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March 28 – April 3, 2014

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Volume 14, Issue 13

City of Menifee completes road project

Josiah Bierle became a certified private pilot at French Valley Airport on March 10, 2014 – the same day as his 17th birthday. Shane Gibson photo

Soaring above the crowd 17-year-old earns private pilot’s license Alex Groves Staff Writer Seventeen-year-old Josiah Bierle is pursuing his passion and doing something that most people his age don’t know how to do. The high school student, who recently celebrated his birthday, marked his special day with a grand achievement by attaining a private pilot’s license not more than a year after he did his first solo run when

ally achieved. he was 16-years-old. According to 2011 data from Bierle spent many hours at the Executive Flight Institute in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), French Valley “As I pulled the nose wheel only 194,441 between the two hour oral off and the airplane lifted into people in a ountry of component of the air, I had a very strange c300 million his test and an revelation, you might say.” had a private actual test run pilot’s license. in a plane in or– Josiah Bierle Shawn said he der to achieve his distinction as a private pilot, a believed that given that such a distinction his father Shawn says small percentage of the populafew high school students have actu- tion actually has a private pilot’s

license, the number of individuals in Josiah’s age group who can boast a license of their own is minute. For Josiah, the passion to fly runs deep. He’s wanted to be a pilot since the time he was 7-years-old, when Shawn took him on his first ride aboard a plane. Since that time Josiah has never wavered in his commitment to one day become a pilot, according to his father.

see PILOT, page A-7

Justice for Larry Robinson Finding the cosmic groove One year memorial march of prayer and remembrance held for fallen musician

The stretch of Menifee Rd. between Aldergate Dr. and Simpson Rd. gets the green light for the public Shane Gibson photo to use.

Alex Groves Staff Writer A thoroughfare linking two different portions of road in Menifee was completed Wednesday, March 19, giving area residents an easier way of getting about, city officials reported. The road project, referred to as the “missing link,” connected

see ROAD, page A-7

Home & Garden

‘Bee’ careful when coming across hives Africanized Honey Bees look just like the European Honey Bees we’ve always seen visiting the flowers in our gardens. They function and behave similarly, too, but the Africanized Honey Bee is much more protective of its home.

see page B-9

Education

Shakespeare in the Vines scholarship applications now being accepted

Michael O’Brien

Balloons and posters with the message “Justice for Larry” were displayed and carried by supporters during the Larry Robinson memorial march in Old Town Temecula on Sunday, March 23, 2014.

Roughly 100 supporters for finding Larry Robinson’s murderer marched through Old Town Temecula in an effort to raise awareness for the unsolved murder and to remember the life of Larry Robinson. Shane Gibson photos see more photos, page A-6

Sandra Shrader Special to the Valley News When it comes to designing furniture, Michael O’Brien’s imagination doesn’t just move in a straight line. Instead, his unique furniture-asart embodies the designer’s visions in well-polished swoops and curves which are in turn charmingly anchored by veneers of hieroglyphic angles and ribbony slices of wood from the different forests of the world. And then, in a final, amusing pièce de résistance, O’Brien’s work tantalizes its admirers with “What on earth does it mean?” details of adornments such as primitive symbols, totems of pyramids, crackling rivulets of polished aluminum and stone, flying books, scattered bursts of tiny metal and glass squares and whatever else is capturing the

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artist’s ever curious fancy at the moment of creation. Local residents can see a masterpiece of O’Brien’s woodworking talents at the Fallbrook library where his gleaming “Orchid Table” has been on display for two years. Built primarily from pale bird’s eye maple and regular maple, ebony and aluminum, the oval 6-foot by 4-foot table stands inside the library entrance, greeting visitors with its ancient-Egypt-gonegalactic vibe. And don’t ask O’Brien, age 70, to classify his work into any particular art genre because he believes his art defies definition. “I really don’t know what art genre my work falls into,” said the self-taught artist with a slightly bemused shake of his head. “I’ve been told it’s a bit of everything

see COSMIC, page A-6

Shakespeare in the Vines, the Temecula Theater Foundation, and the Old Town Temecula Community Theater invite all Inland Valley high schools, high-schoolage home-schooled students, and others to take part in the second annual Shakespeare in the Vines Shakespeare Scholarship Competition on Wednesday, April 23 at 6 p.m.

see page B-7

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