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Trevor Montgomery SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Details are beginning to emerge after a sitting member of the San Jacinto Unified School District Board of Trustees, who was recently censured by other board members for alleged “unacceptable conduct,” was arrested Saturday, March 5, on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. see page A-4

Local Hemet Council recommends CDBG allocations Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Hemet City Council in the next few weeks will be determining how to allocate its 2022 and 2023 Community Development Block Grant funds totaling $876,386 that will be awarded to nonprofit agencies, community housing projects and needed superstructure projects that will best benefit lower income residents. see page A-4

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Kim McElroy is president of Lake Elsinore Historical Society located inside the history museum, 183 North Main Street, in Lake Elsinore.

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Conservative school board candidates introduced at community meeting in Murrieta 412 Church Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Conservative candidates for Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore school districts were introduced to a large audience by Pastor Tim Thompson from the 412 Church in Murrieta March 2.

Each of the candidates were given time to express their reasons for running in the upcoming school board elections with four open seats in Temecula, two in Murrieta and two in Lake Elsinore.

The meeting, according to Thompson, was to encourage voters in the districts to vote and help campaign for the conservative candidates introduced so the children of the communities will be taught “education not activism.”

He noted that while there are some rules about pastors not taking sides in political issues, they are still alsee SCHOOL, page A-8

Pastor Tim Thompson from the 412 Church introduces conservative school board candidates during a candidate forum held at the church Wednesday, March 2. Valley News/Courtesy photo

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Murrieta adopts new voting districts following 2020 census Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR

The city of Murrieta has adopted new voting districts to better represent the city’s population following the 2020 census.

The new districts, which were introduced during a public hearing at the Feb. 15 city council meeting were adopted March 1, during a public hearing held at the regular Murrieta City Council meeting.

Under the new district boundaries, District 1 has a population of 22,416, of which 15,426 are of voting age, District 2 has a population of 22,481 with 14,595 of voting age. District 3 population is 22,147, District 4 population is 22,256 and District 5 population is 21,887 with 14,842, 15,354 and 15,455 being of voting age, respectively.

New district boundaries for District 1, which runs north of District 4 and east of District 3 includes everything from the northern boundary of the city to Nutmeg Street, and north of from Golden see DISTRICTS, page A-4

This map shows the new district lines approved by Murrieta City Council March 1, following a lengthy redistricting process after the 2020 Census. Valley News/Courtesy photo

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Hemet City Council shows support for Recovery Village after lengthy discussion Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

At a special meeting Friday, March 4, Hemet City Council Members met to vote on providing a letter of support for Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Health’s grant application for the proposed construction of a 180bed Recovery Village to be used to deliver wrap-around services for individuals in need of mental health services. With millions of dollars of state funding available but short deadlines to apply, support was just recently requested.

The 8 a.m. meeting began with public comments from about 20 individuals, most using the opportunity to state their support or opposition of the project. It was pointed out that because many homeless individuals suffer from mental illness that either led to

and statistics from similar county projects and fielded questions from council members who were voicing the concerns of their district constituents. The proposed facility will be built on about 12 acres of vacant land that is already frequented by the homeless near Oakland Avenue and State Street.

The full-service behavioral health campus is intended to serve as a safe, monitored and therapeutic community and living space while simultaneously delivering high quality, person-first, treatment for behavioral health. The proposed plan would increase infrastructure capacity, including crisis, residential, outpatient services for mental health and primary care, in homelike settings, as well as housing the homeless population in need of these services.

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Members of the Hemet City Council listen to public comments during a special meeting Friday, March 4 at the Hemet Public Library. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo

Mayor Malcolm Lilienthal and Mayor Pro-Tem Karlee Meyer, who sit on the Homeless Outreach Ad-Hoc Committee, support the addition of a proposed Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Healthoperated facility in Hemet. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo

An artist’s rendering of Hemet’s proposed Recovery Village is part of a presentation by Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Health Director Dr. Matthew Chang. Valley News/Diane A. Rhodes photo

their situation or was developed as a result of being displaced, this project offers a step in the right direction of helping to alleviate the problem.

The issue of homelessness has often been brought before the council by residents, business owners and nonprofits who work with this population. While organizations such as City Net were cited as offering hope to help control the problem by building trusting relationships, more was asked to be done. Most speakers felt Recovery Village would be a helpful addition. Concerns centered around homeless individuals being attracted to Hemet because of the proposed facility but then not qualifying for the program and ending up staying on the streets here, adding to the existing problem.

Dr. Matthew Chang, director of RUHS-BH, presented an overview

on the Homeless Outreach Ad-Hoc Committee and championed this project from the outset. Council Member Joe Males was “on the fence” with concerns about Hemet citizens not being given priority since Recovery Village is set to serve all of Riverside County. He also would like to see it built in a more rural area of the county and not in the heart of Hemet. Council Member Linda Krupa responded she is not happy with the location either. She also said it will not address the homelessness problem caused from those that do not have mental health issues. Council Member Russ Brown expressed “mixed emotions” about providing support. While he acknowledges there is a need, he’s not sure it will solve the homeless problem as it is a voluntary assistance program and he said the recent P-I-T Count showed that most would reject that type of assistance if offered.

After Chang addressed concerns and a few more public comments were heard, a motion was made

by Brown to show support and approve a draft letter for the grant application that needs to be filed before the end of March. Meyer seconded the motion. Males said, “the conservative person in me would vote no but the godly man in me (who knows we need to look out for our brothers and sisters) is going to vote yes.” Brown said, “we need to do something different … so I vote yes.” Krupa said, “On behalf of my constituents, I have to vote no.”

Authorization of a letter of support for the RUHS-BH application for the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program and Community Care Expansion grant was approved 4-1. The decision was met with applause from a majority of the 40 in-person and approximately 10 virtual attendees.

The meeting was bookended with an update regarding the City’s Strategic Plan given by City Manager Christopher Lopez at the start and a discussion of proposed American Rescue Plan (ARPA) projects for funding after a short recess was taken at noon.

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Murrieta Valley USD selects new superintendent

Dr. Ward Andrus has been selected as the new MVUSD superintendent beginning July 1.

The Board of Education annouced Dr. Ward Andrus has been selected as the new superintendent beginning July 1. The Board was scheduled to approve the district’s new superintendent’s contract at the March 17 Board meeting.

Leadership Associates, a top search firm, conducted a national search, solicited input for the new superintendent by conducting listening sessions with district and school site administrators, staff, parents and district partners.

A community forum was held in January and an online survey was open for the community to complete. These efforts yielded an incredibly talented list of candidates from which the Board unanimously selected Andrus.

Andrus currently serves as the Superintendent for Central Union High School District in El Centro.

He is an innovative leader with an impressive depth of experience in California’s K-12 education system. His proven track record as a teacher, vice principal, principal, executive director, interim assistant superintendent and superintendent uniquely position him to serve the MVUSD community. As the CUHSD Superintendent, he led a student voice project to reengage students while addressing learning loss and social-emotional needs.

He also led the construction of a 60,000-square foot, 31 classroom science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) building.

Before CUHSD, Andrus served in several administrative positions for the Placer County Office of Education, San Juan Unified,

Folsom-Cordova Unified and the Stockton Unified School District.

While at the Stockton Unified School District, Andrus worked with a network of 56 schools, providing services to approximately 34,000 students. This experience afforded him the opportunity to lead the way for staff, students and parents in the areas of career technical education development, social-emotional learning, intervention supports, human resources, professional development and facilities management.

MVUSD Board President Kris Thomasian stated, “Murrieta Valley has been blessed with superintendents who have continuously raised the bar while building relationships with the community.

Dr. Andrus, for the past 24 years, has dedicated himself to the same educational standards and has been steadfast in his approach to academic excellence. After a thorough recruitment process, the Board unanimously selected Dr. Andrus as the next MVUSD Superintendent.”

In a statement, Andrus said, “My family and I are delighted to join the Murrieta Valley community. I am honored to be selected by the board of trustees to continue the strong foundation established by my predecessors. As I transition from one incredible community to the next, my immediate priority is meeting students, staff, parents and community members. I look forward to strengthening partnerships and serving Murrieta.”

Andrus earned his doctorate from the University of La Verne in Organizational Leadership, his Master of Arts degree from CSU Sacramento, and his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. Additionally, he successfully completed the National Superintendent’s Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology course, ‘Becoming a More Equitable Educator.’ In 2018, he was named the California Project Lead the Way Educational Leader of the Year for STEM leadership.

Andrus has served as a missionary in Peru and is fluent in Spanish.

In his free time, he enjoys serving his church and creating cherished memories with his talented wife Debbie and their four children and five grandchildren.

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Lake Elsinore City Council discusses boundaries

Redistricting draft maps are presented at the Lake Elsinore City Council meeting, Tuesday, March 8. Valley News/Courtesy photo

Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Lake Elsinore City Council meeting Tuesday, March 8, had three public hearings, with the most notable being to review maps submitted by the public and the city’s demographer regarding potential district boundaries.

Shannon Kelly from National Demographics Corporation started her presentation with a recap of the redistricting process, which is required every 10 years based on the newly collected U.S. census data.

Two public hearings are required to discuss and revise the draft maps and discuss the election sequence; the second hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, March 22. The final map must be posted at least seven days before adoption via ordinance, which is due by Sunday, April 17.

Federal laws governing redistricting are meant to ensure equal

population groups per district and to adhere to the Voting Rights Act, which seeks to ensure no discrimination on the basis of race, color or membership in a language minority group. The state’s criteria for cities was set to make certain that each district is geographically contiguous, that “communities of interest” are kept together, that the boundaries are easily identifiable and that one group of people is not bypassed to reach a more distant group of people via compacting.

While changes in boundaries are inevitable, care is given to respect voters’ choices, take into account future population growth and preserve the core of existing districts.

The most recent census showed Lake Elsinore’s total population at 70,516, with more than half at voting age. Divided into five districts, no one area should exceed 10% of the ideal population total of 14,103 each. Currently, District 3 is over

Lake Elsinore presents one of three draft maps developed by National Demographics Corporation. The tan map will be redrawn and presented at the next and final public hearing on new district boundaries, Tuesday, March 22. Valley News/Courtesy photo

by 3,803 residents, and District 4 is under by 2,443; the total deviation for the city is 44.29%.

NDC developed and presented three initial draft maps and four draft maps that were submitted from the public. Kelly said that the “Tan” map may have a lack of contiguity that needs to be explored

more closely. Council member Robert Magee motioned to direct staff and the consultant to bring a preferred version of the tan map to the next meeting. Mayor Timothy Sheridan seconded the motion, and it was passed 3-1. Council member Brian Tisdale voted in favor, Council member Steve Manos cast

a dissenting vote and Mayor Pro Tem Natasha Johnson was absent.

The next regular meeting of the Lake Elsinore City Council and successor agency is scheduled for Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m.

For more information, visit http:// www.lake-elsinore.org.

Wildomar City Council discusses possible American Rescue Plan funded projects Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Wildomar City Council welcomed the suggestions about how best to spend the remaining $7,281,268 of the $8,905,968 federal American Rescue Plan Act monies awarded the city at its Wednesday, March 9, meeting.

The regular city council meeting members heard Assistant City Manager Dan York explain the categories in which the federal money can be spent beginning with the allowable COVID-19 Public Health Emergency & Negative Economic Impact projects.

ARPA funds, totaling billions of dollars, were allocated to each city in America to overcome the costs and lack of income they faced due to the prolonged COVID-19 restrictions placed on the municipalities, the public, schools and businesses since 2020 when it was first seen as a worldwide pandemic. The money was to be spent by each municipality before 2025. Any ARPA money not spent has to be returned to the federal government. There are four categories where the money can be spent, according to York’s report,

with some of the initial categories modified, allowing more latitude in city recovery spending that can be decided by townships and cities.

The council with Mayor Ben Benoit, Mayor Pro Tem Joseph Morabito, council members Bridgette Moore and Marsha Swanson on the dais and council member Dustin Nigg in virtual attendance heard the expenditure suggestions that needed to be prioritized before a final decision and category where it will be spent is made. Only $4,452,984 of the initial award has been received by the city that needed to be allocated before the 2022 and 2023 fiscal year.

Already categorized are expenditures for the city’s Office of Emergency Services, including salaries, benefits, services, supplies and vehicles, and for SWAG for permanent housing and housing renovations. It would also include money for signals and signal upgrades at Bundy Canyon and Harvest roads, which were matched with grants; COVID-19 related supplies and services, including testing, legal service, pressure washing, patrols, personal protective equipment, temporary

help and other related items; front counter and cubicles at City Hall for COVID-19 related measures and extra cemetery supplies and services. The total expenditure in this category was listed at $927,200 for 2021-22 and for $347,500 in 2022-2023.

In Category 1 and 2 for COVID-19 Public Health Emergency & Negative Economic Impact was offered, but it was rejected as it would take all the ARPA funding and would have been awarded to a single contractor for the Palm Communities-Tres Lagos, phases 1 and 2, totaling over $8 million.

Category 3 would include the city’s Revenue Loss Recovery and a new City Hall in a proposed 27acre park. The plan would include everything from the City Hall, estimated to cost about $6 million, to bike paths, parking, landscaping, a SEDCO Park CFD, Clinton-Keith Intersection beautification concept, Bundy Canyon sidewalks and bike lanes and other amenities that would take matching grants. The total of this category was estimated at over $11 million.

Category 4 would focus on investments in water, sewer or broadband and include working

Hemet opens Adopt-A-Street Program to help beautify the city Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The city of Hemet is reaching out to its residents to participate in a new Adopt-A-Street program to help beautify and maintain its roadways and public properties.

The Adopt-A-Street program is similar to the state and federal highway Adopt-A-Highway program on freeways and state highways, but includes only city streets inside the Hemet city boundaries.

Those interested can contact adminstaff@hemet.gov or http:// www.hemetco.gov/adoptastreet.

The program is open to community organizations, churches and service clubs as well as individual residents. It is a three-year commitment with at least two cleanups per year.

All ages and students are welcome. The commitment will bring a street sign highlighting the group and community service credits.

Those interested can choose the

street or streets they wish to help clean up. The volunteer group or representative group will remove roadside litter, and if applicable, conduct other roadside improvement or clean up activities. Items that may be found in the rightof-way which may potentially cause injury, hazardous materials, include, but are not limited to, petroleum products, chemicals, paints,solvents, propane tanks, gas canisters, car batteries, vehicle parts, appliances, heavy objects, dead animals, broken glass, needles,drug paraphernalia and unidentified containers.

Persons younger than18 years of age must have a signed parental or guardian permission slip to participate in the program and agree to hold the city harless of any liability or damages coming from the clean up activities.

The city said, “We’re looking for community groups to partner with us to keep Hemet beautiful.

Visit our website to reach out to staff for more information on Hemet’s Adopt-A-Street Program.

We can’t wait to partner with you.”

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

with Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District-CIP Projects including the Grand Avenue and Tranquil Lane Subgrade Stabilization, Washington Avenue Lift Station, the LF Deep Sewer Main extension to support proposed Rhodes Development, the SEDCO Hills Septic System Sewer Conversion and Baxter Village and White Street Sewer. The council learned Wildomar joining with EVMWD-CIP would help them receive matching grants for the projects that again would take all of Wildomar’s ARPA monies.

This category was seen as good but not as acceptable by the council.

Broadband was seen as needed, but it would be expensive for Wildomar to pursue as a city.

General comments from the council seemed to favor the third category with SEDCO and the 27acre park and City Hall suggestion.

The city attorney said any plans for a City Hall complex to meet the ARPA requirements would have to be completed within six months.

The staff, following the general consensus on the ARPA spending, will return to the council their suggestions and final action on the favored projects. Some of the projects have been partially budgeted.

In other business, the council expressed their favor for the plans to bring a third cannabis facility into the city at the city’s Rite Aid Center at 22812 Palomar St., Suites 100-103. The retail business called The Bakery sells medicinal and recreational cannabis prod-

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ucts rather than baked goods. The Bakery concept, following a public hearing on the facility, was approved by a 5-0 council vote over a series of negative responses by speakers at the hearing.

A representative from The Bakery explained how it fell within the city zoning guidelines, provided proper security and would assure those entering the store would be of age and aware of the products being sold. A series of security cameras would observe the external portion of the building while security guards would be on patrol at the facility. Inside the building would house the retail portion of the story while secured metal doors and gates would restrict access allowing only employees in the offices.

The arguments against the store by the speakers was its location to the other cannabis stores within walking distance, traffic and parking problems and the character of the potential customers using the marijana based drugs. The representative said all those customers using the products would be carefully screened at the entrance of the store to be sure they are of age and of reputable character. The facility will have the proper state, county licensing.

It was pointed out that The Bakery cannabis stores are also in San Jacinto and other nearby communities and have been welcomed there.

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Hemet City Council recommends Community Development Block Grant allocations Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

The Hemet City Council in the next few weeks will be determining how to allocate its 2022 and 2023 Community Development Block Grant funds totaling $876,386 that will be awarded to nonprofit agencies, community housing projects and needed superstructure projects that will best benefit lower income residents.

Applications from the nonprofits and other agencies have been submitted, requesting funding from the city’s newest CDBG funds.

The staff recommended amounts to be awarded, and the council will make the final decision for those allocations.

About $2 million in CDBG funds were requested, and about half of those requests can be fulfilled as 15%, or $137,000, of the CDBG funding can go to nonprofits or service organizations.

The following amounts were requested, including city of Hemet Police Explorers, which requested

$20,000, but $14,00 was recommended; Valley Restart Shelter, which requested $85,000 for outreach and navigation, but $27,757.90 was recommended; My City Youth’s Community Food Program requested $75,000, but $28,000 was recommended. Voices for Children requested $10,000, and $10,000 was recommended; Care-A-Van Transit Inc. requested $25,000, but $14,000 was recommended. The Community Pantry requested $15,000, but $14,000 was recommended; Exceed Art In The Park requested $23,000, but $14,000 was recommended.

Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District requested $10,000 for youth scholarships, and $10,000 was recommended.

The remaining funding was recommended for the city’s sidewalk projects, library security services, rental property rehabilitation program, code enforcement, Americans with Disabilities Act ramp and lift program and ValleyWide’s Searl Park restroom and accessibility at Valley-Wide’s Bill

Gray Park. Those projects would be granted some of the remaining $570,950.50 CDBG funds.

The final allocations of the CDBG money will come in a future city council meeting.

The council adopted a resolution to request $229,752 in Per Capita Grant funds from the state Department of Parks and Recreation’s Proposition 68, the Parks and Water Bond Act of 2018. The money would be used for city park improvements and plans.

The council added another $863,146.38 to the budgeted $1,726,292,76 for a new pumper fire engine to purchase another engine to help replace the aging fire engines. The purchase of the engines is being made from KME Rev Group that obtains surplus fire apparatus from across the country for sale at lower prices.

One new pumper engine will be used to replace and put into reserve the current aging engine at Station 1 or be sold at auction.

That engine is expected to arrive in the next few weeks. The additional

funding would come from the Fire Department’s Measure U fund balance. The second engine would be placed in service after its arrival in early 2023.

Fifteen other items were approved from the council’s consent calendar that can be seen on the city web page under the Tuesday, March 8, regular council meeting packet and minutes.

The council also decided to keep the current five district border boundaries because it fits into the 2021 census report with only a 8.54% deviation in population from the 2011 census. In the required federal redistricting process, the city held four public hearings to determine what, if any changes, should be made to the older district boundaries.

There were three proposals for change, one made by a local citizen, that were reviewed under the 10% deviation requirement. Each district must have the same number of voters, must be contiguous with each other, must equalize any minority voting group and must

not involve any party affiliations.

The consultant who reviewed and presented the maps, BBK Law Group, said in the study that they could not determine if there were any sizable minority/majority areas shown in the city. The council approved the current district boundaries, although a person in a public comment time suggested some legal action could follow in the final map decision without a minority/majority review. The council said the next census could prove much different than the current one with the anticipated growth expected in the next 10 years.

The council proclaimed March as Youth Art Month and honored some art students with their drawings and paintings in the meeting.

March was also proclaimed as Red Cross Month and urged everyone to give blood to help alleviate the blood shortage in the nation.

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

Recently censured SJUSD Board Trustee arrested again Trevor Montgomery SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Details are beginning to emerge after a sitting member of the San Jacinto Unified School District Board of Trustees, who was recently censured by other board members for alleged “unacceptable conduct,” was arrested Saturday, March 5, on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges related to violating a domestic violence restraining order, witness intimidation, stalking and committing a crime while out on bail.

Last Saturday’s arrest marked the third time that 39-year-old, Jeremy Daniel Fontes, of San Jacinto, has been arrested this year, including his Jan. 15 arrest for allegedly making terrorist threats, and a Feb. 19 arrest for violating a domestic violence restraining order related to his January arrest. At the time of his most recent arrest, Fontes was out of jail on bail for his earlier two arrests.

According to sheriff ’s officials, additional charges have been filed for yet another alleged domestic violence restraining order violation, which they say

occurred March 4.

In the wake of, but unrelated to his second arrest, Fontes, who serves Trustee Area No. 3, was censured for “unacceptable conduct” by other Board Members during a special meeting held Sunday, Feb. 27. The censuring was related to allegations of “inappropriate, unprofessional, harassing and disrespectful conduct toward District staff and other Board Members,” including having specifically targeted Board President Deborah Rex. As previously reported, one of the more serious of the cited conduct violations included was that Fontes was reported to have engaged in a hostile and profanitylaced interaction with security officers at Soboba Casino Resort, where he mentioned his position on the San Jacinto school board.

