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Dozens gather for candlelight vigil in honor of Desmond Dyas

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Local Menifee City Hall transitions to virtual services Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

Due to the continued rise of COVID-19 cases throughout the region, the city of Menifee has temporarily closed its doors to inperson services.

Friends and family gather Tuesday night, Jan. 11, to honor the life of Desmond Dyas, 28, at The Bank Mexican restaurant in Old Town Temecula where Dyas was shot and killed along with two others who were injured in the shooting, Sunday, Jan. 9. See page A-2 for more photos.

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Menifee welcomes the construction of a new Justice Center with Jan. 14 groundbreaking Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Riverside County court judges, supervisors, Menifee city officials, law enforcement officers and a state assemblyman turned out Friday, Jan. 14, for the groundbreaking of a long-sought justice court in Southwest County.

It was the second groundbreaking for a new justice court in the county that day. The first took place that morning in Indio. Both of the new courthouses will administer faster justice for area families and businesses in the area seeking domestic and civil actions.

Excited about the new $90 million project in Menifee was the Hon. John M. Monterosso, presiding judge and assistant presiding judge Judith Clark who will be in charge of the new Menifee Justice Construction begins for the Menifee Justice Center as dignitaries gather to celebrate at a groundbreaking ceremony, Jan. 14.

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Hemet police officers share more than coffee with the community Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

As customers converged on a Starbucks to get their early morning coffee fix, they had the opportunity to interact with Hemet police officers in a positive way as part of a Coffee with a Cop event.

Jilma Ordonez has been manager of the Starbucks located at the westernmost end of the city at 4552 W. Florida Ave. since March.

“I want to make sure and do these kinds of events and thank our officers for their service,” she said.

“Our customers get to talk to them about anything. And the officers get those thank yous and pats on the back they don’t always get for showing up every day.”

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Hemet Police Chief Eddie Pust, left, and Hemet Fire Chief Eddie Sell show public safety solidarity at a recent Coffee with a Cop event at Starbucks.

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Wildomar City Council choses new election district boundaries Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Wildomar City Council chose one of five possible new election district boundaries presented to the council by a representative from the National Demographics Corporation at its regular council meeting, live streamed Wednesday, Jan. 12.

While NDC provided three possible scenarios for how the five election districts could be equally divided and meet the latest census count requirements, two other possible redistricting ideas were shown, one from the city and the other from a Wildomar resident.

Under the new census data, Wildomar recorded 36,998 residents.

Each district should have an equal number of people, but some deviations are allowed provided there is no regard for ethnicity, race or political party in the choices.

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Ideally, each Wildomar district should have 7.340 residents, but scenario NDC101 which was selected by the council, showed a 5.22% deviation. That deviation percentage is allowable in the new boundaries. The basic changes recommended by NDC 101 showed District 1 gaining 181 residents and District 5 losing the most residents at 205. The proposed breakdown shows the total number of residents in each district as: District 1 with 7,581 residents; District 2, 7,368 residents; District 3, 7,408 residents; District 4, 7,446 residents and District 5 with 7,195 residents.

While the council favored the NDC 101 breakdown, the final redistricting map will not be selected until one more public hearing is held and the final map is submitted and approved by the state in April.

Before the city calls the next public hearing, residents can still submit

their own ideas of how the districts should be split. Details on the maps can found on the city website under the Wednesday, Jan. 12, agenda packet. Only one resident has submitted his idea for redistricting at this time.

Earlier in the evening, several residents complained about the districts and suggested the city go back to at-large elections. The council, however, due to recent lawsuits concerning the Voting Rights Act and the city’s lower reserve funds because of its small size, noted it had little choice but to go to districts, unlike other large cities, like Corona, who could afford to go the court in opposition to district voting.

The council received an update from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Cal Fire and a Bundy Canyon Road update, which indicated the construction was going

as planned with some delays from weather in the past few weeks.

Sarah Mack from the sheriff’s department said that in the past three months, through December, the department answered an average of 1,500 calls per month. There were no homicides in that time, 38 assaults, one robbery and two sex crimes. Larceny led to the number of property crimes.

The council approved 10 consent items and held three public hearings that evening.

The public hearings concerned the changing of some zoning designations for multiple family dwellings, general residential zones and residential incentive zones, in conformance with the latest state zoning mandates like state Senate Bill 1383. The changes also reflected the zone changes overdue to bring them into compliance with the city’s General Plan. There

were only five parcels of the initial 259 original parcels up for zone changes that varied in large part from the general plan in the farming area north of Bundy Canyon Road. Those changes were set aside for further review.

On a consent item, which approved a professional services agreement for Kosmont Companies to conduct a hotel market analyst, it was brought into question why the city needed the analysis done, instead of determining the need in-house. Staff said the outside analysis was needed to provide interested hotel companies with official data on the viability of supporting a hotel. The council was told the study was necessary to create interest from hotel management companies.

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Board rejects proposed cannabis farm in community west of Temecula City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to deny permits for what would have been Riverside County’s first licensed outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation site, citing the incompatibility of the project with the area and the hundreds of people opposed to it.

“I have a lot of concerns for this community,” Supervisor Kevin Jeffries said ahead of the 5-0 vote Tuesday, Jan. 11, against Fuego Farms’ proposal. “It introduces challenges in a community that is pretty well set in its current agricultural uses. I have trouble seeing how cannabis is going to fit into that. I don’t think this kind of industrial operation is compatible.”

The 72-acre project was intended to be established in the hills near the Santa Rosa Ecological Reserve, situated among large-lot properties in the area of Carancho and El Calamar roads, just west of Temecula.

The owners said 4.3 acres were slated for development, leaving the remainder of the property vacant.

The project, however, called for 15 3,841-square-foot greenhouses,

two 2,800-square-foot greenhouses, eight 3,000-gallon water tanks and a 4,800-foot administration building.

Upward of 600 residents in the area – along with the cities of Murrieta and Temecula – opposed the proposal over public safety, noise, odor, lighting and water use concerns.

More than 50 people showed up to speak during the board’s public hearing on whether to grant a development agreement and conditional use permits that would have lasted a decade. The hearing spanned nearly three hours.

“The peacefulness and beauty of De Luz are the reasons why most people move there,” resident Karen Brown told the board. “Safety is an important issue. How can this type of project be approved in a residential area?”

Another resident, Dawn Henry, said she feels safe allowing her children to walk to and from their bus stop a quarter mile from their home, but the idea of a commercial marijuana grow nearby would have that sense of security “snatched away from us.”

“To introduce this element would drastically change our reality,” she

told the board. “This needs to happen somewhere else.”

Sheriff Chad Bianco voiced his opposition through Undersheriff Dennis Vrooman, who appeared before the supervisors.

“We’re against this type of operation,” Vrooman said. “This would be publicly known. It raises a security concern. We don’t think it’s a good fit for the community. It’s an agricultural and residential community. We’re against this project.”

The owners attempted to assure the board that the property would be well secured with armed guards, that lights emanating from the greenhouses and perimeter fencing wouldn’t ruin area residents’ views of the night sky and that the cannabis odors would be filtered to lessen their impacts.

Jeffries said his own experience with marijuana cultivation odors had left a bad impression.

“The odors are horrendous,” he said. “This is the wrong place for this particular project.”

County Supervisor Karen Spiegel said the owners did a substandard job reaching out to the supervisors’ staffs and trying to encourage community support for the proposal.

“There wasn’t due diligence on this project,” she said. “It’s a very sensitive neighborhood, a sensitive biological area with the wildlife.”

She pointed to the pristine quality of the Santa Rosa Plateau and the fact that so many tours with children are taken there. Having a large-scale cannabis grow on the edge of the preserve did not sit well with her.

Supervisor Chuck Washington echoed the same sentiments.

“Our daughter takes our grandchildren to the Santa Rosa Plateau.

It’s a jewel,” he said. “We have a wine (growing) district that’s recognized worldwide (in the Temecula Valley). I’m trying to imagine what a cannabis facility would look like on top of a vineyard or citrus grove. It’s not the kind of picture I can see in Riverside County.”

The county Planning Commission had approved the proposal on a narrow 3-2 vote in September. But according to county documents, the overwhelming number of people who spoke at the hearings were in opposition. No one but the owner of the property and his attorney expressed support for the project during the board hearing.

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People honor the life of Desmond Dyas, 28, who was shot and killed in Old Town Temecula. Dyas was a Chaparral High School alum and played football for the Pumas.

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“Desmond” is spelled with lit candles to honor the life of Desmond Dyas who was shot and killed in Old Town Temecula. Two suspects, Kevin Hatchett Jr., 24, of Wildomar and Nickolas Trichanh, 21, of Corona were arrested in the investigation of the shooting.

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Friends and family mourn the loss of Desmond Dyas during a candlelight vigil at the site of where he was shot and killed in Old Town Temecula Jan. 9.

Desmond Dyas’ fiancée Desiree Brown, second from left, arrives with the support of family and friends at a candlelight vigil to honor Dyas’s life in Old Town Temecula.

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Friends and family mourn the loss of Desmond Dyas during a candlelight vigil at the site of where he was shot and killed in Old Town Temecula.

Dozens gather at The Bank Mexican restaurant to mourn the loss of Desmond Dyas, 28, who was shot and killed. The Bank staff said video surveillance appears to show Dyas was shot after intervening in an argument between two individuals in an attempt to de-escalate the confrontation.

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Menifee City Hall transitions from in-person to virtual and telephone services Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

Due to the continued rise of COVID-19 cases throughout the region, the city of Menifee has temporarily closed its doors to inperson services.

“As Riverside County continues to see a rise in COVID-19 cases, the city of Menifee will be transitioning to virtual and phone service-only during a temporary closure of City Hall and other facilities beginning Wednesday, Jan. 12,” Menifee representative Philip Southard said in a news release.

During the temporary closure, city hall will continue to be open for business virtually via the “Zero Stop Shop,” which provides online resources for many city services.

Customer service representatives will also be available by phone Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 951-672-6777.

Menifee now joins with Murrie-

ta and Lake Elsinore in providing services online and by phone only.

“The Senior Lunch Program provided by the Community Services Department will temporarily return to a drive-thru format beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 12,” Southard said. “Recreational classes and activities will be postponed during the temporary closure.”

According to the news release, public meetings will continue to be open for in-person attendance, but attendees will be required to take a temperature check and wear a mask when indoors. Meetings will be set up to allow for social distancing and can also viewed remotely via the city’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube. com/c/CityofMenifeeCali.

“The city remains committed to maintaining continuity of service while ensuring the health, safety and well-being of our residents and employees,” Menifee Mayor Bill

Zimmerman said. “We appreciate the community’s understanding as we work together to overcome the latest COVID-19 surge following the holiday season.”

In addition to the temporary closure of city facilities, several internal measures are also being implemented to maintain the safety of employees, the news release said.

Safety measures include initiating a 50% remote staffing plan to help maximize social distancing, requiring that all internal meetings be held virtually, ensuring enhanced daily cleaning of facilities, securing the capability to provide OSHA compliant, weekly testing for city staff as needed and continuing to communicate to employees that N95 masks are available and maintaining supplies of masks and sanitizers City facilities are expected to reopen Monday, Jan. 31, Southard said.

Menifee transitioned to virtual and phone service-only during a temporary closure of City Hall and other facilities beginning Wednesday, Jan. 12.

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“The city will continue to actively monitor the COVID-19 situation and its operational impacts, and will make any additional adjustments as necessary,” he said.

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Temecula, the proposed Branson of the West

In the November 1995 election in Temecula, residents of the 6-year-old community voted in favor of making Old Town Temecula into a western music destination that some dubbed “the Branson of the West,” referring to a small town in Missouri, a hub where well-known musicians have performance theaters. In a hotly contested vote, the proposal for the music venue development, presented as Proposition B, won by a 46-vote margin of the 8,146 votes cast.

While some people thought the proposal would encourage business and tourism, other voters voiced concerns about increased traffic. There were others who stood against growth of enterprises or in population in Temecula at the time.

Even after Proposition B won by a narrow margin, the Temecula Planning Department could not solve the traffic question, so Zev Buffman, who proposed the music destination, left town to develop other theatrical concepts in other venues.

The community didn’t fully appreciate or understand who Mr. Zev Buffman was when he came to town. Most people saw him as a slick promoter with an objective to feed his pockets and to create havoc in the streets. For many years, and even to this day, Buffman and his dream are laughed at, belittled.

something special for our town that at the time had a population of about 45,000. Temecula was a place where people came to follow their dreams in an open space full of opportunities.

While Buffman lived in La Cresta, he chose Old Town Temecula as the location for his western music capital. Specifically, he envisioned a music pavilion as a focal point on the knoll at the west end of Main Street with access from the street level by stairs.

His $65 million project was to be partially financed from public bonds. It would include a 4,800seat outdoor arena for rodeos and Wild West Shows, an opera house, two cabarets, two virtual reality pavilions, a hotel and a plaza with retail and restaurants.

When the project failed in Temecula, he pitched a proposal to the city of Murrieta to build RogersDale U.S.A. in the Golden Triangle at the junction of Interstates 15 and 215. It was to be a joint project with the family of Western film actors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans who planned to move away from Victorville where their museum had diminishing attendance.

Taking the lead from the Temecula decision, the city of Murrieta also did not welcome the project.

Buffman moved to Palm Springs and on to Florida where he successfully invested in multiple prestigious entertainment venues before eventually retiring on Whidbey Island in Washington State. The Rogers/Evans Family made a successful move to Branson, Missouri.

I am not quite sure what happened following the successful vote for Zev’s proposed music destination and its failure to materialize. I would like to know more about it. If any readers know the full story of what happened at the city planning department level, send an email to sunbrook@hotmail.com.

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A bumper sticker is just one way the city of Temecula hoped to promote Old Town Temecula as a western music destination in 1995.

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ence, I feel apologetic that we didn’t give him a chance to build his dream in Temecula. Could it have caused any worse traffic congestion than we have now? Would the tourists to the music center be worse than the weekend midnight crowd in Old Town today?

Rest in peace, Zev. Thank you for loving Temecula. I am sorry you didn’t get a chance to develop your dream for us here.

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In reading his recent obituary – he died in Seattle in May 2020 from pancreatic cancer – I found new appreciation for this man who wanted to promote something wonderful in Temecula.

He was born Ze’ev Bufman in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1930. His parents immigrated there from Ukraine. Ze’ve means “wolf” in Hebrew. Ze’ve’s father Mordechai owned two cinemas in Tel Aviv where Ze’ve first learned to love performing arts. As a young boy, he also learned English and other languages by listening to the onscreen dialogue.

When Ze’ve became an adult, he served in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 War of Independence. He later served as an entertainer to the Israeli troops in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. In 1951, he came to the U.S. as a drama student named Zev Buffman, changing his last name from Bufman, which was pronounced “Boofman.”

He landed some acting roles, including those of two slave characters in Cecil B. DeMille’s “Ten Commandments.” At some point in production of the film Zev caught DeMille’s attention by pointing out that one of the signs in the movie was written in the Hebrew of the present day and not as it would have been 2,000 years before.

Eventually Zev transitioned from actor to producer. He owned the Hollywood Dinner Theater before going to New York where he produced more than 40 shows on Broadway. He worked with many well-known stars including Liz Taylor who became a close friend.

He owned or managed performing arts venues in Miami, Chicago and New Orleans.

Zev said his favorite production of all times was the musical “Oklahoma” and that it reminded him of his early life among the settlers in the fledgling new nation of Israel. Maybe that is why he liked Temecula and envisioned

Assemblymember Seyarto introduces his 2022 veterans bill package SACRAMENTO – This week, Assemblymember Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, introduced his 2022 veterans bill package to offer simple solutions to ensure California’s veterans receive the benefits they have earned.

Assembly Bill 1629 seeks to relieve the children and spouses of men and women in uniform from the undue burden of taxed Survivor Benefit Plan payments.

Much like a life insurance policy, SBPs are an optional benefit that military service members may opt to pay into. After their death, these benefits are considered a taxable income source. This bill would make the first $20,000 of payments from SBP tax exempt each year. Currently, 48 states partially or fully exempt SBP payments, and California is one of only two states in the country that fully taxes these benefits.

“These families and survivors have paid the highest price for our state and nation. Surely one of the simplest ways we can express our gratitude is not to tax the very compensation we give them

for that loss,” Seyarto said. “It is long overdue that California joins the rest of the nation in providing them financial relief.”

Assembly Bill 1633 creates a pathway for the University of California and California State University systems to share the contact information of student veterans, with the student’s permission, with the California Veterans Administration to help further connect them with their well-deserved benefits. One of the primary reasons veterans struggle is simply the lack of connection to many of the resources offered. Unfortunately, CalVet does not have accurate or up-to-date information sources and is primarily reliant on veterans themselves showing up and asking for help. This bill will connect more veterans with CalVet through the use of the G.I. Bill Education Benefits as over 60% of veterans using their education benefits attend a public higher education college or university.

“By simply having the CSUs and the UCs share contact information with CalVet, we can con-

nect tens of thousands of veterans with benefits,” Seyarto said. “Each connection made is a connection to help a veteran and their family.”

Seyarto also introduced Assembly Concurrent Resolution 121, which would declare Aug. 7, 2022, as Purple Heart Day in California in honor of the many service members and veterans who were injured or killed by enemy actions in service to our country.

Assemblymember Kelly Seyarto serves California’s 67th District located in Riverside County, home to one of California’s largest veterans populations.

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Tinsel Tri falls short of expectations for 77-year-old veteran

Bill White displays his finisher’s medal after completing the 35th annual Tinsel Triathlon in Hemet, Sunday, Dec. 12. Valley News/Courtesy photos

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Bill White is an active person whose motto in life is to “keep moving.”

“If you can’t run, then walk,” he said. “Use whatever means you have to stay active in some way every day or work out in your garage or living room.”

The 77-year-old participates in four to five competitive runs a year.

From half marathons to 10K races and two to three triathlons annually, he definitely keeps moving.

White competed in Hemet’s Tinsel Triathlon in 2019 and enjoyed it, he said. The event was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he was looking forward to participating when it resumed in 2021. The Sunday, Dec. 12, reverse triathlon consisted of a 5K run, a 12-mile bike ride and a 150-meter swim starting and ending at West Valley High School.

About a month before the scheduled 35th annual Tinsel Triathlon, White registered online because he felt it provided a good end of the year challenge in three disciplines.

“I always wait until the event gets close to register, so I can gauge if my conditioning is ready and if I need to step up my training,” he said.

The day started fine for White, he said.

“The weather was great; the course was well maintained and laid out as it was in 2019, and the pool was heated which helped,” he said. “My 5K time was good but the cycling could have been better even though I passed a lot of riders.

At age 77 everything is challenging, especially having the endurance to maintain a pace, but probably swimming is my weakest area.

Even though it was only 150 meters, I was pretty exhausted when I got to the pool because I pushed harder than planned on the bike to make up for poor transitions.”

Race results White was the oldest competitor in the field of 354 entrants with a 73-year-old being the closest in age to him. That difference put him alone in the 75-79 age category, where he took first place with a finish time of 1 hour, 24 minutes and 20 seconds.

He said he was disappointed with his final time as it was nowhere near his personal best.

“I lost a lot of time this year in the transition areas, eight minutes overall, because you can’t make up that much time against good athletes,” he said. “I did not prepare for the changeovers properly. My times should have been 5-8 minutes

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faster. Although this year’s finish time would have put me third place in the lower 70-74 age group, fourth in the 65-69 group, and eighth out of 16 in the 60-64 group, I was not happy with it.”

Each person who completes the triathlon receives a “unique Tinsel Triathlon finisher medal,” which White did get. When the medals for first, second and third place in each age group were announced, however, the award ceremony ended before his category. White knew he was the only competitor in his age group and was expecting a first-place medal. When he inquired about it, he was told, “Someone else got first place and it wasn’t you.”

When he asked for his times from the race’s official timers, SVE Timing, he was told, “We have no time information for you, you’ll have to check online later.”

Bob Duistermars, the Tinsel Triathlon’s director of logistics, was contacted by Valley News and said that there are always going to be some glitches when you have so many people involved.

“But you can’t do this type of event for 35 years if you aren’t doing so many things right,” he said.

“While there are always going to be people whose name got spelled wrong or who ended up in the wrong age group, overall things go pretty smoothly.”

After White’s concern surfaced, Duistermars recalled checking with the timing booth, who supplied the printouts read by those giving out medals to the top finishers. He was told the timer got cut off from the internet and they had to check their internal system to determine what happened.

“I asked him (White) to bear with us, it may take time but we would find him and I also asked the timing company to keep at it until he had been found,” Duistermars said.

He said it is the way these issues are handled, adding that if there is a mix-up on awards, they make sure it gets fixed. It’s not clear when the problem was discovered and corrected.

“Mistakes will get made with the constant movement of people to and from the timing booth, but it always gets resolved,” he said.

“All in all, this year’s event ran like glass. It’s unfortunate this happened (to White).”

Aftermath of race results White, a Corona resident since 1981, said, “If you take the competition seriously like I do, whether against other participants, or just with myself, you spend the preceding weeks training with a specific plan, eating specific diets days before the event, get up before sunrise and drive about 50 miles, only to find out there were no event shirts which were mentioned on the entry form and in my case, no results, like I wasn’t even there.”

He said his wife and daughter were the first to call him after the race and later his son called while he was still there, all anxiously asking him how he had done. He got the same questions from his co-workers the following Monday.

“What could I tell them? Nothing,” White said. “I have run the Long Beach Half Marathon about 10 times, and within an hour after I finished they had results and medals for all categories, and you’re talking 8,000-10,000 runners.”

He said no one explained they were having difficulty with getting results.

“It just never was posted on the results board, and the announcer just stopped announcing results in the mid-70s age group. He never

made any announcements that there was a problem. Apparently, they didn’t have any problems with all the previous age groups. All I was told by a lady with long red hair holding a clipboard was to check results online in a couple of days.”

According to Duistermars, that person worked with the timing company.

White said he knows the Tinsel Triathlon staff didn’t expect to have timing and recording problems, but “still, communication is everything.”

In an email request to certified race director Connie Hall two days after the event, White’s daughter Genessa Hager requested information on the results. In her message, she told Hall that her father’s comment to her was “I know us older people don’t matter as much, but we still work just as hard, if not harder to be involved.”

Hager told Hall, “It was really discouraging for him at 77, and discouraging for me and his family to hear he was treated this way.”

White sent his own email request, Friday, Dec. 17, to Hall who responded Wednesday, Dec. 29, stating she would get back to him later that day, which she didn’t.

Eventually, White did receive communication from Hall Tuesday, Jan. 4, and he was mailed the first-place medal he earned as well as a couple of T-shirts from the 2019 event.

“That was nice to see,” he said.

Further disappointment Almost a month after the event, White said he has not seen any photographs from the event yet.

Byron Moore is the photographer listed on the event’s website, but as of Monday, Jan. 10, there was no link to photos from this year’s Tinsel Triathlon. The event’s website does contain the statement, “We offer the photos as a piece of your registration.”

White said another blow was not getting an event T-shirt, which was promised to registrants.

“This saddened me because that’s one of several reasons participants sign up,” he said. “They like to occasionally wear them, as they make great advertising for future events and participants have pride in their accomplishments. I was told (by Hall) it wasn’t in the budget.”

He recalled that at the 2019 Tinsel Triathlon there were 273 entrants, and this year had 354 so he said there should have been more money in the budget. And if they could not afford the shirts, they should not have been offered on the registration form, he said.

