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Murrieta resident reminds those struggling with PTSD that they are not alone

Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Hospitals in southwest Riverside County are finally starting to show clear, consistent declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Monday, Feb. 1, though coronavirus patients still make up a significant percentage of those hospitalized in the county. see page A-2

Local San Jacinto accepts plans for traffic safety and Ramona Expressway median art Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

With all San Jacinto City Council members present, a discussion Tuesday, Feb. 2, favored a plan to install public art along the Ramona Expressway’s median which is currently without landscaping. see page A-5

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Ray Lopez, Murrieta resident, business owner and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, creates lamps out of recycled glass bottles for his business, PTSD Bottles. The name stands for “Post Traumatic Smooth Designs in recognition of how the work helped him battle his own post-traumatic Valley News/Shane Gibson photo stress disorder and to raise awareness about the mental health issue.

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Murrieta resident Raymond Lopez Jr. created a home business out of his struggles with post-

traumatic stress disorder.

After serving in the Marines from August 1994 until January 2001, he was medically discharged.

“From 2008 until 2018, I was

in and out of the hospital,” Lopez said. “I have had three massive back surgeries, (and) survived two horrific car crashes. “(I) spent eight months in the hospital for a rare spine infection and broke my back.

All this contributed to my PTSD.” Although the PTSD is not combat related, “I can relate to everything else: the nightmares, the cold see PTSD, page A-4

Murrieta deals with vandalism along Cole Canyon Trail

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Cole Canyon Trail, 23173 Wiashal Trail, in Murrieta is the city’s longest hiking path stretching 3.82 miles, bordering Cleveland National Forest and the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve and has been subject to pollution and vandalism, leaving city maintenance struggling to keep trash and graffiti at a minimum.

“It is an ongoing problem. People trespassing on the ecological reserve (from the trail) and doing vandalism.” Rob Hicks, Riverside Country Parks interpreter, said.

The city of Murrieta is responsible for the upkeep of 16 different neighborhood trails within its boundaries. The Cole Canyon Trail trail system comprises two main areas, the natural and the decomposed granite portions, both see TRAIL, page A-6

Wildomar resident is nominated for Big of the Year award Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

Wildomar resident Kyla Vela was nominated with five others for Big of the Year by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire.

“I was shocked and very honored, it’s definitely a huge thing to be nominated and to be considered for that nomination,” Vela, who has been mentoring 9-year-old

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“I remember in high school I attended an informational session and knew that I wanted to do it once I was eligible when I was 18,” Vela, 22, said. “When I was in my sophomore year of college, I was 19, I attended an informational session and just learned about the impact that a mentor has on a child and just the importance of meeting see BIG, page A-8

Kyla Vela, 22, a Wildomar resident and Big Sister who was nominated for Big of the Year by Big Brother Big Sister of Inland Empire, poses for a photo with her Little Sister, 9-year-old Amayah.

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Southwest Riverside hospitals show across-the-board drops in COVID-19 hospitalizations Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Hospitals in southwest Riverside County are finally starting to show clear, consistent declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human

Services, Monday, Feb. 1, though coronavirus patients still make up a significant percentage of those hospitalized in the county.

While some area hospitals showed declines in coronavirus hospitalizations in data from two weeks ago, others showed slight increases. The data released by

federal health officials Feb. 1 is the first time coronavirus hospitalization declined at all southwest county and midcounty hospitals since the start of the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

The percentages of patients who were confirmed to be positive for COVID-19 were in the 30s and 40s

at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers in Wildomar and Murrieta, respectively); Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta, Hemet Global and Menifee Global medical centers in the week preceding Feb. 1. COVID-19 patients were only a majority at one local medical facility, Temecula Valley Hospital, where they made up an average of 52% of patients.

Most hospitals’ counts of coronavirus hospitalizations dropped by about 10-15 patients between the Jan. 24 and Feb. 1 data dumps.

Hemet Global Medical Center showed a huge drop of nearly 20 coronavirus patients.

Hospitals are still pushing the

limits of ICU space, however, with all hospitals, except Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta which was within two to four patients of ICU capacity in the week before Feb. 1.

The state is officially reporting the 11-county Southern California region’s available ICU capacity at 0%. While the recent data show ICUs not quite at full capacity, state officials and health care professionals have said over the course of the pandemic that available staff also play a role in determining ICU space.

Here is a more detailed look at some of the most recent HHS data on area hospitals: Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

Temecula Valley Hospital Total beds (Seven-day average): 162.3 (161.9 last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 143.6 (144.1 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 73.3 (82 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 31.4 (28 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 30.1 (26.3 last week) Southwest Healthcare System (Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers) Total beds (Seven-day average): 250.4 (same as last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 245.6 (244.9 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 111.4 (126 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 33.6 (36.6 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 32 (36.6 last week) Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta Total beds (Seven-day average): 163.7 (174.7 last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 147.6 (156.1 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 64.1 (78.6 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 25 (27 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 17.9 (19.4 last week) Hemet Global Medical Center Total beds (Seven-day average): 218 (unchanged from last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 138.7 (161.6 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 57.4 (78.3 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 22.7 (20.4 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 18.7 (20.3 last week)

Health care worker conducts testing for COVID-19 at the drive-thru testing site at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore managed and operated by Riverside University Health System Public Health Department.

Menifee Global Medical Center Total beds (Seven-day average): 84 (unchanged from last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 61.3 (61 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 17.4 (34.4 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 10.7 (20.7 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 8.1 (17.7 last week)

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Pacific Hydrotech given EVMWD contract for Back Basin Groundwater Treatment Plant repairs Joe Naiman WRITER

Pacific Hydrotech Corporation was given the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District contract for the repair of two filters at the Back Basin Groundwater Treatment Plant in Lake Elsinore.

A 5-0 EVMWD board vote Thursday, Jan. 28, awarded Pacific Hydrotech a contract for $326,300.

The board also authorized $24,718 for EVMWD staff time expenses and $1,992 for overhead while authorizing an expenditure amount of $425,188, which included $72,178 previously approved under the general manager’s authority.

The Back Basin Groundwater Treatment Plant along Malaga Road was built in 2009. Six pressure vessels filled with sand and

anthracite media reduce arsenic levels to below the federal and state maximum concentrations.

The treatment plant has a design capacity to treat 5 million gallons per day with five of the six filters being in service and the other in standby mode.

A September 2016 failure at the Back Basin Groundwater Treatment Plant was determined to have been caused by damage to Filter 5 and Filter 6. In August 2017, the EVMWD board awarded ERS Industrial Service Inc. a contract to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the filter system and to perform necessary repairs. The filter nozzles and the media for the other four filters were replaced, but the required improvements for Filter 5 and Filter 6 exceeded the scope of the contract. After

ERS completed the rehabilitation of the other four filters, the Back Basin Groundwater Treatment Plant began operation at a reduced capacity of 3 million gallons per day in July 2018.

An engineering and design services contract for repairs to Filter 5 and Filter 6 was awarded to Infrastructure Engineering Corporation in September 2019.

The contract included an inspection and a supplementary report to evaluate other safety and maintenance improvements. The report and the design were completed in August 2020.

The scope of work for the repairs will include replacing the underdrain, concrete, and media for Filter 5 and Filter 6, replacing two 2,500-gallon polyethylene ferric chloride chemical storage

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tanks and safety improvements to six chemical tanks which will allow for safe access above the tanks to perform future operations and maintenance. The project was advertised for bid Oct. 16.

Five bids were received by the Nov. 16 deadline, although two of those proposals were deemed nonresponsive due to incomplete bid submissions. Pacific Hydrotech, which is based in Perris, had the lowest amount among the responsive bidders at $385,600. The second-lowest responsive bid of $393,000 was submitted by Canyon Springs Enterprises, which is headquartered in Hemet.

The contract included alternate

bid items if funding permitted. For budget reasons the district will not award the alternate bid item for two Polyscrub basic scrubbers and associated ferric chloride vent piping, which will reduce the contract cost by $59,300. Pacific Hydrotech agreed to the elimination of that item and to the revision of the contract amount to $326,300.

The $72,178 appropriated under the authority of Greg Thomas, general manager of EVMWD, is for consultant inspection and engineering services.

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

County approves plans and specifications to abandon Hemet Landfill monitoring well Joe Naiman WRITER

The Riverside County’s Department of Waste Resources has six groundwater monitoring wells at the closed Hemet Landfill, but one of those wells is in the public right-of-way for Esplanade Avenue. Both the city of San Jacinto and the Eastern Municipal Water District have requested that the Department of Waste Resources abandon the well, and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0, Tuesday, Jan. 26, to approve the plans and specifications to abandon the well and advertise the work for bid.

The supervisors’ action set a Tuesday, Feb. 16, bid deadline for proposals. Because there will be no expansion of usage the supervisors also found the project to be categorically exempt from California

Environmental Quality Act review.

Abandoning the well will allow the city of San Jacinto to widen Esplanade Avenue and will allow the Eastern Municipal Water District to construct a water main. The city has agreed to reimburse the county for the cost to provide a suitable location for a replacement well and to construct that well. Eastern has agreed to reimburse the county for the cost to abandon the well.

Abandoning the well will require a C-57 California contractor’s license. No Department of Waste Resources staff members possess such a license, so the project must be performed by a contractor. The engineer’s estimate for cost to abandon the well is $13,000.

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

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New recycling mandates discussed by Menifee City Council Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Menifee City Council spent much of its time Wednesday, Feb. 3, trying to figure out the newest state recycling mandates that will require people to place food waste and green waste into separate bins within the next two years.

The state Senate Bill 1383 mandated that much of California business and residents will need to deposit their unused food wastes into a green waste recycling canister that will be issued to them by the city’ contracted Waste Management company to help cut down the toxic gases emanating from waste disposal sites. Still residents may apply for a temporary exemption to the rule because of cost.

Commercial restaurant businesses will also be required to recycle

both usable, but unused foods to the needy and recycle their food wastes in a separate container or bin. The restaurant can also apply for a temporary exemption if their space is too small for the added containers.

Two other pieces of legislation Assembly Bill 341 and Senate Bill 1826 also address the mandates for commercial businesses designed to cut down the organic wastes going to dumps, according to Chris Gehrki, Menifee management analyst in his report. It was unclear in the current SB 1383 legislation of just how the mandates will be handled by commercial businesses or residents.

A Waste Management employee who was on hand at the televised meeting said his company would provide some canisters or bins when they are needed at an as yet

determined cost and was working with the city to handle the new and older legislation. He said the company sent letters and posted cards to many city businesses explaining the new mandates and will continue to do so.

Gehrki said his office will work with the council to develop a community outreach plan regarding the mandates that will be required by the state organic waste management department. The analyst shared one of the letters proposed to be sent to the public concerning the updated mandates, which was met by some questions from the council who asked if commercial enterprises rather than residents would have more difficulty handling the food waste mandates. Gherki said they were working to improve the public outreach at this time through mail and social media. He reiterated

they could apply for an exemption if necessary.

The council accepted the report and asked for more reports in the future when the situation became more clear.

In other business, the council discussed the city’s updated Emergency Preparedness Plan. The Emergency Operations Command center is located at the police station, and it was put to use in the recent pandemic with some operations still continuing.

Mayor Pro Tem Lesa Sobek asked if the Community Emergency Response Team was involved with the EOC and if several of the EOC members were CERT trained.

She suggested that if CERT training was available, all the council and possibly all city employees should receive the same training. The council, especially Councilmember

Dean Deines, agreed with her and suggested that everyone who could be CERT trained should do so in case “no one could be there to help in a disaster.”

Deines said he and his wife found their CERT training “invaluable.”

Sobek was told by the EOC representative that currently there is no CERT training scheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The council accepted the latest report, adding some additional information about the coronavirus pandemic and what could be done.

The council approved a list of items on the consent calendar and agreed to further postpone a hearing on the appeal the Planning Commission’s approval of the Sumac Ridge development, placing it off calendar.

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

Temecula to hold outreach Menifee Police Department debuts meetings to go over budget new community crime mapping tool priorities with city commissions MENIFEE – The Menifee Po- Robert Peel, the father of modern tionality as well as flexibility to Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The city of Temecula added several outreach meetings between staff and city commissions in the coming weeks, as well as one with the city council, to gauge funding priorities and assist in developing the budget for fiscal year 20212022.

Previously, the extent of city staff’s public engagement regarding the budget was to go over a proposed budget with the council in May and a final version in June.

This year, staff added five meetings, one for each commission, in February and March based on feedback from Councilmember Zak Schwank at the end of the 2020-2021 budget development process, “encouraging additional public and council engagement earlier on in the budget process,” he said.

Staff also planned a review of budget policies and priorities with the city council for its Tuesday, Feb.

9, meeting, after press time.

In an agenda report for the meeting, city staff also noted that the Government Finance Officers’ Association, which is the oversight agency for the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award program that recognizes local governments for their budget outreach, “has updated its award criteria and recommended best practices to include increased public and policymaker engagement in the budget process.”

The new “budget engagement sessions,” which will all take place at public meetings of city commissions, are planned for Feb. 17 with the Temecula Planning Commission; Feb. 25 with the Temecula Public/Traffic Safety Commission; March 8 with the Old Town Local Review Board; March 8 with the Temecula Community Services Commission and March 11 with the Temecula Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Commission.

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

lice Department introduced a new crime mapping tool to the Menifee community Wednesday, Feb. 3, which places a high value on both transparency and community involvement in policing.

Crime mapping allows community members to see where in the city crimes are occurring. By knowing where crimes are taking place and the general types of crimes happening, residents and businesses can be aware of what to look out for and report any suspicious activity to the Menifee Police Department.

Menifee police Chief Pat Walsh shared how crime mapping helps support the synergy between Menifee police department and the community.

“We are happy to provide crime mapping to our community. As Sir

policing, said long ago, ‘The police are the public and the public are the police.’ We believe crime mapping will be a valuable tool that will enhance our ability to work with our community to keep Menifee safe,” Walsh said.

CrimeMapping.com helps law enforcement agencies throughout North America provide the public with information about recent crime activity in their neighborhoods. The goal is to assist police departments in reducing crime through better informed communities, and more self-reliance among community members improves community-oriented policing efforts everywhere, according to Crimemapping.com.

CrimeMapping.com utilizes an advanced mapping engine, which helps provide a high level of func-

police agencies. Crime data will be extracted on a regular basis from Menifee Police Department’s records system so that the information being viewed through the online system is the most current available. This data is verified for accuracy, and all address information is generalized by block to help ensure privacy is protected, according the Crimemapping.com.

Walsh said the Menifee Police Department wanted the community to be aware of what was going on in their neighborhood.

If you know that suspicious activities are happening, contact the Menifee Police Department. For additional information about this new community-focused technology, contact the Menifee Police Department at 951-723-1500.

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EMWD water reclamation facility in San Jacinto nears completion Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

With most of the irrigation pipes in and the fencing up, the San Jacinto Mountain Avenue West Groundwater Replenishment Facility project at Esplanade and Mountain avenues is nearing completion.

Workers have been busy for the last several months installing the wrought iron fences and placing the irrigation pipes in the ground to complete the ongoing project.

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PTSD from page A-1 sweats, not feeling like a man, feeling like you’re just a nobody, isolation, depression, anxiety. I can relate to all that,” he said.

Lopez said he needed an outlet to help him cope, and at first, it was by making jewelry.

“My occupational therapist asked me to attend a jewelrymaking class at the hospital,” Lopez said. “I tried every excuse, but she wouldn’t budge and convince me to attend. I loved it and got good; I took other classes and made some beautiful pieces and started to sell them.”

His brother came up with a name for the new business, he said.

“PTSD – Post Traumatic Smooth Designs,” Lopez said.

He had to stop making jewelry after recovering from a rare spinal infection, due to not being able to lean over and the loss of some hand movement.

Lopez said he first started thinking about bottle creations when his family gave him a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue as a gift for everything he had gone through.

“I just kept looking at him like ‘This sucker is too good, too beautiful to throw away when it’s done,’” Lopez said. “So in the process I just kept looking at YouTube videos, how to be able to cut, different techniques.”

Lopez learned to create custom lamps made out of recycled bottles.

“In reality, maybe the last year and a half I really started as far as selling the lamps,” Lopez said.

“I just had to get good at being able to cut and learn to paint and everything before I could really put out a good product.”

project is most likely to be done in April,” Kevin Pearson, public information officer of Eastern Municipal Water District, said recently.

When completed, pedestrians walking or running around the facility will see the structures both in heavy rain or dry conditions.

Pearson said the facility will be mostly dry, but it will fill during heavy rains and allow the water to sink into the ground and the water basin below. The winding pathway around the facility will have waterresistant landscaping.

EMWD awarded the city of San

Jacinto about $110,000 to help repave Mountain Avenue to Seventh Street because of what damage the trucks had caused when hauling the dirt to the Soboba Indian Reservation during the five years the project was planned or under construction, according to officials. Tons of dirt were pulled out of the site and hauled away by the large trucks.

According to EMWD, the facility will allow EMWD to enhance current and future water supplies in the local groundwater basin by developing a groundwater water bank with a storage capacity of up

He starts by cutting a hole out of the bottle.

“I’ll clean them out inside, then I’ll let them dry, and once they’re dry, I try to clean the inside,” Lopez said. “If I’m just going to put lights in it, I make sure there’s no streaks in there, just thoroughly clean the inside so it’s nice and clear so when the lights are there you can’t see streaks or anything.”

The next step is a coat of primer, followed by paint.

“I’ll put a coat of paint. Whatever color I’m going to use, do a couple coats of that, let that dry, and then once I love the final outcome then I’ll either put the veterans sticker or any sticker that any of the people want,” Lopez said. “Then I’ll add a clear coat and then add the lamp kit to it, and then it’s ready to go.”

When the weather is nice and warm, Lopez said he can finish a bottle lamp in four to five hours.

When the weather is cooler, it takes a few days since the paint needing additional time to dry.

He said learning to cut the bottles took some time and upgraded equipment.

“I used to at first use a batteryoperated drill, and that would take forever,” Lopez said. “Then I was finally able to just save up and got a power drill, a cord one, and then that helped me out a lot.”

Throughout the years, Lopez saved up for a handheld drill press. He said it is easier for him to operate the press instead of a power drill since breaking his back, he said.

“The drill press makes it a lot easier for me to be able to work and cut the bottles,” Lopez said.

“It took me awhile to really get the hang of it, but yeah it was just something that I never thought I

could do, and just my brain started working, to just try, to go for it, and it’s something I enjoy now.”

Lopez sells his lamps on Facebook at “PTSD Bottles,” or on Instagram @ptsdbottles.

“I’m trying to get a whole website going, everything I’m buying I’m pretty much selling,” Lopez said. “I try to keep my prices as low as possible.

“I’m blessed to be able to mail to 25 states already and one to Cuba,” he said, laughing. “So that’s pretty neat.”

Lopez said other people with PTSD have been reaching out.

“I’ve been there, I’m truly blessed that I didn’t pull that trigger or finish that bottle of pills and stuff that was just right there,” Lopez said. “I thought about my wife, my kid, at that time it was just one kid, and I just heard a voice, just, don’t do it, who’s going to raise your daughter better than you, who’s going to love your wife better than you, and that’s when I knew I needed help.”

Lopez said he also works with veterans with mental health issues.

“Thank God I have been able to help veterans and civilians dealing with suicidal thoughts locally, nationally and even overseas,” Lopez said. “I’m truly blessed of being able to come out not on top, cause every day’s a struggle, but I’ve found the tools that I needed to help me get through the worst.

“Being able to share it with others and help others, that’s truly a blessing for me. That’s the best blessing I could receive just knowing someone is back on track, or doing better or just living,” he said.

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The program includes recharge facilities, extraction and monitoring wells, treatment/blending and disinfection facilities, potable and raw water transmission pipelines, well water collector pipelines, laterals from the raw water pipe-

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There are monitoring wells around the facility that will measure the amount of water in storage and used during droughts. It will overcome water shortages of up to 15% for up to three consecutive drought years during a regional water allocation cutback, according to EMWD. Tony Ault can be reached by email at tault@reedermedia.com.

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San Jacinto accepts plans for traffic safety and Ramona Expressway median art Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

With all San Jacinto City Council members present, a discussion Tuesday, Feb. 2, favored a plan to install public art along the Ramona Expressway’s median which is currently without landscaping.

During the regular council meeting, via livestream and telecommunications, it was learned that Universal Construction and Engineering submitted the lowest bid of $298,694.23 to complete the project.

The plan showed that the median from Sanderson Avenue/ Highway 79 to State Street on the Ramona Expressway would have kiosks with pictures of the city and collapsible tin structures depicting cactus plants, allowing motorists to see how the city appreciates fine art as they drive into the city.

The art would be installed in two phases, starting from State Street to Lyon Street.

“This is a good project,” Crystal Ruiz, mayor pro tem of San Jacinto, said.

She said the project had been long sought by the city.

Mayor Alonso Ledezma echoed his appreciation for the project.

Councilmember Paul Ayala said he thought it was a good project but he was concerned that the structures “looked sharp” and would possibly cut a car that jumped the median and might be cut in half.

He was assured by the city engineer who presented the program that the art installation would be made of light tin and, if hit, would be knocked off its pedestal.

Ruiz said the tin plants would be placed far apart and were not likely to be hit.

The discussion ended without any public discussion offered in a 4-0 vote in favor with Councilmember Joel Lopez temporarily losing his internet connection and dropping from the teleconference call.

In other business, the city council accepted a final road safety plan that included building functional larger sidewalks in the city to protect pedestrians and bicyclists.

A lengthy study was presented by the city engineering staff who noted that the road safety plan was possible through a grant from the California Department of Transportation. Fehr & Peers assisted the city in preparing the plan.

The study showed that from 2015 to 2019, there were 975 injury collisions and 110 collisions where people were killed or severely injured. On average, seven people are killed each year in San Jacinto in traffic.

The number of collisions for each year people walking and biking are involved in 13% of total collisions and 31% of collisions where people were killed or severely injured. People who were walking were particularly overrepresented in collisions where people were killed or severely injured, according to the report, as they are involved in only 6% of all collisions but make up 25% of collisions where people were killed or severely injured.

The report also showed where most of the fatal or serious injury accidents had occurred over the five-year period. Most occurred on Sanderson and San Jacinto avenues; the study broke down the east, west, north and south streets where they occurred.

There is a sidewalk project beginning on San Jacinto Avenue near Menlo Street and on Hewitt Avenue to help alleviate some of the accidents, according to city staff.

“It’s great to have this information,” Lopez said.

City manager Rob Johnson said the report will be used to help secure state and federal highway grants in the future. The council accepted the report for further use.

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

The San Jacinto City Council accepts a final road safety plan, Tuesday, Feb. 2, that included building functional larger sidewalks in the city to protect pedestrians and bicyclists.

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Calaveras Trout Farm to stock Lake Skinner with rainbow trout Joe Naiman WRITER

Calaveras Trout Farm Inc. has been given the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District contract to stock rainbow trout in Lake Skinner.

The Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District board members are the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, and the county supervisors voted 5-0, Jan. 26, to award Calaveras Trout Farm the contract to stock live rainbow trout at Lake Skinner, Lake Cahuilla in La Quinta and Rancho Jurupa Regional Park.

Calaveras Trout Farm, which is based in the Merced County town of Snelling, will supply approximately 24,000 pounds of trout annually.

More than 45,000 anglers annually patronize the Riverside County Regional Park and OpenSpace District lakes. The district has been contracting with Jess Ranch Fish Hatchery, which is based in Apple Valley, but the hatchery notified the park district, Oct. 26, that a bacterial outbreak which has plagued hatcheries throughout the state would render Jess Ranch unable to supply the park district’s rainbow trout needs. The park district issued a request for quotes Nov. 10 and received one bid by the Nov. 20 deadline. The Calaveras Trout Farm Inc. bid was deemed responsive and responsible.

The initial contract will be for a one-year term. It may be renewed for four additional one-year options without board approval. The price for the fish will not exceed $4.95 per pound for the first year of the agreement. Increases of up to the Consumer Price Index amount will be permitted in subsequent years contingent upon a

written agreement. If Calaveras Trout Farm offers lower prices to another governmental entity that decrease will automatically extend to the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District.

The fish will range from 1-7 pounds. If the lakes are not being stocked for a fishing derby or other special event, 80% of the fish shall average 1 pound and 20% of the fish shall average between 1 1/2 pounds and 2 pounds. For special events, 40% shall average between 3-4 pounds while the other 60% shall average between 5-7 pounds. The dip net method or a similar method shall be used to average the fish size; box grading will not be permitted.

The fish must be alive, in good physical condition and free from disease and harmful pests. Calaveras Trout Farm shall remove all dead and dying fish from the load during delivery, and the weight of those fish will be deducted from the total weight on the weight statement as will the weight of any fish which dies of natural causes within a reasonable time after delivery. A district supervisor will oversee the unloading and inspection of the fish at each delivery location, and the district has the right to reject an entire delivery which does not meet the conditions of the agreement.

The fish will be delivered in lots of approximately 1,000 pounds. A controlled delivery schedule will be used. The lakes will be stocked beginning in mid-December and ending in late March. The schedule, which is subject to change, calls for the final three deliveries at each lake to take place Feb. 16, March 2, and March 16.

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EMWD approves final design of Sun City Water Operations Building renovation Joe Naiman WRITER

A contract with Gillis + Panichapan Architects for the final design to renovate the Eastern Municipal Water District’s Sun City Water Operations Building was approved by the EMWD board Wednesday, Feb. 3.

The 5-0 vote authorized a $91,900 payment to Gillis + Panichapan, which is based in Costa Mesa, while appropriating $130,100 to cover the costs of the project through the bid and award phase.

The water operations building at Eastern’s Sun City Regional Water Reclamation Facility was built in 1986. Its finishes and roofing system have deteriorated, and the renovation will provide

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Tahquitz Scouting District of California Inland Empire Council of Boy Scouts of America awards 2020 Scout of the Year to Menifee Scout Valley News/Courtesy photo Evan Sandvig.

MENIFEE – Described as responsible, respectful and always willing to help and lend a hand, Evan Sandvig of Menifee Scouts BSA Troop 374 was recently awarded 2020 Scout of the Year for the Tahquitz District of the California Inland Empire Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

His leaders described Sandvig as being helpful to everyone he encounters. Whether it be at home, school or Scouts, they said he cares about people and the community around him.

“From veteran flag ceremonies, Homes for Veterans Ceremonies, National Cemetery Flag placement for Honoring our Heroes, to helping the community in need with food and other goods, you name it, he’s there,” according to his leaders.

Sandvig served as his troop’s assistant senior patrol leader in 2020, helping produce his troop’s virtual meetings on Zoom. He provided insight on skill instruction, conducted virtual games and created the itinerary and hosted virtual backyard campouts for the troop.

A Life Scout, Sandvig also assists as a den chief for Cub Scout Pack 374.

The Tahquitz District serves the Southwest Riverside County region making the Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venture, and Explorer programs available to all youth ages 5-17. For more information on finding a scouting unit, visit http://BeAScout.org.

Submitted by Tahquitz Scouting District of California Inland Empire Council of Boy Scouts of America.

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of which contain sensitive habitat zones, Hicks said.

These habitats, however, are covered in visible graffiti over a majority of rocks and trees. Much of the environment surrounding the trail is littered with trash as well, he said, adding that the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, which is connected to the trail, has been subject to the same defacement.

When asked about the current condition of Cole Canyon Trail, Lea Kolek of Murrieta’s Parks and Recreation said the department does not have the resources needed to protect these areas as thoroughly as they’d like to.

new finishes and also supply new fixtures for use by the treatment plant personnel.

Gillis + Panichapan had previously assessed the building condition and prepared a preliminary design. The assessment report included a conceptual layout and recommendations for the renovation. The entrances will be relocated to extend the hallway space. The room partitions will be reconfigured to have three offices rather than two. The toilet and bath will be reconfigured to meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards. The break room will be remodeled with new counters and casework. Finishes such as ceiling tiles, flooring and lighting will be replaced.

The scope of the final design

contract includes project management, field investigations, preparing contract documents including plans and specifications and design for architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering. Gillis + Panichapan will also provide bidding support as part of the final design contract.

The $130,100 appropriated will also cover $22,100 for engineering branch labor during the design phase, $5,500 for a survey consultant, $4,200 for the plan and specification review phase and $6,400 for the bid and award phase.

The design work is expected to begin in February and be complete

by July.

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

“Between the park rangers and the public works department, they do try to get out there, but our crews are small,” Kolek said. “We need to create a trails master plan and update the development code before jumping off on a particular trail system.”

The region encompassing Cole Canyon Trail was once inhabited by the Native American Luiseño tribe. “Many people have lived in these lands for many generations, and we have a responsibility to look to the future to further protect the land.” Myra Masiel, Luiseño tribal member and Pechanga Cultural Center’s resident archaeologist, said.

The area has more than just aesthetic and natural value, Masiel

said; it has cultural and historical significance as well. “(Murrieta’s) job is to make sure that the trash and graffiti activities aren’t happening in these sensitive areas,” Masiel said.

In the past, Kolek said Murrieta implemented an Adopt-a-Trail program where community organizations have the opportunity to care for neighborhood trails; however, due to COVID-19 restrictions, this program has been suspended indefinitely.

“I’m sure it will pick back up once situations return to a more day-to-day operation for our facilities,” Kolek said.

Jeremiah Tatola can be reached by email at valleystaf @reedermedia.com.

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Second man accused in car-to-car shooting that killed dog arrested City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 24-year-old man, who’s suspected of joining a felon in a car-to-car shooting in San Jacinto that killed a dog whose owner was the intended target, was being held Tuesday, Feb. 2, in lieu of $500,000 bail.

Jose Luis Monrial of San Jacinto was arrested Sunday, Jan. 31, and booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of attempted murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle and possession of controlled substances.

According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Brad Farwell, investigators had been searching for Monrial and found him while responding with paramedics to a

medical aid call on Minor Street.

The exact nature of the emergency was not disclosed.

Monrial’s alleged cohort, Joshua Matthew Rivera, 25, of San Jacinto, was arrested in December, soon after the alleged attack and is slated to appear for a status conference at the Banning Justice Center, March 9.

Rivera, who’s being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, is charged with attempted murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, firearm assault, discharging a gun from a moving vehicle and possession of controlled substances.

According to Farwell, the two men allegedly targeted a motorist, whose name was withheld, as he was driving in the area of Esplanade Avenue and Hewitt Street in

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the afternoon, Dec. 17.

For undisclosed reasons, they pulled alongside the victim’s vehicle, firing several rounds from a handgun, which missed the driver but hit his dog in the back seat, Farwell alleged.

The assailants then sped away, while the man pulled over and called 911. His dog died in the car, Farwell said.

Rivera was quickly identified as one of the alleged shooters, and he was taken into custody without incident, Dec. 19.

According to court records, he has a previous felony conviction in another jurisdiction, but the offense was not specified.

No information was available regarding Monrial’s background.

Murrieta man accused in deadly DUI crash in Palm Springs heads to trial City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A Murrieta man accused of killing a 25-year-old motorist in an alcohol-fueled wreck in Palm Springs must stand trial on seconddegree murder and other felony charges, a judge ruled Tuesday, Feb. 2.

Michael David Torrez, 36, declined to challenge the government’s evidence at a preliminary hearing Tuesday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. The move prompted Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky to rule there was sufficient evidence to warrant a trial on the murder count, as well as two felony counts of driving under the influence resulting in injuries.

Torrez reentered “not guilty” pleas, as is required following a preliminary hearing.

Torrez, who remains in custody in lieu of $1 million at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta, is scheduled to return to court,

March 8, for a trial-readiness conference.

The defendant was allegedly driving at nearly double the legal blood-alcohol limit of 0.08 when his pickup truck crashed into two cars March 16, 2018, killing Mario Garcia of Palm Springs.

Torrez was later charged with murder rather than vehicular manslaughter because he was previously convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol.

Drivers with DUI convictions are warned at sentencing that if they do it again, and cause a death, they could face a murder charge.

A declaration in support of an arrest warrant prepared by Palm Springs Police Department Officer Richard Salomon said Torrez was observed heading westbound on Ramon Road while “swerving in and out of the lanes at a high rate of speed” before the 11 p.m. crash.

While passing El Cielo Road, Torrez’s Ford F-150 rear-ended a Nissan Versa, then veered into a Nissan Sentra driven by Garcia,

according to the document. The Versa crashed into a curb and street sign, but its occupants were uninjured, according to Palm Springs police.

Investigators alleged that Torrez had to be sedated and restrained while being transported to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for treatment of major injuries he suffered in the crash.

He “yelled profanities at emergency personnel” and “flailed his arms and attempted to free himself from restraints that were applied to him,” according to the declaration, which alleged he told a responding firefighter, “When I get done, I am going to (expletive) you up!”

Torrez was convicted of a misdemeanor DUI in 2008 and sentenced to three years probation.

He has additional misdemeanor convictions – possession of an assault weapon, possession of a large capacity magazine and possession of drug paraphernalia – but no felony convictions in Riverside County.

Tahquitz Scouting District of California Inland Empire Council of Boy Scouts of America awards 2020 Venture of the Year to Murrieta Scout Valley News/Courtesy photo Emily Dyer.

MURRIETA – Described as an enthusiastic, selfless, joyful young woman who is dedicated to service and scouting, Emily Dyer of Venture Crew 604 was recently awarded 2020 Venture of the Year for the Tahquitz District of the California Inland Empire Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Dyer staffed multiple leadership courses for both youth and adult scouting leaders and led her Crew’s recent community service project to make face masks for a local nursing home and hospital.

Her leaders said she encourages others to pursue their passions and is instrumental in making everyone in her Crew feel like part of a family. Dyer said she loves the outdoors and earned the BSA 50-miler award for hiking while

on Catalina Island.

Her leaders said that she encourages others to better themselves.

“She serves in any way we ask her, and she steps up to take on a leadership role in whatever activity she is part of. She epitomizes the Venturing Spirit – to seek Truth, Fairness and Adventure in our world,” they said.

The Tahquitz District serves the Southwest Riverside County region making the Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venture, and Explorer programs available to all youth ages 5-17. For more information on finding a scouting unit, visit http://BeAScout.org.

Submitted by Tahquitz Scouting District of California Inland Empire Council of Boy Scouts of America.

Nuevo man to stand trial Motorcyclist hit by unnamed for allegedly running motorist who fled near Lake Elsinore approaching in a Ford F-250 from in a northerly direction.”

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A 45-year-old man accused of running over and killing his exgirlfriend on a Nuevo street, as well as injuring her mother when she tried to intervene, must stand trial for murder and other offenses, a judge ruled Wednesday, Feb. 3.

Bun Thieng Leuk allegedly killed Linda Holguin in a 2019 vehicular assault.

Following a preliminary hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Randell Stamen found there was sufficient evidence to bound Leuk over for trial on the murder count, as well as charges of assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment, attempted domestic abuse and violating a domestic violence restraining order.

The judge scheduled a postpreliminary hearing arraignment for Feb. 16 and left the defendant’s bail set at $1 million.

Leuk is being held at the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.

According to sheriff’s officials, at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 9, 2019, the defendant was involved in a dispute with Holguin while the victim stood with her children and mother, Frances Rios, outside her home in the 29000 block of 13th Street.

While at the wheel of his Toyota Tacoma pickup, Leuk allegedly threw the vehicle into gear and aimed it at Holguin, according to witnesses, one of whom told investigators that the victim was allegedly run over several times before the defendant fled.

Rios was struck when she attempted to come to her daughter’s aid, suffering minor injuries, according to investigators.

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Sheriff’s Sgt. Rick Espinoza said Leuk sped away before deputies arrived. Holguin was pronounced dead at the scene.

During the predawn hours of Sept. 11, 2019, Fontana police officers stopped Leuk in his pickup on Riverside Avenue, near Interstate 10, where he was taken into custody without a struggle.

The defendant had a related domestic battery case pending at the time of his arrest, and that has been consolidated with the murder complaint.

Leuk has no documented previous felony or misdemeanor convictions.

A man riding a dirt bike near Lake Elsinore was struck by a pickup, whose driver fled the scene on foot and remains at large Thursday, Feb. 4.

The hit-and-run happened about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Highway 74 and Hammack Avenue, just east of the city, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Officer Mike Lassig said that the victim, identified only as a 24-yearold Lake Elsinore man, was westbound on the highway, without a headlight on his Suzuki dirt bike, and was approaching Hammack at the same time the suspect was

Lassig said that the pickup was in the left turn lane to go north on Hammack and initiated the turn just as the motorcyclist reached the intersection, traveling at an unknown speed.

The pickup struck the Suzuki’s front wheel, and the motorcyclist was “ejected and came to rest in the intersection,” the CHP representative said.

“The pickup driver proceeded northbound on Hammack and parked the vehicle in the roadway,” Lassig said. “The driver exited the vehicle and fled the scene on foot

erside County Fire Department paramedics reached the location within a few minutes, rendering life-saving treatment to the victim, who was taken to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar with major injuries.

Sheriff’s deputies and CHP officers searched the area but could not find the suspect. It was unclear whether the truck belonged to him.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts or identity was asked to contact the CHP’s Temecula office at 951-506-2000.

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Coming to Temecula in 1908

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To reach Temecula from a distance in the early days of the 20th century, people would travel by train. Other options included coming by stagecoach, which had evolved into large horse-drawn wagons with rows of seats. Local folks would venture into town on horseback, with horse and wagon or with horse and buggy.

Train cars were not ornate, the seats were hard and temperatures were controlled by opening or closing windows. A rider was fortunate if his seatmates did not chew and spit tobacco.

A rider could disembark at the Temecula station, across the Main Street Bridge, in the middle of where modern-day Old Town Temecula is today. The engine was driven onto turntable, a large circular plate in the ground, and disconnected from the train cars. Workers used their BIG from page A-1 that need, specifically in our communities. So, I decided that I wanted to learn more and even see if I could be a potential mentor to a little in our community.”

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A train rider in the early 20th century could disembark at the Temecula station, across the Main Street Bridge, in the middle of where modern-day Old Town Temecula is today.

muscle to turn hand-cranks until the engine pointed northward again. The passenger cars would be reattached, and with a toot of the horn, the train would be on its way.

The short street between the bridge and today’s City Hall is called Main Street because it was the most important street in town during the time. Old Town Front Street, going north and south, was not important until automobiles took the place of trains for personal transportation.

The turntable was built after the bridges in Temecula Canyon, south of Temecula, were washed out in heavy rainstorms.

Travelers stayed at the Welty Hotel, which is still open in 2021, now called Hotel Temecula, on the east side of the bridge. Meals were served by Mary Jane Welty and her seven daughters. It was a reputable place built to serve train customers, and it also housed the post office and a small store.

The Welty daughters worked hard to keep the hotel going. They cooked, cleaned, made beds, did laundry and washed dishes. There was no time to entertain guests, with one exception. Warren Birge of San Bernardino was a trainman who stayed at the Welty Hotel where he met Mattie Welty. A postcard Warren sent to Mattie in 1908 remains, complete with the one-cent stamp.

Across from the hotel was the Mercantile General Store, which was constructed of local bricks and

is now home of The Merc art gallery and small performance venue.

Travelers shopped alongside locals to purchase fruit, thread and even a hat or a pair of shoes.

To travel into the countryside, visitors hired horses and wagons from the Temecula Livery Stable that sat where the Bank of Plates and Pours is now. If you were a lady, you could also hire a driver and travel with a chaperone.

Wandering through the dirt streets of Temecula, you would see blacksmiths mending wagon hardware and shoeing horses. Laundry would dance on the clothesline in a breeze while women hoped no horses would stir up dust to dirty the clothes they had just scrubbed. Storekeepers lazily wiled the day away until they could close up and head to the nearest “watering hole,” which would be either Joe Winkels’ bar in the Welty Building down the street from the hotel or the Escallier Pool Hall across the street from the Livery Station.

It was a rough town where ranchers and other folks did business, a place where women didn’t walk alone and where the ladies lifted their long skirts to keep dirt off their hems. Word had it that there were rough characters who hung around Temecula, and it was best to avoid eye contact with them. There were also good families who sent their children to the Pujol School at the north end of town. The little

Orange County and the Inland Empire matches adults with children to be their mentors.

“Really we see ourselves as the bridge, the bridge to connect,” Jennifer O’Farrell, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters Inland Empire, said.

“How do we connect really great, caring community individuals to be mentors, how do we train them, support them,” O’Farrell said. “Then we connect them to a young person, whether that be a 6-year-old all the way up to an 18-year-old in their own

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Warren Birge of San Bernardino, a trainman who stayed at the Welty Hotel, meets Mattie Welty, as seen from a postcard he sent her in 1908 that remains, complete with the one-cent stamp.

Pujol Schoolhouse is now restored and sits on Santiago Road near St. Catherine’s Catholic Church.

Warren Birge, the trainman, eventually married Mattie Welty, and they settled in San Bernardino for a happily ever after story that began with the railroad and the hotel in Temecula.

The railroad tracks were removed from Temecula in 1936 when automobiles took to highways, giving the freedom to travel without a time schedule. Newcomers now come in droves in SUVs to live in beautiful new homes in the valley. We still have hotels, stores and “watering holes” in Temecula for the convenience of visitors. There are many schools and churches and neighbor-

hoods safe and clean for women to walk alone.

Many people have found their happily ever after stories in Temecula and this writer hopes you have found yours.

For more information about this article, you can contact Rebecca Farnbach at RFarnbach@gmail. com.

Rebecca Marshall Farnbach is an author and co-author of several history books about the Temecula area.

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neighborhood that they just may not have ever met.

“Their circles may not have crossed because this young person is struggling in poverty or homelessness or the foster care system and so their paths haven’t crossed, and we see ourselves as the bridge to connect the two together,” she said.

During the pandemic, mentoring has presented some challenges, O’Farrell said.

“The over 1,100 are all champions this year because they’ve weathered and had to pivot in so many ways,” she said.

Mentors moved online in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I call them now the DoorDash deliverers 2.0 because they’ve been dropping, whether it be groceries or journals or art projects or kind of arts for science projects over to their mentee’s house to give them things to do that they could then do together virtually,” O’Farrell said. “We’ve prevented over dozens of suicides of our young people that have just found themselves in a place of just depression, and they’ve been able to intervene and really create support and connect to counseling, so all of our mentors have just done above and beyond in this time of isolation for our young people.”

For those that were nominated, O’Farrell said they’ve gone above and beyond. When it comes to Vela’s nomination, O’Farrell said that Vela helped navigate other mentors through learning to pivot during the pandemic.

“She had on the spot become like a docent to her little sister and was taking her to the zoo, taking her to museums virtually... so it

just sparked for other volunteers that we can do all these things virtually,” O’Farrell said.

“When the pandemic first started and we were all kind of locked down and everything changed, we started meeting virtually,” Vela said. “Her and I would set up like a virtual outing where we’d pick a place that we wanted to go, or we’d pick an activity that we wanted to do together on Zoom, on FaceTime.

“A couple of times we went and visited a place, so we went to the zoo, and I had pulled up all of the live feeds of different animals at the zoo and we would go and we’d watch them for a bit and talk about a specific animal and what they do and just, how unique they are,” Vela said, adding that they also visited Disneyland virtually by watching the rides online and talking about what it’s like on Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A. “Just fun things like that, trying to be creative – she’s 9 years old, so keeping a child’s attention for that long of a time is definitely challenging, trying to meet virtually is challenging for sure,” Vela said.

Vela’s match support specialist had a big part in nominating her, as well as Amayah.

“I found out she had put together a whole video as to why she thinks I should be nominated, and so it was really sweet and very humbling,” Vela said.

To learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire, visit https://www.iebigs.org/ or https:// www.ocbigs.org/.

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

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Valerie Tichy-Drummer stays connected to the Hemet community during her 3 5 years as a State F arm Insurance agent and through her many philanthropic activities. She was asked to remove her face covering for the photograph. Valley News/D iane A. R hod es photo

State F arm Insurance agent Valerie Tichy-Drummer poses for a photo outside her Hemet business which she started 3 5 years ago and has been at the same location for 3 4 years. She was asked to remove her face covering for the photograph, and the photographer was more than 6 feet away.

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When State Farm Insurance agent Valerie Tichy-Drummer opened her office in Hemet Feb. 1, 1986, she was hopeful for a long and successful career, she said. Thirty-five years later, a look back at the journey showed her just that.

Tichy-Drummer said she was attracted to the insurance industry because of her desire to help people, make a good living and have independence. Although she worked her way through college at Mt. San Jacinto College and the University of Redlands as a secretary for Skyline Homes, she said State Farm Insurance was her first and only career job.

“When I started, there were very few women insurance agency owners,” she said. “I think any business owner has to be risk tolerant; my checks to this day vary, unlike an employee who has guaranteed income.”

Tichy-Drummer has five employees and is currently in the market for one more to fill a full-time administrative position that is currently posted on Indeed and CareerPlug.

For this position, she said she needs

someone who is bilingual in Spanish and can get licensed. In general, she said that she looks for certain innate qualities in those she hires.

“They need to have a service heart where they genuinely care and they need to have what I call the ‘Sherlock gene’ which is an ability to connect the dots – exhibit associative learning skills,” she said.

“Staffing is one of the hardest issues for small businesses, and every State Farm agent I know struggles with it. There is also a ton of regulatory issues; State Farm values doing everything right, so we do a lot of continuing education every year.

All of my team participates in that.”

Throughout her years of serving the community through her work, Tichy-Drummer has been active in philanthropic ways as well. Soroptimist International is an ongoing passion for her, and she has supported local schools, The Center Against Sexual Assault of Southwest Riverside County, which is now known as R.E.A.C.H. and stands for “Reflect, Emerge, Act Choose Hope,” and Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District.

