hasn’t had electricity for more than three years At night a generator hums in the town plaza rests at the end of a skinny peninsula sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and a shallow lagoon that locals call the Dead Sea Most days tempestuous winds drawn off the hot plains of Mexico’s Oaxaca state billow across the peninsula out toward the cool Pacific This windswept peninsula is home to the Huave an indigenous people believed to have come to Mexico centuries ago from Central America or even as far south as Peru The Huave still speak a language isolate that is unrelated to any other language on Earth Most of the remaining Huave speakers live in Santa María and a neighboring town These are two of the last remaining towns on Earth that speak Huave and yet the people in these two towns don’t talk to each other anymore Santa María decided to let a renewable energy company build a wind farm here Many felt that their neighbors were giving away the Huave’s land Related: Visit a slice of Mexico City increasingly known as 'Little LA' “A Huave without land isn’t Huave,” said Bety Gutiérrez San Mateo eventually set up a permanent roadblock to stop construction of the wind farm Suddenly people up the peninsula in Santa María became cut off from the outside world like we’re kidnapped,” said Martincito Ramírez one of the last Huave speakers in Santa María Ramírez said that people here have traditionally survived by fishing and once sold their catch by traveling out of town on the road Ramírez says that locals in San Mateo steal animals from farmers in Santa María Related: Why a trailer filled with 23 greyhounds is crossing the US-Mexico border “but our neighbors in San Mateo fish from the earth.” The stalemate between the two Huave towns has continued for nearly a decade People in San Mateo eventually cut off Santa María’s electricity and water supply Locals in Santa María are essentially trapped: No road the clean energy project never got off the ground But locals in the town opposing the wind farm have kept the roadblock up — they worry that the project isn’t canceled Some of the few people who study Huave believe the clean energy conflict has accelerated the loss of Huave speakers Huave is far more widely spoken in San Mateo And residents from both towns used to communicate in the language while participating together in traditional activities like fishing “Locals from Santa María were usually more exposed to Huave from people in San Mateo than their own family,” said Samuel Herrera a linguist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico who studies Huave Huave is slowly dying all over the Pacific coast of Oaxaca as younger generations increasingly move to the mainland to seek education and jobs “People here keep telling me to forget about the language,” said Vladimir Martínez a teacher from Santa María who teaches Huave Martínez lives on the mainland but works with linguists from Mexico and the United States to create a Huave alphabet and a dictionary Martínez can only reach Santa María by boat The winds often make it impossible for the ferry to operate “I try to do my work in Santa María,” Martínez said “but the wind usually makes it impossible.” locals have started a bilingual school to teach children in both Huave and Spanish And students get scolded for speaking Spanish “Fewer children can speak Huave than ever before because they’re more exposed to Spanish through television and the internet,” said Bety Gutiérrez Gutiérrez has mixed feelings about the energy conflict Gutiérrez tried to start a program that would give pregnant women or those in need of urgent medical care permission to pass through the roadblock Many people on the peninsula worry locals in Santa María who become ill might not reach doctors in time But at the same time Gutiérrez doesn’t want the energy companies to build wind farms here so she also supports some of the drastic measures taken against Santa María “A true Huave would never sell their land,” Gutiérrez said On the other side of the roadblock in Santa María Vladimir Martínez continues to work on his Huave dictionary recording the words of the older generation “The language will never disappear,” Martínez said life in this small fishing community will proceed close to the way it always has But the battle to keep out the wind farm has been won delivered to your inbox every weekday morning Thanks to our sponsor PRX is a 501(c)(3) organization recognized by the IRS: #263347402 Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker authorities in the largely indigenous municipality of San Mateo del Mar announced The massacre was carried out Sunday night by six people with ties to organized crime reportedly while they were stopped at a coronavirus checkpoint “The events were orchestrated by these people and backed by someone who claims to be the leader of an organized crime group called Gualterio Escandón alias ‘Gual Perol,’” and because of his sadism we have lost innocent lives of men and women,” said a statement by local officials The victims were attacked after holding a protest in which they claimed that in previous weeks they had been illegally detained Only five bodies have been identified thus far Organized crime seeks to gain control of the area due to its strategic location for the traffic of undocumented immigrants and the storage of stolen fuel The attacks may have also been related to a longstanding dispute over a proposed wind farm in the area which members of the Ikoots indigenous group were able to block in 2012 arguing that its construction would interfere with their subsistence rights and sacred areas Thirty-nine members of the National Guard and 80 state police officers were deployed to the Pacific coast town to restore order and were able to rescue two victims of the attacks Municipal authorities acknowledge that violent conflicts between different interest groups have gone on for years but the violence of Monday’s events is unprecedented and local 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For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit its online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter The Istmo de Tehuantepec has always been a fiercely independent place the Istmo is the narrowest point in Mexico the cinched-in waist of the country’s reclining odalisque a region known for its raucous parties and dark sense of humor and bold resistance to anything imposed from outside Juchitán de Zaragoza became the first municipality in Mexico to elect an opposition party to power populated by the twice-conquered Ikoots indigenous community had developed and implemented an entirely bilingual preschool program Istmeños resisted interventions and invasions by the British and the Mexican government itself (in 1850 Mexico’s first indigenous president and national hero responded to a revolt to reclaim use of local salt mines by sending troops to burn Juchitán to the ground) But all of that goes only so far in preparing you for catastrophe an 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico the strongest to hit the country in a century Felt as far south as El Salvador and as far north as Mexico City no place suffered greater or more widespread damage than the Istmo where more than 800,000 people were affected and more than 70,000 homes damaged had only just gotten into bed when the ground began to shake holding each other,” she told me one afternoon in early October We sat under a flimsy blue tarp on the sidewalk just outside the walls of her half-collapsed home a program coordinator for the local branch of a support group for trans women and queer men called Transformandome (literally Transforming Myself) was dozing off in the hammock in her bedroom I got up and ran outside—all zigzag of course—out to the patio I grabbed onto a post there just to stay standing And I don’t know if it’s because it was dark but I swear the mango tree was brushing the ground,” she told me gesturing across the blank concrete slab that used to be her home as though it were a three-dimensional blueprint “Once I was there outside I suddenly just thought My TV!’ and I ran back in to get it!” She laughed uproariously I don’t know how I made it out alive.” When the earth stopped moving she went back in to see what had become of her belongings (the TV made it out unscathed) Of the 19 statues of the Santa Muerte that she kept in a shrine in her room “La Protectora”—the protector—“She was decapitated,” Aquino said Without her I would never have made it out alive.” Twenty miles south in the fishing village of San Mateo del Mar set on a narrow bar of land between the Pacific and a giant inland lagoon known here as the Mar Muerto (or Dead Sea) loamy soil burst through the floor in the home that Epifania Zaragoza Camacho had spent 20 years building with her husband “I got out of bed and took a step and the ground went out from under me,” she said as she led me into the room where she’d been sleeping that night The earth rose so fast—or perhaps the house sank she’s still not sure—that it blocked the door Epifania and Primitivo have slept near the precariously tilting trunk of a 50-foot fruit tree at the center of their garden neighbors described their floors splitting and hot water burbling up through the cracks Others described their wells bursting like fountains Fishermen who’d gone out that night to gather tortoise eggs came home to their families with stories of a sea that looked like it was boiling Others described the water going dead calm and slipping away from the coast All of them described the deep cracks that opened in the sand and feeling certain that the earth would swallow them whole nearly two months after the initial quake struck There have been more than 8,000 aftershocks so far many of them strong enough to send loose bits of stone tumbling to the ground “Our bodies are basically seismographs now,” Aquino told me that day in Union Hidalgo 4.8!” Many families sent grandparents and great-aunts off to recuperate in Puebla or Mexico