“Maybe they need a new vendor,” he said.

According to the Tinsel Triathlon registration form, “Every registrant who attends the event receives an awesome, suitably fitted long sleeve T-shirt.”

The fee for an individual to participate was $110 before Monday, Nov. 1, and $145 after that date.

Lifelong athlete White was part of the sports scene in high school, playing football and baseball and competing on the track team.

“I rowed competitively on the ‘Crew Team’ in Junior College against universities like UCLA, Stanford, etc. and did competitive bicycle racing in the UCF (United Cycling Federation) doing occasional Criteriums and road races,” White said.

Drafted into the U.S. Army at age 21 during the Vietnam War, White spent a year as military police in Saigon from 1967 to 1968. The time changed his life’s focus, he said.

“I came back with a lot more

Bill White shows the first-place medal he received by mail nearly a month after he competed in the Tinsel Triathlon in Hemet. He is wearing a T-shirt from a previous Tinsel Triathlon event he was sent since there were none available for this year’s competition.

conviction to accomplish certain goals,” he said. “I really appreciated being alive and saw how quickly life can end.”

He had a 45-year career in the specialty market of selling aircraft insurance.

“I got a pilot’s license at age 20 and owned a little two-seat Cessna 140 at 23,” White said. “When I got out of the service, I wanted to be an airline pilot but that didn’t work out so I turned to aircraft insurance.”

At 6-feet tall and 175 pounds, he maintained a consistent healthy diet for the past 20 years with protein shakes to start off his mornings.

He said he rarely eats fried food or anything high in fat or sodium, except for the occasional order of french fries.

In the past few years, White created an exercise routine for himself that has become a lifestyle for him and said he feels guilty if he doesn’t maintain it. Six days a week after his morning coffee, he does 50 crunches, not situps, and 50 pushups and jogs 2-6 miles depending on how he feels or whether he’s in training for an upcoming endurance event, he said.

“I believe you should run/jog to how you feel; this starts my day in a positive manner,” he said. “On Sundays, I take my dogs for a one to one and a half mile walk in lieu of jogging. Before bed at night, I lay on the carpet for five minutes doing stretches.”

Although disheartened by the treatment he received at the Hemet event, White said it will not deter him from continuing to compete in endurance events.

“I did the Apple Valley Reverse Triathlon three months prior to the one in Hemet and finished first.

That was the only other one I did in 2021, but I will add a couple more in 2022,” White said.

For more information, visit http:// www.tinseltriathlon.com.

A photo taken in Vietnam where Bill White served in the U.S. Army’s military police during the 1960s.

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Hemet City Council hears appeal for more residents to donate blood in a national crisis Type O+ and O- completely diminished Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Hemet City Council members heard an urgent appeal during their Wednesday, Jan. 12, meeting from Susanne Bosewell, regional account manager of LifeStream Blood Bank, asking city residents to donate blood during a critical blood shortage.

What was meant to be a proclamation and a presentation became a dire appeal by Bosewell for Hemet San Jacinto residents’ to donate blood. On the first and third Wednesdays each month, the bloodmobile is parked in front of the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham St., in Hemet.

Boswell said there are hospitals with people who are in immediate need of blood transfusions. She said they have virtually no Type O, either positive or negative, blood in the banks. Type O negative blood is the universal donor blood that can be temporarily substituted in transfusions for other blood types.

Her appeal was made the day before the American Red Cross, for the first time, posted a national appeal for all types of blood Wednesday, Jan. 13, since blood banks were almost empty with donations down by huge percentages because of the COVID-19 pandemic and patients diagnosed with the omicron and Delta varients overloading emergency rooms.

The Red Cross said it was in the worst blood shortage in a decade.

They said there was a 34% decline in new donors and a dire shortage of trained medical personnel to prepare the blood donors because of the pandemic.

The council urged all local resi-

dents, if they are well, to give blood.

Bosewell said every precaution is taken to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 with a complete cleaning of every donating table and testing taking place. All current COVID-19 regulations are followed.

Those wishing to donate can visit http://lstream.org/expresspass/ to make an appointment.

The council also heard appeals from members of the Hemet Police Officers Association to provide long-promised raises for officers in the city to keep many from leaving the department and seeking higher pay and more benefits at neighboring departments. Officer Matt Hyatt suggested the city take almost $4.2 million from Measure U funds, which are held in reserve, to increase officers’ pay and add more badly needed officers to the department.

“Don’t use this money as a savings account,” Hyatt said.

Kevin Pearson, public information officer of Eastern Municipal Water District, explained to the council that the district is about to begin one of its largest projects to bring large amounts of raw water to the city and district with a huge 60-inch diameter pipeline that will run from Metropolitan Water District’s Diamond Valley Reservoir that stores high quality water from Northern California before it moves to the Sanderson Avenue filtration plant. From there the pipeline will run up Esplanade and Commonwealth avenues to the recently completed groundwater storage facility in San Jacinto.

He said EMWD is working with San Jacinto and Hemet for traffic control on the roadways during the construction period that on occasion

could delay traffic.

“We can move a lot of water in a very short time,” Pearson said.

The planned project will allow purchased water to come in during the continuing drought and assure all its customers continuous safe drinking water no matter what the crisis.

Hemet Mayor Pro Tem Karlee Meyer, who was diagnosed with brain cancer, said she was particularly concerned with the quality and safety of water coming to EMWD and to Hemet residents. Pearson assured her, the other council members and residents that the water coming from Northern California is of the highest quality and will be filtered to the safest drinking levels at the facility’s newer filtration plants.

The council approved 14 consent items and discussed updating and preparing a 2022 Proclamation List. It led to some questions about whether or not making a permanent proclamations list for the year might deter other proclamations from being called by council members. The council amended the list to make sure they had the final say in who would be honored that year.

The council agreed to appoint Mayor Malcolm Lilienthal and council member Linda Krupa as the primary and alternate for the Southern California Association of Governments’ 2022 general assembly meeting. The meeting will cover the many suggested state legislative issues and other issues pertinent to the city and Inland Empire.

The entire meeting, except for the special sessions, was live streamed in accordance with state COVID-19 mandates.

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

Wildomar’s city manager to retire WILDOMAR – Gary Nordquist, Wildomar’s longtime city manager, will retire from Wildomar – and city government entirely – Monday, Jan. 31.

Nordquist has been with Wildomar since 2009 as the assistant city manager, finance director, treasurer, human resources director and risk manager. He was appointed as the city manager Jan. 1, 2013.

The past 13 years were full of challenges for Wildomar and Nordquist. In 2011, he was able to keep the city afloat when the motor vehicle license fees were taken away by the state and assisted in helping the city get new funding; he was eventually successful in getting the VLF funding restored back to the city in 2018.

“Gary has been an integral part of Wildomar’s growth and ultimate success,” Mayor Ben J. Benoit said. “The future of Wildomar definitely looked bleak during some financially hard years but Gary always pushed us through, and we came out ahead. Gary’s legacy will never be forgotten in our city.”

Nordquist also coordinated the passage of Measure Z to help Wildomar with funding for park maintenance and expansion. At the time, Wildomar was experiencing more than two years of limited park maintenance and park closures due to the loss of funding sources slated for the parks. On Nov. 6, 2012, the Wildomar residents voted on a $28 annual parcel tax, Measure Z, to assist in the funding of park operations and related park activities. Wildomar reopened the parks in April 2014.

Along with the reopening of the parks came the opportunity to use the parks, and Nordquist came through again. He developed city events such as the annual Camp Out in the Park and Drive-in Movie

Nights – affordable opportunities that provided fun and entertainment for entire families.

Nordquist also coordinated the passage of Measure AA in November 2018 to protect local public safety and other essential services, including maintaining and improving local police, fire protection, 911 medical response times, local streets, roads and potholes and addressing and reducing homelessness. In 2021, he expanded the city’s code enforcement department, a much-needed team to enforce city ordinances and to assist the sheriff’s department with public safety in Wildomar.

Many of Nordquist’s accomplishments can be seen around Wildomar but may not be quite as obvious: he coordinated the development of the city’s vision statement, which helps to guide council and staff with decision-making.

He helped to develop commercial design guidelines and the vision of Wildomar’s “Miracle Mile.” Nordquist upgraded the city’s council chambers with better technology and annexed the cemetery district into the city.

Nordquist also helped facilitate preparation and approval of the city’s first two housing elements, the city’s first commercial and multi-family design guidelines and development that will mark Wildomar’s cityscape well into the future. Nordquist helped to bring 400,000-square-feet of approved retail and approval of over 1,400 single-family and multi-family residential dwelling units to Wildomar.

“Gary will be greatly missed in Wildomar, but we wish him the best of a well-deserved retirement,” Benoit said. “We look forward to Wildomar’s next chapter.”

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JUSTICE from page A-1 Court when it is completed in 2024.

Expressing their pleasure for the Judicial Council’s decision to locate the court in Menifee was Menifee City Manager Armando Villa and Mayor Bill Zimmerman.

Many other dignitaries were on hand as well to congratulate the judges and the city officials for the new three-story courthouse with nine new courts including Assemblyman Kelly Seyarto who recently announced his bid to run for state senator taking retiring Sen. Melissa Melendez’s seat in the legislature.

Monterosso did the welcome and introductions of the many dignitaries attending the outdoor ceremony with large bulldozers and land scrapers in the background.

The recently graded building site is in the middle of what will become Menifee’s Town Center and City Hall in the future west

John Monterosso, Presiding Judge for the Superior Court of Riverside County welcomes guests to the Menifee Justice Center groundbreaking ceremony.

Dignitaries break ground signifying the start of construction for the new Menifee Justice Center located at 27401 Town Center Drive.

of Town Center Drive.

Also speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony were 3rd District Supervisor Chuck Washington and 5th District Supervisor Jeff Hewitt. Recognized in the background were Riverside

“I hope I will be the one standing in front when they cut the ribbon for the courthouse,” Clark said.

“We are really excited to have this courthouse and the courthouse in Indio. This is incredible for the communities and to bring more access to the courts.” She said the court will be entirely civil. “We will have civil community courts and civil courts. Probate may move up here. It gives us a tremendous opportunity when we move into this building to serve this end of the county,” she said.

Monterosso said, “There were a lot of people involved in the community to get both projects (Menifee and Indio) underway…

Most of you here today had a hand in this project. It is really an incredible day.

“The public buildings we build should reflect our public values.

By investing in and building this courthouse shows this community its commitment to providing a quorum to resolve its disputes according to the law. The enduring trade of the American Spirit is that everybody should have their day in court and to that end we must provide a place for that work to be done. But just as importantly, the design of such buildings should show the serious and solemn nature of the work being done and reflect the legitimacy of that.” He said the building at the Menifee site reflects those things.

Bringing economic growth Villa was extremely pleased with the new courthouse, not only for the civil justice opportunities it will bring to the city residents, but to become part of the city’s establishment of a town center for the growing community. “It is what I call an economic engine for the city. From here we will extend more office spacing. attorneys, support services. So it is those higher-paying jobs that bring in

County Sheriff Chad Bianco, Menifee and Murrieta police chiefs and many of their staff officers.

Judge’s future hopes Clark said she was looking forward to serving the residents of the Menifee Valley area in the future.

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Zimmerman took the speaker’s stand and urged the audience to greet Judge Monterosso with a big “Welcome to Menifee,” followed by applause.

Seyarto said, “Being able to expand our courthouses so the judges can actually do their job is good. The worst thing to do is elect people to do it and not give them the tools to do it. This gives them the tools in the right place and the right day to mete out justice and solve those disputes.”

Other speakers included Supervisor Jeff Hewitt; W. Samuel Hamrick Jr., Court Executive Officer and John Wordlow, the chief administrative officer of the Judicial Council that led the way for the construction of the Menifee and Indio Justice Centers.

Building statistics The building is being built

by Varnir Construction with the Construction Manager at Clark Construction Group LLC. The architect is Perkin+Will of Los Angeles. The project is being funded by SB 1407 and the state’s General Fund.

The Menifee Justice Center will replace an existing five-courtroom courthouse and provide space for four new judicial officers. Court services in the new building will support family, community court and civil case calendars. The new building will include family law mediation, self-help and jury services, and very minimal custody detention will be provided, according to the Judicial Council groundbreaking program handout.

There was some talk about possibly opening a juvenile court in the new building in the future to help with overcrowded conditions at the Indio facility.

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Lake Elsinore City Council meeting Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Lake Elsinore’s newest Mayor Timothy J. Sheridan presided over the first 2022 city council meeting despite some technical issues due to changes in electronic rather than verbal voting systems. Speakers from the public were encouraged to make comments virtually rather than in person, which also resulted in a few glitches throughout the Tuesday, Jan. 11, meeting.

A presentation from Harvey R. Ryan, board member with the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, got things started as he gave an update on coronavirus relief and assistance programs available to ratepayers. Among the district’s 157,000 customers, there are 45,580 domestic water connections. The California Water and Wastewater Arrearage Payment Program provides financial assistance toward past due account balances incurred from March 4, 2020, to June 15, 2021, using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Harvey said affected customers do not need to apply for assistance as qualifying accounts will be credited during the next several weeks and customers will be notified.

Other assistance programs, however, are available and customers were encouraged to visit http://www. evmwd.com/assistance for more information. With help on water efficiency efforts to save on future bills, customers can visit http://www.evmwd.com/conservation. Additionally, customers can call 951-674-3146 or email ihaveavoice@evmwd.net.

COFFEE from page A-1 Reyes. “Coffee with a Cop is really about giving community members an opportunity to meet the men and women who serve their community,” he said. “The program aims to build trust and form relationships with the community by allowing the public to ask questions and engage in conversation with our officers in a neutral, welcoming setting.”

When Ordonez hosted similar events at previous Hemet restaurants she managed, she said customers always appreciated the opportunity to talk with local law enforcement. “Being in this town for 30-plus years, I’m seeing some

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office 2021 fourth quarter statistical update was continued to the next city council meeting Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Sheridan presented a plaque to former mayor and current council member Robert “Bob” Magee to commemorate his service as mayor from December 2020 to December 2021 and cited him as a “tremendous resource to the city.” Magee said it has been an honor to serve the community that he calls home, stating that he is most proud of the city’s park system. “When I (first) got elected, we had nothing and today we have 20 beautiful parks,” he said.

Consent item pulled City Council Consent Calendar Item No. 15, regarding a conditional use permit for a proposed self-serve car wash that was denied by the planning commission at its Dec. 21 meeting, was pulled by Sheridan.

He said the project location at 31706 Casino Drive has been a “troubled site for quite a long time.” He said he recognized the importance of the planning commission’s concerns but felt the item should be pulled for city council consideration. He moved to have the item pulled and have staff prepare a public hearing notice for the next available city council meeting. His motion was seconded by council member Brian Tisdale and agreed upon by Mayor Pro Tem Natasha Johnson. Magee opposed the motion.

The balance of the consent calendar items were approved 4-0, with council member Steve Manos absent from the meeting. Successor Agency Consent Calendar items were also approved unanimously by the sitting

council members.

The first public hearing item, regarding a planning application for Fairway Business Park Phase III, was opened at the Dec. 14 city council meeting and continued to the current meeting. Justin Kirk, assistant community development director of Lake Elsinore, presented the staff report that outlined how and where the six industrial buildings located near Chaney and Birch streets would be constructed for Phase III of this project. A request was made for approval of the four resolutions including the approval of a tentative parcel map and industrial design.

All four resolutions were passed unanimously.

Rental amendment Public Hearing Item No. 30 was a request to amend Lake Elsinore Municipal Code Amendments regarding short-term rentals, specifically amending Title 5 and Title 17.

Kirk provided the staff presentation and pointed out that there are currently no regulatory governing laws about short-term rentals and that noise and/or parking ordinances can currently only be addressed by law enforcement. The proposed amendment would allow the city’s code enforcement department to ensure adherence to rules in areas that don’t have homeowner’s associations that can restrict such rentals or enact specific rules for them.

Magee noted that Lake Elsinore currently has no regulations that can help those who live near residences that are being used as short-term rentals and have complaints. He explained that allowing the amendments would actually protect home-

of these officers go from rookies to detectives; it’s exciting,” she said.

About eight officers from the patrol and traffic bureaus mingled with visitors to Starbucks on Jan. 13 from 7 to 9 a.m. There was a full coffee dispenser, doughnuts and cookies available at no cost. Many customers in the drive through lane honked their horns in support of the officers and some called out their appreciation as they waited their turn in line.

The department has held “meet and greet’ opportunities in the past but with the onset of the pandemic in 2020, officers didn’t have the ability to make these types of connections. Hemet Police Chief Eddie Pust said, “We evolved

like everything else and we are always trying to find new ways to do things. We have learned how to adapt and not be monotone.

People communicate on different levels and we need to hit all those platforms.”

Reyes said he thinks these opportunities will help the police department be more proactive.

“That starts with us putting in the effort such as allowing events like this, connecting with our youth in various ways and meeting more people where they are at,” he said.

“This provides a neutral setting on common ground and helps build good relationships.”

Reyes said he hears concerns about the homelessness around the

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Lake Elsinore Mayor Tim Sheridan recognizes former Mayor Bob Magee with a plaque for his service.

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owners and residents by giving them the ability to call code enforcement about noise, parking problems, trash and debris on their streets and other issues of concern.

“But let’s not forget that we are marketing ourselves as a tourism destination spot and this tourism mechanism also allows for us to collect TOT tax,” he said.

TOT tax total The county treasurer estimated that Transient Occupancy Tax for short-term rentals countywide totaled $800,000 for the first quarter of 2021.

“That’s real money and that would return to us; whatever is generated within the confines of our city,” Magee said. “And that money can be put right back into code enforcement and other public safety mechanisms.”

The ordinance was passed 4-0.

Five speakers came forward during public comments on non-

Lake Elsinore City Council member votes are posted electronically throughout the meeting Tuesday, Jan. 11.

agendized items, all in opposition of the Lake and Mountain Commercial Center development that is being proposed and was recently presented to the Planning Commission for approval.

The next regular meeting of the Lake Elsinore City Council and Successor Agency is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.lakeelsinore.org.

Hemet Police Department officers gather at Starbucks for a Coffee with a Cop event Jan. 13.

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city. “I think it comes down to community education,” he said. “There are things that police officers can and can’t do and educating people on this helps a lot. We offer public meeting forums so there can be clear two-way communication.”

In 2016, the city’s Restoring Our Community Strategy program was taken over by the police department to make sure homelessness was given a priority. A dedicated ROCS team includes Bryan Cunningham and Dylan Werts, both present at the Coffee with a Cop morning to answer any questions.

Recent laws have changed the way police can interact with homeless people but Pust said that is the nature of his profession and they always adapt. “I think laws really affect us more than the public; there is no accountability for these individuals that just don’t want to follow rules,” he said. “Our job is to help the community and we make a difference by being part of the fix.”

Pust, who has been on the force 26 years and police chief for two, said he views the issue through a different lens and realizes it’s a social problem that is multifaceted.

He believes that to make changes it will take assistance from others outside law enforcement who can help address the underlying problems homeless people face.

He said the biggest change he has seen in Hemet has been the diversity and the population growth that is now at about 87,000 residents. He said the most common complaint he hears from residents is that the department needs more officers. “In 2014, we had the same number of cops that we have today so we have to do a lot more with a lot less.” He added that they are making it work by being innovative in how they spread their workload, having civilian employees doing some of the tasks that don’t need to be done by sworn officers.

Currently, the force has 71 total officers and is currently budgeted for 78. The ratio is usually one officer per 1,000 residents so even fully staffed, the department would be a little short of the city’s current population.

Reyes said with the recent adoption of the City of Hemet’s 2021 Strategic Plan, there is a greater

effort to hold public events more often.

Some of the goals of the Strategic Plan are directly related to the City’s public safety departments such as “to improve the quality of life by addressing the root causes of crime.” The objective is “to ensure that Hemet is safe, clean, attractive, and comfortable for all who live, work and visit.”

Another major component of the Strategic Plan that was adopted by the Hemet City Council June 22, 2021, is to improve community engagement and “to connect and participate in a constant dialogue between members of the community, City staff, and elected officials to promote togetherness and positivity.”

The Plan also includes plans “for HPD to implement case management software to maintain balanced and workable caseloads; develop non-sworn investigative position(s) for low solvability crimes, specific crimes and follow-ups in PD; and identify new technologies to assist with law enforcement/public safety.”

Traffic Sergeant Dan Reinbolt, who attended the police academy with Chief Pust, and who has been on the force almost the same length of time, said he thinks events like sharing coffee and conversation with the community are important “to let people know we’re just people and have a job to do.” He said the most difficult part about being a police officer is that “in this business you see and hear things you just can’t forget, you can’t put them away. Mentally, it’s tough on you.” He added, “In every position, you see the worst of humanity but if you can help somebody, even if it’s just once in a while, it’s worth it.”

Reyes said, “We’re excited to announce Coffee with a Cop will become a regular event in 2022. In addition, we will also be holding community engagement events on weekends, weekdays, dawn and dusk to allow everyone the opportunity to participate. We really have a great supportive community and look forward to interacting with them even more in the future.”

For more information, www. hemetca.gov/97/Police or www. facebook.com/HemetPolice.

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ENTERTAINMENT January 21 – 27, 2022

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Volume 22, Issue 3

Historic Hemet Theatre celebrates its 100th anniversary with Las Vegas impressionist Rich Little

Friends Karen Becker and Beth Watrous and theater volunteers called the hat ladies, await guests arriving for the 100th anniversary celebration of the Historic Hemet Theatre, 216 E. Florida in Hemet Jan. 15. Hats from earlier years could be rented for the Las Vegas-themed night.

1920s costumed Laura Walck from Hemet loads up on chocolate treats at the Historic Hemet Theatre’s 100th anniversary gala Jan. 15.

The prize wheel is spinning for a guest at the 100th anniversary of the Historic Hemet Theatre. The prize tickets were provided for a $20 donation to the old theater.

DeniAntioette Mazingo, left, from the Hemet Women’s Club and Soroptimists, drinks Champagne with Hemet City Councilmember Linda Krupa at the 100th anniversary gala of the Historic Hemet Theatre Jan. 15.

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A hopeful guest at the gala 100th anniversary of the Historic Hemet Theater ponders what gift basket she would like to win in the raffle Jan. 15.

[Left] Impressionist Rich Little gives humorous letter deciphers posing as the “Great Carsoni” with his big wizard’s hat, once played

by Johnny Carson on his long-running television talk show.

Could it be? Dozens of famous movie and theater stars, past and present, appearing on the Historic Hemet Theatre stage in less than two hours. No, but it seemed that way when Las Vegas impressionist and voice actor Rich Little appeared at the theater’s 100th anniversary gala Jan. 15.

More than 100 guests roared with laughter and clapped for Rich Little as minute after minute he imitated voices and antics of famous actors such as W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx, Johnny Carson and Fats Domino. And bringing even more laughter came with impressions of the more famous, or infamous as you see it, political leaders like former President Richard Nixon and of course President Joe Biden.

For VIP guests, a set of dimly lit tables in front of the stage set the tone of a Las Vegas casino showroom back in the roaring 1920s and tumultuous 1930s. Delicious chocolate treats and Champagne was available to all, along with a prize wheel and more than two dozen gift baskets available to all those attending the Historic Hemet The-

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atre’s 100th anniversary. The event also helped the Historic Hemet Theatre Foundation raise funds to further bring the old theater back to its original days of glory.