She was born in West Africa to missionary parents and lived there until she was 18. Her father was a

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Tichy-Drummer has spent all but The longtime business owner re- one year in her current office at the ceived numerous awards, and she is corner of State Street and Latham most proud of receiving State Farm Avenue in Hemet. She said when Insurance’s Legion of Honor Crys- she first started her business in the tal Excellence Award, which is an San Jacinto Valley, it felt much award given for overall quality of an smaller. agency. She was named 2007-2008 “But I was evolving and so was “Woman of the Year” by the Hemet the valley,” she said. “I think my San Jacinto Chamber of Commerce, perspective is very different now; “Professional Woman of the Year” it’s much more focused on the big in 2014 by the San Jacinto Chamber picture.” of Commerce and other awards for She said another benefit of busiher business. She was an ambas- ness ownership is the ability to have sador for the chambers and served a flexible schedule while raising two on the board of directors for both. children, enabling her to participate “I’ve been a chamber of com- in their many events through the merce member every year, and I years. consider this a civic duty, actually,” “My oldest friend is my biggest she said. “It’s always nice to be rec- client,” Tichy-Drummer, 57, said. ognized with awards but I truly like “It is an honor to have clients who

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become friends – I’m probably going to do more of that as time goes on now that I am in a different stage of life.”

Staying in touch with all her clients during the past year and all the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has prompted her to implement new modalities.

“Personally, I like in-person (service), but I’m doing many more interactions virtually, for instance,” Tichy-Drummer said. “It’s fun to see people I have insured for many years who live out of the area. I also conduct 10-minute Good Neighbor Connect calls every day that let me catch up with my clients. These are my ‘vitamins.’”

When asked what advice she would provide to anyone contemplating opening their own insurance office, she suggested they start by working for an established agent to learn the business.

“That way you know your products and whether you enjoy the work,” Tichy-Drummer said. “I’m blessed to love what I do 35 years later; I don’t plan to retire any time soon. As Katharine Graham famously said: ‘To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun? ’”

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date up to 1,200 overnight guests, two large auditoriums, two commercial kitchens and dining halls. There are high-tech classrooms, meeting spaces, administrative offices and 741 parking spaces.

The grounds are manicured with walkways meandering through a scenic fishing lake and numerous outdoor recreational amenities including nine tennis courts and a newly renovated sports field. Original to the property are natural hot springs that feed into a large pool, five soaking spots and a secluded Roman spa.

“Part of what makes this property so special are all the uses and improvements you get in one place: natural hot springs, the ability to lodge large numbers of guests, numerous indoor and outdoor meeting

and dining spaces, recreational amenities and all within a mature, lush and beautifully manicured setting,” Esayian said.

Developed into a luxury health retreat in 1902, the resort attracted locals, travelers, celebrities and a vegetarian commune before falling into disrepair in the 1980s. It came back to life in 1995, when Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa purchased the site and invested $38 million to restore, upgrade and expand it into a Christian conference retreat center and Bible college campus. The church’s decision to sell the historical landmark this year was prompted by a shift in focus for the church, only exacerbated by the closure of its facilities in March 2020 under see PRO PE RTY , page B -2

An aerial shot shows the Murrieta Hot Springs Christian Conference Center and Bible College Campus, a 4 3 -acre campus with lodging and educational facilities in southwest Riverside County.

MURRIETA – The Murrieta Hot Springs Christian Conference Center and Bible College Campus, a 43-acre campus with lodging and educational facilities in southwest Riverside County, is available for sale, according to Justin Esayian of The Hoffman Company, who is handling the listing.

The property, located at 39401

Murrieta Hot Springs Road near the Interstate 15/Interstate 215 interchange, is zoned for civic or institutional land use and offered in its current condition.

“This is one of the most remarkable properties available today in the Inland Empire,” Esayian said. “Given its unique history, the scale, scope and excellent condition of its facilities and

the beautiful landscaping, we expect a lot of interest from a broad range of potential buyers, including educational, medical, hospitality, religious and senior housing organizations.”

The gated campus is fully developed with approximately 279,000 square feet of infrastructure including 38 buildings, a dozen lodges with 248 rooms that can accommo-

The Murrieta Hot Springs Christian Conference Center and Bible College Campus in Murrieta is available for sale, according to Ju stin sayian of The o an Co pany.

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BUSINESS

Menifee to award 2nd round of small-business grants Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Menifee will announce the city’s Round 2 winners of the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program between Feb. 11 and Feb. 18, according to a city news release.

The Round 2 applicants submit-

ted their applications by Monday, Feb. 8, seeking up to $25,000 in grant funds depending upon their need. Round 1 applicant applications were forwarded into the Round 2 applications.

The grant applicants filed many required documents, including their application certification with a signed certification used to

certify the business; their business financial information including their most recent tax return filed in 2019 or 2018 – provided in an electronic form for online upload, such as PDF/JPEG or other approved upload format and their copy of official filing with the California Secretary of State, if applicable, or local municipality

for the business such as one of the following: articles of incorporation, certificate of organization, fictitious name of registration or government-issued business license and a government-issued photo ID, such as a driver’s license or passport.

The applicants were asked to apply only one time, as applying

through multiple organizations would delay the application from being processed. The grant funding amounts range from $5,000 to $25,000. Businesses are eligible based on their annual revenue as documented in their most recent tax return.

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

Hanley Investment Group announces sale of Chili’s Grill & Bar at Lake Elsinore Marketplace for $2.6 M LA E ELSI ORE Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors, a nationally recognized real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in retail property sales, announced recently that the firm has arranged the sale of a single-tenant Chili’s Grill & Bar at Lake Elsinore Marketplace.

The 144,034-square-foot shopping center is anchored by Costco, Lowe’s, Grocery Outlet, PetSmart and Dollar Tree.

The sale price was $2,608,000, representing a 5% cap rate. Hanley Investment Group sold $383 million in retail properties in the Inland Empire in the last 36 months, including nine retail properties at Lake Elsinore Marketplace valued at $24 million in the last 15 months.

Hanley Investment Group executive vice presidents, Kevin Fryman and Bill Asher, represented the seller, Pacific Castle, a property management company based in Irvine. The buyer was a private investor from Orange County represented by Dhanesh Solanki of KW Commercial in Brea.

Built in 2005 on a one-acre parcel and renovated in 2019, the 6,300-square-foot pad building occupied by Chili’s is located at 29233 Central Avenue in Lake Elsinore. This sale represents the ninth pad building Hanley Investment Group has sold at Lake Elsinore Marketplace, including single-tenant, net lease, drivethru properties for a Starbucks, Popeyes, Wendy’s, Del Taco and Panda Express, plus a singletenant Valvoline and Wells Fargo and a multi-tenant pad building occupied by Navy Federal Credit Union, iBrows Threading Salon,

Submarina and Juice It Up! “We procured an all-cash, 1031 exchange buyer based in Southern California and negotiated a quick contingency period and short escrow to close by year-end,” Fryman said. “Despite the restaurant’s indoor dining being closed due to COVID-related restrictions, the buyer recognized the longterm strength of the tenant at this location including an early lease extension that was impressively executed after the initial stages of the pandemic.

“This sale represents the rare sale of a sit-down restaurant in the Inland Empire during COVID-19 market conditions. Only three other sit-down restaurants traded hands in this region in 2020 but they were much earlier in the year; a Buffalo Wild Wings in Chino Hills, which sold in early April 2020, according to CoStar, was the next most recent sit-down restaurant to sell,” he said.

“A breakup strategy that targets private, non-institutional investors in order to appeal to the largest buyer pool continues to be an effective way to maximize value at a community shopping center that has multiple parcels, particularly single-tenant pads and small multitenant pad buildings,” Asher said.

Chili’s has a 15-year operating history at Lake Elsinore Marketplace and was an original tenant at the shopping center. The tenant recently exercised its five-year option early in 2020 and conducted an exterior remodel in 2019, showing its continued commitment to the site.

Chili’s absolute triple-net lease has a corporate guarantee with parent company Brinker International

Hanley Investment G roup announces the sale of Chili’ s G rill & Bar at Lake Elsinore Marketplace for $ 2.6 Valley News/Courtesy photo million to a private investor from Orange County.

Inc., one of the world’s leading casual dining restaurant companies.

Based in Dallas, Texas, as of Sept.

23, Brinker owned, operated or franchised 1,660 restaurants under the names Chili’s Grill & Bar with 1,607 restaurants and Maggiano’s Little Italy with 53 restaurants.

According to Asher, “Delivery and takeout business has more than doubled for Chili’s since the start of the pandemic.”

On Dec. 16, Brinker International announced that Chili’s continues to outpace the casual dining industry and grow market share.

According to the most recent thirdparty data from Knapp-Track, Chili’s comparable restaurant sales

have been on average more than 12% points better than comparable restaurant sales for the casual dining industry during the second quarter, and Chili’s comparable restaurant traffic has been on average approximately 16% points better than comparable restaurant traffic for the casual dining industry for the same period.

Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors is a real estate brokerage and advisory services company with a $7.7 billion transaction track record that specializes in the sale of retail properties nationwide. Our expertise, proven track record, and unwavering dedication to putting clients’

needs first, sets us apart in the industry. Hanley Investment Group creates value by delivering exceptional results through the use of property-specific marketing strategies, cutting-edge technology and local market knowledge. Their nationwide relationships with investors, developers, institutions, franchisees, brokers and 1031 exchange buyers are unparalleled in the industry, translating into maximum exposure and pricing for each property.

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

Submitted by Hanley Investment G roup.

Water authority recognizes EVMWD as 2020 Inland Empire Top Workplace LA E ELSI ORE Among a diverse collection of Inland Empire organizations considered for the distinction, Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District is one of 25 companies to be recognized as a Top Workplace in the Inland Empire for 2020.

EVMWD, staffed by members of the Water Employee Services Authority, was selected as a Top 10 workplace in the midsize business

category. This decision was based upon employee feedback collected by a third-party employee research and technology firm and compiled by the Inland News Group.

“It is an honor to be recognized amongst the many outstanding businesses and organizations in our region,” Phil Williams, board president of WESA and EVMWD, said. “The dedication and service of our staff is exemplary and all

Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District’ s construction maintenance crew poses in masks made by an employee’ s mother in spring 2020.

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“In this new season, we believe the Lord is directing us to new strategies in equipping His people and advancing the Gospel,” Brian Brodersen, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, said.

“For many years, large-scale conferences were an effective tool for us in achieving that vision. The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have forced us to take a hard look at our three conference centers in Southern California and prayerfully seek to better steward our resources.”

credit for this award goes to them.

They have made EVMWD into the top workplace it is today.”

Organizations located within Riverside and San Bernardino counties, as well as several Los Angeles County communities, were eligible for consideration. A total of 12,510 employees in the region received surveys, and 8,340 responded.

Throughout the many challenges of 2020, EVMWD staff served their community. As circumstances

surrounding COVID-19 changed, employees adapted and continued to provide uninterrupted water and wastewater services. Many used personal resources to sew face and donate masks, purchase Christmas gifts for local families and more, according to the district.

As 2021 continues to unfold, EVMWD officials said the company remains committed to cultivating a workplace that attracts and retains skilled professionals.

EVMWD provides service to

over 155,000 water and wastewater customers in a 97-square-mile service area in western Riverside County. The district is a subagency of the Western Municipal Water District and a member agency of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Visit the district’s website at http:// www.evmwd.com for additional information.

Submitted by Elsinore V alley Municipal Water District.

Esayian said he expected some offers to redevelop all or part of the site into new housing with mixed-use retail.

“The ideal buyer is someone who will purchase the property in its current, as-is condition,” Esayian said. “This is a turn-key campus that has everything in place to operate a university or boarding school. Several private universities have shown interest including nursing schools, which would lean on the large presence of medical services in Murrieta and Temecula.”

The natural hot springs, soaking pools and recreational oppor-

tunities make the property ideal for housing for older adults or long-term rehabilitative care, he said, and converting the property to a resort with a wellness focus would be a clear fit for a hospitality operator. Various religious organizations and churches have also shown interest in acquiring the site to serve as global or regional headquarters, while also being utilized to serve as a campus for K-12 schooling and higher education, Esayian said.

“Whether the property remains educational or religious in purpose or is reimagined as something completely different,

it’s a serene setting in one of the fastest-growing job markets in the state that can easily be accessed from anywhere across Southern California,” Esayian said.

Interested buyers may contact Justin Esayian at 949-705-0921 or jesayian@hoffmanland.com.

The Hoffman Company, a leader in the land brokerage industry, was founded in 1978, serving the needs of builders, developers and investors, throughout California and Nevada. For more information, visit http://www. hoffmanland.com.

Submitted by The Hoffman Company.

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HEALTH

Riverside County administers more than 220,00 COVID-19 vaccines so far Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Riverside County has administered just over 220,000 vaccines as of Feb. 5 a significant jump from the 150,000 it had administered a week before.

The 220,000 doses administered is out of the more than 240,000 doses received by the county so far, meaning the county gave out more than 90% of the vaccine doses it has received.

The county is currently vaccinating teachers, health care workers, first responders and those

over the age of 65 as part of the first of two tiers in phase 1B of the county’s vaccination plan.

The county also has opened up appointments specifically for older residents, with slots reserved variously for those over 75, 80 and 85.

Those who are eligible to receive vaccines must register online at http://www.rivcoph.org/ COVID-19-Vaccine to schedule an appointment for their first dose.

Older adult residents can make appointments at sites reserved for their age group at https://www. rivcoph.org/COVID-19-Vaccinewith-Registration.

Riverside County expected to soon move on to tier two of its plan, which would mean more front-line essential workers, including those in transportation and manufacturing, will soon be able to get vaccinated as well.

Per the county’s anticipated vaccine timeline, it’s expected the county will move on to phase 1C of its plan, which would allow those between ages of 50-64, those over age 16 with an underlying health condition and more categories of essential workers including government employees, waste workers and more, can re-

ceive their doses.

The county is tentatively planning for a proposed “phase 2,” which would expand the vaccine to everyone over age 16, to begin in June.

According to the county Department of Public Health, residents who received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine from a county public health clinic will receive automatic emails when the time comes to schedule an appointment for their second vaccine dose, which should be received three to four weeks after the first dose, depending on which

vaccine was used.

“You may make an appointment for a second dose at any location where you can secure a time, including at a doctor, pharmacy or urgent care clinic,” according to the county’s website. “The appointment does not have to be made precisely on the 21-day or 28-day mark. It can occur after, just not before.”

It’s important to note that the second dose of vaccine must be the same type Moderna or Pfizer as the first, the county said.

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

Right at Home of Temecula Help to keep children smiling amid COVID-19 announces recognition as a toprated in-home care agency Dr. Richard Gesker UNITEDHEALTHCARE

COVID-19 has disrupted multiple aspects of daily life, including how people access dental care.

That’s in part because many dental offices closed during the early part of the pandemic, and some people have stayed away since. In fact, dental care spending in the United States declined by an estimated 38% in 2020, with an additional 20% slump expected this year, according to the American Dental Association.

As a result, fewer people may be accessing routine dental care that may help prevent oral pain and untreated disease. Maintaining proper dental care is especially important for children, given that by age 5 nearly 50% have at least one cavity. Plus, it’s important to keep baby teeth healthy and in place to help permanent teeth come in properly.

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, a reminder for people of all ages that good oral health is important to good overall health. Here are five tips to consider. tart earl Good oral health habits should start early. While tooth decay is largely preventable, it ranks as the most common chronic disease among children. Recommended dental health guidelines for babies and children include cleaning the baby’s gums with water and a cloth or child-sized toothbrush.

Once a child reaches age 2, parents can start brushing a baby’s teeth with a soft bristled toothbrush and a smear-sized dab of fluoride toothpaste no larger than a grain of rice, making sure to teach the toddler to spit out the toothpaste.

Begin flossing when back teeth start to come in. Toothbrush bristles cannot reach between teeth, leaving those teeth vulnerable to bacteria and decay.

Never put a baby to bed with a bottle of milk, formula, fruit juice or sweetened liquid, as these liquids can form a sugary film on the baby’s teeth and lead to infection. pro e o e iene Maintaining proper oral health at home is important year-round, but especially if COVID-19 or other circumstances requires delaying a trip to the dentist.

Recommended dental health guidelines for adults and children include brushing teeth and tongue for up to two minutes, after meals and before bedtime, using a soft-bristled toothbrush.

Rinse for 30 seconds with a mouthwash, which may help kill bacteria and clean parts of the mouth brushing might miss.

Floss daily and consider using a water flosser.

Stay hydrated to help support overall well-being and avoid issues with dry mouth, while lim-

iting sugary snacks and drinks. eep p on cleanin s For children and adults, the ADA recommended that during the COVID-19 pandemic people continue routine oral health care, including dental checkups, cleanings and preventive care.

The World Health Organization, however, recommended that nonemergency dental services be avoided in places where “intense, uncontrolled community transmission” of COVID-19 is occurring.

Check local infection rates at websites such as http://covidactnow.org to evaluate the current situation in your state, city and county. In general, the WHO recommended the test positivity rate, or out of all the tests conducted, the number that come back positive for COVID-19, be under 5% before opening nonessential businesses.

Consider alternati e treat ents To help with prevention, parents should consider fluoride supplements for children, which may strengthen tooth enamel and help protect it from decay.

Sealants are another option, as these plastic coatings are placed on back teeth to help protect them from decay. They are sometimes covered as a preventive service by dental plans, so ask the dentist about sealants when your child’s molars first come in.

As an alternative to filling cavities, the use of silver diamine fluoride has emerged as an option to help stop cavities from worsening, especially among children and older adults with a history of tooth decay. For children with a significant number of cavities, silver diamine fluoride may be an option your dentist discusses. ap into tele dentistr Virtual care has become an important option for accessing health care amid COVID-19, including for dentistry. Some dentists and dental plans are making available telephone and video consultations, which offer people a starting point for advice and guidance to help select, if needed, an appropriate setting for in-person care.

Dental care ranks among the most frequently avoidable emergency room visits, with teledentistry providing a resource that may help people make more informed decisions about where to go for in-person care, such as their own dentist, another available local dentist or a primary care physician, as not all dental services are eligible for teledentistry.

By considering these tips, you may help maintain or improve your own dental well-being, while also enabling young people to develop good oral health habits.

Dr. Richard G esk er is the chief dental officer with UnitedHealthcare.

Right at Home Temecula franchise owner Lorette Oliver displays her Caring Star Award for 2021. Right at Home Temecula is one of 5 00 home care companies across the nation to receive this distinction.

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TEMECULA – Right at Home of Temecula has been named by Caring.com as one of America’s top-rated in-home care agencies, receiving the website’s “Caring Star of 2021” award. Caring.com, a resource for families to find care for older adults, released its annual “Caring Stars of 2021” list, a reliable industry source of information that showcases the best care for older adults around the country every year. The list is based on consumer ratings and reviews and features the top in-home care agencies in the United States.

Right at Home, one of the nation’s leading providers of in-home care for older adults and adults with disabilities, announced that of the 504 in-home care agencies that received the Caring Stars of 2021 award, 183 of them are Right at Home agencies, making Right at Home No. 1 in the nation for the third year in a row.

“Being able to serve our clients in the Temecula Valley with personalized and reliable care is our privilege,” Lorette Oliver, owner of Right at Home of Temecula, said. “Our dedicated caregivers are at the heart of this honor, and I can’t thank them enough for the tremendous work they do all year.”

In-home care agencies that made the Caring Stars of 2021 list had to meet certain criteria, including 10 or more consumer reviews on their Caring.com listing by the qualification deadline of Oct. 15, 2020, and an overall average rating of 4.5 stars or higher on a scale of one to five.

Old reviews were not allowed to be part of the qualifying criteria.

The in-home care agencies had to have three or more reviews on their Caring.com listing dated between Oct. 15, 2019, and Oct.

15, 2020. At least one of those reviews needed to have a fivestar rating.

“Every day, Right at Home caregivers work tirelessly to deliver our mission to improve the lives of those we serve,” Brian Petranick, president and CEO of Right at Home, said.

“This honor from Caring.com is based on feedback from clients and their families, and it is a true testament to the dedication of our team across the United States.”

“Congratulations to Right at Home of Temecula for being among these highly rated agencies achieving such significant praise from their customers in online reviews,” Jim Rosenthal, CEO of Caring.com, said. “They stand out as among the best in the nation.”

The impact Right at Home of Temecula makes is provided through RightCare, a unique approach to in-home care. RightCare is “the right people doing the right things the right way for the right reason.” The mission of Right at Home of Temecula is committed to providing an individualized RightCare experience for every client to improve their quality of life, and accolades like this give credence to the exceptional work the franchise is doing every day to serve the needs of older adults and adults with disabilities.

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HOME & GARDEN

Rose Care FUNdamentals for February Frank Brines MASTER CONSULTING ROSARIAN

In Southern California, winter is usually short and sometimes confusing. Winter for some plant life is a time of withdrawal that precedes renewal. For roses, it is necessary to help them in that process. Now is the time to perform a few procedures to help reset the hormonal clock and get them ready for a great year of rose blooms. That’s the main purpose for pruning.

According to all accounts and experienced rosarians, the proper time is “late winter.” This designation has many meanings in an area like Southern California which has numerous weather zones.

The important thing is to prune late enough to avoid risking frost damage to the tender growth that will emerge as a result of pruning.

In most of the region my column is read, the last average frost date is mid-March, so that means it’s probably safe pruning in midto-late February. It is always a gamble, and the best advice is to watch the weather. If there is winter rain during January or February, pruning can be held off awhile since these rains are cold making the ground colder and wetter than usual.

This year the weather hasn’t been severe enough to prevent new growth. I have observed that pruned or not, new growth is appearing and buds are forming on very short canes. I’ve seen roses still blooming this year. Different parts of a yard may have other conditions affecting gardening.

A south facing wall backing the plants will be warmer than a shadier area. Soil composition will have differing effects. A layer of remaining mulch will improve soil conditions.

For those who haven’t begun or finished pruning, there is still plenty of time to have blooms for rose shows or special spring events. The recent rainy periods have created an environment for fungi diseases. Gardeners should examine their roses and, if they find any rust, remove all the leaves from the plant at once and discard into a green waste bin. I do it anyway on every bush before pruning because it helps me see the

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structure clearly.

As I said before, the major latewinter pruning reset the plants’ hormonal clock; it is a wake-up call to begin a new life cycle – like restarting a factory. After this pruning, gardeners can expect a flush of blooms eight to 12 weeks later, depending on the temperatures during that period – the warmer it is, the shorter the time to blooms.

But all things being equal, if the pruning is completed in the latter half of February, there will likely be blooms in mid-to-late April. If blooms are wanted for a specific date, count backward approximately 10 weeks from that date. Pruning should be complete on this date.

The following procedures mostly apply to hybrid teas and floribundas, but they are reasonably serviceable for minis. They are not really applicable to climbers, ground cover roses, trailers or shrub roses – all those types have their own pruning methods.

Before pruning, be sure to have good pruning tools and gloves with arm protectors, long handle loppers and sharp clean “bypass” hand pruners ready. What does “bypass” mean? Take a look at the pruners: Bypass pruners have a sharp cutting blade which slices through the cane and a dull curved non-cutting blade which holds the cane in place during the cut. The

sharp blade “by passes” or over shoots the dull curved blade.

