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Hospitals in southwest Riverside County continue to show declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU patients, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with the numbers as of Feb. 7 dropping substantially from those released the previous week. see page A-2

Local Stephen Michael Linen Jr. Memorial Park’s new playground honors Temecula’s first responders TEMECULA ─ Temecula’s Community Services Department announced a new playground was installed at Stephen Michael Linen Jr. Memorial Park, 44935 Nighthawk Pass, in Temecula made possible by Measure S. see page A-4

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Hikers begin following the new Monserate Mountain trail route at the base of the mountain where native vegetation will be allowed to grow back into the widening trail.

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Slowly but surely, the Fallbrook Land Conservancy is working to turn part of Monserate Mountain

into a bit more hospitable of a place for the critters that call it home – and by extension making it a little more beautiful for the humans who visit.

The land conservancy is in the

process of giving the bottom portion of the trail, located just east of Interstate 15 near the Horse Ranch Creek development, something of a “facelift,” FLC board chair Susan Liebes said Feb. 11 at one of the

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The Hemet City Council after proclaiming February as Black History Month moved to accept the city’s capital improvements plan for 2020-2021 with some additional questions at their regular Tuesday, Feb. 9, meeting.

Members of the Human Relations Council of Greater Hemet, San Jacinto and Menifee Regions attended the meeting and exchanged proclamations, thanking the city council and the council for expanding the diversity in the community and explaining how students could enter to win prizes in a Black History Month essay contest.

In regular business, the council heard an explanation from the new city treasurer, Sue Savage, about the differences in the city’s actual par or face value as of Oct.

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The Hemet City Council reviewed the capital improvement projects, including many road improvement plans, for fiscal year 2020-2021 in their Feb. 9, meeting.

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nonprofit organization’s volunteer events on the mountain.

The FLC upgraded the trail to prevent issues with runoff, Liebes

Councilmember Brian Tisdale gave an update on coronavirus testing at the Lake Elsinore City Council meeting Tuesday, Feb. 9.

The number of total tests that Riverside County has done is over 2 million, with 283,525 confirmed cases. Currently in the county, 755 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, including 193 people in the ICU. There have been 3,414 deaths and 238,136 people who have recovered from the coronavirus.

“I just point this out sort of as a reminder that COVID-19, even though we have a vaccine, is still out there, people are still getting sick, people are still going to the

Council member Brian Tisdale of the Lake Elsinore City Council discusses COVID-19 numbers in Riverside County at the Feb. 9 city council meeting.

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emergency room and people are still dying,” Tisdale said. “Our positivity rate is right around 14% so that has declined, we do have capacity in our hospitals again and those numbers have gone down so we’re starting to see positive results.”

Tisdale added that residents still need to remain vigilant.

Some information on COVID-19 testing can be found on the city of Lake Elsinore’s website.

The community-based testing site at Diamond Stadium in Lot C is run by the Riverside University Health System Public Health Department and the state of California. It is open for testing by appointment only Sunday to see ELSINORE, page A-7

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

Hospitals in southwest Riverside County continue to show declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU patients, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with the numbers as of Feb. 7 dropping substantially from those released the previous week.

While coronavirus-positive patients still make up an abnormally large share of patients at southwest Riverside County hospitals – after all, in a normal year in the past, the number of patients with COVID-19 would be zero – the coronavirus-positive share of hospitalizations is now close to one-third of all patients at all local hospitals, down from as high as two-thirds at at least one hospital in January.

Data released Feb. 7, by the HHS department showed 35% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital were coronavirus-positive in

the week before the report, as well as 32% at Southwest Healthcare System, which included Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers in Wildomar and Murrieta, respectively, and 36% at Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta.

The three Southwest County health facilities’ counts of coronavirus hospitalizations dropped by more than 20 at Temecula Valley Hospital, more than 40 at Southwest Healthcare System and about 15 at Loma Linda University Medical Center between the Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 data dumps.

Temecula Valley Hospital and Southwest Healthcare System are still fairly close to the limits of ICU space, however, though Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta had a decent amount of breathing room in the week before Feb. 7, with about 10 ICU beds unused.

Here is a more detailed look at some of the most recent HHS data on local hospitals:

Temecula Valley Hospital Total beds (Seven-day average): 169.9 (162.3 last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 135.4 (143.6 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 49 (73.3 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 30.6 (31.4 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 27.1 (30.1 last week) Southwest Healthcare System (Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers) Total beds (Seven-day average): 235.7 (250.4 last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 228.4 (245.6 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 69.7 (111.4 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 30.1 (33.6 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 27.9 (32 last week)

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Work continues on Railroad Canyon/I-15 interchange and Sky Canyon Sewer Project in French Valley Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Work continues on the Railroad Canyon and Interstate 15 interchange, and the Riverside County Transportation Commission and Caltrans are warning motorists to watch for crew members working on the highway.

RCTC and Caltrans warned that there may be intermittent delays as construction continues on work meant to improve the traffic flow in and out of Lake Elsinore for residents, commuters and fans going to the Storm Stadium baseball games and other activities.

The project will improve safety and capacity by adding lanes, modifying ramps and building sidewalks and bike lanes along Railroad Canyon Road. These improvements will help residents and other travelers move through this area and reach businesses and other “Dream Extreme” attractions in Lake Elsinore. RCTC is taking the lead in the project.

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Loma Linda University Medical Center Murrieta Total beds (Seven-day average): 151.4 (163.7 last week) Total inpatient beds used (Seven-day average): 134.1 (147.6 last week) Total adults hospitalized, confirmed COVID-19 positive (Sevenday average): 48.9 (64.1 last week) ICU beds (Seven-day average): 28.1 (25 last week) ICU beds used (Seven-day average): 19.4 (same as last week) Will Fritz can be reached by email at wfritz@reedermedia.com.

Meanwhile, Caltrans continues work on a $28 million project to replace the No. 3 and No. 4 lanes on Interstate 15 in and near Temecula from the Riverside/San Diego County line to just north of the Temecula Creek Bridge Monday through Friday.

Daytime work will continue behind K-rail. On Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 10-11, the southbound I-15 No. 1 and 2 lanes were closed from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. from Route 79/Temecula Parkway to Rainbow Valley Boulevard. On Thursday, Feb. 11, the northbound I-15 No. 1 and 2 lanes were closed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. from Rainbow Valley Boulevard to Route 79/ Temecula Parkway.

Residents and visitors to Temecula and French Valley area roads may also see some delays as the

Eastern Municipal Water District continues work on the Sky Canyon Sewer Project.

The Sky Canyon Sewer Project will involve the installation of 6,700 feet of 36-inch sewer line, with the majority of the pipeline alignment on Sky Canyon Drive north of Murrieta Hot Springs Road. The sewer line will connect to existing infrastructure near Hunter Road and Winchester Road. The new sewer line will accommodate the current and anticipated growth in the French Valley area. A significant portion of the newly constructed line will parallel the existing sewer line along Sky Canyon Drive. This work is anticipated to be completed in fall 2022.

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

Project to widen Route 74 corridor between OC and Elsinore to get underway City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A $49 million project to expand Route 74, the Ortega Highway, between Lake Elsinore and the Orange County line is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 22, and motorists were advised to expect delays as the work progresses.

The State Route 74 Widening Project will consist of Watsonvillebased Granite Construction Inc. making a series of modifications intended to enhance safety along the two-lane corridor, according to Kim Cherry, public information officer of Caltrans District 8.

The work will begin with excavation in preparation for widening existing westbound and eastbound lanes to 12 feet, as well as expanding shoulders on both sides to 4

feet, Cherry said.

Crews will also install in-ground rumble strips for the highway centerline and shoulders, Cherry said.

The upgrades will be focused on the approximately 10-mile stretch from Monte Vista Street, just west of Lake Elsinore, to the Orange County line.

Caltrans has not announced lane closures or flagging operations.

They will be made in advance for the public’s convenience.

Work is planned on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on weekends between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., Cherry said.

The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2025.

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Stephen Michael Linen Jr. Memorial Park’s new playground honors Temecula’s first responders TEMECULA ─ Temecula’s Community Services Department announced a new playground was installed at Stephen Michael Linen Jr. Memorial Park, 44935 Nighthawk Pass, in Temecula made possible by Measure S. The newly renovated project honors Temecula’s first responders with a public safety-themed playground with many new features, including a “police station” play structure for children 5-12 years old with a two-story enclosed tower, two 12-foot spiral slides, a double slide, several climbers, ladders and a hex pod climber.

Children are also sure to enjoy the 33-foot-long Sky Run Zip Track, four-person police car seesaw and

a police dog climber named after Temecula’s K-9 officer, Dayka.

Younger children from 2-5 years can play on the firehouse-themed play structure, which has multiple platforms, slides and climbers. For the adults, there is also a Thrive 450 Fitness Station located outside the playground area.

The park was dedicated in honor of California Highway Patrol officer Stephen Michael Linen Jr. who was killed in the line of duty Aug. 12, 2001, when he was struck by a drunken driver during a traffic stop in San Diego.

Mayor Maryann Edwards commented, “Stephen Michael Linen Jr.’s memory and legacy lives on right here in Temecula. Michael

Children play on a large new first responders-themed playground at Stephen Michael Linen Jr. Memorial Park in Temecula. The park is named after Stephen Michael Linen Jr, a California Highway Patrol officer and former Temecula resident who was killed in 2001 by a drunken driver while issuing a citation on a San Valley News/Shane Gibson photos Diego freeway.

The new playground honoring first responders is located at 44935 Nighthawk Pass in Temecula.

was admired and awarded for acts of bravery and heroism performed while rescuing a man trapped in a burning vehicle and for his efforts to stop drunk drivers in San Diego.

The park honors this fallen CHP officer who lovingly called our city his home and is our way of showing just how much Temecula cares about our community.”

All Temecula playgrounds remain open for families to get outside and responsibly enjoy parks and recreation, but residents are asked to remember to “Play It Safe” by socially distancing when possible and being respectful of the safety of those around you.

“Temecula’s newly renovated parks express our commitment to providing safe, accessible, and equitable recreational experiences for all,” Zak Schwank, Temecula city councilmember and president of the Community Services District, said. “Temecula’s first responders continue to be there

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staff compiled a list of CIP projects for fiscal year 2020-2021, which will serve as a new beginning to reestablish a five-year CIP. The more than 80-page document explained the costs of each of the 60 projects valued at almost $59 million were either planned, underway or completed.

One of these completed projects included the Stetson Avenue and Cawston Street bridge at a cost of almost $180,000. Each of the projects was outlined with the cost associated with each. He said that many of the projects were partially paid for or will be covered through state and local grants.

Mayor Karlee Meyer thanked him for the report, but she questioned the lack of any information about some of the technical or information technology costs for the projects. Loriso said that information will be completed before the it is sent to the Planning Commission and returned to the council for final approval.

“I could not approve this plan without that,” she said.

She said it would take the council some time to look over the report.

Councilmember Russ Brown asked about the Cawston Avenue and Devonshire Street improvements that this needed to be completed. He was informed there was a plan in place to complete those with the help of developer impact fees that had not come yet.

Mayor Pro Tem Joe Males said it was good that the city was working with neighboring San Jacinto on some street and sidewalk repairs in the city.

The complete report can be viewed on the city website under the Feb. 9 Hemet City Council agenda.

Brown relinquished his membership on the city’s Skate Park Committee to Males who will be working with Councilmember Malcom Lilienthal in the future.

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

30, 2020, that was $97,987,678.95 to its book or fair value estimated at $98,016,092.60 that the city could sell it for. But she said the city would not want to “sell” itself with the market value set at $99,012,173.89.

She continued with an explanation of those CDs, notes and bonds that had either matured or were called in the last three months of last year.

Savage said the “eight investments totaling $3,513,000.00 matured or were called away.

These investments paid $102,226 in annual interest. Due to the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate policy, it will be challenging to earn $16,000 in interest on this same money, she said. It is a $86,000.00 reduction in annual interest income to us.

She said the city was in good shape.

“There is sufficient available money to meet the next six months of our $50 million of projected day-to-day operational expenses,” Savage said.

The city reviewed the draft capital improvement program report, for the first time in nearly four years, about the projects the city engineering office had planned for the next fiscal year with the council’s approval.

Steve Loriso, acting city engineer, said in his report, “The capital improvement program of any city is a policy document that sets forth the city’s program for identifying and completing large capital improvement projects, which is updated annually to ensure compliance with the program. The current CIP was adopted in October 2017 for fiscal years 2017-2018 to 20212022; however, it has not received the necessary annual updates to ensure compliance with city council and constituent’s needs.”

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Temecula city staff to hold outreach meetings with city commissions on budget priorities Will Fritz STAFF WRITER

The city of Temecula has several upcoming outreach meetings between staff and city commissions, to gauge funding priorities and assist in the development process of 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, but this year staff have added five meetings, one for each commission, in February and March based on feedback from Councilmember ak Schwank at the end of the 2020-2021 budget development process “encouraging additional public and council engagement earlier on in the budget process.”

In an agenda report for the Feb. 9 meeting, city staff also noted that

the Government Finance Officers’ Association, which is the oversight agency for the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award program that recogniz es 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 the following dates Feb. 25, Temecula Public/Traffic Safety Commission; March 8, Old Town Local Review Board; March 8, Temecula Community Services Commission and March 11, Temecula Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Commission.

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

Joe Naiman WRITER

The Wednesday, Feb. 3, board meeting of the Eastern Municipal Water District included amending a contract with Carollo Engineers for the final design of the rehabilitation of the San Jacinto Valley Regional Water Reclamation Facility Plant 1.

The 5-0 board vote authorized the contract amendment which provides for increased capacity and integration of information into the district’s supervisory control and data acquisition system. Carollo will be paid an additional $23 ,166, bringing the total contract amount to $859,508.

The board action appropriated $33 ,879.

The final design contract with an original amount of $57 ,629 was awarded to Carollo, which is headquartered in Walnut Creek and has an office in Riverside, in

September 2019. An August 2020 amendment, which additional $50,713 contract amount could be approved administratively rather than by board action, added design services for the demolition of structures which are beyond their useful life.

Hazen and Sawyer has a separate design contract for the advanced treatment process. That contract determined that the available treatment capacity for the reclamation facility is greater than what was assumed when the treatment plant rehabilitation plans were developed. The amendment to the Carollo contract will allow Eastern to recover that additional treatment capacity.

The amendment with Carollo also covers a new district policy to develop process control narratives during the design of projects.

The process control narratives document control strategies and provide details for equipment

monitoring, control, response and operation. The information is used to integrate equipment and devices into the SCADA. The total appropriation will allow on-call service providers to conduct field investigations which will document existing site conditions and identify potential utility interferences. The appropriations added $25,000 for field investigation. An additional $25,000 was appropriated for engineering branch labor, and the $50,713 contract authorized administratively was also added to the project budget.

The final design is expected to be complete in June 2021. The construction is expected to begin in November 2021 and be substantially complete in May 2023.

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

Murrieta city manager receives Ethical Hero Award MURRIETA – Murrieta city manager Kim Summers earned a 2020 Ethical Hero Award from the California Affiliation of the International City Management Association. The award recognized her deep commitment to the local government profession with dignity, honor, integrity and adherence to high ethical standards.

Each year, ICMA selects a single Ethical Hero from among their membership, seeking a leader who has gone above-and-beyond to display the highest level of professionalism and integrity in their day-to-day practice.

Through her work for the city of Murrieta, Summers has led the efforts to prioritiz e ethical practices in city policies and programs, with a strong focus on staff development and organizational leadership

and includes projects addressing financial transparency, values and inclusion.

The city’s financial transparency portal shines a light on budgeting and expenditures, enabling residents to check in on their tax dollars at work by visiting http // www.MurrietaCa.gov/transparency. The portal is updated quarterly.

In addition to financial information, visitors can view a wide range of department data and Measure T-specific reports.

Summers launched the city’s first Organizational Values Initiative, an employee-driven reflection on values essential for high-quality municipal services. Integrity, public service, professionalism, teamwork and leadership now serve as guideposts for city operations.

A new city employee group is

helping to elevate this work to the next level, officials said. The AIDE Team – acceptance, inclusion, diversity and equity – empowers city employees and leadership to identify strengths and challenges and amplify a positive workplace culture.

“Kim leads by example,” Murrieta Mayor Scott Vinton said.

“It’s who she is as a city manager and an individual, and we are a stronger organization because of it.

Whether we are launching a new program, addressing a crisis or managing day-to-day operations, Kim deeply values openness, connection and integrity. This type of leadership comes from within, and I cannot think of a more worthy recipient for this honor.”

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K im S ummers, city manager of Murrieta, receives the 2 0 2 0 Ethical Hero Award from the California affiliation of the International City Valley News/Courtesy photo Management Association.

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EMWD gives HDR design contract to upsize Diaz Sewer Joe Naiman WRITER

The Eastern Municipal Water District awarded HDR Engineering the preliminary design contract to increase capacity of the Diaz Sewer.

Eastern’s 5-0 board vote Wednesday, Feb. 3, awarded HDR a contract worth $245,800 and approved total appropriations of $342,500. The project will not be exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review, and the design process will determine

information to be incorporated into a future environmental document.

The district’s Sewer Collection System Master Plan calls for approximately 1,200 feet of gravity sewer within Diaz Road from north of Rancho Way to the Diaz Lift Station to be increased in diameter from 8 inches to15 inches.

The challenges of upsizing the sewer line include a concrete storm drain culvert 60 inches in diameter which was constructed directly above the sewer. It requires the identification of potential project alternatives along with field in-

vestigations to determine feasible construction methods. A May 2020 EMWD board action approved an interagency agreement with the Rancho California Water District to allow RCWD sewage into that part of the system after the capacity is increased; that agreement also covers RCWD financial participation to upsize the sewer line.

A detailed study will confirm the preferred alignment and seek alternative solutions to address interfering utilities, large diameter storm drain crossings, and high groundwater levels. The study

will also allow the construction to be coordinated with the city of Temecula’s project to widen Diaz Road.

EMWD staff issued a request for proposals Oct. 22, and two responses were received by the Dec. 22 deadline. The evaluation panel selected HDR as the preferred consultant based on the San Diego company’s detailed understanding of the project, the qualifications of their team, the efficiency of their project schedule, the value-added services included in the proposal and HDR’s successful completion

of past work for Eastern.

A fee of $245,800 was negotiated with HDR for the design work.

The $342,500 total appropriation will also fund $40,000 for an environmental consultant, $35,300 for internal labor and $21,400 for potholing.

A recommendation from the alignment study is expected to be made in July 2021, and the preliminary design work is expected to be complete in December 2021.

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

The Fallbrook Land Conservancy placed steel fence that line an area indicating where native vegetation will be allowed to grow in an effort to restore the ecology at the base of the Monserate Mountain trail.

Hikers exit the Monserate Mountain trailhead during one of multiple Fallbrook Land Conservancy volunteer days, Thursday, Feb. 11. The FLC is in the process of narrowing the beginning of the trail to allow native vegetation to grow in an effort to restore part of the landscape.

MONSERATE from page A-1 said, and it has now begun adding more native plants and setting up a fence to keep hikers within the trail area, which will help keep nearby plants and wildlife safe.

The 350-acre Monserate Mountain Preserve was acquired by the FLC between 2000-2018, and functions as a “mitigation bank” where developers forced to offset environmental impacts of projects can buy “credits” that essentially pay to maintain the preserve.

“Developers can actually pay and purchase credits for this land here and basically pay to preserve this to offset what they’ve destroyed somewhere else,” Liebes said.

The area of the trail that the FLC is now improving was among the last to be purchased, she said, which is why the improvements are taking place now.

“This first portion of the trail we didn’t actually own up until about two years ago and so we couldn’t

really do anything permanent,” Liebes said. “We just had an easement for people to hike through. And we were able to purchase that a couple of years ago so now we’re trying to kind of give it a facelift.”

Some of the initial improvements made include new signage and a kiosk. The FLC also added “rolling dips” to the trail to catch runoff coming down the hill.

“It catches the rainwater coming down and siphons it off the trail so it doesn’t just keep washing out,” Liebes said.

Those dips, though, had the side effect of encouraging hikers to walk to the side of the trail – hence the fencing project the FLC is now undertaking “to narrow the trail down to an 8-10 foot actual trail,” she said.

“People go to the path of least resistance and they end up making it wider and wider and wider so we’re going to kind of corral them into like a switch-backing trail that will go back and forth and be nar-

FLC chair Susan Liebes and FLC director Ken Quigley haul equipment up the Monserate Mountain trailhead during a volunteer day to work on restoring native vegetation.

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rower, and then the parts that we’re fencing off we will be restoring with native plants so it will be back to nice habitat that will help with the erosion,” Liebes said.

The designated trail area will help to keep humans away from wildlife habitats at the bottom of the mountain.

“Our primary goal is habitat preservation,” Liebes said. “The fact that we have a trail here is great, but that’s sort of a side benefit – our main responsibility is to make as good a habitat as we can.”

One reason why the Monserate Mountain Preserve is so important,

she said, is because it’s home to an endangered species called the California gnatcatcher, which has a range from Southern California to the tip of Baja California Sur but is threatened in the northern part of its range.

“The connectivity between the habitats is being reduced,” Ken Quigley, chair of FLC trails committee, who was also present Feb. 11, said. “And that’s one of the big reasons that bird is now an endangered species by both the state and federal agencies, so preserving patches of habitat that hopefully connect with each other is the ul-

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timate goal to hopefully get that species to recover.”

Liebes said the FLC has just started to get back into the groove of having regular volunteer events to help with improvements to the Monserate Mountain Preserve – where volunteer events are held the first Saturday and second Thursday of each month – as well as other areas protected by the FLC, including the Los Jilgueros Preserve.

When the pandemic first hit, there was a bit of a pause, she said, but now people are feeling a little more comfortable with helping.

“We feel like it’s safe when everybody’s masked and we’re outside,” Liebes said. “And we clean off the tools when we’re done, and we kind of try to spread people out.”

The FLC as a small nonprofit is reliant on volunteer events because it has few full-time employees. The preserve has also seen a sizable increase in visitors since the start of the pandemic, Liebes said. In fact, visitors have nearly doubled, she said, making the improvements all the more necessary.

According to tallies from trail counters that the FLC purchased from the Fallbrook Regional Healthcare District, Liebes said the Monserate Mountain Preserve went from an average of 115 visitors per day in 2019 to an average of 202 per day in 2020, and the number only continues to climb.

“We saw a distinct spike in the number of visitors at (Monserate Mountain Preserve) and other FLC preserves in mid-March 2020 when schools and businesses were closed. Since then, we have seen a sustained increase in the number of hikers on our trails,” Liebes said in a later email. “Comparing 2019 to 2020 we show a 56% increase in visitors at MMP.” Information on volunteer events held by the FLC can be found at https://www.fallbrooklandconservancy.org/volunteer.

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Inland lawmaker introduces bill targeting drug dealers who sell fentanyl City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, introduced legislation Friday, Feb. 12, targeting drug dealers who sell fentanyl to youths, contributing to a surge in drugrelated deaths statewide.

“As the mother of five children, I can’t imagine what it would be like to lose a child to drug poisoning,” Melendez said. “This pandemic has led to a devastating rise in fentanyl-induced deaths across California.”

She said “Alexandra’s Law” was introduced and titled in honor of 20-year-old Alexandra Capelouto of Temecula, a college student who died in December 2019 after taking the drug.

SB 350 would establish “implied malice” in connection with fentanyl fatalities, identical to the principle behind malice in driving under the influence offenses, according to Melendez. The bill would specifically require that individuals convicted of distributing controlled substances receive judicial warnings that if fentanyl

they sell in the future causes a lethal overdose, they may face a homicide charge, she said.

“It’s past time to hold drug dealers accountable before more parents are forced to bury their children,” the lawmaker said.

“Law enforcement needs the tools to go after drug dealers who prey on kids. Alexandra’s Law provides a valuable first step in getting this fentanyl epidemic under control and, most importantly, saving lives.”

Melendez cited statistics from Los Angeles County showing a

50% jump in drug-related deaths – most connected to fentanyl overdoses – in 2020.

San Francisco documented more than 600 fentanyl-related fatalities last year, according to Melendez.

Just as telling, she said, is the use of Narcan – a counteractive inhalant that can reverse the use of an opioid overdose – by first responders in the Bay Area. The senator said there were at least 3,000 instances of Narcan sprays used on patients in 2020.

Kim Saruwatari, director of Riverside County Department of

Public Health, published statistics in December showing that the countywide suicide rate in the 15- to 24-year-old age group went up 19% in 2020, and much of that was attributable to accidental overdoses tied to fentanyl.

Melendez said the opioid is often being hustled on the street as Xanax, Percocet and Oxycontin.

“Users are actually receiving counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, which is formulated to be 50 times more potent than heroin,” she said.

