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City council, school board candidates speak at ‘Slave No More’ event

Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Temecula resident Hannah James, 14, has collected over 300 bags of recycling from members around the community, in hopes of bringing her horse to Youth Nationals Arabian Horse Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in July 2021. see page A-3

Local COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths rise by end of last week Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

Hospitalizations and deaths continued to rise at the end of last week as Riverside County braces for a possible threat of moving back into the purple tier due to poor numbers reported to the state.

On Friday, Oct. 9, Riverside County health officials reported 408 newly confirmed coronavirus cases, along with eight additional virus-related deaths. see page A-4

Kira Boranian, a hair salon owner in Corona, attends and speaks at an event called “Slave No More California” telling of her experience in choosing to keep her business open to customers during the state’s COVID-19 guidelines to close hair salons.

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Two candidates in local Temecula elections spoke at a “Slave No More California” event Sun-

day, Oct. 11, at Temecula City Hall condemning public health restrictions.

Sonia Perez, a candidate for Temecula City Council District 4 and primary organizer of the rally,

said the message of the event was “that freedom isn’t free” and “our freedoms are being taken away, one by one.”

“That’s why this was called Slave No More California,” Perez

said. “We have mandates at public schools that are taking the parents’ rights away. We have a city that’s not allowing us to walk into a public see EVENT, page A-8

Lake Elsinore leaders reflect on tumultuous year, plan for future at State of the City

Local San Jacinto Council sees unlicensed street vendor problems rising

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Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

A proclamation honoring San Jacinto city and other code enforcement officers led to a lengthy off-the-agenda San Jacinto City Council discussion via teleconference Tuesday, Oct. 6, of the problems local restaurant owners are having with illegal street food vendors. see page A-5

Lake Elsinore Mayor Brian Tisdale, right, and city manager Grant Yates have a conversation in the city’s prerecorded State of the City Address, Thursday, Oct. 8.

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Lake Elsinore Mayor Brian Tisdale struck an optimistic tone while reflecting on the difficulties of the past year at the 2020 Lake Elsinore State of the City, Thursday, Oct. 8.

“2020 has been an unusual year,” Tisdale said, perhaps echoing the thoughts of many watching the virtual address, which was led by the mayor but also included the other four members of the city council as well as city manager Grant Yates.

In a conversation between the two at the start of the prerecorded event, both Tisdale and Yates said they were proud of Lake Elsinore, not only for its response to the coronavirus pandemic, but for see ELSINORE, page A-2

Thousands show up for Trump rally at Ronald Reagan Sports Park Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Over 1,000 people showed up at the Ronald Reagan Sports Park in Temecula for a Trump rally Saturday, Oct. 10.

Trucks lined the streets waiting to drive into the sports park, all sporting large Trump signs they had attached to the back and front of their vehicles. The rally was put on by Menifee and Wildomar locals Nathan Lutu and Aaron Genty.

“For me, I was tired of seeing all the BLM and all the rioting and looting going on and people thinking that side of America was starting to rise up and show their colors, so we decided to show our colors,” Genty said.

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Trump supporters get together for a photo at the Trump rally at the Ronald Reagan Sports Park Saturday, Oct. 10, in Temecula.

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Holocaust Memorial plans advance in Murrieta Town Square Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Efforts to build the first educational Holocaust Memorial in Murrieta’s Town Square Park are moving ahead as Murrieta city officials, members of the southwest Riverside County Jewish community and Christian supporters plan a November groundbreaking.

The Murrieta City Council recently approved the response to build the memorial that was initiated by the Congregation B’nai Chaim in Murrieta with the help of Jewcer – The Chosen Crowdfunding Platform, a nonprofit organization seeking to raise $80,000 for the memorial. Thus far more than $10,000 has been donated by

ELSINORE f rom p ag e A - 1 other rough situations the city has gone through over the last few years.

I’ve been in local government management since 1986,” Yates said, “And the last few years, our community has experienced an amazing amount of natural disasters starting with the fires, the floods, and we had issues on the lake with a fish kill; we had the

residents of the valley.

The Holocaust Remembrance Foundation of Valley has been formed to lead the building of the Holocaust Memorial as a reminder to the community of the deaths of more than 5 million German Jews carried out by German Nazi Party under the control of Adolf Hitler before and during World War II. Members of Congregation B’nai Chaim said, “Every year, the history and the memory of the Holocaust moves a little further back into the past. Although there are many educational efforts out there to continue teaching the history of the Holocaust, the number of people who are ignorant and unaware of the Holocaust is dramatically increasing. This is especially

the case in our slice of the world.”

Speaking about the planned memorial at the recent Murrieta council meeting, Irv Michlin, board member with Congregation B’nai Chaim, said, “As far as we know, this is the first educational Holocaust Memorial in the county.

The goal for this memorial is to inspire the community to face hatred and genocide and foster human dignity.”

At that meeting, Murrieta Mayor Jonathan Ingram said that there are many things in his life that he is honored to be engaged in and the Holocaust Memorial happened to be one of them.

“This has been an amazing process to watch with how endeared people are to this and what

it means and that we can never forget, as Christians, as human beings that we are obligated to make sure that something like this, never transpires again,” Ingram said. “It’s very important, and it’s a privilege to work with you anyway I can.”

The planned memorial also has the support of the Murrieta Valley Unified School District.

“How important it is that our children will have a learning opportunity outside the classroom as well as inside, so that they will never forget the lessons of the past,” Patrick Kelley, superintendent of MVUSD, said.

HRFV said the memorial is designed to be an interactive experience and the layout will welcome

viewers to sit, meditate and learn.

It will be a space for the general public, students and educators to explore the story of the Holocaust across 10 vertical, 6-foot panels that will tell the story of how antiSemitism throughout history led to Nazism and the Holocaust. But it will also tell the story of liberation, immigration to Israel and a hope for the future.

It aligns with the foundation’s motto: “Out of despair… hope.”

To donate to the Holocaust Memorial or for more information, visit http://www.hrfv.org/donate.

Tony Ault can be reached by email at tault@reedermedia.com.

poppy emergency and all of that before COVID-19 hit, right, so I just want to say that I’ve been so impressed with our community, with the resiliency of our residents.

Most communities go decades without dealing with the kind of things we’ve had to deal with in the last couple of years.”

Yates said it’s been city staff’s intention to adapt to the pandemic and continue progress toward its goals.

“We basically have taken in-

formation that changes daily, and sometimes hourly, and really come up with innovative plans to make sure we continue to provide the services to our residents in the community,” Yates said.

He said online services the city has provided to the development community allowed them to move forward with projects without having to come into city hall, and efforts by the city’s Community Services Department to “provide

outdoor opportunities even during the worst parts of the pandemic.”

“Lake Elsinore has been at the forefront of challenges and we’ve met those challenges together,” Tisdale said.

But Yates had less-than-ideal information to share on the state of the city’s finances, which he said was the reason for the Measure Z one-cent sales tax increase that is going before the city’s voters next month.

“When you look at the city’s finances, it’s very apparent that we do have some structural issues, and we’ve done a lot of creative things to make sure that we balance the budget,” Yates said. “As we go forward, the picture gets a little scarier and fuzzier. When we look at our revenue streams over the next five and 10 years, we see nothing but red, meaning we don’t have the resources that we locally control to provide those higherlevel services.”

The city manager said if Lake Elsinore residents vote in favor of the sales tax increase, it will provide the city with “a dedicated revenue sources so that we can make sure that the progress that we made will continue and actually make the city even greater as we go forward.”

He said the tax increase would provide an extra $10 million per year to city revenues.

“So it’s big dollars for the community,” Yates said. “We’re going to be investing all of that back in the community in all of the programs and policies we’re going to put together.”

He said funds from the sales tax increase would be allocated by an oversight committee “to make sure the community spends it as they want it to be spent.”

Mayor Pro Tem Bob Magee spent a portion of the video sharing what he said was more positive Lake Elsinore news: the city’s lake was a recreation destination over the summer.

“Our lake and our beaches never closed and we have had a significant increase in fishing, boating, camping and day use all around Lake Elsinore, especially on holiday weekends,” Magee said.

He said the city “remains focused on long term improvements that will ensure that we protect our most valuable asset.”

This year, Magee said, the Lake Elsinore-San Jacinto Watershed Authority finished its first extensive fish survey and fishery management plan in 15 years.

“This plan will help us better manage and protect our fishery in the years ahead,” Magee said.

Other successes this year include newly finished projects like the Lake Elsinore Honda dealership, the Central Place shopping center, a Chick-fil-a, another Starbucks and a Circle K on Riverside Drive that added a new traffic signal, Tisdale said.

Ground was also broken in January on a new Walmart supercenter on Central Avenue, to replace the existing store on Grape Street, Tisdale said. That project is expected to be completed by spring 2021.

“In addition to jobs and revenue, this site will have three to four new retail sites that will be used to welcome even more retailers and services providers like, hopefully, Raising Cane’s and The Habit,” Tisdale said.

The city has also made major progress on infrastructure improvement, with the extension of Camino Del Norte completed this year and the Railroad Canyon Road interchange improvement project on track to be finished by 2022, Tisdale said.

And the city this year completed its Dream Extreme 2040 plan, calling for improvements to the lake, a focus on the downtown area and for the city to be known as an “action and adventure” destination over the next 20 years.

“It has been a rough year, yet we are still standing and will not give up,” Tisdale said.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

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300 bags of recyclables, a horse and a determined 14-year-old Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Temecula resident Hannah James, 14, has collected over 300 bags of recycling from members around the community, in hopes of bringing her horse to Youth Nationals Arabian Horse Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in July 2021.

“Youth Nationals is every year in Oklahoma City,” Heather James, Hannah’s mother, said.

“She is just kind of getting to the level of riding that is required to be able to ride on a level like that, but it’s really expensive.”

The family discussed the idea of recycling to raise funds, since a girl a few years back had been able to make a good amount of money off it.

“We just kind of started reaching out to friends and family for putting bins on the property that we’re collecting here at the ranch,” Heather James said. She posted the announcement to a local group on Facebook and received tons of

support from the community.

“It kind of got crazy,” Heather James said, laughing. “We’ve been picking stuff up a few times a week; we’ve been dropping stuff off a few times a week. People have been very nice and very helpful.”

There are several qualifying horse shows her daughter will need to go to so that she’ll officially qualify.

“She started riding just going to camps and stuff when she was 5, but she got really, really into riding when she was 8,” Heather James said. “She’s got some health issues that don’t let her do team sports, so we were trying to look for something that she could do. She started riding, and the last couple of years have actually been the healthiest years of her life.”

Hannah James rides at Green Acres Ranch Inc. in Temecula with KRE Show Horses.

“She’s really, really blossomed in her riding here, so we’re very, very happy with her progress,” Heather James said.

While they’ve collected 300 bags, Heather James said they still have more at home.

“She’s currently sitting right below $2,000,” Heather James said.

“We’ll be over $2,000 by the end of the week once we get to return some stuff.”

She said that they’ve been receiving calls from people offering 10, 20 to 30 bags full of recyclables.

Now that she’s collected a lot, the family is helping other riders out with raising money through the recycling they’ve received.

A local elementary school also reached out to Heather James, asking if they could save the Coke lids as they go through the recyclables.

“They put them in the computer and Coke pays the school, their parent group, so we started saving those for them last week and we’ve already filled a gallon-sized water jug she’s going to be picking up from us,” her mother said. “So that’s kind of neat that we get to help out the school and be able to save them the lids.”

Hannah James, 14, of Temecula raises money to go to Youth Nationals Arabian Horse Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, by collecting bags of recyclables.

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Hannah James said she finds time to work on the recycling project in between online schooling.

“We try to keep on top of it so that it’s not too crazy,” her mother said again. “It got crazy for a

couple of days, but we try to stay on top of it and get it turned in as quickly as we can.”

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

Candidate Jessica Alexander runs for Temecula City Council District 2 as a small-business owner gives me insight into what other business owners face in these challenging and unpredictable times. As such I will be a proactive agent to provide stability and to cut through red tape and bureaucratic hurdles enabling our business community to quickly recover and prosper.

Jessica Alexander is a candidate for Temecula City Council District 2.

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With Temecula City Councilmember Mike Naggar’s announcement in June that he would not seek another term on the city council, the race for the city’s District 2 council seat has been left wide-open. Naggar serves on the council from an at-large seat, but Naggar has chosen not to seek reelection and with the implementation of city council districts, there were three candidates who qualified to run.

All three candidates from District 2 were sent the same questions from Valley News. Last week candidate Alisha Wilkins was featured in Valley News. This week we are publishing the answers from Jessica Alexander. These are the only two vying for District 2 as the third candidate, Andy Black, dropped out of the race and endorsed Jessica Alexander. According to Black, his name remains on the ballot as it was too late to have it removed.

What qualifications or personality/intellectual traits do you have that make you appropriate or the right person for the job?

Alexander: My leadership skills, life experiences and small-business background make me preeminently qualified to serve the people of Temecula on the city council. As a U.S. Marine, I served overseas providing protection to embassies.

In this role I routinely interacted and collaborated with foreign dignitaries, government officials, foreign citizens seeking U.S. services, American citizens seeking help and advice and even working with U.S. presidential details for implementing executive security operations and diplomatic protocols.

As a former New York police officer, I have firsthand knowledge in what it is like to respond to that 911 call for help. I have rendered aid and comfort to the battered woman and to the abused child as well as bringing justice for the crime victim who suffered from an assault or robbery, or worse. I am keenly aware of the importance and sheer necessity of having well trained and fully staffed first responders to keep our community safe, secure and thriving. I believe this is one of the reasons the Riverside Sheriff’s Association and Cal Fire Local 2881 endorsed me, as well as Sen. Melissa Melendez and Councilmember Mike Naggar.

As both a Marine and as a civilian, I have extensively traveled worldwide while experiencing and learning from a variety of international cultures. I became fluent in Spanish while pursuing my college degree in Spain. I am naturally accustomed to interacting with diverse people in a variety of situations and I know my skills and experiences enhance my ability to serve the people of Temecula. My background

What is your motivation for wishing to serve Temecula and more specifically, the district you serve?

Alexander: As a military family, we lived near Temecula some years ago in Fallbrook, but we routinely traveled here to Temecula for our children’s schools, to meet with our friends and to shop and dine. We fell in love with Temecula back then.

Military transfers took us away from Southern California for a while, but when we had an opportunity to move back, we chose Temecula because we loved the family-oriented community, the quality schools, the safe neighborhoods and the thriving economy. And though I was born in New York, I have fully bought into the community of Temecula. I could not imagine my family and I living in any other place.

As such, I feel compelled to give back to this community which my family and I have fallen in love with.

My life experiences have given me a strong set of leadership and organizational skills that I will use to proactively promote the safety, well-being and heritage of Temecula for the people I will represent.

In the upcoming term, what are your top three goals to address or accomplish for the city and/or your district?

Alexander: First, funding the police and public safety. Most of us who moved here to Temecula did so because we know that this is a safe community. Funding cuts to our police and first responders would cripple their mission. Other American cities where city councils have crippled and politically abandoned their police have seen their crime rates soar. Predictably, businesses and people are fleeing and their once picturesque cityscapes now resemble war torn countries. I will always support the funding of our law enforcement and first responders to ensure that they are all fully equipped, trained and staffed to preserve and protect our community.

Next, working with small businesses. As a small-business owner, I fully understand and relate to the needs of businesses here in Temecula, especially small businesses.

I will work with the business community to get them whole as quickly as possible. I will interact and listen to business owners to get them the needed support, not what I think might be best for them, but what the owners are saying they need to recover, to grow and to thrive.

Third, quality of life. I have been in New York City. There are too many places there that I could never go to with my child because of the crime and blight. In contrast, Temecula is beautiful. The streets and the parks are clean and safe, and I am comfortable taking my family virtually anywhere throughout the community without worrying about gunshots, open street drug trafficking or getting mugged or hassled by petty criminals. As a city councilmember, I will work hard to preserve and protect the traditions that have made Temecula beautiful

since its incorporation.

What are the two biggest issues facing the city of Temecula in the next four years that you hope to address?

Alexander: First, city revenue.

As city leaders we need to be good and ethical stewards of the public money that comes into the city’s treasury. However, I will not do this by raising taxes on the people. As citizens and residents of California we are already overtaxed as it is.

Instead of more taxes and regulations I will grow our local economy by promoting more efficiency at city hall while also providing for a safe and secure business environment here in Temecula.

Second, economic development.

This dovetails with the first issue concerning revenue. But this also entails the promoting of Temecula as a business-friendly community in which both residents and outsiders can feel motivated to open and/or relocate their businesses here with the knowledge that city hall doesn’t exist to be an obstacle to prosperity, but rather city hall will be there to promote prosperity. As a city councilmember I will work and strive to bring in more businesses into our community by seeking ways to make Temecula even more business friendly. I will look for innovative ways to streamline city government and to reduce regulations and business costs. My vision is for more new businesses opening up here and other established businesses rushing to relocate here in Temecula.

What do you bring to the council that is lacking if any? Or what do you bring to the table that makes the council better or more well-rounded?

Alexander: I will bring to the council a proactive attitude and a well-rounded vision for interacting with and responding to all people for their needs and concerns. As a U.S. Marine I was stationed overseas in which I collaborated with a variety of international diplomatic agencies, government officials, nongovernment organizations as well as responding to and assisting people of diverse backgrounds including foreigners and U.S. citizens traveling overseas.

I have traveled internationally and lived for extended periods in faraway countries including India,

Japan, Russia, Israel and Spain. As an American woman, I have experienced the cultural anomalies inherent within some societies in which caste and misogynistic barriers still exist. Yet, I am someone who has always overcome such barriers. I am highly regarded by my peers as someone with a backbone and as someone who makes decisions based on what is morally right, not on what is politically expedient.

While living in Spain for five years I completed my college degree and became bilingual. As a New York police officer, I worked in America’s largest and most cosmopolitan city responding to and

helping people of all backgrounds in times of crisis and need.

As a small-business woman and a mother, I can also easily identify with those business owners who have suffered during these governor-imposed shutdowns and I will provide support to these businesses to get them restarted quickly. As a parent I will do the same to get our children back into schools, back into extra-curricular and sports activities and to just quickly recover a sense of normalcy to the lives of families here in Temecula.

Valley News staff can be reached by email at valleystaff@reedermedia.com.

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COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths rise by end of last week

COVID-19 testing is available at the Grace Mellman Community Library in Temecula from 7 a.m to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

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Hospitalizations and deaths continued to rise at the end of last week as Riverside County braces for a possible threat of moving back into the purple tier due to poor numbers reported to the state.

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On Friday, Oct. 9, Riverside County health officials reported 408 newly confirmed coronavirus cases, along with eight additional virus-related deaths.

Also Friday, the number of county residents in the hospital due to COVID-19 jumped by 10 overnight to 145, a number that hasn’t

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There were 39 county residents in intensive care units as well.

The aggregate number of COVID-19 infections recorded since the public health documentation period began in early March stood at 61,824, compared to 61,416 the day before, according to the Riverside University Health System.

The agency said the number of deaths tied to COVID-19 stands at 1,256 since they began collecting data back in March.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Emergency Management Director Bruce Barton told the board of supervisors that virus-related hospitalizations had “stabled off’’ over the last month, saying the patient count was fluctuating between 120 and 140.

The number of known active cases countywide was 4,538, a growth of 179 overnight. The active count is derived by subtracting deaths and recoveries from the current total of 61,824, according to the county Executive Office.

Overall, the number of people that have recovered from the virus was put at 56,030 Friday afternoon.

Kim Saruwatari, director of county Public Health, told the board of supervisors that the county’s testing positivity rate is now 5%, down a full percentage point compared to three weeks ago.

However, the county is averaging 6.8 positive cases a day per 100,000 population, with an adjusted rate of 7.6 per 100,000 because testing volumes are below the state median for large counties, according to the California Department of Public Health.

There are 13 screening sites countywide, and they can be found at http://gettested.ruhealth.org.

The county’s top public health official, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, told the board the county was in danger of being relegated to the purple tier.

Despite that information, the board voted in favor of a modified approach to reopening economic

sectors, adhering to CDPH health safety guidelines but giving county CEO George Johnson authority to relax public health regulations impacting businesses and other entities on a schedule that falls outside the state’s mandates, if he chooses.

“We’re not fully open today,” Supervisor Karen Spiegel said, who joined Kevin Jeffries, Manuel Perez and Chuck Washington in voting for the plan. “We’re still going right along with the state (on health safety measures).”

“Cities can (still) proceed with enforcement,” Jeffries said. “And businesses should know that if they don’t adhere to state guidelines, an employee can complain to Cal OSHA. So businessman or woman, make your decisions.”

Both he and Spiegel pointed out that many entities need a stateissued license to legally operate.

“If you have a state license and you’re going against the state, we cannot help you,” Spiegel said.

Supervisor Jeff Hewitt introduced the reopening concept, Sept.

22, and he ended up being the sole vote in opposition. The supervisor expressed concern that if the target dates he had originally proposed for clearing sectors to resume operation were removed, it would dilute the message that the county had set near-term goals that could be achieved.

His three-phase plan called for the county to support reopening virtually all sectors by the first week of November.

“We don’t need the state, which knows nothing about Riverside County,” Hewitt said.

As of Friday, the number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries by city and community:

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Coffey Anderson, country music artist, played the national anthem and his hit song, “Mr. Red, White and Blue” at the rally.

“I was actually working in the studio and a friend of mine, she knew the people that put this on,” Anderson said.

She had asked if he’d be attending the rally, he said.

“I said when and where?”

Anderson said. “So literally we flagged up, got in the line – and then I said, ‘Who’s doing the anthem? Who’s doing the pledge?’”

They didn’t have anyone, so Anderson said he grabbed his sound system and went to the rally.

“It was banned on Tik Tok for about a week,” Anderson said of his song, “Mr. Red, White and Blue.”

“They took the ban off – we kind of hit them hard with this isn’t hate speech. It’s called patriotism – they released the ban on the song, and it went straight

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They created a Facebook page for the rally that went viral.

“After a while, share after share…it was over 1,100 people that were either interested or going,” Genty said.

Lutu said that he felt they needed a Trump rally in this area.

“I hadn’t seen one down here and I know there’s a ton of Trump supporters,” Lutu said. “I think ultimately we want to unify the quiet majority. We’re all in it together, we all want to support each other, local businesses. We just wanted to start a little thing and it became a really big thing.”

They said they wanted the rally to get the community together.

“What the man stands for and the integrity in the man after everybody bashed him his entire presidency,” Lutu said. “He stands for us. We have a face.

We’ve been quiet, but now we have a face and he stands up for us, so it’s like what isn’t there to

Temecula Confirmed Cases: 1,151 Deaths: 17 Recovered: 1,060 Murrieta Confirmed Cases: 1,302 Deaths: 22

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Anderson said he loves how Trump loves the country.

“No matter what room he’s in with other countries or the meetings and the super powers, he keeps us in line,” Anderson said.

“You have to have someone that’s willing to go to bat for you. I feel like he does that.”

Menifee and Lake Elsinore locals Bryan Myers and Eric Johnson came out to the rally to show support for a president that supports them.

“He doesn’t lie; he tells the truth,” Johnson said. “When he says he’s going to do something, he does it.”

“For me, a lot of things he’s done for the military and the veterans of this nation and just like he said, he doesn’t lie – he says some dumb stuff, yeah, but for the most part he’s pretty much done what he said,” Myers said.

“He’s not bought,” he said.

“That’s one thing I was drawn to at first, with the first election.

He’s not in anybody’s pockets so he doesn’t have any actual drive to appease other people. He didn’t get paid to get into office to turn around and now I have to get these things accomplished for these people who paid for my campaign.”

Myers said he hopes that both sides play fair when it comes to Election Day. “I hope that everybody’s honest and true when they actually come down to the election,” Myers said. “If Biden wins, we have to deal with what happens there – but I’m hoping that Trump wins and we can continue the great work that he’s been doing.”

Murrieta local Ben Hillegeist is a small-business owner who came out to the rally in support.

“I think this (the rally) speaks volumes,” Hillegeist said. “The silent majority; we don’t have to loot stores and make a bunch of chaos. You don’t see people screaming, you don’t see people cussing and I think it’s about quality, not quantity.”

“The thing is, people don’t realize how much power you really have,” Anderson said. “You just gotta speak out and do it.”

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Howard Feigenbaum runs Meet TVUSD board candidate ‘Robert’ for Hemet treasurer Mark Katan

Candidate Howard Feigenbaum is running for Hemet treasurer.