It’s a good idea to have a range of pruner sizes handy. Each size has a limit to the diameter thickness for which it is most efficiently used; using too small a pruner on too large a cane can damage both. At minimum, have a pair of loppers and a standard-sized pair of hand pruners that fit comfortably in hand. A saw can be used for older plants with large canes that may need to be removed. The standard hand pruner works for 1/2-inch diameter canes.

All tools should be kept clean, sharp and in good repair. Use rubbing alcohol for cleaning cutting blades, before and during the job. It helps prevent transmitting diseases from plant to plant, and gardeners can use it as first aid for punctures and scratches to their skin. A good pair of leather gloves with long sleeves or a separate pair of sleeves will protect arms.

Before starting the job, lubricate the moving parts with a little light oil, such as 3-in-1 oil, and make sure they operate without resistance. Sharpen each blade with a small diamond file available at garden centers, trying as much as possible to match the original bevel of the blade. Every 100 cuts or so, swipe the file over the blade a few times to keep it sharp.

If the pruners begin crushing

the stems or leaving a tail, it’s past time to sharpen them. To minimize damage to the cane, keep this rule in mind: The sharp blade should always face the part that will be left. It will minimize the crushing of the cane or stem as it will be the part that is discarded. This rule also works for preparing stems for arranging or putting into a vase.

Next, decide what style of pruning to do. I find it works well with the way buds are distributed along the cane. Buds are found in the “axil” where a leaf meets the cane; leaves spiral around the cane at about 1.5-inch intervals. It places outward-facing buds about 4-inch apart. If you prune lightly to moderately, and if frost damages the tender young growth, then you can still reprune to the next bud down.

In Southern California, rose bushes can grow quite large, so start with some gross pruning to bring the project down to size. I use loppers to cut every bush down to about 3-4 feet high. It lets gardeners examine the structure of the bush and to use their hand pruners to more easily remove canes that are twiggy, dead, crossing other canes or passing through the center of the plant. Also remove old leaves to better see the structure of the plant. After removing all that stuff from the interior of the bush, do the final pruning.

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to the degree possible so the plant will bush out in a pleasing, balanced manner.

The pruning will require two kinds of cuts. Some cuts remove an entire branch; make these flush with the surface of the parent cane.

Other cuts simply shorten a cane. It is important to position the pruners to minimize damage to the plant.

Position the pruners so the noncutting blade is in contact with the portion of the cane that will be removed, and the cutting blade is on the side of the cut that will remain on the plant. It will make more sense while holding the pruners and getting ready to cut. Also, always prune above an outward facing bud with an angled cut.

For shrub roses, cut them back to conform to the space they should fill, inspect and clean out dead and diseased material from the center, shorten canes and remove about one-third of the growth.

A word of caution when pruning: Look for the small nests of hummingbirds, as it is the nesting period for two varieties in the area.

Also, praying mantis egg cases are discovered on any removed branches, find a place to put them where they will be undisturbed and hatch out so the garden can benefit from the offspring.

Clean the ground thoroughly of all rose debris and dispose of all cuttings and other materials in the green waste bin and put it on the street: Do not compost it. Apply a dormant spray to the plants and the soil surface to ward off diseases.

Then apply 2-4 inches of composted mulch to cover the entire garden area. The first fertilizing will be when new growth is about 2 inches long. I recommend lower values of the three elements (Nitrogen [ 3] , Phosphate [ 4] ,K Potassium [ 3] ) with slightly higher value for phosphate. In two weeks begin with heavier feedings every two weeks for great blooms or at least monthly. February would be the best time to assess the irrigation system for any needed repairs while there is no new growth and mulch has not been spread.

Be sure to visit Rose Haven Heritage Garden, 30592 Jedediah Smith Road, in Temecula. For more information, visit http:// www.TemeculaValleyRoseSociety.org.

Simple ways to reduce risk of disease in your garden TEMECULA – No garden is immune to disease. Even the most attentive, experienced gardeners have had to confront disease in their gardens, which can lead to significant damage and potentially kill plants.

Various bacterial, fungal and viral diseases can affect gardens, and the University of Maryland Extension said that fungicides, which are chemicals that destroy fungus, are only rarely recommended to combat disease. In fact, a proactive approach rooted

in prevention is often the most effective way to reduce risk for disease in gardens.

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thrive in shady areas, while others require ample sunlight each day. lant at t e ri t ti e Planting too early when the soil is not yet warm enough can make plants vulnerable to disease by weakening their ability to fight. se a soil thermometer to determine soil temperature and only plant when the conditions for planting are ideal. ar est on ti e When planting vegetables, it’s imperative that the vegetables are harvested on time. The University of Georgia Extension said that fully mature vegetables left on

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Speak with a local gardening center about invasive insects and how to address infestations without harming the plant.

As the planting season approaches, gardeners can take various steps to make their plants and vegetables less vulnerable to disease.

National Burn Awareness Week promotes electrical safety SA DIEGO Burns from electrical accidents are one of the primary causes of burn related injury along with fire-flame, scalds, contact with hot objects and chemicals. More than 73% of these burn injuries occur at home.

As the pandemic continues to alter the way people live, many people in the communities are spending more time at home which can increase the risk of these electrical burns. Vulnerable populations such as children under five are two times as likely to be seen at a hospital emergency department for burn injuries.

In conjunction with Burn Awareness Week, Feb. 7-13, the American Burn Association and the Burn Institute provided information relating to electrical safety for the community.

Burn injuries may result in lifelong scarring and in some extreme cases, even death. Many burn survivors sustain serious scarring, life-long physical disabilities, trauma and adjustment difficulties.

Prevention of electrical burns is always preferable to treatment and can be accomplished through simple changes in behavior and small adjustments in the home environment.

Each year, over 400,000 injuries

occur in the United States due to severe skin burns, with young children, older adults and disabled individuals most at-risk. Common risk of electrical burn and injury include unprotected electrical outlets, improperly used extension cords, lightning and workplace electrical injuries.

Electrical burn can be reduced by following home safety guidelines.

Disconnect appliances by pulling on the plug, not the cord.

If an appliance has a three-prong plug, use it only in a three-slot outlet. Never force it or remove a prong to make it fit a two-slot outlet.

Check electrical tools regularly for signs of wear. If a cord is frayed or cracked, replace it. Replace any tool if it causes even small electrical shocks, overheats, shorts out or gives off smoke or sparks.

Never use electrical appliances near water.

Before attempting any appliance repair, unplug it.

Attach extension cords to appliances before outlets.

Keep clothes, curtains and other potentially combustible items at least 3 feet away from all heaters, whether electric, gas or kerosenefueled.

If an electric power line is down on or near your home, keep everyone out of the area and call 911 or the local electric utility.

The American Burn Association also provides guidelines for parents to help further reduce the risk of electrical burns for young children.

Don’t allow children to play with or near and keep them away from electrical appliances such as space heaters, irons and hair dryers.

Use plug covers on any electrical outlets accessible to small children. Outlet caps that attach to the outlet plate with screws give better protection than those that plug in.

Make sure plug-in caps are a similar color to the outlet.

Make sure such caps are not big enough to be a choking hazard.

Make sure any night lights used in a child’s room do not resemble toys.

Teach children to respect electricity as soon as they are old enough, usually about age 3.

Two-thirds of electrical burn injuries occur to children aged 12 and under.

Submitted by The Burn Institute.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS N o t i c e t o o u r r e a d e r s : Events and businesses are under state orders for social distancing and recommendations to wear face mask s to reduce the spread of CO V ID-1 9 , please contact event sponsors before attending for the latest updates.

COMMUNITY EVENTS: Feb. 12 – First Santa Rosa Academy in Menifee presents hashtag #SaddleUpMenifee event with students and local businesses presenting their goods and services. Event shirts are on sale at discounted prices. Participants and sponsored businesses can have their logo on the shirts; contact Amy Ellgard at foundation@ sra.mn.

Feb. 12 – 7 p.m. Attend a virtual “Come Together Concert” with Bryan Lanning and Joanna Pearl and more presented by Cali Music Studios, benefiting Oak Grove Center in Murrieta. Exclusive food packages are available.

For more information or to register, visit http://oakgrovecenter. org/events.

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

Call 800-510-2020 for help.

ONGOING – The Riverside County COVID-19 Business Assistance Grant Program is accepting online applications for business grants up to $10,000 at http://www.rivercobizhelp.org that can be used for employee retention, working capital, protective equipment purchases, rent of mortgage payments and paying vendor notices. Eligible businesses, including nonprofits, must be in Riverside County, with less than 50 employees and a minimum of 1 and operating for at least one-year since March 1. For more information, call Riverside County Business and Community Services at 951-955-0493.

ONGOING – 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Temecula Winchester Swap Meet continues at 33280 Newport Road in Winchester Saturdays and Sundays only. The small local swap meet is only 50 cents for entry, and anyone under age 10 is free admission. No dogs allowed.

ONGOING 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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

215 exit in Murrieta.

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

WORK SHOPS, MEETINGS and ANNOUNCEMENTS: Feb. – The city of Menifee offers virtual and in-person youth sports programs, and new classes are starting in cartoon drawing, a drama and acting academy in February. For more information, visit www.cityofmenifee.us/register.

Feb. – Freedom of Motion Gym, 41513 Cherry St., in Murrieta offers two-hour workouts in parkour, dedicated to overcoming obstacles. For more information, visit https //www.freedominmotiongym.com/.

Feb. – Learn how to ride a horse from Paola Pontanan in a pristine nature area at 41465 Avenida Conchita in Murrieta. For reservations only, call 865-275-5071.

Feb. 12 -17 – 4 30 p.m. Wild Wonders, 5712 Ví a Montellano, in Bonsall is offering a romantic safari tent for Valentine’s Day, including watching the winter sunset while seated in a safari tent and learning what courtship is like in the animal kingdom events. The price is $250 for a group of four people. For more information, visit https://wildwonders.org/ valentines-sunset-safari/.

Feb. 12 – If you earned under $70,000 per year or if you had no business losses or rental income, enjoy free tax preparation through the Riverside Community Action program. For more information, contact Community Action at V ita@capriverside.org or call 951-955-4900.

Feb. 17 7 p.m. Trauma Intervention Center volunteers are needed at Menifee Global Medical Center, 28400 McCall Boulevard, in Menifee. The center is looking for caring people who are willing to be part of a team of citizen volunteers trained to provide emotional and practical support to victims of traumatic events. For more information, email TIP S@WRC.org.

Feb. 2 7 – 10 a.m. to noon. Attend the “Love Shouldn’t Hurt” domestic violence prevention and healthy relationships workshop on Zoom for teens and women

from 15 and up, presented by The Dresses and Dreams Project staff and the Safe Family Justice Center with testimonies and survivors.

Certificates of participation will be awarded. RSVP at dressesanddreamsproject@gmail.com.

April 13 – 10 a.m. Menifee Community Partners will meet on Zoom. Use the link to join at https //cityofmenifee-us.zoom. us/j/88078133176 pwd bDl0 WhsRF c FwVEdTMHFMR 1A1 T09 with Meeting ID 880 7813 3176 and Password 868646.

Dial in with 1 669-900-6833 S (San Jose) For more information, email Chelsea Bollinger at cbolliner@cityofmenifee.us.

ONGOING – Noon to 1 p.m.

Attend Murrieta Wildomar Chamber of Commerce’s weekly business briefing via oom or watch live on Facebook every Wednesday. Register required at https:// bit.ly/MWCBizBriefing. The chamber business briefing is an opportunity to hear from city, county and business leaders about current and relevant business information.

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

ONGOING – Menifee Community Services offers online driver’s education courses with a $21.95 fee. The course includes animated driving scenarios, instructional videos, sample test, licensed instructor available to answer questions, DMV approved certificate of completion with all lectures and exams completed from home. Designed for students and does not include behind-thewheel instruction or a California driver’s permit. Contact 951-7233880 or visit the city of Menifee to register at http //www.cityofmenifee.us.

ONGOING – 10-11 30 a.m.

Michelle’s Place Cancer Resource Center and The Elizabeth Hospice host a virtual support meeting for caregivers every second and fourth week of the month via Zoom. Get helpful tips and learn from others who are also dealing with similar challenges. For more information and to register, contact The Elizabeth Hospice Grief Support Services at 833349-2054.

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

coronavirus restrictions are lifted.

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

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

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

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

Memberships are $10 per year.

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

ONGOING – Temecula Valley Rose Society meets each month.

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

ONGOING Menifee Toastmasters meets every Thursday at noon for one hour at a designated place to have fun, enhance speaking capabilities, gain self-confidence and improve social skills.

For new dates, call 760-807-1323 or visit http //www.MenifeeToastmasters.org for more information.

ONGOING – Sons of Norway/ Scandinavia meet the first Saturday of every month from September to June. The virtual meetings are held on Zoom, at 11 a.m. Join Zoom meeting at https://us02web. zoom.us/j/4232348177 pwd e Dd1SDlDdW5sdVowW p1 3p B mpG z09 with the Meeting ID 423 234 817 and passcode yCp0js. Everyone is welcome to enjoy some virtual company with fellow Scandinavians. For more information, call 951-849-1690.

ONGOING Parent Support Group is available for parents whose children of any age struggle with addiction. Education, skills and support are available in Temecula. For more information, call 951-775-4000 or email info@ thecenter4 lifechange.com.

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

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In this workshop, guests will be shown how to hand knit their own blanket. By the end of the threeand-a-half-hour workshop, guests will have a finished product. The workshop is B. .O. . Bring our Own arn which means guests can choose the blanket color beforehand.

For more information, visit http://thecrafthousetemecula. as.me/chunkyblanketbyoy. orld of atercolor and e ond The Fallbrook Art Center is hosting a new exhibit called World of Watercolor and Beyond, from Feb. 13 to March 12.

For more information, visit http://www.fallbrookartcenter.org. a ers ar et Hosted by Creative Communal and The Vineyard 1924 in Fallbrook, Saturday, Feb. 13, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. support local makers by coming out to pet-friendly and child-friendly event. There will be live music by HLLNDR, plus Tacomiendo Mexican Grill food truck, estate grown wine and sangria.

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For more information, visit http://thecrafthousetemecula. as.me/valentinepartea. irl s i t t istanced ood or s op AR Workshop in Temecula is hosting a distanced wood workshop Thursday, Feb. 18, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Choose from a plank wood sign, porch sign, bath tray, framed wood sign, round lazy Susan, centerpiece box or plank wood tray.

For more information, visit https://www.arworkshop.com/ event/ loc temecula ev 218991. irt al Cele ration of eri can lac istor The city of Temecula, Temecula Valley Museum and Old Town Temecula Community Theater join together as they recognize and celebrate Black Americans’ many achievements and contributions to America. Everyone is invited to the monthlong virtual celebration of American Black History, presented on various social media outlets throughout February.

For more information, visit http://www.temeculavalleymuseum.org.

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

Movie Review: ‘The Little Things’ Bob Garver SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

2020 was a weird time for the movie business, and every other business, but the weirdness started back in January before everything went haywire.

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like “Bad Boys for Life.” It’s a time for certain flops to become lesser flops because they are the big new release on weekends no other studio wanted – for good reason.

In that way, 2021 is a return to tradition. There have only been two new movies release this year so far: “The Marksman,” from last week, and “The Little Things” from this week. Both films’ biggest selling point is nothing more than a dearth of competition. The studios weren’t going to make much money with these movies anyway, might as well capitalize on that advantage.

“The Little Things” is a detective movie starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek. As with “The Marksman” and Liam Neeson, the studio just wants to sell audience its stars without doing much to sell the film’s style or story. Denzel plays Joe “Deke” Deacon, a veteran cop visiting his old haunt of Los Angeles in 1990. Malek is Jimmy Baxter, a young hotshot detective on the hunt for a serial killer. Deke can’t help but compare Jimmy’s current charge with an unsolved case he worked five years ago a murderer with… let’s say two or three victims. Deke went crazy from the case, suffering a heart attack and alienating the rest of the department. He agrees to help Jimmy with the new case, but warns him not to become obsessed like he did. Jimmy acts like he’s too cool to behave like that, but secretly he’s falling into the same trap.

A break in the case revolves around Albert Sparma, played by Jared Leto, a creepy repairman with a connection to one of the victims.

He taunts Deke and Jimmy in the way that only the incredibly guilty

can when they’re sure they can’t be caught. But he’s falsely confessed to a murder before, and if he wasn’t the killer then, it stands to reason that he’s not the killer now. Even if he’s not, he’s guilty of obstruction, and I think he deserves anything bad that happens to him, but the law says he has rights. Deke and Jimmy bend the rules collecting evidence and interrogating Sparma, who gets a sick pleasure out of seeing the two get flustered over him. Then one of them gets really sloppy, making a decision way too dumb for a professional detective, and things go south.

The first three quarters of “The Little Things” are boring and the last act relies on staggering stupidity. The cast does what they can with this material, but not even three Oscar-winning actors can elevate this drivel beyond a C-. Then again, I didn’t see the film under the best of conditions. Due to a scheduling conflict, I had to settle for watching this at home on HBO Max. It certainly saved me time, but it’s just not the same as seeing a movie on the big screen, even one as disposable as this film. If you can, try to see this movie in a theater, which sure could use your business right now. Or better yet, see a better movie like “News of the World” or “Promising Young Woman.”

Grade: C“The Little Things” is playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. The film is rated R for violent/ disturbing images, language and full nudity. Its running time is 127 minutes.

Contact Bob G arver at rrg2 5 1 @ nyu.edu.

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Hemet nonprofit sponsors essay contest for Black History Month HEMET – The Human Relations Council of the Greater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee Regions announced their 17th annual Black History Month Essay Contest is accepting entries from middle school, high school and college students in Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee. The deadline for submission is Monday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m.

“I’m so excited as your president to let you know that, even though we’re not meeting in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we figured out a way to have our 17th annual Black History Month Essay Contest,” Mary Morse, president of Human Relations Council of the Greater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee Regions, said.

Celebrating Black history in the nited States began in 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated “Negro

History Week.” Woodson, a historian, chose the second week in February because it included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976 for the bicentennial of the U.S., the weeklong observance was extended to the entire month to have enough time for celebrations and activities.

Contest participants should write about a person of color who illustrates the triumph of the human spirit over circumstances and prejudice to build a life of accomplishment and are encouraged to think outside the box. Write the essay as an historical fiction; imagine living at the time of the chosen person and being acquainted with them as their child, parent, friend, boss or adversary and write about the person from this unique point of view.

Make sure to include the answers to the following questions:

Who is the person about who you want to write? When did they live? And what did your person do to triumph over circumstances and prejudice to build a life of accomplishment?

The length of the essay depends on grade level of the entrant: middle school students in grades 6-8 should write 300 to 500 words; high school students in grades 9-12 should write 500 to 1,000 words and college students, undergraduates only, should write 1,000 to 2,000 words.

Home-school and charter school students are welcome to enter; call 951-634-4048 for entry details.

Email attached submissions to marymorse@humanrelationscouncil.com or call Mary Morse at 951-634-4048 for alternate submission methods.

Essays should include the student’s name, home telephone number, their school, student phone

number and email address, school teacher or counselor and their contact information. All entries will become the property of the Human Relations Council of the Greater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee Region. Sending an entry grants permission for the Council to release any essay to the press or publish it on social media for publication.

Students will be judged on their ability to address the topic, to demonstrate original, creative thinking or to express their ideas in a clear articulate manner. The judges panel will be comprised of Human Relations Council members and other community members who are experts in Black history, longtime participants in the Civil Rights movement, sociologists and or educators.

Students whose essays are chosen will be asked to present their essays virtually and will be noti-

fied by phone or email if they need to record their presentation.

Awards will be given for each level: middle school, high school and college. The prize for Best Essay is $100. The runner-up essay will receive $50. Three honorable mentions will be given $25 each.

The Best Presentation will win $50.

Awards will be announced Friday, Feb. 26, at 6 p.m. on oom.

The essay contest is cosponsored by the MSJC Diversity Committee.

For more information on the contest rules, find “Human Relations Council of the Greater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee Regions” on Facebook or at http:// humanrelationscouncil.com.

Submitted by Human Relations Council of the G reater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee Regions.

Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery hosts art talk with Tania Jazz Mont SA JACI TO The Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery presented an online art talk featuring MSJC associate faculty member Tania Jazz Mont, Thursday, Jan. 28.

Jazz Mont was the last artist to have an in-person show with her “Dizzy Drawings” exhibition in the MSJC Art Gallery, but the COVID-19 pandemic cut her show short in March 2020. The art talk was supported by the MSJC Foundation.

She said she explores and updates classic themes in art history, adding her dizzying personal style to portraiture, still-life and landscape.

It might take a moment upon viewing the work to see she is an artist who has digested these themes and turned them on their head, she said.

In her paintings, find echoes of Henri Matisse or Philip Guston in the gestures and brush work, and also find issues of gender, identity and sexuality.

Jazz Mont is Latinx and a member of the LGBTQ community. The

subjects of her paintings draw from her personal life. She often paints images of her wife and her gay and Latinx friends and family. These influences that surround her bring images of a changing America.

She is an associate faculty member at MSJC. She received her master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University and her bachelor’s degree from California State University Fullerton.

She has had solo exhibitions at Taylor Junction Gallery in Joshua Tree, at East Side International in Los Angeles and at Apothecary Gallery in Pomona. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions throughout Southern California as well.

For more information, visit http: / / www.msjc.edu/artgallery or contact art professor John Knuth at 951487-3585 or Jk nuth@msjc.edu.

Submitted by Mt. San Jacinto College.

The Mt. San Ja cinto College Art G allery presents an online art talk featuring Tania Ja zz Mont, an associate faculty member, Thursday, Ja n. 28.

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Volume 21, Issue 7

High school competition is back, crosscountry first to take the stage outhweste n ea ue ual

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JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

For the first time since midMarch in 2020, student-athletes were engaged in interscholastic athletic competition recently, bringing about the first steps in moving high school sports closer to coming back in full.

Competition ensued after Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the COVID-19 regional stay-at-home order, putting counties back into the state’s colored, four-tiered system.

Most local counties remain in a purple-tiered area, meaning the virus remains widespread and several restrictions are still necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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that competition was granted Jan. 25 – the day the order was lifted – and lists sports that are allowed within each tier. Under the purple tier, cross-country is on the list, catapulting hopes that more sports will follow.

“There has not been enough progress made from the purple tier toward the orange tier for football, girls’ volleyball and boys and girls water polo to even begin competition this season,” Rob Wigod, commissioner of CIF Southern Section, said in a prepared statement.

Nearly two weeks after announcing its decision to cancel its fall sports championships, CIF officials recently announced the return of high school cross-country competitions and locally, Southwestern League boys’ and girls’ teams took

Vista Murrieta (16) vs. Chaparral (47) G irls: Isabella Smith (11) - Vista Murrieta - 16:14.0 Natasha King (11) - Vista Murrieta - 16:34.4 Amari Guzman (11) - Vista Murrieta - 16:39.7 Marissa O’Connor (10) - Vista Murrieta - 16:41.7 Morgan Smith (10) - Chaparral - 17:08.9 Vista Murrieta (23) vs. Chaparral (38) Boys: Jacob Bustamante (12) - Chaparral - 13:00.1 Noah Murasmith (12) - Vista Murrieta - 13:16.9 2 Jacob Zerecero (12) - Vista Murrieta - 13:36.9 3 Mike Martinez (11) - Chaparral - 13:41.9 4 Gabe Jasperson (12) - Vista Murrieta - 13:47.5 5 1.