City this one with its epicenter in the central state of Puebla It brought down dozens of buildings in Mexico City killed more than 300 people (about three times as many as the Sept and drew what little media attention had once been on the Istmo decisively and permanently north 23—this one 6.1 in magnitude but with its epicenter in the Istmo itself—most news outlets reported on Chilangos (as residents of Mexico City rather than the fresh round of building collapses and the renewed sense of desperation in the Istmo told me that just that morning he’d noticed people returning to the streets building a new kind of normalcy from the debris “I know lots of people who left after the 23rd we’ll see you for the holidays in December,’ ” he told me one afternoon sitting on the curb across from the ruins of the 100-year-old brick house that used to be his bodega even those few people whose homes were intact started sleeping outside the first real rain the region had seen in over four years sharp-toothed fish that nibbled at her toes She and others in San Mateo slept (and are still sleeping) suspended in hammocks over stagnant pools of water; skin and stomach infections are rampant now Gloria Nuñez and her family moved rubble farther and farther into the street with each passing night to keep cars—redirected down their formerly quiet street thanks to a bridge that collapsed in the second quake—from splashing silty water on them had blown in—gusts up to 180 km/hour rushing out to sea might take some of the floodwaters with them a marker of the seasons became a brutal enemy—disaster upon disaster they’d seen a beam of white light sending sparks into the sky There were stories of a new hot spring bursting from the hillside at Nizanda and of other villages where tar had bubbled up from the ground People said a new volcano was forming underfoot Other explanations came quickly: mining in the nearby hills; the U.S government testing missiles in the Pacific for its impending war with North Korea; maybe the Mexican government itself had discovered a way to set off earthquakes in an attempt to drive the people from their increasingly valuable land people talked of an ancient serpent god who lives below the sand blamed the disaster on “Catholics who drink and have parties” and on homosexuals and trans people (in the Istmo where these communities are more accepted and visible than anyplace in Mexico outside the capital a term that technically refers only to those who identify as belonging to a third gender but that has come to embrace anyone falling into the general category referred to here as diversidad sexual a friend of Aquino’s and a local coordinator for Transformandome told me that people in his village believed “envy and adultery provoked this.” His friend Antonia who earns her keep by making paper flowers for the parties that are a constant fixture of Istmeño culture that that’s why God sent us this punishment.” She laughed God would have to destroy the whole world.” told me he’d foreseen the disaster in a God-given vision but had kept it to himself because the visions “are secrets from God.” A few minutes later he leaned in conspiratorially and offered another explanation one of the photographers I was traveling with A news story was making the rounds about a group of people bringing aid from the capital who’d been assaulted and robbed somewhere on the road in Oaxaca We found out later that this wasn’t exactly true—the assault had actually taken place in the neighboring state of Veracruz (we found this out while stuck on the roadside with a burst tire in Veracruz)—but it was true that cars were being stopped in the outskirts of the city and that thieves and bandits were pilfering what they could from people’s abandoned homes as they slept I didn’t meet anyone who had been robbed personally But Nuñez’s son slept with a hammer under his pillow Rumors are both a symptom and a cause of disorder and in the days and weeks following the quake Relief coordinated by Istmeños living in other parts of the Republic arrived almost immediately but it took three days—and in some cases a full week—for the federal government and military to turn up There’s now a navy-run hospital in Ixtaltepec and a temporary hospital in Juchitán; there are federally operated albergues serving food in most communities Military vehicles patrol the streets in Union Hidalgo and Juchitán stopping along the causeway that leads into town to hand out sleeping mats and food to people from outlying neighborhoods who spend their days waiting along the shade-less roadside under a blazing hot sun a teacher from the Catholic Marist Brotherhood who organized a group called Istmo Periferico to distribute aid to the region’s smaller towns one of Tucker’s partners in the Istmo Periferico project estimates that the ratio of aid coming from private donors versus the government is likely as high as 7 to 1 What aid continues to flow in—shipped in from distant corners of the republic driven in from the state and national capitals distributed by international charities and private citizens—remains woefully disorganized particularly in peripheral towns like Union Hidalgo and San Mateo describe distribution efforts as haphazard first serve from fixed points in central locations I saw a line of women as long as two city blocks It turned out to be three guys from Mexico City who had parked their truck to give out rice By the time I reached the head of the line Dragonflies swarmed the scraggly main square the director of the local community kitchen worked over a low table slicing onions to throw into a huge seething pot of mondongo—or tripe soup—that would feed some 200 women and children from the village Two other volunteers baked totopos—the hard flat tortillas typical of Oaxaca—in a clay oven called a comezcal and they would almost certainly run out before every mouth had been fed None of these ingredients had been donated Gijon and three other local women had opened the kitchen just a few days earlier traveling back and forth to San Mateo to buy water and vegetables with their own money and going into the underbrush to scavenge for firewood Government assistance arrived in Santa Cruz on the same day I did two large trucks of basic foodstuffs delivered by the navy what little aid had made it to Santa Cruz had come almost entirely from a small handful of private vehicles which they themselves had petitioned for help “Most people get to the center of San Mateo and think that’s it squinting against banks of smoke and the shattering afternoon sun “Sadness here is another thing,” Raúl Herrera told me one quiet afternoon in the patio of his half-broken home which has become a sort of makeshift conference room for volunteers coming through the region coming out of the kitchen with a porcelain pitcher of coffee “I don’t know how other people are doing it but for us it’s our work that keeps us going I go to bed so tired and I wake up with so much to do that I don’t have time to be sad after the earthquake I had to take everything out of the house and I said to myself She poured me a cup of coffee and nodded to the pitcher in her hand white and florid with a red rose appliqued onto its body before there’s another earthquake.” She winked community organizations sprang up spontaneously in nearly every municipality in the region who work throughout the year as volunteers and have established a radio station to broadcast music and information for the community Another kitchen came up at the preschool run by the sisters Beatriz and Reyna Gutierrez both important figures within the community The school building itself was destroyed in the quake its top half broken from its foundation and shifted queasily to the west prepare a large pot of lentils while Beatriz met with representatives from the state commission on human rights—not an obvious task for a private citizen though rarely in the form that’s most needed some 75 percent of the city’s 20,000 private homes were damaged on Sept 7 alone; no one knows how many have fallen since as many as 90 percent of houses were damaged Tucker showed us around what remained of the town Hundred-year-old houses had collapsed into the street two-story structures had fallen like ill-made soufflés Many streets were impassable: They’d become living rooms Most structures were marked with folio numbers issued by government inspectors who had come out shortly after the first quake but had not returned since Others were marked with big orange X’s to indicate total demolition: “Like the angel of death,” Tucker said didn’t arrive in Ixtaltepec to announce a federal aid package until the week I visited the government would provide 120,000 pesos (about $6,300) he indicated a group of preferred distributors (most would hardly be enough to build a foundation with the rains still going strong and no indoor spaces intact buying cement would be useless until the dry season Others who left their homes to recuperate away from the site of their trauma have said that coming back to collect their cards now would be impossible People are grateful for the help that has come to them from elsewhere in Mexico But generosity is no substitute for organization and the people should not have to be a replacement for the government it remains unclear exactly how much damage has been done We finished our day with Kristal Aquino in Union Hidalgo over beers at a place called Casona Bar which she’d described as one of the town’s main queer-friendly places it was housed in a former evangelical prayer house (“the seats had the psalms written on them,” she said) until something like order could be restored sipping at cold beers and wiping sweat from their foreheads delivered plates of snacks as we talked over liter after liter of beer: crab legs and dried shrimp and beef fried with chilies we forgot the circumstances that had brought us here I told Aquino how impressed I was at everyone’s resilience the standard platitude of the outsider looking for a silver lining to an unspeakable tragedy