Fontes posted the altercation to his public Facebook page Jan. 8.

He was also called out by the Board for an incident at SCR Dec. 30, 2021, where it was reported that he attempted “to use his Board position to influence staff at Soboba Casino to grant him a $25,000 line of credit for his

personal benefit.”

Contacted for further information regarding Fontes’ recent arrests, Riverside County Sheriff’s Sergeant Brandi Swan said that March 2, deputies assigned to the San Jacinto Sheriff’s Station received a report that Fontes had violated a domestic violation restraining order.

Riverside County Superior Court records indicate the restraining order was related to his January arrest that involved allegations of him making terrorist threats. Superior Court records also indicated that Fontes’ subsequent arrest Feb. 21 was for violating a domestic violence restraining order related to his arrest the previous month.

Responding to the area of W. Esplanade Avenue and N. State Street, deputies searched for Fontes, but he had already fled the area before their arrival, Swan explained.

Although deputies searched “numerous locations” for Fontes, he was not located that day.

However, he was subsequently arrested early Saturday morning, March 5, when he was located in the 3000 block of W. Ramsey

Street in Banning.

He was then booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on suspicion of committing a felony while out on bail, violation of a domestic violence restraining order, preventing or dissuading a witness from reporting and stalking.

Online jail records indicate Fontes remains in custody, where he is being held without bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for March 18th.

DISTRICTS, from page A-1 Pheasant Lane to Almansa Court, to New Haven Drive to the south and west of Interstate 215.

District 2 includes everything in the northernmost tip of the city that is east of Interstate 215 ending at Scott Road to the north and running along Menifee Road to Clinton Keith Road to Winchester Road and ending at Hunter Road.

The southern boundary of District 2 runs along Spur Drive to Via Espada and along Quintana Drive to Wrangler Drive and Ranger Drive, eventually turning south along Pond Park and ending at Murrieta Hot Springs Road.

District 3 encompasses everything west of Interstate 15 to the city’s western boundary.

District 4 includes the area east of Interstate 15 but west of Interstate 215 ending at Nutmeg Street and runs from Golden Pheasant Lane to Almansa Court, to New Haven Drive. District 4 also encompasses the area east of Interstate 215 along Los Alamos Road with an eastern boundary of Whitewood Road and ending at Murrieta Hot Springs Road to the south.

District 5 which runs from the city’s southern boundary, east of Interstate 15 and west of Winchester Road, borders District 2, and includes everything south of Murrieta Hot Springs as well as everything west of Pond Park to the north and ending at Hunter Road.

While the city strived to keep neighborhoods and communities of interest together, it was not feasible in all instances due to the equal population requirements, according to Murrieta Public Information Officer Dominique Samario.

“The recent redistricting process aimed to fairly distribute Murrieta’s population between the five districts, while taking into consideration communities of interest,” Samario said. “As such, the district boundaries were built off of the U.S. Census tracts, which in some circumstances divide neighborhood streets.”

For those affected by those divisions the city is working on individualized mailers which will be sent out to those affected by a change in district. It is also in the process of building an interactive map to help residents determine which district they live in.

Fontes currently serves as an Air Reserve Technician for the U.S. Air Force Reserve, where he has served since 2008. Before that, he was a USAF combat veteran, serving from 2001-2008. He is a 2001 graduate of San Jacinto High School and graduated from Mt. San Jacinto College in 2013.

He was elected to the SJUSD Board of Trustees in 2020 with his initial four-year term set to expire in 2024.

“In the coming months, an interactive map will be available on the city website where someone can enter an address and it will state the district in which that address is located,” Samario said. “Our staff is working on that.”

From congressional seats to water districts, California cities, school boards and state and federal offices were required to look at redistricting thanks to slower population growth shown in the 2020 U.S. census which was released in August 2021. Despite delays in information from the state of California, Murrieta, along with other local cities, raced to complete the process of reviewing the lines and boundaries for city council, redrawing those districts so that each district is roughly equal in population size.

Redistricting was not an issue before 2017 when Murrieta along with other local cities and school districts used an at-large election system which was once the norm across much of the state. But after receiving letters from Kevin Shenkman of Shenkman and Hughes earlier that year, citing the California Voting Rights Act and threatening lawsuits, Murrieta and the other local city councils, school boards and water districts using the at-large system made the move to district-based elections.

In redrawing voting districts, Murrieta considered population numbers of each proposed district, that each district would be geographically continuous, have undivided neighborhoods and keep “communities of interest” together, under California law.

Each district is required to have identifiable boundaries and a compact that does not bypass one group of people to get a more distant group of people in the district. The district lines needed to be drawn in a way that would not favor or discriminate against a political party.

The ordinance is on file in the office of the city clerk at 1 Town Square, Murrieta, CA 92562, and may be viewed on the city website at http://www.MurrietaCA.gov/ redistricting. To obtain a copy of the ordinance including exhibits, contact the city clerk’s office at 951-461-6031.

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

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Menifee mayor’s Industrial Idea Exchange focuses on medical career opportunities available in the area Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Area health care officials, educators, industrialists and Menifee city staff exchanged ideas on ways to encourage students, skilled and unskilled workers to come into the growing medical and related fields at the Menifee mayor’s Medical Industry Idea Exchange Thursday, March 10.

The exchange hosted by Menifee Mayor Bill Zimmerman brought more than 40 interested individuals to the monthly meeting at the Menifee City Hall. The attendees were district school superintendents, nurses, home care specialists, hospital administrators, Realtors, college and university administrators, teachers and others including keynote speaker David Lester, senior director of operations at the Temecula and Netherlands Abbott Labs.

“It’s good to bring you guys together,” Zimmerman said as he welcomed the guests.

He cited the need for collaboration between the city and the health care community was vital in the growing Inland Empire. He encouraged the idea exchange in

an informal setting.

City councilmember Lesa Sobek, in attendance, said the collaboration is needed as the community and world comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are looking forward to your thoughts,” Armando Villa, Menifee city manager, said.

This year the mayor’s monthly Industrial Idea Exchange is to encourage industry, business and medical organizations to come to the city with good jobs and services for the residents with a promise of better cooperation and collaboration with those entities.

It is a time for those most interested in growing their businesses and organizations to network and exchange ideas.

Introducing a slide presentation, Menifee Economic Director Gina Gonzalez explained how Menifee is considered the third fastest growing city in the state with a population almost at 111,000 or a 57% growth increase. She explained that the city has not only a large Mt. San Jacinto City College campus but 40 university partners and numerous schools.

“Menifee is a clean, safe and vibrant community,” Gonzales said.

She said the city has 7,800 projects now up for construction and recently began building the MidCounty Courthouse for family and juvenile cases. A new modern Menifee Library operated by Riverside County Library System is now open in the city.

She told the audience, “It’s pathway industries we are going after.”

Lester took the microphone thanking the audience for having the opportunity to speak explaining how his children made their way into employment, but into other fields other than his, but were successful in what they liked to do.

“I am a firm believer that education opens doors,” Lester said.

“I believe that if you don’t know what to do – something in science, knowledge, engineering and math is probably the one that opens more doors.”

But, he said there are other directions a person can go and still be successful. He said his own profession, that always does not take a long-term education, like project management is huge for his business as well as distribution.

“I also see distribution is huge for us,” he said.

He said his company learned how important distribution across the world was as a result of COVID-19 and now relations with Russia.

He encouraged those in the audience. “What we do in high school is vibrant to education… Get back to the high school electric shop, metal shop. Not one size fits all.” he said. “Let’s not have those fall behind.”

In support of his thoughts, he said that most of Abbott’s workers do not have a high school education and work on making the products while only about 30% are professionals. He also said more private schools should teach specialized or different career paths.

In discussions following Lester’s talk, those attending had an opportunity to express their thoughts about how to better educate those coming into the community and its medical businesses.

Generally those attending agreed with Lester in his view on opening up more than just the professional medical careers and agreed that jobs associated with the professions such as individual physical and mental health care are as important.

Suggested was the need for more internships, getting more young people exposed to the professions to see if they like it, find more community partners to work together for find more pathways into careers, field trips and events for elementary school students, learning how to interview for jobs, more informational videos, career fairs, revival of vocational programs and schools similar regional occupational programs that once allowed people to work and earn in an actual setting.

Several Santa Rosa Academy administrators, local school district superintendents and Mt. San Jacinto College staffers said they have similar work experiences programs already in place where their students are provided many pathways to a successful future career saying they recognized the need for students to learn what career or jobs they would like and be highly successful with.

Home care was also seen as a critical need in today’s society.

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

The Bank – A cornerstone in Temecula for over 100 years Rebecca Marshall Farnbach SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

When the railroad came to the Temecula Valley in 1882, it prompted many changes. In fact, it made the center of commerce, and literally the entire town, move 2.5 miles from its previous location around the Wolf Store to establish what was called “New Town,” which is now known as “Old Town.”

Frederick Thomas Perris was the chief engineer for the construction of the California Southern Railroad through the area. He not only surveyed the train route, but he also surveyed lots and street lines for the new town site. These lots and streets are still closely maintained to his original measurements.

Few buildings graced the landscape for the first few years of the new settlement. Early structures east of Murrieta Creek from the train depot included the Machado Store – now 1909 Temecula restaurant, the Welty Hotel – now known

as Hotel Temecula and the Escallier Hotel and billiard parlor at the location of Be Good Restaurant today. A little later Phillip Pohlman won a lottery for his lot across from the Welty Hotel and built the Mercantile Store with bricks discarded from a brick factory in Wolf Valley.

When coming to town on the train, a man would need to rent a horse and maybe a buggy or wagon to proceed to his destination, much as travelers rent cars at airports these days. For that purpose, Hugh McConville’s livery at the northwest corner of Main and Front streets had a thriving business.

That is, until automobiles became readily available and livery businesses became a thing of the past.

The livery closed in 1912.

During the heyday of the livery stable, corrals for rented and boarded horses extended north along Front Street. Photographs of the time show a large water tower atop wooden supports north of the building, alongside the street. The pot-bellied stove inside the livery

Menifee approves 14 new sworn officer positions to bolster police department MENIFEE – The city of Menifee made a strong commitment to enhancing public safety within city limits by adding 15 new positions for the Menifee Police Department. The new positions include eight police officers, four detectives, as well as a sergeant and lieutenant. A property room technician position was also added.

Launched July 1, 2020, the Menifee Police Department has grown to over 100 officers and personnel. The department continues to expand as part of their three-year growth plan, which includes multiple divisions such as investigations, traffic, K9 and crime scene investigation.

“The addition of these new officer positions will allow Menifee Police Department to reinforce our patrol, traffic, and investigation divisions, which ultimately allows us to provide faster response times,” Menifee police Chief Pat Walsh said. “We remain committed to keeping our city safe and proactively solving issues in the community through creative and

strategic policing methods.”

Based on the increased sales tax revenue projections yielding an approximate $4.4 million in additional revenue to the city this fiscal year, the Menifee Police Department was able to accelerate their five-year police staffing plan to enhance public safety services and provide more dedicated patrol hours.

“Strengthening public safety and keeping our neighborhoods safe remains a key priority for our city council,” Mayor Bill Zimmerman said. “We will continue to ensure that Menifee Police Department has the personnel and resources needed to achieve that goal.”

The recruitment for new positions opened yesterday and will be open to both lateral police officers and academy graduates. More information can be found on the city’s website or at https://www. governmentjobs.com/careers/ cityofmenifee.

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building was a place where men of the community would gather on a cool late afternoon and swap stories.

Upstairs meeting rooms provided facilities where parties and dances gave diversions to families in the fledgling little town. In a Fallbrook Free Press account by Helene Seay in the 1960s, she said, “The dance floor was kept smooth and polished by spreading wax on the floor, then dragging bales of hay across it until it shone like glass.” Vail Ranch foreman Louie Roripaugh said there were dances in the upstairs hall every Saturday night.

Frank Hall helped run the livery stable and witnessed the first phone lines installed in Temecula. In a back corner of the livery, he used a tiny switchboard to connect the few calls coming in and going out of Temecula.

After the livery business closed, the rough wood building occupied the corner where the main road in and out of town intersected with the road from the train station and someone had an idea. With the growing successes of both the Vail Ranch and the granite industry south of town, it became increasingly difficult for the two businesses to obtain cash for payroll, often traveling to Riverside or other cities to a financial institution.

The idea occurred to Mahlon Vail that Temecula should have its own bank. He was joined by Albert Nienke in promoting the institution and in 1914, it became a reality. Construction was done by the Remington Company of Los Angeles of the fortress-like two-story concrete building. Solid, 18-inch-thick walls of cement were poured by laborers pushing wheelbarrows up ramps and along scaffolding. The building was reinforced with steel rods anchored into steel plates.

Photographs taken during the construction show the Escallier & Winkels General Merchandise Store to the west of the building on Main Street with signage advertising hay and grain. Hitching posts in front and an early gasoline station across the street demonstrate the era of change from horse to mechanized transportation.

Photographs taken after the bank was finished show the Escallier & Winkels store were no longer in that location. There were empty lots to the west and north. Later the Halls moved the telephone switchboard into the café and bus depot they built next door to the north.

The framework of those buildings is still standing, supporting the adjacent store.

When the First National Bank of Temecula opened in June 1914, local merchant Eli Barnett was president. Hugo Guenther, the proprietor of the Guenther Murrieta Hot Springs Resort, was vice president. These served as bank managers: C.P. Shumate, Greenfield, Jack Chisholm, John Booge and Bob Sartain. The following served on the board of five directors at times: John McSweeney, Hugo Guenther,

The Bank is seen circa 1917. Valley News/Courtesy photo

Mahlon Vail, Alexander Borel, Joe Nicholas, Rudolph Brown, Albert Nienke and Frank Burnham.

There are a lot of stories that can be told about both the livery stable and of the bank, including ones about the explosion at the livery stable and the one and only bank robbery, but those stories can be told at a later time.

A less well-known story was when “Hooley” Freeman, a funloving prankster whose father was foreman at the Vail Ranch and whose sister Agnes was the teller during the robbery mentioned above, made a bet that he could ride his horse into the bank. Instead of making a withdrawal, his horse left a deposit on the bank floor before it bucked and reared and gave everyone a scare. Hooley ended up in jail and when he was presented with a bill for the horse’s feed while they were in custody; he sued the bank for it and won the case.

Mahlon Vail controlled the majority of the bank stock and referred to the bank as his “hock shop.” Loans were at times made on collateral, like a pawn shop. In the early days, loans were limited to $2,500 regardless of the status of the applicant or his collateral. During the years the building served as a bank, there were meeting rooms upstairs, and for a while in the early 1930s, Paul Strelner operated the Hotel Paul in three upstairs apartments.

Erle Stanley Gardner wrote in a 1967 issue of the High Country magazine that the bank went through the depression without foreclosing on any ranch in the community. But in 1941, a new manager extended several sizable loans to a friend who was “just on the verge of making huge dividends.” The man’s business failed and that ended the legacy of the banking institution in the heart of Old Town. The First National Bank of Elsinore took over its assets.

In 1965, the year after the Vail Ranch sold the 87,500 acres of land encapsulating the island of land of Old Town, a Security Pacific Bank opened across Main Street from The Bank, in a building adjoining today’s Be Good Restaurant. As time passed and the population grew exponentially, one bank after another was established in Temecula, until now, when we have more banks and credit unions than can be easily counted and there are three Bank of America branches alone.

In 1949, Herbert Leatham bought the bank building and reopened the upstairs hotel. After Herbert died, his nephew Joe Leatham and his family used the downstairs as a residence. In the 1950s, real estate agent Frank C. Cotter had an office in the building.

In 1965, Bob and Jean Reininger bought it and opened it as an antique shop “Sign of the Pitcher” advertising “Antiques and Rare Books.”

Finally in 1978, Dave Covarrubias and his family brought it to its current status as The Bank of Mexican Food. When he sold the business in 2007, Craig and Christy Puma bought the restaurant. They opened a patio area for outdoor drinks and dining. Tourists, vintage car enthusiasts began to frequent their business where the dining room is decorated with memorabilia celebrating the building’s past.

At 5 p.m., June 10, 2014, the Pumas celebrated the 100th anniversary of the opening of the bank with the Old Town Temecula Gunfighters reenacting the robbery of 1930. Although the Pumas have moved on to other enterprises, the building still houses a restaurant and bar, now called The Bank of Plates and Pours where a diner can still find good Mexican food.

There have been many changes in Old Town through the years.

In 1935, the railroad tracks were removed, and the depot was torn down. Old Town Temecula remains intact, and the solid bank building is standing strong as a cornerstone in the community for over one hundred years after it first opened. The Temecula Valley Historical Society salutes all those who have kept the legacy of the bank alive through over a century of service.

Rebecca Marshall Farnbach is a member of the Temecula Valley Historical Society and is an author and coauthor of several history books about the Temecula area. The books are available for purchase at the Little Temecula History Center or online from booksellers and at http://www. temeculahistoricalsociety.org.

Visit Farnbach’s Amazon author page at http://www.amazon.com//e/B01JQZVO5E. The Little Temecula History Center Museum, the red barn at the corner of Redhawk Parkway and Temecula Parkway in Temecula is open on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.

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Menifee Planning Commissioner Diederich announces candidacy for the District 2 Council seat Tony Ault STAFF WRITER

Menifee business owner and attorney Ben Diederich, currently on the Menifee Planning Commission, announced his candidacy for the District 2 seat now occupied

by Councilman Matt Liesemeyer.

Liesemeyer, who has served the community for the past eight years, will have his term expire Dec. 31.

Diederich, who has served the city on the planning commission, has received endorsements from incumbent Liesemeyer and Mayor Bill Zimmerman for his run for SCHOOL from page A-1 lowed to express their views that reflect the communities they live in and support those who hold those views.

Thompson called school board candidates Jen Wiersma, Caitlin Jones, Dr. Joseph Komrosky and Danny Gonzales for Temecula Valley Unified School District board; Michelle Smith and Dr. Todd Donohoe for the Lake Elsinore Unified School District board and Courtney Cooper and Nick Pardue from the Murrieta Valley Unified School District board to tell the

the office.

In announcing his candidacy he said, “Growing up in the area and attending MSJC in the ’90s, I’m excited to announce my campaign for the open District 2 city council seat. Helping small businesses succeed as a member of the city’s planning commission has been a great honor and I hope to do more on the city council to bring in new businesses, improve public safety and expand local recreation opportunities and parks. I look forward to walking District 2 neighborhoods and hearing directly from voters how we can make Menifee

an even better place to live, work and play.”

In endorsing Diederich for his seat on the council, Liesemeyer said, “It’s been a great experience being able to represent the residents of the City of Menifee. Our little town has quickly grown into one of the best cities in our region and I could not be prouder. As I step back from this role, there is nobody better to step in and continue with this success than Ben Diederich. Ben’s a family man and a local business owner. His history serving on our Planning Commission and Chamber of Commerce

gives him the advantage to hit the ground running and continue the legacy of success for our city.”

Zimmerman lauded his support for local businesses and said, “He is well-suited for City Council service. He would be a welcome addition.”

Diederich’s business was awarded the “Small Business of the Year” by the Menifee Chamber of Commerce in 2020. He and his wife live in District 2, where their 11-year-old daughter attends Táawila Elementary School.

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

audience why they were seeking the school board offices.

Each of the candidates introduced themselves as either conservative or constitutional conservative and Christian in their views.

TVUSD Board candidate for Area 3 Jen Wiersma, a community event specialist who first homeschooled her children and then sent them to public schools, said she was opposed to the schools teaching Critical Race Theory and ordered them to wear masks.

She said she believed it was time for parents to rise up against the

current school board and state mandates of wearing masks and have the opportunity of “choice” for their children.

TVUSD Board candidate Caitlin Jones, an independent marketing researcher seeking the Area 1 trustee seat, said she was once a school district employee and mother of a disenrolled son from his school for non-compliance for not wearing a mask and not being vaccinated.

She saw evil and distrust in the district and found herself in a spiritual battle with the board on the issues. “Keep education, not indoctrination,” Jones said.

TVUSD Board candidate Joseph Komrosky Ph.D., a professor of logic and critical thinking and a former and disabled Army Ranger seeking the Area 4 seat, said as a teacher at Cal State San Marcos he did not like the mask mandates and goes “toe-to-toe to medical research on COVID protections dictated by the board and state.”

He said the board should not tell children how they should dress or believe. “We need to stand up and fight for our kids.”

Danny Gonzales, vying for the TVUSD Area 2 seat, is a construction company CEO and father of two children. He said he saw the overreaction to the COVID-19 mandates and the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the schools.

He believed people should go back and maintain a spiritual relationship with their children and families and those parents who

believe in that should “stand up for them,” not what is being taught in the schools.

Lake Elsinore firefighter and paramedic Michelle Smith, seeking the LEUSD Area 5 seat, saw the board requiring the wearing of masks in schools as unconstitutional and never allowed her children to wear masks. “I am an advocate for children,” Smith said.

“I will fight for our children.” She saw the current school board as “weak.” She said she was a leader in the fight to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Dr. Todd Donohoe, candidate for the LEUSD Area 1 open seat, said he has seen thousands of patients in prenatal care and others and the effect the board mandates had made on the children. He said parents should have the right to determine what medical procedures should be allowed for their children. He saw today as being the time of dragons. It is time “for you guys to raise dragon slayers in this time of dragons.”

Thompson, turning his attention to the upcoming Murrieta Valley Unified School District trustee race, brought Nick Pardue and Courtney Cooper to the stage who were running for the districts Area 1 and Area 2 seats, respectively.

