proposed action.) Theindependent administration authoritywill be granted unless an interestedperson files an objection to the petitionand shows good cause why the courtshould not grant the authority.A HEARING on the petition will be held

on Oct. 7, 2021 at 8:30 AM in Dept.No. P located at 1215 Truxtun Ave.,Bakersfield, CA 93301.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of thepetition, you should appear at thehearing and state your objections or filewritten objections with the court beforethe hearing. Your appearance may be inperson or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or acontingent creditor of the decedent, youmust file your claim with the court andmail a copy to the personalrepresentative appointed by the courtwithin the later of either (1) fourmonths from the date of first issuance ofletters to a general personalrepresentative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2)60 days from the date of mailing orpersonal delivery to you of a noticeunder section 9052 of the CaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legalauthority may affect your rights as acreditor. You may want to consult withan attorney knowledgeable in Californialaw.

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In the awful fl ash of a single day, the world changed.

And we changed with it.

Twenty years later, we pay tribute to those we lost and those who survived in the Sept%�(( terror attacks on America, and to the extraordinary first responders who sacrificed their own lives Xe[ safety to help others. We also remember the spirit of courage, compassion, determination and unity that prevailed across our nation in the wake of disaster, and makes us so proud to be Americans.

BY STEVEN MAYER | [email protected]

Lisa Kimble Edmonston was at home with a toddler when the unimaginable became real. Within an hour of learning that two hijacked airliners had been flown intentionally into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, that a third had slammed into the Pentagon and a fourth had gone down in a lonely rural field in Pennsylvania, she found herself racing to “our children’s schools to bring them home.”

Cherylanne Farley worked at Borders Books at the time of the attacks. All she could think about was the employees at the Borders store in 5 World Trade Center, near what came to be known as ground zero.

“Were they all gone, too?” she wondered.KUZZ morning DJ Sylvia Cariker, known on the air as

Casey McBride, remembers “fielding hundreds of calls from listeners asking what just happened.”

“We were airing nonstop news reports so I was unable to play the dozens of requests for Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA.’”

It was Sept. 11, 2001, and America had just experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in its history, a hellish horror, a nightmare of nightmares witnessed by hundreds of millions of people via TV screens around the world.

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“Yamel would kid around with her partners about having friends all over the country, but little did she

know so many were in Bakersfield.”

Care, Compassion & Community

Twenty years later, we have not forgotten. As we look back in remembrance of the fallen, we recall how this nation came together grieving yet, united.

The quote above was stated by then MetroCare Ambulance Senior VP Jim O’Connor, who, along with two EMTs, came to Bakersfield in November of that year to share their experiences of responding to Ground Zero.

Their co-worker, Yamel Merino, was one of the first emergency responders to arrive at the World Trade Center. She was providing aid to evacuees outside

the South Tower when it collapsed. After learning that she left behind an 8-year-old boy, Harvey L. Hall authorized the sale of bumper stickers and lapel pins of the Remembering

The Day of Their Final Response design for purchase by the public and ambulance workers nationwide, with proceeds benefitting her child.

With a promise to never forget, Mr. Hall placed four ambulances into service featuring the patriotic image and the words, “Our Community is United and Will Care Forever!”

Today, we remember the 2,977 people who lost their lives, while our hearts are with their families and those who have continued to suffer from this tragedy.

“Today, our nation saw evil,” President George W. Bush said in an address to the nation that same night.

Despite taking place nearly 3,000 miles away, the four-pronged terror attack had an im-mediate impact in Kern County as federal officials grounded flights and ordered two passen-ger planes to make emergency landings at Meadows Field in Bakersfield.

The attacks also affected Amtrak service when officials ordered all trains stopped so law enforcement officials could con-duct searches.

The Meadows Field terminal was evacuated at 10:30 a.m., and the whole airport was put on spe-cial security alert as part of a na-tional order involving all airports. No commercial or private aircraft were allowed in the sky any-where in the nation, according to James Savely, then the air traffic manager at Meadows. He told The Californian the skies were put under “security code Delta, which is just about the highest alert we have.”

Just hours after news of the attacks started streaming in, Ba-kersfield College student Jennifer Mills found herself sitting in her U.S. history class realizing that history had been made that very day.

Sept. 11, she knew, would be one of those days, like the attack on Pearl Harbor, that would live in infamy, not only in the memories of those who were alive to witness it, but in future history classes, where students not yet born would learn about the calamity and discuss its consequences.

“This is what some call a turn-ing point, one of those days you will never forget,” Mills wrote in The Californian’s Express section.

“The terrorist attack that killed thousands of people Tuesday is the biggest happening in all the 17 years that I have lived,” she wrote. “It is a moment that my generation will remember for the rest of our lives.”

Bakersfield Police Officer Ste-phen Humphreys had recently been promoted to detective.

“I was going to turn in my pa-trol rifle that day because I didn’t want the hassle of having to qual-ify again,” he remembered. “I felt

uncertain of what might come next and kept the rifle for another five years. It was a strange time.”

“I was working for a courier service,” Brenda Jones recalled of that fateful day. “I was unable to make several of my regular stops, including the airport at the end of the day. All day long I was crying in between stops.”

Two days after the tragedy, The Californian published a full-color, full-page American flag in the newspaper and invited readers to clip it out and tape it to a front window at home to show a level of American solidarity that hadn’t been seen, it seemed, in a long time.

For weeks afterward, the flags made of newsprint were spotted in entryway windows, taped up in classrooms, kitchens, office cubicles and convenience stores.

Danielle Davenport was work-ing for the Kern County Sheriff’s Office in those days.

“The thing that stands out the most to me were all the flags that appeared instantly,” she remem-bered. “On every house and every car. We truly stood together as one nation united.”

Michael Kennedy, the princi-pal at Bethel Christian School, remembered closing out the day with a short assembly “to let the students know that America was being attacked.

“We also assured the students that their parents and guard-ians were on the way back to the school facility to take them home,” he said.

“As principal, I then took a mo-ment to pray with the students. We prayed for our nation and all involved.”

A few days later, The Califor-nian would report that kinder-gartners in one classroom were building towers by stacking wooden blocks, then knocking them down with toy airplanes in a perfectly appropriate way to re-spond to the crisis around them.

Local law enforcement went on heightened alert the day of the

attacks, patrolling government buildings and airports across the county. While additional officers were not placed on the street, regular patrols from the Bakers-field Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office kept an eye on potential targets.

Carl Sparks, who was serving as sheriff at the time, heard the first reports on his car radio while driving into work that morning.

“I thought it was a bad joke,” he remembered 20 years later. “I called home and talked to Linda, my wife. She told me it was true.”

On the day of the attacks, two young men with angry faces began screaming obscenities at longtime Bakersfield farmer Na-zar Kooner.

As a member of the local Sikh community, Kooner wore a turban in public, a religious tra-dition Sikh men have observed for centuries. But the men were reacting emotionally to that

morning’s terrorist attacks.“The press is showing pic-

tures of Osama bin Laden with a turban and beard, and Sikhs are being mistaken for terror-ist radicals,” Kooner told The Californian.

The two men stopped their vehicle on a remote stretch of Highway 166, where Kooner was tending his grape vineyard.

“I did not look at them, I acted like I did not hear them,” he re-called. “I was scared actually, but I did not show it and got in my car and drove away.”

It was not the only such inci-dent, locally and nationwide.

Despite the fear and uncer-tainty many were experiencing, gas prices remained stable in Ba-kersfield and much of California the day after the attack. The Mo-bil station on Taft Highway, west of Highway 99, stayed steady at $1.41 a gallon on Sept. 12 — with no change from the previous day.

A nearby Arco station showed the same prices.

However, gas prices soared in some areas of the country on the day of the terrorist attacks, but gas suppliers quickly backed off the following day, as many states said they would investigate re-ports of price gouging.

Even the world of sports came to a halt following the shock of the attacks.

Tiger Woods put away his clubs, The Associated Press re-ported. Barry Bonds’ pursuit of 70 home runs was put on hold. Colleges canceled football games, and the NFL struggled to avoid offending a nation mourning its dead. Closer to home, the Bakers-field Blaze baseball season ended abruptly as the California League canceled the remainder of the season.

In a column following the at-tack, The Californian’s prep beat sportswriter at the time, Kevin Eubanks, said what many were thinking.

“The U.S. was attacked. By terrorists. It goes against every-thing I’ve known. We don’t get attacked here. We’re safe here. It’s something that should only be seen in movies, not on U.S. soil,” he wrote.

An admitted sports fanatic, Eu-banks wrote that, in the shadow of such a catastrophic event, tak-ing a break in sports, locally and nationally, was the right thing to do.

The military certainly didn’t take a break. But they buttoned up local installations. At eastern Kern’s two huge military bases, Naval Air Weapons Center China Lake and Edwards Air Force Base, a Delta-threat status was imple-mented, raising security to levels rarely if ever seen before. To this day, 20 years after the terrorist attacks, gate security at military installations has never returned to pre-9/11 levels.

The attacks changed security measures for the rest of us as well, then and now. Most of the nation’s commercial air fleet remained grounded as the Federal Aviation Administration, the FBI and other agencies discussed the need for extensive new security measures that would alter the experience of air travel permanently for millions of Americans and travelers around the globe.

Sept. 11 changed the world, changed America, changed Kern County, and changed us, too.

CHANGEDContinued from PAGE E1

ON THE COVERWith the Empire State Building in the foreground, smoke billows across the New York City skyline after two hijacked jetliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

PATRICK SISON / AP / FILE

THOMAS E. FRANKLIN / THE RECORD OF BERGEN COUNTY, N.J., VIA AP / FILE

From left, Brooklyn firefighters George Johnson, Dan McWilliams and Billy Eisengrein raise a flag at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, as work at the site continued after hijackers crashed two airliners into the twin towers earlier that day.


Twenty years later and not a day goes by that I don’t think about that day.

I was a fire engineer working at Fire Station 2 on the east side of town at the time. From midnight on, we had a hectically busy shift. Firefighter Tim Ortiz came quickly into the dormi-tory stating that I had to wake up and rush to witness what was taking place in New York. Exhausted and half asleep, I jumped out of bed, scrambled to the squad room to watch as the events of that tragic morning unfolded. As a crew, we stood there motionless, speechless and with an over-whelming awareness of our helplessness while viewing our public safety family in New York sacrificing their lives for the community they served.

I, along with every other Bakersfield firefighter, will not allow ourselves to forget that tragic day; nor should we. It is now a major part of our profession, both in the way we train and in the manner in which we look out for each other on the fire-ground. The firefighting family has a strong bond that stretches beyond our borders. Strength of that bond was displayed on Sept. 11, 2001, and thereafter. Firefighters from around the globe felt the pain as we grieved with our brothers and sisters of the Fire Department of the City of New York.

Bakersfield firefighters were dispatched to assist at the Pentagon by lending their expertise in the areas of logistics, rescue and recovery. The stories told and the sights observed during that operation initially appeared to be fiction, but sadly

it was all too real. As with the majority of public safety occupations, it required that we plunge into another level of training and preparedness. It was no longer busi-ness as usual. A new day had arrived where the fire service was no longer specifically

handling fire, emergency medical, hazardous materials, rescue and public service calls exclusively.

The Bakersfield Fire Depart-ment witnessed one additional change that very day. This change was not necessarily toward the negative, but a change that drew us closer together and more in tandem with other fire departments. We, in the fire service, became

more united and connected than ever before. It created a link that reverberated throughout the world; however, it deeply permeated firefighters in how we conduct business and how we view our profession.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology estimates that at least 17,400 civilians populated the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks, mean-ing upwards of more than 14,000 lives were saved that day. As a firefighter, to never forget is to honor and respect the 343 fire-fighters who made the ultimate sacrifice in an effort to carry out the mission of every sworn firefighter: to save lives. Never forgetting is our promise to the FDNY 343 that defines our character. Bakersfield fire-fighters will never forget.

Anthony Galagaza is chief of the Bakers-field Fire Department.

Bakersfield firefighters will never forget that day

ANTHONY GALAGAZA

It has been 20 years since Sept. 11, 2001, and like many I can-

not help but recall where I was that morning and the horrific images of that day. I will never forget the heroism and incredible sacrifices made by po-lice officers, firefighters, emergency medical per-sonnel and civilians on the highjacked airliners and at ground zero. All were called upon in a moment to serve in a most unimag-inable way by sacrificing their lives in the service of others. We should fulfill our vow to never forget.