Leading and moderating the special event was Jerome Robinson, of the Second Generation Platters singing group, and Susan Carrier, the Foundation’s executive director who announced the top prize winners, including a $1,000 grand prize and a pencil sketch of Rich Little, drawn by himself, a side vocation that brought him artistic notoriety.

Little showed movie clips from his many appearances on Las Vegas stages and as a television stand-in on the Johnny Carson show and other long-running comedy shows.

He reprised some of the the funnier events on the stage and shows with people like Dean Martin, Robert Goulet, Judy Garland, and even brought a puppet of Kermit the Frog to join him in quips on his acting roles.

Concluding the special event was Hemet Mayor Malcolm Lilienthal drawing the top prize for the gala event.

It was a night of fun and laughter for all attending, but earlier, it almost brought tears to Susan Carrier [Left] Could it be?

Groucho Marx with his big cigar and glasses is portrayed by Las Vegas entertainer Rich Little.

[Right] Las Vegas impressionist and comedian Rich Little has a humorous talk with his greatest critic, Kermit the Frog, onstage at the Historic Hemet Theatre.

as she had the many volunteers who helped rejuvenate what is now one of the most historic theaters in the nation, stand up for an ovation. The $100 and $200 entrance and drawing tickets bought by the night’s guests will help continue the work on the theater that is again becoming one to the top entertainment spots in the Inland Empire.

The historic theater, still undergoing renovations to restore it to its original glory, hopefully in the next few months with see esteemed tribute bands for Prince (Jan. 22), Mana, (Feb. 3), AC/DC (Feb. 19), Marvin Gaye (March 15), The Doors (March 19), Johnny Cash (April 2) and the wild Van Halen (April 23.)

The Historic Hemet Theatre Foundation leads the way to its complete restoration. Donations are always welcome by contacting the theater at www.HistoricHemetTheater.com or calling 951-6585950. The Foundation is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit (EIN 45-3611141).

Tickets for upcoming performances are available Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and during all events.

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

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS If you have an upcoming community event, email it to valleyeditor@reedermedia.com, put “attention events” in the subject line. Readers should call ahead on some listed events for the latest updates especially in light of the latest COVID-19 and omicron variant restrictions.

COMMUNITY EVENTS Jan. 22 – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A Blood Drive and fundraiser for Ewing sarcoma will be held in honor and remembrance of Cassi Tichy. A LifeStream Blood Bank bloodmobile will be at the parking lot of Stater Bros., 1537 S. San Jacinto Ave., San Jacinto. Get a “Counting on YOU in 2022!” tee-shirt the day of your donation, while supplies last. For appointments, visit LStream.org/bb. For more information, 800-879-4484 or LSTREAM.ORG. Jan. 23 – 2:30 p.m. Hemet Concert Association proudly presents Sara Davis Buechner, worldrenowned pianist, for a return engagement at Tahquitz High School’s Performing Arts Center, 4425 Titan Trail, Hemet. She will perform works by Gershwin, Handel, Longas and Mozart as well as her own compositions. Youth 22 years of age or younger are

admitted free. Adult admission is by a $70 season subscription for the four remaining 2022 concerts or $30 per individual concert. All concerts are held at the Tahquitz High School Performing Arts Center. For more information, visit www.hemetconcerts.org or call 951-927-2449.

Jan. 26 – 8:30 to 10 a.m. Temecula and Murrieta Infrastructure Update: What’s being planned.

Temecula Civic Center, 41000 Main St., Temecula. The two cities’ Public Works Directors will present upcoming infrastructure projects and road updates. Check in at 8:30 p.m. (Note check on Latest COVID-19 city hall and inperson event closures). It will be a unique opportunity to hear about the various new road networks and improvements that are being planned in both cities.

Jan. 28 and 29 – 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Stars of the Valley Golf and Gala at Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pechanga Parkway, hosted

by Charity for Charity. The 15th anniversary of the event helping local charities. Gala on Saturday, Jan. 29. See Facebook for details.

Feb. 11 – 10 a.m. to noon. Pet Supply Drive hosted by Temecula Tots at Guenther Willows Park, 30005 Korbel Circle in Murrieta.

The drive benefits Barks of Love and Animal Friends of the Valleys.

All kinds of dog and cat supplies are welcome from pet food, toys to dog houses in new or good condition. See @TemeculaTots or email temeculatots@gmail.com.

WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS and ANNOUNCEMENTS Jan. 21 – 6 to 10 p.m. Carry the Love, a presentation about Jesus Christ at Vail Ranch Headquarters, 32115 Temecula Parkway. A Temecula Youth Rally.

Jan. 21 – 7 to 9 p.m. Footloose, the Musical, presented at the Old Town Temecula Theater, 42051 Main St., Temecula. Information and tickets at the box office or see Temeculatheater.org. Also being held Jan. 23 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Jan. 22 – 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pet CPR/First Aid Class presented

by The Front Line Coalition at Whispering Oaks Terrace, 39417 Pala Temecula, Road, Pala. https:// thefrontlinecoalition.com/courseschedules.

Jan. 26 – 5 to 8 p.m. MilVet deployed military service members.

A voluntary gift box wrapping event at the Murrieta Innovation Center, 26422 Beckman Court, Murrieta. $20 donation to help with shipping and supplies. Sign

up at www.milvet.org/donate/p/ january22.

Jan. 27 – 1 to 4 p.m. Singers Alex & Ester at Lorimar Vineyards, 39990 Anza Road, Temecula.

Classic and contemporary music selections. For more information, visit www.ccssuites.com. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ alex-esther-lorimar-vineyardstickets-238757258387.

Jan. 27 – 6 p.m. Menifee announced that the city will be receiving some federal Community Block Grant Program funding for fiscal year 2022-2023. Nonprofit and service organizations are urged to apply for portions of the grant before Feb. 10. An information workshop will be held Thursday, Jan. 27, at Menifee City Council Chambers, 29844 Haun Road.

Attendance is required if applying for funds. For more information, 951-723-3713 or elebron@cityofmenifee.us.

Jan. 29 – 7 a.m. Professional Demonstration Skydiver Course.

Skydive Elsinore, 20701 Cereal St., Lake Elsinore. One day course for USPA C- and D-licensed/qualified skydivers who want to learn how to organize and perform safe and professional demonstration jumps.

This course constitutes a download of 35 years. Details on Facebook.

Jan. 31 – 6 p.m. Zoom presentation about the Temecula and Native Tribes Treaties signed in the Redhawk, Temecula area by the Temecula Valley Historical Society. Dr. Sean Milanovich, a member of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, will be the presenter from the University of California, Riverside. Milanovich works with Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Health as a Tribal Community Liaison.

The link to the Zoom presentation is at www.temeculahistory.org.

Contact is Rebecca Farnbach at info@temeculahistory.org.

Jan. 31 – 10 to 11:30 a.m. GriefShare recovery support group at Canyon Lake Community Church Family Center, 30515 Railroad Canyon Road, Canyon Lake. A friendly caring group who will walk alongside one of life’s most difficult experiences. $20 includes a workbook. Contact Peter Van Dyke, Pastor of Congregational Care at 951-244-1877.

Feb. 3 – 7 to 10 a.m. 2022 Legislative Summit discussing enforcing the law in a polarizing society sponsored by Abbott at South Coast Winery and Resort and Spa, 34843 Rancho California Road. Contact www.Temecula.org.

zine and Thrive Global and a guest on podcasts “Shut Up and Grind!” with Robert B. Foster, “Remarkable Radio” and “Monday Morning Coffee” with Stevie Dawn, Ph.D. She was also the keynote speaker for the 2021 Digital Media Education Conference. JDS Video & Media Productions continued to serve their longtime clients such as Abbott and Temecula Valley Unified School District. JDS Inc. also created many virtual tours in 2021; one of their favorites was the History of Vail Ranch commissioned by the Temecula Valley Historical Society. Thanks to the resilience of the #JDSFamily production team, JDS Video & Media Productions never missed a chance to serve their clients.

JDS Actors Studio thrived as well in 2021. The actors adjusted to Zoom acting classes but were happy to be back in person in May 2021. The Actors Studio presented its first industry showcase in August since March 2020. Actors performed for Hollywood agents and managers and over 80% of the actors received offers of representation.

DigiFest Temecula was virtual but was able to return from the reinvented DigiDay in 2020 to its original three-day format in 2021, which was as strong as ever for its fifth year, welcoming top speakers and presenters into the studio to deliver their golden nuggets of wisdom. DigiFest 2021 also would not have been what it was

without all the digital artists that submitted their work, vying for the coveted Digi Awards. With all the success of the past, #DigiFest22 is expected to be their biggest event to date, taking place Friday to Sunday, April 22-24.

Competition submissions are being accepted until March 25 at http:// DigiFestTemecula.org.

“As the #JDSFamily looks back on the year they’ve had, they feel so much gratitude to the community for their continued support, flexibility and understanding as we’ve asked everyone to please keep their masks on,” Strand said.

“JDS Creative Academy loves the #JDSFamily and thanks them for making a year of many changes and challenges as memorable and as successful as it was.”

JDS Studios looked ahead to 2022. JDS Actors Studio came back with the Teen Class, Adult Acting, Little Toddlers and Youth Acting in January. JDS Creative Academy classes will open with Fashion and Backstage Production at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, and Scriptwriting at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31. Musical Theater auditions for “West Side Story” will be held Thursday, Jan. 27, at 5 p.m.

For more information, visit http://JDSCreativeAcademy.org.

Enrollment opportunities are available now and inquiries can be made by calling 951-296-6715.

The best of what JDS Studios has to offer is yet to come in 2022.

Submitted by JDS Studios.

JDS Studios: A Year in Review TEMECULA – If you ask Diane and Scott Stand, partners and founders of JDS Studios, what 2021 has looked like, their answer would be “eventful.” The two never gave in to the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through its many outlets: JDS Creative Academy, JDS Video & Media Productions Inc., “Spirit of Innovation,” JDS Actors Studio and DigiFest Temecula – JDS Studios never skipped a beat.

JDS Creative Academy facilitated their Title-17 video production job-training program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program

requires the practice of technical and soft skills to prepare them for the social and workload demands of a real job or internship. When the world had to adjust to a remote environment back in 2020, the #JDSFamily was no exception to stopping the spread and went completely remote. The participants and staff rose to the challenge and implemented ambitious efforts to keep the program up and running successfully via Zoom. Writing staff still wrote, post-production staff still edited content and teaching staff continued to engage participants with hands-on instruction, and their radio broadcast stayed on

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the air seven days a week, three times a day on 102.5-FM The Vine.

The #JDSFamily worked hard to keep everything going through the shut downs; the staff rejoiced when they returned to the studio in February with COVID-safety regulations in place, creating content, team building and breaking down barriers. Not only was the JDS Creative Academy staff welcomed back into the studio, the participants were able to follow in April, and the doors opened up to the community in June with JDS Creative Academy’s acclaimed summer camp program and performance.

“Spirit of Innovation,” JDS Creative Academy’s broadcasted and live-streamed, magazine-style local news television program for Riverside County, was on its game, never missing an episode in 2021.

The #JDSFamily continued to go out on location for production, collect interviews via Zoom and edit quality content delivering the need-to-know and good-to-know news for the community. As things changed, longtime host Gabriella Venturo departed from the show and the #JDSFamily welcomed Mia Digenan as the new host of “Spirit of Innovation.”

JDS Video & Media Productions had one of its best years yet with Strand constantly in the spotlight and showing how women in business do it. Strand became a published author in 2021; a two-time interviewee for Authority Maga-

Fallbrook Vintage Car Show opens online registration Across 1. Cinemax competitor, for short 4. Traffic director 9. Famous tower city 13. Elton’s john 14. N.F.L. coaching legend Don 15. Computer menu option 16. Talks about innermost feelings 19. Peppermint, for one 20. Chew persistently 21. Joan’s home, on TV 25. African pests 30. Compass point 31. Variety of Spanish liqueur 33. Citizens 34. Font 36. Kunis of Hollywood 37. Enjoys a private chat 41. She married Clark 42. Equivocates 43. Charge 46. Poet’s adverb 47. Horse 50. Former Spanish monetary units 52. Artificial tooth 54. Gold-medal speed skater Johann ___ Koss 56. River into the English Channel 57. Cry on someone else’s shoulder 63. Swarm 64. Store selection 65. Mine find 66. Misdeals 67. The ____ : Dostoevsky novel 68. Old cartoonist Hoff Down 1. Island greetings 2. People who go on being miserable 3. Compel by force 4. Dummy 5. Letter on some campus sweatshirts 6. Manage

7. Rival of Coco and Christian 8. Carole King’s “___ Born to Follow” 9. Tiny 10. Actress, Lupino 11. Elton John, e.g.

12. Verizon rival, initially 17. Hoops gp.

18. Metal fastener 22. Information 23. “The doctor will be __ ten” 24. Felt sick 26. Encyclopedias, e.g.

27. Show disgust 28. French lady 29. Swell place 32. Suppress 34. Offspring 35. Signed over 37. Better 38. Pretense 39. ‘’The African Queen’’ scriptwriter 40. Cousin of a gull 41. Cut 44. Attacks 45. In fine fettle 47. Collectibles 48. Mean 49. Bellyached 51. “Everyone ___ __ love you” (Woody Allen movie) 53. Small hill 55. Invalidate 57. Sault ___ Marie 58. Ship, to a sailor 59. Flying prefix 60. Weapon in “The Terminator” 61. Antique auto 62. Clock std.

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FALLBROOK – The 55th annual Fallbrook Vintage Car Show and Swap Meet will be held Sunday, May 29, at Bates Nut Farm, 15954 Woods Valley Road, in Valley Center. Those who are interested can visit http://www. fallbrookvintagecarclub.org to register cars and to buy swap meet spaces.

Free admission to the general public is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Like previous years, the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club said 300 show cars and more than 40 swap meet vendors are expected.

The show car gate will open at 8 a.m. and is available until 10 a.m. There are no day-of-show registrations. All registrations must be done ahead of time online or by printing the online form and mailing it in with a check to the address on the form.

The swap meet vendor gate will open at 7 a.m. All vendors must be set up by 9:30 a.m. and

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park their vehicles in designated vendor parking areas. There are two vendor areas, the “Vendor’s Circle” near the Bates’ Main store and zoo animal displays and also adjacent to the main car show..

Visit http://fallbrookvintagecarclub.org to choose swap spaces sizes, print the form or submit the easy-to-use online form. Setup on the two vendor fields is also available Saturday, May 28, to locate the spaces and have them ready to bring in merchandise the following morning at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Bates has been host to many car shows, craft fairs and other large events of the last 30-plus years.

Public self-parking can be found by entering the gate, going to the right and following the signs. The main show field will be located on the left with a display of antique “brass-era” cars and the featured cars – the Corvair – will be located above the main car show field.

Food trucks and grills will be

available on the asphalt, near the large restrooms and Bates Main store and gift shop. Inside the Vendor’s Circle will be picnic tables and shade features adjacent to the food vendors, store and restrooms.

Upon entering the gates, all visitors will receive a fold-out map of the show layout so they can see where all the services and activities are and refer to the advertisers and local merchants in the Fallbrook area.

General admission to the public starts at 10 a.m. Bring the family and enjoy the zoo, food, vendors of all hobbies and services available. No dogs or alcohol allowed. Proceeds from the show benefit local Fallbrook nonprofit organizations, primarily youth and military organizations through Fallbrook Vintage Car Club donations throughout the year.

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ENTERTAINMENT From a top-secret wine cellar in Temecula Wine Country, it’s…

Wilson Creek Winery

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Guests at Wilson Creek Winery enjoy the winery’s spacious courtyard setting in Temecula’s wine country.

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The Mystery Wino SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Greetings from Temecula, aka the place where “the sun breaks through the mist.” Sadly, our mist is teeming with omicron molecules these days, and no amount of sun can break them.

Don’t fret. Shakespeare’s John Falstaff knew that wine has the power to “dry up all dull and cruddy vapors.” At the very least, it gladdens our hearts and eases our worries for a while. What I’m trying to say is that now might be the perfect time to visit what is arguably the friendliest, most popular establishment in all of wine country – Wilson Creek Winery and Vineyards.

The Background More than a few local wineries were founded by wealthy retirees looking for something to do in their golden years. Gerry and Rosie Wilson are prime examples.

In 1996, at the end of successful careers, the Wilsons moved from their longtime home in South Pasadena to Temecula. They purchased 90-acres of vineyards off Rancho California Road and made plans to build a winery. Their grown children soon followed.

Twenty years later, Wilson Creek is an empire, with a winery, offices, wedding facilities, convention spaces, a restaurant, a boutique hotel and a two-story tasting building. On an average year, it hosts 300,000 visitors. With eldest son Bill at the helm, Wilson Creek produces more than 30,000 cases annually, not including tens of thousands of cases of their famous Almond Sparkling, which is produced and bottled in Lodi.

In November, family patriarch Gerry Wilson died at age 90 to the dismay of everyone who knew him. Thankfully, Rosie Wilson lives on as the rock of the Wilson family and a stalwart of her

community. Most days, you can find her sitting at a table talking to guests, her golden Labrador retrievers at her side. Her spirit of kindness and generosity inspires all who know her.

But Wilson Creek’s owners and staff do more than provide great customer service. They assist other winegrowers, hobbyists and dozens of local charities and civic organizations. Winemaker Gus Vizgirda teaches oenology classes at Mt. San Jacinto College and San Diego State University. Vineyard manager Greg Pennyroyal is tireless in his mentoring efforts with the Small Winegrowers Association and his teaching at MSJC. Despite its popularity, local aficionados don’t often include Wilson Creek Winery among their favorite wineries. Huge crowds are one reason. It’s not unusual for 2,000 or more guests to filter see WINERY, page B-7

Wilson Creek Winery & Vineyards 35960 Rancho California Road, Temecula, CA 92591 Tel: 951-699-9463 Email: info@wilsoncreekwinery.com http://www.wilsoncreekwinery.com Owner: Rosie Wilson and Family Winemakers: Gus Vizgirda Founded: 2000 Acres planted: 90 Typical wines offered: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Cinsault, Malbec, Mourvèdre, Petite Sirah, Roussanne, Syrah, Zinfandel, red blends, sweet wines, sweet sparkling, dessert.

Price range: $$ (of $$$) Cases: 30,000 + (does not include sparkling wines) Access • Hours for visits and tastings: Open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Monday to Thursday); 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Friday to Sunday) • Closed on major holidays • Wheelchair access Tastings & Tours • Charge for tasting: $20 per six tastes ($25; Saturday to Sunday) • Special arrangements available for groups of 25 or more by reservation.

• Vineyard and winery tours offered • Multiple tasting areas and patios • Private members upstairs room • Reserve Room Tasting ($50 guided tasting of reserve wines) • Reservations recommended Food Creekside Grille Restaurant: Full-service, sit-down dining. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Monday to Thursday); 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Friday to Saturday); 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Sunday brunch) Courtyard Bar and Grill: Drinks and picnic-style small bites. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Monday to Sunday) Reservations recommended Entertainment & Picnics No outside food or alcoholic beverages permitted. Private gatherings and tastings for wine club members. Huge gift shop. Picnic supplies available. Members patio. Wine club. Certified service dogs only. Visit http://wilsoncreekwinery.com.

A variety of Wilson Creek Winery bottles of wine from left, Double Dog Red, Cabernet Franc Reserve, Bourbon Barrel Aged Zinfandel, Petite Sirah Reserve and Family Meritage.

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MSJC opens testing site to the community as COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Riverside County Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

Mt. San Jacinto College opened its free COVID-19 testing sites to the public this week as cases throughout Riverside County skyrocketed with the number of people hospitalized surpassing 1,000.

The three testing sites at the San Jacinto, Menifee Valley and Temecula Valley campuses are open to the public from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday.

MSJC contracts with Virus Geeks to offer the free testing service, the college said.

No appointment is necessary for the testing and those testing will be required to self-swab with results being returned within 72 hours.

The MSJC testing locations

are MSJC San Jacinto Campus at 1499 N. State Street in San Jacinto, MSJC Menifee Valley Campus at 28237 La Piedra Road in Menifee and the MSJC Temecula Valley Campus at 41888 Motor Car Parkway in Temecula.

To learn more about testing availability at MSJC, visit https:// www.msjc.edu or call 951-4658371.

According to numbers released by the Riverside County University Health System Saturday, Jan. 15, since Jan. 8, the number of coronavirus patients in Riverside County hospitals surged to 1,006 from 791 and the number of those patients in intensive care increased from 126 to 152, while the county also logged an additional 40 virusrelated deaths.

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tor Bruce Barton told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that, in recent weeks, only 28% of individuals passing through emergency rooms were diagnosed with COVID-19. He didn’t list the other illnesses for which people have been seeking treatment, but he noted that “there’s a larger nonCOVID census laying on top of that COVID patient load.”

The Riverside University Health System said the aggregate number of COVID cases recorded since the public health documentation period began is 423,832.

Of those cases, 107 were reported by the RUHS to be of the omicron variant and 5,717 were delta. RUHS updates the variant data on a weekly basis.

Since the start of the pandemic 5,631 deaths attributed to virus-

related complications have been recorded in the county. Due to HIPPA laws, it remains unclear if any of those who died from COVID-19 had any underlying health conditions. Fatalities are trailing indicators due to delays in processing death certificates which can go back weeks, according to health officials.

The number of known active virus cases countywide was 17,592 on Friday, Jan. 14. The active count is derived by subtracting deaths and recoveries from the current total, 423,832, according to the county Executive Office. Verified patient recoveries countywide are 400,569.

The RUHS does not update COVID data on holidays and weekends.

On Thursday, Jan. 13, the first

infant death stemming from coronavirus complications was confirmed in Riverside County.

According to RUHS officials, the infant death occurred after the victim had been hospitalized and diagnosed with COVID-19, though officials did not say whether there were other health problems impacting the child, whose identity, including gender and exact age, were not disclosed.

To date, five county residents under 18 years old have died from complications in some way tied to COVID since the beginning of the pandemic.

City News Service contributed to this report.

Kim Harris can be reached by email at valleyeditor@reedermedia.com.

Death of infant caused by COVID-19 infection, Riverside County health officials report RIVERSIDE COUNTY – An infant from southwest Riverside County recently died after contracting COVID-19, becoming the youngest person in the county to die from the virus since the pandemic started.

The death took place earlier this week at a hospital where the infant was taken after becoming ill. The name of the child, who was less than 1 year of age, and city of residence are not being released.

“Our thoughts and sympathies go out to the parents, family and others who are impacted by this tragedy,” Dr. Geoffrey Leung, public health officer for Riverside County, said. “This loss reminds us that this virus does not discriminate between the young and old.”

Leung said the death of the child “strengthens our commitment to end this pandemic before the loss of another young life. It shows the importance of using

the tools available to protect those around us, particularly the most innocent, from the harm the virus can cause.”

According to health officials, there have been more than 5,600 COVID-19-related deaths in Riverside County since the start of the pandemic. The vast majority of the deaths have involved those over 30 years of age, but there have been a handful of teens and young adults who have died from the virus – some with underlying

health issues. It is unclear whether the infant had any underlying health issues.

“It is devastating to learn about the passing of this infant life. Our hearts and thoughts go out to the family,” Chair Jeff Hewitt, 5th District supervisor of Riverside County, said. “We have a long road ahead of us as we navigate this pandemic and it’s the loss of life that reminds us about the challenges we face.”

