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Will the community grow a greater appreciation for the performing arts?
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Illegal Marijuana Cultivation and Utility Theft SHERIFF CHAD BIANCO | RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
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n early March 27, 2020, deputies from the Perris Station Special Enforcement Team learned of an indoor marijuana grow operation in the residential community of Monument Ranch, in the city of Perris. On March 27, 2020, this two-week investigation concluded and at the direction of Sheriff Chad Bianco, deputies served search warrants on the 190 Block of Goldenrod Avenue, and the 3500 Block of Pyramid Trail. As a result of the search warrants, over 3,300 marijuana plants in various stages of growth were located between both houses. In addition to marijuana plants, deputies located 25 pounds of processed marijuana. While serving the warrants, deputies found evidence of electricity theft at both locations. Southern California Edison performed an electrical theft reading and determined over $120,000.00 of electricity was stolen over a nine-month period. All plants were subsequently eradicated from both locations. The owner of the property, 61-year-old Pingyao Situ of Perris, was subsequently arrested for illegal marijuana cultivation and utility theft. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is committed to improving the quality of life for all who reside in the communities we serve. “Community Policing” involves partnerships between law enforcement and community members.
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amona Hillside Player’s (RHP) Board Member / Play Director, seventy-nine-year-old, Peggy McQuown, remembers Hemet in its heyday of theater and musical arts: busloads of dapper entertainment-seekers, big names and sold out shows. It wasn’t uncommon, she says, for Ramona Bowl to reach its full capacity - at that time, in the late 1980’s - of 6,662 seats. She recalls having to turn people away at the door – business in the arts was booming. Today, in stark contrast as a pandemic looms, theaters and venues are among the empty vessels that used to represent life in motion. As we hunker down in the guidelines of social distancing, many hope we’ll emerge with a new appreciation for the things we overlooked. Perhaps we had failed to notice the beauty in art, and music and plays and the ways in which they can hold a community together. McQuown
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PEGGY MCQUOWN BOARD MEMBER / PLAY DIRECTOR OF RAMONA HILLSIDE PLAYER
STAGE: Peggy McQuown stands on an empty stage at Ramona Hillside Players Theater. | Photo by Jayme Castro
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o combat lack of in-person classroom time due to school closures during the coronavirus crisis, teachers and administrators at Noli Indian School and Soboba Preschool are continuing to keep students on track through creative distance learning techniques. Noli’s principal, Donovan Post, said his school was ahead of the curve without even realizing it and has benefited greatly during the transition to not having classes on campus. The closure that began on
March 16 is expected to last through April. “The school switched this year to a different model – instead of trying to outfit every classroom with a set of computers, we gave each student a Chrome book to use full time,” Post said. “The teaching staff started using Google Classroom for homework assignments at the start of the school year. The staff was also incorporating things like EPIC reading, Dream Box learning, and Khan Academy as online resources that students could
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The entertainment community was huge because so many people from show business came to Hemet and retired. We had the pageant, the college . . . MSJC and San Diego were the highlights in Southern California theater.”
MOMENTS IN TIME
SCHOOL: The Soboba Preschool has been keeping its 83 students busy with an online presence, homework packets, healthy lunches and a recent Spirit Week with daily themes. | Photo courtesy of Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians
On April 2, 1902
The first American theater devoted solely to movies opens in Los Angeles. Housed in a circus tent, the venue was dubbed "The Electric Theater." A ticket cost 10 cents for a one-hour show.
On April 3, 1955
The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's racy book "Howl" against obscenity charges after 520 copies of the book were seized entering the U.S. from England. American publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti was later arrested and tried for promoting obscene material, but was found not guilty.
On April 4, 1913
Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters is born in
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Southern California nursing home has more than 50 residents infected with coronavirus — a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state may peak more slowly than expected. Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation in Yucaipa has been told to assume that all of its patients have COVID-19, San Bernardino County Department of Public Health Director Trudy Raymundo said. As of Tuesday, 51 residents and six staff members had tested positive. Two patients have died. The nursing home east of Los Angeles isn’t accepting new residents and the facility has been closed to visitors under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order, Raymundo said. The announcement came as Newsom said extraordinary efforts to keep people home have bought time needed to prepare for an expected surge of cases in coming weeks. He said the slower-than-forecast increase in cases means the peak is now likely to occur in May. “To be truthful and candid, the current modeling is on the lower end of our projection as I talk to you today,” Newsom said Tuesday.
Clarksdale, Mississippi. Born McKinley Morganfield, he wrote "Rollin' Stone," "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Got My Mojo Working," songs that would later inspire Bob Dylan.
On April 5, 1931
Fox Film Corp. drops John Wayne from its stable of actors after he failed to impress the studio in a series of bit parts. In 1939, Wayne had his breakthrough in "Stagecoach," and 30 years later he would win an Oscar for "True Grit."
On April 6, 1917
The U.S House of Representatives endorses a Senate declaration of war against Germany, and America formally enters World War I. Some 50,000 American soldiers would lose their lives
“Very easily tomorrow I could say something differently, and that’s why one just has to be very cautious about this.” Under Newsom’s direction, the state has been scrambling to add 50,000 hospital beds to its current 75,000. On Wednesday, there were more than 8,200 cases and at least 180 deaths in California, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University. Michigan, which has 30 million fewer residents, had about 7,600 cases and at least 259 deaths. Among the dead was a veteran Santa Rosa police officer, the police department said in a statement. It was the first known death of a law enforcement officer in the state. Santa Rosa Police Chief Detective Marylou Armer was among the eight sworn officers in the department who had tested positive for the virus as of Monday, the Press Democrat reported. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and officials in San Francisco are pleading for federal assistance to help stop the spread of the virus at Laguna Honda Hospital, where at least two residents and nine staff members have tested positive. South of San Francisco, five res-
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before the war ended on Nov. 11, 1918.
On April 7, 1891
American showman Phineas T. Barnum dies in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at age 81. Barnum had requested that a New York paper run his obituary before he died so he could enjoy reading it, and the paper obliged.
On April 8, 2005
Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty to a series of bombings, including the fatal bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, in order to avoid the death penalty. A 40-pound pipe bomb that exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park killed one woman and injured over 100 people.
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