Fun times at the Temecula Valley Fair, B-1
HS Baseball: Rams, Broncos, Pumas victorious at Southwestern League triple-header in Lake Elsinore, B-10
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Volume 16, Issue 13
Scotty McCreery talks Temecula, shares insight into career moves
City gives approval for $950 million bond issue Tony Ault STAFF WRITER
The Murrieta City Council voted its approval for the Loma Linda University Medical Center’s $950 million revenue bond issue to help finance its plans to buy, construct, improve or renovate its health facilities in the Inland Empire. see page A-3
Dining
Local wines pair nicely with Easter entrees Laurie Adams WRITER
Easter is upon us so hop to it on your wine and food shopping! Temecula Valley has many fabulous wines to pair seamlessly with a variety of Easter feasts. see page A-11
Country music singer Scotty McCreery performs at Galway Downs during the Temecula Valley Fair March 19.
Kim Harris MANAGING EDITOR
Thousands of Scotty McCreery fans, known as McCreerians, packed the Temecula Valley Fair sponsored by Temecula Valley Toyota Scion at Galway Downs Saturday, March 19, to see the country superstar perform live on
Entertainment
Reality Rally returns to Temecula
the main stage for KFROG Country Night. While fans patiently waited for McCreery to take the stage, the “American Idol” season 10 winner took time to chat with Valley News about his time on the show that made him a superstar, making the transition to becoming an author and his thoughts on Temecula and
the people who make it special. McCreery who is in the middle of his 2016 tour, arrived to Temecula following a week of rest and relaxation playing golf in Florida. He said his time on American Idol changed him as an artist, but not as a person. “As a person, I try to stay the same, you know, to be the same guy
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I was before,” he said. “It definitely changed my life though, I was a grocery store bagger in high school before, now I get to go out and sing for a living. I am a lucky guy there.” McCreery said that as an artist, he continues to evolve and change as he spends more and more time
see MCCREERY, page A-8
Fire captain forges a new link between Fallbrook and Temecula
Raevyn Walker VALLEY NEWS INTERN
Bringing fun through fundraising, more than 100 reality stars will visit Temecula once again for the annual Reality Rally. The stars participate with the public in a variety of events taking place April 7-9, all supporting Michelle’s Place Breast Cancer Resource Center.
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see page A-13
Tim O’Leary VALLEY NEWS STAFF
A fire captain who has one foot in Temecula and another in Fallbrook might help forge a new link between the nearby communities. But the appointment of Gregory Mann to a key Temecula post will also help underscore the contrasts between the communities that once mirrored each other along a remote stretch of a winding, two-lane roadway. “There are a lot of differences,” Mann noted during a recent interview. “There isn’t a lot of crossover. They are different animals.” The two communities have followed different paths since the region was altered by the arrival of a broad, buzzing interstate highway. Mann, 46, will soon gain insights into the inner workings of both urisdictions. “I’m looking forward to it,” said Mann, who was recently named to
see MANN, page A-4
New City of Temecula Public Traffic Safety Commissioner Greg Mann (left) with City of Temecula Director of Public Works Tom Garcia, inside the city hall’s traffic engineer room where engineers monitor live traffic Shane Gibson photo conditions at many of Temecula’s busy intersections.
Temecula Marine killed in Iraq during rocket attack near Mosul Trevor Montgomery WRITER
Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin was killed after coming under “ISIL rocketfire,” Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook confirmed Sunday. Courtesy photo
A U.S. Marine from Temecula was killed Saturday, March 19, at a coalition fire base near base at Makhmur in northern Iraq, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook confirmed Sunday. Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, a 27-year-old from Temecula, died at about 9 a.m., “after coming under ISIL rocket fire,” according to Cook. Cardin was deployed with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which sent a detachment of Marines to Makhmur with the
intention of “providing force protection fire support at a recently established coalition fire base near Makhmur in northern Iraq,” Cook wrote in a press release. Cardin, who was a field artilleryman with Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, was already on his fifth combat deployment overseas. He joined the Marine Corps in June 2006 and was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Before this latest deployment he had already deployed to Afghanistan three times and to Iraq once before. The morning after Cardin’s
death, on the 13 year anniversary of the war in Iraq, defense officials revealed the incident occurred at the first American firebase established in the area and that the base had only become operational a few days before the fatal rocket attack. The attack was carried out by Islamic State group militants, according to Pentagon and DOD officials. The Makhmur base that came under attack is home to the Nineveh Operations Center and is located roughly 60 miles outside of Mosul, the site of a chemical weapons
see CARDIN, page A-3