The previous youngest death in

Riverside County was a 4-yearold child from western Riverside County who died in August.

Health officials said that infants under age 1 might be at higher risk of severe illness with COVID-19 than older children. It is likely due to their immature immune systems and smaller airways, which make them more likely to develop breathing issues with respiratory virus infections.

Submitted by Riverside County.

Consider 3 tips to maintain eye health in a digital world

Dr. Scott Edmonds is the chief eye care officer for UnitedHealthcare.

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With the persistent spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 in California and nationwide,

some traditionally in-person activities – work, school and social interactions – will likely remain remote more often than usual for the foreseeable future.

As a result, the use of digital devices has surged significantly, with Americans logging an average of 13 hours per day watching screens. That average compares to between seven and 10 hours per day before the COVID-19 pandemic started, with the increase in screen time likely contributing to more exposure to blue light.

While this low-wavelength, high-energy light offers some benefits, such as boosting alertness, too much of it may cause problems. Researchers continue to evaluate the potential short- and long-term health implications that may come from excessive exposure to blue light, including potential damage to retina cells, particularly in children and teens; increased incidences of age-related macular degeneration, dis-

rupted sleep cycles and digital eyestrain.

In fact, nearly 60% of U.S. adults report symptoms of digital eyestrain, which may result from extended computer and smartphone usage and can contribute to dry eyes, headaches and neck or shoulder pain. With that in mind, consider these three tips for improving eye health as the consistent use of digital devices remains a fact of life for most people.

Use the 20-20-20 rule or other rest tactics.

It is important to give eyes some rest during the day by breaking up long stretches of screen time.

The 20-20-20 rule recommended that after 20 minutes of computer work, people take 20 seconds to look at something that’s approximately 20 feet away. Other strategies include keeping devices at least 30 inches from the eyes, as this separation can help reduce blue-light exposure and switching to a task for which the eyes

don’t have to focus on something up close, such as returning a call.

Also, getting outside may reduce the risk of developing nearsightedness, which has become increasingly common in part due to the increased use of screens and today affects 41% of Americans – up from 25% in 1970.

Leverage blue-light-blocking technology.

Many smartphones now include a “night mode” feature, which adjusts the screen’s setting to help filter out blue light. Likewise, specialized screen protectors can feature blue-light-filtering properties, while also helping prevent cracks or scratches. To help block blue light at the source, some computer manufacturers are embedding blue-light-filtering technology into the screens, helping ensure color clarity while reducing exposure to blue light. Another option is to get glasses with premium antireflective coating, which may help prevent harmful reflective glare

and reduce the risk of digital eyestrain.

Get a comprehensive eye exam.

It’s a good idea for computer users to get an eye exam every year, according to the American Optometric Association. If they experience ongoing symptoms of digital eyestrain, prescription lenses for computer viewing may be needed. Plus, a comprehensive eye exam may uncover other health conditions not usually associated with the eyes, including diabetes and some types of cancer. For children, remember that a school’s vision check is not a substitute for a comprehensive eye exam, as screenings usually focus on measuring acuity levels and might miss conditions such as poor eye alignment, focusing problems and farsightedness.

Dr. Scott Edmonds is the chief eye care officer for UnitedHealthcare.

Influenza numbers below average, possibly due to COVID measures City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The number of influenza cases in San Diego County is below average this season, which public

health officials at least partly attributed to COVID-19 measures such as social distancing and face coverings.

The county Health and Human Services Agency reported 139 lab-

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confirmed flu cases for the week ending Saturday, a decrease from the previous week’s 185.

“We’re seeing record numbers of COVID-19 infections in our community right now, and you don’t want to get the flu and COVID at the same time,” Dr. Cameron Kaiser, county deputy public health officer, said. “Get vaccinated against the flu as soon as you can. Every flu case prevented makes more resources available to defeat COVID-19 and means you’re not getting sick, or worse.”

For the week ending Saturday, the agency said that emergency department visits for influenza-like illness were 7% of all visits, up

from 5% the previous week.

Total lab-confirmed cases to date now number 1,185, compared to 224 at the same time last season and a 2,820 previous five-year average during the same week.

Last season, 848 influenza cases were reported in San Diego County, including two deaths. In 2019, 108 San Diegans died from influenza and more than 20,700 flu cases were reported.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that everyone six months and older get a flu shot every year.

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live with or care for others who are at higher risk are all more likely to get seriously sick from the flu.

Health officials said people should wash hands thoroughly and often, use hand sanitizers, avoid sick people, avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, clean commonly touched surfaces and if sick, stay home and avoid contact with others.

On Wednesday, Jan. 5, a COVID-19 testing company in Los Angeles said it had identified what it believes is the first local case of “flurona,” meaning a person who tested positive for both coronavirus and the flu. The patient was only described as a teenager. Officials with 911 COVID Testing said the teen was showing symptoms but did not require hospitalization and went home with parents.

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Renewals for fishing licenses and Launch Pointe annual passes due

Bob Magee with a 10-pound blue catfish he caught with Mack Bite, sold only at William’s Bait & Tackle in Lake Elsinore, April 2020.

Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Lake Elsinore is the largest natural freshwater lake in Southern California. Eutrophic lakes, like Lake Elsinore, are typically shallow and nutrient enriched. Add sunshine, and these types of lakes produce more pounds of fish per acre than any other type of lake on earth.

That makes Lake Elsinore especially attractive to those who like the sport of fishing and now is the time of year when annual licenses need to be renewed. The City of Lake Elsinore requires an annual fishing pass that allows 365 days a year of access to its facilities, such as Launch Pointe. The cost is $25 for residents and $50 for non-residents. A California sport fishing license is also required to fish in Lake Elsinore for those 16

years of age and older. All licenses are valid through Dec. 31 and prices vary. For information and to apply, www.wildlife.ca.gov/ licensing/fishing.

Longtime City Councilmember and former mayor, Robert “Bob” Magee is an avid fisherman.

“Launch Pointe offers the perfect onshore combination of beach and structure to entice the big fish to come into casting range,” he said. “Get your state license and your annual Launch Pointe pass soon, before I snatch up all the monsters!”

Lake Elsinore is subject to the “California Freshwater Sport Fishing Regulations” published by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife which also state that every person, while engaged in taking any fish shall display their valid sport fishing license by attaching it to their outer clothing, at or above

Bob Magee with his dog, Lilly, and the Channel catfish he caught in May 2017.

the waistline so that it is plainly visible; fishing from shore is only permitted from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. in designated areas; no fishing is allowed in the Inlet Channel; cleaning fish is only permitted on the shoreline in designated cleaning areas; and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department strictly enforces all Fish & Game Regulations on the lake. Please refer to the California Freshwater Sport Fishing Regulations for bag and size limits.

Lake Elsinore is classified as a warmwater fishery, which includes the black basses and various panfish. Representative members found in this lake are largemouth bass, white crappie, black crappie, bluegill and channel catfish.

Funding has been received from state and local agencies to restructure the fisheries of Lake Elsinore to improve water quality and sport

fishing. A long-term carp control program is underway, concurrent with fishery enhancement measures and intermittent stocking of game fish.

Lake Elsinore’s popular Launch Pointe Recreation Destination & RV Park, 32040 Riverside Drive, is open from sunrise to sunset and requires a Launch and Park Pass which includes access for one vehicle, access to boat launch and public facilities. The price is $100 for residents and $150 for nonresidents. For more information, 951-471-1212 or www.launchpointe.com.

Other public fishing beaches at Lake Elsinore are Davis Street Fishing Beach, Davis Street at Lakeshore Drive; Lowell Street Fishing Beach, Townsend Street at Lakeshore Drive; and Whisker’s Fishing Beach, Townsend Street at Lakeshore Drive.

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The city knows that one photo is better than a thousand fish stories and posts photos of people with their catches to their website. Provide a Fishing Report to the city by emailing fishingreport@lakeelsinore.org. The Fishing Report should include name, city of residence, date, location caught, type of fish, size (in pounds), bait used and photo (not to exceed 8MB).

To qualify for an Official Annual Record Fish and posting of photo to the “Hall of Fame” on the City’s website at www.lake-elsinore.org, please request a courtesy official fish weigh-in and digital photo by contacting the Community Services Department at 951-6743124 ext. 266 or by emailing recreation@lake-elsinore.org.

For more information and to view the Lake Elsinore Sport Fishing Brochure, www.lake-elsinore. org/fishing.

Rancho Water moves to next stage of water supply warning TEMECULA – The Rancho California Water District board of directors has voted to move to Stage 3b of the Water Supply Contingency Plan. This decision comes in response to the statewide drought emergency caused by sev-

eral years of increasingly severe drought conditions and the State Water Resources Control Board’s Tuesday, Jan. 4, adoption of the Drought Conservation Emergency Regulation.

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Local teachers receive Lois B. Krieger Water Project Grants LAKE ELSINORE – Four teachers across Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District’s service area have been awarded grants for classroom projects that help students understand the vital role of water in the community.

The Lois B. Krieger Water Project Grants for Educators, provided through Western Municipal Water District, help teachers incorporate hands-on water education into their curriculum. The program is named after Lois Krieger, a local water pioneer who served on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for 25 years. She served as the first female chairperson of Metropolitan and first female President of the Association of California Water Agencies.

“Lois Krieger left a legacy that continues today,” Darcy M. Burke, board president at EVMWD, said.

“Hands-on water education grants provide local students an increased understanding of water, its importance and empowers them to

become exceptional water resource stewards. Through this program, EVMWD proudly continues honoring this longtime legacy and the woman that started it all.”

The latest grant-funded projects include several gardening ventures, irrigation improvements and composting materials to reduce food waste at a schoolwide level. The 2022 winners include Elda Conaway of William Collier Elementary School, Jennifer Hamm of Railroad Canyon Elementary School, Kevin Mobley of Elsinore High School and Natalie Boggs of Shivela Middle School/Murrieta Mesa High School Collaboration.

The Krieger Grant Program is one of many ways that EVMWD supports local teachers in water education. From tours to curriculum, EVMWD provides a variety of free resources for schools in its service area. To learn more, visit http:// www.evmwd.com/education.

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“Rancho Water’s drought plan aligns with the state’s new regulations,” Robert Grantham, general manager of Rancho Water, said.

“However, most of our customers have been voluntarily following many of these water conservation practices for years. Over the past

two decades, our customers have embraced water use efficiency, reducing our total water usage by more than 40%.”

Rancho Water offered the benefits of water saving technology to all its customers. The district provided leak alerts that notify a customer when there has been nonstop water usage over a period of at least 24 hours. Also available is the MyWaterTracker service, an easy to use, digital platform that enables customers to visually see and track their water use on a day-by-day basis. In addition, the district partners with multiple

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Rancho Water asked that customers save water today to protect tomorrow. Though there is no way to know when the drought will end, everyone can do their part each day to save our precious water resources.

To find more information about Stage 3b of Rancho Water ’s drought plan, water budgets and drought news, visit http://RanchoWater.com/mywaterhub.

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Vision Board Party designed to help others achieve dreams and goals Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Janine Harley, who created her first vision board in 2018, is hosting a free Vision Board Party Saturday, Jan. 29, from 1-4 p.m. at the Center for Spiritual Living, 40450 Stetson Ave., in Hemet.

The impact of her creating her first vision board was life-changing, Harley said. She shares her experience by teaching others how to realize their dreams and goals by designing their own. Starting a new year seemed like the perfect time to envision what someone wants to see materialize in their lives in 2022 and beyond, she said.

“Vision boards have helped me to know what is possible,” Harley said.

“They helped me to put my dreams on a board, hang it up and stare at it every day. I learned that what I think and feel is met by the universe.”

She said they help people visualize what they truly want in life.

“As it hangs on the wall, it reminds you every day, whether consciously or subliminally. It helps you raise your inner vibration,” Harley said.

The party is recommended for males and females 10 of age and older. Harley said no one is ever too young to picture what they want their life to look and feel like. All materials will be provided but people can bring a dish or snack to share.

“I tell people that if they have something very specific that they want on their vision board then they should bring it,” Harley said. “It’s their life, their story.”

She encouraged everyone to create what their wildest dreams are, whether it be something small or large. The board can contain two things or 20 things. She said she

Janine Harley displays her first vision board, which she used to help her visualize her personal dreams in 2018.

Janine Harley will host a Vision Board Party to help others realize their goals and dreams.

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looked forward to sharing camaraderie, creativity and laughter with the group and hoped that at the end of the class, participants will share what their visions are so that positive vibes could be sent to support them.

“People live very busy lives and many live in a state of unconsciousness,” Harley said. “We’re kind of like busy robots. We barely have time to think. That’s a rut. But we can change all of that by taking some time to invest in ourselves and what we want. That’s where God and the universe will meet us. When we think and feel positively, our vibration is raised and visions come true.”

From pain to positivity After losing her fiancée to suicide in 2010, Harley said she didn’t know how to deal with such a great loss and the emotional pain caused her to clue into her physical pain. Doctors diagnosed her with degenerative bone disease and prescribed painkillers. She said she began to abuse the

Menifee invites local restaurants to submit entries for annual ‘Restaurant Week’ in May MENIFEE – Menifee announced the return of “Restaurant Week,” held May 2-6, and is encouraging local Menifee restaurants to submit their best dishes, promotions or newly created culinary delights for consideration between Jan. 24-30.

The weeklong “Restaurant Week” event provides the opportunity for residents and visitors to explore dining options with fun activities and events with their friends and family. This year’s theme, “Homegrown Flavors,” spotlights the growing local flavors and chefs that make Menifee’s culinary experience unique.

Eateries can submit their dishes

or food item to be showcased on Menifee’s Restaurant Week website and social media platforms by submitting a photo to the Economic Development Department at EconDev@CityofMenifee.us.

Business owners interested in bringing a restaurant to Menifee’s emerging food scene are encouraged to call Menifee’s Economic Development Team at 951-6726777 or email EconDev@CityofMenifee.us. Additional business resources are available online at http://MenifeeBusiness.com.

For more information, visit http:// MenifeeRestaurantWeek.com.

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“It took me four years to destroy my life and lose everything,” the Hemet resident said. “One day I was so high on pills that I fell and broke my tibia, fibula and femur all at once.

The shards from my bones severed the nerve that supports my foot so now I also have drop foot.”

After that accident in 2014, she was prescribed morphine, Dilaudid, Ativan, gabapentin and antidepressants. She said the doctors gave her two choices: “to cut off my leg or put a rod in it so it doesn’t bend ever again. Because phantom pain scared the crap out of me, I chose to keep my leg and have it be straight.”

Harley developed MRSA, a severe staph infection that is difficult to treat, which led to seven surgeries in one year to save her leg. After three years of being treated with medications, she chose to go to a rehabilitation center to try and gain control of her life once again, she said.

“I was praying every night for God to take me home to him and then waking up angry that he didn’t,” she said. “I walked in those doors with no hope and no will. I now have four years, two months and some chance of recovery. Hemet Valley Recovery Center saved my life. They help heal not just the addiction but the mind, body and spirit.”

She learned about vision boards while in recovery and created her first vision board in 2018 after her first year of sobriety from alcohol and pills.

“I had lost everything after my accident and thought very little of myself but I was trying to live a better life,” Harley said. “I rented rooms from people. One was mean; one stole money from me and didn’t pay the rent so we were evicted and the last was very dirty. So I created a vision board with a home in the middle, a van with hand controls

Vision boards can take all shapes and sizes.

because I’m partially disabled from the accident and school. In one year, all three of those things came into fruition.”

Looking forward with a vision Despite all the challenges she has faced, Harley said she is grateful for the journey because it led her to where she is today.

“I found my greater purpose, which is to live in gratitude, find joy in the things I do, pass along the message of hope when I can and help others when I can,” she said. “I still have a son who can’t forgive me, I think because I scared him so much, but I pray for healing and God willing he’ll let me back in his life one day. But until then, I pray for him and think about him and my granddaughters every day.”

The Vision Board Party will be a free event because Harley said she doesn’t want the cost to be the reason someone isn’t able to attend.

“There have been many things I wanted to attend but could not afford,” Harley said. “That’s why I’m asking for donations of magazines, art supplies or financial support.”

She will arrange to have donations picked up, if necessary, and donations can also be made at https:// gofund.me/d8bf83d0.

Pre-registration is not necessary but can be done to ensure a spot.

Register at www.cslhemet.com/ event-details/vision-board-party or by contacting Harley at neenhrt@ yahoo.com.

She created Facebook page, so people can check in throughout the year to share which parts, if not all, of their vision boards were realized.

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Valley and Village News looks to community for story input Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

Recently, several people have reached out to Valley News and Village News regarding the difficulties they are facing with the Department of Veteran Affairs and getting quality health care after serving in the military.

From one man being listed with the Department of Veterans Affairs as pregnant woman to another being erroneously told he had a life-threatening disease, according to those who have contacted Valley News, the list of inaccuracies and discrepancies continues to grow to the point where it is affecting the lives of many.

Since one of the major roles of a newspaper is to hold the government accountable and due to this influx of complaints, the Valley News and Village News have begun working on a series of stories

addressing the needs, challenges and stories of veterans relating to health care, and we need the help of our readers to do so.

If you have a story to tell, good or bad, please send the basic details or an outline of your experience to valleyeditor@reedermedia.com and include your contact information along with the town you live in.

The VA isn’t the only area raising concerns with readers. As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, staff is looking to talk to those who have experienced complications or adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine or its booster shots. We have heard many stories of those suffering from long-term COVID and stories from those who have lost loved ones due to the pandemic and even from the vaccine itself. Guess what, Valley News and Village News want to talk to you, too.

Just last week, The Associated Press reported that more than 3,000 soldiers, airmen and Marines had been discharged after refusing the vaccine, that large of a number not only affects the families of those service members discharged, it also affects military readiness, which the Pentagon said is not a matter of concern.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is most concerned with “the readiness of the force and the importance of the vaccine,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters. Getting the vaccine, he said, is “the best way to protect themselves and their units.”

At least 12,000 service members have asked for religious exemptions, none of which have yet been granted. Religious exemptions are “always rare,” Kirby told reporters, Wednesday, Dec. 8, before deflecting the question and telling reporters to contact each branch of

the military.

“I would ask you to speak to the services about their exemption policies,” he said. “That’s not something that’s centrally managed at the Secretary’s level.

“This has absolutely nothing to do with trampling on the religious liberties of our men and women in uniform,” he said. “… This is not about liberties. It’s about a military medical requirement to keep them safe, to keep their family safe, to keep their units safe. ... And just because none have been approved doesn’t mean that they can’t still be applied for. As we’ve said in the past, and not everybody, look, there’ll be some medical exemptions.”

But according to many who have contacted Valley News and Village News, military readiness could potentially become a real problem as more and more service members are denied exemptions

and ultimately discharged due to their refusal of the vaccine.

Valley News and Village News want to talk to those who have been affected by their refusal to take the vaccine, not just members of the military and encourages all to share their story by email with valleyeditor@reedermedia.com.

Because of the current political climate, it has been Valley News and Village News’ experience that many wish to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. Both Valley News and Village News are prepared to protect the identity of those who come forth and share their stories after verifying their identity and adverse effects or experiences.

Kim Harris can be reached by email at valleyeditor@reedermedia.com.

Julie Reeder contributed to this story.

Planning Commission recommends restoring allowance for fuel service stations in mixed-use zoning areas Joe Naiman WRITER

Riverside County’s Planning Commission has recommended the restoration of motor vehicle fuel service stations as a permitted use in land with MU Mixed Use zoning.

A 4-0 Planning Commission vote Wednesday, Jan. 5, with Bill Sanchez absent, recommended that the county Board of Supervisors restore fuel stations as a permitted use contingent upon a conditional use permit. The Planning Com-

mission also recommended that the Environmental Impact Report approved during a December 2016 zoning update sufficiently analyzed the impacts and that no further environmental documentation is necessary.

The MU Mixed Use zone and the MUA Mixed-Use Area land use designation are intended to allow for flexibility in land usage and to encourage combinations of business, office, retail and other commercial uses along with residential development of various densities. Amendments approved

The Upper Room is Wilson Creek Winery’s new members only lounge offering sit-down tasting service.

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WINERY from page B-3 through the winery on a summer weekend. The other reason has to do with the wine itself. Over the years, Wilson Creek has gained a reputation for making wines for patrons with a sweet tooth – fruitflavored sparklers, dessert wines, wine slushies and high-alcohol reds with residual sugar. Rightly or wrongly, few people go to Wilson Creek in search of premium reds and whites.

The Visit On a brisk, sunny Thursday afternoon, I prefer to park at the overflow lot along Rancho California Road. There are plenty of spaces, but even this lot fills up on

the weekends. I entered through the lower garden, past the shaded children’s play area and across the footbridge that spans the muddy creek.

Like Disneyland, Wilson Creek Winery is built to handle the masses. It has wide walkways, grassy lawns and dozens of places to relax under terraces, tents and umbrellas in its sprawling courtyard. Palm trees and flowerbeds are decoratively arranged around the plaza. There are outdoor tasting counters, an upstairs member’s lounge, two restaurants and the central tasting room.

As I walked into the main building, I was greeted by the first of many young, black-clad employ-

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by the county supervisors in March 2021 removed motor vehicle fuel service stations, with or without the concurrent sale of beer and wine for off-premises consumption, from permitted uses. The intent was to limit potential impacts from hazardous materials to residential units within the zone.

Mixed use development can include vertical structures with commercial or office uses on the first floor and housing above. In some cases, the mixed use development may be horizontal, in which case a fuel service station or other

use would not impact the residents above. Horizontal mixed use allows for buffering between more intensive uses and other types of uses so gas stations may be appropriate in MU or MUA areas depending on surrounding land uses, site conditions and community needs.

Because a conditional use permit is required any possible hazards would be addressed during the approval process. A conditional use permit can stipulate conditions or prohibitions of the sale of alcoholic beverages, although an Alcoholic Beverage Control license would be

required for any beer or wine sales.

A 5-0 county board of supervisors vote Tuesday, Dec. 7, adopted an order initiating an amendment which would modify the regulations and directed the county’s planning department and county counsel to prepare and process the amendment. The planning department and county counsel review included public outreach, the public hearing and the environmental review.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com.

ees. If there is a staffing shortage in Temecula, one wouldn’t know it here. When I received my tasting card, I was escorted through what must be the largest gift shop in California to a newly expanded tasting hall in the back. Chris was the sole server in charge of a long stretch of formica-covered counter. His friendly, no-nonsense demeanor suited Wilson Creek’s unpretentious approach to wine. The mood was relaxed and congenial.

The Wines Wilson Creek has only two dry white wines and no rosés. I began with the 2020 Roussanne, which tastes like a blend of chardonnay and California sauvignon blanc. It has a big mouth feel with notes of honey and melon. The other white is a sweet 2020 White Cabernet Sauvignon, which is Wilson Creek’s bestseller after the Almond Sparkling. It seemed cloying and syrupy to me, despite a candied lime tartness on the finish.

Most of Wilson Creek’s reds clock in at relatively high residual sugar and alcohol levels. I tasted the 2019 Vardande, which is a syrah-based blend. The aroma is

of oak, spice, with a sort of musty earthiness. On the palate, I tasted hints of dark fruit and cherry, with a hefty alcohol kick at the end.

After I tried the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Chris kindly poured me a side-by-side tasting of the 2018 and 2019 Meritage, which are both unusual blends of cabernet franc, malbec and cabernet sauvignon. Both are fruit-forward and highly drinkable, though I prefer the 2018.