Pardue, the father of three children and a history and economics school teacher, saw the schools’ academic standards fall as a result of the Critical Race Theory teaching and children having to

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Cooper, looking to join the MVUSD board for Area 2, said as a registered nurse she saw a loss in community core values in the school district, especially in their gender teachings. She recalled how perplexed her daughter was when she wandered into what she called a LGBTQ or “gay” class. “No one but me keeps my children,” Cooper said, seeing the board’s stand on the issue. “I will uphold the community’s core values.”

Thompson, at the conclusion of the meeting, told the audience they could help elect the conservative school board candidates not with their monetary contributions, but by knocking on doors, making phone calls and signs and handing out flyers. He brought a political spokesman to the stage to explain how residents can help and learn more about the school board race and its conservative candidates by viewing Our Watch with Tim Thompson’s Family PAC Draft online at www.ourwatchnow.com.

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Lake Elsinore museum showcases local women and much more Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

At Lake Elsinore Historical Society’s 25th annual meeting at the city’s museum Tuesday, March 1, historian and author Jeanie B. Corral gave a presentation that tied into Women’s History Month.

“Ingenues of Elsinore: Significant Women in Lake Elsinore History.”

The presentation focused on the lives and contributions of Margaret Collier Graham, Altha Couch Merrifield and Jean Hayman.

“I’ve spent lots of time learning about this town and its environs and it’s been home for more than half a century, so like Altha and Jean, I can say I’m an Elsinorian,” she said.

Corral moved to the city in 1964 and has been involved with the historical society since it was started

by Donna Moran in 1995. Corral also does community outreach to encourage visitors to the museum that she said is a “veritable showcase of items that are unique to Lake Elsinore and the citizens.”

The society’s President Emeritus

Ruth Atkins said, “Lake Elsinore is a pretty town and there are lots of artifacts to enjoy (at the museum).

Many local residents have no idea Lake Elsinore has 134 years of history since it was first incorporated in 1888 as Elsinore. The U.S. Post Office and the residents voted to change the city’s name to Lake Elsinore in 1972.”

Atkins said the Society decided the museum would stress displays relating specifically to Lake Elsinore and current president Kimberly G. McElroy said it is “bursting at the seams!”

“We have numerous permanent exhibits that were created by several of our original members and some of our current members, especially Ruth Atkins and Barbara Middlebrook,” McElroy said. “Currently, Lynda Fujino has been assisting us with creating temporary exhibits that we are attempting to create quarterly.

She is also working on cataloging our artifacts and researching their provenance.”

Corral’s in-depth presentation on the three Elsinore women,

Author Margaret Collier Graham, who wrote “We Three Came West,” is a founder of both Lake Elsinore and Wildomar.

The Lake Elsinore Historical Society Museum exhibits pieces from Elsinore Ceramics which produced a variety of clay products during the mid-century modern era.

A photo inside the Lake Elsinore Historical Society Museum shows The Pier at Lake Elsinore which was a two story pier for people to enjoy.

The Lake Elsinore Historical Society Museum features an exhibit for the Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball team.

The Lake Elsinore Historical Society Museum features an exhibit for the city’s major grand prix dirt bike event. See Story on page B-1. Valley News/Shane Gibson photos.

who are featured at the museum, explained their connection to the city. Margaret Collier Graham was the wife of Donald Graham and sister of William Collier, the two male partners of Franklin Heald who bought the valley in 1883.

She suggested the name Elsinore because she believed it looked like the valley in Denmark that was described in Hamlet.

“When Collier and Graham took the southern section (of the valley), they originally called it Wildon (after their first names). When Margaret asked, ‘what about me?’ it became WilDoMar, to appease her,” Corral said.

Graham was a prolific, accomplished writer and published author. She was a teacher and a mother and a caregiving wife to Don, when he was dying of tuberculosis. They lived in the valley about 10 years, until the 1890s when they moved and started the city of South Pasadena. Don was its first mayor and Margaret its first newspaper editor. The book, “We Three Came West” is a written account of their letters and life in Southern California.

“Altha Merrifield Couch was Elsinore’s first librarian and its premier local historian prior to Tom Hudson’s arrival in the 1940s,” Corral explained. “She loved the place and the people. It was her heart and home. She cleaned the streets around and including Main daily with a broom and dustpan.”

Corral said she enjoyed talking and listening to and learning from Altha, who she described as “a treasure.”

“When I first worked at the newspaper, she would come in with her broom and chat,” she said.

Altha was born in the Horsethief Canyon homestead in 1892, a year before Riverside County was created. She graduated high school in 1909, one of two graduates. She wrote long daily journals of what happened in Elsinore as soon as she learned to read and write.

The city’s downtown library was named for her and her legacy is that she is part of the Merrifield/ Wall families that have had eight continuous generations living in Lake Elsinore. Those families ran the cemetery for more than half a century.

“Jean Scherner Hayman was a third generation Elsinore lady,” Corral said, noting that Bell Street was named for Jean’s grandfather.

Born in 1922, she attended local schools where she was a lifetime member of CSF, editor of the El Lago yearbook and a gifted pianist.

After earning her degree in education from USC, she returned to Elsinore to teach in local schools which she did until her retirement in 1982. Ten years later, a Wildomar elementary school was named in her honor. She died in 2004.

“She also wrote a delightful picture book that she illustrated about Elsinore that for many years served as a local history resource for teaching about the town in local schools,” Corral said. “I was blessed to know and work with

The Lake Elsinore Historical Society Museum is currently featuring an exhibit for Women’s History Month which features articles of clothing women and accessories wore from past decades.

Historian and author Jeanie Corral gives a presentation on significant women in Lake Elsinore History during the Lake Elsinore Historical Society’s 25th annual meeting at the city’s museum Tuesday, March 1.

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Jean Hayman, who taught all five of my children. We played piano and organ together for church services and celebrations and served in the Elsinore Woman’s Club for many years.”

More information on these women, and many more wellknown residents of Lake Elsinore, can be found at the museum which is open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays from 1-4 p.m.

McElroy said the museum currently has about a dozen docents but they are always seeking new volunteers. Docents must be members of the museum and receive training before beginning to work there. The annual cost of membership is $25 for individuals and $35 for families. Applications are available at the museum.

The Society meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the Lake Elsinore Historical Society

Museum and Research Library, 183 N. Main St., in the basement of the Cultural Building. The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 5, at 1 p.m. The one-hour meetings include speakers who present on topics of local interest.

McElroy, who has been a member of the Historical Society since 2011, introduced the current slate of officers at the 25th annual meeting. They are Barbara Middlebrook, first vice president; Bobbi Sutton, second vice president; Lynda Fujino, third vice president; Joyce Hohenadlt, secretary, and Hermann Dreier, treasurer.

“What I have enjoyed most is the opportunity to learn our history from others who love the subject and love to share what they know,” McElroy said.

For more information, call 951678-1537 or visit http://www. lakeelsinorehistoricalsociety.org.

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The Winery Review – Wiens Family Cellars The Mystery Wino SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Since I started writing this column last summer, I’ve been happily surprised at the quality of Temecula’s wineries and wines.

When I moved to the area in 2003, I wasn’t impressed by either one.

Wines were often mediocre or even flawed, and many wineries seemed to be running on fumes.

Over the last 15 years or so, the situation has improved dramatically. Winemakers are making better wine from better fruit than ever before, and Temecula’s wineries are dynamic and enjoyable.

Wiens Family Cellars is a good example of this renaissance. Located at a prime location on Rancho California just east of Anza Road, Wiens is one of the more popular establishments in the valley. With its red barn structures, family-friendly atmosphere and the kitschy promise of “BIG REDS” on its marquee, I always thought it was for partiers and tourists, not for people who enjoy premium wines. When actress Renée Zellweger visited Wiens on a trip to wine country in February, your Mystery Wino began to wonder if he had been too hasty in his judgment.

Spoiler alert: He had.

The Background Wiens Family Cellars takes its middle name seriously. Four of the Wiens brothers and their spouses founded the winery in 2001, transferring their existing operations from Lodi to Temecula. One brother designed the structures; one built them; one took care of the vineyards and so on. In 2006,

they opened the tasting room.

Today, there are 46 extended family members, many of whom are heavily involved in the business.

From day one, Doug Wiens made the wines. His son Joseph has since taken over as winemaker, though Doug still oversees winemaking operations.

Wiens is different from most other large wineries in the area in that they harvest the vast majority of their grapes offsite. While I wish Temecula wineries would make wine only from Temecula grapes, I understand the need of larger wineries to buy fruit elsewhere.

A map in the main tasting room shows some of the 100-plus acres they own or farm in California.

As a result, wine production has expanded well beyond the limitations of a nine-acre property. Since 2010, Wiens has gone from 10,000 annual cases to more than 30,000 today.

The Visit I pulled into the parking lot on a Friday afternoon along with other locals getting a head start on their weekend. I walked past a food truck serving pizza and entered the elegant, high-ceilinged tasting room with its barn-chic interior and polished cement floors.

A small gift shop offered picnic supplies and other items. My $25 tasting card entitled me to six oneounce pours and a souvenir glass.

Since it was a beautiful day, I followed my greeter outside and sat at one of the black metal tables on the main plaza. Between the small crowd inside and the large one outside, I estimated around 75 people were enjoying their wine with me.

Two hours later that number had doubled, an indication of how busy

WIENS FAMILY CELLARS 35055 Via del Ponte, Temecula, CA 92592 Tel 951-694-9892 Email: info@wienscellars.com http://www.wienscellars.com Owner: George, Dave, Jeff and Doug Wiens Winemaker: Joseph Wiens Founded: 2001 Acres planted: 8 acres on site. 100 + acres off site (owned or farmed) Typical wines offered: barbera, cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, grenache, malbec, merlot, mourvèdre, petit sirah, pinot grigio, pinot noir, primitivo, sangiovese, syrah, vermentino, white and red blends, rosés, sparkling, sweet.

Cases per year: 30,000 + Price range: $$ (of $$$) HOURS Open daily 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Closed on major holidays.

Wheelchair accessible TASTINGS & TOURS $25 per six pours, including souvenir class.

Reserve tasting by appointment.

Groups of seven must make reservations after noon.

Limos and shuttles by appointment only.

FOOD Deli case with cheese, meat and crackers and other picnic supplies.

Food trucks Friday through Sunday.

ENTERTAINMENT & PICNICS Family friendly. Large picnic area. Dogs on leashes permitted. Limited private gatherings, wine pairings, and tastings. Cellar room. Wine club. Check website for details.

Saturdays and Sundays are.

Wiens’ is one of the most family-friendly wineries in town. By the time I left, at least 10 children were frolicking on the oversized lawn, which serves as an amphitheater for concerts, weddings and other events. A comparable number of dogs sat quietly beside their owners. Based on conversations I overheard, most patrons were wine club members. On weekends, there is a separate patio for them. If you want to taste reserve wines with food pairings in the private cellar room, appointments are available Thursday through Sunday.

The Wines With the possible exception of South Coast Winery, I doubt there is another place in town that offers as broad a wine selection as Wiens.

You want whites and rosés? Wiens has 10 options on its menu, mostly Italian varietals and some French.

In the mood for red? You’ll find 13 wines, mostly French varietals and some Italian. There are also at least two sparkling wines and four sweet wines. In all, Wiens makes more than 60 different wines from approximately 29 varietals. If you can’t find at least one wine you like, you don’t like wine.

My server Scott was a latecomer to the wine industry, having worked in the corporate world for three decades before retiring. I appreciated his relaxed and friendly approach. He graciously ditched the six-tasting limit, allowing me to try two whites, a rosé and six reds, including two from the menu’s “Winemaker Select” section.

The first white I tasted was the 2020 Albariño, which has a mossy, wet-stone aroma and plenty of lemon and unripe melon on the palate. I also tried the 2021 Rosé of Primitivo. This wine has a gorgeous pink color with a sweet zinfandel nose. Watermelon and apricot lingers on the palate. My favorite among the whites was the 2019 Vermentino. Made from Temecula Valley fruit, the taste is brightly acidic on the attack with notes of lemon, key lime pie, and rose water. I took a bottle home with me; it paired perfectly with my Indian food later that night.

I found several keepers among the reds as well. The 2017 Reunion is made from syrah and cabernet sauvignon, an increasingly popular blend in Temecula. Although fairly high in alcohol, it is deliciously balanced, with ripe dark fruit on the palate and a lush mouth feel.

I also tasted the 2018 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, which was excellent, though I thought it needed more time. At $165, you will need to save up to purchase a bottle anyway. The 2019 Reserve Malbec was fantastic as well.

My favorite wine of the day was the 2019 Chateau Grand Rouge, a reserve blend made from equal parts cabernet sauvignon and

Wiens Family Cellars is located centrally in Temecula’s wine country at 35055 Via Del Ponte. Valley News/Shane Gibson photos

Wiens Family Cellars Barrel Room for private tastings.

Wiens Family Cellars fireplace keeps it toasty in the main tasting room.

cabernet franc from La Cresta and Temecula. It was one of the best local wines I’ve had in 2022. The aroma is a dizzying blast of vanilla and baking spices, with enough earth and dead leaf thrown in to make it interesting. The taste is all dark fruit, plum, and cherry. It is a highly drinkable, super-smooth example of what makes Temecula wine special.

Go to Wiens Family Cellars if you like… reds, whites, rosés, sparkling and sweet wines, huge selection, reserve wines, friendly servers, sit-down and counter tastings, food pairings, picnic supplies, gift shop, people watching, music, food truck, laid-back

atmosphere, dog-friendly and family friendly.

Avoid Wiens Family Cellars if you like… Spanish varietals, estate wines, restaurant, views, small bites, beer, television, small crowds, boutique atmosphere and bargains.

Wine Wit – “I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.” – Robert Mondavi Next up: Wine Ranch Grill & Cellars in Murrieta.

The Mystery Wino is a writer, wine geek, vineyard owner and winemaker based in Temecula.

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DigiFest announces speaker Hemet Concert Association opens its 48th and performer lineup season with Syrinx Reed Quintet TEMECULA – JDS Creative Academy’s sixth annual three-day digital-media festival, DigiFest Temecula 2022, taking place April 22-24, announced the DigiFest event speakers and performer lineup.

JDS Creative Academy will welcome casting director and Super Connector Media national media/publicity coach, Jenny Brown, and television actress, influential spokesperson, digital marketer and host of the ABC show In the Spotlight, Kari Michaelsen, as the opening night keynote speakers Friday, April 22. Torin Floyd, performer and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce LGBTQ community activist, will present and provide musical entertainment for the evening.

Emmy-winning cinematographer Mario Ortiz and multiple award-winning director Nasreen Alkhateeb will speak Saturday, April 23. Saturday also boasts an animation and comics panel featuring Cathy Nolan, Andrew Farago, Shaenon K. Garrity and James Crawley.

DigiFest brings in Emmy-winning voiceover actress and the voice of the 81st Academy Awards broadcast Gina Tuttle as the keynote guest Sunday, April 24, at the DigiFest Awards Banquet.

Diane Strand, DigiFest founder and executive producer, said she was excited, saying, “I am super thrilled with this year’s lineup of star-studded names walking the blue carpet at DigiFest 2022. This year is going to be an amazing, don’t-miss event.”

Exhibits of submissions will be held throughout the venue and screened at Temecula 10 AMC Theaters. Competition submissions are open through March 25;

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categories include short film and video, animation, game design, music, photography, digital art and illustration, podcast and website design. The festival and competition is open to all digital-content creators and the community.

DigiFest Temecula is an innovative, international digital-media festival created to promote networking, appreciation, knowledge and recognition opportunities for students, amateurs and professionals. JDS Creative Academy said that the arts should be accessible to all, therefore DigiFest Temecula is a reflection of that, with nominal admission and competition fees, allowing all interested in the digital arts to participate.

JDS Creative Academy thanked all of its supporters and sponsors and Abbott for being DigiFest’s title sponsor for the sixth year running. DigiFest Temecula partnered with Riverside County’s Innovation Month Campaign with their ongoing six-year sponsorship commitment to DigiFest Temecula and was showcased among the region’s many leading-edge events.

The experiences of 2020 and 2021 have pushed the organization to expand its definition of innovative digital media. Like many businesses and events, DigiFest Temecula had to quickly pivot to the virtual world due to the global pandemic. This year, DigiFest Temecula is excited to be back in-person, while still offering the virtual experience to their world wide audience and festival competition submitters.

For more information about DigiFest Temecula, visit https:// digifesttemecula.org/ or call 951296-6715.

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HEMET – The Hemet Concert Association, a presenter of worldclass music concerts for almost five decades, continues its 20212022 season with a performance by the Syrinx Reed Quintet, at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 27.

The concert will be held in Hemet Unified School District’s Performing Arts Center on the campus of Tahquitz High School, 4425 Titan Trail, in Hemet.

For adults, individual concert tickets are available at $30 each.

All youth, 22 years of age or younger, may attend any concert for free.

The HCA will still observe Hemet Unified School District’s continuing COVID-19 safety measures which require all audience members having to wear face masks while indoors.

Syrinx Reed Quintet was founded in 2018. It boasts a versatile and colorful combination of avid teaching artists with backgrounds from across the USA. The quintet presents a wide variety of styles and offers a bold and innovative repertoire from the Renaissance to today.

The final concert of the season

The Hemet Concert Association continues its 2021-2022 season with a performance by the Syrinx Reed Quintet, at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 27. Valley News/Courtesy photo

will feature Trio Celeste with Rising Stars Sunday, April 24. At that concert, 2022-2023 concert season subscriptions will be available for $70. It’s the equivalent of $14 per concert per person. Concerts in 2022-2023 will include Fandango, Oct. 23, with flute, guitar, violin and cello; The Rice Brothers, Jan. 29, 2023, with piano and cello playing Brahms to boogie woogie; Svetlana Smolina, Feb. 26, 2023, with piano, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and more; Alias Brass, March 26,

2023, with trumpets, trombone, horn and tuba quintet, and Jarabe Mexicano, April 23, 2023, singing, string, percussion and folk music.

For information about the Hemet Concert Association, visit http://www.hemetconcerts.org, email hemetconcerts@gmail. com, or call 951-927-2449. For information about the Syrinx Reed Quintet, visit http://www.syrinxquintet.com.

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Celebrate Menifee’s diversity at the city’s Multicultural Festival MENIFEE – Menifee is kicking off a year of fun-filled events with its annual Multicultural Festival, which will take place at Menifee’s Central Park, 30268 Civic Plaza Drive, Saturday, March 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The Multicultural Festival celebrates Menifee’s diverse cultures and invites its attendees to experience different traditions, meals, entertainment and art and crafts from around the world. The event includes live entertainment, craft and food vendors and fun

activities for the whole family.

Each booth at the Multicultural Festival will represent a different culture that will provide learning and educational experiences for all that attend. Each food vendor will also be showcasing different cuisines to bring an immersive, around-the-world experience right here in Menifee.

“The Multicultural Festival provides the perfect opportunity to celebrate the rich diversity that makes Menifee a unique and thriving community,” Community Services Director Jonathan Nicks

said. “The city’s Community Services Department is committed to providing our residents with quality, family-friendly events and programs, and we encourage you to join us for all of the great festivities we have planned for this year.”

For more information about the Multicultural Festival, or any future special events, contact the Menifee Community Services Department at http://www.cityofmenifee.us/specialevents, email http://communityservices@cityofmenifee.us or call 951-723-3880.

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Small wonders of nature are a hiker’s best friend

A stand of red spruce at the Gaudineer Knob in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia is featured in the new PBS series “Travels with Darley.” AmeriCorps with the USFS/Kristopher Hennig photo

Darley Newman is the creator and host of the PBS series “Travels with Darley.” Valley News/Darley Newman photo

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Darley,” a nature and cultural exploration series that airs on the Public Broadcasting Service, said.

“The area today is an old-growth reference site. There have been ongoing studies for decades looking at tree composition, the types of plants and animals that exist among these old trees and the process of forest growth.”

Designated as a National Natural Landmark, Gaudineer Knob is also home for rare species like the Cheat Mountain Salamander and the flying squirrel. A mountain summit, the area at 4,449 feet is the highest elevation of Shavers Mountain, a ridge of the Allegheny Mountains.

The Gaudineer Knob Lookout Tower, once an important Forest Service fire tower, formerly occupied the crown of the knob. The tower is long gone, but the founda-

When looking at the Hope Diamond for the first time, visitors are not often impressed by its size – even for a rare diamond, it isn’t that big. What immediately impresses them is the sparkling magnificence and the hue of cobalt blue – its rarity.

But this type of rare beauty isn’t just for diamonds. It very much applies to many amazing, smaller natural wonders in our vast national forests, grasslands, and public parks as well.

The U.S. Forest Service knows many of these rare wonders, including the Natural Bridge in Virginia; Old Faithful in the middle of Yellowstone National Park and Methuselah, an ancient Bristlecone pine believed to be the oldest known tree, or living organism for that matter, on earth that resides remotely in the Inyo National Forest.

So, rare is the point. There’s nothing rarer than an old growth forest in the eastern U.S. The reason is that most ancient woodlands were harvested and, in some cases, simply clear-cut during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This wrongheaded overharvesting of forests resulted in the formation of the Forest Service in 1905 by Gifford Pinchot, who resolved to conserve

Gaudineer Knob is located in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Valley News/Darley Newman photo

our woodlands for generations to come.

By the early 20th century, when the proverbial dust cleared from so many felled trees, only a handful of primitive pre-colonial forest acres remained on the eastern seaboard.