Menifee police make 1 DUI arrest during Feb. 7 enforcement patrol

Public invited to a housing discussion in Menifee

MENIFEE – Menifee Police Department arrested one driver on suspicion of DUI while conducting a DUI enforcement patrol Sunday, Feb. 7. The driver was also found to be in possession of psilocybin – mushrooms – and was booked on charges relating to DUI and possession of a controlled substance.

While the state’s stay-at-home order limits how often people are out, Menifee Police Department said it is committed to keeping the public safe when they do need to run essential errands.

“Driving under the influence is dangerous, illegal and puts a

MENIFEE – The city of Menifee is preparing it 2021-2029 housing element update, and the public is invited to attend a virtual workshop Thursday, Feb. 25, at 6 p.m. to learn about Menifee’s housing element update and provide feedback.

The workshop will include an intro to an interactive mapping activity and a review of the community survey results. It will also serve as the city’s public scoping meeting on the program environmental impact report that is being prepared for the housing element update and will include an overview of the California Environmental Quality Act and issues to

further strain on resources in the middle of a pandemic,” Chief Pat Walsh said. “We are still out there and will not hesitate to stop drivers who drive impaired.”

Drivers charged with DUI face an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties, as well as a suspended license.

Menifee Police Department reminded the public that impaired driving is not just from alcohol.

Some prescription medications or over-the-counter drugs may interfere with driving. Always follow directions for use and read warning labels about driving or “operating

heavy machinery,” which includes driving a car. While medicinal and recreational marijuana are legal, driving under the influence of marijuana is illegal.

Menifee Police Department will be holding a series of DUI enforcement patrols throughout the year to keep roadways safe.

Funding for the DUI patrol was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Man suspected of kidnapping woman, taking her to Lake Elsinore City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 46-year-old man suspected of abducting a woman near Hemet and taking her to Lake Elsinore, where he let her go after allegedly stealing her purse, was being held Wednesday, Feb. 10, in lieu of $55,000 bail.

Rene Trujillo Perez of Lake Elsinore was arrested Tuesday, Feb. 9, and booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of kidnapping, false imprisonment, theft and committing a crime while on bail.

According to Riverside County sheriff’s officials, shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, Perez forced the woman – whose identity was not released – into his vehicle in the Hemet Valley and held her while he headed westbound.

Investigators did not disclose the exact relationship between the suspect and victim, though they were acquainted.

“The victim attempted several times to get out of the car, but wasn’t allowed to,” according to a statement from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

After reaching the 33000 block

of El Contento Drive in Lake Elsinore, Perez stopped his car and pushed the woman out, but held on to her purse, investigators alleged.

Soon after, the victim called 911, and she told deputies where to find Perez at his workplace in the 16500 block of Lakeshore Drive, according to the sheriff’s department.

He was taken into custody without incident.

No information was available regarding Perez’s background, nor did authorities disclose what prompted his previous arrest, for which he posted bond.

Four die in multi-vehicle wreck in San Jacinto City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

An investigation was underway Friday, Feb. 12, into a five-vehicle collision in San Jacinto that left four people dead.

The deadly crash happened about 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, near the intersection of the Ramona Expressway and Seventh

Street, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

Sgt. Dawn Blair said the vehicles collided on the expressway, but the fatalities and injuries were confined to two vehicles – a Nissan Armada SUV and a Kia Optima.

“One occupant in the Nissan and two occupants in the Kia were pronounced deceased at the scene,” Blair said. “A third occupant of the

Kia was transported to Riverside University Medical Center in critical condition and later succumbed to her injuries.”

None of the victims were immediately identified.

Blair said it is unknown whether alcohol or drugs may have been factors in the wreck.

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Fire damages house in Wildomar area; one person suffers smoke inhalation City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A fire damaged a two-story house in the Wildomar area Friday, Feb. 12.

The fire was reported in the 22000 block of Raspberry Lane about 6:30 a.m., according to the

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Occupant injured in blaze at Lake Elsinore home City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A person was injured Wednesday, Feb. 10, in a fire that erupted in the attic of a Lake Elsinore home.

The blaze was reported about 12:45 p.m. on Darnell Drive, near Dreycott Way, along the eastern boundary of the Cleveland Na-

tional Forest, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

The agency said multiple engine crews were sent to the location and encountered smoke pouring out of the 2,000-square-foot single-story residence.

The occupant was waiting outside the property and was immediately treated for smoke exposure and minor burns, according to

reports from the scene.

The victim, whose identity was not disclosed, was taken to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar in unspecified condition.

Flames were confined to the attic, according to reports from the scene. Firefighters contained the blaze within 30 minutes.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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Lake Elsinore NAACP Branch honors retired Murrieta police Chief Sean Hadden LAKE ELSINORE – Willie J. Oliver Jr, pastor of Grace and Truth Worship Ministry and president of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Branch 1034, presented retired Murrieta police Chief Sean Hadden, Jan. 12, with a certificate of appreciation and a plaque honoring his partnership with the branch for the past several years. He also shared words of gratitude and goodwill for Hadden and his successor Chief Tony Conrad.

“Chief Hadden has been very instrumental in changing the climate and culture of our communities,” Oliver said. “As the chief of police, he always wanted to be in front of issues and change, instead of being reactive. His relationship with NAACP Branch 1034 has always been one of respect, honesty and accountability. He will be missed, but we also have equal confidence in his successor, Chief Tony Conrad.”

Numerous members of the Murrieta and Menifee Police departments and the Murrieta Fire Department were present along with NAACP Branch 1034 members. The brief presentation was held in front of the Murrieta Police Department on a sunny afternoon with Hadden’s wife Doreen also in attendance.

In receiving the honor, Hadden shared, “I am honored and humbled to receive the very nice plaque and certificate from NAACP Branch 1034. I am very thankful to have had such a close friendship with the leadership of Branch 1034 for the past seven and a half years, and I am extremely proud of the partnership the Murrieta Police Department and Branch 1034 have been able to build over these past years.”

He outlined the partnership of Branch 1034 and the Murrieta Police Department in hosting community forums and town meetings along with movie nights during Black History Month and throughout the year.

Several years ago, former Branch 1034 president Darryl Smith reached out to Hadden to initiate a relationship between the two organizations to build a bridge of understanding and strengthen the community. This partnership was begun at a time when several national incidents spotlighted the strained relationship between some communities of color and the police. Since then, Branch 1034 and the Murrieta Police Department under Hadden’s leadership have worked together to educate the community and bring concerns of local individuals to a positive conclusion.

“I have also appreciated the advocacy Branch 1034 has provided to our community and for being the much-needed conduit between the police department and those that may have a distrust of law enforcement,” Hadden said. “Although the COVID pandemic has negatively impacted gatherings and plans to host more community meetings this past year, I look forward to seeing the NAACP Branch 1034, police Chief Tony Conrad, and the Murrieta Police Department continue to work together to make Murrieta a positive example for other communities in the near future.”

In June, Oliver and Hadden coordinated a prayer vigil in front of the Murrieta Police Department after the death of George Floyd to foster community understanding and unity during a time of national tension.

Looking toward the future, Oliver said Branch 1034 anticipated continuing the positive relationship with the Murrieta Police Department under Conrad’s leadership.

Conrad said at the ceremony, “The Local NAACP Branch is very important to our department. Chief Hadden established that relationship and fostered it over the years. I plan on doing the same. I also enjoyed watching Pastor Oliver give that recognition to Chief Hadden. It showed me how your branch

Willie J. Oliver Jr., pastor of Grace and Truth Worship Ministry and president of NAACP Branch 1034, presents retired Murrieta police Chief Sean Hadden with a certificate and plaque of appreciation with Murrieta police Chief Tony Conrad and other members of the Murrieta and Menifee police departments and Valley News/Andrez Imaging photos the Murrieta Fire Department.

feels about our department.”

Further solidifying the partnership, Conrad said, “Our mission statement starts out with: ‘In partnership with our community.’ To me that means transparency, trust, honesty and the ability to communicate with the people we serve. I want our department’s goals and values to reflect those of our community. Our success as a police department over the years is primarily linked to the relationship we have always had with our community.”

The vision of the NCAAP is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination. The branch welcomes new members, and Zoom meetings are held on the last Saturday of each month. For more information, contact branch1034naacp@gmail. com, call 951-387-8848 or visit the website at http://changeisontherise. wixsite.com/naacp-branch-1034.

Submitted by Jennifer Palo.

Willie J. Oliver Jr., left, pastor of Grace and Truth Worship Ministry and president of NAACP Branch 1034, presents a certificate and plaque of appreciation to retired Murrieta police Chief Sean Hadden.

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Coping With COVI D-19: Y asmin’s Beauty Supply opens in Hemet Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

While many small businesses have struggled to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, Ayisha Yasmin Burks of San Jacinto made the decision to launch Yasmin’ s Beauty Supply in Hemet in November. She said the best way to describe her retail store is that it is helping to bring out the confidence and beauty within everyone.

Burks said she selected her store’s Hemet location to fill an unmet/underserved need for diverse haircare and beauty supplies. She said many of her customers have commented on the fact that she carries products they have not seen in other stores.

“I woke up one morning at 3 a.m. in August 2020 and said out loud: ‘I should open a beauty supply store.’ I’ m not sure where that came from, but I stayed with it,” Burks said. “The following month I had the keys to my space, and two months later I opened.”

Learning curve Burks said she saw the negative effects of COVID-19 and how it affected people’s finances due to reduced work hours or loss of employment.

“I was no exception, so I began looking for opportunities to stay afloat,” she said. “I have always had the heart of an entrepreneur, so it was natural for me to begin looking into self-employment business opportunities.”

Burks, 35, said she has been learning about the industry as she goes and finds it to be an exciting experience. She put a suggestion box in her store for customers to write down the names of products they would like to see her carry.

If she gets enough requests for the same product, she will add it to her stock.

“I know we, as African Americans, spend a lot of money in beauty supply stores,” she said. “I know what we use, and this is a service to my community. I don’ t have any investors or partners, as I am doing this 100% all on my own.

Having investors is tricky, so I felt it was better to do it by myself.”

According to Burks, getting people to show up for job interviews was difficult.

“Getting people to apply wasn’ t a problem,” she said. “I posted on Indeed and received so many applications within 15 minutes that I had to put the position on hold while I reviewed all of them.

After completing 12 interviews, I picked two employees who I felt would be a great addition to my team by providing the world-class customer service that I strive for.”

Management Burks recently hosted her first pop-up shop and has a second one

Ayisha Y asmin Burks is the owner of Y asmin’ s Beauty S upply in Hemet. S he was asked to remove her face covering for the photograph and was more than 6 feet away from the photographer.

Valley News/D iane A. R hodes photos

planned for Saturday, March 13, at Fairmount Park in Riverside from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The pop-up shops sell products for less than they would cost in the stores and promote her new business, she said.

“Pop-up shops have always been popular, especially for new businesses. However, they are becoming even more popular these days due to the pandemic,” Burks said. “It’ s a great way to network with other businesses while gaining new customers and really getting your name out there. It’ s a win-win.”

Staying healthy Burks said she ensures the safety of her customers and employees by supplying hand sanitiz ers, wipes and disposable masks, if they don’ t have their own. She set up 90% of the shop alone, so there wasn’ t a large group of people working there at any time.

“From time to time I will get a customer that will give me words of encouragement,” Burks said.

“Their support lifts my spirit just when I need it the most; most of all it comes from people I don’ t even know. I try to build a relationship with everyone who walks through those doors.”

Weathering the storm Burks said the pandemic has provided many entrepreneurs the opportunity to start a business, and she believes everything worked out the way it was supposed to.

“Business has been slow, and I feel that is because a lot of people are not out and/or they do not know I am open. I do my best to promote and advertise, but I understand it will take some time for people to know I am here,” she said. “I remain COVID-free and healthy, so I don’ t have anything to complain about.”

Burks said she loves the customers who continue coming back and looks forward to seeing new customers. The store can be found on Instagram @Yasminsbeautysupply where updates are posted about what’ s going on and on Tik Tok @Yasminsbeauties.

“We deliver local for those who may not be able to drive or come in,” she said.

Yasmin’ s Beauty Supply, 3008 W. Florida Ave. in Hemet, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

For more information, find them on social media, call 951-7652966 or visit https://yasminsbeauties.com/.

[ R ight] Y asmin’ s Beauty S upply owner Ayisha Y asmin Burks sees her newly opened business as an entrepreneurial opportunity. S he was asked to remove her face covering for the photograph and was more than 6 feet away from the photographer.

Milano’s celebrates its customers for 30 years Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

When Frank McGrath opened Milano’ s Piz z a and Italian Restaurant in 1991, he was realiz ing a dream, he said. He began working at a piz z a restaurant in Orange County when he was 16 and told himself that if he didn’ t own his own restaurant by the time he was 30, he was going to get out of the business.

“We bought Milano’ s (from brothers Sam and Mario Ataie) in February 1991, and I turned 30 in March,” he said.

Jeff Ender began working at Milano’ s in 1997 and has been a co-owner for more than 15 years.

The restaurant, whose name pays homage to the city of Milan, Italy, has long been a destination for families and friends, they said.

The walls are decorated with family photos from the past and present.

“In the beginning it had more of a bar atmosphere, and we wanted to make it more family oriented,” Ender said. “We wanted it to be a place where you could bring your priest or your grandmother; everyone’ s welcome here.”

The relationship doesn’ t end when the meal is over as Ender, McGrath and other crew members are often invited to baptisms, weddings and birthday parties by customers who have become friends.

Crew member Rose Leach said she thinks what sets Milano’ s apart from other restaurants is that everything is homemade. She said nothing is made ahead of time and no froz en food is ever used.

Ender’ s day typically starts at 5 a.m., making bread for that day’ s orders. Leach admits that making everything from scratch does take a little longer.

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Co-owners Jeff Ender, left, and Frank McGrath pose for a photo Friday, Feb. 12, outside Milano s Pi a and Italian Restaurant, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in Hemet.

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Pardee Homes Inland Empire announces rebranding to Tri Pointe Homes CORONA – In a move to create stronger awareness and recognition under one brand, Pardee Homes Inland Empire, a member of TRI Pointe Group since 2014, has changed its name to Tri Pointe Homes, joining the group’ s 15 divisions across the nation. TRI Pointe Group is one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S. with corporate offices located in Irvine.

“We are pleased to announce this exiting news, effective Jan. 15, 2021,” Mike Taylor, division president of Pardee Homes Inland Empire, said. “While the name of the company will change, what remains consistent is our local teams, including the team from Pardee Homes Inland Empire who are key to making this possible.

Most significantly, we will never waver in our mission to designing homes, neighborhoods and

experiences that inspire and uplift our customers, our team members, our trade and consultant partners and the communities we serve.

Tri Pointe Homes combines the financial resources, technology platforms and proven leadership of a national organiz ation with the regional insights, long-standing community ties and agility of empowered local teams offering the best of big and small.”

Pardee Homes Inland Empire currently has 14 active new home neighborhoods now selling throughout the greater Inland Empire, including Compass in Menifee; master planned Centennial’ s Newpark and Easton in Menifee, Overland in Murrieta and Westlake in Lake Elsinore. In Banning, master-planned Atwell features five new home neighborhoods.

Altis, with four neighborhoods,

was named the Best Age Qualified Community at the 2019 Gold Nugget Awards, bringing singlelevel 55-plus living and resort-style amenities to Beaumont.

In connection with the consolidation of brands, the publicly traded entity, TRI Pointe Group Inc. has been renamed Tri Pointe Homes Inc. and each of its 15 divisions across the nation will now operate under the name Tri Pointe Homes.

Founded as a regional homebuilder in 2009, Tri Pointe has consistently expanded its operations through multiple acquisitions and the opening of new divisions across the country. Delivering on its mission to provide an unsurpassed customer experience, the company has also established TRI Pointe Solutions, a suite of homebuyer services that offers comprehensive support through the buying, lending and

closing process.

“While the name changes, we will remain a people-first company with a passionate culture that is committed to building thriving communities and helping homebuyers achieve their dreams, just as we have for the past 100 years,” Taylor said.

Established in 1921, Pardee Homes Inland Empire is accomplished in the planning and development of master-planned communities, green homebuilding measures, environmentally sensitive development practices and customer-focused processes for new home purchases and is widely known for its civic outreach.

One of the largest homebuilders in the U.S., Tri Pointe Homes is a publicly traded company and a recogniz ed leader in customer experience, innovative design and

environmentally responsible business practices. The company builds premium homes and communities in 10 states, with deep ties to the communities it serves – some for as long as a century. Tri Pointe Homes combines the financial resources, technology platforms and proven leadership of a national organiz ation with the regional insights, longstanding community connections and agility of empowered local teams. Tri Pointe Homes has won multiple Builder of the Year awards, the most recent in 2019 and made Fortune magaz ine’ s 2017 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list.

The company was also named one of the Best Places to Work by the Orange County Business Journal for four consecutive years.

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

Submitted by Tri Pointe Homes.

Professional Women Toastmasters to host free virtual open house TEMECULA – Professional Women’ s Toastmasters Club invited the community to attend their free virtual open house Monday, Feb. 22, at 12:15-1:30 p.m. on Zoom. The meeting is an opportunity to meet current members and learn how Toastmasters can be an important tool in their professional development, during these unprecedented times.

“Meeting in a virtual setting has allowed us to continue pursuing our professional development goals in a supportive environment while also learning how to be in-

novative in developing new ways to present ourselves and communicate our message to our audience. Toastmasters enables you to improve presentation, communication, and leadership skills essential to success and equip yourself to stand out professionally,” Kathy Siz emore, club president for the Professional Women Toastmasters Club, said.

Guests will experience a regular Toastmasters meeting that will include prepared speeches, Table Topics impromptu speeches, evaluations and feedback to help

members grow in their presentation skills.

Join the Zoom meeting by sending an email request for login information to vppr- 5 07 7 319 @ toastmastersclubs.org.

The Professional Women’ s Toastmasters Club meets Mondays at 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Members of Professional Women Toastmasters include authors, fitness coaches, CPAs, entrepreneurs, human resource professionals and more. Check out the club on Facebook and Instagram. For more information

about this event and the club, email Brooke Nunn at vppr- 507319@ toastmastersclubs.org or visit http://www.professionalwomen. toastmastersclubs.org.

District 12 serves approximately 100 clubs and 1,700 members in the large Southern California region east of Highway 57, south of Barstow, west of the Ariz ona border and north of Temecula. District 12 includes two of California’ s largest counties by square miles – Riverside and San Bernardino. To learn more about District 12, visit http://www.d12toastmasters.org.

Toastmasters International is a worldwide nonprofit educational organiz ation that empowers individuals to become more effective communicators and leaders. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped people from diverse backgrounds become more confident speakers, communicators and leaders. For information about local Toastmasters clubs, find them on Instagram or visit http://www. toastmasters.org.

Submitted by Professional Women’ s Toastmasters.

What to do if you receive a tax form for unemployment benefits you never applied for Newsroom Newswire SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Now that it’ s tax season and tax forms are arriving in the mail, many people are beginning to find a surprise in their mailbox an IRS form 1099-G reporting unemployment benefit income that they did not actually apply for or receive.

If you receive a form 1099-G but did not file for unemployment, someone may have stolen

your identity to commit unemployment fraud.

Los Angeles attorney David Fleck, who has experience in fraud cases, said it is one of the easiest frauds to perpetrate and has become common during the pandemic. As unemployment numbers swelled, unemployment departments across the country became overwhelmed with applications and made thorough background checks of applicants fall by the wayside.

“I’ve seen so many different scams in my career, and frankly there is nothing new under the sun,” he said. “Because these are unusual times, con artists are just using this moment as a way to take advantage of the system.”

Learning that your identity has been used to perpetrate a fraud can be a stressful experience, Fleck said, but there are steps you can protect yourself and mitigate the damage.

Report the fraud to the Cali-

fornia employment development department, https://www.edd. ca.gov/. California Employment Development Department has a form on their website to use for reporting identity theft and unemployment fraud or call the EDD fraud hotline at 1-800-229-6297.

File your taxes as normal and do not report the fraudulent income. If you’ ve reported the fraud to EDD, that’ s all you need to do.

You don’ t need to also report it to the IRS, Fleck said.

If you suspect you may be a victim of a broader identify theft, you may want to check the website of The Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit in San Diego. Visit http://idtheftcenter. org or call 888-400-5530.

“Fraudsters never let a crisis go to waste,” Fleck said. “But hopefully, now that state officials know this fraud is going on in such large numbers, innocent victims won’ t be on the hook.”

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During the past three decades, the crew have witnessed many trends. McGrath said people are eating more chicken wings than ever but still appreciate the basics.

“Gourmet piz z as were popular for a while, but people just want quality fresh food, and that’ s what we give them at Milano’ s,” he said. “We pride ourselves on our homemade salad dressings, piz z a sauce, pasta sauce, dough, freshly grated cheese and fresh vegetables.”

Ender said they have seen a lot of different fads and have had fun being creative as early pioneers of specialty piz z as including cheeseburger, breakfast, barbecue chicken, buffalo chicken and more.

“After all this time, our customers really appreciate that we’ ve stayed tried and true to tradition,” he said. “Trends come and go, but quality and consistency never go out of style.”

Leach, 38, worked as a dishwasher for two years when she first started working at the restaurant. After four years, she now takes orders and helps with crew leader duties.

“I’ m really comfortable here – the bosses are empathetic and try to get to know each one of us on a personal level as well as a working level,” she said. “It’ s a real fun atmosphere.”

Tony Alaniz has worked at Milano’ s for 18 years, starting out online duty making piz z as to becoming a crew leader, which is his current position.

“One thing about this place is that your bosses work right next to you,” Alaniz , 49, said. “When I was younger, I worked at a local video store where I met Frank and we became friends.”

Alaniz , who has lived in Hemet his entire life, said when it came time for a career change after 10 years working at a car dealership, he talked to McGrath who offered him a job. He said it worked out great because he had the flexibility to attend recitals and school events

Frank McGrath, co-owner of Milano s Pi a and Italian Restaurant in Hemet, is celebrating the business s 30th anniversary with daily giveaways to customers. He was asked to remove his face covering for the photograph, and the photographer was more than feet away.

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with his daughter. McGrath or Ender would cover his shift if he wanted to attend something for his daughter.

“That’ s why I’ m still here,” Alaniz said. “They are very conscious of our needs and believe that family always comes first.

And many customers have become like family; we’ ve seen generations come up.”

McGrath said the Hemet area was more of a retirement community when the restaurant first opened.

“Now, there are so many more families,” he said. “We are now getting our early customers’ kids and grandkids coming in. I attribute our longevity to the quality of our food and our relationship with the community.”

Leach, of San Jacinto, said that despite the pandemic, the restaurant has stayed busy because of the community’ s support through continuous orders for pickup and delivery. A special window was installed at the front entrance that allows for safer pickups. To keep their crew and customers safe, in-house dining has not been resumed.

“The biggest challenge has honestly been keeping our employees

safe. Also, it’s been difficult trying to keep the business going with the dining room closed for 11 months now,” McGrath said. “We really miss seeing our customers, sitting down with them, and being able to talk to them.”

Ender said he, too, feels the loss of comradery since enjoying time together is a big part of what makes Milano’ s special. He said it’ s been hard to see so many friends struggling through these hard times that have impacted so many families.

“Without our customers, Milano’ s wouldn’ t have made it 30 years,” Ender said. “It really is God’ s blessings. The people of this valley are loyal and they have our loyalty in return. I love this town. We treat them fairly; we give them a good product for a fair price and we let them know how much they mean to us. It’ s all about relationships, and as owners, we know and value that.”

As a special way to thank Milano’ s many loyal customers, Ender’ s daughter, Gina, who worked at the restaurant when she was growing up, helped the team launch a series of giveaways in honor of their 30th year serving the community. Planning the pro-

Jeff Ender, co-owner of Milano s Pi a and Italian Restaurant in Hemet, poses for a photo inside the restaurant that is featuring many anniversary specials for customers that can be found on Facebook.

He was asked to remove his face covering for the photograph, and the photographer was more than 6 feet away.

motions began about a month ago, and most of the specials involve a visit to Milano’ s Facebook page.

“Our ra e for a $100 gift card is going on all month,” Gina Ender said. “Tickets are $5 each, and you can add them to your order when you get pickup or delivery. We’ re announcing the winner on Sunday, Feb. 28.”

Daily opportunities include Friendship Friday, Feb.19: Tag your friend in the comments on our Facebook page and let them know why they’ re the best. One pair of friends will win a free pasta lunch on them.

On Special Saturday, Feb. 20, tell them on Facebook what makes Milano’ s special to you. One customer will win an extra-large Milano’ s Special piz z a.

For Antipasto Salad Sunday, Feb. 21, get a free antipasto salad when you buy an extra-large piz z a or get a free upgrade to an antipasto salad from a garden salad when you order the Great Meal Deal.

On VIP Monday, Feb. 22, the person who has the oldest version of the VIP card will be given the 2021 VIP card for free.

For Trendy Tuesday, Feb. 23, visit them on Facebook and name three of the specialty piz z as no

longer on the menu, and they will give someone their choice of one.