Chris informs me that the 2019 Bourbon Barrel Zinfandel is a “wine club favorite.” I can see why, though it’s not to my taste.

At 16.5% alcohol by volume, it’s a boozy fruit bomb. There is a strange, smoky aftertaste, presumably thanks to its five months in a whiskey barrel.

My favorite wine of the day was the reserve 2019 Petite Sirah, which also happens to be the most expensive at $75. It was a fantastic wine, with leather and oak on the nose and dark berries and plum on the palate. It is bone dry, wellbalanced and interesting in all the right ways.

Before I left, I couldn’t resist

sampling the Almond Sparkling Wine, the brand that put Wilson Creek Winery on the map and is still the only Temecula wine distributed nationally. It tastes like almond-flavored Sprite.

Conclusion Go to Wilson Creek Winery if you like sweet sparkling wines, French varietals, red blends, wine slushies, friendly staff, full-service restaurant, Sunday brunch, smallbites grill, family friendly, resortstyle facilities, tours, gift shop, party scene, live music and elbow room.

Avoid Wilson Creek Winery if you like white wines, rosés, Italian or Spanish varietals, small crowds, boutique winery, intimate atmosphere, cool vibe, views, dog friendly, beer and food trucks.

Wisdom of the vine: “Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.” – Salvador Dalí The Mystery Wino is a wine geek, vineyard owner, winemaker and writer based in Temecula.

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McBride brings collegiate and NFL expertise to Murrieta Mesa football

Oscar McBride (right), seen here celebrating a past high school win with a former Servite player, will be taking over the football program at Murrieta Mesa High School in 2022.

Oscar McBride, who played receiver from 1990 to 1994 at the University of Notre Dame under Lou Holtz, has been announced as the new head football coach at Murrieta Mesa.

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JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Murrieta Mesa High School, yes, is one of the newest of the schools in the area, but it does not lack in the arena of accolades when it comes to athletics. In fact, the spring of 2021 was one of the most highly regarded years ever for the Rams, who have had their fair share of difficulties over the years. Last year the Rams won a Southwestern League title in baseball, softball, lacrosse and girls’ basketball, just to name a few.

They have countless CIF Track and Field titles, a baseball title, a softball title and more, which keeps their legacy hall filled to the brim with student athletes and their accolades.

Though successful football campaigns have not always been something the school is known for, they have not lacked when it comes to heart and determination and have even made three post season appearances over the past 11 years.

With the recent resignation of Darrel Turner, who got the program to the post season those three times, much can be said about his remarkable career as a high school and college coach, as well as a college player. Murrieta Mesa Athletic Director, John Broussard, knew he had some big shoes to fill in the search for his replacement.

Turner came to Murrieta Mesa in 2016, by means of Vista Murrieta High School, where he helped coach the Broncos to three consecutive post seasons. There had

not been much of a bright spot athletically for Murrieta Mesa, up till 2016, Broussard’s first year, when the baseball team made a bunch of noise winning a CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship, as well as a Southwestern League title. No sport up to that point had much success under the previous Athletic administration, but they also faced being the new kids on the block, and underdogs for their first few years, which is nothing uncommon for brand-new schools.

Many of the coaches that were brought in at that time by Broussard, including myself, knew the culture needed to change. A winning mentality needed to be secured, along with a positive mindset from their student athletes and that still holds true to this day. Turner got the Rams into the playoffs from 2016-2018 but had not had much success since. This past season Murrieta Mesa was winless, and Turner knew it would be best to hand the program over to someone new.

So, this next season the administration knows they need to be bringing in some heavy guns when it comes to the hiring of their new football coach. That new coach is former NFL receiver, Oscar McBride, who played for the Arizona Cardinals.

McBride’s background in coaching has led him all over the state of California including JSerra (Varsity OL/JV OC), Capo Valley (Varsity WR/DL), Tesoro (Varsity OC/Asst. HC), Servite (Varsity OC/Asst. HC), Orange

Lutheran (Frosh HC/Varsity OC/ Asst. HC) and Notre Dame Riverside (Associate HC). Add that to playing football professionally, as well as collegiately for the University of Notre Dame, and you have yourself someone that should easily be able to turn any program around.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Coach McBride to our family and community,” newly appointed Murrieta Mesa Principal Scott Richards said. “His vast football experiences, from coaching high school ball, playing at Notre Dame under Lou Holtz, and successfully making it to the NFL, will be an asset to our young students playing the sport that they love. Coach McBride believes in teaching the whole individual through trust, love and commitment. His leadership, organization, and vision will look to make an immediate impact in the culture of Murrieta Mesa.”

McBride said he has known Broussard for quite some time and that they have always had tremendous respect for each other.

“I’ve always believed Murrieta Mesa has the potential to be one of the best football programs in Southern California,” McBride said. “When you have great families and talented players, you have a great community... and that’s what Mesa is. I’m truly humbled to how much Mr. Broussard believes in me as a coach and leader of young people.”

McBride and his wife Mary, who also attended University of Notre Dame and Ohio State Law,

have five children ranging in age from 18 to 27. In fact, Oscar’s youngest son Brendan, who is 18, is currently a senior at Orange Lutheran High School. All of their older children, Austin, 27 (Notre Dame Alum), Alexa, 26 (TCU Alum), Blake, 25 (CSU San Bernardino Alum), and Riley, 23 (Wright State Alum, currently attending University of Notre Dame Law), have either graduated from college, or are currently attending and paving their own successful Murrieta Mesa’s newly appointe d head football ways. coach, Oscar McBride , played in the NFL for “As we bring in the Arizona Cardinals during the 19 95 and Oscar, I can’t help 1996 season s. but really cherish what Coach Turner did for us as well,” Brous- development and training of leadsard said.” We weren’t able to ers, that is where I became aware reach the post season prior to of who he was when I attended a Coach Turner’s arrival and under conference and he was the keynote his leadership we had some unbe- speaker, speaking on leadership lievable post season games with development. There has not been some of our players still playing a more crucial time to teach our big time college football with young people that than this mid- or hopes of making it to Sunday. As post-COVID era. So, I feel we are a community we are grateful for extremely fortunate to have him his dedication to Ram Nation.”

(McBride) on our side.”

During the search for a new The 2022 high school football head coach, Broussard mentioned season is slated to begin in Sepmany things when considering tember of this year and the future candidates for the position. for Murrieta Mesa is looking “I think part of that consid- bright with a new coach ready to eration is what role do we need take the reins. filled right now,” he said. “Not 5 “Under Mr. Richards’ and Mr. seasons from now. Not 5 seasons Broussard’s leadership, the future ago. But right now. Having said of Mesa Football is extremely that, it feels like who Coach is bright,” McBride added. “I’m reas a person and the skill set that ally excited to get started and be he brings is custom made for this a part of this community.” season, this era in Mesa Athletics JP Raineri can be reached by and Mesa in general. The excel- email at sports@reedermedia. lence he brings to the game of com. football speaks for itself. But his

Rancho Christian girls tipoff inaugural Coaches vs.

Cancer showcase games JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The new year got off to a busy start for quite a few high school girls’ basketball teams from around Southern California, including a handful from right here in Southwest Riverside County.

The goal was to unite for a common cause, which was saving lives from cancer.

The event was held by Rancho Christian and their girls’ basketball program at the Rancho Christian gymnasium Saturday, Jan. 8. The format of the tournament was just a one-day play format, where teams were given a match-up against a non-league opponent.

Coaches and their teams were encouraged to wear pink during games to raise cancer awareness and portions of the proceeds from this event went to the Rady’s Children’s Hospital Neuro-Oncology program. This allowed student-athletes from the participating schools to be a

part of raising funds for clinical trials groups focusing on pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors.

The tournament was for varsity teams with girls in the ninth through 12th grades with the ability to be elite, competitive and developmental. Teams that paid the $100 registration fee included Bishop Gorman, Central, Desert Christian, Great Oak, Hoover, Mira Mesa, Montgomery, Mt. Miguel, Murrieta Valley, Paloma Valley, Ramona, Rancho Christian, Rosary Academy and Vista (San Diego).

Game scores were recorded as follows: Great Oak 70, Vista 40 Montgomery 44, Desert Christian 23 Ramona 38, Hoover 20 Mira Mesa 61, Central 42 Bishop Gorman 66, Rancho Christian 41 Rosary Academy 66, Mount Miguel 33 see RANCHO, page C-2

Paloma Valley’s Savannah Hatcher (15) goes up for a shot during the Lady Wildcats 51-44 non-league loss to Murrieta Valley at Rancho Christian High School.

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Linfield boys’ control top spot in Ambassador League basketball standings JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

TEMECULA – It was a battle for the top spot in the Ambassador League boys’ basketball standings Wednesday, Jan. 12, between Aquinas and Linfield Christian.

There was no lack of excitement between the two teams, nor the packed cozy gym in Temecula.

Both squads entered the contest with identical 6-0 records in Ambassador league play. Round one went to the Lions.

Aquinas would deliver the first blow, scoring first, but Linfield Christian (17-2, 7-0 in league) quickly put together a 10-0 run to take the wind out of their sails. In what was an intense game between the two rivals, who both won CIF Southern Section championships last season, it took a headstrong defense from Linfield to put the stamp on the game.

The Lions defense created 30 turnovers in the showdown, which helped Linfield Christian walk away with a 68-50 victory and sole possession of first place in the Ambassador League standings. Even with 14 of the turnovers coming in the first 11 minutes, Aquinas (13-5, 6-1) only trailed by six points early in the second quarter. From there it was the Damian Ruiz and Mike McNair show as they combined for 19 points in the quarter to extend Linfield Christian’s lead to 40-25 at halftime. Ruiz scored 17 points in the half, and McNair added 15 more for the Lions.

Aquinas tried to get back in the mix in the second half, but the Falcons were unable to put anything together. The Lions would eventually drain four consecutive 3-pointers, two by freshman Julius Brower and one each by Ruiz and McNair, to head out in front 56-29 midway through the third quarter.

Ruiz (24 points) and McNair (23 points) combined for 47 points in the win, while Brower added a career-high 16 points. With stats like that, and with the same three players combining to sink 10 3-pointers in the game, Aquinas didn’t know what hit them. Ruiz also finished with a team-high seven rebounds.

Keishmer Foster was the one shining light for the Falcons with 20 points, but he was the only

Aquinas player to hit double figures. James Otieno had eight points and a game-high 10 rebounds. The teams will face each other again Tuesday, Feb. 1, at Aquinas High School.

Two days later, Linfield let loose on Woodcrest Christian, who is also in the Ambassador League, as Damien Ruiz was a man on a mission, breaking two school records through the course of the game.

Linfield won 96-26 with Ruiz netting 43 points (most in a game) and hitting 11 three-pointers (most in a game) on his way to the record books for the prideful Lions, who turned around and beat Chaparral the very next day in a non-league bout, 75-33. Local high school basketball action continues this week as the winter season playoffs quickly approach.

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

Linfield Christian gets 24 points from Damian Ruiz to defeat Aquinas 68-50 Wednesday, Jan. 12.

Mike McNair slams home 2 of his 23 points for the Lions as they beat rival Aquinas 68-50 in Ambassador League play.

Linfield’s Damian Ruiz leads all scorers with 24 points including four 3-pointers.

Valley News/David Canales photos

RANCHO from page C-1 Murrieta Valley 51, Paloma Valley 44 Great Oak High School named Bri Thomas (freshman) as their “Player of the Game” for her 16 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists against San Diego’s Vista High School. Junior Payton Curtiss was an astounding 4-6 from the three-point line and sophomore Jozie Nejo had 16 rebounds with 8 points for the Lady Wolfpack squad as well. In the local headto-head match-up between Murrieta Valley and Paloma Valley, no player stats were updated at the time this story went to print.

All past, present and future event related questions should be directed to Marlon Wells at marlonwells80@gmail.com.

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

Great Oak’s Morgan Grayton goes up for a shot during the Rancho Christian Coaches vs. Cancer Showcase at Rancho Christian High School Saturday, Jan. 8.

Julia Wilson (33) drives to the basket for 2 points during the Rancho Christian Coaches vs. Cancer Showcase at Rancho Christian High School Saturday, Jan. 8. Valley News/Action Captures Media Group photos

Murrieta Valley’s Makayla Rutledge (0) dribbles the ball up court during the Rancho Christian Coaches vs. Cancer Showcase.

Rancho Christian’s Shaylynn De Yager shoots over the Bishop Gorman defenders during their Coaches vs. Cancer showcase Saturday, Jan. 8.

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Craig, Hammaker take top two 250 finishes in Supercross season opener

After being canceled last year due to COVID-19, the first AMA Supercross 250SX race of 2022 was won by Temecula rider, Christian Craig (28), in front of a sold-out Angel Stadium crowd.

Valley News David Canales photos

Defending East Coast Champion, Colt Nichols (45, Murrieta), and this year’s runner up, Seth Hammaker (47), battle it out on the woops at Angel Stadium.

Murrieta rider Dean Wilson (15), who races for Rockstar Energy/Husqvarna, finishes twelfth in the first AMA Supercross event of the year.

Menifee’s Jo Shimoda (30) takes seventh place at the first AMA Supercross 250SX race of 2022 at Angel Stadium.

Joe Naiman WRITER

The first AMA Supercross race of 2022 took place Saturday, January 8, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, with Temecula riders Christian Craig and Seth Hammaker taking the top two 250SX main event finishes.

The 250cc main event was 15 minutes plus one lap. Craig completed 16 laps in 16:08.024 with Hammaker finishing 5.625 seconds after Craig and 0.429 seconds before third-place rider Hunter Lawrence of Florida.

Craig and Hammaker are both

Monster Energy riders. Craig is on the Monster Energy/Star Racing Yamaha team and Hammaker is part of the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki team.

“That was a great way to start the season. I’m excited for them.

I was pleased to see both teams doing good to start the series,” Monster Energy senior vice president of sports marketing Mitch Covington said. “It gives us high hopes for a championship, and hopefully they will take it one race at a time as well and finish like we started the season.”

The Monster Energy riders also include Murrieta’s Colt Nichols,

who is with the Monster Energy/ Star Racing Yamaha team, and Menifee’s Jo Shimoda, who rides for the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki team. In the first qualifying session January 8 Craig had the fast lap of 57.676 seconds, Hammaker qualified third at 58.407 seconds, Nichols’ fast lap of 59.526 seconds placed fourth, Shimoda qualified ninth with a fast lap of 1:00.113 and Menifee’s Vince Friese had the tenth-place qualifying lap of 1:00.656.

Craig also had the fast-qualifying lap in the second session, taking 57.480 seconds. Hammaker qualified fourth at 58.134 seconds, Shimoda had a fifth-place lap of 58.313 seconds, Nichols was sixth with a lap of 58.477 seconds and a fast lap of 59.201 seconds placed Friese tenth.

Hammaker was in the first heat race. Michael Mosiman, who now lives in Florida, won that eight-lap race in 7:50.724. Hammaker was second and finished 6.134 seconds after Mosiman. Friese took third place and was 8.425 seconds behind Hammaker. Nichols had led

the race but crashed in the fifth lap, and he was also unable to start in the last chance qualifier.

Craig won the second heat race in 7:50.019. Shimoda finished 8.412 seconds later for second place.

The main event began with 22 riders. Craig started first, Shimoda began in the third position, Hammaker lined up fourth, and Friese was sixth prior to the original green flag.

Friese led for the first three laps before Craig took over the lead that he never relinquished in the fourth lap. Friese eventually finished fifth, 26.635 seconds behind Craig and 18.475 seconds behind fourth-place Garrett Marchbanks of Utah. Mosiman took sixth place while Shimoda captured seventh by finishing 4.774 seconds after Mosiman and 41.598 seconds after Craig.

Craig also won the 2021 AMA Supercross season opener, which was in Houston, Texas. He rides a Yamaha YZ250F, as does Nichols. Hammaker and Shimoda compete on Kawasaki KX250

machines. Friese was on a Honda CRF250R. “Glad to be back racing, and looking forward to a good season,” Covington said.

Ken Roczen of Florida won the 450SX class. Marvin Musquin, who lives in Corona but trains at the KTM facility in Murrieta, finished fourth. Murrieta riders Malcolm Stewart and Dean Wilson are both part of the Rockstar Energy/ Husqvarna Factory Racing team and finished seventh and twelfth, respectively.

The Jan. 8 races also included the KTM Junior competition.

Menifee’s Nixon Meineke led all three laps and won in 4:56.708.

Wildomar’s Easton Grant was second and finished 7.416 seconds after Meineke. Winchester’s James Ellis had the fifth-place finish, completing the race 41.223 seconds after Meineke and 20.501 seconds after fourth-place Austin Tilley of Norco.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com.

Linfield student athletes announced as fall season 2022 AllAmbassador League selections

Maisy Randolph was named All-Ambassador League for her great tennis play out of Linfield Christian School. Valley News/Courtesy photos

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Local student athletes from the fall sports season for Linfield Christian School were recently recognized, earning All-League honors for their tremendous game

Linfield’s Christian Wong (52), pictured here with his teammates and head coach, DeChon Burns, was named All-Ambassador League First Team on offense and defense.

play. Here are the Ambassador League’s fall sports honors for the 2022 season, which primarily come down to Linfield Christian High School student athletes as they are the only local school representing that league.

Cross Country

Boys: Kai Newman, Simon Gutierrez and Logan Pledger.

Girls: Ryley Burns, Emma Lakatos, Scarlett Welsome, Hannah Barbieri and Caylyn Russell.

Football First Team: Christian Wong (Offense and Defense), Spencer

Breanna Mitchell was named Player of the Year for the Ambassador League, representing the Linfield girls’ volleyball team.

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Lewis (Offense) and Jeremy Maloney (Defense).

Second Team: Marcus Dylke (Offense) and Ryland Jeremiah (Defense).

Tennis Maisy Randolph Volleyball

Player of the Year: Breanna Mitchell First Team: Emily Bohmer Second Team: Jalee Nash JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

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Murrieta man serves as longtime business mentor to local students Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

January is National Mentoring Month, and Bill Demmin of Murrieta knows the importance of that role from his experience working with students in Murrieta Valley High School’s award-winning Virtual Enterprise business program.

In the Virtual Enterprise program, students learn all aspects pertaining to starting a company.

The course teaches students how to set up a simulated business. They are given the responsibility to run day-to-day business operations to prepare them for a real business environment. MVHS students compete with other high schools around the country in all aspects of business development. The MVHS Virtual Enterprise mentors help the students with their daily tasks, setting them up for success in their competitions. Each mentor has experience in the business world.

In 2008, as the founding CEO for Commerce Bank of Temecula Valley, Demmin was asked by a business contact, Bruce Coleman, if the Virtual Enterprise program could use the new bank’s office to conduct officer interviews.

“I helped with the interviews and got to know about the program,” Demmin said. “About two years later, a friend whose daughter was in Virtual Enterprise asked if I would read and comment on their draft business plan.

When I retired in 2010, I wanted to give back to the community and became increasingly active in helping as a mentor with Virtual Enterprise.”

He said he felt a connection to what the students were doing in the program because as a founding CEO, he had similar experiences starting a business.

“As a small bank, I had to be well versed in all aspects of business including finance, corporate management, marketing, branding and strategic planning,” Demmin said.

Much work goes into being a Virtual Enterprise mentor, including attending weeklong Virtual Enterprise teacher training during the summer. For the past several years, Demmin held summer school sessions to help students get a head start on accounting while improving their Excel and financial analysis skills. He is classified as staff at MVHS, going through the full screening process required to have access to the campus and classroom and to travel with students to competitions.

Mentoring others takes training.

“While I have provided limited help with Virtual Enterprise programs in three other California schools, I have been extremely active online helping Blackman High School in Tennessee,” Demmin said. “The teacher there reached out and asked for help. They had been doing Virtual Enterprise for

years and had never gotten beyond the regional competitions. Last year they made it to state finals, and this year they have students competing in some of the national finals.”

He attends classes, attends working sessions outside of school hours, reviews and provides comments on written and oral presentations for key competitions and travels with students to student trainings and competitions outside the area.

“We must remember, the students are all very smart and learn quickly but have limited, to no experience with business,” Demmin said. “I really enjoy collaborating with juniors who will be taking Virtual Enterprise for two years since I can watch them grow geometrically in their understanding and business professionalism.”

Demmin’s college education and subsequent employment took him around the world. He said the experience gave him a global perspective that is invaluable when sharing his business acumen with the Virtual Enterprise program students. As a banker, he had an attorney and a certified public accountant who mentored him in banking matters.

“In drafting bank or corporate documents, they/we used the same system I use with the students; I did the drafting, and they would then offer suggestions and help make the document as professional and accurate as possible,” Demmin said. “I laughingly tell the students of my days of being on their side of the table having others challenge and/or suggesting ways to present the most readable commentary.”

Other mentors volunteer.

Others who have served as mentors for Murrieta Valley High School’s Virtual Enterprise program for several years include Daneen Ashworth, Chad Cloes, LouEllen Ficke, Joni Hower Fulton and Peter Thorwarth. Ashworth is the founder of Compass HR, a local resource for small- to medium-sized businesses. She shares her human resources experience with Virtual Enterprise students and finds the experience meaningful as she can impact students in real world knowledge.

Cloes is a software engineer for Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks, Turbotax and Mint. He helps Virtual Enterprise program participants with their business development process. He said one of the highlights of his career has been working with local high schools to do everything from installing computers in their labs to teaching the Design for Delight process to aspiring entrepreneurs through the Virtual Enterprise program.

Ficke volunteers as a mentor for public relations. The longtime resident of the Temecula Valley has also had a long career in the banking industry. Her philanthropic work throughout the community has earned her recognition.

Mentor Bill Demmin, left, works with Virtual Enterprise business program students Jason Alfaro, center, and Ryan Bullard at Murrieta Valley High School, Wednesday, Jan. 12.

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Murrieta Valley High School Virtual Enterprise students work with business mentors, including Bill Demmin, left, and program facilitator Joel Levin.

She assisted the Virtual Enterprise program in judging competitions since it began and more recently began mentoring students who she said continue to impress her with their “commitment, dedication and brilliant ideas centered around virtual business opportunities.”

Hower Fulton has worked with Virtual Enterprises International and Murrieta Valley High School for 10 years. She has provided training seminars for students and teachers and focuses in her area of specialty Human Resources and Organizational Management.

“As a mentor, I have been the recipient of the greatest reward, which is watching each student excel and grow into young adults who give me hope for the future of our country,” Fulton said.

Thorwarth mentored MVHS’s Virtual Enterprise students in the marketing and sales departments for five years. He also helps with other Virtual Enterprise departments, the business plan and vari-

ous Virtual Enterprise competition judging.

“Mentoring high school students is rewarding and a wonderful way to give back to the community,” Demmin said. “Our teachers and schools need to be shifting from book learning to more careeroriented learning with as much firsthand experience as possible.

This requires folks who are willing to share their business skills but also folks who understand how to convey their knowledge to students at a level they can absorb.”

Mentors are a valuable resource.

Virtual Enterprise program facilitator Joel Levin said, “Mentors are an integral part of a successful Virtual Enterprise program. The students benefit tremendously from the knowledge and guidance that the mentors give them. They gain an understanding of the way things work in the ‘real world’ by networking with business professionals who are doing the same

things that the students are doing with their ‘virtual’ business. You can’t get this type of education from textbooks.”

Levin said mentors are also a tremendous asset to the Virtual Enterprise teacher due to the fact there are six departments that must be at the top of their game.