In remote areas, the trees were not easily accessible before modern off-

Investments in groundwater shape EMWD’s water supply future PERRIS – Eastern Municipal Water District said it is looking to the future by looking underground.

As part of its commitment to provide long-term water supply reliability to its growing communities, EMWD said it is expanding investments in local groundwater supplies through its Groundwater Reliability Plus program that will shape the way it provides service moving forward.

EMWD was originally founded in 1950 to help area landowners manage groundwater rights in the San Jacinto Valley. Since then, EMWD has grown to become the state’s sixth-largest retail water agency and currently serves nearly 1 million people across 558 square miles.

To prepare for the anticipated growth in its region in the coming decades, EMWD is expanding its groundwater infrastructure and supplies throughout its service area through additional wells, treatment facilities and groundwater replenishment programs.

“Our Groundwater Reliability Plus program is the roadmap for our future,” Phil Paule, board president of Eastern Municipal Water District, said. “By investing in our local groundwater supplies, EMWD is providing a reliable and cost-effective water supply source our customers can depend on.”

EMWD currently has three major groundwater programs in various stages of construction throughout its service area: This year, EMWD will complete work on its third groundwater desalination facility in Menifee.

The Perris II Desalter will significantly expand EMWD’s ability to remove naturally occurring salts from groundwater in the Perris and Menifee areas and produce a highquality drinking water source.

EMWD’s Perris North Groundwater Program is constructing six wells and a groundwater treatment facility in Moreno Valley.

This program will clean up local groundwater contamination and provide the infrastructure to serve thousands of households each year.

EMWD is also constructing four groundwater wells and a treatment facility in San Jacinto as part of

its regional Santa Ana River Conservation and Conjunctive Use Program. In late 2021, EMWD completed work on its Mountain Avenue West Groundwater Replenishment Facility in San Jacinto that will allow EMWD to replenish its local groundwater supplies with water from Northern California and other sources during wet and normal years.

EMWD is also in the design stage of a Purified Water Replenishment program. This program, located in San Jacinto, will take EMWD’s recycled water and apply additional treatment levels including advanced microfiltration and reverse osmosis technologies.

The advanced treated recycled water will be placed into EMWD’s Mountain Avenue West Groundwater Replenishment Facility, where it will percolate into the local aquifer and provide a clean, safe and reliable water supply source. That water will be underground for approximately five years before it is extracted and cleaned once more before being used as drinking water.

“Groundwater is a valuable resource and EMWD is proud to not only expand our groundwater infrastructure, but to responsibly manage our local groundwater basins so they are sustainable for future generations,” Paule said.

For more information on EMWD’s Groundwater Reliability Plus program, visit http://www. emwd.org/gwr-plus.

Eastern Municipal Water District is the water, wastewater and recycled water service provider to nearly one million people living and working within a 558-square mile service area in western Riverside County. It is California’s sixth-largest retail water agency, and its mission is “to deliver value to our diverse customers and the communities we serve by providing safe, reliable, economical and environmentally sustainable water, wastewater and recycled water services.”

More information can be found at http://www.emwd.org.

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roading and high-tech hiking gear made them easier to reach.

One such hidden gem is Gaudineer Knob on the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia.

Walking through this more than 200-acre area of towering virgin red spruce, especially in spring, visitors become time travelers of sorts. With thick barked trees, emerald-green moss and colorful wildflowers, this living time capsule gives them a glimpse of what many eastern forests looked like to the Native Americans, who managed the land so they too would have them for generations.

“What’s most interesting is that Gaudineer Knob was saved because of human error – a survey mistake by loggers,” Darley Newman, the creator and host of ”Travels with

tions remain, adding yet another sense of wonderment that can spur visitors’ imaginations about what it must have been like to work the tower decades ago.

At such a high elevation, Gaudineer Knob has views of several mountain ridges of the Appalachians, blanketed in shades of green. From this vantage point, they can see a wilderness that is geologically one of the oldest on earth – literally millions of years old. As wind blows through the trees, some over 300 years old, visitors can hear a whisper of the past telling stories of time immemorial.

There’s a famous song that said, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” but the nation’s hidden wilderness gems, like Gaudineer Knob, are everyone’s best friend and far more precious.

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The Dresses and Dreams Project prepares for Operation Prom Girl 2022 Diane A. Rhodes SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Dresses and Dreams Project, founded by Dawn Schultz, offers young women opportunities to make their dreams a reality.

Operation Prom Girl, which will be held Saturday, April 9, is its signature annual event that serves as a prom and graduation dress giveaway and celebration.

This year’s theme is “Dignified” and is set around crowns and pearls. Each year, a theme is chosen, and up to 100 girls with any type of hardship or challenge are invited to apply to be part of the full-day event. The agenda consists of a continental breakfast, inspirational and motivational speakers, lunch and sweet treat table, fashion show, drawings for prizes throughout the day, socialization, photography, onsite resources and informational tables. Each girl leaves with her choice from about 1,000 new or gently worn gowns, accessories and a “swag bag.”

Any young woman with a financial hardship or challenging circumstance who would like to be included has until Wednesday, March 30, to visit http://www. thedressesanddreamsproject.org to complete an application. There is no residential restriction.

Roots are planted The Wildomar-based nonprofit was established in 2014 when Schultz, a disabled single mother of three children, moved to the area.

“I could not afford to send my daughter to prom and someone stepped up to help,” she said. “I wanted to pay it forward; it started with intentions of helping a few girls get to their prom. I used social media as a platform to tell area residents who I was, what I planned to do and where they could find me if they wanted to donate a dress. I placed a rusty rolling rack on my porch that would serve as a 24-hour drop off and went to areas and businesses to answer the call for dress pickups.”

Within a month Schultz had collected more than 100 gowns and dresses, and a couple of months later in springtime right before prom, she had 300.

“I realized my dream was smaller than God’s plan, and that first year, 19 girls were served gowns (and some shoes too) after the VFW Wildomar offered us a room

to have what would be our very first Operation Prom Girl event,” she said.

Originally starting out as a dress program that first year, Schultz’s vision grew to offer teens with challenges a way to find their value, overcome their obstacles and live life to their full potential.

As a makeup artist for 25 years, Schultz said she remembered all of the girls and women who sat in the makeup chair and shared their stories.

“No matter the demographic, they all had similar stories. The only thing that changed were the faces,” she said.

After starting her organization, she would hear stories from the young women about insecurity, abuse, addiction, unworthiness and despair. Schultz realized that many needed more than just a dress, they needed hope. The organization operates on a year-round basis by offering workshops on real-life and raw topics as well as resources, referrals and advocacy.

“As a survivor of violent crimes, some of the subject matter we cover are subjects I’m passionate about,” she said. “These include human trafficking, teen pregnancy, suicide, domestic violence, healthy relationships, addiction and life skills.”

Lives begin to bloom Schultz said most of the young women she meets through the program do not feel valued or know what their purpose in life is.

“While the dress is the main attraction, we are able to offer them so much more,” she said. “We want these individuals to know who they are after the makeup and the dress are gone and they are looking in the mirror with their reflection staring back at them.

Many do not even know that they too have a right to dream, and that dreams can come true no matter what kind of crisis or challenges one has experienced.”

She lets them know that it is never too late for them to live their dream and with the proper support, lives can be drastically changed.

“Part of my own testimony includes a young life full of hardship and heartache,” she said. “When no one is there to support and guide us through the dysfunction, we become vulnerable, an easy target for prey, and things happen.

We want a girl to understand that she is beautifully and wonderfully made and that we are here to help.”

Support is intertwined Schultz said connecting with other organizations and professionals to offer additional resources and advocacy is key to addressing a variety of needs. The Dresses and Dreams Project regularly partners with groups such as SAFE Family Justice Centers, Elsinore Valley Pregnancy Resource Center, Abundantly Authentic, Generations Rise, Million Kids and Alcoholics Anonymous.

The volunteer-led organization offers different opportunities for volunteers to share their time, talent and treasures. She said many have been meeting for the past few months to serve at the upcoming Operation Prom Girl 2022 event in April. The group is also seeking dependable hair and makeup people for the fashion show segment and cosmetology students are welcome.

Anyone working at the event must attend a mandatory meeting.

The final one will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 19, at Elevation Church, 28250 Bradley Road, in Menifee.

“We are short on volunteer help and still need team members who can be trained and take on a role of team lead prior to event day so this meeting is a must,” Schultz said. “Those interested can start by filling out a form at http://www. thedressesanddreamsproject.org.”

Grounded in service Schultz said her year-round dedicated staff of volunteers includes Reanna Ritter, accounting; Keisha Montfleury, author, speaker and social media contributor; Natalie Morgan, fashion show and ministry lead; Teresa Meier, volunteer coordinator; Catherine Walsh, décor; Bridgette Moore, community support; Aiko Holdaway, speaker, victim advocacy and admin support; Rosie Lovato, photography and life skills; and Kathy and Brady Sutton, dress team managers.

The project is also seeking financial donations, food donations for the luncheon and dessert table and swag bag items. She hopes local restaurants and businesses can help. Since all programs are free for participants, donations are critical to the success of these events. The deadline to donate items is Friday, April 1.

“Though we are a small yet mighty nonprofit making a difference, we have less exposure and are sometimes overlooked by

Dawn Schultz, left, founder and president of The Dresses and Dreams Project, poses for a photo with Rita Wears of Elsinore Valley Pregnancy Resource Center, one of the nonprofit’s partner organizations. Valley News/Courtesy photo

About 1,000 formal dresses for prom and/or graduation are available for this year’s Operation Prom Girl event Saturday, April 9.

philanthropists and donors who choose larger and more familiar names when investing their resources,” Schultz said.

To date, more than 2,000 girls and women have been served between the Operation Prom Girl program for teens with hardship or difficult circumstances and the Dresses for Heroes program for military women in California.

Recipients are found through word of mouth, area networking, social media and schools. Schultz said one of the organization’s ongoing challenges is partnering with point persons at school districts to get

the word out about all their programs and the annual Operation Prom Girl event.

“I am currently invested in The Dresses and Dreams Project full time,” she said. “I am also a mother of three adult children, a grandmother of a five-year-old and devote time to speaking out on subject matter that I have fiery passion for.”

For more information, visit http://www.thedressesanddreamsproject.org/donate, dressesanddreamsproject@gmail.com or on Instagram.

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Union for grocery workers authorizes strike vote City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The union representing grocery store workers in Southern California supermarkets said Thursday, March 10, it has authorized a strike vote as contract negotiations with the owners of Ralphs and Vons/Pavilions/ Albertsons have stalled.

Bertha Rodríguez, communications coordinator for United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 770, told City News Service the vote will take place between March 21 and March 26.

The local is one of seven representing some 60,000 grocery workers in more than 500 stores from the Central Valley to the Mexico border.

Talks have stopped, Rodríguez said.

A three-year-old labor contract between the unionized grocery workers and Southern California supermarkets expired March 7, raising fears of a possible strike.

“Bargaining committees composed of front-line grocery workers and union leaders came prepared with proposals that would fairly increase wages and improve store conditions to reflect the needs of workers in a pandemic and postpandemic world,” the union said in a statement Thursday. “The corporations representing the stores offered pennies, a proposal that would ultimately be a pay cut due to inflation.”

Following the union announcement, Ralphs issued a statement Thursday saying, “a strike authorization vote doesn’t mean a strike will happen, but it does create unnecessary concern for our associates

and communities, at a time when we should be coming together in good faith bargaining to find solutions and compromise. At Ralphs we remain focused on settling a deal with the UFCW.” The company statement added: “We have three very clear objectives; to put more money in our associates paychecks, keep groceries affordable for our customers and to maintain a sustainable future for our business. By working together, we win together.”

Last week, the union posted a message on Twitter, saying that despite the failure to reach an agreement, the terms and conditions of the previous contract are still in effect.

“When we began negotiations with Ralphs and Albertsons/Vons/ Pavilions in January, we came prepared with comprehensive proposals and a clear path toward negotiating a contract that reflects your value and the sacrifices you have made,” the union said recently in a series of tweets to its members.

“We are disheartened to inform you that Ralphs and Albertsons/Vons/ Pavilions squandered the unique opportunity to propose a contract with better wages and benefits in a time of immense profit. They have failed.”

At the time, Ralphs issued a statement, saying its stores will remain open and staffed even though the labor contract expired.

“It’s unfortunate that substantial progress toward reaching an agreement was not made during our 12 total days of bargaining with the

The union representing grocery store workers in Southern California supermarkets, including the Vons on Murrieta Hot Springs Road in Murrieta authorized a strike vote during a Thursday, March 10, meeting as contract negotiations with the owners of Ralphs and Vons/Pavilions/Albertsons have stalled. Valley News/ Kim Harris photo

union,” Robert Branton, vice president of operations at Ralphs, said.

“While the company made several wage proposals, the union continues to propose very costly items which impacts our ability to meet customer needs and remain competitive.

“Negotiations are a process and we’re committed to reaching an agreement no matter how long it

takes. We are hopeful the union will return to the bargaining table with renewed interest in reaching a balanced agreement,” he said.

In 2003-2004, Southland grocery store workers walked off the job over a contract dispute, and the strike lasted 141 days. That work stoppage was estimated by some analysts to have cost the supermar-

ket chains as much as $2 billion, with the workers losing $300 million in wages.

During the last round of negotiations in 2019, grocery workers voted to authorize a strike but negotiations continued for two months, and a labor deal was eventually reached, averting a walkout.

GRID Alternatives solar project shines at Soboba Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Soboba Fire Station Microgrid project will begin construction in March, starting with installation of a concrete platform to host the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery system provided

by Invinity Energy Systems. A carport canopy, 59 kilowatt solar array, located at the rear parking lot will not only provide shade for team members’ cars but more importantly it will support the solar panels connected to the grid.

The project will be providing cost savings to the facility and backup power for emergency operations during power outages.

“The project will accommodate future growth, including the installation of EV chargers and the possible integration of a larger microgrid.” Daniel B. Dumovich, director of strategic initiatives at GRID Alternatives, said.

The need for this project is significant. The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians reservation is located in a Tier 3 Extreme High Fire Threat Zone and has experienced 17 grid outages in the past three years, including eight outages in 2019. The average outage duration is seven hours, but some have lasted longer than 24 hours during high wind conditions and public safety power shutoff events. The outages affect both the safety and the quality of life of both tribal members and surrounding communities and conditions could be exacerbated during an emergency such as a natural disaster, resulting in longer outages.

The Soboba Fire Station serves the tribe and surrounding communities with fire and emergency services, but it is subject to the same outages as the rest of the community with a diesel generator as backup. The tribe has also expressed an interest in expanding educational opportunities in the clean energy economy that currently do not exist there.

This solar charged, long-duration energy storage and critical resilience project will uniquely solve the issues described above. The system consists of 50 kilowatt/500 kilowatt hours of energy storage and 50 kilowatts of solar photovoltaic panels. The daily operations of the system will cut electric bills significantly for the tribe and bring in demand response revenues.

During the grid outages described above, the system will provide at least 10 hours of backup service, with the potential to provide 24 or more hours during times of high exposure to the sun’s rays, where the battery storage can recharge from the solar photovoltaic panels.

The potential for long backup power will be especially effective

during major emergency events, where the system can convert the Soboba Fire Station into a community emergency center.

An added benefit to the project is that Soboba is recruiting tribal members for paid job-training opportunities. GRID Alternatives will provide essential workforce development training to prepare tribal members to enter the clean energy economy. These positions will allow trainees to gain vital hands-on experience and valuable skills related to the project, including solar installation, energy system management, advanced energy storage integration and other topics that will help them advance in their renewable energy related careers.

But the advantages to this project go beyond the Soboba reservation. This project will bolster the technological advancement of renewable energy-charged, longduration storage and resilience technologies in other tribal communities and in low-income communities. By proving the unique business case for serving a critical emergency facility in a tribal community with this integrated technology, this project will open the door for similar systems to be sited and serve tribal, remote and disadvantaged communities across the state.

Specifically for Soboba, the system will reduce electric bills for the tribe by more than $13,000 annually, with total savings of about $300,000 over the 20-year lifetime of the system. The system will increase overall grid reliability by serving an extreme high fire threat section that experiences frequent outages and PSPS events.

The reliability value to the tribe is exceptionally high due to the ability to provide fire and emergency services during an outage.

The fire station will have electricity during emergencies and can serve the surrounding community for at least 10 hours, and more than 24 hours with the inclusion of solar photovoltaic panels, helping to increase public safety. Bringing generation sources closer to the end-use will greatly increase the tribe’s energy security as well.

This system will lower greenhouse gasses by 1,182,331 pounds and nitrous oxides by 1,066 pounds over 20 years compared to a baseline of no system installed.

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College baseball games hit Storm Stadium, include former high school standouts Tritons take on Gauchos in Lake Elsinore

Current UCSD pitcher and former Chaparral Puma, Zach Ernisse (43), appeared in relief against the UCSB Gauchos at Storm Stadium in Lake Elsinore, Friday, March 11. Valley News/Andrez Imaging

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

Baseball returned to The Diamond in Lake Elsinore this past weekend, with college baseball players taking center stage. The University of California San Diego Tritons took on the University of California Santa Barbara Gauchos in a Friday and Saturday matchup where games were open to the public. Tickets were only $6.50 with $5 of that cost going to the Lake Elsinore Storm nonprofit, Thunder Cares.

Thunder Cares is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was established through an ongoing partnership with the Inland Empire Community Foundation. Proceeds raised through Thunder Cares benefit local charities, youth sports, military, first responders and other local groups in need.

In the first game, UC San Diego struck first in the bottom of the second inning, scoring Blake FitzGerald from third on a wild pitch to lead 1-0. However, the Gauchos (9-4) responded the following inning, putting up six runs

Former Vista Murrieta standout LeTrey McCollum (35), now playing for the UCSB Gauchos, goes through his pregame warm up before their game against UCSD at Storm Stadium Saturday, March 12. Valley News/Andrez Imaging

in the third. UCSB added two more runs in the seventh to take a commanding, 8-1 lead. Despite a strong comeback by the Tritons, UC San Diego fell to UC Santa Barbara, 9-6, in their first game of the weekend.

Former Chaparral Puma Zack Ernisse took the loss on the mound for the Tritons (6-9), who were led

by Jalen Smith at the plate. Smith finished 3-for-4, including a twoRBI double, while Anthony Lucchetti and Blake FitzGerald both finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored.

The No. 30 UCSB baseball team then turned around and picked up its fifth-straight win Saturday night edging out UC San Diego, 3-2. All five runs were scored in the first inning and a half.

Michael Gutierrez (2-1) took the hill picking up his second win of the season tossing 5.1 innings and allowing just two runs while striking out six. He scattered eight hits and three walks but continued to get out of jams as the Gauchos stranded nine Tritons runners on the day.

Ernisse was the only player

with ties to the local area that saw action over the weekend, but the rosters for both teams did include a handful of former local high school standouts, including on the UCSD side: Tyler Weiner (OF) and Chris Gilmartin (LHP), both out of Murrieta Valley High School, as well as LeTrey McCollum for UCSD, who was recruited out of Vista Murrieta High School.

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

2022 All-Southwestern League girls’ soccer team announced

Temecula Valley senior Natalie Mitchell was selected as the girls’ soccer Offensive MVP for the Southwestern League for the 2021-2022 season. Valley News/Courtesy photo

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The athletic director from Temecula Valley High School, Anthony Califano, met with the Southwestern League girls’ soccer coaches recently to go over the selections for the First and Second AllLeague teams. The first-place team always hosts the meeting with their school’s athletic director, which went the way of the Lady Golden Bears, for the fifth straight year. On top of their Southwestern League success, Temecula Valley went on to win the CIF Southern Section

Division 1 championship, as well as the Division 1 CIF State title.

Based on where the SWL team placed also determines how many selections that team will get.

Temecula Valley, who could have put their whole team on the list, showcased both the MVP in the Offense category, senior Natalie Mitchell, as well as the Defensive MVP, which was junior Zoe Willis.

With their first-place finish, Temecula Valley was granted eight selections overall: four First Team, four Second Team; Vista Murrieta received six selections: three First Team and three Second Team;

Zoe Willis, a junior out of Temecula Valley, was named the Defensive MVP of the Southwestern League for girls’ soccer. Valley News/Courtesy photo

Murrieta Valley High School got four selections: two First Team and two Second Team; Murrieta Mesa received three selections: two First Team and one Second Team; Great Oak got one selection for each team, and Chaparral received one Second Team nominee.

2022 All Southwestern League Girls Soccer Team Offensive MVP: Natalie Mitchell, Temecula Valley, 12 Defensive MVP: Zoe Willis, Temecula Valley, 11

FIRST TEAM: Kate Jacobsen, Temecula Valley (12); Peyton Bundy, Temecula Valley (12); Elizabeth Ludwig, Temecula Valley (11); Sarah Assumma, Temecula Valley (12); Addisyn Mangrum, Vista Murrieta (12); Makenzi Roth, Vista Murrieta (12); Kelsey Williams, Vista Murrieta (12); Kirsten Boyd, Murrieta Valley (12); Taylor Kessler, Murrieta Valley (10); Savanna Herz, Murrieta Mesa (12); Malia Gabel, Murrieta Mesa (12); Emmy Eskridge, Great Oak (12).