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HEMET – Howard Feigenbaum, a 15-year resident of Hemet, lives in Four Seasons. He is married, has two children and two grandchildren.

A graduate of University of California Los Angeles, he has advanced degrees from the University of Wisconsin and California State University San Bernardino.

He values education and pursues lifelong learning.

Feigenbaum worked in the financial industry for 40 years and has a broad knowledge of investment suitability, risk management

and an understanding of market conditions. A registered principal with the Financial Industry Regulatory for 31 years, he owned and operated a broker-dealer firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“I believe in service,” he said.

“We have an obligation to help our neighbors and improve our community. I have served on the boards of the Diamond Valley Arts Council and the Hemet Library Foundation. I am vice president and board member of my synagogue, Temple Beth Am.” Feigenbaum is also a writer. His published repertoire includes action/adventure novels, poetry and a children’s book.

About his goals as treasurer, he said, “Hemet’s fiscal stability and betterment is my priority.

As treasurer, I will advocate for having the city explore sources of additional revenue that are not dependent on taxpayer increases to meet budgetary needs.”

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Mark Katan is a candidate for the Temecula Valley Unified School District board.

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TEMECULA – Mark Katan, candidate for governing board member at the Temecula Valley Unified School District, said he is passionate about education and that is what led him to make the decision to run for a seat on the board.

Katan said he has spent the last 30 years in Temecula participating with TVUSD in as many ways as he could to be involved in the education process.

“When I was the manager of Target, we sponsored Temecula Elementary School, attending monthly assemblies, passing out awards, judging Reflections, cook-

ing spaghetti dinners for families and being Principal of the Day each year,” Katan said. “I was then asked to be a TVUSD “Partner in Education,” where I visited school sites to meet with staff, attend student performances, observe in classrooms, attend diversity training with teachers, participate in interviews for district leadership and assist with the Measure Y campaign.

“During this time I was awarded the PTA National Lifetime Achievement Award. I was asked to work with a budget review group to look into saving opportunities for the district,” he said.

Katan joined the Temecula Sister Cities Organization, working with groups of student exchanges between Vorburg, Holland, and Nakayama, Japan, creating educational, governmental, police, fire and business interactions.

As a traffic safety commissioner selected by the Temecula City Council, Katan was appointed as liaison for the TVUSD transportation department. He was also appointed by former Riverside County 3rd District Supervisor Jeff Stone to a position on the Work Force Development Board.

“In 2008 the TVUSD superintendent asked me to join the

Temecula Foundation for Excellence in Education, now known as Temecula Education Foundation,” Katan said. “Originally, I was a member, then a board member and now am currently executive director of TEF. “We raise funds for teachers and students in support of music, arts, sciences and performing arts. We have delivered $255,000 in the last 10 years to TVUSD. Our board also supports Dollars for Scholars, Student of the Month and hosted “Taste of Temecula” for the last nine years. For the last 10 years, we have offered accelerated summer school for Temecula area high school scholars,” he said.

Katan is also interested in Temecula’s city government and spends Tuesday evenings at either school board or city council meetings, having attended hundreds of both.

“I learn something at each and every meeting and see that there needs to be a better connection between these organizations, to deliver the best our community has to offer to each and every student,” Katan said.

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San Jacinto Council sees unlicensed street vendor problems rising Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

A proclamation honoring San Jacinto city and other code enforcement officers led to a lengthy off-the-agenda San Jacinto City Council discussion via teleconference Tuesday, Oct. 6, of the problems local restaurant owners are having with illegal street food vendors.

The result was a “call to action” made by Councilmember Alonso Ledezma for code enforcement or other health officials to crack down on the proliferation of the unlicensed street food vendors on city streets. Joining in the acknowledgement of the city’s street vendor problems was San Jacinto Mayor Andrew Kotyuk.

“They are told to move, but they just move to another location,” Ledezma said. “I am tired of getting calls from our restaurant owners about the vendors hurting their businesses. These vendors are out of control.”

Kotyuk said he was aware of the problem and has been speaking to Riverside County Supervisor

Chuck Washington about what can be done to keep the illegal vendors off the street in the city. He said the first reaction from the county was that it was a “city problem.”

There was some discussion about recent surveys that show that as many as eight out of 10 restaurants may be forced to close because of the coronavirus and the owners need all the help they can get to keep their businesses open and illegal street vendors are not helping.

San Jacinto does have a means by which street vendors may apply for a license to have their sales on the streets that requires strict health and safety rules and how and where they are able to open their food vending booths; however, many are not applying for the licenses and permits, according to the staff report.

City manager Rob Johnson said the city’s code enforcement department and law enforcement officers are so busy handling other major code enforcement violations and major crimes they cannot quickly respond to complaints of illegal food and other street vendors.

“They call, they call, they call, they call,” Johnson said of the restaurant owners and residents about the street vendors. “We can’t do much about it.”

He said the staff will work on creating stronger street vendor regulations and bring it back to the council for their consideration.

“They ought to be fined $500 for a first violation, $1,000 for a second offense and $5,000 for everyone after that,” Ledezma suggested. “This has got to stop.”

City attorney Michael Maurer twice advised the council, once early in the meeting and again later in the meeting, to not discuss the matter further since it was not a part of the regular evening’s city council agenda and should only be discussed at a later meeting once it is placed on that agenda.

Kotyuk did request the matter be placed as a priority item on the future agendas. The council agreed to do so.

Land Use Plans update In other business, the council received a lengthy report about updating the city’s General Plan and Land Use Map policy that has been

amended 16 times since 1985. Providing the council with the updates was Travis Randel, community development director. He pointed out to the council that the population of the city has grown 100% in the last 10 years and plans need to be changed to meet the additional growth expected by 2040. Randel said work on the updated General Plan and Land Use policy began in November 2018, authorizing a $1.2 million General Plan Update.

The program called “Envision San Jacinto” and known as General Plan 2040” is a multifaceted program designed to improve the quality of life for the citizens of San Jacinto by identifying and capitalizing on its strengths and opportunities, while taking proactive steps to address its weaknesses and possible threats.

General Plan 2040 “The General Plan 2040 program is also a key economic development tool by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of our land use inventory, while also providing opportunities for new creative approaches to planning and land development,” according to the report.

The Land Use Element is the central basis for the General Plan and identifies the type and location of future land uses within the city.

The “Envision San Jacinto” study focused on the major open land areas left in the city with the emphasis on existing land use patterns within the undeveloped or underdeveloped areas of the city including west of Sanderson Avenue, within the downtown area, along Ramona Expressway

between State Street and Main Street, and within the Gateway Specific Plan.

In deciding on the possible changes since 2018, the city received significant input from the community in three public workshops and two pop-up workshops regarding the future development of the city. The key challenges noted by the residents included a lack of retail and commercial opportunities in the city, a need for general infrastructure maintenance and an increase in quality job centers. The report is predicting the city will add 10,000 new homes by 2040.

The council was shown in a series of slides on their monitors the current land uses and the proposed land uses in the city to meet the residential, commercial and industrial needs of the city in the next 20 years. The maps are made available in the city’s Meeting Portal in the Oct. 6 agenda packet at http://sanjacintoca.iqm2.com.

There are three land use areas added to the color codes in the new plan. They include VHDR, Very High Density Residential, Mixed Use and Downtown Village, addressing the new state housing mandates because of the reported housing shortage in California and the need for more and varied businesses and industry in the city and creating new jobs for newly arriving residents.

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Two candidates compete for Murrieta’s District 3 city council seat Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Elections are coming – and there are two seats available on the Murrieta City Council.

With four candidates in the running – two for District 3, and two for District 4, candidates filed necessary paperwork with the city so that they’d have a chance at the seats in the Nov. 3 election.

According to the city, the election will finalize the transition to districtbased city council elections which began in November 2018.

Council members Jonathan Ingram, Christi White and Scott Vinton will continue to serve their four-year terms, ending December 2022.

Lisa DeForest and Steven Brown are the candidates for Murrieta’s District 3 seat.

Valley News reached out to the two candidates to gather some more information for voters as they decide who would be best to fill the seat. The following Q&A includes information and stances on certain concerns within the city.

Valley News: Can you give some background information as to why you feel you’re qualified to represent district three?

DeForest: I’m an experienced leader, and I’ve served the community in many, many ways. I served two terms on the school board as a trustee, and the budget there was over $200 million, which was quite a large budget considering our city budget – it’s almost twice our city budget, so I have been in community service for my entire life. I’ve always felt that I was given so much by the community and the people that live in it. I’ve always been taught and always felt that I needed to give back, so that’s why I think public service is very important.

I have had the honor of being president of the Western Science Center. I was president of the United Way Women’s Leadership.

I took the Murrieta Valley High School boys’ lacrosse team from having absolutely no money to now a completely funded CIF sport.

My husband and I moved from a 28-acre horse ranch to Murrieta, and while not far, I was still able to maintain my practice I started 22 years ago. It was a hard decision to move from a place where we’d been for quite a while and Murrieta has just been absolutely amazing.

I was vice president and termed out at the Chamber of Commerce.

Also, I was instrumental in starting an organization called Valley Watch, a grassroots community awareness for teaching people how to know who is living around them registered sex offenders, using the Megan’s Law website. That group was so effective that it was picked up by Riverside County.

I’m great with people, and I love people. I like to listen to what they have to say, and I think that being a council person I know that I can affect their quality of life. I will make good decisions and will do my due diligence to make educated, good decisions, and I think leading with transparency and being genuine is also super important for a leader.

Brown: Working from what I would consider the entry level of a company and seeing them turn into a corporation, and working my way through school and all the way up to becoming director for a corporation – with that experience going through the hardships of dealing with work and life, and making decisions getting up to the corporate level working with CEOs, presidents of the company and dealing with employees and dealing with the budgets has given me the understanding, the appreciation of what it takes to be a good leader in a good company.

With those skills, those basic skills that I’ve developed over the years and acquiring my master’s

degree while going to school at night, I know what it takes to run a company, run a corporation, budgeting and dealing with people and the different personalities that are involved with dealing with multiple issues out there.

With my leadership skills and seeing what the good leadership in Murrieta has done, I wanted to see if I can help and participate and give back to such a great community.

Knowing the issues that are up right now and having to deal with them and seeing how they’re being dealt with, I think our leadership that we currently have is doing a great job.

When I found out that Gene Wunderlich was not going to run again, I wanted to see if I could help with Murrieta and continue with the growth path that they’re on and take them into the future with the skills that I’ve learned being a leader and directing organizations and helping people come to commonality that is for the greater good.

Valley News: Murrieta is big on small businesses and local – what’s your stance on that?

DeForest: Small businesses I believe are the key to our community. Small businesses make up most of our jobs and workforce. So I think there’s a statistic that said, what, 90% of all jobs are from small businesses with 20 employees or less. So I think that factor and that statistic itself said that we definitely need to support our small businesses, we need to help them thrive after COVID-19 by doing whatever we can to do that.

I know the chamber of commerce has been amazing doing reopening packages and they’ve been really instrumental in giving out information – I know that I’ve utilized their information on the PPP and all the loan information. They had some amazing webinars for small businesses so I think supporting the chamber of commerce to continue to reach out to the small businesses to encourage them, and I know that the city’s also done some small grants to try to help that have been very instrumental in keeping businesses open.

Brown: We need more small businesses, and we need to promote it more. Really when you say small business, I see the mom-and-pop stores that are out there and helping them, and I’ve always tried to support them myself and encourage anybody that I come in contact with in the residents of Murrieta and surrounding areas to support their local businesses to help them thrive.

I understand us as being more like a bedroom community where we have a lot of people going down to San Diego or going to Los Angeles to work. I commuted to the Los Angeles area by Monrovia, and commuting just drains you. And I’d like to see if we can get some more manufacturing into Murrieta and more businesses that will help our residents not have to commute so far and be able to spend more time with the families, because family is my priority. I’ve been married for 37 years, and I understand what it takes to raise a family in a good community and we have to have small businesses to support that.

Valley News: If elected, what is something you would like to see improved in the city?

DeForest: I would love to see the city’s ability to track new businesses and jobs improve. I know that a lot of our community drives, and it would be really nice if we had some more high-tech jobs in the area. I think that the city has started doing that with the innovation center, I think that’s amazing to do a public and private partnership which they have done, but Murrieta’s really amazing because we have an incredibly young, educated community.

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MSJC adopts 2020-2021 budget SAN JACINTO – The Mt. San Jacinto Community College District board of trustees unanimously adopted its 2020-2021 budget during its meeting Thursday, Oct. 8.

The 2020-2021 adopted budget totals $360,120,945.

Moving forward, the college will continue to monitor state and federal revenue projections and recommend budget strategies to reflect the current economic recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The California budget agreement in June maintained 2019-2020 spending levels for Strong Workforce, K-12 Strong Workforce, Adult

Education and Student Equity and Achievement programs in which MSJC participates.

The MSJC board of trustees had adopted a tentative budget, June 25.

Mt. San Jacinto College serves about 27,000 students in a district covering 1,700 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to Temecula, with campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning and Temecula. MSJC celebrated its largest graduating class in May 2020, awarding a record-breaking 3,415 degrees and certificates to 1,892 graduates.

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think that the biotech and the whole technical industry is so important to get some of those good-paying jobs.

And we’re in a good spot; we have five hospitals around us, I think; maybe we’re up to six, and we’re kind of in the hub and we do have some space to grow. I’d like to see the city attracting new businesses that could support people to actually live, eat, work, everything in this beautiful town of Murrieta.

Brown: The main goal in improvements that we have right now of course is having to deal with COVID-19. I mean, that’s No. 1. Families are of course the second goal. When I say families, I’m talking about not just what we would call a nuclear family or the families that have the mother and father at home or working and the children going to school. It’s all types of families you know because we have multigenerational families that live in our community, and we need to be able to support them as much as we can.

We have some very good support that I’ve seen so far and I want to support that as much as I can, and financially that’s where I think we’ve got to give back to our community.

The revenue that comes in will be focused a lot on providing avenues for our youth, for single mothers, for older adults and for the families. The child care and the support that we need and our education, of course, has been stellar in Murrieta.

Before I came to Murrieta, my children were going to private school, but when I came to Murrieta, I did not see a need for that.

I want to see what we can do to provide Murrieta with their own power source and also the internet.

We know recently how desperate all of us use the internet and need the internet, and I don’t see why we can’t provide that as a free service.

Why aren’t we connected better than we are today instead of having buses and stuff? Why don’t we have some type of a subway system that connects to Los Angeles and San Diego? And those are some of the things that I’d like to see us take Murrieta into for the future.

I know all these things aren’t cheap. It’s costly, but it’s something that I think is necessary for us to be more of an independent city that we are dealing with all the things that we have. I think we need to be paying more attention to the diversity that we’re lacking in Murrieta, and one very small example would be our fire department. I have three daughters, so I’m very sensitive to the females, and the females in work and the opportunities that are available, and I look at the fire

Steven Brown is a candidate for Murrieta’s District 3 seat.

Lisa DeForest is a candidate for Murrieta’s District 3 seat.

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department and I don’t see one fire female. I know they’ve had a couple in the past, but they’ve left. What are we doing to recruit and retain more of the female gender into our workforces around Murrieta to support them a lot more than what we have done in the past?

To see each candidate’s statement with more background information about them submitted to the city, visit https://www.murrietaca. gov/378/Elections.

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

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That’s a right that I have, that my tax dollars pay for this beautiful city council. And we have children that are going missing every day.

The message is, enough is enough.

It’s time to open up. It’s time to take care of each other and our livelihoods and to take care of our families.”

The event had a speaker lineup that included Temecula Valley Unified board candidate Brooklynn McClure, along with several business owners from across the Southern California region who have been outspoken about masks and other health orders.

The event, attended by several dozen on the steps of City Hall, was mostly maskless – none of the speakers wore facial coverings, and only one person in the audience was spotted wearing one. Mask orders are no longer in effect in Riverside County, though they remain so in neighboring counties like San Diego.

McClure spent most of her speaking time discussing her motivations for running for office.

“When I felt the call from God

to do this, I thought, no, no, no, no, no, there’s got to be someone else,” McClure said. “The only answer God gave me was ‘You know what, you’ll listen. You’ll listen and you’ll do it, so why don’t you let me work through you’ and I thought, OK. And it’s been a trip. It has not been the funnest thing I’ve done in my life, but I’m willing to do anything for God, so here I am.”

She said if elected, she will go to the board and “fight for what I can with truth and righteousness and God, but there’s only so much we can do as a board. It really is on you.”

McClure, who home-schooled her children, said her philosophy is that parents must take responsibility for their children’s education.

“One of the most disturbing comments I got from people during this whole education during COVID-19 era was he said ‘OK, if I’m gonna do distance learning, am I now my child’s teacher?’” McClure said.

“And I thought, well, hopefully you’ve always been your child’s teacher. This should not be anything new to you. You taught them to walk; you taught them to hold a spoon and I know it’s easy to point fingers and to blame the educational

system, but in truth, us parents and grandparents, it’s up to you. If they are not getting something like the Constitution taught to them in their schools, that’s on you. You better be teaching that in your home. You are the primary teacher of anything. If they’re getting taught socialism in the school, you better be counteracting that at home.”

While McClure did not touch on health orders or restrictions in her speech, nearly all of the other speakers did.

One speaker, Kira Boranian, owner of Lather Studio in Corona, was featured in local news segments over the summer for opening up her studio in defiance of orders to close.

“I opened my doors on April 27,” Boranian said at the Oct. 11 event in Temecula. “And I have been open since that day. No masks. No plastic partitions. No text me when you get here so I can welcome you through my door. No every other station.

No taking your temperature. Guess what, I’m running my salon as if COVID-19 never happened. I am running my business the way every single business owner in this nation should be running their business right now.”

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Boranian said while she faced a restraining order from entering her salon earlier in the pandemic before salons were allowed to open, now that her business can remain open with restrictions, she has not been ticketed or arrested for failing to follow health guidelines.

Jacob Lewis, owner of The Gym franchise in San Bernardino County, described a similar experience.

“The funny thing is everybody is so afraid to open their businesses.

We’ve had no citations; we’ve have no arrests. We’ve had no COVID-19 cases, and we’re still open today,” Lewis said. “So what I want to come from this conversation is anybody that you know that is a business owner that has the authority to keep their business open, tell them to do it. Because even if they do get arrested, even if they do get tickets, after all this, do you think that a (district attorney) or a judge is going to want to criminalize a business owner for opening their business, for being there for the public?”

Perez, during her speech, criti-

cized the city of Temecula’s spending on buildings and salaries – the event featured three large poster boards displaying the six-figure salaries of Temecula city manager Aaron Adams, assistant city manager Greg Butler and Temecula city clerk Randi Johl.

“Do you see this beautiful city hall building here? Perez said. “It cost about $70 million to build.

They have about a million in interest rates that they’re paying approximately. I don’t know why they did that. They already had a city hall that they paid in full.”

And she leveled criticism at City Hall for restricting in-person access during the pandemic and requiring her to wear a mask while filing to run for office.

“But did you know that this public building here that is for ‘We the People’ who by our taxes pay for this building, we are not allowed inside?” Perez said. “No folks, the doors are closed, and you better have an appointment. In fact, when I came to throw my hat in the ring, I was told that I was going to have my temperature taken; I had to wear a diaper on my face to walk in.”

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

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The council suggested that another wrapped utility box might be installed at Ramona Boulevard and Tiger Lane outside of San Jacinto High School, if the first wins citizen approval. It was brought up that the staff might work with the school district to solicit design concepts from the staff and students of the school that embodies the “Tiger Pride.” A concept, or group of concepts, would be selected by staff and further refined by a graphic designer. The final design would be presented to the city council for approval.

Tony Ault can be reached by email at tault@reedermedia.com.

series of public hearings will be called for citizens and developers to review the proposed land use changes in their neighborhoods and surrounding areas. The Envision San Jacinto General Plan Land Use update may be approved by the council in the summer of next year.

Wrapped utility box approved The city council also approved a $5,000 contract with Econolite to complete the Art in Public Places – Cabinet Beautification Pilot Program that includes the wrapping of a traffic control box at the five-point intersection near downtown. Randel said that on the council’s request in an earlier meeting they sought bids for the project from five other area vendors. Two responded by choosing not to submit bids, and the three others did not respond to the bid request.

Randel reminded the council of the project. The utility box that

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Temecula Brewing Co. ready to open its taps – finally

Joshua Chambers, head brewer at Temecula Brewing Co., crafts unique brews that change with each brewing and don’t repeat.

Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

While businesses began moving into Vail Headquarters – the restored living historic park and retail center on Temecula Parkway in Temecula – several years ago, there came word that Temecula Brewing Co. was moving in, and area craft beer fans rejoiced.

They created a social media account and the audience grew in anticipation. They attended some beer events and provided tastings and, again, anticipation grew.

After two years of trials and tribulations, the craft brewery plans to open its doors with a soft opening.

“Finding the location, getting cool with the (Temecula Valley) Historical Society, getting approvals to even be here, to produce beer on this side of town,” Head brewer Joshua Lee Chambers said. “All that was just kind of like a long road, not to mention COVID-19 and every other thing that could possibly get in our way did.

“We have a lot of people (that have been) just waiting until we can get this done,” he said.

Located on the backside of the Vail Headquarters complex, there will be very little seating on the inside of the building, which houses tanks and a bar and tap area.

There is plenty of area outside for guests to taste beer, sit and relax, including a standing bar top that surrounds a large tree that spans out to cover most of the outdoor area.

“That was always what we wanted,” Chambers said. “This was meant to be kind of like a public, local, family-oriented situation where you can come have a couple beers, enjoy all the different, cool stuff here in Vail Headquarters.

(To) have something local, just because there’s just not a lot on this side of town.”

According to Chambers, who has been in the craft beer industry for more than a decade – working with Hangar 24, Left Coast Brewing, Black Market and others – they are going to do things a little differently at Temecula Brewing Co. “From the start of it, when I was approached to head any of it, I told them that my plan was that I wanted to go for something unconventional in the way of just having a constantly rotating

Joshua Chambers, head brewer of the new Temecula Brewing Co., tastes his latest, at Vail Headquarters.

menu,” Chambers said. “Having to deal with sourcing ingredients on core beers tends to be one of the major downfalls that I’ve seen personally in different brands. So, the idea being to make it something more fun, more interesting and draw people in more often is to curate a constantly rotating menu.

Sourcing local ingredients, try to kind of get stuff along the lines of what’s being done locally, but with our own kind of spin on it, making it more interesting than say, just coming in for the specific beer that you come in for every time.

“I’d rather draw you in to try a number of different things. I’d rather draw you in to have something that’s guaranteed quality and something interesting every time you come in,” he said.

Chambers said at the heart of the craft beer movement was the constantly changing landscape of

the art form. Every time a home brewer made a new batch, there was something different about it, whether it was because of ingredients or technique.

“Think of the baddest home brewer you know, but on a commercial grade level,” Chambers said. “We’re doing constantly interesting, constantly new, innovative. We’re embracing a lot of new styles, embracing a lot of new techniques and methods to produce or integrate into our beers.”

Chambers said Temecula Brewing Co. will have guest taps from other local brewers in the area as well. Eventually, they will sell crowlers, but for now, guests should bring their own containers.

They will offer food on-site provided by nearby Chef’s Flavor and a pallet stage with live music.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

Temecula Brewing Co. head brewer Joshua Chambers measures hops for a variety of craft brews at the Temecula Brewing Co. at Vail Headquarters.

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Rancho Water awards $2.3M recoating contract, approves bond refinancing plan

The Rancho California Water District Board of Directors meet via teleconference Thursday, Oct. 8.

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Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

The board of directors of the Rancho California Water District met Thursday, Oct. 8, via teleconference and voted to approve additional funding and awarded a contract for four reservoir recoating projects.

The adopted resolution rejected a bid received by Champion Painting Specialty Services Corporation as “nonresponsive,” approved the awarding of the construction

contract to Advanced Industrial Services Inc. in the amount of $2,329,600, and approved additional funding for construction for El Chimisal Reservoir, in the amount of $510,000 to account for a change in scope in the project.

The district authorized funds for the reservoir coating renewals and improvements as part of the fiscal year 2020-2021 Capital Improvement Program.

After initial bidding, staff received bid protests from Champion Painting and Capital Industrial

Coatings Inc. claiming they had the experience requested in the contract documents, but staff and legal counsel reviewed the protests and determined that because both contractors failed to provide the experience requirements with their submitted bids and deemed their protests without merit.