“It is impossible for me to give enough attention to everyone,” he said. “The mentors help to fill that void by assuming the role of advisor for individual departments.”

For more information on MVHS’s Virtual Enterprise program, visit http://mvhsvirtualenterprise.weebly.com/mentors. html.

The Harvard School of Public Health and MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership founded National Mentoring Month in 2002. For more information, visit http:/www.mentoring. org/campaigns/national-mentoring-month.

Murrieta Valley USD appoints Cooper for Trustee Area 1

Dr. Takesha Cooper, physician and health sciences clinical associate professor for the University of California Riverside School of Medicine, is the newly appointed trustee for the Murrieta Valley Unified School District Board of Education Trustee Area 1 until November 2022, replacing Oscar Rivas.

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MURRIETA – Murrieta Valley Unified School District’s Governing Board of Education appointed Dr. Takesha Cooper to serve as trustee, filling the vacancy created when Oscar Rivas announced his resignation effective Monday, Nov. 22. Cooper’s term will expire in

November 2022. At that time, Cooper can seek election for a four-year term.

“I am incredibly honored and humbled by this appointment, especially when you consider the excellent quality of applicants,” Cooper said, following her

appointment. “I am excited to serve the students and staff of the MVUSD community.

“I have great respect for our public school system having spent my entire K-12 education in Riverside County public schools. I look forward to continuing my support for public education as an employee of the University of California Riverside School of Medicine and as an MVUSD board member,” she said.

At the district’s recent special meeting, the board of education interviewed nine qualified candidates. At the conclusion of the interviews, trustees identified their top two candidates and Trustee Ellen Larson made a motion to appoint Cooper. The motion was seconded by Linda Lunn, and Cooper was appointed.

“The Murrieta community continues to amaze me with the outstanding board candidates who desire to serve our students and staff,” board President Thomasian said. “Takesha exemplifies a passion for public education and expertise in public policy needed to move the district forward while focusing on what is best for students.”

Cooper is a physician and health sciences clinical associate professor for the University of California Riverside School of Medicine in the department of psychiatry and neurosciences and serves as the chair of admissions, psychiatry residency training director, vicechair of education and an equity

advisor for the UCR School of Medicine.

Cooper is a Murrieta Valley USD parent of two secondary students.

She served in a voluntary capacity for the Cole Canyon School Counselor Advisory Council, the African American Parents Advisory Committee, National Association of the Mentally Ill, Inland Empire Eating Disorder Collaboration and was a keynote speaker for the 2019 State of Coachella Valley, Child Abuse Stakeholder Discussion Panel.

“My desire to have a meaningful impact on the education and health of our community is increasingly important as is my understanding

that access to quality education is a social determinant that I am committed to improving for everyone in Murrieta,” Cooper said.

Unless a petition calling for a special election pursuant to Education Code 5091 is filed in the Office of the Riverside County Superintendent of Schools within 30 days of the provisional appointment, it shall become an effective appointment. Notwithstanding the right of the public to petition for a special election, all powers and duties of a governing board member begin once the appointment is made.

Submitted by Murrieta Valley Unified School District.

MVUSD Board of Education seeks community input in superintendent search MURRIETA – The Murrieta Valley Unified School District Board has begun the process of hiring a new superintendent and is inviting the community to be a part of the recruitment process.

At a regular public meeting Wednesday, Jan. 5, the Board set a timeline for the process, with a target of having a new superintendent in place by July 1. The Board also announced public input opportunities, including an anonymous online questionnaire which runs through Jan. 24.

The questionnaire provides the community an opportunity to voice the desired qualities and skill set the community feels the Board should seek in a new superintendent.

“Our goal is to successfully find the superintendent who best fits our district. To do that we need our community’s input,” Board President Kris Thomasian said.

The online questionnaire is brief and available online at visit www. murrieta.k12.ca.us/SuptSearch.

Submitted by Murrieta Valley Unified School District.

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Highway update

Many Caltrans and RCTC highway transportation projects underway again in area Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Caltrans crews continue their $28 million project replacing the No. 3 and No. 4 lanes on Interstate 15 near Temecula with some lanes being closed Jan. 21 through Saturday morning Jan. 22.

Specifically, Caltrans note on and off ramps are subject to closure within the construction zone Friday night, Jan. 21 through Saturday morning, Jan. 22. The northbound I-15 will have 3 of 4 lanes closed from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. The Southbound I-15 will have 3 of 4 lanes closed from 10

p.m. to 6 a.m.

Railroad Canyon project Riverside County Transportation Commission reports nighttime closures of northbound I-15 lanes in Lake Elsinore, including the northbound I-15 Railroad Canyon Road off-ramp, scheduled for Friday. Alternating lane closures on eastbound and westbound Railroad Canyon Road are also scheduled for Friday night.

See RCTC @RailroadCanyon for the latest updates.

RCTC also noted on Highway 60 from Beaumont to Moreno Valley there are no closures planned but things are subject to change due to weather and the

latest COVID-19 staffing shortages. Follow @60TruckLanes on social media for the latest project information.

Caltrans continues work on State Route 74 (SR-74) in Riverside County from the Riverside and Orange County border to Monte Vista Street just west of Lake Elsinore.

Those crews will be performing striping, drilling, rock excavation removal, drainage work and cable draping in various locations throughout the project zone. Oneway traffic control with flagging and pilot vehicles will be in place from 8 to 9:59 p.m. During the hours of 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the

route may be closed to through traffic. There will be escorts for local traffic in the area.

Menifee road conditions Menifee roadwork is continuing on EMWD’s Transmission Pipeline Project on Murrieta Road near Salt Creek. Please visit emwd.org/MurrietaRoad for more details.

Lennar continues with material import operations on the Rockport Ranch material Import hauls along Antelope and Garbani roads. The hauling schedule, including reduced travel times and days on Holland, Antelope, Garbani and Briggs roads, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to

3:30 p.m.; Holland Road on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Hauling on Holland Road has been eliminated on Wednesdays to ease traffic congestion related to the minimum day school schedules.

Scott Road and Leon Road Intersection improvements are still underway. Traffic control is in place for daytime work and will remain in place until further notice. Travel lanes are available in all directions as work is occurring. This project is a joint effort between the County of Riverside, Perris Union High School District and the City of Menifee.

Free tests? As COVID surges, rapid results cost up to $300 Ana B. Ibarra CALMATTERS

When Rebecca Santucci of Lakewood learned that her sister, Stacy Santucci, may have been exposed to COVID-19, she set out to look for a rapid test. She needed to know quickly whether their 88-year-old father was at risk.

Pharmacies were out of home test kits, and testing clinics were booked solid for at least two weeks. On Amazon, she found a set of two at-home tests for $38, but they wouldn’t arrive until next month. And anything that required waiting hours in line wouldn’t work for her sister, who has Down syndrome and anxiety.

Eventually she found a slot for a rapid antigen test at a private drive-thru clinic on the city of Lakewood’s website. But it was five days after Stacy Santuccil learned of her potential exposure.

The price tag for the test: $129.

“We ended up paying the money but it killed me to do it,” Rebecca Santucci said.

Her sister tested negative, so at least they finally got some peace of mind.

With the explosion of the highly transmissible omicron variant, more Californians find themselves seeking tests wherever they can find them. State and local testing sites offer free COVID-19 tests but they are swamped, forcing people to seek private pop-up clinics.

Quick results often come with hefty upfront costs: Some clinics charge nearly $300 for a rapid PCR test.

Although state and federal regulations require COVID-19 tests to be free or covered by health insurance, people often have to pay upfront, and the amount is unaffordable for many Californians.

Those who can’t afford to pay will often have to wait hours in line at local and state free testing sites, and sometimes wait days for the lab results.

“There is a requirement that testing be free, but there is no requirement of how fast those test results need to be returned,” Shira Shafir, a professor of epidemiology at University of California Los Angeles, said. “With this omicron surge, some people are again

waiting four to five days for those lab results and at that point those results are essentially useless.”

Adding to the demand for quick results is that certain places demand proof of testing within a time frame of 24 to 72 hours.

People need them to visit nursing and senior homes, return to daycare programs or board flights to Hawaii or overseas.

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Pop-up sites at California’s international airports charge upfront. At San Francisco International Airport, a rapid test is $275.

At Los Angeles International Airport, a rapid PCR test with results in one hour costs $199. According to one LAX provider, Clarity Mobile Venture, debit or credit card payments are required, although a receipt is provided for insurance reimbursement. At San Diego International Airport, the cost is $135 to $165, and at Long Beach Airport, a test with 1.5-hour results costs $250.

At the Lakewood clinic where Santucci went, costs range from $129 for a rapid antigen test with one-hour results to $299 for a PCR test with two-hour results.

The clinic also advertises a free standard PCR test with results in two or more days.

“With rapid tests, what people may be paying for is the guarantee of quick results,” said Shafir. “The test site is not always pitching it that way.”

PCR and antigen tests are both used to diagnose COVID-19. Antigen tests can yield faster results, but PCR tests are more sensitive to detecting the virus so they are considered more accurate.

Health experts said getting results quickly is vital to protecting people and avoiding long quarantines, but rapid tests have long been in short supply.

Save your receipts.

Californians have an array of places where they can be tested: a hodgepodge of pharmacies, community clinics, government mass-testing sites and private pop-up sites. Many of these tests are free, but they are booked for weeks. Some pop-up testing sites charge upfront, creating confusion as to why, since testing is supposed to be free.

At most pharmacies and doctor offices, providers do not charge people directly. Instead, they collect insurance information so they can be paid. But some private testing clinics charge individuals, who are then responsible for seeking reimbursement from an insurer.

Claims can be filed online or sent to the insurer by mail.

But it’s not always a guarantee that they’ll get their money back.

Stacy Santucci is covered by Medicare, which covers people with disabilities. Rebecca Santucci said she did not receive a receipt after her sister’s test, but she had an email confirmation from the testing provider, Covid Clinic. When Rebecca Santucci called her sister’s Medicare plan, she was advised to print the email and send it in by snail mail, but there was no assurance she’d be reimbursed because the printed email might not suffice.

Experts recommended checking receipts for extra service charges, such as a fee for expedited results.

Charging an extra fee for rapid results is deceptive, state Sen. Richard Pan, a Democrat from Sacramento, said. Last year he wrote a bill, Senate Bill 510, that clarified rules around free testing. The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, codifies federal rules into state law, requiring insurance companies to cover testing without any cost sharing such as copays or deductibles.

Pan said his office is looking into cases of providers who are tacking on extra charges to a test – they’ll provide a procedure code for the test itself that patients can then submit to their insurer for repayment, but they won’t provide a reimbursement code for the mysterious extra charge.

“Trying to splice the bill in a way that continues to have a cost to the patient is certainly not in the spirit of the law,” Pan said.

The law also doesn’t address the issue of having to pay upfront.

The challenge is that new test sites don’t usually have existing relationships with insurers, so instead they charge the individual, Pan said.

“They (testing clinics) just want to get paid, to them it doesn’t matter where that payment comes

Diane Ahern swabs herself for COVID-19 at a testing site at the Long Beach Airport in Long Beach Tuesday, Jan. 11. “I need to get tested every three days to be able to visit my parents at their retirement home,” Ahern said. “I’m nervous.”

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from,” Shafir said.

It’s been a pattern throughout the pandemic that those with less resources are less likely to access testing.

Upfront costs and long lines can deter people from getting tested and worsen health disparities, experts said. People without insurance don’t have the option to seek reimbursement. And testing requires free time or a flexible job, and sometimes the physical ability to stand in line or car ownership.

State is reviewing complaints.

The California Department of Public Health told CalMatters in an unsigned email that it is aware of complaints regarding pop-up sites, including concerns around business practices related to pricing, but also the validity of tests and sample handling.

The health department urged residents to look for verified testing sites on its website where there are no out-of-pocket costs, regardless of their insurance situation.

In recent news conferences, Gov. Gavin Newsom has touted the more than 6,200 verified testing locations in the state. About 90% of Californians are within a 30-minute drive of a verified testing site, according to the state health department.

“While that’s impressive, we recognize it’s not good enough, nor is the fact that there are lines

appearing at sites like this all across the state,” Newsom said from a testing location in Paramount Wednesday, Jan. 12.

In response, Newsom tapped the National Guard to help administer testing and introduced a $2.7 billion COVID relief package that includes dollars to increase capacity, staffing and hours at testing sites, as well as expand the number of COVID-19 antigen tests being sent to local health departments, community clinics and county offices of education and schools.

Testing sites are likely to be in high demand for several more weeks, especially as at-home test kits are still hard to come by.

For those who can find at-home tests, a new state order will add some protections for what they pay. Newsom signed an executive order to protect people from price gouging of at-home test kits. The order prohibits the sale of test kits at a price that is more than 10% of the price the seller was charging Dec. 1. New sellers may not charge a price greater than 50% of what they paid for the test kit.

Starting Saturday, a new federal rule will allow people who purchase at-home tests to get reimbursed from their insurer for up to eight at-home coronavirus tests per person per month. Again, the trick is finding those tests.

Board OKs investigation into patient offloading problems countywide City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Jan. 11, unanimously approved assigning a standing committee to research and find potential solutions to the “significant and detrimentally impactful” problem of delays at hospitals throughout the county in accepting patients brought in by ambulance.

New board Chair Jeff Hewitt and Supervisor Kevin Jeffries will proceed, as members of the Fire Ad-Hoc Committee, to investigate why the practice of patient offloading is faltering and how it might be remedied.

Staff from the county Emergency Management Department presented data showing a 110% increase in recent weeks in patient offload delays at hospitals, which officials acknowledged had been influenced by coronavirus cases, but the trend line has been pointing up for years.

“Paramedic first responders are forced to wait for extended periods of time,” EMD representative Trevor Douville told the board. “Since 2015, we have seen progressive and cumulative increases, and the worsening patient offload delays have impacted first responders.”

EMD Director Bruce Barton said that even after COVID-19 “comes down... this problem will still be here.”

“We need resolve, and that frames the environment of what we need to get something done,” Barton said.

According to a statement posted to the board’s agenda by Hewitt and Jeffries, “patients having to remain on the ambulance gurney for several hours after arrival at the hospital is now commonplace.”

The supervisors said the county’s target maximum time for a person to lay in an ambulance after arriving at a medical facility is 30 minutes.

“We cannot fulfill our missions

if this continues,” county fire Chief Bill Wiser told the board.

“A lot of times, we have engine (crews) responding, and there’s no ambulance responding with them. We’ve had engines waiting two hours (with patients) for an ambulance to come to the scene.”

The ambulance delays are directly tied to offload disruptions occurring at facilities, according to the EMD. “Some hospitals have very high volume, but they still perform very well,” Douville said. “They have surge plans in place.”

Barton pointed to under-staffing at hospitals as one of the impediments to efficient patient admissions at some facilities.

Countywide delays in offloading were highlighted during the late fall of 2020 amid the coronavirus surge then underway, when hospitals were experiencing major challenges finding triage and bed space. The problem, however, appears systemic and goes beyond demands related to COVID-19,

officials said.

Supervisor Karen Spiegel wondered whether the hang-up was the “new normal” statewide, and Douville said many hospitals in California had been experiencing similar troubles.

“But some of our (local) hospitals are at the top of the list,” he said.

Officials said various measures have been implemented to solve the problem, including better communication between ambulance companies’ supervisors and hospital administrators, as well as the collection of weekly and monthly tracking data and reports connected to offloading that are circulated among administrators to underscore deficiencies.

“Unfortunately, some hospitals continue to escalate ambulance patient offload delays despite the mitigation activities,” the supervisors said. “The problem has never been more significant and detrimentally impactful to the emergency management system.

Additional measures to mitigate the problem and ensure consistent 911 ambulance response times are required.”

The Fire Ad-Hoc Committee is expected to hold hearings in the coming months and return to the board with a report before the end of the current fiscal year.

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Riverside County board of supervisors seats new chair, vice chair City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt was seated as the 2022 chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, but in a strange twist, two supervisors withheld their votes supporting him for the largely ceremonial post.

Top on the board’s Tuesday, Jan. 11, agenda was appointing a chair and vice chair, as is custom at the beginning of every year.

Supervisor Karen Spiegel was the outgoing chair from 2021 and

initiated the process of handing over the baton.

“I’m really proud to have served on this board with Supervisor Spiegel,” Hewitt said. “She had a lot of challenges. Supervisor (Manuel) Perez the year before conducted himself in a really good manner. Learning things from other leaders is a real honor, and hopefully I can continue on in that vein.”

The chair oversees establishing board schedules, guiding hearings, attending functions on behalf of the entire board, signing proclama-

tions and other duties that don’t require a quorum.

Traditionally, the board rotates the position annually, and the line of succession is based only on whichever district supervisor is slated for a turn. This year, it was the 5th District, represented

by Hewitt.

Supervisors Perez, Chuck Washington and Spiegel were not in the board chamber, electing instead to join the meeting virtually via Zoom as a precaution amid current public health concerns stemming from COVID-19.

When the vote for chair and vice chair was called, Hewitt and Supervisor Kevin Jeffries had to make and then second the motion themselves. Spiegel voted to seat the men, and they voted to seat themselves, but Perez and Washington abstained from voting.

In at least the last two decades, all votes for chair and vice chair have been unanimous.

There was no comment by either Perez or Washington, who served as chairs in 2020 and 2018, respectively.

Hewitt is a registered Libertar-

ian, and Perez and Washington are Democrats. The supervisors have had public disagreements during board meetings, but the conflicts never led to open hostility or harsh words, though votes on some matters were divided.

Hewitt did not list his objectives or ideas for the coming year, which his predecessors sometimes have done.

Jeffries, who is the most senior supervisor and intends to retire at the end of his term in 2024, will step in as chair whenever Hewitt is unavailable.

DOT announces historic bridge investment under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, California to receive $4.2B WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation launched the historic Bridge Replacement, Rehabilitation, Preservation, Protection and Construction Program, made possible by President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The program, to be administered by the Federal Highway Administration, represents the single largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the interstate highway system – providing $26.5 billion to states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico over five years and $825 million for tribal transportation facilities. The total amount that will be available to states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in fiscal year 2022 is $5.3 billion along with $165 million for tribes. The FHWA

also published initial guidance on the new program.

“The Biden-Harris administration is thrilled to launch this program to fix thousands of bridges across the country – the single largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the interstate highway system,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “Modernizing America’s bridges will help improve safety, support economic growth and make people’s lives better in every part of the country – in rural, suburban, city and tribal communities.”

“This record amount of funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will allow states and tribal governments to fix the bridges most in need of repair,” Deputy Federal Highway Admin-

istrator Stephanie Pollack said.

“It will also modernize bridges to withstand the effects of climate change and to make them safer for all users, including cyclists and pedestrians. Every state has bridges in poor condition and in need of repair, including bridges with weight restrictions that may force lengthy detours for travelers, school buses, first responders or trucks carrying freight,” she said.

California will receive $4.2 billion under the new program to address highway bridge needs.

The funding will help improve the condition of about 1,536 bridges in poor condition and to preserve and improve more than 11,300 bridges in fair condition in the state.

Nationwide, the Bridge Formula Program is expected to help repair

approximately 15,000 bridges. In addition to providing funds to states to replace, rehabilitate, preserve, protect and construct highway bridges, the Bridge Formula Program has dedicated funding for tribal transportation facility bridges as well as “off-system” bridges, locally owned facilities which are those not on the federal-aid highway system.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes an incentive for states to direct the new Bridge Formula Program funds to off-system bridges owned by a county, city, town or other local agency. While states generally must match federal funding with up to 20% state or local funding, the guidance issued notes that federal funds can be used for 100% of the cost of repairing or

2022 Homeless Point-in-Time Count moves to Feb. 23 Efforts to seek community volunteers continue The County of Riverside is moving the 2022 Point-in-Time Count by 30 days due to the recent spike in coronavirus cases.

The count is now scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 23, while the Youth Count is scheduled to run from Wednesday, Feb. 23 through Friday, Feb. 25. County staff from the Department of Housing and Workforce Solutions will continue their community planning efforts with local cities in preparation for the new date.

“Due to the ongoing pandemic, we made the decision to postpone the count,” Heidi Marshall, director of the department of housing and workforce solutions, said.

“Our goal is to conduct a comprehensive and accurate count while ensuring appropriate safeguards

for all involved. It is critical that we have current data on the local homeless population to assess the impact the pandemic may have caused.”

The PIT Count is an annual count of all sheltered and unsheltered homeless individuals within Riverside County. The PIT is required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a condition of funding. The data is used by HUD to determine funding levels, assess regional needs and to monitor local progress in reducing homelessness.

The effort is led by the Riverside County Continuum of Care, a community body comprised of more than 200 individuals and organizations actively involved in planning and coordinating efforts

to end homelessness in Riverside County.

The new date will allow additional time to recruit volunteers and county staff to participate in the count. Currently there are approximately 380 volunteers registered to participate and efforts are ongoing to recruit an additional 400. Training is required before the count. Volunteers must also have a smartphone or tablet to conduct the survey, be able to walk up to two hours and must be 18 or older. Volunteers ages 16-17 must be accompanied by an adult.

Interested participants can register for the Feb. 23 count at https:// rivcopitc2022-countyofriverside. hub.arcgis.com/ or the Youth Count at https://rivcopitc2022countyofriverside.hub.arcgis.com/

pages/youthcount.

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rehabilitating such locally owned off-system bridges. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a once-in-ageneration investment in infrastructure, which will grow the economy, enhance U.S. competitiveness in the world, create good jobs and make our transportation system more sustainable and equitable.

Specific to the FHWA, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides more than $350 billion over five fiscal years for surface transportation programs.

FHWA released the first tranche of Bridge Formula Program funding to states for fiscal year 2022 in addition to the program guidance.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Two inland Southern California childcare workers have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse after an 8-monthold boy was brought to a hospital with skull fracture, authorities said.

An investigation began after the boy who attended Kiddie Academy in Rancho Cucamonga was hospitalized last September, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said in a news release.

Two Kiddie Academy employees, women ages 29 and 50, face charges including child abuse and conspiracy. The two conspired to conceal the child’s injuries and neglected his well-being, sheriff’s officials said Thursday.

Representatives for Kiddie Academy in Rancho Cucamonga did not return a call Saturday seeking comment.

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EU regulators, WHO call for end to COVID-19 boosters, citing evidence strategy is failing Megan Redshaw THE DEFENDER

European Union drug regulators on Tuesday Jan. 11 warned frequent COVID-19 boosters could adversely affect the immune system and said there are currently no data to support repeated doses.

The warning comes a month after EU drug regulators said it made sense to “administer COVID-19 vaccine boosters as early as three months after the initial two-shot regimen,” amid concerns over the omicron variant.

According to the European Medicines Agency, continued booster doses every four months could pose a risk of overloading people’s immune systems and lead to fatigue.

Instead, the agency recommended countries space out the intervals between boosters and coordinate their programs with the onset of the cold season in each hemisphere, following blueprints of influenza vaccination strategies.

“While use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy,” the EMA’s head of vaccines strategy, Marco Cavaleri, said Tuesday during a press briefing.

Boosters “can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly,” Cavaleri said. “We need to think about how

we can transition from the current pandemic setting to a more endemic setting.”

Cavaleri said more data is needed on the impact of omicron on vaccines and a better understanding of the evolution of the current wave to decide whether a vaccine specific to the new variant is needed.