SECOND TEAM: Juliet Thrapp, Temecula Valley (9); Cassidy Drago, Temecula Valley (9); Camryn Vehlow, Temecula Valley (11); Annika Jost, Temecula Valley (10); Zairen Paulino, Vista Murrieta (12); Ashlynn Baker, Vista Murrieta (12); Abria Smith, Vista Murrieta (12); Malia Bell, Murrieta Valley (9); Carolina Madalo, Murrieta Valley (12); Tatum Todd, Murrieta Mesa (12); Talia Stacy, Great Oak (12); Kylie Wilkins, Chaparral (9).

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

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Southwestern League water polo 2022 All-League girls’ teams announced

Day takes league MVP; Beringer selected to All-CIF team JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The Southwestern League water polo coaches and Darin Mott, athletic director of Murrieta Valley High School, recently announced the selections for the First and Second All-League teams. The first-place team always hosts the meeting with their school’s athletic director, which, again, went the way of the Nighthawks for the girls’ teams. Garnishing an undefeated Southwestern League record, Murrieta Valley has not been challenged for a league title since before 2014.

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the girls’ team, Murrieta Valley showcased senior Autumn Day as the league MVP, and by coming in first place, was granted five selections overall: three First Team, two Second Team. Vista Murrieta (second place) and Murrieta Mesa (third place), who scored the most goals as a team this season (118), got four selections each: two First Team, two Second Team, and Temecula Valley, Chaparral and Great Oak high schools got one First Team and two Second Team each.

According to Murrieta Valley head coach Chris Boyer, Day was selected as MVP because she was the leader in stats from MV in the following criteria: goals, steals, field blocks and “x-factor” (used when someone helped back or did something helpful that is undefined).

“She also was the team leader in her scoring percentage, with 54%,” Boyer said.

The complete list of girls’ water polo players selected as AllLeague for the SWL are as follows:

Murrieta Valley senior Autumn Day was named the Southwestern League MVP for girls’ water polo from the 2022 winter season. Valley News/Courtesy photo

GIRLS’ MVP: Autumn Day Murrieta Valley - 12 GIRLS’ FIRST TEAM Murrieta Valley: Jaden Soto (11), Mackenzie Wood (10), Kristin Alexander (11); Murrieta Mesa: Taylor Orellano (12), Savannah Sollie (12); Vista Murrieta: Kennedy Guidizi (12), Reese Beringer (12); Temecula Valley: Daniella Alpert (12); Chaparral: Katrina Bobrova (12); Great Oak: Larissa Mendiburo (10).

GIRLS’ SECOND TEAM: Murrieta Valley: Elizabeth Hernandez (11), Elsa Borgerding (10); Murrieta Mesa: Kirstin Maag (11), Seryn Stites (12); Vista Murrieta: Raven Walton (12), Aleira Valenzuela (10); Temecula Valley: Kennedy Cross (12), Kelsey League (11); Great Oak: Cristina Scott (11), Paige Ellinger (11); Chaparral: Natalia Ferrette (10), Julia Neal (10).

As for All-CIF selections, Reese Beringer (12) of Vista Murrieta was the only local selection, which was announced in Division 3.

Beringer helped Vista Murrieta get to the quarterfinal round of the CIF Southern Section Division 3 playoffs, where the Lady Broncos fell to Bonita, 6-4.

Southwestern League girls’ water polo MVP Autumn Day will be attending and playing next season at Cal State University Monterey Bay. Valley News/Courtesy photo

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Vista Murrieta’s AllCIF selection Reese Beringer (12), pictured here surrounded by her teammates, was the only local selection announced in Division 3. Valley News/Courtesy photo

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Local high school baseball standings Valley News Sports Department

Local high school baseball teams are still playing through the early part of their regular seasons, with a small amount of league games under their belt. As spring break tournaments approach, here is a look at the standings for local teams, heading into the week of March 14. These standings are for teams inside the Valley News coverage area, as well as some game recaps and stats, posted from www.maxpreps.com.

Baseball Standings Southwestern League (Overall, League) Temecula Valley – 7-4, 2-0 Vista Murrieta – 6-4, 2-1 Chaparral – 7-4-1, 1-1 Murrieta Mesa – 4-4, 1-2 Great Oak – 5-6, 1-2 Murrieta Valley – 3-6, 1-2 Recent Games Murrieta Valley – 2, Murrieta Mesa – 0

Mater Dei – 6, Temecula Valley – 3 Vista Murrieta – 4, Great Oak – 3 Paloma Valley – 4, Chaparral – 1 South Valley League Temecula Prep – 5-6 Nuview Bridge – 2-5 Santa Rosa Academy – 1-4 San Jacinto Valley Academy – 0-0 Cal. Mil. Institute – 0-0 Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac Catholic School – 0-0 Recent Games Nuview Bridge – 14, Hamilton – 3 Temecula Prep – 12, Rancho Christian – 0 Inland Valley League (Overall, League) Hemet – 2-5-1, 2-0-1 Notre Dame – 2-3-1, 1-0-1 Elsinore – 6-4, 2-1 Lakeside – 4-7, 0-2 Vista del Lago – 2-5, 0-2 Recent Games Hemet – 21, Vista del Lago – 1 Elsinore – 6, Lakeside – 1

Jordan Treadwell (24) hits a double and drives in a run in Murrieta Valley’s 2-0 win over Murrieta Mesa Thursday, March 10. Valley News/ Andrez Imaging

Ivy League (Overall, League) Paloma Valley – 5-4, 2-0 Temescal Canyon – 6-5, 2-1 Riverside Poly – 4-5, 1-1 Canyon Springs – 1-9, 1-2 JW North – 4-6, 0-2 Recent Games Temescal Canyon – 3, Riverside Poly – 2 Other Area Teams Linfield Christian (7-2), currently

1-1 and in third place in the Ambassador League Rancho Christian (2-9), currently competing in the Freelance League Recent Games Ontario Christian – 4, Linfield Christian – 0 *Photos and sports scores/ stats can be submitted to sports@ reedermedia.com.

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All-Southwestern League boys’ basketball selections released

Great Oak senior Jeremy Sengstock was named Co-MVP of the Southwestern League for the 2021-2022 boys’ basketball season. Valley News/Action Captures Media Group

JP Raineri SPORTS EDITOR

The Southwestern League boys’ basketball coaches recently met with Great Oak Athletic Director Herschel Ramirez to go over the selections for the All-League teams. This past season the honors included Co-MVPs in Great Oak senior Jeremy Sengstock and Chaparral senior Maurier Tablada.

The Wolfpack took home the Southwestern League boys’ title this past season with an 8-2 record, marking their third-straight year as

league champions, while Chaparral and Vista Murrieta finished tied for second, both with 7-3 records.

Great Oak, along with their MVP selection in Sengstock, had one selection for both the First and Second teams, as did Chaparral, along with their MVP selection in Tablada; Vista Murrieta received two First team selections and one Second team. Murrieta Valley wrapped up the First team selections with one. Murrieta Mesa and Temecula Valley did not receive any first team selections but were given one second team selection

each.

2021 All Southwestern League Boys’ Basketball Team Most Valuable Players: Great Oak – Jeremy Sengstock (12); Chaparral – Maurier Tablada (12)

Chaparral senior Maurier Tablada was also named Co-MVP of the Southwestern League for the 2021-2022 boys’ basketball season.

Valley News/David Canales photo

BOYS’ FIRST TEAM: Jackson Bernardo, Great Oak (12); Lewis Singleterry IV, Chaparral (12); Gary Dotson, Vista Murrieta (11); Brandin Jackson, Vista Murrieta (12); Titus Davis, Murrieta Valley (11).

BOYS’ SECOND TEAM: Payton Skands, Great Oak (12); Tyler Smith, Chaparral (12); Jahneel Barrow, Vista Murrieta (12); Francisco Batista, Murrieta Valley (12); Gage Cassidy, Murrieta Mesa (10); Drew

Pierce, Temecula Valley (10).

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

Local high school softball standings Valley News Sports Department

The high school softball season is a few games into league play now, with spring break tournaments on the horizon. As early in the season as it is, after spring break the all-out push to make playoffs will begin. Here is a look Softball Standings (Overall, League) Southwestern League Vista Murrieta – 6-3, 2-0 Great Oak – 4-4, 2-1 Murrieta Mesa – 13-5, 2-1 Temecula Valley – 3-4, 1-1 Murrieta Valley – 8-4, 0-2 Chaparral – 3-6, 0-2 Recent Games Murrieta Mesa – 3, Mater Dei – 0 Vista Murrieta – 5, Great Oak – 2 Temecula Valley – 5, Chaparral – 0 Murrieta Mesa – 13, Marina – 2 South Valley League San Jacinto Valley Academy – 4-3 Temecula Prep – 1-2 Santa Rosa Academy – 1-5 Nuview Bridge – 0-3 Cal. Mil. Institute – 0-0 Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac Catholic School – 0-0

at the standings for local teams, heading into the week of March 14. These standings are for teams inside the Valley News coverage area, as well as some game recaps and stats, posted from www.maxpreps.com.

Photos and sports scores/stats can be submitted to sports@ reedermedia.com.

Mountain Pass League San Jacinto – 9-3 West Valley – 1-3 Tahquitz – 1-10 Perris – 0-7 Citrus Hill – 0-10 Recent Games Rubidoux – 24, Perris – 14 West Valley – 11, Canyon Springs - 10 Other Area Teams Linfield Christian (2-2-1), currently 0-2 in eigth place in the Ambassador League.

Rancho Christian is listed at 0-1, due to no score reporting and currently competing in the South Eastern League.

A Vista Murrieta player slides into home against Temecula Valley in a recent Southwestern League matchup. Valley News/Action Captures Media Group

Recent Games San Jacinto Valley Academy – 10, West Valley – 0 Inland Valley League Hemet – 6-7, 1-0 Temescal Canyon – 7-5, 1-1 Canyon Springs – 4-8, 0-1 Orange Vista – 7-2 Recent Games San Jacinto – 13, Canyon Springs –3 Hemet – 4, Temescal Canyon – 3 Ivy League Rancho Verde – 4-4, 1-1 JW North – 7-6, 0-1 Elsinore – 7-3 Heritage – 11-2 Lakeside – 2-2 Notre Dame – 2-3 Paloma Valley – 2-6 Riverside Poly – 10-4 Valley View – 6-4-1 Vista del Lago – 3-10 Recent Games Moreno Valley – 3, Rancho Verde –2 Heritage – 15, Redlands - 8

Murrieta Mesa took second place out of 52 teams in the Dave Kops high school softball tournament held last weekend in Bullhead City, Arizona.

Valley News/Courtesy photo

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Organizations join forces to offer at-risk youth career skills Lynn K. Loyd SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Community Outreach Ministry, a nonprofit organization that offers many services to children whose mother and/or father is in prison, will host the 2022 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Technology Day Camp Saturday, April 16, from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at the Murrieta Public Library.

Community Outreach Ministry was founded by Mona SalomoDavies, Ph.D., and her husband Bob, a retired aerospace engineer and veteran. The couple will oversee the event’s STEM projects and be among the adults who will assist students at the workshops that will take place throughout the day.

Salomo-Davies and team will provide caregivers with comprehensive community support services, referrals and resources helping youth to break the cycle of incarceration and reduce recidivism.

Prison Fellowship, which has worked with Community Outreach Ministry for decades and refers at-risk youths to the program, celebrates each April as Second Chance Month. Karin Arango, church mobilization manager for Prison Fellowship, will share about their partnerships with corporations, churches, state governments, nonprofits and department of corrections, that are working together to help rebuild families, empower children and prepare men and women to return to society. On behalf of the Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree Program, Arango also “mobilizes local churches and organizations to minister to thousands of children by delivering Christmas gifts, the gospel message and a personal message of love on behalf of the children’s mom or dad behind bars,” according to its website https://www.prisonfellowship.org.

The Technology Day Camp will offer youth the opportunity to engage with adult coaches such

Noah Ekstrom mentors proteges at Community Outreach Ministry’s “Gearing Up for STEM” mentor protégé workshop. Valley News/ Courtesy photos

as Bob Davis who have extensive experience and knowledge in the academic disciplines that encompass STEM. At-risk youth, an underrepresented and underserved population will participate in “Gearing Up for STEM” mentor protégé workshops to advance youth from low-income households to improve equities in the STEM field through observational and practical mentor-based learning and building robots from science kits designed for children aged eight to 18.

California Family Life Center – Planet Youth will also participate at the event. CFLC is a family counseling service for at-risk youth that also provides foster families, youth homes, job training and education according to its website https://www.cflckids.org. Planet Youth’s program coordinator Ruth Stanton will explore with guests ages 16-24 opportunities for paid

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job training, resume building and filling out a job application. Stanton will also speak to children under the age of 16 about the importance of staying in school and participating in community events. A career navigator from CFLC will share about services that help identify career aptitudes for young job seekers ages 16-24, arrange for paid internships and employment in the business community and connect youth to higher education. Career navigators also track participants’ progress, guiding, encouraging, coaching and sometimes parenting youth for two years.

Sewing Stories coach Cynthia Duran, a craft and sewing expert, will provide participants with art supplies, decoupage and fabric scraps to create artwork. Duran, who has more than 20 years of experience is known for her ability to inspire children to make their own choices of color and placement as

Mona Salomo-Davies, Ph.D., left, presents a check to Karin Arango,church mobilization manager with Prison Fellowship’s Second Chance Month.

the best part of the workshop.

Also joining the technology event is Tom Chitwood of Camp Agape California to discuss their organization’s free four-day summer camp for ages 7 to 17 where campers foster friendship, and team-building activities in a safe and entertaining environment learning biblical truths, spiritual growth and character development.

Lake Elsinore residents Jacori and Jaelin Neal, who are known as the Neal Brothers, will entertain guests at the event. The singing duo were recipients of Community Outreach Ministry and were promoted to STEM mentors.

Jacori Neal is a self-taught computer software technician who has learned how to program his robots using his iPhone and is currently a Crafton Hills Community College student who enjoys demonstrating his robots during the workshops.

Jaelin Neal is a junior at dual high schools Ortega and Temescal Canyon.

Doors open at noon for the technology day camp that will take place in the indoor and outdoor venue of the Murrieta Public Library located at 8 Town Square.

Community Outreach Ministry thanked In-N-Out Burger for donating complimentary boxed lunches for attendees.

Community Outreach Ministry is a volunteer operated communitybased organization and welcomes sponsors and donations, “giving at-risk kids a second chance to be winners and champions.” To donate, visit https://www.communityoutreachministry.org and scan the QR code, or click on chip-in, or text “DONATE CHAMPIONS” to 609-212-0627. Checks may also be made payable to Community Outreach Ministry and mailed to 23905 Clinton Keith Road, Suite 114 #116, Wildomar, CA. 92595.

You can also contact us by phone at 951-698-7650 or via email at info@ communityoutreachministry.org.

Macy Parris of Murrieta named to the fall 2021 Murrieta students win Murrieta dean’s list at Rotary Club speech competition Mississippi College CLINTON, Miss. – Macy Parris of Murrieta was named to the fall 2021 dean’s list at Mississippi College.

The Mississippi College Office of Academic Affairs released the dean’s list after the close of fall and spring semesters each academic year. To be eligible for the dean’s list, a student must maintain a 3.5 GPA, based on a 4.0 system. The student must take a full course load of at least 12 semester hours of undergraduate credit with all academic courses impacting their GPA. Mississippi College, affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention, is a private, co-educational, Christian university of liberal arts and sciences serving more than 4,100 students from approximately 35 states and more than three dozen countries.

Submitted by Mississippi College.

Winners of the Rotary Club of Murrieta’s Four-Way Test Speech Contest include, from left, Samantha Hill, Grace Sutherland and Johanna Lunn. Valley News/Courtesy photo

MURRIETA – Murrieta Valley High School junior Grace Sutherland, 17, took the top prize in the Rotary Club of Murrieta’s FourWay Test Speech Contest Monday, Feb. 28, at the Murrieta Valley Unified School District offices.

She won $350 and the opportunity to compete in the Rotary District 5330 competition Saturday, April 30.

In second place was Johanna Lunn, a senior from Vista Murrieta High School, and third place went to Samantha Hill, a junior at Murrieta Valley High School.

The second and third place winners took home $250 and $150, respectively.

The Rotary Four-Way Test, which was created in the early 1930s has been used by businesses, industry, government groups, civic organizations, schools and colleges. An ethical tenet in today’s culture, the four-way test asks students, “Of the things that we think, say or do: Is it the truth?

Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? And will it be beneficial to all concerned?”

Four-Way Test Speech contestants are to address topics of current interest and importance and are to include and use concepts from the Four-Way Test as methods of discussion or analysis in the

body of the speech.

Sutherland spoke on “Gifted Programs in Education” and applied the Four-Way Test to her arguments.

Lunn addressed incorporating “Effective Civics Focused Education,” and Hill talked on “Having A Disability Doesn’t Make Someone Disabled.”

The 2022 Murrieta Four-Way Test Speech Contest was directed

by Rotarians Service Chairs Kelly Orchard and Linda Lunn.

The Four-Way Speech Contest, along with other educational and community activities, is made possible by funds from sponsors of the Murrieta Rotary’s annual Murrieta Field of Honor which is scheduled for Nov. 5 through 12.

Celebrating its 30th year, the Rotary Club of Murrieta was chartered April 28, 1992. The club is involved in many community and international activities and programs, in cooperation with Rotary International, which has as its theme “Service Above Self.”

Club meetings are held Mondays, excepting holidays, at noon at Richie’s Diner, 40651 Murrieta Hot Springs Road, in Murrieta.

For information regarding the club or membership, visit http://www. murrietarotaryclub.org.

Submitted by Murrieta Rotary Club.

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Allergies recognized as sixth leading cause of chronic illness Shelby Ramsey SPECIAL TO THE VALLEY NEWS

Recognized as the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, allergies come in many varieties and affect both children and adults.

Foods, medicines, pollen and more bring about coughing, sneezing, hives, rashes, headaches, itchy eyes, a runny nose and more to those allergic to them. In some cases, an allergic reaction can be fatal.

Dr. Robert Ziering, who has specialized in treating adult and pediatric allergies and asthma for 40 years, said the most common allergies he treats are due to “animals in the home, dust mites, pollens blowing in the open (bedroom) window and outdoor molds.”

First and foremost, if an individual is suffering regular symptoms that appear to be allergy-related, it is important to get the battery of tests to determine what the sensitivity is to.

Allergy testing is made simple these days, and specialists are careful to minimize and monitor any reactions to the testing process for patient comfort.

When the specific allergies are determined, Ziering said, Therapies include avoidance.” If the individual can avoid or minimize exposure to their allergic triggers, the healthier they will stay.

Ziering said avoidance can be taking steps like encasing the mattress and pillows on the bed and closing the bedroom window.

If more assistance is needing in managing allergy symptoms, “over the counter medications like Fluticasone nose spray, antihistamines like Zyrtec, Claritin or Allegra, saline sinus rinse, allergy eye drops and allergy immunotherapy” can help alleviate symptoms, he said.

Many people said they have found great benefits and improved year-round quality of life by using Fluticasone nose spray. A significant number of allergy sufferers said that they use it as part of their morning ritual, along with nourishing allergy eye drops.

Since headaches are not uncommon with allergy sufferers, it’s important to look at the common threads between the two symptoms.

For those who experience headaches with allergy-related issues, it’s interesting to understand what’s really happening.

“Swelling of the sinus mem-

branes from histamine release in the nasal passages will prevent drainage of normal mucus production and cause headaches,” Ziering said.

In his practice, Ziering estimated that “20% of patients complain of headaches with allergy.”

It’s valuable to understand the various types of headaches, how a headache differs from a migraine and the underlying conditions that lead to both.

Increased mucus in the sinus can also be caused by non-allergic conditions such as “changes in the weather, strong odors, changes in ambient temperature or even bending over to pick something up off the floor,” Ziering said.

Some of these non-allergic triggers parallel migraine triggers.

If you are experiencing symptoms that you feel might be allergy-related, it never hurts to schedule an appointment with an allergist to reach better health.

By understanding why you are experiencing certain symptoms, the likelihood of gaining the necessary tools to live a more comfortable life is much greater.

Allergists’ can offer testing, guidance and key recommendations based on your particular assessment.

Dr. Robert Ziering is a member of American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the San Diego Allergy Society. Valley News/ Courtesy photo

Dr. Robert Ziering is a member of American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the San Diego Allergy Society.

Shelby Ramsey is the author of the blog, thehonestmigraine.com, which also features interviews with patients and medical experts.

Riverside County Public Social Services staff share the ‘why’ behind their work RIVERSIDE COUNTY – From eligibility technicians and accountants to analysts and social service providers, the workers who helped 1 million Riverside County residents obtain health and human services last year are sharing what fuels their passion for public service.

The Department of Public Social Services debuted its new “My Why” campaign during Black History Month in February with posters and messaging from staff popping up in lobbies and on social media. The first phase celebrates the diversity of the department’s 4,300-member workforce and spotlights some employees whose work focuses on eliminating socioeconomic disparities that negatively impact Black, Brown and tribal communities.

In one “My Why” poster, senior Analyst Nkoli Nwufo beams a bright smile. In her message,

Nwufo shared that she is fulfilling her professional passion at DPSS by working with data to inform policies and practices that lead to better outcomes for children and families.

The “My Why” campaign aimed to increase community appreciation for social service workers, reduce stigma, celebrate staff and build awareness about employment opportunities at DPSS, Sayori Baldwin, director of DPSS and assistant executive officer of Riverside County Human Services, said.

“We are extremely proud of our staff and their hearts for service, for going the extra mile to improve the health, wellbeing and safety of our communities” Baldwin said.