The resolution was approved unanimously.

The directors also voted to amend the district’s conflict of interest code and adopted a resolution with it and directed staff to submit an executed copy of the adopted resolution to Best Best & Krieger for submission to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors for approval.

They also adopted a resolution to approve the 2020 bond issuance legal documents to refund a portion of the 2016A and 2016B bonds.

“As I mentioned, this refinancing is all about refunding a portion of our 2016 A and B bonds,” Richard Aragon, assistant general manager, told the district’s finance committee last week. “This has all come about mostly because of COVID-19, us trying to make

something positive out of something very negative.

“When the Federal Reserve essentially lowered the rates to about zero back in March that put us into a historic low interest rate position. Again, at least that’s the way it’s been the last few months, and we’re now in a position to refund tax exempt debt, which is usually the other way around and still be able to get significant savings.”

The move would save the district $1.3 million when the district moves on it when the market hits 3.5%, according to Aragon.

“Which would also be right on par with the amount necessary to replenish our rate stabilization funds from not doing the rate increase this year,” he said. “The idea is we will move forward with the 3.5% minimum and wait until the market’s good enough to do that. We think it’ll be good in the next few weeks but we may have to wait a little bit longer.”

The board approved the resolution unanimously.

“A big thank you to your team for putting all this stuff together for S&P and Moody’s, and all those people that judge us ac-

cordingly,” Bill Wilson, board president of Rancho Water, said after the vote. “Congratulations, and great job, (general manager) Jeff (Armstrong), you’ll be leaving with a AAA.” The board also approved the consent calendar, which included the approval of financial statements and treasurer’s report, certification of cash sufficiency as of Aug. 31, ratified the register of audited demands for Aug. 27, through Sept. 23, approved the process report on unclaimed customer refunds and vendor payments, approved and accepted preliminary audit reports of the financial statements of the district and its entities, authorized the updated program framework for the recycled water accelerated retrofit program and adopted a resolution supporting balanced energy solutions and local choice.

At the beginning of the meeting, the board adopted a resolution recognizing, honoring and commending longtime employee Joe Oyhenart for 25 years of service with the district.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

Is a seasonal business a timely fit for you? 4 ways to make it work

Dave’s Hot Chicken to open three franchises in southwest Riverside County

HICKORY, N.C. – An everchanging economy creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs, during these rocky times that COVID-19 has caused.

Whether people are looking for a better work-life balance, a new job after having lost one or an extra source of income, opening a seasonal business is one strategy that fits those goals, Chris Buitron, president of Mosquito Authority, said.

“Many people are taking this route as a reliable way to generate income, because although the economy is changing dramatically in some ways, seasonal businesses still fulfill annual consumer needs,” Buitron said.

“The benefits for a seasonal business owner are attractive: more freedom, both in running a business and having the ability to take a few months off; the satisfaction of providing a service or product to which customers stay loyal; lower overhead costs than a year-round business; a solid second income or, if done right, a sufficient income by itself.”

Buitron offered these tips on how to run a seasonal business successfully.

Carefully construct your business model. Since you won’t be open year-round, it’s important to account for downtime in your cash flow.

“If the seasonal business is your main or only source of income, you’ll need to put in extra work during the season in order to make it through your offseason,” Buitron said. “Make sure you have access to credit and plan your budget very specifically.

It’s a bonus if you can find ways to diversify income streams for your seasonal business in the offseason. Determine the other needs of your customers and how you can fulfill them.”

Evaluate the past season and plan accordingly for the next season.

“Analyze your successes and shortcomings from the previous season,” Buitron said. “Seek customer feedback to assist your evaluation. Overall, determine why some things worked and others didn’t. The analysis will help you build a solid plan for the next season. Look at areas such as staffing, inventory and

TEMECULA – Dave’s Hot Chicken, the Los Angeles-based street food turned fast-casual brand, announced Wednesday, Oct. 7, it has inked a franchise agreement with Adam Shamel to open three locations in the greater Temecula, Murrieta, Wildomar, Menifee and Lake Elsinore area.

“I love the energy Adam brings to the table. He is a perfect fit for the Dave’s Hot Chicken team during this period of exciting growth for us,” Bill Phelps, CEO of Dave’s Hot Chicken, said. “This area is ripe with opportunity, and I can’t wait to see what Adam does as he introduces Dave’s Hot Chicken to the region.”

The Dave’s Hot Chicken team is seeking endcaps with drive-thru infrastructure and a footprint of 2,000 to 2,200 square feet. Real estate developers are welcome to contact Blake Kaplan at 909-702-3367 to review available space.

“I first heard about Dave’s Hot Chicken early last year and started

other expenses. Did you have enough employees and how did they perform? Which products or services weren’t successful?

Should you introduce new ones?

Would it be cheaper in the long run to buy your equipment rather than lease it?”

Connect with the public yearround to build your brand. Social media allows a seasonal business owner to build their business, their authority and strengthen their place in the community.

“Your target audience is just as accessible in the offseason,” Buitron said. “You can reach out to them and offer exclusive pricing or create a rewards program.

Publish blogs and post updates on the sites your customers follow. Give them content that can educate them beyond the reach of your business’ services. Showing you care about their lives and the community helps them remember you.”

Attend networking events and workshops. The offseason is the time for self-improvement that leads to business improvement.

“Learning and networking opportunities help you and your business grow,” Buitron said.

“Local business events, trade shows and conferences are great ways to gain new partnerships and skills.

“A seasonal business comes with an array of unique demands.

But with the right combination of good business practices and the passion to make it a way to enhance others’ lives, it can be a profitable and enjoyable experience for the seasonal business owner,” he said.

Chris Buitron is president of Mosquito Authority, a nationwide leader in mosquito control with franchises serving communities across the U.S. and Canada.

Buitron has an extensive background in franchise industries.

He was chief marketing officer for Senior Helpers, vice president of marketing for Direct Energy’s home services division and director of marketing for Sunoco Inc., where he supported the company’s 4,700 franchised and company-owned rental facilities across 23 states. For more information, visit http://www. mosquito-authority.com.

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browsing through their social media with my wife. The pictures of the food looked phenomenal, and I just knew I had to try it,” Shamel said.

“We took the two-and-a-half-hour drive to the Hollywood location and I was blown away at the flavor profile and spice levels. Once I researched the franchising opportunity and saw how simple it is to operate, along with the cravability of the food, I knew I had to be a part of this concept.”

Previously, Shamel introduced Jersey Mike’s to the High Desert when he opened three stores in the region.

“Adam is exactly the type of operating partner we are looking to grow alongside. As a cultural fit, we are confident he will create the same energy and experience in Temecula, Murrieta and Wildomar that we aim for in each restaurant,” Shannon Swenson, vice president of franchise development at Dave’s Hot Chicken, said. “Our focus is to partner with accomplished and

savvy restaurant operators, and Adam fits that bill perfectly. We are thrilled to continue growing Dave’s Hot Chicken and we are excited for the months ahead.”

Founded by classically trained chef Dave Kopushyan and three friends in early 2017, Dave’s Hot Chicken initially opened as a parking lot pop-up, with lines quickly wrapping around the block. Since then, the brand has multiple brickand-mortar locations open in Southern California and has its sights set on growing throughout the United States.

Specializing in hot chicken tenders and sliders, with spice levels ranging from “No Spice” to “Reaper,” each restaurant also serves sides of housemade kale slaw, creamy mac and cheese and crispy fries or cheese fries.

To learn more about Dave’s Hot Chicken and its franchise opportunities, visit https://www. daveshotchicken.com/franchising.

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5 ways older adults can safeguard against cyber criminals stealing their identity FALMOUTH, Maine – As the use of personal computers and cell phones has grown over the last two decades, identity theft has surged. One study found that over 14 million consumers were victims of identity fraud in 2018, and that their out-of-pocket costs totaled $1.7 billion.

Older adults have been particularly vulnerable in recent years to online scams and telemarketing tricks. Unfortunately, another negative effect of COVID-19 has been scammers targeting older adults by developing coronavirus hoaxes that prey on fears of the virus.

The growing problem of identity theft for all age groups makes it vital for consumers to develop a strategy to protect their devices, and those of their loved ones, although no system is perfect, Chris Orestis, a senior care advocate known as the “Retirement Genius” and president of LifeCare Xchange, said.

At a minimum, no one should give out their Social Security number to a stranger and should never click a link in an email from an unknown source. But cyberthieves have many ways to steal identities, invade computers or raid bank accounts and credit cards. What should older adults do to protect themselves from these scam artists and criminals?

“First, it’s important to understand that identity-theft protection services don’t actually stop identity theft,” Orestis said. “There is no fool-proof way to stop identity theft from happening; there are just too many different types of valuable information and avenues for cyber thieves to hack them.

“The Federal Trade Commission actually prohibits identitytheft services from using the word ‘prevention,’ and if a company is promoting that as part of their ser-

vice they should not be trusted. But regardless of any service you might use, no one can be disengaged from protecting their own identity.

It’s important to take care of your identity and credit health with smart and regular maintenance, just like you do with your physical health,” he said.

Orestis offered a five-step plan to help older adults protect their identity.

Register for fraud alerts.

“You want these alerts on credit cards and bank accounts so you can be notified quickly of any suspicious activity on your accounts,” Orestis said. “With fraud alerts, data security companies and financial services will text, email or phone you if there is a suspected security breach, or if they detect spending on a card or account that doesn’t align with your spending habits or your location.”

Review accounts regularly.

Vigilance of their identity protection means older adults should go over their monthly bank and credit card statements and review online account activity weekly.

“Immediately notify your bank or credit companies if you detect fraudulent activity,” Orestis said.

“Either freeze your account or cancel your card. If you believe there could be a problem with your credit, you can place a credit freeze by phone with each credit agency’s customer service line.”

Monitor your credit reports.

Orestis said monitoring credit reports from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion is another way to find discrepancies that may indicate fraud.

Don’t leave a paper trail.

“It’s a good idea to get rid of physical private records and statements that include personal or financial data,” Orestis said. “Iden-

tity thieves get into mailboxes and trash. They can use receipts to piece together your personal data, so it’s smart to shred those and avoid any kind of paper trail.”

Create strong passwords.

Orestis suggested mixing uppercase and lowercase letters with numbers and symbols, and to avoid using the same password for every account.

“Not having a strong password on your smartphone or computer is like leaving your house with the front door wide-open,” Orestis said.

“Identity thieves are counting on people to use the same or similar passwords for their electronic devices and financial accounts. Mix up your passwords, and change them whenever you suspect an account has been compromised.

“Identity theft and cybersecurity are a very real threat in today’s internet-connected world,” Orestis said. “We all live online and are exposed to a lot of risk if we don’t do the right things to protect ourselves.”

Chris Orestis, known as the “Retirement Genius,” is president of LifeCare Xchange and a nationally recognized health care expert and senior advocate. He has 25 years of experience in the insurance and long-term care industries, and is credited with pioneering the LongTerm Care Life Settlement over a decade ago. He is a frequent columnist for Broker World, ThinkAdvisor, IRIS and NewsMax Finance, has been a featured guest on over 50 radio programs and has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC News, FOX News, USA Today, Kiplinger’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Public Broadcasting Service and numerous other media outlets. For more information, visit http://www. retirementgenius.com.

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Get Air Temecula jumps back into business since COVID-19 shutdown Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

they’ve implemented extra precautions.

“We have a vigorous cleaning schedule,” Mitchell said. “We disinfect after all customers come in and use our computers. Usually 15 to 20 minutes, we check the bathrooms – we disinfect the handles; we’re disinfecting the trampolines a few times a day so it’s constantly staying disinfected.”

Due to the pandemic, they’re also offering discounted rates to make it more affordable.

“We have online deals. We also have daily deals as well, so on our website we offer discounted rates.

They’re really good for group rates as well,” Mitchell said. “We also have Groupons, which is a very good deal as well.”

They have a main in-house deal.

“On Tuesdays, it’s buy one hour and get the second hour free,” Mitchell said. “And then on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the little ones, we have toddler time, which is from 10 a.m. to noon, and it allows the little ones to come jump with their parents in the big open area.”

Mitchell said that both parents and children are excited to be back.

“After being stuck in their house for six months and school being online, it’s a fun atmosphere for everyone to come back too,” Mitchell said. “Just from the parents, we get good reactions that they’re thankful that we’re open.

“Being able to provide them, their kids with something to do out of the house, the kids come in all excited, looking around and they’re just ready to jump from the second they walk in,” she said.

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

After a long stretch of being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Get Air Trampoline Park in Temecula received county approval to reopen its doors Monday, Sept. 28.

MacKenna Mitchell, assistant manager for Get Air Temecula, said she is excited to be back.

“It was tough being off cause I’ve been here for five years, so not working a summer was crazy,” Mitchell said. “But just like every other business, we’re just trying to make our comeback.”

They’ve reduced their hours and are now open every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

“As far as measures we’re taking to reopen, we do have a capacity restriction and mask requirement,” Mitchell said. “For the capacity we’re considered like a gym and health spa, so we’re following the gym guidelines which is 10% capacity.”

It means they can have between 30-40 jumpers at a time.

“We ask that all guests wear masks entering our building,” Mitchell said. “We have nonjumpers who can stand and watch; they are required to wear masks.

“The jumpers, however, can take off their mask while they are jumping, and then we ask before they leave or they’re done jumping, we ask them just to put on their mask to walk to the lobby where other people would be,” she said.

They’re promoting social distancing with markers as well.

“We have markers for the line, and then we have them all the way up our walkway up to the trampoline park so that people can stay socially distanced with wearing masks,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said they’ve always been good at sanitizing, but

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“With students attending classes remotely and other family members continuing to work from home, many households may have more people using and charging electrical devices on a daily basis than usual,” Lorraine Carli, vice president of outreach and advocacy at NFPA, said. “This additional use of equipment means more

opportunity for misuse and misapplication, which can contribute to an increased fire risk.”

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Only use the charging cord that came with the device, avoid cords with conductive jackets.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Notice to our readers: While some activities in our communities are starting, as the Riverside County moves to the red tier, under state orders for social distancing and recommendations to wear face masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19, contact event sponsors for the latest updates.

CHILDREN’S EVENTS: Oct. 17 – 10 a.m. N-PAC Norris Performing Arts Center fall-winter theater arts classes begin for children 8-18 at 41640 Corning Place in Murrieta. The Temecula Performing Arts Company offers socially distanced classes in an eight-week session.

Classes are available for tap, musical theater, “The Method” acting and Broadway performance class. For more information, email TPACRocks@gmail.com or visit http://www.temeculaperformingarts.com.

Oct. 21 – The city of Temecula offers a virtual Halloween costume contest for children to show off their fang-tastic costumes online; photos must be submitted before the Oct. 21 contest finals. Current entries may be seen at http://temecula.gov.1298/ halloween-contests. For more information, call 951-694-6480.

Oct. 26-30 – 3 p.m. Halloween Mini Camps for ages 3-6 are hosted at the Little Red Barn Indoor Playground, 33050 Antelope Road, in Murrieta. The hours Monday through Friday may vary. Enrichment camps are ready, and signups are open.

Children can decorate pumpkins and exchange treats. For more information, visit https://thelittleredbarnplayground.com/.

Oct. 29 – 6-9 p.m. Enjoy the annual Haunted School House presented by In Motion Training Center dance studios at 4000 E. Florida Ave. and Meridian St. in Hemet. The cost is $5 a person to watch a scary Halloween performance and walk through a horrifying haunted maze. Fifty percent of the proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; residents are encouraged to come and support the event. For more information, call 951-251-4644.

COMMUNITY EVENTS: Oct. 16 – 8 a.m. Enter the Temecula and Murrieta Halloween Home Decorating Contest as an individual residence or as a neighborhood; entry deadline is Friday, Oct. 23. All decorations must be in the front yard, and the judging categories include Scariest, Funniest, Most Original and Best Theme. All entries will be included on the Halloween map. Photos of the home decorations must be submitted to Tracy.Courts@TemeculaCA. gov for judging by Monday, Oct. 26. As Temecula is collaborating with Murrieta, both cities will be hosting the Halloween Home Decorating Contest. Residents can enter the contest in their respective city, and homes will be judged based on the category of their choosing. Both cities will select a winner for each of the four categories. Then the public will choose one overall winner based on the winners from each city, thus declaring the king of Halloween.

Oct. 17 – 4 p.m. The fall Family Health Fair is a drive-thru experience at Inland Valley Medical Center, 36485 Inland Valley Drive, in Wildomar. Children can wear their Halloween costumes.

Vendors will be on hand; free flu shots will be available for the first 300 who register. Flu shots will be given in a separate area where recipients can safely park, and nurses can tend to

them. When registering, select a 15-minute time slot between 4-7 p.m. For more information, visit http://inlandvalleymedcenter. com/events-and-programs/eventcalendar/fall-family-healthfair-2020.

Oct. 17 – 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Attend the Reopen Cali Rally and Worship presented by the Dwelling Place, 27100 Girard St., in Hemet. Join experts around the county on how to reopen our county and keep our freedoms.

The rally will feature worship, speakers, live music, food trucks and family friendly entertainment. For more information, email Redeemingamericatour@ gmail.com.

Oct. 24 – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Drive-Thru Donation and Awareness Event benefits Alternatives to Domestic Violence at the Kay Ceniceros Senior Center, 29995 Evans Road, in Menifee. Donations needed include cash, gift cards to local stores, toiletries for babies, children and women.

Event will include a Menifee K-9 Unit, fire equipment, mental wellness booths, help booklets, candy for children, costumes encouraged, drawing and prize giveaways and COVID-19 safety measures for everyone. Early donations may be dropped off at the Menifee Police Department, 29714 Haun Road, in Menifee.

For more information, call 951723-3880.

Oct. 24 – 7-9 p.m. Come out for the Halloween Laser Drivein Show at Marna O’Brian Park, 20505 Palomar St., in Wildomar.

The city will sponsor an hourlong spectacle of music and lights at the park. From movie soundtracks to Halloween favorites, watch as lasers light up the sky to your favorite songs. Vehicle RSVP is required. For more information, visit http://wildomarlightshow. eventbrite.com.

Oct. 25 – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Join the Sunday Funday Market at Vail Headquarters, 32115 Temecula Parkway, in Temecula, presented by Synergy Social SoCal and Vail Headquarters. With free attendance for all friends and family members, including the four-legged ones, activities include trick-or-treat – early come dressed in your costume – face painting; arts and crafts; train rides; picnic games and a virtual reality maze.

ONGOING – If you know a homebound older adult, resources in Menifee are available, including grab and go, cooked and frozen food for pickup, Courtesy Pantry items and meals delivered with no contact. Three days of emergency food can be delivered immediately or restaurant meal delivery for those who don’t qualify for food assistance programs.

Call 800-510-2020 for help.

ONGOING – The Riverside County COVID-19 Business Assistance Grant Program is accepting online applications for business grants up to $10,000 at http://www.rivercobizhelp.org that can be used for employee retention, working capital, protective equipment purchases, rent of mortgage payments and paying vendor notices. Eligible businesses, including nonprofits, must be in Riverside County, with less than 50 employees and a minimum of 1 and operating for at least one-year since March 1. For more information, call Riverside County Business and Community Services at 951955-0493.

ONGOING – 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Temecula Winchester Swap Meet continues at 33280 Newport Road in Winchester Saturdays and Sundays only. The small local swap meet is only 50 cents for entry, and anyone under

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ONGOING – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Every Sunday, Murrieta Village Walk Farmers Market is at Village Walk Place in Murrieta. The Sunday morning farmers market at Village Walk Plaza is a place to buy fruits and veggies, gourmet food and crafts. Come to the center in the northwest corner of Kalmia/Cal Oaks at the Interstate 215 exit in Murrieta.

ONGOING – Temecula’s Farmers Markets are offered in Old Town Temecula Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon at 4100 Main St. in Temecula; at Promenade Temecula, 40640 Winchester Road, outside JCPennys every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and at Vail Headquarters, 32115 Temecula Parkway, every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In compliance with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and Riverside County Public Health orders, the farmers markets will be restricted agriculture products only. Follow the Old Town Temecula Farmers Market on Facebook to stay updated. No pets are allowed.

WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS and ANNOUNCEMENTS: Oct. 16 – 3 p.m. The 13th annual Ralph Love Plein Air Competition opens to plein artists.

Paintings can be completed in different locations around Temecula.

Paintings will be displayed at The Gallery at The Merc in Old Town Temecula from Nov. 4 through Jan. 21, 2021. A reception is being planned. The non-refundable application fee is $30. Visit http:// TemeculaCA.gov and register for activity No. 9030.201. For additional information, contact the city’s Arts & Culture team at 951-694-6455.

Oct. 20 – 10-11:30 a.m. A Celebration of Women’s Suffrage and the Right to Vote is presented by the Friends of the Murrieta Library live on Zoom. The event will focus on “Two Women who Dared” who worked to allow women to vote and win the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

Friends board member Karen Michaud will portray Alice Paul, and Temecula Valley Historical Society director Bonnie Martland will portray Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, who forwarded the idea to bring women the vote and established the National Women’s Party. Please log in 10-15 minutes before start of meeting to avoid delay. Visit http://www.murrietalibraryfriends.org for login information.

Oct. 21 – Scheduled times.

Hemet San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce presents “Shades of Ireland” virtual actual location from TerraMar Travel Inc. Contact Rhonda Shumway

at 951-929-0033 for fees and admission.

Oct. 22 and 29 – 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 22, and 5-7 p.m.

Oct 29. The Water Leaders Academy Zoom meet is presented by Eastern Municipal Water District.

The virtual workshop brings together community members to learn about water service and how they can be a part of the community outreach for the district and provides an in-depth look at EMWD’s facilities and services.

Register at http://emwd.org/WaterLeaders.

ONGOING – Noon to 1 p.m. Attend Murrieta Wildomar Chamber of Commerce’s weekly business briefing via Zoom or watch live on Facebook every Wednesday. Register required at https://bit.ly/MWCBizBriefing.

The chamber business briefing is an opportunity to hear from city, county and business leaders about current and relevant business information.

ONGOING – Everything KETO classes. These interactive step-by-step workshop and classes on Zoom will guide students to begin this new way of eating and learn how to easily steer their decision-making for effective results. For more information and to register, visit http://www. cityofmenifee.us/register or call 951-723-3880.

ONGOING – Menifee Community Services offers online driver’s education courses with a $21.95 fee. The course includes animated driving scenarios, instructional videos, sample test, licensed instructor available to answer questions, DMV approved certificate of completion with all lectures and exams completed from home. Designed for students and does not include behind-the-wheel instruction or a California driver’s permit. Contact 951-723-3880 or visit the city of Menifee to register at http:// www.cityofmenifee.us.

ONGOING – 10-11:30 a.m.

Michelle’s Place Cancer Resource Center and The Elizabeth Hospice host a virtual support meeting for caregivers every second and fourth week of the month via Zoom. Get helpful tips and learn from others who are also dealing with similar challenges. For more information and to register, contact The Elizabeth Hospice Grief Support Services at 833-349-2054.

ONGOING – Local National Association of Female Entrepreneurs group helps women grow both personally and professionally and meets monthly. Contact Robbie Motter, the NAFE global coordinator, at (951) 255-9200 or rmotter@aol.com for information about future meetings after the coronavirus restrictions are lifted.

ONGOING – Hemet/Win-

chester National Association of Female Entrepreneurs meets monthly. For new meeting dates and destinations, contact director Joan Wakeland at 909-721-7648 or email Joanewakeland@gmail. com. Lake Elsinore/Murrieta/ Wildomar NAFE also meets each month in Lake Elsinore with director Sandie Fuenty. Call Fuenty at 714-981-7013 or email sandiesldy@aol.com to learn when meetings will resume.

ONGOING – Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, a free 12step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia, has meetings throughout the U.S. and the world. Contact 781932-6300, or for local meetings, call 925- 321-0170 or visit http:// www.foodaddicts.org.

ONGOING – The Murrieta Garden Club meets each month at the Murrieta Community Center, 41810 Juniper St., in Murrieta.

Anyone who likes to garden or is interested in plants is welcome.

Memberships are $10 per year.

Find more information about the monthly event or project on Facebook.

ONGOING – Temecula Valley Rose Society meets each month.

For more information and new meeting dates and places, visit http://www.temeculavalleyrosesociety.org.

ONGOING – Menifee Toastmasters meets every Thursday at noon for one hour at a designated place to have fun, enhance speaking capabilities, gain selfconfidence and improve social skills. For new dates, call 760807-1323 or visit http://www.