Immediately, and in the years that followed, thousands of our young men and women entered the military out of a sense of duty and responsibility to serve our country and protect our freedoms. They served in faraway places like Iraq and Afghanistan with too many paying the ultimate sacrifice. Seven-ty-three of those veterans returned home and con-tinue to serve their com-munity as police officers with the Bakersfield Police Department.

Hundreds also saw the sacrifice of police officers, firefighters and emergency medical per-sonnel on that terrible day and immediately began to serve right here at home and are still serving today. I am so proud of our Bakersfield Police Department officers and professional staff who serve our community every day.

I recently asked some police officers to reflect on Sept. 11, 2001, and ex-press their thoughts and perspective. Here are some

reflections from your Ba-kersfield police officers:

“I remember the shock and horror of what I saw on

the television.”“I was hum-

bled by the ac-tions of the first responders and remember be-ing filled with pride in what we do.”

“I’ll never for-get those that have died as a

result of suicide, illness and trauma from what they had to see and do that day and in the years that followed.”

“I remember ‘United We Stand’ and I wish it was still like that today.”

The reflections that were particularly impactful to me were “I remember the very public demonstration of a willingness to sacrifice

one’s own life for strangers” and “I remember that what some might call the ‘un-common valor’ seen that day is actually really com-mon for first responders.”

Every day across our community and country, first responders put their lives on the line and come to the rescue of those in need. They run toward danger and willingly face the uncer-tainty that lies before them all in service to others.

We will never forget Sept. 11, 2001, the loss of life and the sacrifices made by so many. We should also never forget the police officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel who so nobly and bravely are still serving today.

Greg Terry is chief of the Bakersfield Police Department.

Remember the loss of life, and sacrifices of so many

GREG TERRY

MARTY LEDERHANDLER / AP / FILE

People in front of New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral react with horror on Sept. 11, 2001, as they look down Fifth Ave toward the World Trade Center after planes crashed into the twin towers.

GULNARA SAMOILOVA / AP / FILE

Deputy U.S. Marshal Dominic Guadagnoli helps a woman after she was injured in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

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Every generation has one of those defin-ing moments where

you remember exactly where you were when you heard the news. For our grandparents, it may have been Pearl Harbor. For our parents, it may have been when President John F. Kennedy was shot. For us, it is that fatal day of Sept. 11, 2001. Everyone has a story of where they were, what they were doing and what they were feeling.

For me, I was working on a wildland fire on the Stanislaus National Forest. The morning of, my crew and I started hearing buzz around fire camp that something was happening in New York. Since we were deep in the forest, cell-phone/internet services were nonexistent. The television we had available to us had rabbit-ear anten-nas. As the news began to stream in, I was continually adjusting the antenna to make sure we could get a better view of what was going on.

Because of that van-tage point, my view was the faces of the men and women watching the news happen. I remember viv-idly the looks of disbelief that quickly turned to solemness. As the shock set in, the trickling of names began being called over the fire radio chan-nels with fire-fighters and military per-sonnel being taken off of the fire line to re-port immedi-ately for duty at their home departments and bases.

It is hard to believe that our generation’s “mo-ment” is now 20 years in our past. As Americans, I know we can all go back to that day and have pal-pable reactions to the re-playing of photos, videos, media reports and docu-mentaries. It is a moment

we will never forget.There were many he-

roes that day, including 343 firefighters who ran

into those towers and never made it out. They made the ulti-mate sacrifice. They went into work thinking it was going to be a nor-mal day not

knowing it would be their last. It was, in fact, a day of infamy and sorrow, but it also brings a sense of to-getherness and solidarity for the country we live in. Our country was targeted but we remained resilient, and greatness came out of our response.

This same greatness is displayed day in and day out throughout our fire department and by all first responders. Our com-munities have firefighters who get up every day, not knowing what the day will bring, yet ready to face it all head-on. Our firefight-ers and first responders should be living reminders of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Reminders of the honor, duty and sacrifice displayed that hallowed day and all days since. Re-minders for our generation and future generations: We will never forget.

Aaron Duncan is the Kern County fire chief and director of emergency services.

BY HENRY [email protected]

One Saturday in 2015, during a weekly yardwork shift outside Fire Station 15 on Buena Vista Road, Jason Johnson, Brian Bowman and Chris Borden of the Bakersfield Fire Department found themselves contemplating their station’s profoundly boring driveway.

“They used to have a fountain in it a long time ago,” Johnson said, “but it was just this old curb in the middle of the police and fire station ... and we looked at it, and we were just like, ‘Man, it’s just an oval full of dirt.’”

The trio started brainstorming and pondered the prospect of erecting some kind of memorial — an idea that Johnson thought was “actually pretty cool.” And with the Bakersfield Police De-partment’s Westside Substation across the way, they zeroed in on a 9/11 tribute in particular.

“It was the perfect fit because of what happened on that day in-volving both fire and police,” said Anthony Galagaza, the current fire chief.

Six years later, that memorial is preparing for its sixth commem-oration of the terrorist attack, this time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. The circle now plays host to Artifact K-0004, a girder from the rubble of the World Trade Center hauled across the country from New York to the West Coast in 2016, measuring 22 feet in length — Galagaza said he believes “the significance of what happened on 9/11 is just shown by the size of the memorial.” The beam is complemented by a small mu-seum inside the fire station, a tree grown from a seedling of the New York survivor tree and several other commemorative exhibits.

“Every time I drive by there, or I go out to Station 15,” Galagaza said, “I have to get off and I have to look at it.”

Part of what draws Galagaza to the site is his memory of the trip to New York when the BFD acquired the beam.

After the yardwork trio came up with the 9/11 idea, Borden ran it

up the flagpole, and Johnson’s new nonprofit Bakersfield Firefighters Historical Society took the lead on funding the project. Former BFD Chief Doug Greener then worked with the Fire Department of the City of New York and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and eventually reached a deal to secure what Johnson said was one of the last pieces available of the World Trade Center.

A contingent of firefighters including Galagaza and Johnson traveled to New York. Galagaza said there was an overwhelming sense of mutual gratitude be-tween the BFD and the FDNY.

“We were able to break bread with them,” he said, “but also go to the fire stations with them, hear their stories, and the stories of those that they lost within the actual fire stations that they were working at.”

Particularly emotional for Galagaza, he said, was seeing the “the pictures and the small memorials” set up in fire stations that his FDNY counterparts used to remember the attacks.

After forging these connec-tions, there remained the matter of transporting the 8-ton beam 2,800 miles across the country. Johnson said Cynthia Lake and local company Rain for Rent saved the day, however, by pay-ing for a semi truck to make the cross-country trip.

It was a trip that began very memorably for Johnson. “(The FDNY) actually escorted the piece out of New York City with a Code 3 escort,” he said, “so we were going down the street Code 3, driving lights and sirens, escorting one of the last pieces available of the World Trade Center outside of New York. So that was pretty cool.”

The BFD attempted to match this days later back in California, when they met the truck down Highway 58 with fire engines and hundreds of bikers from local motorcyclist groups, ushering the beam to a downtown station where it remained until the me-morial’s construction.

Since then, 9/11 observances in Bakersfield have centered around the site. City Councilman Bob Smith, whose Ward 4 includes Station 15, said he can barely re-member 9/11 ceremonies before the memorial. He added that its positioning adjacent to fire and police stations helps reinforce the reality of what these groups do.

“Our first responders are going into buildings and out there pro-tecting us every day,” Smith said, “so that connection is important.”

Other towns have similar artifacts, but for Galagaza, Ba-

kersfield is an ideal location for such an exhibit. “Our veterans’ influence, along with all the fire and police and the support that we receive through the city — it only made sense,” he said.

This year’s ceremony on Buena Vista, commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11, will be more comprehensive than in previous years, Johnson said, featuring rep-resentatives from all county public safety agencies. In fact, there will be both a morning event featuring an Air Force flyover and an eve-ning one focused on memorializ-ing military members from Kern County who died after 9/11. In between, Johnson said he hopes to have high school choirs and bands performing throughout the day.

“We’ll all be in combination there,” Galagaza said, “and we’ll make sure that it is something that will never be forgotten.”

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Six Bakersfield Fire Department members who traveled to New York City to secure a portion of the twin towers to be a part of the memorial are Jason Johnson, Kevin Albertson, Anthony Galagaza, Alexander Clark, Derek Rodriguez and Tim Ortiz. See more photos online at Bakersfield.com.

How the driveway of Bakersfield Fire Station 15 became a 9/11 memorial

The defining moment of an entire generation

AARON DUNCAN

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A man coated with ash from the collapse of the World Trade Center’s south tower collects himself near City Hall in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001.

We all know where we were on 9/11. It truly is etched in our minds and is somewhat surreal. As I watched

the events unfold with my son, who is also a policeman, we wondered what this meant for our chosen profession. We focused on short-term impacts for us as we prepared to go to work. When the second plane hit the World Trade Center, I knew we were at war and that our world had changed forever.

Everything that I learned about terrorism at the FBI Academy was in question. Never had a significant terror-ist attack occurred on Amer-ican soil. I watched America’s innocence disappear. We had been in denial in this country and never feared this could hap-pen. Not only was it happening, but it was live for us to see. We were all riveted by our televisions. I saw the looks on the faces of first responders that so resembled the looks I had seen in Vietnam. I saw fear, dead faces, lost faces and faces that almost couldn’t comprehend what was occurring. Chaos was ensuing.

We wondered if this was isolated or whether we might see more across our country. I was the night watch commander. At a briefing, the young deputies had lots of questions. I had no answers. We just went to

work and really didn’t know what was going to happen. I knew many of these young em-ployees had seen things falling off the World Trade Center only to learn that many of those were people, choosing a quicker, more

humane death. We had all seen death before, but most had not seen people dying. There is a difference. I believe on this day an entire country got touched by PTSD. We all experienced what our young soldiers had ex-perienced for generations.

Law enforcement changed that day. We became less trust-ing of the very people we were sworn to protect. We became

less vulnerable so that we could simply do our job. In the past 20 years, we have over-come those barriers in the way we police. We transitioned from simply warriors to guardians as well. We are so much better for it. We are now hiring people who don’t know who Cassius Clay was or that he also was really Muhammad Ali. They don’t know who Patty Hearst was and in fact know very little about 9/11. But what they do know now is, there are people (groups) in our country who want to do us harm. We said we would never forget! Have we?

Donny Youngblood is the sheriff of Kern County.

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For three unforgettable weeks, they were not the heroes they were used to being.

Instead, Kern County’s delega-tion to the Pentagon in the im-mediate response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks spent their days hauling trash, making trips back and forth to Home Depot, tracking receipts and ensuring everyone’s food was kept at the right temperature.

It made perfect sense: Who better to support a 24-hour urban search and rescue effort than highly trained emergency re-sponders who routinely parachute into disasters setting up supply lines, offices, kitchens, shelter, toilets — in the middle of nowhere on a moment’s notice?

Men and women of action whose accomplishments over the years may qualify them as living heroes suddenly found them-selves serving as support staff in Washington, D.C. And yet some recall the mission as the pinnacle of their careers.

In interviews 20 years later, three who were called and went said one important lesson they learned was the value of humble service.

There’s a photo of Dan Klein-man that some who went on the mission still snicker about. It shows the then-division chief assigned to fight fires in the Se-quoia National Forest with a mop in his hand at Camp Unity, where the delegation was assigned just outside the Pentagon to support a heavily staffed search and res-cue effort.

“We have a lot of background and experience,” he said, “and with that we started helping others.”

STRONG IMPRESSIONSMany were the notable mo-

ments. Team members remem-ber how a profound, unifying silence would set in every time human remains were found in-side the wreckage of the plane crash at the Pentagon, or in the offices hit. They recall a gregar-ious fire crew in Philadelphia hosted the entire team for dinner during the trip back to California.

Then there was their approach to Baltimore the day after the at-tacks, when jet fighters escorted their plane on each wing. At the time it seemed cool. Later the passengers learned they would have been blown out of the sky if the pilot made one wrong move.

Patrick “Pat” Caprioli woke on the day of the attacks to the sound of his alarm radio break-ing the news that a plane had struck one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City. His daughter called him to the TV just as the second plane hit the other tower.

Soon he got the call that he had been summoned and needed to pack up and head out within two hours. He and others drove to the Sacramento area, still un-aware where they were ultimately headed, and joined up with others at the former Mather Air Force Base. There was an hours-long delay before they finally took off, and after flying to Baltimore they took a chartered bus to the nation’s capital.

Staying in a hotel on the op-posite side of the Potomac River from the Pentagon, he said team members soon learned their mis-sion was to supply and in all other ways support the search and res-cue effort.