Great Oak (15) vs. Murrieta Mesa (50) G irls: Brianna Weidler (12) - Great Oak - 15:36.5 Hannah Miller (10) - Great Oak - 15:52.9 Joelle Upshur (10) - Great Oak - 15:54.3 Kali Kraus (10) - Great Oak - 15:54.4 Aishling Fabian (10) - Great Oak - 16:07.0 12. Emily Kendrick (11) - Murrieta Mesa - 17:11.9 Great Oak (15) vs. Murrieta Mesa (50) Boys: Austin Montez (12) - Great Oak - 13:17.5 ick Gaffney (10) - Great Oak - 13 18.3 Mark Cortes (10) - Great Oak - 13:18.9 David Kankowski (10) - Great Oak - 13:20.9 Cameron Smith (11) - Great Oak - 13:21.912.

17. Riley Menter (12) - Murrieta Mesa - 14:28.9 Temecula Valley (26 ) vs. Murrieta Valley (29) G irls: Isabel Rosales (9) - Murrieta Valley - 15:55.9 Paige Thamer (11) - Temecula Valley - 16:39.1 Karlie Bogan (11) - Temecula Valley - 16:54.8 Megan Thamer (10) - Temecula Valley - 17:25.2 Hannah Butler (11) - Murrieta Valley - 17:45.6 Temecula Valley (20 ) vs. Murrieta Valley (38) Boys Alex Kalmar (12) - Temecula Valley - 13:25.3 Juan Rosales (12) - Murrieta Valley - 13:42.9 Cooper Anderson - (11) - Murrieta Valley - 14:11.0 Joshua Sweetnam - (12) - Murrieta Valley - 14:12.8 Ronald Fernandez - (9) - Murrieta Valley - 14:14.8 Next up These teams will compete in Southwestern League Duals Week 2 Thursday, Feb. 11, at Galway Downs.

Great Oak vs. Temecula Valley Girls (JV/V combined) – 2 p.m.

Boys (JV/V combined) – 2:30 p.m.

Murrieta Valley vs. Vista Murrieta Girls (JV/V combined) – 3:15 p.m.

Boys (JV/V combined) – 3:45 p.m.

Chaparral vs. Murrieta Mesa Girls (JV/V combined) – 4:30 p.m.

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“There were a lot of happy kids, excited to be competing for all the schools.” Doug Soles, head cross country and track and field coach for Great Oak High School, said.

The meets can only be dual meets; runners must arrive separately at the events and must leave once their race has been completed, but it is a start.

“Definitely felt like old times,” Soles said. “Many athletes said they were super excited to just get a competition in to remember why they train and to be motivated to work harder moving forward. Hats off to all the AD’s in our league for making it happen.”

Great Oak seemed to pick up with their left off last season as both the boys’ and girls’ teams ran off with wins over Murrieta Mesa, Vista Murrieta High School also swept in both departments over Chaparral High School, and Temecula Valley and Murrieta Valley high schools split their wins with the girls’ team falling to the Lady Golden Bear runners when the dust settled. Here are the results featuring scores and the top five runners, or runner from each school: JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia.com.

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JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Student athletes from around the area took part recently in National Letter of Intent signing day ceremonies as they were recognized for committing to play sports and further their education at the next level. Of course, due to the coronavirus pandemic, athletic ceremonies are still not being held on campuses, but families found other ways to let their student athletes enjoy their big day.

Wednesday, Feb. 3, was the first day of 2021 for National Signing Day, which is the first day of the year that a high school senior can sign a binding national letter of intent with an NCAA, NCCAA or NAIA college, committing in writing to attend that school in exchange for a commitment from the school to receive financial aid and scholarships.

National Signing Day for high school athletes usually includes big ceremonies at the schools in gyms or quads, in front of students, family and friends, and it has become a tradition that seems to get bigger each year. With most students currently not on their school campus due to the pandemic, and with high school sports teams limited to workouts that require physical distancing, signing day for all athletes, other than football, included some socially distanced ceremonies on campus in front of immediate family and school officials, ceremonies at home and just about every way you can imagine that allowed athletes to enjoy their big day.

Here is a look at the colleges and universities to which many local student athletes will be reportedly taking their talents. If you know

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of a student athlete that is playing at the next level and did not get recognized in the paper this week, send more information to sports@ reedermedia.com.

CHAPARRAL Bryce May, football, Harvey Mudd College Elia Migao, football, Brigham Young University Enoka Migao, football, Brigham Young University Jadon Furubotten, football, U.S. Air Force Academy Anna Johnson, volleyball, Utah Valley University GREAT OAK Lauren Buckley, cross-country, Saint Mary’s College Anna Erikson, softball, Franklin Pierce University Noah Ford, baseball, Simpson University Quincee Lilio, softball, University of Oklahoma Brianna Weidler, cross-country, University of California Davis

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LINFIELD CHRISTIAN Caleb Powell, football, University of Jamestown Brye Lighon, football, University of Nevada Las Vegas MURRIETA MESA Caden Byers, baseball, Vanguard University MURRIETA VALLEY Brenna Bell, volleyball, Claremont-McKenna University Miya Carmichael, volleyball, United States Naval Academy McKenna Clugston, volleyball, Saint Katherine University Nick Lajome, cross-country, Ave Maria University Joseph Pangelinan, wrestling, University of Jamestown Kinzey Tiburzio, softball, Saint Katherine University Alexa Yarbro, softball, University of Redlands Sophia Sollie, water polo, Indiana University Avery Wood, water polo, California Baptist University

Te ecula alley igh School seniors, bbey r strong Fresno State and Jadyn epler Cal aptist niversity ill be playing ater polo at the ne t level.

Sila Fedler, water polo, University of California San Diego Rebecca Hale, water polo, Long Beach State University RANCHO CHRISTIAN Blake Allen, football, Southwest Minnesota State University RANCHO VERDE Justin Honore, football, Lake Erie College SAN JACINTO Emma Bustos, softball, Dakota State University Lea Iribe, softball, EmbryRiddle University TEMECULA VALLEY Kennedy Adams, volleyball, California State University Monterey Ashlyn Beaver, volleyball, Oregon State University Kylie Berg, volleyball, Columbia University Meadow Cooper, volleyball, Arizona State University Abbey Armstrong, water polo, Fresno State University

Jadyn Hepler, water polo, California Baptist University Nathan Justice, football, University of Redlands VISTA MURRIETA Reinna Gabriel, soccer, Cornell University Maleea Gallaspy, softball, John Jay School of Criminal Justice V alle News congratulates all student athletes committing to play at the next level. * TV U SD did video salutes for their signees and those link s can be found here: Chaparral High School – https:// youtu.be/vOOI_0X u6AU Great Oak High School – https:// youtu.be/f4InuooHp0E Te m e c u l a Va l l e y H i g h School – https://youtu. be/8Om80TCxjgs JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia. com.

Youth sports leagues ready themselves to get children out of the house JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The push to get youth athletes out and about is making strides in the Temecula Valley amid the coronavirus pandemic. With the most recent “stay at home” order lifted and local counties returning to the purple tier, local youth sports leagues are getting creative in their efforts to bring some normalcy back to families that have been pushing for sports to return.

The hashtag #LetThemPlayCA rallies have made progress in their pleas to the local, state and national government agencies who are not providing the data that has sat their children on the sidelines during the current pandemic.

“We are all going through something that is unprecedented,” Chris, Blaschak, president of Temecula Youth Baseball, said. “I believe getting the kids back out on the field is instrumental to their development as maturing individuals and players,

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including social interactions that are essential to their well-being.”

The Temecula Youth Baseball league, along with other local leagues like Murrieta Pony and the Murrieta Valley Girls Softball Association, are moving forward with plans to have spring seasons, which will be more focused on practicing and staying in cohorts.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the leagues are offering a practice only season, for now. Guidelines from the state of California for the current purple tier state that once a team is created, they will be considered a cohort and can do physical conditioning, practice, skill-building and training that can be conducted outdoors, with 6 feet of physical distancing, and within stable cohorts and are authorized regardless of county tier status.

Participants in youth and adult sports should wear face coverings when participating in the activity, even with heavy exertion as tolerated, both indoors and outdoors unless the face covering could become a hazard, and face coverings must be worn when not participating in the activity, such as on the sidelines or dugout. Masks are only recommended on the field of play.

Participants should maintain at least 6 feet of distance from others to the maximum extent possible, including when on the sidelines.

Coaches should avoid contact with participants and facilitate physical distancing between participants to the maximum extent possible, such as staggered starts instead of mass starts for races. When observ-

ing, individuals must stay at least 6 feet from non-household members. Shared equipment should be cleaned and disinfected before use by another person, group or team.

When equipment is shared during an activity, participants should perform hand hygiene – wash hands with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer – before play, during breaks, at halftime and after the conclusion of the activity.

Balls or other objects or equipment can be touched by multiple players and used during practice and play if the above hand hygiene practices are followed. Drink bottles must not be shared, and other personal items and equipment should not be shared.

“While we are limited to practice only at this time, my hope is that we can take everyone’s mind off the ongoing pandemic and have some fun even if for just a little while,” Blaschak said. “We will instruct our coaches to follow the guidelines we have been provided by the state to safely conduct their practices and to focus on the fundamentals of the game while keeping it fun with drills to promote skills and inter team competition.”

When it comes to observers, for youth sports for age 18 years and under, immediate household members may observe practices and games as needed for age-appropriate supervision, but observers should be limited to ensure physical distance can be maintained, reduce potential crowding and maintain indoor and outdoor capacity limits allowed by tiers. Observers must stay at least 6 feet from non-household members

and wear face coverings. Games are not permitted until the area is in the red tier and at that time, they would institute a game schedule.

“We are in a different world nowadays,” Mike Adriance, the current director of the Pony-ColtPalomino Division at Murrieta Valley Pony who has been with the League since its inception in 1994, said. “Baseball can provide that anchor to normalcy, even if only through workouts for now.”

As restrictions lift, local leagues look forward to holding actual games, always within the guidelines set forth by the county Board of Health.

“Toward that end, our league is working with our partners in City Hall in anticipation of opening up competition as numbers improve, hopefully by early spring,” Adriance said. “Until then, these training sessions will give kids an outlet to interact not only with friends and “cohorts,” but also with the game they – and we – love.”

For those looking to connect with the Temecula Youth Baseball league, which also facilitates a Champions league for special needs players, visit http://www. temeculapony.com. Murrieta Pony can be found online at http://www. mvpb.org and the Murrieta Valley Girls Softball Association can be found online at http://www.mvgsa. com. Other local leagues that offer youth sports are working on their upcoming seasons as well and will have their updates out soon.

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

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Watch the impeachment political theater yourself – skip the nightly news

Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

So as of press time Tuesday, Feb. 9, the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is starting. My hope is that everyone will watch the proceedings in their entirety themselves

and not watch one minute of nightly news. You don’t need anyone to interpret anything for you. Please just watch it yourself, despite what a waste of time it may seem.

I understand that it is easier to be spoon fed someone’s interpretation or narrative on what is happening for a few minutes each night, but everyone needs to be more diligent and think for themselves after seeing the whole picture.

Trump’s lawyers are going to argue that the Senate has no jurisdiction to try a former official who is now a private citizen. In fact, it will be the first time in history. They will argue that the charge against the 45th president is deficient, as was the first impeachment, and that his right to free speech was violated by the article of impeachment. They will also argue that the “incitement”

accusation has been contradicted by the transcript of the Jan. 6 speech itself, as well as the fact that there is evidence the breach was preplanned.

Democrats allege that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was incited by Trump using the words “fight like hell” in reference to his team’s legal efforts with election integrity.

Trump’s attorneys are reportedly planning on pointing out several Democrats who also used the word “fight” when talking about election security. In addition, they may use video of Democrats calling on constituents to actually bully Trump supporters and staff when they are in public with their families.

This political theater is doomed to fail because they don’t have the votes as they didn’t the first time around. The first impeachment failed because there was

actually nothing inappropriate with the phone call Trump had with the Ukrainian president, but it didn’t matter. It did what it was supposed to do. It provided ample political theater, soundbites and unbelievably biased news stories for months which brought more division and anger just like the Russia collusion conspiracy theory. Nevermind that as vice president, President Joe Biden actually did what they were accusing Trump of and it was caught on video. Biden actually threatened to withhold money from the Ukraine if they didn’t fire the investigator that was looking into Barisma and Hunter Biden. Nevermind that the crooked FBI already had the laptop with all the evidence they needed showing Hunter’s business deals with Ukraine, China, Russia and Iran which peddled .S. influence

with his vice president father.

Nevermind that every major social media platform “fact checked” and censored legitimate news sources that had reported those stories to keep them from the American public until after the election. The complicit nightly news just needed to influence and win the election.

So, while Washington is playing “lookie lookie; listen, listen” with one hand in the air distracting the American public with political theater, look what is going on with the other hand. It is signing a historic number of executive orders pushing through radical political agendas.

Julie Reeder can be reached by email at jreeder@reedermedia. com.

The same social cost theory which would logically have Israel giving up its land to the Arabs would also have the Arabs giving up the Jews to anti-Semitic exterminators.

During the Nazi Holocaust, there was no place for the Jews to go.

Israel is the Jews’ safety measure to prevent another genocide.

The idea of Israel ceding all its land for safety concerns thus shown to be counterproductive, what about the possibility of Israel ceding part of its land? The Israeli logic there is that an Arab attack would be able to split the nation in half. Before the 1967 war, there was a strip of Israel between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea only 6 miles wide. The ease with which Jordan could have cut off Israel from itself was of great concern to Israeli defense forces.

Somewhere along the line the Israelis learned the meaning of Ben Franklin’s “They that can give up essential freedom for a little temporary safety deserve neither

liberty nor safety.” Franklin, by the way, was offered the position of the nited States’ first president but declined. Israel’s offer of its first presidency was declined by Albert Einstein, who helped develop the atomic bomb. It’s doubtful that the founding fathers of Israel had capitulation to the Arabs in mind.

Notice that I’ve talked about giving Israel to the “Arabs,” rather than using the term “Palestinians.”

First of all, Palestinians are Arabs.

In fact, before 1948, Israel was called Palestine. More concerned about a Jewish homeland than regaining all biblical property, the Jews accepted giving fourfifths of Palestine to Jordan for an Arab land. The current call for a Palestinian homeland is a prime example that surrender of freedom does not work; allow the Arabs four-fifths of Palestine, and they’ll try for the other one-fifth.

Not that King Abdullah of Jordan is much for the idea of “If it saves one life, it’s worth it.” He

knows better, too. Before the British prying Arabia from the Ottoman Empire, the Hussein family, including King Abdullah, governed Arabia by “home rule.”

The British, feeling that the Saud family would better serve their interests, reduced their social cost by putting the Saud family in charge of the area. The Hussein family was given Transjordan and Iraq as a consolation prize.

Freedom means something to Israel, so much so that they’re willing to spend money to defend it and let Israeli citizens die for it. They’re aware that once it becomes acceptable for some freedom to be lost, the loss of other freedoms will follow, and without freedom not even their safety is guaranteed. Shouldn’t we follow that example?

Joe aiman can be reached by jnaiman@reedermedia.com.

The social cost of Israel Joe Naiman WRITER

Let me make it clear that I don’t seriously believe that Israel should be given to the Arabs.

My actual viewpoint is that Jerusalem should become an independent nation, somewhat like Vatican City. Religious freedom would be constitutionally guaranteed, no defense would be needed for this neutral country, and a tricameral legislature – one Jewish, one Islamic and one Christian – would set economic and social policy.

This proposal, however, probably won’t be adopted, which leaves the option of confrontation or the option of Israel ceding its land to the Arabs.

If Israel had its way, it would rather fight than give up its land.

But current thought might render that option irrational.

“If it saves just one life, it’s worth it,” has been a common cry.

If restrictions on driving, alcohol,

cigarettes, firearms and interpersonal contact are justified by that slogan, then shouldn’t we also give Israel to the Arabs? The savings of both Israeli and Arab lives would be tremendous. The Jews in Israel might have to give up a few freedoms, but at least they’d be safer.

There’s also a social cost of Israel defending its land. The costs of supporting a military, and hospital costs and family benefits of the war casualties, add up. Wouldn’t it be cheaper for Israel itself to let the Arabs have their way?

Then there’s the social cost of America alienating other Arab nations. Most of these Arab nations are anti-communist; their only grudge against the United States is that we aid Israel. If they gave us cheap oil, use of their land for military bases, and other gifts to sell out Israel, it would follow the solution of the social cost theory.

Which is exactly why Israel won’t do it. They’ve heard the word “solution” once too often.

Seyarto introduces bill Preventing Wildfires spending billions trying to prevent to support spouses and and fight wildfires, but the situation has worsened. What we’ve children of deceased been doing simply hasn’t worked.

We need a comprehensive, mulservice members tipronged approach to preventing SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Kelly Seyarto of Murrieta introduced Assembly Bill 291, a bill that will make the payments from survivor benefit plans tax free in California.

California is one of the few states that fully taxes survivor benefit plans which allow retired service members to allocate a portion of their retired pay to a spouse, child or other eligible beneficiary after their death. Currently there are just over 28,700 military survivors receiving this benefit within California, with over 92% of them being 65 years old and older.

“It is incredibly sad and almost insulting that we give so little as a thank you to our service members and their families. They sacrifice so much for our country to defend our freedoms,” Seyarto said.

“I was astonished to learn that while California and the IRS do not tax life insurance payments, California does tax this form of life

insurance for our service members and veterans. Surely one of the simplest ways we can express our gratitude to these families that have sacrificed for all of us is to not tax the very compensation we give them for that loss.”

Assemblymember Kelly Seyarto served the state of California as a firefighter for 35 years, retiring at the rank of battalion chief. During his time in service, he connected and served with many service members and veterans. ssemblymember elly eyarto, - urrieta, represents alifornia s 6 th ssembly istrict, which includes the cities and communities of anyon Lake, ast Hemet, l obrante, rench alley, ood Hope, Hemet, Homeland, La resta, Lake lsinore, Lake athews, Lakeland illage, enifee, urrieta, ue o, emescal alley, ildomar, inchester and oodcrest.

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Wildfires are an ever-present threat in California. Last year was the worst on record with over 4.2 million acres burned. As everyone likely remembers, local fires such as the Cedar, Witch, Cocos, Guejito and Lilac fires, have devastated this region as well. We’ve been

wildfires, which is why I am joining Assemblymember James Gallagher of Yuba City to co-author Assembly Bill 297, the Wildfire Prevention and Forest Resiliency Act of 2021. The bill allocated $500 million annually from the existing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to provide sustained resources for forest health, forest management and fire prevention programs, and has gained support from legislators throughout California.

We need to remove dead and dying trees from our forests, along with bureaucratic hurdles that prevent good forest management and vegetation clearance. In the governor’s state of emergency declaration last year, 35 forest management projects were exempted from CEQA requirements, eliminating years of bureaucratic delays. AB 297 expands on those exemptions so that 500,000 acres

can be treated annually. We have millions of dead or dying trees, a major wildfire fuel source, but nowhere to put them once they’re removed. By supporting biomass, biofuels and other wood products industries, removal will be encouraged. In addition, homeowners will be allowed exemptions to expand defensive space around their homes.

Wildfires pour billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, easily wiping out progress we’ve made elsewhere to reduce carbon pollution. And the cost to fight them is enormous – $1.3 billion just last year. Once enacted, AB 297 will save money and property, protect the environment and most importantly, it will save lives. ssembly epublican Leader arie aldron, - scondido, represents the th ssembly istrict in the alifornia Legislature, which includes the communities of onsall, scondido, allbrook, Hidden eadows, ala, alomar ountain, auma alley, ainbow, an arcos, emecula, alley enter and ista.

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How to welcome a new puppy to the family Family Features SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Introducing a new puppy to your household can bring many rewards; however, getting the hang of things can take some time, especially for first-time pet owners.

In fact, it takes the average pet owner almost four months to get into the flow with a new fourlegged family member, according to a survey by Royal Canin. Eight in 10 respondents said the first year of pet ownership is the most important, but it doesn’t mean it’s easy. The survey found 64% believe the first year is also the most difficult, and deciding how to train a new pet was cited as the most important decision pet parents have to make.

“Bringing a puppy home is a hugely rewarding experience for pet owners, but it’s also a time of huge challenges and steep learning curves,” Dr. Jill Cline, pet nutritionist and site director of Royal Canin’s Pet Health and Nutrition Center, said. “In addition to helping your puppy adjust to its new home, you can support your puppy’s health now and always with a nutritionally complete diet tailored to its specific needs.”

Make welcoming a new puppy a rewarding experience for the whole family with these tips.

Arriving home Your puppy may be feeling

stressed by new sights, sounds, smells and the separation from its mother. Manage the noise and activity to avoid adding to this stress.

As soon as you get home, take your puppy to your yard or outside area so it can go to the bathroom.

Use positive verbal reinforcement when the job is done.

Once indoors, block off a safe area and let your puppy sniff and explore on its own time. Getting acquainted with a new place takes time and lots of exploring. Some puppies can be overwhelmed by too much human contact, so allow your puppy to come to you.

Getting settled Puppies like to know what to expect. Plan your routine for feeding, potty trips, exercise and grooming so you can get started on day one. If you know what routine your puppy had before adoption, it’s best to continue for consistency until your puppy is settled.

Any sudden dietary changes can cause stress or digestive problems, so for the first week or two, give your puppy the same food as its previous owner, following the feeding recommendations on the package. Nutrition tailored to specific developmental needs can help fragile, young puppies grow into strong, healthy dogs. It’s important to select a high-quality food based on age and expected

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Your puppy’s eating spot should be away from where you and any other pets eat. Allow your puppy to eat in peace to prevent it from feeling nervous or protective.

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keeps it from wandering off. Put something that carries your scent in your puppy’s bed along with a blanket to snuggle into.

Remember to schedule regular veterinarian visits and gradually introduce your puppy to new experiences like sounds, car travel, walks and other animals. It’s also important to begin behavior training right away to develop good

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If you’re interested in getting a new puppy, before making a decision on which breed best suits your family and lifestyle, check out all 196 registered breeds during the 2021 AKC National Championship. Find more advice for welcoming a new puppy into your home at http://RoyalCanin. com/puppies.

Address backyard pet waste TEMECULA – Pets benefit households in myriad ways. The Animal Health Foundation said that being around pets can decrease cortisol levels – a hormone activated by stress. Pets also may inspire their owners to engage in physical activity, such as walks around the neighborhood or play sessions in the backyard, and a physically active lifestyle can reduce a person’s risk for various diseases.

