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Trump shakes up press team as White House deals with virus
How reporters are grappling with the coronavirus story
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MSJC provides students laptops, donates needed items to area hospitals as instruction goes online MSJC | CONTRIBUTED
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California requires wearing masks when going outside CHRISTOPHER WEBER AND DAISY NGUYEN | AP NEWS
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ust days after recommending that people wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a county in Southern California went a step further and ordered all residents to cover their faces when leaving home as the number of infections and deaths continued to rise across California. Dr. Cameron Kaiser, the top health officer in Riverside County, said “not everybody’s getting the message” about social distancing while in public, so officials were forced to “change from saying that you should to saying that you must.” The order issued over the weekend also prohibits all gatherings except for family members living in the same home, and police would enforce the regulations “as they deem necessary,” a coun-
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CHROMEBOOKS: On Monday, Tammy Cunningham, MSJC Director of Procurement and General Services, and Justin Naish, Supervisor of Procurement and General Services, helped mail the first phase of 50 Chromebooks from Mt. San Jacinto College to the students who need them the most as all spring semester classes transitioned online at MSJC following a three-week break in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The college has ordered about 200 more laptops to distribute in the future.| Photo Courtesy of MSJC dents who were most in need of access to a computer or the In-
ternet,” said Dr. Roger Schultz, MSJC Superintendent/President.
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Governor Gavin Newsom launches campaign to protect health of older Californians To combat social isolation, ‘Stay Home. Save Lives. Check In.’ campaign urges all Californians to check in on vulnerable neighbors with a call, text or physically-distanced door knock WWW.CA.GOV | CONTRIBUTED
TEAM: Captain Jim Archambault let his Plainzmen teammates to a first-place finish in a basketball tournament held at the Soboba Sports Complex gymnasium in February. | Photo courtesy of Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians
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overnor Gavin Newsom announced on March 31st, the “Stay Home. Save Lives. Check In.” campaign urging Californians to help combat social isolation and food insecurity among Californians who are over the age of 65 – a community that is uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. During California’s stay at home order, older Californians may need friends and neighbors to help them obtain basic necessities like groceries and prescriptions. “The most important way for older Californians to stay safe is to stay at home,” said Governor Newsom. “No older Californian should be forced to go outside to get groceries or their medication. It’s on all of us across the state to
MOMENTS IN TIME
ANDREW GOETZE: Holding a sign in opposition to a Palm Sunday service taking place at Godspeak Calvary Chapel Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Newbury Park, Calif. Many churches, beaches, parks and hiking trails around the state have been closed because they attracted large crowds amid the coronavirus outbreak. | AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
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t. San Jacinto College (MSJC) provided students with computers and hot spots and donated high-demand items to hospitals as the college moved to open as an online institution on Monday, April 6, following a threeweek break in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. MSJC packaged the first phase of 50 Chromebooks and hot spots and sent them via overnight mail to students so they could continue with their courses online. The MSJC Foundation ordered about 200 additional Google Chromebook laptops for more students as the college transitions 99 percent of its spring semester classes online. Students recently took the MSJC Technology Needs Assessment Survey to help the college identify how to best help students succeed online and deliver the technology to students who had the greatest need for the technology. “MSJC took a data-informed approach so we could deliver technology directly to those stu-
"We want them to stay at home, and healthy, but we want them to succeed online and complete their educational journeys. We understand not every student has access to computers and other technology when they’re away from our campuses. We’re glad we could help and we plan to help even more.” The devices are on loan through the MSJC library tracking system and students must return them by June 1. The loan may be extended for those students who continue with online instruction through the summer semester. The college district, which has a robust Allied Health program, also donated gurneys, N95 masks, non-N95 masks, nitrile gloves and other equipment that are in high-demand to protect medical professionals as the COVID-19 crisis grows. "We were honored to be able to help our medical partners at Riverside Community hospital and have offered to help other local hospitals who indicated they had a need for these types of items,"
Soboba hosted hoops tourney before shutdown MIKE HILES | CONTRIBUTED
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check in on the older adults in our lives – our friends, family and neighbors – to help them during
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On April 9, 1959
NASA introduces America's first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper Jr., John Glenn Jr., Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr. and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were selected from a group of 32 candidates.
On April 10, 1933
President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps to put thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression. The CCC was open to unemployed, unmarried U.S. male citizens between the ages of 18 and 26.
On April 11, 1814
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, ab-
he Soboba Shootout All-Native +1 basketball tournament attracted a dozen teams to the Soboba Sports Complex gymnasium for the weekend of Feb. 29 through Mar. 1. Since that time, the Coronavirus has put a halt to all sporting events. Luckily, these players were able to share their court capabilities before the shutdown occurred. Steve Lopez, Sports Coordinator for Soboba Parks and Recreation said this year’s tournament
dicates the throne and is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. Napoleon is credited with reforms that had a lasting impact on European society, including rights for all men and the end of feudalism.
On April 12, 1908
A fire at the Boston Blacking Company in Chelsea, Massachusetts, leaves 12 dead, 85 missing and presumed dead and more than 17,000 homeless. Due to high winds, a good portion of the city burned.
On April 13, 1870
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is officially incorporated in New York City. The city stipulated that the collection be kept open to the public year-
was a collaborative effort between his department and the Soboba Braves men’s basketball team. “In the past we have both put on our own tournaments but over the last couple years the turnout in each of our tournaments had been declining,” Lopez said. “Javier Sandoval, from the Braves, and I talked about combining our payouts and splitting the expenses toward putting on one tournament in hopes of drawing more teams and better talent.” During the past few months,
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round and free of charge. The first object the Met acquired was a Roman sarcophagus.
On April 14, 1818
Noah Webster, a Yale-educated lawyer with an avid interest in language and education, publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster's dictionary was one of the first to include distinctly American words, introducing more than 10,000 "Americanisms."
On April 15, 1959
New Cuban leader Fidel Castro visits the United States. President Dwight Eisenhower, however, had no intention of meeting with the communist revolutionary and instead went to the golf course.