SAFETY FIRSTAs lead safety officer, he mon-

itored fires and flammables and made sure rains were not going to result in accidental electrocutions.

Caprioli caught a glimpse of then-New York Sen. Hillary Clin-ton, who clearly hadn’t gotten enough sleep. Others on the team got to shake the hand of then-President George W. Bush. Caprioli accidentally backed into and almost knocked over the sec-retary of the U.S. Navy.

He said he feels lucky to have been chosen — “blind luck,” he called it.

“In a way I was excited to be a part of that, being a history buff,” he said. “It was very memorable, to say the least.”

Steve Gage was the team’s most experienced, highly trained member, and he became its leader. What’s remarkable about that is that normally he served as incident commander rushing in to relieve local agencies in di-sasters that have included hurri-canes, tornadoes and floods, but mostly fires.

On the morning of Sept. 11 he was serving as acting chief of the Kern County Fire Department, because the chief was out of town on vacation. Gage had just started coordinating the local response to the attacks when he got a call telling him to muster a team for dispatch to an undis-closed destination.

GO TIMEHe called his people, they

called theirs. He had the 38 team members — including three from the Bakersfield Fire Department, seven from Kern County Fire Department and 23 from the U.S. Forest Service — pack for any sce-nario not knowing whether they were entering a battle zone.

After arrival on the East Coast, Gage — a future state emergency official assigned later to work full time in the nation’s capital — was told he was to be in charge of only his own team.

He would interact with leaders

from the FBI and investigative personnel from different arms of the U.S. military, and was given physical access to areas few others could enter. But it was somewhat less than the incident command authority he was ac-customed to.

His people, divided into two 12-hour shifts, delivered supplies ranging from saw blades to radios to lumber for propping up the damaged Pentagon structure. They supplied the four dozen wheelbarrow tires it took to keep rubble rolling. They located, bought, delivered and billed for 500 boots to replace those worn and worn out by search-and-res-cuers constantly tramping through toxic material.

Among his team’s proudest achievement was a decontamina-tion station search-and-rescuers needed for washing off after dig-ging through wreckage. As soon as they got the order, his people went to work with power tools and con-struction material. They remem-ber it as a model of efficiency.

NO HEROAfterward Gage, who retired in

2015, gave TV interviews and de-livered speeches at local service clubs, traveling what he calls the “rubber-chicken circuit.” Some made him out to be a hero. He

didn’t feel that way.“People kept saying, ‘Well, you

guys are heroes,’” he said. “I said, ‘No we’re not. We’re doing the job we were trained to do.’”

The heroes are the ones who died in the firefight, he said, and the people who pulled out bodies. The passengers who tried to inter-vene aboard the hijacked planes.

“Those are the folks that are heroes,” he said. “We were just doing things that we were asked to do.”

Kleinman, the southern Sierra Nevada wildfire specialist who acknowledged being handy with a mop (“I was covering some ground” in the photo), acknowl-edged it felt menial buying dog food for search and rescue ca-nines. But he noted none other than Napoleon Bonaparte paid careful attention to the logistical capabilities needed to support an advancing military force.

‘ABOUT PEOPLE’He said a camaraderie grew at

Camp Unity. Sorrow spread when the eerie quiet descended. Many fumed at the attacks. Patriotism soared.

A support role felt fine to him.“It’s all about the people,” he

said. “It’s not about the terrorists as much as it’s about all the peo-ple that are affected.”

Mission to Pentagon shines as highlight for Kern disaster experts

COURTESY OF STEVE GAGE

Immediately after the Sept. 11, 2011, terrorist attacks, Kern County disaster-responders were sent to Washington, D.C., to provide supplies and other support for search and rescue workers digging through wreckage at the Pentagon.

BY ISHANI DESAI [email protected]

The 9/11 attacks mounted upon the twin towers are forever im-printed upon Americans old enough to remember. Faith leaders from the Bakersfield community collaborated to create a service at the arena then known as Centennial Gar-den on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001.

Christian, Jewish, Mus-lim and Sikh communities each offered prayers in the arena filled with about 5,000 residents, according to The Californian’s ar-chives. Then-Mayor Har-vey L. Hall also delivered remarks.

The Rev. Jenell Mahoney, former senior pastor with the First Congregational Church and creator of the event, sought to com-memorate the lives lost and remind residents di-versity flourished within Bakersfield.

“It was really extraordi-nary ... to see that wonder-ful sense of community that filled the hall,” Ma-honey recently said.

She knew the public sought solace after wit-

nessing an attack on their own soil.

“As soon as the events started unfolding, it was so obvious that this was

something we were all experiencing at the same time,” Mahoney added. “Everyone in the commu-nity, everyone across the

nation, was riveted to their televisions.”

“It was the kind of ex-perience that cried out for us to come together to try

to support each other and process this horrendous event,” Mahoney said.

Mahoney attempted to reflect the community’s

rich diversity by inviting members from far-reach-ing communities. Religious leaders wanted to dispel the misunderstanding and anger toward people who looked Middle Eastern, she said.

“They were convenient targets,” Mahoney said.

Mahoney said this gathering was the first time a variety of religious representatives from several groups banded together.

“It was such an uncer-tain and uneasy time,” Mahoney said. “At least that one evening ... we had much more in common than we had in differences. (It) was a very important experience.”

Cheryl Rosenstein, the former rabbi for Temple Beth El, also helped to or-ganize the prayer session. She echoed Mahoney’s belief to remind residents not to attack people based on appearances. The unity and diversity of that day amazed Rosenstein.

“It was a day unparal-leled in Bakersfield his-tory,” Rosenstein said. “We all felt the power of the moment.”

Religious leaders recall post-9/11 prayer service

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Afiya Bimkub raises her hands in worship for victims of the 9/11 attacks during a community prayer service held Sept. 16, 2001, in Bakersfield at what was then called Centennial Garden.


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In one of the most horrifying attacks ever against theUnited States, terrorists crashed two airliners intothe World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows

Tuesday that brought down the twin 110-story towers. Aplane also slammed into the Pentagon as the govern-ment itself came under attack.

Thousands could be deador injured, a high-rankingNew York City police offi-cial said, speaking on con-dition of anonymity.

Authorities had been try-ing to evacuate those whowork in the twin towerswhen the glass-and-steelskyscrapers came down ina thunderous roar withinabout 90 minutes after thecrashes, which took placeminutes apart around 9a.m. But many people werethought to have beentrapped. About 50,000 peo-ple work at the Trade Cen-ter and tens of thousands ofothers visit each day.

American Airlines initially said the Trade Center washit by two of its planes, both hijacked, carrying a total of156 people. But the airline later said that was uncon-firmed. Two United airliners with a total of 110 aboardalso crashed — one outside Pittsburgh, the other in alocation not immediately identified. Altogether, theplanes had 266 people aboard.

“This is perhaps the most audacious terrorist attackthat’s ever taken place in the world,” said Chris Yates, anaviation expert at Jane’s Transport in London.

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I was getting ready for work that morning when my wife, Cheryl, told me to come look at the TV and

watched the second plane hit the towers and there were two other attacks.

Right after that I packed two gun bags with fire-arms and ammo to head to our family business Taylor Tire & Brake because this appeared to be a precursor to a coordinated attack and we didn’t want to get

caught unprepared and didn’t know what the day would bring. Ultimately nothing else hap-pened, but it was a somber day with all of us listening to the radio and watching TV news.

— Dick Taylor, Bakersfield

I was home. I lived five min-utes from San Francisco. I turned on the TV when the second plane crashed. I felt sick; couldn’t move. I would cross the Bay Bridge daily for work but we were told to stay home. Local news speculated bridges/S.F. to be targets; scary! Too close to

home! I cried all day; the victims/families, I shared their pain — the calls broke my heart. I watched in disbelief the flames, smoke and

people jumping to their deaths in desperation. I will never forget feelings of helplessness, numb-ness, so much sadness. USA, my home, was violated.

— Mariella Canepa, Bakersfield

On Sept. 1, 2001, a group of 14 of us (including wives) were heading for England/Scotland for a dream golf trip, heading home on Sept. 12 we thought. We played several British Open courses, including St. Andrews. Our last round was on Sept. 11 at the famous Muirfield golf course. After completing our round,

we headed back to the hotel for lunch at the hotel bar. The televi-sion was on and we were just in time to see the second plane crash into the twin towers. We were all stunned. We were even more bummed out when we found out we could not leave the country for seven more days. No planes allowed to fly. We were heartbroken and in total shock.

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By HELEN O’NEILLThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — It was the scene of anightmare: people on fire jumping interror from the Trade Towers justbefore the buildings collapsed.

“Everyone was screaming, crying,running — cops, people, firefighters,everyone,” said Mike Smith, a fire mar-shal from Queens, as he sat by thefountain outside a state courthouse,shortly after the second tower col-lapsed. “A couple of marshals justpicked me up and dragged me downthe street. It’s like a war zone.”

Others compared it to Pearl Harboras thousands of people poured off theBrooklyn Bridge on the Brooklyn side,covered in gray dust and debris. Manywore respiratory masks, given by thepolice and fire departments.

Ambulances screamed down everymajor thoroughfare in Manhattan,depositing casualties at hospitals andreturning to get more. Clusters of peo-ple, their hands clutched to their headsin horror, stood at boomboxes set upoutside stores to listen to the news.Others gathered around cars, theirdoors open and radios turned up high.

Looking down West Broadwaythrough billowing brown and blacksmoke, Tower Two tilted across thestreet. Ash, two inches deep, lined thestreets.

Police and firefighters gasped for airas they emerged from the sealed-offarea.

At least three explosions wereheard, perhaps from gas lines. ArmyHumvees whizzed by on their waydowntown.

Workers from Trade Center officeswandered lower Manhattan in a daze,many barely able to believe they werealive.

Donald Burns, 34, being evacuatedfrom a meeting on the 82nd floor ofOne World Trade Center, saw fourseverely burned people on the stair-well. “I tried to help them but they did-n’t want anyone to touch them. The firehad melted their skin. Their clotheswere tattered,” he said.

Boris Ozersky, 47, computer net-works analyst, was on the 70th floor ofone of the buildings when he felt some-thing like an explosion rock it. Heraced down 70 flights of stairs, and out-side, in a mob in front of a nearby hotel.He was trying to calm a panickedwomen when the building suddenlycollapsed.

“I just got blown somewhere, andthen it was total darkness. We tried toget away, but I was blown to theground. And I was trying to help thiswoman, but I couldn’t find her in thedarkness,” Ozersky said.

After the dust cleared, he found thehysterical woman and took her to arestaurant being used by rescue work-ers as a triage center.

Clyde Ebanks, vice president of aninsurance company was at a meetingon the 103rd floor of the 110-storeySouth Tower of the World Trade Cen-ter when his boss said, “Look at that.”He turned and through a window saw aplane go by and hit the other building.

He and his co-workers raced downthe stairs. When they reached the 70thfloor, they felt the building shake as thesecond plane hit. Later, in tears, hishair covered with gray ash, he added: “Iworry about some of my co-workers.”

Jennifer Brickhouse, 34, fromUnion, N.J., was on the escalator head-ing for her 76th-floor office in theWorld Trade Center when she “heardthis big boom. Everyone was goingcrazy. We all got out. The minute I gotout of the building, the second building

blew up. All this stuff started fallingand all this smoke was comingthrough.

“People were screaming, falling andjumping out of the windows,” Brick-house said.

“I just saw the building I work income down,” said businessmanGabriel Ioan, shaking in shock outsideCity Hall, a cloud of smoke and ashfrom the World Trade Center behindhim. “I just saw the top of Trade Twocome down.”

Nearby a crowd mobbed a man on apay-phone, screaming at him to get offthe phone so that they could call rela-tives.

“People were jumping out of win-dows,” said an unidentified cryingwoman. “I guess people were trying tosave themselves. Oh my God!”

“I was in the World Financial Centerlooking out the window,” said onewoman. “I saw the first plane and then15 minutes later saw the other planejust slam into the World Trade Center.”

Another eyewitness, AP newsmanDunstan Prial, described a strangesucking sound from the Trade Centerbuildings after the first building col-lapsed.

“Windows shattered. People werescreaming and diving for cover. Peoplewalked around like ghosts, covered in

dirt, weeping and wandering dazed.”“It sounded like a jet or rocket,” said

Eddie Gonzalez, a postal worker at apost office on West Broadway. “Ilooked up and saw a huge explosion. Ididn’t see the impact. I just saw theexplosion.”