“Preliminary results from recently published studies are showing that the vaccine effectiveness against the symptomatic disease is significantly reduced for omicron and tends to wane over time,” Cavaleri said.

“It is important that there is a good discussion around the choice of the composition of the vaccine to make sure that we have a strategy that is not just reactive, and try to come up with an approach that will be suitable in order to prevent a future variant,” he added.

Just last month, Cavaleri, speaking on behalf of the EMA, said it made sense to administer COVID-19 boosters as early as three months after the initial two-dose regimen due to “extremely worrying” infection numbers.

“While the current recommendation is to administer boosters preferably after six months, the data currently available support safe and effective administration of a booster as early as three months from completion,” Cavaleri said during a press briefing in December.

WHO warns repeated boost-

ers not viable strategy against new variants The World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC) on Jan. 11 warned, “a vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.”

The expert group, created by the WHO to assess the performance of COVID-19 vaccines, said providing fresh doses of already existing vaccines as new strains of the virus emerge is not the best way to fight a pandemic.

TAG-CO-VAC said COVID-19 vaccines that can prevent infection and transmission, in addition to preventing severe disease and death are needed and should be developed.

Until such vaccines are available, and as the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves, the composition of current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated, the group said.

COVID-19 vaccines need to be genetically and antigenically close to the circulating SARSCoV-2 variants, be more effective in protection against infection, and should elicit an immune response that is broad, strong and long-lasting in order to reduce the need for successive booster doses, TAG-CO-VAC said.

“It’s over, people,” Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter and best-selling author, wrote. “Aside from a few unlucky

Israelis, no one is going to receive a fourth dose of the original vaccine.”

“Everyone with eyes can see it doesn’t work against omicron – and if you haven’t gotten a third dose, at this point, why would you?

You are getting at most weeks of marginally improved protection for potentially severe side effects,” Berenson wrote. “Instead the WHO is now promising/demanding vaccines based on whatever the dominant Sars-Cov-2 strain is at the moment. That promise is as empty as all the others the health bureaucrats and vaccine companies have made.”

Berenson noted there have been at least five major “variants of concern” in the last year alone, two of which became globally dominant.

“Even the mRNA vaccines cannot be cooked up and delivered fast enough to match whatever strain of virus becomes dominant,” Berenson said. “COVID-19 is faster than the scientists.”

UK expert calls for COVID-19 to be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu COVID should be treated as an endemic virus similar to the flu and mass vaccination should end after the booster campaign, said Dr. Clive Dix, former chairman of the UK’s vaccine task force.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an endemic refers to “the constant presence and/or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in

a population within a geographic area,” whereas a pandemic is an “out of control” epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.

“We need to analyze whether we use the current booster campaign to ensure the vulnerable are protected if this is seen to be necessary,” he said. “Mass population-based vaccination in the UK should now end.”

Calling for a “major rethink” of the UK’s COVID-19 strategy, Dix encouraged the ministers to “urgently back research into COVID-19 immunity beyond antibodies” to include B-cells and white blood cells, called T-cells.

Dix said there should be a shift to disease management from viral spreading, and “stopping progression to severe disease in vulnerable groups” should be the future objective.

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RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan will remain in prison Don Thompson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole Thursday, Jan. 13, by California’s governor, who said the killer remains a threat to the public and hasn’t taken responsibility for a crime that altered American history.

Kennedy, a U.S. senator from New York, was shot moments after he claimed victory in California’s pivotal Democratic presidential primary. Five others were wounded during the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has cited RFK as his political hero, rejected a recommendation from a two-person panel of parole commissioners who said Sirhan, 77, should be freed.

The panel’s recommendation in August had divided the Kennedy family, with two of RFK’s sons – Douglas Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – supporting his release, and their siblings and mother vehemently opposing it.

In his decision, Newsom said the assassination was “among the most notorious crimes in American history,” Aside from causing Kennedy’s then-pregnant wife and 10 children “immeasurable suffering,” Newsom said the killing “also caused great harm to the American people.”

It “upended the 1968 presidential election, leaving millions in the United States and beyond mourning the promise of his candidacy,” Newsom said. “Mr. Sirhan killed Senator Kennedy during a dark season of political assassinations, just nine weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder and four and a half years after the murder of Senator Kennedy’s brother, President John F. Kennedy.”

He said Sirhan still lacks insight, refuses to accept responsibility and has failed to disclaim violence committed in his name. That adds “to his current risk of inciting further political violence,” Newsom said.

In 1973, terrorists took 10 hostages at an embassy in Sudan, demanding the release of Sirhan and other prisoners and killing three diplomats when their demands weren’t met, he noted.

Sirhan, who will be scheduled for a new parole hearing no later than February 2023, will ask a judge to overturn Newsom’s denial, defense attorney Angela Berry said.

“We fully expect that judicial review of the governor’s decision will show that the governor got it wrong,” she said.

State law holds that inmates are supposed to be paroled unless they pose a current unreasonable public safety risk, she said, adding that “not an iota of evidence exists to suggest Mr. Sirhan is still a danger

to society.”

She said the parole process has become politicized, and Newsom “chose to overrule his own experts (on the parole board), ignoring the law.”

Parole commissioners found Sirhan suitable for release “because of his impressive extensive record of rehabilitation over the last half-century,” Berry said.

“Since the mid-1980s, Mr. Sirhan has consistently been found by prison psychologists and psychiatrists to not pose an unreasonable risk of danger to the public.”

During his parole hearing, the white-haired Sirhan called Kennedy the “hope of the world.” But he stopped short of taking full responsibility for a shooting he said he doesn’t recall because he was drunk.

“It pains me ... the knowledge for such a horrible deed, if I did, in fact, do that,” Sirhan said.

Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, and six of his children hailed Newsom’s decision in a statement that called RFK a “visionary and champion of justice” whose life “was cut short by an enraged man with a small gun.”

“The political passions that motivated this inmate’s act still simmer today, and his refusal to admit the truth makes it impossible to conclude that he has overcome the evil that boiled over 53 years ago,” they wrote.

The panel’s decision was based

Sirhan Sirhan reacts during a parole hearing Feb. 10, 2016, at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. California Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, rejected releasing Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan from prison more than a half-century after the 1968 slaying left a deep wound during one of America’s darkest times.

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in part on several new California laws since he was denied parole in 2016 – the 15th time he’d lost his bid for release.

Commissioners were required to consider that Sirhan committed his crime at a young age, when he was 24; that he now is elderly; and that the Christian Palestinian who immigrated from Jordan had suffered childhood trauma from the conflict in the Middle East.

In addition, Los Angeles County prosecutors didn’t object to his parole, following District Attorney George Gascón’s policy that

prosecutors should not be involved in deciding whether prisoners are ready for release.

The decision had a personal element for Newsom, a fellow Democrat, who displays RFK photos in his official and home offices.

One of them is of Kennedy with Newsom’s late father.

Sirhan originally was sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972.

Scott creates MLK Day videos, hopes to rebut Biden speech

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he’s best-positioned to rebut. Scott told The Associated Press that he hopes a video series on issues he sees as pertinent to the Black community will help refocus a fraught national conversation on race. He timed the release in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – With a video series on issues he sees as pertinent to the Black community, the U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican, Tim Scott of South Carolina, is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he’s best-positioned to rebut.

But that approach comes with some harsh words about President Joe Biden’s recent rhetoric.

In conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Scott told The Associated Press that he hoped recent constituent roundtables on topics like building generational wealth would refocus a fraught national conversation on race.

The current climate, Scott said, was only exacerbated by Biden’s recent voting rights speech, which Scott called “misleading.”

Last week in Atlanta, Biden challenged senators to “stand against voter suppression” by changing Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation that Republicans are blocking from debate and votes. Biden likened the wrongs of 1960s-era civil rights battles to modern-day election subversion efforts, including GOP-backed laws passed after President Donald Trump lost reelection in 2020, then claimed widespread voter fraud.

Biden’s speech was met with widespread Republican criticism, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accusing Biden of invoking “the brutal racial hatred of Jim Crow Segregation to smear states’” new voting

laws. There was also some pushback from Democrats. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Biden went “a little too far in his rhetoric” but also told CNN he was “glad” Biden did so.

For Scott, the speech was an overly impassioned stretch, or worse.

“To compare or conflate people who oppose his positions as being racists and traitors to the country is not only insulting and infuriating, it’s dead wrong,” Scott told the AP last week. “All you have to do is know the facts, and you realize that the president wasn’t misleading us only, he was actually fibbing to us, in order to

amass political power – basically lying to us.”

Instead, the South Carolina Republican is framing his half-dozen videos, to be released between this week and the end of February’s Black History Month, as listening sessions that hit on many hard-pressed topics he knows first-hand.

Describing himself as “a guy that grew up in a single-parent household, mired in poverty, with really no prospect for something dramatically different,” Scott said that his own trajectory was turned around due to education, his supportive mother and mentorship.

“Martin Luther King Jr.’s lega-

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cy, and the celebration of his life, and the contributions of African Americans to this country, is a very important time for us to highlight the progress that we’ve made and also some of the issues that stand in the way of even more progress,” Scott said. “I decided that the best way to do that is not just to hear from me but to actually listen to other folks throughout the community.”

Scott, who has amassed a significant war chest for what he says will be his final Senate campaign, has become one of the GOP’s go-to standouts, sometimes mentioned as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.

He gave the party’s response to Biden’s maiden congressional address last year – when he suggested Democrats were wielding race as “a political weapon” – and had a prime-time speaking spot during the 2020 Republican National Convention. Along with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, he advises diversity efforts for a group intent on expanding Republican power over state-level offices.

Joining Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Scott led legislative efforts for a police reform bill, but negotiations ended without an agreement last year. The efforts, following protests sparked by kill-

ings of unarmed Black people by officers, garnered massive attention, but Scott – who told the AP that Congress should continue its work on police reform “and finish it” – said he is just as passionate about financial advancement in underserved or minority areas.

Also with Booker, he previously championed “opportunity zones,” set up to enable private investors to reinvest profits into designated low-income areas, allowing a tax benefit by deferring capital gains taxes from investments. The zones were included in the $1.5 trillion tax cut legislation that Trump pushed through Congress in 2017 and, according to a Government Accountability Office report, drew $29 billion to low-income areas through 2019.

Relying on the constituent concerns from his videos, Scott said he’s just as intent on finding more ways to encourage lasting economic changes in underserved and minority communities as he is on potentially more attentiongrabbing issues like policing.

“So often, when you read the press and you’re talking about minorities, you’re particularly talking about issues around poverty or lack of access and not really focusing on the positive side or the constructive side,” Scott said.

“That needs more attention.”

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The Anza Civic Improvement League seated its newly elected board of directors Saturday, Jan. 8.

Charles Cadwell, Jazmyn McCammon, Bud Elmore, Jackie Cope, Robyn Garrison, Cindy Watson and Tabitha Dawes were elected to serve on the board by the ACIL membership in December 2021.

“The Anza Civic Improvement League is a nonprofit organization that provides a park with a playground for the Anza community to enjoy,” Dawes said. “The mission of the ACIL is to restore, manage and enhance the Little Red Schoolhouse and Minor Park in partnership with the public for the enjoyment of present and future generations. The organization is run solely by volunteers with income that is generated from fundraisers, park rentals, schoolhouse

rentals and the generous donations from our community.”

Nomination forms for the 2022 board of directors were submitted and reviewed to ensure the nominated person was a member in good standing and to verify that they accepted the nomination.

Electronic voting was held from Wednesday, Dec. 15, through Wednesday, Dec. 22. In-person voting was held Saturday, Dec. 18.

“ACIL will be working on having activities at Minor Park for our community to enjoy. We encourage you to join our group and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events,” Dawes said.

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Parents and staff surprise students with custom ball wall Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Hamilton Elementary School students were awed and amazed by a freshly decorated ball wall on the playground upon returning to school after winter break Wednesday, Jan. 5.

Jose Ruiz, parent of students Louie and Aria Ruiz, worked with school custodian Johnny Slevcove to surprise the children with a custom painted ball wall.

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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 951-7634759.

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 951-445-7180 or Nathan at 760-399-0727. 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.

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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.

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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 – 6:30-9:30 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 951-763-4439 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 the third Saturday of each month at various locations. Share art, ideas and participate in shows. Guest speakers are always needed. For more information, call president Rosie Grindle at 951-928-1248.

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 has been reinstated and is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. The group is working on securing a new venue for meetings. Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club of Anza Valley Facebook page at https://www.facebook. com/LionsofAnzaValley. For more information, email president Greg Sandling at President.AnzaLions@ gmail.com or Chris Skinner at Secretary.AnzaLions@gmail.com.

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 951-403-4940. 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 951763-5611 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 Ferrellgas. 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 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.

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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.

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Mike Patke’s Anza sunsets offer stunning glimpse into winter skies

Mike Patke captures this stunning image of lenticular clouds glowing in the fading light.

Eerie lenticular clouds finish the evening in this image by Mike Patke.

The sunset seen in the mirror of Mike Patke’s car reflects in the windows.

High clouds always make for an interesting sunset and Mike Patke snaps it at the right moment.

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Terwilliger Community Association elects new board ment building on the same parcel.

“Please feel free to join us for nothing but good food and laughs each second Monday of the month,” Dawes said. “Dues are only $10 per year per person which equates to about 78 cents per meal with your side dish.”

The Terwilliger Community Association is a nonprofit organization that has been in existence since 1948.

“You don’t have to live in the Terwilliger area to be a member, we welcome everyone,” Dawes said.

The Terwilliger Community

Terwilliger Community Association members enjoy a potluck dinner at their monthly meeting.

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Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Terwilliger Community Association hosted their first meeting of the year Monday, Jan. 10, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1837 on Bailey Road. An election for the 2022 board of directors was held.

Sharon Evans was elected president of the nonprofit, with Bud Elmore vice president, Tabitha Dawes treasurer and Patricia Erwin as secretary.

A potluck dinner featuring chili verde and tortillas was enjoyed by all. The Association provides the main course and side dishes are contributed by members and

guests. Many of the TCA members are well-known in the valley as being excellent cooks as well as community organizers.

The Terwilliger Community Association, along with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, tends the building where both organizations meet, as well as the grounds around it. This includes the volunteer fire depart-

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Association is a small group of residents who have been gathering weekly for more than 30 years.

The TCA is a social group, having monthly potluck dinners at the VFW building at 59011 Bailey Road, in Terwilliger.

For more information about the Terwilliger Community Association, call 951-551-7676 or visit them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ groups/1835566056694498.

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Animal activists warn of bad rescues Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The term “rescue” is a buzzword that instills thoughts of relief, shelter, love and care. Animal rescues save poor, innocent and defenseless pets, but there is also a sinister side to this self-proclaimed calling by some individuals.

When considering adopting or buying, an animal from a rescue, the public should be aware of the many red flags that illegitimate organizations hoist up their proverbial flagpoles. These groups do not have the best interests of the animals in mind and instead exploit your pocketbook for their gain, some animal activists say.

Bad rescue organizations are often unwilling to collaborate with others in the same business and pump out aggressive and ill-informed rumors about other organizations. What is in the best interest of the pet is ignored to compete with other people trying to do what is right in a situation and create unnecessary drama designed to take attention away from the questionable methods they often use.

Social media bashing frenzies are common, where internet accusations can often boil over into legal action. Any rescue that participates in this activity is to be avoided. The important thing should be the welfare of neglected, unwanted, sick or endangered animals, not “he said, she said” battles on Facebook for everyone to see. Things can easily get out of control. How exactly does this help the pet? It doesn’t.

If the rescuers spent a small portion of that negative energy properly screening homes and providing proper care for the animals, the pets would greatly benefit.

Questionable rescues sometimes do not have volunteers or

helpers. They are often exclusively run by the owners to keep control of all information and treatment of the pets in their care.

However, secretive behavior is not normal in a way of life that depends on the goodwill and generosity of the general public.

One of the biggest indicators that the rescue may have something to hide is the practice of not allowing potential adopters to visit their location. Meeting people in parking lots does not give the new pet owners a chance to observe conditions in which the animal was kept.

Illegal activities may also occur at the rescue location, like drug dealing or other criminal endeavors. Bad rescues do not want people on their property for fear that law enforcement could possibly become aware of their extracurricular activities.

If a rescuer is defensive in answering simple questions, it could be an indicator that something may be amiss. A true rescuer is forthcoming and pleased to answer any and all questions without hesitation. The main idea is to adopt the pet into a new home, while giving the adopter the chance to return the animal if it does not work out for any number of reasons. This process requires trust on both sides.

If a rescue does not provide names, addresses and contact information on their website, there may be a problem. The trickiest organizations are adept at avoiding county animal services inspections and inquiries. By not providing transparent and important information, these people lurk in the shadows, picking up pets mostly for free off the internet and charging large rehoming fees for them. Claims of vetting, microchipping and good care and vaccinations may be false.

Pet adopters should watch out for bad rescue organizations when selecting a new pet.

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Rescues that are not nonprofit corporations who constantly beg for free supplies, feed and money may be actually living off the donations, and the animals may be neglected as a result. No records of gifts or cash may be kept. Strict reports of incoming and outgoing items and money should be itemized and available for inspection.

Some bad rescues align themselves with legitimate operations to try to improve their credibility by association.

So what can a person do that wishes to provide a kind and loving home to a rescue pet? Due diligence is a must.

Lisa Bone of Toby’s Legacy equine rescue said, “I do think it’s important when interested in adopting, fostering, volunteering, etc., to do a site visit. Is it clean?

Are the horses or other animals

healthy and happy? Ask for references from the farrier and vet.

Talk to volunteers. Ask to see their books. It’s about transparency.

Whether you are actually interested or not, all of this should be happily and freely provided upon request. Call your local animal control agency and see where the rescue stands with their agency.”

Additionally, Bone gives advice on other clues that may indicate trouble.

“Do the founders work? If not, are they living off the rescue? This is subjective, but to me, a red flag.

When they don’t work but drive a nice car, hair and nails done, etc.

Red flag. Every single animal that has been taken into their rescue should be accounted for. Euthanasia, adoption, foster, whatever, they should all be accounted for.

If not, red flag. What is their

policy on euthanasia? Quality of life, population control, to make room for new arrivals. You have to decide what you are OK with. I could go on for days,” Bone said.

It all really amounts to transparency. Rescues should be willing to open their doors, gates and books to scrutiny by people interested in adopting one or more of their animals. It really is about the innocent, defenseless creature, is it not?

For more information on how to protect yourself from becoming involved with an illegitimate rescue, call Riverside County Animal Services for references at 951-358-7387.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Justin Gardiner selected as RivCo Code Enforcement Employee of the Quarter

County of Riverside Code Enforcement Senior Officer Justin Gardiner is selected Employee of the Quarter for the fourth quarter of 2021.

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Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

County of Riverside Code Enforcement announced Thursday, Jan. 13, that Senior Code Officer Justin Gardiner was selected as the Employee of the Quarter for the fourth quarter of 2021.

Officer Gardiner joined Code Enforcement in March 2020. He was recently promoted to the Senior Officer position in administration and elected to the board of directors of the California Associa-

tion of Code Enforcement Officers.

He and his family also welcomed a new baby in November 2021.

“Code and the community appreciate your service, Officer Gardiner,” Supervising Code Enforcement Officer Jennifer Morris said.

For more information regarding Riverside County Code Enforcement, vist https://rctlma.org/ce/.

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Jose (Yogi) Ruiz stands by the ball wall he painted for the students at Hamilton Elementary School during the winter break.

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WALL from page AVO-1 depicts young Bobcats enjoying games on the playground while the sun shines on them. The vibrant colors make the whole composition pop and the characters add an element of fun. In the left corner is written, “Be safe, be courteous, be responsible, be fair, 2022.”

“When the staff arrived Monday, Jan. 3, they were beyond excited,” Hamilton Elementary Principal Alyssa King said. “The students

arrived on Wednesday and you could hear the excitement and screams throughout campus before the start of the school day. We now have students playing and enjoy-

ing the ball wall every day.”

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Felon who smashed school windows, Ex-cop accused of killing mentally challenged man at Corona store arraigned endangered students sentenced City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A felon who smashed windows at a Temecula elementary school where students were in classes was sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 12, to two years in state prison.

Raymond Dewey Amick, 38, of Temecula pleaded guilty in November to felony burglary and vandalism charges under an agreement with the Riverside County district attorney’s office. In exchange for his admissions, prosecutors dropped misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace and loitering at a school in session.

Superior Court Judge Elaine Kiefer at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta certified the terms of the plea bargain and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.

According to Sgt. Joseph Greco of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, at about 2 p.m., Aug. 27, Amick began roaming the grounds

of Rancho Elementary School in the 31300 block of La Serena Way. For reasons unexplained, the defendant obtained a “large pipe” and began breaking windows near an entrance to the school, possibly attempting to force his way inside, Greco said.

Patrol deputies converged on the location within a few minutes, and the school was placed on lockdown “for staff and child safety,” the sergeant said.

Before he was taken into custody, Amick damaged a car with the pipe, but no other property was vandalized, according to Greco.

He said that no one was hurt, except for the defendant, who suffered minor cuts while knocking out the windows.

Amick was treated by paramedics and booked into jail.

According to court records, he has previous convictions for spousal abuse, possession of controlled substances and illegal possession of a firearm.

Officials, victims’ families demand action to stop the ‘scourge’ of fentanyl Paul J. Young CITY NEWS SERVICE

Riverside County law enforcement officials last week joined a state lawmaker and families of victims “poisoned” by fentanyl, calling on the public to support legislative and other efforts aimed at stemming the “tide and scourge” of the deadly synthetic drug.

The initial goal of the gathering was to rally behind state Sen. Melissa Melendez’s Senate Bill 350, which sought to establish a written advisory for anyone convicted of manufacturing, producing or selling fentanyl.

The advisory would have warned that repeating the conduct and causing someone’s death because of it in the future could mean charges of voluntary manslaughter or seconddegree murder, facilitating prosecutors’ ability to file those charges.

Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, said that the Senate Committee on Public Safety killed her bill Tuesday, Jan. 11, repeating what it did in March 2021.

“From my perspective, it seems as though the Legislature is not serious about dealing with this epidemic,” she said. “Kids are dying from people selling this poison. We need the public’s help.”

Calls seeking comment from committee Chairman Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Inglewood, were not immediately returned.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said a change in the law is long overdue.

“It’s impossible now to avoid fentanyl,” Hestrin said. “It’s pouring into our country in shocking numbers, and it’s finding its way mixed into all illicit drugs sold on the street.

We need to be able to bring justice and deter that conduct. That’s the way we begin to fight against the tide and scourge of fentanyl.”

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, a former legislator, said Melendez’s bill was killed because there is “an absolute effort by the governor and majority of legislators to open the doors and let people out of prison.

“They are obstructionists. They want to provide get-out-of-jail free cards, and there’s a complete lack of sympathy for the victims,” Spitzer said. “Remember, these aren’t overdoses. They’re poisonings. People are taking illicit drugs, yes, but they don’t know they’re... ingesting fentanyl. Young, innocent, unsuspecting people are dying.”

Spitzer said Orange County’s tally from 2021 is 512 confirmed fentanylrelated fatalities and another 400 suspected ones. In Riverside County, Sheriff Chad Bianco said the data is pending, but it appears there were roughly 500 fentanyl-induced deaths ACIL from page AVO-1 and horseshoe tossing contests, the park is one of the most special places in Anza.

Both the park and the schoolhouse are available to rent for meetings and events. Members may credit 100% of their current membership dues toward rental fees during the same time.

