W e e k l y RIALTO RECORD
Octobe r 01 , 2020
Vol 1 9, NO. 03
Destiny Lopez swor n in as new student board member www.iecn.com
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RUSD
Eisenhower High School senior Destiny Lopez is sworn in as the RUSD Student Board Member for the 2020-2021 school year by RUSD Board President Mrs. Nancy G. O'Kelley alongside Superintendent Dr. Cuauhtémoc Avila at last Wednesday's Board of Education Meeting.
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Inland doctor donates $45K to suppor t distance lear ning Pg. 7
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estiny Lopez, a senior at Eisenhower High, was sworn in as the school’s newest board representative during the Rialto Unified School District board meeting on Wedndesday, Sept. 23 by Board President Nancy G. O’Kelley.
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community service - and a memeber of Medical Leaders of Tomorrow. Her aspirations are to complete college and pursue a medical degree.
“I am a strong independent woman. I am focused and determined on reaching the goals I have set out for myself. I plan on attending college and studying hard to achieve my dreams of Destiny, cont. on next pg.
Widespread and pandemic-created scams to bewar e of
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BILL MURDOCH, FBI
Examples of fraudulent text messages that seem legitimate luring people to click on the hyperlink that may be malware or directed to another site to obtain consumer’s personal and sensitive information. FBI Agent Bill Murdoch emphatically insists we avoid touching links in text messages and emails. By Maryjoy Duncan
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Destiny, who is part of a 6-person family with two sisters and a brother, has an impressive resume that includes being a part of the ASB leadership team at Eisenhower, captain of the Cheer Squad, member of Sobobans - an all-girls honor society focused on
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f it’s too good to be true, it generally is. That is the message that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), California Attorney General’s Office, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and Riverside
County District Attorney’s Office underlined during a virtual meeting hosted by Ethnic Media Services aimed at warning the community of prevalent scams as well as new ones generated by the pandemic. “People are far more likely to avoid a scam if they hear about
it,” FTC Associate Director Division of Consumer Response and Operations Monica Vaca noted. The top reported scam in the Inland Empire is online shopping orders never arriving; those include critical items such as
facemasks and hand sanitizers, Vaca indicated. Additional scams involve treatments and tests, revenue opportunities, fabricated tracking information of online orders, and Scams, cont. on next pg.