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Hemet City Council Asks for Community Planning RUSTY STRAIT | SENIOR REPORTER
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ate last week, the Hemet City Council held a session on the upper patio of the Hemet Public Library. What started out as a warm late afternoon ended up after dark like a night in Alaska. The wind gusts were harsh and bitter. One could applaud the brave souls that stayed until the end. Publicized as Hemet Community Planning Meeting, it turned into old-timers and newcomers coming together with suggestions on how to make Hemet, if not heaven, a better community in which to live, raise your children, retire and eventually occupy the local cemetery. The categories were as follows: 1. Community Engagement To connect and participate in a constant dialogue between members of the community, city staff, and elected officials to promote
togetherness and positivity. 2. Organized effectiveness - To identify the work needed inside the city organization to effectively provide services to the community and ensure financial stability. 3. Quality of Life - To ensure that Hemet is safe, clean, attractive, and comfortable for who live, work and visit our community. 4. Economic Opportunity - To ensure that Hemet is a hub with access to quality jobs, shopping options, and a varied and sustained tax base. 5. Partnership opportunities To pursue partnerships that will increase the opportunities available to the community, including our businesses, unemployed and youth populations. Almost unanimously, there was a hue and cry to reappoint Joe Males, the mayor pro-tem, since a lawsuit filed by someone supporting his opponent in November stating that he was not living in the district in which he
ran. A judge ruled in their favor, although it was brought about by a technical error on the part of the City Clerk. Males is still on the council while it decides what to do. They have the option to call a new election, leave the seat vacant, seat his opponent or reappoint Males to the position he now occupies. The assembled citizens were not anxious to spend money to hold a new election, or seat his opponent and most stated positively that Joe Males was duly elected by the majority in his district and his seat should not be disturbed. Males, the commandant of Post 53 of the Hemet American Legion, was well represented by legion members in attendance. Commentary ran high about the misuse or non-use of Measure U money which was designated for public safety and includes upgrading the police department.
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MEETING: Hemet planning meeting that occurred last week on the upper patio of the Hemet Public Library. | Photo by Rusty Strait.
SOBOBA TRUCK FIESTA: More than 1,300 visitors attended the Soboba Truck Fiesta
on its first day at the Soboba Casino Resort outdoor event area. | Photo courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians.
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Food Truck Fiesta at Soboba SOBOBA BAND OF LUISEÑO INDIANS |CONTRIBUTED
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everal months ago, the Soboba Casino Resort marketing department, led by Chief Marketing Officer Martin Moore, started to formulate a plan for a new and exciting event they could host at the resort in the spring. The result was a Food Truck Fiesta held on May 15 and 16. “We were anticipating the relaxing of COVID-19 protocols and knew people would be anxious to get outdoors and actually do something,” Moore said. “With indoor space still being limited by the pandemic’s distancing protocols, we knew we would need a large open space and the parking lot was the perfect setting.” Approximately 150,000 square feet of the Northeast parking lot was fenced off to allow for about a dozen food trucks and pop-ups to park along the perimeter of the area with room for a large tented beer garden in the center. Music by DJ Mike Nevarez kept the guests entertained throughout the six-hour event each day. More than 3,000 happy and hungry visitors attended the twoday event that featured a wide variety of eating options. Many of the trucks are regulars in the Los Angeles area and Jason McClain from Philly Jay’s Steaks rounded up several he knew to join him after he was contacted by SCR’s event coordinator Estephanie
DANCE TO THE MUSIC: Visitors to the beer garden, set up at the Soboba Food Truck Fiesta, danced to the music of DJ Mike Nevarez on Saturday, May 15. | Photo courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians. Vizcaya. Other trucks were Belle Pasta, Big Grandma’s Kitchen (Salvadorian Soul Food), Cali Caribbean, Cerda Vega Tacos, Messi Burgers, Ohana Hibachi, Scooter’s Sweet Shack, The Big Easy Sandwich and Wise Barbecue. Pop-ups were set up by Soboba Tribal Members to serve frybread and Indian Tacos. Antonia Briones-Venegas oversaw Frybread Kitchen on the north side of the cordoned off quadrant and Linda Resvaloso was at the other side of the arena with the Soboba Halo Kut’Poki pop-up, along with
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olden Era Productions Truth About Drugs Running Team raced in the San Jacinto Virtual Fun Run 5K to raise awareness about fentanyl, a dangerous drug that took the lives of 227 Riverside County res-
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BANNER: Golden Era Productions Truth About Drugs Running Team waving as "The Truth About Drugs" banner is being displayed. | Courtesy Photo of Golden Era Productions
On May 27, 1943 A B-24 carrying U.S. airman and former Olympic runner Louis Zamperini crashes into the Pacific Ocean. After surviving the crash, Zamperini floated on a raft in shark-infested waters before being picked up by the Japanese and spending two years in brutal prison camps. His story of survival was featured in the 2010 book "Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand.
On May 28, 1961
The British newspaper The London Observer publishes British lawyer Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners," launching a movement that later became Amnesty International.
On May 29, 1914
In one of the worst maritime disasters in history, heavy fog causes a collision of boats -- the Empress of Ireland and the Storstad -- that kills 1,073 people on the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
On May 30, 1431
In Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Her most serious crime was her rejection of church authority in favor of direct inspiration from God. She was 19 years old.
On May 31, 1859 The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high Elizabeth
Tower, rings out over London for the first time. At night, all four of the clock's faces, each one 23 feet across, are illuminated. A light above Big Ben is also lit to let the public know when Parliament is in session.
On June 1, 1980
CNN (Cable News Network), the world's first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. CNN signed on at 6 p.m. EDT from its headquarters in Atlanta.
On June 2, 1953
Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in a ceremony steeped in traditions that date back a millennium.
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