Help had been insufficient—it always is— but as Ruben Toledo Santiago the vegetable vendor had told me that day in Ixtaltepec “we need to get moving and bring life back to this town “isn’t going to fall from the sky.” I repeated what Lupita had told me: With so much work to be done Aquino shook her head and cocked an eyebrow MEXICO: An 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific coast of Oaxaca killing at last six people as of Tuesday night The natural disaster was felt hundreds of miles away in Mexico City The epicenter was in Santa María Zapotitlán More than 300 aftershocks have been felt around the country as of Tuesday night with some reaching magnitudes as high as 4.6 A tsunami warning has been set for a radius of more than 600 miles leaving several Central American countries vulnerable to another possible natural disaster Landslides have also begun occurring in other areas damaging roads and leaving destroyed buildings inaccessible leaving them particularly vulnerable to both the virus Humanitarian flights have been difficult to arrange due to the strained bilateral relationship with Venezuela Activists have attempted to help families reach out to the Venezuelan embassies in Mexico City and Washington to no avail HAITI: Ex-paramilitary leader Emmanuel Constant was deported back to Haiti and immediately arrested upon landing Constant became the face of a violent political uprising in the 1990s which involved the U.S Constant is said to have participated in the torturing of Haitians in the 1990s A details of his prosecution in Haiti are currently still being debated COMUNICADO DEL MUNICIPIO Y PUEBLO DE SAN MATEO DEL MAR https://t.co/AKz3vZHBej pic.twitter.com/rbzIi3bx2C — Educa Oaxaca (@laminuta) June 22, 2020 Development projects including wind power farms have created divisions in the region 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Learn how your comment data is processed. a heartbreaking headline appeared on the news Web site SinEmbargo which is based here in Mexico City: “I Know My Son Is Alive and That He Will Be a Teacher.” The speaker was Manuel Martínez the thirty-five-year-old father of a seventeen-year-old boy named Mario along with many of his classmates at the Ayotzinapa Normal teacher-training school according to witness testimonies and the confessions of those arrested in the case six students from the school were murdered by municipal police and other gunmen and forty-three others were “disappeared” in the small city of Iguala The Martínezes are indigenous Huave from the impoverished seaside village of San Mateo del Mar Martínez told SinEmbargo’s Humberto Padgett that he’d also studied at Ayotzinapa and that his son had long dreamed of following in his footsteps Martínez built his little school with his own hands The students live in the same conditions we do and from their tomato and chile_ _harvests None of them owns a pair of shoes; they use huaraches or sandals.” “The authorities should pay for what they’ve done because they’ve done the very worse that you can do The country has been seized by the story of the missing forty-three though many refuse to believe the worst until it can no longer be denied—my dentist says that this is all just a student prank that went too far and that the students will turn up any day now concealed graves full of human remains keep turning up in the mountains and hillsides of impoverished Guerrero One recently discovered grave held sandals and backpacks Federal authorities discovered yet another grave on Monday There has been speculation that the grave could hold the remains of at least some of the students An announcement from the government could come any minute Even if the government does announce that it believes it has found the students it could take weeks before the independent Argentine forensics team working on the case can complete its DNA testing That might be all the time that President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government will have to prepare for the widespread social tumult and condemnation that a confirmation of the students’ deaths is likely to provoke here in Mexico City and around the country students from Instituto Politécnico Nacional took control of toll booths on the highways leading into the city and allowed traffic to pass without paying protestors continue to burn government buildings There will be a march in Mexico City on October 31st coinciding with the Day of the Dead holidays and a “mega march” is scheduled for November 5th the day that Mexico’s universities and colleges are planning a national strike Many in Mexico have wondered why the missing forty-three have inspired such outrage in a country that has long since grown anesthetized to mass violence twenty-two young people were massacred in a Mexico State warehouse by soldiers who claimed they’d been engaged in a long gun battle The victims included a seventeen-year-old girl who was shot in the head said a soldier’s boot imprint was still visible on her daughter’s face The case would have been covered up had it not been for human-rights groups and some early Associated Press wire-service reports bringing it to light the Attorney General’s office didn’t agree to investigate the case until three more months had passed a young physician and mother named María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio was kidnapped She had been writing for the site Valor por Tamaulipas (where people post information and warnings about local narco activities) as an anonymous blogger Her murderers posted photos of her corpse on her Twitter account along with a tweeted message: “Close your accounts don’t put your families at risk like I did government authorities and many in the complicit media have relied on a worn playbook: stigmatize the victims depict them as responsible for their own fates or point out ways in which they were not “ordinary Mexicans.” Some have been trying to do the same with the missing forty-three but the accusations and insinuations don’t resonate Most of the students were still in their teens and came from impoverished communities that a majority of Mexicans can identify with; they can’t credibly be criminalized as “guerrillas” or “narcos.” The outrage has brought a few promising results finally stepped down last week after a month of angry demands for his resignation And something about this particular crime makes it seem like something that has happened—is happening—before all of our eyes: the worst that can be done Nearly everyone seems to feel a little responsible for it if only for having voted for a Mexican politician in any recent election The crisis of the forty-three missing students has exposed—in what is perhaps an unprecedentedly clear and dramatic way—the direct lines that connect the most corrupt local authorities to the most élite national politicians The outcome of the national student strike will be revealing. How many universities, colleges, and institutes will stick with it, and for how long? Will it spread to other areas of society, to the high schools, for example, as the recent student strikes in Chile did, bringing about significant changes in that country? When masses of students boycott classes, it fills a country with an air of emergency and danger. The nation must ask itself what it will take to get them back into classrooms. Print It figured that Mason Gecowets would play savior of sorts when Corona del Mar High’s football team needed one When the Sea Kings’ 2019 story is told over the years to come — capped they hope with a victory over San Mateo Serra in the CIF State Division 1-A title game — it will focus on the senior outside linebacker’s big moment Gecowets made the big fourth-down stop at the goal line with 27 seconds to go to ensure a 14-7 victory over Oceanside in the Dec 7 CIF State Southern California Regional Division 1-A final and send CdM (15-0) to Saturday’s state championship showdown with Serra (13-1) at Cerritos College at 4 p.m He tracked Kavika Tua’s sweep left on fourth-and-goal from the Sea Kings’ four leaping to turn away the Pirates’ star running back six inches shy of a touchdown Gecowets’ performance included a team-best nine tackles “Mason literally did his job. I’ll tell you what, it was exciting, but it took some years off all our lives.” Sports The Sea Kings will look to finish the season 16-0 with a win against San Mateo Serra (13-1) on Saturday in the CIF State Division 1-A title game at Cerritos College the kind of hitter who sends “the ballcarriers flying through the air,” with “natural instincts to avoid blocks and find the football,” uncommon speed and athleticism and a fierce intelligence to quickly “grasp the intricacies of what we do” in great depth seven or eight kids over my entire high school [coaching career totaling 21 seasons] that I admire and can’t think more highly of as young men his genuine thoughtfulness and concern and care for other humans It doesn’t matter much to Mason to have accolades He’s more focused on the team and being a loyal teammate than worrying about his stars or accolades and Mason Gecowets is one of those kids that I hope when my boys are of high school or middle school age they can be half the man Mason Gecowets is at this age Corona del Mar’s Mason Gecowets trips up Los Alamitos’ Oscar Brown V in a Sunset League game on Nov (Don Leach / Staff Photographer) Gecowets had seen time with the Sea Kings varsity as a sophomore and won a starting job at strong safety last year before his season was cut short by a horrific injury during a team drill in practice He was leaping from a full sprint to intercept a ball when a teammate hit Gecowets from the side with his helmet “And it was more pain that I’ve ever been with in my life.” He was hospitalized for nearly two weeks but avoided surgery to remove the spleen when his internal bleeding subsided His doctor told him he might never play again “I love the sport too much to say goodbye to it,” he said “It took about four months for the doctor to say if I really