Morning commuters heading intoManhattan were stranded as the Lin-coln Tunnel was shut down to incom-ing traffic.

Many left their cars and stood on theramp leading to the tunnel, staring indisbelief at the thick cloud of smokepouring from the top of the two build-ings.

Throughout lower Manhattan, res-cue workers and police officers woresurgical masks to protect them fromthe dust.

Police, some of them with semiauto-matic rifles and dogs, guarded federaland state buildings and prevented any-one from entering.

At the city’s hospitals, hundredslined up to give blood, after hospitalworkers yelled on the streets, “Blooddonations! Blood donations!”

Roman Catholic Cardinal EdwardEgan arrived at St. Vincent’s CatholicMedical Center to comfort the injured;other priests also were on hand, manywearing blue rubber gloves.

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Trade Towers aftermath ‘like war zone’People on fire jumpfrom windows; dust,debris cover street.

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People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower Tuesday in New York. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center, and thetwin 110-story towers collapsed. Explosions also rocked the Pentagon and the State Department and spread fear across the nation.

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Spectators watch the burning World Trade Center towers from the Brooklyn Promende, across the East Riverfrom Manhattan Tuesday, in New York.

By RONALD BLUMAP Sports Writer

NEW YORK — Major league base-ball postponed its entire schedule of 15games Tuesday night following terror-ist attacks in New York and Washing-ton.

It was the first time since PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945that baseball wiped out an entire day ofregular season play, other thanbecause of work stoppages or weath-er.

Baseball commissioner Bud Seligmade the decision about 31⁄2 hoursafter the attacks began in New York.

“In the interest of security and out ofa sense of deep mourning for thenational tragedy that has occurredtoday, all major league baseball gamesfor today have been canceled,” Seligsaid in a statement.

Selig also called off the owners’quarterly meeting that was set to startTuesday. He did not make any deci-sions about Wednesday’s games.

“I will continue to monitor the situa-tion and a daily basis and make ongo-

ing decisions accordingly,” Selig said.“My deepest sympathy and prayers goout to the families and victims of thishorrendous series of events.”

It was other the fourth time themajor leagues postponed an entireday’s schedule other than because oflabor strife or weather, according ScotMondore of the National Baseball Hallof Fame and Museum.

The others were Aug. 2, 1923, whenPresident Warren G. Harding died;June 6, 1944, when Allied forces invad-ed France in World War II; and April 14,1945, two days after the death of Presi-dent Roosevelt.

Yankee Stadium, perhaps the build-ing that most symbolizes Americansports, was evacuated within 90 min-utes of the first attacks.

Government officials increasedsecurity outside the 78-year-old ball-park, located in the South Bronx, morethan 10 miles from the World Trade

Center in lower Manhattan.“The ballpark is ringed with police,”

Yankees spokesman Rick Cerrone saidafter leaving his office.

The NFL was mulling whether topostpone this weekend’s schedule.

“Regarding Sunday’s games, we willmake no decision today,” leaguespokesman Joe Browne said. “We’llgather information and speak to severalparties within the next 24 to 48 hours.”

NASCAR also was monitoring thesituation before making any decisionon Sunday’s New Hampshire 300, saidspokesman John Griffin.

Baseball’s minor leagues — theirregular seasons over — postponedpostseason games in all nine leaguesthat were to play Tuesday.

“Out of respect to the families andfriends of those people who lost theirlives or were injured in today’s tragicevents, we have postponed all playoffgames scheduled for tonight in theUnited States,” said Mike Moore, pres-ident of the National Association ofProfessional Baseball Leagues, thegoverning body for the minors.

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It made me aware of how vulnerable we really are.

— George Culver, Bakersfield

I had ridden my bike to East Bakers-field High School early so I would have time to shower and prep for the day. In the locker room, I was listening to the “Mark and Brian Show” on a local radio station. Suddenly the show’s hosts said, “Something’s happening in New York and we’re not sure what, so we’re going to switch to a network news feed.”

As I was walking to my classroom, reporters were trying to process what had happened to the first tower that had been struck by a commercial jet. On my way upstairs, I informed the only other teacher who was up that early about what was happening, and we switched on our televisions in time to witness the second airplane crash into the towers. We kept our televisions on all morning, trying to understand with our students what was happening.

Our librarian emailed out information

about the World Trade Center to all the teachers in an attempt to provide some sort of context. In particular, I remember one student commenting that a lot of his classmates were probably going to end up in the military and going off to fight in a war because of this. A lot of EB students do enlist in the armed forces as a way to improve their chances for a better life. Af-ter 9/11, I often worried for the safety and well-being of my former students.

— Mike Warner, Bakersfield

Hearing the first reports on the radio, I ran into our bedroom waking my wife, asking repeatedly, “Where’s CNN?”

We soon had CNN on with video of this unfold-ing disaster leaving us experiencing both horror and anger all at the same time.

President Bush’s com-ments were exactly what I expected to hear and, even while I’m a Demo-

crat, my approval rating of him soared to the stratosphere.

The nation and our lives in it have be-come, for lack of a better word, harder; less

trust, more suspicion, and more paranoia forcing us to endure more frequent secu-rity checks and procedures.

— Stephen Montgomery, Bakersfield

I was a California journalist. Woke up. Heard the towers had fallen. Immedi-ately thought of my ex-boyfriend,

Reynold. At Brown Uni-versity, he was teased for being the only Black with a water polo scholarship. He believed his life should be of service. He went to Brown’s medical school. Then Harlem Hospital, rose to run the emergency room. I hadn’t talked to

him in years. But, on 9/11, my call was the only call that got through to Reynold. He was on the twin towers site. He helped victims late into the night and beyond. We got back together. But, he was dedicated to medicine. I to journalism. We didn’t last. But, when the country’s in need, I know my call will get through to him.

— Skye Dent, Bakersfield

On Sept. 11, 2001, I arrived to work

early to catch up on my job duties before my dream vacation to Paris starting a couple of days later. The unit was very quiet and the staff had gathered in an empty patient room looking up at the TV screen.

As I walked in the room and looked up at the TV screen the second plane hit the World Trade Center. The quietness perme-ated the room — a sense of shock, sadness and disbelief. My co-workers turned to me and commented, “You are not going to Paris this Thursday.”

They were correct, as the events of that terrible day unfolded, reports of death and destruction became all too true.

Flights were canceled, the entire coun-try was at a standstill. My flight, hotels and tours were promptly refunded. No questions needed to be asked. I was lost as most Americans were.

Yes, I missed out on my trip to Paris but so many more horrendous losses were being felt from this terrible day. Family, friends, co-workers, rescue personnel and care workers had to deal with a tragedy of this magnitude. Compared to my canceled trip, I considered myself lucky. As a patri-otic American, I felt a sense of sadness at

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“It takes a logistics operation fromthe terror group involved that is sec-ond to none. Only a very small handfulof terror groups is on that list. ... Iwould name at the top of the listOsama bin Laden.”

President Bush ordered a full-scaleinvestigation to “hunt down the folkswho committed this act.”

Troops mobilizeWithin the hour, the Pentagon took a

direct, devastating hit from a plane.The fiery crash collapsed one side ofthe five-sided structure.

The White House, the Pentagon andthe Capitol were evacuated along withother federal buildings in Washingtonand New York.

Authorities in Washington immedi-ately called out troops, including aninfantry regiment. The Situation Roomat the White House was in full opera-tion. Authorities went on alert fromcoast to coast, the U.S. and Canadianborders were sealed, all air trafficacross the country was halted, andsecurity was tightened at strategicinstallations.

“This is the second Pearl Harbor. Idon’t think that I overstate it,” said Sen.Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

In June, a U.S. judge had set thisWednesday as the sentencing date for

a bin Laden associate for his role in the1998 bombing of a U.S. embassy inTanzania that killed 213 people. Thesentencing had been set for the federalcourthouse near the World Trade Cen-ter. No one from the U.S. attorney’soffice could be reached Tuesday tocomment on whether the sentencingwas still on.

Bin-Laden role debatedAfghanistan’s hardline Taliban

rulers condemned the attacks andrejected suggestions that bin Ladenwas behind them, saying he does nothave the means to carry out such well-orchestrated attacks. Bin Laden hasbeen given asylum in Afghanistan.

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, said hereceived a warning from Islamic fun-damentalists close to bin Laden, butdid not take the threat seriously. “Theysaid it would be a huge and unprece-dented attack but they did not specify,”Atwan said in a telephone interview inLondon.

In the West Bank city of Nablus,thousands of Palestinians celebratedthe attacks, chanting “God is Great”and handing out candy.

American Airlines initially identi-fied the planes that crashed into theTrade Center as Flight 11, a Los Ange-les-bound jet hijacked after takeofffrom Boston with 92 people aboard,and Flight 77, which was seized whilecarrying 64 people from Washington to

Los Angeles.

‘We are being hijacked!’In Pennsylvania, United Airlines

Flight 93, a Boeing 757 en route fromNewark, N.J., to San Francisco,crashed about 80 miles southeast ofPittsburgh with 45 people aboard.United said another of its planes, Flight175, a Boeing 767 bound from Bostonto Los Angeles with 65 people onboard, also crashed, but it did not saywhere. The fate of those aboard thetwo planes was not immediatelyknown.

United’s pilots union said UnitedFlight 175 crashed into the Trade Cen-ter. But the airline had no immediatecomment.

An emergency dispatcher in West-moreland County, Pa., received a cellphone call at 9:58 a.m. from a man whosaid he was a passenger locked in thebathroom of United Flight 93, said dis-patch supervisor Glenn Cramer.

“We are being hijacked, we are beinghijacked!” Cramer quoted the man assaying. The man told dispatchers theplane “was going down. He heard somesort of explosion and saw white smokecoming from the plane and we lost con-tact with him,” Cramer said.

Evacuations were ordered at theUnited Nations in New York and at theSears Tower in Chicago. Los Angelesmobilized its anti-terrorism division,and security was intensified aroundthe naval installations in HamptonRoads, Va. Walt Disney World in Orlan-do, Fla., was evacuated.

Pandemonium at Trade CenterAt the World Trade Center, “every-

one was screaming, crying, running,cops, people, firefighters, everyone,”said Mike Smith, a fire marshal. “It’slike a war zone.”

Jennifer Brickhouse, 34, fromUnion, N.J., who was going up theescalator into the World Trade Centerwhen she “heard this big boom.”

“All this stuff started falling and allthis smoke was coming through. Peo-ple were screaming, falling, and jump-ing out of the windows,” from high inthe sky, she said.

“I just saw the building I work income down,” said businessmanGabriel Ioan, shaking in shock outsideCity Hall, a cloud of smoke and ashfrom the World Trade Center behindhim.

Nearby a crowd mobbed a man on apay phone, screaming at him to get offthe phone so that they could call rela-tives. Dust and dirt flew everywhere.

Ash was 2 to 3 inches deep in places.People wandered dazed and terrified.

‘Horrendous number of liveslost’

The planes blasted fiery, gapingholes in the upper floors of the twintowers. About an hour later, the south-ern tower collapsed with a roar and ahuge cloud of smoke; the other towerfell about a half-hour after that, cover-ing lower Manhattan in heaps of grayrubble and broken glass. Firefighterstrapped in the rubble radioed for help.

“I have a sense it’s a horrendousnumber of lives lost,” Mayor RudolphGiuliani said. “Right now we have tofocus on saving as many lives as possi-ble.”

The death toll on the crashed planesalone could surpass that of the Okla-homa City bombing on April 19, 1995,which claimed 168 lives in what wasthe deadliest act of terrorism on U.S.soil.

“Today we’ve had a nationaltragedy,” Bush said in Sarasota, Fla.“Two airplanes have crashed into theWorld Trade Center in an apparent ter-rorist attack on our country.” He saidhe would be returning immediately toWashington.

The crashes at the World Trade Cen-ter happened minutes apart, beginningjust before 9 a.m.

Heavy black smoke billowed intothe sky above one of New York City’smost famous landmarks, and debrisrained down on the street, one of thecity’s busiest work areas. When thesecond plane hit, a fireball of flame andsmoke erupted, leaving a huge hole inthe glass and steel tower.

John Axisa, who was getting off acommuter train to the World TradeCenter, said he saw “bodies falling out”of the building. He said he ran outside,and watched people jump out of thefirst building. Then there was a secondexplosion, and he felt heat on the backof neck.

WCBS-TV, citing an FBI agent, saidfive or six people jumped out of the win-dows. Witnesses on the street screamedevery time another person leaped.

People ran down the stairs in panicand fled the building. Thousands ofpieces of what appeared to be officepaper drifted over Brooklyn, aboutthree miles away.