MenifeeToastmasters.org for more information.

ONGOING – Sons of Norway/Scandinavia meet the first Saturday of every month from September to June. The virtual meetings are held on Zoom, at 11 a.m. Join Zoom meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/423 2348177?pwd=eDd1SDlDdW5 sdVowWUp1N3pBYmpGZz09 with the Meeting ID: 423 234 817 and passcode: yCp0js. Everyone is welcome to enjoy some virtual company with fellow Scandinavians. For more information, call 951-849-1690.

ONGOING – Parent Support Group is available for parents whose children of any age struggle with addiction. Education, skills and support are available in Temecula. For more information, call 951-775-4000 or email info@ thecenter4lifechange.com.

ONGOING –The city of Menifee offers a fitness class on Zoom Mondays through Fridays at 7 a.m., at 9 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. For more information, contact 951-723-3880 or visit http:// www.cityofmenifee.us/register.

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11. Missions, for short 16. Spenser heroine 17. It’s softer than gypsum 21. “Buddenbrooks” author 22. Women’s magazine 23. Go around 25. Land measures 26. If it is in the dark, it is a wild guess 27. Wrigglers 28. Cardinal letters 31. Winter pear 33. Remove a dowel 34. Limestone terrain 36. Bushed 37. Role for Ingrid 38. Sugar source

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ENTERTAINMENT

Oct. 16-22: Reptiles, runs, workshops and more Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Brew Masters Golf Tournament 2020 The Murrieta/Wildomar Chamber of Commerce Brew Masters Golf Tournament is taking place Friday, Oct. 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with a 10 a.m. shotgun start and an awards banquet immediately following the tournament.

For more information or tickets, visit https://business.murrietachamber.org/events/details/brew-masters-golf-tournament-2020-16879.

Old Town Blues Club A Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute will perform at the Old Town Blues Club Sunday, Oct. 18, at 1:30 p.m.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/oldtownbluesclubmusic.

Night for Freedom Akash Winery and Vineyards is hosting Night for Freedom, a “night of local action for a global end to human trafficking” Saturday, Oct. 17, from 6-9 p.m.

For more information, visit https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/night-forfreedom-tickets-121489693945.

Boo at the Zoo! Reptile Extravaganza Sugarplum Zoo and Chocolates is hosting a reptile extravaganza the last three Saturdays of October.

Come on out Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. for the first event.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/SugarplumZooAndChocolates.

Fall Protea Festival On Saturday, Oct. 17, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., come out to the Fall Protea Festival at the Old Town Temecula Farmers Market for bouquets, wreaths, plants and more.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/372610857225784.

Outdoor Movie Night Come out to Vail Headquarters Saturday, Oct. 17, from 7:30-10 p.m. to watch “Beetlejuice,” rated PG. Movies are free to attend, and social distancing guidelines will be observed. No seating is provided; bring your own chairs, blankets, pillows, etc. to watch the show.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/635502240494728.

Temecula Half Marathon Due to COVID-19, the Temecula Half Marathon and 5K has gone virtual this year, celebrating “Quarantine: At least there’s still running and wine!” Register for the virtual event by Nov. 15.

For more information, visit https://www.temeculahalf.com/.

Fall Wreath Workshop Come out to the Fallbrook Pump-

kin Patch at The Vineyard 1924 in Fallbrook Sunday, Oct. 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a fall wreath workshop. Hosted by Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers, guests will be taught how to create a fall protea wreath to decorate your home.

For more information and pricing, visit www.the-protea-store. myshopify.com/products/wreathworkshop.

First Fall Market in Wine Country On Saturday, Oct. 17, from 3-6 p.m., the first fall market will take place in Temecula Wine Country.

The market will feature local honey, handmade cloth dolls, handmade Christmas lawn ornaments and more.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/650616205577347.

Plant a Tree Project On Saturday, Oct. 17, at 8 a.m., join New Generations Rotary Temecula in planting trees to beautify Rotary Park, 28816 Pujol Street, in Temecula.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/TemeculaValleyNewGenerationsRotaryClub.

Lexington Howe can be reached by email at lhowe@reedermedia. com.

The Brew Masters Golf Tournament, which was rescheduled, is taking place Friday, Oct. 16, at The Golf Club at Rancho California.

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Pala Casino Spa Resort presents Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals PALA – Pala Casino Spa Resort will present Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, live outdoors at the Starlight Theater Friday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m.

Members of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame, Vocal Group Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Rascals are widely considered the best “blue-eyed soul” group to come out of the 1960s and their music, the soundtrack of a generation.

Felix Cavaliere formed the ‘Young Rascals’ in 1965 with Dino Danelli, Eddie Brigati and Gene Cornish. Signed to Atlantic Records, and now called The Rascals, the mega hit “Good Lovin’” struck No. 1 in February 1966.

The Rascals have 17 Top 20 hits, seven Top 10 hits and three No. 1 hits, including “Groovin’,” “Good Lovin’,” and “People Got To Be Free,” the latter of which recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its release.

General admission tickets are on sale for $25. Guests must be 21 years of age or older to attend.

Doors open one hour before start of show.

Tickets are on sale now, with no service charge, at the Pala Box Office, http://www.palacasino. com and 877-946-7252. Tickets are also available at http://www. etix.com and 800-514-3849.

Pala presents additional concert and events in October.

The Superstar Imposters – Summer Tribute Series is offered

select Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. with Hollywood U2, tribute to U2, Saturday, Oct. 17.

The Domingos de Musica y Baile Series is held select Sundays at 6 p.m. with Inspector, Mexican ska band, Sunday, Oct. 16. General admission to the show is $15.

Pala Casino Spa Resort is committed to following the guidelines and recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control for businesses. Guests will be asked to wear facial coverings

and practice safe social distancing throughout each of these events. Seats will be sanitized and preset to enforce proper social distancing. Additionally, all guests will have their temperature screened at the entrance to the casino. For a full list of the property updates and safety protocols at Pala Casino, visit https://www. palacasino.com/.

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REGIONAL NEWS

Judicial Watch sues California to prevent enforcement of race, ethnicity, sexual preference and transgender status quotas for corporate boards of directors WASHINGTON – Judicial Watch announced recently that it filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County on behalf of three California taxpayers to prevent California from enforcing Assembly Bill 979, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Wednesday, Sept. 30. The bill requires that boards of directors of California-based, publicly held domestic or foreign corporations satisfy racial, ethnicity, sexual preference and transgender status quotas by the end of the 2021 calendar year. A Senate floor analysis said the bill draws distinctions based on race and ethnicity, and therefore, it is “suspect,” and that “the existence of general societal discrimination will not ordinarily satisfy courts.”

Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit a few hours after Newsom signed the new quota law.

AB 979 requires publicly held corporations to have a minimum of one director from an “underrepresented community” on its board by the end of the 2021 calendar year and up to three “underrepresentedcommunity” board members by the end of the 2022 calendar year, de-

pending on the size of the board. The bill defines “director from an underrepresented community” to mean “an individual who self-identifies as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Alaska Native or who self-identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.”

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit, Robin Crest, et al. v. Alex Padilla, in his official capacity as Secretary of State in California the same day Newsom signed the bill in order to prevent the Secretary of State’s office from expending taxpayer funds and taxpayer-financed resources to implement the law and/or ensure compliance with AB 979’s racial, ethnic, sexual preference and transgender-based quotas. According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, AB 979 “will result in ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to gather demographic information and compile a report on this data on its internet website.”

In its complaint Judicial Watch argued that any expenditure of taxpayer funds or taxpayer-financed

resources on AB 979 is illegal under the California Constitution.

The legislation’s requirement that certain corporations appoint a specific number of directors based upon race, ethnicity, sexual preference and transgender status is immediately suspect and presumptively invalid and triggers strict scrutiny review by the court. Because it classifies directors by virtue of their race, ethnicity, sexual preference or transgender status, AB 979 can only be justified by a compelling governmental interest, and its use of race and ethnicity must be narrowly tailored to serve that compelling interest. As California cannot make these difficult showings, AB 979 is unconstitutional and any expenditure of taxpayer funds or taxpayer-financed resources in furtherance of, ensuring compliance with or otherwise effectuating the racial, ethnicity, sexual preference and transgender quotas required by AB 979 is illegal.

The floor analysis produced by the California Senate during deliberation on the bill identified “potential constitutional issues posed by” AB 979. It described AB 979 as “requiring certain corpora-

tions to appoint a certain number of directors who self-identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Alaskan Native” and noted that, under the California Constitution, “a statute that draws a distinction based upon race or ethnicity in this fashion – whether remedial or punitive in intent – is suspect and only passes constitutional muster if it can meet the strict scrutiny test: that the statute is narrowly drawn to meet a compelling government interest.” The analysis also stated, “the existence of general societal discrimination will not ordinarily satisfy the courts.”

Judicial Watch asked the court to halt the quota law a judgment declaring any and all expenditures of taxpayer funds and taxpayerfinanced resources in furtherance of, ensuring compliance with or otherwise effectuating the racial, ethnicity, sexual preference and transgender quotas required by AB 979 to be illegal and an injunction permanently prohibiting defendant from expending or causing the expenditure of taxpayer funds and

taxpayer-financed resources in furtherance of, ensuring compliance with or otherwise effectuating the racial, ethnicity, sexual preference and transgender quotas required by AB 979.

In a related case, Judicial Watch is prosecuting a taxpayer lawsuit that challenges California’s gender quotas, Crest et al. v. Padilla. In June, in a major development, the court held that Judicial Watch’s clients have standing to sue under state law and Judicial Watch attorneys are now in discovery, which could involve deposition testimony of various California officials.

“California’s government has a penchant for quotas that are brazenly unconstitutional,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said. “Gender quotas and now new quotas for numerous other groups for corporate boards are slaps in the face to the core American value of equal protection under the law.

While California skirts bankruptcy and burns up due to fiscal abandon, its leftist political leadership would waste tax dollars to implement illegal and divisive quotas.”

Submitted by Judicial Watch.

Vote-by-mail ballots for Nov. 3 presidential general election on the way to voters RIVERSIDE COUNTY – Approximately 1,200,000 vote-bymail ballots were mailed to voters starting Monday, Oct. 5, for the presidential general election Tuesday, Nov. 3. Completed bal-

lots must be received at the Registrar of Voters Office, any voter assistance center or ballot drop-off location within Riverside County no later than the close of polls on Election Day or be postmarked

on or before Election Day and received no later than 17 days after Election Day to be counted.

Vote‐by‐mail ballots can be returned through the Postal Service or deposited in vote‐by‐

mail drop‐off boxes at 80 participating locations throughout Riverside County. Ballot drop‐ off locations and hours of operation can be found on the registrar’s website at http://www.

voteinfo.net.

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JDS Creative Academy to host Halloween-themed blood drive nity to gain creative enrichment, self-confidence, leadership and collaborative skills needed to advance to higher arts education and obtain the expertise needed to prosper in a competitive high-tech marketplace.

For more information about JDSCA’s classes, apprenticeship program, internships, job-training and events, visit http://JDSCreativeAcademy.org, email info@

jdsca.org or call 951-296-6715.

For more about Spirit of Innovation, visit http://spiritofinnovation.org. View past episodes and segments, as well as the JDSCA job-training crew’s micro show SOI Update, on the Spirit of Innovation website and @SOI_News on YouTube.

Submitted by JDS Creative Academy.

Pulido Restoration and Cleaning is sponsoring the sanitization before and after the event. All COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed.

while supplies last.

After giving, they will be encouraged to enjoy family-friendly spooky fun, haunted studio thrill, filled with tricks and treats.

The mission of JDS Creative Academy is to advance education and training in the visual, performing and digital arts: theater, music, creative writing, fine art, video and digital production. JDS Creative Academy provides the opportu-

jdscreativeacademy.org/haunted-blood-drive-trunk-or-treat/

Restoration will sanitize the studio before and after the event. Social distancing guidelines will be enforced, and appointments are strongly recommended; however, walk-ins are welcome. LifeStream tests all blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies. Donors will learn results and if their plasma can help COVID-19 patients.

Donors will receive a pair of special-edition Halloween socks

RSVP for Family Fun this Halloween

TEMECULA – JDS Creative Academy has partnered with LifeStream Blood Bank and Pulido Cleaning and Restoration to host a blood drive. They “vant to suck your blood” on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at JDS Studios, 28069 Diaz Road, Suite D, E and F, in Temecula.

Abiding by COVID-19 safety protocols, Pulido Cleaning and

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NATIONAL NEWS

Consider the Great Barrington Debate and its critics

Three of the world’s top epidemiologists published the Great Barrington Declaration, advocating opening societies across the globe immediately Jenin Younes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Three of the world’s top epidemiologists published the Great Barrington Declaration, a short treatise that advocates a controversial approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic, Sunday, Oct. 4. Professors Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University argued that societies across the globe should reopen immediately and completely.

Instead of observing measures designed to slow the spread of the virus, the young and healthy should resume normal activity to incur herd immunity and thereby protect those vulnerable to severe illness. The authors urged the adoption of this strategy, which they call “Focused Protection,” in light of increasing evidence that “current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health... Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.”

As of Oct. 8, the declaration has been signed by 4,900 other medical and public health scientists, 9,300 medical practitioners and around 129,000 members of the general public.

While these scientists are not the first to express such views, given the degree to which their stance conflicts with the prevailing wisdom that everyone has a moral obligation to participate in efforts to “stop the spread,” it is not surprising that they have already encountered significant opposition. Among their primary detractors is Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, who considers their proposal akin to a suggestion that society “cull... the herd of the sick and disabled. It’s grotesque.”

It is hard to see where Gonsalves reads into the declaration, which

seeks to balance the interests of all demographics, a call to “cull... the sick and disabled.” This accusation is merely part of the drama in what has become theater.

Gonsalves’s more measured, and conceivably legitimate, argument is that, since around 50% of the United States population is vulnerable, those most likely to experience severe illness cannot simply be separated out from the rest of society. Some version of this notion – that the strategy is logistically unfeasible and therefore must be discarded – is the most prevalent critique of the document. Gonsalves and others, for instance Dr. Michael Head at University of Southampton, also contend that the declaration’s premise is false, because no one in the scientific community is calling for either extended or extensive lockdowns.

But this latter claim is simply untrue. Many prominent scientists have called for extreme lockdowns in the United States, as recently as September. While they claim this action would eradicate the coronavirus entirely, it is becoming increasingly evident that such suppressive measures last only as long as they are in place.

Once lifted, the virus simply resurges, as has been demonstrated by countries such as Peru, which initially implemented one of the world’s most extreme lockdowns and now has one of the worst outbreaks. Melbourne, Australia, has been under a severe lockdown for over a month, despite having declared early victory against the virus. The United Kingdom has been enacting various forms of shutdown for several weeks after having been more or less open for the summer, and the mayor of New York City and governor of New York State have been threatening to impose localized lockdowns in Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods in which cases are rising. Thus, whether endorsed by

Household debt service drops to a record low Robert Hughes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Data from the Federal Reserve show the household financial obligations ratio, minimum debt service payments plus other financial obligation payments as a share of disposable income, plunged to an all-time low of 13.64% in the second quarter. Within that measure, the total debt service ratio, minimum debt services payments as a share of disposable income, dropped to 8.69% with mortgage debt service coming in at 3.72% and other consumer debt service requiring 4.97%.

However, disposable personal income for the second quarter was significantly distorted by the massive government transfer payments distributed to offset some of the carnage due to government lockdown policies. Government transfers more than doubled from $3.2 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in February to $6.6 trillion in April.

Those transfers pushed disposable personal income to $19.0 trillion in April from $16.8 trillion in February.

If those transfer payments are excluded, disposable personal income would plunge to $12.4 trillion in April from $13.6 trillion in February.

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data, the ratio would jump to 19.8% in the second quarter from 18.6% in the first quarter. While that is about midway in the roughly 18% to 22% range since 1980, it tells a very different story than the financial obligations ratio based on total disposable personal income.

Debt service may become a bigger issue as transfer payments dwindle.

Elevated levels of unemployment and ongoing restrictions may lead to worsening financial health including rising bankruptcies for households and businesses. Overall, risks to the economy remain significant.

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the scientific community or politicians, forced closures of schools and businesses are the default mechanism for managing rising cases in many parts of the world.

Lockdowns are no strawman, contrary to the claims of Gonsalves and colleagues.

As for Gonsalves’ more compelling concern, it is true that protecting vulnerable members of society who do not reside in nursing homes, while allowing the rest to go about their lives, is not a simple feat. But the many scientists who conclude that, therefore, “Focused Protection” is not viable are woefully misguided.

Initially, some portion of the vast resources that societies are expending to lock down could be diverted to this project. But more importantly, the critics’ position drastically underestimates the harm lockdowns inflict on a society.

Oxfam recently published a report concluding that 130 million more people will probably die of starvation due to supply chain disruptions resulting from lockdowns around the world. As Time magazine explained, that is exponentially more people than will succumb to the coronavirus itself. The Centers for Disease Control and Protection has estimated the probable occurrence of more than 93,000 “non-COVID-19 ‘excess deaths’ this year, including 42,427 from cardiovascular conditions, 10,686 from diabetes and 3,646 from cancer. Many are due to government shutdowns of nonessential medical care.” Those numbers are for this country alone.

Likewise, mental health is deteriorating; substance, child and domestic abuse are increasing and children, especially those who come from families without means, are falling behind in school. Countless businesses have closed, many for good, spelling financial disaster for their owners and hardship for employees.

All due to lockdowns, despite the common misattributions in head-

lines to the “coronavirus” itself.

While Gonsalves and the other critics are quick to argue that “Focused Protection” is “grotesque,” at no point do they address the crux of the matter, which is that the harms of locking down and social distancing, especially to the young, outweigh the benefits. Their opposition stems from the myopic worldview that led to lockdown and social distancing strategies in the first place: that the pandemic is a uniquely horrible problem that justifies sidelining all others in the quest to solve it.

Instead, as society has seen over the past seven or eight months, the coronavirus is just one among countless difficulties that the world faces; when contemplated dispassionately, it does not stand out the way that, for instance, nuclear war or a truly apocalyptic pandemic would. At 1.05 million deaths over the past nine or 10 months, the coronavirus appears to be a problem along the lines of, for example, traffic accidents, which cause 1.35 million deaths per year, or tuberculosis, which results in 1.5 million deaths annually.

Most people understand and accept that preventing these deaths must be balanced against other interests. If, for instance, the nation banned vehicular travel to avoid deaths resulting from traffic accidents, but doing so caused 130 million deaths from supply chain disruptions, people would immediately recognize it as a failing proposition. Clearly, the same logic ought to apply in this case.

Critics of the Great Barrington Declaration correctly observe that the health care system will not be able to prevent every death from coronavirus among the vulnerable.

But their argument rests on the false assumption that preventing coronavirus deaths is more important than anything else, and while efforts can be made to mitigate collateral damage, in the end all must give way to this overarching goal.

Waymo Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid undergoing testing in the San Francisco Bay Area Waymo removing backup drivers from its autonomous vehicles Cathy Bussewitz AP BUSINESS WRITER

Waymo is allowing the general public to hitch a ride in its driverless autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, expanding a service it had been quietly offering to a select group of riders for the past year.

The service launches to the general public Thursday, Oct. 8.

The vehicles, which will have no backup drivers behind the wheel to take over in sticky situations, will serve an area of 50 square miles.

There won’t be anyone watching remotely who can take over in an emergency and drive the car.

Before the coronavirus struck, which reduced demand for rides, Waymo was providing 1,000 to 2,000 rides in autonomous vehicles per week. Most of the rides had a backup driver behind the wheel, but 5% to 10% of the rides were without a human backup driver and were available only to a smaller group of riders who signed nondisclosure agreements. Waymo did not disclose how many fully autonomous vehicles will be available to the public in the Phoenix area.

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ity to meet demand with the capabilities of the vehicle we have right now,” John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo, said in a conference call with reporters.

Waymo, a unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., is hoping to eventually expand the service into California, but does not yet have concrete expansion plans to announce, Krafcik said.

To help encourage safety during the pandemic, Waymo provides wipes and sanitizing gel in the car and asks riders to confirm in a checklist that they haven’t been exposed to the coronavirus. Waymo requires riders to wear masks and checks that masks are being worn using cameras inside the car. The vehicles also have an air circulation feature that helps remove germs that other riders may have introduced.

For the next several weeks, every Waymo ride in the Phoenix area will be without a backup driver.

After that, Waymo will reintroduce human backup drivers behind the wheel in some of the vehicles so the company can work on expanding its service area.

Rather, like all else in life, mitigation efforts must be balanced against the injury those measures cause.

Since lockdowns will probably cause more deaths by starvation alone than the coronavirus, never mind the myriad other harms, the critics’ position simply does not withstand any scrutiny. By contrast, the writers of the Great Barrington Declaration expressly recognize both sides of the equation and seek to minimize coronavirus deaths among the vulnerable and suffering inflicted upon the nonvulnerable.

To read the short Barrington Debate treatise, visit https://gbdeclaration.org/.

Copyright 2020 American Institute for Economic Research.

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Mosiello takes over Elsinore High School's baseball program Tigers rebuilding with former Vista Murrieta head coach

Elsinore’s new head baseball coach, Matt Mosiello, left, pictured here in 2016, takes on his 19th season in 2021.

Valley News/File photo Former Vista Murrieta head baseball coach, Matt Mosiello, ready to take over at Elsinore High School for the 2021 season.

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JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

It has been almost two years since Matt Mosiello coached his last high school game at Vista Murrieta High School, but he hasn’t been out of the game completely. Since departing as the head coach for the Broncos, Mosiello is still currently at the school as an special day class teacher and has kept busy complementing his passion for baseball as an instructor at the D-Bat facility in Temecula and coaching showcase baseball for TB SoCal. Mosiello’s resume runs deep on the baseball field and with a recent vacancy opening at Elsinore High School, he has thrown his high school coaching hat back in the ring. Elsinore’s former coach, Chris Jones, took a job in Florida before the COVID-19 pandemic that put a stop to sports for a good portion of 2020. While there was no guarantee that sports would return, the coaching job at Elsinore stayed open for quite some time.

“I knew the position was open, I just wasn’t sure if my schedule would allow for it,” Mosiello said, who will be going into his 19th season as a head high school coach. “Elsinore has great facilities, and I am looking forward to the challenge of turning Elsinore into a top-notch program.”

As a special education teacher

Mosiello is going into his 26th year, but takes much pride reflecting on where his career started, which was at Mayfair High school in Lakewood. Mayfair also just happens to be where he coached current Los Angeles Dodger phenom Justin Turner, who was a three-time All-Suburban first team honoree as a shortstop and second baseman. Turner hit .514 in league play as a senior, earning most valuable player honors en route to a league title.

“Between high school and travel ball, I have coached over onehundred guys who have gone on to play baseball either in college or professionally,” Mosiello, who has won over 300 games as a head coach, said.

Before coaching at Vista Murrieta, Mosiello also coached at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, took home a 2001 CIF Championship, was the 2001 CIF Coach of the Year and the 2003 OC Register Coach of the Year and was the very first coach to take the reigns at Murrieta Mesa High School when they opened.

Elsinore High School was founded in 1891 and is one of the oldest schools in Riverside County. Mosiello said he is looking forward to the day when Elsinore can start practicing.

“I know we can start conditioning now, but I don’t want my first meetings with the program to be

Matt Mosiello, seen here in 2017 with his son Andrew, who is now pitching at the University of Oregon, becomes the new head coach at Elsinore High School for the 2020-2021 season.

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conditioning. I want to practice and help them become the best student athletes they can become,” he said.

CIF announced its plans for the 2020-2021 athletic calendar this past July. Rather than canceling it, the commission decided to push back fall sports and create a two-season schedule. The fall season will start at the initial winter season start time and the spring season will consist of 10 sports.

Accommodating these changes, CIF has decided to standardize all seasons a maximum of 72 days; however, there is no change in the amount of competitions teams are allowed to participate in.

Section championships will continue as usual but Regional and State Championships will be streamlined to no longer than one week once Southern Section Championships have concluded.

Fall sports include the traditional

boys’ water polo, girls’ volleyball, cross-country and football, as well as girls’ water polo and boys’ volleyball. The spring season will add soccer, basketball, wrestling, girls’ tennis and girls’ golf to the original spring sports: badminton, swim, baseball, softball and track and field.

JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

Great Oak cross-country gets in non-season work JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

With COVID-19 messing things up for the high school athletics calendar, many programs are taking creative measures, and for local cross-country runners, due to some innovative planning, club competition has begun.