wanted to when he experienced no pain on the first day of pads in summer who said losing Gecowets last year was a massive blow to the CdM defense — “and more than anything we lost so much of our spirit and soul” — penciled him in at strong safety Then outside linebacker Luke Sullivan tore an ACL he quickly “started feeling at home,” and has been a signature piece of a talented defensive unit had just repelled one red-zone drive with Chandler Fincher’s interception at the one Quarterback Ethan Garbers fumbled on the next play and I was thinking let’s just go do it again,” Gecowets said and we weren’t going to let them get into the end zone.” The Pirates took a loss and then threw incomplete on fourth down from the eight but a pass-interference call gave them another try from the four Tua took a handoff and sprinted around left end who had stepped into the gap between the left guard and tackle Cornerback Ryder Haupt forced Tua to cut inside and sent him spiraling toward the end zone sending him sprawling to the turf six inches short but I just wanted it so bad,” Gecowets said more the Sea Kings making the big plays that matter “I was doing nothing but looking forward to playing this season,” he said “I had nothing but CIF and state championships on my mind This is exactly where I wanted to be a year ago today.” Corona del Mar linebacker Mason Gecowets has made a team-best 103 tackles this season (Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer) Mason GecowetsBorn: May 12 Favorite athletic moment: Making the last-minute tackle on Oceanside running back Kavika Tua at the goal line to send CdM into Saturday’s CIF State Division 1-A title game against Serra Support our sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber News Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map Print The world of sports is as susceptible to the use of clichés as any other walk of life In the Corona del Mar High football program the dominant phrase had become “chasing the ring.” have been uttered by coaches and players alike the pursuit of perfection became a lifestyle Two weeks ago, the Sea Kings defeated Simi Valley Grace Brethren 56-28 in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 championship game. It avenged a loss to the Lancers in the Division 4 final the year prior CdM won its sixth CIF title overall and fourth of the decade A state championship is within reach once again, as CdM (15-0) will square off with San Mateo Serra (13-1) in the Division 1-A title game on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Cerritos College. “If you’re a CdM football player, every day you wake up in your life, when that alarm goes off, the only thing you think about is 16-0,” Sea Kings coach Dan O’Shea said. “We do 16 pushups, 16 situps. Everything revolves around it. When you wake up and think about football, the only thing you think about is trying to chase perfection. We call it chasing the ring, and we’re trying to chase a 16-0 ring, just like the 2013 team did. “If you play in this program, there is no other expectation but to never lose a football game for the four years that you are here.” Corona del Mar’s Ethan Garbers avoids the rush in the CIF State Southern California Regional Division 1-A Bowl Game against Oceanside on Dec. 7 at Newport Harbor High. (Christine Cotter) Washington-bound quarterback Ethan Garbers is expected to have his top target in Stanford commit John Humphreys back in uniform for the state championship game. Humphreys missed the second half of CdM’s 14-7 win in the CIF State Southern California Regional Division 1-A final against Oceanside after tweaking his hamstring. O’Shea said that Humphreys could have returned, but the team opted not to run the risk of further aggravating the injury. Sea Kings linebacker Mason Gecowets tackles Oceanside’s Kavika Tua just short of the end zone The Sea Kings will play San Mateo Serra for the title on Dec The Sea Kings have been held to less than 42 points just twice this season. During the regular season, CdM beat Palos Verdes 20-10 on the road. In both instances, Humphreys made an early exit due to injury. For the season, the CdM offense is averaging 44.2 points per game. It was the defense of the Sea Kings that prevailed in the regional final, making two late goal-line stands in a game in which CdM committed five turnovers. “I must admit, we take pride in being a ‘no-name defense,’ but [defensive coordinator] Brian Pearsall and the defensive coaching staff should get so much credit for not even blinking,” O’Shea said. “Not only last week, but the entire year. This may be … potentially the best defense that we’ve had here. We’ve had three years that are just special — 2013, 2016 and 2019.” CdM has held opponents to 12.9 points per contest. The final test for the Sea Kings this season will likely be another team hoping to keep the ball away from their prolific offense. Serra ran more than seven minutes off the clock on a touchdown-scoring drive that helped the Padres put away Fresno San Joaquin Memorial 28-18 in the Northern California Regional final. Sophomore Dominique Lampkin, a read-option quarterback, has started the last six games for Serra. The Padres have gone 5-1 since losing senior quarterback Daylin McLemore to a broken collarbone. Matt Szabo and Andrew Turner pick Saturday’s winner between Corona del Mar and San Mateo Serra in the CIF State Division 1-A football title game O’Shea said the biggest difference-maker in his team’s growth this season has been along the offensive line which is composed of left tackle Thomas Bouda right guard Hunter Schimmelpfennig and right tackle Vincent Provenza we didn’t look like a Division 2 or a Division 3 type of team our offensive line looks like a real team that should be playing at this level,” O’Shea said “That’s a testament to the work ethic in the weight room and just naturally growing in size.” Farzine has filled a multitude of roles for the Sea Kings in his time with the program including time as a fullback and a tight end “We had him as our starting nose guard,” O’Shea said “It eventually got to the point where we have 10 [players] returning on offense and the one that we were missing was on the offensive line I think you’re one of our top five blockers in the program We need you on the offensive line.’ He goes I can’t wait to do it,’ and he has done a great job for us at left guard.” Andrew Turner is a sports reporter for the Daily Pilot. Before joining the Pilot in October 2016, he covered prep sports as a freelancer for the Orange County Register for four years. His work also has been used by the Associated Press and California Rubber Hockey Magazine. While attending Long Beach State, he wrote for the college newspaper, The Daily 49er. He graduated with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and history. (714) 966-4611 and places that are driving global design culture today Metropolis took a novel approach to avoid the typical ranking: We surveyed 80 leading architecture and design professionals asking them to nominate places in three categories—design powerhouses and cities that inspire or personally resonate with them The results turned up the usual suspects as well as some unexpected newcomers and our coverage is similarly heterogeneous from profiles of local firms to spotlights on grassroots initiatives and sum-ups of cities’ design goings-on This undertaking in Mexico City reflects the megalopolis’s position as a “powerhouse” global Design City Stay tuned to our homepage as we publish more 2018 Design Cities When Mexico City was named the 2018 World Design Capital three years ago it settled on the theme “Diseño Socialmente Responsable” (Socially Responsible Design) said the topic signified “a moment for design professionals and the general public alike to come together.” But the mandate was thrust into practice all too soon a 7.1-magnitude earthquake ripped through the city and the surrounding region While the response in Mexico City’s center was swift aid for the neediest—those living on the city’s periphery and across the states of Oaxaca The tragedy demonstrated the resilience not only of well-designed buildings but of Mexico City’s robust and engaged design community. Just three days after the quake, more than 100 architects mobilized to form a nonprofit under the name ReConstruir México and called on building professionals to design sustainable context-sensitive housing as part of the country’s regenerative efforts “Rebuilding Mexico implies a deep social reconstruction and an appreciation of what exists,” their manifesto stated the network has swelled into a multidisciplinary coalition of hundreds of architects The architects joining in the ReConstruir México endeavors—including Tatiana Bilbao, Alberto Kalach’s TAX, TEN Arquitectos, and Taller de Arquitectura—are consciously avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach was tasked with designing houses in two gravely affected areas: San Mateo del Mar “The townspeople are very poor and don’t have adequate solutions—they have walls with a roof,” explains TAX’s Yulia Imamutdinova Imamutdinova and her teammate Adolfo Romero designed distinct solutions for each of the locales Romero noticed that houses made of block (an inexpensive while those made from natural materials such as palm and carrizo and easily sourced bamboo for designs of two houses built atop a shallow foundation Imamutdinova is using “adoblock”— building modules made from a combination of cement and rebar that can be produced on-site—to enhance the structures’ stability Currently three TAX houses are in various stages of design and construction In tandem with the rebuilding efforts, PienZa Sostenible has launched a detailed online platform called Brigada and foster collaboration among group members “Part of the impact for the community is that they are going to see something new that will be [earthquake] resistant,” says Romero You may also enjoy “In New York City, a Bold Urban Plan Seeks to Revitalize Miles of Shoreline.” Subscribe