Daily life comes to haltSeveral subway lines were immedi-

ately shut down. Trading on Wall Streetwas suspended. New York’s mayoralprimary election Tuesday was post-

poned. All bridges and tunnels intoManhattan were closed.

David Reck was handing out litera-ture for a candidate for public advocatea few blocks away when he saw a jetcome in “very low, and then it made aslight twist and dove into the building.”

Terrorist bombers struck the WorldTrade Center in February 1993, killingsix people and injuring more than1,000 others.

“It’s just sick. It just shows how vul-nerable we really are,” Keith Meyers,39, said in Columbus, Ohio. “It kind ofmakes you want to go home and spendtime with your family. It puts every-thing in perspective,” Meyers said. Hesaid he called to check in with his wife.They have two young children.

In New York, “we heard a large

boom and then we saw all this debrisjust falling,” said Harriet Grimm, whowas inside a bookstore on the WorldTrade Center’s first floor when the firstexplosion rocked the building.

“The plane was coming in low and ...it looked like it hit at a slight angle,”said Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice presi-dent, the network reported.

In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, atwin-engine bomber, crashed into the79th floor of the Empire State Buildingin dense fog.

In Florida, Bush was reading to chil-dren in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. whenhis chief of staff, Andrew Card, whis-pered into his ear. The president brieflyturned somber before he resumedreading. He addressed the tragedyabout a half-hour later.

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the loss of feeling secure here at home in America.

Yes, I finally did make it to Paris but with an underlying sense of melancholy. I re-membered all that happened prior to my trip and felt sad. I do realize my sense of being a proud American, my faith in Amer-ica, was restored after that unfathomable day, 9/11/2001.

— Mindy White, Bakersfield

Our family was in D.C. celebrating my nephew’s second birthday when 9/11 occurred. President Bush said to keep

the economy going, so our family was at Walmart with a loaded cart when I saw one cashier with NO customers. Why? Be-cause the young man was wearing a turban. I said, “Come on, we’re going over there.”

When we got to that other register, I told the clerk, “I apologize. People don’t understand that you are Sikh.

You are not a terrorist.” He simply said, “Thank you.” A long line formed behind us. I guess someone just had to be first.

— Glenda Chun, Bakersfield

We had been married earlier in the year, but my parents weren’t able (due to ongoing medical treatments) to come to Bakersfield for the ceremony, so we went to visit them late August and early September. We had arrived back in Califor-nia on United Flight 175 out of Boston to

LAX on Sept. 10.I had been busy at home trying to catch

up, as I had to be at work the next day. My daughter, Casey, called me on the phone and insisted in a frantic voice to turn on the TV! We saw the recording of United Flight 175 plunging into the south tower. My immediate reaction was, this can’t be real. We left the TV on until it finally sunk in. It didn’t dawn on us, until later, that we missed that flight by one day.

— Larry and Pat Mumford, Bakersfield

We were on a cruise ship returning from Alaska when my husband saw on TV that New York was being attacked. Unbelievable.

After docking in Van-couver, Canada, we were advised that the U.S. border was closed, and we were guests of Canada. I was in charge of 30 pas-sengers and responsible for their return to the U.S.

After four days (guests of the cruise line), I was able to obtain plane reservations for all to Seattle. Suc-cess — Southern California, next stop.

— Loretta Becherucci, Bakersfield

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“We saw the recording of United Flight 175 plunging into the south tower. My immediate reaction was, this can’t be real. We left the TV on until it finally sunk in. It didn’t dawn on us, until later, that we missed that flight by one day.”

— Larry and Pat Mumford


By VIC POLLARDCalifornian Sacramento Bureaue-mail: [email protected]

Kern County’s and California’s repre-sentatives said todaythe attacks in NewYork and Washington amount to a decla-ration of war against the United Statesby terrorists, and it requires an appropri-ate military response when the perpe-trators are identified.

“An eye for an eye is the term thatcomes to mind,” said Rep. Bill Thomas,R-Bakersfield, chairman of the powerfulHouse Ways and Means Committee

He said the series of attacks were toowell coordinated to be isolated acts ofterrorism and that the individuals andnations that either had a hand in carry-ing out the attacks or even knew aboutthem should be held responsible.

“We should respond in kind.” He added the U.S. should not engage

in indiscriminate bombing. But shouldbe “alert and organized as in a wartimebasis.”

Though there appears to have beenno warning through U.S. intelligenceagencies, Thomas said he’s not dealingwith that right now.

“This is also a time when we shouldreflect on the innocent people who havebeen killed in this war,” he said.

In the meantime, he said he would bemoving around and did not know whenCongress would meet again in the nearfuture.

Other’s in Congress also wondered atthe sophistication of the attack.

“I find it hard to believe that it did notinvolve some support and some pro-tection from at least a quasi-govern-ment,” said Rep. Cal Dooley, D-Hanford.“If we find that to be true, then I think amilitary response is appropriate.”

Dooley was in the Longworth Houseoffice building across the street from theU. S. Capitol building when news of thesecond airplane crash into the WorldTrade Center building in New York wasreported on television.

Shortly afterward, through his officewindow, he saw people running fromthe Capitol building as the facility washurriedly evacuated. Congressionaloffice buildings were evacuated shortlyafter that. “It was very scary,” to see thepanicked people, said Dooley’s pressspokesman, Adam Kovacevich.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein joined thePresident and Congressional leadershipin condemning the terrorist acts andurging a military response.

“As chair of the Terrorism and Tech-nology Committee, I am also convincedthat the need for homeland defense andhomeland security must be our nation’snumber one priority,” Feinstein said in astatement. She did not elaborate onwhat those defenses might be.

In Sacramento, Gov. Gray Davisordered all state offices closed and sentall but essential safety personnel home.

Davis also canceled a scheduledpress conference.

State Assembly and Senate sessionswere canceled for the day and Assem-blyman Dean Florez, D-Shafter, said leg-islative leaders were meeting at mid-morning to discuss what they should doabout the remainder of the legislativesession, which was scheduled toadjourn for the year Friday. Lawmakershave hundreds of bills left on their agen-da for action, but most of them wouldremain alive for final action next year ifthey do not win approval by Friday.

Florez said he believes only one bill isessential, and that is the reapportion-ment measure, redrawing legislativeand congressional districts in line withthe 2000 census. It is needed to allowelections to be held next year.

“I don’t think anyone feels safe there,”Florez said. He said he hopes the presi-dent will act decisively, including target-ing training grounds where terroristsbecome experienced in planning thesetypes of attacks.

“I’m certain that the swiftest, mostsevere response is in order because thisis an assault on every American,” saidAssemblyman Roy Ashburn, R-Bakers-field.

“This is an attack on us all.”

By STEVE E. SWENSONCalifornian staff writere-mail: [email protected]

Terrorist attacks 3,000 miles away had animmediate impact in Kern County Tuesdaywith the grounding of all flights at all airports,including Meadows Field where twopassenger flights made emergency landings.

There was no word from officials onwhether any of the passengers on board theflights hijacked by terrorists Tuesday hadfinal destinations here.

The attacks also affected Amtrak service,where officials ordered all trains stopped solaw enforcement officials could conductsearches.

The Meadows Field terminal was evacuat-ed at 10:30 a.m., and the whole airport wasput on special security alert as part of anational order for all airports.

No commercial or private aircraft wereallowed in the sky Tuesday, according toJames Savely, air traffic manager at Mead-ows. He said the skies were put under “secu-rity code Delta which is just about the highestalert we have.”

Only military, medical evacuation, firefighting and law enforcement aircraft wereallowed to fly Tuesday and most of those hadto file flight plans, Savely said. Under thealert, “the military takes over the skies and ifthey can’t identify a plane, they consider ithostile,” he said.

Passengers on the two diverted flightsTuesday morning were notified in the air thatthey were required to land at the nearest air-ports because of terrorist attacks on the EastCoast.

“I was aghast, stunned,” said JackMarzano, 64, of Cambria, who was on anAmerican West Flight flying from San LuisObispo to Phoenix when the abrupt landingin Bakersfield was announced.

He and his wife, Lydia, 53, eventually weregoing to Cincinnati, Ohio, to help move hermother to a rest home. When they realizedwhat was happening, Mrs. Marzano said,“Our problems are pretty minute to what isgoing on.”

The other plane diverted to Bakersfieldwas an Horizon Airlines flight from Boise,Idaho, to Los Angeles.

Captain Steve Hoyt, a pilot since 1975, saidthe cockpit was alerted to the terrorist attackand a flight attendant told that to the passen-gers.

When the crew asked if they could go toFresno where they have a Horizon base andair traffic controllers raised their voice toexclaim no, “We didn’t have any questionsafter that,” Hoyt said.

All flights from Meadows were cancelledat about 7:15 a.m. The shutdown of flightsacross the county was expected to last untilat least 9 a.m. today.

Kern County Airport Manager Ray Bishopsaid all 24 departures and 24 arrivals with acapacity of 1,920 seats were canceledTuesday, affecting more than 1,000 passen-gers.

Airport Bus of Bakersfield was also shutdown, and a 6 a.m. bus with six passengers toLos Angeles International Airport was divert-

ed to a holding area, before it was broughtback to Bakersfield, area manager CendyMassie said.

About 300 passengers would be affectedby the closure of six of their seven buses thatgo to and from Los Angeles, she said.

For the most part, passengers didn’t panicor become angry, Bishop said.

But some felt scared. John Ford, 21, of LosAngeles who with two friends was on theBoise flight, said that when the announce-ment was made the plane was going thoughsome turbulence.

“A guy sitting next to us was terrified,”Ford said. “I thought he was going to cry.”

As for himself, Ford said, “We knew it wasa pretty serious situation. To get us down thatquickly made it more scary.”

Rental cars became a premium commodi-ty as people scrambled to get to nearby cities.

Ray Karpe of Bakersfield was in Los Ange-les with his family for a trip to Walt DisneyWorld in Orlando, Fla., when he heard at 7:30a.m. that the Los Angeles International Air-port was shut down.

The trip his family had planned for sixmonths is now scheduled for June, he said.His wife and 8- and 9-year-old sons, who hebrought back to Bakersfield in a rental car,planned to spend the rest of the time at thebeach.

Karpe, a vice-president and broker atKarpe Real Estate, said he stood atop theWorld Trade Center in 1991 and just thoughtas he saw the television coverage, “Howcould this happen?”

Beth Miller, 37, of Sacramento, communi-cations director for Secretary of State BillJones, was en route to Bakersfield on anAmtrak train when passengers were toldabout 8:45 a.m. that the train was stopped dueto a transportation freeze following the NewYork and Washington, D.C. disasters.

Halted indefinitely between Stockton andModesto, with a vineyard on one side and acornfield on the other, disbelieving passen-

gers learned of the disaster from people theycontacted on cell phones and fromannouncements by Amtrak staff.

Amtrak staff collected all checked bag-gage into one car and had passengers retrievethe bags and take them to their seats, toensure that all bags matched up with a pas-senger, per an order from the National Trans-portation Safety Board, Miller said.

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Passengers at Meadows Field wait to board a shuttle after all flights were canceled.

Parents should monitor children’s exposure to news coverage

By MARYLEE SHRIDER Californian staff writer e-mail: [email protected]

The Armageddon-like images left in theaftermath of Tuesday’s suspected terroristattacks will likely be televised around the clockfor days and weeks to come.

Despite the historical impact of images likeplanes crashing into the World Trade Center in

New York City, the subsequent collapsing of theTrade Center and some of New York Cityengulfed in smoke, parents of young childrenmay want to simply keep their children fromwatching TV for a while, particularly news pro-grams.

“The information being broadcast is trau-matic in nature and just too much for childrento process,” said Corey Gonzales, a Bakersfieldclinical psychologist. “It’s just like an R-ratedmovie. Children should not be exposed to cer-tain adult things, so we manage the informationthey’re exposed to.”

Parents will want to follow the events as theyunfold, but should take care not to obsess, orallow their children to obsess, over what’s tak-

ing place.Addressing their concerns, Gonzales said,

should be the first parental priority.“We need to pay attention to our children’s

anxiety levels,” he said. “Make sure they’re ableto concentrate and function, and let them knowthat while there’s good and bad, the good guyswill prevail.”

Debra Serban, waiting for her son, 6-year-oldNiculea Serban outside Franklin ElementarySchool Tuesday, said she has every intention ofkeeping him away from the television set asmuch as possible. She plans on talking with herson about the tragedy, but fears television’srepeated and often graphic images may fright-en him. There are better ways, she said, to han-

dle such catastrophic events. “We’ll probably go to church tonight and

pray together,” Serban said. “Maybe that willcomfort him.”