Great Oak High School’s club runners are on a mission during this virus-affected season, with a brand-new batch of runners showing both promise and excitement as they embark on the season and challenge before them. The sixtime defending Division 1 State boys’ team champions lost 6 of its top seven runners from a year ago, but Nathan Lennox and teammate Scott Kiehn showed well at the Desert Twilight Festival earlier in October.

Lennox (18th), a super sophomore, and Kiehn (26th) a senior, enjoyed promising varsity debuts in placing second and third in the team order in the Unattached/Club Boys Sweepstakes Division race at

Great Oak High School’s Nathan Lennox and teammate Scott Kiehn place second and third in the team order of the Unattached/Club Boys Sweepstakes Division race at the 2020 Desert Twilight Festival in Valley News/Courtesy photo Arizona.

the 2020 Desert Twilight Festival in San Tan Valley, Arizona. Despite twins Carson and Cameron Smith not making the trip, due to COVID-19 precautions, nor having David Kankowski available, varsity newcomers Nathan Lennox and Scott Kiehn supported team frontrunner Austin Montez in this outing.

Nathan clocked 15:28 and Scott was timed in 15:42 for the misleading 5,000-meter challenge along a golf course in very warm nighttime conditions. South Temecula Track Club placed third in the race but look for these two rising stars with great attitudes to help continue the Wolfpack tradition.

“Lennox, who had a fourthplace finish in the junior varsity division of the Southwestern League Finals, and has improved dramatically since last season,” Doug Soles, Great Oak head coach, said.

“I trust my training,” said Lennox. “I know Coach Soles is going see CROSS-COUNTRY, page C-2

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Murrieta Mesa’s Mia Golovich wins at Canyon Lake City Golf Tournament JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The sixth annual City of Canyon Lake Golf Championship Tournament took place Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Canyon Lake Golf & Country Club. The two-day event that was open to the public and Canyon Lake residents, included golf, cart fees, prize money and a tournament lunch Saturday, Oct. 3.

Men and women competed separately within different Champion Flights and additional flights were played by gross and by handicap.

The Canyon Lake Golf & Country Club, with the sponsorship of the city and the Canyon Lake POA, hosts the city tournament every year, which is gaining a lot of momentum.

“This is the sixth year of running this tournament,” Joe Kamashian, a tournament organizer, told the media last week. “It was on hold for a couple of years, but we started it back up in 2018. It is a great opportunity to play two rounds of golf at Canyon Lake’s beautiful golf course and compete for the Canyon Lake City Golf Championship for only $150, with

Mia Golovich, who currently attends Murrieta Mesa High School, wins her division of the Canyon Lake City Golf Tournament recently.

prize money and lunch included.”

Local Murrieta Mesa High School girls’ golfer, Mia Golovich, class of 2022, won her division of the Canyon Lake City Golf Tournament over the weekend, which was a stroke play event. Golovich also ended up tied for first place in the Jack Kramer Memorial

Tournament at Los Serranos on the SCPGA Junior Tour two weekends ago.

“After finishing the season in the top nine of the Southwestern League and advancing to the CIF post season last season, Mia has been putting in a lot of offseason work to improve on her sophomore

The sixth annual City of Canyon Lake Golf Championship Tournament takes place over the first weekend of October at the Canyon Lake Golf & Country Club.

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season,” Ryan Ridley, Murrieta Mesa head girls’ golf coach, said.

“She is competing in a lot of tournaments and gaining a lot of experience. I anticipate her being a top performer again for us this coming spring season and within our league.”

The champions will have their names engraved on the perpetual

City Championship Tournament trophy, which is housed at the country club in the front office.

Organizers are anticipating the tournament will resume next year as planned.

JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

World’s top professional female surfers are back in Oceanside for 13th Supergirl Surf Pro JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The World Surf League Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro, the specialty event held in Oceanside, witnessed two action-packed days of competitive surfing. The event featured WSL Championship Tour professional stars alongside surfings’ up and comers in a variety of team and individual heats.

Team California won the overall competition, and Team Lakey won the individual category in 4-6-foot surf. Oceanside 14-year-old, Caitlin Simmers, claimed the win alongside Lakey Peterson in both their team, Team Lakey, win and in the QS division, making Simmers the youngest Super Girl in the event’s history. Alana Nichols and Faith Lennox claimed the iconic Super Girl capes in the adaptive surf competition.

“Today was really fun with the waves getting way bigger and better with that hurricane swell, so Caity (Simmers) just gave me some of that local knowledge and told me where to go,” Peterson said. “There was a ton of opportunity and I think that’s good for competition when surfers can get a lot of waves, but we just kept gaining momentum all day. The future is very bright for Caity if this is what she wants to do.

I think she’s just a phenomenal surfer and everyone’s seen it around the world now.”

“I was pretty nervous being teamed up with Lakey (Peterson) because she’s really good and she’s a really cool person,” Simmers said. “It was great to see all the people here supporting me, I thought that was super nice to have that backing. It also made me a little nervous, but I just went out and surfed my best.

I’m stoked to be on the winning

Caitlin Simmers and Lakey Peterson celebrate their team win at the Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro at Oceanside.

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team and get my first Super Girl cape at home.”

In the Super Girl Pro’s adaptive surfing competition, Alana Nichols and Faith Lennox took out the wins in their respective heats.

Nichols now adds the Super Girl title to her resume alongside her three Paralympic Gold Medals and 2010 Paralympic Sportswoman of the Year title. In only her second time competing at the Super Girl Pro, Lennox claimed her first win following her stellar performance in Oceanside.

“Surfing is my creative outlet,” Nichols said. “Every other sport I’ve done is so linear, it’s so competitive from start to finish. Surfing is so creative, and it just makes me feel so free. I get to leave the wheelchair on the shore and it’s just truly freedom for me.”

“It was so fun,” Lennox said.

“The current was kind of strong and the waves were really pumping, but I loved surfing out there with all my friends and being here with the professional surfers.

Watching them and being a part of Super Girl is just so cool.”

Watch full event replays of the Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro at http://www.supergirlsurfpro. com and http://www.WorldSurfLeague.com. The event will be broadcast on Supergirl Surf Pro throughout the USA from Nov. 20 through Jan. 31. For more information, visit http://www. supergirlsurfpro.com.

The World Surf League, established in 1976, is the home of surfing and is dedicated to changing the world through the inspirational power of surfing by creating authentic events, experiences, and storytelling to inspire a growing, global community to live with purpose, originality and stoke. The WSL is a global organization, headquartered in Santa Monica and with regional offices in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and EMEA. They possess a deep appreciation for the sport’s rich heritage while promoting progression, innovation and performance at the highest levels.

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Oceanside’s Caitlin Simmers becomes the youngest winner in the history of Super Girl Pro at age 14.

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the WSL celebrating the world’s best surfers across all disciplines and annually running more than 180 global contests and crowning the undisputed World Champions across all divisions; WSL WaveCo, where innovation meets experience; and WSL Studios, which offers best in class storytelling across competition, lifestyle and conservation. For more information, visit http://www.

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ASA’s events, featuring skateboarding, freestyle BMX, inline skating, freestyle motocross, snowboarding, skiing, surfing, esports and music, are broadcast domestically on eight networks,

including CBS and FOX Sports, and distributed to more than 700 million HH globally via 30 international broadcast partners.

ASA’s productions span the spectrum from large, international competitions such as the ASA Action Sports World Tour, the World Championships of Freestyle Motocross, the Super Girl Pro Series and the ASA BigAir Triples to amateur contests, lifestyle and branded entertainment events, demonstrations, exhibitions, school programs and mobile tours. After 26 years as a leader in action sports, ASA Entertainment regularly connects brands to consumers through its platform of premium action sports and lifestyle content. For more information, visit http:// www.ASAentertainment.com.

JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

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“It’s great that we finally started racing and I’m very happy with our performance in this race,” Kiehn said, who competed as deep as the CIF-SS Prelims last year for the deep Great Oak program.

“Coach Soles didn’t put too much pressure on us, and I kind of felt accustomed to the fast competition because of the training we did.”

Competing as Newbury Park Athletic Club while “summertime rules” are in effect for California Interscholastic Federation schools during the pandemic calendar, the squad stuffed all five scorers in the finish chute among the first nine finishers in rolling to a lopsided 17-59 victory over an all-star team comprised of runners from multiple Northern California schools; Great Oak runners, competing as South Temecula Track Club, were a distant third with 101 points.

Great Oak’s girls’ runners kicked off their 2020-2021 campaign in victorious fashion, placing four scorers in the top 10 to power a

Great Oak High School’s girls’ runners kick off their 2020-2021 club campaign with four runners scoring in the top 10 to power South Temecula Track Club to a 47-60 victory over Beach Cities Running Club.

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47-60 victory over Beach Cities Running Club, comprised of runners from Mira Costa High.

JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

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EDUCATION

LEUSD presents hybrid learning options to parents No decision yet on timeline for reopening Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Lake Elsinore Unified School District families will be surveyed on their preferences for different plans for a partial return to inperson classes, ahead of a meeting of the district’s board of trustees Thursday, Oct. 22, where reopening plans for elementary, middle and high school students will be voted upon.

District officials presented six different reopening plans – three for elementary school students and two for middle school students and one for high school students – at LEUSD’s Thursday, Oct. 8, virtual board meeting on Zoom.

It was at times a contentious meeting, with several parents calling for a speedier return to inperson learning during the meeting’s public comment section. One viewer, perhaps having forgotten to mute herself, interjected to express her apparent displeasure with the length of the reopening presentations, exclaiming nearly two hours into the meeting: “You guys are the most efficient people on this planet, I swear.”

Despite the wishes of some to head back to classrooms as soon as possible, officials said they were not certain when LEUSD would be able to move into “phase two” of restarting classes in a hybrid distance learning and in-person format.

Part-time, in-person learning is a possibility for discussion because Riverside County dropped from the most-restrictive purple tier in the state’s coronavirus reopening plan to the less-restrictive red tier, Sept. 22.

Schools in Riverside County were allowed to reopen with health restrictions after 14 days out of the purple tier, a milestone that came Oct. 6, the same day as the meeting. However, based on health data released Oct. 6, the county faces the risk of falling back into the purple tier.

Riverside County’s coronavirus positivity rate as of Oct. 6 of 5% is in the red tier, but the county’s case rate has ticked up to 6.8 positive cases per 100,000 people, which the state adjusted to 7.6 cases per 100,000 due to the county’s lowerthan-average rate of testing. Seven positive cases per 100,000 is the benchmark for moving back into the purple tier, and the county will be redesignated in that tier if it has

similar numbers of positive cases by the time the state issues its next report on county case rates, which is scheduled for Oct. 13.

Because of the possibility of Riverside County reverting to the purple tier, Tracy Sepulveda, assistant superintendent of personnel support services for LEUSD, said, “We are unsure when we will return to phase two, but we do acknowledge that we must be prepared.”

Sepulveda said there are three things the district will need to know before it can decide on which models to use for reopening when the matter is discussed Oct. 22: the results of a survey of parents’ preferences, the number of students wishing to remain in distance learning and the number of staff wishing to continue with distance learning and working.

Rita Post, director of elementary education and instruction, presented the three choices parents will be given for elementary schools.

Each plan for elementary students is an “a.m./p.m.” cohort model, in which one group of students will be sent to school in the morning and another will attend school in the afternoon, minimizing the number of students on campus at any given time. Students will still participate in a period of asynchronous learning – that is, learning that does not take place in real time with an instructor – during the part of the day when they are not on campus.

The schedule would allow a transition time between the two groups of students, giving teachers a 30-minute lunch and a 30-minute “prep” period, as well as allowing for classrooms to be cleaned and disinfected.

This first option would have most students be phased in to the a.m./p.m. model from their current all-online learning model over a four-week period, with two grade levels starting each week, according to Post.

This learning model would allow 150 minutes per day of synchronous learning with an instructor for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten and first grade students, and 145 minutes per day for higher grade levels.

There would be no lunch or recess, though students would, depending on their cohort time, collect either their lunch for the current day or for the next day after they leave class.

The second option is precisely the same except for the timing – students would be phased into part-time in-person classes over seven weeks instead of four, with one grade level returning each week.

Both of the first two options would have staggered start and stop times, so that not all students would be coming and going from campus at the same time.

The third option would lower the amount of synchronous learning time to 120 minutes, and would not have staggered start and stop times.

All three options would enable students to be on campus for a portion of the day for all five days of the school week.

Steve Behar, director of child welfare and attendance, presented two models for middle school students’ return to campuses.

The first is a morning block schedule, in which students are divided into two groups and come to campus two days a week.

The first group would attend class periods 1, 4 and 6 for Monday mornings and periods 2, 4 and 6 for Tuesday mornings, while the second group would instead attend those classes Thursdays and Fridays, with Wednesdays being a distance learning day for all students.

Students would attend about 80-minute class periods and be off campus by about noon, Behar said, allowing ample time in the afternoon to clean and sanitize desks and classrooms. Students would also have a 45-minute period of asynchronous learning after they leave campus.

The second option would be for students to attend classes in a “three-by-three” block schedule, in which students would only attend three different classes for an entire quarter and attend three more classes the next quarter, rather than attend six classes simultaneously.

This model would be closer to the elementary a.m./p.m. model, with one group attending classes in the morning and the other in the afternoon, five days per week.

In this model, students would have approximately 47-minute class periods, then would have another 90 minutes of asynchronous learning or 30 minutes per class, before or after they leave campus, depending on their cohort group.

The gap between morning and

Lake Elsinore Unified plans to survey parents on various plans to restart classes part-time before a vote Thursday, Oct. 22, though no timeline for when reopening may occur has yet been established.

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afternoon students would last from about 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Behar said, allowing an hour and 15 minutes for cleaning of classrooms.

One large potential drawback to this plan, according to Alain Guevara, assistant superintendent of administrative and instructional technology support services, is that it may leave students liable to forgetting information between ending one course and starting a new one in the same subject.

“With only three courses per quarter, one of the cons could be that the students would lack the necessary skills, because if I have algebra first period and it’s in the third quarter,” Guevara said, “I may not remember that material in the following fall when I need to apply for the next sequential level of math because I haven’t had it for the whole year; I’ve only had it for that period of time.”

Brian Deis, director of secondary curriculum, instruction and assessment for LEUSD, presented only one part-time reopening plan for high school students, although he said others would be shared with the board before a final decision is made.

“We have been working … with a group of administrators from our three comprehensive high schools as well as teachers and a counselor from those same high schools and as we have been progressing through this and reviewing different schedules we’ve been trying to keep in mind obviously the restrictions we have in place from the health department but also what we’re hearing from our teachers, what we’re hearing from our stu-

dents and what we’re hearing from our parents,” Deis said. “The one I would like to show today amongst the ones that are going to be shared with the board is very similar to what the middle school is looking at at sample two, and that’s a threeby-three block schedule.”

Deis said in that plan, high school students would, just as in the middle school plan three-bythree plan, have three classes per quarter instead of six, attending classes in either an a.m. or p.m. cohort.

Class would start Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:30 a.m. and end at 10:25 a.m. for morning students, and it would start at 11:35 a.m. and end at 2:30 p.m. on those days for afternoon students. Class periods will last about 55 minutes, Deis said.

Just as in the other a.m./p.m. plans, students will take part in asynchronous learning during the part of the day when they are not on campus, with about 25 minutes of asynchronous class time for each period, or 75 minutes total per day.

On Wednesdays, the morning students would not arrive until 8:45 a.m., compressing the schedule for the day.

As with the other a.m.-p.m. plans, students would grab their lunches for the current or following day while leaving school, depending on their cohort.

District officials said students who wish to continue in a distance learning format could do so.

LEUSD’s board will vote on the various reopening plans Oct. 22.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

TVUSD makes tentative plans to restart in-person elementary classes Nov. 30

Temecula Valley Unified School District board members discuss tentative plans for restarting in-person classes at their Oct. 6 meeting.

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Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board of education Tuesday, Oct. 6, gave its superintendent the green light to move forward with tentative plans to restart classes for elementary school students in a modified format as soon as the end of next month, assuming Riverside County does not see an uptick in its coronavirus caseload – something that is less than certain at the moment.

Superintendent Jodi McClay requested the board’s permission to plan for sending most elementary students back to classrooms in parttime cohorts “no sooner than Nov. 30,” with plenty of safety precautions such as masks and plexiglass barriers at desks.

McClay, balancing health guidelines with the wishes of parents who want their children to return to classrooms full-time, expressed that the situation is far from ideal.

“We would love nothing more than to be back to normal, with kids in school five days a week, experiencing schools as we all work so hard to create our schools to be,” McClay

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said. “Unfortunately, as a public school district, though, we must follow state and county directives. That is not a choice for us.”

There will be an option for parents to keep their children in an all-online learning format if they so desire, McClay said.

The potential return to classrooms is made possible by the fact that Riverside County dropped from the most-restrictive purple tier in the state’s coronavirus reopening plan to the less-restrictive red tier, Sept. 22.

Schools in Riverside County were allowed to reopen with health restrictions after 14 days out of the purple tier, a milestone that came Oct. 6, the same day as the meeting. Based on health data released Oct. 6, however, the county faces the risk of falling back into the purple tier next week.

Riverside County’s coronavirus positivity rate as of Oct. 6 of 5% falls in the red tier, but the county’s case rate has ticked up to 6.8 positive cases per 100,000 people, which the state adjusted to 7.6 cases per 100,000 due to the county’s lowerthan-average rate of testing. Seven positive cases per 100,000 is the benchmark for moving back into the purple tier, and the county will

be redesignated in that tier if it has similar numbers of positive cases by the time the state issues its next report on county case rates, which is scheduled for Oct. 13.

McClay acknowledged that uncertainty in presenting the district’s plans to prepare for a possible reopening Nov. 30, even if students end up not being able to actually return to classrooms on that date.

“In other words, we will be ready instructionally as well as with safety and health protocols for a return Nov. 30,” McClay said.

That restart date is actually much earlier than other districts in Riverside County. Most districts are planning to send all students back to physical campuses in modified formats no earlier than January, McClay said. Riverside Unified, Desert Sands Unified and Murrieta Valley Unified are the only other districts planning to send elementary school students back in November – McClay said TVUSD is closely coordinating its reopening plans with Murrieta Valley.

Under the reopening plan presented by McClay, elementary school students will attend school in an “a.m./p.m.” format, with onehalf of a teacher’s students attending class for two-and-a-half hours in the morning, and the other half attending class for the same period of time in the afternoon, with about 40 minutes in between the two groups to allow for cleaning.

Students would participate in virtual learning for the other half of the day, and Mondays would be an all-online day for all students, McClay said.

Children will be divided into their a.m./p.m. groups based on their last names in alphabetical order, McClay said, although the split between a.m. and p.m. groups will vary for each class to keep class sizes uniform.

She said the district will do its best

to group all siblings into the same schedules.

Under the plan presented by McClay, secondary school students will not return to classrooms until Jan. 5, the start of TVUSD’s spring semester.

She said while that may sound like a large gap between primary and secondary students’ return to campuses, it really is not much time.

Secondary students will be returning in a cohort model in which they will only attend physical classes two days a week, and so they will only be missing out on six days of in-person learning between Nov. 30 and Jan. 5, McClay said.

It would be difficult to send secondary students back any earlier, she said, “primarily because of the master schedule and changing each student’s entire course load with their teacher assignments three weeks before the end of the semester is disastrous for our students, for our teachers, for everything.”

Over the nearly two months leading up to Nov. 30, the district will take steps such as conducting negotiations with labor associations, holding conferences with parents and creating informational videos for families to prepare for the return to classrooms.

While all five board members gave their approval to the timeline, two board members questioned some of the safety precautions McClay said would be implemented.

Board member Julie Farnbach said she was surprised to see that plexiglass barriers would be put in place in elementary classrooms.

“I think that’s overkill,” Farnbach said. “If they’re gonna have a mask on, they shouldn’t need the plexiglass for every minute.”

And while the state mandates that students in third grade and up wear masks, McClay said it was district staff’s recommendation that TVUSD

go a step farther and require masks for all students.

Farnbach and board member Barbara Brosch both were skeptical of the mask requirement for younger students.

“I would like to see TK through second grade not have masks on,” Brosch said. “I don’t know if you see them but especially with the standard masks covering, they are practically covering their eyes.

They’re small.”

Brosch also said she was concerned masks would make it difficult for younger students “to communicate if something’s wrong” by obscuring their facial expressions.

Farnbach said she worried masks for kindergarten through second grade students would impact their ability to learn language skills.

“My objection to plexiglass and masks I guess is the crossroads of mental health and language learning,” Farnbach said. “Once you learn to read and you read to learn, bring on the masks; that makes sense. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have any protection, but there are significant reasons for wanting flexibility there.”

However, the other three members, Sandy Hinkson, Kristi RutzRobbins and Lee Darling, agreed that if masks and plexiglass are necessary to make staff feel safe, they are worth it.

“On the plexiglass and the mask situation, I kind of look at both of these in the same vein in that a major component of us getting back to school is both our classified and certificated staff feeling safe coming back,” Darling said. “So while personally I don’t feel that they are necessary, if it is necessary to make somebody feel more comfortable and get our kids back to school, I certainly support that.”

Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

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EDUCATION MVUSD votes to offer hybrid learning model to students in November, January Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

The Murrieta Valley Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved the district staff’s proposal to reopen school campuses to students with a hybrid learning model in addition to a virtual learning model.

With a 5-0 vote, the board will move forward with a plan in which families will have the option of choosing between the two learning models.

The board received 135 letters from members of the community regarding the issue and though they didn’t hear all of the comments submitted for the meeting, most were posted for the public to read on the district’s website and provided to board members beforehand, and there were arguments for both sides of the issue.

As it stands, students in grades transitional kindergarten through fifth grade can begin returning to campuses Nov. 16, and middle and high schoolers would come back Jan. 11, 2021.

Superintendent Patrick Kelley opened the presentation of the district’s new in-person instruction models for the 2020-2021 school year and passed it off to Faythe Mutchnick, MVUSD’s executive director of elementary instruction.

She gave a presentation on the hybrid model proposal and said half of the students will be on campus for in-person learning in the morning and the other half will attend in the afternoon from Tuesday through Friday.

She said students will stay in the same classroom with the same students in the cohort model, face coverings are mandatory for grades 3 and higher, and strongly encouraged for students in TK through grade 2.

Mutchnick said social distancing is required for students. There will be plexiglass shields at each desk with modified recesses and breaks, and weekly meal programs will

During a teleconference meeting of the Murrieta Valley Unified School District board of education Thursday, Oct. 8, district staff present a plan to bring students to school campuses in the near future with hybrid learning models for elementary and secondary schools.

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continue and will be available for pickup.

She said the sharing of materials or supplies will be limited, and independent work will be assigned to all students when they are not in-person on campus.

During registration from Oct. 1423, families will be given a choice of either the virtual learning or hybrid learning model.

Mutchnick said teacher assignments may change based on staffing and family registration for virtual or hybrid models, and if virtual learning is selected, those students will be committed to staying in that model for the rest of the school year.

For families that choose the hybrid model with more than one student in the same school, those students will be placed in the same session, either morning or afternoon.

Students who utilize before and after school child care will be contacted about modified plans when they are available. Busses will be available for students in need of transportation.

For secondary school students in grades six through 12, virtual learning will continue for the remainder of first semester to avoid detrimental impacts to student credits, graduation status and A through G requirements, according to Jennifer Schriver, MVUSD’s executive di-

rector of secondary education.

Only students targeted for instruction and support will be participating in in-person services. The tutoring service, Paper, will be available for students all day every day. Face coverings are mandatory for all students and staff with social distancing in place and plexiglass at desks and workstations.

The second-semester plan includes a hybrid in-person and virtual schedule.

According to Schriver, in the hybrid model, each student will have six or seven different classes two days per week and will work independently the other three days of the week.

While on campus and transitioning between classes, sanitization will be required and teachers and class schedules will change significantly.

Like with elementary grades, families will have to decide whether to join the hybrid model or continue with virtual learning, and those choices will be permanent for the remainder of this school year.

They are planning on holding registration sometime around Oct. 26 to Nov. 6, according to Schriver.

For students choosing virtual learning, there will be limited choices for elective classes, which means those students could not participate in CTE, drama, choir,

band and ASB classes.

Hybrid model students will attend school on days that coincide with the classes they have chosen.

The district’s athletics department is working with the California Department of Public Health and CIF to determine permissible activities during this time.