to our mailing list to receive the latest updates, exclusive content, subscription deals delivered straight to your inbox! The Pirates got nearly right to the goal line on the last play of the game but couldn’t get farther as two players wearing jersey No. 7 met head-on. Corona del Mar outside linebacker Mason Gecowets tackled Kavika Tua just short and the Sea Kings earned a 14-7 victory at Newport Harbor High. Corona del Mar (15-0) will play Northern California champion San Mateo Serra (13-1) for the Division I-A state title next Saturday at Cerritos College. Against Oceanside (11-4), the Sea Kings, who came in averaging 48 points, did not score in the first half and lost five fumbles. Coach Dan O’Shea said it was a bit of a hangover game for the Sea Kings after winning the program’s sixth CIF championship last week. “As much time, energy and passion went into last week, it’s hard to bounce back,” O’Shea said. “We just were not on point mentally and focused. They’re young kids, and we felt it all week.” Oceanside took a 7-0 lead late in the third quarter on a five-yard touchdown run by Tua, who finished with 27 carries for 141 yards and a touchdown. That seemed to awaken the Sea Kings, who scored touchdowns on their next two drives. The game seemed to be all but over when Chandler Fincher made an interception at the Sea Kings’ one-yard line with 1 minute 35 seconds to go. But Oceanside’s Cannon Belew recovered a fumble on the next play. On fourth and goal at the Sea Kings eight, an Oceanside pass was incomplete but pass interference was called, moving the ball to the four. This set up the Pirates’ final play on offense and Gecowets’ game-saving tackle, which gave the ball to the Sea Kings with 27 seconds left. Ethan Garbers’ one touchdown pass gave him 67 this season to tie Mater Dei’s JT Daniels in 2016 and Western’s Anthony Muñoz in 2018 for the Southern Section and Orange County record. High School Sports Wind Energy Development in Oaxaca and Eólica del Sur Renewable energy is essential for reaching climate change mitigation goals and sustainable development (Allen wind energy serves as the country’s main tool for reaching its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement (Elzen et al. the state Oaxaca has some of the world’s best wind energy conditions and has thus experienced large-scale wind energy development (Mejía-Montero an integrated approach that acknowledges local-specific contexts is lacking (Guimarães This paper will analyze the largest wind farm project in Oaxaca and with the help of the core principles of environmental justice and political ecology and potential improvements of Eólica del Sur Eólica del Sur is the largest wind farm in Latin America consisting of 132 wind turbines with the capacity to generate 396 megawatts of renewable energy (Zárate-Toledoa and the project planners of Eólica del Sur (2014) describe the wind farm as a climate change mitigation initiative that simultaneously helps reduce poverty in Oaxaca through investments and job creation (Gobierno de Oaxaca The initial phase of Eólica del Sur took place in 2004 planning to construct 132 wind turbines crossing two municipalities in Oaxaca uncertainty over landownership claims and land leasing agreements for the wind farm led the two municipalities into conflict with each other and the company in charge of Eólica del Sur (Rueda Eólica del Sur was moved to another municipality in Oaxaca where the company in charge of Eólica del Sur paid high sums of money to certain community leaders while not informing large parts of the local population about the project (Dunlap Local community members in the new location confronted the company and the mayor in charge of the project (Mejía The opposition to the wind farm succeeded in stopping the project and in 2013 the wind farm was suspended through legal action (Dunlap The construction of Eólica del Sur was relocated to two other municipalities in Oaxaca A new energy reform was passed in Mexico during relocation demanding that energy sector projects conduct a free and informed consent (FPIC) procedure within all indigenous areas (Huesca-Pérez Due to the large indigenous populations in Juchitán and El Espinal an FPIC procedure occurred between 2014 and 2015 In 2015 the project was finally approved and construction began in 2017 (Zárate-Toledoa indigenous communities in Juchitán and El Espinal filed a lawsuit against Eólica del Sur on claims of an inadequate FPIC procedure (Chaca ruled that the FPIC had been done correctly and that Eólica del Sur should proceed (Espino the Eólica del Sur wind farm was inaugurated portrayed as a climate change mitigation initiative that reduces poverty in Oaxaca (Gobierno de Oaxaca protests and disapproval of the project from indigenous community members continue (Matías 2019) According to two of Mexico’s largest newspapers and the Governor of Oaxaca the project’s outcome has been successful All three sources claim that Eólica del Sur will help Mexico reach their NDCs by avoiding 567,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year Eólica del Sur will reduce poverty by creating 2,500 jobs while encouraging more regional investments Oaxaca’s Governor emphasizes that Eólica del Sur is the first energy project in the region that has gone through a successful FPIC procedure (Zavala past wind energy projects in Oaxaca have primarily benefitted the Government and private companies at indigenous communities’ expense (Howe & Boyer Opposition against Eólica del Sur from indigenous communities in Juchitán and El Espinal thus indicate that the project follows past wind farm trajectories in the region by creating local struggles leading to opposition (Matías Due to the opposition against Eólica del Sur the remainder of this section will analyze the projects outcome critically with a focus on the local contexts in Juchitán and El Espinal with help of the three pillars of environmental justice (Walker entails equally distributed burdens and benefits concerning energy production and consumption (Setyowati Oaxaca is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world and although wind energy is a tool for climate change mitigation wind farms can adversely impact local biodiversity (Feria Eólica del Sur (2014) conducted an environmental impact assessment (EIA) to mitigate any adverse environmental impact of Eólica del Sur the EIA failed to account for several local-specific factors The indigenous population’s livelihoods in Juchitán and El Espinal depend on the local environment and biodiversity to sustain their livelihoods through fishing Through noise pollution that scares away fish and less land for agriculture Eólica del Sur has adversely impacted local indigenous communities’ livelihoods in the two municipalities (Nardi & Ramirez many residents have not experienced any employment opportunities from Eólica del Sur while experiencing income losses due to less forests Eólica del Sur has created benefits for individual landowners who lease their lands in exchange for monetary payments (Contreras The Government benefits from less emissions due to cleaner energy while creating further investments in the region (Gobierno de Oaxaca the multinational companies in charge of the project will reap a high rate of return on their investments (Ramirez the outcomes of Eólica del Sur have led to unequally distributed burdens since the indigenous communities’ livelihoods are severely undermined in Juchitán and El Espinal while stakeholders on a local and international level have benefitted from the project To capture the full nature of the outcomes of Eólica del Sur which are intertwined with distributional justice Procedural justice concerns that all stakeholders participate equally and meaningfully in all energy decisions while recognition justice focus on how energy decisions impact people’s histories and distinct identities (Setyowati The landownership in Juchitán and El Espinal is complex individuals have their own land plots for agriculture while an indigenous assembly must approve decisions concerning broader land-use changes in the community (Huesca-Pérez et al. According to Eólica del Sur (2014) and the Mexican Government (2015) the FPIC procedure accounted for the local indigenous people’s views when planning the project a document with 1167 signatures from Indigenous people’s in Juchitán claims that the FPIC procedure occurred after the land for the wind energy project had already been secured (CER Eólica del Sur circumvented the indigenous landownership governance structures by establishing leasing agreements with individual landowners directly and by having inadequate FPIC procedures that did not allow active participation of all indigenous peoples (Contreras By not recognizing the indigenous collective governance structures in Juchitán and El Espinal while not allowing full participation of indigenous communities Eólica del Sur has violated the right of recognition and procedural justice Mexico’s ambition to reach their NDCs by avoiding 567,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year while reducing poverty in Oaxaca through the Eólica del Sur project has led to unintended outcomes By not adhering to the three pillars of environmental justice the outcomes of Eólica del Sur have hence led to social conflict and opposition against the project amongst the indigenous community members (Huesca-Pérez et al. this paper has explained how the outcome of Eólica del Sur has adversely impacted the local indigenous communities in Juchitán and El Espinal while benefitting local landowners and the multinational companies (MNCs) in charge of Eólica del Sur with the help of the three pillars of environmental justice This section will draw on political ecology and explain why these outcomes occurred for a project intending to achieve environmental and social sustainability Robbins (2011: 202) claims that “development and environmental management initiatives tend to be based on assumptions” on what the people subject to the initiative