“Sometimes we are asked why we have chosen this work when there are so many competing fields. It’s exciting and gratifying that our staff are stepping up and telling

us their ‘why’ for pursuing a life of service.”

The campaign will grow in phases for 18 to 24 months. It will publicly showcase employees in a variety of roles that support social service and self-sufficiency programs such as health coverage, employment training, food assistance, childcare and housing assistance. The campaign will include testimonials from clients who found a path forward through the resources and help they received from DPSS and its partner agencies.

Next year, DPSS will celebrate its 100th anniversary, helping to sustain Riverside County residents through world wars, global depressions, economic downturns and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information, contact mywhy@rivco.org.

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Lisa Veyna, employee with Riverside County Department of Public Social Services, hangs a “My Why” poster in one of the county children services offices. Valley News/Courtesy photo

Learn the signs of colic includes stiffened legs and arms, clenched fists, an arched back or tense abdomen and excessive gas, likely resulting from swallowed air during prolonged crying.

TEMECULA – New parents know there is a learning curve when an infant comes home for the first time. Even with the best planning and research, it takes time for new parents to find their grooves caring for a newborn whose abilities to communicate are limited.

Babies cry to alert their caregivers when they are hungry, tired or wet. Tears are a normal part of the parenting process – as babies can cry for as much as two hours per day, according to WebMD. But excessive crying may be a symptom of colic.

What is colic?

The Mayo Clinic defined colic as frequent, prolonged and intense crying or fussiness in an otherwise healthy infant. When experiencing colic, a baby seemingly cries for no apparent reason and no amount of consolation seems to bring any relief. Johns Hopkins Medicine indicated that colic is most common during the first six weeks of life and usually it will go away on its own by age three to four months. Twenty-five percent of newborn babies may have colic.

Identify colic symptoms.

Crying is not necessarily indicative of colic, though certain types of crying, especially when accompanied by other symptoms, are suggestive of colic.

Such symptoms include crying that lasts for more than three hours a day; crying that occurs more than three days a week; crying that occurs for more than three weeks at a time; crying that often begins suddenly, with mostly loud, nonstop sessions; crying that starts in the evening, typically at the same time each day; extreme fussiness even after crying has diminished; facial discoloration, such as reddening of the face and pale skin around the mouth; a tense body that

Rule out other issues.

By collecting information when the infant cries, parents can share that data with the pediatrician to determine if colic may be the culprit. Sometimes fussiness may occur for other reasons, including food allergies or sensitivities,

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REGIONAL NEWS Returning money to California taxpayers may aid state budget Adam Beam THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to send people another round of government checks, this time to help offset the record high cost of gas, will do more than just win him political points in an election year – it could help him balance the state’s budget.

California had a record surplus last year and while not as large this year the excess could still reach $29 billion. The state constitution limits how much money the Legislature can spend each year through a complex formula based on how much money the state collects in taxes.

The state has rarely surpassed the limit in the more than four decades it’s been on the books.

But revenues have been climbing so fast that Newsom expects the state to be at least $2.6 billion past the limit this year and perhaps much more.

Newsom and state lawmakers have a few options to get back under the limit. They can cut taxes, spend more money on things such as infrastructure and public education or return money to taxpayers.

That last option has been the most popular choice. Last year, the state

sent $10.9 billion in rebates to taxpayers who met certain income requirements.

Newsom had not proposed any new rebates so far this year. But Tuesday, he included a surprise proposal in his annual State of the State address: A rebate to help people pay for the high cost of fuel.

His announcement came just hours after President Joe Biden banned oil imports from Russia in response to that nation’s invasion of Ukraine, a decision that will likely further increase California’s record-setting gas prices.

“There’s news that’s evolving every day on these questions, and we’re trying to keep up and make sure that we can keep up with protecting Californians,” Jason Elliott, Newsom’s senior adviser, said.

The proposal is so new there aren’t many details. Dee Dee Myers, another Newsom senior adviser, said one idea is to make the rebate available for people who have a car and live in California, regardless of their immigration status. She said the cost “will be in the billions” but it’s unclear how much people would get individually. It’s likely the state’s Democratic legislative leaders will want to focus the rebate so the rich don’t get the same

amount as the poor.

It’s also not clear how much the proposal would help keep the state under the spending limit. In general, every $1 above the limit requires $1.60 of response. Newsom has already proposed $19.2 billion in spending on things such as building maintenance, drought response and transportation projects to help get the state under the limit.

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office said more action will likely be needed. The agency predicts there is a 90% chance revenues for the current budget year will continue to grow and could exceed expectations by as little as $5 billion or as much as $20 billion.

It means any rebate proposal likely won’t be enough on its own to address the problem. Myers said the Newsom administration is more focused on how the rebate would help drivers instead of how it would help meet the spending limit.

“This would put money directly into the pockets of people,” she said.

California’s gas tax is 51.1 cents per gallon, the second highest in the nation. It’s scheduled to increase slightly for inflation, July 1.

Newsom proposed pausing that for one year, a move that would save

drivers about $1.30 per month, according to Transportation California, a nonpartisan business and labor coalition.

California Republicans have backed a competing proposal that would suspend California’s gas tax for six months. Republican Assemblymember Kevin Kiley, the author of that proposal, said it would be “the quickest and easiest and most meaningful form of relief we could offer.”

“There’s no need for any sort of complicated rebate program that’s going to take a lot of time,” he said.

Republicans, however, don’t have the numbers in the state Legislature to pass their bill. The top two Democrats in the Legislature – Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins – don’t support it, and they also don’t support pausing the gas tax increase, saying “our focus cannot be a small cut to the gas tax that might not get passed on to consumers.”

Suspending the gas tax, they say, would take “critical funds away from road repair and improvement.” Instead, the leaders indicated they would do something similar to what Newsom proposed by seeking “tax relief from the

General Fund.”

The average price for a gallon of regular gas in California was a record $5.57 Wednesday, the highest in the country, according to AAA. In the small community of Plumas Lake, about 30 miles north of Sacramento, regular gas was selling for just under $6 per gallon Wednesday morning.

“It’s crazy. But, I mean, what am I going to do? I can’t do anything about it,” Viridiana Manriquez, 26, said as she filled up her car.

George Thelen, 78, paid $74.65 to fill up his work truck on his way to a job. He said he routinely drives more than 100 miles per day for his construction business.

Thelen said he’s raised his prices to compensate for rising fuel costs.

But a fix is on the way: He’s ordered an electric car he plans to turn into a work vehicle by removing some of the seats.

Meantime, he said he’s not too worried about customers getting upset with him about raising his prices.

“There’s a labor shortage,” he said, pausing to pull his ringing cellphone from his front shirt pocket. “And my phone is ringing off the hook.”

RivCo supervisors OK ordinance regulating use of military gear by sheriff, DA City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, March 8, unanimously approved an ordinance intended to keep a tighter rein on military equipment acquisitions by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office.

“It’s important to have all of our agencies take a uniform approach to this,” Joe DeGiudice, chief of investigations at the district attorney’s office, told the board. “This ensures our agencies are able to work interoperably. In the old days, we relied on the three ‘B’s’ – brawn, bats and bullets. Now we have these great many additional tools allowing us to keep us and the public safe.”

Ordinance No. 970 was drafted in response to Assembly Bill 481, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September. The measure requires that county boards

of supervisors and city councils establish regulations that enable them to better monitor and control the type of military or “specialized” hardware law enforcement agencies are procuring, as well as ensure there are safety plans on the books regarding how that equipment is deployed.

“Legally enforceable safeguards, including transparency, oversight and accountability measures, must be in place to protect the public’s welfare, safety, civil rights and civil liberties before this equipment is funded, acquired or used,” according to the ordinance.

Undersheriff Dennis Vrooman told the board that the equipment at issue was “already purchased in years past,” and at this point, county law enforcement personnel do not need more of the same or similar gear.

“It’s in use in our unincorporated areas and contract cities, and it’s utilized with our municipal police departments throughout

the county,” Vrooman said. “It’s specialized equipment that acts as a force multiplier … and helps stop violent situations from escalating and endangering law enforcement.”

Vrooman said county public safety agencies have already formalized standards specifying when, where and how the specialized equipment can be deployed, with additional training for users. The undersheriff emphasized that most of the equipment is not fielded by the military but is designed specifically for domestic paramilitary operations.

“There are no known conflicts (with deploying the gear) at this time,” Vrooman said.

The supervisors did not ask any probing questions regarding the equipment or its justification, with the exception of a water cannon in the sheriff’s cache, which board Chairman Jeff Hewitt found curious.

“If we’re fighting a fire in a violent situation, it allows us to fight

the fire,” sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Bennett said. “The cannon is placed on a piece of armor and can be pushed into the fire. It’s remotely controlled inside the armored vehicle.”

According to the equipment lists furnished to the board, both the RCSD and the district attorney’s office have unmanned aerial and ground vehicles in their inventories.

The sheriff additionally maintains the following: a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle, which is armored and ostensibly intended for “any dangerous weather condition with the ability of extreme off-road capabilities;” BEARCAT, BOMB-CAT and TAC-CAT armored vehicles, which can be “used for breaching structures, fences or ramming objects during high-risk incidents,” as well as inserting chemical agents during a standoff or neutralizing explosives; explosive breaching tools, including shotgun rounds specifically designed to bust open “fortified doors;” fully automatic AR-15 or

similar rifles; flashbang grenades; tear gas; a “long-range acoustic device,” or LRAD; less-lethal 40mm launchers, using rubber projectiles and sting-ball grenades.

The district attorney’s office separately maintains the following: fully automatic AR or M-16 rifles; MP5 submachine guns; “command and control vehicles,” such as specially equipped half-ton pickups and vans; less-lethal 40mm launchers and FM303 launchers for firing less-lethal projectiles.

The Department of Probation was not listed as having military or specialized gear.

Under the ordinance, public safety agencies will have to present a report to the board every year on proposed or completed procurements so supervisors can scrutinize whether the new gear is needed.

Municipalities that contract with the sheriff’s department for law enforcement services will need to implement their own monitoring and control measures.

Riverside County health officials investigating cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases in Coachella Valley Riverside University Health System-Public Health is investigating a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in Palm Springs, Palm Desert and some surrounding communities stretching back months.

Health officials are aware of 20 confirmed cases of which 14 individuals were hospitalized. Two deaths were reported: one resident

of Riverside County and the other a visitor to the area.

The cases were reported to Public Health between the Fall of 2021 and early 2022. Public Health is coordinating investigative activities with the California Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The source of the illness and extent of spread has not been determined, but health officials said it was important for the public to be aware of the outbreak.

“This is a continuing investigation. The risk to anyone who lives in Palm Springs, Palm Desert and surrounding areas is low,” Dr. Geoffrey Leung, public health

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“The Department recommends that individuals who live in the identified areas who become ill with pneumonia-like/respiratory symptoms, such as fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, muscle aches and headache, visit their healthcare provider.”

As it can take up to two weeks for symptoms to develop, Public Health recommends that those who develop symptoms within two weeks of being in the identified areas also seek medical attention.

Public Health has alerted healthcare providers in the area.

Legionnaires’ disease is treatable with antibiotics and is not spread person to person.

Most healthy people exposed to Legionella do not develop Legionnaires’ disease. People over 65, especially those who smoke cigarettes, or those with certain medical conditions, including weakened immune systems, chronic lung disease or other chronic health conditions, are at

increased risk for Legionnaires’ disease.

Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia (lung infection) caused by bacteria called Legionella. People can get Legionnaires’ disease by breathing in aerosolized (small droplets) water containing Legionella bacteria. Aerosolized water can come from cooling towers (air-conditioning units for large buildings), hot tubs, cooling misters, decorative fountains and plumbing systems.

As part of the continuing investigation, Public Health is taking steps to try and identify possible sources of the bacteria and make recommendations for remediation.

Investigations into these types of Legionnaires’ clusters are complex. It is often not possible to determine the origin of the bacteria that infected people.

For more information about Legionnaires’ disease, https:// rivcoph.org.

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Pauma Valley zipline company facing $25K in penalties over worker’s fatal fall City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed nearly $25,000 in penalties against a Pauma Valley zipline company for allegedly failing to provide adequate safety measures that could have prevented a worker’s fatal fall, it was announced Thursday, March 10.

The proposed penalties against La Jolla Zip Zoom Ziplines stem from the death of 34-year-old Joaquin Romero, who fell about 50 feet Oct. 30, 2021. He died in a hospital two days later.

According to an OSHA investigation, the zipline company “failed

to install a guardrail, safety net or personal fall arrest system” and also did not train employees on how to recognize fall hazards. The company also “failed to assess the workplace to determine the presence of hazards and did not report a work-related hospitalization within 24 hours,” according to OSHA. In addition to $24,861 in proposed penalties, OSHA cited the company for “four serious safety violations.”

OSHA Area Director Derek Engard said, “La Jolla Zip Zoom Ziplines failed to meet their obligation to protect their employees. If they had simply provided the proper protective equipment, this senseless tragedy could have been prevented.”

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NATIONAL NEWS How to think about inflation Alexander William Salter AIER

Everything old is new again: Inflation plagues the U.S. economy.

The Consumer Price Index is up 7.9% from a year ago. The Personal Consumptions Expenditures index is up 6.1% from a year ago.

We haven’t seen price pressures like these in 40 years.

If we want to understand inflation, we need a framework to organize our thoughts. Economies are fiendishly complex; without a model that helps us focus on the relevant details, we’re lost in the woods.

Inflation means a general increase in prices. Equivalently, it means the dollar is losing purchasing power. Economists distinguish general price changes from relative price changes. The latter come from the forces of supply and demand operating in specific markets. The former are common to all markets.

We frequently use the concepts of aggregate demand and aggregate supply to analyze inflation.

But despite the similarity in names, these concepts aren’t the same as microeconomic supply and demand. Aggregate demand refers to total nominal spending in the economy. Aggregate supply means general productive conditions.

We measure inflation by tracking changes in a price index. There are many of these, each focusing on a subset of the economy, such as consumers’ goods or producers’ goods. Also, some price indexes that cover the same area are calculated differently. For example, the above-mentioned CPI and PCEPI are both snapshots of prices for consumers’ goods. But what’s under the hood is somewhat different.

Usually, inflation is caused by expanding aggregate demand.

When aggregate demand (also called total spending or nominal gross domestic product) increases, prices for everything rise. They

don’t rise uniformly, of course.

Inflation always has some distributional effects. But these are typically small compared to the general phenomenon.

Expanding the money supply is the easiest way to boost aggregate demand. As we saw, Federal Reserve printed tons of money when COVID-19 threatened the economy. Importantly, money demand rose, too. That blunts the inflationary effects of increasing the money supply.

Increased government spending doesn’t usually cause inflation.

There’s a possible exception, however: If the government takes on so much new debt that the public expects money printing to bridge the fiscal gap, holders of dollars might want to unload them before they lose their value. Of course, when everyone thinks this way, the dollar depreciates! This hasn’t been an issue for the United States in recent history, but the government took on an awful lot of debt

to fight COVID-19. It could be the case now.

Action on the supply side can also cause inflation. When aggregate supply decreases (or grows more slowly than before), everything gets more expensive. The key here is productivity. If it gets harder to turn inputs into outputs, prices go up. This too contributes to inflation. We’ve heard a lot about the various logistics problems with global transportation, as well as a dearth of important producers’ goods like semiconductors. Energy prices are markedly rising, due in no small part to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. All of these factors make production in general harder. In economics, harder means costlier. For a given amount of aggregate demand, diminished aggregate supply can only result in inflation.

Not all observed price hikes are inflationary. The price of cars, especially used cars, has risen faster than prices in general. There’s

undoubtedly an inflationary aspect, because it’s common to all markets. But there’s also specific supply and demand changes in the car market that are causing higherthan-average price increases for cars. We distinguish between the relative price of cars increasing (microeconomics; supply and demand) and prices in general, including for cars, increasing (macroeconomics; aggregate supply and aggregate demand).

Just because we use different concepts to analyze relative and general price changes doesn’t mean we can pinpoint how much of each is going on. Our price index measurements frequently pick up both. Economists have various statistical tools to sort out relative from general price changes. For us, what matters is the conceptual difference. Don’t confuse what’s common to all markets for what’s particular to one market.

tions were approved.

Critics say the record levels of illegal immigration are a result of the Biden administration’s relaxed enforcement measures.

Estimates of how many illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden took office vary, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection data show that about 2 million people illegally crossed the border in 2021, a nearly fourfold increase from illegal crossings a year earlier.

In a March 11 press release, DHS defended itself from charges of failing to enforce immigration law, saying that it has focused on deporting dangerous felons and other criminals who pose a risk to society.

“In January and February 2021, ICE issued interim enforcement priorities, focusing its personnel and resources on aggravated felons and other serious criminals,” the statement read.

“On Sept. 30, 2021, Secretary (Alejandro) Mayorkas released updated enforcement priorities to better focus the Department’s resources on the apprehension and removal of noncitizens who are a threat to our national security,

public safety and border security and advance the interests of justice by ensuring a case-by-case assessment of whether an individual poses a threat,” the release continued.

“For the first time, enforcement priorities now require an assessment of the individual and the totality of the facts and circumstances to ensure resources are focused most effectively on those who pose a threat.”

Many illegal aliens who are apprehended by Border Patrol agents have been released into the United States after being caught and processed, a policy labeled “catch and release.”

According to an October 2021 letter by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), in the January through August time period in 2021, roughly 500,000 illegal aliens were released into the United States after being detained by border security under the catch and release policy.

For Americans living in the border region, the massive uptick in illegal immigration has had a pronounced effect on security.

Border towns have faced constant dangers from drug and human traffickers, and encounters with these criminals have left several

Americans dead.

In a statement to The Epoch Times, John Ladd, an Arizonabased rancher, discussed the measures that he has had to take to protect his family and property.

“We’ve got a gun at every door in the house,” Ladd said. “We had to go through all that again with the family, you better understand if you’re going to shoot somebody, the consequences, and you better make sure you’re really in danger.”

Republicans have accused the Biden administration of enabling this “humanitarian crisis” by its attitude toward enforcing immigration law.

“The cause of all of this is simple,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) ruled during an October 2021 news conference. “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to enforce the law.”

Cruz and other critics of the administration’s immigration policy have demanded that Biden reverse his immigration policies and restart construction on the southern border wall, ending the policy of catch and release and reinstating the “Stay in Mexico” asylumseeker policy.

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Deportations plunge under Biden Joseph Lord THE EPOCH TIMES

Deportation rates have fallen dramatically under President Joe Biden, with the administration deporting far fewer illegal aliens in 2021 than under President Donald Trump.

In the roughly one-year period between October 2020 and September 2021, the Department of Homeland Security deported just 59,011 people who entered the country without legal permission, according to newly released data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the DHS. That’s down 68% from 2020, when the federal government deported over 185,000 illegal aliens under Trump-era immigration rules.

In comparison to Trump’s 2019 deportation rates, the drop is even more pronounced: that year, the DHS deported over 250,000 illegal aliens.

The significant drop comes as Border Patrol agents along the southern border find themselves inundated with unprecedented levels of illegal immigration.

“There can be no doubt, the ICE removal report shows that President Biden’s immigration executive orders have all but abolished ICE,” Preston Huennekens, government relations manager at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told The Epoch Times in an email. “Biden’s policies have eviscerated ICE’s ability to do its job, endangering American citizens and prioritizing radical politics over the rule of law.”

Since Biden took office, he has taken a far more laissez-faire approach to border security than Trump did.

Biden halted construction on Trump’s border wall almost immediately after taking office, leaving construction materials that had already been paid for by the federal government sitting unused along the border. At the same time, he reduced the number of border agents, leaving the remaining agents struggling to stop the unprecedented inflow of those entering illegally into the country.

Biden also overturned Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required that those seeking asylum in the United States remain in Mexico until their asylum applica-

Senate Armed Forces Committee member requests American airpower in Ukraine

By Naveen Athrappully THE EPOCH TIMES

The Biden administration should expedite the supply of aircraft and air defense systems to Ukraine, said Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

While commending the lethal aid provided by Washington to Ukraine, Ernst expressed “strong” disagreement with the administration’s decision to “delay and deny” neighboring Poland the option to transfer fighter jets to Ukraine.

Supporting Kyiv’s war against the Russian invasion is among the “most urgent” missions that the West has faced in a generation, Ernst noted in a March 10 letter (pdf) to the president that was signed by 41 other lawmakers.

“We urge your administration to work with Poland and our NATO allies to expedite the transfer of urgently-needed airpower, air defense systems, and other combat and support capabilities from the United

States, NATO allies, and other European partners to Ukraine,” said the letter.

“Today, Russia’s assault is trained on the Ukrainian people, public infrastructure, farms, hospitals, daycares, places of work and even their homes,” Ernst said. “The Ukrainian military is in dire need of more lethal aid today to defend the foundations of their country that will allow it to function in the future.”

Washington “cannot allow” Russia to gain an advantage just because the United States failed to support Ukraine with necessary weapons and medical supplies, the letter said.

The letter called on the administration to deliver the “needed airpower” to Ukraine “without delay” and help save the lives of countless civilians.

NATO member Poland had announced March 8 that it was willing to send its MIG-29 jets to Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, which could then be deployed to Ukraine. Poland asked other member states of the NATO alliance to follow suit.

However, the United States quick-

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ly put down the proposal, with the State Department Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, stating that Poland had not consulted Washington about the offer.

The prospect of fighter jets departing from an American/NATO base into airspace that is “contested with Russia over Ukraine” raises seri-

ous concerns, said Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.

“It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. We will continue to consult with Poland and our other NATO allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents, but we do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one,” Kirby added.