Wedding Wednesday, Feb. 24, features couples who had Milano’ s cater their wedding sharing a photo from their big day on Facebook.

One couple will win a free dinner for their anniversary.

On Throwback Thursday, Feb. 25, the person who shares the oldest photo from a visit to Milano’ s on Facebook will receive a $30 gift certificate.

For Frontline Hero Friday, Feb. 26, people can visit Facebook and nominate heroes who have made a difference in the community during the coronavirus pandemic, and one will receive a $30 gift certificate.

On Sandwich Saturday, Feb. 27, tag someone on Facebook you’ d like to share a sandwich with, and one duo will be gifted free sandwiches.

Milano’ s Piz z a and Italian Restaurant, 269 E. Stetson Ave. in Hemet, is open for takeout, delivery and catering.

For more information, contact 951-929-2599, http://milanospiz z ahemet.com and http://facebook. com/milanospiz z ahemet.

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The Elizabeth Hospice to host virtual volunteer training sessions TEMECULA – The Eliz abeth Hospice, 27720 Jefferson Ave., Suite 200, in Temecula invited individuals interested in helping adults and children impacted by serious illness and those grieving the death of a loved one to a free volunteer orientation session via the Zoom videoconferencing platform.

Prospective volunteers can choose from the following dates: Feb. 24, from noon to 1 p.m.;

March 8, from 10-11 a.m.; March 19, from 2-3 p.m.; March 30, from noon to 1 p.m. and April 15, from 2-3 p.m.

Attendees will learn about a wide variety of opportunities that are available throughout San Diego County and southwest Riverside County, including serving as a patient companion, providing caregiver respite, performing aromatherapy, sewing Cuddle Bears, officiating at veteran pin-

ning ceremonies and much more.

Information will be provided on both the application and training process.

An email address and a device with a camera interface are needed to participate in the training session or attendees can join by phone. To ensure a place at the volunteer orientation session, contact the nonprofit’s volunteer department at 800-797-2050 or send an email to volunteer@ehospice.org.

The Eliz abeth Hospice, a nonprofit health care leader, provides medical, emotional and spiritual support to children and adults facing the challenges associated with a life-threatening illness and restores hope to grieving children and adults who are feeling lost and alone.

Since 1978, The Eliz abeth Hospice has touched the lives of more than 115,000 people in San Diego County and Southwest Riverside

County. The Eliz abeth Hospice has earned the Gold Seal of Approval

by The Joint Commission and is a member of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organiz ation. To learn more, call 800-797-2050 or visit http://eliz abethhospice.org.

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Under federal law, can Red Cross urges blood donation to your employer make you maintain supply amid pandemic get the COVID-19 vaccine? RIVERSIDE – The American staff – have been implemented to Greg Glaser, Esq. and Mary Holland SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Are state governments and private employers about to mandate COVID-19 vaccines?

There are many opaque current and future legal issues around COVID-19, and the measures to contain it. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are emergency use products, and as such, not fully licensed.

The law is clear: States may not mandate the vaccines, and private entities do so at the peril of violating federal law.

What is the law governing vaccines approved for emergency use?

For the time being, there are only two COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States: the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued them both emergency use authoriz ations but not yet full vaccine licenses.

New York State Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal recently proposed a bill to mandate COVID-19 vaccines, but the federal law on emergency use authoriz ation prohibits the mandate.

“Emergency use authoriz ation” means that any product with this designation must be voluntary.

Under 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3, “authoriz ation for medical products for use in emergencies: Appropriate conditions designed to ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed that the Secretary (of Health and Human Services) has authoriz ed the emergency use of the product; of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of such use, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown and of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product, of the consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product, and of the alternatives to the product that are available and of their benefits and risks.

Under federal preemption doctrine, this federal law regarding emergency use authoriz ation trumps state law, meaning that states and municipalities may not mandate these products. According to the Food and Drug Administration, “Food and Drug Administration believes that the terms and conditions of an EUA issued under section 564 preempt state or local law, both legislative requirements and common-law duties that impose different or additional requirements on the medical product for which the EUA was issued in the context of the emergency declared under section 564 … In an emergency, it is critical that the conditions that are part of the EUA or an order or waiver issued pursuant to section 564A – those that Food and Drug Administration has determined to be necessary or appropriate to protect the public health – be strictly followed, and that no additional conditions be imposed.”

It was also confirmed in August 2020 at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immuniz ation Practices, where its executive secretary, Dr. Amanda Cohn, said, “I just wanted to add that, just wanted to remind everybody that under an Emergency Use Authoriz ation, an EUA, vaccines are not allowed to be mandatory. So, early in this vaccination phase, individuals will have to be consented, and they won’ t be able to be mandated.”

Governors may not mandate the vaccines or the tests for COVID-19 infection. States cannot override federal law or set up their own mandatory scheme. See for example, Lorillard Tobacco

Co. v. Reilly, 533 U.S. 525, 57071 in 2001, which overturned a state public health law because it was already the subject of a comprehensive federal scheme to manage public health, and Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518, 530 in 1988. For more information on state and local law, see the Emergency Use Authoriz ation Toolkit from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials at https://www. astho.org/Programs/Preparedness/ Public-Health-Emergency-Law/ Emergency-Use-Authoriz ationToolkit/Emergency-Use-Authoriz ation-Toolkit/.

What about private employers?

A private party, such as an employer, school or hospital, cannot circumvent the EUA law. For example, according to the fact sheet approved in January by the Food and Drug Administration for the Pfizer vaccine, “It is your choice to receive or not receive the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.

Should you decide not to receive it, it will not change your standard medical care.”

The previously referenced section of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act governing medical products approved for emergency states that the FDA-approved fact sheet must state “the consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product.”

Nowhere in the fact sheet does it specify that a person may be fired from their employment, denied education, disciplined or otherwise discriminated against for refusal.

With that said, the law on private entities is likely to be litigated.

Even the most ardent advocates for COVID-19 vaccines acknowledge that employer mandates would be “problematic” and would likely lead to litigation.

Indeed, the “emergency use approval” law preventing mandates is so explicit that only one precedent case was found regarding an attempt to mandate an such a vaccine, and the court held that the vaccine could not be mandated, even to people in the military. In Doe No. 1 v. Rumsfeld, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5573 (D.D.C. April 6, 2005).

In that case, six soldiers challenged the U.S. Department of Defense, which at the time mandated anthrax vaccines, often leading to what has been called Gulf War Syndrome. Six soldiers sued Defense Department to refuse vaccination and won. A federal court held that because the anthrax vaccine was an EUA product, the soldiers had the right to accept or refuse vaccination.

It’ s a solid precedent showing that because a federal court upheld soldiers’ rights to decline “emergency use approval” vaccines, it’ s likely that courts would uphold employees’ rights to refuse vaccines as well.

The Informed Consent Action Network’s legal team offered to help individuals challenge employers or schools that are requiring COVID-19 vaccinations.

G reg G laser is a vaccine rights attorney with a litigation and transactional law back ground.

Mary Holland is president of C hildren’ s Health Defense. She was research scholar and director of the G raduate Legal Sk ills Program at New York U niversity School of Law. She is a founding board member of E lizabeth Birt C enter for Autism Law and Advocacy.

R eprinted by permission from the C hildren’ s Health Defense The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of C hildren’ s Health Defense.

Red Cross has a tough time keeping the blood supply strong during the winter months when inclement weather and seasonal illnesses can impact donors. This year the pandemic adds in another challenge in keeping the blood supply strong.

The Red Cross urged healthy individuals to make an appointment to give blood or platelets in February.

Every day there are thousands of patients who rely on lifesaving blood donations – people like Leslie Johnson. In 2005, a farming accident left Johnson with broken bones and massive bleeding. In the first 2 hours after the accident, she received 10 units of blood and platelets. Additional transfusions and surgeries followed.

Johnson’ s high school-age daughter, Emily, hosted a blood drive last semester because she recogniz ed the role of blood in helping save her mother’ s life.

“If blood had not been available when she needed it, she might not be here today. I might not have had my mom growing up. It’ s my honor to be able to promote blood donation and help pay it forward to others in need,” Emily Johnson said.

As Leslie Johnson faces additional surgeries to address ongoing injuries from the accident, she may need more blood transfusions.

“It’ s so important, especially as we navigate this pandemic, to make sure there is blood available,” Emily Johnson said. “Blood is such a meaningful gift to give.”

As a thank-you for helping ensure a stable blood supply, those who come to give in February will receive a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card via email, courtesy of Amaz on. Restrictions apply. Additional information and details are available at http://RedCrossBlood. org/Together.

Make an appointment to give blood, platelets or plasma with the Red Cross by downloading the Red Cross Blood Donor app, visiting http://RedCrossBlood.org, calling 800-733-2767 or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

help protect the health of all those in attendance. Donors are asked to schedule an appointment before arriving at the drive and are required to wear a face covering or mask while at the drive, in alignment with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public guidance.

COVI D-19 information for donors The Red Cross is testing blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies. The test may indicate if the donor’ s immune system has produced antibodies to this coronavirus, regardless of whether an individual developed COVID-19 symptoms. Red Cross antibody tests will be helpful to identify individuals who have COVID-19 antibodies and may now help current coronavirus patients in need of convalescent plasma transfusions.

Convalescent plasma is a type of blood donation collected from COVID-19 survivors that have antibodies that may help patients who are actively fighting the virus. Plasma from whole blood donations that test positive for COVID-19 antibodies may be used to help COVID-19 patients.

COVID-19 antibody test results will be available within one to two weeks in the Red Cross Blood Donor app or donor portal at http:// RedCrossBlood.org. A positive antibody test result does not confirm infection or immunity. The Red Cross is not testing donors to diagnose illness, referred to as a diagnostic test. To protect the health and safety of Red Cross staff and donors, it is important that individuals who do not feel well or believe they may be ill with COVID-19 postpone donation.

Each Red Cross blood drive and donation center follows the highest standards of safety and infection control, and additional precautions – including temperature checks, social distancing and face coverings for donors and

Upcoming blood donation opportunities, Feb. 2 3 to March 11.

In Fallbrook, Christ the King Lutheran Church, 1620 S. Stage Coach Lane, will host a blood drive Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In Hemet, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 26340 Soboba St., will host a blood drive Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Gosch Chevrolet, 400 Carriage Circle, will host a mobile blood drive Thursday, Feb. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Community Christian Church, 41762 Stetson Ave., will host a blood drive Wednesday, March 3, from 2-8 p.m.

In Lake Elsinore, Bread of Life Fellowship, 21020 Malaga Road, will host a blood drive Tuesday, March 2, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In Murrieta, Rancho Springs Medical Center, 25520 Medical Drive, will host a blood drive Friday, March 5, from noon to 6 p.m.

In Perris, American Legion Post 595, 600 South D St. will host a blood drive Sunday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In Temecula, Walmart, 32225 Temecula Parkway/Highway 79 South, will host a mobile blood drive Sunday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the city of Temecula, 41000 Main St., will host a blood drive, Monday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Calvary Chapel Bible Fellowship, 34180 Rancho California Road, will host a blood drive Tuesday, March 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In Sun City, St. Vincent Ferrer Church, 27931 Murrieta Road, will host a blood drive Thursday, March 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The Jason Foundation supports mental health in youths HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – Did you know that survey data by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention depicted a trend among young people since the onset of the nationwide lockdowns? Between March and June, suicide risk rose for Americans across the board.

The rise in suicide cases, though, was most pronounced among the nation’ s youth.

While 11% of respondents to the CDC survey had seriously considered suicide, the same figure jumped to 25% for people aged 1824. According to a report from the CDC, from March to October in 2020 mental health-related emergency room visits increased 24% for children ages 5 to 11 and 31% for children 12 to 17 when compared to the same time in 2019.

Some warning signs associated with suicide include suicide threats, previous suicide attempts, depression, making final arrangements, out of character behavior, feeling like a burden, feeling trapped/hopelessness, inward rage/ anger and increased anxiety.

If you or someone you love is struggling with depression or thinking about suicide, get help now. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-8255, is a free resource that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for anyone who is in a suicidal crisis or emotional distress. The crisis text line is a free 24/7 text line where trained crisis counselors support individuals in crisis. Text

“Jason” to 741741 to speak with a compassionate, trained crisis counselor and confidential support 24/7, for free.

Another resource for suicide prevention and awareness is The Jason Foundation, a nationally recogniz ed leader in youth suicide prevention and awareness that has been providing programs and resources to help identify and assist young people who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide for over 20 years. They are the

nation’ s largest and most comprehensive nonprofit whose focus is the awareness and prevention of youth suicide.

Visit their website for more information regarding warning signs, their organiz ation and the programs that they offer at no charge to the community, visit http://www.jasonfoundation. com.

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Get rid of pests in the garden Andrea Verdin SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Spring is just around the corner.

Plants and flowers are budding, and gardens will begin to bear fruits and vegetables for the family to enjoy. Gardeners aren’ t alone in their plans to feast on the outcome of their hard work, however. Pests, such as aphids, ants, squirrels and snails are as commonplace as weeds in a garden and can destroy the plans a gardener may have to enjoy the fruits of their hard labor.

For agriculturists who want to fight their gardens’ saboteurs, it is best to know their enemy, identify what they can do to protect their crops, and what is needed to eradicate them.

Dave Paulino, Fallbrook store manager for Grangetto’ s Farm and Garden supply, offered several methods and treatments available to eradicate various pests in the garden and lawned “There are both organic and conventional methods to get rid of pests,” Paulino said. “However, it is very important for gardeners to be cautious with what they buy, as many pesticides are labelspecific.”

If a gardener is uncertain which pest is attacking their garden, Paulino recommended bringing in a sample or piece of the affected plant into a local nursery for professional help.

“If we can’ t identify the culprit, we will send the sample to our entomologist for research,” Paulino said. “We will do all we can at a garden store level to help you with your garden pests.”

I nsect sprays and the bugs they destroy Aphids, mealybugs, whitefly and mites are frequent pests found on both edible and ornamental plants. For effective removal of these particular garden assailants, Paulino recommended organic products Dr. Earth Home & Garden Insect Spray or Dr. Earth Fruit & Vegetable Spray for treatment.

“This spray is available in both concentrate and ready-to-use formulas,” Paulino said.

The blend of garlic extract, rosemary, cinnamon and clove, coconut, mineral, wintergreen and sa ower oils, molasses and water

Ground squirrels dig holes in lawns, creating burrows that can sink Valley News/Courtesy photos and leave lawns looking unsightly.

is certified organic. An insecticidal spray such as the Dr. Earth product would wash off the following pests and insects, as well as remove their protective waxy covering, allowing them to be killed easily. The following bugs are dramatically affected by insecticidal sprays.

If the rose bushes in your garden have twisted, distorted or moldy leaves, it is a telltale sign of aphids.

These creatures have soft, ovalshaped bodies, enjoy destroying the buds of rose bushes, and leave a sweet residue that attracts other pests. Aphids may be winged and come in a large range of colors, including green, pink, red and black. Beware, though, as these pesky critters tend to curl leaves around themselves and take cover in protected parts of the plant.

If your plants have yellowed, dark or dirty patches, the garden may have mealybugs. A cluster of these insects looks like a clump of lint and can be found on the underside of a leaf or twigs. These insects destroy plants by sucking plant juices and damaging plant tissues. Citrus, apple and peach trees are favorites of the mealybug, along with grapes and potatoes.

If little dots or clusters of yellow show up on otherwise green plants, then they may have mites, which look like little tiny specks of color – yellow, red or green. They are related to the spider, having eight legs. Mites are attracted to dusty leaves, so keep leaves clean.

They also prefer plants affected by drought conditions.

Leaving holes in leaves, slugs are active at night and on rainy days

Whitefly – small, fly-like insects with white colored wings – are some of the most difficult garden pests to control because of their fast-growing numbers and resistance to pesticides. These critters infect a huge range of hosts including bedding plants, strawberries, tomatoes and poinsettias. Hiding on the underside of leaves where they multiply rapidly, whitefly feed on plant juices and can consume a considerable amount of nutrients, causing plants to pale in color. Like aphids, they also excrete honeydew, attracting black sooty moldy fungus and ants.

If you notice leaves that appear to shrink and curl up, you may have thrips, tiny little pests that scrape tissue from flowers and leaves and then drink the plant juices. Thrips infestations keep flowers and leaves from opening normally, and they’ ll look twisted or stuck together. You’ ll also notice small black fecal pellets that thrips deposit when they feed.

The “ new” conventional pesticides and the insects they destroy Many gardeners are wary of using conventional insecticidal products, as they have the stigma of being harmful. However, new products are being developed by insecticidal companies that are more environmentally friendly.

“Pesticide companies have changed the form pesticides are made, allowing them to be a safer form of their original product,” Paulino said. “These are friendlier pesticides, but they are still very label-specific. Check the product’s label and see where it can be used.”

The following pests are prime candidates for these pesticide treatments.

Earwigs love to eat flower petals and tender garden veggies. Crops like lettuce, corn, celery, tender young seedlings, flower blossoms and ripening fruits are all at risk.

While one earwig may not cause much damage, a large amount of them can cause severe damage to your garden. They are sneaky, and hide under garden tools and lawn ornaments during the day, wreaking their havoc at night.

Grasshoppers are the bane of gardeners’ lives across the coun-

Ants can weaken plants internal structures, making them more susceptible to damage from other pests and the elements.

Aphids may be winged and come in a large range of colors, including green, pink, red and black.

try. Eating grass, plants and any green they find, grasshoppers can wipe out an entire garden within a matter of a week. Initial signs of feeding by young grasshoppers are jagged and tattered holes chewed in leaves. If you’ re invaded by grasshoppers, you may want to consider netting your plants.

Slugs and snails are some of the most frustrating garden pests, as they always return, regardless to how many times you remove them. Leaving holes in leaves, the slithering creatures are active at night and on rainy days. You may also opt to simply grab snails by hand and get rid of them.

Ants can be troublesome in any garden. They can weaken plants’ internal structures, making them more susceptible to damage from other pests and the elements. Many varieties of ants can damage plant life, destroy seeds and flower buds. According to Paulino, ants are typically a secondary problem for plants.

“They are usually attracted to the sweet residue left by aphids or whitefly,” he said. “If you take care of the original problem, you’ ll get rid of the ants.”

Lawn trouble For individuals who opt to have lawns, the stress of trying

to get rid of ground squirrels and gophers can be an unending war.

These pests dig holes in lawns, creating burrows that can sink and leave lawns looking unsightly.

According to Mike Knox, who owns Concepts in Landscaping and has been working on lawn and gardens for 21 years, it can be very difficult to get rid of these pests.

Traps and bait boxes can be effective, but they can be a hassle for individuals who don’ t want to deal with the animals’ bodies after they have perished.

“When doing maintenance, we have had to treat for both gophers and squirrels,” Knox, who is licensed to do pest control, said. “When using a fumigant, it is important to make sure the exterminator is licensed to use the poison. Also, remember that these animals, once poisoned, will crawl out of their holes to die, so it may be easy for a pet to eat the animal and get sick.”

Regardless of which type of pest you’ re trying to get rid of, it is always best to consult with a professional who can tell you exactly what is needed to keep your garden and lawn looking pristine and picturesque.

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tasking appliances save space, she said.

Look beyond the cabinets for storage.

Cabinets are a great place to store items – but they’ re not the only option, Geddes said. Look up – the ceiling also offers a large storage space. Try store pans on a ceiling rack over the stove.

Group items before organizing.

When it comes to organiz ing your kitchen cupboards to optimiz e your space, make sure you remove all items from your cupboard and group them together before you start organiz ing. It means you can pare down on any items that you don’ t often use, she said.

Give every place a home.

If something is left lying around, make sure to put it away, Geddes said. If you find an item that’s not meant for the room it’ s located in, then put it in a basket at the bottom of the stairs, which you can take with you the next time you head up there. It only takes a minute of your time, but will save you an hour later on in the day, she said.

Decide which appliances are essential.

With limited space, some items are considered essential, whereas others are less necessary, Geddes said. It’ s all down to your personal preferences and habits – a toaster may be essential, but if you drink coffee, then a coffee

maker is essential. Unless used often, appliances like ice cream makers, popcorn machines, mixers and toaster ovens become less essential.

Maxi mize space in the dining area.

To optimiz e the space in a small dining room, take advantage of the corners, and where possible, install banquet bench seating. Pair with a round tulip table and a scattering of low-arm and low-back chairs for the perfect combo, she said.

Style the benches with some pillows to make the room look extra coz y, Geddes said. When buying furniture, make sure to check the siz e and scale of each piece in relation to the room. Choose slim silhouettes, as they will make the space feel bigger.

Make the most of ext ra space in the bedroom.

Bed risers lift the bed and allows for storage underneath it. Buy clear bins that you can label, so you can easily access all of your stuff, she said.

Flank the edge of the bed with a vintage trunk to store clothing in the offseason, to display d cor and books or to provide extra seating.

Clear out those closets, drawers and cabinets every season and set up a “one in and one out” policy.

Only buy things that are needed.

Find space in the bathroom.

The bathroom is one of the smallest rooms in a home, and it

can get cluttered and messy, Geddes said. Get a medicine cabinet and remember to replace the robe hook with an over-the-door rack to double your storage space for linens.

Don’t forget the attic.

If you have an attic in your tiny home, you likely have a pitched roof to contend with, as well as the perimeter space being underutiliz ed, she said. Purchase bins of all siz es and stack them on top of each other to fill every possible space.

Install utility hooks in the rafters too, for hanging d cor, bags and wardrobe closets.

For more information, visit https://www.wrenkitchens.com/ us/blog/tiny-homes-top-tips-formaximiz ing-your-space.

K atie G eddes is the owner and lead designer of K atie G eddes I nteriors, located in the downtown area of Milford, C onnecticut.

Her design creations layer mixed styles, functionality and effective solutions, stemming from her love of design and organization.

Wren K itchens is a k itchen retail specialist in E urope and has supplied k itchens worth more than $1.31 billion in the last two years. Launched in 2 009 , Wren K itchens is a family business, and it manufactures its U .K . k itchens in its three manufacturing and assembling facilities. For more information, visit http: / / www. wrencareers.com.

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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 : E vents and businesses are under state orders for social distancing and recommendations to wear face mask s to reduce the spread of C O V I D- 19 , please contact event sponsors before attending for the latest updates.

COMMUNI TY EVENTS: Feb. 2 0 – 7-8 p.m. Pianist Anita Graef will present a Black History Month program at the Old Town Community Theater, 42051 Main Street, in Temecula. She will be joined by the Juliani Ensemble members on flute and violin. For tickets and information, call 1-866653-8696 or visit the box office.

ONGOI NG – If you know a homebound older adult, resources in Menifee are available, including grab and go, cooked and froz en 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 800-5102020 for help.

ONGOI NG – The Riverside County COVID-19 Business Assistance Grant Program is accepting online applications for business grants up to $10,000 at http://www. rivercobiz help.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.

ONGOI NG – 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.

ONGOI NG – 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 Plaz a 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.

ONGOI NG – 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, MEETI NGS 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. 19 – 7:30 p.m. Come out for virtual speed dating for professional singles with Old Town Community Theater at 42051 Main St. in Temecula. RSVP at https://stayhappening.com/e/virtual-speed-dating-for-professionalsingles-E3LUS591HK03.

Feb. 19 – The Menifee Police Department will debut a new crime-mapping tool for the Menifee community. The new technology that allows community members to see where within the city crimes are occurring. Residents and businesses can be aware of what to look out for and then report any suspicious activity to the Menifee Police Department. Check it out at https://www.crimemapping.com/ map/ca/menifee.

Feb. 19 – Menifee announced a Menifee Permit Portal expansion to help customers residents and businesses and the development community. It will help submit plans, schedule inspections, make payments, get permits, track projects and find records. For more information, visit http://aca-product. accela,com/MENIFEE/default. aspx or the city website.

Feb. 19 – 11 a.m. to noon.

Register for the monthly SBDC Small Business Seminar, “The Rise of Online Ordering,” at http:// inlandempiresbdc.org. For more information, contact Mary at 909983-5005.

Feb. 2 5 – 2-3 p.m. SBDC email marketing webinar series a free two-day series. Sign up Now! To register go to: https://santaanadistrictsbdc.ecenterdirect.com/ events/7061 Have Questions? Call Mary @ (909) 983-5005 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.

March 4 – 1-2 p.m. The Valley Nonprofit Network that works to strengthen local nonprofit organiz ations through coordinated promotion, training, networking

and collaboration presents a ZOOM meeting. Register in advance for this meeting and receive login information at https://us02web.z oom. us/meeting/register/tZcoc-qgqz Mj G92VGxqo2onJW8tXq_ 2GTM_ P. March 8 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The city of Temecula with the American Red Cross is hosting a blood drove at the Temecula City Hall Conference Center, 41000 Main St., in Temecula. Participants must make an appointment before donating to prevent individuals from gathering. Book an appointment at http:// redcrossblood.org.