needs Sixty-seven percent of Oaxaca’s population lives in poverty while half of the population lives in isolated rural areas (Huesca-Pérez et al. the wind farm would help Oaxaca’s poverty issues by creating more jobs especially for people in rural areas far away from other job opportunities sixteen percent of the indigenous population in Juchitán and El Espinal does not speak Spanish and twenty-five percent are illiterate (Huesca-Pérez et al. Although Eólica del Sur created 2,500 jobs most jobs require skilled labour (El Economist Eólica del Sur and Government officials hence assumed that the project would benefit the poorest population by creating jobs without accounting for the widespread lack of Spanish and illiteracy in Juchitán and El Espinal (Friede including local environmental and socio-economic knowledge is crucial for creating environmentally and socially sustainable outcomes in environmental projects (Robbins The indigenous peoples in Juchitán and El Espinal expressed that Eólica del Sur would create environmental problems from the beginning of the project and not create any socio-economic benefits for most of the population (Jung Even though local indigenous knowledge is recognized as important in environmental projects the knowledge is hard to account for due to the scales and disturbances modern projects exerts on nature (Tsosie “while local knowledge is increasingly on the agenda the difference between formal and informal knowledge systems remains a source of conflict.” Instead scientists and ‘experts’ often gain the dominant influence during decision-making processes The “separation from local knowledge and practice” undermines both equity and ecological sustainability (Robbins Lack of accounting for local environmental and socio-economic knowledge in Juchitán and El Espinal hence led to environmental degradation undermining indigenous peoples livelihoods due to favouring scientists’ advice that conducted the EIA (Tapia et al. The lack of employment for many locals can be explained by a lack of knowledge about the local-specific context and assumptions from ‘experts’ about the local population in Juchitán and El Espinal’s needs (Friede A further factor that led to the indigenous communities’ adverse outcomes in Juchitán and El Espinal was the approval of individual land leasing agreements of collectively owned lands (Contreras The impact of this led to the privatization of collectively- owned land disregarding the indigenous governance structures (Huesca-Pérez et al. The privatization and appropriation of collectively-owned land were justified through a narrative of climate change mitigation and poverty reduction which was the promised outcome of Eólica del Sur also known as ‘green grabbing’ (SEGOB Green grabbing “[involves] the restructuring of rules and authority in the access use and management” of land and resources in the name of an environmental good (Fairhead The narrative of climate change mitigation through wind farm deployment on an international and national level can explain the process of green grabbing and hence the lack of procedural and recognition justice in Juchitán and El Espinal Green grabbing through privatization is often justified through legislations (Fairhead while understanding ‘the complexity of property rights over natural goods and systems especially in traditional societies’ is essential to understand socioeconomic and environmental changes (Robbins Oaxaca has an indigenous population of sixty percent with complex landownership rights (Mejía-Montero et al. A decree in 1964 acknowledges the communal pre-colonial indigenous governance structure of the land recognized by the Mexican constitution (Magaloni et al. individual landowners can engage in land transactions while a revision of the Mexican constitution in 1992 allows the privatization of communal property (Contreras the conflicting landownership claims remain unsure and “even government agencies report conflicting data on landholding patterns” in Oaxaca many essential individuals and groups are often ignored by decision-makers and planners in development and environmental initiatives which is especially prevalent for indigenous people regarding environmental management decisions (Robbins The political marginalization of indigenous peoples in Juchitán and El Espinal hence led them to be ignored by decision-makers and planners of Eólica del Sur (CER This allowed the individual landowners’ leasing agreements to be favoured over the collective indigenous governance system green grabbing often involves international the narrative of Eólica del Sur as a climate change mitigation initiative and the call from the United Nations (2012) to create policies and business models that remove any barriers to large-scale renewable energy deployment encourage favouring the individual land ownership claims over the collective indigenous governance system in Oaxaca the Mexican Constitution’s change in 1992 made it possible to privatize indigenous communal lands a common method to justify green grabbing (Dunlap The complexity over landownership claims in Oaxaca led Eólica del Sur to circumvent the indigenous land governance structures and negotiate leasing agreements with individual landowners and undermine the FPIC procedure (Huesca-Pérez et al. The ability to privatize indigenous lands allowed Mexican courts to favour individual landownership rights while the international calls to remove any barriers to renewable energy internationally further justified the decision (Dunlap The ability to sign leasing agreements of land in Juchitán and El Espinal with individual landowners and circumvent the collective governance system has hence been made possible due to the privatization of communal land and the narrative of doing whatever it takes to deploy renewable energy following the typical narrative of green grabbing (Fairhead The narrative of climate change mitigation and poverty reduction thus created poor recognition and procedural justice for the indigenous communities in Juchitán and El Espinal by justifying the privatization and appropriation of indigenous communal land by Eólica del Sur The main issues with Eólica del Sur can be identified as a lack of accounting for local indigenous knowledge privatization and appropriation of communal land and lack of transparent consultation of the indigenous peoples in Juchitán and El Espinal These four issues must be addressed to improve the project including local indigenous knowledge is crucial for environmentally and socially sustainable outcomes of the wind farm project further supported by the literature (Robbins Local indigenous knowledge about the environment and socio-economic conditions should thus be included in Eólica del Sur One way of including indigenous knowledge in renewable energy projects is the Bolivian approach ‘dialogue between knowledges’ The approach aims to embrace modern technology and combine it with local indigenous knowledge to create a “non-invasive way to achieve new solutions,” (Panosera The impact of this would allow for local indigenous environmental knowledge to be incorporated in the decision-making process and limit the loss of livelihoods for people in the region through better environmental outcomes (Pansera Since Eólica del Sur has not created any benefits for the local indigenous communities the project should consider taking a more communal approach to wind energy deployment (Ramirez Juchitán and El Espinal acknowledge both communal and individual land legally (Villagómez Eólica del Sur should honour such landownership complexity and seek to implement more communitarian wind farms Such wind farm projects could foster collective capabilities include local indigenous knowledge more easily and allow the indigenous community members to take part in the profits (Contreras Such measures have significantly benefitted indigenous communities in other parts of the world by honouring indigenous governance structures and livelihood support (Krupa Since 1,167 indigenous peoples in Juchitán claim that the FPIC procedure was inadequate they should receive real consultation and active participation Achieving this would require the inclusion of social dimensions of transitioning to renewable energy such as local community members’ needs and interests and allowing the indigenous peoples to become real partners in the project (Villavicencio & Mauger this would allow the local indigenous knowledge to be implemented further in the project and hence create better outcomes for Eólica del Sur (Coates Prioritising SDG targets: assessing baselines Anaya, J. 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After the preseason, all weekly and final state rankings are available only to our Gold Club members. To check out getting a Gold Club membership to see all of those rankings plus all of our updated state football record lists, totally authentic historical features, recruiting player ratings and more, CLICK HERE Print It was inspiring to watch quarterbacks Ethan Garbers of Corona del Mar and DJ Uiagalalei of Bellflower St John Bosco end their high school careers by playing for state bowl championships earned starting positions after being backups and went against the current trend of abandoning ship when the going got tough That’s called being an old-school quarterback “He’s a poster child and the antithesis of high school quarterbacks these days,” St John Bosco coach Jason Negro said of Uiagalelei Uigalalei arrived when Re-al Mitchell was going to be a junior Who could have thought he’d ever beat out the fastest quarterback in the Southland who would lead St “He wanted to be at a place that was going to develop him in more ways than just on the football field,” Negro said “He made a commitment to the school and community and trusted in his ability We speak the truth when we say the best man is going to play and the best man is going to win the job he was able to get enough playing time and then solidified himself as the full-time starter.” Ethan Garbers sets Southern Section record with his 68th TD pass this season. Bradley Schlom makes the catch. 