To reap the rewards of a pet, owners must be willing to put in the effort to care for companion

animals. It includes those tasks that can be unsavory, such as cleaning up pet waste. Not only is pet waste messy, if left out and about it can be an eyesore, a health risk and affect the quality of the soil in one’s yard.

Regular removal of pet waste benefits the environment as well as pets and their owners. There are a variety of solutions that can help people rid their lawns of pet waste.

Put it in the trash. If allowed, placing waste in a trash receptacle is an option. However, certain areas of the country do not allow

feces disposal in landfills. Bacteria found in animal excrement also can leach into the environment if not handled properly.

Flush it. Another solution is to flush waste down the toilet. But that is not always convenient and it requires owners to bring waste indoors. Do not flush cat waste that is covered in litter Utilize a sewer line attachment.

This disposal system is connected directly to a septic tank or sewer line. It will require washing out debris and waste that gets stuck in the plumbing. egular re oval of pet aste benefits the environ ent as ell as pets and their o ners.

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Use an enzymatic dog waste dissolver. Soaking waste and using an enzymatic product can dissolve it more safely than using lime or another chemical. It can be used out in the open, or applied to waste stored in a receptacle.

Create a septic-style composter.

Some people create a mini septic station in their yards in which the waste can break down and then dissolve into a predetermined corner of the property, away from where it can affect the landscape.

Use a hose and water. Solid waste is not the only concern in the yard. Concentrated urine may contain high levels of nitrogen as well as salts and other compounds, according to The Spruce: Pets.

These components alter the pH of the soil and cause patches of grass to die and turn yellow or brown. Females cause more damage because they squat and make a puddle of urine, while males tend to lift their legs and disperse the spray. Washing down areas where pets urinate can help dilute the urine and prevent damage.

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TVUSD superintendent gives update on school reopening plans Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Jodi McClay, superintendent of Temecula Valley nified School District, gave a brief update at the district’s Tuesday, Feb. 2, governing board meeting on the status of the district’s reopening plans and the potential for competitions to take place. The plans included at least one sport, and possibly more if Riverside County’s coronavirus case infections continue their downward trajectory.

While the county remains in the highest “purple” tier of the state’s reopening framework, McClay said that the direction infections are heading in is quite promising and may indicate schools could open up at some point this academic year after all.

The county’s adjusted case rate two weeks before Feb. 2 was about 95 per 100,000. The day of the meeting, it had dropped to 62.3.

Secondary schools can’t reopen until after a county has been in

the “red” tier, the one just below purple, for 14 days, and that requires a case rate of less than seven per 100,000. But the waiver for reopening elementary schools that TVUSD previously applied for could be approved once the county reaches a case rate of 25 per 100,000.

“So that’s really exciting news for all of those folks who want the option of in-person learning again,” McClay said.

The superintendent also gave information on plans for things like reporting a student’s illness and arrival and dismissal from campuses, both for students who are already attending some of the district’s inperson cohorts and those who are currently in virtual learning but will hopefully be back in physical classrooms this year.

McClay said parents can report their children’s coronavirus diagnosis – as can employees – using the “Let’s Talk” page on the district website, or their school site’s website.

When schools eventually reopen, McClay said each student will have an assigned entry and exit point.

“They will go directly to class when they arrive at school and immediately leave campus when school is finished,” she said.

The plans for staff are still being negotiated, McClay said, but the plan is for staff on most campuses to have a single entry and exit point where they will have their temperatures checked and show that they meet other prescreening requirements for arriving on campus.

Larger campuses may still have multiple entry and exit points for staff, she said.

McClay said all families that are currently participating in hub learning have been given a sheet with guidance on when students should be kept home, common symptoms for COVID-19 and related information, and families with students that return to campuses in the future will be given the same information.

The superintendent said memoranda of understandings with

Tahquitz High School students receive thanks from servicemembers overseas Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The students from Tahquitz High School in Hemet received letters of appreciation from American troops stationed overseas in response to the special care packages the student’s sent to them over the holidays through MilVet. The Temecula nonprofit is dedicated to connecting the community to local, low-cost and free comprehensive resources through community organizational outreach and providing philanthropic programs to enrich the lives of

veterans, older adults and families in the community.

April Estock from Tahquitz High led the event this year and said she had received a number of thank you letters from the service members who received the packages.

The packages included snacks, not commonly sold overseas, hygiene products and Christmas cards.

One of the letters from Lee S., a U.S. Navy sailor, said, “Raven and team, Thank you very much for my care package. It was very thoughtful and full of great items I

am sure to enjoy. I am very grateful until mid-June which will be 411 days away from home. Have a wonderful day, and God bless you all and America more than ever.”

MilVet works with local cities, including Menifee, to bring the care packages to military members overseas, which has gift registries at Target stores and Amazon available for people to make donations that can be delivered to the nonprofit’s offices. For more information, visit http://Tgt.gifts/ adoptatroop.

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

TV SD’s teachers and classified employees are still under negotiation.

“We had previously negotiated the details of the TVUSD reopening plan, but the governor’s proposal requires a different plan and that must be negotiated with both associations and we have worked diligently on that for the past few weeks,” McClay said “We’ve agreed on many aspects, but again we do not have signed MOUs yet.

We believe that is forthcoming.”

Finally, the superintendent said the district is moving forward “with what’s called league-only competition for season 1 sports,” contingent on state and county health guidelines, CIF officiating availability and CIF safety guidelines.

Right now, with Riverside County in the purple tier, cross-country is the only sport that will be allowed to compete, though field hockey will be permitted once the county is in the red tier, and football, volleyball and water polo will follow

in the next-lowest “orange” tier.

“While I believe there’s clearly a mixed message from the state regarding the allowance of some athletics when in-person instruction is still not permitted, we do believe that as much as we can do to keep students connected to school and their peers supporting not only their physical, but also their social and emotional health, we need to do, as long as we can do so while meeting the requirements that have been established by our authorizing agency.”

Even with cross-country competition permitted, no more than two teams will be able to compete, McClay said. “So while that doesn’t sound very exciting in terms of competition, given the fact they’ve had so little or none for so many months, they are definitely excited about the possibility to have two teams compete.” ill ritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

HUSD students learn how to cook tacos with help of nutrition department and learning program

Hemet High students win first place in esports championship competition HEMET – Out of more than 240 competing teams throughout North America, three students at Hemet High School won first place in the Rocket League PlayVS Regional Championship.

Students from Hemet High School’s esports team maneuvered cars through a virtual arena to score points against opposing teams in the school’s first year participating in the tournament as well as the school’s first year hosting an esports team and club.

Similar to soccer, players battled for control of a ball while attempting to score points in the opposing team’s goal. Students were challenged to complete quick mathematical assessments as the ball ricocheted throughout the virtual, indoor arena.

Team members Roberto “Elevated Buffy” Gallegos, Ethan

“Ruthless” Nieves and Edwin “EMac” Macarena, each competing under their gamer tags, which are video game usernames. They demonstrated critical thinking and teamwork skills, securing consecutive wins and the final first place designation.

“I am super proud of how all the teams played this season,” Josh Kitzerow, CTE instructor and Hemet Bulldog esports coach, said. “Having a team win the PlayVS Regional Championship in our first season is definitely a great feat, but this was a special bunch of players and they showed that grit and determination is key.

They went down 1-3 in the match and battled back by winning three games in a row to clutch the championship.”

In recent years, esports have become popular amongst K-12

students. Besides being an engaging activity, esports is being used as an educational tool. Esports provide an opportunity for students to engage competitively while also bolstering fluency in S.T.E.A.M. skills – science, technology, engineering, art and math.

In the absence of in-person athletics, esports help students develop soft skills and impact their socioemotional well-being.

With hundreds of colleges and universities actively recruiting gamers for their esports teams through scholarship opportunities and a nearly $1 billion esports industry, the new addition of esports at Hemet High School provides an additional opportunity for students to be college and career ready, Kitzerow said. ubmitted by Hemet Unified School District.

Temecula residents receive academic honors from Northeastern University BOSTON – Northeastern University recognized the students who distinguished themselves academically during the course of the school year, naming them to the university’s dean’s list for the fall semester, which ended in December 2020.

Temecula residents Lori Parker, who is majoring in environmental and sustainable sciences, and Micah Storkersen, who is majoring in sociology and international affairs, were honored.

To achieve the dean’s list distinction, students must carry a full

program of at least four courses, have a quality point average of 3.5 or greater out of a possible 4.0 and carry no single grade lower than a C- during the course of their college career. Each student received a letter of commendation and congratulation from their college dean.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-powered lifelong learning. Their experiential approach empowers students, faculty, alumni and partners to

create impact beyond the confines of discipline, degree and campus.

Northeastern University’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs-in on-campus, online and hybrid formats-lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, the university offers more than 140 multidisciplinary majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers. ubmitted by ortheastern U niversity.

Alexandra McMahon named to Baldwin Wallace University dean’s list BEREA, Ohio – Alexandra McMahon of Menifee, a graduate of Paloma Valley High School majoring in theater acting and directing, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2020 semester at Baldwin Wallace University, according to Provost Stephen D. Stahl.

Any full-time student who achieves a GPA of at least 3.6

for 12 or more graded hours or part-time student who achieves a GPA of at least 3.6 for six or more graded hours in the fall or spring semester will be placed on the dean’s list.

Baldwin Wallace University, founded in 1845, was one of the first colleges to admit students without regard to race or gender.

An independent, coeducational

university of 3,500 students, the university offers coursework in the liberal arts tradition in more than 80 academic areas. Located in Berea, 12 miles from downtown Cleveland, Baldwin Wallace University offers students the cultural, educational and business advantages of a major metropolitan area. ubmitted by aldwin allace U niversity.

Ja es Johnson, an ele entary school student fro e et nified School istrict, displays ho e ade tacos he coo ed ith supplies and directions fro the district s utrition Services and S F panded earning rogra recently.

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HEMET – Hemet Unified School District’s Nutrition Services Department and SAFE Expanded Learning Program teamed up to provide a learning activity for HUSD students and families.

Families picking up meal boxes for their students received additional ingredients and the directions to make tacos. Normally, meal boxes only contain breakfast, snack and lunch items, but with the collaboration between Nutrition Services and SAFE, the staff added the dinner items as well.

In addition to the ingredients and written directions in the meal box, families could visit the SAFE After School website to watch a

video of SAFE employee Darrel Smith providing step-by-step instructions. The 33-minute video also included cooking tips for students and families. Providing an activity to bring families together, the district said cooking skills can teach math, reading comprehension and a life skill.

Since meal distribution every Wednesday, staff have been receiving messages, pictures and videos of students enjoying their creations. District staff said they hope to continue this idea through February and maybe longer. ubmitted by Hemet Unified School District.

Elizabeth Johnson of Temecula named to fall 2020 dean’s list ALBANY, N.Y. – Elizabeth Johnson of Temecula has been named to the fall 2020 dean’s list at The College of Saint Rose.

The dean’s list recognizes fulltime undergraduate students who complete a minimum of 12 graded credit hours and who achieve a semester average of 3.5 without a D, F or incomplete grade.

The College of Saint Rose is a

dynamic, progressive college in the heart of New York’s capital city where teaching is the first priority. The college experience empowers students to improve themselves and the world around them. For more information, visit http://www.strose.edu. ubmitted by he ollege of Saint Rose.

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RIVERSIDE COUNTY – The Riverside County Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed Jeffrey A. Van Wagenen Jr. as the next county executive officer in a special closed session meeting held Thursday, Feb. 4.

Van Wagenen has worked for 14 years in public service with the county, including the last three years as assistant CEO for seven public safety departments. Before his latest tenure with the county, he owned and operated a criminal law office for 10 years. Van Wagenen earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Califor-

nia and his juris doctorate from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

“After doing a competitive, nationwide recruitment, I am pleased that one of our Riverside County residents will be our next CEO,” board Chair Karen Spiegel, 2nd District supervisor, said. “Jeff has been a driving force within the county and built a strong reputation for collaborative solutions to tough problems.”

The county executive officer carries out the policy direction of the board of supervisors, leads more than 40 county departments

with more than 22,000 employees and oversees an annual budget in excess of $6 billion.

“The hard work of the county is done in our departments everyday by our dedicated staff,” Van Wagenen. “I am honored to serve the board of supervisors on behalf of the 2.5 million people who choose to call Riverside County home.”

The county executive officer contract will be on the agenda for Tuesday, Feb. 9, and posted online Friday, Feb. 5. ubmitted by i erside ounty.

Trio face fraud charges tied to fictitious unemployment claims City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A Riverside County jail inmate and two associates not in custody allegedly conspired to steal $18,000 in unemployment insurance benefits by filing a series of fraudulent claims submitted when the state began distributing relief funds stemming from the public health lockdowns, authorities said Thursday, Feb. 4.

Brian Jay Davidson, 58, Blake Fallon, 51, and Jessica Kaye, 44, all of Moreno Valley, will be charged with conspiracy, grand theft and fraud for the alleged acts that siphoned money from the California Employment Development Department, joining untold numbers of others statewide who did the same thing, according to the county district attorney’s

office.

“The scope and impact of this fraud is outrageous,” county district attorney Mike Hestrin said.

“The losses statewide are estimated in the billions of dollars and could be double-digit billions.”

A report released Thursday, Jan. 28, by California state auditor Elaine Howle estimated the EDD in 2020 disbursed at least $10.4 billion in benefits based on fraudulent claims.

“What is particularly offensive about these crimes is that these criminals are stealing much-needed benefits from people experiencing extreme economic hardship because of the ... lockdowns,” Hestrin said. “We as state and local government officials have to cooperate with one another to make sure this never happens again.”

Davidson is awaiting trial for

County board OKs planned changes to dog ordinance City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors authorized the county Department of Animal Services to revise an ordinance, Tuesday, Feb. 2, specifying how dangerous or potentially dangerous dogs should be handled, hoping to improve methods of monitoring owners of the canines for public safety.

The board, without comment, gave the go-ahead to agency director Julie Bank, who said in documents posted to the board’s agenda that Ordinance No.771 has not been updated in four years, and it’s overdue for modifications to enhance the means of controlling animals who are a threat or likely threat to the community.

“The Department of Animal Services desires to ... increase the efficiency of the process to deem a dog potentially dangerous or dangerous,” Bank said. “The department would like to strengthen the ability to monitor potentially dangerous or dangerous dogs and hold reckless dog owners accountable for their pet’s actions.”

She did not list the prospective revisions that the agency and the Office of County Counsel are ready to draft.

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The ordinance provides a multistep process for impounding and destroying canines deemed vicious.

The measure recognizes that potentially dangerous dogs may not pose a long-term threat to the public just because of one biting or chasing incident, and in some instances, owners may be given an opportunity to retain their pets after paying fines.

However, a potentially dangerous dog may be placed under a 48-month restraining order, and if during that period there are no additional incidents, the animal is given a fresh start and removed from the Department of Animal Services’ “Dangerous Animal Registry.”

To comply with restraining orders, owners can be directed to take a number of precautions, including creating secure enclosures, using muzzles and ensuring pets are routinely supervised.

Bank did not state when the proposed revisions to the ordinance will be returned to the board for review.

an alleged vehicular homicide in 2019. He, Fallon and Kaye are friends and were identified during an investigation handled by the district attorney’s Bureau of Investigation. The agency said the felony charges will likely be filed against the trio before the end of the month.

Fallon and Kaye were arrested recently but were immediately released on their own recognizance because of a limitation on bookings established by the Superior Court to curb COVID-19 exposure risks in jails. Davidson is being held on $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Jail in downtown Riverside.

The district attorney’s office said search warrants were served as part of the investigation at properties in Moreno Valley and Redlands, leading to the seizure

of documents and cash.

A related investigation focused on a state prison inmate, whose identity was not disclosed, led to a search warrant being served at an apartment in the 47000 block of Clinton Street in Indio.

“Investigators seized evidence related to the investigation, as well as an undisclosed amount of cash and an unregistered firearm,” according to the district attorney.

“No arrests in that case have been made at this time.”

The search warrant in Redlands targeted a residence in the 1300 block of East Citrus Avenue, and another prison inmate, also not identified by prosecutors, is linked to alleged EDD fraud. A probationer was taken into custody at the house, but not for fraud, according to the district attorney’s office.

According to prosecutors, Fal-

lon and Kaye allegedly used Davidson’s personal information to file for unemployment benefits with his consent.

The fraud claims, up and down the state, relate to the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, according to officials.

The audit uncovered instances in which the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General flagged nearly 3 million unemployment claims as likely connected to fraud, but the EDD failed to respond proactively to stanch it.

Inmates incarcerated in multiple counties are under investigation.

The audit indicated more than $800 million in benefits were distributed to prisoners.

Sweeps targeting illicit sex trade net 60-plus arrests countywide City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A series of law enforcement operations throughout Riverside County targeting people seeking or engaged in illicit sexual services netted 64 arrests, authorities said Tuesday, Feb. 2.

The county’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force joined other agencies statewide in “Operation Reclaim & Rebuild,” with the goal of cracking down on suspects involved in prostitution rings and escort services, as well as rescuing the victims.

“The task force seeks to disrupt and dismantle sex trafficking ... within Riverside County and

will aggressively identify, pursue and apprehend those who seek to exploit those who are most vulnerable,” according to an agency statement. “Through proactive enforcement operations such as Reclaim & Rebuild, we work to reduce future demand for sex trafficking by identifying and arresting sex buyers.”

Two women who were located and interviewed during the seven task force operations that took place over four days were identified as victims, according to sheriff’s officials. They were referred to agencies that could provide assistance with leaving the illicit sex trade.

Most of the individuals arrested

in the county sweeps were booked on suspicion of solicitation of prostitution, though one was additionally taken into custody for soliciting a minor for lewd acts, and another person was nabbed for alleged pimping.

The suspects were taken into custody in La Quinta, Lake Elsinore, Murrieta, Palm Desert, Riverside and Temecula.

Other agencies conducted similar operations statewide in January, and the combined operations resulted in 518 arrests, according to officials.

Operation Reclaim & Rebuild was conducted as part of National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

Dog license late fees waived until Feb. 15, authorities say City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Riverside County dog owners have another two weeks to purchase a license for their pet before late fees kick in, authorities said Monday, Feb. 1.

The Department of Animal Services is offering dog owners an amnesty program through Feb. 15 to incentive them to get their canines licensed, which is a state requirement. Late fees and unpaid

past licensing fees will be waived during this period.

“We know this has been a very difficult period for many people and this was one small way we could assist,” Julie Bank, director of county Animal Services, said.

“As we hopefully head toward normalcy, we want to remind dog owners that now is the time to update that license.”

The offer only applies to dog owners who do not have any outstanding citations for failing

to license their pet in the past, according to the agency.

Dogs must be vaccinated for rabies before they can get licensed.

Licensing helps animal control officers locate the owners of lost pets, according to the agency.

A one-year license for a spayed or neutered canine is $25, and a one- year license for an “unaltered” dog is $120.

More information can be found at https://www.rcdas.org/.

County approves airport wildlife management services agreement Joe Naiman WRITER

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a wildlife management agreement for the five county-operated airports including French Valley Airport and HemetRyan Airport.

The supervisors’ 5-0 vote Tuesday, Jan. 26, approved a five-year agreement between the county’s Transportation Land Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agreement also includes work plans for the French Valley, Hemet-Ryan, Jacqueline Cochran, Chiriaco Summit and Blythe airports.

In September 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration gave the county a grant to conduct a wildlife assessment at French Valley

Airport, Hemet-Ryan Airport and Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport, which is in Thermal. The assessment identified significant wildlife presence at each of the three airports, and the Federal Aviation Administration required the implementation of a wildlife hazard management plan for those airports.

A wildlife hazard management plan outlines specific measures the airports will take to manage the wildlife hazards. A certified airport wildlife biologist professional must implement those efforts to ensure that the plan is in full compliance with federal and state wildlife management laws. Airport staff may implement limited deterrence measures.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture employs certified airport

wildlife biologists who support airports throughout the United States. The Aviation Department of the Transportation Land Management Agency sought full-time wildlife services from the USDA to implement the wildlife hazard management plan at all five county airports.

The five-year agreement has a total cost to the county of $650,970.

The county will pay $123,218 during federal fiscal year 2020-2021 the federal fiscal year is from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30 – $126,717 in 2021-2022, $130,266 during 20222023, $133,814 in 2023-2024 and $136,955 during 2024-2025. Grant funding is expected to cover most if not all of that amount.

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

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501 deaths, 10,748 other injuries reported following COVID-19 vaccine, latest CDC data show Children’s Health Defense SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

As of Jan. 29, 501 deaths – a subset of 11,249 total adverse events – had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccinations.

The numbers reflect reports filed between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 29, 2021.

VAERS is the primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before confirmation can be made that an adverse event was linked to a vaccine.

As of Jan. 29, about 35 million people in the U.S. had received one or both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. So far, only the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been granted emergency use authorization in the U.S. by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. By the FDA’s own definition, the vaccines are still considered experimental until fully licensed.

According to the latest data, 453 of the 501 reported deaths were in the U.S. Fifty-three percent of those who died were male, 43% were female, the remaining death reports did not include the gender of the deceased. The average age of those who died was 77, the

youngest reported death was of a 23-year-old. The Pfizer vaccine was taken by 59% of those who died, while the Moderna vaccine was taken by 41%.

The latest data also included 690 reports of anaphylactic reactions to either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. Of those, the Pfizer vaccine accounted for 76% of the reactions, and the Moderna vaccine for 24%.

As The Defender reported recently, a 56-year-old woman in Virginia died Jan. 30, hours after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Doctors told Drene Keyes’ daughter that her mother died of flash pulmonary edema likely caused by anaphylaxis.

The death is under investigation

by Virginia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the CDC. Last week, the CDC told USA Today that based on “early safety data from the first month” of COVID-19 vaccination the vaccines are “as safe as the studies suggested they’d be” and that “everyone who had experienced an allergic response has been treated successfully, and no other serious problems have turned up among the first 22 million people vaccinated.

Other vaccine injury reports updated this week on VAERS include 139 cases of facial asymmetry, or Bell’s palsy type symptoms, and 13 miscarriages.

States reporting the most deaths were: California (45), Florida (22), Ohio (25), New York (22) and Kentucky (22).

The Moderna vaccine lot numbers associated with the highest number of deaths were: 025L20A (20 deaths), 037K20A (21 deaths) and 011J2A (16 deaths) and 025J20A (16 deaths).

For Pfizer, the lot numbers associated with the most reports of deaths were: EK5730 (10 deaths), EJ1685 (23 deaths), EL0140 (19 deaths), EK 9231 (17 deaths) and EL1284 (13 deaths).

For 135 of the reported deaths, the lot numbers were unknown.

The clinical trials suggested that almost all the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination and the vast majority of injuries were associated with the second dose.

While the VAERS database numbers are sobering, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study, the actual number of adverse events is likely significantly higher. VAERS is a passive surveillance system that relies on the willingness of individuals to submit reports voluntarily.

According to the VAERS website, health care providers are required by law to report to VAERS: any adverse event listed in the VAERS Table of Reportable Events Following Vaccination that occurs within the specified time

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period after vaccination and an adverse event listed by the vaccine manufacturer as a contraindication to further doses of the vaccine.