March 2 2 – 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Learn how to harvest and prepare recipes from wild edible plants growing all around with Sand n’ Straw Community Farm, 625 Mar Vista Drive in Vista. Register for the class at https://www.sandnstraw.com/.

April 13 – 10 a.m. Menifee Community Partners will meet on Zoom. Use the link to join at https://cityofmenifee-us.z oom. us/j/88078133176?pwd=bDl0NW hsRFNZcXFwVEdTMHFMR1A1 UT09 with Meeting ID: 880 7813 3176 and Password: 868646. Dial in with + 1 669-900-6833 US (San Jose) For more information, email Chelsea Bollinger at cbolliner@ cityofmenifee.us.

ONGOI NG – 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/ MWCBiz Briefing. The chamber business briefing is an opportunity to hear from city, county and business leaders about current and relevant business information.

ONGOI NG – Everything KETO classes. These interactive step-bystep 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.

ONGOI NG – Menifee Community Services offers online driver’s education courses with a $21.95 fee. The course includes animated driving scenarios, instructional videos, sample test, licensed instructor available to answer questions, DMV approved certificate of completion with all lectures and exams completed from home.

Designed for students and does not include behind-the-wheel instruction or a California driver’ s permit.

Contact 951-723-3880 or visit the city of Menifee to register at http:// www.cityofmenifee.us.

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Michelle’ s Place Cancer Resource Center and The Eliz abeth 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 Eliz abeth Hospice Grief Support Services at 833-349-2054.

ONGOI NG – 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.

ONGOI NG – 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 714-9817013 or email sandiesldy@aol. com to learn when meetings will resume.

ONGOI NG – Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, a free 12step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia, has meetings throughout the U.S. and the world. Contact 781- 9326300, or for local meetings, call 925-321-0170 or visit http://www. foodaddicts.org.

ONGOI NG – 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.

ONGOI NG – Temecula Valley Rose Society meets each month.

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

ONGOI NG – 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.

ONGOI NG – 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.z oom. us/j/4232348177?pwd=eDd1SD lDdW5sdVowWUp1N3pBYmpGZz 09 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.

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

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

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ENTERTAINMENT

Live music, workshops and an art exhibit are just a few things to enjoy Feb. 19-25 Lexington Howe STAFF WRITER

E ditor’ s Note: Due to current state and county health orders, residents should call ahead and see if an event is still available before registering or attending.

Please comply with county and state health orders, including washing your hands, wearing a face mask and staying 6 - feet away from other people while social distancing.

World of Watercolor and Beyond The Fallbrook Art Center is hosting a new exhibit called World of Watercolor and Beyond, until March 12.

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

Holiday Wine Tour The Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce is hosting a holiday wine tour until March 14. Join in to learn and support local wineries; cost is $20 per person which includes a lanyard and a badge, a souvenir wineglass and wine passport.

For more info, visit http:// www.fallbrookchamberofcommerce.org/SEARCH/Wine-Trail_ ET5090.html.

Weekend Train and Trolley Rides The Southern California Railway Museum is hosting weekend train and trolley rides throughout February.

For more information, visit http://socalrailway.org/scrmevents/weekend-rides.

Futsal Skills Camp On several Saturdays throughout February and March, Futsal Club is hosting a skills camp at Margarita Community Park in Temecula. The camp will be about player development of soccer IQ, skills, receiving, passing, finishing, speed agility, etc.

For more information, visit http://www.futsal-club.com/ camps.html.

Painted Lady and Thistles Wings of Change is hosting Painted Lady and Thistles with permaculture specialist Diane Kennedy at the Fallbrook Community Garden Saturday, Feb. 20, from 2-3 p.m.

For more information, visit https://wingsofchange.us/product/ painted-ladies/.

Gino and the Lone Gunmen Gino Meregillano and the Lone Gunmen will be playing at The Cove Bar and Grill in Murrieta Saturday, Feb. 20, from 8-11 p.m.

Social distancing will be observed, and masks are suggested.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/770804017205413/.

Monty Seward and Band Maurice Car’ rie Winery is hosting Monty Seward and Band Saturday, Feb. 20, from noon to 4 p.m.

For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/753869051915422/.

AR Workshop Temecula On Friday, Feb. 19, AR Workshop Temecula is hosting a TGIFDistanced Wood Workshop from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Choose from a plank wood sign, porch sign, bath tray, framed wood sign, round laz y Susan, centerpiece box or plank wood tray. They are also having a Limited Seats-Distanced Wood Workshop Saturday, Feb. 20, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

AR W orkshop Temecula hosts workshops throughout the month of Valley News/Courtesy photo February.

For more information or to register for these events, visit https://www.arworkshop.com/ temecula/#schedule.

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JDS Creative Academy offers hands-on arts and education in Temecula TEMECULA – JDS Creative Academy mixes hands-on training, education and empowerment with art, paving the way for wellrounded, well-prepared learners and leaders and setting students up for employment success.

Along with their job-training program tailored to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, they offer year-round opportunities for the community that includes visual, performing and digital art classes and workshops, live-theater productions and special events such as DigiFest Temecula, a Haunted Studio production and summer

camp activities.

The current list of classes and corresponding times include “Youth Acting” – Mondays from 5-7 p.m. with a month to month commitment; “Teen Acting” – Tuesdays from 5-7 p.m. with month to month commitment; “Fashion & BackStage Design” – Wednesdays from 4:30 -6:30 p.m. with a four-month commitment; “Script Writing” – Thursdays from 5-6:30 p.m. with a four-month commitment; “Photography” – Thursdays from 4:30-6 p.m. with a four-month commitment; “Musical Theater” – Thursdays from 5-6:30 p.m. with a four-month

commitment and “Adult Acting” – Thursdays from 7-10 p.m. with a month to month commitment.

Know someone who is up on the latest fashion trends and is interested in designing clothes? JDS Creative Academy has a fashion design class. Sewing offers many benefits such as improved handeye coordination, brain growth and stress relief.

Do you have an aspiring actor in the family? Check out the acting classes offered for all ages. Or maybe you want to brush up on your photography skills because it’ s a virtual social media world.

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modates all levels of experience.

Beyond the screen, JDS Creative Academy hosts a scriptwriting class where students have their work read by professional actors, as well as a musical theater program and backstage production classes for those who crave the stage.

JDS Creative Academy offers structured curriculum classes that meet the California Educational Codes for fourth to 12th graders in visual, performing and digital arts. Other classes and workshops are designed to teach specific industry on-the-job training skills and needs through the California

state-approved apprenticeship program. Classes are open to youth, teens and adults.

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process” – Henry James.

JDS Creative Academy’ s spring classes are offered in-person and virtually via oom. The nonprofit is located at 28069 Diaz Road in Temecula. For more information, visit http://www.jdscreativeacademy.org.

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TEMECULA – No celebration would be complete without a Champagne toast. Champagne is a vital component of many special occasions, such as anniversaries, retirement parties and weddings.

Champagne is a sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France, though the term “Champagne” is often mistakenly used in reference to any type of bubbly.

Many wineries in Temecula Valley Wine Country offer sparkling wines, including Wiens Family Cellars, South Coast Winery Resort and Spa, Maurice Car’ rie Vineyard and Winery, Thornton Winery, Danz a del Sol, Oak Mountain Winery, Ponte Family Estate Winery, Cougar Vineyard and Winery and more.

Champagne is a wine, and, like merlot or pinot grigio, it has specific storage and serving temperatures to ensure top flavor. According to ThermoWorks, wines have specific layers of flavor that are most effectively enjoyed when they’ re experienced at the proper temperature. In wine, temperature affects alcohol, acid and aromatics.

ThermoWorks suggested a temperature of 45 F for Champagne.

In addition to controlling temperature, there are other ways to

help ensure Champagne reaches the palate in optimal fashion.

Grape Escapes, a wine tasting and touring company, said that Champagne is already aged properly before being sold, so it does not necessarily benefit from extra aging in the bottle. When kept too long – beyond 10 years for vintage cuv es – some effervescence may be lost and the flavor will change.

Bottles of Champagne should be stored horiz ontally in a wellchilled environment. They should be kept away from bright or artificial light. Chilling also will help reduce the “pop” and overflow of the bubbly. If you purchase Champagne and need to chill it for serving, you can achieve it by either chilling it in the fridge for three hours before serving, or in a Champagne bucket in a mixture of ice and water for 30 minutes.

Etiquette experts have said it is preferable to open a bottle of Champagne with a hiss rather than a large pop. Doing that, requires chilling the Champagne and opening the bottle slowly and with a great deal of control.

When the Champagne is opened, Daniel Brennan, PR and communications director at Champagne Laurent-Perrier, advised taking

some time to pour a little Champagne into each glass to allow the bubbles to settle. Then return to the first glass to pour more, helping to make the Champagne less likely to froth. Do not tilt the glass like pouring a beer, rather pour the Champagne gently down the inside of the glass.

The shape of the glass comes down to preference. Traditional coupes look the part, but tulipshaped flutes will produce more bubbles and help capture the flavor and aromas of the Champagne.

It’ s ideal to drink all of the Champagne in a bottle at one time, as it will begin to lose its fizz immediately after opening, yet it isn’ t always possible. A specializ ed Champagne stopper will help keep it fresh for up to two days after opening. After the bottle has been opened, refrigerate it.

Do not wash Champagne glasses in the dishwasher. Hand wash and allow to drip dry. Soap or fibers from towels can impede bubble formation in the glass during subsequent pourings.

Learning how to properly store and serve Champagne can enhance special occasions.

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During pre-COVID-19 times, wedding concerns in Temecula Valley Wine Country had far more to do with budget, venue capacity and vision than with the health and safety of guests. It’ s become a different world due to the coronavirus pandemic, but with some careful planning couples can still find ways to safely celebrate their love among the vines.

As the vows say, marriage is for good times and bad. Couples may simply require some flexibility and creativity to make their dream day a reality.

Enlist help from an ex perienced coordinator.

If you weren’ t planning to use a wedding coordinator, the pandemic is a compelling reason to reconsider. Keeping track of changing mandates and how they

affect gatherings, crowd sizes and more is a job in its own right. Allowing the coordinator to keep tabs on the latest recommendations and to adjust arrangements with vendors accordingly may save a great deal of time and frustration.

Be realistic about the invite list.

A year ago, it would have been unthinkable to create a tiered guest list or to consider making cuts even after invites go out. Today, that decision may be out of your hands.

Rather than waiting until you get news that you’ ll have to make cuts, take time now with a level head and less emotion affecting the decisions to segment the list.

Determine who absolutely must be present as you exchange vows and expand in increments. Your coordinator or venue contact can help you determine thresholds for 10, 25, 50 or 100 guests based on the guidelines in your community.

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If you haven’ t already, create a blog or send out regular updates about wedding plans to guests.

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Cross-country teams run along into second week of Southwestern League action JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

With the return of cross-country, possibly paving the way for student athletes in other sports to return soon, runners from all over laced up their shoes again this week. The second duals meet for Southwestern League crosscountry runners took place at Vista Murrieta High School Thursday, Feb. 11, where the host school ran away with a sweep for the second straight week. Also, for the second straight week, Great Oak High School, who had to deal with the news of head coach Doug Soles announcing his resignation, which will take place after this season, swept their races as well.

Vista Murrieta took out Murrieta Valley High School at their home course, but it was freshman runner, Isabel Rosales, who was turning heads for the second week in a row. Rosales of Murrieta Valley ran away with an insurmountable first place finish, coming in more than a minute before the top four Lady Bronco runners. Great Oak defeated Temecula Valley High School with their sweep and Chaparral and Murrieta Mesa high schools were close in their races, but Chapparal had the edge with a sweep of the Rams, handing them

a second straight loss. Here are the results featuring scores and the top five runners, or runner from each school: Vista Murrieta ( 20) vs. Murrieta Valley ( 43) G irls: Isabel Rosales (9) – Murrieta Valley – 18:14.1 Isabella Smith (11) – Vista Murrieta – 19:22.8 Laurel Essick (11) – Vista Murrieta – 19:46.0 Natasha King (11) – Vista Murrieta – 19:46.0 Emily Bourque (12) – Vista Murrieta – 19:46.2 Vista Murrieta ( 15) vs. Murrieta Valley ( 48) Boys: Noah Murasmith (12) – Vista Murrieta – 15:34.5 Lance Denhalter (11) – Vista Murrieta – 15:43.7 Gabe Jasperson (12) – Vista Murrieta – 15:54.1 Brandon Calderon (11) – Vista Murrieta – 15:55.7 Jacob Zerecero (12) – Vista Murrieta – 16:00.1 Juan Rosales (12) – Murrieta Valley – 16:05.1 Great Oak ( 15) vs. Temecula Valley ( 50) G irls:

Vista Murrieta took the top five spots in their cross-country sweep of Murrieta Valley at Vista Murrieta Thursday, Feb. 11.

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Brianna Weidler (12) - Great Oak – 17:36.4 Aishling Fabian (10) - Great Oak – 17:47.4 Ameya Teli (10) – Great Oak – 18:09.8 Kali Kraus (10) – Great Oak –

18:37.6 Joelle Upshur (10) – Great Oak – 18:41.3 8. Paige Thamer (11) – Temecula Valley – 19:09.2 8 Great Oak ( 15) vs. Temecula Valley ( 44) Boys: Austin Montez (12) – Great Oak – 14:48.1 Alex Kalmar (12) – Temecula Valley – 14:59.8 Carson Smith (11) – Great Oak – 15:03.4 Nick Gaffney (10 Great Oak 15:09.2 David Kankowski (10) – Great Oak – 15:12.

Chaparral ( 2 5) vs. Murrieta Mesa ( 30 ) G irls: Morgan Smith (10) – Chaparral High School (SS) – 19:31.3 Emily Kendrick (11) – Murrieta Mesa (SS) – 19:44.0 Erin Capen (9) – Murrieta Mesa (SS) – 20:34.0 Emily Schwank (12) – Chaparral High School (SS) – 20:36.3 Avery Gonz ales (9) – Chaparral High School (SS) – 20:44.8

Great Oak High School ran away with a sweep of their races against Temecula Valley High School in the Southwestern League Duals race at Vista Murrieta Thursday, Feb. 11.

Chaparral ( 2 7) vs. Murrieta Mesa ( 28 )

Boys Jacob Bustamante (12) – Chaparral – 15:05.3 Mike Martinez (11) – Chaparral – 15:30.1 Riley Menter (12) – Murrieta Mesa – 16:42.1 Weston Van Soest (9) – Murrieta Mesa – 17:15.2 Kyle Taylor (11) – Murrieta Mesa – 17:23.8 Next up These teams will compete in Southwestern League Duals Week 3 Thursday, Feb. 18 (Site TBD) Murrieta Mesa vs. Murrieta Valley Girls (JV/V combined) – 2 p.m.

Boys (JV/V combined) – 2:30 p.m.

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

Boys (JV/V combined) – 3:45 p.m.

Great Oak vs. Vista Murrieta Girls (JV/V combined) – 4:30 p.m.

Boys (JV/V combined) – 5 p.m. * Full results can be found at htt nishedresults co .

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Great Oak baseball finds success while training through pandemic JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Great Oak High School head coach, Eric Morton, is seen holding up the programs CIF Southern Section Division 3 championship plaque in 2019, has high hopes for his squad once competition starts back up.

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It has been almost two years since the Great Oak varsity baseball team won the Division 3 CIF Southern Section championship and nearly a full year since the program, like so many others due to the pandemic, has even competed in a competition-based game. With the recent decline in positive COVID-19 cases, there is much more hope now that a season will take place in the coming months. Things were looking grim as the surge in positive cases started in November 2020, which kept student athletes from training with their high school programs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’ s tier-based athletic return has not gone over well with coaches, parents and players from California, who say that the science behind keeping youth out of sports has no backing.

California is one of seven remaining states that has yet to allow youth based athletic competition, and people are speaking up. A grassroots movement called #LetThemPlayCA has the attention of government leaders and is making strides in getting the right data to the right people in order to help student athletes return to their sport.

With cross-country being the spark to the return to competition

thus far, which is a purple tier sport, baseball and other sports are close behind as red tier sports.

In fact, with the recent CIF Bylaw change (600-605) allowing student athletes to once again play for their club and high school teams, a change that has come and gone twice now in the past year, hopes are high that some sort of season will exist for all programs, despite the school year being more than halfway over.

Despite this struggle, local student athletes are finding ways to get their reps, send their film to recruiters and sign with colleges.

States that are open for play, like Ariz ona, Texas, and Florida, have been hotbeds for baseball players from the area. Most have been playing competitively enough with their travel teams to get noticed, and it is paying off for programs see B ASEB ALL, page C-2

Great Oak High School unior Michael Rodda commits verbally to play baseball at CBU in 2022, oining teammate Will Potter who graduates in 2021.

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Soles set to resign after cross-country season ends JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Student athletes at Great Oak High School found out that Doug Soles, one of the most winning high school coaches in Riverside County history, confirmed he is stepping down as head coach of Great Oak’ s cross-country and track teams after 17 seasons. Also stepping down will be coach Daniel Noble, who is one of Soles’ top assistants. Both said they will finish out the current pandemic-altered cross-country season but will not coach track and field. Soles, 5, said he and his family are planning to relocate out of state, though he is not completely sure where to just yet.

“We (Soles and his family) had been talking about moving for a while, but with the success of the programs, we kept putting it off,” he said. “We now feel it is the best time to make the move out of California.”

Soles will be leaving after Great Oak’ s boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams won a county-record 14 state championships, all since 2010. In addition, the boys team won a national title in 2015 at the Nike Cross Nationals in Portland, Oregon.

Great Oak’ s boys’ team are the reigning Division I state champions and have won each year since 2014 and the girls’ cross-country team won its first state title in the CIFState Championships at Fresno’ s Woodward Park in 2010. They also had seven consecutive state titles between 2012 and 2018 before Clovis (Buchanan) won in 2019.

“I have coached year-round since I was hired at GOHS, and I believe it is time to take a break

and focus on my family and their endeavors,” Soles said in a written statement. “Coach Dan Noble and I have built a tremendous legacy, building our programs from a first year school, to state champions, to national champions and making many great friendships along the way.”

There is some speculation that with Soles and Noble leaving at the same time, there may be issues brewing behind the scenes from parents of former student athletes that are challenging the coach and some of his staff with legal matters, but until anything of that nature is made public, allegations are not being mentioned by the district, nor anyone else, at this time. There is also speculation the two are planning to team up on a future job, but Soles said that is not the case.

“I’ m not moving to any other job right now,” he said. “I will most likely take a break from coaching and focus on my family and watching my son play football. I have the support of my administration, and I wish everyone at Great Oak the best.”

Soles was an all-state track and field athlete at Seaside High School in Oregon and ran track at Western Oregon University before graduating. He got the head coach’ s job for cross-country and track at Desert Hot Springs High School in 2000 before heading to Great Oak in 2004.

“I have enjoyed every step of the journey and will fondly remember all of the athletes, coaches, and families that have given their time and effort to make Great Oak a truly wonderful place to coach,” he said. “I will always be grate-

Doug Soles will step down at Great Oak High School after coaching the boys and girls cross-country teams to a county-record 14 state championships.

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ful to have had such an amaz ing opportunity in such a beautiful community, and I am saddened that my journey here comes to an end but am grateful for the time I have had here and excited about the future adventures my family will embark upon next.”

Aimee Ricken, principal of Great Oak, said, “We want to thank Doug Soles for the many years of service to our students and families. We wish Coach Soles and his family the best as they begin a new adventure out of state.”

Regarding the hiring plan, Herschel Ramirez , athletics administrator of Great Oak, said, “We look

forward to finding a head coach of both of our cross-country and track and field programs that fits our Wolfpack, one who has a winning vision, dedication to our Wolfpack student-athletes and commitment in our school tenets of S.P.I.R.I.T. (scholarship, passion, integrity, reflection, involvement and teamwork). We will welcome input with our community partners, Wolfpack staff and students in this process.”

Administrators will start the process of hiring a cross-country head coach in mid-March and will have an “interim” head coach for the 2021 track and field season,

due to the timing of this opening.

“Our search for a track and field head coach will begin at the conclusion of the track season in June,” Ramirez said. “We respect coach Soles’ decision to move on, and we wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. He will leave an enormous void in our Wolfpack Athletic Department, as our next choices will impact our largest and most successful athletic programs.”

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Lake Elsinore Storm give an update on the 2021 season JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The Minor League Baseball season will likely be delayed due to a variety of factors, with spring training to be held in shifts and a final Player Development League not expected until later in February. A tentative plan is to have MLB and Triple-A players arriving in February, and remaining minor leaguers reporting in April, resulting in a later start to the 2021 MiLB season. With that said, earlier this month Shaun Brock, CEO of Lake Elsinore Storm, and Christine Kavic, chief financial officer of Lake Elsinore Storm, sent out an email updating fans on what a possible return to the Diamond will look like. Here is what that letter said: “Dear Lake Elsinore Family and Friends, We hope that this note finds you and your loved ones well. It has certainly been too long since we have had the chance to gather as we normally do here inside the Lake Elsinore Diamond Stadium.

We do hope you have enjoyed the Diamond Tap Room, reopening Feb. 5, as well as the Diamond Drive-In movies and concerts this past year. Currently, we do not have a lot of information to share but wanted to reach out to let you know where things stand as of today. While we are optimistic that we will have a memorable season with fans in 2021, we still have not received any official word from the state, and we are still awaiting a 2021 schedule from our partners at Major League Baseball. I am sure you have heard by now that MLB

Tickets for the 2021 Lake Elsinore Storm season will go on sale as soon as there is a solid direction for the regulations involved for hosting games with fans.

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plans to start spring training in mid-February, and their season in early April. But, over the last year we have seen how COVID-19 can quickly change the best laid plans, leaving us with a lot of unanswered questions.

So much uncertainty remains for 2021, but we want you to know our staff is working tirelessly to come up with solutions for a variety of scenarios that might play out in the coming weeks and months. We have many exciting things to share with you all, like our two huge new videoboards, new stadium speaker system, upgraded video produc-

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now is that we are allowed to work out on our campus following all of our safety protocols,” Morton said. “Right now, we go three days a week and it is great for our players to be able to see and interact with each other during this time.

I know they really appreciate this time to get out of the house, away from the computer screens and exercise and practice in the sport they love.”

The CIF baseball season is slated to start in mid-March, and programs all over are doing their best to get the work in needed to compete. With so much talk on the table about all sports getting the green light soon, schedules will most likely go into emergency shuffling mode soon enough, especially as athletic directors do their best to accommodate all the action at their sites.

There will be a lot to take in as sports make a triumphant return at the high school and youth level, but it has been almost a year in the making and it is almost certain families will adjust with ease.

Players just want to play, families

like Great Oak High School, who had four players commit recently, both verbally and in writing, to play at the next level. Will Potter (Cal Baptist – Class of 2021), Noah Ford (Simpson University – Class of 2021), Christian Smith (San Diego State – Class of 2022) and Michael Rodda (Cal Baptist – Class of 2022) will all be taking their talents to the next level. Rodda is a prime example of playing through the adversity, bursting on to the scene during the pandemic with a display of sheer athleticism recently in an Ariz ona tournament that landed him his verbal commitment to California Baptist University.

As for head coach Eric Morton, he stayed busy during the downtime without his players manicuring the fields, and when he got the greenlight, he opened the gates for his program at the campus for yoga sessions, conditioning and socially distanced meetings with his staff and players.

“I think the big positive right

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potential capacity guidelines and/ or regulations for hosting games with fans. Rest assured that as soon as we get more information, we will reach out with our plans for 2021. One thing is certain: the upcoming season will not be a typical one, but we are preparing necessary modifications to keep our fans safe. We will do our best to adjust to whatever situation we are dealt, and we will develop a variety of suitable options for season seat members, marketing partners, flex plan and mini plan holders, groups, and single game ticket purchasers for 2021. We look forward to making Storm Baseball a part of your plans again very soon.

In the meantime, please know that we truly appreciate your support and your patience as we await clarity on a variety of issues concerning the 2021 season. We hope to be back in touch with you within a month or so with more information. We cannot wait to welcome you home.”

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Great Oak High School s Christian Smith, class of 2022, is a verbal commit to play at San Diego State.

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just want to watch and coaches, well they just want to do what they do best.

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Here’s what $15 minimum wage would mean for this frozen yogurt shop owner Virginia Allen SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Some lawmakers’ push to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour is “truly maddening,” small-business owner Stuart Hornsby said.

Hornsby owns a froz en yogurt shop, a business he built from the ground up in 2013, in a small city in northwest Georgia.

With the exception of the manager and a few other employees, Hornsby employs primarily high school students. While he enjoys being able to provide so many young people with what is often their first job, he said he simply couldn’t afford to pay all his employees $15 an hour.

More than doubling the minimum wage over four years from

the current $7.25 an hour is “not logical,” Hornsby told The Daily Signal in a recent phone interview.