14-7 Corona del Mar pic.twitter.com/uktGRt1IZ2 Uiagalelei ended up passing for more than 10,000 yards in his career, earned a scholarship to Clemson and finally picked up a Division 1 title by rallying the Braves to a 39-34 win over Santa Ana Mater Dei two weeks ago. Garbers was facing an equally intriguing challenge. He was the younger brother of Corona del Mar standout Chase Garbers, but the coaches weren’t going to make him a starter just because of his last name. He was third-string on varsity as a sophomore waiting for his body and arm to mature. “He could have been starting at many Orange County schools,” Corona del Mar coach Dan O’Shea recalled. Garbers kept working hard while waiting for his chance. The rest is history. On Saturday at Cerritos College, he set a Southern Section record for most touchdown passes in a season when he threw No. 68 against San Mateo Serra. He finished with 71 this season after Corona del Mar defeated San Mateo Serra 35-27 in the CIF state championship Division 1-A bowl game. He’s headed to the University of Washington. He got to play and win with his best friends since middle school. “It’s amazing,” Garbers said. “It’s been the best four years of my life. It’s unreal.” Said O’Shea: “He was patient and trusted situation. He saw what was ahead and was not living in the moment.” Their success won’t stop parents from moving their sons after being declared backups. But make no mistake about it, Garbers and Uiagalelei should be saluted for believing in themselves and not bailing when things got tough. After his win on Saturday night, Garbers went over and offered a handshake to Uiagalelei as he was warming up to face Concord De La Salle in Open Division final. “Those guys are few and far between these days and you have to give them lot of credit,” Negro said. “There’s something to be said about the kid who goes through the process. He’s patient and ultimately where you have to give a lot of credit to is the parents. Because many times these kids if they are guided correctly by the parents they’re not going to leave and not jump ship for immediate satisfaction.” Eric Sondheimer is the prep sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored seven times by the California Prep Sportswriters Assn. for best prep sports column. 2023 at 4:22 pm PT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}The original Palo Alto restaurant opened in 1976 followed by Santa Clara in 1979 and San Mateo in 1982 CA — The Fish Market is closing up shop after 47 years in the Bay Area shuttering its original Palo Alto restaurant San Mateo location and South San Francisco fishery operation The Peninsula mainstay filed notice with the state in July anticipating the September closures would impact close to 150 jobs According to The Mercury News, Wednesday was the last day of business for the Palo Alto location with the San Mateo scheduled to close on Sept The restaurant gave customers a two-month heads up to say their goodbyes and in recent weeks have shared diners' memories across generations on social media "There are so many memories from each location that I've visited where everybody who served me was so kind to me every single time I would be there," one customer wrote The Fish Market's long goodbye was marked by souvenir menus and specials on clam chowder after the San Mateo restaurant closes next week the restaurant's two remaining locations will remain open in SoCal — in Del Mar and San Diego Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. 1. MATER DEI (3-0); def. Kahuku (Hawaii), 38-7; vs. Baltimore St. Frances, Friday 2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (4-0); def. San Mateo Serra, 56-16; vs. Pittsburg, Friday 3. MISSION VIEJO (4-0); def. Highland, 63-6; vs. Chandler (Ariz.) Basha, Friday 4. ORANGE LUTHERAN (3-1); lost to Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, 55-28; at Sierra Canyon, Saturday 5. JSERRA (4-0); def. San Diego Lincoln, 28-19; at Damien, Friday 6. SANTA MARGARITA (3-1); def. Oaks Christian, 37-17; at Leuzinger, Friday 7. CORONA CENTENNIAL (2-2); def. Highland (Utah) Lone Peak, 49-35; Peoria (Ariz.) Liberty, Saturday 8. SIERRA CANYON (2-2); idle; vs. Orange Lutheran, Saturday 9. GARDENA SERRA (2-1); idle; at Oaks Christian, Thursday 10. SERVITE (4-0); def. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 38-17; vs. St. Paul, Sept. 27 11. OAKS CHRISTIAN (2-2); lost to Santa Margarita, 37-17; vs. Gardena Serra, Thursday 12. MURRIETA VALLEY (2-1); def. Murrieta Mesa, 42-0; at Riverside King, Thursday 13. VISTA MURRIETA (3-1); lost to Bishop Amat, 47-42; at Temecula Valley, Friday 14. OAK HILLS (4-0); def. Beaumont, 28-19; vs. St. Bonaventure, Friday 15. CHAPARRAL (3-0); def. Temecula Valley, 56-2; at Great Oak, Friday 16. SAN CLEMENTE (2-2); def. Corona del Mar, 28-0; vs. Chino Hills, Friday 17. SIMI VALLEY (4-0); def. Saugus, 49-0; at Thousand Oaks, Friday 18. CHARTER OAK (3-1); lost to Yorba Linda, 29-28; at Mira Mesa, Sept. 27 19. DOWNEY (4-0); def. Saratoga Springs (Utah) Westlake, 21-0; Mesa (Ariz.) Red Mountain, Friday 20. LOS ALAMITOS (3-1); def. St. Paul, 38-13; vs. Clovis North at Clovis Buchanan, Saturday 21. ST. BONAVENTURE (3-1); lost to Inglewood, 47-17; at Oak Hills, Friday 22. INGLEWOOD (4-0); def. St. Bonaventure, 47-17; at Oxnard Pacifica, Friday 23. DAMIEN (3-1); lost to Mira Costa, 34-30; vs. JSerra, Friday 24. NEWBURY PARK (4-0); def. St. Pius X-St. Matthias, 44-14; at Ventura, Sept. 26 25. UPLAND (2-2); lost to Long Beach Millikan, 37-27; at Apple Valley, Thursday CdM’s football team takes the field in last week’s regional 14 when Corona del Mar shoots for its second CIF state title Coach Dan O’Shea’s Sea Kings (15-0) who already have a CIF Division 3 title under their belts go for the state crown when they face Serra of San Mateo (13-1) at Cerritos College in Norwalk We will also have extended coverage with photos and game stories after the game We will also have updates from boys basketball tournaments during the day We hope you check back with us at OC Sports Zone This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Print When/where: 6 p.m QB Ethan Garbers (300 of 425 passing for 4,622 yards 66 TDs and five INTs; 68 carries for 378 yards and 10 TDs); Sr WR John Humphreys (97 catches for 1,848 yards and 31 TDs); Sr WR/FS Bradley Schlom (80 catches for 1,084 yards and 15 TDs); Sr TE/LB Mark Redman (61 catches for 856 yards and 13 TDs; 5½ sacks) RB/LB Kavika Tua (248 carries for 2,166 yards and 21 TDs 27 catches for 393 yards and two TDs; 46 tackles); Jr QB Jakob Harris (171 of 307 passing for 2,443 yards WR Rich Jaime (38 catches for 579 yards and five TDs); Sr Garbers is just one touchdown pass away from tying the CIF Southern Section and Orange County single-season record held by Mater Dei’s JT Daniels in 2016 and Western’s Anthony Muñoz in 2018 with 67 each .. Humphreys is also one touchdown catch away from tying the Orange County single-season record of 32 set by Caine Savage of Western last year .. The winner of this game plays the winner of the Northern California Regional game between San Joaquin Memorial and San Mateo Serra for the CIF State Division 1-A championship Support our sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber Matt Szabo covers the city of Huntington Beach and sports for the Daily Pilot. A Southern California native and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduate, he has been working for L.A. Times Community News since 2006 and still loves talking to people about their hopes and dreams. Corona del Mar players celebrate after winning the CIF State Division 1A title Corona del Mar High finished off the 2019 football season with a perfect 16-0 record But the Sea Kings had to survive a furious fourth quarter rally Saturday at Cerritos College before holding off Serra of San Mateo 35-27 to capture the CIF Division 1-A State football championship It marked the Sea Kings first state championship since 2013 Garbers tossed a 6-yard TD pass to John Humphreys that upped the Sea Kings lead to 35-14 It appeared that CdM had the game in hand and simply had to run out the clock the Padres staged a heart-thumping comeback in the final minutes Behind sophomore reserve quarterback Dominique Lampkin who entered the game in the fourth quarter following an injury to starting QB Daylin McLemore threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Terence Loville with 3:43 to play The Padres then recovered the ensuing onside kick and less than a minute later Lampkin tossed a 23-yard TD pass to Matt Rollandi and Serra trailed 35-27 CdM recovered the ensuing onside kick-off but was unable to move the ball and had to punt The Padres took over at the 13-yard line and reached the Sea Kings 20-yard line Lampkin’s pass was intercepted by Tommy Griffin in the end zone to secure the CdM win “Our coaches tell us all of the time to keep our heels on the ground on a final play like that and I did that and was able to make a play on the ball,” said Griffin Lampkin completed 11 passes for 128 yards and two touchdowns in less than a quarter of play but it wasn’t enough for Serra.    Sea Kings coach Dan O’Shea was ecstatic with has team’s win but admitted it got a little shaky late “We don’t even want to talk about the last seven or eight minutes of that game They got the onside kick and scored a few touchdowns and played the entire 48 minutes Washington-bound Garbers threw TD passes six one and six yards and broke the CIF single-season TD passing with his 6-yard TD pass to Bradley Schlom that gave CdM a 14-7 lead with 9:17 left in the first half but the main thing is that we got a state championship,” said Garbers He has amassed 9,464 passing yards and 128 TD passes in his high school career.  also playing in his final high school game established a CIF record for passes caught in a career and season The Stanford-bound Humphreys has caught 111 passes this year and scored 32 touchdowns He finishes his high school career with 287 catches (a CIF record) and 78 TDs (also a CIF record).  