Open board meetings are held at the Little Red Schoolhouse on the first Saturday of the month at 9 a.m., and the community is invited to attend.

last year, which would represent a 250-fold increase from 2016, when only two such fatalities were documented.

“Fentanyl poisonings are killing our residents at an alarming rate,” the sheriff said. “It’s a substantial crisis for California and the nation.

We have to come to the realization that criminals are out there preying on our residents, and they need to be held accountable.”

In the last year, Riverside County prosecutors charged 10 people with second-degree murder for selling fentanyl with fatal results. Hestrin and Bianco said the work necessary to justify a murder complaint is lengthy and exhausting, but they’re pressing ahead to send a message, despite no help from the state.

Spitzer said that last year he unilaterally implemented the very admonition Melendez’s legislation would have put in place because he wanted drug dealers to know that “if you peddle fentanyl and kill somebody, we will absolutely charge you with murder.”

The synthetic opioid is manufactured in China and shipped to Mexico, where drug cartels then smuggle it across the border, according to authorities. It’s known to be 80-100 times more potent than morphine and is a popular additive, seamlessly mixed into many types of narcotics and pharmaceuticals.

“It’s all about profit and greed,” Hestrin said. “We’re not getting help at our southern border. We’re overwhelmed.”

Matt Capelouto, who lost his 20-year-old daughter Alexandra to fentanyl poisoning in December 2019, claimed that statistics show more people in the 18-45 age group died from fentanyl ingestion in 2020 than all “COVID, cancer, suicide and motor vehicle accidents combined” that year.

Capelouto, who founded several organizations, including the Fentanyl Awareness Coalition and Victims of Illicit Drugs, said supplies of the counterfeit drug “are flooding our county. It’s astronomical and getting worse.”

“These drugs, made from sources in China, are used (like) a chemical weapon attack,” he said. “My daughter didn’t want to die. She took one pill, and it was not a wise choice.

Everybody in the supply chain needs to be held accountable. The drug dealers, the cartels in Mexico, right back to China. This war is not fought with bullets. They’re poisoning us from within.”

Capelouto said if there’s no action legislatively, Californians should resort to the public initiative process.

Supporters have already set up a website for that purpose at http:// www.OnePillKills.com.

Minor Park and the Little Red Schoolhouse are located on Highway 371 at Contreras Road in Anza.

To learn more about the ACIL events, visit them on Facebook or at http://www.anzacivic.org.

To join the ACIL, visit http:// anzacivic.org/join.html. Their address is P.O. Box 391000, Anza, CA 92539. They may be reached by phone at 951-330-4411 and by email at anzacivic@gmail.com.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

An ex-Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a developmentally disabled man who shoved the off-duty officer to the floor of a Corona Costco during an unexplained confrontation that also led to the victim’s parents being shot pleaded not guilty Thursday, Jan. 13, to voluntary manslaughter.

Salvador Alejandro Sanchez, 32, of Corona was arrested in August

by California Department of Justice agents following a monthslong investigation.

Along with manslaughter, Sanchez is charged with two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm resulting in great bodily injury.

The defendant was arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court Judge O.G. Magno at the Riverside Hall of Justice and remains free on a $155,000 bond.

In announcing the charges against Sanchez last summer, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the case was about “pursuing justice” and reaffirming the principle that “nobody is above the law.”

Sanchez’s attorney, David Winslow, said that the state’s case was “a political stunt (rooted in) a politically motivated program by the California attorney general to prosecute police officers.”

The shooting occurred in the evening June 14, 2019, inside the Costco at 480 N. McKinley St. in

Corona.

Kenneth French, 32, was killed, and his parents, Russell and Paola French – all of Corona – were shot and critically wounded.

The family filed a civil suit against the LAPD, the city of Los Angeles and Sanchez at the end of 2019, alleging negligence, civil rights violations and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. A Los Angeles jury in November ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding them $17 million in damages.

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office in September 2019 took the matter to the 19-member county grand jury, and the jury declined to indict Sanchez.

After the Department of Justice announced its case against Sanchez, District Attorney Mike Hestrin reiterated that “all known and available evidence” had been presented to jurors.

He told reporters at the conclusion of the grand jury proceedings that “we had to put our passions and emotions aside and marry the facts with the law.” He denied Sanchez had been favored with “special treatment” because he was a law enforcement officer.

In the summer of 2020, the Los Angeles Police Commission determined the Costco shooting reflected unjustifiable use of force

by Sanchez, and he was booted from the police force a month later.

The victims were shopping when they approached a food sample

table with sausages, where the defendant was also standing, holding his then-18-month-old son. No one has disputed that, for reasons still unknown, Kenneth French shoved the off-duty officer to the ground.

According to Winslow, Sanchez was dazed, and when he saw his son next to him screaming, he “had no choice but to use deadly force.”

“At the time of the incident, he believed he was protecting himself and his baby from being killed,” Winslow said.

Tapes from body-worn cameras of Corona police officers who went to the scene captured statements from Sanchez indicating that he initially believed Kenneth French was holding a weapon. But the victim was not armed, according to police.

Russell and Paola French said they pleaded with Sanchez not to shoot, telling the officer that their son, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was largely nonverbal, had psychiatric trouble.

Then-Corona police Chief George Johnstone said detectives confirmed 10 shots were fired.

Store security surveillance tapes showed the victims were backing away from Sanchez when the gunfire erupted.

Kenneth French was shot once in the shoulder and three times in the back, while Paola French was shot in the back and her husband was shot in the abdomen, resulting in the loss of a kidney.

Man behind bars on allegations of assaulting family members City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A Lake Elsinore man is behind bars on allegations of assaulting family members and attempted murder.

Jose Edwin Gomez, 30, was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 11, after the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department received a report at 10:30 a.m. of a family disturbance

in the 100 block of Heald Avenue, sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies arrived to discover that Gomez allegedly assaulted family members within the residence.

Authorities said Gomez refused to comply with deputies, and after the victims were moved to a safe location, he barricaded himself inside the residence.

A SWAT team was called to the scene and arrested Gomez, who

was booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of attempted murder, criminal threats and resisting arrest. Jail records indicated that he remained held there on $75,000 bail.

He was scheduled to make his initial appearance at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta Thursday, Jan. 13.

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Schools shouldn’t mandate ‘Most dangerous vaccines in human history’ As schools weigh COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children as young as 5 years old, former Pfizer executive warns injections ‘are toxic by design’ and it seems obvious ‘criminal acts are being committed.’

Children’s Health Defense Team SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

In late October and early November, the self-serving members of two committees advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention without a second thought endorsed experimental COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 5 years old.

Ignoring the 99.995% COVID-19 survival rate for those age 17 and under, the 31 pharma-servile “experts” also appeared unconcerned by reams of damning data about COVID-vaccine-related disabilities and fatalities already occurring in the 12–17 age group – unnecessary tragedies being acknowledged that very instant in a panel discussion convened by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Predictably, adverse event data and urgent frontline health care provider testimony began pouring in almost immediately after the FDA-CDC go-ahead, with 5- to 11-year-olds experiencing the same kinds of “terrifying” vaccine reactions as adolescents – including blood clots, strokes and other brain and heart problems previously almost unheard-of in young people.

In the lead-up to the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization of experimental COVID-19 jabs for younger children, state politicians and municipal school districts also started to grease the skids to mandate COVID-19 injections for in-person school attendance.

To date, the number of states and school systems announcing or adopting coercive plans, either for K-12 students or students ages 12 or 16 and up, is still small; however, the symbolic weight of the “early adopters” is significant.

These include states like California, Louisiana and soon New York; major cities like Washington, and probably New York City and large school districts such as those in Oakland and Los Angeles.

In addition, the New York City and Washington school districts and some or all districts in California, Hawaii and Maryland require students involved in sports and other extracurricular activities to get jabbed.

In what sounds like good news,

the National Academy for State Health Policy confirmed 17 states – Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Utah – have enacted laws or issued executive orders that ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students.

Most of the bans, however, are limited to certain circumstances, with some applying only to higher education and some only to vaccines authorized under emergency use – meaning the ban would not apply to COVID-19 vaccines that in the future gain full FDA approval for children.

Most dangerous ever For decades, vaccines have been wreaking havoc on children’s health. For instance, consider the following: the 400 adverse events listed in the package inserts of licensed childhood vaccines; the epidemic of chronic health problems in American children – including 1 in 16 boys with autism in California, the state with the highest autism rate in the nation; the precipitous decline in sudden infant deaths that coincided with the disruption of “routine” vaccination during the 2020 lockdowns and the superior health of far less heavily vaccinated Japanese children.

So, when observers familiar with COVID injection data pronounce them “the most dangerous vaccines in human history,” that is saying something.

Dr. Joseph Mercola warned the COVID-19 jabs are setting up children for “potentially lifelong health problems,” including serious heart problems resulting from myocarditis.

As he said in early January, “(T) he recent push to inject children with a genetic experiment may be one of the worst public health offenses perpetrated on a population of people who are unable to speak for themselves, do not have a legal voice and depend on adults to protect them.”

California “leads” California spent the past halfdozen years systematically eliminating personal-belief vaccine exemptions and gutting medical exemptions.

Not content with those assaults on health freedom, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in early October – apparently reading the minds, weeks in advance, of the FDA and CDC committee members who subsequently rubber-stamped the COVID shots for 5- to 11-yearolds – that his state would impose a K-12 mandate in both public and private schools, making California the first state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for in-person school attendance.

The mandate hinges on the vaccines “receiving full licensure from the FDA for children,” which the state expects in July 2022.

Seeking to normalize his COVID-19 mandate, Newsom compared it to the existing school requirements for measles, mumps and rubella vaccination.

H o w e v e r, i n l i g h t o f t h e strong, statistically significant relationship between MMR vaccines and autism – and given California’s status as the state with the highest autism prevalence – Newsom’s comparison is scarcely reassuring.

Louisiana ignores In mid-December, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards added COVID-19 vaccines to the list of required school shots, overturning a bipartisan vote against such a mandate by the state’s House Health and Welfare Committee.

The push for the mandate originated with the Louisiana Department of Health. The House Health Committee then voted 13-2 to reject the department’s recommendation, stating that COVID-19 vaccination “should be the parents’ decision,” a common-sense view shared by legislators and parents around the nation.

However, the governor vetoed the committee vote – and the wishes of citizens who packed the committee meeting to protest mandates – dismissively characterizing their objections as “overheated rhetoric.”

Louisiana’s governor and health officials also ignored remarks delivered at the health committee hearing by experienced Louisiana nurse Collette Martin, R.N. Martin provided testimony about serious adverse reactions in children and their widespread underreporting.

She said to the committee, “We are not just seeing severe acute

reactions with this vaccine, but we have zero idea what any long-term reactions are. Cancers, autoimmune (disorders,) infertility. We just don’t know.”

Louisiana’s mandate, which goes into effect in fall 2022, currently applies only to students ages 16 and up, “but could expand as the vaccines get the highest level of approval” from the FDA. School districts (try to) impose In early January, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted that decisions on school vaccine mandates “are up to local school districts.”

The U.S. Department of Education, however, has been working with school districts, Psaki said, “to provide resources, connect school officials with testing providers, and set up vaccine clinics… .”

Last September, Maryland’s health secretary disingenuously made similar comments, telling the press that the state prefers “not to be intentionally overbearing” or “interventionist” and instead encourages school systems “to take the lead in their individual jurisdictions.”

In California, school board members in several large school districts showed, as early as September, they were willing to “take the lead” in imposing mandates for in-person instruction.

The plans of school boards in Los Angeles, which is the nation’s second-largest school district; Oakland and San Diego have been undermined, however, by the large number of unvaccinated students and other apparently unforeseen pitfalls.

The Los Angeles school district, for example, pushed back its initial Jan. 10 deadline to the fall of 2022, because tens of thousands of unvaccinated students would have “overwhelmed the district’s independent study program.”

Los Angeles students ages 12 and up are supposed to upload proof of vaccination into a “Daily Pass” system. The district already requires students to undergo weekly testing regardless of vaccination status and subjects them to other measures such as “daily health checks,” masking and contact tracing and isolation of cases.

Three out of 10 students failed to

show up on the first day of school following winter break, “having tested positive for the coronavirus.”

Oakland’s school district will not enforce its mandate until Monday, Jan. 31, a month later than originally planned. When the school board voted 5-1-1 in favor of mandating COVID-19 shots for in-person instruction for students 12 and up, it apparently did not bargain on nearly two-fifths of students in that age group or 38% remaining unvaccinated.

Casting the lone “no” vote, Oakland school board member Mike Hutchinson said, “I don’t think we should be rolling out at midnight on a not very publicized meeting, talking about mandatory vaccinations when there’s nothing wrong with taking our due time to deliberate to make sure that we get it right.”

In December, however, Hutchinson indicated he would be comfortable deferring to the state-level mandate.

In late December in San Diego, a judge struck down the school district’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students 16 and older, arguing the state Legislature has not given individual school districts the authority to mandate vaccines for school attendance.

Not timid An Oakland pediatrician who egged on her city’s school board to vote in favor of COVID-19 mandates argued last fall.

“This is not the time for timidity,” she said.

As evidence accumulates about the injections’ outsized risks for children, however, it seems increasingly clear that a number of socalled public servants do not have a problem with timidity, having shown themselves perfectly willing to harm – and kill – children.

For former Pfizer executive Dr. Mike Yeadon, who has argued for months that the COVID-19 injections “are toxic by design” and “were always going to harm people,” it seems obvious “criminal acts are being committed.”

Now is the time to push back against criminality and coercion – including COVID-19 vaccine mandates and “vaccine passports” – in whatever ways we can. Our children’s lives, and our own lives, depend on it.

Should the Government Run health care?

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Last week the Assembly Health Committee reviewed, and passed, AB 1400, which would mandate government-run health care for almost 40 million Californians.

Are you on Medicare? You won’t be. Do you like your current health plan? Say goodbye to it. Do you want to pay higher taxes, for less care? You’re in luck.

AB 1400 creates an unelected nine-member board to run state health care with vast power to decide how much doctors and hospitals are paid, to adjust (cut)

provider budgets and much more.

When a similar bill was proposed in 2017, costs were estimated at $400 billion. If the entire state budget had been spent on health care, the program would still have been $200 billion short.

Where does the money come from? ACA 11 would provide the funding, or rather, taxpayers would. New excise taxes, payroll taxes, and personal income taxes in excess of $163 billion per year, would be necessary. People are already fleeing California, and this would add to the exodus. Then there is the daunting task of passing ACA 11, which requires a two-

thirds vote in each house, and final voter approval. Will voters support massive tax increases? Will they support abolishing their existing health plans? Will millions of seniors voluntarily hand Medicare over to a state bureaucracy famous for allowing EDD, which serves a comparative fraction of California’s population, to crash every time there’s a big spike in unemployment claims? The same bureaucracy that’s incapable of providing more water storage, dealing with homelessness, crime, housing shortages? Without funding, AB 1400 is meaningless.

This proposal requires indepen-

dent review. My Caucus has asked the Legislative Analyst’s office for a Citizen Cost Impact Analysis to determine the true impact of AB 1400 and related costs on workers, patients and our health care delivery systems. The review will likely be an eye-opener.

Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron, R-Escondido, represents the 75th Assembly District in the California Legislature, which includes the communities of Bonsall, Escondido, Fallbrook, Hidden Meadows, Pala, Palomar Mountain, Pauma Valley, Rainbow, San Marcos, Temecula, Valley Center and Vista.

reason that when he works in your life, he knows precisely what he’s doing. And unlike me, he’ll give you the perfect amount of spiritual water to make your life vibrant.

Evaluate your life seriously.

Jesus said God “cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful,” in John 15:1-2.

What kind of fruit is coming out of your life? Is it selfish ambition, complacency or sin? Or is your life producing things that align with the Spirit of God? Things like love, self-control and a Christ-like lifestyle.

This question can’t be overlooked because the consequences are enormous. If your life isn’t producing fruit that is Christ-like, then “you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned,” in Mat-

thew 15:6.

If your life hasn’t been Christlike, now is the perfect time to make the change. You can ask God to cut away anything in your life that would keep you from bearing much fruit for him.

Stay connected to Jesus.

Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing,” in John 15:5.

Just as the plants in my office can’t survive without me, you cannot survive without being connected to Jesus. Without him, having a fruitful life that matters for eternity is impossible.

Zachary Elliott is the lead pastor of Fusion Christian Church in Temecula. For more information, visit https://www.fusionchristianchurch.com, http://www.encouragementtoday.tv or find them on Instagram.

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How to keep your life green and thriving

Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

I’ve never been much of a gardener. To date, my greatest success at horticulture is the two semi-living plants in my office.

They are just barely hanging on, and soon they will be dry sticks if I don’t step up my game.

The crazy thing is that they only require one thing from me – water, but I’m so bad at giving it to them.

My office doesn’t see much rain,

so it’s vital I provide the plants with the liquid of life. They must have it, or they will wither and die.

Have you ever seen a plant die?

It starts off slow. First, the edges of the leaves turn brown; then the branches start to droop and the leaves begin to fall off. It’s a slow, subtle process. Finally, the outcome is a dry stick with no life or fruit at all.

The death of a plant is very similar to the spiritual death you can experience in your life if you’re not careful. It starts off slow. First, the edges of our life start turning brown through compromise; the godly standards you once held so dear begin to droop and the spiritual disciplines you used to practice start to fall from our lives entirely. Our relationship with Jesus becomes simple lip service; participation in his house becomes an inconvenience and before you know it your life becomes fruitless and empty.

Spiritual death is a slow, subtle process for most. If you’re not careful, you won’t even know you’re spiritually dead. But the outcome will be the same. You will become a dry stick with no spiritual life or vitality at all.

I don’t think anyone deliberately sets out to die spiritually. It comes from the great enemy: complacency. The plants in my office die because I become complacent in caring for them. You die spiritually when you start becoming complacent in your spiritual growth.

We must stay spiritually green, thriving and full of fruit.

Here are a few steps you can take to keep your life green and thriving.

Let God be your gardener.

Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener,” in John 15:1.

God is really, really good at making things grow. Nothing grows without him. So, it stands to

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202117077 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TAYLORS VACATION RENTAL ASSISTANCE 43182 Calle Ventura, Temecula, CA 92592 County: Riverside Taylor Lynn Durick, 43182 Calle Ventura, Temecula, CA 92592 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true 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 dollars ($1,000).)

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Registrant: Martha Elizabeth Pearson Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 11/10/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3473 PUBLISHED: November 19, 26, December 3, 10, 2021 Republished: January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2022 Registrant’s middle name was missing in original publication.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202117236 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LUKE 648 PAINTING & RESTORATION 52960 Avenida Carranza, La Quinta, CA 92253 County: Riverside Luke 648 Corp., 52960 Avenida Carranza, La Quinta, CA 92253 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 02/01/2020 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true 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 dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Rebecca Marie Tellez Amador, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/21/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3504 PUBLISHED: January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202117378 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GO FAST CLOTHING 11153 Pierce St, Ste B,Riverside, CA 92505 County: Riverside Elemeniko -- Nau, 11151 Pierce St, Ste B, Riverside, CA 92505 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 12/28/2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true 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 dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Elemeniko Nau Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 12/28/2021 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3505 PUBLISHED: January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2022

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File Number: R-201913047 Filed Riverside County Clerk’s Office Peter Aldana The following fictitious business name(s) has been abandoned by the following person(s): INLAND VALLEY DRIVING SCHOOL, INC 28780 Old Town Front St, B-2, Temecula, CA 92590 County: Riverside Inland Valley Driving School, Inc., 28780 Old Town Front St, B-2, Temecula, CA 92590 This business is conducted by a Corporation The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in Riverside County on 09/24/2019 Signed by: Tahsin Atrushi, CEO/President THIS STATEMENT WAS FILED WITH THE RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY ON 12/09/2021 LEGAL: 3498 PUBLISHED: December 31, 2021, January 7, 14, 21, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the U.S. District Court filed a Minute Order for the attorneys-only Settlement Conference held on November 3, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to Robert James on November 19, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to Robert Mannschreck on November 19, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to Khyber Courchesne on November 22, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to John Karaczynski on November 22, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to Barbara Cole on November 23, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to John and Carol Ellison on November 23, 2021; the U.S. District Court filed a notice of Mail Returned as Undeliverable to Diane Mannschreck on November 23, 2021; the Watermater filed the Final Annual Watermaster Report FY 2019-2020 on November 29, 2021; and the U.S. District Court filed a Minute Order for the attorneys-only Settlement Conference held on December 14, 2021, in United States v. Fallbrook Public Utility District, Civil No. 51-CV-1247-GPCRBB, pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Copies may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202200389 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OC BEST HOME REMODELING 20814 Haines St, Perris, CA 92570 County: Riverside Marilyn - Cervantes, 20814 Haines St, Perris, CA 92570 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true 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 dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Marilyn - Cervantes Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 01/11/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3506 PUBLISHED: January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2022

CHANGE OF NAME ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CVSW 2200022 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS Petitioner: HEATHER GOODIN, TERRY BRADLEY Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. HEATHER ELISE GOODIN b. TERRY EUGENE BRADLEY Proposed Name: a. HEATHER ELISE RANGER b. TERRY EUGENE RANGER 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 granted. Any person objecting to the name changes 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 heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 2-24-22/21 Time: 8:00 am Dept: S101 The address of the court: Riverside Superior Court, Southwest Justice Center, 30755-D Auld Road, Suite 1226, Murrieta, CA 92563 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 general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley Outlook Date: 1-6-22 Signed: Joni I. Sinclair, Judge of the Superior Court LEGAL: 3503 PUBLISHED: January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2022

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TS# 2101-435(38225 Western Hills Road) APN 572-090-050-4 Notice of Trustee’s Sale You are in default under a deed of trust, dated 10/15/2019, unless you take action to protect your property, it may be sold at a public sale. If you need an explanation of the nature of the proceeding against you, you should contact a lawyer. On February 2, 2022 at 10:00 AM, the undersigned, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to: Deed of Trust recorded 11/12/2019, as Instrument No. 2019-0466762 in the Official Records of the County Recorder of Riverside County, California, and executed by Darla Marie Crow, a married woman as her sole and separate property. Will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash or cashier’s check drawn on a financial institution authorized in Civil Code Section 2924h(b), at: The west (main) entrance to Temecula Civic Center Building, 41000 Main Street, Old Town, Temecula California all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State as more fully described in said Deed of Trust. The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 38225 Western Hills Road, Anza, CA 92539 APN 570-090-050-4 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid balance of the note(s), secured by said Deed of Trust, to-wit $ 79,814.85 including as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trust created by said Deed of Trust Notice of default and election to sell the described real property under the deed of trust was recorded in the county where the real property is located. Notice to potential bidders: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. Notice to property owner: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale.

If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (951) 694-3903 for information regarding the trustee’s sale], using the file number assigned to this case: TS# 2101-435. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice to tenant: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (951) 694-3903 for information regarding the trustee’s sale, or visit this internet website www.innovativefieldservices.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case TS# 2101-435 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale.

Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. For trustee’s sale information please call (951) 694-3903 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: January 3, 2022 MFTDS, INC. A California Corporation dba MASTER FUNDING CO. By: Steve Wheeler, President (951) 694-3903 41911 5th St., Ste 202, Temecula, CA 92590 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2467, Temecula, CA 92593-2467 01/14/22, 01/21/22, 01/28/22 IFS#24891

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