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he Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Eagles football team is scheduled to host Antelope Valley College at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, in the Hemet Sportsman's Club American Championship Bowl on the college's San Jacinto Campus. It's set to be the final game at Carl Quandt Stadium as MSJC plans to move into a new stadium at its Menifee Valley Campus next season. The Eagles began playing at Carl Quandt Stadium in their
final game of the 1996 season. MSJC and community leaders on March 23 ceremoniously broke ground on the $41 million MSJC Athletics & Kinesiology Complex at the Menifee Valley Campus. The project will feature a 5,000seat stadium and field house, softball field, and sand volleyball courts. The site is scheduled to host games and other events as soon as Fall 2022. The college district’s 2014 voter-approved Measure AA, a $295 million facilities bond, is funding
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PLAYER: MSJC quarterback Robert Coleman is one of many Eagles who had a big offensive season this year. He and his teammates will take on Antelope Valley Saturday in the American Championship Bowl right here at Carl Quandt Stadium. | Photo courtesy of MSJC.
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overnor Gavin Newsom today announced that California Public Utilities Commission President Marybel Batjer will be retiring effective December 30, 2021 and named Senior Advisor to the Governor for Energy Alice Reynolds to serve as the next president of the Commission. Batjer has served as president of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) since 2019 and was named chair of a new Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Reinvention Strike Team by the Governor. Batjer previously served as the first-ever Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency. “Marybel stepped up early in my Administration to lend her decades of experience in government administration to better serve Californians. With her exemplary leadership, smarts, humility and commitment to public
GAVIN NEWSOM | File Photo. service, she has made our state stronger. She has been key to improvements at the DMV, to helping protect victims and ratepayers and pushing utilities to embrace needed reforms. I thank Marybel for her distinguished service to the people of our state and wish her well in her next chapter.” Reynolds will begin her new role as President of the CPUC effective December 31, 2021.
“As my lead energy policy expert, Alice has been indispensable in our work to move California toward a cleaner, affordable and reliable energy future, navigate the bankruptcy of the state’s largest investor-owned utility and accelerate the state’s progress toward meeting our clean energy goals, among other critical issues. I look forward to her leadership as President of the California Public Utilities Commission,” said Governor Newsom. Alice Busching Reynolds, 55, of Sacramento, has been Senior Advisor to the Governor for Energy since 2019. She served as Senior Advisor for Climate, the Environment and Energy in the Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. from 2017 to January 2019, Deputy Secretary for Law Enforcement and General Counsel at the California Environmental Protection Agency from 2011 to 2017 and Deputy Attorney General at the California Depart-
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Abused Turpin kids now ‘betrayed’ by social services system AP NEWS | CONTRIBUTED
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he 13 Southern California siblings rescued three years ago from horribly abusive conditions that included being locked in their home for years, shackled to beds and starved by their parents have been failed at different points by a social services system that was supposed to help them transition to new lives, according to an investigation by ABC News. The network reported Friday that Riverside County has hired a private law firm to look into allegations the seven adult and six minor children in the Turpin family did not get basic services after they were freed from their parents’ prison-like home. There also is a criminal investigation of a foster family suspected of mistreating several children, including one of the Turpins, ABC reported. A lawyer for that family denied the allegations. Some of the children reported they “felt betrayed” by local officials’ handling of their cases, said Melissa Donaldson, Riverside County’s director of victim ser-
vices. Donaldson said there were times when the children did not have a safe place to stay or enough food. She cried as she described how the children, who had little contact with the outside world while being held like prisoners by their parents, David and Louise Turpin, were at times left on their own to try to work through a complicated bureaucracy. “When the case first broke, I obviously got thousands of offers of help … dentists and doctors and people saying, ‘I will serve these kids pro bono. Please, send them my way,’” she said. “I had to pass on those referrals to the Child Protective Services workers and the hospital. And none of them were utilized.” Donaldson said she spoke out “because we have to fix” the system. The shocking abuse in the Turpin home went unnoticed in the community of Perris, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, until then-17-yearold Jordan Turpin escaped from
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Soboba Tribal Preschool Celebrates Thanksgiving SOBOBA BAND OF LUISEÑO INDIANS | CONTRIBUTED
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aking steps to be cognizant of the continuing pandemic concerns while allowing families to celebrate Thanksgiving as it should be led Soboba Tribal Preschool Director Donovan Post to host three days of luncheons at the Soboba Sports Complex Nov. 15-17. Kindergarten students met family members at the Soboba Sports Complex on the first day, Pre-K boys and girls celebrated second and the final day was reserved for the Preschool and Jr. Preschool kids and their family members. Each family got a table with at least six chairs to enjoy the individually boxed turkey lunch with all the fixings. Tables filled with sweet treats such as pumpkin pies, cookies and cupcakes were available for anyone that wanted to top off their filling meal. “We set up 25 tables about 10feet apart each day, for safety rea-
SOBOBA: Soboba Tribal Preschool students from the pre-kindergarten class perform songs for family members during a Thanksgiving celebration at the Soboba Sports Complex on Nov. 16. | Photos courtesy of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians. sons,” Post said. “We went with pre-packaged meals instead of a buffet that included everything, right down to the cranberry sauce.” Aside from the tasty lunch and spending time together, the students treated guests to seasonal songs they had learned. On Nov. 16, the pre-kindergartners sang, “Thanksgiving Time is Here,”
“Hello, Mr. Turkey, How Are You?” and more. The songs incorporated their classroom lessons about fall colors of red, yellow and brown. Each of the children had made a turkey hat in class and many wore them to the event. They also created a colorful turkey art project using their own handprint. Photo opportunities were offered with a
fall-themed background set up in the lobby. The Nevarez family got to enjoy the fun twice as five-year-old Charlie Mae Hunter had her special day on Nov. 16 and her sister, Penny Jo Hunter, 3, was invited the next day. Charlie Mae’s favorite part of the day was singing. Their mother, Emma Nevarez, said last year she had three children attending the preschool but her eldest daughter, Betsy Lou, graduated from kindergarten in June. “I love our preschool,” Emma said. “I think the staff is great; they always go over and beyond.” The girls’ grandfather, Mike Nevarez, said. “I love that in these times when we still need to be able to celebrate, we are given this opportunity to do so. It was also nice being served lunch by the preschool’s director, Mr. Post.” Brooklyn Goseyun, 5, started at the school this year. Her mom,
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