The presentation covered protective measures, such as hand sanitizer stations throughout the school district, portable hand-washing stations in common areas throughout the campuses and on playgrounds, as well as desk shields installed on desks that are spaced to 6 feet.

All campuses will have water bottle fillers, hand-washing stations inside classrooms will be equipped with hand sanitizer and sanitizing surface cleaner.

As far as personal protective equipment that the district has, they have obtained 3,000 washable cloth face coverings, 200,000 adult and 100,000 child-sized disposable face coverings, 80,000 NK95 and 10,000 N95 face coverings, 3,000 adult plastic face shields, 6,000 child-size plastic face shields, 18,000 desk shields, 2,000 plexiglass shields for teachers desks and a supply of gloves.

Staff members will be required to do a self-screen, take their temperature before coming to work and report the results when they arrive.

Parents are asked to screen their children each day before school and provide two local emergency contacts.

Face coverings will be required at all district sites and schools.

Classrooms will be disinfected between hybrid in-person sessions, specifically high contact areas in classrooms such as doorknobs, panic bars, door handles, tables, student desk, student chairs, desk shields, equipment, devices, sinks and dispensers. Common areas throughout each campus will be cleaned throughout the day.

Student restrooms will be cleaned and sanitized every hour once students arrive on campus and will be

serviced and sanitized between sessions. Trash cans will be emptied, dispensers restocked and the floors will be swept and mopped.

The district will continue to participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture program and will provide weekly meal packs of five breakfasts and five lunches which will be distributed every Thursday at all school sites. Each enrolled student can have one meal pack per week through the end of December.

With busing, staff members have undergone extensive training on cleaning and sanitizing buses, which will take place throughout the day and at the end of the day.

Students will have an assigned seat and siblings from the same household will be seated together.

Students who forget to bring their face coverings will be provided one by the bus driver, who will also be wearing personal protective equipment.

Staff also covered the processes for positive COVID-19 cases at each school site, which includes communication, contact tracing, quarantining and cleaning, and outlined the district’s reporting procedure.

When it comes to the closure of a school site due to COVID-19 exposure, staff said that if a staff or student at a school or district site tests positive for COVID-19, that classroom may need to shift to virtual learning.

If a school or district site experiences a 5% positivity COVID-19 rate, a school may need to shift to virtual learning, and if 25% or more of district schools close due to positive COVID-19 cases, all district schools may need to shift to virtual learning.

To read the full presentation by MVUSD staff, visit https://agendaonline.net/public/Meeting.aspx?Age ncyID=230&MeetingID=80500&A gencyTypeID=1&IsArchived=False and click on the “Return to In-Person Instruction Presentation” attachment under Item C6 on the agenda.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

Riverside County superintendent of schools to retire Nov. 1

Judy D. White, Ph.D., is retiring as Riverside County superintendent of schools as of Nov. 1. Valley News/Courtesy photo

District. During her six years working with the 3,400 employees and 33,000 students at MVUSD, White increased graduation rates in Riverside County’s third largest district by 20.5% while leading the district to notable achievements and awards on a county, state and national level.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Occidental College, a master’s degree in education from California State University

San Bernardino and a doctorate in educational leadership from Azusa Pacific University. She is a resident of Beaumont.

The elected Riverside County superintendent of schools serves as both the CEO of the Riverside County Office of Education and the superintendent of schools for the county’s preschool through 12th grade segment of that system – the fourth largest in the state.

The county superintendent leads the more than 1,700 employees at RCOE in working with each of the county’s 430,000 students, almost 18,000 classrooms, 515 schools and 23 school districts to help ensure all students receive a high quality education, graduate from high school well prepared for college, the workforce and civic responsibility.

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“When I was a young girl, teachers and educators helped me believe that I could accomplish great things and encouraged me to develop my voice. Over the last four decades, I have enjoyed listening to the voices of our students and helping them find theirs – an essential role that educators play in the lives of students and something I will continue to practice within our community,” Judy White, Ph.D., Riverside County superintendent of schools, said. “I inherited a great organization at RCOE when I was appointed in 2017, and I expect that momentum to continue with the next county superintendent who will take the lead in serving our students and educators in a pivotal point in history for our public schools.”

White will transition into and focus on her nonprofit organization, MOSAIC – Multicultural, Optimistic, Support, Aspiring, Inspiring, Called – which is aimed at addressing equity and justice issues within the community. In addition, she intends to spend more time with her church family and her extended family, including her recently born 10th grandchild. She will also be the first Senior Fellow to join the team of the Leading with Empathy Lab. The mission of the Leading with Empathy Lab is to learn and share common stories and lessons from the history of freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad and beyond. In addition, this lab will be a clearinghouse of ideas centered on empathy to increase equity in the community.

After being appointed as Riverside County superintendent of

schools in January 2017 and subsequently elected by voters in 2018, White led Riverside County school districts and the Riverside County Office of Education to deepen their focus on equity, graduation rates, college/career readiness, civic engagement and servant leadership.

The high school graduation rate rose to 90.1%, representing the highest rate in county history, and the highest rate among the largest counties in California. Initiatives and programs were launched to increase the college-going rate, enhance access to financial aid, reduce chronic absences, and establish a robust countywide visual and performing arts offering.

Uniting schools, businesses, places of worship, nonprofits and government leaders was the purpose of the first Unity Conference held in 2018. The Student Unity Conference held in 2019 attracted hundreds of high school students to develop leadership skills and exercise their voice to shape their future.

The Adopt-A-School program connected more than 1,900 local businesses and community organizations with more than 300 schools to provide everything from school supplies and student awards to computers and scholarships for field trips.

More than 1,000 interns were connected with employers for onthe-job experience and training including career and technical positions at local businesses, government offices and at the Riverside County Office of Education.

The Million Deliberate Acts of Kindness campaign was launched to promote and inspire a positive school culture and healthy communities throughout Riverside County.

“All For One,” bridging the digital divide, secured more than $10 million in funding to provide computers, tablets, and mobile hot spot devices to students and families to ensure consistent access to distance learning.

White started her K-12 educational career as a classified staff member assisting the principal at San Bernardino High School. She earned her teaching credential and taught in multiple settings within the San Bernardino City Unified School District. She has served as a principal, assistant superintendent and deputy superintendent within SBCUSD before being selected in 2011 as the superintendent of the Moreno Valley Unified School

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FAITH

Why we still need church

Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The famous Shakespearian line “to be or not to be” is loosely said by millions of people every single week. I just reworded it a little to say “to go or not to go.” I’m sure you’ve said it. Haven’t you? I know I have.

If you’re not sure, let me clarify the context. Every single week you ask yourself this question, as a somewhat Shakespearian dilemma, by deciding if you’re going to go to church or not. “To go or not to go.”

In the process, people often reason with themselves why they shouldn’t go. Justifying it by having other things to do, telling themselves they deserve a day off or they can watch online.

Sometimes they’ll even tell themselves they don’t need to go.

Gasp!

Now let me be honest. The next few sentences are going to be a little uncomfortable for some people. Not all, but some.

I’m talking to the person who can do everything else but go to church. The one who can go to the beach, camping, the store, golfing, family parties, work, restaurants, get a pedicure, go fishing and more, but they can’t attend church.

Let me use the words of the apostle Paul to help you understand where I’m coming from.

When he wrote to the church in Corinth, he said, “I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children,” in 1 Corinthians 4:14.

I write this message with the same heart, to warn you. You need to faithfully attend, serve in and participate in your local church.

The nation isn’t just in a COVID-19 pandemic. As serious as that is, the problem is much greater than that one.

It is experiencing a spiritual pandemic. And if people are not careful, they’ll give the enemy a foothold.

They need a spiritual awakening in their lives, their families and the nation. They need God to move in their hearts so that they long to be in his presence, with his people fulfilling his purpose.

It starts with you.

Let me give you 11 reasons why

people still need it, the church of the living God, when the world wants to reject it.

1. Jesus died for the church.

In Ephesians 5:25-27, “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”

2. Jesus is unstoppable in building his church. It’s his eternal mission.

In Matthew 16:18, Jesus said, “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”

3. Jesus made the church the pillar of truth in a world full of lies.

In 1 Timothy 3:15, “You will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.”

4. Jesus commands us to participate in building the church in every nation.

In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus said, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

5. Jesus doesn’t want us to aban-

don the church.

In Hebrews 10:25, “Let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.”

6. Jesus is present when the church family is together.

In Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

7. Jesus fills us with a joy for his house when we worship together.

In Psalm 84:10, “A single day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else! I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.”

8. Jesus strengthens our faith when we hear the scriptures taught.

In Romans 10:17, “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”

9. Jesus blesses us when we live together in unity.

In Psalm 133:1-3, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down on the collar of his robe. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion.

For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.”

10. Jesus wants the church to remember his death, burial and resurrection.

In 1 Corinthians 11:26, “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

11. Jesus is coming for us, His church.

In Revelation 22:12-17, “Look, I am coming soon. My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.”

Zachary Elliott is the lead pastor of Fusion Christian Church in Temecula. For more information, visit https://www.fusionchristianchurch.com, https://fourminutefaithbuilder.com or find them on Instagram.

no longer speaks to our spiritually questing hearts and souls.”

Mitzvot, which guide our Jewish lives, might be considered the heart of Judaism, epitomized by our external actions as they are lived in the day to day. On the other hand, we discover something very different when we encounter the soul of Judaism. Halacha, Jewish law and practice, developed as a way to help us direct our heart toward our soul.

There are tensions, however, between the heart and soul of Judaism, which are constantly bubbling under and above the surface. Each succeeding generation inherits a complex balancing act between: the heart of tradition and the soul of innovation, status quo and change, stability and evolution.

Where is the proper balance for those seeking a genuine expression

of a meaningful Judaism in our life?

Is our only choice strict adherence to an ancient recipe or throwing the recipe away altogether as illustrated

by Yankele’s story? Mustn’t there be more than either-or? I believe that grappling with this question points the way toward a deeply spiritual search for the very soul of Judaism: A journey that offers opportunities for meaningful discovery, chances to engage in thoughtful study and the serious contemplation of choices.

“Ma Tovu Ohaleicha Ya’acov,” are familiar words from our liturgy, taken from the Torah: “How beautiful are your tents O Jacob, Your dwelling places O Israel.” The heart of Judaism, with its emphasis on behavior, is a place of structures and boundaries. To embrace the soul of

The Meaning of the Sabbath

Rabbi Marc Rubenstein SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Yankel, a traditional Jew, kisses his family in the shtetl goodbye as he sets out to make his fortune in the bright new world – America. A year later, his mother comes to be with him in New York. She takes one look

at him in disbelief, “Yankele, what happened to your beard and pay’as?”

“Mama,” her devoted son replied, “This is America. I have to fit in to be successful. And, by the way, call me Jack.”

“Oy, but kosher, you still eat kosher, don’t you?” she asked.

“Mama, I mix with all kinds of people these days, my clients and associates. I can’t keep kosher in my circles,” he said.

The mother sighed, “But at least the holy Sabbath, you still observe Shabbas?”

“Mama, Saturday is the biggest shopping day of the week. I would lose my business in a minute if I didn’t work on Saturday,” he said.

“Yankele, tell me, are you still circumcised?!” she asked.

This joke speaks to a profound issue we continue to tackle as Amer-

ican Jews: How is who we are connected to what we do, how we behave? One used to be able to say: Jews do this and don’t do that. Such clear-cut delineations no longer exist. Many individuals are concerned about the integrity of their Jewish actions. To be called a Jew, people want to know what is expected of them, how to behave, how to observe to be “truly” Jewish. Can I do this? Should I do that? What is the right way?

In his book, “Dancing with God,” Rabbi Wayne Dosick said that “there has been a dramatic awakening to the knowledge that the universe is so much more than we can see, feel, hear, or experience at this moment in time....The once comfortable world of Rabbinic Judaism is no longer enough for most of us… Its insistence on the primacy of the law

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Suspending the Constitution Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

tive branch.

“Executive orders issued under that act are of no continuing legal effect. This order is effective upon entry,” Last month we reported on a Pennsylvania judge who recognized their governor’s lockdown as unconstitutional. These decisions will be coming down across the country.

This is why we need judges who are constitutional where evidence is examined and cross examined.

What the Pennsylvania judge found is that there wasn’t good reason for the lockdowns.

Is it ok to go to WalMart but shutter mom and pop stores? It’s safe to go to a casino but not a church?

The state was not able to prove that gatherings had been super spreaders.

Across the country, our state and federal courts were turning a blind eye, but this judge pointed out that there was no evidence for the lockdowns and in our history we had never suspended our constitution for any reason.

The evidence produced by the state was weak to non-existent, internally contradictory and didn’t make sense, while the counter evidence was overwhelming. The mitigation didn’t make sense and seemed more like a theoretical white paper being imposed on the people of Pennsylvania. Then there was the policy of forcing people back into nursing homes to infect the rest which was deadly.

The judge pointed out a quarantine is supposed to be specific for people who are actually sick, or mentally ill.

What was the state of Pennsylvania’s defense? They argued that there is no fundamental right for residents to make a living to support families or themselves. What happened to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Thank goodness the judge based his decision on the Constitution.

He ruled there is a right to make a living and assemble, to work and residents did have rights that could

not be suspended in the name of an emergency or declared invalid by the branch of any government.

He further stated, “The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair weathered freedoms. The Constitution cannot accept a new normal where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to emergency mitigation measures.

The Constitution sets lines and these actions cross those lines.”

Why is this important? Our Governor Newsom will be in court on Oct. 21 as well. His emergency powers were supposed to end after about 40 days, not go indefinitely, according to our California Office of Emergency Services. The lawsuit filed by two Republican Senators claims he’s overstepped his boundaries and is acting as a monarch rather than a governor.

Rep. Kiley claims Newsome has made one emergency declaration which has lasted months, rather than days, issued 46 executive orders and changed over 400 laws – overriding local districts, ignoring the Legislature, and obviating many more laws.

Kiley wrote, “Of the 400 laws he’s amended, suspended, or overhauled since declaring a State of Emergency on March 4, each one was duly enacted through the legislative process set out in the Constitution. And each one was undone by Newsom with the stroke of a pen.

He’s also created countless new laws out of whole cloth – something not even the Emergency Services Act allows.

Our constitution was founded in the middle of crisis and survived seven different smallpox epidemics, the Spanish Flu, the Asian Flu, the Swine Flu, Civil War, WWI and WWII and throughout all of them we never suspended our constitutional rights or liberties until 2020.

Mayors and governors across the country suspended for the first time in history our rights and banned peaceful assembly and declared assembly itself illegal whether it was for school, business, church, redress

of government, etc..

How did we get here?

According to attorney Robert Barnes of Barnes Law, LLP, there were three court cases between 1905 and 1945 where the U.S. Supreme Court left some seeds of these ideas looking to a time when we would need to “suspend the Constitution.”

The seeds of problems of current jurisprudence, according to Blake, start with Jacobsen vs. Massachusetts in 1905, where an immigrant argued that before a vaccine was forced on him as a prerequisite for citizenship, it should be tested by scientific evidence at trial before he was forced to take it.

The court deferred to the executive branch and the Court upheld the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws. The Court’s decision articulated the view that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the police power of the state.

Two decades later that decision was used in the Buck decision in the south where it was used to force sterilization on women across the south to force eugenics. We have a constitution. We don’t defer to people in lab coats.

Then there was the disastrous Korematsu decision.

Fred Korematsu refused to obey the wartime order to leave his home and report to a relocation camp for Japanese Americans. He was arrested and convicted. After losing in the Court of Appeals, he appealed to the United States Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the deportation order.

Their rights were suspended, their jobs taken from them and their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness gone. They lost their Constitutional rights based on their ancestry. Now Korematsu has been spread across the entire country.

Another example overseas was the great Weimar Republic of Germany, which was celebrated as one of the great constitutions of European history. However, it failed because

there was a clause that allowed them to suspend their Constituion during an emergency, which was how Nazi Germany was birthed and WWII. Those ideas of suspending the constitution have proven disastrous.

There are lawsuits happening across the country, as it should be.

This is the proper way to handle problems and arguments. Not riots, not looting.

Also, there have been tens of thousands of doctors, epidemiologists and scientists that have been organizing and speaking out against the “science.” They believe the lockdowns are detrimental not only to our health but also the collateral damage is devastating and we will be dealing with more cancer and hunger that will fall disproportionately on the poor around the world.

This was first talked about in our state by some local doctors and then a larger group of doctors who were made fun of and banned from YouTube and Facebook. Now even an official from the World Health Organization has come out this week against lockdowns.

Then there is the Great Barrington Declaration, started by top epidemiologists from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard with over 24,000 doctors, over 9000 scientists and public health officials and over 400,000 concerned citizens signing it around the world in just a few days.

There is another group of European Union doctors who have the backing of thousands of doctors and scientists as well based out of Germany that we reported on last month.

This isn’t going away. It is common to label anyone who questions authority or the status quo as a conspiracy theorist or a long list of other pejoratives, but the tide is turning and it is important to listen to a variety of voices and not shut people out based on preconceived ideas, narratives and ideologies.

And above all else, we need to stick to the Constitution and not give politicians permission to suspend our Constitutional rights.

People often speak of the small town feel in Temecula. The mostly idyllic community embraces family values above all else and reveres annual parades, countless community events, schools, military families and a reputation as one of America’s safest cities. Residents enjoy gathering as a community in the gorgeous parks, places of worship and bustling downtown. On the surface, one would think that Temecula is the perfect city. Taking an evening neighborhood stroll will only solidify this belief. One would see American flags proudly flying on countless front porches, children riding bikes in the street and neighbors sharing stories as the sun sets on another beautiful day in Temecula.

It’s quite easy to love Temecula.

When Temecula and the rest of California was asked to stay home to help stop the spread of COVID-19, most people did their part and stayed home. They trusted in the science and belief that they needed to act selflessly and in the spirit of togetherness to bend the curve.

They wouldn’t fully understand COVID-19 and the impacts that would

ultimately descend on Temecula for many months.

It didn’t take long for the community’s pristine surface to show distress. Perhaps the financial stress started to impact people. Many nonessential businesses shuttered their doors. The stress that many children were missing critical time in school was devastating. Families were unsure if their children would even return to school for the remainder of the school year.

How would people care for their children’s daily needs and go to work? Would the federal, state and local government step in and help?

The answer was yes. The CARES Act was a $2.2 trillion economic relief package which included direct payments to families. Many California businesses received relief in the form of paycheck protection loans, sales tax deferrals and grant assistance from local governments. Temecula committed $500,000 in grants to support local businesses through the Temecula Assist program. However, all this governmental support wasn’t enough. Their daily lives were upended and people started to

push back against the stay-at-home orders.

As a community, residents barely made it six weeks before they started demanding the economy reopen. The common refrain was all businesses are essential. Some citizens threatened civil disobedience if business would not open. Several rallies to “open Temecula” or declare Temecula as a “sanctuary city for businesses” followed. Email campaigns were started, and public comments were submitted to be read at public meetings. At this point, it became clear that the community was in uncharted waters. It’s not that they haven’t experienced trying times before. After all, Temecula battled the Liberty Quarry project and won.

The difference today is that people are fighting amongst themselves.

The response to COVID-19 quickly turned from a public health issue to a political issue. The vitriol spewed online was, and is, deafening. It is nearly impossible to have a productive conversation without someone calling into question decisions made to support public safety. Some residents quickly decried masks as

an affront to their freedom. Emails and public comments flew in by the hundreds opining that health orders were unconstitutional. The city is diverse, and all residents should feel valued. Most residents are concerned with public safety and maintaining roads, parks and public facilities.

These issues are not red versus blue or right versus left. Partisan politics divides the community. Everyone needs to remember that local elected positions are nonpartisan.

I am not a scientist, epidemiologist or health officer. I am an elected official. Not having an educational background in pandemics, I listened and learned as much as possible in a short amount of time. The public’s health and trust is at stake. I value the direction of our public health officials. I trust in science. I lead with reason and a belief that we must care for our most vulnerable, not sacrifice them for the sake of our economy. I have never lived through a global pandemic before, so I proceeded with caution.

Now is the time to rebuild our community and reconnect with our neighbors. I removed myself from

countless social media groups and limit my time online. I spend more time walking, hiking, cooking and enjoying our family. I am listening, reading and learning as much as I can about current events. It is extremely important to stay engaged and form opinions based on reason and facts.

Right now, your community needs you. I encourage you to volunteer.

Connect with community members and share support of a common interest. A community is more than a group of people living in the same area. It is a connection we share with other people. Let us get back to the root of what makes our community a wonderful place to live. We need to stand behind our first responders, our essential workers, our teachers and the many families that are struggling with the pressures of this global pandemic. For our community to once again thrive we need to acknowledge that we are complex and want to be valued. It’s cliche, but we are all in this together. We need you; I need you and your community needs you.

SA B B A TH from page C-6 Judaism, I believe we must cast wide our Jewish tent to include a broad mix of individuals who identify with the Jewish people. What are these metaphoric tent pegs to which we can all agree, which keep Judaism rooted in tradition and without which the entire tent will collapse or blow away? First, let us consider the tent itself.

In Judaism, we affirm the existence of God with the Shema, without requiring a specific belief in God. To be a Jew, one need not interact with or acknowledge the tent, but the tent’s existence, which forms the context of our lives, is not even a question. However, what we do within the tent of Judaism can most fully emerge out of our sacred, covenantal relationship with the divine spirit hovering over us.

The foundation upon which our Jewish communal canopy is built is just as critical as the tent itself. The basis for Jewish life is a commanding sense of community.

Let me suggest now my candidates for the core tent pegs of our Jewish Tent, which reflect Judaism’s eternal soul.

Jewish Celebrations Shabbat and Seasonal Obser-

vances serve as important anchors in our lives and offer us a way of structuring our time in a uniquely Jewish manner. These holidays punctuate our days and weeks with meaning and sanctity.

Ethical Mitzvot Tzedakah/Justice/Compassion/ Helping Poor, disadvantaged and Stranger, Tikkun Olam/Repairing the World. Being God’s partner in the ongoing creation of the world is central to the Jewish understanding of our role in life. Remembering our own experiences as strangers and in slavery, we recognize our power to transform our world by working for the messianic redemption--the establishment of a society based on truth and justice, compassion and integrity; a world at peace. Jews are in the forefront of the work to save the people of Darfur; organizing recent campaigns against torture by our military; and supporting hotel workers rights.

Jewish Time How we celebrate the seasons of our personal lives is significant, too.

As we mark our milestones within a Jewish context, we discover new avenues to filling our days with the joy of living.

Torah Judaism understands the revela-

tion of Torah to be an ongoing process that we can encounter regularly through our study of all the important texts of our tradition. By engaging our sacred texts as individuals, families and community, we come to understand the tremendous power of our people’s accumulated wisdom.

Pikuach Nefesh/the value of life Saving one life is tantamount to saving the entire world according to the Mishnah. Everything we do as Jews should advance the quality of life and never diminish it--our own and others.

Kedushah/Holiness We can release the spark of Kedushah (holiness) in ourselves and everything we do by creating a mindfulness around us. When we eat, as we go about our daily lives, blessings, prayers, and meditations aid us in living with focused attention.

Land of Israel After 2,000 years, the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel has transformed Judaism. While Israeli and Diaspora Jewry are independent and vital centers of Jewish creativity, we recognize our interdependence with one another. Especially now.

We stake our claim for the soul of Judaism when we study, choose and commit on a personal level. Each

Jew must actively articulate his/her understanding of these fundamental “tent pegs.” Rabbi Rami Shapiro once said, “Serious Jews come in all stripes and flavors. Those that aren’t serious come in only one flavor: Bland!”

So let us work together by strengthening the tent pegs now to insure that there will be a sheltering, indeed, vibrant tent for our children and grandchildren. Let those who shall come after us continue to re-

peat these ancient words: “Ma tovu ohaleicha Ya’acov, mishkenoteicha Yisrael; How beautiful are your tents O Jacob, your dwelling places O Israel.”

Ken y’hi ratzon, O God, please let it be so.

Congregation B’nai Chaim is located at 29500 Via Princesa in Murrieta. For more information, visit https://www.bnaichaim.com or find them on Facebook.

What’s the big deal of having Supreme Court justices who base their decisions on the Constitution?

Your rights are protected by the Supreme Court. Not the politicians.

The Founding Fathers had seen tyrannical governments and that’s why they created our freedoms as God given, not granted by politicians who are concerned with their own power.

You have the right of peaceful assembly which is essential to the other rights but stands alone. You have the right to free speech, free press, religious freedom, etc.