The CDC said health care providers are encouraged to report any adverse event that occurs after the administration of a vaccine licensed in the United States, whether or not it is clear that a vaccine caused the adverse event.

Vaccine administration errors However, “within the specified time” means that reactions occurring outside that timeframe may not be reported, in addition to reactions suffered hours or days later by people who don’t report those reactions to their health care provider.

Vaccine manufacturers are required to report to VAERS “all

adverse events that come to their attention.”

Historically, fewer than fewer than 1% of adverse events have ever been reported to VAERS, a system that Children’s Health Defense has previously referred to as an “abject failure,” including in a December 2020 letter to Dr. David Kessler, former FDA director and now co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and President Joe Biden’s version of Operation Warp Speed.

A critic familiar with VAERS’ shortcomings condemned VAERS in The BMJ as “nothing more than window dressing and a part of U.S. authorities’ systematic effort to reassure/deceive us about vaccine safety.”

Biden quietly nixes Trump-era rule combating Chinese Communist-funded ‘propaganda’ centers Benjamin Zeisloft CAMPUS REFORM

The Trump administration attempted to enact a policy that would force American universities to reveal cooperation with chapters of the Confucius Institute. President Joe Biden quietly revoked the policy a few days after his inauguration.

Axios reported that in the final days of his presidency, Trump enacted a policy that would compel primary, secondary and postsecondary institutions to disclose all contracts and transactions with the Confucius Institute. Under the policy, schools that do not report information would lose certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Records from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs showed that Biden nixed the policy Tuesday, Jan. 26. A representative for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Campus Reform that the policy was rescinded.

Seth Cropsey – director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute – told Campus Reform that the policy could be part of the Biden administration recalibrating on Sino-American relations. However, he said hopes that the new administration is not

trying to “placate China.”

He expressed hope that the Biden administration is not trying to “make overtures... that make it sound as though the United States is unaware or uninterested in their military buildup, their aggression against neighbors, their militarization of the South China Sea and their successful efforts to steal intellectual property.”

In terms of Confucius Institutes, Cropsey said that it is “not normal practice, and for good reason – namely, academic independence and freedom – to allow an outside organization... to say nothing of a country that is a strategic competitor to the United States, to be able to choose professors in a program… within a university.”

Campus Reform reported extensively on the growing influence of the Chinese government on American college campuses.

In August, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially declared Confucius Institutes a “foreign mission” of the People’s Republic of China.

Pompeo explained that the Confucius Institute is “an entity advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on .S. campuses and K-12 classrooms.”

The organization is “funded by the

Deplatforming of Parler under question as arrest numbers highlight Facebook’s role in Capitol Hill riot Michael Ginsberg DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION

Facebook was the social media network most used to organize the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, an analysis of Department of Justice charging documents showed.

The Program on Extremism at George Washington University has collected the indictments of 223 people who have been charged for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which caused five deaths and temporarily delayed the certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Facebook was used by 73 of the people charged with crimes, more than all other social media sites combined, according to a Forbes analysis.

Alternative social media site Parler was banned from using Amazon’s online infrastructure in the wake of the riot due its alleged connection to the violence, but it was only used by eight people charged, Forbes reported. Both Apple and Google removed Parler from their app stores.

Parler did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, previously

assigned culpability for the riot to Parler and Gab, another smaller platform.

“I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, don’t have our standards and don’t have our transparency,” she said Jan. 11, according to The Washington Post. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Facebook has struggled in the past to moderate content from extremist groups on both the left and the right.

A New Zealand man who killed 49 worshipers at a mosque in 2019 used the Facebook Live feature to film the mass shooting.

Facebook announced in August 2020 that it would limit the ability of far-left groups under the Antifa umbrella to organize on the platform.

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PRC and part of the Chinese Communist Party’s global influence and propaganda apparatus,” he said.

Earlier in the Trump administration, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act that prohibited the funding of Confucius Institutes.

Former President Donald Trump signed the act.

Campus Reform reported that American universities accepted more than $24 million from Chinese Communist Party sources since

2015. Much of this funding was directed toward resources for schools’ Confucius Institute chapters. eprinted with permission from ampus eform roject of the Leadership nstitute enjamin eisloft is a ennsyl ania enior ampus orrespondent.

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Rep. Calvert reintroduces the FISH Act to streamline management of endangered fish species WASHINGTON – Rep. Ken Calvert of California’s 42nd District reintroduced the Federally Integrated Species Health Act, House Resolution 866, to consolidate the management and regulation of the Endangered Species Act, with respect to anadromous species, within the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Currently, ESA authority is split between FWS and the National Marine Fisheries Service. The following members are original cosponsors of the F.I.S.H. Act: Rep. Jim Costa, D-CA-16; Rep. Tom McClintock, R-CA-4; Rep. Mike

Simpson, R-ID-2; Rep. Michelle Steel, R-CA-48, and Rep. David Valadao, R-CA-21.

“Having to two separate federal agencies responsible for implementing the Endangered Species Act is bad for the species the law is intended to protect, and bad for Americans trying to comply with the law,” Calvert said. “I have introduced the FISH Act to establish a more consolidated and logical management of our endangered species and our rivers. My legislation will provide stakeholders and our habitats a more uniform approach to managing threatened

and endangered species.”

The ESA is currently administered by FWS and the Commerce Department’s NMFS. The FWS has primary responsibility for terrestrial and freshwater organisms, while the responsibilities of NMFS are mainly marine wildlife such as whales and anadromous fish, such as salmon. The Federally Integrated Species Health Act would transfer the NMFS’ ESA responsibilities for management of anadromous and catadromous species to the FWS. ubmitted by the office of ep. en al ert.

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Parashat Mishpatim: What to do when you don’t know

Rabbi Marc Rubenstein SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Parashat Mishpatim, the 18th weekly Torah portion in Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 24:18, deals with the laws of robbery among many other matters. In Exodus 22:1-2, which is part of the larger discussion of robbery, it said, “If one finds someone who comes through a tunnel (into one’s house,) and one strikes them and they are killed, one is not liable for bloodguilt (murder.) But if the sun shone upon them, there is bloodguilt (it is murder if one kills them.)”

When I was in rabbinical school, in one of my Talmud classes, we studied a section of the Talmud known as “haba b’mahteret” or “one who comes through a tunnel,” in the Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 72a, which commented on these verses.

The section offered three possible interpretations of this verse, which invite readers to contemplate how they judge others they fear.

The text considers the possibility that, as safe as people feel in their homes, someone with malevolent intent could break in and harm them.

But what does the text mean? One opinion in the Gemara suggested the text as follows: if a thief tunnels into someone’s house, that person clearly knows that they might meet the homeowner and that there might be violence. Therefore, from the second that the thief begins to tunnel, “ain

lo damim,” he has no bloodguilt. A homeowner is not liable for killing a person who breaks in, because the assumption is that such a person expected violence to begin with or they wouldn’t have tried to enter the house. Essentially, this reading suggested, the person’s actions clearly indicate their ill intent, and homeowners who come upon such a person in their basement are justified in using lethal force to defend their homes.

However, the Gemara also offers an alternative reading that is different and less literal.

Be certain.

It suggested, “Does the sun rise only on him? ” In other words, the text “if the sun rose upon him” should be read as a metaphor. Rather, if the matter is as clear to the homeowner as the sun that he has come with intention to violence, they may kill him. This interpretation assumed that damim lo, “he has blood,” means “you may kill him.” But if you are not sure, do not kill him.” In this text, only if the person has specifically demonstrated that they intend to harm the homeowner may they use lethal force against the intruder. Otherwise, they must wait to determine their intentions.

The Gemara follows this reading up with a deceptively similar, but opposite, reading: “Does the sun rise only on him? ” Rather, if the matter is as clear to you as the sun that he has not come with intention to violence, you may not kill him. This interpretation assumed that damim lo, “he has blood” means “you may not kill him, but if you are not sure, kill him.”

This reading understands the text as follows: if the person who breaks in is “in a tunnel” – meaning their intentions are obscure – you may kill them to defend yourself. But if “the sun has shone” upon the person – meaning it is clear they don’t mean to harm you, you may not harm them.

The three readings offer three different standards for self-defense: You may use lethal force against anyone who breaks into your home; you may use lethal force against anyone who breaks into your home unless you have reason to believe they won’t harm you or you may not use lethal force against a person who breaks into your home unless they specifically demonstrate they are about to harm you.

Consider different interpretations.

Each of these interpretations balances the question of risk to the homeowner and risk to a potentially innocent intruder differently, and each one reasons differently about what I can conclude about another human being when I don’t have a lot of information. The Gemara has an obscure way of resolving the contradiction that involves parents breaking into children’s homes and vice versa, but to me, that is less interesting than this basic disagreement about how to handle a situation where people feel afraid for their lives.

Everyone is aware of times when a police officer or civilian, perhaps believing someone is going to harm them, uses lethal force, before it comes out that the person who was shot “in self-defense” was unarmed and not threatening the shooter.

In some of these cases, the shooter malevolently shot an unarmed person, but in many others, the shooter perceived a person as threatening when that wasn’t the case. As people know, biases around race play a large part in these events: people of color are more likely to be shot even when they’re innocent. Lack of awareness around mental illness can also be a factor in some of these cases: people may be treated as threatening when they’re really just ill or non-responsive. These incredibly painful cases

indicate that people can indeed make wrong judgments about whom they should fear, and those wrong judgments can lead to fatal error.

These incidents show that the Gemara’s concern – that people might act before they know the individual’s true intent and harm an innocent person – is just as real today.

I’m not a legal expert, nor am I an expert in self-defense, and it wouldn’t be right for me to give advice about what to do if, God forbid, someone actually breaks into a home. Nevertheless, I want to consider some larger implications of these three readings.

Review the implications.

One question people might consider is: are they any good at determining people’s intent? Are their fears of others justified And what if they’re wrong? I am moved by the Gemara’s attempt to consider, even in a situation where people might reasonably be afraid, that people may be judging before they have enough information.

Everyone can learn from the Gemara’s discussion as they consider, as citizens, how to improve the criminal justice system – but they can also learn from this discussion in their daily lives. When someone seems angry, people might consider that maybe they are misinterpreting the other person’s words or actions. If someone is whispering in the corner of the room, people shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that the person is talking about them. Often, they can afford to give people the benefit of the doubt – and when they do, they can end up with a much kinder interaction than they might otherwise have had.

I often remember a moment when I was leading a service and a person got up and left. I was convinced I had offended that person and spent the rest of the service, not praying, but obsessing over what I might have

done wrong. Later the person told me how enjoyable the service was, and that she was sorry she had developed a headache. I had judged her by an action I saw but had reached entirely the wrong conclusion. It was a good learning experience for me about how not to waste my energy on assuming things I didn’t know.

And, people should also remember that their biases can influence them even in daily interactions. A recent post by Marra Gad, a Jew of color, makes this instance clear.

Marra Gad presented recently at a liberal Jewish conference, and she describes how person after person assumed that she didn’t belong there, worked for the hotel, etc., etc. and harassed her with questions and demands until the conference organizers had to provide her with an escort to minimize further harassing incidents. The unthinking assumptions of the individuals who caused Marra Gad’s discomfort contributed to a hostile environment. When people train themselves and others not to make assumptions, they help others feel comfortable being themselves.

Wait to assume.

Sometimes, not knowing is a spiritual practice. Parashat Mishpatim, which deals with and prescribes behavior for many difficult moments in daily life, also reminds everyone to wait to assume until things have become clear – in the words of the parashah, until the sun has risen upon them. Just like Jacob who wrestled all night until the sun had risen upon him, people today can receive a blessing from wrestling with the truth until they know for sure. ongregation nai haim is located at 2 9 5 0 0 V ia P rincesa in urrieta. or more information, visit www.bnaichaim.com or https: / / www.facebook.com/ ongregationnai haim/.

through faith in Christ Jesus,” in 2 Timothy 3:14-15.

7. It equips you to fight against sin and live for Christ.

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work,” 2 Timothy 3:16-17.

8. It tells you the truth.

“Sanctify them by the truth; your Word is truth,” in John 17:17.

9. It lights your way.

“Your Word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path,” in Psalm 119:105.

10. It keeps you from sin.

“I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might not sin against

you,” in Psalm 119:11.

11. It’s flawless.

“As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s Word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him,” in Psalm 18:30.

12. It has the power to save you.

“Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the Word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says,” in James 1:21-22. achary lliott is the lead pastor of usion hristian hurch in emecula. or more information, isit https: / / www.fusionchristianchurch. com, http //www.encouragementtoday.tv or nd them on nstagram.

12 reasons why you still need the Bible Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Bible, God’s Word, is far from old fashioned. I know some believe that its teachings are outdated and irrelevant, but that doesn’t make it so. It seems current culture’s way of thinking and list of morals are on opposite ends of the spectrum from the teaching of the scriptures.

It leads some to believe that it’s not needed anymore.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible, God’s Word, is just as relevant now as it has ever been.

And with countries burning Bibles and killing Christians worldwide, it is needed now more than ever.

Here are 12 reasons why you still

need the Bible in your life.

1. It was from the beginning.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” in John 1:1-2.

2. It’s revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth,” in John 1:14.

3. It will be relevant for eternity.

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away,” in Mark 13:31.

4. It’s a living and active judge of your heart.

“For the Word of God is alive and

active. Sharper than any doubleedged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart,” in Hebrews 4:12.

5. It’s needed for life.

“It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God,’” in Matthew 4:4.

6. It makes you wise to salvation in Jesus Christ.

“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation

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Regular Happenings Hamilton High School – Find out what is happening using Hamilton’s online calendar at http:// www.hamiltonbobcats.net/apps/ events/calendar/.

Hamilton Museum – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays at 39991 Contreras Road in Anza. For more information, call 951-763-1350 or visit http:// www.hamiltonmuseum.org. Find them on Facebook at “HamiltonMuseum-and-Ranch-Foundation.”

Health, exercise, resources and recovery meetings Narcotics Anonymous Meeting – 6 p.m. Every Tuesday at Shepherd Of The Valley Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. Open participation.

Veterans’ Gathering Mondays – 9-11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 39075 Contreras Road, in Anza. Men and women veterans come to share and help each other deal with posttraumatic stress disorder and other difficulties. Call John Sheehan at 951-923-6153. If you need an advocate to help with VA benefits, call Ronnie Imel at 951-659-9884.

The Most Excellent Way – Christ-centered recovery program for all kinds of addiction meets Fridays from 7-8:30 p.m. and Tuesdays from 8-10 a.m. Program is court approved; child care is provided. Transportation help is available. The group meets at 58050 Highway 371; the cross street is Kirby Road in Anza.

AA Men’ s Meeting – 7 p.m.

Meetings take place Thursdays at 39551 Kirby Road in Anza, south of Highway 371.

Alcoholics Anonymous – 8 p.m.

Wednesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road in Anza. For more information, call 951-7634226.

Bereaved Parents of the USA – The Aguanga-Anza Chapter of BPUSA will hold its meetings 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 49109 Lakeshore Blvd. in Aguanga. For more information, contact chapter leader Linda Hardee at 951-551-2826.

Free Mobile Health Clinic – Open every third Wednesday of the month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. No appointment is needed. Uninsured may only be seen in the Anza Community Hall’s parking lot or inside the hall.

Medication Assistance and Treatment for Opioid Dependence – Get treatment for heroin addiction. Transportation to the clinic is provided. For more information, contact Borrego Health’s Anza Community Health Center, 58581 Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call 951-7634759.

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 evin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger Road in Anza.

Monthly Christian Men’ s Breakfast – 9 a.m. Breakfast takes place the fourth Saturday of each month and rotates to different locations. Contact Jeff Crawley at 951763-1257 for more information.

Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – 10 a.m. Weekly Wednesday Bible study takes place at 56095 Pena Road in Anza. Call 951-763-4226 for more information.

Valley Gospel Chapel – 7 a.m.

Saturday Men’s Study meets weekly with breakfast usually served at 43275 Chapman Road in the Terwilliger area of Anza. For more information, call 951-763-4622.

Anza First Southern Baptist Church – 9 a.m. The church offers Sunday school for all ages with a 10:30 a.m. worship service and 6 p.m. for prayer and Bible study. Youth ministry meets Mondays from 6-8 p.m. The women’s Bible study meets Thursdays at 10 a.m., but it is on hiatus through the summer. Celebrate Recovery meets Fridays; doors open at 5:30 p.m. with large group meeting, 6-7 p.m.; small group share, 7-8 p.m. and Cross Talk Cafe, 8-8:30 p.m.

Church is located at 39200 Rolling Hills Road in Anza. For more information, contact at 951-763-4937,

anzabptistchurch@gmail.com or http://www.anzabaptistchurch. com.

Clubs TOPS Meeting – Take Off Pounds Sensibly support group meets Wednesdays weekly. Weigh in at 8:30 a.m., meeting at 8:45 a.m. at Thompson Hall at the Anza Baptist Church, 39200 Rolling Hills Road, in Anza. For more information, visit http://www.TOPS.org.

High Country Recreation – Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at ERA Excel Realty in Anza. For more information, call Albert Rodriguez at 951-492-1624 or Robyn Garrison at 805-312-0369.

HCR Bingo fundraisers – 6:30-9:30 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 vfw1 8 7 3 anzaca@gmail.com. For more information, call 951-7634439 or visit http://vfw1873.org.

High Country 4-H Club – 6:30 p.m. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, except February, at Anza Community Hall. 4-H Club is for youth 5 to 19 years old offering a variety of projects. High Country 4-H Club is open to children living in the Anza, Aguanga and surrounding areas.

For more information, call Allison Renck at 951-663-5452.

Anza Valley Artists Meetings – 1 p.m. Meetings are third Saturday of each month at various locations.

Share art, ideas and participate in shows. Guests speakers are always needed. For more information, call president Rosie Grindle at 951-928-1248. Find helpful art tips at http://www.facebook.com/ AnzaValleyArtists/.

Anza Q uilter’ s Club – 9:30 a.m. to noon. Meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza.

Anza Valley Lions Club – The Anza Valley Lions Club is open to all men and women who want to work together for the betterment of the community. Guest meetings with dinner are held 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at Anza Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Meetings and events are posted on the Anza Lions Club website, http:// www.anzalionsclub.org. For more information, call president Michele Brown at 760-637-9173.

Boy Scouts Troop 319 – Cub Scouts meet 6 p.m. every Tuesday, and Boy Scouts meet 7 p.m. every Wednesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Contreras Road, south of state Route 371, in Anza. For more information, call Richard Hotchkiss at 951-551-3154.

Boys Scouts Troop 371 – Boy Scouts meet at Lake Riverside Estates. For more information, call Ginny Kinser at 909-702-7902.

Civil Air Patrol – Squadron 59 is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the Anza area at 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 951-7635611 for information.

Redshank Riders – 7 p.m.

Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anza, the second Thursday of each month. Visit http://www. redshankriders.com or call Carol Schmuhl for membership information at 951-663-6763.

Anza Thimble Club – The club meets the first Thursday of the month at Valley Gospel Chapel, 43275 Chapman Road in Anza.

The social hour is 11:30 a.m., and lunch is served at noon. Contact Carol Wright at 951-763-2884 for more information.

Organizations Terwilliger Community Association – 6 p.m. Second Monday of the month at VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anza. Potluck dinner open to all. For more information, call Tonie Ford at 951-763-4560.

From the Heart Christian Women’ s Ministries – Noon.

Monthly luncheon and guest speaker are held the second Saturday of each month. The $5 charge covers lunch at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anza. From the Heart helps the area’s neediest children and invites all women and men to join in their mission. Donate or help with the rummage sales twice a year to raise funds for the cause or other events. For more information, call president Christi James at 951-595-2400.

Anza Community Hall – 7 p.m.

General membership meetings are held the fourth Thursday of the month. Memberships cost $20 per person or $35 per business, and both get one vote. No government funds are allocated for the Hall, which pays its bills through memberships and swap meets. Voting members receive discounts off hall rentals, swap meet booths and save on propane gas from Farrell Gas. Mail membership to: Anza Community Building Inc. at P.O. Box 390091, Anza, CA 92539. The hall is located at 56630 Highway 371 in Anza. Swap meet held each Saturday of the month, weather permitting, early morning to 1 p.m. Vendors wanted. For more information, call 951-282-4267.

Anza Valley Municipal Advisory Council – 7 p.m. Second Wednesday of each odd month at Anza Community Hall. Group serves as local liaisons to the county from the community. For more information, call 951-805-6800.

Anza Civic Improvement League – 9 a.m. meets the first Saturday of each month at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The league maintains Minor Park and Little Red School House, which are both available to rent for events. No government funds are allowed; the membership pays the bills – $10 a person, $18 family or $35 business membership. For more information, visit http://www. anzacivic.org.

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The Riverside County Department of Waste Resources hosts free virtual classes in backyard composting and vermicomposting, green cleaning and green gardening, making your home zero waste and garden talks with master gardeners that can be accessed on any computer, tablet or smartphone.

Attend a class on composting and vermicomposting Saturday, March 6, from 9-11 a.m.

A class on green cleaning & green gardening will be offered Saturday, March 13, from 9-10 a.m.

The “Make Your Home Zero Waste” class will meet Saturday, Feb. 20, from 9-10 a.m.

Attend a Garden Talk on “Warm

Season Vegetables,” Saturday, March 27, from 9-10 a.m.

Learn how to recycle organic resources, such as yard trimmings, as well as fruit and vegetable waste, into a dark, crumbly, sweetsmelling soil conditioner called compost. If you don’t have yard trimmings or lack suitable space to compost, vermicomposting is an alternative that can be done in an empty plastic bin, bucket or cat litter container.

Composting is nature’s way of recycling. It’s a great way to turn waste into a garden. In composting, organic material is mixed together in a pile or bin, where literally millions of tiny microbes digest the material and turn it into a nutrient-rich soil amendment.

Vermicomposting puts worms to work, as red wigglers will break down organic waste, such as apple cores and banana peels, and turn them into a nutrient-rich byproduct called worm castings.

The green cleaning class teaches residents the benefits of using environmentally sound cleaning practices that use less toxic ingredients. Presenters will explain why it is important to simplify cleaning products, how to save money and how to make homes a safer environment. They will demonstrate how easy it is to make cleaning products from ingredients most people already have in their pantry. Attends can download a booklet that contains recipes to make their own cleaning products at home.

The green gardening class teaches residents the benefits of using environmentally sound gardening practices that use less toxic ingredients. It will demonstrate how easy it is to make garden products from ingredients most people already have in their pantry and include a downloadable flyer with recipes to make their own gardening products at home.

The Garden Talks are conducted in partnership with University of California’s Cooperative Extension’s master gardeners. Future talks will cover “Water Efficient Landscape” in June and “Preparing the Winter Garden” in September.

If attendees would like to put the principles taught in the vermicomposting class into practice, compost bins are available for purchase at the headquarters facility, 14310 Frederick Street, in Moreno Valley. These bins are only available for purchase by Riverside County residents and have a limit of three per household.

The free virtual classes can be accessed via the sign-up link found at http://www.rcwaste.org/classes.