Parents should monitor the amount of cov-erage their children watch, but should encour-age children and teens to ask questions aboutthe suspected terrorist attacks and the result-ing carnage, said Connie Rooke, a Bakersfieldmarriage and family therapist.

“As parents, we feel many times we have tohave the answer,” Rooke said. “Even if we don’thave a good answer for them, like now, it’s real-ly important they have a chance to talk abouttheir feelings.”

Younger children may not comprehend the

horror of the tragedies that took place Tuesday.How they’re going to respond to them is based,at least in part, on what they see and how theirparents respond, Rooke said.

“If we become obsessed and watch it 24-7 forthe next three weeks, that is going to increasetheir anxiety,” she said. “I think the importantthing with children and teens have the freedomto ask what’s going on — that it’s OK to ask.

“I think one of the things that works withteen-agers is empathizing — what would thatbe like for our family?”

Any time there’s a crisis, it’s helpful whenfamilies talk about things they would do or thepeople they could call should a similar tragedytake place closer to home.

Controlling anxiety levelkey during times of tragedy,psychologists say.

Lawmakerscalling forretaliationThomas, colleagues urging“eye for an eye” whenattackers are identified.

Meadows flights haltedPlanes diverted to Bakersfieldafter attacks; Amtrak trains stopfor law enforcement searches.

Passengers at Meadows Field watch televison coverage of the attack in New York. The two menrefused to give their names but they were part of a U.S. Air Force group heading to Korea.

Rudy Vitasz,an airman inthe AustralianAir force,watchestelevisioncoverage atMeadowsField.

Meadows Field

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Airport status: Shut downFlights: 24 arrivals, 24 departuresSeats available per day: 1,920More than 1,000 passengers expected to use Meadows today

Flights diverted to Meadows Field: Two• Horizon Flight from Boise to Los Angeles: 32 passengers• American West Flight from San Luis Obispo to Phoenix: 37 passengers

Bakersfield: City and county offices remained open early Tuesday afternoon.Valley Plaza Mall closed in light of the tragedy. East Hills Mall closed its administrativeoffices and some smaller stores were closed, but larger stores and some nationalchain stores remained open Tuesday afternoon.

California: Airports closed, as are other landmarks, including Knott's Berry Farmin Orange County, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the city's 74-story Library Tower, at 1,700 feet the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.State on high alert. State's Emergency Council convened as Gov. Gray Davisordered all state buildings to close and all nonessential state employees to gohome. The state's Emergency Council convened as Davis requested heightenedsecurity at all state buildings, said Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio.

BY TED ANTHONYThe Associated Press

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago, all is quiet.

The hills around Shanksville seem to swallow sound. The plateau that Amer-icans by the millions ascend to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial, to think of those who died in this southwestern Penn-sylvania expanse, sits just above much of the landscape, creating a pocket of quiet precisely where quiet needs to be.

It is a place that encourages the act of remembering.

Twenty years have passed since United Flight 93 made its final descent, chaos unfolding aboard as buildings burned 300 miles to the east. Nearly one-fifth of the country is too young to remember first-hand the day that changed everything.

At the edge of the memorial’s overlook, a burly man in a leather Harley-Davidson vest talks to two companions. He points

toward the patch where the plane hit. It is an intimate conversation, and it is hard to hear what he’s saying.

But his first two words are clear:“I remember ...”

•••Remembering is not merely a state of

mind. As those who beseech us to never forget the Holocaust have long insisted, it is an act. And when loss and trauma are visited upon human beings, the act of re-membering takes many forms.

Remembering is political. Those who disagree about the fate of Confeder-ate statues across the American South demonstrate that, as do those who dispute how much the war on terror and its toll should be part of discussions about 9/11 memories.

Remembering wears many coats. It arrives in ground zero ceremonies and

As decades pass, the act of remembering evolves

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The remains of the World Trade Center stand amid other debris on Sept. 11, 2001, following the terrorist attack on the buildings in New York.Please see REMEMBERING | F5


THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN A5Tuesday, September 11, 2001

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World condemns ‘evil’ attacksBy BETH GARDINERThe Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Astonishing ter-rorist strikes in the United Statesquickly reached a global audienceTuesday, with many around the worldwatching live coverage as both WorldTrade Center towers collapsed.

In the West Bank city of Nablus,thousands of Palestinians poured intothe streets to celebrate, chanting “Godis Great” and distributing candy topassers-by, even as their leader, YasserArafat, expressed horror over theattacks.

Audiences were transfixed by theawful images from New York and

Washington, and world leadersexpressed solidarity with an Americathat looked more vulnerable than ever,offering a stream of condolences.

Key indexes sank on world stockmarkets and some European airlinescanceled flights to the United Statesand recalled planes already in theair. Canada closed all border cross-ings with the United States, althoughthe border with Mexico remainedopen.

Many countries beefed up securityat American embassies, and in Oslo,Norwegians left bouquets of flowers ina park near the U.S. Embassy. U.S.armed forces in Europe and Asia wereput on high alert, and Israel closed itsairspace to foreign flights. NATO andEuropean Union institutions also tookspecial security measures, includingpartial evacuations.

“It is impossible to fully compre-hend the evil that would have conjured

up such a cowardly and depravedassault upon thousands of innocentpeople,” said Canadian Prime MinisterJean Chretien.

Russian President Vladimir Putinexpressed condolences to the Ameri-can people, calling the attacks “terribletragedies.”

“This mass terrorism is the new evilin our world today,” said British PrimeMinister Tony Blair. “It is perpetratedby fanatics who are utterly indifferentto the sanctity of human life, and wethe democracies of this world aregoing to have to come together andfight it together.”

Queen Elizabeth II said she watcheddevelopments in “growing disbeliefand total shock” and offered herprayers to Americans.

President Jacques Chirac of Francecalled the attacks “monstrous.”

“There is no other word for it,” hesaid in a televised statement.

Arafat and his top aides followedthe events at his seaside office in GazaCity, gathered around a TV set.

“I send my condolences to the presi-dent, the government and the peoplefor this terrible incident,” Arafat said.“We are completely shocked. It’s unbe-lievable.”

Afghanistan’s hard-line Talibanrulers also condemned the attacks andrejected suggestions that Saudi dissi-dent Osama bin Laden, who has beengiven asylum in Afghanistan, wasbehind them.

The Taliban’s ambassador to Pak-istan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said binLaden would not be able to carry outsuch well-orchestrated strikes. “It ispremature to level allegations against aperson who is not in a position to carryout such attacks,” he said.

The leaders of Northern Ireland’sjoint Protestant-Catholic government,Reg Empey and Seamus Mallon, also

offered condolences.“As a society that has suffered from

the effects of terrorism for over 30years, we have some recognition andunderstanding of the hurt being felt bythe American people,” they wrote. “It ishard to comprehend what could moti-vate anyone to cause such misery,destruction and deliberate loss ofhuman life.”

In Berlin, Foreign Ministry officialshuddled in a crisis meeting.

Virtually all German TV channelsswitched to live coverage. “This is puremass murder,” one commentator said.

“My government condemns theseterrorist attacks to the utmost,” saidGerman Chancellor Gerhard Schroed-er.

Airlines including British Airways,Scandinavia’s SAS and Belgium’sSabena canceled flights across theAtlantic and recalled planes that werealready in the air.

In Puerto Rico, people scrambledfor news of relatives and friends inNew York, where an estimated 2 mil-lion Puerto Ricans live.

Groups gathered on the corners ofcobble-stoned streets in the colonialcity of San Juan, clinging to strangersin search of more details.

“Dios mio, have mercy!” exclaimeda whited-haired man, making the signof the cross as he watched the secondtower explode on TV.

Broadcasters around the worldbroke into programming to showimages of the disaster. “It’s incredible. Ithought I was watching a Hollywoodmovie,” said Hong Kong schoolteacher Doris Tang.

In the Nigerian capital of Abuja,aghast hotel workers at the localHilton stopped their chores to watch.

“If this can happen in America, thenthe whole world is not safe,” said one,Augustine Okweche.

Leaders rally aroundU. S., say democraciesmust fight terror.

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A group of children near east Jerusalem's Old City wave Palestinian flags and chant anti-U.S. slogans as they react to the news of a terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter in New York.

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A Palestinian woman receives free sweets from a vendor as residents of east Jerusalem's OldCity celebrate after hearing the news of a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Taliban:bin Ladennot guilty

By KATHY GANNONThe Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s hardline Tal-iban rulers condemned the devastating terroristattacks in New York and Washington on Tuesday andrejected suggestions that Osama bin Laden could bebehind them.

“We never support terrorism. We too are targets ofterrorism,” Abdul Hai Muttmain, the Taliban’sspokesman in the southern city of Kandahar, told TheAssociated Press in a telephone interview.

After the attacks, a London-based Arab journalistsaid followers of bin Laden warned three weeks agothat they would carry out a “huge and unprecedentedattack” on U.S. interests.

Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabinewspaper, said he received a warning from Islamicfundamentalists close to bin Laden, but did not takethe threat seriously.

“They said it would be a huge and unprecedentedattack but they did not specify,” Atwan said in a tele-phone interview in London.

“We usually receive this kind of thing. At the time wedid not take the warnings seriously as they had hap-pened several times in the past and nothing happened.“This time it seems his people were accurate andmeant every word they said.”

Atwan, who interviewed bin Laden in 1996 and hassince maintained contacts with his followers, said hebelieved the attack on the World Trade Center in NewYork was the work of “an Islamic fundamentalistgroup” close to bin Laden.

But Muttmain, who is the spokesman for the Tal-iban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar andone of the most senior Taliban officials, dismissed alle-gations that bin Laden could be behind the attacks inthe United States.

“Such a big conspiracy, to have infiltrated in such amajor way is impossible for Osama,” said Muttmain.He said bin Laden does not have the facilities toorchestrate such a major assault within the UnitedStates.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who espouse a harshbrand of Islamic law, have resisted U.S. demands tohand over bin Laden, indicted in the United States oncharges of masterminding the bombings of two U.S.Embassies in East Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people,including 12 Americans.

After the attacks in East Africa, Washington retali-ated with a blistering missile attack in August 1998,sending more than 70 Tomahawk cruise missiles intoeastern Afghanistan apparently targeting trainingcamps operated by bin Laden.

The attacks killed about 20 followers of bin Laden’sbut the exiled Saudi millionaire escaped unhurt. Sincethen he has been forced by the Taliban rulers to stopgiving interviews and making statements.

Government says terrorist notcapable of pulling off attack, butprivate sources report threats.

Palestiniansextol attack;Arafat appalled

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHThe Associated Press

NABLUS, West Bank — Thousandsof Palestinians celebrated Tuesday’sterror attacks in the United States,chanting “God is great” and distribut-ing candy to passers-by, even as theirleader, Yasser Arafat, said he was hor-rified.

The U.S. gov-ernment hasbecome increas-ingly unpopularin the West Bankand Gaza Strip inthe past year ofIsraeli-Palestin-ian fighting, withmany Palestini-ans accusingWashington of

siding with Israel.In the West Bank town of Nablus,

about 3,000 people poured into thestreet shortly after the attacks on theWorld Trade Center in New York andgovernment targets in Washington.

Demonstrators distributed candy ina traditional gesture of celebration.Several Palestinian gunmen shot in theair, while other marchers carriedPalestinian flags. Nawal Abdel Fatah,48, wearing a long, black dress, threw

sweets in the air, saying she was happybecause “America is the head of thesnake, America always stands byIsrael in its war against us.”

Her daughter Maysoon, 22, said shehoped the next attack would belaunched against Tel Aviv.

In traditionally Arab east Jerusalem,there was a smaller gathering of abouttwo dozen people, many of themyoung children led in chants by adults.Some drivers passing the scenehonked their horns and flashed victorysigns from their windows.

Arafat and his top advisers huddledat his seaside office in Gaza City,watching the events unfold on televi-sion. Arafat later emerged to speak toreporters.

“We are completely shocked. It’sunbelievable,” he said. “We completelycondemn this very dangerous attack,and I convey my condolences to theAmerican people, to the Americanpresident and to the American admin-istration, not only in my name but onbehalf of the Palestinian people.”

In the West Bank, meanwhile, theleader the Democratic Front for theLiberation of Palestine denied hisgroup was involved in the attacks.

