Ramona Place Wolf historical dramatization to be presented at the Little Temecula History Center

2023 Nissan, separate from the refrigerator box. The initial bid had the box already attached.

During a discussion item, the council approved and authorized City Manager Armando Villa to execute the community benefit agreement for the Nova Power Bank Project and a conditional use permit to store surplus energy from area wind turbines and solar panels in the event of power grid shortages in the future. The storage plant will be in a former energy plant between Matthews and Antelope roads near Interstate 215. The Power Bank plan was earlier authorized by the City Planning Commission.

The council saw the project as a benefit to residents during any power shortages in the future and would bring initial construction jobs to the city and later be manned.

The Menifee Police Department quarterly update showed the department said they reduced their call times for major crimes by almost 2 minutes from call time to response in the January through March quarter. They said they received 12,587 calls during that time with about 1,000 calls on criminal reports or 8%. The number of traffic citations issued went from 1,362 last quarter to 2,064 this quarter because of patrol changes and added traffic officers. They also showed how officers with paramedics responded to a lifesaving heart attack incident in the quarter in a video before the council.

The council proclaimed May as Mental Health Awareness Month along with May as Older Americans Month.

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

The Temecula Valley Historical Society would like to invite the public to attend a free presentation at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 22, when Rosalinda del Castillo dramatizes the life story of Ramona Place Wolf. Ramona, who hosted author Helen Hunt Jackson in her home prior to Jackson’s writing of the book “Ramona,” was married to Louis Wolf, an important person in the Temecula area. The Wolfs were a power couple who ran the Temecula post office, general store and hotel. Wolf, called “the King of Temecula” by some, was also a road commissioner and justice of the peace during a period from the late 1860s through the 1890s.

In addition to del Castillo’s presentation, Glen Leisure will give a short synopsis of work that he and other volunteers have done to clear and maintain horse riding trails in the Vail Lake Resort area, through a region once traveled by the Butterfield Overland Stage line and frequented by Vail Cowboys. No reservation is needed to attend the presentations. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. at the Little Temecula History Center, the red barn west of Kohl’s in South Temecula.

Questions may be addressed to Rebecca Farnbach at info@temeculahistory.org