But even beyond the negative financial implications of a large minimum wage increase, “it’ s maddening that Big Brother would tell me how to run my business,” he said.

If given the opportunity, the shop owner said, he would like to sit down with the lawmakers who are advocating a federal $15 an hour minimum wage and ask how they think “doubling the minimum wage will work … not just for my business, but (for) every shoe store, every fast-food place” in the country?

Simply increasing product prices is not something that Hornsby views as a viable option.

“I can’ t just raise my prices

equal to what the (wage) increase is, because I will lose too many customers. There is no doubt about it,” Hornsby, 54, said.

Not only does it appear that the political leaders advocating the federal wage increase “don’ t know anything about my business, they don’ t know anything about business,” he said. Speaking of the practical implications of a $15 minimum wage, Hornsby acknowledged, “I am not an economist. I am not a finance guru.

But … there is just no way this is a good idea.”

Hornsby said he starts his employees at $7.50 an hour, or sometimes a little higher, and will often raise an employee’ s hourly wage as his or her skills increase and they prove to be hard workers.

“I am all about rewarding people

(and) incentiviz ing people, but (a federal $15 minimum wage) is the complete opposite of that,” he said.

If, within the next few years, Hornsby had to pay all his employees at least $15 an hour, staff hours would likely have to be cut, some employees would be laid off, and the prices of his product would have to increase significantly, he said.

The shop offers 21 frozen yogurt flavors and more than 70 toppings.

Right now, Hornsby charges customers 56 cents per ounce and said raising his prices has always been a carefully calculated process.

Every nine to 12 months, he usually raises the cost of his product by 1 cent or 2 cents per ounce, adding that he never wants to raise his prices so much that customers won’ t come back.

If the minimum wage were double what he pays many of his employees now, his payroll cost would increase by 30% to 40%, and he would have “to raise prices not just 1 (cent) or 2 (cents) but 10 or 15 (cents an ounce),” he estimated.

Hornsby said he takes no issue with individuals who are trying to feed a family being paid a little more, but he finds it frustrating that the proposed minimum wage hike would be applied to high school students and single mothers alike.

President Joe Biden told CBS News that he does not think an amendment to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour is “going to survive” within his $1.9 trillion stimulus package being

federal funding will also help cover unpaid rent through June 2021.

For the past year, preventing evictions and homelessness for millions of California tenants has been imperative, but landlords were often left holding the bag.

Many landlords rely on rents collected from tenants as their primary, perhaps only source of income. According to Debra Carlton, executive vice president of state public affairs for the California Apartment Association, “Getting dollars to landlords is imperative. Many landlords have not received rent in over a year,

and some owners are on the brink of losing their homes.”

SB 91 is not perfect, but it should help landlords and tenants as they try to survive the disastrous economic fallout from COVID-19. sse ly e u lican eader Marie Waldron, R - E scondido, re resents the th sse ly istrict in the alifornia e islature, hich includes the co unities of Bonsall, E scondido, Fallbrook , idden eado s, ala, alo ar ountain, au a alley, aino , an arcos, e ecula, alley enter and ista

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Help to come for tenants and landlords Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for thousands of Californians to keep a roof over their heads. Early on, federal funding provided some assistance to renters and landlords alike, but many were unable to access that aid.

More needed to be done.

That’ s why I joined my colleagues to pass Senate Bill 91, bipartisan legislation that was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The bill, which became

effective Monday, Feb. 1, provides assistance to qualified landlords and their tenants for up to 80% of unpaid rent that has accumulated since the pandemic began. It also extends the current eviction moratorium through March, subject to extensions that are likely to be approved by Congress.

Tenants most at-risk will be targeted, and landlords who agree to waive 20% of unpaid rent will become eligible for 80% reimbursements for unpaid rent that accrued between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021. The program will be paid for with $2.6 billion in federal funds, and additional

Risk reduction measures protect election incumbents Joe Naiman WRITER

Heeding calls to decrease deaths in the ring, boxing has taken safety measures to protect fighters.

The technical knockout is one of those safety measures. If a fighter is deemed unable to continue by the referee, the fight can be stopped even if the fighter is not knocked out.

In March 1991, Donovan “Raz or” Ruddock learned about what happens when safety regulators get too z ealous in their quest for protection.

Ruddock was a 9-2 underdog against Mike Tyson. Although Tyson was the favorite and had only lost once in his professional career, most of his wins were early-round knockouts. The theory is that because Tyson has rarely been tested in later rounds, his endurance is suspect. His only loss, to Buster Douglas, was in the 10th round.

As a boxer, rather than a puncher, Ruddock knew that his best chance was to survive the first

few rounds and hope that he could overtake Tyson in the later rounds.

The fact that Tyson was ahead early in the match was no surprise to anyone.

Thus, it was quite possible that Mike Tyson could be dominating Razor Ruddock after the first six rounds but Ruddock could still come out with a victory.

With under a minute to go in the seventh round, Ruddock absorbed several Tyson punches, knocking him from his balance. Although headed toward the ropes, he hadn’ t hit the canvas when referee Richard Steele felt that Ruddock had taken enough. For Ruddock’ s own safety, Steele called a technical knockout.

Ruddock was not losing consciousness. He was alert enough to complain about the decision.

He also attempted to prove that his fighting ability was still intact by going after Steele himself. But before he could lodge his complaint, Steele declared Tyson the winner.

The technical knockout protected Razor Ruddock from suffering

severe damage. He wasn’ t even close to that point in the first place.

But who was really protected by that call? Was it Ruddock, or was it Tyson and his promoter, Don King?

Ruddock’ s promoter complained before the match about having Steele as a referee. Steele’ s friendship with King proved to be a legitimate concern; the Ruddock side feared that if Raz or threatened Tyson’ s title, Steele would bail out the former champion. And certainly, Tyson’ s failure to dispose of Ruddock in the first six rounds spelled trouble.

Remember that Don King had lost out on future championship bouts when Tyson was defeated by Buster Douglas. The winner of the Tyson-Ruddock fight would face the winner of the fight between Evander Holyfield and George Foreman for the heavyweight championship. Two more wins and King was once again a promoter of championship fights. One loss and King was out of the picture.

Had the underdog gotten the

State Sen. Melendez responds to new whistleblower allegations at California funded COVID-19 lab SACRAMENTO –California State Sen. Melissa Melendez , R- Lake Elsinore, responded Tuesday, Feb. 8, to whistleblower allegations at California’ s funded COVID-19 lab: “As the vice-chair of the Senate Health Committee, I find the allegations regarding the failures at the state’ s new, billion dollar, COVID-19 lab concerning and downright shameful. Millions of Californians rely on the accuracy of these tests. The mistreatment of

COVID-19 test samples jeopardiz es the health and safety of over 40 million Californians. Considering the lack of transparency surrounding the ‘science’ that is the basis for the stay at home orders and for shutting down businesses, I hope the administration and the California Department of Public Health come forward with real answers to what is happening at our testing facilities. I will be calling for a full investigation into this matter and hope my majority party

colleagues in the state Senate will join me in this search for the truth behind these allegations.”

C alifornia State Sen. Melissa A. Melendez represents the 2 8 th Senate District which is entirely enco assed in iverside ounty and includes the cities of Blythe, anyon a e, athedral ity, oachella, esert ot rin s, ndian ells, ndio, a e lsinore, a uinta, urrieta, e ecula, al esert, al rin s, ancho ira e and ildo ar

Letter to the editor:

the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump’ s policies had economic growth and employment rates that had not been seen in 50 years. Under Trump’ s leadership America became the No. 1 energy producer in the world.

Donald Trump’ s agenda, like Ronald Reagan’ s and JFK’ s decades before, demonstrated that our economy thrives when taxes are cut and when the government regulatory noose is removed from the necks of American entrepreneurs. Trump further demonstrated the folly of lopsided international agreements that unfairly benefit tyrannical regimes like China and Iran.

Instead, these elitist pundits should demand reform and ac-

countability within the Democrat Party. The DNC’ s fetish with cancel culture, speech codes, identity politics and a Washington centraliz ed plutocracy smacks of kindergarten fascism.

The statism pushed by President Joe Biden and his ilk is incompatible and unnatural to the American way of life as defined by our history, culture and U.S. Constitution. The DNC should surgically remove this growing divisive socialist movement from within and force it to stand alone as a separate party.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Rick Reiss Temecula resident

The stampede of leftist pundits trolling the Republican Party for its alleged “divisiveness” by acquitting former President Donald Trump during the Senate’ s latest impeachment show trial doesn’ t go unchallenged. Their calls for Republicans to reform and purify themselves of Trump’ s pro-American agenda are disingenuous, as if they ever cared what is best for the conservative party or for America.

Any accountability within the Republican Party should be directed to those members who continue to pander to globalism, open borders and pro-China trade policies. Before China released

better of Tyson in the seventh round, would the referee had assumed Tyson to be out of the fight Probably not. The TKO rule tends to favor defending champions and favorites more so than challengers and underdogs. While a rule with legitimate purpose, its abuse deprives fighters of moving to the top.

How long before government tries to do to us what Richard Steele did to Raz or Ruddock? Less than a decade earlier, an alleged fire on a Chicago elevated train delayed service to strongholds of an incumbent mayor’ s challenger.

Would a government stop a strong challenge to its power by closing off a key freeway in the name of safety until the polls have closed?

Would driving curfews successfully stem lengthy meetings of government opposition? Would revocation of drivers’ licenses to

key sectors of government opposition be used to curtail the mobility of opponents?

Would banning motorcycles on routes frequently used to travel to government functions be an option, knowing that several one-car, one-motorcycle families contain a spouse who needs the car for work?

Do you think I’ m craz y for considering these, or do you realiz e that I’ m not necessarily talking about the next decade?

“If it saves just one life, it’ s worth it,” according to the cries of many safety advocates. If that is the case, excessive or redundant safety is no obstacle to them. But it is a cumbersome obstacle for those who wish to unseat the status quo. oe ai an can e reached y e ail at nai an reeder edia co

TVEA gives a statement on schools returning to inperson instruction TVEA, which represents the teachers, nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists and speech pathologists of the Temecula Valley Unified School District, has been planning with the district since March 2020 for a potential return to in-person instruction. We have worked vigorously in a collaborative manner with district administration to ensure that when allowable, this transition will be successful for both students and staff.

First and foremost, TVEA members desire to teach and provide services to their students in-person.

Our 1,325 teachers and specialists miss the in-person teaching and learning they were accustomed to which was abruptly halted by the COVID-19 pandemic in March. As trained professionals, they committed to a career in education embracing the interaction which comes from working with students in the regular school setting.

TVEA and its members do not determine when Temecula schools return to in-person instruction.

This determination is made by meeting guidelines set by California and Riverside County Public Health officials and subsequent authorization from the TVUSD administration and the TVUSD governing board. We continue to closely follow and respect the guidance issued from state officials, the latest issued Jan. 14, as a series of executive orders from the California Department of Public Health. This guidance sets eligibility for in-person instruction based on Riverside County

adjusted case rates of 25 new cases per 100,000 people in grades TK-6, and 7 new cases per 100,000 people for grades 7-12.

TVEA believes that any TVUSD return to in-person instruction must include a sound infrastructure to ensure sustainability.

We want to see any return be successful and sustainable. It is critical that supports are in place. TVEA has consulted with TVUSD in its COVID -19 Safety Plan. We continue to meet with representatives of TVUSD to solidify and finalize a joint memorandum of understanding on “Hybrid Instruction: Impacts and Effects.” Considerations in building a sound infrastructure include developed safety procedures and protocols must be clearly communicated to parents, students and TVUSD employees; costs associated with potential weekly asymptomatic testing as required by the CDPH must be addressed and vaccines provide a critical barrier against the COVID-19 virus and should be available to any person assigned to a school site for in-person instruction.

The teachers and specialists of the Temecula Valley School District look forward to the time they can be face to face with their students in a safe and sustainable manner. We will continue to work diligently with TVUSD to be prepared for the day our schools can resume in-person instruction.

Jeff Kingsberg President, Temecula Valley Educators Association

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PETS

Wild Wonders offers monthly “Wild Saturdays Mornings’

An African pygmy hedgehog serves as an animal ambassador Valley News/Courtesy photos at Wild Wonders in Bonsall.

Christal Gaines-Emory INTERN

Wild Wonders is a wildlife education and conservation center in Bonsall where children and adults can connect with animals from all over the world. Wildlife Wonders offers different types of interactive experiences including live tours, school visits and birthday celebrations, and due to the coronavirus pandemic, they’re offering virtual “Wild Saturdays Mornings at Wild Wonders” experiences every third Saturday of the month.

The virtual wildlife safari has a different focus each month. On Feb. 20, the focus of the lesson will

Lou, the owl monkey, meets the public.

be “The Emerald Forest,” which involves animals from the rainforest. The animals that will be highlighted during this lesson include a boa constrictor, a kinkajou, a baby paca named Poquito and a few other surprise guests.

Jackie Navarro, the director of Wild Wonders, said she is excited to offer this opportunity virtually.

“Even though it’ s a virtual experience, it is still very interactive,” she said. “We are able to bring the camera right up to the animal’ s eye, and you feel like you’ re right there with us.”

Each wildlife safari lasts around 40 minutes, and attendees will learn about four to five featured “animal

Masika is the African cheetah that lives at Wild Wonders.

ambassadors.” The program is $20 per connection. According to the program description on Wild Wonder’ s website, they bring the camera in really close, so attendees can see quills, scales, eyes, teeth, ears, feathers, fur and feet. And after the program, they’ ll receive some digital coloring activities featuring some of the animals in the broadcast.

Wild Wonders is dedicated to giving their animals a forever home.

About 65-70% of these animals were abandoned, before being rescued by Wild Wonders. All the proceeds from the “Saturday Morning at the oo” benefit the animals’ care and upkeep.

“We take them in, and they become ‘creature teachers,’ ” Navarro said. “We have 120 animals at Wild Wonders, including bearcats, wallabies, owl monkeys, a Siberian lynx and even an African cheetah.”

Wild Wonders was negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, she said, but the staff still work to help the wildlife, educate the public and support other organiz ations with a mission to preserve wildlife.

“We’ ve faced so much,” Navarro said. “We’ ve had to completely reinvent ourselves and become even more creative. We’ re doing it all for you, the public; we wanted to continue educating even during these uncertain times.”

The “Wild Saturdays Mornings” at Wild Wonders program is open to children, teens and adults, so everyone can learn something new and enjoy seeing the animals.

Additional Saturday programs will feature “Wonders from Down Under” March 20 and “Our Big Backyard” April 17.

Registration is required for this experience, visit https://wildwonders.org/saturday-morning-at-thez oo/ to register and to learn more about the program and future virtual safari adventures. hristal aines ory can e reached y e ail at valleystaff reeder edia co

Welcome a foster kitten your home Family Features SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Fostering kittens and cats has risen in popularity during these unprecedented times, and many pet lovers are becoming foster pet parents to help overcrowded animal shelters. Fostering a kitten, however, may come with a learning curve.

Among the 43% of respondents to a Royal Canin survey, who have fostered a pet, six in 10 have “foster failed” and permanently adopted the pet they were fostering.

Most pet owners who responded also agree the first year of pet

ownership is the most important, but 64% believe it is the most difficult, as well.

Whether they’ re fostering or adopting a kitten, new pet parents can learn how to give a kitten proper care during its first weeks and months at home with this advice from the experts at Royal Canin.

Arriving home The new sights, sounds and smells in a home and the separation from its mother, may make a kitten feel stressed. Keeping the environment calm and quiet can ease the transition.

When arriving home, put the cat

carrier with the kitten still inside into a room that has been prepared for the kitten and allow it to get acclimated before opening the door.

Next, allow the kitten to explore a closed-off area; resist the urge to cuddle the kitten right away.

As the kitten gains confidence in its new surroundings, it will want to explore more. Make sure the environment is prepared with electrical wires and outlets covered; windows, balconies and stairs secured and small or sharp objects put away so it can safely explore with some supervision.

If there are possible haz ards, a designated room with windows

Whether they re fostering or adopting a kitten, new pet parents can learn how to give a kitten proper care during its first weeks and months at home with some advice from e perts.

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Pets of the Week Animal Friends of the Valleys Hello I m a -month-old orange and while male kitty. I m a handsome fellow, looking for a warm sunny window to take a nap or to watch the e citement outdoors. I d like to get to know you. Let s meet Intake Number 5 192

Hi I m Sadie, a 5-year-old female Pitbull mi . I m a very friendly, sweet, energetic and playful girl. I love to ump and play with my toys. Let s go on adventures today and e plore everything. Come meet me today Intake Number 5 221

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p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Ramona Humane Society Hi I m Copper, 11-year-old male Lab Pitbull mi . I m a sweet friendly boy in need of a second chance at my furever home. Can you open your heart and home to me in my golden years Let s meet Intake Number 1 4440 Hs242 93

Hello I m Coffee, a -year-old male kitty. I m a dear sweet boy, looking for a great family home.

I m mellow and loving and will make a great companion. Come meet me today Intake Number 1 4 0 R242 30

Foster pet parents wanted Contact volunteer ramonahumanesociety.org for more information. The shelter is open by appointment only Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. for adoptions. For more great pets available for adoption, contact the Ramona Humane Society at 951- 54002 or visit www.ramonahumanesociety.org.

Living Free Animal Sanctuary Hello I m Cali, a 4-year-old female American Bulldog mi . I m a ray of sunshine who loves being around people. I love to make you laugh with my funny snorts and snu es, while trying to lick your face. Let s go running and find an adventure Can we roll in the grass and ump into the dog pond too Come meet me

Hi I m Handsome Henry, a 15-year-old male Tu edo kitty. I m a sweet, mellow senior fellow who en oys lounging in the sun and getting chin scratches. Will you make room in your heart for me Let s meet

For more information on Cali, Handsome Henry and other pets up for adoption at Living Free Animal Sanctuary, call the kennel at 951-321-99 2, the cattery at 951-491-1 9 or visit https living-free.org.

Retrievers & Friends Hi I m Nell, a 1-year-old female Lab mi . I m a sweet, beautiful little girl. I m very shy and ust learning to walk on a leash. I am good with other dogs. I m ready for some gentle training, but I think we could be great friends furever Come meet me today For more great pets up for adoption, visit Retrievers and Friends of Southern California at www.retrieversandfriends.com.

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and plenty of social contact for the first few weeks may be better.

Creating a safe place Kittens can tire easily. After a little exploration time, give a kitten access to a bed in a coz y, quiet place with access to water, food and a litter box. Turning out the light helps establish sleep patterns, but on the first night a new pet parent might want to leave a night light on to help with the adjustment.

Provide somewhere quiet to eat.

It should be somewhere it feels secure, away from where people and any other pets eat. Cats don’ t like to eat too near their litter boxes, and they should always have fresh water available.

As kittens grow rapidly, their digestive and immune systems develop slowly, and they have specific nutritional needs that are different from adult cats.

Any sudden changes in a kitten’ s diet can cause digestive trouble, so for the first few days, keep the same feeding routine as the previous caretaker. Then a pet owner can slowly switch to a different routine, if they choose, and transition to kitten food suitable for the appropriate growth stage.

For example, Royal Canin Kitten formulas are tailor-made with optimal vitamins and minerals to support healthy development.

Ongoing care Kittens should see a veterinarian as soon as possible. In addition to a general health check, the vet can help create a vaccination schedule and give advice on deworming, nutrition and more.

Always use a carrier to transport a kitten safely while in the car and into the vet’s office.

Gradually introducing a kitten to new experiences can help with socializ ation. New sounds can startle a kitten, so be ready to offer plenty of reassurance. They may also need to be introduced to new terrain like stairs or unfamiliar surfaces. Gentle play and careful handling can help a kitten become more comfortable with being touched.

Learn more about proper cat nutrition and how to create a welcoming home at http://royalcanin. com.

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Elsinore High School clinches 5th consecutive Riverside County Academic Decathlon Championship RIVERSIDE – The first fully virtual Riverside County Academic Decathlon ended with Elsinore High School coming out on top among 11 teams from 12 local high schools to claim the championship at the 38th Riverside County Academic Decathlon sponsored by the Riverside County Office of Education.

The theme for 2021 was “The Cold War.” The fully virtual competition started Jan. 26 with essays, then proceeded to speeches and interviews Jan. 30. Written tests and the popular Super Quiz went virtual Saturday, Feb. 6.

Western Center Academy from Hemet Unified School District finished second while Corona High School’s Gold team finished third.

Beaumont High School finished fourth and Vista del Lago High School was fifth overall. Elsinore High School was also the winner of the Super Quiz held virtually Feb. 6.

The California Academic Decathlon will be held virtually March 11-13. The California state champion advances to the United States Academic Decathlon from

April 29 to May 1.

“The event is so demanding and rigorous under normal circumstances, but with the unique challenges facing students this year like learning and competing in a virtual setting, the achievements made by our decathletes should be celebrated,” Ryan Klopp, Elsinore High School science teacher and Academic Decathlon coach, said.

“I am so incredibly proud of the team and of all the students who competed in the Riverside County Academic Decathlon this year. It is a privilege and an honor to be able to coach and mentor the students on the team.”

Each team is composed of nine students, three from each grade point category, and includes three honor (GPA 3.75-4.00), three scholastic (GPA 3.00-3.74), and three varsity (GPA 0.00-2.99) students.

Students accumulate individual and team points in written events in mathematics, economics, art, music, literature, science, social science and Super Quiz .

The 11 teams competing in 2021 from 12 Riverside County high schools included: Beaumont,

Elsinore High School wins their fifth consecutive Riverside County Academic Decathlon Championship Valley News/Courtesy photo recently.

Corona (Gold), Corona (Red), Elsinore, Great Oak, Hemet, Palm Desert, Patriot, Valley View, Vista del Lago and Western Center Academy.

Riverside County Academic Decathlon recent historical results: 2006-2008, 2014 – Hemet; 20092013 – West Valley; 2015-2016 – West Valley and 2017-2021 –

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LEUSD gives update on plans for student learning loss Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Lake Elsinore Unified School District officials shared updated information at the district’ s Feb. 11 school board meeting on their plans to cope with pandemic-related student learning loss.

Administrators have now shared information on the topic at multiple board meetings, with Kip Meyer, assistant superintendent of student and instructional support services in January telling the board that the learning loss students are facing is defined as “students’ regression of their skills or … a student’ s current performance not being at the same level or same rate as they would have been had they been in school for the last 10 months.”

At the meeting, Alain Guevara, assistant superintendent of administrative and instructional technology support services, presented board members and the public with the district’ s new plans on how to move forward with tackling learning loss for elementary students.

Meyer followed up with a presentation specifically pertaining to secondary school students.

Guevara said district staff were planning on dividing elementary school learning loss into three levels, with separate programs and strategies for each.

“The agenda that we want to look at is looking at what kinds of programs we can offer starting in June in the summer and, of course, carry through with learning loss for the next several years as we know

that gap is not going to be closed in a matter of a year,” Guevara said.

The first level, Level 1, includes those students with the least amount of learning loss, Guevara said. The district is planning to offer two digital programs to Level 1 students to enhance learning – the CAPIT digital phonics program for K-2 students, and the Renaissance Place program for grades 3-5, Guevara said.

The program for K-2 students, he said, “would help the kids with reading and writing and beginning keyboarding skills.

“It’ s got its own digital libraries and everything else that goes with it,” he said. “It’ s also a teacher-led program which is one of the reasons we liked it, because it doesn’ t replace the teacher, but it keeps the teacher involved in the entire learning process. It’ s not an independent program that a student would just go work on. It has aspects of it that are like that, but the teacher is always involved in that process of learning.”

He said a benefit of the program is that directions can be given through audio, so the young students it is targeted for can use the program without having to read.

The separate program for grade 3-5 students, he said, is a “prescriptive program” that is changed according to an individual student’ s needs based on an approximately 20-minute assessment. It will be “individualiz ed to each need of each child in that category,” Guevara said.

Guevara already told the board

in January that the district was planning to add additional grades to the summer literacy camp – now to be targeted at Level 2 students with moderate learning loss – it has typically offered each year to students in grades 1-3, as well as an extra hour per day for math literacy. On Feb. 11, Guevara said the literacy camp will also add outgoing fifth graders, in addition to students who previously were enrolled in transitional kindergarten and incoming fourth and fifth graders as had previously been announced.

“So those fifth graders that are ready for middle school but are struggling and have learning loss, we would be able to support them at literacy camp as well,” he said.

The literacy camp will run for five hours per day over six weeks this summer – 24 days of instruction, Guevara said.

The district plans to have seven teachers and one assessment teacher at each literacy camp school site this summer, “so we will have a very large need for teachers this summer,” Guevara said.

The plan for Level 3 students, those with the highest level of learning loss, is the “gift of time,” Guevara said – to potentially hold them back a grade.

The focus, he said, would be on kindergarten and first grade students specifically who are significantly behind to the degree that “the programs would not be able to support their learning loss,” he said.