Russia has already warned that any support provided by a nation to the Ukrainian air force will be seen as directly participating in the conflict. Joe Biden has denied that Washington has any plans to send American troops to fight for Ukraine. NATO has also affirmed that it does not want to enter into direct conflict with Russia.

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Local Little League registration opens in Anza Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

High Country Recreation is winding up for another Little League sports season.

Registration is now open, with sign-up forms available at Lorraine’s Pet Supply at 56070 Hwy. 371 in Anza. The cost is $25 per player through March 31, then $45 per player until the games start in April. see page AVO-4

Local Painted Lady butterflies expected in Anza Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Typically for the first few weeks of March, the skies over the Anza Valley explode with delightful, colorful butterflies.

Moving in large swarms, these determined insects have decorated cars to the horror of motorists suffering yellow smears on their windshields and grilles. Traffic can even be affected, as drivers slow to avoid too many butterfly collisions. see page AVO-4

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Volunteers pick up trash at the Lions Club’s second cleanup day at the Lions Field Saturday, March 12. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo

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Lions Club of Anza Valley members, local contractors, volunteers and friends came together for a second cleanup day at the Lion’s

field Saturday, March 12.

Lions Dennis McQueary and Greg Sandling expertly handled tractors to push away the years of overgrowth plaguing the grounds.

Spencer Gollery, of Gollery Electric, donated his services to

the effort, fixing neglected electrical boxes. Paula McQueary helped organize volunteers and dug in to assist with any task that was needed.

“I want to thank everyone for coming out to help clean up the

Turkey Shoot Range for our March 20 shoot,” Sandling said. “The arena got cleaned up and we got a ton of stuff done for the April 30 practice gymkhana. I don’t see CLEANUP, page AVO-3

Street Banner project shows pride in Anza Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Eye-catching street banners intended to increase Anza pride and awareness are being erected on power poles throughout the downtown area on State Highway 371. The colorful soft signs are vivid reminders of what Anza is all about.

“It is estimated that well over 4,000 vehicles take the 371 from Palm Desert to San Diego on any given day,” Annika Knoppel, president of the Highway 371 Business Association, said. “Most drivers are not even aware of where Anza is and what it has to offer as they drive through and head off to their intended destinations.”

The Highway 371 Business Association, along with Anza Area Trail Town, The High Country Conservancy and Anza Electric Cooperative Inc., have joined together in different capacities for what they refer to as the Anza Street Banner Project.

The intent of the project is to see PROJECT, page AVO-2

Anza Electric Cooperative technician Jaime Cardenas-Rosas attaches a banner to a power pole for the Anza Street Banner project. Anza Valley Outlook/Courtesy photo

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Anza Thimble Club undaunted by pandemic Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

The Anza Thimble Club, established in 1912, is the oldest service club in Anza. It began with several ladies who used the excuse of doing their mending to get together for a visit. This turned into monthly meetings and dues were a penny.

During World War II, the handy women made bandages for the Red Cross as a meaningful activity.

Since then, they have become a well-loved and respected charitable organization donating much-needed funds back into the community of Anza.

“We currently have 32 ladies on our roster,” longtime member Annie Ashby said.

During the pandemic, Thimble Club projects included assisting with local food pantries, making lap robes for veterans, collecting coats for the needy and helping see THIMBLE, page AVO-3

Thimble Club member Annie Ashby mingles with guests, making sure everything is perfect at the Victorian Tea, held in 2018. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo

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Take care with wildlife offspring Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Spring is on its way and with it comes new life. Baby wild animals will be coming into the world and as happens every year, get seemingly abandoned, lost or orphaned.

Typically, most people’s first impulse is to try to rescue found baby animals. But before intervening, they need to determine if they need help.

Usually, it’s perfectly normal for wildlife babies to be on their own for much of the day as their mothers venture out to feed.

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you find a rabbit nest, keep pets and people away, and the mother will be back shortly. If the den has been disturbed, she may decide to move them to a safer place.

For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue offers this advice, “People who find cottontail rabbit babies often describe them as calm, comfortable, friendly and sweet. All too often, wildlife rehabilitators receive photos of baby rabbits snuggled in hands, pockets and bras, with enthusiastic stories about how much they love to be held. These stories almost always end in tragedy, when the babies die of stress.

Animals don’t always communicate that they’re upset in the same way we do. Prey animals like rabbits don’t usually show fear by screaming or crying or biting, but by simply freezing in place and hoping to be left alone. This is easily mistaken for calmness by well-meaning people. If you find a baby wild animal that appears to need help, don’t handle it any more than is necessary to transport the animal to a qualified rehabilitator. Otherwise, you risk causing serious harm through your good intentions.”

Juvenile birds are among the most common wildlife babies that people encounter every spring. If the baby is featherless or covered with fine down, it is a nestling and

should be returned to the nest if possible. Gently handling a nestling will not cause the parents to reject it, contrary to popular belief.

A fledgling baby bird is fully feathered but not quite old enough to be independent. They are supposed to be out of the nest getting exercise and learning how to fly. The parents will continue to care for them while they are on the ground and until they can fly.

This can take days or even weeks depending on the species. Human intervention is not needed and may actually decrease their chances of survival. Just keep an eye on pets to make sure they don’t threaten the little birds.

Baby waterfowl like ducks and geese are precocial, meaning that after hatching, their eyes are open and they are able to walk, run, swim and feed themselves under the watchful eyes of their sometimes aggressive and protective parents. These babies leave the nest right after hatching and shouldn’t be returned to it. If you find a single, parent-less wild duckling or gosling, contact a wildlife rehabilitator for assistance.

Baby snakes, turtles, tortoises and lizards hatch from their eggs as miniature adults, completely able to care for themselves. Leave them right where they are, or

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gently relocate them out of any danger zone.

Assisting an animal that doesn’t need help can decrease its chances of survival. Though difficult at times, it’s natural that not all wild creatures survive to adulthood. Allowing nature to take its course is usually the best thing to do.

There are exceptions. If the animal is hurt as the direct result of human-made activity, such as getting hit by a car, attacked by a dog or cat, or if you see the parent killed, the kindest thing to do is try to help.

Assess the animal’s condition for signs of injury or disease, including observing for visible wounds, lethargy, minimal responsiveness or if it is unusually cold to the touch or shivering.

If the baby animal has been attacked or played with by a pet, always assume there are injuries, even if they are not obvious. Contacting a local wildlife rehabilitator may be the next step.

According to the National Wildlife Federation website, rescuing any wildlife is best left to trained professionals. Moving the animal is a last resort and should only be attempted if it is in clear and imminent danger. If there is no other choice, certain things can be done to minimize stress and danger to both animal and human.

The NWF advises that the rescuer wear heavy leather gloves, long pants and long sleeves. Even small animals can bite and scratch in a panic and cause injury. Place a towel over the animal to provide an added barrier when you pick it up. Covering also minimizes stress to the animal.

However, never attempt to capture raccoons, foxes or bats, even their babies. These mammals are

known for carrying rabies and their rescue should be left strictly to professionals.

Gently place the animal in a secure container, such as a pet crate or carrier, if possible. Put the crate in a dark, quiet place.

Keep the box away from direct sunlight, air conditioning or heat, and avoid bringing the animal into your house.

Do not offer water or food.

Injured animals can suffer from shock and won’t eat or drink.

Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator as soon as practical.

Many of these people can collect the animal from your location, others may ask that you transport it to them. It is illegal to keep a wild animal without the proper licensing, so the wildlife experts are the best people to handle the situation.

Most wild animals are protected by federal and state laws. Baby raptors such as hawks, eagles and owls may only be kept by licensed professionals. In California, all raptors are protected under state law.

Migratory birds like many waterfowl species and even hummingbirds, are protected as well.

Some animal species are endangered and therefore protected, like condors and certain species of kangaroo rats.

It is always best to let nature take its course, but sometimes rescue is needed. It is good to know when to worry and when to call in the experts.

For a list of licensed wildlife rehabilitators, visit http://wildliferehabinfo.org/ContactList_MnPg. htm.

PROJECT from page AVO-1

Summer banners will highlight Anza Days, fall will shoutout to the local Hamilton High Bobcats and winter will sparkle with the Light up the Valley theme.

AEC provides the labor for the quarterly exchange of the street banners as long as the project is viable. THCC donated the startup funds for the project to cover the hardware and first set of banners.

AATT is offering fiscal oversight, holding funds and seeking grants for the project. Hwy371BA initiated the concept and is the lead organization and primary contact.

In the spirit of keeping it local and supporting small business, artwork for the street banners were designed by Sandi Hughes of Marketplace Cooperative Inc. and the banners are printed by Signs by Tomorrow in Temecula.

For more information on the Anza Street Banner Project, please contact Annika Knoppel with the Highway 371 Business Association at office@hwy371ba.com or call 951-234-1314.

“We are actively seeking input for new slogans and funding for the fall and winter banners,” Knoppel said.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

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capture the drivers’ attention and slow traffic down to the speed limit, while enticing visitors to stop and shop at our retailers, hike on a historic trail or to be curious about an upcoming community event.

“Travelers don’t realize this proud little community offers opportunities to shop, explore and eat, with drive-thru coffee kiosks, fuel stations, parks, museums and more,” Knoppel said. “You can hike a portion of the Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail, partake in Anza Days festivities or view wildflowers, amazing sunsets and starry nights, if they’d only stop and stay for a while.”

New banners will be rotated quarterly to reflect the season or a community event. The AEC identified 15 high-visibility power poles on which the banners will be mounted along the Anza commercial district that runs on Hwy. 371 from Bahrman Road to Kirby Road or about 2.5 miles of the 21 total miles, along the third shortest highway in the state.

The inaugural set of spring street banners showcase the vivid blue Lupine wildflower, accompanied

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ANZA LOCAL CLEANUP from page AVO-1 know all the names but thank you everyone.”

Progress continues with the new Lions Club of Anza Valley, for the betterment of the entire community.

Lions Club of Anza Valley applicants must be of good moral character and fall under the approval guidelines in the constitution and bylaws of the club.

For more information regarding the Lions Club of Anza Valley, or if interested in becoming a member, please email Greg Sandling at President.AnzaLions@gmail.com or visit the club on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LionsofAnzaValley.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Volunteers coordinate with Paula McQueary, right, at the Lions Club’s second cleanup day at Lions Field.

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Spencer Gollery and Dennis McQueary examine an electrical box at the Lions Club’s second cleanup day at the Lions Field Saturday, March 12.

John and Diane Knori provide festive music and fine tune the loudspeaker system at the Lions Club’s second cleanup day at the Lions Field.

Spencer Gollery loads his tools after fixing some wiring at the Lions Club’s second cleanup day at the Lions Field.

Volunteers weedwack the turkey shoot area at the Lions Club’s second cleanup day at the Lions Field.

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THIMBLE from page AVO-1 anywhere they could.

“In the past we were known for the Anza Days breakfast, Co-Op annual meeting breakfast, our Victorian Tea and other community events,” Ashby said.

The Anza Thimble Club board is structured a little differently from other local charitable organizations.

“We elect a new president and vice president, along with the secretary and treasurer, each year.

That is our elected board and then we have a host of committees that run the organization. Next month we have our elections for new officers,” Ashby said.

Nothing stopped these ladies from accomplishing their charitable goals, not even the pandemic.

“I am so proud of the girls for how they have handled themselves during the pandemic and how we have been able to keep ourselves going serving our community.

They are such a lovely group of ladies,” Ashby said. “If you enjoy

a good lunch and good company, good conversation and helping the community, come join us and be proud of an organization that is proud to be of service to our community.”

For more information on the Anza Thimble Club, please email Annie Ashby at annieandjima@ yahoo.com.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

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Little League registration opens in Anza Supervisors authorize sheriff to use federal funds to target rural crime

Children and parents are looking forward to this year’s Little League season. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo

Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

High Country Recreation is winding up for another Little League sports season.

Registration is now open, with sign-up forms available at Lorraine’s Pet Supply at 56070 Hwy. 371 in Anza. The cost is $25 per player through March 31, then $45 per player until the games start in April.

The HCR board is confident that this will be a great season and welcomes any help from the community as they move forward.

They are seeking volunteers need-

ed to support their youth sports organization.

Baseball and T-ball games are held on the baseball fields at the intersection of Mitchell and Kirby roads. Volunteers are needed as HCR board members, coaches, umpires, team mothers and fathers, field maintenance and a host of other activities.

“It is important that we get volunteers to help, as we’d like to get the baseball season started, but need the people power to make it happen,” Lorraine Elmore, HCR treasurer, said. “If you are interested in participating, please call.

We look forward to getting back

on the fields.”

For more information, please contact Jeff Walls, HCR president at 951-514-8588 or Lorraine Elmore, HCR treasurer at 951763-0033.

“Together we can make a difference,” Elmore said.

Anyone interested in obtaining additional information about HCR, the sports programs, want to volunteer or simply donate funds, please contact them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ HCRecreation.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

Painted Lady butterflies expected in Anza

The wings of the Painted Lady are similar to a Monarch butterfly, a close cousin. Anza Valley Outlook/ Courtesy photo

Diane Sieker STAFF WRITER

Typically for the first few weeks of March, the skies over the Anza Valley explode with delightful, colorful butterflies.

Moving in large swarms, these determined insects have decorated cars to the horror of motorists suffering yellow smears on their windshields and grilles. Traffic can even be affected, as drivers slow to avoid too many butterfly collisions.

Called moths, Monarchs and even pests, these interesting creatures are actually Painted Lady butterflies, with the beautiful scientific name of Vanessa cardui. While closely related to the Monarch butterfly, Painted Ladies are smaller and sport more colors than their larger cousins. But like the Monarch, the Painted Lady butterflies migrate great distances during their short lives, providing plants with pollination and predator species with food. They are prey to small rodents, birds, insects, reptiles, spiders and more.

In 2019, copious amounts of rainfall triggered epic migrations of the interesting butterflies. They traversed the Anza Valley by the millions. Migrations so far this year seem to be on a milder level.

It is believed that the Painted Ladies’ travels originate in Mexico and the butterflies appear after the desert there receives heavy seasonal rainfall. This results in explosive growth of the plants that the insects’ caterpillars depend on.

A super bloom of flowers gives rise to large numbers of butterflies.

Usually a dweller of lower elevations, the widely distributed

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo.

City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, March 8, authorized Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to accept a $150,000 federal grant intended to support law enforcement operations in outlying communities, which for the sheriff will mean targeting criminal activity in Aguanga and Anza.

“The communities are positioned within a mountainous and rural area of the county,” according to a sheriff’s statement posted to the board’s agenda. “Two deputies are currently assigned to patrol the area; however, they are also responsible for additional unincorporated areas. This grant (will enable) the sheriff’s department to deploy deputies on overtime ... to conduct high-visibility patrols.”

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Rural Violent Crime Reduction grant was awarded to the sheriff in fall 2021. The funds must be spent by October 2024.

Sheriff’s officials said Aguanga and Anza have been impacted by higher rates of homicide and as-

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This Painted Lady butterfly shows off the undersides of its delicate wings. Anza Valley Outlook/Courtesy photo

Painted Lady can be found at all elevations during heavy migrating years, as experienced in 2019.

The caterpillars, or larvae, feed on Cheeseweed, thistles, Dwarf Nettle, lupine, fiddleneck and many other flowering plants.

When they’re ready, they create cocoons and soon transform into adult butterflies, taking wing to locate mates.

Painted Lady butterflies can be seen migrating northward through Southern California in February, March and April, searching out wildflowers from Baja California to Oregon, feeding, mating, and laying eggs along the way.

Another notable migration event happened in 1973. The butterfly was unbelievably abundant in Orange County on Feb. 18 and 19 of that year and they continued to move in enormous numbers

through the month of April. At that time, the Painted Lady caterpillars were so numerous in the city of Orange that the city sprayed a vacant lot infested with unimaginable numbers of larvae. This was in response to complaints by residents that the insects were turning swimming pools black with their drowned bodies and feeding on and damaging numerous species of ornamental plants and shrubs.

Other well-documented California migrations occurred April 15-29, 2001, and March 14-16 and 26, 2005.

It remains to be seen if this year’s Painted Lady migrations come close to the huge numbers of butterflies recorded in 2019.

Diane Sieker can be reached by email at dsieker@reedermedia. com.

sault over the last five years.

“This uptick in crime directly results from narcotics and marijuana trafficking, sales and cultivation plaguing the rural communities,” the agency said.

The Anza Valley contains an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 illicit cannabis grows, some in locations that cannot be accessed except by all-terrain vehicles, according to the sheriff’s department.

Anza’s population is roughly 3,100, while Aguanga is home to an estimated 800 residents, according to available U.S. census data.

“In addition to high-visibility patrols, deputies will seek proactive efforts to identify parolees and probationers in the area, especially those previously convicted of violent crimes,” the sheriff’s department said. “Once identified, deputies will conduct parole and probation checks, along with state parole officers and county probation officers. Overtime will also be used to fund sweeps within Anza and Aguanga.”

Personnel assigned to the sheriff’s Hemet station will be handling the operations funded by the grant.

Authorities said a motorcyclist was seriously injured in a solovehicle accident in the area of El Pasta Road and Highway 371 in Aguanga in the early evening Tuesday, March 8.

The victim, who was reportedly not wearing a helmet when the accident occurred, was lifeflighted after the crash, according to officials.

California Highway Patrol, Cal Fire – Riverside, and other emergency personnel were dispatched to the scene around 5:45 p.m., Cal Fire said.

Based on the severity of the rider’s injuries officials requested an air ambulance, at which time a REACH helicopter was launched

to the scene.

The rider was eventually airlifted to an area hospital for further treatment of injuries that Cal Fire described as serious.

Although officials did not specify if the accident involved an off road or street motorcycle, Robert Binger, who resides near the location of the accident, later told RCNS the victim was riding a minibike with several friends along a dirt road when the rider crashed.

Not wearing a helmet, the victim suffered head trauma and was knocked unconscious when his head struck the road, according to Binger. As of press time, the rider’s condition was unknown.

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COURTS & CRIMES Border patrol agent convicted of using excessive force The Associated Press SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who threw a driver to the ground at a crossing from Mexico into Southern California was convicted Wednesday, March 9, of using unreasonable force and lying on his report, authorities said.

Marcos Valenzuela, 30, of El Centro, was convicted for a 2019 incident that began when a driver got out of a car in a lane at the Calexico West Port of Entry to confront a motorcyclist who had cut in front of his car, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.

Citing trial evidence, the statement said Valenzuela ordered the man to return to his car but when he finally reached Valenzuela’s booth, Valenzuela pulled the driver from the car, shoved him, wrapped an arm around his chest and neck, threw him to the ground and landed on top of him. He then

handcuffed the man, who received minor injuries.

Valenzuela misrepresented the confrontation to other officers and in a report falsely claimed that the driver was aggressive and resisted arrest, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

A jury in San Diego deliberated about 90 minutes before finding Valenzuela guilty of deprivation of rights under color of law and falsifying records in a federal investigation, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

He could face up to 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine when he’s sentenced July 8.

“CBP employees and officers take an oath of office, a solemn pledge,” Elizabeth Cervantes, special agent in charge of the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility in San Diego, said. “CBP employees who disregard that oath and instead choose to violate the trust of the citizens they swore to protect will be held accountable.”

Alleged sex assailant apprehended in Mexico, returned to Riverside County City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

A 75-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting three girls in San Jacinto and fleeing south of the border before a court appearance in 2021 was apprehended in Mexico and extradited back to the United States, authorities said recently.

Harry Arlington Durette was captured in Rosarito following an investigation by Riverside County District Attorney’s Office personnel and the U.S. Marshals’ Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Durette is charged with 65 felony offenses, most of them alleging forcible lewd acts on a child under 14 years old.

No hearings have been set yet in the case since his extradition.

According to a district attorney’s office statement, agency Investigator Mike Riley developed leads that the defendant was holed up in Rosarito and coordinated with the U.S. Marshals and Mexican authorities to nab him Tuesday, March 8.

Durette was immediately returned to the United States and booked into the Cois M. Byrd De-

tention Center in Murrieta, where he’s being held on $1 million bail.

Prosecutors said Durette was first arrested and charged in August 2020 following a sheriff’s investigation that revealed multiple alleged acts of molestation involving an underage girl.

The district attorney’s office said the defendant posted a $55,000 bond, and while free, investigators procured additional information indicating that he had allegedly sexually assaulted two other girls.

“Durette failed to appear on the date of his preliminary hearing in October 2021,” according to an agency statement. “A bench warrant was issued and held until Nov. 17, 2021, when he again failed to appear in court. On that date, a $1 million warrant was issued by a judge.”

It was unclear whether Durette allegedly made previous arrangements to flee to Rosarito, or did so on impulse after the amended criminal complaint was filed based on the two additional victims.

He has no documented previous felony convictions in Riverside County.

If convicted, he could face life in prison.

Men arrested in 2021 rape of drugged victim at Wildomar home Trevor Montgomery SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Authorities, Wednesday, March 9, said a months-long investigation into the alleged rape of a drugged woman in Wildomar culminated in the arrest of two men.

Official records indicate the alleged rape happened at a private residence in the 22000 block of Country Hills Drive, northeast of Lemon and Orange streets, in September.

During their subsequent lengthy investigation, Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station investigators identified 22-year-old Jacob Emery Stutzman from Murrieta and 23-year-old Mario Samuel LopezSuazo of Wildomar as the pair the

Video released by Sheriff Chad Bianco Thursday, March, 10, provided some answers about an incident in which a probationer was fatally shot during a confrontation with Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and police officers from Hemet and Riverside.