No one would think about suspending our Constitution or our Constitutional rights until 2020.

There are lawsuits being fought and won across the U.S. including Pennsylvania, Michigan and California.

Our governor will be in court on Oct. 21 where his powers will be challenged.

A divided Michigan Supreme Court voided emergency health orders issued by Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in response to a lawsuit filed by the Republican-controlled Michigan Legislature that sought to clarify the legality of Whitmer’s actions taken under the Emergency Powers of Governor Act of 1945 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

The ruling came after the high court found on Oct. 2 that the 75-year-old emergency powers act is incompatible with the Michigan Constitution because it unlawfully delegated legislative power to the executive branch. The court also responded to a certified question from the federal court to confirm Whitmer did not have authority past April 30 to make any restrictive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic without the approval of the legisla-

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Brothers from Hemet Unified make 15,000 face shields HEMET – Two students from Western Center Academy in Hemet spent the last six months making over 15,000 face shields and 2,000 pieces of personal protective equipment for various entities in their community and throughout the world.

Zubin Carvalho, 14, and Tenzing Carvalho, 12, started the SoCal Face Shields for Frontline Workers in March with the idea of making a few dozen face shields for friends and family in the medical field when the health equipment was hard to obtain. They were contacted by other entities and began to expand their operations.

When requests continued to come in, the brothers worked with their principal and assistant principal to use the school’s 3-D printers to keep up with the demand. The Carvalho brothers utilized their contacts through the robotics team as students from Moreno Valley and Heritage High School began printing shields and schools throughout Hemet Unified School District began lending their 3-D printers to the cause.

To date, the Carvalho brothers have donated face shields and other personal protective equipment to health care workers, teachers and staff, postal workers, farmworkers, emergency personnel, volunteers, food and custodial workers, nursing homes, Lideres Campesinas in Coachella and all Riverside County election workers. Donations have been sent all throughout California, Washington, New Jersey, New York, England, the Philippines and Tanzania. Their efforts have been published through Los Angeles Times, Scripps National Network, Press-Enterprise, NBC Palm Springs and Asia News. These features have helped the brothers obtain materials and volunteers to meet their requested needs.

In addition, the Carvalho brothers were asked to speak to the Riverside County Office of Education’s management leadership team during their quarterly meeting recently. The meeting, which was held virtually due to COVID-19, allowed staff to ask the brothers questions about their

Zubin Carwalho, right, 14, and Tenzing Carvalho, 12, of Western Center Academy in Hemet package some of the 15,000 face shields and 2,000 pieces of personal protective equipment they made. Valley News/ C ou rtesy p h oto

efforts and gain a better understanding of their process in making these items. For example, they make different shields for medical workers to allow for more room for respirators and goggles. This

Temecula Valley Hospital offers the EBUS procedure for lung cancer diagnosis

Temecula Valley Hospital respiratory staff who assist with EBUS outpatient procedures pose for a photo outside a hospital room.

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TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital has acquired the Olympus EBUS Solution to perform endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration.

The latest American College of Chest Physicians Lung Cancer Guidelines recognizes EBUSTBNA as the best first test for lung cancer diagnosis.

Up until now, the gold standard for lung cancer staging was a surgical procedure. Now EBUSTBNA offers a minimally invasive solution that delivers equally reliable sample collection in the outpatient setting. EBUS is proven for helping physicians diagnose and stage lung cancer and diagnose other pulmonary diseases.

“We take pride in being able to offer our patients the latest technology and innovation,” Darlene Wetton, CEO at Temecula Valley Hospital, said. “The EBUS procedure now allows our hospital to provide patients a quicker way for diagnosing cancers and other diseases of the airway and lungs.”

According to Lung Cancer Alliance data, lung cancer is the leading cause of all cancer-related

deaths in the United States among every ethnic group, taking more lives than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined. Unfortunately, only 15% of lung cancer is diagnosed at its earliest and most curable stage, and more than 55% of cases are diagnosed after cancer has metastasized.

By acquiring advanced technologies such as the Olympus EBUS Solution, Temecula Valley Hospital can offer premier care for its patients. For more information and to listen to a podcast about EBUS, featuring Dr. Mimi White, visit https://www.temeculavalleyhospital.com/services/oncology/ ebus.

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particular model of face shields takes between an hour and a half to two hours to complete. RCOE’s director of public relations said that staff that attended the meeting were impressed and encouraged

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Be aware of common causes of prematurity TEMECULA – Expecting mothers follow strict prenatal guidelines to protect their physical health and the health of the developing child.

Women can take various steps to help their unborn children make it to full term, but some factors that are beyond their control and may lead to prematurity.

A premature birth is one that takes place more than three weeks before the baby’s estimated due date, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Premature births occur before the 37th week of pregnancy, which is considered full term. Prematurity may be staged as late, moderately, very or extremely preterm depending on when the baby is born.

Most premature births occur in the late preterm stage between 34-36 weeks. Babies born at less than 32 weeks of pregnancy or earlier are very or extremely preterm.

Some causes of premature birth cannot be identified; however, certain factors are known to increase the risk of going into labor early.

A pregnant woman with any of the following conditions is more likely to give birth prematurely, according to Healthline Parenthood, including diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and high blood pressure.

In addition, certain factors related to pregnancy also may lead to premature birth, including poor nutrition before and during pregnancy; smoking, using illegal drugs or drinking alcohol during pregnancy; infections, such as urinary tract and amniotic membrane infections; a previous case of premature birth; an abnormal uterus and a weakened cervix opening early.

Premature babies may face a host of problems that put children’s overall health at risk, such as temperature instability; respiratory problems; cardiovascular issues, such as a heart condition called parent ductus arteriosus; jaundice and bleeding in the brain and poor muscle tone.

Know the differences among the common cold, the flu and COVID-19 PASADENA – Understanding the differences among the common cold, the flu and COVID-19 can be challenging, as they share many symptoms that can be confusing and worrisome to many people who may wonder what steps they should take to protect their health.

Dr. Daisy Dodd, an infectious disease specialist with Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said that although these three diseases share common symptoms, they have distinctive differences the public should become familiar with, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

“There’s no doubt that there are similarities among these illnesses,” she said. “However, there also are significant differences one should be familiar with, as that will help you better understand when to seek necessary medical attention.”

Dodd said that while people may feel miserable when they have a cold, the symptoms are generally milder compared to more aggressive

viruses like the flu and COVID-19.

A cold is typically less severe and can cause any or all of the following symptoms: runny or stuffy nose; a mild cough; fatigue; sneezing; sore throat and aches and pains.

Unlike the common cold, the flu generally comes on fast and furious.

Here are some of its common symptoms: fever and/or chills; dry cough; fatigue; aches and pains; runny and stuffy nose and sore throat.

When it comes to COVID-19, it shares some symptoms with the common cold and flu, but the disease has other distinctive symptoms. They include shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; loss of taste and smell; diarrhea; fever and/or chills; dry cough; tiredness; aches and pains; headaches and sore throat.

When in doubt whether they have a cold, the flu or COVID-19, Dodd advised that people contact their health care provider to see if medical attention is necessary.

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Inter Valley Health Plan offers free virtual health and wellness classes in October POMONA – Inter Valley Health Plan is offering free virtual health education and wellness classes in October for older adults age 55-plus.

Sign up for “Nostalgic Trivia: Vintage Childhood Games, Toys and What-Not” Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 10 a.m. Let’s go back to childhood and remember the things children played with. How many are still around? You will be surprised.

Invite friends and let’s have fun.

“Community First Aid” is offered Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 11 a.m. Learn what you need to know about basic first aid and hands-only CPR. Be prepared as you never know when you might need this

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Attend “Sleep Well, Be Well” Thursday, Oct. 22, at 11 a.m.

Common sleep disorders such as restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea, insomnia and night leg cramps are discussed. Learn about the causes and treatments to help you get a good night’s sleep.

“Is it Normal Aging or Dementia?” will be held Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 1 p.m. Learn to recognize the difference between normal aging and the symptoms of dementia and when to be concerned.

Join “Game Time: Name that Slogan No. 2” Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 12:30 p.m. Invite friends and neighbors and let’s have a little fun.

Match the slogans with products or vice versa.

Attend “Master Gardener Series: Mulching for Beginners” Thursday, Oct. 29, at 11 a.m. Learn the basics of mulching to create great planting soil for your garden. Bring your gardening questions to learn from a master gardener.

RSVP is required for all virtual classes and activities to get the login code. To RSVP, register online at http://www.ivhp.com/ vitality or call 800-886-4471 or for hearing impaired TTY 711, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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The Anza Valley Christian Fellowship tent sale was held Thursday, Oct. 1, through Saturday,

Oct. 3, at the church grounds off Bautista Road in Anza, welcoming bargain hunters to search for deals in the kitchenware, collectibles, shoes, purses, linens, books, clothes, jewelry and more.

The semi-annual event opened late this year, due to the pandemic, with masks required and social distancing practiced. Another sale is planned for the end of October.

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Anza prepares for Halloween fun Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

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The pandemic is not dampening the Halloween spirits in Anza this year. The community is making plans to safely conduct the annual celebration for both young and old Saturday, Oct. 31.

Community businesses and organizations have invited masked trick or treaters to come to a drivethru trunk or treat event at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in Anza by Minor Park from 4-6 p.m. for fun and candy.

Families can drop off decorated pumpkins at the church by 4 p.m. for judging and prizes. Hotdogs,

Live music once again reverberated from the Cahuilla Casino and Hotel Thursday, Oct. 8, as Tony Suraci and his band performed country, blues and rock hits.

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Anza Transfer Station experiences break-ins Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

A nightly crime spree is occurring in the unincorporated town of Anza. The Riverside County Anza Transfer Station said the chain link fence was cut with bolt cutters and people have allegedly been entering, sometimes before the sun sets and the workers leave for the day.

The facility has dealt with theft in the past, but the county said the damages have been escalating in recent months.

Known as the dump, the transfer station is where residents in the unincorporated Anza Valley can dispose of their trash. Run by CR&R and the Riverside County Department of Waste Resources, the dump is designed to take household and residential refuse.

The trash is collected, stored and transported to the landfill at Lamb see BREAK-IN, page AVO-5

Fences are seen cut at the Anza Transfer Station where thieves allegedly gained entry into the facility.

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Regular Happenings Hamilton High School – Find out what is happening using Hamilton’s online calendar at http://www. hamiltonbobcats.net/apps/events/ calendar/.

Hamilton Museum – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays at 39991 Contreras Road in Anza. For more information, call 951-763-1350 or visit http://www. hamiltonmuseum.org. Find them on Facebook at “Hamilton-Museumand-Ranch-Foundation.”

Health, exercise, resources and recovery meetings Narcotics Anonymous Meeting – 6 p.m. Every Tuesday at Shepherd Of The Valley Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. Open participation.

Veterans’ Gathering Mondays – 9-11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 39075 Contreras Road, in Anza. Men and women veterans come to share and help each other deal with posttraumatic stress disorder and other difficulties. Call John Sheehan at 951-923-6153. If you need an advocate to help with VA benefits, call Ronnie Imel at 951-659-9884.

The Most Excellent Way – Christ-centered recovery program for all kinds of addiction meets Fridays from 7-8:30 p.m. and Tuesdays from 8-10 a.m. Program is court approved; child care is provided.

Transportation help is available.

The group meets at 58050 Highway 371; the cross street is Kirby Road in Anza.

AA Men’s Meeting – 7 p.m.

Meetings take place Thursdays at 39551 Kirby Road in Anza, south of Highway 371.

Alcoholics Anonymous – 8 p.m.

Wednesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road in Anza. For more information, call 951-763-4226.

Bereaved Parents of the USA – The Aguanga-Anza Chapter of BPUSA will hold its meetings 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 49109 Lakeshore Blvd. in Aguanga. For more information, contact chapter leader Linda Hardee at 951-551-2826.

Fit after 50 – Free “Fit after 50” exercise class takes place every Tuesday and Friday, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at Anza Community Hall.

Chair aerobics helps with coordination, balance and increased muscle tone. No jumping required; wear gym shoes and bring water. For more information, call leader Teresa Hoehn at 951-751-1462.

Free Mobile Health Clinic – Open every third Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. No appointment is needed. Uninsured may only be seen in the Anza Community Hall’s parking lot or inside the hall.

Medication Assistance and Treatment for Opioid Dependence – Get treatment for heroin addiction. Transportation to the clinic is provided. For more information, contact Borrego Health’s Anza Community Health Center, 58581 Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call 951-763-4759.

Food ministries F.U.N. Group weekly food ministry – Deliveries arrive noon Thursdays at the Anza Community Hall. To order a paid box and help feed those who can’t afford to pay,

drop off payment and cash donations by Thursday at 1:30 p.m., to ERA Excel Realty, 56070 Highway 371, in Anza. Pay inside or drop off during the day in the red box outside. To drop it off, put name and request on an envelope with payment inside. A $30 box has about $100 worth of food and feeds six people. Half boxes are available for $15. Food is delivered once a week to those who cannot find a ride. For more information, call Bill Donahue at 951-288-0903.

Living Hope Christian Fellowship Community Dinner – 1 p.m.

Dinners are held the last Sunday of the month at the Anza Community Hall. All are welcome. Donations of time, money, etc. are always welcome.

Food for the Faithful – 8 a.m.

The food bank hands out food the last Friday of the month until the food is gone. The clothes closet will be open too. Emergency food handed out as needed at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. FFF is a non-denominational nonprofit. All in need are welcome; call Esther Barragan at 951-763-5636.

Bible Studies The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Anza – Sunday Sacrament is held 10 a.m.; Sunday School is 11 a.m. Priesthood/Relief Society meets noon; Wednesday Boy Scouts gathers 6 p.m. and Youth Night is 7 p.m. For more information, call Ruiz at 951445-7180 or Nathan at 760-3990727. The Wednesday Genealogy/ Family History Class, 5-8 p.m., is open to the public at 39075 Contreras Road in Anza.

Native Lighthouse Fellowship – 10 a.m. The group meets the first Saturday of the month, and breakfast is served. All are welcome to fellowship together at the “Tribal Hall” below the casino in Anza.

For more information, call Nella Heredia at 951-763-0856.

Living Hope Bible Study – 8-10 a.m. Tuesdays at Living Hope Christian Fellowship, 58050 Highway 371, in Anza. All are welcome.

For more information, call Pastor Kevin at 951-763-1111.

Anza RV Clubhouse – 7 p.m., the second Wednesday of the Month, Pastor Kevin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger Road in Anza.

Monthly Christian Men’s Breakfast – 9 a.m. Breakfast takes place the fourth Saturday of each month and rotates to different locations. Contact Jeff Crawley at 951763-1257 for more information.

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – 10 a.m. Weekly Wednesday Bible study takes place at 56095 Pena Road in Anza. Call 951-763-4226 for more information.

Valley Gospel Chapel – 7 a.m.

Saturday Men’s Study meets weekly with breakfast usually served at 43275 Chapman Road in the Terwilliger area of Anza. For more information, call 951-763-4622.

Anza First Southern Baptist Church – 9 a.m. The church offers Sunday school for all ages with a 10:30 a.m. worship service and 6 p.m. for prayer and Bible study. Youth ministry meets Mondays from 6-8 p.m. The women’s Bible study meets Thursdays at 10 a.m., but it is on hiatus through the summer. Celebrate Recovery

meets Fridays; doors open at 5:30 p.m. with large group meeting, 6-7 p.m.; small group share, 7-8 p.m. and Cross Talk Cafe, 8-8:30 p.m.

Church is located at 39200 Rolling Hills Road in Anza. For more information, contact at 951-763-4937, anzabptistchurch@gmail.com or http://www.anzabaptistchurch.com.

Clubs TOPS Meeting – Take Off Pounds Sensibly support group meets Wednesdays weekly. Weigh in at 8:30 a.m., meeting at 8:45 a.m. at Thompson Hall at the Anza Baptist Church, 39200 Rolling Hills Road, in Anza. For more information, visit http://www.TOPS.org.

High Country Recreation – Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at ERA Excel Realty in Anza. For more information, call Albert Rodriguez at 951-492-1624 or Robyn Garrison at 805-312-0369.

HCR Bingo fundraisers – 6:309:30 p.m. second and fourth Fridays at Anza Community Hall.

Anza Valley VFW Post 1873 – Capt. John Francis Drivick III Post, the Ladies’ and Men’s Auxiliaries are located at 59011 Bailey Road in Anza. Mail P.O. Box 390433.

Request monthly newsletter and or weekly menu by email at vfw1873anzaca@gmail.com. For more information, call 951-7634439 or visit http://vfw1873.org.

High Country 4-H Club – 6:30 p.m. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, except February, at Anza Community Hall. 4-H Club is for youth 5 to 19 years old offering a variety of projects. High Country 4-H Club is open to children living in the Anza, Aguanga and surrounding areas.

For more information, call Allison Renck at 951-663-5452.

Anza Valley Artists Meetings – 1 p.m. Meetings are third Saturday of each month at various locations.

Share art, ideas and participate in shows. Guests speakers are always needed. For more information, call president Rosie Grindle at 951-9281248. Find helpful art tips at http:// www.facebook.com/AnzaValleyArtists/.

Anza Quilter’s Club – 9:30 a.m. to noon. Meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza.

Anza Valley Lions Club – The Anza Valley Lions Club is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. Guest meetings with dinner are held 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Anza Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club website, http://www.anzalionsclub.org. For more information, call president Michele Brown at 760-637-9173.

Boy Scouts Troop 319 – Cub Scouts meet 6 p.m. every Tuesday, and Boy Scouts meet 7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Contreras Road, south of state Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call Richard Hotchkiss at 951-551-3154.

Boys Scouts Troop 371 – Boy Scouts meet at Lake Riverside Estates. For more information, call Ginny Kinser at 909-702-7902.

Civil Air Patrol – Squadron 59

is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the Anza area at 951403-4940. To learn more and see the club’s meeting schedule, visit http:// www.squadron59.org.

Fire Explorer Program – 6 p.m.

The program meets every second, third and fourth Tuesday of the month at Fire Station 29 on state Route 371 in Anza. Call 951-7635611 for information.

Redshank Riders – 7 p.m. Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza, the second Thursday of each month. Visit http://www.redshankriders.com or call Carol Schmuhl for membership information at 951-663-6763.

Anza Thimble Club – The club meets the first Thursday of the month at Valley Gospel Chapel, 43275 Chapman Road in Anza. The social hour is 11:30 a.m., and lunch is served at noon. Contact Carol Wright at 951-763-2884 for more information.

Organizations Terwilliger Community Association – 6 p.m. Second Monday of the month at VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Potluck dinner open to all. For more information, call Tonie Ford at 951-763-4560.

From the Heart Christian Women’s Ministries – Noon.

Monthly luncheon and guest speaker are held the second Saturday of each month. The $5 charge covers lunch at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. From the Heart helps the area’s neediest children and invites all women and men to join in their mission. Donate or help with the rummage sales twice a year to raise funds for the cause or other events.

For more information, call president Christi James at 951-595-2400.

Anza Community Hall – 7 p.m.

General membership meetings are held the fourth Thursday of the month. Memberships cost $20 per person or $35 per business, and both get one vote. No government funds are allocated for the Hall, which pays its bills through memberships and swap meets. Voting members receive discounts off hall rentals, swap meet booths and save on propane gas from Farrell Gas. Mail membership to: Anza Community Building Inc. at P.O. Box 390091, Anza, CA 92539. The hall is located at 56630 Highway 371 in Anza.

Swap meet held each Saturday of the month, weather permitting, early morning to 1 p.m. Vendors wanted. For more information, call 951-282-4267.

Anza Valley Municipal Advisory Council – 7 p.m. Second Wednesday of each odd month at Anza Community Hall. Group serves as local liaisons to the county from the community. For more information, call 951-805-6800.

Anza Civic Improvement League – 9 a.m. meets the first Saturday of each month at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The league maintains Minor Park and Little Red School House, which are both available to rent for events. No government funds are allowed; the membership pays the bills – $10 a person, $18 family or $35 business membership. For more information, visit http://www.anzacivic.org.

Supervisor seeks applicants for Pinyon Communities Council PINYON PINES – Riverside County Supervisor Chuck Washington is looking to fill a vacant seat on the Pinyon Communities Council.

Members of the Pinyon Communities Council serve as an advisory body to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors and provide input on a variety of issues affecting the region including, but not limited to, public health, public works, welfare, safety and planning. The council’s recommendations may be taken into consideration when the board of supervisors votes on issues pertaining to this region.

Applicants must reside within the boundaries of the area generally known as Pinyon Pines and be registered voters in Riverside County.

Applicants must be able to attend quarterly meetings at the Pinyon Fire Station, 70080 State Route 74, in Mountain Center, once regular

meetings resume. Meetings have been temporarily suspended due to COVID-19. Membership on the council automatically terminates if a member ceases to maintain a residence within the Pinyon Pines or misses three meetings within a one-year period. All members serve without compensation. Members must adhere to the Ralph M. Brown Act. The appointed councilmember will serve until June 30, 2024.

Qualified individuals willing to share their time and expertise are encouraged to apply for the position. To receive an application, contact Pacifica Hoffenberg at 951-955-3270 or phoffenberg@ rivco.org. Return applications

by Nov. 20. For applications and more information, visit https:// supervisorchuckwashington.com/ district-info/boards-committeesand-commissions.

Submitted by Riverside County.

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How weather affects fire behavior Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Weather plays a significant part in the intensity and severity of wildland fires. Changes in humidity, wind and temperature can improve or delay containment efforts. Commonly referred to as fire weather, these conditions may spell disaster for firefighters.

Nick Nauslar of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center described fire weather as, “Any sort of weather that ignites and/or helps spread fire. Stronger winds; low, relative humidity; unstable atmospheric conditions and thunderstorms, all fall under the umbrella of fire weather.”

Lightning strikes are the most common weather cause for wildfires. Dry thunderstorms can create lightning strikes miles away from the storm clouds. Several of Anza’s recent fires have been started by lightning strikes to the ground and dry fuels.

Seasonal Santa Ana winds can also cause power lines to spark, which can ignite dry brush nearby.

Wind determines the rate and direction of fire spread. Stronger winds supply more oxygen to the fire, preheating fuels and blowing embers and sparks ahead of the flames.

Fires will follow the direction the wind blows, and the faster it is blowing, the faster the flames spread. Gusts can also elevate flames into trees. Wildfires can create their own wind patterns, which also affects how the fire spreads.

Hot temperatures and lower relative humidity make available fuels such as grass, weeds and brush more receptive to ignition.

In hot weather, the sun is more intense, heating and drying out fuels such as sticks and other flammable debris.

Large fires can create their own weather, and pyrocumulonimbus clouds can produce thunderstorms. A large fire vortex observed at the 2018 Carr Fire near Redding, caused damage equivalent to an EF-3 tornado with estimated winds up to 143 miles per hour.

Relative humidity is a measure

Flames erupt in dry conditions in Lake Riverside Estates in September.

of how much moisture is in the air. Humidity varies with temperature. As temperature increases humidity decreases. This factor

affects fuel moisture content and its flammability.

Fire requires fuel, oxygen and heat to ignite and grow. Wildfires are more likely to break out in hot seasons or climates.

Meteorologists examine weather patterns and may declare red flag watches or warnings. These warnings indicate a high degree of confidence that weather and fuel conditions meet the “Red Flag Event” criteria for a given fire

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weather zone. It typically comes into effect for conditions below 15% relative humidity combined with gusty winds.

When red flag warnings are declared, Anza residents need to be aware that many weather conditions can cause an increase in wildfire danger.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

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Additionally, businesses located along Highway 371 will also be participating in the festivities.

The Anza Civic Improvement

League is hosting a movie at Minor Park at 6:30 p.m. A spooky, childfriendly film will be presented.

“Decorate your car or truck and join us for a spooktacular evening,” organizer Robin Garrison said.

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For more information, contact Lorraine Elmore at Lorraine’s Pet Supply at 951-763-0033 or email lorrainespetsupply@gmail.com.

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Cahuilla Casino hosts Tony Suraci live in concert

Tony Suraci performs classic outlaw country songs as well as rock and blues tunes at the free concert sponsored by the Cahuilla Casino and Hotel Thursday, Oct. 8.

Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Live music once again reverberated from the Cahuilla Casino and Hotel Thursday, Oct. 8, as Tony Suraci and his band performed country, blues and rock hits.

The musical trio, lead by frontman guitarist Tony Suraci, thrilled concertgoers by covering songs by artists such as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Bowie, Van Morrison and Johnny Cash.