For secondary school, Meyer

had previously said in January that the district will expand its existing middle school math camps, which have run for the past two summers, to all six middle school sites this summer, offering six weeks of instruction for four hours a day.

The curriculum would have “an emphasis on English language arts in addition to the mathematics that we’ ve done in the past,” he said at the time.

For high school, Meyer said at the meeting that the district has already had about 250 seniors transfer to Ortega High School, LEUSD’ s continuation high school, to recover credits in time for their anticipated graduation in June.

“Thus far we’ re very pleased to report that interventions were going well for these students,” he said.

In addition, Meyer said the district has identified additional need for credit recovery “not just for our seniors but for our current night graders, 10th graders and 11th graders.”

Therefore, the district is looking to expand its online and brick-andmortar credit recovery programs this summer, as he previously said in January.

“After speaking with our high school and our district office administration teams, not only will we need to continue our online program but we’ re also going to look to expand our offerings to include courses in all areas: English language arts, mathematics, science and social science,” Meyer said.

“Inclusive of those anticipated

needs of special education services, in the past we’ ve typically only employed about five staff members for this program – teachers – but this year we’ re going to look to identify 10 positions to support the identified needs that we currently have coming out of our first semester. This program will continue to be offered to our current seniors and to any non-grads.”

For the district’ s brick-and-mortar credit recovery program, Meyer said the LEUSD has historically offered credit recovery only for Algebra 1 and ninth grade English.

This year, he said data reflects that the district will need to expand the program to 10th grade English, world history and life sciences.

The district is planning to fill up to 30 positions, rather than the usual number of around 21, for brick-and-mortar credit recovery this summer, Meyer said.

He said the district is planning ahead in case health conditions do not change much as the summer begins. “(For) both programs, due to the current health conditions, we anticipate guidelines not allowing us to open summer school without social distancing,” Meyer said.

With that in mind, he said the district is planning to limit students to about 20 per classroom for face-to-face learning, though he also said the district is anticipating a possible need for continued hybrid learning during the summer if necessary.

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TVUSD superintendent gives update TES students are on school reopening plans ‘Thinking Together’ Will Fritz ASSOCIATE EDITOR

With Riverside County’ s coronavirus cases continuing to drop, Temecula schools are that much closer to the potential for reopening in-person.

The county’ s adjusted case rate was at approximately 44.9 new coronavirus cases as of Thursday, Feb. 11.

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.

Jodi McClay, superintendent of Temecula Valley Unified School District, said earlier in February 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.

“So that’ s really exciting news for all of those folks who want the option of in-person learning again,” McClay said at TVUSD’ s school board meeting, Feb. 2.

In a later letter to parents sent Feb. 5, McClay urged families to be mindful of health and safety recommendations, including continuing

to limit participation in mass gatherings, adhering to social distancing and wearing face coverings.

“The current trend is in our favor, and we want to see it continue for the benefit of our entire community… We want our students and staff back on campuses,” she said.

McClay said in the same letter that a conversation district staff are having frequently is “turning adversities into opportunities” regarding the pandemic.

“In other words, what ‘good’ can we take from the past 11 months to create more opportunities for our students upon return?” she said in the Feb. 5 letter. “We are currently creating a home-school program, called Home INstead, that will allow students TK-12 to remain in a virtual environment, with some on-campus activities if they choose.

We are also working to build in more flexibility for our secondary students so they may opt to engage in school in a hybrid fashion, taking some courses on-campus and others virtually. We are excited about these new opportunities for students and look forward to sharing more as plans evolve.”

The superintendent said as of the Feb. 2 board meeting that memoranda of understanding with TVUSD’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 Feb. 2. “We’ ve agreed on many aspects, but again we do not have signed MOUs yet. We believe that is forthcoming.”

The superintendent also reported at that meeting 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.

With Riverside County in the purple tier, cross-country is currently 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.

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,” she said.

Will Fritz can be reached by e ail at frit reeder edia co

TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Unified School District’s Temecula Elementary School, working with longtime academic partner, Think Together, developed a program to provide student time in the classroom during regular school hours while adhering to COVID-19 requirements.

It is the first program of its kind in the district and a first for Think Together. The idea for this shift in “thinking” came from Sandra McKay, principal of Temecula Elementary.

“COVID restrictions have challenged us to ‘think’ outside the box and to leverage every available resource to support our students and families,” McKay, said. “We’ ve been partnering with Think Together for after-school programming for 10 years. Moving them onto campus during what would be regular school hours under normal conditions made perfect sense. Once we learned that the concept would qualify under the newly expanded ASES (After School Education Safety) funding guidelines, we contacted Think Together and a new program was born. It’ s been great for our students and extremely helpful to working parents.”

Students are assigned to one of four separate “hubs” with 15 students each. The “hubs” rotate through the classroom during regular school hours to complete their daily assignments under the supervision of

Think Together’s trained staff.

When contacted by McKay, Adriana Kingston, general manager of Think Together, said she loved the idea.

“Since 2014, it has been Think Together’ s mission to partner with schools to change the odds for students,” Kingston said. “This program is a perfect fit for our existing partnership with TES and a vital resource for students and their families.”

“Leveraging every possible resource to support student learning and well-being is more important than ever before,” Jodi McClay, superintendent of TVUSD, said. “The positive impact of this new program for both students and parents was obvious and immediate. Think Together has been a valued resource after school for our students, parents and teachers for the past decade.

During these challenging times, this new approach provides students with support and additional learning time in the classroom, parents receive top-notch child care that is focused on supporting their child’ s learning and teachers have ‘partners’ in the classroom to support their daily lessons provided through virtual learning. This is a winning model that could be replicated in other districts. We are very proud of TES for establishing this great program with a great partner.” u itted y e ecula alley ni ed chool istrict

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Report: County’s pension liabilities high, but gap gradually closing City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Riverside County’ s unfunded pension liabilities fell slightly in 2020, thanks in part to bond issuances that covered long-term obligations, but the county remains shy of the funded status needed to validate robust financial health, prompting the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday, Feb. 9, to authoriz e ongoing strategies to pare down pension debt.

In a 16-page report to the board, the Pension Advisory Review Committee cited many of the same elements contained in the report it issued a year ago, though the latest narrative showed limited gains, despite market turmoil over the last 11 months.

According to the report, the county’ s retirement apparatus is now 71% funded, compared to 70% in January 2020.

Although the unfunded pension gap increased from $3.5 billion to $3.6 billion in that time, the total market value of the county’ s assets also grew, from $8.1 billion to $8.8 billion, according to PARC.

There are two main categories in the county’ s pension system – safety and miscellaneous.

The safety category covers sheriff’s deputies, district attorney’s office investigators, probation agents and others, while the miscellaneous rolls cover clerks, custodians, nurses, social workers, technicians and remaining employees not involved in any law enforcement function.

The amounts required to fund workers nest eggs in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System will escalate over the next decade, according to PARC. But the report indicated that achieving the 80% funded status required for ratings agencies to deem the county financially fit in the future is within reach.

A major influence on pension costs is CalPERS’ investment performance, which in the last year leveled out at 6.7%, better than the 6.55% assumed rate of return that had been projected.

If investment growth remains positive, and the county’s financial condition does not suffer from additional financial shocks like the one stemming from coronavirus, PARC

estimated that the 80% funded status could be attained by 2027.

However, the county continues to have to make up for poor investment returns in previous years, particularly during the Great Recession, and that will mean paying an additional 2.2% to CalPERS in the next year to cover loses in the miscellaneous category, and 1.62% for safety, the report stated.

The aggregate contribution rates will be the equivalent of 46.2% of payroll for the safety category, and the equivalent of 27.6% of payroll for the miscellaneous category, according to the report.

Employees across the spectrum in county government generally contribute less than 10% of gross earnings toward their definedbenefit plans with CalPERS, figures showed.

General fund allocations to support the retirement system will steadily rise over the next decade, approaching $1 billion in support by the early 2030s, according to the report.

The county gained some nearterm relief from higher pension costs by selling $716 million in

bonds at low interest rates in May and applying the proceeds to pension debt reduction, or what Supervisor Kevin Jeffries compared at the time to “using a credit card to pay off a credit card.”

The 2020 bond debt was added to similar issuances in 2005 that were also intended to pare down long-term pension obligations, relying on advantageous interest rates.

The county will be able to repay the IOUs over the next 18 years.

The executive office proposed as part of the pension report that efforts to gain concessions from departments and special districts continue insofar as making more funding available to cover pension costs is concerned. The executive office also recommended that the county’ s pension trust account be “the primary source for discretionary payments” to CalPERS, rather than drawing down other accounts.

The board signed off on the recommendations.

To save money, Supervisors Jeffries and Jeff Hewitt have both expressed a desire for the county to phase out some defined-benefit plans in favor of defined-contribu-

tion plans, as exist in most private sector retirement guarantees. But executive office staff have described the process as riddled with hurdles because of requirements in state law.

Under pre-2012 plans negotiated with collective bargaining units, safety workers accrued retirement earnings according to a “3% at 50” formula, fixing compensation at 3 of the average of the three highestpaid years of an employee’ s career, multiplied by the number of years on the job. An employee could begin collecting full retirement at age 50.

Miscellaneous workers received benefits based on a “3% at 60” formula.

Beginning in September 2012, new hires in the safety category began accruing retirement benefits under a “2% at 50” formula, while newly hired miscellaneous workers began accruing benefits under a “2 at 60” formula.

Legislation signed into law soon afterward added another category for public sector employees hired after Jan. 1, 2013. The lower benefit formula is 2% at 62 for miscellaneous and 2.7% at 57 for safety workers.

State partnership aims to lower wildfire risk, protect homes and make insurance more available and affordable LOS ANGELES – Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a new partnership between the California Department of Insurance and Gov. Gavin Newsom’ s administration, including the governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the California Public Utilities Commission to establish consistent statewide standards for home and community hardening that will reduce wildfire risk, protect lives and property and help make insurance available and affordable to residents and businesses.

“Hardening” refers to measures that prepare homes and communities to better survive a wildfire, such as building upgrades, defensible space and fire-resistant landscaping. While California has existing wildfire building standards for new development as established by Cal Fire, this new partnership consisting of state wildfire, catastrophe and insurance experts will establish fire science standards and apply to retrofits for older existing homes to help them seek and maintain

insurance coverage, thus giving policyholders and insurance companies a shared strategy for reducing wildfire risks.

“With home and community hardening standards in place, Californians can hope to save lives and property through safer homes and increase insurance availability at the same time,” Lara said. “Our insurance market is responding to higher wildfire risk, so safeguarding homes will assist consumers in finding and keeping their insurance.

I look forward to working with Gov. Newsom and his administration on this critical mitigation effort to protect homes and communities from wildfire loss.”

“Climate change is a major contributor to the increased severity and frequency of California wildfires, and to the resulting unprecedented loss of life and property in recent years,” Kate Gordon, director of the governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the governor’ s senior policy adviser on climate, said. “Unless we take coordinated action now, these impacts will only worsen – especially in our most vulnerable communities.

Identifying consistent statewide

standards for home and community hardening is critical to California’ s goal of reducing wildfire risk while increasing our overall resilience.”

“Development of a statewide retrofitting program that can reduce insurance loss is an important step in ensuring communities are hardened against the devastating effect of wildfire,” Chief Mike Richwine, state fire marshal, said. “Taking the necessary measures to prepare your home can help increase its chance of survival when wildfire strikes.”

“As our state continues to grapple with catastrophic wildfires, it is important that we take proactive steps to prepare and protect our communities,” Mark Ghilarducci, director of the governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said. “We look forward to working with Commissioner Lara and our partners to collaboratively strengthen California’ s preparedness and mitigation efforts.”

“The CPUC welcomes this collaboration with our sister agencies on this very important issue,” Marybel Batjer, president of CPUC, said.

“We each play an important and distinct role in wildfire mitigation, community resilience and recovery,

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and our work together will help ensure that Californians are aware of efforts at the state level, the assistance that is available to them and ways they can help reduce risk.

This partnership is the latest step to enact regulatory and administrative actions that Lara announced Sept. 16, 2020, using his existing regulatory authority under voterapproved Proposition 103 to protect the state’ s insurance market.

Lara held hearings Oct. 19 and Dec. 10, 2020, to gather public input into fire mitigation and other steps to address the availability and affordability of insurance due to wildfires. Watch video of those hearings and learn more at http:// insurance.ca.gov.

Last year, Newsom signed legislation to increase consumer protections for wildfire survivors, including Senate Bill 872 written

by Sen. Bill Dodd and sponsored

by Lara, among other measures.

In his signing message for SB 872 and Assembly Bill 3012, Newsom said that “we must do more” and directed the governor’s Office of Planning and Research, CalOES and Cal Fire to “work with the Insurance Commissioner to evaluate and recommend ways that residents, communities and the insurance industry can work together to better mitigate wildfire risks. This work should inform the development of solutions for residents in wildfire prone areas who continue to face the threat of policy nonrenewal and rising premium costs for those policies that are available.”

The partnering agencies and departments will begin meeting in March. u itted y alifornia e artent of nsurance

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of Labor Statistics, “as of 2018, the median hourly wage rate was $18.58, and 82 million U.S. workers (16 and older) were paid hourly rates,” she said, adding that among those hourly wage earners in America, 2.1% earn at or below the current federal minimum wage of $7.25.

“Not only are minimum wage workers relatively scarce, but relatively few rely solely on their minimum wage job to support themselves or their families,” Gresz ler said.

Working to protect his business and thousands of other small businesses across America, Hornsby has been reaching out to his elected officials to share his story and asking them to consider the negative implications of a federal $15 minimum wage.

It’ s easy to “feel pretty darn hopeless,” he said, adding that, for Biden, it’ s just getting out “his pen” to sign into law a $15 minimum wage, but for him, it could mean “the loss of the business I have been building for eight years.” o yri ht he aily i nal e rinted ith er ission

considered in Congress, but Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has continued to lobby for the wage hike.

“People on top are doing phenomenally well, yet we have literally tens of millions of Americans working for starvation wages,” Sanders said during a CNN interview Sunday. “You cannot make it in any state in this country on $9 or $10 an hour. You’ ve got to raise that minimum wage to $15 an hour.”

The question Hornsby said he would like answered is, how many workers are actually trying to support themselves or their families with only a minimum wage job?

Not many, according to Heritage Foundation fellow Rachel Gresz ler, whose research and writing are focused on economics, the federal budget and entitlements.

Using 2016 data, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that out of America’s 163 million workers, only about 222,000 are single parents earning the minimum wage or less, Gresz ler told The Daily Signal in an email.

According to the U.S. Bureau

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ANALYSIS: NATO faces conundrum as it mulls Afghan pullout

In this March 20, 201 , file photo, NATO soldiers y in a U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft during a routine movement of NATO troops, transporting them from Kandahar to Kabul. After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States still grapple with the same, seemingly intractable conundrum how to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without abandoning the country to even more photo ah at l le photo mayhem.

Kathy Gannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States still grapple with the same, seemingly intractable conundrum — how to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without abandoning the country to even more mayhem.

An accelerated U.S. drawdown over the past few months, led by the previous U.S. administration, has signaled what may be in store.

Violence is spiking and the culprits are, well, everyone: the Taliban, the Islamic State group, warlords, criminal gangs and corrupt government officials.

Currently, 2,500 U.S. and about 10,000 NATO troops are still in Afghanistan. NATO defense ministers will meet Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 17-18, to discuss the way forward.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden

is reviewing his predecessor’ s 2020 deal with the Taliban, which includes a May 1 deadline for a final U.S. troop withdrawal from the war-ravaged country. In Washington, calls are mounting for the U.S. to delay the final exit or renegotiate the deal to allow the presence of a smaller, intelligence-based American force.

All key players needed for a stable postwar Afghanistan come with heavy baggage.

The Taliban now hold sway over half the country, and both sides in the conflict have continued to wage war, even after peace talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government began last year in Qatar.

The Taliban have lately been accused of targeted killings of journalists and civic leaders – charges they deny. But they lack credibility, particularly because they refuse to agree to a cease-fire. There is also no proof they have cut ties with alQaida militants as required under

the Taliban-U.S. deal. A January report by the U.S Treasury found that they continue to cooperate and that al-Qaida is getting stronger.

Some reports from areas under Taliban control speak of heavyhanded enforcement of a strict interpretation of Islamic law: While the Taliban allow girls to go to school, the curriculum for both boys and girls seems mostly focused on religion. There is little evidence of women’ s progress in the deeply conservative, rural areas.

Afghan warlords – some accused of war crimes – have been co-opted by international forces since the 2001 collapse of the Taliban regime, amassing power and wealth.

In a vacuum that would follow the withdrawal of foreign troops, activists and Afghans fear the heavily armed warlords would return to another round of fighting, similar to the 1992-1996 bloodletting. At that time, the warlords turned their firepower on each other, killing more than 50,000 people, mostly civilians, and destroying much of the capital, Kabul.

Afghan forces have also been accused of heavy-handedness. In January, a new U.N. report said that nearly a third of all detainees held in detention centers across Afghanistan say they have suffered some form of torture or illtreatment. Corruption is rampant and government promises to tackle it, according to a U.S. watchdog, rarely go beyond paper.

The regional affiliate of the Islamic State group, which in particular targets the country’ s minority Shiites, has grown more braz en and violent, its attacks increasing in frequency and audacity, testing a weak security apparatus.

Despite nearly $1 trillion spent in Afghanistan – of which a lion’ s share went on security – lawlessness is rampant. According to the U.S. State Department, crime in

Kabul is widespread, with criminals typically working in groups and using deadly force. “Local authorities are generally ineffective in deterring crime,” the State Department said. “Officers openly solicit bribery at all levels of local law enforcement. In some cases, officers carry out crimes themselves.”

Economic benchmarks are no better.

The World Bank said the poverty rate rose from 55% in 2019 to 72% in 2020. Two-thirds of Afghans live on less than $1.90 a day. Unemployment rose in 2020 to 37.9%, from 23.9%, the World Bank said last week.

“This is an absolute disgrace given the billions spent on this country over the last two decades,” Saad Mohsini, owner of Afghanistan’ s popular TOLO TV, tweeted in response. “Who will stand up and take responsibility?”

Meanwhile, Afghan youth, activists, minorities and women worry that the freedoms they have won since 2001 – while still fragile – will be lost to a Taliban-shared government, and if not to the Taliban, then to warring warlords.

For the U.S. and NATO, the big concern is national security. Both want guarantees that Afghanistan will not again become a safe haven for terrorist groups as it was both during the Taliban era and when warlords ruled.

Among them is Abdur Rasoul Sayyaf, now a key player in Kabul, whose group brought al-Qaida’ s Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan from Sudan in May 1996. Sayyaf was the inspiration behind the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, another warlord in Kabul, briefly gave bin Laden a safe haven following the 2001 U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban, who had up to that point sheltered the al-Qaida leader.

In 2017, Hekmatyar signed a peace

agreement with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and is now a member of the country’ s wider peace reconciliation council.

Back in 2012, Human Rights Watch warned NATO that unless it held government forces as well as the Taliban accountable for abuses, the alliance’ s “legacy would be a country run by abusive warlords – including the Taliban – and unaccountable security forces,” Patricia Gossman, associate director for Asia at the New York-based group, said.

Analysts agree there is no easy solution to Afghanistan’ s deteriorating conditions, regardless of whether NATO stays or goes.

“Let’ s be very clear: A fragile peace process meant to stabiliz e the security environment hangs in the balance against the backdrop of a rogue’ s gallery of spoilers,” Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Washington-based Wilson Center, said.

Some said NATO and the U.S. should send a strong message for peace to all sides in Afghanistan’ s protracted conflict.

“The U.S. and NATO must be very clear ... that they do not wish more war in Afghanistan, that they want a political settlement between the warring parties and that those leaders who shout for more war, on both sides, are no longer good partners with the international community,” Torek Farhadi, political analyst and former adviser to the Afghan government, said.

“Absent a political settlement, Afghanistan is headed for a bitter civil war and potentially the country being fractured in the longer run,” he said. ne s director for f hanistan and Pak istan K athy G annon has een coverin f hanistan for the AP since 19 8 8 .

Biden to slowly allow tens of thousands seeking asylum into US Elliot Spagat THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Biden administration Friday, Feb. 12, announced plans for tens of thousands of people who are seeking asylum and have been forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era policy to be allowed into the U.S. while their cases wind through immigration courts.

The first wave of an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers with active cases in the “Remain in Mexico” program will be allowed into the United States Friday, Feb. 19, authorities said. They plan to start slowly, with two border crossings each processing up to 300 people a day and a third crossing taking fewer numbers.

President Joe Biden’ s administration declined to publicly identify the three crossings out of fear it may encourage a rush of people, but U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, said officials told him that they are Brownsville and El Paso in Texas, and San Diego’ s San Ysidro crossing.

The move is a major step toward dismantling one of former President Donald Trump’ s most consequential policies to deter asylum-seekers from coming to the U.S. About 70,000 asylum-seekers were enrolled in the program officially called Migrant Protection Protocols since it was introduced in January 2019.

On Biden’s first day in office, the Homeland Security Department suspended the policy for new arrivals. Since then, some asylumseekers picked up at the border have been released in the U.S. with notices to appear in court.

Biden is quickly making good on a campaign promise to end the policy, which the Trump administration said was critical to reversing a surge of asylum-seekers that peaked in 2019. But the policy also exposed people to violence in Mexican border cities and made it extremely difficult for them to find lawyers and communicate with courts about their cases.

“As President Biden has made clear, the U.S. government is committed to rebuilding a safe, orderly and humane immigration system,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. “This latest action is another step in our commitment to reform immigration policies that do not align with our nation’ s values.”

Asylum-seekers will be released with notices to appear in court in cities close to or in their final destinations, typically with family,

administration officials said.

Homeland Security said the move “should not be interpreted as an opening for people to migrate irregularly to the United States.”

Administration officials said the vast majority of people who cross the border illegally are quickly expelled under a public health order that Trump put in place in March amid the coronavirus pandemic.

But some asylum-seeking families have been released in Texas and California, working against that messaging.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that she was concerned limited releases in the U.S. may encourage others to cross illegally.

“We don’ t want people to put themselves in danger at a time where it is not the right time to come, because we have not had time to put in place a humane and moral system and process,” she said.

Court hearings for people enrolled in “Remain in Mexico” have been suspended since June because of the pandemic. Getting word to them about when to report to the border for release in the United States may prove a daunting job.

Homeland Security said it would soon announce a “virtual registration process” online and by phone for people to learn where and when they should report. It urged asylumseekers not to report to the border unless instructed.

The International Organiz ation for Migration will help with logistics and test asylum-seekers for COVID-19 before they enter the U.S., Liz Liz ama, representative of the IOM, said. The U.N. migration agency’ s Mexico director, Dana Graber Ladek, said in January that it would seek to inform and support asylum-seekers on any changes in the “Remain in Mexico” policy.

Roberta Jacobson, coordinator for the southwest border on the White House National Security Council, said asylum-seekers who have been waiting the longest will get priority, along with people deemed more vulnerable due to their health or threats to their safety.

The announcement provides no relief to people whose cases were dismissed or denied, and Jacobson told Spanish-language media that the administration was still considering how to address any cases beyond those that are active. Advocates argue that communication problems, including lack of working addresses in Mexico, caused some people to miss hearings and lose their cases as a result.

Mexico agreed to take back more asylum-seekers in June 2019 to defuse Trump’s threats of tariff increases. Mexican President André s Manuel Ló pez Obrador welcomed Biden’ s changes, saying at a news conference Friday, Feb. 12, that it would be “good” for the U.S. to host them instead while their cases wind through the system.

The Remain in Mexico releases will come as more people are getting stopped crossing the border illegally since Biden took office, challenging the administration in its early days.

Raul Ortiz , deputy chief of the Border Patrol, said Tuesday, Feb. 9, that more than 3,000 people had been stopped in each of the previous 10 days, compared with a daily average of 2,426 in January.

About 50 to 80 adults and children have been arriving daily since Jan. 27 at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, which temporarily houses people released by the Border Patrol, said Sister Norma Pimentel, the group’ s executive director. The charity tests for COVID-19 and sends anyone who tests positive to a hotel for isolation.

In this Aug. 30, 2019, file photo, migrants, many of whom were returned to Me ico under the Trump administration s Remain in Me ico policy, wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Me ico. The Biden administration, Friday, Feb. 12, announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Me ico for their ne t immigration court hearings to be released in the United States while their cases proceed.

AP photo/Veronica G. Cardenas, F ile photo

Jewish Family Service of San Diego housed 191 asylum-seekers the first 10 days in February after they were released, up from 144 in January and 54 in December, Eitan Peled, the group’ s border services

advocate, said. They are quarantined in hotels for 10 days.

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Marty Edwards leads Black Sheep Harley-Davidsons for Christ

Marty Edwards of Murrieta is the founder and national president of Black Sheep Harley-Davidsons for Christ, a motorcycle ministry based in Murrieta.