His 32 TD receptions is also a CIF single season record.  “Winning a state championship means everything in the world,” Humphreys said also had a huge game as he caught seven passes for 93 yards and recorded a huge sack late in the game.  “My brother went 16-0 and now I can say I went 16-0 and won a state championship,” said Redman O’Shea has also compiled an impressive record over the past five years and his teams have a mark of 58-9-1 Serra took the opening kickoff and marched 80 yards in 10 plays for a score to take an early 7-0 lead McLemore completed six of six passes on the drive including a key 27-yard pass for a key first down to Loville to keep the drive alive McLemore raced in from nine yards for a touchdown to cap the drive The Sea Kings immediately countered with a 7-play 71-yard scoring drive to tie the game at 7-7 Garbers gave the CdM offense a boost as he darted 45 yards to the Padres 2-yard line Garbers scored on a 2-yard run for the tying touchdown CdM defensive lineman Jack Rottler recorded a sack on Serra’s ensuing possession to force the Padres to punt The Sea Kings recorded five sacks in the game The Sea Kings went back on the move as Garbers rallied CdM with his arm and his feet 87-yard drive that he capped off with a 6-yard TD pass to Schlom The Sea Kings defense slowed the Padres attack and CdM was on its way a potential third touchdown of the first half but Garbers was intercepted deep in Serra territory foiling the Sea Kings drive.  CdM defensive back Chandler Fincher picked off McLemore’s pass at the Sea Kings 25-yard line and retuned it 32 yards to get the Sea Kings back in business.  “We got complacent late in the game and that’s the only reason they were able to come back,” said Fincher “We pulled together at the end and we proved an undersized team can win a state championship.” Garbers ripped off a 28-yard run to the Padres six-yard line with under a minute to play The Sea Kings moved the ball to the one-yard line with five seconds left in the half and elected to go for it on fourth down but Garbers was stopped short of the goal line as the first half ended.  Garbers rushed for 139 yards and a touchdown in the first half and passed for 110 yards but CdM only held a 14-7 lead at the break He finished with 142 yards rushing in the game and a TD run Play got chippy midway through the final quarter when Rottler got involved in the middle of a group of Serra players as he made a tackle near the Padres sidelines.  He was knocked to the ground and both teams had to be separated before play resumed CdM players were thrilled with winning a state championship.  “We been dreaming about winning a state championship since we were 8 years old this is for our community,” said linebacker Charlie Mannon “It’s the best feeling ever,” said junior tight end Scott Giuliano who caught a TD pass from Garbers in the third quarter to give CdM a 21-7 lead.  “When it got close at the end Riley Binnquist rushed for 80 yards on 10 carries for the Sea Kings Serra finished the season with a 13-2 mark The Padres shared the West Catholic League title Serra’s only other loss this season was a 14-13 setback in November to St the Padres scored in the final minute of the game but missed the 2-point conversion San Mateo defeated Valley Christian to win the CIF Northern Coast title and then beat San Joaquin Memorial in the an opening round of the CIF State Football Championship Bowl game last week.   The Sea Kings won 10 straight preseason and league games to capture the Sunset League title CdM then won four consecutive playoff games including defeating Semi Valley Grace Brethren to win the CIF-SS Division 3 championship.  In a tight CIF State Football Championship Bowl game last weekend before capping off their season in unblemished fashion against the Padres on Saturday RELATED: It’s a perfect ending for Garbers, Humphreys and Redman Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboard16 Philly chefs and restaurateurs who are powering PuebladelphiaThese notables in the city’s restaurant industry all hail from the area around San Mateo Ozolco in Puebla One can argue that the 35,000-plus Mexican people who have immigrated to Philadelphia represent one of the city’s most important and transformative food stories of the past quarter century who recently journeyed back to his hometown with me and Inquirer photographer Jessica Griffin Jiménez’s success story is a reflection of a much wider movement that is shaping Philadelphia’s restaurant landscape Here are 16 other chefs and restaurateurs from San Mateo Ozolco (or other nearby Puebla towns) that you should also know 2017 at 7:21 am PT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}California residents and visitors alike will soon be paying more for everyday goods in dozens of local cities and counties the sales and use tax rate will be changing in 42 cities and across seven counties Though the statewide sales tax rate is currently 7.25 percent the overall amount paid in many areas is higher due to special district taxes — which are the rates increasing in April The increases are the result of voter-approved initiatives in those communities according to the California State Board of Equalization (BOE) We've listed all the changes in the table and bullet points below Keep in mind that the rates for the cities listed below apply only within the indicated city limits while the countywide changes apply to all cities and unincorporated areas in those counties The new tax rates will be available on this website on April 1 You may also call the BOE Customer Service Center at 1-800-400-7115 on weekdays MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Assailants killed 15 inhabitants of an indigenous village in southern Mexico that has been plagued by local disputes in one of the most brutal attacks to shake the countryside in recent years State prosecutors in the state of Oaxaca said the bodies of 13 men and two women were identified as victims of the attacks over Sunday night and Monday morning in the municipality of San Mateo del Mar The San Mateo del Mar municipal government said in a statement that the attack was orchestrated by at least six armed people with the support of a suspected local crime boss Oaxaca state prosecutors said investigations are under way into what sparked the violence in Huazantlan del Rio a local village of Ikoots indigenous origin Officials are still investigating whether the attackers had guns The two women killed had been protesting against abuses by one of the suspected attackers who described himself as a representative of Huazantlan del Rio The conflict stemmed from road blocks organized in recent weeks by people claiming to represent Huazantlan del Rio authorities who wanted to stir up trouble for their own ends The attackers tortured and burned alive a number of their victims Photos of some of the victims’ partly burned corpses were published on social media One of the dead men appeared to have been beaten with bricks A state official said the photos were genuine and the area has suffered from territorial disputes and conflict over rights of way for many years The area around the isthmus of Tehuantepec has also become known in recent years for land disputes over infrastructure projects Powered by PageSuite Preliminary results from the autopsy conducted on Darla Napora - who police believe was by her pet pit bull on Thursday - and from the necropsy conducted on the suspect dog have been released According to a pathologist and two odontologists (bite experts) - one of whom had experience with recent dog attacks in the Bay Area at the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office - Napora died of a loss of blood from dog bites coupled with shock lived at 588 Reina Del Mar Avenue with her husband and two pet pit bulls The of the necropsy on the suspect two-year-old male unneutered pit bull that was shot by police shortly after they arrived at Napora’s residence on Thursday show that the dog was responsible for the attack The evidence included hair and tissue sample removed from the dog Teeth impressions from the dog match wounds on the victim Teeth impressions were also taken of the family’s other pit bull No evidence shows that this dog was involved in the attack The Peninsula Humane Society took the dog after the incident to be inspected by a veterinarian There was no evidence of any other trauma to Napora’s body the preliminary results of the autopsy show Complete and final reports on both the autopsy and necropsy won’t be available for another two or three weeks Police also served a search warrant on Napora’s residence on Friday to collect fluid evidence to piece together the events of Thursday What police do know is that Napora’s husband called 911 just after noon on Thursday to report what he believed to be a dog attack He found his wife lying in the front room of their home and the male pit bull standing over her when he returned from work shortly before the victim was unresponsive and not breathing While first responders were examining her body the dog escaped from the back yard and began approaching them Greg Napora told police that the pit bull had been secured in the backyard before he left for work that morning police believed that the dog had mauled and killed the victim Emergency staff could not revive the victim To follow news about Pacifica and surrounding areas and stay up on local events, visit Pacifica Patch on Facebook and 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Follow us on Twitter here Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. A strong magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean near the coast of  Mexico in the early morning of Wednesday The quake had a shallow depth of 47 km (29 mi) and was felt by many near the epicenter The shallow depth of the quake caused it to be felt more strongly near the epicenter than a deeper quake of similar magnitude would.