Qais Abdel Rahim was reacting toreports that two Arab satellite stationsin the Gulf had received anonymousclaims of responsibility on behalf ofthe DFLP, a radical PLO faction. AbdelRahim said his group condemned theattacks.

Revelers chant “God isgreat,” express hope thatassault on Tel Aviv is next.

Arafat

Countries divert flights headed to U.S.

The Associate Press

LONDON — International airlinesscrambled to divert or cancel flights tothe United States on Tuesday after awave of airborne terror attacks onNew York and Washington. Israelclosed its airspace to foreign carriers.

The cancellations and diversionscaused confusion and congestion atmany European airports, where air-lines ordered flights bound for theUnited States to do U-turns or findalternate landing points outside Amer-ica.

Some airlines reversed course only

after being denied permission to landby the Federal Aviation Administra-tion, which ordered U.S. airspace shutdown in response to the apparenthijacking of U.S. passenger jets by sui-cide bombers.

Israel closed its airspace to foreignairlines. Israeli carriers — which carryout stringent security checks — willstill be able to land at Israel’s four air-ports, said Yerach Tal, an adviser to theIsraeli transport minister. The ban willbe in effect for 24 hours, and will thenbe reviewed, Tal said.

The German Flight Security Agencyin Frankfurt ordered all U.S.-boundflights by Lufthansa canceled. AFinnair flight out of Helsinki turnedaround and returned to Finland. AirFrance Group ordered its American

flights closed or rerouted.In Belgium, Sabena Air spokesman

Wilfried Remans said two flights enroute to the United States were “turn-ing around in midflight and returningto Brussels.”

In Spain, national carrier Iberia saidfour scheduled flights from Madrid tothe United States were in the air andthree of them — destined to New York,Chicago and Miami — were ordered toreturn to Spain. The fourth, flying fromBarcelona to New York, was awaitingclearance into a Canadian airport, anIberia official said.

Scandinavian Airlines Systemordered three flights bound for NewYork, and another flight bound forWashington, to divert while over theAtlantic. They were expected to land

instead in Iceland. SAS spokesmanThomas Brinch in Copenhagen said hewasn’t sure when flights to the UnitedStates would resume.

At Heathrow Airport outside Lon-don, several flights already bound forthe United States were expected todivert to Canadian airports while thosethat hadn’t taken off were delayedindefinitely.

British Airways, which flies to 21destinations in the United States, saidall services were being canceled,diverting to the nearest airport outsidethe United States.

Virgin Atlantic also canceled itsdaily services to New York and otherU.S. cities, but said its services fromLondon to the Caribbean would beuninterrupted.

Planes turn around or arererouted to Canada, othersites following terror.

moments of silence and prayers upon prayers, both public and private. It shows itself in folk me-morials like those erected at the sides of lonely roads to mark the sites of traffic deaths. It is embed-ded in the names of places, like the road that leads to the Flight 93 memorial — the Lincoln High-way. It surfaces in the retrieval of “flashbulb memories” — those where-were-you-when-this-hap-pened moments that stick with us, sometimes accurately, some-times not.

There are personal memories and cultural memories and po-litical memories, and the line between them often blurs.

And for generations, remem-bering has been presented to us in monuments and memorials like Shanksville’s, negotiated and constructed and fine-tuned to evoke and provoke the memories and emotions of people and mo-

ments in certain ways.“Monuments are history made

visible. They are shrines that cel-ebrate the ideals, achievements and heroes that existed in one moment in time,” architectural historian Judith Dupre writes in her 2007 book about them — a book she first pitched to her publisher on, of all dates, Sept. 10, 2001.

Yet while monuments stand, remembering itself evolves. How 9/11 is remembered depends on when 9/11 is remembered. Re-membering it on Sept. 15, 2001, or on Sept. 11, 2004 is different from remembering it on Sept. 11, 2011 — or, for that matter, differ-ent from what it will be today.

What, then, does remembering come to mean on a 20th anniver-sary, or at any juncture when an event like 9/11 starts to recede into the past — starts to become history — even as its echoes are still shaking the foundations of everything?

“Our present influences how we remember the past — some-

times in ways that are known and sometimes in ways that we don’t realize,” says Jennifer Talarico, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania who

studies how people form per-sonal memories of public events.

Evidence of that is obvious in the events of the past several weeks in Afghanistan, where

a 20-year war waged in direct response to 9/11 ended pretty much where it began: with the repressive and violent Taliban in charge once more.

“If we were still in Afghani-stan and things were stable, we would be remembering 9/11 in probably a very different way than how we will remember it this year,” says Richard Cooper, a vice president at the nonprofit Space Foundation who worked for the Department of Homeland Security for several years after the attacks and has watched many remembrances over the years.

“That heartbreak and pain we felt on the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, is resurrecting itself,” Coo-per says, “and that impacts how we remember it today.”

•••Even within more static forms

of memory, such as the Flight 93 National Memorial, the question of how remembering changes

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From left, Shannon Barry, Lisa Starr and Michelle Wagner, all of Hershey, Pa., comfort each other on Sept. 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as they listen to a memorial service for victims of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa.

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A6 THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN Tuesday, September 11 , 2001

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People flee the scene near New York's World Trade Center after terrorists crashed two planes into the towers Tuesday. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists hijacked two airlinersand crashed them into the World Trade Center.

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The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York. The Empire State Building is inthe foreground. The twin towers of

the World TradeCenter burn after ajet crashes into toneof the buildingsTuesday.

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Smoke and firesurround the upperfloors of the WorldTrade Center in NewYork City, Tuesday,Sept. 11, 2001, inthis image fromtelevision, after asecond planecrashed into thebuildings. Planescrashed into theupper floors of bothWorld Trade Centertowers minutesapart Tuesday in ahorrific scene ofexplosions and firesthat left gapingholes in the 110-story buildings.

Pedestrians flee thearea of the World TradeCenter as the center'ssouth tower crashesfollowing a terroristattack on the New Yorklandmark Tuesday.

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and evolves hangs over so much.In the visitors’ center, visceral,

painful artifacts of the moment still bring back the past with astonishing efficiency; twisted, scarred cutlery from in-flight meals is a particularly breath-taking sight. But the variety of remembering that is presented yards away at the quiet overlook and its thoughtful memorial feels more permanent, more eternal — and now, 20 years on, more befitting of something that hap-pened a generation ago.

Paul Murdoch of Los Angeles, the lead architect on the me-morial, says it was carefully cali-brated to resonate across multi-ple stages of memory about the event and its implications.

“You can imagine a memorial approach that sort of freezes an-ger in time, or freezes fear. And that can be a very expressionistic piece of art. But I feel like for something to endure over a long

period of time, I think it has to operate a different way,” says Murdoch, who co-designed the memorial with his wife, Milena.

“Now we have a generation of people who weren’t even alive on 9/11,” Murdoch says. “So how do you talk to people of this new generation — or of future generations?”

That question is particularly potent on this 20th anniversary. Society tends to mark genera-tions in two-decade packages, so there’s an entire one that has been born and come of age since the attacks. That hardly means they haven’t been paying atten-tion, though; they “remember,” too, even if they weren’t around.

Krystine Batcho, a psychology professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., studies how nostalgia works. She found some-thing interesting a couple of years ago when she was researching how young people encountered stories that resonated with them — both personally and through


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On Sept. 11, 2011, soldiers with the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Afghanistan, hold a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and soldiers the unit has lost since then in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Please see REMEMBERING | F7


By CHRISTINE BEDELL, DEVONA WELLS,TIM BRAGG, STEVEN MAYERCalifornian staff writerse-mail: [email protected]; [email protected];[email protected]; [email protected]

Near-violent anger. True sadness. Shock butrecognition they knew this day would come.

Those were the reactions of folks acrossKern County this morning to what’s consideredthe worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

“It’s absolutely unbelievable,” Diana John-son shouted outside a downtown Bakersfieldcoffee house. “We need to go out and find thesepeople (responsible) and we need to kill them.”

Dawn Miranda, also downtown, first heardthe news in a phone call from her daughter.Miranda turned on the television just in time tocatch the second plane crash through theWorld Trade Center towers in New York City.

“This is just terrible. This is just awful,”Miranda said. “All those people, all those res-cue workers, were in that building and it col-lapsed on them.”

Like Johnson, Andy Perez’s first response toquestions about the devastation was that theUnited States must retaliate — decisively.

“Something needs to be done. The presidenthas to take action,” he said outside Kern Coun-ty Superior Court. “I’m just totally blown awayby this.”

Others were not so shocked. One, Cindy Cravens, said that’s because

she’s a Christian and has noticed “things start-ing to happen.”

“Satan’s alive and well. The world’s not goingto last forever,” Cravens said. “Human beingsare sinful. God’s the only way.”

Outside the coffee house, Nathan Carlsonwasn’t surprised either. He lived in Israel for 16years and grew used to seeing such violence —although not of today’s magnitude — play outthere.

“I think it was a long time coming,” Carlsonsaid. “I was waiting for a germ attack.”

He feared the West Coast could be vulnera-ble to attack but didn’t fear for himself. “It couldbe San Francisco or L.A.,” Carlson said. “We’reperfectly safe in Bakersfield.”

Michele Hoffman was so distressed by whatshe was seeing on television this morning thatshe went to a tai chi exercise class for distrac-tion. About 20 people were there to do thesame.

“I had to take a breather. You have to take abreather,” she said, sipping coffee and readingthe newspaper. “Otherwise you’d just be para-lyzed sitting in front of the television.”

Then there was Mark Wilkins, who waswashing windows downtown and hadn’t heardabout the hijackings, crashes and missingplanes.

After told of it all, Wilkins said this will be abig test in leadership for President Bush. Hesaid Bush’s response should be “taking anymeans necessary to get the job done.”

At Bakersfield High School, Principal DavidReese addressed the entire campus via inter-com early today.

While he acknowledged the disturbing andalarming nature of the disasters, he stressedthat “we remain calm and try to uncover thetruth.”

“We must understand that there are evil indi-viduals in the world,” Reese told the thousandsof students and staffers who learn and work atthe central Bakersfield campus. “But we mustnot, under any circumstances, spread thatblame to groups of people.”

BHS Head Counselor Vickie Johnstonsaid atleast two students at the school have relativeswho worked at the now-destroyed World TradeCenter in New York City.

“A girl came in this morning to ask me for alate pass,” Johnston said today. “When I askedher why she was late — which is the standardquestion we ask all students who come in late— she began to tear up.”

The girl said she has an uncle and a cousinwho worked in the twin-towered Trade Center,Johnston said. And she had not heard whetherher loved ones were out of danger or not.

“She went to class, but I let her know I’mavailable if she needs to talk,” Johnston said.“We’re prepared to take in anybody who wantsto come in and talk about it.”

She said the prevailing emotion by mid-morning was “fear, not anger.”

Fifteen-year-old BHS student JenniferDepina said her teachers had TV sets on in hermorning classes. They discussed their feelingsabout the disaster — and their uncertainties.

“What’s going to happen?” she said. “War?”Schools at Muroc Joint Unified School Dis-

trict, some of which are located on or nearEdwards Air Force Base in eastern Kern Coun-ty, remained open this morning.

Michael Summerbell, assistant superintend-ent for educational services at the district, saidschool personnel at the base schools are work-ing with base security officers to see if any fur-ther measures need to be taken.

At least one school, Irving L. Branch Ele-mentary School, was on a “partial lockdown,”according to school officials, but otherwise itwas business as usual.

Steve Talbot, a spokesman for the KernCounty Superintendent of Schools office, saidthe school’s special education students werekept home because they usually bused intoschool.

Things were also going normally at schools

in the Kern High School District, where officialssaid students were being made away of thetragedy.

John Teves, a spokesman for KHSD, said dis-trict principals were advised that it would unre-alistic not to talk to students about what hap-pened in class.

“My perception is that teachers had theoption to put into their educational experi-ence,” Teves said. “This is history in the makinghere.”

He said the district was stepping up securityat schools, but instruction continued Tuesdaymorning.

He said some parents had called the districtexpressing concern about their children’s safe-ty.

Michele Bresso Allen, a spokeswoman atBakersfield College, said counselors had beenmade available to students who need to talk tosomeone about the incident.

Valley Plaza planned to close at 11 a.m. afteropening for business an hour earlier, thoughdoors open at 7 a.m. for walkers. Mall manage-ment used the hour to notify tenants of the clo-sure, said Marcella Anthony, mall marketingdirector.

She didn’t know if Kern County’s largest mallwould reopen Wednesday.

General Growth Properties, which owns 150

malls in 39 states, including Valley Plaza, closedall of its properties, Anthony said.