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Black Sheep Harley-Davidsons for Christ is an over 20-year-old international organiz ation with members in more than 40 states, Australia, France and Mexico.

It has one mission that began in Murrieta when national president Marty Edwards, who was the pastor of Lamb’ s Fellowship and overseer of eight churches in southwest Riverside County, had an experience that he said haunts him to this day.

At the time, Edwards wanted to take up a hobby for his Mondays off, and he wasn’ t a golfer and didn’t like fishing so he purchased a motorcycle. He rode his HarleyDavidson Heritage Softail every chance he got. One day he found it had a flat tire and called the local Harley dealership, which was then owned by Rich Quaid, to pick it up since motorcycle tires are not something that can be easily changed.

The young man who arrived with the truck to transport the bike was Michael Butters, who Edwards recalled as a tall, thin 19-year-old with “shoulder-length blonde hair, tattoos and a bad attitude.” As the two rode together to the dealership, Edwards said he felt as if God was asking him to strike up a conversation with Butters to share the truth about Jesus Christ.

“But I was new in the motorcycle community and intimidated by the opportunity, so I remained silent on the subject and just made some small talk with him,” Edwards, 44, said.

Two days later, Butters was killed riding his motorcycle to work, and the news hit Edwards hard, he said. He went to the dealership to talk to Quaid, explaining

he was a local pastor and a member of the Harley-Davidson Owners Group, called H.O.G. and asking if there was something he could do to help employees deal with the devastating news of the young man’ s death.

“Quaid said I could do anything I wanted to do, and I felt this was like a personal invitation from God,” Edwards said. “I went to all the departments, speaking and praying with the employees. Some opened their hearts and others cried but all of them welcomed the opportunity to talk.”

He said that was the seed that grew into the ministry he still oversees in Murrieta.

“We’ re not unique; there are other Christian ministry organiz ations across the country and about 20 here in Southern California,” Edwards said. “What sets Black Sheep apart is that we serve a group of bikers completely untouched by other Christian groups, and that’ s Harley-Davidson Owners Group members.”

Edwards is quick to point out that Black Sheep HDFC is not a church and does not intend to replace one. It is a requirement that members belong to a church and that they set their priorities as God, family, church and last, a ministry such as Black Sheep.

“We are the cavalry – we are from the church but out in the community,” Edwards said. “The two biggest misconceptions are that churches sometimes think we are just out riding all the time, and the motorcycle community thinks we are Bible thumpers. Both are inaccurate – we are men and women who are Christians and are committed to the motorcycle subculture where we live out our faith through random acts of kindness. Words are cheap so we get up, go out and do.”

He said Black Sheep members are asked to “show up, shake hands and listen to find out where H.O.G. members are at.”

When Black Sheep HarleyDavidsons for Christ was formed in 1999, there were about 700,000 H.O.G. members, and it has grown to include 1.5 to 2 million members worldwide. He said members are motorcycle enthusiasts who like to ride, and his ministry reaches out members in need through events that include a ride, food, music and games.

After the events following Butters’ death, Edwards said he did not seek to start a motorcycle ministry, but when a few friends from his Murrieta church began riding together, they spoke of designing a patch and coming up with a name

for their group.

“Being members of a church named the Lamb’ s Fellowship, the secretary often teased us for being the ‘black sheep’ of the flock,” Edwards said. “The name not only stuck but seemed to make perfect sense in light of biblical passages which described Christians as outcasts, aliens and foreigners.”

From there, the concept continued to grow among other H.O.G. members, and it stands as a testament to the power of faith, he said.

Black Sheep is not only H.O.G. focused but family oriented.

“We are pleased to ride as single adults, married couples and often with our children,” Edwards said, who has two children and two grandchildren. “We are a very conservative group regardless of our rogue unconventional look.”

Edwards was born in New York and moved around a lot as a child.

He earned his bachelor’ s degree in Christian education at Point Loma Naz arene University in San Diego with a goal of becoming a pastor, not a missionary. He spent 15 years in youth ministries, and in 1988, he planted the Lamb’ s Fellowship Church in Murrieta and its daughter church in Lake Elsinore.

“For the 20 years before Black Sheep was born, I had no intention of doing anything other than pastoring, but I think I’ m just a restless entrepreneur by nature,” Edwards said. “Everything I know about motorcycle ministries I’ ve learned from our riders and other ministries.”

He said that the nonprofit is constantly evolving because in the beginning they thought if you were a Christian and had a HarleyDavidson that was enough. What started with a half page of bylaws grew to 16 pages. Black Sheep HDFC’s first office and warehouse was in Edwards’ garage but currently has industrial park office space at 41658 Ivy St., Suite 118, in Murrieta.

The group doesn’ t hand out Bible tracts or Bibles, but Edwards and his wife, Debbie, have published a couple of books that use psalms and parables to tell stories that are relatable to a rider and helps drive home the point.

Debbie Edwards is a registered nurse who worked double shifts to help support the family while the group got off the ground as her contribution to the ministry.

“There would be no Lamb’ s Fellowship or Black Sheep if not for her,” Marty Edwards said.

For more information, visit http://www.BlackSheepHDFC.org or call 951-677-1407.

Several members of Black Sheep Harley-Davidsons for Christ ministry Valley News/M arty E dwards photo show their unity on a recent outing.

God is getting you ready with the small things

Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Years ago, my wife Laura and I decided to hike to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park without ever training. Let’ s just start off by saying this together, “That was really stupid! ” Yeah, we realiz e that now.

If you don’ t know, the hike is about 15 miles of switchbacks with about 5,000 feet of elevation change. It’ s truly not for beginners.

We should have at least walked up and down the driveway a few times before we left.

I am proud to say that we finished. Even though we had to start in the dark and finish in the dark, we made it there and back again inside of 16 hours. But boy, we were exhausted… for about a month and a half.

The lesson we learned: get ready for the big hill by practicing on smaller hills first.

Let’ s put it another way, you have to be faithful with the small things before you tackle the big things.

In fact, that’ s exactly what Jesus said. He told us, “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’ t be honest with greater responsibili-

ties,” in Luke 16:10.

Our problem is that we have a problem. I know, it’ s a little redundant, right? It’ s the same problem my wife and I had. It’ s the “Half Dome or bust” mentality.

It’ s the attitude that says “I want to go for the big things and totally ignore the small things.”

But do you want to know the truth? God doesn’ t bless that mentality. He blesses the person who is faithful with the small things.

Do you know why? Because it’ s in the small things where God gets us ready for the big things. It’ s in the little day-to-day attitudes, conversations and secret things where God works on us the most. It’ s his training ground.

Too often, we fudge on the small, thinking it’ s OK as long as it gets us to the big one. Don’ t let that be you. It’ s is not a godly mentality.

Instead, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving,” in Colossians 3:23-24.

In other words, serve God in the small things and “whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God,” in 1 Corinthians 10:31.

P.S. – If you don’ t believe in the God who created the heavens and the earth, hike Half Dome. It really is one of his masterpieces.

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Anza Valley Library receives upgrades Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anz a Valley Library continues to provide books, services and inspiration for residents during the coronavirus pandemic, as upgrades to the facility and new reading material debut at the local literary reference center. see page AVO -3

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Caltrans conducts rock removal near Pine Cove on Highway 2 43 Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Idyllwild, Pine Cove and the mountain areas were told Friday, Feb. 12, that Caltrans and specializ ed crews from Caltrans’ Keen Camp and GEOTECH would remove dangerous rock outcroppings on Route 243 Thursday, Feb. 18. see page AVO -4

The Anza Civic I mprovement League announces election results for the 2 0 2 1 board.

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The Anz a Civic Improvement League announced their board of directors election results

recently.

Charles Cadwell, Phil Canaday, Karl Kurtz , Birdie Kopp, Megan Haley, Andrew Cary and Tabitha Dawes were elected to serve on the board by the ACIL membership.

“These were the top seven nominees,” Cadwell said. “Jaz myn McCammon and Bud Elmore are runner ups, to be seated as alternates in the case of any of the elected persons declining their

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The Cat Faced Orb Weaver spider, Araneus gemmoides, is a common resident of the Anz a Valley. The large, full-grown females are small, about 5-10 millimeters long, and males are much smaller, about half as large as the females.

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seats. Barring any unforeseen pending actions, this will be the new ACIL sitting board.”

Positions on the board will be see ACIL, page AVO -3

Unusual clouds have been sighted recently over the mountains surrounding the Anz a Valley.

Beautiful and yet eerie, these strange formations are called lenticular clouds.

According to the U.S. National Weather Service in San Diego, lenticular clouds are common during days with strong winds, when these winds are oriented roughly perpendicular to a mountain range.

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Garcia family adopts highway to honor daughter Anna Garcia and her husband Mario adopted a section of state Route 371 to memorializ e their daughter Mariah, who died in a traffic accident in 2018. The journey has been long and heartwrenching for the Anz a family, but they said the sign is helping to bring peace to the family.

“I started the process beginning December 2020,” Garcia said. “I believe the sign went up Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.”

The sign “In Memory of Mariah Garcia” is located on both sides of the highway – one facing southbound and one facing northbound – right before the Route 79 South/ Route 371 junction.

“Kim Sz ymanski was a great influence,” Anna Garcia said. “She adopted a part of the highway in memory of her son Jacob.”

Sz ymanski adopted a portion of state Route 371 to memorializ e her son Jacob and his friend who both died in an accident three and a half years ago on that section of the road.

Garcia said she had always assumed that memorial signs had to be near the accident site, but they don’ t. It could be placed anywhere that was available in an area in-

cluded in the California Adopt-AHighway program.

“Kim gave me the information I needed and helped me through the process. We became good friends after Mariah’ s accident. Kim had lost her son a year before Mariah, and we both shared our grief.

We’ ve been each other’ s strength after losing a child so we do understand each other. Kim taught me how to keep our loved ones Jacob’ s and Mariah’ s memory alive and how they are always with us,” Garcia said.

“Until Mariah was killed, I only knew Anna by sight as a former parent at Hamilton,” Sz ymanski said. “I was heartbroken. She was a 2016 graduate full of life, love, compassion and with a bright future. I knew I had to reach out to Anna. I knew her pain – the devastation, feeling lost, alone and broken. Grieving parents share a bond and understanding like no other. Helping Anna has helped me. Through the talking and the tears there has been healing. Anna is an amaz ing woman with a very strong faith and a very big heart.

Our lives have changed forever, and we have changed forever, but we are strong and will continue to The G arcia family adopts a section of state Highway 3 7 1 to honor their daughter Mariah, who was killed in an accident in 2 0 1 8 .

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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 Anz a. For more information, call 951-763-1350 or visit http:// www.hamiltonmuseum.org. Find them on Facebook at “HamiltonMuseum-and-Ranch-Foundation.”

Health, ex ercise, resources and recovery meetings Narcotics Anonymous Meeting – 6 p.m. Every Tuesday at Shepherd Of The Valley Church, 56095 Pena Road, in Anz a. Open participation.

Veterans’ Gathering Mondays – 9-11 a.m., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 39075 Contreras Road, in Anz a. 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 Ex cellent 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 Anz a.

AA Men’s Meeting – 7 p.m.

Meetings take place Thursdays at 39551 Kirby Road in Anz a, south of Highway 371.

Alcoholics Anonymous – 8 p.m. Wednesday evenings at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 56095 Pena Road in Anz a.

For more information, call 951763-4226.

Bereaved Parents of the USA – The Aguanga-Anz a 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 Anz a 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 Anz a Community Health Center, 58581 Route 371, in Anz a. For more information, call 951-7634759.

Food ministries F.U.N. Group weekly food ministry – Deliveries arrive noon Thursdays at the Anz a 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 Anz a. 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 Anz a 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 Anz a.

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 Anz a.

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 Anz a. All are welcome. For more information, call Pastor Kevin at 951-763-1111.

Anza RV Clubhouse – 7 p.m., the second Wednesday of the Month, Pastor Kevin officiates at 41560 Terwilliger Road in Anz a.

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 Anz a. 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 Anz a.

For more information, call 951763-4622.

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 Anz a. For more information, contact at 951-7634937, anzabptistchurch@gmail. com or http://www.anz abaptistchurch.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 Anz a Baptist Church, 39200 Rolling Hills Road, in Anz a. For more information, visit http://www.

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High Country Recreation – Second Monday of the month attend committee meetings at ERA Excel Realty in Anz a. 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 Anz a 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 Anz a. Mail P.O. Box 390433. Request monthly newsletter and or weekly menu by email at vfw18 7 3anzaca@ gmail.com. For more information, call 951-763-4439 or visit http:// vfw1873.org.

High Country 4-H Club – 6:30 p.m. Meetings are on the third Wednesday of the month, except February, at Anz a 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 Anz a, 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/ Anz aValleyArtists/.

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 Anz a.

Anza Valley Lions Club – The Anz a 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 Anz a Valley VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anz a.

Meetings and events are posted on the Anz a Lions Club website, http://www.anz alionsclub.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 Anz a. 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.

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Organizations Terwilliger Community Association – 6 p.m. Second Monday of the month at VFW Post 1873, 59011 Bailey Road, in Anz a. 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 Anz a. 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: Anz a Community Building Inc. at P.O. Box 390091, Anz a, CA 92539. The hall is located at 56630 Highway 371 in Anz a. 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 Anz a Community Hall. Group serves as local liaisons to the county from the community. For more information, call 951-805-6800.

Anza Civic I mprovement 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.anz acivic.org.

Idyllwild man is suspected of gunning down his father City News Service SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

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Civil Air Patrol – Squadron 59 is looking for new members of all ages. For more information, call squadron commander Maj. Dennis Sheehan from the Anz a area at 951-403-4940. To learn more and see the club’ s meeting schedule, visit http://www.squadron59.org.

Fire Ex plorer 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 Anz a. Call 951763-5611 for information.

Redshank Riders – 7 p.m.

Backcountry horsemen meet at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Anz a, 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 Anz a.

The social hour is 11:30 a.m., and lunch is served at noon. Contact Carol Wright at 951-763-2884 for more information.

A 24-year-old Idyllwild man suspected of fatally shooting his father during a confrontation at the victim’ s home was being held without bail Friday, Feb. 12.

Adrian David Denava Jr. was arrested Thursday, Feb. 11, and booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of murder.

According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Brosche, the alleged attack happened about 10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in the 53000 block of Country Club Drive, on the west end of the

mountain community.

Brosche alleged that the suspect and his father, 50-year-old Adrian Denava Sr., got into a dispute – the nature of which was unknown – and the younger man allegedly pulled a gun and shot the victim in the upper body.

Witnesses called 911, and Denava Sr. was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

The victim’ s son was quickly identified as the alleged shooter, and deputies initiated a search, taking the suspect into custody without a struggle the following morning not far from the residence, according to Brosche.

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Anza Valley Library receives upgrades Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anz a Valley Library continues to provide books, services and inspiration for residents during the coronavirus pandemic, as upgrades to the facility and new reading material debut at the local literary reference center.

A new phone system was recently installed to provide seamless communication between librarians and patrons.

“We’re waiting for you to call us to schedule your reserved book pickup,” according to one librarian.

COVID-19 safety guidelines are in place at all times at the facility. The librarians have been conducting professional training in addition to their regular duties, during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to their Facebook page, Cindy is learning new tech, Chantel became a tech teacher and Kim is finishing her master’s degree while working.

The Anz a Valley Library is a joint-use public library, located inside Hamilton High School, but run by the Riverside County Library System.

Register online or by phone for the upcoming class “How to Analyz e Literature Workshop Series: Character Analysis,” Tuesday, March 16, from 3-3:30 p.m.

Survive your high school English literature course with a virtual fiveworkshop series given on the third Tuesday of each month at 3 p.m.

These 30-minute workshops will cover essay structure, plagiarism, character analysis, context and setting and theme through the use

Librarians Cindy, left, Chantel and Kim show off the new phones recently installed at the An a Valley Library.

of a variety of standard fictional texts on high school reading lists.

The third class, March 16, will cover character analysis, qualities of a hero and villain, personalities,

interacting with circumstances.

The Anz a Library is located at 57430 Mitchell Road in Anz a.

Don’t have a library card Visit http://www.rivlib.net to sign up

online for free.

For more information, call the library at 951-763-4216 or visit them on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/Anz aLibrary/.

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Anza man sentenced to 12 years for DUI wreck that killed 2 near Desert Center City News Service SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

A 21-year-old felon was sentenced Friday, Feb. 12, to 12 years in state prison for driving drunk and causing a head-on collision that killed two people north of Desert Center.

Austin Bly Ellington of Anz a was 18 years old at the time of the June 29, 2018, crash on state Route 62, east of state Route 177, that killed one of his passengers and the driver of the other vehicle.

A jury deliberated less than a day Nov. 6, before finding Ellington guilty of two counts of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated without gross negligence – he had been charged with DUI gross vehicular manslaughter

– and one count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury, along with several sentence-enhancing allegations.

The jury deadlocked 8-4 in favor of convicting Ellington of one count of driving with a blood alcohol content exceeding 0.08% causing bodily injury, forcing a mistrial on that charge.

Ellington, who was sentenced

by Riverside County Superior Court Judge James Hawkins, could have been sentenced to a maximum of 17 years behind bars.

According to prosecutors, Ellington and several others departed from Anz a June 29, 2018, headed in a multi-vehicle caravan toward Parker, Ariz ona, to celebrate the Fourth of July at Lake Havasu.

Prosecutors said the crash oc-

curred several hours into the excursion, as Ellington was passing vehicles on the two-lane thoroughfare while driving above the speed limit.

According to California Highway Patrol officer Jackie uintero, Ellington’s eastbound truck entered the westbound lane and slammed head-on into another pickup driven by 57-year-old Banning resident David Brian Chance, who died at the scene.

Mariah Garcia, 20, of Anz a, was riding in Ellington’s truck and also died at the scene, the officer said.

Ellington and another of his passengers were airlifted to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for treatment of major injuries.

Deputy district attorney Karen

Salas played for jurors a video posted to Snapchat by one of the occupants traveling in the defendant’s truck the day of the crash, which the prosecutor said shows the defendant driving with an apparent beer bottle between his legs.

Defense attorney Eduardo Madrid disputed the prosecution’s characterization of the defendant’s final pass attempt, citing witness testimony that the defendant made a legal pass attempt that would have been successful had the other motorist not sped up to block Ellington from getting ahead.

Madrid also disputed the validity of the results of blood tests, citing procedural irregularities and accused the CHP officers involved of botching the investigation.

Two blood samples taken two

and a half hours after the crash, one by the hospital and another by an external laboratory, showed Ellington’s blood alcohol content at 0.10% and 0.08%, respectively, according to court papers.

Ellington was arrested July 17, 2018, at the hospital, more than two weeks after the crash.

Ellington is awaiting trial on a felony case from April 2018 that includes allegations that he discharged a firearm in a negligent manner.

Ellington has a previous felony conviction involving “moral turpitude” that he committed when he was a minor, court papers show.

Additional information about that crime was not available.

Enjoy the health benefits of 4 popular teas

According to Penn Medicine, various types of tea each provide their own unique health benefits.

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TEMECULA – When in need of a beverage to warm them up, billions of people across the globe routinely look to tea. That choice has been made since ancient times, as various historians trace the habitual consumption of tea to ancient China.

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Current members of the Anz a Civic Improvement League were encouraged to vote for the 2021 board of directors. Online voting deadline was Friday, Feb. 5. Inperson voting was held at the Little Red Schoolhouse at Minor Park Saturday, Feb. 6, and the votes tallied at that time.

Anz a Civic Improvement League elections were postponed due to delays in the nonprofit’s member validation and that some people who desired to run were not

According to Penn Medicine, various types of tea each provide their own unique health benefits, some of which may surprise even the most devoted tea drinkers.

White tea A 2010 study published in the Journal of Food Science found that antioxidant-rich white tea boasts anti-carcinogenic properties. Penn Medicine also said that white tea is a significant source of fluoride, catechins and tannins, ingredients that can strengthen teeth, improve their resistance to acid and sugar and fight plaque.

Chamomile tea Many people like drinking this herbal tea before bedtime because they feel it helps them fall asleep, and one study published in Molecular Medicine Reports in 2010 said that chamomile tea is widely regarded as a mild tranquiliz er and sleep-inducer. Chamomile tea also has been shown to improve heart health. A 2015 study of 64 patients with diabetes published in the Journal of Endocrinological

Investigation found that those who consumed chamomile tea with meals had improved triglyceride and “bad” cholesterol levels compared to patients who drank water.

Peppermint tea The Mount Sinai Health System said that peppermint calms the muscles of the stomach and improves the flow of bile. Made from dried leaves of the peppermint plant, peppermint tea can help to soothe an upset stomach and help people overcome conditions like constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and motion sickness.

Green tea Green tea is loaded with flavonoids, which Penn Medicine said improve heart health by lowering bad cholesterol and reducing blood clotting. In addition, the National Cancer Institute said that the polyphenols in green tea may protect people against the damage caused by exposure to ultraviolet B radiation. One study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association also associated

afforded that opportunity previously. The election was to be held Saturday, Dec. 5, but was delayed until the issues could be resolved.

Minor Park is not a public park, and it receives no funding from county or state tax dollars. The park and school building are the centerpieces of the town and a hub of activity. From the Anz a Summer Nights concert series to car shows and horseshoe tossing contests, the park has a special place in Anz a.

Both the park and the schoolhouse are available to rent for meetings and events. Members may credit 100% of their current membership dues toward rental

fees during the same time period.

Minor Park and the Little Red Schoolhouse are located at Highway 371 at Contreras Road in Anz a.

To learn more about the ACIL events, visit them on Facebook or at http://www.anz acivic.org. To join the ACIL, visit http://anz acivic.org/join.html. Their address is P.O. Box 391000, Anz a, CA 92539. Contact ACIL at 951-3304411 or anzacivic@gmail.com.

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green tea consumption with a reduced risk of stroke.

Tea has been consumed for millenia. Though many people drink tea simply for its taste, those same

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Caltrans to conduct rock removal near Pine Cove on Highway 243 Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Idyllwild, Pine Cove and mountain area motorists were told Friday, Feb. 12, that Caltrans and specializ ed crews from Caltrans’ Keen Camp and GEOTECH would remove dangerous rock outcroppings on Route 243 Thursday, Feb. 18.

Motorists in the area were

warned to take other routes from postmile 6.5 near Pine Cove because crews would be removing the rock along the embankment of the highway. Work began at 8:30 a.m. and ended about 4 p.m., weather permitting. Traffic was held up to 30 minutes in each direction, Caltrans said.

Caltrans, working with Riverside County Transportation Commission, also said closures were

conducted previously on westbound lanes. Crews performed shoulder and pavement operations.

Motorists used Interstate 10 as an alternate route. All construction activity was subject to change due to weather conditions.

The 60 Truck Lanes Project is widening a 4.5-mile section of Route 60 between Gilman Springs Road and 1.4 miles west of Jack Rabbit Trail through Riv-

erside County’ s Badlands between Moreno Valley and Beaumont. The project lies within mountainous terrain with a curving alignment and steep grades. The project is designed to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion. The new lanes are expected to open in 2022.

Caltrans warned motorists to slow down. Follow the 55-mph speed limit and help keep themselves, other drivers and work

crews safe on the roads. Traffic fines are doubled in construction z ones.

The schedule for both the rock removal in Pine Cove on SR 243 and work on Highway 60 in Beaumont north of San Jacinto was subject to the weather with rain expected.

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

Business leaders can focus on meeting 2021’s challenges amid change CLOVER, S.C. – Business leaders dealt with rapid change in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but many small businesses and chain stores didn’ t survive.

As a new year begins amid much economic uncertainty, companies that navigated 2020 can’ t rest, and they need engaged, forwardthinking leaders who can keep adjusting and focusing on the right factors in a volatile business environment, Doug Meyer-Cuno, ForbesBooks author of “The Recipe For Empowered Leadership: 25 Ingredients For Creating Value & Empowering Others.”

“We live in a VUCA world,” Meyer-Cuno said, referring to the acronym standing for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. “We need to adjust to how fast things are changing. It means companies adjusting to AI technology, electric cars and hub-to-hub freight liners that are driver-free.

Every company needs to think out of the box.

“Leaders, therefore, need to be

fast at making decisions to compete in tomorrow’ s world. They’ ll have to challenge themselves to look into the future and find ways for their company to not only keep pace but stay ahead of the curve,” he said.

Meyer-Cuno offered the following ways for company leaders to meet the frequent challenges of change in 2021 and beyond.

Align change decisions with the company vision.

Meyer-Cuno said many entrepreneurs and CEOs forget the importance of setting a vision for their organiz ation, and that makes decisions in the midst of massive change more difficult or less thought out. “Reaffirming the vision must be a priority every day until it becomes part of the DNA of the company culture,” MeyerCuno says. “Everyone in the company must ask themselves why the organiz ation exists. They must ask themselves this question so often that the answer is ingrained in every decision they make. Once they do, it’ s possible to navigate

the uncertainties of change as a unified group.”

