Landscaping with plants from Asia, B-1
Get Shamrocked Irish festival rocked Murrieta, A-8
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Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center opens in Murrieta, B-12
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County explains Common Core program Kim Harris Special to the Valley News
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Volume 14, Issue 39
Week three of Valley high school football continues to surprise
Riverside County Department of Education wants to set the record straight on allegations made against the decision to implement Common Core standards by a parent group during a recent MVUSD Board meeting. The group, Responsible Education for Murrieta or REM, made several claims including questionable teaching practices under the new standards that hold
see PROGRAM, page A-12
Menifee Valley Chamber and Valley News launch Sourcebook The Menifee Valley Chamber of Commerce, serving one of the fastest growing cities in Southwest Riverside County and the Inland Empire, has partnered with Valley News to provide the community with a premier, full-color glossy magazine called the Sourcebook. The Sourcebook will be distributed in January 2015 and will serve as the new Menifee Valley
see SOURCEBOOK, page A-4
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Vista Murrieta’s Colin Baker (3) hauls in a 17-yard touchdown pass from QB Kyle Williams in last Friday's 42-18 win over Lakewood.
David Canales photo
Catch up with all the Valley’s high school football with the week three recap on page B-6
Family’s dream for sick child to have a prom fulfilled by local community Michelle Mears-Gerst Special to the Valley News
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The owners of the Temecula Stampede in Old Town opened their doors and hearts to make a little girl’s dream come true on Saturday, Sept. 13. Local businesses and residents throughout the valley grabbed their jars of charitable fairy dust and sprinkled the town with requests to donate and participate in a Disney themed Mickey and Minnie Mouse prom for Kyndall Grace Sibell, age 3. The country saloon was transformed into a ball fit for a princess with red, pink and black balloons dotting the entrance. Inside guests were treated to a dance floor with floating bubbles,
see SIBELL, page A-10
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Kyndall Sibell, 3, cuddles with her grandfather during a Disney themed prom held in her honor on Saturday, Courtesy photo Sept. 13.
Temecula man shot dead, suspect still at large Michelle Mears-Gerst Special to the Valley News Riverside County Sheriff ’s officials have identified the man gunned down in his Temecula doorway on Monday, Sept. 22 as 24-year-old Justin Triplett. At 10:15 a.m. on Monday, officers from the the Sheriff’s Department received a call that shots were fired inside the Portofino Apartments at 30000 Rancho California
Rd. and responded to it. Triplett was found in his doorway with gunshot wounds and died at the scene, according to Sgt. Dean Spivacke. “Once at the scene, we found inside an apartment a male who was shot,” Spivacke said. “He was pronounced dead at the scene.” “We do have a name of a person of interest and the shooter is at
see TRIPLETT, page A-2
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