UPDATE FROM SACRAMENTO-CHANGE IN DATE OF HEARING!!

Hello~

We have just been informed from Assemblywoman Wilmer Carter's office the hearing scheduled for Thursday, May 31, 2007 has been RESCHEDULED!!

The new date of the hearing for AB 576 will be MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2007 at the State Capitol.

Our bus to Sacramento will leave from 2nd AME Church, 5500 S. Hoover Ave., Los Angeles, CA on Sunday night, June 3, 2007 @ 10:00 pm and return after the Assembly Session. The bus is free to encourage everyone to bring a friend!!


Please RSVP with Valerie Holton of Black LA Tours @ (323) 750-9267 or reservation@allensworthpals.org. Simply leave your name, phone number and number of people going-we'll call you back.

Stay tuned for more updates and remember...come join us and bring a friend to support Allensworth State Historic Park!

Thank you!
Felicia
Allensworth PALS

UPDATE AND THE SACRAMENTO TRIP ON MAY 31ST


You may recall that the State Attorney General is suing the Tulare County Board of Supervisors for approving an inadequate environmental report. We will have a status update on that very soon.

Also, the State has finished the appraisal of the dairy properties and is submitting an offer to Etchegary to purchase the land. If Etchegary accepts, the dairy issue will be over – but the problem of protecting Allensworth will remain. Even if Etchegary sells the land to the State, another threat can come up tomorrow. We still need to have our park – and all historic parks, protected from this type of inappropriate development. As we see in this case, we cannot always rely on the good sense of local government to protect the interests of the people.

Therefore, under all circumstances we need a State Bill to protect all federal and California State Historic Parks. We encourage our State Legislature to continue pursuing such a Bill.

We are happy to report that Bill AB576 will be heard in the State Assembly floor this Thursday, May 31st. It is critical that we continue to show how important this issue and Bill are to us.

One or two of us cannot do it. As a people, we need to make sure that our accomplishments and social contributions are preserved, otherwise our legacy - our story - will be lost. We cannot determine when a need to defend our history/legacy will happen, we can only be determined to rise to the occasion. This is such a time.

Our bus to Sacramento will leave Second AME Church, 5500 S. Hoover Avenue, Los Angeles Wednesday night, May 30th at 10:00pm and return after the Assembly session. The bus is free to encourage everyone to bring a friend.

Please RSVP with Valerie Holton of Black LA Tours at (323) 750-9267 or

reservation@allensworthpals.org. Simply leave your name, phone number and number of people going - we’ll call you back.

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We hope to see you this Wednesday night – and bring a friend.

Beverly
(323) 971-1277
(818) 901-1200