Be more intentional with your vision, m ission and core values.

“Some financially successful companies lose their compass, which shows why it’ s vital for your company to be always intentional with its vision, mission and core values,” he said. “They are the standard-bearers for the organiz ation’ s reputation as well as performance. The companies that will make it in the future are the ones who can push data, processes, products, and services through the pipeline the quickest. Alignment around your vision, mission, and core values are crucial in developing a company capable of great speed and agility.”

Empower your employees.

Though it’ s important for leaders to often come up with the ideas and planning to chart direction, Meyer-Cuno said the most effective leaders tap into the talented and smart people around them, pick their brains in their areas of expertise, and implement

their ideas.

“You must empower employees not to be yes men,” he said. “Ideally, you want a group that thinks, not groupthink. Encourage debate and participation from everyone.

The really talented people out there want great leaders capable of empowering them.”

Don’t put up with attitude problems.

High performers who set their own rules and don’ t adhere to core values aren’ t worth keeping around, Meyer-Cuno said, due to the damage they can inflict on the culture.

“When you’ re in a leadership position, it’ s vital to the success of your team that you live what you preach,” he said. “If you don’ t, nobody else will either. Demonstrate boundaries and what it means to do the right thing by showing you won’ t accept noncompliance from your mavericks or high performers. Taking that action will serve to further empower your teams.”

Meyer-Cuno founded a food ingredients distribution company,

Carolina Ingredients, and expanded it into a nationally recogniz ed and award-winning industrial seasoning manufacturer before it was acquired by Mitsubishi in 2019. Since then, he founded Empowered Leadership, which helps entrepreneurs, business owners and CEOs scale their companies by empowering their teams.

“At this critical crossroads time for many businesses, leaders need to reevaluate how strong or fragile their company foundation is and whether it is well-equipped to handle the battering winds of change,” he said.

Doug Meyer- C uno is an entrepreneur, mentor and ForbesBook s author of “ The R ecipe For E mpowered Leadership: 2 5 I ngredients For C reating V alue & E mpowering O thers.” MeyerC uno earned his bachelor’ s degree in international commerce from Furman U niversity and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’ s owner/ president management program.

Cristina Thudium captures this lenticular cloud formation from Lake R iverside Estates.

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Lenticular clouds owe their unusual name to the Latin word “lenticularis,” meaning lentil-shaped.

They are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere and are often comparable in appearance to a lens or saucer.

“Lenticular clouds indicate great instability in that layer of the atmosphere, and form in areas of mountain waves. Like ocean waves, these waves of air bouncing over the mountains are anything but stable,” Matt Makens said in a 2014 article, “Lenticular Clouds: Calm in Appearance, Dangerous in Reality.” “Mountain waves

can be present with or without clouds. If you see lenticular clouds (standing wave clouds) you have visual proof the air above is very turbulent. Although pretty, those clouds are mean.”

Small aircraft should stay on the ground when observing the atmospheric wonders called lenticular clouds.

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Learn all about the Cat Faced Orb Weaver spider Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Cat Faced Orb Weaver spider, Araneus gemmoides, is a common resident of the Anz a Valley. The large, full-grown females are small, about 5-10 millimeters long, and males are much smaller, about half as large as the females.

They come in varying colors but are mainly identified by the two horn-shaped growths on their large abdomens. The combination of the projections, dimples and markings lead to the common name “Cat or Monkey Faced” spider.

These spiders spend the winter in the egg stage, within a silk-covered sac produced by the mother during fall.

Mating occurs in late summer.

The female will die within days

of laying a single egg sac with hundreds of eggs inside.

Eggs hatch in spring and the tiny spiderlings disperse by a method called ballooning. The babies find the edge of a leaf or twig where they let out silken threads. The breez e catches the threads and carry the spiderlings aloft to new places.

The cat-faced spider captures prey by use of a web made up of a concentric design, typical of spiders in the orb weaver family, with spiraling sticky coils. If the web is damaged, the spider may take it down, eat the silk and build a new one.

During the day, the spiders sometimes may be seen in the center area of the web or even at work in its repair.

However, usually they remain

at a corner of the web, where a leg maintains contact with a thread of the web to sense vibrations that would indicate trapped prey. The spider then moves out, wraps the prey with layers of silk, then paralyz es it with its digestive saliva.

The prey is usually carried back to a corner of the web where the spider later consumes it.

Dominique Leard Rauton discovered a Cat Faced spider at her home in Lake Riverside Estates and named the arachnid Claudette.

“Claudette was discovered in June 2020 when I walked face first into her web,” Rauton said.

“Surprisingly, her web was stronger than a black widow’ s web. She was happy to live beneath the eave of our porch. At night she’ d come out of hiding. We have lights that attract bugs there, so her supper

came to her. Each night she’ d spin a new web, some were erratic and disorganiz ed, other nights they’ d be very organiz ed and decorative.

“She was quite entertaining, and we looked forward to seeing her each night. We learned that the female spiders die shortly after laying their egg sac. She laid hers on Christmas night and died shortly thereafter,” she said.

Cat-faced spiders do have many natural enemies including insects and other spiders.

A mature cat-faced spider may give a sharp pinch of a bite, although they cannot normally pierce the skin. They are not a dangerous species and do not have venom that can harm humans.

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Claudette, the Cat F aced O rb W eaver named by Dominiq ue Leard R auton, lays in wait for prey in her web on the porch.

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3 pandemic travel trends may stick around for 2021 Family Features SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

COVID-19 has challenged families in different ways, and many had to cancel or reschedule trips during the pandemic due to travel restrictions, which meant missing out on quality time with loved ones and the mental health and self-care benefits of going on vacation.

Although 61% of families had a trip canceled due to the pandemic in 2020, travel is still top of mind as 82% of families already have travel plans in mind for 2021, according to the 2021 VRBO Trend Report. The report, which includes vacation rental marketplace data as well as survey data from family travelers, also revealed some travel habits that arose during the pandemic are likely to remain popular in 2021.

“Let’ s face it, the pandemic makes it tough to predict what travel will look like in 2021,” Melanie Fish, VRBO’ s travel expert, said. “That’ s why we combined search and demand trends with a first-of-its-kind traveler survey of U.S. families. The combination gives us the most accurate picture possible of the plans families are making.”

Consider these pandemic-era trends as you make your vacation plans moving forward.

Stay in the driver’s seat.

With travel restrictions and social distancing guidelines in place throughout much of 2020, many families opted to avoid flying and visiting crowded places by instead jumping in the car to hit the open road. This trend is likely to con-

tinue in 2021 with 59% of families saying they are more likely to drive instead of fly on their next trip. A change of scenery can be refreshing and motivating after staring at the same four walls in your home, so consider taking a road trip and exploring a new destination, even if it’ s just down the road from home.

Mix w ork and play.

Many people were forced to adapt to working from home or facilitating e-learning for their children due to COVID-19. While turning homes into makeshift offices or classrooms wasn’t an easy task for many families, the schedule flexibility provided by the remote setup allowed for the rise of the “flexcation” – mixing vacation time with virtual work and school. In fact, one in three families surveyed said they were able to travel because they were working from home, and 52% of those who took a flexcation during the pandemic found the experience refreshing with 67% saying they would do it again.

Another benefit of flexcations is experiencing amenities you may not have access to at home.

Consider some of VRBO’ s most sought-after amenities and vacation spots when planning your next getaway: splash in the sun in Cape Coral, Florida, where 92% of vacation rentals have pools; cook over an open fire in Sevierville, Tennessee, where barbecue grills are included at 87% of vacation homes or cozy up by the fire with a book and some hot chocolate in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where fireplaces are an amenity

A change of scenery can be refreshing and motivating after staring at the same four walls at home, so consider taking a road trip and exploring a new destination.

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offered in 87 of vacation rentals.

Seek wide-open spaces.

Many travelers gravitate toward vacationing in peaceful and picturesque destinations, and the open sky, fresh air and scenic views may

be even more appealing amid the pandemic. According to the report, 61% of U.S. families said they are more likely to visit an outdoorsy destination than an urban one and 54% are more likely to head to a

national park than an amusement park.

Find more ideas for planning your next vacation – or flexcation – along with the full Trend Report at http://vrbo.com.

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honor our children’ s memories.”

On June 29, 2018, Mariah Garcia, an energetic, popular and much-loved young woman, died in an auto accident. She grew up attending the Hamilton schools and graduated with the class of 2016.

She left behind her parents, Mario and Anna Garcia of Anz a, as well as two brothers and one sister.

“My family and I want to bring awareness not to drink and drive not to be reckless on the roads and think about others,” Garcia said.

“The new life we are forced to live is really hard and we wish it for no one, so be safe and be kind.”

According to the Caltrans

website, the Adopt-A-Highway Program provides an avenue for individuals, organiz ations, agencies or businesses to help maintain sections of roadsides within California’ s state highway system. Groups have the option to participate as volunteers or to hire an approved service contractor to perform the work on their behalf.

Groups that hire contractors are called sponsors.

Adoption sites usually span a two-mile stretch of roadside and permits are issued for five-year periods.

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Fox fires Dobbs, Bartiromo and Judge Jeanine Pirro

Harold W. Pease, Ph.D. SPECIAL TO ANZA VALLEY OUTLOOK

On Friday, Feb. 5, FOX News fired three of its most conservative and publicly trusted anchors: Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. The day before, Smartmatic, an election technology company accused of fraudulent 2020 election practices, sued Rupert Murdoch’ s FOX Corporation and his popular Fox News for $2.7 billion for “disinformation,” suggesting election fraud favoring Biden existed in the 2020 presidential election.

Critics view “the purge” as a stern threat to others, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and etc. still treating this issue. FOX News appears to have joined the Democrat Party outlets in censorship, forcing viewers to move to freer outlets for news.

A free country does not censor its people. A free press, as required by the Constitution, allows differing views. The people are considered intelligent enough to discern for themselves. Dobbs was the catalyst for the firings as he had scheduled Mike Lindell, author of the new two-hour documentary, presenting evidence of such, called “Absolute Proof,” the evening of his firing. LibertyUnderFire opposes censorship and thus is printing below some of what you were forbidden to view from the documentary.

In Ariz ona, Biden’ s margin of victory was only 10,000 votes; there were 296,589 contested votes. Of this larger number, 36,400 people living in the country illegally who are forbidden by state law to vote voted, three and a half times the number of votes Trump needed to win. There were 22,903 completed mail-in ballots received the day before ballots were actually mailed. There were 2,000 voters registered to a vacant lot. In Maricopa County, there were 150,000 voters registered after the deadline. Also, in this county there were 103,000 electronic adjudicated ballots with no Republican observer present as required by law. In the state, there were 50,000 votes loaded before polls even opened. If illegal votes had not been counted, Trump would have easily won the state.

In Nevada, Biden’ s margin of victory was 34,000 with 212,508

contested. Of this contested number Nevada allowed double voting of 42,284 voters. Other anomalies included: allowing, against state law, 4,000 those living in the country illegally to vote, accepting 15,000 mail-in or absentee ballots from voters who were known to have also voted in other states, 1,506 dead people who voted and 19,218 “non-Nevadans” who voted in Nevada. The most controversial category of the contested voters was with respect to mail-in ballot signature verification of only half the image quality suggested by the manufacturer of voting machines. More than half of the contested votes 130,000 did not meet this standard.

In Pennsylvania, Biden’ s margin of victory was 68,000, with 866,284 contested, most of these 682,777 were counted without a Republican observer to verify the ballots, names, signatures, addresses and dates, as required by law. The contested ballots included 100,000 fake ballots, driven from New York to Pennsylvania, the vast majority for Biden. Other contested ballots included: 10,000 ballots accepted up to three days after the election and 4,500 ballots sorted out because of errors “poll workers then refilled out these ballots so that they could be read by tabulation machines, contrary to state law.” Between 80-100 self-proclaimed Black Lives Matter affiliated members, from other States, have admitted to having

voted in Pennsylvania.

In Wisconsin, Biden’ s margin of victory was 20,000 votes with 400,000 contested; 170,000 of these were “generated by illegally expanding the definition of indefinite confinement.” Other anomalies included 170,000 mailin ballots processed under the guise of absentee ballots in clear violation of state law and another 100,000 U.S. Postal Service backdated ballots. Any serious review of these anomalies would have given the state to Trump.

In Georgia, Biden’ s margin of victory was 10,000 votes with 1,567,146 contested. If Georgia had simply not counted the 10,315 dead people who had voted, presumably all for Biden, Trump would have claimed this state. The state had far more anomalies than sister states. These include: 66,247 children living in the country illegally voting, 96,600 mail-in ballots with no required return address and 40,279 who failed to re-register to vote in their new county in time after moving from one county to another. Three types of voters fit one of three disqualifying categories: moved mailing addresses with no change of address card, where filed as moving out of state but are still registered in Georgia, and finally, living outside of Georgia and voted in Georgia.

Another category had 600,000 ballots with no chain of custody.

So corrupt was this state, felons, 2,560 of them, voted, as did 395

who voted in Georgia and also in another state, as did 15,700 who voted in Georgia but changed their address before the election. Out of a million and a half contestant votes certainly Trump would have gotten another 11,000 votes to beat the corruption and Biden.

None of these facts are disputed by the socialist left – they can’ t be.

No court has reviewed any of this evidence. The left’ s only answer is to refuse to review any evidence and to censor anyone who does as in the cases with Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro. Unfortunately, we haven’ t space enough to treat the Dominion and Smartmatic documentation or the vast election interference from China – much just coming out – but these can be viewed on Rumble, Mike Lindell, Absolute Proof “Election Fraud Exposed,” Feb. 5. For those who do not want their thinking controlled, it is a must view.

Trump only needed three of the above contested states to win – this evidence, absent fraud, shows he won them all.

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the U nited States C onstitution. 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 C ollege. To read more of his week ly articles, visit http: / / www.

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N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 210 0 827 he followin person s is are oin siness as J AEB UG TRAILER RENTALS 4489 4 Corte R odriguez, T emecu la, CA 9 259 2 County: R ive rside Ja ebug T railer R entals L L C, 4489 4 Corte R odriguez, T emec ula, CA 9 259 2 T his business is co nduct ed by a L imited L iability Company his is re istere in the state of R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business n er the ctitio s na e liste a o e eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: Ja son Giova nni L imon, M anager tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 1/21/20 21 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 20 10 573 he followin person s is are oin siness as G IF TS AMAZ ING inchester oa e ec la 9 259 1 ailin ress ilt oa all roo 9 20 28 County: R ive rside tacey ane i s ilt oa all roo CA 9 20 28 T his business is co nduct ed by an Indivi dual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business n er the ctitio s na e liste a o e eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: Stace y Ja ne R iggs tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 10 /16/20 20 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 210 0 59 1 he followin person s is are oin siness as R MOONLIG H TING n o nty ane enifee County: R ive rside a. Jo rge - R och a, 29 785 Sun County L ane, enifee b. M elissa Sommer R och a, 29 785 Sun County ane enifee T his business is co nduct ed by a M arried Couple R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business n er the ctitio s na e liste a o e eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: Jo rge - R och a tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 1/14/20 21 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 210 1170 he followin person s is are oin siness as F RONT AND F IF TH STREET INC. 2849 5 O ld T own F ront Street, T emecu la, Ca 9 259 3 M ailing Address: P O B ox 169 7, T emecu la, Ca 9 259 0 County: R ive rside ront n ifth treet nc. l own ront Street, T emecu la, CA 9 259 3 T his business is co nduct ed by a Corporation his orporation is re istere in the state of alifornia R egistrant co mmence d to transact business under the ctitio s na e liste a o e on eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: P edro E sparza, P resident tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 1/28/20 21 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 210 120 1 he followin person s is are oin siness as MISSION CARRIER 79 10 M ission B lvd . , R ive rside, CA 9 250 9 County: R ive rside R anbir -- Singh, 79 10 M ission B lvd . , R ive rside, CA 9 250 9 T his business is co nduct ed by an Indivi dual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business n er the ctitio s na e liste a o e eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: R anbir -- Singh tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 1/29 /20 21 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

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F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 20 119 69 he followin person s is are oin siness as MISSION CARRIER 79 10 A M ission B lv d, R iv erside, CA 9 250 9 County: R iv erside R anbir -- Singh, 79 10 A M ission B lvd , R ive rside, CA 9 250 9 T his business is co nduct ed by an Indivi dual R egistrant has not yet begun to transact business n er the ctitio s na e liste a o e eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: R anbir -- Singh tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 11/18/20 20 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

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LEG AL: 3 2 6 9 P UB LISH ED : D e c e m b e r 4 , 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 , 2 0 2 0 R epublished F ebruary 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 Statement file date incorrect in original publication

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S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT ile Number: R -20 210 1126 person s is are oin siness as EF F ICIENT P ROF ESSIONALS CALIF ORNIA 29 364 N. L ake D rive , L ake E lsinore, CA 9 2530 County: R iv erside Samuel Salva dor Garci a, 29 364 N. L ake D rive , a e lsinore alifornia T his business is co nduct ed by an Indivi dual R egistrant co mmence d to transact business under the ctitio s na e liste a o e on eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e and co rrect . ( A registrant who decl ares as true any aterial atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to e cee one tho san dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: Samuel S. Garci a tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 1/28/20 21 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

O R IGINAL ST AT E M E NT O N F IL E P E T E R AL D ANA R IVE R SID E CO LEG AL: 3 2 9 9 P UB LISH ED : F e b r u a r y Ma r c h 5 , 1 2 , 2 0 2

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CH ANG E OF NAME CAUSE F OR CH ANG E OF NAME ase N er V T O AL L INT E R E ST E D P E R SO NS P etitioner: J ACQ UELINE NEAR ile a petition with this co rt for a ecree chan in na es as follows P resent Name: a . J ACQ UELINE NEAR b . RIK ER LOG AN NEAR P roposed Name: a . J ACQ UELINE D IAZ - NEAR b . RIK ER LOG AN LOP EZ - NEAR that all persons intereste in this atter appear efore this co rt at the hearin in icate elow to show ca se if any why the petition for chan e of na e sho l not e granted. Any person obj ect ing to the name ch anges escri e a o e st le a written o ection that incl es the reasons for the o ection at least two co rt ays efore the atter is sche le to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ca se why the petition sho l not e rante . f no written o ection is ti ely le the co rt ay rant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF H EARING D ate: 0 3/18/21 T ime: 8: 0 0 am D ept: S10 1 he a ress of the co rt l oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Ju stice Center copy of this r er to how a se shall e p lishe at least once each wee for fo r s ccessi e wee s prior to the ate set for hearin on the petition in the followin newspaper of general ci rcu lation, printed in this co unty: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 1/19 /21 i ne effrey . i el e of the perior Court LEG AL: 3 2 9 3 P UB LISH ED : F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 2 1

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CAUSE F OR CH ANG E OF NAME ase N er V T O AL L INT E R E ST E D P E R SO NS P etitioner: G EORG E AD AMS NEAR ile a petition with this co rt for a ecree chan in na es as follows P resent Name: G EORG E AD AMS NEAR P roposed Name: G EORG E AD AMS LOP EZ - NEAR that all persons intereste in this atter appear efore this co rt at the hearin in icate elow to show ca se if any why the petition for chan e of na e sho l not e granted. Any person obj ect ing to the name ch anges escri e a o e st le a written o ection that incl es the reasons for the o ection at least two co rt ays efore the atter is sche le to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ca se why the petition sho l not e rante . f no written o ection is ti ely le the co rt ay rant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF H EARING D ate: 0 3/18/21 T ime: 8: 0 0 am D ept: S10 1 he a ress of the co rt l oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Ju stice Center copy of this r er to how a se shall e p lishe at least once each wee for fo r s ccessi e wee s prior to the ate set for hearin on the petition in the followin newspaper of general ci rcu lation, printed in this co unty: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 1/19 /21 i ne effrey . i el e of the perior Court LEG AL: 3 2 9 4 P UB LISH ED : F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 2 1

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CAUSE F OR CH ANG E OF NAME Case Number: CVM V20 0 0 384 T O AL L INT E R E ST E D P E R SO NS P etitioner: AD EY EMI W ILLS ile a petition with this co rt for a ecree chan in na es as follows P resent Name: AD EY EMI W ILLS P roposed Name: CH Y EF ’ AD EY EMI W ALAK AF A- W ILLS that all persons intereste in this atter appear efore this co rt at the hearin in icate elow to show ca se if any why the petition for chan e of na e sho l not e granted. Any person obj ect ing to the name ch anges escri e a o e st le a written o ection that incl es the reasons for the o ection at least two co rt ays efore the atter is sche le to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ca se why the petition sho l not e rante . f no written o ection is ti ely le the co rt ay rant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF H EARING D ate: 0 3/11/21 T ime: 1: 30 P M D ept: M V2 he a ress of the co rt eacoc e oreno Valley copy of this r er to how a se shall e p lishe at least once each wee for fo r s ccessi e wee s prior to the ate set for hearin on the petition in the followin newspaper of general ci rcu lation, printed in this co unty: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 11/24/20 i ne ric V. saac e of the perior o rt LEG AL: 3 2 9 6 P UB LISH ED : F e b r u a r y 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 2 0 2 1

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F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 210 0 9 72 he followin person s is are oin siness as B EAUTY B Y NESS rrieta ot prin s oa pt rrieta CA 9 2563 County: R iv erside Vanessa ariah a ello rrieta ot prin s R oad, Apt F 30 3, M urrieta CA 9 2563 T his business is c onduc ted by an Indiv idual R egistrant has not yet begun to transac t business n er the ctitio s na e liste a o e eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e an c orrec t. ( A registrant who dec lares as true any material atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to ex c eed one thousand dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: Vanessa Cabello tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 1/25/20 21 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

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CAUSE F OR CH ANG E OF NAME ase N er V T O AL L INT E R E ST E D P E R SO NS P etitioner: AMAND A LOUISE AND RUSE ile a petition with this co rt for a ecree chan in na es as follows P resent Name: AMAND A LOUISE AND RUSE P roposed Name: AMAND A AND RUSH K O that all persons intereste in this atter appear efore this co rt at the hearin in icate elow to show ca se if any why the petition for chan e of na e sho l not e granted. Any person obj ect ing to the name ch anges escri e a o e st le a written o ection that incl es the reasons for the o ection at least two co rt ays efore the atter is sche le to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show ca se why the petition sho l not e rante . f no written o ection is ti ely le the co rt ay rant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF H EARING D ate: 0 2/18/21 T ime: 8: 0 0 am D ept: S10 1 he a ress of the co rt l oa M urrieta, CA 9 2563 Southwest Ju stice Center copy of this r er to how a se shall e p lishe at least once each wee for fo r s ccessi e wee s prior to the ate set for hearin on the petition in the followin newspaper of general ci rcu lation, printed in this co unty: Anza Valley O utlook D ate: 12/16/20 i ne effrey . i el e of the perior Court LEG AL: 3 2 9 8 P UB LISH ED : F e b r u a r y 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , Ma r c h 5 , 2 0 2 1

1 O R IGINAL ST AT E M E NT O N F IL E P E T E R AL D ANA R IVE R SID E CO LEG AL: 3 3 0 0 P UB LISH ED : F e b r u a r y Ma r c h 5 , 1 2 , 2 0 2

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F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT F ile Number: R -20 20 12181 he followin person s is are oin siness as D AK D ENTAL MANAG EMENT l own ront treet e ec la alifornia 9 259 0 County: R iv erside ental ana e ent alifornia orporation l own ront treet e ec la alifornia 9 259 0 T his business is c onduc ted by a Corporation his orporation is re istere in the state of R egistrant c ommenc ed to transac t business under the ctitio s na e liste a o e on eclare that all infor ation in this state ent is tr e an c orrec t. ( A registrant who dec lares as true any material atter p rs ant to ection of the siness an rofessions o e that the re istrant nows to e false is ilty of a is e eanor p nisha le y a ne not to ex c eed one thousand dollars ( $ 1, 0 0 0 ) . ) R egistrant: Amada R iv era, Sec retary tate ent was le with the o nty ler of R ive rside County on 11/25/20 20 N N N V N ( a) O F SE CT IO N 179 20 , A F ICT IT IO U S NAM E N N N V N N CO U NT Y CL E R K , E X CE P T , AS P R O VID E D IN V N N N N N N N N N N N N N N .

N B U SINE SS NAM E ST AT E M E NT M U ST B E F IL E D N. N N N N ST AT E O F A F ICT IT IO U S B U SINE SS NAM E IN V N N N N ( SE E SE CT IO N 14411 E T SE Q . , B U SINE SS AND N .

O R IGINAL ST AT E M E NT O N F IL E IN M Y O P E T E R AL D ANA R IVE R SID E CO U NT Y CL LEG AL: 3 2 7 1 P UB LISH ED : D e c e m b e r 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 2 0 J a n u a r y 1 ,2 0 2 1 R epublished F ebruary 5 , 1 2 , 1 9 , 2 6 , 2 0 Correction of registrant’ s name

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