The casino provided a safe and secure venue for the outdoor concert, with face coverings and social distancing required. Held at the hotel’s patio area, the venue was peppered with propane heaters, boasted two bars, tables, couches and chairs for the comfort of the patrons attending the free event.

“The casino staff treated us right,” Suraci said. “They gave us a steak before the show and provided some custom jackets for me and the guys when it got cold later in the evening. I am honored that they chose my band for their first event such as this.”

Suraci was born and raised in

SALE from page AVO-1 the heart of a giant. We are blessed to have her in our congregation.”

The funds raised at the rummage sale are used for various outreach ministries, community projects and for church upkeep.

The next sale will be held Thursday, Oct. 29, through Saturday, Oct. 31. Candy and goodies will

Southern California where he picked up the guitar at the age of 12 and has never looked back. He has appeared in TV shows, opened for well-known artists and covered a wide variety of musical genres, as well as created his own music. He is well-seasoned and his professionalism and skill are apparent with each performance.

With son Anthony Suraci on drums and bassist Matthew Rodriguez, the energetic trio kept fans on their toes with their renditions of classic favorites.

Band members amazed fans by switching instruments, with Suraci on bass, Rodriguez on drums and Anthony Suraci on vocals and guitar.

“Anthony needs to get his wiggles out on vocals,” Rodriguez said.

To learn more about upcoming events at the Cahuilla Casino and Hotel, visit them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cahuillacasinohotel.

For more information about Tony Suraci and his music, visit https:// www.tonysuracimusic.com/.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia.com.

Bassist Matthew Rodriguez kicks out the low notes at the free concert sponsored by the Cahuilla Casino and Hotel.

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Anthony Suraci keeps the beat steady while drumming at the free concert sponsored by the Cahuilla Casino and Hotel.

be available for children trick or treating in Anza on Halloween.

To learn more, visit the Anza Valley Christian Fellowship on Facebook at http://www.facebook. com/groups/1532610550359135 or online at http://www.avchristianfellowship.org.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Tables of clothes and housewares are set up for sale at Anza Valley Christian Fellowship’s tent sale. Anza Valley Outlook/ D i ane S i eker p h otos

Shelves full of collectibles are offered for sale at the Anza Valley Christian Fellowship’s tent sale.

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COURTS & CRIMES

Cow abuse lawsuit against San Jacinto family based in fiction, lawyer says Paul J. Young CITY NEWS SERVICE

A lawsuit alleging abuse of dairy cows at a San Jacinto farm, where an animal rights organization claims workers mistreated the bovines as part of their routine, is a “publicity stunt’” that is rooted in fiction, an attorney for the defendants said Friday, Oct. 9.

“These folks have been in the dairy business for many generations, starting in Holland centuries ago and coming to America more than 60 years ago,” defense attorney Stephen Larson told City News Service. “They live by the slogan, ‘Take care of the cows because they take care of us.’”

In September, the nonprofit CARU Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed a civil complaint in Riverside County Superior Court against the Van Dam Family Dairy on Cottonwood Avenue, listing dozens of alleged acts of inhumane treatment. The suit seeks an injunction against further operation of the farm and

the removal of all cows from the property, which would put it out of business.

A status hearing is tentatively scheduled for March 29.

“The abuse and neglect toward cows and calves exposed through the investigation demonstrate this is not just a single employee or incident, but companywide practices condoned by management,” Stephen Wells, representative for CARU, alleged. “The industry wants to keep the truth hidden, because they know the public would not tolerate the conditions animals endure.”

A unidentified volunteer with the nonprofit Animal Outlook got a job at the farm as a milker in September 2019, with the specific intent of documenting alleged abuse of the cows. In the ensuing two months, the woman took photos and video while on the job. She turned the material over to CARU in November 2019 and provided statements that were used to initiate the legal action, according to court papers.

None of the photographs submitted in the suit depict cows being hit, bloodied or otherwise tormented; however, the complaint narrative conveys as much.

“The investigation revealed a pattern of widespread abuse and gross neglect,” according to the complaint.

The plaintiffs alleged the farm operators are concerned only with milk production, and anything that slows that down – including a sick newborn calf – is ignored.

The complaint alleged that calves “frequently die” from lack of care. But the thrust of the civil action was oriented to the treatment of the milk cows.

“Employees of Dick Van Dam Dairy twist cows’ tails, kick and punch them, stick their fingers in the cows’ eyes and find other ways to inflict pain on a daily basis for the purpose of causing the cows to move in and out of the narrow passageways and crowded metal gates of the milking parlor,” the complaint alleged. “The investigator documented dozens of instances

Felon accused of fatally beating Menifee grandmother arraigned City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A felon accused of beating his 83-year-old grandmother at her Menifee home, inflicting fatal injuries, pleaded not guilty Thursday, Oct. 8, to murder and other charges.

Andrew Daniel Joseph, 41, was arrested Sept. 18, in the 26000 block of Ridgemoor Drive, near Menifee Road.

Along with the murder count, he is charged with elder abuse and a sentence-enhancing allegation of inflicting great bodily injury on a

dependent adult.

Joseph was arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Paul Dickerson, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for Nov. 10 at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta.

The defendant is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the nearby Cois M. Byrd Detention Center.

According to the Menifee Police Department, Joseph allegedly struck Ethel Heath, with whom he was staying, several times in the face, possibly during an argument. Heath managed to walk to a neighbor’s home, where she asked

for help, at which point paramedics and police were called.

Authorities said patrol officers arrived minutes later and detained Joseph for questioning, while his grandmother was taken to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley.

The defendant was initially arrested for alleged assault, but after Heath died of her injuries two days later, prosecutors filed a murder charge.

According to court records, Joseph has a previous conviction for assault with a deadly weapon resulting in great bodily injury.

Menifee woman charged with stealing $534K in jobless benefits City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 32-year-old Menifee woman accused of committing identity theft to steal over $500,000 in unemployment benefits made available under the federal coronavirus aid bill was charged Friday, Oct. 9, with mail fraud and other offenses.

Cara Marie Kirk-Connell was arrested without incident at her home based on the complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which stemmed from an investigation that began Sept. 11.

Along with mail fraud, KirkConnell is charged with identity theft and access device fraud, specifically debit cards.

Kirk-Connell is in federal custody in Orange County and is slated to make her initial appearance at U.S. District Court in

Riverside Tuesday, Oct. 13, after press time.

According to prosecutors, KirkConnell was stopped by Murrieta police officers after an alleged traffic violation in the city Sept.

11, culminating in a search of her vehicle, where officers allegedly discovered eight California Employment Development Department debit cards bearing other people’s names, along with $30,000 cash and several fake driver’s licenses.

Kirk-Connell was released pending further investigation by U.S. Postal Service inspectors, the EDD’s Fraud Investigation Unit and IRS. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the ensuing investigation revealed that Kirk-Connell used the “dark web” to collect unnamed individuals’ personal information, which was then placed

in applications for expanded jobless benefits available under the coronavirus aid bill.

The EDD processed the applications and sent debit cards loaded with relief funds totaling $534,149, prosecutors said. The cards were sent to an address Kirk-Connell had established to receive the EDD benefits, according to court documents.

“Once she received the debit cards ... she would activate them by using the victims’ Social Security numbers as well as PINs she had chosen and then make numerous ATM withdrawals and other expenditures,” according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement.

By the time of her initial detainment, $270,000 had been spent, prosecutors said.

If convicted, Kirk-Connell could face up to 32 years in federal prison.

of employees jabbing and beating the cows with splintered canes, including in their sensitive udders or faces.”

The suit alleged that “sometimes workers beat animals without any apparent goal,” seemingly for entertainment.

Larson called the allegations “manufactured and completely false.”

“This is one of the cleanest, safest and best run dairy operations you’ll ever find,” the attorney told CNS. “This lawsuit is a publicity stunt, and I can promise you, the suit and the sentiments behind it will be thoroughly discredited. I fully anticipate there will be counter claims.”

Larson said the Van Dam family has always been transparent and voluntarily participates in audits and inspections conducted under the National Dairy FARM Program.

“The Van Dam Family Dairy always passes with flying colors,” he said. “This is a wonderful family. Their house is right there

on the farm. It’s not some distant corporation.”

He addressed several of the allegations directly, saying the calves and cows are checked every few hours, whether they’re in the pasture or a pen.

“Everything that happens is part of life on the farm. Do they have stillborn calves? Yes. But people who don’t live on a farm can easily misinterpret what is happening,” Larson said. “There are 1,500 to 1,600 cows in different stages of life. And every single one of them is inspected.”

He suggested the investigation and complaint were part of a smear campaign and said his clients were being “dragged through the mud.”

“The duplicitous way this is being done is an outrage,” Larson said. “It’s really wrong, and it’s one case I’m really looking forward to.”

The suit is permitted under a provision of the California Corporations Code which allows a nonprofit organization to represent the rights of animals.

Sheriff’s Department: One killed in overnight shooting in unincorporated Temecula Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER

One male was killed in the early morning hours of Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Glen Oaks area of Temecula, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

According to the sheriff’s department, deputies were sent to the 38000 block of Calaveras Road at 3:57 a.m. in response to a report of a shooting. When they arrived,

BREAK-IN from page AVO-1 Canyon, hence the term “transfer station.”

Theft and vandalism at the dump is escalating, according to transfer station staff, causing damage and a mess for employees to clean up every morning. Staff said trash is found thrown all over the area and removed from the dumpsters and roll-off containers.

The items the alleged thieves are searching for are saleable undamaged items, tools and recyclable materials. Although scrap metal prices are at historic lows, copper, brass, electrical wiring, electric motors, aluminum and stainless steel can be sold to recycling centers.

The trash is the property of CR&R, which profits from selling the recyclables. The transfer station staff said the thefts cause a waste of man hours, as the employees who run the transfer

deputies discovered a male with life-threatening injuries.

Though deputies, along with emergency medical technicians and firefighters attempted lifesaving measures, the male was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation is ongoing and no further information was available.

Jeff Pack can be reached by email at jpack@reedermedia.com.

station have to clean up the mess and mend the holes in the fences daily. The fencing surrounding the station has been damaged almost nightly, they said. Fuel and batteries for station equipment have also been stolen and the machines vandalized.

According to staff, the thieves leave on foot or get picked up, carry items or making piles in the bushes to be picked up later. Quads and dirt bikes are also allegedly used to carry loot. Evidence of trucks being used to rip down the fences and drag items from the area was found, transfer station staff said.

The Riverside County sheriff’s department asked residents to be on the lookout for people acting suspiciously in that area and to report incidents to law enforcement.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Canyon Lake man suspected of hacking off half of his mother’s foot City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 61-year-old man allegedly tried to kill his mother with a hacksaw, cutting off half her foot in their Canyon Lake home, authorities said Friday, Oct. 9.

Mark Vermillon was arrested Thursday and booked into the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on suspicion of attempted murder, mayhem and elder abuse.

According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Jeff Reese, deputies were sent about 3 p.m. Thursday to the 30400 block of South Fork Drive in the gated city after Vermillon called 911, allegedly admitting that he had just tried to kill his mother, whose name was not disclosed.

Officers reached the location within a few minutes and found the woman in her bedroom, with half of her right foot severed,

Reese said.

She was taken to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar, where she remains in critical but stable condition, according to Reese.

Vermillon was taken into custody without a struggle.

There was no word on a possible motive for the attack.

It was unclear whether Vermillon has any previous criminal history.

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The deplatformed 2020 presidential candidates

Harold W. Pease, Ph.D. SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

We are coming to the end of an election year where the “hunger games,” having gone on every four years for well over a century since William McKinley, is finalizing. The “game” part of the process is how it is done by the mega rich through their super packs and media outlets causing the people to believe that they actually choose their president.

This process went on at least until 2016 when America rejected their anointed candidates.

For years I told my students that the quickest way to understand our political system is to watch the movie “The Hunger Games.” The strategy is to herd all voters into their two camps called Republicans and Democrats, excluding all other political parties, where there exist few real differences

on foreign policy and where the super rich have agreement. Since they own all major media outlets, information for or against those they allowed elevated is managed.

The few voters astute enough to figure this out and learn of other choices are easily brought back into the fold by the siren call that they are throwing away their vote if going outside the “ordained” two parties. Those disaffiliated with both establishment political parties, about 40%, called independents, are returned to the fold at election time and still forced to choose from the existing approved candidates. And thus, only candidate names change every four years.

I suppose that as a political scientist by profession, this process is more easily understood to me. I write the Federal Elections Commission every fall of every election year to find out who is running for president, which I have done since the early 1990s. Never has the list of serious candidates for president been less than 200 and never has the list of serious political parties, most offering a presidential candidate, been less than 20.

So who are the excluded or deplatformed candidates on the ballot in 2020.

“As of Sept. 21, 2020, 1,202 candidates have filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president,” according to https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_ registered_2020_presidential_candidates.

This site lists candidate names and party affiliation.

The Federal Elections Commission requires that anyone running for president that spends or collects $5,000 or more on their candidacy for president file with them. Obviously, the number of presidential candidates and political parties has escalated far beyond that in the past. I went through the list and found 40 political parties, doubling the number of political parties previously.

We used to assess the seriousness of a candidate by the $5,000 expenditure and how many states allowed their candidacy in their state. States decide who qualifies for their ballots and who do not.

Since the Federal Election Commission has not yet published by state this information, as is common in past elections, it is difficult to know this number, but voters can assume, as in past presidential elections, that it exceeds 20 political parties most offering a presidential candidate.

The Federal Election Commission has six commissioners, but it requires four votes to accomplish anything thus many important votes end tied at 3-3. The president can only appoint three from his own political party so, in the most partisan time in American History since 1861, Democrat members have resigned and since Aug. 31, 2019, the FEC has not had a quorum to function, according to Wikipedia’s entry on the Federal Election Commission.

So what other political parties offer choices for president on the ballot this year, absent the FEC state list and given the traditional non-coverage by the establishment media? They follow: the two strongest are the Libertarian Party with Jo Jorgensen and Green Party with Howie Hawkins.

Other parties that commonly provide presidential candidates include American Independent Party, Independent American Party, Constitution Party, Reform Party, Socialist Party, Peace and Freedom Party and the Socialist Workers Party. For most of the last century, the Communist Party U.S.A nominated Gus Hall, but that nomination stopped when they concluded that more gains were coming through the Democratic Party than they could achieve under their party label.

The Libertarian Party has offered a presidential candidate and convention in every election for decades and normally is on the ballot in every state of the union, but their candidates are never invited to the “big debates.” The same could be said of the Green Party and a few others. Certainly, they feel excluded. One may argue, “but they do not have enough voter strength to warrant inclusion,” but in fact, they do not have sufficient voter strength because the establishment media does not cover them. Liberty Under Fire argues for debate inclusion for any candidate on the ballot of 40 or more states.

In political science, students learn that the first election is the medias. They vote first by their collective exclusion of those not registered as Democrat or Republican. The people get to choose from those the media have not excluded. The wisest, most experienced, most gifted and most honest person in America could not be president of the United States unless they were a Democrat or Republican.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 0 9 31 0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. SLAP YO MOMMA BBQ & SOULFOOD 2. SYMBBQ & SOULFOOD 29 9 9 2 H u nter R d , Ste # 1 0 2, M u r r ieta, C A 9 25 63 C ou nty: R ive r sid e Marvin Lanier Caldwell, 5173 Waring Road #54, San Diego, C A 9 21 20 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by an I nd ivi d u al R egistr ant co m m ence d to tr ansact bu siness u nd er the fictitious name listed above on 06/01/07 I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ect . ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistr ant: M ar vi n L . C al d w el l Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on 0 9 / 0 9 / 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3239 PUBLISHED: September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 0 9 230 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FROMHANSTOYOU 1011 Cleveland Way, Corona, CA 92881 Mailing address: 1011 Cleveland Way, Corona, C A 9 2881 C ou nty: R iv er sid e Hannah - Choe, 1011 Cleveland Way, Corona, C A 9 2881 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by an I nd ivi d u al R egistr ant has not ye t begu n to tr ansact bu siness under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ect . ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistr ant: H annah C hoe Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on 0 9 / 0 8/ 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3240 PUBLISHED: October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 0 9 1 46 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ADVANCED OFFICE SOLUTIONS 31 248 P u as Dr , T em ecu l a, C A 9 25 9 2 M ail ing ad d r ess: 31 248 P u as Dr , T em ecu l a, C A 9 25 9 2 C ou nty: R ive r sid e N icko l as P er el ( -) , 31 248 P u as Dr , T em ecu l a, C A 9 25 9 2 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by an I nd ivi d u al R egistr ant co m m ence d to tr ansact bu siness u nd er the fictitious name listed above on 9/17/2018 I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ect . ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistr ant: N icko l as P er el Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on 0 9 / 0 3/ 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3241 PUBLISHED: October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 0 9 7 21 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GO SMOG 1 1 889 M agnol ia Ave , R ive r sid e, C A 9 25 0 3 C ou nty: R ive r sid e a. R u ben O r tega E str ad a, 1 1 0 0 2 N ebr aska Ave . , R ive r sid e, C A 9 25 0 5 b. E l iza beth L yn el l O r tega, 1 1 0 0 2 N ebr aska Ave . , R ive r sid e, C A 9 25 0 5 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by a M ar r ied C ou pl e R egistr ant has not ye t begu n to tr ansact bu siness under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ect . ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistr ant: R u ben O r tega E str ad a Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on 0 9 / 21 / 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3242 PUBLISHED: October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 0 9 7 69 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EL ROI FOSTER CLOSET 2285 3 B anbu r y C t, M u r r ieta, C A 9 25 62 C ou nty: R ive r sid e Ruby Real Life, Inc., 22853 Banbury Ct, Murrieta, C A 9 25 62 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by a C or por ation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA R egistr ant has not ye t begu n to tr ansact bu siness under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ect . ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistr ant: L au r en B l oy F ietz, P r esid ent, C E O Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on 0 9 / 22/ 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3243 PUBLISHED: October 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 0 7 324 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: STINKY LEAF 290 West San Rafael Place, Palm Springs, CA 9 2262 M ail ing ad d r ess: 4480 Du ckh or n Dr ive , Sacr am ento, C A 9 5 834 C ou nty: R ive r sid e C B D T her apeu tics L L C , 4480 Du ckh or n Dr ive , Sacr am ento, C A 9 5 834 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by a L im ited L iabil ity C om pany This LLC is registered in the state of CA R egistr ant has not ye t begu n to tr ansact bu siness under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ec t. ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) Registrant: Keith Springer, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on 0 7 / 1 3/ 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3191 PUBLISHED: July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2020 Republished: October 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020 Filing date incorrect in original publication.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT F il e N u m ber : R -20 20 1 0 266 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HEMET – SAN JACINTO NEWS 9 KPC Parkway, Suite 301, Corona, CA 92879 C ou nty: R ive r sid e KPC Media LLC, 9 KPC Parkway, Suite 301, C or ona, C A 9 287 9 T his bu siness is co nd u ct ed by a L im ited L iabil ity C om pany This LLC is registered in the state of CA R egistr ant has not ye t begu n to tr ansact bu siness under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and co r r ect . ( A r egistr ant w ho d ecl ar es as tr u e any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand d ol l ar s ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) . ) Registrant: Kali P. Chaudhuri, Manager Statement was filed with the County Clerk of R ive r sid e C ou nty on1 1 0 / 0 7 / 20 20 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME ST AT E M E N T GE N E R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT T H E E N D O F F I V E Y E AR S F R O M T H E DAT E O N WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE I T E X P I R E S 40 DAY S AF T E R AN Y C H AN GE I N T H E F AC T S SE T F O R T H I N T H E ST AT E M E N T PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A C H AN GE I N T H E R E SI DE N C E ADDR E SS O F A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED B E F O R E T H E E X P I R AT I O N .

T H E F I L I N G O F T H I S ST AT E M E N T DO E S N O T OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN V I O L AT I O N O F T H E R I GH T S O F AN O T H E R UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND P R O F E SSI O N S C O DE ) . I H E R E B Y C E R T I F Y T H AT T H I S C O P Y I S A C O R R E C T C O P Y O F T H E O R I GI N AL ST AT E M E N T O N F I L E I N M Y O F F I C E .

PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3245 PUBLISHED: October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 2020

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME C ase N u m ber : M V C 20 0 45 65 T O AL L I N T E R E ST E D P E R SO N S P etitioner : BRIANNA HERNANDEZ and HECTOR ORTEGA Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: P r esent N am e: AUBREY SALEM ORTEGA P r oposed N am e: AUBREY SALEM HERNANDEZ THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be gr anted . Any per son obj ect ing to the nam e ch anges described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be hear d and m u st appear at the hear ing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition w ithou t a hear ing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 1 1 / 1 9 / 20 T im e: 1 : 0 0 Dept: M V 2 The address of the court: 13800 Heacock St., bu il d ing D20 1 , M or eno V al l ey , C A 9 25 5 3 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of gener al ci r cu l ation, pr inted in this co u nty: Anza V al l ey O u tl ook Date: 9 / 28/ 20 Signed: Eric V. Isaac, Judge of the Superior Court LEGAL: 3244 PUBLISHED: October 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020

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Some sleepy eyes and cranky faces appeared on but the thousands Black Friday, of residents at local stores and malls were hitting on savings and deals – instead hitting each other of – for the most part.

Late Friday, video surfaced of two men fighting inside the urrieta Walmart location, apparently over what one of sidered to be the the men conelderly woman. disrespect of an In the video posted by Ryan Kimberly Mountain, the two men – one a Marine retired Marine and the other a – were standing a checkout line in Thanksgiving night when an elderly woman allegedly and repeatedly bumped into one of the men.

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More than 100 people turned up for the annual Community Candlelight Tribute Saturday, Nov. 30, in front of Temecula member their lovedCity Hall to reones The event, founded who died.

by Linda Mejia, who lost her son more than 20 years ago, featured music, stories, words of encouragement and support for the families and friends in attendance.

Before taking the podium, Faith Zember played a recorded by her song that was daughter Lily Harrison, a Murrieta 15-year-old who was killed earlier this year by a DUI driver in Temecula.

“Like many of season has foreveryou, the holiday been changed,” Zember said. “They will forever be altered, diff erent The years of family and revised. traditions and fond memories are now unable be furthered in to the same ways that see VIGIL, page A-8

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Sullivan announced school students will tour two manufacturing in May that she planned to retire after servfacilities and the city s innovation center ing the Temecula community for riday, ct. , as almost Manufacturing part of the city s chamber30 years – she has led the Day event. since May 1990, just a few months after incorporated in the city officially December 1989. see page D-5 And she s made known over those her presence decades, showing nearly three every city council up to almost meeting during that time, launching local shopping initiatives, chamber s tourismspinning off the committee into After 29 years leading the Temecula is celebrated see RETIRING, alley hamber during a party of page A-2 with members of

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The Murrieta paying tribute Field of Honor, to who served or heroes – those are serving in the United Mt. San Jacinto College shared enforcement,States military, law news about various fire and other new suc- responder first cesses, initiatives, posts, plus personal programs and heroes – new building projects opened to the public SatState of the College, at its annual urday, Nov. 9. held Friday at More than 2,000 MSJC’s Menifee Valley Campus. 5-foot 3-foot by American flags are on display at Murrieta’s Town Square see page D-4 Park, all recognizing those who served along with personal heroes.

The field features sections for Medal of Honor heroes who have recipients, local for this country given their lives since 2003, historical flags, a flag dedicated to those who perished in and a patriotic 9/11, state flags chalk walk.

Presented as a vice by the Rotarycommunity serrieta in partnership Club of Murwith the city of Jeff Pack STAFF WRITER see FIELD, page A-3 Aubree Middleton, 6, runs and According to plays amongst the Murrieta Field authorities, a the 2,019 American of Honor.

26-year-old flags on display San Jacinto at Town Square man threatened Mt. Park in San Jacinto College Shane Gibson students with a photo gun before fleeing the campus Wednesday, Nov. 6.

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Murrieta City Council members, staff and dignitaries tried to find shade under the Murrieta-brand ed canopies and underneath trees to escape the heat Town Square on the existing Park ing a groundbreakin stage durg ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 6.

A year from now, if all goes to plan, a visit to the same spot will be well shaded and newly upgraded as the ceremony Wednesday served as the offi cial ing of improvements groundbreakTown Square Park. to be made at The expansive property that sits at the heart of the city’s services offices and city hall will undergo construction beginning after the first of the year with

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