For more information, call 951-486-3200, visit http://www. rcwaste.org/classes or email WasteCompRecyc@rcwaste.org.

Submitted by Riverside County.

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BLM and Forest Service host free event to celebrate 5th anniversary of Sand to Snow National Monument MORENO VALLEY – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, invite the public to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Sand to Snow National Monument with a free public nature hunt, Feb. 12-14.

“I am excited about celebrating this important milestone for the Sand to Snow National Monument along with the public and our friends and partner groups,” Jihadda Govan, manager of the Sand to Snow National Monument, said. “The monument offers so many family-friendly outdoor activities, including hiking, hunting, picnicking, wildlife viewing, horseback riding and snow play.

There is so much to offer.”

The nature hunt will take place

over 48 hours, from noon Friday, Feb. 12, to noon Sunday, Feb. 14.

People of all ages are invited to participate using the free iNaturalist smartphone app to identify as many species of plants and animals as possible along designated monument trails. The BLM and Forest Service encouraged participants to follow the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including social distancing and wearing a mask.

The goal of the nature hunt is to give the public an opportunity to experience the monument’s unique biological value and natural habitats, which include deserts, foothills and mountains, while also contributing to genuine scientific research. The data gathered by

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the public will be used by BLM and Forest Service staff to better understand the types and locations of species within the monument.

The Sand to Snow National Monument extends from BLM lands on the Sonoran Desert floor to the San Gorgonio Wilderness on the San Bernardino National Forest. The 11,500-foot San Gorgonio Mountain within the monument is the highest peak in California, south of the Sierra Nevada. The area has some of the most rugged topography in southern California, with steep slopes culminating in a granite ridge over 7 miles long and 2 miles high. The monument also includes 30 miles of the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail.

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ment include Mojave Desert Lands Trust, San Gorgonio Wilderness Association, Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve and Friends of the Desert Mountains. A series of preserves owned by The Wildlands Conservancy are managed for public access and serve as entry points from the north, south and east of the Monument. By day, enjoy unmatched discovery.

By night, camp in solitude under the stars.

For additional details and to register for the Nature Hunt event, visit https://www.desertmountains. org/sandtosnow. For more information, contact Tracy Albrecht, interpretive specialist of Bureau of Land Management by email at talbrech@blm.gov.

The BLM manages more than

245 million acres of public land located primarily in 11 western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The agency’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. Diverse activities authorized on these lands generated $111 billion in economic output across the country in fiscal year 2020 – more than any other agency in the Department of the Interior. These activities supported more than 498,000 jobs.

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bers also assisted other people on the trail with recovering their vehicles stuck in mud or snow.

“I had a great time leading the Thomas Mountain Adventure Run,” Sandvik said. “There could not have been a better group of people to lead than the Axle Benders family.”

The club focuses on teaching safe four-wheel-drive techniques and hosting challenging events, and they follow the “Leave No Trace” protocol.

The Axle Benders Off-road 4x4 Club SoCal is a family-oriented organization for off-road enthusiasts. All makes and models of fourwheel-drive vehicles are welcome, Sandvik said.

For more information on the club, find Axle Benders Off-road 4x4 Club SoCal on Facebook.

Diane Siek er can be reached by email at dsiek er@reedermedia. com.

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Sandvik – with other club members Nathan Chavarria, Squeak Smith and Kevin Murphy, among others – made the decision not to proceed further up the trail due to extremely icy conditions and deep snow at the higher elevations.

Nonetheless, club members enjoyed playing in the snow, assisting each other out of deep drifts and exploring the campground before heading back down the trail toward Garner Valley.

“This was my second run with the Axle Benders and my first run up Thomas Mountain,” Leo Swithenbank said. “It was great bonding with my son, nephew, cousin, dad and the Axle Benders family. Hopefully I won’t have to get yanked out again.”

Many of the members had not driven in snow before and benefited from lessons shared by more experienced members. Club mem-

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Improve your home’s indoor air quality

New custodian at Hamilton TK-8 School is Anza resident

roactively addressing potential air uality issues can result in cleaner air and ore co fortable living.

Valley News/Courtesy photos

Family Features SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

As Americans continue to spend more time at home, it’s important to support the health and comfort of those living spaces. Regularly cleaning and disinfecting surfaces is an important step, but one often overlooked aspect of a home’s health and comfort is its air quality.

Proactively addressing potential air quality issues can result in cleaner air and more comfortable living.

There are multiple factors that may affect your home’s air quality.

Indoor particulate matter consists of the visible and invisible airborne particles in the air that can enter the nose and lungs, some triggering allergies, asthma and other potential health problems.

Carbon monoxide, sometimes called the “silent killer,” is a colorless, odorless gas that can build up to dangerous levels if not properly ventilated, causing headaches, drowsiness and, in some cases, death.

Too much humidity can encourage the growth of bacteria and mold. Too little humidity can dry out your skin and wood furniture.

Volatile organic compounds are emitted by everything from household cleaners and paint to new furniture and dry-cleaned clothing.

These compounds can have an adverse impact on your short- and long-term health, so proper ventilation is essential.

The level of air pollution in your community can affect indoor air quality since opening a door or window brings that air indoors.

If you’re unsure about your home’s unique air quality needs, you may benefit from a tool like Carrier’s “Improve My Air” quiz, which was designed to help home-

owners and renters determine which indoor air quality solution is a good fit for their spaces. ou can also take steps to improve the indoor air quality of your home with these practical tips.

Change your filters. Clean filters support your heating and cooling system’s ability to operate efficiently.

Control humidity levels. When the air is too damp, the chance of bacteria and mold growth is higher, but when it’s too dry, your skin, lungs and furniture may feel the impact. Many experts recommend a humidity level of 40-50% for optimal air quality.

Invest in an air purifier. An air purifier is a simple way to improve your indoor air quality. Carrier has just introduced a new room air purifier that doesn’t require professional installation, making it an easy and portable solution for both homeowners and people renting their spaces. The purifier comes in two sizes and is powerful enough to purify the air in rooms up 550 square feet. Its high-performance fan and high-efficiency filtration system capture airborne pollutants and its 360-degree design filters air from multiple angles while easy-to-change filters make it a low-maintenance solution for busy households.

Strategically place greenery.

Plants are natural air filters, so placing a few indoor plants around your living space may help improve your indoor air quality while also enhancing your home’s decor.

Small plants like ferns and lilies are among the best options for pulling contaminants from the air.

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Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Teachers, parents and staff welcomed Johnny Slevcove – a 1997 Hamilton High School graduate – as the new custodian at Hamilton TK-8 School recently.

Following his new job being announced on social media to the

elementary school family, Slevcove celebrated his school dressed in a Bobcat blue T-shirt as he went about his work on campus.

“I attended Hamilton from the fourth grade up to graduation,” he said. “I played football and baseball. I’m happy to be working at the school I attended and making a difference.”

Though students cannot attend campus classes, they were introduced to Slevcove via social media, and he has felt the warmth of the Hamilton school community, he said.

Diane Siek er can be reached by email at dsiek er@reedermedia. com.

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Crews responded to the 42000 block of Lilac Lane and found heavy fire showing from a mobile home, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

Firefighters extinguished the blaze about 40 minutes later.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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Newsom’s COVID-19 response and executive orders. The growing discontent in recent weeks has caused an uptick in the number of voters signing the recall petition, Morelli said.

The statewide campaign to recall Newsom eclipsed 1.4 million signatures Thursday, Feb. 4, setting a new weekly record of more than 100,000 signatures gathered.

“We had a fabulous day out in front of my community collecting recall signatures,” Morelli said. “J. R. and I had people from all over stopping and turning around to stop and sign. I heard all kinds of reasons why people want Newsom recalled.

Today was very productive.”

According to recallgavin2020. com, the recall effort is a campaign fueled by volunteers, not a political party movement. Democrats and independents, as well as Republicans have signed the petition.

On Oct. 7, 2003, former Gov. Gray Davis was recalled with 55.4% of the votes in favor of the recall and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected to replace him as governor.

Recall supporters have until Wednesday, March 10, to collect 1.495 million valid voter signatures to trigger a special recall election in 2021.

Diane Siek er can be reached by email at dsiek er@reedermedia.com.

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Cristina Thudium captures scenes from Lake Riverside Estates

Cahuilla Mountain towers over the community of Lake Riverside Estates.

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Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Cristina Thudium captured many scenic images recently from within the gates of Lake Riverside Estates. Using her iPhone camera, she captured many during her almost daily walks with her friend Marta Spencer.

From pictures of sunsets and clouds to snow-capped local mountains, Thudium shares her photos on the Facebook group “Lake Riverside Estates Friends” for everyone to see.

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Biden: ‘You can’t (legislate) by executive order unless you’re a dictator’

Harold W. Pease, Ph.D. SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY NEWS

Just three weeks before the 2020 election presidential candidate Joe Biden said something very profound – even constitutional.

“I have this strange notion; we are a democracy… If you can’t get the votes … you can’t (legislate) by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” he said.

President Joe Biden “signed more executive actions on day one than Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton combined,” – 17, according to Amanda Shendruk in Quartz, Jan. 20. By the end of January, just 11 days, he had signed “25 executive orders, 10 presidential memos and four proclamations,” – 39 total, according to an article by Amanda Shendruk, “How Joe Biden’s executive orders compare with those of other

presidents,” in Quartz, Jan. 31.

Proclamations are mostly ceremonial and executive orders and memoranda, both legally binding, differ little.

None of these 39 actions went through Congress for the needed consensus Biden spoke of. By his own definition he has shown himself to be a dictator. He dismissed Congress as America’s only lawmaking body effectively appointing himself the legislature. He is no longer even attempting to get their votes before he decrees. Thus far in this new socialist government he rules by decree, precisely as does Vladimir Putin in Russia and X i Jinping in China, other socialist countries. He also came to power as they, by censoring opposing information and election fraud as witnessed by every American willing to review the data.

There is nothing more clear nor basic in the Constitution than the separation of federal power into three branches, one to legislate, another to execute legislated law and a third to adjudicate possible violations, when contested, of that law – a division of power held “sacred” until the last few decades. According to the Constitution, “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives,” in Article I, Section I. The executive branch has no authority to make law – any law.

Executive orders are constitutional only when they cite a single, re-

cently passed law of Congress, where that law needs a statement of implementation by the executive branch. Nor can a president cob together parts of ancient laws to create new authority never intended by the authors of previous law. Originally, they were but interdepartmental directives and not intended to do anything more.

No mention of them exists in the Constitution.

Democrats formerly recognized that executive orders making law weakens the sole power of Congress to make all law and places us on the road of government by decree or edict of one man. In March 28, 2011, former President Barack Obama said, with respect to the idea of nullifying Congress on the deportation issue of people living in the country illegally, “The notion that I can just suspend deportations just through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed.”

But in one of Biden’s recently signed executive orders, he did suspend deportations.

The nation must choose the Constitution over political party.

How does a president’s defiance of Congress on deportation or climate change or anything, differ from what a king or dictator does?

It doesn’t. The Constitution exists to protect all parties and all citizens from arbitrary and caprice rules.

Some defending a president’s executive order practice of making rules may suggest, naively, that such are not laws and thus OK. The

Founders made no distinction between rules and laws. Regulations and laws have in common three things, they impose a restriction, administer a penalty or prohibit an activity. Congress alone can make them and has no authority to give away its exclusive power to do so, whether called a regulation or a law, nor to allow the executive branch to do it for them. The people have the right to know that every restriction imposed upon their behavior was read and voted on by four elected, thus accountable, persons – their congressional representative, their two U.S. Senators and their president.

The constitutional response to the theft of Congresses sole power to legislate, should be threefold: first, renounce any president’s decree, and second, the House should refuse all funding to implement decrees as per Article I, Section 7. If the first two fail to enlist the president’s obedience to the Constitution, Congress must activate against him his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” in Article II, Section 1, Clause 8. His failure to honor his oath is “a high crime,” an impeachable offense. This action should receive the support of every member of Congress as they too took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution.

Unfortunately, party loyalty for some is higher than constitutional loyalty.

It is especially so when a president initiates an executive order in direct conflict with existing law as

when Obama June 16, 2012, failing to get a favorable vote from Congress stopping deportation of those living in the country illegally, openly defied Congress, existing law and his promise not to do so, by ordering it anyway by executive order. Thus the birth of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Democrats should reign in their president. If they do not they, in effect, give permission for the next Republican president to defy Congress on something Democrats had previously established as law.

He too could nullify that law by executive decree.

Except for the few laws of Congress requiring a statement of implementation by the president, all other types of executive orders are unconstitutional and must stop.

If they do not, the inevitable will happen – Congress will nullify itself and dictatorial decrees will be the standard. With 39 executive actions in the first 11 days, it appears to have already happened under Biden.

Dr. Harold P ease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the U nited States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and to applying that k nowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. To read more of his week ly articles, visit http: / / www.

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -202012148 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as C K O M U RRIE TA 40385 M urrieta H ot Springs R oad , M urrieta, CA 9 2563 a l n A ess ateway nt l I rvine, CA 9 2618 County: R iversid e A tness ateway n t ne CA 9 2618 This business is cond ucted by a Corporation Th s o po at on s e ste e n the state o A R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business un e the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: K imia Sad eghian, Secretary tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 11/24/2020 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 6 8 PU BLISH E D: De c e m b e r 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 epublished February , 2, , 2 , 2 2 State ent file date incorrect in original publication

FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -2020119 69 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as M ISSIO N C ARRIE R 79 10 A M ission B lvd , R iversid e, CA 9 2509 County: R iversid e R anbir -- Singh, 79 10 A M ission B lvd , R iversid e, CA 9 2509 This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business un e the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: R anbir -- Singh tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 11/18/2020 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 6 9 PU BLISH E D: De c e m b e r 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 epublished February , 2, , 2 , 2 2 State ent file date incorrect in original publication

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -202101201 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as M ISSIO N C ARRIE R 79 10 M ission B lvd ., R iversid e, CA 9 2509 County: R iversid e R anbir -- Singh, 79 10 M ission B lvd ., R iversid e, CA 9 2509 This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business un e the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: R anbir -- Singh tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 1/29 /2021 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 9 7 PU BLISH E D: F e b r u a r y 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , M a r c h 5 ,2 0 2 1

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N O TIC E O F H E ARIN G D ate: 03/18/21 Time: 8: 00 am D ept: S101 The a ess o the ou t Aul oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Justice Center A opy o th s e to how ause shall e pu l she at least on e ea h wee o ou su ess e wee s p o to the ate set o hea n on the pet t on n the ollow n newspape o general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 1/19 /21 ne e ey el u e o the upe o Court LE GAL: 3 2 9 3 PU BLISH E D: F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 2 1

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N O TIC E O F H E ARIN G D ate: 03/04/21 Time: 8: 00 am D ept: S101 The a ess o the ou t Aul oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Justice Center A opy o th s e to how ause shall e pu l she at least on e ea h wee o ou su ess e wee s p o to the ate set o hea n on the pet t on n the ollow n newspape o general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 1/5/21 ne e ey el u e o the upe o Court LE GAL: 3 2 8 8 PU BLISH E D: J a n u a r y 2 2 , 2 9 , F e b r u a r y 5 ,1 2 ,2 0 2 1

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SH O W C AU SE F O R C H AN GE O F N AM E ase Nu e V TO AL L I NTE R E STE D P E R SO NS P etitioner: DALLAS O ’ K E LLY le a pet t on w th th s ou t o a e ee han n na es as ollows P resent Name: DALLAS O ’ K E LLY P roposed Name: DALLAS O RIO N PIC K RO N TH E CO U R T O R D E R S that all persons interested n th s atte appea e o e th s ou t at the hea n n ate elow to show ause any why the pet t on o han e o na e shoul not e granted . Any person obj ecting to the name changes es e a o e ust file a w tten o e t on that n lu es the easons o the o e t on at least two ou t ays e o e the atte s s he ule to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ause why the pet t on shoul not e ante no w tten o e t on s t ely file the ou t ay ant the petition without a hearing.

N O TIC E O F H E ARIN G D ate: 2/25/21 Time: 8: 00 am D ept: S101 The a ess o the ou t Aul oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Justice Center A opy o th s e to how ause shall e pu l she at least on e ea h wee o ou su ess e wee s p o to the ate set o hea n on the pet t on n the ollow n newspape o general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 12/3/20 ne e ey el u e o the upe o ou t LE GAL: 3 2 8 9 PU BLISH E D: J a n u a r y 2 2 , 2 9 , F e b r u a r y 5 ,1 2 ,2 0 2 1

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SH O W C AU SE F O R C H AN GE O F N AM E Case Number: CVM V2000384 TO AL L I NTE R E STE D P E R SO NS P etitioner: ADE Y E M I W ILLS le a pet t on w th th s ou t o a e ee han n na es as ollows P resent Name: ADE Y E M I W ILLS P roposed Name: C H Y E F ’ ADE Y E M I W ALAK AF A- W ILLS TH E CO U R T O R D E R S that all persons interested n th s atte appea e o e th s ou t at the hea n n ate elow to show ause any why the pet t on o han e o na e shoul not e granted . Any person obj ecting to the name changes es e a o e ust file a w tten o e t on that n lu es the easons o the o e t on at least two ou t ays e o e the atte s s he ule to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ause why the pet t on shoul not e ante no w tten o e t on s t ely file the ou t ay ant the petition without a hearing.

N O TIC E O F H E ARIN G D ate: 03/11/21 Time: 1: 30 P M D ept: M V2 The a ess o the ou t ea o A e o eno Valley A A opy o th s e to how ause shall e pu l she at least on e ea h wee o ou su ess e wee s p o to the ate set o hea n on the pet t on n the ollow n newspape o general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 11/24/20 ne V saa u e o the upe o ou t LE GAL: 3 2 9 6 PU BLISH E D: F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 2 0 2 1

C H AN GE O F N AM E C AU SE F O R C H AN GE O F N AM E ase Nu e V TO AL L I NTE R E STE D P E R SO NS P etitioner: GE O RGE ADAM S N E AR le a pet t on w th th s ou t o a e ee han n na es as ollows P resent Name: GE O RGE ADAM S N E AR P roposed Name: GE O RGE ADAM S LO PE Z - N E AR TH E CO U R T O R D E R S that all persons interested n th s atte appea e o e th s ou t at the hea n n ate elow to show ause any why the pet t on o han e o na e shoul not e granted . Any person obj ecting to the name changes es e a o e ust file a w tten o e t on that n lu es the easons o the o e t on at least two ou t ays e o e the atte s s he ule to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ause why the pet t on shoul not e ante no w tten o e t on s t ely file the ou t ay ant the petition without a hearing.

N O TIC E O F H E ARIN G D ate: 03/18/21 Time: 8: 00 am D ept: S101 The a ess o the ou t Aul oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Justice Center A opy o th s e to how ause shall e pu l she at least on e ea h wee o ou su ess e wee s p o to the ate set o hea n on the pet t on n the ollow n newspape o general circulation, printed in this county: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 1/19 /21 ne e ey el u e o the upe o Court LE GAL: 3 2 9 4 PU BLISH E D: F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 2 1

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -202101170 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as F RO N T AN D F IF TH STRE E T IN C .

2849 5 O ld Town Front Street, Temecula, Ca 9 259 3 M ailing Ad d ress: P O B ox 169 7, Temecula, Ca 9 259 0 County: R iversid e ont An th t eet n l Town ont Street, Temecula, CA 9 259 3 This business is cond ucted by a Corporation Th s o po at on s e ste e n the state o al o n a R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e on / / e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: P ed ro E sparza , P resid ent tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 1/28/2021 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 9 5 PU BLISH E D: F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 2 1

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -202012181 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as DAK DE N TAL M AN AGE M E N T l Town ont t eet Te e ula al o n a 9 259 0 County: R iversid e A ental ana e ent A al o n a Corporation, 28314 O ld Town Front Street, Te e ula al o n a This business is cond ucted by a Corporation Th s o po at on s e ste e n the state o A R egistrant commenced to transact business und er the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e on / / e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Amad a R ivera, Secretary tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 11/25/2020 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 7 1 PU BLISH E D: De c e m b e r 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 2 0 2 0 , J a n u a r y 1 ,2 0 2 1 epublished February , 2, , 2 , 2 2 Correction of registrant s na e

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FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -20210059 1 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as R M O O N LIGH TIN G un ounty ane en ee A County: R iversid e a. Jorge - R ocha, 29 785 Sun County L ane, en ee A b. M elissa Sommer R ocha, 29 785 Sun County ane en ee A This business is cond ucted by a M arried Couple R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business un e the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Jorge - R ocha tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 1/14/2021 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 9 2 PU BLISH E D: J a n u a r y 2 9 , F e b r u a r y 5 ,1 2 ,1 9 ,2 0 2 1

FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT File Number: R -202010573 The ollow n pe son s s a e o n us ness as GIF TS AM AZ IN G n heste oa A Te e ula A 9 259 1 a l n A ess lt oa all oo A 9 2028 County: R iversid e ta ey ane s lt oa all oo CA 9 2028 This business is cond ucted by an I nd ivid ual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business un e the fi t t ous na e l ste a o e e la e that all n o at on n th s state ent s t ue and correct. ( A registrant who d eclares as true any ate al atte pu suant to e t on o the us ness an o ess ons o e that the e st ant nows to e alse s u lty o a s e eano pun sha le y a fine not to e ee one thousan d ollars ( $ 1,000) .)

R egistrant: Stacey Jane R iggs tate ent was file w th the ounty le o R iversid e County on 10/16/2020 N T NA AN T V N ( a) O F SE CTI O N 179 20, A FI CTI TI O U S NAM E STATE M E NT GE NE R AL L Y E X P I R E S AT TH E E ND O F FI VE Y E AR S FR O M TH E D ATE O N T A NT T CO U NTY CL E R K , E X CE P T, AS P R O VI D E D I N V N T N I T E X P I R E S 40 D AY S AFTE R ANY CH ANGE I N TH E FACTS SE T FO R TH I N TH E STATE M E NT P U R SU ANT TO SE CTI O N 179 13 O TH E R TH AN A CH ANGE I N TH E R E SI D E NCE AD D R E SS O F A T N A N TT B U SI NE SS NAM E STATE M E NT M U ST B E FI L E D B E FO R E TH E E X P I R ATI O N. TH E FI L I NG O F TH I S STATE M E NT D O E S NO T T A T T N T STATE O F A FI CTI TI O U S B U SI NE SS NAM E I N VI O L ATI O N O F TH E R I GH TS O F ANO TH E R N A TAT N A ( SE E SE CTI O N 14411 E T SE Q ., B U SI NE SS AND P R O FE SSI O NS CO D E ) . I H E R E B Y CE R TI FY TH AT TH I S CO P Y I S A CO R R E CT CO P Y O F TH E O R I GI NAL STATE M E NT O N FI L E I N M Y O FFI CE .

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LE GAL: 3 2 5 9 PU BLISH E D: N o v e m b e r 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 , De c e m b e r 4 , 2 0 2 0 S January 2 , February , 2, , 2 2 ncorrect suite nu ber as listed in the original publication.

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