“Our company has determined that in light ofthe situation around the country, it would be inthe best interest of our customers to closetoday,” she said.

East Hills Mall closed its administrativeoffice at around 9:30 a.m. and encouraged ten-ants to do the same. But Mervyn’s, Gottschalksand some small national chains chose to stayopen, said Tommie Sparks, mall manager.

In Delano, the mood remained somberthrough the morning at the Sears distributioncenter as the plant’s 400 workers went abouttheir work, said Janice Guerrero, assistant gen-eral manager.

Radios usually tuned to various music sta-tions all played news, Guerrero said. The 1.2million-square-foot facility distributes to 393retail centers and stores in the western U.S.

“Everybody is just devastated. We’re dum-founded,” she said.

The few customers who came for breakfastat 24th Street Cafe brought portable TVs towatch coverage of the morning events. But notmany came, only around 30 compared to the100 or so that fill the popular diner by 9:30 a.m.

“We’ve never been this slow. It’s our tri-tipday and we’re usually real busy,” said LarryDominguez, manager of the cafe.

THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN A7Tuesday, September 11, 2001


Local reaction: Shock to anger

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From left to right: Diana Johnson was veryupset about the attacks; Cindy Cravenssaid she wasn’t surprised by the attack;Dawn Miranda lamented the loss of life.

By DAVIN McHENRYCalifornian staff writere-mail: [email protected]

Local law enforcement went onheightened alert this morning,patrolling government buildings andairports across the county — just incase.

While additional officers were notplaced on the street, regular patrolsfrom the Bakersfield Police Depart-ment and Kern County Sheriff’sDepartment kept an eagle eye onpotential targets.

Kern County deputies spent themorning patrolling Meadows Field andother airports in the county.

Sheriff’s officials also beefed uptheir presence in local courtrooms andat the county administration building,where the Board of Supervisors wereholding their regular Tuesday meeting.

Bakersfield officers were expectedto remain on a heightened alert andwatch for problems at local govern-ment buildings as well, according toBakersfield Police Chief Eric Matlock.

At Lerdo Jail, detention deputiesalso placed inmates on lockdown,including 560 federal inmates.

“They can get pretty excited aboutthis kind of thing too so we lockedthem down,” said Sheriff Carl Sparks.

Sheriff’s and police officials alsoremained at the ready, in case otherareas in the state — including the LosAngeles area — were attacked. Bar-ring an attack closer to home, Matlocksaid his department wouldn’t call inextra officers.

“Our calls for service patterns arenormal and we do not see a need to beoverly concerned at this point,” Mat-lock said Tuesday morning.

Sparks agreed.“If this thing comes towards the

West Coast, that is going to change thewhole ball game,” he said. “But if this isit and they are done, we won’t go anyhigher than a heightened awareness. Ithink everyone’s concern is Los Ange-les.”

If additional officers were needed,they could be on the streets in justmoments, Matlock said. Because mostofficers take home their patrol vehi-cles they would only need minutes toget on the streets, he said.

In the case of large-scale disastersor other incidents, local fire depart-ments and law enforcement agenciescoordinate their efforts through a sin-

gle command center.Officials from most public safety

agencies also spent time Tuesdaymorning making sure that their emer-gency systems were at the ready.

Tuesday’s attacks come less than amonth after local public safety agen-cies held a “tabletop” exercise, simu-lating a biological warfare attack onKern County. The simulation includedrepresentatives from the local lawenforcement, fire departments, thestate Department of Justice and eventhe FBI, gathered around a half-dozentables.

“We’re constantly training for disas-ters,” said Bakersfield Fire Depart-ment spokeswoman Leslie Devitt.“The simulation wasn’t exactly likewhat happened today, but it alwayshelps to practice.”

Across the county, law enforcementand civilian volunteers alike waited forany orders to move.

Members of the China Lake Moun-tain Rescue Group, which operatesunder the Kern County Sheriff’sDepartment, had not received word tomobilize their group yet, “but we areready to do that at a moment’s notice,”said Mike Myers, team leader for therescue group. “I’m sure practicallyevery member would show up for thecall.”

Local law officialson heightened alert

Planes groundedin east Kern CountyBy DEBBY BADILLOand LINDA SAPPINGTON Californian correspondent

EAST KERN — Pilots throughouteastern Kern County were groundedTuesday as airports and military basesdealt with the national emergency.

At the Mojave Airport, troopersfrom the California Highway Patrolprovided security on airport grounds,while security officers watched fromthe control towers for any suspiciousactivity.

Airport Manager Dan Sabovich saididentification badges were created forall airport personnel. “If we seestrangers we’ll investigate,” Sabovichsaid.

According to Sabovich, specialwatch was kept on all jets at the air-port, especially the Air Force KC-135sparked along the runway. There areroughly a dozen of the fuel tankers atthe airport as part of an ongoing retro-fitting program.

Also at Mojave Airport is the Nation-al Test Pilot School, with students from

Germany, Denmark and Australia cur-rently enrolled.

“We haven’t had any students fromIsrael or the (Middle) East in over ayear,” school manager Joyce Peltiersaid.

Only classroom work was underway Tuesday following orders toground all flights.

At NASA’s Dryden Flight ResearchCenter located at the northern end ofEdwards Air Force Base, spokes-woman Leslie Williams said the facilityfollowed the same security measuresas the base, which was ThreatconDelta — the military’s highest securityalert condition — at 9:30 a.m.

No one was allowed to enter orleave the base, and security forcessearched NASA’s buildings.

“We’re sitting tight. There’s lots oflocking the back doors,” Williams said.“There won’t be any public access, notours, until at least the end of theweek.”

According to Williams, workerswere able to enter the base untilapproximately 7:30 a.m., but employ-ees reporting to work after that wereturned away at the security gate.

At Edwards AFB, spokeswomanLeigh Anne Bierstine said she couldn’tconfirm or deny the Threatcon Deltasecurity level, and couldn’t commenton what time the base’s gates beganturning people away.

In a blanket statement, Bierstinesaid the officials were taking all neces-sary precautions to secure the base,but said she wasn’t at liberty to discussdetails, including what measureswould be taken against any unautho-rized planes found flying within thebase’s airspace.

At the Naval Air Warfare Center,Weapons Division, China Lake tight-ened security to Threatcon Charlie,one level lower than the highest securi-ty alert status.

Children attending two Sierra SandsUnified School District campuseslocated on the base — Richmond Ele-mentary and Murray Middle School —were dismissed to their parents.

Department of Defense employeesat China Lake were granted liberaladministrative leave, allowing employ-ees to return home. Only key adminis-trative personnel were asked to stay.

Questions regarding the status ofmilitary personnel have been directedto Fran Stewart of the Red Cross at(661) 267-0651.

Tonight's scheduled Califor-nia League playoff gamebetween the Bakersfield Blazeand San Jose Giants has beenpostponed.

All other minor and majorleague games were postponedas well. Blaze officials do notknow when the game will berescheduled.

The status of local prepsports games also wasunknown as of late this morning.

Turn to bakersfield.com andWednesday's Californian formore details.

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“I’ve been watching CNN thismorning and am horrified. ... I amjust beside myself in horror! I ampraying that people were able toget out of all buildings involved.However, one person whoescaped the N.Y. buildings wassaid to have witnessed peoplejust jumping out of the windowsto escape. A N.Y. hospital isreporting about 100 people intheir ER, mostly with smokeinhalation. I’m getting back to thenews. This is absolutely horrificand it makes me tremble.”

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West Coast Amtrak trains, including the San Joaquin route thatserves Kern County, were searched following the incidents to checkfor security risks. Trains that were en route were halted and searchedfor baggage or passengers that may have presented a security threat.Trains at stations were searched at stations.After being thoroughly searched, trains are expected to resume theirroutes to their final destinations, said Vernae Graham, Amtrakspokeswoman. Delays are expected.A systemwide Amtrak shutdownwas ordered on the East Coast earlier Tuesday, Graham said, but shecould not comment on later developments.

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Nathan Carlson lived in Israel for 15 years. His parents weremissionaries and he said Tuesday morning in Bakersfield that the attackwas a long time coming and wasn’t surprised.

the news.Even those who lacked living

memories of 9/11, Batcho says, responded with stories about the event. It was remembering as shared experience.

And no wonder. So many first encounters with 9/11 on the day it happened were, in the tradition of an information age, both separate and communal. People in different parts of the country and world, under vastly different circumstances, watched the same live camera angles on the same few feeds and saw the same, now-indelible views of the destruction in the same way. They experienced it apart, but together.

That formed a communal memory of sorts, even if some-times people who saw the same things didn’t remember them the same way — a specific camera angle or vantage point, a key figure’s comments, the exact

sequence of events. Remember-ing can be like that, experts like Talarico say, particularly with intense flashbulb memories like 9/11 that carve deep grooves but aren’t necessarily accurate in the details.

“We reconstruct the event through our own lens, and part of that lens is very social,” Batcho says. “You would think that the memories would be more cohe-sive and homogeneous. It turns out that it’s much more compli-cated than that.”

•••May 31, 2002, less than a year

afterward. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani tells high school students in Shanksville at their commencement: “A hun-dred years from now, people are going to come and want to see it. And they are going to want to know what happened.”

Sept. 11, 2016, the 15th anni-versary. President Barack Obama says: “Fifteen years may seem like


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On Sept. 11, 2013, Kellen Savoy, center, helps present the colors as students raise the flag at William Lloyd Meador Elementary School in Willis, Texas. Students and teachers gathered before school to raise the flag to half-staff to mark the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.


a long time. But for the families who lost a piece of their heart that day, I imagine it can seem like just yesterday.”

That fundamental tension — it feels like yesterday, yes, but it is also becoming part of history for the long haul — is what confronts us as many revisit and consider 9/11 and commit their own acts of remembering.

For those who were not at the nucleus of 9/11’s horror and its pain but experienced it as part of the culture in which they live, it can somehow manage to feel like both yesterday and a long time ago all at once. And as with so many acts of remembering, it is still be-ing debated and contested — and will be for a long time to come.

“Sober ceremonies should not mislead us into thinking the public remembrance of this horrific event is a settled matter,” 9/11 historian John Bodnar wrote in a Washing-ton Post opinion piece in May.

At a hinge point like a major anniversary, particularly with something as seismic as 9/11, it’s easy to fall back on an aphorism like this one from William Faulk-ner: “The past is never dead. It’s

not even past.” But the saying has endured for a reason.

Memory becomes history. And history — shared history — is held onto tightly, sometimes rabidly. It’s why so many peo-

ple grasp tightly to comforting, nostalgic historical narratives — even when they’re shown to have been as destructive as they were productive.

The act of remembering some-thing like 9/11 involves exactly that delicate balance. When memory does become history, it can become more remote, like a Revolutionary War memorial for people whose passions and sac-rifices have been sanded down by time. With distance, it can calcify.

That’s not going to happen with 9/11 for a long time, of course. Its politics are still roiling. The argu-ments that it produced — and the ways they sent society hurtling in a different direction — are just as intense as in those early days.

And when a nation pauses to remember the morning 20 years ago when it was attacked, it is not only looking over its shoulder. It is also looking around and won-dering: What does this mean to us now?

“What is important in making a memorial, in what you remember

and in how you remember it?” J. William Thompson wondered in his elegant 2017 book, “From Memory to Memorial: Shanks-ville, America and Flight 93.”

Any answers to that are, un-derstandably, complex. But behind all the formal words and ways to commemorate a day that upended the world, some-thing more fundamental lurks: a simple imperative to hold onto a sense of what changed things, and how.

On the cover of Thompson’s book, a man stands looking at the Shanksville crash site, his right arm raised. In his left he holds a hand-painted sign etched with four words, one declarative sen-tence: “I did not forget.”

Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, was AP’s director of Asia-Pacific news from 2014 to 2018 and covered the aftermath of 9/11 in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to 2003. Follow him on Twitter: @anthonyted.


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Two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn following a terrorist attack on the twin skyscrapers in New York Tuesday.

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The south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse following a terroristattack on the New York landmark.

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Plumes of smoke erupt from the Pentagon in Washington after a passenger plane crashed into the complex Tuesday.

Women wearing dust masksflee across the Brooklyn Bridgefrom Manhattan to Brooklynfollowing the collapse of bothWorld Trade Center towers. Thetowers previously loomed tall inthe skyline behind.

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On Sept. 11, 2019, a boy waves to motorists from an overpass on Interstate 35 near Melvern, Kan., to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Area residents began manning the bridge with flags and waving to motorists on the anniversary in 2002 and have done it ever since.


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