The video appears to show that the man was armed with a pistol and a Taser which law enforcement officers evidently believed he was trying to draw on them when they opened fire.

“When we have a critical incident, we want to share as much information as we can when the investigation allows,” Bianco said in the four-minute video that was posted to the sheriff’s social media page and the Riverside Police Department social media site Wednesday night.

“We take each use of force incident very seriously and make every effort to deescalate these situations whenever possible.”

Bianco said that 20-year-old Joseph Tracy IV of Colton was on active probation when members of the Gang Impact Team, composed of deputies, Riverside and Hemet police officers, attempted to contact him about 11:30 p.m., Jan. 18, at a motel in the 2600 block of West Florida Avenue in Hemet.

Tracy was suspected of dealing fentanyl from his room, and multiple law enforcement officers deployed around the location, waiting for him to come out of the building to detain him, rather than risk an engagement inside the lodge, according to the sheriff.

“Tracy ran from deputies and officers who tried to stop him by deploying 40mm less-lethal muni-

tions,” Bianco said. “Deputies and officers also gave him commands to stop running and to show his hands.

Tracy continued to run away and ran between vehicles parked in the parking lot of the motel.”

Body-camera footage from one of the Gang Impact Team members was played during the video.

In it, a lawman is heard shouting, “He’s reaching, he’s reaching, he’s reaching – I don’t know what he’s reaching for.”

Another lawman shouts, “Get on the ground!”

As the foot pursuit continues, 40mm rounds are being fired in rapid succession in the probationer’s direction.

The video does not clearly show Tracy being shot, but the sound of gunfire envelopes the audio. Multiple shots were unleashed, according to the video.

“Paramedics responded to the location and pronounced Tracy dead at the scene,” the sheriff said.

No law enforcement personnel were injured.

According to Bianco, a 9mm “ghost gun,” assembled from homemade parts, was found in the probationer’s possession, loaded with seven rounds. Additionally, Bianco said a Taser was found on him.

Back in the hotel room, “a powder substance identified as fentanyl was located,” the sheriff alleged.

He said that the California Department of Justice is investigating the deadly shooting. That investigation parallels independent and separate use-of-force investigations being conducted by the sheriff’s department, Riverside Police Department and Hemet Police Department.

The work status of the law enforcement officers involved was not disclosed.

After being interviewed, both Stutzman and Lopez-Suazo were arrested and later booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of raping a drugged victim and conspiracy to commit a crime.

Records indicate both men remain in custody in lieu of $500,000 bail or bond.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is encouraged to contact Investigator Rodriguez at the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station at 951-245-3300 or the Riverside County Sheriff’s Dispatch Center at 951-776-1099.

Callers can refer to incident file No. WI212470005 and can remain anonymous.

Dozens arrested during probation, parole compliance sweep in Menifee City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

More than three dozen probationers and parolees were arrested during a sweep in Menifee and neighboring communities to check whether the convicted felons were complying with the terms of their supervised release, authorities said last week.

“Operation Four Leaf Clover” was a multi-agency effort led by the Menifee Police Department to contact probationers and parolees in 157 locations, according to Menifee

police Capt. Dave Gutierrez.

“It was a very successful operation,” Gutierrez said.

The operation was conducted Wednesday, March 9, in partnership with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the Department of Probation, Murrieta Police Department, the county Gang Impact Team and California State Parole.

Roughly 160 law enforcement personnel were involved.

The compliance checks resulted in 42 arrests and the seizure of illegal drugs, five firearms and a stolen car, according to Gutierrez.

“One of the subjects arrested had a $1 million felony warrant for a possible shooting he was involved in,” the captain said, without identifying the man. “It was also discovered that there were several subjects who failed to provide accurate addresses to the Department of Probation, so warrants will be issued for those individuals.”

No one was injured during the operation.

Additional sweeps are planned in other areas of the county this year.

Felon suspected of burglarizing businesses in Elsinore, Temecula, Wildomar City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

MURRIETA (CNS) - A 21-yearold parolee suspected of breaking into businesses in Lake Elsinore, Temecula and Wildomar was being held without bail last week.

K-John Henry Sands of Compton was arrested Thursday, March 10, and booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on

Video reveals circumstances behind deadly law enforcement shooting in Hemet City News Service SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

victim claimed sexually assaulted her, according to Riverside Sheriff’s Sergeant Julio Olguin.

As their investigation continued, Lake Elsinore Station investigators and Special Enforcement Team members located both Stutzman and Lopez-Suazo at their respective residencesWednesday, March 9.

Jail records indicate Stutzman was taken into custody at his Murrieta residence on Sarasota Springs Place, while Lopez-Suazo was apprehended at his Wildomar home on Country Hills Road.

Both were detained without incident and were transported to the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station to be interviewed, according to Olguin.

suspicion of burglary, conspiracy to commit a felony and parole violations.

According to Riverside County sheriff’s Sgt. Jeff Reese, Sands is suspected of burglarizing “multiple” shops during the overnight hours between Feb. 14 and 16.

The value and type of property taken during the break-ins were not disclosed.

Resse said the sheriff’s Special

Enforcement Team handled the ensuing investigation and ultimately identified Sands as the alleged perpetrator, though no other details were provided.

The felon was tracked down on Compton Boulevard near his home and taken into custody without incident, according to the sergeant.

Details regarding Sands’ prior convictions were not available.

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2020 Presidential election - Proven fraud, bribery, illegalities, cyber hacking

Julie Reeder PUBLISHER

It’s now confirmed, more than a year after the Federal Cybersecurity agency declared the “2020 presidential election was a perfectly secure vote,” that there were serious irregularities, unconstitutional rule changes, illegal ballot harvesting and Iranians have now been indicted for their hacking to influence the election.

No matter what, it was far from a perfect election. It likely won’t change the past, even though there were over 1,000 affidavits signed under penalty of perjury.

People were berated for having questions and concerns after the 2020 election. When poll workers and watchers saw serious breaches with their own eyes, they were called conspiracy theorists and

part of “The Big Lie.” Trump, the RNC and other outside parties filed dozens of lawsuits against various governments alleging illegalities. They too were berated and made fun of by the legacy media, as usual, and just like with Russia Gate and the COVID lab leak theory, they’re now being vindicated.

Many of the lawsuits were tossed out on technicalities, standing or jurisdiction. The courts never heard the evidence. Out of the cases actually heard and decided on merit, Trump or the RNC actually won most of them, last I checked.

Many of those lawsuits and complaints have caused states to launch independent investigations. Wisconsin was one of those states and they just reported their conclusion.

On March 1, 2022, The Wisconsin Office of the Special Counsel released an “Interim Investigative Report On the 2020 Elections” and found massive bribery, broken Wisconsin laws, voter fraud in nursing homes, noncitizens voted illegally and people who were legally prohibited from voting voted unimpeded.

As for Mark Zuckerberg’s grant of $8,800,000, it violated election bribery laws through his “The Center for Tech and Civic Life” Get Out the Vote plan with the Cities of Milwaukee, Madison,

No excuse for $6 gas

Assemblymember Marie Waldron SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

Every day, gasoline prices set a new record. While some of the recent increase is attributed to uncertainty following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prices have been shooting up for over a year and there’s no end in sight. That is why I am supporting legislation to suspend the gas tax and I joined a bipartisan group of legislators urging the governor to take advantage of California’s abundant inland natural resources.

Instead, the governor has offered only partial relief and tax rebates that will come far too late for many commuters.

With no oil pipelines connecting us to other states, California is an “energy island.” The oil we don’t produce is imported to us on supertankers, a major source of air pollution. We consume 1.8 million barrels each day, with 1.4 million imported from countries exempt from our environmental

laws. While our oil reserves are among the world’s largest, state mandates have reduced production by 89,000 barrels daily since 2018 – and the governor has failed to approve over 1,000 drilling permits.

If the governor wanted, we could eventually replace all the oil we import from Russia with 6% of our own state supply.

Approving leases would generate high-paying jobs. Roughly one in seven workers in Kern County, which produces 70% of our oil and 90% of our natural gas, are employed by the energy industry.

It provides 55,000 jobs for union members, veterans, second chancers with an average annual salary of $125,000, nearly double the national average.

With its strict environmental laws, California produces the only “climate compliant crude” in the world. Curtailing oil production here, while replacing it with non-compliant crude shipped thousands of miles from countries with lax environmental standards, costs us jobs, increases inflation and degrades the environment – it is counterproductive on all levels.

We must act now.

Assemblymember Marie Waldron, R-Valley Center, represents the 75th Assembly District in the California Legislature, which includes the communities of Bonsall, Escondido, Fallbrook, Hidden Meadows, Pala, Palomar Mountain, Pauma Valley, Rainbow, San Marcos, Temecula, Valley Center and Vista.

Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay (the Zuckerberg 5 Cities). It caused many problems and questionable actions,” and “Corporate legal defense to facilitate obstruction might violate the Wisconsin Ethics Code.”

The stinging report also found that “Wisconsin election officials’ widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes violated Wisconsin law.” and worse, “The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) unlawfully directed clerks to violate rules protecting nursing home residents, resulting in a 100% voting rate in many nursing homes in 2020, including many ineligible voters.”

People cognitively unable to vote had cast votes and “indefinitely confined, people legally prohibited from voting, etc. somehow voted freely.

WEC also unlawfully encouraged evasion of ballot security measures related to “indefinitely confined” at the behest of outside corporations.

WOW, that’s just blatant fraud, violation of election laws, heavy ballot harvesting of seniors incapable of voting.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court also ruled as many as 200,000 voters were allowed to illegally skip voter ID for absentee ballots by claiming they were indefinitely confined by COVID when there was no such legal authority to do so. This is significant because Biden beat Trump by about 20,000 votes in that state.

That’s just the first state.

Remember the phone calls between President Trump and the Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Tom Wolf and Wolf called President Trump’s ‘unsubstantiated’ claim about fraud in the U.S. presidential election a “partisan attack?”

After considering the evidence, the Pennsylvania court did strike down Pennsylvania’s last-minute mail-in voter law as unconstitutional and 2.5 million votes by mail in Pennsylvania in 2020 are now called into question by the ruling.

After the raucous exchanges between Trump and Georgia’s officials relating to voting irregularities, the Republicans and Trump are vindicated. Georgia has issued a state memo on irregularities in Fulton County that were so bad that the state may put Fulton

County in receivership and take over the elections. Most of Fulton County’s election officials have left their jobs.

The report shows many obvious problems with the votes scanned including many duplicated batch entries and inconsistencies, including highly unusual batch entries where 100% of the votes went to one candidate (Biden), but in the recount, both candidates received votes.

Then there was the Georgia Ballot Harvesting Complaint. This one is really interesting. A complaint was filed with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger

by True the Vote, an organization investigating ballot harvesting complaints across the country.

They found a person, John Doe, who participated in the large-scale ballot harvesting effort in Georgia and was paid $10 for every ballot harvested. John Doe didn’t understand that it was illegal activity.

True the Vote obtained publicly available video footage and commercially available cellphone geospatial data which supported his account of these efforts. In the data True the Vote reviewed, they found 242 mobile devices which repeatedly visited drop boxes an average of 23 trips each, and also repeatedly visited locations associated with a select group of organizations behind the effort.

Approximately 40% of the trips were made in the middle of the night. Additionally, surveillance footage shows the individuals deposited multiple ballots at a time, a practice which is prohibited under Georgia law except under very limited circumstances.

Finally, consistent with John Doe’s description of how participants were paid, individuals were seen taking photos of drop boxes or of ballots as they were deposited into a dropbox.

True the Vote filed this complaint and provided the information to the Secretary of State as the arbiter of election integrity for the State of Georgia. They stated in the report, “In conjunction with an investigation and formal request by the Secretary of State’s office, True the Vote will provide all publicly or commercially available information including the geospatial data and surveillance video to assist with any efforts undertaken by their office.”

Also, the report notes “curious”

behavior around Dec. 23 2020,.

“The day after Arizona authorities announced that fingerprints on absentee ballot envelopes helped uncover an illegal ballot harvesting scheme in that state, individuals depositing ballots into these drop boxes in Georgia are seen wearing blue surgical gloves.

They often put them on just before picking up their stack of ballots and removed them as they exited the dropbox area.”

How about Arizona? Arizona has already indicted a half dozen people on charges of illegal harvesting in a probe by Attorney General Mark Brnovich which is expected to expand.

Bad Arizona signatures? In the review of Maricopa County’s mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, it is estimated that more than 200,000 ballots with signatures that didn’t match voter files were counted without being reviewed, which is more than eight times the number the county acknowledged, as reported by Just the News.

An extensive audit by Arizona’s Senate officially called into question more than 50,000 Arizona ballots cast in the 2020 election, including voters who cast ballots from residences they had left. This tally in question is nearly five times the margin of Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

With many people not trusting the election processes or outcomes, it is important that the investigations, audits, lawsuits continue. And when people immediately dismiss any objections as “conspiracy theories” or “The Big Lie” it’s important to not worry about pejoratives and push on to the truth, no matter where that truth leads.

For more information visit, http://wiseenergy.org/Energy/ Election/2020_Election_Cases. htm, https://justthenews.com/ sites/default/files/2022-03/IranianHackerVoterDatabaseIndictment. pdf, https://justthenews.com/sites/ default/files/2022-03/FultonCountyIrregularitiesMemo.pdf, https:// justthenews.com/sites/default/ files/2022-03/PennsylvaniMailinLawUnConstotutionalRuling.pdf and https://justthenews.com/sites/ default/files/2022-03/GablemanReport.pdf.

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

In response to “Science doesn’t matter – Only compliance – Be a goose stepper” published in the March 11 edition of Valley News I read the opinion piece Julie Reeder wrote recently about the COVID misinformation campaign.

I am in total agreement with you that our country is under attack on many fronts.

The very health of our nation is at risk of a collapse if we are not successful in getting the truth out to all citizens asap.

The decline in leadership quality in DC as well as Sacramento

is alarming as well as dangerous to our constitutionally guided Republic. Those that want us all to be goosestepping our way through life are but a small minority with a following of millions that are ignorant and fearful of the powers that be. Until we can control the narrative to the extent that we gain power over those that want to enslave us... it will be a long battle.

Thanks for writing that opinion

piece because it’s a good start in the right direction. We simply need to start unelecting public servants that lie and deceive us. There should be mandatory firings for those people that think so little of the people that they deceive us intentionally.

All the best to you!

welling up to eternal life.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water,” in John 4:11-15.

Jesus didn’t offer her free gas.

He didn’t even offer her free water.

Instead, he was giving eternal life in Him. And that’s the offer Jesus makes to everyone. Even you. The sad part is that people get way more excited about the thought of free gas than they do about the gift of God – eternal life.

The good news is that the woman accepted the gift Jesus offered.

She could have rejected it, but she didn’t. It had a massive impact on her life and the people living in her village. The life-giving water Jesus offers has that kind of effect.

You have the same choice to make. You can receive this free gift from Jesus or reject it and try to get eternal life by yourself. Choose wisely. The Bible said, “The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord,” in Romans 6:23.

Have you ever noticed that water is way more important than gas, and eternal life is way more important than water? So, which one are you choosing? Gasoline can’t make you right with God and give you eternal life. But Jesus can.

Zachary Elliott is the lead pastor of Fusion Christian Church in Temecula. For more information, visit https://www.fusionchristianchurch.com, http://www.encouragementtoday.tv or find them on Instagram.

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Free gas for a year?

Zachary Elliott SPECIAL TO VALLEY NEWS

If someone offered you free gas for a year, would you think they were pranking you? Maybe you’d wonder what they wanted in exchange? Your child, your kidney, your dog Fluffy?

I mean, there must be a catch, right? At near $6 per gallon, no one is offering gas for free. It would be ridiculous. No one is that generous.

As crazy as that sounds, the woman at the well in the Bible experienced something very similar.

But the offer she received was way more valuable than gas. She was offered living water for free.

The account goes like this, “When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”

The woman answered, “How can you ask me for a drink?”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water,” in John 4:7-10.

His offer stunned the woman.

Every day of her life, she had to come to the well to get water for the family. It was a tedious and time-consuming chore of necessity. The thought of getting free water for life got her excited, but she’s still not quite sure. So, she asks if there’s a catch.

“Sir,” the woman said. “You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.

Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water

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Registrant: Young Chuan Lai Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/14/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3526 PUBLISHED: February 25, March 4, 11, 18, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202201831 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: a. TREE b. WCC 63758 Orr Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262 Mailing address: 596 E. Boxwood Ln, Azusa, CA 91702 County: Riverside EO X WCC LLC, 63758 Orr Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Daniel Lee, CEO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/09/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3529 PUBLISHED: March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202202358 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: a. TOTAL CARE WORK INJURY CLINIC b. PREMIER OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE CENTER 72-057 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 County: Riverside WS Chief Cornerstone, Inc., 72057 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 08/09/2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Wayne Dion Starks, President Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/24/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3530 PUBLISHED: March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202201763 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ACQUA ONE FRIDGE FILTERS 41615 Date St Ste 105, Murrieta, CA 92562 County: Riverside Adrian -- De La Rosa, 31348 Canterbury Ct, Temecula, CA 92562 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Adrian De La Rosa Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/08/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3531 PUBLISHED: March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202201911 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RS DRYWALL AND RESTORATION 26610 Apple Creek Rd, Menifee, CA 92586 County: Riverside RS Drywall And Restoration LLC, 26610 Apple Creek Rd, Menifee, CA 92586 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 02/01/2022 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Ryan Stephenson, CEO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/10/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3527 PUBLISHED: February 25, March 4, 11, 18, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202201432 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PRECISE CATERING TEMECULA 30854 Bow Bridge Drive, Murrieta, CA 92563 County: Riverside a. Ceasar Delfino Solarzano, 30854 Bow Bridge Drive, Murrieta, CA 92563 b. Ali -- Badakhshan, 49480 Kiowa Drive, Aguanga, CA 92536 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Ali Badakhshan Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/02/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3528 PUBLISHED: February 25, March 4, 11, 18, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202201896 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RUIZ BROS CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION 9391 52nd St, Riverside, CA 92509 County: Riverside a. Sergio Daniel Ruiz, 9391 52nd St, Riverside, CA 92509 b. Christian Jesus Ruiz, 9391 52nd St, Riverside, CA 92509 This business is conducted by a General Partnership This LLC is registered in the state of CA Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Sergio Daniel Ruiz Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/10/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3533 PUBLISHED: March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202202762 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JD HAULING AND JUNK REMOVAL 25421 Jerry Ln, Hemet, CA 92544 County: Riverside Jesus Salvador Damian, 25421 Jerry Ln, Hemet, CA 92544 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Jesus Salvador Damian Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 03/04/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3534 PUBLISHED: March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202201963 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MEDCLAIMXPRESS 41593 Winchester Rd, Suite 200, Temecula, CA 92590 County: Riverside a. Fatimi -- Karim, 43481 Modena Dr, Temecula, CA 92592 b. Aboukinane -- Laila, 43481 Modena Dr, Temecula, CA 92592 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Fatimi -- Karim Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/14/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3535 PUBLISHED: March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2022

Notice To Readers: California law requires that contractors taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor or materials) be licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license number on all advertising.

You can check the status of your licensed contractor at www. cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB. Unlicensed contractors taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202202679 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. BREADCRUMBS 2. OURBREADCRUMBS 35831 Satterlie Lane, Unit 3, Murrieta, CA 92562 County: Riverside Breadcrumbs Technologies, Inc., 35831 Satterlie Lane, Unit 3, Murrieta, CA 92562 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 10/1/2021.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Franklin Johnson, CEO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 03/03/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3536 PUBLISHED: March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202203033 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SHWEETS BY SHESHE 39908 Falcon Way, Murrieta, CA 92562 County: Riverside Sheri Lynn Calderon, 39908 Falcon Way, Murrieta, CA 92562 This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name listed above I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Sheri Lynn Calderon Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 03/10/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3538 PUBLISHED: March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202202991 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: STONE SMOKE SHOP 9246 Magnolia Ave, Riverside, CA 92503 Mailing address: 271 E Workman St, Ste 106, Covina, CA 91723 County: Riverside High Stone Winnetka, Inc, 271 E Workman St, Ste 106, Covina, CA 91723 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 02/01/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Malik Taiaan, CEO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 03/09/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3537 PUBLISHED: March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File Number: R-202202165 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CASCO 8502 Cabin Pl, Riverside, CA 92508 County: Riverside Mehdi -- Dana, 8502 Cabin Pl, Riverside, CA 92508 This business is conducted by a Corporation This Corporation is registered in the state of CA Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name listed above on 02/14/2022.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).)

Registrant: Mehdi Dana, CEO Statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on 02/17/2022 NOTICE—IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS COPY IS A CORRECT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ON FILE IN MY OFFICE. PETER ALDANA RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLERK. LEGAL: 3539 PUBLISHED: March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2022

PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF PAULA ANNE CRUTCHFIELD CASE #: PRIN 2101550 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of PAULA ANNE CRUTCHFIELD, ANNE CRUTCHFIELD, ANNE B. CRUTCHFIELD, ANNE BOYD CRUTCHFIELD A Petition for Probate has been filed by JOAN SPIEGLER in the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside.

The Petition for Probate requests that JOAN SPIEGLER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 5/3/2022 Time: 8:45 a.m. Room: PS3 Address of court: 3255 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (Form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Joan Spiegler, PO Box 1161, Boulevard, CA 91905, 619-990-8489 LEGAL #: 3532 PUBLISHED: March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022

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